Linux-Misc Digest #832, Volume #25 Fri, 22 Sep 00 05:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Definately a misc question.... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 4004 (Peter)
Re: Disk Druid (Oleksandr Bozhyk)
Re: Anyone want to be part of a new website...? (moonie;))
Re: nfs partition not mounted at reboot. (Bill Unruh)
Re: Suse 6.4 / 7.0 ("Jason Byrne")
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (D. Spider)
Re: my rpm is screwed up (Cevat Ustun)
Re: Disk Druid (Eric)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (D. Spider)
Re: 4004 (Peter)
Re: RH6.2 w/remote printer setup ("michael.fengler")
automount ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Exact" time measuring under linux (Maik Hassel)
Re: RPM problem (Kousik Nandy)
Re: RH6.2 w/remote printer setup (root)
Re: "Exact" time measuring under linux (Konrad Gebels)
Re: "Exact" time measuring under linux (Tony Hague)
Re: Disk Druid (Vinay Avasthi)
Re: umount problem w/ nfs parallelport zip (Walter Grundauer)
Re: Disk Druid (Oleksandr Bozhyk)
Finding an rpm. (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Definately a misc question....
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:03:09 GMT
I want to read old floppies from cp/m,TRS80 and apple][ systems. Now, dd
looks like the right choice, with options for blocksize, etc. But I have
not had much luck. I have a couple i386 5 1/2 drives to work with (plus
apple and TRS80 machines), will these be able to read 13, or 16 sector
cp/m disks in a physical sense?
Looking at the manpage I've tried some options but nothing has worked so
far, can dd specify things like sectorsize/number? I couldn't see a way
to do that.
I haven't tried the apple][ emulator yet, I like messing with the old
hardware itself, so I don't know if it can read floppies, etc. What I
really would like is to have a backup of all these very old diskettes on
a hd somewhere, so I could make a new one whenever one croaks. Rather
than say upload/download individual files via a serial line.
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From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 4004
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:40:42 GMT
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:02:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Christopher Browne) wrote:
>>My mate's teacher made a 5Kb disk by spraying the platter of a record
>>player with iron oxide based rust proofing paint. The hand wound
>>read/write head worked well. It just took a while to wind the handle
>>that moved the head to the next track.
>
>I can't decide whether to believe that or not; it's just imaginable
>enough that it doesn't seem _completely_ impossible. But seems rather
>like Mr Spock building a computer out of rocks; that is, something
>that works on TV, but not usually in real life :-)
>
It worked as a "demonstration of a concept" but not necessarily as
"something you would be happy with".
Sort of like Ford fitting Firestone tires to their Explorer.
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From: Oleksandr Bozhyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Disk Druid
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:08:55 +0300
Hi again,
My problem is I can't mount new partiton made
with help of fdisk before.
I guess the reason is that new partition is not formated.
Am I right? Need I format new partition? I'll appreciate any advice.
SY,
Oleksandr Bozhyk.
Scott Rockstad wrote:
> Oleksandr Bozhyk wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > How can I run Disk Druid in Red Hat 6.2 (in order to add a new
> > partition) ?
> > SY,
> > Oleksandr Bozhyk
>
> I don't know how to run Disk Druid after install, but you can use cfdisk
> instead.
> Regards,
>
> Scott
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Anyone want to be part of a new website...?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:13:06 -0400
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Tony Lawrence wrote:
>wBi wrote:
>>
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> I am the webmaster of http://www.justBE.com and I an looking for
>> trust-worthy people,
>
>> For the rest of you, maybe you want to have a look at the website, and tell
>> me what you think so far.
>
>
>I think that even with 768K DSL it took a perilously long
>time to load..
>
>--
>Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
>job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
I don't think your getting what your paying for, on my ADSL line (usually
around 600k up and 500+k down it loaded pretty fast.
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
http://counter.li.org
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: nfs partition not mounted at reboot.
Date: 22 Sep 2000 06:15:09 GMT
In <8qefro$elq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]I did a nfs mount from another unix machine and defined them in
]/etc/fstab.
]But then, when the machine rebooted, it does not mount the nfs mounted
]partition automatically. I have to mount it manually even though the
]entry is there in /etc/fstab.
]I'm using redhat 6.2.
Why wouldn't you post what your fstab entry is now so we could see what
iw wrong? It is impossible to help without information.
]Any body with some hint ?
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse 6.4 / 7.0
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:12:01 -0700
> Does anybody know a place where I can download Suse 6.4 or 7.0
that's a really good question ;-)
I'm a little put off by the lack of related news/announcements about
downloads on their site... unless I'm completely missing something.
I grabbed SuSE 7.0 sparc and installed on my Sparc 10... but the intel
versions are a bit of a mystery? Don't most people want to find a mirror to
download the latest versions? - nothing unusual about that ;-)
I grabbed the latest Slackware and installed that instead - just a bit more
'hands on' than some of the other distributions... but it's very clean, no
nonsense Linux... with a BSD styling.
> I tried suse's home site, but all I could find was the whole thing which
> is over 3Gb in size.
>
> What I want is something that will fit on one CD-ROM.
>
> Thanks to all of you.
> Dan
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From: D. Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:24:20 -0400
It appears that on Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:14:08 GMT, in
comp.os.linux.advocacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <8qasqn$im1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian V. Smith) wrote:
>
>> Really? Which ones were those that came with the source code?
>
>IBSYS, SCOPE, SOS, MTS, OS/360, CP/67, TSS/360 and many more. Several of
>these had fixes distributed only in source form; you had to reassemble
>in order to install the fix.
>
>--
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From: Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my rpm is screwed up
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:28:20 GMT
Thanks for the reply, I was about to tear
a lot of hair over it...
Cev.
"Rinaldi J. Montessi" wrote:
>
> Cevat Ustun wrote:
> >
> > What could be the problem behind rpm
> > deciding not to work all of a sudden?
> > More specifically, querying returns nothing,
> > --rebuilddb seems to have no effect and the installation
> > of even the simplest of packages returns
> > with a bunch of dependency errors (so I cannot
> > reinstall the rpm package itself among other things)...
> >
> > Cev.
>
> Sounds as if you recently upgraded your rpm package. Check here:
> http://www.mailgate.org/linux/linux.redhat.rpm/msg05460.html
>
> --
> Rinaldi]$
> "The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people,
> too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the
> Constitution." --Ronald Reagan
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Disk Druid
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:40:45 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oleksandr Bozhyk wrote:
>
> Hi again,
> My problem is I can't mount new partiton made
> with help of fdisk before.
> I guess the reason is that new partition is not formated.
> Am I right? Need I format new partition? I'll appreciate any advice.
> SY,
> Oleksandr Bozhyk.
you format a partition with mkfs.ext2 or mkfs.msdos
Read the manpage of mkfs
Eric
>
> Scott Rockstad wrote:
>
> > Oleksandr Bozhyk wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > How can I run Disk Druid in Red Hat 6.2 (in order to add a new
> > > partition) ?
> > > SY,
> > > Oleksandr Bozhyk
> >
> > I don't know how to run Disk Druid after install, but you can use cfdisk
> > instead.
> > Regards,
> >
> > Scott
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From: D. Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:30:16 -0400
It appears that on Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:19:51 -0300, in
comp.os.linux.advocacy Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>El jue, 21 sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> For most early-era operating systems, there was not much of a
>>> difference between binary and source code.
>>
>>Have you ever written anything in machine language. The difference
>>between machine language and even a primitive assembler is HUGE.
>
>Z80 machine language inserted in a REM statement in a Sinclair 1000
>(ZX81 clone) counts?
Hahah you too? I did the same thing, well, not on the 1000, but on the
related Timex/Sinclairs, the 2068 in particular.
I also did some (very small) programs in 8086 machine code, via DOS
debug, much later. Pain in the butt to do it that way, but of course
there just isn't any way to do something faster or in less space.
>
>Usually we just did the asm in paper, then converted to opcodes (by memory
>after a few months of practice ;-) on paper, then injected the opcodes through
>diverse misterious mechanisms, usually involving a self modifying BASIC
>program :-)
>
>Even the most rudimentary asm would, indeed have cut development time
>by 10 or so.
Yep. Of course, it would also add some overhead. Remember, Assembler
was the first *high level* language ;^)
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From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 4004
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:37:04 GMT
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:02:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Christopher Browne) wrote:
>>My mate's teacher made a 5Kb disk by spraying the platter of a record
>>player with iron oxide based rust proofing paint. The hand wound
>>read/write head worked well. It just took a while to wind the handle
>>that moved the head to the next track.
>
>I can't decide whether to believe that or not; it's just imaginable
>enough that it doesn't seem _completely_ impossible. But seems rather
>like Mr Spock building a computer out of rocks; that is, something
>that works on TV, but not usually in real life :-)
>
It worked as a "proof of concept" but not necessarily as "something
you could live with".
Sort of like Ford fitting Firestone tires to their Explorer.
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From: "michael.fengler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RH6.2 w/remote printer setup
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:32:34 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Kerry Taylor wrote:
>Hi, I know this should be easy but I can't get it working. I have two
>locally networked PC's , both with RH6.2, and one has a local printer
>configured and working(router.mynet.all). The other I have configured
>for a Remote Unix lpd Queue (gamer.mynet.all).
>My gamer printcap looks like this:
>
>lp:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :rm=192.168.1.1:\ (I also tried "router.mynet.all" in here)
> :rp=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
>
>I did get a message that the testpages were queued and waiting for
>permission from router.mynet.all but I couldn't figure out how to get
>the router PC to allow printing from the gamer PC.
Does router's /etc/hosts.lpd mention gamer?
- mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: automount
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:01:48 GMT
hello
I want to do an automount with my cdrom and DAT in suse.
how?
please
Fred.
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From: Maik Hassel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.robotics.misc
Subject: "Exact" time measuring under linux
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:20:29 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
Which would be the most accurate way of measuring times down to 1/1000
sec in Linux? I can't use realtime-linux!
Is there a possibility of accessing the timer tics of the
realtime-clock? Or are there other possibilities?
Thanks for help....
Maik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kousik Nandy)
Subject: Re: RPM problem
Date: 22 Sep 2000 07:23:56 GMT
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:38:37 -0700, Olivier Thomas wrote:
> What should I do ? Upgrade my RPM manager ?
>
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2000-051-01.html
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 w/remote printer setup
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:36:35 GMT
In comp.os.linux.redhat Kerry Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I know this should be easy but I can't get it working. I have two
> locally networked PC's , both with RH6.2, and one has a local printer
> configured and working(router.mynet.all). The other I have configured
> for a Remote Unix lpd Queue (gamer.mynet.all).
> My gamer printcap looks like this:
Normally 'printtool' does a good job and it should work right out
of the box. However I had a similar problem in 6.1 and in my case
recompiling the kernel with most of the relevant modules made internal
solved the problem. I know, I know, well behaved OS's are not supposed
to act that way ;-).
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From: Konrad Gebels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.robotics.misc
Subject: Re: "Exact" time measuring under linux
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:48:07 GMT
Under Windows you can use the 'GetTickCount' function to access the
realtime clock, there might be a similar function under Linux.
Maik Hassel wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Which would be the most accurate way of measuring times down to 1/1000
> sec in Linux? I can't use realtime-linux!
> Is there a possibility of accessing the timer tics of the
> realtime-clock? Or are there other possibilities?
>
> Thanks for help....
> Maik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Hague)
Crossposted-To: comp.robotics.misc
Subject: Re: "Exact" time measuring under linux
Date: 22 Sep 2000 07:36:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Maik Hassel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Which would be the most accurate way of measuring times down to 1/1000
>sec in Linux? I can't use realtime-linux!
>Is there a possibility of accessing the timer tics of the
>realtime-clock? Or are there other possibilities?
How about gettimeofday(2) ? It works fine for me.
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vinay Avasthi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Disk Druid
Date: 22 Sep 2000 07:27:54 GMT
I suppose mkfs should do the trick.
VA
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oleksandr Bozhyk wrote:
>Hi again,
>My problem is I can't mount new partiton made
>with help of fdisk before.
>I guess the reason is that new partition is not formated.
>Am I right? Need I format new partition? I'll appreciate any advice.
>SY,
>Oleksandr Bozhyk.
>
>
>Scott Rockstad wrote:
>
>> Oleksandr Bozhyk wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> > How can I run Disk Druid in Red Hat 6.2 (in order to add a new
>> > partition) ?
>> > SY,
>> > Oleksandr Bozhyk
>>
>> I don't know how to run Disk Druid after install, but you can use cfdisk
>> instead.
>> Regards,
>>
>> Scott
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From: Walter Grundauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: umount problem w/ nfs parallelport zip
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:28:01 +0200
Tony,
Tony Falcone wrote:
> However, when I try to umount /mnt/zip, I get the dreaded error message:
> umount: /mnt/zip: device is busy
> I have run both fuser and lsof, and neither one can detect any processes having any
>open
> files, etc., on /mnt/zip. Because I want to be able to change zip disks without
>having
> to reboot, this is a pretty annoying error, so I would appreciate any help anyone is
I have the same problem since years :-).
My sytem depends on the S.U.S.E contribution. At this time, 7.0, but
this specific problem
was there from the beginning. I did not invest a lot of energy to
investigate. The drive
ejects the Disk after a few minutes, and it does not refuse always.
Maybe a problem which
depends on the module or the printer behind. A true scsi jazdrive has no
problem.
This is just an information to let you know that your configuration is
not wrong.
By the way, did you try a "sync" before ejecting ?
Regards, Walter
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From: Oleksandr Bozhyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Disk Druid
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:25:27 +0300
Thank a lot! I got it.
SY,
Oleksandr Bozhyk.
Eric wrote:
> Oleksandr Bozhyk wrote:
> >
> > Hi again,
> > My problem is I can't mount new partiton made
> > with help of fdisk before.
> > I guess the reason is that new partition is not formated.
> > Am I right? Need I format new partition? I'll appreciate any advice.
> > SY,
> > Oleksandr Bozhyk.
>
> you format a partition with mkfs.ext2 or mkfs.msdos
> Read the manpage of mkfs
>
> Eric
>
> >
> > Scott Rockstad wrote:
> >
> > > Oleksandr Bozhyk wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > How can I run Disk Druid in Red Hat 6.2 (in order to add a new
> > > > partition) ?
> > > > SY,
> > > > Oleksandr Bozhyk
> > >
> > > I don't know how to run Disk Druid after install, but you can use cfdisk
> > > instead.
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Subject: Finding an rpm.
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:05:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something that keeps happening to me:
I am told by kpackage I need file xyz.
How do I find the rpm that holds it?
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