Linux-Misc Digest #941, Volume #25 Wed, 4 Oct 00 10:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Error 0x10 (KrayZ)
Re: NT + Linux dual boot, can I repair damaged NT loader? (Harry Lewis)
Re: Newbie Question! (Sort Of!) (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: linux (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: Mandrake-7.1 and X11R6 question.. (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: Netscape navigator on linux (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: Hauppauge WinTV model 401 ("A.Bev")
Re: MS Netmeeting under Linux? (John Beardmore)
Problem with samba (Miguel)
Re: slow? (Henrik Becker)
Re: slow? ("James L. Fitzgerald")
Re: Should I jump into Linux? (Tony Lawrence)
Program asking for root password (Scott Twitchell - EWB Support)
sendmail 8.11.0 (Daniel Meynen)
Re: Superblock corrupt! (Hartmann Schaffer)
Slightly OT - Brainbench Needs help reviewing SuSE Linux Certification
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel version in Slackware circa 1995 and RedHat 4.x (-ljl-)
wine time (Atle)
Re: Program asking for root password (GYULAI Mihaly)
Re: Get rid of localhost? ("Jan Schaumann")
dhcp problem - cable modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Changing the Settings on a Card (Marshall Lake)
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From: KrayZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Error 0x10
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 10:14:28 +0200
I installed RH6.2 in partition 3 of a SCSI disk
I try to boot from a floopy that i made during installation but it
doesn't work. It shows "Error 0x10".
How can I solve it?
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT + Linux dual boot, can I repair damaged NT loader?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 09:40:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. Make sure you have a Linux boot diskette (so you can boot to Linux
and configure LILO).
2. Boot to DOS using a DOS system diskette that has the FDISK tool
copied to it.
3. Issue the command FDISK /MBR
You can now go back to the instructions and use the one for NT! (If your
boot environment is more badly damaged by Linux - say you've overwritten
the boot sector, then use the NT4 CD-ROM to do a repair - the process is
the same as an install, but you specify a repair at the appropriate point.)
Harry
"Jonathan G. Campbell" wrote:
>
> I want to dual boot Linux + NT 4.0. The disk is properly partitioned and
> has been happily running Linux for the last year.
>
> Before that it had a (happily running) NT4 on another partition (NTFS).
>
> Being (a) impatient, (b) having an attention span which just does not
> stretch to the list of instructions on how to setup Linux + NT, I dashed
> ahead and tried the Windows 98 method.
>
> Consequently, I cannot boot NT4.
>
> Is there any way I can now (easily) retrieve the situation, e.g. repair
> the MBR or whatever was damaged by LILO. If it means reloading NT, I'm
> afraid shall forego the exercise.
>
> In case it matters, I'm using a Redhat 6.2 distribution, though it was
> 6.0 or 6.1 when I originally loaded Linux.
>
> In fact, I would even be happy to repair NT in a manner that would
> exclude Linux -- since I have a nice new machine that I could make my
> (main) Linux box.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jon C.
>
> --
> Jonathan G Campbell, Computer Science, Queen's University
> Belfast, BT7 1NN Tel +44 (0)28 90 274623 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~J.Campbell/
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Subject: Re: Newbie Question! (Sort Of!)
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 Oct 2000 11:22:52 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I m wondering what is the difference between RedHat, and uh...Mandrake?
>i mean, specificly! Like in softwares, kernel, system bit, etc.
>
>
>--
>Posted via CNET Help.com
>http://www.help.com/
Mandrake is based on Red Hat so they use e.g. the same packaging
system (RPM files). The differences are in the software and "stuff"
delivered in distribution. For a list of what's in the distributions,
check out their sites:
Red Hat: <URL:http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/rhl7_standard.html>
Mandrake: <URL:http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumfeat.php3>
...but since they are using the same package format, its really easy
to get [the free] packages from Red Hat into Mandrake (and vice
versa). So it all depends on the commercial stuff that comes with the
distributions I guess...
Red Hat messed up their 7.0 release by shipping it with a snapshot
version of 'gcc' that can't compile the kernel (along with 200 other
bugs). Mandrake is confusing newbies by putting the 'g++' compiler
development files on the second CD (i.e. not default).
IMHO both suck. Use Debian GNU/Linux instead ;-)
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
===================================={ GNU it yourself: www.gnu.org }====
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Subject: Re: linux
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 Oct 2000 11:23:27 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>linux rules!
>
We know already.
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
===================================={ GNU it yourself: www.gnu.org }====
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Subject: Re: Mandrake-7.1 and X11R6 question..
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 Oct 2000 11:28:57 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ish Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>It does not exactly belong here.
>
>I have installed Mandrake-7.1 on a dual Celeron box.
>In X windows some how cut/paste does not seem to work.
>The entry in /etc/X11/XF86Config for pointer section is:
>
>Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "Mircosoft"
"Mircosoft"? You mean "Microsoft"?
I don't know if that'll fix your problem...
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
===================================={ GNU it yourself: www.gnu.org }====
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Subject: Re: Netscape navigator on linux
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 Oct 2000 11:31:10 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I believe what I asked for was help on installing the software.
>I'm sure theres more to it than just unpacking a tar file.
>
>jerbear
Ah, more info!
You got a tar file? And in it was a 'ns-install' file? Execute it.
(read the readme first, if there is one).
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
===================================={ GNU it yourself: www.gnu.org }====
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From: "A.Bev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV model 401
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 11:39:17 +0100
Well i had the same problem. In fact iostream.h is a g++ library and you have
to install the right pakage. Try rpmpackage and search for iostream.h and
install the rpm.
After you will get one more probelm.
It installs the packages in the include folder (if i am not wrong), but under
g++2 folder. You have to copy all the g++2 in the include folder or it want
see it (when compiling since thein the Makefile, the path for g++2 is not
included).
I don't know if adding it in the path will resolve the problem
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: MS Netmeeting under Linux?
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:17:49 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Efflandt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Is there any net conferencing program for linux that is compatible with
>>MS Netmeeting?
>
>Not sure, but have you looked at VNC (free) which is platform independent
>and supports Linux? It can also be accessed from any Java capable web
>browser if an OS has no viewer. It is the only way I know to easily
>control a Windows box from Linux. It can also run a background X server
>in Linux that can be accessed by Win or any other system.
An interesting looking thing, but is there anything that will do cross
platform telephony or audio video conferencing ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with samba
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 11:23:42 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I have a Linux Suse 6.2 box with samba installed. I could access part
of the Linux file system from other computers using MS-DOS+LanManager
and it worked. Now I need to access the same files from Windows98SE
boxes, but these computers do not "see" the Linux server and the Linux
server does not "see" the windows boxes. What could be happening ????
Thanks in advance
Miguel
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From: Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slow?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:22:57 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:22:20 +0200, Jeph Herrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >i'm a new linux/old unix user who has just installed redhat 6.2 on a
> >cyrix 686/166Hz machine with 64MB ram. it's not top dollar hardware,
> >but I'm still a bit discouraged by how slow linux runs. using the
> >Gnome/Enlightenment combination, it takes palpable seconds to get shell
> >window open, on the order of a minute for graphical apps. is this
> >normal?
UDMA turned on?
--
Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.HenrikBecker.de
Palm Pilot unter Linux: http://www.henrikbecker.de/jpilot
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From: "James L. Fitzgerald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slow?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 07:14:40 -0400
> I honestly believe that most of the problems with the speed of Linux comes
from
> not having your HD optimised. I run RAID 0 striped and everything flys on
just
> a K6-III/450 with 128MB RAM. Look into hdparm.
> --
> moonie ;)
Ok, I'll do that, thanks.
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I jump into Linux?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 07:12:26 -0400
Andrew wrote:
>
> Tony,
>
> How can I be more clear!!!! You again answer my
> specific question with another question and some metaphors
> on learning to drive.
>
> Yes, I use my computer frequently as a tool to do
> my work, and as I've indicated, that only requires use certain
> capabilities of my machine. I don't need to write scripts
> or tinker so my machine is optimized to the n-th degree.
It has nothing to do with optimizing. It has to do with doing
work. Whatever your work is.
>
> So I ask you, the country driver non-subway person, what
> specifically am I missing that will make my computing life so
> much better?
I really can't tell you how it can help you specifically, because
I don't know what you do. My own work involves web pages,
programming, and moving data from one format to another, email..
I am constantly, all day long, manipulating files, data, changing
formats, searching for patterns.
More to the point, when I find myself doing repetitive tasks, I
automate them through scripting. For example, I maintain the FAQ
for the comp.unix.sco.misc newsgroup. I took it over from the
former maintainer just a month ago, and the first thing I noticed
was that adding factoids was a major pain in the butt- I had to
add the text, update the index, update the modification history,
and then create the text-only versions that get posted monthly.
I also needed to integrate the new information with my own
customized search engine. I wrote a Perl script to do all that
for me (and yes, you can have Perl on Windows but believe me- it
is NOT the same, not because Perl is different but just because
Windows gets in your way).
When I add articles to my web page, I have similar problems-
updates of index pages, cross-references, etc. Again, scripts.
And again, you are probably thinking "I can write .bat files" -
but that's like me describing a Harley Davidson and you piping up
about your tricycle! You do NOT have the power, and it's not
just the scripting languages themselves, it's the underlying OS
that gets in your way, and blocks you at every turn. You may get
it done, but it will take much more effort.
I have, like most of us, tremendous archives of email. Very
often, mail from or to someone that did not need its own folder
later becomes important enough or just voluminous enough to need
to be reorganized. I hate to think how you'd do that on Windows,
but it's dead easy for me.
I do the same sorts of things for my customers. You need a
"printer" that transforms the data it gets into a csv file, and
emails the result to a bunch of people, noting which of them
needs it with Unix line endings, which with Mac and which as
Windows? Does one of them need a summary? Does someone else
need to be notified that the files were sent? No problem. You
want an LDAP server that automatically picks up new users and a
phone book that drags data from that? And so on.. and again,
it's not that you CAN'T do this stuff in Windows, it's that it
will take you longer, it's harder, it will cost more. It's a
basic difference in philosophy- Windows makes it easy for you do
do the things it can do, Linux/Unix makes all things possible.
But if you are happy with your tricycle, be so. When I have to
work on Windows I am very often frustrated and annoyed by its
limitations- and it is not, as you might think, that I am
unfamiliar with the beast: I am (or was, I let it expire)
Microsoft MCSE certified. The problem is not me, it's just that
Windows is weak, clumsy, messy, stubborn and obstinate.
Unix/Linux is sleek, powerful, adaptable, willing and friendly.
Oh well, you either grok it or you don't. Good luck to you.
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 07:55:34 -0400
From: Scott Twitchell - EWB Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Program asking for root password
I recently installed Firestarter on RH 7.0 when logged in as root (I assume you
must be logged in as root to install software). Now when I log in with a user
account and try to run Firestarter, it asks me for the root password. Is it the
permissions or owner of the files causing this, or is this normal.
Scott (Newbie)
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From: Daniel Meynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sendmail 8.11.0
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:53:03 +0200
Sendmail 8.11.0 is a part of the Red Hat 7.0
Now, from some servers to which I tried to send a mail, I receive from sendmail
this error message:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mario Rodriguez) (reason: 501 Parameter syntax
error or not supported)
===== Transcript of session follows =====
.. while talking to telcom.utah.edu.:
>>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=7481
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<< 501 Parameter syntax error or not supported
501 5.6.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mario Rodriguez)... Data format error
Which is the way to avoid this problem?
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmann Schaffer)
Subject: Re: Superblock corrupt!
Date: 3 Oct 2000 20:18:27 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Svend Olaf Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (NoMadis) wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>some stupid dos program ruined one of my Linux partitions.
>>As a result I cannot mount it anymore, and I cannot repair it with the
>>ext2fs utilities.
>>
>>Does somebody know a program that will allow me to repair it?
>>(there are some files on it that i need) :(
have a look at the mount man page. the sb option lets you mount using
one of the backup superblocks
>In quite a few cases like this, it is the partition table and not the
>partition itself, that is damaged. If you want me to evaluate the
>situation, you can initially get Findpart at
>
>http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
>
>do from DOS or Windows:
>
>findpart all +fat fp.txt
>
>and post the content from fp.txt in a follow-up to this message.
>--
>Svend Olaf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Slightly OT - Brainbench Needs help reviewing SuSE Linux Certification
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:35:35 GMT
Hello,
I am currently charged with developing a test in SuSE Linux
Administration, and need some people to review the questions that are
currently in beta. The test should be there for the next couple of
days and I would appreciate any comments about the test that could be
provided. If interested, the beta test is available at the following
URL:
http://www.brainbench.com/testcenter/brainbench/t1.jsp?core=%
2Fbetapins.html
making sure that the URL is one line. All feedback and comments will
be taken into account. A beta test consists of 32 items (2 independent
sets of 16) and the amount of time required varies from person to
person.
If anyone has any questions or comments, please E-mail me with the
contact information below.
Thanks,
Michael Becraft
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel version in Slackware circa 1995 and RedHat 4.x
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:42:15 GMT
In article <8rcn2m$mbd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone remember off the top of their head what kernel version
> shipped with Slackware back in late 1995? And also in RedHat 4.x?
>
> I'm trying to get some versions of libraries, etc. from both distros
for
> my own knowledge.
You might check out its home:
http://www.slackware.com
some one (Patrick?) there might have this info. I've got archives on
CD with one going back to 1994 (SuSE 11/94).
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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From: Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wine time
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:12:26 +0200
An application I'm using has trouble with the year 2000 and I want to
set the time in wine to something earlier (without having to adjust
linux time). How do I do it?
(I have tried searching for time(..) and gettimeofday(..) and modifying
code around these, but no louck so far.
A
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From: GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Program asking for root password
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:08:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Scott Twitchell - EWB Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently installed Firestarter ...
> when I log in with a user account and try to run Firestarter, it
> asks me for the root password. Is it the permissions or owner of
> the files causing this, or is this normal.
This is because of the program-character: it's a firewall tool, so
it must be run from root account. (It's this program that asks for the
root password and not the shell or other progs).
If the permissions differ for a user, you receive a
'Permission denied' message.
--
GYULAI Mihaly
http://gyulai.freeyellow.com
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Get rid of localhost?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 09:27:57 +0400
"John Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> Any suggestions on how to change the HOSTNAME on this
> newfangled Linux box?
Your machine always IS localhost - or at least you should have an alias
in /etc/hosts, but anyway, read
man hostname
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically. You must rely on
your human intuition. -- Spock, "Assignment: Earth", stardate unknown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dhcp problem - cable modem
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:16:02 GMT
My cable modem works well with my redhat 6.2 Linux configured as a
firewall using ipchains until I change IP address. When it happens,
ETH0 can't find a new IP, even if I do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
restart. I have to reboot.
Note: My computer's name is given by the cable co. It's always
modemcableXX.XX.XX.XX where XX.XX.XX.XX is my IP reverse order. Meaby
eth0 tryes to get a new IP for the same machine name ? How to have
another computer name ?
Please help ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshall Lake)
Subject: Changing the Settings on a Card
Date: 4 Oct 2000 13:37:06 GMT
I have a SoundBlaster PCI128 card that I'm trying to install on a 2.2.15
Linux box. I need to change the IRQ setting because it's conflicting
with another card in the machine. I don't see a way to change the setting
on the card physically. I don't run anything Microsoft. isapnp doesn't
recognize the card. How do I change the IRQ setting on the card?
--
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http://melake.erols.com/the-beach http://melake.erols.com/genealogy
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