Linux-Misc Digest #946, Volume #25 Wed, 4 Oct 00 21:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Strange printing problem ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Microsoft owns a piece of Corel (TacitR)
tar but no dump - help? ("ekkis")
Re: slow? (Zen Sorcerer)
Re: Linux on Laptop (Robert Heller)
Re: PPP and routing. (John Hasler)
Re: any hope? (win98 upgrade, lost mbr, no boot disk) (Aslak Johansen)
Re: RedHat 7 install failed, need rescue help (Silviu Minut)
Re: RedHat 7 install failed, need rescue help (Charlie Zender)
Re: Microsoft owns a piece of Corel (Eric Remy)
Re: any hope? (win98 upgrade, lost mbr, no boot disk) (RCD)
Re: any hope? (win98 upgrade, lost mbr, no boot disk) (Robert Heller)
Re: Printing man pages (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Changing the Settings on a Card (Marshall Lake)
message utility in X windows (Rob Pohlman)
Re: Get rid of localhost?
This is (literally) so fscking annoying! (Whammalhammadingdongbingbangagogo)
Re: How to read excel file using Linux? ("Chris Field")
Re: RedHat 7 install failed, need rescue help (Jerry L Kreps)
Re: Hauppauge WinTV model 401 (Vladimir Florinski)
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange printing problem
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:10:34 -0500
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Anthony Aicardi quoth:
AA> Try cat samplefile.txt | lpr
[ snip bassackwards quoted text ]
And what are the benifits of that vice 'lpr samplefile.txt'?
anm
--
perl -wMstrict -e '
$a=[[qw[J u s t]],[qw[A n o t h e r]],[qw[P e r l]],[qw[H a c k e r]]];$.++
;$@=$#$a;$$=[reverse sort map$#$_=>@$a]->[$|];for$](--$...$$){for$}($|..$@)
{$$[$]][$}]=$a->[$}][$]]}}$,=$";$\=$/;print map defined()?$_:$,,@$_ for @$;
'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TacitR)
Subject: Re: Microsoft owns a piece of Corel
Date: 04 Oct 2000 23:17:08 GMT
>Maybe Bill Gates needs to borrow a few ideas from Corel so that he
>can hoist bloated Microsoft Office 2001 onto the Linux platform.
Ain't gonna happen.
Check out the article at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13714.html
for what I happen to think is an excellent analysis of that issue. Long and
short: There's no percentage in a Linux version of Office for Microsoft. It's
all about the money.
Incidentally, for a take on what Microsoft stands to gain from Corel, and how
they might be able to control Corel even without voting rights, look at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13728.html
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From: "ekkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.misc,linux.scsi
Subject: tar but no dump - help?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:24:57 -0700
hi all,
I'm having a problem backing up a file system to tape using "dump". I can
tar to the device (read and write) so I know there's nothing wrong
with the hardware or drivers... can anyone help point me ine right
direction?
here's my command and it's output:
root@beowulf:/root # dump -0u -f /dev/st0 /home/ftp/mp3z
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Oct 2 13:32:48 2000
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdb1 (/ (dir home/ftp/mp3z)) to /dev/st0
DUMP: Label: none
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 3913078 tape blocks on 99.97 tape(s).
DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Mon Oct 2 13:32:49 2000
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: Closing /dev/st0
DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Mon Oct 2 13:34:44 2000
DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:01:55
DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 333 KB/s
DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") y
DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/st0".
DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") n
DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
the drive has 4 tapes. When dump first asks
whether the "new volume" is mounted, I switch to the next tape by issuing:
root@beowulf:/var/log # mtx -f /dev/sg1 next
Unloading Data Transfer Element into Storage Element 1...done
and then respond "y" (which fails).
Some useful info:
root@beowulf:/root # uname -a
Linux beowulf 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 20:53:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
root@beowulf:/root # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'ARCHIVE '
Product ID: 'Python 28849-XXX'
Revision: '4.CM'
Attached Changer: No
DataCompEnabled: yes
DataCompCapable: yes
DataDeCompEnabled: yes
CompType: 0x20
DeCompType: 0x20
ActivePartition: 0
EarlyWarningSize: 0
NumPartitions:0
MaxPartitions:1
MinBlock:1
MaxBlock:16777215
root@beowulf:/root # mtx -f /dev/sg1 status
Storage Changer /dev/sg1:1 Drives, 4 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 2 Loaded)
Storage Element 1:Full
Storage Element 2:Empty
Storage Element 3:Full
Storage Element 4:Full
Also, something weird, the directory I'm trying to dump is a little over
3GB:
root@beowulf:/root # ls /home/ftp/mp3z |head -1
total 3885396
and my tapes should fit 4GB (uncompressed), however if you'll notice in the
dump output:
DUMP: estimated 3913078 tape blocks on 99.97 tape(s).
the number of tapes calculated is BIG! What's up with this?
any help greatly appreciated. - erick
p.s. please e-mail so I don't have to keep coming back to the newsgroup,
thx!
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From: Zen Sorcerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slow?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 23:29:48 -0000
The problem is that you probably have the bit rate set to high. Try running
/usr/bin/Xconfigurator and then change it to 8 bit or 16 bit. You probably
have it set at 32 bits which is too taxing on your system.
Zen
Jeph Herrin 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?
>
> the system monitor shows all the ram, with most of it (~55mb)
> in use with no apps running. i don't seem to have any hoggy
> processes running in the back, and i've got a 250MB swap file
> (which, however, sometimes is flagged as FAILED for shut
> down while halting the machine). the video card has 1MB,
> not a lot, but it shouldn't make the machine crawl (should it?).
>
> my last unix box was an old sparc with 32mb of ram and solaris 5,
> it flew in comparison to this. is there something i should look for?
> should i bag the hardware, the os, or both?
>
> addendum: i installed with 32mb of ram, but doubled this shortly
> thereafter; do i need to tell the kernel something about this? i figured
> since the system monitor tool picked it up, i was set.
>
> thanks for any tips,
> jeph
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>
>
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Laptop
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 23:48:42 -0000
"Henry K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:01:02 +0200, wrote :
"K> Yes. The LInux installs without problems. But how to make this pcmcia card
"K> work? Theres no straight support for this card.
"K> IBM Ethernet creditcard PCMCIA adapter II
"K> I now try this small 'Peanut Linux' dist. and see how it works!
"K> This Windowsbox is realy slow but i need Email and Internet at my work daily
"K> so i have to get this pcmcia card to work on Linux or i'll be doomed to use
"K> windows....
Does IBM have any info on their web site(s)? I know that my 3Com
3c589D-Combo PCMCIA card works just fine on my AST 900N. If you can't
get the info you need to get your IBM card to work, I'd say toss it and
get the 3Com 3c589D card. This card is well supported.
"K>
"K> -wmute on windows hell
"K> Robert Heller Wrote.....
"K> > "Henry Kruuskopf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"K> > In a message on Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:39:32 +0200, wrote :
"K>
"K>
"K> >I installed older versions of RedHat Linux (before RedHat's installer
"K> >properly supported PCMCIA/network installations). This is what I did:
"K> >
"K> >I got a copy of Slackware (3.4 I think) and did a *floppy* install of
"K> >the A (base) and N (network) sets. I partitioned the drive into four
"K> >partitions (I have a 500meg drive):
"K> >
"K> >/dev/hda1 / (root) 64meg
"K> >/dev/hda2 swap 64meg
"K> >/dev/hda3 /usr 256meg
"K> >/dev/hda4 /home rest of disk
"K> >
"K> >After the minimual slackware install, I got my PCMCIA ethernet card
"K> >working and used ftp under Slackware to copy a minimual RPM set (and
"K> >related support stuff) to the /home fs. Then did a RedHat install from
"K> >hard drive (re-formating the root and /usr file systems). I initially
"K> >installed RH 4.2 and latter upgraded to RH 5.2.
"K>
"K>
"K>
"K>
"K>
"K>
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: PPP and routing.
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 22:01:46 GMT
Bill Unruh writes:
> So, perhaps you will be good enough to tell him how to get rid of that
> default route to lo on debian!
I already did in a previous article in this thread: comment out the gateway
line in /etc/init.d/network.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Aslak Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: any hope? (win98 upgrade, lost mbr, no boot disk)
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 00:53:28 -0100
I don't know what happened, but ...
if the only problem is to make a new install of LILO (and not guessing
any MBR's) then try to boot the Linux system. This can be done with the
'loadlin' program (should be started from your Win98 in DOS-mode).
Here's an article on 'loadlin':
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue34/bennet.html
and here's the homepage (with a download section) here:
http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/HOME.html
There's another way: I don't know about Redhat, but SuSE (another
distribution) has a feature on their install CD so that you can boot an
allready installed system by booting the install-CD and selecting 'Boot
an allready installed system'.
Once the system is booted I'm sure Redhat has a tool to take care of the
lilo-configuration. Anyway: some systems keeps a file "/etc/lilo.conf"
with the running LILO-configuration. This, among "/etc/fstab", could
give you some ideas about the previous configuration. If you have the
"/etc/lilo.conf" file you might be able to reinstall lilo with the
'lilo' command.
There is, however, still a problem: How will Win98 react to your LILO?
Microsoft has been pretty successfull in making their OS'es incompatible
with other boot-managers. The safe way is to either install 'loadlin' or
to create a boot-disk.
Good Luck
Aslak Johansen
RCD wrote:
> hi,
>
> if anyone knows of a solution I'd like to hear it.
>
> I have (had) a dual boot (with lilo) redhat, win95 and thought I'd
> finally upgrade to win98.
>
> I stupidly forgot to make a bootdisk.
>
> I thought I lost the original MBR, but when I scan the disk with NAV
> 2000 it says I have 2 MBRs.
>
> Can I recover and edit the MBR from windows to restore the lilo
> information?
>
> If I'm screwed, I'll just do another clean install of redhat, but I'd
> really like to know if there's any hope of recovery first.
>
> any information would be great
>
> thanks
>
> ryan
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 7 install failed, need rescue help
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:52:57 -0400
This ia a known bug with the RH7.0 install program and it has been reported many times
to bugzilla.
Someone in this group suggested that you should not specify mount a mount point for dos
partitions. I tried that and it worked. Then just leave the /home partition
unformatted, and you're set. Any RH distribution will allow you to select the
partitions you want to format, so if RH7.0 still fails, you can re-install 6.1.
Charlie Zender wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried installing Redhat 7 on my Dell Inspiron 7500 intel laptop,
> previously running Redhat 6.1.
> The install failed just after disk druid partitioning and just before
> copying the packages.
> I tried to reuse the /home and /usr/local partitions.
> The anaconda script died, and now the system will not boot to linux
> since there is no system on the disk (it does still boot to windows).
> Now I would like to copy a file (my mail) from my /home partition before
> I reformat the disk completely and try to install Debian.
>
> I can use a rescue disk to boot linux and then mount the /home =/dev/hda7 partition.
> However the file is ~50 MB and will not fit on a single floppy.
> Fortunately I have a superdisk drive (LS120 = 120 MB) which used
> to be /dev/hdc = /mnt/ls120. I could copy the file onto the LS120
> if I could mount the drive. Unfortunately
>
> mount /dev/hdc /mnt/ls120
>
> fails with a "not enough space" error.
>
> Any ideas on how I mount the LS120 drive?
> Is there a way to copy stuff on /hda7 directly to the windows partition?
> I am unable to mount the windows partition from linux, same "not enough
> space" error. Any7 help/ideas appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
> --
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> Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
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From: Charlie Zender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 7 install failed, need rescue help
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:57:53 -0700
Thanks, I will definitely try this before I give up on RedHat 7.
But I hope you havn't gotten my hopes up only to be dashed again!
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From: Eric Remy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft owns a piece of Corel
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 20:04:58 -0400
In article <6oOC5.264$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas
Armagost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Maybe Bill Gates needs to borrow a few ideas from Corel so that he
>can hoist bloated Microsoft Office 2001 onto the Linux platform.
Bloated MS Office? Did you look at the size of Corel Office?
I've got both. They're both huge. (And together, take up about $7
worth of HD space.)
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"I don't like (quantum mechanics), | How many errors can
and I'm sorry I ever had anything | you find in my X-Face?
to do with it."- Erwin Schrodinger |
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From: RCD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: any hope? (win98 upgrade, lost mbr, no boot disk)
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:05:03 -0700
hi,
thanks for the useful info,
I'll try booting from the cd, then loadlin.
Yeah, I think you're right about installing LILO. I've read that
re-installing it may make
win98 unbootable. I think I'll have to stick to a boot disk until this
apparent problem is solved.
(I just hope I can get in a make it)
thanks again,
ryan
>
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: any hope? (win98 upgrade, lost mbr, no boot disk)
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 00:07:27 -0000
RCD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:39:13 -0700, wrote :
R> hi,
R>
R> if anyone knows of a solution I'd like to hear it.
R>
R> I have (had) a dual boot (with lilo) redhat, win95 and thought I'd
R> finally upgrade to win98.
R>
R> I stupidly forgot to make a bootdisk.
R>
R> I thought I lost the original MBR, but when I scan the disk with NAV
R> 2000 it says I have 2 MBRs.
R>
R> Can I recover and edit the MBR from windows to restore the lilo
R> information?
R>
R> If I'm screwed, I'll just do another clean install of redhat, but I'd
R> really like to know if there's any hope of recovery first.
You can just do an upgrade of your Linux system. If you upgrade it the
version that is currently there, it will go real fast (no rpms to
install). It will then go and install LILO and/or make a boot floppy,
which is what you want.
R>
R> any information would be great
R>
R> thanks
R>
R> ryan
R>
R>
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing man pages
Date: 04 Oct 2000 15:28:16 -0800
James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't have a postscript printer and so I have set up apsfilter for
>lpr. The simple command "man fubar | lpr does" very well and prints the
>bold characters. There is only one problem in that the page eject
>controls get lost. Does anyone know how to do it? It's nor very
>important but I've not had the time to investigate.
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying the page headers and
footers on printed pages are not in the right places on the
printed page? That would probably be a mismatch between the
formatting that groff is doing and the actual physical page size
being printed. Adjusting that might be tricky, or might not,
I'm not sure. It might be as simple as putting the number
for the lines per page into your printcap file.
What I would do is see if there is a ghostscript driver for your
printer, and use that to print a PostScript file generated with
the -t option to man. Even if you have a dot matrix printer the
results will probably be better that otherwise. If you have a
laser or ink jet printer the results are guaranteed to be far
better. You can of course have the apsfilter invoke ghostscript
automatically, so the only change to your command as shown above
(minus the typo) is to insert the -t.
Floyd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshall Lake)
Subject: Re: Changing the Settings on a Card
Date: 5 Oct 2000 00:21:14 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?
>PCI cards are not supposed to step on other cards' IRQs or I/O ports,
>and isapnp is for ISA cards, as the name implies.
I was hoping isapnp stood for "is a pnp" rather than "isa pnp". :)
>There are some
>motherboards that assign IRQs to PCI cards based on the slots they are
>inserted into; try plugging the sound card into a different PCI slot.
>PCI cards can also share interrupts, so if the other card is also PCI,
>there is a strange problem here.
I have four PCI slots (and three boards). And yes, different slots use
different interrupts. But it doesn't seem to help to move the boards
around. I'm still getting what appears to be a conflict. Three irqs are
used by embedded peripherals on the motherboard: sound, usb, and vga.
I want to use the SB PCI128 sound rather than the embedded sound.
With the BIOS I can change the irq settings (across the shared slots)
but I can't shut peripherals off. And I can only change the irq settings
to couple of different values.
>It might help if you could post the
>exact error message(s) you receive when trying to load the module for
>the sound card, as well as the output of "dmesg ; cat /proc/ioports
>/proc/interrupts".
dmesg doesn't show anything with relation to sound. I'm loading the SB PC128
after boot with:
modprobe sound
insmod uart401
insmod sb io=0x1800 irq=11 dma=1
I get the following error message after entering the second insmod above:
Device of resource busy
which leads me to believe there's a conflict somewhere.
cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
1400-147f : eth0
1840-1843 : BusLogic BT-958
2020-2027 : ide0
2028-202f : ide1
eec0-eed3 : usb-uhci
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 154146 XT-PIC timer
1: 20 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 22703 XT-PIC eth0
4: 37465 XT-PIC serial
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
11: 2694 XT-PIC BusLogic BT-958, usb-uhci
12: 9133 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 10564 XT-PIC ide0
15: 25 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux melake.erols.com 2.2.15-4mdk #1 Wed May 10 15:31:30 CEST 2000 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
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From: Rob Pohlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: message utility in X windows
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 00:24:28 GMT
I'm looking for some kind of utility that can pop up a message on a linux box running
X. If anyone knows of such a program, please let me know.
TIA,
Rob P.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Get rid of localhost?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 00:29:45 -0000
Running netcfg allows you to configure your hostname.
John Carroll wrote:
>
> I recently installed Redhat 6.2, and somewhere along the way missed
> an instruction. As a result, my machine thinks it's "localhost", which
> isn't very helpful. I've been running Slackware 96 for years, so
> I thought I knew how to fix the problem. Replace "localhost" in
> /etc/HOSTNAME with jjc.groveton.com and maybe do something similar
> in /etc/hosts. So I did those things, and the next time I booted,
> the prompt still showed "localhost". I checked /etc/HOSTNAME and
> discovered it had been rewritten at bootup, and my changes had been
> wiped out. Couldn't believe that, but I repeated it and the same thing
> happened. Any suggestions on how to change the HOSTNAME on this
> newfangled Linux box?
>
> John Carroll
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From: Whammalhammadingdongbingbangagogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: This is (literally) so fscking annoying!
Date: 04 Oct 2000 17:12:57 -0700
A while ago, I accidentally turned off my Alpha 164LX (running RH6.1)
while the shutdown process was running. When I tried to boot it, it
started checking /dev/sda5 (the partition with the root fs). It stopped
at about 81% of the way and said something like "An error has occured,
enter the root password for maintenance or press Ctrl-D for normal
startup." I typed the root password to run in single-user mode & ran
fsck on /dev/sda5. It reported some errors and I told it to correct them
all, then I rebooted & it worked fine. However, every time since then it
has reached the maximal mount count, the auto-check has failed in
exactly the same way that it did then, & I need to run fsck on the
filesystem before I can boot into multi-user mode. Does anyone know how
I can totally repair the fs so it doesn't do this? (It's ext2fs.) If you
post your response on c.o.l.m, I'd prefer to also recieve an emailed
copy of it. Thanks in advance.
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From: "Chris Field" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to read excel file using Linux?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 20:28:40 -0400
Try StarOfice from Sun
"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I need to read an excel file using Linux. Is this possible. I would
> like to do it for free if possible.
>
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From: Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 7 install failed, need rescue help
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 19:35:24 -0500
Mount one of your DOS drives as a VFAT and then cp your file to it. Then
umount it.
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Charlie Zender wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I tried installing Redhat 7 on my Dell Inspiron 7500 intel laptop,
>previously running Redhat 6.1.
>The install failed just after disk druid partitioning and just before
>copying the packages.
>I tried to reuse the /home and /usr/local partitions.
>The anaconda script died, and now the system will not boot to linux
>since there is no system on the disk (it does still boot to windows).
>Now I would like to copy a file (my mail) from my /home partition before
>I reformat the disk completely and try to install Debian.
>
>I can use a rescue disk to boot linux and then mount the /home =/dev/hda7 partition.
>However the file is ~50 MB and will not fit on a single floppy.
>Fortunately I have a superdisk drive (LS120 = 120 MB) which used
>to be /dev/hdc = /mnt/ls120. I could copy the file onto the LS120
>if I could mount the drive. Unfortunately
>
>mount /dev/hdc /mnt/ls120
>
>fails with a "not enough space" error.
>
>Any ideas on how I mount the LS120 drive?
>Is there a way to copy stuff on /hda7 directly to the windows partition?
>I am unable to mount the windows partition from linux, same "not enough
>space" error. Any7 help/ideas appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Charlie
>--
>Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of
>Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV model 401
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:17:14 -0700
Alan Burns wrote:
>
> #bttv
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 bttv
> options bttv card=10 radio=1
> options tuner debug=1
>
Xawtv recommends the following in conf.modules:
alias char-major-81 bttv
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner
options tuner type=<number>
where number must correspond to your tuner type, as described in the xawtv
manual. You shouldn't specify a card type.
>
> So I decide to try xawtv instead. It compiles and starts without a
> problem, but the picture is AWFUL - black & white, grainy, severe
> ghosting, and rolling - and there is no sound.
>
Tuner mismatch, most likely.
--
Vladimir
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