Linux-Misc Digest #96, Volume #26 Sat, 21 Oct 00 04:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Brian L. Rachford)
Re: initrd (Dances With Crows)
Re: RAM required? (Dances With Crows)
Re: How do I install a new video driver? ("Lamar Thomas")
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Keith Edward O'Hara)
IRC clients ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux gaming ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
firewall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
screen shoot during LINUX installation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: StarOffice disappearing mail (Daniel C)
Re: Which windowing system? X-windows? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Which windowing system? X-windows? (Bill Kocynjski)
Re: How do I install a new video driver? (J Sloan)
R: very dumb question ("Lodo Nicolino")
What is SAMBA? ("Lamar Thomas")
Linksys 10/100 PCI NIC ("Micer")
Re: Could I ask for some directions? (Tyler Larson)
Controlling several boxes from one place (Bo Berglund)
Re: Need help with dual boot install Win 98/Red Hat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need help with dual boot install Win 98/Red Hat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left (Carl Fink)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian L. Rachford)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: 21 Oct 2000 04:00:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:44:58 GMT, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
>In article <gq1I5.4141$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Garman wrote:
>
>>What are the chances that a scientist is going to submit his article in
>>*exactly* the format required by the journal?
>
>If they provide a LaTeX template or class/style file, then the chances are
>fairly good. IIRC some journals (IEEE?) do just that.
FWIW, in astronomy an overwhelming majority of authors do exactly
that. For example, nearly all submissions to American journals
use the LaTeX-based AASTeX package (AAS = American Astronomical
Society). Between things that are pre-defined in the style files,
and the templates that people use, it's really not that difficult
to produce an appropriately marked-up file to submit. Furthermore,
there are style files that allow you to produce output arbitrarily
close to what will appear in the paper journal withi a little extra
effort, which is nice for preprints. There is a bit of a learning
curve, but I have encountered few astronomers that have went back
to other methods after using LaTeX. Word and/or Word Perfect files
are accepted to allow for the small percentage of authors who
choose that route. The situation is similar for the major European
journals, except they use different LaTeX packages.
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: initrd
Date: 21 Oct 2000 04:18:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:01:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am running into the All of your loopback devices are in use! message
>when I try to make an initial ramdisk to boot my 2.2.16-22 kernel. I
>have an all scsi system and so need the ramdisk. I know others have run
>into this problem before and found solutions, though no one seems to
>have posted one in any of the linux forums. Any help would be
>appreciated...
An initial RAMdisk is *NOT* needed in 96% of all cases.
Initial RAMdisks are for installation purposes, since there are about
N+1 SCSI adapters that Linux supports and you can't compile them all
into the kernel. Therefore, the SCSI host adapter drivers are compiled
as modules and put into an initial RAMdisk so that a stock kernel can
get at them for installation purposes. Initial RAMdisks are also needed
for the "Linux-on-a-single-floppy" case, but that's not relevant here.
Compile the kernel yourself, making sure to put support for your
particular SCSI card, SCSI disk support, ext2 filesystem support, and
ELF binary support directly into the kernel (<*> not <M>.) Don't bother
with the initrd thing. There's a guide to doing that at
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html if you haven't done that
before. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: RAM required?
Date: 21 Oct 2000 04:18:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:23:59 -0700, Micer wrote:
>I have Redhat 6.0.
Upgrade! Slack 7.0 is rather nice... ;-)
>To run an Apache webserver with SSH, PPTP (Poptop?), and an ipchains
>packet-filtering firewall how much RAM would be reasonable (32 meg, 64 meg
>???).
Depends on what you're serving and how much traffic you're getting.
Dynamic content requires a lot more from the system than static stuff;
if you're running a bunch of Perl-CGI/PHP scripts you may want 128M at
least and 256M if you have thousands of users hammering on your server.
ipchains doesn't require *that* much memory, but Apache can be a pig if
it has a lot of work to do. Never tried Poptop myself, so can't help
out there.
>To run an ipchains packet-filtering firewall with no services (just
>packet-filtering and as a MASQ forwarding router) how much memory would be
>required (16 meg? 32 meg???).
That would take a lot less; you might even be able to do it in 8M! Just
don't try to run anything but the firewall/IP-Masq if you decide to take
the memory below 16M. RedHat will not be optimal for such usage; you
may wish to look at the "Firewall-on-a-floppy" specialized distros.
"Coyote Linux" is one of those--check http://freshmeat.net/ for it.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How do I install a new video driver?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:22:21 GMT
How do I tell it to look for the drivers on the A:\ drive where the file is?
Thanks again.
Lamar
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"sena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I heard Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saying:
> >I just downloaded a new Linux video driver for my NVidia TNT2 M64 video
card
> >but I don't know how to install it. Can anyone help? I am running RH
6.2
> >and the GNome interface. The name of the file that I downloaded is:
> >NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh62.i386.rpm. I am new to Linux and thanks for any
> >help.
> >
> To install RPM files, do this on the console (or on an xterm):
> "rpm -i package_name-version.proc.rpm"
> or, in your case:
> "rpm -i NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh62.i386.rpm"
>
> Regards, sena...
>
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From: Keith Edward O'Hara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:33:09 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <8seu82$jbm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <gq1I5.4141$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: CNI/Prairienet
: On Thu, 19 Oct, Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> ...
:> Gene, Journal of Molecular Evolution, RNA...NONE of them accept latex
:> (tex) format documents. They DO accept word and wordperfect. Some of
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: If the scientist submits something that's going to be re-typeset by the
: editor anyway, it's foolish to use Word or LaTeX. It seems that in this
: case, the journals should *only* accept in plain text format. What are
: the chances that a scientist is going to submit his article in *exactly*
: the format required by the journal?
:
A markup language does have advantages over plain text for submission of
an article in a journal or a book, because it provides a way of expressing
your _intentions_ to the editor and typesetter.
The Journals of the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of
America encourage submissions using LaTeX, preferably using their macro
package.
In fact, the APS does not request page charges from authors providing
TeX manuscripts that require minimal re-typing.
The latest policy discussion I could find on the web is a bit dated:
http://www.aps.org/apsnews/articles/11232.html
The policy of waiving page charges seems to have expanded since the
article above was written. I haven't been asked for page charges for a
14-page paper I currently have in press in Phys Rev B, for example.
I wrote my PhD thesis using Microsoft Word 2.0, which many would say was
a big mistake because it had a lot of math and I was preparing papers in
TeX on the same material. I suffered no ill effects from the experience,
however. I _did_ have to read the manual, as would anyone using it for a
big job.
=====
keith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IRC clients
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:34:22 GMT
Is there a version of Mirc that will run under Linux?
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Subject: Linux gaming
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:35:14 GMT
Is there any good websites or magazines dedicated to PCGaming in Linux?
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Subject: firewall
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:36:24 GMT
Looking for a good firewall for Linux box
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Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
Subject: screen shoot during LINUX installation
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 04:36:24 GMT
Hi,
I am wondering if there is any simple hardware that I can use on a
seperate machine to capture (screenshoot, screen grab, screen dump
etc...) the video signal from my computer as I install an operating
system like Red Hat Linux 5.2 through to 7.0?
I want to save some screens to keep a record of the installation
process. At present, all I can think :-p of is to use a camera but
there must be abetter way out there.
Any commemts will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
:-)
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From: Daniel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice disappearing mail
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 05:13:48 GMT
Gerald Pollack wrote:
>
> I use SO 5.1 on a Mandrake 7.0 system. My inbox is a pop3 account, and is
> configured to remove mail from the server and to store messages locally.
> Every now and then (at least once a day), messages that I've
> fetched from the server "disappear" temporarily; their headers appear in
> the inbox listing, but when I try to open them I'm told that the "message
> contents are no longer available on the server". If I try again later, the
> message appears with no problems (not necessarily every time I try again,
> but eventually).
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going on here, and how to stop it?!
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> G. Pollack Dept. of Biology, McGill Univ.
I don't have the answer, I have a related question.
I use IMAP, and Star Office doesn't seem to recognize when mail has been
deleted from the server. The headers remain in StarMail, and the body of
the message says "message contents are no longer available on the
server." So I have to delete the headers from starMail. (This happens
when I have deleted some mail while working on another machine.)
How can I get Star to refresh its inbox when it logs on to the server?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Which windowing system? X-windows?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 05:15:37 GMT
In our last episode (Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:04:06 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Bill Kocynjski said:
>I'm going to write a program using graphics to display data, using OpenGL.
>I can develop under Linux, Mac OS X, Unix on SGI. My primary requirement
>is portability. I am a post doc, and will be moving to a new position soon
>and
>don't know what hardware will be available there. This will be a program under
>perpetual development for use by me and perhaps a few others.
>
>Should I use X-windows? Are there other GUIs more popular in the
>Linux/Unix/Mac OS X world? If I develop for one of them, will I be able to
>move my application to the other unix platforms easily?
The situation with OpenGL is somewhat in flux at present, as efforts
to integrate fast OpenGL rendering with XFree86 are under way but
not quite complete [they'll likely never be _completely_ complete, but
there you go...].
If you want the code to work on _all_ of Linux, Unix, and MacOS-X,
you've got a bit of a dilemma, at present, as there really isn't
any option that works on all three yet, OS-X being the "odd man out"
right now. OS-X doesn't support the three most "popular" options,
namely:
a) Motif (love it or hate it, it _is_ there...)
b) GTK (developed for the GIMP graphics package)
c) Qt (somewhat popular on Linux, less so on Official Unixes)
You might want to look at the FLTK toolkit, which has been used
in conjunction with some OpenGL projects; it runs on Unix, Win32,
and possibly even MacOS, which may be a route to OS-X.
But I don't think there's an easy answer that covers both the
"Unixes" as well as OS-X...
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Predestination was doomed from the start.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Kocynjski)
Subject: Re: Which windowing system? X-windows?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 05:19:18 GMT
In article <yu8I5.2163$ms5.25794@news>, "gSe7eN"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm sorry to tell you, but there's no such thing as X-windows.
>
>
Thanks. Actually I mean the X Window System, as in "OpenGL: Programming
for the X Window System" by Mark Kilgard. I haven't used it so got the
name a bit wrong, thanks for the pointer.
Bill
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How do I install a new video driver?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 05:44:20 GMT
Lamar Thomas wrote:
> How do I tell it to look for the drivers on the A:\ drive where the file is?
There is no "a:" drive in Linux -
Easiest way is to use mtools to copy it to your hard drive,
then go from there.
mcopy a:driver.name
will put it in your current directory
man mtools for more info.
jjs
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Lamar
>
> ****************************
>
> "sena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I heard Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saying:
> > >I just downloaded a new Linux video driver for my NVidia TNT2 M64 video
> card
> > >but I don't know how to install it. Can anyone help? I am running RH
> 6.2
> > >and the GNome interface. The name of the file that I downloaded is:
> > >NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh62.i386.rpm. I am new to Linux and thanks for any
> > >help.
> > >
> > To install RPM files, do this on the console (or on an xterm):
> > "rpm -i package_name-version.proc.rpm"
> > or, in your case:
> > "rpm -i NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh62.i386.rpm"
> >
> > Regards, sena...
> >
> > --
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From: "Lodo Nicolino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: R: very dumb question
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:36:42 GMT
--
E pensare che ti ho fatta studiare a Detroit
( Jonny Stecchino )
Rona Galica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I need to find out if 2 machines have exactly the same versions and
> patches. Can anyone tell me how to find out what the version is and
> patches are?
>
uname -r
Nico
E pensare che ti ho fatta studiare a Detroit
( Jonny Stecchino )
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From: "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: What is SAMBA?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 07:17:34 GMT
Hi,
I am very new to Linux and I just wanted to know what is SAMBA? What is it
used for? Do I install it on a workstation or server? Thanks,
Lamar
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From: "Micer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linksys 10/100 PCI NIC
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:38:38 -0700
I am trying to install a LINKSYS 10/100 PCI-bus NIC, called a LNE100TX V4
10/100 LAN card. It fails on system startup, (ie: reading the system
messageas while booting Redhat 6.0). Does anyone have experience installing
this card in Redhat Linux?
I got the latest drive from www.linksys.com and obtained a tulip.c from it.
Using their "Makefile" I was able to make a tulip.o, however it says their
is an unresolve reference to pci_something_somethingelse (whatever!).
I set up my /etc/conf.modules to say "alias eth0 tulip", then I set up
/etc/sysconfig/network. Finally, I set up
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to read:
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=172.17.10.22
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
BROADCAST=172.17.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
When I reboot it tries to start eth0 but says it fails. How am I botching
things up?
Thanks,
Micer
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From: Tyler Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Could I ask for some directions?
Date: 21 Oct 2000 07:36:53 GMT
I'll second that. I'm new to Linux as well and asked almost the exact same
question you did on this very newsgroup just two weeks ago. If you want to
see the responses I got, here's a link to my posting on deja:
http://x61.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=679009540&CONTEXT=972113183.2065498136&hitnum=10
Just follow the thread. There are some really good book suggestions.
I bought myself a copy of _Running Linux_ and am reading it cover to cover.
Time is a premium, so I take it with me and read it between meetings and such.
There's a lot in there that I already knew, but a lot that I didn't know as
well (and problably would never have found out if not though a book).
It's an interesting read and a good book--the kind of quality I've come to
expect form O'Rielly. I'd recommend it to a friend (as long as that friend is
*really* interested in learning about linux administration.
Jack Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try "Running Linux" pub. by O'Reilly & assoc. Mid $30, but way more
> valuable for a newbie than the big fat $50 handbooks for the various
> distros you'll see, (though if you can pick up one of those cheap then do
> so), but the "Running Linux" is a great intro, especially for Windows
> users going to a dual boot scenario.
--
-Tyler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Controlling several boxes from one place
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 07:46:08 GMT
Hi,
I have a small home network consisting of 2 linux (RH) machines and 2
WinNT and 1 Win95 PC. In my "office" I have very limited space so I
can have only one monitor and keyboard/mouse. The Win95 is separate
with its own kb/mon and one NT is a laptop, but I still have 3
machines to access from my crammed desk. So now I have to crawl on the
floor every time I want to switch and move monitor connections and
bring up the keyboards from the floor to my desk. Very awkward...
Question:
Is there some freeware software for WinNT (still my main work machine)
that can emulate an X terminal so I can access the Linux boxes via the
internal network?
I have tested an eval version of "KEA! X" and it works good, but it is
not freeware, instead rather expensive. I'd prefer some
freeware/shareware solution if it can do the job.
Advice please...
Bo Berglund
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need help with dual boot install Win 98/Red Hat 6.2
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 07:38:39 GMT
> I've had this too. The problem is that lilo can't find the kernel if
it's on a
> partition that lies after the horrible "1 gb boundary". The solution:
If your
Waar komt die grens nou weer vandaan? er is een grens, wat normale
BIOS'en (Oops just noticed talking dutch :-))
Where does that boundary come from? There's one limit (for ordinary
BIOS's) and that's 1024 cyl. Where that lies is dependant on how you
access your disc (LBA mode etc), but usually it's around 8 G
Anyway the boundary is gone with the INT13 extensions, (if your BIOS
supports those. but it probably does) Update your LILO for this
(v21.4.3 an up) Anyway it still is good advise to make a small /boot at
the start of your disc, since it makes things a lot easier.
> windoze partition is smalle than 2 gb, make directly after it a small
(ie 16 mb)
> partition mounted at /boot. If your windoze is bigger, you need a new
hd to
> install linux on.
No Way! You can do as you please, install where you want, just need to
take physical limits into account. You can always boot from floppy BTW.
> Windows is coming up in "partitionless install" because then you
install linux on
> the windows partition. I have no experience with this though, so I
don't know hou
> you should start linux then (try linux, linuz, vmlinuz or vmlinux)
Don't know much about this, and I can't see why anyone would want this
partitionless install.
> Your DOS bootdisk won't work because you haven't set the boot
sequence correctly
> in your bios. It should be A,C.
> If you ever want to return the windows to its original state and
purge lilo from
> the harddisk (wich i couldn't imagine) try (in dos or windows, not in
linux) fdisk
> /mbr
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need help with dual boot install Win 98/Red Hat 6.2
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 07:38:36 GMT
> I've had this too. The problem is that lilo can't find the kernel if
it's on a
> partition that lies after the horrible "1 gb boundary". The solution:
If your
Waar komt die grens nou weer vandaan? er is een grens, wat normale
BIOS'en (Oops just noticed talking dutch :-))
Where does that boundary come from? There's one limit (for ordinary
BIOS's) and that's 1024 cyl. Where that lies is dependant on how you
access your disc (LBA mode etc), but usually it's around 8 G
Anyway the boundary is gone with the INT13 extensions, (if your BIOS
supports those. but it probably does) Update your LILO for this
(v21.4.3 an up) Anyway it still is good advise to make a small /boot at
the start of your disc, since it makes things a lot easier.
> windoze partition is smalle than 2 gb, make directly after it a small
(ie 16 mb)
> partition mounted at /boot. If your windoze is bigger, you need a new
hd to
> install linux on.
No Way! You can do as you please, install where you want, just need to
take physical limits into account. You can always boot from floppy BTW.
> Windows is coming up in "partitionless install" because then you
install linux on
> the windows partition. I have no experience with this though, so I
don't know hou
> you should start linux then (try linux, linuz, vmlinuz or vmlinux)
Don't know much about this, and I can't see why anyone would want this
partitionless install.
> Your DOS bootdisk won't work because you haven't set the boot
sequence correctly
> in your bios. It should be A,C.
> If you ever want to return the windows to its original state and
purge lilo from
> the harddisk (wich i couldn't imagine) try (in dos or windows, not in
linux) fdisk
> /mbr
>
> --
> From Tijmen Stam - "I believe in Linux" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> POVray page http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/somepage/ Last update:
2000-10-15
> count linux @ counter.li.org reg#178552, Machine#78930 & #78931
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: 99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left
Date: 21 Oct 2000 03:04:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 01:53:07 +0200 Tijmen Stam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Don't do that. ASCII only, please.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> 1) I use to use QuickBooks Pro on windows for running my bus, Does
>> anyone use someone good??
>
>I dunno. MS sucks. Go away!
What's it like being a troll? Do they charge a lot of rent to live
under bridges? And you might want to know that QuickBooks is a
product of Intuit, not Microsoft.
To answer the original question, you might consider running
QuickBooks inside a VMWare session. A quick check at freshmeat.net
finds Calamar claiming to be a small business accounting package,
along with Linux General Ledger, SQL-Ledger, and WebAccountant.
Maybe one of them would meet your needs?
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>
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