Linux-Misc Digest #978, Volume #26 Wed, 31 Jan 01 04:13:02 EST
Contents:
KDE 2.0/korn ("William B. Cattell")
NetZero for Linux ? (Arctic Storm)
DHCP problem?? ("Londonboy")
Re: NetZero for Linux ? (Matt Haley)
Re: Kernel recompilation - "system too big?" (Stefan Viljoen)
Re: RedHat 7.0 startup ("pascal gauthier")
Re: DHCP problem?? (Aitch)
NVdriver problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why does pppd die upon connection? (Bill Unruh)
Re: NetZero for Linux ? ("OpenMind")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Backup remotely ? ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Sound drivers ("Puchta Milos")
Re: Adding Win98SE to W2K and Linux system. ("Hugh Kennedy")
Re: Adding Win98SE to W2K and Linux system. ("Hugh Kennedy")
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE 2.0/korn
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:58:03 GMT
I have set korn up in my system tray and I'm trying to get it to play a
wav file and change icons. I have set the "new mail" box to 'play
message.wav'. In the "click" box I have kmail.
I can click on the korn icon and kmail starts up but I haven't been able
to get it to play the wav file. Any ideas?
TIA,
Bill
--
http://members.home.com/wcattell
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Park not thy Harley in the darkness of thine garage, that it
may collect dust for want of being oft ridden. Ride thy Harley
with thy brethren, and rejoice in the spirit of the road.
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NetZero for Linux ?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:14:48 GMT
NetZero for Linux ?
I read that NIC (New Internet Computer), the company that sells internet
boxes for $200, comes with NetZero preinstalled.
I went to NetZero web site, but I was not able to find the download for
Linux.
How can NIC, which is basically a Linux computer, run NetZero, when NetZero
doesn't support Linux?
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From: "Londonboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: DHCP problem??
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:44:52 GMT
I am connection my RedHat 7.0 with one NIC, eth0 to the cable modem via
DHCP. For every 3-4 days, the connection goes down for no reason and I have
to do "/etc/init.d/network restart" in order to get back the connection.
I suspect it is the DHCP renew problem but I used to run windows NT on
cable modem, no problem.. I think I must have misconfig RedHat or redhat has
some problem??
Anyone has similar problem? Please help.
Also,
- Can anyone tell me where is the DHCP configuration file? I tried to look
for /etc/dhcpc and /etc/dhcpcd
- I tried "netconf" and "netconfig", doesn't help...
- I cannot find any useful log that tells me what happen, I tried to look
into /var/log/messages, any other places that log the DHCP actitivies?
Thanks in advance
N.B.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Subject: Re: NetZero for Linux ?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:08:10 -0000
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:14:48 GMT,
Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>NetZero for Linux ?
>I read that NIC (New Internet Computer), the company that sells internet
>boxes for $200, comes with NetZero preinstalled.
>I went to NetZero web site, but I was not able to find the download for
>Linux.
>How can NIC, which is basically a Linux computer, run NetZero, when NetZero
>doesn't support Linux?
>
http://www.thinknic.com/gpl/iso/1.2final.raw.gz
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From: Stefan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel recompilation - "system too big?"
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:20:52 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Jens K. Thomsen" wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Try "make bzlilo" instead.
I did try this - still didn't work. Only solution was to drop some
functionality from the kernel to get it to be smaller. Does work now -
the rest of the stuff seems to be balanced with dynamically loaded
modules.
Thanks anyway!
--
Stefan Viljoen a. k. a. Rylan
F/EMS Dispatcher
Potchefstroom F/EMS
South Africa
http://home.intekom.com/rylan/
"We want you to be soldiers - deadly as long as you have one arm or one
leg and you are still alive."
- Sergeant Zim
- Starship Troopers by R. A. Heinlein
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From: "pascal gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 startup
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:17:47 GMT
In article <95344g$6kq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "JJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
what bootloader do you use on the MBR ?
this smells like the original lilo is on the MBR, but you are updating
the one in /dev/hda2
try making a fdisk /mbr ( with a bootdisk ) to see how it react.
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From: Aitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP problem??
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:40:10 GMT
Londonboy spewed:
> I am connection my RedHat 7.0 with one NIC, eth0 to the cable modem via
> DHCP. For every 3-4 days, the connection goes down for no reason and I
> have
> to do "/etc/init.d/network restart" in order to get back the connection.
>
> I suspect it is the DHCP renew problem but I used to run windows NT on
> cable modem, no problem.. I think I must have misconfig RedHat or redhat
> has some problem??
>
> Anyone has similar problem? Please help.
>
> Also,
> - Can anyone tell me where is the DHCP configuration file? I tried to look
> for /etc/dhcpc and /etc/dhcpcd
> - I tried "netconf" and "netconfig", doesn't help...
> - I cannot find any useful log that tells me what happen, I tried to look
> into /var/log/messages, any other places that log the DHCP actitivies?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> N.B.
>
>
>
You might want to try this...
http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/dhcpcdkeepalive/
--
Linux 2.4.0 i586
1:36am up 2 days, 9:54, 2 users, load average: 2.48, 3.12, 2.93
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NVdriver problem
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:40:22 GMT
My sys is: Asus A7V mobo, Canopus TNT graphic card, Sounblaster Live,
128mb ram, 30 gig drive running Mandrake 7.2.
I just loaded the NVidia drivers per Mvidia instructions. i.e.
downloaded NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6 source, compiled it for my kernel,
produced an RPM (NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6.i686.rpm) with spec command, land
oaded RPM. Then downloaded the NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-6.i386.rpm and installed
it directly. i.e. I did not generate the GLX rpm from a source file. I
don't need to do I (just the NVIDIA_kernel rpm needs to be built to
match the kernel you're running I believe)
In summary, I have downloaded the GLX and kernel files fron NVidia for
the TNT card, loaded XFRee86-4.0.1, built and installed the
NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6 rpm from source so it matches my kernel version,
and installed the NVIDIA_GLX rpm (one thing I noted: the source built
an i686 rpm for the kernel drive, and the GLX driver I installed
directly from download was an i386. Should this matter?)
Anyway, on boot the NVdriver module is not loading automatically.
However, I can load it with the command "/sbin/insmod NVdriver" and I
can make it load on boot by adding the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
"/sbin/insmod NVdriver." (I am verifying if the module is loaded by
"/sbin/lsmod")
But the NVdriver module is supposed to load at boot without this
rc.local workaround.
I have the required line in /etc/modules.conf ("alias char-major-195
NVdriver") per Nvidia instructions but it seems to have no effect.
Without an insmod NVdriver command in the rc.local file, the NVdriver
will not load on boot. Placing an insmod command in modules.conf (just
as an experiment)was of no help either.
Also, I have a second problem, when the NVdriver module is loaded, kde
runs fine, but when I try to load a hardware accellerated app (like the
games "tuxracer' or "GLtron" which come with Mandrake, The whole sys
locks up with a bright snow colored screen.
Any ideas would be much appreciated. I've been after this for 30 to 40
hours and am getting very frustrated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Why does pppd die upon connection?
Date: 31 Jan 2001 07:50:58 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
]I'm having trouble connecting. Using the command line form:
]pppd connect "chat -v '' atdt4241100 CONNECT '' ogin: duane word: <mypwd>"
]/dev/ttyS1 115200 debug modem crtscts defaultroute noauth noipdefault lock
]connect-delay 2
add the option
asyncmap a0000
to the list. Your ISP announces that it is probably broken by requestion
this.
b) Why are you trying to set those weird IP addresses? Remove them from
your /etc/ppp/options file.
c) Put
noccp
into the command line or /etc/ppp/options. You and they share no
compression anyway.
]I get the following information:
]Jan 27 18:33:57 localhost pppd[14236]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
]Jan 27 18:33:57 localhost pppd[14236]: Using interface ppp0
]Jan 27 18:33:57 localhost pppd[14236]: local IP address 10.64.64.64
]Jan 27 18:33:57 localhost pppd[14236]: remote IP address 10.112.112.112
]Jan 27 18:34:02 localhost pppd[14236]: Starting link
]Jan 27 18:34:31 localhost pppd[14236]: Serial connection established.
]Jan 27 18:34:31 localhost pppd[14236]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
]Jan 27 18:34:31 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
]0x0> <magic 0x6e3636ab> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
]0x0> <magic 0x6e3636ab> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xfb <asyncmap
]0xa0000> <magic 0xc40ebf0a> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xfb <asyncmap
]0xa0000> <magic 0xc40ebf0a> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap
]0x0> <magic 0x6e3636ab> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr
]0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate
]15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0xcf <addr
]204.209.52.5>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0xcf <addr
]204.209.52.5>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: rcvd [proto=0x8207] 01 96 00 04
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: Unsupported protocol 0x8207
]received
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [LCP ProtRej id=0x2 82 07 01
]96 00 04]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: rcvd [IPCP ConfRej id=0x1 <compress
]VJ 0f 01>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr
]0.0.0.0>]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: rcvd [LCP ProtRej id=0xfc
]80 fd 01 01 00
]0f 1a 04 78 00 18 04 78 00 15 03 2f]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x2 <addr
]198.161.206.222>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr
]198.161.206.222>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x3 <addr
]198.161.206.222>]
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: Local IP address changed to
]198.161.206.222
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: Remote IP address changed to
]204.209.52.5
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: sent [IP data] 45 00 04 d5 79 e5 40 00 ..
].
]Jan 27 18:34:34 localhost pppd[14236]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid
]14241)
]Jan 27 18:34:36 localhost pppd[14236]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 14241
]), status = 0x0
]Jan 27 18:34:45 localhost pppd[14236]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
]Jan 27 18:34:45 localhost pppd[14236]: Modem hangup
]Jan 27 18:34:45 localhost pppd[14236]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started
](pid 14275)
]Jan 27 18:34:45 localhost pppd[14236]: Connection terminated.
]Jan 27 18:34:45 localhost pppd[14236]: Connect time 0.3 minutes.
]Jan 27 18:34:45 localhost pppd[14236]: Sent 4923 bytes, received 17375 bytes.
]Jan 27 18:34:46 localhost pppd[14236]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished
](pid 14275), status = 0x0
]------------------------------------------
]After it runs the scripts OK and starts ppp, it hangs up my modem.
]I thought maybe it was a hardware flow control problem but crtscts should
]solve this problem, right? I've tried various otehr apps, wvdial, rp3,
]etc. hopin that they would catch something I'm missing, but no luck. I've
]read all the documentation save going through the source code. I'm stuck
]-- I now appeal to you for help.
]--
]Duane Evenson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "OpenMind" <**Mail Free America**>
Subject: Re: NetZero for Linux ?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:59:32 -0800
My comment can be tangential at best, since I'm unfamiliar with the hardware
you mention. This is more in the nature of a Java complaint/observation.
Judging from the .jar files I've seen flashing by during NetZero
installation, and the slowness of the visual interface, and the fact that it
leaks memory like every other sizable WinJava app I've ever used, I'd guess
a good portion or all is written in Java.
If true, given all the 'write-once use everywhere' hype for Java, one
wonders why more apps are not so-designed and quickly ported. Could it be
that in the real world the port is a pain in the ass at best, and unstable
given the vagaries of hardware at worst?
Even if all the above is true, however, a port for a specific hardware
platform is not out of the question.
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Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:s3Od6.610$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> NetZero for Linux ?
> I read that NIC (New Internet Computer), the company that sells internet
> boxes for $200, comes with NetZero preinstalled.
> I went to NetZero web site, but I was not able to find the download for
> Linux.
> How can NIC, which is basically a Linux computer, run NetZero, when
NetZero
> doesn't support Linux?
>
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:07:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:39:54 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"Steve Mading" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:957i20$h7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> : Deism is a belief in the existance of God.
> >>
> >> One that has nothing to do with Christianity. Which is kind of
> >> important considering what this subthread is about.
> >
> >By that token, Judaism isn't welcome in this country either, which is
> >ridiculous.
> >
> >> : Atheism is a belief in the non-existance of God.
> >>
> >> No it isn't. It's the lack of the belief that god does exist.
> >> To call this a belief rather than simple default skepticism is
> >> to assume that god existing is the default, which is circular.
> >
> >No, Atheism is the believe that god doesn't exist. Agnosticism is the lack
> >of a belief in god.
> >
> >Atheism is active disbelief, Agnisticism is skepticism about the belief.
>
> No, atheism is lack of belief.
No..that's agnosticism.
A theism *IS* a belief....specifically a belief in the null postulate.
> If you null hypothesis is that
> deities and the supernatural don't exist, then no active
> 'belief' is not necessary.
>
> Agnosticism is more of a position that the issue is unsolved
> or unsolvabe.
i.e. "I don't know"
>
> --
>
> Having seen my prefered platform being eaten away by vendorlock and
> the Lemming mentality in the past, I have a considerable motivation to
> use Free Software that has nothing to do with ideology and everything
> to do with pragmatism.
>
> Free Software is the only way to level the playing field against a
> market leader that has become immune to market pressures.
>
> The other alternatives are giving up and just allowing the mediocrity
> to walk all over you or to see your prefered product die slowly.
>
> |||
> / | \
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup remotely ?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:03:20 +0000
Wong Sai-kee wrote:
> The trouble is I have 10 machines networked but only 2 DDS tape drive.
> That means, for each machine backup/restore, I need to shutdown,
> install tape drive, perform backup/restore. Switch to other machine,
> and repeat, ... Plus I need to install 10 SCSI card unnecessary.
>
> So, I thought about backup through the network:
Hi,
Check out http://www.amanda.org - we use it quite successfully on our
project daily backing up key directories - mainly /home, /root and /etc
on several networked machines (Why backup directories you can restore
from CD? ;-)). I will be the first to agree that Amanda is a pain to set
up - don't even consider RPM versions - take the tarball & read the
supplied docs carefully. Once you are going though it rarely causes any
trouble.
If you are wanting a more commercial package then try Arkeia
(http://www.arkeia.com). This is free for personal/commercial use
(single tape server - and 2 clients). This would allow you to try it out
first on a small network configuration. There is a 30 day evaluation
available of the full package - I have just checked the Web Site. I use
this package at home basically because I only do manual backups and have
only 2 machines. It has GUI clients for Windows & Linux and the server
can back up hosts remotely wherever the GUI is run from.
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
--
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Telephone: +44 (0)1279 402363 London Rd, Harlow,
Fax: +44 (0)1279 402885 Essex CM17 9NA,
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:11:40 -0500
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Nick Condon wrote:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harlan Grove) wrote in <94si7f$7nq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > > >Absolutely true. It's how we define 'freedom'. For those in the US of
> > > >Libertarian bent, Microsoft can do what it wants to within certain
> > > >legal bounds (which it's overstepped, IMO).
> > >
> > > Microsoft has a centrally planned, state granted, exclusive monopoly.
> > > That's not very libertarian.
> >
> > No, it's not "state granted" If it was, they wouldn't have been
> > CONVICTED of criminal conduct in Federal Court.
>
> sure it is. what do you think copyright is? copyright is a state
> enforced monopoly. no state enforcement, no copyright -- look at
> middle/far east.
By that definition EVERYBODY is a monopolist, as you retain the copyright
for whatever you create.
>
> > > Americans are so busy watching and being suspicious of their government,
> > > they've missed the big corporations sneaking up behind them, until it's too
> > > late and there's nothing left to do but bite the pillow.
>
> > Must be why Microsoft has been REPEATEDLY **CONVICTED** in Federal
> > court for behavior nearly identical to that which got IBM REPEATEDLY
> > ***CONVICTED*** of crimes back in the 1960's-80's.
>
> that too.
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Puchta Milos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound drivers
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:21:48 +0100
I am using SuSE Linux verion 7. When playing CD there is more noise
when compared with the same HW and Windows 2000 Prof. The chip
used is ESS1869.
Are there any new and better solution?
TIA
Milos
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From: "Hugh Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding Win98SE to W2K and Linux system.
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:05:47 +0100
You will probably need to mess with your partitions. How do you get Linux up
now? I use the sequence, NTLDR boot manager followed by Linux. In lilo, I
always keep an entry for dos, to give me a second door because every time I
run lilo, it grabs the mbr. After running lilo, you need to save the mbr. It
is possible to mess around with a dd command but I use a neat little
utility, BOOT.EXE under Win98 and save the mbr as C:\LINUX.MBR. The
undocumented Win98 command FDISK /MBR reestablishes the Win mbr. I then
added a line so that the boot manager could boot my Linux boot partition
using Linux.MBR. Yes, that is quite important. With this scheme, you need to
have a bootable Linux under the 1024 cyl boundary as Win 2K's loader is as
brain damaged as the old BIOS.
I don't have the address but something called "The NTLDR Hackers Page"
helped me and gave me the boot utility. If you can't find this, I should be
able to send you the stuff.
Hugh.
"-ljl-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:956icl$1el$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> Currently, I have two drives in this machine and wish to add Win98SE.
>
> Drive 0 has DOS (FAT-16), and NT4 (NTFS); drive 1 has an FAT partition,
> W2K (NTFS), and Linux (ext2 & swap). Both drives have => 1GB of space
> that can be used for the Win98SE installation.
>
> I'm using W2K's boot-manager (BM) to boot any of these OSes; DOS and
> Linux have boot-sector files loaded by BM.
>
> Any and all help will be appreciated.
> --
> Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Hugh Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding Win98SE to W2K and Linux system.
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:08:26 +0100
Eric,
Give the guy a break. There are many of us who have to run around with three
OS's sitting on a system for support reasons. Linux is not exclusive, it is
inclusive and it needs some messing around to make it possible.
Hugh.
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Best help I can give you:
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> look at where you posted
> comp.os.linux.misc
>
> What does this have to do with linux?
>
> repost at comp.semi-os.win98.misc
>
> Eric
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