Linux-Misc Digest #897, Volume #27 Sat, 19 May 01 12:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: problem with upgrading rpm (steve)
Re: Changing Screen res in KDE on Suse 7.0 (Dave Uhring)
Re: setup resolv.conf ? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: can I boot after resizing linux partition (Dave Uhring)
Re: Can no longer log into Citibank online (Jerry Kreps)
Re: Help with customized install CD ("Charles Williams \(CEO\)")
Re: setup resolv.conf ? (Lee Webb)
Re: RH6.2 & AMD K6-2 (Eric Anderson)
Re: Detect Bad Sector in HardDisk ? (Lee Webb)
Linux Installation Problems ("David.")
RedHat-6.2+IOMEGA Zip-100 drive.. (Ish Rattan)
Re: RH6.2 & AMD K6-2 ("DMcBee")
NTFS files ("Jack Kaufmann")
Re: which linux dist? (Michael Heiming)
Re: RedHat-6.2+IOMEGA Zip-100 drive.. (John Cordes)
Re: Kernel Panic (Chris Leahy)
Re: RH6.2 & AMD K6-2 (David Efflandt)
Re: should i use use Framebuffer? (David Efflandt)
Re: A CPU cooler for Linux? (SammyTheSnake)
Re: MOSIX (SammyTheSnake)
Re: A CPU cooler for Linux? (SammyTheSnake)
Re: Need an idea for a Heisenbug (SammyTheSnake)
Re: Who to install a .gz.tar file? (David Harvill)
linux 2.2.x to 2.4.x upgrade FAQs? (Ray)
dummy interface ("David.")
Re: NTFS files (Chiefy)
Re: unzipping Mac BinHex4 files in Linux (Ramin Sina)
Re: NTFS files (Jack Kaufmann)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve)
Subject: Re: problem with upgrading rpm
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 08:59:46 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glitch):
>| In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "steve"
>| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>|
>| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glitch):
>| >>| hi,
>| >>|
>| >>| This is the typical story of Linux. I downloaded the new version of
>| >>| Opera. I tried to run it but i'm told i need libjpeg.so.62....not |
>| >>surprising this requirement isn't mentioend on the website. |
>| >>| Anyway, I download an rpm of libjpeg from rpmfind.net. What happens
>| >>| then? I'm told
>| >>|
>| >>| only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version
>| >>of RPM | error: libjpeg62-6b-19mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed
>| >
>| > Actually I think you only needed to upgrade rpm to v 3.5,which probably
>|
>| I had 3.0.3 before. Now I got 3.0.3 and 4.0.2 as well, neither will let
>| me install the libjpeg RPM.
>|
>| > wouldn't have the dependencies you mentioned. Additonally after
>| > installing your needed libs by tarball, did you try the `--nodeps'
>|
>| You don't have a very good reading ability. I'm installing libjpeg
>| using RPM. I installed RPM by using a tarball ( so i wouldn't run into
>| the stupid catch22 with upgrading RPM and receiving the error above).
>
Perhaps not, but then who does after 18 hrs straight at the keyboard?
Please forgive me for trying to help.
>| I don' thave a problem with dependencies. I have a problem with the
>| version of RPM i'm using compared to the version that was used to make
>| the libjpg RPM.....even though after moving to RPM 4.0.2 that problem
>| should have gone away. So why didn't it? what am i misssing?
Well I'm not going to help you further, although I could. Figure it out
on your own, Einstein, use what you have between your ears.
>| Realiez I had no problem instaling RPM using the tarball. Im having the
>| trouble with installing libjpeg.so.62 with the RPM. (i've never succeeded
>| in using RPM. I'm stupid for thinking it should work now. IT's a piece of
>| shit in my opinion)
Why - becaue you're having problems? Take a deep breath, this really
isn't difficult.
--
Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764
Powered by GNU/Linux
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing Screen res in KDE on Suse 7.0
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 08:21:24 -0500
RHC wrote:
> I am new to KDE... how do I change the screen resolution from 800x600 to
> 1024 x 800 (or whatever) from within KDE? DO I need to reconfigure my X
> server? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
>
> THANX
>
> RHC
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
>
Did you try Ctl-Alt-+ ?
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setup resolv.conf ?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 15:03:36 +0200
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>> Why do you want to stop your resolv.conf changing? That's another
>> question.
>>
> If the O.P. is like me, what happens is that the pppd stuff overwrote
> my resolv.conf and made it use my ISP's name server instead of mine.
> Since my ISP knows nothing about my LAN, this is unsatisfactory. I do
Indeed. I was hoping to elicit the answer "I have an intranet with its
own DNS".
If that is the case, then he probably wants to keep his own
DNS server and let it cache for lookups to the outside world, with
the "outside world" being gatewayed through the machine with the ppp
link.
But since a person who is capable of setting up his own DNS is not
likely to be delayed by more than a few seconds in extracting the info
from the pppd manpage about peer dns, I wanted some confirmation.
> not recall everything I did to make my Red Hat 6.2 distro stop this,
> but part of it was in adding a line:
> PEERDNS=no
> to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
> YMMV, especially depending on your distribution.
BTW, surely the ppp-up script just adds another server line to
resolv.conf, in which case it doesn't matter?
Peter
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can I boot after resizing linux partition
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 08:22:36 -0500
daniel wrote:
> I have a hard drive which has 2 ntfs partitions (c,d) one Fat32 (e) and
> then Linux (hda7). I would like to enlarge e and make the linux partition
> smaller using partition magic 6. Will I be able to boot after this?
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
>
No
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can no longer log into Citibank online
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 08:30:08 -0500
In article xxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For years I've used Citibank's Direct Access service to access my
> accounts through the web using Netscape. Now they've gone and redesigned
> the site and I get a blank java server page (.jsp) after logging in. No
> error mesages. I cannot access my accounts. Customer Serviuce sez there
> are other reports of Linux users having this problem. Anybody else here
> experiencing this difficulty? I run Netscape 4.77 full 128-bit
> encryption, java script and cookies enabled.
I have no doubt that they've began using a new version of FrontPage, one
that puts in an asp script check for the IE browser and disabling the page
if you aren't running IE. Lie to it. Set your browser to say that it is
'IE'. That still may not help if their webpage asp scripts are calling
Microsoft dlls or ocx's and you don't have them, obviously.
Complain to your bank about their webpage and ask them to make their web
page browser neutral by staying with the standard WWW protocols.
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From: "Charles Williams \(CEO\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with customized install CD
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 15:36:12 +0200
noone can help?
"Charles Williams (CEO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in message news:9dqpfi$j7sm4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I have a Cobalt appliance (hehe). anyway, I also have the 4i restore CD
for
> said raq and am in need of booting direct from the cd for a restore..
>
> The problem is that the raq is designed to ONLY restore across a net
> connection. Stupid if you ask me.
>
> The raq we got was used and the warrenty was already void so we had no
> problems installing a cdrom to the unit. Looks a bit funny though. :)
>
> Anyway, I could provide a complete copy of the restore cd ISO for download
> to anyone interested in helping with this. I need to be able to restore
> DIRECT from the CD not across the net with netboot.
>
> Any help welcome.
>
> Thanks
> chuck
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Webb)
Subject: Re: setup resolv.conf ?
Date: 19 May 2001 13:37:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 19 May 2001 18:40:39 +0800, Eric Chow wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Would you please to tell me how to prevent changing of the resolv.conf ?
>
> After I dial-up to the ISP, the /etc/resolv.conf always change. How to
> prevent this ?
>
Do you use a GUI dialer?
Lee.
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From: Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 & AMD K6-2
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 06:49:38 -0700
I've had RH6.2 running on an overclocked K6-2 300 for a couple of years
now. Your problem is not caused by the CPU.
DMcBee wrote:
> My install freezes at the very end of the copy/install process. I'm
> assuming because of the K6 cpu. Anybody know of any fixes?
>
> -D
>
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ETA Associates, Inc.
http://www.ultracode.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Webb)
Subject: Re: Detect Bad Sector in HardDisk ?
Date: 19 May 2001 13:45:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 19 May 2001 18:54:56 +0800, Eric Chow wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any command to check if a harddisk contains bad sector in Linux ?
>
Take a look at the -c option for e2fsck.
-c This option causes e2fsck to run the badblocks(8) program to
find any blocks which are bad on the filesystem, and then
marks them as bad by adding them to the bad block inode.
Lee.
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From: "David." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Installation Problems
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 15:17:19 +0100
Yesterday I was trying to install Red Hat Linux 7.0 to a friend. She
just bought a new PC (Compaq, bla, bla...) and has Windows 2000
installed. I encountered numerous problems while partitioning the hard
drive (using PM 6.0) and finally gave up. Came home with various
questions...
1. why couldn't I see the BIOS info when the PC was starting up??
2. Why doesn't W2000 allow me to reboot in MSDOS mode (so that I
could've made partitions using fdisk)?? All very strange indeed. Maybe I
am just used to my old machine that runs Linux nicely with only 3 Gb of
HDD capacity...
Any advice? I don't want to give up.
Dave
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From: Ish Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat-6.2+IOMEGA Zip-100 drive..
Date: 19 May 2001 10:21:16 -0500
Hello,
I have RedHat-6.2 on Pentium/233 machine. Added a 100Mb IDE Zip drive
to the system. It is detected correctly by the system at boot time as
/dev/hdc (secondary master). How can I use it? An attempt to mount
it reasults in:
/dev/hdc: no driver available
/dev/hdc: not a block special device
Any ideas?
- ishwar
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From: "DMcBee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 & AMD K6-2
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 10:37:25 -0400
Maybe then its my Compaq mainboard. Aha!
Does that make sense?
"Eric Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9e5tli$17nvi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've had RH6.2 running on an overclocked K6-2 300 for a couple of years
> now. Your problem is not caused by the CPU.
>
> DMcBee wrote:
>
> > My install freezes at the very end of the copy/install process. I'm
> > assuming because of the K6 cpu. Anybody know of any fixes?
> >
> > -D
> >
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ETA Associates, Inc.
> http://www.ultracode.com/
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From: "Jack Kaufmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NTFS files
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 14:23:11 GMT
Can linux (Red Hat 7.0) read NTSF partitions? If so, what replaces "vfat"
in mounting them?
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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:04:02 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which linux dist?
root wrote:
>
> I am currently using Slackware as I find it extremely fast and powerful.
>
> But now that I have a bit of money :) I don't know if to buy Red Hat
> Deluxe edition or Mandrake 8.0
>
> I tried Mandrake 8.0 and it is brilliant as everything works out immediately
> but I found it a bit too slow and painful to get rid of all the services i
> did not really need.
>
> Which distribution would you recommend?
>
> Nick
> (any reply here or to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
As others pointed out, there is no really bad distro. After all,
they use more or less the same kernel and those great GNU tools.
So it depends on your needs/expirience, some distros contain more
stuff than others, but if you have a fast connection to the net
and like to compile, to be sure to always run the "latest and greatest",
this may not be important for you.
I use SuSE, not because I think it would be the best distro, it's
not bad, but I can't really tell. It just happened to be the
distro, all the fun started...(SuSE 4.2)....;-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Cordes)
Subject: Re: RedHat-6.2+IOMEGA Zip-100 drive..
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 14:35:22 +0000 (UTC)
On 19 May 2001 10:21:16 -0500, Ish Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have RedHat-6.2 on Pentium/233 machine. Added a 100Mb IDE Zip drive
> to the system. It is detected correctly by the system at boot time as
> /dev/hdc (secondary master). How can I use it? An attempt to mount
> it reasults in:
> /dev/hdc: no driver available
> /dev/hdc: not a block special device
>
> Any ideas?
>
> - ishwar
>
I have the line
/dev/hdd4 /zip auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
in my fstab file. Note that the zip comes pre-partitioned, and it's
partition 4 you want to access.
John
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From: Chris Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 10:49:28 -0400
Justus wrote:
> I am tried what Ketil had posted which was
> "This is a classic. You have a modular kernel with your SCSI drivers as
> modules. What you need is either to kompile your SCSI into the kernel or
> make yourself a init ramdisk (initrd). For initrd you need ramdisk
> support, loopback device support and initrd support kompiled into the
> kernel."
>
> It seems to boot now other than my eth0 and eth1 fail now, but I think I can
> get that working.
>
> "Stuart Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Justus wrote:
> >
> > > I recenlty installed RH6.2 on my Gateway NS7000. It is a dual PII
> 333Mhz,
> > > SCSI. The install went fine. I then tried to recompile the kernel with
> 2.4.2
> > > Everytime I get
> > > this message after I reboot. "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
> on
> > > 08:05" Which I know is my /dev/sda5. It does say this in my
> /etc/lilo.conf
> > > and I know it
> > > will boot to that with orginal kernel. The redhat site recommmended.
> "This
> > > is a common problem and it has only a few causes. First, check the
> device
> > > XX:YY against the list of device codes in
> > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt. If it is incorrect, you
> probably
> > > didn't do an rdev -R, or you did it on the wrong image. If the device
> code
> > > is correct, then check carefully the device drivers compiled into your
> > > kernel. Make sure it has floppy disk, ramdisk and ext2 filesystem
> support
> > > built-in. " I did confirm all this but still no luck. Is there a way I
> can
> > > compare the 2 kernel incase I am missing something when I compile the
> new
> > > kernel. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Justus
> >
> > What does your lilo.conf in /ect look like
> >
> >
Well I cant point to anything in particular except to say that when compiling
kernels, I have always
used the command line script "make config" rather than any of the gui options.
I've had trouble every time I used those graphical tools to create the config.
--
==========================================================
Christopher Leahy | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UBLIX Silly Administrator | http://www.zoltanium.com
Zoltanium (aka /dev/null) | Voice (610)408-0151
==========================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: RH6.2 & AMD K6-2
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 14:57:28 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 19 May 2001 10:37:25 -0400, DMcBee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe then its my Compaq mainboard. Aha!
> Does that make sense?
See if switching to another vt during the install gives any clue (using
Ctrl-Alt-F# or Alt-F# from text console, where F# is one of the first 6
function keys or maybe just 4 are used during install).
I have never had trouble running RH 5.2, RH 6.1, Mandrake 7.0 or SuSE 7.1
on a K6-2/400 (Evergreen Spectra400 cpu upgrade of an old P100 box). And
I had no trouble installing SuSE 7.1 on a Compaq Presario 5240 with
K6-2/400 and PC100 RAM. Newer systems might be different, not sure if
using system RAM for video is a problem or not.
> "Eric Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9e5tli$17nvi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I've had RH6.2 running on an overclocked K6-2 300 for a couple of years
>> now. Your problem is not caused by the CPU.
>>
>> DMcBee wrote:
>>
>> > My install freezes at the very end of the copy/install process. I'm
>> > assuming because of the K6 cpu. Anybody know of any fixes?
>> --
>> ETA Associates, Inc.
>> http://www.ultracode.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: should i use use Framebuffer?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 15:05:18 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 19 May 2001 09:55:10 +0000, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> just wanted to know if there would be any problems with compiling in FB
> support into my kernel even though i have a graphics card (s3 savage)
> taht is supported under XFree84 4.x, or are the 2 things completely
> seperate?
>
> i have had a look at the kernel docs and read about vgacon FB and vesa
> FB - can i just have the vgacon fb device?
>
> cheers
The fb console gives you the tux graphic during boot and can be set to
different size fonts that allow more rows and/or columns. However, it
seems to result in munged output (dropped characters) when using minicom
at high speed, so it seems like there is no interrupt function to keep it
in sync.
I have not tried it in X lately. It might just be needed if there is no
other support for your video or some programs (like DVD?).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake)
Subject: Re: A CPU cooler for Linux?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 13:22:58 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler wrote:
>SammyTheSnake writes:
>
>> if the cpu'd understood hlt (didn't, crappy 386 ;)...
>
>My 386 Reference Manual disagrees with you on this point.
my 386 cpu disagrees with your manual on this point, though!
don't ask me why not, but my cpu didn't grok it...
Cheers & God bless
SammyTheSnake
--
Sam.Penny @ Ntlworld.com | Looking for a computer related
Linux, Hardware & Juggling specialist :-) | job, if you can help, e-mail me :)
Wheels: bike, 'ickle bike, and unicycle. | /o \/ Working on 5 ball 1/2 shower
Boxen: K6-266@300, dual Celery500 & Nx486 | \__/\ & some 6 / 7 ball exercises
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake)
Subject: Re: MOSIX
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 13:26:39 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karol Kowalski wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Could anyone tell me where can I find any documentation or examples
>of MOSIX and LUI employment (other then www.mosix.org ). Maybe anyone
>have good experiance with clustering.
>
>Thanks
> karol ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
don't post HTML or mime-encoded formatting to NGs, plain text is the way to
go...
you may want to try some mailing lists, I pesonally am subscribed to
debian's beowulf mailing lists (go to www.debian.org and follow the links)
and there are probably a lot more to find if you do a google search for
beowulf / clustering / etc...
HTH
Cheers & God bless
SammyTheSnake
--
Sam.Penny @ Ntlworld.com | Looking for a computer related
Linux, Hardware & Juggling specialist :-) | job, if you can help, e-mail me :)
Wheels: bike, 'ickle bike, and unicycle. | /o \/ Working on 5 ball 1/2 shower
Boxen: K6-266@300, dual Celery500 & Nx486 | \__/\ & some 6 / 7 ball exercises
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake)
Subject: Re: A CPU cooler for Linux?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 13:21:54 +0100
In article <DgdN6.15980$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>SammyTheSnake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In article <MABM6.9603$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>KW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Linux does have code to make the CPU hlt when it is idle... If you've
>>>> recompiled, look at the general options of the kernel menu and find the
>>>> QPM bios support secion. There should be an item "Make CPU IDLE calls
>>>> when idle"
>>>
>>>> That should do the trick...
>>>
>>>Is there a way to check this in a config file?
>
>> grep -i idle/usr/src/linux/.config
>
>Running this doesn't seem to do anything?
yeah, I missed out a space, it should've been
grep -i idle /usr/src/linux/.config
>> if you compiled your kernel yourself, or otherwise less /var/log/dmesg (or
>> just dmesg) will show you the bootup sequence (unless, like me, you have had
>> your computer running a long time since then, the program dmesg only shows
>> you the last bit, the file seems to contain only the first bit, oh well :)
>> anyway, you're looking for a line like the following:
>
>> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>
>It is there. :)
>
>> which indicates that your kernel successfully found and has activated use of
>> the hlt instruction.
>
>>>> Of course, you may have more processes running in linux than in windows
>>>> that would prevent the cpu from staying idle long. :)
>>>
>>>I let Linux idled for a few hours :).
>
>> I think he means the multitude of background processes that run on a typical
>> linux box, telnetd, inetd, apache (on a surprisingly large number of boxen
>> when it's really not needed on most!) and a squillion other little daemons.
>> OTOH, even between them they tend to spend most of their time waiting for
>> something to do and v. little of it actually doing anything :) for example:
>
>Even if the CPU load is at 0? Hmm... Windows was cooler in idled mode [grin].
well, as I don't own any M$ stuff, I can't investigate this interesting
situation myself...
Cheers & God bless
SammyTheSnake
--
Sam.Penny @ Ntlworld.com | Looking for a computer related
Linux, Hardware & Juggling specialist :-) | job, if you can help, e-mail me :)
Wheels: bike, 'ickle bike, and unicycle. | /o \/ Working on 5 ball 1/2 shower
Boxen: K6-266@300, dual Celery500 & Nx486 | \__/\ & some 6 / 7 ball exercises
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake)
Subject: Re: Need an idea for a Heisenbug
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 13:40:30 +0100
In article <9e4d32$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Allen Ashley wrote:
>I need an idea of how I go about eliminating a Heisenbug. I have
>a routine which performs numerical calculations. [It inverts a matrix
>by the method of partitions]. The routine will not perform correctly
>unless I put a printf statement at the start. It doesn't matter what I
>print, even printf("\n"); works.
what about printf(""); or maybe printf(" \b"); ?
my guess is that you've got an obscure bug in your program, I've found that
occasionally uninitialised variables behave like you describe...
>My compiler is:
>Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-slackware-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
>gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
this is the compiler recommended for 2.4.x kernels, but consider upgrading
to 2.95.2 (the version that comes with debian, so it's likely to be fairly
stable) or maybe going back down to 2.7.2.3 (recommended for the 2.2
kernels) but then that is _known_ to be buggy...
HTH
Cheers & God bless
SammyTheSnake
--
Sam.Penny @ Ntlworld.com | Looking for a computer related
Linux, Hardware & Juggling specialist :-) | job, if you can help, e-mail me :)
Wheels: bike, 'ickle bike, and unicycle. | /o \/ Working on 5 ball 1/2 shower
Boxen: K6-266@300, dual Celery500 & Nx486 | \__/\ & some 6 / 7 ball exercises
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Harvill)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Who to install a .gz.tar file?
Date: 19 May 2001 08:13:30 -0700
for RH, I've always found that the mkisofs RPM is sufficient. As for what you have,
I would look in the directory that untargzipping created for a README or INSTALL file,
and follow the instructions there.
-dave
Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I am running RH 7.1 on an Intel system. I am trying to get me CDRW
> working and the "CD-Writing-HOWTO" said that I needed to download and
> install "mkisofs". Well I downloaded it but I can't seem to find a way
> to install it. I ran the commands: "gunzip filename.gz" and "tar -xvf
> filename.tar" and extracted the files. Now what? Can anyone help?
> Thanks,
>
> Lamar
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From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux 2.2.x to 2.4.x upgrade FAQs?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 06:33:18 +0100
hi
i've been running with a 2.2.19 kernel and wondered if there were any
FAQs out there that help guide ppl to the newer 2.4 series... i'm not
looking for a 'how-do-i-type-make?' FAQ but more of a FAQ that list the
incompatabilities and any common problems that ppl have come across...
i've read some of the docs from the 2.4.3 kernel package and so i can
get all of the required s/w packages but wondered if there any other
docs out there
if its of interest, i'm running 2.2.19 from what used to be a redhat 6.2
distro (libc-2.1.3) although i've upgraded to gcc-2.95.2.
cheers
ray
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From: "David." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dummy interface
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:17:53 +0100
What happens if I change the name of my dummy interface? I won't change
the numbers, but I find localhost and localdomain a bit too naf naf...
Couldn't I change it to something "cooler"?
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ta.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: NTFS files
Date: 19 May 2001 15:49:44 GMT
19 May 2001 14:23 UTC, Jack Kaufmann verily sayeth:
> Can linux (Red Hat 7.0) read NTSF partitions? If so, what replaces "vfat"
> in mounting them?
mount /dev/wherever /mount/point -t ntfs
There are some mount options for ntfs.
'man mount' will explain better than I can.
--
Chiefy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The cause of the problem is:
That information is available on a 'need to know' basis only
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unzipping Mac BinHex4 files in Linux
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:06:13 GMT
Great. Thanks.
Kevin wrote:
> You have a few options. You could get a free copy of "unstuff"
> for Linux from Aladdin <http://www.aladdinsys.com/linux/index.html>
> "unstuff" is a
>
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From: Jack Kaufmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NTFS files
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:07:02 GMT
Unfortunately, while man mount lists ntfs as one of the file types which
can be mounted, when I try it I get a message that the kernel doesn't
support that file type. Any ideas?
Chiefy wrote:
>
> 19 May 2001 14:23 UTC, Jack Kaufmann verily sayeth:
> > Can linux (Red Hat 7.0) read NTSF partitions? If so, what replaces "vfat"
> > in mounting them?
>
> mount /dev/wherever /mount/point -t ntfs
>
> There are some mount options for ntfs.
> 'man mount' will explain better than I can.
>
> --
> Chiefy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The cause of the problem is:
> That information is available on a 'need to know' basis only
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