Linux-Misc Digest #937, Volume #27               Thu, 24 May 01 18:13:01 EDT

Contents:
  Re: XWindows desktop not fully coming up. Please help? (LRW)
  Standard install location for  ("jim")
  Re: Standard install location for (Lew Pitcher)
  Get broadcast window on Gnome desktop - how? ("Charles Sullivan")
  Re: rpm package building problems (Kevin)
  Using TAR ("Filipp Sapienza")
  Re: Using TAR (Michael Heiming)
  Re: linux libraries (Dave Uhring)
  Re: automount with cd's? (Dave Uhring)
  Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why? (Dave Uhring)
  Re: Translation (Greg Porr)
  Re: Routing keystrokes through network connection (IntrinsiX)
  Re: BIOS Operating System (BIOSOS) (long). (Dan)
  Re: Strange GCC problem on LINUX box (IntrinsiX)
  Re: about the make utility (IntrinsiX)
  Re: rpm package building problems ("jim")
  Re: disable relay deny of sendmail ("Gero H. Marten")
  division math problems in bash! (Charles Wilkins)
  Samba 2.0.8 and Windows XP b2 not working (eric l. santelices)
  Re: LILO and Operating System Missing ("joseph")

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From: LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: XWindows desktop not fully coming up. Please help?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:26:31 -0500

Thanks. =) I took a moment to actually read the output after sending my
note and found that out.
Actually, My X uses a global setting in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.
I just #'ed out the lines that set up the default X desktop (which is
pretty much nothing) and added "exec startkde" and presto! =) All
problems solved!!

However, I've been using "ps" all the time now to watch what's slowing
up the system or to find PID's of things that need killing, etc. =)

Thanks for that!!!

Liam


Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner wrote:
> 
> In comp.os.linux.misc LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Oh, and one other question, how will "ps wux" help? I tried it on my working
> > Linux box and it comes up with (among a lot of other things)
> > [startx]
> > [xinit]
> > /etc/X11/X :0 -auth /root/.Xauthority
> > kwm
> 
> > and so on. What's this supposed to telle me?
> 
>         It's supposed to tell you what window manager is running, if you
> know how to read it.  I'm guessing you do to some extent, because you were
> able to pick out some relevant lines.  See that "kwm"?  That's, well, KWM,
> the K Window Manager that comes with KDE, so that's the window manager
> that's running.
> 
> JDW

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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Standard install location for 
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:32:12 -0400

Has there been established a standard install location for packages on
RedHat Linux?
For example, in AIX, products are installed into /usr/lpp/productname.
I think in Sun Solaris (if I remember), they are installed into
/opt/productname (or maybe it was /usr/opt/productname).

I normally install GNU packages into /usr/local.

Has anything beens setup as some kind of "defacto" standard.
I did notice that when we installed IBM WebSphere, it went into
/opt/IBMWebAS but DB2 went into /usr/IBMdb2.
Well that's really consistent!





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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Standard install location for
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:49:01 GMT

On Thu, 24 May 2001 15:32:12 -0400, "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Has there been established a standard install location for packages on
>RedHat Linux?

For _all_ Linux distros, there is a "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard"
(which can be found at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ )

>For example, in AIX, products are installed into /usr/lpp/productname.
>I think in Sun Solaris (if I remember), they are installed into
>/opt/productname (or maybe it was /usr/opt/productname).

For "Optional products", the proper location (IIRC) is /opt

>I normally install GNU packages into /usr/local.
>
>Has anything beens setup as some kind of "defacto" standard.

Yes, see the Linux FHS (above)

>I did notice that when we installed IBM WebSphere, it went into
>/opt/IBMWebAS but DB2 went into /usr/IBMdb2.
>Well that's really consistent!
>
>
>
>


Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)

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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Get broadcast window on Gnome desktop - how?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:34:19 GMT

My Belkin UPS S/W (Sentry Bulldog) sends a broadcast message from root in
the event of line power failure and immanent shutdown.  The broadcast
message appears in the text console window, and also in an Xterm when
running under Gnome.  However the message does not appear under Gnome when
there is no open Xterm, e.g., when only a browser or news reader (or
nothing) is open.

What do I need to do to have a pop-up window appear on the Gnome desktop
when the broadcast is sent?

Following is the section of /etc/inittab which appears to control this.
(Or should I be looking elsewhere?)
  <snip>
  # Things to run in every runlevel.
  ud::once:/sbin/update

  # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
  ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

  # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes 
  # of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. 
  # This does,of course, assume you have powerd installed and your 
  # UPS connected and working correctly. 
  pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

  # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
  pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"
  <snip>

I'm running Red Hat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.18 on a Pentium II-450 MHz PC.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Charles Sullivan

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Subject: Re: rpm package building problems
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:07:48 GMT

    It seems like your libabc.a and libxyz.a are not in your rpm
    database.  Could you confirm this with

        rpm -q -f /full/path/to/libabc.a

    If this is the case, you have a few choices.

    - package and install whatever software contains libabc.a,
      and libxyz.a

    - install the package by forcing it to ignore dependencies,
      e.g. the --nodeps flag

    - Add "provides libabc.a" and "provides libxyz.a" to your rpm
      macros file.  The system-wide file would be
      /usr/lib/rpm/macros.  But, maybe you'd prefer this to only
      affect your account.  In that case the file would be
      ~/.rpmmacros

    G'luck....

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to build an RPM package.   I have 2 library files (e.g. libabc.a
> and libxyz.a) that are required by the executables (in addition to system
> libraries), so when rpm -bb runs the find-requires script, it determines
> these files are required.
> The build works and creates the rpm package file.
> 
> Then when I do the rpm --install of the package file, I get the message:
> error: failed dependencies:
>  libabc.a is needed by XXX-2.0-0
>  libxyz.a is needed by XXX-2.0-0
-- 
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.

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From: "Filipp Sapienza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Using TAR
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:31:28 -0600

Hello. I have a directory called /stuff with the following contents:

myfile
otherfile
junk
happy
/one
/two
/gallery

Is it possible to use tar to store everything except /gallery?
What is the syntax to do this?

Thank you.

Filipp Sapienza
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 22:23:38 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using TAR

[removed some (for me) not existing ng]
Filipp Sapienza wrote:
> 
> Hello. I have a directory called /stuff with the following contents:
> 
> myfile
> otherfile
> junk
> happy
> /one
> /two
> /gallery
> 
> Is it possible to use tar to store everything except /gallery?

Yes.

> What is the syntax to do this?

"man tar"

and check the  --exclude and -X, --exclude-from option.

Good luck

Michael Heiming

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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux libraries
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:24:10 -0500

Richard wrote:

> Richard wrote:
>> 
>> I am running RH 7.1 at work and here at home. I have had a problem with
>> a couple differnt programs trying to install or compile from source or
>> from rpm. It is asking for  libcrypto.so.0 and libssl.so.0  .
>> 
>> Now i have both of these files in /usr/lib.  And also have the latest (i
>> 
>> think) of these files in there,  libcrypto.so.0.9.6 and
>> libssl.so.0.9.6.  I have tried adding /usr/lib to my path also. I am
>> still quite the newbie with linux but i can usually figure these things
>> out and this one is stumping me good.  I cannot figure out how to make
>> it read these files and know that they are in there.   Any suggestions
>> would be great
>> 
>> rich
> Also this is the exact error i am getting if it will help any.
> 
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libcrypto.so.0   is needed by licq-base-1.0.3-1
>         libssl.so.0   is needed by licq-base-1.0.3-1
> 

Putting /usr/lib in your path does not help anything.  Executables go in 
your path, not libraries.  Make sure that openssl is installed:

# rpm -qa | grep openssl

When rpm bitches about missing libraries, it doesn't mean that the 
libraries are actually not installed but rather that one particular package 
containing those libraries appears not to be installed.

Now if you are compiling something from source and those libraries are 
reported as missing, then that is a whole 'nother matter.  And the error 
message will be entirely different.


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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: automount with cd's?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:27:47 -0500

Glitch wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Florian Schmidt"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> hi..
>> 
>> i ws wondering, if there is a way to reach the following:
>> 
>> whenever i open the directory /cdrom, where i now manually mount my
>> cdrom as root everytime i need it, i would like the cdrom to be
>> automounted. i browsed the mountd and automount man-pages, but i just
>> didn't get it..
>> 
> 
> you can use the 'auto' option to and put it in your /etc/fstab file so
> that the cdrom is mounted automaticaly at boot time.
> 
> if u want it mounted automatically whenever u put a new CD in the drive i
> don't know if that is possible let alone if a program is available for
> that
> 

You have to switch from Slackware to Red Hat or Mandrake to get that 
Windoze feature.  Hell, Slackware doesn't even automatically install the 
cdrom line in /etc/fstab.  For almost a year, everytime I wanted to mount a 
cdrom I had to

# mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdc /cdrom

Too lazy to edit /etc/fstab, I guess :-)


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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:29:58 -0500

J�rgen Diez wrote:

> I've no old qt installation on my system.
> i've a symlink /usr/local/qt -> /usr/local/qt-2.3.0
> libqt.so points to /usr/local/qt/lib/libqt.so.2.3.0
> and $QTDIR is also set correctly
> 
> 

Go back and re-read my post above.  There is a fscked header file which 
needs to be fixed to compile -xft option.


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Subject: Re: Translation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Porr)
Date: 24 May 2001 16:33:28 -0400

In article <9ejkq6$8g1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "JFL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does anyone know of a program or website which enables me to translate a
>Danish text string to English ?

You might try http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?

- Greg

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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Routing keystrokes through network connection
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (IntrinsiX)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:49:20 GMT


What you are looking for is a little utility called netcat, also known as 
the "Swiss Army Knife of Network Communication". I don't know exactly where 
it can be obtained, but check out www.freshmeat.net. Otherwise, just do a 
search engine query.

IntrinsiX

>Thanks, but I think the point of the question was missed a little... I
>would like to manually make the telnet (or other) connection as well...
>
>I know I can have my keystrokes echoed exactly with telnet, but I want
>to control the output from the port and see the returned values, telnet
>clients themselves make much transparent (don't they?)
>
>MP

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan)
Crossposted-To: 
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.arch,comp.os.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: BIOS Operating System (BIOSOS) (long).
Date: 24 May 2001 13:49:00 -0700

Hermann Samso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
news:<9eee2r$d02$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Summary:
>         With the advent of cheap ROMs and flash memory, it
>         would be delightful to have a small Boot Up Operating System.
> 
> 
>         The Story:
>         Having just bought two second hand PCs, I had to realize
>         that they didn't have any Operating System installed, and 
>         oh poor me! forgot to buy the last update/release of my
>         favourite OS (Linux/Windows/etc). What to do?
> 
>         The Solution:
>         Not only for test reasons, but to really boot up a System
>         from scratch, it would be helpful to have a BIOS "glue"
>         or some other kind of ROM installed in everyday use PCs.
>       This would help mantain the System and also help in software
>       developement.
> 
>         This idea is not new. We fount it in old 8 bit and 16 bit 
>         Home Computers. The like of Basic ROMs in Sinclairs/Commodores/
>         Amstrad/Ataris or TOS/Workbench in Amigas and Atari STs.
> 
>         This would suppose a level of abstraction between plain ol'
>         BIOS and your favourite OS. It would be a simple kind of DOS,
>         nowadays to find in the Public Domain (FreeDos,...) and
>         would help in recovery and simple machine testing operations.
>         Call it BIOSOS.
> 
>         Such a low profile System can be packed easily in a 512KB ROM 
>         or Flash alike piece. It wouldn't overprice a Motherboard much, 
>         and certainly would be very helpful to gain a rapid insight of
>         the System at view, at last, without having to boot up from any 
>         removable or soft image.
>         Forth, a JavaVM or a minimal Linux, are implementations that
>         instantly pop up to mind (SUN's, PowerPc's CHRP,...)
>         The system would consist of basic operations needed to rescue
>         a system or boot up a new one, the like of edit, fdisk, filesystem
>         operations (ls/dir, fdisk, cd, ...) an assembler or compiler, ...
>         
>         In an extreme case where all your software has gone corrupted,
>         and you can't find any 3rd party to deliver you a new System,
>         an experienced man, call him a software developer or programmer :)
>         would have at least the possibility of bringing the machine again
>         to work. This is not possible nowadays in existing PCs, because,
>         although they have a low level system layer (Basic Input/Output
>         System), they lack another level over it that provides basic
>         maintenance applications.
> 
>         It is not meant to replace any existing Operating Systems,
>         only to extend the all present PC BIOSes to be able to
>         boot up a barebones machine.
> 
>         So this is my please to BIOS and motherboard facturers,
>         but also to any hobbiests that like the idea.
> 
> 
>         saludos,
>                 hermann samso

How about putting a cartridge slot in a PC, and set it up as the first
boot device?  Like the old "home" computers.

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Crossposted-To: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: Strange GCC problem on LINUX box
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (IntrinsiX)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:54:39 GMT


Hi!

Aahh, those little pesky things can be so annoying huh? Anyway, there are 
two things I would do:

1. Maybe the editor you're using automatically appends a newline after the 
last line? (or you do without knowing ;)

2. Look at the file using a hex editor. If there's indeed a newline you will 
be able to detect it easily.

IntrinsiX


[EMAIL PROTECTED] (kalimuthu pothi) wrote in 

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Subject: Re: about the make utility
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (IntrinsiX)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:55:53 GMT


There is a book called "GNU autoxonf, automake and libtool" which is 
published under the open publication license. It is available (along with 
several other good books, like "KDE 2.0 developmen") at 
http://www.andamooka.org.

IntrinsiX



"Mr. X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>Hi,
>
>does anybody know where I can find a good reference or tutorial
>about the make utility.
>
>I did not find a howto for make and
>in the man pages there is not really much about it.


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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm package building problems
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:12:32 -0400


"Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:oSdP6.978$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>     It seems like your libabc.a and libxyz.a are not in your rpm
>     database.  Could you confirm this with
>
> rpm -q -f /full/path/to/libabc.a

Yep, fails.
>
>     If this is the case, you have a few choices.
>
>     - package and install whatever software contains libabc.a,
>       and libxyz.a

Well, this makes no sense, because libabc.a and libxyz are both part of the
package I am trying to install.  Do you mean I must separate them into a
different package and install it first?  That makes no sense either.
>
>     - install the package by forcing it to ignore dependencies,
>       e.g. the --nodeps flag

Yep, this works for sure.
>
>     - Add "provides libabc.a" and "provides libxyz.a" to your rpm
>       macros file.  The system-wide file would be
>       /usr/lib/rpm/macros.  But, maybe you'd prefer this to only
>       affect your account.  In that case the file would be
>       ~/.rpmmacros

I tried this.  Running as root and put .rpmmacros in /root/.rpmmacros with 2
lines:
    provides libabc.a
    provides libxyz.a

Doesn't work.

The system wide file /usr/lib/rpm/macros is a very confusing looking file.
I gave up on it - don't think that's the right place to do it anyway.>

RPM seems to be somewhat flawed; in a couple ways.

The other flaw seems to be that if I want a relocatable package - e.g.
supply a prefix stanza - there seems no way for the directory that the user
installs into to be passed into any of the pre and post install scripts;
which is where I have to do some symbolic links into /usr/lib and
/usr/include.

>     G'luck....
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm trying to build an RPM package.   I have 2 library files (e.g.
libabc.a
> > and libxyz.a) that are required by the executables (in addition to
system
> > libraries), so when rpm -bb runs the find-requires script, it determines
> > these files are required.
> > The build works and creates the rpm package file.
> >
> > Then when I do the rpm --install of the package file, I get the message:
> > error: failed dependencies:
> >  libabc.a is needed by XXX-2.0-0
> >  libxyz.a is needed by XXX-2.0-0
> --
> Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
> opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.



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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disable relay deny of sendmail
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:20:34 +0200

> I'm sorry, but I don't think you'll find many who'll give some advice on
> this topic.

Why not?
In /etc/mail/access delete all entries.

Voila.

-- 
cu

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Wilkins)
Subject: division math problems in bash!
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:23:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I stumbled across this problem and am wondering if i am missing
something. It appears that bash on my system cannot divide properly.
The version of bash I am running is: 2.04.12(1) for linux-mandrake.

I included 2 example scripts and their output.
Both scripts yield different output and both outputs are wrong.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Best regards,
Charles Wilkins


#! /bin/sh
# math1

let bytes=62308352
let KB=($bytes/1024)
let KBR=($bytes%1024)
let MB=($KB/1024)
let MBR=($KB%1024)
let GB=($MB/1024)
let GBR=($KB%1048576)
echo "$bytes Bytes" 
echo "$KB.$KBR Kilobytes" 
echo "$MB.$MBR Megabytes"
echo "$GB.$GBR Gigabytes"


The output of "math1" is:
62308352 Bytes
60848.0 Kilobytes
59.432 Megabytes                this should be 59.421875
0.60848 Gigabytes               this should be 0.058029175

#! /bin/sh

let bytes=62308352
let KB=($bytes/1024)
let KBR=($bytes%1024)
let MB=($bytes/1048576)
let MBR=($bytes%1048576)
let GB=($bytes/1073741824)
let GBR=($bytes%1073741824)
echo "$bytes Bytes" 
echo "$KB.$KBR Kilobytes" 
echo "$MB.$MBR Megabytes"
echo "$GB.$GBR Gigabytes"

The output of "math2" is:
62308352 Bytes
60848.0 Kilobytes
59.442368 Megabytes             this should be 59.421875
0.62308352 Gigabytes            this should be 0.058029175



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From: eric l. santelices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba 2.0.8 and Windows XP b2 not working
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:30:05 -0000

Has anyone been able to log into their Samba server with XP?

I just upgraded one of my boxes and it cannot login to my samba server I'm 
running samba 2.0.8.

Other machines can login and work just fine.

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From: "joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: LILO and Operating System Missing
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:59:26 -0400

OK.  What you need to do is restore the boot code in the partition of your
winme.
What you need to preserve are the three files : msdos.sys , io.sys and
command.com , since "sys" command replaces them as well.

Get a windows ME boot floppy. or win98 boot floppy. Beg, borrow or steal..
The floppy should have the "attrib.exe" program. If it is not present, try
to copy it from your windows\system32 folder .

The two of the files have the hidden, system and read only attributes set.
First you need to unset them.
use attrib
attrib -r -s -h io.sys
attrib -r -s -h msdos.sys


now rename them to something else, and keep them on some floppy or somewhere
safe.

Make a copy also of the command.com file .

next do the "sys c:" thing. This will re-write the boot code on the
partition ( "c:" ), and put in the io.sys , msdos.sys and command.com. Where
does the sys command get these files ? From the boot device of course. the
boot device, if you booted off the floppy is the floppy disk.

Now comes the interesting part.
You have to replace these new files with the ones you just made a copy of.
Change the attributes to -r -s -h on the new files , delete them.
then move the old files over . You can just rename them back to what they
were.
Finally, set the attributes
attrib hsr io.sys
attrib hsr msdos.sys

Reboot and you should be fine.

Hope this helps.
last time I did this was when I knocked out Ez-drive off a 2 gig drive, and
win98 had a hissy-fit!

While you are at it, it would be instructional to read through the msdos.sys
file. :)


Take care.


"LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9PPO6.225$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have WinME installed on /dev/hda1, and Linux on /dev/hdb1.
> I set up the install the first time to accidently install LILO onto /hda1
> instead of /hdb1. No biggie, I just had to type "dos" at the LILO: prompt
to
> boot up WinME.
>
> However, I had to reinstall Linux, and put LILO on /hdb1 and start from
> floppy.
>
> Now when I boot up w/o the floppy, after the POST I get only "LI" of
"LILO:"
> and it stalls. With the floppy in I get the whole LILO: and it boots to
> Linux fine, but if I try to type dos, it says partition doesn't exist.
> During setup with Disk Druid, I made no changes to the FAT partitions.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> IF I have to reinstall WinME, it's no big deal. My WinME OS is partioned
off
> on a seperate partition from the other FAT drive, so nothing important
> should be hurt. (Again, I didn't make any changes to the FAT drive.)
>
> My followup question then is if I have to reinstall WinME back onto drive
a,
> will it change Linux on the drive b at all? I'm doubting it, since I have
a
> boot floppy for it.
>
> And a last question, I tried to edit the lilo.conf (sp?) file that
contains
> what OS options to boot too, and while /etc (?) has it, I mounted and
ls'ed
> the floppy and there's nothing there. How can I edit it on the floppy to
> make sure the "dos" aprtition is an option?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Liam
>
>



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