Linux-Misc Digest #984, Volume #27 Wed, 30 May 01 10:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Editors to develop applications with KDE (Artur Undebarrena)
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Editors to develop applications with KDE ("ridz")
Re: Matrox AGB graphics card question: simple ("Michael")
Re: Editors to develop applications with KDE ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Best Window Manager. ("Florian Schmidt")
TTI (TTY?) ("Ludwig")
Re: FTP question on RH 7.1 ("Support")
Re: Editors to develop applications with KDE (Eggert Ehmke)
Re: tulip driver ("TRIDEV")
Re: TTI (TTY?) ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Best Window Manager. ("Joel")
Programming for X windows. ("Joel")
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (Nicklas Larsson)
Re: OT? Is OS-X THE userfriendly Unix? (burk)
Re: IPSec SWAN? (Louis LaBash)
Help I must uninstall linux mandrake (Gianky)
Re: Collection of tarballs ("The Snowman")
Re: Help I must uninstall linux mandrake (GreySoul)
Re: Programming for X windows. ("bowman")
Re: sound input (mic) problems (Nicklas Larsson)
Re: Bind 9: Sorta working (I hate spam)
Re: getting vfat support on a bootable floppy ("hdc")
Low cost timer-counter pci board w/Linux driver? (Chris)
Re: Help I must uninstall linux mandrake (David)
Re: e2fs to reiser? (reader of news)
Re: xWindow Server for Win/98 (Rod Smith)
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From: Artur Undebarrena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Editors to develop applications with KDE
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:10:13 +0200
Hi
I want to know which text editors are good to develop applications with
linux and which is the web site to download.
The KDE Text Editor is horrible for me because when I am writting if
the text line is too long the editor cut the line in the middle. I want
a text editor with horizontal scroll bar. And if is possible, with the
same frame window it can have more than one files opened like Ultraedit
for windows.
Thanks.
Artur.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 06:02:22 GMT
[Note: Newsgroups: trimmed; non-existant group col.redhat
removed - please inform your newsadmin to adjust his newsserver]
[Note FollowUp-To: header]
"Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>During this Memorial weekend, I installed Redhat 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2-2)
>on my PC at home. Win98 is on IDE drive/A and Rh7.1 completely on IDE
>drive/B. I did not realize at the time that part of linux, such as /boot
>partition, had to be on drive/A to use LILO.
It doesn't necessarily have to be that way, it's just the default.
>During graphic installation,I was prompted where to put LILO i.e. in MBR
>or linux drive's boot partition. Unfortunately I decided to avoid fooling
>with MBR and opted for the later.
... which subsequently overwrote your boot sector.
[...]
>I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
>surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes failed
>to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after reading/
>loading a few blocks.
[...]
Most likely your partition table is corrupted; it's easy to hose up
a Win* system that way, as the bootloader and all the relevant Win* tools
(like fdisk.exe) are very limited in its capabilities. I'd suspect
that probably your Win* partition has been assigned a different
partition id, this rendering Win* unbootable. Another possible reason
would be a changed partition layout. If you did, however, have some
sort of diskmanager software installed, then you're on your own.
EZ-Disk and similar tools change the partition table layout in a
way that makes restoring it close to impossible. Just try to remove
EZ-Disk from a disk once you don't need it anymore; it's hopeless
without manually overwriting the relevant sectors.
Please show us your partition table as reported by Linux' fdisk.
Michael
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From: "ridz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Editors to develop applications with KDE
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:24:47 +0800
Reply-To: "ridz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How about xemacs?
"Artur Undebarrena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
>
> I want to know which text editors are good to develop applications with
> linux and which is the web site to download.
>
> The KDE Text Editor is horrible for me because when I am writting if
> the text line is too long the editor cut the line in the middle. I want
> a text editor with horizontal scroll bar. And if is possible, with the
> same frame window it can have more than one files opened like Ultraedit
> for windows.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Artur.
>
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Matrox AGB graphics card question: simple
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:47:47 +0200
I use svga-mode 7 with my MatroxG400, it's 132x43 with 68Hz.
I tried more ( I think 140x50 ) but then the framrate was only
50Hz, which is too low ( for me ).
Michael
Im Artikel <9f2d58$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb "Allen Ashley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> "lobotomy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Using the framebuffer console (if you have kernel support) you can run
>>the console at basically any resolution the card supports. I have heard
>>of at least 1280x1024 used, don't know how may characters that comes out
>>to, but I would imagine it is more than 50x140.
>
> Thanks for responding, and my apology for saying AGB when I meant AGP. I
> hope to avoid framebuffer console and prefer to use simple character
> mode. What I need to know is what VESA character modes are supported
> beyond 80x25.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Editors to develop applications with KDE
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:36:48 +0200
Artur Undebarrena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to know which text editors are good to develop applications with
> linux and which is the web site to download.
> The KDE Text Editor is horrible for me because when I am writting if
> the text line is too long the editor cut the line in the middle. I want
You don't write lines longer than 72 characters in any programming
style known to mankind ... and you don't use an editor that does
interpretation in order to write programs!
Use the traditional programming editors, emacs or vi (I use vim, other
people use xemacs or emacs). If you like windows style editors, use
nedit.
BTW, I've just tested the KDE editor (kwrite) on my machine and it
doesn't "cut the line in the middle". It scrolls to the right, using
a horizontal scrollbar. Please revisit your settings!
> a text editor with horizontal scroll bar. And if is possible, with the
> same frame window it can have more than one files opened like Ultraedit
> for windows.
Any editor will do that. But even if it can't, you can open as many
windows as you like with an editor in each!
Peter
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From: "Florian Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Window Manager.
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:03:09 +0200
In article <9f04gq$1cjg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Joel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the ideas of those smaller window managers. I was getting
> quite annoyed by the constant hard drive activity, and slow programs.
> KDE is worse than GNOME. I installed Window Maker, but how can I set it
> up so that I can load to it when I log in? The X login box has the
> GNOME logo on it, but you can choose which type of session you want, but
> how do I get Window Maker, (or any other window mamager), on this list?
> Thanks again.
>
with the kdm (kde-login manager) u have to log in as root. then u can
edit the list (in kde it's the Application/LoginManager entry in
kcontrol).. now, the login manager still needs to know, what to do, when
a certain windowmanager is selected..
have a look at /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
--
florian schmidt
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From: "Ludwig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TTI (TTY?)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:06:06 GMT
Hi,
does anyone know what we need to be able to communicate with our Linux
platform using a serial line, instead of using ethernet + telnet?
It appears there is a 'default ' application for Linux supporting this...
Also, what do we need on the other pc then? A terminal application?
Thanks,
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From: "Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: FTP question on RH 7.1
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 21:15:17 +1000
Find a program on your 7.1 box called FTPD Editor - which is the easiest way
to configure your requirements.
Regards
David
"Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just got FTP working and had a few more questions.
>
> 1. Now that I can FTP into my server I can see the following folders:
> (bin, etc, lib, and pub). Am I supposed to be able to see inside all
> four folders? I placed some text files into the pub folder just for
> testing and I can see them just fine. While I CAN'T see anything in the
>
> bin and etc folders I CAN see some files in the lib folder. Is that
> okay?
>
> 2. How do I allow myself to be able to write to a folder?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> Lamar
>
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From: Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Editors to develop applications with KDE
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:21:54 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 May 2001 12:10:13 +0200, Artur Undebarrena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The KDE Text Editor is horrible for me because when I am writting if
>the text line is too long the editor cut the line in the middle. I want
>a text editor with horizontal scroll bar. And if is possible, with the
>same frame window it can have more than one files opened like Ultraedit
>for windows.
There should be a new editor "kate" in the upcoming kde 2.2. It has all
those features.
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "TRIDEV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: tulip driver
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:25:15 GMT
try rmmod tulip, if it succeeds may be the module is getting loaded by some
init script
otherwise, this kernel may have tulip compiled in.
it is usually not needed to pass IRQ etc with PCI cards, they are PnP
"MrEye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have RH7.1 installed. I also installed using the rpm, the kernel for
> RH7.0, so that I can run win4lin. But in the RH7.0 kernel it does not
> rcognize my ethernet card or load the 'tulip' module. Here is the result
> of the moprobe command --
>
> [root@localhost irlapati]# modprobe tulip
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-14/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-14/net/tulip.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-14/net/tulip.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-14/net/tulip.o: insmod tulip failed
> [root@localhost irlapati]#
>
> Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong and hwo to correct to.
> Thanks in advance.
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TTI (TTY?)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:20:06 +0200
Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> does anyone know what we need to be able to communicate with our Linux
> platform using a serial line, instead of using ethernet + telnet?
Read the Serial-HOWTO for information on this.
You really don't need anything at all, apart from a nul-modem cable. The
rest is standard on your machine.
> It appears there is a 'default ' application for Linux supporting this...
?? "All" applications support whatever it is you are trying to do. You
haven't specified enough .. are you trying to do a login across the
serial line from a vt100 terminal? Or are you trying to connect two
computers over PPP on the serial line, using the IP interfaces?
> Also, what do we need on the other pc then? A terminal application?
?? Depends what you are trying to do. For a serial login, at one end
you need a terminal emulator that talks to the serial line, and at the
otehr end you need a listening getty plus login program that will
let you authenticate and will then connect a shell to the io lines.
There are plenty of choices for all those. The serial howto will tell
you more.
Peter
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Window Manager.
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:00:06 -0500
I have the GNOME login installed. I didn't even install KDE, because it is
way too slow. Thanks, I'll look at that file.
"Florian Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <9f04gq$1cjg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Joel"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the ideas of those smaller window managers. I was getting
> > quite annoyed by the constant hard drive activity, and slow programs.
> > KDE is worse than GNOME. I installed Window Maker, but how can I set it
> > up so that I can load to it when I log in? The X login box has the
> > GNOME logo on it, but you can choose which type of session you want, but
> > how do I get Window Maker, (or any other window mamager), on this list?
> > Thanks again.
> >
>
> with the kdm (kde-login manager) u have to log in as root. then u can
> edit the list (in kde it's the Application/LoginManager entry in
> kcontrol).. now, the login manager still needs to know, what to do, when
> a certain windowmanager is selected..
>
> have a look at /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
>
> --
> florian schmidt
>
>
>
>
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Programming for X windows.
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:04:28 -0500
Hi. I have been programming in Microsoft Windows, and I'd like to learn how
to make apps for X windows. Do you guys know of any tutorial on the net
somewhere that would set me in the right direction? What about a good book?
I use c++. Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicklas Larsson)
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: 30 May 2001 12:09:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 29 May 2001 18:58:21 -0500, twamn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Take it from a person who has been there before.
>
>Next time unplug ALL drives except the one you want to install to. I went
>to upgrade my PC to Win2K and overlaid the boot section to my existing OS
>(ouch). Now every time I install a new OS I only have one hard drive plus
>the CDrom drive connected to the mother board.
>
>I know this is to late for you but hopefully it will help others avoid
>wiping out their main OS while doing a 'simple' dual boot upgrade.
>
>tom
it's playing safe...
(some os/installs are really stupid, messing with my drives)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (burk)
Subject: Re: OT? Is OS-X THE userfriendly Unix?
Date: 30 May 2001 12:17:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 May 2001 09:36:54 GMT, Reiner Griess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I'm curious about it ;)
>
Well it's been updated 3 times now, to 10.03. It is getting better,
and more and more applications are coming on line. At this point,
I'm using it as my everyday at home-OS with no troubles, although my
needs are small since my most used applications are text-editors,
terminals, browsers, and an IDE.
The IDE is quite interesting, REALbasic runs natively in OSX and is
a fairly nice development environment for Mac. To my mind it has a
much more elegant object model than VB and it runs without some of
VB's issues. It can compile for OSX, MacOS, and (!)Win32. (No
affiliation yada yada).
Nice piece of work.
-burk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Louis LaBash)
Subject: Re: IPSec SWAN?
Date: 30 May 2001 05:25:47 -0700
Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<9ejj9t$2ct1j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Can a Linux-box use Free S/WAN and conventional networking
> > simultaneously?
>
> Yes, assuming your network device is eth0 there will be added one
> more network device called ipsec0, which is an alias to your eth0.
> You then have the free choice which "network device" you want
> to use for your connections, eth0 for standard communication or
> ipsec0 for encrypted transmissions.
Thanks a lot; that is what I hoping for.
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From: Gianky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help I must uninstall linux mandrake
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:30:05 -0000
I have no win on my hd i have only linux i must cancel linux and linux
partition, create a new partition (normal hd c:) i don't know how i can do
to have a normal hd an how i can install win please HELP me replay to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks
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From: "The Snowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Collection of tarballs
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:41:44 GMT
try www.freshmeat.net
"Peet Grobler" <peetgr at absa.co.za> wrote in message
news:3b134d6a$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I know it's possible to find rpm's using rpmfind.net
>
> Is there a similar place for tarballs? (tar.gz/bz2)?
>
> I know about sourceforge, but they don't have the standard packages
included
> with linux systems, e.g. : crond, apache, at, etc.
>
> Anyone knows of such a place?
>
>
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From: GreySoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help I must uninstall linux mandrake
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 06:08:45 -0700
On Wed, 30 May 2001 12:30:05 -0000, Gianky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have no win on my hd i have only linux i must cancel linux and linux
>partition, create a new partition (normal hd c:) i don't know how i can do
>to have a normal hd an how i can install win please HELP me replay to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks
Just use a DOS or Win 9x boot floppy that have the commands FDISK and
FORMAT.
Fdisk the partition according to your needs, and then format.
Install Windows.
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Programming for X windows.
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:17:34 -0600
"Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9f2o09$sku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi. I have been programming in Microsoft Windows, and I'd like to learn
how
> to make apps for X windows. Do you guys know of any tutorial on the net
> somewhere that would set me in the right direction? What about a good
book?
First problem: there is no monolithic approach to creating GUI apps for X.
One of the more widespread (and older) widget sets is Motif (Lesstif). A
popular approach for Gnome is the GTK+ set of tools. KDE apps typically are
created with Qt. wxWindows provides easy cross platform development, though
they all do, to some extent. Also, they all can be mixed and matched at the
app level. Then there is the myriad of solutions based on the tcl Tk
package.
I'm sure there are other schemes. Motif and GTK+ are C, though there are C++
interfaces for each. Then, there are further toolkits for building apps that
will play well on a specific desktop.
Welcome to *nix. The famous Perl slogan, "There is more than one way to do
it" applies fully.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicklas Larsson)
Subject: Re: sound input (mic) problems
Date: 30 May 2001 13:20:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 May 2001 03:21:57 GMT, Dave Mehringer wrote:
>I'm running RH 7.1 using the es1371 and related modules. Basically,
>sound (voice) input using a microphone results in very poor quality.
>The audio is very "staticy". I use rec to record and play to play the
>file. Audio output from things such as CDs and mp3's is excellent,
>so I'm convinced that the input is the problem. I've tried two different
>microphones. Under Windoze 98 on the same system, this method of input
>works well (well enough to use IBMs Viavoice speech recognition software)
>so the problem appears to be confined to Linux.
>
>Any ideas what is going on or how to configure input (sndconfig only seems
>to work for output).
i would guess mic/rec/input_boost(depending on your sound hw) mixer levels..
try a mixer with 'all' your soundhw levels.. if you got kde, try "kmix" and
check the levels.
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From: I hate spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux,sanet.unix.questions,linux.admin
Subject: Re: Bind 9: Sorta working
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:41:00 GMT
Thanks for the advice, but...
nsswitch.conf has been set files dns from the beginning
However, Nicolai Langfeldt's DNS HOWTO at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html states:
"In some resolv.conf files you find a line saying "domain". That's
fine, but don't use both "search" and "domain", only one of them will
work"
So my resolv.conf reads
search domain.com domain.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver IP address of the server
nameserver ISP IP
nameserver ISP secondary
under search, i tossed in the second domain.com because i'm grasping, it
is the exact same as the domain listed.
under nameserver - Will a 4th entry be used?
regards,
In article <9f1e6v$7lj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Joseph A. Gaude'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not to get to crazy to start,
> Do you have an /etc/resolv.conf file? In it there should be:
>
> domain yourdomain.com
> search yourdomain.com
> server ipaddrofyourserver
>
> Then, in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file, make sure for hosts it is set for
> files then dns.
>
> That should make it do what you want.
>
> ..Joe
>
>
> "I hate spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi!
> > Okay i've been stumbling through BIND for a bit and so far I have setup
> > a cache-forwarding master server. That is, if my client queries the
> > server, and it is not an internal domain that I'm responsible for, then
> > the server queries my ISP's DNS servers. Seems to work very well,
> > externally.
> >
> > Internally is another matter. I can do a successful dig and an nslookup
> > for a FQDN (internal or external) but can't do a query for a host name
> > only. That is, "server.domain.com" works, but "server" does not. Here is
> > what I get from dig and nslookup on the DNS server itself
> >
> > nslookup: I appear to not get an authoritative response or server name,
> > why?
> > nslookup server1
> > ------
> > Server: 192.168.102.38
> > Address: 192.168.102.38#53
> >
> > Name: server1.mydomain.com
> > Address: 192.168.100.39
> > ------
> >
> > Dig returns this response, with an SOA for a root server?!
> > ------
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.1.0 <<>> server1
> > ;; global options: printcmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 3024
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> >
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;server1. IN A
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > . 10751 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > hostmaster.n
> > siregistry.NET. 2001052900 1800 900 604800 86400
> >
> > ;; Query time: 2 msec
> > ;; SERVER: 192.168.102.38#53(192.168.102.38)
> > ;; WHEN: Tue May 29 15:50:37 2001
> > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104
> > ------
> >
> >
> > Also, I cannot do a reverse lookup with either tool for a server ip. If
>
> > I do this I recieve a msg stating
> > dig -x 192.168.102.45
> > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> >
> > -----
> > nslookup -sil 192.168.100.39
> > Server: ISP DNS IP
> > Address: ISP DNS IP#53
> >
> > ** server can't find 39.100.168.192.in-addr.arpa.: NXDOMAIN
> > -----
> > I definately have 192.168.102.39 listed in my reverse file, in my master
> > zone file and with an A record and a cname record pointing to that a
> > record.
> >
> > Any clues anyone? I feel soooo close, yet so far.
> > thanks!
>
>
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From: "hdc" <x@x>
Subject: Re: getting vfat support on a bootable floppy
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:56:11 -0400
It is in the kernel. I've tested the kernel out in a system booting off a
hard drive, and it can handle vfat.
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hdc <x@x> wrote:
> > running on my bootable linux floppy. When I try to mount the FAT16
> > partitions, with or without the -t vfat option, I get a statement that
vfat
> > is not supported. Now, vfat is operable on the system I created the
floppy
> > from. What do I have to do to get the floppy to support vfat? It
>
> Load the vfat module into the kernel, or compile vfat support into it.
>
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris)
Crossposted-To:
comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.embedded,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Low cost timer-counter pci board w/Linux driver?
Date: 30 May 2001 07:00:34 -0700
Hi,
We are looking for a low cost PCI timer/counter boards, that there are
linux drivers for.
Thus far, the only one we have been able to find is an ISA board
(CIO-CTR05) (http://www.measurementcomputing.com) and the driver at
the Linux Lab Project (http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de)
We have found several DAC boards with timers and Linux drivers but we
are looking for low cost counter/timer board.
The timers must have at least microsecond if not nanosecond
resolution.
Does anyone have any suggestions where we can find one other than the
PCI-CTR05 (which would need to have the CIO driver modified for)?
Thanks
C.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help I must uninstall linux mandrake
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 14:01:20 GMT
Gianky wrote:
>
> I have no win on my hd i have only linux i must cancel linux and linux
> partition, create a new partition (normal hd c:) i don't know how i can do
> to have a normal hd an how i can install win please HELP me replay to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
To wipe the disk
>From a running linux system you can also wipe the disk and remove all
data and partitions.
!!!! WARNING !!!!
!!!! THIS WILL DELETE ALL PARTITIONS !!!!
!!!! IT WILL WIPE THE DRIVE AND REMOVE ALL DATA !!!!
!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!!
cat /dev/zero >/dev/hdX
You will need to format the disk if you are going to use it for a
windows system.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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Completed more W/U's than 99.225% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reader of news)
Subject: Re: e2fs to reiser?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 14:05:24 GMT
On Tue, 29 May 2001 06:15:06 -0400, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi,
>
>
>I figured that since I coudln't do anything on a mounted / partition i'd
>have to reboot with a rescue disk with the reiser utils on it to reformat
>and *then* restore my directory structure from the tar archive that would
>be on the windows partition. Does that sound right?
>
If you have sufficient space you can dedicate an extra
partition to move data around cleverly and make the
transition. I did not have to use any rescue disk.
Let's say you have the following
hda1 /
hda2 /usr
hda3 /home
hda4 /free
Then you can do
# umount /free
# mkreiserfs /dev/hda4
# mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda4 /free
# mkdir /free/{usr,home}
# cp -af /home /usr /free
Also move everything under / except /boot /usr and /home
to /free. Modify /etc/fstab appropriately so that
when you reboot you get just
hda1 /boot
hda4 /
Then make hda2 and hda3 reiserfs. Then move
/home and /usr data to hda2 and hda3. Then
modify /etc/fstab. Reboot
Have done this on many systems including
remote servers I managed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: xWindow Server for Win/98
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 14:05:37 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Hammock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a Linux and a SCO Unixware on the same lan as my Win/98
> machine and I'd like to be able to access them (Linux/Unix) from the
> Win machine via Xwindows. Can anyone suggest a source for
> a good (decent?) xWindow Server for Win/98 that is either free
> or inexpensive?? I did some searches across the inet, but didn't
> come up with anything.
I've been very impressed by Xmanager
(http://www.netsarang.com/products/xmanager.html), which is $69 for a
single license. (There's a demo version you can download to try it
out.) If $69 is too much, check out Mi/X
(http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/), which is $25. (I've not
used the latest version of Mi/X, but the older versions I have tried
were very weak.) There's also a port of XFree86 to Windows underway
(http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/). I was unsuccessful in
getting it working when I tried a couple of months ago, but you might
have better luck or it may have become easier in that time.
Another option is to use VNC (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/).
This runs a special X/VNC server on the Linux or Unix box, which
communicates with a VNC client on the Windows box. (It can also go the
other way, letting you use Windows remotely.) In my experience, it's
usually slower than X on a LAN, and it's got more issues than do most X
servers, but it's free, it's better than the weakest X servers, and it
allows you to use Windows boxes remotely. I'm not sure offhand if
there's a version for SCO.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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