Linux-Setup Digest #253, Volume #19 Thu, 27 Jul 00 02:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: PAM Problems...? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Question about PPP connection ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Linux printer server? ("dougcpa")
Re: Max File Open (Chiam Choon Yee)
Re: Best dual boot? (Rod Smith)
Re: telnet scripting (David Nordstedt)
Re: Win 95 wont come up after installing Linux RH 6.2 (sandrews)
System hangs when probing for disks ... after installation! Please help
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best dual boot? (Michael Perry)
Re: Problem (century)
Install Linux from floppy ("Daniel")
LILO configuration problem (John Pezdek)
Re: Help with multi-OS/multiboot ("Snarf")
help with installing printers ("Eric Wong")
Bad bridge mapping (bill davidsen)
Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems (savo)
Re: Install Linux from floppy ("David ..")
Re: Help, cut and paste from xterm to Netscape (Ken Arromdee)
LILO problems ("Robp2001")
Re: Help, cut and paste from xterm to Netscape (Ken Arromdee)
Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems (Aldas)
Re: Math Coprocessor problem - Linux won't boot (B'ichela)
Modem Installation before or after Linux install? ("ThomE")
Re: Install Linux from floppy ("Daniel")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PAM Problems...?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:09:52 GMT
In article <8lkjl2$ujt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed the new PAM package (pam-0.72-20.i386.rpm) on my
> Redat 6.2 machine running kernel version 2.2.16-3smp. All seems fine,
> but I have noticed these types of messages in my /var/log/messages
file
> whenever I telnet into the machine:
>
> pam_console[1148]: can't find device or X11 socket to examine for 2
> inetd[512]: pid 1147: exit status 1
>
> Any ideas on what might be causing this? Is it anything to be alarmed
> about?
>
> Thanks,
> --Pete
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
I don't know what it is but I get a very similar message since
installing the same rpm on Redhat 6.0 w/ kernel 2.2.16-3 (no smp). It
seem to occur when one of my diskless workstations log in to this
machine via xdm.
--Gary
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about PPP connection
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:21:46 -0400
> Except using minicom under Gentus Linux 3.0, how can I start my interactive
> PPP connection thru the phone line and modem.
I used pppconfig to set up the connection, then pon and poff to start and
stop.
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From: "dougcpa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux printer server?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:48:15 GMT
Thanks for the direction! I'll check out Samba. Don't get me started on
Novell. We are even forced to use their software for groupware, using
GroupWise along with some significant clientware that are memory hogs.
--
Doug
http://darksaber.hispeed.com
"bratgrrl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8llj9v$b0n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Yes, use Samba. As usual O'Reilly publishes an excellent book, "Using
> Samba". Saves much pain.
> Novell 3.x???? sheeeesh....... Better than a stone tablet and chisel.
> Almost. ;)
>
>
>
> "Mark Souva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:eMrf5.9431$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have a simlar setup. I am using Samba for the printer share. I would
> > suggest looking at Samba.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > "dougcpa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:3opf5.7068$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I have a question. Is it somewhat easily possible to setup a simple
> > > computer as a Linux print server on a Novell Netware 3.x network? We
> have
> > > an office Novell network and we have two computers that need to share
a
> > > color printer via the network
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiam Choon Yee)
Subject: Re: Max File Open
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:40:19 GMT
Thanks David. Your reply has been very helpful to my administration
of the Linux server in my dept.
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:30:05 -0500, "David .."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<<snipped>>
># Maximum number of open files
>fs.file-max = 4096
>#
># Maximum number of inodes open
>fs.inode-max = 16384
>
>--
>Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
>Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
>ID # 123538
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Best dual boot?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:57:37 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <geJf5.52175$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bill Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm considering setting up a dual-boot Win98SE / Linux system, probably
> using SuSE 6.4. I have two 30-GIG physical hard drives. I've been
> considering Lilo, System Commander, or Boot Magic. I'm open to suggestions
> based on your experience, both good, and bad.
For only two OSs, LILO as installed automatically by most distributions
should do nicely. For more sophisticated setups, System Commander is
very good. Boot Magic's a bit klunkier, although visually flashier.
I've got a chapter devoted to boot loaders in my book, _The Multi-Boot
Configuration Handbook_ (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/), and it
comes with a stripped-down version of BootMagic, although buying the
book just for a chapter on boot loaders when you're installing just two
OSs is unnecessary.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: David Nordstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: telnet scripting
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:14:02 -0400
I found a site that had scripts like this, but I don't know where I put
the address. Search on telnet and script and see what comes up. Expect
is a language just for this, but if you want to use a basic shell, then
something like this will work:
#!/bin/sh
(echo username
sleep 4
echo password
sleep 4
echo ls
sleep 4
echo pwd
sleep 4
logout ) | telnet dest.address.org
jtoy wrote:
>
> Is it possible to write telnet scripts in BASH? If so, How can I write
> a telnet script in bash that will execute a few commands like 'ls and
> 'pwd'. Are there any other solutions that are already on a basic
> 2.2.14-15 linux distribution?
>
> --
> Jason Toy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://toy.eyep.net
--
David R. Nordstedt
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http://grove.ufl.edu/~davidrn
http://www.afn.org/~afn01653
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:32:58 -0400
From: sandrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win 95 wont come up after installing Linux RH 6.2
shashinux wrote:
>
> I installed RH Linux 6.2 on my win 95 machine on a seperate
> external drive.
>
> The original drive is a 1.2Gig HD and has windows 95 on it.
>
> The seperate drive is a 30G Western Digital drive.
> After installing Linux on this new HD , ( I chose workstation
> class of installation - this automatically configures the
> Lilo) windows 95 wont start up correctly.
>
> Now after installing Linux and a reboot - comes up with
> boot: and I have 2 choices
> dos and linux.
OK, This is good.
>
> If I chose linux - Linux is easily accessible.But If I chose
> dos then windows 95 startup window comes up,
> and all the application on the window panel show up.
>
> But the mouse and the keyboard are inactive.
>
> I cannot track any application/select an application with my
> mouse on this windows 95 main panel!!!!!!
>
> The kybrd seems to be stuck too.
>
> I tried rebooting and shutting off the PC to start windows
> the way it was before - but no help.
Check with Bill G. This is a windows problem. Although this
could be a characteristic of windows.
>
> I configured while installing linux that the mouse is a 2 button
> PS/2 mouse and the Keyboard as a 101-generic.
>
Ok. That should work.
> Did I miss something ?
Yep. Your regularly scheduled windows reinstall.
You already did your reboots.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
Trash windows and use Linux 8^).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: System hangs when probing for disks ... after installation! Please help
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 02:43:39 GMT
Hi,
After a lot of tries , i really need help !
I'am installing RedHat 6.0 on a 486 DX6 PC with an old ami bios limited
to 528 Mb support.
The Howto says that it's not a problem for Linux if the system
partition is located in the 528 first Mb.
I have 4 partitions:
Swap and system partitions are located in the first 528 Mb of a 1 Gb
disk (Master).
An other partition is located on a small 450 Mb disk (Slave).
The system has:
- an ether board (Etherlink 3 3com),
- A creative labs SBAWE 32
- A 2x CDROM with propri�tary interface (Lasermate).
- An orchid video borad and an IO controler.
All is in ISA standard.
When a boot with the reszcue disk (or install disk), i can install all
the system (CDROM is recognized, etc ...).
But when rebooting with the new installation or with a boot floppy
(made during installation), the system hangs at this time .... :
.....
RAM disk driver initialized : 16 RAM disks of 4096 K size.
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1080A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST3491A-XR, ATA DISK drive
Then the system hangs and i have to reboot (without success).
I tried to remove the sound board, the ST... disk, the ether board and
the LaserMate CDROM interface successively to try to find the Pb, but
it does'nt change anything!
I think i also tried nearly all boot parameters concerning hard disks
an floppy without success.....
If someone can help, please, help !
I precise that this conf was made just before installing Linux so i
don't know if it works with windows.
I'd like avoid to install windows just to verify this fact.
I hope someone can help me now, i really have no more ideas of tests to
understand what is happening ....
What is the difference between the rescue kernel and the normal one
concerning hard disks ?
Thank in advance for your help !
Please reply me via email if possible (I don't have an easy access to
the news!)
Thanks,
Christophe
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Best dual boot?
Date: 27 Jul 2000 02:47:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:02:52 GMT, Bill Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm considering setting up a dual-boot Win98SE / Linux system, probably
>using SuSE 6.4. I have two 30-GIG physical hard drives. I've been
>considering Lilo, System Commander, or Boot Magic. I'm open to suggestions
>based on your experience, both good, and bad.
>
>Thank you,
>Bill Crocker
>
>
I like lilo myself. Easy on the pocketbook, well-documented. Not much to
say about the interface :)
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: century <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 04:46:24 +0200
hi,
just for info : GENTUS is the linux distribution from ABIT...made specially for
their Motherboards...
see ya
CeNTuRY
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From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install Linux from floppy
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:17:20 +0800
Hi there. Anyone had tried to install Linux distribution totally from floppy
disk to hardisk?
Any Linux distribution to recommend?
I 'm new to Linux and want to use my old laptop (with cdrom) to surf net
using linux os.
Thanks.
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From: John Pezdek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO configuration problem
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:40:53 -0500
I'm attempting to install LILO on a system with a SCSI drive as its boot
drive, and a 13Gb IDE as a secondary.
The SCSI drive is partitioned as
/dev/sda1 Linux 83h /boot
/dev/sda2 MS-DOS boot partition
/dev/sda5 MS-DOS
/dev/sda6 MS-DOS
The IDE drive is used only for linux
/dev/hda1 Linux 83h
/dev/hda2 Linux 83h / (2.0)
/dev/hda3 Linux 83h / (2.2)
/dev/hda4 Linux Swap
I'm able to boot into DOS with this configuration. I would like to use
LILO to serve as a boot manager with Linux as the default.
The BIOS identifies the SCSI drive as 0x80.
My lilo.conf is:
boot = /dev/sda
disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
image = /boot/zImage
root = /dev/hda2
label = linux20
After changing my lilo.conf I attempt to run lilo and get the following
errors:
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Device 0x0801: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 522 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
read /dev/sda: No such device or address
Any ideas what is causing the problem? Since my BIOS does not recognize
> 8Gb, I can't use the IDE drive alone.
Attempts to modify the partition table also gives me errors on reread,
so I think the problem might be related, but I can't seem to find the
reason cfdisk fails. It worked when I partitioned the drive, I just
can't change it now.
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
John Pezdek
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From: "Snarf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Help with multi-OS/multiboot
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:56:30 -0400
Maybe I'm behind the times or something. Since when can Fdisk do NTFS
partitions?
--
Regards,
Snarf
"****____****Diaper Changer****___****" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8lmdio$mkp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would *like* to set up Win98, NT4, Win2k and Mandrake-Linux 7.2.
>
> My goals:
>
> 1) To get each OS's basic files on it's own partition, and format that
partition
> "optimally" for each OS
> 2) To share temp file space and swap file space, each OS would use the
same
> partition for temp files and each OS would use the same partition for swap
file
> (obviously needs to be FAT16)
> 3) Have space for installation of games, data, and applications separate
from
> each of
> This is what I *plan* on doing now (I have 2 ATA66 hard drives, 18GB
apiece)
>
> 1) Use FDisk and partition the 1st physical drive as follows:
>
> a) 500 MB for C: active (FAT16)
> b) 3 GB for E: -->WinNT (NTFS)
> c) 3 GB for F: -->Win98 (FAT32)
> d) 4 GB for G: -->Win2k (NTFS)
> e) 6 GB for H: -->Linux (?? - still learning -all files and apps on same
> partition for now)
> f) remainder for I: --> each OS temp files (FAT16)
>
> 2) Partition my 2nd physical drive :
>
> a) 500MB for D: -->Each OS's swapfile, ~500 MB (FAT16)
> b) 8 GB for K: FAT32, for games and kids stuff
> c) 8 GB for L: NTFS, for Office/productivity crap for Win2k/NT
> d) remainder FAT16 for moving crap between OS's (i.e. from Win98 to Linux
or NT,
> or vice versa)
>
> It *seems* like I shouold be able to do it. Am I correct in thinking that
each
> of the MS OS's will install their basic boot files to the primary
partition on
> drive 0, then I can set each OS to install to a different folder on
whatever
> drive.
>
> I have read in places that NT has restrictions on where you can install
it.
> Something about being within the first 4 GB or something. Not sure if I'm
> correct or not.
>
> I also read that I have to use an "updated" driver so NT will recognize
that my
> drive is bigger than 2 GB (or is it 8 GB that NT can read normally?)
>
> I know I should load Linux last because unlike an MS operating system,
Linux
> won't try and overwrite partitions with "competitor's" OS's on it
> (heh...bastages!)
>
> So, I guess my questions are:
>
> 1) Is it *possible* to do this, or am I way off?
> 2) If it is possible, does this seem like a viable plan, or is there a
"much
> better way" to do it?
> 3) Is there something about NT that will prevent me from installing as
above?
> What about Win2k? Does it have to be installed "within the first 4 GB"
crap
> that NT4 has?
> 4) Will I be able to assign I: as the temp file for each OS and d: as the
> swapfile for each OS?
> 5) Linux don't care where it's installed, and LILO will now be able to
access
> all of those drives (version 21 and before couldnt' go past 8 GB or
something,
> right?
>
> I will install all OS's using ATA33, then later go back and install the
> appropriate ATA66 drivers. :)
>
> Any help on this headache-inducing matter greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!!!
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From: "Eric Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,apana.lists.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,hk.comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: help with installing printers
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:00:36 +0800
Help me please......
i've just install RedHat linux 6.0 to act as a server in my office of 8
win98pc and 2 Macs, it works fine as a file server. But I hit a brick wall
when I tried to install an Epson Laser (EPL-5700L) printer. I couldn't get
it work. I look at the printtool section and couldn't find my printer on
the select list.
The Question is how do I install the printer to act as network printer
amongs the pcs and the Macs?? Help is very much appreciated..
Thanx you in advance
Regards
Eric
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Bad bridge mapping
Date: 27 Jul 2000 05:08:36 GMT
I recently got a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I installed Slackware 7.0 and
the PCMCIA found the network card and the modem. Good stuff. Then I
noticed that the modem was not seeing interrupts. I tried ignoring a
few, but that didn't seem to be the problem.
After playing with various things I went and downloaded 3.1.19 and
tried that instead of the 3.1.15 which came with the CD. It says I have
a "bad bridge address at 0xffeff000" and won't work. Looking at
/proc/pci I see that the brige is at that address, and it worked fine
with the old pcmcia modules.
Having had great luck with Slackware 7.1PL1 and 2.4.0test4, I decided
to install that, and see how it went. It comes with 2.2.16, and the
PCMCIA still rejects the bridge address.
At this point I could build the 2.4 kernel and see if it gets better,
but I don't think that's the problem. I would gladly go back to polling,
I just want to be able to call in once in a while with the machine, and
I don't care if the performance sucks as long as it works at all.
Before I reinstall SW7.0 from scratch and go back to a working
solution, is there some way to make this work, or is the bridge just at
a bad address? I looked at the original rc.pcmcia, and it didn't seem to
be doing any magic to set CORE_OPTS or PCIC_OPTS or anything else.
Unless there's a secret kernel option or something easy I'm going to
drop back, since this is a tool, not a way of life, and I just want to
have some functionality. My old laptop doesn't work anymore, 1.2.13
kernels had some Y2k bugs, I guess.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
There are those who make things happen, those who watch things happen,
and those who wonder what happened.
-- idea from _Pickles_
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From: savo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:22:13 GMT
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I had the same problem. I removed lil from the MBR
also ran dos fdisk /mbr and upgraded. put lilo on
hda. and still comes up "LI"
did the same thing but put lilo on hda1 and still get
"LI" what do i do now?
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I had the same problem. I removed lil from the MBR
<br>also ran dos fdisk /mbr and upgraded. put lilo on
<br>hda. and still comes up "LI"
<p>did the same thing but put lilo on hda1 and still get
<br>"LI" what do i do now?
<pre>--
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install Linux from floppy
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:15:59 -0500
Daniel wrote:
>
> Hi there. Anyone had tried to install Linux distribution totally from floppy
> disk to hardisk?
> Any Linux distribution to recommend?
> I 'm new to Linux and want to use my old laptop (with cdrom) to surf net
> using linux os.
> Thanks.
Slackware is one of the few that you can install from floppy
http://www.slackware.com/
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: Help, cut and paste from xterm to Netscape
Date: 27 Jul 2000 05:30:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mary P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I use Netscape 4-something and fvwm2 or lesstif. I can cut and paste in
>either direction so long as I open the terminals in fvwm or lesstif. If
>I try to cut and paste from Netscape to a terminal accessed by cntrl-alt-F1
>or whatever (not in X), it doesn't work. Is this what you are trying?
I found out my problem, sort of. I was trying to cut and paste by selecting
text with the left button, then clicking on the selected text area. This
doesn't work. If I select text, and I don't click on it, cut and paste does
work.
So I've probably just been doing cut and paste wrong. Only... if I was doing
it wrong, how come the first method *does* work from xterm to xterm?
--
Ken Arromdee / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee
"Eventually all companies are replaced." --Bill Gates, October 1999
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From: "Robp2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO problems
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 06:36:18 +0100
could someone help PLEASE !!!!
lilo is set up to auto boot linux after about 10 secs. I go into KLILO to
change this, but when i write to disk, it says LILO died.....
what could I be doing wrong.? any ideas?
+ i cant find out info easy, cos' im in windows at the mo. , (yes i know, i
hate it too.. :-) )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: Help, cut and paste from xterm to Netscape
Date: 27 Jul 2000 05:46:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mary P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I use Netscape 4-something and fvwm2 or lesstif. I can cut and paste in
>either direction so long as I open the terminals in fvwm or lesstif. If
>I try to cut and paste from Netscape to a terminal accessed by cntrl-alt-F1
>or whatever (not in X), it doesn't work. Is this what you are trying?
Doing some research and tests, I found that I *could* cut and paste into
Netscape *if* I highlighted some text in the xterm, then directly tried to
paste into Netscape without clicking on the highlighted text to cut it. If I
highlight the text and click on it, the text will paste into another xterm but
not into Netscape.
--
Ken Arromdee / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee
"Eventually all companies are replaced." --Bill Gates, October 1999
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From: Aldas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:42:32 -0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
savo wrote:
> I had the same problem. I removed lil from the MBR
> also ran dos fdisk /mbr and upgraded. put lilo on
> hda. and still comes up "LI"
>
> did the same thing but put lilo on hda1 and still get
> "LI" what do i do now?
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
I resolved this problem only with NU (DOS platform) programm diskedit.
The problems disapear after reseting to 00 all bytes of master boot
record sector.
Aldas P.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: Math Coprocessor problem - Linux won't boot
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:20:18 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:17:23 -0500, Xzera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Help!
>Linux won't boot anymore - I don't get it.
>it hangs up on the math coprocessor part -
>"Checking 386/387 coupling :<3> failed
>trying to reset .. failed
>trying to reset.. failed
>trying to reset failed
>
>and on and on. If I give it the boot command : linux no387 it will go along just fine
>- except that all new kernels need a math coprocessor so it will hang up a little
>later.
>What I've got is a PIII 500mhz - with Gigabyte GA-6VX MoBo. (VIA chipset - 5 PCI
>slots - onboard stuff disabled) I installed linux on it and it worked fine - then I
>went to add cards to make it usable, ie network, sound, SCSI, and now it's doing
>this! Help!
>If I can't use a network card, etc. I might as well use Win98, which, by the way,
>boots up and runs just fine on it, cards and all.
>
>Anybody got any ideas???
First of all try taking out each card one at a time. try
booting linux to see if it still hangs. if so put the card you took
out back in and do the same with the next card. When you find the
card that cases your math-Coprocessor section to go blooey then you
can either.
1. get another card
2. if you REALLY need it. use no-387 mode
If however after you tried this and NO card removal returns
your CPU's mathco. then MAYBE your cpu has had a stroke! (heat or just
bad chip). Solution is to replace the CPU.
--
B'ichela
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From: "ThomE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Installation before or after Linux install?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 06:06:25 GMT
I took some of the advise I got with the other modem question and am
currently biding on a non winmodem on ebay that looks good. I'm just
getting impatient waiting to get rid of winblows and want to know if it is
worth waiting till I get the modem so I can have it when I first install
Linux from scratch or if it is any more difficult to add a modem after you
have installed Linux? From other things I've read and heard it sounds as if
it would be easier to install the modem with the initial install rather than
trying to configure it later on but I'm a newbie so I don't know which is
better.
Thanks again,
Thome
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From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install Linux from floppy
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:06:44 +0800
so, where can I get the diskette version of Slackware
instead of the cd?
David .. wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Daniel wrote:
>>
>> Hi there. Anyone had tried to install Linux distribution totally from
floppy
>> disk to hardisk?
>> Any Linux distribution to recommend?
>> I 'm new to Linux and want to use my old laptop (with cdrom) to surf net
>> using linux os.
>> Thanks.
>
>Slackware is one of the few that you can install from floppy
>
>http://www.slackware.com/
>
>--
>Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
>Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
>ID # 123538
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