Linux-Setup Digest #957, Volume #19 Thu, 2 Nov 00 01:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Netware Client (ljb)
Re: Help with cyrillic fonts (Paul Gorodyansky)
Help with Promise Card (Brian)
Re: How Safe to Update Bios? ("db")
Re: HELP? Acrobat3 on Debian.... (Walt Shekrota)
Re: Help with cyrillic fonts (Cheryl)
Re: NEC SuperScript 870 and RedHat 7.0 (Ed Lynch)
Filesystems (Nevin Wong)
Re: Triple boot with NT in second drive (BO)
Re: Another disk bootable
Re: What is the format of /dev/audio ? ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Re: how to change TCP/IP? ("Dave Stanton")
Is it RPM or Me being stupid ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Re: Would you use AMD Thunderbird for a WEB and FTP server? (moonie;))
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: Netware Client
Date: 2 Nov 2000 02:16:39 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Thx, but I don't need only NFS-support (as is given in other dists like
>SuSE, too) but also administration tools.
That probably isn't possible - to run nwadmin on Linux, for example. But
if you are using Netware 5 it is said you can run a remote (Netware)
console over the network with X11. So you could probably do your
administration that way, from your Linux system. I am not sure where I saw
the instructions - maybe on support.novell.com - which tell you how to do
this.
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From: Paul Gorodyansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with cyrillic fonts
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 02:11:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Cheryl Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to set up my Mandrake 7.1/KDE installation to display
> cyrillic fonts, particularly for web browsing. It appears that the
> fonts are installed (I installed the XFree86-Cyrillic-fonts package and
> the fonts all appear in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/
> directory), but when I open Netscape and go to the fonts, there is no
> option to select a cyrillic font.
Which version of Netscape? In Netscape 4 the fonts selection is in
Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts and in Netscape 3 in
Options/General/Fonts.
> I am unable to use the KFM to browse cyrillic pages.
> I would also like to install the keyboard drivers so
> that I can perform searches in Russian. But when I add Russian as a
> second default language locale (with English as the first), the next
> time I login all of the text is scrambled, as if it was trying to
> display Russian but can't get the right font. Thank you for your time.
>
> Cheryl
I don't work with Unix, but have the links:
1) Linux and Cyrillic (including Netscape tips):
http://ultralix.polytechnique.fr/~stivy/misc/cyr.html
2) Linux setup for Russian - KOI8-R and Win-1251 encodings:
http://linux.irk.ru/18.12.1998.phtml
3) General information for national fonts, keyboards, locales in Mandrake:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/l10n.php3
--
Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Promise Card
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 02:23:26 GMT
I have recently installed a Promis Technology Ultra 100 controller
card, ( this card plugs into my PCI slot, and gives me t more IDE
channels. From what I can tell Linux ses the card because it now finds
another Plug and Play card, and configures it, as well as fining another
device which it labels ide0. I have an Iomega ZIP drive connected to
this card, but can't seem to get the drive to mount. When I try to
mount the device it returns an error 32, it says mount specila device
does not exist. Would this PCI controller card indeed me found as ide0,
and if so how do I mount the ZIP drive attached to it, do I need to
configure the kernel to accept this device (I included PCI devices in my
kernel already)
Brian
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From: "db" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.soundcard.sblive,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How Safe to Update Bios?
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:22:54 -0500
Aphelion a �crit dans le message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>>How safe is it to update the bios?
> Reasonably safe as long as the process isn't interrupted, most
>updaters give you the option to save your old BIOS in case the new one
>royally screws things up.
>I have an asus cuv4x which is not as stable as i would like. I think it
gets
>>confused by 2 cd-roms (one regular, one cd-r). Every time I open "my
>>computer" in windows the dialogue window opens with the little flashlight
>>icon swirling around forever but it doesn't seem to find the drives (c:)
and
>>2 cd rom drives. Then it sorta freezes up.
>
> This is more likely caused by the VIA 4-in-1 drivers.
Seems i found a quickie fix, though I don't know how good it will be in the
long run. I simply went into tweakui and unchecked the drives that should
show up in explorer (flopy, cd, cd-r). Now when I pop open my computer or
explorer or even the explorer file manager, those drives don't show and it
doesn't freeze (at least trying it all day today).....
> Have you tried the standard Win98 VIA drivers, I use them without
>problems. I also use an SBLive (for soundfonts) along with my
>pro-audio card.
I have tried the windows drivers but I had those problems anyway.
>
>>I don't have these problems in linux (dual boot) and am trying to figure
out
>>if it is software or hardware. Also, when I run norton disk doctor (win)
it
>>often finds "incorrect free space information" in the disk. Is this
normal?
>>Or have I screwed something up in creating the linux partition?
>
> I think it's normal for Win95/98 systems... WinME & W2000 fix this
>problem with large drives.
>
>>Also, the dreaded soundblaster live crackling keeps happening (in windows
>>only). I was hoping a bios update might fix some of these problems. I have
>>never done one before and was wondering what I am getting into if I try
>>it....
>
Is the Crackling related to hard disk access?
I don't know about that. I get random crackling from time to time, in
windows and sometimes games. Actually, it has been doing relatively well
lately....
>There's a small utility that changes the pre-fetch (something like
>that) in VIA chipsets. It has helped many get rid of the crackling for
>good.
>
> I'm sure someone here has the URL or FTP address, if not I'll look it
>up.
would be much appreciated....
thanks
> A.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walt Shekrota)
Subject: Re: HELP? Acrobat3 on Debian....
Date: 2 Nov 2000 03:55:30 GMT
Version 4 works fine....
Must just be thge way the library support happened ....good to know though.
-Walt
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Walt Shekrota wrote:
> > Sounds like these are the old libs?
>
> Yes. xlib6g has the libc6 X libraries, and xlib6 has the libc5 X
> libraries.
>
> > I've never gotten it straight in my head. I do have xlib6g installed per
> > dselect.
> >
> > Curious does this mean you can't use acrobat3 or can these libs
coexist somehow?
>
> On Debian 2.{0,1,2} (the libc6 releases) you can run libc5 programs fine
> after running the appropriate compatibility libraries.
>
> > Perhaps going to Acro4 will solve the problem, I'll have to investigate.
>
> Dunno. I just use gs-aladdin (via gv) and xpdf (the "unstable" versions).
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto
> This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
> hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
> and may be a violation of international copyright law.
--
Walt Shekrota
Remove 'nul' from my id to reply!
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From: Cheryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with cyrillic fonts
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 04:11:11 GMT
Paul Gorodyansky wrote:
Which version of Netscape? In Netscape 4 the fonts selection is in
Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts and in Netscape 3 in
Options/General/Fonts.
Paul:
I am working with Netscape 4.x, but the problem is not with finding where to
set the fonts. The problem is when I go to Edit-Preferences-Fonts, I have a
choice of various Western, Japanese, Greek, and other fonts, but no cyrillic.
Thanks for the links, I'll look them over again to see if I missed something.
Cheryl
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Cheryl Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am trying to set up my Mandrake 7.1/KDE installation to display
> > cyrillic fonts, particularly for web browsing. It appears that the
> > fonts are installed (I installed the XFree86-Cyrillic-fonts package and
> > the fonts all appear in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/
> > directory), but when I open Netscape and go to the fonts, there is no
> > option to select a cyrillic font.
>
> Which version of Netscape? In Netscape 4 the fonts selection is in
> Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts and in Netscape 3 in
> Options/General/Fonts.
>
> > I am unable to use the KFM to browse cyrillic pages.
> > I would also like to install the keyboard drivers so
> > that I can perform searches in Russian. But when I add Russian as a
> > second default language locale (with English as the first), the next
> > time I login all of the text is scrambled, as if it was trying to
> > display Russian but can't get the right font. Thank you for your time.
> >
> > Cheryl
>
> I don't work with Unix, but have the links:
> 1) Linux and Cyrillic (including Netscape tips):
> http://ultralix.polytechnique.fr/~stivy/misc/cyr.html
>
> 2) Linux setup for Russian - KOI8-R and Win-1251 encodings:
> c3) General information for national fonts, keyboards, locales in
> Mandrake:
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/l10n.php3
>
> --
> Regards,
> Paul Gorodyansky
> "Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Lynch)
Subject: Re: NEC SuperScript 870 and RedHat 7.0
Date: 2 Nov 2000 04:12:06 GMT
I haven't tried Redhat 7.0 yet but in 6.1 you set it up
with printtool and tell it that it is an hp IIp.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Hello,
> Does anybody know how to setup the NEC 870 SuperScript laser printer
>on a parallel port? Is it even supported by anyone? I am running
>RedHat v7.0.
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
>
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From: Nevin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Filesystems
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:45:15 +0800
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Hi
I have patitioned my drive as 3 partitions, one is a swap (128Mb), one
ext2, and one fat32. I have a need to add space to the swap partition
(because I have added more memory). How can I do that under Linux? Is
there a way not to delete other partitions, but only take some space out
of it and add it to the swap? Is partition magic the only way to do
that?
What is the command to manipulate partitions under Linux? Thanks in
advance.
Yours,
Nev
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<p>I have patitioned my drive as 3 partitions, one is a swap (128Mb), one
ext2, and one fat32. I have a need to add space to the swap partition (because
I have added more memory). How can I do that under Linux? Is there a way
not to delete other partitions, but only take some space out of it and
add it to the swap? Is partition magic the only way to do that?
<p>What is the command to manipulate partitions under Linux? Thanks in
advance.
<p>Yours,
<br>Nev
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From: BO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Triple boot with NT in second drive
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 05:30:08 -0000
Hi Rod,
Thanks much for your reply. I will give you more details of my setup. I
have Drive C partitioned into two and have win98 in FAT-32 partition in
Drive C, and Linux in the second partition. I have connected my second
drive as 'slave' to the drive C. Both are in Primary IDE channel.
I cannot use the second method that you mentioned because i have FAT-32.
so if i have to go by your first suggestion of having 98 and NT in primary
partition, how should i go about it? Iam quite new to this installation
thing. your help will be greatly appreciated.
BO
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> BO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a PC running Caldera Linux and Win98(dual boot) with "grub" as
my
> > boot loader. Not iam planning to have another HDD with WinNT installed
in
> > it. Could you please advice me how i can do that and whether to
use "grub"
> > or NT as my boot loader.
>
> Microsoft OSs usually insist on putting at least part of themselves on
> a primary partition on the first physical disks. Although there are ways
> to fool the system to get around this limit, the few reports I've seen
> of attempts to do this relate difficulties, so I'm reluctant to advise
> your doing this.
>
> In my experience, the best way to do this is to arrange things so that
> Win98 and WinNT each has its own primary partition on the first physical
> disk. Linux can go on the first physical disk, too (in either a primary
> or a logical partition), or it can reside on the second disk. You can
> add shared partitions and non-boot data and program partitions for all
> three OSs wherever you like. Without more details about your current
> setup, I can't say how easy it would be to achieve this goal. Chances
> are you'd need to move at least part of your Linux partition to the new
> disk in order to install NT there. A tool like PartitionMagic
> (http://www.powerquest.com) may be invaluable in configuring this.
>
> If this really is too much effort, your best bet is probably to let NT
> use the Win98 drive as C:, and simply go through NT's normal
> installation routine, but tell it to put the WINNT directory in D: (or
> some other drive letter that corresponds to a partition on your new
> disk). This way, NT will use C: for the initial part of its boot
> process, but put most of its files on a new D: (or whatever) partition.
> This will only work if Win98 is on a FAT-16 partition or if you're
> installing NT 5.0 (aka Windows 2000); Windows NT 4.0 can't read FAT-32
> partitions.
>
> As to boot loaders, there are lots of ways of doing it. Chances are
> you'll use at least two, though. NT REQUIRES the use of its OS Loader to
> boot, and Linux REQUIRES the use of LILO, GRUB, or some other tool (like
> LOADLIN) to boot. In a situation like this, you normally use one boot
> loader as the primary one (the one that boots first), and the other as a
> secondary loader. In my first ideal situation, *I* would configure it
> with LILO (or perhaps GRUB; but I've never used GRUB) as the primary
> boot loader, to select between Linux, Win98, and WinNT. NT's OS Loader
> would then automatically boot NT and nothing else. In the second case,
> it could be done this way, except that LILO or GRUB would have a single
> option for Windows, and OS Loader would then be used to select Win98 or
> WinNT. Alternatively, OS Loader could be the primary and give three
> choices; then LILO (or perhaps GRUB) could be the secondary boot loader,
> and boot Linux only.
>
> FWIW, I cover all these issues in greater detail in my book, _The
> Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_
> (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/).
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another disk bootable
Date: 2 Nov 2000 05:31:31 GMT
Can't quite understand what you tried. But if you want
to put lilo on a floppy, change the line in /etc/lilo.conf
that says "boot=/dev/sda1" or whatever, to "boot=/dev/fd0"
then run lilo. That will cause the lilo program to write
a boot sector to the floppy diskette.
Does that help?
-- Gene Wiggins
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Daniel G�linas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
> I want to know what's the best method
> to make a copie of a root disk to another
> disk and make it bootable.
> Actually, I use cpio with scsi disks and lilo.
> When I trie to boot from the disk copied
> with cpio, I have the message:
> "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fd on 08:02"
> Please help...!
> Thank you
> Daniel Gelinas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is the format of /dev/audio ?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 05:33:27 GMT
Not sure what distro you have, but if you have the program "studio" (if
not, go to
http://www.elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk/staff/een6njb/Software/Studio/screens.html)
then run "studio filename" and you can do funky things with filename. The
program will also give you relevent stats to the filename, such as sound
file type, mono/stereo, etc.
"David B. Lawson" wrote:
>
> I have captured some audio using the command
>
> dd if=/dev/audio of=filename bs=11k
>
> and can very successfully play it back but my
> dilema is now that I want to clip the sound
> apart and use it, I have no idea what format
> the sound is in? I assumed some sort of raw
> byte stream so I tried to convert with sox
> and tried both unsigned and signed byte
> streams to .au and just got horrible garbage.
> I also tried sox on auto and it was maybe even
> worse garbage. Any clues?
>
> Dave
> PS
> Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to change TCP/IP?
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:10:33 -0000
"Alexis Bilodeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:ekYL5.1059$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Le Wang wrote:
>
> > I am using Linux SuSe7.0, and I want to change the properties of TCP/IP,
> > but I can not find it. Could someone tell me where it is?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > LE
> >
> >
> Depending of what you mean by TCP/IP properties?!?!
> If you want to change your IP adress, DNS and such, try linuxconf
Suse does not use linuxconf, use yast instead
Dave
>
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is it RPM or Me being stupid
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 05:50:20 GMT
Hi,
I just installed Red Hat 7.0 (with reasonable success - a couple of
glitches but nothing too major). I then went to Red Hat's errata page and
downloaded newer RPMs for security/bug fixes. Again, everything went okay
except for esound. After downloading esound-0.2.20-0.i386.rpm (the "newer"
package) I tried running
rpm -Uvh esound-0.2.20-0.i386.rpm,
but then rpm complains and reports that:
package esound-0.2.19-3 (which is newer than esound-0.2.20-0) is already
installed
Am I on drugs here or doesn't 0.2.19-3 < 0.2.20-0 seem more logical. Is
the 0.2.19-3 really a newer version or is RPM getting confused about
something?
Cheers,
Andrew
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Would you use AMD Thunderbird for a WEB and FTP server?
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:56:55 -0500
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, Patrick Boucher wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> I am planning to install a FTP, Web, Smtp and Pop server (as well as
>a DNS) on a Linux machine.. SHould i Go with Intel p3 ? or Try out an
>AMD Thunderbird ?
>
> Anybody having problem with AMD ? I know they are VERY stable.. but
>What about Linux ? I am using a Duron at home and it is working fine..
>
>
> patrick
My next box will be a Thunderbird. I have used K6-233, 300, 400 and presently
a K6-III 450 and have never had a problem with Linux on any of these machines.
I started when RH was at 4.2, then got 5.2, then Mandrake 5.3, 6.2 and now M
7.02.
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
http://counter.li.org
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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