Linux-Setup Digest #882, Volume #20 Wed, 21 Mar 01 16:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: Redhat 7.0 and AMD Duron 700 MHZ (Patrick F Harris)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Bob Hauck)
Re: hosts.lpd use for print server (Bill Grzanich)
Re: /dev/null is read-only ? ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Best E-mail Client? ("Peter T. Breuer")
lilo and 1024 cyl. (Peter Fiers)
Re: hosts.lpd use for print server (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Install printer ("Peter T. Breuer")
info on partition ("Marco Mangiante")
Re: Need help, how to check harddisk error? ("ViPER")
Safe shutdown under SuSE (Kristoffer Adcock)
Re: linux, fortran and numerical methods ("John Collins, SimCon")
killing process using socket ?? ("Ed Bras")
Re: kernel panic : VFS : can not mount root fs (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
cdrecord problem ("jerrell3")
Re: killing process using socket ?? (Zsolt Zsoldos)
cdrecord problem ("jerrell3")
Difficult Linux version/distro question ? (peter)
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From: Patrick F Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 and AMD Duron 700 MHZ
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:23:17 -0600
I have found a problem with some versions of the 2.4.0 kernel and the VIA 694 chip
set. that most Duron systems use. I would try the Beta version of RH 7.1
Donald K Knepshield wrote:
> Paul Olivo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Hello All:
> : Yes, I am a linux newbie. I recently loaded 6.2 on my home Compaq 5000
> : Presario with an AMD 700 mhz Duron Chip. It loaded up flawlessly. I then
> : loaded RH 7.0 on my IBM laptop and liked that much better.
> : Question: Why does RH 7.0 hang during the install at
> : running /sbin/loader???
> : Is it some incompatibility problem with AMD chips and 7.0? If so, whats
> : the workaround, id really like to get 7.0 on my home machine.. its looks
> : and works great!
> :
> : PS. please respond direct to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> : Any and help is greatly appreciated!
> : Paul Olivo
>
> I run RH 7.0 on a home built Duron 800 and have zero problems. I don't
> think that the chip is the problem ( I could be mistaken). What other
> hardware is on the box you are trying to install it on?
>
> :
> : --
> : Posted via CNET Help.com
> : http://www.help.com/
>
> --
>
> Kevin Knepshield
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:50:14 GMT
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 02:05:09 +1200, Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Manfred Bartz wrote:
>> Well, do you need all that stuff? For email???
>
> Yes. I receive several e-mails that have the best and richest content
> when I can display HTML. Otherwide they are almost unreadable.
I get quite a few spams that contain html that would redirect me to some
offshore porn or gambling site, presumably for the downloading of code
that'll be good for my computer. I also get some that contain nothing
but a bit of javascript that executes some unknown binary code out of a
string.
Basically, interpreting html in email is a bit dangerous, interpreting
javascript is asking to be hacked. I guess I just don't care for
"function rich email".
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Grzanich)
Subject: Re: hosts.lpd use for print server
Date: 21 Mar 2001 17:59:39 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I've got Slackware 7.0 installed on a LAN, and am playing with lpd
>'remote print' support. I've got a local printer that I want to be
>enabled for external access via RFC1179 LPD Protocol. I want all hosts
>within our domain to be able to print to this printer and it appears
>that I have to set up the /etc/hosts.lpd file for this.
>
>How do I list hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd such that my entire domain can
>print to this printer? Does it matter that some of the hosts that I
>want to give access to do not have domainnames, just IP addresses?
>What would the format of the entries in /etc/hosts.lpd be?
>
>Lew Pitcher
Hi, Lew.
I had the same confusion recently when trying to print from a SuSE box to
the printer attached to a Red Hat 6.0 machine. It turns out that the
hosts.lpd file must contain (at least in my case) ONLY the host NAME of the
remote client machine. In my example, the Red Hat machine with the printer
attached is called "cyrix" and the SuSE machine trying to print was called
"testbed". So, in the /etc/hosts.lpd file on cyrix I entered:
testbed
That's it. Printing worked. Go figure.
I hope this helps.
-Bill
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: /dev/null is read-only ?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:26:54 GMT
"Christopher H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:kYSt6.497936$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> After reading the man page for MAKEDEV I saw that it requires null to be
> able to work with minimal functionnality. But I tried it anyways with
>
> /dev/MAKEDEV std
>
> I get the following error:
> MAKEDEV: urandom is a read-only filesystem
> and MAKEDEV would quit with /dev/null still being broken.
>
> ls -l /dev/urandom shows:
> crw-r--r--
>
Check with mount if the root directory (or /dev if it is mounted) is mounted
read-only (the complaint was on a filesystem, not on the file itself).
For a repair, try re-mounting / read/write (man mount). You have to be root
to do this (you do have the root password?).
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:11:38 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>There is no function served by html and java that is not covered by
>>ascii. After all, a human being has to receive it, and he doesn't speak
>>java or html.
> Stupid point. None of the 'extensions' to standard email are intended
> to be interpreted directly by people. Plenty of packages do support
If it isn't written, he won't be able to understand it in any formal
sense.
> html, embedded pictures etc - I don't know about java.
Those are decorations, not information.
They can send the decorations through the decorations protocol. Mail
is ostensibly intended for what human beings have taken the effort
to write for me.
> The more mail packages support this stuff, the more pressure there will
> be for new standards.
> With mime etc, is there even that much need for new standards ?
Not particularly. You can invent your own mime type.
Peter
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From: Peter Fiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo and 1024 cyl.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:14:48 +0100
How do I now my BIOS supports booting from over1024?
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: hosts.lpd use for print server
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:44:06 GMT
On 21 Mar 2001 17:59:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Grzanich) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) wrote in
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>I've got Slackware 7.0 installed on a LAN, and am playing with lpd
>>'remote print' support. I've got a local printer that I want to be
>>enabled for external access via RFC1179 LPD Protocol. I want all hosts
>>within our domain to be able to print to this printer and it appears
>>that I have to set up the /etc/hosts.lpd file for this.
>>
>>How do I list hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd such that my entire domain can
>>print to this printer? Does it matter that some of the hosts that I
>>want to give access to do not have domainnames, just IP addresses?
>>What would the format of the entries in /etc/hosts.lpd be?
>>
>>Lew Pitcher
>
>Hi, Lew.
>
>I had the same confusion recently when trying to print from a SuSE box to
>the printer attached to a Red Hat 6.0 machine. It turns out that the
>hosts.lpd file must contain (at least in my case) ONLY the host NAME of the
>remote client machine. In my example, the Red Hat machine with the printer
>attached is called "cyrix" and the SuSE machine trying to print was called
>"testbed". So, in the /etc/hosts.lpd file on cyrix I entered:
>
>testbed
>
>That's it. Printing worked. Go figure.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>-Bill
Thanks, Bill.
I've done some followup myself. A comment in the Slackware hosts.lpd
says that it's format is the same as hosts.equiv. I've found (in
"TCP/IP Network Administration" by Craig Hunt) that the hosts.equiv
file contains entries in the form of
[+ | -] [hostname] [+ | -] [username]
so
system.domain
is valid, as is
system
.
The optional plus or minus is used to add or subtract certain hosts
from the permissions list, and can stand alone. For instance,
+
means that all hosts are allowed access
However, it looks like the lpd still uses DNS to resolve the client's
hostname (IP to hostname, hostname in hosts.lpd), so our DHCP clients
may be out of luck unless they are also DDNS clients. Since (because
of circumstances beyond my control) I'm testing using a DHCP client
(with no DDNS), I'm not getting through to the print server. lpd
doesn't seem to generate much in the way of diagnostics, so it's
difficult to tell whether it's the lack of DDNS that's causing the
problem, or a misconfiguration on the Linux box.
Anyway, I'll keep trying...
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: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install printer
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:06:31 +0100
Tom Simms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A newbie question.
> Is there an easy way to install a printer when X windows is not installed so
What's the big deal with adding the entry to the printcap yourself?
The fomat is simplistic. Look at the Printing-HOWTO if you need it.
> Struggling with RH 7 and a Hp Pavillion N5290 laptop.
I believe that uses lprNG, which is another kettle of whales.
Peter
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From: "Marco Mangiante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: info on partition
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:19:22 +0100
Hi,
I have in C:\ the winme os, in D:\ various data, then with partition magic 6
I created E:\ partition: this partition is extended and is ext2. I can
install on it Linux or I must create a primary partition. I don't want use
lilo. After I must create the swap partition: what is the filesystem that i
must choise.
Thank
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From: "ViPER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Need help, how to check harddisk error?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:12:23 +0100
> Igot a redhat linux in my company, but the hardware seems unreliable.
> the server cannot properly work now, stop at check hardware /var
>
> Is there any check disk command or any suggestion.
/sbin/fsck.ext2
Emergency help:
-p Automatic repair (no questions)
-n Make no changes to the filesystem
-y Assume "yes" to all questions
-c Check for bad blocks
-f Force checking even if filesystem is marked clean
-v Be verbose
-b superblock Use alternative superblock
-B blocksize Force blocksize when looking for superblock
-l bad_blocks_file Add to badblocks list
-L bad_blocks_file Set badblocks list
(Please check my example parameters with their functions above)
(to be sure you want the same options when checking for errors)
/sbin/fsck.ext2 -p -y -c -f -v /dev/hda1
df -h
Will show your device's
In God we trust. All others we monitor.
http://www.dmrt.com http://viper.dmrt.com
http://dmrt.dyndns.org http://www.hackers4hackers.org
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From: Kristoffer Adcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Safe shutdown under SuSE
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:15:10 +0000
Evening all,
Under SuSE 7.0, is it possible to configure Linux so that when you press
the power button, the shutdown process is begun? I'm using an ATX power
supply and motherboard and I understand that switching on and off is
controlled by software, (the BIOS?) so I /think/ its possible.
Also, how can I configure things so that when the shutdown process is
completed, the machine switches itself off? Currently, it just stops
with "System Halted".
Cheers,
--
/------------------------www.adcock.demon.co.uk-----------------------\
| Kristoffer Adcock, Normanton, Derby, UK, Planet Earth |
| "Fighting the ceaseless battle against literacy and good taste" |
| with RISCOS, BeOS 5 Pro, MacOS 9, Linux, PalmOS and Windows |
\---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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From: "John Collins, SimCon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: linux, fortran and numerical methods
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:22:35 -0000
David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a simulation program that uses a Newton's method to solve a system
> of nonlinear equations. For some reason, the program will converge on UNIX
> and Windows98 OS, but not on Linux. I use the same compiler on all
> machines: GNU's g77.
>
> I think this may have something to do with the way the different OS's
> handle the "doulble precision" data type, but I'm only speculating.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? Anyone know how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
I don't know how to fix it, but we do have a way to find it:
FPT (http://simcon.uk.com) will instrument the code to dump out all
left-hand-side quantities to file. So, if you instrument the critical
routine(s),
run a test case on a system which works and the same code under Linux,
you should be able to see where the two data sets diverge.
There is also a tool in the distribution, RDIFF, which compares two data
sets but can ignore small absolute or relative differences between real
numbers, and ignores the format in which the numbers are written. There
shouldn't be any format differences in your case, but there may be
differences
in the values output by intrinsics or differences due to different internal
number formats.
Best wishes,
John
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: killing process using socket ??
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:09:41 +0100
Reply-To: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sometimes an application complains about the RMI socket beeing used: port
1099.
When I do a (as root)
netstat -ap | grep 1099, I get:
----
[root@ojo root]# netstat -ap | grep 1099
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
unix 1 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1099 1085/X
/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
======
How can I kill the process using this socket when I doesn't show the PID, at
least the field is empty ([ ]) ???? Strange !!
Regards,
Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: kernel panic : VFS : can not mount root fs
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:11:07 GMT
ingo korndoerfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>got findpart and ran it !
>
>this looks very cryptic to me. so , can i , from this, restore
>my partition table ? and then, i guess, i have to write the partition
>table onto my ram disk in rescue mode and tell linux somehow,
>to use this new partition table ?
>
>thanks to all for your help !!!
>
> ingo
>Findpart, version 3.95.
>Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2001.
>
>Searches for partitions type 01, 04, 06, 07, 0B, 0C, 0E, 82, 83,
>plus Fdisk F6 and Lilo sectors. Information based on bootsectors
>is marked B. If the disk is larger than supported by BIOS, the
>supported part of the disk is examined. Disks are numbered from 1.
>
>OS: DOS 7.10 WINDOWS 4.10
>
>Disk: 1 Cylinders: 776 Heads: 240 Sectors: 63 MB: 5729
>
>-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
> 0 - 0B 63 3072000 1500 0 1 1 203 42 57 B OK
> 473 1 83 63 4339377 2118 473 1 1 759 239 63 OK OK
> 473 2 05 8421840 241920 118 760 0 1 775 239 63 203 OK
> 675 1 82 63 256977 125 675 1 1 691 239 63 OK
> 675 2 05 1890000 1209600 590 696 0 1 775 239 63 571 OK
> 760 1 82 63 241857 118 760 1 1 775 239 63 OK
>
>-----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB
> 0 1 33 11423 4 180019 11423 0 0 0 1400
>
>Partitions according to partition tables on first harddisk:
>
>-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
> 0 1*0B 63 3069297 1498 0 1 1 202 239 63 NB OK
> 0 2 85 3069360 8663760 4230 203 0 1 775 239 63 OK
> No signature CHS: 203 0 1
Reply no. 2.
As mentioned the cause of the problem was that the FAT32 partition was
2 MB larger according to the boot sector than according to the
partition table. When data was written to the last 2 MB, the extended
partition table in cylinder 203, head 0, sector 1 was overwritten, and
so was the beginning of the ext2 partition at that location.
The problem was solved as follows:
First the FAT32 partition was defragged, since there were used
clusters in the overlapping area. Theoretically this could cause
further damage, but the FAT32 partition had been full, so the risk of
additional damage might have been small.
Then the boot sector of the FAT32 partition was edited to shrink the
partition to the size defined by the partition table.
The extended partition table at cylinder 203 was rewritten. This fully
recovered the /home partition in hda6.
Next e2fsck was run on hda5 using this command (-y for yes to all
questions, since manually answering would have taken quite a while):
e2fsck -y -b 32768 /dev/hda5
The result of this was many directories in /lost+found with numbers as
name, but is was possible to locate crucial configuration files.
The recovered files were saved on hda6, a new file system made on
hda5, and Linux reinstalled.
The Findext2 utility at my page has been updated to recognize ext2
partitions using sparse superblocks. A difference between Findpart and
Findext2 is that Findext2 will locate ext2 partitions even if the
first superblock is damaged.
--
Svend Olaf
http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
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From: "jerrell3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrecord problem
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:27:58 GMT
I've set up my HP 9300i CDRW like the "CD-Writing-HOWTO-2" suggests...
When I run "cdrecord -scanbus" I get this....
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) 'iomega ' 'jaz 1GB ' 'H.62' Removable Disk
0,5,0 5) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' 'D.09' Removable Disk
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 9300 ' '1.0b' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
When I run "cdrecord -checkdrive dev=1,0,0" I get this....
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'HP '
Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 9300 '
Revision : '1.0b'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Everything seems fine...
but when I try to burn anything I get this....
Example...
cdrecord -v dev=1,0,0 -data progeny-rc1-i386-2.iso
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on
/dev/zero.
I get the same message no matter what I try to burn...
Any help would be great...
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From: Zsolt Zsoldos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: killing process using socket ??
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:43:36 GMT
Ed Bras wrote:
> Sometimes an application complains about the RMI socket beeing used: port
> 1099.
> When I do a (as root)
> netstat -ap | grep 1099, I get:
> ----
> [root@ojo root]# netstat -ap | grep 1099
> (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
> will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
> unix 1 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1099 1085/X
> /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
> ------
>
> How can I kill the process using this socket when I doesn't show the PID, at
> least the field is empty ([ ]) ???? Strange !!
>
Did you try "fuser -n tcp 1099" ?
(you can also add -v option to fuser to get more details)
--
Zsolt.
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From: "jerrell3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrecord problem
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:43:44 GMT
I've setup my HP 9300i CDRW like the CD-Writing-HOWTO-2 described.
When I run "cdrecord -scanbus" I get this -
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) 'iomega ' 'jaz 1GB ' 'H.62' Removable Disk
0,5,0 5) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' 'D.09' Removable Disk
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 9300 ' '1.0b' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
When I run "cdrecord -checkdrive dev=1,0,0" I get this -
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'HP '
Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 9300 '
Revision : '1.0b'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
These both seem correct but when I try to burn anything I get this error:
Ex:# cdrecord -v dev=1,0,0 -data progeny-rc1-i386-1.iso
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on
/dev/zero.
I get this message no matter what I try...
Any help would be GREAT!!!
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From: peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Difficult Linux version/distro question ?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:45:11 GMT
Ok guys, I posted a msg. about memory, etc and Linux.
Now, I've gotten another machine with 32 megs in it, BUT instead of
having two pentium system with 32 megs, I'm going to put 48 megs in
one and 16 in the other. So, the big question is, what distro/version
should I run in each system ? I have Red Hat 6.1 and Mandrake 7.1
laying around. I'll pick up a new version, if you think the latest
version are better.
My systems break down like this:
Socket 7, Cyrix p166, 48 megs (6 eight meg simms, strange MB), S3 trio
video card, 3 gig HD, 4X cd-rom, network card, floppy
Socket 5, Intel P100, 16 megs (4 four meg simms), trident 4 meg card,
no HD yet (may use two 200 meg drives), no cd-rom (will hook one up
for the install, then disconnect it), network card, floppy.
I would like to run X-windows on the 48 megs system, and turn 16 meg,
P 100 into a proxy,firewall (no X-windows here).
So, maybe I should run mandrake 7.1 on the 48 megs system (KDE ?) and
RH 6.1 on the 16 meg system ?
What do you think ?
As far as what I'll be doing on the 48 megs system, just learning
about linux, programming, and the 16 meg machine will be a
firewall/proxy/web server
Over time, I would like to use Linux more and more, maybe it will
become my main system.
Peter
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