Re: [SLUG] P120 install - reboot oddity
...and then elliott-brennan said: > This is a bit of a project. I've an old P120, 32Mb RAM. > > I can set it to boot from CD-ROM (and I've pulled a working drive from > another machine for this, so I know it works). > > When it boots, I get the usual info about RAM and primary and secondary > drives etc. All seems well. Then it starts to boot from the CD-ROM drive > and I get: > > "FD SYSTEM TYPE-(00)" > > and then: > > "Press a key to reboot" What distribution are you using? It's not trying to boot a 686 kernel, is it? -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Bash Question - Redirection of output determined by Variable name
Hi,
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:00:49 +1000
> I tried the following
>
>
> if [ "$1" = "quiet" ]; then
> R=">> /home/steven/mfgbacker/serr 2>&1"
> else
> R=""
> fi
>
> [...snip...]
>
> DTEN=`date "+%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S"`
> echo "inside makedvd $DTEN" $R
>
> I=`mkisofs -R -J -q -print-size /back1/tarback/*.tgz`
> J="tsize=${I}s"
> mkisofs -R -J -q -o /back1/tarback/dvd.iso /back1/tarback/*.tgz $R
> cdrecord -sao $J dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 speed=2 driveropts=burnfree
> /back1/tarback/dvd.iso $R
>
> [...snip...]
>
> The $J substitution into the last command works fine but the $R bit, which
> attempts to redirect the output to a file, does not. Bash seems to
> interpret the >> bit as part of the command rather than a redirection
> instruction.
My suggestion is using exec commoand to change output.
set_output () {
if "$QUIET" ; then
exec 3>&1 4>&2 >> /home/steven/mfgbacker/serr 2>&1
fi
}
reset_output () {
if "$QUIET" ; then
exec 1>&3 2>&4 3>&- 4>&-
fi
}
if [ "$1" = "quiet" ]; then
QUIET=/bin/true
else
QUIET=/bin/false
fi
(snip)
set_output
mkisofs -R -J -q -o /back1/tarback/dvd.iso /back1/tarback/*.tgz
reset_output
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Re: [SLUG] Bash Question - Redirection of output determined by Variable name
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:00:49PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The $J substitution into the last command works fine but the $R bit, which > attempts to redirect the output to a file, does not. Bash seems to > interpret the >> bit as part of the command rather than a redirection > instruction. Read about expansion in the bash manual. What you want to do is eval the command. e.g. #!/bin/bash output=">> /tmp/output" eval ls $output -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Bash Question - Redirection of output determined by Variable name
I have a bash script sometimes called by another script and sometimes run
from the command line. I would like standard output (and error) to go to
the screen if I run the script from the keyboard and to a nominated file
if I call it from another script.
I tried the following
if [ "$1" = "quiet" ]; then
R=">> /home/steven/mfgbacker/serr 2>&1"
else
R=""
fi
[...snip...]
DTEN=`date "+%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S"`
echo "inside makedvd $DTEN" $R
I=`mkisofs -R -J -q -print-size /back1/tarback/*.tgz`
J="tsize=${I}s"
mkisofs -R -J -q -o /back1/tarback/dvd.iso /back1/tarback/*.tgz $R
cdrecord -sao $J dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 speed=2 driveropts=burnfree
/back1/tarback/dvd.iso $R
[...snip...]
The $J substitution into the last command works fine but the $R bit, which
attempts to redirect the output to a file, does not. Bash seems to
interpret the >> bit as part of the command rather than a redirection
instruction.
I am not sure if this is possible in bash or not. There are lots of other
commands in the script which also redirect so I would rather not do
something like:
if ["$1" = "quiet"]; then
mkisofs -R -J -q -o /back1/tarback/dvd.iso /back1/tarback/*.tgz >>
/home/steven/mfgbacker/serr 2>>1
else
mkisofs -R -J -q -o /back1/tarback/dvd.iso /back1/tarback/*.tgz
fi
because I would have to do it many times.
I think the problem is something to do with when bash is processing the
substitution. I have tried various combinations of different quotes
without success.
Could someone please point me in the right direction
Thank you and regards
Steven
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Re: [SLUG] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
When I create an appointment on my PDA then sync with evolution the time might be off by a few hours, it is usually also put on the wrong day. Syncing from evolution to my PDA also has the same issue but if I open and do a minor change to any field for that appointment then it fixes the time. But anyway back on topic. If you want a smart phone the XDA (aka imate) line from O2 is awesome. On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:40 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: > ...and then Jeff Grima said: > > My XDA2 (PocketPC smartphone) plays nice with Ubuntu using synce and > > multisync. > > > > I sync to evolution. > > > > Although the calendar has time syncing issues, I just disable that and > > use it for the contacts and tasks. > > Time syncing issues? Is it just a matter of timezones getting confused? > I sync PocketPC on my iPaq h1940 with evolution. Don't really use the > calender either though. > > -- > Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
...and then Jeff Grima said: > My XDA2 (PocketPC smartphone) plays nice with Ubuntu using synce and > multisync. > > I sync to evolution. > > Although the calendar has time syncing issues, I just disable that and > use it for the contacts and tasks. Time syncing issues? Is it just a matter of timezones getting confused? I sync PocketPC on my iPaq h1940 with evolution. Don't really use the calender either though. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
My XDA2 (PocketPC smartphone) plays nice with Ubuntu using synce and multisync. I sync to evolution. Although the calendar has time syncing issues, I just disable that and use it for the contacts and tasks. On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 +1000, James Gray wrote: > Hi All, > > Following Nick Tomlin's tale of woe, I was wondering if anyone has a good > Linux + PDA combination that synchronises with your favourite mail/calendar > software? What about these new whiz-bang phones with PDA functions too? > > Personally I'm looking (in a casual way) for a PDA that will sync up with > KDE's "Kontact". I've heard people report varying degrees of success with > Evolution but I'm a KDE-kinda-guy (it's sad but true). > > Any success stories from people on this list? > > James > -- > Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
> Hi All, > > Following Nick Tomlin's tale of woe, I was wondering if anyone has a good > Linux + PDA combination that synchronises with your favourite mail/calendar > software? What about these new whiz-bang phones with PDA functions too? > > Personally I'm looking (in a casual way) for a PDA that will sync up with > KDE's "Kontact". I've heard people report varying degrees of success with > Evolution but I'm a KDE-kinda-guy (it's sad but true). > > Any success stories from people on this list? > I use to have wince on my iPAC and used synce to sync mail, contacts, and other things using Evolution. I after awhile I found that I had multiple instances my appointments, contacts etc. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Alpha SRM Question
Crossfire wrote: Rajnish was once rumoured to have said: Now, turn your machine on, and give the HALT switch (the little button on the front that was once a reset switch) a good tapping whilst the machine is booting up. You should eventually get a SRM prompt. That worked !! I've got the SRM console prompt ">>>". I did notice something peculiar (there always is, isn't it) -- the jumber (J6) was wired for HALT- but pressing the reset button caused the system to reboot - everytime. So I jumpered it to RESET to get it to halt (had to push reset many times).(Initially, I thought I was reading the diagram/jumpers wrongly - but I am pretty certain now I was reading/jumpering it correctly). For the record, Control-C doesn't get the SRM console prompt - but this could be because I am connected via the serial port and win95:terminal.exe swallows it. Thanks all so far. I am sure I'll have more questions when I get to the next step. Regards, Rajnish -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
By the way, just as a side point, I use Gentoo and Bluetooth (to sync) and its been really easy... The hardest part for me was figuring out how MultiSync uses its plugins. Luke Luke Ring wrote: > Hey, > > I sync up with my K750i... > > I use MultiSync and it works great... > > This page here has some info on Kontact and Multisync / other sync > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=39478 > > Hope this is useful. > > Luke > > James Gray wrote: > >>Hi All, >> >>Following Nick Tomlin's tale of woe, I was wondering if anyone has a good >>Linux + PDA combination that synchronises with your favourite mail/calendar >>software? What about these new whiz-bang phones with PDA functions too? >> >>Personally I'm looking (in a casual way) for a PDA that will sync up with >>KDE's "Kontact". I've heard people report varying degrees of success with >>Evolution but I'm a KDE-kinda-guy (it's sad but true). >> >>Any success stories from people on this list? >> >>James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
> Following Nick Tomlin's tale of woe, I was wondering if anyone has a good > Linux + PDA combination that synchronises with your favourite > mail/calendar software? What about these new whiz-bang phones with PDA > functions too? > > Personally I'm looking (in a casual way) for a PDA that will sync up with > KDE's "Kontact". I've heard people report varying degrees of success > with Evolution but I'm a KDE-kinda-guy (it's sad but true). > > Any success stories from people on this list? this is not an anwser to what you've asked, sorry,but: I am a long time Palm handheld user, but I don't really 'sync it' as much as I just back it up to the PC, I've decided I prefer to use the handheld as the 'primary' device, as, in most cases, it's significantly simpler/quicker to pull out the Palm out of my pocket rather than walk to the PC. (as it is, I needed to set up a windoze sync, as some of the apps I use only run in windoze 'conduits') nonetheless, there are a variety of Palm synch tools like 'pilot-link', from my limited experience, they sync with several Linux desktop apps (also, fwiw, I'm just trying out the latest Palm, with 4GB hard drive. not sure if it really suits me, though.) -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
Hey, I sync up with my K750i... I use MultiSync and it works great... This page here has some info on Kontact and Multisync / other sync http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=39478 Hope this is useful. Luke James Gray wrote: > Hi All, > > Following Nick Tomlin's tale of woe, I was wondering if anyone has a good > Linux + PDA combination that synchronises with your favourite mail/calendar > software? What about these new whiz-bang phones with PDA functions too? > > Personally I'm looking (in a casual way) for a PDA that will sync up with > KDE's "Kontact". I've heard people report varying degrees of success with > Evolution but I'm a KDE-kinda-guy (it's sad but true). > > Any success stories from people on this list? > > James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
Hi All, Following Nick Tomlin's tale of woe, I was wondering if anyone has a good Linux + PDA combination that synchronises with your favourite mail/calendar software? What about these new whiz-bang phones with PDA functions too? Personally I'm looking (in a casual way) for a PDA that will sync up with KDE's "Kontact". I've heard people report varying degrees of success with Evolution but I'm a KDE-kinda-guy (it's sad but true). Any success stories from people on this list? James -- Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Podcasting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 01:26:07PM +1000, purserj wrote: > >Seems pretty simple, which is good, but considering the size of the > >book, I thought there was more in it. > > Nope that's pretty much it in a nutshell. Podcasting is a simple idea whos > time has come really. I'd say that podcasting is a simple idea to do (in a slightly different way) what another simple idea was already doing. After all, it works just as easily on a normal web page with links to MP3 files, and hey there are heaps of those around already and have been for as long as there have been MP3 files. Right click on the MP3, select "download to ..." and you have your podcast. The main "special" thing is the RSS newsfeed which has some ability to merge and filter streams (which you can't do with normal web pages). This (by the way) is also an idea which duplicates an older idea in as much as usenet news feeds already supported everything that RSS supports but usenet got ground down by spam and cross-posting so people decided that what they needed was a different technology to do the same thing. Note that RSS is not actually any better protected from spam and other such things, except that (so far) no one has mered enough RSS feeds to actually cause a problem (I give it two years). - Tel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBQvE/LMfOVl0KFTApAQJdHw//fWvQZWWTtvf9yoHeLE4SkkV43O6fBwLL DO9NBfSq2zy6lbCHW/u3ZxtGQGrfFOb4G2zolydJcorxqt+9G3p9x3WynnOO10fx oYChfoOqyunf+BMGBIu2hkGbsmhvRPj9vlMH0eNWPYRQRjEfbNtS/F3DrFnhLvus hc1MdHR/SOFjn3f/7aPaHeu3f1RSZMVSQnOW42K+0ArddlQcPbbEQ0KEIy4Yu9G6 X7fU+PULjYQAJtJp2QI2b4K5ClYW2HYncNZVM+tAOpy9Uh/PhmzWIyj8+2uH9Ox8 kjlxOsdLeB5V4qMRxfv+/0poMNKi9DHmD05+oxwAZhGwhuFgQpq4pt90ZiFH2ix0 XBYfztWiqh2rtFXYdDCTswTedkLFaNg3yjzfChpXXmYlsrasnjuzvlysr2+xIAhC c+80FK1D7Hd5U5RtKw1rvqhlBxOjLJTkdBHl3HRj5l++NN5NfVu1v6EoXKKJA3rF 74WuVNv9NLP8JT/hkMWyy8LLqCXNRA1YgIpKCC+lgtVFLcWMV2ecdM3/wePN+I7i 6cwa51kqpw72J+2cQl5Qild9BUN9iaz+tgKrohdHQS3XgAfMGDfqL1JSa1mhg8xc mb3GZMJPkWngcA6NwoROIaO+MVfwdI04NdJao8WBANZ0ybU26bfw4TjBKIXi5dvg VuqDbPY5nic= =W40r -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Alpha SRM Question
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:35:07PM +1000, Crossfire wrote:
> Rajnish was once rumoured to have said:
> > All,
> >
> > I've come in possession of an Alphastation 500/400 which has
> > OpenVMS. I would like to install Debian on it
> > however after hours of googling, I've discovered that I need to
> > know much more about this beast (read: *fun*) than I know about my
> > AMD-PC.
> >
> > So this beast (out of respect, I won't call it a 'box') doesn't
> > have a monitor nor a graphic card. Thus, I use the serial port hooked
> > to an old hp-laptop.
> >
> > I can see the bootup process starting, followed immediatly by
> > OpenVMS and then the login: prompt. No telltale sign of an
> > SRM console (">>>").
> >
> > My question(s) are:
> > how to I get to the SRM console ? Is there a special key I have to
> > press ? (I am connected via serial port using Terminal.exe on win95!!)
>
> Pull the cover off whilst the AS500 is turned off. There should be a
> little chart showing the jumpers on the board. rejumper the reset
> switch (on the front) to be a HALT switch instead of a RESET switch by
> following the diagram[1].
>
> Now, turn your machine on, and give the HALT switch (the little button
> on the front that was once a reset switch) a good tapping whilst the
> machine is booting up. You should eventually get a SRM prompt.
>
> Once that is all done, you can try to install Debian and join in with
> those of us screaming because the stupid netboot installer doesn't
> work on the AS500. (But, for some perverse reason, does on miata).
> If you find yourself in this situation, use the woody netboot
> installer instead.
not sure if this is the case with teh as500, but on a es45 you can try
the magic key sequence to get to the rmu ^[^[rmu and then type halt in,
also I have found pressing ctrl-c during boot up breaks the srm from
doing the auto boot.
once in srm type
set_env auto_action halt
so that it doesn't auto restart the os on reboot and then bob's your
uncle!
>
> C.
>
> [1] Following said diagram is beyond scope of this post
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[SLUG] P120 install - reboot oddity
Hi all, This is a bit of a project. I've an old P120, 32Mb RAM. I can set it to boot from CD-ROM (and I've pulled a working drive from another machine for this, so I know it works). When it boots, I get the usual info about RAM and primary and secondary drives etc. All seems well. Then it starts to boot from the CD-ROM drive and I get: "FD SYSTEM TYPE-(00)" and then: "Press a key to reboot" and this just cycles over and over. I know the drive works and I know the disks are okay (I've tried using other disks I have that I know are fine) but nothing seems to work. Anyone with any ideas, directions, referrals? This is by no means urgent, just a small project I'm curious about. Thanks. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] iPAQ 6365 - Do not buy warning
Sluggers, I'm on my second unit, the first one failed on day #2 of use because the backlight would not light up when you activated the unit, unless you pulled the battery out and cold booted the unit from scratch, too bad if you wanted to keep what was in the memory... The second unit, after a day of use has fallen over, it won't make it past the pin number entry screen, despite the right number being input. The 6365 runs 'wince' as I have now christened it, because you surely must wince every time you use it. It shall be returned to Hardly Normals tomorrow, post haste, and I recommend that no one buy one as they are quite frankly, shit. Cheers, Nick Tomlin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
