So if you get a new chip then it shouldn't have any problems?
Yes, but talking quite frankly with the techs there, they said the
fastest they are turning them back around is 7-9 weeks. 2 months
without a CPU??
a couple of things:
a) the buggy chips are no longer avaialable.
b) it
After a few attempts, smail finally runs, but fails to start on boot as it is
supposedly configured to do.
/etc/init.d/smail does exist. Is there something else I need to look at?
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I believe that by default, smail is run out of inetd (/etc/inetd.conf).
Telnet to port 25 of your box and see if it responds.
It responds, but I've manually started smail. The problem is that the init.d
file doesn't seem to be run automatically.
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In this strange new world after the reinstall, another problem is that root is
not asked for a password when attempting to log in at the consoles. However,
su and login at the xconsole do require the password, and root is still unable
to login from telnet.
How do I fix this? i can't even
Every couple of days, i seem to get tcsh's that become runaway processes when
killed. I recall discussion a couple of weeks ago; was this resolved?
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I upgraded to the new smail, and got the message unexpected end of attribute
in /etc/smail/config when sending messages. This completely eliminated the
ability to send or receive messages. I downgraded to the stable version,
force-reconfigured, and have things running again.
Has anyone else
Does it exist a debianized Netscape? If not, how am I supposed to install
it? under /usr/local/bin ?
you're supposed to put the netscape .tgz in /tmp, and use the debian netscape
package to install it.
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grr. After two years, i finally had a real crash. By this point, I was
suspicious enough to wipe the disk--there had been plenty of heat freezes
before I got the coooling in. Even got a kernel panic.
Anyway, about 60% of the way through formatting the / partition, the drive
ground for a
another idea, if you can borrow a disk of some type, would be a dos-bootable
partiton on that disk, with loadlin, images, etc. on there.
Or, if it helps, I've made a minimal (for X) install on a zip trive. I could
tgz that for you to download, save that it still needs a boot floppy.
But one
After the last round of questions posts on the topic, I've found that I can
stably export xauthority by
xauth list $DISPLAY
and pasting from MIT on to
xauth add $DISPLAY pastehere
is there a way to pass this information automatically? particularly, it
doesn't pass to su, and I'd also like
I have another Linux system with libc5 (5.4.38-0.1) were I can not
run the Staroffice setup program, whem I try...
This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but I solved this by using
star office 4 rather than 3 . . .
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ok, ssh sounds like the way to go.
However, where do i find it? it doesn't seem to be in either the stable or
unstabel treees. The only reference I can find in available is that rsync
depends upon it.
Also, the machines at the other ends are running kerberos, which I haven't
found yet.
suddently, xforms and xforms-dev are no longer available. Does anyone know
where they went?
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The more I look at this, the odder it gets.
In some applications, notably lyx and (sometimes) netscape, at 1024x768 I get
lightly displaced horizontal lines. a coulpe of lines will indent a couple of
pixels to the right, for a little bump on the edge and waver across the screen.
At first i
Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a
rm -r /usr by mistake. He did stop it after a while,
though, so that he can at least still do a little bit
on his system.
Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back
to a stable system again. I suggested letting dselect
unless something has changed, the only version of netscape which can be
installed by the debian packages is 3.01.
To make matters worse, if you use the netscape installer, it places its files
earlier in the search path than the .deb does.
I believe that du / | grep netscape will find the
Besides installing the netscape binaries in the right places and
registering it to the package management system, the debian package also
provides a wrapper for netscape to ensure that it doesn't crash because of
version conflicts with your system libraries.
and where is netscape
tim wrote,
On 15 Jan, Richard E Hawkins Esq wrote:
unless something has changed, the only version of netscape which can be
installed by the debian packages is 3.01.
Nope. Communicator 4.03 installs fine using the netscape deb in hamm. I
got a similiar message when I first tried using
remco remarked,
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
err, I wasn't clear. The only netscape 3 that can be installed is 3.01.
Installed by which package? There is a netscape package in stablecontrib
and there are netscape3 and netscape4 packages in unstable/contrib . Have
you
I'm having problems with a printserver that we thought we'd solved.
Yesterday, I could get as far as being rejected by the server. Today, I'm
getting
connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection refused
job 'cfA080eyry.econ.iastate.edu' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed
I have PRINTER
I'm trying to get my output to a network print server. I have lprng
installed, but I get the infamous malformed from address message:
eyryttyp0:hawklpr .cshrc
rint-1.iastate.edu: -LPdaemon: Malformed from address
job 'cfA785eyry' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1
attempts
I'm trying to build lprng, but during the documentation, I get:
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/lprng-3.4.1/HOWTO'
sgml2html LPRng-HOWTO.sgml
DynaLoader object version 1.03 does not match $DynaLoader::VERSION 1.00 at
/usr/lib/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 58.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
Found it. Try this for a pseudo-multi-user installation:
http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml
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Jens wrote,
Mark, making this sort of remark is probably unethical (if you have only
hearsay rather than person experience on which to base your accusations) and
just plain uncool. Did you order a cdrom and never receive it? I did. And as
soon as I sent him an email about it he sent me out
I am trying to install X windows X11R6.3 on a PC running debian 1.3.
Could you
tell me the correct configuration for installing it. Each operating
system has its own configuration file, but the Linux one is based on
Slackware?
The easiest way is to also install the vga16 package, and run
I don't remember the original question, but . . . [for that matter, I don't
remember which one was buzz. That was 1.1, wasn't it?]
Anyway, with the paticular hardware we were using, the default kernel for 1.1
would hang on alternate boots. The solution was to hit reset (not power)
after
Is there any way we can view vxtreme video? Is the solaris plug in somehow
compatible?
cnn has a bunch of things i want to peek at, but most seem to be in this
format :(
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I have been looking for Debian Linux on their ftp site for a few days.
What is the exact path I need to follow to download the complete Debian
try /debian/dists/stable
also, poke around with a browser rather than ftp (just type
ftp://ftp.debian.org into the browser). This way, you get the
Actually all of that list is possible, with the possible exception
of M$Word...
Okay, I havent used it.. but what about Lyx?? Ive heard good things about
it.. Comments?
I use lyx regularly. It's not like Word. But for technical writing, it's
better. IT generates latex, and is far
I'll go even further off topic :)
I had twins a week ago. Yep, I laid there on the table under the knife while
my wife watched :)
Anyway, though 5 weeks early, Kaitlyn Genevieve and Kathryn Lily are both
healthy (Kathryn had to go to a hospital 40 miles away for a few days though
:( )
And
If wget gets a refused connection, it seems to quit, even with the -c
option. Does anyone know a way around this?
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It was with interest that I read Richard E. Hawkins Esq.'s comments about
Lynx and StarOffice.
I have tried Lyx a few times since I began using Linux about 2 years ago
and every time gave up on it because I could not find documentation gave
answers to a lot of questions on how to use it.
I
Type the LaTeX sequence in TeX mode (toggle the TeX button on the toolbar).
You can also select a sequence and click on TeX to put it into TeX mode.
TeX sequences show in red on the screen.
oops, i should have mentioned this. You can insert *any* latex into lyx. I
don't think that there are
hello everyone, I have installed debian on 486, 586. was wondering if
you can install debian or any linux for that matter on a mac ii si?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Isn't the IIsi one of the ones with no coprocessor?
I used macbsd (www.macbsd.com) on a IIci for a few months
During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for
a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced...
and root is mounted read-only.
Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as it contains an
unattached inode. My question: what is the password?
If wget gets a refused connection, it seems to quit, even with the
-c option. Does anyone know a way around this?
Please read the manual page:
-t num --tries=num
Set number of retries to num. Specify 0 for infi
nite retrying.
I hope this is
I managed to get my hands on a used AT keyboard at the schools surblus sale
(for the grand price of $1!)
My fingers are now happy :) nice tactile, the control key's where God meant
it to be, and I can reach the Fkeys without leaving the keyboard (though I
suppose an alt on the right hand
torsten wrote,
http://www.on-line.de/~michael.hoennig/AutoMultiUserSetupForSO40Linux.tar
might be of interest too (see the message of Paul Seelig some days
ago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more details).
it doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. I used custom install as root to put
it in
What browsers have had good success under Linux?
Netscape Navigator and Comunicator are the most used ones
also for text-only mode lynx is very good, wich also doesn't requiere the
amount of memory wich netscape wants...
If it would take the mouse to select links, I would strongly prefer
you wouldn'tr want to share /etc tho...because then that shares
everything...which isn't always good
(wouldn't want them all to have the same IP adress)
tho you could mount a shared version of etc and have the shared configs
be sym links to the shared mounted version
but..
something along the
ok, i'm bravely going to try ppp again. I got it working with help under bo.
I have to initiate the session without a prompt from the machine, so i believe
that my script simply waited for CONNECT, and terminated.
But I've tried upgrading to the newer version, hoping to use pppd. However,
I am trying to use the university newserver. It retrieves file, newsgroups,
newgroups, and anythign else just fine. However, it cannot post.
Any attempt to post returns a message that
inews: No valid newsgroups in [filelist]
going through the inews and relaynews manpages, i find that
I wish to buy a cheap sound card, just to be able to put some sound in
my system, but all that I tried failed...
Can someone point me a cheap one that (certainly) works under Linux?
I spent $9.95 on one when I ordered something else. Not a package deal, I
just wasn't willing to
ok, htis one is wierd. As of late last week, searching in netscape (3.01)
yields nothing when going forwards, even if wrapped. Searching backwards
works fine.
has anyone seen this? and is there a solution?
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When netscape 3 crashed a couple of times, i figured I'd try 4. Which turned
out to lack the two things that I've disliked in other browsers: turning
autoloading of images on/off is a preference rather than a menu item, and the
alt-number to go back a page or two is gone. Not to mentions
somewhere, i filed away the previous responses.
my problem is that in upgrading to hamm, my ppp scripts didn't follow.
My isp uses pap, and I need to avoid responding to login:, but instead must
initiate on my own.
So I now have an /etc/chatscripts/provider script that, after dialing, simply
I used to be able to print from the appropriate account to this print spooler.
but now I get the message,
lpq: he183-lj5m: cannot chdir to spooling directory
and a cannot create /usr/spool/.seq error when trying to print. I've created
/usr/spool, as 777, and it prints. But as near as I can
check your /etc/printcap file.
ahah, you're right. I took it from one of the workstations. But this begs
the question as to why it worked for weeks before this . . .
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should work, if I understand your question. (What's a deltree??)
It's important for mathematical work. Each year in italy, the deltas are
harvested from the deltrees. While there is an extra supply in the winter,
coming from the australian nablabushes, these are generally considered to be
torsten wrote
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
check your /etc/printcap file.
ahah, you're right. I took it from one of the workstations. But
this begs the question as to why it worked for weeks before this
. . .
Because the symlink /usr/spool pointing to /var
Is it possible to specify the user that lpr designates when sending to a
network printer? For example, to always specify rhawkins rather than the
actual user? I can't find any options for this, and it seems for the moment
to be the only way to generally enable printing (the accounts on my
I've had to install the bo smail, and leave it htere the last few months.
About the time the spam provisions went in, the new smails don't seem to talk
to the outside world; everything bounces both ways. I last tried a hamm
version last week. However,every time i reinstall bo's, it all works
I'm running a lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.deb from hamm tree and this one is libc6
dependant:
Which means the hamm tree is the right place for it...
yes, but mark it with an = in deselect to hold it, so it doesn't get replaced
with the bo version mentioned, which requires obsolete xforms packages
Jens Ritter wrote,
Generally, and recognise that this is not legal advise, and that I'm
probably
not licensed in your jurisdiction anywaay, explaining what the law *is*
isn't
legal advise, and wouldn't (usually) be actionable if incorrect. Explain
how
to do a specific
Nils wrote,
try
tar -zcv -f hawktar980603 . -X 'News*' -X 'www*' -X 'Office40*'
(the quoting is to keep the shell from globbing '*')
ack, I think I see. News isn't treated the same wauy as it would if listed as
a regular file, so only News/ is omitted, but News/abc and the like don't
greg bonser wrote,
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
oops, here's the message. And it's always the same LBA Sector
Back the hard drive up NOW. Are you running 2.0.33? I got errors just
like this with 2.0.33 and UltraDMA disks. Reverting to 2.0.32 fixed it
for me
also, after reinstall I get:
eyryttyp1:hawknethack
Warning: cannot write scoreboard file /usr/lib/games/nethack//var/lib/games/net
hack/record
how/where do I tell it that it's just /var;/obgames/nethack/record?
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matthew wrote,
$ talk zorzella
[Your party is refusing messages]
[Press any key to continue]
Even if mesg is y and talkd is up:
If they are using an xsession (as opposed to just plain telnet or ssh),
then you need to look in the X config files - It's currently set up so
that you can't talk
Something keeps splatting my poor daemons.
lpd tends to die within a day or so, and pland dies within minutes, announcing
(incorrectly) an application logout.
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Hi, Brandon!
My pland dies almost instantly, do you know about solution for that similar
to lpr?
But that seems to be different in nature. It terminates because it incorrectly
things that the application calling it is done.
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And I can buy PCs without Windows. I never *HAVE* bought a PC with
windows. Consider that a pop quiz for ya.
Well, there's a few people that would like your hookups then, because a
*lot* of people complain that they can't get a built box without an OS.
From the major vendors?
Hmm, i installed it a month or so ago, and I could get it working. I
installed today, after reinstalling the system a couple of weeks ago, and I
can't get it working.
eyryttyp2:hawkapple2
svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
and
eyryttyp2:hawkapple2 -vga
Warning: Forcing to standard VGA
I've been trying to add a freebsd to a spare partition, but I'm running into a
bit of oddness.
I have an 8.4gb maxtor. I have an initial partition of something like 100Mb
for /boot, so that it could be boot from. After this partition, I am
attempting to put a freebsd. Which is where it
reading through a newsgroup, someone pointed out what should have been
obvious: bulk emailings almost never have a to: or cc: in the header, and
that mail could be filtered to a junk box in this manner.
But looking through the exmh documentation about .maildelivery, this doesn't
seem to be
hamish wrote,
Can I change my disk geometry now? Or will this kill everything? Or is
there
another way to boot FreeBSD? as near as I can tell, even with the floppy,
it
wants it's root partition in the first 1023, even when using the boot
diskette; and in spite of my alleged
hmm. I don't seem to be getting this. From what I've read, All I need for an
SMP kernel is to change two lines to /usr/doc/linux/Makefile, so that it reads
# NOTE! SMP is experimental. See the file Documentation/SMP.txt
#
SMP = 2
#
# SMP profiling options
and then do the normal make, lilo,
steve wrote,
From what I've experienced, this should be
SMP=1
Ahah. recompiling. So this is a 1 means use it, but defaults to 0/don't,
rather than the number of processors?
thanks
rick
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Steve wrote,
That's it.G
hmm, still doesn't seem to do it. My Makefile now reads,
ARCH = i386
#
# For SMP kernels, set this. We don't want to have this in the config file
# because it makes re-config very ugly and too many fundamental files depend
# on CONFIG_SMP
#
# NOTE! SMP is
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Clue required, please. I've never had XF86 give me an error like this one.
I just completed transferring my existing hardware to a new case/motherboard.
If it matters, I went from a P90 to a dual P133. I moved over the disks,
Tom wrote,
I downloaded and installed Star Office 4.0. I haven't had much opportunity
to
study it, but I did find out that it will not load PowerPoint (*.ppt) files.
It will handle a single version of powerpoint, and nothing before. Version 7,
I think. HOwever, it lost all the
I'm not sure exactly when this started, but it seems to have been shortly
after the freeze.
When I telnet to another machine with an xterm (e.g., xterm -e telnet abc.def
), it informs the remote machine that terminal type is xterm-debian rather
than xterm. Other machines do not recognize
Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized?
I really don't need anything more complicated than venn diagram type stuff.
MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is
overkill (and annoying on an 8 bit display due to colormap demands),
nikolai suggests,
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized?
have you tried xpaint? I did some pixmap, bitmap, gif and jpeg
manipulation a couple of years ago and found it easy to use.
I've tried
dale wrote
[i wrote]
MacDraw 1.0 would more than meet my needs. I've looked at gimp, which is
overkill (and annoying on an 8 bit display due to colormap demands), and
tgif,
which seems to want to rotate my text and do other fancy stuff, as well as
being a bit awkward in the
I need to be able to run Xsessions rom remote xterminals while I'm away.
Reading the xdm docs and the Xaccess files, it looks like simply adding
name.of.remote.display
to /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess should allow this, but it doesn't seem to;
X :1 -query remote.system
sprouts a background
I found a nice deal on an old thinkpad 755C while on vacation. 486/50,
20M/340M, active matrix, and a 14.4 modem tossed in.
It came with the gates virus, which I'm currently removing. ANd of course,
the only people with the keys to the room with the pcmia network cards are not
here, so Im
I would have sworn that I'd sent this earlier, but it hasn't shown up in my
digests . . .
I picked up a thinkpad 755c, 486/50, 30/340 to use at home in the evenings. I
need to accomplish a pair of ways to connect to the machine on my desk.
a) by serial port to the machine on my desk by ppp.
I have some questions
concerning my new alternative OS:
alternative? :)
1) Where would be a good site for information regarding Linux, perhaps a
site maintained by the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds.
www.linux.org, www.debian.org, www.slashdot.com, www.redhat.com .. .
2) Where would
I don't think I've seen this one before . . .
I have /boot mounted on the first partition, a single cylinder. /vmlinux is a
symbolic link to /boot/vmlinux-2.0.33. Rather than following the link, make
zImage zlilo is placing a vmlinuz in /, undoing the old link, and crossing
the 1023
augh. I think my zip died. It gets found, but when I put a disk in, after
the series of fast blinks of the orange light, it begings a slow blink (about
1.5s cycle), which never stops. this happens whether plugged in or not.
however, it doesn't click, and i've tried this on a handful of
Also, if there are any vim users reading this what does ^x ^s do? I
sometimes accidentally type this when I mean to save a file (bad habit
from using ae), and this seems to lock up vim pretty hard.
^S generally is a command to stopp sending . . . try ^Q if this freezes
things.
rick
upon returning from vacation yesterday, I let the system upgrade itself to
stable (from frozen).
X immediately began causing problems. Without the usual request for
permission to stop X, the sreen went into the repeated-blink mode.
I've had to stop the auto-start of xdm. After a couple of
Jens wrote,
Did you check /var/log/xdm-errors? Sounds like what happens when my
mouse isn't detected.
I just looked, and haven't found a mouse problem. after a normal startup, it
ran for a couple of hours, then suddenly stopped working and spewed the
following:
Fatal server error:
Hung
I almost have this laptop connected by ppp to the debian machine on my
desk, but not quite.
From /var/log/ppp.log:
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: Iowa State University Telecommun
ications ENET server 9^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]: ^M
Aug 11 15:26:30 hawkins chat[776]:
jens wrote,
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
huh? This is an 8 bit clean connection. so how to i test it myself to
have something to show the telecommunications folks? Or could my modem
be sending 7 bits? It's a compaq pcmia modem in an ibm thinkpad.
any help would be appreciated
I thought I saw an option for this in fdisk along the way, but now i can't
find it. Now that I've moved about 40 floppies over by hand (no network
card), I've found that if I set up a hibernation file in dos, the hardware
will automatically use it. So I'd like to peel back the end of my
/
jens wrote,
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
oh :) I thought that the script started it at the other end :)
Not unless you made it!
ok, slowly it's sinking in . . .
OK, for the really dumb question: how do I start ppp on the other end on a
debian box? it seems to be with pppd
4. Everything went fine untill installing the base system (I skipped
network config. as I will be using ppp)
did you remember to tell your ftp client binary? this will happen
if you do an ASCII download, which some clients default to.
I get an error that I cannot read because dinstall is
jens wrote,
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
OK, for the really dumb question: how do I start ppp on the other end
on
a
debian box? it seems to be with pppd to start the daemon, but I'm
having
trouble figuring out the man doc pages.
Actually I recommend using
I almost seem to be there now--judging from the log file, I have the remote
machine attemtpting to start. But they're still not talking. Here's the end
of the file:
Aug 14 14:38:16 hawkins chat[338]: Last login: Fri Aug 14 15:21:00 on ttyp0
from xts3c9.tele.iastate.edu.^M
Aug 14 14:38:16
norbert asks,
Is there an easy way to setup my linux box at work to print through an NT
printer server? Can samba do that, or is samba just a server?
I solved this by bypassing the server entirely (though it's a DU, not NT,
server). If the printer has an IP adress, simply set up your own
I'm getting stumped here. My battery is not charging on this thinkpad (755c)
since I've put linux on it. I assumed that i needed an apm kernel, which i did
this eveneing, but still no. Do I need to boot into windows just to tell the
battery to turn on? or use wine to run some of the
matthew wrote,
Indeed - WordPerfect is a recent release for Linux, and IIRC both it and
Startoffice support MSWord (though which versions I'm not sure - see their
websites for details).
use a lot of quotation marks areound supports when speaking about
staroffice. Some documents convert fine,
Stephen wrote,
At work we have a setup like this...it requires that you log in
to even use the computer.
If you hit cancel (or esc) it denies acess...but...
hit alt-esc and presto
the login screen is still there but the task manager comes up...
then you merrily goto file-run
and run
does anyone know of a mailing list or whathaveyou for linux laptops?
there's some (probably) easy answers I need from folks who have already solved
them, but i don't know where to look.
(such as, how to get a thinkpad to charge)
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Paulo wrote,
Last night I tried to get xdm working. As far as I understood all I should do
was edit /etc/X11/config line from no-start-xdm to start-xdm. I did that,
booted and then I got xdm up. After that I logged as a user, logout, and then
logged as root (to install something). After
I went and largely read the instructions. largely meaning that my spanish
is very rusty, and this was in portugese :)
ANyway, I got the gist of it, but it leaves a couple of concerns:
1) if i'm reading it right, it can't access the cd. This would be bad; all I
wnat it for is to run the
I went and largely read the instructions. largely meaning that my spanish
is very rusty, and this was in portugese :)
Would it be possible for you to put together English translation or
summary of that document? My Portugese and Spanish is at 0. [ I would
not mind the CD not working as I
hmm, the home machine seems to be hosed, but good.
hda was divided as
hda1 tiny opendos partition to launch windows from d (hdb)
hda2 linux
hda3 linux swap
Lilo happily defaulted to whichever was most recently booted. hda2 was the
bootable partition in the table.
I got the bright idea to
Asher Haig wrote,
Dosemu actually looks for mounted dos parititions that have the files on
them that make it bootable, I believe, rather than the bootable partition
flag.
I want to say that I tried mounting and that it didn't work, but I'm not sure.
Either way, it's done :(
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