APM problem?

1999-02-02 Thread Paul M.N Feehan
I recently decided to recompile my kernel (2.0.35, slackware 3.6 on an i3000) and enable APM, essentially following Tomasz Barszczak's tips from his i3000 page. I backup my old /vmlinuz, do a make zdisk to write the kernel to a floppy and a zImage, and then copy the new zImage to /vmlinuz, exacty

Re: Help w/ IE Fatal Errors...

1999-01-23 Thread Paul M.N Feehan
This is not exactly an answer to your question, but I'm tempted to suggest cutting to the chase, forget about debugging Win98/IE, and installing linux (most or all of the major cdrom distributions come with netscape). I still have 2Gb of my disk reserved for Win95, which I use at most a couple of

RE: Tar

1999-01-21 Thread Paul M.N Feehan
There a few of things that come to mind. The first is that not all versions of tar, gzip for Windows are created equal - you need to be careful with whatever utilities you're using to gunzip, untar (if you're in Windows). For example, long file names or names with more than one period may get

RE: Tar

1999-01-21 Thread Paul M.N Feehan
A brief followup: minicom does not need X to work (whatever the documentation may say - I just tried it out now), so you could in principle install linux and use minicom (serial access) to get a Unix login prompt from your ISP and then ftp the files you need to your linux partition. You don't

Re: Zip drive on Inspiron 7000

1999-01-13 Thread Paul M.N Feehan
I recently had problems setting up my Zip drive, but got it working after some trial and error; maybe this will get you started. My setup: Slackware 3.5 (Linux 2.0.35) on a Dell Inspiron 3000. I doubt that setting up a Zip drive on an Inspiron 7000 or any other machine, for that matter, is much

Re: Zip drive on Inspiron 7000

1999-01-13 Thread Paul M.N Feehan
Thanks very much. I haven't sent it to Kyle yet but, yes, I'll send it to him. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Tomasz Barszczak wrote: Paul M.N Feehan wrote: I recently had problems setting up my Zip drive, but got it working after some trial and error; maybe this will get you