Re: Boot partition too big

2001-06-13 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:04:57PM -, Yoni Cohen wrote: Hi list, I have an 20G HD, there are already two partitions for windows (FAT32). I want to install RH 6.2 Server on different partition, when i try to create new 4G 'Linux native' partition under mount point /, i get an error

Re: remote graphical usage

2001-06-13 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:59:42AM +0300, Erez Doron wrote: Hi I am looking of a way to have a local display/keyboard, which is connected on a slow channel ( i.e. modem ) to unix servers. I need a way to run X applictions on the remote server, and see them as they were local. I

Re: Mustek usb scanner

2001-06-09 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
run? For some reason, I don't have a /proc/bus/usb at all. Maybe I didn't choose something at kernel config. didi On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:00:05PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09-Jun-2001 Yedidya Bar-david wrote: 2. You should have in your /etc/sane.d/dll.conf a line '1200ub

Re: Mustek usb scanner

2001-06-09 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:37:51AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: On 09-Jun-2001 Yedidya Bar-david wrote: Do you have a /dev/usbscanner ? no, but I also don't have any othe /dev/usb* and my USB printer works, so I'm not sure that's related Try mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48 (Well

Re: Samba book

2001-05-26 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:01:38PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For anyone interested in a really good online book about Samba, I'm including a link. I had some configuration problems in Samba that were not explained well enough in the documentaion. This book solved all my problems. I

Re: Serial Console Blues

2001-05-17 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:43:51AM +0300, Haim Gelfenbeyn wrote: -Original Message- From: Haim Gelfenbeyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 11:41 AM To: Linux-Il Subject: Serial Console Blues Hello, My Linux box does not have any

Re: Non-intel

2001-05-14 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi I am interested. I own an Indy. Currently, with Irix. I tried Linux (almost a year ago), and it didn't have a usable X server. I think it has now, havn't tested recently. I use it mostly as an X terminal (it has a quite good 19 monitor). (I also have 3 other machines - all Linux/x86, one

Re: AbiWord - hebrew

2001-04-29 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi I too havn't managed to make it use X fonts. It can use Type 1 fonts, though. I have put the pfa files from elmar in /usr/local/lib/AbiSuite/fonts/ISO-8859-8, with 'LANG=he_IL.ISO-8859-8', and it at least managed to open Hebrew word files (with a broken bidi, but much better than anything

Re: Looking for a (used) VLB SCSI card supported by Linux

2001-04-29 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:19:29PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I still get a (used) VLB SCSI card supported by Linux? What do you mean by 'still'? I don't know of a driver that was removed recently. There are few VLB adapters that appear in the standard 2.2.18 kernel, e.g. UltraStor

Re: AbiWord - hebrew

2001-04-29 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:35:03AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Yedidya Bar-david wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:18:31AM +0300, Oren Held wrote: [snip] Doesn't it accept Hebrew characters from X? I don't know - I hope so. I havn't tried that yet. Also, when

Re: lilo instellation problem

2001-04-29 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi use the option 'lba32' in your lilo.conf. Works like a charm. didi On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:10:59PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: Hello I tried to install lilo on a new red hat 7 instalation. I tried to istall it on a 15 meg hda2 /boot, located after a 16 gig windows partition

Re: Searching For TV Player

2001-03-26 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi BTW, I only use xawtv, which works fine for me, and I worked quite hard to get all of the channels, and only in the freqtab 'us-cable-hrc', which, unfortunately, does not allow pretty round numbers :-). Other freqtabs do not allow all of the channels. (I have a Pinaccle (formerly Miro)

Re: Algorithm for assignment of people to shifts? A suitable application?

2001-02-26 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi A few years ago I was in a project that also did something like that, on a medium scale (a few thousands of assignments a year, few months each, with 'justice rules' that should consider previous years). It's development started around 1989, and then there were very few such things. A few

Re: install tar.gz

2001-02-21 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:32:45PM +0200, Avi Boots wrote: Hi, How can i install a file (tar.gz) like kcedit-0.2.0.tar.gz ? You probably refer to a source package of some sort. If so, I recommend the (quite good) 'Software-Building-HOWTO' on your disk at /usr/doc/HOWTO (or your favourite

Re: wierd xfs problem.

2001-02-15 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi May I suggest another thing, that I personally use at home for some years, and works quite well (although not perfect): In /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, I commented out the X line, that is, xdm doesn't start X servers. I put something like this in /etc/[rc.d/]init.d/xservers: ==

Re: Unefficient disk formating

2001-01-24 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:04:47AM +0200, wrote: Connecting my new Seagate IDE 40Gb hard disk: fdisk creates a partition of 39078081 blocks mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 df -h /dev/hdb1 gives me only 37G available - ( now it is 9.5G used + 25G Avail = 34.5G ) Seems something goes

Re: Microsoft Scrolling wheel

2001-01-11 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:31:47PM +0200, Ishay Sommer wrote: hello, this maybe a dumb question.. Is there anyway to use microsoft scrolling wheel under linux? look at http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ thanks, ishay

[hmg-ml@gmx.de: SANE backend for Mustek 1200UB released by Mustek]

2001-01-03 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Sorry for being OT, but: A few weeks ago someone asked about Mustek scanners, and I warned that they do not support Linux. This announcement changes things. Note that I havn't yet tested this on my scanner, but other people reported that it (mostly) works with 1200CU (which I have), so you

Re: Mustek scanner

2000-12-17 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any experience - good or bad - with the Mustek 1200 USB Scanner in Linux? It is not supported, as Mustek doesn't release any information about it. If you looked anywhere (e.g. at linux/Documentation/usb/scanner.txt) and found it 'supported', this

Re: How to slow down noisy CDROM

2000-12-03 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Debian has a utility called setcd that can do that. didi Schlomo Schapiro wrote: Hi, thanks for the ideas, but I really was looking for a way to tell the CD to read the data slowly :-) The point is that like this I can just cd into the CD and play the music without a big

Re: mkfontdir?

2000-11-23 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi All, I have played with mkfontdir before, but I totally forgot how to use it (last time it took me 4 hours to figure out).. How can I use the mkfontdir in XFree 4.x? mkfontdir dir-name doesn't help much..

Re: Permission for users to read/write on fat32

2000-11-23 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Noam Meltzer wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello! I have some mounted FAT32 partitions. I want to give users the permission to write on them, but I don't know how, I tried some manuals, but didn't quite manage. I think the

Re: path

2000-11-23 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Maybe you use a variant of csh (tcsh)? If so, change path, not PATH, in /etc/csh.cshrc . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I wrote before, I'd forgotten to attach /etc/profile, but if you look at my second message with the attachment, you'll see that I did export the path after setting it. So

[plex86] Plex86 runs Windows95 (full VM mode) (fwd)

2000-11-16 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi I thought you might be interested ... didi Forwarded message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 16 17:58:25 2000 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:49:46 -0500 From: Kevin Lawton [EMAIL

Re: number of CPUs

2000-11-09 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Nadav Har'El wrote: [snip] Alternatively, we should have a libary (say, liblinux.so) that has functions that use the /proc interface to get this information. But I don't believe such a library exists. Actually, Debian has a package libproc, that exports a variable named

Re: linux installation on multi OS system

2000-10-24 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi If you want, you can boot linux without lilo. Copy loadlin.exe (should be on your CD somewhere), and your kernel (should be in /boot/vmlinuz or something) to your windows ME, than, when you want to boot linux, do loadlin kernel root=your root file system e.g. loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6

Re: Dual Bootinf RedHat 6.2 with WinNT

2000-10-24 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Look at the 'Linux+NT-Loader' mini-HOWTO (should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini on your PC). bye, didi Oren Seliger wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] We have been having a lot of trouble setting up a dual boot system to boot both OS's. - We have installed

Re: Serial Terminal.

2000-09-18 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Benji Selano wrote: Hi.. I need some help in finding info on 2 related subjects... How do i get linux to forget about the screen and boot into a Serial VT Terminal ? (any preferred terminal?) Actually, I have in front of me 2 PCs, connected by a NULL modem cable (see

Re: Looking for Hard Hat/Linux driver programmer.

2000-08-08 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Galia Ladiray wrote: Hi Our company is looking for someone with experience and knowledge in Linux drivers and/or Hard-Hat Linux. We developing state of the art solutions Are you sure you mean Hard-Hat Linux, and not RedHat Linux? The only HardHat Linux I know is an unofficial port of

Re: kernel 2.2.17?

2000-07-14 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Shaul Karl wrote: [snip] What is a -ac kernel? a nonofficial kernel by Alan Cox. He makes a new one every few days - look at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people. -- -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donate free food to the world's hungry: see

Re: Probelm with SCSI

2000-03-30 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Ereli wrote: Hi I installed a computer with a scsi controller on board which had RH 5.1 on it. I upgraded it to mandrake 7. after the upgrade I couldn't work with the scsi HD, only the IDE work. in the beginning, I thought it was a problem with the controller, and we changed it to a more

Re: FW 2]: ethernet card

2000-03-22 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi 1. You can try to compile it into the kernel, and not as a module. The order of probing can be important, and the kernel knows about it. 2. Does the IRQ and IO port it uses (10 and 0x300, you say) seem to be used, before you insmod it? you can see that by 'cat /proc/{interrupts,ioports}'. 3.

Re: Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links

2000-03-02 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Omer Efraim wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Boris Kreitchman wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp During the next 1-1/2 years, Bolosky, a researcher in Microsoft Research's Systems and Networking Group, and three of his

Re: Linux and High Performance Computing

2000-01-26 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi For the interested, look at the Parallel-Processing-HOWTO on your hard disk or favorite LDP mirror. It has most of the mentioned links (and I have a version from January 1998). didi mulix wrote: [Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Tonight's meeting of the Haifa

[OT] Sorry and EndOfThread (was Re: Supermount)

2000-01-19 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
to (they are installing a newer one). I will try not to post in the next few weeks, as I say too much nonsence, and also elm is broken. Still, if the story about the internal format of rpm helped anyone, I am happy. didi Ira Abramov wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 100, Yedidya Bar-david wrote: Sorry for another OT

Re: Supermount

2000-01-18 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Ira Abramov wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: one more cool feature in Mandrake 7 is supermount. a no-daemon, single-mountpoint automounter, that appears as an option in the fstab. very sinply lets you cd into a directory and use it w/o mounting, but the mountpoint

Re: Supermount

2000-01-18 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Ira Abramov wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 100, Yedidya Bar-david wrote: Do you know what version is shipped with mandrake? nope. the man page is from Dec 1999, the perl script "supermount" is copyright mandrake with no version and /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/supermount/super.c sa

Re: Remote X windows

2000-01-13 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Alex Shnitman wrote: --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Yedidya Bar-david! On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:49:43AM +0200, you wrote the following: BTW, I think there is a free (shareware?) Xserver for win32

Re: Remote X windows

2000-01-10 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, I'm looking to put a Linux box at my work for the employees to learn Linux and use it from their Windows NT machines at work, and for me - from home.. I have tried VNC - but it seems that: 1. This program is not built to run for multiple users (you need

Re: ASP :-(

1999-12-07 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Yes you can. There is a commercial program called HALYCON (I think) which supports ASP on Apache just like it was IIS. I didn't test it, however... Also, I saw (probably on freshmeat) a package called asp2php. Didn't test either. Hetz Ben-Nes Michael

Re: swap partition.

1999-12-07 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Mike wrote: Hi list. Is there a way to configure linux to use more then 128 MB swap space in one partition ? so instead of 10 partitions of 128MB i will have one of 1GB. Thanks, Mike rtfm mkswap. no, unless

Re: RZ26L SCSI Disk - Use Under Linux

1999-12-06 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Aharon Schkolnik wrote: [snip] Then, there is a second diagram - something like this: . . Enable . . Unused . . Power 1 Termination This looks like just what I need, except that I can't find a set of 6 pins anywhere. There is a set

Re: RZ26L SCSI Disk - Use Under Linux

1999-12-05 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I have a couple of RZ26L SCSI disks which I took out of some old Digital stations. I would like to use them under Linux. I was wondering if anyone has done such a thing, and if so, are there any issues like termination which need to be addressed. You

Re: A colorful text

1999-11-29 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it away to present the content of a text file (a message ) in deferent color ? ( like the way ls -la - - color do). In debian, there is colortail - tail with pattern matched coloring.

Re: Converting latex2e to hebrew

1999-11-28 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Micha Feigin wrote: How do I convert latex2e to work with hebrew (mainll the support for hebrew under babel). do I need to get elatex? You should. It is standard in tetex (which is what many distros use). Can anyone point me to a sight containing the information? ftp.cc.huji.ac.il

Re: doc documents in pdf

1999-11-23 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi dorit ben shalom wrote: Does anyone know any good doc2pdf or doc2ps or doc2htm* There are various options, non of them is *good* (as someone already said). 1. Pathetic writer can read .doc, and write html, ps, rtf, text. I tried it on a hebrew doc. Of course it didn't

Re: Help

1999-11-16 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anybody out there? I'm looking for some help "how to use the program Glade" The debian package of glade has some doc files and a small example. BTW, in case anyone wants to know: .deb files are simply ar(1) archives. You can open them with ar x

Re: lilo question

1999-10-31 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Alon Kadury wrote: hi i have a redhat 5.2 linux on my pc, along with win95 when i installed my linux i didn't install lilo on the MBR but used to option to boot from disk. now i want to put lilo on the MBR (with windows as default) [snip] Lilo comes with a script called QuickInst.

Re: Turbo pascal under dosemu

1999-10-18 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi I have 0.98 Installed, from 10/1998 (don't know what RH6 delivers), and it's docs say : Protected-mode version of the Borland Turbo Assembler. It crashes with "out of memory" at startup. I traced it at the assembly level, no result until now. Maybe a DPMI problem (97/03/04). I guess the

Re: Palm Pilot JDK for linux

1999-10-18 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Debian, in the unstable (potato) release, has lots of stuff for the palm pilot. Compilers, templates, applications. Don't think they have an emulator. Look at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz and .../binary-i386/otherosfs/prc-tools_0.5.0r-2.deb.

Off Topic: Floppy drive hardware problem

1999-10-06 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi list Sorry to post off-topic. I had a 486 with a floppy drive, which worked fine. I bought a PII board (biostar TBA), and everything works fine with it, except this drive. I connected it back (with it's cable) to the 486, and it worked. I connected to ISA Multi I/O controller from the 486

Re: Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!

1999-10-02 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
(from the headers of your mail:) (Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 05:03:30 +0200) (You should move your clock to winter time) Yoni Elhanani wrote: [snip] I will be able to know that only after i get the entire iso image and mount it. Although not very safe, you can almost always mount it way

Re: debian mirror in Israel

1999-09-15 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Omer wrote: Hello. Once there was www.il.debian.org . Now it is not here, nor Marc is on the list. My question is: what is the closest mirror to Israel, in terms of getting stable/unstable packages via apt? Haven't tried apt yet, but there is a mirror at ftp.tau.ac.il/pub/OS/Debian.

Re: kernel compilation time

1999-09-12 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Aviram Jenik wrote: I'm compiling a 2.2.5 kernel (that comes with RH6) on a DX4 with 16MB. I made dep and clean, and now running bzlilo. The last part (make bzlilo) has been running since 12:00, which makes it a total of over 7(!) hours and counting. Is this a normal speed? Is there

Re: Samba, vfat, Hebrew and Windows 98

1999-09-05 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi I really don't know if it is relevant, but did you try to compile and load the iso8859-8 kernel module? The docs sure look promissing. Nimrod Zimerman wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 07:49:42AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: I guess Hetz meant the following: valid chars = 224 225 226

Re: lilo problems

1999-09-04 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Read the (excelent!) lilo documentation (probably in /usr/doc/lilo/Mannual.txt.gz), and then try to add to you lilo.conf, something like: other=/dev/hdb1 label=dos map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 Good luck, didi

Re: installation problem

1999-08-31 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
for booting and installation they have image of installation and booting . and no i dont have scsi disk . i have 4G hard drive i split it to 2G (windows) and 2G(linux) windows is on hda1 and linux is on hda5 / hda6 (swap) Yedidya Bar-david wrote: Hi B[i]B wrote

Re: /tmp/xerrors

1999-07-09 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote: [snip] 2) Oded Arbel suggested using XF86Setup to modify the XF86Config file. (BTW, Oded: I used "find / -name "filename" -print with "-print" because the first place that I learned about that command used that switch and I figured I needed to use that

Re: Defragmentation

1999-07-07 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Yedidya Bar-david [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Hi, You can do it with the filesystem mounted read-only. In your boot prompt (lilo?) give a parameter '-b' (or better, 'boot=/bin/sh' - I don't know what Mandrake does with '-b'), humm be default

Re: LILO problem

1999-06-26 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Noam Bloom wrote: Hi, [snip] So far so good. However, a little while ago I made some changes to the order of the disks and now the (Linux) hardisk is on /dev/hdc1, and I don't get the LILO prompt. I created a boot floppy using rawrite, booted [snip] From the lilo docs (which are

Re: disk mirroring

1999-06-13 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI I'm looking into a way to make my disk server redundent I tought of making two servers, the same, and mirror their disk. [cut stuff] any ideas ? There is a project that does something like 'Symmetrical NFS', i.e. two (more?) machines have identical

Re: Searching man pages

1999-06-10 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to search the entire collection of man pages for keywords ? for example - let's say I want to find (or check if exist) a program that does a certain function, but i don't know what it's name (or even if such

Re: NT vs Linux

1999-06-10 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Oren Shomron wrote: Vadim Vygonets wrote: Quoth Yedidya Bar-david on Thu, Jun 10, 1999: I must add, that there are things that e2fsck can't fix at all - e.g. I once had a hardware problem, and fsck moved some files to /lost+found, with permissions that didn't let me delete

Re: NT vs Linux

1999-06-09 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Vadim Vygonets wrote: Quoth Vadim Smelyansky on Wed, Jun 09, 1999: On Sat, 22 May 1999, Isaac Aaron wrote: IA "Lack of a Journaling file system - IA file system may not recover after IA unplanned downtime" IA- Since I don't know of any journaling capabilities IAof the

Re: Partitioning

1999-05-30 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Isaac Aaron wrote: [snip] According to my plan the disk partitions should go 7 GB FAT32 -- 10 MB /boot -- 5 GB FAT32 -- 3 GB root-- 127MB swap [There was quite a long discussion on the size and use of partitions, so I give no comments] When I try to insert the fifth partition (no

Re: Hebrew-English Linux Word Processors

1999-04-11 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Chaim Frazer wrote: Do you know of any existing or planned Hebrew-English word processors for Linux? Not any that I currently know of. Few said they'll have in the future, including StarOffice - a M$ Office clone http://www.stardivision.com, and LyX - a WYSIWYG WP with a strong