Re: floppy

1998-05-26 Thread David Spencer
Bill Lewis wrote: Help, I can't access my floppy . when Linux boots up I see a line that says device fd0 is 1.44. However I can't access the floppy to format, copy to or from or read. I get this Have you tried using the mtools: mdir mcopy etc? If you want to format the floppy to DOS

Re: c++ and writing to files

1998-05-13 Thread David Spencer
Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: I want to write to a file in a home directory..but i want each user to write the file to his/her dir have you tried using ~? (= user's home directory; e.g. my login file can be referenced with ~/.login.) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: CD-rom mysteriously stops working?

1998-05-13 Thread David Spencer
Michael Jinks wrote: This is a shot in the dark, but I figure it's worth a try -- over the weekend, my RH5 system stopped recognizing its cd-rom: [root@fred /root]# mount /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device I've checked my physical connections, they're fine. The

Re: swapping running kernels [was Re: winass 95]

1998-05-13 Thread David Spencer
Scott McDermott wrote: I'm wondering if this might be possible with a sort of modular kernel such as Mach, ie, recompiling and then switching your running kernel on the fly by swapping the modules one at a time or something similar, with message-passing and such, as is already incorporated

Re: halt and ATX motherboard (question on shutdown messages)

1998-05-12 Thread David Spencer
A small but pedantic note on a similar topic; when I execute a shutdown the last two messages are "The system is halted" and "System halted", in that order. Was the first one a lie? If not, who printed the second one? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: hello

1998-05-12 Thread David Spencer
Afanassy Thompson wrote: back No, I think the idea is that you find a button marked "Back" and press it, not actually type "back". Do you have similar problems when the computer asks you to press the "Any" key? :-) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: help with RH5 and Metro-X

1998-05-12 Thread David Spencer
Frank Maloney wrote: I have just stopped being a virtual Linux fan and actually installed RH 5 on my home machine (a second one to follow). For some reason I chose to install Metro-X (included in CD). ConfigX seems to work but when i startx it craps out with the following Xerror file:

Re: Compiling with/without optimization

1998-05-11 Thread David Spencer
Linus Ã…kerlund wrote: Yes, the code was buggy of course, it's a small wonder that the non-optimized binary didn't coredump as well, because I was writing beyond the end of a string... Thanks for the explanation anyway! I've never programmed any assembler, so I really have no idea what

Re: Ooooh yes, the rush of power

1998-05-08 Thread David Spencer
Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD wrote: One thing, though, I see now that Win95 is on, it seems to have disabled my dual boot mode... ie., I don't get that nice linux prompt...but I guess there needs to be some challenge left So here we go... Yep, Losedows 95 craps all over your MBR whenever

Re: logging of telnet connect sessions

1998-05-08 Thread David Spencer
Salil Khamkar wrote: Hi , Back during the times of my slackware days there use to be a file in the /var/log directory where i could check if any one has telnetted into my machine . I use to get an entry like in.telnetd connect from 200.100.50.1 I now use RedHat 5 , so now how do

Re: Updates!!!

1998-05-08 Thread David Spencer
Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) wrote: I can't do it All I wan't to do is too keep my distiribution upto date with all the latest patches to make sure that it runs as smoothly as possible.. but its simply not possible! A new patch arrives every 2 days! I'm on a dial up Um, if you don't

Re: IOMega ZipDrive 100

1998-05-06 Thread David Spencer
Vidiot wrote: 2. Buy a parallel port card (something about $20 IIRC) and hook the printer and the ZIP separately. The end of all conflicts. Oleg This is a very good point and suggestion. It is exactly what I have done in mine. I totally forgot about that