Ken: Your suggestion of "sfdisk -s" to list the mounted volumes on my Ubuntu Linux machine works exactly as predicted when it is entered through the terminal, i.e. almost exactly:
/dev/hda: 12345678 /dev/hdb: 45678901 total: 92929292 However, doing this through the RR Shell proved to be problematic on account of the root permission required, as you correctly anticipated. The problem in Ubuntu is that there is no normal way of "logging on" with root priveleges. When the normal user calls the (root) terminal, he has to type in the root password, and it was this part that I could not successfully incorporate into the RR Shell. So I tried a workaround to eliminate the necessity of the password and ended up not being able to call the terminal at all! For this (and other) reason(s) I need to clean my computer down and re-install Linux. Good job I have a computer reserved specifically for playing around with Linux! Glenn: Thanks very much for your suggestion, but as you see above I am in the merda at the moment. When I get up and running again, I'll give your suggestion a try. Mark Waddingham (if you are reading this): In our recent discussions regarding the possibility of the early introduction of altBrowser into Linux, I believe you (or Chipp) mentioned the necessity of modifying the RR engine to affect "the way RR calls externals". Excuse my ignorance, but does this have some connection with the way the RR Shell works? Is it possible that the problems I am having with with the Shell (described above) and the transfer of the root password are part and parcel of the same thing? If you can do anything to alleviate the technical fog I am thrashing around in, I would be grateful. Thanks. Bob '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Bob Warren wrote: >Does this really mean that although a computer may have 2 or 3 physical >drives, there is no way that RR can discover this in Linux? If so, I find >that rather disappointing, don't you? ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' >Ken Ray >Sons of Thunder Software >Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Bob, I don't have Linux handy, but my web search showed you can use: > sfdisk -s >through the shell to get the list of partitions and their sizes (I think you >need to be logged in as root). It will come up with something like this: > /dev/hda: 12345678 > /dev/hdb: 45678901 > total: 92929292 >Drives aren't "named" per se, but they can be identified in this way, >AFAICT. ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' >Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired >22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher >http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ >http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher >I don't know Linux, but from my old unix days I remember that "df" was >useful. >You might give it a try. >Best, >Glenn -- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
