[techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram
hi peoples, because my root partition is located off the 1024th cylinder on my 15gb quantum fireball, i have to go through the windows 98 se startup menu scheme to select and click to fire loadlin in order to jump into linux. how to make all 96mb ram available to the kernel instead of the 64mb? regards, bilal Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Booleans in other (human) language?
Hi, I have a quick question. When a Spanis-speaking person, for example, goes to use a search engine type function on the web, that is made in their language, is it customary for them to use AND OR NOT or those words in their own language (y, o, no in this case) When I looked at the Spanish Yahoo! it seemed to me that they use standard English Booleans. If I made a site search that let them use y, o, no would they just use AND, OR, NOT anyway since theyre used to that? Thanks! Lori ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Bilal Muddassir wrote: > because my root partition is located off the 1024th cylinder on my 15gb > quantum fireball, i have to go through the windows 98 se startup menu scheme > to select and click to fire loadlin in order to jump into linux. > > how to make all 96mb ram available to the kernel instead of the 64mb? just add a line mem=96m to your linux.par file. -- Anne ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram
> just add a line > > mem=96m > > to your linux.par file. > Out of curiosity, where is the linux.par file? I don't have that anywhere on my system. =) Beverly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Out of curiosity, where is the linux.par file? I don't have that anywhere > on my system. =) So do I 'cause I don't have loadlin installed. ;-) It's a file containing some boot parameters for the linux kernel (therefore the suffix "par"). -- Anne ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Booleans in other (human) language?
> If I made a site search that let them use y, o, no would they just use AND, OR, NOT anyway since theyre used to that? I don't have any experience with this in particular, but i have made multilingual websites before. My inclination would be to allow both the English words *and* their Spanish counterparts to be used in a query. ~Christian » Christian MacAuley » [EMAIL PROTECTED] » http://jellspace.net ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram
> > Out of curiosity, where is the linux.par file? I don't have that >anywhere > > on my system. =) > >So do I 'cause I don't have loadlin installed. ;-) It's a file containing >some boot parameters for the linux kernel (therefore the suffix "par"). umm so it is as easy as making a linux.par file in the C:\LINUX directory where my LOADLIN.EXE and BZIMAGE kernel image is stored? I guess not. Umm let me reshuffle the doc pages of loadlin. :)) take care PS: By the way, the Slackware 7.0 default everything-install resulted in a very very slow PPP link. What might be the problem? Or else how should I proceed in order to make it faster. Like on my external 56k USR I only get 400b/s on average. Recompiling a customized kernel did not solve the problem. Grr Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] TBU software
*nervous about breaking the silence on the list* :P Lucky me just got hooked up with a sweet DLT 4000!!! woo woo, go me :) Anyway, I was looking for some recommendations on what tbu software I should use for it. I've only got three systems on my little network (got a cool switch too, too bad I don't generate enough traffic on my own to notice any difference from the hub I had before). Anyway, it's not like I really need anything superpowerful, I just want to play. What software do you all use? Thanks, Sally ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Bilal Muddassir wrote: > >So do I 'cause I don't have loadlin installed. ;-) It's a file containing > >some boot parameters for the linux kernel (therefore the suffix "par"). > > umm so it is as easy as making a linux.par file in the C:\LINUX directory > where my LOADLIN.EXE and BZIMAGE kernel image is stored? surely. Well, I don't know whether usage of the linux.par file is a SuSE-specific thing, but I don't think so. In this file you save the information about where your kernel resides, about the device file which represents your root partition and additional settings. There are several HOWTOs about dual-booting Windows and Linux, Linux boot parameters and usage of loadlin. > PS: By the way, the Slackware 7.0 default everything-install resulted in a > very very slow PPP link. What might be the problem? Or else how should I > proceed in order to make it faster. Like on my external 56k USR I only get > 400b/s on average. Recompiling a customized kernel did not solve the > problem. Grr Hm, I don't have any Slackware experience -- maybe someone else may answer this question? -- Anne ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Perl question
I can't get my program to print anything to a file. It was complaining about line earlier. Is this correct? if ($string1 =~ /\*\s*\$string2|\$string2/) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Perl question
I think the slashes should be in the form "s/exp1/exp2/" - Original Message - From: "Lynn Kuhlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 12:16 AM Subject: [techtalk] Perl question > I can't get my program to print anything to a file. It was complaining > about line earlier. Is this correct? > > if ($string1 =~ /\*\s*\$string2|\$string2/) > > > > > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Perl question
> Is this correct? > > if ($string1 =~ /\*\s*\$string2|\$string2/) ^^^^ Looks like you're escaping the variable, you're searching for a literal dollar sign rather than the value of $string2. // jt ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Can I change my mind now??
Storm wrote: > > Actually, ... I know I can :) > Ok,.. here's the question,. > > When I installed Linux (Mandrake 7) I told it to automatically start the KDE > ( or whatever, since it lets me choose from several GUIs). I was thinking > maybe I would start from a command line ( so that I don't let myself get so > complacent and reliant on the KDE.) The question is,... where do I change > this,... ?? (I'm fairly sure I can figure out the second step, that being > when I'm tired of the commandline stuff, how to get back into the KDE :) ) I don't recall if this got answered. 1. You can call up the command line using an Xterm or an Eterm within KDE (or any other X-windows program). This is a very common thing. 2. You can use Alt-Ctrl-F1 (or F2, F3, etc) to go to a full screen virtual terminal. F1, btw, is your virtual console. Return with Ctrl-F7. 3. Many - not all, but many - window managers have an 'exit the window manager' option. Jenn V. -- "We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor. This is women's work!" Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
