Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

1997-02-23 Thread Bill Roman
sing dd to copy it back onto /dev/hda1. BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, USE dd TO BACK UP THE CURRENT CONTENTS OF /dev/hda1 SECTOR 0 FIRST JUST IN CASE YOU MAKE THINGS WORSE! LILO is a powerful tool, and like any powerful tool must be used with great care, as you can cause a lot of damage very quickly. --

Re: Disk partitioning - recommended sizes

1997-01-12 Thread Bill Roman
you're not testing in it. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem using Ghostscript with Mosaic

1997-01-04 Thread Bill Roman
or letter size paper. Oh, the printer is a Star NX-2420, emulating an Epson 24 pin printer. I do know there's at least one bug in the emulation (I fixed this with a patch to the epson driver, which I'm pretty sure has nothing to do with the current problem). Maybe I should just buy a Des

Re: pdf files

1996-12-13 Thread Bill Roman
Note that a recent posting in comp.risks asserts that Adobe's PDF reader for Linux will attempt to *execute* any file which can't be read as a PDF file and has its execute permissions set, quoting Adobe's documentation about this. Mind that MIME mail! -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROT

Re: Swap overdraft

1996-12-06 Thread Bill Roman
least one. #include #include #include #define NK 2 int main(int argc, char **argv) { char *p = malloc(NK * 1024L); int i; for (i = 0; i < NK; i += 4) { printf("\r%d", i); p[i * 1024] = 1; } printf("\nd

Re: Gosh, I can't believe this!!! (was: who's guilty...)

1996-12-02 Thread Bill Roman
llowing only a short time window for the card to interfere; cold boot fails because of a more thorough test. Perhaps the change between kernels 1.2 and 2.0 was that the driver now takes advantage of the card's DMA capabilities? Or something isn't getting shut down properly when switching to

Re: making disk bootable

1996-11-23 Thread Bill Roman
ialized with the some code which can behave like the DOS MBR; the Linux partition must be flagged as bootable if LILO is to be loaded. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

1996-11-18 Thread Bill Roman
physical location on the disk. The host system tells the drive how many heads and sectors it will use, and the drive's controller does the appropriate mapping. I know I've seen a FAQ, HOWTO or mini-HOWTO on this topic, but I can't seem to find it just now. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PR

Re: useradd?

1996-10-29 Thread Bill Roman
t to run it. I'd been running on several > different releases, AFTER the Slackware.. (Linux FT, and Redhat) As I recall, the shadow package included a "useradd" utility (among others). -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Can't getty on ttyS1

1996-10-06 Thread Bill Roman
/sbin/getty, and you may get sufficient functionality without having to install mgetty. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble with xdm

1996-09-15 Thread Bill Roman
figure the X server, and didn't want to get locked out). You need to tell xdm what server to run. In /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, add: :0 console-display local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 and the problem should be solved. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux

Re: how to exclude a directory from find?

1996-09-13 Thread Bill Roman
nt as the default. Can someone who has the spec confirm this? -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux

seeking WWW browser (smaller than Netscape)

1996-09-08 Thread Bill Roman
m for improvement in the stability department, but W3C is not planning on supporting it long term. What is everyone else using? Since this could generate a lot of traffic, perhaps it would be appropriate just to mail me directly, and I'll summarize to the list. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROT

Re: Is smail MIME compliant

1996-09-04 Thread Bill Roman
rt the flame war on this topic from which I learned so much. It's all been said) What is the user complaining about MIME problems running as a mail user agent? I suspect that some M$DOS mailers may casually send eight-bit data in violation of the applicable Internet standards. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux

trouble patching kernel

1996-08-31 Thread Bill Roman
ts/patch-kernel linux linux/Patches Current kernel version is 2.0.0 Applying patch-2.0.1.gz... 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to drivers/sound/Config.in.rej failed. Clean up yourself. What did I do wrong? -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux

Re: (yet again) [Fwd: Virus Alert]

1996-08-21 Thread Bill Roman
1996) for an interesting article on this and related topics. Nutshell synopsis: be *very* careful with your MIME mail setup! -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux

can't ifconfig dummy

1996-08-17 Thread Bill Roman
Why doesn't `ifconfig dummy songdog' work? It tells me: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Am I the dummy here? -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux

Re: stty vs setserial

1996-06-15 Thread Bill Roman
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't think this is correct -- stop bits are ones. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux