nfs install

Hi everyone, I am just trying to get my first debian box up and running. I am having problems with the nfs installation process. The main problem I am having is the detection/configureing of my 'Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ LAN Adapter' card. Please does/has anyone used this network c

[off topic] Stacking machines together

Hello everyone, Please excuse the intrusion... I have a load of old machines (or rather bits and pieces of them) and would like to stack them into a network (an then one parallel machine) ... The problem is space ... can anyone advise me as to a way of stripping out the innards of each mach

Glossary and Nomenclature generation (LaTeX)

Hi, Please could someone inform me as to the 'standard' way of generating glossary and nomenclature entries within a latex document Thanks in Advance --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, C

Gnuplot ... Five parameter limit

Hi, I was just wondering if there was anyone who had managed to extend the gnuplot's five parameter function limits? I would really be happy to hear from you Regards --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of

Re: help for a future user

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > The number one rule for a first-time user in picking a distribution is... > Use the one that your friends and co-workers use. Best way to get > good help and feedback. I wonder about this ... The assumptions are that (1) one has co-workers/friends/peer

Typing software [OFF TOPIC}

Hi, Please does anyone know of where I can get hold of software which could teach me to type Regards --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. U

Ispell (British English please)

Hi, I am trying to locate a British version of ispell ... does anyone know where I can find a precompiled version || a premunched british-hash .. Regards --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engine

spell checking

Hi Does any one know of an editor which can check for typos as I type along? ... I am getting caught out all too often --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfor

Compressed epsfigures (LaTeX)

Hello everyone, I would like to store postscript images (ps,eps) in compressed form and have them decompressed for use during my LaTeX run. I have to date been unable to figure out if this can be done and if so, how to do it. Please if anyone can and would be of assistance in this

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, rich wrote: > if he's using lilo you've gotta add append MEM="96M" or whichever ammount > of mem is installed on your computer. Be sure to add the correct amount or > you're gonna get boot failures :P If I remember correctly, it's not boot failures one is to be worried about .

Re: Some Questions

Hi Jim, Now lets walk through your email .. On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Jimmy wrote: > I have just recently decided to use Linux on one of my boxes and have access > to a T1 and a Zip Drive so I've just been downloading what I need a little > at a time. I have a question or two but would like for

Unidentified subject!

Hi, Does anyone know where I can get a Windows/MS-Dos version of Tex? .. --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] How be

[OFF TOPIC] Re: Linux kernel in breach of GPL ? (fwd)

I guess we should all be aware of this > I'm sure all of you are aware of the "Halloween Document", URLS: > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28215,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh > > Given the attention of Microsoft, I think it would be prudent if > the Lin

Re: emacs-20.3

Sorry to bother you with this ... Is there a way to stop emacs from wraping the text on the screen so that extra long lines do not wrap to the next line (leaving the bulk of the line unfilled ) Regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical D

emacs-20.3

Hi, I am having a bit of a problem with emacs ... I cannot get it to 'set-fill-column ' .. Each time I 'M-x set-fill-column ' it does not allow me a space to specify the colum width. If I try using 'cntrl-f ' it returns the same error message 'set-fill-column requires an argument' Pleas

Avi,MPEG Textmode viewers

Hi, Please does anyone know of a package which I can use to view avi's, mpegs etc in textmode (svgalib). Regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield,

Using pine for internet mail

Hi, Please could someone give me a pointer as to how to use pine to access my hotmail and lycos accounts? Regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedf

Pine 4.02

Hi, I have just gotten the latest (I think) version of pine and seemed to have compiled it OK (with '000's of warning messages ... what did I do wrong).. The matter is: I was under the impression that it automatically highlighted html text within an email so one could follow the link .. I have b

Re: Linux security

Have you asked the ISP how many /etc/passwds (s)he has broken ... After if, maybe, probably ... you can say anything. Talk as they say this side of the Atlantic is CHEAP On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was having a discussion with my ISP about Linux. He said he uses > Windows N

cannot map libnewt.so.0.20

Hi, I am trying to run whiptail .. when I execute the command I get a Fatal Error [winnie:popt:<04:35:03 PM>]~/local/bin/whiptail 7827:/home/me/fx942976/local/bin/whiptail: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: cannot map libnewt.so.0.20 Does anyone know why what I have done wrong? -- Jonathan L

popt.h (whiptail)

Hello again everyone, I am trying to build whiptail on an alpha and the build failed with the message [robin:newt-0.21:<04:23:35 PM>]make whiptail gcc -Wall -g -O2 -I/home/me/fx942976/local/include -L/home/me/fx942976/local/lib -c whiptail.c -o whiptail.o whiptail.c:4: popt.h: No such f

dialog!!

Hello everyone, Something odd happens when I 'dialog -- 200 100' can anyone reproduce this Thanks -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfo

fstab

Hi everyone, Is it possible to specify which mount commands in my fstab should not me mounted at boot time. Or am I just going to have to resort to a seperate script for this Thanks -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics

CD images

Hi, I would like to write a new set of deb-CD's (in a hurry, I want them carted off to a faraway place -- with no web access) and would like to know the follwing (1) Where on earth are the images kept? .. All the sites I have visited seem to keep refering and re-refering me to different places,

Re: Latex Postscript

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Josh Stern wrote: Thanks a million Josh, Unfortunately, that is not always the case ... but over the past few hours I have been busy. I found an obscure shell script called 'aimaker.shar' which does the conversion pretty well...I include a tared 'n gziped version here

Latex Postscript

Sorry to trouble you with this question but, I am besides myself with this one. I drew a few 10's of pictures in M$ PowerPoint a while ago and now I want to incorporate them into my Latex document ... What could be simpler? I then printed the slides (one at a time) to files, used the M$-N

Re: whiptail

Ta Brian, R. -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'They came forth from unhol

Re: Backups

Hi, This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and if not why not .. if it is why is it not the defacto standard --Jonathan On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > Hallo, > > I have come to the conclusion that I cannot ge

whiptail

Hi, Someone just referenced a package called whiptail as a replacement to dialog .. Could you please let me know where I can pick up the sources? I would like to take a look at it also Thanks \& regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optica

emacs !!

Please could anyone tell me how to get emacs to wrap at column 132 .. also, where exactly does one change the color coding for the keyword highlighting? Thanks \& regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you > don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows I wonder if you would have the sam

Re: DVD support for linux

Hi, > > Hello, > > I getting ready to purchase a new system but before I do I need to know > > some stuff. First does Linux support dvd drives. > Probably not yet. And since the DVD videos will also likely be useless > ther is not much point. DVD is nice for TV's, waste of time for > comp

Booting a machine with only a cdrom ..

Hi, I am not allowed to install Linux on one of the machines on the college, however I must get the machine to run Linux in order to write a Linux CDROM. However, the machine has a CDROM drive which I can use. I am just wondering if it is possible to boot from floppy and pass the arguments

Re: Floppy Setup

Hi, Try running the dos fdisk program with the mbr option "fdisk /mbr" (Be carefull) and then re-install lilo on the Master boot record ... That should do the trick. On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > I recently installed Debian Linux from floppies. Now when the sys

Re: emacs (in color mode)

22, 1998 at 12:32:54PM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used > > before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \& tex > > screens. Please could someone in the know aquaint me with the proc

Re: emacs (in color mode)

Thanks Gary, Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Pete Harlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: emacs (in color mode)

Yo Pete, It worked just great ... thanks a million!! Now to set about finding where to modify the default colours Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK.

emacs (in color mode)

Hi, I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \& tex screens. Please could someone in the know aquaint me with the proceedure for this or to where in the documentation I can find out about this. Th

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: > > Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable > > solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from > > the kernal? > > Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call > to force a core dump,

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: > C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to > > backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing > > > > Here's a wild shot at it... > > Assumi

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > > Yes. use CTRL-\ > > > > I've never heard of that. > > neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but > I have yet to produce a core dump with it I tried it

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing --J. On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: > > Yes. use CTRL-\ > > I've never heard of that. > > Actually, though... I was looking for the program to dump cor

xjed

Hi, Please does anyone know how to restrict the xjed beeper to visual mode only thanks Jonathan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Where can I read up about setting up groups

Hi, I guess the subject header says it all. I would like to learn how to set up groups (typically to give permission to print on different printers, restricted internet access etc) Please could anyone direct me to the best information resource on this Thanks a M.

Re: FIXED IT! - IDE stopped working

On Thu, 9 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2) Some CDrom drives prefer to be slave drives and do not properly respond > to the kernel's inquiry when jumpered as a master drive (again, an unknown > fact) Humm, that explains ... thanks Jon. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: File managers ??............

Try the midnight commander I think the current version is mc-4.0.5.tar.gz or more > Hi > >Im wonder the power of my linux system. But Im still browsing my > computer only with the "ls" command. Can you people recomend me a good > file manager ??? > > > > > > Thanks, Phillip Neuman

Re: A Stupid new in Linux

Yes and much more!! On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Ren Zha wrote: > Dear Debian Com > Is that Linux Debian support Pentium 2 ,AGP card,PCI Sound card > ,i am new in Linux, i just heard Linux from internet, > i no like Microsoft Windows, but i no have choose, in my country is no > a

Re: kern.log: Unable to load interpreter ???

> Andy Spiegl wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > my hamm, 2.0.33 system, so that a lot(!) of smail processes were > > started. Soon I couldn't start any more processes and saw this > > error message on the console: > > Unable to load interpreter > > > > And in the /var/log/kern.log: > > Jul 1 16:5

Re: "LI" when booting

If I understand right, you have just installed a large disk... The problem is most probably with your bios hdd detection setup (believe it or not) .. Try setting it to auto-detect if you have a motherboard which would allow you to change the setting ... alternatively try different settings "NORMAL"

Re: gdb

when you start gdb, issue a 'break main' instruction BEFORE you issue the run command ... You can then 'step' (or 's') through the program and find out where exactlty the error occured --Jon > Pete Poff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I try out gdb on my program, all I can get is 'Prog

Re: If it is already fixed, don't fix it again (was RE: XDM doesn't work [SOLVED])

Seconded --Jonathan > If we are not friendly (or at least civil) to the newbie type > questions, free software is doomed to become a second class > techno-centric skeleton in the software closet. > > Sorry if I seem a bit harsh, but I am tired of people > responding to lists with "it's your fau

Re: MBR -- Getting tiresome. I really am sorry! (was Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR)

> went through, ("1+0 in, 1+0 out" etc) but made no difference to booting -- > still "Lil-" and system hangs. > My system _did_ work before -- honest!! Did you alter the bios settings for your hdisk at boot up? ... If you have auto hdd detection turn that on (as opposed to LBA or LARGE) .. It shou

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

Please check to see that lilo has the right parameters for your harddisk Particularly the bits about Large, LBA ... --Jonathan > "Lil-" comes up on the screen and the system hangs > > (Just glad I have a recent kernel boot disk =) ) > > /boot/boot.hda doesn't exist. > > I have no WinNT instal

Re: There is a cat somewhere in my computer

> /bin/cat :) > great kidder, now that cheered me up thanks Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: There is a cat somewhere in my computer

Thanks Oliver, I had already checked the connections and stuff like that and I don't believe in luck. That notwithstanding, I take your point that my port is knackered ... The thing is where on earth am I going to find someone to fix a 486 motherboard and at what cost .. I asked scan for th

There is a cat somewhere in my computer

Hi, I wonder if anyone knows what exactly is the matter with my linux box. I have been running Linux now for well gone three years starting with a 4mb DX2-66 and graduated to a 128mb DX4-133 (in textmode). Of recent, though I have lost two mice within two months. At first, I thought the reason

Re: Help! Windows95? Anyone?

> Thi sshould erase the defected MBR, I'm not sure what'd happen to the > filesystems. Nothing (I'm sure that it won't work if you have more then one > partition.) why not? --Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Memory Checker (RAM)

A while ago someone posted information (or was it a website) on a program that can be used to detect intermittent RAM failure which may be missed by the bios. I would be grateful if anyone with this or similar information could mail it to me (or better post it to the list) --Jonathan In

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions

What are the permissions on /dev/ttyS0 ? === In any war, the first casualty is the truth. --anon On Wed, 29 Apr 199

Re: why?

> What? Do they forbid sending e-mail with bogus To: headers? I am once > again baffled by the stupidity of USA laws regarding electronic (1) Why would anyone intentionally want to send email to a bogus header? to wreak havoc?? ... to bounce spam messages??? (2) I wish you knew how much hassle bo

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

> > I didn't know it, and I don't care. To me, this is worthless > information. > > This is not valuable information about debian or is it? > I happen to have some very valuable information on how to play the > classical guitar. Would you like me to post that to debian-user? > > The internet

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

> commercial on the radio about Win98 being the OS of future businesses... > Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. > I don't know where M$ came up with Win98 running programs faster than > Win95.. Win98 is a disaster; _never_ install it, it is a complete was

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: > > DesQview, DoubleDos, NovelDOS, VM to name a few. > I thought the context was W-95? Jonathan -- In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: > own interrupt servicing routies. Win95 does this, and though it kicks back > to DOS's interrupt handlers for some things, it does this via calls from That is just the point! > it's own handlers. DOS is merely used as a boot loader, and windows s

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

> Please drop personal attacks, especially vapid ones, from the lists. Supported!! -J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is capable of becoming one. The question is, has it be implemented? -J. ==

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

I agree with you the man is not a Titan ... I once read somewhere '.. On no account should anything [or person] be worshiped, be revered or be venerated. However if it is a thing done with all the skill of a master craftsman [or is a master craftsman ] it [they] should be emphatically respected ..

Re: How becoming a Super User

issue the command 'su root' and login as appropriate ... beware!! -J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: (off-topic) cheap graphics station

I simply do NOT agree with that .. from my own PAINFUL experience P90's are not worth their weight in worthlessness!! Other points taken J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: How to recover???

When I get these kind of panics, the first thing I reach for is my 'Installation' diskettes!! ... I suggest you try that and see.. -J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: Edit Program

Try jed.. -Jon. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth. --anon On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Pete Poff wrote: >

Re: Edit Program

You could install Jed (http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed.html). It has served me pretty well for years, functioning as a micro emacs and requiring next to nothing in terms of memory.. Jon === In any war, the first

Emacs

Hello everyone, I say a chap the other day using emacs and he had the screen all coloured up when he was editing some Fortran file or the other. Does anyone know how this is done (Don't seem to be able to find this out from the man pages) Thanks Jonathan Lawson =

Re: Dynamic Virtual Memory?

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: > Hi, > Is there such thing as "dynamic virtual memory"? > I have a low spec machine - 8meg RAM 100meg HDD, and have a 10meg swap > partition. Obviously I run out of memory every now and then. Is there a > way to set the system up so that when virtual memo

Re: desperately seeking installation

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >From my logs: > Probing PCI hardware. > Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 30.00 BogoMIPS > Memory: 39296k/40960k available (504k kernel code, 384k reserved, 776k > data) > Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux

Re: Programming hints.

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What about CTRL + C. Is that a signal? > > Yes it is. I don't know what signal exactly it is. SIGINT ? SIGTERM ? > > > If not, how can a do something before > > exiting from CTRL + C? What you want to do is catch the signal. Typically it will r

Re: Unmount: COMMAND NOT FOUND!!!

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > Hi, > > should that be umount or U[n]mount with a capital U?? > > --J. > > > If you try with a capital U, you will see 'command not found'! > > Just

Re: Unmount: COMMAND NOT FOUND!!!

Hi, should that be umount or U[n]mount with a capital U?? --J. On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > When I ask Debian 1.3.1 to unmount my 3.5" to take it out of the drive, I > get 'Command Not Fount' or something along these lines: it seems "unmount" > doesn't exist! How do I get rou

Re: lilo, linux and win95

On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, David Stern wrote: > There doesn't need to be hda2, hda3 AND hda4. There does need to be ONE If that is the case one of them apears to be missiing > What happened to CC:'ing the person who wrote the remarks in question? For the life of me, I cannae imagine what happened t

Re: lilo, linux and win95

Sorry but, what on earth happened to /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 ?? and what is the bit about >> Install a master boot record on /dev/hada what is /dev/h[a]da ??, shouldn't that be /dev/hda[X] ? --Jon. > > > > system with LILO as boot manager. > > > > cfdisk shows: > > > > /dev/

Re: Linux

Hi, If you have web access take a look at: http://linuxos.org/Lhelp.html which would point you to several Linux distributions ... On the subject of a step by step guide to downloading and installing, check out http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO.html Do

Bitmap files

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a package for editing scanned in images. Thanks Jonathan -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'watching' a file

Off the top try piping it through either ( less -o more -o most ) and doing a /what_I_want to find what you are looking for ... I hope it works ... J. On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Paul Miller wrote: > On 4 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > >How can you 'watch' a file as it is being writte

Re: LI instead of LILO:

I'm glad to be of help Jonathan On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I > > fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For

Re: LI instead of LILO:

I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For a start try using a minimal lilo and requesting the bios to auto detect the hdd at boot up. If this fails then do the same thing (auto detect) but specify large

Re: crt1.c

If I remember clearly, the file you allude to crt1.o must necessarily exist for gcc to function properly. I once did a "find .. '*.o' -exec rm \{} \; ..." to clean my system and found myself in hot water when I tried to exec gcc. I was pretty new to Linux then and had to go a-begging the chap upsta

Re: Out of PTTY's

Thanks, I'll look into that Best regards Jonathan On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > ... Its one problem after another ... When I try

Re: How to remove Boot block

The fastest way to remove the master boot record (I assume that is what you want) is to use a MS_D*S boot disk (sorry, I've carvoted with the opposition in times past) Boot the machine with the boot disk and run "fdisk /mbr" to clear the record, you will then have to run reinstall lilo (simply by

Out of PTTY's

Hello everyone, ... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script program I get a message saying "out of PTTY's" and the program aborts. Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about .. Regards Jonathan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Installing with LS-120 drive

Hi, This is a really interesting problem... Sorry I cannot be of any help. It however is of interest to me as, just this afternoon, I was thinking of the possibility of putting a minimal installation (<90Mb) on a 120Mb disk drive and running linux off that. Concievably there will be a second flo

Help!! --/dev/ttyS0 input overflow error --

Hi everyone, I wote some code to manage a data aquisition device in the labs. It runs for a while (say 24 hrs, gathering data every 6 secs [x 50 data points]) then it crashes, crashes bad (segmentation fault) /dev/ttyS0 input overflow ... does anyone know what is causing this?? I wo

VAX/VMS emulator

Hi, Does anyone know of a VMS/VAX emulator? Thanks Jonathan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

Hi, Does anyone know of a VMS/VAX emulator J. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Linux on top of win95

At the risk of apearing to be knit-picking, I ask (1) How much mempry do you consider as a lot ... from what I can remember 16Mb was sufficient to do away with the swap file (probably except if you are runnig X ..) (2) would a seperate drive be faster than a swap file on the same disk? ... This ha

RE: Linux on top of win95

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Mike Barker wrote: > would suggest using a sperate partion or drive for Linux, you'll need > one for swap anyway. I have win95, 2 versions of NT (workstaion 4 and Is that absolutely neccessary ... one for swap?? J. > Michael Barker > Technician > ATL Systems > > > -

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

Try pkzip/pkunzip (probably get it off the web) if that fails, there is a dos version of tar .. I think you can get them from one of the simtel archives (or find one using one of the archie sites ) For the nearest simtel site to you go to http://www.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/filedocs/downl

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

Thanks for the info JOn On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Stephen Gregory wrote: > SGI workstations aren't that fast cpu wise. Where they run circles > around other computers is due to SGI's fantastic graphics and > rendering. This dosen't mean that they are slow. I was useing an SGI > INDY2 with 180M

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

All this talk of flops has left me wondering is there any similar benchmarking (better still comparative info) for the SGI's? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Renaming a directory..

use the mv (move) command J. On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Bruno Simoes wrote: > Hi all > Does somebody know if there's some command to *rename* either a file or > directory in Linux. I don't want to move them to another files/dirs. > Thank you > Bruno > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Compute Farm

On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > > Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to > > each . . . > > > hmmm just a slightly evil thought > > anyone tried > > cat /dev/hda1 > /dev

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