I have installed nmh and have noticed that the binaries for this
are in /usr/bin/mh rather than just in /usr/bin, which means with the
standard path setup you can't easily execute them. Now I know I can
just add this directory to my path, but it seems a bit strange that
I should need to do this.
Dear Steve,
> I think I had the same problem and tracked it down with
> the enclosed--see where it goes awry. (It simulates what
> exmh does.)
Thanks for this! I used the script that you included below and eventually
managed to work out what the problem is.
It would seem that you need to chmod
> > I didnt receive the debian-user-digest for 4 days now. Do you have
> > troubles with it?
>
> No, I don't think so. Maybe there were some troubles with your e-mail
> account, and you have been deleted from the list (it happened to me
> once...)?
>
> Subscribe again, and everything should be fi
> I want to presort my email messages.
> Can you recommend a way to do it (procmail ? exmh capabilities for this task,
> if it got any ? other ?). Is the proposed way a popular one ? Is there a
> HOWTO, or similar staff, that explain how to do it ?
Choose the Preferences/Incorporate Mail menu op
> Hi, I am trying to install the GUI for the first time. I have tried it
> twice and failed both times.
Don't despair, it sometimes takes a while to configure X properly, but
you'll get there.
Firstly, what information do you have about your computer hardware?
Have you recently bought the com
> OK, I called IBM (I'm using an Aptiva 2137-E24). My monitor is
> SVGA, she said the chipset is ATI (I found more detailed info in
> Windows, it is an ATI RAGE II + 3D graphic controller);
I think you want the xserver-svga package then. See what I get
if I do the following command:
$ dpkg --s
Hi Kent,
Some others have given you some useful advice. It might be an idea
to get gpm working before trying X. This is the program that gets
the mouse working in console mode (text mode).
Sounds like you are pretty new to Debian. It takes a little while
to get the hang of things, but don't gi
> Hi, thanks to all the people who have offered advice with configuring
> X-windows. I have not been successful and am brain dead at this point.
> I also tried hooking up to the internet with the same result. I chose
> the debian release because I wanted to learn more about computers (I
> have on
Hi,
My mail is behaving strangely. I would incorporate my mail in exmh, and
then do it again and the same messages would be incorporated a second
time. I had a look at /var/spool/mail/mark and discovered that it
wasn't being emptied when incorporated. Indeed, this is what the
directory looked l
Hi,
A while ago you wrote to debian-user saying:
> Wow, why such complexities? Try VM under Emacs or (better) XEmacs. You
> get the best of all worlds. When you're in X you get clickable URLs
> and HTML rendering (and toolbars and inline image attachment viewing
> and all the other stuff you see
Hi,
In exmh, when you select "Reply.../Reply All" it allows you to reply, but
only to the sender, not to all!
What is wrong?
Thanks,
Mark.
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> Does anyone know a program that will get a time from some source on
> the net and set the system clock based on EST? I could add it to my
> ip-up script and the computer would never fall far behind.
Firstly, I would recommend that you use universal coordinated time
(Greenwich Meantime or howeve
> > In exmh, when you select "Reply.../Reply All" it allows you to reply, but
> > only to the sender, not to all!
> >
> > What is wrong?
>
> Hello Mark,
>
> Please try this in your home directory :
>
> [emile]<102> cat .exmhbindings
> set {bindings(key,Msg_Reply -nocc to -nocc cc -cc me
> Odd. I run nmh+exmh without such modifications, and
> reply all works. Reply goes TO sender, with cc to others.
Yes, something very odd is happening. I tried using the command line
"repl" as follows:
/usr/bin/mh/repl +inbox 10 -editor xemacs -cc to -cc cc
and it still didn't work!!
> This is not a netscape special - it applies to anything. A
> ppp problem *is* just a delay. Programs can decide to time out
> or keep waiting, but there is no way they can know wheter it
> is a slow server or a temporary hung-up phone line.
> This is how networking in unix work - and it's nice
In your message you say:
> operating system ;-), the major functionnality of it is its incredible
> editing
> power. After some learning, you find a edition mode for amost any kinds of
> files (programming langages, ChangeLogs, resources files ...) with keyboard
> shortcuts, syntax highlighting,
> Well I have decided to stick with Debian.
Wise choice.
> I still don't have X-windows. I do have my mouse working
> now:)
So did you confirm it is a PS/2 mouse, using /dev/psaux?
> solution: "Do 'adduser user_name dip' but got "The command adduser does
> not exist."
Have you installed the
> > So did you confirm it is a PS/2 mouse, using /dev/psaux?
>
> Yes I did confirm both. When I was trying to configure X, I was
> interring the variables correctly but when I looked at gpmconfig (or
> whatever it was, I wrote it down somewhere) the port was wrong.
> After I changed that when I
Let me give you a quick run down of why I use linux rather than
windows 95/98.
1. At its core, Linux is a far superior, higher quality operating
system than windows.
The Linux operating system hardly ever crashes (well actually, has never
crashed in my personal experience - the worst that has ha
Hi,
I was under the impression that apt would replace dselect and provide a
more user friendly package manager. But so far I've just heard about
apt-get which sounds like just a script for installing debian packages
directly from the net. Could someone enlighten me on the true role
and status of
> your questions: yes, I am a developer (not professionally) but I can get
> compilers for Windows from school so their cost doesn't bother me :)
Legally? Anyway, what will you do when you are out of school?
> to an average home user. Some of you are obviously lucky enough to have
> many compute
Hi Kent,
> Well I never could get the communicator 4.5 file moved. I decided to
> download from /tmp to see if the download would end up in the /tmp
> directory and it did. I decided to install it later and went into
> windows to check my mail and when I came back to install the file was
> gone.
> I did exactly steps 1 through 4 again and this time got an error
> message saying the file had to be owned by root. Does that mean I
> have to download the file while signed in as root?
No you don't have to, though I you can if you want.
> I was in root during the attempt at installation. I w
> The reason I am even thinking about it is that the presort Inc
> method of my exmh sometimes get stucked.
>
> To be more specific, It seems that there are some messages, which I
> can't fully characterize, that cause Inc to terminate its
> action. Where this termination does not seem to be norma
> > It seems that there are some messages, which I can't fully characterize,
> > that cause Inc to terminate its action.
> [etc etc...]
>
> There are quite a few people who saw EXACTLY this problem (including
> myself). I saw a few emails on EXMH mailing list too. I think it's
> some "corrupted
Dear Simon,
Welcome to Linux! You'll be glad you found out about it!
> these are my querries/questions:
> is the only thing the linux operating system contains (linux debian that is)
> is an install programme(to install new packages), a C compiler, that multi
> terminal gadget, the login progr
> I don't have my notes in front of me but the "netscape-unpacked.9955"
> came from using a command 'tar
> communicator-v45' According to Sudhakar's instructions something
> like that was supposed to happen and I needed to use dpkg -i on
> "netscape-unpacked.9955." If I understood him co
>
> How exactly are you doing this ?
I did
/usr/bin/mh/inc +tmp
Followed by the script (executed within ~/Mail/tmp):
#!/bin/bash
#
# A little script I wrote which will go through every email in the current
# directory and process it using slocal to distribute the email into the
# appr
> I'd like to use LaTeX to produce the overhead slides for my adjunct
> class. I seem to have enormous problems all along the path, can
> anyone help me?
I'm about to go on holidays so I won't be able to help you much, but
I'll just say a couple of things quickly:
Use:
\documentclass{slides}
E
> I believe I did this already by going through dselect. Selecting the
> Netscape4 install program, after copying the communicator-v45...tar.gz
> file to /tmp. That didn't work. What you are sugesting seems to be the
> same except in my case dselect used dpkg. If I am not correct in this
>
Hi,
There have been a number of reports from people recently that doing a
presort inc sometimes fails from within exmh. The same thing has
happened to me several times. It seems to be something to do with
certain mail files which cause the problem. I can do a manual inc
from the command line, a
> There have been a number of reports from people recently that doing
> a presort inc sometimes fails from within exmh.
I have been doing some further experiments.
The output from exmh is as follows:
BgAction Inc IncInner
BackgroundPending Inc
exmh-bg {Inc_Presort +MyIncTmp: {child killed:
> > > There have been a number of reports from people recently that doing
> > > a presort inc sometimes fails from within exmh.
> >
> > I have been doing some further experiments.
>
> If it helps, I had it happens yesterday twice: The first time was on
> message number 140, and the second wa
> Thanks for this, I have scanned the messages you included as well as
> my own, looking for similarities/differences. I think I may have discovered
> a common theme. It would seem that all the errant messages were sent using
> the mailer "Mutt".
>
> My sample size it still too small to be conc
> At present i am using an intel pentium 233MHZ computer with 4.3 GB
> hardisk I would like to acquire your debian software to help me
> perform mainly excel and word function . is there any authorised
> dealer in Malaysia? how much it cost Thank you.
Debian is a distribution of Linux. Linux is a
> Where ?
> http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/cruo/cruolinux1.htm
I had a look but it wasn't very clear how you use it. There were no
numbers for the squares and I couldn't see how to enter words.
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> Yep. But, IMHO, it has something to do with the feeling that if you
> work for Debian, you're working for the community, including yourself.
> If you work for Red Hat, you're giving money to someone who doesn't
> care about YOU, only it's bank account. Actually, that's the feeling I
> get.
> This is BTW one of the weakest points of Debian. It is not very
> visible as a product and it is comparatively hard to purchase a Debian
> CD set on the normal market. Third party vendors unfortunately have
> probably a hard time to plan ahead with Debian given the uncertain
> release frequency
Hi,
> I am having a lot of trouble getting Mathematica 3.0 to work under
> Debian 2.0. I have installed it in the past on both Slakware and
> RedHat systems and have never had problems before, so I am a little
> confused as to what could be going wrong.
I don't have Mathematica so I'm not sure ho
Hi,
I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to
another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there
a nice utility which will enable me to do this?
Thanks,
Mark.
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Hi,
I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Is this at all dangerous?
What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
Thanks,
Mark.
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> I can see only two changes in Debian due to this corporation. Development
> would (presumably) go faster because the developers are getting paid, and
> Debian would become more well-known.
>
> I also liked the idea that someone suggested earlier, that people could
> pay dues into this corporatio
> Shawn writes:
> > I am all for a for-profit business forming as a value-added seller of
> > Debian products. Such a business could focus on pre-installations,
> > packaging and marketing, and user support. I would think a very
> > successful business could be built on such a model, and there woul
> You're proposing this for Red Hat. That's fine, I'm proposing a similar
> model for Debian. Maybe the membership idea is a good idea, maybe it
> isn't. I can see some advantages, but I can also see some drawbacks. The
> key is to get these ideas out on the table. We'll never know until we try.
>
>
> >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
>
> apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping
> downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads
> in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until it's downloaded
> the lot, so make sure you have en
> > What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!!
>
> Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably
> shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of
> errors and never call dpkg. If you run dpkg and then run out you -should-
> be fine but st
> > So what advantage is there of running apt-get over the more
> > traditional - run mirror, then install using dselect?
>
> mirror?!?! You want to mirror the entire 700 meg binary-386 directory and
> then install it?? Ik.
Yes you do have a point here. The advantage of doing this of course
is,
Hi,
A friend accidently messed with his mail spool file, ie
/var/spool/mail/bill
resulting in the ownership of the file changing to root.
When he tried to do fetchmail, it happily fetched 40 messages, but
when he tried to look at them, they weren't there. Presumably this is
because of t
> A friend accidently messed with his mail spool file, ie
> /var/spool/mail/bill
> resulting in the ownership of the file changing to root.
>
> When he tried to do fetchmail, it happily fetched 40 messages, but
> when he tried to look at them, they weren't there. Presumably this is
> bec
> So, shall we take this opportunity to reopen the discussion about
> the debian- user trailer line? The evidence just keeps indicating
> that the existing one is use less to those who could benefit from it
> and ignored by everyone else.
How about this alternative:
Unsubscribe? See http://www.d
I've got a two page postscript document which is stored in portrait,
which results in it being printed wrongly. I want somehow to be able
to print it in landscape mode.
I have tried gv, but it doesn't seem to handle the switch to landscape
properly. I have tried xv, but it only recognises the f
Fetchmail has been crashing on me recently. The error is:
fetchmail: reading message 11 of 120 (2244 bytes) . (log message incomplete)
fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@adam.ist.flinders.edu.au> : colon expected after
route
fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 : sender address must contain a domain
fetchmai
I have a 2 page postscript file, each page is A4 size, but lying on
its side, ie landscape mode. When I try and print, it doesn't work
properly --- it is printed the wrong way round causing part of it to
be chopped off. Ie, it thinks the file contains portrait pages when
in reality it contains l
> free -tos 300 >free.log
>
> I never get any output while it works fine to the screen.
>
> Does this work for anyone else?
I tried it on my machine with the same result.
Cheers,
Mark.
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Hi all,
Let me tell you about strange happenings on my computer. Any
suggestions/ideas would be most appreciated, though could you please cc a
copy to me directly as I am currently reading the list on the web which
usually has a day or two delay.
I currently use a PCI graphics card on my compute
umper leads have been touched in the meantime.
I think I'll double check this though -- I haven't got anything to lose.
Thanks,
Mark.
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Let me tell you about strange happenings on
Hi,
Recently I have been doing some mild upgrading. I have upgraded to
some packages in
http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/
as well as a very few packages in potato (just enough to get the
latest apt installed).
Anyway, since that time I have started having problems
Hi,
Recently I have been doing some mild upgrading. I have upgraded to
some packages in
http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/
as well as a very few packages in potato (just enough to get the
latest apt installed).
Anyway, since that time I have started having problems
Hi,
I'm trying to install Debian (slink) on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop.
Having got a boot disk for the Tecras, it now boots okay. But when I
get to the partitioning the disk stage, I run into problems.
Trying to use cfdisk on /dev/hda comes up with:
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition
Press any
Hi,
I went to use my floppy and noticed that the light is perpetually on.
Trying to use mdir gives:
# mdir a:
Can't open /dev/fd0: Device not configured
Cannot initialize 'A:'
Alternatively, trying to use mount on a ext2 floppy gives:
# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a va
Thanks for the replies!
> That usually means the drives ribbon cable is backwards. make sure
> the red side of the ribbon is aligned with pin one on both ends.
I switched the cable round and now it works! Thanks!
My box is so cramped, with the floppy stuck between two hard drives,
that you can
Hi,
I have been playing with my system and have somehow either broken exim or
fetchmail. When I try to do fetchmail it comes up with:
# fetchmail
fetchmail: 19 messages for mark at adam.ist.flinders.edu.au (50738
octets).
fetchmail: reading message 1 of 19 (2154 octets) . (log message
incomplete
eign host.
This doesn't look too good does it???
I am using exim. Does it have a daemon running that checks for incoming?
When I do "ps aux | grep exim" it doesn't find anything and when I do
"/etc/init.d/exim restart" it doesn't fix anything.
Thanks for your help.
> > # telnet localhost 25
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> > This doesn't look too good does it???
>
> Hmm, are you perhaps using tcp_wrappers to control what inetd launches?
> If so, check /etc/hosts.al
Hi,
I've recently started using lftp for ftp transfers and it seems like quite
a nice piece of software in many ways. Unfortunately reputs dont seem to
work. That is, if I type:
put filename
and then interrupt the transfer. And then type
put -c filename
it happily continues putting the
Suppose you are downloading/uploading a file using ftp, and for some
reason the result is corrupted. (This happened for me recently when the
reget of lftp didn't seem to work properly --- see my other email) If the
file is huge, then to do it all again would take ages and be a big waste.
I can
> Hello again :)
>
> I used the apt method of installation to get Gnome from debian.org (under
> /~jim)...everything seemd to go OK (except for some wierd libgtk, and
> libglib dependencies which I stil haven't figured out, but they were only
> impeding the window-coordinate dealy from getting
I'm trying to print on a canon bubblejet printer. I've set it up and
got it working previously, but for some reason (since an upgrade to
slink), it no longer works.
I had lprng installed, and when I sent something to the printer it
would happily pretend to do it, but after a while it gives the m
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Shaikh Abdul Tahir wrote:
>
> I want to unsubscribe
>
> Pls Help
Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe" in the subject.
Cheers,
Mark.
> take a peak at this, http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35166,00.html
>
> excerpt,
>
> Corel will base a Linux product based on the version of Linux from
> Debian. Though Debian's Linux can be purchased at many sites, Debian
> is a non-profit organization
So perhaps Corel is doing what many of
> I sent this a few days ago but have gotten no response, so I'll try again.
>
> I have a Hamm system.
> I've been trying about setting up a Tek printer and have lpd
> confused. If I go into lpc and ask for status lp2 I get
>
>
> lpc> status lp2
> lp2:
> queuing is enabled
> pr
I just received the Debian announcement about the alliance between
Corel, KDE and Debian. This is potentially a very good thing for
Debian. It may pave the way for a much wider acceptance of Debian ---
via the Corel linux distribution --- and ensure Debian maintains its
influence on the directio
> Well, I for one am very excited about the Corel-Debian alliance,
>
> [...]
>
> I just wanted to say thanks for making your presence known on
> debian-user! Even though most of us here are just "users", the
> nature of Debian makes us (well, me anyway!) feel like we're an
> important part of i
Hi,
To reduce the amount of printing I must do, I want to print two A4
pages of a pdf document on a single A4 sheet --- or even better, reduce 4
A4 pages down so that it can print on a single sheet.
Is there any software to do this?
(Could you please cc any replies directly to me as I am current
> Yes. You could recompile your kernel to include transparent proxy
> support. This would automagically redirect all connection attempts
> to the corresponding proxy servers.
Can you easily switch between "real" internet and "proxy" internet using
this solution?
> > Can I configure lynx to use
Hi,
I run latex a lot and every time I run it, it has to load in library files
from disk, which takes time. I could try to buy a fast but expensive SCSI
drive, but I thought probably a cheaper way would be to buy more memory
and somehow use it to cache my existing hard drives -- ie stuff which i
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I run latex a lot and every time I run it, it has to load in library files
> > from disk, which takes time. I could try to buy a fast but expensive SCSI
> > drive, but I thought probably a cheaper way would
Hi,
I'm installing Debian. I'm partitioning as follows:
100 Meg root partition
3 Gig /usr partition
100 Meg root partition - identical copy
This is just in case one root partition dies - I'll have a backup. What
is the best way to make the second root partition an identical copy?
Also, I want
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, wb2oyc wrote:
> 1st question; is this all one big disk? For what follows, I'm assuming
> it is. I like to do something like this
>
> 100M /
> 64M swap
> 100M /var (and I prefer putting this on a 2nd disk if possible)
> whatever's left for /usr if its all on a single d
Hi,
My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a
message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing,
but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with:
# free
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 63
Hi,
I want to install matlab 5.2 on a Hamm system. I think I need to check
that I have the correct libraries. I've found a list at:
http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/v5/21466.shtml
But the other thing is: is matlab compiled under libc5 or libc6? And how
does this affect things?
I n
I'm trying to start the licence manager for matlab and it comes up with
su: user adm does not exist
su: user adm does not exist
su: user adm does not exist
Is "adm" some kind of standard user on unix systems that for some reason
doesn't exist in debian?
Thanks,
Mark.
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I've just discovered a way of getting an "almost unix shell" on a msdos
window under Windows 95.
There is a port of GNU software to the DOS environment. I have downloaded
bash, emacs, and lots of other useful "unix like" commands to a windows
box and it works beautifully. The port is called "DJ
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> *- Mark Phillips wrote about "Matlab 5.2 and Hamm"
> >
> > I want to install matlab 5.2 on a Hamm system. I think I need to check
>
> You will need xpm4.7, xlib6, libg++27, and maybe termcap-compat.
>
Tha
>Just need to know if anyone is doing DTP with Debian and
> what they recommend using.
>
> My wife has a home based business and I would like to create some
> flyers, tri-fold pamplets and such for here. So ideally it has to be
> easy for her to use, but if not I'll do all the work
I've had a look at the tips and tricks page and it is a good effort. The
only query is about whether we are reinventing the wheel. We have the
FAQ-O-MATIC on the debian web site:
http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html
It would be good if all sorts of tips and tricks went into here. There
ar
Have you looked at the "Linux Hitachi Laptop Page"? Perhaps it might
help? Anyway, it can be found at:
http://www.ert.rwth-aachen.de/~schlaege/Laptop/Laptop.html
I hope this helps,
cheers,
Mark.
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Hi,
I have just read about the "Petition for TrollTech to GPL Qt", found
at web site:
http://www.rustcorp.com/petition/
Unfortunately I am still a bit confused about the issues involved. I
would be interested in hearing the muse and views of people who know more
about the issue than I.
I didn't see the original message from Bruce, but from some snippets I
gather the name "Trove" was being suggested. This sounds good to me, and
better than the other names I've seen suggested.
Cheers,
Mark.
P.S. When will the first version be released? And how is it looking at
the moment?
_
Hi,
I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which
I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?). I wish
to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could
be more difficult than I first thought.
I see that the partition will need to b
Hi,
Could someone please confirm whether the answer I gave below to a friend
about perl is correct?
Thanks,
Mark.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:49:30 +0930 (CST)
From: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:
> I've tried a lot of editing apps (and conversion utilities) in hamm,
> but I can't find one that edits postscript or acrobat files. Does
> anyone know what package I can use to edit a ps or pdf form that uses
> Times-Roman fonts in a variety of point sizes, with some lines (no
> graphics)?
Hi,
I want to view a pdf file, so I used xpdf but got the following:
$ xpdf cgtntk.pdf
xpdf version 0.6
Copyright 1996 Derek B. Noonburg
Error: PDF file is encrypted and cannot be displayed
Error: * Decryption support is currently not included in xpdf
Hi,
I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4).
I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to
boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up
with:
# lilo
Added linux *
Added dos
ide: probable bad entry for /dev/
I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.
Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you have a Master/Slave
IDE pair, only on
> This not answer your question, but...
>
> Did you tried with gv, it's also a gs frontend but much nicer and _useful_
Yes I did try, but it didn't work.
Cheers,
Mark.
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> > I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up
> > to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it
> > possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try,
> > it comes up with:
> >
> > # lilo
> > Added linux *
> > Added dos
> > ide
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mark Phillips writes:
> [snip]
> > I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system
> > disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it
> > was bootable.
> >
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> tzconfig - sets your timezone
> date - sets your system clock
> hwclock - sets your hardware clock
> xntp - keeps your system time correct by reference to Internet
> timeservers
What is the difference between hwclock and clock, between xntp and
netdate? And which
> Re-arrange your drives like this and let me know if it fixes the situation:
>
> HDA - ok
> HDC - Set as HDB
> HDB - Set as HDC (Linux does not care where additional partitions are)
I did almost this, except instead of swapping hdb and hdc, I simply
detached hdb temporarily. Low and behold it
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