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> Now for a generic X question. How can I tell at what resolution and
> color depth a running server is operating What about if HW accel . is
> being used?
Try "xdpyinfo" command.
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art install from a single point in the system on all machines
connected to that system.
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he system primarily runs several Red Hat installations, of course! 8^)
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atures will
be integrated with all of Red Hat's service offerings. All Red Hat Linux
users will be able to access certain levels of Red Hat Network for
free, and greater levels of service will be available for customers
of Red Hat's service offerings."
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Personally, I would look at what the real differences are, and purchase
whatever meets my needs. In your case, I'd contact sales about the
past practice of free/cheap upgrades for recent purchasers, and work
up from there.
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man mkisofs" come to mind. If I recall correctly, it's
just "mount -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/cdrom". Then just
reference /mnt/cdrom as if a cd were mounted.
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llow the
most basic install without disk interchange.
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> I wonder how many people got that one.
With circles 'n arrows 'n a paragraph on the back of each one to
be used as evidence against us... 8^)
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BH>getting close to thanksgiving.
> I don't think many folks go to restaurants at thanksgiving! :-)
Or to church, let alone both at the same time! 8^)
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ms. It occurred
only after the upgrade, and stopped after I did a full
shutdown/powerdown
and then rebooted the system. I've no idea why, though this may relate
to a change in hardware recognition.
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curiousity. They were at 8.6% already. My Linux 6.2 system, which
has been [ab]used for quite awhile, and rather heavily, too, is at
about 4% as of this morning. Don't bother.
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ic/Mylex boxed products have proclaimed "Linux
support" on the box for years now.
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s).
Additionally, _sot_ is an expression which refers to a habitual drunk.
Both may apply, however "sod" depends on known behaviour, as opposed
to "sot", which we can only speculate on, but which might explain some
of his problems. I suppose one could be a "besotted sod&
u currently can't get higher resolution than 300x300, and you can't
access the duplex mode printing. Overall, it has worked well, and one
of these days there'll probably be a fully configured filter for it.
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s a simple clone for the 8086 boards. All
they were expecting was to sell a few systems. Gates was quite familiar
with it, and when was asked by IBM if he could provide an OS, in
addition to the BASIC he was on tap for, said yes, then bought QDOS,
buffed it a tiny bit, and thus was born the fi
t; would you? ;-)
Juha, while leaving the rest of the message unreferenced, libertarians
are neither conservatives nor liberals in the current usage of the
terms.
More of a strict constitutionalist approach, in essence.
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Defini
st a line item in overhead budget. Neat, Huh?
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not to what that
cloth represents, then there's a problem there.
The greatest value in a symbol is behind it, not in it.
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hammer), I would like to take
> a pass or two over the drive.
> My first thought was to boot up with Tom's boot/root disk and do:
> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
Try "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda"
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decision was
made in preparation for kernal 2.4 & gcc 3.0. The deciding factor
apparantly
was the use of an interface matching the needs of those components.
The
idea is that a minor update should be sufficient to bring 7.0 up with
those components when released.
Prognostication can be a ha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> How the heck to I find out what version of RED HAT is actually on a
> machine?
"cat /etc/redhat-release"
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"# /usr/bin/perl -w". The "#!" pair is what
clues
the shell to run the command following on the code in the file.
Twould be a good habit to get into declaring your variables, too. For
any
larger piece of code you'll have to start making use of "strict", and
it&
s partport_lowlevel parport_pc" to it. That should fix
your
problem, though you may also have to reboot.
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nia Institute of Technology)
and at the cheapest possible price; free for downloading. Of course,
your download cost may vary...
The URL is <http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/jcc/> Have a looksee.
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he swap partition for Redhat Linux in the other
> Linux (Turbo Linux)
Yes, the swap partition can be shared by multiple installations. Do
it all the time. Especially beneficial if the swap partitions are on
a different drive than the distro.
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e, always take a look at the errata & gotchas;
they're a
lot faster than waiting for an answer from the list. More frequently
correct, too! 8^)
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would keep the old RPMs available .
> Ok Anyone out there have a solution to this
> dilemma? I want to try to get the box up to latest and greatest
> standards... and this is frustrating as can be.
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in the
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You may be able to do what you wish using one of these products.
Otherwise,
I believe your answer is "No".
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ng well for me...
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PS to Marie-
Want I should send you some more Sambal Badjak? It's not only good
on chicken, but you could try rubbing it _all_over_ Wayward & watch to
see
what happens!
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t; present in the list of requested partitions. etc" For a reason it
> says "undefined reason". Do I need to go 1-47 for the swap and then 48
> to 1000 megs for the next partition and then 1001 to 3064 for the
> remainder or do I need to do something else? I feel like such
f, or the files/directories in /tmp you changed?
Most likely, if you changed nothing else, all you need to do is restore
the original protection modes.
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nished installing Red Hat 5.1.
> The computer has rebooted and it is asking for
> "localhost login:".
> In the installation process, earlier it asked me for a login and
> password. I tried using the password at the "localhost login:"
> prompt,
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Epson Stylus 740 color inkjet printer. The sound was
set up properly, and automatically, on the laptop.
You may like 6.2b3 better.
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the same as the 810 chipset with it's integrated
audio & video.
I'm preparing to drop about US $1100.00 for a motherboard (dual/scsi)
and 2 PIII/600MHz for a customer. I'm reluctant to take a chance on
eating the cost and not delivering because of chipset problems.
best
pears
to be essentially playing "We know best" and forcing the situation to
their advantage. Marketing over quality... Now, where have I heard
that theme before
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web site it states available at Red Hat or retail stores on
April 10th.
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realistic
valuation of Red Hat stock is in the $30-$35 range. If they keep a
sound business model & cash flow stays fairly good expect a longer term
rise.
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ason I ask this, is I've had mixed results in the past when
> > recompiling. As the kernels keep changing, it's tough to determine
> what
> > needs to be left in, what should be compiled as a module, and what
> should
> > be removed. If the above statement is true, I w
ss reinstalls
or other activity.
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he Powertools cdrom, but not in the main
distribution.
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Curiousity check. Have had absolutely not email from any of the
sites at redhat today. Wondering if site is down.
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ct your message came
through, it looks like those responsible have finally managed to fix
at least a part of the problem.
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> is anyone getting my email. respond.
No!
8^)It appears that the redhat-lists were down for a couple of
days and are just now coming back on-line. Could be stock shock.
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pe operations without having to go hunting on
web sites. The Powertools & CPAN CD images can be, I believe,
downloaded
as images, and burned by the user at home. The applications CD's are
not
so available, it appears.
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directories? Fortunately, they are on different
> partitions, but since I have never done this before, I could use some
> pointers.
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ubsequent install process I just blow the DOS
partition away & all is well.
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rade. rp3 now works pretty
well for configuring dialup services, sound was properly found &
configured, compilers, perl, python, etc all show signs of working
properly. Even the gui installer, anaconda, works reasonably well for
most systems.
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he number/size of binaries
stored there.
/home should be a separate partition - you can do reinstall/reformat and
archive what you need to preserve there. Also, with regards to
important
system configuration scripts, your personal scripts, etc.; set up a CVS
archive on /home and use
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Does anyone know what package contains oclock?
I don't have it installed, so can't check here, but try the command
rpm -q --file `which oclock`
and you should get it, assuming it's installed.
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tridge disks are usually partition 4)
n
p
1
w
which leaves me with a single partition, 1, on the cartridge.
Then:
mke2fs /dev/sda1
which formats it. Then just mount as usual.
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7" and "rcs-5.7-11". man
cvs
will give you more data, as will a search on the web for CVS.
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> And how would you suggest to "preserve your scripts", just copy the
> scripts as they are created into this directory or what?
> I am eve's-dropp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> ooh, where? I haven't seen em.
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Rick Forrister wrote:
> The Powertools & CPAN CD images can be, I believe, downloaded as
> images, and burned by the user at home.
Hi Charles!
One point, for powertools, at least, is
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For some work I'm doing now I need to get a sample of the contents of
/proc/cpuinfo. Would greatly appreciate it if a few could send me
copies of theirs.
Privately, of course! Don't think the list needs a few hundred file
content postings!
TIA
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isk druid to recreate exactly
those
partitions. If you have another drive in the system, or can put one
there temporarily and create a linux installation on that, then you can
try using sfdisk to recover the partitions on the drive. "sfdisk -V
"
will attempt to do checks on partit
ter all you've done, until you
> write
> the information to disk.
> Yes, I am. Twice. Using the (w)rite option...
>
> If you've done that, I have no help. But I have had bad results with
> Disk Druid, and I avoid it.
>
> That's why I tried fdisk
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> I need some documentation on shell scripts. Any suggestions??
Check any bookstore carrying the O'Reilly books, or go to
<http://www.ora.com/> and look for the Bash book. Best way to
learn bash & sh scripts.
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ion, go back, run fdisk, create the two partition.
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> to be on a network, how do I handle the network configuration -- IP
> address, netmask, default gateway IP and primary nameserver
> information?
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gt;
>
> Yahoo! MS to be broken up. Probably won't happen due to appeals
> but oh well. I saw RH stock went
> up. That's good for all of us! (when our favorite company does
> well...)
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ption "ShowCache"
> #Option "ShadowFB"
> #Option "UseFBDev"
> #Option "Rotate"
> Identifier "NVidia Riva TNT2"
> Driver "nv"
> VendorName "NVidia"
> B
s also reasonable to
temper your remarks, remembering that next time may be your turn.
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to backup everything. Compress these files with gzip or bzip2,
then you'll be about ready to go. Also check the docs for how to make
a rescue disk for your version of Linux, and set that aside. Then
you're
ready to go.
Follow directions for ext2resize and stretch your linux partitio
ROM
> and/or floppy. Can this workstations work alone or should they work
> always networked?
Not knowing exactly where you checked; but I just checked eBay (search
SPARC) and found a Sun SPARCStation 20 with 64Mb RAM, CDROM, etc.
currently going for $300.00 US. <http://www.ebay.com/&
-
> Anybody use the HP DeskJet 842C or 970Cse ?
> Is the resolution and color good ?
> Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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; initially by
providing full details to Leonard Zubkopff, the driver writer (now at
VA Linux) and free cards. Their boxes have proclaimed Linux support
for several years now.
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play:
> The man
>
> How do I start it up?
While logged in as the user you want to be in my case, just
type "xfce_setup". Then type "startx" as usual.
> How do I get it to be an option for the switch manager?
Not sure that currently can be done. I'
Red Hat won't do; they've had a policy of no pre-release
announcing. It will be announced about the time they start to get the
boxed distro packages into stock.
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hat an early
release of the BIOs wouldn't boot unless you had an MS partition on the
drive. Had to put a single block, DOS partition on the linux
drive. Then got a BIOS upgrade, which fixed that. They don't come with
linux pre-installed, but it was as simple as "in
c for everything.
>
> So, no I am not happy with the job RH is doing as it is not the first time
> it happens.
>
> Sorry, I am tired of this.
>
> And big thanks for your help :=)
>
> Philippe
Bit more research would have saved some time. Believe the use of kgcc
to r
tition.
I've had no success as yet using the LS120 drives as a boot device.
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tted floppy, exactly as you do.
> Can you check is your LS 120 of the same version?. I mean
> an ATAPI device or an ide-floppy are these different things?
> Eduardo
>
> On 14 Dec 2000, at 11:11, Rick Forrister wrote:
>
> >
> > Eduardo, just reinserted my ls120 to m
om
included. Not the best way to go, as these are normally out of
date. You need to get the more recent version.
If buying or downloading a more recent version isn't practical for some
reason, send me a message (OFF THE LIST!) and I'll see if I can't help
you get either 6.2 or
gt; This may or may not be the issue for the current discussion, but
> people tend to stumble upon this on a fairly regular basis.
Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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, and just flat wouldn't cache >64MB at all. This
caused multiple cache checks on each memory access, hence the
performance slowdown.
>
> One other question, I know adding large ram causing performance drop is
> usually the chipset limitation but can CPU sometimes have this limi
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Peter Kiem wrote:
> I'm *trying* to search Micro$oft's website but I keep getting timeouts on
> their webpage generations. What are they running on? i486 machines???
Nah! You're just seeing Windows 2000 Server Edition at it's glorious
best.
on kernel 2.4, I'd suspect
that they'll try to link the 7.1 release to the release of kernel 2.4.
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ers have
been skipped in the past, but in general they just get ratcheted upwards
until there's a major change in the distribution - then they go to a n.0
release.
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atalk, Masq, printing...so for me alot of work went into
> setting
> > >this up it runs perfectly :)
> > >
> > >My question, is I want to upgrade to a new much bigger hard drive over
> > >40GB.
> > >Is there a *flawless* way to just plug in the new dri
what I use to copy my office mail to my personal email account:
:0 c
! otheruser@otherdomain
Just tuck it in as a first/early rult.
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and looking at the address field in HEADER shows that for the first
three calls the address is valid. After the third call, the address
field is corrupted. No other areas of the code access that regex_t
struct or reference it in any way.
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Please don't include large chunks of text, such as articles,
unnecessarily. Ramen has been an ongoing discussion. Better to include
links rather than articles.
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ASUS CUBX based one with an external Sportster 56Kb modem, secondary is
a ProStar/Kapok 2100P laptop with a PCMCIA 56kb modem card. Both
connect to my personal ISP service over dialup lines with, again, no
issues.
best
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Rick Forrister <[E
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, suman wrote:
> Why does not everybody make donations for the earthquake in Gujarat
The tone of this could have been a bit more polite. It _sounds_ almost
like an accusation that we don't give a damn, and have done nothing.
Many of us have.
Rick F
ck on Edit Options. On the next page is a
prominent option to have your password emailed to you. You don't even
have to unsubscribe to stop list email for a while - select the option
to "Disable mail delivery" and you can put a temporary stop to it until
you're ready to go again
home(linux) machine.
StarOffice will do this. There's also a "reader" for WinWord docs out
there,
but I don't remember the name as I've never used it. Try a search on
tucows.
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HOWTO on unsubscribing from the redhat-list.
Heh, heh, heh. Sounds like the instructions I once wrote when I was in
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al release candidate - beta with fixes in place. 8^)
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rpjday wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Rick Forrister wrote:
>
> > Charles Galpin wrote:
> > >
> > > I got an announcement this morning that we have a new beta version of Red
> > > Hat Linux (didn't say what version) called wolverine.
>
and ethernet card.
Also remember that most of the "barebones systems" consist of only a
case,
motherboard, cpu, and maybe a floppy drive. So your barebones system
will
come in more like $450+ to the same point. For a PII or PIII system
with
a 400-600 MHz system, I think $450 is doabl
othing but success with my Plextor scsi
820; have heard good reports for both their IDE & SCSI units. Running
Wolverine, the 7.1 beta, I've had good success with my Iomega 650CD CDRW
USB drive.
best
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ot, then something got hosed on your original install of cdrecord.
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Steve Mckay wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a way to print multiple pages on one page. Kind of like
> fineprint or handyprint for windows.
man mpage. 4 on one by default,
best
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postscript
version
of the man output to lp.
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and alcohol to teenage boys."
--P. J. O'Rourke
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