Re: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-22 Thread Conor Daly
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:03:21PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Magni Onsoien thought: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > The biggest question is whether the BIOS is set up to boot from > > zip disks. And if you can change the BIOS to boot from the zip > > disk without any hassles - and without '

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #369 - 9 msgs

2001-03-22 Thread Conor Daly
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:35:08AM +1100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Mary Gardiner thought: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:01:21AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > BiOFH wrote: > > OOOPS! You're absolutely right! > > > > > > Hrm. EXPERT? PROG (for programmer)? > > I prefer PROG actually,

Re: [techtalk] Dual boot machine

2001-03-22 Thread Conor Daly
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:17:58PM +1100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Mary Gardiner thought: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:43:57PM -0600, Vinnie wrote: > > > > ick. loadlin :) (yeah, that's just personal prejudice, I know..but I don't > > like loadlin at all, I havne't met anything I can't do

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-22 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:34:20AM +0100, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > Also with CVS it is possible to make a diff file and only upload the > PART of the file that was changed. > How to do that is still beyond me, i just know it is possible. Something along the lines of cvs diff [filename] to obtai

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-22 Thread Kathryn Hogg
"Rebecca J. Walter" wrote: > Also with CVS it is possible to make a diff file and only upload the > PART of the file that was changed. > How to do that is still beyond me, i just know it is possible. What I would do is maintain a file tag called UPLOADED which represents the last revision upload

[techtalk] USB Support?

2001-03-22 Thread Shari
I'm about to begin an installation of Redhat 7.0 on my Dell Laptop (Inspiron 3700). I've attempted this before, unsuccessfully with RH 6.0. Had display problems and couldn't get my dsl working. But I digress. I've been away from Linux for awhile, and I wouldn't call myself an OS/HW guru by

RE: [techtalk] USB Support?

2001-03-22 Thread Betsy
i think i remember that RH doesn't support USB... could be wrong tho. anybody know for sure? betsy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shari Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [techtalk] USB Support? I'm

RE: [techtalk] USB Support?

2001-03-22 Thread Tricia Bowen
Redhat 7.0 does come with USB support. It auto-detected the USB port during my installing with no problems. I was planning on using it with my new Diamond Rio, but then I read somewhere that the drivers had the possibility of wiping out memory on my Rio. Needless to say, I'm not using it with Lin

RE: [techtalk] USB Support? -- answered my own question

2001-03-22 Thread Shari
And it makes me very sad .. from Linux HOWTO... oh well. At least I have the MAC! 1.5 Supported CD-writers USB CD-writers are currently not supported at all. Apart from that you can safely assume that most newer IDE/ATAPI- and SCSI-writers work under Linux. Newer drives are mostly MMC-complian

Re: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-22 Thread Maria G Martinez
Thanks a lot. :) Demolinux.org hasn't been responding for a while now... But the other link shall be useful. Thanks. Maria --- BiOFH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another alternative is DemoLinux. It can be (and is) > run completely > from CD-ROM. > There's some linkage at > http://linux.davece

Re: [techtalk] USB Support?

2001-03-22 Thread Mandi
You can try http://www.linux-usb.org/ for lin-usb info. Dell has a lot of stuff on their site about running linux on their machines, as does groups.yahoo.com. There's usb support around for various things, zip and what have you. I have a powermac with usb keyboard/mouse, and all that stuff is

Re: [techtalk] DESIGN: N-ary trees

2001-03-22 Thread James A. Sutherland
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Laurel Fan wrote: > > > Excerpts from linuxchix: 21-Mar-101 [techtalk] DESIGN: N-ary > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (687*) by > > > >> Has anyone come up with a useful design of an N-ary tree (I'm > >> thinking of a 4-ary tree) where you can lift a whole bran

Re: [techtalk] CD-ROM crapped out.

2001-03-22 Thread Akkana
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:02:51PM -0500, A Kozic wrote: > > So I try to access it in linux, and it acts as if there is no CD in the > > drive. I try different CDs. The CDs spin for a bit and the drive light > > comes on, but that is it. It won't recognise a music CD to play through > > its head

Re: [techtalk] netware vs. linux..?

2001-03-22 Thread James A. Sutherland
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Walt wrote: > I know NetWare isn't much in the headlines these days, but how does it > really perform? Extremely well when properly configured: matching Netware's performance under Linux takes some heavy duty kernel hacking and a LOT of extra work. Jeff Merkey (formerly of N

Re: [techtalk] netware vs. linux..?

2001-03-22 Thread James A. Sutherland
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Walt wrote: > No! I actually am interested in mentioning to them that a better > alternative exists, but since I have virtually no experience with > NetWare, I was wondering what, if any, evidence there is to support > that. That depends on how you define "better" :-) Netwa

RE: [techtalk] USB Support?

2001-03-22 Thread Ms. Piglet
I'm actually poking about at that same issue at the moment...putting Corel Linux on a Toshiba Satellite 1675. I've found that the fastest way to check on drivers for a particular device is actually to do a google search on the item with obvious related terms, such as Iomega USB CD-RW linux I'm

RE: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-22 Thread Ms. Piglet
This has bugged me since you first posted, because I knew I'd just read something about this. >From the book LINUX FOR YOUR LAPTOP by Bill Ball-- Slackware has a version that's meant to be run from a zip disk. Minimal installation on your machine, and boots from the zip: http://www.slackwa

Re: [techtalk] DESIGN: N-ary trees

2001-03-22 Thread jenn
James A. Sutherland wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> *I* couldn't figure out a way to do that within an N-ary tree (other >> than also changing the 'where in the tree am I' stuff). I >> was wondering if anyone else could. > > > If you just have a load of pointers in gro

[Fwd: Re: [techtalk] DESIGN: N-ary trees]

2001-03-22 Thread coder
One day I will get the hang of 'reply to'. Original Message Subject: Re: [techtalk] DESIGN: N-ary trees Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:38:31 -0600 From: coder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone come up with a useful design of an N-ary tree (I'm > thinking o

Re: [techtalk] netware vs. linux..?

2001-03-22 Thread Kath
> Interesting; usually, a properly configured Netware system will sit in a > corner under any load for months or even years without interruption. I > worked for a couple of years as a Unix admin in a mostly Netware driven > shop, and the production Netware servers only went down for hardware > fai