Re: DoS protection solutions for Debian Servers ?

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 10:57 AM Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2024-03-13, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > > > what solutions (free or not) do you debian servers pros use (for pro or > > private servers) ? > > You could try suricata. Same as snort but with another community for > upgrading rules. >

Re: DoS protection solutions for Debian Servers ?

On 2024-03-13, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: > what solutions (free or not) do you debian servers pros use (for pro or > private servers) ? You could try suricata. Same as snort but with another community for upgrading rules. Using nftables instead of iptables also could reduce high trafic impa

Re: DoS protection solutions for Debian Servers ?

On 13 Mar 2024 20:20 +0100, from jfbache...@free.fr (Jean-François Bachelet): > Looking for advice for protecting debian servers from DoS attacks Denial of service (such as software crashes because of network input), or distributed denial of service (such as connection or system overload beca

DoS protection solutions for Debian Servers ?

Hello folks :) Looking for advice for protecting debian servers from DoS attacks as there are more and more of these ones to fight against :/ needless to say that fail2ban isn't enough for this task... scripts for firewall too... and tiring to make as hackers responses are damn

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 22:34, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I have a few DOS/Windows abandonware that I'd like to check but I only > want the DOS ones, because Wine on my installation is a total pain. [...] > $ file test2/sm/SM.EXE > test2/sm/SM.EXE: MS-DOS executable, MZ for MS-DOS

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

testing, so I do not really know, it file command detects dos correctly. But this particular file listing has SM.EXE and SM.PIF. Which strongly suggests, that SM.EXE is dos program (because PIF file WIndows configuration file for DOS VM used to execute that executable). -- Virgo Pär

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 11:33:44AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: $ file test2/sm/SM.EXE test2/sm/SM.EXE: MS-DOS executable, MZ for MS-DOS Which makes me think it's DOS but it could be a false positive. Nope, that's it. If it was windows it would say something like "PE32+ execu

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windowsprogram?

On 1/8/23 16:04, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Saturday 07 January 2023 03:27:31 pm gene heskett wrote: That DOS was not the least bit entertaining. :(> That was the best reason to skip it, I went from amigados 3.9 to rh5.0, never regretted missing the DOS experience, I got my fill of it

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 6:43 PM Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: > > If I remember correctly, all Windows EXE have an string saying: > > This program cannot be run in DOS mode. A couple of small nits... They are called PE/PE+ programs. The string "This program cannot be run in DOS mode&

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windowsprogram?

On Saturday 07 January 2023 03:27:31 pm gene heskett wrote: > That DOS was not the least bit > entertaining. :(> That was the best reason to skip it, I went from > amigados 3.9 to rh5.0, never regretted missing the DOS experience, I got > my fill of it as the CE at a tv station

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat Jan 7 17:34:05 2023 wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 08:47:09AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs >> all have control-z as their first character. The file command >> may also help. > > No. C

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

If I remember correctly, all Windows EXE have an string saying: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. It is displayed when loaded under MS-DOS, so it should be easy to identify an EXE for DOS from an EXE for Windows. To run it, dosbox should work. Greetings

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On 1/7/23 13:33, Ottavio Caruso wrote: I have a few DOS/Windows abandonware that I'd like to check but I only want the DOS ones, because Wine on my installation is a total pain. For example: $ file test2/sm416.exe test2/sm416.exe: Zip archive data, made by v2.0, extract using at least

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windowsprogram?

On 1/7/23 12:25, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 08:47:09AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have control-z as their first character. The file command may also help. No. Control-Z (aka 0x1a) was an EOF character

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 08:47:09AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have > control-z as their first character. The file command may also help. No. Control-Z (aka 0x1a) was an EOF character under DOS. Files were (som

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

; recommend CrossOver Office, I use it to play windows games on Linux. > > > > So you're saying DOS didn't run .EXE files? Of course it did. The file endings for DOS executables were .com and .exe. But .exe is more of an umbrella for different formats, not all of them natively

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On Sat, 2023-01-07 at 08:47 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have > control-z as their first character. The file command may also help. If I remember correctly, COM files have no header, the first byte is the first machin

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

As far as I know, you can look into the file with a hexeditor (maybe any other editor should do it, too). In the first line is written, which OS is required. However, there could be anything written, but in most cases it is set correctly. Please do not blame me, if I am wrong, but I blieve, thi

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have control-z as their first character. The file command may also help. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

> Some .exe files are DOS programs, not Windows programs. > > The question being asked is how to tell which type a given EXE is, > and assuming it turns out to be a DOS program, how to run it. > OMG, i really have some difficulty to access my own knowing, as i used to handle su

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

On 2023-01-07 at 07:13, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > All .exe files are windows, linux does not use .exe! While the latter statement is (largely) correct, the former is not. Some .exe files are DOS programs, not Windows programs. The question being asked is how to tell which type a given

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

All .exe files are windows, linux does not use .exe! You can run Windows applications on Linux using: WINE, CrossOver Office or Steam Proton. I recommend CrossOver Office, I use it to play windows games on Linux. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debia

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

Inspect the files with strings and pipe the output to less. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Subject: OT: for posterity: iproute -- dos program by David F. Mischler: (was: CVE security vulnerabilities, versions and ... )

omputers. > > That's a slight confusion of NAT and packet filtering. NAT by > itself doesn't do that. Ahh, ok. For posterity (I sometimes call her pos for short), I wanted to mention a dos program named iproute written by David F. Mischler. At most, this has only a slight

NAT program used in DOS pre-2000 (was: Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick ...)

Oops, just noticed that in my previous email I said pre-2020 when I meant pre-2000 -- that may have added some confusion. On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 08:55:20 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > my LAN consisted only of DOS (or Windows) computers. One (DOS) comput

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

I spoke with a friend about this yesterday who was in the area and has done quite a bit using SDR as a radio amateur. He passed along these links: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=wright1608139109925131&disposition=inline https://www.rtl-sdr.com/using-an-rtl-sdr-

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

t; you know one, I will be happy, to point me at them. > > If you know one, this would be interesting, so it could maybe run on a small > computer, like a Raspberry Pi. > > These are just my thoughts, why I stumbled over this application, and maybe > others would be interested,

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

pectively. The thing is, the Soundblaster and the (Commodore? or Curtis?) sound chips in them became a de facto standard. DOS and Windows. There were clone chips and compatible cards, etc. So the project could have a broad compatibility reach. And you have to wonder if it's been mostly don

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

As I know, there are also bibg applications ported from DOS to linux (like doom), I thoughtm that would be easy - just start a cross compiler, then fix some issues, ready. But I believe, it is not that easy, I suppose, this is a lot lot lot work. And as far as I understood, code from DOS C is

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

Hans, Georgi makes a good point about existing software. This seems like it would be a perfect addition to a Software Defined Radio (SDR) package. I've not investigated whether any of the existing packages available in Debian have this capability. As these programs capture an arbitrary slice of

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

a Raspberry Pi. These are just my thoughts, why I stumbled over this application, and maybe others would be interested, too. As I know, there are also bibg applications ported from DOS to linux (like doom), I thoughtm that would be easy - just start a cross compiler, then fix some issues, ready. Bu

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

On 11/21/21 13:54, Hans wrote: > Hello list, > > I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old > DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL. > > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

Interestingly, it appears that the original author was threatened with patent infringement of US Patent 5,005,210[1]. It seems as though the patent may have expired in 2008[2]. It appears no patent infringement suit was ever brought against the author. The noted rights holder, Motron, apparently

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

his application is written in C, it is     running in     > textmode ("ncurses-mode").     > [...] I wondered, ho     > difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS     application     > natively running in linux. [snip]     Didn't Borland o

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

in > textmode ("ncurses-mode"). > [...] I wondered, ho > difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS application > natively running in linux. > Is DOS C and Linux C compatible, so that such thing could be

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

t;). >> > [...] I wondered, ho >> > difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS application >> > natively running in linux. >> >> >> > Is DOS C and Linux C compatible, so that such thing could be easy? >> >> C is not a typica

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Hans wrote: > > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in > > textmode ("ncurses-mode"). > > [...] I wondered, ho > > difficult for an experienced coder it wil

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

Of course, and this working, yes. But I thought, native linux might be better, and maybe someone may be happy for such a projekt. Just an idea. Best Hans > tried DOSEMU? > https://dosemu2.github.io/dosemu2/ > > -- > Fabio

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

Am Sonntag, 21. November 2021, 14:03:36 CET schrieb Richard Owlett: if-module, this is intermediate frequence (as usual 455khz for example). Did not know the correct English word for it, sorry. Best Hans > On 11/21/2021 06:45 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > [snip] > > > > (What is an "if-module",

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

On 11/21/2021 06:45 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: [snip] (What is an "if-module", btw ? Google does not give me proposals which look like radio enthusiasm.) I read that as "Intermediate frequency". q.v. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_frequency

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

On 2021-11-21 08:54, Hans wrote: Hello list, I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL. As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode ("ncurses-mode"). Sinc

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

Hi, Hans wrote: > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in > textmode ("ncurses-mode"). > [...] I wondered, ho > difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS application > natively running in linux. Hard to say without seeing co

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

Hi Nate (and everything else), if you want to take a look at the app, it is called "XMIT261". You can find it here: https://www.qsl.net/n9zia/xmit_id/down.html[1] It is the only source I found, for myself I made several backups, as I am not sure how long this is available at all. Although, t

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

* On 2021 21 Nov 05:54 -0600, Hans wrote: > Hello list, > > I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old > DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL. > > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

On 11/21/2021 05:54 AM, Hans wrote: [snip] I can send the app wherever you want to (attaching it here, does not allow to send the mail strangely), so everyone can take a look. This app is available in the web, but a little bit hidden, if you do not know its exactly name. And the name of this

Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

Hello list, I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL. As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode ("ncurses-mode"). Since there is no similar linux based a

Re: Fwd: dosemu : DOS emulator program

On 10/17/20 11:27 AM, ellanios82 wrote:  - meantime , got lucky : added to APT Sources List :   http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib>  - did "apt install dosemu" .  Oh Miracle !  dosemu installed & working, sweet  [ have to say, f

Fwd: dosemu : DOS emulator program

- thank you so much Reinhard : will try get to it next week. and learn how to use Github, to install DOSEMU . - meantime , got lucky : added to APT Sources List : http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib> - did "apt install dosemu" . Oh Miracle ! dosemu installe

Re: dosemu : DOS emulator program

- thank you so much Reinhard : will try get to it next week. and learn how to use Github, to install DOSEMU . regards ellan On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 4:48 PM Reinhard Karcher < reinhard.septem...@online.de> wrote: > ellanios82 wrote: > > [-- text/plain, Encoding 7bit, Zeichensatz: UTF-

Re: dosemu : DOS emulator program

ellanios82 wrote: > [-- text/plain, Encoding 7bit, Zeichensatz: UTF-8, 6 Zeilen --] > > - please , how to find Repository with "dosemu" ? > [ while dosbox is available , really would prefer dosemu ] for MXlinux > https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2.git Reinhard

Re: dosemu : DOS emulator program

ellanios82 wrote: > - please , how to find Repository with "dosemu" ? > [ while dosbox is available , really would prefer dosemu ] for MXlinux dosemu was removed from Debian with Debian 10 (Buster). There is no repository that contains dosemu for a current Debian release anymore. Grüße, Sven.

dosemu : DOS emulator program

- please , how to find Repository with "dosemu" ? [ while dosbox is available , really would prefer dosemu ] for MXlinux ... regards

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

I've often wanted to be a Curator, for a Computer History Museum. Kenneth Parker

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > > > > I'm not sure that you really can. What's your reasoning for > > doing this? Are you just spoiling for an unnecessary fight? > > Or do you really want to boot off it? > > I want to use a fl

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

> Since it was the industry standard for "sneakernet" file > transfer for over a decade, I don't think it's a strange use case. > What did I miss? The two decades that passed by since? ;-) Especially since the media was notoriously unreliable back then and it probably hasn't gotten better with a

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

> I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. Reading the manpage of mkfs.fat gives me the impression that mkfs.fat /dev/sdc should do the trick. Have you tried? Stefan

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 5:43 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote: > > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > > I'

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 1:46 PM Curt wrote: > > On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote: > > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > > Normally I would have used mform

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote: > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. I'm not sure that you really can. What's your reasoning for doing this? Ar

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

Curt wrote: > On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote: > > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > > Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it >

Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote: > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it > appears that I can not supp

Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated names" like A: which ar

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

igure the parameter for the virtual machine (memory, hardware). When you launch the VM, you can install DOS/Windows/Linux like you do on normal hardware. If you have floppy or CD-ROM, you can allow the VM to access these devices directly. Or you can create images of the software and attach the

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

On Fri, 25 May 2012 03:10:02 +0200 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..and it probably doesn't need real hardware either, run it > in a virtual machine and tell us how it worked for you. :o) I'll be glad to report back but first a little help: I take it this isn't about using DOSMU but a virtual machine w

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

On 05/24/2012 03:10 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: Installing Free Dos loading in a copy of Word Perfect 5.1 that can also use the system printer under CUPS? Ah! A true believer! If I could only get "View Codes" in O

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

On Thu, 24 May 2012 23:15:02 +0100, Roger wrote in message <20120524221502.gh22...@codelibre.net>: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > Is this possible now? > > > > Installing Free Dos loading in a copy of Word Perfect 5.1 >

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

rint one any type of printer. You might need to fiddle with > timeouts--DOSEMU can't always tell when jobs end, so it ends the job > after a delay. > > WRT WordPerfect itself, can't see why it wouldn't work; I've run > plenty of software in DOSEMU without troub

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > Is this possible now? > > Installing Free Dos loading in a copy of Word Perfect 5.1 > that can also use the system printer under CUPS? You can certainly drive the system printer using DOSEMU. However, how well th

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > Installing Free Dos loading in a copy of Word Perfect 5.1 > that can also use the system printer under CUPS? Ah! A true believer! IMHO think WPDOS to work with CUPS is more trouble than it's worth. The following pa

Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

Is this possible now? Installing Free Dos loading in a copy of Word Perfect 5.1 that can also use the system printer under CUPS? Is this hopeless? -- Thanks CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: clamscan to check dos .exe files

On 27/12/11 18:20, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Scott: > >>> How do I scan dos .exe files w/ clamscan? Or it is impossible? >>> >>> I have downloaded a windos exe and want to try it w/ wine. But first >>> I want to check it bu

Re: clamscan to check dos .exe files

Thank You for Your time and answer, Scott: >> How do I scan dos .exe files w/ clamscan? Or it is impossible? >> >> I have downloaded a windos exe and want to try it w/ wine. But first >> I want to check it but clamscan seems does not scan it - in its >> statist

Re: clamscan to check dos .exe files

On 26/12/11 21:40, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > How do I scan dos .exe files w/ clamscan? Or it is impossible? > > I have downloaded a windos exe and want to try it w/ wine. But first I > want to check it but clamscan seems does not scan it - in its >

clamscan to check dos .exe files

Good time of the day. How do I scan dos .exe files w/ clamscan? Or it is impossible? I have downloaded a windos exe and want to try it w/ wine. But first I want to check it but clamscan seems does not scan it - in its statistics it shows zero data scanned. Thanks for Your time. -- To

Re: Booting into DOS [SOLVED]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 04:19 AM 12/2/2011, Brian wrote: > >> On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 23:32:42 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: >> >> > I'm obviously doing something incorrect, since I cannot get a DOS boot. >> > I'm sure I

Re: Booting into DOS [SOLVED]

At 04:19 AM 12/2/2011, Brian wrote: On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 23:32:42 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > I'm obviously doing something incorrect, since I cannot get a DOS boot. > I'm sure I misunderstood you. What are all the files that should be > edited, and what should they

Re: Booting into DOS

On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 23:32:42 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > I'm obviously doing something incorrect, since I cannot get a DOS boot. > I'm sure I misunderstood you. What are all the files that should be > edited, and what should they contain? There is only one file to

Re: Booting into DOS

> # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change > # the 'exec tail' line above. > menuentry "DOS (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" { >insmod part_msdos >insmod fat > #set root='(hd0,0)' >set=root >

Re: Booting into DOS

On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 12:13:20 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > At 05:57 AM 11/28/2011, Brian wrote: >> >> > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS >> > from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" &

Re: Booting into DOS

On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 17:26:00 -0500, Tom H wrote: > In grub2, sda1 is (hd0,1) or (hd0,msdos1) not (hd0,0) - although the > "search..." line should override the "set root..." line. The way understand it is: GRUB will boot using the 'search...' line if a disk is found. The 'set root...' line can b

Re: Booting into DOS

ter this comment.  Be careful not to change > # the 'exec tail' line above. > menuentry "DOS (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" { >        insmod part_msdos >        insmod fat > #        set root='(hd0,0)' >    set=root >        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid

Re: Booting into DOS

o change >> # the 'exec tail' line above. >> menuentry "DOS (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" { >> insmod part_msdos >> insmod fat >> set root='(hd0,0)' >> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 351B-1CE1 >&

Re: Booting into DOS

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Brian wrote: >> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### >> # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the >> # menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change >> # the 'exec tail&#

Re: Booting into DOS

/etc/grub.d/40_custom ### > # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the > # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change > # the 'exec tail' line above. > menuentry "DOS (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" { >

Re: Booting into DOS

At 05:57 AM 11/28/2011, Brian wrote: On Sun 27 Nov 2011 at 23:06:29 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS > from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" > adn "no such parti

Re: Booting into DOS

On Sun 27 Nov 2011 at 23:06:29 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS > from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" > adn "no such partition". How do i fix this. Please po

Re: Booting into DOS

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:06:29 -0500 Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear list - > > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into > DOS from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument > specified" adn "no such partition". How do

Booting into DOS

Dear list - My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" adn "no such partition". How do i fix this. Thanks. Ethan Debian 6.0.1a squeeze(sid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Conclusion: Creating a DOS floppy disk image

On Sun, 30 May 2010 09:45:12 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy-image bs=1440k count=1 > $ /sbin/mkdosfs floppy-image > > You need the dosfstools package for the latter command. Thanks Sven,

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

On 2010-05-30 07:16 +0200, T o n g wrote: > How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? $ dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy-image bs=1440k count=1 $ /sbin/mkdosfs floppy-image You need the dosfstools package for the latter command. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

On Saturday 29 May 2010 09:16:16 pm T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? > > [OT] > Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use > > sys A: > > to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I he

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

On 2010-05-30, T o n g wrote: > How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? > > [OT] > Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use > > sys A: > > to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying > ntldr, ntdete

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

On Sat May 29 2010 10:16:16 pm T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? I haven't made a dos disk in ages but I think mkdosfs from the dosfstools package will do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

Hi, How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? [OT] Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use sys A: to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini into it will make it boot-able. Anybody know if

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

On Tuesday 27 October 2009 16:36:07 David Cottrill NCH Software wrote: > To kill off a computer quickly: > step one: ":(){ :|:& };:" > step two: reboot because your machine has stopped responding Actually, I ran that intentionally, as root, on my new 2x dual-core system that I built in 2005. It

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

In <4ae7d2a7.9040...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Will Murnane put forth on 10/27/2009 5:23 PM: >> This is also the wrong list; it's for users and developers of the >> Debian Live scripts. Please re-post on the proper list. >> >> Will > >It may not be the most appropriate list for his

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:27:58PM +0500, surreal wrote: > I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS > which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels. I guess you are talking about CVE-2008-5300 [1]

Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

Will Murnane put forth on 10/27/2009 5:23 PM: > This is also the wrong list; it's for users and developers of the > Debian Live scripts. Please re-post on the proper list. > > Will It may not be the most appropriate list for his question, but it's not nearly as narrow as you define it. This li

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:27, surreal wrote: > I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS > which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels. After about 15 minutes: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 16799 will

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

because your machine has stopped responding David. surreal wrote: I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels. At that time, I used Fedora Core 4 and a pentium 4 machine with 512 MB ram. After compiling and runn

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