Re: Where to get mysql rpm's?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I am looking for mysql rpm's for version 3.22 or greater. I would > prefer one that uses the same conventions as the 3.20 and 3.21 rpm's > found in the redhat contrib/powertools mirrors (i.e. all binaries in > the same places, so when I upgrade everything goes smooth).

Re: Red Hat 6.2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Does this mean that gcc is now called egcs? I thought there was a > discussion going on about gcc-2.95 was needed when rebuilding RPMs to > take advantage of the i586 and i686 optimizations. Is this new egcs a > combination of both of those, or is gcc-2.95 bring left o

Re: Red Hat 6.2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Downloaded the beta ISO for 6.2, burned it and installed it on a > machine I have hanging around here. I told it to install everything, > and after it was all installed, I tried to determine what version of > gcc got installed. To my suprise, none. > Is this not going

Re: RH 6.2?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> on 10/2/2000 6:25 PM, Rick Forrester shot down the bitstream: >> So far, great. The only minor gotcha is that the kernel is compiled >> with frame buffering > > Like Caldera? Interesting point. And might explain why I had complete fits tryi

Re: RH 6.2?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm pretty sure this is not my problem, but would just like to > confirm.. > I have a laptop with a Trident Cyber 9397 DVD video card (4 MB). > Neither 6.1 or 6.2beta graphical install works. > I *can* get X to work later with a few XF86Config tweaks, (the details >

Re: RH 6.2?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Rick Forrester wrote: > > has anyone tried 6.2? if so how is it? > > So far, great. The only minor gotcha is that the kernel is compiled > with frame buffering; > It's already fixed in our internal tree. Won't be

Re: RH 6.2?

ion will be off in the final kernel until the frame buffer questions have been resolved. This _really_isn't_a_problem_! X didn't work on my system with an ATI chipset (Rage Pro 3D), worked fine on my Matrox G200 equipped system. best rickf > Rick Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: time for a new printer

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Rob Saul wrote: > > After almost a decade my trusty HP IIIp > seems to have finally gone to Silicon Heaven. > > Now comes finding a replacement. Having had > such good service from an HP product I'm favorably > inclined towards them and have taken

Re: RH 6.2?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > has anyone tried 6.2? if so how is it? So far, great. The only minor gotcha is that the kernel is compiled with frame buffering; your X installation may die. The fix for that is to do the following steps: 1. "cd /usr/src/linux" 2. "make oldconfig" 3. edit .config

Re: time for a new printer

yone running an earlier version of RH who needs the driver, you can get it from <http://lcewww.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html>; it comes with printerdb's for 5.1 & others, the filters, and instructions that work. best rickf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Rick

Re: How do I format a FAT partition under Linux?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is there a utility for *nix or Linux which will format a FAT partition > on a fixed disk?   e.g. mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda8 ...which won't work > without mkfs.vat (mkfatfs?), which I can't find. :) A. _Please_ turn off the html in email! B. the command you need is mkdosf

Re: [OT] graphics in Perl?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm on this assignment to do a baseline JPEG encoder/decoder..would > like to try it in Perl first. Any1 knows a clue to what modules/ > widgets to use to display graphics in Perl? Tck/Tk was one of the > tools I think (I only did CGI/shellscript under Pel before) Pla

Re: Printtool can't find any devices

Am assuming you both have installed/upgraded to RH 6.1. There was a config modules problem, which is documented on the errata page for 6.1. The fix is simple: 1. edit /etc/conf.modules (ie: "vi /etc/conf.modules") 2. add the line "alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc" 3. close the file Try pri

Re: Disk Druid

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I apologize to Roberta for the mistake. However, it seems to me if > she does want to use Disk Druid, she still can by the expedient of > doing an "upgrade" on the machine. That would allow her to partition > any new drives that she may have, or to repartition any

Re: Disk Druid

A couple of small issues here: 1. The name on the original email is "Roberta" - possibly (probably) a lady. 2. Unless things have changed recently (alway possible in the linux world, as we all know) Disk Druid is not available for post installation use. You pretty much have to

Re: RH6.1 Standard or Deluxe?

Yer exactly right here. He continues to ask the same questions over on the Caldera list, just switches around the references to Red Hat to be Caldera. Frank, if you're not just trolling, partition yer drive to allow two distros. Get the cluster packaging (6 distros, I think) from CheapBytes.

Intel i820 chipset currently supported?

Is anyone running aa motherboard based on the intel i820 chipset? I've got my eye on an ASUS P3c-D motherboard, which uses that chipset. Would appreciate any comments, gotcha's, whatever. best rickf -- Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "To get something done a committee

Re: Best Partition Plan

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Okay I don'w want to start a war, but I am somewhat confused over the > best partition plan to a new install on a large capacity laptop. I am > thinking something along the line of a small boot partition but then > how an perhaps why should I partition the remaining 6-7

Re: Add swap space

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > How can I add swap space form a new disk to the existing swap > partition? > What are the necessary steps? 1. On the new drive create a partition of the desired size and set the type to 82 (Linux swap). 2. Execute "mkswap ". 3. Edit the file /etc/fstab, and l

Re: Trying to install 5.2 on an 18gb disk

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I am having major problems installing 5.2 on an 18GB EIDE disk. > I have downloaded and created the latest 5.2 install image (boot.img) > from Dec 29, 1998. The system can not seem to see beyond the 1024th > cylinder of the disk. Is this just a total lie and can I just

Re: Help - Installing Linux?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > How large is your drive? > 27gig How many partitions do you currently have on the drive? > 1 Windows 98 > 1 Linux > 1 Linux swap What is the cylinder/head/sector information for your > drive? > Not sure, how can I find out? If you're succes

Re: Help - Installing Linux?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Will resizing the win98 partition move Linux to the first 1024 area? Frank-- Possibly. What we really need to answer your questions a bit more accurately is some information. How large is your drive? How many partitions do you currently have on the drive? What is

Re: Some basic installation questions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > As I wait for my rh6.1 cd to arrive in the mail I have a few questions > about the installation. I have decided to use my second IDE drive > which is 1.6 GB in space for redhat, but I am unsure on how I should > partition it up. Do I just stick everything into one partit

Re: Sorry, I forgot to change the header, Caldera vs Red Hat

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm new to Linux and notice that Red Hats's version comes with more > software. > What is the advantage of Red Hat over Open Linux 2.3. How frequent > does each vendor supply updates and enhancments? I know this is a Red > Hat list, but need advise. Both are excellent

Re: 7.x

to any particular strain or distro. On a Red Hat list to wonder if they're referring to a possible Red Hat version is hardly out of line, or indicative of ignorance of other distributions. > On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Rick Forrester wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> > I

Re: Compiling Perl

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I want to install Perl 5.005_03. I ftp'd to redhat.com but didn't see > an rpm for it. How do I install the source code on my Apollo machine? > More specifically, I downloaded Perl from cpan. I tried to uninstall > the rpm for 5.004, but couldn't do so because of abou

Re: 7.x

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is there a new list for 7.x? If so what is it's name? 7.x _WHAT_??? If you mean Red Hat 7.0, there's nothing public that would make it even appear that a 7.0 version is being planned, as opposed to 6.2 or whatever. Red Hat has always had a policy against pre-announc

Are the lists dead?

No messages from the Red Hat mailing lists in > 24 hrs, it seems. Testing to see if listserver is dead, or just list users. 8^) best rickf -- Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are a

Re: nenscript still?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Has nenscript survived the march of RHL releases? Does it have a new > name? I have RHL 4.2 running and it is there. I also have RHL 5.1 > running and it isn't. Bob, look for an enscript rpm. It's there, but not installed by default anymore. rickf -- Rick Forrister

Re: 6.1 broken printer

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > after a year of using my hp 5l printer with Red Hat i finally managed > to find a release of RH that would stop it from working. i just did a > fresh install of 6.1 and ran printtool (cause the graphical install > doesn't ask you if you want to install a printer) to set

Re: [Severely OT!!!] They said it would never happen...

All the very best to you both! best rickf -- Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent." Robert Copeland -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the

Re: RH 6.1 install ( S3 video/ Apple monitor)

rates which are acceptable & they all hang. So the proper step here is to select the best possible fit during the install, then select the "Skip test" option rather than trying it out. I usually use the text based expert install, also, as I find fewest problems that way. Then,

Re: RH 6.1 install ( S3 video/ Apple monitor)

Given your problems with the monitor/video chip set, have you tried installing the vga16 & XF86Setup rpm's from the distro? If not, give it a go. Often a bit easier for getting started. best rickf -- Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "To get something done a committee s

Re: Program Editors

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is there other choices for a syntax colored editor that is > easier to use > than xemacs. > > Is there a colred sytntax editor that works from the console. > vim, and jed both do syntax highlighting if you tell them to, but if > you find xemacs difficult to use, you pr

Re: Stupic 'C' compilation problem...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > try > cc -I/usr/include/kudzu -L/usr/lib -lkudzu -o hw_exam hw_exam.c > /usr/lib must not be in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH Nope. Finally found it. Stupid error, as I thought - cc -I/usr/include/kudzu -L/usr/lib -o hw_exam hw_exam.c -lkudzu Damned library refs go at end

Stupic 'C' compilation problem...

I'm sure I'm doing something really dumb here (which someone will, hopefully, point out immediately) but I can't get a test compile to work. The code references the kudzu header & library, /usr/include/kudzu/kudzu.h /usr/lib/libkudzu.a and I'm using the command line: cc -I/usr/include/kudzu -

Re: Help on swap spaces please

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have mandrake 6.1 running on a multi drive system on which I nee > dopt pull out one drive So far I have shifted all the data and apps > etc out of that drive I have only the swap partiton left Now, I have > created a new swap partition on another drive in this box,

Re: lp0 -- No such device in 6.1

Aaron, this looks more like the reported lpr problem, and the same behaviour I had. The fix is on the errata website, under security -> lpr; and consists of adding the line: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc to /etc/conf.modules best rickf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On 04-Nov-99 John P.

Re: Program Editors

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I assume you issue the command xemacs. No, the comments were for "vim", not emacs or xemacs. rickf > Then where do you issue the command 'syntax on'. > -Original Message- From: Rick Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > v> T

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > *** There is one thing that I see regularly come back and which I > really don't understand: Where does this urge come from for some > people to try to make everything accessible to Joe Sixpack!? Why is > that part of the total world population always the one who is u

Re: Linux not ready for average user (was: Redhat 5.1 Internet Installation)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Since you offered help with new hardware, I'll be specific. My > husband likes to configure new machines very "hot". He is totally > enamored with the ASUS-P2B-LS. This board, and every other board he > really likes, uses Adeptec scsi chips on the motherboard.

Re: motif

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > i have an asus pci 200 scsi card, where can i get information if this > card is supported with linux ? Im using rh 5.0 .. i tried the scsi > config in the autoboot with no success ... just curious thanks in > advance The ASUS PCI/SC-200 SCSI card is a standard Symbi

Re: Driver for Chips and Technologies 65555 PCI ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Does anyone know of an X driver for the Chips and Technologies 6 > PCI video card? It's in a new laptop we've just got. There is support in XFree86 v3.3.2 as distributed in Red Hat v5.1. My laptop has the CT65554, also supported. The driver you'll end up using

Re: Swap Space Maximum Limit and Not Used?!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Can anyone tell me why I can't get the 265041 blocks I have allocated > for my swap space. 'cat /proc/meminfo' shows this: > total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: > 130859008 126644224 4214784 57282560 74412032 16134144 Swap: > 133885952

Re: command to format jaz disks

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Can anyone please respond with the appropriate commands to format > under ext2 format 1gig Jazz disks? Thanks in advance. > Neely Kountze It should be the same as for a zip disk. The process I normally follow is: 1. fdisk the drive with the disk inserted. Remove

Hardware comments (any problems?)

Am getting ready to upgrade my system; have in mind the following components. Would appreciate any information about problems encountered working with RH 5.1 and any of these components (or positives!). Motherboard:ASUS P2B CPU:Intel 400MHz PII RAM:128Mb ECC SDIMM

Re: postscript printer

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > what is the filter for the postscript printer DECLaser 2200? > regards > miguel Miguel, if it's a postscript printer you should probably just use the "generic postscript printer" entry. Best -- Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Opera: Greek word m

Re: XV does not work outta 5.1!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Well I've got XV to do everything I like. What does ee do that XV > doesn't ? > For starters, it's under the GPL, not shareware, so it's really free > (no definition of free flames, please). Next, it is integrated with > GNOME, which is IMHO definitely where the Li

Re: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I don't have a MMX Pentium handy to check out what it reports. I can > report that a Pentium II/266 just says "3" for the model number. > Apparently this is just some arbitrary string assigned somewhere in > the kernel. I've got a 166MHz MMX cpu in my laptop: it re

Re: XV does not work outta 5.1!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I emailed this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but recieved no response. xv, > while dynamically linked with libc6, is looking for the libc5 > library. Doing a strace, shows it looking for it in /usr/lib /lib / > usr/local/lib. This is the xv shipped with 5.1. When will an

Re: fdisk

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > This is the message that I get when I make fdisk /dev/hda and try to > modify the partition table. What should I do, I reboot, but no change > !!! Nothing obviuos in the man. > The partition table has been altered! > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncin

Re: Well, is it?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > First a bit of background. The local technical college in the town > where I live in Germany is currently organising its first > installation party. I asked them what distributions would be > demonstrated, pointing out that I am RedHat user of full six months > stand

Re: Install 5.1

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > This is the message that I get when I try to install 5.1, has > somebody an idea : [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > <4> Partition check > <4> hda: hdb: > <4>VFS Lounted root (ext filesystem) ctived...sleeping again > <7> VFS: disk change detected on device 02:00 > <4> VFS: c

Re: problem with gcc under RedHat 5.1

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I've juste finish to install RedHat 5.1 > When i've tryed to compil qt-1.33 i've got this message from gcc : > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus' no file ... ... ... > cc1plus is the preprocesseur for c++ so I think the pr

Re: qmail in redhat 6

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Wed, 27 May 1998, Chris Frost wrote: > > I've always asked why qmail hasn't been included in redhat, esp > > since even Check out DJ Bernstein's qmail pages and you'll find > > this, "If you want to distribute modified versions of qmail (e.g., > > different packa

Re: X Quick Poll

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hope you guys don't mind, but I am about to set up my X manager and > wonder which ones you guys like best. Not overwhelmed by Metro-X and > having done a bit of reading, I am considering XFree, but also > considering olvwm, fvwm as well. Which are easy to install a

Re: InterBase

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Why don't you send this to the webmaster of that site instead of > this list? > CyberMan Romania, Iasi - 6600 tel: +40-32-177471 > e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't know what the problem was. Something may not have been properly set up at that ti

Re: RPM problems -- please lend a hand...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hey everyone...when I am installing some stuff for the kde desktop > and for numerous other things I keep getting the failed dependency of > /bin/sh is need by BLAH ... well, I don't know what the thing wants > -- /bin/sh is right where it always is -- could someone s

Re: Western Digital

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Have you looked at possible hazards in the immediate environment the > system is in? ie, is it hot, is the drive close to a faulty power > supply that gets real hot, etc... > Is the system ever physically moved around or possibly on a desk that > could get bumped alo

Re: Iomega Jaz Drives..

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On the other hand, I've had very good luck with ZIP disks (which use > floppy media). I've got four ZIP drives and have never had a single > sector go bad in over a year of use. Other people have reported some > sort of "clicking death" problem, but I've never seen

Re: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 1. I am not sure of this, but most BIOS' you cannot boot from a > secondary drive. The boot drive has to be primary. You also have to > be sure the MBR on your primary boot drive does not have either linux > or win95 and when you install you specify where your b

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I listed them in order; sorry not to mention it. I don't have that > machine here, but the failed setup was as follows: > hda1 /boot 100MB > hda2 WIN95 1GB > hda3 SWAP128MB > hda4 extended partition > hda5 / 2GB > hda6 /usrremainder Which par

Re: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Help again... > I have Win95 running on 850 MB C drive. I have a second 850 MB drive > I want RH Linux on. > I installed Linux on the second drive. When I set LILO to the MBR, no > boot. So I set LILO to the load from drive 2. Everything was fine but > I can't boot

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have searched the archives at dejanews, but I can't come up with an > answer. Not in English at least. > I have a 6.4GB Maxtor hard drive that I want to move my current > system to. My current system has a 1.6GB drive devoted to WIN95 and a > 1.7GB drive devoted t

Re: Antivirus stuff

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > What is available for Red Hat 5.0, in the way of antivirus programs? > Thanks in advance. > There is one, somewhere, but it's pretty much ignored. Unix, in general, is pretty much invulnerable to virus's. The main "gotcha" is a Trojan Horse, a program which appea

Re: Postscript: convert to booklet signatures?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Greetings, > I have a Postscript document that is set up as regular-size portrait > pages. Is there a utility that can take this document and format it > for printing out as a 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 booklet -- i.e., setting up the > signatures properly so that when it's print

Re: Slackware install errors

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I am surprised to see such a unhelpful attitude in this mailing list. > Your solution sounds like a Microsoft solution "install the product > I like and I will support you". Slakeware is still Linux. Just > because it's Slakeware doesn't mean a Red Hat user can't h

Re: Slackware install errors

So you connect up to a Red Hat list, tell us what a farce installing 5.0 was, then ask for help installing Slackware. Somehow I don't think that falls under "items of interest to users of 5.0" or "general information relative to Red Hat Linux." Guess I'm missing something. -- Rick Forriste

Re: Partitioning

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have a question. > I have a 486/66 with 16MB of RAM and a 1.6GB HD. How many partitions > should I have and what sizes should the be? I plan on installing all > the RedHat packages. > Thanks, Larry This is a bit like asking "What religion should I join", or "W

Re: PostgreSQL and MS-Access ... and Interbase!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have since heard that Borland's Interbase is to be released with > native support for Linux. I would be interested to hear more about > this is anyone out there has any news or experience with Interbase > for this platform. > However, I must add that Interbase, tho

Re: Device Driver help

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Well, > It looks like I need to write a device driver for my hand-scanner > (Mustek cg8000). Any pointers on how to get started? > #Thanks, > #Matt Smith Good starting place would be to find a copy of the April 1998 copy of Linux Journal. There's an article in th

Re: Help: Sorting stuff

> I was told we need to find a software package that can do various > sorts on ASCII files. We were going to buy a package from Syncsort > to do this with Solaris 2.5.1 but the vendor wanted $14k because our > Enterprise 3k has 4 processors. Our project manager just said to > them "f***

Re: SOLUTION (was 01010101 again)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Very interesting. I recently had a similar problem when I installed a > 9.1 GB drive. I had an old 1 GB EIDE drive in the machine, and even > though I told my system BIOS to boot from SCSI, and had DISABLED the > EIDE drive there, LILO tried to install itself on the M

Re: SOLUTION (was 01010101 again)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Well, I just reinstalled everything and recompiled the kernel as > before. The only thing I did differently was to shutdown, and to > *remove* the IDE drive before compiling and running /sbin/lilo. This > time I didn't get the warning regarding sda not being the first

Re: Need Info to shut up Mircosoft lover on MSNBC BB !!!!!!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have managed to link to the MSNBC's BB and would like to reply to > them but I need the name of the site that I have seen on this list!!! > What I am looking for is the company in Florida (I Think) that sells > systems with Linux pre-installed on them! TIA For the

Re: Anoying "Subject" contents...

So for the pleasure of telling someone off about his spelling of a single word, you flood the list with a full copy of his entire original message - and _TWO_ copies of the standard Red Hat mailing list addendum message. No clipping of the message to remove elements not applicable to your res

Re: Win95/Redhat5/PartitionMagic

Hi, I run several multibooted systems with Linux and Partition Magic. Provided some notes on how to set up Linux on a dual booted system running Partition Magic & the boot manager, also. Don't know where they are now; they were sent to Ed Bailey @ Red Hat. In any case, notes belo

Re: Changing Linux ext2 partition size

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The commercial software, Partition Magic, resizes partitions and is > supposed to be able to resize ext2 filesystems. > fdisk or FIPS can resize partitions but can't grow a file system, so > you would have to backup your data, resize the partition, create a > new f

Re: Database conversions on Linux?

Might want to give Adabas D a try. It's a solid, full featured SQL based RDBMS from Germany. I've had good success with it in the past. Now I have to get it set up again on 5.0. Been too busy to play with it. Best. -- Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Opera: Greek word m

Re: Another Question

Many good points, Dave, to which I'd add two more. (1) It should be somewhat faster when it comes time to fsck a partition when they're smaller. The partitioning will also restrict the damage if/when something happens to the disk. (2) I've found it quite useful to set aside an archive part

Re: zip drive/Click O' Death

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >I too, have fallen victim to this problem--twice! The first time it > >happened, I had never heard of the problem and I kept re-trying with > . > As mentioned before people have noticed filthy carts. I lost a CD > drive to dust pulled through it by the cooling

Re: zip drive

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Another thing I wanted to ask about zip_drives...I got > 'attacked' by this person on #linux the other night, babbling > something about how I was DOOMED because I used the zip-drivehe > referencing something called "the click of death". He wouldn't hear

Re: zip drive

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Anyone know what this bloke was on about with this 'click of > > death' thing, regarding iomega zip drives? > I don't know a whole lot about it, but apparently sometimes when a > zip cart is put in the drive, the drive itself will make some > particular clikcing n

Re: Linux in general

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You guys are so far ahead of me, I only understand about .01 percent > of what I read. I'm 55 and always used DOS/Windows. I have moaned > about the loss of the ability to tweak my computer as I pleased ever > since Windows came out. I've never even used Unix befor

Re: 2.0.33 kernel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I would imagine that installing a kernel from rpm would be clutzy at > best. Kernels either need to be configured and compiled for each > machine individually, or use everything, and be bigger than all get > out, or (the better solution, if you're going to do it) use

Re: External SCSI-2 tape?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Vendor: QUANTUM Model: VIKING 4.5 WSERev: 880R > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 > scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total. > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors

Re: Abit TX5 Motherboard success?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Well I have SDRAM which is 10 nanoseconds and cache is what 5-7 > nanoseconds? Not much of a performance hit unless I'm missing > something. I don't know much about this kind of stuff though, so > please feel free to point out any error in judgement. > --vicki >

Re: Abit TX5 Motherboard success?

Vicki, a couple of comments: 1. If this is an intel 430TX chipset based board then you're never going to be able to cache more than 64Mb of your RAM. There is a performance hit in this uncached memeory; and it's one of the reasons that I've stuck to my ASUS XP55T2P4 v3.1 motherboard. On th

Re: Partitions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi I have a 4GB partition available for Linux, and I would like to > know how to best partition this for Linux ? > Thanks Hi Mike; As you already know, partitioning issues verge on religious ones: everyone has "the one true way." We all know, however, that the

Re: which SCSI controller?

Interesting. My experience was exactly opposite; couldn't get essentially the same system (ASUS XP55T2P4/128MB/SCSI everything/SB-AWE/Millenium 8Mb/etc.) to work with Adaptec. Went to Buslogic, had a problem getting it going. Sent email to Leonard Zubkopf at , got a

Re: thanks, but no thanks

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >I read your original rant about Linux and frankly was wondering > about you. > I've made a mistake here. The original rant was from Mat Serwas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. That's ok. You youngsters are allowed to goof. Now, when you get on _MY_ side of 50... 8^). > I

Re: Not enough free space

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >After issue the p command, the following appears: > >Disk /tmp/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders > >Units=cylinders of 4032*512 bytes > >Device Boot BootBegin Start End Blocks Id System > >/tmp/hda1 * 1 1 6751038208

Re: Shell Programming Book

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > These are great books. I believe O'Reilly makes a bash book as well. > Check their web site, and if they have one, its most likely good :) ORA does indeed have a book specifically on bash, and it _IS_ excellent, as Dave suggested. Take a look at

Re: New Ghostscript RPMS

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Eze's version seems to include Epson Stylus support, while the stock > ghostscript in the contrib tree in RedHat ftp server does not. The > situation with ghostscript is always strange, because the stock > version in redhat-5.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS is 3.??. What gives th