Linux-Misc Digest #633, Volume #24 Sun, 28 May 00 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Exmh in Debian 2.1 ("Donald A. Syvanen")
Re: help with editing /etc/XF96Config (James Dahlgren)
Re: Partioning Problem, Win 98, Model 80h ("Mike Lacey")
Can't boot from CD (VO5)
Re: 6 certifications in 30 Days and 15+ College Credits!!! (Colin Smith)
FAT12 and other FAT filesystem partition types (Neil Zanella)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (h3$[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Partioning Problem, Win 98, Model 80h (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Access a Windows NT printer share? (Jan Johansson)
Re: getting "device busy" with cdrom (James Dahlgren)
Re: xf86config Question (Duane Evenson)
Re: help with editing /etc/XF96Config (James Dahlgren)
Making a boot floppy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What web server? (Rod Smith)
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From: "Donald A. Syvanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Exmh in Debian 2.1
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 13:35:26 -0700
Greetings-
I set-up Debian 2.1 with X and most everything works just fine, except when
I try to sent mail with Exmh its windows say 'mail sent' but later a windows
comes and says something like 'mail sent to nobody - administration denies
access.'
I have tried it as a user and also as root administrator. Still no success.
I tried 'elm' and 'mutt' and they said 'mail sent' but nothing appears at
the other end. (I send to myself at different server accounts.) The 'pon'
ppp connection appears to work okay in that I can use Mozilla - Netscape to
wander-the-web just fine.
Any suspects for the problem?
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From: James Dahlgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with editing /etc/XF96Config
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 15:08:14 -0400
I'm not an expert about this, and there's probably more than one way to do
this.
My experiences may not apply to you since different distributions may vary.
Only one of the screen sections is used for any particular X session.
It usually one for the accelerated servers.
This section has subsections for the different pixel depths.
Where the default pixel depth is kept I don't know.
Most starts scripts will pass the parameter to X with -- bpp,
for instance startx -- bpp 16
The two hyphens "--" tell X that it's a server argument instead of a client
one.
This will allow you to select the bit depth, and the portion of the XF86Config
file that is used.
My experience is that X starts in the first Mode defined for the given server
and bit depth.
It sets a virtual desktop of the size of the last Mode defined ( come to think
of it I don't
remember If I've tried putting them in an order other than from smallest to
largest ).
My first solution was to only define one mode, then the virtual desktop and the
physical one are the same. I recently found out about Ctl-Alt + and Ctl-Alt-
( it has to be the plus and minus on the numeric keypad ). If you have more
than one mode defined, it lets you go from mode to mode, but the virtual
desktop stays the same size. I now define the 640x480 and the 800x600 and X
starts at 640x480, I tap Ctl-Alt +, and I'm at 800x600 where I stay most of the
time because I have a hard time dealing with a virtual desktop that's larger
than the actual one. But, I can still zoom in by switching to 640x480 when I
want to.
You may have to do nothing more than Ctl-Alt +, to solve your problem.
Good Luck
jim ( james dahlgren )
.
-~=Darek M=~- wrote:
> Can anyone recommend what changes I should make to my XF86Config
> file? I tried many different settings and every time, my virtual
> desktop is either larger than the actual desktop, or I get
> an "out of range" message from my monitor.
>
> The virtual desktop looks to be 1024x768 and the desktop 640x480
> but could be 800x600.
>
> The card is a 2D Trident 9680 w/ 2meg RAM.
>
> #
> *****************************************************************
> *****
> # Screen sections
> #
> *****************************************************************
> *****
>
> # The Colour SVGA server
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "svga"
> # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
> #Device "Generic VGA"
> Device "Trident TGUI9680 (generic)"
> Monitor "My Monitor"
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> # Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
> Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
> ViewPort 0 0
> # Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 32
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> # The 16-color VGA server
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "vga16"
> Device "Generic VGA"
> Monitor "My Monitor"
> Subsection "Display"
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> Virtual 800 600
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> # The Mono server
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "vga2"
> Device "Generic VGA"
> Monitor "My Monitor"
> Subsection "Display"
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> Virtual 800 600
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX,
> W32, Mach64)
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "accel"
> Device "Trident TGUI9680 (generic)"
> Monitor "My Monitor"
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 32
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
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From: "Mike Lacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Partioning Problem, Win 98, Model 80h
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 20:48:07 +0100
"Svend Olaf Mikkelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Mike Lacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Problem - Win98 Explorer still thinks that C: is 9gb after the
> >repartitioning excersise.
> >
> >I have a Win98 machine with a 9gb (model 80h)drive. I downloaded
Partition
> >Manager followed the (very simple) instructions for shrinking the Win98
> >FAT32 partition. I rebooted, ran scandisk (as per instructions to adjust
the
> >free space) which told me that the last cluster on the drive was
unreadable.
> >With some misgivings I continued with scandisk and then split the free
> >space, using Partition Manager again, into a Linux and a Linux Swap
> >partition.
> >
> >So - all help and suggestions gratefully received, I would be grateful if
> >you would copy me by email on any posts.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Mike
> >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> It seems as you changed the partition size in the partition table, but
> not in the bootsector. This is a dangerous situation, since Windows 98
> will take the partition size from the bootsector and not from the
> partition table.
> --
> Svend Olaf
Svend,
That sounds reasonable - how can I change the boot sector then?
Mike
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: VO5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't boot from CD
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 20:30:07 GMT
I have an IBM Aptiva (M53) and I'm unable to boot from my CD ROM. My BIOS
doesn't allow it. I tried to find a newer version of it, but of course,
you can't find anything on that IBM site. I'm trying to install Corel
Linux. I tried booting from a floppy and it gives me an error. Something
like (Error 0 x 80). I think, it can't read from my CD ROM (by the way I
have a CD-RW also and tried to install from there and it also doesn't work)
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Smith)
Crossposted-To:
alt.certification.cisco,alt.certification.mcse,alt.certification.network-plus,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 6 certifications in 30 Days and 15+ College Credits!!!
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:31:39 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Followups set.
Courses, certification and professional qualifications.
Rather than becoming a serial certification taker, might it not be better to
join the IEEE computer society (USA) or British Computer Society (UK) and
gain professional qualifications via accreditied courses.
[lots snipped]
--
|Colin Smith: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Windows 2000 |
|Windows 2000 is a REALLY dumb name for an OS!!! | AKA |
|Linux is a MUCH better name for an OS! :-) | The W2K Bug |
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FAT12 and other FAT filesystem partition types
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 18:13:48 -0230
Hello,
I would like to ask the following question: I recently installed
Windows 98 and my Linux partition table lists the filesystem for
Windows 98 as being of type: DOS 16-bit <32M. Isn't this the same
as in95 FAT16 (LB. Also, what is the difference between the
Win95 FAT32 and Win95 FAT32 (LB partition types? Here are the
partition types listed by fdisk from util-linux 2.8:
Command (m for help): l
0 Empty a OS/2 Boot Manag 65 Novell Netware a6 OpenBSD
1 DOS 12-bit FAT b Win95 FAT32 75 PC/IX a7 NEXTSTEP
2 XENIX root c Win95 FAT32 (LB 80 Old MINIX b7 BSDI fs
3 XENIX usr e Win95 FAT16 (LB 81 Linux/MINIX b8 BSDI swap
4 DOS 16-bit <32M f Win95 Extended 82 Linux swap c7 Syrinx
5 Extended 40 Venix 80286 83 Linux native db CP/M
6 DOS 16-bit >=32 51 Novell? 85 Linux extended e1 DOS access
7 OS/2 HPFS 52 Microport 93 Amoeba e3 DOS R/O
8 AIX 63 GNU HURD 94 Amoeba BBT f2 DOS secondary
9 AIX bootable 64 Novell Netware a5 BSD/386 ff BBT
I also have another question:
I need to create a filesystem with a Solid State Floppy Disc Card format
(SSFDC) also known as FAT12. Does this have partition type 1 (DOS 12-bit
FAT) or is FAT12 something different altogether?
Thanks,
-- Neil Zanella
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: h3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 28 May 2000 12:50:09 -0700
In article <8gr1h3$ml0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter says...
>: Well, you were an idiot actually. Nothing wrong with calling an
>: idiot an idiot. Any one who claims a mailing list can act as a bug
>: tracking software must be a very stupied person.
>
>Or a very clever one. As in the entire collective power of the
>university professors, elite software coders, and other interested
>hackers worldwide who make up the kernel developers.
There is a huge step to take from being a good programmer but with
no organisational and software engineering skills, to being
a good programmer with those additional skills.
Think engineering, not just coding. coding takes only about
15% of the resources and effort (even if that) on a large
software project. The rest is specification, design, requirments,
source control, bug tracking, test suites, regression testing, QA,
maintainance, and many other tasks not related to coding.
h3
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Partioning Problem, Win 98, Model 80h
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:00:14 GMT
"Mike Lacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I have a Win98 machine with a 9gb (model 80h)drive. I downloaded Partition
>> >Manager followed the (very simple) instructions for shrinking the Win98
>> >FAT32 partition.
>> It seems as you changed the partition size in the partition table, but
>> not in the bootsector. This is a dangerous situation, since Windows 98
>> will take the partition size from the bootsector and not from the
>> partition table.
>That sounds reasonable - how can I change the boot sector then?
Are we talking about Ranish Partition Manager? This program should be
able to edit the bootsector too. Put the cursor on the FAT32
partition, and press enter to enter the boot sector.
It is the total number of sectors that must be changed to match the
partition table entry. Nothing else. This assumes that the partition
is fully defragmented.
Note that if the partition was not fully defragmented, data might have
been damaged, when you created the Linux partitions. This should
however only involve a few sectors, since I assume you did not install
Linux yet.
I guess you should not run Scandisk or Defrag at this point. If data
exists past the end of the current partition table entry, the
partition tables should be changed back before Defrag/Scandisk is run.
Do not run Scandisk with repair, unless you have current backup and no
files are missing.
If important data is involved, you have the option to mail me and/or
backup to an external media.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Access a Windows NT printer share?
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:00:15 GMT
On Sun, 28 May 2000 15:40:04 GMT, "JNeuffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>What I don't understand is how to get a Linux workstation to print to a
>JetDirect. Does Samba have to be installed?
>
>Are there any URLs out there for setting something like this up?
Just set the jetdirect up to run TCP/IP then just use it as any lpr
device.
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From: James Dahlgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting "device busy" with cdrom
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 16:44:27 -0400
For what its worth
I assume that one would make sure that no users are on the drive. I've had this
happen after closing a shell without cd'ing off of the drive. Sometimes fuser
reports that root is using it when root definately doesn't have anything on it,
I've checked ps to make sure that updatedb or anything else that might be using
the device as root isn't running, sometimes fuser shows no users even though
umount reports device busy. I think that it's happened sometimes when I've been
carefull not to close a shell that's logged onto the cdrom, but I can be flakey
sometimes so I'm not sure. I'm using RedHat 6.0, I don't remember if it ever
happened to me with Slackware or earlier RedHats.
jim (james dahlgren)
.
Janet wrote:
> "john mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am trying to upgrade my Redhat 5.2 system to the latest distribution. I
> > downloaded 6.2 from Redhat's site, and I can mount the installation disk,
> > but when I try to unmount it using umount, I get the message "the device is
> > busy". Has anyone gotten this before?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
>
> This often happens if you are in the cdrom directory (i.e., if any of your
> shells are sitting there). Try cd'ing somewhere else.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Janet
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From: Duane Evenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xf86config Question
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 15:21:07 -0600
Sukumar Thirunarayanan wrote:
> When I first ran xf86config after installing i740 driver it askes me for
> the Video Card, I selected the wrong one but when I ran it next time so
> that I can select the right one. The video card selection screen didn't
> come up. I did the following
>
> 1) linked /usr/X11R6/bin/X to /usr/X11R6/bin/XBF_i740
>
> 2) Changes to: 1024x768 800x600 640x480 in Display Section. Then add a
> line just before the Display subsection to force the color depth you want:
> DefaultColorDepth 32.
>
> But now my screen is going beyond my monitor viewable area.
>
> Can anyone one help fixing this problem?
>
> Thank You
Add the line
Virtual 800 600
in your display subsection.
The virtual screen defaults to the largest dimensions (in your case 1024x768).
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From: James Dahlgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with editing /etc/XF96Config
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 16:54:12 -0400
It's all explained prety well right here
It's http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#virtual
-~=Darek M=~- wrote:
> Can anyone recommend what changes I should make to my XF86Config
> file? I tried many different settings and every time, my virtual
> desktop is either larger than the actual desktop, or I get
> an "out of range" message from my monitor.
>
> The virtual desktop looks to be 1024x768 and the desktop 640x480
> but could be 800x600.
>
> The card is a 2D Trident 9680 w/ 2meg RAM.
>
> #
> *****************************************************************
> *****
> # Screen sections
> #
> *****************************************************************
> *****
>
> # The Colour SVGA server
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "svga"
> # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
> #Device "Generic VGA"
> Device "Trident TGUI9680 (generic)"
> Monitor "My Monitor"
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> # Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
> Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
> ViewPort 0 0
> # Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 32
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> # The 16-color VGA server
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "vga16"
> Device "Generic VGA"
> Monitor "My Monitor"
> Subsection "Display"
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> Virtual 800 600
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> # The Mono server
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "vga2"
> Device "Generic VGA"
> Monitor "My Monitor"
> Subsection "Display"
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> Virtual 800 600
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX,
> W32, Mach64)
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "accel"
> Device "Trident TGUI9680 (generic)"
> Monitor "My Monitor"
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 32
> Modes "640x480" "800x600"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Making a boot floppy
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:50:32 GMT
Hi everybody,
I am running RedHat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12.
My ultimate goal is to recompile the kernel, so that I
can use some new drivers, but before I do that( for the first time)
I need to make a boot floppy. I followed the instructions in
O'Reilly's Running Linux:
dd if=boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
and the image was indeed copied to the floppy.
When I tried to boot from the floppy there was a kernel
panic. Init could not be found. How do I do fix this.
Any and all help appreciated.
Dan
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: What web server?
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.pc,microsoft.public.inetserver.iis,comp.unix.solaris
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 22:07:52 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <#Ow4TUNy$GA.289@cpmsnbbsa09>,
"ybahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Do you think www.netcraft.com/whats/ could make mistake?
Yes. I believe they've got a FAQ that addresses this, among other
questions. Their scripts rely upon the return values to certain queries
they make, and those return values can be altered in various ways.
> I'm wondering because www.netcraft.com/whats/ says
> ebay runs on IIS4 and I also read a different story.
IIRC, eBay uses IIS as the web server, but something Unix-based to
control the auction database "underneath" the web server. I don't recall
the details, though.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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