Linux-Misc Digest #310
Linux-Misc Digest #310, Volume #27Thu, 8 Mar 01 01:13:04 EST
Contents:
I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and it
won't boot with it. ("Newbie from Win98")
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and
it won't boot with it. ("Newbie from Win98")
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've (Dean Thompson)
How to make the computer CD-bootable ? (Arctic Storm)
strange root passwd problem! ("Sudhakar R.")
crontab q? ("Sudhakar R.")
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and
it won't boot with it. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: booting problem ("Sudhakar R.")
Re: Why won't RedHat 7.0 run a binary which worked in RedHat 6.x? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: hang at real time clock driver (jay)
Nixware.com / Everything for your Ultimate Linux Box! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: strange root passwd problem! ("David Murray")
Re: Trying to use automated MP3 for store intercom ("David Murray")
Re: newbie- installation problems (Dean Thompson)
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? SOLVED ("Newbie from
Win98")
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? SOLVED. ("Newbie from
Win98")
Re: Odd behavior at login (Dean Thompson)
Re: Linux Win share mail files on dual boot pc (Dean Thompson)
From: "Newbie from Win98" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD
and it won't boot with it.
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:10:41 -
Dear All,
please can you help me? I've included more information as well as adding
another Newsgroup (alt.os.linux) so I am re-posting this. Please see if you
can help me as I have now spent over 2 days searching the internet and
reading everything I can get my hands on but so far it hasn't helped me.
I've downloaded the SuSE EVal 7_0 ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've
burned a CD and it won't boot with it. Do I need to unzip it or something?
I can see the ISO file on the CD under Windows 98.
I used Nero Burning ROM software v4.0.5.0 that came free with my Creative
CD-RW. I can see the ISO file on the CD in Windows. There was a mention in
the Nero Help File of being able to Burn an Image but this option was not
where the help file said it would be so I could not do a "Burn Image".
Something tells me this is my downfall.
I do not have any copies of Linux on this box and I have not installed Linux
before. All the HOW-TO's mention making an ISO bootable from within Linux,
none actually specify how to do this completely under Windows.
The filename is: live-evaluation-i386-70.iso
It's my first time trying Linux so please be gentle with me, no flames
please.
Thanks for any help you an give me.
Martin.
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From: "Newbie from Win98" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a
CD and it won't boot with it.
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 03:19:36 -
An example of a frustrating How To is here. The question asks exactly what
I want to do, the reply mentions how to do it under Linux and points to an
out of date, non-Windows way of doing it. Then the person who asked the
original question writes back saying:
"Jim,
Thanks for your information. And ironically, shortly (next day) after I
wrote you the email, I did find out what was going wrong and how to fix it.
WinOnCD did have the capability, but it was somewhat a "hidden" feature of
sorts.
I do appreciate your response, though.
-Lewis"
He didn't even mention how he did it in WinOnCD ARRggghhh!
Please please please can some one help me to make my ISO file, which took
hours to download, into a bootable CD so that I can install my first ever
Linux OS.
And my PC is bootable from CD. I've been able to run YAST2 (setup program
from SuSE) on a floppy and it can detect my hardware so I am confident the
install will be okay once it gets going. YAST2 stops when it gets as far as
asking for the boot CD, I tell it my CDROM and it says that the CD is not a
valid, please insert CD 1. I also tried out a floppy from SuSE with the
"bootdisk" file and that also asks for a CD. It must be that the ISO file
copied onto a CD is not enough.
Basically I've copied the ISO straight to a CD. Should I do something else
to put it on the CD? Please remember I do not have any Linux on my PC, just
Windows 98.
"Newbie from Win98" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote i
Linux-Misc Digest #310
Linux-Misc Digest #310, Volume #26 Tue, 14 Nov 00 17:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: About Samba 's log ("BB")
Re: Path problem (Bill Delphenich)
Architectural software on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: True GTK+ will eliminate Qt in next few years? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: If I switch to Mandrake 7.2, will I take a hit? (dd)
Sandisk Imagemate flash reader ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
nfs root fs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: UPDATE: PM Error 105 Please Look: Results of `fdisk -l /dev/hda` (Svend Olaf
Mikkelsen)
Re: Path problem (Ryuji Yokoyama)
cannot open /dev/lp0 - Permission denied ("Gerald Pollack")
Re: Memory leak? (Michael Erskine)
Re: Memory leak? (Michael Erskine)
Re: command line tool for publishing web site ("J.R. Tietsort")
Re: Help, Sendmail fails when 200+ loop (Joe Durusau)
How to configure a multi-port print server? (jhecker)
Re: Multithreaded RPC Server Question (Arun Taylor)
sail game modified for linux (Anthony Veale')
FreeDialup for Linux? (J)
Re: X-Windows trys to start and then crashes (mike)
Re: True GTK+ will eliminate Qt in next few years? (Craig Kelley)
question about rpm verify (easy) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: please help asap with rpm ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Looking for a moderated chat server to run on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Program to convert Unix file format to DOS / Windows format. (mike)
From: "BB" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: About Samba 's log
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:15:16 GMT
Samba allows you to keep a separate log for each user or machine. Look at
the man page and search for directive "log file"
per machine directive is log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
per user directive is log file = /var/log/samba/log.%u
Bob
"Regent Linus" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:8urslc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi
I have a Linux/Samba file server sharing files with other
4 windows PCs, could I find the logs recording user login
time, files copying and moving?
I have checked /var/log/samba, but the files seem not what
I want.
Could anybody tell me how could I find the log if it exists?
Thanks.
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From: Bill Delphenich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Path problem
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:24:06 -0500
How do you know it isn't working? The reason I ask is RH7 seems to have some
gotcha wherein it messes up settings like PATH and aliases when you open up
a terminal session while in KDE or in GNOME. I have been wrestling with this
for a while now with no resolution.
In my case, I found that if I booted up the machine to a command prompt, all
my settings in /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc would work, but not in a
terminal window in a GUI.
HTH.
dd wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All!
I just installed RedHat 7 and have a problem. I wanted put current
directory into PATH, so I put . into /etc/profile, which has following
line.
PATH="$PATH:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:"
However, it did not work, so I also put . into .bash_profile file
PATH=.:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin
However, RH7 still doesn't search my current directory. Please tell me
what I need to do.
Thanks in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Architectural software on Linux
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:36:19 GMT
Hi, can anybody tell if a program similar to Softplan
(http://www.softplan.com) exists for Linux.
Are there any architectural programs for Linux?
Thanks.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: True GTK+ will eliminate Qt in next few years?
Date: 14 Nov 2000 19:53:48 GMT
On 14 Nov 2000 03:56:07 +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
[Donovan Rebbechi]
Note the crossposting. I can't recall any such problems in Solaris,
we're still using binaries from 1991.
There's no reason why C++ could not be just as stable, once they settle
on the ABI. The reason why it has been unstable is that the standard is
a fairly new thing (1998).
* Very hard to make bindings to languages other than C++.
extern "C".
That easy, huh? How do you pass, say, a QStack?
Constructing bindings that make use of the object model is more difficult.
The only foolproof way to get around object model differences is via some
sort of IDL framework ( CORBA or DCOP ).
However, some languages do bind to C++ without too many problems.
For example, there's SIP, which makes it possible to bind C++ to python,
and I believe java can work with C++.
I'm not saying it's easy, but it's certainly not impossible either.
The problem with the way GNOME/GTK is
Linux-Misc Digest #310
Linux-Misc Digest #310, Volume #25Tue, 1 Aug 00 23:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Unexpected daily disk activity... (MH)
Re: Only root can run StarOffice 5.2 (Alex Borodin)
Linux City!!! ("Sam Tang")
Re: Netscape plugin for java? (E J)
Re: complaints (Robert Jones)
Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ? ("Tim Prince")
Re: Linux on Mac LC III possible? (Tony Mantler)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (Bill Unruh)
Trouble with HP DDS-2 tape drive on Red Hat Linux 6.0. (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released ("jeff")
Re: Dual NICs of same type? (L Slade)
Re: MP3's skip : How I solved it ("IvanWoehr")
Re: unable to determine tty (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Carnivore and Privacy: An Oxymoron? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
From: MH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Unexpected daily disk activity...
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 18:12:04 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MH wrote:
Every day, at 4:00 AM, I experience a lot of disk activity. I have
configured a daily backup at 2:00 AM using crontab--but have not
configured any other scheduled routines. I can find no scripts in
/ect/cron.daily that would explain this activity. I'm running RH 6.0
with kernel 2.2.16
The following scripts exist (which I did not create) in /etc/cron.daily:
logrotate.cron
makewhatis.cron
slocate.cron.
None of those scripts indicate a time, nor do they seem to be anything
that would generate several minutes of sustained disk activity.
What is going on? And what are "makewhatis.cron" and "slocate.cron"
doing?
--
"For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not
true.
In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the
true;
it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false."
-- H. L. Mencken
Thanks, everyone! Great responses. I forgot about the "locate"
database. I always use "find", since I've experienced some difficulty
with locate in the past and have become comfortable with "find".
I'm still confused about where the script that's created when you #
crontab -e goes, or what it is named.
--
"For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not
true.
In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the
true;
it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false."
-- H. L. Mencken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Borodin)
Subject: Re: Only root can run StarOffice 5.2
Date: 2 Aug 2000 01:21:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article 8lrpg6$738$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Fung Wai Keung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I downloaded (from Sun Microsystem) and installed (w/ root
access) StarOffice 5.2 on my Linux-Mandrake 7.1. However, only root can
run staroffice. Any other users can't run staroffice. Staroffice always
complains about "Can't find /apps/office52/user/sofficerc" when any user
(other than root) run it. But /apps/office52/user/sofficerc indded
exists! How to solve the problem so that any user can run staroffice?
You have not installed it as network version, only as user:
- uninstall it
- install it again with the option "-net"
- you may use a simple startscript for users
( put in: /usr/local/bin )
snip===
#!/bin/bash
#startskript für staroffice
if test -f $HOME/Office52/soffice || test -f $HOME/office52/soffice ; then
echo
echo "starting Staroffice ..."
if test -f $HOME/Office52/soffice ; then
OFFICEDIR=$HOME/Office52
elif test -f $HOME/office52/soffice ; then
OFFICEDIR=$HOME/office52
fi
export OFFICEDIR
exec $OFFICEDIR/soffice
echo
exit 0
elseecho
echo "Please make a network installation only!"
echo
echo
echo "This will install your personal soffice folders"
echo "into your home directory!"
echo
echo "please accept /$HOME/office52 as "
echo "default folder"
echo
echo " After completion of installation start with soffice"
echo
# exec /opt/office52/program/setup
echo
echo "now start with soffice again!"
echo
fi
snip--
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Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. (Horatz)
http://octopus.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de
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Linux-Misc Digest #310
Linux-Misc Digest #310, Volume #20 Sun, 23 May 99 07:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mac-emulation on Linux? (James Stafford)
Re: XWindows benchmark app? (Tim Sutherland)
Re: Changing from RH to SuSe (John Hong)
Re: Changing from RH to SuSe ("muzh")
First time install - help! (Steve Johns)
Re: There is something wrong with the clock on your computer or on your (meany)
Re: Can't communicate through 2nd NIC (Vidar Andresen)
RH6: GCC wont install properly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
linux setup problem (Steve Johns)
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (was: Wanted: Database/Contact mgr with
backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web frontend) (Mike Thornburg)
Re: Commercially speaking? (Iain Georgeson)
Re: prevent detection of 2nd HD (NoSpam)
Re: modules.dep missing (Silviu Minut)
Re: MP3's Play To Fast (Silviu Minut)
Re: RedHat 5.2 install. SMB and FTP options dont work. (Tim Moore)
which is faster - rsynth or festival? (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: Unable to access mounted partition (Tim Moore)
Re: prevent detection of 2nd HD ("Colin McKinnon")
Re: SCSI Question (Justin The Cynical)
Kernels 2.2.x don't boot ("Arkadiy Korobeyko")
is there any OpenSource video app projects ? (Zeljko Blace)
Re: Can't communicate through 2nd NIC ("Curt")
From: James Stafford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: Mac-emulation on Linux?
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 00:45:37 -0700
:2. Buy a Macintosh and dual boot with Linux/MacOS
: This is also a viable option, but somewhat more expensive :)
Might save the most headache because some of the things may not work
otherwise, and then these students probably want to concentrate on
learning and getting their A's instead of fighting over something not
their fault. Of course, the hackers among them would find it fun.
This is what I did for my last computer class that required a Mac. I bought an
old Power Mac, upgraded the RAM, and didn't have to worry about getting my
homework done. I think that Executor is a great program, a old trail version of
Claris Works seemed to work fine with it, but what abnout the other programs I
might need to use? Director and etc. might not work.
jamess
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sutherland)
Subject: Re: XWindows benchmark app?
Date: 23 May 1999 07:47:23 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joe Strout wrote:
Is there an application that calculates benchmarks, in particular for
graphics operations under X? Drawing rectangles, copying regions, and
generally shoving pixels around?
x11perf
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From 0 to "what seems to be the problem officer" in 8.3 seconds.
-- Ad for the new VW Corrado
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: Changing from RH to SuSe
Date: 23 May 1999 08:15:44 GMT
Charles Stroom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: How difficult would it be to upgrade from RH 5.1, 2.0.35, with many
: additions in source (i.e. not RPM's), modifications, replacements
: of RPM binaries by later compiled binaries from sources etc. to
: SuSe 6.1? I have heard good words about SuSe's quality, and I am a
: bit put off by RH's 6.0 price tag here (about US$ 95) vs SuSe's US$
: 40 or so.
Not difficult at all. Simply wipe out your RedHat partition and
install SuSE. There, no difficulty. ;-)
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From: "muzh" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Changing from RH to SuSe
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 20:26:38 +1200
I would say, don't try to upgrade. Instead, back up any important files (eg
the /home directory), then wipe the hard disk and install from fresh., then
restore the /home directory.
I love SuSE!!
Charles Stroom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
How difficult would it be to upgrade from RH 5.1, 2.0.35, with many
additions in source (i.e. not RPM's), modifications, replacements
of RPM binaries by later compiled binaries from sources etc. to
SuSe 6.1? I have heard good words about SuSe's quality, and I am a
bit put off by RH's 6.0 price tag here (about US$ 95) vs SuSe's US$
40 or so.
But I do not know if there many problems to be expected due to
difference in /etc, configuration files, etc.
Any advice woud be appreciated.
--
Charles Stroom
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
url: http://www.stroom-schreurs.demon.nl/
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From: Steve Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: First time install - help!
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 15:40:21 -0400
I have just downloaded Linux 2.2
This is my first look at linux. Any help would be appreciatied.
I need some advice on how to unarchive it onto a DOS 7 machine.
FILENAME: linux-2_2_0_tar
I have hit the site linuxberg.com and looked at the help files, and had
tried to unpack the archive as
Linux-Misc Digest #310
Linux-Misc Digest #310, Volume #19Fri, 5 Mar 99 02:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: More bad news for NT (Michael Powe)
Re: More bad news for NT (Harry)
Re: Linux SLOWER than win95? (Student)
Re: Installation problem with IDE CDROM drive (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Compiling a c++ program (William Wueppelmann)
kernel 2.2.2 panic: hda not found. (Olivier Hislaire)
Re: Public license question (Fred Flatstone)
kcore (Eric Ho)
Re: Adjust time drift? (Stef)
Re: Is Slackware is based on libc5? (Micha³ Kuratczyk)
Re: Public license question (jik-)
Re: X artifacts after X is shutdown? ("Howard")
Re: netcape + freshmeat.net then crash? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Public license question (Simon Hill)
Re: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux (Nguyen Dai Quy)
Re: Linux Internet Cafe idea (Sam Vere)
Re: best offline newsreader? ("Richard Latimer")
Re: Speed of accessing tousands of files in a directory? (Philip Lijnzaad)
Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion (Francois-Rene Rideau)
undefined symbol: __register_frame_info (Daniel Kollar)
UMSDOS on FAT32? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
BCTEL ICD / Linux info sought (Glenn)
netcfg ("Levi C. Maaia")
Re: netcape + freshmeat.net then crash? (Matteo Corti)
From: Michael Powe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: 04 Mar 1999 02:45:15 -0800
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"Sitaram" == Sitaram Chamarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sitaram On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:31:48 -0500, Harry
Sitaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure, but you can't separate the NT GUI from the rest of the
operating system. Why on earth you'd want that for a server,
which Microsoft seems to be pushing as an appropriate use for
NT, is beyond me.
Microsoft wants to leverage the current Windows installed base
and it also believes that there's benefit in one look and feel
to any computer you may use. It's not the first company in the
world to espouse that belief - remember your company's own SAA?
Sitaram [Aside: you responded to someone from "ibm.net", which is
Sitaram not the same as "ibm.com". I believe ibm.net is when you
Sitaram use IBM as an ISP...could be wrong!]
Sitaram Anyway, I once read a very interesting article (or series
Sitaram of articles actually) on the historical reasons for this
Sitaram situation (GUI on a server that's locked up in a
Sitaram backroom).
Sitaram Dont have the URL handy but it started with "ncworld.com"
Sitaram and the title was something like "next 10 minutes" or
Sitaram "last 10 minutes".
http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncw-05-1998/ncw-05-nextten.html
http://www.ncworldmag.com/ncworld/ncw-04-1998/ncw-04-nextten.html
mp
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Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:08:50 -0500
But this still doesn't get rid of the superfluous GUI on a
server machine, does it?
No, though there are ways of doing this (mentioned elsewhere).
However, this is not a course of action I recommend!
Also, it's debatable whether a GUI is superfluous on a server,
though I'd certainly agree with anyone who argued that improving its
performance is worth sacrificing the stability of the server.
Harry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Student)
Subject: Re: Linux SLOWER than win95?
Date: 4 Mar 1999 10:13:26 GMT
Raf Meeusen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) tried to convey the following message:
: I installed the latest Linux Mandrake (=Redhat+KDE) on a P60 with 16meg ram.
: I use a swap partition of 70 Mb.
: But it is much slower than my windows 95.
: Is this normal?
: Is there a way to speed it up?
: (like recompiling the kernel)
The best thing you can do is to buy more memory. 16 megs for X-windows is
not much. And for a few dozen dollars you can double or even triple your
memory.
Greetings success!
der Joachim
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Computional linguistics student at Tilburg University,
The Netherlands
http://pi0959.kub.nl/Haterd/index.html
A true hunter weeps at a merciless kill (The God Machine)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Installation problem with IDE CDROM drive
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:10:32 GMT
"Hyong J. Cho" [EMAIL PROTECT
