InstallFest
Hey all, Bad news: the Tech is closed on July 5th, the first monday, so we won't be having a CentraLUG meeting. Fantastic news: we're having an Installfest, hosted by Bruce Dawson at Miles Smith Farm. Anyone is welcome to come - you can get your machine installed with a high quality Free operating system at no cost. It starts at 3:00pm, Saturday, July 10th, 2004, and it's located in Loudon, New Hampshire. Directions are at http://www.milessmithfarm.net/directions.html. Be there, because not only is this going to be good, it's going to be *fantastic*. Take it easy, -- David Berube Berube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603)-485-9622 http://www.berubeconsulting.com/ ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Command to test if a CD/ISO is bootable?
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:10, Scott Garman wrote: > Here's a silly question: > > Is there a command or byte sequence I can extract from an ISO or CD-ROM > to test if it is bootable without actually trying to boot from it? > Overall I'm also curious exactly what it is that makes a bootable CD > bootable. As I understand it, an x86 bootable CD essentially has an image of a bootable floppy on it, and presumably a bit of magic in its table of contents to point the PC's bios at that image. I have no idea if a MacOS or Solaris/SPARC bootable CD does somthing similar; I would imagine the SPARC implementation at least would be less of a kludge, but I don't know this for certain. No doubt a quick google search would answer this. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Command to test if a CD/ISO is bootable?
These sites are keepers in their own right, and will very likely have your answers, or at least point you in the right direction: http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq.html http://www.phoenix.com/resources/specs-cdrom.pdf ( http://www.phoenix.com/en/customer+services/white+papers-specs/ ) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Command to test if a CD/ISO is bootable?
Here's a silly question: Is there a command or byte sequence I can extract from an ISO or CD-ROM to test if it is bootable without actually trying to boot from it? Overall I'm also curious exactly what it is that makes a bootable CD bootable. Scott -- Scott Garman sgarman at iname dot com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: DVD movie player in Linux
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Richard A Sharpe
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> -Original Message-
> From: Travis Roy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:18 AM
> To: Sharpe, Richard
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> Subject: Re: DVD movie player in Linux
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> Sharpe, Richard wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to find a Linux based DVD movie player to
> run one of
> > my LINUX installation's, I have one provided with the distro is
> > crippled. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> What distro are you running? It might just require you to
> install a library for decrypting the DVD content.
>
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Re: DVD movie player in Linux
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 07:21, Sharpe, Richard wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to find a Linux based DVD movie player to run one of my > LINUX installation's, I have one provided with the distro is crippled. Any > help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > Rich You didn't mention what distribution you're running. If it's a Redhat or Fedora release, I'd recommend checking out freshrpms.net; they have prebuilt packages for a whole bunch of extras, plus they're se up to act as "apt" or "yum" repositories. Setting up a Redhat or Fedora box to use apt is just a matter of installing the apt rpms found on freshrpms.net. Whenever I build a new Fedora box, I generally install mplayer in this manner. Freshrpms also has packages to re-add the mp3 components that Redhat had to remove from their iso images. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: DVD movie player in Linux
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:53:40AM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Here's my vote for Ogle and VLC: both have come a long way, and do a > fine job. For that matter, I heartily recommend VLC for most all video > playback; it's gotten really nice as of late. VLC is also ported to Windows - it's not great, but you still get to skip the unskippable bits, etc. -Mark signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: DVD movie player in Linux
Jerry Feldman wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:21:59 -0400 "Sharpe, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am trying to find a Linux based DVD movie player to run one of my LINUX installation's, I have one provided with the distro is crippled. Any help is greatly appreciated. xine is shipped without codecs You can download it from http://xinehq.de/ There are many front ends for xine, such as Kaffeine. and xine-ui which i just installed last night for my Debian system # apt-get install xine-ui I'm not sure what, if anything needs to be done to make it play a DVD, but it did report a missing codec (related to the sound part only) of some .mov clips which I was trying to download from clips.outfoxed.org. I didn't realized that Xine doesn't come with a full library of codecs...since I've used it before without trouble on other systems where it was part of the distribution. I guess I'll go check it out and see what codecs I can download to support most formats. -- FREePHILE We are 'Open' for Business Free and Open Source Software http://www.freephile.com (978) 270-2425 "Lead us in a few words of silent prayer." -- Bill Peterson, former Houston Oiler football coach
Re: DVD movie player in Linux
Here's my vote for Ogle and VLC: both have come a long way, and do a fine job. For that matter, I heartily recommend VLC for most all video playback; it's gotten really nice as of late. -Ken Jerry Feldman wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:21:59 -0400 "Sharpe, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am trying to find a Linux based DVD movie player to run one of my LINUX installation's, I have one provided with the distro is crippled. Any help is greatly appreciated. xine is shipped without codecs You can download it from http://xinehq.de/ There are many front ends for xine, such as Kaffeine. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DVD movie player in Linux
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:21:59 -0400 "Sharpe, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to find a Linux based DVD movie player to run one of > my > LINUX installation's, I have one provided with the distro is crippled. > Any help is greatly appreciated. xine is shipped without codecs You can download it from http://xinehq.de/ There are many front ends for xine, such as Kaffeine. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 pgpV157Mvlc8b.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DVD movie player in Linux
Sharpe, Richard wrote: Hi I am trying to find a Linux based DVD movie player to run one of my LINUX installation's, I have one provided with the distro is crippled. Any help is greatly appreciated. What distro are you running? It might just require you to install a library for decrypting the DVD content. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: DVD movie player in Linux
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Sharpe, Richard wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to find a Linux based DVD movie player to run one of my > LINUX installation's, I have one provided with the distro is crippled. Any > help is greatly appreciated. > I've been using mplayer without any problems. Well, the only problems I've had have been sound or video card related, never any problem with the software. HTH -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, France is accusing the US of arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to go to war." ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
DVD movie player in Linux
Hi
I am trying to find a Linux based DVD movie player to run one of my
LINUX installation's, I have one provided with the distro is crippled. Any
help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Rich
Richard A Sharpe
(DBA) Sqlserver/DB2
Amherst Technologies
40 Continental Blvd
Merrimack, NH 03054
PHONE ...(603) 579-6180 / (800) 431-8031
Cell phone ..(603) 320-7785
FAX ...(603) 578-1072
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