Re: [SLUG] Another SGI Indy
quote who=Jose Tavares know how debian runs in it.. The purpose of the buy is to hack, play and have a first try on SGI machines :) My questions are: Is there a version of woody? You will need the MIPS boot disks instead of the Intel ones. Both woody and sarge work well on the Indy. How are the kernel ports? Is it easy to install debian? and to recompile the kernel for it? Exactly the same proceedure as it's Intel brothers - though I think there was a trick about the boot loader as LILO is intel only from memory. A good place to start reading about Debian and the Indy (MIPS arch.) is http://www.linux-mips.org I read that the installation must be done with a remote boot using dhcp, tftp, etc.. is that the unique way? I found this to be the easiest and fastest way to do it. Especially if you have broadband Internet - no media to swap ! ;-) Does it run XFree with color? Is it possible to listen to mp3 using it? Yes XFree works fine but there is still a bug when exiting X that the frame buffer does not reset correctly resulting in unreadable consoles. You should be able to play MP3's okay but the old Indy workstations are not very powerfull compared to the systems available today. -- Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:53:24AM +1100, David Kempe wrote: Gerard Blacklock wrote: Anyone had any luck in getting an external USB hard drive to work under linux? I have had the USB keys working fine by mounting as FAT no probs, Any pointers on where to look regarding this issue? not 100% sure where to start! is it usb2? you need a recent kernel.. then just use the usbstorage module and dmesg should tell you it added /dev/sda or whatever I had trouble till I realised I also needed the sd_mod module for the hard disk (I think sr_mod if it's a CD device). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD
yeah got it working fine - way too easy! just mounted the respective FS (1 fat32 and 1 ext3) from /dev/sda1 and dev/sda2 ...all after a bit of reformatting tho! The USB hardrive case is USB2.0, however i do not have USB2.0 on any boxes :( but it appears it is backwards compatible with USB1 ) However with USB1 it is darn slow.. Thanks for the info guys, was a bit too easy to get to work. gerard Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:53:24AM +1100, David Kempe wrote: Gerard Blacklock wrote: Anyone had any luck in getting an external USB hard drive to work under linux? I have had the USB keys working fine by mounting as FAT no probs, Any pointers on where to look regarding this issue? not 100% sure where to start! is it usb2? you need a recent kernel.. then just use the usbstorage module and dmesg should tell you it added /dev/sda or whatever I had trouble till I realised I also needed the sd_mod module for the hard disk (I think sr_mod if it's a CD device). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Mounting Win2k partition under Suse 7.X
Does anyone know of any gotchas about mounting a Win2K partition under
Suse?
It is a dual boot system that the user has. Unfortunately don't have it
local. So no other info.
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[SLUG] 2004-2005 SLUG committee
Hey everyone, Tonight our 2004-2005 committee was elected. They are: President: Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice-President: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Secretary: Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer: Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ordinary committee members: Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Craige McWhirter[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Continuing in his unofficial, but honoured, honourary position: Chris Deigan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Congratulations to everyone, and good luck! Thanks to the 2003-2004 SLUG committee: President: Jeff Waugh (March 2003 - September 2003) Jan Schmidt (September 2003 - March 2004) Vice-president: Tony Green (March 2003 - September 2003) Peter Hardy (September 2003 - March 2004) Secretary: Mary Gardiner Treasurer: Jamie Wilkinson Ordinary committee members: Peter Hardy (March 2003 - September 2003) Jaime Hemmett Michael Kortvelyesy (September 2003 - March 2004) Ben Leslie (September 2003 - March 2004) Jan Schmidt (March 2003 - September 2003) Honourary committee member: Chris Deigan (September 2003 - March 2004) As always, the entire committee is reachable at [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on the election at http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html and in the AGM minutes, which will be posted to the SLUG list within the next few weeks. Thank you, and good night, Mary Gardiner, SLUG Secretary 2003-2004, Returning Officer signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Decimal places in bash script
On 26-Mar-2004, Andrew Wilson wrote: printf %10.2f 1234567891011 No cookies for any of you :)... Unless you tell me of a better way :) You probably don't need the 10 unless you want to do some formatting. 'printf %.2f 123.456' works for me. Cheers, Ronny -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mounting Win2k partition under Suse 7.X
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 23:23, Terry Collins wrote: Does anyone know of any gotchas about mounting a Win2K partition under Suse? Well, your win2k system might be either vfat or ntfs. In the case of it being vfat, it's all smooth sailing. The ntfs support is somewhat newer though, so it may not be in Suse 7 (I don't know anything about the kernel versions in suse). At any rate, if it's ntfs you won't be able to write to it. The read support seems to work reasonably well though. HTH, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mounting Win2k partition under Suse 7.X
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 23:23, Terry Collins wrote: Does anyone know of any gotchas about mounting a Win2K partition under Suse? Well, your win2k system might be either vfat or ntfs. In the case of it being vfat, it's all smooth sailing. The ntfs support is somewhat newer though, so it may not be in Suse 7 (I don't know anything about the kernel versions in suse). At any rate, if it's ntfs you won't be able to write to it. Actually, that's changed. These days you can write to NTFS under Linux using Microsoft's own Win32 driver. Check out: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] Mounting Win2k partition under Suse 7.X
Actually, that's changed. These days you can write to NTFS under Linux using Microsoft's own Win32 driver. Check out: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive I seen this some weeks back, question is has anyone on slug tried it? I'd be curious to know how well it works. The site indicates very well :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: 2004-2005 SLUG committee
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: President: Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice-President: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Secretary: Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer: Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ordinary committee members: Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Craige McWhirter[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Continuing in his unofficial, but honoured, honourary position: Chris Deigan[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd also like to thank the outgoing committee and feel it's a great honour to be nominated and elected to the position of Secretary. I had been thinking of running for the position for the past month but to be honest was surprised to be nominated - guess I hadn't caught up with the list lately, hence my lack of speech last night at the meeting - I generally hate public speaking anyway. For those that don't know me just read the sig :-) ... and yes I updated it ;-) I'm a qualified electronic technician and have been playing with electronics since I was 8 and computers when I was 11 (1981). First real job was in Electronics, first programming job was in 1992. First Linux job was in 1997. And I work at EverythingLinux (www.elx.com.au) now. Some of my interests with SLUG are:- * Promotion of Linux in general * Sharing technical experience * Education - Get linux into schools * Government - Get linux into government * Working with other groups such as ComputerBank, OSIA, Linux Australia * Making SLUG a bit more fun by increasing audience participation at meetings. Thank you, and good night, You've done a fantastic job of keeping everyone up-to-date with all things SLUG and I only hope I'm worthy of following on! -- ---GRiP--- Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG Secretary, AUUG and Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Do people actually read these things? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
