[vox-tech] Install windows in linux Red Hat Enterprise
In order to run Peachtree, I need to install a windows operating system. When I installed the linux on the hard drive, I have five partitioned sections. Two are: none 95,164, with 0 used, marked dev/shm /dev/hda5 104170, 0 used, marked tmp1 How do I install windows on the system? I am running a 686 AMD processer, (with too little RAM at the moment), and Red Hat Enterprise. Thanks, Stanley Price ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Install windows in linux Red Hat Enterprise
On Mon 23 May 05, 12:18 PM, Stanley Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In order to run Peachtree, I need to install a windows operating system. When I installed the linux on the hard drive, I have five partitioned sections. Two are: none 95,164, with 0 used, marked dev/shm /dev/hda5 104170, 0 used, marked tmp1 How do I install windows on the system? I am running a 686 AMD processer, (with too little RAM at the moment), and Red Hat Enterprise. Thanks, Stanley Price Shouldn't be too hard. The simplest thing to do would be to add a second hard drive (primary master) and install windows on that. Then use, for example, this: http://gonffen.f2o.org/archives/grub/x132.html to re-install on your MBR. Once you do, you can boot into Linux. Once in linux, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to tell grub about your Windows Operating system. In my experience, people who say that Windows *must* be on the primary master are just plain wrong. Grub can work miracles. However, I'm fairly that the Windows *installer* requires that you install onto the primary master. This info could be useful if you want to keep your linux hard drive as /dev/hda so you don't have to monkey with /etc/fstab. Pete ps- If you don't mind me asking, is there a particular reason why you *must* install peachtree? Is that some kind of accounting software? Is there no opensource equivalent? No programs that can import peachtree data? -- Every theory is killed sooner or later, but if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory. -- Albert Einstein GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Install windows in linux Red Hat Enterprise
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:18:15PM -0700, Stanley Price wrote: In order to run Peachtree, I need to install a windows operating system. When I installed the linux on the hard drive, I have five partitioned sections. Two are: none 95,164, with 0 used, marked dev/shm This one doesn't represent any drive (hence none on the left), and is, based on the mount point (dev/shm), a virtual filesystem representing your system's shared memory. /dev/hda5 104170, 0 used, marked tmp1 How do I install windows on the system? I am running a 686 AMD processer, (with too little RAM at the moment), and Red Hat Enterprise. Is hda5 (the 5th partition of your first drive, HDA) actually unused, or is it used for some kind of temp filesystem? (Not having been there when you installed Linux, I have no way of telling, obviously ;^) ) Run mount to see what's mounted right now. For example, on a server I have access to, I see something like: $ mount /dev/hde1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) (That's a 2.4 kernel, BTW, so mount output may be different.) If /dev/hda5 is actually mounted, you can go take a look and see what's there (go into the directory it's mounted on), and maybe check and see how much space is being used via df. e.g.: $ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hde1 5766952554020 4919984 11% / If it's unused, you SHOULD be okay to install Windows on it. Now, how to do that? No idea. I don't use Windows, except at work on a laptop (not dual-booting; too little HD space and little reason to use Linux at work, except on the server, at the moment... :^( ) Good luck! -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Install windows in linux Red Hat Enterprise
Stanley I'm sorry you didn't get everything solved at the Installfest. If you must use Peachtree, it does look you will need to run Windows. While the other two responses are correct and helpful, for beginner users of Linux I am going to recommend a brute force method: 1) back up your data 2) boot the windows install CD 3) delete all partitions on your hard drive 4) make a single partition for windows (~10GB) 5) install windows on that partition 6) install linux on another 10GB, leaving some unpartitioned space if possible 7) make another partition that is formated fat32; this can be used by both windows and linux It is a shame you have to delete your existing linux with this method. However, trying to work around it while installing windows could lead to all sorts of trouble that could take a long time to resolve. Jonathan Stanley Price wrote: In order to run Peachtree, I need to install a windows operating system. When I installed the linux on the hard drive, I have five partitioned sections. Two are: none 95,164, with 0 used, marked dev/shm /dev/hda5 104170, 0 used, marked tmp1 How do I install windows on the system? I am running a 686 AMD processer, (with too little RAM at the moment), and Red Hat Enterprise. Thanks, Stanley Price ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Install windows in linux Red Hat Enterprise
Stanley Price wrote: In order to run Peachtree, I need to install a windows operating system. When I installed the linux on the hard drive, I have five partitioned sections. Two are: none 95,164, with 0 used, marked dev/shm /dev/hda5 104170, 0 used, marked tmp1 How do I install windows on the system? I am running a 686 AMD processer, (with too little RAM at the moment), and Red Hat Enterprise. Thanks, Stanley Price ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech I'll suggest one other option, just for the heck of it. You could use either VMWare or maybe (big maybe) WINE on the box, that way you don't need to reboot when you want to use the functionality of the other OS Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Install windows in linux Red Hat Enterprise
On Mon 23 May 05, 3:59 PM, Jay Strauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Stanley Price wrote: In order to run Peachtree, I need to install a windows operating system. When I installed the linux on the hard drive, I have five partitioned sections. Two are: none 95,164, with 0 used, marked dev/shm /dev/hda5 104170, 0 used, marked tmp1 How do I install windows on the system? I am running a 686 AMD processer, (with too little RAM at the moment), and Red Hat Enterprise. Thanks, Stanley Price ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech I'll suggest one other option, just for the heck of it. You could use either VMWare or maybe (big maybe) WINE on the box, that way you don't need to reboot when you want to use the functionality of the other OS Jay Good suggestions. VMware will almost certainly work. Wine looks less certain: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search?name=peachtreecompany=medal=date_start%5B1%5D=1date_start%5B2%5D=1date_start%5B0%5D=2000date_start%5B3%5D=23date_start%5B4%5D=59date_end%5B1%5D=5date_end%5B2%5D=23date_end%5B0%5D=2005date_end%5B3%5D=23date_end%5B4%5D=59search=app It looks like Peachtree 2002 works under wine, but is unsupported by Codeweavers. Peachtree 2004 and 2005 don't seem to work at all under Codeweavers. Not a good sign. Pete -- Every theory is killed sooner or later, but if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory. -- Albert Einstein GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] tell gnuplot to use a single X11 window
Hi everyone,
is there any good way to get gnuplot to send its output to a single window,
such that any successive plots update an existing X11 window?
i have looked over the gnuplot man page, and can't seem to find what i am
looking for.
while it is a little ridiculous, i like to keep track of my progress while
writting with this little script:
while `true`; do wc -w main.tex | awk '{print $1}' word_count ;\
echo set ylab 'words'; set xlab 'minutes'; \
plot 'word_count' with lines notitle | gnuplot -persist;\
sleep 60; done
this produces a nice little graph updated once a minute. however, gnuplot on
linux produces a new window with every plot. on OSX it is possible to keep
all output in a single window* .
* there is a bit of a difference on OSX, as an application called AquaTerm is
being used to render the output, not X11.
any ideas on how to do this with regular X11?
thanks!
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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341
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Re: [vox-tech] tell gnuplot to use a single X11 window
On Mon 23 May 05, 2:55 PM, Dylan Beaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi everyone,
is there any good way to get gnuplot to send its output to a single window,
such that any successive plots update an existing X11 window?
i have looked over the gnuplot man page, and can't seem to find what i am
looking for.
while it is a little ridiculous, i like to keep track of my progress while
writting with this little script:
while `true`; do wc -w main.tex | awk '{print $1}' word_count ;\
echo set ylab 'words'; set xlab 'minutes'; \
plot 'word_count' with lines notitle | gnuplot -persist;\
sleep 60; done
this produces a nice little graph updated once a minute. however, gnuplot on
linux produces a new window with every plot. on OSX it is possible to keep
all output in a single window* .
* there is a bit of a difference on OSX, as an application called AquaTerm is
being used to render the output, not X11.
any ideas on how to do this with regular X11?
thanks!
I had the same problem. My fix was to write a small perl script to wrap
around gnuplot.
The script writes a small gnuplot script and then invokes gnuplot with the
script.
When it comes time for a new plot, the script rewrites the gnuplot script,
kills all instances of gnuplot, and re-runs gnuplot with the new gnuplot
script.
It works surprisingly well.
Pete
PS- The data is output of a time evolution partial differential equation.
It creates a movie of the time evolution of a quantum wavefunction. Very
cool.
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that good is embodied and continued in the next theory. -- Albert Einstein
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Re: [vox-tech] tell gnuplot to use a single X11 window
On Monday 23 May 2005 03:03 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Mon 23 May 05, 2:55 PM, Dylan Beaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi everyone,
is there any good way to get gnuplot to send its output to a single
window, such that any successive plots update an existing X11 window?
i have looked over the gnuplot man page, and can't seem to find what i am
looking for.
while it is a little ridiculous, i like to keep track of my progress
while writting with this little script:
while `true`; do wc -w main.tex | awk '{print $1}' word_count ;\
echo set ylab 'words'; set xlab 'minutes'; \
plot 'word_count' with lines notitle | gnuplot -persist;\
sleep 60; done
this produces a nice little graph updated once a minute. however, gnuplot
on linux produces a new window with every plot. on OSX it is possible to
keep all output in a single window* .
* there is a bit of a difference on OSX, as an application called
AquaTerm is being used to render the output, not X11.
any ideas on how to do this with regular X11?
thanks!
I had the same problem. My fix was to write a small perl script to wrap
around gnuplot.
The script writes a small gnuplot script and then invokes gnuplot with the
script.
When it comes time for a new plot, the script rewrites the gnuplot script,
kills all instances of gnuplot, and re-runs gnuplot with the new gnuplot
script.
It works surprisingly well.
Pete
PS- The data is output of a time evolution partial differential equation.
It creates a movie of the time evolution of a quantum wavefunction. Very
cool.
Cool!
thanks for the tip Pete. I will give it a try tonight (this thing is due in a
couple of hours!) when i have some time.
any demos of the output that you mentioned?
Thanks,
--
Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341
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Re: [vox-tech] tell gnuplot to use a single X11 window
On Mon 23 May 05, 3:18 PM, Dylan Beaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Monday 23 May 2005 03:03 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Mon 23 May 05, 2:55 PM, Dylan Beaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi everyone,
is there any good way to get gnuplot to send its output to a single
window, such that any successive plots update an existing X11 window?
i have looked over the gnuplot man page, and can't seem to find what i am
looking for.
while it is a little ridiculous, i like to keep track of my progress
while writting with this little script:
while `true`; do wc -w main.tex | awk '{print $1}' word_count ;\
echo set ylab 'words'; set xlab 'minutes'; \
plot 'word_count' with lines notitle | gnuplot -persist;\
sleep 60; done
this produces a nice little graph updated once a minute. however, gnuplot
on linux produces a new window with every plot. on OSX it is possible to
keep all output in a single window* .
* there is a bit of a difference on OSX, as an application called
AquaTerm is being used to render the output, not X11.
any ideas on how to do this with regular X11?
thanks!
I had the same problem. My fix was to write a small perl script to wrap
around gnuplot.
The script writes a small gnuplot script and then invokes gnuplot with the
script.
When it comes time for a new plot, the script rewrites the gnuplot script,
kills all instances of gnuplot, and re-runs gnuplot with the new gnuplot
script.
It works surprisingly well.
Pete
PS- The data is output of a time evolution partial differential equation.
It creates a movie of the time evolution of a quantum wavefunction. Very
cool.
Cool!
thanks for the tip Pete. I will give it a try tonight (this thing is due in a
couple of hours!) when i have some time.
any demos of the output that you mentioned?
Thanks,
Yeah, sure thing. Download it here:
http://www.dirac.org/p/dylan.tar.bz2
My Perl wrapper is called plotter. You'll see it. You'll also see the
directory which is the output of my PDE solver. It's called data.22 (I
ran my PDE solver many many hundreds of times to cover a parameter space in
order to study the behavior of the PDE, so I resorted to uninspired names
for my data directory).
To see what options are available for my plotter, type:
./plotter --help
./plotter -h
./plotter -?
To see the plotter in action, try this:
./plotter -d data.22/ -x 1e-14 -y 4e14
The -x option sets the horizontal axis.
The -y option sets the vertical axis.
The -d option sets which directory to take the plot data from.
The -d option sets which directory to take the plot data from.
If the plot goes too fast, you can slow it down with the -p (pause) option,
which takes an integer argument:
./plotter -d data.22/ -x 1e-14 -y 4e14 -p1
The -x and -y options can have the form of:
-x from,to -x 2,100(x axis goes from 2 to 100)
-x ,to -x ,200 (x axis goes from 0 to 200)
-x from,-x 10, (x axis goes from 10 to last datapoint)
-x from -x 5(x axis goes from 5 to last datapoint)
It's loaded with options. You can change the point size and even convert
your graphs to eps files, suitable for including into your latex
dissertation. ;-)
Hope you find it useful. It was a lot of fun to write.
Pete
PS- I'm not the best Perl hacker, but I can always get the job done.
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that good is embodied and continued in the next theory. -- Albert Einstein
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