Hi,
Forgive me if this is too simplistic for the experts, but I am in a bit
of a quandry...
If a particular iso filesystem image has an md5sum of X and one burns
that image to a cdr on /dev/scd0, should not the output of:
md5sum /dev/scd0
be also X ??
-Chuck
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On Tuesday 27 August 2002 08:25, Albert E. Whale wrote:
I cannot seem to connect to the traditional RPM Databases at
rpmfind.net, speakeasy.rpmfind.net, fr.rpmfind.net
Does anyone have any information about these services?
Hmm... I am havint no trouble with [speakeasy.]rpmfind.net
with http,
I need expert help on this one...
There exists a file with an image of a disk... a whole disk, with
threee partitions, one primary, and two logical. If I do:
# losetup /dev/loop0 disk.img
# fdisk -l /dev/loop0
Disk /dev/loop0: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 32 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 *
On Sunday 25 August 2002 17:04, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that
would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x
windowing system. My project will be connecting to the internet as
well via NFS and Samba along with
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 10:54, J Herzfeld wrote:
My picture is pretty good, but not great. In full screen it looks a bit
grainy. In am running 1200x1000 (appx) in 16bit (I cant remember
exactly since I am not at my linux box now)
Don't forget, TV has terrible resolution (worse than
On Thursday 15 August 2002 17:08, Oliver Thieke wrote:
Hi out there at the screens,
Changing to Mandrake 8.2 I'm unable to figure out how
to accomplish the same task. According to one of my LX
books it should be as easy as using the following command:
xterm -display 66.66.66.66:0
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 15:15, Aleksey Y Naumov wrote:
Dear experts,
I have I question/problem with msec on my 8.2 system: it keeps changing
permissions on directory /home/PgDB. /var/log/auth.log has:
...
Aug 13
15:01:00 ples msec: changed mode of /home/PgDB from 700 to 755
...
Trouble is,
On Sunday 11 August 2002 21:49, Dale Huckeby wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Chuck Shirley wrote:
On to your problem
No, my luck was excellent, thanks to your help. Ten or fifteen minutes
to fix the file, twenty minutes to burn the cd. And I never had to leave
the command line. I think
On Sunday 11 August 2002 07:31, Dale Huckeby wrote:
When I try to move downloaded copies of CD2 I get input-output errors
and if I try to burn a CD I get a coaster. I got good copies of the
1st and 3rd CDs (bad copies first try at a Russian mirror) when I went
to a mirror in Hawaii. I've
On Sunday 11 August 2002 12:34, Daryl Johnson wrote:
On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:48, you wrote:
An addendum to my sound card problems of 6 weeks ago.
I have sound using OSS but not ALSA, it's not uncommon to get sound server
error messages when I forget and try and use a KDE sound app. Clearly
On Thursday 08 August 2002 19:46, et wrote:
do you have a cd or floppy that came with either the mother board, or the
sound card? can you move the sound card to a different slot on the
motherboard?
On Thursday 08 August 2002 06:41 pm, you wrote:
How can I set the IRQ on a pci card? I have a
On Sunday 04 August 2002 00:29, Lorne wrote:
On Saturday 03 August 2002 07:36 pm, you wrote:
Termination and cabling were the first things that I suspect as well,
I have asked the fellow to check on those things, but he is also going
to test the current RH release. I'll post back to this list
Hi Experts,
I have a cooker machine, a laptop, that I want to make a fresh install
on, but there is a problem, it has no floppy drive. Rather than make
a set of CDs, I want to put the hd.image on a cdr, and boot that. The
laptop is running a stale cooker distribution, and has a current
On Sunday 04 August 2002 11:47, Jason Guidry wrote:
On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 10:48, Chuck Shirley wrote:
I have a cooker machine, a laptop... it has no floppy drive.
Rather than make a set of CDs, I want to put the hd.image on a cdr,
and boot that
It maybe sort of a pain, but you could
On Monday 05 August 2002 14:33, James Sparenberg wrote:
Just tried this out and it worked. mkdir and copy hd.img to
that dir. The cd to that directory.
At the prompt type
mkisofs -r -b hd.img -c boot.cat -o hdboot.iso .
the -b means to make this the boot image
the -c means create the boot
Hello Experts!
I am trying to help a fellow with a Mandrake installation.
He is using an Iwill du3160 Ultra-160 SCSI host adapter, and seems
to be having trouble with it. He describes the problem to me thus:
Specifically what i am having problems with is the scsi
On Saturday 03 August 2002 22:14, Lorne wrote:
On Saturday 03 August 2002 05:03 pm, you wrote:
Hello Experts!
I am trying to help a fellow with a Mandrake installation.
He is using an Iwill du3160 Ultra-160 SCSI host adapter, and seems
to be having trouble with it. He describes the
On Sunday 28 July 2002 00:35, Damian G wrote:
hey, instead of killing/reviving the poor arts all the time, have you
tried to make your game work with artswrapper? as in
[user@localhost user]$ artswrapper nameofmyveryimportantsoftware
maybe it'll help. that wrapper stuff is supposed to make the
Hi Experts,
I have some important software that I use that is un-aware of the
arts, (Okay, I admit, it's games, sue me... :^) )so to use it with
KDE3, I have a script linked to a desktop Icon to stop the artsd
if it is running, and start it if it is not running. Is there an
official way to
On Friday 26 July 2002 22:06, nDiScReEt wrote:
On Friday 26 July 2002 8:10 pm, Damian G wrote:
You do realize that using this patch pretty much prevents the machine
from being used as a high capacity server. It allow the kernel to be
pulled away from unimportant things to take care of
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 00:13, dfox wrote:
As for the new IBMs, I'll try them when they take down that advisory
about not running 24/7. Til then, they are welcome to their
technological innovations without me.
Does that advisory just recommend against leaving them on full time
or are
This has been bothering me for some time now, but I thought it was
something I misconfigued on my system. I have my optical drives
(CD-RW and DVD-ROM) like so in my fstab:
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd iso9660 noaouto,ro,user 0 0
So I don't want them to
On Sunday 21 July 2002 14:22, civileme wrote:
Ummm, since I don't have your system in front of me may I suggest that
bringing up mandrake Control center = Boot = Boot Config and actually
trying that scenario might be the best way to discover if it is better?
While you are tinkering, it might
Hi List!
Are there any users of the streamripper utility here?
According to the description in the rpm, and other documentation,
it is supposed to be able to ripp live365 streams, but the docs
don't let on as to how this is done. With shoutcast streams, it's
a walk in the park, but I
On Sunday 21 July 2002 17:50, Larry Sword wrote:
IAW the change log:
Changes in 1.0.3 Removed live365 ripping (legal reasons)
Ah! That explains it! I've sent a message to the packager to update
the package description accordingly. THanks!
-Chuck
--
+-% He's a real UNIX Man
On Sunday 03 March 2002 13:25, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
bascule wrote:
can someone tell me if it is possible to configure konqueror to display the
following url properly:
http://wwwperfdynamicscom/Papers/viewmathhtml
The examples in this page use the archaic method of using special
font
On Monday 25 February 2002 20:11, you wrote:
I have noticed two fine lines going across the screen which I can't seem to get
rid of. I have heard that these are normal for Trinitron (aperture grille)
monitors. Is this true? The lines are barely noticable, so I can live with them
if they are not
On Monday 25 February 2002 16:47, Belkie, Dan wrote:
Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing
through a Nic card within a 24 hr period?
Thanks
if you don't need to know until tomorrow, you could try:
echo `grep eth0 /proc/net/dev | cut -c8-18`-`sleep 86400 ;
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 03:01, Steve Kieu wrote:
Hi,
For some reason I dont know but today when I run
bzflags as normal user, things are terribly slow ;
even I have to reset the computer, I guess something
wrong with dri. After reboot, I try to run it as root
and it is good. Some permission
On Monday 18 February 2002 18:43, Curtis H wrote:
Uhh... Somebody remind me of how to log out of Blackbox.
curtis@freire curtis$ rpm -q blackbox
blackbox-0.62.1-1mdk
This is cooker version I think. The menu entry is gone for some
reason. They are working on it. In the meantime, I made a
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