Re: Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

2004-10-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
If the .iso is of a bootable CD-ROM all you have to do is write the bits to disk as-is. The first 1.44 or 2.88 MB of the disk image is basically a DOS-type floppy image that gets booted which then boots the CD-ROM (El Torito format). I don't think so. IIRC, El Torito calls for a special

Re: Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

2004-10-04 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:32:50PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Oct 3, 2004, at 21:51, Michael ODonnell wrote: so when I draggeddropped the Debian ISO onto the CD it was just copied onto the CD as plain old data. If the .iso is of a bootable CD-ROM all you have to do is write the

Re: Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

2004-10-04 Thread Ted Roche
On Oct 3, 2004, at 9:51 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote: I'm working with a laptop that has a basic XP Home installation on it and I'm trying to create a bootable Debian CDROM. Googled this article on the Microsoft site: Do you need to create ISO image files? As the name suggest, these files are

Re: Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

2004-10-04 Thread Scott Mellott
There are freeware burners out there that can do the trick: http://www.download.com/Burn4Free-CD-DVD/3000-2646-10323175.html?tag=lst-0-10 Scott Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:32:50PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Oct 3, 2004, at 21:51, Michael ODonnell wrote: so when I

Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Roger H. Goun
The John Kerry campaign office in Nashua is in desperate need of a toner cartridge for an HP LaserJet 5si MX printer. HP Part Number: C3909A Lexmark Part Number: 140109A If you have one you'd be willing to donate, please let me know. If you're not in the Nashua area, I'll find a way to get it

RE: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Brian
I used to have a batch of toners for that printer that were notorious for jamming/clogging the printer. Too bad I threw them all out, or I'd gladly send them over ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger H. Goun Sent: Monday, October 04,

Re: Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

2004-10-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
Given the responses so far it sounds like my take on the situation was correct: you can't burn CDROMs with the software included in a basic XP Home installation, but various 3rd-party packages are available. I thought I'd heard that a basic XP Home setup was able to burn bootable CDROMs as part

CVS Notify

2004-10-04 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
All, I currently have CVS set up so that certain people are notified when changes are committed. It has been requested that the notification contain a diff of the committed file vs. the last file. Is this a built in function of CVS, or do I need to write a script to do this? TIA, Kenny

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 13:54, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:20:30 EDT Roger H. Goun said: The John Kerry campaign office in Nashua is in desperate need of a toner cartridge for an HP LaserJet 5si MX printer. Are you sure it's an HP? If you ask again, I bet

Re: CVS Notify

2004-10-04 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:24:47 EDT Kenneth E. Lussier said: I currently have CVS set up so that certain people are notified when changes are committed. It has been requested that the notification contain a diff of the committed file vs. the last file. Is this a built in function of

Re: CVS Notify

2004-10-04 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:34 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Do they want a diff per file that was checked in, or a repository level diff? (I don't think cvs does the latter, though I could be wrong, but I know subversion does, not that that helps you any :) They want a per file diff for the file

RE: Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

2004-10-04 Thread Neal Richardson
Windows XP definitely will not burn .iso images without 3rd party software -Neal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael ODonnell Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Creating bootable linux CDROM

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Not being a Kerry fan, please excuse me while I sit here not feeling bad for them. (Of course, it it was W's office, I wouldn't feel sorry for them either, but that's only because they wouldn't have this problem. They would have

Ports (was Re: The First Linux Distro?)

2004-10-04 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: As to 'most stable' I've run into unresolvable and/or circular dependency problems with both rpm and dpkg (dpkg more) so frequently of late that I'm about to give up on that method. Nice idea, but 'works sometimes' isn't quite enough. I'm interested in finding out if

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:53:32AM +0900, Derek Martin wrote: I'm not a Kerry fan either, and generally I'm no fan of Democrats... But it saddens me to think that intelligent people can find ways to justify supporting GWB. By all appearances, he's nothing but a power-hungry war-mongering

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Oct 4, 2004, at 20:53, Derek Martin wrote: By all appearances, he's nothing but a power-hungry war-mongering lunatic with an IQ of 67 ... Secret societies don't need to be sinister, but secrecy + power have always seemed a little bit that way to me... Wait, is he an idiot or an evil

Re: 2.4.18 - 2.6.8 yields ext3 errors?

2004-10-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
Another few shots in the dark: have you played with permissions on the mount point? Yes, but saw no difference in behavior. Can you mount them as ext2? No. Is there any spare space where you can create a small ext3 to see if ones created by that kernel can be mounted by the kernel? No

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
OK - two guys are watching a dog licking its own genitals. One guy says, I sure wish I were able to do that... The other guy says, Naaahh! He'd probably bite you. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:53:32 +0900 Derek Martin said: On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Not being a Kerry fan, please excuse me while I sit here not feeling bad for them. (Of course, it it was W's office, I wouldn't feel sorry for them either,

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Michael ODonnell
One time, when I was eleven years old, I ate an entire outboard motor. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: 2.4.18 - 2.6.8 yields ext3 errors?

2004-10-04 Thread Bill Freeman
Can you make and ext2 fs on a floppy (or Zip drive, if you've got it) and mount that as ext2? Yes, it sounds like a bum kernel. But if it came as binary from debian, i.e.; you didn't build it from source, I'd expect that others would be having the problem. I guess that what's really called for

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Bruce Dawson
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:36, Roger H. Goun wrote: ... No comment, other than to suggest you run a whois search on nhfordean.com. ... I think Roger is trying to say that the nhfordean.com site runs on Linux. (As do a number of other political sites.) Funny how that doesn't get mentioned in the

Do Seagate Baracuda drive bad sectors = bad drive?

2004-10-04 Thread Hewitt Tech
A few weeks ago a client was having problems with his Dell system and specifically he had file system corruption (Windows XP Home) which required a repair install of his OS. I noticed that the event logger logged a disk bad block event about the time of the corruption of his file system and I

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:34:06PM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: One time, when I was eleven years old, I ate an entire outboard motor. Thanks for the laugh. :) -- Derek D. Martinhttp://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid