Re: writing disk image to file

2003-06-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:53 PM 6/8/2003 -0500, James Miller wrote: I've got a small disk whose contents I'd like to save as an image file, in case I ever want to write it back to the disk it came from. This is a 4MB flash disk. From what I gather in my Linux reading, I should do something like the following: hook t

writing disk image to file

2003-06-08 Thread James Miller
I've got a small disk whose contents I'd like to save as an image file, in case I ever want to write it back to the disk it came from. This is a 4MB flash disk. From what I gather in my Linux reading, I should do something like the following: hook this tiny IDE disk up as, say /dev/hdb and the do

Re: round of questions regarding modem

2003-06-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
At , Heimo Claasen wrote: Firstly, you need not > disable Com 2 in the system BIOS - oumpf, how's that done there ? -, but just leave the BIOS settings what they are (re serial ports, AFAIK the BIOS just looks and registers what's there); real _settings_ are done with the jumpers. It is commonplac

Gnome menu path

2003-06-08 Thread J S
Does anyone know how to find out what directories gnome searches through for .desktop files in order to populate the gnome menu? Is there a system-wide conf file that determines this menu path? Can it be changed? I'd like to work on a Gnome menu manager application, but don't know enough about G

Re: round of questions regarding modem

2003-06-08 Thread Heimo Claasen
Firstly, you need not > disable Com 2 in the system BIOS - oumpf, how's that done there ? -, but just leave the BIOS settings what they are (re serial ports, AFAIK the BIOS just looks and registers what's there); real _settings_ are done with the jumpers. Hmm, somewhat cumbersome to use setserial

Re: another round of questions regarding modem

2003-06-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
OK. Your dissatisfactions with the quality of USR's documentation are not really a Linux problem. SO I'll limit myself to the part of your message that is. Assuming you do manage to get your modem configured to look like it is on the right IRQ and IObase for the traditional COM2 ...I'm actually

another round of questions regarding modem

2003-06-08 Thread Richard Dawson
Distribution: Linux 9.1 System: ALR Optima Pentium MMX, 116 MHz. (Why bother? Hey, with free software this machine is worth something! Besides, I'm trying to learn here.) Modem US Robotics V.everything internal , ISA board. (Yup, a vastly over-priced Cadillac. I bought it several years

Re: Slackware 8.1.01 Install????

2003-06-08 Thread pa3gcu
On Saturday 07 June 2003 16:47, Hal MacArgle wrote: > On 06-05, pa3gcu wrote: > > So it sounds like you can mount the CD manually during install, is that > > correct,?? If so then you MUST be able to use it to install period, what > > you may be doing is FORGETTING to ""UNMOUNT"" it before proceedi