nt to a more detailed
tutorial??
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> > To know your enemy?
> please, 'strong case' ;)
Watching the interesting replies I can only add that education is
about teaching individuals to THINK... Some Linux distributions do that; M$
never has and never will.. (I must admit though; that M$ encourages honing
our cuss wo
he surface
anyway, but I came across another, possible, solution:
WN-250GI--Wireless dongle, USB, 802.11g... Anyone have any ideas on
using this with Linux?? Point me to some information?? TIA..
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etc and the other devices should be 192.168.1.=>64... (In WV; Vz supplys the
Actiontec for $30.00, payable in 3 installments on the phone bill.)
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k USB support still has growing pains even with one of it's
designers; M$, so some flailing around may be necessary depending on
individual lashups.. Maybe it's the old adage; try, try, try, eh? And; all
of my Slackware installs rc.hotplug is default.
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very helpful as
well as another similar one found at LinuxQuestions.org.. Once I was able to
put aside many of them that had more information than needed, I was in good
shape, as well as prodding my brain again about the features of telnet..
We're in business again... Appreciate!!
rus-sasl is needed as a client only,
etc.. (I might be using Slackware 10.2, 2.4.31 if that helps.)
TIA and Happy Holidays to all..
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Hal..
Meanwhile maybe I can ask for more help with the scheme now
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On 11-25, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> http://netservices.verizon.net/portal/site/msa/index.jsp?case=c2372
>
> Hal: Try these settings:
>
> DSL settings
>
>* Primary DNS: */4.2.2.1/*
>* Secondary DNS: */4.2.2.2/*
>* Domain: dsl.verizon.net
>* Network p
On 11-17, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> Hal wrote:
> > As far as I can see I cannot have a pppoe setup and a dialup
> >setup on the same machine.. It's either one or the other.. Not both..
> >This machine has a NIC and a hardware modem, with the modem running
> >for year
sets everything, necessitating an install of the ppp package and
running pppsetup again from scratch, in order to have dial up again..
Am I wrong?? Any comments most welcome. TIA
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the agony of filters... We'll see...
BTW; I've gone back to Getmail2 and Sendmail8.11 because the
newer combinations are Catch22, to me anyway, one problem spawning
another; on and on... If it aint broke--don't fix it, eh??
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On 07-06, Peter wrote:
Hal:
> > One final query: Can you invoke: env in any of your
> > userspace or even root and tell me what the variable $MAIL reports?
> > For years the "normal" has always been /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME..
> > Will be interesting to
problem?? APPRECIATE..
BTW Peter, my first mail to your address bounced?? "No such
user."
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On 07-04, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Hal MacArgle wrote:
> [...]
> >>3. Most interesting ... in an actual, downloaded mail file, is the "From
> >>" line present or not? (Open it with vi or whatever text editor you
> >>like, and simply take a look.) If not,
ike Fetchmail, etc..
One final query: Can you invoke: env in any of your
userspace or even root and tell me what the variable $MAIL reports?
For years the "normal" has always been /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME..
Will be interesting to see what your working box reports..
We
On 07-03, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >Greetings: Going bonkers with this after many reliable years of eMail
> >with the so called Unix From_ line; the envelope address; first line
> >of every message. (Or it used to be)
> >
> >Trying to upgrad
On 07-04, Richard Adams wrote:
> On Sunday 03 July 2005 19:23, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> > Greetings: Going bonkers with this after many reliable years of eMail
> > with the so called Unix From_ line; the envelope address; first line
> > of every message. (Or it used to be)
>
the BNC is only for linking extra hubs
I can't seem to find a definative answer as to whether we could use
the same hub for; typically -- 3 UTP cables and 1 coax cable...
TIA and cheers,
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2.12 (cfdisk -v"). With these versions, I've
> >seen no problems with drives up to 250 GB or so.
>
> My Slackware v9.1, kernel 2.4.22, has
> fdisk v2.12 &
> cfdisk v 2.12
> ;-)
>
> HTH, Chuck
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fdisk, it surprised me to see the author saying to not
use fdisk because Cfdisk was better and sfdisk should be used if it's
features needed... "Too many bugs," he or she wrote...
Is this something to be concerned about? Or just one of the many
anomolies we've learned to live
e.. Plugged into this box it
works like a charm.. It was $10 less than the Lexar price but with a
90 day warranty vice sth like 4 years for the "genuine" Lexar...
We learn something every day, eh? APPRECIATE one and all..
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20
On 01-29, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 09:03 AM 1/29/2005 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
>
>
> >Greetings: Running Slackware 9.0 and 9.1; kernels 2.4.20 or 2.4.22,
> >bare.i installation, I've experienced good support for all USB
> >devices except Flash Drives.
> >
t a
problem but I've found otherwise.. One vendor, Kingston, said flat
out that Linux is not supported by their devices..
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e.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
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cfdisk to straighten out the partition table and then re install
Win98 for them... NEVER again... Hope you have better luck..
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or group of pages, then print to file
that is default .gs...
Has worked for me 2.4.20 and 2.4.22..
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On 08-20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >
> > loadlin e:\kernels\bare.i\bzimage initrd=e:\isolinux\initrd.img
>
> Normally I would expect to see an additional parameter:
>root=/dev/ram
Greetings Steven: I tried that plus many others in th
...
Any light to be shed?? TIA. (BTW, I have SL9.1 and it's CD boots OK
on the subject machine but due to space constraints wanted to use 9.0
instead.) (I, finally, booted with 9.1, thence installed the files
from the 9.0 CD, using it's bzimage kernel.) There must be a better
way?
ednesday 14 July 2004 21:19, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> > > Greetings: Am in trouble with an on board CMI-8330 SoundPro feature
> > > on a 430TX MB - (ISA/PCI). Slack9.1, bare.i install, kernel 2.4.22..
> > >
> > > No module by that designation so hit the Web coming up
Thanks Ray and have already answered Richard and Andrew... Will
annotate:
On 07-15, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Hal -- I waited to reply in the hope that someone would have specific
> advice for you. Since nothing along that line happened (the response about
> using a different driver is,
Thanks Richard for your input /and/ Ray and Andrew.. Annotations
follow:
On 07-15, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 21:19, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> > Greetings: Am in trouble with an on board CMI-8330 SoundPro feature
> > on a 430TX MB - (ISA/PCI). Slack9.1, bare.i install
he actual chip is marked as above with "pci" on the next
row.. Thats odd because /var/adm/messages reports that isapnp found
the card.. Strange?? dmesg or /var/adm/syslog doesn't mention it at
all and messages only after invoking modprobe sb...
Any suggestions most welcome and TIA
, etc..
I do have two machines booting with Grub, several versions of
Slackware 9.X as default, or selected, and Win9X as a selection
partition.. It does work well for us... HTH.
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Anyone can pile compl
ing a conf file in /etc, forget the exact name off
hand.. I bought blanks from eBay formatted for the Mac, because they
were cheaper for some reason, and reformatted them ext2 or fat...
If you use it for NFS, there are other details..
HTH. Blast back for any other details I may have missed.. Good
sh it with the setup Dos program.. All's now well discovering
that I had been lucky before with my SMC and RealTek NIC's all auto
sensing without my intervention..
APPRECIATE!! Happy Holiday...
Hal
On 05-29, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> HI, Hal. Sorry to jump into this one late, but since
On 05-28, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 May 2004 16:33, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> > Greetings: I made the, probable, mistake of buying a 3Com 3C900B-TPC
> > PCI BNC NIC discovering that the module automatically installed by
> > Slackware 9.0, 2.4.20 - 3c59x.o - does not ping
alTec NIC..
Appreciate and TIA.
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Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
only a genius can truly simplify..
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discovered when I tried to blank and/or write to a CDR as I've done
so many times before...
TIA and cheers,
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
only a
the program 'mkisofs' that comes with 'cdrecord'...
> While here I had another question relating to backups - whats a good
> way/tool to incremently back up my $HOME directory (on an active account)?
Run 'mkisofs' and pipe it to 'cdrecord' m
BR of whatever the current boot system uses...
I learn more and more every day.. Really enjoying the list..
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Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
only a genius can truly si
On 03-10, James Miller wrote:
> Sounds like a good alternate solution for you, Hal - but one which is
> likely only available for proprietary operating systems produced by
> corporations bent on world market domination - would be speech recognition
> software. Read your friend
On 03-10, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 08:59 AM 3/10/2004 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> [...]
> >> 1. Run a program that will scan to an image file, then a separate program
> >> that will do OCR on the scanned image.
> >
> >Done - scan to PBM (P4) then
On 03-09, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 09:29 AM 3/9/2004 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >Greetings Ray and thanks for the input.. I've fetched gocr
> >and noted the "text in graphic image" mentioned and should compile it
> &g
Greetings: Worse than below - I've been getting bounced messages in
which someone is sending virus files with my return envelope.. Thank
goodness the addressed ISP has been able to destroy them before any
damage. (Hopefully)..
Bottom line; there are many "creeps" out there...
On 03-08, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 03:45 PM 3/8/2004 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >Greetings: Been reading and viewing tons of stuff but can't seem to
> >find if there's a "simple" solution I need..
> >
> >Would like to scan a normal black on whit
eemingly, way too powerful for my simple
requirement.. (Or are they?)
TIA and cheers,
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reason, and it
didn't click with me.. Usually the Mailer, MUA, and the Mail Transfer
Agent are different programs..
It's a tough nut and know I'm not much help but I spent several days
trying PostFix and QMail to solve the Sendmail problem - to no
avail.. I'm getting
Greetings: As Ray says; RH may be different but Slackware, all
versions, have a file: rc.local, that's found -> /etc/rc.d/rc.local,
where you merely enter whatever command you want for each and every
future boot...
Disregard if RH doesn't have such an animal.
Hal - in T
ether completly yet... The one I am now using
is crazy in that it works automagically with Linux but Win98FE and
Win98SE flaky, and Win95USB negative, the design targets Go
figure, eh?
HTH a bit. Cheers.
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
Utrum Per
OK on the comments received by all.. I'll have to give this more
thought as to whether or not it's for me... Appreciate!!
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On 01-26, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > >
> >
and not within the KISS philosophy??
Just curious. Cheers.
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t this in their docs, etc..
Maybe there's another way to solve this problem.. I'm all eyes..
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ach other, whatever..
Never a dull moment.. I can't seem to find much, either, about what
the new user 'smmsp' is all about, and the fact that Sendmail 8.12.X
now uses two .cf files instead of the former one.. Cheers,
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)
rt they said it can't work with Linux.. Go figure.
HTH a wee bit.
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On 01-13, James Miller wrote:
> What's the state of USB networking under Linux? Alot of USB network
> ada
forewarned that Linux is much better
than any of the Unix machines I've messed with.. If you're not
interested in the command line, the above books wont help a lot..
Linux should be called GNU/Linux because without the Free Software
Foundation's work we might be up a creek.
HTH
On 01-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Hal MacArgle wrote:
>
> > Greetings: I can't seem to find an answer to this on the Web, so
> > thought I'd try here.. Unfortunately all my Sendmail books don't
> > cover the really up-to-date vers
lope address??
Maybe there's a site that could explain some of this..
Any suggestions or comments? TIA and Appreciate!!
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On 12-20, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 10:21 AM 12/20/2003 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >Greetings: I just acquired a HP 300i DVD+R drive, learning the ropes
> >with it..
> >
> >I've fetched Chris Stoddard's tome using the drive to burn video but
> >I w
e point me to where I may find something to get started
with??
Appreciate and TIA.
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If you use a supported card best to use its server.. I don't
use it because all my various cards have their own drivers.. HTH.
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didn't work.
Glad to see you've rediscovered the very fine Slackware 9X, IMHO.
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On 11-21, Peter wrote:
> Hi, my own worst suspicion turned out to be true. The motherboard
On 11-01, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 04:11 PM 11/1/2003 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >Greetings: Am messing with the Gatos Groups avview and km. Have
> >avview working OK, but got into trouble with the capture routine km
> >and would like to uninstall it..
> >
> >I
^)... Of
course I've grep'd so many times I'm blue in the face.. If the
routine is in a binary file - am I stuck??
Any suggstions?? Anyone run into this before??
TIA and cheers,
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aptures run into
boo coo mega/giga bytes.. Typically - one minute of motion video is
around 30mBytes or so, at least on my machine.. I haven't gotten into
mpeg yet. Ugh... My "video" machine has a 1.3gHz Duron w/512mB RAM
and a "puny" 20gB HD.. IMHO the picture leaves a l
he dawn of it all...
All in all, it's been an interesting ride that will continue.
Cheers,
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On 10-25, cornelius wrote:
> yeah, thanks for the picker-upper :-)
>
> tha
and greatest,
might be passing on to me their "old" 40-80Gb IDE drives, as they've
done in the past with the 2.1's and 4.3's... There is an
advantage to being behind the times, eh?
I hope the vendor will let you keep the drive since you've
done the leg wor
wont do this as a practice of course.
Another nice tool for us to play with, eh?
Best,
Hal
On 10-05, Amichai Rotman wrote:
>
> It would e wise if you umount the device before yanking it from the plug.
> Other than that - it is safe to unplug it while the power is on. If you
&g
plugging.. As an EE you don't
connect anything to a live bus with impunity; unless the bus is
"dead" until it senses a load.. Maybe I can learn something here.
Any comments? TIA & enjoying the list..
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t's called "bogus million operations a second." At least we're
forewarned and disclaimed.. Keep busy.
Cheers,
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at happens if you compiled another kernel
> defineing sg as a module, you could use the /boot/config file to do this.
That's next and it'll give me the opportunity to remove many
"features" I don't need, eh? Never a dull moment..
Appreciate!!!
Hal - in Terra
On 09-15, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Monday 15 September 2003 19:39, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> > Greetings: Changing to Slackware 9.0, 2.4.20, I discovered the
> > default kernel, bare.i, does not have the module; sg.o, but sg.c and
> > sg.h are in the src.. Therefore my HP scanner th
is working fine?
TIA and cheers,
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Mor
ve to kill -9 the ps , which means a reboot to run the
loading script again.
Don't know why this should happen with Slack9/2.4.20 so was wondering
if anyone else ran into this with a possible fix or explanation as to
what I'm doing wrong, etc?
TIA and Cheers,
Hal - in Terra Alta
On 08-29, Hal MacArgle wrote:
Greetings: FWIW I had two Fuji IDE drives, 4.3 and 3.X that would;
absolutely, positively NOT co-exit no matter the jumpers or two
machines I tried them on..
So, it seems, that non-compatibility is alive and well even in the
same household..
Hal
here..
Now I have to win the lottery in order to buy more flash
drives, eh? I wonder what the, if any, down side there is to
them? All that storage in so little space, blows my mind...
Thanks again,
Hal
> Hope this makes sense,
> Conway S. Smith
Completely!!!
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Greetings and thanks for the comments and pointer.. The thread was
interesting in that it seems some of those sticks are formatted vfat
and mine umsdos; not that I'm completely clear on the relationship
between all this..
"Crack the book" time again...
Appreciate!
Hal
O
OK and use mcopy to manipulate
files.. cp also works but reports an error, copying the file anyway.
I can find no information though as to if I can reformat the stick as
ext2 or ext3..
Has anyone done this? At this point I'm afraid to try..
TIA and Cheers,
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slac
that cannot be good for those mighty thin
contacts..
I have kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.20, and the necessary modules, so I've
ordered a Flash Drive to see what cooks..
Cheers,
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.18)
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Sorry I can't offer a fix as fetchpop was really great, IMHO...
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aven't been following the thread but was
wondering if your distribution uses '/etc/profile'... On my machines,
what I enter as environment variables are global.. Just a thought.
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ngs to do" available..
Appreciate - and thanks again.
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On 07-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> As far as I know, the only mapping done by NFS is the "squashing"
>
the problem and
creates _many_ others.. :^(..
I have the Linux Network Administrators Guide, but it mentions files
that are missing from Slackware 8.0/9.0.. No real help there..
If the above makes sense, is there anyone accomplishing what I want
to do?? TIA,
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Sla
ich made sense as we now have
machines with both SCSI and ATAPI CDR's w/emulation.. CDRECORD pretty
much covers that in their docos.. I could find no mention of the
former subject problem anywhere except on this list.. Maybe I didn't
look hard enough..
Alls well that ends well,
On 06-29, James Hatridge wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hi all
> On Saturday 28 June 2003 21:14, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> > Greetings: Several days; RTFM, FAQ's, HOW-TO's - no joy...
> >
> > This box w/Slack8.0/2.4.18; ru
On 06-28, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Hal MacArgle wrote:
>
> Hal,
>
> I'll guess you need sr_mod. The following are clipped from
> modules.conf on this box, I believe they are the part that sets up the
> zip drive (I know, I used to understand how m
K.. (imm.o, of course, is only for
parallel port devices.)
Any suggestions, comments, etc?? I've looked at all the modules
available and I can't find anything that rings a bell so far...
Cheers,
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Proprietary
On 06-11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >
> > booting from a DRDos702 floppy the BIOS sees the
> > BusLogic controller OK but doesn't, automatically,
> > assign a drive letter to either CD.
>
> A DOS bootdisk can be downloaded fr
Anyway I have installed 8.1.01 using a made up boot floppy
and the ZIP drive, which I really didn't need - plus the Dos BusLogic
drivers.. I learned a lot about ZIP this time around too.. :^)..
I hope I don't have to go through this again..
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackwar
On 06-08, pa3gcu wrote:
> 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, wha
Greetings: Delay taking time out to visit the hospital taking me away
from this more interesting stuff. Comments below at request:
Hal
On 06-10, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> Hi, Steven
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Chuck Gelm wrote:
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> > > I've c
e distributions bundle 'rpm' as one of their
package managers keeping the older UNIX 'pkgtool' and 'installpkg'...
Just to confuse the issue? :^)
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.18)
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003 issue, page 38 by Steven
Levy - "Two Gorillas Make Nice." My comment about them, possibly,
going after Linux was gleaned from an eMail message I happened to
view.
I found part of the message but this is OT, so nuff said,
although it does and will affect Linux users in the fut
s programs, then the Windows community
> is built on organized crime."
>
> Comments.??
Well - sounds good to me except I would say MSWindows because
we have our XWindows. With M$ and AOL now joining up together we had
better hunker down for the long run.. At least it's
x27;s
IT.. Since I read the big box vendors are starting to eliminate the
floppies from their boxes - maybe that's the only way to go in the
future, eh? HI.. I'm a stubborn tenacious Scot but there has to be
closure somewhere along the line.. Life's too short...
APPRECIATE!!
Greetings: Negative - the kernel image you select is
on the boot floppy, Slack =<8.0, plus a "root" floppy to get into the
install screens.. It was all changed with 8.1 in that the image is
loaded via 'syslinux' from the bootable CD.. I'm still bogged down
w
luded the only _easy_ way out is to termporarily
fit an IDE CD for the install and then re-fit the SCSI CD.. What do
YOU think??? Appreciate!!
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.18)
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that a dumb question??
Probably. I note the newer packages have the module 'o' files also
compressed - not to confuse my poor brain. :^)
Appreciate!!
Hal
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> At 11:22 AM 5/26/2003 -0400, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >Greetings: For some time now I've noted, when booting Slackware8.0 -
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at first, but on the 2nd try - it took Success finally.
Appreciate everyones help in kick starting my grey cells.. A big time
sink for an obsolete drive, eh? Thanks again.
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.13)
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