would mean a rather
wasteful intermediary disk writing/reading procedure.)
Couldn't there be a more elegant way ?
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Could it perhaps done with a small bash script ?
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should be left intgeger; and this wouldn't be working with
debugging output anyway.
Thus something like 'cat filename /dev/lp0' should go through a simple
filter which inserts a CR in front of any LF. Is there something the
like ? Couldn't a small bash script do it
he generic "nv" driver.
Thus the difference wasn't there either. We just couldn't find out where
the glitch was with Debian.
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interfaces are broadly open, so that's no so much of an issue.
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rake, SuSE, RH - hadn't any problem with
that.)
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e the
same 40-pin connectors. (Hmm - anyone who knows how _that_ goes about ?)
Seems that some "modern" (E)IDE controllers need the latter cable type
with some specific - "E(nhanced)IDE" ? - drives.
(Maybe that's the explanation too for the "temporary 2.4.x" symptom -
ot necessarily with "fstab" but perhaps with an
appropriate bash/batch command - all eventually existing partitions on
this second HD under a generic mount point on the root tree (of the
booting, first HD.)
It gets a bit tedious to do that manually each time with half a dozen
slightly d
old", as
some BIOSes are a bit more forgiving and just take _any_ "next" HD they
find as "D" after a first/primary "C". [It's your headache to sort out
the Linux drive/partinion names thereafter, .)
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" a la Nut$crape Mail in Win$); as long as the exact
form(at) from the download is kept. The salient thing is that the
contents is not corrupted by rewriting into the mbox format.
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Thanks for the hints flowing !
Now I can try them all on a HUGE manual - 120+ pages entirely cosisting
of text - I guess it will reduce to <30 pp pure text, .
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s-to-text" converter existing which would do
this with postscript/ghostscript files ?
(I dindn't get something meaningful from a web search.)
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unning) new install altogether.
The problem is less one of data loss, as all data files have been
backed up, but one of work time - doing the _whole_ install over from
scratch would certainly need one full, if not two work days (lots of
fine tuning done in both systems.)
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volumes.
The question: is there any means to change those second "fixed" disks
_without_ rebooting ?
Simple mount/umount/mount cannot work.
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use of the) whole OS "moves to" the
(sub)dir where some task is done. As a "device" - at the surface - is
treated the same way like a (data) file or a directory, the boat/user
must get off from there first before it can be unmounted.
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else from where you started.
Maybe that's natural for everyone who grew up with *nixish mother's
milk; for all others, and certainly for mewbies like me, it's a bit more
diffcult to understand why "The System" would change your current/working
directory with, say, just readi
herefore provide for a possibility to adapt the
use of these latter, as they depend on the ISP's implementation.
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the server may shuffle everything around -
and only the number of the "last" item read the last time remained the
same. This from own bad experience.
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Is there any means to get to kwno which screen resolution (or "mode
line") is effectively used in an actual situation of the X window display ?
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Ah, thanks Conway - already one trail to foillow (and I'll do that later
to-night): convincing because indeed logical (where else could have come
nothing else but the [hd]"g" come from ?!).
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at box again, because this is one of
the key uses/functions for certain tasks it's needed for. The only
alternative would be that M$-I-Exploder indeed.
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Kppp is a really good utility - but it just wouldn't work without the
full installation of KDE, including most QT libraries ... and this is a
no-no for the Debian 3.0 "distro".
So there you (we) are.
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Mandrake hitherto was the "distro"
which did cope comparably well with hardware detection; and at least up to
"8.2" (and I think that was the last version before "9.0") did this quite
well with all sorts of ISA devices, other distros needing much more
&q
p" package by itself, it's
part of a whole bundel of KDE utilities wrapped together insto one
package in (some of) the RPM-based distros/installations.
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il queue" - it's deficiencies of the most fundamental
contextual explanations that put newbies off time and again. (And what
I call "specialised blindness" - try to find out from the "standard"
beginner's bibles like "Running Linux" or "Linux in a Nutsh
to choose between window managers.
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More major
cific combo of card/monitor to work ever in its best way. The Mdk
procedure is way ahead.)
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How _do_ you "change the DISPLAY variable?"
Searching through my wise Debian book I cannot even find it mentioned
at all.
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No, Jude, it should read, and does read modem='/dev/ttyS3' (as address
is 2e8, correactly read as that in /proc/ioports)
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A propos ifup/pon/p-pon, Lawson:
It is "ifup pppN" (and correspondingly), thus not "ifconfig.."
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Please
ound is running kppp (from running X, and having the
"setserial" command run before) - then, a mere modem query succeeds
even in setting the right values, and up to a next reboot, for using
the modem from the console !
I really would like to find an explanation for this.
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n" any hint on how to use it for precisely the issue at hand.
> What are pon and ifup?
These are bash commands in Debian and Mandrake, resp., for starting
ppp[n] from the console (I think it's "p-on pppN" in Slackware, just
to add a bit to the confusion); in a way, the corresp
nclude and
what to be "outsourced".)
((And BTW2, please don't thrash this ideological verbosity of the
"powerful" nature of the "system" in this context - it's easy enough to
show how the n! possible combinations of trouble increase with n.))
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it opens one xterm.
>From there, it's just to launch an application or in addition some
(elementary) window manager (like "twm") to be able to at least move
(though not yet resize) the windows opened by some app.
BTW, Lawson - Ray would get a bit picky as it isn't ".Xinit&
i.e. rather identical to RH in respect to
the X arrangements.)
REM: X itself ("bare", no whatsoever window manager and thus no means
to do anything with it, always installed well here, even with somewhat
tricky hardware conditions regarding the video card and highres monitor.)
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ssigning it IRQ 3 - which is the reason for the
whole nuisance.
Gransking all those HOWTOs and mans didn't give any better hint than
precisely that to use "setserial"; but _no_ answer on the question how
the initial setting of a system installed, defined at the time with the
system ins
Chuck - that swapfile: has it to be created anew just before any
prog/app is run ? Or could I just leave it "on" ?
Well, and then - can I conclude from this that a swap _partition_ is
basically used like a file ?
(Or else: would programs which need swap create their _specific_ files
in a swap part
new or hard
formatted zipdisk does away with the problem. With erasing files or
directories, however, DOS does not really "wipe" an entry in the file
allocation table but merely sets a marker (8-bit) byte for "deleted"
files. Could it be this which irritates the Linux applicat
and quite some who did or want to change away from Winno$ with their
existing, "old" PCs - are geared towards conditions of illimited means
(e.g., permanent/broadband net connection, units with huge mem and dito
HDs); which might well be a misconception.
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omplete installation of the "system".
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James - that's quite new to me:
> ... that when your system has a crash it is
> still capable of writing a core dump to the harddisk.
I understood it hitherto that it's needed for cases when a program needs
more mem than is free and available ?
Or asked the other way round - would any program whic
So I'd like best to define an all new
"swap" and likewise new "/home" from that (emptied) /home space, and
to redefine the old swap space of the HD as just some other data (or for
the "users" /homes) storage.
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No Haines - the unit is not at all net connected when the cor dumps
occur. They are connected with a proggy in full development which
still has lots of loose ends, thus crashes are natural. What seems not
so natural is the huge volume of those dumps. I really wonder.
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Who is correct here, "df" or "mc" ? And what/whom is to be believed ?
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TICAL **" error, evidently some file is lacking.
Searching through the pertinent distribution CDs I could not find
anything apparenly relevant to reload/re-install.
What is the real name for those "Gtk-" libraries ?
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ecisely there, in the
"man") with this config-file, is set out of play if the default format of
this very config-file is used.
Got it ?
(Now tell a Linux/Unix newbie that something like "unix:/-1" is sheer
nonsense when s/he sees it in the highly original and sacro
AND X had run perfectly as usual at the last boot before.
?!?
(And note that the machine boots up well into command line mode as
usual; all filesystemchecks therewith indicate "clean", etc.)
:(((
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aving 8 to 64 or even more MB but the only way to
get it going at all (with ensuing endess trial and error with the
config files to get a high resolution screen/card accepted).
And I don't even want to know which idiot has introduced the complete
incongruity of the term "Dis
it did
run well was with a "just window maker" install of X. Thus banning the
additional presence of those Gnome/KDE could perhaps avoid that
collision, whatever it is.)
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design.
Anyway, that's more from a point of view looking at the practicalities;
and cdertainly not an issue of flamewar.
(Though I admit that I see some good occasion for that in it, looking
at the extreme splitting-up of C[++etc] projects into hundreds of
files, .)
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I'm quite sure that it's one of those thousand files-bits of the
Gtk environment which might be the culprit but to find that out would
mean another fifteen months more of work and missed pay for not done
real work.)
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ntal or whatever
reasons; I want an alternative.)
And I'd be a bit skeptical if you do that with Bash - is Midnight
Commander written in bash ?
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some DOS stuff; except for system (administration) utilities and some
editors there are miserably few textmode _applications_ in those Linux
"distros".
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appreciate the principle of the (real) Java
approach to keep all that net intrusion in the sandbox. And the more I
love this ol' DOS box which is to me, me! ME!!! alone, and not to a
SysAdmin who I'm not.
Thanks for the "Quackbasic", btw. (Used to call it QuirkB. hitherto.)
on the inserted media.
So why starting up Linux _does_ demand to have them insterted ?
I found numbers of such indications in articles, Howtos etc.
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and cannot print it.)
The way to avoid this, besides of not using that crooked gear in the
first hand, would be to have all SMTP servers to screen mail bodies;
which they do not, presently, as they are nicely behaving and rely on
standards.
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wouldn't mount automatically when the card is inserted or taken out
(task of that "cs-mgr" which obviously watches one of those pins.)
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any other, _including_ those with correct ISO-8859-1 charsets set.)
Remapping could (and _should_, IMO) be an easy thing, with switching to
the right charset with reading/screen-printing that one piece (and then
switching back to the generally used charset).
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ently, this has changed places, and there's no information in the
number of READMEs and the like (at least, not in one of those where I
tried to find it).
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), respectively.
> I hate it when stuff this basic becomes both distribution specific -AND-
> named in ways that invite confusion. Pfui!
Now go tell me.
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ther, likewise confusing passages) never
tried to look at it as someone without already a highly trained,
insider's knowledge.
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ell-printed
articles to read. Anyone who knows and _dares_ to tell about ?!
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(*) For the consumption of "sleeping" electronic gear almost the full
capacity of two of the GW-
Thanks, Steven and others who replied to this thread.
I suspect I have to go with this indeed:
> Your best bet would probably be to just rely on your package manager.
Hmm.
Interesting, nevertheless:
> This initially sounds like a good idea. In fact, I once went as far as
> actually writing such
do just that ?
There should be, or at least it's thinkable to be do-able, a "listing"
of "non-shared", so to say "singular" files (or even packages), at which
you could then look at more in detail in order to decide if to delete
them or not.
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ntly lists a number of files
"referenced" [sic, ] by that _one_ program.
But it's clearly a hassle to have this done for _all_ programs in order
to find out those some files the use of which is not shared. (One of my
fatter, though far from complete installations has almost 60,000
files.
g and improvement by registering
for this "shareware", .
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Had precisely this problem with a win98 unit lately. Solution was
simple:
Boot with a rudimentary DOS system _floppy_ and use a clean file viewer
like Buerg's LIST which can show and delete hidden files.
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Welcome to the Continuous Cloning Club (CCC) !
Here's one from my tags (aka data) base:
* A nice thing to use windows for is to cut and paste parts of flies. *
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