Actually there is no need to quote Heinlein as it is not his. Years ago in NYC
one could get food for free if one purchased beer. But some would try to get
food without a purchase. Thus signs were put up saything, "There is no such
thing as a free lunch"
Cordially,
S. Barret Do
not always just that.
For example, I am now working on getting chinese input on our school
computer. School administration work is usually just things like updating
documents and making sure that the latest materials are available to them.
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Taipei Taiwan
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Any suggestions on what a school should use for a database. We mostly will use
it for accounting and student lists. (Neither of which require complex
database design.)
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Pegasus International Schools
Taipei Taiwan
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I used fdisk to clear all partitions. But when I boot up my box I still get a
splash screen with two kernels listed. Where are those kernels?
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
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The message reads, from a Mandrake installation, There was an error
installing packages XXX. Do you wish to continue. This goes through every
package I selected.
File partitions. I used fdisk to partition and then put Reseirfs on them.
Then I let Mandrake do the partitioning automatically
I redid the partitions and then formatted them with Reiserfs. I then selected
the packages to be installed. None of the packages could be installed. After
waiting quite a while I got messages saying, for example, xxx program had
problems do you want to continue. There was a message for every pac
rch 2004 20:29, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> > I would have guessed that reformatting the disk would wipe everything out
> > but it seems not to be the case.
>
> That is your MBR not your disk partitions working, your disk MBR is the
> first 512 bytes and is NOt a partition as such
disk would wipe everything out but
it seems not to be the case.
On Tuesday March 30 2004 17:44, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 09:11, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> > That doesn't work. The partitioning works but after that I nothing gets
> > installed. Is there a way to
ly,
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> Am I right in assuming that you meant to type /mnt/cdrom ?
Yes, my apologies...
I did this...
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
and got mount: you must specify the filesystem type.
>
>
> If this command does not fix the problem, then you probably need to check
> that the CD drive itsel
Somehow, I have managed to make my CD invisible.
I do have the directory mnt/cdrom but nothing is shown there. (using Midnight
Commander.)
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
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Are these really necessary? I never had problems without one but I only have
Linux on my box and no other users.
How about Swapfiles instead of a swap partition? Does this really work?
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Taipei Taiwan
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on it at
least 6 hours or more a day. I care mostly about stability and don't really
care too much about speed. So more to the point are any of you aware of
hardware that is a nightmare to install. Or a site which can help.
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Taipei Taiwan
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When loading a disk I get this message: isolinux: Disk error 80, AX = 42B2,
drive 9F. What does this mean?
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As always it is good to read your advice. I have learned much from this list
and much from you.
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
On Monday 26 January 2004 00:42, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 09:37 PM 1/25/2004 +0800, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> >I am probably getting too picky about repartit
I am probably getting too picky about repartitioning my drive but I want it to
be set up for a long time. I never use all the space in my harddrive even
though it is relatively small. (I only use it for work and don't play any
games.)
Questions..
My old setup
sda1/ 1g
sd
I have looked at the various file system stuff for comparison. I have been
using Reiserfs for some time now and had, until recently, no problems.
?s
Are Xfs and Jfs still too new to use?
I have used ext3 for my / partition. But I can't remember who told me I should
do that or why. Is it a goo
What does this mean? How do I fix it? There is nothing on my disk so I don't
have to worry about data.
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
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How do I clean this up?
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My modem now fails to initialize. It worked fine before but now hangs.
The modem is fine as I can use it with my old box. From the KPPP manual
it says I may have such problems if mgetty is using the same line. But
in the sysguard I don't find such a process running. I did see mingetty
but I don
Under Mandrake 9.0 my printing jobs just hang forever. After the
installation I was able to print and then sometimes printouts would come
through after turning on and off the computer. Now nothing
Printer works fine as I tested it with my girlfriends laptop.
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