Hal MacArgle wrote:
>
> At 0400 this morning I wondered if the best way would
> be to boot the machine with BasicLinux
Or tomsrtbt.
> into ramdisk, and then invoke dd from it - presuming
> Steven put dd in BL.. Not sure.
Yes, I did. It's also in tomsrtbt.
Cheers,
Steven
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Haines Brown wrote:
>
> I'm slowly migrating to Galeon, which is also a full
> featured browser, but is faster than Opera
Really? That is not my experience (on a P166 with 64mb RAM).
I found Galeon slower and larger (much larger) than Opera.
Cheers,
Steven
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James Miller wrote:
>
> dragging the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen causes
> the screen to shift in that direction, making what was cut
> off at that edge visible (while at the same time cutting
> things off at the opposite edge).
> I like this feature of "virtual resolution", and woul
I year or two back, I remember reading about a way to transfer
a file using telnet. It think it involved redirection from one
tty to another, but I don't remember the details. I now find
myself in a situation with telnet access, but no ftp (or anything
else I could use to upload files). Do any
wolfgang wrote:
>
> I found the statement below in killproc() of
> /etc/init.d/functions script.
>
> base=${1##*/}
This is a bash structure used to remove parts of a
variable. The variable is $1. The ##*/ means that
everything before the last / is removed. Therefore,
if $1 is the full path
Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
>
> is this already an automatic feature of the
> later hard drives...
Yes, AFAIK this is an automatic feature of all IDE drives.
> Or are you implying that the "stock kernel (xt.i)"
> *does* support this hard drive head parking/"resting"
> feature... for XTs an
Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
>
> I understand that early PC hard drives had to have
> their heads parked when shut down,
A blast from the past. Yes, indeed, pre-IDE drives
(two data cables) needed parking. Over the years I've
had several of these monsters. I even installed a small
Linux o
Daniel Peter Cavanagh wrote:
>
> I'd like to write a script that will run a command,
> and if successful run another command otherwise echo
> a message.
How about this:
fetchmail -su nofsk pop.vtown.com.au
case $? in 0) pine;;
*) echo failed fetch
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> It's hard for me to think sensibly about what I'd do
> on a system with, say, 16 or 32 MB of RAM, because I
> can't seriously imagine setting up such a system as a
> workstation today
You might be surprised at the number of people today trying
to install Linux on comp
james miller wrote:
>
> Let me pose the RAM question in another way to see if
> it can elicit a generic, "rule-of-thumb" response
I'm happy to give you my personal "rule-of-thumb",
but that's all it is. It's not an absolute truth.
Every system gets at least 16mb of total memory.
So, a system
dashielljt wrote:
>
> I've never tried this and have never heard of
> any success with this idea either.
I do not see the problem. It is easy to create a
compressed archive file (let's call it backup.tgz).
Tar happily tars a single file, so why can't it
tar backup.tgz (multi-volume)?
Chee
Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
>
> As it stands, it's possible to backup to multiple floppy
> disks with tar, but these cannot be compressed during the
> archival process.
Why not use tar twice: first with -zcf to make a compressed
archive and then with --multi-volume to write the archive
to
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> my system (like many; it really has not caught on, despite
> pressure from the FSF crowd) does not even have the "info"
> system installed. (Does BasicLinux install it?)
No, BasicLinux does not have info (although it does have
some man pages). BasicLinux is designed fo
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> (only Slackware, I think, still offers a "low memory"
> install option)
The latest Slackware (8.1) still provides a low-mem kernel.
However the standard installation scheme is too big to run
in 8mb RAM. The instructions say 16mb RAM is required,
although 12mb is probab
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> Compressed you are not going to accomplish easily .
> Maybe someone else can address a method of compressing
> the input INLINE with the multi-volume archive issue .
Couldn't this simply be done by using tar twice: first
tar with -zcf and then tar the result m
Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
>
> The question remains: How can I back up -- with tar or
> any other Slackware 3.5 program -- my 9 MBs of files from
> the BasicLinux console with multiple floppies? And in
> compressed format?
It would be possible to create a compressed archive and
then spli
James Miller wrote:
> I currently just open a console, su, and type in "ppp-on"
> when I want to start the connection, and "ppp-off" when I
> want to stop it. That's fine for me, but others who may use
> the computer might be confused by it or think it unnecessarily
> arcane. It's for them tha
Paul Kraus wrote:
>
> How can I make this assignment in one statement.
> I know its going to be something easy.
> $path=$5;
> $path=~s/ /\\ /g;
I don't understand. Is this part of a bash script?
It looks like you a trying to assign the fifth parameter
(path=$5) to a variable named path (which
problem? Or does it risk overwriting a file with a
> later one
OK, Ray, here's one off the top of my head. I'm sure it
can be improved, but it will do for a start.
-
#!/bin/bash
from="/home/ichi" to="/tm
BEN RITCHEY wrote:
>
> Would it be possible in a Bash script to munge a
> Long File Name to the older DOS 8.3 format?
> In my case I need the first 8 characters and the
> last 4 (.xxx)
To which Paul Kraus replied:
> It would be a lot easier to do it with gawk or perl.
And hackob said:
> Use c
In an earlier message I wrote:
>
> However, I also found (elsewhere) that the framebuffer (fb)
> requires VESA 2.0. It does not work with VESA 1.2 (which
> is what the Trio V64+ is). What effect (if any) this has
> on XFree 4.2.0, I do not know.
The follow passage from the HOWTO in Slackware 8.
James Miller wrote:
>
> The text file that accompanies the xserver file Steven
> suggested does, in fact, mention support for the S3Trio 64+
> (not V+, as my card is supposed to be). But then, if
> XFree86 4.2.0 does not support this card, why is it listed
> in the database of cards one can ch
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> 4. Does your kernel support Unix domain sockets?
> If you are using any stock Slackware kernel, it probably
> supports Unix sockets.
James was using the stock lowmem.i kernel from Slackware.
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# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
# CONFI
James Miller wrote:
>
> I'm beginning to think I may have overlooked something
> in installing X. I'll look and think that over a bit
> before posting further.
Which X server are you using? The default X server in
Slackware 8.1 is designed for VESA cards -- but not the
old VESA cards. There i
james miller wrote:
>
> Right now, I am trying to install a minimal Slackware (8.1)
> The minimal install does not have X installed or configured,
>
> Trio 64v+). When I try to run "startx," the X server crashes
> with the following report dumped to /var/log/:
>
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> In principle, you could run X with no Window Manager,
> just starting a single xterm when the X server starts.
> I've never done this myself (I have read about the
> procedure, in a *very* old book),
I ran X on an old 486 like this for several months.
To see how it wo
Heimo Claasen wrote:
>
> I'm struggling since ages to make a specific SCSI device run
>
> a new Debian-3.0 install first _did_ have it run
Hurray!
> For again some unrelated reason, there had to be a re-install
> of this very Debian; I used not the "frame buffer" but the
> "compact" kernel i
Heimo Claasen wrote:
>
> As to apps: Yes, there's a number of net tools; there's
> WGET, FTP clients; I don't like Pine that much though
Have you tried Elm?
> Some sound tools do run from textmode command line,
> And sure there's more.
Then why did you say the following?
> > > there are mis
Paul Furness wrote:
>
> Path="My Documents/"
> for FILENAME in ls "${Path}"
> do
> cp "${Path}${Filename}" "/tmp"
> done
I think you mean:
--
Path="My Documents/"
for FILENAME in `ls "${Path}"`
do
cp "${Path}${FILENAME}" "/tmp"
done
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Brett wrote:
>
> I suppose if someone were clever, A boot floppy could be
> created that had just enough software on it to provide a
> console, connect to a NIC, mount a HD partition, mount a
> place on a Linux server and then, I suppose use dd to copy
> the partition to the server.
All you
> On 9 Oct 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> > As to Slackware (and btw, what does "survpc-friendly" mean?)
survpc = survivor PC = sub-Pentium PC
Slackware is survpc-friendly because even the latest version (8.1)
runs on a 386, provides a low-mem kernel for systems with less
than 8mb RAM and
a a wrote:
>
> I've written a program in c and want to run it as soon
> as BasicLinux boots up...
> is there a startup stript that i can edit?
The ramdisk version of BasicLinux uses a single startup
scrip: /etc/rc
When you install BasicLinux to its own HD partition, it
uses several Slackware
pa3gcu wrote:
>
> On Monday 26 August 2002 08:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > ---
> > insmod 8390
> > insmod wd
> > ---
>
> And because you said mpdporbe 8390 i suspect its an
> 8 bits card as well.
Yup, she's 8 bits. However, even if I ran depmod on my
system (which I don't)
Michael Gruner wrote:
>
> It seems not to be possible to get debian potato to work
> with smc-ultra NICs.
I don't use Debian, but I do have an ISA smc-ultra NIC.
It works fine in BasicLinux when I do:
---
insmod 8390
insmod wd
---
Cheers,
Steven
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Riley Williams wrote:
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> Another option would be for your script to drop
> the relevant commands into the keyboard buffer
How is this done?
Cheers,
Steven
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Phillip Morgan wrote:
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> How do you check if a file is 0 bytes in size in a bash script.
[ -s filename ]
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Steven
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Oliver Ob wrote:
>
> i meant mc. it can from my understanding not be
> that this app is so long,
> isn't there a shorter clone?
Perhaps "lynx ." or "links ." will do what you want.
I think the muLinux floppy uses lynx for the local
file manager. And BasicLinux uses links.
Cheers,
Steven
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> don't try to use the same IO base and/or IRQ for the
> modem as any in use by the builtin serial ports if any
> (these are often settable by BIOS setup to 3f8/3e8/disabled
> IRQ 4 and 2f8/2e8/disabled IRQ 3). If 2 normal UART's try
> to occupy the same IO address
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