Re: [vox-tech] stdout

2003-10-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Julie Russell wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am writing a C++ application using x11 developing on SuSE 8.2 and suddenly > my stdout (cout and cerr) are not outputting to the console, or piping to a > file. Has anyone ever experienced this before? I am baffled! Standard C stream

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Ken Bloom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:54:59PM -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 21:02, Mark K. Kim wrote: > > > You can't uninstall LILO like that. Uninstalling LILO recreates > > > the MBR using the backup MBR... since the partition y

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Ken Bloom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:16:47PM -0800, Ryan Castellucci wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 27 October 2003 07:59 pm, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > Well, now the damned computer won't even start. I turn it on, and it > > just runs 10 across the screen until

RE: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-bootsystem)

2003-10-27 Thread Richard S. Crawford
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 22:00, Trevor Lango wrote: > Okay, here is what you need/should do: > > Boot off of a Windows XP Install CD and select the "Recovery Console" > feature. When you are eventually at a command prompt, typing "fdisk /mbr" is > necessary to overwrite LILO BUT will not be good enou

RE: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-bootsystem)

2003-10-27 Thread Trevor Lango
Okay, here is what you need/should do: Boot off of a Windows XP Install CD and select the "Recovery Console" feature. When you are eventually at a command prompt, typing "fdisk /mbr" is necessary to overwrite LILO BUT will not be good enough for Windows XP...!!! XP uses additional files for bootin

Re: [vox-tech] stdout

2003-10-27 Thread Mark K. Kim
Try it on a different terminal program. Terminals can be manipulated in various ways, and you might have inadvertantly stopped it. -Mark On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Julie Russell wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am writing a C++ application using x11 developing on SuSE 8.2 and suddenly > my stdout (cout an

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 21:02, Mark K. Kim wrote: > > You can't uninstall LILO like that. Uninstalling LILO recreates > > the MBR using the backup MBR... since the partition you had the original > > LILO (which also had the original MBR) is gone, yo

[vox-tech] stdout

2003-10-27 Thread Julie Russell
Hi Everyone, I am writing a C++ application using x11 developing on SuSE 8.2 and suddenly my stdout (cout and cerr) are not outputting to the console, or piping to a file. Has anyone ever experienced this before? I am baffled! Thanks in advance, Julie. __

[vox-tech] MBR Issue Resolved

2003-10-27 Thread Richard S. Crawford
I just *happened* to have an old CD of Windows 98 lying around. I booted the computer from that and ran fdisk /mbr at the command prompt, and that fixed it. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions! -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 Howard Dean for

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Rob Rogers
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:30:34 -0800, Richard S. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 21:02, Mark K. Kim wrote: You can't uninstall LILO like that. Uninstalling LILO recreates the MBR using the backup MBR... since the partition you had the original LILO (which also had the ori

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Richard S. Crawford
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 21:02, Mark K. Kim wrote: > You can't uninstall LILO like that. Uninstalling LILO recreates > the MBR using the backup MBR... since the partition you had the original > LILO (which also had the original MBR) is gone, you can't uninstall LILO. > > What you wanna do here is RE

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-bootsystem)

2003-10-27 Thread Charles McLaughlin
If I remember correctly, there isn't a root password on Knoppix. However, you get get a root terminal by clicking the KDE menu, go to the KNOPPIX folder and you'll find a root terminal app there. Also, switching to the virtual consoles by pressing ctrl+alt and F1 through F5 (?) will get you root

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Mark K. Kim
You can't uninstall LILO like that. Uninstalling LILO recreates the MBR using the backup MBR... since the partition you had the original LILO (which also had the original MBR) is gone, you can't uninstall LILO. What you wanna do here is REinstall LILO. Make it boot directly into Windows without

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Richard S. Crawford
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:16, Ryan Castellucci wrote: > I'm not sure what knoppix has the root password set to, but you can run 'sudo > bash --login' for a root prompt. I managed to get to root by doing "sudo su" in a terminal. Then I tried: /sbin/lilo -r /mnt -u and got this error message: W

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Ryan Castellucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 October 2003 07:59 pm, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > Well, now the damned computer won't even start. I turn it on, and it > just runs 10 across the screen until I turn it off. There is no floppy > drive on this computer, so a boot disk wo

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Richard S. Crawford
Well, now the damned computer won't even start. I turn it on, and it just runs 10 across the screen until I turn it off. There is no floppy drive on this computer, so a boot disk won't work; and I'm afraid I couldn't quite figure out how to use Knoppix to deal with LILO (what *is* the root passwo

Re: [vox-tech] SQL front-ends for web browsers

2003-10-27 Thread David Siedband
For a more generic prototyping tool have a look at. http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/ For a more customized web interface check out Zope Just set up you database adapter, code a few ZSQL queries and some DTML or ZPT templates and you're sorted. HTH -- David On Oct 25, 2003, at 12:00 PM, [E

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Richard Crawford
Jeff Newmiller said: > The solution is merely a boot disk away, Ryan. See the lilo manpage for > "-b" and "-C" options. Hurrah for Knoppix. :) Brilliant! And I just happen to have a Knoppix disk on my Binder O' Operating Systems. Thanks for the tip. Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford http://www.m

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Ryan Castellucci wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 27 October 2003 03:20 pm, Trevor Lango wrote: > > It is not necessarily a bad thing that LILO is still "lurking" on the > > computer - you could simply re-configure LILO to boot Windows au

Re: [vox-tech] Fried hard drive recovery

2003-10-27 Thread Ryan Castellucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 October 2003 02:55 pm, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote: > I have a hard drive that seems to be completely hosed. It has some > important data I'd like to retrieve from it, but I can't even run "fdisk > -l /dev/hda" without receiving a plain I/O

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Ryan Castellucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 October 2003 03:20 pm, Trevor Lango wrote: > It is not necessarily a bad thing that LILO is still "lurking" on the > computer - you could simply re-configure LILO to boot Windows automatically > (assuming it is already booting your Windows

Re: [vox-tech] Fried hard drive recovery

2003-10-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote: > I have a hard drive that seems to be completely hosed. It has some > important data I'd like to retrieve from it, but I can't even run "fdisk > -l /dev/hda" without receiving a plain I/O error. The bios, however, > sees the drive and recognizes it.

RE: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Trevor Lango
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Crawford Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 14:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system) After much wrangling and deliberating, I finally went a

[vox-tech] Fried hard drive recovery

2003-10-27 Thread R. Douglas Barbieri
I have a hard drive that seems to be completely hosed. It has some important data I'd like to retrieve from it, but I can't even run "fdisk -l /dev/hda" without receiving a plain I/O error. The bios, however, sees the drive and recognizes it. A search through "dmesg" output shows that it's being re

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Michael J Wenk
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:08:42PM -0800, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > > After much wrangling and deliberating, I finally went and (very > > regretfully) removed Debian from my dual-boot Sony Vaio. Deleting the OS > > itself was e

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > > After much wrangling and deliberating, I finally went and (very > > regretfully) removed Debian from my dual-boot Sony Vaio. Deleting the OS > > itself was easy enough -- I just

Re: [vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread R. Douglas Barbieri
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > After much wrangling and deliberating, I finally went and (very > regretfully) removed Debian from my dual-boot Sony Vaio. Deleting the OS > itself was easy enough -- I just used Partition Magic to delete the > partitions and refo

[vox-tech] BLASPHEMY (i.e., removing Linux from a dual-boot system)

2003-10-27 Thread Richard Crawford
After much wrangling and deliberating, I finally went and (very regretfully) removed Debian from my dual-boot Sony Vaio. Deleting the OS itself was easy enough -- I just used Partition Magic to delete the partitions and reformat them as NTFS partitions that I can use to store Windows files and dat