On Wed, 04 May 2005 11:15:20 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2005 12:43:38 -0400, beartooth wrote: > >> I'd try just replacing the .pinerc with one from Fedora -- YDL4 is >> essentially FC2 ported to Apple hardware -- but the confounded iBook has >> no floppy drive! > > Why not just transfer the file over Ethernet?
Attach it to an email and mail it to myself, you mean? I don't have a homw LAN -- I'm not savvy enough to set one up. >> I don't fancy myself at burning CDs under any linux. If I manage to get a >> usable one with the .pinerc on it, is the iBook going to be able to read >> it? I notice that Fedora when formatting a floppy gives a choice of >> several file systems; is there something like that for CDs? > > You don't "format" a CD. Under Linux, you usually use mkisofs to create a > CD image, and it has loads of different commandline options you can use. Well, until I got rid of it, OSX of evil memory used to greet every new CD by asking me if I wanted to format it. So I let it do a few, to have handy, like formatted floppies. And now they're all coasters, afaict : linux doesn't even recognize that there's anything in the drive when I put one in and try to mount it. -- Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist FC 1&3, YDL 4; Pine 4.63, Pan 0.14.2; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.4, Opera 8.0, Firefox 1.0.3 Remember that I have little idea what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
