word perfect
by donald vitkus
can not install word perfect 8.0 on united linux
any ideas
15 years, 5 months
easter egg in staroffice 5.2 calc...
by Keller, Tim
(got this off the boston linux users group mail)
type =GAME("StarWars") into a cell in StarOffice calc and see what happens
Note: I don't have staroffice 5.2 so I can't confirm it...
Tim.
17 years, 4 months
Linux on a Dell laptop dual-boot W2K
by Simoncini, Matthew
Hey all,
I was wondering if anyone has had any "good" experiences installing Linux
and W2K on the same machine? I currently have the following hardware setup:
Dell Inspiron 8000 Laptop
Pentium III 700mhz w/256MB RAM
Toshiba DVD-ROM
Integrated Actiontec 10/100MB NIC \ 56K Modem
Intel® 815e AGPSet Chipset with 4X AGP
10GB HD - currently 1 partition NTFS file system
My thoughts were to install Caldera e-Desktop 2.4 which I have had some
success with. What I'm not sure about is re-partitioning the HD to
accommodate 2 Operating Systems. Caldera comes with a slim version of
Partition Magic, but I haven't had the opportunity to use it on NTFS, so
that is where any suggestions would help.
Thanks for the time.
Matthew
17 years, 6 months
SCSI Tape Drive Question
by Marc Hughes
We have a kicking VA Linux 4450 server with a VXA-V17 tape drive in it.
Unfortunatly the tape drive isn't seen by linux.
It shows up in the scsi bios utilities. There is no mention of a tape
drive in dmesg or /var/log/messages after bootup, and it doesn't work
when you try something like "mt -f /dev/st0 status".
The drive is on scsi channel B, does that make a difference? Is there
some way to scan the scsi bus manually? I checked /proc/config.gz and
tape drive support is built in.
Any ideas, suggestions?
-Marc
17 years, 6 months
Win2k
by Michael P. Gorse
Hi all,
I am getting a notebook with Win2k preinstalled, and I would like to
repartition the drive and set aside a few hundred megs for a GNU/Linux
installation. So I was wondering if Lilo would be able to boot Win2k?
Also, how well is NTFS supported in the Linux kernel?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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--Michael Gorse / WPI cs '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ --
17 years, 6 months
"Couldn't find ext2 superblock..."
by Dan Crooks
Using Darkstar Resque Disk to boot and look around a RH 6.2
installation.
e2fsck -n /dev/hda1 results in
Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda1
Here are the questions:
Can I fix the superblock? Or is it re-install time?
Duplicate blocks are reported in hda12 (/) when I boot RH 6.2. Is it
possible to fix that?
RH6.2 boot in rescue mode from CD says fdisk unable to open hda but it
is recognized by Darkstar Resque Disk. Unfortunately Darkstar only has
partitions defined to hda9 and does not recognize hda12. Is it possible
to rename a partition (hda12) to another name (hda5) from outside?
I have a second system, Windows based, which allows me access to the
internet for downloads, email, etc. Is there a way to download
utilities on the Win machine and then execute them from a floppy on the
Linux machine either booted into rescue mode from RH or from Darkstar
floppy?
Thank you in advance for any assistance, guidance or direction.
Dan Crooks
17 years, 6 months
***NEW*** WLUG website
by Andy Stewart
HI everybody,
I am hoping that the transition to the new WLUG website was completely
painless for you users. You will know that you are seeing the proper site
if ***NEW*** appears near the top of the page. The DNS updates should
have propagated around the Internet by now, so everybody should be seeing
this.
If somehow you are seeing the ***OLD*** site, please let me know and copy
Chuck Anderson (cra(a)wpi.edu) also.
Thanks,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
17 years, 6 months
XEmacs question - gnuserv/gnuclient
by Andy Stewart
HI gang,
I'm running XEmacs 21.1.8 and am playing with gnuserv/gnuclient. Within
XEmacs, I do M-x gnuserv-start (which seems OK). In a terminal window on
the same machine, I type gnuclient and another XEmacs window pops up quite
quickly (as I expect).
However, I can't get this to work from another machine on my home network.
I played with the xauth stuff and also tried setting the GNU_SECURE
environment variable to no avail. Clearly I've done something wrong but I
don't know what.
Can somebody walk me through the steps? I'm expecting that if I run
gnuserv on machine 'tux' that I can set the security so that I can access
that gnuserv process from machine 'andypc' by typing the correct
incantation of the gnuclient command on 'andypc'.
Thanks in advance,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
17 years, 6 months
Hostname
by Michael Long
Thanks for the help with realaudio. Now it is working fine. My next question
concerns how the hostname is published. When I look at the DHCP clients table
provided by my router software the windoze boxes have published their
hostname correctly but my linux box has published an incorrrect name. When I
look at /etc/HOSTNAME the name is 'zeus' however then name that shows up in
the clients table is '80'. What am I missing?
thx,
--mike
17 years, 6 months
