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Re: [Wlug] Partition table blues
by Gregory Avedissian 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Hi Doug, I tried fdisk /mbr and it worked easily. As expected, I only have a windows partition (verified by fdisk). I suspect that I'm less than halfway there. > >> This morning, I read that it shouldn't be used on disks that have more >> than four partitions. I have five partitions and some unclaimed space. >> I might try it later today. > > > I don't know where that came from. It came from ms. Maybe they're just playin' with our heads. > > However, once that is working, you can boot into your linux system (by > one of the ways I mentioned in an earlier post, and run LILO which is > smart enough to leave the Windows part working and simply add the stuff > for other things you want to boot (as specified in lilo.conf --- which > I assume is OK if it was working earlier and you have not edited it). No, there's no lilo.conf and never was one on that installation. There is (was) a grub/menu.lst, which serves the same function, but as far as I understand it, the partition table needs to contain information about linux partitions for either of these to work. I went ahead and booted the rescue system and tried a grub-install /dev/hda, and it returned a message saying that no /dev/root was found. Maybe I'll try parted again, now that I can find where hda1 ends. Thanks, Greg

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Fwd: Announcing the First Annual VMware User Conference
by Andy Stewart 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

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August Speaker proposal
by Jeff Moyer 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hello, If there is interest, Dan Walsh is willing to give a presentation on SELinux for the next meeting. Takers? -Jeff

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Partition table blues
by Gregory Avedissian 25 Jul '04

25 Jul '04

Yup. I blew it away. I had win98 and suse 8.2 on the same hard drive, booting linux from floppy. Noticed that I could no longer boot windows from the hard drive, so I attemted to restore the mbr that I'd saved earlier. That didn't work, my partition table is gone, and I can't get there from here. Parted has a function called something like 'Guess at partition near START and END'. I assume it's looking for cylindar numbers. Is there a way to get those if I didn't write them down when I partitioned the drive? I do have the sizes of the partitions, to the nearest 0.1 GB. Looking for a free solution here. I did find a $90 solution that runs in windows and teases me by showing the files but not letting me copy or view them. Thanks, Greg

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Problem with mount command
by Andy Stewart 25 Jul '04

25 Jul '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Everybody, I have a problem with 'mount' between versions 2.11x and 2.12. Under 2.11x, this command worked just fine: mount -o port=3049,intr localhost:/null /crypt However, with the 2.12 version of mount, the command hangs and never returns. I have to kill the mount process to recover. Strace reports that the process is hanging at the "mount" call. Also, under 2.12, I do see entries in /var/log/messages indicating that a successful request was made to export /null: Jul 24 18:51:58 tux mountd[1843]: NFS mount of /null attempted from 127.0.0.1 Jul 24 18:51:58 tux mountd[1843]: /null has been mounted by 127.0.0.1 However, in another window, the "mount" command by itself does not show the NFS mount. All other NFS exporting/importing operations work just fine. The difference seems to be the two versions of mount and the use of the "port" option. I've downloaded the util-linux sources but so far cannot find a change that would effect this behavior. In case you are wondering what brought all of this about, I am trying to get my cryptographic file system (CFS by Matt Blaze) working under SuSE 9.1. I found a version of /bin/mount from another Linux system, and using that, I can access my files, but I really want to know why version 2.12 of util-linux broke/changed things. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBAwW9Hl0iXDssISsRAiB6AJ0fLoy8/P0GXccouoAvJA5PhclAVACcCv2J 13io+TWed0PHS0xYQpZV7fE= =Dufw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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nice use of graphics in a web page
by doug waud 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Hi all I suppose this is a non-rant. I usually bitch about unecessary complexity in web sites. A friend showed me this one (he is a decendant of one of the kids kidnapped there by the French and Indians) and I thought the picture of the change with time of the area was very well done. http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/ doug

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fetchmail/MS IMAP/8 bit
by Bill Mills-Curran 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

I'm having troubles retaining special (8 bit?) encoding in email messages from the MS Exchange server where I work. Here's the normal path of my data: MS Exchange -> MS(?) IMAP -> fetchmail -> linux sendmail -> procmail -> mutt By the time an email with color fonts gets to mutt, the color is gone. As a test, I modified my .fetchmailrc to specify "cat" as my MDA so eliminated sendmail, procmail and mutt as offenders. I've also added "pass8bits" to my .fetchmailrc -- no improvement. Thus, I've narrowed the suspects to MS IMAP and fetchmail. Does anyone have experience with this problem? My environment: Redhat 9 fetchmail -V: > fetchmail -V This is fetchmail release 6.2.0+IMAP-GSS+NTLM+SSL+INET6+NLS Fallback MDA: (none) Linux esd-bcurran 2.4.20-30.9smp #1 SMP Wed Feb 4 20:36:46 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Taking options from command line and /x/x/.fetchmailrc Idfile is /x/x/.fetchids Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to bcurran. Options for retrieving from CORP/x(a)x.com: True name of server is corpusmx1.us.dg.com. Protocol is IMAP. Password authentication will be forced. Server nonresponse timeout is 30 seconds. Default mailbox selected. All messages will be retrieved (--all on). Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off). Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off). Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off). Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off). Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off). Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is disabled (pass8bits on). MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off). Idle after poll is disabled (idle off). Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off) Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off) Received-message limit is 5 (--fetchlimit 5). Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default) Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized. No UIDs saved from this host. IMAP: Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2657.74 TIA, Bill

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USB mouse - left handed ?
by Andy Stewart 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, I am running a USB mouse on a RedHat 7.3 system (ancient version...don't ask...). In KDE 3.0, I use the GUI to change to left handed, but it has no effect. I also tried ' xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 " ' to no avail. Other than the fact that I cannot switch the two buttons, the mouse (trackball actually) works fine. gpm is not installed on this sytem, and I don't have root privs. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what else I should try (or rather, what else I should ask my sysadmin to try) ? Thanks, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/bFiHl0iXDssISsRApk7AJwJecahdYUx70IXYfILrFJbR+rMQgCfevuX K0gezxQ+ZovMw7lVpu+IAvs= =jawy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Wlug] USB mouse - left handed ?
by Andy Stewart 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 July 2004 9:14 pm, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > I use my mouse left-handed, and it never occurred to me to switch the > buttons. Just switch your fingers. Well, yes, but my fingers are already trained differently. :-) One one of my trackballs (ps/2), there's a DIP switch to do this swapping of left/right. However, the USB version of this trackball appears not to have the same functionality (CH Products DT225). > I just went into kde control center (suse 8.2), and there's a choice for > left-handed mouse. After trying it with the buttons reversed, I retract my > initial suggestion and recommend that you get it to work the way you're > used to. Maybe a USB to PS2 adapter plug would do the trick. I'm using the > one that came with my new mouse. I tried the KDE control center, but it didn't work on this mouse(!). It has worked on all other mice/trackballs except this USB trackball. I also tried a USB->PS2 adapter, and then the trackball doesn't work at all. > Can anyone tell me if there's an advantage to plugging the mouse or the > keyboard into usb rather than ps2? Advantage? I think not. They're just different. Thanks, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/cdGHl0iXDssISsRAhgBAJ9sv7RY919sGddleqsKlPzt9XK1ZQCdFITl 1go+6IbX9RYM+xghj/VF70w= =ygbl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Open-source software running the Internet under the radar
by Karl Hiramoto 20 Jul '04

20 Jul '04

Open-source software running the Internet under the radar http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/07/20/open.source.ap/index.html -- -- Karl Hiramoto karl at hiramoto dot org http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Mobile: 508.517.4819 Work: 978-425-2090

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