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Fwd: WLUG - Borland Kylix
by Andy Stewart June 3, 2001

June 3, 2001

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: WLUG - Borland Kylix Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:53:15 -0400 From: "Al Reinhart" <reinhart(a)discom.com> To: <astewart(a)world.std.com> Andy, Thought some of the members in the user group might be interested in the following: Borland announces a 90-day limited time offer to purchase the Desktop edition of Borland® Kylix(TM), its award-winning Linux® application development and deployment product for $199. Timed with the launch of "Kylix-Compatible" Borland® Delphi(TM) 6, the promotion is designed to address the demand for Windows/Linux cross-platform application development and deployment... (http://www.borland.com/about/press/2001/kylix_promo.html) Al ------------------------------------------ Al Reinhart Phone: (508) 869-6417 DisCom Systems Fax: (508) 869-3420 www.DisCom.com ------------------------------------------------------- -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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Linux on a Dell laptop dual-boot W2K
by Simoncini, Matthew June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

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

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Re: [Wlug] Linux on a Dell laptop dual-boot W2K
by Wesley Allen June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Simoncini, Matthew" <simoncim(a)bsci.com> Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:23:29 -0400 >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. > I've got a Dell Inspiron 3800 that I dual boot between windows ME (don't laugh, I've kept it for DVD playback) and Mandrake. It works fine, though the modem doesn't work... Another response sugguested reformatting the disk, if you haven't customized it much, follow this advice, it saves a lot of grief later. I also believe that NTFS support is still labeled "experimental" and "read only" in the kernel setup, so you may want to use FAT32 anyway (too bad win2k doesn't run off of ResierFS, huh?). For partitioning, I use Mandrake, so I've got diskdrake; but since you've got Caldera you may want to download something called GNUPartD, it's another graphical partitioning tool, under GPL, that is a replacement of disk druid. I've not used it, but Suse uses it as it's partitioning tool and I've not read one complaint about it. Hope this helps. Wes >Thanks for the time. > >Matthew > > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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Double Dial Out
by Bob Brown June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

I was wondering if anyone knows the fix to the double dial problem? Whenever I dial out from my RH 6.1 Linux box (using Linuxconf) the system dials, connects, hangs-up and display "The Command /sbin/ifup ppp0 is taking longer than expected to complete. Please take action" Then it automatically re-dials and successfully connects. I found this reported in several Usenet groups and archives since 1999 but I have not seen a resolution. Thanks, Bob Brown

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MegaMeeting
by Andy Stewart June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

HI gang, USDataCenters is holding a meeting in Marlboro, MA on Wednesday, June 6, 2001 for a number of Boston area computer user groups. Most of these groups are Windows related, but not all. I have signed up to represent WLUG. GNHLUG, BLU, and (I think) MWBLUG will also be in attendance. If you want more information, or perhaps you'd like to attend as well, check out this website: http://www.BostonUserGroups.com/MegaMeeting/Default.htm Preregistration is required so please sign up if you plan to attend. I tried to get a table just for WLUG, but they have run out of tables. The Boston Linux and Unix User Group was kind enough to allow us to share some space with them (many thanks to Jerry Feldman). I'll be seeking out the local Kinkos for printing up some flyers this weekend. If anybody does plan to go, please drop me an e-mail just to let me know. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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SCSI Tape Drive Question
by Marc Hughes May 31, 2001

May 31, 2001

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

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Samba question
by Thomas Carey May 30, 2001

May 30, 2001

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Win2k
by Michael P. Gorse May 28, 2001

May 28, 2001

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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |DO what you think is right, not what society expects of you.| | --Michael Gorse / WPI cs '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ --

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"Couldn't find ext2 superblock..."
by Dan Crooks May 28, 2001

May 28, 2001

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

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***NEW*** WLUG website
by Andy Stewart May 27, 2001

May 27, 2001

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

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