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Re: [Wlug] Mozilla

by Gregory Avedissian

Still no luck. I tried installing as root, first by logging as su and calling up mozilla from command line, and then again (when that didn't work) by backing out of X and starting over as root, calling mozilla from the menu. I've tried running SuSEconfig and tried re-booting, but it doesn't make a difference. I'm not even sure if I really downloaded the file with the browser - both times I did it, I walked away while it was downloading, and when I came back, the browser was gone. Let me take that back - I have four copies of jre131i.xpi in /tmp. Would it make sense to repeat Charles' procedure under /opt/mozilla/plugins? There aren't any jre* files there or under /root/.mozilla, and not even a plugins directory in the latter. I'm guessing that the files downloaded but didn't install. Thanks. Greg On Friday 15 March 2002 08:16, you wrote: > The solution to this is to start mozilla as root, have it download and > install the plugin, close the browser and then start it up as a normal user > and presto java works. > > Tim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Avedissian [mailto:avedis@ma.ultranet.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 17:39 PM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] Mozilla > > > > When I got home last night, I tried Mozilla again, and now I remember why I > stopped using it. I had trouble trying to download the java plugin when I > wanted to get into a chat room. > > After another failed attempt to download it with the browser, I tried gftp > and got the file, jre131i.xpi but I have no idea what do do with it. There > weren't any readme files nearby at the ftp site. Any ideas or suggestions > are > welcome. Thanks. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 15, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Mozilla

by Keller, Tim

The solution to this is to start mozilla as root, have it download and install the plugin, close the browser and then start it up as a normal user and presto java works. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Gregory Avedissian [mailto:avedis@ma.ultranet.com] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 17:39 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Mozilla When I got home last night, I tried Mozilla again, and now I remember why I stopped using it. I had trouble trying to download the java plugin when I wanted to get into a chat room. After another failed attempt to download it with the browser, I tried gftp and got the file, jre131i.xpi but I have no idea what do do with it. There weren't any readme files nearby at the ftp site. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Thanks. Greg _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 15, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Mozilla

by Gregory Avedissian

Charles, Thanks for the reply. I tried this with the file I downloaded and that didn't work, so then I went back and got the same file you got, and it still didn't work. Not sure why - it all seemed to install ok. But I still get that damned box coming up. Greg On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:14, you wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:51:48PM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > cra> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins > > Nope. I just went and tried it myself. I couln't get the darn > automatic installation to work, so I did this: > > #!/bin/sh > # Download the jre.xpi > cd $HOME > wget --passive-ftp > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.1/unix/linux22/xpi/jre.xpi > > # Go to your mozilla plugin directory > cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins > > # Make a java2 subdirectory and go into it > mkdir java2 > cd java2 > > # Unzip the xpi file here (yes, it is a ZIP file) > unzip $HOME/jre.xpi > > # Move the contents of jre-image-i386 up one directory > # and remove the istaller junk that doesn't work > mv jre-image-i386/* . > rm -rf symlink.sh install.js jre-image-i386 > > # Make a symlink in the plugin dir to the actual plugin binary > cd .. > ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . > > > It seems to work. No more annoying "download the plugin" dialog boxes. > > -- > Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ > PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 > Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886 > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 15, 2002

Job opportunity

by Andy Stewart

HI gang, I used to post this type of thing on the WWWBoard part of our website, but that part of the website no longer functions. Please delete if uninterested in a possible job opportunity. I received e-mail from a guy looking for somebody with perl, html, linux (specifically redhat), and apache experience for website development (similar to LLBean's website). If you are interested, contact me directly and I'll forward to you the contact info. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

March 15, 2002

Re: [Wlug] pop3 server?

by John Stoffel

David> I'm trying to pick a pop3 server, however I am having a tough David> time doing such. A few notes: David> * The pop3 server will, for the time being, mount all maildirs David> via NFS. Similarly, all passwords are retrieved via NIS+. This is just asking for trouble. Mail over NFS is a pain to get right. And do you *really* want the horror of NIS+ on your hands? I keep seeing a job announcement for Bermuda where one of the projects is to migrate from NIS+ to NIS. I feel that LDAP is the way to go in the future, but it's not quite there yet. John

March 15, 2002

Re: [Wlug] docs / latex /?

by Andy Stewart

On Thursday 14 March 2002 08:26 am, you wrote: > I need to generate some documents that look decent on the web and also > print well. Some of the documents are forms for people to fill in, > and, for the most part, the people are pretty unsophisticated. They > may even just print the form and fill it in by hand. Would you consider writing the document in DocBook? From that, you can generate HTML, PS, PDF, and perhaps more. I wrote the gimp-print users' guide this way. I've also used LyX and like it, too. It has tons of documentation that comes with the software. -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

March 15, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Mozilla

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:51:48PM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote: cra> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Nope. I just went and tried it myself. I couln't get the darn automatic installation to work, so I did this: #!/bin/sh # Download the jre.xpi cd $HOME wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.1/unix/linux22/xpi/jre.xpi # Go to your mozilla plugin directory cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins # Make a java2 subdirectory and go into it mkdir java2 cd java2 # Unzip the xpi file here (yes, it is a ZIP file) unzip $HOME/jre.xpi # Move the contents of jre-image-i386 up one directory # and remove the istaller junk that doesn't work mv jre-image-i386/* . rm -rf symlink.sh install.js jre-image-i386 # Make a symlink in the plugin dir to the actual plugin binary cd .. ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . It seems to work. No more annoying "download the plugin" dialog boxes. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Mozilla

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:38:59PM -0500, Gregory Avedissian wrote: avedis> avedis> When I got home last night, I tried Mozilla again, and now I remember why I avedis> stopped using it. I had trouble trying to download the java plugin when I avedis> wanted to get into a chat room. Heh. I remember having the same problem, but I just decided to never use java on the web. avedis> After another failed attempt to download it with the browser, I tried gftp avedis> and got the file, jre131i.xpi but I have no idea what do do with it. There avedis> weren't any readme files nearby at the ftp site. Any ideas or suggestions are avedis> welcome. Thanks. I believe it goes in the plugin directory, which is: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or $HOME/.mozilla/plugins depending whether you want it systemwide or not. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

March 14, 2002

Mozilla

by Gregory Avedissian

When I got home last night, I tried Mozilla again, and now I remember why I stopped using it. I had trouble trying to download the java plugin when I wanted to get into a chat room. After another failed attempt to download it with the browser, I tried gftp and got the file, jre131i.xpi but I have no idea what do do with it. There weren't any readme files nearby at the ftp site. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Thanks. Greg

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] docs / latex /?

by doug waud

Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > (It would be very cool if I could produce the > pdf "fill in the blanks" document.) That step is what dvipdfm is for http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/ (try dvi to pdf in google to get more stuff) You may also want to look at latex to html converters, for example http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html (again, try google, this time with html latex as bait.) doug

March 14, 2002

pop3 server?

by David Lee Ludwig

I'm trying to pick a pop3 server, however I am having a tough time doing such. A few notes: * The pop3 server will, for the time being, mount all maildirs via NFS. Similarly, all passwords are retrieved via NIS+. * Debian/woody packages would be nice, but not a requirement. Any thoughts? -- David Ludwig | "The Linux philosophy is laugh in the face of davidl<at>wpi.edu | danger. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself.' http://www.oflove.com | That's it." - Linus Torvalds

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Aaron Haviland

Frank Sweetser said: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:06:54PM -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote: > > it's not dpkg that has the problem. debian's gcc is patched so it > > defaults to i386 if the arch is any ix86, unless specified otherwise. > > (at least, that's what i'm making of this patch...) > > Actually, that's standard gcc behavior, which redhat has as well. Well, I seem to remember seeing something... somewhere... to some effect that I'm not entirely sure of... and I can't find it anymore... (sadly, this is how my mind usually works. broken and partial memories) > The difference here is that (if I understand things correctly) if you want to > compile a package for iX86 where X != 3, then you have to download and install > a package which *changes the default for every compile on the whole system*. > As Charles mentioned, the way that RPM does it is by macros. You tell RPM "I > want to build this particular packate for i586". It then goes off, and via the > correct configure macros, adds the flags to gcc (probably the same flags that > the debian package makes the system wide default) to compile *only* that > package for i586. > > So if I'm a random user who wants to compile a package on a i686 platform to be > run on a 386, and the sysadmin has installed the i686 package, that means that > I have to do *extra* work to get *standard* behavior! > > Someone please tell me if I'm wrong, because that seems like a pretty hackish > way to do things. pentium-builder is a wrapper for gcc/g++ that iff DEBIAN_BUILDARCH is set, runs gcc/g++ with -march=$DEBIAN_BUILDARCH -mcpu=$DEBIAN_BUILDARCH, otherwise it just runs gcc/g++. it's transparant to whatever called gcc. you don't have to specify DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=i386 to revert to default. the name "pentium-builder" doesn't mean it's specifically for pentium. as for it being hackish... from the pentium-builder README: Why did I do it this way? There are alternatives after all. I could just set CFLAGS or GCC, or I could place the shell script wrappers in a separate directory and set the PATH to point to them when you want to build pentium optimized stuff. The problem with all these ideas is that I can imagine packages that would circumvent them. It's a hack, but it works. I welcome a cleaner solution. ... on another note, i've compiled povray for k6 and pentium and timed them, aka "time ./povray" running on a k6 machine, the k6 optimised one consistently runs 1 second faster overall (33 seconds total) but the pentium optimised one has a .1 second lower sys time. which is better? (i don't have the output anymore. just thought i'd ask while on the topic of optimising) (yes, i read the time manpage. just doesn't seem to sink in through this thick skull :) ) -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] parsed [dot] net A man on a slushy bender can do some crazy things.

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Aaron Haviland

Charles R. Anderson said: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:06:54PM -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote: > orion> As far as everything being i386, that's lets debian be installable on > orion> more architectures, like the 386 laptop i'm typing this on right now. > orion> Redhat, Mandrake, etc wouldn't install... everything's pentium > orion> optimised. > > Red Hat is not Pentium optimized. They do however provide i586 and i686 > kernel and glibc packages that will be installed only if the system > supports them. Hmmm. I can't find the redhat or mandrake cds i tried a couple years ago... but i seem to recall that i was unable to completely install because something was compiled for i586 and wouldn't run. honestly can't remember, it was too long ago. *shrug* sorry if i'm spreading bad information. a bad experience will do that to me :) -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] parsed [dot] net "Boys in bed, girls in bed All now go to sleep Sleep, sweet dreams Wake to a new today tomorrow"

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:06:54PM -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote: orion> As far as everything being i386, that's lets debian be installable on orion> more architectures, like the 386 laptop i'm typing this on right now. orion> Redhat, Mandrake, etc wouldn't install... everything's pentium orion> optimised. Red Hat is not Pentium optimized. They do however provide i586 and i686 kernel and glibc packages that will be installed only if the system supports them. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Frank Sweetser

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:06:54PM -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote: > it's not dpkg that has the problem. debian's gcc is patched so it > defaults to i386 if the arch is any ix86, unless specified otherwise. > (at least, that's what i'm making of this patch...) Actually, that's standard gcc behavior, which redhat has as well. The difference here is that (if I understand things correctly) if you want to compile a package for iX86 where X != 3, then you have to download and install a package which *changes the default for every compile on the whole system*. As Charles mentioned, the way that RPM does it is by macros. You tell RPM "I want to build this particular packate for i586". It then goes off, and via the correct configure macros, adds the flags to gcc (probably the same flags that the debian package makes the system wide default) to compile *only* that package for i586. So if I'm a random user who wants to compile a package on a i686 platform to be run on a 386, and the sysadmin has installed the i686 package, that means that I have to do *extra* work to get *standard* behavior! Someone please tell me if I'm wrong, because that seems like a pretty hackish way to do things. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | The UNIX system has a command, nice, which allows a user to voluntarily reduce the priority of his process, in order to be nice to the other users. Nobody ever uses it. -A. Tanenbaum, _Modern Operating Systems_

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Aaron Haviland

Charles R. Anderson said: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:40:34AM -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote: > orion> > Just install pentium-builder, set the environment variable like it > orion> > says to, and apt-get -b source <package> away! > orion> > orion> Well, hot damn. you're my new hero! Now I can still build optimised > orion> local .debs and make non-optimised redistributable ones without messy > orion> tweaking! > > RPM has had the ability to build for different architectures and > optimize based on them since the beginning: > > rpm --rebuild --target=i386,i586,i686 foo.src.rpm it's not dpkg that has the problem. debian's gcc is patched so it defaults to i386 if the arch is any ix86, unless specified otherwise. (at least, that's what i'm making of this patch...) I think what i really like about debian's build system is that while most people use a makefile for debian/rules, you DON'T HAVE TO. you can use any sort of script you want, so long as it does what it needs to. You DON'T HAVE TO use debhelper to put files in the right locations and fix permissions. You DON'T HAVE TO do anything a specific way, so long as the result is the same. As far as everything being i386, that's lets debian be installable on more architectures, like the 386 laptop i'm typing this on right now. Redhat, Mandrake, etc wouldn't install... everything's pentium optimised. -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] parsed [dot] net relevance is irrelevant.

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:40:34AM -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote: orion> > Just install pentium-builder, set the environment variable like it orion> > says to, and apt-get -b source <package> away! orion> orion> Well, hot damn. you're my new hero! Now I can still build optimised orion> local .debs and make non-optimised redistributable ones without messy orion> tweaking! RPM has had the ability to build for different architectures and optimize based on them since the beginning: rpm --rebuild --target=i386,i586,i686 foo.src.rpm Each distro includes RPM configuration files to define the build environment for that distro, including the optimization flags to use: optflags: i386 -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 optflags: i486 -O2 -march=i486 optflags: i586 -O2 -march=i586 optflags: i686 -O2 -march=i686 optflags: athlon -O2 -march=athlon optflags: ia64 -O2 They are usually passed to configure/make by setting variables in the .spec file (so you don't need to patch Makefiles): CC=$RPM_OPT_FLAGS ./configure make or even better, by using these macros, which will also cause the package to place all its files in the standard places that the distro has defined in the local RPM build environment (i.e., /usr/doc vs. /usr/share/doc): %configure make %makeinstall That way, when configure tests the compiler, it can be sure the compiler works with those optflags. Also, it doesn't require klugy scripts to override the compiler binary, etc., and can be used by any user, not just root (perhaps pentium-builder can too, I don't know). -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] docs / latex /?

by Frank Sweetser

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:26:48AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > Some years ago, I was a heavy Latex user, but it's been a while... > I've heard rumors that it now has a WYSIWYG interface. Is this true? There's LyX, which isn't half bad, but sometimes takes a little kicking to do odd things, and has it's own file format which is almost, but not quite, TeX. There's a few emacs packages for LaTeX (find 'em on freshmeat - I forget the names at the moment) that are supposed to give you a good inline preview. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.' --Richard Jeni

March 14, 2002

docs / latex /?

by Bill Mills-Curran

I need to generate some documents that look decent on the web and also print well. Some of the documents are forms for people to fill in, and, for the most part, the people are pretty unsophisticated. They may even just print the form and fill it in by hand. Some years ago, I was a heavy Latex user, but it's been a while... I've heard rumors that it now has a WYSIWYG interface. Is this true? At any rate, I'm looking for recommendations of something that can produce decent html (most word processors generate abysmal html) and decent printable stuff. (It would be very cool if I could produce the pdf "fill in the blanks" document.) Right now, I'm painfully generating the html in xemacs (very clean html) and then postscript and non-editable pdf from that. I've heard that docbook is good, but that it has a high learning curve. Suggestions? TIA, Bill

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Aaron Haviland

Josh Huber said: > Aaron Haviland <orion(a)tribble.dyndns.org> writes: > > > apt-get source <package> && cd <package>-* && dpkg-buildpackage > > -rfakeroot -us -uc > > > > ... but iirc, it's not really optimised. to do that, you need to rebuild > > certain packages without certain tweaks that debian throws in. something > > about enabling certain i586 stuff, but still making them work on i386? > > (which is why all the debs say i386 instead of iX86) > > Well, for most of the optimizations, a very simple change can be made: > > $> apt-cache show pentium-builder > Package: pentium-builder > Priority: extra > Section: devel > Installed-Size: 80 > Maintainer: Alex Pennace <alex(a)pennace.org> > Architecture: all > Version: 0.17 > Depends: gcc | g++, perl > Filename: pool/main/p/pentium-builder/pentium-builder_0.17_all.deb > Size: 6604 > MD5sum: 25fd685abdcfd1e0ec6efc92a8d3e801 > Description: force pentium optimized compilation > Replaces gcc, cc, and g++ with scripts that build pentium optimized code. > (Other processors can be optimized for as well.) > . > By default, after installing this package, the compilers will behave > normally. However, if the environment variable DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=pentium > is set, they will enter pentium optimized compile mode. > > Just install pentium-builder, set the environment variable like it > says to, and apt-get -b source <package> away! Well, hot damn. you're my new hero! Now I can still build optimised local .debs and make non-optimised redistributable ones without messy tweaking! -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] parsed [dot] net

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Josh Huber

Aaron Haviland <orion(a)tribble.dyndns.org> writes: > apt-get source <package> && cd <package>-* && dpkg-buildpackage > -rfakeroot -us -uc > > ... but iirc, it's not really optimised. to do that, you need to rebuild > certain packages without certain tweaks that debian throws in. something > about enabling certain i586 stuff, but still making them work on i386? > (which is why all the debs say i386 instead of iX86) Well, for most of the optimizations, a very simple change can be made: $> apt-cache show pentium-builder Package: pentium-builder Priority: extra Section: devel Installed-Size: 80 Maintainer: Alex Pennace <alex(a)pennace.org> Architecture: all Version: 0.17 Depends: gcc | g++, perl Filename: pool/main/p/pentium-builder/pentium-builder_0.17_all.deb Size: 6604 MD5sum: 25fd685abdcfd1e0ec6efc92a8d3e801 Description: force pentium optimized compilation Replaces gcc, cc, and g++ with scripts that build pentium optimized code. (Other processors can be optimized for as well.) . By default, after installing this package, the compilers will behave normally. However, if the environment variable DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=pentium is set, they will enter pentium optimized compile mode. Just install pentium-builder, set the environment variable like it says to, and apt-get -b source <package> away! ttyl, -- Josh Huber

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Win2k and Linux

by Charles R. Anderson

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:39:29PM -0500, Tim Trachimowicz wrote: track> I've never had a problem using LILO to dual boot Win98 and RH 6.2 (then track> 7.2), but I'm a little intimidated by Win2k and it's boot loader. Sure, there is no problem with using LILO and the Win2K bootloader at the same time. You can just delete the FAT32 partition on drive 2, install Linux, and install the LILO bootloader on drive 1's MBR. LILO is smart enough to be able to boot kernels from the second drive, and it will also be able to boot up the Win2K bootloader which will bring up its menu as usual. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

March 14, 2002

Win2k and Linux

by Tim Trachimowicz

Hey folks, I'm working on setting up a dual boot system with the following drive setup: Drive 1 - 6gb IDE Partition 1 (4gb) - Win2k NTFS (c:) Partition 2 (2gb) - Scratch FAT32 (e:) Drive 2 - 3gb IDE Partition 1 (3gb) - FAT32 (d:) (This is where I want to install RH 7.2) I've never had a problem using LILO to dual boot Win98 and RH 6.2 (then 7.2), but I'm a little intimidated by Win2k and it's boot loader. I've tried Google and a few other places for info, but a lot of it seems to focus in installing the two OS's on a single large disk with multiple partitions. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? I am free to wipe/partition any or all of the disks and start fresh if that makes sense. I have read some info about making a boot partition, but again, it wasn't very clear to me... Any websites, FAQs or personal insight is appreciated. Thanks in advance! --Track

March 14, 2002

Re: [Wlug] I'm possessed -- sound stuff

by Bill Mills-Curran

I have an explanation. Apparently I did something to gaim to make it start using sounds to announce "buddies" signing on and leaving. I have no idea what triggered gaim to start doing this. Bill

March 13, 2002

Re: [Wlug] I'm possessed -- sound stuff

by doug waud

Hi Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > > This is very weird... My linux box has just started making sounds -- As a pharmacologist, the first thing that comes to mind is whether you might have been feeding it beans. You may want to check out http://www.beano.net/ Incidentally, the veterinary product is called "Cur-tail" :-) doug

March 13, 2002