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Disk Partitioning for RHL7.1
by Sameer Shinde 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

Hi all, In the installation of the RHL7.1, I found that it does not allow me to install Workstation mode in a dual bootable system with a lilo prompt. So I decided to give cusom setup. But I still stucked up at the disk partitioning part. So can somebody tell me how should I partition the disk & mount it to the different mount points. My present disk partitions are: The Disk Druid shows the following chart -------------------------------------------------------------------- Partitions Mount Point Device Requested Actual Type <not set> hda1 3898M 3898M win95 FAT32 <not set> hda5 3859M 3859M win95 FAT32 <not set> hda6 3859M 3859M win95 FAT32 <not set> hda7 3961M 3961M win95 FAT32 Add Edit Delete Reset Make RAID device (BTW wht is RAID) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive Summery Device Geom [c/h/s] Total(M) Free(M) Used(M) used (%) hda [2481/255/63] 19461M 3883M 15578M 80 % ---------------------------------------------------------------------- So I have around 3.8GB for linux. How much minimum space should I assign to these mount points: / /boot /usr /home /var /opt /tmp /usr/local Do I need to assign any FAT partition to any mount point I tried this & found that only /home & /opt are allowed in the FAT partitons. Will it be OK if I assign them to FAT partition Thanks & Regards, SAMEER :)) ~~~~ Try Try till you get succeed My Messanger IDs MSN : s2sameer Yahoo! : s9sameer RediffBol : s2sameer Indiatimes: s2sameer AIM : s2sameer

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Re: How do I get rid of that ugly graphical boot kernel selector in
by Navin 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

remark the line containing "message=something" in lilo.conf, most probably the name of the graphic file. this did it for me Navin

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importing outlook mails
by bhaskar shanbhag 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

I have recently switched to linux networking. But sometimes i have to boot to windows just to read some old mail in outlook Does any one some mailing software which can import outlook mails from my windows partition __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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Re: Pablo's modem trouble
by Sagar Sule 04 Aug '01

04 Aug '01

Pablo, Check out the handshake required between ur pc and the remote terminal(server). maybe ur handshake is not correct or there is some spelling mistake or something. if it is possible, for the remote host ur r dialing to, to monitor its connections ask them to do so. set up a time when some admin guy will sit at the terminal there and see if u are actually talking properly with that server there! i dont think having an old modem is the cause of the trouble. check out the protocol ur using. :) regards sagar sule ===== When you have hit rock bottom, The only way you can go is UP! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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Disk Partitioning in RHL 7.1
by Sameer Shinde 04 Aug '01

04 Aug '01

Dear Friends, Yesterday I tried to install Red Hat Linux (RHL) 7.1 on my m/c. Everything goes fine abt detecting kbd & mouse. After that I start with system installer with the workstation mode for the installation. The next step was the Disk Partitioning. Let me tell u 1st abt my disk partitioning. I have 20GB hdd with 4 partiton of approx 4GB with FAT32 (total 16GB) for windows & remaining 4GB is left free for Linux. Drive Disk Space SetAS C 4GB pri dos D 4GB logical | In E 4GB logical | Extended DOS F 4GB logical | & remaining 4GB is free for Linux. I AM UNABLE TO INSTALL LINUX ON THIS FREE SPACE. I'm STUCK UP AT THIS PLACE. Here the Auto partitioning failed (in workstation mode, other options r server, laptop & custom mode) giving the resion that, " There is not sufficient disk space in order to automatically partition your disk space. You will need to manually partition your disk for RHL to install." Giving 2 options for disk partioning 1st manually partition with Disk Druid & 2nd with fdisk (expert mode) The Disk Druid shows the following chart -------------------------------------------------------------------- Partitions Mount Point Device Requested Actual Type <not set> hda1 3898M 3898M win95 FAT32 <not set> hda5 3859M 3859M win95 FAT32 <not set> hda6 3859M 3859M win95 FAT32 <not set> hda7 3961M 3961M win95 FAT32 Add Edit Delete Reset Make RAID device (BTW wht is RAID) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive Summery Device Geom [c/h/s] Total(M) Free(M) Used(M) used (%) hda [2481/255/63] 19461M 3883M 15578M 80 % ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If I try to mount the entire free disk space (3883MB) as linux native with mount point as / (root) then the system gives the message that, " There are currently unallocated partition(s) in the list of requested partitions. The unallocated partition(s) are as shown below, along with the reason they are not allocated. / Not enough free space " ...& the installation get aborted & I need to reboot the system. How can I come out of this? & make the partition for root swap & home 2nd thing if I try to assign swap partition (let it b 1mb or 128 mb) from the free space of hda device the Disk Druid chart show Requested is 128MB & Actual is 2047MB & free space remains is only 1836MB. The same happend even if i assign swap of just 1MB. here only requested mem changes & other parameters remains same. Why is this happening? Thanks & Regards, SAMEER:)) ----- My Messanger IDs MSN: s2sameer Yahoo!: s9sameer RediffBol: s2sameer Indiatimes: s2sameer P.S. Can anybody show me the actual installation of the RHL 7.1 with disk partitioning on his/her pc.

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Meetings
by aditya_deshpande 04 Aug '01

04 Aug '01

Hi all, I went to the website to see if the group has meetings at regular intervals. Did not find info on the site. Regards Aditya Deshpande Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy Music, Video, CD-ROM and Audio-Books from http://www.planetmonline.com

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help with installation
by dominic 04 Aug '01

04 Aug '01

hi i have installed RHL 7.0 for the first time. i got a 3 cd pack. i booted from the first cd and selected all the three (kde, gnome and games). the installation finished in about 35 minutes time. it didn't ask for the second and third cd. what do they contain?? help bye dominic

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fetchmail for hotmail ??
by Sachin Naik 04 Aug '01

04 Aug '01

Hi guys , I need your help again.I am using fetchmail to get mails from my yahoo account .Can I do the same for my hotmail account or say rediffmail account. If yes how ?? Regards, Sachin -- Newlan's Truism: An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Monitor Refresh Rates
by Manish Kathuria 04 Aug '01

04 Aug '01

I am trying to put together a list of monitors being used under linux along with their refresh rates for quick reference. It would be great if you could mail me the following information regarding your monitors. Manufacturer Model Horizontal Refresh Rate Vertical Refresh Rate Max. Supported Resolution Thank you, Manish

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[OT:Emacs/Lisp]
by Q u a s i 04 Aug '01

04 Aug '01

I have used vim for whatever little lisping I did. It has good syntax highlighting, flashes the parenthesis etc. There are only two things I think vim does not do that emacs does (are there any more?). #1. Autoindent according to the number of parens open. #2. Run a lisp session in an emacs buffer. #1. I did manually. Is there any way to do it in vi that I do not know off? #2. this is not so much of a problem as I used two terminals open, one for vi and the other for lisp. I used gpm for copy paste. Emacs does not have syntax highlighting in the console mode I think. This font-lock-mode, it seems, works only if you open a emacs session from X. But I do not want to use X. Under X I think Xemacs is better that the emacs. Any reasons I should use emacs rather than vim? quasi. p.s. Philip what about tutorials on vim||emacs like the one on pine?

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jdk1.3 redhat7.1 solved
by tushar kanti mohanty 03 Aug '01

03 Aug '01

hi guys i have finaly figured out what to do with jdk1.3 and redhat 7.1.the info may be a outdated as newer version of jdks have been launched but nevertheless this is what you have to do first set the envirnoment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory /usr/java/jdk1.3/jre/lib/i386/client & /usr/java/jdk1.3/jre/lib/i386/classic & /usr/java/jdk1.3/jre/lib/i386/server or where you have installed them then set the envirnoment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 after this create a symlink for the cat file which redhat has removed from the past location after this you should be able to get java running the reason behind the setting of LD_ASSUME_KERNEL variable is the jdk1.3.o version is not working with the new floating stack feature of the i686 version of glibc.the problem is due to the assumptions made by jvm which are now invalid .this has been supposedly corrected by the new version of jdk .if you have 1.3 then force glibc to use the deprecated stack model by settting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 if any one has got some experience with GUI development in java please contact me individually not through the mailing list i am facing some problems . bye tushar _________________________________________________________ For Rs. 2,000,000 worth of Aptech scholarships click below http://events.rediff.com/aptechsch/scholarship.htm

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(no subject)
by Sagar Sule 03 Aug '01

03 Aug '01

Pablo had the following problem ............. I have a problem to connect with a modem from my Linux machine to a Linux server (modem is working, as other people can connect). The problem seems to be that my modem does not understand when it gets connected to the remote modem. First of all, to dial I have to use ATX1DT instead of ATDT, I do not know why. After the modems are connected, the "typical noise" comes and it never stops. I never get the login prompt. =========================================== Pablo, i hope u r using wvdial, (if not use it! its good). anyways, in wvdial.conf there is an option "Carrier Check". disable it. u will have to edit wvdial.conf in /etc directory. just add Carrier Check = No in the file. this should do the trick. and the gvc modem cannot understand the usual mtnl tones so ATX1D instead of ATDT!! regards sagar ===== When you have hit rock bottom, The only way you can go is UP! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Cable modem, works on GNU/Linux?
by Mayur Joshi 03 Aug '01

03 Aug '01

>QUICK POLL: >Does anybody know of a _cable_ network that uses PPP-over-Ethernet rather >than just Static / Dynamic IP allocation? I guess Dishnet DSL provides PPP-over-ethernet. Just heard about it sometime back, not so sure though. Regards, Mayur _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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[OT] IRC
by Parag Mehta 03 Aug '01

03 Aug '01

Hi All, Well now we have 2 Iirc Servers & 2 Channels. the details for both of them are as follows : Server : irc.ilug-bom.org.in Channel : #linuxers Server : irc.openprojects.net Channel : #ilug-bom the following steps are compulsory for using either of the irc servers : 1) the moment u connect please register ur nickname : /msg nickserv register <nickname> <password> change <nickname> to ur desired one and change <password> to whatever u want. once the nickname is registerd. evrytime u logonto the server u need to identify to the server that that u r the owner fo that nick by : /msg nickserv identify <password> regards, parag mehta

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MBOX format to Netscape Messenger format...
by Mayuresh A Kathe 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

Does anybody know how to convert from MBOX format to Netscape Messenger format? Awaiting your reply. ~Mayuresh

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Regarding Devnagri open type font
by Manisha Joshi 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

hi, I was going through the mailing list of the ILUG_BOM and i found your mail regarding the OpenType font for Devnagri.I wanted to know if that font is available, then is that freely available,if so from where can i get that? One more question, will it work on X-Windows ? Thanks Manisha

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C# compiler for linux
by Philip S Tellis 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

If anyone's interested, there's now a C# compiler for linux. It's packaged with portable.NET, a system for non-microsoft platforms. Written by Rhys Weatherley, and released under the GPL. Read the FAQ st http://www.southern-storm.com.au/pnet_faq.html before asking questions. Home: http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html Philip -- Always look over your shoulder because everyone is watching and plotting against you. Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] file size more than 2 GB
by Mayur Joshi 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

>dear all, >my dat drive is under repair and i want to take backup >of files in to a tar+gz archive but the problem is >that the it does not allow to create a file more than >size of 2 gb. any solution will be appreciated. I never had any problems backing up data in the range of around 3-5 GB using tar-gz and the compressed file size of around 2-3GB. Maybe you are going out of space while archiving. Regards, Mayur _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] fetchmail for hotmail ??
by Fart Crimson 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

You have the option of using Aethera (beta) under KDE or Evolution under GNOME to access Hotmail account. There is HTTPMail (XML based protocol used by OE for Hotmail) documentation at http://httpmail.sourceforge.net/ Fart

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How to configure a Diskless node for Linux.
by vinodbhaskar＠sify.com 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

Hi friends, I have installed Linux in a PIII 700 machine having 256MB of RAM. Now I want to configure a diskless Celron 800 system as diskless node (Booting from Boot Ram from an NIC). Can anybody help me. Regards, Vinod ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through : http://mail.sify.com

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Special chars, how to type
by Manish Jethani 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

I would like to know how I can type special characters, like the copyright and trademark symbols, on the terminal. There must be a set of key combinations documented somewhere. I believe these characters fall within the ASCII range. Please don't give emacs-specific solutions. I don't use emacs. Tnx. Manish

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT} IRC Channel Announcement
by shahazad＠linuxplanet.nu 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hi noel, its pretty easy to connect to any irc server .. what u need is a IRc client to connect .. on linux OS u can use Xchat or Xirc for x-windows chat .. else if u r not running X then u can use bitchX for connecting to the server ... u can also telnet to a server & from there run "BitchX" or just type "irc" to run the irc client .. when the irc client starts just type this --> /server irc.freeos.com for more faster access u can connect to some other port which irc usually accepts is /server irc.freeos.com: 6669 or 7000 after connecting to the server u will get a welcome msg .. & thatz it what u need to do is just join a channel ... that can be achieved y typing --> /join <#urchannelname> for. e.g . /join #linux & ur done .. start chatting on the mains .. for msging or sending a msg to an individual in pvt ... type this --> /quote <nicknameto msg> & start ur conversation ... thatz it ... huh for any more info .. u can go to www.irchelp.org or mail me ;) cheers~ </shahazad> ----- Original Message ----- From: "noel seq" <noelseq(a)hotmail.com> To: <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:56 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT} IRC Channel Announcement > > > > >irc.freeos.com is work, we checked it yesterday but there seems to be some > >problems with irc.ilug-bom.org.in redirecting to it. > > > >Regards > >Prakash > > how do i use IRC > > noel > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxers mailing list > Linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://Nameplanet.com/?su

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[OT} IRC Channel Announcement
by noel seq 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

> >irc.freeos.com is work, we checked it yesterday but there seems to be some >problems with irc.ilug-bom.org.in redirecting to it. > >Regards >Prakash how do i use IRC noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Running Netscape on the remote machine
by Fart Crimson 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

> How do I run any X windows application ^^^^^^^^^ Please, say it as "X Window" :-) > Netscape on the remote machine to which I am connected > by TELNET? Start X on you local computer. Then start a xterm/rxvt session. In that give the command `xhost +remotehostname' eg., [user@lchost user]$ xhost +rm.lan.net Then in the telnet session, start netscape like this - [someuser@rm someuser]$netscape -display lchost.lan.net You should be seeing Netscape in your X session, now. Although, this is the easiest way to do this it is also the least secure. For further info, please read the Remote-X-Apps mini-HOWTO HTH :-) Fart

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[OT} IRC Channel Announcement
by Parag Mehta 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hi All, I have created a channel called on #ilug-bom on irc.openprojects.net please start using this channel. Best Regards, Parag Mehta

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