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pete
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 1
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 Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: Problem displaying linux console from Windows 2k
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Tmio Makinen wrote:
"X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106"
... you should know Mr Top-poster.
| Quote: | "Pepebuho" <p1e2p3e4b5u6h7o8@pananet.com> wrote in message
news:bdbp89091f@enews4.newsguy.com...
Hi
I am a newbie and I installed a headless server next to my Windows 2K
computer in order to learn better about Linux.
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good good
| Quote: | My problem is as follows. Everytime that I login to the server and
execute "man" to look up the manual pages, I get some garbage characters
on the screen.
1. How and Where can I find in Linux the format definition for the
output, including what type of escape character they are using when
somebody connects from outside the server. I am using redhat 8.0
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/usr/lib/man.conf controls how man pages are rendered (look for the lines on
groff/troff), but it would probably be easier to get a different SSH client
for Windows - putty (which is free) would be a good try.
Also, if you're just after a one-line description of what a command does,
you might like to investigate apropos or whatis.
Cheers,
Pete |
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Michael Buchenrieder
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Posts: 7
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: dsl modem and factory reset
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"prg" <rdgentry1@cablelynx.com> writes:
| Quote: | faeychild wrote:
Mandrake 10 Dlink dsl-302g
I always assumed a factory reset would return the modem to default
settings AND clear the username and password. I discovered that this
was
not so during a general despair after a connect failure.
Is the factory reset just to clear all settings except username and
password?
Now, what use would username/password security be if all anyone had to
do was hit the reset? Think about it 
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That makes no sense. Why would anyone want to break into a DSL
router if all settinmgs have been deleted? There's nothing there
that would be of any interest (no username/password combination
especially).
| Quote: | Yes, for pretty much all of them, I believe.
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No. This is absolutely unusual for all models _I_ have ever
come across. The reset button should also be the last option
in case you forgot the password you've manually defined. If
the reset doesn't clear it, how would you ever be able to
get into the configuration menue again?
Michael
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pmp
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 4
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Re: IDE Drives re-ordered after Kernel upgrade?
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<laredoflash@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Good God Man! Running Linux in a MAC!? Why torture yourself? Either go
with OSX or get an old 486 pc from a pawn shop and run SuSE Linux. the
best Distro there is! I have my own hell trying to run GDI printers
with linux, or trying to sync my palm pilot! AAaaarrrggghhh!. Laredo
Flash
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As a plain-jane server an old Mac is fine. Why waste money on new used
hardware when I have a perfectly good machine right here?
Why is there so much pressure *not* to run Linux on NON-x86 systems?!
OS X runs like poo on older hardware. I don't need GUI or anything
fancy; X is only used 5% of the time this machine is up and running, so
a text based 400 MHz server with oodles of drive space is great.
As for "best distro's"; there is no *best* distro. You choose the
distro that does what *you* need. You want my opinion on the "best
distro"? Build yourself LFS, and have a *clean* *cutting edge* *blazing
fast* Linux system. System responsiveness on a 2.4.18 kernel between
RedHat, LinuxPPC and LFS had LFS in the lead, as it doesn't install
unnecessary bloated software that other distros install by default.
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kermit
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 300
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: Catch 22 trying to install doc package
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Norm Dresner wrote:
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| Quote: | The enlightenment-docs-0.16.7-1.noarch.rpm package will not install.
rpm
tells me that it won't install it because one of the prerequisites is,
in
fact, enlightenment 0.16.
Which means that I can't install the doc files until I install the
binary
but I don't want to install the binary until I read the doc to see how
much
different it is than the previous version ... GOTCHA!!!
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rpm -i --nodeps
=arvi= |
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dadiOH
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 1
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: make win98 boot from cd?
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Thufir wrote:
| Quote: | Tom F. wrote:
OK Thufir, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are not a
troll getting your jollies. I'm suspicious, though.
Thufir wrote:
Unfortunately, I'm not seeing the
"boot screen" mentioned here.
"Restarting a windows 98 system and pressing F8 doesn't bring up the
option of booting from the cd" nor do I see a boot screen. When I
initially posted, I'd never heard the term "boot screen."
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You don't get one on your other machine either? Both machines same
brand?
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Bill Davidsen
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 217
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: Linux Books
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prg wrote:
| Quote: | gkindel wrote:
I just became an Sys Admin for a IPSan company. I am the sys admin
for
our labs that primarily use Linux and linux based systems. I have
about
a 5 - 10% knowledge of the OS. I am looking to find out what books
are
great for getting an in depth knowledge of the OS. What are the
commands, what about the kernels. I am not looking for any books that
are RH or Fedora specific. I am looking for Linux itself and I want
to
know everything about the OS. Please help.
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/
I'll give you a better eval later, but after looking at the info for six |
various topics selected from the contents I like it. What I really like
is that some things are there which other books I've seen have skipped
or glossed over.
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-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
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Bill Davidsen
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 217
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: installing mpg123 failed -what did I do wrong
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StewartW wrote:
| Quote: | I am trying to get &install mpg123 on debian.
When I use apt-get install mpg123 the following occurs.
What should I do?
Thanks
apt-get install mpg123
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package mpg123 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package mpg123 has no installation candidate
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I would say the error message is quite clear on this, go to "another
source" and get it. I'm not a debian guy, so I don't know where that
might be, you can probably get source from freshrpms or freshmeat.net.
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-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
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Thufir Hawat
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 47
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: make win98 boot from cd?
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dadiOH wrote:
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| Quote: | You don't get one on your other machine either? Both machines same
brand?
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The "first" machine is dual-boot wk2 with FC3, much newer :)
On this machine, the IBM, I'll probably use a tool called SBM to boot
from the cd.
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Thufir Hawat
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 47
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: make win98 boot from cd?
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Doug Mitton wrote:
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| Quote: | I just did a quick advanced google search and used the key words
"300gl bios key" and there were about 15 responses and the first 2 or
3 mention this model. The BIOS entry should be to press the F1 key
while the IBM boot logo is displayed then you have to select a
"startup" entry. It probably makes more sense if you are looking at
the computer while doing the actions.
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I just tried this again, no luck 
It's ok, though, I'll SBM or similar :)
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Thufir Hawat
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 47
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: tomsrtbt and DOS installation
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Lenard wrote:
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| Quote: | Your goal is to boot or start the Fedora Core 3 installation CD,
correct?!?
To do this, since your Windows 98 system cannot handle booting non-MS
CD's (BIOS/CD drive firmware issues maybe) follow the advice here;
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#floppyinstall
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Thank you for the link, that's exactly correct to use SBM.
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Jeff Richards
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
Posts: 6
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: make win98 boot from cd?
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The last resort is to unplug the keyboard and force the BIOS to register an
error. This either opens the BIOS setup screen, or reveals the secret
procedure.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Gordon Torrie" <who@where.why> wrote in message
news:42005A26.38C0AC92@where.why...
| Quote: | Mark South wrote:
BTW, it can be seriously hard to get at some BIOSes. Some IBMs require
you know the correct combination of keys to press and hold after power-up
and before ROM load and it only works from a cold boot. No, I'm not
joking.
I once acquired a machine that, when booting, displayed only the
memory test. No pressing of various keys would persuade it to
enter the BIOS Setup.
Hmm.. I wonder what happens if I remove some of the memory, then
boot it?
The resulting mismatch between what the CMOS claimed and the
actual amount of memory found caused the BIOS to enter Setup
mode.
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Thufir Hawat
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 47
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: make win98 boot from cd?
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That's very interesting :)
unplugging the keyboard brought up a configuration screen for a boot
password and so on. I'll poke around a bit and post my results with
that :)
Thanks,
Thufir Hawat |
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Jeff Richards
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
Posts: 6
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: make win98 boot from cd?
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What does the user manual you downloaded from the IBM www site I mentioned
say about accessing the hardware.or BIOS setup facility?
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Thufir Hawat" <thufir.hawat@mail.com> wrote in message
news:1107392491.034881.246820@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | That's very interesting :)
unplugging the keyboard brought up a configuration screen for a boot
password and so on. I'll poke around a bit and post my results with
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Thufir Hawat
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 47
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: make win98 boot from cd?
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what's the best forum for this? keep cross-posting?
from <http://www-132.ibm.com/content/search/300gl.html> I found the
user manual at
<http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=300GL&uid=psg1MIGR-4BYJFD&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=>.
Using adobe's search, I looked through the pdf fiile for BIOS, nothing
jumped out at me as to how to enter the BIOS. However, booting with
the keyboard unplugged does good stuff!
I'm in the configuration/setup utility :)
By mucking in the utility I changed the boot a bit so now it says "IBM"
on the "boot screen" (?) and then says "f12 for network" and "f1" for
setup utility. I was pressing f1 all along, I don't know why it took
unplugging the keyboard to get into the utility to "enable" that. I
might've changed settings to now enable it? kinda moot, but...
Within the setup utility, nothing jumps out with regards to the boot
sequence, though.
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Tom F.
*nix forums addict
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Posts: 52
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: make win98 boot from cd?
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Thufir wrote:
| Quote: | It is an IBM personal computer 300GL.
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I found a reference on the Net that says all Thinkpads require you to
hold the F1 key before turning the machine on to access the bios. Keep
the F1 key pressed while it's booting up and you're in.
This is the info we needed all along.
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