... Wish I could say the same. I compiled 2.2.0 and it booted fine although it doesn't recognize my Parallel port ZIP any more and I couldn't telnet/ftp out? I...
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Patrick Davalan
patrick.Davalan@xxxxx...
Feb 2, 1999 1:49 am
Hi , a pretty good idea was to keep 2.0.36 booting ! ... Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 05:41:59 +0000 Reply-To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@...> Sender: Bugtraq...
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Ziyad S. Al-Salloum
zsalloum@xxxx.xxx.xxx...
Feb 2, 1999 8:07 pm
RH Linux 4.2 server; old I know but what the heck! I'm sure that most of you know about the SUID 'sperl5.003' file that you can gain root privilege by buffer...
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Stuart Carter
StuartC@xxxxxxx.xx.xxx
Feb 4, 1999 11:38 am
I've never found software for Linux for reading news off-line. I think the way to do it is to set up a local NNTP server, then use something to manage the...
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Ed McMan
edmcman@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 8:34 pm
I'm trying to put RedHat on some old computer at school. Its a 486 with a 250 meg hard drive..and only 3 fucking megs of ram. This is the only box they will...
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See Web
who_you@xxxx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:04 pm
You could remove the hard disk and put it in to another machine and do a minimal installation and set every thing up. And then put in back into the limited 486...
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Angela Allt
allt@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:28 pm
Recompile with just the features you need. If you don't need AppleTalk or NFS or floating point calculations, don't include them. IF it is not going to be...
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Domi
d@xxxxx.xxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:59 pm
agreed, but the main bottleneck is still the red hat install disk as it requires 8M of RAM iirc. As another listmember suggested, install the stuff on another...
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Patrick Davalan
patrick.Davalan@xxxxx...
Feb 4, 1999 11:22 pm
... The french way to overcome this problem is to take a screwdriver , get some banks of memory from an unused computer and put it on yours. As the box is...
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Ricardo Taniguchi
rjtan@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 5, 1999 2:01 am
Hi! I'm just starting at Linux and I've got some problems in its instalation, particularly in X-Window. I'm trying to install the Red Hat 5.1 on the following...
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Ricardo Taniguchi
rjtan@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 5, 1999 2:03 am
Hi! I'm just starting at Linux and I've got some problems in its instalation, particularly in X-Window. I'm trying to install the Red Hat 5.1 on the following...
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Thomas Pawlikaniec
neutrino@xxx.xxxxxx.xxx
Feb 5, 1999 6:13 am
... Hi Ed :-) Are you SURE you want RedHat in this case? Maybe better try some of the mini-distributions. hd is not such a problem, the RAM is... It all...
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Stuart Carter
StuartC@xxxxxxx.xx.xxx
Feb 5, 1999 9:27 am
... Do you know about using the <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Keypad_Plus> feature to switch between resolutions? This may be a simple solution to your problem......
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SIMS, Paul, LCTL
psims@xxxxxxx.xx.xxx
Feb 5, 1999 10:56 am
... Check your monitor settings - X will not allow resolutions which your monitor definition can't handle. Try selecting a type 7 (hi freq SVGA) and 50-90...
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Barrie.Wood@xxxxxxx.x...
Barrie.Wood@xxxxxxx.x...
Feb 5, 1999 1:12 pm
Hello ! Can seemingly only install Linux with VGA 16 colour display. The problem appears to be video chipset SiS 5597 / 55978. Is this unsupported by Linux. I...
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S. Daniel Knapp
saint@xxxx.xx.xxx.xxx
Feb 5, 1999 11:19 am
... Only a small advice: I hope you have a bootdisk to load Linux. Then you should boot the computer with this bootdisk and after login you use "fdisk". There...
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S. Daniel Knapp
saint@xxxx.xx.xxx.xxx
Feb 5, 1999 11:19 am
... I don't think that you're right. I've installed a RedHat on a 386SX with only 4 MB of RAM (that's < 8MB) and that works fine. I've done it with network and...
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Ed McMan
edmcman@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 5, 1999 6:13 pm
How can I do this? ... as it requires 8M of RAM iirc. As another listmember ... with ... and then ... of ... http://mini.gt.owl.de/~saint/fpsge/fpsge.html ... ...
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Juris Reinfelds
juris@xx.xxxx.xxxx
Feb 5, 1999 6:17 pm
Does anyone know the reason why the passwd command refuses to change the password for an ordinary user after an upgrade from Red Hat 5.1 to RH 5.2 ??? The...
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Ricardo Taniguchi
rjtan@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 5, 1999 11:16 am
Hi! ... Well I tried your tip but I couldn't modify the resolution problem. I think the main problem may be the driver from Red Hat since there's a paper that...
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S. Daniel Knapp
saint@xxxx.xx.xxx.xxx
Feb 5, 1999 5:23 pm
... That´s relatively simple :-). So a ramdisc is something that tells the computer that it has more RAM than it really has. You do this by partitioning your...
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Ed McMan
edmcman@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 5, 1999 10:44 pm
yes i know that! hehe how can i use this on the install kernel though, pass an argument to the kernel in lilo? ... have to ... to use ... ...
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Kaleem Witcher
features@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 5, 1999 11:47 pm
Look What I Found: Tuesday, February 9th -- 7:30 PM -- Live chat with Linus Torvalds, inventor of Linux, on MSNBC. Linus is the patron saint of...
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Angela Allt
allt@...
Feb 6, 1999 12:08 am
I once installed Linux 1.2.13 on a 386 with 4 meg ram and a 120 meg hard drive. There was no cd in the computer. It was a barebones install. The procedure I...
... You're not the only one wanting to suss this stuff. I still use Win95 and Demon internet Turnpike suite for my news reading. Netscape in X works OK but it...
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Mapu
michael@...
Feb 6, 1999 3:44 am
You might want to check out News Peruser. I don't have the URL handy, but try searching http://www.freshmeat.net or http://www.linuxberg.com. Michael...
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The Craigs
tobinandelaine@...
Feb 6, 1999 5:21 am
Hi Barrie, I too have the SiS 5597/5598 video chipset, and it is supported with RedHat 5.2, and Xfree86 3.3.3.1-1. I can get 1024x768 resolution with it too,...
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Ben Lambrey
ben.lambrey@xxxxxx.xxx
Feb 6, 1999 11:31 am
... leafnode is a simple NNTP server. It works fine for off-line news reading. see: http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html...
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Angela Allt
allt@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 7, 1999 1:39 am
Small Linux 0.5.0 - three diskette micro distribution Feb 6th, 00:00:45 Small Linux version 0.5.0 has been released. This micro distribution is based on Linux...
