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ALUG5
by John Woodard 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

As it's only 1 week to go before ALUG 5 is upon us I wondered has anybody posted an announce message to the UK Linux newsgroups? Who is coming and what are you bringing? There is a map posted on the ALUG web site http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings.html to help you find the hall. It might also be an idea if we could agree on IP addresses etc. before hand to save the normal ALUG tradition of a network frenzy for 50% of the meeting. :-) Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Linux on a laptop: a request for help on Sunday
by John Woodard 02 Feb '00

02 Feb '00

I've got this Dell Latitude laptop PII366, 128MB RAM 4.6Gb hdd. I'm having trouble getting Linux on it due to its lack of CD-ROM drive. I have however got a PCMCIA external CD-ROM for it but I cannot get Linux to see the device at bootup. So far I've tried using the PCMCIA boot disk image that is supplied in the RH6.1 CD but despite finding the PCMCIA device (I know it accesses the CD drive because the damn thing spins up at the appropriate moment) no joy, I just get messages saying insert driver disk for the PCMCIA device and guess what the only drivers I've got are for Benevolent Bill's operating systems. I did think about dumping the install tree in the root of a DOS partition but when I tried that it wouldn't play ball throwing up about illegal characters in the file names such as <translation table> and such like? I'm bringing it on Sunday has anybody had any experience with this? If so I'd appreciate so help - it's definitely worth a beer to you. Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Some handy websites I thought I would share with the group
by Justin Jonas 01 Feb '00

01 Feb '00

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html VNC - Its a desktop monitoring tool, see what other people are doing on your network - I'm using it to monitor our Internet labs There is a Linux version http://www.itknowledge.com/reference/dir.archive1.html 178 Online computer books Hope this information proves useful Justin

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ALUG5
by John Heaser 01 Feb '00

01 Feb '00

>Subject: ALUG5 >From: "John Woodard" <john(a)woodard.freeserve.co.uk> >Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:49:06 -0000 > >Who is coming and what are you bringing? I'm coming, all the way from Diss. I'm bringing lots of questions and hoping to meet a Samba guru. I'll bring a PC in the hope that someone can help a newbie setup a version of Linux that will run Samba. -- Regards John Heaser [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Fwd: Back up solution for Linux
by Martyn Drake 31 Jan '00

31 Jan '00

I've removed the 120k attachement, which is now available upon request. Regards, Martyn ===8<==============Original message text=============== From: Steve Mayes <smayes(a)quadratec.co.uk> To: martyn(a)drake.org.uk <martyn(a)drake.org.uk> Date: Monday, January 31, 2000, 4:03:50 PM Subject: Back up solution for Linux Dear Sir, Let me firstly introduce myself, I represent an international software company " Quadratec " a leader in automated software tool for data backup & restoration. Quadratec has recently added the support for Linux to our software toolbox & we are very actively presently these tools to all Linux users. Please find attached a very brief summary descriptive document giving you some information on our tools on offer. As you are the contact person for the Anglian Linux user group, I would like to request if possible that Quadratec attend your next user group meeting and present our tools to your members, alternatively we can provide literature on our products that you or Quadratec could mail to your members should you feel that they may be interested in such a product. Quadratec will also be running regular regional seminars on the subject of data back up & restoration for Linux users, so should you know any interested parties in attending such a technical seminar, please get them to contact me, so that I can register them at there nearest location seminar. I will contact you shortly to discuss this offer further. Kind regards Steve Mayes Indirect Sales Director for UK [ Section: 1/1 File: Backup Solutions.doc UUencoded by: Turnpike Version 3.05 ] sum -r/size 5118/117847 section (from "begin" to "end") sum -r/size 60735/85504 entire input file Steve Mayes Quadratec UK Ltd Ground Floor, Unit 2, Bracknell Beeches, Old Bracknell Lane West, Bracknell, Berks, RG12 7BW Tel. +44 (0) 1344 307 420 Direct +44 (0) 1344 397 606 Fax +44 (0) 1344 307 421 Mobile +44 (0) 7775 845 588 steve.mayes(a)quadratec-software.com ===8<===========End of original message text=========== -- Martyn Drake Using The Bat! 1.41 / Beta1 under Windows NT 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 6 Web site -> http://www.drake.org.uk [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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SuSE/RedHat RPMS
by Green J M K 31 Jan '00

31 Jan '00

Hi guys, Rather than torturing myself installing all the KDE Development tools, I am trying to locate the all-in-one package, KDK. I have only found KDK binary rpms for Suse 6.1/2, though. RedHat bins are no-where to be seen. So, is it safe to install and use the SuSE 6.1 rpm on a RedHat 6.0 system? Cheers, James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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ALUG5
by Anthony_Sale＠proconassoc.co.uk 31 Jan '00

31 Jan '00

Yup I'm coming. This will be my first meeting. I will be bringing my laptop and a copy of SuSE 6.2. Looking forward to it Tony Sale "John Woodard" <john(a)woodard.freeserve.co.uk> on 30/01/2000 22:56:08 Please respond to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Tony Sale/Technical Consultants/Procon) Subject: [alug] ALUG5 As it's only 1 week to go before ALUG 5 is upon us I wondered has anybody posted an announce message to the UK Linux newsgroups? Who is coming and what are you bringing? There is a map posted on the ALUG web site http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings.html to help you find the hall. It might also be an idea if we could agree on IP addresses etc. before hand to save the normal ALUG tradition of a network frenzy for 50% of the meeting. :-) Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Debian/Potato/Lilo/VMware problem
by Anthony_Sale＠proconassoc.co.uk 31 Jan '00

31 Jan '00

Adam I run SuSE 6.2 on a laptop with NT. I use the NT boot manager and when I change my LILO configuration I get the same problem. This occurs because I keep forgetting to copy the boot sector from my LILO boot partition to a file that NT Loader can read. When I forget to to this I get exactly the same response as you (Lil-) from LILO. To save the boot sector to a file for NT I do the following dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/mnt/ntc/linux.cnt bs=512 count=1 Where /dev/hda3 is the partition LILO is booting from and /mnt/ntc/linux.cnt is the file in the root of the NT boot partition. Hope this helps Regards Tony Sale Adam Bower <adamb(a)thebowery.co.uk> on 30/01/2000 11:53:35 Please respond to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Tony Sale/Technical Consultants/Procon) Subject: [alug] Debian/Potato/Lilo/VMware problem Hi guys, As per my subject I may or may not have a big problem with my Box at the mo. I recently installed VMware 2.0Beta to use my hda1 partition with win98 on.(the reason I did this is that 1.1.2 vmware's networking caused kernel problems) Anyway everything worked fine but after an apt-get update/upgrade in the past few days the boot loader has stopped working in the Virtual Machine Lilo outputs Lil- . Now my question is that when I did the apt-get update/upgrade I noticed that I downloaded a new lilo that replaced my boot loader now has this totally screwed my Lilo config and means that If I reboot my machine It won't work? If so how do I create the necessary rescue disks and prepare for the worst? If I run lilo now it claims that all is well even with the verbose options. Can somebody give me some pointers as to what the problem is? as this may be a problem with the VMware Beta, but of course I don't want to reboot my machine if it isn't. Adamb [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Debian/Potato/Lilo/VMware problem
by Adam Bower 30 Jan '00

30 Jan '00

Hi guys, As per my subject I may or may not have a big problem with my Box at the mo. I recently installed VMware 2.0Beta to use my hda1 partition with win98 on.(the reason I did this is that 1.1.2 vmware's networking caused kernel problems) Anyway everything worked fine but after an apt-get update/upgrade in the past few days the boot loader has stopped working in the Virtual Machine Lilo outputs Lil- . Now my question is that when I did the apt-get update/upgrade I noticed that I downloaded a new lilo that replaced my boot loader now has this totally screwed my Lilo config and means that If I reboot my machine It won't work? If so how do I create the necessary rescue disks and prepare for the worst? If I run lilo now it claims that all is well even with the verbose options. Can somebody give me some pointers as to what the problem is? as this may be a problem with the VMware Beta, but of course I don't want to reboot my machine if it isn't. Adamb [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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ALUG5 transport
by Green J M K 27 Jan '00

27 Jan '00

Hi there, Can anyone provide transport to ALUG5 from Colchester? I'm at the uni. If no-one is available, I might be able to get to Ipswich station if anyone can oblige from there. If I get really desperate I can spend the weekend at home in Norwich and hitch a ride with Andrew or someone :) James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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