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  From: Airlink IT <it@airlink.com.pg>
  To  : michael" <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>, "Richard Russell <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:59:29 +1000

Mounting logical drives and Jaz and dual monitors.

I have installed RedHat 5.2 and "all is well in the garden"

I even mounted my C drive as a dos drive and can access it . However when I
try to mount my D drive the RedHat diskmanager pops up an error dialogue and
says "aren't you trying to mount a logical drive in an extended dos
partition" . Of course it is absolutely correct and you would think it would
go on to tell me how it should be done, but it doesn't .  So how's it done.?
I keep all my data on D:, so it's the drive I really want to access.

Then there is my Jazz drive. If I boot my computer with the Jazz drive
switched on, Linux will not boot. It reports  some kind of PANIC. I have had
a thought that it might be due to SCSI IDs. My external Jazz drive has a
SCSI ID  = 1 and my internal Linux boot drive has ID = 6 . I have to (or
want to) leave the Jazz set to 1 so that I can plug it into another device
that is totally intolerant towards SCSI IDs and will only accept 1.  Can it
be done?

Finally. My Linux is set as a dual boot with Win 98. My Win 98 is running
two graphics cards. All works well. I was just wondering if anyone has seen
any info on getting Linux to support both cards. Just a wish here.

So . Any help will be greatly appreciated.

David Hughes
-----Original Message-----
From: michael <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
To: Richard Russell <richard@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Tuesday, 23 March 1999 19:01
Subject: Re: Corel WP and APC Mag.


>Hi.
>
>I'm pretty sure that you can set the mount options for the cdrom in the
>/etc/fstab to allow browsers to accept mangled case filenames. Take a peek
>at the man page for mount, (I will too, race ya!) Its something like
>sloppy or slack, and it allows you to use windows generated web pages with
>windows generated filenames. (Actually, I think the problem is in the way
>windows capitalises the first letter of every filename, and it being out
>of sync with the html editor's idea of how the world works)
>
>Hmm. no, it isn't sloppy, it's   check=relaxed  have a look under man
>mount and scroll down to the options for iso9660 filesystems...
>
>       check=r[elaxed] / check=s[trict]
>              With  check=relaxed,  a filename is first converted
>              to lower case before doing  the  lookup.   This  is
>              probably  only  meaningful together with norock and
>              map=normal.  (Default: check=strict.)
>
>Michael
>
>On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Richard Russell wrote:
>
>> Darryl Ross wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey There,
>> >
>> > I have got it up and running. The first thing I noticed about the CD is
that
>> > the directory and file names are all lowercase, while the HTML files on
the
>> > CD they have put capital letters in for the first characters. Not a
problem
>> > in Win95, but it *is* in Linux. When you click on the link, and the
address
>> > bar thingo shows the new address, if there is any capitals in the name,
>> > change them to lowercase letters and it should work fine.
>>
>> the APC CD has had this problem for a long time -- I have emailed them
>> about it previously, but got no response, and saw no change. Surely it
>> can't be hard for them to sort this out... I assume they are using some
>> sort of WYSIWYG editor, and not editing source code manually, and their
>> tool is probably designed for Windows, so it is probably causing the
>> problems, but even so, I'm sure that they could write a script to change
>> all links to lowercase, or even do some actual cross-checking with the
>> filesystem... Maybe if we all wrote to them, they'd fix it...  Anyway,
>> that's my grumble for today... :)
>>
>> rr
>>
>>
>> >
>> > As to getting Word Perfect going. I did:
>> >
>> > cd ~
>> > cp /mnt/cdrom/bandbust/wplinux/guilg/guilg00.gz .
>> > tar zxf guilg00.gz
>> > cd guilg00
>> > ./Runme
>> >
>> > Obvisously, you'll have to double check that I've got the file names
and
>> > thing correct, as I only did them from memory. Word Perfect runs
perfectly
>> > on my Slackware machine.
>> >
>> > Cheers.
>> > Dazz
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today's a gift, that's
why
>> > its called the present.
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: Neil K. Kent <ontology@bold.net.au>
>> > To: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
>> > Sent: Monday, 22 March 1999 9:50
>> > Subject: Corel WP and APC Mag.
>> >
>> > >I tried reading my April APC mag disc with Netscape RH 5.2. on a PC
which
>> > >also has Win98/IE4. CD is Hitachi 24X. Windows/IE4 reads the disc
>> > perfectly,
>> > >with Linux selecting many items returned an error message "Netscape is
>> > >unable to find the file or directory named
>> > >"mnt/cdrom/bandbuster/default.htm, - or the same file in "New&Hot,
>> > Workshop,
>> > >ISP kits etc. Just to annoy me , however, if I select file - open and
the
>> > >appropriate file name it magically finds them. Can anyone offer any
>> > >suggestions as to what might be wrong.
>> > >Part two.
>> > >I got guilg00.gz on to my hard drive to install WP, then followed the
>> > >instructions . Entering "gunzip gui00.gz; tar -xvf gui00 as per
>> > instructions
>> > >returns message:
>> > >gui00.gz: No such file or directory
>> > >tar: Cannot open gui00:No such file or directory
>> > >tar :Error is not recoverable: Exiting now
>> > >I have tried any other combination of names etc with no result. Has
anyone
>> > >succeeded in getting it up and running? And if so how?
>> > >Thanks.
>> > >Neil Kent.
>> > >
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>> --
>> Richard Russell
>> richard@cs.adelaide.edu.au
>> --
>> Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question and the answer is
>> no.
>>
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