Roundtable May 2002

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16 participants
29 discussions

RedHat 7.3 Install CD's by www.chguy.net
by Mel Seder 16 May '02

16 May '02

I purchased a set of two disks labeled B1 and B2 install CDs. There was a CD labeled Power Tools available also but I didn't purchase that one. When I did a Valhalla install from my Hard Drive I had downloaded three Iso files. Should there have been three CDs from the chguy? If there should have been I'd be glad to order it from him. ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

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Introduction to the list.
by Scott Balneaves 16 May '02

16 May '02

Hello all, Just subscribed to to the list, and wanted to introduce myself to those of you who don't know me. I'm the Unix administrator for Legal Aid Manitoba. I've spent my whole working life as a Unix admin, and work mainly with Linux and Solaris, and am familiar with FreeBSD. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "The mark of an immature man is that he wants Unix Administrator | to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a Legal Aid Manitoba | mature man is that he wants to live humbly sbalneav(a)legalaid.mb.ca | for one." -- William Stekel

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TokenRing PCMCIA adapters
by Shawn Wallbridge 15 May '02

15 May '02

This is for whoever was asking about the TokenRing PCMCIA NIC's at last night's meeting. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2023654540 <CMA> I have never dealt with this person, so you are on your own. </CMA> shawn

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CD Writing and MP3's using RH 7.3 - Valhalla
by Mel Seder 15 May '02

15 May '02

I installed 7.3 over the weekend and would like to start burning some audio CD's for my car and stereo system. Now I'd like to do the same with 7.3. I did a custom->everything install and selected the ide-scsi option when the install prompted me. I have a PLEXTOR as my CD writer and a CREATIVE as my CD ROM. The PLEXTOR hardware was installed as the master when my box was originally assembled and has not been changed. cdrecord -scanbus finds my PLEXTOR but not the CREATIVE. GRUB is my boot loader. I was exposed to some of the non-gui programs for CD Writing and the command line parameters were, IMHO, cryptic at best. I think I would be better off using a nice, well behaved gui for the task at hand rather than learning CD Writer technical terms and lingo. I have a couple/few questions. 1) Which app would you suggest I use for burning CD-R's? 2) Are there any web sites I can get/share MP3's at? I tried getting limewire but if I recall correctly I had trouble with either getting the Jave Runtime or installing it. 3) Would someone be willing to assist me in getting up and running? ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

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Installing LimeWire - Resolved
by Mel Seder 15 May '02

15 May '02

I found the path for the Java Runtime. It was /usr/java/j2re1.4.0/bin. It took me a bit to figure out that it was j2re1 not j2rel (one not el). I've been bitten by 1, l, 0, and O many times. Thanks to all who have offered their help. ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

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Installing LimeWire
by Mel Seder 15 May '02

15 May '02

I installed Sun's Java Runtime Environment. When I ran "sh LimeWireLinux.bin" I got the following error message. I think I understand the problem. LimeWire couldn't find the Java runtime program in $PATH. My problem is that I don't know how to find out what and how to concatenate the existing path. I'd appreciate help :-) ---snip [mel@localhost mel]$ su -c "sh LimeWireLinux.bin" Password: Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH environment variable. You must install a VM prior to running this program. [mel@localhost mel]$ $PATH bash: /usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/mel/bin: No such file or directory [mel@localhost mel]$ -------- snip ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

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Re: [RndTbl] CD Writing and MP3's using RH 7.3 - Valhalla
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 14 May '02

14 May '02

According to Gilles Detillieux: > According to Mel Seder: ... > > 1) Which app would you suggest I use for burning CD-R's? > > I've been happy with gcombust. I've tried XCDRoast and keasycd and found > them lacking. (That was over a year ago, mind you!) I usually install > the latest alpha releases of the cdrtools packages from the falsehope > mirror on MUUG's server, along with their build of gcombust. I've mostly > used this only for data CDs, though, and not audio. I used an older > version of gcombust over a year ago to copy an audio CD directly from > drive to drive, but several of the tracks it copied ended prematurely. > I'd expect the more recent versions to be more reliable now, but I > haven't pursued this further. (Newer versions support cdparanoia, > while the older one I used before didn't.) The gtoaster package is included with Red Hat 7.2 and 7.3. I haven't used it myself, but one of our professors uses it and seems quite happy with it. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Problem burning cd using cdrtoaster-1.12:
by S/C Conway 14 May '02

14 May '02

Hardware: Sony CRX140S CD ReWritable Recorder Software RH 7.2 kernel 2.4.9-13 sox-12.17.1-4 cdrecord-1.10-4 cdrecord-devel-1.10-4 Using cdrtoaster-1.12 to burn an MP3 to an audio cd results in never recorded before "chipmunks" coaster. The audio sounds like a 33rpm record played at 45rpm. This may be a bad analogy for the CD exposed generation. Analyzing the script from cdrtoaster the creation of a CD takes place in two steps. One step converts the mp3 to wav the next step burns the cd. Audio convert: mpg123 -s sample1.mp3|sox -t raw -w -s -c 2 -r 44100 - -t wav sample1.wav CD burn: cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/sg0 speed=4 -audio -pad /home/username/sample1.wav I have tried doing the audio convert manually an it produces a chipmunks wav file. If I change the rate parameter to -r 22050 the wav file is produced correctly. The new file is not in the correct format for cdrecord to handle and produces an error message "Inappropiate audio coding". According to my reading a wav file must be created with 16bit 44100hz sample rate. I have also tried changing the mp3 player to the GPL version mpg321-0.1.5-1 with no success. I have found no indication at the SOX site of any problems with the software. This is my first foray into CD burning using Linux. The burner works fine under windows95 and its software. I have made a decision to eliminate as many windows machines as I can. My project is the burner/scanner box. Sean

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Re: [RndTbl] Thanks! and kudzu?
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 14 May '02

14 May '02

According to millward: > What's kudzu ? I've read the man mount but there's > no kudzu there. What does it do? It's a utility that runs at system startup to check your hardware configuration, and allow you to setup/configure any new or changed hardware. If your system will be stable after you've set it up, you can always disable it as a startup service to speed things up a bit... chkconfig kudzu off However, I like to leave it on, so it catches any hardware changes I made, or anything that may "mysteriously" have changed. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Huge audio .wav files in Red Hat
by millward 13 May '02

13 May '02

How big can I make a file in Red Hat 7.2 ? I'd like to copy an audio tape to the hard drive in one huge .wav file, and burn it to CD. I've got a few gigs of hard drive space to play with.

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Roundtable May 2002