How?
I'm able to do Linux and M$ partitions successfully on my PC with Fedora 2. I
want to see how to do it so I can write an article on it. I'll admit to only
a one hour google search today (I was so happy to get ANYTHING working I had
to test it as soon as I could). I found a lot of pages referring to Linux on
the Mac and a bunch of pages saying they were out of date with the 2.4
kernel. I *should* be able to test the Mac/HFS partition this weekend.
The odd thing is if I had the USB …
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there... Unfortunately I've already blown a bunch of money on the new
harddrive (on sale at Itech) and USB box.
Later
Mike
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This is not a Unix-related question (yet), but I was wondering if anyone
on this list knew of a vendor who can get 1 GHz Pentium 3 (Slot 1) CPUs
for a Compaq ProLiant DL380 3U rack-mount server. We have this server at
work with a single 733 MHz P3, and it's dual-capable. Our "Preferred"
vendor is Insight Canada, and they want $ 2,641 for a 1 GHz P3. Yep,
more than the cost of a new server or two for a stinkin' 5.5-year-old
CPU which was US$990 at introduction!
And I know they're …
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<someone much higher up in the organization> thinks a 97% discount would
look bad if it became public that we bought something via eBay.
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On September 25, 2005 02:15 pm, Adam Thompson wrote this amazing epistle:
> Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
> > I looked at the site Gilles suggested earlier. I was in a bit of a rush
> > (as I am from time to time). They want people to sign up as developers
> > before downloading source code. That's not for me. As a result I found an
> > alternative which was last updated around 2003. It's at
> >http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/ and the package is called hfstools.
&…
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> > 100GB partition, it only formatted two GB of it. Apart from that... No
> > complaints. I'll keep hunting for a while. Eventually I might get a Mac
> > (owned by one of my friends) to format the partition for me.
> >
> > Later
> > Mike
> >
> >P.S. The Linux and M$ partitions work fine...
>
> I believe you will find that standard HFS only supports up to 2Gb.
I didn't know this for certain. It was one of the possibilities. It certainly
explains what I saw.
> HFS+
> supports larger partitions, and I don't think hfstools will format an
> HFS+ partition.
Quite right about hfs tools not doing HFS+.
> -Adam
Thanks for the info. The search goes on. The deadline for the articles is
Wednesday so the search is going to be slow until then.
Later
Mike
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I looked at the site Gilles suggested earlier. I was in a bit of a rush (as I
am from time to time). They want people to sign up as developers before
downloading source code. That's not for me. As a result I found an
alternative which was last updated around 2003. It's at
http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/ and the package is called hfstools. It
compiles and installs really fast. Unfortunately, although I gave it a 100GB
partition, it only formatted two GB of it. Apart from that... No …
[View More]complaints.
I'll keep hunting for a while. Eventually I might get a Mac (owned by one of
my friends) to format the partition for me.
Later
Mike
P.S. The Linux and M$ partitions work fine...
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Hear ye, hear ye!
This is the FINAL CALL for nominees to participate in the election for
the MUUG board. Those elected will serve from October 2005 until October
2006. The deadline to nominate yourself, or someone else, is September 27,
2005. Instructions follow.
The MUUG board is charged with coordinating the meetings and other
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group. All are encouraged to apply.
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MUUG Board Elections - Call for Nominations
Every October the Manitoba Unix User Group holds its Annual Meeting, the
main goals of which are to elect a new Board of Directors and to pass
any special resolutions. (Aside from that, it is a regular meeting)
Any member in good standing can be nominated to run for a position.
As of this writing, the following members of the current Board have let
their names stand for re-election:
Gilbert Detillieux Systems Analyst University of Manitoba
Kevin McGregor Systems Specialist City of Winnipeg
Doug Shewfelt Systems Specialist City of Winnipeg
Adam Thompson Consultant athompso.net
Shawn Walbridge System Administrator Frantic Films
Of course, this list is just a starting point. Any member in good
standing of the group can be nominated simply by getting the support of
one other member. If you feel you would like to contribute to the group
by running for a board position, please don't hesitate to do so. (In
fact, we'd like to see the number of board members increase.)
If you want to be nominated, or to nominate someone else, send a letter
to the group's postal box or deliver it in person to a current board
member. The letter must contain the name, title, and employer of the
nominee, along with a short (100 word or so) biography, and must contain
the signatures of the nominee and one other member. The letter must be
received no later than September 27, 2005, which is 14 days prior to the
October 11 meeting.
Although the by-laws require that the nominations be done in writing,
with signatures, you can speed up the process by sending us e-mail
to <election(a)muug.mb.ca>, with the above information, and sending the
signed paper copy later. In this case, please include the e-mail
address of both the nominee and the supporter on the CC: list of the
message, so that all parties concerned have a record of the communication.
Nominees should familiarize themselves with the MUUG bylaws, found here:
http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/bylaws/
If you have any questions about the election or the nomination process,
please contact Gilbert Detillieux, either by phone (474-8161) during
business hours, or by e-mail to <election(a)muug.mb.ca> anytime.
Gilbert Detillieux
Election Committee Chair
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PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
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On September 13, 2005 12:52 pm, Colin Stanners wrote this amazing epistle:
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/10/msg00236.html
> >
> > Didn't find this one. I knew they had one but didn't find a reference to
> > it. I take it dd should work with this one?
>
> Found it in my first 10 results ;-) dd should work, yes.
Interesting. I usually come up with commercial pages as well as social
commentary. Maybe it's the aura I project. I can mess with …
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only to have someone else sit down and find what I was looking for in
seconds. :-)
I tried dd. No joy. It said it couldn't find anything on the floppy. I may
have entered it wrong. It should be "dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0" correct?
BTW, Linux says something is there but it doesn't know what.
Later
Mike
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On September 12, 2005 10:46 pm, Colin Stanners wrote this amazing epistle:
> Have you tried a bit of google searching?
Three hours worth. (Add appropriate sound effects of grumbling here).
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/10/msg00236.html
Didn't find this one. I knew they had one but didn't find a reference to it.
I take it dd should work with this one?
Later
Mike
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unfortunately, I can't make the meeting tomorrow :-( ...
gis is an interesting field ...
I recall reviewing a pretty good summary (for the time) about 4 months
ago regarding some of the open source gis toolsets/data avilable ...
here's the link:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-gis/
Dan.
Does anybody have a Sparc boot disk they can lend me? I'll be at Tuesdays
meeting. All I have to do is edit a single file then I should be able to
login. Again, the famous 30 seconds of work. ;-)
The machine doesn't have enough RAM to boot Solaris 10 (needs 256MB). I
didn't find much on Solaris 9 (probably looking in the wrong places again).
Anything earlier is apparently covered by a commercial license. The RAM will
be brought up to what is needed if I can't get it running as it is. …
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plan "B". I'll do it eventually anyhow. Judging from what's on the net, a
Linux rescue disk (again for Sparc) should do as well. Not bad for plan "C".
Thanks in advance...
Later
Mike
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