disk then you might consider putting lilo in hdb1 and not in hdb.

     Kind greetings.
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How to run chat with several phone numbers

   David B. Sarraf ([57]david.sarraf from paonline.com)

     In reference to [58]LG 93, Help Wanted #5 by Joao Coelho, where I asked
     any ppp/chat script experts to please chime in. -- Heather

   Heather:

     I agree with you on this question. Use a front end. My personal favorite
     is  diald. The documentation has an example of how to use a pool of
     numbers. You may not need the control that diald offers however it does
     solve the reader's problem.

   Dave Sarraf
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The Dao of Knoppix for Rescue

   Heather Stern ([59]The Answer Gang's Editor Gal)

   I know that this stumps people from time to time, Knoppix itself is cool but
   using it for a rescue environment is a little sneakier.

   First and foremost unless your idea of rescue is "find a file and ftp or scp
   it to somewhere else" kill the darn automounter. Run: /etc/init.d/autofs
   stop

   Wait a few moments then make sure to use 'ps was' or 'ps fax' and make sure
   it is good and properly dead. Use 'kill -9' on the automounter if you have
   to.

   Next thing is, you can use ctrl-alt-f1 or even ctrl-alt-F2 to get a prompt;
   over on tty1 just press ENTER and it's there already. When I'm really deep
   into thoughts of rescue the whole gorgeous GUI thing just gets in my way. If
   you'd rather stay in the GUI though, you'll have to launch konsole (or an
   xterm) and run 'sudo su -' ... and it won't ask a password. (That's also a
   warning to those of you who use Knoppix just because it makes Linux easy to
   show to your pals...)

   Then I cd /mnt and see a gazillion (that's a technical term) hd* and sd*
   entries. I use e2label religiously to label my volumes, or create them with
   -L options so they have them; RH distros make the volumes with labels; other
   distros might too. So you've a pretty good chance of getting some useful
   answer out of this:

cd /mnt
for i in hd* sd* ; do echo -n "$i: " ; e2label /dev/$i ; done

   Yeah, yeah, I know, if you use reiser or somehting that won't help, but the
   heartening thing is knoppix supports extra journaling fs' too, including XFS
   (Klaus merges SGI's XFS patches into his kernels).

   I also mkdir my own mountpoint - my favorite /mnt/pt (mount point, get it?)
   or /mnt/t (for target) and mount my poor benighted root fs there, then read
   its etc/fstab for what else to mount. Then you can safely chroot in and
   tweak  lilo,  or install that important package. If you are installing
   packages, some need /proc mounted to behave well... and then you'll need to
   recall to umount /proc in there too. Don't forget to umount all this stuff
   yourself before you reboot.

   Last but not least, if you use knoppix to do a local install, get rid of or
   at least properly configure that annoying little MTA smail. Almost nobody
   will relay [60]newuser@knoppix and that's what your outbound mail will look
   like it's from if you don't do something about it. Compared to that, fending
   off vestiges of German configuration is more charming than troublesome :)
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New version of WinMD5 for Windoze available

   Ken Dodge ([61]k.dodge from comcast.net)

   Hi all,

   Back around mid-April 2003 I posted a reply to a querant about md5sum's, and
   mentioned that I often use Ed Olson's WinMD5 on one or another of my Win
   boxes when downloading and burning Linux distro .iso's (got to get that
   Linux system up for doing that sort of thing!) Ed sent me the following
   message regarding my original posting, and announcing the availability of
   his latest version of WinMD5 (v2.0), so I thought I would pass it on. I've
   been using v1.1 of his program for awhile now, with no problems at all.

   BTW his v2.0 requires M$ .NET Framework (preferably v1.1 or newer) installed
   to run. It's available via Windoze Update on Win98/2K/XT systems.

   HTH - Ken Dodge

     It's still the current version, it's still a nice little app, and I'm sure
     those of you downloading a Linux ISO to the beast of Redmond before
     burning your shiny new CD would kind of like to know you aren't making a
     coaster. So here it is. -- Heather

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Subject: WinMD5