Asking 2c-tips of TAG

   Thomas Adam ([48]thomas_adam from bonbon.net)

   I am a little bit concerned the people here (especially those that are more
   established) don't fully understand what constitutes a 2c-tip. A 2c-tip is
   just that -- something that is short and easy and can be done in a few
   steps. Asking whether it is appropriate (Neil!) just causes us more grief to
   wade through meta questions!

   This might be in the form of a configuration tweak, or a minuture program
   that performs a given task, etc. Often though, larger tips are turned into
   TAG column entries -- and vice versa.

   Often what would be flagged by Heather and I as a TAG entry might well form
   off-shoots  to 2c-tips if the quality of the thread in question is not
   worthy.

   But we will publish anything not only explicitly marked as a 2c-tip, but
   also what we deem appropriate to be one. We certainly don't filter out sent
   in tips -- only vary rarely. The only thing I will say to you is that don't
   always expect to submit one and see it in the next release of LG. Heather
   and I decide which tips get published when.

   Send them in.... you know you want to.

   -- Thomas Adam
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Found It!

   Becca Putman ([49]sapphos from carolina.rr.com)
   Question by RedHat Enigma List , (enigma-list from redhat.com)

   Between these two lists, I figured my problem out. My TZ87 tape drive works
   perfectly under Linux. I found a product called vmsbackup that allows unix
   users to extract plain-text files from a VMS backup tape. If anyone else is
   interested  in  such  a  piece  of  arcana,  it can be downloaded from
   [50]http://vms.process.com/ftp/vms-freeware/FREE-VMS. I had to hack the
   code (can't use any other word than that, as I'm not a C coder at all) to
   eliminate certain files from being attempted. Once I did all that, every
   came off the tape nice and clean. 

   Next topic will be... smile 

   Thanks to everyone who has had input here - I really do appreciate the help!
   
   Becca 

     [Ben] That's great, Becca - I'm glad to know that we could help, and like
     to hear success stories. Too bad more of the folks we help don't let us
     know the end result; a sense of completion is a pretty nice thing to have.

     The main bulk of this thread appears in this month's TAG column, here: 

     [51]Linux and SCSI tape drives

     -- Thomas Adam
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Question

   Jose Garcia ([52]quantum_usa from yahoo.com)
   Answered By Kapil Hari Paranjape, Jim Dennis

   Well, my problem is a little bit different. I'm building up a network at
   home  and I want all computers with Windows 2000 and also Linux. Every
   computer is working ok with both operating systems, but the server. The two
   operating systems are installed already but, linux is not showing up. You go
   to the cmos setup and see Linus there in its own partition. But when the
   computer is booting, it doesn't show up and no way to boot from Linux. Now,
   even  Windows is not showing up. After a few steps, [ counting memory,
   detecting drivesetc, it gets stuck ] Could you give me a hint to solve
   this? 

     [Kapil]  I  sense some serious confusion. How can the CMOS show you
     partitions, let alone Linus (I presume you mean Linux)? Even the BIOS
     setup doesn't know anything about the operating systems.

     1. Try to use a rescue floppy (your created one at install time didn't
     you?!) to boot your system. If you don't have any such alternate method to
     boot the existing system you may have no choice but to re-install.

     2.  When  you run a server, it doesn't really make sense to run two
     different O/Ses on it. How would the clients/users know before connecting
     what they could expect from the server?

     [JimD]

     Your question doesn't quite make sense. You can't see partitions or OS
     installations from your CMOS Setup. You can see drives.

     So when you say things like: "linux is not showing up" and that you "see
     Linus[sic] there" and "it doesn't how up" it's not clear what you're
     looking at, where you're expecting to see it. You say that "you go to the
     cmos  setup"  but  as I've said a normal BIOS setup doesn't display
     partitions and doesn't provide a list of installed or available OS' or
     other boot options.