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  • crokett
    The Full Monte
    • Jan 2003
    • 10627
    • Mebane, NC, USA.
    • Ryobi BT3000
    #1

    A Dry Run For Ubuntu

    I am running the Ubuntu Live CD on my laptop right now and posting this from Linux. Now that the crunch is over at work and my report is delivered I can convert this machine from XP. So far all is going well. I got the wireless connected with no more trouble than I have in Windows, I played around with watching some video to test the sound card and it is pretty easy to browse the network shares on the XP machine downstairs. Actually it is even easier than Windows to do iit.

    I do have a question... there is a command to load a text-menu based utility that will manage the kernel modules. What is that command?
    David

    The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.
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    • Relative
      Established Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 109
      • Garden Grove, CA
      • Ridgid R4512
      #2
      Don't know the answer to your question since it's been a while since I fooled with Ubuntu - but I have a question for you. If you have a floppy, can you get to it?

      Mike
      Veterans are people who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check payable to the United States of America, for an amount up to and including their life.

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        • crokett
          The Full Monte
          • Jan 2003
          • 10627
          • Mebane, NC, USA.
          • Ryobi BT3000
          #3
          Nope, no floppy. At least not here, it is at the office.

          I am playing with a webcam. I know the module is suppsed to be included in the kernel and want to try and load it.
          David

          The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.

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            • jziegler
              Veteran Member
              • Aug 2005
              • 1149
              • Salem, NJ, USA.
              • Ryobi BT3100
              #4
              Floppy access is not problem in Linux. In college, I did it a lot. There is a series of tools (mtools) that use MS-DOS like commands to access a floppy, even referring to it as A:. You can also mount a floppy and treat it like a small part of the file system.

              David,

              I dod remember ever using a menu based kernel module utility. I've always done it the hard way.

              Unless you are talking about one to configure it for a recompile of the kernel. In which case, you go to the kernel source director and make menuconfig.

              Jim

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                • dick541
                  Forum Newbie
                  • Nov 2004
                  • 46
                  • Stoneville, north carolina, USA.
                  • BT3100
                  #5
                  I have a question for all you that use Linux and Ubuntu, I have a CAD program that is a dos program that runs in Win95-98, But doesnot work in XP. Is there a way to get it work in Linux with Ubuntu? It is on 2 3-1/2 disds. Thanks
                  dick

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                    • sd
                      Forum Newbie
                      • Jul 2003
                      • 66
                      • .
                      #6
                      Maybe. WINE allows running some Windows applications on Linux. The Wine application database lists applications which have been tested under WINE. There is also DOSEMU, which allows some DOS applications to run under Linux.
                      -- Steve

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                        • crokett
                          The Full Monte
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 10627
                          • Mebane, NC, USA.
                          • Ryobi BT3000
                          #7
                          Originally posted by jziegler
                          Floppy access is not problem in Linux. In college, I did it a lot. There is a series of tools (mtools) that use MS-DOS like commands to access a floppy, even referring to it as A:. You can also mount a floppy and treat it like a small part of the file system.

                          David,

                          I dod remember ever using a menu based kernel module utility. I've always done it the hard way.

                          Unless you are talking about one to configure it for a recompile of the kernel. In which case, you go to the kernel source director and make menuconfig.

                          Jim
                          It might be make menuconfig. Thanks.
                          David

                          The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.

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                            • Relative
                              Established Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 109
                              • Garden Grove, CA
                              • Ridgid R4512
                              #8
                              Originally posted by jziegler
                              Floppy access is not problem in Linux. In college, I did it a lot. There is a series of tools (mtools) that use MS-DOS like commands to access a floppy, even referring to it as A:. You can also mount a floppy and treat it like a small part of the file system.
                              Jim
                              What I was referring to is the problem that seems to exist in the last few kernel versions that no longer set up to use a floppy drive without a lot of convoluted file configuration mods. It's been around now for the last few releases of all versions of Linux best I can tell and I see bugreports indicating it still isn't really solved.

                              Old PostScript-1 printers seem to have been abandoned too.

                              Mike
                              Veterans are people who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check payable to the United States of America, for an amount up to and including their life.

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                                • jziegler
                                  Veteran Member
                                  • Aug 2005
                                  • 1149
                                  • Salem, NJ, USA.
                                  • Ryobi BT3100
                                  #9
                                  Well, I guess that just shows how well I've been following such things. The only floppy drive that I have anymore is a USB one, and it rarely gets used. My linux server in the basement hasn't had any removable media of any kind mounted in years now, so I didn't know about the problem. Good luck finding a solution.

                                  Jim

                                  Originally posted by Relative
                                  What I was referring to is the problem that seems to exist in the last few kernel versions that no longer set up to use a floppy drive without a lot of convoluted file configuration mods. It's been around now for the last few releases of all versions of Linux best I can tell and I see bugreports indicating it still isn't really solved.

                                  Old PostScript-1 printers seem to have been abandoned too.

                                  Mike

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                                    • crokett
                                      The Full Monte
                                      • Jan 2003
                                      • 10627
                                      • Mebane, NC, USA.
                                      • Ryobi BT3000
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by Relative
                                      What I was referring to is the problem that seems to exist in the last few kernel versions that no longer set up to use a floppy drive without a lot of convoluted file configuration mods. It's been around now for the last few releases of all versions of Linux best I can tell and I see bugreports indicating it still isn't really solved.

                                      Old PostScript-1 printers seem to have been abandoned too.

                                      Mike
                                      I wouldn't know. The last machine I had to have a floppy is the Dell I have. I never used it though - I pulled the drive out because I needed a bay for a HDD.
                                      David

                                      The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.

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