If you are using the KDE or Gnome Desktop Environments, using a floppy or CDROM is as easy as inserting your disc and clicking on the appropriate icon on the desktop. You can then read, copy, or delete files (delete from floppy only) to and from the device. It is VERY important to unmount the media before removing it from the drive. In fact, CDs will not let you open the tray unless they are unmounted.

A drive may be manually mounted by selecting Places/Computer and then right clicking on the floppy drive icon and choosing Mount Volume. The drive can then be accessed from this window as well as the corresponding drive icon on the desktop. Be sure to unmount the disk or drive before removing it in order to prevent the disk from becoming damaged or risk having data lost.

Use ftp from a dos command line, ws-ftp from a Win98/WinNT machine, or wait a bit until we tie the unix and pc systems together a bit more.

The Volume Manager (vold) is probably holding the device open. You can access a floppy through the volume manager by typing "volcheck" and looking in /floppy/*. CD-ROMs don't require volcheck; just insert one and the volume manager should automatically notice, and mount it under /cdrom/*. Unmount by typing "eject floppy" or "eject cdrom", respectively. The Volume Manager can be configured by editing /etc/vold.conf.

Turn the PC on and immediately start tapping the DELETE or DEL key. Keep tapping this (approx 2/3 times a second will suffice) until a menu appears. This is the BIOS. Use the LEFT/RIGHT arrow keys on the keyboard to move along the upper menu until you highlight BOOT. The boot device list will appear (There may be a pause before this list appears) Press the + (Plus symbol) on the keypad (far right on keyboard) to move the ATAPI CD-ROM or floppy disk heading up the list.

In the Webmin Users module, click on the user that you want to symchronize with Unix and set his Password option to Unix Authentication. If PAM is not used on your operating system, the first two steps can be skipped. Webmin will instead read the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow file directly to authenticate users who are using the Unix Authentication password mode.

NB: the procedures described here require substantial knowledge of UNIX and entail a significant risk of causing loss of data. The obvious disclaimers apply here, so use at your own risk. Please be careful. This document is an introduction to operating your 3B from a standalone /unix. Even with inoperable hard drives, it is possible to insert the boot floppy (Essential Utilities Disk 1), say some magic words, and receive a # prompt.

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We do not encourage the use of floppy disks as they are an outdated and unreliable technology. Students are strongly encouraged to e-mail files to themselves as attachments or use a USB flash drive when they wish to move them between CELOP and home. If you must use a floppy, four of the PCs in 267b are equipped with floppy drives, or you can see John in office 251.

Yes, but it will show up as a (very small) scsi disk. check /dev/dsk/c... nodes. There are no /dev/diskette nodes for usb floppy. Plug in the device and run rmformat(1M). It will show you the device node for the USB floppy. Assume it is /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 (x86). # mkfs -F pcfs -o nofdisk,size=2800 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 # mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c4t0d0p0:c /mnt

Section 11- Primer documents Please, if you wish to contribute a Q/A in this section, provide a very short answer defining the topic and then a URL to a longer text/Web page. Like that we can have various URL's for a single Q, each with a different point of view. Another advantage of this approach is that each contributor has to sit down and write a coherent HTML page or text file. Having to structure a written answer gives ample time to think about the issues and the topic as a whole.

Digital pictures are large files, often in the megabyte range. Such large pictures pose real challenges in terms of Internet hosting and often results in long wait times for uploading images. When you submit a large picture to PicturePoint???, the system invokes an algorithm that automatically resizes the picture down to 153 X 192 pixels which is our REALTOR.com? standard. This resize improves upload time dramatically while maintaining the aspect ratio and quality of the pictures.

Which operating system you decide to use should depend on what features you need. For example, if you are already using IIS, ASP, VBScript, Windows Media, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, or Visual InterDev, and you don't have the time to learn Unix-based solutions, you'll have to choose a Windows NT or Windows 2000-based host. Just because your desktop is Windows-based doesn't mean you should use a Windows host.

The ZIP drives in our lab machines are set up to use the automounter. The automounter will automatically mount the drive for you when you access it, and unmount it when it is not being used. If you want to use Ext2fs (linux) formatted ZIP disks in the lab, make sure you create a filesystem on the disk in the lab before using it by typing: /sbin/mke2fs /dev/zip so that the ZIP disk is formatted with your user permissions.

Shared libraries under UNIX are analogous to DLLs under Windows. You have a single archive of object code that is shared by multiple users on the same machine or even across a network. The mechanisms for building shared libraries are actually simpler than those for a DLL since segmentation issues do not exist under UNIX. You will require source code availability and be prepared to do minor changes.

Thruport HotOffice will support Macintosh on Netscape 4.77+ or IE 5.1+. While HotOffice may work fine on UNIX operating systems, we do not support UNIX at this time. UNIX support is being evaluated at this time and support for UNIX will be announced in the near future.

By default you will have an empty mySQL database setup on the server. The name of this database is d<last part of your userID> e.g. d0003. You will need to initially assign a password to the database via the Database management option via the Webadmin tool. To access the database you can then use an ODBC driver, or WinMySQL to send SQL (Structured Query Language) commands to the database.

No, generally speaking. But if you can contribute something useful as a volunteer that requires shell access to do it, please ask.

The script is tested on a Unix server not Windows. Each server is set-up in a different way, most will run the script without issue. Sadly I can not offer any technical support on setting up web servers.

You can learn more about UNIX right at your workstation. Jennifer Myers has compiled a useful directory of UNIX tutorials and information.