I am interested in installing a Unix operating system onto my PC. I was wondering which system would be the best for a total newbie and also how much knowledge of programming languages do I need to get decent results with a Unix system?
I really am starting from scratch so please help all that you... (1 Reply)
I have a SparcStation 10 and it came with an external CD Rom Drive. I am trying to install Solaris 2.6 Server on this machine from the Cd Rom. At the OK> prompt I type "boot cdrom - browser" and I get an error:
scsi device not found:error = -1
or something to that effect. Does anyone have any... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I've always been around systems that ran windows in one version or another, so I'm familiar with what/when/where/drivers/etc for that.
I want to build a unix box to use as a place to learn and become more familiar with unix. I would also like to eventually convert it to a server to... (6 Replies)
I Know this is a really stupid question but if you can please expalin me.
I know how to compile a file in unix whith c++ but i dont know how to execute it.
I was expectin something like in windows that there will be created a *.rpm file or somethin like that (like *.exe in windows)
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fedora core 2 xx8. 5xx version (not sure! not sure how to look it up either..(except on boot sorry!!))..
:( the linux version I started on last year was an old redhet 6.0 version with only text mode.. back then for some reason I knew I how to get rid of whole directories without a) going through... (6 Replies)
Has anybody come across the situation when after openning the cover of HP9000 the PC will not start. We checked everything but did not manage to find any solution to that. The PS seems to be functionning (at lease we can hear it clicking). Please help us solving the problem.
Thanks to everybody. (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Please excuse my ignorance - I'm a Cisco kid and my knowledge of Unix is somewhat flaky!!
Basically we're running MRTG on an HP-UX server and wondered what the "-" means in the following text within the crontab file -
-* * * * * root /home/mrtg/fwdev01.sh
I... (3 Replies)
I just began learning how to use Unix, so forgive my stupidity. I know this is answered somewhere but it's pretty specific and probably easily answered.
When I use some commands (particularly recently, the grep command) my terminal seems to freeze up. It switches out of bash mode and into the... (2 Replies)
Firstly I'm learning shell scripting and I came across this example in Classic Shell Scripting
dirpath=`eval echo '${'"$envvar"'}' 2>/dev/null | tr : ' ' `
And I immediately became perplexed as to how $envvar gets expanded in between the surrounding single quotes, until 20 minutes later i... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
mt
MT(1) General Commands Manual MT(1)NAME
mt - magnetic tape manipulating program
SYNOPSIS
mt [ -f tapename ] command [ count ]
DESCRIPTION
Mt is used to give commands to a magnetic tape drive. If a tape name is not specified, the environment variable TAPE is used; if TAPE
does not exist, mt uses the device /dev/rmt12. Note that tapename must reference a raw (not block) tape device. By default mt performs
the requested operation once. Operations may be performed multiple times by specifying count.
The available commands are listed below. Only as many characters as are required to uniquely identify a command need be specified.
eof, weof
Write count end-of-file marks at the current position on the tape.
fsf Forward space count files.
fsr Forward space count records.
bsf Back space count files.
bsr Back space count records.
rewind Rewind the tape (Count is ignored).
offline, rewoffl
Rewind the tape and place the tape unit off-line (Count is ignored).
status Print status information about the tape unit.
cacheon
Enable the readahead/writebehind cache on the tape unit.
cacheoff
Turn off the readahead/writebehind cache on the tape unit.
Mt returns a 0 exit status when the operation(s) were successful, 1 if the command was unrecognized, and 2 if an operation failed.
The cacheon and cacheoff commands currently only apply to the TMSCP driver and then only for certain drives such as the TU81+. No error is
produced by the TMSCP driver if the cache commands are used. Other drivers will return an error code since they do not recognize the
MTCACHE and MTNOCACHE functions codes. See mtio(4).
FILES
/dev/rmt* Raw magnetic tape interface
SEE ALSO mtio(4), tmscp(4), dd(1), ioctl(2), environ(7)4th Berkeley Distribution December 22, 1995 MT(1)