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Microsoft Word - Update TOC field (completely) with VBA

Update TOC field (completely) with VBA

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 03:08 PM PST

Is there a way to make a TOC field update completely (that is, more than just the page numbers) using VBA?  I'm trying Selection.Range.Fields(1).Update and variants but it always adjusts only the page numbers.

Any ideas?  Thanks.

Mark

I Cannot Use microsoft word becasue it says I need to ACTIVATE it.

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 01:09 PM PST

My mom and I bought this computer like  6 months ago, and I recently need to use Microsoft Word for school. So I'm trying to use it and it says I need to activate it and it asks for my Microsoft email and a password but then it says that my email doesn't associated with Office It says to please use the email associated with office. I have only one email address so now I don't know to do and I need to type my paper. Help

Find all NORMAL text that is not Times New Roman, 11pt

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 12:27 PM PST

I need to find and replace all text of NORMAL style with a custom style. However, I don't want to lose any italics or bold formatting.

Is there a way to use Find and Replace but tell it NOT to change text that is any combination of NORMAL/ITALICS/BOLD?

 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cannot Print Word 2013 documents

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 12:20 PM PST

I cannot print word 2013 documents.  All other office applications will print, emails, PDF's but will not print a document from 2010 office word. 

WORD Equation Editor Bug

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 11:37 AM PST

In the equation editor in Word 2010, if you choose a Product symbol (Pi) with an initial value and end value, the equation looks OK in the editor, but when you switch back to a normal view, the Product symbol is replaced with a Coproduct symbol (inverted Pi).

Formatting Issues in Multi-level list

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 10:44 AM PST

Made a template of a multilevel list and has been working very well for my needs.  I have run into a problem where one of the list (A-second level) was loner than usual. Once you go past the single character (Z) in double character (AA), the formatting is all off and I am unable to fix it. 

MS Word Dictionary

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 10:39 AM PST

1. How can I upload a new word or proper name to Microsoft's database so that when people who have the latest updated office dictionary write it out, it does not get underlined in red? Please note that I do not mean "add to dictionary" where words and names are only recognized locally.

2. How can I add synonyms to words to installed dictionaries in various languages?

Thank you.

Can I get Word 2010 cover page templates for 2013?

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 10:14 AM PST

I have MS Word 2013 and I am in a silly class that requires MS Word 2010.  I have to add cover pages and stuff, which is all stuff I know how to do but I am going to get marked off for using the incorrect template.  I was given an .xml file earlier that had all of the themes from 2010 and I added that to my 2013 folder with all the themes...can I do the same for cover pages?  I am running windows 7 64bit OS and I do not have access to word 2010.

How do I get a hyperlink to work inside an if statement?

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 09:55 AM PST

I am working on a project where I am needing to have a hyperlink appear based on a mail merge value. I am having no problem with the if statement, except for the fact that my hyperlink only shows the text, and so is not formated to look like a hyperlink, and does nothing when I click on it.

Is there a way to get a hyperlink to work when nested inside an if statement in Word 2010?

Thank you,
Matt

Microsoft Word 2013 read only compatibility

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 09:22 AM PST

I have absolutely no idea how this problem came to be but every person who works for Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves for creating such a terrible product. People choose this product out of convenience and fear. People are afraid to use another product because of compatibility fears. I just want to do basic word processing nothing fancy and I have had nothing but bother since I got this. Why can't Microsoft not make things easier for people? 
Look at the following image and tell me how to sort this mess out. I have scoured forums, tried solutions and nothing works. Every time I want to save a document it wants to save in 1997-2003 or something like that. I select Word Document and it seems to save but when I open it it says the below.


For love of Christ why?

TOC Codes show in document text

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 08:41 AM PST

I have a document where the TC codes are showing in the main text of the document.  The ALT F9 doesn't work to hide the codes as it is the document that contains the problem and not the TOC itself.  The sample below illustrates my problem.  I have tried everything to correct this...Word Option, ALT F9, CTRL *, etc.    Any suggestions would be wonderful!!!  I am using Word 2007.  Thanks.



2.1 Formation {TC"2.1 Formation"\f\c\1"2"}


Help!

Word version 2010 Question

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 07:31 AM PST

I am using Word version 2010. I have a document in which I need redlines from both the author and me to be reflected in different colors. I need to provide a legend to others reviewing this document that identifies which color represents the author changes and which color represents my changes. However, every time I open the document, the redlines are reflected in different colors and when others open the document, the redlines show up in different colors than mine. Is there a way to permanently fix the color for author redlines and my redlines so that all reviewing this document will see the same colors for the changes?

Windows 8.1 / Office Home and Student 2013.

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 07:10 AM PST

Running 8.1 with office 2013 I find that when I download a word document from the internet, it appears to download but will not open in word. All I get is a new window opening stating " unable to reconise file formatt or extension".

This operation work fine until about one week ago. Any Help please. Alan.

Greyed out text

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 07:07 AM PST

I don't know what I have done, but when I saved my document-- suddenly all the text throughout the document is is highlighted-- in grey. 
I do not know what I have done, and all of the simple fixes ( no highlighting) seem to do nothing. 
Any suggestions.  

Text disappears in multilevel lists

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 06:46 AM PST

I created a multi-level list and began typing.  when I got to the right margin, the text I typed did not appear on the screen.  There was no paragraph marker at the end of the line.  When I hit Enter, the text I could not see appeared in the next numbered paragraph.  There was a paragraph marker at the end of the first line of text in the second paragraph.  But if I continued typing so that text should wrap to the next line, the text and the paragraph mark disappeared until I again hit enter, when the text appeared in the third numbered paragraph.

I have been creating multilevel lists in Word for years on this machine, running XP and Office 2010, and have never previously had this problem.  I assume some setting, a style, or something has changed.  I'll be grateful for a solution to this problem.

Sharp black shadow on shapes - gone in Word 2010?

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 03:59 AM PST

Seems like Word now offers only the very subtle, blurred-edge shadows shown in the in Format Shape gallery. Call me old-fashioned, but I need the simple sharp-edged black shadows of yore. How do I get this? In an old document that has these, running the VBA code:

 

      MsgBox Selection.ShapeRange(1).Shadow.Type

 

Gives a value of -2. But if I try to *assign* that value to a shape's shadow, it throws a value-out-of-range error.

 

Short of the clumsy idea of keeping an old shape that has the sharp black shadow and reusing it forever, how can I get that "legacy" (sigh) shadow from this version of Word (pref. using VBA)?


Thanks for any help.


Mark

Copy and Paste

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 02:55 AM PST

I tried to copy and paste a message from Word to an Outlook Email but was unable to.  Then I discovered I was not  able to past into my other email setup or any Excel or Powerpoint documents.  I can only paste into another Word document.

Office 2013 - Lost Icons and Function Headers

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 02:55 AM PST

During my last usage of MS Word 2013 all was fine, about a month ago.

Currently, I can open files, but functions and Icons are missing on the Top.
Mouse "Right Click" does not work and I am unable to Sign In.

File. Save etc buttons are all missing in the program.

Please advice

Rgds/Collin

Forgotten Password

Posted: 24 Jan 2014 01:48 AM PST

Greetings all,

 

So I created a password to open my delicate file in Word 2013 a few weeks ago. Upon completion I saved the document, protected it with a password and now that the document is urgently needed, I cannot seem to remember my password. Is there a way that Microsoft can help me in recovering the password to the document I created...and sadly forgot the password.

 

Your assistance would be tremendously appreciated!

Blank dialogue windows in ms office

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 10:18 PM PST

Hi, 

I have Windows 8.1, MS Office 365 Home Premium. 

I have an issue with dialogue windows. I normally use Word. After I've been working for a while, all right-click context menu boxes are blank (clear). Also, if try to close a document, the usual "do you want to save changes..." dialogue is blank, too. Same happens with MS Excel. It works normally after restart, but then it happens again. I couldn't find a similar issue anywhere. 

Thank you for your help. 

Page numbers not counting properly?

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 09:35 PM PST

I have a 106 page document with section breaks and different odd/even footers and recently my page numbers stopped counting correctly. They start on 1 when they should start on 4 then skip to 5 and show the rest of the document as page 1. Nothing I do resolves this issue. Does anyone have any idea as to what might be causing this and what I can do to fix it?

Find and Remove Complex String

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 09:26 PM PST

Can anyone offer suggestions on how to find all strings similar to the one below:

 

1865]              JOHNSON TAKES THE OATH                  289


These strings usually have a paragraph mark before and after, and tab marks separating the numbers from the all-cap letters. I tried the following but it did not find the string:


^p[1-2000]^t[A-Z]^t[1-500]^p

Equalize line spacing while using two alphabets

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 06:22 PM PST

I'm typing up a document that requires switching constantly between English and Sanskrit, often using them in the same line together (individual word translation). The text is primarily in English; but when Sanskrit characters appear in a line, the spacing between that line and the one beneath becomes larger than the spacing between those that are all in English. I'd like the line spacing between every line to be the same throughout, despite alternating between two alphabets. 

I'm using Times New Roman for the English, and have tried several different Sanskrit fonts, to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Find and Replace Paragraph Mark and Lowercase ^13[a-z]

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 04:55 PM PST

The wildcard expression ^13[a-z] works wonderfully for finding all of the words starting with lowercase letters after a paragraph break. 

I need to then replace ONLY the paragraph break with a simple space.

If I do a find and replace using ^13[a-z], it then replaces the letter at the beginning of the lowercase word with the space, thus misspelling the word.

Example before Find & Replace:
Spaulding, one of the Naval Committee, allowed himself to be used in the

intrigue, and, to his discredit, called for the documents

After Find & Replace (note "intrigue" is misspelled:
Spaulding, one of the Naval Committee, allowed himself to be used in the ntrigue, and, to his discredit, called for the documents 

Any suggestions on how to avoid this error would be greatly appreciated.

Create custom tabs on the Word 2013 ribbon

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 03:53 PM PST

Office 2007 saw the addition of the Ribbon feature, which some users found confusing. However, you can use it to your advantage by adding your own custom tabs containing commands you use often. This allows for quicker and easier document creation.

We're using Word in our example, but you can create custom tabs in the other Office apps as well.

To create a custom tab, right-click on the Ribbon and select Customize the Ribbon.

The Customize Ribbon screen on the Word Options dialog box displays. The tabs available on the Ribbon are listed on the right side of the dialog box. Click New Tab at the bottom of that list.

A New Tab is added after the tab that was selected (which is the Home tab by default). To give the new tab a different name, right-click on the New Tab (Custom) and select Rename from the popup menu.

On the Rename dialog box, enter a name for the tab in the Display name edit box and click OK.

Every tab must have at least one group of commands on it. When you create a New Tab, a New Group is automatically added.

On the Rename dialog box, enter a name for the new group in the Display name edit box. You can also select an icon from the Symbol box to represent the new group when the Ribbon is resized. Click OK.

NOTE: You can add multiple groups on your tab if you want to categorize the commands you add to your tab.

Because the Home tab was selected when we created a new tab, the new tab was added right after the Home tab. You can move the tab to a different position on the Ribbon by selecting the tab to be moved and clicking either the up arrow button or down arrow button.

To add a command to the group on your tab, select a command from the list of commands on the left. You can filter the list by selecting an option from the Choose commands from drop-down list.

To add a command to the group on your tab, drag the command to right below the group name (or other command name) until you see a horizontal bar. You can also add commands by selecting the group, then selecting the command and clicking Add.

NOTE: You can use the up and down arrow buttons to rearrange the commands within the groups on your tab as well.

When you have added all the groups and commands you want, click OK to accept your changes and close the Word Options dialog box.

The new tab displays on the Ribbon, providing convenient access to the commands you use most often.

You can also backup your custom tabs so you can re-import them if you have to reinstall the Word (or other Office programs) or if you want to move the same customizations to a different computer; for example, if you have to replace your computer.

To backup your customizations, right-click on the Ribbon again and select Customize the Ribbon. At the bottom of the Customize Ribbon screen on the Word Options dialog box on the right click Import/Export and select Export all customizations.

On the File Save dialog box, navigate to the location where you want to save your customizations backup, enter a name for the file in the File name edit box, and click Save. You can copy this file to an external drive for safekeeping.

If you want to remove any custom tabs you've added or any changes you've made to the built-in tabs, you can reset all your customizations by clicking Reset and selecting Reset all customizations. If you only want to reset changes on one built-in tab (not on custom tabs), select the tab to be reset, click Reset and select Reset only selected Ribbon tab.

If you've selected to reset all customizations, a confirmation dialog box displays to make sure you want to do this. Click Yes to remove all changes to built-in tabs and all custom tabs you've created.

NOTE: No confirmation dialog box displays when you select Reset only selected Ribbon tab.

You can also remove a custom tab by selecting the tab and clicking Remove. This will not affect any changes you've made to built-in tabs.

NOTE: No confirmation dialog box displays when removing a custom tab, so be sure you want to remove it before you do so.

The ability to customize the Ribbon bar by creating your own custom tabs is a useful feature for making it quicker and easier to work on your documents. The commands you use most often can be grouped together, providing quick access.

Reinstall windows 7 starter vis vis Office

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 03:23 PM PST

if I reinstall my operating system will I have to buy a new copy of office?

Missing YO561409.cab files - Microsoft Office forums

Missing YO561409.cab files - Microsoft Office forums

Missing YO561409.cab files

Posted: 22 Mar 2006 02:15 PM PST

I've given you all I know/could find about the problem.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Gibgo" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

newsgroup reader

Posted: 22 Mar 2006 12:46 PM PST

Go to IE\Properties\Programs and make sure that under Newsreader that Outlook Express is selected.

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"Gary Mc" <Gary microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com... 

office 2003 wont load because of prior install

Posted: 22 Mar 2006 11:37 AM PST

I cannot do that, as I explained. When I reloaded XP all links to a loaded
version went away. The folders, files and registry links are gone! I need
to know where to look for whatever it is that makes OFfice think it is still
loaded. Thanks, though.

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
 

Default File Location change

Posted: 21 Mar 2006 07:50 AM PST

You're welcome.

Regards,
DMan

"Polyprod" wrote:
 

Software Activation Problem?

Posted: 21 Mar 2006 06:50 AM PST

Unfortunately, not a thing. I choose the menu item, and no dialog appears. My
copy of OneNote is a personal copy, and required activation. My installation
of Office 2003 standard was provided by my company and didn't require
activation via the activation wizard. (Site licence).

I'm wondering if maybe my machine is changing itself to the point that
Office thinks I'm movnig it to another machine. I have a Sony Vaio VGN T170p.
It reeks havoc on my company's software that uses an activation scheme as
well.

"Gyorgy Moldova [MCSE+I, MVP]" wrote:
 

New Computer...old CD...is it possible?

Posted: 20 Mar 2006 07:46 PM PST

You need to use the telephone option when you activate Office and explain
the situation to them.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Jessa" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

How do I remove the debugging software?

Posted: 20 Mar 2006 07:21 PM PST

THANK YOU!!!!! I nver would have thought to look under that! Thank you so
much!!!!!!

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

Microsoft Office 2000 Premium problems

Posted: 20 Mar 2006 05:42 PM PST

The event log which I think you're talking about reads as follows:

3/20/2006 2:55 PM MsiInstaller Detection of product
'{00000409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7}', feature 'ProductNonBootFiles'
failed during request for component '{2DB5EDF1-BF88-11D1-9A4A-00A0C90542D8}'


Also, one of the error messages that comes up when I experience this problem
says:
'The path MS Office 2000 Premium cannot be found. Verify that you have
access to the location or try to find the installation package 'data1.msi' in
a folder from which you can install the program...'

When I saw this message yesterday, I searched my computer for this file and
it did not find anything.

Also, when I try to open Outlook specifically, another message comes up
saying that it is missing the file OMINT.DLL. I also searched for this file
on my computer, without any success.

Am I out of luck? Do I need to buy new software? Can the files I need be
downloaded from Microsoft.com?

Thank you everyone who's responded for your attention to this. It's greatly
appreciated!

- D

Am I out of luc

"Ajith" wrote:
 

Updating an Admin install point of Office 2003 w/SP1 to SP2

Posted: 20 Mar 2006 01:46 PM PST

Stan,

If the path is correct then there is no wonder why it shows the help screen.
Because you have spaces in between the names, so installer engine will not
understand. We need to specify in quotes.
eg: )
msiexec /a "c:\admin path\PRO11.MSI" /p "k:\admin install point
path\MAINSP2op.msp" /qb

This will work !!!

Cheers,
Ajith

"StanP" wrote:
 

junk it and return to Office 2000

Posted: 20 Mar 2006 08:37 AM PST

Amnon Feiner wrote:
 

And soon to have better memory management.

Is it more stable? Well it certainly should be; if you look at the inner
workings of Office 2003 and it's dependency tree and then look at
OpenOffice you can see the OpenOffice guys are planning and implementing
for the future, not just the next dumb press release (like we get with
Office 2007).

It won't appeal to everyone (nor should it), but the way I see it is
that Open Source and Open Standards are the future and right now,
Microsoft doesn't have anything to offer in that arena.

--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Installing MS Query

Posted: 20 Mar 2006 08:00 AM PST

And there it is. Thanks so much!
--
Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA


"Mickman" wrote:
 

Office 2003 Updates keep failing

Posted: 18 Mar 2006 01:26 PM PST

This seems to work. The only problem is that it corrupted my FrontPage2003
installation.
Keeps asking for my Key. When I enter it, thinks that it is invalid.

I will have to uninstall FrontPage 2003 then reinstall and see if that
works. At first I thought FP2003 was part of Office2003. I forgot that I
have a separate CD for FP2003.

Will update this post later today to let you know.

"Ada Pan [MSFT]" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 
updates 
of 
and 
of 
rights. 

office 2003 depolyment

Posted: 18 Mar 2006 06:17 AM PST

Hi,

If you mean their _old_ Office shortcuts, start menu, quick-launch get
trashed, that's supposed to happen. If you mean non-Office shortcuts get
trashed, that's a major problem and there must be something wrong.

Paul wrote: 


--
Gerry Hickman (London UK)

how do i download the actual microsoft word program to my laptop?

Posted: 18 Mar 2006 03:19 AM PST

Office problems wrote:
 
Try http://OpenOffice.org, it's free.
--
TIA
Amnon Feiner
http://www.woodcontour.com
Solid Wood and Stone PC Peripherals

A Problem using yum on Linux Fedora Core 4 - Forums Linux

A Problem using yum on Linux Fedora Core 4 - Forums Linux

A Problem using yum on Linux Fedora Core 4

Posted: 13 Oct 2005 08:19 AM PDT

Enrique, I located and installed the proper python rpm's, and now yum
works like a charm. Thanks very much for your help!

Best,
WMD

--
Wayne Delia, net
Delta Iota Chapter Advisor, Phi Kappa Sigma at Marist College
"I'm beginning to sober up, and you're scaring me!" (Tom Servo, MST3K)

Why is Firefox printing in Linux so slow?

Posted: 13 Oct 2005 07:50 AM PDT

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:50:45 -0700, usenet.1.massysett wrote:
 

I would first check that ALL your printer, CUPS and Firefox config files
are correct. I would access CUPS through its native HTML interface
(http://localhost:631) instead of KDE's printer tools, just to be sure.
Also, check that Firefox's Postscript output isn't being sent to
Ghostscript or some printer filters. The output should go directly to the
printer, unchanged.

As a last resort, uninstall your printer and, then, reinstall it using
CUPS' interface. Maybe, KDE's got a bug.

Stefan

FC4, Serial ATA, and RAID

Posted: 12 Oct 2005 09:48 PM PDT

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:48:41 +0200, Screech <three> wrote: 

The FC4 iso had kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i?86.rpm
The current kernel is 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4
 

If the numbers are right, they translate to

status=0x51 DriveReady SeekComplete Error
error=0x40 Uncorrectable ECC error

I believe the latter means data corruption on the disk or at a low level.
 

Sounds a bit disturbing, I should perhaps check a diff between the
2.6.11 and 2.6.13 kernels to see if this is justified (but I don't
have the time this week). It may well be as already the atapi
interface implements a packet interface modeled on the scsi protocol,
and I would guess that serial ata takes this evolution even further.
 

I don't really know anythig about what is failing, but I wonder why you
are placing the two disks on the same ide controller, and leaving the
other controller to run just the DVD player?

If no-one else know anything better to try, you could try to regroup
the disks, placing, say, the hdd on the other controller, making it hdb.
If there is something flakey in the ide controller hardware, perhaps
duplicating all disk write requests on the same controller is begging
to trigger the failure potentials.

(But I should also say that I don't know hwo much physical reality there
is behind the interface offered by the chipset that perhaps makes two
"virtual controllers" out of one, or even out of four.)

-Enrique

Can't install Debian 3.1 on HP Pavilion 7955 computer

Posted: 12 Oct 2005 10:47 AM PDT

First of all, thanks to those who have provided assistance. Others have
been less than helpful.

The reason I think Debian should have a tutorial on this is because
most PC users use Windows, and Windows XP is currently the newest
Windows version, so it could only help in getting more people to start
using Linux instead. Of course, the tutorial is not necessary, but I
didn't even find a notice explaining how burning a bootable CD is
different from burning the type of CD that most users commonly burn.

<i>Oh, come on, the issues here are so obvious only after you acquire
a number of concepts.</i>

That might be true, but only assuming that there is a guide
<i>explaining</i> these concepts.

<i>"Cease messing up".</i>

That's very helpful...

Bad Motherboard? Upgrade?

Posted: 12 Oct 2005 05:06 AM PDT

> What is that monitor program?

http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

The program in question is currently listed at the top of the page,
select a mirror to the right of it to download.

Cheers

bypassing hwclock?

Posted: 11 Oct 2005 10:44 PM PDT

On 2005-10-13, John Hasler <gt.org> wrote:
 
 

I suppose, unless you have one of those Dallas chips with the clock
incorporated into the battery pack.

--

John (dhs.org)

Rar files

Posted: 11 Oct 2005 11:33 AM PDT

Manta a écrit : 

Hello,

- rar for linux from http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm to compile or
from http://rpm.pbone.net <= not last version (command-line but
necessary for the GUI)

- file-roller as GUI for extract (never succeed compress-split with GUI,
use command-line), file-roller is the gnome equivalent for ark for kde.

- unrar from http://rpm.pbone.net

Bye.
Rv
--
.~. - http://www.web-space.tv/faq_abcf
/V\
/( )\ - Une recette de bière « open source » !:
^^-^^ http://linuxfr.org/2005/07/21/19331.html

Grub Network Bootdisk - where from ?

Posted: 11 Oct 2005 03:26 AM PDT

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:20:21 +0200, hermann <net> wrote:
 

In order not to leave that part of the question unanswered, Grub must
be on an rpm package, and I would guess that package is called
grub-0.95...something.rpm. It should be on your installation CD.
Almost certainly it is already installed.

Next, how to make a grub floppy. Doing the command "info grub", pressing
TAB tree times (places the cursor on "Installation"), then pressgin enter,
pressing TAB three more times (Creating a GRUB boot floppy) and Enter:


# cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
153+1 records in
153+1 records out
#

This is still not the "network boot" thing you want, I just quote this
to get those questions out of the way.
 

Sounds a bit strange to me, is this so that you could have something
different happen when you don't insert the floppy? Or, are we dealing
with a computer where you are somehow prevented from installing in the
disk?

I have never tried the network support facilities in Grub, but I have seen
something about that in the info command output.

Yes, I just checked, and it says:

Although GRUB is a disk-based boot loader, it does provide network
support. To use the network support, you need to enable at least one
network driver in the GRUB build process.

That brings up the question if Suse has enabled any network drivers in their
grub rpm. If not, you will have to compile your own rpm.

The procedure is this: Download the grub *source* rpm from your distribution
(perhaps you have a distro CD with all the source rpms).

Install it the normal way, rpm -i grub-whatever.src.rpm. Since I use
Fedora, which is a child of Redhat, there is a "redhat" in the following
paths, yours are probably a little different.

Edit the file /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/grub.spec.
Search for the line

%configure --sbindir=/sbin --disable-auto-linux-mem-opt

(Well, that is the redhat/fedora version of that line, yours may
be different.) Now add one option to that line, e.g.

%configure --sbindir=/sbin --disable-auto-linux-mem-opt --enable-3c509

(how to see the possible options - below) Save the file and build
the rpm like this:

rpmbuild -bb /...../grub.spec

You will find the result in /usr/src/.../RPMS/i386/grub....rpm or something
similar.

This is how simple it could be in an almost perfect world. In reality you
will have to install a couple of other rpms to satisfy the "build-require"
statements in the grub.spec file.

Issue the rpmbuild command above, and you will be told. Or look inside the
spec file.

In order to find the possible options,

rpmbuild -bp /..../grub.spec

This will unpack the tarball(s) and apply all the patches your distro
applies. Then find /..../BUILD/grub-0.95/netboot/README.netboot.
Notice that rpmbuild usually starts every build by deleting the build
source tree, and repeating the steps from there. I mention this in case
you find you have to modify something, you must then create a patch
file and add it to the spec file to have it reapplied when the source
is prepared again.
 

I don't know SuSE, there are others here who do. I would guess that
the distribution has a ready-made solution for diskless workstations
or for bootp use, but I don't know much about it.

-Enrique

dual boot problem...

Posted: 10 Oct 2005 12:47 AM PDT

com wrote:
 

Good, I'm glad you fixed the problem and your welcome.

 

Start a new thread and let us know about the modem many are supported.

Vist; http://linmodems.org/ and download/use the scanModem tool.


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Wireless networking/Mepis/OS question

Posted: 09 Oct 2005 08:05 PM PDT

Bill Marcum wrote:
 

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I ever run into it again. (See below)

 

Okay. I did a google search yesterday for "0000:00:07.1" which gave me
the hint to use lspci like you said. And it turns out to be the IDE
interface on my machine as well. And the hd works, BUT it makes me
wonder since I just had to replace the hd because the last one failed.
Hmmh...

 

To tell you the truth, I didn't really like Mepis anyway -- can't tell
you why other than I have some familiarity with Fedora and so I know
where the config files are and just generally how to do stuff with it.
So I loaded FC4 on it.

For whatever reason I don't get the "video mode" problem with grub. I
don't recall if Mepis was using lilo...

Still struggling with the wireless, though. Dl'd the ndiswrapper pkg
plus a modified kernel (16K vs. 4K stacks) with another machine and
loaded them up via sneakernet. Followed the instructions in the
ndiswrapper wiki and have gotten as far as being able to scan and find
the AP correctly. Wireless tools is the wrong release (17 vs 18) so I
hope I can manually get this thing working well enough to do a system
update. The odyssey continues...

Anyway, thanks for the reply,

Rod

Kernel 2.6 mouse dead

Posted: 09 Oct 2005 05:22 PM PDT



J.O. Aho <net> says... 

From http://www.slackware.com/ page is

"Slackware 10.2 includes the Linux 2.4.31 kernel, with Linux
2.6.13 available in the /testing directory. For the first time,
a 2.6 kernel with support for SCSI, RAID, and SATA is offered
as a boot option in the installer (called "test26.s")."

test26.s is on Slackware 10.2 distribution disk. Slackware
10.2 users are told to select test26.s to have Slackware 10.2
with 2.6.13 Kernel. Is not test26.s on Slackware 10.2
distribution disk same mouse enablings as bare.i on same disk?
I installed exactly same including format two times except
kernel different. NO other changes!

Please to look at
http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/slackware/slackware-10.2/kernels/test26.s/config
has
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=m

All same except CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=m is not CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
but also has
CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_MOUSE_INPORT=m
CONFIG_MOUSE_ATIXL=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_LOGIBM=m
CONFIG_MOUSE_PC110PAD=m
which I think are menu choices. I menu choose PS/2 and also
menu choose Intellimouse once for testing. Both menu choices
both mice work with bare.i not with test26.s My mice port is
normal PS/2, not USB.

Other Slackware 10.2 users using test26.s with no mouse problem
so I think mouse enablings are on.

Sorry if my English is bad.

test26.s mouse problem

Posted: 09 Oct 2005 03:47 PM PDT

On 10/10/05 14:07, reclusive monkey wrote: 

PS/2
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no option to boot FC4 after install

Posted: 09 Oct 2005 10:43 AM PDT

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 18:43:58 +0100 in comp.os.linux.setup, Richard O
Hora favored us with... 

Did you install GRUB or another dual-boot manager? If so, check your
disk to find where it was installed, and set that partition active.
(You can do this from an Administrator account in Wondows XP by
running diskmgmt.msc.)

I had this problem with FC3 -- the install went fine but it didn't
set the active partition to the one where the boot loader is. I did
that manually, then rebooted and the GRUB loader came up.

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How do I configure drivers in Debian

Posted: 09 Oct 2005 05:30 AM PDT

From experience (and I've used various versions of Unix since ca. 1978
and Windows versions since 2.x in about 1982--as a result, personally,
I'd rather use Linux):

I just tried to install Windows XP (of an unknown vintage) and Linux
(RedHat version 9, from the same source, i.e. these were the versions
used at my workplace) on an IBM a30p laptop. Not the latest model,
but not ancient either. The laptop came to me running w2k. I did not
upgrade the w2k to xp, but instead installed xp from scratch.

The Windows XP version installed "correctly" first time and it wasn't
orginally configured for that version. The only difficulty was the
laptop defaulted to a 640x800 resolution until I went to the IBM
website and downloaded a new driver.

The Linux version installed and had the same 640x800 resolution
problem. Of course, going to the IBM website didn't resulting in
finding a new Linux driver. With some help, I did find the
appropriate XFree86 config file and inserted the "1600x1200" line in
the correct place and that was good. Next, I had to resolve a mouse
cproblem, which required downloading a whole new version of Linux,
CentOS 4.1 was recommended to me. That took a considerable amount of
time and effort. Of course, the new version of Linux broke some of
the shell scripts I use to invoke emacs, so that the shell windows
inside of emacs didn't show prompts.

I don't yet have the built in wireless talking to Linux. It worked
with XP, the first time I booted it. I haven't started trying to
tackle that problem because I can plug the laptop into the wired net
at home, so the wireless was a lower priority item. Moreover, even
when I have the wireless working under Linux, I won't be able to use
it that way at work, because the wireless VPN software I need to get
into the corporate internet is a Windows only program.

So, don't use me as your expert if you want the Linux installation to
be graded as easier. This wasn't the first that I've done. I have
one desktop that has run Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 6.something, 7.2, and 7.3.
I will upgrade it to CentOS 4.1 also, after I have my laptop running
as I like.

However, if you want something that works out-of-the-box with minimal
intervention, my experience is that one has better luck installing
Windows. I think there is a simple reason for that, every hardware
vendor ships drivers that work with Windows. Thus, if your brand x
hardware device doesn't work, one simply gets the brand x Windows
driver for it.

You're only in trouble if the vendor stops selling that hardware
device and a new version of Windows comes out and the old driver isn't
compatible with the new version. Then, you are truly out of luck, you
either have to stay with the old version of Windows forever or buy a
new hardware device. That's actually the way they want it too, it
simply guarantees obsolescence. That's the price one actually pays
for using Windows.

However, I'm not sure the Linux story is much better. I can't count
the number of times I've had some part of my Unix-Linux/Emacs
installation switch to something new and incompatible, sh to csh to
ksh to bash, twm to ctwm to vtwm to fvwm to kde to gnome, lilo to
grub, sccs to rcs to cvs to subversion, gnu emacs to xemacs, rnews to
gnus, rmail to vmail. I know some incarnations of the scripts I used
to run on Ultrix and SunOS still are runnning on my system, but only
because I've spent hours over the years dealing with the
incompatibilities and foibles of the versions they've been ported
over. Hmm, the latest version of Linux has changed something about
the way it writes ext2 file systems and my re-partitioning (Partition
Magic v 7) software will no longer change partitions on the
disk--hopefully I can get qtparted to work on them. Moreover, a lot
of the hardware I scrapped over the years, *never* worked with any
Linux version I had. Maybe if it had, it would still work with Linux
today, maybe....

If I could have paid L100, i.e. $200 US and have had them install a
complete working Linux distribution on my laptop where the mouse,
screen, and wireless all worked (and so did the scripts I've used for
years so that I wouldn't have to "fix" anything), you bet I would have
done it.

-Chris

Fedora setup - modem not detected

Posted: 08 Oct 2005 10:53 PM PDT

example.tld (Moe Trin) wrote in
news:phx.az.us:
 

.....snip...

 

Once again many thanks for your help

Alan (another 'old guy' )

After slack upgrade fonts too small when print webpage

Posted: 08 Oct 2005 02:10 PM PDT

09 Oct 2005 03:29 UTC, tekla typed: 

One to subscribe to for Slack questions - alt.os.linux.slackware

Although you'll find Slackware people everywhere :-)

Debian bootable on external USB-harddisk

Posted: 08 Oct 2005 07:39 AM PDT

Andreas Rittershofer schrieb:
 
hi,
you can try to boot it with help of a RUNT-Linux Boot-Floppy
whith it, you can boot from any USB-Device (USB-Stick, ...)

RAID chipset SiI680

Posted: 08 Oct 2005 03:28 AM PDT

Giampiero Gabbiani <it> did eloquently scribble: 

Don't know...
There are some disk throughput tests, like bonnie++ to test access, read,
write and copy speeds but you'll just be testing the kernel's RAID code
rather than the controller (which is being used by the kernel as a simple
IDE). Only windows supports the raid part of the card fully, because the
manufacturers supplied the driver.

Testing windows running on the raid card vs linux using kernel RAID wouldn't
be a valid comparison because the test would be mainly windows v linux,
rather than card vs kernel in that situation...
Suppose a way to handle the comparison would be to install windows on the
RAID, run the tests, install it on the card in standard none-raid mode and
do the tests again, then do the same with linux using standard IDE and
kernel RAID... see the comparisons side by side...
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Problem with Redhat 9 & XP Pro

Posted: 07 Oct 2005 02:53 PM PDT

> I'm having trouble with dual-booting RH 9 & Microsoft XP Pro. I 

First, I would avoid reinstalling XP as long as I could, unless you
have a "ghost" copy of your previous installation, or it was simply a
vanilla instalation you haven't customized. If you reinstall XP, you
may lose your customizations. Attempting to "repair" it, is less
likely to have that problem. However, I would still wait on doing
that until I exhausted other options.

As to your specific problem, it sounds like you may have changed the
partitions as you installed RH. That can cause XP problems,
specifically if you insert or delete partitions before the XP
partition. For example, it may not have been creating the RH
partition that gave you problems, but deleting the DOS partition that
is the cause of your woes. Did XP used to boot through the DOS (FAT I
presume) partition?

Next, I see you are keeping XP in an extended/logical partition? Did
you have it there before you installed RH? Or, did you move it from a
primary partition to an extended partition when you installed RH? If
you changed it from primary to extended, then I suspect this is the
cause of your problem. As far as I know, XP (or any windows variant
for that matter) likes to have its boot code in a primary partition.
You can get XP (and the other NT, OS/2 variants) to boot in an
extended partition if you also have a FAT primary partition to keep
their boot info in, but you have to set them up that way in the
beginning.

What I suspect is happening, is that when you tell XP to boot, it
looks for an appropriate primary partition, finds HD1 which is
currently empty, but is formatted FAT ans says ah here is my primary
partition (C: drive) to find my boot info in. It then, looks for the
XP installation there and doesn't find it, because the info is in HD5,
and complains.

If I were in your shoes, and the XP partition used to be a primary
partition, then I would convert the XP back to a primary partition and
put HD4 (or HD3 & 4) in the extended partition. You will find Linux
much more cooperative about booting while the root directory is not a
primary partition.

Consider my setup:
HD1 - a FAT32 w2k partition
HD2 - a FAT32 w2k partition with also boot files for booting XP out of an extended partition
HD3 - an NTFS xp partition
HD4 - an extended partition with the following logicals inside
HD5 - /boot (ext2) where I keep grub
HD6 - / (ext2)
HD7 - /var (ext2)
HD8 - /tmp (ext2)
HD9 - linux swap
HD10 - /usr (ext2)
HD11 - /home (ext2)
HD12 - a FAT32 partition for sharing data between the various OS's
HD13 - another FAT32 partition for sharing data between the various OS's
HD14 - an NTFS xp partition which boots out of HD2
HD15 - the "system restore" partition

See, how I have most of the Windows OS's in primary partitions down at
the bottom--the only exception being HD14, and that boots out of HD2.
Believe me that makes them much happier about being booted into.

The other major difference between my setup and yours is that I use
"System Commander" as my boot menu (and that's what in the MBR).
However, I think either lilo or grub in the MBR will work too.
Especially, because if I boot the Linux partition (from System
Commander) and then tell it (grub) to boot one of the Windows
partitiions, that still works.

Hope this helps,
-Chris

SSH tunneling of the Oracle Installer

Posted: 07 Oct 2005 09:59 AM PDT

Figured out my issue.

1. I only needed the xdm and xauth rpms installed to tunnel the X
traffic via ssh
2. I modified /etc/hosts to include the line

127.0.0.1 localhost.domain localhost

sshd_config was setup properly (I.E. ForwardX11 yes) and once hosts was
modified every thing worked like a magic cookie! I hate simple
problems, as they usually take the most time to resolve. Thanks
everyone for your input!

FC4, md raid-1 not started at boot.

Posted: 07 Oct 2005 08:22 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Peter T. Breuer <it.uc3m.es>: 
 
 
 

Have no problems with it on a few systems, the only problem was
the initial setup in kickstart. Strange enough, once tried to
setup FC3 in full softraid, but alas the installer would only
want to setup an array on the same hd, which doesn't make sense.

This works with RHEL 3 just fine, perhaps their is a reason why
this feature is missing from Fedora?

Other distro couldn't boot from softraid at all after successfully
mirroring a running system. So this could explain your paranoia
about it? It seems to depend on the distro.
 
 

Lilo, at least the version from RHEL does write stuff on both
physical disks in software raid1, so you can boot from both, if
your mobo is capable enough. Think I posted an example recently
in this "theater".

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problem reading loop mounted .iso file on disk, get "Input/output error"

Posted: 06 Oct 2005 10:04 AM PDT

I would just like to thank all the people who helpd me get my laptop
upgraded. It is now running CentOS 4.1 and that fixes my "mouse"
problem, which is how this all started. (Yes, I do have a few minor
glitches due to things changing (and some of those I have already
fixed), but all-in-all the process has come to a successful
conclusion.) I can now go back to being mostly a Linux user and not a
system installer. That makes me happy.

Again, thanks to all.
-Chris

BTW, anyone who contributed and happens to be in the Boston/Worcester
area and wants a beer, drop me a line, I will gladly oblidge.

Can't use internal network after dialup modem is used -- get ping: sendto: Operation not permitted

Posted: 05 Oct 2005 05:36 PM PDT

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:02:02 +0200, Jean-David Beyer <com> wrote:
 

If you had nameservers on one of the other "hardware sockets", too bad.
If your nameserver (named, bind) wants to talk to ns1.google.com, and it
already knows that ns1.google.com has address 216.239.32.10, then
it does as I wrote, and leaves to the kernel to figure out how to reach
216.239.32.10. The kernel uses the routing table, and finds that with
the last line in the routing table, the mask is zero, so

(216.239.32.10 & 0.0.0.0) == (0.0.0.0 & 0.0.0.0)

oh, yes, that makes zero on both sides of the equal sign, and yes,
0 == 0 that is true, this line in the routing table is the one we will
use. Now, the rest of the line is

0.0.0.0 46.99.491.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0

so the interface is ppp0. Oh, wait, this line has 'G', so we must do
a little more processing, see if we have a line with 46.99.491.1
(the gateway) as the "destination" and an 'H' flag (a host route),
yes we have that, but then again, the interface on that line is "ppp0"
That settles the question, we have to use the IP of ppp0 as our
source IP. 

It "knows" because it knows what addresses it is trying to reach with
its questions. Those addresses come from the configuration or from
answers obtained earlier. If there is an excelent and knowledgeable
name server sitting 10 inches away on eth0, too bad its address was not
listed in the configuration, because it may instead be trying to get
an answer from the other side of the earth.

Please correct me anyone, Is it not possible to configure named to allways
ask a particular name server first, and only do the formally correct
search for authoritative answers if the first server does not know?
 

I had RHL7.3 a looong time ago and can't remember except through the rosy
glasses we tend to see the bad old days when we were kids.

Yet I guess it was not that whimsically, it was in its configuration and in
the routing tables. It would be addressing the messages to specific IP
addresses, there is no broadcasting around for answers in dns. And so, if it
used the wrong destination IP address, it would not have helped to have
the world's best nameserver connected to eth0, even if it were to send on that
interface.

Or, have I forgotten? Does somebody remember what confusion reigned
in the Linux routing code? Or did Linux then fall back to sending
duplicated datagrams on all interfaces if it had no matching route?

By the way, what you call "hardware ports" is usually called "interfaces",
even the term "(network) interface" is also use for things that don't
really exist in hardware. I have a ppp0 interface that emits its segments
on eth0, whereas I also have eth0 as a separate intgerface with an IP
address. Yet the segments emitted by ppp0 do not have IP addresses, only
ethernet addresses. (But then there are some IP addresses buried deeper
inside the segemnts.) In this way, ppp0 is a pure software interface in
my case, yet all data that enter my house or leave it, do so over "ppp0".
You find the word "interface" in abbreviated form in e.g., "ifconfig", in
"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0" and many other.

-Enrique

Best partition techniques for Linux/Winxp

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 12:35 PM PDT

sherry wrote:
 

I've never experienced that. Keep the windope partition to FAT32
then you got access and resizability option open with all the major
liveCDs (http://www.livecdlist.com )
I generally install windope / linux in any order,
then using QtParted reparition if necessary, and then using
Mepis liveCD and its GUI grub installer install grub
to boot up the linux/windope install by configuring
the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
Even if windopes illegally overwrite the boot sector akin
to malware to wipe out the linux install, it can still be brought
back to life with Mepis liveCD grub installer.

linux install on sony laptop

Posted: 04 Oct 2005 09:47 AM PDT

On 10/04/05 18:47, GIJoe wrote: 

I did several slackware installations via network mounting the cdrom via
nfs. It is not a standard setup and required some manual work but always
worked OK.

Ciao
Giovanni
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