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>Usenet Newsgroup Archives</TITLE
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>5. Usenet Newsgroup Archives</H1
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The ability to search for and retrieve information from archived posts
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to the Linux-related (Usenet) newsgroups represents a powerful means of
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troubleshooting in Linux.
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Search engines permit one to search the archives by stipulating the
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forum, keywords, authors, dates, language and combinations thereof.
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Because the number of Linux-related newsgroups is large, the likelihood
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of finding useful information is high.
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The main web site that currently provides access to Usenet archives
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using a search engine is <A
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HREF="http://groups.google.com"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://groups.google.com</A
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>. The
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most effective way to do a search is to use its <A
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HREF="http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Advanced Groups
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Search page</A
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I would like to relate a brief anecdote to demonstrate the efficacy of
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this approach. The first time I attempted to build a kernel, I was
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presented with this error message when I invoked a <SPAN
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>"make"</SPAN
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command:
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> make[1]: as86: Command not found
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make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127
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make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
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make: *** [zImage]
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Error 2
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I had no idea what <TT
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>as86</TT
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> was, but I entered it as the
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keyword in the <EM
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>Subject</EM
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> field of the Advanced Groups
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Search page at groups.google.com, and was presented with a large number
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of posts from folks who had encountered the same problem. Respondents
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had provided the reason and solution: I did not have an assembler/linker
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necessary to create machine code, and the <I
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>bin86</I
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package provided it. I downloaded and installed a RPM package of the
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latter and was on my way. This entire process took about 10 minutes!
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