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Hi How do I generate all ways of ordering sets of indistinguishable items? suppose I have two A's, two B's and a C. Then I want AABBC AABCB AACBC ABABC . . .snip... BBAAC . . .snip... CBBAA [there are 5!/(2!*2!) = 30 arrangements. Note AABBC != BBAAC] How do I do this? -- Robin Hankin Uncertainty Analyst National Oceanography Centre, Southampton European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK tel 023-8059-7743

Hi, I've mostly set up a kickstart for RedHat 8.0. I'm using the instructions posted by Alf W. : http://www.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kickstart/PXE-Kickstart.html The whole thing works, except when I go to reboot the system it hangs. ie. TFTP Prefix: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AABBCCDD Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AABBCCD Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AABBCC Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AABBC Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AABB ... Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default Booting from localdisk And then it just sits there. If I understood what it was looking for here, I'd...