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Erasing the hard drive

Posted: 29 Feb 2004 11:21 AM PST

none wrote:
 

There is a specialized distribution of Linux made purely for wiping drives
called "Darik's Boot and Nuke" or "DBAN" at http://dban.sf.net/

Description from the site:
"Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that
securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically
and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect,
which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data
destruction."

What you can do is just burn this CD (or make a floppy image) for the person
who is doing bulk drive wiping and have him connect only the drives he
wishes to have thoroughly wiped to the computer this distribution is booted
on and he can just boot DBAN and hit enter and choose the wipe options and
it does a thorough multi-pass wipe of every single bit of the hard drive.

Linux drive and partition mapping

Posted: 29 Feb 2004 10:21 AM PST

> > I have installed RH9 installed on a system with 2 IDE HD's. Linux is 

I did it using mount, df, fdisk, sfdisk

The content of the fstab is :
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r
o 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Mount output:
/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

and of fdisk:

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 778 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 447 3590496 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 448 778 2658757+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 716 778 506016 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda5 448 454 56164+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 455 676 1783183+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 677 715 313236 82 Linux swap

The Linux partitions are definetly on hdb and not hda.
You see also that the start and end cylinders are somehow also wrong

Aron

Partitions

Posted: 28 Feb 2004 05:37 PM PST

> I've installed RedHat 9 <kernel 2.4.20...> on one partition /dev/hde1. 

% ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 16 root root 4096 Mar 1 08:00 /tmp

notice the t at the end. Do not forget to set it.
And clear /tmp if eg. X fails. Just a plain old rm -Rf /tmp/* will clear
all permission problems you had after (incorrectly) copying data. It
is all temporary data anyway.

If you copy data, make sure all permissions are copied as well.

IIRC there is a howto on this subject. Check www.tldp.org

Eric

Multiple domain server

Posted: 28 Feb 2004 09:49 AM PST


"Davide Bianchi" <net> wrote in message
news:c1qkqo$1kq6v0$news.uni-berlin.de... 
setup 
user 

virtual users do it better

/etc/mail/virtual-users

net freddy
net johnsmith

@newdomain.net tom
tom gets the rest of the mail lfor newdomain.net

Q: Partition can not be mounted.

Posted: 28 Feb 2004 07:27 AM PST

I know now what is my problem. I should load a module for ext3 FS during
the installation. It works!

Thanks for you answers.
Andrej.

Timothy Truckle wrote: 

QM_MODULES error on 2.6 kernel

Posted: 27 Feb 2004 09:29 AM PST

I tried an abbreviated version of these instructions before. I had the
same problems then as I do now.

"Happyslayer" <bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<lRM%b.320$bellsouth.net>... 

I'm still getting the QM_MODULES error. Unless this isn't a
problem I need to fix this before I can go any further.
 

I think his instructions are too specific. For one thing, I don't
think /etc/rc.sysinit gets run on my system. The reason I say that is
because when I modify /etc/rc.sysinit, I'm still able to use my
system. When make the modifications to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit my system
goes to hell. It doesn't seem to like the fact that proc is not being
mounted.

Right now I'm using 2.6.3 and my system is usable. The only
problem is that modules don't load automatically.

Motherboard compatibility (K7VM4 & A7V8X-MX)

Posted: 27 Feb 2004 05:10 AM PST

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:47:24 +0000, zalzon wrote:
 

Hi,
as I said the board has been taken away from me
by my kids, so i cannot do it now, and they are not interested,
despite my efforts, to switch to Linux,

when I tried MandrakeMove on it
my hardware was as follow:

1.the above said motherboard
with Audio on board Enabled
with Lan on board Enabled

2.AMD ATHLON XP 2000+ 1.67GHZ 256K 266FSB

3. Samsung 2 x 256Mb DDR pc2700

4.30GB Maxtor

5.6.4 Gb WD

6.Plextor 8/4/32 CD-RW

7.Samsung laser printer model ML-1210
detected and working very good,

8.Hp Scanjet 4400c - detected as scanner, but NOT SUPPORTED !

9.Olympus D-52 Zoom camera
detected as USB mass storage,
so I was capable to access its pictures (in jpg format)

on my second trial I have disabled Audio and Lan on board
and installed CreativeLabs Snd card PCI 128 - worked good
but i cannot state anything about sound quality
as I'm hard of hearing (at 80% lost)
For lan I had DFE- 538 - worked good

at the moment I'm running MDK 9.2
with following chages to that hardware setup,
my mobo is Epox 8KHA+, generic ram,
above mentioned Snd card and Lan
and slower cpu AMD 1700xp,
for video I have MSI GF2 mx420
(since i do not play games i did not install
3d accelaration drivers)
all other components the same,
System runs very good. (but the scanner)

Take care
Andy

raid configuration

Posted: 27 Feb 2004 03:55 AM PST

"Pacioci" <com> writes:
 
 
 

Correct, yes. But mirroring the swap partition is pretty useless.
 

I'd stgrongly suggest splitting up your / partition a bit
further. At least, create separate /usr and /home partitions,
for to be able to safely repair parts of your filesystem in
case of problems. While a RAID is fine, it doesn't cover
all kinds of possible errors. I just lost a perfectly
running system due to the fact that one of my
mirror drives died in the middle of a kernel update -
causing corruption on _both_ drives simultaneously. Ouch.

I could at least save all of my important data
on the various md* devices by using a third disk as
intermediate file repository and mounting the partitions
one by one manually. And I had a backup, of course.
No fun, though. And it took me 2 days to get everything
back working again.
 

[...]

No. There's no gain in using the Promise card - it's just
an additional IDE card with _NO_ HW-Raid functionality at all.
Contrary to what Promise claims, it's pure software-RAID.

Michael

alsa vs. mandrake

Posted: 26 Feb 2004 04:33 PM PST

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:31:39 -0500, Jason Profitt <edu> wrote: 

Sounds like you had a bad mixer setting. It is imperitive that you NOT
listen to the audio coming from the video capture device as myth runs it
through a small delay so that you can have such features as instant replay
and pause.

If you pause the video, and you still hear the live tv broadcast, then that
is a pretty clear indication you're listening to the wrong audio source.

RH9 on notebook can not see removable HD

Posted: 26 Feb 2004 04:49 AM PST

Ntfsd is good when you have /dev/hd_something device to mount, but I don't
have it.

"Lenard" <0.0.1> wrote in message
news:0.0.1... 

My SUSE Linux-XP problem--a clue?

Posted: 25 Feb 2004 08:41 PM PST

On Sun, 26 Feb 3904 23:53:38, "Hiawatha Bray" <com>
wrote:
 

I had same problem trying to make a backup boot floppy.

SuSe Support suggested the following:
- Log in as root
- Mount the 1st SuSE install CD.
- Put a blank floppy in drive
- The boot floppy image is at '/media/cdrom/boot/bootdisk'.
- Use command: dd if=/media/cdrom/boot/bootdisk of=/dev/fd0
(Explanation in /media/cdrom/disks/README)

But I haven't tried it yet!

Maurice Batey (Retired in Hampshire, UK)

http://www.maurice.eurobell.co.uk

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Add vim icon to KDE panel

Posted: 25 Feb 2004 03:46 PM PST

On 25 Feb 2004 15:46:13 -0800, TCMa <ca>: 

Here's a trick that you can use over and over again, without having to
understand those complicated icon thingies. Click on the kterm icon
(looks like a computer display monitor). That opens up a window that
gives you direct access to any program on your system! In that
window, type "vi" and press the Enter key; now you're in vi, and you
didn't even need to use a mouse to start it!

You can do that with a lot of programs on your system - try it! Just
leave that kterm window open all the time, and you'll always be able
to start anything! If the program you want to start up is a GUI
program, just append a "&" after the program name, and you'll still be
able to use the kterm to start other stuff! Best of all, now you can
tell your friends you know what to do with a command line interface,
and you don't need no steenking mouse to do things!


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How to stop Linux setting up an Ethernet system!

Posted: 25 Feb 2004 01:16 PM PST

"Dave wrote 
Suggest you change /etc/resolv.conf lines like NAMESERVER foo
to #NAMESERVER foo to hamstring the dns side, too. A full minute
timeout is suggestive of dns lookup failure. Sorry, no SuSe experience here.

installing kernel for redhat linux 9

Posted: 25 Feb 2004 09:45 AM PST

helee wrote: 

If you are sure that you already installed GCC, try installing the
source with --nodeps option.

GVK

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free/commercial distribution for linux appliance

Posted: 25 Feb 2004 06:09 AM PST

Vinay wrote: 

Try looking here for a list of embedded distros. They list
some of the various linux OS setup from around the world.

http://www.distrowatch.com/


Al

Dual-Boot XP-Linux machine keeps crashing

Posted: 24 Feb 2004 05:23 PM PST

I get the same problem with xp the way i get around it, is this.
I install win 98 then install suse then i do a upgrade to win xp.
Works every time, but be warned if you first install suse with lilo
then reinstall with grub i found xp will crash hope this helps!!
But if you reinstall with the same boot loader you will get no problems
or you could install the boot loader to floppy disk.

Disabling desktop-icons for partitions in KDE under SuSE

Posted: 24 Feb 2004 07:04 AM PST

Baard Ove Kopperud wrote: 

try right-clicking on your desktop, then under KDE Control Module:
--> behavior
--> Devices --> Display devices on desktop --> Mounted Hard Disc Partition

maybe that will do something?


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Unknown Symbols? ALSA + 2.6.0 Kernel

Posted: 23 Feb 2004 05:59 PM PST

>> I ran make-kpkg kernel-image in /usr/src/linux (as I normally do for 

I didn't see the original message,
but it sounds to me as though he/she needs to install module-init-tools ,
which is required by the 2.6 kernels.

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accessing a cdrom & floppy

Posted: 23 Feb 2004 04:19 PM PST

On 23 Feb 2004 16:19:10 -0800, Goha <com> wrote: 

You could try:

$ mount /floppy

$ mount /cdrom

AFTER you have inserted a disk, and IF you have lines like these
in /etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0
0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom auto defaults,user,noauto 0
0

See man mount and man fstab

(the man pages are basically cheat sheets for experts, so don't freak if
they seem to be worthless -- google is your friend, as are we)

Studying the first nine chapters of http://rute.sourceforge.net would be
a very good idea.

AC

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New RH9 Setup hangs at X - halpp...

Posted: 23 Feb 2004 10:22 AM PST

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:01:46 -0500, Mauriat
<usenet@NOSPAMmjmwired[dot]net> wrote:
 

That did it. Thanks!

I reinstalled because on the first time through I knew I'd picked the
wrong video card. After scanning the esoteric documentation I found on
the net, I decided it was easier to reinstall than to discover how to
play with the XF86config file.

Ready to go now.

BLink

[Debian] apt.conf

Posted: 23 Feb 2004 08:13 AM PST

Hello

Stefano B. (<it>) wrote:
 

Create the file in /etc/apt. See
<http://www.andreasjanssen.de/debian-tipps.html.en#a21> for an example.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Belkin UPS cable pinout

Posted: 23 Feb 2004 03:59 AM PST

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 06:59:51 -0500, Pepebuho wrote:
 

Nope, the pinout is correct what they do not tell or show you is the
hidden resistor inside;

http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/UPS-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.1


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Where to install tar files?

Posted: 23 Feb 2004 03:45 AM PST

Keith writes: 

Why is it ok for every ISP in the world plus newsguy, supernews, etc to
generate income from your "IP" but not Google?
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How to add an fstab entry?

Posted: 22 Feb 2004 01:48 PM PST

Groovy hepcat Joe Ready was jivin' on 22 Feb 2004 13:48:57 -0800 in
comp.os.linux.setup.
How to add an fstab entry?'s a cool scene! Dig it!
 

You have to create a mount point for your disk/device to be mounted
on. This mount point must be an actual directory that actually exists,
otherwise this won't work. You did create the directories to use as
mount moints, didn't you? If not, then do so. For example, if you want
the Thumbdrive mounted on /mnt/thumb, then issue the following command
before trying to mount it:

md /mnt/thumb

Simple, huh? :)
 

It's possible, but try the above first.

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