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installing Fedora, major snag... - Forums Linux

installing Fedora, major snag...

Posted: 24 Apr 2004 01:05 PM PDT

David wrote: 

Check your CD's for errors, or your CD drive for problems. That's why I
prefer to do network installs whenever possible: I hate having problems with
CD-R's and really old or beat up CD drives.

And be prepared to restart your installation from scratch.

By the way, which Fedora are you working with? Fedora Core 1 or one of the
test releases?

mini distribution for Java

Posted: 24 Apr 2004 07:22 AM PDT

Mattias Honrendgard wrote:
 

Lol: advice for 'minimal linux distribution' results in a distro that
requires 1 GB. Ouch.

Try debian in minimal install instead. That requires quite a bit less
space and should not have problems with JRE.

EJ
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Looking for P4 motherboard with onboard scsi

Posted: 23 Apr 2004 10:03 PM PDT

Louis Garcia wrote: 
There need not be.

For example, on my SuperMicro X5DP8-G2 motherboard, there is a 2-channel
Ultra/320 SCSI controller chip, Adaptec AIC-7902. It is wired right into
one of the PCI-X busses. If you buy an Adaptec® SCSI Card 39320D, I
believe you will get the same chip.

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodke y=ASC-39320D-R&cat=%2fTechnology%2fSCSI%2fUltra320+SCSI

The main difference will be not in terms of speed, but you will get an
external connector for one of the channels which the SuperMicro
motherboard I have lacks. No great loss, since I have 4 hard drives
plugged into the A channel and an Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive plugged into
the B channel. I do not know of any external peripherals that interface
to Ultra/320 SCSI interfaces.

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Mandrake 10 update hosed cdrom

Posted: 23 Apr 2004 07:26 PM PDT

sjet <ca> writes:

]I cannit add nor delete software packages since cdrom runs without doing anything.

"cdrom runs without doing anything"-- what does that line mean?

umount /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660
(assuming your cdrom is the first device on the second ide bus)

moving a user account from one linux box to another

Posted: 23 Apr 2004 08:29 AM PDT

David wrote:
 

Thanks, it's working now. Just ensured that 'fbloggs' took the same user &
group ids as 'fred' and did a
cp -p -r /mnt/old-disk/fredsfiles /newlocation
This preserved all the user/group/other read/write/execute flags for all
files and directories and ensured perfect transition from old user 'fred'
to new user 'fbloggs'.

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Problems for triple boot

Posted: 23 Apr 2004 06:39 AM PDT

Douglas Mayne wrote: 

And post your /boot/grub/grub.conf file, and try mounting your Win98 FAT32
partition from the Linux OS just to make sure it's accessible.

Linux slow boot up and no internet connection

Posted: 23 Apr 2004 05:40 AM PDT

I had a similar problem with Redhat.
Seem to remember it was a sendmail problem.
Problem was fixed by adding an entry into my /etc/hosts file I think

# /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
127.0.0.1 phrankndonna

This might fix it (the phrankndonna line)

Also, like the previous poster said, maybe look to stop sendmail starting
during boot.

Let us know if you fix it.

<Phrank> wrote in message news:com... 

Installing via BOOTP/TFTP

Posted: 23 Apr 2004 05:00 AM PDT

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In comp.os.linux.setup com.invalid suggested: 
 
 
 

Of course, albeit you need the pxeliunx/syslinux package
(http://syslinux.zytor.com/) and I don't think it'll work with a
M$ box at all. You might need a Linux server. Don't know about
Fedora, with RH you get the proper PXE install kernel on the
media, albeit one can tag his own ones.

Good luck

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Xandros - any cautions?

Posted: 22 Apr 2004 09:44 AM PDT

Ken Knecht wrote:
 

my experience: installed Desktop and Business to
five different machines (3-year old dell laptop
and a current dell laptop, 3 desktops) and had
no issues during install.

* havent had any bootup or runtime issues.
* on two boxes, i've got 2.6.4 with kde 3.2 running.
* on the newer laptop, used at the office, it
automagically detected the Windows network and
i effortlessly accessed the domain
* i installed office 2000 using Crossover Office
(included) - that was more of a test, since i
prefer to use VMWARE.

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How to turn off ide-scsi-emulation (not quite straightforward..)

Posted: 22 Apr 2004 03:05 AM PDT

> > SCSI-emulation is used "for some unknown reason" for a regular 
This is not a problem. Motherboard ide controllers are used for nothing but
the cd-rom in question.
 
Ok, I'm not gonna compile any custom kernels (it can't be necessary, since I
already have a similar computer which by default doesn't use
scsi-emulation), so disabling it must be done with kernel parameters at boot
time. What parameter forces kernel absolutely not to use scsi-emulation?

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flash drive will not mount

Posted: 21 Apr 2004 06:35 PM PDT

hi,

sometimes i have the same problem with my usb storage device. try to
restart the hotplug service and maybe that helps.

..marvin

Sonoman wrote:
 

stop kde to install new version

Posted: 21 Apr 2004 08:22 AM PDT

Someone claiming to be Andy Fraser wrote:
 

Exactly.

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Strange SQUID behaviour

Posted: 21 Apr 2004 06:33 AM PDT

David,
 
 

Thanks for the thought - however, it also happens immediately after a reboot
when there is over 140M of swapspace and the filesystem is less than 10%
full either of data or inodes. Also, I can't see why it has suddenly got
worse from what was a (good) static state.

Jonathan

HTTP install of Debian

Posted: 19 Apr 2004 10:03 PM PDT

On 22 Apr 2004 09:43:35 -0700
net (esher2292) wrote:
 
If you want to make your own debian http-server, just mirror a
debian site and add it to your /etc/apt/sources.list

Greets
Chris

gentoo and kernel modules question

Posted: 17 Apr 2004 02:35 PM PDT

> > For instance the sound. I have a Audio Adapter 

Thanks for the reply.
I have it enabled in the kernel, but every sound gives me a screeching noise.
When knoppix boots it uses that module also and it works fine...
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