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newbie apt-get question

Posted: 27 Jun 2004 11:48 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup, Chris Murray uttered these immortal words:
 
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You are tracking stable. The other lines aren't for official Debian mirrors.
To use official Debian testing or unstable mirrors you need a line like:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

(Replace the URL with another if you want a different mirror and replace
unstable with testing if you want that branch instead. Duplicate the libe
with a different URL for more sources. I haven't bothered with source lines
here.)

The caveat: adding packages from testing or unstable to a stable
install /could/ cripple your installation. Depending on what you install
some important packages could, and probably will, be upgraded and /could/
stop some software from working. It's better to Google for backports for
Woody if you're unsure of what you're doing.

--
Andy.

What is md5sum?

Posted: 27 Jun 2004 11:43 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup, Frogman
<com>
wrote
on 27 Jun 2004 11:43:22 -0700
<google.com>: 

md5sum is an implementation of RFC1321. For details thereon
see your local manpages and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt .

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It's still legal to go .sigless.

Installing onto Fedora

Posted: 26 Jun 2004 05:53 AM PDT

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Robert Solomon wrote:
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| I have no experience w/ C or its flavors. I never left Pascal-Modula2.
| Is there a C compiler that comes w/ Fedora? Or is there one that I can
| d/l?
|
| So many questions, so little time <grin>

While I don't use Fedora, most Linux distros include GCC (The GNU
Compiler Collection), which handles many of the more popular programming
languages, including C and C++. I can't imagine RedHat not including it
in Fedora.

Also, you don't have to be a programmer to compile from source. More
often than not, it's as simple as:

../configure
make
make install

:) I've installed a number of programs this way.

Susan
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Unable to boot from RAID after fresh install

Posted: 26 Jun 2004 02:33 AM PDT

Davide Bianchi wrote:
 

I know, and the setup program indicates that it will load the megaraid
driver. Still, it doesn't.

The problem seems to be a bug in the SUSE 9.1 install program, probably
related to smp kernels and incorrect module settings. It installs the
smp kernel, but the module paths are incorrect so the kernel cannot find
the modules.

Just for kicks, I tried to install Suse 8.0. That version worked
perfectly. It is rather old, though. Not sure if I'll keep it or not.


Boa
[snip]

How to Format ext3 in Redhat???

Posted: 25 Jun 2004 06:01 PM PDT

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In comp.os.linux.setup com suggested: 
 
 
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Your install doesn't seem to be complete, or you are running an
older version of RH ES/AS? But then you should be able to create
ext2 and (AFAIR) switch on journaling using 'tune2fs' (man tune2fs).

# mkfs.ext3 --help
mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
mkfs.ext3: invalid option -- -
Usage: mkfs.ext3 [-c|-t|-l filename] [-b block-size] [-f fragment-size]
[-i bytes-per-inode] [-j] [-J journal-options] [-N number-of-inodes]
[-m reserved-blocks-percentage] [-o creator-os] [-g blocks-per-group]
[-L volume-label] [-M last-mounted-directory] [-O feature[,...]]
[-r fs-revision] [-R raid_opts] [-qvSV] device [blocks-count]

# rpm -qf `which mkfs.ext3`
e2fsprogs-1.32-15

# file `which mkfs.ext3`
/sbin/mkfs.ext3: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version
1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared
libs), stripped

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grub manual boot help

Posted: 25 Jun 2004 02:03 AM PDT


I checked menu.1st file, which is linked to grub.conf.

My question is,
how would grub know where the boot partition is located ?
( equivalent to setting " root (hd0,6) " )
Once grub finds out where it is, I am sure one can write a program to go
to the particular partition, but the information seems to be hard coded to
stage1 file.
In this case, is there any other way to direct grub to the boot partition
( which is located in the different partition from the info in stage1 file
) other than reinstalling grub ?

please correct me if i am wrong

kihwan

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-2] Micha³ Kosmulski wrote:
 

No Internet Connection

Posted: 24 Jun 2004 08:53 PM PDT

Thanks for the suggestion. Will try it.

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"Alan Connor" <yyy> wrote in message
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Fedora install can't see CD or hard drives

Posted: 24 Jun 2004 03:26 PM PDT

> Wow. How did you manage that? The diskboot image weighs in at 6MB; 

In /pub/linux/fedora/core/1/i386/os/images there's a bootdisk.img that's
1.4M (there's also a diskboot.img that's 6M). But the 1.4M bootdisk is not
in the FC2 release.
 

Thanks for the suggestion. What I ended up doing was finding a grub image
at
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/images/hd_grub.img
and copying FC2-CD1 to a Windows partition on the hard drive and pointed
grub to the isolinux directory within that. It then recognized my SCSI
controller and loaded the appropriate driver (aic7xxx) and was able to get
the CDROM after that (but still can't boot from it). Thanks again
Roy.

Fedora 2 CD creation / iso

Posted: 24 Jun 2004 03:04 PM PDT

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:51:05 -0000, John Thompson
<os2.dhs.org> wrote:
 

It worked fine for me as well using Nero 6. I have stopped using Roxio
because with them trying to make it usable by people who barely know
how to switch on a computer, they have made it painfull for people who
have a clue. With nero you just select "Burn Image" and you can then
select the iso file and burn.

Regards
Anton Erasmus

How do I disable 'vim' highlighting?

Posted: 24 Jun 2004 02:15 PM PDT

Michael C. wrote:
 

Lovely - I like that solution - cheers
randelld

dual monitor setup

Posted: 23 Jun 2004 10:35 PM PDT

Amol Inamdar wrote:
 

I just succeeded to make it work on my system!! I got an
nVidia dual head card (actually, it would seem like nowadays
basically all video cards are dual head, even if they don't
say so -- if they have a VGA output + a DVI output, then
they work as "dual head" -- I thought it was just BS of
the salesguy to convince me, but no, it did work)

With that, you just have to download the nVidia drivers
(www.nvidia.com, get the IA32 driver, and check APPENDIX I
for instructions to setup the "Twin Mode")

The only detail I have to sort out is that it gives me *one*
desktop as if it were *one* screen at 2048 by 768. In
particular, if a software displays a dialog box centered,
the box will show half on the left monitor, half on the
right monitor :-( I think that's what Xinerama solves,
but I haven't checked how to put the two together.

HTH,

Carlos
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