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New SuSE 9.1 installation and grub

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 03:16 AM PDT

Bernard Peek wrote:
 
What do you mean? Is there no optio to start linux? If so, you have to
configure your loader to load your kernel + initrd. Alex

Which comp best for Linux?

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 03:30 PM PDT

AUWG <net> wrote in message news:<net>... 

Probably the only problem Linux will present with a brand new computer
will be hardware, that is, not the processor itself, but devices
attached to it. Very new hardware sometimes is not supported by any
distribution of Linux, because no one has written drivers for it yet.
The various distros (RedHat, Suse, ...) have lists of hardware that
are known to work with their distro. Also, unusual hardware is
sometimes not supported. Laptops might give more trouble in this
regard than desktop models, although Linux works well on many laptops.

In the past I have bought Dell computers and installed Linux, but
several times I had trouble with a new video card that wasn't yet
supported. I haven't done this in recent years, but I hear that there
are issues with Linux and currently popular video cards (nvidia, ati),
and personally I would research this question before investing in a
new video card and/or monitor.

A special issue is modems. So-called winmodems are modems with some
of the usual hardware functions taken over by software, thus these are
cheaper than modems that do everything in hardware. Moreover, the
software that runs winmodems is proprietary and only works on Windows,
hence winmodems are a bad idea in Linux (although I've heard that
lately some Linux support for winmodems is available). If I were
buying a new computer today that needed a modem, I'd research the
modem question carefully before investing my money.

I'll bet that if you bought a second hand computer, 1-2 years old,
you'd find that you could install almost any distro of Linux and it
would work fine, apart from problems with winmodems.

Another thing, you probably want at least 512MB RAM if you're going to
run the standard desktops (KDE or Gnome).

---Nessuno

Fedora 2

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 11:26 AM PDT

Jainesh Jogia wrote: 
Have you tried the fedora FAQ,there is an article on that issue in it.
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#diskspace

Need help installing SuSE beside Fedora and XP

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 04:05 AM PDT

ObsessiveMathsFreak wrote:
 

.... choose expert partitioning
..
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find out, which is the exact opposite." - Bertrand Russell, 1928

CD-ROM Partitions?

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 08:31 PM PDT

Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
 

Actually, CDs have track. One. Finding a position along the track other
than by reading the whole thing or seeking to an approximate position and
then reading along to the desired point is problematical. 

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--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

SRPMS

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 06:00 PM PDT

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:17:07 +0000, Bill Unruh wrote:
 

There are kernel-module files for i586 and i686. I am running a Dell 8600
Inspiron, but don't know which of the two I need. Can you help?

Thanks for the response. I appreciate the help.

Install kernel source problem

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 09:27 AM PDT

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In comp.os.linux.setup Thana <com> suggested: 

You installed the package used to rebuild the kernel rpm, look in
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and /usr/src/redhat/SPECS. Anyway you can
query an uninstall-ed rpm:

rpm -qilp kernel-2.4.9-e.3.src.rpm

Should give you info and files contained. 'man rpm' for more
info. What you want is probably the kernel-source-<version>.rpm
package.

Good luck
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Where to Install Acrobat Reader 5.09 and Netscape 7.1?

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 02:02 AM PDT

Jean-David Beyer wrote: 
Have you tried "http://www.rpmseek.com/" for a rpm-Version of it?
Kind Regards

Allowing user to mount / umount file space using Samba?

Posted: 09 Jul 2004 02:31 AM PDT

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:42:18 +0200 (CEST), starwars staggered into the
Black Sun and said: 

Heh, I've had the same problem with SMB filesystems and umount before.
The workaround I found was to use "smbumount /mountpoint", which worked,
but putting "users" in the fstab line is a better solution! You learn
something new every day....
 

No problem. HTH,

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X installation got blank screen on eMachines M6807 x86_64 64bit ATI Radeon 9600

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 10:22 PM PDT

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.gentoo. - DO NOT CROSSPOST!]
TCMa enlightened us with: 

Then start some terminals.
 

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace will.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Groups problems administration

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 04:06 PM PDT

Michael Heiming wrote: 
I get the same result.

I can't stop to think that this is too much strange, it must probably be
a stupid thing, but I can't imagine what it is.

About the groups administration, this is defined basically in
'/etc/group', '/etc/passwd', isn't it?

$ cat /etc/group | grep rick
rick::500:rick


$ cat /etc/passwd | grep rick
rick:x:500:500::/home/rick:/bin/bash

Could be a problem with the number of uid and gid? It is a bad number,
my system hates that number?? :-) .


Regards,
Bye.
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Ricardo Catalinas Jimenez th1nk3r(at)server01(dot)org
Madrid, Spain.

slackware 9.1 and XFree86 Problems

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 07:19 AM PDT

Dave Uhring <com> wrote in message news:<com>... 

Tried that. Didn't work.
Blanked the screen. Hung the box. Didn't create the file.

ISOLINUX 2.08 2003-12-12 isolinux: Disk Error 01, AX=4271, 9F

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 02:10 AM PDT

Hi John,

you have been really exaustive.
I'll try to follow your suggestions, then I'll let you know the result
thanks a lot

Valerio

John Thompson <os2.dhs.org> wrote in message news:<os2.dhs.org>... 

How can I troubleshoot a memory stick on Linux?

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 09:34 PM PDT

usenet.us.com wrote: 

I thought the RedHat 7.3 was the first Linux box that I used, but I tried
yesterday, and it doesn't work there. So my two Linux success stories are
both RedHat 9.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5

2.6.7 and sym53c8xx module

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 10:33 AM PDT

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In comp.os.linux.setup Greg Sumner <com> suggested: 
 

You did run the included script to generate /etc/modprobe.conf
(There should be some doc coming with it pointing it out), anyway
you need the new init tools, or your new initrd won't work at all.

[..] 
 

Yep, but through BIOS access, enabling to load initrd into RAM,
the boot-loader knows the absolute disk position of kernel/initrd.
 

That won't probably work out.

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RH7.1: Switching libc.so.6 from 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 can't login now

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 10:16 AM PDT

Michael Heiming <michael+heiming.de> wrote in
news:heiming.de:
 

If I had such a thing. Continuing my idiocy, I googled for the answer and
got it. Type 'linux single' at the boot: prompt allowed me to fix the
symbolic link. All better now, sorry for the dumb question.

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- Mark ->
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HELP with kernel compile

Posted: 06 Jul 2004 04:28 PM PDT

Micha? Kosmulski wrote:
 

That isn't quite true either.
You might have to uncomment
#export INSTALL_PATH=/boot
in the top Makefile, but that is all.

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Linux wiped out my Windows

Posted: 06 Jul 2004 06:25 AM PDT

I had the same problem. I have two hard drives and told it not to touch the
one with "Win XP", but it still went ahead and took over the drive. I never
even got the option to boot from that OS ("Win XP").

All in all, I had to format my hard drive, and trowed Linux in the bin.

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setup 
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Samba Question

Posted: 05 Jul 2004 08:44 AM PDT

Nick LaBrie wrote: 

Oh, and thanks for the help, btw...

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