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LILO problem

Posted: 29 Jul 2004 03:01 PM PDT

JohnInSD At san DOT rr dot COM wrote: 

I always thought the "C" drive was a designation invented by Windows,
not having anything to do with your physical hardware setup.

 

I will look into that. Thanks.

Linux installation problem

Posted: 29 Jul 2004 01:17 PM PDT

John Bahran wrote:
 

What is the installation telling you is wrong?

Hmm-- I am wondering whether you are deleting the XP (NTFS) partitions
first. You say you want to install Red Hat "on top" of XP, which I
interpret to mean you don't want XP anymore and would like to use that hard
drive space for Linux instead.

If this is the case, you need to go into the partitioning part of the
install (do this partition work manually rather than automatically), and
first delete the NTFS partitions that Windows is on. Then add ext2 or ext3
partitions for Linux (and you'll need one swap partition as well). And the
root partition would be "/", not "/;" (unless you know something I don't).

While you are at it, it's a good idea to make several partitions. Make the
"/" partition a certain size, and create more partitions for /usr, /var,
and /home (plus the swap partition). This is only a suggestion. It'll
help to keep /var's log entries and other data from scattering all over the
place, and having a separate /home partition means that if you ever upgrade
or reinstall, your personal data and settings can stay intact, as you can
elect not to erase/reformat a /home partition when you re-install Linux.
It's also good to keep /usr separate for a lot of reasons, since it'll
contain program files, information, and other things that can get changed
around a lot. Isolating partitions like this is helpful and safer for
doing maintenance and backup work. For ex. if /usr gets hosed somehow, it
can be important that you can at least access other partitions in order to
use certain repair methods.

I'm not the best one to explain these things, but maybe I said something
useful.

And try to get a newer Red Hat disc if you can ;-)

Swedey

Quick newb questions

Posted: 29 Jul 2004 11:42 AM PDT


"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <net> wrote in message
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how 
you 

Excuse me: three-fold. This is what I get for editing after writing my
opening line....

Install Fedora Core 2 from NTFS hard drive?

Posted: 28 Jul 2004 07:39 AM PDT

>> Is that posible to install from a NTFS hard drive?
 

Finally found a reference:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-February/msg00931.html

Linux USB Monitor

Posted: 28 Jul 2004 03:41 AM PDT

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| Regards
| Shilpi
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| shilpig at momentum-tech dot com

Check out the article "Snooping the USB Data Stream" by Greg
Kroah-Hartman in the latest (August 2004) issue of LinuxJournal. It was
excellent.

Susan
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SCSI setup

Posted: 27 Jul 2004 10:36 PM PDT

Bambaluc <it> writes:

[...]
 

The module for SCSI disk support, perhaps?

Michael

grub reading wrong sectors?

Posted: 27 Jul 2004 04:21 PM PDT

com (w m r) wrote in message news:<google.com>... 

Turns out that telling the BIOS to use LBA mode to access the drive
fixed it. There must be some BIOS or drive bug as the BIOS changes
the drives natural 6588x16x63 geometry to 823x128x63. So telling it
to use LBA mode must work around the bug.

Mike

Changing root password in Rescue mode

Posted: 27 Jul 2004 09:39 AM PDT

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:39:32 -0700, Tony wrote: 

chroot /mnt_point_here

passwd root

Advanced User Management in Fedora Core 2

Posted: 27 Jul 2004 07:43 AM PDT


"GVK" <iiit.net> wrote in message
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synchronize all 
it 
all of 
one. 
the 

NIS can do this, but LDAP is becoming more preferred these days. If you can
spend the time, learn to use it. NFS or SMB can share the files from one
machine to another over the network.

If, however, you actually need the boxes to be independent, look into
"rsync" and learn to use it effectively, preferably over an SSH tunnel.

"Resource temporarily unavailable": a firewall issue?

Posted: 27 Jul 2004 07:07 AM PDT

Doru-Catalin Togea wrote: 
I do not know what firewall you are running, but I run one built with
_iptables_. Originally I set it up to reject everything not particularly
enabled. It is still like that.

But also, originally, I made it log every message that it rejected. Right
now, the only change I made to that was to throttle the logging rate, and
to stop logging pings (that are almost entirely refused) due to the great
number of them I get.

If you do that, you will be able to see just what requests are being
rejected by your firewall and can adjust it to accept those you need to
accept. Every once in a while I get mysterious failures which usually mean
some server has changed to a new IP address and I must open that port from
that address. But it is rare and so far has been only with Intuit,
Quicken, and TurboTax.

--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 20:10:00 up 1 day, 5:11, 4 users, load average: 4.11, 4.14, 4.10

How to rebuild vmlinuz and initrd.img from scratch for pxeboot environment

Posted: 26 Jul 2004 10:43 AM PDT

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:38:56 -0700, Olivier BOURDON wrote: 

It's usually a good idea to keep the old kernel, and have a backup boot
selection ("man lilo" or "man grub"), so that if the new kernel is
"busted" you can still boot the old kernel and make repairs. That is less
important nowadays, since there are several ways to boot rescue CDs, but
it is still rather convenient to use that feature.

--
Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.

Domain Name Website Naming

Posted: 26 Jul 2004 07:33 AM PDT

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:33:05 -0700, Charles Kendricks wrote:
 

In your domain's zone file:

foobar.net. IN A 123.231.34.56
www.foobar.net. IN A 123.231.34.56

Debian Exim4 w/ Fetchmail (easy?)

Posted: 26 Jul 2004 01:51 AM PDT

com (JVarsoke) wrote in message news:<google.com>... 

Okay, like I thought, pretty easy. Turns out I have a .forward in
$HOME which refers to procmail. But I never asked Debian to install
procmail. So a little "apt-get install procmail" solved all my
problems. Silly me; too used to distros that insist you install the
kitchen sink along with the base packages.

-j

ethernet connection working at 1.2Mb/sec

Posted: 26 Jul 2004 12:00 AM PDT

Hi,

thanks for the infos I didn't know about.
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Michael Heiming wrote:
 

my problem here is that dmesg gives me something
that looks good to me:
100bmps (or something like this ) on both sides.

BUT

mii-tool run ONLY on one side: on the other I get some error message.
The side that gives me problem has a strange motherboard.
This motherboard (low-end ECS EliteGroup :-)) ) seems to handle ethernet
in a funny way:
It seems that TWO devices are taking care of it:

1) SiS900
2) Realtek 8201BL (or something like this)
Do I have to expect conflict between both of them ?
Sorry about not giving exact error messages
(my computers are at home, no internet, yet)

Luciano
 

ethereal not found on Fedora Core 1

Posted: 25 Jul 2004 07:10 PM PDT


"TCMA" <ca> wrote in message
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it. 

Configure yum.conf to talk to a local FTP mirror of Fedora Core 1, and use
"yum install ethereal".

booting from external usb hard drive?

Posted: 25 Jul 2004 09:46 AM PDT

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 09:46:18 -0700, ziliath wrote:
 

I was able to do this using the SuSE 9.0 Pro installation disk. (Tried
Fedora Core 2, but it didn't find the external USB drive.)
Just told it to keep off my WinXP and Linux internal drives, and
install Linux and put the GRUB loader on the external drive.
 

Didn't try that approach.
Although my BIOS appears to allow booting from a USB device, it totally
ignored my request to boot from the external USB drive.
However, by booting the SuSE installation disk instead, its installation
process (the 'boot existing Linux' part) then found the drive and booted it.

I suspect it was able to do so because it had already loaded sufficient
USB function to make the external USB drive accessible.

Maurice Batey
(Retired in Hampshire, UK)
www.maurice.eurobell.co.uk
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Kernel OOPS - still crash!!

Posted: 23 Jul 2004 01:11 PM PDT

> Probably easier to track down bad memory, defective boards, tired cooling

right, memtest find out bad memory.now I'm trying to find out the right
stick mem.
thanks
ciao