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Posted: 01 Dec 2004 09:22 AM PST


"DragonFire" <hku.hk> skrev i meddelandet
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The biggest beta test in the world ( Window$ ) overwrite the MBR no
questions asked during install.

If you want to keep the RH installation you can boot from the RH cd/floppy
and repair LILO or GRUB whatever RH was using. ( I think RH has GRUB as
default )

Please help with XP Professional dual boot

Posted: 30 Nov 2004 08:32 PM PST

Michael Stevens wrote:
 


.... many computers come with that hidden 30 meg partition:
it is a MAINTENANCE partition, with tools to check the
machine out: memory test, disk test, etc.
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command line/script to setup ntpd

Posted: 30 Nov 2004 08:17 PM PST

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 04:28:56 GMT, Bit Twister wrote: 

forgot to add /etc/ntp.conf
which will also need your time server FQDN or ip addy.

5-button Optical PS/2 intellimouse

Posted: 30 Nov 2004 01:19 PM PST

In message <asfrd.1008731$ops.worldnet.att.net>,
Norm Dresner wrote:
 
You've got different numbers on the bottom of yours. Mine claims to be:

Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical USB & PS2 Compatible (using PS/2)
P/N X08-70388 PID 55250-OEM-0221522-0

No idea what's significant about any of that but it is also working via a
KVM switch to Linux, Win2K, OS/2 and even Mac OS X (via a nice little PS/2
to USB converter). The wheel even works on most Mac apps. Last item, I'm
currently using FC2 Linux, although it's worked on previous RedHat stuff as
well.

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Windows network with Linux Server

Posted: 30 Nov 2004 01:51 AM PST

Maximilian Schwerin wrote:
 


http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
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Rescuing data before an imminent hard disk failure

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 11:44 PM PST

Jules wrote:
 


.... here here !!!!
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Gentoo hardlocks on keyboard use!

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 10:10 PM PST

OSU wrote: 
[snip] 

The continous beep is an interesting clue. My guess is that it's
overheating and what you're hearing is the temperature alarm (either
from lm_sensors or from the BIOS itself). Check system temps and
ambient temp next time you have a lockup.

(FWIW, I saw similar symptoms once when a heatsink retention clip had
broken and the heatsink suddenly fell of the CPU. It had worked fine
for ages but died suddenly and wouldn't go more than a few minutes
without locking up. But that's understandable when the heatsink is
nowhere near the CPU!)

Debian Setup Accessing NTFS

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 07:11 PM PST

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:11:52 GMT,
Lionel Hanners <net> wrote: 

$grep ntfs /etc/fstab

/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs ro,gid=disk,noexec,umask=027 0 0

Substitute hdb1 for hda5, umask might as well be 0227, if you
don't have writing to ntfs compiled into the kernel the "ro" is
unnecessary. Make sure you add users that should have access to
group "disk" or the appropriate group.

If you don't want the partition to mounted by default on booting
add the "noauto" option.

I have Debian 3.0r2, writing to ntfs was still considered risky
and I'd assume you'd have to recompile the kernel to get write
access. I assume there is still no write access by default (the
last I'd checked, writing was still risky and running
chkdsk/scandisk was required after any any writes.)

man mount, and man fstab have lots of useful information.

Michael C.
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RH AS V3

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 06:37 PM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Ana C. Dent <com>: 
 
 

Shouldn't be a problem, you might need to change the BIOS not to
halt on errors, to be able to boot headless. You should configure
your boot-loader to output anything to serial and connect the
system serial to some other box/terminal server/etc. Check the rh
docs how to go about it. A system that has a remote BIOS
redirection (LAN/serial) would be the best for running completely
headless, sadly not all x86 systems allow that, there are some
add on cards, which aren't really cheap.

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Posted: 29 Nov 2004 04:46 PM PST

mjt wrote:
 
......^^^^^

.... oops. you "can" get ...

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External MIDI ports disappeared!

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 03:59 PM PST

RRB <com> wrote: 
[snip] 

What card model and driver are you using?

Thanks...

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How can I make Linux box as Router?

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 03:14 PM PST

Santa wrote:
 

Or, if the machine is doing nothing other than routing packets, check out
one of http://ipcop.sf.net or http://www.smoothwall.org

Cheers,
mvdw

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X crashes with GeForce FX 5200

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 10:01 AM PST

Andrew P. Billyard wrote:
 


.... file:/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.6

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MBR after dual boot

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 09:26 AM PST

George wrote: 

I have never used Fedora or grub, so I don't know. But if the Fedora
boot CD gives you an option to install grub, then that should do what
you want.

Good luck, jimbo

Two distributions sharing /home

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 09:26 AM PST

Jules <this.yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 

.... to check if that is actually your problem, you can 'cd' to the
home directories of the users and issue 'ls -al'.
If the user and group names are shown, everything is fine.
If you see numbers instead of names, you have the problem described.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Display is not centered... Its 2004!!

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 09:24 AM PST

Jules wrote:
 
 

i suspect, since vendors give info to m$, they
have an advantage over the "guesswork" that might
have to happen for a given "unknown" monitor or
that possibly when polling doesnt reveal any
useful information. if you've ever used xvidtune,
you know you can "move" the display around.
technically, the modeline values can be 'correct',
but logically (ie, visually to the eye) the values
are incorrect - IOW, the display can be shifted
"off screen", but the values are still correct.

even with the well-known monitor i have, some
distros, during the install, i get a shifted
display, so i merely use the X config file from
a well-known running system :)

as far as windows "getting it right", have you
ever installed it from scratch without vendor
drivers? more times than many, i cant get a
better resolution than 640 until drivers are
obtained!!

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newbie advise server setup

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 06:25 AM PST

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:48:52 +0000, KJ wrote:
 

I forgot to throw in a plug for Ubuntu linux [www.ubuntulinux.org]. It's
based on Debian and snap to install and maintain.

(no subject)

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 05:34 AM PST

until it is too late.

As has already happened repeatedly: the government will use
this National Spying Apparatus to crush political protests,
and monitor the politically incorrect.

In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s... and the 1990s.


Question:

Why argue against something that would catch crime?

Answer:

ECHELON is so invasive we lose all privacy.
It is infinitely abusable.
It has been abused repeatedly.
CALEA takes us into the abyss.


Would monitoring really turn up that many violations?
Meaning: is it really that effective a mechanism?



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partition restoration

Posted: 29 Nov 2004 05:19 AM PST

Loknath Bharti wrote:
 

so, you HAD a 10gig partition with an ext3 filesystem.
 

you "came to know"? what does that mean? so the previous
ext3 filesystem had 5gig of data on it?
 

use the backup you made before creating the partition
with the reiserfs filesystem on it. the ONLY hope that
i see happening is to mark the partition with an ext3
filesystem and try a recovery tool to get the files off
of it. however, i doubt this will work. your second
option is to use a tool to read the disk directly, as
you've already attempted.
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How to use the floppy drive under linux?

Posted: 28 Nov 2004 11:02 PM PST

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:02:30 +0800, kff wrote: 

If you loaded the mtools package

mdir, mcopy, mcd, mdel.....

another method
mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
ls /mnt/floppy
umount /mnt/floppy

For extra points
man mount
man umount
man fstab

Fstab entry example:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

How to determine the size of cylinder?

Posted: 28 Nov 2004 08:28 PM PST

Lew Pitcher <ca> wrote in
news:BjRqd.12106$bellglobal.com:
 
[snip] 

This is bogus, of course, and has nothing to do with the physical number
of cylinders, heads, or or sectors on the disk. Only the vendor's data
sheet will give you the physical information.

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2.4.9 woes

Posted: 28 Nov 2004 10:03 AM PST

Chiefy wrote:
 

.... hmmm. 2.6.9 can conjure up some odd thoughts ...
 

???? ....
http://www.mail-archive.com/org/msg00569.html

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Max memory of Fedora Core 3

Posted: 28 Nov 2004 06:51 AM PST

Dear Sir,

No need to re-comile kernel if install 4GB MEM?

Jackson



On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:55:57 +0200, Markku Kolkka
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How to set up a Linux machine that occupies the minimum memory footprint ?

Posted: 28 Nov 2004 04:46 AM PST

begin Jean-David Beyer dedi ki: 

Opteron motherboards too. Only, as I gather (I'm still a student on this),
Opterons additionally have Numa arrangement option to boost performance:
Each CPU concurrently accesses its own local memory in Numa, as opposed to
sharing a single bus serially in shared memory systems. And it's still
possible to use all the memory from within any CPU (via inter-CPU Hyper
Transport mechanism). For this to work, the OS should have CPU and memory
affinity, aka NUMA capable kernel (the doc above says only "memory
affinity" but it also takes CPU affinity if I'm not mistaken). Linux does
that. So, for a general purpose system Opteron/Numa makes a good deal.
Though it doesn't help the OP much, as he needs all the RAM from within a
single process.
 

I reckon this is due to the fact that the north bridge (MMU) is integrated
into amd-64 CPUs, which is a very good thing as it speeds up memory access
compared to the off-chip north bridge on AthlonXP and Xeons. So you need
the CPU in its place to access related memory. Nevertheless, considering
the price diff between an Itanium or Xeon-EM64T and an Opteron or
Athlon64, a dual Amd-64 setup could cost the same as a single Itanium.

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I have 40GB Hard drive, RH Linux installed, how can I install two more flavors?

Posted: 27 Nov 2004 12:18 PM PST

mjt <ru> writes:

]Santa wrote:

]> I have 40GB HD, I installed RH Linux, I need to install Debian anb
]> SuSE, How can I partition the current disk for two more flavors,
]> appreciated for commands and help.

You do not say how you partitioned the disk in the first place.

Wipe the disk.
place three partitions, each of size 5GB, which will be the / directories
of each ofthe three distros. Make the rest of the disk into one partition
which you can call /common
Into /common you will place home, and othr common stuff.
Then install each of the distros into their partition. Afterwards, do
mv /home /home.old
mkdir /common/home
ln -s /common/home /home
mv /home.old/* /common/home




]... use the partitioning tools during the install
]process for those
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