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Need help reading IDE drive data that is imaged from a SCSI drive

Posted: 08 Mar 2005 07:22 AM PST

I tried "mount -o loop,blocksize=620 -t ext3 /dev/hdb5 /mnt" and some
other fstypes, I got the following error message:
================================================== ============
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
================================================== ============

I know it's an IDE device, but how do I use sr0 or sda?

Thanks

Using TV set as a monitor

Posted: 08 Mar 2005 06:25 AM PST

Davide Bianchi wrote:
 
Thanks Davide. I will look into it. The talk is a free service to the
retirement village where we live, so I don't want to spend too much. There
is an associated video, so a VCR will be available. This makes prg's
suggestion worth looking at. (Actually, the pictures are supplementary.)
I am told that transparencies for overhead projectors, as we call them,
(the things with a glass screen and a lens and 45 degree mirror or prism)
can be made from the prints. They can go into the kit. I wouldn't look
for better definition than with the VCR, if I can get everything to appear
on the one screen.

What is a "beamer"? I am not in the industry, and it may have a different
name here in Oz. I know that there is a projector that can show a
presentation on a screen. I really need to see what is available here at
the village (the manager is on holidays and there is no equipment visible)
and run through the complete talk with my wife. I was just "brainstorming"
at the moment.

Doug.
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ICQ Number 178748389. Registered Linux User No. 277548.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas Edison.

Suse 9.0 & Windows XP dual boot

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 08:39 PM PST

mercedes909 wrote:
 
Hello,

windows is not able to boot from a slave drive. You either have to switch
the disks or make M$ think it is booting from a master drive. You can do
this with grub in the menu.lst.

Alex

Updating BIOS with thumb drives or from Linux

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 08:20 PM PST


"mjt" <ru> wrote in message
news:linux.local...
 

That page describes, in detail using a CD drive. These things don't *have*
CD drives. They do have USB, and they do have network, but using a floppy or
CD would invilve taking them out of the rack, opening them up, installing CD
drives, etc., etc. Not a good idea in a production environment.

[snip] 

This page describes PXE, but never actually tried it. I've done PXE boots
and tried it, but attempting to run the BIOS flashing tools from a PXE
loaded floppy image simply crashes the machine, even with a floppy image
that works on the one machine that actually is out of the rack and has a
floppy and CD drive (I've tried both).

I need an example of someone actually *doing* it. Network installation would
be good, but USB drive would work, too. A tool that could install the BIOS
on various modern motherboards from the Linux operating system would be
ideal, but I'm afraid that's not working except with LinuxBIOS enableed
motherboards or their ilk, and I don't have such a BIOS for these systems.

Currently dual-booting, want to get rid of Windows

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 10:22 AM PST

ido50 <com> wrote: 

Instead of moving around and merging partitions, you could also use LVM.
You can leave the partition table as it is, backup the data in your sda5
file system, mark both partitions as 'Linux LVM', create a volume group
that contains sda5 and the Windows partition, create one big logical
volume out of that, create a file system on it and mount it in the place
where your sda5 used to be.
Then restore the data onto that file system.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

How do I install SuSE Linux on a Maschine with SCSI Raid 2120S if I have only this controller working

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 08:15 AM PST


"Jan Wielemaker" <xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:xs4all.nl... 

Agreed. I'd also jump to SuSE 9.2 given any opportunity.

[Newbie]GRUB issue

Posted: 07 Mar 2005 03:30 AM PST

In article <d0he0e$8c4$usc.edu>, DJP wrote: 

<cross-posts trimmed>

After you did "linux rescue" with the boot CD, did you let the installer
mount the root filesystem (which then shows up on /mnt/sysimage)?
If not, mount it.
If your /boot isn't a separate partition, you can now:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
Now, you will see /boot/grub/grub.conf. At that point, you should be able
to:
grub-install /dev/hda
(if I recall correctly).

(If your /boot is on a seperate partition, you'd have to mount in on
/mnt/sysimage/boot before you 'chroot'.)

--
Dave Brown Austin, TX

how to deploy an iso image ??

Posted: 06 Mar 2005 01:49 PM PST

Alternately, install it over NFS, if you have another machine.

a) Us the other m/c as an NFS server. Mount the iso image on a loopback
device.

mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -t iso9660 image.iso /mnt/iso/ -o loop

b) Create a linux boot floppy or cd

c) Stick the floppy in the m/c to be installed, reboot. Select NFS
install option

Newbie-VMWare 4.5c. - ISO files do not install on reboot.

Posted: 05 Mar 2005 09:32 PM PST

com wrote:
 

I will confine myself to my point. I use Mandrake, and the rest is beyond
me.

What burner program did you use? As I said, I have Nero, and the fourth
menu selection is the one you want. Go to the "Disc image" menu item on
the opening screen, then browse to the image you want to burn, (Nero
defaults to looking for the extension for its "saved projects" and you need
to change this in the "file type" box. Tell us what you used, and someone
who uses it will be able to help you. For future reference, have a look at
www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html If you follow the guidelines
there, you will find it easier to get answers. I have been caught out
because I gave only the info that i thought was needed, and omitted some
vital detail.

Doug.
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Love doesn't make the world go 'round, love is what makes the ride
worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960).

Adding users in Fedora Core 3

Posted: 05 Mar 2005 09:01 AM PST


"-pbh-" <com> wrote in message
news:JyIWd.45697$texas.rr.com...
 

Pshaw. You're not "opening up" anything, they were already there. Keeping
the admin level tools in /sbin and /usr/sbin is to distinguish them from day
to day operational tools, but hardly makes them unavailable to non-admin
users.

udev eating parallel printer

Posted: 05 Mar 2005 08:06 AM PST

Hello,

On 05 Mar 05, Luka Vuletic wrote to All:
 
LV> Udev tends to do such things... You may edit
LV> /etc/udev/scripts/make_extra_nodes.sh
LV> and add a line or lines somewhere in that file to add your printer link
LV> everytime system boots...

That did the trick, thank you!

LV> I had similar porblem, beacues udev insisted in creating /dev/cdrom
LV> -> /dev/hdd instad of /dev/cdrw -> /dev/hdd.

I just noticed that I have neither /dev/cdrom nor /dev/cdrw. But that is
less important at the moment :)

Regards,

Hans.

jdh dot beekhuizen at duinheks dot xs4all dot nl

wget --mirror is not downloading the contents of a directory?

Posted: 04 Mar 2005 09:04 PM PST


"moma" <net> wrote in message
news:VnnWd.780$e.nsc.no... 

It's cool. I've re-written the tools in question to use lftp, which is a
sweet little tool for doing mirroring once you get past the extremely poor
documentation.

Remote control after install

Posted: 04 Mar 2005 02:24 PM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Markus <com>: 
 
 

My condolences.
 

Should be no problem if you had installed with autoyast, started
VNC server with the install or did a (text) install and you have
serial/LAN connection to the system through some kind of service
board common to modern x86 server.

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