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No Console upon Boot

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 12:01 PM PST

S.Brown <net> wrote: 

If /bin/bash does not work, then you have no support for a console in
your kernel. Recompile. Anyway, run smething else as init - something
that makes a big noise. A shell script should be fine.
 

 

He doesn't exactly need a getty for a console, merely for a login
prompt. init=/bin/sh should work fine for him if his kernel is complete.

Peter

XIRCOM CARDBUS on Dell Latitude CSx Laptop

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 11:16 AM PST


"William Alencar" <com> wrote in message
news:com... 

I seem to remember using those with FC2 and the standard kernel with the
kernel-pcmcia-cs package. Although if it has reasonable horsepower, I'd
update that laptop to FC3 and see what happens.

Avoid compiling your own kernels by hand if you can avoid it for laptops:
staying up to date on the OS release is often much more helpful in getting
odd things to work.

Grub won't load any OS

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 08:32 AM PST

Thank you for all your responses. This gives me a good starting point.

Trying to get Java working on Fedora Core 3

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 07:07 AM PST

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 at 15:07 GMT, com eloquently wrote:
[...]
 
[09:58:16][work]$ rpm -qf `locate libXp.so.6`
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
[09:58:28][work]$

Install the xorg-x11-deprecated-libs rpm and you should be fine.

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Suse minimal install based on rescue - what to add to rescue to be bootable

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 01:07 AM PST


"mjt" <ru> wrote in message
news:site... 
For instance to compile and add ssh + Asterisk and get PBX, or to add Motion
and get video surveillance system. I don't want to get minimal and then
install another bunch of RPMs and come back to bloated distro...

Why SuSE? Cause I know it best, and Rescue is cute little minimal system
that will run and I'll add packages easily (when I figure out how - just cp
or can I rpm to another partition ? ) from bloated SuSE installation I
have...

So my main question is: if you have small distro, whose /boot directory is
empty - what it needs to be bootable ? I guess Kernel and Grub - but is
there anything else ?
Also how to install and configure Grub on another partition (mounted to
development bloated distro) ?

Thanks in advance for your help,

regards,


Rob.

Overview of linux?

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 09:43 PM PST

com wrote:
 


The place to start is with some LiveCDs like knoppix, quantian (DVD),
mepis, kanotix and so on
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

Dowload one of the CDs, burn the CD, and then
boot up from the CD (Set the bios to boot from CD
if it doesn't boot like that).

Then voila, you have GNU/Linux running on your PC.
Its completely automatically configured without
need for drivers or for you to do anything.

From there you can work out slowly everything.
by try different LiveCDs and read the documentation.
You can run up konqueror and type man:mount for example
to pull up manuals on how to set the read write permissions to disk.
man:dd for how to copy disks, man:bash for the console, etc.

Also, try installing - thats simple with LiveCDs like Mepis,
but can become challenging for others.

Runing Linux in a network with XP computers?

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 08:43 PM PST

(com) scribbled:
 
 

.... yes. or, you can switch them all to Linux :)

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Updating Apache on FC3

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 02:22 PM PST

Coming from MS also and consulting in it...I am in the same boat...new and
want to accomplish similar. I know I don't have to read a 500 page book on
this, as a matter of fact, this could be summarize in a page with reference
to details - anything like it out there?

Anyone?


"Kev" <com> wrote in message
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Anything even close to Visio for Linux?

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 02:11 PM PST

Spake ~./where: 

Here is a list of UML programs I collated recently.

[52]Unimodeller
Dunno, never tried it.

[53]Umbrello (KDE)
I'll write this one later. You can't export to PostScript or PDF
from the command line, only via the GUI. Therefore you can't
automate exporting with Make.

[54]Dia (GTK2)
Built as a clone of Visio (before Microsoft bought it). Klugy
interface, but a fancy GUI to edit class internals. Automated
edge placement, but it doesn't cope well if you move nodes
around. Exports to PostScript or C++ stubs (via script).

Fig / XFig (Motif?)
Yecch. Klugy, mouse-centric interface. Difficult (AFAIK) to
change placed objects. Has a lot of momentum, because it's about
the oldest vector tool around.

[55]Inkscape (GTK2)
What XFig would like to be. Fantastic interface design, but
deals with vector graphics in general rather than diagrams, so
it (currently) lacks important stuff like "attaching" edges to
nodes.

[56]Graphviz (CLI)
Graphviz is primarily a graph layout tool, but it has been
extended for in class diagrams. By far the most readable source
files, especially if you preprocess with e.g. CPP and #define
CLASS shape=.... Graphviz automatically lays out both nodes and
edges, so kluges are sometimes necessary to get a better layout.

[57]PST-UML (LaTeX)
A LaTeX package using PSTricks. Never tried it.

[58]ArgoUML (Java)
I Don't Do Java, so I've never tried it.

[59]OmniGraffle (OS X)
Commercial. Very pretty, but when I played with it I didn't like
it's UML support. Nice interface.

IBM Rational Rose (Windows)
I Don't Do Windows, so I've never tried it.

[60]Violet (Java)
I Don't Do Java, so I've never tried it.

[61]Microsoft Visio (Windows)
I Don't Do Windows, so I've never tried it. Public opinion is
that it has gone downhill since Microsoft bought it.

52. http://www.unimodeler.com/
53. http://uml.sf.net/
54. http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
55. http://inkscape.org/
56. http://graphviz.org/
57. http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-uml/
58. http://argouml.tigris.org/
59. http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/
60. http://www.horstmann.com/violet/
61. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010857981033.aspx

mandrake urpmi setup argh

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 10:34 AM PST

"Andy" <edu> writes:
 


The ideal is to erase your / and /usr partitions, keeping /home, and
/usr/local, and then do a fresh install of 10.1
Alternatively you can set up urpmi to point to a source for the 10.1
installation and updates and then do
urpmi --auto-select
which will replace all of the 9.1 files with the upgraded 10.1 files and
dependencies. The problem can arise when a package has changed names since
9.1 The old 9.1 will not be erased and the new one may not be installed.

I didi this upgrade and it went reasonably well. But there were a few
little issues.

install different distro's on 2 10gb drives, dual boot, no windows,xandros and vector...dazed and confused

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 09:02 AM PST

mjt wrote:
 
sorry, that's indeed what I meant :-/

and thanks much for your very clear answers :-)
 
ps- your site doesn't answer; it links to the top of 'dyndns'...(might
be intentional?)

=continues=

Unruh wrote:
 

it's a 'initial test box' for learning (or becoming more familiar with)
Linux. apps I'd like to run on it are basic: ftp, email, webbrowser, and
"the gimp" (photo editor). also want to experiment around with
"lightening" the windowmanager load on the system (maybe just use IceWM
or FXCM or whatever it's called). and some lite photo editing - my
camera generates 1.3 megapixel jpeg files (for cropping/editing). I
build 'bare bones' websites, so a text editor's good enough for that.
wouldn't in any event be placing any 'irreplaceable' jpeg's (or other
files) on the box -till- I became more adept.

shortly after the OS'es are installed, I'd start studying how to
'totally get rid' of the incomprehensible or un-needed apps, and replace
'em/install other apps, and/or update apps I use frequently (whatever
they'd turn out to be :-). basic stuff. hoping to NOT need a near
doctorate-level degree in "malware eradication & control" like I do with
winblowsXP.

Unruh wrote:
 

unruh, not at all sure I understand - pretty sure I don't. maybe I'm an
idiot - in linux-world convention, does just plain / mean "/root" (I
think? aka "assumed"). if that's correct, you're suggesting:

drive A, @ 10 gb total, partitioned as:
512 mb for /swap (shared, & glad we're in agreement on that :-)
5 gb / (I assume means /root)
4.5 gb (roughly) for /local "generic cross-mounted, for extra non-system
software"

and

drive B, @ 10 gb, partitioned as:
all 10 gb= /home "cross-mounted for personal stuff"

also not clear wether you agree or disagree on what file systems go
where (ResiserFS on all except swap? or? ext2 here or there?). also
please advise "Mr Dumbhead" here as to where OS'es install (umm, you're
not suggesting they both go IN the same 5 gb /root ? or?)

and "cross-linking" is certainly something "My Polymer" here is gonna
need to look into :->

thanks to both you guys, for my education so far :-)

tool

Fedora Core 3 + i830 = no good X11 ?

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 07:07 AM PST

Lenard <0.0.1> wrote: 
 
 

I expected a simpler solution than to rebuild the kernel.
I haven't done this yet.
I thought Intel830 and Fedora should live in piece after all :-)

Pavel
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

help w/ mandrake iso's install

Posted: 28 Mar 2005 08:47 PM PST

"Cajman" <com> writes:

 
 

It IS an intel 845. What do you mean "this did not work" What error
messages did you get?

 

YOu mean your computer and monitor completely disappeared? Come on. Nothing
gives us nothing to go on. Tell us in detail what the error conditions
were.
Do NOT use run level 5. Use run level 3, log on and then do startx 2>/tmp/X
then let us see what is in /tmp/X


 
 
 
 

Just for FUN - Enjoy =)

Posted: 28 Mar 2005 05:04 PM PST

KT wrote:
 

Priceless!

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Fedora 3 can not halt, it just restart

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 03:19 PM PST

thanks!

well, the extra blank in later mail is due to miss-typing:)

are there some alternatives rather then holding the power button to shut it
down?



"The Ghost In The Machine" <athghost7038suus.net> wrote in
message news:athghost7038suus.net... 

So how do I wipe an HD from a floppy once the HD is formatted in Reiser?

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 12:46 PM PST


"Peter T. Breuer" <it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
news:it.uc3m.es... 

I already pointed him to several useful tools. Give your right hand a
*rest*, Peter.

Changing Screen resolution?

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 11:22 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Perry <com>:
 
[..]
 
 

The above is a command, you '[CTRL][ALT][F1]' to change to VT1,
login and execute it and show us the output, it's in the file
"log". If you post the output, preferable via cut&paste it should
give us some idea about the problem. Perhaps you simply have no
higher resolution configured.
 
 

A good idea starting should be:

LINUX
Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition

http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz

There's an own chapter "43. The X Window System". Dunno if FC2 is
using x.org or xfree86, anyway there's no difference if you just
want to know more about basic X server functionality. Be aware
that X it's full multiuser and network transparent, with help of
ssh even through multiple systems.

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I can not create a user

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 09:29 AM PST

Thank you!!!

I think that the problem is instalation. If I try do another command
return NOT OK with message "error loading shared libraries...".

When I installed Debian via FTP, I remember that I had troubles with
the conexion with few packages. Maybe that packages are importants!!!

Thank you for all.

The Greatest News Ever!

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 08:44 AM PST

http://www.jcil.blogspot.com << The Greatest News Ever!

cd

Posted: 24 Mar 2005 04:19 PM PST

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:41:49 -0600, mjt <ru> wrote: 
 
 

or use software that does digital playback such as xmms

Orinoco wifi driver fails load on startup but can load it manually

Posted: 24 Mar 2005 02:53 PM PST

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:30:15 -0700, Beowulf wrote:
 

Appreciate the input - I'll start digging into it.

Bill

Dual boot Win XP Pro/FC3 again

Posted: 24 Mar 2005 10:27 AM PST


"Jeff G" <net> wrote in message
news:com... 

It's OK. Just ignore Peter. He'll include 100 lines of ranting at newbies,
and one line of vague hand-waving direction, and the hand-waving is often if
not always in the wrong direction.

If your motherboard was built in this millennium, you're probably fine with
your Linux partitions anywhere you want and yoru MBR written at the
beginning of your first hard drive, typically at /dev/hda. It's fairly easy
to test and see, especially if you have a bootable floppy or CD for Windows
to reset your MBR the way you like in case you blow it up.

detect scsi scanner after boot

Posted: 24 Mar 2005 05:47 AM PST

It worked when I compiled the scsi stuff as a module!

Running Linux in Pentium2s

Posted: 23 Mar 2005 10:03 PM PST

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.]
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:02:49 GMT, Jim Dell
<net> wrote: 
You could use a browser like Elinks or Dillo, if you don't need to
access web sites that require Javascript or Flash.


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Cant open home in KDE

Posted: 23 Mar 2005 09:04 AM PST

In article <com>,
notgiven <com> wrote:
 

If there's a problem starting an X program, a good place to look for
error messages is ~/.xsession-errors.