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unable to see linux partitions frm Win XP using explorer fs

Posted: 02 Mar 2005 05:27 AM PST

Michael Heiming wrote:
 

I think the OP should ask the question in a Windows XP forum. It's a
Windows problem, best solved by Windows people.

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non root execution on boot

Posted: 01 Mar 2005 06:27 PM PST

Tom Rauschenbach <org> wrote: 

I think your question has not been answered yet.

One way I can think of is the 'su' command, e.g.

su - username -c '/usr/bin/ls &'

will start the ls command in background for user 'username'.

The '-' after su will set up the environment for that user, e.g. make
$HOME point to username's home directory (this depends on the shell
configured for username).

If you need additional environment, you can use the 'env' command:

su - username -c '/usr/bin/env EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/crontab -e'

will edit username's crontab.

I hope this gets you on the right track.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

New kernel install

Posted: 01 Mar 2005 01:21 PM PST

Dennis Allen <com> wrote: 

Well, move the two files you created to the /boot directory, optimally
giving them meaningful names (something with the kernel version), add a
new stanza to /etc/lilo.conf that refers to the files, run lilo.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Specs for a super-cheap, super-small httpd server

Posted: 01 Mar 2005 09:54 AM PST

Hi,
For a Touchscreen solution try MagicTouch addon kit, it can be used with
LCD and CRT monitors and it acts as a mouse. Of course, it will work
with Linux.

There are version available with USB and serial ports (i definetly
recommend the serial so you wont have problems with drivers etc etc.)

I used one for a Restaurant POS system once (long time ago...) and it
was really nice.

http://www.magictouch.com/addon.html#monitor

There is also another brand, Elo Touch, ( http://www.elotouch.com/ )
Which also works linux, they provide complete Touch enabled Monitors
(LCD and CRT). It may be useful.

As for the external HD, I am not pretty shure, I myself have a IDE drive
connected to my laptop via an external adaptor similar to this:
http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=USBG-35K&cats=131&catid=131).


I dont know about supported brands but, I think mine is not a special
brand and it works (it recongizes the disk as /dev/sda) of course it is
USB 2, now, I will strongly recommend to use internal because of the
speed/transference rate, and, well, any IDE-HD will be cheaper than an
external HD (or Internal HD + adapter).

Now, about the X-window / web browser in the server, I would sugest
avoiding X-window unless it is really necesary, if you only need X and
the web browser to configure the server I think it is not neccesary and
you can even run it just when you need it, that way you wont waste
resources by running it all the time (i.e. dont start it at boot).

If you want it to be another client machine for your intranet, well, I
think it is better to leave it alone as a server, that way, you may not
need a monitor! (dedicated) and after setup, you can control everything
from ssh and/or web interface.

Mmmm. well, anyway if you are going to use a Touchscreen, then you
*surely* need a monitor ... i think i just let my mind wonder a bit.


Cheers!

jesse wrote: 


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installing on one hard drive

Posted: 01 Mar 2005 08:56 AM PST

On 1 Mar 2005 08:56:49 -0800
"myownminerva" <com> wrote:
 

.... shouldnt, if you think twice before clicking :)
(and use a modern distro)

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complete newbie - dual booting

Posted: 01 Mar 2005 05:23 AM PST

Laurenz Albe wrote:
 

Install linux 2nd, use GRUB as the bootloader (in most cases, it is
default anyway) and for booting windows, its simply...

title=Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0) #hd0,0 replaced by the partition which includes
windows
#This one assumes that windows is on your first partition of your first
hdd
makeactive
chainloader +1
 
detailed, 

for XWindows, know your Virtical and Horizontal refresh rates for your
monitor, and it always helps to know as much info about your graphics
card as possible.

A lot of information can be divulged about your hardware (atleast the
names) by executing lspci when you have linux up and running, and you
can tune accordingly.

newb

Posted: 28 Feb 2005 08:17 PM PST

com wrote: 

Install "Ubuntu Linux".
It's debian based, very populær and professional.

Browse to http://www.futuredesktop.org/how2burn.html
and follow the "mirror site" link to "Ubuntu" and other distributions.

And consider "Ubuntu Starter Guide..." and
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/ as your homework cram.




// moma
http://www.futuredesktop.org/hpc_linux.html
( http://www.futuredesktop.org/OpenOffice.html )

Upgrade kernel 2.4 -> 2.6

Posted: 28 Feb 2005 03:23 PM PST

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:09:03 +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
 

I would try it before tossing the old system out, even if it's just for
kicks ;-)

I tested upgrading from Woody to Sarge to Ubuntu without any problems,
albeit with a rather minimal setup (eg. no X) so YMMV.
 

That is true, alas in this case there is someone who installed Knoppix.
I think it is rather safe to assume that he is not a seasoned Linux
user/admin, which is why I wouldn't recommend upgrading the kernel to a
new minor version at all (especially not with a vanilla kernel). A new
install with a "real" distro is much safer for a (kernel upgrade) newbie.
Having said that, I successfully upgraded RH from 2.2.x to 2.4.x and FC1
from 2.4.x to 2.6.x manually by following the instructions given on quite
a number of sites.

Cheers
Andreas
Andreas

Memory problem with Red Hat 9 on laptop with 64 MB RAM

Posted: 28 Feb 2005 10:29 AM PST

Crooked River wrote: 

You might surely want to turn this off, or reconfigure it.

This wakes up from time to time to update its display, so you will be
wasting 10MB keeping it in memory. If you make it update every 30 seconds
or so, it will page less (every 30 seconds) and it might help some.
 
Also, you might want to look at top to see what of this is already paged
out. I find top to be much more useful than the gnome system monitor.

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iptables and multiple icmp rules

Posted: 28 Feb 2005 08:30 AM PST

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:11:36 -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote: 

Something I found to be more convenient when working with large lists of IP
addresses is (e.g.):

EBI_ICMP="[`cat /path/to/good/IP_address_file`]"

fwiw.

Rinaldi
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probelm in mounting my windows partitions in Fedora Code 3

Posted: 28 Feb 2005 12:46 AM PST

Thnks for the information. I just missed that point completely.

Problem setting up Suse 8.1

Posted: 28 Feb 2005 12:23 AM PST

Thanks for the reply, but I am installing the older version because
that is what I have and for the reasons told above( support for older
hardware). Infact this is evident from the fact that I had tried
installing Suse9.1 on my system but my sound card (Terratec SoundFusion
5.1) is not supported / doesn't work properly in Suse 9.1 while in 8.1
it works fine.
Anyways I have manged to install Suse 8.1 on my system. What I
did was I had swapped the IDE cables. Previously my hard disk and
cd-writer were connected to Secondary IDE and CDROM was connected to
IDE1. I had simply put the CDROM on IDE2 and hdd and cdrw on IDE1 and
it worked fine. Previously I even had problem installing WinXP on my
pc. During installation BSOD used to show up with error : PAGE_FAULT in
NON_PAGED_AREA.
I don't have any clues but if somebody can explain the above
behavior then I would really appreciate.

kishore.

2.6 kernel config support problems

Posted: 27 Feb 2005 04:16 PM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup !Falados <com>: 
 

Alternatively simply typing 'make rpm' if you are on a rpm system
and you get /boot/config-<kernel-version>.

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FC3 Startup (having rainbow like slashes when trying to boot up)

Posted: 24 Feb 2005 05:03 PM PST

I had a problem with this on my Dell Inspiron 1150, are you sure that
your graphics card is i810? It could be 855GM and you may need either
the i830 or the 915. This probably is not the case, but if you do
lspci, you can check what linux reads your card to be.

What is "error 8" - as in "Failed to activate device with error 8"

Posted: 24 Feb 2005 02:05 PM PST

Jean-David Beyer writes: 

It most likely was displaying the pppd exit status:

8 The connect script failed (returned a non-zero exit status).

Which the Red Hat's GUI has obscured in the usual GUI fashion.
 

A Red Hat characteristic.
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