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'sharing' a partition for file transfers, XP and Linux - 'commonground' formats or hacks exist?

Posted: 11 Jul 2005 02:37 PM PDT

dave wrote:
 
No trouble with a fat32 partition for your purpose. XP can create one (as
long as you have unpartitioned space on your drive) up to 32GB, or you may
use a 3rd party program to "shrink" your xp. Don't know if Ubuntu is able
to perform the task upon install, like Mandriva does. Just try out - your
linux installer will complain if it can't free up enough space.
 

Linux can read ntfs without any trouble, but not write to it by default.
For windows, there are freeware programs to read ext2/3 and reiserfs:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
http://p-nand-q.com/e/reiserfs.html

Common "standard" is fat32, with both OS able to write to it.
However, there is a file size limitation of 4 GB and it stores no
permissions/file ownership/acl.
 

Not really. Put the ubuntu or whatever linux cd in, ask again here or on a
"samba" group :) if you cannot find a setup tool for "filesharing".
But then, old pcs cannot boot from big harddrives (though linux will
override the bios and be able to address them once booted) depending upon
the bios.

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Posted: 11 Jul 2005 02:05 PM PDT

ca wrote: 

Indicative of a problem with your ISP.

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installing flash player 7

Posted: 10 Jul 2005 09:24 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Bill Marcum <com.urgent>: 
 

The most obvious shows them all "about:about".;)

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WinXP & Fedora Dual-Boot problems

Posted: 10 Jul 2005 07:23 PM PDT

Well the bios virus protection was disabled --- so that kills that
idea. I'm still scratching my head wondering why the bootloader didn't
install to HDA (master). I've attemped the Linux install twice now,
and on the second attempt I wiped HDB clean to make sure I wasn't
simply overwriting my previous fudged up attempt -- but same result
upon first boot of the system after Fedora is installed. I'm booting
straight into WinXP, and not getting the boot manager.

Linux using windows drivers

Posted: 10 Jul 2005 04:53 PM PDT

On 07/11/05 01:53, Andy wrote: 

NO, you can't use windows drivers. Maybe their .ppd file if exists.
See <http://www.linuxprinting.org/>
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A problem with PCMCIA while booting SuSe 9.2

Posted: 09 Jul 2005 11:24 PM PDT

This is a very special situation that I think this problem isn't
resolved in SuSe 9.3

Online updates in SUSE v9.x

Posted: 09 Jul 2005 09:43 AM PDT

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:54:25 UTC, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <net>
opined: 

Many thanks to both those who responded.

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Redhat 8 Installation, with PXE and Kickstart

Posted: 08 Jul 2005 10:29 AM PDT


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OIK, that's nuts.
 

Ouch. OK, I went through this last year with another OS distribution and
SCSI controllers last year.

The fast fix is to use *ANOTHER* OS, such as a modern Fedora Core to use a
kickstart with a pre-install script, partition the system, dump a tarball of
a fully installed OS, run a chroot "grub-install", and reboot. Voila, you're
done, and the tools will stand you in excellent stead. I've done literally
thousands of systems this way, and it works.

The other is to rebuild your initrd.img and possibly your vmlinuz for your
RedHat 8.0 PXE installation, and add the e1000.o driver you need.
 

Dude, send me a private email. For a tiny fraction of the money, I'll write
up a set of tools for you from scartch. (Previous versions I've written for
various companies are owned by them, and it's easier and cheaper and faster
to write a contemporary set than go pulling the old tools from their legal
departments.)

How to install SuSe 9.2 without any boot device?

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 09:44 PM PDT


"Felix Saphir" <de> wrote in message
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Not on that part. I haven't tried to load a Linux OS from a Windows
bootloarder since I last used a weird VMWare setup a few years ago.

Default shell problem

Posted: 07 Jul 2005 04:01 AM PDT

Kalle wrote: 
....

At this point only take care NOT to reinstall the program/package/script that
you suspect did the mess.
Really strange thing, however, glad for being helpful.

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Mystery of file systems

Posted: 06 Jul 2005 09:23 PM PDT

Noah Roberts wrote:
 

Hi!
 

Just to add something: The different filesystems have different use. Eg. the
devfs is -simplified- the "file"system, where physical devices are mapped
to. It's usually mounted on /dev. Note the special use: you cannot "format
A:" with this devfs, whereas using ext2fs or reiserfs to map devices
doesn't work.

It might be helpful to look into a file "/etc/fstab" [1], where you can find
the information about where a device is mounted and which filesystem is
used.

Regards
Felix

[1] start "less /etc/fstab" in a terminal window, "q" to quit.

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Viewing NTFS partitions

Posted: 06 Jul 2005 05:21 PM PDT

eragon wrote: 

Hey, thanks!! Worked out great!

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Problem with installation

Posted: 06 Jul 2005 03:43 AM PDT

"Tej" <bosch.com> writes:
 
 

What infinite loop? How do you know? What are the symptoms?
 

Is eth0 up
Is there an eth0 entery in /etc/modprobe.conf? What happens if you do
modprobe eth0? What are the log entries? (/var/log/messages)
 

mounting digital camera as block device? (kernel 2.6)

Posted: 05 Jul 2005 04:17 PM PDT

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:31:08 +0000, dogdog wrote:
 

Yep, that's what all the bits of info out there say should work. I'm just
not getting any extra SCSI device automagically appearing for the
camera device - just the SCSI devices corresponding to the SCSI
hardware hooked up to the pair of Adaptec boards I have in the
machine.

It looks like either something's broken in 2.6, or there's some new
module that needs to be loaded for it to work which doesn't seem to be
documented anywhere :-(

I've borrowed a USB Compact-flash reader from someone so I'll give
that a go and at least rule out that it's not a problem with Linux
talking 'raw' to the camera...

cheers

Jules

Setting CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y during install?

Posted: 05 Jul 2005 02:25 PM PDT

Hi Rudi,

I've suspected as much as I've found absolutely zero online regarding this.
Since you seem to be in the know on this topic, could you please point me
towards some information on this topic (especially if specific to x86_64) or
maybe you know the answer to the following.

I basically want to carve off a section of memory by using the "mem=256M"
string in the grub.conf file. I then want to be able to access all of the
available memory outside of this parameter for a memory intensive
application. When using 32 bit processors (i386), I ran into problems with
the 3/1 GB split with 4 GB of RAM and higher. The workaround was to set the
HIGHMEM= option. So, is it safe to assume that x86_64 now allows for native
addressing up to 64 GB with no restrictions?

Thank you so much,

-Mark


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Determining Linux patches

Posted: 05 Jul 2005 10:55 AM PDT


"Giovanni" <net.it> wrote in message
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Depends on the Linux. If you are running "yum" with a recent RedHat or
similar distribution, you can do a "yum list" and get a list of what are the
base packages and what are updates, and you can compare it to the contents
of an "rpm -qav" to see if there are non-yum managed packages installed.

SRC.RPM Problem

Posted: 05 Jul 2005 06:55 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Carl <com>: 

Firstly, you are replying from google groups in its default
way which does not quote the text you are replying to.
This makes it harder for people not using google groups
to help you. IIRC there is an option to show text and
then you can use the reply button at the bottom.
 

[ more xx is needed by audacity-1.2.3-alt1.1.1.i386 ]

It says what it says, you need to install the mentioned
packages/functionality and retry. Hopefully the src.rpm was made
for your distro, or you need to find/install the corresponding
packages of your distro an edit the .spec file. Or look for some
ready to go package.

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Fedora on very old PC

Posted: 04 Jul 2005 02:42 AM PDT

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:42:31 -0700, dterzis wrote:
 

Forget installing FC4 on this machine. Not enough RAM to begin with.
IIRC, the minimums for FC are 400MHz CPU, 128MB RAM. Recommended is 256MB
RAM. For greater useability, a faster CPU is also recommended.

However, if you're looking for a challenge, try the "text only" install,
but with 64MB of RAM, I doubt if you can get a useable GUI to run.
Although, terminal only should work.

Maybe, an older version of Linux. I ran Mandrake 7.0 and 8.0 on a 133MHz
machine with 64MB of RAM with KDE, and it worked just fine.

Or a different distro designed for old hardware challenged machines like
SimplyMepis (www.mepis.com) or VectorLinux (www.vectorlinux.com), which,
they say, only requires 32MB of RAM.

Stefan

isapnp in RH9

Posted: 04 Jul 2005 01:04 AM PDT

In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>,
co.uk wrote:

Composite reply - one for the price of three ;-)
 

A little less impressed. The website says

* 1.101.5 Setup different PC expansion cards Modified: 2003-March-17
Maintainer: Mark Miller Weight: 3

isapnp basically was much less important by that date.

Key files, terms, and utilities include:
/proc/dma
/proc/interrupts /proc/ioports /proc/pci pnpdump(8) isapnp(8)
lspci(8)

From an old paper:

[atlantis ~]$ apropos pnp
isapnp (8) - Configure ISA Plug-and-Play devices.
isapnp.conf (5) - File format used by isapnp.
pnpdump (8) - Dump ISA Plug-And-Play devices resource information
[atlantis ~]$

and a number of interesting docs MAY BE in the /usr/share/doc/isapnptools*/
directory telling how to use these tools. There are also the following
HOWTOs that make interesting reading: Modem-HOWTO, Plug-and-Play-HOWTO,
Serial-HOWTO. For a 2.4.x kernel, see the isapnp document in kernel
source.

Those three HOWTOs have been updated since that paper:

338050 Jun 17 09:53 Modem-HOWTO
128801 Nov 16 2004 Plug-and-Play-HOWTO
261882 Nov 16 2004 Serial-HOWTO
 

Minor quibble - SuSE is "different" than others, so reading the scripts
and tool man pages are going to be important. It _is_ different from the
way Red Hat does things - but then, in spite of the Linux Standard Base
Core Specification (http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/) - which a lot of
distributions claim to follow, there are still significant differences
in the several hundred available distributions. None the less, if you
know how to use 'vi' and the man pages, you can administer any Linux
(or UNIX) distribution from the command line level - it just takes a
lot of reading.

On 5 Jul 2005 00:56:46 -0700, you then added:
 
 

I imagine it's no longer there, given the age of RH7.3 (you might still
find it in mirror sites like www.linuxiso.org), but this is from disk 1
of the distribution CD. At one time, it was also on the Red Hat FTP
server in /pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/7.3/. A thought - you might
find it in a google search

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 59,600 for RELEASE-NOTES RedHat 7.3.
(0.32 seconds)

Red Hat Linux 7.3 Release Notes
Red Hat Linux 7.3 Release Notes. Copyright <A9> 2002 by Red Hat, Inc. ...
Red Hat
Linux 7.3 includes the 2.4.18 kernel as well as the following additions
and ...
www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/ linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/release-notes/x86/ -
19k - Jul 3, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Bingo! First hit.

On 5 Jul 2005 01:08:25 -0700, you then added:
 
 

"sunsite.unc.edu" _was_ the name give to a Sun workstation(?) donated to
the 'University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill' by Sun Microsystems a
significant number of years ago. Not exactly sure what the hardware is
now (it's reported as "Linux 2.4 in cluster" now), but the name has
been twice changed - first to "metalab.unc.edu" then to "ibiblio.org".
Mirror sites exist around the world, and may refer to it by any of those
three names. Make an anonymous FTP connection to ibiblio.org, and
change to the directory /pub/Linux/ where you will find

-rw-rw-r-- 1 webmaster admin 3696 Nov 14 2002 MIRRORS
-rw-rw-r-- 1 webmaster sungroup 44809 Jul 4 05:41 MIRRORS.html

you want the html document (also as http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS).
That will list a bunch of other servers, many a lot closer to you.
 

-rw-r--r-- 1 keeper users 12801129 Jul 4 10:28 ls-lR.gz

[compton ~]$ zgrep -c -- '^-' dir.list/sunsite.ls-lR.07.04.05.gz
656507
[compton ~]$ zgrep -- '^-' dir.list/sunsite.ls-lR.07.04.05.gz | awk '{total
+= $5 }; END {print total }'
4.91073e+10
[compton ~]$

They've got a few files there - some old, most new. The significance of the
May 8 2001 file date for isapnptools-1.26 is that it's the last release
date for that package. Oh, and that directory listing doesn't include any
files in the /pub/Linux/distributions/ directory, because they've been
moved to another server (distributions.ibiblio.org).

Old guy

Writing on NTFS partition from linux

Posted: 03 Jul 2005 10:43 AM PDT

Timothy Murphy wrote:
 
I can format my stick with ntfs and get away with that one :)
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configuring wireless in Debian

Posted: 02 Jul 2005 01:54 PM PDT

On 2005-07-02, John Hanley <net> wrote: 

Are you sure that pcmcia-cs is running all right? Do you know how to
configure a (non-wireless) network interface?

What kind of card is this? Did you load orinoco-cs manually, or did it
happen automatically?

Except for the cards made by Orinoco (Lucent, Agere, ...), most Prism2
cards don't seem to work (well) with orinoco-cs; they need either
linux-wlan-ng or hostap instead. Run "apt-cache search
linux-wlan-ng-modules" or "apt-cache search hostap-modules" and figure out
which of the listed packages should be installed on your system.

http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/devices/
http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/
http://hostap.epitest.fi/

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Executive summary of Linux

Posted: 02 Jul 2005 12:54 PM PDT


"Dave Uhring" <com> wrote in message
news:com...

 

Adding, sure. Removing them or discarding them? That gets nasty.
 

You lucky !@#$!@$#!

Recompiling Apache

Posted: 30 Jun 2005 11:27 AM PDT


"Jim Stanley" <earthlink-dot.net> wrote in
message news:daettc$82u$aioe.org... 

The freshrpms repositories have a "yum" package that will work with RedHat
8.0, which is very handy for getting the list of installable packages and
resolving dependency issues.