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Running linux off of a MP3 player? - Forums Linux

Running linux off of a MP3 player?

Posted: 23 Aug 2005 05:24 PM PDT

check out a Slackware-based distro called "Slax".
http://slax.linux-live.org/ There are Standard, Server, "KillBill", and
"Popcorn" Editions that include X with a window manager - Popcorn
edition is small (fits on a 128MB usb flash!) and doesn't contain KDE,
defaults to Xfce (just took a quick look, not sure if fluxbox or any
other small wm would be on it without some adjustments). A "Frodo"
edition (no gui) is only 47 MB.

Problem running /bin/sh

Posted: 23 Aug 2005 12:02 PM PDT

I just check with
system-config-securitylevel with an X Window (with ssh, we don't see SE
Linux options)
and I click on the "SELinux Tab" and uncheck "Enforcing" checkbox

Now when I enter getenforce command, I receive Permissive and my script
is working !

Thank you again !

Could swap space be shared among different linux distributions?

Posted: 21 Aug 2005 10:39 PM PDT

In article <it.uc3m.es>,
Peter T. Breuer <it.uc3m.es> wrote:
:Robert Nichols <localdomain.invalid> wrote:
:
:/var/lib is fine to share. What do you have in mind? It contains
:directories that are specific to particular applications. The contents
:are as likely or not to be compatible across distros (hence different
:versions of the same application) as are the contents of your home
:directory. I can't think offhand of anything that would be a problem.

Well, the most obvious are:

/var/lib/rpm - The database of installed packages, certain to be
unique to each installation that uses rpm.

/var/lib/slocate - The database for the 'locate' command, again
certain to be unique.

/var/lib/scrollkeeper - The catalog of installed documents for the
help system, again unique.

Virtually every package that needs disk space to store system-wide state
information keeps it somewhere in /var. Blindly sharing that tree among
different installations is going to result in huge problems.

--
Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "rnichols42"

Why can't I print landscape?

Posted: 21 Aug 2005 10:43 AM PDT

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:57:36 +0000, Lenard wrote:
 


I looked at that -- Nothing there helped. I tried copying the NT
..ppd file, etc., still no landscape.

Changing from GNOME to KDE

Posted: 21 Aug 2005 08:21 AM PDT

Timothy Scott Mathews wrote:
 


You assumed correctly, all you should have to do is type something like
'switchdesk KDE'. Unfortunately SuSE does not use switchdesk, you need
to edit the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file, example below;

DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

Then either restart the system or stop and start the X-interface.


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ssh session freeze and e1000 driver.

Posted: 21 Aug 2005 02:31 AM PDT

Lenard wrote: 

on my RHEL 4 server, I've just done "tar xvfz e1000-6.1.16.tar.gz" and
in src directory "make install".

Slackware 10.1 Internet problem

Posted: 20 Aug 2005 09:44 PM PDT

On 2005-08-22, Alex8022 <net> wrote: 

If you're not going to follow the directions Moe Trin gave
(and not even quote him!), I'm not sure you deserve this hint,
but I'll be kind: your kernel isn't finding your ethernet card.
Did you modprobe b44 as I suggested in another thread? (It's
also not really polite to ask for advice on the same or related
problem in two separate threads.)

--keith

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Help u(n)mounting a harddrive

Posted: 20 Aug 2005 10:51 AM PDT

In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<somewhere.ne>, The Gnome wrote:
 

Moving the files from 'old' to 'new' should be fairly straight-forward. The
"Hard-Disk-Upgrade" mini-howto should provide all the needed instructions.
 

Not being able to umount the drive is almost always caused by some application
having an open file. It may be that the application is hung, and consequently
the 'kill' commands issued by the shutdown sequence won't succeed. The new
drive itself shouldn't cause this. Use '/usr/sbin/fuser' or '/usr/sbin/lsof'
to identify what applications are accessing the hard disk before you try to
shut down in conjunction with /bin/ps. This may identify the hung application.
 

The appearance of your window manager is a function of the setup and
local configuration files. These reside in /etc/ as well as the home
directory of the individual user. I don't think this would be a factor.

As far as left-over files on the older drive, as root do

/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda

or what ever the original drive is now called, and compare that to the
output of '/bin/mount'. If a partition isn't mounted, it's not accessible.
If you originally had /home as a sub-directory of / and this was on the /
partition, AND all you did was to copy the "old" home to (example)
/mnt/temp.location.of.new.partition/ AND THEN edit /etc/fstab to mount
the new drive on /home then the old /home/ still exists, but is not
accessible because the 'mount' blocks access to files that _were_ in the
mountpoint before you mounted. Bottom line - old home should not even be
visible.
 

Now, here is where you may have a problem - you state above that the new
drive is (assuming minor typo) /dev/hde. That is the "fifth" drive, and
as a IDE type controller only handles four, this has to be an extra
controller. But you don't provide any details - not even mentioning the
distribution/version, or type of hardware involved.
 

What I'd do would be to use /sbin/fdisk to verify what's located where, and
compare what /etc/fstab says. Look also for any add-on commands that were
used to "manually" mount drives during the boot process, and look for any
boot commands or BIOS setups that relate to the extra disk controller.

Simply reversing the steps in the 'Hard-Disk-Upgrade" mini-howto, or
whatever you used as a guide should suffice.

Old guy

Why will print jobs keep printing?

Posted: 20 Aug 2005 10:24 AM PDT

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:00:42 +0000, Lenard wrote:
 


That did not work but these settings did:

Queue type: Networked UNIX (LPS)
Server: 192.168.1.6
Queue: lp

-Thanks

Dual-Boot Win2k / Linux

Posted: 19 Aug 2005 10:13 PM PDT

netsurfer802 writes: 

Install Microsoft Windows first and leave unpartitioned space for Linux.
Next install Linux and choose automatic partitioning. Don't worry about
"which partition": the installer will deal with it and with configuring the
bootloader for dual-booting.
--
John Hasler
gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

GRUB Error 22 with SATA Hard Drive

Posted: 19 Aug 2005 02:11 PM PDT

David Johnstone wrote: 
Hi David:

It does sound quite similar. I too have one SATA and two PATA drives. I
tried clearing the MBR on all three physical hard drives and booting
into the SuSE Install-Recovery mode. I left all hard drives visible in
BIOS with the SATA first in boot order. Using the "expert" mode, I had
it rebuild the GRUB boot from scratch, putting GRUB on the SATA hard
drive which holds Windows XP and is first in my hard drive boot list in
the BIOS. SuSE's boot rebuild "saw" Windows XP and the Linux install and
included both (plus a floppy boot) in the menu it created.

But when I booted, I get a blank screen where GRUB usually shows up. No
error message. The only way I could get anything to boot was to "reset"
the MBR on the SATA hard drive after which it booted straight to XP (as
it should with a clear MBR and the XP SATA drive as first boot hard drive).

Yes, I bought a boxed set of SuSE 9.3 Pro and it offered to install
64-bit. Actually, my first boxed set since Redhat 6.? I really like the
SuSE configuration and update systems. Very intuitive.

Thanks,
Jess

upgrade fc4 to debian?

Posted: 19 Aug 2005 08:44 AM PDT

I think what I'll do is Debian on a dual-boot machine and then just
migrate the data.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a second hard drive, a full tank
of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing
sunglasses. This should be easy.

Thanks, all.

Grub and mobile rack

Posted: 19 Aug 2005 01:47 AM PDT


<com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:googlegroups.com... 

Wrong. I just tried it and I get the Error 22 right away even without
removing the drive in the rack. It seems that 2 PATA and one SATA
drive is just to much for poor old Grub, for whatever reason.
Pity. Anyone know of a bootloader that can handle this?

David