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Posted: 28 Oct 2005 07:39 PM PDT

Actually I'm using Yaboot. I'm new to PPC Linux, and I'm not familiar
with the differences yet.

Many Rx packet errors

Posted: 28 Oct 2005 02:18 AM PDT

Michael Heiming wrote: 
I get these:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet
inet addr:192.168.1.251 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10606389 errors:36 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:36
TX packets:3832529 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1239404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1239404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:212946 errors:47943 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:180063 errors:0 dropped:1173 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3

Now if lo were giving any problems, I would suspect software problems or
problems inside the box (obviously).

eth0 is a short crossover cable, a surge protector, a 10 foot (about 3
meters) Cat-5 cable, another surge protector, and another short cable into
the other computer.

ppp0 is dialup to my ISP and the Internet. I am not surprised by the errors
here as telephone lines are not so hot. The modem is a U.S.Robotics 2610B
PCI real modem. It also has a surge protector.

Machine has rebooted about 3 weeks ago because power failure was several
hours, and I have the UPS setup to shut down after 55 minutes.

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where is the linux boot menu stored or by which way it can be displayed?

Posted: 26 Oct 2005 03:35 PM PDT

xli wrote: 

(plenty of hex porridge deleted)

The boot sector does only read in the body
of LILO (usually /boot/boot.b).

When booting, press shift or control to show
the prompt if it's not disabled when installing
LILO.

To change the boot-up behaviour, edit the LILO
configuration file (usually /etc/lilo.conf)
and adjust to suit your configuration.

For details, see LILO documentation.

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Building kernel 2.6.8: I get an (uncompressed) vmlinux. Help, please!

Posted: 26 Oct 2005 03:58 AM PDT

Pre-script: I've now got my new kernel up and running. :-) It took me
about six hours to work out that I need the kernel parameter
"ide3=0xc400,0xc802,11" to be able to access my root partition. And
another hour reading matroxfb.txt to fix my tty, which had a 12 rows x 40
columns display. ;-) Many thanks to Peter Breuer!

Enrique Perez-Terron <no> wrote on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:49:35
+0200: 
 
 
 
 
 

Why? The cost of using dpkg here, though not enormous, is non-trivial.
What benefit will it bring me? (That is a real question, not a
rhetorical one.)
 

Sort of - The thing you select in Lilo's boot menu is a combination of
kernel and root partition. These are configured in /etc/lilo.conf. You
run lilo to put all the stuff into the boot sector.
 
 

That would indeed be a great advantage. Several times yesterday I forgot
to run lilo before trying to fire up the new kernel. :-(
 

Windows XP (or 2000 or NT or 98 or 95) is problematic, full stop. I
don't have it and have no intention of ever installing it on any of my
important PCs. If I were ever to be forced to use it (which might well
happen, since the German tax authorities currently require firms and
freelancers to buy MS Software to submit tax returns with), I would buy a
cheap used PC. For security reasons.
 

Just as lilo uses block lists to load kernels.
 

Question: If stage2 can do this much, it must contain a fairly full
kernel and command interpreter itself. If so, why not just forget about
loading a "second" kernel and launch X-Windows and so on directly from
stage2's command interpreter? ;-)
 

OK. If I were using grub, I could run dpkg -i on a new kernel without
worry. With lilo, there would be the danger of rendering the machine
unbootable. (I've managed this several times with "user friendly"
installation programs, particularly SuSE's.)
 

Ah! So I could have played around with those accursed kernel parameters
much more easily with grub than with lilo. Hey, you've persuaded me!
Just as soon as I've got Sarge moderately well running, I'll get into
grub.
 

My sole hard disk is /dev/hdg. (This is because the two IDE controllers
"on" the motherboard are the old-fashioned slower type, and the UIDE
controllers are bolted on to the motherboard as a sort of after-thought).
How then would I talk to the drive? As (hd3)? Or would it still be
(hd0)?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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linux on a usb stick (no hard disk, cdrom,floppy)

Posted: 26 Oct 2005 12:59 AM PDT

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:07:39 +0200, Luciano <uni-hannover.de> wrote:
 

Bad, by all means have a fat32 data partition, you lose filesystem
permissions on fat32.
 

Bad, `man cp` and pay attention to what '-r' does, drop the 'r'...
 

-ENOCRYSTALBALL

Grant.

Clearing a disk that previously had Fedora on it...

Posted: 25 Oct 2005 12:29 PM PDT

Yes, deleting the partition on /dev/sdb by

/sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb
d
d
w

did the trick. Now, quite unfortunately, I have Windows XP running on
my computer... ;)

Thanks.

freeware linux virus scanners

Posted: 25 Oct 2005 10:48 AM PDT


"Michael Heiming" <michael+heiming.de> wrote in message
news:heiming.de... 
 

Amen. Given the volume of email you get, would you be interested in being a
spam filter tester/developer? Bill Yerazunis, the author of CRM114, would
probably be happy to have another huge spam volume testset to run CRM114
against for comparison tests, and he could use a good Linux integrator on
the project to get the *setup* of it for typical home use better integrated.
(It's a fabulous tool, but it's not yet well integrated for other people to
just insert it into their local mail setups, which prevents it from being
more broadly used. The Markovian filtering is brillient, and *efficient*,
though.)

My (inherited, not designed by me) setup runs ClamAV first, and runs ClamAV
against the mailboxes of people who don't want SpamAssassin ClamAV is
pretty good for spotting phishing scams. And for people who use mail clients
against multiple mail servers, such as pulling email from their other
department or home mail servers into the more well-supported, reliable, and
backed up Linux IMAP server that I run or that they might run on their
laptops, using fetchmail or when they run their own mail clients.

I've done that for commercial ISP provided email on my laptop and other's
laptops, to get it from their POP-only commercial service onto an IMAP
server that can be better maintained and show the same folder structure
wherever they go.

disk space after updates

Posted: 25 Oct 2005 07:02 AM PDT


"Christian Fuß" <de> wrote in message
news:de...
 

Picking out which are security patches, which are driver tweaks for new
hardwarea, or which are bugfixes for interoperating with other systems (like
mail) are an adventure.

However, for SuSE, I urge you to never use that pitiful excuse for an update
manager, autoyast, and instead download and use fou4s. It's a much better
tool, and does updates much more cleanly.

how to change osrelease?

Posted: 25 Oct 2005 02:03 AM PDT

Hi Peter,
(Sorry for delay in response)
You got it right, i have a kernel module which doesnot match
with the current kernel version. But i was able to do it with insmod -f

Thanks for the same.

sandy

Slackware 10.2 - is it worth using 2.6 kernel?

Posted: 24 Oct 2005 03:58 PM PDT

In article <phx.az.us>,
example.tld (Moe Trin) writes:
 

I didn't know one was there - when the interface wasn't found I assumed
it was some exotic piece of hardware that needed a special driver.
 

Wow. That's a lot of info. I guess it's time to go back to
school to learn how to read it.
 

The one I found on the net was dated August 2004. But the
complaint was about kernel source incompatibility.
 

I took a quick look at the CDs but didn't find the 2.6.13 source.
 

No, I don't. But the point is moot - I dropped the card in and
it wasn't found either. This is a disappointing reversal of the
success I've had with previous installations.

Unfortunately, it seems that this is going to take a lot more time
than I'm going to have available for the foreseeable future. And
this box isn't a necessity, just an upgrade that it would be nice
to have. So I'm putting the project on the shelf for the time being.
But not the box - now that the weather's getting colder it's at least
turning out to be a nice (though expensive) foot warmer. :-)

Thanks for your help, everyone. I'll talk to you again next year,
maybe.

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Treo 650/Fedora Core 4

Posted: 23 Oct 2005 07:40 AM PDT

Enrique Perez-Terron <no> wrote: 
 
 

Hic. Just drink enough and it will disappear :-).

(I suppose it is a mount line in fstab - I don't run udev, so I don't
know).

Try doing random things until one of them does what is wanted. Or,
failing that, look up "udev" in every file in /etc/.
 

Removing it and not replacing it will obviously affect quite a lot. I
would (therefore, hic) replace it.
 

:-) I think it would! By jove! The man's a godsend to the world of
utter pissed newtheads like myself who can't think a half-step ahead
of the next drop of drambuie!
 

On /tmp, shirley you mean?
 

I must do something like that - it seems awfully fashionable (though I
don't know why - I was never much good at following fashion, sigh).
 

Well, it's a devfs replacement. Devfs is a perfectly good system
written by a perfectly good author which is deprecated because
apparently the author does not get on with some other kernel authors,
who therefore have decided to find silly faults (maybe some with meat
behind them, some without) with devfs, and therefore prefer udevfs,
which is the same thing, but better, or at least different, which I
think is the point.
 

Yah. Race conditions and all that. So what. That's just the excuse. The
truth is as above.

Peter

Xandros Installation Rebooting

Posted: 22 Oct 2005 03:13 AM PDT

Mike Grant wrote:
 

OK. What version number? If it's 3.xx, the shift menu option you want is
VESA. If you have a good disk, that should get you a clean install. If
you have an earlier version, IIRC the non ACPI option is the one to use.
But check the forums on that.
 

The above ought to be a start. The other response to your message brought
up a good point. Did you download an iso & burn it? If so, did you verify
that the md5sum was correct? If so, have you tried burning a new copy?
It's also possible you had a bad disk. If you had a bad download, get
another copy of the iso.

HTH

Bill K