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Installing Debian Linux

Posted: 14 Nov 2005 10:43 AM PST

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:43:56 +0100, JC
<fr> wrote: 

Whatever command you want. Try "man intro". Try "startx" if you want a
graphical interface, or "mc" for an interface similar to Norton Commander.


--
It takes all kinds to fill the freeways.
-- Crazy Charlie

What functionality do I miss by stopping lisa?

Posted: 13 Nov 2005 11:08 PM PST

Bill Marcum <com> writes:
 

That is the "lisa" included in xscreensaver
(/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/lisa) There is no many page for the real lisa
which is started at boot. There is some documentation in /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/lisa

 

Yes.
 

?
 
 

There are no man pages at all in the lisa package.

Mounting network smb server

Posted: 13 Nov 2005 02:54 PM PST

Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: 

Alternatively, if this is running a new enough samba, you can
use cifs.mount instead of smbmount. I found it was necessary with
our W2K3 servers.

not interactively running fdisk

Posted: 13 Nov 2005 01:27 PM PST


"onetitfemme" <com> wrote in message
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fdisk is fairly odd that way. You can wrap it with "expect", or you can use
a different tool. "sfdick" and "cfdisk" have existed for different OS's.

Create ttyN virtual console

Posted: 13 Nov 2005 07:11 AM PST

Bill Marcum ha scritto: 

Absolutely, I have:

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y

I forgot to tell you that my current console at the startup is the serial
device /dev/vc/0 -> ttyS0.

Thanks a lot for your response,
Pizza67

Xandros (v. 2) installation - no mouse

Posted: 13 Nov 2005 06:27 AM PST

On 2005-11-13, JayD <org> wrote:
 

[...]
 

Xandros-2 is pretty old now. Why not pick up Xandros-3.0.2 instead? The
"Open Cirulation" edition is free via bittorrent or for a modest fee via
http:

http://www.xandros.com/about/downloads.html

I recently install 3.0.2-OCE on my wife's machine and it went very
smoothly; it detected and configured all the hardware properly.

--

-John (dhs.org)

Problem installing Windows XP on a laptop already running FC4

Posted: 12 Nov 2005 04:17 AM PST

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:17:06 +0000, Patrick May wrote:
 

I'd try this first: Using Linux fdisk, set the filesystem type of
/dev/hda2 to Type 7, NTFS, make it "bootable," save and exit fdisk.
Reboot with the XP install disk and see if it works. I don't think it
will. Windows is an arrogant OS and always wants (needs, actually) to be
on the first partition. To put it anywhere else involves jumping through
too many hoops.

Here's what I'd do: First, eliminate /boot. A boot partition is no longer
really needed these days unless you're experimenting with multiple kernels
and multiple Linux OS's, and want everything all in one place easily
accessible from any of your Linux distros. To do this, you'll need to
move everything in /boot to a 'boot' DIRECTORY in your / partition, edit
/etc/fstab, grub-config, etc. to reflect the changes, install the new grub
on the MBR, and reboot to see if everything took. Be sure to have a
"backdoor" to boot your system, if it doesn't. Maybe, making an boot
floppy with the new grub, then if it doesn't work, just boot the system
normally. After the bugs are ironed out, you can put the new grub on the
MBR.

If it "takes" use Linux fdisk to delete hda1 and hda2 and combine them
into a single hda1 with a filesystem type 7 and "turn on" the bootable
partition flag. You can leave hda3 as it is. Linux won't mind.

Another suggestion: Be sure to make yourself a Fedora boot floppy,
before you install Windows. You'll need it to boot up Fedora, so you can
reinstall Grub on the Master Boot Record, after the Windows installation
wipes it out with its own MBR.

Stefan

A Question About A Pair Of Missing Files In My Linux OS

Posted: 12 Nov 2005 02:17 AM PST


"Pete Holland Jr." <com> wrote in message
news:dl707b$3vi$xnet.com... 

Apt and Yum don't work so well with SuSE, due to various oddnesses of SuSE
layering *ANOTER* package management system on top of of it. But "fou4s"
does, quite well, and it's available from a google search near you. I highly
recommend using fou4s instead of yast and it's package management component,
autoyast.

Find traces for a script in /etc/init.d on RedHat

Posted: 11 Nov 2005 03:26 AM PST


"Unruh" <ubc.ca> wrote in message
news:dl2keu$g4t$itservices.ubc.ca... 

Running init scripts from the command line is never quite the same as
running them in the init process: processes that have failed to start at
boot time, such as DHCP due to local network spanning trees taking a long
time to provide connections to your new network device, may run quite
happily from the command time.

command redhat-config-network crashes

Posted: 10 Nov 2005 09:34 PM PST


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

And check the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network, and any dangling
/etc/dhclient* files. You didn't mention if you're using DHCP or static IP,
or why you've jumped to 3.6 instead of 4.2. I like CentOS 4.2, I'm using it
to on some servers right now which need more stability than Fedora Core 4
and an older PHP version than the leading/bleeding edge FC4 represents.

fedora core 4 + sata hdd

Posted: 10 Nov 2005 09:03 PM PST


"RonRan" <com> wrote in message
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Does any other Linux see it, such as the Knoppix CD or DVD? Does it show up
in your BIOS, and what is the controller on the motherboard? I've had
incredible grief with those piece of !@#$!@@$#!!#@ Promise controllers,
which pretend to support Linux and I've actually caught pretending not to
speak English when I finally got a human on the line. (It was awfully fun to
hand the phone to my colleage from Taiwan who was from Beijing and speaks
native Chinese, and actually hear them suddenly not able to speak Chinese
and try to switch to English!)

Curious bash source behaviour - comments?

Posted: 10 Nov 2005 03:37 AM PST

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: 

Tks - whilst I can happily live with this behaviour now that I know
about it I tend to prefer explicit forms as a rule. If I wanted the $1
value exposed to the called script I would happily code "source script $1".

But hey - I didn't write bash (or any of its predecessors) so "c'est la
vie".

Cheers, Frank.

diskless ssh...

Posted: 09 Nov 2005 12:23 PM PST

That did it... all I had to do was copy the /etc/ssh to
/usr/local/etc/ssh and link it in the root image to /etc/ssh. None of
the machines are complaining that they're sharing keys either. Nice.
:)

Thanks Keith/Nico!
Shaun

Help with grub setup for dual-boot system

Posted: 09 Nov 2005 05:30 AM PST


Chaz Ginger wrote: 

I did not get an error from fdisk /mbr, just the sys c:

Here is the partition table, via Linux' fdisk:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1824 14651248+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1825 1837 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1838 4958 25069432+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 4959 4982 192780 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 4959 4982 192748+ 82 Linux swap

And grub.conf:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Accepted best practice upgrades in a non-yum world

Posted: 06 Nov 2005 10:31 PM PST


"Frank Hamersley" <com> wrote in message
news:aWRbf.11260$bigpond.net.au...
 

And the /etc directory, and /var, and lockfiles, etc. Yup, they vary. The
problem is that the author of a tarball may be writing for a different
distribution or even a different OS, and the RPM and Debian .deb packagers
need to maintain some kind of local consistency. Most of such packagers try
to commit minimal modifications, simply to ease path management for us the
user (such as putting things in /usr/sbin instead of /usr/local/bin that are
actually local system tools, not typical user tools.) *SuSE*, however,
throws all caution to the winds and invents entire new layers of config
files that the software authors never suggested and therefore isn't in any
documentation.
 

Do keep your old modified source bundles around, at least with a
"config.status" file, to help show where you wound up installing things so
that RPM installs don't get mingled on top of your hand-installs and cause
confusion.

how to tell X that I replaced 2- with 3-button mouse.

Posted: 06 Nov 2005 07:33 PM PST


Hi all !

cds wrote:
 

Removing the line 'Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"' is the whole story.
Background: You have a 3-button-mouse ! (No emulation required anymore)
 

Have you tried "man xorg.conf" ? Works pretty well with my SuSE 10.0 ...

The tool you might looking for could be "xorgconfig" (Never used
especially this one, because SuSE has got a graphical tool called "SaX2"
for most (all ?) maintenance work.
 

I have no idea which information are available within Fedora/Redhat, sorry.

--
Never give up !

Gruß,
Reinhard.