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Posted: 25 Jan 2006 03:47 AM PST

D Scott <net> wrote:
 

Please see: "Journaling Filesystems Comparison" on
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Filesystems/

cannot install tomsrtbt

Posted: 25 Jan 2006 12:38 AM PST

On 25 Jan 2006 00:38:01 -0800, com
<com> wrote: 
usb floppy drives might not be capable of formatting to more than 1.4
megabytes. You may just have to settle for a tomsrtbt CD.



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Posted: 24 Jan 2006 08:38 PM PST

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:38:47 -0800, chevysrock39 wrote:
 
Caveat: I haven't setup Ubuntu. I have seen the online documentation for
that distribution, and it is very good. You should review their specific
instructions beforehand- so you'll know what to expect. My advice below
is generally applicable to any GNU/Linux distribution.

Because you have a current backup and PartitionMagic, you can use that
to prepare for the Ubuntu install. Ubuntu includes partition resizing
as part of its install, but if you are familiar with PartitionMagic
you can use that. Also, if your computer has a floppy drive, you can
make a Windows boot floppy now as a fallback position.

The first step is planning. Assuming your system has a single ide hard disc,
the space is allocated between the OSs. Here is a table which is a starting
point:

Partition Used for Size or % Comments
--------- ----------- ---------- ---------------------
MBR boot loader 512 bytes Use grub
1 Windows ? Windows likes to be on part. 1
2 Ubuntu Swap ? size relative to RAM (1x - 2x)
3 Ubuntu root ? probably 4-8G minimum

Here is one solution for an 80G disc:

Partition Used for Size or %
--------- ----------- ----------
MBR boot loader 512 bytes
1 Windows 8G
2 Ubuntu Swap 1200M
3 Ubuntu Root 71G

Use your plan and PartitionMagic to resize your exisiting Windows partition.
This works by consolidating unused space. If your disc doesn't have enough
free space, then you might need another disc, etc. Assuming there is enough
free space for the swap and root partitions, then you can proceed.

PartitionMagic has done its job when your disc has a single partition and a
free block (unallocated space) at the end which will be used by the Ubuntu
install.

The next step is to plan how your system will boot in its final configuration.
I recommend grub because it is a very flexible boot loader. I wrote about
grub here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/msg/5a91c5ebd5c18911?

Grub can be installed either at the MBR or on a linux partition. For me, it
has been easiest to install grub at the MBR, (YMMV). You will indicate your
choice for the bootloader as part of the install.

With your plans set, boot the Ubuntu setup CD. You should be up and running
in no time.

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Problems when installing Linux on Microsoft Virtual PC

Posted: 24 Jan 2006 02:51 PM PST

net.au wrote: 

All my VM experience is with VM under Linux, but some of these things
are undoubtedly similar to the problems I've seen. 

That's a good sign. At least the virtualization was good enough to avoid
comment. 

I don't have a copy of FC3 handy, but this is probably not a show
stopper unless your video card is ISQA rather than PCI (or simulated
ISA). It means the check (firmware?) of the device failed. I suspect
that the kernel used for the install is not the same one you are
booting, or is configured at runtime to use other devices or modes. 

That appears to be the failure() procedure, and it may have written more
information in a log file. 

That could be any of several things, 1-6 are the virtual terminals of
the console, the getty program is probably messed up, and since it has a
"restart" in /etc/inittab it get created and dies until the init process
gets tired of it and prints the message you see. 

Let me offer a thought which may address "poor virtualization" issues...
when you get the grub prompt, immediately press the ENTER or SPACE key
(forget which is used in FC3) and you should see the list of available
kernels (may only be one, not a problem). Then press 'a' to edit the
boot options. You should see the cursor at the end of the options line,
type a space and the option "noacpi" and hit enter.

That prevents a lot of detailed probing of the hardware, which is
probably emulated incorrectly. I suspect the virtualization you chose
was not tested with Linux, or was tested but not fixed.

One more thought: google "colinux," which is Linux booted from a file
(or CD) which uses the Windows drivers but really runs Linux. Totally
neat stuff if it works for your version of Windows. If that provides the
functionality you need it may be an alternate solution. 


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How many tests under mkfs.ext3 -c -c ?

Posted: 24 Jan 2006 12:52 PM PST


"Andrew Gideon" <org> wrote in message
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It depends on the drive size, I think: Lacie has always been a problem for
me: they've been selling external drives for Mac's for many years, including
various removable media drives, and I've seen simply ridiculous failure
rates on the drive. I have *NEVER* seen a Lacie drive work for more than 6
months in the last 10 years, including their replacements, with the possible
exception of an old WORM drive years ago.

Can't get Fedora Core 4 installed.

Posted: 23 Jan 2006 09:52 PM PST


Ken Tew wrote: 

also ensure your BIOS HDD parameters in IDE configuration screen is set
to "Auto" (and using LBA) -- specific Info on your system and
components would help. Have you ever had an OS working on there?

display configuration with RH9 and FC4

Posted: 23 Jan 2006 04:56 PM PST

Well it might be partly my fault. The rpm for the font server files,
installs the config file in /etc/X11/fs. There is a softlink from
within /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts (?) that points to the /etc/X11/fs
directory. That's where the service apparently is trying to source the
config file. Since my softlink was broken because I've moved /etc and
/usr to a bigger disk I thinks I broke the softlink which originally
looked something like ( ../../../../etc/X11/fs ). So I just changed it
to say ( /etc/X11/fs ) which fixed the problem.

Problem with grub on a usb disk

Posted: 23 Jan 2006 09:36 AM PST

I finally solved the problem:

I came to the conclusion that I had probably inadvertantly had
the root device set to hd0 instead of hd1 when I did the
setup command.

To fix the problem I broke into the grub command shell from a
boot and issured:
root (hd1,2) ( set the root device to the linux partition on
usb drive
setup (hd1) ( write the files fix MBR)

After a reboot and setting the usb drive to be the "first" drive
I was able to boot directly from the usb disk to linux.

(Booting WinXP still does not work from the usb drive)

Jerry

Tool for auto-installing Linux/BSD/Windows images onto bladeserver?

Posted: 23 Jan 2006 02:56 AM PST

Michael Heiming wrote: 

Has the OP looked at "frisbee" on emulab.net?

/dan

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Posted: 22 Jan 2006 11:56 PM PST

linda wrote: 
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how to setup boot menu

Posted: 22 Jan 2006 10:55 PM PST

On 2006-01-24, Dave Stanton wrote: 

Your quoting of context is too short.

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What Linux distro would be best for a newbie who needs to run CAD applications?

Posted: 22 Jan 2006 08:20 PM PST

Levin wrote:
 

If you are going to college to learn CAD then your best bet would be to find
out what CAD system the college is teaching and then base your OS and
hardware choices on the requirements of that system. If they're teaching
you CATIA and all you can run is QCAD you're screwed.

Rather than looking for something free or cheap you should factor the cost
of the CAD system into the cost of your education and if you have to flip
burgers or trade bonds or whatever it is that you do to put food on the
table for another year to be able to pay for it then do what you have to
do.

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how can I automount a external hard drive on startup?

Posted: 22 Jan 2006 06:43 AM PST

kermit wrote: 

I had problems myself with external USB drives and FC4, at least out of the
box. I'd certainly update to the latest kernel: I was trying to use an
external 300 Gig drive as a mirror drive for a source code repository, and
it would hang with the default FC4 kernel. It got a lot better with 2.6.14
based recent kernels, but I never got a chance to really test it again under
serious load.

I wound up giving up on USB for the moment and switching to a firewire card
and the firewire port on the machine, which worked flawlessly.
 

Really: which kernel? And does a Knoppix boot CD or DVD detect it and mount
it properly?
 

It looks to me like someone set up the hard drive as a single filesystem
without ever setting up a parttion, this it mounts as /dev/sda instead of as
/dev/sda1. That.... could cause adventures. Can you type "fdisk -l /dev/sda"
and see what is reported?
 

Also looks like a good idea.

Ubuntu to Debian

Posted: 21 Jan 2006 12:11 PM PST

Merci pour les réponses je veut installer Debian pour pouvoir changer
d'environnement graphique par exemple.

yaboot won't install on new-world ppc

Posted: 20 Jan 2006 05:36 PM PST

Thanks. I had figured that it was something along those lines, but in a
different community someone mentioned that I need to install Yaboot and
the kernel on the master drive.