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Cannot format disc to install FC4

Posted: 05 Feb 2006 07:08 AM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

I accordance with the others suggestions and a LiveCD boot (please
don't forget to run the md5 checksum on the d/led ISO image of whatever
distro you choose, BEFORE you burn it and use it).

If I'm not mistaken (and someone PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong in my
'dd' example) -- perhaps you should Zero out the drive (2 different
ways);

* Use MaxBlast (or whatever Maxtor calls their Zero-ing / Diagnostic
utility)

* Use 'dd' from a linux LiveCD boot

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

this should write a blank MBR/MPT to the disk -- then reboot and rerun
FC4 setup

It seems _perhaps_ that the Maxtor has either some 'hidden' OEM
diagnostic partitions (Compaq/Dell/HP/IBM/Gateway, etc), or it was
originally partitioned and formatted using DDO software (possibly
Maxtors, or 3rd party).

Whereas the dd command will clear the MBR, the Maxtor utilities will
allow you to zero the _whole_ drive and check for bad blocks (I guess
'dd' can also + whatever the linux badblock utility is)

connecting 2 da net

Posted: 05 Feb 2006 12:23 AM PST

Dan C <lan> wrote: 
 
 

It seems to sporadically affect his stop and comma keys as well. I
suggest a dose of castor oil.

Peter

Margin adjust, CUPS, HP PSC 1350

Posted: 04 Feb 2006 09:08 PM PST

In article <localnet>,
Bill Marcum <com> wrote:
 

I'm sure about the paper size, using US Letter. The margin clipping is
not what I would expect from printing A4 onto letter. It's less than
that. It's a maddening couple of millimeters off the top of the first
line printed. Using the alignmargins program has not changed anything,
no matter what values I put in.

It is possible to print with some programs, becuause some things will
set their own margins, but I can't us a2ps for example, because the
clipping cuts off the left side (by 3 or four courier 10 characters in a
landscape page). This is definitely not because cups thinks it's
printing A4, although I appreciate that as a good place to start
diagnosing.

laptop Q re ethernet card / pcmcia card?

Posted: 04 Feb 2006 05:31 AM PST

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:31:06 +0000, Bock wrote:
 

Yes. If you can't get teh internal NIC to work, or can't find a driver,
try a PCMCIA NIC. The one I use on slackware is:

3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN Cardbus PC Card
model 3CXFE575BT

other one will work too:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Hardware-HOWTO/pcmcia.html

then config in /etc/pcmcia or where ever yours is.

Two questions - video driver and adding a new compiler to path...

Posted: 03 Feb 2006 07:28 AM PST


"Bill Marcum" <com> wrote in message
news:eu.gntc.com... 

Depending on the software, you can also make a symlink for it to
/usr/local/bin/ or to $HOME/bin/. In most setups, those locations are
already in your PATH.

Zipslack and ISA

Posted: 02 Feb 2006 06:23 PM PST

Buzzard <invalid.net> wrote:

[ISA internal modem:]
 

If you don't mind some advice: If you can't find a manual (or
equivalent on the Internet), throw the card way, because it's not worth
you time and pain. Replacements are cheap.

Internal modems in general are (in my somewhat well-known view on the
topic: see http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/) problematic, and the only
internal modems I'd even consider keeping would be ones that are
self-documenting. E.g., where there are jumpers, I expect there to be a
jumper diagram _right on_ the card. Separate documentation is never
there when you need it, and tends to get lost.

--
Cheers,
Rick Moen "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
com -- Elizabeth Tudor

Monitor locks up on installation reboot.

Posted: 02 Feb 2006 02:54 PM PST

Thanks for replying.
I am using a ATI Redeon Rage 6 video card, I think this is where the
problem lies.
I am also using a ECS 741GX-M Motherboard, a AMD Athlon XP 1666 MHz
2000+ CPU and I have 512 MB DDR PC333 ram.
I used Fedora Core 4 and it worked.
The same screen comes up for a second and then leaves.
Thanks again for your help.

Suse 10.0 fortran & multimedia

Posted: 02 Feb 2006 09:34 AM PST

imotgm <yahoo.com> did eloquently scribble: 

For wmv and quicktime, yes, but for mpeg1/2/3/4 and real media, you don't
need win32 codecs.
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Ubuntu on VMware

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 03:59 PM PST

Chris,

You are right. It was running Ubuntu as a guest OS on a host XP VMware.
Can I simply install with official Ubuntu 5.10 ISO image in VMware 5.5?

wheel mouse not working

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 11:02 AM PST

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:02:52 +0000, keele.ac.uk
<keele.ac.uk> wrote: 
Have you created the symbolic link /dev/mouse? It might be better to
use Device "/dev/ttyS0" or "/dev/ttyS1", whichever is correct. If
you're not sure which it is, type "cat -v /dev/ttyS0" and move the
mouse. If nothing happens try "cat -v /dev/ttyS1". Or spend five bucks
and get a PS/2 or USB mouse, unless your PC is so ancient that it
doesn't have either of those ports. Even if that is the case, since you
have gotten far enough to edit the XF86Config, there is a good chance
you can get everything to work.
 
/dev/psaux is the PS/2 mouse port.


--
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
-- Beckett

Suse 10.0 problem

Posted: 01 Feb 2006 08:43 AM PST

paolino wrote: 

I can't swear to this: I'd have to take the firefox DNS related code apart.
But think about it. When I set up a network connection, whom am I making the
connection from in order to link to a website? Am I using my hostname,
"whatever-you-selected"? OK, then what network port is associated with that?
127.0.0.1, or the actual IP of my external network port, and which of them
should I use to make the outgoing connection?

The surprise to me isn't that Firefox fails. The surprise is that Konqueror
works.

Problems installing Fedora Core 4 on HP a1340n Media Center PC

Posted: 31 Jan 2006 08:52 PM PST


Fred wrote: 

whoops - I mean "Plug and Play OS" to OFF/No (in the BIOS)

Wireless association problem

Posted: 30 Jan 2006 09:26 AM PST

Unruh wrote: 

As I seid, I set the essid and channel:
iwconfig eth1 essid Office2 channel 1
and iwconfig shows the changes have taken place, but there is no MAC
address and it notes unassociated (sorry laptop not here to copy exact
text).

That is exactly what two different HOWTO docs showed, all except the
"you will then see a MAC address" part :-( 

Unless there are hidden non-printing characters, there's not a lot to
miss on one line. There are no passwords to provide, none are used. 
 

Actual command was
ifconfig eth1 xx.xx.xx.xx
just as suggested by the HOWTOs, using the IP which is set aside. Yes,
there's both fixed IP and DHCP, I can use either with a wire.

--
bill davidsen
SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center
http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com