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change Suse Linux from 1 hard disk to another on the same PC

Posted: 01 Jun 2006 05:10 PM PDT


"Bit Twister" <com> wrote in message
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Backup first. Make copies of critical files to CD or DVD or another machine
or memory stick or *SOMETHING* before starting this.
 

Slow down.. Mount the second drive as master on the other controller, so you
don't have to play with the IDE settings of the drive, and so that you get
faster data transfer. This is not a big deal if you have auto-select cables
and drives, but most manufactures set the CD drive to force it one way or
the other.

In fact, unless you've got good backup, do this somewhere else.

Second, it's dangerous to duplicate a live OS. Databases are treacherous
about changing behind your back and not yet being written to the file
system. For this reason, it's extremely useful to boot with a live CD or
rescue CD and mount things by hand for duplication, rather than doing it on
an active OS.
 

Oh, goodness. Please read the manual page for t ar;

tar cpf - -C /old | tar xpf - -C /new

You've also seriously ignored the disk partitioning, and failed to mount
them correctly. And for cripes, sake, "/bin/cp -a /old/. /new/." is a single
command that is actually faster, and "rsync -avH --delete /new/ /old/" is
both fast and double-checks your work.
 

You also shouldn't try this stunt with swap partitions: it will lead to
madness.
 

This is handwaving.

Use the live CD or rescue CD I mentioned, after swapping the disks around as
necessary, to mount the new OS image partitions, do a "chroot" to them, and
run the boot loader from there.

Ask for details on that if you need it.

difficulty recompiling RHEL 4.2 kernel

Posted: 01 Jun 2006 09:09 AM PDT


"Dushan Mitrovich" <org> wrote in message
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OK, so right now you have a mess: let's keep it simple for recovery.

cd [ kernel source tree ]
/bin/rm .config
make oldconfig
make mrproper

Should scrub the local source tree pretty thoroughly.
 

That's old advice: The Linux kernel build structure has been slowly
evolving, to match that of more sanely configured tools, so that "make" does
what you think it would and "make install" does too. And RedHat has also
patched the source trees a bit to do kernel installation more in keeping
with their tools, to automate the editing of lilo.conf and grub.conf to
include any new kernels installed. It's useful to do.

What I referred to with the "look at the kernel SRPM" was precisely what I
said, such as this one:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/4/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm

That's what RedHat uses to build their kernel RPM's from: reading the
"kernel.spec" file in it should walk you through some automated kernel
building processes, and how RedHat thinks it should be done.

The bit about using alternative names in .config or in the Makefile is
because it can be set in either place to give your new kernel a unique and
descriptive name, the way RedHat does things. In some other kernel bundles,
you need to (or used to need to) edit it directly in the Makefile or
Makefile.in to get a unique kernel name and avoid a newly configured kernel
having the same name and overwriting your previously built kernel.

optimal partitions during install...

Posted: 31 May 2006 08:59 AM PDT

Grant wrote: 
 
 

The US Civil Service Commission declared this poor physicist to be an EE before
the Navy put me to work as a manager.
 
 

Actually yes. Thanks.
 

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Installing Multiple OS on a Blade Farm

Posted: 31 May 2006 07:40 AM PDT

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<com>, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
 

Not only that, it eliminates a number of errors, and gotchas. You need
only figure out once what the install is to look like, and don't have to
remember that you need to install this, or that package.
 

Our original tool was created by a student intern as a "semester project"
back in roughly 1990 for SunOS-4.1.1 installations on Sparc boxen.
 

It really makes it so simple - especially when installing systems on an
on-going basis. Did package $FOO get a security update? No problem, you
just put the new package onto the file server, and change one line in a
script - at most.
 

I never counted, and I'm no longer on the crew that does the updates
every 18-20 months or so. When we were still on a 10 MB Ethernet, a crew
of admins each with 6 portable drives containing the new image went around
the building - connect the drive to the victim^Wsystem to be reinstalled,
mount it, and run the script, then go to the next system, lather, rinse,
repeat. Six drives allowed each person to be doing six updates at the
same time. As this was done on a weekend, there were no users getting in
the way. With switched 100BaseT and Gigabit net (both fiber and copper),
we can do the same thing with less bodies. Isn't modern technology wonderful?

Old guy

new modem on old pc help

Posted: 30 May 2006 05:09 PM PDT

Bill Marcum wrote: 

Try http://linmodems.org.

Remove kdelibs-bin package?

Posted: 30 May 2006 03:59 PM PDT

On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:59:01 -0500, com
<com> wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
 

Assuming you're running Debian Sid and are upgrading from KDE 3.5.2 to
3.5.3, kdelibs-bin is now provided by the kdelibs4c2a package.
Removing the package while upgrading shouldn't cause any problems; at
least, it hasn't caused any problems for me.


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out of range

Posted: 30 May 2006 06:40 AM PDT

Laci wrote: 

- and of course - you _do not_ want a graphic login!!
Change the corresponding entry in /etc/inittab to 3 (or 2 - depending on
your distribution). Now you at least have full access and can play
around with the X config-file ....

Even windoze gets the shivers if you change from one monitor to one with
a smaller resolution!!

-pbh-

Error: "The package jre needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it."

Posted: 29 May 2006 03:08 PM PDT

s. keeling wrote: 

Ouch. This sort of nonsense is why I'm wroth at Sun for their repeated
renamings of their packages. jre, j2re, j2se, j-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-th, for
cripes' sake just pick one!

Best general Linux reference books?

Posted: 29 May 2006 09:36 AM PDT

Thanks for the info, good stuff.

I'll have to check out some of those books at the library.

Moe Trin wrote: 

Knoppix boots, but emacs won't start

Posted: 29 May 2006 08:38 AM PDT

Thank you. As typical, I am busy doing other things, so I can't check
the disk. However, you really did answer my fundamental question. It
wasn't some sort of obvious operator error in booting the system--as
in, "Oh, to run programs, you need to login to a user account first."
Before I use the cd again, I will try your suggestions and have saved
the posting, so that I can do so. Burning another cd (after checking
the checksums on the iso file to make certain I got a good download)
might be the best solution. It doesn't seem reasonable that Knoppix
is broken the way I experience. Therefore, it must be a local
problem, e.g. a bad cd burn.


Thank you again, your advice was appreciated,
-Chris

SuSE 10.1

Posted: 28 May 2006 10:14 PM PDT

Yes, I had problems installing SuSE 10.1 on my Dell Latitude D610
(Laptop). Apparently, the live CD couldn't recognize my CD drive. I
managed to fix it by switching to SuSE 10.0. It's a pain to have to
download five CDs again though...

The same thing happened when I tried to install Slackware 10.2 (Same
computer), but I managed to get it to recognize by physically removing
and reinserting the drive before it was needed for recognition.

Heheheh... I try everything.

But now that Slackware is up and running, it recognizes my CD drive
quite nicely. Of course, this may have been the kernel update.

Good luck. If you're looking for XGL, you'll need it.

If you absolutely have to have 10.1, I have no idea. If you don't need
all of the updates, try 10.0.

cpuobsessed from gmail wrote: 

Ubuntu Hotplug Problem?

Posted: 27 May 2006 02:56 PM PDT


Billy Jean wrote: 

I solved this one. Thanks. :) It turned out that my USB hub was
confusing the system during the install. I disconnected the hub,
finished the install, then plugged it in again, and it works now. :)

FREE FREE FREE MONEY!!!!

Posted: 26 May 2006 04:09 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Felix Becker <org>: 
 
 

What would you expect from some IE user limited to use G2?
However your top posted reply in the wrong language wasn't that
bad either. ;-)

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