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Inplace "upgrade" or migration from WinXP to Ubuntu 6.06 - Forums Linux

Inplace "upgrade" or migration from WinXP to Ubuntu 6.06

Posted: 21 Jul 2006 08:15 AM PDT

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:03 -0700, SpankyTClown wrote:
 
<snip> 

I don't agree. Incremental backups can save you a lot of work. _Your_ data
is what is most important to _you_. You can always reinstall the OS if
necessary, but you can't recreate your "birthday party pictures." Your
excuse about it "being hard" may land you in hot water if something goes
wrong with your install (or with your hardware- hard disks are known to
fail, you know). You should assess what you have on backup, and what you
need to make that set complete. Otherwise, be prepared to "kiss it
goodbye."
 

Note: comment inline.

You seem to know what you are doing, but I won't be the one to guarantee
that nothing will go wrong with your install. Shit happens. Humans make
mistakes. I'd backup I were you.

--
http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/wav/error.wav

eth0 not activating at startup | RHEL 4

Posted: 21 Jul 2006 07:45 AM PDT

 

Neither - server NIC built right into the mobo (Tyan). I think I've
figured it out - will try to supply summary at some later date.

vsftpd chroot for users

Posted: 21 Jul 2006 07:09 AM PDT

Michael Heiming <michael+heiming.de> writes:
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yup or if those users need to have regular accounts as well, give them an
ftp account different from the usual one.

 
 

Cannot connect to the internet

Posted: 20 Jul 2006 12:57 AM PDT

"kaari" <com> writes: 

Run pppconfig as root and follow the instructions. Then use 'pon' to start
the connection and 'poff' to stop it. If you need a pointy-clicky
interface install gpppon.

You should have been given an opportunity to run pppconfig during the
installation.
--
John Hasler
gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

Fedora 5 What is Beagle?

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 10:10 PM PDT

Keith wrote: 

Hit up Google, I just put in "Fedora core 5 beagle" and got a few hits
on what it is. From what I gathered, it looks like it's some sort of
desktop search tool.
 

cheers,

Anthony

Modem Problem with Suse Version 10.1

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 07:54 PM PDT

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:38:05 -0500, Clois Beckwith wrote:
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<PASTE> 
Please don't top post. I have moved your response to follow the format
adopted by this newsgroup.

I noticed after I posted that you are using a Intel-537EP. There is a
separate source/driver for that chipset. My links refer to Intel-536EP,
and that is the wrong driver. It appears version 2.7.95.0 is the latest
driver for the 537EP:

(split url, again:)
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/T8Clearance.aspx?
url=/9284/eng/Intel-537EP-2.70.95.0-suse9.3.tgz&agr=Y&ProductID=1230&DwnldID=9284&lang =eng

You said you have tried two versions of Suse. I see that Intel
supports Suse version 9.3 directly with a binary driver. Suse 9.3 is a
little old, though. The source is the best way, but you'll need to be
able to follow their instructions carefully.

--
Douglas Mayne

Where is mozilla installed?

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 07:16 PM PDT

"linz lovez" <com> writes:
 
 
 

I would copy all four of those files into
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox*/plugins

Test of Posting to Newsgroup

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 06:02 PM PDT

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:59:38 -0400, "Chris F.A. Johnson"
<com> Gave us:
 

Were you in the movie "Blazing Saddles" and do people ask you that
all the time?

gdm login screensaver

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 01:33 PM PDT

On 2006-07-20, chuckcar <car> wrote:
 
 

Just because nobody's using the console doesn't necessarily mean
nobody's using the computer... :-)

--

John (dhs.org)

problems mounting external drive

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 09:54 AM PDT


"onetitfemme" <com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 



Your drive needs to be repartitioned and formatted to something other than
what it is (MAC OS?)

Debian installer does not recognise ataraid array

Posted: 18 Jul 2006 03:14 AM PDT

magnate <demon.co.uk> wrote:
 

[snip details of your plan to try again using the Debian d-i installer's
"bf2.6" installation flavour]

Chris, I read your post last night, and at the time was very impressed
with your thorough approach to both the testing process and recounting
of same on this newsgroup. Like Michael Heiming, who kindly posted the
link to my Linux on SATA page, I have little practical experience with
fakeraid controllers -- and just about everything I know on the subject
is already on the aforementioned page.
 

I've not yet found one, and I've really looked extensively (though not
lately). In addition to the dmraid resources linked from my SATA page,
please see if the udev-related entries on
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Kernel are any use to you -- since hotplug,
udev, sysfs, and the devicemapper all work closely in 2.6.

Anyway, my understanding is that the ataraid software layer is
2.4-specific, and dmraid _is_ ataraid for 2.6. (You may have meant
simply "Linux parsing of ATA fakeraid disk semantics", in which case
no criticism intended, and I'm just being careful to disambiguate.)
 

Correct.
 

My impression is that you're not missing anything, except the extremely
high likelihood that the current Debian installer ("d-i") doesn't have
dmraid support in the installation kernel. Now, what you _could_ do is
to install some other leading-edge distribution, e.g., FC5, and then do
a chroot installation of Debian, using the other distro's infrastructure
support for dmraid to accomplish the job. You'd then compile a
dmraid-supporting kernel inside the chroot jail before rebooting.

(See: "Installers" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian on how to do
chroot installs. It's actually pretty easy, and interesting to do.)

See also:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2005-July/msg00014.html

The existence of this "udeb" package suggests that my suspicion about
d-i is correct: Such packages are useful in constructing custom
installer images. (There are lots of such custom installer images
catalogued on the aforementioned "Installers" page; might be one with
dmraid support.)
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/debian-installer/dmraid-udeb

That package should not be confused with userspace package "dmraid",
which is the glue to control fakeraid operations via devicemapper:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/dmraid

Good luck.

--
Cheers, English is essentially Pictish that was attacked out of nowhere by
Rick Moen Angles cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of
rick@linux Vikings masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and
mafia.com Greek but lacked the Arabic in which to convey that. -- Bill Hammel

PC Problem on boot up

Posted: 17 Jul 2006 08:16 PM PDT


***** charles wrote: 


I never meant to suggest that the OS is the cause, it was just
something that had changed.

I looked at the capacitors and some do seem to be swelled at the top.
I do not think it is the power supply though, I might swap it out just
to see.

I know that it would be easier to replace the computer, but it is just
my fooling around computer that I was using to run linux. I do not
really need to replace it, but I would like to have another working
computer here. I might try replacing some of the capacitors to see if
that works. If it does not, then I might just keep the case and
rebuild it.

There was mention of putting in a installer disc, but the problem
happens exactly the same when I try to boot with one of those discs.
I fear it is a motherboard problem and I will have to replace it. Suck.

debian setup PCI devices

Posted: 17 Jul 2006 06:11 PM PDT


iforone wrote: 

whoops -- perhaps 'wlan0' (rather than ath0)??

This appears to be Debian specific;
www.sown.org.uk/index.php/DebianHostAp
but all elements may not apply...

Regards

wireless and madwifi installation problem.

Posted: 17 Jul 2006 03:10 PM PDT

>about my system: I have a laptop t42 (ibm) with fedora 5. wireless 

OK, that means that the driver is either not loaded or had problems when it
tried to load. Look in /etc/modprobe.conf to see if there is something
there (ie some driver to be loaded).
If there is, run modprobe nameofdriver
and see if there are online errors or errors at the end of
dmesg|tail


 
 

That means that you do not have the kernel source installed. Look on your
installation CDs (or whereever you installed from ) for an rpm that starts
with
kernel-source and ends with .i386.rpm
Install it

rpm -Uhv /path/to/your/CD/kernel-source*i386.rpm


 
 
 
 

Yes, it means that the interface wifi0 does not exist, which iwconfig
already told you ( actually wifi0 is not an interface name any driver I
know of uses anyway).


You need either a native driver for your wirelss card
lspci|less
and look for the wireless card.
or you need to use ndiswrapper
( ndiswrapper should be on the installation CD. Install it with rpm
and then do
ndiswrapper -l <nameofwindowsfile.inf>
where the argument is the path to and the name of the inf file for the
windows driver from the windows CD that came with the wireless/laptop.




 

WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /selinux

Posted: 17 Jul 2006 12:21 PM PDT


Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 


Thank you guys for your help but didn't work!
looks have to study some books or ask other groups to solve it.

it takes time for newbies. Although I'm a linux fan but I have seen
that because of varieties of linux distributions, everybody says
something different about a problem or question :(
what I'm trying to say is that there is no a standard and formal or
unique way to solve a problem.

Once again thanks

No sound on headphones

Posted: 15 Jul 2006 09:49 AM PDT

"alexLIGO" <phys.lsu.edu> writes:
 
 
 

 

a) Talk to Dell. This is a hardware problem not usually software.
B) Make sure you are plugging into the soundcard output not input. (try
both)
 

URGENT please help

Posted: 15 Jul 2006 12:39 AM PDT

"iforone" <com> wrote in
news:googlegroups.com:
 

except they're not modems because they don't deal with sound. modem=
MODulator-DEModulator i.e. translating between sound and digital and
vice versa.

--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )

kernel upgrade ethernet and printer problem

Posted: 13 Jul 2006 11:22 AM PDT

<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

The prior posters' advice is still legit. Do a clean install of
the latest version of Fedora, CentOS etc.... Then the
kernel will get along much friendlier with the supporting
software.....

later....

Motherboards

Posted: 13 Jul 2006 05:24 AM PDT

Mike Stewart wrote: 

No offense but your posts would be easier to follow if you spelled
correctly and used periods to designate the end of your sentences. This
last post consisted of one long sentence that was 6 lines long and I
lost what you were trying to say after the 3rd line.

just an FYI

installation failed

Posted: 13 Jul 2006 02:31 AM PDT

nix wrote: 

Well, yes, but which one are you using?

Disk Controller Problem of SiS 5571 chipset in LINUX ???

Posted: 12 Jul 2006 11:37 AM PDT

Susan wrote:
 
This chipset uses and old version of SiS 5513 IDE controller that doesn't
support UDMA only MWDMA-16 (according to the sources of sis5513.c). So
there isn't any problem with Linux/*BSDs is a limitation of the chipset
itself.

Hope this helps.