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Posted: 27 Aug 2006 09:44 PM PDT

Leo wrote: 

Considering the group he is posting in, I would assume he is running
some variety of *nix. Plus, he said he tried two operating systems.

Mounting remote samba share with differing uid's

Posted: 27 Aug 2006 10:48 AM PDT

Grant <com> writes:
 

That would be possible, but it shouldn't be necessary. I expect it
would require changing both of our uid's; in addition the uid's are
different between her Mac and our Mac notebook and I'm not clear how to
choose uid's on OS X.



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why does linux suck

Posted: 26 Aug 2006 12:29 PM PDT

Suicyco wrote:
 
Didn't Einstein say that 'insanity' was repeating the same action while
expecting different results.
If the first couple of disks failed to burn then you have a problem,
somewhere, which is not solved by continuing to burn disks.

You should indulge some fault finding procedures, maybe test burns of known
installables on re writable media - cheaper that way.

I've been guilty of screaming at the computer too, but the bastard never
responds. It is better to go for a walk and a think

--
regards faeychild
(Registered GNU/Linux user #374302)

linux sucks

Posted: 26 Aug 2006 12:28 PM PDT

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:31:09 +0000, Matt Giwer wrote:
 

Matt, and anyone else reading this:

Thanks for participating in this thread and though my computing goes back
26 years this past May I'll defer to your greater experience with on-line
activities.

Still, I feel the very best response to all these postings is absolutely
no response. None. Not from anyone. Not to refute. Not to correct. Not
to inform.

I'll invoke the psychological principle that behaviors go to extinction if
they aren't reinforced. Obviously, this is poor policy in many situations
- yes a charging rhino will eventually get bored and go away, but sadly
you'll not be able to enjoy satisfaction of your exercise of restraint!

However, in this case, and in those of all other newsgroups I haunt, I
have never seen any response to a purely provocative posting accomplish
anything but encouraging and usually inflaming the original poster as well
as the all-too-easily engaged partisans on either side of the issue.

I'm sure you have something specific in mind by your referring to
"aggressive responses" but what those might be in the case of a posting
with the subject "Linux sucks" I can only imagine:
 

I don't even want to speculate on what self-image is implied by the handle
"Suicyco" but the only logical response to this message given a
willingness to overlook its ignorance and trollsomeness is simply "You
don't" but why bother.

Frank

X crashes, black screen (video signal still there), and have to shutdown and power up.

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 09:49 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.hardware Unruh <ubc.ca> wrote: 
 
 
 

# /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration.
# $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002/01/25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $

# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:

# Boot-time system configuration/initialization script.
# This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode.
si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS

# What to do in single-user mode.
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

# /etc/init.d executes the S and K scripts upon change
# of runlevel.
#
# Runlevel 0 is halt.
# Runlevel 1 is single-user.
# Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user.
# Runlevel 6 is reboot.


Are you saying id:2:initdefault: should be id:3:initdefault:? It's at 2. Isn't that low enough?

 

Oh well. I am still researching it. It might be a software problem, but that shouldn't even
take the whole X server down hard and requiring a power off.
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linuxrc, initrd and shared libraries

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 02:19 PM PDT

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:19:26 +0200, Jiri Skiskibowski wrote:
 
The initrd must be complete enough to act as a root filesystem. Any
commands which will be issued, need to be available and have no broken
library links. One simple way to test an initrd is to chroot to it. If
there are no errors and you can issue commands, then you can try booting
using it. But if that fails, you will need to fix broken links,
probably by adding libraries. Another quick way of building a more
complete initrd is by compiling and using busybox.

This example corrects one common mistake, bad library dependancies.

Assume you have an initrd mounted on loopback at /mnt/initrd-test

# ldconfig -r /mnt/initrd-test
# cd /mnt/initrd-test
# chroot .
:
:
:
# exit

--
Douglas Mayne

change from lilo to grub results in kernel panic

Posted: 25 Aug 2006 03:16 AM PDT

Jürgen Schöpf wrote:
 

When I struggled with grub, I always thought "Well,
if I were German, all of this would be obvious".

Now I know better!

Roby

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MS Windows Linux Distribution?

Posted: 24 Aug 2006 05:22 AM PDT

Michael James wrote: 

Try Xandros. I installed it on my wife's computer recently. Everything
worked, almost right off the bat - wireless (but only after I noticed it
was listening on the wrong channel), fonts, scanner, HP printer, movies,
annoying virus scanner popups so you feel right at home, flawless
installation of MS Office, disk sharing, remote logons, openoffice,
thunderbird (almost flawless pickup of old windows data - it missed the
password file), reads and writes to ntfs windows partitions, and doesn't
have that annoying top task bar that you get with ubuntu. On making a
new user, it asked whether their home directory should be encrypted.
Also it uses kde by default, which was a pleasant surprise. The only
hiccup in getting up and running: the latest firefox won't read
amazon.com book previews properly, and I had to scout out another
browser on the xandros site just for viewing amazon.

The premium version comes with crossover office, which worked perfectly.
I set up a bit of networking so I am now able to edit word docs on my
debian machine via a shared partition running Office remotely on my
wife's xandros machine under crossover office and feeding back to my X
server while she does other things without interruption. And it was
close to trivial to set up, but that did need a smattering of tech
knowledge. My biggest beef is that, being slightly techie, I like to
edit fstab, and that file on xandros has a warning that it is
computer-generated and will be overwritten. I think all such files
should have begin and end markers for the overwriteable part.

From being a 100% windows user, my wife hasn't had to boot windows once
since I installed xandros for her. But she has found some settings,
mostly in openoffice, that are not what she expected, and wasted some
time in the first few days.

But it is not perfect; it has two serious bugs: the CD drive spins
whenever a disk is in (so take it out when through) and the
xandros-branded reworking of the package manager is very
counterintuitive, lacks options, and I am not convinced it is
error-free. The xandros people need to look closely at these issues, but
nevertheless I am very impressed with the amount of work that has been
put in to integrate things well - and I like that it is debian-based.

--
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rsync

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 04:09 PM PDT


amit wrote: 

Use the 'z' option for compression. See 'man rsync'.
 

Use the 'log-format' option. See 'man rsync' and man 'rsyncd.conf' (for
format options).

Boot floppy with Networking and ntfs compatiblity

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 08:34 AM PDT

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:19:34 -0700, mydejamail wrote:
<snip> 
rawrite will work, too. The file is a standard 1.44M boot floppy image
(when expanded).

rawrite instructions are found a lot of places, including here (for
reference):
http://www.slackware.com/install/bootdisk.php

Kernel Panic Dell Inspirion 670

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 03:59 AM PDT


com wrote: 

Is there any other error message?

Usually it says something about not being able to mount a drive or find
a partition, etc.. If it was running fine and then failed on a reboot
my guess is either hardware or a corrupt partition/file system,
assuming you didn't do a kernel rebuild and leave something out.

Strange sndstat - please help

Posted: 23 Aug 2006 12:10 AM PDT

Feranija wrote: 

And cat /dev/sndstat still say "No such device". If somebody is
interested, this is Debian 3.1 and kernels 2.4.xx (2.4.18 and
2.4.27). Crazy.