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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

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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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Posted: 24 Aug 2006 11:06 PM PDT

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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.

grub CD hangs on configfile

Posted: 22 Aug 2006 09:14 AM PDT

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:49:37 -0700, com wrote:
<snip> 
Thanks for the update and for running the test!

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New to Linux...Help

Posted: 21 Aug 2006 03:06 PM PDT

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:09:27 GMT, Matt Giwer wrote:
 

Thanks for all your help I'll sot through you suggestions and get Linux
installed.

John

Blank text in Flash

Posted: 19 Aug 2006 05:00 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup, The Ghost In The Machine
<tg00suus7038.net>
wrote
on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:00:02 GMT
<tg00suus7038.net>: 

Well...good news. I think the new nvidia drivers fixed my
font problem. Either that, or a series of fonts installed
during an abortive attempt at trying to get xorg 7.1
running with the new nvidia drivers.

Sigh. One down, one to go; thanks for the help, all. :-)

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Fonts in FC5

Posted: 19 Aug 2006 12:02 PM PDT

Mark wrote:
 

Yes, sounds like the same problem.
 

Thanks I will try.

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which linux is the easiest to install?

Posted: 18 Aug 2006 02:21 PM PDT

Zenon Panoussis wrote: 

As Zenon said, these problems indicate that there is something slightly
ununsual (not necessarily wrong or broken) with your hardware. If you
know your hardware well (ie, you know the chipset of your IDE
controller etc.), try starting Debian in expert mode (type 'expert' at
the boot prompt) and choose only the modules which drive your hardware.
Or at the very least choose NOT to install all the modules for which
you know you don't have the hardware. The reason for the hang is that
it tries a very wide range of hardware driver modules, and one of them
obviously has a conflict with your actual hardware. So cutting down the
number of modules tried may get you past the hang.

(Do you by any chance have a CD drive on a SATA interface? That's a
well-known problem with Debian stable, so try using a more recent
installer image - try here:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/)
 

That whole reply (including the stuff I've snipped) was excellent. I
used RedHat for several years (from 3.0.3 to 7.3) until they got too
commercial (spamming me to subscribe to their paid distro), at which
point I switched to Debian. Debian is slow, compared with other distros
(as in slow to update, slow to support new technologies, not slow to
run) but very reliable, very well supported and with a very pure
approach to 'free' (the whole gratis/libre distinction). It all depends
on what you want. I suspect you will find a small proportion of twits
in whichever forum you post, but equally I expect most distros have a
helpful base of respondents.

One distro you might also consider (sorry to make the choice more
complicated) is SuSE, which fulfils both Zenon's criteria: masses of
software and good docs. I've not used it myself, but it is supposed to
be more user-friendly than Debian (which can assume a little too much
technical know-how), while being less commercial than RedHat (though
I'm not really sure if that's true any more).

Best of luck,

CC

rpm build cannot open file?

Posted: 18 Aug 2006 12:24 PM PDT


Thufir wrote:
 

The file does not exist. You are probably tabbing in the wrong place.
Look (space added for clarity):
 

The file is pine-4.64-1.src.rpm and you are trying to build
pine-4.64-1.i386.src.rpm .

Z

Dual boot installation Q

Posted: 18 Aug 2006 08:31 AM PDT

> ... I tried the "another way" in that link, but all 

I tested the "another way" yesterday, and it worked fine.

Here's what I did:

(A) Started with
- 1st hd (IDE Primary Master):
- 8G NTFS partition with WinXP up and running
- 8G unpartitioned space (I intended to test-install a 2nd
Linux version here, but did not for lack of time)
- 2nd hd (IDE Primary Slave):
- 8G, unpartitioned.

(B) Goal: install Fedora Core 5 on 2nd hd, and use the WinXP
bootloader to switch OSes.

(C) Booted form FC5 Install CD #1 and started the installation.
(C.1) At "Select the drive(s) to use for this installation" I
unchecked "[ ] hda" and let only "[x] hdb" checked,
because I didn't want to touch the WinXP disk.
(C.2) Let it create default partitions. Here is what it did:
v LVM Volume Groups
v VolGroup00
LogVol01 swap
LogVol02 / ext3
v Hard drives
v /dev/hda
/dev/hda1 ntfs 8G
Free free space 8G
v /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 102M
/dev/hdb2 VolGroup00 LVM DV 8G
(C.3) Selected "(o) The GRUB boot loader will be installed on
"/dev/hda" and "[x] Customize ..." (or something similar)
at the bottom. The list with OSes to boot has 2 lines, one
for Fedora on "/dev/hdb1" and one "Other" on "/dev/hda1".
(C.4) On the next screen (GRUB customisation), I chose to put GRUB
in the boot sector on /dev/hdb1, not wanting to touch the
WinXP disk and to use the WinXP bootloader.
Proceed with the install. At the end there's a button to reboot.
Don't reboot yet.

(D) Problem #1: At this point, you need to reboot but the bootloader
that will be in control (the WinXP one) does not know yet about
Fedora.
(D.1) Insert the Fedora Install CD #1 in the CD drive;
(D.2) Now reboot, from this CD;
(D.3) Enter rescue mode (there are instrutions on the very 1st
screen, basically type "linux rescue")

(E) Now you have booted Fedora in rescue mode.
(E.1) Use "dd" to save the boot sector containing GRUB, namely
the one on "/dev/hdb1", to a floppy.
(E.2) Reboot from hd, into WinXP (no other choices for the moment)
(E.3) Copy the saved bootsector from the floppy to a file on C:\,
and modify C:\boot.ini. You can right-click on
"My COmputer"/ "Properties"/ "Advanced" tab/ "Setting under
"Startup and recovery"; from there you can "Edit" boot.ini,
and choose the default OS and the timeout.
This is the "another way" method described at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.setup/msg/3f34b508e14e3d13

(F) Reboot (from hd). Now you have a fully functional WinXP boot menu
with choices for Windows and Fedora.
Note: First time you boot into Fedora, it will finish the
installation (display the licence agreement, etc).

That's all.

Hope this helps, even if I am far from being a Linux expert.
sags

P.S.: In a previous post, you said you managed to boot into Fedora,
but GRUB did not show Windows. So:

Problem #2: At boot time, the GRUB screen shows only the default OS,
not the whole list, and starts a countdown. To see the list, press
[Enter] before the timeout expires. This is different from the WinXP
bootloader, which displays all OSes on the countdown screen.

How to ignore packages/programs with apt-get?

Posted: 17 Aug 2006 06:00 PM PDT

> > Does apt-get have a way to ignore packages/programs that I don't want to 
 
 
 

I tried that and got:
# aptitude hold pan
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
aalib1 akode artsbuilder aspell bug-buddy cvs dia-libs edict esound file-roller gcalctool
gconf-editor
gnome-cups-manager gnome-games-data gnome-nettool gnome-system-tools gnome-themes gnome-themes-extras
gnome-utils
gnupg-agent gnupg2 gpdf gpgsm gstreamer0.8-misc gstreamer0.8-plugin-apps gstreamer0.8-tools
gtk2-engines-pixbuf
gtk2-engines-spherecrystal gtkhtml3.2 gucharmap imlib-base imlib11 kanjidic kaudiocreator kcoloredit
kdeaddons-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-style kdeartwork-theme-icon
kdeartwork-theme-window
kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins
kdepim-kio-plugins kdvi
kfilereplace kgamma kicker-applets kiconedit kimagemapeditor klettres-data klinkstatus kmid kmix
kmoon kmrml
knewsticker-scripts kolourpaint kommander konq-plugins korn kpdf kpovmodeler krec kruler kscd
kscreensaver
kscreensaver-xsavers ksig ksnapshot ksvg ktnef ktux kuickshow kview kviewshell kxsldbg
libboost-python1.32.0
libconvert-binhex-perl libfinance-quote-perl libgal2.2-1 libgal2.2-common libgda2-3 libgda2-common
libgle3
libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 libgstreamer0.8-0 libgtkhtml3.2-11
libgtksourceview-common
libhtml-tableextract-perl libio-stringy-perl libksba8 libmime-perl libnetpbm10
libnews-nntpclient-perl libpth2
libsamplerate0 libtiff-tools netpbm noatun noatun-plugins openoffice.org pinentry-qt synaptic
vim-common vino
xscreensaver-gl zenity
The following packages have been kept back:
pan python python-glade2 python-minimal python-uno transcode
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 109 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 250MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.


# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
pan python python-glade2 python-minimal python-uno transcode
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

I can't upgrade the othber packages at the moment, but that's OK. I do want to ignore Pan.

 

How would I revert the request then if I change my mind?

 

Ah, I always used apt-get. Sometimes dpkg.

 

Yeah, but I didn't see anything about ignoring packages unless I searched badly. ;)
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Testing Patches for Linux Kernel 2.6.15

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 11:31 PM PDT


ne... wrote: 

I could be wrong, but doesn't kernel 2.6.15 currently come with User
Mode Linux (UML) as a subsystem? That is something I heard you could
do. You can recompile the kernel with the UML as a target. Can someone
clarify if this is true and how can it be done?

 

Auto-config of audio card?

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 04:57 PM PDT

com wrote in
news:googlegroups.com:
 

Try looking at the alsa HOW-TO at http://tldp.org - it shows *exactly*
how do set up alsa. Although I think very little of it as then none of
the OSS apps for X will work and have to be reconfigured to say nothing
of the volume "bug".

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how to get hold of RedHat 6.0 CDs ?

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 05:48 AM PDT

Hopefully http://www.linuxiso.org/ will be soon back up...

"Bernard" <fr> wrote in message
news:44e31420$0$30364$free.fr... 

cannot beep

Posted: 16 Aug 2006 01:41 AM PDT

Ulrich Lauther wrote: 

Try 'modprobe pcspkr'

Jeff Long