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Need Help - Reconfigure LILO from rescue CD

Posted: 09 Sep 2006 04:13 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Mike Poe <com>: 
 

You just follow the instructions if you boot from some RH install
medium, 'chroot' to your already mounted system, edit lilo.conf
and rerun lilo. No rocket science involved.
 

Wrong! Why can't you do this using lilo? Works for me just fine.

BTW
RH 7.2 is EOL since some time you might want to look into
upgrading to something recent.


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FC5 - Installing X on a system without X

Posted: 09 Sep 2006 11:12 AM PDT

On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:12:51 -0500, Jim Garrison wrote:
 

First, you won't have to worry about dependencies. Yum takes care of
those for you. Now as far as WHAT to install... Depends on your hardware
and how feature-laden you want X and GNOME to be. Start with these
commands:

yum list all *x11*
yum list all *gnome*

Those will list all the available and installed x11 and gnome packages.
Use

yum info <package-name>

to get a short description of what each package does. Pick and choose
which "extras" you want. Packages with "base" or "common" in the name are
usually required, but if any package needs those, yum will install them
when it does it dependencies check.

Good luck.

Stef

Fedora 5 and Wireshark

Posted: 07 Sep 2006 02:21 PM PDT

com wrote:
 

The Fedora package manager is called Yum:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/en/

Install Wireshark the with the command:
yum install wireshark wireshark-gnome

More information for the beginning Fedora user:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/

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dmesg and syslogd

Posted: 07 Sep 2006 11:21 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>: 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"dmesg and syslogd" was the original subject:
(<googlegroups.com>), it
seems you not only failed to give any helpful advice to the OP,
your reading capabilities seem although questionable?

It might be wise to just kill-file you and make life easier...;-)

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How to mount a NFS From Linux on Windows

Posted: 06 Sep 2006 01:41 PM PDT

If you want to mount an nfs share on windows, you need software like
"pcnfs". It mounts nfs shares on windows. Sun used to sell this
program and it was also available from other vendors like Chameleon.
Some of the programs are just nfs clients (i.e. you can mount nfs
drives on windows). Others acted as nfs servers too, you could
"export" (share) your windows drive and read it under Linux (or SunOS
or any other version of Unix). However, I haven't used any of those
programs since around windows 3.x time frame (maybe win2k). It is
quite possible that none of them have been ported to run in xp, or
that the vendors no longer market them. NFS is a good protocol, in
that it is peer-to-peer, but it is relatively insecure. I got my only
computer virus by having NFS on one of my linux machines when it
wasn't behind a firewall that prevented outside access to the nfs
port.

Instead, the common mechanism these days is to set up a samba server
on linux. Samba runs the same protocol that windows servers uses to
share drives.

Linux RAID 5 'rm' performance

Posted: 05 Sep 2006 06:00 PM PDT

Thanks for the responses so far, however rm is the ONLY operation which
seems to suffer. Reading and writing , in my understanding would be far
more likely to saturate the controllers but only rm performance seems
to suffer.

As far as how I've partitioned the disks, I did it for a reason (see
slashdot discussion on the topic,
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/22/1624246.

I am using IDE but I am also using SW raid, not a HW controller in the
motherboard (the motherboard doesn't have one). The processor is a 1GHZ
Duron and seems up to the task of reading/writing. I am using separate
controllers for the disks, all on the same motherboard but different
controllers for each as there are four on the board (Promise
Ultra-ATA). The problem seems unique to rm.

dual boot hell

Posted: 04 Sep 2006 09:56 PM PDT

Chris F Clark wrote: 

Matt Giver repsonded to me with: 

I was not trying to move the linux onto windows (fat|ntfs) partitions,
but simply to copy ext2 (linux) partitions from one machine to another
and then boot them. The machine I was moving from also was a dual
boot machine and had (I thought) the same geometry and partition
structure, and also the same devices (e.g. same video card and
screen, same ethernet and wireless). It should have been a no-brainer.

It's all mostly a moot point, because I've already decided to bite the
bullet and install a new copy of CentOS.

[OT] s. keeling (was: procmail recipe)

Posted: 04 Sep 2006 12:27 AM PDT

Usenet Beavis writes:
 

Results 1 - 10 of 23,700 for usenet beavis (0.28 seconds)

You win, Beavis.
 

Smacking your bitch up isn't that complicated, Beavis. Anyone can do it.
 

And see above, left, and right.
 

But he's not a Beavis, so he can figure it out fairly quickly.
 

Spam isn't anywhere the problem you think it is, Beavis.
 

Double-duh.
 

And you're doing a good job of it.
 

Don't strain your brain too much, Beavis. Or it'll deflate.
 

Perhaps, Beavis, you should give it a try after you finally finish off "The
Little Engine That Could"?
 

Beavis knows something about DNS. He's so smart.
 

Looks like Beavis earned himself a complaint to net, for
port scanning.
 

Yup. And getting your account pulled on account of portscanning would be a
cherry on top.
 

Thank you for your kookfart, Beavis.
 



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Online or PDF Books on Linux Installation

Posted: 03 Sep 2006 12:20 PM PDT


co.uk wrote: 


try this one also. [www.linuxhomenetworking.com]

Change server locale

Posted: 03 Sep 2006 12:05 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup co.uk: 
 
[..]
 
 
 

 

Iirc the redhat documentation provides an overview about
/etc/sysconfig/ files which should mention a few settings. For UK
settings, check what is available to you through 'locale -a'
('man locale').

Good luck

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[Commercial] Content Filtering Internet Proxy

Posted: 03 Sep 2006 06:39 AM PDT

On 2006-09-03, Sachin <com> wrote: 

You want constructive comments? Don't spam usenet if you want people
to buy your product.

--keith

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