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Posted: 27 Oct 2006 09:26 AM PDT

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:54:04 +0000 (UTC), Ignoramus16855 <16855.invalid> wrote: 

It is now completely messed up, crashes with segfault trying to open
/dev/hda1.

I decided to forget this Ubuntu stuff like a bad dream and go back to
Fedora Core, which I run everywhere else. My son wants Fedora core
also (he is 5.5 yo and likes Fedora better).

i

Changing Motherboard and processor

Posted: 27 Oct 2006 08:17 AM PDT

Daniel James <aaisp.org> writes:
 

Stick in your new motherboard and new drivers and boot up. That is (
almost) iti, assuming that your processor, motherboard, are supported. FOr
example If you are changing over to a Commodore Pet motherboard and
processor, you are out of luck. Or even to an old non-PC Mac from a PC.

Places of potential "problems"-- video card, sound card. You should rerun
the video selection program and sound selection program.


 
This is why distros use modules NOT built in. They need to run on a huge
variety of hardware.

 

Which is why Gentoo demands that you build your own from scratch. Except
for a few situations, it is a silly procedure to follow.

 

I believe that this is nonesense.
 
 

dumb Ubuntu question #1

Posted: 27 Oct 2006 08:14 AM PDT

Michael DeBusk (net) wrote:

: > part a/ sometimes the app appears not to be 'compiled', if that's
: > the right word. How do I turn it into a file that my install
: > program can recognize.

: If you're talking about installing from source code, I'd recommend
: avoiding that for now. I've done it, and it can be a headache. Look for
: a package, especially a debian package (with the ".deb" extension), and
: install that. Red Hat packages (with the ".rpm" extension) can be
: converted with a program called "alien"; install that through Synaptic
: Package Manager.


well, the assumption there is that the package exists as a .deb or .rpm
(the latter can be problematic because it was not "packaged" for ubuntu).
A lot of software exists which is not in the official repositories at all
or they are not updated often enough. For example, Firefox 2.* was
released few days ago and it exists in ubuntu 6.10 but a week ago, you
could not readily get a .deb. You had to install from the web site.

anyway, most well-created packages will come in a ".tar.gz" which is
compressed .tar file. "tar -zxvf filename" will extract the files for
you. The first thing to look for is "INSTALL" or "README" and you will
probably see instructions about "./configure", "make" , etc. Do these
without a "sudo" . Then if everything goes well do "sudo make install
....".Instead of the last one you can try using "checkinstall" (sudo apt-get
checkinstall) .See http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ . This
latter allows a nice uninstall method and I beleive it will let you get
dependencies automatically too.

This is fairly generic but not always true. other programs will have
their own instructions.

Windows Update Problem

Posted: 26 Oct 2006 06:15 PM PDT

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:03:19 -0700, The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
 
<snip> 
Yes. There is a command called proxycfg.exe. I believe this is independant
of the control panel "internet" settings, also.

C:\> proxycfg 192.168.0.1:3128

Without this setting, Windows update spins its wheels, then fails without
indicating why. Typical.


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New to Linux, need installation help

Posted: 25 Oct 2006 08:46 AM PDT

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:05:31 -0700, Keith Keller <san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
 

Funny, I thought it was Crap ;)

Grant.
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ULTRA SLOW LINUX [PHP HTTPD]

Posted: 25 Oct 2006 08:32 AM PDT


co.uk wrote:
 

OK, let's start with the easy bits: *WHICH* Fedora Core Linux? There
have been 6 published.

Then, look at the web pages that are slow. Do flat text files there
appear much more quickly?

Then, if it's specific to those web pages, review the contents of the
web page. Add little debugging statements to publish timestamps as it
executes different stages.

Reconfiguring software RAID after disk names changed

Posted: 25 Oct 2006 08:30 AM PDT

Marek Zawadzki wrote: 

Use mdadm to set up the array again.

Is it possible to install Ubuntu on my Compaq?

Posted: 24 Oct 2006 10:23 PM PDT

In article <com>,
com says... 

And the default is to warn people not to use NO security, unless you
like a lot of unsecured spots all over the place, and when we teach
people about security we always tell them to NOT use WEP.
 

No, I've clearly stated that the default driver did not include WPA
ability, that it should include it, and that if they are going to
include WEP they should also include WPA, by default.
 

I could say the same about people that don't understand the human side
of computing, that don't understand security, that completely miss the
point of having a secure network/device.

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single home partition multiple linuxs?

Posted: 24 Oct 2006 04:26 PM PDT

Bit Twister wrote: 
Thanks for the input. I think I will stay with what I am doing. It kinda looks
like it is ok. When I started with Linux I was running Caldera and they only
asked for the swap and root partitions. I switched to Slack and just kept doing
the same. It works so maybe it is not so wrong.
Thanks again for your input.


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Adding packages to kubuntu - in particular, mozilla

Posted: 22 Oct 2006 03:47 PM PDT

> > Mike WN5PMROnly Kubuntu doesn't use synaptic - it comes with Adept. Start Adept 

Thanks much. Installing Adept to install Synaptic and then using
Synaptic to install packages worked damn well.

SD

Means of saving bash_history regularly

Posted: 22 Oct 2006 09:42 AM PDT

On 2006-10-22, Unruh wrote: 

man bash:

If the histappend shell option is enabled (see the description
of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below), the lines are
appended to the history file, otherwise the history file is
overwritten. If HISTFILE is unset, or if the history file is
unwritable, the history is not saved.

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Knopix 5.0.1: Customising

Posted: 22 Oct 2006 09:04 AM PDT

Maurice Batey wrote: 
glad to have been of help Maurice. Enjoy.

Mike WN5PMR

vim - sed search/replace compatibility

Posted: 21 Oct 2006 01:02 PM PDT

> On Oct 23, 2:46 pm, Chris Cox <net> wrote: 
[...]truncated


Hay, I cant read that! (I'm getting old) Could you use some other char
other than '/' in that s///... like s!!! (or s,,, if you have history
problems)

ANYTHING but / is so much easier to read (without the \/s in there).

Even better to avoid command scripts to interactive commands and use a
tool designed for what you are trying to do. And ' can quote those
'\'s for you too, but then sed uses them (bummer).

My sed (GNU sed? on Fedora 5) has edit in place... how about yours?

SED(1) User Commands SED(1)
NAME
sed - stream editor for filtering and transforming text
[...]
-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]
edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)

.... a quick test
echo 'one \two/ three' > xx
sed -i.BAK 's!\\!/!' xx
diff xx.BAK xx
and I get
1c1
< one \two/ three
--- 

... I guess since you need to replace '\\' you will need '\\\\' and it gets
really ugly, so how about

nasty='/Documents/%20and/%20Settings/Tom/Desktop/Web/%20Pics/'

FS='/'
BS='\\\\'
worse="${nasty//$FS/$BS}" # This is a BASH-ism, dont try with ksh etc

sed -i "s!file:///C:$nasty!/pics/!" $1

.... ok, I don't know if it will work anymore...
Now I remember why I'm not a programmer anymore.

... Just ignore me. I do.

Linux version for dual booting?

Posted: 21 Oct 2006 07:58 AM PDT


***** charles wrote:
 

Yeah, laptops are the hardest systems for configuring. They tend to
have new graphics chipsets that no one in the Linux world has had the
time or energy to integrate new drivers for, and other strange
peripheral chipsets that can be very difficult to integrate. It's why I
prefer not to work with brand new laptops, but those that are about six
years old, so some other person has the opportunity to work out and
publish any difficult workarounds.

hibernating (S4?) with no swap

Posted: 20 Oct 2006 03:37 PM PDT

In article <uni-freiburg.de>,
LEE Sau Dan <uni-freiburg.de> wrote: 

FWIW, it unmounted all the filesystems (TYVM, swsusp) then aborted on 2.6.18.
 

Well, the main reason I would use suspend-to-disk is so it _wouldn't_
use battery.
 

Thanks. I'll look into suspend2. Any idea where I find that, or is
Google my friend here?

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best distro to install on CF card?

Posted: 20 Oct 2006 08:51 AM PDT

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:44:07 +0000, Peter Lynch wrote:
 

How much RAM do you have currently in the box? You don't need much, if
all you're going to do is run a very limited -- no X, shell only -- task
specific system. Something like that would only require a few megs of RAM
for the system ram disk. And by a few, I mean 4 megs or so.

I have a little floppy "rescue" system that loads a fairly complete system
(shell only) on a 4 meg ramdisk, but only uses 2.6 megs of it, leaving
ample room for logs, temporary files, etc.

Stef

accessing the simplest grub prompt when booting from HD

Posted: 19 Oct 2006 05:05 AM PDT

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:42:15 -0700, neuneudr wrote:
 
The boot loader is a fundamental concept of operating systems. The
function that the loader provides may go unnoticed, especially if your
computer arrived with the OS preinstalled, and the boot loader is
functioning correctly. Even when you first install GNU/Linux, you may not
have noticed that the loader was changed. That is because a lot of the new
setup programs hide complexities from the end user in the name of
"user-friendliness." IMO, they may not be doing you any favors. It is
better to understand this concept from the start. That way, if you
"break" the loader, you'll be in a better position to understand what
needs to be done to fix it. The idea behind the loader isn't really that
hard to understand. Take a few minutes to read the documentation. This
looks like a good overview which supplements the official documentation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRand_Unified_Bootloader

Back to your original question...
This screenshot shows the grub boot menu:
http://www.xmission.com/~ddmayne2/10.2-live/screenshots/ss01.2006-07-23.png

If your grub loader is installed correctly, then it should display
something similar for you. Notice the bottom of the screenshot which
states:

"...Press Enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the commands before
booting, or 'c' for a command-line."

Pressing 'c' will give direct access to the grub shell and its pre-boot
environment. That may be what your original question was driving at.

Also, when the loader cannot find its menu (because it absent), the
default action is to go directly to the grub shell at boot:

grub>

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setup network problem

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 08:29 PM PDT

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:10:28 -0500, net wrote:
 
Interesting unable to find my dvd I downloaded a new set of isos blew
them to CDs and tried again to reinstall. Everything worked no nic
problem and audio now works. It found all things that it should have.
I tried this again because of the other person(thank you) saying that
lspci should show the nic even thru it was on the motherboard. I had
tried reinstalling from the dvd before but this did not help. I found
the dvd later and booted and had it check the dvd , it said it was
fine. In retrospect I am glad this happened(my problem), I believed I
learned more in a couple of weeks than I have learned in a long time
just using linux.

simple Q again

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 01:41 PM PDT

On 18 Oct 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>, Swingingming wrote:
 

I suspect that is a typo - should be a '.tgz' file, which is a tarball
compressed with gzip.
 

Find a command line, and run the command

tar -ztf /path/to/name.of.tgz

making the obvious corrections. Look at the file names it is reporting.
Do they begin with a directory name

[compton ~]$ tar -ztf downloads/arping-2.01.tgz | column
arping-2.01/ arping-2.01/openbsd.h
arping-2.01/Makefile arping-2.01/solaris.h
arping-2.01/LICENSE arping-2.01/arping-2/
arping-2.01/arping.8 arping-2.01/arping-2/install-sh
arping-2.01/arping.c arping-2.01/arping-2/configure.in
arping-2.01/README arping-2.01/arping-2/arping.c
arping-2.01/arping.yodl arping-2.01/arping-scan-net.sh
arping-2.01/freebsd.h
[compton ~]$

In this example, there is a directory name (arping-2.01/) and this means
that the contents of the tarball will be placed in a directory named
arping-2.01 in "this" directory. On the other hand, it might have an
absolute pathname (/usr/src/arping-2.01/ for example) which means that
the files will be placed somewhere else. Lastly, it may be lacking a
directory name, and all you see is filenames, like this

Makefile arping.yodl arping-2/install-sh
LICENSE freebsd.h arping-2/configure.in
arping.8 openbsd.h arping-2/arping.c
arping.c solaris.h arping-scan-net.sh
README arping-2/

which means it will drop the files "right here" (which gets messy). In
this latter case, make a directory (mkdir directory_name), and move the
tarball into that directory (mv tarball.tgz directory_name), and change
into that directory (cd directory_name).

Execute the command 'tar -zxf tarball.tgz' (making the obvious correction)
and then change to the directory where the "new" files are located. Run the
command 'ls' to see what you have, and then start reading - paying attention
to the files in all CAPITAL letters - like README.
 

Unfortunately, that depends entirely on the instructions that are found
in the tarball. Start with the README and see what it tells you to do.
Make sure this source is meant for your distribution and release. Pay
attention to the kernel version numbers (run 'uname -a' to see what you
have now). You will probably also need the development packages, including
the compiler and GNU 'make'. These are not installed by default, so you
may need to install them before going further.

You may find additional help in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva
but I'd suggest you post from your ISP's news server RATHER THAN GOOGLE
because some otherwise helpful people don't see posts from groups.google.com.

Old guy

Unable to boot linux

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 12:04 PM PDT

Kiran Kumar wrote: 

In my other post I meant created a Logical partition as with parted or some
other tool and then install on that logical partition. It reads like you tried
to create the linux partitions by hand. You do not do that.

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How to fix bootfiles installed with VMWare?

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 09:28 AM PDT


Allen Kistler wrote: 

That's what i found out t. Downloaded the rescue-cd, used chroot and
reinstalled the kernel. And then it added scsi-hdd support:)

Booting Linux from an external USB drive

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 07:20 AM PDT

Mike wrote: 
Try using the flash drive in a USB-1.1 port. I don't care if it's
slower, it's usually a working solution.


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hi, simple question

Posted: 18 Oct 2006 01:16 AM PDT

Good point. I was assuming that, in the setup stage, he was probably
operating as su. For a long time after I started learning Linux, I
couldn't see a reason to be anything but root. ; )



On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:54:03 +1000, faeychild <com>
wrote:
 

New Install Needing Partition Help

Posted: 17 Oct 2006 01:53 PM PDT

Im at that point where Im wanting more security on my system, like
partitioning /home, but I do not fully understand partitioning. I have
read and read over the past four days so I have pieced together
something that I think is correct.

I was told not to put the /root account on a primay and only /boot on a
primary. I dont know if that is correct or not. But I did it the other
way - now I wonder if I have to, or need to, change it.

FC5 Install Hang: ACPI: Assume Root Bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0

Posted: 17 Oct 2006 07:14 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Jim Garrison <com>: 
 
 
[..]
 
 
 
 

Really? Iirc the same kernel parameter were mentioned in the URL
I posted...
 
 
 
[..]
 

Glad to hear!

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