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Deskpro: can't boot from hd, or run setup from floppy; not newbie, have rtfm - Forums Linux

Deskpro: can't boot from hd, or run setup from floppy; not newbie, have rtfm - Forums Linux

Deskpro: can't boot from hd, or run setup from floppy; not newbie, have rtfm

Posted: 27 Nov 2006 10:59 AM PST

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.hardware.]
On 27 Nov 2006 10:59:04 -0800, com
<com> wrote: 
Have you tried a memtest86 floppy?
 
On some machines it was possible to swap the A: and B: drives in the BIOS,
so you could boot from either 3.5 or 5.25 inch floppies. If your machine
never had a second floppy, it's unlikely that the drives would be swapped.



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We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much.
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Need to install a package that conflicts with another

Posted: 27 Nov 2006 05:15 AM PST

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:27 -0800, com wrote: 

Okay, so then my assumption is you're downloading packages to some
media and then transferring it to your computer. You can uncheck the
internet repositories in Synaptic and add cd's as source. Again though,
you don't give a lot of information to go on.
 
--
Peter Bart <net>

How to view LOG_DAEMON logs

Posted: 26 Nov 2006 12:00 PM PST

Baho Utot <kumusta.org> writes:
 
 
 

Sorry, I did not realise you were talking about a package on some
distribution. syslogd is the actual daemon (program) that does the logging.
distros do not start up packages.


 

KDE INSTALLATION

Posted: 25 Nov 2006 10:44 AM PST

Baho Utot wrote:
,,, 

Does not require file extensions. Best practice is for a program to use
the "magic number" file header to identify the type. However not all
programs make use of this and not all files have a unique header.

[Linux][c.o.l.s] Newb, rpm, Failed dependencies ...

Posted: 24 Nov 2006 05:47 PM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Moe Trin <example.tld>: 
 
 

[ complete mess of various rpm from various fc versions ]
 

Well spotted, to make a long story short I'd strongly suggest: to
the OP:

http://www.puschitz.com/

For some known to work detailed instructions to get oracle 9i/10g
running on RHEL, Fedora Core/etc.

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From screen technical doc to X

Posted: 24 Nov 2006 06:24 AM PST

Bill Marcum wrote: 

ATI Radeon X300

Dual boot problem

Posted: 23 Nov 2006 07:27 PM PST

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<gEt9h.362949$R63.101360@pd7urf1no>, Bruce Barbour wrote:
 

Where on the second? /dev/hdb1? /dev/hdb5? This sounds as if it's
the second installation on the computer, with the first as windoze on
/dev/hda1 (the C: drive) and some Linux on another partition on that
drive (perhaps /dev/hda2). Then you somehow removed that Linux install,
but didn't clear the boot loader. Is that correct?
 

OK - where is it looking for the kernel? Some where on the first drive?
On the second? Where? By the way, which 'Slave' drive? Is this on the
same cable as the first drive? That would be /dev/hdb. If it's on the
other cable, then this could be /dev/hdc (jumpered as Master) or /dev/hdd
(jumpered as Slave).
 

I'm sorry Bruce, but it's still not quite enough information. Did you
look at those HOWTOs I suggested yesterday?

Old guy

vlc installation

Posted: 21 Nov 2006 10:25 PM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup com:
 
 
[..]
 

Check 'man rpm2cpio' and 'man cpio' to turn the package first
into a cpio file (rpm2cpio) and then unpack (cpio) to your $HOME.
This should be the easiest.

Good luck
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Chaos on a Linux box!

Posted: 21 Nov 2006 10:15 PM PST

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:15:21 UTC, "Krish" <com> wrote:
 

One has to ask why he was given it! I hope the cost of fixing the
problem comes out of his bonus :-)

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How do I modify cupsd.conf permanently?

Posted: 21 Nov 2006 07:31 AM PST

com writes:
 
 
 
 
 

Well , that you can test. Open the cups web interface, close it without
saving anything and see if the date on cups.conf changes.
ls -l /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
 
 

liveCD (w/server capabilities)

Posted: 21 Nov 2006 06:28 AM PST

Try SLAX @ slax.org. Very small (the server ed is < 300 MB), based on
Slackware 11, a venerated and respected parent distro, lotsa (>1500)
ready-made modules (extensions), and is the *easiest* live CD to
remaster. I like it bec it was designed w/ the intension of explicitly
being a live CD distro. Meaning: you *can* install it to your hdrive
but that's not what it's intended for. Bec it's a live CD, that's one
less thing that can be corrupted in one's system. In spite of its
size, it's very feature-rich (KDE-based.) It has everything you spec'd
(not sure about NFS, but you could add it quite easily) and it has a
nice user community/forum. Try it, I doubt you'll be disappointed....

Ray wrote: