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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.
--
http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/

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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com
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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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A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
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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

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>

--
Douglas Mayne