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Posted: 17 Jul 2007 12:46 PM PDT

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Mr. N. Marshall wrote:
 

It doesn't really matter that your swap space is divided in two, but if
you want, delete both partitions, then create a single swap partition,
and use mkswap to set it up.

Remember to modify /etc/fstab in consequence.

--
Yves Bellefeuille
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A funny thing happened on the way to an installation

Posted: 17 Jul 2007 12:07 AM PDT

Ivan Marsh wrote: 

No. I don't recall the exact message but it was something very dejected and
hopeless. Sorry to anthromorphize but it couldn't get started. I found pieces of
the database but no way to put it back together. I guess yum was in the middle
of updating it when the power dropped. That suggests it does not follow good
design policy of keeping the old until the new has been created. Or maybe I know
a lot less than I think I do. I have no problem with the latter.

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Is there a nifty way of adding or inserting text into a line

Posted: 16 Jul 2007 11:23 PM PDT

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:23:21 -0000, voipfc
<com> wrote: 
sed '1s/^/new text/' file > newfile


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Slackwaswitching to libata

Posted: 16 Jul 2007 02:32 AM PDT

Jerry McBride <net> said: 

Jerry, this was done on a Compaq Evo N800c. However, I would expect this
to pretty much work on more or less any "well-known" ATA controller chip.
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Adding a second distro..how to in simple terms

Posted: 15 Jul 2007 02:22 PM PDT

Yves Bellefeuille wrote: 
Ahhh... maintenant je comprend. I think I will stick with my original
idea of adding Gentoo. I'll probably give it a try on the weekend
unless I get brave before the. At least I'm using a backup strategy so
if I lose it all, I'll be able to get it back.

BTW - What distro do you use?

--
N. Marshall
There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those that know binary
Those that do not know binary

Setting up Linux dual boot with dos

Posted: 15 Jul 2007 12:01 PM PDT

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:01:45 -0700, ta_white2 wrote:
 
<snip> 
I recommend taking some time to read grub's (boot loader) doentation.
Then do some practice sessions to gain familiarity with how it works. grub
is a very flexible boot loader, and can be thought of as a mini, self
contained OS whose job is to load other OSs. It is not tied to GNU/Linux,
or any other specific OS.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html

You may also need to worry about disk translation modes if you are
attempting to use old hardware with MS-DOS and/or old hardware with modern
disk sizes. AFAIK, vintage DOS could have trouble going beyond certain
partition sizes. This is one are where old hardware could be difficult to
get working, especially if no BIOS update is available to give LBA
mode by default. There are several disk size "barriers" which could come
into play, especially when wanting backward compatibility to DOS.

--
Douglas Mayne

Help Installing Yum

Posted: 13 Jul 2007 03:09 PM PDT

On 15 Jul, 10:04, Nico <com> wrote: 
 

And I'm following up to myself: "rpm -U" is only really a problem for
packages that will support multiple copies at the same time, such as
kernels and a few obscure packages such as db1, db2, db3, and db4.

Help With Yum?

Posted: 12 Jul 2007 05:33 PM PDT

On 13 Jul, 06:16, Netlurker <tekzone.com> wrote: 

Unfortunately, that package is rather hazardous. It has no version
number in the downloaded package name, and it adds a whole stack of
repositories you really, really may have to beware due to legal
issues, such as NVidia drivers for which you haven't signed an NVidia
user agreement to install.

POP3 debian email server problem

Posted: 12 Jul 2007 04:44 AM PDT

Andy68man wrote: 

It always help to bounce ideas around, and check everything logically
one step at a time!