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Posted: 06 Jul 2007 03:24 AM PDT

JOHN MATHEW wrote: 

Nightmare.

You will need to change all the applications or run VMWARE.

Not sure photoshop is available in Linux..might be better to go MAC OSX :-)
 

installing live linux onto disk???

Posted: 05 Jul 2007 05:40 PM PDT

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:40:25 -0700, cyloafterx wrote:
 
Just for clarification, have you already been able to boot from your live
CD? Or is this your question:

"How do I burn a downloaded iso file to cd-r ?"

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debian dependency problem

Posted: 05 Jul 2007 05:01 AM PDT

Eric Wong wrote: 

Sarge used to be stable, now it's oldstable. Most likely your /etc/apt/
sources.list still reports "stable".

You'll have to change into either "sarge" or "oldstable" and retry but
this time use aptitude, not apt-get.

Ottavio
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Install Netscape 7.2 onto Fedora 7 ...failed

Posted: 05 Jul 2007 12:15 AM PDT

On 5 Jul, 08:15, Tanhks <com> wrote: 

What does "yum insall netscape-[whatever].rpm" say? Yum is your friend
for resolving that kind of dependency issue.

usb disk insists on being readonly

Posted: 04 Jul 2007 11:56 AM PDT

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:38:09 -0000, lalawawa
<info> wrote: 
You are using an old unsupported version of Ubuntu. ntfs-3g is in the
current version 7.04.


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ufs-tools: compile on modern system

Posted: 03 Jul 2007 03:27 AM PDT

Package: libufs2
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 60
Maintainer: Guillem Jover <org>
Architecture: i386
Source: ufsutils
Version: 0.0+2004.06.26-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Filename: pool/main/u/ufsutils/libufs2_0.0+2004.06.26-4_i386.deb
Size: 8766
MD5sum: 62df0acc78ebd3340ab19ecd63cb35d3
SHA1: d02610cc5ef6a2b8cb4e594c91caefc24e5ac069
SHA256: c4514aeafb631f0da43c08c481c9474989770150d74b58945e 3da75e96030df5
Description: UFS filesystem shared library
Shared library to manage the UFS filesystem, mostly used in BSD or derived
operating systems. This include FFS, UFS and UFS2.


Package: ufsutils
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 400
Maintainer: Guillem Jover <org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.0+2004.06.26-4
Provides: fsck-backend
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libedit2 (>= 2.5.cvs.20010821-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1), libufs2
Conflicts: hurd
Filename: pool/main/u/ufsutils/ufsutils_0.0+2004.06.26-4_i386.deb
Size: 148140
MD5sum: 42c4d0048596c75b559ef8c3e458e5c8
SHA1: 56089b2f47ad4306f9da8a4dd431782311add61c
SHA256: b994d1d7edcb1a82d876d43dd3d481cc012795e41f5af4a0cf a0ac27376e1652
Description: UFS filesystems utilities
Utilities to manage the UFS filesystem, mostly used in BSD or derived
operating systems. This include FFS, UFS and UFS2.

what is /dev/shm?

Posted: 02 Jul 2007 03:33 PM PDT

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:41:54 +0900, "google-rambo88" <com> wrote:
 
Search for IPC, inter process communications

Grant.
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Partitioning problem

Posted: 01 Jul 2007 01:59 AM PDT

I'll give it a go tonight when I get home. Thanks for all your
assistance.

I'm using an older version of Ubuntu at the moment, because I bought a
book on Learning Ubuntu Linux and it had a CD at the back of the book
to use. It is an old version but I figured since the book directly
refers to its features during its explanations, I'd better stick with
it while I'm still learning. Once I've got to grips with the basics,
I can seek out and install the latest version, probably "Feisty Fawn",
which I understand can read and write to NTFS partitions anyway. I
imagine before long all the major distros will go over to NTFS, so as
to be compatible with the inevitable Windows partitions and data
that's already on most people's PCs when they install Linux.

Steve

Is crontab sensitive to time zones

Posted: 30 Jun 2007 04:20 AM PDT

John Hasler wrote: 

Not sure that is correct.
Crontab itself runs as a root type process..it will pickup presumably
what the server time is reckoned to be as the time to execute a script.

However a users timezone will be picked up by any user installed
scripts, under user space crontab entries. That wonlt affect WHEN they
are executed..tho.

Why not test by setting your local user TZ to something weird, and
installing a cron script and have it simply echo the date?

linux os that can detect a secondary/slave harddisk having windows (xp)

Posted: 29 Jun 2007 01:42 AM PDT

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:45:57 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Certainly. I just mentioned a distro that is very easy to install, from
the live CD, as he stated he was using a Knoppix live CD, and couldn't
install from it. I use SUSE, Mandriva, Slackware, and PCLOS, and PCLOS is
by far the easiest to install for a newbie, which, from the question, I
would assume the OP is.

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UPS and Linux...

Posted: 28 Jun 2007 12:13 PM PDT


"Jean-David Beyer" <net> wrote in message
news:0irhi.890$.. 

Hi,

Now that I have worked it through, your post makes sense to me. I think I
can offer an explaination as to why I needed to build a new initrd as well.

This is speculation, but it appears that different initrd's are installed
during setup based upon which filesystem is selected at install. Since
ext2 was selected (years ago) during install, an initrd that didn't have
ext3 support was used. The original ext2 initrd was ~90K while the initrd
that I made with ext3 support was ~145K. Once I put the old modutils back
in, it began to load correctly. I built new modutils in preperation for
building a 2.6~ kernel, but in haste overlooked part of the installation
where you were advised to do a "make old", which copied your old modutils to
..old files. Did a force install of the old modutils, then installed the new
modutils correctly. The new initrd is now finding the .old files (which it
needs, since still using 2.4.20-6 kernel.) Was going to build a 2.6~
kernel, but now that everything is working, don't see any need to.
Security isn't a concern since nobody can get at it. Never had any problems
related to the 2.4.20 kernel. "If it aint broke, don't fix it."

None of the stuff that I do with it is critical. I've always had a fancy
for sensors and "real world" computer integration going back to Tandy TRS-80
Coco's. Just various projects here and there. Some do things that are
practical, others do things just to do them... Even though there are
ready-built gadgets and animals to do much of the same things these days, it
is just fun to do them yourself.

Thanks!

Updating kernel using yum and adding a driver disk

Posted: 28 Jun 2007 05:03 AM PDT

On 28 Jun, 13:03, Jean-David Beyer <net> wrote:
 

This can be..... fraught. For example, many el cheapo IDE controllers,
and drivers with them, re-order the devices at odd moments. The
published add-on drivers for Promise controllers, for years, had a
hard-coded setting of switching the /dev/hde and /dev/hdf drives to
look like /dev/hda and /dev/hdb, to try and force the Promise managed
drives to be seen first.

Ye ghods, those things were *awful*. It's why I try to get 3Ware and
Adaptec controllers these days: more robust, more supported, and more
consistent in their quality and behavior.

Help me choose a Linux Distro

Posted: 23 Jun 2007 10:42 PM PDT

Artificer wrote: 
Damn Small Linux. It doesn't even require installation.
 

My Dsl Browser 

Yes, as above 
place that 
DSL has Fluxbox ans JWM 
as above 

Once you got the grips with DSL you can switch over to Debian.

Ottavio
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Is it Memory or processor?

Posted: 23 Jun 2007 01:24 AM PDT

sridhar wrote: 
 
memtest86 is normally written to a floppy, and you just reboot the system
from the floppy. I write it to a CD-ROM instead, since my experience with
floppies is that they are very short-lived. They used last longer, but they
were never very reliable.

You just boot with the floppy (or, in my case, the CD-ROM) in place. It is a
stand-alone program; it does not matter what Linux distribution, Windows
version, or what you run on your computer, but it must run the *86
instruction set.

http://www.memtest86.com/



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Building kernel - a couple of quick questions

Posted: 22 Jun 2007 07:17 PM PDT

Darren Salt wrote:
 
For the classic reason: because it was there. 
It is 32-bit.

Another one? I want to incorporate some changes to the .config file, but
the info is supplied as just that. I can't find them or anything likely in
the menu. Is there a way to work from .config to the menu?

Doug.
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GRUB won't boot with a ServerWorks H1000 controller (SATA)

Posted: 22 Jun 2007 01:41 AM PDT

I demand that Doug Laidlaw may or may not have written...

[snip problem which turned out to be a BIOS bug] 

Sound works fine here - CK804 driven by ALSA intel8x0, kernel configured &
built locally. (Are you sure that you don't mean built-in sound hardware?)

Graphics, though - good reputation? No, that belongs to Intel and those nice
shiny _open-source_ drivers of theirs. That said, I'm using older ATI mainly
because I can easily get dual-head working with their hardware and it has
better open-source support than nVidia.

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Getting the list of members in a group.

Posted: 20 Jun 2007 03:59 AM PDT

On 2007-06-20, voipfc <com> wrote: 

Again, I'm surprised not to see this suggestion:

getent group

This does suffer from the same drawback as looking solely at /etc/group,
in that it won't tell you where a userid has his primary gid listed in
/etc/passwd but not in /etc/group. But it has the advantage that it
will list all available groups, if your box is an NIS or LDAP (pam_ldap
or nss_ldap) client.

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Can't get dual-boot to work, always goes to Vista

Posted: 19 Jun 2007 03:33 PM PDT

On 20 Jun, 14:31, Mike Silva <com> wrote: 

Well, that explains it. It's finding your MBR from the first disk, the
Windows MBR. You may be able to tell your BIOS to look at your second
disk for an MBR first, or you can over-write that one with the grub
boot loader, or you can even record your Linux MBR to a file and add
it as an option for your Windows boot loader.

thanks to the group

Posted: 19 Jun 2007 11:22 AM PDT

Yes well sadly when you have an install base, its difficult to switch
over. Like trying to wean a vampire from blood.

Regards.

How to install linux from floppy, without a bootable cdrom drive?

Posted: 18 Jun 2007 10:26 PM PDT

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:26:04 -0700, two_wheeled wrote:
 

Debian (www.debian.org) and ArchLinux (www.archlinux.org) both have a
boot floppy install option for those systems that can't boot off the CD-
ROM. Both can also do a network install, if you prefer, but you'll need
a high speed connection, if you don't want the install to take a week. ;-)

I just installed Debian Sarge (2.6 kernel) on a Thinkpad 240X which has a
non-bootable USB CD. Worked just fine. (You'll only need Disks 1 and 2
for a normal install with GUI.) Tried Debian Etch, but it didn't have
the driver for my CD-ROM on the driver floppy, and was unable to transfer
the install over to the CD. Too old, I guess. I'm going to try to do a
distro-upgrade -- Sarge to Etch -- via the net once I get everything
configured.

Haven't tried Arch other than reading the docs. It seems way too cutting
edge for such an old (7+ years) notebook.

Stef

incomplete back-ups

Posted: 18 Jun 2007 08:07 PM PDT

s. keeling <ab.ca>: 

Sorry.

tar czvf ...

"z" is gzip compression. Drat.



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How to Upgrade glibc???

Posted: 17 Jun 2007 02:46 PM PDT

Michal Jaegermann wrote: 
Possibly, but I believe Red Hat will support RHEL3 for another three years
or so. So he should just run up2date to get the newer versions. It may take
some time since they are up to RHEL 3.9 already (although they do not call
these things by dot numbers).


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How can I get usual screen output in piped tar command?

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 05:57 AM PDT

voipfc <com> wrote: 

Sorry. I think I just sent a partial post with wrong stuff thinking
I was cancelling it. Switch to cvf and then add 2> verbose.file
before the pipe to intercept stderr into a file.

Can't login with xwindow

Posted: 12 Jun 2007 08:27 AM PDT

On 2007-06-23, Doug Laidlaw wrote: 

It may or may not be. Run levels 3, 4 and 5 can be anything. It
depends on what the distro sets them to.

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how to start mysql server at boot time

Posted: 12 Jun 2007 01:06 AM PDT

grace wrote: 

This is normally full automatic on modern Linux distributions. If you
use Debian, Ubuntu or Gentoo Linux, they ship already scripts which
helps to start MySQL full automatic at boot up.
Maybe your Linux distribution has also a package which contains already
MySQL?

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