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Prob w/ virtual terminals

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 10:42 AM PST

Two Ravens wrote:

For those that wish to check on the quality of posts made by Tom Newton
try reading this page, http://tinyurl.com/3y5vhe

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Two Ravens
"Tom Newton, surely the William Topaz McGonagall of
alt.os.linux.slackware, and now, seemingly, comp.os.linux.setup and
comp.os.linux.misc.as well!"

Rebuilding my server

Posted: 27 Feb 2008 03:06 AM PST

Bill Baka wrote: 
 

I doubt a gamer would want that motherboard, but it is perfectly good for a
server or serious workstation. I bought it off-the-shelf; i.e., it was not a
special order.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7501/X5DP8-G2.cfm

Here are some highlights:

1. Dual Intel® Xeon® Support up to 3.2 GHz
2. Intel® E7501 Chipset
3. Up to 16GB DDR 266/200 SDRAM
4. Intel® 82546EB Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
5. Adaptec AIC-7902 Dual-Channel Ultra320 SCSI
6. 6x 64-bit PCI-X expansion slots
7. ATI RageXL 8MB PCI Graphic Controller
8. Zero-Channel RAID Support

PCI • Max 2x 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X (3.3V) slots
Default:
• 3x 64-bit 100/66MHz PCI-X (3.3V) slot
• 3x 64-bit 66MHz PCI-X (3.3V) slots
• 1x SXB (Supermicrol Extended Bus) slot
IDE • Dual EIDE channels support up to four UDMA IDE devices
• Supports UDMA Mode 5, PIO Mode 4, and ATA/100
USB Up to 5 USB ports
Serial Ports 2 Fast UART 16550 serial ports
Parallel Port 1 ECP/EEP parallel port
Floppy 1 Floppy controller; 1.44 MB, 2.88 MB, 3-mode support
Keyboard / Mouse PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports

There are multiple PCI busses -- actually PCI-X so they are 64-bit, not just
32-bit.
One has three 66 MHz slots.
One has one 100 MHz slot and the dual SCSI controller
One has one 100 MHz slot and the dual gigabit LAN controller
One has one 100 MHz slot and nothing else.

The speeds of these slots can be adjusted in the BIOS among 33MHz, 66 MHz,
100 MHz, and 133 MHz

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Bulletproofing a Linux server

Posted: 25 Feb 2008 09:13 AM PST

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:27:02 +0100, unknown rearranged some electrons to
say:
 

google "sarcasm"

Is there a good console-based POP3/SMTP compatible mail reader?

Posted: 24 Feb 2008 09:03 AM PST

The Natural Philosopher wrote: 
 

I was apparently unclear. Deleting all your POP3 mail accessible mail from the
server the first time you run any POP3 client It should be a *manually
selected option*, not the default that strips it all and s up all your
mailboxes on other clients the first time you turn on the client and have the
network cable connected.

Been there, done that, have the T-shirt of restoring several Gig of important
corporate person's email in their client folders despite their unwillingness
to switch to IMAP or to allow proper backups of their laptop. I shudder at the
memories.

linux-2.6.24 makes /dev/hda inaccessible

Posted: 24 Feb 2008 08:07 AM PST

HamRadio wrote: 


--
Leon
A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
< running Linux >
You may find that if you change the hda whatever to sda whatever things will
start to work.

KDE 4.1 snapshot screenshots [eye kandy]

Posted: 24 Feb 2008 02:54 AM PST

Tom Newton wrote:
 

a) Please quantify the amount of resources you save.

b) what are the better purposes upon which you expend these 'saved'
resources?

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Two Ravens
Tom Newton, surely the William Topaz McGonagall of
alt.os.linux.slackware!

Bizarre Problem with GRUB

Posted: 21 Feb 2008 02:35 PM PST

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:38:27 -0800, DDave65 wrote:
 
I haven't used CloneZilla, but another tool to consider using is
ntfsclone. I have used it to backup/restore partitions which are
formatted using NTFS. This does not attempt to get information about the
entire disk- just individual partitions.

Here is a command sequence which saves a partition in "special format"
# ntfsclone -s -o ~/sda1.sf.img /dev/sda1

Or use a compression stage to save space:
# ntfsclone -s -o - /dev/sda1 | gzip >~/sda1.sf.img.gz

Here is a command sequence which restores a "special format" image:

# ntfsclone -r -O /dev/sda1 ~/sda1.sf.img


Similarly, for an image which uses compression:

# cat ~/sda1.sf.img.gz | gzip -cd | ntfsclone -r -O /dev/sda1 -

Then this fixup may be required:

# ntfsresize /dev/sda1

The last command is necessary if the "volume size" of the saved image
is smaller than the target partition. It enlarges to final volume to
match the underlying partition size. 
I wouldn't be surprised if CloneZilla is part of the problem you are
having, but I could be wrong. IMO, working with individual partition
images is the way to go. Once you have restored each partition image
separately, then the last step is to fixup the grub loader. This
approach will automatically fixup various mismatches, which I alluded
to in my initial post. IMO, the hard-disk-upgrade mini howto is a good
starting point to begin learning about disk images.

Just for comparison, here are the steps I would follow to do something
similar..

Sequence:
0. Connect target USB device.
1. Use fdisk to setup the target partition layout. BartPE on partition 1,
I think.

2. Preformat linux partitions with the file system of your choice. IIRC,
avoid using ReiserFS. Primarily, I use XFS. It has some neat resize
features, etc.

3. Restore images.
3.a. For NTFS partitions, use ntfsclone. Example shown above.
3.b. For Linux partitions, use tar (tgz archives). Perhaps, using this
sequence:

cat sda2.tgz | gzip -cd | (cd /mnt/sda2 && tar -xvf - --numeric-owner)

4. Fix grub loader.

# grub --no-floppy
grub> geometry (hd1)
grub> root (hd1,1)
grub> setup (hd1)
grub> quit

Note: use geometry (or some other method) to verify how grub has "counted"
your usb disk. "Hit" the proper target.

5. Shutdown and test reboot with usb.

Disclaimers:
1. I hope I didn't make any blatant mistakes. Check my commands carefully
before using them.
2. There are also many assumptions built in to this explanation. Be sure
of any commands you use are appropriate for your system.
3. Understand what you are doing and the underlying principles (hardware,
software, nomenclature, etc.)
4.Practice using the tools which you have selected until you are
comfortable using them.

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Douglas Mayne

Start up VMware Workstation automatically?

Posted: 20 Feb 2008 10:22 AM PST

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 01:28 -0800, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 
.... 

Oh. Well... still, FreeNX is something to look at. I think you
should be able to establish something similar where VMware Server
is started up graphically under a FreeNX session and then attach
to that whenever. Of course kick starting all of this (as you
mentioned) is probably the biggest problem. But I would think
it would be possible (???).

Debian kernel compile question.

Posted: 18 Feb 2008 09:40 AM PST

> 

That did it.

Thanks muchly.

Overt

Fedora Core 6 Memory Stick problem

Posted: 06 Feb 2008 04:04 AM PST


Marc Schwartz <net> writes:
 

Well, I upgraded to f8 as Marc Schwartz suggested and that did fix the
Memory Stick problem; but then with f8 I had several other glitches more
critical than the Memory Stick, so I had to revert back to fc6.

But I recently noticed with fc6 that if I suspend and then resume then both
/dev/sda and /dev/sda1 are automatically created and it recognized the
Memory Stick device on /dev/sda1 and all works fine.

So that is a huge clue: What does the suspend/resume do that the boot does
not do? If I can determine this then I can stick a quick hack into
/etc/rc.d/rc.local (until f9 or so) to mimic at boot time what is done on
suspend/resume. If anyone has any clues for me as what suspend/resume does
in terms of rescanning for such devices it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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