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[novice] I wrecked my partition table.

Posted: 15 Mar 2008 11:49 AM PDT

Unruh wrote: 
 
I do not know if anything is wrong with it or not. Whatever tool he is using
is either very different from what I use, or broken. The partition order
seems bizarre.

The only reason I suggest reinstalling is to make a more rational partition
table. An expert would not need to reinstall, but the O.P. claims to be a
novice and I infer he has little on there of importance at this point.

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time sync? time servers give wrong time

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 05:21 PM PDT

Unruh wrote:
 
 

There is nothing wrong with using the computer as a tool.
And there is also nothing wrong in trying to understand how it works.
Linux offers both possibilities.
It is important in my view to maintain a balance
between these two aspects of the system.

So while there should be clear instructions on how to use Linux,
it is just as important to maintain access to the underlying mechanism,
for those who want to look deeper into how things work.

The alternative is a kind of priesthood who know how everything works,
but only tell the ordinary user as much as the priesthood
think they need to know.
Like Microsoft, in fact.


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Debian not installing on computer, "killing interrupt handler" error

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 01:45 PM PDT

On Mar 14, 3:54pm, Darren Salt
<demon.cu.invalid> wrote: 

I guess so.
 

Thanks for the information.

how to check status of mirror handled by BIOS?

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 01:02 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Magnate <here>: 
 

Iirc "dell 2950" sounds like a 19" rack server, so I guess it is
a real hw raid controller. 'lspci' should tell more, usually Dell
provides software for online checking. Some driver in addition
log faults to the kernel, though not all.

Checking which controller/driver is used and trying to find the
app to check/configure it sounds like the best idea.

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Ethernet DHCP setup help needed: MiniPC (reissue, more new information)

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 12:03 PM PDT

Unbuntu: no resolv.conf or dhcpd.conf on the machine; I added a very bare
bones dhcpd.conf ...
 
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http install

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 10:07 AM PDT

On 13 Mar, 18:17, Thomas Jespersen <com> wrote: 

For RHEL, you need a local mirror. You can build one using the
"reposync" tool with a RHEL subscription, or build an HTTP site from
the latest DVD image. Or, you can use Fedora or CentOS.

Partition table Information

Posted: 13 Mar 2008 12:23 AM PDT

neeraj nama wrote: 

I do not know what the problem is. I use /sbin/fdisk and get stuff like this
(for a smaller disk):

]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 8942.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 73.5 GB, 73557090304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8942 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 2102 16779892+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2103 2624 4192965 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 2625 8942 50749335 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2625 4191 12586896 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 4192 5235 8385898+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 5236 5757 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 5758 6279 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 6280 6534 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris 

If fdisk does not do what you want, you may wish to examine:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-2.html

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serial port setup

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 04:01 AM PDT

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 04:01 -0700, com wrote: 

Uh... /etc/inittab, agetty running on the device maybe? See what
you wrote below...
 

What do people use to access the machine via the agetty running
on the serial port? Normally people would assume one device, but
there are some variables... so I'm just curious.

With regards to the stty change... my guess is that's happening
due to settings someone has for their particular login (??).
Again... just a guess (see another guess below)...

 

So it always changes on reboot? Hmmmm... not sure.
Maybe BIOS defaults, maybe BIOS does see something attached to
the serial port and does something (some of the time)??

Might just have to put something in a startup file.... maybe
in a system wide login/logout profile to set this. My guess
is that perhaps the value depends on how the serial device
connects to the system... but again, it's just a guess.

For example a serial device that is more or less physically
bounced attached to the serial port might confuse some things.


 

VFS:unable to mount root fs on 00:00

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 02:21 AM PDT

On Mar 12, 2:21am, venu <com> wrote: 

This will happen when your initrd.img does not agree with your
vmlinix. You can refresh these by copying them from several places in
your distribution. On RedHat you would look in isolinux, images/
boot.iso/isolinux and images/pxelinux.

Chris.

Headless fun

Posted: 11 Mar 2008 10:10 AM PDT

On Mar 11, 1:10 pm, Chris <com> wrote: 
 
The easiest way is to buy KVM with IP. :) After that, you would access
any machine with KVM from any remote machine.

Using gkrellm-hdplop plugin and ctrl-alt-F# together crashes my Xsession.

Posted: 10 Mar 2008 10:42 PM PDT

On 3/12/2008 7:54 AM PT, Dan Espen typed:
 

Well, so far nothing in my post from yesterday:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1589973
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Distro with mail server?

Posted: 10 Mar 2008 07:13 AM PDT

On 2008-03-10, Brian S. Paskin <com> wrote: 

Congradulations. You just installed software that will allow
you to send and receive and forward and filter mail (a gross
simplification of the functions of a mail server) for 10,000
people located all over the world.

When all you want to do is send mail from one computer located in
your own home to one mailserver located at your ISP.

Which can be done with a simple bash script.

Obviously, it is up to that simple task. But it is a
highly-complex piece of software, and you are not a professional
mail administrator. And if something goes wrong you may well
find yourself spending a hundred hours trying to find out how to
fix it. Not even understanding the basics of the SMTP protocol,
you will find the docs, and advice from the pros, mostly
incomprehensible.

That's why there are what are called "sendmail emulators". These
are highly-simplified mail servers that do one thing: They send
mail to a real mailserver. They are very easy to configure and
use and take up almost nothing in the way of system resources.
They are bulletproof and just work.

They are incorporated in mail suites such as the one that
comes with mozilla, and kmail, etc.

The two I hear about most often are msmtp and esmtp. I use
msmtp.

<snip>

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Using ctrl-alt-F# keys crashes KDE and X.

Posted: 09 Mar 2008 07:58 PM PDT

OK I reproduced it without KDE, so it is not KDE's fault!

I basically loaded up GKrellM2 (doesn't matter if it uses defaults or
customized) with gkrellm-hdplop plugin running only on ONE virtual
desktop in KDE v3.5 or Gnome v2. Then, I switched to another virtual
desktop that didn't have GKrellM on screen.

Then, I pressed ctrl-alt-F# (# is a number like 1) to go back to
console/text mode. It resulted a X crash like:
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c89c1]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x81771e0]
3: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x814a8ba]
4: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x814b504]
5: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8154c1e]
6: /usr/bin/X11/X(Dispatch+0x1a1) [0x808eff1]
7: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x47e) [0x8076e2e]
8: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7dc5450]
9: /usr/bin/X11/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e9) [0x80761b1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting


If I disable this plugin, then I won't get the crash. This plugin is so
cool to have. I am just wondering if I am the only one with this problem. :(

Thanks in advance. :)


On 3/9/2008 7:58 PM PT, Ant typed:
 
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No /dev/fd0 on Debian Etch install

Posted: 04 Mar 2008 12:31 PM PST

Roby <net> writes:

 


Weird. The pnpbios did that, made the floppy unreadable?

Looks like maybe you just needed the module.


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Cloning hd via scripts

Posted: 04 Mar 2008 04:01 AM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
 

Geee... so he'll HAVE to reinstall the bootloader!


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