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Posted: 04 Aug 2008 04:14 PM PDT


"Keith Keller" <san-francisco.ca.us> wrote in message
news:wombat.san-francisco.ca.us... 
More info:

As it turned out the reason DHCP failed was because during H/W detection
and configuration the network card had not been installed.

The installer needed to search for setup files
and I was given the option to search for the needed files on the cdrom.
I was prompted to mount the cdrom that I had booted from...
but the mount failed. The error message was that no cd was
present...although I was of course running
the installation from the cd !

At that point I figured I'd be better off not attempting a network install.

64-bit HP-UX + Suse SLES 10 = 0!

Posted: 01 Aug 2008 12:05 AM PDT

com writes: 

[...]
 

It should be possible to find at least one HPC-system built by SGI
which contains more than thousand Itanium processors. And 'more than
thousand' is a large quantity, despite the fact the quotient of this
number and the number of human fingers belonging to people living in
China would be very small.

Munged partition table

Posted: 31 Jul 2008 06:21 PM PDT

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:26:21 -0400, jonneh <com> wrote:
 

sda4 is obviously the extended partition (type 5). We know that sda5 is the
lvm physical volume, which should be type 8e.

Your swap is on a lvm logical volume, so we don't currently know what the
fstype should be for sda1, 2, and 3.

Try running "/sbin/vol_id /dev/sda1", to see if it finds the fstype. Same
for sda2 and 3. I'm not sure if vol_id will use /sys/block, or the actual
partition table. Unlike pvscan, it won't hurt to try it, as it doesn't
update any config files, etc.

I've used "sfdisk -d /dev/hdb > sfdisk.txt to create an input file for
sfdisk, and modified it with the info from above. Note that the start
and size are in sectors.

============ cut here and save as sfdisk.txt ==================
# partition table of /dev/sda
unit: sectors

/dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 112392, Id=??, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start= 112455, size= 4209030, Id=??
/dev/sda3 : start= 4321485, size= 208845, Id=??
/dev/sda4 : start= 4530330, size= 2, Id= 5
/dev/sda5 : start= 4530393, size=307965987, Id=8e
============ cut here and save as sfdisk.txt ==================

Once you've modified the id for sda1, 2, and 3, save the above
as sfdisk.txt, and then run "sfdisk /dev/sda < sfdisk.txt" Note
that running "sfdisk -T" will show you the id codes for all of the
file system types.

As a precaution, after running the sfdisk, reinstall lilo or grub,
before trying to reboot.

Back up everything before rebooting. Also make sure you have a bootable
install cd/dvd handy, just in case :).

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Could not open font 'fixed' message

Posted: 31 Jul 2008 11:50 AM PDT

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:50:41 -0400, andres <it> wrote:
 

Most likely, the system was not shut down properly, and the pid lock
file is still in place.
 

Then why are you trying to boot from the hd? The hd should be cloned,
with the original never being written to, and the clone used for all
examanation.

By trying to boot from the hd, you've allowed cron jobs to run, that
may have modified things on the hard drive. You've destroyed the chain
of evidence. No one can tell if what is on the hard drive now, is the
same as it was when you got it.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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X not swapping

Posted: 29 Jul 2008 08:41 PM PDT

"David W. Hodgins" <afraid.org> wrote in message
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Hmm. I'm using a 9600PRO, which is an r300 card (rv350 to be precise), so
'radeon' should be the optimal driver.

According to Debian, xserver-xorg-video-ati is merely a wrapping for
choosing the correct ATi driver, so it would choose radeon for me anyway
(the alternatives being only mach64 or r128).
 

Thanks. I've found a few guides for this, and I think the problem is with
AGPFastWrite. If I set it to "on", X does not start at all (there are plenty
of warnings about this - it seems to be a very risky option).

Hopefully future development of the open source r300 driver will improve
rendering acceleration, which may solve this problem.

CC

really slow after installing linux

Posted: 28 Jul 2008 06:41 AM PDT

On Jul 30, 6:03am, Andrew Halliwell <sky.com> wrote: 

With an on-board vid card, your video is likely sharing RAM with the
system. Aside from installing more RAM, the more the merrier, you can
disable Compiz-fusion which will release some resource hungry features
in the video area.

I have a Dell E520 3.04GHz with 1GB RAM,and an upgraded video card -
beside the wireless issue which was fixed in 8.04 and worked around in
7.10, the system runs pretty swiftly compared to when Vista was
installed.......

"Can't open display" Error when running X applications remotely

Posted: 25 Jul 2008 06:27 AM PDT

Dear all,

TsanChung wrote:
 


Of course I agree that the ssh -X method is to be preferred.

But it could that the method the OP wanted to use failed because the
X-server access is blocked by the iptables firewall, if enabled.

Kind Regards,
H.Janssen

all memory used after booting

Posted: 23 Jul 2008 04:28 AM PDT

Kai-Uwe Nielsen <net> writes:
 
 

Not sure what you mean "used up". Linux uses spare memory as a cache for
old programs/data, just in case you want them again. Speeds up loading. Why
in the world do you want spare memory just sitting there when it could do
something useful. If some running program needs the memory that is being
used for caching, that cached stuff is thrown away and the menory handed
over to what needs it, so there is no penalty.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

I assume these ar x86_64 systems.

 
 
 
 
 

Install libstdc++.so.5 (Gcc 3.2.3) for Centos5 i686

Posted: 20 Jul 2008 01:42 PM PDT

"com" <com> writes:
 

I think you want the compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3 RPM.[1] If you got your
yum configured correctly it should just be a `yum install
compat-libstdc++-33' away.


Footnotes:
[1] http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm

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ide controller ordering on 2.4.26

Posted: 20 Jul 2008 04:37 AM PDT

In article <com>, Nico Kadel-Garcia
<com> writes 
Having established its 2.6.26 we're talking about here... [oops].

Well I can see that hardcoding devices into drivers is a *bad* idea as
is putting them into the kernel but I still don't quite understand why
the option for me to choose to hard code it has been removed and also my
comment on the doentation stands - it does suggest ide0,1 are
reserved for the ID channels found at 0x170, 0x1f0 ie. the 'standard' IO
ports.
 

Ok, well I think I can see how to modify the system to do this although
there are a few holes I can see - partitions that are not ext3 for
example ("swap" plus I also have a DOS partition which is user mountable
in my fstab...) So I'd still like to leave it as is (as a preference).


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Need Fedora Core 8 on CD (not DVD)

Posted: 15 Jul 2008 01:30 PM PDT

General Schvantzkopf wrote: 

My laptop is old, so the DVD-ROM drive does not recognize DVD+/-R
formats. So I cannot burn a DVD+R of F8.

I did try a F8 network install via http, but it took 96 hours and never
got past the checking dependencies phase.

So I went straight to F9 CDs with no problem.

Mythtv

Posted: 13 Jul 2008 09:03 AM PDT

Lugo wrote:
 

OK thanks I'll have a look for it.


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