Installing Windows with Linux already installed - Forums Linux |
- Installing Windows with Linux already installed
- Problem with symlinks and shell
- what are binaries? not in index of "Running Linux"
- Permissions
- Upgrading from Redhat 8 to 9 from ISOs
- running windows application on linux, advice.
- Sharing partitions between distros
- Problems with fsck
- VNC server
- Fedora Core 2
- removing grub
- Booting Multiple Versions of Linux? How?
- What are the main differences between 2.4.18 and 2.4.28???
- Setup multi-boot system
- Tape drive problem
- md5sum : command problem? Output graphics ascii. (Also, re. alternate md5 solutions.)
- Linux is the OS of terror, made by Al Qaeda !!!
- How to make room for / partition to install/upgrade Kernel?
- NIC speed?
- passwd file
- Knoppix is real slow!!
- Installing using a USB Keyboard and mouse
- can't boot up
- Knoppix live installer - how to use?
- Newbie two homed question.
| Installing Windows with Linux already installed Posted: 16 Dec 2004 07:23 AM PST James Willmore wrote: I don't fully get the gist of what is happening. May be you need to boot up with a Knoppix or Mepis LiveCD, run QtParted and look at the partition tables. Save the menu.lst file. After that, you can format the first partition to fat32 from QtParted. Then reboot machine under windopes and install windopes on that first partition. That should work. But at this stage, your grub boot will be lost. You can put grub back if you know command line, or with the installer in Mepis LiveCD. After that, restore the menu.lst file to include the windopes boot and you are done. LiveCDs at this url. http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php |
| Problem with symlinks and shell Posted: 16 Dec 2004 01:08 AM PST Laurenz Albe wrote: Good stuff, Laurenz. Andreas: Try 'ls ../../link' after issuing the change directory. You say your command actually works on some systems? Could you go into more detail. I am most curious. ----- Things to try on those systems: From the directory where you do 'ls -l link', try typing in 'find .' or some such command, so we can see the whole directory tree. Also, after the change directory, try typing pwd to see if your current path is different than what you would expect (as per Laurenz's hypothesis). You didn't say you were doing it on multiple shells on the other environments, so maybe you could try checking for aliases? Jon. -- * Does the walker choose the path, or does the path choose the walker? (fr. Sabriel) * -- |
| what are binaries? not in index of "Running Linux" Posted: 15 Dec 2004 04:10 PM PST Jer wrote: two things: binaries can be non-executable files that are NOT text - they contain binary data; for example, a database file could be binary. part two: a binary is usu meant to mean that it is an executable, either as a pure executable program or supporting library, etc a binary distribution is one in which everything that gets installed are the final, binary (executable) files. of course there is MORE to a binary distribution than just executable files. in contrast, there are SOURCE distributions, whereby you BUILD (compile) everything from scratch to arrive at a binary -- << http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >> We don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish. |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2004 10:52 AM PST Enzo's Dad wrote: Sometimes its not just permissions but ownership of files that can get you into trouble. You may need to do a chown on the files. You can find out more using man command man chmod man chown |
| Upgrading from Redhat 8 to 9 from ISOs Posted: 15 Dec 2004 09:57 AM PST Conner Destron wrote: I am not sure about that. Red Hat Linux 9 is past the end-of-life stage and is no longer supported either. If you wish to be a Red Hat Customer, your course of action would be to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, probably the WS version for the desktops and the ES or AS version for the servers. This is quite expensive. I believe you can get "White Box Linux" or something like that for a dollor or two per disk (RHEL 3 comes on 9 CD-ROMs). Alternatively, you may find that Fedora Core 3 is the way to go. And of course there are other distributions, but as I have never tried them, I will not attempt to advise about them. To install a Red Hat distribution, normally you stick the first CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive and reboot the system. It takes you all the way through, and asks for another CD from time-to-time. You tell it if you want to upgrade or do a fresh install. There is a way to install from a hard drive, but I never did it. The RHL 9 manual says: 3.6. Installing from a Hard Drive Note: Hard drive installations only work from ext2, ext3, or FAT file systems. If you have a file system other than those listed here,you will not be able to perform a hard drive installation. Hard drive installation require the use of the ISO (or CD-ROM) images. An ISO image is a file containing an exact copy of a CD-ROM disk image. Because Red Hat Linux has so many packages included with its distribution, there are several ISO images available. After placing the required ISO images (the Binary Red Hat Linux CD-ROMs) in a directory, choose to install from the hard drive. You will then point the installation program at that directory to perform the installation. Why not burn the CD-ROMs? One of them can be used as a rescue disk, and the others are a nice backup, especially of the stuff you did not install that you later may want. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 15:55:00 up 12 days, 18:36, 3 users, load average: 4.36, 4.26, 4.19 |
| running windows application on linux, advice. Posted: 15 Dec 2004 07:48 AM PST On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:37:49 -0600, mjt wrote: There's another interesting factoid about running XP Pro in VMWare 4.x and its ability to build a very generic platform... No more guesses :) -- Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda org | http://www.lnxpowered.org |
| Sharing partitions between distros Posted: 14 Dec 2004 05:44 PM PST Bit Twister wrote: Good point. True. I already do. Booting from a System Commander boot diskette allows System Commander to take over again no matter who writes their record in the mbr. Once System Commander takes over again it immediately figures out what other OSs are installed and where, and presents the user with an appropriate graphical menu to choose what to boot into.. Needless to say System Commander allows any mix of Windows, Linux, and nearly any other micro-computer OS on the same machine. I am sure the Linux multi-booters are good but System Commander is exceptional from my experience. I get the idea. Will do. I agree but if the installation can not understand a common swap partition on another drive, then I need to point to it after I am booted in. I am sure there must be a way to do this as Linux is very flexible. Thanks for your help. |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2004 03:57 PM PST Gernot Fink wrote: Once -n" in clean. I'm using "-n" so I am not changing any data, so the command is safe. There is nowhere in the fsck manual any mention that running fsck -n on a mounted system would give you wrong results. They say that it is dangerous to run fsck without -n on a mounted file system, but I'm not doing that. I also did an extensive google search and found nothing to explain the behavior. I'm not surprised of what I'm finding out from your response, but I could not confirm this without asking. I was probably asking the wrong question. The right question would be: if I am running "fsck -n -f" on a mounted file system, can I get a reliable diagnosis and find out if the file system is OK or corrupted? Apparently the answer is no. Correct? Thanks, Dan p.s. Someone asked why would I want to do that. Our product is a box with a custom front panel. Attaching a VGA monitor keyboard and mouse is optional, and most of our customers use the box without any attachments. If we run fsck from rc.sysinit and it finds a problem and it drops into repair disk mode, the user will have no way of knowing without a monitor attached. The box would just sit there forever partially started. The way we do updates for our product is that the customer connects a Mac or PC with an Ethernet cable and using samba they mount a portion of the hard drive and copy an rpm to a specific folder. Then, they press a button on the front panel. I was hoping that we can check the integrity of the file systems including the root file system during the %pre section of the rpm and do not perform the update if there is a problem. We can use umount on the two other partitions, but not on the root partition. |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2004 11:25 PM PST Kojot wrote: You are not giving out enough information. Anyway, one way to check is to check from your own machine if everything is OK. Open a console window, and in that type: vncserver :2 -geometry 1024x768 and afterwards run up RDesktop on that same PC and see if you can connect. Enter the following for remote desktop address: 127.0.0.1:2 You should now be connecting to a vnc session if all is OK. You can termintate the vnc session with the following command: vncserver -kill :2 |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2004 09:56 PM PST AM wrote: Use system-config-packages, it will ask you for the necessary CDs to install the packages you select. rpm is equivalent to the dpkg command in Debian (or so I'm told, I'm not a Debian user). Yes. See e.g http://freshrpms.net/apt/ No. -- Markku Kolkka fi |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2004 06:53 PM PST Stephen wrote: .... use one of the BART bootdisks: http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ http://www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/ -- << http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >> So, what's with this guy Gideon, anyway? And why can't he ever remember his Bible? |
| Booting Multiple Versions of Linux? How? Posted: 13 Dec 2004 12:53 PM PST In article <L8Dvd.65953$columbus.rr.com>, R S Prigan <rr.com> wrote: Why, does the Fedora Linux kernel need a special bootloader? Otherwise why not just boot it directlyw ith grub? |
| What are the main differences between 2.4.18 and 2.4.28??? Posted: 13 Dec 2004 12:34 PM PST com said: For the differences between these, really changelogs are the best source of information. I'm ready to trust 2.6 series, but note that changing from 2.4 to 2.6 is such an undertaking that it's recommended to upgrade your base platform (distribution) to a more recent version. As for main advantages, I think the most significant are advances in scheduler and memory management. For laptops there are improvements in handling power management and other laptop-specific hardware issues. -- Wolf a.k.a. Juha Laiho Espoo, Finland (GC 3.0) GIT d- s+: a C++ ULSH++++$ P++@ L+++ E- W+$@ N++ !K w !O !M V PS(+) PE Y+ PGP(+) t- 5 !X R !tv b+ !DI D G e+ h---- r+++ y++++ "...cancel my subscription to the resurrection!" (Jim Morrison) |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2004 11:18 AM PST Steve Greenfield wrote: Sent a bit earlier on another thread... I've got more than 10 distros working on one PC. The way I do it is each distro gets its own partition. Any shared data is left in a partition of its own. Notes ----- 1. I use grub to do up the booting. I used Mepis LiveCD distros that install grub from the LiveCD. I just maintain one /boot/grub/menu.lst file for all the distros that I boot up. I use QtParted to do all the work usually the Knoppix one http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php 2. Remember you can only have 4 primary partitions on a hard disk. Make one of those swap. Make one those an extended partition. Then you are left with 2 primary partitions to play with. Inside the extended partition you can have as many logical partitions as you want, but with the caveat that if one logical partition's partition data is destroyed by some accident, then further logical partitions down the chain are lost. 3. You can install and boot up windopes as well - I normally put that in the first partition and format it fat32. The commands to boot windopey stuff from grub's menu.lst file is title Windopes ExPeehee at hda1 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 savedefault You can install into the same partition several versions of windopes and have the one boot entry in menu.lst which loads up the windopes loader which will show the multiple windopes versions you have installed. You find when doing this kind of stuff windopes takes up all your time, as it generally fscks up your hard disk no end. So to minimise that, put GNU/Linux in second or further partition down the ladder and update the menu.lst file like above to boot windopes. You can boot GNU/Linux from LiveCD to get acess to linux partitions and install Grub after windopes wipes it. 4. Once up and running with multiple distros, you can zip up and back up entire partitions change to /mnt/hda1 or whatever your hard disk is.. to zip up into one file*** tar -cfzv <filename.gz> . likewise when restoring go to the correct drive like /mnt/hda1 or whatever, and then to unzip the files** tar -zpvf <filename.gz> |
| Posted: 13 Dec 2004 06:54 AM PST Ian Young wrote: functioality -f |
| md5sum : command problem? Output graphics ascii. (Also, re. alternate md5 solutions.) Posted: 13 Dec 2004 02:25 AM PST Sorta Anonymous wrote: Heh. I shall think about that. *resists urge to spout philosophical babble*. Jon. -- * Does the walker choose the path, or does the path choose the walker? (fr. Sabriel) * -- |
| Linux is the OS of terror, made by Al Qaeda !!! Posted: 12 Dec 2004 11:28 PM PST Jean-David Beyer wrote: ROTFL!!! -- Post prandium stabis, post coenam ambulabis. RRB |
| How to make room for / partition to install/upgrade Kernel? Posted: 12 Dec 2004 11:14 PM PST "Ant", I realized I messed up your name in my post. Sorry about that. Jon. -- * Does the walker choose the path, or does the path choose the walker? (fr. Sabriel) * -- |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2004 06:10 PM PST On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 02:28:20 GMT, IANAL_VISTA wrote: Well, there you are, your transmitter is running 100base full duplex. |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2004 03:34 PM PST >>I have a password file that looks like so. This is exactly the info I needed. I was able to export my database to a report then with a script parse it and create a passwd file. Saved me a lot of typing. Thanks. Matthew |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2004 01:40 PM PST william olga wrote: can use fledged Underpowered? I've got two Duron 750MHZ boxes--old Compaq Presarios--with a gig of RAM split between them. One runs WinXP, the other runs (and has run since 2001) Debian, with GNOME. Both boxes run just fine. I've run everything from KDE to GNOME to XFCE on my Debian box, and performance has been fine under all three. I wouldn't say no to a faster system, but all the games I've run work fine on that level machine. (RTCW (on Linux), SimCity 4 (on XP), Diablo 2(on XP), plus a lot of older, less demanding games. (Debian's got hundreds of great games. I keep a local-disk package mirror, so it's a snap to add and remove anything I'm in the mood for.) As for the original post...If he's having trouble running Knoppix quickly on a 3GHz box, then there's definately something wrong. He might have a couple failed memory modules, and is stuck with a lot of swapping, for instance. |
| Installing using a USB Keyboard and mouse Posted: 12 Dec 2004 12:43 PM PST Andreas Janssen wrote: Thanks ! I will give it a try. |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2004 08:03 AM PST And... in fact, the keyboard doesn't light up as well.... hm, so I think it's not the problem of the monitor... but I'm not sure if it's the hardware or software problem... |
| Knoppix live installer - how to use? Posted: 12 Dec 2004 04:35 AM PST Error log for Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:35:29 -0800: Steve North caused a Page Fault at address <google.com>, details... Once Knoppix is installed to hdd, then for all practical purposes it is the same as any other DEB based distro. You use the same tools that you would for a Debian system... To update the package list apt-get update To upgrade the installed packages apt-get dist-upgrade To install a single deb package dpkg -i <package> You can also take advantage of advanced tools and frontends for maintaining and upgrading your system like KPackage (gui) and aptitude (cli). HTH -- rapskat - 16:53:12 up 20 days, 23:12, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.30, 0.43 Someone is speaking well of you. |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2004 03:33 AM PST On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:59:30 GMT, Larry Lindstrom wrote: No wonder. Binary install is faster. :) Remember, I am running Mandrakelinux 10.1 Oficial. Shorewall is installed out of the box. Here is the firewall screen shot during install http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Starter.html/tinyfirewall.html I used webmin to play with the rules then edited the files with an editor. If you look at the gray box settings at http://www.shorewall.net/two-interface.htm you can get a feel for what the webmin web pages will look like from your LAN boxes. All the firewall stuff you find will be gui front ends for the iptables netfilter packet filter. For NAT, set net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf and you place masquerading rules in the firewall. Since you want to run text mode, the CLI iptable commands will be something like iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -o eth+ -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT which is not a complete firewall set. |
| You are subscribed to email updates from TextNData Forums - Linux To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
