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| 'sharing' a partition for file transfers, XP and Linux - 'commonground' formats or hacks exist? Posted: 11 Jul 2005 02:37 PM PDT dave wrote: No trouble with a fat32 partition for your purpose. XP can create one (as long as you have unpartitioned space on your drive) up to 32GB, or you may use a 3rd party program to "shrink" your xp. Don't know if Ubuntu is able to perform the task upon install, like Mandriva does. Just try out - your linux installer will complain if it can't free up enough space. Linux can read ntfs without any trouble, but not write to it by default. For windows, there are freeware programs to read ext2/3 and reiserfs: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm http://p-nand-q.com/e/reiserfs.html Common "standard" is fat32, with both OS able to write to it. However, there is a file size limitation of 4 GB and it stores no permissions/file ownership/acl. Not really. Put the ubuntu or whatever linux cd in, ask again here or on a "samba" group :) if you cannot find a setup tool for "filesharing". But then, old pcs cannot boot from big harddrives (though linux will override the bios and be able to address them once booted) depending upon the bios. -- Longhorn error#4711: TCPA / NGSCP VIOLATION: Microsoft optical mouse detected penguin patterns on mousepad. Partition scan in progress *to*remove*offending*incompatible*products.**React ivate*MS*software. Linux woodpecker.homnet.at 2.6.12-mm2[LinuxCounter#295241,ICQ#4918962] |
| Posted: 11 Jul 2005 02:05 PM PDT ca wrote: Indicative of a problem with your ISP. -- "If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on "show options" at the top of the article, then click on the "Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2005 09:24 PM PDT In comp.os.linux.setup Bill Marcum <com.urgent>: The most obvious shows them all "about:about".;) -- Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94) mail: echo qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/' #bofh excuse 289: Interference between the keyboard and the chair. |
| WinXP & Fedora Dual-Boot problems Posted: 10 Jul 2005 07:23 PM PDT Well the bios virus protection was disabled --- so that kills that idea. I'm still scratching my head wondering why the bootloader didn't install to HDA (master). I've attemped the Linux install twice now, and on the second attempt I wiped HDB clean to make sure I wasn't simply overwriting my previous fudged up attempt -- but same result upon first boot of the system after Fedora is installed. I'm booting straight into WinXP, and not getting the boot manager. |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2005 04:53 PM PDT On 07/11/05 01:53, Andy wrote: NO, you can't use windows drivers. Maybe their .ppd file if exists. See <http://www.linuxprinting.org/> -- A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows. Registered Linux user #337974 <http://counter.li.org/> |
| A problem with PCMCIA while booting SuSe 9.2 Posted: 09 Jul 2005 11:24 PM PDT This is a very special situation that I think this problem isn't resolved in SuSe 9.3 |
| Posted: 09 Jul 2005 09:43 AM PDT On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:54:25 UTC, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <net> opined: Many thanks to both those who responded. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel |
| Redhat 8 Installation, with PXE and Kickstart Posted: 08 Jul 2005 10:29 AM PDT <com> wrote in message news:googlegroups.com... OIK, that's nuts. Ouch. OK, I went through this last year with another OS distribution and SCSI controllers last year. The fast fix is to use *ANOTHER* OS, such as a modern Fedora Core to use a kickstart with a pre-install script, partition the system, dump a tarball of a fully installed OS, run a chroot "grub-install", and reboot. Voila, you're done, and the tools will stand you in excellent stead. I've done literally thousands of systems this way, and it works. The other is to rebuild your initrd.img and possibly your vmlinuz for your RedHat 8.0 PXE installation, and add the e1000.o driver you need. Dude, send me a private email. For a tiny fraction of the money, I'll write up a set of tools for you from scartch. (Previous versions I've written for various companies are owned by them, and it's easier and cheaper and faster to write a contemporary set than go pulling the old tools from their legal departments.) |
| How to install SuSe 9.2 without any boot device? Posted: 07 Jul 2005 09:44 PM PDT "Felix Saphir" <de> wrote in message news:daoqoo$so0$lth.se... Not on that part. I haven't tried to load a Linux OS from a Windows bootloarder since I last used a weird VMWare setup a few years ago. |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2005 04:01 AM PDT Kalle wrote: .... At this point only take care NOT to reinstall the program/package/script that you suspect did the mess. Really strange thing, however, glad for being helpful. -- "...vous avez tout la vie pour vous amuser, vous avez tout la mort pour vous reposer..." RRB @ http://www.allservice.it/ |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2005 09:23 PM PDT Noah Roberts wrote: Hi! Just to add something: The different filesystems have different use. Eg. the devfs is -simplified- the "file"system, where physical devices are mapped to. It's usually mounted on /dev. Note the special use: you cannot "format A:" with this devfs, whereas using ext2fs or reiserfs to map devices doesn't work. It might be helpful to look into a file "/etc/fstab" [1], where you can find the information about where a device is mounted and which filesystem is used. Regards Felix [1] start "less /etc/fstab" in a terminal window, "q" to quit. -- "In a world without walls and fences - who needs windows and gates?" /^\ ASCII Ribbon \ / Campaign X No HTML in / \ email & news |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2005 05:21 PM PDT eragon wrote: Hey, thanks!! Worked out great! -- -------------------------- Lucas Raab lvraab"@"earthlink.net dotpyFE"@"gmail.com AIM: Phoenix11890 MSN: dotpyfe "@" gmail.com IRC: lvraab ICQ: 324767918 Yahoo: Phoenix11890 |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2005 03:43 AM PDT "Tej" <bosch.com> writes: What infinite loop? How do you know? What are the symptoms? Is eth0 up Is there an eth0 entery in /etc/modprobe.conf? What happens if you do modprobe eth0? What are the log entries? (/var/log/messages) |
| mounting digital camera as block device? (kernel 2.6) Posted: 05 Jul 2005 04:17 PM PDT On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:31:08 +0000, dogdog wrote: Yep, that's what all the bits of info out there say should work. I'm just not getting any extra SCSI device automagically appearing for the camera device - just the SCSI devices corresponding to the SCSI hardware hooked up to the pair of Adaptec boards I have in the machine. It looks like either something's broken in 2.6, or there's some new module that needs to be loaded for it to work which doesn't seem to be documented anywhere :-( I've borrowed a USB Compact-flash reader from someone so I'll give that a go and at least rule out that it's not a problem with Linux talking 'raw' to the camera... cheers Jules |
| Setting CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y during install? Posted: 05 Jul 2005 02:25 PM PDT Hi Rudi, I've suspected as much as I've found absolutely zero online regarding this. Since you seem to be in the know on this topic, could you please point me towards some information on this topic (especially if specific to x86_64) or maybe you know the answer to the following. I basically want to carve off a section of memory by using the "mem=256M" string in the grub.conf file. I then want to be able to access all of the available memory outside of this parameter for a memory intensive application. When using 32 bit processors (i386), I ran into problems with the 3/1 GB split with 4 GB of RAM and higher. The workaround was to set the HIGHMEM= option. So, is it safe to assume that x86_64 now allows for native addressing up to 64 GB with no restrictions? Thank you so much, -Mark "Rudolf Usselmann" <com> wrote in message news:dakvds$p7i$pacific.net.sg... |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2005 10:55 AM PDT "Giovanni" <net.it> wrote in message news:daennc$h3g$home.net.it... Depends on the Linux. If you are running "yum" with a recent RedHat or similar distribution, you can do a "yum list" and get a list of what are the base packages and what are updates, and you can compare it to the contents of an "rpm -qav" to see if there are non-yum managed packages installed. |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2005 06:55 AM PDT In comp.os.linux.setup Carl <com>: Firstly, you are replying from google groups in its default way which does not quote the text you are replying to. This makes it harder for people not using google groups to help you. IIRC there is an option to show text and then you can use the reply button at the bottom. [ more xx is needed by audacity-1.2.3-alt1.1.1.i386 ] It says what it says, you need to install the mentioned packages/functionality and retry. Hopefully the src.rpm was made for your distro, or you need to find/install the corresponding packages of your distro an edit the .spec file. Or look for some ready to go package. -- Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94) mail: echo qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/' #bofh excuse 321: Scheduled global CPU outage |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2005 02:42 AM PDT On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:42:31 -0700, dterzis wrote: Forget installing FC4 on this machine. Not enough RAM to begin with. IIRC, the minimums for FC are 400MHz CPU, 128MB RAM. Recommended is 256MB RAM. For greater useability, a faster CPU is also recommended. However, if you're looking for a challenge, try the "text only" install, but with 64MB of RAM, I doubt if you can get a useable GUI to run. Although, terminal only should work. Maybe, an older version of Linux. I ran Mandrake 7.0 and 8.0 on a 133MHz machine with 64MB of RAM with KDE, and it worked just fine. Or a different distro designed for old hardware challenged machines like SimplyMepis (www.mepis.com) or VectorLinux (www.vectorlinux.com), which, they say, only requires 32MB of RAM. Stefan |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2005 01:04 AM PDT In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article <googlegroups.com>, co.uk wrote: Composite reply - one for the price of three ;-) A little less impressed. The website says * 1.101.5 Setup different PC expansion cards Modified: 2003-March-17 Maintainer: Mark Miller Weight: 3 isapnp basically was much less important by that date. Key files, terms, and utilities include: /proc/dma /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports /proc/pci pnpdump(8) isapnp(8) lspci(8) From an old paper: [atlantis ~]$ apropos pnp isapnp (8) - Configure ISA Plug-and-Play devices. isapnp.conf (5) - File format used by isapnp. pnpdump (8) - Dump ISA Plug-And-Play devices resource information [atlantis ~]$ and a number of interesting docs MAY BE in the /usr/share/doc/isapnptools*/ directory telling how to use these tools. There are also the following HOWTOs that make interesting reading: Modem-HOWTO, Plug-and-Play-HOWTO, Serial-HOWTO. For a 2.4.x kernel, see the isapnp document in kernel source. Those three HOWTOs have been updated since that paper: 338050 Jun 17 09:53 Modem-HOWTO 128801 Nov 16 2004 Plug-and-Play-HOWTO 261882 Nov 16 2004 Serial-HOWTO Minor quibble - SuSE is "different" than others, so reading the scripts and tool man pages are going to be important. It _is_ different from the way Red Hat does things - but then, in spite of the Linux Standard Base Core Specification (http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/) - which a lot of distributions claim to follow, there are still significant differences in the several hundred available distributions. None the less, if you know how to use 'vi' and the man pages, you can administer any Linux (or UNIX) distribution from the command line level - it just takes a lot of reading. On 5 Jul 2005 00:56:46 -0700, you then added: I imagine it's no longer there, given the age of RH7.3 (you might still find it in mirror sites like www.linuxiso.org), but this is from disk 1 of the distribution CD. At one time, it was also on the Red Hat FTP server in /pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/7.3/. A thought - you might find it in a google search Web Results 1 - 10 of about 59,600 for RELEASE-NOTES RedHat 7.3. (0.32 seconds) Red Hat Linux 7.3 Release Notes Red Hat Linux 7.3 Release Notes. Copyright <A9> 2002 by Red Hat, Inc. ... Red Hat Linux 7.3 includes the 2.4.18 kernel as well as the following additions and ... www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/ linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/release-notes/x86/ - 19k - Jul 3, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages Bingo! First hit. On 5 Jul 2005 01:08:25 -0700, you then added: "sunsite.unc.edu" _was_ the name give to a Sun workstation(?) donated to the 'University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill' by Sun Microsystems a significant number of years ago. Not exactly sure what the hardware is now (it's reported as "Linux 2.4 in cluster" now), but the name has been twice changed - first to "metalab.unc.edu" then to "ibiblio.org". Mirror sites exist around the world, and may refer to it by any of those three names. Make an anonymous FTP connection to ibiblio.org, and change to the directory /pub/Linux/ where you will find -rw-rw-r-- 1 webmaster admin 3696 Nov 14 2002 MIRRORS -rw-rw-r-- 1 webmaster sungroup 44809 Jul 4 05:41 MIRRORS.html you want the html document (also as http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS). That will list a bunch of other servers, many a lot closer to you. -rw-r--r-- 1 keeper users 12801129 Jul 4 10:28 ls-lR.gz [compton ~]$ zgrep -c -- '^-' dir.list/sunsite.ls-lR.07.04.05.gz 656507 [compton ~]$ zgrep -- '^-' dir.list/sunsite.ls-lR.07.04.05.gz | awk '{total += $5 }; END {print total }' 4.91073e+10 [compton ~]$ They've got a few files there - some old, most new. The significance of the May 8 2001 file date for isapnptools-1.26 is that it's the last release date for that package. Oh, and that directory listing doesn't include any files in the /pub/Linux/distributions/ directory, because they've been moved to another server (distributions.ibiblio.org). Old guy |
| Writing on NTFS partition from linux Posted: 03 Jul 2005 10:43 AM PDT Timothy Murphy wrote: I can format my stick with ntfs and get away with that one :) -- Longhorn error#4711: TCPA / NGSCP VIOLATION: Microsoft optical mouse detected penguin patterns on mousepad. Partition scan in progress *to*remove*offending*incompatible*products.**React ivate*MS*software. Linux woodpecker.homnet.at 2.6.12-mm2[LinuxCounter#295241,ICQ#4918962] |
| configuring wireless in Debian Posted: 02 Jul 2005 01:54 PM PDT On 2005-07-02, John Hanley <net> wrote: Are you sure that pcmcia-cs is running all right? Do you know how to configure a (non-wireless) network interface? What kind of card is this? Did you load orinoco-cs manually, or did it happen automatically? Except for the cards made by Orinoco (Lucent, Agere, ...), most Prism2 cards don't seem to work (well) with orinoco-cs; they need either linux-wlan-ng or hostap instead. Run "apt-cache search linux-wlan-ng-modules" or "apt-cache search hostap-modules" and figure out which of the listed packages should be installed on your system. http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/devices/ http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/ http://hostap.epitest.fi/ -- Paul Kimoto This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images, hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent, and may be a violation of international copyright law. |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2005 12:54 PM PDT "Dave Uhring" <com> wrote in message news:com... Adding, sure. Removing them or discarding them? That gets nasty. You lucky !@#$!@$#! |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2005 11:27 AM PDT "Jim Stanley" <earthlink-dot.net> wrote in message news:daettc$82u$aioe.org... The freshrpms repositories have a "yum" package that will work with RedHat 8.0, which is very handy for getting the list of installable packages and resolving dependency issues. |
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