| partition structure/layout Posted: 26 Dec 2009 07:43 PM PST Wanna-Be Sys Admin wrote:
He is a well know troll
kill-filed by most here
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| Packet.dll and which wpcap.dll Posted: 25 Dec 2009 08:24 AM PST karthikbalaguru wrote:
.....
So, you knew, but didn't care? I saw after I posted this, that you had
several Windows OS related questions posted in a few Linux groups.
Anyway, I guess you know better for the future. Thanks.
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| Ethereal on cygwin - 'which Packet.dll' and 'which wpcap.dll' ?? Posted: 25 Dec 2009 08:12 AM PST On Dec 26, 3:27pm, Jens Stuckelberger
<net> wrote:
But how else will he find someone with an actual clue?
Admittedly, the cross-posting is excessive, and a Followup-To: should
be set. But I've often found that the Linux support groups are much
better for network, cross-platform, or GNU toolchain issues than pure
Microsoft groups where they may not even know how to build things with
gcc and a real autoconf setup.
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| Scanning windows from linux Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:53 PM PST On Monday 28 December 2009 19:09 in comp.os.linux.setup, somebody
identifying as karthikbalaguru wrote...
Of course not - last thing I heard nobody was giving away USB sticks for
free yet. ;-)
You are not going to find one, since USB sticks cost money. Most
distributions do however have the necessary tools for creating a
USB-stick-based GNU/Linux distribution, and some may even have
preconfigured and automated utilities to do such a thing for you.
Google is your friend.
Then you didn't look well enough. ;-)
Well, good luck with that then. The 2.6 kernel doesn't even fit on a
floppy anymore, so you'd be stuck with an old kernel, which may not
support all of your hardware. For instance, I don't even know whether
2.4 supports SATA hard disks.
If they are floppy-based, then they will certainly not hold any decent
antivirus software, given the size of such software suits.
Then why even consider it? ;-)
That is not what it was designed for, but in theory, you should be able
to make a bootable USB stick with the contents of that CD, yes. On the
other hand, you'd be far better off with a more complete distribution,
e.g. Knoppix.
I can't really help you with that. I've only used it once or twice, in
order to detect hardware errors on one of my machines.
Yes, that is what I wrote higher up already. You'd be far better off
with a "real" distro. There are several live-CD based distros, and
other distros allow you to make a live-CD with a few simple
mouseclicks, or a bootable USB stick. Look here and see whether you
can find something to your liking:
http://www.distrowatch.com
They will probably not have such scanners "on board", so you'd have to
add them yourself. The simpler the base you start from, the more work
you'll have at producing a bootable USB stick with a working distro
*and* a virus scanner.
USB sticks and floppy disks are not "embedded Linux". Embedded
(GNU/)Linux is what you find in routers, cellphones and satnav systems,
i.e. the "system on a chip" approach. Such systems usually don't come
with antivirus software, and most of the time those devices are
configured to not work as if they are complete UNIX systems.
For instance, a Linksys WRT router has a Linux-based system in firmware,
but other than approaching it via a webbrowser to make a few changes to
the settings, you can't do much with it, since the device was never
designed for any other purposes than being a router. Alternative
firmware downloads do exist, but they really *are* alternative, i.e.
you'd have to install it yourself. And for your intended purposes, the
issue is moot.
--
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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| Virtualization : Clarification needed on Xen Hypervisor Posted: 23 Dec 2009 02:44 AM PST On Wednesday 23 December 2009 11:44 in comp.os.linux.setup, somebody
identifying as bzaman wrote...
That's how Wikipedia describes it. :p However, I prefer using different
nomenclature myself. I call the above-mentioned "type 1"
a "hypervisor", and the "type 2" a "virtual machine monitor".
Okay. ;-)
This is no longer required. As of Linux 2.6.30, the kernel supports use
on the bare metal, as a privileged Xen guest (dom0) or as an
unprivileged Xen guest (domU), all in the same kernel image. The
kernel will detect in which cirstances it is being booted.
The "kernel-xen" packages are probably 2.6.18 kernels which have been
patched with Xen compatibility by Xen.org themselves, because back at
the time of that kernel generation, Linux did not support
paravirtualization yet.
That's the actual hypervisor itself.
Not "host", but "privileged guest". The dom0 kernel runs on top of Xen
and is bootstrapped as a module to Xen when the machine boots, but it
too is virtualized. The bootloader actually loads Xen instead of
loading a Linux kernel, and Xen then loads and boots the dom0 kernel
via the "module" statement in "/boot/grub/menu.lst".
The unprivileged guest does not run on top of the dom0 kernel, but
*alongside* of it, on top of the Xen hypervisor itself. If it is a
paravirtualized guest, then its hardware access is relayed onto
back-end drivers in dom0, but under control of the hypervisor, as even
dom0 is a virtual machine and its operations are scheduled by Xen.
If the machine has hardware virtualization extensions, then the
unprivileged guest can be an unmodified operating system, and in that
case, Xen emulates certain hardware and traps the unmodified operating
system's hardware accesses with assistance from the virtualization
hardware.
No, that is incorrect. That which you are running in the dom0 GNU/Linux
virtual machine is "xend", a daemon which hooks into the hypervisor and
allows you to boot domU virtual machines and resize their memory in
realtime, among other things. It also helps in live-migrating a
running virtual machine to another physical computer which also runs
Xen - provided that you're not trying to move a 64-bit virtual machine
to a 32-bit physical machine, of course.
Xen runs on the bare metal, and that which is quite often mistakingly
called "the host" is in fact a virtual machine in itself, but it is a
privileged virtual machine. It is privileged because it has access -
via the xentools package, not via its own operating system tools - to
the memory of the unprivileged virtual machines, i.e. it can start and
stop unprivileged virtual machines via the xentools, and it
can "inflate" the memory of the unprivileged virtual machine via the
so-called "balloon driver".
The privileged virtual machine is also the primary "driver domain". It
contains back-end drivers for all the hardware, and the unprivileged
paravirtual guests contain front-end drivers, which are an abstraction
layer and which relay the hardware access onto the back-end drivers in
dom0, via the hypervisor. It is however possible to hide certain
physical hardware from dom0 so that it can be directly accessed via a
real driver from within an unprivileged guest, making this unprivileged
guest into an additional "driver domain". Yet all virtual machines run
directly on top of Xen, including dom0 itself.
--
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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| Fedora 12: Problem with software update using Yum. Posted: 22 Dec 2009 11:59 PM PST I saw the same issue on a Fedora 12 update at the same lines. "yum
update" ran through the whole update process. Now the "software
update" process reports the machine is up to date.
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| Help needed for Lotus Notes on Ubuntu 9.04 Posted: 16 Dec 2009 12:33 AM PST On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:33:41 -0800, kaari wrote:
Caveat: I am not running Ubuntu. However, I am running Notes 8.5.1 on
Slackware 12.2.
I think the answer is to get a registered version. The registered version
is obtained via IBM's passport advantage site, and must be paid for via
some method.
--
Douglas Mayne
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| virtualized redhat partioned Posted: 14 Dec 2009 11:41 AM PST On Saturday 19 December 2009 20:17 in comp.os.linux.setup, somebody
identifying as syd_p wrote...
Well, yes and no... It's a restriction of the legacy real mode BIOS
code and MS-DOS. Because of the required backward compatibility with
DOS and the DOS-based Windows versions - which were still being sold up
until the year 2000 - this is still being used today.
By design, any x86 processor - even x86-64 - default to the
DOS-compatible real mode at power up, and usually it's the
bootstrapping code in the operating system's kernel which sets up the
pagetables and descriptor tables and switches the processor in
protected mode.
On the other hand, machines with an EFI BIOS - such as the Intel-powered
MacIntosh - or a CoreBoot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS) have a BIOS which switches
the processor into protected mode itself. Such systems then require a
special protected mode bootloader and a kernel without real mode
boostrapping code. Such machines can make use of a whole new
partitioning system which allows for up to 128 primary partitions per
disk.
Ehm, you are confusing a few things. An extended partition is not the
same thing as ext3, which is a *filesystem.* Also, Solaris - at least
on its native (Ultra)SPARC hardware - uses a kind of EFI BIOS, as do
MIPS machines with IRIX and machines with an Intel Itanium processor.
Not yet. ;-) The "no more than 4 primary partitions" is a limitation of
the x86 platform with a legacy BIOS. Non-x86 machines or x86 machines
with EFI or CoreBoot can use 128 primary partitions.
That said, there is an additional limitation for SAS/SCSI/SATA/USB hard
disks and PATA hard disks addressed via the new /libata/ drivers, i.e.
all disks that appear as "/dev/sd?". Such disks or even arrays of
disks can only make use of 15 partitions per disk, even if there are
more partitions than that - primary or extended is irrelevant. This
limitation exists because of programming confinements in the Linux
kernel SCSI midlayer, but it has nothing to do with the SCSI hardware
itself, whether used on x86 or on another hardware platform.
--
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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| Limitation of partition's capacity with Fdisk ? Posted: 10 Dec 2009 07:01 AM PST On Dec 12, 4:29am, co.uk wrote:
Well, fdisk might work well with the most venerable of controllers:
not everyone is going to have 2 TB disks to support yet! Not upgrading
such core utilities until you have to is a basic step to preserve
stability. And the friendly installers would have to be rewritten to
use parted instead of fdisk, which is a tricky bit of work. It
certainly seems worth doing, as gpt partition tables become more
reliable or even universally available.
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| Knoppix remastering. Where to configure keyboard layout? Posted: 09 Dec 2009 06:29 AM PST On 21 Dec, 08:30, Bengt T <com> wrote:
Finally this issue was solved by putting "...xkeyboard=se..." into
relevant lines of the isolinux.cfg file during the remastering
process.
There are probably more elegant ways to define the keyboard but I can
survive with this.
Thank you all who bothered to assist me.
/Bengt
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| KERNEL - Thermal, fan, processor and other modules built-in Posted: 08 Dec 2009 02:55 AM PST On Dec 8, 3:05pm, Stefan Patric <com> wrote:
It's a bit more than that. ext2 has some serious problems with too
many files in one directory, that are significantly eased by ext3.
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| Problem when upgrading Debian from stable (lenny) to testing(squeeze) Posted: 07 Dec 2009 11:02 AM PST Wookai writes:
a) File a bug report against sysv-rc.
b) Post your question to debian.org.
There is no file by that name. Please paste the exact command and the
exact result.
--
John Hasler
com
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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| network doesnt start on bootup Posted: 07 Dec 2009 03:53 AM PST On Dec 8, 12:15pm, Allen Kistler <moc> wrote:
Yes, in linux, chkconfig is very helpful and easy to use for
configuring the services.
The chkconfig command can be used to Enable/Disable certain services.
You can get the list of system services that are either Enabled/
Disabled by
using the chkconfig --list command. Here, you check whether the
network is ON/OFF.
If OFF, use chkconfig to enable network to be started in a specific
runlevel.
Checkout -
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-services-chkconfig.html
Karthik Balaguru
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| Help setting up sshd, please Posted: 04 Dec 2009 02:40 PM PST Hi, Nico!
Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote:
Batch?
You're not short of choice, then. ;-) I have come to hat installers
that just ask a lot of questions, then do things behind your back. It's
great until something doesn't "quite" work. Particularly networking not
working. It never did for me, up until I got a broadband link with a
dhcp router.
The problem I stumbled over is just a bug in the gentoo installer. I'm
going to report it as such, and I expect they'll fix it.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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| Ubuntu 9.10: installation setup propaganda screen (reposted) Posted: 03 Dec 2009 09:03 AM PST * John Thompson <dhs.org>: Sounds like you used the Alternate Install CD for Xubuntu rather than the Live CD. However, I don't think that the graphical installer on the Live CD has the same informational "ad" screens that are in the latest Ubuntu installer. -- James Michael Fultz <as.invalid> Remove this part when replying ^^^^^^^^ |
| yum - No module named yum Posted: 01 Dec 2009 08:32 AM PST Ok I think I solved it, believe it or not, relatively
painlessly. I installed something called 'smart'
http://labix.org/smart
I removed yum-utils via the smart tool,
then downloaded (seperately) the yum package rpm,
installed it, and wallah, it worked!
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| Automatic install Posted: 21 Nov 2009 01:21 AM PST |
| Puppy Linux with windows manager style Xp Posted: 19 Nov 2009 02:43 PM PST news.tiscali wrote:
have fun with it
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| Fedora Core 11: not booting Posted: 18 Nov 2009 10:29 AM PST John Goche wrote:
Now I am confused. The "bubble" is what you get after the system is installed
and you are booting from the HD. Exactly what did you install or do before you
got this problem? Did you install the system?
When you boot the install disk you should get nothing but text messages which
are a no particular value. Then should come some questions on language,
keyboard type and such in ascii graphics.
--
If the world adopts Israel's view of the Goldstone report then the world
at least owes Milosevic a posthumous apology and possibly also to Hilter.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 4206
http://www.giwersworld.org/holo3/holo-survivors.phtml a3
Wed Nov 25 04:35:29 EST 2009
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| denyhosts is always denying Posted: 17 Nov 2009 12:46 AM PST On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<hedkdp$fg2$eternal-september.org>, John Taylor wrote:
Whoops!!! That's certainly not going to help ;-)
I don't think I've ever seen that, so I'd have to say it's not the
default. The only "ALL:" line I expect to see there is for the
loopback addresses.
Keep an eye on the size of /etc/hosts.deny to make sure it isn't
growing out of control. If it does, you can be wasting more CPU
cycles checking libwrap for each and every connection than you
would letting the script kiddiez connect and continue to guess
wrong. That's the 'PURGE_DENY' value.
Old guy
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| OpenVPN Posted: 16 Nov 2009 05:26 PM PST On Nov 18, 1:14am, Lew Pitcher <com> wrote:
Thank you Very much Pitcher.
I have successfully connectd vista clients to the VPN using the note
you gave..
Thank you very much and I thankful to others too who have replied to
me...
Regards
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| GDM freezes after Ubuntu upgrade Posted: 15 Nov 2009 06:22 AM PST I demand that Ian Briggs may or may not have written...
[snip]
BIOS and/or kernel upgrade, perhaps?
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| using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army
| + http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ & http://tlasd.wordpress.com/
programming: n. The process of putting bugs into a program.
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| alpine email client and yahoo Posted: 08 Nov 2009 04:58 AM PST Jon Solberg wrote:
Pardon, I figured I could have looked, but the question of how to
configure it to work with Yahoo! mail led me to believe it's unrelated
to this group (about Linux, rather than just settings on an application
that can run on Linux). Not a big deal though.
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Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
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