Re: moving linux installs

2008-04-20 Thread John Abreau
The way you describe it makes it sound like you had significant effort and downtime to get this to work. Was it really much less than a reinstall/reconfig would have taken? On Sat, April 19, 2008 1:26 am, Bill McGonigle said: Wow, so today was a weird day - I wound up moving three servers onto

Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Bruce Labitt
I've looked around for this and I see a way or two to do this. One could use mkdosfs, but the documentation indicates that the disk won't be bootable. I think it should be possible in fdisk, however, I'm not sure which of the million format options available is FAT32. It looks like the

anyone have a cheap source for pc3200 memory?

2008-04-20 Thread Bruce Labitt
I want to eke out some more life out of one of my machines. It has PC3200 memory (DDR 1 400 MHz). Anyone know of an inexpensive source for some 1MB sticks? I'd like 4 of them. DDR1 is now considered ancient. I originally thought it might be cheap. However, from what I have seen, it has

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked around for this and I see a way or two to do this. As usual, I'm going to ask: Why are you doing this? What are you trying to accomplish? :-) One could use mkdosfs, but the documentation indicates that

Re: anyone have a cheap source for pc3200 memory?

2008-04-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has PC3200 memory (DDR 1 400 MHz). Anyone know of an inexpensive source for some 1MB sticks? I assume you mean 1GB. A Google Product Search finds vendors selling it on eBay for as cheap as $15 per 1GB stick. You're

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Bruce Labitt
Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked around for this and I see a way or two to do this. As usual, I'm going to ask: Why are you doing this? What are you trying to accomplish? :-) Now that I think about this,

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 16:40 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I think about this, all that I want is a format that I can read and write to for the WinXP machines that I have to live with and with linux. Ah, then

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:31 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 16:40 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I think about this, all that I want is a format that I can read and write to for the WinXP machines

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32? (You don't have to live w/ FAT)

2008-04-20 Thread Coleman Kane
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:31 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 16:40 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I think about this, all that I want is a format that I can read and write to for the WinXP machines

Re: anyone have a cheap source for pc3200 memory?

2008-04-20 Thread Bill Ricker
I am seeing similar issues shopping for 1GB 200-pin CL 2.5 PC2700 DDR for the not-that-old Thinkpad T42. Mobo slots limited to (2) 1GB SODIMMs, no advantage to faster than PC2700/DDR333 but could apparently use PC3200 if I could find it in 200-pin SODIMM (?). -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: anyone have a cheap source for pc3200 memory?

2008-04-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need 184 pin pc3200 (400 MHz DDR1) The designation PC3200 implies DIMM, SDRAM, 400 MHz, DDR (first-generation), so those matches should, well, match. :) ideally low density Well, that's a different matter. I dunno

Memory limits (was: anyone have a cheap source for pc3200 memory?)

2008-04-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be warned that a lot of older hardware is limited to a 32-bit (4 GiB) hardware address bus (even if the CPU has a 36-bit bus). If so, the system will not be able to see the full 4 GiB of RAM. (The RAM gets bumped out of

[OT] Singing Tesla Coil

2008-04-20 Thread Ben Scott
Totally off-topic but *so totally cool*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ff_AXVlo9U -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread michael miller
When I was setting up this computer to dual boot Win XP and FC8 I initially thought that I would have to convert the hard drive with my win xp files from ntfs to fat32 in order to have them accessible both to linux and win xp. I quickly found out that fc8 has no trouble reading and writing ntfs

Any ZigBee/Bluetooth users?

2008-04-20 Thread Scott Garman
I'm doing some research on low-power embedded wireless technologies. I've found a lot of useful information, but little to nothing on the Real World bandwidth and range of these technologies. If anyone on this list has used ZigBee or Bluetooth in embedded applications, please drop me a line.

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Bruce Labitt
Well SuSE 9.3 doesn't handle it gracefully. I wouldn't be going through this grief if it did. I am trying to get my user data /home archived onto the usb disk so I can install a new distro. One of these days I can go doze free, but my current employment doesn't yet offer that opportunity. :)