Linux-Misc Digest #869, Volume #20 Wed, 30 Jun 99 22:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: An "ls" question (Cameron Hutchison)
Re: hot mount of parallel zip drive? (Adrian Hands)
Re: Solaris and Linux (Adrian Hands)
Re: Remote login problems in custom RedHat env... (ted)
Re: Meaning of word ,,hacker'' (David Hwang)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: NT the best web platform? ("Jack Richards")
Re: An "ls" question (Carl Fink)
Re: first/second/third world ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: first/second/third world ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: HDD very slow ? ("llornkcor")
Re: Adding a default route (scott)
Re: Oops. Locked out :( (Adrian Hands)
Re: LILO question, WIN98 dual boot. (Adrian Hands)
Re: linx vs hurd (Gene Wilburn)
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From: Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: An "ls" question
Date: 1 Jul 1999 00:54:16 GMT
Johannes Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto) writes:
>> It's the number of hard links to (the contents of) that file.
>For directories, it is the number of files contained in the
>directory. Because each directory containes "." (itself) and ".." (the
>parent directory), for directories the link count is 2 at least.
Actually, for directories it is also the number of hard links to that
directory. The reason each directory has at least 2 hard links is that the
directory name is the first link to the directory inode, and the second
link is the "." directory within the directory (ie. it points to itself).
Any subdirs created in a directory will increase the parent directory link
count, as the ".." entry in the subdir links to the parent directory.
eg.
$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ ls -ld /tmp/foo
drwxrwxr-x 2 camh camh 1024 Jul 1 10:50 /tmp/foo
$ touch /tmp/foo/bar
$ ls -ld /tmp/foo
drwxrwxr-x 2 camh camh 1024 Jul 1 10:50 /tmp/foo
$ mkdir /tmp/foo/baz
$ ls -ld /tmp/foo
drwxrwxr-x 3 camh camh 1024 Jul 1 10:51 /tmp/foo
$ ls -la /tmp/foo
total 3
drwxrwxr-x 3 camh camh 1024 Jul 1 10:51 .
drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 1024 Jul 1 10:50 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 camh camh 0 Jul 1 10:50 bar
drwxrwxr-x 2 camh camh 1024 Jul 1 10:51 baz
$ ls -li /tmp/foo/bar
14250 -rw-rw-r-- 1 camh camh 0 Jul 1 10:50 /tmp/foo/bar
$ ls -ldi /tmp/foo /tmp/foo/. /tmp/foo/baz/..
14249 drwxrwxr-x 3 camh camh 1024 Jul 1 10:51 /tmp/foo
14249 drwxrwxr-x 3 camh camh 1024 Jul 1 10:51 /tmp/foo/.
14249 drwxrwxr-x 3 camh camh 1024 Jul 1 10:51 /tmp/foo/baz/..
In this example, the last command shows the three links to the directory
/tmp/foo (inode 14249). The file in the directory (/tmp/foo/bar) does not
link to the directory, but has its own inode instead (14250).
--
Cameron Hutchison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Onward To Mars
GCS d--@ -p+ c++(++++) l++ u+ e+ m+(-) s n- h++ f? !g w+ t r+
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hot mount of parallel zip drive?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:38:32 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"G. Pollack" wrote:
>
> I have SCSI and parallel-port zip drive support compiled into my kernel
> (2.2.2). Everything's fine if the drive is connected when I boot the
> computer, but if not, and I connect it and attempt to mount it later, I
> get the following message:
>
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
>
> How can I make the kernel aware of the drive without doing a reboot?
Try "modprobe ppa".
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Solaris and Linux
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:55:53 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Davies wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm planning to build a system architecture which uses Oracle 8i running on
> Sparc Solaris for the database servers, and Linux on Intel hardware for the
> development workstations.
>
> This means I'll be networking Linux workstations to the Solaris Server. As
> anyone had any experience of this? Is the cost saving of using Linux worth
> the extra hassle or should I just go with Solaris on the workstations?
>
> Any help and advice appreciated
>
> Vijay
Shouldn't be a problem.
Are you going to be running Oracle on Linux two ? or just database
clients ?
We're getting pretty abysmal performance from Sparc Solaris + Oracle 7
at work. Sun and Tactics are trying to fix it but...
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From: ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Remote login problems in custom RedHat env...
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:02:22 -0400
Wallace Barnes wrote:
> DNS is disabled on this box. I've even gone as far as to remove the resolv.conf
> file. Besides, tcpdump shows that the box is able to send acks to whatever
> remote machine is involved. Also remember that all established connections can
> reach any host via telnet, ftp, rlogin, etc... (as long as they're in the hosts
> table of course). As for the network card, this problem has been replicated on
> three other identical systems to rule out just that. Network traffic is
> non-existent on this box. I've even prevented misc. services such as sendmail
> from starting to make sure to no avail. Thanks for your responses though.
>
I'va had a similar problem, i have a slackware box that would act really
strange
after 15-20 minutes. You would be able to log in remotely,but after 15 minutes you
would not be able to do anything,i would get "no route to host" . At first i
wasn't quite
sure what it was,but i've come to discover a flaky network card .
Swap NIC's and see if it still does it .
>
> Wally
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Bryan wrote:
>
> > Jon Skeet wrote:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have an unusual problem with telnet, rlogin, ftp and any other
> > > > program which requires logging in remotely. The system specs are: 400Mhz
> > > > Pentium Pro, 256MB RAM, onboard Intel etherexpress pro 10/100Mbs network
> > > > card, 2 serial ports, running a custom Red Hat 5.2 kernel. Four kernel
> > > > header files were modified to allow for a 3072 process limit ( fs.h,
> > > > limits.h, posix_types.h, /usr/include/gnu/types.h ). The machine will
> > > > boot and run fine for about 10 minutes then any form of remote log in
> > > > (even rcp and rsh) will hang after it successfully connects to the
> > > > system just before it gives you the opportunity to provide your login
> > > > name and/or password. On telnet you can even see the "Connected to
> > > > <host>" message. Any connection made before this problem occurs is fine
> > > > and has full capabilities. I can get out of the box using any method I
> > > > choose (telnet, ftp, etc). The oddest thing about this problem is that
> > > > all other inetd services are unaffected. They continue to respond to
> > > > request on their respective ports without fail. A tcpdump on the machine
> > > > will show telnet, rlogin, etc ... activity. They send their initial acks
> > > > and replies but don't complete their initialization procedures.
> > >
> > > Is it feasible that the problem is in reverse host lookup? I know telnetd
> > > checks that the host that is telnetting to it is valid before going ahead
> > > with the connection; it's possible that rcp does the same. If so,
> > > possibly your DNS is going wrong...
> > >
> >
> > I agree; it could be reverse DNS or no DNS at all.
> >
> > Another idea: Network card burps...
> >
> > How much activity is there once the system is up? I had a Netgear
> > 10/100 card in my box with one of the original DEC tulip chips (they've
> > since created their own proprietary set due to DEC's discontinuation of
> > the 21something series), and it would come up with some overrun problems
> > at high NFS loads. I finally swapped it with a newer one I had bought
> > for a Windows box, and the old card works fine in the Windows box, and
> > the new one works beautifully in the Linux box (gotta love 100Mbps).
> > (Probably some inconsistencies with the tulip driver and that older
> > chipset..)
> > .
> > Which kernel version are you using? You can use the 2.2.x kernel series
> > on Redhat 5.2. A custom RedHat 5.2 kernel sounds like you used th
> > 2.0.36 kernel that came with it.
> >
> > 2.2.5 runs really stable on three of my 5.2 machines. I'm suggesting a
> > kernel and network card driver upgrade because even if you turn off
> > networking, like you said you're doing, the card may still be on the
> > fritz, and there may be a compatibility issue with the EtherExpress
> > Pro. (Is that intel or 3com? 3com's drivers were semi-broken in
> > 2.0.36...)
> >
> > > --
> > > Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
> >
> > -- Bryan Scott
> > -- CTR Online Systems Administration
> > (remove the NOSPAM. for email)
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From: David Hwang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Meaning of word ,,hacker''
Date: 30 Jun 1999 17:57:20 -0700
Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hackers are those who wants to find out all the guts and inner working
> > details of programming.
>
> Too limited. Extend the definition to solving ANY problem in an
> ingenious and efficient way.
True.
Here's a couple of quotes:
"Hacking might be characterized as 'an appropriate application of
ingenuity'. Whether the result is a quick-and-dirty patchwork job or a
carefully constructed work of art, you have to admire the cleverness of
it." - The Jargon File 4.0.0
"We as the TMRC (Tech Model Railroad Club) use the term "hacker" only in
its original meaning, someone who applies ingenuity to create a clever
result, called a "hack"... This original benevolent meaning stands in
stark contrast to the later and more commonly used meaning of a
"hacker", typically as a person who breaks into computer networks in
order to steal or vandalize." - The Tech Model Railroad Club
When I was at school (MIT), hacker typically referred to a clever
programmer, but "hacks" in general were not limited to software. Hacks
were also clever pranks, and sometimes "hacking" also referred to
exploring the "off-limits" parts of the Institute.
Some related links you might want to check out:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/
http://www.mit.edu/activities/tmrc/
http://hacks.mit.edu/
Dave
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:11:29 -0700
"Bob Taylor" wrote in message ...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord) writes:
>> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:52:45 +0100, John Imrie
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>> >>It's just to appease the American public. Just like the
>>>> >>Second World War went from 1941 (when the Americans joined)
>>>> >>to 1945. What was it before that? A bun fight?
>>>> >
>>>> > Does Encarta say that? American public school textbooks
>>>> > certainly don't. Ours even covered the concentration camps.
>>>>
>>>> you mean, the american-run concentration camps?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Or the British run concentration camps
>>
>> Do they cover the US Army deliberately starving German POWs
>> to death immediately after the war?
>
>And how do you know this actually happened? Were you present? You read
>it in a book written by an American hater? On behalf of the Americans
>who died saving your sorry ass in WWII, I *demand* a retraction and
>appology for such a vicious attack!
I would have to agree with Mr taylor on this one. The stories I've heard, some first
hand from German POW's in the US, friends of my Granddad who was a Latvian pressed
into German service, all said they were treated well and some even remained friends
with their jailers.
>
>--
>+----------------------------------------------------------------+
>| Bob Taylor Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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>| Gnome certainly is (serious competition to the Mac or Windows) |
>| ... I get a charge out of seeing the X Window System work the |
>| way we intended..." - Jim Gettys |
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From: "Jack Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:16:08 -0400
Stuart Fox wrote in message <7l91fk$489fv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Miguel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:R6Nd3.96071$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> Your evidence suggests you cannot configure NT properly.
>> >
>> > I see comments like this all the time, and I wonder: does NT really
have
>> > this much touted "ease of administration" ? I always hear NT advocates
>> > say "you configured it wrong", but they are incapable of pointing out
>> > *what* was ( or in the absence of detailed information, what *might
>have*
>> > ) been configured incorrectly, which makes one wonder if configuring NT
>is
>> > not even a science, but a black art.
>>
>> Same question bugs me. When someone has a problem with Unix, the
responses
>> say what to fix to make it work. When someone has a problem with NT, the
>> responses are all stories of mythical NT servers with 12-year uptimes,
>> coupled with personal insults about administrator incompetence.
>>
>> I have never yet received a successful solution to an NT problem in a
>> newsgroup or from MS tech support. The only working solution always ends
>up
>> being to abandon the product being used and try another one (generally an
>NT
>> port of a unix-world open source program).
>
>Try going to msnews.microsoft.com and posting your problem in one of the
>newsgroups there. Most people end up being helped.
Exactly. These newsgroups have MVPs, or Most Valuable Professionals, usually
people who are in a related business, and they are very knowledgeable and in
contact with MS engineers if necessary.
But most problems are not understanding the proper method or convention, or
third party problems, rather than actual bugs.
These newsgroups support all MS products and show the way MS is able to
organize things to help consumers.
Jack
<snip>
>Stu
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,utah.linux
Subject: Re: An "ls" question
Date: 1 Jul 1999 00:58:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 Jun 1999 03:14:15 GMT Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So, Carl, did you just miss it in the man page, muck up your debian install
>or are you just lying here trying to discredit linux?
Wow, you're in a bad mood.
I found the same reference you did, actually. It's in a man page
that's explicitly not current or guaranteed accurate (read the
beginning), and the paragraph you quote isn't as clear or useful as
the man page from SunOS that I was comparing it to.
>(I normally wouldn't suspect someone of blatant lying, but I believe that
>it will be one of micros~1's tactics and this "Carl" may just be a micros~1
>stooge. You see, as soon as I read Carl's response, I did a "man ls",
>looked straight at the -l option and found he was wrong within about 3
>seconds).
My name really is "Carl" and I'm no tool or puppet of Microsoft's.
Nor am I trying to defame Linux. Hey, I really am sending this from
a Debian Linux system. Dueling Modems, for which I work, runs on
Slackware Linux servers. (See <http://www.dm.net/> if you're
curious.)
However, there is a difference between "criticizing GNU" (what I was
doing) and "trying to discredit Linux". My actual point was that
Stallman's group should go back to using man pages for their
documentation, instead of the atrocious and near-useless info files.
Since (as I pointed out) the ls on my system is a GNU program, not
"Linux" per se, your whole comment is really out of left field.
You aren't by any chance a Microsoft plant, trying to discredit Linux
by making it seem that all Linux users are raving lunatics?
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:26:56 -0700
Craig Brozefsky wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Rob Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The US owns those countries now? When did this happen?
>
>Well shit dewd, where have YOU been? Well, maybe you aren't old
>enough to remember Allenda, and the United Fruit Company, and Arbenz
>in Guatamala and the United Fruit Company again, and your namesake
>Hughes Telecom was also instrumental in the overthrow of Allende.
>
I presume you're referring to Salvatore Allende of Chile? Chile doesn't produce
fruit. Arbenz was in Nicaragua and overthrown by the Sandanista's under Daniel
Ortega, not a friend of the US.
>Then there is the little fact that Columbia's death squads are funded
>and trained by U.S. military, and happen to have a death and
>disappearance rate comparable to that in Kosovo prior to NATOs
>destruction of Yugoslavia.
This is a blatant lie. I was in the US Military and did some covert work in that area
in the early 80's, not training type, mapping and such.
>
>BTW, I think Kulisz means Haiti. An island with a very long history
>of foreign destruction, including several U.S. invasions. Aristide is
>the president of Haiti, not Tahiti.
>
>Colonialism and Imperialism do not mean outright ownership,
>particularly not this late int he 20th century. You can look at the
>way we enforce different economic structures on these countries to see
>things very similiar in the way that Britain forced India into an
>export economy so they could not sustain themsleves and became
>dependent upon their British exporters. NAFTA and it's effect on
>Mexico are very telling in this respect.
>
>Check out Chomsky's "The Washington Connection: The U.S. and Third
>World Fascism" for more information and tons of documentation.
>
>> Richard Kulisz wrote:
>> >
>> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > >Precisely which of our colonies are we exploiting?
>> >
>> > Tahiti; the atrocities committed by the recently ousted regime can
>> > be directly attributed to the USA since Uncle Sam is the one who all
>> > but killed Aristide and even now refuses to let Aristide serve out
>> > the remainder of his term as President. Tahiti has trouble feeding
>> > its own population and yet it is a net *exporter* of food (one guess
>> > where the food's going); nuts and such.
>> >
>> > Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, and Chile are all prime examples. Does
>>
>>
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>--
>Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Free Scheme/Lisp Software http://www.red-bean.com/~craig
>Less matter, more form! - Bruno Schulz
>ignazz, I am truly korrupted by yore sinful tzourceware. -jb
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:30:26 -0700
Nonnaho wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>
>Richard Kulisz wrote:
>>
>snip
>
>
>Mr. Kulisz ( may I call you Dick? ), in a few post ago you said:
>
>"So it was "practical" to escalate the genocide in the former Yugoslavia?"
>
>Since you brought up the subject, I would like to get your views on it.
>At the time NATO ( which is made up of more countries than just the US ) started
>getting involved in Yugoslavia, there were many protest in the US. Many US citizens
>did not think the US should get involved in other countries internal matters. How
>many ( non evil imperial countries ) allow this kind of FREEDOM of it's own citizens
>to criticize their own governments actions?
>
Other than England (They'll always be an England, Thanks God) not many.
>On the other side of the argument, many people were saying that if we did nothing,
>we would have let genocide happen in another country, and that it would be no
>different than watching a woman get raped on the street and do nothing about it.
>
Kind of telling now that the Huntington Library is going to allow display of the
Nuremberg Laws signed by Hitler in the '30's
>So, the question I put to you: If you had the power to stop genocide in another
>country, should you use it? Please give a clear and decisive answer and explain
>why you would or would not. I think this is a far request to someone that is
>quite vocal about the US's decisions.
>
Emphatically yes.
>One other comment, what do you think of the other countries that are part of
>NATO? Are as bad or worst than the US? PLEASE don't try to use the line that
>they had no other choice but to go along with the US. Every news source that
>I heard said that the US was dragging its feet on getting involved, and that the
>other NATO countries wanted to take action. If you have information to the
>contrary, please post your source.
>
The Italians even, temporarily set aside their conflict with the US over that aircraft
incident that killed some skiers to participate in this. I think everyone with any
common sense saw the danger.
>I look forward to reading your reply.
>
>--
>Nonnaho
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From: "llornkcor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: HDD very slow ?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:39:20 -0600
The problem may be that you had to have used the dos filesystem to copy the
directories, since ext2 cannot be seen by windows. FAT is not native to
linux, even tho it can be used by it, and it is inevitably slow, when used
by linux. If windows COULD see ext2, then it would slow on operations.,
unless, of course, you used two different directories. and then, they may
have been different sizes. Windows 98 does NOT use asyncronous operations,
linux , of course, does.
Casteyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ldrkq$edq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
>
> I've made a simple test to see if my Linux I've just installed is well
> configured : copy of a big directory from one drive to another.
>
> I compared the results with W98 and I found that my Linux takes twice
W98's
> time to perform the operation (1,7 Go : 10 mn with W98 & 21 mn with
Linux).
> I thought that this could be :
> - W98 CopyFile uses asynchronous IO or is threaded ;
> - the 2 disks are on different IDE controller.
>
> So I remade the test on a single disk (=> Serialization of HDD commands on
a
> single IDE controler), but Linux is still very slow. So I looked at hdparm
> (version
> 3.3) and found that :
> 1. 32 bits IO support is disabled by default, but 32 bits doesn't sole the
> pb (hdparm -c1) ;
> 2. DMA is active (chosen by kernel configuration, verified with hdparm) ;
> 3. X34 hangs my computer => no UDMA.
>
> I think the problem is there, but I didn't managed to activate UDMA. My
> chipset is an Intel LX, and I have 2 HDD UDMA (1 WD 4Go, 1 IBM 8Go).
> Linux Kernel 2.2.10, distro SuSE.
>
> Does anybody have an idea / similar pb ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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From: scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Adding a default route
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 20:30:23 -0400
"Nitin G." wrote:
> I am running a RedHat 6.0 system using dhcp. I cannot seem to get the
> default route configured. I can do a:
> route add default dev eth0
> to add the refault route. I wanted to have this added automatically at
> bootup. which file to I update to accomodate this?
>
> Thanks,
use linuxconf in the control-panel, this will take care of it for you.
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oops. Locked out :(
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:37:47 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I pulled a D'oh! There is only one user on my system (root). I edited the
> passwd file to change my shell to tcsh and apparently I had a typo because
> when I now try to log in, it quickly flashes "Last Login... file not
> found" and spits me back to the login prompt.
>
> I tried to telnet over from another host and it simply says "Login
> incorrect", which isn't correct.
>
> I tried booting with a boot disk and choosing rescue, but apparently I
> don't have a root disk image to load into ram.
>
> I am runnning Redhat 6 on an x86. Any suggestions? Although I've just
> recently loaded everything, I wouldn't want to do it again. Thanks!
At the LILO prompt enter "linux single" or "linux 1" to boot the system
into single-user mode. It will put you at the "#" prompt without
requiring a password.
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO question, WIN98 dual boot.
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:52:15 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mihir Lala wrote:
(snip)
> when I gave a 'lilo -q' command it said:
> /boot/map: no such file or directory.
Sounds like it's trying to tell you the file /boot/map doesn't exist.
Does it ?
$ ls -l /boot/map
-rw------- 1 root root 35328 May 22 07:52 /boot/map
$
> when I gave a 'lilo' command it gave me a warning:
> Warning: device 0x0306 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big(1293 >
> 1023)
How many cylinders is your windows partition ?
I believe LILO still needs your Linux partition to begin on a cylinder
less than 1024.
> I have one drive and it is partitioned into 3
> parts. The first partition has Win98 and one has
> Linux. the third is for future use.
> So basically I installed Win98 first and then
> Linux.
You didn't make a "swap" partition ?
> root=/dev/hda6
Why 6 ? Should this be 2 ? Does this agree with fdisk ?
Here's my system for reference (below).
Note that the linux partition shows up with the same number on both
fdisk and lilo.conf.
# fdisk
Using /dev/hda as default device!
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 789 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 3 510 1024128 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 511 759 501984 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1 2 4000+ 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/hda4 760 789 60480 82 Linux swap
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(787, 63, 63) logical=(788, 63, 63)
Command (m for help): q
# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message.txt
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux-2.2.5-15
root=/dev/hda2
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-test
label=linux-test
root=/dev/hda2
initrd=/boot/initrd-test.img
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=win95
table=/dev/hda
#
(I've got several images in case i &$^#%@!! something up while testing
new kernel configs.)
-Adrian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gene Wilburn)
Subject: Re: linx vs hurd
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:17:57 GMT
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:07:10 GMT, wiliam choehen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hurd are much better becuse of the micro kernel then linux
>it will be more used becuse its faster and more sabel
>and linux time its gone the killer apilcaion was network
>network are now commen so the next will be robot remot coontrol
>software or satllit operater software or maybe gen analzyewr software
Linus had that argument with Tannenbaum when he first designed the Linux
kernel in 1991. According to Linus, a monolithic kernel is faster than a
microkernel, and a better design as well. It's difficult to argue with
success, something that Hurd has not had much of ...
You can read the details of this in "Open Sources", O'Reilly & Associates.
Also available for free on their website www.ora.com
Gene
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