Linux-Misc Digest #857, Volume #23 Wed, 15 Mar 00 14:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Wrong NIC IRQ (Andy9701)
Re: unkillable linux box (aflinsch)
Can't get my Rh 6.1 to recognize my NIC 3c509 (mike)
Re: Linux (Ewan Dunbar)
Best way to find out the cpu load or computer load? (mike)
Editing XF86Config File
Is RedHat 6.1 safe to use? (Lots of bugs in the errata list) (Tom)
Re: Deleting the Partition? (Simon White)
Re: duplicating disks under linux (GertJan)
Re: Is RedHat 6.1 safe to use? (Lots of bugs in the errata list) (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Best way to find out the cpu load or computer load? (Bob Tennent)
Keypad keys broken in Netscape ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't get my Rh 6.1 to recognize my NIC 3c509 (Ewan Dunbar)
Re: Where is my contribution? (Jason Berkan)
Installing to a DAC 960e RAID controller (David Trimmell)
set -o vi will not work when putting command in .bashrc file (joe flasch)
Re: iso image question (Uwe Malzahn)
Re: Laptop battery life Linux vs Win (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: Editing XF86Config File (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
Re: cable modem can't work with RH6.1...Help! (Leonard Evens)
Re: How to make a boot disk for a SCSI system (Leonard Evens)
Re: Deleting the Partition? (Leonard Evens)
Re: removing linux partition (Leonard Evens)
Re: Plotting Tool for Linux? (Hans Dumbrajs)
out of virtual memory (kev)
Re: Editing XF86Config File (Patricia)
Re: Editing XF86Config File (Bob Tennent)
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From: Andy9701 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wrong NIC IRQ
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:03:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder) wrote:
> PCI cards with IRQ 0 indicate that you do have a broken BIOS
> implementation. It thinks that if you set PNP-OS to Y in your
> CMOS you'd want no IRQ at all. Very common these days, very broken.
>
> Go into your CMOS and set the PNP-OS to No/Disabled.
The only problem I see with doing that is I'm dual booting with Win98.
Would Win98 go crazy if I set PNP-OS to No, or would it still function
properly when adding hardware?
Thanks,
Andy
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unkillable linux box
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:10:43 -0600
cathy gramze wrote:
>
> I inherited an old 486 Red Hat 5.2 box, sitting idle on a shelf, with my
> network admin job. I want to make it a Win 95 box (rarely used!) so I can
> swipe the existing Win95 box with a faster CPU and a bigger hard drive. I
> plan to install Red Hat 6.1 and HP OpenMail on the better box.
>
> I can't kill the Red Hat 5.2! No one knows the root password, or any other
> password. I've set the BIOS to boot to the A: drive, rebooted with a
> bootable DOS disk (to trash the partitions with) and watched as Linux
> cheerfully booted from the hard drive. How can I kill this Linux off so I
> can get on with my fiendish plan to create a better Linux box?
>
Old 486 box which won't boot from floppy even though the bios says to
try there first.
I think the keyword here is "old" the cmos battery is probably old
also. The default in the bios might be to boot from the first
harddrive. When you changed the setting in the bios it did not 'take"
(since the battery was dead) and just used the bios default boot
sequence.
Try replacing the cmos battery and resetting the bios to boot from c:
and see if that fixes the problem.
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't get my Rh 6.1 to recognize my NIC 3c509
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:18:44 -0500
Hi,
in my conf.modules, I put:
alias eth0 3c509
options 3c509 io=0x340 irq=10
While the system is booting the message is something like
can't load module it is busy. Failed.
I downloaded a 3COM diagnostic program for DOS which
gave the ethernet card io address and irq and other parameters
Thus it detected the card. So why won't Linux?
I also tried to load the module with modprobe (modprobe 3c509)
and I got an error message: conf:2: missing module argument.
Maybe a clue. I just did: depmod -a and got the same error message.
Mike
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From: Ewan Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:16:08 -0500
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What are the file extensions *.bin stand for or what are they use for, or
> stand for?
>
Well, I happen to know that the RealPlayer 7 beta was called something.bin,
though I'm entirely sure why. The bin stands for binary, but don't ask me
why they put it on there. Perhaps to remind you to make it executable.
chmod +x filename will do the trick. Of course, if this isn't the file
you're referring to (making it executable and executing it doesn't do the
trick), the only thing I can think of that ends in .bin is some kind of
Mac file compression and/or archiving format. I don't know what, and I don't
know anything about it. It's just that, for whatever reason, the extensions
.sit, .hqx, and .bin come to mind. The .bin one maybe doesn't have anything
to do with the actual file format. Don't ask me, I'm no Mac file compression
guru.
--
There is no sig.
Ewan Dunbar
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best way to find out the cpu load or computer load?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:20:54 -0500
Hi,
What is the best indicator to show what the load is on the
computer in terms of its ability to run programs?
Mike
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Editing XF86Config File
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:30:03 GMT
Hello, I am a newbie to Linux (about a day now). I just installed RedHat
6.1. The problem I am having is the my desktop is bigger than my screen.
I have read similar situations, and the solution was to go into XF86Config
file and edit the screen section with anything beginning with "Virtual"
with a # before it. How do I edit the XF86Config file? Its a read only
file. Also, I have tried hitting Cntl-Alt-"+" or Cntl-Alt-"-" in X, but
it does not save to setting when exiting. Thanks for any help offered.
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Is RedHat 6.1 safe to use? (Lots of bugs in the errata list)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:43:07 -0800
Hi,
I am currently running RH 6.0 and was considering upgrading to RH 6.1 .
However, when I went to the redhat support site I was struck by the
number of bug fixes and workarounds that were listed. I am not reall
anxious to make my life more complicated then it is. Is RH 6.1 safe to
use?
Thank You
Tom
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From: Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleting the Partition?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:26:19 +0000
> > I was hoping any of you out there could tell me how to go about
> deleting
> > the Linux partition on my HD and initializing and/or reformatting the
> > entire drive as one DOS partition?
I think you could use FIPS or Ranish Partition Manager to resize the
existing DOS partition to fill the whole disk, but you may have to format
the Linux partitions first.
Read the FIPS FAQ and the Ranish FAQ for more info.
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From: GertJan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: duplicating disks under linux
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:45:03 +0100
Harry Overs wrote:
>
> Is there a quick and easy way of duplicating a whole drive under linux, as a
> quick way of installing a machine.
>
> i.e. setting-up one machine and drive and then copying that to 10 other
> disks
>
> Regards
>
> Paul.
Check the Hard Disk Upgrade Mini Howto, it explaines how to copy disks.
BTW:
Next time don't crosspost in too many newsgroups, 3 is enough.
--
GertJan (Mustng68 AT nettaxi DOT com)
Running SuSE 6.2 with kernel 2.2.14
6:42pm up 4:57, 2 users, load average: 1.12, 1.14, 1.10
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Is RedHat 6.1 safe to use? (Lots of bugs in the errata list)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:45:52 GMT
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:43:07 -0800, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am currently running RH 6.0 and was considering upgrading to RH 6.1 .
>However, when I went to the redhat support site I was struck by the
>number of bug fixes and workarounds that were listed. I am not reall
>anxious to make my life more complicated then it is. Is RH 6.1 safe to
>use?
Of course. Have you looked at the 6.0 errata? Strikes me as much fewer
bugs in 6.1. Most of the real gotchas are in the installer. Get the
updated boot images. If you have trouble, do the text install (this is
like the 6.0 installer).
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Best way to find out the cpu load or computer load?
Date: 15 Mar 2000 17:48:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:20:54 -0500, mike wrote:
>
> What is the best indicator to show what the load is on the
>computer in terms of its ability to run programs?
>
I have xload, top and gmemusage running on my desktop at all times.
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.help,netscape.public.general
Subject: Keypad keys broken in Netscape
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:39:07 GMT
Hello. I'm running Debian Linux, the last stable
release, kernel 2.2.14, and KDE, on a pretty
vanilla system, Pentium 233, 64MB Ram, plenty of disk.
Netscape 4.7. (Same problem in NS 4.61 and 4.72).
Same problem with both libc5 and libc6 versions of
Netscape...
The one odd-ball thing about my system is that I'm using a genuine
original IBM AT keyboard, without the newer extra arrow-key pad in
the middle.
(And please don't even hint that I change to a new keyboard.
This is the ONLY design I like. The control key, function
keys, and arrow keys are all in the "right" places,
and I like the klanky feel.)
Netscape doesn't see any of the keypad keys at all, no arrow
keys, or delete, page-up, page-down, etc. I don't get goofy
codes or misbehavior, I get nothing, as if I had not hit the
key at all.
But those keys work fine in many other programs like vim or
Konsole. --In all other programs that I can think of, both
Xwindows programs and simple command-line programs.
I see a file called XKeysimDB in the Netscape subdirectory,
and it does some kind of encoding of all of the odd-ball keys
of many different makes and kinds of keyboards, but alas,
the format seems incomprehensible. Can anyone point me to
documentation about the code values listed there?
If Netscape is expecting the extended keycodes from the middle
keypad of a newer keyboard for the arrow keys, and doesn't
understand that it should use the far right-hand keypad arrow keys,
then that is the problem. And the solution is to tell Netscape
about the far right-hand arrow keys, but how?
Anyone have any ideas?
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From: Ewan Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get my Rh 6.1 to recognize my NIC 3c509
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:46:15 -0500
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, mike wrote:
> Hi,
> in my conf.modules, I put:
>
> alias eth0 3c509
> options 3c509 io=0x340 irq=10
>
> While the system is booting the message is something like
> can't load module it is busy. Failed.
>
> I downloaded a 3COM diagnostic program for DOS which
> gave the ethernet card io address and irq and other parameters
> Thus it detected the card. So why won't Linux?
>
> I also tried to load the module with modprobe (modprobe 3c509)
> and I got an error message: conf:2: missing module argument.
Try doing 'modprobe 3c509 io=0x340 irq=10'. If it gives you the same error,
you need another option. Perhaps a dma option. Aside from making sure these
are the right settings, and making sure you're loading the right driver, I
can't think of too much else, except perhaps making sure the card is seated
properly.
--
There is no sig.
Ewan Dunbar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Berkan)
Subject: Re: Where is my contribution?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:14:33 GMT
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:49:36 -0800, jygjyg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I posted many questions here but when I click "My watchs" page,
>just one of them is listed. There are so manys notes in this
>forum everyday, how can find out my question easily?
This is really OT, but you shouldn't use a web browser to view USENET.
You would be better off downloading a news reader and using it. All
posts are gathered together in threads so you can easily find your
posts and responses to your posts.
Cheers,
Jason Berkan
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From: David Trimmell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing to a DAC 960e RAID controller
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:53:10 GMT
Hi, I was wondering if anyone here has any experience installing RH6.1 (or
anyother distribution) to a HP Netserver LM with a DAC 960e RAID
controller. I am just using RAID 0 with a single 10 gig partition (2 gig X
5), but I cannot get Linux to recognise the DAC controller. I am getting
desparate here! I have looked at the Root RAID cookbook by Micheal
Robinton, but it is out of date, and I am not a expert... Are there any
distributions that have "out of box" support for this configuaration? NT
4.0 supports this machine out of box, but I don't want to go that route.
Anyone have any sugestions? Please e-mail me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post
reply here.
Thanks,
David Trimmell
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:08:11 +0000
From: joe flasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: set -o vi will not work when putting command in .bashrc file
After I put the command "set -o vi" into the .bashrc file it will not
work for vi or emacs after the shell comes up. Using mandrake 7, Had
the same problem
since redhat 6.0. Has anyone fixed this problem or found a work around.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: iso image question
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:57:58 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Duy Duong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi,
>
> Is is possible to open a iso image file without burning it to a CD?
> I'd like to do a HD install.
You could mount it:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop <your iso image> <a mount point>
Cheers
Uwe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Subject: Re: Laptop battery life Linux vs Win
Date: 15 Mar 2000 18:04:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Efflandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Just curious if anyone has a feel for how much longer batteries last in a
: notebook computer running Linux vs Windows? I have a Sony PCG-F450 PIII
My battery life was very poor under Linux. The reason was that the
battery monitor did not work properly. Since charging was linked
with the OS, and not with the smart battery, a dumb OS would cook
the battery. Linux 2.0 on a TI TM5000. If you did not boot Windows
3.1 at least every two weeks, the LiIon battery would get cooked.
TI was happy to replace the battery everytime I cooked it, as long
as the laptop was under warranty. When the warranty expired, the
laptop became dependent on AC power. This is actually not so bad,
since 70% of laptops do not need battery power (always used near an
AC outlet). Windows 95 also cooked the battery.
Neither Acer nor the newsgroups were any help. So, in this tiny
case, the battery life was much shorter (if one forgot to boot
Windows 3.1 occasionally).
Eric
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From: Frederic L. W. Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Editing XF86Config File
Date: 15 Mar 2000 18:07:19 GMT
Edit the file as root. It's read-only for normal users.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: cable modem can't work with RH6.1...Help!
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:24:25 -0600
Peter Lee wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to get my cable modem (Adelphia, powerlink) to work
> with dhcp under RedHat 6.1. I read through those dhcp and cable modem
> HOWTO, it seems people always said once you can get an inet IP address
> other than 0.0.0.0 by typing "ifconfig", your network is ready to go.
> However, even though I have used "netcfg" to configure the network, and
> I have been getting a look-good IP address, the lights on cable modem
> all look normal (like it does under window 98), I just can't connect to
> internet. What I intend to do is just using the cable modem to connect
> my desktop to internet. The cable modem is working fine under Win98.
>
> One thing I don't quite understand is under window98, I always have ip
> address 24.48.168,yyy. However, once I used dhcp in linux, the inet
> addr become
> 24.48.168.zzz (a different number).
It is not unusual when using dhcp, where the server assigns your
ip address, for the address to change when you reboot. It happens
to me all the time. Even the third number (your 168) can change,
though not as often. It would be strange for it to oscillate
back and forth consistently between two numbers depending on
whther you are running Win98 or Linux.
Can you ping or connect so something using the ip number rather
than the symbolic ip address? If so, there may be something wrong
with /etc/resol.conf.
> Which one I should use?
>
> My setup is:
>
> host: oh-nnnn.adelphia.net (or should it be localhost.localdomain??)
> DNS server: 24.48.56.aaa
> gateway: 24.48.bbb.ccc
> Interface: eth0 ip=24.48.168.yyy
>
> ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:4A:07:D9
> inet addr:24.48.168.yyy
> Bcast:24.48.168.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:80 errors:11 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:3 errors:178 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:534
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:9 Base address:0xdc00
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> I would really appreciate your help!!!
>
> thanks in advance!
>
> Pete
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make a boot disk for a SCSI system
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:35:11 -0600
mike wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I tried to use mkbootdisk and it wouldn't make a boot disk
> that booted the system. Can one use the install disk with
> SCSI parameters to boot the system?
> When making a boot disk how does one put the SCSI parameters
> in to boot the system?
> My system needs to have parameters to tell the system to
> recognize the scsi adapter. I am using Redhat 6.1
>
> Mike
I have made boot floppies with mkbootdisk under RedHat 6.1
with several SCSI systems, and they all work.
One possible confusing thing is that when you boot from the
boot floppy made with mkbootdisk, it can take an extremely
long time for you to see any response. It often sits there
for five minutes or so doing nothing, and then you begin to
see dots appear very slowly and finally it boots. This
probably has something to do with the way the form of
the data on the disk and the BIOS routines used to read the
floppy. Once booted, Linux has no trouble reading the
floppy drive.
I could be wrong, but I don't think when you boot from
a floppy it makes any difference that the hard disk is a
SCSI disk. The kernel is read from the floppy, and all that is
necessary is that the kernel can access the SCSI bus.
When you boot from the hard disk, there has to be some
bootstrapping involved, because the BIOS by itself may
not be able to load the kernel, which is on the disk.
I don't claim to understand the details, so perhaps someone
else can elaborate.
Something else you might try is the following
cd /boot
dd if=your_kernel of=/dev/fd0
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/XXXX
where XXXX is your root partition.
A floppy made this way will boot reasonably quickly. The
BIOS just starts booting what it finds on the floppy, which
is just the kernel, and that takes over. The floppy
made with mkbootdisk actually has its own lilo boot loader,
so the booting process is more complicated.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleting the Partition?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:48:14 -0600
"Brandon A. Duhamel" wrote:
>
> Hey there,
>
> I was hoping any of you out there could tell me how to go about deleting
> the Linux partition on my HD and initializing and/or reformatting the
> entire drive as one DOS partition? I tried booting from a floppy and
> running FDISK, but it doesn't seem to want to recognize and delete the
> Linux partition, and when I did a format, I only succeeded in wiping out
> Windows from the DOS partition. Thanks in advance. Please post here as
> well as email me if you can, otherwise just a reply to the group would
> be fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brandon
The usual problem in these circumstances is that the lilo boot
loader was put in the master boot record when Linux was installed.
There are two ways to remove it. Running under Linux, the
command
/sbin/lilo -u
should restore the original MBR that existed the first time
lilo was run. But if you can't boot Linux and also in some
other less common circumstances, this might not work. In that
case you can boot from a DOS/Windows boot floppy and run
fdisk/mbr
This is the Windows fdisk that you are using and /mbr is an
undocumented option, not a directory as it would be under
Linux.
The easiest way to remove the Linux partitions is to do it
when Linux is running, so you could do it after running
/sbin/lilo -u but before rebooting. Run fdisk and choose
'm' to look at the allowable commands. Choose the 'p'
option to see the partitions and then use the 'd' option
to delete each successively. If you have an extended partition,
you will have to delete the logical partitions in it before
deleting the extended partition. Then use the 'w' option
to write the new partition table to the MBR and exit.
Then reboot. That together with removing the lilo boot
loader from the MBR should allow you to run the windows
fdisk, partition your disk appropriately, and install Windows.
Microsoft has an explanation of how to do this somewhere on
its web page. This is really a Windows problem, not a Linux
problem, so I would have just referred you to Microsoft.
But the last time I looked their explanation was either wrong
or misleading.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: removing linux partition
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:56:17 -0600
cathy gramze wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kman) wrote in <8ao76g$lq4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >I have a problem with my linux partition. I have a 6 GB drive that has
> >a 3GB primary partition and a 3GB extended partition. On the extended
> >partition which I created with fdisk (dos) I made a partition of about
> >1.2 Gb on which I tried to install Corel Linux.
>
> You installed past the 1024 cylinder limit: it was doomed anyway.
>
> >I am now unable to remove the extended partition with fdisk (it says
> >that the logical driveon the partition has to be removed). However it
> >does not find any logical drive on the partition (ext). I want to
> >remove all the data from the drive (free 6GB) by removing the
> >partition. Any idea how I can go about doing that. My bios does not
> >support lower level formatting
>
> You need to follow the advice given to me for a different problem! Boot to
> the cdrom or linux boot floppy. Do the install procedure up to the point
> where you pick what to install. Choose the advanced options, not the
> typical. Choose edit the partition table. Blow away the Linux partition(s).
> Get out of the install. (Just shut the thing off if you have to!) Your
> system should now see that area of your hard drive as free space.
>
> cathyy
cathyy gave you good advice. The only thing I have to add is
that the Linux installers try to install Linux in available
space, unless you tell them to do otherwise, and that
can be complicated. Your first attempt failed probably
because you created a partition in which you attempted to
stuff Linux. Once this partition existed, it wasn't
available to the installer running in its default mode,
But as cathyy pointed out, you probably went beyond the
1024 cylinder limit so you wouldn't have been able to boot
from the hard disk. You probably would have been able to
boot from a floppy though.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Hans Dumbrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plotting Tool for Linux?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:19:20 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does anyone know of a very good data plotting/curve fitting tool for
> Linux that is similiar to Microcal's Origin software? Unfortunately
> Origin is only available for Windoze systems and I am trying to migrate
> all my existing Windows applications to Linux equivalents. If anyone
> knows of any commercial software or freeware for Linux, I'd appreciate
> it if you could point me in the right direction...
take a look at gnuplot. I don't remeber the URL, but you can find it by
doing a search for gnuplot on http://freshmeat.net
>
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
> JR
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: out of virtual memory
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:47:07 +0000
Hi,
I'm getting this error when I try to use ssh:
ssh: error in loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot map
zero-fill pages: Cannot allocate memory
Also, the ps command segfaults.
I suspect gaim (Gnome AIM client) is to blame (I've known it to bring
whole X sessions down before), but without the ps command I can't find
the pid of gaim, so can't kill it.
How else could I find out it's pid?
thanks,
- Kev
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Editing XF86Config File
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:23:21 +0100
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello, I am a newbie to Linux (about a day now). I just installed RedHat
>6.1. The problem I am having is the my desktop is bigger than my screen.
>I have read similar situations, and the solution was to go into XF86Config
>file and edit the screen section with anything beginning with "Virtual"
>with a # before it. How do I edit the XF86Config file? Its a read only
>file. Also, I have tried hitting Cntl-Alt-"+" or Cntl-Alt-"-" in X, but
>it does not save to setting when exiting. Thanks for any help offered.
>
>--
>Posted via CNET Help.com
>http://www.help.com/
try logging in as root or su
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HTH :)
Patricia
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15
6:01pm up 1 day, 10:51, 3 users, load average: 1.11, 1.22, 1.17
Wed Mar 15 18:01:26 CET 2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Editing XF86Config File
Date: 15 Mar 2000 18:16:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:30:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello, I am a newbie to Linux (about a day now). I just installed RedHat
>6.1. The problem I am having is the my desktop is bigger than my screen.
This is a feature, not a bug. Try it for a while; you'll get to like it.
Put the stuff you need always visible in the center of the screen and
the less useful stuff at the edges.
>I have read similar situations, and the solution was to go into XF86Config
>file and edit the screen section with anything beginning with "Virtual"
>with a # before it. How do I edit the XF86Config file? Its a read only
>file.
That's a system file and you have to be root to edit it.
Also, I have tried hitting Cntl-Alt-"+" or Cntl-Alt-"-" in X, but
>it does not save to setting when exiting. Thanks for any help offered.
I presume you're trying to permanently set the default resolution.
Find the relevant Display sub-section and change the order of the
Modes listed so that the one you want is first. That will be the
default (assuming it's OK as a mode for your monitor).
Bob T.
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