Linux-Misc Digest #112, Volume #24 Tue, 11 Apr 00 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
DHCP woes (Chuko Liang)
Re: Cheap/Free alternatives to Hummingbird eXceed (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: PC Beeps 3 times - then dead? (termite)
Re: Summing Up File Sizes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Summing Up File Sizes (Ron)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("Christopher Smith")
Printer makes 1/2 size pages (Torstein Finnbakk)
Why my KDE keeps polling my CD-ROM? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Programming Languages on Linux (Robert Heller)
help: can't save current session ("Kirk R. Wythers")
RedHat 6.1 will not recognize my ISA 3Com509 ethernet card (Bill Woster)
Re: free or not to free... (Hal Burgiss)
Re: /home vs /homes (Karl-Heinz Herrmann)
NT Zip -- access by root but not by user? (Ken Yasuda)
Re: /home vs /homes (Bastian)
Re: Summing Up File Sizes (Bastian)
Probs with password (Bernd Driesen)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation yet again (MrJack of LuLuland)
Re: Netscape and newsgroups (Silviu Minut)
Re: repartitioning with FIPS (Leonard Evens)
Re: Why my KDE keeps polling my CD-ROM? ("Bernard Chase")
Re: /home vs /homes (Leonard Evens)
Re: Red Hat Linux 6.1 (Leonard Evens)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuko Liang)
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: DHCP woes
Date: 11 Apr 2000 15:27:15 GMT
I've set up a Linux DHCP server on a network with many VLANs. I've got
a helper address pointing to the DHCP server, and I've forwarded udp 67
and 68.
The problem I'm having though, is that the DHCP server is on the 10.0.1.*
subnet, and the machine in question is on the 10.0.41.* subnet. DHCP
serves out fine to machines on the 10.0.1.* subnet, but it acts wierd on
the 10.0.41.* subnet. There, a 10.0.41.* address is handed out, and then
superseded by one from the 10.0.1.* subnet. This happens with a Win98
laptop and an OpenBSD box, so the problem is not specific to Windows.
The dhcp server gets two DHCPDISCOVER requests: one comes via 10.0.41.1,
and one comes from eth0, both within milliseconds of the other.
Does dhcp think its getting two requests, or is it actually getting two
requests. I've been working on this (with help from others) on and
off for the better part of a week, and gotten no where.
Anyone have any ideas? The dhcpd.conf follows, along with an excerpted
show running config (and show ip interface for the specific interface)
from the Cisco router.
# dhcpd.conf
#
option domain-name "incognito.com";
option domain-name-servers 10.0.1.2;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
default-lease-time 14400;
max-lease-time 14400;
subnet 10.0.41.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 10.0.41.2 10.0.41.254;
option broadcast-address 10.0.41.255;
option routers 10.0.41.1;
}
subnet 10.0.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 10.0.1.75 10.0.1.240;
option broadcast-address 10.0.1.255;
option routers 10.0.1.1;
}
#sh ru
interface FastEthernet0/1.41
encapsulation isl 41
ip address 10.0.41.1 255.255.255.0
ip helper-address 10.0.1.2
no ip redirects
no ip directed-broadcast
ip nat inside
#sh ip int 0/1.41
FastEthernet0/1.41 is up, line protocol is up
Internet address is 10.0.41.1/24
Broadcast address is 255.255.255.255
Address determined by non-volatile memory
MTU is 1500 bytes
Helper address is 10.0.1.2
Directed broadcast forwarding is disabled
Outgoing access list is not set
Inbound access list is not set
Proxy ARP is enabled
Security level is default
Split horizon is enabled
ICMP redirects are never sent
ICMP unreachables are always sent
ICMP mask replies are never sent
IP fast switching is enabled
IP fast switching on the same interface is enabled
IP Flow switching is disabled
IP Feature Fast switching turbo vector
IP multicast fast switching is enabled
IP multicast distributed fast switching is disabled
Router Discovery is disabled
IP output packet accounting is disabled
IP access violation accounting is disabled
TCP/IP header compression is disabled
RTP/IP header compression is disabled
Probe proxy name replies are disabled
Policy routing is disabled
Network address translation is enabled, interface in domain inside
WCCP Redirect outbound is disabled
WCCP Redirect exclude is disabled
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/ (_) (_) /_) (_/|_/ / o
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Cheap/Free alternatives to Hummingbird eXceed
Date: 11 Apr 2000 10:20:30 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kristjan Kristinsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Isn't VNC a _VERY_ slow alternative?
That depends mostly on the window size, color depth, and
background decorations of your window manager. At 800x600,
8-bit color, and the rather spartan blackbox window
manager I find it tolerable over a dialup and at least
as fast as a native X server on a local network. The
real plus, though, is that it maintains the sessions whether
you are connected or not. You can start up some long-running
programs and periodically check on them from different locations,
or start something at work, then check on it from home.
You can also use it to control windows boxes remotely, although
that does tend to be slower.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (termite)
Subject: Re: PC Beeps 3 times - then dead?
Date: 11 Apr 2000 15:27:56 GMT
There are a billion stories in the Naked City. From the pen of
<38f2c560$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this is one of them :
> I installed Caldera Openlinux on a 386 (8MB Memory). It was then (upgraded?)
> to a 486 with 4MB Memory. Now, the boot messages displays, up to the one
> displaying information on my harddrive. The PC then gives three short beeps
> and stops.
>
> If I press Ctl+Alt+Del, it goes on, up to where the Ramdisks are loaded, and
> it says "Compressed image found at block 0". It then hangs.
>
> What's wrong here? Anybody please help!
>
My computer did that when I had been messing around with the printer port
connection and joggled loose the video card by mistake. When I booted up
I got 3 beeps and nothing else.
It's obviously not your video card. Double check all connections. Also, I
have to wonder if Caldera Openlinux is going to run on a mere 4 megs of memory.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Summing Up File Sizes
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:03:40 +0100
Reply-To: no_replyto@oursite
This message has been posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Ewart)
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:44:08 GMT, Jeff Susanj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I thought that I could do anything in Linux that I could do in DOS and then
>some but now I'm stumped. We have a bunch of files and we would like to
>know how many blocks of storage or even better how many Kbytes they consume.
>We want to do this fairly often. 'ls' will give me the information for a
>single file but it will not provide a summary like the DOS 'dir' command
>would. Is there a way to do this that is not too complicated, i.e. that can
>be done in one command line?
Check out the man page for the command "du" - I think this is what you're
looking for.
Dave.
--
Dave Ewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computing Manager
ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford UK
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Summing Up File Sizes
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:08:35 -0400
Jeff Susanj wrote:
>
> I thought that I could do anything in Linux that I could do in DOS and then
> some but now I'm stumped. We have a bunch of files and we would like to
> know how many blocks of storage or even better how many Kbytes they consume.
> We want to do this fairly often. 'ls' will give me the information for a
> single file but it will not provide a summary like the DOS 'dir' command
> would. Is there a way to do this that is not too complicated, i.e. that can
> be done in one command line?
>
> Jeff S.
Try 'du -ch FILES'. See 'man du' for more options.
Ron
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From: "Christopher Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 01:41:17 +1000
"Robert Wiegand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> btolder wrote:
>
> > 7) Making computers easy and cheap. Mac did beat M$ to making them easy.
> > Others might have been cheaper. Microsoft made them easy and cheap at
the
> > same time, which was crucial to mass market acceptance. Nobody else was
> > doing that in 1992.
>
> I am so tired of hearing this nonsense over and over.
>
> Microsoft had *nothing* to do with making computers cheap.
>
> Microsoft doesn't make computers.
>
> Thank IBM for the cheap hardware. They designed the PC using off-the-shelf
> parts that anyone could copy. The only difficult part to making a clone
> was duplicating the BIOS.
>
> The competition between computer makers is what drove the hardware costs
> down so fast.
And I'm sure the easy availability of a cheap OS that would run on any of
those clones had absolutely nothing to do with it.....
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From: Torstein Finnbakk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Printer makes 1/2 size pages
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:39:23 +0200
I run Red Hat 6.1. I have a Canon BJ-30 printer. In printtol there is no
option fr this printer. It works if I choose any of the other availiable
Canon printers, but it prints the pages about 1/2 the size of A4, and
the letters are only 1/2 the size they should be.
I have tested under Win95, and the same thing happens there if I choose
one of the other printer drivers. Why, and what can I do to prevent
this?
Anybody who knows if there is a Liux driver for BJ-30?
--
======================
Heimeside:
http://www.finnbakk.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Why my KDE keeps polling my CD-ROM?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:35:57 +0800
Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help. I notice whenever i switch from GNOME
to KDE, my KDE would keep polling my CD_ROM drive (the LED keep blinking
every few seconds). Does anyone know what's wrong and how to remedy
this? This does not happen in GNOME. I'm using RH6.1 with a pentium 90
with 48M ram and over 10gig of harddisk.
Thank you very much.
Regards
Damon
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Programming Languages on Linux
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:40:48 GMT
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:28:08 GMT, wrote :
LP> Peet Grobler wrote:
LP> >
LP> > What programming languages are there on linux? I know about C++, Fortran and
LP> > Pascal. But anything else? Anything that's "own" to Linux?
LP>
LP> Let's see... We had this question come up a couple of months ago, and
LP> I believe that we concluded that there were something like 30+
LP> programming languages useable on Linux. Most of then are freely
LP> available, but a few are commercial products. Off the top of my head,
LP> there was...
LP>
LP> COBOL, C, C++, Fortran, Simula, Modula, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, Python,
LP> Java, TCL (and TK), Bash, Csh, Ksh, pdsh, and Assembly language
LP> (platform specific). I know I've forgotten more of the list than I've
LP> remembered.
BASIC, m4, logo, smalltalk, postscript (it is a programming language!),
IDL (see http://www.rsinc.com). Tk is not a language in itself, but a
toolkit layered on top of Tcl, Perl, or Python. Tex is *kind* of a
programming language (like postscript it is a *specialized* programming
language).
I *think* I've heard mumblings of forth being available.
MicroEmacs runs under Linux and includes it own extension language, this
probably counts as well.
LP>
LP>
LP> --
LP> Lew Pitcher
LP>
LP> Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
LP>
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From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: can't save current session
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:51:49 -0500
Is there a way to "I really mean it this time" save current session? I
close all open apps, save current session, log off, log back on, and
wait for 20 zillion app to fire up (xwp, netscape, 15 or so xemacs
windows, etc...) I would really like to stop all of this stuff from
loading at login in time...
Thanks,
krw
--
Kirk R. Wythers University of Minnesota
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Forest Resources
Tel: 612.625.22611530 Cleveland Ave. N.
Fax: 612 625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108
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From: Bill Woster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.1 will not recognize my ISA 3Com509 ethernet card
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:44:26 -0500
RecHat 6.1 does not see the 3Com509 ISA ethernet card in our older
computers.
All of these worked with RedHat 6.0 and earlier versions. Does anyone
know how
to make this work? I tried rebuilding the kernel with bult-in support
for the 3Com509
with no success.
Thanks for your help on this.
--
Alcatel USA, Inc. Internet: @ssd.usa.alcatel.com
1000 Coit Road, Plano, Texas 75075
******* The opinions expressed are not those of Alcatel USA, Inc. *******
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: free or not to free...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:51:13 GMT
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:10:43 -0500, Mark Cubberley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>For the most part, when initially entering into a linux-based OS, do
>most people download the software or buy the packages, with the CDs,
>manuals, additional software, etc? I understand that the software can
>be gotten for free, however, between partitioning the hard drive and
>other such installation tasks, is it just worth the $50 to get the CDs
>that now come "idiot-proof" with regard to getting linux as an option
>when booting up your computer? If it's worth the cash, where's the
>cheapest place to buy the software? Are the deluxe packages the way to
>go...as opposed to just buying the OS CD which I think you can get for
>a couple of bucks?
If this is your first install, it probably is a good idea IMO to get a
boxed set, along with manual and some tech support. BUT -- don't expect
much of tech support. Mostly it includes only installation support (not
configuration). At least with RH. Also, you probably get better/quicker
answers in the right newsgroup, if you are any good at asking questions.
$50? RH6.2 is 29.95. Check at compusa or similar. They have good
selection. Note that the basic RH6.2 does not have a hard copy
installation guide -- just a skimpy 'Getting Started'. It's on a CD (in
case this is important).
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /home vs /homes
Date: 11 Apr 2000 17:51:00 +0200
The only point where the path to homedirectories is hardwired (and I
can think of right now) isa in /etc/passwd.
If you would take /home instead of /homes and just want to copy all in
/home so after all the copying this will be on its own partition (now
/homes then /home) do:
mount partition on /homes
cp -a /home /homes (if this is not yet recursive add another -r or -R
to the cp)
mv /homes /homesave
umount /homes
mkdir /home
mount /dev/xxx /home
and then maybe check everything on /home agains /homesave before
deleting /homesave
K.-H.
--
===================================
Karl-Heinz Herrmann
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Yasuda)
Subject: NT Zip -- access by root but not by user?
Date: 11 Apr 2000 15:55:22 GMT
Whenever I try to mount a NT zip disk, I find I can access it as root but that
I can't as a user. The zip drive is mounted by the user. Has anybody seen this
before? The user has no problem reading zip disks mounted under a linux
format.
My /etc/fstab is configured as follows:
/dev/sda1 /zip ext2 rw,user,noauto,exec (for the linux zip disk)
/dev/sda4 /dzip vfat rw,user,noauto,exec,umask=100 (for the dos zip)
an examination of the zip drive reveals:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 7 12:49 dzip
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /home vs /homes
Date: 11 Apr 2000 15:57:12 GMT
On 11 Apr 2000 14:46:19 GMT, Michael W. Godfrey wrote:
>Old habits die hard.
>
>When I installed RH6.2 just the other day, I created a disk partition
>labelled /homes; so of course Redhat then installed all of the home
>directories under /home within the "/" partition leaving /homes empty.
>
>Suitably chastened, I now want to move the home dirs over to the separate
>partition so I can feel free to wipe "/" for complete upgrades etc.
>
>I am happy to rename this partition "/home" if that will make things easier.
>
>What do I need to change to fix everything up?
>
>Any help appreciated.
>
>-- Mike
Mount the new partition under (for example) /homes. Then copy your /home
directory to /homes:
cp -a /home/* /homes/*
Look at /homes if everything seems correct (calms you down, believe me :-),
and finally remove the contents of /home:
rm -rf /home/*
Now unmount the /homes partition, and remount it under /home.
Then edit your fstab file and add a line like
/dev/hdX /home ext2 defaults 1 3
/dev/hdX is your device, and the "1 3" values depend on what you like.
BTW you don't need the directory /homes anymore.
Bastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: Summing Up File Sizes
Date: 11 Apr 2000 15:57:13 GMT
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:44:08 GMT, Jeff Susanj wrote:
>I thought that I could do anything in Linux that I could do in DOS and then
>some but now I'm stumped. We have a bunch of files and we would like to
>know how many blocks of storage or even better how many Kbytes they consume.
>We want to do this fairly often. 'ls' will give me the information for a
>single file but it will not provide a summary like the DOS 'dir' command
>would. Is there a way to do this that is not too complicated, i.e. that can
>be done in one command line?
>
>
>Jeff S.
>
man du
Bastian
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From: Bernd Driesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Probs with password
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:58:42 +0200
Hi,
I have used SuSE Linux 5.2 as internetrouter. On this machine is a
backup-agent from Cheyenne (uagent version 4.0c for linux) installed. I
had no problems backing up this machine from our novell server until I
made an update to SuSE Linux 6.1. Now, when I want to access to the
linux machine via the backup-agent, the agent tells me, that the
password is wrong. Does anybody know, why linux tells the agent the
wrong password?
Regards, Bernd.
P.S.: Last week I made an update to SuSE Linux 6.3, but nothing had
changed.
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From: MrJack of LuLuland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation yet again
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:07:01 GMT
Aw, c'mon,
The whole case, as far as the DOJ is concerned, is whether M$ unfairly
prevented competitors from marketing competing products!
According to the DOJ and a lot of other people who researched this (ask
me for no quotes, go look for yourselves), M$ treated anything competing
with their products or planned products, by applying boot heels and
smearing across the sidewalk.
How about lengths they went to to squash DRDOS! By the time it was
apparent to other than small manufacturers what M$ was up to and how far
they were going to go, it was getting prohibitively expensive to risk a
lawsuit against Billy Gates. It's safer now with all the publicity and
the legal scrutiny, so they're going about it now.
James
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Netscape and newsgroups
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:15:18 -0400
>
> AFAICT, it's simply a fact of life. Bus errors and Netscape seem to go
>hand-in-hand. I've tried all the fixes, and nothing really seems to work. I'm
>currently on Netscape 4.72, glibc 2.1.3, and kernel 2.3.48, and I still have as many
>bus errors. Maybe try upgrading to 4.61--that seemed like a fairly stable release.
> Maybe Netscape 6 will be better.
>
I'm aware of the netscape crashes, but they occur randomly, and in my case there was
something very specific that seemed to trigger the crash.
Notice the past tense. Since comp.os.linux.setup seemed to be the cause, I looked in
the .netscape directory for files related to this group. In xover-cache/host-news
there is a file for each group you are subscribed to. All were a few Kb,
except the one for comp.os.linux.setup, which was 8Meg!. I thought it was too big, and
I deleted it. The problem disappeared. When I opened the troblesome newsgroup, all
headers were loaded anew, and all is well now.
Of course, upgrading is always an option, and I'll give it a try when I have some
time. I have read some bad impressions about Netscape 6.0, which seems to have AOL's
"goodies" and commercial makeup.
>
> --
> Matthew Vanecek
> Visit my Website at http://mysite.directlink.net/linuxguy
> For answers type: perl -e 'print
>$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> *****************************************************************
> For 93 million miles, there is nothing between the sun and my shadow
> except me. I'm always getting in the way of something...
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: repartitioning with FIPS
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:57:38 -0500
GreyCloud wrote:
>
> I've used fips2.0 on Win98 partion. Doesn't work unfortunately.
> Windows 98 does a nasty thing to your hard disk by putting a marker at the
> very end of the hard disk space.. the defraging utility will show a marker
> at the very end.
Some people appear to have used fips successfully to resize
a Windows 98 partition. So it is likely that this is not a
feature of Windows 98 but rather something your computer vendor
did. I know that Dell and other vendors put unmovable files
at the end of the Windows partition.
But the isssue is moot for you anyway. So reinstalling Windows
after repartitioning was a sensible approach for you. The only
problem with that is that it can sometimes be a big hassle
resinstalling the various device drivers. These are usually
provided on a separate CD by your vendor, but Windows is particularly
dense about being able to find them.
Partition Magic is certainly one way out of this dilemma.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Bernard Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Why my KDE keeps polling my CD-ROM?
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:28:14 -0400
I know KDE auto mounts CDs when they are inserted. So I assume it checks
the drive during each switchdesk as well.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if anyone can help. I notice whenever i switch from GNOME
> to KDE, my KDE would keep polling my CD_ROM drive (the LED keep blinking
> every few seconds). Does anyone know what's wrong and how to remedy
> this? This does not happen in GNOME. I'm using RH6.1 with a pentium 90
> with 48M ram and over 10gig of harddisk.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Regards
> Damon
>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /home vs /homes
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:18:40 -0500
"Michael W. Godfrey" wrote:
>
> Old habits die hard.
>
> When I installed RH6.2 just the other day, I created a disk partition
> labelled /homes; so of course Redhat then installed all of the home
> directories under /home within the "/" partition leaving /homes empty.
>
> Suitably chastened, I now want to move the home dirs over to the separate
> partition so I can feel free to wipe "/" for complete upgrades etc.
>
> I am happy to rename this partition "/home" if that will make things easier.
>
> What do I need to change to fix everything up?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> -- Mike
cd /home
cp -a * /homes
Then check to see that everything has been copied correctly.
The only things which might not be are files which start with
a dot in the top level of the /home directory. There shouldn't
normally be any such files, but if they are
ls -a /home
will show them. You can then copy these manually.
Then remove the files in the /home directory by
cd /home
rm -r *
But before doing this make sure you don't have any symbolic
links to files outside /home in /home or a subdirectory.
Again there shouldn't be any, but if they are there, remove them first.
Also explicitly remove an dot files at the top level of /home.
Then do
cd /
rmdir /home
You could of course do this more simply with
cd /
rm -r /home
Finally do
cd /
umount /homes
mv /homes /home
Then edit /etc/fstab to replace /homes with /home and
mount /home
--
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: Red Hat Linux 6.1
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:05:23 -0500
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>
> Hello everybody,
> I'm very new with linux and I'm having a lot fo trouble with installing it
> on my hard drive. I have 20GB HD and 14GB of it is for Windows 98. And 2GB
> of it is for Windows 95 in Japanese. So, now there is 4.5GB left for Linux.
> Everytime I try to install Linux it tells me that /boot partition is too
> big. I understand that there is something about 1024 cylinder. Since I have
> Windows 98 already installed, should I just erase all HD again or is there
> some other way to do that? Say, move Windows to some other place on the
> hard drive. I would like to keep partitions like they are right now if
> possible. I'd be very greatful if somebody has a solution for my problem
> and is willing to help me. Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
> Mike
>
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By doing a custom install you should be able to install Linux
but you won't be able to boot from the hard disk since lilo
won't work. (The default install uses disk druid which can't
deal with this situation, if I remember correctly, so you must
use fdisk instead.) If you are not happy booting from a
boot floppy, then you can put the kernel in the Windows partition.
The program loadlin allows you to boot Linux from Windows but
in some cases can cause problems because you may not exit
Windows properly. RedHat on their web page suggests another
method which puts the /boot directory in the Windows partition
and links to it. See their description. (If you can't find it
let me know.)
But get the RH6.1 Anaconda updates to the installer. These
can be found under RedHat Errata or at mirror sites. The
original installer had some bugs and under some circumstances
would not allow you to make a boot floppy during installation.
One other point. The boot floppy made during installation or
with the mkbootdisk command (which does the same thing) can
boot VERY slowly. You can make a faster boot floppy as
follows. Assume your kernel is vmlinuz-2.2.12-20 and your
root partition is /dev/hda5. Then do
cd /boot
dd if=vmlinuz-2.2.12-20 of=/dev/fd0
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda5
Make appropriate changes if you have a different kernel or
a different root partition.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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