Linux-Misc Digest #276, Volume #24 Wed, 26 Apr 00 14:13:21 EDT
Contents:
Re: Finding Informatioin about Directories (Dances With Crows)
Re: Gateway Solo 9300CL and Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linex
Re: 3D support in Linux ("David Acklam")
Re: Linex (Matt Friedman)
Re: need help with a modem config (Conexant) ("David Acklam")
Re: News server recommendation ("David Jacobson")
Re: When is ldconfig run? (Bastian)
Re: 3D support in Linux (Janet)
Adding memory option to lilo.conf (jafgon)
Re: Documentation for an *old* ISA SCSI card (1540B) (ground zero)
Re: Adding memory option to lilo.conf ("Tom Hoffmann")
Re: pine and roadrunner (Jan Schaumann)
whereis proxy-server how-to (John Marten)
Linux Business Oppurtunity ("Go Linux Comp.")
Staroffice 5.2 beta (Gerald Pollack)
Re: afterstep (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Linex ("Robert A. Trifiletti, Jr.")
Re: Floppy format problem. (Harold Bower)
Re: whereis proxy-server how-to ("David ..")
Re: EMERGENCY!!! (mh)
Re: Boot Linux / DOS (Samuel Cannell)
Re: BeOS-fs-driver available =?iso-8859-1?Q?=FAnder?= linux ?? (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Can I securely disable password screen (xdm)? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Can I securely disable password screen (xdm)? (Bill Unruh)
Kernel + Harddisk ----- help ??? ("Benson Lei")
Re: ati xpert128 video card problem (Brian Craft)
Re: DHCP ---- Help ???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Finding Informatioin about Directories
Date: 25 Apr 2000 19:08:54 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:02:45 -0700, Josh Garno
<<390623da$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>How do I find out how much space a Directory is taking up on a given file
>system?
Read the man page for "du", paying particular attention to the -s and -h
options.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Gateway Solo 9300CL and Linux?
Date: 25 Apr 2000 23:05:39 GMT
Nope. We have it running on several Gateway Solos here.
Well, scratch that. We had to install a version that supported the
NeoMagic chipset. But aside from that, no worries.
--J
In comp.os.linux.setup Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Has anyone encountered any abnormal difficulties setting up Linux on the
: above Gateway notebook model, particularly with the XF86Config setup?
: Jim
: remove "attack" for email
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linex
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:30:09 GMT
Where can I download, and what "flavor" of Linex should I use to get
started?
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "David Acklam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3D support in Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:35:37 -0500
Currently 3Dfx is the best supported
nVidia and ATi have DRI 3D support under development.
ATi Rage128 has partial 3D currently under XFree86 4.
Sandhitsu R Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Which chipsets have full 3D support in Linux ?
>
> I don't want to buy a board which gives 3D performance in Windows but only
> 2D in Linux.
>
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From: Matt Friedman <"mwf"@total.net(remove-to-reply)>
Subject: Re: Linex
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:43:58 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Where can I download, and what "flavor" of Linex should I use to get
> started?
First of all, you're going to catch a lot of heat for calling it
"Linex." It's "Linux," just like in the name of this newsgroup.
As for where you can get it, and which distribution ["flavour"] you
should use, that really depends. I assume you're new to Linux, so I
would suggest that you get a copy of it on CD-ROM. It'll be easier to
install.
As for which distribution, I would suggest that you go with Red Hat 6.2.
It may not be the best in some people's minds, but it has a very simple
graphical install routine, it's pretty up-to-date, and it's the most
popular distribution available. That doesn't make it the best, but it
does mean that it's the distribution that most people know, and it's
relatively easy to get 3rd-party software for it as pre-packaged
binaries.
You best bet, though, would be to got to LinuxMall
[http://www.linuxmall.com/] and take a look at what they have. The sell
CDs of the download versions of all the major Linux distributions for a
buck and have CDF collections of six or nine distributions for $10 and
$23, respectively.
MF
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From: "David Acklam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: need help with a modem config (Conexant)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:47:31 -0500
two possibilities:
1) It's a PCI or ISA PnP modem - These aren't automatically supported, but
can be manually configured. For isa pnp modems, use the 'pnpdump' and
'isapnp' utilities. For PCI modems, use 'cat /proc/pci' to find the
interrupt and I/O address of your modem,. and then use 'setserial' to assign
a serial port to it.
2) Its a winmodem, and you're SOL - buy a new modem
Kirk Wythers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8e0g3e$fa1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I need some help configuring a ppp on a redhat 6.2 box. My modem is a
> Conexant MDP3900V-U modem working under windows on COM2.
>
> I have tried linuxconfig and RP3 to get this sucker working. RP3 can't
> locate the modem and when I configure manually, I get the error "Can't
open
> ttyS1" when I run debug. Isn't ttyS1 equivalent to COM2? This is a
hardware
> modem. What am doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kirk
>
>
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From: "David Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: news.software.nn,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: News server recommendation
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:03:29 -0500
"Curt Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:20000425110815.754$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > "David Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > 2. A web page interface to the same server for users that do not have
> > > NNTP clients
> >
> > who has a web browser but not a nntp client?
>
> Web-TV is one of many good examples. Various web-browser kiosks
> you find in places like airports is another. More and more of these
> will be showing up over time.
>
> And there are also lots of reasons why people don't want to use the
> built-in NNTP client -- like when you sit down at some random
> web browser and want to read a little news. You don't want to
> set up a new NNTP account on some stranger's PC but using the
> web browser to access your web-based Usenet account works fine.
>
> With the good web-based interfaces all the newsrc info is stored
> on the server so you can access your account from any web browser
> and still have all your personal configuration available. You
> don't get that type of portability with most NNTP based clients.
>
> --
> Curt Welch
http://CurtWelch.Com/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster for
http://NewsReader.Com/
...Exactly why I posted the requirement. I have to design forums on a web
site to make it "sticky" but would ALSO like to support NNTP news readers on
the same forums. If I was pushed, I'd have to NOT support NNTP news clients
for now based on mgmt preferences.
Thanks to everybody for the wonderful ideas. :-) :-)
David Jacobson.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: When is ldconfig run?
Date: 26 Apr 2000 00:00:19 GMT
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:13:43 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
>> If it doesn't find the expression "ldconfig" in any of the startup
>> scripts, ldconfig isn't ran at startup. You can create your own
>> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/Sxxldconfig file though.
>
>Or I could put it in rc.local. But I don't want to run it at
>boot time particularly if it is not being run by default.
>I just want to understand the situation better.
Hmmmm... Here's a little trick so you can find out *if* it is
run at boot time:
move the file /sbin/ldconfig to /sbin/myldconfig, and write a
little script called /sbin/ldconfig (set permissions to rwx).
#!/bin/bash
printf "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n LDCONFIG HAS BEEN STARTED\n\n\n\n\n\n"
/sbin/myldconfig
exit 0
This'll give you a message on the screen if ldconfig is started.
Bastian
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From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3D support in Linux
Date: 25 Apr 2000 17:05:35 -0700
Sandhitsu R Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Which chipsets have full 3D support in Linux ?
>
> I don't want to buy a board which gives 3D performance in Windows but only
> 2D in Linux.
I have a Voodoo3, and the drivers are nice. nvidia released beta GeForce
drivers; I'll be trying them later this week...
Janet
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From: jafgon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adding memory option to lilo.conf
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:17:05 -0400
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Greetings group,
I'm running 128MB of RAM yet according to free it shows only 64MB.
Normally I would go into /etc/lilo.conf and add the option mem=128m only
this will not take. I run the lilo command after I add it and it claims
it as a syntactic error. I'm typing it verbatim from Matt Welsh's
Running Linux but it won't take. The distro is RH6.1 w/ a 2.2.12 kernel.
I shouldn't even be having this problem yet I am. Is there an
alternative command or something I'm overlooking? Thanks in advance for
the help.
jafgon
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Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Greetings group,
<p> I'm running 128MB of RAM yet according to free it
shows only 64MB. Normally I would go into <i>/etc/lilo.conf</i> and add
the option <i>mem=128m</i> only this will not take. I run the lilo command
after I add it and it claims it as a syntactic error. I'm typing it verbatim
from Matt Welsh's <i>Running Linux</i> but it won't take. The distro is
RH6.1 w/ a 2.2.12 kernel. I shouldn't even be having this problem yet I
am. Is there an alternative command or something I'm overlooking? Thanks
in advance for the help.
<p>jafgon
<br> </html>
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:31:43 -0500
From: ground zero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Documentation for an *old* ISA SCSI card (1540B)
http://www.adaptec.com/support/overview/aha1540.html
Robert Heller wrote:
> I am putting together a 'print server' machine, from a low-profile
> 'riser' type '486DX2-66. I got (cheap, probably used) an old ISA SCSI
> card, a late '80s, early '90 vintage AHA-1540B. 'Zillions' of jumpers,
> no ^A BIOS hack like all of the 'modern' Adaptec SCSI cards. This board
> has both internal (50-pin header) and external (Cen50) SCSI connectors.
> It also has three resistor SIPs, which I am guessing is the controller
> board's termination. Normally this machine will only have an internal
> SCSI disk (Seagate 4.5gig SCSI-2 disk), which appears to be happily
> detected. I will want to attach an external SCSI CD-ROM drive for
> purposes of installing Linux. I have no documentation, so I am not sure
> how to turn the board's termination off or on. I've sent E-Mail to
> Adaptec, but I am not holding my breath -- this is an old board and I
> would be expecting Adaptec to be seriously supporting it anymore. I am
> hoping that there is someone out there with some old documentation
> sitting on their shelf.
>
> The board has these markings:
>
> Large, centrally located chip with a paper sticker:
>
> AHA-1540B 98
> 444700 C
> 9025
>
> There are two socketed EPROM chips. One is labeled:
>
> 434101-00C
> MCODE F3F7
> (C) 1990
>
> And the other is labeled:
>
> 420417-00 B
> BIOS BC00
> (C) 1990
>
> The board displays on the console during boot up:
>
> AT/SCSI BIOS
> 3.10
> (C) 1988
>
>
> --
> \/
> Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: "Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding memory option to lilo.conf
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:36:56 GMT
The correct syntax for /etc/lilo.conf is:
append="mem=128M"
Then run /sbin/lilo.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jafgon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --------------AB3DAD371D3F628C49F25657
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding:
> 7bit
>
> Greetings group,
>
> I'm running 128MB of RAM yet according to free it shows only 64MB.
> Normally I would go into /etc/lilo.conf and add the option mem=128m only
> this will not take. I run the lilo command after I add it and it claims
> it as a syntactic error. I'm typing it verbatim from Matt Welsh's
> Running Linux but it won't take. The distro is RH6.1 w/ a 2.2.12 kernel.
> I shouldn't even be having this problem yet I am. Is there an
> alternative command or something I'm overlooking? Thanks in advance for
> the help.
>
> jafgon
>
>
> --------------AB3DAD371D3F628C49F25657
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding:
> 7bit
>
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> <html>
> Greetings group,
> <p> I'm running 128MB of RAM yet according to free it
> shows only 64MB. Normally I would go into <i>/etc/lilo.conf</i> and add
> the option <i>mem=128m</i> only this will not take. I run the lilo
> command after I add it and it claims it as a syntactic error. I'm typing
> it verbatim from Matt Welsh's <i>Running Linux</i> but it won't take.
> The distro is RH6.1 w/ a 2.2.12 kernel. I shouldn't even be having this
> problem yet I am. Is there an alternative command or something I'm
> overlooking? Thanks in advance for the help.
> <p>jafgon
> <br> </html>
>
> --------------AB3DAD371D3F628C49F25657--
>
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pine and roadrunner
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:40:10 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I am using roadrunner as the isp and my username for roadrunner
> >>> differs from the username (LOGNAME, &c) on my local linux box. I
> >>> really don't want to have to change my local username to match
> >>> that of RR's arbitrarily created username and I would like to know
> >>> how to force pine to use the correct name since I cannot seem to
> >>> find a Reply-To: entry for pine.
> >>>
>
> >> Reply-to can be set up via "Setup->Config", but pine can also use
> >> another username (and domain) - check your ~/.pinerc file...
>
> > To further clarify, this can all be done inside pine. Go to Setup,
> > Config, then scroll down to customized-hdrs. There you can add
> > any entries you want to appear at the top of your messages.
> > You can either add a Reply-To:, or you can change your From:
> > by adding the entry 'From: You <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'.
>
> This answers my question perfectly. I don't whether to admit I forgot about
>customized-hdrs or just pretend I never saw that option when searching to solve the
>problem. I'll blame it on years of Windows use.
right on - put the blame where it belongs! :))
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann
http://www.netmeister.org
"Nature abhors a Vacuum"
-- Brian Behlendorf on OSS (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and
Associates)
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From: John Marten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: whereis proxy-server how-to
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:40:15 -0700
i've been to sunsite, metlab, etc. but can't find a how-to
on setting up a proxy server on linux. if you know where there
is one, mail me the addy. tia
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From: "Go Linux Comp." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Business Oppurtunity
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:41:22 -0700
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From: Gerald Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Staroffice 5.2 beta
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:45:12 GMT
Any comments on this? I have two main complaints about 5.1: (1) new=20
reader causes frequent crashes (unrecoverable errors); (2) web browser=20
is slow, has problems with many urls. Are either/both of these=20
improved in 5.2? (Normally I'd just try it and find out for myself,=20
but before committing to a 95 MB download I'd like to know whether=20
it's worth it).
Thanks,
--=20
Gerald Pollack, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. Biology, McGill University
Tel:(514) 398-6418, Fax:(514) 398-5069=20
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: afterstep
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:45:14 -0400
Andrew Wong wrote:
>
> I'm using xwindows in RH 6.0, I'm trying to install afterstep, so far
> unsuccessful. Any ideas??
Any detailed description of what your problem is?
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann
http://www.netmeister.org
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From: "Robert A. Trifiletti, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linex
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:43:46 -0400
cheapbytes has it for real cheap, hence the name
www.cheapbytes.com
i am somewhat familiar with linux, using for 2 years now and i like RH, its
pretty darn good distro, Mandrake is also really good. SuSe is great if you
have teh HD space and patience to install its 6 CD's !!
Bobby
--
/******************************************************************/
Robert A. Trifiletti, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Penn State University - Computer Science
Berks-Lehigh Valley College
AOL IM: TrifPSU ICQ UIN: 42005336
"It is better to regret the things that you do,
than to regret what you don't do.."
/*********************************************************************/
"Matt Friedman" <"mwf"@total.net(remove-to-reply)> wrote in message
news:m8qN4.3038$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Where can I download, and what "flavor" of Linex should I use to get
> > started?
>
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From: Harold Bower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy format problem.
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 01:21:11 GMT
Charles Sullivan wrote:
>
> David C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Charles Sullivan writes:
> > > <Regarding formatting a 360K disk on a 1.2M drive.>
> > > It turns out that using fd0h360 (as suggested by David C) instead
> > > of fd0d360 works, and if I then use:
> > > mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0h360
> > > I get a diskette which is compatible with DOS/Win 98.
[snip]
> You are most likely correct about this. I went rooting through my archives
> and found the data sheet on my old Teac 1.2M drive - it says the same thing
> as the specs for the newer one, i.e., 360K is read-only. I also found the
> old IBM-AT Users Guide which says that a 360K diskette written with the 1.2M
> drive will thereafter only be readable on the 1.2M drive. So it's probable
> that the (later) BIOSes (or DOS?) solved the problem by writing a double
> track - the FD controller looks like a pretty dumb card in itself.
>
> It'd be interesting to determine whether the Linux FD driver does the same
> thing. It's academic for me at this point as I no longer have a 360K-only
> drive, but it's nice to know what's going on.
>
> Regards,
> Charles Sullivan
The 1.2M drives step twice for each track when mounted as /dev/fd0h360.
I use this mode to transfer files from some of my 8-bit CP/M systems
operating a program which allows them to read and write DOS-formatted
360k diskettes. The problem with interchangeability relates to the fact
that 1.2M (and dos 720k drives) have twice as many tracks as a true 360k
drive, so the best (and only reliable) way to make the procedure work is
bulk-erase the diskettes, then format them in a 720 or 1.2M drive as
360k diskettes, then NEVER write to the disk in a true 360k drive,
otherwise the latter write will smear a track twice as wide as the
higher drives, and any subsequent writes to that sector will, at best,
be erratic.
Hal
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: whereis proxy-server how-to
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:34:00 -0500
John Marten wrote:
>
> i've been to sunsite, metlab, etc. but can't find a how-to
> on setting up a proxy server on linux. if you know where there
> is one, mail me the addy. tia
www.google.com/linux
search squid HOWTO
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 01:44:55 +0000
From: mh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EMERGENCY!!!
Ed Hurst wrote:
>
> mh wrote:
>
> > I'm facing the possible loss of nearly 10 years worth of data and
> > assorted applications. Here's my situation:
> >
> > I use a secondary (SCSI) hard drive (sdb) to make a copy of all data and
> > application files stored on the primary hard drive (sda). I have no tape
> > backup, nor any other form of backup. Both drives are IBM 9.1 GB.
> >
> > I decided I needed to re-partition my primary drive (sda), and wanted to
> > upgrade the kernel as well. I umounted the secondary drive (sdb) and
> > proceeded to perform a clean install of RH 6.0 on sda. I repartitioned
> > sda using disk druid, and was careful to deselect sdb under the valid
> > drives option as I created each partition.
> >
> > After completing the install, I attempted to mount sdb to copy the data
> > and files back to sda. I got an error message saying there was a
> > problem with the filesystem, superblock, or there were too many
> > filesystems mounted.
> >
> > I ran "cfdisk /dev/sdb" and cfdisk reported the entire drive (single
> > partition) as "free space"!! I ran "e2fsck /dev/sdb" and it reports
> > problems with several inodes and prompts me to "relocate". I am afraid
> > to do this, since I fear losing ALL data and have no other backup.
> > Unless disk druid did something to sdb, the drive should be intact. I'm
> > hoping the errors have something to do with the way the extended
> > filesystem/super block was written on sda rather than a problem with
> > sdb.
> >
> > Suggestions/recommendations will be much appreciated.
>
> Disk Druid can do some strange things with partition tables. In a similar
> situation, involving an IDE harddrive, I used fdisk to recreate the label
> on the drive, and suddenly all my backup data appeared. I simply wrote a
> new label on the drive, no formatting or creating of file systems. The
> only alternative is the expensive work of some very hi-tech machines...
>
> Ed
Evidently. I tried to run e2fsck. What a mess. I got locked in some
type of loop while "relocating" blocks. Nothing was recoverable. And I
always thought tapes were unreliable!!!
Nothing like starting a new life, eh? It seems almost incredible to me
that an operating system used on a scale that Linux is being used could
have disk utilities this flaky. Live and learn, the HARD way.
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From: Samuel Cannell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot Linux / DOS
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:48:48 +1200
benoit wrote:
>
> after a failed linux installation, which MBR command to restore an
> automatic DOS boot? and have Win xx automatically ?
> thanks
> philippe
Boot off a DOS boot disk (or better still, your windows installation
boot disk / cd)
and run FDISK /MBR
-- Sam
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BeOS-fs-driver available =?iso-8859-1?Q?=FAnder?= linux ??
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:05:37 +0200
Ulrich Reinelt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is there a driver for the BeOS-filesystem available
Try http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008030/bfs/
--
Markus Kossmann
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Can I securely disable password screen (xdm)?
Date: 26 Apr 2000 01:57:45 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Mendez)
writes:
]Unfortunately, (at least if your running lilo), I don't believe your box will be
]secure if it is physically accessible without supervision, as all one person has
]to do is choose "linux single" at the lilo prompt to get root access and do from
You can protect lilo with a password. See man lilo.conf
password=password
restricted
options.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Can I securely disable password screen (xdm)?
Date: 26 Apr 2000 01:59:36 GMT
In <8e4mkf$fh6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Richard Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
]A quick browse of the man pages on lilo.conf suggests that you can secure
]yourself against console single user boot attempts, by adding a
]'password=...' and 'restricted' entry to lilo.conf.
]BUT, (ain't it always the case) it doesn't work on my Redhat 6.2 system.
]If any one can shed any light on this, I would be most grateful.
After you have done that you have to run lilo again.
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From: "Benson Lei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel + Harddisk ----- help ???
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:07:14 -0700
Hi,
I am using RH Linux V6.1, I re-compiled the kernel, but there is a problem
when I modify the lilo:
my harddisk's cylinder is greater than the default (1023 ).
How can I do ???
Thank you for your hlep
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From: Brian Craft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ati xpert128 video card problem
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:26:41 -0400
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Mandrake 7.0 has support for the ATI Xpert 128 video card....that is
what I'm running right now. It is using Xfree86 3.3.6
*****Note***** Mandrake 7.1 beta was announced today using Xfree 4.0
and a whole bunch of other new updates. Just go to
http://www.linux-mandrake.com
Brian
Danny O'Brien wrote:
>
> Where do you get xfree86 (any version)? How do you download and install
> it under Linux 6.1?
>
> TIA
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph
> Szymczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I also had probloems with this chip, however Installing v.4.0 of xfree
> > was
> > easy and it works wonderfully!!
> >
> > -joe
> >
> > Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> >
> > > Xfree86 3.3.6 supports the Rage128 line of cards, including the
> > > Xpert128.
> > > However, the 2D support in XFree86 4.0 is much better, and if your card
> > > is
> > > agp there is now a beta of the DRI available for 3D support for the
> > > card
> > > (with PCI support coming soon).
> > >
> > > Adam
> > >
> > > On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Parminder Lehal wrote:
> > >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: DHCP ---- Help ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:34:35 GMT
In article <8e3oo5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Benson Lei wrote:
>I tried to configure the DHCP . But I found the following problem:
>
>address range 152.101.16.237 to 152.101.16.250 not on net
>152.101.16.193/255.255.255.192
>
>exiting....
>
>
>
>I just do not know why, please reply.
>
>Thank you for your help.
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