Linux-Misc Digest #523, Volume #24 Fri, 19 May 00 08:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied ("Nico Lochner")
Installing more than 2 isdn cards ("News d'en Felip")
Re: Wanted: Advice for using gcc (Tony Sumner)
Problems with Linux/UltraSPARC (Thorsten Schreiner)
Howto connect to Linux-Machines via Modem (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Skottke)
Re: NIS group issues (Thorsten Kukuk)
Re: Netscape Newsgroups (Kousik Nandy)
Re: Help with C Library ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: STAROFFICE HELP... (Charles Philip Chan)
Re: Help!!!..MAKING A NEWSGROUP LIST...!!!! ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
ICQ/IRC and linux server (sleddog)
CDROM problem (Miguel)
Re: Netscape Newsgroups (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Howto connect to Linux-Machines via Modem (Matt)
Re: Enlightenment 0.16.4 Upgrade Problem ... SOLVED (ray jones)
Re: linux x A500? anybody can't help me??? (Christian Richter)
sig 11 with quake2 (Barry Rutten)
Problems creating initial ramdisk (Nick McCubbins)
Re: sig 11 with quake2 (Andrew Williams)
Re: Maximum Linux ("Mike Griffiths")
Re: Restoring LILO after reformatting 98 partition (DeAnn Iwan)
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From: "Nico Lochner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:22:43 +0200
Hi Ste!
> I can access it locally, using either my account or the root account.
> I can access it remotely using the root account. But, if I try to
> access it remotely using *my* account, I get the following error
> message: [...]
Do you use pserver? Otherwise, if you are useing cvs over nfs you,
probably must have the same user-id's on all machines (just a guess..)
> I know this is off topic, so please forgive me as I couldn't find any
> CVS related newsgroups.
post in: gnu.cvs.help. Probably the can help you more :-)
Regards Nico.
:-)
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Nico Lochner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
iXus Technologiedienstleistungen GmbH
www.ixus.de Tel: 0172-30 90 149
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From: "News d'en Felip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing more than 2 isdn cards
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:42:44 GMT
Hello:
I've heard that is possible to install more than two isdn cards in linux.
I have a PC with 2 isdn Asuscom compatible cards, I have configured with the
isapnp tools both cards and the linux recognize it. The problem is that when
configuring i4l I dont know how to tell i4l that it has 2 isdn cards and
only recognize one.
Can somebody help me?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Sumner)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Advice for using gcc
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:57:20 GMT
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> books, etc. where to start?
You could try to look at UNIX Power Tools by Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly
and Mike Loukides, pub O'Reilly & Associates. Tells you everything.
--
Tony Sumner
to e-mail me, substitute macaulay for nospam
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From: Thorsten Schreiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Linux/UltraSPARC
Date: 19 May 2000 08:42:49 GMT
Hi !
I recently decided to run Linux on my Sun Ultra 5... First I thought that
was a great idea because the system,s ist approx. 35% faster now. But:
I tried to recompile the kernel (2.2.15) but all the way I get the following
error messages:
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:805: Error: Architecture mismatch on "b,pt %xcc,1f".
{standard input}:805: (Requires v9|v9a; requested architecture is sparclite.)
{standard input}:809: Error: Architecture mismatch on "bne,pt %xcc,1b".
{standard input}:809: (Requires v9|v9a; requested architecture is sparclite.)
{standard input}:841: Error: Architecture mismatch on "b,pt %xcc,1f".
{standard input}:841: (Requires v9|v9a; requested architecture is sparclite.)
and so on...
Ok, let's try some "as" options e.g that "-Av9" but obviously, I put it in
the wrong place.
Please, if there anybody has a hint, help me... (I want to have sound ! :-)
Regards, Thorsten
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Skottke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Howto connect to Linux-Machines via Modem
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:13:04 GMT
Hi!
I would like to know if it is possible to connect two Computers running =
Linux via Modem.=20
I haven't tried it yet but there are some problems i can imagine:
- one Computer (Modem) must do the call and the other must be set to=20
receive - how can this be done?
- When using tcp/ip the ip-addresses must be set somehow. Must this be=20
done manually? How?
I am fairly familiar with Linux-system maintenance and made my girlfrien=
d=20
use Linux. But she runs into trouble from time to time and it is not ver=
y=20
comfortable to explain everything on the phone especially when she=20
doesn't care about details - she just wants it to run. So i thought it=20
would be a good idea to logon to her computer, solve the problem and be =
through with it. This leaves more time for fun + icecream ;)
The computers are running RH 6.2 and Mandrake 7.0, Modems are Elsa=20
Microlink 56K
I would really appreciate your help.
Best regards
J=F6rg Skottke
Please remove _XX_ from my e-mail-address if you want to reply to me=20
directly.
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From: Thorsten Kukuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: NIS group issues
Date: 19 May 2000 09:07:54 GMT
Hi,
In comp.os.linux.networking greg tomczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello gang, I hope all is well. I have come to seek the advice of the
> NIS gods again.
> This is my last little problem. I have two Redhat 6.2 machines serving
> as NIS master and slave to Solaris and linux clients. Everything is
> working tip top except the group file. When I do a ypcat group the only
> information I get back are groups with a gid greater than 999. Any
> groups defined with a gid less than 999 are not pushed out. I further
> tested this by creating 2 new groups, one with a GID 500 and the other
> GID of 10000 and thn ran my make. The group file was updated and pushed
> and only the group with the GID of 10000 appeared in the NIS database.
> Is there a problem with Linux version of YP and the group file. My
> production environment has about 20 or so groups defined with GIDs
> under 999. For example I have the group testdev::111: and webdev::222:
> etc... and none of them show up when I do a ypcat.
> Does anyone know what is happening?
Yes, before you install a NIS server, you should configure it.
Look at /var/yp/Makefile.
Thorsten
--
Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg
Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kousik Nandy)
Subject: Re: Netscape Newsgroups
Date: 19 May 2000 09:17:47 GMT
Set "Edit -> Preferences -> Mail & Newsgroups -> Newsgroup Servers ->
Newsgroup Directory" to some existing directory /* what about ~/nsmail ? */
HTH,
Kousik
On Thu, 18 May 2000 12:05:02 -0400, Malcolm wrote:
> I am running Red Hat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12-20 and Netscape Navigator
> 4.71. My problem occurs after I open the communicator and download the
> newsgroups and subscribe to the ones I want. After I close NS and
> disconnect, the next time I log on there are no newsgroups listed. I
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with C Library
Date: 19 May 2000 09:26:02 GMT
Yu Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 1. What's difference between libc5 and glibc?
About 1. glibc is libc6.
: 2. Where can I get the source code for libc5?
Same place you got the libc5 binary. Try any archive site.
: 3. I want to record all C library calls of a program. Currently I have
: too different ways to do this. The first one is to modify the source
: code of a program. For example, replace printf(..) with my_printf(...)
: which records the C library calls. The second one is to modify the
: source code of C library, and then rebuild the C library. Now, I wonder
: whether there is a common entry to all C library calls so that I can
: record all calls after I modify this common entry.
Not really. You may be thinking of system calls. Use strace for that.
: 4. Where is the source code for some small applications and commands,
: such ps and ls, under Linux/FreeBSD?
Everywhere. Check your distro. It will be on the source cd in your set
of N.
: 5. Please give me some useful links about C library implementation?
Read the source code and modify as you see fit.
Peter
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: STAROFFICE HELP...
From: Charles Philip Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 May 2000 15:02:17 +0500
>>>>> "Praedor" == Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I still use it but, damn, I HATE that freakin' desktop. If I
> selected the desktop integration setting dealie so it became my
> full desktop, then that is one thing, but I don't and never
> will. If I don't then it should dump that damn start button
> crap and just be the office suite. This is a suggestion I have
> passed to Sun (they even replied to my previous bug report
> regarding a problem with spreadsheets and charts so they can be
> responsive).
I agree, this is a good compromise. I hope they will be
responsive. The freakin' desktop drive me crazy. I didn't dump Windoze
several years ago for no reason. Also, I want to start my programs
from my Window Manager!
Hey, maybe StarOffice will have its own version of Active Desktop in
it next release ;-).
Charles
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Help!!!..MAKING A NEWSGROUP LIST...!!!!
Date: 19 May 2000 09:30:23 GMT
softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Steve wrote:
:>
:> On Mon, 15 May 2000 06:06:02 -0230, Tux wrote:
:> >I'm using netscape communicator for an email/newsgroup browser and I was
:> >wondering if there is some way that I can make a newsgroup list, much
:> >like an email list, whereby I can type in the name of the list and the
:> >message that I was composing wouldbe sent to multiple newsgroups (all
:> >the newsgroups in my list)....!!!!! Does anyone know how to do
:> >this...??? Thanks...
:>
:> Before you go doing stuff like that read some of the FAQs on how to use
:> newsgroups and the netequette used in such forums.
:>
: Gosh, Tux, wasn't Steve *really* helpful? Doncha just *love* people like
: him?
He was very helpful. It seems you can't read, or what's your problem?
This guy is asking how to spam indiscrimiately. He needs to be helped
gently down a flight of stairs ... advising him to study netiquette is
the politest response I can imagine.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: 19 May 2000 09:35:14 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc David Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Peter T. Breuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: : I use slackware and debian, and have no problems with either. I'd never
: : touch redhat with a bargepole, since it's as nonstandard as hell. But
: It seems to me like EVERY distribution is "non-standard"; they all seem to
: put the same things in different places. /usr or /usr/local? /usr or
No distribution can put anything in /usr/local. That's for YOU to make
non-distro-spawned additions in.
: /opt? /etc or /sbin? Is there even a standard? I'm really surprised
/opt is for independent packages. But there is a new fsstd coming up.
/etc is for system configuration files. /sbin is for super-user only
executables, the ones needed at or near boot.
: that this hasn't been fixed yet. I can't imagine what benefit one gets
It's been "fixed" for the last 20 years.
: from putting stuff in a different plcae in the tree, other than the nice
You get the benefits of nonstandardization, a la microsoft. In my
opinion redhat is particularly and repellently guilty of that.
: feeling that his choice is more "logical." However, the benefits for
: having a common directory structure would be large. In particular, people
There is one.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sleddog)
Subject: ICQ/IRC and linux server
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:59:45 GMT
Please forgive me if these are dumb questions, but I haven't found a
straight answers after reading numerous web pages, but probably I'm
looking in the wrong places....
Is the Windows program ICQ basically an IRC client?
Is there a linux IRC server that works with Windows ICQ?
I have Windows users on a local network served by a RH 6.0 machine. These
users are all familiar with using ICQ on the Internet. I'm wondering if I
can provide chat facilities on the local network, accessible by their ICQ
software -- so I don't have to introduce them all to another chat client
like mIRC.
--
sleddog
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From: Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDROM problem
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:09:43 +0200
Hi all
A few days ago I noticed my CDROM drive was not working properly
because some discs that could be read in other drives, did hang my
computer (using Linux and aldo with windows).
I bought a new CDROM drive and I could read the before mentioned discs
with Windows, but Linux did still hang. The weird thing is that if I
boot my Linux box with the boot CD (I use SUSE 6.3)and start the
installed Linux I get no problems, but if a boot directly with the HD I
can not mount ANY CDs and Linux hangs
Does anybody know what's happening ?? Does Linux store some information
about the instaled drives and it did no get updated ??
Thank you
Miguel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Netscape Newsgroups
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 07:01:16 GMT
Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi Folks,
>I am running Red Hat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12-20 and Netscape Navigator
>4.71.
This is completely Linux-unrelated. Please use a group dealing
with Usenet newsreaders for such questions. news.newusers.questions
does have a lot of informational postings on these topics as well.
>My problem occurs after I open the communicator and download the
>newsgroups and subscribe to the ones I want. After I close NS and
>disconnect, the next time I log on there are no newsgroups listed.
Mega_FAQ. Enlarge the window with the newsgroup names, then you'll see
small checkboxes behind the names showing up. The default size of the
Netscape window is just too small for noticing them. Check those groups
you want to be persisting.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Howto connect to Linux-Machines via Modem
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:33:22 +0100
J=F6rg Skottke wrote:
> =
> Hi!
> =
> I would like to know if it is possible to connect two Computers running=
> Linux via Modem.
> I haven't tried it yet but there are some problems i can imagine:
> - one Computer (Modem) must do the call and the other must be set to
> receive - how can this be done?
> - When using tcp/ip the ip-addresses must be set somehow. Must this be
> done manually? How?
On the machine recieving the call you need to edit the inittab thus:
mo:23:/usr/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 modem
or very similar. modem can be replaced with ttySx dep. on which serial
line you are
using, if you haven't got a symbolic link to /dev/modem. You can also
replace 38400
with 57600, 115200, etc. The handshake during the call decides the
speed, you are just
setting an upper limit.
To connect to this machine use cu or minicom, or whatever, from your
Linux box.
Matt.
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From: ray jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enlightenment 0.16.4 Upgrade Problem ... SOLVED
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:35:34 GMT
Tom Hoffmann wrote:
> I solved my problem by going back to the 1.9.7.3 imlibs. I did not see
> any mention anywhere about an incompatability between E-0.16.4 and
> imlib-1.9.8, but there apparently is one.
>
> In article <qS0V4.73039$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am attempting to upgrade Enlightenment to 0.16.4 on my RH6.2 system.
> > Before updating E, I updated imlib-1.9.8, imlib-devel-1.9.8, and
> > imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.8. No problems reported. After updating the imlib,
> > i ran ldconfig. No problems reported. However, when I start E, I get
> > the error: imlib could not be initialized ... this is unusual. I can
> > get no further. There are no messages in syslog.
> >
> > I have tried reapplying the imlib updates, uninstalling and reinstalling
> > E, all with no affect. I have searched the newsgroups and the E web
> > site, but can find nothing on this problem. Any ideas anyone?
> >
> > I am using fvwm in the meantime ... its great to have alternatives ...
> > but would prefer to get E working.
Anything that works, is "good", but that's an interesting twist on things
there. I did the upgrade to the Helix stuff, also, without encountering that.
Here is the imlib stuff that upgraded.
rpm -q imlib
imlib-1.9.8-0_helix_1
I took the path of upgrading Gnome, followed by E.
Interesting, huh? I run 2 entirely seperate hard drives as masters, here. One
drive, I used the auto upgrade offered on the gnome site, where a line is
pasted into lynx to start the process. The other drive, I opted to do by
downloading the pieces, hoping I might learn something that way. In both
cases, I wound up with the helix imlibs and E started without issues. This
might be worth pursuing until we understand it, perhaps.
--
Ray R. Jones
The Computer Shop
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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From: Christian Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: linux x A500? anybody can't help me???
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 12:49:25 +0200
No Chance to do so, read the m68k-faq on www.linux-m68k.org
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From: Barry Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sig 11 with quake2
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:20:08 +0200
When I first installed quake2 on my suse 6.2 system everything worked
perfectly.
But after I install suse 6.3 something went wrong. When I adjust my
video settings
and apply them quake suddenly receives a Sig11. This happens with all of
the 3dfx drivers
only the software drivers works fine. If anyone knows a solution please
mail me or
reply to the newsgroup
Thanks in advance,
--
Barry Rutten
1:00pm up 1 day, 8:58, 5 users, load average: 1.31, 1.11, 1.04
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From: Nick McCubbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems creating initial ramdisk
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 06:40:56 -0500
Hello all,
I am trying to create a firewall system which will run entirely from a
ramdisk. My plans are to create a small DOS partition, install
syslinux, and start the ramdisk from an image file on the
DOS partition. I've been successful before in creating a functioning
initrd but can't remember what I did differently.
I need more than the 4MB maximum ramdisk size, so I have patched rd.c on
the kernel I plan to use on the firewall (kernel 2.2.14). I changed the
value to 16 MB, which should be plenty of space (I'm using busybox).
I am creating the image file with:
dd if=/dev/zero of=firewall.img bs=1k count=16384
When I format the ramdisk image file with a block size of 4K (mke2fs -b
4096), ext2fs complains:
Ext2-fs: Magic mismatch, very weird!
If I format the image using 1K blocks (mke2fs -b 1024), I get:
ll_rw_blk: only 4096 char-blocks implemented (1024)
I have also tried to use a minix fs on the beast, and I get the same
results. What's going on?
-Nick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sig 11 with quake2
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:03:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suspect the hardware - http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
Even if it is not the hardware, that page should give you some great clues.
Barry Rutten wrote:
> When I first installed quake2 on my suse 6.2 system everything worked
> perfectly.
> But after I install suse 6.3 something went wrong. When I adjust my
> video settings and apply them quake suddenly receives a Sig11. This
> happens with all of the 3dfx drivers only the software drivers works fine.
> If anyone knows a solution please mail me or reply to the newsgroup
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Barry Rutten
> 1:00pm up 1 day, 8:58, 5 users, load average: 1.31, 1.11, 1.04
--
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From: "Mike Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Maximum Linux
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:00:08 +0100
Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anybody know of a retail outlet in or near London that sells the US
> magazine Maximum Linux?
most big newsagents can get US magazines if you place a regular order with
them
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Restoring LILO after reformatting 98 partition
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:07:01 -0400
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There are a number of small linux (floppy linux) available on the
net configured for various uses (internet access, rescue disks, etc.).
Download and set up one of these (via another computer or Win98 on the
one you have). This should let you install a small linux system in RAM
that will give you access to the tools you need to find your boot
sectors and run LILO again. Tomsrootboot (or something like that) is
one of the floppy distros configured as a rescue disk. Mulinux installs
completely in RAM, but its designed more as a net accessor (but still
has some basic utilities, including a floppy to give X and a floppy to
give GCC).
Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> I am using LILO to dual-boot redhat 6.2 and win98, and i recently
> reformatted my 98 partition and lost access to linux. I was wondering
> how i could boot linux so i could run /sbin/lilo to recover it. My boot
> disk doesn't seem to work, maybe because I have a separate partition at
> the beginning of the twenty gig drive for /boot, then another partition
> further down for /.
>
> Any help here would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
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