Linux-Misc Digest #381, Volume #25 Tue, 8 Aug 00 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: 3c59x using IRQ 0, how to change? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: OT: PNP OS? (Re: Modem doesn't work (and it's not a WinModem)) (M. Buchenrieder)
cealibrating loop delay (Sebastian Kollmann)
Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ? (Bobb Voigt)
Re: linuxconf & ifconfig (Linux-Addict)
Re: Problem accessing windows (grettam)
AVI/Mov Players for Linux (Darren Christie)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Phillip Lord)
Sound Card (Daniel Bechard)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Phillip Lord)
Re: Netscape mail problem (garyrj28)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
mkraid fails, RH 6.1 (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: Sound Card (Rasputin)
Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ? (Frank Schneider)
Re: Almost Lost New Hard Drive After Linux Install (Bob Hauck)
Re: !!! Kenrnel message !!! (Florian E.J. Fruth)
Re: AVI/Mov Players for Linux (Florian E.J. Fruth)
Run Linux from a CD only ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Almost Lost New Hard Drive After Linux Install (Bob Hauck)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: 3c59x using IRQ 0, how to change?
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 06:39:20 GMT
"Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I can't get my LInux 6.2 to get on the network. Can't ping anything and
>can't ping the box from another pc.
>Looking at the /var/log/messages, when it loads the Cyclone driver for my
>3com Fast Etherlink XL PCI, it says "might not work on IRQ=0" and it does
>try IRQ 0. How do I change it to IRQ 11 (which is what I think it should
>be)?
>Probably a easy programming answer.
Set the CMOS option "PNP-OS" to "No" . This is a PCI card, and your
system's BIOS thinks that it's OK for a PNP-OS to not set any IRQ
for the PCI cards at all.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: OT: PNP OS? (Re: Modem doesn't work (and it's not a WinModem))
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 06:37:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>In alt.linux M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Linux isn't a PNP OS. You'll have to use the isapnptools for this
>: modem card to have it recognized in Linux. BTW, you'll have to disable
>: your COM2 port in the system's CMOS if you want the modem to be on
>: /dev/ttyS1 , otherwise you'll get a HW conflict.
>Interesting...
>So if isapnp is developed for linux, and even incorporated into the kernel,
>and if linux works with PCI -- when is linux considered a PNP OS?
The isapnptools actually have been developed as sort of a kludge to
circumvent the need to be booting DOS/Win first to get the ISA PNP
cards initialized "correctly" (whatever that means). Both PCI as well as
VLB had been designed as with a true "plug and play" functionality.
ISA, however, has never been really PNP-capable, and even today's
card more often than not do need manual human intervention to be working
and coexisting (halfway) correctly even under Win9* .
>Is it
>there now, or does the isapnp part have to be a little more automatic?
As mentioned above, the isapnptools are an add-on tool for Linux. They're
not part of the Linux kernel at all, and you do have to find out possible
non-conflicting HW resources for each listed device all by yourself.
pnpdump simply queries the devices for a list of possible values.
>(AFAIK
>you still have to generate and edit an isapnp.conf file, a task which is
>not "plugging" and definitely not "playing")
Nothing on the ISA bus is really PNP.
Michael
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From: Sebastian Kollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cealibrating loop delay
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:47:35 +0200
Hello,
I want to use my old Pentium 90 as a Linux Firewall with RedHat 6.2. My
problem is that the system hangs at boot time, when the message
"Calibrating Loop Delay..." appears. I was trying to change my BIOS
settings (wait states for example) with no result. The only thing that
works is to run the machine on 60 MHz. My Motherboard is a Gigabyte
GA586ATE /P with an ISDN Fritz! card (ISA), NE2000 (ISA), 512kb VGA
(ISA) and 128MB RAM.
Thanks for any possible help,
Sebastian. ;-)
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From: Bobb Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 10:53:36 GMT
i would recomend slackware 7.1 or one of the BSD variants...
On Sun, 30 Jul
2000, m.hoes wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
> Currently, I am trying to learn Unix on my PC. However, I am not sure which
> Unix flavour I should choose for learning this OS?
>
> The main purpose is to learn as much of Unix as possible, without spending
> (too much) money. Although I simply do not have the kind of cash to go buy a
> RS/6000 and get a license for AIX, getting a semi-free thing like Solaris 8
> for i86 (+/- $75 dollar) is no problem either.
>
> I know there is no such thing as a "One Unix", and that there a lot of
> differences between Unix versions, especially when it comes to
> Administration. AIX uses smit, HP-UX (i believe) sysadm, and I wouldnt be
> surprised if RedHat actually came with a script named 'setup' for its
> general administration ;)
> Still I would prefer to get a Unix version which is as 'generic' and
> 'true-to-unix' as possible.
>
> 'User-friendly-ness' is something which is not important. Although a lot of
> the current linux-distributions come with nifty setup tools like linuxconf,
> they do not actually assist in learning the OS. To illustrate my point: the
> latest RedHat release easily lets you select a printer and everything runs
> ok, but (ages ago) Slackware 3.0 actually forced you to hack the printcap
> file to print even simple ascii files. While not very user-friendly, it DID
> teach me someting about *nix printing mechanisms.
>
> Hardware support is also not important. As long as it runs on Intel it is
> ok, never mind my Voodoo card or USB port.
>
> Good documentation would be nice though ;)
>
>
> So what to choose? I have been told that Debian Linux and FreeBSD come
> pretty close to 'generic' and true unix implementations? Am I better off
> staying away from SCO Unix cause its so Intel focused its almost got a
> Autoexec.Bat startup file? Leave Solaris alone cause everything you learn on
> Solaris is only valid in the land of the SUN?
>
>
> Please let me know what you think, point me to web-pages which might assit
> me, or redirect this message to /dev/null.
>
>
>
> Any and all suggestions are more than welcome.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
--
Bobb Voigt DJ SMyl
www.mp3.com/smyl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Linux-Addict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: linuxconf & ifconfig
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 10:47:24 GMT
can you use the "netcfg" command ? that is simpler to use than
linuxconf. They should rename linuxconf to confusionconf. They could
write a book on Linuxconf and you would still be confused.
In article <8mo0no$7gu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm configuring my network settings with linuxconf, setting IP address
> to "x". /etc/hosts correctly reflects the changes, however,
> surprisingly, "ifconfig" reports totally irrelevant numbers in "inet
> addr" (not "x")
>
> I get "network unreachable" whenever I try to do something. However,
> "tcpdump" gives non-trivial output on eth0.
>
> What can be wrong?
>
> Thank you
>
> Wroot
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: grettam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem accessing windows
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:56:34 +0100
I have been copying files from Linux to Windows, accessing the Windows
partition
(hda1) with the command:
'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/c'
However, when I tried this command last, I got the following error
message:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems
The next time I booted my system it was only able to get as far as:
'Loading windows '
before hanging.
So when I got back into Linux I executed the 'lilo' command and got the
following output:
Added linux *
First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature
Anybody know how I can fix this so I can access Windows and what the
likely cause of it was?
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From: Darren Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AVI/Mov Players for Linux
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:13:43 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anyone recommend a good AVI/Mov player for Linux preferable
something that runs as a KDE/X app?
If replies could be e-mail to me thanks.
Darren
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 08 Aug 2000 12:55:35 +0100
>>>>> "blowfish" == blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >It only matters to the free beer drunken college geeks who zero
>> real >income, and too much free time on his/her hands.
>>
>> To switch every university-owned PC in the building in which I'm
>> sitting, from Red Hat GNU/Linux to (say) Microsoft Windows 2000,
>> would cost considerably more than our annual computer hardware
>> budget.
>>
blowfish> Academia world has all the free time in the world though,
blowfish> time is money in the biz world.
What crap. I am generally on much shorter term contracts
than my friends who work in industry. Or indeed in other parts of the
public sector. The one exception to this is a friend who works as a
contractor, but he gets paid five times as much as I. The pressure of
time is as real for me, if not more so, as for many others.
We use Gnu/Linux systems because there are capable of doing
the job, and because we have to spend much less time administering
them than we would do for windows boxes. I spend much less time
looking after my current PC than I did with the last one.
blowfish> If they have to retrain employees. The time loss might
blowfish> very well costs more than the costs of software.
Staff costs are always an issue of course. Often it makes
sense to stick with a windows system for this reason alone. In time I
think that this will become a less compelling of course. At one stage
we all had to switch to windows, and then from 3.1 to 95. The upgrade
treadmill that windows enforces on people comes with an associated
cost. Its perfectly possible however to run a modern linux system on a
386/486 and still get useful work done. Or alternatively if you want
to upgrade to the latest linux system there is nothing to prevent you
from doing so. And finally of course you do not have to spend a small
fortune of software auditing, and ensuring you have the right licenses
for the right software.
Phil
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From: Daniel Bechard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:54:15 GMT
Hi!
I just realize that my sound card does not work with Linux
How do I make it work? Or how do I configure my device?
Thank you in advance
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 08 Aug 2000 08:13:54 -0400
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > why should an idea be owned? can an idea be owned? sometimes not.
> > e.g., mathematics cannot be patented or copyrighted. the square root
> > of two is a concept free for anyone's taking -- yet it is created.
>
> Please re-read my posts carefully. I said when the idea had became a
> tangible object/item. Then, that object, as based on the "once was only
> an idea" can then be owned.
Right, but a copy of that object is not that object itself!
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 08 Aug 2000 08:15:37 -0400
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robert Krawitz wrote:
> > As for the relevance part: just because a market is illegal doesn't
> > make it not fit the definition of a free market.
> >
> > The claim at hand is that copyright interferes with the workings of a
> > truly free market by forbidding others from making copies and selling
> > them (giving one person an artificial monopoly in the good).
> If you are not the owner/creator of that object. Then, you have no right
> to sell, modify or do anything with it without the owner/creator's
> permission. Period.
Ah. The owner/creator of the OBJECT. But we're not talking about the
OBJECT; we're talking about someone independently making a copy of the
object. Entirely different.
> All I can say is: Take your arguement to a *real* business person, and
> to court... ;-)
I'm not talking about business here.
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 08 Aug 2000 13:07:46 +0100
>>>>> "blowfish" == blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
blowfish> Then, the natives in E. Timor got tired of being ruled by
blowfish> "outsider.", and tired of the Chinese-Indosians
blowfish> controlling much of the economy. They rebelled.
>> I don't think that it was a question of rebellion. The Indonesia
>> army invaded E.Timor. This would be about 28 years ago now, about
>> 2 years after Suharto came to power in E.Timor. And funnily
>> enough about 8 hours after Gerald Ford's plane left the tarmac on
>> Jakarta, on the first official visit to Indonesia since Suharto.
>>
blowfish> My Indonesian friend who told me the story is sixty some
blowfish> years old. Her family witnessed the whole thing.
Really.
Of course whether its was an invasion or a rebellion is a
secondary issue really. It appears that at least a third of the
population was massacred by the army. There are many reports of the
grossest atrocities, from rape, and murder, to enforced and uniformed
use of long term contraception. E.Timor was the site of one of the
worst crimes against humanity, in a century full of them. Unlike
Vietnam we hardly heard anything about it however, because it was
supported by the US and the UK, rather than Eastern bloc as was.
blowfish> There are lots of reasons why all these invasions are
blowfish> taken place. I guess it's part of human nature, the greed
blowfish> factor, or some hugh power ego trip.
Or alternative its inherent with in the system of government
and economics that we live under. ("Come and see the oppression
inherent within the system"). In the past we argued that a King was
necessary because its was part of god's design. I think that a retreat
to human nature is the same argument and just as wrong.
>> To argue that the arms trade, or indeed most "business" is
>> separate from politics, and worse still morality is something
>> that I feel is profoundly wrong.
>>
blowfish> Trades of any kind and politics always goes hand in hand.
blowfish> Morality is entirly a seperate issue.
Morality is separate from politics? This probably explains
a lot.
Phil
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From: garyrj28 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape mail problem
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:56:49 +0100
Whenever I try to send mail within Netscape Messenger I get the
following
message:
"Netscape is unable to open the temporary file
/usr/opt/nsmaiL397F637E0E20277
Check your 'Temporary Directory' setting and try again".
This directory didn't even exist on my system until I created it when I
got this error, so does anybody know how I can fix this?
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 08 Aug 2000 08:20:53 -0400
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robert Krawitz wrote:
> >
> > blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Robert Krawitz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Also. You did contradicted your own idea of *free software*, as you have
> > > > > taken the money from Debian as a reward.
> > > > >
> > > > > Isn't that your codes should be *FREE* as in money - free, unlike
> > > > > non-GNU-GPL codes-which costs money, as in *FREE BEER* too!?
> > > >
> > > > No, "free" as in "free software" only refers to "free speech"
> > > > (liberty), not "free beer". It's perfectly legal to sell GPL'ed
> > > > software for whatever the market will bear. The only thing the seller
> > > > has to do is provide the source code, and not restrict further
> > > > distribution beyond what the GPL specifies.
> > > >
> > > No. Speech to most *real* human means expressing ideas, communicating to
> > > other *real* humans.
> >
> > Fine. Let's skip "free speech", then, and say that "free software"
> > refers to "liberty of code". "Free speech" is merely an analogy, anyway.
> >
> So. You're agreeing that computer codes are not what normally consider
> as "speech" under real human terms, and should not be under the
> protection of Freedom of Speech. Right?
Care to stop knocking down straw men for a change?
I said nothing of the sort. You wanted to argue with my definition of
free software, where I used the analogy of "free speech" (freedom)
vs. "free beer" (zero cost). I pointed out that it is both legal and
possible to charge for software under the GPL, and indeed that it is
not legal to forbid someone else from charging for it, as long as the
other terms (including distribution of source code) were observed.
You quibbled with the definition of speech, so I pointed out that
there are other ways of describing it.
I most definitely believe that software (at least a human-readable
form, where "human" is one sufficiently knowledgeable) constitutes
"speech" under the definition of the first amendment.
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 08 Aug 2000 08:26:07 -0400
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So far, you're doing a real good job of showing that you can't stay on
> > track. You keep changing subjects, and not addressing the original
> > claim, which is that:
> > "if you can't own it, you can't be stealing it right?"
> To humanoids like you. You just take whatever your heart (or are you
> powered by GNU-GPLed cpu?)
> desires without ANY concerns about others, or anything. A totally
> self-centered, SELFISHED, elitist, and obnoxious bunch of
> mofo.foo.bar.humanoids.
You're arguing with a number of people who have actually written
software and donated it back to the community, and who might thereby
know what they're talking about. Perhaps the same could be said for
you, but I have my doubts.
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mkraid fails, RH 6.1
Date: 8 Aug 2000 12:19:56 GMT
I'm trying to configure 4x 60GB IDE to a RAID0 array.
I used fdisk to create a p partition 1, with ID 0xFD on each of
hda1, hdb1, hdc1, hdd1.
Strangely, mkraid now issues:
[root@bologna /root]# /sbin/mkraid -f /dev/md0
DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md0 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/hda1, 24066kB, raid superblock at 24000kB
disk 1: /dev/hdb1, 60026841kB, raid superblock at 60026752kB
disk 2: /dev/hdc1, 60026841kB, raid superblock at 60026752kB
disk 3: /dev/hdd1, 60026841kB, raid superblock at 60026752kB
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
/proc/mdstat :
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
/var/log/messages:
Aug 8 13:59:22 bologna kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
Aug 8 13:59:24 bologna kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
Aug 8 14:00:00 bologna kernel: hdb: hdb1
Aug 8 14:00:03 bologna kernel: hdb: hdb1
Aug 8 14:00:26 bologna kernel: hdc: hdc1
Aug 8 14:00:28 bologna kernel: hdc: hdc1
Aug 8 14:00:59 bologna kernel: hdd: hdd1
I'm wondering what is peculiar to hda1 (there has been a linux before on it
and even a VFAT32 partition).
I'm running a 2.2.14 kernel. Could it be that hda1 has a messed
partition table which I cannot get properly partitioned?
Is there a tool (dd?) by means of which I can overwrite a disks
partition table a la writing all zeroe's to it?
Please cc: me also.
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: Sound Card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:35:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Daniel Bechard> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I just realize that my sound card does not work with Linux
>How do I make it work? Or how do I configure my device?
Depends what it is.
If you're redhatese, try sndconfig.
When that fails [ :) ] , you may need to recompile your kernel.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: Frank Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:49:47 +0200
Dynix/ptx 4.0 has its page on the Open Group's site, too:
http://www.opengroup.org/regproducts/sequent.htm
Cheers, Frank
Brad Hayes wrote:
>
> Is this to say that DYNIX/ptx (brand name of Sequent Computer Systems,
> which was acquired by IBM last September is not a member of this group ? I
> would find it hard to believe that it is not as real of a UNIX as any other!
> (But maybe not as widely known to the general public...)
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Almost Lost New Hard Drive After Linux Install
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:53:25 GMT
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:01:24 GMT, Svend Olaf Mikkelsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck) wrote:
>
>>>I cannot boot DOS when this disk is in the system, not even from
>>>floppy. Why?
>>
>>I don't know, but I would suggest that if you can't boot DOS from the
>>*floppy* when this disk is in the system, then you have a hardware
>>problem and partition tables are the least of your worries. Perhaps
>>there is an IRQ or IO port conflict, or some sort of BIOS bug.
>
>This is not the correct answer. Actually it is completely wrong.
How about you being to thick to change the boot device in BIOS before
trying to boot from that floppy?
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: !!! Kenrnel message !!!
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:54:14 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Dear Newsgroup,
>
> Aug 8 11:13:58 tux kernel: stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU#0)
>
> My Kernel Version: Linux version 2.2.17pre15 (root@tux) (gcc version
> 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 SMP Fri Aug 4 10:39:17 CEST 2000
>
> what does this mean ??? Every day my system hang for 1 to 2 minutes and
> the cpu is very, very high. After the 1 to 2 minutes all is fine.
>
> My System: Abit BP6 (motherboard)+ 2 Celron533 CPU + 254MB RAM
>
> so long, Patrick M.
seems to be a cron job - as a root u should know what it is...
(try "top" or "ps" in these minutes to see whats going on...)
fejf
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the backup of my harddisk only takes the half time it
did yesterday. i started to pipe it to /dev/null
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From: Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de>
Subject: Re: AVI/Mov Players for Linux
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:56:04 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Can anyone recommend a good AVI/Mov player for Linux preferable
> something that runs as a KDE/X app?
> If replies could be e-mail to me thanks.
>
> Darren
i think there's no mov player (or let's say i don't know one ;)-
for avis try xmps:
http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr/~chavarri/xmps/
fejf
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the backup of my harddisk only takes the half time it
did yesterday. i started to pipe it to /dev/null
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Run Linux from a CD only
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:45:18 GMT
I can find quite a few floppy based Linux projects.
I'm after a linux version which mounts itself and runs without a
harddisk, using a ramdisk solution like the floppies. I know I can't
save any config changes. But I'm after more programs than can be
distributed with just a floppy.
Pref .bin download for easy CD creation.
TIA
Jon
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Almost Lost New Hard Drive After Linux Install
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:01:31 GMT
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:02:16 GMT, Svend Olaf Mikkelsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, I cannot boot to a DOS floppy, even if delete current hdc1 and
>make a primary FAT partition at 1 based cylinder 1 to 126, zeroes the
>boot sector (and backup boot sector if FAT32), and make that partition
>active, and insert the disk as hda.
Isn't that amazing! You can't boot from a disk that has the MBR zeroed
out! Not from a floppy either if you have a hard disk as the first
boot device in BIOS and aren't clever enough to change it.
You are correct, Linux fdisk can't fix that. You need to use DOS fdisk
("fdisk /mbr") unless you have saved a backup copy of the boot sector
somewhere in which case you can fix it with "dd". Or you could put
LILO on the MBR instead.
>Please note that I know the explanation. You are completely wrong.
Yeah, yeah, "circular partitions".
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-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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