Linux-Misc Digest #384, Volume #25 Tue, 8 Aug 00 17:13:04 EDT
Contents:
booting linux from ZIP in /dev/hda1 (Antonio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9=20Ant=F3n?=)
Re: Almost Lost New Hard Drive After Linux Install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is there a software thesaurus for linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
KOF91 for Linux RELEASED!!! GPL (Duncan / ir BaRRiL)
kernel 2.2.17 (Ramin Sina)
eDesktop 2.5 (Ramin Sina)
Re: booting linux from ZIP in /dev/hda1 (Robert Heller)
Re: dump and hardware compression (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: kernel 2.2.17 (Hal Burgiss)
Re: kernel 2.2.17 (Florian E.J. Fruth)
*X Cant Detect* (N/A)
<X Cant Detect> (N/A)
<X PLEASE Detect> (N/A)
Off topic question about colors (John Roberts)
Re: initrd - necessary? (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: windows and LINUX
howto see all cdrecord multi-sessions (Paul Lew)
converting Eudora mailboxes (vanepelw)
Suddenly unable to boot Linux (using kernel 2.2.16) ("James Chew")
Re: Off topic question about colors ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: initrd - necessary? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: RPM re-install help!! (Manuel A. Martinez)
Re: windows and LINUX (Leonard Evens)
Re: initrd - necessary? (Robert Heller)
Re: converting Eudora mailboxes (Stephen Hui)
using a ramdisk for /tmp & /var ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "Turbo" and X-windows. (Internet Support Pete)
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From: Antonio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9=20Ant=F3n?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: booting linux from ZIP in /dev/hda1
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:13:16 GMT
Hello again,
Thanks to that who replied last mail, but problem was not the BIOS.
I tried other configurations with LILO and installing LILO in
root=/dev/hda1 (same partition), LILO loads the boot sector,
but shows continously the code 01:
L 01 01 01 01 01 ....
Any idea?
Thanks.
>I'm making a system with only one iomega-ZIP disk (ATAPI version
>connected to /dev/hda) and memory (without hardisk or CD). While
>installing, I connected a CD-Rom to boot and install Linux (Suse 5.3)
in
>a ZIP diskette.
>When I reboot the computer, the ZIP drive blinks the LED (I suposse it
>is trying to load boot sector) and then BIOS shows the message "INSERT
>BOOT DISK".
>I can't boot from ZIP drive, but I can load the kernel from CD-ROM and
>then, set the root partition to /dev/hda1 that is ZIP diskette.
>Is there any problem with LILO in ZIP drives?
>Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Almost Lost New Hard Drive After Linux Install
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:13:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
hauck[at]codem{dot}com wrote:
> Isn't that amazing! You can't boot from a disk that has the MBR
zeroed
> out!
But from what he's said that isn't the problem. The boot floppy does not
have a zero MBR, the hard disk does. And it still won't boot from a
floppy.
> 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 know, maybe you should actually assume that most people trying to
install Linux have enough intelligence to configure the BIOS. I had
precisely the same thing happen to me when I installed Redhat on my PC,
where I'd had Suse Linux with a 1.2 kernel running for six months or
more. Redhat deleted the old partitions, created a new extended
partition, installed Linux and Lilo, and my machine would no longer boot
into DOS, either from the hard disk or from a floppy. Not because it
wasn't trying to boot from the floppy, but because DOS got part-way
through booting then decided to look for DOS partitions on the hard
disks and found some kind of corrupted partition table which it couldn't
handle.
In the end, the only solution was to boot into Linux, copy all of the
Windows and Linux files onto another hard disk, zero the first hundred
megabytes of the original drive, then re-fdisk and re-format it,
re-install Windows, and finally copy all the files back... then do it
all over again because fdisk had managed to put the DOS and Linux
partitions on top of each other. Not something I should have had to do
when I had a perfectly good, perfectly well partitioned system already
set up until the Redhat 'smart' installer very smartly screwed it up for
me.
> >Please note that I know the explanation. You are completely wrong.
> Yeah, yeah, "circular partitions".
That makes a lot more sense to me than your suggestion that he's just
too dumb to configure the BIOS to boot from a floppy. And this is a
major issue which could kill a user's PC, hardly something which should
be ignored by the Linux community.
Mark
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Is there a software thesaurus for linux?
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:14:16 +0000
Does anybody know if there is a good thesaurus available for linux?
I do (almost) all my writing in LyX, and it would be very helpful to have an
English thesaurus on my computer. Now I use StarOffice only for its thesaurus,
but, in apart from up taking an unnecessary amount of memory, that is terribly
awkward since I don't write my documents there. Is there a better alternative?
Thanks,
frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan / ir BaRRiL)
Subject: KOF91 for Linux RELEASED!!! GPL
Date: 8 Aug 2000 14:42:18 -0400
KOF91 for Linux
KOFLinux is a port of the popular Windows's 2D fighting engine KOF91.
With this engine you can easily add new characters to play, there are tons
of them on the net. You can change anything: backgrounds, music, screens,
etc, why not even make your own game?
The project is GPL for the Linux version. The Windows version will not
longer be updated. And the guy who tooks the old project made a lot of
cool enhancements but the NeoKOF91 Team will not made the enhancements
open source. Thats the reason im looking for developers to make KOF91 for
Linux the best engine available, without break compatibility with the
KOF91 Stuff (characters, backgrounds.)
The homepage is at: www2.netexplora.com/koflinux
You need Allegro and XAudio installed (see the help section in the site)
If you download the source you also need the datafiles from the windows
version: http://moah.online.fr/kof91
If you Download the rpm, it includes one character and some
backgrounds. is a beta build, so don't expect it to be stable.
All install to /usr/local/kof91 you must run ./kof91 from the directory
itself.
Please go to the site, see the screenshots and help me to develop this
project and make kick ass features.
Duncan Mac-Vicar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
icq: 31947372
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.2.17
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:46:30 GMT
Does anyone know when 2.2.17 will be released and if the upcoming RH
release will have 2.2.17 or 2.2.16?
Thanks,
Ramin Sina
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eDesktop 2.5
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:48:28 GMT
Does anyone know when Caldera will release their next (version 2.5)
OpenLinux eDesktop?
Thanks,
Ramin Sina
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: booting linux from ZIP in /dev/hda1
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:06:19 GMT
Antonio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9=20Ant=F3n?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:13:16 GMT, wrote :
A=> Hello again,
A=>
A=> Thanks to that who replied last mail, but problem was not the BIOS.
A=> I tried other configurations with LILO and installing LILO in
A=> root=/dev/hda1 (same partition), LILO loads the boot sector,
A=> but shows continously the code 01:
A=>
A=> L 01 01 01 01 01 ....
A=>
A=> Any idea?
>From the LILO User Guide (/usr/doc/lilo-0.20/doc/User_Guide.ps):
(in section 5.2.1 (LILO start message), starting at page 43):
L error --- The first stage boot loader has been
loaded and started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader.
The two-digit error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section
5.2.2.) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a
geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section 3.4).
And in section 5.2.2 (Disk error codes):
0x01 "Illegal command". This shouldn't happen, but if it
does, it may indicate an attempt to access a disk which is not supported
by the BIOS. See also "Warning: BIOS drive 0xnumber may not be
accessible" in section 5.1.2.
It *looks* like it is still a BIOS problem of some sort.
A=> Thanks.
A=>
A=>
A=>
A=>
A=> >I'm making a system with only one iomega-ZIP disk (ATAPI version
A=> >connected to /dev/hda) and memory (without hardisk or CD). While
A=> >installing, I connected a CD-Rom to boot and install Linux (Suse 5.3)
A=> in
A=> >a ZIP diskette.
A=>
A=> >When I reboot the computer, the ZIP drive blinks the LED (I suposse it
A=> >is trying to load boot sector) and then BIOS shows the message "INSERT
A=> >BOOT DISK".
A=>
A=> >I can't boot from ZIP drive, but I can load the kernel from CD-ROM and
A=> >then, set the root partition to /dev/hda1 that is ZIP diskette.
A=>
A=> >Is there any problem with LILO in ZIP drives?
A=>
A=> >Thanks.
A=>
A=>
A=>
A=>
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: dump and hardware compression
Date: 8 Aug 2000 19:15:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can anyone tell me whether the Dump command supports
> the hardware compression on my HP C1554A Dat tape drive?
> I don't think I'm getting anywhere near the 24gb that I
> should be able to get onto these DDS3 tapes. Any info
> would be greatly appreciated! RH Linux6.2
*sigh* RTFM. But, let me spell some stuff out
1) the dump command does not handle compression. The state of the
tape drive is controlled by the 'mt' command. For example:
mt -f /dev/nst0 status
gets the status of the drive. In there will be the density code -- 0x25
is the correct code for DDS3. If that current status does not show that,
you can set the density by:
mt -f /dev/nst0 setdensity 0x25
This *is* explained in the mt man page, which is what I pointed you at
before. This info is also available via a quick (took me 5 minutes) search
on www.deja.com.
2) 24GB is an *estimate*, and an optimistic one at that. Your tapes have a
native capacity of 12GB, and the 24GB number is based on 2:1 compression.
If you are backing up a lot of already compressed or binary files,
you're not going to get anywhere near 2:1 compression.
3) What makes you think you're not getting enough capacity? Are the backups
hitting eot before you expect them to? Or are the estimates off? If it's
the estimates, what dump command are you using? Some of those paramerters
tell dump how big of a tape to expect, and it bases the estimates in those.
4) dump as shipped with RH6.2 is buggy. Download the latest version (0.4b18)
from:
http://dump.sourceforge.net/
This includes a -a option which tells dump to write until it hits eot,
omitting tape length estimates. You'll have to read the man page to
see what other options are available.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.17
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:21:26 GMT
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:46:30 GMT, Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know when 2.2.17 will be released
When Alan Cox thinks its is ready. They don't keep a schedule.
>and if the upcoming RH release will have 2.2.17 or 2.2.16?
My guess is 2.2.16. But it will have so many patches it will actually be
2.2.17+.
--
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From: Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.17
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:25:19 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Does anyone know when 2.2.17 will be released and if the upcoming RH
> release will have 2.2.17 or 2.2.16?
>
> Thanks,
> Ramin Sina
why don't use 2.4.0-test5 ?
fejf
--
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: N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: *X Cant Detect*
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:29:58 GMT
i have Mandrake Linux 7.0. istall runs smoothy until i reach the section
of 'Configure X', when trying to pick the items closest to my hardware
being that my hardware isnt listed i get the following error:
An Error Occured:
(**) SVGA: 16bpp not supported for this chipset
try changing some parameters
Because of this i can only get into login without the graphical interface
and my screen starts Flashing?
how can i get X to configure detect my hardware or how can i select
hardware close enough to what i have?
i have a Hewlett Packard 15" Pavilion M50, Intel(R) 810 Chipset Graphics
Driver PV1.0, 800 X 600 (High Color 16-Bit) thank you.
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From: N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: <X Cant Detect>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:29:58 GMT
i have Mandrake Linux 7.0. istall runs smoothy until i reach the
section of 'Configure X', when trying to pick the items closest to my
hardware being that my hardware isnt listed i get the following error:
An Error Occured:
(**) SVGA: 16bpp not supported for this chipset
try changing some parameters
Because of this i can only get into login without the graphical interface
and my screen starts Flashing?
how can i get X to configure detect my hardware or how can i select
hardware close enough to what i have?
i have a Hewlett Packard 15" Pavilion M50, Intel(R) 810 Chipset Graphics
Driver PV1.0, 800 X 600 (High Color 16-Bit) thank you.
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From: N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: <X PLEASE Detect>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:29:58 GMT
i have Mandrake Linux 7.0. istall runs smoothy until i reach the
section of 'Configure X', when trying to pick the items closest to my
hardware being that my hardware isnt listed i get the following error:
An Error Occured:
(**) SVGA: 16bpp not supported for this chipset
try changing some parameters
Because of this i can only get into login without the graphical interface
and my screen starts Flashing?
how can i get X to configure detect my hardware or how can i select
hardware close enough to what i have?
i have a Hewlett Packard 15" Pavilion M50, Intel(R) 810 Chipset Graphics
Driver PV1.0, 800 X 600 (High Color 16-Bit) thanx.
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From: John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Off topic question about colors
Date: 8 Aug 2000 19:39:38 GMT
I got X server to run 16 bit color. Had been runing 8. My question is I
don't know what the 8,16,24 bit translate to. I am used to 256 65k and or
1.5 millon colors. Is there a site that has a tutorial on the subject?
TIA
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: initrd - necessary?
Date: 8 Aug 2000 19:42:16 GMT
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: In a message on 8 Aug 2000 14:59:17 GMT, wrote :
: CK> What is the initrd for?
: Generally for driver modules that need to be loaded *before* the root
: file system is mounted -- generally this is for systems with SCSI hard
I built a kernel and boot it without initrd.
I'm booting a SCSI drive as root device sda3.
So, did I build in SCSI into the kernel or why is initrd not necessary?
(I took a ready made config file from a similar (scsi) system).
: disks, since virtually all of the SCSI drivers are built as modules,
: rather than as part of the base kernel. The basic IDE drivers are
: compiled into the base kernel, but I don't know about the DMA 66 drivers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: windows and LINUX
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:52:25 GMT
On the contrary, the current version of Partition Magic works
just fine on fat32 and on ext2 Linux partitions.
Also, you presumably mean DOS fdisk doesnt work on your Linux
partitions. This is correct. However you will
probably find that Linux fdisk from your Linux boot/install
floppies (depending on your distribution) will do the job
without difficulty.
--Kevin
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 16:30:00 GMT, tell_me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I installed Linux on my Win98 machine to make it a dual boot. I am using
>LILO to boot my computer. Everything was working fine till I ran out of
>disk space on my win98 partition. I can't use Partition Magic or any other
>DOS utility to change partition size. The other option is I can reformat
>the hard drive and reinstall the OS's with the partion size I think shoul
>dbe okay.
>Does anybody know how I can solve this problem? Or how can
>reformat/repartiton my hard drive because fdisk is not working anymore,
>for me?
>
>thanks in advance.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: howto see all cdrecord multi-sessions
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:53:01 GMT
I just used the cdrecord 1.9 to copy 2 "images" to a cdr; the problem
is that only the 1st image is seen "normally" (with the cdrom mounted).
The 2nd image is seen only as a 2nd track using the cdrecord's -toc
option. Both images were written with the -multi option onto a yamaha
4416s; the cdr is the "80 min/700 byte" type.
The multi-session kinda works but if only the 1st session is available,
then the multi-session creation is useless; perhaps I missed something
in the man pages??? There were no errors reported in both copies....
thanks!
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Subject: converting Eudora mailboxes
From: vanepelw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:03:15 -0700
I recently installed linux on my machine and want to convert my
old Eudora mailbox to my new kmail account. how can i go about
doing this??
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From: "James Chew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suddenly unable to boot Linux (using kernel 2.2.16)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 04:11:01 +0800
Hi,
I installed RH 6.2 and upgraded the kernel to 2.2.16 more than a week ago.
I've always had no problems booting up my Linux computer until today. Now,
it just hangs at 'Uncompressing Linux... '
Has anyone seen a problem like this before? I hope I don't have to reinstall
Linux.
Thanks,
James.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off topic question about colors
Date: 8 Aug 2000 20:02:02 GMT
John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I got X server to run 16 bit color. Had been runing 8. My question is I
: don't know what the 8,16,24 bit translate to. I am used to 256 65k and or
I think you'd better leave your university then, before you're thrown
out. An 11 year old would answer that question in an IQ test on sight.
: 1.5 millon colors. Is there a site that has a tutorial on the subject?
Try again, this time thinking before speaking.
Peter
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Subject: Re: initrd - necessary?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Aug 2000 16:28:21 -0400
Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> : In a message on 8 Aug 2000 14:59:17 GMT, wrote :
>
> : CK> What is the initrd for?
>
> : Generally for driver modules that need to be loaded *before* the root
> : file system is mounted -- generally this is for systems with SCSI hard
>
> I built a kernel and boot it without initrd.
> I'm booting a SCSI drive as root device sda3.
> So, did I build in SCSI into the kernel or why is initrd not necessary?
> (I took a ready made config file from a similar (scsi) system).
the initrd is mainly of interest to distribution makers --
1) you have to support many different scsi cards.
2) it'd be ludicrous to build in every possible scsi driver and i
suspect that some combinations may be mutually exclusive.
3) modules let you pick the scsi driver for the scsi controller at
hand.
4) initrd lets you select and keep only the ones you actually need for
booting.
if you compile your own kernel, just bake in the scsi driver you want
and need. forget the initrd.
(however, i did run into a weird case of bad performance with my
adaptec 2940uw card and built in driver. for certain kernel versions
under redhat 6x only, unless i built the driver as a module my disk i/o
would be an order of magnitude slower in smp. i never did figure it
out but moved the card to another machine and now use a symbios 53c875
card.)
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From: Manuel A. Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM re-install help!!
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 20:30:05 GMT
John Dixon wrote:
>
> I have stupidly lost all rpm function by deleting some of its necessary
> configuration files. I have succeeded in re-installing the program from
> tar but cannot figure out (having studied the man and help files) how to
> get it to rebuild its database and actually work. Any guidance dearly
> appreciated - or else I'm going to have to reinstall. Compiling every
> program I install or update is an incredible pain!
you may try to build a separte direcrory database in your windows directory
I believe i did this last week I still have my most important mp3's
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows and LINUX
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:17:52 -0500
tell_me wrote:
>
> I installed Linux on my Win98 machine to make it a dual boot. I am using
> LILO to boot my computer. Everything was working fine till I ran out of
> disk space on my win98 partition. I can't use Partition Magic or any other
> DOS utility to change partition size. The other option is I can reformat
> the hard drive and reinstall the OS's with the partion size I think shoul
> dbe okay.
> Does anybody know how I can solve this problem? Or how can
> reformat/repartiton my hard drive because fdisk is not working anymore,
> for me?
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> --
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The simplest solution might be to install a second hard drive
and devote it to Windows.
People often misallocate dual boot systems. Even though I use
Linux almost entirely, somehow or other my Windows partitions
seem to be quite large. Windows and Windows applications are
just very wasteful of space.
--
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: initrd - necessary?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 20:43:02 GMT
Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on 8 Aug 2000 19:42:16 GMT, wrote :
CK> Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CK> : Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
CK> : In a message on 8 Aug 2000 14:59:17 GMT, wrote :
CK>
CK> : CK> What is the initrd for?
CK>
CK> : Generally for driver modules that need to be loaded *before* the root
CK> : file system is mounted -- generally this is for systems with SCSI hard
CK>
CK> I built a kernel and boot it without initrd.
CK> I'm booting a SCSI drive as root device sda3.
CK> So, did I build in SCSI into the kernel or why is initrd not necessary?
CK> (I took a ready made config file from a similar (scsi) system).
You compiled the SCSI driver into the kernel. Nothing wrong with that.
Since the proper SCSI driver is complied into the kernel, your kernel
can directly mount your root file system off your SCSI disk. Any
additional driver modules it needs it can get right off the SCSI disk.
It is just that there are many SCSI cards with as many drivers.
Compiling them ALL into to kernel would make it very large and since few
people have ANY SCSI controller cards, much less *many* SCSI cards, there
is little point in compiling them all into the *stock* kernels. Most
people can use the stock kernels, even people with SCSI cards. These
people just use an initrd with their SCSI driver module. This is what I
do on a couple of my machines.
CK>
CK>
CK> : disks, since virtually all of the SCSI drivers are built as modules,
CK> : rather than as part of the base kernel. The basic IDE drivers are
CK> : compiled into the base kernel, but I don't know about the DMA 66 drivers.
CK>
CK> --
CK> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CK>
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From: Stephen Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: converting Eudora mailboxes
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:37:48 -0500
See if this helps. It's a format spec for Eudora mailboxes.
http://www.geocities.com/jeramiehicks/tocfaq.htm
I don't know what format kmail uses, though. I would *guess* it's the
same as Pine.
Stephen.
vanepelw wrote:
>
> I recently installed linux on my machine and want to convert my
> old Eudora mailbox to my new kmail account. how can i go about
> doing this??
>
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Stephen Hui, ARL:UT, Austin, Texas
Computer Terms: Programmer - A red-eyed, mumbling mammal
capable of conversing with inanimate objects.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: using a ramdisk for /tmp & /var
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 20:44:57 GMT
I am on a project putting embedded Linux on a ARM-based
target. We are going to boot from flash with a flash
file system, but we want to use a ramdisk for our /tmp
and /var directories.
Basically, we have to create a filesystem image to
burn into our flash to use for the boot. We have utils
to create and burn the image, but there are some questions
about the ramdisk part.
Here is the general procedure we are thinking of using
to accomplish this:
ON DESKTOP
==========
(1) We have a filesystem image from an outside source.
We are going to use this to populate the flash image
with the necessary files/dirs for boot.
Mount fs image from outside source into /tmp/blah
(2) The util we use to create the flash image takes a dir
as its root and creates the image based on the files
inside this dir. So we create directory <whatever>
(3) Copy files from /tmp/blah into <whatever> --
EXCEPT for /tmp and /var
(4) Create a ramdisk (size=?) filesystem and put the "file"
into <whatever>/dev ... mke2fs <whatever>/dev/tmp_rd
(5) Create a ramdisk (size=?) filesystem and put the "file"
into <whatever>/dev ... mke2fs <whatever>/dev/var_rd
(6) mount <whatever>/dev/var_rd /tmp/var_rd
(7) Populate /tmp/var_rd with var files from /tmp/blah
(8) umount /tmp/var_rd
(9) umount /tmp/blah
(10) mkfs.jffs <whatever> (this is the util for creating the
flash image)
ON TARGET
=========
(11) Burn <whatever> image into flash
(12) Use kernel w/ ROOT_DEV==flash block driver
(13) At some point in the boot: mount /dev/tmp_rd /tmp ... when??
(14) At some point in the boot: mount /dev/var_rd /var ... when??
As you can see, there are some questions in the procedure:
(a) Is this a reasonable idea and solution to use the ramdisk
this way?
(b) Any suggestions as to how much space we should allocate
for the /tmp and /var on the ramdisk?
(c) Where in the boot process should/do we have to mount these
parts?
Answers to these questions or any general comments are greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
-- kelly
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From: Internet Support Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: "Turbo" and X-windows.
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 16:53:04 -0400
It doesn't really matter. You shouldn't have to switch between resolutions
very often in XFree86 anyway. You can get around this by specifiying one
resolution at a tim eand booting XF86. If it works to your satisfaction...
keep that resolution and don't bother changing it.
-Pete
Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
> Hi Linux users!
> Was browsing through Award BIOS setup on motherboard that I intended to
> buy when I came to "Ctrl+Alt+ +/-" as a way to
> change the "Turbo" status.
> OK I know this from past, but to find it on mobo which boasts 112M bus
> clock was a little odd.
> Anyway, how would this affect the changing of resolution in X-windows
> and what will respond to it - mobo speed or screen or both?
> Thanks for answers...
> --
> Stanislaw on Slak 7.1
> Registered on Linux counter No.162760.
> Even put Ulladulla on their database.
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