Linux-Misc Digest #891, Volume #25 Thu, 28 Sep 00 15:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Problem w/ oracle8iR2 startup (not an oracle newbie) (Lwc4and1)
Re: lilo problem (John in SD)
Re: Where to put Lilo (John in SD)
Redhat Download ("Michael J. Johnston")
New HD question ("Matt O'Toole")
Re: Java on Netscape (Was Re: Java on Linux?) (Robert Lynch)
PPP Client (works great with GUI rp3) but how about the command line???
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP!! simple device driver for mapping piece of /dev/mem to user (Tony
Lawrence)
Getting Multiplayer to work under linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Redhat Download (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: port windows application into Linux? (John Thompson)
Re: What's that maximum mount count error reached ? (John Thompson)
Re: partition commander? (Dave Martel)
Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here (Michael Mitchell)
Re: "maximum mount count reached" error : what's that? (Bill Unruh)
Re: rpm confusion (Bill Unruh)
Re: Linux driver for Voodoo 5??? ("Bruce P. Morin")
Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here (Ray)
Re: 3com 3c509 in ISA mode in windows (Douwe van der Schaaf)
Re: New HD question (Leejay Wu)
Re: How do I switch video modes? ("Russ")
Re: Java on Netscape (Was Re: Java on Linux?) (Toby Haynes)
Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here (Rod Smith)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lwc4and1)
Subject: Problem w/ oracle8iR2 startup (not an oracle newbie)
Date: 28 Sep 2000 16:11:49 GMT
I have installed Oracle 8iR2 and can not get it to start-up. Upon issueing
"startup nomount", I get an "ORA-445 PMON did not start" error. Everything
seems fine. The box has plenty of memory and disk space. No other major
processes are running.
Any ideas?? TIA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:26:59 GMT
We need more information to be of any help in this forum.
How about the output from fdisk / p to see your partitioning, and a copy of
lilo.conf for starters.
If you have lilo 21.5.1, then the ouput from /sbin/lilo -v 5 is also useful.
Are you running Reiser FS by any chance? It must be mounted 'notail' with
versions of lilo earlier than 21.6 (unreleased). We just got this combination
running yesterday.
--John
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:14:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (F. Heitkamp) wrote:
>
>I have yet to figure out why I can't get lilo to boot
>the 2.4.0-testx kernels I've compiled. The test8
>version works fine booting from a floppy. I even tried the
>latest Lilo from metalab and I get the famous (at least
>to me) "No setup signature found". I have a AMD Athlon 650
>and KX133 MB with all SCSI drives. I have Symbios 53c875 based
>SCSI cards. Could some tell me how the have lilo setup to boot
>2.4.0x kernels? I have all my kernels in the root directory.
>Could this be causing the problem?
>
>All of the 2.2.x kernels work fine.
>
>Fred
>
>
>
LILO version 21.5 (18-Jul-2000) source at
ftp: brun.dyndns.org dir: /pub/linux/lilo
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where to put Lilo
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:56:14 GMT
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:22:35 GMT, "Dennis J. Tuchler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In a dual-boot situation, in which OS2 supplies the boot menu and Linux
>occupies the third, fourth and fifth partitions (second, third and
>fourth logical partitions), where do I put LILO? Is there a boot record
>for each partition or do I just store it in the root directory somewhere
>(where?)?
If you are using IBM Boot Manager, and Linux is on:
/dev/hda3 -- /boot
/dev/hda4 -- swap
/dev/hda5 -- /
then lilo's boot record could be placed on either hda3 or hda5; viz.,
(lilo.conf):
boot=/dev/hda3 or boot=/dev/hda5
OS2 boot manager is configured to boot the third primary partition with a
label such as "Linux".
--John
>
>Thanks
>
>djtuchler
LILO version 21.5 (18-Jul-2000) source at
ftp: brun.dyndns.org dir: /pub/linux/lilo
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From: "Michael J. Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat Download
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:51:29 -0600
Does any know of a fast Redhat download mirror? Every single site in that
is listed with Redhat seems extremely slow. I have a T3 connection and am
looking for a much faster way to download the new Redhat 7. Thanks!
Mike
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Reply-To: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New HD question
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:11:10 -0700
I'm running out of space on my drive, and I want to *add* a new one (I have
an extra). I don't want to copy the whole system over, just part of it.
I'm running Mandrake 7.0, with everything on one big partition. Which
directories should I copy over? Do I need to change any settings after
copying them over, or will the system take care of that? Also, since now
would be a good time to create new partitions, are there any suggestions for
good setups? I'm thinking I could have all the system files on the original
drive, with the rest on the new one.
BTW, I've read the new hard drive howtos. Call me stupid if you want, but I
need further assistance.
Matt O.
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From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Java on Netscape (Was Re: Java on Linux?)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:18:37 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob Schreibmaier wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Exits Funnel wrote:
> >
> >>Sun's JDK is available on linux but am wondering what alternatives there
> >>are.
> >
> >http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux/ IBM's jdk1.1.8 for Linux
> >http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html Blackdown Java 1.1.7 JDK for Linux
>
> I hope this isn't a FAQ, but is there a way to make Netscape use
> this for Java applets instead of its buggy internal code?
>
> Bob
>
> --
> +------------------- \-\-\-\ ----------------------------+
> | Bob Schreibmaier K3PH | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> | Kresgeville, PA 18333 | ICBM: 40o55'N 75o30'W |
> +--------------------------------------------------------+
You can install a plug-in (Blackdown's got one) which requires an
HTML conversion, or put the Swing jar in your classpath, if only
1.1 features are used.
HTH. Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PPP Client (works great with GUI rp3) but how about the command line???
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:12:15 GMT
PPP Client (works great with GUI rp3) but how about the command line???
I setup my diel out access with RP3 and it works great. but the down
side is that I am trying to setup a shell script that will do the
following
1) Run top and save the output to a file
2) Dail out to my ISP
3) email me the output of top
4) Logout from ISP
How can I get the RP3 to dail out without the GUI???
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!! simple device driver for mapping piece of /dev/mem to user
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:25:40 -0400
ferdinand.cornelissen wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am working with a PCI board which has onboard memory. The card does
> not have a device driver, so the only way I can access the card's
> memory is by openening /dev/mem en mmaping the right memory block into
> user space memory. However, this is only possible when running as
> root. I want to be able to access the boards memory as an ordinary
> user by writing a simple kernel-space device driver which maps the
> correct memory from /dev/mem to memory in user space.
>
> Can anyone help me out by giving me pointers to usefull example code,
> documents or whatever useful information?
The book "Linux Device Drivers" (
http://pcunix.com/Books/lindd.html ) has an appendix devoted to
PCI..
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.games.civ-call-to-power
Subject: Getting Multiplayer to work under linux
Date: 28 Sep 2000 10:28:04 -0700
Hi,
I have the linux version of "Civilization Call to Power". Recently I put
together a 2nd computer system and connected it to the first via a pair
of network cards. It's very simple with just a crossover between the
two, no hub or router and a simple static hosts table to assign IP
addresses. I'm not a network administrator by any means, but following
the howtos I got, for instance, a network file system going. Still,
when I try to play multiplayer civilization it doesn't work. If I try
to log in (via telnet) so both users are on the same host, when the
second one tries to go multiplayer it gets a message that a network
error occurred. If the 2nd player simply logs in on the 2nd computer
and starts up Civ locally and goes multiplayer, he and the first player
seem to be on separate systems, not visible to each other.
Looking in the FAQ I see that the game is supposed to broadcast UDP packets
to find another instance of the game and make a connection, and, if UDP
packets are blocked (I have no idea if that is the case or how it is done)
one should 'open up' ports in the range 21100 - 21300, but I have no idea
how that is done either.
Anyone have a clue on this?
-Carl
---- In my ignorance, my email address is lately getting more
---- scrounged than usual, it should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
---- you should remove "UhUh" and "Spam" to get the real one, but
---- my new computer's name, "ragwind" seems to be getting inserted
---- lately where it didn't before. But oh well.
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Subject: Re: Redhat Download
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Sep 2000 19:35:03 +0100
In article <8qvsuh$p5v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael J. Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does any know of a fast Redhat download mirror? Every single site in that
>is listed with Redhat seems extremely slow. I have a T3 connection and am
>looking for a much faster way to download the new Redhat 7. Thanks!
>
>Mike
>
>
If anyone posts a mirror site here, it will too be extremely slow
witin a short period of time. Can't you guys wait for a couple of
days?
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>. Junk mail, no.
========================================================================
What part of "GNU" did you not understand? <URL:http://www.gnu.org/>
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: port windows application into Linux?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:45:10 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to port some applications from Windows98/NT into Linux. Who knows
> how to do that?
>
> I've heard before that there's a Linux project that is a windows emulator
> under Linux and could let some window application run under Linux. Who
> knows any information about that project?
There's at least a couple such projects: "wine"
(http://www.winehq.com) is one, "win4lin" (commercial, but works
well I understand) is another, "wabi" is yet another (but I
haven't heard much from them lately) and of course there's always
VMWare (commercial), which lets you actually boot and use Windows
from inside linux.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: What's that maximum mount count error reached ?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:48:46 -0500
TM wrote:
> I'm getting sometimes at boot time this kind of error:
>
> /dev/hard_drive_id has reached maimum mount count, check forced.
>
> What does it mean and how do I prevent it.
That's not an error, its a feature. The ext2 filesystem keeps
track of the number of times each filesystem has been mounted
since the last filesystem check (fsck) and if that number exceeds
a certain value, a check is forced as a preventative maintenance
routine. The mount count number is configurable, but there's no
compelling reason for most users to change it.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Dave Martel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: partition commander?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:39:12 -0500
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:53:52 -0400, "Samuel Irlapati"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone used partition commander here? I would like to know if you think
>it is useful or not?
>
>I have tried Partition magic 5.0 and it actually does not work on computer.
>So I returned it but I am looking for other partition programs.
>
I picked up System Commander (which includes Partition Commander) at a
garage sale a while back, and recently tried to use it to partition a
40-gig HD. Many hair-pulling hours later I was still fighting problems
and digging around for poorly-documented solutions and commmands. For
example, the instructions say that to get into the partitioning menu
you have to pop up a dialog to "install a new OS" and then cancel it
and then click another button that appears when you cancel. Besides
being totally non-intuitive, it didn't work because the promised
button didn't appear. No amount of digging through the index turned up
a solution until an hour later when I happened across mention of a
shortcut key while browsing some other unrelated section.
After a few other frustrations I went back to Patition Magic and in
5-10 minutes had my partitions set up, then took a break while PM
partitioned the HD and formatted the Windows and Ext2 partitions for
me. About a month ago a "coming soon!" ad appeared in a CompUSA flyer
for Partition Magic 6.1. I'd keep an eye out for it and see it it'll
run on your system.
If you have Norton Ghost then it comes with a great little
command-line partitioning utility called 'gdisk'. It's somewhat like
DOS's fdisk but does a whole lot more and you can invoke each
operating from the command line. So if you're willing to do a little
math, you can set up a batch file that will use gdisk to create your
partitions. You may want to get Norton Ghost anyway if you plan on
running both Windows and linux and have a tape or CD writer for
backup. Ghost 6.5 runs from DOS and backs up both Windows and Ext2
partitions to cd's or tape. It doesn't work with all CD burners so be
sure to try the 30-day demo first (and be sure to span at least two
entire CD's - some people have reported that it worked with their
drive on one CD but encountered problems about 5 megabytes into the
second). The enterprise version will also do backups and restores over
a network.
There are some free partition managers out there that I'd have used if
I didn't already have Partition Magic. Look for PartEd and the latest
beta of Ranish Partition Manager.
Assorted boot managers did so much damage that I gave up on them after
having to repartition/reformat for the umpteenth time. In the end I
decided to play it safe by booting linux off a floppy disk using
loadlin, and using gdisk and a batch file to change partition
attributes for my assorted Windows partitions.
If you really want to use a boot manager then I'd recommend LILO if
it'll do everything you need, or XOSL if you need more flexibility.
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From: Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:53:16 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert Lewis wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:23:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod
> Smith) wrote:
>
> >I even got respectable download
> > speeds (~60MB/s on my 608/128 DSL connection).
>
> I really doubt you got ~60 MB/s on a DSL connection.
Why? I was getting 89K from ftp.lame.org on our 784K SDSL link.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: linux,redhat.misc
Subject: Re: "maximum mount count reached" error : what's that?
Date: 28 Sep 2000 18:07:40 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm sometimes getting this kind of error at boot time:
Not an error. Just a information messages. Linux checks how often a hard
drive partition has been quick checked. When that count reaches some
number (20 I think) it does a through check to make sure the file system
is not corrupted. It issues that message first to let you know what it
is doing.
>/dev/drive_id has reached maximum mount count check forced
>what's that and how do I fix it?
Just wait till it finishes, and go on. Nothing to fix.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: rpm confusion
Date: 28 Sep 2000 18:09:14 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Buzanits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]# rpm -i packetname.rpm
]package packetname is already installed
]# rpm -e packetname.rpm
]error: package packetname is not installed
Do rpm -Uhv --force packetname.rpm
]# rpm -V packetname.rpm
]package packetname is not installed
]# rpm --version
]RPM version 3.0.3
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From: "Bruce P. Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux driver for Voodoo 5???
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:11:11 GMT
> Is there a driver for Voodoo 5 or what driver will work?
>
> Thanx Brandon
Brandon,
You need to check out this link; http://linux.3dfx.com. It has what you
are looking for.
Hope this helps,
Bruce P. Morin SafePoint E-Technology Group, LLC.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:15:55 -0000
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:53:16 -0400, Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Robert Lewis wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:23:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod
>> Smith) wrote:
>>
>> >I even got respectable download
>> > speeds (~60MB/s on my 608/128 DSL connection).
>>
>> I really doubt you got ~60 MB/s on a DSL connection.
>
>Why? I was getting 89K from ftp.lame.org on our 784K SDSL link.
Probably because 60MB=61440KB=62914560Kb and his line is only capable of
608Kb. Rod knows better, I'm sure it was just a typo.
--
Ray
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From: Douwe van der Schaaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: 3com 3c509 in ISA mode in windows
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:36:33 +0100
Dave Jepson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Hope this is not too OT but there's probably more chance of someone here
> knowing the answer!
>
> To get my etherlink III 3c509B Combo working in linux I disabled the PnP
> and manually set the IRQ and I/O with the 3c5x9cfg.exe program in
> windows.
>
> This works fine in linux, using isapnptools.
>
> However I just can't get it to work in Windows.
>
> If I use the ISA mode driver, I am allowed to specify I/O port only and
> no IRQ.
>
> If I use the EISA mode driver Control Panel->System->Device
> Manager->Network Adaptors->Properties says that the driver could not be
> loaded, and hence I don't get to specify IRQ & IO at all.
>
> Has anyone had/resolved this problem before?
>
> I went to the 3com site but the blurb on the driver download page states
> that 3c509 is only supported in 'classic' (???) and PnP modes, not ISA
> and EISA.
>
> Alternatively............
>
> Seeing as windows can see the NIC in PnP mode fine, can I get linux to
> load it?
> Currently if I set the card in PnP mode, linux hangs when I try to start
> the eth0 interface.
> The card is being loaded in /etc/conf.modules with
>
> alias eth0 3c509
>
> Does anyone know why it hangs and whatI could do about it?
>
> Kind regards,
> Dave
I recognize this. Same problems. Same tryouts, same results. I choosed
to let PnP disabled. Also under Win95: ISA, no irq, only an I/O address.
I use my 3c509b to connect to my cable-internet provider and this
happens to go well (both win95 & Mandrake 7.1 Linux). I have an (but how
to prove ?) idea that the card functioned somewhat better under PnP
(fewer hickups of that awesome Netscape), but indeed no Linux then.
If you use your card to connect to a network, I have no answer for you.
Douwe.
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New HD question
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:32:43 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 28-Sep-100 New HD question by
"Matt O'Toole"@deltanet.
> I'm running out of space on my drive, and I want to *add* a
> new one (I have an extra). I don't want to copy the whole system
> over, just part of it. I'm running Mandrake 7.0, with everything
(N.B. -- I've never used Mandrake. They may have spiffy tools
for automating this sort of task, for all I know.)
> on one big partition. Which directories should I copy over? Do
Well, what takes space?
First, some directories that you generally should not move...
/bin (often-important programs, like mount...)
/dev (no "real" files there, anyway)
/etc (configuration files)
/lib (important libraries, often needed for /bin, /sbin tools)
/lost+found (a place to store chunks if ext2 gets hosed)
/proc (system interface, again no "real" files)
/root (if it exists, it's normally root's home dir)
/sbin (nominally for system binaries)
Most other dirs should be fair game. In particular...
/home (regular user's home dirs)
/opt (used by certain OPTional packages)
/usr (shouldn't contain critical packages)
/usr/local (often used for packages not included w/ a distro)
/var (often for spooling and other temp files)
/home is probably a particularly good candidate for a multi-user
system, if you can estimate total needs, as doing so may make it
easier to back up, restore, or preserve when upgrading, and it
also makes it a little less likely that a user can fill up
important partitions and bring everything to a halt...
/opt may be good if you have meaty packages their like StarOffice.
And so forth. See the Partitioning HOWTO for ideas. Since it's
an existing install, you probably have some idea by now of how
much space you'll need for each, so you're a lot less likely to
find out that you underestimated and need to grow a partition...
Moving a directory to a new partition could be done as --
[ This is from memory, so if somebody points out an error,
listen to them -- I'm not copying from a HOWTO or other
manual here. ]
0. I hope you have a full, recent backup. Nothing should
go wrong, but it never hurts to prepare...
1. Reboot into single-user mode, if you want to be really
careful. You really don't need hordes of daemons running
around trying to access the files you want to move.
2. fdisk the new disk. Create partitions and set their types.
Usually something like '/sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb', some
invocations of 'n' to create new partitions, and 't' to
set their types to 83 (Linux native), followed by 'w'
to write/exit.
Substitute the appropriate device, of course; /dev/hdb is
only for the primary slave of the first IDE controller.
3. Make new filesystems, using /sbin/mke2fs, such as
/sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdb1 (for the first partition on
the aforementioned device). You don't really need to
use any options, but -c (check for bad blocks) is probably
not a bad idea on a new drive.
4. Mount them, such as
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/tmp
(if you have an empty directory prepared such as /mnt/tmp)
Likewise, mount the dirs to move, like
mount /usr/local
5. Copy the contents, such as
cp -a /usr/local /mnt/tmp
(-a to preserve the structure as much as possible).
6. For safety reasons, we don't have to delete the old directory
until we're sure that the new one works, so we can do something
like
mv /usr/local /usr/local-backup
and prepare to undo this if necessary.
7. Tell the system where the directory now is.
If this were a top-level like /usr, this would definitely
look something like
/dev/hdb1 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
and /usr should just be a placeholder directory (mkdir /usr).
For something like /usr/local, if /usr were already another
filesystem in its own right, we might do something like
mkdir /usr1
ln -s /usr1 /usr/local (/usr has to be mounted to do this, 'natch)
and add
/dev/hdb1 /usr1 ext2 defaults 1 2
to /etc/fstab, which means that even if /usr isn't
mounted, we can mount /usr1. And if /usr and /usr1 are
both mounted, /usr/local will point to /usr1 which will
contain those files. This approach works. I've not
tried using just /usr/local in /etc/fstab when /usr
was also a separate fs; it might work as well.
/etc/fstab is used by mount (often a 'mount -a' is
done when booting, to mount the non-removable filesystems),
so that's why we need to update this. See the fstab
man page for semantics.
8. Reboot; /sbin/shutdown -r now.
9. Start normally. Try X. Try the things you normally do
that use the partitions created. If absolutely nothing
breaks and you believe it really worked, *now* you can
"rm -rf /usr/local-backup". If not, umount the bad
/usr/local and rename the backup to its original name,
and try to diagnose the problem...
> I need to change any settings after copying them over, or will
> the system take care of that? Also, since now would be a good
If you do it the manual way above, the fstab bit and any
symlink / mount point changes need to be done as well. MDK
might have a spiffy tool for this, but like I said, I wouldn't
know.
> time to create new partitions, are there any suggestions for good
> setups? I'm thinking I could have all the system files on the
> original drive, with the rest on the new one.
See the Partition HOWTO for some suggestions. Yes, your system
files should likely stay there...
Keeping data and your own tools on the new drive particularly
makes sense if it's a spiffy one that you might want to bring
with you into another computer some day, as well.
> BTW, I've read the new hard drive howtos. Call me stupid if you
> want, but I need further assistance.
HTH. HAND.
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Reply-To: "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I switch video modes?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:34:49 -0500
You're probably going to need to tinker with your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
I'd recommend looking over the XFree86-HOWTO and XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO
first.
Russ
"Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Using X-WIndows on Redhat linux 6.2, it is currently configured at 640 x
> 480. My card and monitor can definitely support higher resolutions and
> I find that many parts of windows are off the visible screen. The
> problem is, I can't find where to change the screen resolution. Can
> someone point the way please?
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Java on Netscape (Was Re: Java on Linux?)
Date: 28 Sep 2000 14:35:53 -0400
!! "Bob" == Bob Schreibmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garry Knight
Bob> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Exits Funnel wrote:
>>
>>> Sun's JDK is available on linux but am wondering what alternatives there
>>> are.
>> http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux/ IBM's jdk1.1.8 for Linux
>> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html Blackdown Java 1.1.7 JDK for
>> Linux
Bob> I hope this isn't a FAQ, but is there a way to make Netscape use this
Bob> for Java applets instead of its buggy internal code?
Not that I know of. Your best hope is that Mozilla gets a full OJI compliant
JRE on Linux - Sun is working on release 1.3.1 just so this happens. I believe
that IBM is also working on getting its JDK in line with OJI compliance. In the
bug reports on bugzilla for the Mozilla project you can track the latest bits
and pieces. Soon, in other words.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
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Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:04:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray) writes:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:53:16 -0400, Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Robert Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:23:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod
>>> Smith) wrote:
>>>
>>> >I even got respectable download
>>> > speeds (~60MB/s on my 608/128 DSL connection).
>>>
>>> I really doubt you got ~60 MB/s on a DSL connection.
>>
>>Why? I was getting 89K from ftp.lame.org on our 784K SDSL link.
>
> Probably because 60MB=61440KB=62914560Kb and his line is only capable of
> 608Kb. Rod knows better, I'm sure it was just a typo.
Quite right; a typo. (Hangs head in shame....) 60MB/s would be nice,
though -- that'd be about 11 seconds to download the whole thing....
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Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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