Linux-Misc Digest #620, Volume #26 Sat, 23 Dec 00 21:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Can someone explain DUMP? (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: Palm emulators for Linux? (E J)
Re: how to detect when a CDROM is loaded? (Michael Heiming)
Re: DVD software for Linux yet? (E J)
Re: how to detect when a CDROM is loaded? (Michael Heiming)
Re: how to detect when a CDROM is loaded? (Tom Hoffmann)
Re: Disaster recovery info (The Ghost In The Machine)
Unable to ping ("Chakravarthy K Sannedhi")
Re: SCSI ADAPTER 1505 (Ekkard Gerlach)
Re: Is Linux/Mandrake good? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is Linux/Mandrake good? (Bit Twister)
Re: Backup Hard Drive... (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Question about performance ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: My /home partition died... (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Kill this thing - how? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: My /home partition died... (Jean-David Beyer)
geForce 2 ("Ron Nicholls")
Re: Unable to ping (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: It's me that needs the upgrade (a bit long) (Kurt McKee)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Subject: Re: Can someone explain DUMP?
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:17:10 GMT
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:53:11 GMT, WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Thanks for the reply, but when I feed it the line that you provided,
|this is what happens:
|
|
|]# dump -0u -a -f /dev/nst0 /
| DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Dec 23 12:38:31 2000
| DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
| DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda5 (/) to /dev/nst0
| DUMP: Label: none
| DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
| DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
| DUMP: estimated 257683 tape blocks.
| DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Sat Dec 23 12:38:33 2000
| DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
| DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
| DUMP: 65.51% done, finished in 0:02
| DUMP: Closing /dev/nst0
| DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Sat Dec 23 12:46:33 2000
| DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:08:00
| DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 537 KB/s
| DUMP: 258164 tape blocks (252.11MB) on 1 volume(s)
| DUMP: finished in 477 seconds, throughput 541 KBytes/sec
| DUMP: level 0 dump on Sat Dec 23 12:38:31 2000
| DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Dec 23 12:38:31 2000
| DUMP: Date this dump completed: Sat Dec 23 12:46:33 2000
| DUMP: Average transfer rate: 537 KB/s
| DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
|
|-------------
|
|I have a scsi2 Tecmar WangDAT DDS2 drive. Could it have written that
|amount of data that fast? I have my doubts.
scsi2 can transfer at least 20Mb/sec, so 541Kb/sec sounds reasonable.
You could try restoring the data to a spare partition.
--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Universal Life Church http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
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xenaphobia: The fear of being beaten to a pulp by
a leather-clad, New Zealand woman.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Palm emulators for Linux?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:27:05 GMT
Yes, xcopilot. You need to copy the rom image from a palm pilot. You have
to ask nicely for palm to give you the newest of rom image. I got my
xcopilot from the Redhat mirrored site, under the RH7.0 Powertools CD.
It also has a development enviroment for palm pilots.
Matt O'Toole wrote:
> Are there any Palm emulators available for Linux? I'd like to be able to
> run and test Palm applications, and take screenshots to stick into printed
> docs and web pages.
>
> Matt O.
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:29:26 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to detect when a CDROM is loaded?
Hello,
I don't know what type of CD-ROM you use, i have two (SCSI) at home,
both can be opened with eject (man eject) but only one can be closed
with eject, but there is no logging to syslog which you could grab via script,
if you close the tray with the button, maybe you could recompile your kernel
and enhace SCSI logging support, I have seen this option, but never used,
maybe it would give more output to syslog. But I don't know what you use?
Michael
ekkis wrote:
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>
> well, the idea is that I want hands-free operation. I put in a CD, a script
> runs automatically (i.e. I don't have to manually do anything) and does its
> thing and when it's done it ejects the CD.
>
> "Michael Heiming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't know why you would need that? Before you change a CD you have to
> leave
> > every wd below /cdrom or whatever
> > yours is called and umount that thing, or you will not be able to open
> it....
> >
> > You have to mount the new one, that way you could call a script, say
> mymount,
> > which
> > contains your stuff and:
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 /dev/<your_CD-ROM> /cdrom
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Michael Heiming
> >
> > ekkis wrote:
> >
> > > **** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com ****
> > >
> > > can anyone point me in the right direction? I would like to run a
> script of
> > > my choice whenever a CDROM is inserted into the drive. how can this be
> > > done? is there a better newsgroup to post this
> > > question to?
> > >
> > > 1k thx - e
> > >
> > > please cc me on reply as I don't check this newsgroup often!
> > >
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DVD software for Linux yet?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:45:54 GMT
I hope the DeCSS software is finally legal to use on Linux.
I would like to watch my DVD on Linux box.
Sure tell IBM not to spend a BILLION dollar on Linux. HP and Oracle has
commercial products for linux.
A real operating system? I don't see Windows yet on a supercomputer.
IBM has a supercomputer running linux.
Even on sub operating systems like embedded systems, I am seeing more
linux products or linux derived
products. I am surprised there is going to be a Windows NT embedded. It
will probably work only Intel & AMD
microprocessors.
At least with linux, the source code is open and I could fix it and share
that information. I have rebuilt the kernel.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Pineapple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Don't bother with non-free software. Keep Linux DVD players free!
> >
> >I always wondered what gives a linux user a right not to pay for dvd-
> >player, even through everyone else is paying for them ?
>
> Exactly!!! What the hell gives linux users the right to use their
> computer without paying for MS Windows like everyone else??? This
> crazy concept of freedom is just stupid, I wish those damn Linux
> commies would just grow up!!!! Don't they realise that the encryption
> of digital media protects us from ourselves? Without it being
> locked up we would be free to do whatever we wanted with the stuff
> we bought, and we all know that freedom is just an excuse to bypass
> the policies that large corperations have set for us....they honestly
> care and whant to protect us from our own folly, we should listen
> to them and stop trying to protect this obsolete concept of "freedom".
>
> If linux users want to use their computers, they should use a real
> OS like windows and stop trying to get away with doing whatever they
> please with their hardware. Nothing stops free use as long as you
> use it the way coorperations want you to, or you use obsolete hardware.
> And with obsolete hardware readily available, there is NO reason to
> worry about the new hardware being unaccessable as it should be!
>
> Down with Linux and the pirate mentality it promotes!!!!
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:26:01 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to detect when a CDROM is loaded?
Hello,
I don't know what type of CD-ROM you use, i have two (SCSI) at home,
both can be opened with eject (man eject) but only one can be closed
with eject, but there is no logging to syslog which you could grab via script,
if you close the tray with the button, maybe you could recompile your kernel
and enhace SCSI logging support, I have seen this option, but never used,
maybe it would give more output to syslog, but I don't even know what kind of
CD-ROM you use....
Michael
ekkis wrote:
> **** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com ****
>
> well, the idea is that I want hands-free operation. I put in a CD, a script
> runs automatically (i.e. I don't have to manually do anything) and does its
> thing and when it's done it ejects the CD.
>
> "Michael Heiming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't know why you would need that? Before you change a CD you have to
> leave
> > every wd below /cdrom or whatever
> > yours is called and umount that thing, or you will not be able to open
> it....
> >
> > You have to mount the new one, that way you could call a script, say
> mymount,
> > which
> > contains your stuff and:
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 /dev/<your_CD-ROM> /cdrom
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Michael Heiming
> >
> > ekkis wrote:
> >
> > > **** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com ****
> > >
> > > can anyone point me in the right direction? I would like to run a
> script of
> > > my choice whenever a CDROM is inserted into the drive. how can this be
> > > done? is there a better newsgroup to post this
> > > question to?
> > >
> > > 1k thx - e
> > >
> > > please cc me on reply as I don't check this newsgroup often!
> > >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: how to detect when a CDROM is loaded?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:53:52 GMT
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:29:45 -0800, ekkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>**** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com ****
>
>well, the idea is that I want hands-free operation. I put in a CD, a script
>runs automatically (i.e. I don't have to manually do anything) and does its
>thing and when it's done it ejects the CD.
Well, it would be easy to write a script that scans the mount table
(/etc/mnt) for the cdrom device ... if it finds it, it's mounted. This
could be set up to run in cron.
However, I would write a daemon process in perl to do this rather than
use cron to run a shell script every minute or so as it would be a lot
less overhead. As for running the script of your choosing, I'll leave
that as an exercise for you.
Hope this helps. BTW, ask here, get your answer here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery info
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:59:25 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc, D. Stimits
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote
on Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:39:26 -0700
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Montgomery wrote:
>>
>> >What I did not do is record the details of the partition table, which
>> >is unfortunate, since the Windows95 reinstallation helpfully removed
>> >it for me.
>>
>> I've never hand Win9x actually remove any non-DOS partitions
>> when I did installs. If it really did, then you've run across
>> a particularly virulent strain of the Win9x desease.
>>
>
>I've seen various windows installs suggest that an unknown partition be
>"fixed". Yeah, right.
Well, we can't have Windows being corrupted by those *other*
operating systems, now, can we? :-)
It just wouldn't suit Ballmer at all....
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- insert random misquote here
up 88 days, 1:34, running Linux.
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From: "Chakravarthy K Sannedhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to ping
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:46:13 -0600
Linux Gurus,
I got a problem with my linux box, which is using RH 6.2 version. It is
having three nics named lo, eth0 and eth1. Interface lo is configured for
the local loop ip address 127.0.01 and eth1 for the internal network while
the eth0 is configured for the outside network.
When i am trying to ping 127.0.0.1 the ping was successful with 0% packet
loss.
When i am trying to ping with it' IP it is very much unsuccessful with about
97% packet loss. And the ping's roundtrip statistics are about like this:
round-trip min/avg/max=0.1/79000.2/158000.3 ms
That means it is taking 79 seconds for roundtrip at an average which is
unbelievable.
For anything else to ping there is 100% packet loss.
I tried all the following things, but didn't find them to be helpful:
1. Verified for the IRQ conflicts in /proc/interrupts, but didn't see any
device conflicts in it.
2. From *ifconfig -a* command i found out that all the interfaces are
correctly setup
3. Ran *route -n* command and found there is not any problem with the
Destination and with the Gateway.
4. Restarted the network with /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart command and
everything is got initialized so properly.
5. I tried to ping this Linux machine from the other two existing Windows
machines and they are unable to ping this Linux machine and giving *Request
timed out* but they are able to recognize the IP of the Linux machine(may
they are able to find it from their arp cache).
6. Tried to ping the Name server the Linux machine sees from the Windows
machines and the ping is successful so there is no problem with the
nameservers also.
7. The network seems to be perfect as i am able to ping and do otherthings
from the Windows machines.
Only the problem is with the Linux machine when i try to ping itself with
it's IP and try to ping any other machine from it. I can provide any further
information if needed. Please let me know.
TIA to whoever responds
Chakravarthy K Sannedhi
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI ADAPTER 1505
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:51:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
>
> Ekkard Gerlach wrote:
>
> > Your problem:
> > I have got the same SCSI-Card and an scanner attached, too.
> > Have you got a pnp-card (Plug&Play) or non-pnp ? - The
> > non-pnp-card you can switch IRQ and DMA by jumper, the
> > pnp-card you have to initialise by Kernel-options
> > at lilo-start. See linux-pnp-tool (attention: isapnp.conf
> > that is automatically generated is buggy! Delete "CHECK"!).
> >
> > Which options did you enable in your Kernel? pnp?
> > SCSI-generic support? ..... What exactly have you
> > done?
>
> I've generated a new kernel with these options:
> PLUG & PLAY SUPPORT = Y
as module !
> SCSI SUPPORT = Y
> SCSI GENERIC SUPPORT = Y
> ADAPTEC AHA152X/2825 SUPPORT = Y
> The SCSI card I'm using it's PNP and there's no posibility of
> configuring by jumpers.
IRQ 9 and 0x340 or IRQ11 and 0x140 are possible on this card.
> I've also modified the BIOS config. with NON PNP O.S.
Turn off BIOS pnp-support. The BIOS setting may confuse
Linux. But reserve IRQ 9 or IRQ11 in BIOS for ISA-Cards
Linux pnp installed?
generate isapnp.conf
you get something like this:
[...]
IO 0 (SIZE 32) (BASE 0x0340) (CHECK)) original
[...]
Eliminate "(CHECK)" (bug!)
reboot.
load modules.
ready.
> My questions are:
> a) Do I have to compile scsi card support as a module ?
> b) How do I exactly have to modify lilo.conf ?
> c) Is there any conflict risk between these card and SCSI EMULATION
> SUPPORT for IDE CD-RW ?
I can't imagine, that SCSI emu and real SCSI can co-exists.
> d) Do I have to use isapnptools for modifying IO and IRQ , or this can
> be done with lilo.conf ?
something like this, depends to your configuration
0x340,11,7,1,1,0,0,0
RTM! Which doku did you read? Which Linux do you have ?
What exactly did you do so far? Post all scripts, config-files,
boot-messages (dmesg). Give a complete protocol of your tests.
Further help depends on your answer to my questions!
mery chrismas and a happy new year!
Ekkard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is Linux/Mandrake good?
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:08:51 GMT
mpulliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: It installed perfectly with no weird tweaking
My key problem was "installed perfectly" -> I guess if I wanted to pretend
I was running windows and do it "their way" then yes, I could say it
installed perfectly :)
But they successfuly obfuscated things that I wanted to do. I wanted
to do it My Way, which so far, every other version of every other distro
i've ever tried managed to do (ok, so RH7 i use the text installer :P) ->
tho sad to say, this push to "bring Linux to the common man" is starting
to make the installer more and more windows-like.
--
Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SEX DRUGS UNIX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Is Linux/Mandrake good?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:12:13 GMT
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:08:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>mpulliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: It installed perfectly with no weird tweaking
>
>My key problem was "installed perfectly" -> I guess if I wanted to pretend
>I was running windows and do it "their way" then yes, I could say it
>installed perfectly :)
>
>But they successfuly obfuscated things that I wanted to do. I wanted
>to do it My Way, which so far, every other version of every other distro
>i've ever tried managed to do (ok, so RH7 i use the text installer :P) ->
>tho sad to say, this push to "bring Linux to the common man" is starting
>to make the installer more and more windows-like.
Are you saying you wanted to pick what was to be loaded?
If that was the case, picking custome or expert allows to
to make it your way.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup Hard Drive...
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:12:44 -0500
The Ghost In The Machine wrote (in part):
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc, Peter T. Breuer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote
> on Sat, 2 Dec 2000 00:53:08 +0100
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I never liked tar for backups. Perhaps that was because when I was at
> >> Bell Labs, we replaced tar with cpio as a much better approach. We
> >> were astonished that the rest of the world preferred tar. So I just do
> >
> >The reason is that cpio has incomprehensible options .. and an
> >incomprehensible operating mode. And I speak as one who does not
> >comprehend it (the best I did with it was use it to de-rpm rpms).
> >In contrast, tar is simple: tar czvf foo.tgz "list of files and dirs".
>
> I'll agree, tar is simpler, but cpio isn't horribly difficult either
> once one wades through the ton of options and understands what
> needs to be done when to whom. :-) It has three basic modes,
> two of which you're probably interested in (the third is essentially
> a recursive copy).
>
> It's a difference in philosophy; tar takes its filenames from the
> command line and recursively descends, whereas cpio wants them from
> standard input or a specified file, and processes only that object
> (and nothing underneath). This may make little difference in an
> automated setup, however.
>
> tar czf /blah/blah.tgz /blah/blah/blah
> or
> tar cf - /blah/blah/blah | gzip > /blah/blah.tgz
>
> versus
>
> find /blah/blah/blah ... -depth ... | cpio -oc | gzip > /blah/blah.cpiz
>
I skip the gzip part because my DDS-2 tape drive automatically
compresses on writing and decompresses on reading. Let the hardware do
all that stuff and not annoy my CPUs.
I never bothered with -depth.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- insert random misquote here
> up 87 days, 23:00, running Linux.
I have never gotten my machine to stay up that long. The power company
does not keep the power up that long for one thing. As long as the drop
does not last over 30 minutes, I am OK, but sometimes it is off for a
couple of hours and the machines shut down.
Also, every few months, my DDS-2 tape drive bleeps up and I have to
reboot to get it going. The process with it open is in an IO-WAIT state
and nothing will ever happen, and a kill -9 will not get it off until
the IO completes, which it never will. And until that process closes the
tape drive file, no one else can open it. I wish I knew a way to break
it loose without rebooting. Replacing the tape drive with a new one was
not sufficient.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 8:05pm up 19 days, 4:52, 2 users, load average: 2.21, 2.12, 2.05
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about performance
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 00:42:22 +0100
Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> al wrote:
>> Gnome, and they are both quite slow. The system I am running mandrake on is
>> a dual Pentium Pro 200 with 64 megs of ram. It's no state of the art, and
64MB is way too small for a default mandrake install, but it sounds
like in addition you have some sort of interrupt problem. Try and
locate your bottleneck. Do disk testing, cpu testing, etc, etc. Look
at your memory usage.
> you should lookup if your kernel is SMTP, cat /proc/cpuinfo will give you a
His is. He said so.
> X/KDE performance is IMHO a RAM problem, with 64 MB you can't do much. Sad most
Indeed .. with mandrake. It should be fine if he swaps kde2 for something
like fvwm2 or iceman.
> As for your HD try man hdparm -t /dev/sd? and lookup man hdparm, but for me it
Correct.
> seems like you
> just have not enough RAM in your box and maybe you're running the wrong kernel.
The kernel's OK. The ram is low. But I have single PPro 200's with 64MB
ram, and they're fast! (running slackware 3.4).
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: My /home partition died...
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:17:48 GMT
"Greg Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>DISTRO: Redhat 6.1
>
>My /home partition on /dev/hda7 is gone...and i have a lot of important data
>on it. When i run fsck it says that it is a zero-lenght partition. Does
>anybody know how to retrieve the data on that partition? Also...when i go
>to do a manual mount on /dev/hda7, it says that it is not a block device.
>
>
>Please help
>
>Greg C
I do not know what this can be, but if you get Findpart at my page, do
from DOS or Windows:
findpart all fp.txt
and insert (not attach) the output into a follow-up to this message,
there is a chance that I can see something.
One possible explanation might be overlapping partitions. You may want
to write as little as possible to the disk until the nature of the
problem is known.
--
Svend Olaf
http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kill this thing - how?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:33:41 -0500
Juan Arnal wrote:
>
> Tom Edelbrok wrote:
> >
> > Some processes shown in "ps -A" respond to a kill command and others don't.
> >
> > How can I kill a pesky process that doesn't respond to kill? (Besides
> > rebooting!)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
>
> Try sending them the KILL signal with kill -9 <pid>. Btw if a process is
> on a D or Z state you won't be able to kill it.
>
How do you kill a process on a D state without rebooting?
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 8:30pm up 19 days, 5:17, 2 users, load average: 2.03, 2.11, 2.09
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My /home partition died...
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:36:10 -0500
Greg Conway wrote:
>
> DISTRO: Redhat 6.1
>
> My /home partition on /dev/hda7 is gone...and i have a lot of important data
> on it. When i run fsck it says that it is a zero-lenght partition. Does
> anybody know how to retrieve the data on that partition? Also...when i go
> to do a manual mount on /dev/hda7, it says that it is not a block device.
>
When you get your machine working again, restore the important data from
your backup device. I use DDS-2 tapes, but some people use floppies, ZIP
drives, CD-ROMs, networking backups, etc.
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/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 8:35pm up 19 days, 5:22, 2 users, load average: 2.10, 2.12, 2.09
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: geForce 2
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 12:45:02 +1100
Has anyone installed nvidia's geForce 2 drivers
in RH 7.0/gnome 4 yet.
Were there any problems.
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Regards
RonN
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unable to ping
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:43:23 -0500
Chakravarthy K Sannedhi wrote (in part):
>
> Linux Gurus,
>
> I got a problem with my linux box, which is using RH 6.2 version. It is
> having three nics named lo, eth0 and eth1.
lo is a really bad name for a NIC, since lo is normally used for
loopback, with an IP address like 127.0.0.1 usually. Why not name your
NICs eth0, eth1, and eth2?
> Interface lo is configured for
> the local loop ip address 127.0.01 and eth1 for the internal network while
> the eth0 is configured for the outside network.
Do you mean that you have TWO NICs, even though you said THREE NICS?
> When i am trying to ping 127.0.0.1 the ping was successful with 0% packet
> loss.
It sounds as though you have your loopback enabled. Good so far.
> When i am trying to ping with it' IP it is very much unsuccessful with about
> 97% packet loss. And the ping's roundtrip statistics are about like this:
> round-trip min/avg/max=0.1/79000.2/158000.3 ms
> That means it is taking 79 seconds for roundtrip at an average which is
> unbelievable.
I do not understand your English, or maybe it is your typing, here. What
are you trying "to ping with it' IP"?
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.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 8:35pm up 19 days, 5:22, 2 users, load average: 2.10, 2.12, 2.09
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kurt McKee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: It's me that needs the upgrade (a bit long)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 02:04:59 GMT
www.whatis.com
www.foldoc.org
Sincerely,
Kurt McKee
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:44:31 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The online dictionary of computing might be a help. Sorry but I don't
>have a reference.
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