Linux-Misc Digest #741, Volume #26 Sun, 7 Jan 01 12:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Ownership issues (Frank Ranner)
Re: what news reader do you use? (John Hasler)
Re: RAM management (John Hasler)
Re: at daemon fails to startup ("Ted Troccola")
mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy ("Ted Troccola")
Re: How to change screen size in RH6.2 (KDE)?? (Robert Dodier)
Re: nfs problem.. permission denied.? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD-ROM Filesystem Help (abc)
Re: Java (Henrik Enberg)
Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy ("lenny")
Re: Make custom audio CD with cdrecord? (Dances With Crows)
Backup software for Linux? ("Chris MacTavish")
No response from localhost ("Rick Goh")
Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy ("Tom")
Re: Backup software for Linux? (David)
A Direct Modem-to-Modem Connection (Youngert)
Re: what news reader do you use? (M.Knight)
Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ? (jeff)
Re: kernel or disk error (Patrick Lamb)
Re: RAM management (Paul Sack)
GeForce2 MX Driver for Linux ("Jason Ng")
Re: Partition overlapped (Anita Lewis)
Re: Compiling 2.4.0 kernel w/ RH7.0 (Lori Holder-Webb)
Re: Make custom audio CD with cdrecord? (Lori Holder-Webb)
Re: how do i build gnu apps in /usr not in /usr/local ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Ownership issues
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:07:25 +1100
bri wrote:
>
> I accidentally changed the ownership of all of my files so that they
> were owned by a user. I am using RedHat7. Now, of course, I need to
> correct the ownership of they entire system. Where can I find the
> correct ownership. I tried changing everything but the two user
> directories to root, but I find I'm unable to su from that user, or
> shutdown the machine as that user, only as root.
>
> Please post responses to newsgroup or send them to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Remove the capital letters for the proper address.
>
> I'd rather not re-install if possible. I had a lot of trouble getting
> my e-mail to work properly on the last re-install (about two weeks
> ago).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> bri
Check out the --setugids option of rpm. It will set user and group ids
back to what is in the database.
rpm --setugids -a
and step well back!
Hope that helps
Frank Ranner
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: what news reader do you use?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:42:26 GMT
Wroot writes:
> I've heard, in the earlier days of UNIX, people were reading news by
> grepping some files on the system or something,...
The structure of the news spool has never changed. Go to /var/spool/news
and you will find directory trees built by replacing the periods in
newsgroup names with '/' (comp/os/linux/misc, for example). The articles
are text files with the article numbers as names. 'grep Subject: *'�will
get you a list of subjects, and you can read the articles with a pager or
text editor. The first newsreader arrived on the scene pretty early,
though. ANews came with one.
> ...and didn't suspect it would come down to GUI someday.
I suspect that anyone who gave the matter much thought did.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: RAM management
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 13:25:59 GMT
Floyd L. Davidson writes:
> If you mean contiguous in physical RAM, you can't get it and it has no
> significance anyway because of the address translations inherent in the
> system's memory management.
To clarify a bit, the address translations are done in hardware in the cpu
and have absolutely no impact on speed.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "Ted Troccola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: at daemon fails to startup
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:24:34 GMT
Dan's suggestion about file permissions got me peeking around. There were
some permission issues. Mostly, in the 'world' level.
So, I recopied the filesystems, this time... using --same-permissions in tar
and things worked fine.
Thanks for your help...
Ted
"Ted Troccola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:J1P56.925$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I recently duplicated a working Red Hat 6.1 system.
>
> I duplicated the entire filesystem on a second hard drive in the same box
> ( so no hardware changed ), updated the fstab to point to new partitions
and
> tried to boot to the new root partition ( using LILO: linux root=/dev/hda7
> where hda7 is my new root partition)
>
> I see everything start correctly, except for the "at daemon". This fails
on
> the new system, but works fine on the old.
>
> Any ideas why?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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From: "Ted Troccola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:36:27 GMT
I have a RH 6.1 working system on my slave drive. I duplicated it on my
master drive, in an effort to free up the slave drive so it could be used in
another machine.
I just finished verifying that everything works as expected. It was quite
painless actually.
However, I am having a problem making a working boot floppy for my new
system.
I used 'mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.14-1.5.0', which happens to be the
note I had written on the boot floppy that works for the slave drive.
I am able to get into it the new system by using an old boot floppy and
typing 'linux root=/dev/hda7' ( where /dev/hda7 is my new root partition ).
Any ideas on how to make this boot floppy work?
Does the lilo.conf settings have anything to do with the 'mkbootdisk'
command? I don't see the relation, but it does boot with LILO so I figured
I'd ask.
Thanks,
Ted
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From: Robert Dodier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: How to change screen size in RH6.2 (KDE)??
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:27:38 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have my screen set to 800x600 from the initial RH installation but
> many applications display windows which do not fit on this screen.
> Often the buttons are inaccessible outside the screen limits even!
>
> So I need to change the size of the screen, but I cannot find where.
[...]
Pressing ctrl-alt-plus will cycle through the available screen
resolutions. The list of resolutions is stored in the file XF86Config
in /etc/X11, at least on my system; it might be called something else
on yours, but you can find it in a simpled-minded way like this:
find /etc -type f -exec grep -i modeline {} \; -print
"modeline" is just a string which occurs in the X configuration file.
Anyway, this file is built by the program Xconfigurator, or by
xf86config. As far as I know, these both allow you to set the list
of screen resolutions and pixel depths. Then when running X windows,
you can use ctrl-alt-plus to select from the list. Note that the list
depends on your video hardware -- some cards won't support very high
resolutions.
> And another thing:
> Is there some setting somewhere that can make the programs use only
> the existing size of the screen instead of displaying windows and
> buttons outside the actual screen limits?
This part I don't know about. I doubt there is something generally
applicable -- I don't think the window manager can enforce this;
each program would have to ask for the screen resolution and stay
within that.
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier
--
``Socrates used to meditate all day in the snow, but Descartes'
mind worked only when he was warm.'' -- Bertrand Russell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: nfs problem.. permission denied.?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:36:15 GMT
it worked.. :))
problem caused by wrong /etc/hosts file..
all ok now, i thank you all for your support.
ismet
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > i have repeatedly reboot the system still dont work.
>
> Then you know you are not up to scratch.
>
> >> > i'm trying to setup nfs with rh7-linux both machines, but seems
not working.
> >> > on top of a fresh installed linux system,
> >> > 192.168.0.91:/tmp /mnt/tmp nfs exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
> >> > /etc/exprots of server (192.168.0.91)
>
> exports.
>
> >> > /tmp globalchinalink(rw)
>
> And what IP does globalchinalink have? Use the IP number instead.
>
> >> > "failed, reason given by server: Permission denied"
>
> So you know that the server doesn read your exports file. Restart it
> with debugging on and read the output.
>
> >> I guess that executing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start" does not, on
its
>
> I think it does, but why should he care? They can do anything. He
> should do what he wants to do.
>
> >> own, start the NFS server in the std RH 7 configuration.
Use "rpcinfo
> >> -p" to determine what RPC daemons are running, and then start
> >> /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd, /usr/sbin/rpc.rstatd, /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd,
> >> /usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad, and /usr/sbin/rpc.rusersd, if necessary.
>
> All fine. You forgot to tell him to kill previous instances first!
> And to watch out for knfsd.
>
> Peter
>
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From: abc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-ROM Filesystem Help
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:55:10 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to get Oracle 8i installed on a redhat 7 box. I screwed with
my 2.2 kernel too much and gave up on installing, but I have recently
installed 2.4. My problem now is that the file on the CD called
runInstaller now appears as runin~uw. Any ideas? I've checked to make
sure the iso9660 filesystem is configured, and it is.
Thanks,
abc
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Subject: Re: Java
From: Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Jan 2001 16:06:18 +0100
"Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am being very lazy by not researching myself first but...........I am
> starting a class in Java programming and was looking for recommendations for
> a compiler/development enviroment for linux. I sometimes have used emacs and
> gcc and was wondering if such a combo was possible for Java. Or are there
> other suggestions. Thanks
>
> Paul
You shuld check out http://www.sunsite.dk/jde/ for Java development with
Emacs. For compilers look at http://www.blackdown.org or
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download-linux.html
Henrik
--
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- Homer J. Simpson
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From: "lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:13:09 GMT
In article <L9%56.984$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ted Troccola"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Does the lilo.conf settings have anything to do with the 'mkbootdisk'
> command? I don't see the relation, but it does boot with LILO so I
> figured I'd ask.
>
> Thanks, Ted
>
I believe that if you can boot to the new system
then edit lilo.conf
replacing root=/dev/hd??
with root=/dev/hda1 or whatever you used as your mount point for /
then run lilo
reboot
then make a boot floppy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Make custom audio CD with cdrecord?
Date: 7 Jan 2001 15:15:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:15:44 -0800, MH staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>I've burned data CDs using cdrecord and mkisofs, but is it possible to copy
>individual audio tracks from different CDs and then burn them to CD using
>cdrecord? If so, how? If not, is there another program(s) that will allow
>me to do this?
"cdparanoia". http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ . You also may want to
look at grip, a graphical frontend for cdparanoia/cdrecord/your MP3
encoder of choice, and look at the -dao option to cdrecord. HTH,
--
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Chris MacTavish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Backup software for Linux?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:43:08 -0400
Hello all,
Does anyone know of a good backup program for Redhat 6.2? I have tried
"taper" but i get a memory fault error halfway through when running it from
the command line. I have a Seagate 20/40 Dat backup drive and im trying to
back up 30 GB of data. I need a backup program that does compression. Maybe
taper will work if i can figure out why it memory faults. If anyone has any
ideas as to why taper memory faults or of another way to back up my data
then please help me....i can't be the only one trying to back up large
amounts of data!
Thanks
Chris
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From: "Rick Goh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.snmp,alt.os.linux,comp.dcom.net-management,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: No response from localhost
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:55:45 +0800
I've tried commands like snmpwalk, snmpget...
eg:
snmpwalk -v 1 localhost public
snmpget -v 1 localhost public interfaces.ifTable.IfEntry.ifInOctets.3
BUT always receive this reply:
"Timeout: No response from localhost"
I am running linux. Could it be the firewall??
I tried:
snmpwalk -v 1 192.168.1.10 public
--> my MASQ machine, and it works. only my localhost, which is the one i
want to monitor, doesn't work.
Any clues ppl??
Regards.
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From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mkbootdisk doesn't make bootable floppy
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:53:00 GMT
In article <L9%56.984$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ted Troccola"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a RH 6.1 working system on my slave drive. I duplicated it on
> my master drive, in an effort to free up the slave drive so it could
> be used in another machine.
>
> I just finished verifying that everything works as expected. It was
> quite painless actually.
>
> However, I am having a problem making a working boot floppy for my new
> system.
>
> I used 'mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.14-1.5.0', which happens to
> be the note I had written on the boot floppy that works for the slave
> drive.
try 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' This should prompt you to insert a
floppy, just hit <Enter> and it'll make a proper boot disk for you
using the currently running kernel.
Tom
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup software for Linux?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:54:13 GMT
Chris MacTavish wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> Does anyone know of a good backup program for Redhat 6.2? I have tried
> "taper" but i get a memory fault error halfway through when running it from
> the command line. I have a Seagate 20/40 Dat backup drive and im trying to
> back up 30 GB of data. I need a backup program that does compression. Maybe
> taper will work if i can figure out why it memory faults. If anyone has any
> ideas as to why taper memory faults or of another way to back up my data
> then please help me....i can't be the only one trying to back up large
> amounts of data!
>
> Thanks
> Chris
I use a set of backup scripts named "backup-1.03.tar.gz" which uses
"cpio" and "afio" and can be found at the link below.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/backup/backup-1.03.tar.gz
--
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From: Youngert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A Direct Modem-to-Modem Connection
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:46:52 GMT
Hi,
I have two computers with the following configuration:
1. Computer one: is running SuSE 7.0 Pro Linux distro and has a direct
connection to the Internet through a Cable modem. It is also equipped with
a 56Kbps modem.
2. Computer two: is running Windows2K Pro and does not have any connection
to the Internet, except it has a 56Kbps mode.
What I would like to accomplish is to connect computer two to the Internet
by means of computer one, a.k.a. Modem-to-Modem connection using PPP (an
alternative way is to add a second ethernet card to computer one and
another ethernet cat to computer two. Then, establish a PPP connection
between these two ethernet cards). However, since I am in a tight budget
and speed is of no importance, I would like to implement a PPP connection
between the two modems. Does anyone know if this can be done. If so, can
you please at least help me out? Any reference to this subject is
certainly appreciated.
TIA.
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From: M.Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: what news reader do you use?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:56:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Connet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "R. Tyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > Pan
> > It does the job - is very easy to use and set up.
> > I have used pine and slrn, but now prefer Pam.
> > Try the available newsreaders and then pick the one that suits you
> > It is all down to individual preference.
> > Hope this helps,
> > Reg
>
>
> So I now have given up on pan and am trying to make the move to
> xemacs/gnus. Although I also want to try slrn... I heard that is
> pretty good. We'll see.
>
I've been using nn as a newsreader for years. I like being able to
telnet into my machine from other places and read text-based news
without having to export a display back.
Lately I've been having problems getting any newsreader to post,
including gnus, and even some gui newsreaders. Something wrong on my
machine I'm sure.
Anyway, I've finally just given up and started using deja-news on the
web. Good enough I suppose.
-Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff)
Subject: Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ?
Date: 7 Jan 2001 16:11:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 18:17:13 -0800, MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Arctic Storm wrote:
>
> > I don't know if ** GNOME vs KDE ** is an age-old debate, but is there an
> > "official" web site or soure where I can learn about the differences
> > between GNOME & KDE? I have RedHat 7, so GNOME is the only thing I'm
> > used to, and I'm very happy with GNOME, but I'd like to explore other
> > options, out of curiosity. Before trying out KDE, I want to be an
> > informed user.
> > Where can I get some *objective* evaluation of both GNOME and KDE? An
> > objective analysys,... Have there been any magazine articles? Web
> > sites? etc,...
> >
> I'll give you an objective opinion, short and sweet, KDE 2.0 is flat out
> superior to GNOME as a desktop environment (from a user's perspective).
> ...
Hmmm... I'd hate to see your SUBJECTIVE answer :) To the original poster,
the best approach is to _try_ both environments - each of which have many
satisfied users = and come to your own conclusion. It is perfectly
reasonable, BTW, to decide to use _both_.
-jeff
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From: Patrick Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel or disk error
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:16:21 GMT
Dan White wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Patrick Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I've got a pile of lines in /var/log/message like:
> >
> > Jan 3 09:54:41 dwarfdog kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> > Jan 3 09:54:41 dwarfdog kernel: 03:01: rw=0, want=8549516,
> > limit=8056597 Jan 3 09:54:41 dwarfdog kernel: dev 03:01 blksize=512
> > blocknr=17099031
> > +sector=17099031 size=512 count=1
> >
> > Just started late last week, apparently. Can anyone tell me what it
> > means, and how to fix it?
>
> Do you happen to be running a tape device on the system?
No, not even ftape. I do have a CDRW, but it's not mounted.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Sack)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: RAM management
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:01:12 GMT
In article <93931r$vpp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm working with BIG and CONTIGUOUS arrays (up to 16MB), that get
>created with "new" operator (analogous to "malloc" in C) From
>benchmarking profiles it seems that the system can not allocate
>contiguous memory for these so, my guess is that it breaks them up into
>pieces, which slows down the program. Is there any way to defrag RAM w/o
>rebooting or am I being silly?
Okay, you are being silly ;)
Basically, every program has its own memory space (virtual memory). Addresses
in your program are logical addresses. The CPU uses logical addresses. These
are combined with more circuitry to create a physical address. This is why you
can do malloc(16000000) (or new char[16000000]) or something if you have less
than 16 mb ram available in one chunk. The OS uses what are called "pages" to
simulate having your own 2 gigabytes of RAM (in a 32-bit x86 system, that
is)[0].
Without getting very deep in kernel-space, you will never have any idea where
your memory *really* is. And this is a good thing.
Also, in C and C++, when you do ARRAY[BIG NUMBER] it just adds BIG NUMBER *
sizeof(datatype) + the address of the first element. There is no trickery. So
everything *has* to be contiguous.
[0] Careful readers will note that 2 to the power of 32 is 4 giga, not 2 giga.
The reason involves shared memory.
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From: "Jason Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: GeForce2 MX Driver for Linux
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 00:21:02 +0800
Hi,
I've just bought a new computer with Winfast GeForce2 MX display card and I
would like to install Linux on this machine.
But I can't find the driver for the display card. How can I get the driver
and how to install it?
Regards,
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Partition overlapped
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:43:31 GMT
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 08:56:07 +0100, Eric en Jolanda wrote:
>> >Not really. I just don't get it how people keep creating logicals like
>this.
>>
>> I disagree with you. Here is my partition table for one drive. I have
>> windows and 4 distros of linux going just fine. The order is reversed and
>I
>> did it with linux fdisk, much like he did with gpart. You will see that
>> hda7 and hda8 are out of order.
>
>gpart? Was that used??
>Let's check... Oh I see you meant GNU's parted.
>Not a problem in that case. (although it may have caused the havoc)
>
>>
>
>I know that you can amke weird partition tables. I just don't know why
>people keep doing this. It's not too hard to prevent these kind of tables.
>My legs start shaking with tables like this. I know linux can handle this,
>and so can many other OS's. (I've heard that BeOS cannot)
>
>Partitiontables are the only thing that different OS's on one HDD must agree
>on.
>Therefor keep them as straightforward as possible.
>
>> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 559 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/hda1 * 1 135 1020568+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>> /dev/hda2 136 149 105840 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda3 150 158 68040 82 Linux swap
>> /dev/hda4 159 559 3031560 5 Extended
>> /dev/hda5 159 172 105808+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda6 173 186 105808+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda7 401 546 1103760 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda8 187 400 1617777 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda9 547 559 98248+ 83 Linux
>>
>
>make hda4 of type 0x85. You'll lose the annoying D: disk in windows that
>windows wants to format each time you touch it.
>
>Eric
Thanks, Eric. I have used gpart, but that is to find partition tables. Big
difference. I downloaded it and tried it in an effort to help some one on
a newsgroup find his partition table.
I have never used GNU parted on my system. What I did was remove /dev/hda7.
I did not have /dev/hda9 at the time. That moved /dev/hda8 up to /dev/hda7.
When I added /dev/hda8 later, it used the cylinders that had previously been
/dev/hda7. Then I added /dev/hda9.
I have no problem with windows wanting to format D:. I have no D: in
Windows when I boot it on occasion. I merely wanted to show you that having
the partitions out of order does not make problems. Sorry about your shaky
legs. I'll remember what you said though if I ever install BeOS. Thanks
for the tip.
Anita
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From: Lori Holder-Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling 2.4.0 kernel w/ RH7.0
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 10:16:42 -0600
I don't know about kernel 2.4, but earlier kernels don't regenerate the
system map for you. That's why all these people who install ide cdrw in
their systems have to hand-edit a couple of their .conf files.
If you regenerate the system map after compiling the new kernel, that
stuff is not necessary.
If you don't regenerate the system map, you wind up using the old one.
If you haven't done anything funky (like fooling the o/s into thinking
that one type of hardware is really another type) it shouldn't be a
problem. When I recompiled for support on my ide cdrw, it was the third
custom kernel I'd made; it was the first time I'd jacked with the
hardware emulation, and it was the first time I had to regenerate that
map.
If you just follow the directions in the README, you ought to be fine
for now.
HTH,
Lori
Steve Connet wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I downloaded the linux kernel 2.4.0 source and am compiling it now, as
> described in the README file.
>
> In my boot directory there are links, which the README does not
> mention.
>
> System.map -> System.map-2.2.16-22
> kernel.h -> kernel.h-2.2.16
> module-info -> module-info-2.2.16-22
>
> After I compile 2.4.0 does it create a new System.map-2.4.0 for me?
> And a module-info-2.4.0? Where do I get these? Do I create them? If
> so, how?
>
> If not, do I just leaves those links? If they are used won't the new
> vmlinuz-2.4.0 get confused with those old map and module info?
>
> What should I do with them?
> There is alos a boot.0300, boot.b, and chain.b, map, and message
> files. Do I need to do anything with those?
>
> --
> Steve Connet (steve.connet@home`NO-SPAM`.com)
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From: Lori Holder-Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Make custom audio CD with cdrecord?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 10:12:17 -0600
Sure! Rip the tracks you want into a special directory (I use one
called 'burn' and it holds only files that are slated for burning onto
one disk), then use cdrecord to burn it.
I like to use grip, it provides a nice front-end to a bunch of rippers
and encoders, like cdparanoia.
http://www.nostatic.org/grip/
Very easy to use, has a cddb lookup so you can see the titles of each
track, not just the track number.
If you want really detailed directions, the following works pretty well:
http://x57.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=592798514&CONTEXT=978883887.1459814452&hitnum=14
Lori
MH wrote:
>
> I've burned data CDs using cdrecord and mkisofs, but is it possible to copy
> individual audio tracks from different CDs and then burn them to CD using
> cdrecord? If so, how? If not, is there another program(s) that will allow
> me to do this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how do i build gnu apps in /usr not in /usr/local
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:18:21 +0000
lenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> I would like to know if there is a way to
> have gnu apps built from source to be
> installed to /usr instead of usr local
> I know I can add options to the
> configure script but is there also a
> way to make this part of the environment
> permanently.
Read the INSTALL document more closely.
If it uses ./configure, then the standard way is simply to
./configure --prefix=/usr
(Only the default is /usr/local)
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