Linux-Misc Digest #799, Volume #26 Sat, 13 Jan 01 14:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com (John Harkness)
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? ("Richard Spandit")
Re: secure FTP (Simon Kesenci)
Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com (Jerry Kreps)
Re: Getting Linux server WAP enabled (Luc de Louw)
Troubles with pppd after a successful dialup
Re: Memory Dissapearing (E J)
destination host unreachable (Steve Connet)
Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards (Mark Post)
Re: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in ... (Bob Hauck)
Re: NIS Services (Bob Hauck)
Re: What Linux version is needed for Xinerama? ("Arctic Storm")
Strange script problems - can't set environment vars ("Gard Bjering")
Re: Memory Dissapearing (Scott Billings)
Re: 2.4 and I have no modules? (Frank. N. Puppenstein)
Re: Troubles with pppd after a successful dialup
Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM ("Arctic Storm")
Re: Can't get X working properly
Re: How do you use "checksum"?
Re: linux books, etc. (Rod Smith)
Re: buying computers (Mark Post)
Re: installing problem ("Martijn")
Re: Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM (Sean)
Problems mounting loopback devices (John William Prowse)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Harkness)
Subject: Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:54:22 GMT
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:24:43 -0600, Jerry Kreps
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>pamela wrote:
>
>> "Jan. 12, 2001 | Since geek glamour is an idea whose time has come, it
>> shouldn't be impossible to make an intelligent and beguiling thriller
>about
>> the open-source software movement. Peter Howitt's "AntiTrust" just isn't
>> it."
>>
>> http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/01/12/antitrust/
>>
>>
>
>Since Salon is owned lock, stock and barrel by Gates would you expect a
>different review?
>
>--
No, you're confusing it with slate.com
John Harnkess
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From: "Richard Spandit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:42:39 -0000
Linux Format magazine recommended Mahogany as a GUI client, or Mutt as a
text-based client.
www.wxwindows.org/Mahogany/
www.mutt.org/
HTH!!
RS
--
=====================================================
Richard Spandit
SuSE 6.3, KDE2.0
Finally joining the Linux bandwagon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Simon Kesenci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: secure FTP
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:12:37 GMT
Some hosts run sftpd, the secure ftp daemon, allowing secure connections to
the ftp site. But since most people don't have the sftp program, you will
probably not find such hosts on the web. Some companies prefer sftp to ftp
for internal file transfers.
--S.
terry tashiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Probably this newsgroup is not appropriate.
> But I did not get any response from comp.security.misc so that I thought
> Linux people might know something.
>
> I have been looking for secure FTP programs which work like https.
> https works with a browserand secure httpd and does not require any
> client programs.
>
> I just type sftp://ftp.common.com in a browser and a secure ftp server
> will do the rest.
> Or there are no such programs?
>
> I know SSH or SSLftp can do in a secure manner, but they require client
> programs installed.
>
> Someone else has asked this before, but he did not get any good replies.
>
> Any help will be apprecoiated.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Terry
>
>
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:19:31 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Harkness wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:24:43 -0600, Jerry Kreps
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >pamela wrote:
> >
> >> "Jan. 12, 2001 | Since geek glamour is an idea whose time has come, it
> >> shouldn't be impossible to make an intelligent and beguiling thriller
> >about
> >> the open-source software movement. Peter Howitt's "AntiTrust" just
isn't
> >> it."
> >>
> >> http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/01/12/antitrust/
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Since Salon is owned lock, stock and barrel by Gates would you expect a
> >different review?
> >
> >--
>
> No, you're confusing it with slate.com
>
> John Harnkess
Yes, I had a brain fart... pardon...
Andrew Leonard writes for Salon, doesn't he?
--
Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or
proven wrong, by experiment.
Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology
were Popper's favorites-
are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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From: Luc de Louw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Getting Linux server WAP enabled
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:30:27 +0100
Hi!
You want do dial-in from a mobile to your box? Or just getting some
wml-pages from your webserver ?
Nicholas wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I suppose this question had been asked....but what would it takes to get
> a Linux server WAP enabled? Any hardware or special software needed?
>
> Thanks!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Troubles with pppd after a successful dialup
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:30:08 -0000
Hi
With out a long speech here is the problem:
After I dialup my ISP using pppd in RH7, which is successful. Then after
that when i try to go to a web site, the site name does not resolve. Then
I try and type in an IP of a web site and it does not resolve. Please help.
David
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Dissapearing
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:30:55 GMT
I have 72MB of RAM
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 69 67 1 33 2 23
-/+ buffers/cache: 42 26
Swap: 219 18 201
I lost 3MB too in free :)
Look at /proc/meminfo to see what your true memory size is.
$ cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 72675328 70594560 2080768 35221504 1859584 24154112
Swap: 230297600 19308544 210989056
MemTotal: 70972 kB
MemFree: 2032 kB
MemShared: 34396 kB
Buffers: 1816 kB
Cached: 23588 kB
BigTotal: 0 kB
BigFree: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 224900 kB
SwapFree: 206044 kB
Scott Billings wrote:
> Probably an unfounded "fear" but JIC.
>
> I recently compiled kernel 2.2.18, and everything is working fine, except
> when I run "free -m" ..... It incorrectly reports my 192MB of RAM as 188MB.
> Using 2.2.15 is reported it as 191MB, which I figured was just a rounding
> issue. But I have since lost another 3MB in what is being reported for
> total memory.
>
> It's correctly reported by the BIOS at startup, and my lilo.conf file has
> the mem=192M in the append line.
>
> Should I be invesitgating this, or is it just a free problem?
>
> -Scott-
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Subject: destination host unreachable
From: Steve Connet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:32:27 GMT
Hi,
I have my linux machine with 2 NICs in it. One NIC goes to the cable
modem. Works great.
THe other NIC goes to my W2K machine.
My linux machine is 192.168.1.1
My W2K machine is 192.168.1.2
Seems to work well. But when I leave my computers overnight and check
them in the morning, my linux box can no longer ping my w2k machine
and my w2k machine can no longer ping my linux box.
But my linux box can still get out over the internet NIC.
I get:
[root@CX562133-F]5 /boot> ping win2000
Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP
PING win2000 (192.168.1.2) from 192.168.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
>From linux (192.168.1.1): Destination Host Unreachable
>From linux (192.168.1.1): Destination Host Unreachable
>From linux (192.168.1.1): Destination Host Unreachable
Also the mount of my W2K hard drive on my unix box disappears. And I
can no longer mount it.
THis is all fixed by REBOOTING my linux box.
Any ideas?
--
Steve Connet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:41:44 GMT
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:52:24 GMT, Chris Lopeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a good raid IDE controller for Linux. Preferably
>ATA 100. We have tried using the Promise controller with limited
>success. We probably want to run 2 controllers in the server (for more
>speed) with a total of 6 drives. 4 of the drives running raid 1+0 and
>the other 2 forming a separate mirror. The 2 in the mirror we also want
>to boot off of.
In another thread on this newsgroup:
On 13 Jan 2001 04:20:42 GMT, Eric Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We recently installed IDE raid using a 3ware controller using 80 GB maxtor
>disks. We did put in 640 Gb of disk for about $3500 including moving our
>server to a bigger case. Before doing this I ran a lot of benchmarks using
>bonnie++ and in a striped/mirrored configuration we see speeds comparable
>or faster than a single Ultra160 75 GB 10krpm seagate drive. We saw even
>better speeds with 60 GB IBM IDE drives attached to the 3ware controller,
>but decided we wanted capacity over speed for our application. The 3ware
>controller is really nice. There is a separate channel for each drive (which
>means a lot of cables and we had to buy some longer teflon cables so we
>could reach all the drives). There is a web-based management program
>that seems nice and will automatically use spares to rebuild mirrored
>devices (I haven't tried this.) You can run in raid 0 (striped) raid 1
>(mirrored), or raid 1+0 (striped&mirrored). I only have 3 complaints:
>1. They don't have raid 5 yet so you have to sacrifice half your disk space
>to get redundancy.
>2. It takes a really long time (hours) to fsck a 320 Gb partition in the
> event of a crash (I really can't wait for some kind of journaling file system)
>3. When all those drives spin up it takes a _lot_ of power. Unlike scsi drives,
> the ide drives spin up at power on. Our 400W supply was maxed out. We added
> a 2nd power supply and moved half the drives to it.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in ...
Reply-To: bobh{at}haucks{dot}org
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:43:41 GMT
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:43:03 +0800, Rick Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This always appears when i first start up linux mandrake 7.2; after i have
>recompiled the kernel.
>depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/fs/lockd.o
>depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/fs/nfsd.o
>depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/appletalk.o
My first guess would be that you need to do "make modules; make
modules_install" in the kernel source tree. You probably changed
something that causes module versioning to fail. If so, you need to
recompile the modules.
>depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
>/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/pcmcia/3c575_cb.o
You probably also need to recompile pcmcia support, since it also
depends on kernel configurations.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: NIS Services
Reply-To: bobh{at}haucks{dot}org
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:43:43 GMT
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:36:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just installed Mandrake 7.0 as a server. I haven't installed
>networking yet. Every time I boot and/or reboot, I get the messages:
>- Binding to the NIS Domain [Failed]
> How can I fix this?
Unless you are actually using NIS, just turn off NIS client support.
OTOH, if you need NIS you probably need networking too.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What Linux version is needed for Xinerama?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:45:32 GMT
> Oy... The version of Linux doesn't matter, the version of XFree86
> does...
> XFree86 allows Xinerama in version 4.0 and higher.
I was running XFree86 4.0.1, but I'm now running 4.0.2.
According to Dennis Baker's how-to website, you need Linux 2.3.46.
Can you give me some pointers as to how I can get my Xinerama setup and
running?
Thanks.
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From: "Gard Bjering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange script problems - can't set environment vars
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:44:39 +0100
Hello,
I have a strange problem here, when trying to install the BlueCat
development system for embedded linux.
Simplified, I try to run a script as follows:
(the real script are several more lines long, but the lines below is enough
to see the problem)
export BLUECAT_PREFIX=`pwd`
echo $BLUECAT_PREFIX
PATH=$BLUECAT_PREFIX/bin:$PATH
echo $PATH
When running the script, everything seems OK, the echo'ed values are
correct. However, after the script is completed, all the new settings have
disappeared, BLUECAT_PREFIX is nothing, and PATH is like before running the
script...
Anyone got a clue what is actually happening here? Anyone got a solution?
I'm running a Redhat 6.0 installation with bash shell.
(to me it seems like maybe another shell is loaded when the script starts,
then this shell is closed again after completed, and all settings are
removed. Can this be correct?)
(ps: me = a linux newbie so don't put to much thrust in the conclusion above
:-))
Thanx for any help,
Gard Bjering
Options AS
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From: Scott Billings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Dissapearing
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:47:08 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tried that, and on converting it to MB, it comes out to around
188.69MB...... So, unless memory makers have started using the 1000 scale,
instead of 1024, which would give me around 197MB........ It would seem
something is wrong, and I'm losing 3-4MB of memory.
Anyone have any thoughts on why this might be happening when the only thing
I did was move up a few revisions of the kernel?
> I have 72MB of RAM
> $ free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 69 67 1 33 2 23
> -/+ buffers/cache: 42 26
> Swap: 219 18 201
> I lost 3MB too in free :)
> Look at /proc/meminfo to see what your true memory size is.
> $ cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 72675328 70594560 2080768 35221504 1859584 24154112
> Swap: 230297600 19308544 210989056
> MemTotal: 70972 kB
> MemFree: 2032 kB
> MemShared: 34396 kB
> Buffers: 1816 kB
> Cached: 23588 kB
> BigTotal: 0 kB
> BigFree: 0 kB
> SwapTotal: 224900 kB
> SwapFree: 206044 kB
--
-Scott-
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From: Frank. N. Puppenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4 and I have no modules?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:58:59 -0800
Yeah, upgrade modutils.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a RH6.2 that I upgraded to 2.4 everything looks like it compiles
> but I have no modules? I do an lsmod and nothing is there. I told it
> to load modules and have re xconfig'd several times. I've also make
> modules and modules_install with no luck. It seems to boot fine
> otherwise?
>
> Please help
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
--
"Poof. You're a puppeteer."
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Troubles with pppd after a successful dialup
Date: 13 Jan 2001 10:11:36 -0800
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>With out a long speech here is the problem:
>
>After I dialup my ISP using pppd in RH7, which is successful. Then after
>that when i try to go to a web site, the site name does not resolve. Then
>I try and type in an IP of a web site and it does not resolve. Please help.
Not sure if you did this, but you need to add DNS server entries into resolv.conf,
or set up your own cache DNS and put 127.0.0.1 in the resolv.conf file (this
makes sites you have visited before resolve much faster).
Or, if you have done this....ping the DNS server, ping the gateway....ping
other stuff. Check your routing table.... If that all works you have a DNS
server which doesn't know anything.
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From: "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:13:12 GMT
Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM
I recently downloaded the RPM kernel-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm from rpm repository.
What now? Should I simply issue the command
rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm?
Thanks.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get X working properly
Date: 13 Jan 2001 10:23:59 -0800
Jean-Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've installed RH 6.2 on my machine and it's running fine except that I
>can't get X up and going.
>
>I have a Matrox MGA-G200LE video card and Eizo E75F monitor.
>
>I run Xconfigurator. It find the correct video card and then asks me for
>my monitor. Strangely enough there are two sections for Eizo monitors,
>one listed alphabetically in the E section and the other one in the N
>section (I'm thinking this is because Nanao also produces this monitor).
>I use the Nanao section Eizo becuase only it contains model E75F ...
>
>The Xconfigurator
use xf86config instead....you will need to know the sync rates of your monitor.
>Then it tests X and my
>machine freezes. I need to reboot.
It probably didn't freeze. If your getting a blank screen what has happened
is the monitor has shut off because the scan rate is too high at that resolution.
You need to look at that manual for your monitor and get the horiz + vertical
scan rates (Horiz being most important and is what they talk about when they
say "800x600@85Hz" in the specs.you can guess on the other if you don't have
it. Use xf86config (XFree86 will support this setup program, Xconfigurator
is 3rd party and they will have nothing to do with it) and enter in your
information.
If you get a blank screen again hit the key combo Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and
it will give you back the console.
>
>If I pick some low resolutions setting, like 800x600, X works ok. But I
>know that my monmitor can do up to 1600x1200 (I use that setting in
>windows). And I would like at least 1280x1024 but X freezes when I
>choose that setting ...
It definately looks like a scan setting.....X is trying to overclock the
monitor, the monitor is just shutting off in responce because it can get
destroyed if it doesn't.
>
>How can I fix this?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do you use "checksum"?
Date: 13 Jan 2001 10:36:47 -0800
Bill Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>MH wrote:
>>
>> David A. Gershman wrote:
>>
>> > The program is called 'md5sum'. Use the filename as an argument:
>> >
>> > % md5sum filename
>> >
>> > A string of HEX numbers are printed. Compare this number with one
>> > provided by the location where the file was retrieved from. If legit,
>> > it should match. Keep in mind though md5 does not deal with security
of
>> > the program, but rather the successfulness of the download, i.e. no
>> > erroneous bytes.
>> >
>> Gotta be the fastest NG reply EVER!! Thanks! I guess I misunderstood
the
>> purpose of the "checksum". I thought it was to verify that the file hadn't
>> been tampered with. Why would anyone want to check for "erroneous" bytes,
>> as IP and the modem/router should be handling that, no?
>
>Yes, but there are times when a glitch can creep thru.
>
>Also, most security-conscious sites will post checksums for the packages
>they have for download. If the site is cracked, and the package
>tampered with, the sums won't match anymore. Of course the cracker
>could try to tamper with the published sums...
I also put checksums in my software releases so that people can be sure I
wrote everything in it. Checksums check not only the integrety of the file
as in download corruption, they make sure the file is the same as it was
when the checksum was generated. If you then sign all checksums it is virtually
impossible to alter the file without alerting anyone who checks on the validity
of the file and checksums....it probably could be done somehow...but AFAIK
noone has yet to find a way.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: linux books, etc.
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:35:58 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <93p1ua$1c4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am a novice to Linux and have had some configuration troubles,
You've multi-posted this message to at least two newsgroups. In the
future, please don't do this. If a message is really on-topic and
appropriate for multiple newsgroups, cross-post it by listing both
newsgroups on the Newsgroups line, separated by commas. This conserves
bandwidth and reduces wasted time as people read the post twice and
perhaps give multiple substantially-similar answers in both groups. It
also ensures that people who read just one group get the benefit of
answers posted by people who read just the other group. You should not,
however, cross-post to more than two or three groups, except under
truly extraordinary circumstances.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: buying computers
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:42:55 GMT
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:07:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Newbie looking to buy computers and IT equipment
> online. Can anyone recommend a good site? It would be good if they
>ship internationally as well.
Check out http://www.resellerratings.com
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: "Martijn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing problem
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:47:44 +0100
"Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in
bericht news:bHV76.1670$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Martijn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi I am a newbie to Linux I'm trying to install Redhat 7.0 on an old
P-75
> > with 8 mb ram and an ide 1GB harddisk I created a boot disk with the
> rawrite
> > utility that works just fine but when I try to install Linux it gives a
> > error message signal 9??
> > and then it aborts the installation I tried it with no Partitions and
with
> a
> > FAT-16 Partition the only mode that works is the rescue mode I tried
using
> > Fdisk there to make a Linux Partition but I don't know how it works can
> > please anybody help me and e-mail me.
> >
>
> 8 MB is not enough memory for the installation program. It simply does not
> fit in.
>
> Tauno Voipio
> tauno voipio @ iki fi
>
>
> Thanks very much I will install some extra RAM
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:52:12 +0000
No, use -i instead of -U
it means that your old kernel will remain intact, just in case the new
one doesn't work.
Sean
Arctic Storm wrote:
>
> Help upgrade kernel 2.4.0 RPM
> I recently downloaded the RPM kernel-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm from rpm repository.
> What now? Should I simply issue the command
> rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.0-1.i686.rpm?
> Thanks.
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From: John William Prowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems mounting loopback devices
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 18:59:28 +0000
I am trying to mount an iso image from a DVD drive which is already
mounted.
losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/cdrom/full/mandrake72/Mandrake72-inst.iso
I get the following error message :-
ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Read-only file system
Any ideas what I am doing wrong ? I changed /dev/loop2 to read only and
tried using that, this did not work either. Is there any way to mount an
iso image from a read only file system ?
thanks
John Prowse
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