Linux-Setup Digest #98, Volume #19 Thu, 6 Jul 00 18:13:15 EDT
Contents:
printcap (sylvain hutchison)
Re: SVGALIB & SIS 6326 (Matan Ziv-Av)
fetchmail logging problem ("Christoph Dresbach")
Re: junkbuster isn't working (D G)
Re: Q: Which distributions support partitionless installations? (D G)
Re: OpenLinux2.4 + Lucent "linmodem" problem (D G)
fetchmail problems (Alex Fitterling)
Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4 (skeeter)
Re: I need some step-by-step instructions on mounting a FAT partition (P.T.Gowadia)
Re: RH 6.2 random rants and raves -- HEY REDHAT! -- Open letter. (Edward A. Falk)
Re: share disk with NT,W98 (D G)
Re: RH 6.2 random rants and raves -- HEY REDHAT! -- Open letter. (Edward A. Falk)
Screen Savers, Locking Screen ("David Stackis")
Re: Screen Savers, Locking Screen (Tony Curtis)
Re: read-only filesystem (Edward A. Falk)
Search via permissions??? ("alex")
Re: Screen Savers, Locking Screen ("David Stackis")
Re: after i add memory do i need to increase swap space. (Edward A. Falk)
Creating Desktop Icons? ("David Stackis")
Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4 (C.J.)
Re: after i add memory do i need to increase swap space. (Edward A. Falk)
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printcap
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:21:33 -0700
Hello all,
I am trying to add a new printer, all I want to do is add the remote
queue and the remote server and I should be ok, but I don't know what to
write exactly in printcap. I've got the names but I don't know how to
add them to printcap, can anyone help me out?? Thanks.
Sly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matan Ziv-Av)
Subject: Re: SVGALIB & SIS 6326
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 20:30:26 GMT
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 12:28:50 GMT, Emmanuel DENIMAL
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How to setup the vgalib for use it with a SIS 6326 8Mo graphic card ???
> thanks !
Please try svgalib 1.4.1 or newer. It has a SiS driver.
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From: "Christoph Dresbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: fetchmail logging problem
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:42:51 +0100
hi all,
ich have a big problem with fetchmail. i start fetchmail for several users
in our lan with cron every 10 minutes (10,20,30,40,50 * * * *
fetchmail --syslog -a). the problem is that fetchmail sends every user a
message about what�s doing. how can i say that fetchmail only sends his
log-files to root or better to a file eg /var/log/fetchmail.user. i try
fetchmail --file /var/log/fetchmail.user, but it doesn�t work.
anybody can help me?
thanks in advance
christoph
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: junkbuster isn't working
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:29:01 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> I installed junkbuster for Linux but it isn't working. The program is
> installed in my local
> $HOME/bin directory along with the .ini files. My browser is properly
> configured to talk to the
> proxy over port 8000. This is the same configuration I have in my
> Windoze machine. junkbuster
> starts correctly from .bash_profile. Yet, even though the browser has
I think this is a bad idea unless you somehow check for currently
running processes. Otherwise, every time you open a new shell,
bash_profile will start another junkbuster listening at the same port.
> the manual proxy
> configured, no interceptions are handled by junkbuster (the test page
> reports 'Warning: No
> proxy intervened').
Did you pass junkbuster the proper command-line parameter to tell it
where the configuration files are? I forget what it is right now, but I
could look up my invocation if you like.
>
> My configuration: Linux 2.0.35/Netscape 4.5/junkbuster 2.0.2
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this isn't working? Please advise.
First of all, try a later version of netscape. 4.5 crashed on me all
the time. 4.72 seems quite stable, and 4.73 is supposed to be even
better. (Of course, this won't fix the junkbuster problem, but will
probably save you other headaches.)
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: Which distributions support partitionless installations?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:35:54 -0700
Cameron Kerr wrote:
>
> Gonzo wrote:
> >
> > I know that RH 6.2 can be installed partitionless but I have no idea which
> > other (if any) distributions also support partitionless installs. Anybody
> > know of any another?
> >
> > T.I.A.
>
> Redhat 6.2 (No experiance with this)
> Mandrake (Lin4Win)
> Slackware (ZipSlack) (Cam fit on a zip disk with no X)
> Slackware (BigSlack) (No experience)
>
> There are probably others, but you'd probably ahve a hard time finding
> solutions for anything other than FAT
http://www.phatlinux.com/
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OpenLinux2.4 + Lucent "linmodem" problem
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:58:07 -0700
"Allyn B. Brodsky" wrote:
> I have installed Caldera openLinux edesktop 2.4 on a Thinkpad 390.
> Using the Lucent download (Linux568, I think) to turn the built-in
> winmodem into a "linmodem," I have succesfully assigned the modem to
> ttyS0, a.k.a. com1.
>
> Minicom is configured to look for the modem at ttyS0, but does not
> respond to "AT."
Won't work unless you symlink ttyS0 to ttyS14. The ltmodem install
should have set up /dev/ttyS14 for you and symlinked /dev/modem to it.
If not, do it.
> I do recall reading that the Lucent drivers may reference an older
> version of the kernal. If so, is there a way to recompile the
> drivers/kernal to make them compatible?
Not that I know of. However, I recently tested the ltmodem568 driver
against 2.2.12-2.2.16. It only worked on 2.2.12 and 2.2.13. Hopefully
they come out with a new driver for the newer kernels.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Fitterling)
Subject: fetchmail problems
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:24:28 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I have Problems using fetchmail... I'm configured
it to poll mail from my POP3-Host to specified local users
on my host... but something's going wrong... I thought about
that initiating fetchmail will fetch all mail to my
local spool acount.... but instead of doing this so
it's telling me that there's mail to fetch, but can't
transfer it to my local users... An error occurs...
My .fetchmailrc is looking like such below....
# Configuration
set postmaster "alex"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
poll public.uni-hamburg.de with proto POP3
user "xxxxx" there with password "xxxxx" is ....
... alex root khayam here warnings 3600
antispam 571 550 501 554
why isn't it working... and how do I get sendmail
involved if it would be necessary...
I was thinking about to setup my MTAs using
fetchmail and sendmail in /etc/cron and probably mutt as
MUA... Any hints on how I could proceed to reach that goal ?
TIA,
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (skeeter)
Subject: Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 21:29:55 GMT
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 18:48:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.) wrote:
>Hmm.. I looked at ABIT's site, and that is a pretty new mobo. They have a
>few BIOS updates, but none seem to relate to this in any way. Since you don't
>have anything you are worried about losing on the drive (if I remmember right)
>you could try changing the settings in BIOS.
>
>You could also try creating a partition from DOS/Win9x (if you plan to have
>any of that type.) Fdisk will read the partition table written out and try to
>figure out what disk geometry to use. How many cyliders does your BIOS say
>the disk has again?
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(skeeter) wrote:
>>I tried what you suggested but the fdisk still indicated that the disk
>>had 1027 cylinders. I'm not really sure where to proceed at this
>>point. Should I change the modes of the disk from within the BIOS? I
>>don't really want to try that for fear of screwing something up. The
>>current setting in the BIOS is AUTO so it can decide on the mode to
>>use. My mobo is an ABIT KA7.
I used DOS fdisk and placed a 7.5 GB partition on the drive. The SuSE
"installer" found that ok and said that about 950 cylinders were used.
Unfortunately, it also indicated that the drive only had 1027
cylinders total.
I let the BIOS use Auto mode to find out about the disk. There is a
normal mode which looks like it's for small drives from days gone by.
There is an LBA mode. The manual for the board says that the BIOS
supports the Int 13h extension function to support disks exceeding 8.3
GB. Finally, there's a Large Disk mode. It says to use this for when
the number of cylinders exceeds 1024 and DOS is not able to support it
or for OSes that don't support LBA. Next dumb question, does Linux
support LBA? I guess I could just try all options since there's only
three.
Thanks.
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From: P.T.Gowadia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need some step-by-step instructions on mounting a FAT partition
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 21:30:07 GMT
Open this letter in kedit in Linux.In Windows,it appears a mess.
I have been giving your problem much thought.I know what you
are trying to do.As I explained,I have tried much the same
myself.So,I will try to take you step-by-step through the
whole process.
First of all,I presume that you are using a terminal or
Terminal Emulation.Your X window system could or could not
be working ,I am not sure.Also,I am presuming that you are
logged in as root.
Type in fdisk at the prompt.If it gives an error,find
the file on your computer(it almost certainly will be in
/sbin),and give the full filename at the prompt,such as (in
my case,/sbin/fdisk).You will get something like
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/hda1 1 255 b WIN95FAT32
/dev/hda2 256 2096 5 Extended.
/dev/hda5 256 386 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 387 647 b Win95FAT32
/dev/hda9 648 649 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 650 665 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda11 1177 1659 83 Linux
I presume that you can read the data./dev/hda stands for
your Primary Master(/dev/hdb is your primary slave,/dev/hdc
is your secondary master ,most probably your CD drive,and
/dev/hdd is your secondary slave.I do not know about SCSI
drives, sorry.). /dev/hda1 stands for the first partition on
your primary master, /dev/hda2 for the second partition and
so on.In the above table ,ignore the start and end(I have
not entered the blocks,so don't worry about them.Just note
down the device name(eg /dev/hda1), that are of windows or
MSDOS system.
Decide where you are going to mount the Windows
files.That place is where they connect to the rest of the
filesystem.It is generally best to mount them under the
/mnt directory. If you do not have a /mnt directory,make
it,though in all likelihood,you do.Make a subdirectory under
/mnt and give it a descriptive name.If you have only one
Windows Partition ,you could name it 'C' or DOS' or
'Windows'.
In Xwindow(or at the terminal,if you are
comfortable),edit the file /etc/fstab,but only after it
has been backed up.The file will look like
/dev/hda11 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda9 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hda10 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/dos4 NTFS noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/dos2 msdos noauto 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/dos3 msdos noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dos1 msdos noauto 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/dos5 NTFS noauto,ro 0 0
The first column stnds fo the device ,the second column
for the mount point,the third for the system,the fourth and
the fifth for special properties.After the last line,add
another line ,giving the device name,mount point that you
have created and the file system(if it is windows,it is
written as 'msdos').Linux can not yet read or write a NTFS
partition.The special properties are
1)noauto=Instructs the computer not to mount the partition
at startup.It reverse is 'auto',in which case,the partition
is automatically mounted at startup.
2)ro=renders the partation read-only
3)owner=Ordinary users are given the right of mounting
it.If not mentioned ,only root has the right to mount
it,but once mounted,all users can access it.
The fifth column properties I do not know,but I made them
both 0 and there has been no problem yet.
Once you have made the entries,you are all set to access
the Windows partition.At the command prompt,type in
'su',which will ask for your superuser root password.After
giving it,you will be at the root prompt.Type in 'mount
/(whatever the name of your windows Partition,eg mount
/mnt/dos3).Now type 'exit' to get out of superuser mode and
change to the subdirectory where the Windows partition is
mounted.Then,you can do whatever operation you like on your
Windows files.
If you access the partition frequently,in KDE,you can make
a shortcut.Open the Templates folder on your desktop and
drag-and-drop a Device icon onto your desktop.When aked
whether to copy ,move or link,choose copy.A device icon
will appear on yor desktop.Right click on the icon,choose
properties,give it an easy-to-remember name,and pick up the
Device tab.Enter the device name,click on the icons to
change them and click OK.Then to access it,all you have to
do is to right click on it and click mount.Clicking on it
will give you full access to your Windows files.One caveat
though,remember that Linux will not prompt whether you want
to delete files or place it in the Trash,it will delete the
files without asking you again once the conmmand has been
given. Also,this idea of iconifying the Windows partition
will work only if you have set the `owner' among the
properties in the fourth column of the /etc/fstab.
Hope that this helps you.Do write if there is any trouble
or just to let me know if it worked or not.
Have a nice day.
P.T.Gowadia
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Computadora wrote:
>
>
> I'm brand new to linux, so I apologize for myself in advance. I just
> installed Red Hat 6.2 onto my system. I have a 20 gig drive, 10 gigs
> devoted to windows 98 and 10 gigs devoted to linux. The installation
> went ok, but I cannot figure out how to read files that are in my
> windows partition in linux. My ISP uses a PPPoE client for the DSL
> connections. The linux PPPoE client software is too big for a floppy,
> so I need to download it from Windows 98 and bring it into linux.
> Again, I am very new, so I really need step-by-step instructions on
> how to do this... i'm using the GNOME XWindows system. If someone can
> point me to anything on the web that's for total beginners it would be
> much appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward A. Falk)
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 random rants and raves -- HEY REDHAT! -- Open letter.
Date: 6 Jul 2000 21:35:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>/etc/profile.d/colorls.csh I think is what you seek.
Yeah, I found that right away (find(1) is your friend), but I still
haven't figure out what is causing bash to source that file
(actually colorls.sh)
>I am still trying to turn stuff off in vim.
This I *did* figure out. Rename
/usr/share/vim/vim56/macros/vimrc
to
/usr/share/vim/vim56/macros/vimrc.goddamn.redhat
Later, you might want to take a look at that file and see
if there are any features you actually want to use.
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: share disk with NT,W98
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:31:53 -0700
Eric wrote:
> Why not using the fat filesystem? All OS's you mention support that.
> (although i heard that NT only supports FAT16, dunno if it's true ?)
That's true. You can find drivers that allow NT to access FAT32
partitions, but I don't think Microsoft makes them (which means they
probably work!).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward A. Falk)
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 random rants and raves -- HEY REDHAT! -- Open letter.
Date: 6 Jul 2000 21:44:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 6 Jul 2000, Edward A. Falk wrote:
>
>/* SNIP */
>
>> Geez. And I *still* haven't figured out where the
>>
>> alias ls='ls --color=tty'
>>
>> default is specified. What did you do, hard-code it into tcsh?
>
>/etc/profile.d/ on RH6.2 systems.
Yes, I found that right away, but I don't see where bash sources
those files.
Oh, wait a minute, here it is. /root/.bashrc sources /etc/bashrc
which sources everything it can find in /etc/profile.d
Cripes. What kind of fool does Redhat have working over there that
thinks that every gee-whiz feature he can find should be turned
on. Does he think I *like* trying to read yellow text on a white
background?
Reminds me of a customer support engineer I once knew; whenever he
installed a system for a customer, he changed the window background
to be tiled with little tiny replicas of his college emblem, in
yellow and blue. You could go blind looking at the screen. I knew
people who thought it was a good idea to change other people's
shell prompt to "yes, master"
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Screen Savers, Locking Screen
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:47:48 -0700
I installed Redhat 5.2 on a box I had laying around. I partitioned my 6.4GB
hard drive like this...
/usr = 3GB
/home = 1.5GB
/ = 1.5GB (root)
/ = 127MB (swap)
Everything seems cool except that my screen savers or the locking of my
workstation seems to be disabled....
What am I missing here?....do I need to configure the screen
savers?....they're listed....as Forest...ect....
TIA!
David Stackis
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Screen Savers, Locking Screen
Date: 06 Jul 2000 16:53:19 -0500
>> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:47:48 -0700,
>> "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Everything seems cool except that my screen savers or
> the locking of my workstation seems to be disabled....
> What am I missing here?....do I need to configure the
> screen savers?....they're listed....as Forest...ect....
Maybe the underlying screensaver program is not installed?
Or not on your path? You might also want to check the
configuration of your windowing manager, whatever it
happens to be (KDE, fvwm2, twm, ...)
Can you run xlock, or xscreensaver from the command line
in a terminal window?
hth
t
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward A. Falk)
Subject: Re: read-only filesystem
Date: 6 Jul 2000 21:56:41 GMT
In article <8k0l41$802$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ljb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You may be able to change this, but I believe you are headed into
>uncharted territory with a read-only root...
I had a major customer once who did this and made it work. It took
some doing -- you need to move all the modifiable directories (/tmp,
/var, etc.) to another disk (or to ramdisk, as the original poster
has done) and modify any applications that expect to be writing
anywhere else in the root partition.
It was a pretty clever setup actually. Customer was building
turn-key systems that needed guaranteed functionality after boot-up.
They made the root and usr partitions read-only. In addition, on
boot-up, the home partition was always re-initialized to empty and
the root partition was always restored from a snapshot in the usr
partition.
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From: "alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Search via permissions???
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:00:31 -0400
I'm trying to search by permissions... ie- read/write/etc
Any one know how?
alex
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Screen Savers, Locking Screen
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:58:27 -0700
"Tony Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:47:48 -0700,
> >> "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > Everything seems cool except that my screen savers or
> > the locking of my workstation seems to be disabled....
>
> > What am I missing here?....do I need to configure the
> > screen savers?....they're listed....as Forest...ect....
>
> Maybe the underlying screensaver program is not installed?
> Or not on your path? You might also want to check the
> configuration of your windowing manager, whatever it
> happens to be (KDE, fvwm2, twm, ...)
>
> Can you run xlock, or xscreensaver from the command line
> in a terminal window?
>
> hth
> t
> --
> "With $10,000, we'd be millionaires!"
> Homer Simpson
I never tried running xlock or xscreensaver from the command line in a
terminal window.....
Will doing that initiate the xscreensaver, xlock install?
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward A. Falk)
Subject: Re: after i add memory do i need to increase swap space.
Date: 6 Jul 2000 22:01:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ne... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Jun 30, 2000 at 12:46, Chadha, Saurabh [RICH2:2N64:EXCH] eloquently wrote:
>
>This is somewhat of a grey area. It depends on what you
>use your system for. I say that swap should at least be
>equal to ram.
No "should" about it. If you don't have more swap space than
ram, you might as well turn swapping off. At least in the
operating systems I'm more familiar with, all the ram must
be backed up by swap space. The OS treats the ram as a cache
for the swap.
Someone please correct me if Linux is different.
> 2:08pm up 2 days, 7:25, 8 users, load average: 0.21, 0.15, 0.10
Only 2 days? You testing new kernels or something? The Solaris
box on my desk once stayed up for 300 days of intensive kernel
device driver development. I only had to reboot when a network
outage caused my X server to hang.
OK, I admit that my Linux box has only been up since last night,
but then, I *am* testing new kernels.
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Creating Desktop Icons?
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:03:27 -0700
We all know how simple it is to create icon shortcuts on the desktop in
WindowsXX....
How in the world does one do this in Linux?
I just installed Redhat 5.2, and it seems to be fine....I have the gui up
and running, and I can switch to AfterStep...
But how do I create icons for my application, and then place them on my
desktop?
TIA
David Stackis
Linux Newbie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.)
Subject: Re: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 21:01:00 GMT
LBA should be good. Try that. Like you said if there is a problem with that,
you can always try another mode. It really sounds like a BIOS problem because
normally Linux fdisk has no problems with those large drives.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(skeeter) wrote:
>On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 18:48:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.) wrote:
>
>>Hmm.. I looked at ABIT's site, and that is a pretty new mobo. They have a
>>few BIOS updates, but none seem to relate to this in any way. Since you don't
>
>>have anything you are worried about losing on the drive (if I remmember right)
>
>>you could try changing the settings in BIOS.
>>
>>You could also try creating a partition from DOS/Win9x (if you plan to have
>>any of that type.) Fdisk will read the partition table written out and try to
>
>>figure out what disk geometry to use. How many cyliders does your BIOS say
>>the disk has again?
>>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>(skeeter) wrote:
>>>I tried what you suggested but the fdisk still indicated that the disk
>>>had 1027 cylinders. I'm not really sure where to proceed at this
>>>point. Should I change the modes of the disk from within the BIOS? I
>>>don't really want to try that for fear of screwing something up. The
>>>current setting in the BIOS is AUTO so it can decide on the mode to
>>>use. My mobo is an ABIT KA7.
>
>I used DOS fdisk and placed a 7.5 GB partition on the drive. The SuSE
>"installer" found that ok and said that about 950 cylinders were used.
>Unfortunately, it also indicated that the drive only had 1027
>cylinders total.
>
>I let the BIOS use Auto mode to find out about the disk. There is a
>normal mode which looks like it's for small drives from days gone by.
>There is an LBA mode. The manual for the board says that the BIOS
>supports the Int 13h extension function to support disks exceeding 8.3
>GB. Finally, there's a Large Disk mode. It says to use this for when
>the number of cylinders exceeds 1024 and DOS is not able to support it
>or for OSes that don't support LBA. Next dumb question, does Linux
>support LBA? I guess I could just try all options since there's only
>three.
>
>Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward A. Falk)
Subject: Re: after i add memory do i need to increase swap space.
Date: 6 Jul 2000 22:05:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
J Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have Mandrake 6.5 running on my m/c (400Mhz 686) and i have 32M of
>>
>>RAM.
>> I have ordered another 128M because KDE + Netscape just don't work
>>well in 32M RAM space.
>>
>> During initial setup i had 64M swap space reserved. So now do i have
>>
>>to add 320M (2 X RAM)
>> as swap space and if yes how do i accomplish this. or how much
>>should i have.
>
>The old rule of thumb of 2XRAM is just that, a rule of thumb.
>
>With 196MB of RAM, unless you're really hammering the system, you'll only
>use a meg or two of swap space.
With that much RAM, do you even *need* swap? Last week, I discovered
that my 32M Vaio laptop had been running with swapping turned off and
I'd never even noticed.
Right now, running FVWM and xxgdb and several xterms, I'm not even
touching the swap.
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