Linux-Setup Digest #466, Volume #19 Thu, 24 Aug 00 10:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows (mlw)
Installing X after install Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: default font not found ("ascii_superstar")
Re: HELP!! ZIP drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installing X after install Linux. (Davide Bianchi)
disk admin (Eric Mosley)
Re: disk admin (Davide Bianchi)
Re: minimal install (Joe Durusau)
xlib.h (system)
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows (James Helferty)
mirroring an hd (Emilio Federici)
Re: SMBMount ("Gene Heskett")
Re: disk druid and red hat 6.2 ("spiroux2000")
Syslinux question (Daniel Haude)
Re: mirroring an hd (The Contact)
Re: Solaris and Linux compat ... (Joseph Cooley)
Re: xlib.h ("ne...")
Linux - dual boot (Keith Lockwood)
Re: IBM PC 320 (Terence Chan)
Re: disk admin (Eric)
Kickstart Installation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Win 2000 installation prevents Linux boot? ("Michael Dahlinger")
Re: minimal install (Gernot Fink)
Re: disk admin (Davide Bianchi)
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.text.xml,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:13:58 -0400
paul snow wrote:
[snip]
>
> XML can be used to define a program in abstract. A single, separate
> Software Rendering Facility can be used to take a program's abstract form in
> XML and render it to the target computer system.
>
> XML can be used to capture the options required for this rendering.
>
> XML can be used to refer to a group of programs in abstract (XML), and their
> options (XML), in order to define a single definition that can be expressed
> in different ways on different computer systems to construct an operational,
> distributed application. (Unlike today, where we have to install every web
> server, every firewall, every Java JDK, every etc. all from scratch, with
> one mistake preventing any of it from working!)
>
> This discussion about how XML might be used along with Linux to create a new
> concept in Operating Systems is beginning. We have the technology and the
> know how. We just have to take our computer system, set it on its side and
> view it a bit differently. This technology is going to completely change
> the rules of software configuration, management, and security, and you can
> make it happen.
This who XML hysteria worries me. We have people thinking that it is
something other than a very inefficient text based file format. Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE RESULTSET SYSTEM "http://fubar.com/fubar.dtd">
<RESULTSET>
<RESULT ID="0" >
<MATCHES>0</MATCHES>
<TIME>0.1605</TIME>
<RATINGS>0</RATINGS>
<MAXSCORE>2510</MAXSCORE>
<SCORE>6947</SCORE>
<SIZE>6536</SIZE>
<LANGUAGE>_LANG1_</LANGUAGE>
<DATE>957148708</DATE>
<FORMAT>0</FORMAT>
<MODDATE>0</MODDATE>
</RESULT>
</RESULTSET>
That's all that XML is, nothing more. It can not replace programs, it is
not a new concept in operating systems.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installing X after install Linux.
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:14:15 GMT
Hi
I have installed Redhat 6.1 without X windows. Now, I want to install
X. How do I do this?
Thanks
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Before you buy.
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Reply-To: "ascii_superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "ascii_superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: default font not found
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:49:07 +0100
dDi I have to copy everything that is in that ocnfig file, or just the font
paths. I ask this as I have copied the main fontpaths accross but X font
server still fails to shutdown but fonts that were messed up are now
working.
thanks
"Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:18:10 -0400, Mike Brickey
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi
> > I don't know the cause of this problem but there is a workaround.
> > Edit
> >your XF86Config-4 file by commenting out(put a '#' in front of the
> >line) the line Fontpath "unix/:-1" then add you fonts in like:Fontpath
> >"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" you can add all the fonts you have.
> >Then restart X. Same thing happened to me when I upgraded to 4.0.1 from
> >3.3.6
>
> It's not a bug. You have your systems setup to use xfs font server from
> a different version of X. What you are doing is not just a workaround,
> but the right approach. Move all fontpaths from /etc/X11/fs/config. Or
> at least try them one at a time. That is where the xfs fontpath is (or
> was). Turn off xfs while you are at it.
>
> --
> Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP!! ZIP drive
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.redhat
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:47:01 GMT
In comp.os.linux.questions Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Loaded RedHat 7.0 beta. Expected by then they would have by default a
>>way to get to my parallel port ZIP drive. They don't.
[...]
> I don't know what RH7.0 does, but with 6.2 I have to do these:
> insmod parport
> insmod ppa (or imm for some drives)
Well, to start with, that's sort of what you get for installing a beta
distribution if you're not comfortable with the technology. That being
said...
The ppa and imm modules are part of the standard kernel tree, so you
probably only have to insmod them. The correct one depends on the
model drive which you can get off the power cable. (I forget what
newer ones say though, look in the Zip drive howto)
You may need to twiddle the module stack somewhat, for me having
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
in /etc/conf.modules is enough. However, I used to need about 10
preload statements to get all the parallel port modules in the right
order. To start with, see if you can do:
modprobe parport
modprobe parport_pc
modprobe scsi_mod
modprobe ppa
Without errors.
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Matt Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Installing X after install Linux.
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:49:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:14:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have installed Redhat 6.1 without X windows. Now, I want to install
>X. How do I do this?
Mount the 1st CD of RedHat, go into /RedHat/RPMS directory into your
CD and install (rpm -i) XFree86-3.x, Xconfigurator, XFree86-XF86Setup,
XFree86-xfs, XFree86-libs, XFree86-docs and at least one of the
'server' packages ( XFree86-<server> ), the minimum is the SVGA
server. Then configure X using XF86Config or Xconfigurator.
After this you have to install a Window Manager (KDE, Gnome or
something like this).
Another (maybe better) way, is start the installation and choose to
"upgrade" the existing installation, then add X.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Mosley)
Subject: disk admin
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:52:53 GMT
Hi,
My mail server is crapping out because the IMAP mail store is filling up
the disk. (DF says we're at 100%). (SUSE6.0)
I have a couple of other DOS partitions on that machine that are lying
idle - here is the partition table
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 262 1023 6120765 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 262 522 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6 523 1007 3895730+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 1008 1023 128488 82 Linux swap
Command (m for help): q
As you can see my Linux partition is /dev/hda6. My question is - what are
the commands needed to convert one of those other partitions to a linux
partition and then have /var be that on that partition?
I know I need to format one of the others (which one?) and then do
something to make it come up as /var - but I don't know the commands!?
Thanks
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: disk admin
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:13:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:52:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Mosley) wrote:
>As you can see my Linux partition is /dev/hda6. My question is - what are
>the commands needed to convert one of those other partitions to a linux
>partition and then have /var be that on that partition?
>I know I need to format one of the others (which one?) and then do
>something to make it come up as /var - but I don't know the commands!?
If I understood correctly your partition table, you have only one
huge partition that hold the entire linux installation.
So you have to make some work done here:
Remove the existing Fat16 partition with fdisk, create a new Linux
partition again with fdisk. Execute mk2fs to format the new
partition using something like
mk2fs /dev/hda5
When the partition have been formatted, mount it somewhere
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/temp
then copy the entire /var directory in it.
Probabily you will have some problem doing this, because the
cp command cannot follow recursive symlink. Another way to do
this, is crate a tar of the entire directory and then
untar it into the partition.... this could be a problem if
you do not have space left to create the tar file.
dismount the partition, modify the /etc/mtab so the /var point
to /dev/hda5.
Rename /var to /var_old with
cd /
mv var _var
mkdir var
mount the new /var
mount /dev/hda5 /var
You should be Ok.
If everything work corrctly, you can delete var_old and
recover some space.
Davide
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From: Joe Durusau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: minimal install
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:57:32 -0700
There's no such thing as a very small x-server. I believe
debian or freebsd might be able to live with that size disk, but
I can;t think of anything that would run X in such a condition.
Speaking only for myself,
Joe Durusau
Rolf Lindenbring wrote:
>
> Hi,
> i want to install a very small linux.
> (Flashdisk 20MB or less)
> who can i make it?
> is it possible to get a small x-server on it ?
> what distribution should i use ?
> any ideas
>
> Thanks,
> Rolf
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From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xlib.h
Date: 24 Aug 2000 21:08:15 +0800
I have problem in compiling, mentioned xlib.h missing.
How can I get the xlib.h library
Compiling src/unix/video-drivers/x11.c ...
video-drivers/x11.c:13: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
In file included from video-drivers/x11.c:15:
video-drivers/x11.h:4: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [../../mame.obj/unix.x11/video-drivers/x11.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wongpk/MAME/xmame-0.37b5.1/src/unix'
make: *** [osdepend] Error 2
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Tel: 8257-820
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From: James Helferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.text.xml,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
Date: 24 Aug 2000 13:02:13 GMT
mlw wrote:
>
> paul snow wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > XML can be used to define a program in abstract. A single, separate
> > Software Rendering Facility can be used to take a program's abstract form in
> > XML and render it to the target computer system.
> >
> > XML can be used to capture the options required for this rendering.
> >
> > XML can be used to refer to a group of programs in abstract (XML), and their
> > options (XML), in order to define a single definition that can be expressed
> > in different ways on different computer systems to construct an operational,
> > distributed application. (Unlike today, where we have to install every web
> > server, every firewall, every Java JDK, every etc. all from scratch, with
> > one mistake preventing any of it from working!)
> >
> > This discussion about how XML might be used along with Linux to create a new
> > concept in Operating Systems is beginning. We have the technology and the
> > know how. We just have to take our computer system, set it on its side and
> > view it a bit differently. This technology is going to completely change
> > the rules of software configuration, management, and security, and you can
> > make it happen.
>
> This who XML hysteria worries me. We have people thinking that it is
> something other than a very inefficient text based file format. Example:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE RESULTSET SYSTEM "http://fubar.com/fubar.dtd">
> <RESULTSET>
> <RESULT ID="0" >
> <MATCHES>0</MATCHES>
> <TIME>0.1605</TIME>
> <RATINGS>0</RATINGS>
> <MAXSCORE>2510</MAXSCORE>
> <SCORE>6947</SCORE>
> <SIZE>6536</SIZE>
> <LANGUAGE>_LANG1_</LANGUAGE>
> <DATE>957148708</DATE>
> <FORMAT>0</FORMAT>
> <MODDATE>0</MODDATE>
> </RESULT>
> </RESULTSET>
>
> That's all that XML is, nothing more. It can not replace programs, it is
> not a new concept in operating systems.
[nod] It's good for storing databases as text, which means it makes
sense to integrate it with HTML. But if you start using it for other
things, it becomes kinda.. fruity..
'Sides, I remember reading on Slashdot that Helix Gnome already uses an
XML installer. You might want to look into that before you reinvent the
wheel. (Note that their implementation doesn't really make for any
enhancements either; supposedly their upgrades aren't all that
flexible. They do say they're working on something called Red Carpet,
so maybe take a look at that..)
The only advantage you'll get out of using XML is that your datafiles
will allow users to be able to figure out (if they know XML) what's in
the file. It's really no different, usage-wise, from the windows .ini
spec, except that you can nest things deeper, and it takes a lot more
programming to parse the bloody things.
James
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From: Emilio Federici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: mirroring an hd
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:16:01 +0200
Hi everybody!, I'm about to change my old hd to a new one and I'd like
to know which is the best way to move the whole Linux system from the
old to the new hd, so that I can boot Linux from the new hd as I did
with old one.
Thanks!
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ:27013758
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Date: 24 Aug 2000 8:46:24 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMBMount
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Chiah Tong;
CTE> did u see the smb services being started up during bootup?
CTE> if not u have to create a file
CTE> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91smb that is linked to /etc/rc.d/init/d/smb
CTE> u can refer to the SMB howto for more details
CTE>
CTE> -----Original Message-----
CTE> From: Micky
CTE> Posted At: 8/18/00 2:24 PM
CTE> Conversation: SMBMount
CTE> Subject: SMBMount
CTE> I mount a NT share on Linux (RedHat) with a command SMBMOUNT,
CTE> everything is working. But if I go to see the directory the day
CTE> after I cannot reach any information and I must remount again
CTE> the unit. Someone know why?
man smb.conf
There is a short discussion about timeouts and how to control them
there.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "spiroux2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disk druid and red hat 6.2
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:48:31 +0100
Try F12.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Subject: Syslinux question
Date: 24 Aug 2000 13:16:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks,
I'm not sure if my problem is actually a syslinux issue, or a kernel compilation
issue, or what. Here's what I'm trying to do:
Since the 2.0.36 kernel that's on my Debian 2.1 CD-ROM doesn't seem to
recognize the UDMA66 drives on my new motherboard, I wanted to make a new
kernel (on a different computer), boot from diskette, and then switch over
to the normal CD-ROM installation.
So I made a new kernel (2.2.16 with RAMdisk support). I syslinux'ed a floppy
disk, and onto that floppy I copied my new kernel ('linux') and the
'root.bin' file from my CD-ROM (the root.bin file contains a minimal root
filesystem and an install program). Here's what's on my diskette:
$ ls /a/
total 1022
-r--r--r-- 1 dh users 5488 Aug 11 13:20 ldlinux.sys
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dh users 334877 Aug 24 14:08 linux
-r--r--r-- 1 dh users 702675 Aug 24 13:41 root.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dh users 53 Aug 24 13:43 syslinux.cfg
$
This is what my syslinux.cfg looks like:
default linux
append "root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin"
Shouldn't this do the trick? It doesn't, though. Syslinux first loads
root.bin, then linux. Then the kernel starts booting,
recognizes my hard drives (unlike the old kernel), but panics because it
can't find an 'e2fs superblock' on the root fileystem ('reading past end of
device' or similar error message). Thinking that the RAMdisk was maybe too
small, I tried to change its size to 4MB with the command
$ rdev -r /a/linux 4096
but got no different results. So what should I do? I can't find answers to
this question in the Bootdisk-HOWTO, neither in the syslinux documentation.
Thanks,
--Daniel
--
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way to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead"
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: mirroring an hd
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:39:40 GMT
Emilio Federici wrote:
>
> Hi everybody!, I'm about to change my old hd to a new one and I'd like
> to know which is the best way to move the whole Linux system from the
> old to the new hd, so that I can boot Linux from the new hd as I did
> with old one.
>
> Thanks!
If you have a rescue-disk (or a mini-distribution of linux, or a
bootable linux-cd) you can use dd.
Let's say that your first hd is hda. Just plug in the new hd (hdc f.i.),
and reboot with the resue/bootable-cd/minidistro. Then all you have to
do is
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
This copies the entire harddisk to the new. If the new one is bigger (or
you want to have another setup of partitions) you should first place the
new hd as hda, partition it how you want and then, for each partition
you had on you old drive (which is now set as hdc)
# if=/dev/hdc# of=/dev/hda#
This should do the trick. Don't forget to keep the old hd (don't erase
it) until you're sure everything is all right.
I haven't tried this myself, so please post feedback/results.
WKR,
--
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"Knowledge should be free; appliance not."
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From: Joseph Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Solaris and Linux compat ...
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 05:40:32 -0400
Eoin Verling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a Linux NFS server and a solaris client. I want root on the client to
> be able to install onto the NFS mounted partition, and change owner/perm.
>
> The option for the linux '/etc/exports' file is 'no_root_squash', but the
> solaris client doesn't seem to understand that. Is there another option??
>
> E
Hello,
In your Linux exports file, I would put something like:
/my/directory trusted_client(rw,no_root_squash,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
In this way, the id's stay preserved and are explicitly set.
Good luck,
Joe
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xlib.h
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:52:25 GMT
On Aug 24, 2000 at 21:08, system eloquently wrote:
>I have problem in compiling, mentioned xlib.h missing.
>How can I get the xlib.h library
[work]$ locate Xlib.h
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/PEX5/PEXlib.h
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h
[work]$ rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h
XFree86-devel-3.3.6-20
I use RH6.2 running XFree86 3.3.6. Install
the dev packages for the version of X you
are using.
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From: Keith Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux - dual boot
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:56:44 +1000
I have just installed linux 6.2 and i'm tyring to get it to boot up. I
installed LILO to the first sector like is says. Then I planned to use
Partion magics boot manger to boot into it. For some reason that does
give the option of doing it.
Dose linux still have to be on the partion under the 1024 cylinder for
me to able to boot it up. Also what do the partions have to be set to.
Currently I have a D drive (FAT) in windows and the 16M(Linux primary
partion) boot partion which I have set active. A 300m swap drive and
the root partion.
Can anyone give me a hand.
Keith
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From: Terence Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM PC 320
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:53:09 +0800
Terence Chan wrote:
> I want to install Red Hat Linux on the old IBM PC Server 320
> (8640-0Y0). I found the server option didn't install X. What's
> wrong? Can Install it by hand? What packages should I include normally?
>
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I have retried and fail again. Can I use custom option in the install
CD to install back the X system?
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disk admin
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:00:06 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do NOT follow this advise to closely, it's slightly wrong, I'll correct
the mistakes that I found in it:
Davide Bianchi wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:52:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Mosley) wrote:
>
> >As you can see my Linux partition is /dev/hda6. My question is - what are
> >the commands needed to convert one of those other partitions to a linux
> >partition and then have /var be that on that partition?
> >I know I need to format one of the others (which one?) and then do
> >something to make it come up as /var - but I don't know the commands!?
>
> If I understood correctly your partition table, you have only one
> huge partition that hold the entire linux installation.
> So you have to make some work done here:
>
> Remove the existing Fat16 partition with fdisk, create a new Linux
> partition again with fdisk. Execute mk2fs to format the new
> partition using something like
>
> mk2fs /dev/hda5
>
Now don't remove any partition! There's no need for that. If there's no
data on the partition as you claimed (or data you don't need), just use
fdisk to change the partition table ID (this isn't required, but you
might want to do it to avoid problems with a windows install that reads
this disk. Then use mke2fs /dev/hda5 to reformat the partition (make
sure it's not mounted)
> When the partition have been formatted, mount it somewhere
>
> mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/temp
This is okay :-)
(ofcourse /mnt/temp must exist, else create it)
>
> then copy the entire /var directory in it.
> Probabily you will have some problem doing this, because the
> cp command cannot follow recursive symlink. Another way to do
cp -Rpd /var/* /mnt/temp
then test with diff if the two directories are identical
> this, is crate a tar of the entire directory and then
> untar it into the partition.... this could be a problem if
> you do not have space left to create the tar file.
>
> dismount the partition, modify the /etc/mtab so the /var point
> to /dev/hda5.
NEVER change /etc/mtab manually !!!
You'll need to add a line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda5 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
> Rename /var to /var_old with
>
> cd /
> mv var var_old
> mkdir var
>
> mount the new /var
>
> mount /dev/hda5 /var
>
> You should be Ok.
> If everything work corrctly, you can delete var_old and
> recover some space.
>
> Davide
The rest is okay advise :-)
Davide, be very carefull in giving such advise.
The system could get seriously messed up by manually changing mtab
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kickstart Installation
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:48:24 GMT
I am facing problem with Kickstart installtion of Redhat 6.2. The
installation goes automated for all but it prompts me for the partition even
though I have given the details....pls help me :
lang en_US #network --bootproto --static --ip 10.0.0.1 --netmask
255.255.255.0 --gateway 10.0.0.254 cdrom device ethernet eepro100 keyboard
"us" zerombr yes clearpart --all part /boot --size 50 --ondisk sda part /
--size 1001 --ondisk sda part /usr --size 1001 --ondisk sda part /home --size
1001 --ondisk sda part /var --size 950 --ondisk sda part swap --size 1001
--ondisk sda part /disk2 --size 12360 --grow --ondisk sda install mouse
genericps/2 timezone Asia/Calcutta skipx rootpw --iscrypted
$1$olJFQmbC$2rsZf0mYROcxn/1Tf4RP1/ auth --useshadow --enablemd5 lilo --linear
--location mbr %packages setup filesystem basesystem ldconfig
Where am I wrong
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From: "Michael Dahlinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Win 2000 installation prevents Linux boot?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:48:53 +0200
Hello,
I have a server (for test purposes) with NT 4.0 and Linux installed.
In the MBR of the (only) SCSI disk was the NT Boot Manager, I used BOOTPART
to create the boot-record for the linux partition and LILO in the superblock
of the Linux partition to boot Linux.
This worked fine.
After the installation of Win 2000 on a third partition, the WINNNT
Bootmanager seems to be replaced by something of Win 2000. I now only can
boot the Win 2000 partition and the Win NT part, but no longer Linux.
Seelecting teh Linux, it still switches to the Linux Boot Record and says
only
LI
and thats it, stop, hang no LO or anything more.
However, I still can boot from my Linux boot disk.
Any ideas on
a) how to recover from the Win 2000 boot manager and restore the original
behaviour (NT Boot Manager)
b) how can Linux and Win 2000 (and NT) can coexist?
My best regards
Michael
Michael Dahlinger
GSI computing dept.
Darmstadt / Germany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gernot Fink)
Subject: Re: minimal install
Date: 24 Aug 2000 14:08:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rolf Lindenbring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> i want to install a very small linux.
> (Flashdisk 20MB or less)
> who can i make it?
> is it possible to get a small x-server on it ?
> what distribution should i use ?
> any ideas
Go to
http://dir.lycos.com/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Tiny_Linux/
There are links to manny small distributions which fit on your Flash.
>
> Thanks,
> Rolf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: disk admin
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:07:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:00:06 +0200, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The rest is okay advise :-)
>
>Davide, be very carefull in giving such advise.
>The system could get seriously messed up by manually changing mtab
Oooppss, sorry, your's right of course. As I said, I did this a couple
of week ago and I do not remember all the commands.
Maybe is an idea for some sort of FAQs... don't you think ?
Davide
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