Linux-Setup Digest #388, Volume #20 Wed, 10 Jan 01 01:13:08 EST
Contents:
lan card ("Cristopher Reyes")
an't keep ip with dhcp on redhat 7 only??? ("Diesel")
Re: Does anybody really know what time it is? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Kernel 2.4 on RH7 ("Gene Heskett")
is there a set of scripts for SysAdmin? ("Merlin")
Re: Kernel 2.4 on RH7 (Phil Edwards)
How to annoy your arrogant boss using Linux :-) (Phil Edwards)
problem with seeing X Windows on the desktop ("Garry Reid")
How do I get my ethernet card going ("David Findlay")
Newbie SCSI user needs help with CD Burner (Lewis)
Re: Newbie SCSI user needs help with CD Burner (David)
Re: Newbie SCSI user needs help with CD Burner (David)
Re: 2.4 install on floppy-booted system ("Peter T. Breuer")
dd command ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
Re: Booting a SparcStation2 with a hard drive (freedman)
Need Help Reconstructing /dev/sdb (Mark W. Stroberg)
Re: cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter (Jean-Yves Simon)
Re: Help: suck; 400 file exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
(David. E. Goble)
Dumping Novell for Linux (almost).. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need Help Reconstructing /dev/sdb (David)
Re: RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem! ("Chris McDonald")
Re: Out of primary partitions (Garrett Krueger)
Re: Any Gotcha's Putting RedHat on a ThinkPad??? (Garrett Krueger)
Re: W2K and Redhat 7.0 (Garrett Krueger)
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From: "Cristopher Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lan card
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:23:57 +0800
how can i make my lan card (ne2000 compatible) working under linux. i
already tried this card in win98
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From: "Diesel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: an't keep ip with dhcp on redhat 7 only???
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 04:15:56 GMT
Is there a know bug with redhat 7 that dhcp will not use renew the ip
correctly? I talked to a guy on a mirc channel and he switched it from pump
to dhcpcd.
Just wondering if this is normal, it was a fresh install that I tried like 3
times....
Thanks
Diesel
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Date: 9 Jan 2001 22:10:40 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anybody really know what time it is?
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Peter B.;
PBS> Maybe I'm reading the wrong FAQs, maybe I'm not understanding
PBS> what I read... but I'm lost on the whole NTP thing.
PBS> My goal is to have my Linux (RH 7.0) box connect periodically
PBS> to an NTP server and adjust the local time to whatever NTP
PBS> tells me. To that end, I installed chrony although I gather
PBS> there are other utilities which do the same thing.
PBS> As far as I can tell, chronyd is indeed polling the NTP and
PBS> making minor changes as needed to /dev/rtc... but when
PBS> I query the system date/time, it bears no relation whatsoever
PBS> to the RTC.
PBS> Obviously I'm missing a step. What program or command
PBS> do I need to add so that the system date & time match up
PBS> with what the RTC contains?
PBS> Many thanks for any advice, explanations, or general ridicule.
See man hwclock I think it is. And pay attention to the UTC offset
options unless you want the hardware clock at UTC. Also make sure your
timezone (TZ?) is set correctly else it might be off a fixed number of
hours from local time when you query the system for time, or look at it
on the menubar in x. In Cheyenne, you'll be -7 for a TZ setting IIRC.
I've also seen a one liner that used rdate, with that output piped to
hwtosys so that the RTC was reset at the same time. Maybe someone will
be kind enough to repost that one.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: 9 Jan 2001 23:14:23 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 on RH7
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Scott Nolde;
SN> Jeff Moore wrote:
>>
>> I have not gotten the kernel to compile with RH7.
>>
>> If I am going to download a kernel, I want the 2.4 version.
>>
>> I assume I will also need a new compiler and libraries.
>>
>> Which compiler and libraries should I get?
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Jeff Moore
SN> I've been able to compile the released 2.4.0 kernel with:
SN> kgcc-1.1.2-40
works
SN> gcc-2.96-54
bombs
SN> gcc-c++-2.96-54
bombs
gcc-2.95.2 and siblings all works
SN> And you don't need kgcc. What errors are you having? I had
SN> multiple seg faults during the 'make bzImage' portion, but was
SN> able to get a kernel image in the end.
SN> - Scott
I see I have an errored message to you in my send queue, no idea why.
Lets see if this goes. BTW, if it goes on this run, then
kernel-2.4.0-ac4, and ppp-2.4.1 are working, see another message where I
shout out the news and what I had to do.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Merlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: is there a set of scripts for SysAdmin?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:12:51 +1000
Somewhere I saw a set of scripts called X-Setup I think, or X-Admin, that is
designed to streamline daily sysadmin stuff. dns and all that.
anyone know of such a thing?
thanks
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 on RH7
Date: 9 Jan 2001 23:17:40 -0500
Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ Jeff Moore wrote:
+ >
+ > I have not gotten the kernel to compile with RH7.
+ > If I am going to download a kernel, I want the 2.4 version.
+ > I assume I will also need a new compiler and libraries.
+ > Which compiler and libraries should I get?
+
+ I've been able to compile the released 2.4.0 kernel with:
+ kgcc-1.1.2-40
+ gcc-2.96-54
+ gcc-c++-2.96-54
+
+ And you don't need kgcc. What errors are you having? I had multiple
+ seg faults during the 'make bzImage' portion, but was able to get a
+ kernel image in the end.
That sounds like bad RAM:
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
Luck++;
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards)
Subject: How to annoy your arrogant boss using Linux :-)
Date: 9 Jan 2001 23:31:39 -0500
While my co-workers are pretty cool, our supervisors can be a bit stodgy
and anal. We don't go out of our way to tick them off, but sometimes they
just beg for it.
So the worst one of the bunch just doesn't get the whole open-source
thing, believes that Linux is still being written by one guy in Finland
and can't possibly be useful, etc, etc. And after I installed Red Hat 7.0
on my desktop I overheard him muttering under his breath something about
"punk motherf***ing OS."
I couldn't resist. You know that little highlighted red text banner than
comes up when RH boots? Just before the long pause as the filesystems
are checked over, so that you have plenty of time to gaze at the brightly
colored "Red Hat" words? Well...
% cd /etc/rc.d
% diff -u rc.sysinit.original rc.sysinit
--- rc.sysinit.original Fri Aug 18 17:33:17 2000
+++ rc.sysinit Mon Jan 8 15:40:19 2001
@ -34,13 +34,13 @@
. /etc/init.d/functions
# Print a banner. ;)
-echo -en "\t\t\tWelcome to "
+echo -en "\t\tWelcome to "
[ "$BOOTUP" != "serial" ] && echo -en "\\033[1;31m"
-echo -en "Red Hat"
+echo -en "Punk Azz Motherfreakin'"
[ "$BOOTUP" != "serial" ] && echo -en "\\033[0;39m"
echo " Linux"
if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then
- echo -en "\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup."
+ echo -en "\t\t Press 'I' to enter interactive startup."
echo
sleep 1
fi
%
I know he's seen it, but he won't admit to it. :-)
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From: "Garry Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: problem with seeing X Windows on the desktop
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:48:35 +1100
I have just recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 but have found that the
KDE desktop that loads up is extremely difficult to work with because when i
open a window there is little definition of a window to see. I can make out
the title bar and the scroll bar but the window opens with no background
color so that the contents of the window are basically superimposed on to
the desktop and then when i attempt to open another window it again
superimposes itself on top of the previous window to the point where one
can't read anything! can somebody help? thanks Garry Reid
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Reply-To: "David Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "David Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I get my ethernet card going
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:48:02 +1000
I just loaed debian 2.2r2. How do I get the eth0 card going? There is no
device eth0, so I can't set it up.
How do you do it?
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lewis)
Subject: Newbie SCSI user needs help with CD Burner
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 04:49:56 GMT
Folks,
I am trying to configure my CD Burner (an HP 7200i) on my system. It
is on an IDE interface.
I have seen on past posts that you have to use SCSI compatibility
drivers in order for the program "cdrecord" to work.
(I assume for "xcdroast" as well?)
Anyway, one of the posts said that you could load the appropriate
module by saying putting
insmod ide-scsi
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
I tried this, and the "cdrecord -scanbus" command did not find any
scsi devices.
I also saw a post that you might need to add the line
"hdd=ide-scsi"
I got no errors, but the cdrecord SCSI scan did not find anything.
(hdd is correct, as I have a regular CD rom as master on the secondary
IDE channel, and the 7200 as a slave on the secondary IDE.)
I also saw on a post that you may have to recompile a kernel. Now I
believe I remember how to do that, but I did not enjoy that. Someone
told me there was an X tool that allowed you to change only what you
needed in the kernel.
Does anyone know that was?
Will this fix my problem?
What am I forgetting?
Thanks in advance,
RJ
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie SCSI user needs help with CD Burner
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 23:06:21 -0600
Lewis wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I am trying to configure my CD Burner (an HP 7200i) on my system. It
> is on an IDE interface.
>
> I have seen on past posts that you have to use SCSI compatibility
> drivers in order for the program "cdrecord" to work.
>
> (I assume for "xcdroast" as well?)
>
> Anyway, one of the posts said that you could load the appropriate
> module by saying putting
>
> insmod ide-scsi
>
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
>
> I tried this, and the "cdrecord -scanbus" command did not find any
> scsi devices.
>
> I also saw a post that you might need to add the line
>
> "hdd=ide-scsi"
>
> I got no errors, but the cdrecord SCSI scan did not find anything.
>
> (hdd is correct, as I have a regular CD rom as master on the secondary
> IDE channel, and the 7200 as a slave on the secondary IDE.)
>
> I also saw on a post that you may have to recompile a kernel. Now I
> believe I remember how to do that, but I did not enjoy that. Someone
> told me there was an X tool that allowed you to change only what you
> needed in the kernel.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/CD-Writing/CD-Writing.sgml
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie SCSI user needs help with CD Burner
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 23:07:17 -0600
Lewis wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I am trying to configure my CD Burner (an HP 7200i) on my system. It
> is on an IDE interface.
>
> I have seen on past posts that you have to use SCSI compatibility
> drivers in order for the program "cdrecord" to work.
>
> (I assume for "xcdroast" as well?)
>
> Anyway, one of the posts said that you could load the appropriate
> module by saying putting
>
> insmod ide-scsi
>
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
>
> I tried this, and the "cdrecord -scanbus" command did not find any
> scsi devices.
>
> I also saw a post that you might need to add the line
>
> "hdd=ide-scsi"
>
> I got no errors, but the cdrecord SCSI scan did not find anything.
>
> (hdd is correct, as I have a regular CD rom as master on the secondary
> IDE channel, and the 7200 as a slave on the secondary IDE.)
>
> I also saw on a post that you may have to recompile a kernel. Now I
> believe I remember how to do that, but I did not enjoy that. Someone
> told me there was an X tool that allowed you to change only what you
> needed in the kernel.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4 install on floppy-booted system
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:55:38 +0100
Christopher C. Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 4. Edit /mnt/floppy/etc/lilo.conf to accomodate the new
> kernel.
> And I believe that is all the installation I need to do.
You forgot to run lilo.
> ran out of input data
> --system halted
> All was normal until the 'ran out of data' part.
> I've narrowed my problem down to three possible things:
> 1. If this was a system which booted off the hardisk with
> lilo, then I would run /sbin/lilo after editing lilo.conf
You can run it anyway!
> so that the lilo map file is adjusted accordingly. I cannot
> do this, however, because my system boots off of a floppy.
You can do it just fine. What makes you think not?
> If I try to run /sbin/lilo linux complains because it can't
> find lilo--and there doesn't seem to be a switch I can use
It can find lilo just fine. It's in /sbin/lilo! You are making a
reporting error here. Go back and report the error verbatim.
> to specify lilo's path. In this scenario, I think I'm
??? WHAT are you talking about? Lilo has plenty of switches.
"-r /mnt/floppy" might well be the one that interests you.
> running into trouble because the /mnt/floppy/boot/map file
> isn't being updated.
Brilliant, sherlock. Read the man page for lilo again.
Peter
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: dd command
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:16:06 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to create a driverdiskette from the RH 6.2 CD (netstg2.img to
be exact) but I wonder how this can be done with the dd command since
netstg2.img is almost the size of 2 diskettes and I can't figure out how
to create 2 diskettes with the dd command.
Thank you for help,
Huub
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (freedman)
Subject: Re: Booting a SparcStation2 with a hard drive
Date: 10 Jan 2001 05:18:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:30:09 -0000, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Okay, I managed to get my SS2 to boot off a cd. The problem was I had to
>put turn block size on on my cd-rom. The new problem that I'm having is I
>can't boot off my hard drive, even after I installed Debian on it. When I
>type boot /sbus/esp/sd@0,0 at the OpenBoot prompt, I get the same message
>as I did with my cd-rom: "bad magic number in disk label".
>
>The hard hard drive that I have in there is a really old SCA 80 SCSI
>drive, which has no jumpers on it, but I had to use an adapter to change
>it to 50 pin so I could plug it into the Sparc. I've tried several
>combinations with the jumpers on this adapter, but I get the same message
>every time. I think the problem is that I need to be able to enable block
>size on the hard drive as well, but I'm not sure how.
>Any help would be appreciated!
>
>--
>Posted via CNET Help.com
>http://www.help.com/
Was the Debian install OK, no errors? If so perhaps you're trying to boot
from the wrong drive. From the OK prompt, do a probe-scsi and see
what the target id is of your drive. The try boot diskX, where X is the
target id. On the old Suns, ID=3 was mapped to ID 0 and 0 to 3. Usually,
sca drives get there ID thru the interface, not with jumpers. I'm not
sure what ID it will default to.
Dick Freedman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Stroberg)
Subject: Need Help Reconstructing /dev/sdb
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:21:47 GMT
I accidentally deleted the device /dev/sdb. Can anyone tell me how to
reconstruct this device or standard devices in general? I was making a
symbolic link from /dev/cdrom and put the arguments in the wrong
order. Now /dev/sdb is simply a symbolic link to /dev/cdrom. Any help
would be appreciated.
TIA
Mark W. Stroberg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Yves Simon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: cdrecord won't scan bus for cdwriter
Date: 10 Jan 2001 05:25:57 GMT
In article <93am5d$r3h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Unruh wrote:
: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Parminder Lehal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: ]HP7200e is external
: ]CD burner which uses linux sg driver for scsi emulation. I use following
: ]modules for this
: ]bash-2.04# /sbin/insmod parport
: ]Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-17/misc/parport.o
: ]bash-2.04# /sbin/insmod paride
: I think in that case you need to use the ide-scsi interface as well to
: handle the parallel port device. cdrecord talks ONLY to scsi devices.
: Thus you must get your cdrom to be a scsi device.
What do you need to do when your burner is connected thru a pcmcia
card. I have compiled the pcmcia package (works perfectly for
my network card) but my burner (archos 4424) is not recognized.
I am getting a low/high beep at boot up and no irq is taken.
Thanks
--
--
Jean-Yves SIMON Tokyo, Japan
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Help: suck; 400 file exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:38:05 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
On 8 Jan 2001 13:14:35 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Andrew) wrote:
>
>>I am running redhat 6.2. I have a problem with suck.
>>Reason: 400 File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
>
>Server error. Server is throttled.
>
Hi Nick;
OK so the problem is with innd. Can you expand on this...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dumping Novell for Linux (almost)..
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:29:13 GMT
Hello all,
with samba server how to map a drive letter automatically to win9x
clients??
in novel/netware i would write a login script like:
"net use G: \\samba_server\samba_folder"
can this be done in samba server directly?? if so, i want to dump
Novell alltogether in favor of Linux.
i appreciate any help.
regards
ismet
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Help Reconstructing /dev/sdb
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:46:59 GMT
"Mark W. Stroberg" wrote:
>
> I accidentally deleted the device /dev/sdb. Can anyone tell me how to
> reconstruct this device or standard devices in general? I was making a
> symbolic link from /dev/cdrom and put the arguments in the wrong
> order. Now /dev/sdb is simply a symbolic link to /dev/cdrom. Any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Mark W. Stroberg
I think you can do it this way.
cd /dev
MAKEDEV update
man MAKEDEV might also help.
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From: "Chris McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem!
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:48:32 -0600
I can do if just fine, however, when I installed it and did some added the
linux partitions my partition numbers changed. I had to boot off of a floppy
disk (I just used a Win98 startup disk) and then edit my boot.ini file and
change the partition number for Windows. Then it worked just fine.
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"Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:yrC46.32267$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi!
> With my previous installation of RH6.2 + Win2K, I was able to dual-boot
via
> Windows 2000 boot loader. However, loading RH7.0, it overwrote the MBR
and I
> can no longer access the Win2K partition.
>
> I can't seem to find the place during the RH7.0 install where I can
specify
> where LILO is placed (either in the MBR or within one of the
partitions)...
> I know I use to be able to specify this in the previous RH versions.
>
> How do I get both to cooperate?
>
> Thanks
> -Doug
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 23:43:16 -0600
From: Garrett Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Out of primary partitions
There's another issue at stake here; namely, MSDOS style FDisked extended
partitions seldom like to release their hold on unused space. For example,
you may have a FAT32 1 gig partition on extended space, and your drive may
have another 4 gigs free. When you look in Linux's FDisk, this partition
will display as extended "+". When you try to make a logical partition or
add onto it (ie use some of that remaining 4 gigs), linux will tell you that
none of it is free (available).
Eric wrote:
> David Lockwood wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for that. As I said at present the extended partition contains 3
> > logical drives using FAT32.
> > 1. If I enlarge this partition (originally created using DOS fdisk) can
> > I use this space easily for linux partitions?
>
> Yes, but be carefull when doing this, normal FDISK programs aren't
> capable of
> non-destructive repartitioning. You'll need either PartitionMagic or GNU
> parted.
>
> Even with those programs it's wise to backup all important data before
> you start.
>
> > 2. Does it matter to linux if only one (the extended) partition is
> > allocated to it, (and multiple partitions created within it). Will this
> > still be usable as a dual boot system?
>
> In principle: No problem
> But ensure the kernel image is on a partition that is entirely below
> cyl. 1024
> If you do not do this, your freshly installed linux may be bootable from
> floppy disc only.
> This depends on your BIOS though, but it's better to prevent the
> problem, then to solve it.
>
> Place LILO in the MBR or in the bootsector of the extended partition.
> (The possibilities depend on your specific system)
> Keep both a windows rescue disc at hand, and make a linux bootdisc
> during install.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Eric
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Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 21:45:40 -0600
From: Garrett Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any Gotcha's Putting RedHat on a ThinkPad???
Andrew:
You might want to take a look at this website:
http://lwn.net/1999/0225/bigpage.php3
Andrew Carlisle wrote:
> I am going to put RedHat on my ThinkPad. Are there any known gotcha's? It
> has an Intel Celeron processor in it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
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Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 21:41:56 -0600
From: Garrett Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: W2K and Redhat 7.0
Probably the easiest thing to do is go ahead and start installing Linux (be
sure you've written down any pertinent hardware info you might need like
addresses and ports for your NIC, modems, etc.); however, as far as subsequent
dual booting goes, I would probably opt for the "boot disk" method (I'm
assuming you have a 3.5 floppy drive on the machine still) rather than allowing
LILO to write to the hard disk. Dells can be a bit picky, and the "boot disk
method," while a tad slower at startup, will give you the easiest path backward
if you need it.
Depending upon where your linux partition is located on the disk, you might
need to use LOADLIN rather than lilo.
Also, we have alot of Dells, but I haven't seen that particular model yet. If
that model has the embedded graphics (which I'm assuming it does), you may have
problems getting linux to properly see the graphics chipset. I've seen this go
both way, but you really don't know until you try.
Just so you know, you CAN let LILO write directly to disk and still dual-boot
with Windows 2000. This isn't a problem; it's just a more difficult path back.
"Jeff D. Hamann" wrote:
> I've just purchased a new Dell 5000e and would like to have a dual boot
> system with Linux and WIndows2000. I've been running with Windows2000
> (suprising hapily) and have a partition for linux (redhat 7.0) ready to go.
> Where are the best instructions for installing a dual boot system with
> Windows2000 and linux?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
>
> ----------------------------------
> Jeff D. Hamann
> 280 Peavy Hall
> Department of Forest Resources
> Oregon State University
> Corvallis, Oregon 97331-8566 USA
> 541-740-5988
> 541-737-2375
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>
> This is the song that never ends
> It goes on and on my friends
> Somebody started singing it
> Not knowing what it was
> Now everybody's singing it
> And it goes on and on because
> This is the song that never ends...
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