Linux-Setup Digest #641, Volume #20 Fri, 16 Feb 01 00:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Help: NFS and Input/output error (Josh Stern)
Re: Gnome Card (Thomas Zajic)
Installing Linux onto a second hard drive (Loki)
In swapper task - not syncing - MACHINE HALTS! ("Grant Holman")
SBlive setup in Redhat (Six)
3COM 3c509b installation? (Randy Schroeder)
Re: Partition Options ("Steve Ward")
Re: Cross Mounting FAT partitions on Win98 and Linux (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Boot record fun! (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Installing Linux onto a second hard drive ("Steve Ward")
Re: ISDN TA problem (Pascal Goguey)
New Mandrake 7.2 cannot be telneted to (Hong Xie)
Re: Boot record fun! ("Lee Gray")
Re: PC, MAC and Linux Network
lilo question ("D. Michael Basinger")
Re: SBlive setup in Redhat ("Zheng, Bo")
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...??? ("elliotte")
defrag new install ("PCHservices")
Re: Unix sys admin looking for advice on Lixus distro for home pc... (J Sloan)
Re: Partition Options ("Duane Healing")
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Help: NFS and Input/output error
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Stern)
Date: 15 Feb 2001 23:19:18 GMT
He didn't say NIS wasn't working; he said the automounter,
which depends on NIS, wasn't working.
-= Josh
>Greetings
>Rogier
>
>Josh Stern wrote:
>>
>> Xiaoqin Qiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Hi everyone,
>> >
>> >I just installed a RedHat Linux 7 with kernel 2.2.16-22 on a HP omnibook
>> >6000 laptop. This machine is a NIS client in our network and I installed
>> >amd on it. Now I got several problems for it.
>> >
>> >1) I keep getting the following error messages for NFS mount directories
>> >in the /var/log/messages file:
>> >nfs_statfs: statfs error = 5
>> >nfs_stat_to_errno: bad nfs status return value: 116
>> >
>> >2) amd is not working.
>>
>> I had some recent experience with being tortured by amd automounter.
>> What I did to fix my problems was a) compile recent amd source
>> from http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/am-utils/
>> b) compile kernel without builtin nfs-server and without
>> nfs version 3 and without automounter
>> c) install user-space nfs. I can't tell you unfortunately
>> which of those things was necessary or which will help you
>> with your RH7.
>>
>> >3) All the NIS users cann't login with no error message. (I think maybe
>> >it is because the home directory is on NFS server and amd doesn't work.)
>>
>> You should get an error message if your home directory is not
>> available, no?
>>
>> >How to set up system so that user can login even if the home directory
>> >cann't be mounted correctly? I know telnet can allow it. But how about
>> >Gnome and KDE login?
>>
>> What do they do, thrash?
>>
>> >3) reboot of the Linux cann't come up all the way. Actually it looks
>> >like it got halted.
>>
>> You probably want to disable xdm/kdm/gdm until things get sorted out.
>>
>> -= Josh
>
>--
>-- Gelul is altijd en overal
>-- *ook hier*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: Gnome Card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:00:14 GMT
On 15/02/01, John MacDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where I can get Gnome Card.
> I need it for an address book for one of the mailreaders I'm trying.
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-pim/gnome-pim-1.2.0.tar.gz
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loki)
Subject: Installing Linux onto a second hard drive
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:10:29 GMT
This is probably a really stupid question, but for the life of me, I
cannot seem to find any instructions anywhere about installing Linux
on a second hard drive. Everything I read about installing Linux with
Win (I have WinME if that makes any difference) talks about
repartitioning the drive so both can co-exist peacefully. Good for
some people, but I have a second hard drive that I really do not use
and could afford to install Linux on (lest I totally screw up WinME on
the main c:\ drive - I'd like to keep them seperate). I've read that
it *can* be installed on a second drive, but I can find no
instructions on how to re-format the drive to accept Linux alone,
etc., etc... if it is any help, the distribution I have is RedHat
6.2. This probably sounds truly stupid (hey, what can I say, I've
always admitted I am) but I honestly cannot find any documentation
about how to do this. Can anyone help?
.
--
Et in arcadia ego..
Loki
-[E-Mail]- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-[WWW]- http://www.robinzing.com/loki/
-[ICQ]- 13134728
"I also have an exclusive preview of Eminem's new CD,
which is inspired entirely by Bible verses. Being based
on our Lord's Old Testament, of course, it will present
no discernable departure from his previous misogynistic
and bloodthirsty rants." - http://www.bettybowers.com/eminem.html
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From: "Grant Holman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: In swapper task - not syncing - MACHINE HALTS!
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:20:12 -0000
Just installed Mandrake 7.2 onto my PC and am getting the following messages
during boot:
Kernal panic: Attempting to kill idle task!
In Swapper task - not syncing
The PC hangs at this point and I can get no further. N.B. Theres a whole
load of technical guff reported on screen prior to these messages if needed.
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From: Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SBlive setup in Redhat
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:27:00 GMT
Can someone plz walk me though a setup of a SBlive card in Redhat 7.0?
Thanks.
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From: Randy Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3COM 3c509b installation?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:58:30 GMT
Hello
I am very new to Linux and am trying to get my 3COM 3c509b ISA working
on RedHat 6.2 server.
I uses the DOs utility "pnpdsable" to kill the PnP function on the
card.
I added the following lines to the conf.modules file
alias eth0 3c509
options 3c509 io=0x3e0 irq=11
Still no detection.
Loopback works but eth0 will not initialize. On boot it says wrong IO
but I can't figure out what IO to use.
HELP!!!!!
Randy Schroeder
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Steve Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Options
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:14:26 -0600
Thanks so much Duane, I have been looking all day for a response to this
one, and you came through for me. I understand the need for the swapfile on
a seperate IDE channel also as I use it for my pagefile with NT. I am not
really that familiar with you LINUXers way of identifying drives though,
acronyms and all....can I assume correctly that HDA is the first HD on the
system, HDA7 being the 7th partition ?
Thanks
Steve
"Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:73Zi6.73$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You'll need to dedicate at least two partitions to Linux. Your hda7 (H:)
> will work as the filesystem, but you'll have to convert it from FAT32 to
> Linux (Type 83) using a Linux partitioning tool. You'll also need a swap
> partition. I'd put that on hdc (drive Z) ideally for performance reasons.
> That way you've got swap happening on the second IDE channel rather than
> clogging the channel your filesystem is on. It isn't that important
> though, so put it anywhere that works.
>
> Depending on how much stuff you run and how much memory you have you may
> even be able to get by without a swap partition. Running a modern desktop
> I wouldn't attempt this with less than 256K of RAM though.
>
> You mentioned that your first drive is an ATA100. If it's on a UDMA100
> controller you may have issues there. Horror stories of drives not being
> recognized because of no driver for the controler have been rampant
> lately.
>
> Hope that helps. Good luck.
>
> --
> -Duane
> -DNAware SoftLabs
>
> In article <96h7ae$2al$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steve Ward"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I would like to know before starting my trek to Linux what kind of
> > partitioning will suffic, I would like to be able to continue using
> > several OSes to include a distribution of Linux as well as Win98 and
> > Win2K.
> >
> > Current configuration is :
> >
> > 3 HDs on system
> >
> > Drive X, Y, and Z to simplify this explanation, these are not drive
> > letters, but 3 seperate drives.
> >
> > X = IDE HD as Master on IDE 0 (40GIG) ATA100 WD Y = IDE HD as Slave on
> > IDE 0 (30 GIG) ATA66 WD Z = IDE HD as Master on IDE 1 (20 GIG) ATA 66
> > Seagate
> >
> > X is currently partitioned as follows :
> >
> > C:\ drive is Primary DOS partition Fat16 and there is nothing loaded
> > there except for necessary files to dual (actually quad) boot. I use
> > Win98 and Win2K currently. One instance of Win98 and 3 of Win2K.
> >
> > The rest of Drive X is an Extended DOS Partition with 6 Logical drives.
> > They are identified as D:\ , E:\ , F:\ , G:\ , H:\ and J:\ and contain :
> > D: Win98 (Fat32) needed every Blue Moon (2 GIG) E: Win2K Pro (NTFS)
> > Primary OS used daily (4 GIG) F: Win2K Server (NTFS) Loaded for learning
> > the OS (4 GIG) G: Win2K Pro (NTFS) Backup Load in case of Emergency
> > Crash (often used
> > -( (4 GIG)
> > H: (reserved for Linux) (Fat32) (unused) (4 GIG) J: (Storage Drive)
> > (Fat32) (unused) (22 GIG)
> >
> > Y and Z are currently partitioned as follows :
> >
> > All space in both drives are Extended Partitions with logicals in each.
> > I use these for storing files, and not much else. They get assigned
> > drive letters K thru T.
> >
> > I know this has been very longwinded, so please accept my apology.
> >
> > Question is.....will I be able to utilize my partitioning scheme as it
> > is currently configured ? in order to install Linux ? I am able to redo
> > whatever is necessary quite easily, so that is not a problem, if there
> > is a preferred or mandatory way that I must do things.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Cross Mounting FAT partitions on Win98 and Linux
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 01:12:13 GMT
In article <96h6cq$1ku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sanjay Agrawal wrote:
[snip]
>
>Again, no bad intentions for Linus - I love that guy - you know what I mean.
>
:-) Yep, I was just pulling your chain for the typo.
[snip]
>PS: Incidentally win98 detects hdb and names it D:
>However on attempting to access this drive, I get
>the error message "D: is not accessible". And inputs?
>
Dumb question: did you format it? (From Win98 right click and Format...)
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Crossposted-To:
linux.help,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Boot record fun!
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 01:16:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mr Fu wrote:
>
[snip]
>> > Second - Is there any way of getting linux to boot off the secondary
>> > IDE master?
>>
>> Use a floppy boot disk; install lilo on it and it will then boot linux
>> on whatever drive you care to. The kernel doesn't need to be on the
>> floppy, but you can dd it on there if you prefer not to use lilo.
>
> No way w/o boot floppy? I was thinking of putting lilo on my hda*,
>linux on the hdc (where it is), and NT on hda1.
>
Not using LILO. The documentation is explicit about this.
However, you can create just the boot partition (a small one, less than 10MB)
on the primary IDE master and put the rest of Linux on the secondary.
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Steve Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux onto a second hard drive
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:22:34 -0600
Have you seen this one ?
http://mozillaquest.com/stories_01/DualBoot_PqMagic-01/MQ-Mag_01_DualBoot_St
ory-01_01.html
Hope it helps
Steve
"Loki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This is probably a really stupid question, but for the life of me, I
> cannot seem to find any instructions anywhere about installing Linux
> on a second hard drive. Everything I read about installing Linux with
> Win (I have WinME if that makes any difference) talks about
> repartitioning the drive so both can co-exist peacefully. Good for
> some people, but I have a second hard drive that I really do not use
> and could afford to install Linux on (lest I totally screw up WinME on
> the main c:\ drive - I'd like to keep them seperate). I've read that
> it *can* be installed on a second drive, but I can find no
> instructions on how to re-format the drive to accept Linux alone,
> etc., etc... if it is any help, the distribution I have is RedHat
> 6.2. This probably sounds truly stupid (hey, what can I say, I've
> always admitted I am) but I honestly cannot find any documentation
> about how to do this. Can anyone help?
> .
> --
> Et in arcadia ego..
>
> Loki
> -[E-Mail]- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -[WWW]- http://www.robinzing.com/loki/
> -[ICQ]- 13134728
>
> "I also have an exclusive preview of Eminem's new CD,
> which is inspired entirely by Bible verses. Being based
> on our Lord's Old Testament, of course, it will present
> no discernable departure from his previous misogynistic
> and bloodthirsty rants." - http://www.bettybowers.com/eminem.html
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From: Pascal Goguey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN TA problem
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:33:45 +0900
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Thompson wrote:
> Please be more specific: is your TA a PCI card or an external unit?
> If an external unit, treat it like a modem.
>
> Paul
Hello!
Another one-day newbie... RH 7.
I have exactly the same problem. I have an external AIWA terminal adaptor
(TA1281).
I would be happy to treat it like a modem, but where is the config panel for
modems?
I have searched in the gnome menu (bottom left), and I found Config ISDN. But
this
sounds like a search for TA boards, not external devices. As there are 6 or 7
CDs, I
guess it is documented somewhere, but I haven't found anything yet.
Thanks for any hint.
Pascal
> Acom_tek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I'm new to Linux and have just installed Corel Linux 2nd Edition but
> : although Linux has found every other piece of hardware my US Robotics TA is
> : no where to be seen. Does Corel Linux have a problem with ISDN or can
> : someone tell me what I need to do to set it up,
>
> : thanks in advance,
>
> : deputy
>
> --
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:30:48 +0800
From: Hong Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New Mandrake 7.2 cannot be telneted to
Hi,
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.2 on my 386 machine. It turned out
that I cannot telnet to the machine from other machines. I can telnet
from this machine to other machines but not the other way.
Initially I choosed the installation option recommended/workstation
option. I suspected that the workstation option didn't install inet
superserver.
(I did try to turn the inet service, but still cann't get the telnet
to work).
So I reinstall the os with customised/development option, hoping that
this
option would install everything. I then turn on inet service and reboot
the
machine. This time it still doesn't work - I can telnet to other
machines
from this machine, but I can do the other way.
Does anyone know what was the problem and how to rectify it.
Many thanks,
Hong
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From: "Lee Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.help,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Boot record fun!
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:35:21 -0600
If you have a DOS boot disk with FDISK, run "fdisk /mbr". If that doesn't
work, do a search for the DOS utility BOOTPART. It can restore DOS, Win9x
and NT.
"Mr Fu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> First - is there any way to restore the dos or NT MBR without having
> made a backup, or having either of these OS's installed and bootable?
> Second - Is there any way of getting linux to boot off the secondary
> IDE master?
> Third - no actual third, but any help is gratefully received. Cheers!
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:50:40 -0500
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PC, MAC and Linux Network
I forgot to mention that you can get a minimal
Linux system that fits on a floppy used just for
this purpose. See http://www.linuxrouter.org/
Greg
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From: "D. Michael Basinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo question
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 03:25:48 GMT
I'm trying to install RedHat 7.0 on to a Dell laptop. I get an "Waring:
device 0x1603 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit" error after RedHat installs.
I found on the net that I need to add lba32 to the options area of
lilo.conf and lilo -v.
I boot the RedHat CD in rescue mode, mount and edit lilo.conf. When I
run lilo -v, it starts but gives a "Device /dev/hda not found" error
(which strange, since I just mount some partitions off of /dev/hda).
I admit it is lack of knowledge on my part, never had to do a linux
rescue before (hey the sh*t just works).
I would appreicate any advice.
Thanks,
Mike
--
D. Michael Basinger: Management Information Specialist
Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (706) 542-6212 Fax: (706) 542-6239
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From: "Zheng, Bo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SBlive setup in Redhat
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:35:37 -0500
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Six wrote:
> Can someone plz walk me though a setup of a SBlive card in Redhat 7.0?
> Thanks.
>
>
www.euronet.nl/~mailme
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From: "elliotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...???
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:01:45 +0900
I get the following message with my 2.2.18 kernel:
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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From: "PCHservices" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: defrag new install
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:21:04 GMT
If i am installing a brand new copy of winME and a brand new copy of
linux on a brand new haed drive, after I do the install of windows, do I
need to defrag the drive if I haven't even used windows yet. I have done
many installs of linux on old win boxes but never had this scenerio
before. Thanks in advance...peter
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
be.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Unix sys admin looking for advice on Lixus distro for home pc...
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:34:34 GMT
SFShadow wrote:
> Good afternoon. I'm a unix solaris sys admin and i'm looking to install
> linux on my home i386 pc along with win98 so I can start to get a feel for
> the linux os. I would like to get some advice on which distro to go with.
> I'm currently contemplating freebsd, netbsd, or debian.
Well, the bsd folks will lynch you if you refer to freebsd or
netbsd as linux.
You could install solaris x86 as well -
> I want to learn
> linux config, setup, etc.. so that's why i'm looking at these versions
> although i haven't made a decision yet.
You might want to consider Red Hat if you live in the
US, since most commercial Linux usage is Red Hat.
> My home pc specs:
> intel pIII 450mhz, ibm deskstar 10gb hd, agp vodoo3 3000 video card, tekram
> motherboard(128 mb ram), and a us robotics 56k internal modem. I'm not sure
> if all this detail is necessary but this is my first crack at installing
> linux so based on my system( i'm thinking to repartion my hd-7 gb win98 and
> 3gb linux), what disto would be the best to go with (and most compatible)?
> any suggestions or comments are welcome. Thanks.
3 GB is kind of tight, but you can do it you are careful.
Hardware sounds good, I also have a voodoo 3 and
it works well.
(I prefer to use Linux for games and multimedia as well.)
Red Hat is good (wait for 7.1) Suse 7.1 is good, Caldera
is good, and debian is said to be good although I've not
gotten around to trying it.
jjs
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Options
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:45:59 -0800
Oops, I was wrong. I don't ever use extended/logical partitions and I
messed up working from memory. Here's the real way Linux would enumerate
the partitions on your first drive:
hda1 FAT16 (C:)
hda2 Extended
hda5 FAT32 (D:)
hda6 NTFS (E:)
hda7 NTFS (F:)
hda8 NTFS (G:)
hda9 FAT32 (H:)
hda10 FAT32 (J:)
Therefore, when I referred to hda7 earlier, I really meant hda9, which
would be H: under Windows.
And you are correct. Linux goes by letter for drive reference, so a
standard two channel IDE system would be like this
hda IDE0 - master
hdb IDE0 - slave
hdc IDE1 - master
hdd IDE1 - slave
Then partitions are numbered consecutively from there. e.g.
hdc3 would be the third primary partition on IDE1 master.
I hope that and my prior message help you out. Best of luck!
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <96htum$c63$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steve Ward"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks so much Duane, I have been looking all day for a response to this
> one, and you came through for me. I understand the need for the swapfile
> on a seperate IDE channel also as I use it for my pagefile with NT. I am
> not really that familiar with you LINUXers way of identifying drives
> though, acronyms and all....can I assume correctly that HDA is the first
> HD on the system, HDA7 being the 7th partition ?
>
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