Linux-Setup Digest #800, Volume #20 Sun, 11 Mar 01 00:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install (shaughn b)
Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install (shaughn b)
Autofs ("Greg Gailer")
Re: uncompressing linux... crc error! ("*harmonix*")
Installing Sendmail.... (Steven Katz)
Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install (John Sage)
Re: Need PAP dialup help pretty damn soon (John Sage)
Re: Help Me Configure My SuSe Linux 7.1 to access Internet.... (David Efflandt)
Re: howto enlarge linux partition (Bora Ugurlu)
Re: dialing from command line....please help ("Ron Nicholls")
How To configure PPTP(or VPN) in linux? ("v.naga srinivas")
What is this RPM... in linux?? ("v.naga srinivas")
Re: why does it state that the linux can not be found in CDROM (John Sage)
Any public anonymous CVS available to download the source and ("v.naga srinivas")
Re: Multibooting... ("*harmonix*")
Newbie needs help to install SuSE Linux 7.1 on SCSI hard drive. (Alasdair Baxter)
Re: What is this RPM... in linux?? (John Sage)
Re: Swap space (Paul Colquhoun)
pcmcia setup (Miasmal)
Re: why does it state that the linux can not be found in CDROM
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Re: Frequent crashes ("*harmonix*")
Re: how to enable ReiserFS? ("G. Hugh Song")
Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install (Jim Gorman)
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From: shaughn b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:43:03 -0600
I investigated further and looked in the rp8_requires file in the rpm...
my system has all files/libs etc. noted.... so yes, libc6 is there.
Thanks for the prod, but sign me Still Stumped!
Shaughn
John Sage wrote:
>
> Shaughn:
>
> Linux is linux is..
>
> ..but what compiler do you have on?
>
> shaughn b wrote:
>
> > Hi... I'm trying to install/upgrade to Realplayer 8 from 5.0 which came
> > with the SuSe 7.0 distro. I am using a Toshiba 500CDT laptop with
> > 120MHz P1, 48M RAM. I have downloaded the rpm from the Real site, but
> > no matter what install options I use, --install --upgrade --nodeps
> > --force, etc, I get the message as follows...
> >
> > prompt > rpm -i rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm
>
> Do you have ^^^^^ glibc2 (a.k.a. libc6)
>
> > package RealPlayer-8.0-1 is for a different architecture
> > prompt >
> >
> > I don't get it. The website says it's for Linux.
> >
> > Anybody know what's up?
>
> - John
>
> --
> John Sage
> FinchHaven, Vashon Island, WA, USA
> http://www.finchhaven.com/
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> And remember: it's spelled l-i-n-u-x, but it's pronounced "Linux"
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From: shaughn b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:47:06 -0600
Fair enough... binary we go... Thanks
Shaughn
E J wrote:
>
> I have the same problem with RealPlayer 8 installing from rpm files on
> RH7.0. It will never work.
> Stop banging your head into the brick wall and abandon the rpm installation
> and use the binary installer of Real Player 8.
> Works great for me.
>
> shaughn b wrote:
>
> > Hi... I'm trying to install/upgrade to Realplayer 8 from 5.0 which came
> > with the SuSe 7.0 distro. I am using a Toshiba 500CDT laptop with
> > 120MHz P1, 48M RAM. I have downloaded the rpm from the Real site, but
> > no matter what install options I use, --install --upgrade --nodeps
> > --force, etc, I get the message as follows...
> >
> > prompt > rpm -i rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm
> > package RealPlayer-8.0-1 is for a different architecture
> > prompt >
> >
> > I don't get it. The website says it's for Linux.
> >
> > Anybody know what's up?
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From: "Greg Gailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Autofs
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:48:26 +1100
Greetings All
I have a Mandrake 7.2 system and it uses Autofs to automatically mount
and unmount drives. I have it working brilliantly but on shutdown I get
the error message:
hdc: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
This message relates to the internal ZIP drive which is set up on hdc. A
friend of mine has the same sort of problem with his parallel port ZIP
drive, which reports an error of:
scsi: disk i/o error dev 08:00 sector 0 unable to read part/table
The drives work OK during operation but only seem to give this error on
shutdown. Have we got something horribly wrong? Does anyone know how to
set the ZIP drives up so that no error messages come up on shutdown?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Greg Gailer
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From: "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org>
Subject: Re: uncompressing linux... crc error!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:51:39 -0000
*harmonix* <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org> wrote in message
news:umBq6.12111$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Ok, I finally need to (try to) do something about this.
> >
> > Ever since I installed RH 7.0 on my Dell Dimension XPS (800 Mhz P3),
> > when I boot linux, I sometimes get this fatal error:
> >
> > Uncompressing linux..
> > crc error!
> > terminating system.
> >
> > And of course it hangs there. It used to be half the time or so, but
> > today I had eight unsuccessful boot attempts in a row!
> >
> > I'm sure people are going to tell me I have a hardware problem- a CRC
> > error would indicate a bad disk. But, I did a full format of all
> > partitions when installing, including checking for bad blocks, and this
> > machine has worked flawlessly with Win2K and ME for nearly a year.
> >
> > Any ideas, besides replacing hardware? I'm just afraid that the day
> > will come when I can't boot at all.
> >
> > -Paul
> >
>
>
> what media are you booting from ?
>
>
have a look at these:
<http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2000-December/0007
86.html>
<http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2000-December/0007
87.html>
http://boudicca.tux.org/mhonarc/ma-linux/1999/1999-Jul/0525.html
good luck.
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Subject: Installing Sendmail....
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven Katz)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:59:37 GMT
Could anyone recommend some good online reading for setting up
Sendmail, qpopper, and whatever else in RH7? I wouldn't mind hearing
a convincing argument for using qmail instead, though I'm sure I can
find archives of plenty of that around here -- I just haven't had
much luck with deja since the google aquisition..
Thanks.
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:03:05 GMT
E J wrote:
> I have the same problem with RealPlayer 8 installing from rpm files on
> RH7.0. It will never work.
> Stop banging your head into the brick wall and abandon the rpm installation
> and use the binary installer of Real Player 8.
Actually, that's a real good idea. rpm's are real nice and all, but...
- John
> Works great for me.
>
> shaughn b wrote:
>
>
>> Hi... I'm trying to install/upgrade to Realplayer 8 from 5.0 which came
>> with the SuSe 7.0 distro. I am using a Toshiba 500CDT laptop with
>> 120MHz P1, 48M RAM. I have downloaded the rpm from the Real site, but
>> no matter what install options I use, --install --upgrade --nodeps
>> --force, etc, I get the message as follows...
>>
>> prompt > rpm -i rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm
>> package RealPlayer-8.0-1 is for a different architecture
>> prompt >
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need PAP dialup help pretty damn soon
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:13:56 GMT
Charles:
See:
http://www.linuxports.com/howto/ppp/x425.htm
The three reasons this can be happening are summarized as:
"You are not correctly logging into the server"
"You are not starting PPP on the server"
"The remote PPP process is slow to start"
The few times I've heard of this, often fiddling with the last problem
is the first place to start on your end..
...read the page at the url, above.
- John
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Charles Packer wrote:
> In the
> meantime, it occurred to me to look at /var/log/messages
> after my existing script got bounced out of Verio's new
> number, and it shows this:
>
> Mar 10 20:41:47 localhost pppd[292]: Using interface ppp0
> Mar 10 20:41:47 localhost pppd[292]: Connect: ppp0 <-->
> /dev/modem
> Mar 10 20:42:17 localhost pppd[292]: LCP: timeout sending
> Config-Requests
> Mar 10 20:42:17 localhost pppd[292]: Connection terminated.
> Mar 10 20:42:17 localhost pppd[292]: Receive serial link is
> not 8-bit clean:
> Mar 10 20:42:17 localhost pppd[292]: Problem: all had bit 7
> set to 0
> Mar 10 20:42:18 localhost pppd[292]: Exit.
>
> Is the business about "Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean"
> just for my information or is that the reason I got bounced?
> And if the latter, what is the fix? Parameter to chat or pppd?
> Something added to the modem string?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Help Me Configure My SuSe Linux 7.1 to access Internet....
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:13:56 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:51:59 +0400, Ajit Murthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>COuld anyone help me configure my SuSE Linux to access the internet.
>I'm a new user and facing some dfficulties in doing the same.....
We can tell since you posted in html and included an ivy.gif
attachment. Please post news in plain text.
First you have to determine what type of modem you have ISA with jumpers,
PnP (with or without jumpers), PCI or pcmcia (pc card) and that is is not
a controllerless modem (aka, Windmodem), although, limited support for
those is at http://www.linmodems.org/
See what 'demsg' command or /var/log/messages shows for what you think
your modem is. Just leave out the leading zero of the device number when
referring to the serial port. The following is an example where ttyS2
does not show the proper UART because default irq is not correct for what
is actually the infrared port (my pc card modem ends up as ttyS1).
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 8250
Test it with 'minicom' to see if you get any response to AT commands.
On the KDE menu have you tried Internet, Internet Dialer?
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From: Bora Ugurlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: howto enlarge linux partition
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 04:23:03 +0100
John Thompson wrote:
> H Dziardziel wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:30:41 +0100, Joris Roefs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Maybe you should switch to a newer version, let's say 6?
>> >I also enlarged my Ext2-partition and it worked for me...
>
>> Hi, are you saying it was able to increase the ext2 partition
>> without having to recreate the file system by moving the data out
>> first? Thanks for any info on this.
>
> Yes. Partition Magic has been able to do this with ext2
> filesystems since v4; it is now at v6. I've used it to resize and
> move ext2 partitions without any serious problems, but YMMV of
> course.
>
>
Partition magic for Linux?
Or do you do it under windoze?
Bora
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dialing from command line....please help
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:31:34 +1100
Can't help directly, but there is a PPP-HOWTO
which covers command line dialup
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fail006 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98eoct$1dn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I am ruunning redhat 7, i would like to know how could connect to my isp
> from the command line.
> I have tried wvdial, but how do i tellit to use chap and not pap?
> I have used diald, same problem?
> Is there a easier way?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: How To configure PPTP(or VPN) in linux?
Date: 11 Mar 2001 04:45:16 +0100
Hi,
I am using SuSE linux 6.3 .
I want to connect to my VPN . HOw to configure
VPN service in linux?? ANd how to activate
when ever needed ..( means the rest of time i will not use it
i only use the internet for public site browsing..)..
Can any one help with clear handy description..??
thanks,
Srinivas.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: What is this RPM... in linux??
Date: 11 Mar 2001 04:48:34 +0100
HI,
I am new to linux and using SuSE linux 6.3.
I want to know about this RPM( redhat package manager)..
1. Is it similar thing like 'ar'?
2. How can get the files containing in a src rpm package( the
synatax)..??
thanks,
Srinivas.
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why does it state that the linux can not be found in CDROM
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:51:20 GMT
umm..
Not to ask the obvious, but somebody's got to:
You *did* have the Red Hat cd in the cd-rom drive, didn't you?
And it was the *install* cd, not one with doc's on it or sources?
- John
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raymond wrote:
> Dear everyone,
> This is my first time to install the Linux to my computer which has
> window 98 already stored in it .
> i boot the computer with the Red hat boot disk, after selecting the
> language and keyboard type,
> it ask me to choose the media containing the packages for installation. But
> after i click "local CDROM", a window pops out and say no linux packages
> were found in the cdrom drive....what can i do?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: Any public anonymous CVS available to download the source and
Date: 11 Mar 2001 04:51:44 +0100
Hi,
Instead of downloading a tar.gz files and unzip it..
any public(anonymous allowable) CVS site available..
so that always i can checkout and update....easily...
thanks,
Srinivas.
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From: "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org>
Subject: Re: Multibooting...
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:56:30 -0000
Wayne Howarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98b1bp$l1v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Due to the fact that I have a Linux boot partition installed on a cylinder
>
> 1024 I am unable to boot into Linux with Lilo. I have since installed
> another generic boot manager which I still can't get to work. Basically I
> have the following:
>
> Size OS
> ---------------------
> 9GBWinME
> 24MB Linux Boot
> 9GB Linux
> 70MB Linux Swap
>
> Although the Linux Boot partition contains the kernel images, do I still
> need to install Lilo on this specific partition.
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne.
>
>
>
>
>
if vmlinuz alone on a floppy disk is bootable (ie.can mount / without lilo)
......(fact)
installing lilo wont hurt......
you might wanna upgrade lilo..........
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From: Alasdair Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie needs help to install SuSE Linux 7.1 on SCSI hard drive.
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:48:06 +0000
I am a total newbie when it comes to Linux. Any help will most
gratefully appreciated.
I am trying to install SUSE Linux 7.1 on to a SCSI hard drive
controlled by an AdvanSys ABP5140 adapter. Unfortunately, the
installation program YaST2 doesn't recognise the SCSI hard drive
although it sees the IDE ones.
When I try to install the AdvanSys module, it asks for the parameter
and gives an example of a parameter as "afc_iopf lag=1
afc_ioport=0x110". I don't understand what this means.
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"It's not what you say that matters but how you say it.
It's not what you do that matters but how you do it"
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is this RPM... in linux??
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 04:01:06 GMT
Srinivas:
v.naga srinivas wrote:
> HI,
> I am new to linux and using SuSE linux 6.3.
> I want to know about this RPM( redhat package manager)..
Red Hat's rpm system is a *little* like M$oft's *.cab system.
It packages software into a file that can be installed with simple
commands. Beyond that, a database archives the state of the rpm's
on a system, etc etc; and it's even possible to create your own rpm's
(try that with M$oft.. ;-)
See: man rpm
> 1. Is it similar thing like 'ar'?
tar? It goes beyond archiving/compression.
> 2. How can get the files containing in a src rpm package( the
> synatax)..??
The usual (simple) syntax is rpm -v <install-options> [your.rpm.file.name.here]
>
> thanks,
> Srinivas.
HTH..
- John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Subject: Re: Swap space
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 04:18:15 GMT
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:41:29 +0000, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|With RAM getting cheaper, I now have more RAM than I had in hard drive
|space
|two years ago. The old formula, as I recall is 2X RAM in Swap space, no
|swap
|partition larger than 128M.
|
|Does that still hold true? Have 512 M RAM now, do I need 4 x 128M swap
|files? Seems a
|bit much.
|
|I think its related to use, and I mostly do web surfing and word
|processing. Some
|game playing, but not that much.
|
|Your comments please.
(WARNING: All following information is correct as I understand things,
but I have been known to be wrong, on occasion.)
I think the 2xRAM formula derives from (old?) BSD UNIX variants
where the RAM was mirrored into swap (for paging space) when it
was allocated and the additional swap was for virtual memory
and/or process swapping.
Currently Linux kernels use RAM + SWAP as the largest amount of
virtual memory a process can have. (Kernel memory + a few other
things are subtraced from available RAM first).
Also, the 128Mb maximum has been lifted for swap partitions.
My system currently has:
$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda1 partition 461120 1296 -1
/dev/hdc1 partition 512024 0 -2
Which gives me almost 1Gb of swap space (almost none of which gets used).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miasmal)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: pcmcia setup
Date: 10 Mar 2001 23:10:30 -0500
I'm trying to set up a D-Link de-660ct pcmcia network card on my laptop
(Toshiba 2545xcdt) on Redhat 7.0 (2.2.16-22).
cardctl status and cardctl config shows that the system recognizes the
card, but cardctl ident tells me "no product info avail"
I tried adding some info in network.opts (it was blank), but I don't think
it's being read. ifconfig shows only 'lo' available.
What is a quick and dirty way of setting this up? The card will be
installed indefinitely, I don't need hot-swapping capability.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: why does it state that the linux can not be found in CDROM
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 04:42:48 GMT
raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear everyone,
> This is my first time to install the Linux to my computer which has
> window 98 already stored in it .
> i boot the computer with the Red hat boot disk, after selecting the
> language and keyboard type,
> it ask me to choose the media containing the packages for installation. But
> after i click "local CDROM", a window pops out and say no linux packages
> were found in the cdrom drive....what can i do?
How did you get the bootdisk and the CD? Were these something you
downloaded and then burned, or did you get them as is?
Kris
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From: "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org>
Subject: Re: Frequent crashes
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 04:51:27 -0000
Bernard DEBREIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have installed RH 6.0, both at home and at work. At home, it works
> fine on my old Fujitsu (Cyrix P200+, 133 Mhz, 32 Mb RAM, multiboot with
> W3.1, W95 and Linux), without any problems so far, while I am having
> problems at work, with a Compaq Deskpro, Intel 175 Mhz, 64 Mb RAM,
> dualboot W98/Linux. Installations are quite similar, except for the fact
> that, at home, I connect to Internet via modem and Internet provider,
> while at work I am connected via a private network.
>
> At home, my installation is more that a year old, while at work I
> implemented it only three weeks ago. At the beginning, it worked fine...
> but, now, various things crash very often, mostly when using StarOffice
> 5.1. Sometimes this is just SO that crashes ; some other times, I get
> thrown out of the X server (fvwm2). SO is not likely to be the sole
> problem, since the system also crashes when SO is not launched, even if
> this does not happen as often as when SO is open.
>
> I realize that whomever will read this, is not able to tell me what is
> wrong. But, maybe, someone could tell me where to check, what error
> messages should I search, etc... I did not find anything interresting in
> /var/log/messages. True enough, my X server may have not been installed
> in the rules : I couldn't find any doc for my video card and display,
> so, I tried a few thing, and, in the end, got something that seemed to
> work perfectly. I don't think that the problem lie within my X server
> config, or, if it does, I am to wonder why it did work so well for 2
> weeks or so ?
>
> Thanks for any hint
>
make the default run level: 3, and type: startx -- into an X session
when it crashes I usually find my way (via Alt+F1 etc...) to the terminal
where I initiated run level 5 (X)
it usually has a dump of what went wrong right there....
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From: "G. Hugh Song" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux.best,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: how to enable ReiserFS?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:55:59 +0900
Paul Colquhoun wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:08:32 +0800, tin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |after i compile my kernel support ReiserFS
> |how to convect my existing EXT2 to ReiserFS?
>
> I did this a few weeks ago.
>
> First, some questions. Do you have a seperate /boot partition?
> Did you make reiserfs a module, or is it compiled into the kernel?
>
> My situation is: /boot is a seperate partition and reiserfs is *not*
> a module.
>
> Saying that, here's how I did it.
>
> I turned a spare partition into a second root partition, including
> all software I needed to boot and run.
>
> Make a second lilo.conf entry listing the new partiton ar root.
>
> Boot from new partition.
>
> Mount all yoru partitons under some place like /mnt/hda1 /mnt/hda2 etc...
>
> For each partiton you want to convert, backup the contents somewhere,
> unmount the partition, reformat with mkresierfs, remount and restore
> the backup.
>
> *MUST DO*
> Before you reboot edit the /etc/fstab on your old root partition
> (ie /mnt/hda1/etc/fstab) to list all the changes partitons as reiserfs
> instead of ext2, and make the 'fsck pass' field entry a '0' for
> these partitions as well.
>
> This took most of one evening. Now /boot is my onlt non-resiser
> partition. I gather that the most recent lilo can even boot from
> a reiser /boot but I havn't bothered.
>
> --
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> Universal Life Church http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
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I did exactly what you wrote. However, when I boot the thing, the
machine tries to do file system checking even though the fifth and
sixth fields are both zero in /etc/fstab. The machine then stops
and asks me to do something in a single-user mode on a read-only
file system of / (the root partition). It appears that the SuSE-7.0
configuration somehow assumes that / is formated as ext2.
Are you using redhat?
Thanks.
--
G. Hugh Song
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From: Jim Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 05:12:53 GMT
I found this on the 'realplayer' site somewhere and it does work.
You must use a "--ignorearch" option. I assume this means ignore the=20
architecture of the system. The two dashes are required.
Jim
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/10/01, 5:28:59 PM, shaughn b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote=20
regarding RealPlayer 8 refuses to install:
> Hi... I'm trying to install/upgrade to Realplayer 8 from 5.0 which ca=
me
> with the SuSe 7.0 distro. I am using a Toshiba 500CDT laptop with
> 120MHz P1, 48M RAM. I have downloaded the rpm from the Real site, but=
> no matter what install options I use, --install --upgrade --nodeps
> --force, etc, I get the message as follows...
> prompt > rpm -i rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm
> package RealPlayer-8.0-1 is for a different architecture
> prompt >
> I don't get it. The website says it's for Linux.
> Anybody know what's up?
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