Linux-Setup Digest #908, Volume #20 Sun, 25 Mar 01 16:13:11 EST
Contents:
fips and Windows2000 w/ FAT32 (Damien Mulligan)
CD Burning Question (Randy Broman)
Re: Copying /etc/passwd from one machine to another (H.Bruijn)
Re: uname -r gives incorrect kernel version ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Diskless installs, single floppy firewall/ip masq ? and rr cable modem. (peter)
Re: Installation problems for newbie (David Courard-Hauri)
Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE! (Scott Alfter)
Re: Are unused blocks BAD blocks? (Query_String)
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? (Off Topic!) ("Iain Buchanan")
Re: SCSI controller (Michael Heiming)
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) (Tim Hanson)
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From: Damien Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fips and Windows2000 w/ FAT32
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:09:51 +0100
Hi,
I've gotten an oem with Win2K pre-installed. The hd is not currently
partitioned. I'm considering attempting to use fips to repartition my
hd to install RedHat.
Does anyone know whether this will/will not work? I know that there are
claims that it will work with Windows95 FAT32 but I've heard that the
FAT32 which Win2K uses is different!
Can anyone shed any light on this? Are there any gotchas I can look out
for?
thanks,
Damien
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From: Randy Broman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: CD Burning Question
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:27:30 -0800
I have a RedHat 7.0 system with a SONY CD-RW CRX120E drive, which I
want to
use to burn (data) CD's This system also has a 3ware RAID controller,
which uses its
own SCSI driver.
I've configured and loaded the ide-scsi module, but the system doesn't
seem to be
detecting the CD-RW drive correctly. See relevant portion of
/var/log/dmesg output
below, followed by my attempt to invoke xcdroast. Following that, I put
the output
of lsmod, and the relevant portion of my .config file for the kernel
compile.
Ideas on what's wrong appreciated.
Also, a question related to the CD burning process. What I want to do is
duplicate a
data CD. The system has one CD drive - the Sony indicated above. I'm
assuming what
I do is:
1) Read/copy from the source CD to a temporary location on my hard disk,
then
2) Write/copy from the temporary location on my hard disk to the target
CD (ie. "burn a CD")
Do I have to do a mkisofs for both the temporary hard disk location, and
for the target
CD, to make iso9660 filesystems, prior to the copies in both cases? Does
this mean I have
to have a "spare" partition on my hard disk available on which to make
the iso9660
filesystem? What command do I use to do the actual copying .... "cp" or
something
else?
Thanx!
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[root@jboat5 /root]# cat /var/log/dmesg.
[etc]
[etc]
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.13)
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
scsi0 : 3ware Storage Controller
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: 3ware Model: 3w-xxxx Rev: 1.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 120068865 [58627 MB]
[58.6 GB] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX120E Rev: 1.0j
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
[etc]
[etc]
[root@jboat5 /root]# xcdroast
** ERROR **: cdrecord -scanbus output syntax error
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)
******************************************
[root@jboat5 /root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
sg 12160 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17264 1 (autoclean)
cdrom 26976 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod]
w83781d 17216 0 (unused)
i2c-isa 1152 0 (unused)
emu10k1 41104 0
soundcore 2384 4 [emu10k1]
ide-scsi 7408 1
3w-xxxx 23792 6
*******************************************
#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
.
.
.
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
#
# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
.
.
#
# Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
--
"Don't spend $2 to dry-clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead.
They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for 75 cents."
,-. |\_/| Randy Broman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Copying /etc/passwd from one machine to another
Date: 25 Mar 2001 18:52:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:36:24 GMT, L Mitchell allegedly wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>How do you folks move over users from one machine to another. Okay I'm
>assuming you are not using NIS. I've to setup a new server and after
>installing OS, I'll have to either recreate users (keeping the same UID's
>and GID's or the file permissions will be screwed) or transfer the old user
>account and data files to the new machine. The easiest way I can think of
>is:
>
>Copy only user entries from old /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow
>files and add them to the corresponding files on the new machine.
>Copy old /home directory to the new machine
>
>On a sidenote, how do you find out whether the encrypted passwords will work
>on different versions of the same OS and on different flavours of UNIX? That
>is, if I copy the user accounts from Solaris 7 to a Redhat Linux 7 box, will
>that work?
Trial and error. Between linux machines it's best to check /etc/pam.d/
to find out which hash algorithm is used to encrypt the passwords.
Simple crypt (quite weak, but very common, maximum of 8 chrarcter-
passwords supported) bigcrypt (extension of crypt to allow longer
passwords) md5 (much stronger and gaining popularity, quite often the
default on newer distro's) are the most common choices. As long as both
machines have identical settings, password files can be shared.
IIRC they are compatible between different unix flavours, as the
mathematical formulae for password encryption are identical. It
is just that some implementations may be different, same
may allow extra fields in the password files for custom info etc.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uname -r gives incorrect kernel version
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:03:26 +0200
Mike Ruskai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To install Slackware 7.1, I had to boot from the Slackware 7.0 scsinet.s
> disk, because the aic7xxx driver compiled into the 7.1 version is broken.
> Now I've recompiled the kernel (after putting the old aic7xxx sources in,
> of course), but uname -r returns the incorrect kernel version, which
> screws up some of the startup scripts. It's saying 2.2.13, when the
> kernel is in fact 2.2.16.
Then you did it wrong.
> Where does this program get the version from? It's definitely not from
>From the kernel.
> the kernel itself. I've seen references to System.map when searching for
It most certainly is!
cat /proc/sys/kernel/version
> an answer, so I copied the one from /usr/src/linux-2.2.16, but that
> changed nothing.
> How do I fix this?
By fixing your bodged kernel compile. Do it again.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat???
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:17:30 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] �crivait/wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) �crivait/wrote:
>>>Come on! Go for Progeny then! Their rc is already out and I doubt Ian
>>>Murdoch is the kind to hone his ax against other distros.
>>
>>Sorry I have no idea what Progeny is, or who Ian Murdoch is. Murdoch
>>sounds familiar, but can't finger him.
>
>www.progeny.org
Oups! www.progeny.com of course.
As for the Murdock name that sounds familiar, it could be Rupert
Murdock, the press tycoon. I believe he is dead. Disappeared on his
boat or something like that.
Zhero Man
>>BTW, no one is branching a new compiler. This is just plain FUD.
>
>Current snapshots of GCC, and any version labeled 2.96, produce object
>files that are not compatible with those produced by either GCC 2.95.2
>or the forthcoming GCC 3.0. Therefore, programs built with these
>snapshots will not be compatible with any official GCC release.
>
>http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
>
>It seems Mandrake and Red Hat have been developping the compiler
>without any collaboration with gcc.gnu. Check:
>
>http://www.linux-quebec.org/archives/general/msg02023.html
>
>And then explain what the hell is going on. I'm all ears!
>
>Zhero
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From: peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.linux
Subject: Diskless installs, single floppy firewall/ip masq ? and rr cable modem.
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:41:56 GMT
I'm trying to setup a single floppy firewall/proxy/ip masq. on a 486
with two NE2000 network cards.
What the best/easiest way to go ? I have roadrunner cable modem. So I
need DHCP...
I lost the link to a web site that had every tiny install out there,
does anyone have the link ?
I've tried the LRP, but the ne2000.img keep returning a disk error
when I tried to rawrite...is there a special way I have to "format"
the floppy ?
Any help in these area will be greatly appreciated !
Thanks,
Peter
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From: David Courard-Hauri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installation problems for newbie
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:59:50 GMT
I don't know how to stop the screen, but you ought to be able to check out
what it said in your boot.log file (or maybe boot.log.1, or some variation).
Everything that the computer prints to the screen gets written there as well.
You can probably find this file in the /var/log directory, or somewhere
similar. If you can't find it there, maybe go to the / directory and try
"find . -name boot*" if your disk isn't too full... I imagine there's a
better way, but I'm pretty much a newbie as well...
Saurabh wrote:
> hi!
> can someone tell me that how can i stop the screen while linux is
> installing. The screen moves so fast that i cant even see the errors due to
> which it aborts installation.
--
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David Courard-Hauri
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Drake University -- Olin Hall
2507 University Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50311
voice: 515.271.3812
fax: 515.271.3702
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE!
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:17:18 -0000
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>Hun wrote:
>>
>> If you consider only the web browser, Yeah! still there is
>> no Web browser like IE. Especailly, when you visit M$
>> friendly web site.
>>
>IE doesn't work properly with www.microsoft.com! Visit it
>with IE, and much of the time it only renders the banner!
You must have a badly-damaged IE install or a really old (<3.0) version of
IE for it to be doing that. About the only time I run into problems with
www.microsoft.com is when I've reinstalled WinNT on some old box and need to
patch/update it, and in that case, IE can be downloaded on another machine
and burned to CD-R so it can be installed. Once that's done and the
latest/greatest version is installed, everything else goes pretty smoothly.
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/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
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From: Query_String <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Are unused blocks BAD blocks?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:22:00 GMT
Mark Dickie wrote:
>
> Query_String wrote:
...
> > /dev/hdd8 1002 1071 562243+ 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hdd9 1072 3736 21406581 83 Linux
> > This drive was partitioned with cfdisk. The hpfs logicals were
> > formatted only under os2 and only cfdisk has ever written to the
> > disk tables. hdd9 was created using *all* remaining space above
> > hdd8 i.e. no freespace was left.
...
> > mke2fs -v -b 1024 -i 1024 /dev/hdd9
> >
> > And this reported
> >
> > Script started on Sat Mar 24 06:31:24 2001
> > mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> >
> > warning: 884 blocks unused.
...
> > What are the "884 blocks unused" ? This is the difference between
> > 21,405,697 and 21,406,581 but that's as far as I get |8-)
> >
> >
> > I'm not familiar with badblock handling i.e. does badblocks report
> > all bad blocks or only new ones not stored in whatever hidden file
> > that may exists for this?
> Unused blocks are blocks which are not part of a partition and are not bad
> just not used. Try ajusting the size of an adjacent partition to reclaim
> them.
> Hope that helps if not ask again and I'll try to say something more useful.
Thanks, it is welcome consolation, but I don't get it.
The only adjacent partition is hdd8-swap which was created
before hdd9 which in turn was created to include all remaining
disk space.
When I invoked mke2fs against hdd9 it was to make a fs
on a complete, whole and healthy partition.
cfdisk shows hdd9
42,813,225 sectors
21,406,612 and 1/2 1024-byte blocks which cfdisk rounds DOWN to
21,406,612 as shown. I can't get cfdisk to output blocks as
such though.
fdisk (which has never written to this disk) reads-in
42,813,161 sectors (derived from start-end)
21,406,580 and 1/2 1024-byte blocks which fdisk rounds UP to
21,406,581 as shownblocks
There's chickenshit here, in either case there might be 1 single
sector or 1/2 block unaccounted.
The hdd9 root sector is shown as 17,205,615 by cfdisk, and 17,205,678
by fdisk which is meaningless because fdisk never wrote to the table.
This 'could' account for a 63sector/32.5 block discrepancy but that is
still too low also.
I assume that when I turned mke2fs loose it looked up the table
as wrote by cfdisk and started with sector 17,205,615 ar root sector
and worked its way to the disk end at setor # 42,813,225 leaving this
top single sector alone.
I haven't got a clue where the 884 unused blocks would be or why.
I'm making a wrong assumption or missing some fine print somewhere.
Having heard that cfdisk was the best one to use because it is
reputed for being a hardcore disciplinarian, this was my first
adventure with it. There's next to nothing on hdd9 at this point
so I could still repeat ..but what and how?
For once in my life I decided to do it the right way and
used only a single utility (cfdisk) with a single excursion
to os2 to format (only) those two partitions. I checked
each for bad blocks before making the ext2 fs. I had even
played with cfdisk megabyte figures to arrive at nice and
even cylinder numbers knowing that cfdisk starts each partition
on a new cylinder.
Speaking of which... could it be that the 884 unused blocks
refer to the entire disk unused sectors/2 on account of holes
left to next head-0's at the top of each partition? They
were reported only with the last mke2fs.
With apologies for partial repetition, the entire exerise
log follows.
Thanks.
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30 gb Maxtor drive layout: Thursday Mar-22 2001
The disk was partitioned with cfdisk only
2 os2 partitioned formatted-only from os2
hdd7, hdd8swap and hdd9 made with mke2fs as below.
=============================================================
HDD7 badblock check (full-write) NEGATIVE
HDD7 MADE...
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
5144576 inodes, 5140768 blocks
257038 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
628 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409, 663553,
1024001, 1990657, 2809857, 5120001
Writing inode tables: 0/628
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
=============================================================
HDD8 badblock check (full-write) NEGATIVE
HDD8 mkswap ...done
=============================================================
HDD9 badblock check (full-write) NEGATIVE
HDD7 MADE...
Script started on Sat Mar 24 06:31:24 2001
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
warning: 884 blocks unused.
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
21405696 inodes, 21405697 blocks
1070329 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
2613 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409, 663553,
1024001, 1990657, 2809857, 5120001, 5971969, 17915905, 19668993
Writing inode tables: 0/2613
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
==============================================================
CFDISK CYLS (picture) OUTPUT
hdd5 Boot Logical NTFS 60*
hdd6 Logical NTFS 300
hdd7 Boot Logical Linux 640
hdd8 Logical Linux swap 70
hdd9 Logical Linux 2665
CFDISK TABLE OUTPUT
Partition Table for /dev/hdd
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
1 0x00 1 1 0 0x05 254 63 1023 63 60018777
2 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
5 0x80 2 1 0 0x07 254 63 60 63 979839
6 0x00 1 1 61 0x07 254 63 360 63 4819437
7 0x80 1 1 361 0x83 254 63 1000 63 10281537
8 0x00 1 1 1001 0x82 254 63 1023 63 1124487
9 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 42813162
CFDISK SECTOR OUTPUT
Partition Table for /dev/hdd
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID)
Flags
-- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ----------------------
=========
1 Primary 0 60018839 63 60018840 Extended (05)
None (00)
5 Logical 63* 979964 63 979902* HPFS/NTFS (07)
Boot (80)
6 Logical 979965 5799464 63 4819500 HPFS/NTFS (07)
None (00)
7 Logical 5799465 16081064 63 10281600 Linux (83)
Boot (80)
8 Logical 16081065 17205614 63 1124550 Linux swap (82)
None (00)
9 Logical 17205615 60018839 63 42813225 Linux (83)
None (00)
==================================================================
FDISK OUTPUT (read only)
Disk /dev/hdd: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 3736 30009388+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdd5 * 1 61 489919+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd6 62 361 2409718+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd7 * 362 1001 5140768+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdd8 1002 1071 562243+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdd9 1072 3736 21406581 83 Linux
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 63 60018839 30009388+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdd5 * 126 979964 489919+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd6 980028 5799464 2409718+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd7 * 5799528 16081064 5140768+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdd8 16081128 17205614 562243+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdd9 17205678 60018839 21406581 83 Linux
===================================================================
CFDISK RAW OUTPUT
Disk Drive: /dev/hdd
Sector 0:
0x000: FA B8 30 00 8E D0 BC 00 01 FB FC 33 C0 8E D8 8E
0x010: C0 BE 00 7C BF 00 7E B9 00 02 F3 A5 68 20 7E C3
0x020: BE FA 7E BB BE 7F 80 7F 04 0A 74 41 83 C3 10 81
0x030: FB FE 7F 7C F1 33 C0 CD 13 B4 08 B2 81 CD 13 72
0x040: 2C B9 B4 7F B2 81 E8 EE 00 0A E4 75 20 81 3E FE
0x050: 7D 55 AA 75 18 BB BE 7D 80 7F 04 0A 75 06 B2 81
0x060: 8B CB EB 31 83 C3 10 81 FB FE 7D 7C EB BB BE 7F
0x070: 33 C9 80 3F 80 75 08 0B C9 75 6D 8B CB EB 05 80
0x080: 3F 00 75 64 83 C3 10 81 FB FE 7F 7C E5 0B C9 75
0x090: 02 CD 18 B2 80 60 E8 21 00 61 52 51 E8 98 00 0A
0x0A0: E4 74 05 BE 0F 7F EB 40 BE 24 7F 81 3E FE 7F 55
0x0B0: AA 75 35 5E 5A EA 00 7C 00 00 B4 41 BB AA 55 CD
0x0C0: 13 72 18 81 FB 55 AA 75 12 80 FC 21 72 0D F6 C1
0x0D0: 01 74 08 66 B8 49 31 33 58 EB 02 33 C0 68 00 30
0x0E0: 0F A1 64 66 A3 00 00 C3 33 DB EB 02 CD 10 B4 0E
0x0F0: AC 0A C0 75 F7 FB EB FE 12 00 4F 53 2F 32 20 21
0x100: 21 20 53 59 53 30 31 34 36 32 0D 0A 00 12 00 4F
0x110: 53 2F 32 20 21 21 20 53 59 53 30 31 34 36 33 0D
0x120: 0A 00 12 00 4F 53 2F 32 20 21 21 20 53 59 53 30
0x130: 31 34 36 34 0D 0A 00 8B D9 BF 05 00 68 00 30 0F
0x140: A1 64 80 3E 00 00 49 74 18 8B 4F 02 8A 77 01 BB
0x150: 00 7C 33 C0 CD 13 B8 01 02 CD 13 73 03 4F 7F F2
0x160: C3 1E 66 8B 47 08 0F A0 1F BE 08 00 66 A3 04 00
0x170: 66 89 44 08 66 33 C0 C7 04 10 00 C7 44 02 01 00
0x180: C7 44 04 00 7C 89 44 06 66 89 44 0C 2B C0 CD 13
0x190: B4 42 CD 13 73 03 4F 77 F3 1F C3 00 00 00 00 00
0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 33 CC 00 01
0x1C0: 01 00 05 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 59 D0 93 03 00 00
0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA
Sector 63:
0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
all 0's
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 02
0x1C0: 01 00 07 FE 3F 3C 3F 00 00 00 7F F3 0E 00 00 00
0x1D0: 01 3D 05 FE 7F 68 BE F3 0E 00 2C 8A 49 00 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA
Sector 979965:
0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
all 0's
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
0x1C0: 01 3D 07 FE 7F 68 3F 00 00 00 ED 89 49 00 00 00
0x1D0: 41 69 05 FE FF E8 EA 7D 58 00 80 E2 9C 00 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA
Sector 5799465:
0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
all 0's
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 01
0x1C0: 41 69 83 FE FF E8 3F 00 00 00 41 E2 9C 00 00 00
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From: "Iain Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? (Off Topic!)
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:16:53 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> As for the Murdock name that sounds familiar, it could be Rupert
> Murdock, the press tycoon. I believe he is dead. Disappeared on his
> boat or something like that.
Hi...
Rupert Murdoch is the media tycoon... Owns Sky over here in the UK, and
loads of tabloids.
The other media tycoon that's dead and it his boat somehow was involved
(don't ask, I don't know!) was Robert Maxwell.
HTH!
Iain Buchanan
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:26:35 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI controller
Vicky Ng wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if Redhat 7.0 or Mandrake 7.02 support Promise Ultra66 IDE
> Controller?
>
> Vicky
Hello Vicky,
after reading posts like yours several times...is XY working
with RH x.x or Mandrake x.x, I asked myself why don't the OP(s)
just don't check the distros online hw DB?
I use SuSE and never had any problems finding some hw in the hw DB.
This time I checked www.redhad.com:
Not possible to find, the hw DB is not very useable.
For mandrake I found this page, which verified my presumption,
that mandrake is a distro for someone who knows what he/she is doing.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3
Last thing to try was the SuSE hw DB http://www.suse.com/
supported by Kernel > 2.2.12; maybe problematic with attached ATAPI Zip Drive or
DVD
Michael Heiming
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:24:52 -0800
From: Tim Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
I am an enthusiastic SuSE user, although I make no money off SuSE. Add
salt to taste.
peter wrote:
>
> I've heard great things about the new Suse distro,
That is correct. It is quite an advance and will be hard to compete
against, especially for getting new users to try Linux. For me, as a
user since 5.1, it is just an upgrade, although this time I bought a DVD
player so the update went much faster. The books alone are worth the
price.
> but I was told by
> someone that I should use the same distro that I use at work.
There will be some differences and some similarities. Linus Torvalds
has said he uses Red Hat at work (Transmeta) and SuSE at home. I don't
know if that's still true or not.
Generally, there will be a slight but not overpowering learning curve.
Both are rpm-type systems. SuSE uses one big /etc/rc.config file. SuSE
has gotten more KDE-centric over the last year, although GNOME is
up-to-date and available on the disk. For myself, old dog that I am, I
still use FVWM2, although I like and use a lot of the GNOME
applications.
I have a copy of Debian on one of my computers, which was a little more
difficult.
> At work
> we use Red Hat, at home I just setup Mandrake 7.1, but everyone says
> the new Suse distro is good and also Mandrake 7.2 is good.
I think both are iterations of the 2.4 kernel.
SuSE's advantage is raw bang for the buck and lately add ease of
installation for newbies. The Professional Edition has seven packed CDs
or one DVD (all supplied). Through YaST you can add and subtract
packages without worrying about dependencies and conflicts. For me that
has meant the ability to just leave the DVD in the drive permanently and
install things when needed. For someone with a modem connection, all
those packages locally will save a _lot_ of download time.
> What are the differences of these distros and versions ?
>
> Is there a different file structure or something different in each
> distro that will mess up my learning curve ?
I don't know about the other distros, but with SuSE you can get a
running system going now and worry about the learning curve later.
>
> Is the new software in mandrake 7.2 (or Suse) all that ?
>
> Which is faster, I've got a few older machine I would like to install
> Linux on (P166/32 megs, etc) ?
I don't think it matters that much. All three of these use mostly the
same stuff. I think Star Office is a lost cause. :-)
>
> Thanks
--
Show respect for age. Drink good Scotch for a change.
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