Linux-Setup Digest #98, Volume #21 Mon, 23 Apr 01 18:13:17 EDT
Contents:
Re: Installing Redhat 7.0 ("GELand")
Re: how to make up a boot cdrom of redhat7.1 from its iso ?
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: which is the better linux distribution? (Zen Sorcerer)
Re: Install problem... (Steve)
Re: I'm Impressed! (John Thompson)
Re: which is the better linux distribution? (John Thompson)
Re: basic setup question
Re: I'm Impressed! ("ppp")
Re: GPM to Xfree86 4.x (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: ln swapper task - not syncing (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Web admin-interface with Qmail ??? ("D. Abuan")
Cups problems... always cups problems.... (Ninja IX)
Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!) ("Big T")
Partitioning for large HDD (P. U. Psilanimous)
SMP Question (Jeff)
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm (Stuart Cianos)
Partitioning - best options? (John)
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm (None)
DNS, nslookup troubles ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem with port redirection ... ("aro")
ps2 mouse doesnt work, resource or device busy (ermintrude)
Switching from win98 to Linux (Randy Hamlin)
Re: Problem with port redirection ... (H.Bruijn)
Re: Switching from win98 to Linux (H.Bruijn)
Re: Switching from win98 to Linux (Jagged)
Re: Switching from win98 to Linux (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Switching from win98 to Linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Partitioning for large HDD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Patching the kernel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "GELand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:14:56 GMT
Will do
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> GELand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Disregard that last reply, I found out what UMSDOS is.
> > The 16 GB partition is FAT32 and is currently empty. It will be used
for
> > the Linux install. I plan to allow Linux to use whatever filesystem it
> > needs.
>
> Better remove it then! (You need several partitions to support linux,
> so the first thing you will do is remove the one big one you have
> sitting there and replace it with free space).
>
> Peter
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to make up a boot cdrom of redhat7.1 from its iso ?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:18:25 +0200
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, stephen wrote:
> I have downlaod the redhat7.1 two *.iso , and extrace the 2
> *.iso . Then use nero5.0 to burn it to cdrom disk. I can
> boot from redhat7.1 from the cdrom disk. After about 4 steps
> of the installation, the boot disk tell me that it can't find
> any redhat7.1 cdrom disk in the cd rom drive. But I can see
> the whole source of the disk under windows system.
>
> Did anybody encounter the same problem as mine ?
> What should I do now or what should I burn it with nero5.0?
>
> At nero setting: I choose "cd-rom (boot)"
>
> In the "Boot" 's tab, I choose "Image files"
> ==> D:\rehat71\Images\boot.img
That is wrong. The iso is bootable by default. Don't know Nero very
well, but you should have an option to 'burn from cd image' 'burn cd
from iso' or something like that. And do not make Nero choose a boot
image - the iso is already bootable...
Rasmus
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From: Zen Sorcerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which is the better linux distribution?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:30:05 -0000
edwin wrote:
>
>
> i'm currently using win98. i would like to switch to a linux platform, i
> may not want to have dual boot ie i may not want to install win98 on my
> machine.
> i'm choosing between mandrake 8.0 or redhat 7.1
> please advise. i'm using for development purposes eg c++ and java.
Mandrake 8.0 ships with an older version of Red Hat's gcc 2.96 compiler.
According to the latest surveys by IDC, Inc. 75% of all Linux
developers use Red Hat. I personally use Red Hat. But you should try them
both and find out for yourself which one you perfer.
For C programming it doesn't really matter which compiler you use...2.95.3
or egcs 1.1.2 will work fine. But for C++ you should use a more up to date
compiler like Red Hat's 2.96. It's faster and generates considerably better
code.
--
University of California, Berkeley
Dept. of Computer Science
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install problem...
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:30:26 +0100
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:33:51 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Don't use cfdisk. Use fdisk. (I don't care what the author says about
>bugs - cfdisk is plain incomprehensible).
Right o.
>apparently your kernel does not support disks over 32GB. Use a
>different kernel. Slack 7.1 and 7.2 are out, aren't they? I believe you
>need at least 2.2.18 kernels for large disk support.
That'll be it then. Thanks!
>> My systems is configured as follows:
>
>> C:\ (40Gb) running Win98SE split into 3 partitions
>
>You mean C: D: and E:.
C: E: and F:
>> D:\ (15Gb) running Win2000 slit into 2 partitions
>
>You mean F: and G:
D: and G: :-)
>> A third bare 4Gb disk on which I wish to install slacky
>
>> All partitioning was done with Partition Magic 6. It's the same whether I
>
>Well, don't.
Too late.
Cheers Peter.
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Steve.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: I'm Impressed!
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:26 -0500
Rand Simberg wrote:
> But back to my question--is an 8MHz 486 fast enough to not be a
> firewall bottleneck on a DSL connection?
8mhz? I don't think they made 486's slower than 25mhz. Or did
you mean 8MB RAM? In that case it should be OK, provided you're
careful with what you install and run on the box. If it's simply
a firewall machine there should be no problem.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which is the better linux distribution?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:59:35 -0500
edwin wrote:
> i'm currently using win98. i would like to switch to a linux platform, i
> may not want to have dual boot ie i may not want to install win98 on my
> machine.
> i'm choosing between mandrake 8.0 or redhat 7.1
> please advise. i'm using for development purposes eg c++ and java.
That's kind of like asking "which toothpaste is best, Colgate or
Crest?" It probably doesn't matter much. Just try the one most
convenient for you. I started with RedHat because my local public
library had some linux books with CD's in the back and of those
the RedHat CD was the most recent. I installed from that and it
worked fine.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: basic setup question
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:52:37 +0100
wow... was that such a hard questio?
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:_vSE6.1144$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi,
>
> i installed linux on a win98 box expecting the 98 installation to be
> completely wipedin favour of linux and after several hours of installation
> when i rebooted all i got was windows with a .img file in the root of c:\
>
> it was rh7.
>
> then I tried booting from the floppy and it comes up boot: and when I
press
> enter I get an error (something like 0X10 or so).
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
>
>
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From: "ppp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm Impressed!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:56:18 GMT
>
> But back to my question--is an 8MHz 486 fast enough to not be a firewall
> bottleneck on a DSL connection?
>
>
>
Hell my mini linux on a floopy running on a 386 dx40 with no harddrive
has no trouble serving as a NAT firewall. 486 is plenty fast enough.
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GPM to Xfree86 4.x
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:57:03 +0200
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, John Hong wrote:
> I would like to use GPM in order to control the mouse while under
> Xfree86. How can this be done?
Eh what? XFree86 has its own mouse handling so no need to use gpm _in_
X. And gpm can run while X is running and vice versa, so I'm afraid, I
do not see the problem?
Rasmus
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: ln swapper task - not syncing
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:00:40 +0200
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, scotth wrote:
> Hello all.
> I installed Redhat Linux on my AMD Duron 700 with 128mb of PC133 memory.
> After the installation was completed successfully, and the system rebooted,
> I got a kernel panic and the following error message
> "ln swapper task - not syncing "
> I have a swap partition of 128mb.
> Can anyone please help me?
Not without more info. What is the error above "ln swapper task - not
syncing" (You need _all_ of it). And more details about the hardware...
I'll probably not be able to help you myself - but I certainly know that
the above error comes after a bunch of errors - and they are important.
You could try to boot with the cd. So do a 'linux
root=/dev/<linux-root>' - and tell if you can boot this way. If you can
just get into the system, there is light (and hope) at the end of the
tunnel.
Also - what version of RedHat?
Rasmus
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From: "D. Abuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Web admin-interface with Qmail ???
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:07:15 GMT
Does anyone know where I can find some info on setting up
Qmail with a web admin front end?? Been running into brick walls
trying to find this.
Thanks again in advance : )
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From: Ninja IX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cups problems... always cups problems....
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:32:30 GMT
Hi,
I installed a Mandrake 7.2 gateway on my LAN (as a print server and many
more fonctions)
I'm fed up with cups, and what the hell did we do to be obliged to use this
shit, to see Samba working properly ?
Here is one of my problems : Cups always see a printer I have NEVER
configured, and the more I delete it using http://www.host.ld:631, the more
it creates new "virtual" printers I never asked for.
Then, I cannot use the other "good" printer (always seen as stopped on the
web interface)
You know, i'm still at the beginner level using RPM to install new
components... so :
I tried removing all packages (cups, cups-drivers, samba, samba-common,
samba-client) all config files and directories (/var/spool/cups, /etc/cups,
/etc/smb.conf, /etc/printcap, etc/etcaetera.... :), I even tried lots of
different versions of those components..... I killed daemons, I even
rebooted........ WHAT THE HELL CAN I DO TO DELETE THOSE PRINTERS ???!!!!
If anyone knows exactly which files I should edit/delete, please anwer my
request, or else I... or else I... or else I install a Windows NT server
box instead !!
Thx
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From: "Big T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:37:35 GMT
SMB signing.
"Ronald Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Mark_Harju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Many thanks to all who gave tips!
> >
> > Interesting note: My Win95 laptop logs in to Samba without a problem, so
> > I'm guessing this issue is due to a Win98 password encryption feature
> > which must be disabled in the registry. A PhD from Oz tipped me off to
> > this. No worries, mate!
> >
> > Thanks again to all who replied!
>
> Why didn't you tell us that you didn't care if your password was sent
> over the network in plaintext where Joe Hacker and his brother can
> sniff it? Well, that's a horse of a different color!
>
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From: P. U. Psilanimous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitioning for large HDD
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:40:44 GMT
I am planning to install RH 7.1 on a 30GB hard drive. I have done
this with RH 7.0 but I found that it operates very slowly. I had
partitioned the disc as 64MB linux swap and the rest as linux native.
Would it speed up the operation if I divide the disc into smaller
partitions; e.g; 10GB at /, 10GB at /usr and remainder at some other
point like /var ?
I am planning to replace the 7.0 since I was not very happy with it so
I will be partitioning from scratch.
TIA
Darrell
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMP Question
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:44:25 -0400
If this is not the correct newsgroup, please forgive:
I'm trying to setup a RH 7.1 box with two pentium III 1 Gig processors and
1.5 Gig Ram. I've installed two partitions, one that works and one that
doesn't. The one that works is running RH 7.1 however using the BOOT
kernel, while the partition that doesn't work is attempting to a compiled
kernel with:
i. SMP flag set;
ii. RTC (Real Time Clock) flag set;
iii. MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) flag set; and
iv. No Advance Power Management flag set
As per the HOWTO.
And yet I get the following boot sequences messages prior to the "crash"
CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
CPU1 has booted.
Total of 2 processors activated (4010.80 BogoMIPS).
Before bogocount - setting activated=1.
Boot done.
ENABLING IO_APIC IRQs
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
Synchronizing Arb IDs
..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
... And then nothing.
Any insight into how I can get this partition working would be greatfully
accepted.
It might be best to reply to my email as well as posting here, so that I
see your response.
Cheers
============================
Jeff Gardiner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
System Administrator
The John. P. Robarts Research Institute
Second Law of Blissful Ignorance --
-- Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Cianos)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Date: 23 Apr 2001 21:01:33 GMT
In RedHat, you can also just type in up2date -U... This will download all
the relevent erratas and bugfixes for your system and install them in one
fell swoop. Kind of like the FreeBSD or Debian, for all us Redhat users...
- Stu
"mmnnoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <VuOa6.87815$ge4.33014830
@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>:
>I am sorry to hear what happened to you, but might I suggest
>using a firewall unless you really want to offer nfs to the world.
>
>Also, next time you upgrade or if you're thinking of reinstalling
>your system software so you can trust it again, consider using
>debian or FreeBSD as you can automatically update all the
>software on your system with one or two easy commands
>that can be run automatically.
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Subject: Partitioning - best options?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:08:03 GMT
Hi,
I would like to install linux (leaning towards RH7.1) I have used
Linux at work but have never installed it before. The thing I am wondering
about is partitioning. My computer came with 1 40GB ide HD partitioned
into 2 20GB partitions. drive "C" is winMe and I have not even touched
drive "D" (D is basically an empty FAT32 partition). I would like to put
linux on drive D, what are my best options for partitioning? should I use
fdisk or GNU parted? Forgive me, I am new to this!
Thanks,
John
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From: None <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:15:52 -0500
Isn't this "subscription only" now days?
On 23 Apr 2001 21:01:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Cianos) wrote:
>In RedHat, you can also just type in up2date -U... This will download all
>the relevent erratas and bugfixes for your system and install them in one
>fell swoop. Kind of like the FreeBSD or Debian, for all us Redhat users...
>
>- Stu
>
>
>"mmnnoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <VuOa6.87815$ge4.33014830
>@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>:
>
>>I am sorry to hear what happened to you, but might I suggest
>>using a firewall unless you really want to offer nfs to the world.
>>
>>Also, next time you upgrade or if you're thinking of reinstalling
>>your system software so you can trust it again, consider using
>>debian or FreeBSD as you can automatically update all the
>>software on your system with one or two easy commands
>>that can be run automatically.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DNS, nslookup troubles
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:10:59 GMT
HI all,
I have configured a DNS on my local lan
according to the DNS How-To
When I try 'dig' from the clients I get the expected results.
When I try 'nslookup' from the clients I get:
*** Can't find name server for address 131.120.6.129: Non-existant host/domain
*** Default servers are not available
My /etc/resolv.conf contains:
domain net3.cs.nps.navy.mil
nameserver 131.120.6.129
My /etc/hosts file contains:
127.0.0.1 localhost
131.120.6.129 spruance spruance.net3.cs.nps.navy.mil
131.120.6.130 halsey.net3.cs.nps.navy.mil halsey
Thanks in advance for your help
dave
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From: "aro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with port redirection ...
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:15:08 GMT
Hi ...
I have a linux with http,pop3 .. .and a Cable Modem conection , but ports
1-1024 are blocked ....
So i wanted to know something ... :
I used a free static ip service , but i can only redirect url like
aro.mine.nu:8888 --> aro.webhop.net
, is it possible to redirect the email server in the same way ...? i mean
aro.mine.nu port 25 blocked , i have to convert p.example in aro.mine.nu
port 5000 but with that direction mailaro.mine.nu ...
Thanks a lot
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From: ermintrude<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ps2 mouse doesnt work, resource or device busy
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:20:26 GMT
hi,
just installed mandrake 8.0
when firing up xstart the mouse doesnt work and it gives an error
device or resource busy.
the mouse worked during the text based install but not after that
any ideas would be greatly welcomed.
please reply to group and to my email.
thanks
Nick,
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From: Randy Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Switching from win98 to Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:30:08 -0000
I am so computer illiterate, I can only use e-mail and surf the web, copy
to floppy, and copy and past.
Would it be stupid to try to install and use any Linux o s ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Problem with port redirection ...
Date: 23 Apr 2001 21:38:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:15:08 GMT, aro allegedly wrote:
>Hi ...
>
>I have a linux with http,pop3 .. .and a Cable Modem conection , but ports
>1-1024 are blocked ....
>So i wanted to know something ... :
>
>I used a free static ip service , but i can only redirect url like
>aro.mine.nu:8888 --> aro.webhop.net
>, is it possible to redirect the email server in the same way ...? i mean
>aro.mine.nu port 25 blocked , i have to convert p.example in aro.mine.nu
>port 5000 but with that direction mailaro.mine.nu ...
No you can't. Other mailservers can't learn anywhere that yours isn't
listening to a standard port. So they will fail to deliver when trying
to go to aro.mine.nu:25 instead of aro.mine.nu:WXYZ.
You can use the MX records to redirect mail for one domain to a
mailserver in another domain, but that's all you can do. This can only
be done at the level of nameserver records. That information is retrieved
with the command "host -t MX domain.com" . In my domain that will give
output like this:
host -t MX hermanbruijn.com
hermanbruijn.com MX 10 mail.hermanbruijn.com
hermanbruijn.com MX 15 mail.bruyn.org
hermanbruijn.com MX 20 mail.hemkes.net
The lower the number, the higher the priority of the mailserver. So the
first choice top deliver mail is is the host mail.hermanbruijn.com.
Second choice, when the first one isn't available for whatever reason,
is mail.bruyn.org. Last choice is mail.hemkes.net.
The best thing to do in your case is to have a mailbox somewhere else, where
all mail for a domain ends up in a single mailbox. Then use a combination of
fetchmail and procmail to get the mail from that mailbox, and deliver it
to the correct accounts on your local machine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Switching from win98 to Linux
Date: 23 Apr 2001 21:47:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:30:08 -0000, Randy Hamlin allegedly wrote:
>I am so computer illiterate, I can only use e-mail and surf the web, copy
>to floppy, and copy and past.
>Would it be stupid to try to install and use any Linux o s ?
Not stupid, but quite a learning experience. Linux distributions
generally require that you learn a bit more about computing and
configuration then is required when running a recent version of Windows.
That is also what results in having more control over what exactly
happens on your computer. For me that is all the better, I used to like
the challenge, and now it allows me to do the things I do much more
efficient.
But in your case, it soounds like it would be better to to stick to
whatever you are using now. Why try to fix it, if it isn't broken?
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Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: Jagged <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Switching from win98 to Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:44:49 +0200
Randy Hamlin wrote:
> I am so computer illiterate, I can only use e-mail and surf the web, copy
> to floppy, and copy and past.
> Would it be stupid to try to install and use any Linux o s ?
>
First question back: do you really think you need Linux? Is there anything
that you can't do from within Windows? Of course you can put yourself into
hot water, but...
Regards,
Jagged
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: Switching from win98 to Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:53:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy Hamlin wrote:
>I am so computer illiterate, I can only use e-mail and surf the web, copy
>to floppy, and copy and past.
>Would it be stupid to try to install and use any Linux o s ?
[-]
Yes.
Okay, this was the short answer, but as it is you may find many things
that work only with Windows or software on Windows.
If you need a computer for just that, surfing the WWW, mailing and
chatting with people and you're happy with as it is, fine and whoever
is having a problem with that is the stupid one.
It has nothing to do with being "computer illiterate" anyway, but
with using what suits you best.
Still should you know someone who's Linux and can help you can
play with both, given you've enough disk space as you can keep
both systems on the same machine.
Talking of help here since rendering your current system unusable,
can happen if you're doing the right thing wrong, isn't going to
help anyone either. Oh and of course no harm can come from having
a look at a life system first.
If not, then see your nearest library and search for some Unix
introductory literature as Linux is nothing but a Unix clone. It
may give you an idea whether it's "Yes, I *want* one, I need one,
I'd sell my grandma for one" or "Only over my dead body" ;)
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Switching from win98 to Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:59:59 GMT
Randy Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am so computer illiterate, I can only use e-mail and surf the web, copy
> to floppy, and copy and past.
> Would it be stupid to try to install and use any Linux o s ?
No, provided you can copy and paste, you're qualified enough, because
then you can ask for help in a useful manner when you get stuck.
The problem is with people who can't copy and paste, as then they can't
pass on any of the data they can see - but don't recognize - which
would enable the "experts" to help them help themselves.
I.e. you don't need any actual knowledge, just a reasonable mixture of
pride and humility.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Partitioning for large HDD
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:00:43 -0400
"P. U. Psilanimous" wrote:
> I am planning to install RH 7.1 on a 30GB hard drive. I have done
> this with RH 7.0 but I found that it operates very slowly. I had
> partitioned the disc as 64MB linux swap and the rest as linux native.
>
> Would it speed up the operation if I divide the disc into smaller
> partitions; e.g; 10GB at /, 10GB at /usr and remainder at some other
> point like /var ?
>
> I am planning to replace the 7.0 since I was not very happy with it so
> I will be partitioning from scratch.
>
> TIA
>
> Darrell
I would do it a little differently
/home 2 GB
/boot 500 MB
/usr 10 GB
/var 10 GB
/ 5 GB
/stuff 2 GB
swap 500 MB
this way if you upgrade your system from say 7.1 to 8.0 but want to
format the hdd
you can format / /usr /var /boot but your /home and /stuff will
still have your data.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Patching the kernel
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:55:50 -0400
I am trying to patch the file /boot/kernel243 to the newest ac12
patch.
I backed up this file as /boot/kernel243 and rn a copy of it to
kernel243ac12 this is the file i am now trying to patch.
I run bzip -dc patch-2.4.3-ac12.bz2 | patch -p0
I get an error cant find file to patch
then it ask me what file to patch
i say /boot/kernel243ac12 and it doesnt like that either
help
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