Memory expansion problem.
Title: Memory expansion problem. Hi list. I added some additional memory to my workstation, and added append=mem=768M to my /etc/lilo.conf. After I reboot, free still shows me 64M of total memory. Any clues why could it happen ? Thanks ** Maxim Kryachko Systems Administrator E-Mobile Israel, Ltd. 10 Ha'amal St., Rosh-Ha'ayin 48092, Israel +972-3-9158049 (office) +972-55-602270 (cellular) http://www.e-mobile.com ** Maxim Kryachko.vcf Maxim Kryachko.vcf
Re: Memory expansion problem.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001, Maxim Kryachko wrote about "Memory expansion problem.": Hi list. I added some additional memory to my workstation, and added append="mem=768M" to my /etc/lilo.conf. After I reboot, free still shows me 64M of total memory. Any clues why could it happen ? Did you remember to run "lilo" after changing /etc/lilo.conf? In itself, changing /etc/lilo.conf doesn't do anything - it is NOT read during the boot process. All it does is act as a configuration file for the "lilo" program which in turn writes the boot sector, which is what matters in the end. By the way, does anybody know in what cases is this "mem=.." trick needed? I've seen several machines where Linux automatically knows the correct amount of memory, and other machines where it doesn't (e.g., my machine has 128M but Linux finds only 64M). Needless to say, Windows always (seems to) find the correct amount by itself, so it should be possible to do so... -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Mar 14 2001, 19 Adar 5761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx] http://nadav.harel.org.il |sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Was: Memory expansion problem.
Title: Was: Memory expansion problem. OK, thanks to all, the problem is solved. It turns that lilo needs this parameter to be: 1. Put in non-kernel-specifis section of lilo.conf. 2. Be written exaclty this way: append = mem=768M note spaces before and after the first equal sign. Without those spaces it doesn't work ;)) Thank you again, guys Maxim ** Maxim Kryachko Systems Administrator E-Mobile Israel, Ltd. 10 Ha'amal St., Rosh-Ha'ayin 48092, Israel +972-3-9158049 (office) +972-55-602270 (cellular) http://www.e-mobile.com ** Maxim Kryachko.vcf Maxim Kryachko.vcf
Re: Was: Memory expansion problem.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001, Maxim Kryachko wrote about "Was: Memory expansion problem.": OK, thanks to all, the problem is solved. It turns that lilo needs this parameter to be: 1. Put in non-kernel-specifis section of lilo.conf. 2. Be written exaclty this way: append = "mem=768M" note spaces before and after the first "equal" sign. Without those spaces it doesn't work ;)) This is very weird, because I have in my lilo.conf (LILO 21.4-4) a line like that without any spaces, and it works! Also, as far as I know your conclusion about this having to be in the non-kernel-specific section is wrong too, because lilo.conf(5) says that: Additionally, the kernel configuration parameters append, ramdisk, read-only, read-write, root and vga can be set in the global options section. They are used as defaults if they aren't specified in the configuration sections of the respective kernel images. If this is incorrect, than the maintainers of lilo should be made aware of that. If I had to guess (I seem to do this a lot on this list lately), I'd say that simply running "lilo" is what solved your problem, not any of the cosmetic changes you made to /etc/lilo.conf... -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Mar 14 2001, 19 Adar 5761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Birthdays are good for you - the more http://nadav.harel.org.il |you have the longer you live. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netvision NNTP Server
Hi. I suppose this is somewhat OT, but none the less Does anyone out there use Netvision's NNTP server (news.netvision.net.il) ? I have been using it for quite a while, but in the past few days it has become WAY out of date - basically no updates for three days. I talked to their technical staff, but got nothing but B.S. (shtuot - for you Hebrew speakers ;-) . I was just wondering if anyone else has any experience with them ? TIA. -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | Israel Health Ministry is great, and the Master of the house is | [EMAIL PROTECTED] impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 | +972 2 670 6954/5 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netvision NNTP Server
Why not use ntp.ac.il or ntp.huji.ac.il ? Schlomo On 14 Mar 2001, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I suppose this is somewhat OT, but none the less Does anyone out there use Netvision's NNTP server (news.netvision.net.il) ? I have been using it for quite a while, but in the past few days it has become WAY out of date - basically no updates for three days. I talked to their technical staff, but got nothing but B.S. (shtuot - for you Hebrew speakers ;-) . I was just wondering if anyone else has any experience with them ? TIA. -- Schlomo Schapiro Computation Authority Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel: ++972 / 2 / 65-84404 Fax: 65-27349 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~schapiro = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netvision NNTP Server
Because he was looking for an NNTP (network NEWS transfer protocol) server, not a NTP (network TIME protocol) server ;) I think most ISPs have NNTP servers that you can try using, but I don't know how good they are, or if they allow people outside their networks to use them. Try, for example, news.barak.net.il. On Wed, Mar 14, 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote about "Re: Netvision NNTP Server": Why not use ntp.ac.il or ntp.huji.ac.il ? Schlomo On 14 Mar 2001, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: Hi. I suppose this is somewhat OT, but none the less Does anyone out there use Netvision's NNTP server (news.netvision.net.il) ? ... -- Nadav Har'El| Wednesday, Mar 14 2001, 19 Adar 5761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Unix is user friendly - it's just picky http://nadav.harel.org.il |about it's friends. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IGLU Plea for Hard Disks Donation
Shaul Karl writes: Shaul Reuven: Does it matters to you if you donate the Disk to an Shaul AMUTA, keep it the property of your company or any other Shaul arrangement? What arrangement are you interested in? To be honest, I'm not quite sure what sort of arrangement I'm interested in. But before I approach my accountant to suggest that I donate a disk to the IGLU mirror, I want to understand what's happening. My accountant gets upset when 5 shekels are missing from petty cash, and I'm delighted that he is that detail-oriented. But this means that I have to give him a complete picture of what I'm planning to do. I definitely cannot say, "I would like to buy a disk and donate to an organization that doesn't have official amuta standing." If I say that, my accountant will think that I've gone totally insane (rather than the partial insanity to which he's accustomed). As others have said on this list, a business cannot simply do what it wants with money or property. Rather, the business must account for every shekel that its spends, and have receipts to show for it. Describing the donation as colocation strikes me as the best way to handle things. I'll ask my accountant what he thinks; I would guess that there's a 75 percent chance he'll OK it. Then I can find out how much a disk costs, and see if I can afford the donation. :-) Reuven = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NVidia 0.9-7 is upon us
Hello, According to this http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-03-13-019-04-NW-HW-SW NVidia has released a new version of its drivers. I am curious to know if anyone has already installed them, and if so what success/horror stories s/he has. I am especially interested hearing from people who have TNT/TNT2 cards like myself. Cheers, Yosi _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVidia 0.9-7 is upon us
On 14 Mar 2001 12:55:58 +, Yosi wrote: Hello, According to this http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-03-13-019-04-NW-HW-SW NVidia has released a new version of its drivers. I am curious to know if anyone has already installed them, and if so what success/horror stories s/he has. I am especially interested hearing from people who have TNT/TNT2 cards like myself. I'm using nVidia Corporation Riva TNT2 Model 64 (rev 15) and it works just fine with the new drivers, including DPMS support (which was removed in 0.9-6) and the RENDER extensions, providing annoying anti-aliased fonts in KDE applications. My motherboard is: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] (rev 44) -- Best regards, Ilya Konstantinov = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slackwhere or maybe Debian
Hi All For the last two years I have the feelings that RH is not the best dist out there ( I done nothing about this because i didn't had any time to start with new dist ) Now im trying to decide with Slackware and Debian. Slackware considered to be hard because you need to compile everything but if you do it right its the best ( so I heard ) Debian is just another way to manage the Linux with deb and not RPM but considered to be superior ( the whole system ) Any comments ? (The solution is for servers, not WS ) -- -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6925757 Fax: 972-4-6925858 http://www.canaan.co.il -- = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slackwhere or maybe Debian
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:57:48PM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Slackware considered to be hard because you need to compile everything but if you do it right its the best ( so I heard ) Debian is just another way to manage the Linux with deb and not RPM but considered to be superior ( the whole system ) I'm not familiar with Slackware (never used it), but as I heard, the packaging system is quite primitive, and there aren't configuration tools similar to RedHat's, so you end up learning to compile stuff yourself, edit configuration files and learning sysadmining hardcode :) Debian's main strength is APT, which allows you to install and upgrade applications, libraries etc. right off the net (from one of the many Debian mirrors) by issuing one simple command. APT will take care of fetching and installing all of the dependencies and the package itself, just like the Aduva Manager does on RedHat :) (Of course, you can install packages from a local CD-ROM as well.) With servers, you could use it to upgrade various daemons to the latest versions regularilly to maintain security. As for today, Debian doesn't come with as much config tools as RedHat, so it's not for total newbies. For example, instead of RedHat's RPM-hell, I can simply issue: apt-get install mysql libapache-mod-perl php4-mysql libapache-mod-ssl (this will also install php4 and apache, since php4-mysql and libapache-mod-perl depend on them) -- Best regards, Ilya Konstantinov = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netvision NNTP Server
"Nadav Har'El" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because he was looking for an NNTP (network NEWS transfer protocol) server, not a NTP (network TIME protocol) server ;) I think most ISPs have NNTP servers that you can try using, but I don't know how good they are, or if they allow people outside their networks to use them. Try, for example, news.barak.net.il. In my experience, news.barak.net.il is much worse than news.netvision.net.il - i hardly get any updates from the former. I have been using Netvision's NNTP server for years, and it has always been OK for the newsgroups I was interested in (mostly comp. and some sci.). However, I have not tried it for a while (my home computer died). Can anyone recommend a free public NNTP server that has a decent collection of comp. and sci. groups? Not so long ago I found a few lists of free NNTP servers through Google (can't find the URLs at the moment), but the few I tried didn't work at all. Thanks, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft; And wit depends on dilatory time." [Shakespeare] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hardware consumer report
Hi again, I ordered a computer with an ASUS CUV4x VIA 694X motherboard (having got good references froma few sources, including LINUX-IL). I got a phone call from the shop an hour ago, they say that the board is no longer manufactured (at least not with an ISA slot, which, according to them, my sound card needs). Are they BS-ing me? I don't really think so, but there is no harm in double-checking. As a replacement, they suggest a Gygabyte GA-6VXC7-4X board http://www.cws.net.au/GIGABYTE/6vxc7_4x.html also http://www3.gigabyte.com.tw/products/products.htm A net search seems to indicate that the board is OK with linux, but can anyone knowledgeable comment on its quality? Also, can anyone comment on the FAQ, http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/faq/question/question_694x.htm (I don't own an HP scanner)? Thanks in advance. A few people asked me to summarize the responses I got. I will certainly do it, but I'd like to wait until I have the system up and running. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft; And wit depends on dilatory time." [Shakespeare] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netvision NNTP Server
On 14 Mar 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Can anyone recommend a free publicNNTP server that has a decent collection of comp. and sci. groups? Not so long ago I found a few lists of free NNTP servers through Google (can't find the URLs at the moment), but the few I tried didn't work at all. did you try reading news using dejanews (later known as deja.com (now groups.google.com)) ? at least before they were bought by google, they were quiet workable as a news system. i doubt there are many good public news server open these ays - the resources needed for a good feed are now enourmous -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeHand files under linux
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:46:10PM +0200, Ishai Parasol wrote: Does any body ever heard about an aplication that can open macromedia freehand files (.HF8) ? (for linux of course... ) Macromedia Flash 4 (the authoring tool, not the plugin) ran on WINE 05-03-2001 last time I tried :) It might be able to import them. -- Best regards, Ilya Konstantinov = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeHand files under linux
BTW, Ishai, make sure your new domain parasol.org.il has an MX entry in the DNS, pointing to it's mail handler host. Otherwise, many MTA (including mine, Exim) will refuse to route to it. -- Best regards, Ilya Konstantinov = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
