On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Wackojacko wrote:
> >>I have an nforce4 motherboard running dma enabled with the standard
> >>nforce2 ide driver from the kernel :).
> >
> >
> > bingo .. exactly ... nvidia like to control *your pc* even
> > if it's not video or (nvidia) network
> >
> Exactly how is th
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Wackojacko wrote:
> >>I don't have the nvidia modules and really don't want them. I'd much
> >>rather stay with 2.6.12 than live with the pain of a binary module
> >>tainting my kernel.
> >
> >
> > if you have a motherboard that used the nvidia chipset for ide,
> > than too
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Andrey Andreev wrote:
> I don't have the nvidia modules and really don't want them. I'd much
> rather stay with 2.6.12 than live with the pain of a binary module
> tainting my kernel.
if you have a motherboard that used the nvidia chipset for ide,
than too late you have
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Andrey Andreev wrote:
> And my controller is an nForce2.
> Which makes it even more mistifying.
not mystifying ... nforce sometimes make their own ide controller
and it's not open source driver ( no source code, binaries only )
- see if you have the nvidia ide modu
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Ricardo Teixeira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I updated to 2.6.14-1-686, hda is in PIO mode, and when I do
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hda i get "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted".
says the kernel doesn't like your ide chipset ...
- lspci | grep -i ide
- you
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Wodzu Wodzowski wrote:
> Just wanna ask; is it possible to have Debian Sarge in two langauages?
> I mean for example: 'root+ one user' have Debian in polish and 'another user'
> - in english.
yup
set their respective LANG and LC_ALL variables
and change each LC variable e
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Ron Johnson wrote:
> That's why I qualified my statement with "large bits of data".
:-)
> > same for 100GB files .. to split it into 2x 50GB each
> > on each spindle
> >
> > should be a fun driver to write(if needed), config and test
>
> Doesn't the md driver d
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Sure you will. If you are dealing with large bits of data,
> writing to it will be N times faster because the computer writes
> chunks of data to the disks in parallel.
yup.. if you read/write data from the the 2 spindles
can the ide drivers be told
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> How is that? The RAID1 on my system read at nearly 2x the speed of a
> single drive.
raid1 is mrirror .. same data on both disks ... so you should expect
to read 2x faster
raid0 is stripping ... just making two 40GB disks looking like on
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Aaron Stromas wrote:
> I can telnet to SMTP post locally (telnet 127.0.0.1 smtp)
that should will always work ...
> "connection refused" when I try to telnet from a box on the same
> subnet.
on the target box .. turn on telnet in /etc/inetd.conf and
consider your machines
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Here are two pointers for kernel building newbies:
>
> 1. Be sure that the code for your IDE chipset (if you're using IDE) is
> built in to the kernel, rather than being built as a module.
- ditto for sata chipset for sata disks
> 2. Be sur
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I will hopefully soon be building a server to donate to my church to
> replace a used one that I donated earlier this year. My question is
> this: Is SATA or SCSI preferrable?
>
> I am shooting for top notch reliability.
in that case ... i'd u
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Marcus Deluigi (intern) wrote:
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or
> directory
you could be missing some variables
LC_ALL or LANG is not defined which causes the error
other variables inherit their values from these two
hi ya bruno
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:13, Alvin Oga wrote:
> Thanks Alvin for all these details.
> I decided to 'keep it simple' and will try a Knoppix.
simple is most always the best way to go
c ya
alvin
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Eduardo wrote:
> Thanks
you will need a real-time distro that supports the resolution and
hardware you need vs a generic linux distro
google/yahoo for your hardware you want to support and linux
to come up with suitable distro ... or tweek/change any existing
distro to be w
hi ya bruno
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk.
proceedure .. "think" :-) ..
- find out what hardware chipset is in your pc
- find out what kernel you're using
- save the kernel and /lib/modules
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> You can buy a new bare Seagate (I've only had good experiences with
> them) 40GB drive for $50 USD or so here in the Dallas, Texas area.
$$ gets my interest when its 25% ( 160GB for $40 or so )
- since these "rebates" are at fries ..
- anybody
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, T wrote:
> ,-
> |
> | * No gold server. You work from the command line of any representative
> | target machine.
bad thing to have if it fails and there is no silver or bronze
server with identical contents
> | * No central repository. Packages and change order
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:44:06AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> > Linus' backup strategy,
>
> Is that the one wher you posting it all on usenet and find it later
> in the archives?
just about everything "important" to linus is backed up and mirrored
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> > - do not mix ata-66 with ata-100
> > - do not mix ata-100 with ata-133
>
> Hmmm, OK. Is it that fragile...?
yup ...
hook up a scope to the cables and signals and you can see
all the retry's that would otherwise go un-noticed
> > i'd try
hi ya kjetil
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> Hehe, no, it was the latter, a it was a well-recognized store, but they
> were caught shipping disks that had been returned as new.
sounds like dell .. they paid millions for that boo-boo
they've since changed to bringing used parts
hi ya kjetil
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> For a long time, I have had problems before boot: My primary master disk
> is sometimes not detected, and thus, the machine doesn't boot. It
> happens about once a month, and it is completely magic to me: I usually
> pull the power ca
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, mikepolniak wrote:
> On 17:46 Tue 18 Oct , Bruno Buys wrote:
> > I'm reinstalling my system onto a new sata disk I just purchased. I'd
fun toys
> > like to know what best practices people do, in order to get through this
> > with the least possible hassle.
- partiti
hi ya dalibor
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Dalibor Straka wrote:
> this always worked fine with me
> LANG=cs
...
> LANG=czech ./whatever
..
> LANG=cs_CZ
the value you pick for LANG should be listed in
locale -a | grep -i cz
you might also want to define bothLANG and LC_ALL
c ya
alvin
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hi ya gabe
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Gabe Granger wrote:
> I've got a weird problem with sendmail,
the stuck in mqueue-client is probably a submit.cf problem
that you'd need to replace(fix) -- use the one from sendmail.org
sendmail works out of the box, if you replace some broken distro-modified
hi ya marc
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Marc Dreher wrote:
> after a recent (data) lossy HD crash I decided to build a software raid
> 5 (3 disks)with Debian Sarge (2.6.13 Kernel) to keep that from
> happening again :-)
3 disks in raid5 means 1/3 of the total disk space is not usable
> Works pretty we
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Like I said, I don't have enough space in the new apartment to set up
> multiple computers, but I dislike having computing power going to waste.
good ...
( are you running password crackers while the machine is idle ? :-0 )
> Can anyone suggest a
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Oct 12 2005, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, kangja wrote:
> > > i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian
> > > alone?
> >
> > because:
&
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:37 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >
> > > - it is NOT commercialized if you cannot buy the pre-packaged
> > > CD's at the regular stores, but i could have and still would have
> > > sworn i saw ubuntu at the local stores pa
hi ya steve
relax .. have a beer... i agree
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:02:56PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > just because you disagree doesn't mean you are right and i am wrong
>
> You're right. Just because I disagree
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Afaik knoppix is the first bootable CD distribution.
slackware was always a standalone live distro from its beginnings
i don't know if there was other standalone cd before knippix
based on debian
c ya
alvin
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, kangja wrote:
> i don't understand all these variants. why not just continue with debian
> alone?
because:
a) they can
b) they want to have their own label (they can sell it in various forms)
c) they want to improve it in ways they want
d) tney can sell it
e) they don't kn
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> An interesting answer to the question that I was going to ask. I've
> just installed a mew HD in my parents' computer. They are not exactly
> knowledgeable users, they've been using XP, and I was trying to decide
> between Knoppix and Ubuntu (having
hi ya steve
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Alvin Oga wrote:
> >
> >>- debian ... free ...
> >>- ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work"
> >>which to me is wrong to
hi ya
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
> What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and
> knoppix distros?
i'll bite on the bait/lure ..
imho...
- debian ... free ...
- ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work"
whi
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, TAC Forums wrote:
> Well, i did the following
>
> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=5 /dev/hda3
> /dev/hdb1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
with level 0, it means that if any of your 5 disks, is bad,
than you lose all your data on all drives ( unless you know
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Marty wrote:
> Thanks, you just reminded me of two more items for my ssh hardening plan:
>
> -deny root login
>
> -turn off sshd access after a specified number of failed login attempts,
> or any attempts outside the specific IP address range.
those should be done BEFORE
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Marty wrote:
> > grep whatever you like from the gazillion log files for ssh this and ssh
> > that
>
> I don't know what you're getting at here. The idea is to get a realtime
> email alert.
one can get any and all kinds of alerts till you're blue ( satisfied )
-
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Marty wrote:
> > simple test ...
> > ( use your positive or negative logic equivalents for these files )
> >
> > /etc/hosts.deny
> > ALL : ALL
>
> I'm not sure that will work with the manpage example I gave.
works for me ... no services coming in that is not supposed
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Oct 2005, Marty wrote:
> > Correction -- it's in the hosts.deny man page. As others have already
> > pointed out, sshd must be configured to start via inetd.
>
> Must it? It uses tcp-wrappers natively, it should not need inet
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Andrea B. wrote:
> > http://Linux-1U.net/X11/Dual
>
> Dual monitor works! But I have a problem: when I launch an app on desktop 1, I
> cannot move it on the other desk, and vice-versa.
> What have I got to do to solve this problem?
you need to put xinerama into your X1
hi ya tac
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> TAC Forums wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We have a Debian 3.1 Sarge Stable running on a backup server.
> >
> > The server has 5 Harddisks, two IDE and Three SCSI.
> > When we manually form the RAID array with the mdadm command , do an
> > mkf
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Bogdan Rotariu wrote:
> I have 3 hard disk at 250GB SATA 150 mounted on a RAID adapter.
> Because the adaptor makes me a lot of problems, i whant to use a
> software RAID 5.
with 3 disks .. you're wasting 33% of usable disk in raid5
with 4 disks .. you're wasting 25% o
hi ya hmh
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote:
> >
> > like all things ...
> > - some folks can do it in 5 min ... some takes 5 hrs
>
> Don't give me that. I *know* how to do it,
didnt mean
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Kent West wrote:
> Andrea Ballatore wrote:
>
> > I've tried to read some HOWTOs and google stuff
which ones ..
you need to change /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XF86Config
- you need to add the stuff for the 2nd card
- you need to add the stuff for the 2nd
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > even at smartUPS 1000 or higher, its still pieces of junk
>
> That would give a infinite for a SmartUPS XL right now on my account
> (0 units replaced) ;-)
:-)
and we on the other hand have replaced say 20 out of 20 smart ups1000,
hi ya hmh
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > and whether you agree or not is irrelevant to the original
> > question of which one is debianize ..
>
> Parse error.
segfault :-)
> > the answer is all up
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Colin wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>
> > Actually, I suggest trying MGE UPSes, they are DFSG-friendly to the point of
mge's ( pulsar el4 ) works good ... outlasted the dead apc's by orders of
magnitude
> You probably haven't many complaints about them becaus
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Sanjay Debian wrote:
> I am part developer and part sys admin. But a very simple question by my
> manager tricked me.
> question is, How do you find out name of the Linux distribution?
cat /etc/debian_version
or /etc/redhat-version ... etc..etc
/etc/*version
c ya
alvin
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Is this thread still going on? I thought it was resolved weeks ago.
> >
> It's going because Alvin wrote yesterday (7 oct) that APC is bad.
i didn't re-start it, if you watched the thread
and since you like to quote dates, i replied to th
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > So what's your recommendation for Debian compatible UPS?
> > alll UPS is debian compatible as long as:
> > - your box has rs232
> > - the ups has monit
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> So what's your recommendation for Debian compatible UPS?
alll UPS is debian compatible as long as:
- your box has rs232
- the ups has monitoring thru rs232
all ups i bought works .. they all lasts 2x 5x 10x longer than apc
except for
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, J. Wren Hunt wrote:
> http://www.apcupsd.com/ APC makes a variety of UPSs. The one I'm using
> , Back-UPS works with Debian just fine! ;-)
imho, apc is probably the worst consumer grade ups there is ...
- they have lots of $$$ to do marketing/sales because
hi ya
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> disagreed with me and referred me to the motherboard manufacturer (Biostar).
:-)
> Their tech support said that the beep code indicated either a dead CPU or a
> corrupted BIOS. After I explained that removing the RAM, CPU and video card
>
hi ya roberto
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I don't recall specifically (it has been over 2 years now). I remember
> that it
> was a PDC202XX, and it was an on-board deal (Gigabyte motherboard). It was
> quite flaky. It eventually failed and nuked the two drives connected t
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church. I have a
> stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration. The
> server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion
> slots. I would
hi ya bastian
On 3 Oct 2005, Bastian Ebeling wrote:
> Hi linux-users,
>
> I'm running debian sarge stable and I try to mount a network share
> which is offered to me as the following type:
>
> "FTP over SSL with normal login and explicit password - passive FTP"
ssl is broken/breakable
if you
hi ya henrique
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > lilo, syslinux, loadlin, etc doesn't have the same whacky
> > problems/requirements/restricktions that grub imposes
>
> But they have their own set of li
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > most "large capacity" drives uses ECC which does support error correction
> > at least in the firmware and tape controllers to read the data
> > off the tape ..
>
> So has every hard disc. But we still get disc errors, don't we?
but nobody said ecc w
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Pollywog wrote:
> Do you know for sure that /etc/hosts.deny has anything to do with ssh?
> I thought /etc/hosts.deny would only work with services that run from inetd
> or
> xinetd, not with daemons.
ssh is typically built with tcpwrappers .. and ez enough to do so
if its n
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >> And depending on how LVM/device-mapper is employed to map the root
> >> partition, it would be *very* difficult for grub to do so.
lilo, syslinux, loadlin, etc doesn't have the same whacky
problems/requirements/restricktions that grub imposes
you c
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> The point is that, if there is an error, all the CRCs in the
> world won't put the data back together again. If one uses
crc or ecc ??
most "large capacity" drives uses ECC which does support error correction
at least in the firmware and tape controlle
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Mon Oct 03, 2005 04:33PM, Luis Garay wrote:
> > Hi, im really new in Linux and newer in Debian. i'm trying to make athe
> > back up
> > of a directory thas weights 3 gig's, but i need to storage this in CD, how
> > can
> > i make the iso images thi
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Landy Bible wrote:
> Marty wrote:
>
> > -configure the ssh server to report any successful ssh login using email,
> > and/or send a page or cell phone alert
> >
> > -do the same for mutliple failed connection attempts
> >
> Could some one point me at a way to do this?
thin
hi ya steve
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Block wrote:
> Who said anyone was cracked? I'm trying to take a proactive security
> approach here.
i thought, maybe stupidly, that the original poster was cracked
and was trying to shutdown ssh for that cracker ( stop um from
getting in .. etc )...
but
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Block wrote:
> I'm afraid you didn't read at all, did you? Start from the top of the
> thread and read again, and you'll see that my question had nothing to do
u sure do have an whacky attitude for being the one that is cracked
the answer still is no... you are not a
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Pollywog wrote:
> On 10/03/2005 06:14 pm, Marty wrote:
> > Jared Hall wrote:
> > > It looks like I am being rooted right now. How do I toss this guy off
> > > of my system. he has an IP address of 210.95.212.131
> >
> > It's a kid! Whois returns "Hanguk Kwangsan Technoledge
hi ya steve
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Block wrote:
> login attempts were reported as one of
>
> faileduser/password from ip.addr.
>
> or
>
> faileduser/none from ip.addr.
>
> >From the logs I've looked at after I changed my SSH configuration, I now
> only see the latter, perhaps because the
hi y chris
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Chris Humphries wrote:
> +--
> | On (03/10/05 16:07), Tarapia Tapioco wrote:
> |
> | Occasionally people recommend running sshd on a different port number
> | (not 22) to reduce the numbe
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote:
> Windoze is installed on /dev/hda1
k
> /dev/hda1 * 12433195430417
> HPFS/NTFS
k .. that agrees with your prior statement
> /dev/hda22434486519535040f
> W95 Ext'd (LBA)
that is windoze too
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> ®áèek Kry¹tof wrote:
> > Good joke !
> > XPAINT looks even worse than GIMP :-)
> >
>
> As the Debian maintainer of Xpaint, should I take offence?
nah... he didnt say why it was good or bad..
-
this was done in gimp ... by a "gimp[ee|er]",
htt
hi ya jeremy
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote:
more grub fun :-)
> /dev/hdb2 is the location of /root/grub
i assume you have a type and/or a system install problem
-- what is the disk that windozed is installed on
( presumably hda ?? aka C: )
-- if you install
hi ya mike
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hde bs=446 count=1
>
> This works if /dev/hda is the exact same size and partitioning
> as /dev/hde.
nah it leaves the br alone
> system, or somebody? Otherwise, I'd fear possibly clobbering the
>
hi ya mike
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > trivial way to make it boot as /dev/hda:
> > - assuming you are currently booting from /dev/hda to make the
> > clone
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hde bs=446 count=1
>
> I just checked, and with a floppy at least, it pres
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote:
> non-identical, old disks which likely have bad sectors (so don't want to
> dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/hdf or similar).
good ... than use tar or cp or any other fs dependent copying
> so then, question is: how to run grub, preferably non-interactively,
>
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:47:14AM -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote:
> > I was wondering if there was a standard place for bash scripts. A
> > convention or "normal place" where they can be placed to be turned into a
> > command, accessable to all use
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> my ancient, but reliable, backup script is essentially:
>
> find /my_dir | cpio -ov > /dev/st0
find /my_dir \( -type f -o -type l \) | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T -
- grep out stuff you don't want before tar
> I also need to know how to restore
fix it ...
i like getting paid (full rate) to fix things
that somebody else bought w/o knowing if it works
or not with today's flavor of linux and kernel
am top posting as protest ... :-0
c ya
alvin
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
> >
> >
hi ya OP
if you are doing your magic on /dev/hde and want to make it
a bootable device as /dev/hda on another PC
- let's assume you have /dev/hda ( hd0 ) and your clone /dev/hde ( hd1 )
- note and understand the grub terminology
- also "cat /boot/grub/device.map"
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > it'd be pointless to install the grub mbr on /dev/hde if it cannot boot
>
> Umm, no, what he's doing is perfectly reasonable.
if doesn't work ... one should figure out technically why it will
not work
- some bios will NTO let you boot from
hiya matt
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote:
> I'm trying desperately to install grub on an auxiliary hard drive
> currently living on the 3rd IDE bus (/dev/hde).
do you know if your motherboard can boot from /dev/hde ??
- not all bios/mb supports booting from off-board controllers
hi ya
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
:-)
> > you keep going to filesytem
>
> No, you do.
i see we're assumign too many stuff ..
i never once said aything but servo info being the
same as fs info .. etc..etc
> > am not talking about the head alignment and gaps or anything
>
> B
hi ya
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> You are obviously smart
> and intelligent, but you weren't THERE. I was.
i been playing with them removable 14" disk platters
and stripping um and reassemble um and stick it back
into the dg/dec/si washing machines
> > the disk controller on th
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > - do NOT put a tape drives on the same (ide) cables as disks
> > - do NOT put disk ond cdrom/dvd on the same (ide) cables
>
> [snip]
>
> Umm, why not put hard disc and CD
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Ralph Eagle wrote:
> shinzon:~# mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 32768
> shinzon:~# find /usr/kbmosas/std | tar zcvbf 64 /dev/st0 -T -
...
> shinzon:~# tar tzvbf 64 /dev/st0
> incomplete literal tree
...
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> tar: Unexpected EOF
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Ralph Eagle wrote:
> shinzon:~# find /usr/kbmosas/std | buffer | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T -
> Backed up 110 files, 1.2MB without any errors from tar
...
> shinzon:~# tar tzvf /dev/st0
> drwxrws--- root/users0 2005-08-25 10:10:35 usr/kbmosas/std/
> -rw-rw root/users
hi ya ralph
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Ralph Eagle wrote:
> > - moreimportantly, do NOT type commands and hints people
> > post in the list w/o knowing what it will do
> :( -- feeling like a scolded step child now... :(
:-) ... just watching out for ya... to not cut-n-paste commands
but couldn;t res
hi ya mike
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> > the "tracking info" is dependant on the filesystem
>
> It is not.
i beg to differ ... different fs has different disk
structure to tune itself for various things to make
it better or worst than other fs
> It is used by the uControll
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, H.S. wrote:
> Mike S wrote:
> > Did you mount /boot first?
>
> umm, no, I don't recall so. I jotted down the steps I took and mounting
> /boot doesn't appear in those. My method worked properly on a laptop
*you* do NOT ( manually ) mount /boot or / or /usr or /var or /tmp
hi ya mike
:-) i'm even more sleepy now :-)
but, some comments
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> I think you need a little more information about how
> boot is accomplished on IBM PC style computers.
if a user can't get the machine to boot .. this much
detail is probably more than th
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote:
> If having multiple partitions is the problem or part
> of the problem,
NOT the problem
> how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and
> make the others not bootable?
take it out with the bios so that it doesn't check it
or
# delete the M
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Ali Al-Awami wrote:
> I was employees with a startup company that got out of IT business
> really fast,
> Beside 20 new IBM PCs one of the left over is Online dedicated server,
>
> Fedora Core2, 3GH CPU, 120 GB Hard disk, 500GB monthly traffic, very
> secure network avai
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, enediel gonzalez wrote:
> /dev/sda6 / reiserfs defaults0 1
> /dev/sda1 /boot reiserfs notail 0 2
..
> /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/sd6 contains the problem that prod
hi ya eagle
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Ralph Eagle wrote:
> > and/or when writing ..
> > find /home/kbmosas | buffer | tar cvf /dev/st0
>
> Hmmm, can not seem to get the above command to work. Produces the following
> error:
> tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
> Try `tar --help' or
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, michael wrote:
> > I think this might be a hardware compatibility problem, but you be the
> > judge.
> >
> > Using tar, I can write a tape archive to the scsi dat drive (tar cvf
> > /dev/st0 /usr/kbmosas) without any errors but when I try to read the tape
> > back (tar tvf /
hi ya
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, belbo wrote:
> my etch works very well, but the startup process takes too long... I can see
> many useless probing scripts working during the startup.
> I thought I could remove some autoprobing script from /etc/rc*, but I don't
> know
> which. Here's the list:
make
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > > char *p = malloc(amountK*1024);
> > > > printf("%08lu 0x%lx\n",count++,(unsigned long)p);
> > > >
...
> Of course we should all be able to do this. What's interesting, though,
> is that test programs that don't seem to be significa
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Marc, how can people know which 24 hours to skip?
>
> The ones for which you have no backup...
but ... update/upgrade is updating the system .. not user data
and there's gazillion ways to update/restore/recreate the system
to be able to recover
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > Here is the very simple test program.
> >
> > #include
> > #include
> > #include
> >
> > const int amountK = 1024;
> >
> > int main()
> > {
> > unsigned long count = 0;
> >
> > for (;;) /* loop forever */
> > {
> >
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Daniel Garcia wrote:
> Why is it interesting to have a different partition
> for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a
> home
> computer. Isnt it more painful to have to calculate
> the size for each partition
rasputnik> * If /home gets hosed, you can still get
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