Help with Linux command

2004-12-31 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, If I want to swap the mount point and all it's content between /usr and /home. What should I do ? I realized that I made a mistake in the partition size between the two and I would like to swapthem. The disk space I originally intended for /usr and /home needs to be swapped. Thanks, Rathon

Re: Help with Linux command

2004-12-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Syed Huq wrote: I realized that I made a mistake in the partition size between the two and I would like to swapthem. The disk space I originally intended for /usr and /home needs to be swapped. just edit /etc/fstab and swap it in there ( 2nd column ) (as root) umount

Re: Help with Linux command

2004-12-31 Thread Olav
Op vr, 31-12-2004 te 17:47 -0800, schreef Alvin Oga: On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Syed Huq wrote: I realized that I made a mistake in the partition size between the two and I would like to swapthem. The disk space I originally intended for /usr and /home needs to be swapped. just edit

Re: Help with Linux command

2004-12-31 Thread Steve Lamb
Olav wrote: Right, but do not forget to move the data. Might also want to use a shell like sash. Moving /usr is dicey since it is where lots of programs live. ;) Best to have the essentials compiled in in case something goes wonky. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm

Re: Help with Linux command

2004-12-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Steve Lamb wrote: Olav wrote: Right, but do not forget to move the data. Might also want to use a shell like sash. Moving /usr is dicey since it is where lots of programs live. ;) Best to have the essentials compiled in in case something goes wonky. if i

Re: Help with Linux command

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
Syed Huq wrote: Hi, If I want to swap the mount point and all it's content between /usr and /home. What should I do ? I realized that I made a mistake in the partition size between the two and I would like to swapthem. The disk space I originally intended for /usr and /home needs to be swapped.

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-07 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 07 May 2004 01:51, Joost De Cock wrote: [...] That's why you have to be in the chroot jail, to make sure your running the lilo on your disk, and not the lilo on your knoppix cd. If you forgot to run lilo, just use knoppix again, check if all is ok in lilo.conf and punch in the 4

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:28:54PM +1000, Daniel F Garcia wrote: Last night I did an apt-get upgrade apache2 and that upgraded a bunch of things including the kernel. Now when I try and boot up I get the error message: kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,2) I

RE: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Daniel F Garcia
I had something similar once, (not really, since I screwed up my lilo manually ;) ). Here's what I did, get Knoppix (knoppix.org) if you don't already have it. Boot from the knoppix disk, mount your root filesystem. Chroot into it. Edit your lilo configuration. Get out of the chroot jail,

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 07 May 2004 01:55, Daniel F Garcia shoved this in my mailbox: [...] Things are not looking good. I ran up KNOPPIX I unlinked my vmlinuz and initrd.img files and re-linked then to the old kernel 2.4.25-1-686 Rebooted Still get the same problem RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM

Re: help needed- linux

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:21:08PM +, padmini badrinath wrote: respected sir/madam My name is padmini Hi, padmini! No need to be so formal here--is it customary in India I wonder? Also note this is a list, so there are many of us. And we know your name--the header of your email contains

Re: help needed- linux

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 18:21, padmini badrinath wrote: and i am trying to read or access the mdb files from linux. This, am trying with the linux odbc driver I wanted to kno if the odbc manager is required for this purpose or is there a better way to do this mdb is the MS Access file

help needed- linux

2003-12-27 Thread padmini badrinath
respected sir/madam My name is padmini and i am trying to read or access the mdb files from linux. This, am trying with the linux odbc driver I wanted to kno if the odbc manager is required for this purpose or is there a better way to do this please reply thanking you in advance padmini

get help Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, John Hasler wrote: John L. Fjellstad writes: Actually easiest way to get help. It's the worst way to get help from me. I usually killfile such threads. Tell everybody how much printing sucks in Linux, and how easy it is in Windows, and how you are going back to

help with linux

2003-02-21 Thread anna stewart
can you sent me a binhex or MacBinary copy of mac-fdisk? sorry but i tryed to download it over the net and it came as a text file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help using Linux box as Mac print server

2002-11-17 Thread Martin Weinberg
Folks, I've been trying to use my woody box as print server for a Mac. I've tried two approaches and I can't get either to work. I've played around on and off for several days. Any help appreciated! The set up is: 1) Dual interface box * eth0 connected to cable modem * eth1

Re: Help using Linux box as Mac print server

2002-11-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:44:26PM -0500, Martin Weinberg wrote: I've been trying to use my woody box as print server for a Mac. I do it, and it works. Most important thing... make sure printing is working before you try to get the Mac to use it. 1) Dual interface box * eth0

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:24:00PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: I just finished installing Debian 2.2r2 at work (boss gave me permission), but I don't know how to get the net working through a gateway. We have a linux server (192.168.0.1). I added it to the /etc/network/interfaces file

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Cymbala
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I just finished installing Debian 2.2r2 at work (boss gave me permission), but I don't know how to get the net working through a gateway. We have a linux server (192.168.0.1). I added it to the /etc/network/interfaces file (as the gateway), but when I try to

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-10 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:25:09AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:24:00PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: I just finished installing Debian 2.2r2 at work (boss gave me permission), but I don't know how to get the net working through a gateway. We have a linux

URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-09 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I just finished installing Debian 2.2r2 at work (boss gave me permission), but I don't know how to get the net working through a gateway. We have a linux server (192.168.0.1). I added it to the /etc/network/interfaces file (as the gateway), but when I try to apt-get w/ http (for

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:24:00PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: I just finished installing Debian 2.2r2 at work (boss gave me permission), but I don't know how to get the net working through a gateway. We have a linux server (192.168.0.1). I added it to the /etc/network/interfaces file

RE: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just set up a similar setup with a firewall myself. I think you need to setup something on the gateway machine like ipchains with MASQ (ip masquerading) to give your machine on the internal network access to the internet. Go to linuxdoc.org and look for howto's on IPCHAINS, MASQ, Firewalls,

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:45:02PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you need to setup something on the gateway machine like ipchains with MASQ (ip masquerading) to give your machine on the internal network access to the internet. Go to linuxdoc.org and look for howto's on

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-09 Thread Jason Pepas
That would be why i made the distinction between the gateway machine and the machine on the internal network - indicating that I understand they are not the same machine. The machine on the internal network would be the machine in question, and the gateway machine would be the gateway machine. I

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-09 Thread Morgan Terry
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I just finished installing Debian 2.2r2 at work (boss gave me permission), but I don't know how to get the net working through a gateway. We have a linux server (192.168.0.1). I added it to the /etc/network/interfaces file (as the gateway), but when I try to

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-09 Thread Zac Epkes
Make sure the box has an IP of 192.168.0.* and a netmask the same as the gateway. Then try : route add default gw 192.168.0.1 then jsut type in route and see what it says... before u do that make sure the network card is actually running (ifconfig) otherwise it wouldnt see

Re: URGENT! help w/ Linux@work

2001-04-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:41:46PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: That would be why i made the distinction between the gateway machine and the machine on the internal network - indicating that I understand they are not the same machine. The machine on the internal network would be the machine in

help on linux

2000-11-18 Thread vivek shetty
I bought a Linux CD containing Red Hat Linux 5.2. I like Linux therefore decided to install it. I ran fips a new partition was created. Then as mentioned in the mannual I rebooted the system with the Linux boot disk inside, it started the process. But for some reason I had to go out so I

Re: help on linux

2000-11-18 Thread ktb
vivek shetty wrote: I bought a Linux CD containing Red Hat Linux 5.2. I like Linux therefore decided to install it. I ran fips a new partition was created. Then as mentioned in the mannual I rebooted the system with the Linux boot disk inside, it started the process. But for some reason

need help from linux community!!

2000-07-11 Thread ricgh
I installed debian 2.2 this afternoon on a partition without erase neither my RedHat nor win95 and when I try to boot MBR appears, and not lilo. How should I proceed? I need to correct this quickly. When I press TAB it runs win95 , HELP What is this MBR? How run lilo instead this MBR?

Re: need help from linux community!!

2000-07-11 Thread Raoul van Putten
I installed debian 2.2 this afternoon on a partition without erase neither my RedHat nor win95 and when I try to boot MBR appears, and not lilo. How should I proceed? I need to correct this quickly. When I press TAB it runs win95 , HELP What is this MBR? How run lilo instead this

help with linux

2000-01-05 Thread jd
hello im hoping you can help me im trying to down load linux and i dont no where to start i know you probly have better things to do than to help linux dummies but if you can give me any help i would be thankfull james ward email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with linux

2000-01-05 Thread Phil Dyer
jd wrote: hello im hoping you can help me im trying to down load linux and i dont no where to start i know you probly have better things to do than to help linux dummies but if you can give me any help i would be thankfull james ward email [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think the easiest way

Re: help with linux

2000-01-05 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, jd wrote: hello im hoping you can help me im trying to down load linux and i dont no where to start i know you probly have better things to do than to help linux dummies but if you can give me any help i would be thankfull james ward email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phil Dyer's

Help! My linux is gone with an error message

1999-11-02 Thread Rafa Castillo
I get this message from the console when I'm working TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone. Use /dev/vcs and the system goes down. I cannot do nothing and I must power off my machine. I have debian 2.1r3, and I don't install unstable packages. I've done memtest86 this weekend and I didn't get any

Re: Help Installing Linux

1999-04-04 Thread Kent West
Andrei Ivanov wrote: As a wild guess, how do you enter the path where your linux kernel image is? Hope it's not C:\Debian or whatever like that. You have to use block devices, such as /dev/hda(b,c,d) You can get information on partitioning from fdisk. For example, if C is /dev/hda1, then

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Bala Iyer
I did succeed in changing the file name to Linux from Linux.htm Still I am back to the same position. When on dos C\Debian (This is where all the required files are kept) I type Install, as suggested to me last week,I get the same messages: Image file not found. Please enter name of kernel image

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Bala Iyer
I did succeed in renaming the file from Linux.htm to Linux. I am back to from where I started. All the required files are at C:\Debian. When I type Install the same message comes back. Image file not found. Please enter name of kernet image file followed by optional command line parameters for

Re: Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
As a wild guess, how do you enter the path where your linux kernel image is? Hope it's not C:\Debian or whatever like that. You have to use block devices, such as /dev/hda(b,c,d) You can get information on partitioning from fdisk. For example, if C is /dev/hda1, then your C:\Debian becomes

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-01 Thread Bala Iyer
Further to the advise of 30th March to check whether the file linux via Netscape came with extension .htm and to save it as only Linux and not Linux.htm. I tried to do that but could not achieve that. So I tried to download the file (by keeping the shift key down while downloading) again and it

Re: Help installing Linux on a Toshiba laptop

1998-12-17 Thread MallarJ
Thanks to those that offered some help on this, but I managed to get it working yesterday. I'm not sure which item below was the clincher, but if it helps anyone else.. 1) I created install floppies using the normal binaries, i.e. NOT the tecra disks. 2) Boot from the rescue disk,and follow the

Help installing Linux on a Toshiba laptop

1998-12-16 Thread MallarJ
I'm attempting to install Debian onto my laptop. I know I need the tecra disk images, but I'm still having problems. So far I've: Downloaded the files to a directory on my Win95 C: drive. I renamed resc1440tecra.bin to resc1440.bin and drv1440tecra.bin to drv1440.bin. I also guess that the

Re: IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-04 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
I am having a huge problem with ipmasquerading. My network and ppp connection appears to works by themselves. Once I try to use ipmasquerading I cannont do anything. I cannot connect to anything (either LAN or Internet) I use a modem to access the Internet. When ipmasquerading is turned on I

Re: IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-03 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- Bruce Jackson wrote about IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY | I am having a huge problem with ipmasquerading. My network and ppp | connection appears to works by themselves. Once I try to use | ipmasquerading I cannont do anything

RE: IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-03 Thread Hank Fay
Take a look at http://ipmasq.home.ml.org/ for help. I'm in the process myself... Hank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bruce Jackson Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 7:53 AM To: debian-user Subject: IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server

IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-02 Thread Bruce Jackson
I am having a huge problem with ipmasquerading. My network and ppp connection appears to works by themselves. Once I try to use ipmasquerading I cannont do anything. I cannot connect to anything (either LAN or Internet) I use a modem to access the Internet. When ipmasquerading is turned on I

Re: IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY

1998-09-02 Thread servis
*- Bruce Jackson wrote about IPmasquerading HELP for LINUX server EMERGENCY | I am having a huge problem with ipmasquerading. My network and ppp | connection appears to works by themselves. Once I try to use | ipmasquerading I cannont do anything. I cannot connect to anything | (either LAN

Re: Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: [snip] Assuming the partitions are all on the same drive, in Linux they will be identified as: C: - /dev/hda1 D: - /dev/hda2 E: - /dev/hda3 Wouldn't it be: C: - /dev/hda1 EXT DOS: - /dev/hda2 D: - /dev/hda5 E: - /dev/hda6 If I remember

Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-12 Thread Mark A. Zottola
I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online documentation, FAQs, etc. I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software. Partition D holds the Debian distribution and Partition E is

Re: Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online : documentation, FAQs, etc. : : I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. : Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software. : :

Re: Help w/ Linux install

1998-06-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Mark A. Zottola wrote: I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online documentation, FAQs, etc. I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software.

Help NT4.0 - Linux Printing fails

1997-06-14 Thread Oz Dror
I have linux (debian 1.2.8 Kernel 2.0.30) machine as server (192.168.0.1) and NT4.0 workstation as client (192.168.0.3) I setup the NT machine to print using lpd (port 192.168.0.1:lp4) lp4 is my linux printer (HP660c). The NT machine uses its own driver for the printer. When I tried to print a

General help needed ! Linux

1997-04-17 Thread val.tamarov
Please help me to get started !!! I am new to Linux and basic help will br greatly appreciated. I know already ls, pwd, cd, edit. But how to read floppy or change current drive to floppy (dos's cd a: command) how to go to cd-rom, how to distinguish executable files out of regular ones, somebody

Re: General help needed ! Linux

1997-04-17 Thread Rick Jones
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, val.tamarov wrote: Please help me to get started !!! I am new to Linux and basic help will br greatly appreciated. I know already ls, pwd, cd, edit. But how to read floppy or change current drive to floppy (dos's cd a: command) You have to either mount the floppy under

Re: General help needed ! Linux

1997-04-17 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
val.tamarov writes: Please help me to get started !!! I am new to Linux and basic help will br greatly appreciated. I know already ls, pwd, cd, edit. But how to read floppy or change current drive to floppy (dos's cd a: command) how to go to cd-rom, how to distinguish executable files

Re: General help needed ! Linux

1997-04-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, val.tamarov wrote: Please help me to get started !!! I am new to Linux and basic help will br greatly appreciated. I know already ls, pwd, cd, edit. But how to read floppy or change current drive to floppy (dos's cd a: command) To begin, there's nothing like a good

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