I was wondering if you couldn't make a copy of the etc directory in another
partition and copy it back or would it not be compatible after the upgrade?
You made some great points.
Bambi
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, kf wrote:
I didn't get Pavan's entire post, so I might be off, but I've done one
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 08:41:04AM +, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Where could I find some answers on the limits of partitioning your HD?
i.e. Number of primary logical partitions allowed.
Seve
I posted a writeup on this list a while ago; check the archives.
Several of the responses in
Sarang Lakare wrote:
Hi,
After rebooting my machine (had to move the machine at a diff place), I am
not able to mount my cdrom drive. I hda problems with supermount and so i
disabled it and then I played a lot with autofs.. I dont' know if that is
causing this problem..
This is waht I
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 12:12:54PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:29:24PM -0400, maxtor wrote:
I want to have a web server but I don't want to use the default port "80". I
[...]
also. But now I cannot log into my web server unless i put the port into my
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote:
HI all,
I understand to get the CD or to burn my own.
What next.. do i have overwrite my existing
install.. i just wanted to know, what image i should
get from the web..
I need the details of all the stuff i need to make
my 6.1 to 7.x i need
I've been told 'reboot' is not as safe as 'shutdown -r'
where shutdown is actually a script that incorporates 'reboot' after sutting all
system services down safely.
--Greg
you could just type `reboot' too. if you're already logged in as root it
will reboot right away. if you're logged in as
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:46:40PM -0500, Matt Stegman wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
OK, suppose the old hard drive has 35 sectors per track. If the new hard
drive has fewer, say, 30, then dd will write the 31st sector of a give
track somewhere else, Murphy only knows
In my experience, using a total of more than 16 partitions does not work
very well.
I would recommend not going over /dev/hda16. You will notice that this
is as many as are pre-created for you in the /dev directory, and even
when I did mknod's to extend these, I had trouble.
I'd actually going
Re: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Gilbert Baron wrote:
How much of an ancient method this is compared to a program like Power Quest
Drive Image. It creates an image of a partition on the second drive and the
ONLY requirement is that there be enough space fro it to fit on the
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Dave Lers wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote:
A simple
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
works great, super backup
do you have a cdrom burner on your windows box?
- Original Message -
From: "Pavan K Balellugari" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 2:43 PM
Subject: [expert] Need help
Hi all,
Just got subscribed here.
Need to upgrade from 6.1 to 7.x
Welcome to the club! About 1 in 10 gets through from here! You may
see this and you may not, I replied to both your address and the
lists address.
vern
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
What's going on with the list server? Only a small fraction of my posts
are getting on the list. The remainder have
Has anyone seen the Netscape ver. 4.74 yet??
I've seen the i386 version at losthope, and
wondered if it is worth waiting for the i586
version to come out?? This is almost as much
fun as scouring the web for the Carnivore source
code!! :-) Maybe we should scan Janet Reno's hard
drive, inquiring
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Fran Parker wrote:
= I was wondering if you couldn't make a copy of the etc directory in another
= partition and copy it back or would it not be compatible after the upgrade?
There's a lot of files in and under /etc. Some would be compatible,
others probably wouldn't, some
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
I have a remote box running LM 7.1 without a monitor. How do you
instruct it to reboot via Telnet?
Telnet in, type 'su root', type root's password, and type 'reboot'.
I have installed 7.1 several times on several machines without much
hassle. But my main system which worked perfectly with 7.0 won't allow me
to install with 7.1
I have the following: Adaptec 2940 UW
SCSI ID 3 is a Plextor PX-32TS 32X CD-ROM
SCSI ID 5 is a Yamaha CDRW 4260 - (end
Hi Gary,
I ran the modprobe files as you suggested, and went through
the v4l-conf utility as you wrote, and I still get the error:
v4l-conf: using X11 display :0 dga: version 1.1 mode: 1
024x768, depth=24, bpp=32, bpl=4096, base=0xd800 can't open /dev/video:
No such device
I'm stuck on
The error is caused by umount trying to unmount the /proc/bus/usb
filesystem. umount -a is called by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt script.
Removing this entry in /etc/mtab prevents the error and kernel hang. Did
this by making changes in the halt script mentioned above, in the same
way that the halt
The umount -a command in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt script was hanging my
computer with a iput: inode count wrapped error. I solved this by
removing the /proc/bus/usb entry from /etc/mtab prior to calling the
umount command.
Does the /proc/bus/usb system need to be unmounted? Is there any chance
of
Gavin Clark wrote:
my motherboard temp is available in the bios config.
how do I get it via the command line?
Gavin
Try the lmsensors package at http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/
Most comprehensive, you can download the source with a spec file to
generate a rpm specefic for your kernel.
So it seems that we're still stuck in the DOS environment when creating
these partitions. Is there a Linux equivalent to Partition-Magic so we
never touch anything related to MS? Which also leads to this question -
When installing LM-7.1, I had DiskDrake create the Ext2 partitions. Is
reboot shuts down all the same services. It follows the same procedures as
shutdown. It has to, or you would damage the file system. That's the same
command issued to the system when CTL+ALT+DEL is pressed and the system
reboots. It's perfectly safe, and will harm no penguins.
--
Mark
**
what if you have a head crash on that disk. Your reserve install isn't
going to do anything then.
--
Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
In my experience, using a total of more than 16 partitions does not work
I have just installed LM 7.1 (fresh install as upgrade didn't work)
I have a problem loading the modules I use for my TV card though.
I get the following error:
modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/videodev.o
modprobe: Can't locate module
Vic wrote:
I wonder how you make your cron daemon do things
in less increments than just on the hour?
I can make my system play a sound (a bong) to strike
the hour by putting play bong.wav in my 0anacron
file in the cron.hourly directory, but I want to
have some other things happen like
hello,
I seem to have lost my linux partitions from my laptop. I had
Mandrake 7.1 installed on hda5 to hda10 with windows on hda1, the windows
partition is ok (hence me writing this in outlook). On booting up LILO
loaded but only displayed 'LI', so I rebooted with a dos disk and ran 'fdisk
/mbr'
I would like to execute two commands at boot:
fan -n
powertweak
How does one do this or where do you find this out?
Ivan Trail
Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day, Set him on fire and he'll be warm
for the rest of his life!
On 30 Jul, Don wrote in part:
Hi Gary,
I ran the modprobe files as you suggested, and went through
the v4l-conf utility as you wrote, and I still get the error:
v4l-conf: using X11 display :0 dga: version 1.1 mode: 1
024x768, depth=24, bpp=32, bpl=4096, base=0xd800 can't open
Anyone had any success with the newly released Win4Lin kernel package for
7.1 when used with a reiserfs install?
Hoyt
Hello,
It definitely was an HW fault, there was a piece of the PCB burned...
Anyways, I just bought a new one and used it to install LM 7.1
Thanks a lot to everybody who answered, especially Ted.
Ciao,
Marco
Usually this happens when a cable goes bad. Don't
Hello,
I just installed Mandrake 7.1, and it looks great, except one or two issues.
The most important is with LILO. When I power up, LILO starts, greets me,
telling that it will boot the default image in 5 seconds, but nothing happens.
If *I* type linux, LILO boots fine, and the system works
I accidentally installed LM 7.1 with hd optimisations enabled; my BIOS
doesn't support DM. Now I'm getting occasional freezes following a
kernel message saying that it has disabled DMA and reset IDE. I have
tried changing the DMA settings using Webmin and hdparm: I get an
instant freeze. I have
Welcome to the club! About 1 in 10 gets through from here! You may
see this and you may not, I replied to both your address and the
lists address.
vern
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
What's going on with the list server? Only a small fraction of my posts
are getting on the list. The remainder have
Has anyone seen the Netscape ver. 4.74 yet??
I've seen the i386 version at losthope, and
wondered if it is worth waiting for the i586
version to come out?? This is almost as much
fun as scouring the web for the Carnivore source
code!! :-) Maybe we should scan Janet Reno's hard
drive, inquiring
Hello,
I just installed Mandrake 7.1, and it looks great, except one or two issues.
The most important is with LILO. When I power up, LILO starts, greets me,
telling that it will boot the default image in 5 seconds, but nothing happens.
If *I* type linux, LILO boots fine, and the system
Out of curiosity, what happens when you use the xset command on the fly in X
with each config file?
-Original Message-
From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Another weird question--video power save
I
Hi all
I have just bought an AMD DURON 600 and the
gigabyte mainboard has on board AC97sound card
LM 7.1 detects it successfully but fails to insmod
the via..(something module)
and the sb.0 as well
What can I do to fix this because drake doesn't see
it at all?
Thanks Chadley
By the way I
vern wrote:
Has anyone seen the Netscape ver. 4.74 yet??
I've seen the i386 version at losthope, and
wondered if it is worth waiting for the i586
version to come out?? This is almost as much
fun as scouring the web for the Carnivore source
code!! :-) Maybe we should scan Janet Reno's hard
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 12:45:26PM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
In my experience, using a total of more than 16 partitions does not work
very well.
I would recommend not going over /dev/hda16. You will notice that this
is as many as are pre-created for you in the /dev directory,
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 21:49 +0200, Robert Fox wrote:
I have the following: Adaptec 2940 UW
Mine is a DawiControl with SymbiosLogic chip
SCSI ID 3 is a Plextor PX-32TS 32X CD-ROM
Mine is a Plextor UltraPlex40max
As CDRW I have a Plextor PlexWriter 4/2/2
When I boot the Mandrake 7.1 CD
I keep having problems logging into anonymous, or any ftp site for
that matter from my command line. What syntax should I be using to
log into a remote site from a terminal window? I see (I think) to be
typing all commands properly but with no luck. Perhaps there is
something that I need to
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:18:54AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
Not on my system. I've looked. Under (Sorry) RedHat 6.2, I'm using a
SCSI CDRW, from which I installed linux. Looking in /dev using ls -al
there is NO link to /dev/scd0 or anything like that. Plus my cd
mounts as /dev/cdrom from
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Robert Fox wrote:
= I have installed 7.1 several times on several machines without much
= hassle. But my main system which worked perfectly with 7.0 won't allow me
= to install with 7.1
=
= I have the following: Adaptec 2940 UW
=
= SCSI ID 3 is a Plextor PX-32TS 32X
You shouldn't mess with the /proc filesystem. It's a virtual fs used by
the kernel to keep track of things.
kf
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Sundeep Mediratta wrote:
= The error is caused by umount trying to unmount the /proc/bus/usb
= filesystem. umount -a is called by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt
OK,
Speaking out of the side of my head here: there's a program called Drive2Drive
that you can use. Shareware or freeware, I don't know. Boot on a floppy and
specify the new drive. I used it once a while ago, but brain dumped after.
Sorry no good details
Charles A Edwards wrote:
-
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Sundeep Mediratta wrote:
=
= The umount -a command in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt script was hanging my
= computer with a iput: inode count wrapped error. I solved this by
= removing the /proc/bus/usb entry from /etc/mtab prior to calling the
= umount command.
=
= Does the
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
= So it seems that we're still stuck in the DOS environment when creating
= these partitions. Is there a Linux equivalent to Partition-Magic so we
= never touch anything related to MS? Which also leads to this question -
= When installing LM-7.1,
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Ivan wrote:
= I would like to execute two commands at boot:
=
= fan -n
= powertweak
You want them started before the OS loads? ... before anybody logs in?
... or when the first person logs in?
kf
=
= How does one do this or where do you find this out?
=
= Ivan Trail
Sevationot really so. The procedures that install
Partition Magic on two floppies from a running Linux system
install a bootable dos environment on the first floppy of the
two floppy set. The dos used is not Microsoft MS-DOS but
instead is a version of Corel's DR DOS.
Alan
Sevatio
Now THAT would be something interesting to see. I bet there are all kinds
of interesting things on that hard drive.
--
Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, vern wrote:
Has anyone seen the Netscape ver. 4.74 yet??
I've seen the i386 version at
I just sent out a message to the group and got a bouce (error) from
Sevatio's email address. Somethings misconfigured at mandrakesoft.com's
MTA. (Note the "@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com".)
kf
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, vern wrote:
= Welcome to the club! About 1 in 10 gets through from here! You
sounds like a lot of pain and suffering to me.
--
Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Hoyt wrote:
Anyone had any success with the newly released Win4Lin kernel package for
7.1 when used with a reiserfs install?
Hoyt
it sounds like you have the 1024 syndrome. If you haven't done a lot to
your system yet as far as moving in and settling down you may want to
re-install Linux. LILO doesn't work well on Large HDD's unless you use a
10-15MB /boot partition. LILO will work perfectly then. You would
partition your
can't be all that much different and I'm sure it still has the same bugs
in it that 4.73 has. I just wish I could uninstall 4.7x and put 4.61 back
in cause it sure didn't have anywhere near the troubles that the .7x
versions do. Last time I tried that though you would have thought I was
running
Hi Gary,
Thanks again for all of your help, I now have a handle on getting this
video capture card to work. Now I just have to clean up the errors and
I think it will all be good. Did you get these errors when you first started?
I am not sure what is causing them, but I plan on sending this to
** Reply to message from vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 31 Jul 2000
03:53:04 -0700
Hello Vern,
Netscape-4.74 is in the cooker archives. I have it installed here and
it seems to be running fine. The Mandrake rpm is on my mirror here so
you can retrieve it from here or any other Mandrake Cooker
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:32:30PM -0700, vern wrote:
Has anyone seen the Netscape ver. 4.74 yet??
I've seen the i386 version at losthope, and
wondered if it is worth waiting for the i586
version to come out?? This is almost as much
fun as scouring the web for the Carnivore source
code!!
4.73 and earlier down to 3.0 or so, has a bug that does not parase JPEG images
correctly which MAY allow a malicious JPEG to do a stack smashing attack. (But
nobody has come up with anything better than a JPEG that crashes netscape so
far)
Jay Summet
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman
*If* you have a hardcopy output of your partition table, you can use
fdisk to re-create the identical table and most likely the data itself
is ok.
I have done this successfully before.
If you don't have a hardcopy output, you can try to remember it;
otherwise, I hope you made backups
Ivan wrote:
I would like to execute two commands at boot:
fan -n
powertweak
How does one do this or where do you find this out?
Ivan Trail
Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day, Set him on fire and he'll be warm
for the rest of his life!
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
--
"Brian,
Use alsa drivers from www.alsa-project.org.. they have a module for AC97
and it works perfect!
-sarang
Hi Don,
On Monday, July 31, 2000, 9:09:16 PM, you hammered out in part about
"[expert] XawTV is working.":
D Thanks again for all of your help, I now have a handle on getting
D this video capture card to work. Now I just have to clean up the
D errors and I think it will all be good. Did you
Hi, All,
Is there any simple easy way to allow switching of the X server
in Mandrake 7.1 from 3.3.6 to 4.0 and back again?
Thanks,
Brian
Thanks Vincent!
On the way to cooker!
Now have you got a line on that Carnivore source
yet?? Then I'll be all set for Y2K!
Vern
Vincent Danen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:32:30PM -0700, vern wrote:
Has anyone seen the Netscape ver. 4.74 yet??
I've seen the i386 version at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is there any simple easy way to allow switching of the X server in
Mandrake 7.1 from 3.3.6 to 4.0 and back again?
if you have working XF86Config files for both ( /etc/X11/XF86Config and
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4)
then just change the symlink that is /etc/X11/X to
vern wrote:
Has anyone seen the Netscape ver. 4.74 yet??
I've seen the i386 version at losthope, and
wondered if it is worth waiting for the i586
version to come out?? This is almost as much
fun as scouring the web for the Carnivore source
code!! :-) Maybe we should scan Janet Reno's hard
- Original Message -
From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] missing partitions
*If* you have a hardcopy output of your partition table, you can use
fdisk to re-create the identical table and
Last I remember it did work.
And I think I figured out my problem with the xconfigurator
generated file, I was not putting the Option "power_saver"
in the correct place.
I don't have them handy so if you would like more info,
I will post it on request, its late here so gotta go to bed for
OK coolacious, thanks!!
Just to verify (sorry) I put 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * play /Data/wavs/bong.wav
in my 0anacron file just like you typed it?
Sorry I'm very literal.
Thanks
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Vic wrote:
I wonder how you make your cron daemon do things
in less
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