Re: GRUB question

2003-10-15 Thread Samuel Flory
Susan Champigny wrote: Grub is not a favorite of mine, I prefer lilo, so I am hoping someone out there can help w/ the following. I initially installed lilo, and was having boot problems, so I editted /grub/grub.conf. This particular system has and ide, and scsi disk, scsi being the disk w/ the

Re: two instances of the same kernel version, different modules

2003-10-15 Thread Samuel Flory
Cornelius Kölbel wrote: Hello, I use one version of kernel sources but will compile different instances of the kernel and of the modules. So I will have a module directory /lib/modules/2.4.20 and a module-directory /lib/modules/2.4.20-b belonging to the second compiled kernel. How can I tell l

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Samuel Flory
Gerry Doris wrote: At 12:23 9/22/2003, you wrote: Does this mean that I won't be downloading RH 10, but instead will be downloading Fedora 10 or something? Fedora Core 1 (Cambridge), apparently, which will contain everything you expected to see in Red Hat Linux 10 and more due to the contribution

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Samuel Flory
Buck wrote: 3. Will the Fedora Project Releases be compatible to existing Red Hat? In other words, can I upgrade what I have to Fedora or will I have to start with Fedora from scratch? You can upgrade to the current Red Hat beta via apt-get or yum using fedora now. All I did was the following

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Samuel Flory
You'll have to purchase an Enterprise offering to get support from RedHat. But there will surely(?) be auto updating feature provided for Fedora. Fedora currently supports yum, and apt-get. I've been using fedora, and before that freshrpms with apt-get, and yum for 6 months. I've been v

Re: REDHAT 9.0 PROMISE FASTRAK 100 TX2

2003-09-17 Thread Samuel Flory
Michael Mansour wrote: Placa base intel con bios actualizada Promise fastrak 100 tx2 con bios actualizada. Red hat 9.0 i drivers de promise ultima version. La instalación del red hat tambien la hace correctamente solo hay una pequeña duda, cuando entro en el discdruid veo 3 discos los dos que he

Re: Intel E/1000 driver

2003-09-16 Thread Samuel Flory
Vinny Valdez wrote: MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: I am having some issues with a module I need to load for an intel e1000 interface using RedHat 7.3 linux-2.4.18-3. For some reason, the new imaged machines that I am trying to bring up will not load that module nor initialize the interface, so I am

Re: help with partitioning

2003-09-15 Thread Samuel Flory
Chris W. Parker wrote: Samuel Flory <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Saturday, September 13, 2003 11:47 AM said: You need to create a partition that will be a part of the raid array on each disk. So the followiing is what I do: Yes, I finally figured this out. So far the computer is w

Re: Best HBA's for use with Red Hat

2003-09-13 Thread Samuel Flory
Rhugga wrote: Samuel Flory wrote: Rhugga wrote: We are building an Oracle RAC and I wanted to get some feedback on the best HBA's to use with Red Hat 9.x Raid or non raid. Fiber, scsi, or ide? Fibre, using them to connect 2 linux boxes to some external shared storage. I thin

Re: help with partitioning

2003-09-13 Thread Samuel Flory
Chris W. Parker wrote: Samuel Flory <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Friday, September 12, 2003 5:38 PM said: Ok I'm convinced, I'll use RAID. I found this page http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-so ftware-raid.html which you'd think would

Re: Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A under Linux

2003-09-13 Thread Samuel Flory
Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, I've just purchased a new AMD Ahtlon system, and got with it an Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A as it seemed to do what I wanted. Unfortunately, this card is not "officially" supported by Adaptec, after emailing their support they only tell me "unfortunately it's not supported u

Re: Best HBA's for use with Red Hat

2003-09-13 Thread Samuel Flory
Rhugga wrote: We are building an Oracle RAC and I wanted to get some feedback on the best HBA's to use with Red Hat 9.x Raid or non raid. Fiber, scsi, or ide? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: file system type for Super Talent USB key drive

2003-09-12 Thread Samuel Flory
John Mann wrote: so it looks like I have the USB drive plugged into /dev/sda3 (there are four USB ports on the computer), and the file system is "OnTrack DM6 Aux3". Earlier today, I stored three test jpeg files on it, on a Windows 2000 system at work. Is there a filesystem I could format it with,

Re: help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Samuel Flory
Chris W. Parker wrote: Samuel Flory <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Friday, September 12, 2003 5:08 PM said: Use software raid 5 on each disk: Will this degrade the performance much? This will increase performance of reads a lot, and degrades write performance a little. As thi

Re: help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Samuel Flory
Chris W. Parker wrote: Hey people. I've got a new computer with 3 scsi drives at 17gb each. This machine is going to be used as a web server. I've only done one other install (tried twice on same machine) and it had only one HD and a much much smaller one at that, so this seems to be a different b

Re: Segmentation fault

2003-09-09 Thread Samuel Flory
Devon Harding - GTHLA wrote: This happens when I run certain programs like 'wget', 'rpm' 'Segmentation fault' Can you show a strace of the program? "strace command" -- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: Viruses "W32/Sobig.F Worm"

2003-09-08 Thread Samuel Flory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I just found the viruses "W32/Sobig.F Worm" attack our system ( RH 7.2 ), but there is no Anti-Viruses... Sobig is a windows virus. It won't effect a linux system. -- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition

Re: formatting a disk in a USB floppy drive

2003-09-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Lorenzo Prince wrote: Samuel Flory staggered into view and mumbled: Try "mkdosfs /dev/sda". I get a strange error stating mkdosfs will not try to make filesystem on /dev/sda. This seems to be a bug in mkdosfs. I've seen this as well, but didn't really look at i

Re: formatting a disk in a USB floppy drive

2003-09-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Lorenzo Prince wrote: Sorry for starting a new thread in your mail client that supports threading. Unfortunately I deleted the previous message regarding mkfs before I went to the laptop and tried it. The mkfs command returns a warning that states that /dev/sda is an entire device instead of a

Re: formatting a disk in a USB floppy drive

2003-09-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Lorenzo Prince wrote: Hi. I just bought a USB floppy drive to go in my laptop. It mounts the disks I put into it with no trouble and reads very fast. The problem is that the drive is using /dev/sda. Neither fdformat or floppy like that. What can I do to format a floppy disk in this drive? T

Re: /boot won't mount after upgrade to hardware RAID

2003-09-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Thomas Fortner wrote: Hi folks: I added an IDE RAID controller and a second hard drive to my Red Hat 9 system, which moved the hard drive from hda to hdg. I found a couple of places where I needed to change the (HD0,0) definition, such as /boot/grub/device.map and /etc/sysconfig/grub. However,

Re: yum vs rpmfind vs autorpm

2003-09-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to figure out which one of these tools I should spend my time configuring and learning for now. It seems like yum is the only one still under development. Can anyone give me some insight out of personal experience? You wan

Re: kernel screw up .. upgrade to 2.4.20-20.8

2003-09-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Ian L wrote: Thanks, i think i got it now. I just installed kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm. One question though, my lilo file is called lilo.conf.anaconda and when i run /sbin/lilo it complains it cant find lilo.conf That mean you are using grub. (Red Hat's installer creates a lilo.conf.an

Re: kernel screw up .. upgrade to 2.4.20-20.8

2003-09-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Ian L wrote: At 04:39 PM 9/5/2003, you wrote: At 11:25 6/09/2003, you wrote: I recently downloaded the updated kernel rpm and instead of doing rpm -i, i did rpm -U and replaced the existing kernel. I havent rebooted the machine yet so its still running the old kernel. i have 2 questions: 1.

Re: Noticeable Improvement with 2.4.22 (FWIW)

2003-08-25 Thread Samuel Flory
David Hart wrote: Usually kernel changes go without much difference but 2.4.22 (just released) seems to provide a real performance boost. YMMV. There was a fair amount of work that went in to fix interactivity issues. -- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Har

Re: acpi

2003-08-19 Thread Samuel Flory
David Hart wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:57, Brian wrote: How do i install acpi on Redhat 9? You need to custom compile the kernel. It works quite well BTW but cannot coexist with APM (whichever first occurs gets loaded). FWIW, I had better results with 2.4.21. If you want APCI suppo

Re: Anyone grabbed and compiled a 2.6 kernel yet?

2003-08-19 Thread Samuel Flory
Douglas Phillipson wrote: I would like to demo a 2.6 kernel for our LUG. I don't do this kind of thing often and was wondering if there were any new things I need to know about compiling a 2.6 kernel as opposed to a 2.4 kernel. Is it the same make config, make dep, make bzImage method? Or ha

Re: creating an ext3 partition

2003-08-15 Thread Samuel Flory
Jason Dixon wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 09:26, Earl wrote: I'm using RH9 with ext3 partitions. I want to add another ext3 partition. How can I do this? Parted, for instance can edit ext3 partitions, but not create new ones. If you have free space on the drive use fdisk. Remember to rebo

Re: Kernel Vicious Circle

2003-08-14 Thread Samuel Flory
David Hart wrote: In my infinite wisdom I seem to have compiled my kernel without loopback support. I tried to re-compile with some changes and MkInitdrd fails - "all your loopback devices are in use." The only fix seems to be to recompile the kernel with loopback support which I can't do because

Re: Linux Memory Behavioir

2003-08-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Jonathan Bartlett wrote: I was under the impression that only 2GB was mapped to userspace, and the other 2GB was mapped for kernel data, although I could be wrong. I'm fairly sure redhat's kernel configures a 3G/1G split. So the max you could ever get would be 3G, also it will depend on whic

Re: Command Line for Searching for Files Containing "Text"?

2003-07-30 Thread Samuel Flory
Lorenzo Prince wrote: Hmm. Try the following if you want to search within a specific directory: for f in /directory/*; do grep "text" $f; done or you can omit /directory/ if you want to search the current directory, so the command would look something like this: for f in *; do grep "text" $f;

Re: RH 10

2003-07-24 Thread Samuel Flory
mark wrote: Well, I just read about RH "opening up the development process" to outsiders, over on ZDNet. *Then* I read the "system requirements" for 10: 200MHz for *non-graphical*, 400MHz for graphical...*minimum*. Does RedHat think they're the next M$? Now, up until a month or so ago, I was

Re: Opteron Processor

2003-07-22 Thread Samuel Flory
Christian Fredrickson wrote: I would like to create a database server using dual Opteron processors. I read that Redhat planned to support the Opteron, but I cannot find any information on what versions of Redhat will support the Opteron. Does anyone have any information or suggestions? Ther

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

2003-07-22 Thread Samuel Flory
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2003 08:59, Kent Borg wrote this in an attempt to be witty and informative: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:25:33AM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Wine is in 9.0. Are you sure? I don't see it in my "everything" install. -kb It was instal

Re: Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-22 Thread Samuel Flory
System Administrator wrote: On Monday 21 July 2003 18:25, Samuel Flory wrote: System Administrator wrote: I need to backup a Solaris 8 system (actually parts therein) to a RH8 box. I am currently doing that using a simple scp (secure copy) script. The RH8 filesystem is ext3. Question 1

Re: [OT] Does this mean that IP was proven on the SCO case?

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Edward Dekkers wrote: http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1679444165&eid=-100 Surely some clever programmers can just re-write the offending code so as not to breach IP? (from memory wasn't it the TCP/IP stack?) This will not save IBM, but surely then they would not be able to sue Linux user

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Emmanuel Seyman wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:08:40PM -0400, David Hart wrote: Suggestions? Fvwm. http://www.fvwm.org/ Why not just tell him to do this: cat > .xinitrc exec xterm ^c -- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Fl

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Hal Burgiss wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:08:40PM -0400, David Hart wrote: There MUST be alternatives that are less ponderous. I'm much more interested in efficiency and speed than pretty displays, animations or other visual effects that add nothing to usability. You don't need either

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
David Hart wrote: KDE seems to run better than Gnome w/RH9 (for me - YMMV). Nevertheless both environments seem to have gone way over the top. There MUST be alternatives that are less ponderous. I'm much more interested in efficiency and speed than pretty displays, animations or other visual effec

Re: Solaris<->RH8 Backup

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
System Administrator wrote: I need to backup a Solaris 8 system (actually parts therein) to a RH8 box. I am currently doing that using a simple scp (secure copy) script. The RH8 filesystem is ext3. Question 1) When I copy the files over (all normal files), they occupy 2-3 times the space.

Re: Root is GONE

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Mr. L.R. Adrian wrote: Also, In /etc/ there are three passwd files: passwd passwd- These are normally there. an passwd.OLD This is not normally on most systems. Maybe a someone was editing the password file by hand. Or possibly a broken script. Maybe from some from some script kiddy. the

Re: Root is GONE

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Mr. L.R. Adrian wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I dont claim to be great with linux {probly borderline mediocre :O)] But I tried to get to the boot prompt to enter linux single but could not do it. as an ordinary user I cant seem to accomplish anything once in. Can i not run single user mode

Re: Kernel compile

2003-07-15 Thread Samuel Flory
David Mackay wrote: Thanks for your response. The problem with that is that 2.4.20 doesn't contain all the patches required for my chipset. I can do back to a RH kernel like 2.4.20-8 and have PCMCIA but no USB, or compile 2.4.21 and get USB but no PCMCIA! There must be a scripting/startup problem

Re: RedHat 2.1 ES and Compaq DL 380 G3

2003-07-14 Thread Samuel Flory
SAQIB wrote: Hello, We are trying to load RedHAt 2.1 ES on a Compaq DL 380 G3. Compaq DL 380 G3 have a Gigabit NIC on it. Seems like RedHAt 2.1 ES does not install the driver upon initial installation, so we installed the driver seperately. The network works upon booting, but after approx 20 mins

Re: problem with raid

2003-07-11 Thread Samuel Flory
Nicholas wrote: Hi folks : Could anybody show me on how to guide me here in step by step configuring my system with raid controller here? Keep in mind the raid controller in question is not really a raid controller. It's an ide controller with a few bios features to build an

Re: Failures on rpm -Fv updates

2003-07-11 Thread Samuel Flory
Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:10:32 -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: It's really bad when the mkinitrd fails, and you can't create a new as can't load the loop module. Is that still the case? rpm --query --scripts

Re: How to find RPM from command

2003-07-10 Thread Samuel Flory
Sambit Nanda wrote: is there any way to find out the RPM name from the command name, mean if i want to know this command belongs to which RPM ? can i do that ?? example how i will come to know named belongs to which RPM ? whichrpm: #!/usr/bin/perl -w foreach $file (@ARGV){ $path =`which

Re: Failures on rpm -Fv updates

2003-07-10 Thread Samuel Flory
Mitchell K. Smith wrote: I've never used apt before. Is this really safe? It's worked well for me for over 6 months. As I live/work on the West Coast in SV the rhn is insanely slow compared to apt-get or a rh mirror. Also I can easily cache the the rpms for either. traceroute to mirrors.ke

Re: Failures on rpm -Fv updates

2003-07-10 Thread Samuel Flory
Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:43:22 -0400, Mitchell K. Smith wrote: So what happens if you update the kernel with rpm -Fvh ? It uninstalls the currently installed kernel package and removes the kernel module files for the curr

Re: Failures on rpm -Fv updates

2003-07-10 Thread Samuel Flory
Ed Wilts wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:38:08PM -0700, Greg Bell wrote: I grabbed the RH9 updates directory, and am doing a rpm -Fv * There are a few disturbing errors, most notably this one: glibc-2.3.2-27.9 error: %post(glibc-2.3.2-27.9) scriptlet failed, exit status 121 It sounds lik

Re: Failures on rpm -Fv updates

2003-07-10 Thread Samuel Flory
Mitchell K. Smith wrote: You can't (shouldn't) do it that way. Put all your update files into /var/spool/up2date This is the way I do the updates manually. Maybe someone else has a better way but this has worked for me for several years. 1. determine which kernel rpm you need and get it from th

Re: RHAdvanced Server

2003-07-10 Thread Samuel Flory
Jacques Lederer wrote: Hello, I have the Red Hat Advanced Server, and there are 2 or 3 very specific problems which seem to be related to the distribution. I don't know if anybody here can help... 1) the e100 interface driver (This is a network card incorporated in a pentium IV motherboard) d

Re: Antivirus for Linux

2003-07-09 Thread Samuel Flory
Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: Have you tried ClamAV its in the very list a virus scanner ... (http://www.clamav.org) I was under the impression that F-prot only scanned for M$ virii. Does clamav scan for M$ virii, *nix virii, or both? Linux virii? Name one? Yes there are a number of worms,

Re: Suspending running job

2003-07-09 Thread Samuel Flory
Jeff Kinz wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:11:16PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: Use the man pages folks man kill man 7 signal What really kills me here is that I looked at those man pages just before I posted, assuming that the feature had to be in Linux by now. That's pretty muc

Re: Suspending running job

2003-07-08 Thread Samuel Flory
Jeff Kinz wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:57:01PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Okay, assume a user started a task on the server, and let it run. Assume I have root access to the server. Is there some way that I can pause the task, and resume it later without screwing up permissions?

Re: Disabling grub boot-selection screen

2003-07-08 Thread Samuel Flory
-{ Rene Brehmer }- wrote: Hi gang How do I disable the grub boot-selection screen? ... In a way so that I can reactivate it once I get going on my custom kernel ... Right now it serves no purpose, as the machine has only 1 kernel to load anyways. I've changed the boot-timeout in grub.conf to 0

Re: Recreating stock kernel

2003-07-08 Thread Samuel Flory
Steven W. Orr wrote: On Tuesday, Jul 8th 2003 at 09:52 -0700, quoth Greg Bell: => =>Hi List Folks, => =>First, let me point out that I am fairly seasoned at kernel recompiling... =>I have done dozens successfully, so please don't let the naive question =>below cause you to send me to the Howto :)

Re: 2.40-20-20-1.2013 Compilation Problem

2003-07-07 Thread Samuel Flory
David Hart wrote: This seemed to compile, boot and load modules just fine. However, it won't load the X server. Can anyone suggest what I screwed up? This was my first attempt at this endeavor. Whats the output of "startx &> output" BTW, what does the "nptl" designator mean? -- Once you

Re: 2.40-20-20-1.2013 Compilation Problem

2003-07-07 Thread Samuel Flory
David Hart wrote: This seemed to compile, boot and load modules just fine. However, it won't load the X server. Can anyone suggest what I screwed up? This was my first attempt at this endeavor. BTW, what does the "nptl" designator mean? /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-9/RELEASE-NOTES-i386: Red

Re: grub and raid1

2003-07-03 Thread Samuel Flory
Ian Mortimer wrote: And what occurs if hda dies. You can't boot!!! Either: install grub in the MBR of each disk (before) make a boot floppy (or two) (before) boot off the CD or a rescue disk and install grub (after) You make it sound simple. Have you even tried it from the inst

Re: grub and raid1

2003-07-02 Thread Samuel Flory
Ian Mortimer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# /sbin/grub-install /dev/md2 /dev/md2 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# /sbin/grub-install --recheck /dev/md2 Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. /dev/md2 does not have any corresponding BIOS driv

Re: Binary Compatibility

2003-07-02 Thread Samuel Flory
Haley Crowe wrote: Hello. I'm looking at upgrading to one of the newer versions of Redhat from 7.x. Can anyone tell me how much binary-compatibility there is from 7.x to 8 or 9? In the old days Red Hat maintained binary compatiblity between version that shared a major number. Now they seem

Re: Muliti-processor supports...?

2003-07-01 Thread Samuel Flory
Win Toe wrote: I would like to know the no of multi-processors that Red Hat supports Thanks in advance In theroy the 2.4 kernel supports a rather large number of cpu. (In the range of 32 or 64. I've forgotten as I've never used more than 8.) Scaling is another matter. Depending on what

Re: RHN servers are overloaded...

2003-06-26 Thread Samuel Flory
Ricky Boone wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 17:48, Panos Tsapralis wrote: ...so, what other options do I have to download the latest patches without using the "up2date" mechanism? For example, can I download them via ftp into a local directory on my system and install them as regular RPM package

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Samuel Flory
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: One could always get an email client with spam filtering capabilities built in (like Mozilla) It just takes a while teach mozilla that all of your mailing lists aren't spam;-) -- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't want

Re: Optimize Redhat9

2003-06-11 Thread Samuel Flory
Josep M. wrote: Hello! I have Redhat9 in a laptop 128mbRAM 10GB hb,and runs a little slow,too much swapping,I optimized kde settings and is running a little better,but too much swapping...I would like ask about steps that can I do for optimize performance. 128M isn't enough to run kde and a

Re: What distribution works well with old computers?

2003-06-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: WOW !!! or you're too patient, or you really optimize your Linux BOX running on a Pentium 120... Congratulations On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:13, Patrick Nelson wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 09:49, Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: Well... this is a "RedHat" ma

Re: ReiserFS good idea on RH9?

2003-06-03 Thread Samuel Flory
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On any given day, I'm dumping customer's HD contents to a ReiserFS partition on my server - anywhere from a few gigs upward of 50-60gb - along with the daily bits of moving around MP3's, AVI's, MPG's and SVCD's - when I was using ext3, I had a much slower go of it, but since us

Re: ReiserFS good idea on RH9?

2003-05-31 Thread Samuel Flory
Christopher Henderson wrote: I had never used it with RedHat, but I have used it since it first appeared in Mandrake at least two years back or more. Stable? I've never had a problem, never lost data. I wonder why RedHat doesn't offer the customer the choice? Label Ext3 as "prefered" or "r

Re: hibernate

2003-05-31 Thread Samuel Flory
João Borsoi Soares wrote: I'm using RH 7.3, kernel 2.4.18-26.7.x. But it seems not to suport full hibernate: from man apmd I got: suspend [ system | user ] Invoked when the APM driver reports that system suspension has been initiated. The second parame­

Re: Adaptec 21960 on RH 7.3, 8 or 9

2003-05-30 Thread Samuel Flory
John Lang wrote: I've had no luck loading RH on any of my servers with running Adaptec 29160. Install starts to load the driver aic 7xxx, then immediately reboots. What is the hardware involved? What is going wrong with the installation? (Check the debugging screens on ctl-alt-F3, ctl-alt-

Re: Issue installing XINE

2003-05-30 Thread Samuel Flory
Mathieu Masse wrote: Another issue when installing RPMs. I am trying to install xine-0.9.21-fr1.i386.rpm and xine-lib-1.0.0-fr0.beta12.1.i386.rpm. WHen I install xine-lib it asks for the following library: glut-3.7-9.i386.rpm, which is no problem, I got it; but when I install that one it says I n

Re: Finding Software and Support for RedHat Linux 8.0

2003-05-30 Thread Samuel Flory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang... I just purchased RedHat Linux 8.0 last year (and I'm slowly realizing I probably should have waited for Linux 9.0), and I'm having the hardest time finding software that supports it. Case in point, I also purchased Kylix for Linux last year but didn't realiz

Re: how to change display

2003-05-27 Thread Samuel Flory
Julie Xu wrote: Hi, I have installed RadHat 9 on my Toshiba laptop without my Philips 170B2 screen. After the installation, I can not see anything using the screen. How can I reconfigure the monitor/display after the installation. Many comments will be appreciated You can try the following: 1

Re: SiI 3112 SATA Raid Controller

2003-04-04 Thread Samuel Flory
Thomas Tolborg wrote: Hello I would like to know how to install redhat 9 on a system with SiI 3112 Raid controller. I have created my raid array in the SiI 3112 configuration. But it seems that Redhat 9 don't have drivers for this controller. Redhat 9 just treats my disks as two seperate disks

Re: how to format hda1

2003-04-01 Thread Samuel Flory
lito lampitoc wrote: Hi All, I have the following partition: /dev/hda1 FAT (Win) /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda3 Linux I want to convert FAT partition (hda1) to a Linux partition but everytime I do an fdisk it shows me the following error. WARNING: Re-reading the partition table faile

Re: Uploading from digital cameras and movie cameras

2003-03-31 Thread Samuel Flory
Art Ross wrote: I'm planning to build a box for Linux. I want to be able to download pictures from a digital camera and movies from a digital movie camera. What types of hardware will I need for these capabilities? I'll be running a dual boot between RedHat and maybe Lindows. Thanks in advance,

Re: Full Duplex or Half Duplex Again?????

2003-03-25 Thread Samuel Flory
Rodrigo Nascimento wrote: Thanks Douglas and Rebecca... But I think which I didn't know bade me... I know which my ethernet card works with Full Duplex, but I need to know if the eth0 is running in Full or Half Duplex...ok... Thanks again... Rodrigo Nascimento Try |"mii-tool eth0", or "ethto

Re: how to access Linux pc from another Windows PC

2003-03-24 Thread Samuel Flory
Limb wrote: Sorry for making you have to see that bad word.. but anyways... How can i conenct to my linux box from another pc and compile/edit C++ stuff on it? You should use ssh. There are a number of windows clients. I prefer putty or ssh from cgywin. Of course with cygwin you can just i

Re: Multiple identical NFS mounts under RH8

2003-03-24 Thread Samuel Flory
Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, I think I've found a bug in RH8's NFS. I have 3 Red Hat machines, 2 of the RH8 and 1 RH6.2 On one of the RH8 machines, I export a filesystem, while the other RH8 and RH6.2 machines mount that exported filesystem. On the RH8 client, I can mount the filesystem many time

Re: Out of Disk PSace to Insatll Kernel Update

2003-03-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Robert Love wrote: Thank you! Ben and Irwin I used RPM to remove some of the previous kernals then was able to run up2date -u to get the latest kernal :-) Did not want to remove anything to do with the kernal, if I did not know it was going to be safe. In general it's safe to uninstall a

Re: ReiserFS Support?

2003-03-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Robert Adkins II wrote: Will, With regards to ext3fs, I am aware of the journaling properties and the superior recovery it has in comparison to ext2fs. However, ext3fs has considerable overhead for writing data to the disk. ReiserFS is supposedly far swifter at disk writes, which I need to quell

Re: Ethernet speed

2003-03-18 Thread Samuel Flory
Ed Wilts wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:14:17PM -0300, Jefferson Granatto wrote: Sorry, I don't speak english well... I don't know you write better than I do some days ;-) How can I reduce the speed of ethernet to 10mbps on Red Hat 7.3? Your English is perfect - better than some

Re: Recover Raid 5 of Red Hat 7.3

2003-03-13 Thread Samuel Flory
Rus Foster wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Hong Tian wrote: If one disk of Raid 5 is found bad, Could I just replace the bad disk and recover the system and data? Or Should I re-install the Linux system from scratch again and recover the data from the backup? The idea of RAID-5 is to survive

Re: galeon faster?

2003-03-07 Thread Samuel Flory
Mike Vanecek wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 00:30:26 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:47:00PM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote: It feel faster on my machine too, probably because it uses Gtk instead of XUL. Gnome, actually. The Gtk-only browser is skipstone. As

Re: Kernel versions

2003-03-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Cannon, Andrew wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie, and I was wondering what advantages there would be to upgrading the kernel on my RH8 boxes from the i386 version to the most current i686 and Athlon kernels? (I've got a couple of boxes in work that are PII and P4 and an Athlon at home). Are there any a

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-12 Thread Samuel Flory
Ed Wilts wrote: >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:17:55PM -0800, Samuel Flory wrote: > > >>I believe that new rev of >>redhat installs lftp by default. (Which pisses off me as a ncftp user.) >> >> > >ncftp is still there on your CDs and should therefore also be

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Samuel Flory
gabriel wrote: i highly reccomend installing ncftp. it's a commandline ftp program that supports stuff like this and it's far easier to use. it even comes with two other little programs that you can use to automate ftp puts and gets. There is also ncftp-get, ftpcopy, and lftp. I believe

Re: Deleting a file

2003-02-10 Thread Samuel Flory
Ted Gervais wrote: Was wondering something here. Now and than I end up with a file that has '#' in front and back of it. ie: #filename#. No doubt that is caused by using MC and while MC can delete these files how does one do it from the command line?I have often tried to try a few appro

Re: Linux redhat 8.2 and XP dual boot questions

2003-02-10 Thread Samuel Flory
Payam Fard wrote: Hi all, I have a Pentium 4 with 256 Meg of RAM. It is running Windows XP. Yesterday, I added another hard drive for linux installation. So, one hard drive has Windows XP and the other has Linux redhat 8.2. I am trying to make my system a dual boot system. Now here are my questio

Re: Gnome 2.2

2003-02-05 Thread Samuel Flory
Caleb Groom wrote: Based on prior releases, is Red Hat likely to release an RPM update for Gnome 2.2 on RH8? without upgrading to RH8.1? I'm sure I'll upgrade without hesitation, just wondering if Red Hat will more than likely say "if you want Gnome 2.2, you should run RH8.1". Pretty much z

Re: NFS question

2003-01-28 Thread Samuel Flory
Thomas E. Dukes wrote: After I sent that I thought I may have used the wrong terminology. I am using disk and network files systems under webmin to mount a directory through the network. I think its using samba. I can mount a shared directory, just can't figure out how to do the whole drive --

Re: ext3 writeback option difficulties

2003-01-28 Thread Samuel Flory
Michael Schwendt wrote: I need only to be able to add the data=writeback option to the fstab. Feel free to add it there, then reboot because you cannot change the journaling mode with remounting. Actually as I remember just adding the writeback option is really bad. I seem to remembe

Re: ext3 writeback option difficulties

2003-01-28 Thread Samuel Flory
John Joseph Roets wrote: I am not remounting the partition with a different journal type. It is already ext3. There are 3 journal types/modes ordered (the default), writeback (fastest), and journal (don't use). I need only to be able to add the data=writeback option to the fstab. Alternativ

Re: ext3 writeback option difficulties

2003-01-28 Thread Samuel Flory
John Joseph Roets wrote: Hello guys. Has anyone successfully used the 'data=writeback' option on an ext3 partition [on Redhat 8.0]? I've perused the newsgroups and google, yet have only found a few references to this problem, with no answers/resolutions. When I try to mount the partition with th

Re: XFS with RedHat?

2003-01-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! As I'm thinking about switching to RedHat, I'd also like to know, if RedHat supports XFS (the filesystem)? I'd need this, because I'd like to have Samba shares with ACL and XFS is the only FS supporting ACLs isn't it? There is a iso for 7.3, and there will not be

Re: Duplicating a drive

2003-01-17 Thread Samuel Flory
Gerry Doris wrote: I have a single 30GB drive that is getting full. I want to put in a second larger hard drive and duplicate the first one, then remove the first drive and replace it with the new larger drive. I'm worried that this first drive contains the operating system. Can it be duplicat

Re: Memory Leak

2003-01-16 Thread Samuel Flory
Robert Adkins wrote: Kevin, I am far from an expert in this manner. I was seeing a similar thing happening with my own server. Using the 'top' utility, I didn't see any process gobbling up memory, even over time. The largest process that I had was and still is Squid, which sits at a ni

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Samuel Flory
Ed Wilts wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:30:11AM -0800, Samuel Flory wrote: For the most part RH is simply packaging these programs in an rpm. Take a quick look through the changelogs: rpm -q --changelog | less Now tell me that it's a simple packaging. You're so far o

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Samuel Flory
Ed Wilts wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:20:34PM +0400, Dmitry Melekhov wrote: I disagree with you too :-) Original post says that one want to buy subscription to one server and then install updates from sources to several servers. This is impossible according to Service Agreement. You must

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