Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:59, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:38, Ken Foskey wrote: ARRR! Bloody thing didn't work on boot this morning! I changed it back to the original, shut the machine down. Restart: during boot it reports that the eth0 config has failed, but when I

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

is it possible that it reordered your changes? changing boot order is supposed to be done by editing the scripts in question -- there is a comment at the top which a program called chkconfig or something reads. There should be a skel file lying around with the meanings of each of the

[SLUG] XP dual boot debacle

My girlfriend recently bought a computer, a Compaq Presario 6000, and the first thing I tried to do was set it up to dual boot Linux. (Though she didn't previously have a computer, she's a programmer who uses AIX at work, and was quite excited by the prospect of getting C, perl, python, etc.

Re: [SLUG] XP dual boot debacle

Hi Danny, Have you tried creating a Windows partition yourself? I have a Presario 700 and found that if I partition the disk myself then the install disk uses the first partition rather than creating its own (the first one was a windows partition). That allowed me to dual boot. Rich

Re: [SLUG] XP dual boot debacle

On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 8:46 am, Danny Yee wrote: snip any way around this? (As far as I can tell, parted and FIPS won't resize NTFS partitions -- is there some other way of doing that?) And is it worth complaining to Compaq (or the ACCC) about this? The latest version of Partition Magic

RE: [SLUG] XP dual boot debacle

What version of Windows was it? I've recently done a couple of laptops with dual boot Debian and Win2K without any problems, if it's XP maybe it is different? I seem to recall that in the Win2K installer, it asks you what partition you want the OS on and allows you to create/format/reformat only

Re: [SLUG] XP dual boot debacle

Danny, When I did this I did it the other way around. Put Xp on first. Create an empty partition (fat32 is best) then install redhat to the empty partition. I used partition magic as it does resize ntfs partitions non destructively. Then using you favourite boot manager it should all

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

Just the failed eth0 initialisation, saying that it would come back to it later. The annoying (and difficult) problem is that usually it does seem to get started, but about 20% of the time it doesn't happen. I haven't been able to find anything in the logs that distinguishes between a good

Re: [SLUG] Laptop problem

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 09:14, Dave Airlie wrote: Just the failed eth0 initialisation, saying that it would come back to it later. The annoying (and difficult) problem is that usually it does seem to get started, but about 20% of the time it doesn't happen. I haven't been able to find

[SLUG] Re: Properly fixed mkinitrd script

G'day Chris and sluggers... I've got the RAID up and going - including /boot. :) :) :) All the partitions are the same across HDs except for /boot - this is causing a bit of a problem. The HDs are the same type. The number of cylinders on the disks are 4467. Mandrake's diskdrake decided to

Re: [SLUG] Re: Properly fixed mkinitrd script

Sorry - Many, many thanks to Chris for all the help he gave me getting the array up in the first place! Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Re: Properly fixed mkinitrd script

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, you can't `umount /boot` on a live system. you can, I've done it, whether you should or not might be a different matter. Have you tried to umount it? Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Re: Properly fixed mkinitrd script

# umount /boot umount: /boot: device is busy Any suggestions? Thanks Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 David Fitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/01/2003 11:47 AM

Re: [SLUG] Re: Properly fixed mkinitrd script

fuser -m /boot should give you the pids of what is using it .. Dave. On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # umount /boot umount: /boot: device is busy Any suggestions? Thanks Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL

[SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday 31st January, 2003

Monthly meeting for January When: Friday, January 31, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway This month's meeting is NOT in the usual location. It will be held in UTS building 4, room 4.GD.02. Directions are at the bottom of this mail.

Re: [SLUG] Re: Properly fixed mkinitrd script

klogd is using it... (`klogd -2` according to ps) Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 Dave Airlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/01/2003 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Netmask calculations.

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should I be specifying as a netmask, and how do I calculate appropriate netmasks. This URL is useful for working out netmasks etc: http://logi.cc/nw/NetCalc.php3 -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] USB external disk - what am I missing?

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 18:27, Terry Collins wrote: Just a guess, but if it has two partions, you'll want numbers. but I'm trying to use fdisk, (so I can repartition it) and according to my understanding, and also according to man page for fdisk, the format is fdisk device, not fdisk partition?