Linux-Misc Digest #571, Volume #19 Mon, 22 Mar 99 21:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Adaptec AHA-2930U2 controller/Linux can't see it (Joel Ebel)
Re: Windowmaker- silly question ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Names to call Windows... (Jeffrey L Straszheim)
Compiling problem (Michael Rohan)
Re: No setup signature found (I can't believe no one knows!) (Paul Anderson)
Re: IE5 under Linux (Emile van Bergen)
Re: Are screen savers necessary? (Glen Turner)
locatedb ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I find out the story behind the /etc/rc.d directory? (Jim Greer)
Re: Freecell ("Tom Emerson")
Multiple Users Logged In -- NOT! (Gerald Jensen)
which libXpm for xpat2? (alessandro)
New Travan Tape Drive was: Eagle Exabyte TR-3 Parallel Port Support.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Netshow for Linux -- Italian site ("Benjamin Sher")
Re: DAT drive initialisation on Linux system (kernel 2.2.3) (Cokey de Percin)
kde 'died' (Jason Rotunno)
Netshow for Linux -- Taiwan site ("Benjamin Sher")
Re: HELP: Win95/WinNT/Linux partitioning ??? (Jean-Francois Landry)
Re: Symlinks to second hard disk (John McKown)
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From: Joel Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2930U2 controller/Linux can't see it
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:42:06 -0500
Not that this helps you, but I have a 7890 on my motherboard, and redhat
5.2 detects it properly when it first installs. I also have had it work
fine with a 2940U2W which is also a 7890. I'm still running 2.0.36
though. Maybe the latest works differently.
Good luck,
Joel
Bob Sully wrote:
>
> Hey all -
> I just replaced the SCSI controller (AHA-2940U) in my machine with
> a newer one (AHA-2930U2 - uses AIC7890 chipset), as I needed to use the old
> one in one of my office machines. Linux can't see it, even though it's
> technically an AIC-78xx board. I can't find any references to it in any of
> the Linux newsgroups. Anyone out there using this board with Linux? I'm
> running RedHat 5.2, upgraded to the 2.2.3 kernel. The board comes up fine
> under Windoze.
>
> Thanks - Bob
> _____________________________________________________________
> Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://home.earthlink.net/~rsully/
>
> And on the eighth day, God said: "Murphy, you're in charge."
> _____________________________________________________________
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Windowmaker- silly question ?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:35:13 +0000
Augusto Cardoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Augusto Cardoso) wrote:
>
>>Len Cuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>I've got SuSE 6 installed and wmaker but when I try startx wmaker I get
>>>the usual fvwm2 ! How do I get wmaker to work ?
>>>Cheers,
>>> Len
>>
>>set the following variable:
>>
>>export WINDOWSMAGER=windowmaker
>>
>>you can either set it dynamically, for example based on a user choice, or
>>in a config file running during login...
>>you can of specify another windows manager (ex.kde, fvwm2, etc).
>>
>>Regards,
>>Augusto
>
> SORRY IT IS:
>
> export WINDOWSMANAGER=windowmaker
Actually, none of these methods will work out of the box on SuSE 6.0 - there
is an embarrasing error in one of the scripts.
Here's how it works: the script startx only starts windowmanagers found by
the script wmlist, which checks a list against the contents of
/usr/X11R6/bin. This is the same list as you get in the YaST 'choose default
windowmanager' dialog.
The problem is that they are using the same wmlist script as in SuSE 5.3, when
the version of windowmaker shipped was 0.14.?, and the binary exucutable was
called 'windowmaker', not 'wmaker'.
All you have to do is edit the word 'windowmaker' in the wmlist script to
'wmaker'. You might also want to maker a link 'windowmaker' to the binary
'wmaker' for the benefit of automatically updated windowmanagers - ie FVWM, so
you can still use the 'switch to different windowmanager' option. That is what
I do.
If you are nervous about fiddling with scripts, try starting blackbox first,
then switching to Window Maker from there. Worked for me.
Also note that if you upgraded from SuSE 5.3, and had the themes installed,
the global themes are now kept in a different directory
(/usr/X11R6/share/WindowMaker), so you'll have to move the files.
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From: Jeffrey L Straszheim
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Names to call Windows...
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:06:20 -0500
Donn Miller wrote:
> brian moore wrote:
<snip>
> > But I have no idea how Windows multitasks (other than the experiantial
> > "not well"). At times, it really doesn't seem very pre-emptive to me.
> Actually, Windows 98 does pre-emptive multitasking. Like I pointed out,
> the various programs are allocated a certain timeslice based on the
> ultra-sophisticated Windows timer. But I think where the multitasking
> abilities of Windows falls short of UNIX is that Win98 doesn't assign
> priorities like other time-sharing OSes like UNIX do.
> I think the thing that leads most people to believe Win98 doesn't
> multitask is the way that Windy 98 handles interrupts. So if you're
> using Windows, and a lot of interrupts are taking place, the program
> calling the most interrupts is the one that gets 90% of the attention.
> IMHO, Linux and FreeBSD handle interrupts more seamlessly than
> Windblowing 98.
I hate to be the one standing up for M$, but most of this analysis
just isn't true. To start with, windows has a fully functional and
sophisticated thread scheduling system in its kernel. The poor
performance that windows seems to experience is due to
poor design decisions in the USER and GDI areas of the OS. It still
is broken, but not for the reasons that you've given. Basically, the
kernel's thread scheduling works well; it is the host of legacy 16 bit
code still running in the GUI sections of the OS (and which can lock
out the entire GUI interface on failure) that is the culprit. Under
the hood, threads are scheduled just find. Good luck seeing anything
on the screen. Also, there seems to be major problems in the IPC sections,
although I can't be specific. This is why applications like Outlook
(which draws heavily on ActiveX IPC mechanisms and RPC's to an Exchange
server) can bring a system down so easily. This happens both with 95/98
and NT. The moral: on a system that has become dependent on GUI and
COM, if these interfaces themselves crash a well protected kernel can't
save the system. If X craps out on Linux, I can kill it from a terminal
and continue.
I'm not sure what you mean by the interrupts problem. Windows has lousy
handling of hardware interrupts and increases in interrupt rate have been
known to bring down quite a few NT servers, but a program that calls many
interrupts (I can only assume you are referring to the thunking mechanism)
will get no more than its fair share of CPU time.
The priority system on Windows is somewhat broken, insofar as it doesn't
deliver on its promise of starvation avoidance. Lower priority threads
are bumped up in priority as they wait. This is a good design decision,
but effectively useless as the algorithm is so conservative on such bumping
that a low priority thread will receive almost no time slices if a CPU hog
is running. I've seen background threads receive less than 1 slice per ten
minutes on a bogged system. With this performance, it seems hardly worth it
to bother bumping priorities. It gives developers a false sense of what
will happen.
<snip>
--
--Jeffrey Straszheim
---Systems Engineer, Programmer
----stimuli AT shadow DOT net
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From: Michael Rohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Compiling problem
Date: 22 Mar 1999 18:55:07 -0600
Need help compiling.
This is the msg I got when I tried to compile tkmixer:
======================================
mtrohan:~/tkmixer-1.0# make
gcc -I/usr/include/tcl -Wall -c tkmixer.C
tkmixer.C: In function `int MyAppInit(struct Tcl_Interp *)':
tkmixer.C:567: warning: value computed is not used
gcc tkmixer.o -ltcl -ltk -lX11 -lm -o tkmixer
/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or
directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [tkmixer] Error 1
mtrohan:~/tkmixer-1.0#
=======================================
>From what I can gather, ld can't find my X libs.
Is there a file that tells ld where to look for libs?
I also had a problem when I tried to compile a program and it couldn't find
the Xm.h include file but it is in the Xm directoory in /usr/X11/R/include
directory.
i would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Anderson)
Subject: Re: No setup signature found (I can't believe no one knows!)
Date: 22 Mar 1999 18:52:06 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>My new kernel is only 5120, as opposed to the old, which is
>454325.
>
That's not right at all. That's MUCH too small, it should be somewhere around
400k for a small kernel, not 5k.
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From: Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: IE5 under Linux
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:32:35 +0100
BachuZ wrote:
> Pretty soon Opera will be out for Linux... no crashes, tiny program...
>
> I think it is way better then M$ exploder or Nscape. Just have a try
> when it comes out
That may very well be, but 'when' it comes out? How long have they been
saying that? Over a year? How many development teams have they tried?
Three? I'll have to see it first... And all that pain only because they
insist on keeping the bloody thing proprietary...! Such a shame.
But I agree, it's a nice browser. Only thing I hated about it when I saw
it on someones Windows machine was the stupid MDI interface. Boy, do I
hate that concept (multiple small windows in one big window).
--
M.vr.gr. / Best regards,
Emile van Bergen (e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This e-mail message is 100% electronically degradeable and produced
on a GNU/Linux system.
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:47:44 +1030
From: Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Are screen savers necessary?
David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> Hewlett-Packard used to have a DOS menu that had bright little blkocks of
> function commands across the bottom of the screen. They burned themselves
> into the monitor in about a week flat, and into the user's forehead in maybe
> a month.
The same effect can be seen on colour IBM mainframe terminals.
Again they typically run the same application with exactly
the same screen image day after day.
There is a strong case for using the DPMS screen savers,
which actually power off the monitor. The amount of
electricity and air conditioning savings is impressive.
In Linux, this is built into some recent X servers, and
requires a change to XF86Config to activiate.
--
Glen Turner Network Specialist
Tel: (08) 8303 3936 Information Technology Services
Fax: (08) 8303 4400 The University of Adelaide 5005
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] South Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: locatedb
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:47:51 GMT
Hi, I recently upgraded to the 2.2.2 kernel which is working fine. However,
ever since I upgraded I have been getting the following messages from cron
every time it runs the updatedb.cron command:
find: /proc/6210/fd/4: No such file or directory
find: /proc/6210/fd/4: No such file or directory
find: /proc/6217/fd/4: No such file or directory
Can anyone tell me what this means and how I can correct this problem.
Thanx
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From: Jim Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: How do I find out the story behind the /etc/rc.d directory?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:21:13 GMT
Anubis wrote:
> Is there a man entry or webpage which explains this? I need to know what
> the directories inside rc.d do and how they operate.
>
> Thanks in advance
Yup. I'd start with a:
man init
and go from there.
The biblical version goes something like this: In the beginning there was
init. Init moved upon the surface of the process pool, and it was good.
Thus endeth the first day. On the second day, Init decided to check out
/etc/inittab. In there, init compared the run level to the processes listed
and figure out which to crank up and, essentially, in what order. And this
was good. On the third day. Yeah, this is getting boring.
In general, take a gander at /etc/inittab.
You'll notice things like sysint:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
[ at least on a Sys Vish initscript type system. ] In (hugely) general
terms, the rc0.d, rc1.d... rc6.d directories correpond to various "run
levels" of the system. Init uses the run level to know what to crank up (or
not).
Hope this helps - gross simplification.
Jim
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From: "Tom Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Freecell
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:12:10 -0800
xpat is usually included with most distributions, I know it's in slackware
and redhat...
(you might try "games for X" as a package to look for)
Gary Johnson wrote in message <7d2eul$sj4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Where do you find xpat2? I couldn't find it at either www.linuxapps.com
>or www.freshmeat.net. I have pysol and like it, but I would rather
>click than drag.
>
>Gary
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From: Gerald Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple Users Logged In -- NOT!
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:09:01 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I keep seeing a little quirk that is bugging me.
First, the essential info:
- Red Hat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36)
- Pentium 133mHz with 48mb RAM
- Linux box is configured to run as a SAMBA Server, serving a small
network of 3 Win9x/NT machines.
- X-11, XFree86, KDE GUI
- Linux box has its own modem, and Netscape (4.0.8) so I can use it to
check mail, browse, etc.
- Linux is *not* configured with diald or any other service to permit
the Win9x/NT boxes to dial out and transact mail (they have their own
modems/lines and won't change until we replace the phone system later
this year).
Now the quirk: when I am logged in as root and execute 'users', it
shows two iterations of 'root". I have checked all of the virtual
consoles, and root isn't logged on a second time. If I log on as another
user and run 'users', I see the user I logged on as and root (at least
it is consistent).
If I shutdown and restart the Linux box (which I never *have* to do),
log on as 'root' and run 'users', only one user (root) shows up. But if
I run an X-11 session, and run a PPP/Netscape session, the second 'root'
user is back!
This occurs whether the Win9x/NT boxes are on the network or not, so
I doubt there is a connection there.
Any ideas / suggestions?
Gerald Jensen
Automated Data Systems, Inc.
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From: alessandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: which libXpm for xpat2?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:40:07 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- I have libXpm.so.4, but xpat2 complains
it needs another revision.
Can anybody help me?
thanks.
Alessandro.
===========
please, excuse my antispam: alpalmas, NOT alpalmas$
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: New Travan Tape Drive was: Eagle Exabyte TR-3 Parallel Port Support.
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:41:48 GMT
Okay, no takers on this one. Well, I figured it was going to come down to
buying a new tape drive. I want one that will use my current TR-3 and TR-3
Extra tapes, so I am thinking of maybe getting a Travan 4 drive.
Can someone recommend a Travan Drive, which Kernel 2.2.x has sourced-in
drivers for, that I can compile directly into the kernel, and that runs
smoothly, stably, and reliably in a 100% i386 Linux environement.
I am going to buy one next week.
Thanks for any help.
In article <7ckcqe$vsj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kernel 2.2.3 has all kinds of support for Parallel devices, but as of yet, I
> have been able to find a configuration that will run my old, discontinued,
> Eagle Exabyte TR-3 Parallel port Travan 3 drive.
>
> Does anyone know of a driver, or a combination of kernel options and drivers
> that might actually get this beast running, and backing up my Linux boxes.
> This is the last Windows-era piece of hardware that I have been unable to get
> running under my now complete M$ free LAN.
>
> Eventually I am just going to buy a completely Linux supported Travan drive
> (any suggestions?), but I would at least like to give this a good shot.
>
> Surely someone out there has one of these tape drives, and has gotten it
> spinning?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netshow for Linux -- Italian site
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:34:18 GMT
Dear friends:
I just discovered another bona fide (I guess) Linux site in Italy that has
a version of Netshow for Linux_gz (828kb) dated 5-14-98. Here is the
address:
Could someone who is knowledgable about these things please investigate
this and let us know whether Microsoft has been issuing its long-awaited
Netshow for Linux abroad. And please tell us if it works.
http://www.softcity.it/iol/netshow/linux/
Again, please consult Microsoft's site for full installation info at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/download/unix.htm
I will be receiving Linux at long last tomorrow from Cosmos Engineering
(RedHat 5.2) and will try it out.
--
Benjamin Sher
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web & Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/index.html
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DAT drive initialisation on Linux system (kernel 2.2.3)
Date: 23 Mar 1999 01:16:40 GMT
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Rainer Krienke wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
[snip]
>
> Does anyone know a way how to reset the tape drive without turning the
> machine off?
>
> Thanks Rainer
Well, I don't know if this is an answer or not, but you can try it. I
also have a DAT tape (HP surestore 12/24G) that I see no reason to
run all the time and wear out. I have discovered that you can 'attach'
or 'detach' a SCSI device. This allows you to 'detach' and then physically
turn off an attached device such as tape drive (or CDRom or ?) and the
reverse. I've attached the scripts. Please note that you must change
the parameters before using. The device must be physically on before
'adding' it and you must run the 'delete' script before turning it off.
This would allow you to cycle your drive while your system is up and
hopefully clear whatever WinBlows is setting. I haven't had any problems
but YMMV.
====tapeadd============================================================
#!/bin/sh
#
#
# Add a SCSI device dynamically
#
# This is for the HP SureStore Tape Drive on ID 5
#
# a == hostadapter id (first one being 0)
# b == SCSI channel on hostadapter (first one being 0)
# c == ID
# d == LUN (first one being 0)
#
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 5 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
====tapedelete=========================================================
#!/bin/sh
#
# Delete a SCSI device dynamically
#
# This is for the HP SureStore Tape Drive on ID 5
#
# a == hostadapter id (first one being 0)
# b == SCSI channel on hostadapter (first one being 0)
# c == ID
# d == LUN (first one being 0)
#
echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 5 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
=================================================================
Best
Cokey
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#!/bin/sh
#
#
# Add a SCSI device dynamically
#
# This is for the HP SureStore Tape Drive on ID 5
#
# a == hostadapter id (first one being 0)
# b == SCSI channel on hostadapter (first one being 0)
# c == ID
# d == LUN (first one being 0)
#
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 5 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
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name="deletetape"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="deletetape"
#!/bin/sh
#
# Delete a SCSI device dynamically
#
# This is for the HP SureStore Tape Drive on ID 5
#
# a == hostadapter id (first one being 0)
# b == SCSI channel on hostadapter (first one being 0)
# c == ID
# d == LUN (first one being 0)
#
echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 5 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Rotunno)
Subject: kde 'died'
Date: 23 Mar 1999 01:37:41 GMT
i had just installed mandrake which auto installs x and kde and it was
working fine. i was using kppp (which was working ok) to connect to my
isp when everything just froze. i couldn't properly shut down so i had to
shut my machine off. then my phone started ringing which may be the
reason for it freezing (didn't use *70). regardless, now x won't start.
after i type 'xstart' the grey screen pops up w/ the x, but it doesn't get
any further. i don't know where to begin troubleshooting this as i'm to x
and kde. anyone have any suggestions?
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netshow for Linux -- Taiwan site
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:24:26 GMT
Dear friends:
Very sorry that I forgot to include the actual address for Netshow for
Linux in Taiwan. Here it is:
http://ftp.vit.edu.tw/msdownload/taiwan/netshow/Linux/
The files is 753kb compressed (ns173_linux.gz). Please remember to read
Microsoft's instructions on installation, if you are a layman like me and
need it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/download/unix.htm
Please let us know if it worked for you.
--
Benjamin Sher
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web & Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/index.html
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From: jf@hal. (Jean-Francois Landry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP: Win95/WinNT/Linux partitioning ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:21:55 GMT
Once upon a time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> I read all the linux groups for two days insearch of answers to my
> questions. Some are close but not exactly what I wanted. Here is my
> problem.
>
> I have 12 GB HD and installed Win95 (~2GB, C:\) and WinNT (~2GB,D:\).
> Now I want to install RedHat5.2 linux on the remaining part of HD.
> I already have a boot manager(select-it) to boot Win95 and WinNT.
> When I tried to install Linux, Disk druid can't create more than 4
> partitions including the 2 I already have. How can I go about installing
> Linux with partitions for swap, root, user and home etc.. ??
> Can you give me a guide line of the partitions I should create and what
> kind of partitions they should be ??
>
>Thanks in advance
>Suresh
>
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That's because the PC partition table can't have more than 4 primary
partitions. You have to create one huge ~10GB Extended partition that will
contain all the others.
In Linux terms:
/dev/hda1 Primary Win95 ~2GB
/dev/hda2 Primary WinNT ~2GB
/dev/hda3 Extended ~10GB container for 5, 6, 7, ...
/dev/hda4 root, swap, whatever ~depends
/dev/hda5 usr, home, var, whatever ~depends
/dev/hda6 could be anything
/dev/hda7 could also be anything
you could go on for a long time like this...
By the way, I don't know about Disk Druid, but I could't find an option
to create extended partitions in cfdisk and I had to switch to another
virtual console and run fdisk from there, your mileage may vary.
Anyway, here's how my drive looks like:
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdb2 116646 43244 67378 39% /
/dev/hdb3 285930 63042 222888 22% /var/spool/news
/dev/hdb5 2974519 1101930 1872589 37% /usr
/dev/hdb6 1988924 492000 1496924 25% /home
/dev/hdb1 is 62MB of swap and /dev/hdb3 is a scratch partition that I use
as a news spool right now.
I'd say my /usr is 1.2GB too big for what I use it for (and there's 300MB
worth of backups in there)
So, since you have 10GB to play with, I'd suggest something like:
about 220MB for / , should hold tons of mail, news and tmp
or
about 120 for / and maybe 80MB for /var/spool if you don't want to fragment /
something like 2GB for /usr, will hold loads of programs and also quake2 ;)
300-400MB as a scratch partition to play with (other distro, maybe FreeBSD,
OpenBSD or the BeOS, public access html, backup, you think of something...)
60-80MB of swap, just to be sure
the rest as /home
Hope this helps,
Jean-Francois Landry
--
"Windows multitasks, it can boot and crash at the same time."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Symlinks to second hard disk
Date: 23 Mar 1999 01:46:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've done this for a number of directories with NO problems. In particular
my /var/tmp kept filling up. I had a second hd that I mounted under the
/drive2 subdirectory. I then did a
mkdir /drive2/var
mkdir /drive2/var/tmp
rm /var/tmp/*
rmdir /var/tmp
ln -s /drive2/var/tmp /var/tmp
Now all my "temporary" files go onto the second disk. I love that feature!
John McKown
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:16:00 -0500, Bob Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'd like to move some apps from my now swelling 1.6 gb primary drive to the
>virtually unused 1.6 gb second drive. Is there a safe way to do this and
>maintain links to libs and executables?
>
>Example: other than for Linux itself, Samba, Apache and some other base
>system apps, I'd like to move all of graphics, database, utility and dev
>apps to /hdb. I'm new to Linux so I'm not sure what this will do to the lib
>links and if a symbolic link back to /hda is all that is needed.
>
>Thanks
>
>Bob
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