Re: [CentOS] Problem mounting failed drive.
Andrew @ ATM Logic wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 23:02:23 -0500: Anyhow I rebuilt a 2nd server, and tested and notice the same, even on a working systems I cannot mount the drives in another system?? It may help if you showed what you actually do. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Sun, 4 May 2008 10:22:11 +0200: In other words: They don't want your money. If I were you, I'd respect that. Make yourself heard over at Netflix, though. I remember about the Netflix format from before 2000. It's a very low bandwidth format with really bad quality. AFAIK it was mainly porn sites using it. I thought it had died out since long. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Problem mounting failed drive.
Anyhow I rebuilt a 2nd server, and tested and notice the same, even on a working systems I cannot mount the drives in another system?? It may help if you showed what you actually do. Kai I wish I had the energy to do that, spent 8 hours on it already. If someone knows why I cannot mount (a basic IDE, Single NON-Raid) hda2 or hdc2 drive in any other version of Linux (or windows... Really not picky anymore) or how to export the entire contents of hda2 or hdc2 when mounted with text rescue to maybe FTP or how to connect to the box with SSH? That would be great Other than that... I spent 8 hrs Googleing, editing Grub, copied /boot from a working system to /boot of the failed system, ran fsck on /dev/hda1, edited fstab to show hda1 not md1 (no idea why the ... It thinks it's a raid...), ran fdisk changed file system to 83 (Linux) from Auto detect raid. Good chance I may have screwed up something that may have otherwize worked, however... As far as I can see I am no further behind. I can still mount and see my data with text rescue and the only thing I moved was going from a NON working system with a Grub Error 25, to a system that boots with a Kennel panic 22. As mentioned, I have the system up and running now (on a new drive) with the old drive installed, but not mounted. Thanks, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote on Sun, 4 May 2008 10:22:11 +0200: In other words: They don't want your money. If I were you, I'd respect that. Make yourself heard over at Netflix, though. I remember about the Netflix format from before 2000. It's a very low bandwidth format with really bad quality. AFAIK it was mainly porn sites using it. I thought it had died out since long. Kai Netflix only started doing on demand movies about a year ago, and from what I remember when I had the service it wasn't all that bad. It looked great on a laptop, and on my 720p 37 HDTV it looked better than normal tv, but not as good as an HD program. I agree with Ralph, complain to them, I know I did. Unfortunately they probably don't think there are enough Linux users to justify providing service to us. I'm just really surprised they haven't provided service to Mac users, the new Quicktime format actually has better compression rates than any of the WMV/WMA formats. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Kevin Krieser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 4, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Matt Shields wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote on Sun, 4 May 2008 10:22:11 +0200: In other words: They don't want your money. If I were you, I'd respect that. Make yourself heard over at Netflix, though. I remember about the Netflix format from before 2000. It's a very low bandwidth format with really bad quality. AFAIK it was mainly porn sites using it. I thought it had died out since long. Kai Netflix only started doing on demand movies about a year ago, and from what I remember when I had the service it wasn't all that bad. It looked great on a laptop, and on my 720p 37 HDTV it looked better than normal tv, but not as good as an HD program. I agree with Ralph, complain to them, I know I did. Unfortunately they probably don't think there are enough Linux users to justify providing service to us. I'm just really surprised they haven't provided service to Mac users, the new Quicktime format actually has better compression rates than any of the WMV/WMA formats. Apparently the problem with the Mac is the DRM again. The studios are apparently all worried that people will keep copies of the old TV shows and movies downloaded. I have an old Mac Mini that I would like to use to watch some Netflix shows on (better than sitting in front of a computer, or watching it on a small laptop), but until it is supported I can't. The Mini is hooked up to my TV directly. Quicktime absolutely supports DRM, so what's the problem? It's a cheap company that's looking to get the most bang for the littlest buck. It wouldn't have taken much to have their system ask for the users choice of player (WMP or QT), so the other remaining issue is time to convert films to digital format and storage. Since the conversion is probably automated it shouldn't have taken that much extra time. So the only issue is disk space, which means that Netflix was too cheap to spend the extra money to store a QT version of the films so they could get the Mac users. From what I remember of the Netflix downloads they were looking for a cheap way to get ahead of Blockbuster. They looked good, but they did as little as possible, which included a limited availability of movies. And for those that say it's more complicated than I state, I have built a site from ground up(programming and video encoding) which hosted independent films in WMV and QT formats. For me the most complicated part was converting films that were not on optical media (like DVD), because if they were sent on tape format (DVCPRO, DV, BetaCam, etc) you were limited to the speed of playback, whereas digital you can rip faster. When it came to storage, even at high def quality storage was still cheap. Even bandwidth for streaming was quite cheap. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS
Matt Shields wrote: Apparently the problem with the Mac is the DRM again. The studios are apparently all worried that people will keep copies of the old TV shows and movies downloaded. I have an old Mac Mini that I would like to use to watch some Netflix shows on (better than sitting in front of a computer, or watching it on a small laptop), but until it is supported I can't. The Mini is hooked up to my TV directly. Quicktime absolutely supports DRM, so what's the problem? It's a cheap company that's looking to get the most bang for the littlest buck. They claim to be working on mac/xbox/ps3 support but I don't think they have a target date. And for those that say it's more complicated than I state, I have built a site from ground up(programming and video encoding) which hosted independent films in WMV and QT formats. For me the most complicated part was converting films that were not on optical media (like DVD), because if they were sent on tape format (DVCPRO, DV, BetaCam, etc) you were limited to the speed of playback, whereas digital you can rip faster. It's probably more complicated to get the OK from the studios when streaming commercial content and everyone may be waiting on silverlight. The current netflix system not only has drm that is only playable with the windows program, but they can tell if the speed of your download is faster than a real-time playback and will cancel your account if they think you are saving downloaded copies instead. Meanwhile, XP under vmware or parallels will work on a mac if you happen to have a copy - not sure about linux. But the selection they make available for streaming probably isn't worth setting up a system that way. It is a small fraction of what they offer as dvds through the normal service. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS
Bill Campbell wrote: Apparently the problem with the Mac is the DRM again. The studios are apparently all worried that people will keep copies of the old TV shows and movies downloaded. I have an old Mac Mini that I would like to use to watch some Netflix shows on (better than sitting in front of a computer, or watching it on a small laptop), but until it is supported I can't. The Mini is hooked up to my TV directly. Quicktime absolutely supports DRM, so what's the problem? It's a cheap company that's looking to get the most bang for the littlest buck. It wouldn't have taken much to have their system ask for the users choice of player (WMP or QT), so the other remaining issue is time to convert films to digital format and storage. Since the conversion is probably automated it shouldn't have taken that much extra time. So the only issue is disk space, which means that Netflix was too cheap to spend the extra money to store a QT version of the films so they could get the Mac users. From what I remember of the Netflix downloads they were looking for a cheap way to get ahead of Blockbuster. They looked good, but they did as little as possible, which included a limited availability of movies. Unless I'm missing something (entirely possible with video stuff), Macs have no problem viewing Windows media play files using the free flip4mac program. Netflix has its own add-in to windows media player that probably provides the authentication. I don't think it will work with anything else. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS
Morten Nilsen wrote on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:55:08 +0200: I believe there are two entirely separate things called netflix Yepp, must be so. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT? - How do I set up Win98 to access a printer on my CentOS box?
on 5-2-2008 11:11 AM MHR spake the following: I have a WinXP guest under VMWare on my CentOS 5.1 host and it can access the CentOS printer(s) just fine. However, I also have a Win98 box on the LAN that I would like to be able to print on the CentOS printer. When I try to connect to the printer, Win98 tells me that it can't find the network...? Any suggestions? (This slightly really is - it _is_ directly related to CentOS, unlike my previous FC8 post) Thanks. mhr Can the win98 box resolve the Centos host in any way? Remember that older lanman clients can only see smb names of 12 characters and less. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problem mounting failed drive.
On Sunday 04 May 2008 21:15:53 Andrew @ ATM Logic wrote: I wish I had the energy to do that, spent 8 hours on it already. If someone knows why I cannot mount (a basic IDE, Single NON-Raid) hda2 or hdc2 drive in any other version of Linux (or windows... Really not picky anymore) or how to export the entire contents of hda2 or hdc2 when mounted with text rescue to maybe FTP or how to connect to the box with SSH? That would be great Other than that... I spent 8 hrs Googleing, editing Grub, copied /boot from a working system to /boot of the failed system, ran fsck on /dev/hda1, edited fstab to show hda1 not md1 (no idea why the ... It thinks it's a raid...), ran fdisk changed file system to 83 (Linux) from Auto detect raid. Good chance I may have screwed up something that may have otherwize worked, however... As far as I can see I am no further behind. I can still mount and see my data with text rescue and the only thing I moved was going from a NON working system with a Grub Error 25, to a system that boots with a Kennel panic 22. As mentioned, I have the system up and running now (on a new drive) with the old drive installed, but not mounted. Hi, if I'm not mistaken, you succeeded in 'mounting' your troubled drive using a rescue cd, but failed to do it by mounting it on another system? Well, rescue cd provides some basic networking (ssh and ftp). If you don't have a dhcp, you can set the ip manually and scp any contents of your troubled drive to another system in the network. Unless the rescue cd cannot recognize your network card. All basic troubleshooting tools are there on the rescue environment (fsck, ssh, ftp, etc). -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 07:34:45 up 41 min, 2.6.22-14-generic GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org The real challenge of teaching is getting your students motivated to learn. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB
But... Can i do that just with centos install cd and 3ware drivers? Format the volumes with 8TB/9TB/10TB without problems? Regards, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ - Original Message - From: Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos@centos.org Sent: Sexta-feira, 2 de Maio de 2008 21H15m GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I think it *theoretically* should work as ext3 should to 16TB. However, we ran into issues with userland tools and such. Possibly related to x86_64 vs i386 stuff, but in the end to avoid continued troubleshooting we just used centosplus + jfs. Works perfectly for our 10TB filesystem. I'm curious what you store that you need 10TB of linear storage? I have had 4-6-8TB storage systems, but the storage was always divvied up between different applications. -Ross It's almost all Oracle database dump files... one database by itself is 4.5TB! Don't ask me what's in these things... :) Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] wine question
Before bothering the wine folks thought I'd ask here... On my fully-updated (fully operational battle station), er, centos box I seem to be able to use the Centos-released version of wine to run the software installers for quite a few apps. However, at no time during the installer do I actually see any text in any of the dialogs that appear. This makes it a little hard to choose options :) Does anyone here have any experience using wine like this and perhaps can tell me what I need to do to fix it? for years I've had one of the huge sets of national geographic on CDROM, and years ago it wouldn't even install on wine. I've just used acroread to view the files in the past, but thought I'd see today if the wine i've got will install it. Yes, it seems to, but it's hard to tell what choices I made. For example, it wont' actually run (now that it is installed) unless I register it, which apparently is done as part of the installation. Before I go run the installer again and see if I can fake my way through registration I'd like to see if there's a way to tweak Wine so it'll let me see the text in the installer windows (and the legends on the buttons). Thanks! -- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. --- Romans 5:8 (niv) -- pgpOkSltFcvW4.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive.com wrote: Message: 9 Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually checked. Just a kernel missing when you update is not proof ;-) I see that you have priority protections in place. Disable all your extra repos, then disable the protections (basically go back to your inital repo setup) and then do a check-update. You are using the mirrorlist and not a specific CentOS mirror, do you? Kai: Thank you. I will do that, ASAP. Either *very* early some morning, before my wife is using her box, or when she's not home. I am not using a specific mirror. The other boxes also have priority working and yum gives the message about 259 (?) packages are protected and the Kernel updates on them were OK. However, as I am typing this, I suspect that I updated the Kernels on the other 2 boxes, by checking that they be updated in PUP, with a couple of other packages, and not with the blanket yum update as I did in her box, with the command line. BTW: I notice that your mail is missing any threading information, so that it doesn't thread at all. I see that other people who use Gmail do get the threading information, so there's probably some option not activated in your Gmail account. Thank you for pointing that out. I do not believe that is a setting in Gmail. When I signed up for the list (3 years ago), I selected the Digest, because we had to go back to dial up, when we moved here. We have ADSL now, so I just changed that, to get individual emails from the list. That should begin Monday or Tuesday, and, hopefully, my messages will look better, when I reply. Also, during the past few days, with the DVD reader problem and this one, I have also done some reading of the ML Archives on the CentOS web site and copied messages there that I replied to, before I received them in the Digest the next morning. Hopefully, when I begin receiving individual messages, when I reply to them, the threading will not get screwed up, as it is now. Lanny ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT? - How do I set up Win98 to access a printer on my CentOS box?
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 15:54 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: However, I also have a Win98 box on the LAN that I would like to be able to print on the CentOS printer. When I try to connect to the printer, Win98 tells me that it can't find the network...? Any suggestions? Possibly name resolution issues on the Win98 box? There was no hosts file - I edited the hosts.sam (sample) file and added both machines to it. But there must be more. Can you resolve a ping using the exact hostname you use for the printer I can ping the CentOS host by IP address and, now that there's a hosts file, by host name as well. However, Win98 can't see the network at all - claims there isn't one. It is running the M$ client for M$ networks (and for NetBIOS networks, as well), but the network is not getting properly initialized. And now we are definitely sliding OT here (is there a forum where and answer to this can be found?). (I assume the CentOS box emulates a Lanman printer? Never printed on a CentOS box...). 'fraid I don't know what that means - the printer is just available to be shared via samba and so should be visible on a M$ network (like in the XP guest?). I'm going to be playing with the Windows box RSN - when I'm done with it, it will have Win98, XP Pro and, of course, CentOS, but there's a fair amount of work to be done before that will work. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: wine question
On my fully-updated (fully operational battle station), er, centos box I seem to be able to use the Centos-released version of wine to run the software installers for quite a few apps. However, at no time during the installer do I actually see any text in any of the dialogs that appear. This makes it a little hard to choose options :) I had (have) the same problem but got no answers/help on this list :-( And I have no solution (beside using cross over from codeweaver). Sorry Timothy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
