Re: How to make a rescue disk ?
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:13, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya bruno On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Bruno Costacurta wrote: I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. proceedure .. think :-) .. - find out what hardware chipset is in your pc - find out what kernel you're using - save the kernel and /lib/modules/kernel - save your partition info - save your list of apps installed - save your list of config files installed - add dressing so that you can do something ( bash, libc, networking, fs-check apps, ... ) - how much time will have you rescue the dead box ? 5min .. 5hrs .. 5 days .. would dictate how you implement your rescue cd - depending on what you want to rescue .. existing rescue cd's will not have your config files and setup - or do you want rescue to save a corrupt fs vs a backup of your /home and config changes which is not the same as rescue - booting the pc is not the same as rescue either how complicated do you want to get ... - why start with the hardest way to rescue a system ? 0) dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 - as long as your kernel is 1.2MB and you have the network modules you can always boot can get online 1) do a fancier boot floppy with ( lilo or grub or syslinux ) menu - lots of howto's 2) stick a 2nd disk into the same system ... and mirror your boot info and may as well copy your /home/bruno directories too 3) use raid ... in case hda dies ... your properly configured raid will boot off hdc instead 4) make a bootable usb-stick ( more space than a floppy ) this is the simplest 1 minute change but assumes your system supports usb-hdd-boot and your system has the usb driver modules lilo -C /etc/lilo.hda.conf -- change to boot=/dev/hda to boot=/dev/sda more tweeking (2 min) of menu.lst for grub-install /dev/sda 4) setup (pxe) network boot ... so that you always boot off the network as long as the pxe server is running 5) use an existing standalone cdrom - you're assuming the kernel on the cdrom supports your hw or else it's worthless for rescuing your hardware 6) make your own standalone cdrom - little more work ... but more fun - rescue cd needs initrd.gz and rootfs and you'd need to make an iso of the whole thing hacking a existing knoppix is easy but is too big of a rescue disk 7) test and retest from different failures 8) endless list with more variances and differences of how to boot it c ya alvin Thanks Alvin for all these details. I decided to 'keep it simple' and will try a Knoppix. Bye, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make a rescue disk ?
On Sunday 23 October 2005 10:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:07:31AM +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. Thanks. Bruno Download either the full CD1 or the net install CD from the Debian installer page. Alternatively, keep a Knoppix or other live CD around, since if you boot one of those it will give you a fully functional system to use with many tools to repair whatever damage has befallen your system. -Roberto I downloaded the net install CD from Debian but my feeling is that it don't contain 'rescue' but only 'installer'. Is it possible ? Bye, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to make a rescue disk ?
Hello, I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. Thanks. Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAM (File Alteration Monitor) daemon enter in loop
Hello, time to time FAM (File Alteration Monitor) daemon enter in a continuous loop using 99% of cpu on my Sarge system (installed on laptop Acer). Is it a mandatory daemon ? Any problem already reported about FAM daemon ? Thanks, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to share env. variables ?
On Saturday 22 October 2005 00:54, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Bruno, How to give kde / X11 same env.variables as logged user ? KDE sources all shell scripts placed in ~/.kde/env. What I do is: 1. ln -s /etc/environment ~/.kde/env 2. Place all global environment variables in /etc/environment This way they're available to console and KDE-started appl alike. Paulo Paulo, could you please provide some samples like setting PATH in /etc/environment ? Many thanks. Bruno
How to share env. variables ?
Hello, I setup some environment variables needed by applications in user .bash files. Starting these applications from a console works fine. But starting these applications from kde menus don't work as obviously these user env.variables are not set. I suppose kde user is different than logged user. How to give kde / X11 same env.variables as logged user ? Thanks, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is the different between kernel-image and linux-image
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:10, Joseph Haig wrote: --- Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:40:57AM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: --- Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian is moving toward equality among kernels- hurd, bsd, and even windows (gah!). So there is truth in the rumours that Windows Vista is going to be Linux based? But I suppose Debian with a Windows kernel wouldn't strictly be Linux based. I dread to think what it would be, though - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049366/ Never heard of Windows Vista. What is it? Official name of the next version of Windows, previously called Longhorn. It is due to be released in summer 2004 - wait, I think the deadline may have slipped a bit. Hopefully for Microsoft there is a summer every year. So they only need to increase the year number. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300
I used xorg it on my laptop Acer 9100 with Sarge since 2 days. Card video is ATI Radeon X600. And it's working fine. In fact, I moved to xorg because suffered a non-supported ATI Radeon under XFree86 version 4. Bruno On Monday 26 September 2005 06:40, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 9/25/05, David Clymer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ sarge main I want to know if this xorg works without problem in sarge. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300
lpci returns: ... :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 3150 ... So I suppose this device is not recognized. I tried xf86config to configure my X but 'startx' definitely complains with 'no device detected'. Please see attached files for more details. Bruno On Sunday 25 September 2005 12:42, David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:21 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hi, as a Debian newcomer I installed Sarge but cannot start XFree86 as it seems driver for my card ATI Radeon X300 is missing. Where can I grab it ? What behavior/error message are you seeing that indicates that the driver you are using does not support your X300? You may need to install X.org in order to get it working (that's what I did). You can get the xorg packages from etch (testing). -davidc :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port (rev 03) :00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04) :00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04) :00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04) :00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04) :00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04) :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d4) :00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04) :00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 04) :00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04) :00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04) :00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04) :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 3150 :02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) :02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) :02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) :02:03.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133 Audio+video broadcast decoder (rev f0) :02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB710 Cardbus Controller :02:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 0530 :02:04.2 0805: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 0550 XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 20050901212727 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.8-16.0508-2 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 02 September 2005 This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian Project, and is not supported by the XFree86 Project, Inc., in any way. Bugs should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System; see URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting . We strongly encourage the use of the reportbug package and command to ensure that bug reports contain as much useful information as possible. Before filing a bug report, you may want to consult the Debian X FAQ: XHTML version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml plain text version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.8-2-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Sun Sep 25 14:18:35 2005 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen Default Screen (0) (**) | |--Monitor Generic Monitor (**) | |--Device Generic Video Card (**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc104 (**) XKB: model: pc104 (**) Option XkbLayout belgian (**) XKB: layout: belgian (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |--Input Device Configured Mouse (WW) The directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (++) using VT number 7
Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300
On Sunday 25 September 2005 13:27, you wrote: Bruno Costacurta wrote: lpci returns: ... :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 3150 You can try running update-pciids as root to see if that helps. 'update-pciids' indeed gives good results as lspci indicates now identified video card. (please see attached lspci output) But startx still not working. What's the next step ? Thanks, Bruno :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) :00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04) :00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04) :00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04) :00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04) :00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04) :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4) :00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04) :00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 04) :00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04) :00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04) :00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04) :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600] :02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) :02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) :02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) :02:03.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev f0) :02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller :02:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller :02:04.2 0805: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card Reader Controller
Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300
On Sunday 25 September 2005 13:03, David Clymer wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:52 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: lpci returns: ... :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 3150 ... So I suppose this device is not recognized. I tried xf86config to configure my X but 'startx' definitely complains with 'no device detected'. Please see attached files for more details. Yeah, your XFree86 log looks exactly like mine did under xfree86 4.3. Try out Xorg. My guess is that will work for you. -davidc I'm a Debian newcomer so how / where can I grab / install 'Xorg' ? I tried a search package Xorg but without success. Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300
On Sunday 25 September 2005 15:05, David Clymer wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 14:06 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2005 13:03, David Clymer wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:52 +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: lpci returns: ... :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 3150 ... So I suppose this device is not recognized. I tried xf86config to configure my X but 'startx' definitely complains with 'no device detected'. Please see attached files for more details. Yeah, your XFree86 log looks exactly like mine did under xfree86 4.3. Try out Xorg. My guess is that will work for you. -davidc I'm a Debian newcomer so how / where can I grab / install 'Xorg' ? I tried a search package Xorg but without success. add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ sarge main -davidc It works. Thanks. 'apt-get install xserver-xorg' resolved the problem about startx with ATI X300 and XFree86. Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Video card : ATI Radeon X300
Hi, as a Debian newcomer I installed Sarge but cannot start XFree86 as it seems driver for my card ATI Radeon X300 is missing. Where can I grab it ? Cheers, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
