RE[2]: [expert] RAID
"D. Stark - eSN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, any SCSI card will do, though some won't do well with hot swap. Look into each one seprately and make your decision. Second, under linux, Mylex cards are the BOMB. They've had some availability issues lately though I'm slightly confused - does this mean you think they are great or terrible? probably go Mylex with any new machines and when the time is right to Lets see, Mylex is what used to be BusLogic? Or was that Future Domain... hmm We use software RAID here in our shop on a good number of machines, as well. Thanks Mr D for such a great description of your setup - I've filed it in my 'expert' file for future reference. I'm afraid my description won't be nearly as good... I've set up software raid with scsi myself (but not done much stress testing). I used 2 adaptec (I think) controllers and 3 IBM 10krpm drives. In hindsight I should have done it different, which I will explain below. What I did was put 2 drives on one controller, one drive on the other controller, and use raid 5 (um - lets see - the raid where you have one 'parity' sector, striped across different drives, giving you 66% of the disk space you thought you had instead of 50% like pure mirroring does). If you are using mirroring, 'lots' of 'little' (for some value of 'little' and 'lots'!) partitions sounds like a good plan for multiple reasons - not the least of which is that you could use more than 2 drives and spread the load all around - giving you more performance and, as suggested by D, less risk of loss. A coupld of things to keep in mind when comparing SCSI and IDE: you can easily run more than 2 scsi busses (just add more cards) SCSI drives have the ability to disconnect from the scsi bus and go off and do stuff, like seek and read, so you can have (on a REAL OS like we use!) all your drives active at the same time - instead of only 1 per IDE channel. There's probably more that I've forgotten, but I've sat on thie email for a day and figured I'd better get it off so we can get on to other things ;-) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM: 33 20' 44"N 111 53' 47"W
[expert] Summary: How to move /usr to another partition
Greetings again, Thanks for all the replies re: How to move /usr to another partition? It's nice to know that what i was working with SHOULD have worked, on principle. Here is a brief summary of the "How to move /usr to another partition?" thread. 1. Resize partition, using Partition Magic or some such thing. [this will only work if you actually have the appropriate space on the drive, of course] All of the following assume that /usr will be duplicated somehow onto /mnt/usr temporarily, then /etc/fstab will be updated to reflect the new location, reboot and presto, you are mounting the new /usr. 2. copy: # cp -a /usr /mnt 3. tarball: # tar cvf /mnt/usr.tar /usr # cd /mnt # tar xvfp usr.tar (Note that this method requires enough free space to hold not just mnt/usr but also /mnt/usr.tar) or # tar cf - /usr | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvfp - ) or # cd /mnt # tar cf - -C /usr | tar xvpf (Note that these last two methods of tarballing only require enough free space to hold /usr) Care must be taken to preserve relative links and file permissions if either 2 or 3 is to work. Soft links do not support spanning partitions or devices and will cause failures if this occurs. An aside: at the time that i was attempting this i was installing and re-installing on various drives on the same system. It MAY have been the case that i had a swap partition on the device that contained /usr and the device that contained the new /mnt/usr. If this were true, it could have caused some problems, i don't know. Thanks again, John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] A Proactive Solution
Hello all, Here's an experience i had recently. It may help some of you avoid a similar battle as i had to fight. I was attempting an installation 7.1 or 7.2 (whichever i could get to work first) on a system with 3 drives. There was already a stable install of 7.1 on the system (on hdc), and all i wanted to do was install again on hdb. I went though the graphical install and when it came time to choose my partitions, i would ignore all of the partitions on hdc, and create new ones on hdb. When it came time to format the new partitions it would invariably want to format the old swap partition on hdc. I always said no. If (IF) the install went through, then booting would usually result in a panic attack and fatal crash. If i somehow managed to get past that (with failsafe etc) then it would core dump when i tried to run almost any program. I was baffled. Then one day, while doing something decidedly not computer-related, i had a flash of inspiration. Maybe i should disconnect hdc for the install and then try it. All of a sudden the install went flawlessly (with 7.1 - to this date i have been unsuccessful installing 7.2 on any system). The moral of the story: When installing Mandrake, make sure that it can't see any other swap partitions during the install. (Could it use the old swap, if it wanted to? Could they share it? I don't know.) Cheers, John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] A Proactive Solution
You can share your swap partitions...with out any problems. - Original Message - From: "John Wolford" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:19 PM Subject: [expert] A Proactive Solution Hello all, Here's an experience i had recently. It may help some of you avoid a similar battle as i had to fight. I was attempting an installation 7.1 or 7.2 (whichever i could get to work first) on a system with 3 drives. There was already a stable install of 7.1 on the system (on hdc), and all i wanted to do was install again on hdb. I went though the graphical install and when it came time to choose my partitions, i would ignore all of the partitions on hdc, and create new ones on hdb. When it came time to format the new partitions it would invariably want to format the old swap partition on hdc. I always said no. If (IF) the install went through, then booting would usually result in a panic attack and fatal crash. If i somehow managed to get past that (with failsafe etc) then it would core dump when i tried to run almost any program. I was baffled. Then one day, while doing something decidedly not computer-related, i had a flash of inspiration. Maybe i should disconnect hdc for the install and then try it. All of a sudden the install went flawlessly (with 7.1 - to this date i have been unsuccessful installing 7.2 on any system). The moral of the story: When installing Mandrake, make sure that it can't see any other swap partitions during the install. (Could it use the old swap, if it wanted to? Could they share it? I don't know.) Cheers, John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] Disk Formatting
Prior to now, I used the following to format a disk. Now it doesn't work. What will work? setfdprm /dev/fd0 1440/1440 fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 mkfs /dev/fd0 1440 The above is a Linux format. I also need to know a DOS format command/syntax. Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address in Cc: and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM
[expert] MandrakeUpdate [Q]: cache file?
Hi List, In the absense of a man or info page or significant HTML documentation for MandrakeUpdate, I'm interested to know if any lister knows how to tell it to refresh it's knowledge of what is actually installed. Most of my dozen Mdk 7.2 boxes (fully patched) have erroneous entries in their MandrakeUpdate Apps, which irritates the sysadmin staff and results in lots of bandwidth being wasted by un-necessary patch downloads. I can't find a .conf or cache file, and #rpm --rebuilddb makes no difference. Any pointers? -- Simon Cousins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To not run Samba is un-Australian.
[expert] Restoring Konqueror bookmarks after a reinstall...
Hi there... I did some major housekeeping, updating, etc. on my system this morning -- part of which involved installed the new KDE2.1 Beta Two. I backed up my old .kde directory and let the 2.1 beta create a new one. Now I'd like to restore the bookmarks from my old .kde/share/apps/konqueror/. I have the bookmarks.xml file. So what's the next step? Simply copying it into the new .kde/share/apps/konqueror/ doesn't seem to be what's required. I'm obviously missing something... Any suggestions? M. PS: The new KDE is EXTREMELY nice! I'm really seeing a lot of spit'n'polish here... -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [expert] Summary: How to move /usr to another partition
Hi, I think you should be able to do this: 1. Make the new partition of sufficient size. /dev/hd? whatever, 2. init 1 3. mount /dev/hd? /mnt 4. mv /usr /mnt (I'm not 100% sure this will preserve softlinks) 5. umount /mnt 6. umount /usr 7. mount /dev/hd? /usr 8. edit /etc/fstab to reflect the change. 9. init ? ? stands for whatever is appropriate. no reboot. === "... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of jons world domination laser " - Jonisattva For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout: http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican ===
[expert] Software RAID 5 and data curruption
I am sending this again seeing that my last post never showed up on the list. My efforts to set up a software raid in my "spare" time has progressed a little from last time around, but it seems that I have run into a rather significant snag. I am basing my attempt to build a root software raid 5 on the software raid HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html). Here is a list of relevent configurations: I. Harware 1. Asus K7V m/b with BIOS version 1.007. 2. In-Win Q500 case w/ 300W p/s and 3 1/2 fan rigged to the front of the chassis blowing over the internel 3 1/2 disk cage. 3. 4 IBM DLTA-307045 4. Promise Ultra100 controller acting as ide[23]. 5. Promise Ultra66 controller acting as ide[45]. 6. 256 MB of ECC PC133 RAM w/ ECC enabled. II. Software configuration 1. ide2 is the drive that I live off of for the moment. 2. ide[345] are the test drives. 3. software RAID 5 is what I am shooting for, so if I don't mention what RAID level I am using assume that. 4. default disk tunning goes as follows unless otherwise specified: hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -X69 /dev/hde hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -X69 /dev/hdg hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -X68 /dev/hdi hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -X68 /dev/hdk 5. Stock mdk 7.2 kernel. Here is how I first noticed a problem. I was experimenting with a four disk RAID 5 with one failed disk. (Add it in once everything else is moving smoothly because last disk to add is the disk that I am currently running off of.) I got through all of the initial stuff of building a software raid and I made a copy of my machine to the raid devices using cp -a. When I went to boot off of a boot disk I noticed that there where errors initializing /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 (/dev/md0 is the / directory and /dev/md1 is the /home directory) and the machine would kernel panick on boot. When I booted the normal way I saw that in the first round /dev/md[01] got errors on the first round of initialization while /dev/md[234] didn't and then all devices would get started in a second round after the / file system was mounted. When I mounted /dev/md[01] (mount /dev/md0 test or mount /dev/md1 test) I would get errors while mounting, but it would mount. /dev/md[24] (/dev/md3 was set up as swap) would not give me errors. This section concerns the stage of confirming a real problem. The errors that I got seemed to demand further testing so I umounted all raid devices and ran e2fsck on /dev/md[0124] and came across hundreds or maybe even thousands of errors of many types including duplicate blocks. (I lost count of how many errors.) After a little playing around I went back and typed in hdparm -u0 for all of the disk drives and tried to recopy the / directory. When I recopied, umounted the device and reran e2fsck I got a whole bunch errors like I did before. I then went and tried running 'badblocks -wv /dev/md0'. After a little while this reported back approximately 1400 bad blocks out of a 6 GB RAID device. This section concerns the more thurough testing that I conducted to try to isolate the problem as best as possible. After seeing all of those bad blocks show up on a software RAID device with one disk intentionally failed, I decided to see what would happen if I distroyed the RAID devices and test each disk with one standard linux partition per disk taking up the whole 45 GB disk. In my first aborted attempt I noticed that after I started checking the first disk, the other two would stalled. This was fixed by re-unmasking the IRQ's for each device (hdparm -u1 /dev/hd[2345]). I went and typed in badblocks -wv /dev/hd[gik]1 for each of the disks again on different virtual terminals and let them run simaltaniously. (I noticed that when all disks where being written to a second or so would go by where nothing was being flushed to disk and everything else would go and then a flurry of disk activity that would last a couple of seconds causing everything except for the blinking curser to pause. I also noticed when I opened top that my 800 MHz Athlon was tacked out.) To my surprise the first disk (/dev/hdg1) finished a few minutes after the other two, but non of them incurred any errors. I then decided to see what would happen if I built a software RAID five using three disks w/ no failed disks, using the entire disk for one RAID device. When I did this and ran 'badblocks -wv /dev/md0' I came up with a final of 233,604 bad blocks out of 90,069,632 blocks total. I looked over some of the output and it looked like series of blocks would be marked bad of seemingly random lengths at seemingly random intervals. Plus on sequental passes it looks like there is no consistancy between where the blocks are marked bad. When I checked for blocks in read-only mode I came up with no bad blocks. When I checked for bad blocks using the non destructive write mode the first time around the machine locked up about 15 hours and 50 minutes into the test.
[expert] A test
Hi, I have had difficulties posting to the list, but I believe to have fixed my problem and this is a test! ZP -- Jos Pedro Sousa do Amaral We only can learn from our mistakes. --K. Popper
Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate [Q]: cache file?
The earlier versions, particularly the versions with 7.1 suffer badly from that problem - getting worse over time. Often doing a manual "rpm -Uvh problem.rpm" using the rpm that MU downloaded to its cache and rebuilding the rpm database afterwards would fix it (though in some cases the actual rpm can be corrupt). Running MandrakeUpdate from an xterm will show what the error is. Running it from an icon loses some of the important messages. Usually the rpm fails for some reason and may/may not install, but MU still wants to do it again. Overall, upgrade MandrakeUpdate, grpmi etc to the latest versions will help the most. I have never seen or found any documentation on MandrakeUpdate so far. It is also possible to export a directory via nfs (I use the /var/cache/grpmi of the MandrakeUpdate on the gateway machine) and point the MandrakeUpdate of another machine to that - In effect I upgrade one machine, and use those rpm's to do the other. As long as the configuration (installed base) is similar, you only need to download once to your network. It should also be possible to use a script to watch a mirror etc and keep the cache up to date automatically for all rpm's - has anyone done this and can publish the script/utilities they use? BillK Simon Cousins wrote: Hi List, In the absense of a man or info page or significant HTML documentation for MandrakeUpdate, I'm interested to know if any lister knows how to tell it to refresh it's knowledge of what is actually installed. Most of my dozen Mdk 7.2 boxes (fully patched) have erroneous entries in their MandrakeUpdate Apps, which irritates the sysadmin staff and results in lots of bandwidth being wasted by un-necessary patch downloads. I can't find a .conf or cache file, and #rpm --rebuilddb makes no difference. Any pointers? -- Simon Cousins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To not run Samba is un-Australian.
[expert] printing quandry
I have finally had success at printing with LM 7.2, after much work and hair loss. Another problem has me stymied now. When I print a page prints before with the words job name="cupsomatic" in the upper left corner. That page ejects and the page I wanted prints fine. I thought it was a banner page, but I can't find how to turn it off. Anyone out there know how?
[expert] A sendmail configuration problem and solution
Hi, Since my upgrade to Mandrake 7.2 that sendmail could not create its temporary files to /var/spool/mqueue unless I gave other write priviliges (o+w) to that directory. This was the error that I used to get: Can't create transcript file ./xff0PEULm11441: Permission denied queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tff0PEULm11441, uid=777: Permission denied This suggested to me that somehow sendmail was relinquishing its root privileges when it would write the temporary files. I was completely puzzled. I rebuild from source the rpms for mailx, sendmail, and procmail always with the same result. I couldn't even send e-mail messages to the list asking for help. I read all the man pages and looked through www.sendmail.org, rebuilding sendmail.cf in the process many times. Until I finally had a good idea :^) and checked the ownership and permissions of the sendmail binary. The binary had an ownership of bin.bin and the sticky bit for owner was turned off! I changed the ownership to root.root and turned on the owner sticky bit, and bingo! sendmail now works properly! Is this a know problem and I just failed to search the right source? Why would the src.rpm have these settings wrong? Is it worthwhile to submit a bug report to Mandrake? Thank you for your advice. ZP -- Jos Pedro Sousa do Amaral We only can learn from our mistakes. --K. Popper
Re: [expert] A test
On Thursday 25 January 2001 06:18:36:pm, you wrote: Hi, I have had difficulties posting to the list, but I believe to have fixed my problem and this is a test! ZP Problem solved! -- Linux Counter - 188953 Linux Machine - 85790
[expert] Windows media player
Hello experts! Does anybody know of a media player that will handle the new windows media player codecs? Most of the streaming media I listen to uses Real Player and I've got Mozilla calling that just fine ~ now there are just a couple of places that contract with www.streamaudio.com to handle their streaming media. It comes up as mime type "application/x-mplayer2" and I can't even find the extension; I think it's .asf, not sure though. Any thoughts? Thanks, Mike
Re: [expert] A Proactive Solution
Thanks for the work around, but have you reported the bug to Mandrake so they can fix it? Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Aries wrote: You can share your swap partitions...with out any problems. - Original Message - From: "John Wolford" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:19 PM Subject: [expert] A Proactive Solution Hello all, Here's an experience i had recently. It may help some of you avoid a similar battle as i had to fight. I was attempting an installation 7.1 or 7.2 (whichever i could get to work first) on a system with 3 drives. There was already a stable install of 7.1 on the system (on hdc), and all i wanted to do was install again on hdb. I went though the graphical install and when it came time to choose my partitions, i would ignore all of the partitions on hdc, and create new ones on hdb. When it came time to format the new partitions it would invariably want to format the old swap partition on hdc. I always said no. If (IF) the install went through, then booting would usually result in a panic attack and fatal crash. If i somehow managed to get past that (with failsafe etc) then it would core dump when i tried to run almost any program. I was baffled. Then one day, while doing something decidedly not computer-related, i had a flash of inspiration. Maybe i should disconnect hdc for the install and then try it. All of a sudden the install went flawlessly (with 7.1 - to this date i have been unsuccessful installing 7.2 on any system). The moral of the story: When installing Mandrake, make sure that it can't see any other swap partitions during the install. (Could it use the old swap, if it wanted to? Could they share it? I don't know.) Cheers, John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[expert] kernel-2.4.0 ...HELP!
Yesterday, out of the blue my laptop running Mandrake 7.2, kernel-2.2.17-21mdk decided it would no longer support vfat. It had been working fine before and I have done nothing to my system but it would just refuse to recognize vfat. I decided to take the opportunity to download and build the 2.4.0 kernel (with supermount patch - which works!). I did and all went well, no errors. I installed it and booted it up. That was fine too but during the bootup, it kept saying that vfat filesystem was not supported by kernel. I selected support for both fat and vfat during xconfiguration, damnit! It DOES support vfat. I tried again and double-checked that I selected fat and vfat support. SAME THING HAPPENED. After booting, if I run "depmod -a" I get a huge list of "unresolved symbol" garbage, almost all of it having to do with filesystems, including fat and vfat. What the fuh? How can the kernel have problems with its own frickin' modules? They were included in the source and built with that source, not any other kernel, yet it has problems with unresolved symbols?(There were NO error messages during compile). What is wrong here? I tried deleting my System.map link, which had been linked to System.map-2.2.17-21mdk and linking it to System.map-2.4.0-1 and rebooting but the same problems arise. What does one have to do to make the 2.4.0 kernel accept and understand its own modules? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. --- -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Re: [expert] Windows media player
xine.sourceforge.net - a DVD, VCD, SVCD, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, DivX ;-), and ASF 1 player for Linux. Still in beta, but worth testing out. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello experts! Does anybody know of a media player that will handle the new windows media player codecs? Most of the streaming media I listen to uses Real Player and I've got Mozilla calling that just fine ~ now there are just a couple of places that contract with www.streamaudio.com to handle their streaming media. It comes up as mime type "application/x-mplayer2" and I can't even find the extension; I think it's .asf, not sure though. Any thoughts? Thanks, Mike
[expert] Lyx doesn't work with CUPS
In drafting a document over the last few days, I have found that lyx is incompatible in some way with CUPS. If I try to print directly from lyx with the lpr command, nothing happens. No print job is sent and nothing is printed. If, on the other hand, I preview the document with ghostview and print from there using the exact same command, it prints without problem. Others have run into difficulty with StarOffice and CUPS, but there is a fix. Does anyone know of a means of correcting the lyx printing problem? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.0 ...HELP!
Try doing a make install as well as make modules_install. The kernel will install itself and change all the neccessary links/maps etc except lilo/grub. Note that if you are building multiple kernel configurations from the same source this will cause overwrites - change the extraversion number in the top level makefile to something like "-21mdk-A". Also, you didnt forget to change the "usr/src/linux" symlink did you? BillK
[expert] Nvidia drivers
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with XFree86-4.0.2 GeForce DDR video card. After I installed the new Nvidia drivers, 0.6-6,my "power saver" or "DPMS" feature no longer works. Another reason for Open Source. It did work with the nv driver provided by XFree. I really would not care but nVidia's drivers produce a sharper display. I have not found any mention of this problem anywhere. Does anyone else noticed this problem? And if you do/did how were you able to fix it? -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Working very of Innd from the Dist?
Has anyone found ANY of the Distributions to have a Working very of innd? I've just run through three separate versions of Mandrake's inn software, and none of the distributions run - out of the rpm that is. I've been running inn for over six years. I've always had to build my own versions from source code. What makes getting a distribution to run so hard? What should I look for in the Install script failing with exit code 1? How do we fix this? Has anyone found a better package running on Linux? If so, I'd like to hear about it. -- Albert E. Whale - http://www.abs-comptech.com/aewhale.html -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Network, Security and Systems Consultant HP Networking Openview, Royalty Class Consultant - http://forums.itrc.hp.com The Father's Rights Network - http://www.abs-comptech.com/frn/frnhome.html The Pennsylvania Parenthood Initiative - PAPI - Children need BOTH Parents - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4688/papi.htm
RE: [expert] Lyx doesn't work with CUPS
Praedor, If I try to print directly from lyx with the lpr command, nothing happens. The first place to look for CUPS related gotchas fixes is this series of FAQ's: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/mysearch.php3?author=till A search on "lyx" there narrows it down to FAQ (7). Your problem is documented and there's a fix. Peace, b5dave
Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.0 ...HELP!
** Reply to message from Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:08:45 -0700 According to the kernel README the modules directory structure changed with 2.4.0. If you are still looking for the modules in the old place, you will get errors. Try compiling everything into the kernel and see if that helps. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. [tag] I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers
First off, I think you mean 0.9-6. As for DPMS not working it works with 0.9-5. In the XF86Config-4 file under the section "Device" for your video card there should be the following line: Option "DPMS" Mine is after the line that contains: Driver "nvidia" Richard On Thursday 25 January 2001 19:05, David Boles wrote: Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with XFree86-4.0.2 GeForce DDR video card. After I installed the new Nvidia drivers, 0.6-6,my "power saver" or "DPMS" feature no longer works. Another reason for Open Source. It did work with the nv driver provided by XFree. I really would not care but nVidia's drivers produce a sharper display. I have not found any mention of this problem anywhere. Does anyone else noticed this problem? And if you do/did how were you able to fix it?
Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.0 ...HELP!
Seriously, I would do a traditional manual build and see how that goes. Scripts like buildkernel work fine once they are well sorted. But 2.4 is so new and different that there is a very good chance that buildkernel is the source of your problems. BillK Bugger this listserver - the replyto is a real disaster if you want to post back to the list, why cant they sort it out, surely a Linux distributer can drive an listserver, most others seem to do so ok, even NT!
Re: [expert] A Proactive Solution
John Wolford wrote: The moral of the story: When installing Mandrake, make sure that it can't see any other swap partitions during the install. (Could it use the old swap, if it wanted to? Could they share it? I don't know.) You only need one swap partition per system - all Mandrake installs of whatever version will recognise and use that one swap partition. It's not sharing, because only one of your Mandrake installations can be active at any one time. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]
[expert] Changing dir permissions.
I *thought* I knew how to do this, but it doesn't seem to work. Here's the deal, I have a HD that I use for .mp3. I can't add files to the dir (I generally rip CDs on my win9x laptop store them on a samba share) Right now I'm booting win9x to copy them over, but I sure hate to boot win for something so trivial. Rogue Spear is another matter:) Anyway, it's on a fat32 partition, current permissions: drwxr-xr-x4 root root 294912 Dec 21 06:55 My Music/ The fstab entry is: /dev/hdb3 /mymusic vfat rw 0 0 Looking at it, *all* the dirs on /mymusic have those rights. My Music is at /mymusic/My Music/ . I've tried "chmod 666 ./My\ Music/" and "chmod a+rw ./My\ Music/" as root, get no error messages, but the perms don't change. I feel like I'm missing something simple, but even searching the net it seems as though one of those should work. Is it my fstab, or my chmod that I'm messing up? Thanks. -- Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cautioninc.com
[expert] winmodems
so many peoples have problems with winmodem in linux i wonder why they dont dont make drivers for them ? is it that hard ?
Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web
Hi I mainly use 2 tools for this. search freshmeat.net for 'Getleft' and 'htmldoc'. the first can download a whole web page including pictures and the second can convert them to postscript or pdf (both from hard disk or directly from the web). On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0800, Homer Shimpsian wrote: I know I can't be the first person to want for this. I've been searching since the web was created. Does anyone know of a way to d/l and concatenate all the different web pages in an online manual to enable one to print the sucker? like this site: http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/ I imagine the difficulty in programming such a thing is when there are links on the page that are not part of the manual. A TSR that allowed U to highlight the relevent links wound't be to impossible, right? Have Fun -- Haim
[expert] Free programming language
Hi Linuxians, I need a list of free programming language and scripting language available for Linux. Free as in for any purpose. Don't want any hanky panky free license. If anybody have it, can you pass me the list together with where to obtain them. Thanks very much in advance. Joe RLU #186063
Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web
On Thursday 25 January 2001 07:11 pm, Homer Shimpsian wrote: I know I can't be the first person to want for this. I've been searching since the web was created. Does anyone know of a way to d/l and concatenate all the different web pages in an online manual to enable one to print the sucker? like this site: http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/ I imagine the difficulty in programming such a thing is when there are links on the page that are not part of the manual. A TSR that allowed U to highlight the relevent links wound't be to impossible, right? I've just used konqueror with a split window to drag, drop and copy each page on other on-line manuals. I just started with yours, created a new folder called linux_guide and just started copying each link into it when I got to the one that says: "Download everything". You can actually copy that page also or open it and follow the instructions to download the entire manual in different formats. If you continue to copy each link into the folder then that folder can be opened with a browser and used just like the original. If you're online and the folder recognizes a url it will go to it. However if it can't recognize the url (say it was a url on the original host) it can't go to it. I haven't had that happen to me yet. Also graphics are left out of the finished manual this way - I've tried to get the graphics separately but haven't figured a way yet. Let me know if you find a way. Kelley Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] d/ling docs from the web
I know I can't be the first person to want for this. I've been searching since the web was created. Does anyone know of a way to d/l and concatenate all the different web pages in an online manual to enable one to print the sucker? like this site: http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/ I imagine the difficulty in programming such a thing is when there are links on the page that are not part of the manual. A TSR that allowed U to highlight the relevent links wound't be to impossible, right?
