RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo hates my hard drive
DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) is a standalone tool which can boot from CD-R to wipe a hard drive. -Original Message- From: Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo hates my hard drive Phil Sexton wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 22:32, Colin wrote: Well, I finally fixed that annoying kernel panic problem and got Gentoo to boot on my computer! I fixed it by removing the hard drive that I had planned to install Gentoo on. The kernel booted perfectly. Whenever I put the hard drive back in, though, I get the Attempted to kill init kernel panic. So I'm still in a quandry. Any guessed as to why Gentoo doesn't like my hard drive (Seagate Barracuda ST360021A, 60.0 GB IDE)? Has that drive ever had a Microsoft filesystem on it? I had a drive I had to zero out before it would partition and format correctly in Linux. It would cause all sorts of mysterious errors before I zeroed out the drive. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 I put the three Linux partitions on it and a 1 GB FAT32 at the end of the disk in Windows with PartitionMagic 8. I'll zero it out, but it will have to be done in Windows, because I can't boot Linux with it in. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick
I use AxCrypt for my USB FOB on windows. Just double-click a file, enter a
passphrase (which I make fairly long) and the file decrypts temporarily
while open. Dunno if there is a version for linux or not.
- Alex
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From: Andrew Cowie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 9:58 PM
To: gentoo-user
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:54 +0100, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so
I can take it with me (ssh private keys,
I had the same issue. I travel a *lot*, and so sooner or later a hard drive
will die, or a laptop will get stolen, or...
So I carry (wear around my neck) a USB key. Whenever I've done more than a
few lines of work on something, I just simple copy it onto the usbkey
- a draft document, some source code - no big deal.
But corporate documents, my archive of presentations, my web site code and
source code-in-progress, taken together, that certainly needs to be
encrypted.
Use GPG and encrypt the files.
So a few months ago, I wrote something to make tarballs of important
hierarchies in my home directory and then sign/encrypt them, and then push
them to { usbkey | remote server }. I just use standard GPG encryption with
myself as the recipient.
That, of course, implies I have my private key to decrypt those tarballs...
I've been reading a bit about GPG (I haven't used it before) and it
seems ... only difference between them seem to be that GPG trust is
based on a decentralized web of trust
[ remember that trust is irrelevant if you are using asymmetric encryption
when sending something to yourself - you by definition have the private
half of the your own key pair. (In GPG terms, that's ultimate trust) ]
I guess in this case I should include the private key as a unencrypted
file in my USB stick and protect it with a good password, as it will
be used whenever I need to decrypt any file. Am I right?
Even more important than all the documents and what-not are my ssh keys and
pgp keys + trustdb. Naturally, if I'm storing those against the possibility
of loosing my machine (naturally causes or otherwise), using asymmetric
encryption is no good because I wouldn't have the private key available to
recover the data!
So, as suggested elsewhere in this thread, I store the private crypto
information in a separate tarball which I encrypt using gpg's symmetric
facility.
++
Naturally, a script to do all this is a natural idea. Well, I wrote one, and
it got out of hand. :) You're welcome to use it. It's called geode.
http://www.operationaldynamics.com/reference/software/scripts/#geode
[You'll need to customize it a bit, as it's obviously specific to my paths
and usage cases]
If nothing else it's a good example of how to use some of the more obscure
gpg options.
It's also a good example of how to use zenity (a little command line
front-end for creating GTK dialog boxes). I used it to ask for the pass
phrases and to pop up a progress bar of how far it has worked through the
.tar.bz2 creation.
AfC
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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles
I think you'll need to actually start two X servers, one for each of the video cards. How the kbd and mouse get mapped I don't know but there will probably to be separate X configurations for each server and maybe the input devices can be specified there. The last I looked at running X was a lng time ago. - Alex -Original Message- From: Bill Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: Sami Samhuri wrote: There's at least one interested person... Well then, I'll let you know what happens :) Here's a neat little trick I learned on this list a couple of days ago that might help. If you open up a second console by doing ctrl-alt F2, login as a second user, and type startx -- :1 or, in my case, I'm using xfce: startxfce4 -- :1 you'll find that you have two X sessions for two separate users, one on ctrl-alt F7 and one on ctrl-alt F8. Now the question is, how to get each session going in a separate monitor, controlled by separate keyboard/mouse. Haven't done the two monitor thing, I'll have to leave that for you. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?
Here is a follow up. I could not get any tulip-based driver to recognize the FA311. I did a web search and found that the tulip driver supported FA310 cards, but the chipset was changed on the FA311 and the natsemi driver is required instead. Funny, the Netgear driver on the CD has yet a different name, so I suspect something is different from the stock natsemi driver. Going back to the natsemi driver, I was able to get some communication through after several attempts - almost like some kind of delay caused by misconfiguration which eventually fixed itself. However even after getting pings and dns requests through, I was still seeing the eth0: PIC error 0x80 message come up repeatedly. And not getting communication working right away makes me suspicious that there could be other hidden problems. I will work towards installing a 2.4 kernel to see if the natsemi driver works any better. If not, I'll try building and configuring the Netgear driver. Are 2.4 ethernet drivers supposed to work with 2.6 kernels, or is some modification required to accomplish that? If I find out no mods are required, I could try compiling the 2.6 kernel with the Netgear driver first to stay with the 2.6 kernels. As I write this I'm thinking I should probably be looking for info at kernel.org or some kernel mailing list instead of bothering you guys with the questions here. Just wanted to keep you all up-to-date. BTW, this is a lower priority project for me. Thanks for your help so far, - Alex -Original Message- From: Alex Stagg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? Sorry, I also forgot to mention that although I've used RH and debian in the past, I'm a newbee to gentoo and I'm not sure how to use the tulip driver instead of the natsemi driver during the install. But I'll try to somehow deactivate the device, rmmod, insmod and reactivate it. - Alex -Original Message- From: Christopher Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: I think the NIC is good - it is brand new. Sorry I forgot to mention that I have WinNT4 installed on another partition with the Netgear driver and I have no networking problems (no symptoms, also checked the event logs) when running that. I dunno if it sill applies these days but I also tried changed the machine's BIOS settting for an other OS (the other option for that is a Windows OS). It used to be this kind of thing had to be set for the PCI bus to get set up by the BIOS. I think I tried it both ways. This is an older machine (400Mhz AMD K6). Did using the tulip driver help? Christopher Fisk -- A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. -- Homer Simpson, Lisa the Greek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?
I have a universal live CD 2004.3. When I boot it detects my FA311 card and configures the natsemi driver for it, but when traffic is attempted I get lots of messages eth0: PCI error 0x80 and nothing gets through. The Netgear CD only has drivers for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels (a different driver than natsemi). Will I need to install everything from CD and then build a 2.4 kernel with the Netgear driver or is there another way to get this running? - Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?
I think the NIC is good - it is brand new. Sorry I forgot to mention that I have WinNT4 installed on another partition with the Netgear driver and I have no networking problems (no symptoms, also checked the event logs) when running that. I dunno if it sill applies these days but I also tried changed the machine's BIOS settting for an other OS (the other option for that is a Windows OS). It used to be this kind of thing had to be set for the PCI bus to get set up by the BIOS. I think I tried it both ways. This is an older machine (400Mhz AMD K6). - Alex -Original Message- From: Christopher Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: I have a universal live CD 2004.3. When I boot it detects my FA311 card and configures the natsemi driver for it, but when traffic is attempted I get lots of messages eth0: PCI error 0x80 and nothing gets through. The Netgear CD only has drivers for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels (a different driver than natsemi). Will I need to install everything from CD and then build a 2.4 kernel with the Netgear driver or is there another way to get this running? You can also try the tulip driver. If it still doesn't work I would verify that the NIC is good. The FA series of cards are extremely well supported under linux. I've been using them since the 2.2 series of kernel. Christopher Fisk -- Calculon: I'm programmed to be very busy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?
Sorry, I also forgot to mention that although I've used RH and debian in the past, I'm a newbee to gentoo and I'm not sure how to use the tulip driver instead of the natsemi driver during the install. But I'll try to somehow deactivate the device, rmmod, insmod and reactivate it. - Alex -Original Message- From: Christopher Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: I think the NIC is good - it is brand new. Sorry I forgot to mention that I have WinNT4 installed on another partition with the Netgear driver and I have no networking problems (no symptoms, also checked the event logs) when running that. I dunno if it sill applies these days but I also tried changed the machine's BIOS settting for an other OS (the other option for that is a Windows OS). It used to be this kind of thing had to be set for the PCI bus to get set up by the BIOS. I think I tried it both ways. This is an older machine (400Mhz AMD K6). Did using the tulip driver help? Christopher Fisk -- A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. -- Homer Simpson, Lisa the Greek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
