Re: 'fdisk /dev/hda' says it can't open /dev/hda
Following advice given here, it turns out there's no /dev/hda :-) Now what? -S. On Saturday 11 October 2003 03:03, Blue Prince wrote: fdisk /dev/hda fails - says it can't open /dev/hda. It *looks* as if this has started right after installing Windows 2000 onto a second primary partition in the disk. Everything else is working OK, including GRUB and booting to both Linux and Windows. Also, when booting from the RH9 rescue disk, fdisk works and the partition table looks fine. Any idea? -S. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED 'fdisk /dev/hda' says it can't open /dev/hda
Missing '/dev/hda' entry was fixed with 'mknod /dev/hda b 3 0' -S. On Saturday 11 October 2003 03:03, Blue Prince wrote: fdisk /dev/hda fails - says it can't open /dev/hda. It *looks* as if this has started right after installing Windows 2000 onto a second primary partition in the disk. Everything else is working OK, including GRUB and booting to both Linux and Windows. Also, when booting from the RH9 rescue disk, fdisk works and the partition table looks fine. Any idea? -S. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'fdisk /dev/hda' says it can't open /dev/hda
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:49:11PM +0200, Sharon Dagan wrote: Following advice given here, it turns out there's no /dev/hda :-) Now what? Is this a SCSI machine? what was the original question? To find out exactly which disks your kernel thinks you have, look at the kernel's boot messages (run 'dmesg'). -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Old computer linux dist.
Does anyone remember a site that i think was posted here, about Experience and stories of people installing linux on old computers. I have a p75 thinkpad 755cx that i wish to use as a word processing using latex to write articles and slides. i have an external pcmcia cdrom x6, and an ethernet pcmcia. I have 500mb h.d I just want the basic stuff so i can write papers using VIM or something similar and then preview the results on my screen. is there a ready dist that someone tried with an old thinkpad? last time(about a year or so) i tried it wasn't so good, the 2.4 kernel didn't want to install it kept crashing, but the 2.2 did. 10x. * - * - * Tzahi Fadida MSc Student Information System Engineering Area Faculty of Industrial Engineering Management Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa, Israel 32000 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old computer linux dist.
I was successful with Debian Potato (2.2r0) on a P133 laptop of esoteric brand (AST). I would try that. Eli Tzahi Fadida wrote: Does anyone remember a site that i think was posted here, about Experience and stories of people installing linux on old computers. I have a p75 thinkpad 755cx that i wish to use as a word processing using latex to write articles and slides. i have an external pcmcia cdrom x6, and an ethernet pcmcia. I have 500mb h.d I just want the basic stuff so i can write papers using VIM or something similar and then preview the results on my screen. is there a ready dist that someone tried with an old thinkpad? last time(about a year or so) i tried it wasn't so good, the 2.4 kernel didn't want to install it kept crashing, but the 2.2 did. 10x. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ANNOUNCE] Kazit2 beta released
On October 11th 2003, the Kazit Project released the first beta release of Kazit2. Kazit started as a Hebrew-localized KnoppixKDE remaster (http://www.kde.org/il/knoppixkde/). however , KnoppixKDE is no longer under development. Kazit2 is a remaster based on Knoppix3.3 It's purpose is to provide a Knoppix version with full Hebrew support. (*) FEATURES: * All locale setting were set to work as UTF8 * Hebrew language packages installed * Improved keyboared layout switcher * Open office upgraded to version 1.1 (no language packages) * HSpell installed using 'multispell' for both Hebrew and English spell checking * Works with Culmus fonts by default * Added a textual menu on startup for choosing between full Hebrew or Hebrew enabled modes * Several Hebrew related packages were installed: fribidi, bidiv, hebcal, qtzmanim, switcher * Some tools (iwiz, my 012 PPTP script) for dialling PPTP/ADSL * the 'Frozen bubble' game was not removed this time :D (*) MORE INFO: For additional information in Hebrew: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/kazit.index.html For a list of packaged that were removed browse: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/kazit-2.0-beta-packages-removed.txt For a list of packages that were added browse: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/kazit-2.0-beta-packages-added.txt for a full list (output of 'dpkg -l') : http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/kazit-2.0-beta-packages-full-list.txt Please note that these are unstable development releases with missing or non-working features and are not intended for production systems. If you think that some package should be included, please email me and explain what package and why you think it should be included. Requests will be considered for the next release. (*) DOWNLOAD ISO file available for download at: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/ (*) FUTURE I would like to receive as many as possible fixes and bug reports and release Kazit2-final when kde3.2 get released. There might be another Beta release till the final one. (*) SCREENSHOTS/ Not available yet, will be later on. (*) I hope you'll find this remaster useful, it can be a great tool for Linux marketing IMO. -- Shlomi Loubaton. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [emacs-bidi] UTR#9 - Unicode BiDi (was Re: OpenOffice BiDi kudos) (fwd)
behdad,
who is going to study after finishing this mail.
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:54:31 -0400
From: Eli Zaretskii [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [emacs-bidi] UTR#9 - Unicode BiDi (was Re: OpenOffice BiDi
kudos)
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:15:13 -0400
From: Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it true that your implementation of Unicode Bidi algorithm
does not follow the UTR#9, with respect to handligh dash? Just
wanted to make sure this is not true, otherwise, please consider
following the standard.
Handa-san is currently trying to plug the sequential implementation of
UAX#9 that I wrote into the Emacs display code. The code I wrote
renders H-5 as -5H, as per UAX#9. One needs to type H-{RLM}5
to get the H-5 result that most Hebrew users want.
I guess we will need to get used to type RLM and LRM in similar
situations, since we must be UAX#9 compliant, and since UAX#9 results
in such madness in quite a few cases like this, sigh.
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kazit2 beta released
Some tools (iwiz, my 012 PPTP script) for dialing PPTP/ADSL The iwiz (Kinneret's Internet Wizard) is already in there. As far as I can understand, Shlomi only added features to Knoppix, without removing the existing ones. Regards, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il Come to write at the forums: http://www.guides.co.il/forums - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: shlomi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kazit2 beta released Is it possible to install Kazit on the hard disk as it is with Knoppix? What about adding the Internet connection wizard of Kinneret? On Sunday 12 October 2003 00:11, shlomi wrote: On October 11th 2003, the Kazit Project released the first beta release of Kazit2. Kazit started as a Hebrew-localized KnoppixKDE remaster (http://www.kde.org/il/knoppixkde/). however , KnoppixKDE is no longer under development. Kazit2 is a remaster based on Knoppix3.3 It's purpose is to provide a Knoppix version with full Hebrew support. (*) FEATURES: * All locale setting were set to work as UTF8 * Hebrew language packages installed * Improved keyboared layout switcher * Open office upgraded to version 1.1 (no language packages) * HSpell installed using 'multispell' for both Hebrew and English spell checking * Works with Culmus fonts by default * Added a textual menu on startup for choosing between full Hebrew or Hebrew enabled modes * Several Hebrew related packages were installed: fribidi, bidiv, hebcal, qtzmanim, switcher * Some tools (iwiz, my 012 PPTP script) for dialling PPTP/ADSL * the 'Frozen bubble' game was not removed this time :D (*) MORE INFO: For additional information in Hebrew: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/kazit.index.html For a list of packaged that were removed browse: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/kazit-2.0-beta-packages-removed.txt For a list of packages that were added browse: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/kazit-2.0-beta-packages-added.txt for a full list (output of 'dpkg -l') : http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/kazit-2.0-beta-packages-full-list.t xt Please note that these are unstable development releases with missing or non-working features and are not intended for production systems. If you think that some package should be included, please email me and explain what package and why you think it should be included. Requests will be considered for the next release. (*) DOWNLOAD ISO file available for download at: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/kazit2/ (*) FUTURE I would like to receive as many as possible fixes and bug reports and release Kazit2-final when kde3.2 get released. There might be another Beta release till the final one. (*) SCREENSHOTS/ Not available yet, will be later on. (*) I hope you'll find this remaster useful, it can be a great tool for Linux marketing IMO. -- Shlomi Loubaton. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (Kmail) == To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old computer linux dist.
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Tzahi Fadida wrote: Does anyone remember a site that i think was posted here, about Experience and stories of people installing linux on old computers. I have a p75 thinkpad 755cx that i wish to use as a word processing using latex to write articles and slides. i have an external pcmcia cdrom x6, and an ethernet pcmcia. I have 500mb h.d How much memory? I just want the basic stuff so i can write papers using VIM or something similar and then preview the results on my screen. My p133/32MB had no problem with such tasks. I figure that if you have 24MB or more you wan't have a problem. Just use a decent desktop (wmaker, icewm, black/fluxbox, whatever). Some distros have fancy installers that require some memory for the ramdisk of the installer. But not all installers are so. is there a ready dist that someone tried with an old thinkpad? last time(about a year or so) i tried it wasn't so good, the 2.4 kernel didn't want to install it kept crashing, but the 2.2 did. I figure you could make an installer with a custom kernel and later rebuild the kernel on the system. I should point out that debian/stable's installer installer has quite a few different kernels available. Most of them are 2.2 . (and its installer doesn't require tons of memory. and it is the greatest distro. And I'm totally non-biased ;-) ) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old computer linux dist.
I was successful, just a week ago, with Debian Woody (3.0) on P100. I used, if I recall correctly, blackice as window manager. With 48MB of memory even OpenOffice ran, more or less, reasonable. To install a 2.4 kernel, make sure it's a kernel compiled for a pentium (as opposed to Pentium Pro, PII, PIII or PIV). In Debian Woody this was done by apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-586tsc. The beuty of Debian is that, by default, nothing is installed. This way you can avoid getting your HD filled too quickly. While several steps of the install required more HD than you have, the final image (I can actually give it to you, if you like) took about 400MB, with OpenOffice and Hebrew fonts installed. Bear in mind that this did not include the swap space, however. Depending on how much memory you have, you will need to define some. However, removing OpenOffice from the image will probably save so much space that this will not be an issue. I experienced with reiserfs vs. ext3, and came to the conclusion that there was no noticeable difference. Aside from my usual liking of reiserfs, it also left a little more free space on the disk. Shachar Eli Billauer wrote: I was successful with Debian Potato (2.2r0) on a P133 laptop of esoteric brand (AST). I would try that. Eli Tzahi Fadida wrote: Does anyone remember a site that i think was posted here, about Experience and stories of people installing linux on old computers. I have a p75 thinkpad 755cx that i wish to use as a word processing using latex to write articles and slides. i have an external pcmcia cdrom x6, and an ethernet pcmcia. I have 500mb h.d I just want the basic stuff so i can write papers using VIM or something similar and then preview the results on my screen. is there a ready dist that someone tried with an old thinkpad? last time(about a year or so) i tried it wasn't so good, the 2.4 kernel didn't want to install it kept crashing, but the 2.2 did. 10x. -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kazit2 beta released
Lior Kaplan wrote: Some tools (iwiz, my 012 PPTP script) for dialing PPTP/ADSL The iwiz (Kinneret's Internet Wizard) is already in there. As far as I can understand, Shlomi only added features to Knoppix, without removing the existing ones. Regards, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il Yes, that is correct. About installation: i think it should work but i didn't try it yet. This part was not hebrewlized yet anyway. My guess is that it would work the same way as knoppix 3.3 does, that is , install a unstable/testing debian system Shlomi. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Old computer linux dist.
10x, yes, thats sounds good, i would like to get the image. and i don't need openoffice. i have 24mb ram though. also, how do i dump the image via the ethernet connection? because last time, it took me 2 days to set the external cdrom driver working. also, is there a way to hibernate my thinkpad 755cx with linux? it will probably need a fat16 on the first partition and the file hibernate.sys but there is still a need to some software to activate it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:36 PM To: Eli Billauer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Old computer linux dist. I was successful, just a week ago, with Debian Woody (3.0) on P100. I used, if I recall correctly, blackice as window manager. With 48MB of memory even OpenOffice ran, more or less, reasonable. To install a 2.4 kernel, make sure it's a kernel compiled for a pentium (as opposed to Pentium Pro, PII, PIII or PIV). In Debian Woody this was done by apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-586tsc. The beuty of Debian is that, by default, nothing is installed. This way you can avoid getting your HD filled too quickly. While several steps of the install required more HD than you have, the final image (I can actually give it to you, if you like) took about 400MB, with OpenOffice and Hebrew fonts installed. Bear in mind that this did not include the swap space, however. Depending on how much memory you have, you will need to define some. However, removing OpenOffice from the image will probably save so much space that this will not be an issue. I experienced with reiserfs vs. ext3, and came to the conclusion that there was no noticeable difference. Aside from my usual liking of reiserfs, it also left a little more free space on the disk. Shachar Eli Billauer wrote: I was successful with Debian Potato (2.2r0) on a P133 laptop of esoteric brand (AST). I would try that. Eli Tzahi Fadida wrote: Does anyone remember a site that i think was posted here, about Experience and stories of people installing linux on old computers. I have a p75 thinkpad 755cx that i wish to use as a word processing using latex to write articles and slides. i have an external pcmcia cdrom x6, and an ethernet pcmcia. I have 500mb h.d I just want the basic stuff so i can write papers using VIM or something similar and then preview the results on my screen. is there a ready dist that someone tried with an old thinkpad? last time(about a year or so) i tried it wasn't so good, the 2.4 kernel didn't want to install it kept crashing, but the 2.2 did. 10x. -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
