Re: [newbie] XFS support
Yes, you are right. I stand corrected. I have been under false guise for quite some time now. This all stemmed from false information I recieved a year ago. Lots un unneeded kernel recompiles I checked and it seems that it is compiled as a module. I suppose if you wanted better performance, you could recompile it into the kernel. But this is still less work than what I have been doing. By the way, does anybody know if MDK has or ever will include the bigphysarea patch in the kernel? ~~Brad On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:12 am, you wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 17:33, Brad Grissom wrote: > > So far as I know, MDK has never had XFS support. I have always had to > > patch the kernel with the official XFS patch from the SGI website and > > rebuild the kernel. > > ...hm? > > The original poster is correct. MDK has had support for XFS for > a long time now. I've been using it in nearly all my partitions, > and i have never patched or recompiled a kernel in my life. > (well, i have, actually, but never with acceptable level of success.) > > > Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFS support
So far as I know, MDK has never had XFS support. I have always had to patch the kernel with the official XFS patch from the SGI website and rebuild the kernel. I also found that the official XFS patch from SGI doesn't patch easily with the kernel source shipped with MDK. I have to grab an official kernel source from kernel.org I have been using the 2.4.19 kernel. I read in LinuxJournal recently that the coming of the 2.6 kernel will finally include XFS support. I guess the XFS Linux developers at SGI were historically making dramatic changes to the code and Linus didn't like that. It has supposedly become more stable now which is why it will be included in 2.6. ~~Brad On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:19 am, you wrote: > I was wondering which version of XFS support i should use. I have read > somewhere that MDK 8.1 had XFS support in it and has ever since. > I have recently come accross a patch that is directly from the SGI XFS > drivers at > ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ig/ccd/enhanced_loopback > Does anyone have any comment on MDK XFS support or have used these files > from nasa.gov site? > > Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installation boot Kernel hang
I had a similar issue on a machine. It turned out to be my CD's. I tried new, freshly burned CDs and it worked fine. ~~Brad On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:21 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 2430 laptop > (P4 2.4, 256MB, NVidia 4GO 420). > Using the install guidelines, I've tried to install booting from CD and > boot floppy (using cdrom.img). In each case, the graphical installation > screen gives the option of pressing enter for a graphical install, or > other options such as text install, expert etc. However, no matter which > of these I use, the install hangs almost immediately after pressing > ENTER. > In text mode, the screen output is: > > Loading alt0... > Loading alt0/all.rgz... > Ready... > Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the Kernel. > > Here is where the system hangs (no screen output or CPU activity) and i > end up having to shut down. > > Has anyone else had this problem or know of a fix. Could be a SETUP BIOS > problem? > > thanks, > Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware
Should run just fine!! ~~Brad On Thursday 06 February 2003 02:35 pm, you wrote: > Hello, I would like to put Mandrake 9.0 on a 'white box' that I have at > home. Will Mandrake 9.0 run on Intel hardware? Would this be the i586 > designation, or is there another distribution that I should be > downloading? > > > > Thanks for your help, > > Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] graphic login screen
You need to be running KDM or GDM or XDM. They stand for KDE Display Manager, Gnome Display Manager, and X Display Manager. Should be an rpm or something to install them. ~~Brad On Thursday 30 January 2003 05:22 pm, you wrote: > Greetings, > I am running ML 8.2 on my generic desktop box. I didn't install X to begin > with but 'added' it later. My login screen is a plain white dialog box with > two input fields, one for userid, one for password. I have to type in both > my userid and password and there is no drop down box for selecting a > desktop. How can I get the nifty login screen with the little people icons > in it so I can just click on my 'user' and then type in my password and > select a different desktop? > tia > R > - > Richard L. Babcock, Owner > Tower Training > At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! > www.towertraining.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] YP Server
Origionally stood for Yellow Pages. Its a network information system, that allows information to be hosted on a server and accessed from the clients on the network. An example is a lab in a school where you log onto any machine and still have all your preferences. Try searching google for some documentation. ~~Brad On Friday 31 January 2003 08:45 am, you wrote: > Can anyone tell me what a YP server is and what it does, and is there > any documentation I can look up. > > John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xincludes
Sounds like it needs some x11 library headers to me. Perhaps it needs the header files: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/ Maybe give more details. The exact output from when you are trying to compile. ~~Brad On Friday 31 January 2003 08:13 am, you wrote: > I'm certain this will have been asked before, but I can't find it in the > archives. > > I'm installing a .tar.gz program and it says it needs Xincludes. I can't > find this anywhere. I've looked at rmpfind, google and sourceforge, but > nothing turns up. I have also looked on the disks. > > It's probably part of another package which is called something altogether > different! > > Where is it, please? > > Many thanks > > Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HD
Once it is mounted, do a df -h on the command line and see what it says. ~~Brad On Friday 31 January 2003 04:47 am, you wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:45, Gil Katz wrote: > > Hi > > I bought a new WD 80GB disk and mount it with HardDrake and made one > > partition but when i look in KDiskFree i see that i got only 25 GB. > > What is wrong? > > Gil > > I'll refine the problem > DiskDrake see the disk as is (74 GB) > but KDiskFree see only 2.5 HD > Gil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] BIGDRIVES (>128G) and MDK 9.0
I don't belive that is true. I have mounted a 2 terabyte scsi disk with MDK 9.0 no problem. It was an external scsi self-contained hardware based RAID, but still only appeared as one logical drive to the system. ~~Brad On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:31 am, you wrote: > At this point, hard drives larger than 137 GB are only supported (by > default) in the 2.5.3 kernel and higher. This is a kernel related problem, > not a mandrake issue. > > For more information, take a look at > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html . > > Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
