Re: [SLUG] Shuttle computer and Slackware
Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have a two part problem at the moment related to mate who has a shuttle computer which seems to have a liquid based cooler for the processor. Unfortunately the fan for this cooling system has failed and so the system won't start. The fan has a four pin connector that goes to the motherboard and must get some feedback from this during POST. just replace the fan, a 3 pin fan will work on a 4 pin header, the 4th pin is for varying the fan speed, but it'll fallback onto an alternate method for the 3 pin version typically. They are usually just a heat pipe system, there is nothing to them, they just use the pipes to move the heat from the CPU to the heat sink We have tried the distributor only to be told that they change their system about every three months and do not keep parts for systems as old as his (18 months old). 1) Does anyone know where I can get a fan with this 4 pin connector - it looks similar to a DVD sound connector. 2) I have tried to get the system running on a different computer by connecting the HDD (it is Slackware Linux based) but it errors out with no screens found. The techie at the company that installed the software suggested that we change the PCI entries in xorg.conf from 2:0:0 to 1:0:0 but this changes nothing. I have not used Slackware since version 3.5 and have no idea what the xorg.conf should look like. Any suggestions would be of assistance. you would likely need to make a new xorg.conf to suit the new machine. depending on the version of slack your running you might need new drivers too. NOTE: The system runs the video screens in my friend's store and runs without a keyboard or mouse. He can log into it and edit what goes on the screens with another workstation and going to its web page (it runs as an internal web server with most of the code written in php) and making the changes there. Sorry for the long post Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Copying HDD
Henare Degan wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:34, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: Hi All, I have a friend's HDD which has a Slackware server install. It is essential that It stay intact but I need to clone it to another drive. On the original drive the installer fixed the partition at 4 GB but I wish to let it have a bit more space - say 20 GB. Do I need to use dd or is there a simple gui way. I need to copy ALL the files across. Thanks Heracles I think you want Clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org/ Cheers, Henare personally I would use DD to copy then gparted to expand, but I believe that gparted can do the whole copy and resize thing these days in a nice pointy + clicky way. gparted livecd is ~140mb last I looked I think. I usually boot an ubuntu livecd and then install gparted onto the live image. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Text/Html decoder plugin for Fedora 11
Hi, I would like some guidance regarding this text/html decoder plugin that is required for me to play film trailers on apple website also you tube. there error comes up and I can't seem to find the right application. As I am new to Linux!!. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Text/Html decoder plugin for Fedora 11
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 03:19 -0800, Neville Gittens wrote: Hi, I would like some guidance regarding this text/html decoder plugin that is required for me to play film trailers on apple website also you tube. there error comes up and I can't seem to find the right application. As I am new to Linux!!. I think you need to look for apple quicktime video format. I don't know fedora however you might want to look for restricted packages as this is a proprietary format there might be a special way to install it. ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Copying HDD
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I have a friend's HDD which has a Slackware server install. It is essential that It stay intact but I need to clone it to another drive. On the original drive the installer fixed the partition at 4 GB but I wish to let it have a bit more space - say 20 GB. Do I need to use dd or is there a simple gui way. I need to copy ALL the files across. Your question reveals helpme-howto rather than helpme-bestway. Here is a recipe, change it to suit: install the second disk in the machine, partition and format it. boot the machine from knoppix (or any live CD) (I'm using knoppix as an eg) and as root mkdir /mnt/a mkdir /mnt/b mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/a mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/b rsync -av /mnt/a/ /mnt/b shutdown and remove the original disk from the machine shuffle connectors so this is the first ATA disk and boot again mkdir /mnt/a mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/a reinstall grub grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/a /dev/sda you might need --recheck too) boot and run from your new disk. This is not a magic spell but rather systematic predictable steps, understand them and you will never need to learn them. The reason for coping a not-live system is that your live disk system populates /proc /sys maybe /dev and you do not want to copy those dynamic entries. Also note the /s in the rsync arguments, they are important James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
