[SLUG] gnome error msg

[peter bay-jespersen]

Hi,

I'm a newbie; I attended the slug meeting last night (28th June) and 
someone gave a talk re gnome 2.0 -- i'm sorry his name slipped by me.  I 
told him about this error msg i keep getting when i startx (gnome) and 
he advised to post to here & he would advise what to do.

Error msg:

"Coul;d not look up internet address for C5023568.optushome.com.au [ie 
my computer]  This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.  It may 
be possible to correct the problem to the file /etc/hosts."

1 --  I would prefer NOT to have my OS require me to be connected to 
inet at startup, i would rather just connect when i need to and stay 
disconnected the rest of the time (esp when writing essays etc)  hence i 
am wary of following above advice. (don't have anti virus software for 
linux, and if it interferes with operation as much as it seem,s to under 
windows, i'd rather try to stay away from it anyway)

2 -- (I have cable inet connection via ethernet card) optus@home my isp 
dynamically assigns my ip address,  -- winipcfg showed lease as 12 hours 
when i looked, but i think it might auto expire at a set time too maybe 
midnight ? point is, if i can figure how to add dhcpcd to startup 
script, would that also require me to be online (or at least have the 
cable modem powered up) when starting ? Or since it is a daemon, would 
it autodetect when i turn modem on &/or run mozilla/galeon and run 
dhcpcd then ?

regards

peter bj

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[SLUG] re: corrupt partition table ... fix?

[peter bay-jespersen]

Hi,

There's an article  in the current linux planet newsletter (8 july) that 
may help:

Rescuing Linux Systems--Generic and Distribution-Specific Safety Nets

The time comes when every Linux system administrator experiences a system
failure. And while hardware failures are simpiler to contend with, the
true twilight zone for system administrators occurs when an otherwise
useful system is unbootable due to disk corruption or accidental system
misconfiguration. Bill von Hagen reveals how you can regain access to your
data when things go suddenly awry.

good luck

peter bj

>On the weekend I was making an attempt to install Debian on an old IDE
>drive in a friends PC and in using fdisk I somehow seem to have snarfed the
>partition table.  I'm not sure what I did (it was late and I should have
>been in bed) but now any attempt to use fdisk on the disk complains that
>the partition table is not readable.
>I believe the disk is physically okay but I don't know any way of
>unsnarling it.



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[SLUG] accessing package descriptions

[peter bay-jespersen]

(newbie-ish): I am trying to learn more about linux (Mdk 8.1) by 
(install:) deselecting everything and looking at what remains. So far 
that means reading & hand-writing the little package descriptions. But 
even so, there are so many! writers cramp strikes!  Is there any way I 
could access/print all the little package descriptions, under Win 98se ? 
(i.e., pre-install)  If not, what extra packages would i need to install 
besides above minimum to do this, and where & how to find the 
descriptions, once linux up and running?

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[SLUG] 1337 file systems

[peter bay-jespersen]

* The problem is that you'll have some files that you'll want to work on 
and access both on your desktop and notebook
* computer, how do you ensure that they both have current versions and 
how do you deal with the situation where the same
* files have been modified on both computers when synchronisation is 
attempted?

I don't know about synchronisation, but perhaps this may contribute to 
your eventual solution?  In looking  at non-deselectable packages under 
Mdk 8.1,  I found  "diffutils" pkg  which contains:  diff,  cmp,  diff3, 
 sdiff     
"... diff3 shows the differences between 3 files, and can be used where 
two people have made independant changes to a common original, and can 
produce a merged file with both persons changes and warnings about 
conflicts."   (see also: man diff3)

hth
peter bj

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