[CentOS] Re: 5.0--> 5.1 lm_sensors "General Parse Error"

2007-12-07 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-12-07, John Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problem and solution, not sure if correct > > After upgrading to 5.1 and restarting, lm_sensors complained "General > Parse Error." [...] > I upgraded to the lm_sensors in ATRPMS testing repo, and the problem > went away. (lm_se

[CentOS] Re: mount sftp or ftp+ssl drive on windows

2007-11-17 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-17, Bazy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to mount a sftp or a ftp with ssl (vsftp with ssl) on to a > Windows machine as an X: drive. So far I found SftpDrive witch costs > only $39 :) and I don't want it. > > Do any of you have a positive experience with something like this?

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-12 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-12, Alain Spineux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 10:55 PM, John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Grub came up on reboot, suggesting that it did indeed overwrite the lilo >> boot record in the MBR, but grub was unable to load comple

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-09 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-09, Garrick Staples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think your problem could happen if you installed the boot loader into the > active partition and there is a stale boot loader in the mbr. I told anaconda to write the boot record onto /dev/hda assuming that woul put it in the MBR of t

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-09 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-09, Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know...he did say that he restored lilo to get his FC1 > installation working again. grub should not have problems picking up its > second stage unless it rests beyond the 1024 cylinder and there is no > LBA support. That lead

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-08 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-07, Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Any clues what I did wrong? >> > > Yes. You placed the kernel on an LVM (grub does not support LVM...at > least not LVM2 IIRC) and then come to this list where grub and lilo > users like me are subscribers. Don't complain about grub.

[CentOS] Centos5 install failure

2007-11-06 Thread John Thompson
A couple weeks ago I attempted to install Centos5 to replace an increasingly decripit Fedora Core 1 installation. Centos went onto an 80GB piece of previously unallocated space on /dev/hda, using the default configuration offered by anaconda. The installation process went smoothly, however, I w

[CentOS] Re: Help with GTK and putty

2007-11-04 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-03, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install the latest version of putty GUI ssh client on my C5 > box, but get the error: > > ./configure: line 2353: syntax error near unexpected token '1.2.0,' > ./configure: "AM_PATH_GTK(1.2.0, all_targets="all-cli all-gtk",