Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-21 Thread Mr O
Boot from nearly any linux CD, mount your partitions, chroot to your hard drive, recompile your kernel, run lilo, exit out of your chroot enviroment, umount your partitions, reboot. That's how I do it if I move a drive to a different system and things won't boot. --- Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-21 Thread Mr O
The sad part isn't the 1Ghz C3 or the 128MB or RAM. It's the 14.1" screen! I want something with a 10" screen and at least a 3 to 5 hour battery life. --- larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a few drawbacks > http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3504708 > > Linsp

Re: [Eug-lug] Good/cool new(ish) Linux Apps/Utils

2004-12-21 Thread Mr O
I'll give my input as a desktop user. My regular apps are Mozilla, Mozilla Mail, Firefox, Opera, GAIM, Yahoo Messenger, XMMS, XINE, GRIP, Lbreakout2, Unreal Tournament 2004, RTCW: Enemy Territory, xterm, aterm, Torsmo, Gkrellm2, Endeavour (file manager), Fluxbox, Gimp, GQview, gftp, Abiword, xcalc,

[Eug-lug] Good/cool new(ish) Linux Apps/Utils

2004-12-21 Thread Jason
Hey list: I'm switching my work lappy back to Linux after a 10-month odyssey in XP-land. I haven't had my nose in too much of the recent tools being released, so I was wondering what folks on the list thought were the most useful tools/apps/utils to make news in the last year or so. Thanks, Jason

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-21 Thread Allen Brown
I'm still missing something. According to the man page for mkinitrd I can specify the required modules in /etc/mkinitrd/modules, and All modules specified in this file will be loaded when the sys- tem boots using the generated image. However, they are not automatically in

Re: [Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Beard
On Dec 21, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Po Petz wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jim Beard wrote: In /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 there exists a file called CGI.pm, and CGI.pm.newcgi. I created the CGI.pm file from the .newcgi file in hopes that it would see it and execute. Is this my problem? I had the same issue wi

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-21 Thread Allen Brown
Bob Miller wrote: > > Allen Brown wrote: > > > The boot partition is separate from the root partition. There > > is a kernel on the boot partition, but no modules. I would need > > to load reiserfs from the boot partition, right? But where? > > Do I need to place the module under some funky di

Re: [Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jim Beard wrote: In /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 there exists a file called CGI.pm, and CGI.pm.newcgi. I created the CGI.pm file from the .newcgi file in hopes that it would see it and execute. Is this my problem? I had the same issue with CGI::Carp.pm and it went away when I made

Re: [Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-21 Thread Allen Brown
Jeff Newton wrote: > > Larry - > > You beat me to this one! I was looking over the news from > CNN lastnight on their website about this new bookie laptop > with LINUX on the Wal-Mart site, but I couldn't find it. No, > no, I didn't sleep walk on my computer either. Next time, > I'll try wearing

Re: [Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-21 Thread Jeff Newton
Larry - You beat me to this one! I was looking over the news from CNN lastnight on their website about this new bookie laptop with LINUX on the Wal-Mart site, but I couldn't find it. No, no, I didn't sleep walk on my computer either. Next time, I'll try wearing glasses if I can ever find them! ;

Re: [Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Beard
On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Rob Hudson wrote: On 20041221.1129, Po Petz said ... On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jim Beard wrote: Only problem is my Perl and Apache config seems a bit boinked. Describe the perl and apache. Are they redhat 9 defaults? Did you update them with some other rpms? Rebuilt fro

Re: [Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-21 Thread Jeff_W
larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a few drawbacks > http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3504708 > > Linspire != your favorite operating environment > > VIA C# 1Ghz processor w/ 128MB ram is a bit tight, > don't plan on doing a whole bunch of photo editing or soun

Re: [Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20041221.1129, Po Petz said ... > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jim Beard wrote: > > >Only problem is my Perl and Apache config seems a bit boinked. > > Describe the perl and apache. Are they redhat 9 defaults? Did you update > them with some other rpms? Rebuilt from srpms? Built from source? >

Re: [Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jim Beard wrote: Only problem is my Perl and Apache config seems a bit boinked. Describe the perl and apache. Are they redhat 9 defaults? Did you update them with some other rpms? Rebuilt from srpms? Built from source? I added the '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CGI.pm' line myself

[Eug-lug] sub $500 laptop with Linux, available soon

2004-12-21 Thread larry price
There are a few drawbacks http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3504708 Linspire != your favorite operating environment VIA C# 1Ghz processor w/ 128MB ram is a bit tight, don't plan on doing a whole bunch of photo editing or sound design or anything that will eat resources. but

Re: [Eug-lug] Books of the computing type.

2004-12-21 Thread Linux Rocks!
I have a book case (that lovely light-blue/green thing) we can use for books. I think I have some to donate too... Jamie larry price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:36:21 -0800, perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fedora Unleashed by SAMS is pretty good. I would recommend

Re: [Eug-lug] Informal Mac OS X poll

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Beard
O. Me. On Dec 19, 2004, at 12:56 PM, perdurabo wrote: I'm curious as to how many OS X folks there are on this list. OS X doesn't get a lot of traffic on this list. 1. Anyone here use OS X as their "main" operating environment? I have an older G3 iBook. 2. Those who do, are you/have you done any in

[Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Beard
Boy I've had all kinds of Apache configuring woes lately, first php now this. So we had been using phpWiki for a while, and after migrating it to a red-hat 9.0 system It started to behave really poorly. A vanilla install mangles pages. I have no real hope of fixing this problem, so I decided i

Re: [Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Miller
Allen Brown wrote: > The boot partition is separate from the root partition. There > is a kernel on the boot partition, but no modules. I would need > to load reiserfs from the boot partition, right? But where? > Do I need to place the module under some funky directory path > on the boot partit

[Eug-lug] reiser root file system

2004-12-21 Thread Allen Brown
I just "cloned" a hard drive. I matched the partitioning and file contents. The source is a desktop system. The target is a laptop. But one thing that I changed was that the file systems on the desktop are ext2. On the laptop I installed reiserfs. I then tried to boot using grub on a floppy.

Re: [Eug-lug] Informal Mac OS X poll

2004-12-21 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 12:56:08PM -0800, perdurabo wrote: > I'm curious as to how many OS X folks there are on this list. OS X > doesn't get a lot of traffic on this list. > > 1. Anyone here use OS X as their "main" operating environment? I do. > 2. Those who do, are you/have you done any inter

[Eug-lug] Books of the computing type.

2004-12-21 Thread larry price
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:36:21 -0800, perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fedora Unleashed by SAMS is pretty good. I would recommend it over > this book and its available at Borders, if you're one of the few > people on the list willing to patronize them. > I'm willing to patronize them, but I d