Re: windows2000/redhat 6.2 dual boot

2000-11-21 Thread Brice Gibson
How odd, I am usually the one asking the questions, but today I have the answer. I just did this two days ago myself and ran into the same problem. Here is how you do it. Neither Win2k nor Linux will let you install the "root" partition in the upper regions of the HDD. SO what I had to do wa

Re: windows2000/redhat 6.2 dual boot

2000-11-21 Thread Ken Ambrose
Well, the *partition* is bootable, it's just that if the kernel's somewhere past 1024, it won't be able to be found, and your LILO'll go bang. I also suggest not moving the partition, 'cause weird things happen when you change the order of 'em -- I speak, alas, from unfortunate experiences. What

Re: windows2000/redhat 6.2 dual boot

2000-11-21 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 08:22 PM 11/21/2000 -0500, Rob Yelle wrote: try moving your windows partition to your second partition. fdisk and/or disk druid can't make bootable partitions beyond the 1024 cyl. i think that's your problem. if you use partition magic you can easily do this...although i'd do it over nig

windows2000/redhat 6.2 dual boot

2000-11-21 Thread Rob Yelle
Thjis is my first solo try at dual boot install. I would like to build a dual boot system at work. I have taken a new job and have been bestowed with a pIII 700 with 196meg of memory and a 20 gig drive. This is the standard desktop for the shop so please stop laughing. They have graciously given

Re: please disregard -> ( sshd and login error)

2000-11-21 Thread Karl J. Runge
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, "Robert W. Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry people, found the error , after a needed upgrade from > openssh-2.1.1p4-1 to openssh-2.3.0p1-1 this upgrade seems to have > solved the problem, i am assuming it was a bug that crawled out from > under my desk., thanks R

please disregard -> ( sshd and login error)

2000-11-21 Thread Robert W. Fowler
sorry people, found the error , after a needed upgrade from openssh-2.1.1p4-1 to openssh-2.3.0p1-1 this upgrade seems to have solved the problem, i am assuming it was a bug that crawled out from under my desk., thanks Rob ** To unsubscri

sshd and login error

2000-11-21 Thread Robert W. Fowler
i have a bazaar error popping up in my /var/log/messages file , when i try to login to my remote sshd server my remote server spits this error out and the client gets instantly disconnected /--cut --/ Nov

Re: sending emails with lots of recipiants

2000-11-21 Thread Randy Edwards
> Why are you sending an email to 3000 people, anyway? :-) I received that E-Mail! It was that damn message about Microsoft giving away a free trip to Disneyworld. :-) -- Regards, | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU/Linux: superior tools .| | for those who kn

Re: Drive activity in X.

2000-11-21 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Bourdon, Bruce wrote: > > I left the system alone in X for hours Saturday. When I returned the hard > > drive was running continuously and it took about ten seconds for the mouse > > pointer to move in response to physically moving

Re: Maestro sound and kernel question

2000-11-21 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Brice Gibson wrote: > L have the equivalent of a Dell laptop with the ESS Maestro sound. I have > RH 6.1 installed. I am told that kernel support for the Maestro sound chip > is built into kernel 2.2.14 and greater (of course 6.1 has 2.2.12) > > I have installed the rpm

Re: Drive activity in X.

2000-11-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Bourdon, Bruce wrote: > I noticed that the hard drive LED was flickering about once a second while > in X (witnessed in KDE and GNOME) but goes away if I exit X Windows. As Peter Cavender pointed out, both GNOME and KDE have components which monitor removable media to suppo

Re: firewall on a floppy

2000-11-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
I used to use IP Masquerading at home, but more recently I got a Linksys BEFSR41 Cable Modem/DSL router. (http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=20&grid=5) It includes a 4 port 10/100 switch, and also allows you to spoof the MAC address. I noticed that the cost was down to $128. I bou

Re: firewall on a floppy

2000-11-21 Thread Peter Cavender
>Hi All, >Well, cable modems are finally available in Nashua >(and there was much rejoicing). I would like to set >up a "firewall on a floppy" using my old 486. I've >found several that seem to do want but I really don't >know much about firewalls. Which one's are people >happy with and which

Re: firewall on a floppy

2000-11-21 Thread jim t.p. ryan
It's not on a floppy but I use Concierge. http://www.nc4u.com Sincerely, Jim Ryan -Original Message- From:Kenny Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:55:36 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: firewall on a floppy Hi All, Well, cable modems are finally ava

Call for Papers - USENIX Annual Technical Conference Boston

2000-11-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
The 2001 Usenix Annual Conference is in Boston next summer. Clem Cole is the program chair for Freenix 2001. In Clem's words, "Freenix will only be as good as we are at getting the word out and getting the submissions". http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/ http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix

firewall on a floppy

2000-11-21 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi All, Well, cable modems are finally available in Nashua (and there was much rejoicing). I would like to set up a "firewall on a floppy" using my old 486. I've found several that seem to do want but I really don't know much about firewalls. Which one's are people happy with and which ones ar

Re: Drive activity in X.

2000-11-21 Thread Rich Payne
under GNOME it's called magicdev, and you can't remove it w/o a --force to RPM as there are other package that claim to need it. --rdp On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, ed wrote: > Check for an autorun process, which is the process to detect media change > in the CD. I have found this process is a huge re

Re: Drive activity in X.

2000-11-21 Thread ed
Check for an autorun process, which is the process to detect media change in the CD. I have found this process is a huge resource hog and I disabled it to fix a similar problem. Ed On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Stephen Ryan wrote: > On 20 Nov, Bourdon, Bruce wrote: > > I have Red Hat Linux 7 running o

maddog

2000-11-21 Thread Kurth Bemis
an interesting interview with the man himself. did you know that he allegedly wears Linux underwear? http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/maddog/ ~kurth Kurth Bemis - Network/Systems Administrator, USAExpress.net/Ozone Computer Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, yo

Re: chalkup one for linux!

2000-11-21 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 02:04 AM 11/21/2000 -0500, Brice Gibson wrote: i did the following to get her modem working...your mileage may vary. i downloaded the lucent568 file off of linmodems.org... then i unzipped it (unzip lucent568.zip) then i ch'd to the dir (cd lucent568) i su'd to root (su) installed it - copie

all those of you with laptops!

2000-11-21 Thread Kurth Bemis
here's a great site about Linux on laptops.i think they have damn near all the current lap top models. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ ~kurth Kurth Bemis - Network/Systems Administrator, USAExpress.net/Ozone Computer Passwords are like underwear. You don't share th

Re: Problem with mounting a cdrom.

2000-11-21 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:07:59 EST "Steven W. Orr" said: >The problem is that, according to appgen, the file zag_init is supposed to >be zaG_INIT. And setup.sh is supposed to be Setup.sh Could it their tech writers are getting bad information from the engineers? I've seen more ma

Re: Maestro sound and kernel question

2000-11-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Brice Gibson wrote: > I have installed the rpm for kernel 2.2.16 but of course it did not > automatically update my kernel. What do I do next after I install the rpm > for the new kernel? You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to tell LILO about the new kernel, and then run /sb

Re: sending emails with lots of recipiants

2000-11-21 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, chris smith wrote: > when i send large batch (3000 addresses)emails out throught my mail server > ( sendmail 8.xxx ) i get back the list as un deliverable due to to large a > header. What is the best way around this problem?? The "best" way is probably to use software d

sending emails with lots of recipiants

2000-11-21 Thread chris smith
when i send large batch (3000 addresses)emails out throught my mail server ( sendmail 8.xxx ) i get back the list as un deliverable due to to large a header. What is the best way around this problem?? thanks chris ** To unsubscribe fr

Re: chalkup one for linux!

2000-11-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
Here is a link to instructions for installing the ltmodem.o module. http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/tp390e/ltmodem.html I have it workinbg on my laptop. It worked the first time I tested it with PPP (actually wvdial under SuSE). Brice Gibson wrote: > At 11:05 PM 11/20/00, you wrote: > ...after