On Wednesday 31 March 2004 13:40, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> is this slowness of Up2date normal?
I have only ever used up2date once years ago when i installed Redhat-X (cant
remember which version it was, anyway, up2date uses i belive the ftp
protocol, so if one has a megabit cable link, then one sh
On Thursday 01 April 2004 17:55, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> It may be of interest to try the boot and nuke scheme to
> "zero" the rest of the drive just to be sure:
>
> http://dban.sourceforge.net (dban-1.0.1-i386.img)
I question the use of such things, put it this way, most all linux distro's
On Thursday 01 April 2004 06:53, Joshua Rogers wrote:
> How can I (or can I not) make noflushd turn off the second hard drive
> after about 15 minutes?
Why use such a program when there is a linux command called 'hdparm'
man hdparm
Should explain, or
/usr/sbin/hdparm -Sxx /dev/hdb
Where -Sxx
On 04-01, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Thursday 01 April 2004 06:46, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> > I used fdisk to clear all partitions. But when I boot up my box I still get
> > a splash screen with two kernels listed. Where are those kernels?
>
> The kernels are gone if you used fdisk but you did not clear t
Matthew Frederico wrote:
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:53, Joshua Rogers wrote:
Slightly curious here. I have fairly new computer here that I got from
walmart.com maybe 4 months ago. I decided to install linux and windows
on it. Ok. I installed a 100Gb harddrive into the computer that has
al
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:53, Joshua Rogers wrote:
> Slightly curious here. I have fairly new computer here that I got from
> walmart.com maybe 4 months ago. I decided to install linux and windows
> on it. Ok. I installed a 100Gb harddrive into the computer that has
> all my data on it. And
