off-topic: can't recognize new Seagate drives

2000-06-20 Thread Drenning Bruce
This is off-topic since it's not a RAID problem. But it is occuring on one of my RAID systems and since this is the most knowledgable group for scsi/drive questions I hope someone can help, maybe even off-list. I'm running RAID 1 using on RedHat 6.1. I compiled the aic7xxx driver &

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Stephen Waters
if your init and mount are not statically linked, how on earth are they going to work before /lib is mounted? or wait, suppose you could just keep in the real /lib only libs needed for init, mount and whatever other basic commands on boot (for instance if you have to boot "linux single" one day or

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Seth Vidal
> Nope, sure don't. My new /lib *partition* mount is not even in > /etc/fstab. What will happen at boot time is the /lib *directory* on the / > partition will be available. Right? I never deleted the data in that > partition. I just mounted my new /lib *partition* on top of it for test. > oh.

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Robert
Nope, sure don't. My new /lib *partition* mount is not even in /etc/fstab. What will happen at boot time is the /lib *directory* on the / partition will be available. Right? I never deleted the data in that partition. I just mounted my new /lib *partition* on top of it for test. Best Regards, R

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Seth Vidal
> Perhaps I am wrong, I expected that a reboot would make the original /lib > available again at boot time. The data is still there, just hidden by the > mount, right? mounting only occurs after fstab is processed. you can't process fstab with the mount command if there are no libraries for m

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Robert
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Seth Vidal wrote: > I think unless your drive mounting and init binaries are statically > linked you're going to hit trouble at boot time. Perhaps I am wrong, I expected that a reboot would make the original /lib available again at boot time. The data is still there, just hi

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Seth Vidal
> Or am I going to run into trouble because /lib's files will be unavailable > for a bit while I enter these commands? Is there a better way to enlarge > /? In general how to you recommend changing partition sizes? Is this an > argument for not seperating directories into different partitions,

moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

1999-10-20 Thread Robert
I suppose this is an off topic question, other than it's related to disks...:) I find that my / partition is more full than I would like. I like to keep extra space available in case something unexpected happens. Here is the current setup: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Avai

Off Topic

1999-08-18 Thread Andreas Gietl
Sorry that i ask this off-topic question, but i thought because there are a lot of people on this list who really know linux you could perhaps help me: The problem is with the PTYs: on using autopasswd [which i really need] i get the following error: /usr/bin/autopasswd gietl xxx spawn

Re: [off-topic] HELP! weird keyboard lockup problem

1999-04-11 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
irtual terminal? Both options are under "Character devices". > > Regards, > > Peter > > On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 11:20:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm sorry for the off-topic subject, but I'm having this weird problem

[off-topic] HELP! weird keyboard lockup problem

1999-04-09 Thread ricardo
Hi guys, I'm sorry for the off-topic subject, but I'm having this weird problem that locks up the console's keyboard. What could conceivably lock out the keyboard upon boot-up? I have a Stampede Linux installation that works fine. Worked fine with 2.0.36 kernel. However, if I