removal of original kernel in RH 7.2

2001-12-24 Thread James McDonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1   Hello All,   I don't know if this is a dumb question or not but I have recompiledmy RH7.2 Kernel to include support for ntfs and dynamic disk volumes(It's living on the same disk as XP).   What I would like to know is there a method of removing

elx linux distro

2001-12-24 Thread Collins Richey
Navigate tohttp://www.elxlinux.com/ for more info. My initial experience with this distro is positive: 1) Download and burn two cd's worth of day (about 1hr:45mins on cable, 40 minutes to burn on my slow cd-writer. 2) Boot from CD (I have to toggle this setting on my BIOS each time). The CD

Re: Three Problems

2001-12-24 Thread Joel Hammer
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:50:23AM +0900, lesley wrote: > PRINTER CONFIGURATION > I have a Canon BCJ-430j bubble jet printer. Same problem as the last one. > How do I manually configure it? Don't use the print tool. How much do you know about LPRng? Do you understand printcap files and filters? P

Three Problems

2001-12-24 Thread lesley
Hi there! I have three problems configuring red hat 7.2. ISDN TERMINAL ADAPTER configuration I have an Alexion TD101 terminal adaptor (I suspect it's a windows modem) Red hat doesn't recognize it. How do I configure it manually? PRINTER CONFIGURATION I have a Canon BCJ-430j bubble jet printer. S

Neat java editor...

2001-12-24 Thread Jerry McBride
I believe someone here was asking for recommendations for a java IDE on linux. While my favorite tool isn't a gui driven ide, it is still a very usefull ide no less. May I recommend jedit? It's a nice, simple editor that handles a variety of programming languages, including netrexx. It's avai

Re: Hard drive filled without much data

2001-12-24 Thread Dave Anselmi
Anita Lewis wrote: > I just left in the links here. I don't understand how these could all be > set to mount in /etc/fstab. I thought you could just mount a partition with > one mount point there, for example > > /dev/hda7 /homeext2 defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda8

Re: Hard drive filled without much data

2001-12-24 Thread Anita Lewis
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:30:06 -0800 (PST), Net Llama wrote: > Symlinks shouldn't use up any more inodes than the symlink itself needs > (which is negligible). I do question your rather odd need for symlinks > pointing to very non-traditional mount points for everything. Why not > just mount /mnt/

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Net Llama
Bill, please trim your posts. You posted a 115 byte comment in a 28KB email. As for the RPMs you installed, the official Caldera RPMs for KDE2 installed it *WITH* KDE1, not in replacement of KDE1. --- BadMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > iirc, They were caldera rpms for eD2.4 > > - Origin

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
iirc, They were caldera rpms for eD2.4         Bill Day ( a.k.a. BadMan )  188133 http://counter.li.org  irc.openprojects.net   #linux-users ( Open 24/7 )  Our crystal tears now fall upon the ashes, but from the dust shall grow a  spirit, to be in compassion for those who are lost, and one i

Re: Hard drive filled without much data

2001-12-24 Thread Net Llama
Symlinks shouldn't use up any more inodes than the symlink itself needs (which is negligible). I do question your rather odd need for symlinks pointing to very non-traditional mount points for everything. Why not just mount /mnt/hda4/opt as /opt in fstab and get rid of the symlink? Ditto for al

Re: Hard drive filled without much data

2001-12-24 Thread Joel Hammer
Oh yes: Here is the output of df -i: root@jhammer6 /]# df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/hda11005568 68867 9367017% / /dev/hda3 385560 75554 310006 20% /mnt/hda3 /dev/hda46037504 303830 57336745% /mnt/hda4

Re: Hard drive filled without much data

2001-12-24 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 24 December 2001 18:16, Joel Hammer wrote: > I have posted this before but didn't understand the answers, but now I > need to really do something about it. > My / partition is filled, but the amount of data in it is minimal, to wit: > > /dev/hda1 3.7G 3.6G 0 100% / > /d

Hard drive filled without much data

2001-12-24 Thread Joel Hammer
I have posted this before but didn't understand the answers, but now I need to really do something about it. My / partition is filled, but the amount of data in it is minimal, to wit: /dev/hda1 3.7G 3.6G 0 100% / /dev/hda3 1.4G 1.1G 216M 84% /mnt/hda3 /dev/hda4

Re: locking max tag count?

2001-12-24 Thread Net Llama
Yea, yea, i know, replying to myself is lame I did a bit more digging and it seems that the newer aic7xxx driver is not all that its cracked up to be. Some recent traffic on a Debian devel NG reported some rather poor results (data xfer rates etc) using the newer aic7xxx, as compared to the

Re: locking max tag count?

2001-12-24 Thread Net Llama
Well, its occuring because the new aic7xxx driver utilizes a maximum tag queue depth of 255 tags. Your devices are supporting only a maximum tag count of 110, so it's throttling it downward. Also these 'error' messages should only appear once and no more (until a reboot). I know this isnt' really

locking max tag count?

2001-12-24 Thread Douglas J Hunley
during boot-up I see 'locking max tag count at 110' a couple of times during the boot. I know what this message is, but I'm wondering if there is anywhere I can set this value such that the kernel doesn't have to guess it. In other words, when the SCSI subsystem is loaded, it says 'enabling tagg

Re: Printer Recommendations

2001-12-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:14:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... >My sole gripe with the x53 is that the downloadable driver for it >from Lexmark requires GTK and GDK libraries: It went in with few problems on a Caldera eDesktop 2.4 system. I did have to make a symlink for the Mosaic libXm

Re: Which kernel?

2001-12-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:12:14 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2001 04:48, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > > Also sprach Net Llama am Montag, 24. Dezember 2001 04:58: > > > I'd recommend rebuilding the 2.2.12 kernel that you have so that it has > > > the same ex

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Net Llama
Unfortunately, i'm not much of an expert on KDE2. I just know that kdm requires the ability to authenticate users, and it seems like that ability is failing. You didn't comment on my question, who built kdm for you? Was it precompiled already, or did you build it from source? If its precompile

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Dave Anselmi
BadMan wrote: > Lonnie,Honestly I don't remember what I did, have been using the > kde2 for some time and installed via console.. How can I check my kdm > for kde2 to see if it has PAM support, since those are the only > messages I receive?Can a user specifically run kde2 from a console > the

Merry Xmas

2001-12-24 Thread zohar
Merry Xmas I wish all of you whom I have had the pleasure of corresponding with, those whom I also have the honour to call friend, those who have helped others in their hour of need, a very MERRY XMAS and a Joyous NEW YEAR, that has to be better than the one we have just experienced. May god h

Re: Which kernel?

2001-12-24 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 24 December 2001 04:48, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Also sprach Net Llama am Montag, 24. Dezember 2001 04:58: > > I'd recommend rebuilding the 2.2.12 kernel that you have so that it has > > the same exact functionality that you're using now. > > As for USB support, 2.2.19 seem to be app

Re[1] christmas and its - not - HOT! [was: christmas and itsHOT!]

2001-12-24 Thread patrick kapturkiewicz
OK, no wine today, we'll drink freezing Champagne (I have a great one in my cellar) all the night out of respect for Skippy and his hotter atmosphere. No turkey, this evening I cook, foie gras on rye bread, scottish smoked salmon and his mountain's butter, "chapon aux morilles", a few cheeses (reb

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
Well, piddling aroudn this is what I have managed to do. almsot nothin   I logged in as bill in console and "startx" then in my xserver term i typed kde2.. lo and behold kde2 loads in odd little peices... with each item under it own term window..  its obviously still there... but that is

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
BTW, the login only fails for GUI, all other services, i.e. mail, smb, ftp etc work just fine.. Im almost sure it has to do with as lonnie suggested, kde2's kdm not having correct pam support.. yet no clue as to what direction im heading...  8^)       Bill Day ( a.k.a. BadMan )  188133 http:/

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Tim Wunder
Just a thought... Have you tried making /opt/kde a symlink to /opt/kde2? Could be a hard-coded script somewhere mucking things up. HTH, Tim Previously, BadMan chose to write: > Tim, I checked out the /opt/kde2/share/config but found no refrences to > kde2 in the kdmrc file.. Im not real sure w

Will they recommend LINUX????

2001-12-24 Thread Michael Scottaline
Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-) Merry Christmas to all!! Mike > FBI URGES FURTHER STEPS TO SAFEGUARD WINDOWS XP Consumers and corporations using Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows XP software are being warned by the FBI to take added steps against hackers who might try t

Re: christmas and its - not - HOT! [was: christmas and itsHOT!]

2001-12-24 Thread Zoran
On Dec 23 patrick kapturkiewicz was heard saying: ->Merry Christmas to you all from the Alps. ->It's -15°C cold here. There is plenty enough snow on the ->fields ->...and on the roads (Snowplows' strike -- grin) ->in this country not very far than the fine Lonni's pics ;-) ->There is nothing bett

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
Lonnie,     Honestly I don't remember what I did, have been using the kde2 for some time and installed via console..   How can I check my kdm for kde2 to see if it has PAM support, since those are the only messages I receive? Can a user specifically run kde2 from a console they login, or mus

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
Tim,  I checked out the /opt/kde2/share/config but found no refrences to kde2 in the kdmrc file..  Im not real sure what I am looking for right now.   I get the kde2 Login gui when from console as su I do telinit3, then telinit 5.  However any user that tries to login, root, bill, etc..(abou

Re: windows heads-up...download accelerators

2001-12-24 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Saturday 22 December 2001 21:30, you wrote: > I just left work after a spending an hour or so making some windows clients > behave. [SNIP] > Symptom... machines were crawling like typical microsoft slugs... only > worse. Interestingly, I had the same thing here - only worse; Some (expletive

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Declan Moriarty
Excuse me pointing this out, but many different distros use many different methods to start X - hence the advice is not quite as pointed as you might like. What are you using? 2 start files are /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (aka /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc), and /etc/X11/xsession. Distro

Re: Fwd: Which One?

2001-12-24 Thread Declan Moriarty
I may be a few years ahead of you down the learning road, but probably not as far down. Here's my advice Time is the biggest asset, ao use it wisely. A distro like Mandrake or Red Hat is all very fine for getting you going, but poor for learning. Here's why. I have Mandrake 8.0, and the follo

Re: Which kernel?

2001-12-24 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Also sprach Net Llama am Montag, 24. Dezember 2001 04:58: > > I'd recommend rebuilding the 2.2.12 kernel that you have so that it has > the same exact functionality that you're using now. > As for USB support, 2.2.19 seem to be appropriate - worked fine for me with an USB scanner. Klaus-Peter __