RE: understanding tftp

2003-03-25 Thread John-Paul Delaney
Bravo Christopher that did it! A big thanks... /j-p. christopher cuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24/03/2003 15:29 Please respond to redhat-list To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: understanding tftp Hi John Paul I see your error

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Anderson
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:41, Ed Wilts wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:33:07PM -0500, Joe Polk wrote: While I would agree with what most have been saying, namely that RH can do whatever they damn well pleases, I don't necessarily like the trend. Caldera has consistently alienated the Linux

Re: Access to the code

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Monte Milanuk The source code for the kernel should be either installed (check /usr/src/linux) or available as an additional (large) package that you can install from your install media. IIRC, it goes by something like kernel-source-versionarchitecture.rpm, i.e.

Re: Multiple identical NFS mounts under RH8

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Anderson
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 18:06, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Michael Mansour wrote: I think I've found a bug in RH8's NFS. On the RH8 client, I can mount the filesystem many times as shown (df -k output): The same thing happens under RH7.3 - all of my machines are 7.3 and I can

Re: beta install change not good?

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Anderson
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 19:50, Jack Bowling wrote: ** Reply to message from Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:27:20 -0700 snip That said, RH is already beginning to differentiate between Enterprise and non-enterprise. Since the personal is the base for sales (as in:

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Jim Wilferling
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:29:48 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right On to that, Stephen! !- On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: this whole thing was really poorly done. rday Yet another reason why my business, and myself are being pushed away by the

Re: RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait.

2003-03-25 Thread Bill Anderson
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 23:51, Peter van der Does wrote: OK, So here I am, a RHCE 8 exam coming up next week and the weekend after that RHCE 9 is in the stores. Should I do it or wait for the RHCE 9 Exam. First, upgrade your email client to not send HTML. :^) Then, I'd wait for RH9 exams.

Re: RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait.

2003-03-25 Thread Josef Oduwo
Wait. Original Message Follows From: "Peter van der Does" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait. Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:51:23 +0100 OK, So here I am, a RHCE 8 exam coming up next week and the weekend

Re: 38 GB partitioning advice

2003-03-25 Thread Thierry ITTY
I'd set up reasonnable system partitions (depending on what you'll install) such as 50/100 MB for /boot 2/4GB for / swap (twice ram) then use LVM for the rest. with LVM you'll be able to increase/decrease partitions size seamlessly A 13:00 24/03/2003 -0500, vous avez écrit : All, I'm setting

Re: beta install change not good?

2003-03-25 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:13:40 -0700 On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 19:50, Jack Bowling wrote: ** Reply to message from Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:27:20 -0700 snip That said, RH is already beginning to

RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait. (Excuse for the HTML sendingearlier)

2003-03-25 Thread Peter van der Does
OK, So here I am, a RHCE 8 exam coming up next week and the weekend after that RHCE 9 is in the stores. Should I do it or wait for the RHCE 9 Exam. Darn upgrades and darn HTML settings Peter -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: beta install change not good?

2003-03-25 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:28:53PM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: Maybe, but I think it is just amatter of not planning on it. The minimum install is ~450MB. Surely that can be fit on one CD? :^) SuSE As Matthew pointed, there are several kernels and several glibc shipped with the distribution.

RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side

2003-03-25 Thread Jim Wilferling
Alright, so I'm annoyed. Just learning linux, and I've gone through 7.2, 8.0, and was anticipating 8.1. so now there's 9.0, so whatI've tried to install 8.1 beta rpms, and there were worse problems than there were with 8.0. So we copeI'm not about to switch distros so quickly,

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early]

2003-03-25 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:37:41AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: Other users - seriously - let's not debate over the number hey? Who cares what it's called as long as it works? But that's the point, from my view. I *always* skipped the x.0's (in fact, I skipped the x.1's as well) and reading

Re: porting from 32 bit to 64 bit linux

2003-03-25 Thread Edward Dekkers
I want to port linux(redhat linux 8.0) driver from 32 bit to 64 bit Intel architecture. Can anyone tell me what change has to be done in driver code to support 64 bit architecture... or where can I find relevant information. Will the same change work for 32 bit architecture also. Any help

fluxbox utf-8 slow

2003-03-25 Thread Robert Jameson
Fluxbox loads very slowly when started with export LC=UTF-8 export LC_ALL=UTF-8 or whatever redhat default installs with, so when I do export LC=C export LC_ALL=CLL=C it loads instantly, before there was like a 5 min wait, how can I change it so export LC=C export

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 - Obsoleting RHCE's a an unprecidented pace....

2003-03-25 Thread Justin . Skists
Considering that I'm still having difficulties running my driver correctly under Redhat 8.0 (any updated kernel, as opposed to 7.3, or the 2.4.18 kernel in kernel.org), I would call it oddball. --__--__-- Message: 12 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:07:25 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Mansour [EMAIL

Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side

2003-03-25 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
is there a way to mount a disc image without it being on a disc? ( I dont have a burner.) mount -tiso9660 disk.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-25 Thread Roger
Red Hat has been using this company for quite some time in the mailout of their 'Under the Brim' newsletter which you can subscribe on their front page. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: if this is in fact legit, i'm more than a little stunned. who at red hat decided to provide

RE: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early]

2003-03-25 Thread Roger
Some people may argue they are worthless to start off with. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Billy wrote: Its not the version number that people care about...the RHCE cert is based on version numbers. So the big jump in version numbers makes the cert worthless a lot faster! -- redhat-list mailing

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:09:02AM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:41, Ed Wilts wrote: [...] Wow. Red Hat bumped the version number from the expected 8.1 to 9 and now you're saying people will stop suggesting Red Hat? A disgruntled user base that simply goes

Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side

2003-03-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
Not very fancy - but it works (attached shell script). At some point I plan to add an option to specify the mount point if /mnt/iso doesn't exist - but simple as it is, I never got around to it ;) On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 01:39, Willem van der Walt wrote: is there a way to mount a disc image

redhat-release and version

2003-03-25 Thread Zhi Cheng Wang
hi rpm -q redhat-release and cat /proc/version usually give different version numbers, what does each mean? cheng This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the person(s) ('the intended recipient') to whom it was

RE: understanding tftp

2003-03-25 Thread christopher cuse
Hi John Paul, Glad that it finally worked out -- but remember to isolate access to a writable tftp server as it can lead to very ugly security issues. I was a bit short on message concerning xinetd the other day -- I suppose that is somewhat synonymous to kernel modules, that is, that kernel

Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side

2003-03-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
The biggest problem you might run into is some config files in your home directory that have changed spec, but that has only happened to me once - I think when going from a pre 1 version of gnome to a much newer one. If that happens - just delete the config file. What you want to do - copy these

Static Routes

2003-03-25 Thread Ian Dobson
where is the correct place to add static routes in Redhat? I know I can add it to rc.local, but is there a RedHat place? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

LVM or not

2003-03-25 Thread Ian Dobson
what is the benefit of LVM on say an 80 GB drive rather than just giving 78GB to / ? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Remove all existing partitions

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas Alan
Edward Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I said that I cannot imagine a case where I would want all partitions on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install. Despite your claims, I still would never want all partitions on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install. Not

Re: upgrading your system... my experience

2003-03-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
I had RH8 installed on a Asus VIA board w/ a 900 MHz Athlon. CPU died. I built a new box using an Asus A7N8X Deluxe and XP 2700+. No more was I using the SoundBlaster Live, the VooDoo3, USB was now OHCI opposed to UHCI, I didn't move the old NIC's over. Only thing that was the same was the hard

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Roger
Red Hat Linux 8.x/9.x... is now considered by RH as a bleeding-edge operating system for consumer use, mainly targeted towards home users, small business and enthusiasts. As a significant percentage of Red Hat's revenue is coming from Advanced Server (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS), they are trying

Re: LVM or not

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Ian Dobson what is the benefit of LVM on say an 80 GB drive rather than just giving 78GB to / ? 1. Whenever you buy a new disk so you have 160 GB, you can easily increase any file system. 2. Whenever you want to reinstall, you can scratch / and /usr, while you keep the /home and /usr/local

Re: Remove all existing partitions

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas Alan
Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas Alan wrote: No it wouldn't. It is never reasonable to destroy large amounts of data without being quite sure that that is what the user wants. If that were true, then 'rm -i' would be default behavior, and the '-f' option would not

Re: RHCE Exam, doing it now or wait. (Excuse for the HTML sendingearlier)

2003-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Peter van der Does wrote: OK, So here I am, a RHCE 8 exam coming up next week and the weekend after that RHCE 9 is in the stores. Should I do it or wait for the RHCE 9 Exam. this close to the exam, do you even have the option of rescheduling? rday -- redhat-list

Re: upgrading your system... my experience

2003-03-25 Thread Johann Snyman
On Stardate : [-29]0032.22 -Tue25Mar03-1240 Tony Preston wrote: RH 6.2 was a totally different story, it recognized the new stuff, forgot about the old stuff and booted normally (even recognized the change in video cards!). I was absolutely amazed (especially after the Win 98 experience).

Re: Remove all existing partitions

2003-03-25 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:03:25AM -0500, Douglas Alan wrote: It could start by not zeroing partitions on disk drives uninvolved in the OS installation, since there is no reason for it to do that. This is the part where I don't follow you. If partitions have not been created, how is the

Re: Oracle install problems?

2003-03-25 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:44:23AM +0100, Jon Haugsand wrote: * Dan Dobbs Make sure you have Java 1.1.8 installed. It's rather picky about the version. You should be able to download an RPM or tarball from Sun. Doesn't that follow with Oracle? Every Oracle installation package I've seen

Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side

2003-03-25 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:12:39AM -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: The biggest problem you might run into is some config files in your home But these are not binaries and is true of almost any upgrade anyway... What you want to do - copy these files to a floppy: /etc/shadow /etc/group

Re: Help Lucent amr modem driver

2003-03-25 Thread gopalan harish
The chipset for the modem is scorpio chipset.Has anyone found drivers for this chip set to work with linux. harish = Harish Gopalan Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department Boston University As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are

so what's the technology behind the jump to RH 9?

2003-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
can someone explain/point to a web page that discusses the new technology behind the jump to RH 9? that is, NPTL? glibc? and perhaps how this affects current applications? what will need to be recompiled and what won't? and how soon matthias will have a whack of new RPMs up on freshrpms?

RE: Static Routes

2003-03-25 Thread christopher cuse
Hi Ian, check /etc/sysconfig/static-routes cheers Christopher CUSE RHCE/CCNA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Dobson Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Static Routes where is the correct place to add

RE: 38 GB partitioning advice

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas, Stuart
Thanks for the reply (all of you!). I did read a tiny bit about LVM in the RH install/config documentation. It seemed like very useful technology, but I stayed away from it for the moment given my embryonic understanding of the Linux environment. My setup is strictly for an anonymous

Re: so what's the technology behind the jump to RH 9?

2003-03-25 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:46:49AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: can someone explain/point to a web page that discusses the new technology behind the jump to RH 9? that is, NPTL? glibc? I was given this link but haven't had time to do anything about it:

picky observation about http://rawhide.redhat.com

2003-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
why doesn't the URL http://rawhide.redhat.com resolve directly to a location containing the contents of rawhide? instead, you still have to traverse a fairly generic red hat directory structure to finally get to http://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide any reason why it's not

RE: setting dial-in server

2003-03-25 Thread Mark Olliver
Hi I'm looking to do console redirection via modem, from all the way from boot to a fully running system, to allow for better remote management control. (ie. to allow me to take the machine to single user mode from home) Thanks Mark On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 11:53, christopher cuse wrote: Hi

mkisofs 650Mb

2003-03-25 Thread zeek
Greetings, I have a directory which has grown, and will continue to grow beyond 650Mb. I need to back this up to cdrom and haven't found an option in mkisofs that will limit iso images to 650Mb chunks. I've used cddump for backups, and it limits the image size but I'm hoping to find something

gnome-panel loop

2003-03-25 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running RedHat 8.0. I managed to break gnome-panel, perhaps specifically the window switcher (pager). As a result when I startx, the panel crashes as it is being loaded with applets, etc. When I dismiss the crash dialog, the panel tries to load again and I'm caught in a gnome-panel crash

Re: gnome-panel loop

2003-03-25 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Haines Brown wrote: Oddly, both root and one user experience this problem, but not another user. I tried simply to remove ~/.gnome*, but when those files were regenerated, the problem persisted. For both reasons I believe the problem is deeper. Have you tried copying

RedHat 9.0

2003-03-25 Thread Steve Buehler
I don't know if I missed it here on the mailing list or not but has anybody got a link to a page that tells more about the new RedHat 9.0? Basically, I would like to find out what the main difference is that would make them go to a new major release. All I can find on their web site is How To

Re: Binary compatibility statement between RH Linux 7.2/8.0 and Linux Advanced Server...

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:12:54PM -0500, Greenberg, Michael wrote: We have customers requesting our products on RH Linux 7.2, RH Linux 8.0, and RH Linux Advanced Server. I am trying to determine if there is any binary compatibility statement between RH Linux 7.2/8.0 and RH Linux Advanced

Redhat 8 install problem

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Morgan
I am trying to install RedHat 8 on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. I can have it boot to text mode and it works fine. When I launch startx it then hangs with the X mouse icon. I have managed to trace it's way through the scripts to where it launched gnome-session in the Xclient script. From

Re: Access to the code

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:10:05AM +0200, Mohammed Awad wrote: I'm on my way to install redhat 8.0 for resarch purposes. My point is would I be able to get access to the source code of the kernel or even some parts of it (which ones?) , in order to modify the source ? If not, then where could

ssh2 keygen??

2003-03-25 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have a Tru64 Unix that I want to ssh to from a Redhat Linux, and the Tru64 only allows ssh2. And I also need it to work without passwords. I have generated a RSA and a DSA key on the Redhat (with ssh-keygen -t rsa and ssh-keygen -t dsa). I have copied the id_rsa.pub into

Re: Problems enabling DMA on /dev/cdrom with hdparm

2003-03-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 22:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running RedHat 8.0 on a Dell Dimension Desktop 8200 with a DVD-ROM drive as my /dev/hdc (/dev/cdrom) device. Whenever I try to run the command below on my cdrom, also /dev/hdc, I get the following... [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]# ./hdparm

amanda installation

2003-03-25 Thread Jianping Zhu
I have three redhat 7.3 boxes, b1 b2 b3, only b1 has tape drive, I want install amanda for three machines backup system to tape. I can install amanda-2.4.2p2-7.i386.rpm on b1, what should i install on b2, b3, in order to do backup? Thanks Jianping Zhu

Re: porting from 32 bit to 64 bit linux

2003-03-25 Thread David Hollister
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 01:43, Edward Dekkers wrote: I want to port linux(redhat linux 8.0) driver from 32 bit to 64 bit Intel architecture. Can anyone tell me what change has to be done in driver code to support 64 bit architecture... or where can I find relevant information. Will the

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:09:02AM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: Given the number of people who avoid X.0 releases, waiting instead for X.[1,2,3] releases, I would not be suprised to see a slower adoption rate. Some maye even see the 8.0 - 9.0 as a rush deal, and as a result be more likely to

Re: upgrading your system... my experience

2003-03-25 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Regarding the message with this subject on redhat-list: You can normally use epox boards with either Intell or AMD processors. The Asus boards can be a problem as they do not always use the same chipset maker. I do not know where you are, but if you are in Gauteng, you can contact me and

Re: Redhat 8 install problem

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Jon Morgan I am trying to install RedHat 8 on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop. I can have it boot to text mode and it works fine. When I launch startx it then hangs with the X mouse icon. I have managed to trace it's way through the scripts to where it launched gnome-session in the Xclient

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:30:00PM +1100, Roger wrote: I had a number of servers running 6.2/7.2/7.3, but as 7.3 won't be supported after 31-Dec-03 I had to decide what version I was going to run. Like many people, I don't want phone/email support from Red Hat, just the errata packages for

RE: ssh2 keygen??

2003-03-25 Thread James Francis
Søren Neigaard wrote: I have a Tru64 Unix that I want to ssh to from a Redhat Linux, and the Tru64 only allows ssh2. And I also need it to work without passwords. I have generated a RSA and a DSA key on the Redhat (with ssh-keygen -t rsa and ssh-keygen -t dsa). I have copied the id_rsa.pub

Re: Redhat 8 install problem

2003-03-25 Thread Eduardo Silva
I am still a very much Linux newbie, so treat this info accordingly: You can try to see whether your /etc/X11/XF86Config is configured correctly. Also try using redhat-config-xfree86 to try to config your X correctly. I have Redhat 8.0 on a Inpiron as well with X working OK. If you want I can

RE: setting dial-in server

2003-03-25 Thread christopher cuse
Hi Mark, I see -- I think that the operative term is remote management -- I have a couple of Dell servers with remote management cards that allow for console redirection. this is pobably the most elegant and expensive option :-) although maybe others could comment if there are cards available at

RE: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What's the point in upgrading if you don't need to? My server still runs 6.2, and has no need for an upgrade. - -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

search mail-list archive

2003-03-25 Thread Jianping Zhu
I try to seach something by author, subject on rehat-list and redhat-install-list achives. But always failed. For example when i try to get my previous posts with Author Jianping Zhu, but i can never get anything. Is there anything special i have to in order to search? Thanks -- redhat-list

Re: redhat-release and version

2003-03-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:04:18 -, Zhi Cheng Wang wrote: rpm -q redhat-release and cat /proc/version usually give different version numbers, what does each mean? First one prints version and release of the RPM package with the name

Re: ssh2 keygen??

2003-03-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:26, Søren Neigaard wrote: I have a Tru64 Unix that I want to ssh to from a Redhat Linux, and the Tru64 only allows ssh2. And I also need it to work without passwords. I have generated a RSA and a DSA key on the Redhat (with ssh-keygen -t rsa and ssh-keygen -t dsa). I

SOLVED: ssh2 keygen??

2003-03-25 Thread Søren Neigaard
Well on the Tru64 machine, everything is a little different... I had to make a file containing the key, and then another file that pointed to this key, and then it worked. /Søren -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Søren Neigaard Sendt: 25.

Re: Redhat 8 install problem

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Morgan
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-72) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 23 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before

Re: system freeze ...

2003-03-25 Thread Mike Taggart
Well, I pulled the RAM and replaced it was some others that I had and there's no problems now! :) Thanks again for the help, Mike - Original Message - From: Steven Efurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 5:03 PM Subject: Re: system freeze ... On

Re: Redhat 8 install problem

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Morgan
I tried to run the redhat-config-xfree86 utility and it gets as far as making the mouse icon an arrow. Progress! :) As for the XF86Config, it is the default file generated by Anaconda at install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/25/03 08:40AM I am still a very much Linux newbie, so treat this info

Re: Redhat 8 install problem

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Jon Morgan XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-72) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) I'm no expert, but it looks ok. And I now realized that your X system does not hang in any way, it may be up and running healthy. What you might miss

RTL8139 issue

2003-03-25 Thread Bored is me
im using an RTL8139 SMC EZ CARD, and this site (http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=detailshid=4429)says it IS supported, but whenever i try to activate it, it says it can't. (sorry, im an uber-newbie to linux) all of my network stuff is set to localhost stuff, (it w! as standard) i dont

RE: 38 GB partitioning advice

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Polk
I see a couple of problems already. /boot should be no more than 100MB. Anything more is a waste. / should be way more than 500MB. I know that some will say I run my entire Linux box on a 486DX66 and 250MB HD! Well, this is RH8 and given what you're telling me, I would jack that up. I would give

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Rick Johnson
Bill Anderson wrote: Given the number of people who avoid X.0 releases, waiting instead for X.[1,2,3] releases, I would not be suprised to see a slower adoption rate. Some maye even see the 8.0 - 9.0 as a rush deal, and as a result be more likely to avoid 9.0. If you avoided 8.0 due to it being a

Re: beta install change not good?

2003-03-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:27, Bill Anderson wrote: snip As an instructor who needs to insall on the sites I go to, I look at it this way: The most common use of personal should be optimized for the single disc install. It decreases the number of discs, and speeds my install. This is not an

Re: RTL8139 issue

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Polk
How are you trying to activate it? When you reboot, you should see a line Starting eth0 during the section where all the daemons start (charactarized by all the green OK's you see). Do you see eth0 starting OK? or FAILED? Let us know. Also give us some idea of what kinda system you're running.

RTL8139 issue

2003-03-25 Thread Bored is me
im using an RTL8139 SMC EZ CARD, and this site (http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=detailshid=4429)says it IS supported, but whenever i try to activate it, it says it can't. (sorry, im an uber-newbie to linux) all of my network stuff is set to localhost stuff, (it was standard) i dont know

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early]

2003-03-25 Thread Rick Johnson
Roger wrote: Some people may argue they are worthless to start off with. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Billy wrote: Its not the version number that people care about...the RHCE cert is based on version numbers. So the big jump in version numbers makes the cert worthless a lot faster! Those people

Re: A code editor with auto-indentation ?

2003-03-25 Thread dbrett
I thought I would have a look as well, but got this fail dependencies, which doesn't make sense to me. Would somebody explain what this is saying. rpm -ihv jedit-rhmenu-4.1-1jpp.noarch.rpm error: failed dependencies: jedit = 4.1-1jpp is needed by jedit-rhmenu-4.1-1jpp david On 21 Mar

RE: 38 GB partitioning advice

2003-03-25 Thread Douglas, Stuart
Thanks for the detailed reply, Joe! Well...the box DID boot with that HighPoint card and software RAID1 on the 2 drives. I'm going to redo it all over again, but with your partition recommendations. No plans for a Web server, but you never know. This is really just a box for me to mess with

Re: search mail-list archive

2003-03-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:46, Jianping Zhu wrote: I try to seach something by author, subject on rehat-list and redhat-install-list achives. But always failed. For example when i try to get my previous posts with Author Jianping Zhu, but i can never get anything. Is there anything special i

Re: RTL8139 issue

2003-03-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:10, Bored is me wrote: im using an RTL8139 SMC EZ CARD, and this site (http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=detailshid=4429)says it IS supported, but whenever i try to activate it, it says it can't. (sorry, im an uber-newbie to linux) all of my network stuff is set

Re: beta install change not good?

2003-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:27, Bill Anderson wrote: snip As an instructor who needs to insall on the sites I go to, I look at it this way: The most common use of personal should be optimized for the single disc install. It decreases the number of

LinNeighborhood Issue?

2003-03-25 Thread Tim Willis
I've been trying to mount a filesystem on an XP machine and I get the following error: smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500) smbmnt failed:1 Now, this has worked in the past. I'm not sure if I changed anything, however there has been one kernal upgrade since I

RE: 38 GB partitioning advice

2003-03-25 Thread Joe Polk
I've not played with LVM myself, but it would certainly give you flexibility. If I don't find a buyer for my HP Netserver, I may just play with LVM myself. For a relatively static server, though, I think you'l do fine with the partitioning scheme I gave. I build most of my servers based on such a

Re: LinNeighborhood Issue?

2003-03-25 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
When I upgraded to 2.4.20 I had that problem. As much as I hate making it suid I just went ahead and made smbmount and smbumount as suid On Tuesday 25 March 2003 10:33 am, you wrote: I've been trying to mount a filesystem on an XP machine and I get the following error: smbmnt must be

Re: Redhat 8 install problem

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Morgan
I don't have an .xsession-errors file but I do have .gconf, .gnome etc. I installed GNOME as my default Windows manager and it is what is indicated in the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/25/03 09:07AM * Jon Morgan XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-72) / X

Re: amanda installation

2003-03-25 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Jianping Zhu wrote: I have three redhat 7.3 boxes, b1 b2 b3, only b1 has tape drive, I want install amanda for three machines backup system to tape. I can install amanda-2.4.2p2-7.i386.rpm on b1, what should i install on b2, b3, in order to do backup? Thanks You need

Re: RTL8139 issue

2003-03-25 Thread Willi Mann
Try (as root) lsmod (look if a kernel module containing 8139 is listed - if not) modprobe 8130cp modprobe 8130too - if one of the last works it's your setup that makes problems. (try the setup command at command line) Post a short summary about what you did to setup your card and include the

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-25 Thread Gene Yoo
Ed Wilts wrote: Let's step back and put it all into perspective. Red Hat sent out an e-mail via chtah.com announcing Red Hat Linux 9, when it would be generally available, how to get it early, and suddenly everybody's so annoyed they're jumping distributions? Take a deep breath, pop a valium

Re: Redhat 8 install problem

2003-03-25 Thread Jon Morgan
Eduardo, you the man! thanks for sending me your config file offline. I'm up and running after modifying it to use my Intel 815 rather than the ATI Rage 128 Mobility in yours. It's up and running. I'll have to dig a bit deaper to find the exact error. Thanks to you too Jon. I appreciate

Re: Using serial port

2003-03-25 Thread Gene Yoo
Al Sparks wrote: I'd just like to say, as someone who was just lurking, that this advice about minicom was great. I had been trying to redirect input from ttyS0 to a file using $ cat /dev/ttyS0 somefile and all I was getting was garbage. I was in the process of trying to figure out stty

Re: Oracle install problems?

2003-03-25 Thread sentinel
Unless Oracle fixed it I wouldn't recommend using their own JRE. When I started installing Oracle on Linux servers I had all sorts of problems. When I replaced their JRE most of the problems went away. Every Oracle installation package I've seen (admittedly not a huge number) contains its

Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side

2003-03-25 Thread John Nichel
mount -o loop -t iso9660 isofilename mountpoint Jim Wilferling wrote: Alright, so I'm annoyed. Just learning linux, and I've gone through 7.2, 8.0, and was anticipating 8.1. so now there's 9.0, so whatI've tried to install 8.1 beta rpms, and there were worse problems than there were with

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2003-03-25 Thread Jason M. Kuhlman
Following the discussion over the last couple of days over the release of RH 9 has been interesting. Question: Obviously most of us are very fond of Redhat, at least up to 7.3 gathered by some of the heated discussion today. Since I would assume RH would be/is your first choice of a Linux

Older Linux Distro's

2003-03-25 Thread John Nichel
I had heard a rumor a while back that there was a site which contained iso's/downloads for every stable release of every major version of Linux out there. Does anyone know of this site? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RTL8139 issue

2003-03-25 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Bored is me wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:21:00 -0700 From: Bored is me [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RTL8139 issue im using an RTL8139 SMC EZ CARD, and this site

Re: Older Linux Distro's

2003-03-25 Thread Doug
www.distrowatch.com - Original Message - From: John Nichel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:16 AM Subject: Older Linux Distro's I had heard a rumor a while back that there was a site which contained iso's/downloads for every stable release of

Redhat Linux 9.0 XFS support

2003-03-25 Thread Ubaidul Khan
Does anyone know if Redhat 9.0 will provide support of XFS (sgi's high performance file system)? I heard some talk of the new kernel (2.4.21) supporting XFS. Thanks -- Ubaidul Khan Wayne State University Library Systems (313)577-4008 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

RE: CD writing faster when CD-ROM also uses ide-scsi

2003-03-25 Thread Ward William E DLDN
-Original Message- From: Michael Wardle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi A few weeks back, I purchased a new Lite-On 52x52x24 EIDE/ATAPI CD-RW drive, which supports a buffer underrun technology Lite-On calls BURNproof (or something similar). When I first tried to write a CD image

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