Alec T. Habig wrote:
John Summerfield writes:
If there was a menu item to configure automatic updates, I would
applaud that, and I would have found it. My preferred choice would be
Download all updates at 04:00 but do not apply any.
This option is available with the yum-cron package. yum
sources
approved by the relevant administrator. In my case, that would be an
in-house repo maintained to my rules.
-Connie Sieh
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, John Summerfield wrote:
Isn't this somewhat misconceived?
Last time I was responsible for maintaining software for a large
employer, the rule
Billy Crook wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:33, John
Summerfielddeb...@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
It seems that removing this isn't so straightforward either:
It is assumed that anyone skilled enough to safely be able to take
care of their own updates would know how to disable the
Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Billy Crook wrote:
chmod -x /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
Are these kind of changes undone the next time this package is updated?
I guess this would prevent its being undone:
chattr +i /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
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Connie Sieh wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
On Jul 28, 2009, at 20:04, Billy Crook wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:33, John
Summerfielddeb...@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
It seems that removing this isn't so straightforward either:
It is assumed that anyone skilled
The suggested resolution doesn't seem appropriate. Are others seeing
this, and what are they doing about it?
Summary:
SELinux is preventing the groupadd from using potentially mislabeled files
(/tmp/yum.temp).
Detailed Description:
SELinux has denied groupadd access to potentially
Keith Lofstrom wrote:
Summary: Flashplayer 10 sucks. Use Flashplayer 9.
To make a long story short, the problem turned out to be that the
Ubuntu laptop was running Adobe Flash Plugin 9 and the SL5 laptop
was running the latest and allegedly greatest Flash Plugin 10.
When I downgraded
Tim Edwards wrote:
We're trying to kickstart SL4.3 on a Sunfire x4140 which appears to have
inbuilt-NICs which use an Nvidia chipset. The problem is that although
the NIC's ROM manages to boot off the network, once anaconda is started
it fails to see any network devices. I can see in the
Jon Peatfield wrote:
BTW the default reboot/shutdown procedures in el5/sl5 don't give user
processes very long to checkpoint themselves, and I *think* that
networking may have been turned off by the time they get signalled. We
That's too silly for words. How likely is it that users,
g wrote:
Jan Muhammad wrote:
I wonder where to get a guide or manual to install/configure Xen on
step-by-step basis.
have you tried; http://www.xen.org/ ?
I was going to suggest that, but had a look (wondering why JM might have
overlooked it), and decided not to.
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there's still a system in need of rebooting if maintenance is applied.
-brandon
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:16 PM, John Summerfield
deb...@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
What do other groups do about updating applications and machines
with long running
Jan Muhammad wrote:
Hi,
I have downloaded Xen 3.4.0 and trying to configure it on Scientific Linux 4.7;
I wonder where to get a guide or manual to install/configure Xen on
step-by-step basis. As on searching google does not give me any help.
Regards
-Jan Muhammad
I think it's not trivial
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
What do other groups do about updating applications and machines
with long running processes ?
My users run two sorts of long running processes, with different
problems when it comes to updates.
First, I have users who never log off. Thus applications like
firefox
Matt Harrington wrote:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
I thought about pointing you in that direction.
Now I'll just just /opt. If I had stuck with /opt2, I would have
created an addons RPM which owned that directory and made other
local customizations.
Matt
You may wish to add a file or
Matt Harrington wrote:
I'm thinking about consolidating around SL and am investigating
creating a yum repository for my needs. I mostly have the hang of
building RPMs, but was unsure about how to approach setting up a
suitable directory structure. For example, let's say I want to
install all
g wrote:
greetings,
in one of my system boxes, i have scientific linux 5.2, fedora 8 and 10,
installed to ext3 fs, mandrake 2008 and '/home' installed to reiserfs.
i access reiserfs from fc8, f10 and md2k8, and i need to access reiserfs
from sl5.2.
i have check with yum for a reiserfs
Tezyn Drasdin wrote:
Group,
I am trying to set up a PXE boot install setup for SL 53 using NFS. I have
a working PXE server, that I am able to install Fedora, Oracle Unbreakable,
Gentoo from using NFS for media access.
When I boot the workstation, everything appears to go fine (Welcome to
Takashi Ichihara wrote:
Hi
During the updating of the SL5.3 X86_64 from 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen
to the latest kernel 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5xen, We have encountered
Missing Dependency problem during the yum update procedure
on several hosts. This was resolved by removing (rpm -el) old
kernel
AnsiC Soft wrote:
Hi,
i configure my wifi card atheros on my notebook, i using this
tutorial
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless#head-c1a7601a713aa524aebc4d4416f9aa7669d444ec
but thic can't help me,
now i can scan wifi network in my home, but i can't connect :/
in gnome network
Takashi Ichihara wrote:
David Nitz wrote
Hi,
I did (or tried to do) a yum-update upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3.
The files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ point to the 5.3 repositories,
but /etc/issue still says SL 5.2. Yumex does not show any
available updates.
Is the wrong /etc/issue an oversight in
the
Troy Dawson wrote:
Hi,
We've tried a bittorrent here at Fermilab before, and we always tend to
get blocked by our border router. It's been a while though, and we
could try again if there is a big demand.
For right now, linuxtracker usually has a torrent
I take it I should wait a day or
Chris Hunter wrote:
Date:Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:38:54 +0900
From:John Summerfield deb...@herakles.homelinux.org
Subject: Re: my ongoing battle with large filesystems
Troy Dawson wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
...snip...
My research doesn't confirm that you _can_ do what you want using
Miles O'Neal wrote:
recap: new 64 bit Intel quadcore server with Adaptec SATA RAID
controller, 16x1TB drives. 1 drive JBOD for OS. The rest are
setup as RAID6 with 1 spare. We've tried EL5.1 + all yum updates,
and EL5.2 stock. We can't get /dev/sdb1 (12TB) stable with ext2
or xfs (ext3 blows
Miles O'Neal wrote:
John Summerfield said...
| recap: new 64 bit Intel quadcore server with Adaptec SATA RAID
| controller, 16x1TB drives. 1 drive JBOD for OS. The rest are
| setup as RAID6 with 1 spare. We've tried EL5.1 + all yum updates,
| and EL5.2 stock. We can't get /dev/sdb1 (12TB
Michael Mansour wrote:
Hi,
Why, what is your threat model that you have to do this?
Thanks for your reply. Basically, we're managing the infrastructure for a
client, but not the (web) apps.
The client has insisted his developers need SSH access. After quite some
discussion, we provided
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM, John Summerfield
deb...@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
carl wrote:
Hi, Troy
Thanks for your reply. I didn't use http cause it take long time and once
disconnected the downloading file will be lost. I will try using other
downloading soft like bt as Igor
John Summerfield wrote:
carl wrote:
Hi, Troy
Thanks for your reply. I didn't use http cause it take long time and once
disconnected the downloading file will be lost. I will try using other
downloading soft like bt as Igor suggested.
carl
Are you downloading with Windows using a FAT
Gasser Marc wrote:
Hello SL users,
Can anyone reproduce the X server crash with firefox-3.0.5-1 when following
the link below on a SL46 or SL51 system?
I think I don't want to know. However, firefox 3.0.5 is definitely flaky
on Windows. It regularly crashes while my back's turned (most
Troy Dawson wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Troy Dawson wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
In case you haven't noticed, this is causing some grief:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461526
There's a crude hack here:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-15687
Basically
In case you haven't noticed, this is causing some grief:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461526
There's a crude hack here:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-15687
Basically, there are problems setting timezone in kickstart for some users.
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Faye Gibbins wrote:
Why not a benzene ring?
With 6 carbon atoms each with 6 protons and 6 neutrons.
Not to scale of course.
Then it could be 666, the OS of the Beast.
:-)
I was thinking Troy was being a little prescriptive. I like the benzene
idea. Science isn't just physics.
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Keith Lofstrom wrote:
I have been using an old laptop as my firewall - running SL5
like all my other computers.
I recently purchased an ALIX 2D3 single board computer ( designed
by PC Engines of Switzerland, http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm
and sold by netgate.com for $180 with case and
Keith Lofstrom wrote:
I run SL5 on 6 machines, and am considering building a low power
browsing/email machine running SL5. It will probably use an Atom
mini-ITX board and a 30GB solid state drive - no moving parts, and
using less than 40 watts. I will do the usual /tmp in ramdisk
and noatime
Miles O'Neal wrote:
Salvador Aguinaga said...
|I've wondered if any of you have used scientific linux on a x86 hardware to
|run a single application ( like an embedded OS ) and disable updates and
|remove unneeded packages?
Sure, at least a dozen times.
|Or if you there is a better
Ken Teh wrote:
I recommend using a live CD distro. This may or may not apply to you
but typically an embedded system is something you want to be able to
switch off and on with a button. If your embedded SL mounts a hard disk
partition as /, especially if it is mounted read-write, you really
Mark Stodola wrote:
Michael,
Odds are mkfs was run on sdc and not sdc1 initially. Your plan is good,
backup the data and reconfigure the filesystem as you want, then restore
the data. There aren't really any tricks to shuffling the data with dd.
except the need to ensure target is big
vivek chal wrote:
Hello all !
After i download any scientific Linux distro from the internet, i have to
burn it to a DVD, CD or a number of CDs to install it. That CD or DVD is
generally used only once after which it lies unused , and worse, almost
every Linux distro comes up with a new release
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Michael Mansour wrote:
A hundred emails or a single giant web page ?
Not clear that one is much better than the other.
IMHO the long web page is much better.
Going through, say, 200 emails in a Webmail client (usually taking a 5-10
seconds
Roelof van der Kleij wrote:
Hi Michael,
We are an openldap shop. We use an in-house php app to manage accounts
etc. Our ldap servers run FreeBSD, but I am in the process of migrating
to Centos/SL servers.
I found the openldap server packages included in RHEL5 to be out of
date and
Miles O'Neal wrote:
John Summerfield said...
|
|10:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date
|Mon Nov 10 09:46:13 WST 2008
|09:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
John (and everyone else), just plug time zone calculator
into the search field of your favorite web search, and you'll
find tools galore
Michael Mansour wrote:
Hi,
I realise this may not be the best mailing list for this query, but if someone
knows...
The problem I have is, I have an Apache website running on:
http(s)://site.example.local
For my local subnet (which exists in .local), I have Apache setup to do:
Redirect /
� wrote:
i can't find this info on official web.
View the source with Control-U
The answer's in your email's headers.
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Jon Brinkmann wrote:
rm /etc/localtime ; ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime.
That has been the wrong way to do it on RH systems for years, it changed
on some release of RHL.
/etc/localtime should be a file, not a symlink.
09:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /etc/localtime
suhaiL khan wrote:
hi folks
i am using SL - 5.1 64 bit version. i am a new user. i
want to know how to configure the internet connection in SL - 5.1. i am
using cable connection. i will appreciate the help provided.
thanx...
You could alwasy try reading the documentation for RHEL, it's on Red
Troy Dawson wrote:
Hello,
I still don't have any authoritative kernel links, but this is a good
summary that I found
the IDE subsystem in the linux kernel has been functionally replaced by
the PATA subsystem which uses just that naming convention (sdX instead
of hdX). IDE is still included
Ken Teh wrote:
I'm getting confused with the sda/hda naming conventions. I thought all
SATA disks were sd devices. They were a while back but apparently, not
anymore. And, I can't seem to make any sense of when an sda is an hda.
I'm currently installing a system with a SATA system disk that
Harry Enke wrote:
Hi,
there is an easy configurable tool for preventing brute force attacks,
it's called fail2ban. It sifts through logs for attacks on security
critical ports and blocks login attempts from ip-addresses which fail
too often in too short a timeframe (configurable).
Mark Stodola wrote:
Sorry I haven't been following this whole thing, but I caught the last
few. As far as a real-time solution, I use iptables. It doesn't care
if a login failed or succeeded, it just counts the rate of connection.
You can play with it a bit, depending on how many users hit
Art Wildman wrote:
vivek chal wrote:
hello all
i have made a server which is acting as a dhcp,dns and internet
gateway in scientific linux 4.5. Now i want my clients won't access
some websites such as orkut,facebook etc . Also i don't want to use
proxy. Please help me .
Use of iptables
Bruce Prewit wrote:
Eduardo Bach wrote:
It's also a good idea to change the ssh port to something other than the
default; this will stop the ssh-brute-force-crack that has been
plaguing the internet for as long as I can remember.
See http://openssh.org/manual.html for specific
Eduardo Bach wrote:
Hello to all,
One of our servers was invaded. We just started the investigations, but the
main clue, plus some strange files copied and deleted, is that sshd binary
has changed. Its original size was ~313KB and moved to 1.18Mb. His version
was 3.9p1-11.e4_7. As we at the
Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote:
Has anyone tried to fix the ports that nfs uses for its various daemons?
Supposedly, by setting the environmental variables in/etc/sysconfig/nfs,
one can fix the ports on which the daemons listen.
All of them work except for LOCKD_UDPPORT
No matter what port I set, when
Juan Pablo Macias wrote:
Hi
I think it would be easier to make this at firewall level. For
example, assign an IP address range from 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.50
to unregistered addresses, and at your gateway, use iptables to block
addresses in that range from passing through. When you register
Michael Mansour wrote:
Hi,
hi
i m using proxy server to allow internet access to my clients. It worked
fine for two years but now what is happening my clients are getting
an error message while opening browser. That error is cache access
denied. i tried using the following command: 1 echo
Troy Dawson wrote:
Hello,
We've been getting reports from several people about yum updates falling
due to a file not being available.
Please know that ftp.scientificlinux.org get's alot of traffic.
Especially after a new release, it get's an immense amount for about a
month or two. This
Jean-Paul Chaput wrote:
Hello John,
He's no John, he's a Jon:-)
Commonly short for Jonathon.
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 20:44 +0100, Jon Peatfield wrote:
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Charles Howard wrote:
I'm planning to update from 4.4 to 5.2 and am looking for a list of software included.
I can't see any such list on the SL pages, only the cumulative lists for each release.
There is a useful list on DistroWatch but it is not complete.
Am I missing something obvious?
Roelof van der Kleij wrote:
This question was fully answered by troy in his post openssh verified
on sl4 and sl5 d.d. 08/22/2008 06:00 PM which just about crossed my post.
And?
I'd not seen Troy's reply when I replied. He's done pretty much as I
trusted him (or Connie) to do.
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James Fait wrote:
SL 5.2 is a repackage of RedHat Enterprise Linux.
5.2
There are other releases:-)
There's a fair bit of documentation at the CentOS site too (CentOS is
another RHEL clone).
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Mark Stodola wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Mark Stodola wrote:
Hey everyone,
I know most of you use nfs or http for kickstart, but I'm trying to
do a CD based one. Basically, I have a backup cd I make of certain
software and system configuration. I'd like to make this CD bootable
Troy Dawson wrote:
Working on it. Going to actually buy a certificate
People with the budget codes keep going on vacation.
It's been this way for years, but Firefox and IE7 changed the error for
self signed certificates to sound worse.
Troy
Why not just use http? Doesn't have _that_
Tom Rockwell wrote:
Aldo Saavedra wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if someone would an insightful comment.
From reading past posts I managed to get a node to boot from a server
using PXE+DHCP+HTTP
The image resides in /tftpboot and the configuration is
default SL45
serial 0,9600n8
timeout 100
Rachid Ayad wrote:
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Billy Crook wrote:
This goes without saying, but you may want to compare your backups to
what you have on disk, and restore files where necessary if the data
is at all important. If it's completely disposable, you might
consider a script to umount,
Rachid Ayad wrote:
Hello, I have really problem to change, recursively, the owner status
of a mounted disk in SL5:
chown -R ayad:ayad /scratch
where I have messages like:
*
chown: changing ownership of
`/scratch/ba220-jul-20-2008/ayad/comedi/comedi/comedi/old/CVS/Template':
Michael Mansour wrote:
I remember when first looking at all this after Fedora became unmanageable for
me in the enterprise. I originally looked at Whitebox Linux (yes early days
I'm talking), Tao, Scientific Linux and CentOS.
I personally have/maintain one WBEL4, several CentOS{4.5} and SL5
Miles O'Neal wrote:
John Summerfield said...
| That's fine until you start using a different version of
| a package than the vendor uses. Maybe there's a way around
| that in yum; I haven't really figured yum out yet. Is there
| a *good* doc on yum out there that explains such things
Miles O'Neal wrote:
Jon Peatfield said...
|If you just want to add extra packages for the install then you can do
|that just creating an extra 'yum repo' and pointing the sl5 installer at
|it in addition to the standard ones.
|
|Then either with kickstart or a semi-manual install you get to
Jon Peatfield wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:
Adam Timol wrote:
I'd like to make a dual boot linux/XP machine, given I have just the
one
HDD in my computer, what is the ideal partitioning configuration I
should
make when installing the first OS (winXP)?
set up:4Gigs RAM,
Jan Iven wrote:
On 20/06/08 22:08, Donald Tripp wrote:
(i386 is so widely used to mean all 32bit that optimizing for the
common = Pentium3 case makes sense. Please note that -mtune=pentium4
code will still happily run on a pentium3, just perhaps slightly slower
- and if you'd care about
Peter Boy wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 11.06.2008, 13:30 +0200 schrieb Klaus Steinberger:
I heard that downloading BT file hurts hard disk very much. However,
Case 1 and Case 2 do not have any relationship with BT task.
Any technique or trick to avoid this?
That sounds like a major hardware
Miguel A. Lerma wrote:
From the explanations there, and articles in other places, I quickly
decided it's inherently broken.
One has to be aware of its strengths and weaknesses before implementing it,
but the fact is that important and influential domains such as hotmail
and google are
Jon Peatfield wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Jan Iven wrote:
On 06/06/08 19:03, Ken Teh wrote:
[..]
%post
...
[ -d /mnt/SL ] || mkdir -p /mnt/SL
mount -rvt nfs server.anl.gov:/SL /mnt/SL
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
echo server.anl.gov:/SL mounted
else
echo failed to mount server.anl.gov:/SL
Miguel A. Lerma wrote:
I have a mail server with sendmail running on Scientific Linux 5.1.
I would like to check SPF (Sender Policy Framework) on incoming
mail. Does anybody have experience with this?
I used to be on a couple of antispam lists, whose names I now don't recall.
There was much
Pedro Ferreira wrote:
Hello,
anyone knows if there is a driver to install my 802.11g usb adapter on SL?
Probably. However, nobody knows whether they know unless you give better
information.
Please read the links in my sig to learn how to ask questions people can
and will answer.
I have a system on which 5.1 is a basket case. I'm interested in trying
5.2 soonest.
Is there a timetable? and how to I share in the testing?
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Jean-Michel Barbet wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
The date of the file /dev/tty1 corresponds to the time at which I
logged as root and updated packages with 'yum install packages' but
Login as jm and have another look.
Hello, thanks for the answer but it puzzles me : What do you by
login
Sven Sternberger wrote:
sorry for the noise,
it was already answered, it is the prelinking
That was my first thought.
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Troy Dawson wrote:
Peter Haufschild wrote:
Hallo,
I want setup a repo for SL to deploy some config files inside my company.
When I try to rebuild src rpms I get error like:
Fehler: Datei nicht gefunden:
/var/tmp/yum-conf-50root/usr/etc/yum.repos.d
The path should be /var/tmp/{name}/etc...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All
I am facing problem in instaling dual boot with XP and scientific linux
5.1. Although earlier I had installed dual booting with SL 5.0 and vista
and XP many times. Now I am installing it on a new computer HP Compact
DC7800.
First I installed XP in a separate
Shane Voss wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Shane Voss wrote:
The RPM for tclx-8.4.0-5.fc6 seems to me to be broken.
The RPM delivers /usr/lib/tclx8.4/
which contains a bunch of .tcl files, and also libtclx8.4.so
It runs ldconfig after install, but this won't find the .so file.
I think
Shane Voss wrote:
The RPM for tclx-8.4.0-5.fc6 seems to me to be broken.
The RPM delivers /usr/lib/tclx8.4/
which contains a bunch of .tcl files, and also libtclx8.4.so
It runs ldconfig after install, but this won't find the .so file.
I think the .so should be put in to /usr/lib
This is
Ken Teh wrote:
I have a 4x system that where gpdf has just developed a problem
rendering a pdf file where it did not before. The same said file is
rendered without problems with ghostscript. We reloaded the file from
its original URL and they are binary identical. Anyone seen a problem
like
Alex Kruchkoff wrote:
Sorry, I've missed the beginning of the thread,
Have you tried proprietary drivers like:
I've been meaning to, kept forgetting. Thanks for the reminder.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=1044
This is a small form factor desktop. It's not
Jim McCarthy wrote:
The flashing screen problem indicates your monitor cannot support the
current screen resolution.
Not these monitors, they print a nice text message. I have a DELL 1801FP
(on that computer) and a DELL 1901FP on my KVM. Both are fairly good
LCD monitors.
Especially when
Jon Peatfield wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
I have installed 64-bit SL5.1 on this machine
HP DC7700, Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz, 5
Gbytes, 2x80 Gb (Windows XP on the first).
_That_
Brent L. Bates wrote:
The `vacation' command is part of sendmail, at least it is part of the
original sendmail.org sources. TUV may not compile it as part of their
distribution and therefore does not get into the SL distributions.
This is from an f9beta system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm
Christopher Hunter wrote:
You might try 915resolution.
http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/
This used to be in the sl-contrib yum repository, not sure if it's still
around.
That won't solve vesa driver problems.
The flashing screen problem indicates your monitor cannot support the
current
John Summerfield wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
I have installed 64-bit SL5.1 on this machine
HP DC7700, Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz, 5 Gbytes,
2x80 Gb (Windows XP on the first).
_That_ is (almost) the worst.
Additionally, I can't change consoles, either
Killian De Volder wrote:
Robyn Soares wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to replace Vista with Linux. Vista came prepackaged on my 2 n
ew
machines.
I've installed the same Linux on two other machines (also prepackaged ala
Vista) with no problem. They're only a year old.
My Linux installer loads a few
Bobby Barnett wrote:
Hi Troy,
I have been using SL5 for about 6 months without any problems. I installed
this with CD's downloaded from your site. My machine is a Sun workstation with
2 core and two disks that were linked together during this install.
I was in a hurry to logout on Friday
slbnler wrote:
I have a Dell vostro 200 computer and want to install SL5.1 on it.
The computer boot up very well from the DVD drive. However, it takes LON
G
time to load SCSI driver ata_piix. After that, the installation doesn'
t
recognize my cdrom any more.
Please help me with this
Keith Lofstrom wrote:
rg 7.1.1 (12 May 2006) that comes with the Scientific Linux 5.0 .
5.1 and 5.2(beta) also run 7.1.X X.org, right?
This leads to a prediction question - involving crystal balls and
tea leaves, perhaps. How likely is it that T.U.V. EL 5.3 (and thus
SL5.3) will upgrade to
Jan Iven wrote:
On 16/04/08 16:14, John Summerfield wrote:
Eva Myers wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to use the Perl script w3mir (from
http://www.langfeldt.net/w3mir/) but although it works fine on an SL44
system, it has problems on the SL50 64-bit system where I want to use
it. When I
Matthias Schroeder wrote:
Keith Lofstrom wrote:
I will be setting up a server for Cadence chip design software, and
that company specifies Enterprise Linux 5 from The Upstream Vendor
for the OS, accept no substitutes.
This is the case with a lot of commercial software.
The cost of [T.U.V.]
William Shu wrote:
--- John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William Shu wrote:
Hi,
I have 3 issues related with using my wireless router, and
making sure changes take effect at boot time.
ISSUE 1: Obtaining DHCP from router
My wireless router can be used if my machine (an hp
pavillion
William Shu wrote:
Hi,
I have 3 issues related with using my wireless router, and
making sure changes take effect at boot time.
ISSUE 1: Obtaining DHCP from router
My wireless router can be used if my machine (an hp pavillion
5000 series laptop) is given a fixed IP address. For this to
happen,
Eva Myers wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to use the Perl script w3mir (from
http://www.langfeldt.net/w3mir/) but although it works fine on an SL44
system, it has problems on the SL50 64-bit system where I want to use
it. When I investigated this I discovered a difference in Perl's
behaviour on SL44
It's necessary to boot with pci=nomsi,nommconf but I knew that.
That's not the worst!
I have installed 64-bit SL5.1 on this machine
HP DC7700, Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz, 5 Gbytes,
2x80 Gb (Windows XP on the first).
Here is my package selection as listed in the resulting
John Summerfield wrote:
It's necessary to boot with pci=nomsi,nommconf but I knew that.
I'll pick them off one by one.
Disk performance is shocking:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# hdparm -t /dev/hd{a,c}
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.47 seconds = 2.31 MB/sec
/dev/hdc
John Summerfield wrote:
I have installed 64-bit SL5.1 on this machine
HP DC7700, Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz, 5 Gbytes,
2x80 Gb (Windows XP on the first).
_That_ is (almost) the worst.
Additionally, I can't change consoles, either with the usual keyboard
magic
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