Re: Install Resolution

2007-07-26 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
On 7/26/07, Mark Stodola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may need to pre-partition the drive if the SL installer cannot handle it. I think the trouble was this: grub's stage1 detected a problem, in that the PC BIOS didn't support booting from such a disk 2TB. Now, its error handling could have

Install Question

2007-07-25 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
Hello, I'm setting up Scientific Linux (version 4.5) on a brand new machine. This machine has a 3ware RAID card. The RAID5 configuration is 4x750. (So I'm installing onto a roughly 2TB disk, using the default partitioning.) Anaconda does fine. No errors. After the disk is formated and the

Re: Install Question

2007-07-25 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
On 7/25/07, Connie Sieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anaconda does fine. No errors. After the disk is formated and the packages are copied over from the CD's, it asks me to reboot. I reboot, and after the BIOS and RAID are initialized, instead of seeing grub, I just see a blank text screen

Re: Install Question

2007-07-25 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
On 7/25/07, Michael H. Semcheski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I can't mount /dev/sda2, this means that I can't run grub-install. (As I understand things.) I think I may be able to work through this: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-rescuemode

Re: Authentication with Active Directory

2007-07-24 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
I just wanted to thank EVERYONE for their input on this matter. I still haven't found what I'm looking for, but I've got a lot of starting points. Mike On 7/24/07, Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use winbind for authentication, and oddjob for auto creation of home directories. Winbind AD

Re: The 'U' word

2007-07-17 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
(apologies to jmh for sending this twice, forgot to send it to the list) I'd like to know how others are dealing with this. Is anybody using Ubuntu clients with SL servers for instance? Any other words of wisdom on this topic? Personally, I don't think its scientific applications in general

Re: Sun Java 6

2007-06-15 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
with the same results. I'm not married to them, though. Thanks, Mike On 6/14/07, Jon Peatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Urs Beyerle wrote: Michael H. Semcheski wrote: Hello, snip. Yum says I have gcj 1.4.2 and java-1.5.0-sun-compat.noarch installed. I downloaded

ipw2100

2007-05-16 Thread Michael H. Semcheski
Hello, I'm new to Scientific Linux. Just installed 5.0 on my Thinkpad. So far so good. I had two questions: 1.) I was wondering if anyone had any success installing the ipw2100 wireless drivers. I wasn't 100% sure that the stock kernel was compatible. I haven't gotten a chance to try