Re: [vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
OK. Not finding /proc/config.gz is a bad thing. Change that!!! Under "General Setup" check the two options: Kernel .config support Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz Modules come into the kernel via two methods: * When they're asked to (often via access to a device file

Re: [vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Hai Yi
peter: I didn't find /proc/config.gz also, when is a *module* loaded into the kernel? How can I control the modules's loading/unloading? for instance, when I tried to install nviadia's driver, it complained about conflict with a nv-related module already loaded in the kernel. In this case, I wan

Re: [vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Ken Bloom
On Sunday 17 December 2006 00:17, Hai Yi wrote: > hey peter: > first, thank you very much! after reading your post, I did the > following things: I ran the make bzImage to create a vmlinuz in the > boot and I saw its corresponding system map as well (without doing > any additional work), and I modi

Re: [vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hola Hai, Yeah. Don't put in the initrd line in menu.lst. This is the perfect opportunity to rid yourself of the ramdisk, so I'd take advantage of it if possible. Look at /proc/config.gz. Make sure that ext3 is built into the kernel: CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y What you don't want to see is this:

Re: [vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Hai Yi
hey peter: first, thank you very much! after reading your post, I did the following things: I ran the make bzImage to create a vmlinuz in the boot and I saw its corresponding system map as well (without doing any additional work), and I modified menu.1st and added the new kernel's entry. However,

Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma

2006-12-16 Thread Bob Scofield
On Saturday 16 December 2006 19:28, Rod Roark wrote: > On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:27, Bob Scofield wrote: > > While I use Linux for all personal computing, I'm still using Windows 98 > > for my business computing. > > Which applications? Word Perfect A free form data base called "Ask Sam"

Re: [vox-tech] Postfix + SMTP-AUTH: 1, Me: 0

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 16 Dec 06, 4:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > > I've read that verizon.net blocks all outgoing mail that doesn't carry a > "verizon.net" address. Most of what I read came from marginally technical > Windows and Mac users, and it's unclear if this means the "F

Re: [vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 16 Dec 06, 4:26 PM, Hai Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Hello, there: > >I start a process to create a new kernel, 2.6.13. When I came to the step >of creating a ramdisk, I had a problem. I used the command: >mkinitrd.yaird -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.3-default1 2.6.18.3-defau

Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma

2006-12-16 Thread Rod Roark
On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:27, Bob Scofield wrote: > While I use Linux for all personal computing, I'm still using Windows 98 for > my business computing. Which applications? Rod ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lug

Re: [vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma

2006-12-16 Thread Ken Herron
Bob Scofield wrote: While I use Linux for all personal computing, I'm still using Windows 98 for my business computing. I have not upgraded to XP because I don't want to support Microsoft (and the idea of having to call to re-install XP a second time rankles me). Since July Microsoft no lo

[vox-tech] Win98 Dilemma

2006-12-16 Thread Bob Scofield
While I use Linux for all personal computing, I'm still using Windows 98 for my business computing. I have not upgraded to XP because I don't want to support Microsoft (and the idea of having to call to re-install XP a second time rankles me). Since July Microsoft no longer gives security up

[vox-tech] Postfix + SMTP-AUTH: 1, Me: 0

2006-12-16 Thread p
Hi all, I've read that verizon.net blocks all outgoing mail that doesn't carry a "verizon.net" address. Most of what I read came from marginally technical Windows and Mac users, and it's unclear if this means the "From" header (what the recipient sees) or the "mail from:" SMTP header, which the r

[vox-tech] problem encountered when creating a ramdisk

2006-12-16 Thread Hai Yi
Hello, there: I start a process to create a new kernel, 2.6.13. When I came to the step of creating a ramdisk, I had a problem. I used the command: mkinitrd.yaird -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.3-default1 2.6.18.3-default1 and I got this error: yaird error: can't open /proc/bus/input/devices (fatal)

Re: [vox-tech] Fwd: css: cell width and height

2006-12-16 Thread Mark K. Kim
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:25PM -0800, Joshua Morris wrote: [snipped: question about creating HTML table cell with specific size] >I would give the td sections an id to separate them from the other td tags >such as > > > foo > bar > >then in you css you would ha

Re: [vox-tech] Fwd: css: cell width and height

2006-12-16 Thread Joshua Morris
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[vox-tech] Fwd: css: cell width and height

2006-12-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
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[vox-tech] [fwd, semi-OT] Speaker still needed for Dec. 18th (Monday) meeting

2006-12-16 Thread Bill Kendrick
Sorry for the cross-posting. It's a bit urgent, though! :^) - Forwarded message from Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - If you'd like to speak at this Monday's LUGOD (or, in fact, any upcoming meeting), please let us know ASAP. -bill! (busy with a newborn, so hasn't had time to help

[vox-tech] login oddity

2006-12-16 Thread Cylar Z
Hey all, I was trying to log into my FC6 system the other day and was able to do so. However, I attempted to do so again a few hours later, and was denied access. I've attached the relevant portion of /var/log/secure below: Dec 14 21:08:07 localhost sshd[29350]: Accepted password for cylar from