Disaster with LVM -- Help?

2005-11-16 Thread Bob Freemer
I had a LVM group with two physical volumes (disks). One failed. I did not have a mirrored disk, but I'd like to recover the data on the first physical volume (or what's left of it). Does anyone know how? Here's my output from vgscan, which shows one physical volume good, the other unreadable

Disaster with LVM -- Help?

2005-11-01 Thread Bob Freemer
I had a LVM group with two physical volumes (disks). One failed. I did not have a mirrored disk, but I'd like to recover the data on the first physical volume (or what's left of it). Does anyone know how? Here's my output from vgscan, which shows one physical volume good, the other unreadable (

Debian Good for Clustering?

2005-05-15 Thread Bob Freemer
I remember reading somewhere an apt-gettable or debian-specific project for clustering. Rolling my own from openmosix is a pain. The CPU clustering is easy with the right kernel recompile, but I would like to use the hard disks on multiple machines on the network as something akin to a RAID-5

Re: Asus K7V motherboard and Promise RAID bios patch on Linux?

2005-05-15 Thread Bob Freemer
Lee Braiden wrote: I'm thinking of patching my Asus K7V motherboard (which has a promise ATA-100 controller onboard) with a modified Promise BIOS that allows it to become a RAID controller. This can also be done by grounding one of the chip's pins, whereupon the BIOS will recognise the controll

Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Bob Freemer
Quick one as I couldn't find elsewhere. Libranet, ubuntu, knoppix, etc. all have very nice login prompts, default color for "ls," high-resolution console bootup, etc. I agree these should not be part of a default install, but is there a simple meta-package or something that could customize the sy

Re: [solved] clock troubles

2005-05-14 Thread Bob Freemer
Marty wrote: Glenn English wrote: Many thanks for all the suggestions, especially the ones pointing me away from the soldering iron. I still don't understand this at all. But booting a FreeBSD install disk seems to have fixed my clock. The prospect of being replaced scared Sarge into getting it's a

Backup and Restore Strategy

2005-05-10 Thread Bob Freemer
I've got a server that's running great, but it's on an old AMD 300MHz machine and I'd like to transition to an entirely new system (with different SCSI etc.). What's the best way to go about copying? I've heard I can repopulate /usr/bin with some apt-based method so I don't need to back all that

Re: Bind keypress to shell command?

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Freemer
Almut, Thanks so very much for the tips here below! I'm fiddling with this right now and will let you know what I come up with. I like the perl approach. I guess this means I have to learn perl and python now :-) Bob Almut Behrens wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:31:05AM -0400, Bob Fr

Re: Libranet / Ubuntu --> Debian?

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Freemer
Kent West wrote: Bob Freemer wrote: I've discovered one of the remaining few areas where Debian can be a real pain is in hardware detection. I've tested on a number of machines and even debian-installer can't match libranet/ubuntu/knoppix. Any tips on using one of these distros t

Re: Grub - change boot options

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Freemer
RSiffredi wrote: How can I change my grub install if I want to make the windows partition the default boot option? Just go to /boot/grub/menu.lst and edit the default boot item. It's commented with one hash, but is actually read by grub. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Libranet / Ubuntu --> Debian?

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Freemer
I've discovered one of the remaining few areas where Debian can be a real pain is in hardware detection. I've tested on a number of machines and even debian-installer can't match libranet/ubuntu/knoppix. Any tips on using one of these distros to install plain debian? Or even better, an apt-get m

Bind keypress to shell command?

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Freemer
Hi, guys, I've searched everywhere on Google and the group for postings about this, but can't find anything. I'm setting up an "appliance" machine and want to simply bind shell commands to a keypress on a numeric kepad. One of the functions is to control mpd for MP3 playing, amongst others. I D

Re: little store's inventory database and possibly . . .

2004-02-01 Thread Bob Freemer
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:56:26 -0600 sarah & nic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so that's the question: how should i go about securing this system when > i decide to let it serve customers though the net? i realize this is a > really general question, so links to web resources on these particular >

Re: Frustrated: How to map mouse wheel to PageUp and PageDown?

2004-02-01 Thread Bob Freemer
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:40:25 -0500 Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Freemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My mouse wheel works, but is not as fast as I prefer. I would like > > it to universally do page up and page down instead of scolling by &

Frustrated: How to map mouse wheel to PageUp and PageDown?

2004-02-01 Thread Bob Freemer
I've looked hard on google and in the archives, but can not seem to find directions anywhere. My mouse wheel works, but is not as fast as I prefer. I would like it to universally do page up and page down instead of scolling by lines. It seems this would have the proper effect in all applicati