"bin" is sending file to "jumoba"

2001-03-18 Thread CheowLoon
Hi All, I am getting the following message from my log file "/var/log/uucp/Log" & "/var/log/uucp/Stats", this log files record the transactions of my sendmail, my question is why my system user "bin" is sending file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "/var/log/uucp/Log" uux jaring bin (2001-03-19 07:11:19.75

Re: Having trouble setting up ntp to feed local machines

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- William W. Austin wrote: >Any suggestions (or even a working sample ntp.conf file from someone else doing >this) would be greatly appreciated. My dialup gateway serves ntp to my private clients behind it. When the gateway connects, it shuts down ntpd, runs nt

Re: Enter displayed as black box at end of each line of text file

2001-03-18 Thread Bret Hughes
Lokesh Bhog wrote: > Dear All, > > I am having a problem when i transfer some text files > from linux to windows. When i open some text files in > notepad, I get black box as some funny character at > the end of each line. I guess there is some problem > with the Enter translation. Is there any

Re: Enter displayed as black box at end of each line of text file

2001-03-18 Thread hanfam
There are 2 programs to convert text files between linux and dos. I believe they are called dos2unix and unix2dos try freshmeat for them. I haven't used them for awhile. Linda Hanigan On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Lokesh Bhog wrote: > Dear All, > > I am having a problem when i transfer

Having trouble setting up ntp to feed local machines

2001-03-18 Thread William W. Austin
I have one rh 7.0 box on the internet, syncing to a timeserver with no problem. But I haven't figured out how to set up its conf. files so that the other local machines can use ntpdate to sync to it. It's pretty obvious to me that I keep hosing up the /etc/ntp.conf file on the local machine (I *

Enter displayed as black box at end of each line of text file

2001-03-18 Thread Lokesh Bhog
Dear All, I am having a problem when i transfer some text files from linux to windows. When i open some text files in notepad, I get black box as some funny character at the end of each line. I guess there is some problem with the Enter translation. Is there any solution so that the CR/LF transla

Re: RH 7 won't boot

2001-03-18 Thread Bill Lathan
Michael, I didn't see the beginning of this thread, so I may be off base with this, but ... I had a problem installing 7.0; I elected the command line option, i.e., I just got a prompt upon coming up. I needed to do the "startx" on my own. Upon the "startx" I received a XFree server error which w

Re: Apache not responding on port 80 (from my router only)

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Tomás García Ferrari wrote: >If I try "telnet www.myserver.com 80" from the server itself, it replies ok. >If I try "telnet www.myserver.com 80" through my router, I have a >"Connection closed by foreign host." reply. It seems to be something related >to an ipc

Apache not responding on port 80 (from my router only)

2001-03-18 Thread Tomás García Ferrari
Hello, I am having a very weird problem with Apache. I can not access one of my virtual servers (that's listening on port 80) from my network. From other IPs, Apache reply without problems but from the IP of my router, it doesn't! If I try "telnet www.myserver.com 80" from the server itself, it

Re: RH 7 won't boot

2001-03-18 Thread Michael McLeod
I had the opportunity to try another Hard drive, same problem. Can anybody give me some insight on this strange problem? Thanks Michael Michael McLeod wrote: > The diagnostic utility is one that Western Digital has on their web site. I > ran it again and this time had it write "0's" over the e

Apache on a private network (was Re: Port forwarding & masquerading- RH 7)

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Bob Hartung wrote: > One question about httpd.conf: > I am running the main server as localhost for testing inside the >home network. I am running the server that will have [someday] outside >access as a virtual server. Maybe it should be the other way a

Re: Port forwarding & masquerading - RH 7

2001-03-18 Thread Bob Hartung
David, I will have to compare your ideas and the ipchains rules I have in place. This will take a while as I am new enough at this that I have to continually refer to books etc. I'll let you know in a couple of days - I do have a couple of ideas to pursue. One question about httpd.conf:

Re: CDRs not being recognised!

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Michael, > Happy to help. I'm just sorry that the answer wasn't what you > wanted. Well in a way it was. I'm glad it was a drive problem and not Linux (or my own stupidity) at fault *grin* -- Regards, +---+-+ | Peter Kiem| E

Re: Simple question re processor change

2001-03-18 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
"Bill Lathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently using a MB with a 466MHz Celeron processor. However, > the board can handle up to a 1GHz Pentium III. If I simply replace > the processor in this machine, will Red Hat Workstation Deluxe 7.0 > recognize this with no reinstalltion, etc.?

Re: XFree86 servers under 4.0.1-1 on RH7

2001-03-18 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:45:39AM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: >: > I have no idea. I refuse to use ATI boards. Every time I've run into a >: > machine that has an ATI board, the video board is nothing but trouble. >: > I moved away from A

Re: Simple question re processor change

2001-03-18 Thread K.Deepak
yes of course :-) --deepak-- Bill Lathan wrote: I am currently using a MB with a 466MHz Celeron processor. However, the board can handle up to a 1GHz Pentium III. If I simply replace the processor in this machine, will Red Hat Workstation Deluxe 7.0 recognize this with no reinstalltion, etc.? T

Simple question re processor change

2001-03-18 Thread Bill Lathan
I am currently using a MB with a 466MHz Celeron processor. However, the board can handle up to a 1GHz Pentium III. If I simply replace the processor in this machine, will Red Hat Workstation Deluxe 7.0 recognize this with no reinstalltion, etc.?   TIA, Bill

Re: rpm upgrade problem

2001-03-18 Thread Brian Kuhn
Hi Erik, Whether you decide to go to 3.0.6 or 4.x, read a message that Jeff Johnson at Redhat posted to the RPM list a while back Read it a few times. http://www.execpc.com/~bgkuhn/linux/upgrade_to_rpm_4.html I helped me dig myself out of a hole after I screwed up the RPM 4 install. T

Re: New gdm logo for RHAT?

2001-03-18 Thread Chuck Mead
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, David Talkington spewed into the bitstream: DT>Chuck Mead wrote: DT> DT>>Damn... he's bored again! :-) DT> DT>Idle hands are the ... um ... daemon's playthings? Particularly Jason's hands... he truly does not have enough to do! :-) -- Chuck Mead, csm -AT- moongroup.com, Own

Re: slowly starting Netscape/ new bind ? ... [was: Re: find rpminstalls]

2001-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
... the problem with Netscape's gone: it is perhaps the new bind-stuff I installed some weeks ago being responsible for the fast netscape startups now ... Netscape's a good boy since some weeks, at least the problem concerning the slow start of it seems to be resolved ... Wolfgang -- html-mail s

Re: New gdm logo for RHAT?

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Chuck Mead wrote: >Damn... he's bored again! :-) Idle hands are the ... um ... daemon's playthings? - -- David Talkington http://www.spotnet.org PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment

Re: rpm upgrade problem

2001-03-18 Thread Erik Mathisen
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > Convert your RPM database to db3 format Ok, I did install db3 when I upgraded, it was one of those dependency issues. Could someone enlighten me on how to convert my rpm database to db3? Thanks so much, Erik ___

Re: Xwindows

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Matt Kraner wrote: > >> Were is a good place to get software for Xwindows >> >> >It depends on what you want. Good places to start looking: >http://www.linuxapps.com >http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/software.html >ht

Re: [Humor] New gdm logo for RHAT?

2001-03-18 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Jason Costomiris wrote: > Well, I thought to myself, "Self, what better place to get a new gdm logo > from" I grabbed an image from one of their older posters and modified > it. The result: > > http://www.jasons.org/images/obey.png So you want to obey us, Jason? Cool.

Re: New gdm logo for RHAT?

2001-03-18 Thread Chuck Mead
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, David Talkington spewed into the bitstream: DT>Jason Costomiris wrote: DT> DT>>http://www.jasons.org/images/obey.png DT>> DT>>A little gimp-work on the original, borrowed an image from the redhat-logos DT>>package, dropped the RHAT logotype onto it, and tada! DT> DT>Not exact

Re: Xwindows

2001-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Matt Kraner wrote: > Were is a good place to get software for Xwindows > > It depends on what you want. Good places to start looking: http://www.linuxapps.com http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/software.html http://freshmeat.net http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html http://www.vlu

Re: [Humor] New gdm logo for RHAT?

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Jason Costomiris wrote: >http://www.jasons.org/images/obey.png > >A little gimp-work on the original, borrowed an image from the redhat-logos >package, dropped the RHAT logotype onto it, and tada! Not exactly subtle, is it, JC? - -- David Talkington http://w

Re: rpm upgrade problem

2001-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Erik Mathisen wrote: > Hi, > I just upgraded to rpm 4 and glibc 2.2 at the same time. I had to > download a few other rpms to satisfy some dependencies. After the > upgrade, according to rpm -qa, I do not have any packages installed. I > tried a rpm --rebuilddb, but

Re: slowly starting Netscape/ new bind ? ... [was: Re: find rpminstalls]

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > >> I had a problem with Netscape until about 2 months ago or so: when I >> started Netscape *after* having opened and then closed down my telephone >> line it took about 5-10 (!!) minutes for the complete start of the >> browser... wh

[Humor] New gdm logo for RHAT?

2001-03-18 Thread Jason Costomiris
So there I was, customizing my gdm configuration this afternoon. I'm enjoying using Wolverine, and hope the final 7.1 release will be equally impressive. I had been browsing a few random sites earlier today, and found http://www.obeygiant.com/. Go have a look, pretty funny, and some interestin

Re: Port forwarding & masquerading - RH 7

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Bob Hartung wrote: > >5. Ideas and suggestions appreciated. It may be that my >problem is with the Virtual Server portion of httpd.conf Bob - I know it doesn't address your question, but I do recommend that if you're just getting started, you upgrade to a 2

Re: slowly starting Netscape/ new bind ? ... [was: Re: find rpminstalls]

2001-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
It works here ... :) But 'til now I didn't succeed in changing this command to a value that it produces an output which shows the last installed rpms first ... which could be useful ... Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Message from Bre

Xwindows

2001-03-18 Thread Matt Kraner
Were is a good place to get software for Xwindows ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

rpm upgrade problem

2001-03-18 Thread Erik Mathisen
Hi, I just upgraded to rpm 4 and glibc 2.2 at the same time. I had to download a few other rpms to satisfy some dependencies. After the upgrade, according to rpm -qa, I do not have any packages installed. I tried a rpm --rebuilddb, but it didnt fix the problem, still no packages install

Re: slowly starting Netscape/ new bind ? ... [was: Re: find rpm installs]

2001-03-18 Thread Bret Hughes
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Just would like to explain why I wanted to find the install date of these > packages (writing all the following just from memory ... not sure whether > it was all exactly as I will describe it now ...): > > I had a problem with Netscape until about 2 months ago or so:

Re: help needed - print server in linux

2001-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, K.Deepak wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to set up a print server in linux. > Since i am a novice user in linux , can anyone help me out by explaining > out a step by step procedure. I have a 200 node network . This network > contains a mixture of Ope

Re: Forget HTML mail, how about "(No subject)"?

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Michael Burger wrote: >If you're going to post a message to a support list, the very least >you can do is take 3 seconds to type in a subject line, indicating >what the message is about, for heaven's sake. And while I note that most folks on this list are good

Re: (no subject)

2001-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Shaul Cohen wrote: > I am trying to set up a .forward file with this line: > > test, "|/ftp/pub/test/.autoreplay.py" > > but I get this error: > > - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > "|/ftp/pub/test/.autoreplay.py -user" > (reason: 550 Unsafe for

wu-ftp taking long

2001-03-18 Thread Pieter De Wit
Hello Guys and Gals, Has anybody had a problem with wu-ftp where the connection is accepted by the server and then about 1-2 mins later, the server send the "login in now" command... ? This even happens on the LAN side of things...try connecting to ftp://ftp.railroad.co.za BTW no anonymous acces

Re: XFree86 servers under 4.0.1-1 on RH7

2001-03-18 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:45:39AM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: : > I have no idea. I refuse to use ATI boards. Every time I've run into a : > machine that has an ATI board, the video board is nothing but trouble. : > I moved away from ATI and used Matrox, and later Nvidia boards, and ha

Re: find rpm installs

2001-03-18 Thread Bret Hughes
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Bret, > this doesn't work here: > # > $ rpm -qf `find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -14` > findutils-4.1.5-4 > findutils-4.1.5-4 > ## > > > [minutes later ...] > oops,Bret, just found

slowly starting Netscape/ new bind ? ... [was: Re: find rpm installs]

2001-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Just would like to explain why I wanted to find the install date of these packages (writing all the following just from memory ... not sure whether it was all exactly as I will describe it now ...): I had a problem with Netscape until about 2 months ago or so: when I started Netscape *after* havi

help needed - print server in linux

2001-03-18 Thread K.Deepak
Dear All, I would like to set up a print server in linux. Since i am a novice user in linux , can anyone help me out by explaining out a step by step procedure. I have a 200 node network . This network contains a mixture of Operating system. RedHat Linux 6.2, 7.0, Windows 95/

Re: find rpm installs

2001-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Message from Michael Burger on Sun, 18 Mar 2001, 11:49 <-0400>: > rpm -qa --last | less will paginate the output for you. yep ... thanks, Michael. Wolfang > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:34:44 +0100 (CET), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > >oops,Bret, just found some solution: > >#

Re: RH 7 won't boot

2001-03-18 Thread Michael McLeod
The diagnostic utility is one that Western Digital has on their web site. I ran it again and this time had it write "0's" over the entire drive and then read them, no errors were found. Since this destroyed all data I tried loading RH6, this went off without a hitch and ran fine. So, then I tri

Forget HTML mail, how about "(No subject)"?

2001-03-18 Thread Michael Burger
Ok...I know we've been going round and round about HTML email. That doesn't bother me as much, since the newest Pine implements HTML filtering/viewing capabilities. What bothers me, and will get your message dropped directly into my bitbucket, is a subject of "No subject". If you're going to po

Re: find rpm installs

2001-03-18 Thread Michael Burger
rpm -qa --last | less will paginate the output for you. On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:34:44 +0100 (CET), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >oops,Bret, just found some solution: > >rpm -qa --last >## >I think that's it ... although it gives a bit too much of output ..

Re: XFree86 servers under 4.0.1-1 on RH7

2001-03-18 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have no idea. I refuse to use ATI boards. Every time I've run into a > machine that has an ATI board, the video board is nothing but trouble. > I moved away from ATI and used Matrox, and later Nvidia boards, and have > had a much happier time si

(no subject)

2001-03-18 Thread Shaul Cohen
I am trying to set up a .forward file with this line: test, "|/ftp/pub/test/.autoreplay.py" but I get this error: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|/ftp/pub/test/.autoreplay.py -user" (reason: 550 Unsafe for mailing to programs) (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Port forwarding & masquerading - RH 7

2001-03-18 Thread Bob Hartung
Hi again, I have a successful RH7 (updates and errata installed) masquerade server on a DSL line. I now want to set up an internal apache server and be able to access this from the outside [My IPS approves this for test purposes and has assigned a domain name that will resolve - at least when i

Re: find rpm installs

2001-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Bret, this doesn't work here: # $ rpm -qf `find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -14` findutils-4.1.5-4 findutils-4.1.5-4 ## [minutes later ...] oops,Bret, just found some solution: rpm -qa

Re: XFree86 servers under 4.0.1-1 on RH7 - RESOLVED

2001-03-18 Thread Bob Hartung
Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:30:30AM -0600, Bob Hartung wrote: >: Thanks! Can I then assume that my ATI Graphic Ultra Plus is not >: supported by the Mach-32 server since Xconfigurator will not start up X >: to test it? > > I have no idea. I refuse to use ATI boards.

Re: XFree86 servers under 4.0.1-1 on RH7

2001-03-18 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:30:30AM -0600, Bob Hartung wrote: : Thanks! Can I then assume that my ATI Graphic Ultra Plus is not : supported by the Mach-32 server since Xconfigurator will not start up X : to test it? I have no idea. I refuse to use ATI boards. Every time I've run into a mac

Re: XFree86 servers under 4.0.1-1 on RH7

2001-03-18 Thread Bob Hartung
Thanks, I was unsure if the XFree86-3.3x series drivers would work with the XFree86-4.0.1 server so I did not try to install Mach_64. Bob Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > Bob Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So I pulled out an older ATI Ultra + card. Now my problem > > is this. Wh

Re: mounted new disappear when reboot

2001-03-18 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
"upendra dhoble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >put that mount command with drive specification in system startup > file which is in rc.d dir No. Put it in your /etc/fstab -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMA

Re: XFree86 servers under 4.0.1-1 on RH7

2001-03-18 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Bob Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I pulled out an older ATI Ultra + card. Now my problem > is this. When I look at the RedHat RPMS I do not see any > servers listed as XFree86-Mach64-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm. Are the > servers numbered as they were in the XFree86-3.3* series? If you take

Re: Wolverine Download (Still)

2001-03-18 Thread Bret Hughes
David Krings wrote: > Hi ! > > I have the same byte sizes here and toasted my 650 MB CDRWs with no > problem. The first disc is 646.8 MB big which fits fine on any 650 MB CD, > the second disc is even "smaller", so there is really now reason to worry. > > Have fun with Wolverine

Re: find rpm installs

2001-03-18 Thread Bret Hughes
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I'm trying to find rpm-packages that I installed on my machine (Red Hat > 6.1) the last some days: > > Quote from 'Maximum RPM' (1997): > - > Finding Recently Installed Packages, Part I > > You rememb

find rpm installs

2001-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
I'm trying to find rpm-packages that I installed on my machine (Red Hat 6.1) the last some days: Quote from 'Maximum RPM' (1997): - Finding Recently Installed Packages, Part I You remember installing a new package a few days ago

Re: CDRs not being recognised!

2001-03-18 Thread Michael Burger
Happy to help. I'm just sorry that the answer wasn't what you wanted. On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:25:09 -, Peter Kiem wrote: >> Before you do, make sure that the drive, itself, hasn't gone >> south...try a 650 in it, first, to be sure. > >Yeah, it is a brand new drive and the dummy burn at 8x wo

Re: Changing when cron changes the day...-solved

2001-03-18 Thread M. Neidorff
Thanks that did it. Mark At 08:09 PM 3/17/01 -0500, you wrote: >4am is default (more ideal for server operators, though). > >/etc/crontab ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: CDRs not being recognised!

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Kiem
> Before you do, make sure that the drive, itself, hasn't gone > south...try a 650 in it, first, to be sure. Yeah, it is a brand new drive and the dummy burn at 8x worked fine with the 650 CD but failed miserably with the 700. I guess it really is the media after all. Thanks for your help Mike.

Re: CDRs not being recognised!

2001-03-18 Thread Michael Burger
Before you do, make sure that the drive, itself, hasn't gone south...try a 650 in it, first, to be sure. On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:05:16 +1000, Peter Kiem wrote: >Hi Mike, > >> First, you need to check with Creative, and find out if that drive will >> work with the 700MB media. Most of the time, i

Re: Install DHCP

2001-03-18 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:36:43 Matt Kraner wrote: >How do I go about installing DHCP, I'm using Pump and I'm getting error >with it I'm always having to restart the computer to get it to get back on >the cable modem. You don't have to restart to get DHCP to work. As root, just do this: ifdown e

Re: up2date

2001-03-18 Thread Silviu Cojocaru
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, at 23:50 (GMT -0600), Nitebirdz wrote: > As far as I know, you can only run up2date from an X session. Yes, you can > pass certain options to the command but it will still rely on X to display. All the above is FALSE. up2date can be run from pure console without a hitch (yo

Re: Wolverine doesn't like 20GB disk

2001-03-18 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 18 March 2001 16:43, you wrote: > Robin: > > Best to send this into Buzilla. There are some Redhat folks > on the list > but they will probably tell you the same thing. That way it > is documented and should be addressed hopefully before the > next release. Will do! -Robin. --

Re: mounted new disappear when reboot

2001-03-18 Thread upendra dhoble
hi put that mount command with drive specification in system startup file which is in rc.d dir bye >From: "Wesley Jay Deypalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: mounted new disappear when reboot >Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 07:56:56 > >Hi, > >I j

RE: Wolverine doesn't like 20GB disk

2001-03-18 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Robin: Best to send this into Buzilla. There are some Redhat folks on the list but they will probably tell you the same thing. That way it is documented and should be addressed hopefully before the next release. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ Eddie Strohmier -Original Message-

Re: Wolverine doesn't like 20GB disk

2001-03-18 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 15 March 2001 23:30, Robin Atwood wrote: > To celebrate my new cable connection I thought I would try an FTP install > of Wolverine. However, it complained my 20GB disk had an incorrect geometry > and would not allow me to make a new partition on it. I always use cfdisk > and have nev