Re: Hard drive identification

2002-08-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, How to check the remaining capacity, partition information, system type, etc. Thanks Stephen At 06:45 PM 8/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: >on Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:55 AM -0700, Robert Vaughn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > How do I identify hard drive type, brand, model, IDE, SCSI? I've > > l

Re: Software RAID 5 and hard discs connection question

2002-08-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Nick, I have another question on partition of hard disc to make 5 hard discs and expect to have your advice. I have only 3 hard discs 2 x ATA133, 40 G 1 x ATA100, 40 G Which 2 hard discs shall be partitioned? Is it equal size? Another question is I am compelled to plug a hard disc to the

Re: Software RAID 5 and hard discs connection question

2002-08-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Nick, At 01:36 PM 8/15/2002 +0100, Nick Lindsell wrote: >>The 3 hard discs for this test are of 40G storage, 2M cache and 7,200 >>rpm. One problem remains unsolved is my old motherboard used only >>supporting ATA33. > >You may run into bios limitations on an old board seeing drives of that

Re: Software RAID 5 and hard discs connection question

2002-08-15 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Nick, Thanks for your response At 10:52 AM 8/15/2002 +0100, you wrote: >At 17:26 15/08/2002 +0800, you wrote: >>Proposed setup :- >>Hardware available >>2 ATA133 hard discs >>1 ATA100 hard disc >> >>1 ATA 133 hard disc connected to IDE (primary) slot of the motherboard as >>MASTE

Software RAID 5 and hard discs connection question

2002-08-15 Thread Stephen Liu
above connection be OK? If hard discs of different spec are used, does it affect the RAID performance? Your advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Stephen Liu -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Location of Apache directory/folder

2002-01-08 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon Now it is not under /usr/local/apache anymore as starting installing it from tarball Thanks Stephen On Tuesday 08 January 2002 20:23, you wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2002 07:13 am, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi All People, > > > > RH7.2 > > > >

Location of Apache directory/folder

2002-01-08 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, RH7.2 I have RPM Apache but could not locate its directory. rpm -q apache indicates that it has been installed. locate apache could not find it How to locate its foloder/directory Thanks B.R. Stephen ___ Redhat-list mailing l

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gregg, Thanks for your detail information. At 06:15 AM 1/7/2002 -0800, you wrote: >ps -A | grep dhcpcd >or, alternatively, ps -C dhcpcd # ps -A | grep dhcpcd Did not work. # ps -C dhcpcd PID TTY TIME CMDcd What did they indicate ? >To see if dhcpcd will start-up on bootup, lo

DHCP configuration to improve detection on dynamic IP

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, Kindly advise a simple and straightward method to configure network settings in using DHCP to improve the detection on dynamic IP address. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listma

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Lot of thanks for your further advice. At 09:19 PM 1/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Using emacs to edit a 3 line file is a little bit of over kill, but edit >it any way you like. Which editor shall I use ? vi ? > > >However, I would have expected dhcpd or pump to replace that entry > > >

RE: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
without waiting. B.R. Stephen >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Liu >Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 9:08 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem > > >Hi Robert

Re: RedHat 7.2 install problem

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
, clean your CDRom and run installation again. B.R Stephen Liu At 10:34 AM 1/7/2002 -0600, you wrote: >I was wondering if any of you have run into Red install giving you the >error message of: > >/mnt/source/Red/RPMS/glibc-common-2.2.4-13.i386.rpm >is not found > >This h

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-06 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, At 12:19 AM 1/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Monday 07 January 2002 12:07 am, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > There are 3 setting in /etc/resolv.conf > > nameserver 192.168.252.200 > > nameserver 210.0.1

RE: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-06 Thread Stephen Liu
t for DHCP? I did not set up the host for DHCP because only dynamic IP address is provided by my ISP. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Liu >Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:40 PM &

Re: Multimedia - CDRom question.

2002-01-06 Thread Stephen Liu
/cdrom1 > > - click OK to close the window > > > > A "freedb submissions disabled" warning window pop-up > > - - - freedb submissions via SMTP has been disabled because E-mail profile > > youselected is imcomplete. Please review your E-mail setting and try aga

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gregg, Thanks for your response At 07:09 AM 1/4/2002 -0800, you wrote: >What type of broadband connection? dynamic IP via optic fibre >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 looks OK to me. > >Is there a line in your /etc/hosts file that says, >"127.0.0.1 localhost" ? Preferably th

RE: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Liu
alhost" ? Preferably the first line? >Do you have dhcpcd running on startup? > >Regards, >Gregg > > > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hi Justin, Thanks for your response. > > > With broadband conn

Re: Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ed, Thanks for your prompt response. I am not familiar with Linux in this respect. (only familiar with NetMeeting in Win which is rather easy in data/files transfer) Could you please throw me some more light or any pointer ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen At 07:50 PM 1/4/2002 -0600, y

Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People. Can I make use of lan hub to connect a Win box and Linux box for files/data transfer ? If yes, then how. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Liu
to make. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu At 01:12 PM 1/3/2002 -0600, you wrote: >If you mean that it takes forever and a day to realize that it's not on >the network, than pass a timeout value by adding the line: > >DHCPCDARGS="-t 10" > >to the file /etc/sys

Re: Make : tex Command

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, I downloaded jadetex-3.11-4.noarch.rpm from Internet and got it installed. Thanks for your advice. B.R. Stephen At 10:59 PM 1/2/2002 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >This should do it: >wget updates.redhat.com:/7.2/en/os/noarch/jadetex-3.11-4.noarch.rpm > >That

Multimedia - CDRom question.

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Liu
he window A "freedb submissions disabled" warning window pop-up - - - freedb submissions via SMTP has been disabled because E-mail profile youselected is imcomplete. Please review your E-mail setting and try again - - - Kindly advise where I have to change. KMail ? Thanks in adva

Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA (Solved)

2002-01-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, I downloaded fresh 1) alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.i386.rpm 2) alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.athlon.rpm 3) alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.src.rpm from Internet # rpm --rebuilddb # rpm -ivh alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.i386.rpm Installation went on without problem then I copied your script t

Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, RH 7.2 Each time on booting when it comes to detecting "Bringup interface eth0" it takes quite long time to detect it, disregarding whether broadband cable connected or disconnected. Is there any way to accelerate its detection. Thanks in advance. B.R. S

Re: Make : tex Command

2002-01-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, I have 2 Linux boxes, one running Mandrake 8.1 and another RH 7.2. Now I understand that I can't mix use of the package. RH7.2 I found tetex-1.0.7-30.i386.rpm in RH7.2 CD and performed following test # rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom1/RedHat/RPMS/tetex-1.0.7-30.i386.rpm error: failed dependen

Re: Make : tex Command

2002-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu
m. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen At 11:49 PM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Sunday 30 December 2001 11:38 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi Devon, > > > > At 10:57 PM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: > > >Out

Reading UDF on CDRW problem

2002-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu
following command; mount /dev/cdrom -t udf /mnt/cdrom or mount /dev/cdrom1 -t udf /mnt/cdrom mounting CDRW on CDWriter desktop icon only reading following 2 files; - autorun.inf - udrinst.exe Any suggestion on modifying /etc/fstab for remedy. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu

Re: Make : tex Command

2001-12-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, At 10:57 PM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Out of curiosity, is there a reason you aren't using the precompiled rpm >package? I only found it on RH website and could not locate a RPM package there. >$ rpm -q tetex >tetex-1.0.7-30 at root / rpm -q telex package telex is not installed

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, At 02:10 PM 12/29/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Try manually running 'depmod -ae'. If you still have unresolved symbols, >then the package that you downloaded isn't right for the kernel you're >running. Get the src.rpm and 'rpm --rebuild' it. You'll need the >kernel-source rpm package ins

Re: Make : tex Command

2001-12-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, I am trying to rebuild jadetex-3.11-4.src.rpm the update for RH 7.2 Thanks B.R. Stephen At 09:03 AM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:24 am, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi All Peop

Make : tex Command

2001-12-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, RH 7.2 When I rebuild src.rpm it prompted Make : tex : can't find command What is this command ? Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Cannot mount CDWriter

2001-12-29 Thread Stephen Liu
} & (741) if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then /sbin/getkey i && touch /var/run/confirm fi wait Any suggestion ? Thanks B.Regards Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Thanks for your response. At 01:40 AM 12/27/2001 -0500, you wrote: >You're not looking for the contents of /misc >You want to see the contents of: >/lib/modules/ `uname -r` /misc/ >which should be something like: >/lib/modules/2.4.9-13/misc/ I found it now according to Robert's advice

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, It worked now. The list of sound card drivers is at /lib/modules/2.4.9-13/misc I editted /etc/module.conf additing my soundcard driver via8233 /etc/module.conf now looks as : * * * alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias eth0 8139too alias usb-controller usb-uhci # ALSA native

RE: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice. it worked B.R. Stephen At 11:28 PM 12/26/2001 -0800, you wrote: > > >The command you want is: > > You're not looking for the contents of /misc > > You want to see the contents of: > > /lib/modules/ `uname -r` /misc/ > > which should be something like: > > /li

Re: Building RPMs

2001-12-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ed, At 01:53 PM 12/27/2001 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:52:03PM -0200, Fernando Lozano wrote: > > > > Can anyone point me to a quick guide on how to build am RPM backage > > where you do not have the sources (just binaries) or when the sources > > "are the binaries", like for

Re: How to open/view .vcf file

2001-12-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Tony, Thanks for your information in detail and time spent At 10:14 AM 12/27/2001 -0500, you wrote: >"Stephen Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How to open/view .vcf file, which software to be used ? > >Your mail reader (Eudora) does not supp

How to open/view .vcf file

2001-12-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, How to open/view .vcf file, which software to be used ? B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Thanks for your advice >The command you want is: >ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/snd-card-* >(the back ticks around `uname -r` are necessary) I first tried /lib/modules/ uname -r /misc/snd-card-* without back ticks around 'uname -r' it prompted Bash : /lib/modules : is a directory

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, At 08:46 AM 12/26/2001 -0800, you wrote: >On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > I copied your module.conf file and reconfig it. Now my module.conf > file > > looks as follows : > > > > alias eth0 8139too > > alias usb-controller us

Re: How to mount Win2K partition

2001-12-26 Thread Stephen Liu
27;t need to recompile unless you didn't compile support for vfat >file system.I think that comes default in all of the RH 7.2 installations. > >Hope this helps, >Kevin > > >>From: Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [E

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, Thanks for your further advice. At 11:54 PM 12/24/2001 -0800, you wrote: >OK. The machine I have running ALSA is up now, so my /etc/modules.conf >includes: > ># ALSA native device support >alias char-major-116 snd >alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via8233 >post-install sound-card-0 /bin/aum

Re: checking md5sum - RH7.2

2001-12-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Thanks and Merry X'mas B.R. Stephen At 05:42 PM 12/21/2001 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Friday 21 December 2001 11:50 am, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi Devon, > > > >Do the upgrades all at once. Like: &g

Re: RAID question-ATA133 hard disc and hard discs connection

2001-12-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ed Baily, Thanks for your advice. At 03:58 PM 12/25/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Stephen> I have some further RAID questions to ask : > >I suggest doing a google search on "RAID", and doing some reading to learn >more about RAID... Yes, you are correct. I already made intensive browsing on Inter

Re: RAID card - Promise ULTRA100 TX2 ATA/100

2001-12-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ed, Thanks for your response At 11:52 AM 12/25/2001 -0600, you wrote: >The card I used was a the TX2 without RAID for the $28 price. I used Linux >software mirroring and hdparm reported speeds of >30MB/sec using my 2 IBM >40GB ATA100 40GB drives. This was on a Duron 800 processor with 512MB

RAID card - Promise ULTRA100 TX2 ATA/100

2001-12-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ed, Merry X'mas As recommended I browsed following site prior to placing a purchasing order for RAID card : http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc/169770.html and http://www.promise.com/Products/Default.htm I am a little bid lost. Promise ULTRA100 TX2 ATA/100 PCI offered by "mwave.com" a

Re: WinFast S3600Pro MX graphic card

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Liu
Thanks Gordon, B.R. Stephen At 11:44 PM 12/23/2001 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > At time of installation NVidia was selected but I was only allowed to > > select 24Mb colour depth. > >Generally, 32bits is only used for video processor

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, Merry X'mas At 11:42 PM 12/23/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Yeah, but that doesn't answer whether you downloaded a binary rpm >(.i386.rpm) or rebuilt a source rpm (.src.rpm). Sorry. I misunderstood your requested information. I have both of them downloaded but only installed .i386rpm, w

RAID question-ATA133 hard disc and hard discs connection

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Liu
question for 3 hard discs c) What does it mean "Low ratio of ECC (Parity) disks to data disks means high efficiency" ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

WinFast S3600Pro MX graphic card

2001-12-22 Thread Stephen Liu
rectify it or where to download the driver for my video card. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, (distro : RH7.2) At 08:06 PM 12/21/2001 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Now I have a new kernel-2.4.9-13 running and > > alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.i586.rpm installed. > > > > But I still could not get it works. How t

Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, Now I have a new kernel-2.4.9-13 running and alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.i586.rpm installed. But I still could not get it works. How to make it executed. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: checking md5sum - RH7.2

2001-12-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, At 08:21 AM 12/21/2001 -0500, you wrote: > > When came to > > up2date-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm > > up2date-gnome-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm > > it prompted > > > > # rpm -Fvh /mnt/hda5/RH7.2-up2date/up2date-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm > > error: failed dependencies: > > up2date = 2.7.2 is ne

Re: checking md5sum - RH7.2

2001-12-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Using rpm -Fvh I upgraded successfully following software without problem python-xmlrpc-1.5.1-7.x.3.i386.rpm rhn_register-2.7.2-7.x.8.i386.rpm rhn_register-gnome-2.7.2-7.x.8.i386.rpm When came to up2date-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm up2date-gnome-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm it prompted # rpm

Re: checking md5sum - RH7.2

2001-12-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Thanks Devon B.R. Stephen At 12:31 AM 12/21/2001 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Thursday 20 December 2001 09:45 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi Devon, > > > > > kernel-headers-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm > > > > >

Re: checking md5sum - RH7.2

2001-12-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Thanks for your detail advice. > > athlon: > > kernel-2.4.9-13.athlon.rpm > > kernel-smp-2.4.9-13.athlon.rpm > >Unless you have a dual processor Athlon system, forget the kernel-smp >package. If you don't have an Athlon system, forget all the Athlon >kernels. Yes. I have AMD Athlon

Re: checking md5sum - RH7.2

2001-12-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Thanks for your response and support. Now I have following RPMs downloaded ; python-xmlrpc-1.5.1-7.x.3.i386.rpm rhn_register-2.7.2-7.x.8.i386.rpm rhn_register-gnome-2.7.2-7.x.8.i386.rpm up2date-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm up2date-gnome-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm SRPMS: kernel-2.4.9-13.src.rpm

Re: checking md5sum - RH7.2

2001-12-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Thanks for your advice. At 07:41 AM 12/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: > > when I tried checksum in Console window by performing > > > > $ rpm -K --nopgp *rpm > > > > it prompted > > > > bash: $: command not found > >Did you copy and paste the command from somewhere? Yes. I copied and past

RE: CDRom fails to mount

2001-12-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Thanks Gordon Stephen At 11:58 PM 12/19/2001 -0800, you wrote: >On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > At 08:06 AM 12/18/2001 -0800, you wrote: > > > > Any pointer to recompile the module ? > > > > > >Won't be required if you update the kern

checking md5sum - RH7.2

2001-12-20 Thread Stephen Liu
$ rpm -K --nopgp *rpm it prompted bash: $: command not found Kindly advise 1) where can I download md5sum rpm software (I could not locate rpmfinder URL) ? 2) Is the abovementioned package sufficient for upgrade the kernel ? 3) Where can I locate the "header" rpm ? Thanks in ad

Re: RAID question

2001-12-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Thank Ed B.R. Stephen At 11:06 AM 12/19/2001 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:30:10AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > > Whether a special controller with 3 channels for connecting 3 hard > > > discs is > > > > needed ? > >You'll t

Re: RAID question

2001-12-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Leonard, Thanks. I got it. B.R. Stephen At 03:10 PM 12/19/2001 +0100, you wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > > Is RAID 0+1 similar to RAID 5 in function/performance ? > > I think I answered this question in my last post in this thread. > > Bye

Re: RAID question

2001-12-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ed, Thanks for your detail answer to my questions and time spent. At 06:41 AM 12/19/2001 -0600, you wrote: >On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 23:04, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > At 06:40 AM 12/18/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > >RAID 5 is striping + mirroring. I recommend that this no

Re: RAID question

2001-12-19 Thread Stephen Liu
s invaluable. > >James Hartley > > > >Ed Wilts wrote: >> >>On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 23:27, Stephen Liu wrote: >> >>> >>>One additional question I expect to ask, in my case, whether it is >>>advisable to apply RAID to build the Web Server s

RE: CDRom fails to mount

2001-12-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Thierry Thanks for your advice. My CDRom is working now. B.R. Stephen At 09:37 AM 12/19/2001 +, you wrote: >I had this problem > >do a "modprobe ide-cd" before mounting the cd and it should work > >hth ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PR

RE: CDRom fails to mount

2001-12-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, At 08:06 AM 12/18/2001 -0800, you wrote: > > Any pointer to recompile the module ? > >Won't be required if you update the kernel package. In any case, I'd >thought that 'depmod -ae' fixed the problem, without the need to >recompile. depmod -a worked for me Not depmod -ac Not d

Re: Fwd: Re: RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, Thanks for your advice. At 08:04 AM 12/18/2001 -0800, you wrote: >On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > 1) > > # e2fsck -c /dev/hda6 > > e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > > /dev/hda6 is mounted. > > > > WARNING!

Re: RAID question

2001-12-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Thanks for your detail information. At 06:40 AM 12/18/2001 -0600, you wrote: >RAID 5 is striping + mirroring. I recommend that this not be done on >IDE drives unless you've invested in extra controllers. You need at >least 3 drives to make a RAID 5 set. Whether a special controller with 3

RE: CDRom fails to mount

2001-12-18 Thread Stephen Liu
t;508.966.5170 - Fax >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Email > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Liu >Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:04 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: CDRom fails to mount > > >Hi All Peop

Re: CDRom fails to mount

2001-12-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jesus, Thanks for your response. At 08:21 AM 12/18/2001 -0600, you wrote: >Can you mount it manually usng two options? > >mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom No. # mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device >Any errors in the /var/log/messages file? There is a good chan

CDRom fails to mount

2001-12-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, After re-installing RH7.2, CDRom fails to mount # mount /mnt/cdrom/ mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device # ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 18 19:46 cdrom -> /dev/hdc # vi /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 LABEL=/boo

Fwd: Re: RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-18 Thread Stephen Liu
use SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? (no) What will be the proper commands to check 1) hard disc 2) Video card 3) cdrom 4) cdwriter Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen >Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:43:24 +0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PR

Re: RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, Thanks for your advice. I am preparing to perform a test on the hardware of my computer. One thing amazing me is it is a brand-new computer including its components, AMD CPU, motherboard, DDR Ram, hard disc, CD-Writer, Vedio card, etc. Win ME works fine on it (I have another hard

Re: RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Thanks Mike Stephen At 10:32 PM 12/17/2001 +, you wrote: >Hi Stephen, > > > Thanks for your advice. >Most folk thank me for Not giving advice :-) > > > 1) How to correct LIL- to boot Linux >There is an option in the LILO.conf (?) file to force use of LBA32, it is >something to do with using

Re: RAID question

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Leonard, Lot of thanks for your detail information and time I shall digest those documentation first before finalizing my way to go.RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 5 , etc.? My plan is to build a Web Server using Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc. to experience its function. I hesitate whether I should

Re: RAID question

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
;On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:32:20AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > > I am using 2th Max 8KHA motherboard. Unfortunately it has only one FDD1 > > channel for ATA100 hard disc. Additionally it has 2 ATA33 IDE channels > > (altogether 3 channels). If I add an ATA100 contro

Re: RAID question

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, At 11:06 AM 12/17/2001 -0600, you wrote: >I picked up a Promise TX2 ATA/100 controller from http://www.mwave.com for >less >than $30 and added 2 new ATA100 40GB drives to it. I am using 2th Max 8KHA motherboard. Unfortunately it has only one FDD1 channel for ATA100 hard disc. Additionall

Re: RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Thanks B.R. Stephen At 09:02 AM 12/17/2001 -0600, you wrote: >On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:55:13 +0800 >Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for your continuous support and time spent. The problem is now > > solved by re-installi

Re: RAID question

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Leonard, Thanks for your response and advice. At 03:25 PM 12/17/2001 +0100, you wrote: > The use of RAID 0 with stripes on a single disk is pointless. You want to >stripe to gain performance. But if you use stripes on a single disk you will >probably even loose some performance due to the ov

Re: RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Thanks for your continuous support and time spent. The problem is now solved by re-installing RH7.2. But I am still interested to find out its cause and its remedy for future use. On Monday 17 December 2001 22:18, you wrote: > Does a bootdisk work? If so, it's probably a geometry mismat

RAID question

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, Is RH7.2 coming with software RAID Can I make 4 (four) partitions in the same hard disc and intall RAID 0 and RAID 1 to it. Where can I find relevant documentation ? If I am wrong please correct me Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu

Re: RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon At 12:17 AM 12/17/2001 -0800, you wrote: >On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > I started to boot RH7.2 at single mode (linux single). The PC halted > after ; > > > > Enable SWAP space : [OK] > > sh - 2.05# > >Halted like you couldn&#

Graphic resolution problem

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
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Re: Some questions on hardware

2001-12-17 Thread Stephen Liu
D creator 5, Win on CD, etc (all for M$Win). But I am not sure in Linux. Any guy on the list can shed some light ? B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-16 Thread Stephen Liu
wrote: >On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > INIT : Switching to runlevel : 3 > > INIT : Sending processes to TERM signal > > tStarting automount : No Mountpoint Defined [OK] > > Starting lpd : No printers Defined[OK] > > Starting Wine

Re: RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-16 Thread Stephen Liu
> > Starting Wine [Failed] > > > > then the PC halted. > > > > I force-re-set (re-started) the PC. It halted again at the same point. > > > > Any remedy or pointer ? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > &

Re: RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-16 Thread Stephen Liu
problem with KDE started (default). My questions are ; 1) How to correct LIL- to boot Linux 2) What are the advantage and disadvantage between LILO and Drub Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen At 12:01 PM 12/16/2001 -0600, you wrote: >On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:25:32 +0800 >Stephen Liu &

RH 7.2 fails to re-start after installation

2001-12-16 Thread Stephen Liu
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How to mount Win2K partition

2001-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
shortcut to activate "ntfs" support in kernel in stead of recompiling it from the very beginning. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

How to config fstab to read udf with CD-writer

2001-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, I made following adjustment to /etc/fstab trying to make CDWriter to read udf and iso files without success 1) Adjustment No.1 made to /etc/fstab /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660,udf noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 2) Adjustment No. 2 made to /etc/fstab /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom

How to config fstab to read udf in CDRW

2001-12-13 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All, Instead of making following commands on Console Window ; modprobe udf mount /dev/cdrow -t udf /mnt/cdrow kindly advise how to config "fstab" so that CDRW can be detected automatically, when inserted, to read udf files. Thanks in advance. B.R. S

Re: grub.conf

2001-12-04 Thread Stephen Liu
; from the starting screen, I can delete following lines from grub.conf to achieve my aim > > > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) > > >root (hd0,5) > > >kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda6 hdc=ide-scsi > > >initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.

Re: how to unsubscribe

2001-12-04 Thread Stephen Liu
--- >From: "Stephen Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:38 AM >Subject: Re: how to unsubscribe > > > > Hi, > > > > Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with following in the > > subject

Re: how to unsubscribe

2001-12-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with following in the subject and body unsubscribe yourpassword Cheers Stephen At 04:40 PM 12/4/2001 +0530, you wrote: >after i subscribe redha-list my inbox is filled by lot of mails from >redhat-list. so i want to unsubscribe from redhat-list. an

Re: What shall be the easy way upgrading kernel

2001-12-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Thanks Gordon Stephen On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:59, you wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > What shall be the easy way (short cut) to upgrade the kernel of RH7.2 to > > kernel 2.4.9-13 instead of going through the complete procedure starting > > from

Re: grub.conf

2001-12-03 Thread Stephen Liu
gz > > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) > >root (hd0,5) > >kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda6 > > hdc=ide-scsi > > >initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img > > title DOS > >rootnoverify (hd0,4) > >chainloader +1 > > > > (hda7 is swap) > > > > Kindly advise how to modify it. Thanks in > > advance. > > > > B.R. > > Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: partition checking

2001-12-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Thanks Richard BR Stephen On Tuesday 04 December 2001 10:51, you wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: > > What I expect is to check is the total partitions in a hard disc, what > > format, ext2, ext3 or FAT32, etc. ? > > How about "fdisk -l&

What shall be the easy way upgrading kernel

2001-12-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All, What shall be the easy way (short cut) to upgrade the kernel of RH7.2 to kernel 2.4.9-13 instead of going through the complete procedure starting from tar ball. Is there a RPM ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list

Re: partition checking

2001-12-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Statux, Thanks for your response. What I expect is to check is the total partitions in a hard disc, what format, ext2, ext3 or FAT32, etc. ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu At 08:33 PM 12/3/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Assuming you're using ext2: > ># fsck.ext2 -f /dev/hda5

partition checking

2001-12-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, What command to be used to check the partition of a hard disc ? Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

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