Re: creating ext3 partition

2003-01-02 Thread Irvine Russell
dbrett kirjoitti 02.01.2003 kello 22:04: > I am trying to create a new partition on a new hard drive installed on > RH7.2 system > > When I run the command: > /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 Read the man page for mke2fs. If you use the -j option it creates an ext3 filesystem. I suppose the command c

Re: Aaahhh Crap! (D'oh!)

2002-12-12 Thread Irvine Russell
Burke, Thomas G. kirjoitti 12.12.2002 kello 16:09: > I formatted a partition on my disk as Win98 (format c: /s), and got > my mbr hosed. Did an fdisk/mbr, but now I can't get to my partitions > to run lilo & fix the problem. Can anyone help me out, here? I > can't seem to find my emergenc

Re: Free Partition magic?

2002-12-12 Thread Irvine Russell
Martin Marques kirjoitti 12.12.2002 kello 14:46: > Is there something for repatitioning NTFS? Oops! Didn't read the email properly. I need to slow down a bit. Sorry! t.irvine Maksuton sähköposti aina käytössä http://luukku.com

Re: Free Partition magic?

2002-12-12 Thread Irvine Russell
Martin Marques kirjoitti 12.12.2002 kello 14:46: > > Parted worked great for me on my laptop. > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ Hello The web page you cite suggests that parted is only able to read NT filesystems, and I find nothing in the man page to suggest that it can repartition N

Re: Installing Win98 on a linux box

2002-12-10 Thread Irvine Russell
Thierry ITTY kirjoitti 10.12.2002 kello 10:00: > > I've got to do some develompnet for a USB solution, & my Windows > >machine's USB stuff doesn't seem to be working. Is it possible for > >me to install Win98 on my linux server, such that I can occasionally > >take it down & do development wor

Re: changing /dev/cdrom

2002-12-09 Thread Irvine Russell
Michael Schwendt kirjoitti 09.12.2002 kello 13:44: > > options ide-cd ignore=hdb# tell the ide-cd module to > > ignore hdb alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon > > access of scd0 > > #pre-install ide-scsi modprobe imm# uncomment for some ZIP drives > > #only >

Re: RH 7.2 Path ?

2002-12-09 Thread Irvine Russell
Mike Stewart kirjoitti 09.12.2002 kello 11:58: > Hi there, a simple question from a simple newbie how/where do I > set up > the PATH ? I need to add a folder to it. > > I looked in etc/profile but that seems to pick up the path from > somewhere > else then add user's specific things to the

Re: changing /dev/cdrom

2002-12-09 Thread Irvine Russell
João Borsoi Soares kirjoitti 09.12.2002 kello 12:10: > I've successfully installed my cd-writer and now my cdrom is at > /dev/scd0. I manually changed /dev/cdrom but at boot it is changed back > to /dev/hdd. How can I keep my change? I think there is something to do > with MAKEDEV and /etc/makedev.

Re: minimum install for forwarding to work

2002-10-18 Thread irvine
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:23:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I want to set up a computer to act as a dedicated firewall and gateway > to the internet with no other services on the machine. > I know I need pppd to dial out, but what do I need for masquarding and > forwarding? Hei L

Re: Problem mounting cdrom

2002-10-18 Thread irvine
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:25:13AM -0400, Paul DiMarco wrote: > I've got a Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness), Kernel 2.2.16-22 on an > i686 system. > > When I put a CD into the CD-ROM and try to mount I get the following. Not > matter what I do I can't mount my CD. > > (dominoold:paul) /home/

Re: How can I allow anyone to shutdown?

2002-10-18 Thread irvine
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 04:31:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I have a dual boot computer that my kids play on. I would > like to let them shutdown the computer so they can reboot > windows if they want to play a windows game. The shutdown > command is excutable by everyone when you lo

Re: Problem mounting cdrom

2002-10-18 Thread irvine
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:06:36PM -0400, Paul DiMarco wrote: > > Same thing. > > (dominoold:root) /># mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/ Hei You should have typed: # mount /mnt/cdrom and not # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/ t.irvine -- Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,

Re: script for ftp transfer

2002-09-23 Thread irvine
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:45:09PM -0700, S Peram wrote: > > Hi, > Thanks a lot for the responses. > I just had a question regarding the ftp. > Is there any way I can pass all the parameters such as username, password and the >commands that are to be executed in a shell script. Hello Maybe

Re: Mounting cdrom

2002-09-23 Thread irvine
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:27:11AM +0200, linux power wrote: > Apply this in /etc/fstab file > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,kudzu,ro 0 0 > >From terminal > mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /home/sheng/cdrom > Make sure the dir /home/sheng/cdrom excist Hello Just thought I'd add a few

Re: RH 7.0 kernel upgrade - advice please

2002-09-23 Thread irvine
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:24:14AM +0200, Knut Ove Hauge wrote: > Hi Irvine. > Do you know how to compile a new kernel? > Sure do. make menuconfig dep clean bzImage modules modules_install move some files to /boot and configure /etc/lilo.conf Just wondering if there was anythi

RH 7.0 kernel upgrade - advice please

2002-09-18 Thread irvine
Hello I was thinking of upgrading from RH's 2.2.16-x kernel that comes with RH 7.0 to the lastest 2.4.19 kernel. Does anyone have any words of advice or caution. I read read for instance that one should not use the compiler that is default on RH 7.0 but instead use kgcc: http://www.crhc.uiuc.

scsi tape drive woes

2002-09-05 Thread irvine
Hello Having some trouble getting the following devices to work: Tekram DC315U scsi host adapter HP 6400/2000 DC scsi tape drive I am using RH 7.0. This is what I did: Patched 2.2.16-22 kernel with patch from tekram Put source code and header file from tekram in appropriate direct

"Unable to get major 9 for SCSI tapes"

2002-09-02 Thread irvine
Hello everybody I have been trying to get a tape drive to work with linux but as yet have not been successful. I think that I have done pretty much everything that I should have to get this device working. I compiled a kernel that had been patched to include code from the maker of the scsi con

Re: mozilla, netscape and CUPS

2002-08-31 Thread irvine
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:32:36PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I will visit my friend tomorrow and give it a try. Visited my friend I spent a frustrating hour or two searching for info on getting mozilla and netscape to work - the tips I was given unfortunately did not work. Finally get

mozilla, netscape and CUPS

2002-08-28 Thread irvine
Hello I installed RH 7.3 on someone's computer. I had some trouble getting his canon S450 working but eventually got it working after we changed the cable from USB to a normal parallel port cable. However it only seemed to work with CUPS - we tried the RH printer config tool but had no joy with i

RPM db really giving problems!

2000-05-20 Thread Mark Irvine
e experienced the same? This is the second time libxml has prevented me from installing software. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Mark Irvine ==