Re: Configuring lilo to use kernel from /dev/hda6

2003-03-16 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:42:50PM -0500, asubedi wrote: > I installed Debian in my sony pcg-grx500 with /dev/hda6 as "/" > and /dev/hda7 as /usr. I have Redhat root in /dev/hda1, > /home in /dev/hda2, /usr in /dev/hda3 and swap in /dev/hda5. [...] summary: /dev/hda1 RedHat /

Re: Configuring lilo to use kernel from /dev/hda6

2003-03-16 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
On 15-03-2003, at 20h 42'46", asubedi wrote to debian-laptop about "Configuring lilo to use kernel from /dev/hda6" > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Debian > read-only > root=/dev/hda6 > vga=773 > append="hdc=ide-scsi" > > "/etc/lilo.conf" 25L, 348C > >

hang after lilo

2003-03-16 Thread huskyjinto
Hi:    My SONY Vaio C1MR/BP(similar with C1MRX) works fine with 2.2.20 default Debian3.0 kernel, but when i compile 2.4.20 for it, when i boot with the it, the computer hang right after this"     boot:     Loading Linux.     Uncopressing Linux... OK. boot

Re: setup apm for 'battery low' warning on textconsole

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
Liked it, adapted acpi_percent so it will work with two (or more presumably) batteries. Also detects bay w/o battery. Also removed BAT0 dependency since mine are numbered 1 and 2. function acpi_percent() { for BATDIR in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT* do BATTERY=$(basename $BATDIR) CAPACITY=$(ca

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:43:34AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote: > > You can even use a stock laptop, but fill one of your peripherals with > > explosives. Getting around airport security is pretty trivial. (You > > can even go to the Tim Horton's in

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:47PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:15, Joris wrote: > > > I know it has little to do with debian on laptops (altough a non-windows > > > OS booting meight look suspecious to customs), but: > > >

Re: Hibarnation / lphdisk / Destroyed MBR (solved)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
The last primary doubles as the home for the extended partitions. If you use up all the primaries (four, I think), you can't define any extended. You often see systems with hda1, hda5, hda6... because of this. Thanks, Micros~1/IBM. On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:26:17AM +0100, mi wrote: > I can't be

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Jamie Lawrence
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote: > > They claim that the risk is of taking something flammable or explosive in the > bottle. However they don't bother about bottles of mineral water, so a > terrorist could fill a water bottle with something clear such as methylated > spirits.

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 13:29, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote: > > > > They claim that the risk is of taking something flammable or explosive in > > the > > bottle. However they don't bother about bottles of mineral water, so a > > terrorist could fill a w

Re: hang after lilo

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:05:23 +0800 "huskyjinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: with the it, the computer hang right after this" > boot: > Loading Linux. > Uncopressing Linux... OK. booting the kernel > > then it hangs. Did you compile into the kernel (not as

Q on initial partitions for 30 Gig HD

2003-03-16 Thread Mitch Maltenfort
I'm getting a new computer and going to be putting Debian Woody 3.0r1 on it -- I've used Mandrake prior to this. This new laptop will have a 30 Gig HD, and my reading indicates that ext2 file systems can run into performance problems on partitions over 6 Gig. Brute-force math would suggest

Re: Q on initial partitions for 30 Gig HD

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:39:06 -0500 (EST) Mitch Maltenfort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone advise on a good partitioning choice for a personal > workstation for word processing and scientific programming? Whatever else you decide to do, I highly recommend a "files" partition. It's the pla

Re: Hibarnation / lphdisk / Destroyed MBR (solved)

2003-03-16 Thread mi
A ps to this topic: (It was a dell inspiron 5000, BIOS A08, bootloader grub. The Question was why creating the hibernation partition as physically (outer) first of all did damage the bootloader, when performing BIOS-hibernation.) I read the grub manual (partly ;-), and found a hint. I mailed

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Hugo Wau
Am Son, 2003-03-16 um 20.07 schrieb Tony Godshall: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:47PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > > From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:15, Joris wrote: > > > > I know it has little to do with debian on laptops (altough a non-windows > >

Re: Q on initial partitions for 30 Gig HD

2003-03-16 Thread mi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have right now three different Linux systems on this laptop, and in > each system I can mount that partition in /home//files and access my > stuff. It's is the 'exchange' idea, isn't it ? If you intend to install an non-Unix Operating System (like Windows) parallel, think

Re: Configuring lilo to use kernel from /dev/hda6

2003-03-16 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:42:50PM -0500, asubedi wrote: > I installed Debian in my sony pcg-grx500 with /dev/hda6 as "/" > and /dev/hda7 as /usr. I have Redhat root in /dev/hda1, > /home in /dev/hda2, /usr in /dev/hda3 and swap in /dev/hda5. [...] summary: /dev/hda1 RedHat /

Re: Configuring lilo to use kernel from /dev/hda6

2003-03-16 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
On 15-03-2003, at 20h 42'46", asubedi wrote to debian-laptop about "Configuring lilo to use kernel from /dev/hda6" > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Debian > read-only > root=/dev/hda6 > vga=773 > append="hdc=ide-scsi" > > "/etc/lilo.conf" 25L, 348C > >

hang after lilo

2003-03-16 Thread huskyjinto
Hi:    My SONY Vaio C1MR/BP(similar with C1MRX) works fine with 2.2.20 default Debian3.0 kernel, but when i compile 2.4.20 for it, when i boot with the it, the computer hang right after this"     boot:     Loading Linux.     Uncopressing Linux... OK. boot

Re: setup apm for 'battery low' warning on textconsole

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
Liked it, adapted acpi_percent so it will work with two (or more presumably) batteries. Also detects bay w/o battery. Also removed BAT0 dependency since mine are numbered 1 and 2. function acpi_percent() { for BATDIR in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT* do BATTERY=$(basename $BATDIR) CAPACITY=$(ca

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:43:34AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote: > > You can even use a stock laptop, but fill one of your peripherals with > > explosives. Getting around airport security is pretty trivial. (You > > can even go to the Tim Horton's in

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:47PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:15, Joris wrote: > > > I know it has little to do with debian on laptops (altough a non-windows > > > OS booting meight look suspecious to customs), but: > > >

Re: Hibarnation / lphdisk / Destroyed MBR (solved)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
The last primary doubles as the home for the extended partitions. If you use up all the primaries (four, I think), you can't define any extended. You often see systems with hda1, hda5, hda6... because of this. Thanks, Micros~1/IBM. On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:26:17AM +0100, mi wrote: > I can't be

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Jamie Lawrence
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote: > > They claim that the risk is of taking something flammable or explosive in the > bottle. However they don't bother about bottles of mineral water, so a > terrorist could fill a water bottle with something clear such as methylated > spirits.

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 13:29, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote: > > > > They claim that the risk is of taking something flammable or explosive in the > > bottle. However they don't bother about bottles of mineral water, so a > > terrorist could fill a water

Re: hang after lilo

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:05:23 +0800 "huskyjinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: with the it, the computer hang right after this" > boot: > Loading Linux. > Uncopressing Linux... OK. booting the kernel > > then it hangs. Did you compile into the kernel (not as

Q on initial partitions for 30 Gig HD

2003-03-16 Thread Mitch Maltenfort
I'm getting a new computer and going to be putting Debian Woody 3.0r1 on it -- I've used Mandrake prior to this. This new laptop will have a 30 Gig HD, and my reading indicates that ext2 file systems can run into performance problems on partitions over 6 Gig. Brute-force math would suggest

Re: Q on initial partitions for 30 Gig HD

2003-03-16 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:39:06 -0500 (EST) Mitch Maltenfort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone advise on a good partitioning choice for a personal > workstation for word processing and scientific programming? Whatever else you decide to do, I highly recommend a "files" partition. It's the pla

Re: Hibarnation / lphdisk / Destroyed MBR (solved)

2003-03-16 Thread mi
A ps to this topic: (It was a dell inspiron 5000, BIOS A08, bootloader grub. The Question was why creating the hibernation partition as physically (outer) first of all did damage the bootloader, when performing BIOS-hibernation.) I read the grub manual (partly ;-), and found a hint. I mailed

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Hugo Wau
Am Son, 2003-03-16 um 20.07 schrieb Tony Godshall: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:47PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > > From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:15, Joris wrote: > > > > I know it has little to do with debian on laptops (altough a non-windows > >

Re: Q on initial partitions for 30 Gig HD

2003-03-16 Thread mi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have right now three different Linux systems on this laptop, and in > each system I can mount that partition in /home//files and access my > stuff. It's is the 'exchange' idea, isn't it ? If you intend to install an non-Unix Operating System (like Windows) parallel, think