[ilugd]: Rhat 7.2 on 40GB hdd

2002-02-19 Thread Manish K Arya
hi i have installed Rhat 7.2 on 40 GB hdd.i m facing problems like 1)at reboot and halt sometimes system is not able to umount partitions 2)at many times i face kernel errors (like page fault,OOPs etc) does any can tell me is there something wrong with hdd. i have heard that 40GB hdds give pro

Re: [ilugd]: Partition problem!!!

2002-02-19 Thread Kapil Sethi
Hey you don't need a swap partion to configure swap. A file on your file system can do the job of a swap partion. For more info on how to configure swap on an ext-2 partition read "man mkswap" and "man swapon" Kapil Sethi System Administrator BharatConnect Ltd. Ph: 011-6430987 - Original Mes

Re: [ilugd]: Rhat 7.2 on 40GB hdd

2002-02-19 Thread mohit khullar
Hello, 40 GB hard disk gives problem if u select autodetect in bios.It sometimes detects wrong number of cylinders.You can go to bios and select the cylinder numbers given(written) on the hard disk and also select the sector info etc... as given on hard disk . FRom mOhit kHullar --- M

[ilugd]: lilo problem

2002-02-19 Thread mohit
The Problem was there because in the older version of lilo , only 1024 cylinders can be seen by the lilo and if the partition is above it won't boot.  To overcome this , you can make a small partition of about 10 MB at the start up and mount it as /boot to have the boot info.     Otherwise

[ilugd]: HDD problems

2002-02-19 Thread Arunjeet Singh
Hi Your problem might be due to an older motherboard/BIOS. some older BIOSes don't allow the boot sectors to be above the 1024 cylinder limit. So, for intstance if you installed Linux after installing a Windows and also making an extended partition, you're already past the 102 cylinder limit. So w

Re: [ilugd]: Rhat 7.2 on 40GB hdd

2002-02-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:21:00PM +0530, Manish K Arya spoke out thus: > hi > i have installed Rhat 7.2 on 40 GB hdd.i m facing problems like > 1)at reboot and halt sometimes system is not able to umount partitions > 2)at many times i face kernel errors (like page fault,OOPs etc) Do you have

Re: [ilugd]: Rhat 7.2 on 40GB hdd

2002-02-19 Thread Kapil Sethi
I am facing nothing of this sort of problems on RH 7.1. Intel 810 based M/B with 40GB HDD. My / is below 1024 cylinder, while both the /var and /home are over this limit. Kapil Sethi System Administrator BharatConnect Ltd. Ph: 011-6430987 - Original Message - From: "Mithun Bhattacharya" <

[ilugd]: Rhat 7.2 on 40GB hdd>>seagate HDD

2002-02-19 Thread nitin batra
Mithunji Cud u clarify the following >Hard disk wise all Seagate IDE hard disk available in Nehru Place, Delhi in >the recent years are crap :). Other than that hard disk failures would have >symptoms like files dissapearing mysteriously, >DMA error's on the console and error messages in the

Re: [ilugd]: Rhat 7.2 on 40GB hdd>>seagate HDD

2002-02-19 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
nitin batra wrote: > Are u speaking out of your personal experience > Or just like that!!! > I am using two harddrives of seagate 20 GB ..5200 rpm > for last one year ..and i had no problems with them > NOne at all for that matter > > I am still under the impression that SEagate HDD > provide v

RE: [ilugd]:[Off Topic] 40GB seagate HDD

2002-02-19 Thread Prashast Kumar
Title: RE: [ilugd]:[Off Topic] 40GB seagate HDD Dear All,     According to the shootout on Tom's hardware and other sites, Seagate's drives are quite good.     I just purchased a 40 GB Barracuda a month back and am happy with it.     I also had a bios issue on the PC which took

Re: [ilugd]: Rhat 7.2 on 40GB hdd>>seagate HDD

2002-02-19 Thread Naresh Narang
I have had bad experience with Segate Hard drive. Western Digital one should never buy. You don't want to loose all your data and go to company for replacement on their 3 year warantee. Segate worked a little more than Wester Digital. Naresh --- nitin batra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mith

Re: [ilugd]: Log Messages

2002-02-19 Thread Varun Varma
Sandeep, You problem seems to be that you want to detect system/kernel messages in "real time", rather than after some delay. /vary/log/messages is indeed the file where log entries go in a normally configured system, but read the explanation that follows: The Linux logging system, much like the

Re: [ilugd]: Trivial MySQL problem -Thanx

2002-02-19 Thread Varun Varma
Dear Virindera >From the manual In order to accommodate granting rights to users from arbitrary hosts, MySQL supports specifying the user_name value in the form user@host. If you want to specify a user string containing special characters (such as `-'), or a host string containing special chara

Re: [ilugd]: Guest Lecture Series At IMT

2002-02-19 Thread SWAMI NATHAN
Can i know when and where the lecture on Linux  basics & networking is to be held. >From: Arminder singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [ilugd]: Guest Lecture Series At IMT >Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:01:46 -0800 (PST) > >Hi all, > >We at I