Re: bttv and emu10k1

2002-10-14 Thread Amir Tal
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 02:49 am, voguemaster wrote: > Mind my ignorance for a second, but I wasn't even aware linux supports > bttv based video capture cards, i'm dying to use mine on it as well!! > Any pointers ? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/BTTV

Re: bttv and emu10k1

2002-10-14 Thread voguemaster
Mind my ignorance for a second, but I wasn't even aware linux supports bttv based video capture cards, i'm dying to use mine on it as well!! Any pointers ? Eli 11/10/02 22:09:48, Amir Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hi, > >i am using bttv with my FlyVideo II TV card, under mandrake9 (decided t

Re: Speeding up flash access

2002-10-14 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 16:57, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > Hello > I'm using flash with JFFS2 on it. > Well, its terribly slow and I'm looking a way to speed it up. > What options do I have ? > Using RAM drive and copying the whole filesystem on boot to it ? > Using tmpfs filesystem ? > Something

[OT] Job Wanted

2002-10-14 Thread Guy Cohen
Hi, I'm looking for work as an Unix system administrator and/or security consultant/implementor. I have been working in and on the internet for the past 5 years. For the last year I've been working as a freelance. Currently I'm looking to provide installations, support, maintenence, scripts,

Re: speed of RAID1 rebuild [was Re: System Backups]

2002-10-14 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
you can purch a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 its somewhat expensive as its scsi and the disks need to be scsi too :) maybe there are some good ide raid card out there. any one tried such card ? - Original Message - From: "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, Oc

Speeding up flash access

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Sternberg
Hello I'm using flash with JFFS2 on it. Well, its terribly slow and I'm looking a way to speed it up. What options do I have ? Using RAM drive and copying the whole filesystem on boot to it ? Using tmpfs filesystem ? Something else ? Thanks

Re: speed of RAID1 rebuild [was Re: System Backups]

2002-10-14 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > > > > What if you setup two disks in RAID1 and pull one of the disks for > > > backup and insert new one instead? > > > > 2. you will need to rebuild the mirror once it is reintegrated and thæt > > is a slow an

Re: speed of RAID1 rebuild [was Re: System Backups]

2002-10-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/14/2002 4:48 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: >On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > > > >>>What if you setup two disks in RAID1 and pull one of the disks for >>>backup and insert new one instead? >>> >>> >>2. you will need to rebuild the mirror once it is reintegrated and thæt >>is a sl

speed of RAID1 rebuild [was Re: System Backups]

2002-10-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > > What if you setup two disks in RAID1 and pull one of the disks for > > backup and insert new one instead? > > 2. you will need to rebuild the mirror once it is reintegrated and thæt > is a slow and painful process. how slow is it really ? Once I buil

Re: Kernel compile problem

2002-10-14 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Monday 14 October 2002 10:18, Martin Polley wrote: > BTW, what is the boot log file called? I know how to view it with dmesg, > but that doesn't help me here... > > Thanks, That depends. If you've chosen metalog as the logger, the file is: /var/log/everything/current otherwise it is /var/log/

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Mon, 14 Oct: > >Of course, any disk copy, block-by-block and not file-by-file, must be > >done when the disk is frozen, i.e. either unmounted or in Single mode > >when nobody writes to the disk. Unless you have LVM with Freeze options. > > > What if you setup

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Mark Veltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. a backup software usually registers itself as a cron process. You don't > have to actually write the script or register it in cron. No big deal, is it? > 2. a backup software is usually incremental. Meaning you can always have a > snapshot of last

Boot log files (was: RE: Kernel compile problem)

2002-10-14 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Martin Polley wrote: > BTW, what is the boot log file called? I know how to view it with dmesg, > but that doesn't help me here... /var/log/messages and other recent files in /var/log (try ls -alt /var/log) --- Omer Simplify, si

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Boris Gorelik
On Monday 14 October 2002 12:37, Erez Boym wrote: I use this not too sofisticated script: #!/bin/bash # # Creates backups of essential files. After the completion, sends log to predefined address. # Full backup is made at Saturday ("Shabbat"). Incremental backups are made every weekday. # In o

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/14/2002 1:10 PM, Eli Marmor wrote: >Sagi Bashari wrote: > > >>On 10/14/2002 12:37 PM, Erez Boym wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>What would be the way to backup an entire system ? >>> >>>I have a server which I need too backup, a complete >>>backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and th

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 13:08, you wrote: > I think that he didn't look for backup tools, but asked what's wrong > with a dumb copy, and if a dumb copy can be used instead of tools like > Ghost and mindi/mondo. > > Since this question bothers me too

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Eli Marmor
Sagi Bashari wrote: > > On 10/14/2002 12:37 PM, Erez Boym wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > > >I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > >backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to > >easily rebuild the entire server back from scra

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Eli Marmor
I think that he didn't look for backup tools, but asked what's wrong with a dumb copy, and if a dumb copy can be used instead of tools like Ghost and mindi/mondo. Since this question bothers me too, can anybody summarize the advantages of a dedicated backup software? Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > th

Re: Webmasters

2002-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Ely Levy wrote: > Who can I talk to on things related to iglu web/server? > I tried linux-il-web but got no answer.. iglu-web -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir = To

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Joseph Teichman
There are a number of ways you can go about backing up your system, depending on what type of backup media you have available. The restoration procedure would depend on the backup method. It would be entirely possible to simply copy the file system onto a DVD (or a number of DVDs, depending of the

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Erez Boym, from the post of Mon, 14 Oct: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ? depends on your needs. how often you expect to use it, how expensive should the medias be, how many backups do you rotate, etc. you could do a full "ghost" with a tool called Partition

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 12:37, you wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to > easily rebuild the entire server b

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Amir Tal
On Monday 14 October 2002 12:37 pm, Erez Boym wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to > easily rebuild the entire server back from scratch. > > Would it be enou

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/14/2002 12:37 PM, Erez Boym wrote: >Hi, > >What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > >I have a server which I need too backup, a complete >backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to >easily rebuild the entire server back from scratch. > >Would it be enough to copy the en

Re: System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
the mindi/mondo backup program should do the trick for you.. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ Thanks, Hetz On Monday 14 October 2002 12:37, Erez Boym wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > backup setups, *-co

System Backups

2002-10-14 Thread Erez Boym
Hi, What would be the way to backup an entire system ? I have a server which I need too backup, a complete backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to easily rebuild the entire server back from scratch. Would it be enough to copy the entire file system on to DVDs, Tape etc. and then rei

RE: Kernel compile problem

2002-10-14 Thread Martin Polley
Thanks! I'll try it this evening. If your suggestion doesn't work, I'll post my .config file and/or boot log. I should be able to get at the boot log by booting into my other Linux installation (which lives on a different partition) and mounting my Gentoo partition (instead of booting my old, w

typing Vs. car mecahnics (was: Re: A disturbing article...)

2002-10-14 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Guy Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:44:48PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > > So they didn't "waste" a month or so fighting their keyboards. > > But the poor guys still use their keyboards *for years* at a > > fraction of the speed I regularly type. > > Thats a good ex

RE: A disturbing article...

2002-10-14 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Eytan Heidingsfeld wrote: > I don't think you understood my about my ADSL problem (BTW) I tried > installing it and I still can't get it to work. I have read the how-to > BEZEQ_ADSL_LINUX document but can't get the stupid thing to work! my memory fails me here - did you wri

RE: Kernel compile problem

2002-10-14 Thread Martin Polley
My keyboard has a standard PS/2 connector. Kernel version 2.4.19r5 (Gentoo sources). Unfortunately, I can't send my .config right now, only when I get home... Thanks, Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280

RE: A disturbing article...

2002-10-14 Thread Eytan Heidingsfeld
I don't think you understood my about my ADSL problem (BTW) I tried installing it and I still can't get it to work. I have read the how-to BEZEQ_ADSL_LINUX document but can't get the stupid thing to work! = To unsubscribe, send mai

Kernel compile problem

2002-10-14 Thread Martin Polley
Hi all, I am having a problem when I re-compile my kernel (in Gentoo 1.2). When I run make menuconfig, I can see that Keyboard Support is enabled in Input Core Support, but after I do make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install and copy bzImage to /boot, when I reboot, the kernel doesn't se