Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Uri Itscowits
Hi all, First I want to thank everybody for the time & effort, ( although some responses show, some guys did NOT spend enough time reading my problem all the way {:< ) Since no one gave me a good answer, (except for Muli's, which was my idea to begin with) I tried to look for the way

Re: Hebrew with mutt

2003-02-17 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [17/02/03 22:14]: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003, Eli Segal wrote about "Hebrew with mutt": > > What Are my option to be able to read and write with mutt client ?? > > Here is what I use in my ~/.muttrc. Yes, I know some of these options (in > particular 'charset') may b

FM radio on Flyvideo 2000

2003-02-17 Thread shlomo solomon
Hi, At first, this may look like it's off-topic, but since the hardware is OK and works in Windows, this is definitely a LINUX problem. About a month ago, someone on the list (sorry I don't remember who) helped solve my problem with the Flyvideo 2000 card by suggesting that I connect the audio

Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:49:26PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:48:07PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > Note, by the way, that newer distributions (such as Redhat 8) use Grub, > > not LILO, so anything relying on the structure of a lilo boot record > > isn't foolproo

Re: policy routing question

2003-02-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
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2003-02-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
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Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:02:59PM +0200, Uri Itscowits wrote: > Hi there, > > I need to guess which is the root filesystem ( on GNU/Linux OC), > while all partitions are still unmounted. > > I could of course mount each in turn, and look for /etc/fstab or so, > but I am looking for a way w

RE: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread linux_il
> -Original Message- > From: Arik Baratz > Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 7:28 PM > Subject: RE: Guessing filesystem while unmounted > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Uri Itscowits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Hi there, > > > > I need to guess which is the root filesy

RE: My ADSL connection report

2003-02-17 Thread Arik Baratz
> -Original Message- > From: Oron Peled [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Thanks for the report. Since that happens so rarely in our place > (encountering cluefull support people), I humbly suggest to > encorage this as much as we (rightfull) rant about cluelessness. > > One option is to send

RE: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Arik Baratz
> -Original Message- > From: Uri Itscowits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Hi there, > > I need to guess which is the root filesystem ( on GNU/Linux OC), > while all partitions are still unmounted. > > I could of course mount each in turn, and look for /etc/fstab or so, > but I am l

Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread erez
doing : awk '{if ($2=="/")print $1}' /etc/fstab will print either the root partition (e.g. /dev/hda2 ) or the root label ( e.g. LABEL=/ ) the first is trevial, the second, can be found by running e2label on all partitions and seeing wich has the right label erez. Uri Itscowits wrote: Hi th

Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003, Orna Agmon wrote about "Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted": > > Well, as far as I know Grub does not know where your root filesystem ("/") > > lives, until it first finds the boot filesystem, finds the grub/grub.conf > > file in it (grub understands the ext2 filesystem),

Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Orna Agmon
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Well, as far as I know Grub does not know where your root filesystem ("/") > lives, until it first finds the boot filesystem, finds the grub/grub.conf > file in it (grub understands the ext2 filesystem), reads it and finds there > the specification of whe

Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted": > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:48:07PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > Note, by the way, that newer distributions (such as Redhat 8) use Grub, > > not LILO, so anything relying on the structure of a lilo boot

Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:48:07PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Note, by the way, that newer distributions (such as Redhat 8) use Grub, > not LILO, so anything relying on the structure of a lilo boot record > isn't foolproof either. I never investigated this, so take it with a grain of salt, but

Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted": > You can do it the same way the kernel does it in the early boot stages > - by getting the information from lilo, via the boot record. You'll > need to read and parse the boot record, though. Mounting eac

Re: Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:57:52PM +0200, Uri Itscowits wrote: > Hi there, > > I need to guess which is the root filesystem ( on GNU/Linux OC), > while all partitions are still unmounted. You can do it the same way the kernel does it in the early boot stages - by getting the information from l

Re: Problem installing not generic network card

2003-02-17 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:44:01AM +0200, Alon Weinstein wrote: > > Hi, > > I got some ISA SMC card on redhat 8.0 > > The chip on this card is 8416BT , I was able to download a driver from the > scylid tulip project site > > I got some smc-ultra.c file , what do I do with it ? > > I see a smc-ultr

Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Uri Itscowits
Hi there, I need to guess which is the root filesystem ( on GNU/Linux OC), while all partitions are still unmounted. I could of course mount each in turn, and look for /etc/fstab or so, but I am looking for a way which won't involve mounting, if possible. Any ideas out there ? TIA. -- *

Guessing filesystem while unmounted

2003-02-17 Thread Uri Itscowits
Hi there, I need to guess which is the root filesystem ( on GNU/Linux OC), while all partitions are still unmounted. I could of course mount each in turn, and look for /etc/fstab or so, but I am looking for a way which won't involve mounting, if possible. Any ideas out there ? TIA. -- U

Re: My ADSL connection report

2003-02-17 Thread Eli Segal
well .. first, for the Realtech module and than for the socket filtering (which I was probably forgot as I downloaded the latest kernel) - Original Message - From: "Voguemaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eli Segal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February

Re: My ADSL connection report

2003-02-17 Thread Voguemaster
Hey, I've a question: Why did you have to recompile your kernel ? Eli On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:50:57 +0200, Eli Segal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, well, I went and bought the samsung ADSL modem for 249 nis, and an ST Lab ethernet card (Realtech chipset) for 70 nis Ethernet: On box it says

Re: Unable to get soundcard working

2003-02-17 Thread Eliran Gonen
Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > doesn't matter. try the modprobe, it should work. sndconfig has problems > with kernel 2.4 at times. Which one exactly? I'm runing 2.4.18-686 > is there still a problem? if the manual modprobe helped, just do Sadly, there is still a problem. I don't get it. Ot

Re: Unable to get soundcard working

2003-02-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: Unable to get soundcard working": > no. /etc/modules . Something simple I can't find in redhat and Mandrake, > for some reason: a list of modules loaded at startup . Not difficult to > create, but why do it yourself? > > Don't confuse this with

Re: Unable to get soundcard working

2003-02-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: > > > > echo es1371 > /etc/modules > > > > > > Make that ">>" or you run over your other modules :-( > > umm, shouldn't it be: > > echo alias sound es1371 >> /etc/modules ? > > At least thats what I see here on Mandrake, SuSE and Redhat 7.3, 8.1.. no. /et

Re: My ADSL connection report

2003-02-17 Thread Oron Peled
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:50:57 +0200 Eli Segal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so after few attempts i turn to the bezeqint support, and, I was > pleasenlty tell you that they instruct me step by step through the > installation on my Debian system I talk to this guy barak, who also > has debian Thanks

Re: Problem installing not generic network card

2003-02-17 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Monday 17 February 2003 11:46 am, Baruch Shpirer wrote: > I already tried modprobe on all smc modules included in the kernel none > works , they designed to later or prior chips Well, ISA, ha? Check the card - if you have a way to jumper it to centain IRQ, then do so and check the parameters

Re: My ADSL connection report

2003-02-17 Thread Eli Segal
oops ... well no .. sorry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:14 AM Subject: RE: My ADSL connection report > Can you keep the contacts of this Barak? Have > you forwarded him to Israeli Linux forums so he > can be fou

RE: Problem installing not generic network card

2003-02-17 Thread Alon Weinstein
> Hi, > I got some ISA SMC card on redhat 8.0 > The chip on this card is 8416BT , I was able to download a driver from the scylid tulip project site > I got some smc-ultra.c file , what do I do with it ? I see a smc-ultra.c file in the kernel sources (drivers/net/) -- I think you could simply comp

RE: Problem installing not generic network card

2003-02-17 Thread Baruch Shpirer
I already tried modprobe on all smc modules included in the kernel none works , they designed to later or prior chips -Original Message- From: Alon Weinstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problem i

Problem installing not generic network card

2003-02-17 Thread Baruch Shpirer
Title: Problem installing not generic network card Hi, I got some ISA SMC card on redhat 8.0 The chip on this card is 8416BT , I was able to download a driver from the scylid tulip project site I got some smc-ultra.c file , what do I do with it ? Baruch Shpirer Windows/*nix System & Netw

My ADSL connection report

2003-02-17 Thread Eli Segal
Hi all, well, I went and bought the samsung ADSL modem for 249 nis, and an ST Lab ethernet card (Realtech chipset) for 70 nis Ethernet: On box it says that this card supports linux, and to my surprise there are instruction (on the supplied disk) on how to install the card on linux (just load the 8