Re: User Mode Linux, UML

2003-01-30 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Greg Morgan wrote: > I've searched for information on UML on the www.redhat.com site with > google. I have not found much. I wasn't aware there was ANY UML documentation on redhat's site. Look at http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ for more general information. > Does

Re: User Mode Linux, UML

2003-01-30 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jay Turner wrote: > ... > > UML allows you to setup a virtual machine, which you can then poke at and > play with without risking your main setup. Think "linux within linux." If > this is something you find interesting, then you can keep it installed on > your machine. I t

Re: User Mode Linux, UML

2003-02-01 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Greg Morgan wrote: > ... > > I am looking for more on how Red Hat has designed their implementation > of UML. One thing I find interesting is that they offer UML on just > i686 class machines. I don't think they have designed much, at least not publically anyway, merely b

Re: RHN

2003-02-05 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian York wrote: > What is the url that RHN tries to connect to Look in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date . If the reason you are asking is you have deleted or otherwise misconfigured this file, mine is set to https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC though I am running a beta OS at the

Re: Up2date

2003-02-07 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Harold Helmich wrote: > What are the issues with changing the channel the name in up2date from > your current dist to the next? If I update all is that the same as > installing new version? Can I selectively update packages this way? > For example get the latest version o

Re: Up2date

2003-02-07 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, M A Young wrote: > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Harold Helmich wrote: > > > What are the issues with changing the channel the name in up2date from > > your current dist to the next? If I update all is that the same as > > installing new version? Can I sel

Re: Red Hat 9 -- April 7th -- Price & Compatibility?

2003-03-29 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Colburn wrote: > OK, RedHat will try to resolve the many flaws in RH8 with their new > release, RH9 on April 7th. > > Any idea what they will charge retail for this? Amazon will sell it to you for 31.49 GBP http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B8Y8KL or 36.99 dollars

Re: rpm database corrupt

2003-12-06 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Ross Macintyre wrote: > Hi, > I have a machine that has a corrup RPM database. > I tried the usual > rm var/lib/rpm/__db.00*, then > rpm --rebuilddb > which has worked in the past. > This time nothing. If rpm is getting stuck, rather than crashing, that often means some

Re: Is Redhat's postman asleep?

2002-10-16 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Tom Coady wrote: > ... > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mx1.redhat.com[66.187.233.31] said: 550 5.0.0 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... You msut use a valid mail server This may mean the last mail server your mail passes through before it tries to get to a redhat server is unregist

Re: Is Redhat's postman asleep?

2002-10-16 Thread M A Young
Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:05:22 +0100 (BST), M A Young wrote: > > > This may mean the last mail server your mail passes through before it > > tries to get to a redhat server is unregistered, or is registered in > > some way that upsets the redhat se

Re: Is Redhat's postman asleep?

2002-10-16 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:23:27 +0100 (BST) > M A Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # > # I agree having seen that message that my suspicions were wrong, but > # if I > # understand your conclusion correctly; that dsl.pip

Re: Is Redhat's postman asleep?

2002-10-16 Thread M A Young
Michael Schwendt wrote: > Can anyone please sum up what the problem with dsl.pipex.com is > compared with durham.ac.uk? Both don't resolve, but durham.ac.uk > is accepted by mx1.redhat.com. > > The only difference I see is that dsl.pipex.com has a TTL of 10 > minutes. I think it either has to be

Re: RH 8.0 upgrade install hang after disc2--recovery??

2002-10-19 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Mike Blatchley wrote: > I was upgrading my IBM Thinkpad A21p system from 7.2 > to 8.0, and after I inserted disc3, the machine failed > to mount it and refused to eject iteventually had > to reboot machine. The most obvious cause would be a bad CD image. Did you check you

Re: Netscape Navigator 4.79?

2002-10-19 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > Can the old Netscape Navigator RPMs from RH 7.3 be used in RH 8.0? The > jag-offs at my bank still refuse to support Netscape 6/7/Mozilla for > online banking. I left it installed when I upgraded, and I don't remember any problems on the handful of

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-25 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Balabhai Viktor Nikolaevich wrote: > I have some troubles with installing RH8.0. > > My system: > HP NetServer 4/33 LM, 486DX-33, 32MB RAM, EISA SCSI Adaptec AIC-7770 > (AHA2740),3COM Ethernet III (3c509). > > RH7.0 worked perfectly. But Install program of RH8.0 can not dete

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-25 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Samuel Flory wrote: > M A Young wrote: > > >on drvblock.img, and see if that works. But even if it does, things may > >get complicated later, because the minimum specification for 8.0 is 64MB > >ram, and a pentium class processor. In particular

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-27 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > Perhaps you need to re-read the MINIMUM requirements: > > http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ > > 128MB for graphics mode - 64MB for text. > > How is it I am able to install and run on a machine wi

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-27 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote: > > They don't say it won't work with so little memory, but presumably they > > consider performance deterioration due to extra swapping to be > > unacceptable, particularly with a minimum spec processor as well. > > Then it shouldn't be called a "require

Re: geforce 4 mx440 on rh8

2002-10-31 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jim Christiansen wrote: > OK everyone, > > My @$%%# nicely running RH8 install will NOT work with geforce 4 mx440 > cards. My son's computer, a little old ecs k7sem rips along just fine when > he sticks it in his. > > My motherboard is an Asus A7M266-D (duel)MP board. >

Re: RPM database corrupt: rpm --rebuilddb and rm /var/lib/rpm/__* don't work.

2002-11-03 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Declan McArdle wrote: > Hi, > > Following on from the rpm thread of last month, I believe I have a > corrupt RPM database. > > I've followed the instructions on http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb > but I get as far as the SEGV. (I'll log a bug with Bugzilla as per Jeff

Re: 3 problems with RH8, 3com905, nvidia

2002-11-03 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Jan Drewes wrote: > ... > > the third problem is, that with kernel development (all subpackages) and > development tools (all subpackages) installed, when I try to install the > latest nvidia-drivers for my GF4TI4200, I get errors. I try to do > "rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kern

Re: problems installing oracle 8.1.7

2002-11-05 Thread M A Young
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Raul Acevedo wrote: > I'm having problems installing Oracle 8.1.7, using the same linux81701 > tar ball from Oracle's site I used to get it working on Red Hat 7.3. > > I unpack it, create the oracle user and dba/oinstall groups, but when I > run the run the runInstaller script

FAQ for psyche-list? (was Re: PLEASE READ THIS (was: ...))

2002-11-08 Thread M A Young
On 8 Nov 2002, Brian K. Jones wrote: > I'd be willing to come up with an FAQ based on some of my own > experiences along with the contributions from others. I can post it > here or on http://www.linuxlaboratory.org - I'm the webmaster there, and > there's a section called 'Labs' where I put my no

Re: Psyche FAQ (was: Re: Problem with rebuilding rpm database)

2002-11-10 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Brian K. Jones wrote: > > > In /var/lib/rpm delete __db.00{1,2,3} and try again. > > > > I definitely nominate this for the FAQ. > > I think something like this belongs in the FAQ, but these kinds of answers > piss me off, because they fail to explain *why* you need to d

Re: Upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0

2002-11-23 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, antonio montagnani wrote: > I have just tried to upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0 but the procedure stopped > after checking dependencies and informed us that there was error (I > apologize for not taking note of which error...) and that was aborted > and that I could safely reboot

Re: rpmbuild --rebuild gcc296 error

2002-11-29 Thread M A Young
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, w wrote: > I'm trying to rebuild mozilla-1.2 src.rpm with the --rebuild option. The > rebuild fails, apparently due to a gcc problem: > > "checking whether the C compiler (gcc296 ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot >

Re: When RH 8.1 will be available

2002-12-19 Thread M A Young
Alessandro Oliveira wrote: > I've been away for about 2 months, and I'd like to know how it is going > the development of the new redhat distros, have RH released any new > public betas since psyche ? There is now a stated release cycle of 6 months for 8.x at http://www.redhat.com/software/whic

Re: Wanted: Rawhide kernel

2002-12-21 Thread M A Young
On 21 Dec 2002, Zaphod wrote: > Pardon me for an incredibly stupid question, but where is the rawhide > kernel? Is it a "kernel-source" RPM somewhere? I can't find it > anywhere on Red Hat's ftp sites or mirrors. Specifically I want to play > with the latest XFree86 stuff (Mike Harris are you o

Phoebe (Was Re: Wanted: Rawhide kernel)

2002-12-22 Thread M A Young
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Riemer Palstra wrote: > And the day after you write this, kernel-2.4.20-2.2 suddenly appears on > all mirrors :) > > rsp., ... and what's that Phoebe thing? It is probably about to be a new beta. The 8.1 beta is about due, it must be about time for a beta for the next versi

Re: Arjanv man... no test kernel at your site

2002-12-22 Thread M A Young
Frank Jacobberger wrote: >... >>http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/testkernels/=20 >>for now. > >No you didn't. :( Yes he did! The "equals 20" comes from a character encoding mismatch; try http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/testkernels/ Michael Young -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: anoconda

2003-01-02 Thread M A Young
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:49:39PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > fsck will test your disk for bad blocks and allow you to map them out. > > Really? Which option in fsck? fsck is normally used to check and > repair file systems, and this isn't a file syste

Re: Upgrading RH8

2003-01-08 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Scott Taylor wrote: > I thought I would try to perform an upgrade from the CD's, to see whether some > errors I made might be overwritten and get fixed. (e.g. I downloaded the > latest Mozilla which apparently does not work with Evolution, thinking that > this would downgrad

Re: Oracle 8.1.7 on Red Hat Linux 8.0 (was: (no subject))

2002-11-12 Thread M A Young
Chris Kloiber wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:59, Neil Marjoram wrote: > > I'm sorry I missed this problem, one day I will centralise my email! > > Anyhow I have just installed Oracle 8.1.7 on RH 8.0 and it was a pain. > > Can you retell your problem, may be I can help. > > Well Oracle 8.1.7 was

Re: CPU info

2002-11-12 Thread M A Young
On 12 Nov 2002, Nadim Bitar wrote: > I have a Dell Laptop Inspiron 8200, the CPU is supposed to be a mobile > P4 1.8GHz but when I check /proc/cpuinfo the model name shown is > > Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz > > Is this an error from the kernel? or did Dell ship me a laptop with t

Re: Rsync @ Red Hat

2002-09-30 Thread M A Young
Thom Paine wrote: > Do you suppose that the purchase of an RHN subscription would get us > access to redhat's rsync servers in addition to the instant ISO's? I was > at around 450M of disc 1 and it died out and now I've lost the partial > ISO. So I've hooked onto Duke to rsync them, that way I can

Re: Fast mirror?

2002-09-30 Thread M A Young
Brandon Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone want to post a URL for a blazing Red Hat 8.0 mirror? I see a > good list at http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/psyche.html but of course most > of those are getting beat on at the moment. Would anyone care to post > any lesser-known fast mirrors? You could try http

Re: PGI compilers not working on RH 8.0, 2.4.18-17.8.0

2002-11-13 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Margaret_Doll wrote: > I just upgraded my systems to RedHat 8.0 including the kernel patch on > their web page. > The systems are at 2.4.18-17.8.0. > > I get the following error when I run PG 4.0 on my systems. > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open > /usr/lib/gcc

Re: rhn_register

2002-10-02 Thread M A Young
Tom Georgoulias wrote: > Was /usr/sbin/rhn_register moved to a different package? It used to be > part of a standalone rhn_register RPM... No it was dropped altogether. I believe up2date automatically registers now, but if you need to force it, use up2date --register . Michael Young

Re: rhn_register

2002-10-02 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Chris Ricker wrote: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > When I ran up2date and gota error message about the channel my system > > was subscribed to (it was still set to null), it specifically mentioned > > running rhn_register to fix the problem. So that may be a

Re: Problem with ISO 3

2002-10-07 Thread M A Young
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Balandar Magister Officiarum wrote: > I get the following error for the redhat 8.0 disk 3: > > /mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/nmh-1.0.4-15.i386.rpm cannot be opened due to missing > file, bad package, or bad media. > > I have tried burning the ISO using different media and different

Re: Problem with ISO 3

2002-10-08 Thread M A Young
On 8 Oct 2002, John Weber wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 06:17, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Safer: > > > > $ md5sum /dev/cdrom > > Is this the supposed to be the same test as the mediacheck routine? I > tried this on both an umounted and mounted disc #1 and in both cases it > appears to read t

Re: LKM Trojan? and some other question

2002-10-08 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Hesty P wrote: > After installing RH 8.0, I ran chkrootkit and it > reports that some LKM trojan might exist. Running: > ./chkrootkit -x lkm > reveals that there are 6 processes hidden from ps. Is > this any cause for concern? I did run ethereal and > cannot see anything out o

Re: Re[4]: RH 8.0 Trials - Bootable ISO Image Problem

2002-10-14 Thread M A Young
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BitBasher, > > In response to your mail of Monday, October 14, 2002 9:19:16 AM: > > B> If you want to check your RH 8.0 media, you can use ANY computer that > B> supports bootable cdrom. > > No, this is the problem. I have checked the CD-ROM itself

Re: RH 8.0 Pocket CD

2002-10-15 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, bfd wrote: > For those of you who get excited about these sort of things, > there is a pocket-sized (32 MB) systems admin CD ISO for RH > 8.0 at > > ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd/ Is this any different from the one that has been at beta/sysadm on the ma