Re: Monitor specs

2000-08-03 Thread John Summerfield
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Summerfield ) writes: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar) writes: > > > > > > > Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > Where do I send in the frequency numbers for my new monitor (so they > can > > > > > be included in the distribution)?

Re: Delaying eth0

2000-08-03 Thread Jonathan Sailor
Actually I'm using RH61 Text installer of course, the X installer always crashes on "Post-install configuration". Actually my conf.modules looks EXACTLY like that, even though mv card is actully a 3C905B-TX. I'm using static IPs. Also, I'm a little begind distributions, so what is Rawhide, 6.1, an

Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

2000-08-03 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Jag wrote: > You can do this with kickstart. On all your machines install the initrd > and vmlinux from the net boot disk, add a lilo entry for reinstall that > uses them and include an > append="ks=nfs:nfs.server.domainname:/path/to/kickstartsconfigs" line > for that entry.

Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

2000-08-03 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Jag wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Pekka Savola wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > > > > I think Red Hat Linux definitely needs some tools to upgrade a live > > system. The main reason for this is that you can do it remotely. I can't > > see anything more a

Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

2000-08-03 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Pekka Savola wrote: > > Just my 0.02$; > > I think Red Hat Linux definitely needs some tools to upgrade a live > system. The main reason for this is that you can do it remotely. I can't > see anything more annoying than having to walk through every Linux > workstation / se

Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

2000-08-03 Thread Matt Fahrner
I don't know if I'd say they "need" to do this, but I definitely second any idea that would allow an upgrade on a live system. We have 100's of stores with 5+ Linux boxes in each that we have no computer savy workers on site to walk through upgrades. Everything we do has to be through remote manag

Re: Ping response times

2000-08-03 Thread Lars Nordin
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Please help. > I have a Redhat 6.2 system with a SMC9432TX network card installed.My machine is on >a LAN. > If my machine is pinged from another machine the response time is good, if I ping >the loopback adaptor the response is also good. >If I try ping anothe

Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

2000-08-03 Thread Jag
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Pekka Savola wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > > I think Red Hat Linux definitely needs some tools to upgrade a live > system. The main reason for this is that you can do it remotely. I can't > see anything more annoying than having to walk through every Linu

Re: Delaying eth0

2000-08-03 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Jonathan Sailor wrote: > > I didn't understand: are you able to use eth0 just from outside your PC? > No. I had it activated at boot time and then configured and activated ppp. > They both worked fine until reboot. Then only ppp worked. For what it's worth, text install of RH6

Re: Delaying eth0

2000-08-03 Thread Jonathan Sailor
- Original Message - From: Marco Presi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RedHat Devel List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 3:59 AM Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jonathan Sailor wrote: > > > When I try to activate eth0 using linuxconf, > netcfg, netconf, or

Re: Desktop areas missing!

2000-08-03 Thread Jonathan Sailor
If the Gnome pager is on the panel, then right-click it and check the boxes. I it isn't there, right-click the panel, select Add applets>>Utilities>>Gnome Pager Middle-click the desktop and select Enlightenment Configuration. In the config dialog, there should be a setting somewhere to enable ico

Re: Monitor specs

2000-08-03 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Summerfield ) writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar) writes: > > > > > Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Where do I send in the frequency numbers for my new monitor (so they can > > > > be included in the distribution)? > > > > > > > > >

Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

2000-08-03 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > I've done it in a couple of cases, but I suppose it is wise to actually > take the server out of production, perform the upgrade, make sure > everything works fine and then put it back in production. Nevertheless, > in those cases where I had to do it, I did

Re: Desktop areas missing!

2000-08-03 Thread Jon Tegner
> I'm using Redhat 6.1 on intel, i restarted my system and gnome restarted > without the possibility of browsing between the 4 desktop areas, we all know > desktop areas icons are located at the bottom panel, only this time they are > completely gone! I'm using Helix Gnome with sawfish (window ma

Re: how can i configure a riva tnt2 card

2000-08-03 Thread kmb
q farooq wrote: > hi > i m having problem in configuring new video card .. it is giving > error "XF86_SVGA server was not found on your system" > i have tried Xconfigurator, XF86Setup and even tried installing Redhat6 > from start but it gets stuck at the point of configuring the Video Card > ANy

Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

2000-08-03 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Ulrich Kiermayr wrote: > Hello! > > A Question: is it possible to do an upgrade (e.g. 6.1 -> 6.2) while the > system is up and running. > > I could do an rpm -F /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPM/*, but this might break some > dependencies (of packages which got split up for example) >

Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

2000-08-03 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, J Kinsley wrote: > However, I did not use any > 'automagic' means to do this. I upgraded each individual package > manually using Midnight Commander (MC). It took most of an evening > to install the packages and retweak all the configs, > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Ulrich Kierm

Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

2000-08-03 Thread John Summerfield
> > It is certainly possible, but you'd have to skip the kernel > upgrades, and be very careful. init will get upgraded on disk, > but the running one in memory will be older. This should only be > attempted in single user mode because the C libaries will get > updated as well as all critical

Re: Monitor specs

2000-08-03 Thread John Summerfield
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar) writes: > > > Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Where do I send in the frequency numbers for my new monitor (so they can > > > be included in the distribution)? > > > > > > I posted my monitor settings on bugzilla.redhat.com against the

Re: Ping response times

2000-08-03 Thread John Summerfield
> Please help. > I have a Redhat 6.2 system with a SMC9432TX network card installed.My machine > is on a LAN. > If my machine is pinged from another machine the response time is good, if I > ping the loopback adaptor the response is also good. If I try ping another ma > chine from my Redhat box

Re: smrsh

2000-08-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:45:26PM -0500, Simon Epsteyn wrote: > man smrsh Y'know, on RH 6.2, with everything installed, there's no man page for 'smrsh'. (Or at least, it doesn't come up when you do a 'man smrsh', and it's not in the normal directories... -- Dave Ihnat [EMAIL PRO