Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You were right on that the automount process' stat was D... once I > removed that process from the startup and it was no longer running, my > disks mounted fine. So, it turned out to be exactly the same problem. So much for my "mount can't possibly care about the netw

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Kristin Ziel
Jeff-- You were right on that the automount process' stat was D... once I removed that process from the startup and it was no longer running, my disks mounted fine. I need to learn to read more carefully. Kristin > > ah...see when I read that, I didn't think automounter problem...I thot DN

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Kristin Ziel
Jeff-- I don't want this to come across as argumentative, so please do not take it that way.. I would never have thought that DNS had anything to do with mount either... this is the page that I came across and got that information . Perhaps the guy that wrote this wasn't clear on what

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Kristin Ziel
ah...see when I read that, I didn't think automounter problem...I thot DNS problem ..I will take a look when I get my hands on the box tonight. I will let you know. Kristin > Oh, the automounter was getting in the way on that one. That's something I > don't know much about. > > So

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > (see the "Found the Culprit!" section) http://www.linuxcentral.com/ > linux/lg/issue43/tag/4.html Oh, the automounter was getting in the way on that one. That's something I don't know much about. So, do you have an amd in state 'D'? If so, disabling it or fixing mig

Re: [techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > i've traced the command using strace, and found that it hangs right > on the the mount() system call. If the mount syscall is hanging, then DNS can't have anything to do with it (I don't think even in the case of NFS, because the kernel doesn't know about resolv.co

[techtalk] problem on mount possible DNS issue??

2001-02-07 Thread K. Ziel
Hi all-- i'm currently working on a caldera box, and trying to get a partition to mount. the partition is actually on a RAID,but i was able to fdisk and create the filesystem on the RAID, as well as to duplicate the mount problem with a different partition on a non-raid drive...so i don't th

Re: [techtalk] Problem in bringing up ethernet card

2000-11-28 Thread arindamc
At Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:56:15 -0500 , Phil Savoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Arindam, > >I know you have said that your cards are working properly but this symptom >sounds like an irq or address issue. Would you have the diskette that came >with the ethernet cards? You may want to try and

Re: [techtalk] Problem in bringing up ethernet card

2000-11-28 Thread arindamc
At Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:56:15 -0500 , Phil Savoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Arindam, > >I know you have said that your cards are working properly but this symptom >sounds like an irq or address issue. Would you have the diskette that came >with the ethernet cards? You may want to try and

Re: [techtalk] Problem in bringing up ethernet card

2000-11-28 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi Arindam, I know you have said that your cards are working properly but this symptom sounds like an irq or address issue. Would you have the diskette that came with the ethernet cards? You may want to try and boot into dos and run the software diags that would come with the card to elimina

[techtalk] Problem in bringing up ethernet card

2000-11-28 Thread arindamc
Hi all, I am using linux-2.2.14-12. I have three ethernet cards installed in my machine(eth0,eth1,eth2). At the time of booting up it shows: Bringing up interface eth0 [OK] Bringing up interface eth1 and at this point it halts

Re: [techtalk] problem with scp

2000-11-28 Thread Tricia Bowen
gabrielle, ssh1 will only work with ssh1, and ssh2 will only work with ssh2. i suggest you install ssh1 on box2 or ssh2 on box1. also, if you're only trying to syncronize the files in a particular directory on each box, you might consider using rsync. -tricia On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, gabrielle wrot

Re: [techtalk] problem with scp

2000-11-28 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:52:37PM -0800 or thereabouts, gabrielle wrote: > I inherited a couple of linux boxes from other people in my group. Both > are running Redhat, but I don't know what versions. Probably old, as they > were built more than a year ago. Is there a way to find out which v

Re: [techtalk] problem with scp

2000-11-27 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:52:37PM -0800, gabrielle wrote: > I inherited a couple of linux boxes from other people in my group. > Both are running Redhat, but I don't know what versions. Probably > old, as they were built more than a year ago. Is there a way to find > out which version of Redhat

RE: [techtalk] problem with scp

2000-11-27 Thread Angela Nash
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [techtalk] problem with scp Hi everyone. I love this list, I've been learning a lot. And now I have a question. I inherited a couple of linux boxes from other people in my group. Both are running

[techtalk] problem with scp

2000-11-27 Thread gabrielle
Hi everyone. I love this list, I've been learning a lot. And now I have a question. I inherited a couple of linux boxes from other people in my group. Both are running Redhat, but I don't know what versions. Probably old, as they were built more than a year ago. Is there a way to find out

Re: [techtalk] problem

2000-08-14 Thread Robert Wade
Quite odd that it wouldn't work after a fresh install. Can you give me the output you get when you run fetchmail in verbose mode (fetchmail -v)? Robert Wade On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Anthony Russello wrote: > > Alright, here's the deal, I had my Linux machine (Mandrake 7) running > just fine. I'

[techtalk] problem

2000-08-14 Thread Anthony Russello
Alright, here's the deal, I had my Linux machine (Mandrake 7) running just fine. I'm using fetchmail to retrieve my email messages from my pop3 ISP server. The fetchmail file is perfect, I've been using it for a month. Then I installed a new hard drive. That worked, but left things a littl

Re: [techtalk] Problem setting up dual-homed IBM NetFinity 1000

2000-08-10 Thread Shane Landrum
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, C. M. Martin wrote: > I have an IBM NetFinity 1000 running Caldera OpenLinux 2.4. The system needs > to be dual-homed, and the system seems to recognize both ethernet cards. One > is on eth0, IRQ11, and is working properly. Network connectivity is just fine. > The other is

Re: [techtalk] Problem setting up dual-homed IBM NetFinity 1000

2000-08-09 Thread Anmol Khirbat
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, C. M. Martin wrote: > box can ping itself at that address, but can't see any other box on that > network, and nothing on that net can see this box. Pinging your own addresses only tells you whether the lo interface is up or not. > I went into the network settings with COA

[techtalk] Problem setting up dual-homed IBM NetFinity 1000

2000-08-09 Thread C. M. Martin
Hi, everyone, I've run into another problem, and before I call Caldera, I thought I'd try the most helpful list I know of. I have an IBM NetFinity 1000 running Caldera OpenLinux 2.4. The system needs to be dual-homed, and the system seems to recognize both ethernet cards. One is on eth0, IRQ11

[techtalk] Problem with Intel 810 Video Chip Set

2000-07-09 Thread kar99002
hi all i've been lurking for a while now...i've been very busy with my summer internship and had some problems with my university mail server...my password expired and i had to resort to some rather exreme measures to get my mail working again. i recently switched distros...i'm running mand

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-02 Thread Sean Garrett (MBD)
Snarfblat wrote: > I appologize if this has been mentioned, but lilo will not work with > NT. They both seem to want the MBR in an exclusive manner, so you must > pick one or the other, or find another os manager like System Commander > (which will play nice with NT). on this i have to disagree

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:01:12PM -0600, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > AHA! My DVD is bootable! And I have a CD-RW > > Will let you know if this works tonight... thanks Jeff! > > Cool. Since it's a bit larger than a floppy, you can put a whole root > filesystem on it if

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Andrew Plumb
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Snarfblat wrote: > My appologies for spreading misinformation... No need; it's tricky stuff and deserves to plastered with "proceed with caution" stickers. After all, we're dealing with a trojan OS called Windows. :-) Andrew. -- Andrew Plumb, VE3SLG mailto://andrew(at)plum

RE: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am having a problem with a dualboot myself, but on a single hard > drive. I believe the problem may be that the Linux partition is too > close to the end of the disk. Install lilo. What does it say? (The space on the disk where the kernel is must me accessable f

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Storm
This will tell you a little about Fdisk /MBR ( "the command rewrites the master boot record (MBR) only, and not the entire boot record. The FDISK /MBR command rewrites only the first 446 bytes of the master boot record, not the partition table." ) It might not help in this case. http://support.mic

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Mandi
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 1 13:38:11 2000 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > X-Lines: 56 > > > > I ha

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > AHA! My DVD is bootable! And I have a CD-RW > Will let you know if this works tonight... thanks Jeff! Cool. Since it's a bit larger than a floppy, you can put a whole root filesystem on it if you want. I'm not sure that's a great idea, though. /dev likes to be

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Snarfblat
Andrew Plumb wrote: > > As Harry mentioned, there's a howto which works quite nicely, particularly > if your boot partition is NTFS. I suspect the problems relate to using > NTFS as your boot partition instead of FAT. > My appologies for spreading misinformation... -- .oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.o

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Shirrell
AIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 1 13:38:11 2000 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Lines: 56 > > I have to heartily concur with Harry here. NT and Linux will

RE: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread moebius
Hey Sally, That is the default behavior if you put LILO on a hd partition instead of the MBR. Kinda equivalent to saying: LILO: linux root=/dev/hda3 HTH, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270 On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AHA!

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Mandi
I have to heartily concur with Harry here. NT and Linux will play VERY nice together. Ive had more luck with NT-first-then-Linux installs, while a friend of mine swears by Linux-first-then-Nt installs. syscom is an incredible tool, if you can put your hands on it. I have an old version somewhe

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Andrew Plumb
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Snarfblat wrote: [deletia] > I appologize if this has been mentioned, but lilo will not work with > NT. They both seem to want the MBR in an exclusive manner, so you must > pick one or the other, or find another os manager like System Commander > (which will play nice with NT)

RE: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Sally_Hutchinson
only OS on my hd. If the floppy isn't there, it boots up Windoze just like IT's the only OS Is that common? -Sally -Original Message- From: Jeff Dike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [techtalk] Problem

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Linda Walsh
You can also buy a program "Partition Magic" -- costly for the use, about $70 bucks, but it can move the dos partition up by say 32Meg. Then you can put a /boot partition in that first 32 Meg and the rest of linux can go anywhere you like. The /boot partition can be as small as 2Meg, but if you

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread moebius
Hello All, That is simply not the case. Here at work I have a dual boot NT/Linux(RH6.1) machine. There are great howto's around on getting it to work and it's not that difficult. Regards, Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270 On Wed, 1 Mar 2

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Shirrell
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 29 23:30:30 2000 > X-Authentication-Warning: bb5.betterbox.net: ophey owned process doing -bs > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Sender: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Robert A. Newman
Hi folks My first post here, but I've been following you for a couple of months now. I only just got my first Linux box running, +/-, had the "above 1024th cylinder" problem, tried to fix it by re-installing lilo in mbr, then I Really had a problem, couldn't boot Windoze, finally held my brea

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Andrew Plumb
Also check around the website of your hard-drive manufacturer. When I moved my Western Digital drive from slave (/dev/hdb) to master (/dev/hda) I was getting the same "L 01 01 01..." when attempting to boot. They had a simple DOS utility that, when run, created a special boot-floppy to (re)crea

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Snarfblat
Shirrell wrote: > > I had the same problem trying to install linux on an external > drive on a PC running NT when I tried to install for a dual boot > with lilo -- the 01 01 screen was a result of overwriting my > master boot record. I appologize if this has been mentioned, but lilo will not wo

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Shirrell
I had the same problem trying to install linux on an external drive on a PC running NT when I tried to install for a dual boot with lilo -- the 01 01 screen was a result of overwriting my master boot record. I don't recall the exact fix (the first time I reinstalled NT) but I believe that you ca

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff Dike
> In any case, I can't boot Linux without the boot disk, and when I do, > "starting linux" it takes about 10 minutes for all the dots to go > across the screen. Any hints on how to speed up my boot? Boot off something other than a floppy. Zips can be made bootable, I think. > Or on how > to

RE: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-03-01 Thread Sally_Hutchinson
Jeff wrote: >If you have a spare partition on your first disk, you might try installing >Linux there (even if it's only enough to boot the system) and putting all of >your data on the second disk (after the kernel is booted, the BIOS isn't used >any more, so there shouldn't be any trouble with

Re: [techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-02-29 Thread Jeff Dike
> It got upset and when I boot up, I get a lovely screen with 01 01 01 > 01 ... It's a Dell Dimension L500r with two EIDE drives in there, > Win98 on the first one and Linux occupying the second one. Can > anyone give me any hints as to what the booting heartattack is over? At the bottom of the

[techtalk] Problem with LILO & booting

2000-02-29 Thread Olivia
Hi, I've installed RedHat 6.1 to dual boot with Win98 using LILO. It got upset and when I boot up, I get a lovely screen with 01 01 01 01 ... It's a Dell Dimension L500r with two EIDE drives in there, Win98 on the first one and Linux occupying the second one. Can anyone give me any hints as to

Re: [techtalk] Problem with format of list

1999-11-09 Thread jenn
> Cathy James wrote: > > We seem to have a problem with the mailing list. > > I just sent a note titled "Quicken and WINE?" to the > list and cc'ed it to myself. The cc: arrived here correctly > formatted (i.e., in plain text, no HTML, no fonts). The > version that went to the

[techtalk] Problem with format of list

1999-11-09 Thread Cathy James
Title: Problem with format of list     We seem to have a problem with the mailing list.     I just sent a note titled "Quicken and WINE?" to the list and cc'ed it to myself.  The cc: arrived here correctly formatted (i.e., in plain text, no HTML, no fonts).  The version that went to

Re: [techtalk] problem

1999-10-06 Thread Just This Girl
I have seen them as low as $10 if you aren't looking for something fancy or extravagant, and sometimes stores offer specials and rebates that all but make them free. Best Buy, CompUSA, Office Depot, Office Max... keep an eye on their circulars. Granted, they are just your average 102-key keyboards

Re: [techtalk] problem

1999-10-06 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:43:35 -0500 (CDT), Di Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >(I don't >really want to buy a new keyboard) Keyboards are cheap. I've had to buy four replacement keyboards in the past three years, and I can generally get them for under $30. Kelly [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [techtalk] problem

1999-10-06 Thread Di Gregory
Well rebooting is the first thing you do to try to fix a windoz machine :) It was doing it even when it was going through the memory test. I unplugged teh keyboard and when windoz came up, it didn't do it, so it appears to be a problem with the keyboard. > Sounds like one or more keys is ja

Re: [techtalk] problem

1999-10-06 Thread MGreen
Sounds like one or more keys is jammed causing major key repeat! Is your keyboard still causing the problem even when you shut down and restart? Turn your PC off, disconnect the keyboard and have a good look at the keys, testing them out, etc...it may be a good time to clean your keyboard. (A

Re: [techtalk] problem

1999-10-06 Thread Lindsay Walker
Is this still happening after you rebooted? I've never known a reboot to not solve this type of problem (except in the case that you had a virus). Lindsay - > Ok this problem doesn't directly relate to Linux, but... > > Evidently while I was at work, my roommate was on my computer at