James Sutherland wrote:
>On Wed, 23 May 2001, Julie wrote:
>
>>Greets,
>>
>>I got my new server home last night (dual 933MHz P3s) and went
>>to install Linux only to discover the RedHat 6.1 I have is Just Too
>>Old to load on a 60MB disk. It keeps bailing with "Boot partition
>>too big" or words
'lo all-
> Hi Julie,
>
> You may want to try installing RH 6.1 with a 20 Meg /boot
> partition at the
> head of the drive before the 1023 cyl limit. This may help with
> the install.
>
>
Wait, but doesn't lba32 solve this problem, making the cylinder limit
irrelevant? That's what I'd thought..
Ok, here's a situation I've witnessed but cannot explain, and I'm sure
that's because once again there's a mack-truck sized hole in my Linux
knowledge I'm unaware of. ;-) Here goes:
I have a user with a machine that has a mix of SCSI and IDE devices. He
claims that initially the machine had both
Hi, Amy, and everyone else,
Let me join the chorus of those recommending webmin. I have used it on
both Red Hat and Caldera systems. It works nicely.
Regards,
Cait
Caitlyn M. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sy
> I can't get my CD rom open.
If you have a disk on there it is probably mounted. I don't know if SuSe
uses supermount or not. In any case, in KDE, right click on the CD-ROM
icon and you should get a menu with unmount as a choice. *If* SuSe gives
user-level permission to mount/unmount the CD-
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Michael Carson wrote:
> James Sutherland wrote:
> >On Wed, 23 May 2001, Julie wrote:
> >
> >>Greets,
> >>
> >>I got my new server home last night (dual 933MHz P3s) and went
> >>to install Linux only to discover the RedHat 6.1 I have is Just Too
> >>Old to load on a 60MB disk.
> -Original Message-
> From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James
> Sutherland
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 9:39 AM
> To: Brian Sweeney
> Cc: Techtalk@Linuxchix. Org
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] SCSI/IDE/booting...the other thread
> Hmm... boot-related major hole,
Hi, James,
> Yep: I tried Mandrake just over a year ago, and fell in love with it.
> S much more "refined" than RedHat, I thought. Then it disabled my
> system. Oops. How? Well, **EVERY** binary on a Mandrake system is a Perl
> script (well, almost every one - including vi!) That's fine, unt
On Thu, 24 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, James,
>
> > Yep: I tried Mandrake just over a year ago, and fell in love with it.
> > S much more "refined" than RedHat, I thought. Then it disabled my
> > system. Oops. How? Well, **EVERY** binary on a Mandrake system is a Perl
> > script (w
has anyone ever had experience with yellow dog linux (apple/macintosh)? i
am getting ready to buy a titanium g4 laptop and have a dual boot mac os x
and yellow dog. i've been told it can be done.
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Title: RE: [techtalk] yellow dog linux
Hi Amanda,
I trouble installing both yellow dog & Linux PPC on an iMac. Also documentation is quite limited
Davida
PS: if you get it working, please send some instructions my way. TIA
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From: Amanda Yee [mailto:[EMAIL PROT
On Thu, 24 May 2001 11:51:23 -0700 Davida Schiff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I trouble installing both yellow dog & Linux PPC
> on an iMac. Also documentation is quite limited
>
My b/f and I (though I didn't help all that much...was even
more of a newbie than I am now...) got mkLinux dual bo
On Thursday 24 May 2001 02:09 pm, James Sutherland wrote:
> 8.0, updated a few days ago. I'm not blaming Mandrake for breaking Perl in
> an update - Debian managed to break sendmail not too long ago, as Michelle
> found; every distro breaks things occasionally. What I *AM* ditching
> Mandrake for
Hi, James, and everyone else,
> Nicer, I'll agree, but I'm not sure I can ever forgive them those stupid
> Perl wrappers round everything... When I run "gcc", I want to be running
> the GNU C Compiler, not some sort of colouring-in-script wrapped round
it!
Not to split hairs, but... you *are*
Title: RE: [techtalk] yellow dog linux
Much thanks,
My problems seemed to center around partitioning of my 6gb hard drive. Linux installed without a problem, but after it re-booted, the screen was blank. I could not get into the mac side either. I am using yaboot
-Original Message-
On Thu, 24 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I can't get my CD rom open.
>
> If you have a disk on there it is probably mounted. I don't know if SuSe
> uses supermount or not. In any case, in KDE, right click on the CD-ROM
> icon and you should get a menu with unmount as a choice. *If*
The newer versions of LILO let you boot from a disk over 8GB with no
problems. The latest versions of about all distributions ship it. It's
been out for a while now.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:51 AM
To: Juli
> The newer versions of LILO let you boot from a disk over 8GB with no
> problems. The latest versions of about all distributions ship it. It's
> been out for a while now.
>
> Jason
That's what I thought...though I do know the RedHat7.x install doesn't use
lba32 mode by default, so most of the
From: Angela Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The newer versions of LILO let you boot from a disk over 8GB with no
> problems. The latest versions of about all distributions ship it. It's
> been out for a while now.
Thanks.
I took the machine to the shop this morning. It apparently has
a bad disk,
Hello all,
I joined this list a few days ago, and have enjoyed reading the various
topics that have been covered in that short time.
I've been using Linux at work for almost two years, using Red Hat 5.1 to run
a relational database system called D3 (formerly Pick). I'm the 'system
administrator
Thank you for all the advice that was sent...
But it doesn't matter ;)
Because i'm dumb, you see. The ISO that I burned was a live eval. I
can't install it anyway. But it ran off the CD and let me play for a
few hours. I'm just glad that I didn't really do anything in-depth,
because I would have
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:28:50AM -0400, Stephanie Maksylewich wrote:
>
> I've been using Linux at work for almost two years, using Red Hat 5.1 to run
> a relational database system called D3 (formerly Pick). I'm the 'system
> administrator', 'network administrator' and also make up the entire
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