2 hard disks and formatting
by िऩऩाद
Hi
I have 2 hdds both 40gb. ( Say D1 and D2) I have 2 pc's (say P1 and P2)
P1- new with P4,256mb ram CDR/DVD combo drive etc.and D1 is connected here
P2 old IBM branded celeron 500 64 mb RAM 52x CD ROM drive BIOS does not
support CD booting and D2 is connected here
The P1 pc boots XP and FC3 as XP is used by my brother. Also I have
installed 2 more distros on this.
As the P2 pc does not have a FDD and CD boot is not possible I was not able
to load any distros except ubuntu so it was lying idle for some time
I removed D2 from the old PC P2 and connected in the P1 Pc
The P1 Pc is detecting it as Primary master and Primary slave.
Even FC3 recognises it as hdb.
My problems
1.I do not remember what filesystem I have created on D2 although FC3 shows
some partitions. I am unable to mount them.
2. Sometimes after booting FC3 or even Slackware when I run dmesg I get some
errors of DisK_read io error
3.How do i format D2 and create partitions on the same
4.My D2 is showing as 32gb even though it is 40 gb. Can this be resolved by
formatting it new
Thanks and regards
Ninad Bapat
18 years, 9 months
RPM, yum, smart, up2date will not load
by Ausband, Jeff
>> I installed smart, and done a smart upgrade. It downloaded all of the
>> files and installed up to gnome-games and locked up on me. After
>> restart I get:
>>
>> "error: 'rpm' python module is not available"
>>
>> Now I cannot use Yum, Smart and Up2date.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>Ouch! I'd try
># rpm -Uvh --force <URL_or_path>/rpm-python-4.4.1-22.i386.rpm
>May have to add other rpm-*.rpm packages depending on what got
clobbered.
>Phil
Thanks for the help and sorry about the newbie error.
I've tried to force the upgrade of the rpm files but I can't get RPM to
even start I get:
Rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libbeecrypt.so.6: cannot open
shared object file: No such files or directory.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Jeff
18 years, 9 months
RE: (OT) Bit Torrent usage ...
by Erik Hemdal
> Can anyone explain, in ordinary language, what possible
> advantage it would give me over, say, wget?
>
> Mike
I'll try to help.
If you use a conventional tool, even wget, you are making one connection to
a remote server. If that server goes down, or slows down, your transfer
slows down too. Regardless of the bandwidth you have available, you are
limited by the bandwidth of the remote server (or of the slowest link
between you).
Again, if the transfer is interrupted, you lose. You must start again.
More than once, I've lost a complete Red Hat download because, after
downloading 80% of (say) a CD image, the connection failed somewhere and all
was lost.
BitTorrent establishes multiple connections between your computer and others
which have the files you want. The files are transferred in multiple
pieces. If a single connection fails, you only lose a portion of the data
you are transferring; the previously downloaded parts are still valid.
Since you have multiple connections, you are less likely to overwhelm any
one of them, and more likely to use all of the bandwidth you have to receive
data.
BitTorrent manages the incoming pieces and makes sure they are intact and
correct.
In payment for a more-efficient download, your system also turns into a
server for the length of time you are running BitTorrent. So others are
downloading from you at the same time you are downloading from others.
Erik
18 years, 9 months
Realtime traceroute
by Kenneth Porter
Does anyone know of a realtime traceroute that can be used to show
anomalous routers?
I'm having an issue while gaming in which I'll see my ping to an unrelated
server suddenly and momentarily spike, which tells me that some router
close to me is having a short-term issue. But because it's not a continuous
problem, I can't tell where it's happening.
Ideally I'd like a set of strip chart graphs showing ping times to all
routers between me and a selected server, effectively a realtime traceroute
that I can check when my ping shoots up.
(I'm gaming on a Windows box while leaving a ping running to a different
server on my Fedora box. When I get dropped from the game server by
"connection issues", I use my KVM to switch to my Fedora screen and see a
momentary jump from about 100 ms to 1000 ms in ping.)
BTW, my residential router is a Linksys WRT54G running Sveasoft Satori
Linux with QoS enabled. I'm not inclined to think that it's the problem.
But there might be a spike in bandwidth elsewhere in my LAN that could be
an issue. A measurement of packet loss at the Linksys could be useful, but
I don't know how to look for that and am open to suggestions.
18 years, 9 months
(OT) Bit Torrent usage ...
by Mike McCarty
I see that the Red Hat site suggests Bit Torrent.
I went to the website, and I don't see where it would
help. And I don't understand the bit about "if you don't
allow Bit Torrent to upload from your machine, you won't
get improved download rates."
They specifically state that it is a means for publishing
things from one's own machine to the world.
Can anyone explain, in ordinary language, what possible
advantage it would give me over, say, wget?
Mike
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18 years, 9 months
usb problems after recent updates
by Chris Jones
Hi,
I'm running FC4 on a laptop been experiencing usb problems since the last
round of FC4 updates. Basically the symptoms are that if I plug in my usb
mouse, which has worked find up to this point, the system goes into a cycle
of 100% cpu usage for a few seconds, which then stops for a period and then
restarts. The mouse does not work (It might for a few seconds but then
stops). Thankfully the touchpad works OK...
Does anyone else have this problem ? Any suggestions what to do would be
greatfully received as this is rather annoying.
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18 years, 9 months
User has computer locked
by Stanley Davis
Is there a way to unlock/logoff a user that has the computer locked without knowing their password? The computer in question is a stand alone computer. I know in the Windows environment that any administrator should unlock and signoff the current user. Is the same possible under Fedora Core 4? Also is there a way to limit when a user can be logged into a computer, for example user1 can only logon between 9AM and 3PM.
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18 years, 9 months
FC4 Problems with auditd
by Vassilios Kotoulas
hi,
when auditd starts on boot I get an error message about a syntax error
in /etc/audit.rules in line 5
this is the file:
# This file contains the auditctl rules that are loaded
# whenever the audit daemon is started via the initscripts.
#
# First rule - delete all
-D
#
# Feel free to add below this line. See auditctl man page
#
# Increase the buffers to survive stress events
-b 256
I can't find -D in the auditctl(8). Is it a remain from fc3? I did an
update fc3 -> fc4 some days ago. How must the first rule look now?
regards
vassilios
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18 years, 9 months
Our (US) $s at work.
by Ian Malone
Callahan, Michael wrote:
>
>
> Let's say that those whom you "understand" got their own country (or
> countries) and had achieved all of their political and social aims. What
> would that world be like? I would like to understand your understanding of
> these people.
>
> If you had to live there or in America, what would be your choice, and why?
>
>
And, more importantly for our purposes, what would be their
needs wrt FC5?
(and is any one else finding this tedious?)
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18 years, 9 months
