fedora-list Digest, Vol 5, Issue 253
usmany at excite.com
usmany at excite.com
Mon Jul 19 05:53:39 UTC 2004
Hi guys,
I am new to linux completely. a friend introduced me to fedora core 1 which i installed and configured with the friend.... i found out that linux os are cool but little hard to understand, but i am managing to get to know it better now.
my question is, how can i set up my dhcp server on the fedora core 1? i need help guys.
thanks
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Send fedora-list mailing list submissions to<br> fedora-list at redhat.com<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> fedora-list-request at redhat.com<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> fedora-list-owner at redhat.com<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of fedora-list digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Unofficial FAQ Update: 2004-07-17 (jludwig)<br> 2. RE: wireless wpc54g (John Dangler)<br> 3. Re: Gaim Upload (Tim Raats)<br> 4. Re: Running Gnome apps in KDE - and fonts/Button sizes<br> (Jim Higson)<br> 5. RE: tc filter problem (Cowles, Steve)<br> 6. Re: Fetchmail (Steven Stern)<br> 7. Re: Repost: RedCarpet always fails :( (D. D. Brierton)<br> 8. Re: phonegaim (Austin Isler)<br> 9. Re: phonegaim (Andreas Thienemann)<br!
> 10. Re: How to schedule for every two fridays with cron and/or<br> at? (Mike Fedyk)<br> 11. Re: KVM Trouble, Mouse Gone Wild (Nifty Hat Mitch)<br> 12. Re: It isn't what RHL 5.2 was (Rob Brown-Bayliss)<br> 13. Re: (no subject) (Scott Talbot)<br> 14. Apache 2.0.47-10 and FC1 (Mike)<br> 15. Re: Repost: RedCarpet always fails :( (Igor Anikeev)<br> 16. Re: dual-booting without GRUB or LILO (James Wilkinson)<br> 17. Re: FC2: iiimecf-init.el file delays loading emacs vs. FC1<br> (Hideki Hiura)<br> 18. Re: how to check my current X11 version (Jim Cornette)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:55:09 -0400<br>From: jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net><br>Subject: Re: Unofficial FAQ Update: 2004-07-17<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <1090184108.3188.2.camel at jMOD.home><br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 03:33, M!
ax K-A wrote:<br>> Hey there! I've updated the FAQ today! ht!
tp://www
.fedorafaq.org/<br>> <br>> Here are the highlights of the current update:<br>> <br>> + New German Translation (almost done, in progress, but linked)<br>> + Updated Radeon question to solve many problems<br>> + Simplified nVidia question<br>> + Updated "XP Dual Boot" question to include a link to the Big, Long<br>> HOWTO.<br>> <br>> Let me know if you have any thoughts! You can contact me directly at<br>> max -at- fedorafaq {dot} org.<br>> <br>> -Max<br>>From a brief skim it looks much cleaner and I like the aesthetics<br>better.<br><br>It is also much easier and quicker to locate information.<br><br>I LIKE IT!!!<br>-- <br>jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:55:39 -0400<br>From: "John Dangler" <jdangler at atlantic.net><br>Subject: RE: wireless wpc54g <br>To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <05d801c46d09$983db290$2201a8c0 at croatus><br>Co!
ntent-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]<br>On Behalf Of Stephen Tate<br>Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:34 PM<br>To: fedora-list at redhat.com<br>Subject: wireless wpc54g <br><br>>I am attempting to configure my wireless wpc54g card and router using<br>Fedora. I'm >searching google and other locations for drivers/instructions.<br>(1) Get ndiswrapper from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net<br><br>(2)make install<br> ndiswrapper -i WPC54G/lsbcmnds.inf<br><br>(3) Next up is creating an interface configuration file in <br> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0:<br><br> MODE=Managed<br> ESSID=wifi.mfd-consult.dk<br> KEY=<26 hex characters for the 128 bit WEP key specific to my AP><br> DEVICE=wlan0<br> ONBOOT=yes<br> BOOTPROTO=dhcp<br> USERCTL=no<br> PEERDNS=no<br> TYPE=Wireless<br><br>(4) Then came the tricky part: The WPC54G is a PCMCIA card, but on my Re!
dhat<br>Linux 9 installation, the networking is set to start !
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the PCMCIA<br>interface is initialized. To overcome this problem, I changed the chkconfig<br>parameters for three of the startup scripts (the NFS script failed to work<br>properly if not started after the network):<br> pcmcia: 21 96 <br> network: 22 90 <br> nfslock: 23 86 <br><br>(5) After that, I issued the following commands to reset the sequence:<br> chkconfig pcmcia reset<br> chkconfig network reset<br> chkconfig nfslock reset<br><br>(6) The only thing missing was to make sure the PCMCIA and NdisWrapper<br>drivers were loaded on startup, by simulating a card insert event - if<br>necessary - and forcing the drivers to load:<br>rmmod ndiswrapper 2>/dev/null<br>cardctl status | grep "no card" > /dev/null && cardctl insert<br>modprobe ndiswrapper<br><br>That's it, running /etc/init.d/network restart should bring up the wireless<br>interface, after which I could turn off the ethernet connection by setting<br>ONBOOT=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.<br><b!
r>I found this on an archive a while back... Hope this may help you.<br><br>Regards,<br>John<br> <br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:56:14 +0200<br>From: Tim Raats <vectrox at home.nl><br>Subject: Re: Gaim Upload<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <1090184174.3642.0.camel at localhost.localdomain><br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>Op zo 18-07-2004, om 19:07 +0100 uur schreef Chris McD:<br>> Tim Raats wrote:<br>> > Op zo 18-07-2004, om 12:37 +0100 uur schreef Roger Beever:<br>> > <br>> >>i can't address the actual <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > I have a Broadbandt cable connection. Normally when I upload to FTPs my<br>> > upload is about 64kb/s (512 kB/s). But when I send a file with gaim to a<br>> > friend I only have 6 kb/s (48 kB/s). And my question was if it was<br>> > possible to increase the uploadspeed in gaim to +- 64 kb/s (512 kB/s)<br>> <br>> you keep on referring to !
kilobits as kb and kilobytes as kB when in fact <br>> it is t!
he other
way round since bytes are bigger than bits.<br>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate<br>> <br>> Chris<br>> <br>> <br><br>pfffff dont do so difficult.. You guys/girls know what I mean so stop<br>with answering so dumb :/.<br>-- <br>The Unix way of sex <br># unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep<br><br>E-mail: vectrox at home.nl<br>MSN: vectrox1 at hotmail.com<br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Tim Raats<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:59:40 +0100<br>From: Jim Higson <jh at 333.org><br>Subject: Re: Running Gnome apps in KDE - and fonts/Button sizes<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <200407182159.40400.jh at 333.org><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br><br>Maybe try gtk-qt, which uses the Qt look to draw the GTK widgets. Still won't <br>improve the layout, mind.<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message:!
5<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:59:49 -0500<br>From: "Cowles, Steve" <steve at stevecowles.com><br>Subject: RE: tc filter problem<br>To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID:<br> <90769AF04F76D41186C700A0C90AFC3E320E16 at defiant.infohiiway.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>Bruno Wolff III wrote:<br><br>> The kernel is pretty recent, as it is 2.6.7-1.492 from fc development.<br>> I don't know that the iproute2 patches in it are recent though.<br>> It looks like I should try to grab source rpms and try playing with<br>> them.<br>> <br>> If this was working for you it sounds like a bug, but I am not sure<br>> enough to open a bugzilla ticket yet.<br><br>I should have mentioned this earlier. Sorry! I use FC2 as my DMZ server, but<br>I also run a 2 floppy, linux based Leaf/Bering distro for my firewall. It's<br>the firewall system that I run traffic shaping.<br><br>firewall# uname -a<br>Linux firewall 2.4.24 #18 Sat Apr 24 10:07:53 CEST 20!
04 i586 unknown<br><br><br>With the above in mind, I tried th!
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nd you posted on my FC2 system<br>without a problem. I did have to define the root class first though. I have<br>left all that stuff out of my reply. For reference:<br><br>[root at excelsior log]# uname -a<br>Linux excelsior 2.6.6-1.435.2.1 #1 Wed Jun 30 15:29:29 EDT 2004 i586 i586<br>i386 GNU/Linux<br><br>[snip...]<br>[root at excelsior log]# tc filter add dev eth0 parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 10<br>u32 match ip tos 0x10 0xff flowid 1:10<br>[root at excelsior log]# tc qdisc del dev eth0 root 2> /dev/null > /dev/null<br><br>Based on the above, it looks like the redhat kernel and tc rpm's support the<br>above tc options. Plus, I did not have to load any modules. They were loaded<br>automatically.<br><br>FWIW: I cut/pasted the tc commands from my wondershaper script on my<br>firewall to my FC2 system to test the above. The only thing I changed was<br>the dev specification and uplink speeds. i.e. eth0<br><br>Steve Cowles<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Messa!
ge: 6<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:02:13 -0500<br>From: Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com><br>Subject: Re: Fetchmail<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <39plf05h48lm7f8ht3l7i2dcpg4pol71ka at 4ax.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:07:35 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Tate<br><stephen952003 at yahoo.com> wrote:<br><br>>Can i use fetchmail to pull down my email from lotus notes?<br><br>If there's a POP or IMAP interface for your notes server, yes.<br><br>man fetchmail<br>--<br> Steve<br> <br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 7<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:14:02 +0100<br>From: "D. D. Brierton" <darren at dzr-web.com><br>Subject: Re: Repost: RedCarpet always fails :(<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <1090185242.1421.69.camel at excession.dzr><br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 20:10, Igor Anikeev wr!
ote:<br>> The GUI version says:<br>> <br>> Unable to mount se!
rvice fo
r ' http://open-carpet.org/services/livna':<br> ^^^<br>> Don't know how to handle URI scheme ' http'<br> ^^^<br>> <br>> (fault -617)<br><br>Okay, this doesn't solve the general file not found error you are<br>getting with rug, but as James Wilcox just pointed out to me on rc-devel<br>the above is caused by a bug in Red Carpet (the GUI), which will be<br>fixed in the next release, whereby it barfs on a leading space in the<br>URLs above.<br><br>Best, Darren<br><br>-- <br>=====================================================================<br>D. D. Brierton darren at dzr-web.com www.dzr-web.com<br> Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson)<br>=====================================================================<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 8<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:32:23 -0700<br>From: Austin Isler <a_c_isler at verizon.net><br>Subject!
: Re: phonegaim<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <40FAEC67.8030800 at verizon.net><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed<br><br>Gustavo Rahal wrote:<br><br>>Hi<br>><br>>Has anyone tried phonegaim (www.phonegaim.com) yet?<br>>I tried to compile the source but i'm getting errors...<br>><br>>Any ideas?<br>><br>>Thanks<br>>Gustavo<br>><br>><br>> <br>><br>bah, try www.skype.com<br><br>Austin<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 9<br>Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 00:01:07 +0200 (CEST)<br>From: Andreas Thienemann <andreas at bawue.net><br>Subject: Re: phonegaim<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407182351440.2772-100000 at gonzo.dicp.de><br>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII<br><br>On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Gustavo Rahal wrote:<br><br>> Has anyone tried phonegaim (www.phonegaim.com) yet?<br>> I tried to compile the source but i'm gett!
ing errors...<br>Ahh well, you need the linphone packages and!
libosip
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ackages.<br>You can get them at <http://www.niemueller.de/projects/extrpms/packages.php?distro=fedora-2><br><br>Furtermore, make sure to have speex-devel and pcre-devel installed.<br><br>Then compile the sources with<br>export CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/linphone -I/usr/include/osipua <br> -I/usr/include/pcre"<br>./configure<br>make<br><br>If you should get a message about automake version mismatches, run <br>aclocal, followed by automake.<br><br>That should do the trick. However, this linphone thingy looks pretty bad <br>to me on the first glance. No documentation, no support, no nothing.<br>You might wanna take a look at different tools.<br>If you are only interested in the sipphone features, try linphone. If you <br>need the video and audio features for MSN, Yahoo or similar instant <br>messangers, try <http://gaim-vv.sf.net>.<br><br>This tools looks much better than linphone and probably does the same.<br><br>bye,<br> andreas<br><br><br><br><br>-----------------------------!
-<br><br>Message: 10<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:06:42 -0700<br>From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk at matchmail.com><br>Subject: Re: How to schedule for every two fridays with cron and/or<br> at?<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <40FAF472.8050300 at matchmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed<br><br>M3 Freak wrote:<br><br>>On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 18:59, Mike Fedyk wrote:<br>> <br>><br>>>Hi,<br>>><br>>>I have Amanda setup to run a daily backup Monday through Friday night. <br>>>That works fine.<br>>><br>>>But now I want to add a full backup every two weeks on Friday night and <br>>>I'm having trouble creating cron entries that don't have the commands <br>>>running on the same day for full and daily backups.<br>>> <br>>><br>><br>>While I appreciate what you're trying to do, do you realize that<br>>AMANDA's entire reason for being is to make backups easier by not<br>>telling her what to do? You are supposed to!
specify your tape and dump<br>>cycles, and then let AMANDA f!
igure ou
t the rest. She'll schedule full<br>>dumps when she feels they're required, but the entire decision is based<br>>on how you set up the tape and dump cycles.<br>> <br>><br>Yes, I understand that, but sometimes you need to say "yes, there was is <br>full backup on X tapes every other Friday" and not have to explain that <br>you'll have to check to see which tape contains a full backup of this <br>volume.<br><br>>AMANDA is a great backup program, but I see people trying to force<br>>backup schedules all the time. It's not needed.<br>><br>>You should subscribe to the AMANDA mailing list. It has got to be one<br>>of the best, if not the best, mailing list out there. People are<br>>insanely helpful.<br>> <br>><br>I just did that as a matter of fact.<br><br>Amanda looks pretty good now that I'm figuring out how it works, but the <br>documentation is horrendous (especially the faq-o-matic).<br><br>Mike<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 11<br>Dat!
e: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:22:24 -0700<br>From: Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net><br>Subject: Re: KVM Trouble, Mouse Gone Wild<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <20040718222224.GA4376 at xtl1.xtl.tenegg.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:10:12PM -0400, Yang Xiao wrote:<br>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:24:50 -0400, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:<br>> > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 10:08, Yang Xiao wrote:<br>> > > Hi all,<br>> > > I'm running FC2 Kenel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3. I'm using a Belkin SOHO series<br>> > > 4 port KVM switch (with the latest firmware)and everytime when I<br>> > > switch the ports, the mouse goes wild and the mouse driver complains<br>> > > in the log:<br>> > <br>> > Check the archives for discussion of this exact topic for more details.<br>> > <br>> > You can try adding:<br>> > <br>> > psmouse.proto=imps<br>> > <br>> > to your kernel options. It has worked for some.!
You may also want to<br>> > try bare instead of imps if imp!
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work.<br>> > <br>> > (IMHO, Belkin KVMs should be avoided, they appear to have more problems<br>> > than other KMMs)<br>....<br>> > <br>> Hi,<br>> That did the trick, thanks!<br><br><br>Of interest all mice are not created equal.<br>Be specific about the involved mouse, keyboard and KVM.<br>Be specific about the OS versions on each of the KVM ports<br>Be specific about the OS drivers in each box.<br><br>If you install extended service drivers on Box-A and not on Box-B<br>there is a risk that the mode set in the device (keyboard or mouse)<br>will be in conflict. This may be why "psmouse.proto=imps" fixes<br>things.<br><br>Also some KVM's trigger a device reset during some changes. Avoid<br>switching devices with the devices. For example, use the buttons on<br>the KVM not the hot keys to switch. If bits are flowing at the time<br>the KVM switches the new host must recover and perhaps reset things.<br><br>Pay attention to USB and bluetooth present and future products. Th!
ese<br>connections have the potential of being much more robust. <br><br><br>-- <br> T o m M i t c h e l l <br> /dev/dull where insight begins.<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 12<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:44:58 +1200<br>From: Rob Brown-Bayliss <rbb at orcon.net.nz><br>Subject: Re: It isn't what RHL 5.2 was<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <1090125898.5753.2.camel at localhost.localdomain><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 15:13, Jim Cornette wrote:<br><br><br>> I picked the 3com NIC because of confidence that the card was Linux <br>> compatible.<br><br><br>Like wise, I chose Nvidia because I knew they made linux drivers, I<br>chose a realtek nic because I knew from experience that it worked with<br>linux. All the hardware worked crashless on RH8, exact same box. I<br>agree there must a be a problem but wish I knew what it was.<br><br><br>--<br>Rob Brow!
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Kirby Myatt<br>> <br> Kirby:<br><br>I don't see any sign of a response to you (possibly due to there being<br>no subject!).<br>If you would be so kind as to respond with what OS you'll be using to<br>make the CDs and what software you have available, I am sure we can get<br>your problems solved very quickly.<br><br>Scott<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 14<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:32:45 -0400<br>From: Mike <mwpowell at snappydsl.net><br>Subject: Apache 2.0.47-10 and FC1<br>To: fedora-list at redhat.com<br>Message-ID: <1090189964.16170.9.camel at MobileMouser.CommandCentral.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>Good evening everyone,<br><br>I am having a heck of a time getting apache to run CGI scripts. In the<br>browser I get an "Internal Server Error" in my logs I'm getting<br>"Premature end of script". In my httpd.conf I have user and grou =<br>apache. The apache user and group, at the moment, have all permissions<br>granted to them for my !
cgi-bin folder. I have the cgi-bin folder aliased<br>as follo!
ws:<br><
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>ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"<br><br>I can run the script from the command line just fine. I've double and<br>tripled checked the interpreter path "/usr/bin/perl". Everything I can<br>find on the web says it's good. Any ideas?<br><br><br>Thanks<br><br>Mike<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 15<br>Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:45:50 +0400<br>From: Igor Anikeev <insider at t-k.ru><br>Subject: Re: Repost: RedCarpet always fails :(<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <40FAFD9E.3050104 at t-k.ru><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>D. D. Brierton wrote:<br><br>> And did Red Carpet ever work for you? <br><br>No.<br><br> > I've just used Red Carpet to tell<br>> me what openswan is, and I wonder if it is causing the problem. Is<br>> openswan a service that you can switch on and off? If it is, could you<br>> try switching it off and seeing if it makes any difference?<br><br>It's off and!
nothing's changed :(<br><br><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Igor Anikeev<br><br>jabber://unicursal@jabber.org<br>ICQ #312483023<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br>Name: signature.asc<br>Type: application/pgp-signature<br>Size: 256 bytes<br>Desc: OpenPGP digital signature<br>Url : /archives/fedora-list/attachments/20040719/783d5b38/signature.bin<br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 16<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:53:02 +0100<br>From: James Wilkinson <james at westexe.demon.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: dual-booting without GRUB or LILO<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <20040718225302.GA2844 at howells.westexe.demon.co.uk><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>Brian Gaynor wrote:<br>> In all cases the linux partitions are in the extended<br>> partition at the end of the disk as they are much less picky than<br>> Windows (Windows wants to boot from a primary parti!
tion).<br><br>Jeff Vian replied:<br>> AFAIK so does Linux. I !
have nev
er tried to use extended partitions for<br>> /boot so I cannot vouch for it but there was a thread a few days ago<br>> where the poster was asking why he could not boot after doing an install<br>> <br>> He had put the /boot partition inside the extended partition.<br>> As soon as he made /boot a primary partition the system booted.<br><br>Very odd. I rarely use a separate /boot partition on Linux (the only<br>reason for doing so is to get early boot stuff where the BIOS can see<br>it[1], but I've always had /boot on an extended partition and never had<br>a problem with that[2].<br><br>James.<br><br>[1] Unless anyone knows better...<br>[2] Well, not with Linux. BSDs and OpenServer [3] like slicing up<br>primary partitions...<br>[3] Hey, this was in 1998, under the old SCO.<br>-- <br>E-mail address: james@ | *No-one* liked the Joshua N'Clement block. The people<br>westexe.demon.co.uk | who lived there thought everyone should be taken out<br> | and then!
the block should be blown up, and the people<br> | who lived near the block just wanted it blown up.<br> | -- Terry Pratchett<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 17<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:04:50 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: hiura at openi18n.org (Hideki Hiura)<br>Subject: Re: FC2: iiimecf-init.el file delays loading emacs vs. FC1<br>To: fedora-list at redhat.com<br>Message-ID: <20040718.160450.39023415.hiura at openi18n.org (Hideki<br> Hiura)><br>Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>> From: Clint Harshaw <clint at penguinsolutions.org><br>> I've google'd for what this file is supposed to be doing, and didn't <br>> come up with much for an answer. It seems to be related to international <br>> language support.<br><br>Yes, it is an emacs interface for multilingual input method. If you<br>don't input any international text, you can comment out the section<br>loading it.<br><br>--<br>hiura@{freestandard!
s.org,OpenI18N.org,li18nux.org,unicode.org,sun.com} <br>Chair!
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.org/The Free Standards Group http://www.OpenI18N.org<br>Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc, USA eFAX: 207-433-8964<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 18<br>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:05:56 +0000<br>From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at sbcglobal.net><br>Subject: Re: how to check my current X11 version<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <1090191956l.23339l.0l at cornette-fc2><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed<br><br><br>On 07/18/2004 10:42:36 AM, Mingzhai Sun wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>> <br>> I am wondering how to check my current X11 version?<br><br>If you are running FC2 or later, from a command shell (terminal) type <br>the below.<br><br> rpm -q xorg-x11<br><br>This should give you the version number.<br><br>FC3T1 has the below. The version you have should be lesser.<br><br>xorg-x11-6.7.0-6<br><br>Jim<br>-- <br>More are taken in!
by hope than by cunning.<br> -- Vauvenargues<br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br>fedora-list at redhat.com<br>http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list<br><br><br>End of fedora-list Digest, Vol 5, Issue 253<br>*******************************************<br>
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