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[Alug]to hdparm or not to hdparm?
by Keith Watson 29 May '03

29 May '03

Has anyone experimented with this command? Did it speed up your system much? Anyone had any bad experiences? Anyone got any recommendations for parameter settings? Keith ____________ >From the first not a thing is. Hui-neng

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Re: [Alug]Wine
by jamie.french＠talk21.com 29 May '03

29 May '03

This is funny, I tried to get Wine working last night as I want to run KazaaLite. I dont have much time in the evenings and all I got to work was progman! Need to do some reading. Aside, does anyone know of any P2P clients like Kazaa which run under Linux? Take Care, Jamie Best Regards, Jamie French -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com

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Fw: Re: [Alug]to hdparm or not to hdparm?
by Steve Fosdick 29 May '03

29 May '03

On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:16:39 +0100 "Keith Watson" <keith.watson(a)kewill.com> wrote: > Had a play with hdparm last night and my experience was the same as > Ian. In fact the settings seemed to be at optimum by default, > everything I tried just slowed things down. I didn't find anything that speeded up the transfer rate as reported by hdparm -t - there was as much variation between any two tests with the same settings as between different settings.

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Re: [Alug]Serial port permissions?
by Edenyard 29 May '03

29 May '03

MJ Ray wrote: > > Did you start a new login after doing that? Changes to /etc/group only > take effect then. Running the id command shows what groups you are in > for any given login. > > Basically, adding yourself to the proper group is the right way to do it. > Thanks for that! I didn't realise that I needed to start a new login. I tried restarting Efax and also X, but obviously didn't go far enough back. Anyway, I've set the port group back as it was and have added myself to its group, as you recommend, and now it's all fine. Cheers, Gerald.

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Re: [Alug]The Mystery of the Stubborn Kernel
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 29 May '03

29 May '03

Dan Hatton wrote: >I wasn't in the IRC discussion, so apologies if I'm going over old ground. >Are you trying to mount your root filesystem from an IDE drive? If so, >please note that kernel-image-2.4.18-686 doesn't have IDE support compiled >in. I've decided to blame that for my inability to run this kernel, and >it could also be to blame for yours. > >kernel-image-2.4.18-bf does have IDE support compiled in, but I can't run >that either, because it's too big for Loadlin. If you're using a >boot-loader other than Loadlin, you might have more luck. Dan - thanks, this was the problem. LILO had no problem with this image. To think i've been building kernel after kernel without having a clue I would need IDE support; time to get a book on basic hardware out of the library perhaps. :-) Ta Jen

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[Alug]GNU/Linux Partition Utilities
by Keith Watson 28 May '03

28 May '03

I'm getting to the point where I seriously need to re-organise my disks in terms of the number, layout and size of the partitions (i.e. reducing the Windows ones [FAT32] and expanding the GNU/Linux ones [ext3]). In the past I've always used PartitionMagic for this but I'd like to stop using Windows based utilities entirely at some point. What's the general opinion on parted as a tool for this? Does anyone use a different GPL utility that they think is better? Keith ____________ There is nothing infinite apart from finite things D.T. Suzuki

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Re: [Alug]Debian 3.0 r0
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 27 May '03

27 May '03

John Seago wrote: >It also seems to want to log me on with a GUI and does'nt give me time to log on >to the command line and then startx. To solve this, type update-rc.d -f xdm remove >it does'nt seem to >like what I have said about my mouse, Sometimes your xf86config can be looking for /dev/mouse, which is normally a link to /dev/psaux for a ps2 mouse. ls -l /dev/mouse will show you. >Typing aptget or apt get seems to have the result of confusing the >poor thing, both sides of the keyboard! Did you do apt-get install mc ? Jen

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Re: [Alug]The Mystery of the Stubborn Kernel
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 27 May '03

27 May '03

Dan Hatton wrote: >I wasn't in the IRC discussion, so apologies if I'm going over old ground. >Are you trying to mount your root filesystem from an IDE drive? If so, >please note that kernel-image-2.4.18-686 doesn't have IDE support compiled >in. I've decided to blame that for my inability to run this kernel, and >it could also be to blame for yours. > >kernel-image-2.4.18-bf does have IDE support compiled in, but I can't run >that either, because it's too big for Loadlin. If you're using a >boot-loader other than Loadlin, you might have more luck. This sounds excitingly likely....I'll give this a go as soon as I get home (well, after I've fed the kids and dogs and cats and gone to karate to kick people). I think it is IDE. This will explain something that has been puzzling me for weeks if it works. I'm using LILO. Will let you know the outcome. Ta Jenny

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[Alug]The Mystery of the Stubborn Kernel
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 27 May '03

27 May '03

Sorry about my abrupt departure from irc last night - I rebooted convinced it was going to work, but it didn't. :-) Then when I booted back into the old kernel I couldn't get any dns stuff working any more. :-( This is the box which first had a 2.2.18-pre21 kernel which refused stubbornly to upgrade by me building a kernel from a 2.4.19 or 2.4.20 image, however many times I rebuilt it with different tweaks. It wouldn't get past "loading linux" and a bunch of dots. I reinstalled on this box yesterday from the woody 3.0 disks, using the stock 2.2.20 kernel, then I tried to upgrade last night, this time using the debian apt insta;ll kernel-image-2.4.18-686 thing, - when I rebooted it displayed exactly the same behaviour as above. Is it possible that you can get some hardware that will never run certain kernels? Jen

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Re: [Alug]The Mystery of the Stubborn Kernel
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 27 May '03

27 May '03

Craig wrote: >On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:27:24AM +0100, Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com wrote: >> Is it possible that you can get some hardware that will never run certain >> kernels? > >Erm not really. I don't know which hardwares you are using at the moment >(if it is the machine I've sold you then everything should really >work!). > >Try rolling your own kernel instead of debian's ones. Craig - your box is stupendously brilliant. This is my old linux box which your one has replaced, I want to run it as a mail and print server. I've done both my own kernel, and the debian way. Both display the same problems. Ta, Jen

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