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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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[Alug]Re-partitioning a Win laptop
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 14 Sep '03

14 Sep '03

Hi Folks, I've just acquired a 2nd-hand laptop which has Win98 installed in a single 6GB partition (the entire HDD). Since this software is not entirely useless (rumours to the contrary notwithstanding) I intend to keep this on say 2GB, making the remaining 4GB over to something really useful (Linux of course). So I shall be fips-ing the partition down to 2GB and then setting up Linux partitions on the remainder. This, as far as it goes, I know how to do. However, a couple of issues concern me and I'd welcome informed advice from people who've been there before. 1. At present, it seems that the Win98 is set up to look after Virtual Memory (aka swap space) in its own way ("Dear user, please don't get involved in anything as difficult as this ... just leave it to us"). I seem to recall that Windows uses some sort of "hidden file" for swapping out. Qs: Will I be treading on any toes on this front by cutting back the disk space to the first 2GB in this way? Or will Win98, next time it starts up, simply do its usual swap thing in the space it then finds available? If there would be problems, what should be done to avoid them? 2. I want to keep the power-management ("go to sleep" on inactivity timeout or on pressing the "snooze" button on the machine) available in both Win98 and Linux. Q: I believe that one of the options is "hibernate to disk", where the system state is saved somewhere on the HDD. This is a similar issue to number 1: what toes would I be treading on? Q: There is also a converse issue: If I fail to set up the Linux partitions properly, and the laptop writes its system state out to disk when it wants to sleep, could this overwrite something that shouldn't be overwritten? Again, if there could be problems, what should be done to avoid them? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 13-Sep-03 Time: 10:16:59 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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[Alug]RE: Broken CD drive
by Richard Lewis 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

One other thing: it now restarts itself whenever I open and close the drive and sometimes while I'm typing. And it won't shut down properly: once power down is reached the system restarts instead. Richard

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[Alug]2 debian questions...
by BenEBoy 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

OK, in the past 2 weeks I've gotten rid of Morphix because I wanted the speed increase of LFS and whilst trying to compile KDE for lfs realised that life is too short to mess around getting stuff to compile (kdelib is a nightmare. I managed to fix one of the errors I got with my half remembered C skills (I used to be a quite good C coder until I got a job with COBOL) then I got another one about ambiguous function calls and gave up), so I gave debian another go (couldn't get X11 working last time I tried). Anyway, could someone give me an example of their sources.list file please? I assume using the UK mirrors would be good enough but thought I'd check just in case not... Secondly, can someone tell me how to just get the security updates when I do an apt-get upgrade? I'm pretty sure there is an ftp server or two which just has the security updates but I haven't been able to find it with my googling powers. I assume specifying the source when doing the upgrade will do what I want it to, but without a server to connect to I'm stuffed aren't I ;) Sorry for the debian newbie questions... BenE

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[Alug]BootDisk
by Michael Sage 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

To All, I have given up on the idea of having IDE RAID the costs are just too high to have a proper hardware RAID (like Adaptec cards etc). I have setup a mandrake system, as it supports RAID as an install option, which is nice! My BIOS unfortunately does not let me boot off the second drive (which is bad), which means should the first drive in the array fail I would be, well, up the paddle without a creek! What I intend to do is use a boot disk to boot the system into its RAID state, so it doesn't matter which drive is down, so my boot order will go Prim IDE, Floppy, CD. There are two things I could do with help with! 1. Why can't I boot off the secondary IDE? It comes up with L 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 etc 01DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. I am sure this is a BIOS problem. 2. How \ What do I need to create the boot disk simply to kick off the boot process off any drive? My RAID config works like this: Md0 mounted on /boot is a boot array MD1 mounted on / is the rest. Any help would be great, TIA. Michael

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RE: [Alug]-lvgagl
by Jonathan Dye 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Nick Daniels wrote: > Hi > I am trying to install a progarmme called linrad (DSP), > it needs > svgalib which I have installed. > When I make linrad I get " cannot find - lvgagl" I > think it is part of > svgalib, > If I type whereis lvgagl I get :- > linux:/home/nick/linrad-01.06 # whereis -lvgagl > whereis [ -sbmu ] [ -SBM dir ... -f ] name... > I have been windows free for two years , please dont let me > reinstall it Nick Daniels Try: whereis lvgagl (without the -) JD _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service

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[Alug]-lvgagl
by Nick Daniels 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hi I am trying to install a progarmme called linrad (DSP), it needs svgalib which I have installed. When I make linrad I get " cannot find - lvgagl" I think it is part of svgalib, If I type whereis lvgagl I get :- linux:/home/nick/linrad-01.06 # whereis -lvgagl whereis [ -sbmu ] [ -SBM dir ... -f ] name... I have been windows free for two years , please dont let me reinstall it Nick Daniels

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[Alug]RE: Broken CD-ROM drive
by Richard Lewis 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

I've also just checked and it won't boot from discs which I know are bootable. So perhaps it is a hardware problem. Still, any ideas would be welcome! Richard

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[Alug]Broken CD-ROM drive
by Richard Lewis 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Dear ALUG, My DVD/CD-RW combined drive on my laptop has stopped working! I'm using Mandrake 9.1 (and Windows XP sometimes) on a PIII laptop system. Neither operating system will recognise the drive at all. The hardware itself is unlikely to be faulty as it makes all the usual noises and flashes when you put a disc in it. The sym link /dev/cdrom is missing as are the devices /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 (though the directory /dev/cdroms still exists) and /dev/scd0. (I also tried running cdrecord --scanbus out of interest and this reported that there were no suitable devices). The problem first occured when I went to put a CD in the drive and, as it opened, the machine just re-booted itself. I decided not to let it do an integrity check (Mandrake runs fsck) and it booted normally until init informed me that it had found a new device: /dev/scd0 and asked me if I wanted to run config tools for it, OK I said. It finished booting but it had made no difference. If anyone has any ideas then please let me know. Thanks very much, Richard

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[Alug]IDE Hardware RAID Card
by Michael Sage 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

To All, I have been looking about a bit on the web and trying to read up on IDE Hardware raid cards for Linux. I am trying to build a small server for my website. I would really like hardware raid RAID 1 (mirroring) as software raid will be difficult to setup on the slackware install I am trying to do! Does any one know of a cheap IDE Raid card that is supported by linux? TIA. Regards, Michael

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