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Re: [Alug] linux laptops
by Dryden 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Well im runing Mandrake 8.2 on a Dell latitude CPi 266MHz 128Mb ram... and its doing allright. I only have two problems... Its got a CS42xx sound chipset and it crashes hard witha defult mandrake kernal when i close the lid(it seems to start spining the cd drive). Also i get a crashing problem when running gnome... but kde is fine. Ive also tryed mandrake 8.0 befor upgrading to 8.2 and i have the same problems... Nuatilas(gnome file manager) used to crash my system when a ran it :(. I know its an old system but it works well anoth and cost £500 snd hand a few months ago... (i dont wana know if ive been riped off). -----Original Message----- From: "Ricardo Campos" <corez23(a)linuxmail.org> To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:30:02 +0000 Subject: [Alug] linux laptops I'm looking for a linux laptop, medium spec. I want to pay roughly around £800. I'm intrigued by www.dnuk.com, since they offer laptops with linux preinstalled, but their prices seem a little higher than I can afford. Has anyone got any tips? Should I go for a second hand laptop instead and struggle with the install myself? (yes, I DO know about www.linux-laptop.net) Ricardo -- ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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Re: [Alug] linux laptops
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Ricardo Campus wrote: >Has anyone got any tips? Should I go for a second hand laptop instead and struggle with the install myself? (yes, I >DO know about www.linux-laptop.net) One of the first things i did as a moderate newbie was stuff debian onto a toshiba satellite 2300cds, it was not a lot of problem, even X. And then a year later I got the winmodem and pc card working. Plus it is always more satisfying blowing out the original brains of a computer with a smug "ms" sticker on the outside. Jen.

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Re: [Alug] Re: EXT2 ->EXT3
by Ricardo Campos 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

> I have a 120Gig RH7.2 ext3 drive and take delight in > the fact I can power off at random and get back to > working in under a minute! Yep, Ext3 utterly rocks. Can't imagine going back to ext2 out of choice, and it's absoloutely no hassle to set up. Anyone know if it is going to be in the next Debian release? (i.e. is it in testing at the mo?) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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ReiserFS with SuSE ??
by alasdair.i.macleod＠bt.com 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Talking of file systems. I've tried to make a SuSE 7.1 install with ReiserFS but the install keeps failing. I've done a search of news groups etc and seen people mention the same problem - but no solution. Anyone know anything about this? The partitioning goes OK but the install fails during the package install phase (using Yast1 & 2). cheers, Alasdair. -----Original Message----- From: Ricardo Campos [mailto:corez23@linuxmail.org] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 9:22 AM To: madtom1999 Cc: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: EXT2 ->EXT3 > I have a 120Gig RH7.2 ext3 drive and take delight in > the fact I can power off at random and get back to > working in under a minute! Yep, Ext3 utterly rocks. Can't imagine going back to ext2 out of choice, and it's absoloutely no hassle to set up. Anyone know if it is going to be in the next Debian release? (i.e. is it in testing at the mo?) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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Re: EXT2 ->EXT3
by tom potts 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

I believe (but then I'm gullible) that ext3 is a sort of add-on to ext2 and is backward compatible! http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/why.html Your disk behaves like ext2 but with added bits. If your system doesnt crash then the disk is a valid ext2 disk as well as ext3 so can be mounted and read by ext2 only systems. Of course if you modify the ext2 data and then run ext3 there may be problems as the journaling will be 'out of whack'. I have a 120Gig RH7.2 ext3 drive and take delight in the fact I can power off at random and get back to working in under a minute! Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Re: [Alug] Kernel 2.4.18
by Ricardo Campos 24 Apr '02

24 Apr '02

> the trouble is leaving the Symmetric multi-processing support in the kernel. Time for another Ricardo Simpson 'Doh!' moment... I was going to say at the last ALUG meet that I had exactly the same problem, until I realised I was booting an SMP kernel, instead of a uniprocessor one. When I switched over, I found that it would power down OK. Oops, could've saved you some time! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Kernel 2.4.18
by John Seago 24 Apr '02

24 Apr '02

Thank you Mark, and all who offered advice, Mark's solution solved my problem first go, my box now shuts itself down, and I've made a boot disk for it. Thank you Mark! -- John Seago

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Administrivia: contrib and main list
by MJ Ray 24 Apr '02

24 Apr '02

In a fit of mental cruelty not seen for some time, I've connected the wiki templates up to the XML/XSL generation system that does the main site. The contrib pages now look more like the main site. Scary, eh? Also, in a fit of petty baby-eating, emails to the list with a subject line of "Re: main digest ..." etc will be bounced. It does ask you to edit the subject line on replies, after all, and it's hard to tell what its about before opening if the subject line is useless. Goodnight, cruel world.

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Re: [Alug] Converting from EXT2 to EXT3
by DanI 23 Apr '02

23 Apr '02

Thanks John it works good. Im learning new stuff everyday :-)... ...Daniel Simpleman --- John Freeman <root(a)layla-studios.co.uk> wrote: > 1) Make sure you have ext3 compilied into the kernel > (its easier this way > rather than a module, otherwise you have to set up > initial ram disks and > things) > > 2)type mount -v > this will show all partitions mounted as ext2 > > i.e > /dev/hdc3 on / type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hdc1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda1 on /home type ext2 (rw) > > 3) for each partition type: > > tune2fs -j /dev/hdX > > where X is the partition letter > > 4) edit /etc/fstab and change ext2 to ext3 > > 5) reboot and voila, ext3 > > > On Tuesday 23 Apr 2002 1:55 pm, DanI wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to > convert > > from EXT2 to EXT3 without loosing (formatting) all > my > > stuff on my hard drive... > > > > ...Daniel Simpleman > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ > > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site > above! > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Converting from EXT2 to EXT3
by DanI 23 Apr '02

23 Apr '02

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to convert from EXT2 to EXT3 without loosing (formatting) all my stuff on my hard drive... ...Daniel Simpleman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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