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Free to a good home
by Chris Allen 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

The following hardware will shortly go in our skip unless anybody would like it... 1 x Sun 3/80 workstation with 19" mono monitor. Unknown amount of memory/hard disk - although was running as my DNS server until a year ago. 1 x Sun 3/50 workstation with 21" mono monitor. This box is *ancient* - it is 68000 based and incredibly solidly built. Unknown amount of memory hard disk (if any). Has not been plugged in for several years. Assorted tapes, cables, mice and other junk to go with the above. All free to anybody that can be bothered to come to Eastbridge (near Leiston in Suffolk) to collect it...

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Debian, Slackware, hardware, BIOS and what am I doing wrong?
by John Seago 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

I have at last managed, with help, for which many thanks, to get my BIOS set up properly so that I could install Mandrake 8.1. However I am still unable to get Debian or Slackware in. I was told this afternoon that I may get some more suggestions if I post to this list again, so here is a reiteration of my position and the problem. I have two hard disks, one 10 gig as the primary master (with `Windows' on), the second 40 gig disk, (with partitions for Linux, and Mandrake 8.1 installed on /dev/hdc5 is the secondary master. The CD drive is set as the primary slave. I can get Debian to install as far as the base system, but on rebooting into it it can not access the CD drive. Slackware does not install as when one gets to the point where the system is installed it reports all sorts of stuff not installed from an earlier part of the installation. Am I trying to do something which is impossible, should I only be installing one set of linux, am I trying to do it in the wrong order? I could get rid of windows from the first disk, but I would prefer to keep it for the better quality printing it provides, (although I could be persuaded that the other benefits of Linux outweigh it). Suggestions and advice would be welcomed. John seago

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Announce digest, Vol 1 #5 - 2 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

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Re: clug Re: [Alug] "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd"
by MJ Ray 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

Matthew: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19 > You get much better performance if you roll your own kernel, IME. The > default Debian kernel contains a whole pile of cruft that you Just > Don't Need. Indeed, but there's nothing inherently "wrong" with it and the original query was how tricky is it to *upgrade*, not compile. Use make-kpkg if you want to tune things -- it's not that hard -- but in a hurry, the debian kernel-image packages are an easy upgrade. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] RedHat7.2 memory shortage?
by MJ Ray 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

Glen: > faster than Mozilla - is there a suite of 'lighter' programs that I should > choose? Any recommendations? There are two things I feel happy with recommending at the moment: http://www.icewm.org/ or http://www.xfce.org/ Which you'll get on with better depends on your personal taste and whether you mind having to put it together yourself. XFCE has a website being put together for it called "XFCE IP" or something similar which will list applications that work well with it. -- MJR

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RE: clug List proposal (admin)
by Ian Wells 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

> I was told that the CLUG listserver maintainer is long gone, > however. So > changes to CLUG are probably not advisable / impossible. It's majordomo. Youcan control it remotely, but nobbing over the global settings isn't possible. > Keeping UseNet discipline and self-moderation is probably > best for clug - > just be (self) disciplined about threads? An FAQ can be > supported if the > anarchy / total freedom approach breaks down irretrievably. I'd say - very small mailing lists don't work so well because no-one has the information others need - medium sized mailing lists work well, because the information's available and people pay attention to conversations they're not actively participating in, so that the same questions aren't repeated over and over; and - in big mailing lists, there's too much noise to continually pay attention, which means that people with answers give up replying to questions and others don't spot the useful information in the flow of traffic, leading to the same things being asked over and over. Given Wells's theorem of mailing lists, I think that a CLUG+ALUG list should be about the right size to get useful discussions going and that (judging by the volume of technical traffic, as opposed to 'anyone coming out this Sunday') the CLUG list alone isn't quite big enough. -- Ian.

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RE: clug Re: [Alug] "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd"
by Ian Wells 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

> John Fremlin: > > MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > > > Hold AltGr and SysRq, then tap out s u u b (sync, > unmount, unmount, boot) > > You should sync after umount too or else you'll probably > get spurious > > fscks on boot (it needs to write a clean umount flag to the > superblock) > > Surely a sync won't do anything to a read-only disk? (OK, I > lied: "u" is > actually remount-read-only.) Depends whether a remount-read-only flushes out the 'file system clean' bit when it's done at this level, or whether the change waits for the next sync, which is presumably the concern. Aiui a normal remount/umount wouldn't return until the flush is complete, but this method is far from normal.

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Re: [Alug] List proposal (admin)
by MJ Ray 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

James wrote: > A nice idea. Same complaint here: I post using a number of source addresses, > and I'm certainly not going to go through the @rse ache of subscribing > multiple addresses to ALUG just to workaround dumb moderating software. Well, sod you. These CLUG people seem to have an aversion to trimming quotes and their mailserver is still not accepting my subscription request, so maybe they deserve to be held. :^) Seriously, there are reasons why the ALUG lists are set up in the way they are. Bitter experience is one of them and I think the issues around them have been talked to death on-list, so the archives might make interesting searching. > When a friendly human admin has time to moderate, that's bearable. I don't > object to moderated lists, when there is a good reason to use that approach. This list is not moderated, but posts by unknown addresses and ones which match certain other common features of past spams are held for one of the (currently three) list admins to take a look at before they are allowed through. > I was told that the CLUG listserver maintainer is long gone, however. So > changes to CLUG are probably not advisable / impossible. One possible change is to move the CLUG list to more useful location. > Nor should anyone get the hump at ALUG over criticism - let it be > constructive. Can you tune the moderation? Yes, but the current settings seem optimal. > Keeping UseNet discipline and self-moderation is probably best for clug - > just be (self) disciplined about threads? An FAQ can be supported if the > anarchy / total freedom approach breaks down irretrievably. The ALUG FAQ is http://www.alug.org.uk/articles/2001a/alugfaq.html > Its _all_ about Linux - innit! Indeed. Our areas overlap and I always hoped our activities would overlap at some point. It's nice to see it starting to happen. -- MJR

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RE: clug Re: [Alug] "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd"
by Ian Wells 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

Might I suggest that we set up a joint mailing list for techie discussions, and then have separate ones for clug/alug meetings and other geographically-based discussions? -- Ian (who keeps getting 'message moderated' messages from the alug list)

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"VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd"
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

This lovely message was waiting to greet me on all consoles of my debian box when i came in to work this morning, and I can't telnet in. A search on google says: >Upgrade to 2.2.19 , that should fix the problem. It's a bug in the >releases between 2.2.14 and 2.2.19, afaik. Has anyone heard of this before? I'm using kernel 2.2.18pre 21, activity on box over weekend should have been minimal apart from backups running. And what were those keys that try to reboot cleanly again? (not the ctl-alt-del) (Hope it isn't going to be one of "those" days....) Nice to meet so many folk yesterday. Jenny.

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