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Im pretty new to Linux but im slowly learning. Im using Fedora 6 and almost everything is going fine but I cant get access to my second harddrive with all my music on it. I think I see it in the filesystem under media (thats what I named it) but the folder is empty and only 5.8 gigs (should be 80). Im dual booting with XP and I can access the HDD. any thoughts? also - are there any good a/v codec packs available? Im thinking something like defiler, I dont care really but I cant watch half the movies I have.
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Apr 16, 2007 21:41
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thenameseli posted:In a terminal (you may need to be root), run: mount /media (or whatever mount point it is). If this doesn't work, you need to fix your /etc/fstab. Google for fstab filesystem mount linux or something. Nothing. I had to install some drivers to read NTFS drives and when I went to go look at what drives were available to mount I could only see the two other dual boot partitions (WinXP and Server 2003). The second harddrive is on the same IDE cable and the humper settings are set to slave so I dont know why fedora cant see it. this command: /sbin/fdisk -lu /dev/hda | grep NTFS code:rugbert fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Apr 17, 2007 |
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Apr 17, 2007 20:00
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Smackbilly posted:The second hard drive is /dev/hdb YES! You just made my day! I have 2 more questions but I wanna try to figure it out myself first but thank you so much! Not having my music is enough to make me go back to windows... rugbert fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Apr 18, 2007 |
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Apr 18, 2007 03:38
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Anyone have anytips on how to install Nvidia GeForce fx 5200 drivers? Theyre listed in the yum but I used the GUI package updater because Im kinda nervous but got nothing but conflict errors... I wanna pretty up my desktop!
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Apr 24, 2007 23:00
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Smackbilly posted:For me it was as simple as installing kmod-nvidia. Can you provide a bit more information, such as which distribution you are using (guessing FC6), which repository you are getting the drivers from, and exactly what conflict messages you are receiving? Um Im using the yum repository (I think thats right Im still new at this) with Fedora Core 6. Heres whats available through yum tho: code:[('package kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 is already installed', (2, None, 0L)), ('file /boot/System.map-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6', (7, '/boot/System.map-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6', 0L)), ('file /boot/config-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6', (7, '/boot/config-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6', 0L)), ('file /boot/symvers-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.gz from install of kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6', (7, '/boot/symvers-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.gz', 0L)), ('file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6', (7, '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6', 0L))] edit - actually i went through the GUI's add/remove software and installed xorg which grabbed the kmod driver..Im jsut trying to use some desktop effects and Im thinking if those wont work now then beryl wont either. rugbert fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Apr 26, 2007 |
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Apr 26, 2007 02:55
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Smackbilly posted:The front page of the livna repository website (https://rpm.livna.org) says that this error is actually due to a bug in the FC6 installer which installed the wrong kernel on your machine by accident. The fix instructions are here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common#head-e0676100ebd965b92fbaa7111097983a3822f143 OK I ran this line rpm -qa 'kernel*' --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|sort to list my kernel and got two results and a kernel headers thing. so Im not really feeling good about updating just yet. Infact, I wanted to ask someone about why there were two boot options for FC in my grub after I did the first system update.
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Apr 26, 2007 19:35
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Hey, does linux have a sweet spot when it comes to RAM like XP or vista? Im gunna buy a laptop this week and I want to dedicate it to Linux but I dont know if I should spring extra money for a full gig of RAM since Im on a budget at the moment. Also - Other than Unbuntu (I didnt like it when I tried it a few years back) whats a good flavor to put on a laptop?
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Aug 23, 2007 04:08
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edit - I think I have gotten the proper drivers to install but i cant get the wireless on. Do a lot of toggle switches NOT work with linux? I couldn't imagine so since its a hardware only thing right? rugbert fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Aug 27, 2007 |
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Aug 27, 2007 01:09
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Ok so I returned my Acer laptop because the touchpad stopped working. But thats Ok, I had the biggest pain in the rear end time trying to get the wireless working in F7. My question now is, if I were to get a pretty decent laptop (like an HP) would its extra features (like the media buttons on the side of the display ect) work under linux? I found out the hard way that soft touch wireless toggles do not work, and I dont want to waste my money. actually I guess Im asking if I should bother putting linux on the laptop and possibly waste some cool features or keep vista on it, installing linux on my home machine. rugbert fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Aug 31, 2007 |
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Aug 31, 2007 16:46
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teapot posted:kind of jaded about knowing more about linux than me. Well madwifi doesnt support the wireless chipset I had and by the time I was ready to check out ndiswrapper the touchpad just stopped working (even in windows when I reinstalled) so I returned it and then decided to look around at more laptops. From what I read on feforaforum the toggle button did more than just switch over to wireless, it actually turned the card on and off. So because I couldnt find any way for the switch to work I couldnt get my wireless to work at all. Those are some good questions to look into tho, Ill keep them in mind.
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Aug 31, 2007 22:11
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teapot posted:According to http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros AR5006EG chipset works with madwifi starting from February 24 2007 snapshot My laptop used the AR5BXB63 chipset. according to the sticker..
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Sep 1, 2007 08:13
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Is there a set of codecs I an download like defilerpak? I have VLC but some video files wont play, the actual video wont play but Ill get sound so Im hoping all I need is some new codec Also - Whats a good iPod program? I was using ephPod with Wine but it was buggy and didnt save the playlists I made.
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Sep 18, 2007 02:55
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I found this backup script on the ubuntu forums but I need someone to look at itcode:what do I need to change so it saves it to /backupmnt? rugbert fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Dec 28, 2007 |
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Dec 28, 2007 18:30
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Why doesnt cron run my backup script? First off, the backup script I got from another thread here wont run from cron.daily for some reason. Other scripts run but my backup one will not run, which is kind of important. Heres the crontab: quote:# m h dom mon dow user command and the backup scrpt is in cron.daily quote:-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 140 2007-12-28 14:24 backup am I just missing something obvious? edit - heres the script tar cvpzf /backupmnt/backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backupmnt --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/ media --exclude=/sys / also - can I add anything to that script to add a time stamp to the file name? rugbert fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jan 2, 2008 |
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Jan 2, 2008 18:33
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xdice posted:[code] Nice, thanks! Ill see how this works out. I know it would take a lot of disk space (and time) but my boss wants it done, so it'll have to stay this way for now. chryst posted:Someone covered your q about timestamping. The file permissions are correct but after I try xdice's idea Ill try yours. Thanks! rugbert fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jan 3, 2008 |
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Jan 3, 2008 22:49
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Is there a thread/poll about which file system everyone uses? I just got another external hard drive and its time to decide how Im going to format it. I was just going to go for ext3 but I thought of two major problems. One, it wouldnt be able to be read or written to from windows (or at least it didnt when I was dual booting) if I take it to a friends. And two, XMBC is having issues connecting to it even tho SAMBA is all set up. I can access my external NTFS just fine but not the ext3. And then after about an hour or reading about alternate file systems Im just confused because of all the mixed reviews. Should I start a new thread about this or should it go in here?
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Jan 4, 2008 05:20
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I have some apt-get help. Running apt-get update seems to work but then when its gets 23% done I get errors like this:quote:Err http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Sources edit - I ran df -i and found that the partition in question has used up all its inodes. I was thinking about editing the apt-get conf file to use an empty partition but I cant seem to find it! rugbert fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 12, 2008 |
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Feb 12, 2008 17:17
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bitprophet posted:Er. If the partition your /var is on is out of inodes I think you have a bigger problem than trying to get apt to store its information elsewhere I was looking over var today and apache has like a trillion cached files in it. This web server uses aapche and zope to serve and manage their web files. I know nothing about zope or how it stores files but running find on a file I know is on the site points me to one of the many cached folders...so Im afraid to delete anything just yet.
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Feb 13, 2008 01:50
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and that besides, I'm not sure if you can have apt put things elsewhere, given how integral it is to the OS. Some reading of the man pages should clear that up pretty quickly, though, at any rate. I'm guessing that if it is possible it'd require a recompile of apt, which would be rather nontrivial, again considering how integral it is to your system configuration.
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So apache has completely used up all my inodes on one of my partitions. Looking at it shows that the mod_disk_cache folder is the culprit. Can I delete everything in there or would that not be good for the server? Looks like its just a a bunch of empty folders with FEW contents. Ive already made a copy of the directory and was about to empty it and see if the server goes down but I figured Id ask first...
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Feb 13, 2008 19:43
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covener posted:htcacheclean is the tool for maintaining mod_disk_cache. does htcacheclean just delete these files? I could just have cron clean out that directory once a day or something. rugbert fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Feb 13, 2008 |
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Feb 13, 2008 20:27
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covener posted:Did you tell it to daemonize or something? There's not a lot of code there. No, I wanted it to run through once before for I put it on a schedule. I should mention that there is about 6.5 gigs of cache files. But over an hour with no output? Seems a bit long. Apparently this thing is supposed to start with apache but lot of time it can get turned off for various reasons. The start command didn't seem to work tho. I just went ahead and cleaned out the folder myself and Ill run apt-get today, maybe theres and update to fix it or something. It doesn't look like this server has been updated in a long time.
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Feb 14, 2008 13:44
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Can someone tell me what virtual packages are?
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Feb 15, 2008 19:14
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does anyone have any experience sharing files between ext3 and XMBC using samba? When I try to connect Im prompted for a password even tho I never set one up. I forget the command I used but I invoked a no username/password needed command for samba. I can however access the data off my external NTFS drives tho.
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Feb 17, 2008 21:09
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Oh wow, I just upgraded my kernel and Im immediately noticing a HUGE speed boost when surfing the internet. Ive always thought there to be a noticeable difference in browsing speeds between XP and Linux. Anyways, how can I go about changing the boot/login images?
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Feb 19, 2008 03:40
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Grey Area posted:What distribution are you using? The GDM/KDM control panel should be installed by default on most distros. For GNOME systems it's called gdmsetup Fedora 7. Well I want to use my own images, not the installed themes.
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Feb 19, 2008 17:23
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Is anyone familiar with Zope? I need to know where it stores its web documents so I can get webalizer working but I cant seem to find them anywhere (and is also listed as a virtual package I asked about earlier). apache.conf has this include: Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ and that file contains nothing but virtual host entries all with DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite.rugbert.com/html so should I assume thats where the documents are being server from? Cause they aren't there. Im just trying to get webalizer to dum its output in the same place the documents served from.
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Feb 19, 2008 23:06
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Alowishus posted:Zope serves documents out of its own data store. That data store is kept in your Zope site's "instance home" under the 'var' directory with the name Data.fs. It's a big-rear end ZODB blob. so I added this line Alias /webalizer "var/www/mysite.rugbert.com/webalizer" so going to http://mysite.rugbert.com/webalizer would bring me to the stats page webalizer created? Because it doesn't seem to work also - Should this line be in the apache.conf file or the site-enabled/referenced file? rugbert fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Feb 20, 2008 |
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Feb 20, 2008 18:22
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Alowishus posted:
yes that was a typo. ok so in the apache2/site-enabled/mysite.rugbert.com file (where all the virtual host information is) I added code:
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Feb 21, 2008 17:48
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Alowishus posted:I think you're still missing some parts... or I am not clear on the rest of your Apache config. First of all, is the 404 page you're getting served out of Zope? Sounds like it is... that's definitely an indicator that the rewrite isn't working. From the snippet you posted, I can see why - all you did was turn the engine on, but you didn't give it any rules. Ok thanks, Ill post it on Monday. I was really hungover most of today so I didn't feel like computering today.
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Feb 23, 2008 05:22
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Alowishus posted:I think you're still missing some parts... or I am not clear on the rest of your Apache config. First of all, is the 404 page you're getting served out of Zope? Sounds like it is... that's definitely an indicator that the rewrite isn't working. From the snippet you posted, I can see why - all you did was turn the engine on, but you didn't give it any rules. What sort of line am I looking for? I cant find any mention of zope in my apache.conf file nor did "/.fs" give me any results.
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Feb 28, 2008 21:07
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deimos posted:What filesystem? Samba plays much nicer with some FSes than others, XFS is one of the better ones IIRC, ext3 one of the worst. Yea Ive noticed that, it seems that I cant access anything stored on a ext3 file system. I always get some error thats just a long string of numbers, but I can access my NTFS externals just fine. So I guess I'll try XFS
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Mar 3, 2008 17:01
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Alowishus posted:I'm not really sure what to tell you, outside of my guess that the line isn't actually going to say anything about Zope but will instead have some sort of Rewrite or ProxyPass verbage to it. aha! It's located in the virtual host file: code:rugbert fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Mar 3, 2008 |
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Mar 3, 2008 17:19
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Alowishus posted:Ok good... well you may have already done this, but now that you know where the rules are, go back to my previous post with my rewrite examples and see if you can adopt those for your situation. At least you'll be able to test now and see some results... Got it, thanks! I started reading up on rewrite stuff and about had it when I saw your post. Whats that [L] switch do?. also - Got the .htaccess so Im all square. rugbert fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Mar 5, 2008 |
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Mar 4, 2008 23:23
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Hey Alowishus, have any suggestions for adding search functionality behind zope?
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Mar 26, 2008 20:19
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Our clients want a search feature on their web page and our web guy is out for a while. So now Im in charge of website maintenance too :\ I was thinking of just telling them to use the Google Enterprise search app.
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Mar 26, 2008 21:20
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actually we cant use web crawlers so Im gunna have to do some back end stuff, could you point me into the right direction? huh htdig looks promising. rugbert fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Mar 27, 2008 |
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Mar 27, 2008 17:48
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Alowishus posted:You're going to need to define a Catalog and some Indexes... some of those may exist in your site, you may just have to figure out how to query them. the zope site is retarded. the server we inherited doesnt have zcatalog installed. But I cant find a link to download it anywhere, ive searched all over their CVS to no avail.
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Apr 1, 2008 14:58
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Alowishus posted:Zuh?? I won't argue that the Zope site is somewhat retarded, but ZCatalog is a fundamental piece of the base Zope distribution... any Zope 2.x tarball will have it, and the only way a server wouldn't have it installed is if someone purposely removed it... and at that point I'm not sure Zope would even start. oh ... i read some page that goes the installation and assumed I had to install it. :\ well thanks tho!
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Apr 1, 2008 20:43
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Alowishus posted:zope Hey thanks for the Zope help, I couldnt get the search up because of some permission issues where it wouldnt let me search for object and the company that set it up is no more but Im still trying! I ran df and noticed that /var isn't being backed up and I'm not sure why. Heres the code I put into the crontab: code:rugbert fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Apr 23, 2008 |
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What kind of compression rate does tar have? Im trying to figure out whats going on with my backup scripts. df shows that the file system is about 9.3 gigs but my backups are only running about 3 gigs.
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Apr 29, 2008 21:06
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