Maillion

Quote: Hi, I have a PC with 2 x 40 Go disks, one and half are used with Redhat 9, and I have 20 Go left unformatted on my second one. My Redhat 9 is in production, so I must take care not to loose it ! Is there any risk to install Mandrake 9.2 using Drakx with "Use Free space" option, or is it better to use manual partitioning ? Will Mandrakel "see" my RH grub.conf file and add automatically mandrake inside... or do I have to save it before ? Any experience or any try or information, please just drop a message. Thanks by advance for your precious help. Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand. Do a back up of all the data you have on the drive with free space. Do the install. Mandrake will give you a choice of how to partition and format the free space. I would backup that grub config file just in case. If mandrake fails to see RH, then you can replace the bad one. Be sure not to replace Grub with lilo, the mandrake default. I have never used Grub, so you may want to wait until someone who has gives you some info on this. I can't remember in any of my Mandrake installs where it actually gave me a choice as to which bootloader, but I always wanted lilo anyway, so I didn't pay any attention. I have never had any problems with the installer partitiion tool, but backup anything you my need regardless! 8)

Quote: If you want to order the CD's, I just did following a link from distrowatch. Cost me $17.50 with shipping. http://www.linuxcd.org/view_distro.php?&typed=1&id_distro=46 That's a real good price for the Pro version! There's your best solution sofar, kailinin! 8)

Quote: ok i'm probably being really stupid but i cant seem to find a working download link 4 suse 9 pro. anyone know of one that works? Not for the Pro version. It is commercial only. You can download 9.0, but it does not have all that is in the Pro version. 8)

I just saw "Senior Member" on my last post - does that mean I get a discount here? 8)

Quote: God, there sure is a lot of old guys here! I'm 46, and I think Maillion is in his 70's... Seriously, I don't know about you Mel, but it was a very liberating feeling for me when I wiped my last Windows XP from a hard drive. Hey! Well, I am up there, over the hill and headed down the other side, but 70? I have two years and two months before I even see three score years...

Quote: http://cabin.bigfiber.net/mirror/mandrake/9.1/ 8)

. Quote: 'm writing a series of scripts for deploying in our support center. One that I'm working on involves /proc/kcore, the physical RAM of a linux system. I'm trying to display the amount of physical RAM in a system by returning the size of this file divided by 1024. I'd like it to eventually say: PHYSICAL RAM: 512MB. Here's what I've tried, and the results: Code: $ echo "System RAM";ls -l /proc/kcore System RAM -r-------- 1 root root 958595072 Feb 14 13:13 /proc/kcore $ $ ls -l /proc/kcore | 'expr $5/1024' /bin/ksh: expr $5/1024: not found $ ls -l /proc/kcore | echo $5 $ ls -l /proc/kcore | echo $1 $ ls -l /proc/kcore > echo $5 /bin/ksh: cannot create echo: No such file or directory $ ls -l /proc/kcore | awk "print int($5/1024)" awk: cmd. line:1: print int(/1024) awk: cmd. line:1: ^ parse error awk: cmd. line:1: print int(/1024) awk: cmd. line:1: ^ unterminated regexp awk: cmd. line:2: print int(/1024) awk: cmd. line:2: ^ unexpected newline $ ls -l /proc/kcore | awk {print int($5/1024)} /bin/ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected $ ls -l /proc/kcore | awk `BEGIN {print int($5/1024)}' > > ^C $ $ ls -l /proc/kcore | awk `{print int($5/1024)}` /bin/ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected $ ls -l /proc/kcore | awk -F `{print int($5/1024)}' > > ^C $ ls -l /proc/kcore | awk -F `{print int($5/1024)}' > ^C $ awk '{ print int($5/1024) }` < ls -l /proc/kcore > ^C $ ls -l /proc/kcore > temp; awk '{ print int($5/1024) }` temp > ^C As you can see, I'm stuck on awk. Can anyone shed some light on this? I basically want to take the 5th field of an ls and display the result of that field divided by 1024. The output of: ls -l /proc/kcore is: -r-------- 1 root root 958595072 Feb 14 13:13 /proc/kcore The number of column 5 should go into "$5" (apparently a variable) which should then be divided ("/") by 1024, to get the number of bytes in megabytes. The number in column 5 may not be 'numeric', it may be a string of characters. This is most likely. There is nothing here to separate column five from all the other columns, nor to determine and/or change column five to a number and store it in a variable. Some programming languages will allow a character string to be divided by an integer, but the results will not be valid in a mathematic expression. this: $ ls -l /proc/kcore | 'expr $5/1024' takes the output from "ls -l" and sent it through "|" to "'expr $5/1024'" here is where the error comes in - when the shell executes that command ($ ls -l /proc/kcore | 'expr $5/1024') It sends all the "ls -l" output to what is on the other side of the "|". It does not extract column 5, nor does it ensure that the output is valid. When the command is executed you get: /bin/ksh: expr $5/1024: not found This is an error from the shell (/bin/ksh) - it could not execute "ls -l /proc/kcore | " because it was unable to locate something called 'expr $5/1024'. I have never used ksh, but it may be different than bash, but it still seems that 'expr $5/1024' means simething different to your shell than 'expr $5/1024' means to you. Regardless, because your shell does not have the ouput of 'expr $5/1024', all the rest of the lines that depend upon the value of column five divided by 1024 will not output that value to the screen, nor send it through awk.All the awk errors are meaningless, because it has nothing to work with. I hope this helps! 8)

I think there's an error in these two lines: Code: $ ls -l /proc/kcore | 'expr $5/1024'/bin/ksh: expr $5/1024: not found The AWK stuff is causing problems because these lines are sending AWK invalid data... (GIGO). I hopes this helps but I'm not that familiar with bash scripting, just prgramming... 8)

In the first movie, Neo had to be convinced that the Matrix was a 'virtual reality' created by the machines. At first, he and the people around him were convinced that it was real. In our life, we each create our own 'Matrix' with what we believe. Our beliefs become our philosophy - we create a 'reality' based upon our religion, political party, our society. We accept these things, and try to convince others that our beliefs are real. Others try to convince us that their beliefs are real. The 'Matrix' is the sum total of our beliefs - our 'philosophy'. You can see this sometimes in the posts here, people have accepted a particular distro, and sometimes try to answer others questions by promoting that distro, regardless of whether it will supply the answer to their question(s), if people debate Microsoft and Linux, their 'Matrix' is what forms their comments, and so forth. Our 'Matrix' is not "all around us" (according to the movie) but inside of our minds, according to the beliefs that our teachers, family, society, politcal entities, churches, and so forth, have given us. 8)

Thanks. Giorgio. I unpacked it using Ark into my home directory, and found it to work. I did it by accident in a way, because I was trying to learn how to use Ark, and I tried extracting just to see if it created all the directories or just extracted the files. When I saw that it had created a full directory tree, I tried running it and it worked! Thanks for your help! 8)

Quote: You only need to type from the command line tar xzvf <firefox>.tar.gz This create a directory called firefox. Go into the directory and simply launch the executable called firefox. That's all. Giorgio Yeah, in my efforts to find out how to use Ark, I tried just extracting it into my hom directory, and it works. If I decide to install it permanently, I will do as you say. I am going to copy your post to a file so that I will be able to use it in that case. (The last time I found a good 'future' usable post, I had a hard (impossible) time finding it, until I solved my problem, then I found the post! This time it will be there in my home directory when I need it! Thanks! 8)

Quote: What is wrong with this guy..you guys are too nice trying to answer this kind of question. Dude, if in doubt just use a 700mb disc to burn your images. You should be nice when asking questions. Yeah, I'm just in the habit. I try to help anybody who needs it. That's why I come to these boards, I guess. 8)

Quote: GUYS GUYS GUYS... THIS IS WHAT I NEED... INSERT REDHAT LINUX 9.0 AND THEN GO TO MY COMPUTER THEN RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR CD ROM AND THEN PROPERTIES... IT SHOWS THERE THE SIDE OF THE DISE... TELL ME WHAT IS IT... SO AS DISC 2 AND 3!!!!!! Whoh, Dude! Windoze "My Computer" will only tell you the capacity of the CD in bytes! If it is a 650 Megabyte CD it will give you 650 times 1024 times 1024 which comes out to 652 something. Go put a 650 megabyte disc in your drive and do it yourself and you will see. Then put in a 700 megabyte Cd in and do it again. The numbers you will see are the only numbers you or anyone else will ever get from "My Computer"! Have a nice day!

Did you guys try to contact Suse to see if they have some sort of workaround? Will they allow HTTP? (It might be slower, but not as slow as not doing it at all...)

Yes, I read what you said. there are two diferent size CDs available. 700 megabyte and 650 megabyte. (There are also mini CDs, but these are not big enough for any Red Hat ISO.) You can put stuff on the CD that is less than the CD capacity, but you cannot put stuff on there that is more than the size of the CD capacity. I went to the Red Hat download site, and then told you what size CD you need to use for the Red Hat CDs. As danleff said there is some difference between what the total size of the ISO file actually is and what they put on the site. The size that they put on there, however is sufficient to determine what size CD you need. ;(

I wish I could help, but I know absolutely zip about nVidia... 8)

Quote: Ditto. (that was 10 years o rso back I think. ) A thought - is there a site - maybe for the TV Land channel - that would help find stuff like this? ;( EDIT Well, I googled for TV Land, it set about 10 or so cookies, then it was all flash stuff! I don't use flash, or any of that crap, so it did me no good at all! ;(

Quote: This problem generally occurs when you have a motherboard with highpoint raid enabled in the bios. I just simply disabled raid in the bios and the install completed. Interesting! When I built my current computer, I had to make a choice about which motherboard to use, one had raid and a built in nic card, the other did not. I checked and figured out that I could get 512 meg of DDR ram and a cheap (realtek) nic by getting the one without raid and onboard nic. Since then, I've read so much on probs with onboard stuff, and now probs with raid, so I'm feeling much better about my mobo choice... 8)

Quote: I believe I'll hold off on 2.6 for now, but thanks! Yeah, me too! I've finally got almost everything working at last, so I'd just as soon not add more possible probs! I'll get to it once I have learned a little more about Linux than i now know. 8)

He could also use LoadLin from DOS... It still exists, and is up top version 1.6. (I was a little boared last night, so I was surfing. I found a site that gives a step by step technique to make a windows shortcut on the desktop.) Hey, I try to learn something every day, even if I have no real use for it...8)

Quote: guys... i just want to make sure... what are the total sizes of each disk of redhat linux 9.0 tell me them by order... please regrads Well, I doubt that anyone has memorized the sizes, but you can find out at the download site. If the ISO file is bigger than 650 meg, then the CD will be 700 meg, and if the ISO is 650 meg or less, the CD will be 650 meg. 8) EDIT I went to the Red Hat download site, and you will need three 650 meg CDs to burn the ISOs... 8)

Are you running Linux? If so what distro? (Every distro I have installed or used came with GCC...) BTW, I tried to go to gnu.org, and the server seems to be down... 8)

Hey, guys, I looked at mine system, and I have elinks, but not the graphic mode. do you think I could just download the libray it mentioned on the site, and install that, or will I have to go through the whole shebang? (I'm not that familiar with the sort of installation they speak about.) ;(

Ahhh... Well, you've got my curiosity aroused. If you ever remember, let me know. There is probably no way that I will ever find it! -I watch so little TV that I can barely remember what shows are on now - oh well... 8)

I don't know either - I use Mozilla 1.6 on Windoze and it looks good! Look in your Mozilla "Edit/Preferences" (In the menu bar at the top) and see what fonts are there in the "Appearance" segment... 8)