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switching to text mode during boot
I am experiencing severe graphical display problem during boot up of RHEL4. (Virtual PC does not support 24bit... need to change to 16bit) Postings on the web seem to indicate that if I press alt+space_bar I can switch to text mode. This does not work. cntrl-alt-F3 does not work either. Does anybody know ... 5 Jul 2007 19:43

updating problem
i m trying to update my centos 4.4 with up2date but getting following error.what should i do ? "There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: An HTTP error occurred: URL: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386//headers/centos4-Base-obsoletes.1000 Status Code: 404 Error Message: ... 5 Jul 2007 15:35

"domain of sender address does not exist": only on some machines
Hi. We are running Fedora Core 6 on twenty identical Intel boxes in our computer lab. When mail is sent from three of these machines, sendmail produces the error msg 553 ... Domain of sender address ... does not exist Mail sent from the remaining machines works fine. Here is the detailed background: (... 4 Jul 2007 11:30

UPS and Linux... (ext3 root fixed)
Figured out what the problem was. I had installed new modutils, in preperation to build a 2.6~ kernel, which were conflicting with the initrd that I built for ext3 support. Reverting back to the old modutils got the new initrd to finally work correctly. With UPS and now ext3 working on everything, I'm ha... 2 Jul 2007 17:07

Open Office Suite
uflqbmqwkriy(a)yahoo.com wrote: Don't be fooled by illegal copies of Microsoft Office selling for 49$ - 69$. These are not licensed copies and could end up costing you more than $100,000 in copyright fines or willful infringement. Open Office is a fully licensed alternative software to Microsoft Office. Get t... 3 Aug 2007 15:58

Howto Install RHEL5/CentOS5/SL5 on an Abit AB9 Pro
I've managed install Scientific Linux 5 on the Abit AB9 Pro. My previous attempts with CentOS5 and SL5 had failed because the ata_piix driver in the installer doesn't work with this board. For the benefit of others here is how I did it, I upgraded the BIOS from 1.6. to 1.8. Abit hides the 1.8 BIOS on their w... 30 Jun 2007 18:29

What architecture is referred by x86_64 distrib (xeon ?)
I'm planning to install a Fedora C7 on a HP prolian 380G5 (2 * xeon processors). What distrib should I best download i386 or x86_64 ? ... 30 Jun 2007 19:00

Linux dual-booting
Gentlemen, I would like to set up a dual-boot with two Red Hat-type distros (CentOS 5.0 and Fedora Core 6). What is the drill for setting up GRUB to handle this, and how does one handle the two /boot folders required? ... 30 Jun 2007 11:48

How to compile Adaptec driver from source
Hi, I am trying to build Adaptec's scsi driver source for Linux kernel 2.4, but the usual way I build from source "./configure + make + make install" does not work. Card I need driver for: Adaptec 29320ALP-R Link to driver I downloaded: http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/scsi/linux/aic7Yxx-2_0_26-6_3_11-li... 29 Jun 2007 15:03

UPS and Linux...
Hi, I have a really old computer that I would like to use a UPS with. It is used for home automation and real time control. The way I have the guts mounted and out-of-sight make it difficult to do hardware upgrades. The software also has been so heavily tweaked and tailored over the years that it would b... 3 Jul 2007 11:53