Setup

Problems with udev
Hi I'm running Slackware 12.0, kernel 2.6.21.5. I have a dvd and a cd drive. My problem is that the link /dev/cdrom intermittently points to /dev/hdd, i.e.: %~$ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-01-08 07:13 /dev/cdrom -> hdd rather than /dev/hdc. This is after I created the file: ... 15 Jan 2008 08:15

Booting from USB
I'm trying to set up one of my USB fobs for booting. I have two - a 512MB Apacer "HandySteno" and a 4GB no-name "USB Flash Disk" (an "eBuyer Extra Value" item, in case anyone from the UK is reading). I thought I might have problems with the 4GB one, because I've read something about USB devices only being able... 9 Jan 2008 05:46

Promiscuous BOOTP server?
Hi All, I'm trying to set up a BOOTP/tftpd server so that I can boot diskless machines on my LAN. I've read the dhcpd docs, and it seems that dhcpd requires the MAC address of every machine to which it will serve the files via tftp. The original bootpd (ie. via inetd, without dhcpd) also seems to require MAC... 12 Jan 2008 03:50

A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.setup, read this first if you're new here (FAQ)
Netiquette 2007-08#1 New reader? Great! Welcome! Here's how to make best use of this newsgroup and get yourself a slice of the best help available. Now read on ... TESTING YOUR CONNECTION Errm, first a delicate point. Often users accessing ... 8 Jan 2008 16:14

Can't boot Fedora Release 8
I currently have Fedora Release 8 installed on my laptop with no problem. I installed Fedora Release 8 on my son's desktop computer. Install went fine (though I had to use text mode install because he only has 256 MB of RAM). After install, if I try to boot into X11 mode (runlevel = 5) or run startx, the monitor ... 9 Jan 2008 23:48

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config: please help re interfaces to listen on
(repost from linux.debian.user) "Magnate" <contact.me(a)some.other.way> wrote in message news:... Hi All, I can connect to my IMAPS server from work to read my home email, but work has blocked port 25 outbound so I can't connect to my home smtp server to relay email sent from that account. If I could ... 11 Jan 2008 09:35

Using apt-cacher with the Debian Installer
(repost from linux.debian.user, which is drowning in spam) "Magnate" <contact.me(a)some.other.way> wrote in message news:... I've used apt-cacher for years, but I've never managed to get it working properly with the installation process. During install I select "enter mirror information manually" and I put ... 8 Jan 2008 07:22

Meaning of some infos from top and vmstat?
Hello I'm having a hard time finding what some of the fields mean when running "top" and "vmstat" on a Debian host: ====== top =============== Cpu(s): 78.8% us, 18.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.7% id, 0.3% wa, 0.5% hi, 1.0% si Mem: 1015484k total, 993344k used, 22140k free, 76920k buffers Swap: 514040k total, 101032k us... 19 Jan 2008 11:02

Has anyone gotten RealPlayer to work with Fedora 8?
I have had no problems getting RealPlayer to work with all past versions of RedHat and Fedora. However, with Fedora 8 and RealPlayer 10, I am just getting a segmentation fault when I try to run realplay. If anyone has succeeded with this combination, please let me know how you did it. Thanks in advance, Ed ... 7 Jan 2008 17:56

Advanced LILO question: found the problem but not the solution
I think I've figured it out. The weakness is in the directive that tells the system where to find the bootloader: install = /mnt/tmp/boot/boot.b This directive tells LILO where to find the boot loader, but doesn't allow you to tell LILO which disk to look on. LILO is forced to assume that the loader is on t... 7 Jan 2008 20:44