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I've just read on Open Source Security about a a comprehensive step-by-step guide to enabling disk encryption in your choice of RHEL 5.2 or SLES 10 SP2. If you want to use the guide check the lin
... as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software install...
... to mount it and format as ext3fs. Do i mount first ( as raw ? ) and then format? How do i format the disk? Thank you,...
Why is linux so slow? I have a promise me umda diskdrive option and fijii drives and linux takes much longer to copy large directory then Windows does. linux is a lead bellie.
I downloaded tomsrtbt program to my machine and created a linux boot floppy disk. My machine is an NT 4.0/ex-Linux system. ex-Linux because the partition is broken. I'm trying to get some c and perl s
I have a Knoppix disk that I burned from a download. It works fine. I want to redistrbute Knoppix with my own software. (This is kosher.) How do I convert the iso9660 image to regular files, add my ow
...eird thing going on. Recently our tmp reported that it was full and X stopped functioning, checking the disk usage we found out that root partition is full. But actually it isn't. du reports 6.8M ...
...e PCs, I hauled them all to my garage. There are about 15~20 PC roughly 500~600 MHZ, 128M ram, 20G hard disks, AGP video, soundblaster, ethernet, CDROM, floppy, keyboard, mouse, and 15 or 17 inch moni...
Hello, I have a text file on the disk. The contents of the file are all characters from ascii value 33 to 250 (except the numbers 0..9). I have a Java program which reads this file and displays the
i am having redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.18.3.i have got linux installed on my second hard disk.i tried to install kernel 2.4.21 along with my present kernel.After compiling the new kernel while rebooti
... Except there are none available for the installed kernel. The net-install CD put a 2.2.20 kernel on my disk. Guess what? No 2.2.20 kernel-source packages available. There are 2.2.22 kernel source p...
...right. Linux... Not an issue! 2. Dr-dos 7.03 (and msdos also). tends to not allow me to format a 5 1/4' disk as a 96tpi disk quad density. On Linux I do just that. thats how I can make 720K 5 1/4' dis...
Hi Listers, Is there an InCD like program for Linux in which we can copy files to CDRW disks like a large floppy ? Google brought up packet-cd.sourceforge.net in which a patch is given to 2.4.10te
I recently installed Suse 8.2. I can see that I am going to run out of diskspace soon. Can someone briefly describe how I go about adding a new disk? Obviously, I install it, and run the manufacture
...t was ext2) I was trying the command: 'grub-install /dev/hda5' but after this I had to use the floppy disk in oder to boot linux: the same message 'GRUB' on the screen and the system hanged. I used ...
I have a notebook that came with Windows ME. I had a friend use Partition Magic to repartition the disk, and then installed Linux. It is dual boot since I occasionally need Windows. Now I would like
...talled RedHat 8.0 on my 2nd HD a while ago. Recently I decided to delete it and reclaim the much needed disk space. So I deleted the partition on the 2nd HD and created a new NTFS partition, forgett...
... a repair action on a linux system, but the problem is that the raid is not recognized without a driver disk. so i would need to do a 'linux rescue' and have it ask for a driver disk at the same tim...
...m) that allows multipple files with the same filename? I have a lot of files I want to copy to my harddisk from floppies, and there probably many files with identical...
I am running a RH 7.1 system. It is set up as dual boot with two SCSI disks, Windows 2000 on /dev/sda and Linux on /dev/sdb. It currently uses lilo as boot loader. I have finally got around to thinkin
...adrake 91. I have now to install Window.. Impossible to installe Windows anymore !!!!:-( I have used Fdisk /mbr -> seems to be OK... When I display the info with Fdisk, it display partition non-Dos ...
...lieve the steps are as follows: 1. dd your mbr to a boot floppy 2. backup your partition table with sfdisk somehow 3. install windows on my second hard drive 4. boot with the floppy 5. restore my mb...
...ter. Now I have the following doubts: 1.- How can I know what is the name of the device for that hard disk? (I mean, which of the device files in /dev should I use to mount the disk: hda1, hdc1, hdc...
I installed Redhat 8 on a seperate harddisk, later when i upgraded to LCD, the LCD can't display the Linux... Now I want to disgard the Linux OS and reuse my harddisk in Win-XP, how may I do it? Does
In the past week, I've been playing around with creating my own bootdisk. My eventual goal will be to create my own distribution. Redhat is very nice these days, but I think making my own could be a b
... correct for the hardware being used. The machine spec is as follows: AMD 450 with 196 meg RAM, 9 gig disk space. S3 Trident 3D graphics card and an Illyama vision master 400 pro monitor. Any help...
...HD that I want to replace. I did echo 'scsi remove-single-device 1 0 3 0' > /proc/scsi/scsi but the disk is still listed in /proc/scsi/scsi. Do I need to change anything in /etc/fstab and /etc/m...
...iles. Any suggestions? I do have a list of file names that are likely out there, so If I could scan the disk for a file name and then select a pointer to the beginning of the file, that would be usefu...
... way to go... I'm getting the 'write error in swap file' error when using vi. It seems clear that one disk partition is full, and that I need to delete something, but I can't work out what to get ri...
... itself: Of course does not offer anything. 2) The realmedia-Plugin for xmms (rmxmms) combined with the Disk Writer-Plugin only shows the message, that it's forbidden (tested it a few weeks and a rein...
... physical ram and ~128 mb of swap. It was working fine and being very stable, despite the fact that the disk would thrash terribly when working on big images in The Gimp. So I decided to add some ra...
... mac osX. During the formatting's process I've specified a partition to be a UnixFile System within the diskUtility of osX Now the question is that I'm running an YDL(linux distribution) and I'm not...
...to save 20% space in our filesystem by making all files that are by nature sparse (but do hold the full disk-space, I 'd call then 'sparse-able' but not sparse yet), truly sparse in the sense that the...
...t to 'Mounting local filesystems', when it just sat there doing bugger all, apart from lighting up the 'disk acccess' light on the case. 'Oh, dear', I thought. Anybody got any suggestions as to wh...
is there a way to mount a NTFS windows 2000 partition read-write? Is there a boot disk available supporting this. I tried leka's but alas it was RO.
...s experimental, not for newbies. Puppy has a reasonable suite of X apps and runs entirely in a 48M ramdisk, which means that everything happens in the blink of an eye. Puppy himself is under 20M. ...
...e a scsi hard drive that is part of a RAID set(mirrored) the set up looks like this. 2 SCSI 40GB Hard disks RAID 1 Destination drive is a 60GB IDE. I typed dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/hdc Once the...
I would like to install RedHat Linux 8.0 into my PC. It is a Pentium 200 with 32megs ram, 2.1gb hard disk. I do not want a dual boot.......so I have re-formatted my hard disk to get rid of Win98se. I
Hi, Does Lilo or Grub has a known bug with a 1.2TB Raid Disk? I have 8 of 180GB disk attached to 3ware 7850 controller cards. Either lilo and grub does not allow me to boot after installation. T
Hello, Is there a way to list processes which are currently accessing a disk? I'm thinking of something like that: # command /dev/hda1 process file date time read/write process1 /var/log/log.log
...ser. PArted doesn't support Reiser either. I can't figure out what is going on when I try to use Linux FDISK. I'm not sure what to enter. Do I need to delete my current partition on /dev/hde3 and then...
...M drive Ethernet connection 56 Kbps modem LindowsOS operating system (pre-installed) Monitor and floppy disk drive are not included...
I just installed RH7.2(company standard) on my work machine. Noticed that the hard disk was really slow and was planning on optimizing it using hdparm. But upon trying to run some of the options, I
... I would think the only way to harm a system like that would be to physically access it with a rescue disk, change fstab, then mount the system read-write....
...urner. so i want to know if there is any software which will let us boot on an ISO cd image from a hard disk. All sugesstions, internet links, are welcome Thank you very much...
RedHat 7.3. I didn't install lynx, but accidentally found a program on my disk called links, which has no man page but functions like a stripped down lynx
...eads and writes CD+R and DVD+RW just fine. However, I am having problems getting it to write to a DVD+R disk. I pop a fresh DVD+R disk into the drive, then type this: > growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J /v...
...n library in my case though, cos I tried to upgrade pan to 0.9.7. Since then there has been *much* more disk churning etc. Warning - don't upgrade to pan 0.9.7 yet! I am having problems keeping 2...
...db4]) (Something might look weird here to you vets, but I am fairly new to partitioning by hand with fdisk etc. and would appreciate your enlightenment.) For now I just put /dev/hdb1 or something ...
... of this when he wrote emacs. A current full emacs installation is around 100MB nowadays, rivalling the disk space of an entire office suite. Rather than trying to do only one thing, Emacs tries to mo...
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