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RH 7.3 Install
by jamie.french＠talk21.com 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

Hi Guys, After downloading RH7.3 and conducted a linux mediacheck when at partitioning stage I receive the following error "Partition table on device sda was unreadable. Initialize this drive Yes/No." By selecting Yes the following error occured "no valid devices were found to create new filesystems". Thus the system kills sessions and reboots. By checking system messages (ctrl+alt+F4) at various points I can determine that the SCSI card and devices where detected. Though after receiving the final error messege the following system message appears a number of time "parity error detected in data-in phase". Please bear in mind this machine has been running SuSe without any difficulties. Machine Spec: Supermicro P6SBU 196MB Onboard AIC-7890 SCSI ULTRA2/LVD Seagate 9GB LVD Any help would be great as I am trying to learn this sh*t. Take Care, Jamie Best Regards, Jamie French -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com

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Urgent Help
by jamie.french＠talk21.com 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Hi Guys, Hope you all had fun yesterday, unfortunately I was unable to attend due to family constraints. I have just been approached with a job that requires Redhat 7.x experience, I have used Redhat many moons ago and the grey cells are a bit clouded, as many of you know I use SuSe. So what is the best way I can learn Redhat in the next few days i.e. book recommendations with good references to administration for corporate networks ... The book also needs basics as well. Thanks in advance, Jamie Best Regards, Jamie French -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com

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Re: [Alug] Urgent Help
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Jamie: O'Reilly books are always pretty excellent., try a book from them on basic administration, then get a red-hat specific book to go with it? http://www.oreilly.com/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000066TFZ/ref=er_ra_acc_dp_b/026-… Jen.

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Urgent Help
by jamie.french＠talk21.com 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi Guys, In my plight to renew and train grey matter, has any1 used this book? Sounds good and may get me out of a pickle. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130084662/qid=1038835931/sr=2-3/r… Take Care, Jamie Best Regards, Jamie French -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com

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Yesterday's meeting.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi, Did tremendous things re. the introduction to linux lectures take place? I ended up with two children and no transport (well, no I had the bike, but three is a bit of a squash) yesterday as Mossey needed the car for the day, bah. I'll *never* get my modem working. :-( Jen.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Gentoo questions..
by Paul 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Hi Folks After installing RH8.0 over the weekend and getting really (and I mean *really) **** off with yet another compiler producing broken binaries, I think it's about time to look at another linux base. Some questions for the Gentoo experts (cos gentoo.org times out on me). Do I need an existing linux install as I would with Linux From Scratch ? What compiler does it use ? Does the gentoo CD come with sources for useable desktop environments such as KDE ? How long would it take to build a working system (complete with X and KDE) on a Duron 800MHz box ? Regards, Paul.

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Today's meeting
by jamie.french＠talk21.com 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Hi Guys, Just wondering who's going to the meeting today and what is the topic? I am not sure if I am going due to the distance of the journey, I believe it is about 90 > 120 mins from Stowmarket, any1 confirm? If I don't attend hav fun and will look forward to seeing you all soon. Take Care, Jamie Best Regards, Jamie French -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com

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Epson Scanners
by BenEBoy 30 Nov '02

30 Nov '02

I nearly missed this in Linux Format today, so just in case any of you did too and haven't heard about from other sources... Epson have released the drivers / UI for their scanners again, in a more GPL friendly manner. http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/lsd_dwn_e.html And it works very well indeed too. All I need is to get my lexmark printer working properly (bought *just* before I decided to give linux a try) and I'll be a happy bunny -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.norwich-anarchists.org.uk Officially the best norwich based anarchist web site that has overly large jpegs

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Re: Gentoo
by john.seago＠dakings.fsnet.co.uk 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

If it was another packaging system you were looking for, as opposed to specifically wanting to install Gentoo, why not have a look at Slackware? Slackware specific packages install with pkgtool, every thing else is compled from source, (usually, > ./configure >make >make intall). Some find it difficult to begin with, but if I can manage to get it up and running, I'm sure that the vast majority of those subscribing to this list, can have a working installation in a shorter time than it takes me! -- John Seago

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