Recent content by pwhysall

Salvalinus - <br> <br> Got me. You're right. BTW, when I said "containing root" I meant "containing /", not the home directory of the user "root". Still wrong, but different!<br> <br> Let's clarify then - does the kernel image (vmlinuz or whatever) need to be in the /boot partition, assuming the...

Have you tried recompiling your kernel with the PCI options?<br> I'm away from my Linux box right now but IIRC there is an option for advanced PCI support. You might also check to see if there's support for the 82371 chipset explicitly.

I have a little network - a Solaris 7 box (paradise), and a small (486SX/8MB/120MB) SuSE 5.2 box (intrepid).<br> <br> They're connected up via thin ethernet. In both directions, ftp and telnet are working fine.<br> <br> The problem is this - sendmail on intrepid fails to resolve the name of...

I don't know anything about rz - but you could try checking whether it needs to be run from a specific place, or whether it needs an environment variable setting, or whether it needs to be run in a non-interactive mode, or whether it needs to be told it's in a script.<br> <br> Also, are you...

There's a couple of things you can do.<br> <br> From Linux: <br> <br> $ lilo -U /dev/&lt;disk_or_partition&gt;<br> <br> If that doesn't work, then good ol' Windows FDISK can help:<br> <br> C:\&gt; fdisk /mbr<br> <br> This will replace the Master Boot Record with one that boots the current C...

Check the ftp config files in /etc. The exact names of the files will vary from package to package (I run Solaris so can't help you with Red Hat specifics).<br> <br> Many ftp servers default to denying access to root, for security systems. Are you logging in as a non-root user?<br> <br> The...

There's not a lot of detail here, but here goes...<br> <br> Under certain circumstances, installing IE4 can cause DnD to stop working in Explorer windows (including the root desktop window).<br> <br> Unfortunately the only fix I've ever found for this problem is to do a clean reinstall of...

The only constraint that I know of on Linux is that the partition containing root must be within the first 1024 cylinders on the disk.<br> This partition doesn't have to be on the first disk in the machine, either - I happily booted Linux from /dev/hdb1 by installing LILO on the MBR of the first...

Were any apps running at the time? OLEAUT32.DLL is part of the OLE2 layer and cannot be overwritten whilst in use.<br> Ideally you should alter your installer so that it installs any DLLs into the application directory, rather than %WINNT%\SYSTEM. This solves any problems with DLL versioning...

This is a question about Western Digital IDE disks, specifically the Caviar 21200 drive.<br> I have one that spins up OK, but only very very occasionally reports itself to the BIOS when the BIOS is set to autodetect, and never when the drive geometry (as printed on top of the drive) is entered...

As the machine in question blew its motherboard yesterday :( we are in the realm of the rhetorical... but FWIW, DNS wasn't set up at all on either the client or the server - for two machines, /etc/hosts suffices and is less hassle than setting up named.<br> NIS wasn't in use either, to the best...

I have two linux boxen which communicate via thin ethernet. The big one is an NFS server for the little one and exports a couple of directories.<br> The little one complains about there being "No bound server for domain tranquillity" (thusly is my NFS domain named), and then proceeds to work...