Re: Recovering MBR
by James Marcinek
For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:30 -0500, dsavage(a)peaknet.net wrote:
> > Use CD #1 or your Rescue CD (whatever works) and run:
> >
> > # grub-install /dev/hda
> >
> > on whatever hard disk (hda, sda, ...) your system boots from. This
> > will
> > overwrite the Windows MBR with Grub's and you'll be back in
business.
>
> Having forgotten this key piece of advice in my post to an earlier
> thread, I'm sensitive to the fact that you must first have your
> installation tree mounted (under /mnt/sysimage for the default approach
> with the rescue boot from CD), then chroot to the mount point:
>
> # chroot /mnt/sysimage
>
> It is also good to have a GRUB boot floppy prepared for such cases:
>
> # grub-install /dev/fd0
>
> And/or see
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg05739.html
>
> and check out the attachment.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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I did have to add those to my process. I used the recovery disks that came with
the Wide Open magazine.
Thanks,
James
19 years, 11 months
Re: VMware and kernel-2.6.6-1.427 (Alexander Dalloz)
by ed
> From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz(a)uni-bielefeld.de>
> Subject: Re: VMware and kernel-2.6.6-1.427
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1087132618.3911.16.camel(a)serendipity.dogma.lan>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Am So, den 13.06.2004 schrieb Phil Schaffner um 14:43:
>
> > kernel-2.6.6-1.427 broke vmware 4.5.1 with compile-time undefined errors
> > when running vmware-config.pl (sorry - neglected to capture them) but
> > http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update69.tar.gz
> > seems to make it happy again.
> >
> > Thanks again to Petr Vandrovec for his updates!
> >
> > Phil
>
> Or using the freshly released VMware 4.5.2 update version, downloadable
> from their web site as a registered user.
>
> Alexander
>
I just downloaded the latest version from the Web site and it worked
perefectly.
Thanks to all who helped on this issue.
However, how come VMware did not notify registered users of this update?
Ed
19 years, 11 months
Recovering MBR
by James Marcinek
Hello everyone,
I have a duel boot system with Fedora 2 and Windows XP installed. Now
forgive me ahead of time. I was using GRUB as my bootloader and
was running fine until last night when I upgraded my Windows XP to XP
pro. The Windows XP pro upgrade must have overwritten my MBR. How
should I go about putting GRUB back into play. I would like to keep my
existing linux install if possible.
Thanks,
James
19 years, 11 months
RE: Cant access server behind Linksys VPN router
by Yang Xiao
-----Original Message-----
From: Billy Davis [mailto:bdavis@cds-corp.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 1:37 PM
To: Fedora List
Subject: Cant access server behind Linksys VPN router
We have a Redhat server that is connected to a switch, along with
multiple Windows XP PCs. The internet is also attached to the switch, with
a Linksys BEFVP41 VPN router between the switch and the DLS access point.
The hardware VPN tunnel connects successfully, and we can see all of the XP
PCs on both ends of the tunnel, and can access them. But the Redhat server
is totally invisible. What do we need to do to be able to access it?
Thanks,
Bdavis
19 years, 11 months
Cant access server behind Linksys VPN router
by Billy Davis
We have a Redhat server that is connected to a switch, along with
multiple Windows XP PCs. The internet is also attached to the switch, with a Linksys BEFVP41 VPN router between the switch and the DLS access point. The hardware VPN tunnel connects successfully, and we can see all of the XP PCs on both ends of the tunnel, and can access them. But the Redhat server is totally invisible. What do we need to do to be able to access it?
Thanks,
Bdavis
19 years, 11 months
Fedora - The Next Generation
by Roland Venter
Hi Folks,
I would like to hear your feelings on a couple of issues:
To start off I've been using FC1 on serveral servers since it's initial
release and have had little or no problems, only rebooting for kernel
upgrades, etc. Before a flame war starts, I agree that for critical
production servers you should be running RHEL. My problem is this:
Several customers are SOHO with less than 15 users and simply cannot justify
the cost of RHEL or they might as well be running MS SBS, (Some of them
actually believe the MS propaganda!)
I've been playing round with a couple of ideas:
Create a single CD Fedora installation with only core apps required for
business use, eg. postfix, squid, samba etc
Better inital setup, like a wizard after the install to add domain entries
to automatically configure postfix, samba and the likes, so after the
initial reboot you'll have a fully functional server.
Aditional testing of updates, maybe a separate yum mirror, so nightly
updates install only critical updates.
*important*
What I don't want is to reinvent the wheel, the Fedora community is doing
great work and we don't need to fork into yet another distro. This should
be something between the latest and greatest, FC2, and a stable production
environment - RHEL. (maybe if this all works, we can plough some of it back
into FC3?)
I'm not very fond of fixed release schedules, if it's broken, fix it and
release a new ISO, this will save us answering the same questions on the
list time after time.
By stripping down the initial install we can fokus on making Fedora better
and we can actually implement some of the suggestions on this list. Being
based on Fedora it should be easy to add additional components as required,
something like a minimal install and add what you need.
Your thoughts...
Roland
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19 years, 11 months
linux apps that can record your desktop/ make a movie out of it
by Didier Casse
Hi all,
Doesn anybody know any linux apps that can record things like
mouse movements and all the things you're doing on the desktop and can
output an mpeg clip out of it?
I want to record my desktop and show people all the cool apps I have at
the moment via an mpeg clip. i.e make a movie out of it. Thanks.
With kind regards,
Didier.
---
PhD student.
Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS)
5 Research Link,
Singapore 117603
Email: didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg
Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg
19 years, 11 months
RE: linux apps that can record your desktop/ make a movie out of it
by Yang Xiao
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M3 Freak [mailto:m3freak@rogers.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 12:55 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: linux apps that can record your desktop/ make a
> movie out of it
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 01:32, Didier Casse wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Doesn anybody know any linux apps that can record
> things like
> > mouse movements and all the things you're doing on the
> desktop and can
> > output an mpeg clip out of it?
>
> Ah, the perfect solution: http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Kanwar
> Systems Aligned Inc.
> www.systemsaligned.com
>
Yeap, very nice, even capture mouse pointers, tried it once sometime ago,
perfect for demos.
Yang
19 years, 11 months
RE: renaming my linux box
by Yang Xiao
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xentek dev [mailto:linux@xentek.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:58 PM
> To: Fedora Mailing LIst
> Subject: renaming my linux box
>
>
> how does one set the name for the linux machine when being
> browsed by a windows machine?
>
> samba is up and running, and i can access the shares on the
> linux box from my WinXP client, but it's named 'localhost'...
> I'd like to change it to something more descriptive.
>
> thanks!
>
>
Hi,
Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and modify the line that says
server string = My Big Fat Fedora Box
Restart samba.
Yang
19 years, 11 months
RE: Tcpdump: "admin prohibited filter"
by Yang Xiao
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Giuliano [mailto:a.giuliano@iccu.sbn.it]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:30 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Tcpdump: "admin prohibited filter"
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> trying to make my ADSL connection working, I ran across this
> suspicious line in the output from "tcpdump -i ppp0":
>
> 23:50:26.876061 IP 192.168.100.1 > 82.53.151.158: icmp 36:
> host 217.144.248.190 unreachable - admin prohibited filter
>
> The output is full of such lines (you can see the whole
> output below). What do they mean? Who's the admin? Myself on
> my local host or the admin of the remote host (in other
> words, one of the ISP's admins)?
>
> Since I simply cannot use the connection, even it seems to be
> up and running, I was wondering if this messages could hide
> the actual cause of my problems: maybe my ISP has made some
> changes that prevent me from use the line effectively?
>
> Please note the following:
>
> 1) I only had the connection working for one day, June 21, on FC1.
> 2) On June 22 I upgraded to FC2, and the connection became
> slow, but still working.
> 3) Since June 23, the connection is definitely useless. No
> host can be reached, not even the DNS server of my ISP, as
> listed in the syslog after the ppp0 interface has come up.
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> Andrea Giuliano, Ph. D.
> ICCU - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico
> Viale Castro Pretorio 105, Rome - ITALY
> Tel. +39064989509, Fax +39064059302
>
>
Gee, I read you message again, in it's entirety, it sounds like the host
with IPTABLES rules is yours. :P
Yang
19 years, 11 months
