NTFS partition resized at last
by Nigel Henry
Many thanks to Charles Curley for the links. QTparted on Knoppix 5.0 crashed
when trying to get info from hda with an NTFS formatted XP on it. He
suggested Finnix, which I downloaded, but it runs in init2, and I apologise,
but didn't look forward to resizing NTFS partitions in text mode. Saying that
I'll use Finnix from time to time, and try to do stuff in text mode. After
all it's all good experience. The link to.http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
solved the problem. I downloaded the gparted live cd, version-0.2.5.5.iso.
Now I always use KDE, but have to give credit to Gnome for this. this DL was
only 27.9MB (on dialup again, because I'm stuck on that), and I'm feeling
very pessimistic that this is going to solve the problem. Anyway I burn the
iso to CD-R, and go for it.
I put XP in it's harddrive caddy into the machine, press go, and insert the
CDROM with gparted on it, press enter to boot gparted, and I get a GUI.
Amazing. Highlight hda, which is already there, click on resize (I bet XP
won't like this, but hard cheese), give XP 12GB (more than it deserves), and
click on apply. Well it's doing something, and runs for about 40mins, but
does say it might take a while.
OK. gparted says "job done". I must admit that pessimism is still hanging
around. Click on eject, and reboot. The disc is ejected but no reboot. No
problem. A hard reset reboots XP. XP for the the first time that I know runs
CHKDSK (probably annoyed that it's file sysem has been messed with), then
having accepted that it's ok, reboots, in the usual Windows style.
Well, all I can say is that Gparted has done the job. XP is now showing that
it's using 11.72GB of the 40GB drive, and all the rest is free space, and
certainly enough for a couple of Linux distro's.
Enough said.
Nigel.
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17 years, 8 months
problem when installing gparted in FC5
by Joachim Backes
Hi,
I tried to install gparted:
yum install gparted
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/4]
updates [2/4]
Extras [3/4]
extras [4/4]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package gparted.i386 0:0.2.5-1.fc5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libparted-1.6.so.14 for package: gparted
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libparted-1.6.so.14 is needed by package gparted
Bu when i try to install libparted-1.6.so.14, getting:
yum install libparted
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/4]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates [2/4]
updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00
Extras [3/4]
Extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras [4/4]
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.4 MB 00:12
extras : ################################################## 4762/4762
Added 18 new packages, deleted 5 old in 4.09 seconds
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: libparted
Nothing to do
I think yum itself should resolve the dependencies.
Any advice welcome.
Regards
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University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK],
Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing,
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17 years, 8 months
libparted and pyparted dependency problem
by Frank Cox
I just ran a "yum update" on this (FC5) computer and got this:
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for slang-devel to pack into transaction set.
slang-devel-2.0.6-1.fc5.i 100% |=========================| 8.8 kB 00:00
---> Package slang-devel.i386 0:2.0.6-1.fc5 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for parted to pack into transaction set.
parted-1.7.1-15.fc5.i386. 100% |=========================| 24 kB 00:00
---> Package parted.i386 0:1.7.1-15.fc5 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for slang to pack into transaction set.
slang-2.0.6-1.fc5.i386.rp 100% |=========================| 8.5 kB 00:00
---> Package slang.i386 0:2.0.6-1.fc5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libparted-1.6.so.14 for package: pyparted
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libparted-1.6.so.14 is needed by package pyparted
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MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://theatre.sasktelwebsite.net
17 years, 8 months
Re: Port Redirection in Fedora
by R. G. Newbury
R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > Well that's part of the idea. I have a DOS program (accounting)
which can only
> > write out to LPT1, LPT2 or to a file. The latter is a pain. I used
to use
> > redirection to divert the output which the program thought it was
sending to
> > LPT2, to a networked printer.
> > I'm looking for something to do the same thing under Fedora 5.
Three things:
>How are you running this DOS program under Linux? Have you re-compiled,
or are you using something like dosemu, qemu, or wine? As if it's the
latter, you may be able to set LPT1 in the configuration file.
I have been running it under dosbox. The accounting program (which I
have been using since 1987) is a pure DOS program.
Unfortunately, dosbox does not know anything about printer ports.
Wine does not do DOS programs...
I have been completely unable to get dosemu to install and run...the
'freedos' hd image install never works.
>Or you may just find that adding a networked printer and calling it
LPT2 works fine.
And where *exactly* would I call it 'LPT2' (or lpt2'. There seems to be
no correlation between the printer name and the port which it uses...Of
course there is a correlation by none of the config tools make that
visible and I am unable to find any config which sets that out. Both
OS/2 and Winblows make that correlation quite visible....I know it must
exist, the question is where is the damn thing!
>Thirdly, Unix filenames can be "fifo"s or "named pipes". In your case,
you could set up a program to read anything that came from the fifo,
print to the filename, and the data would be set to the waiting program.
I haven't tested this fully, but something like
rm /tmp/fifo # make sure there's nothing already there
mkfifo /tmp/fifo
lp -d printername </tmp/fifo & # & keeps the lp command running
~/dos/program.exe
should allow you to "print" a file to /tmp/fifo and have them come out
where you want.
This has possibilities. I will try it with a fifo called 'lpt2....
One other, fairly obvious thing: please remember to change the subject
line back if you're going to respond to a digest? Otherwise your message
gets "lost".
Yeah, noticed that myself....
Geoff
17 years, 8 months
windowmaker 0.92 crash, WorkspaceSpecificBack
by wwp
Hello,
WindowMaker-0.92.0-8.fc5 installed here, I get a crash at login when
~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker contains any WorkspaceSpecificBack =
( [snip] ); section. If I remove such section, it works fine.
Can anyone please share its config file (several workspaces w/ background
settings specific to each one needed)?
Regards,
--
wwp
17 years, 8 months
wxMaxima: looking for a volunteer to maintain it
by Paul Smith
Dear All
Not so far ago, wxMaxima was released. wxMaxima is a neat and powerful
GUI for Maxima. See
http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net/
Unfortunately, the Fedora maintainer of Maxima is not available for
maintaining wxMaxima at the moment, and I have not got the proper
competences to take the job myself. Thus, I am asking here for a
volunteer available to become the Fedora maintainer of wxMaxima.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
17 years, 8 months
User Quota
by Sergio Silva
How can I configure users quota on Fedora 5?
When I trying configuring I receive this message:
[root@ias ~]# mount -o remount /ftp
[root@ias ~]# quotacheck -avug
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda6 [/ftp] done
quotacheck: Checked 3 directories and 4 files
[root@ias ~]# quotaon -auvg
quotaon: using /ftp/quota.group on /dev/hda6 [/ftp]: Processo inexistente
quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel.
quotaon: using /ftp/quota.user on /dev/hda6 [/ftp]: Processo inexistente
quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel.
What´s wrong?
Packge instaled:
[root@ias ~]# rpm -qa|grep quota
quota-3.13-1.2.2
Thanks
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17 years, 8 months
Nautilus cannot display windows network?
by Paul Erickson
I have a network of 5 computers which has been working fine until
recently. I have one
FC5 box setup as a samba server, and there are 4 other boxes using
Windows XP or 98.
Findsmb displays all the computers on the network, and the windows
machines can access
the shared files/folders, and can print through the FC box, but when I
try to browse the network
in Gnome, be it through "places>Network Servers>Windows
Network>workgroup, or through
the other gnome network tools, I get the following message:
The folder contents could not be displayed.
Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "Windows Network: workgroup".
Somehow one of the system updates in the last few days, has mangled
things, and I
am at a loss as to how to troubleshoot it. I have tried google, but so
far haven't been
able to find anything relevant.
I can ping the various boxes, but for some reason Nautilus cannot view
them.
I have the same trouble as user and as root.
Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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17 years, 8 months
Burning mac os x images using k3b
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Is it possible to burn OS X images using k3b or are they like those
weird things Nero produces which are effectively ISO images with some
garbage on top?
TTFN
Paul
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17 years, 8 months