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timezone

by Baris Hasdemir

hi, I have a strange-for-me problem. I am one of those paranoid guys, who has added "ntpdate time.nist.gov" to the crontab to be executed every day. the problem is that, every night the system time is set 1 hour earlier of the actual time. i.e it is executed at 23:00 and is set to 22:00 after ntpdate, as far as I could observe. I am pretty confused about the subject. Tried different timezone names, etc, hence more confused. I also have a problem with the name of the timezone. which timezone name do you choose guys? US/Eastern? America/Newyork? GMT+5? EST? EDT? or any other? I am using slackware-current. set the timezone to America/New_York and whenever I send a mail, sylpheed shows my timezone as GMT-4 and #date shows my timezone as EDT. any comments. other than removing the crontab job? :) thanks, baris

May 8, 2002

nvidia drivers, re-visited and working

by Brad Noyes

Hi All, You may remember that earlier this year i was having difficulty in getting the nvidia drivers to work with my TNT card. Today i figured out the problem. I needed to enable 'Assign IRQ to VGA' in my BIOS. Things seem to work, except some re-draws are slow for X-term, and konsole. --brad

May 8, 2002

Cheap colo!

by Adam Keck

It's not linux, but it is reasonable, finally. http://www.johncompanies.com/collocation/ -Adam "lingua machinationis creo, ergo sum" _____________________________________________ Adam Keck The Mathworks 508-647-7298 Natick, Ma www.mathworks.com FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator _____________________________________________

May 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] PowerMac CD-ROM

by jeff

Chuck Homic wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:24:30PM -0700, Jeremy wrote: > > I'll have to get used to dselect and all the related apt apps. > > Ughh.... dselect. I recommend *don't* get used to dselect, and just use > apt-get for everything. Flame war? > > -Chuck > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug you have my vote for apt-get ;) dselect isn't bad...if you spare the time to learn it... p.s. who be goin' to episode 2? :) peace -jeff

May 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] PowerMac CD-ROM

by Chuck Homic

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:24:30PM -0700, Jeremy wrote: > I'll have to get used to dselect and all the related apt apps. Ughh.... dselect. I recommend *don't* get used to dselect, and just use apt-get for everything. Flame war? -Chuck

May 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] PowerMac CD-ROM

by Jeremy

Ok, thinks are looking better. I'll be happy once I can ssh into the box and setup everything remotely. I'll have to get used to dselect and all the related apt apps. --- Josh Huber <huber(a)alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > Jeremy <mcotis(a)yahoo.com> writes: > > > acutally i figured it out :-) I had SCSI voodoo. Amazing how those > > little jumpers make a difference... The installer worked and > > booted. But I still think "woody" has bugs in it. The installer > > just loops when after I finish setting up the password info; it > > should ask about PPP, but never does. I do rememeber seeing kernel > > errors on booting (live not floppy) about PPP/serial modules > > missing. So i am trying different various of modules during the > > install. I may have to go to the stable which i think is potato. > > Damn, I picked a bad time to suggest trying woody. This problem is > fixed in sid, and can be fixed by moving /etc/inittab.real to > /etc/inittab. See: > > <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/145434> > <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/145469> > > > We'll see :-) > > Yeah, you could install potato and dist-upgrade to woody as an > alternative, but apart from that little annoying loop bug, woody would > be a better choice. > > The 1.33.18 package is in sid, and hopefully will move into woody by > tomorrow. > > here are the versions for each release: > > base-config | 0.33.2 | stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, > powerpc, sparc > base-config | 1.33.17 | testing | source, all > base-config | 1.33.18 | unstable | source, all > > ttyl, > > -- > Josh Huber __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

May 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] PowerMac CD-ROM

by Josh Huber

Jeremy <mcotis(a)yahoo.com> writes: > acutally i figured it out :-) I had SCSI voodoo. Amazing how those > little jumpers make a difference... The installer worked and > booted. But I still think "woody" has bugs in it. The installer > just loops when after I finish setting up the password info; it > should ask about PPP, but never does. I do rememeber seeing kernel > errors on booting (live not floppy) about PPP/serial modules > missing. So i am trying different various of modules during the > install. I may have to go to the stable which i think is potato. Damn, I picked a bad time to suggest trying woody. This problem is fixed in sid, and can be fixed by moving /etc/inittab.real to /etc/inittab. See: <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/145434> <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/145469> > We'll see :-) Yeah, you could install potato and dist-upgrade to woody as an alternative, but apart from that little annoying loop bug, woody would be a better choice. The 1.33.18 package is in sid, and hopefully will move into woody by tomorrow. here are the versions for each release: base-config | 0.33.2 | stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc base-config | 1.33.17 | testing | source, all base-config | 1.33.18 | unstable | source, all ttyl, -- Josh Huber

May 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] PowerMac CD-ROM

by Jeremy

acutally i figured it out :-) I had SCSI voodoo. Amazing how those little jumpers make a difference... The installer worked and booted. But I still think "woody" has bugs in it. The installer just loops when after I finish setting up the password info; it should ask about PPP, but never does. I do rememeber seeing kernel errors on booting (live not floppy) about PPP/serial modules missing. So i am trying different various of modules during the install. I may have to go to the stable which i think is potato. We'll see :-) -J --- Josh Huber <huber(a)alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > Jeremy <mcotis(a)yahoo.com> writes: > > > They are ext2 fs. Are there different flavors of ext2? or of even > > partition maps? > > Well, no there aren't different flavors of ext2 -- unless your > original installation is SO old that it was from the days when powerpc > ext2 was stored in big-endian format on disk. > > As for the partition table, yes there are different types of partition > tables, but if you were using MacOS with that computer successfully, > you were probably using an Apple partition table. > > What kind of output do you see? Any messages in the kernel log? How > about /proc/partitions? > > What kind of output do you see in the dmesg about the Partition check: > > Partition check: > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 > > is what I see... > > What distribution are you trying? > > -- > Josh Huber > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug ===== - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

May 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] PowerMac CD-ROM

by Josh Huber

Jeremy <mcotis(a)yahoo.com> writes: > They are ext2 fs. Are there different flavors of ext2? or of even > partition maps? Well, no there aren't different flavors of ext2 -- unless your original installation is SO old that it was from the days when powerpc ext2 was stored in big-endian format on disk. As for the partition table, yes there are different types of partition tables, but if you were using MacOS with that computer successfully, you were probably using an Apple partition table. What kind of output do you see? Any messages in the kernel log? How about /proc/partitions? What kind of output do you see in the dmesg about the Partition check: Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 is what I see... What distribution are you trying? -- Josh Huber

May 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] PowerMac CD-ROM

by Jeremy

I got it to boot using floppies, but for some reason it didnt recognize the original disk partitions.... It saw the drives but unable to read the maps. I was hoping not to reformat everything... Any ideas anyone? They are ext2 fs. Are there different flavors of ext2? or of even partition maps? --- Josh Huber <huber(a)alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > Jeremy <mcotis(a)yahoo.com> writes: > > > Bender lives on! Sadly Futurama wont! :( yeah i thought about debian > > but the last two installs i tried sucked! Once on a sparc and the > > other was on my B&W. RTMF :-) Maybe I'll give debian one last try > > on my 7500. > > Hmm, yeah well...the installer needs work, I know. The woody > installer is a lot better though, so you might want to give it a try. > > > If i can boot via open firmware that would golden! > > Yeah, can you get video output from OF on the 7500? Perhaps with > updated OF patches from apple you could use OF if it doesn't work > right now. booting via quik is much better than using BootX ;) > > ttyl, > > -- > Josh Huber > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug ===== - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

May 7, 2002