Linuxers February 2006

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Installer hangs on "Installing bootloader" of Fedora Core 4
by Mandar Khanolkar 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, I am facing following problems while installing Fedora 4 on my machine. 1 Probem: When I start the machine with CD#1, I get boot: promt. If I hit enter to proceed installation it starts checking machine resorces. Here it gives me this error followed by some exception trace. *** RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. VFS: couldn't open root device or unknown block "NULL" or (8,3) *** After this messages it prints out some exception trace. If I enter some invalid value at boot: promp like "/" and enter, it gives error that not a valid boot image. After this it shows again boot: prompt. Not if I hit enter it proceed with instllation and doesnt give above error message (problem#1 error). 2 Problem: a# After this I went ahead and selected drives for / and swap through disk druid. I had prepared these partitions through partition magic. b# I selected boot loader to be installaed on /dev/hda4 (Linux partition) and kept default starting os as windows partition. c# I went ahead and selected custom packages to be installed. It asked me for all the cds one by one as installation made progress. d# After completing the packages installation and post installation tasks it displayed a message box stating "Installing bootloader". Here it went wrong. It was showing me hour-glass mouse icon but I guess it was hung. It didnt give me any error message. Finally after waiting for a long time I restarted the machine and my windows os started w/o showing Fedora Grab loader window. e# I thought it couldnt write bootloader on the /dev/hda4 linux partition as it physically appears in the end of my hard-disk. So i repeated the whole procedure by selecting boot loader installation on MBR (step b#). But this couldnt resolve the problem and I found the same result. Can anybody explain the reason behind these two problems? Also any solution to get Fedora core 4 installed on my machine without formatting existing windows partitions. The System Details: MB : Intel D865GVHZ CPU : Intel P4 2.4 GHZ H-DISK : Samsung 80 GB (Linux ext2 "/" and swap partitions lies at the end of the physical hard-disk) RAM : 256 + 256 Total 512 MB -Mandar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to unsubscribe from this list?
by shunya＠vsnl.com 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

thanks . I will learn linux with my resources and then only trouble this noisy group again. To me it sounded like a lot of irrelevant chattering. May Be, it is very useful to the posters and current readers. mahesh naik

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ILUG BOM websites
by Roshan 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi all, A few questions....(If I have the permissions to ask ;) ) Q1. No new user is allowed to log in to wiki of ILUG BOM? (I wanted to, but there was no page for registration) (How can I create an account Q2. There were pages which had a list of names of certain members. I seem to have lost the link! :( ..Does anyone know whether it exists? Q3. Who is responsilbe for updating the ILUG-BOm website ? (Announcements, pictures etc..?) __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Display name in devnagari
by Ninad Bapat 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi In many posts I have seen names displayed in devnagari. How can this be done Thanks Ninad

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Why are you here?
by Mitul Limbani 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

> Doing it for the sake of addiction. > AbhiSawa This means you can work for Rs. 2000/month or even for free, in case you get constant heavy doze of the sys admin drug :) all day. We would be glad to speak with such individuals, we can provide them with constant heavy doze of sys admin drug :) Thanks & Regards, Mitul Limbani, Founder & CEO, Enterux Solutions, The Enterprise Linux Company (TM), www.enterux.com

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ILUG Site Problem
by Puneet Lakhina 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi.. I tried acessing the lug site at www.ilug-bom.org.in but i get a message that www.ilug-bom.org.in couldnt be found.. Does anybody else also have simliar problems with the this domain name.. I tried the other domain www.glug-bom.org that works fine.. but i think the photos are still under a subdomain of the old domain name db.ilug-bom.org.in As for the connection details, currently I am in delhi using an airtel(landline) 128 Kbps connection. I also tried on Internet Exploder but to no avail.. thanks -- Puneet

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Re: [OT] Why are you here?
by Roshan 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

> On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:05, Roshan wrote: > > However, I was told this before by Philips Sir, > and I have my lines > > wrapped at 72 characters. (PLAIN TEXT) > > I dont use my signature when I send emails to the > mailing list > > wasn't the following text a part of your message(s)? > > >_____________________________ > >If you don't know something, its always better to > learn it and then > >experiment with components! > > > >PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! > > > >Visit http://www.somaiya.edu > > > > The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory > and the Classroom > > independent of location but dependent on computer > with an internet > > connection! > > > >"Intentions are written with pencil. > >Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. > D'SOUZA > > > >--------------------------------- This may have accompanied my message when I had not realized what size my signature is of!.. However, I apologize for causing an oversized email to the list _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Overquoting and me toos - please stop
by Philip Tellis 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

People, when replying to mails, please take a little time to make your fellow luggers' lives a little less difficult. Refrain from overquoting and sending me-too mails. Overquoting happens when you include a very large number of lines from the original mail just to include one or two lines of your own at the bottom. Your lines will almost certainly get lost. It's better to delete everything that is irrelevant to your reply, including old signatures and headers. Me-too mails happen when you reply to a reply for the sole purpose of saying 'me-too'. Do this only in the case of a poll, and not in any other case. If you do it, make sure you do not overquote. Standard rules of top-posting, upside down quoting, and long lines also apply. If you're not sure what they mean, search the net. Thanks, Philip -- Any given program will expand to fill available memory.

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Re: ILUG Site Problem
by Roshan 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

> Hi.. > I tried acessing the lug site at > > www.ilug-bom.org.in > > > but i get a message that www.ilug-bom.org.in couldnt > be found.. Does anybody > else also have simliar problems with the this domain > name.. I tried the > other domain > www.glug-bom.org I did face this problem a few days back! > that works fine.. but i think the photos are still > under a subdomain of the > old domain name > > db.ilug-bom.org.in > > As for the connection details, currently I am in > delhi using an > airtel(landline) 128 Kbps connection. I also tried > on Internet Exploder but > to no avail.. > > thanks > -- > Puneet May be there would be redirection now...for the old domain name. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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How to unsubscribe from this list?
by Mahesh Naik 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

how do i unsubscribe. The list is tooo noisy for my mail box.

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