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jon bran | 1 Jul 2006 02:00
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looking for a new distro(not a distro piss please)

hey all im looking for a new distro to put on my computer again DONT TURN THIS INTO A DISTRO PISSING CONTEST
PLEASE DONT ive got an amd athlon 64-bit 2800+ processor 512 nvidia geforce fx 5500 gfx card 120GB hdd to put
it it and whatever else onto ive got the suse9.3 retail install already done that one a few times what i would
need on my new distro is the following => IM capability as much graphical  adaptability as possible while
keeping everything else programming capability (java/script C++ C etc)music storage and playback
picture/photo editing capability some winblows ability i.e. wine/cedega idc about being rpm or debian
doesnt matter to me anywho get back to me thanks

 		
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William L. Thomson Jr. | 1 Jul 2006 20:27
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Re: Backup/Samba

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:37 -0500, Shayne Hardesty wrote:
>  If you're committed to making the samba solution work
> check the samba docs, wiki, and lists to see if there's a way around the 4GB
> limitation.

Pretty sure NFS can be used with Windows as well. I think it might
require purchase or etc of the stuff needed on the Windows side. But I
believe it came up in discussion on the list quite some time back.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324085&sd=tech

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Austin Denyer | 1 Jul 2006 23:58
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Resize2fs issues


Hi Guys.

I had some issues with my mailserver (the drive with /home died) so I
took the opportunity to replace the drive with a larger one, and copy
some other partitions over with dd.

The partitions were originally created the same size, and I used
PartitionMagic to resize them afterwards.

This worked fine on all except the root partition, where the partition
increased but the size didn't.

I tried to use resize2fs on it, but I'm getting strange results:

mailthing:/# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdd6             445M  338M   84M  81% /
<snip>

So, df thinks it's 445 Megs (which is what it used to be).

mailthing:/# fdisk /dev/hdd
<snip>
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
<snip>
/dev/hdd6              21         212     1542208+  83  Linux

fdisk thinks (correctly) that it's 1.5 Gigs.
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Bruce-Robert Pocock | 2 Jul 2006 01:34

Re: looking for a new distro(not a distro piss please)

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 17:00 -0700, jon bran wrote:
> hey all im looking for a new distro to put on my computer again DONT TURN THIS INTO A DISTRO PISSING CONTEST
PLEASE DONT ive got an amd athlon 64-bit 2800+ processor 512 nvidia geforce fx 5500 gfx card 120GB hdd to put
it it and whatever else onto ive got the suse9.3 retail install already done that one a few times what i would
need on my new distro is the following => IM capability as much graphical  adaptability as possible while
keeping everything else programming capability (java/script C++ C etc)music storage and playback
picture/photo editing capability some winblows ability i.e. wine/cedega idc about being rpm or debian
doesnt matter to me anywho get back to me thanks

OK... first off, English. (nuff said)

Secondly, ANY desktop distribution is *essentially* identical to any
others. There's only minor differences in UI layouts and management
subsystems. So the only reasonable response to this would be a "distro
pissing contest."

When in doubt, grab Fedora, Novell, Red Hat, Debian, Mandriva, or
Ubuntu, (in random order) as they're the best-tested distros. Otherwise,
grab what you want or what you need. It's absolutely 100% a matter of
personal taste.
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Tim Holloway | 2 Jul 2006 21:49
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Re: Backup/Samba

William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:37 -0500, Shayne Hardesty wrote:
>   
>>  If you're committed to making the samba solution work
>> check the samba docs, wiki, and lists to see if there's a way around the 4GB
>> limitation.
>>     
>
> Pretty sure NFS can be used with Windows as well. I think it might
> require purchase or etc of the stuff needed on the Windows side. But I
> believe it came up in discussion on the list quite some time back.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324085&sd=tech
>
>   
I know of no free NFS client for Windows, but at least one commmercial one.

Rsync is a good idea, however.

  Tim
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Tim Holloway | 2 Jul 2006 21:55
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Re: Resize2fs issues

Austin (Ozz) Denyer wrote:
> Hi Guys.
>
> I had some issues with my mailserver (the drive with /home died) so I
> took the opportunity to replace the drive with a larger one, and copy
> some other partitions over with dd.
>
> The partitions were originally created the same size, and I used
> PartitionMagic to resize them afterwards.
>
> This worked fine on all except the root partition, where the partition
> increased but the size didn't.
>
> I tried to use resize2fs on it, but I'm getting strange results:
>
> mailthing:/# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdd6             445M  338M   84M  81% /
> <snip>
>
> So, df thinks it's 445 Megs (which is what it used to be).
>
> mailthing:/# fdisk /dev/hdd
> <snip>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> <snip>
> /dev/hdd6              21         212     1542208+  83  Linux
>
> fdisk thinks (correctly) that it's 1.5 Gigs.
>
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Tim Holloway | 2 Jul 2006 22:09
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Re: looking for a new distro(not a distro piss please)

Bruce-Robert Pocock wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 17:00 -0700, jon bran wrote:
>   
>> hey all im looking for a new distro to put on my computer again DONT TURN THIS INTO A DISTRO PISSING CONTEST
PLEASE DONT ive got an amd athlon 64-bit 2800+ processor 512 nvidia geforce fx 5500 gfx card 120GB hdd to put
it it and whatever else onto ive got the suse9.3 retail install already done that one a few times what i would
need on my new distro is the following => IM capability as much graphical  adaptability as possible while
keeping everything else programming capability (java/script C++ C etc)music storage and playback
picture/photo editing capability some winblows ability i.e. wine/cedega idc about being rpm or debian
doesnt matter to me anywho get back to me thanks
>>     
>
> OK... first off, English. (nuff said)
>
> Secondly, ANY desktop distribution is *essentially* identical to any
> others. There's only minor differences in UI layouts and management
> subsystems. So the only reasonable response to this would be a "distro
> pissing contest."
>
> When in doubt, grab Fedora, Novell, Red Hat, Debian, Mandriva, or
> Ubuntu, (in random order) as they're the best-tested distros. Otherwise,
> grab what you want or what you need. It's absolutely 100% a matter of
> personal taste.
>
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Well, FWIW, that's almost the same hardware as my own AMD64 system,
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Michael Potts | 2 Jul 2006 22:21
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Re: Alienware

I use a area51_m (mobile desktop) 7700 with Ubuntu. Works flawlessly so 
far. its been installed about a week. I am a new-ish convert from 
windows. I used ubuntu in VMWare for a bit, but finally decided to make 
the jump. Alienware does not officially support anything except Windows, 
but they will help you out a bit if you have a hardware problem. I 
shrunk down my Windows partition and kept it there so i can prove it 
still runs windows.
That being said, alienware has some hardware issues. (my motherboard was 
cracked on arrival. It worked, but shaking it caused a instant reboot. 
They sent someone out to check it out, took it back to the repair depot, 
and repaired, and send it back. It has worked flawlessly ever since. I 
think my CD drive has finally died, but they are modular and easily 
upgraded. I also am planning to buy a nice dual core desktop processor 
for it.

even the function keys work, to brighten and dim the screen, change the 
volume, and enable-disable the wireless card.

--Mike

Gene Cronk wrote:
> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 11:20 -0400, Gene Cronk wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I just got a dv5000z and can tell you it runs great with Kubuntu,
>>>     
>>>       
>> ATI Chipset? Xpress200m? Did you get dri working? If not check out this
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Austin Denyer | 3 Jul 2006 00:22
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Re: Resize2fs issues


On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:55:20 -0400, Tim Holloway <timh@...>
wrote:
>
> > You did reboot, I hope? Eveything I've ever seen indicates that fdisk isn't "real" until the whole OS has restarted.
> >   
> Being Linux,  I'm sure if you absolutely had to, you could probably find 
> a way to reset those last little bits of info on the fly,  but unless 
> you plan to make a habit of it or have committed to 100% uptime,  a 
> reboot is quicker and more foolproof.

Yes, it was rebooted.

Here is what I did in more detail:

The box is fairly low-spec, and already had 3 drives (and no CD), so I
prepped the new drive on another (more powerful) box using
PartitionMagic.

I initially prepped the new drive to have the same size partitions as
the old drives, then mounted it in the mail server as the 4th hard
drive.

As the mail server had no CD drive I booted on a floppy (Toms Root
Boot) and used dd to copy the partitions over.  Note - I did NOT copy
the home partition as the filesystem was shot - that was restored from
backup later.

I then moved the new drive back to my other box and used PartitionMagic
to resize the partitions.
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Michael Joyner | 3 Jul 2006 06:05

Re: looking for a new distro(not a distro piss please)


I you give SuSE a try, keep in mind that they remove patent mp3 stuff
you have to add back thyself. (ref: packman rpm's)
jon bran wrote:
> hey all im looking for a new distro to put on my computer again DONT TURN THIS INTO A DISTRO PISSING CONTEST
PLEASE DONT ive got an amd athlon 64-bit 2800+ processor 512 nvidia geforce fx 5500 gfx card 120GB hdd to put
it it and whatever else onto ive got the suse9.3 retail install already done that one a few times what i would
need on my new distro is the following => IM capability as much graphical  adaptability as possible while
keeping everything else programming capability (java/script C++ C etc)music storage and playback
picture/photo editing capability some winblows ability i.e. wine/cedega idc about being rpm or debian
doesnt matter to me anywho get back to me thanks
>
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