Discuss November 2007

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On Nov 18, 2007 4:38 PM, MrKiwi <mrkiwi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is the mbr - i had the same problem trying to > put a replacement sata drive into a machine - it had > previously had centos on it, and i was trying to install xp. > > The solution for me was to use a dos boot disk and run > fdisk /mbr > however im not sure how that will affect your dual boot > situation. > > Anyway ... the mbr issue will get you going in the right > direction. Apparently xp cd gets hung if it cant make sense > of the mbr, even if other disks exist with window-happy mbrs. Mr. Kiwi: Thank you! I have a feeling this is the only path. I am going to wait until the long Thanksgiving weekend and if another possible solution doesn't appear, I think I will try what you suggested, before I wipe the drive. If I fdisk /mbr and am then able to restore the user32.dll file in WinXP, hopefully, after that, I could reinstall GRUB and have my dual boot box working again. If not, probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On 18 November 2007, Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com wrote: <snip> >I remember a got this problem multiple time. The XP CD (and also self made >autoinstall CD) was refusing to boot if the HD was allready partitioned with >an "incompatible" fdisk tool. It was usually on test machine and I had >not problem doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 >and then reinstall all the machine from scratch, or if the installed >OS were important then I used some imaging or backup tools. But the reset of the >partition was mandatory. >You could try to use the very powerful BartPE live CD do restore your DLL. Alain: Thank you for recommending BartPE! I downloaded BartPE on this side of the box (CentOS 5), but I couldn't unzip it in Linux. I moved it over to our Windows ME box and unzipped it there. Since I cannot start WinXP on this box, I can't run BartPE on this box at this time. I was hoping BartPE would ask me to let it read the WinXP files from the CD (on the WinME box), but no joy. This is the only box we have that has WinXP on it and it is crippled. From what it said on the site for BartPE, I was hoping it would permit me to make the CD on our WinME box: >4. Now PE Builder will ask to search for windows installation files. If you don't have your windows XP setup/installation files on your >system you must insert the original Microsoft Windows XP installation/setup CD at this point. BartPE found that WinME was installed on that box and it died there. If you have any ideas about how I can make the BartPE CD, on a non WInME box, they will be much appreciated! TIA, Lanny

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Re: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restore winxp?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On Nov 18, 2007 1:05 PM, <gjgowey(a)tmo.blackberry.net> wrote: > Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box >more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some >weird hardware attached. Geoff: Thank you for this information. On this box, there's no USB attached at this time. In the future, what you wrote might come in handy! The only things connected now are the monitor, keyboard, speakers, mouse and a printer connected via Parallel cable. Lanny

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Problems with Postfix and Perl
by Timothy Kesten 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi Folks, I've new installed my CentOS5 Box. It works well but postfix. I use fetchmail and in maillog are these error message: Error in processing, id=04451-04, mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can't locate object method "seek" via package "File::Temp" at /usr/ lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 816, <GEN14> line 142. (in reply to end of DATA command)) What's wrong? Any hints Thx Timothy

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Re: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restorewinxp? -- antair restored
by gjgowey＠tmo.blackberry.net 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some weird hardware attached. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: gjgowey(a)tmo.blackberry.net Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:01:11 Subject: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restorewinxp? -- antair restored We rarely use M$ Windows, but I let my daughter surf pbskids.org while using Windows and a Trojan Horse modified or deleted the user32.dll file. I found the instructions on the Microsoft Support web site, and it would be very easy for me to expand a new copy of user32.dll if I could get the MS WinXP CD to work. It boots OK, I press a key so it will search hardware and it then has hard drive activity for a long, long time. My impression is that Microsoft does not want this to work on dual boot boxes. I've tried this on dual boot boxes with Windows ME and Windows 98 SE and it works fine. Dell sent me two (2) new WinXP CDs (one in English and one in Spanish) but the problem apparently is not that I have a defective WinXP CD from Dell. Has anyone been able to restore WinXP on a dual boot box? TIA! -- Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.

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pure-ftpd-1.0.22
by David Hrbáč 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, anyone successfully compiled http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/snapshots/pure-ftpd-1.0.22.tar.b… Thanks, David

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Video conferencing package: Ekiga or other?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

My wife bought an inexpensive store brand web cam, so she can do video conferencing with people using Microsoft NetMeeting. Probably it is not supported in Linux and we will need to buy a supported web cam. I installed the Ekiga package. Is there something easier to configure and use or is Ekiga the best way to go? TIA! -- Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/

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Correctly displaying different charsets in Gnome-Terminal
by Niki Kovacs 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5.0 with GNOME on almost all my desktops. My system is in french, so the default charset ($LANG) is fr_FR.UTF-8. I'm in charge of our public library database server, running Debian Sarge. It's mainly running a LAMP server with a few extra PHP modules, and it's hosting our library management software. Since the app refuses to work correctly with UTF-8, I set the general system locale on the server to fr_FR@euro (ISO-8859-1). When I administrate that server remotely from, say, a desktop running Slackware (which defaults to ISO, not Unicode), characters in the console get displayed correctly. For example, 'less /root/ChangeLog.txt' will display my ChangeLog file (with french special characters) correctly. But when I open an SSH session on my CentOS machine in a GNOME Terminal, the french special characters are all replaced by inverted question marks. And the same goes for the MySQL monitor: all the french characters in the entries (é, à, ç, ù, ...) are incorrectly displayed. Q: how can I display all that correctly from within my Gnome Terminal? cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Firfox plugins but no sound
by Robert Spangler 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello everyone, I run a 64bit system here and install flash plugins for firefox using nspluginwrapper. I get the movies but there is no sound. Flashplayer is: flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm nspluginwrappers are: nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm Any help in tracking this down would be great. Thnx. -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value!

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Running a local mirror of centos?
by Jason Pyeron 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Now that we have 28 centos boxes up and running, we really want to minimize the up2date traffic. Is there a how to on mirroring centos? We are using rsync -azHv --delete-excluded --delete rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/ --exclude-from=centos.excludes --bwlimit=64 --progress centos/ But then what? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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