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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

On Tueday, 20 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker(a)medallion.com> wrote: <snip> >I should have asked how big your setup was currently. The HD is only 40 GB on my box, a low end Dell Dimension 2400 (2.6 GHz Celeron) I won in a raffle. After I get this one up and running, I am going to switch wife and daughter's boxes, and redo them completely. Wife's current box has an 80 GB HD, which will give me a lot more room to experiment with VMware Server, which is something I want to learn about and use, until we get a box that is Xen capable.. >Oh well, yes the Windows apps take a while to install, been there myself. Been there and done that? I have huge appreciation, for the large number of packages that come from Upstream and are included in CentOS and the speed with which I can install the OS and so much stuff. And, for an example, the tools included, that would permit me to repair the WinXP problem, from the Linux side of the box, as you explained. To say nothing of my appreciation for the Developers of CentOS and the others who make this such a wonderful mailing list. I'm an old retired Assembly Language programmer (started with IBM 360/65) and I never worked with Unix, so this is a brand new world for me and one that I regret I did not work in, professionally. >If I were to re-do the whole drive, not knowing it's size I might do it as such: <snip> >You can then install Windows from within vmware by making /dev/sdc a raw disk for vmware. Once it's installed you could add an entry in >grub to boot into it. I'm going to RTFM and I think this time around, make it dual boot again and also try to install Windows within VMware, as you explain. Next time, I will hopefully have enough confidence in my ability to do this properly, that I will only install CentOS and then install Windows within VMware. Thanks much! Lanny

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manipulating files and directories with spaces
by Dave 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, This might be a little O.t. so private responses please. I've got apache and samba running on a CentOS5 box enabling windows users to add web content. My issue is i've had to restore some backup data that was previously archived. The permissions aren't matching up so i'm wanting to use find and xargs to change them appropriately. Normally i do: find . -type type |xargs chmod value "{}"\; which usually works. My issue is the files were made with spaces so find isn't able to find them. Does anyone have a workaround? Some urgency! Thanks. Dave.

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HDD usage oddity
by Ugo Bellavance 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, 2 of my Centos4 servers are showing weird behavior. [root@server1 ~]# du -sh /var/ 1.8G /var/ [root@server1 ~]# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 4.3G 3.9G 181M 96% /var [root@server2 var]# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 2.9G 2.7G 0 100% /var [root@server2 var]# du -sh /var/ 1.6G /var/ du seems to be reporting the right size Anyone seeing this?

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Backups on external USB HDD
by Ugo Bellavance 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, I'm trying to implement this: I have: - A windows 2000 server - A centos 4 server - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly. The tape drive in the windows server died recently and I decided to switch to USB external drives. However, the USB controller in the windows server is only 1.1, so it is very slow. I didn't want to install a 2.0 USB controller in the windows server since it is a brand-name and I didn't want to make it unstable, so I decided to make the backups of the windows server (using Backup Exec) on the linux box. So backup exec writes on the linux box via samba, directly on the USB drive. (I thought of writing on the linux box FS directly, then rsync'ing to the USB drive), but the space available on the local FS is about 90 gigs while the external USB drives are 250 gigs, meaning that I can keep like 4 weeks of data on the USB drives (using backup exec settings), while I could only keep 1 or 2 weeks otherwise. My questions is: -how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There will always be only one HDD conected at the time. Thanks, Ugo

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html/form newbie: trying to upload a little data to a server
by Charles E Campbell Jr 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hello! I've been trying for several hours to upload a few bits of data (not a file) from an html form to a server, and none of my variants have worked thus far. I've done some web searching, too. Anyway, here's the form: <form method="POST" action="mmsrequest"> <pre> UserID: <input type="text" NAME="userid"> Date : <input type="text" NAME="date" value="mm/dd/yy"> Time : <input type="text" NAME="time" value="hh:mm:ss"> <input type="submit"> <input type="reset"> </pre> </form> I've tried mmsrequest as a script and as an executable. Full path, etc. In and out of cgi-bin. Variants tried: method="GET" I end up with a copy of the script (well, I told the browser not to bother trying to display the executable), instead of having the script run. method="POST" I either end up with a "Not Found" or "Method Not Allowed". I've always insured that permissions were rwxrwxrwx, just to avoid any permissions problem, expecting to tighten that up after I got the basic thing working. I don't particularly care if the script or executable gets the information from the command line separated by ampersands and whatnot, environment variable (QUERY_STRING, or so I understand), or from standard input. However, I do care that the script/program gets run and does get the information somehow, on the server side. Any suggestions? Thank you, Chip Campbell

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"su" error need help???
by mcclnx mcc 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

I 'su" to root and run command. I got error message. Anyone know how to fix it? ===================================================== /home/app/oracle/product/oms10g/install/unix/scripts/omsstup start /bin/su: user %s_userName% does not exist ______________________________________________________________________________________ 怎樣減少垃圾信？只要看到垃圾信，立即按下「這是垃圾信」按鈕。http://tw.promo.yahoo.com/antispam/index.html

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, "Nicolas Sahlqvist" <nicco77(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >I top that with another 10 - 20 GB, assume you got a DVD iso to burn, >so you make a copy and due to the effective native copy file feature, >expect a copy to be placed in some temp folder on C: why you need >another 5 - 8 GB free and then the space the DVD occupies.. This is >also true if you copy between 2 SMB shares, even if none of them are >on the local machine, it's neat iand effective isn't it? Nicholas: We need much bigger hard drives to do that. What you wrote makes a lot of sense and when it becomes possible, I'll devote that much space to M$ Windows. My eventual goal is to discontinue using Windows and avoid these problems. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, "Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >I'd second this, but I'd say it's much better to go in the direction >of 10G than 5. I installed WinXP on a Mac Mini (BootCamp) with 5GB >on the internal drive and everything else on a firewire external >drive, and now after about a year of automatic updates that 5GB is so >nearly consumed that I'm having to shuffle things around by hand to >keep it working. It's just too damn difficult to prevent Windows >software from dumping crap on the C: drive (and then referencing its >location in the registry so it becomes nearly impossible to relocate >it). Bart: I'm contemplating using 10 of the 40 GB for WinXP and the rest for CentOS 5. I hope to redo this box on Friday. What you mentioned is one of my many pet peeves about Windows. Frequently, I will install some Windows ap and the piggish programmers who wrote the stuff were not professional enough to allow me to select where I want it installed (our other boxes have a D partition for Programs, which is where I'd want it installed) and they just go ahead and install into C, as if they own the box. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg(a)imag.fr> wrote: <snip> >I think it's been mentioned in the thread, but since you don't talk >about this in your summary above: one thing I would recommend is create >(at least) 2 partitions for MS: a small (5 to 10 G) for the system, and >a larger one for data. Nicholas: Our other boxes have four (4) partitions for Windows. I've never installed Windows on this box, because it came from the factory with WinXp in Spanish. I reduced the NTFS partition in size, to make room for CentOS, but it's still running what came on it, out of the Dell factory. Last week, I got an English language WinXP from Dell, so I'm ready to roll in English now and do it properly on this one too! >then use norton/symantec ghost to generate images of your system Several of our boxes have had Removable EIDE drive units in them (made by CRU) and I used those, before I began using Linux, to make images, and that was a great thing to do. I got lazy about making the backups and found it easier to backup over the network. I didn't use Norton Ghost, I used something else, but as I write this, I can't recall the name of the Utility I used to make the images. As I recall, at that time (a few years ago), Norton was more difficult to use and I'd read something about some unreliable results from Ghost. >you can probably do this with linux tools as well if you don't want to buy ghost. Yes. I will do everything possible with Linux tools in the future. Thank you! Lanny

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Monday, 19 November 2007, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner(a)NASA.gov> wrote: <snip> >A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at >http://www.ubcd4win.com/ >It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including >rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data recovery is >still the best bet. Phil: I did some reading on their web site. I do like that better than BartPE! They include information about workarounds, when using it with a Dell WinXP Recovery CD, for one example. I'll make a CD for that, after I'm up and running. Thanks! Lanny

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