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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Sunday, 18 Nov 2007 14:46:23 -0800, "Akemi Yagi" <amyagi(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >If it is ever necessary to mount ntfs, follow this wiki: >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions >Read/write access to ntfs is now considered "safe" with the current driver. Akemi: Thank you! I will read that information on the Wiki in a few minutes. Nice to know that it is now OK to write to NTFS, as well as read NTFS. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to, restore WinXP?
by David G. Miller 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

"Alain Spineux" <aspineux(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny >> > > Yes and keep on hand a bart-pe boot disk, this time :-) > That's probably "a good thing". You don't know what else was changed (e.g., registry entries, etc.) that won't keep the system from booting but could cause other problems. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Sunday 18 Nov 2007 23:09:27 +0100, "Alain Spineux" <aspineux(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> Alain: I get the Digest version of the ML. Thank you, for the additional information in your posts #33 and 34 yesterday! Much appreicated! >Yes and keep on hand a bart-pe boot disk, this time :-) Amen. After I get WinXP running again, I will make and test a BartPE CD, ASAP! I appreciate you telling me about BartPE! We don't use Windows much and I'd never run into a problem with XP like this before. Lanny

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After last update problems with MIME-Types (Postfix, amavisd)
by Timothy Kesten 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi Folks, after the last update I get this error in my maillog: Error in processing, id=05622-06, 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, <GEN19> line 109. (in reply to end of DATA command)) Are there some problems with the perl-packages from rpmforge???? How can I fix it - and avoid in the future My Postfix-Server with amavisd doesn't work for the moment. The mails stay in the mailqeue and won't delivered to the recipient. This is a big problem for me. Thx Timothy

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Launching X-Windows at different runelvels
by carlopmart 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi all, I need to launch X-Windows at runlevel 4 and 5. CentOS only start up x-windows at runlevel by default. I have modified /etc/inittab to accomplish this: x:4:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon But this returns errors every time that start and stop system ... Which is the correct form to launch x-windows under centos at different runlevels?? Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Local mirroring of the CentOS repos
by Kai Schaetzl 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

I figured I try if I can mirror the base and updates repos locally. There's no tutorial for that, only one about creating your own repo of packages which is not the same. So, I just mirrored all the stuff with wget and changed the baseurl in the repo files and hoped that's enough. Works. So easy you don't need a tutorial. *But* I then realized that the updates directory contains *all* updates, not just the latest. Which means if I don't regularly check I may get old versions mirrored I don't want. It also means that I get a lot of unwanted files at the time I start to mirror. And I cannot delete old files as these would again be mirrored in. An obvious solution would be to check each day and tell wget (or whatever software I use) to ignore files older than 24 hours. Still, this means the initial download has to get them all and I have to delete all unwanted old files manually. Is there a better solution? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Which pop3 server
by Miark 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server? Miark

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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> >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 Making the BartPE CD on a WinME box is apparently impossible. Here's what it says on this URL: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/faq/#12 "Can Windows 9x/ME be used to build BartPE? No, absolutely not!" This box is dead in the water, with respect to booting WinXP, because of the corrupted or missing user32.dll. We only have this one box with WinXP, so unless there's another solution for me to rescue WinXP, I will need to format and reinstall WinXP and CentOS5. TIA, Lanny

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nx.x86_64
by Michael Velez 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello all, Lately, I've been getting the following error when I try to install the nx.x86_64 package with yum: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/NX: cpio: rename The package never gets installed so I get this error every time I run yum. Does anybody know how to resolve this? Thank you, Michael

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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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