Setup

Reinstalling Linux from another distro
On comp.os.linux.setup, Steve Hayes <hayesstw(a)telkomsa.net> wrote: I installed Fedora 12, but it doesn't display graphics properly on my computer. If I want to try another distro, should I reformat the disk partition first, or should I just install it over the Fedora one? You should find out why... 20 Apr 2010 15:52

Does Debian's OpenOffice packages really require Java? Its Javaseems to conflict with Sun JRE for Mozilla's Web browsers?
Ant wrote: Hello. I am having problems getting my Mozilla's SeaMonkey v2.0.4 (from mozilla.org) and Debian's IceWeasel v3.5.8 (aka Firefox) to use my Sun JRE v1.6.0u20 (and earlier builds from Sun.com). I also tried Debian's apt-get install with b16 (yeah, a bit old). My Java plugin used to work, ... 20 Apr 2010 15:52

Does Debian's OpenOffice packages really require Java? Its Java seemsto conflict with Sun JRE for Mozilla's Web browsers?
Hello. I am having problems getting my Mozilla's SeaMonkey v2.0.4 (from mozilla.org) and Debian's IceWeasel v3.5.8 (aka Firefox) to use my Sun JRE v1.6.0u20 (and earlier builds from Sun.com). I also tried Debian's apt-get install with b16 (yeah, a bit old). My Java plugin used to work, but I think the newer ... 18 Apr 2010 15:16

ESX hardware configuration
Hello, At work we found an old Dell PowerEdge server with 4GB of RAM and 2x70 GB disks. I want to install several Windows VMs for testing purposes. I know Windows on a stand alone system wants 1+ GB of RAM. My questions now are: 1. How many Windows VMs can I run simutaneously on this hardware? 2. How much... 15 Apr 2010 01:33

slow internet connections
I have extremely slow cable connections, Comcast sent a tech but all he did was replace the modem and check levels at the GB. I ping my router, local host all computers connected to the router and all the pings come back the pings ranged from .05 ms for LH to 15 ms for the computers connected to the router. ... 15 Apr 2010 09:09

FTP Setup
I am trying to get pure-ftpd working on a Debian Lenny VPS account. Right now I cannot make a connection to it. It is listening on port 21: ~# netstat -tanpu | grep LISTEN | grep 21 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 13293/pure-ftpd (SE tcp6 0 0 :::21 :::*... 14 Apr 2010 01:08

KDE4 vs. KDE3
On alt.os.linux.slackware, john(a)wexfordpress.com <john(a)wexfordpress.com> wrote: My reaction to KDE4 was so negative that after a decade or more of use of KDE I switched to XFCE. But others obviously have other views. So I ask the general question, what GUI do you currently run? And why? John Culleton ... 10 Apr 2010 21:12

Kickstart RHEL 5 with 4096 disk alignments for NetApps
I'm dealing with virtual OS images on a NetApp: apparently, there are big issues if the partitions of the filesystem images are not aligned with the 4096 byte blocks of the NetApp filesystems themselves. NetApp has tools to re-arrange the OS images after installation, but they seem ugly. I'd like to set up the pa... 7 Apr 2010 08:56

Configuring ipmitool failing while loading modules
Hi , I am trying to install ipmitool on my Linux box , mostly for learning purpose . The installation went fine . But while trying to load the ipmi_si module , it is failing with the following error . === $ sudo modprobe ipmi_si FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si (/lib/modules/2.6.31.6/kernel/drivers/ char/ip... 7 Apr 2010 02:25

GRUB boots to prompt but won't boot OS
I have a very strange GRUB problem. GRUB is installed in the MBR of the first hard disc on my system, /dev/hda as far as linux is concerned, and primary master from a BIOS point of view. There are no SCSI or SATA discs in the system, just two other PATA IDEs and an IDE CDROM. /dev/hda has a boot partition /dev/hda1... 8 Apr 2010 07:13