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I need to replace my Abit BE7 board (cannot run the newer Linux) and keep my near new IDE HD's (250 GB). A D865GLC is new available that uses the Intel 865G chip set, but I have no experience in matching Mobo's with Linux. Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

Not being familiar with chip sets and other factors that "hardware experts" understand, I am perplexed with the multitude of available motherboards. Is there a Web site that can be of help or a "strategy"? My goal is to replace my motherboard with one that is Centos compatible and uses a Pentium 4 in the 2 MHz range. As example, when I go to Mwave, I am presented with

I have RH 8 running on a Abit BE7-RAID motherboard. My task is installing Centos 4.1 with limited knowledge on installing with hardware RAID. The arrays are still in place for the two pairs of drives. HighPoint only shows drivers up through RH 9. Is there anyone who can take me through the steps? Remove the existing arrays? Will the drivers work with Centos 4.1? Since I used Windows to

One of my servers is not compatible with Centos 4, so I want to replace the motherboard with a compatible one. I came across this site and would appreciate any comments on whether I can rely on selecting a board that is listed as compatible with Unix? http://www.dealtime.com/xPP-motherboards--asustek~V-rows For instance, the ASUS P5P800 Motherboard? Thank you.... Todd -- Ariste Software

I have a USB drive that has been formatted as NTFS. Can I reformat it? I have identified these properties about it /dev/sda1 /media/Extrnl_Bkup Not sure what to do next since the GUI will not mount a NTFS disk (expected). Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

Wonder how much of this is true and if Linux could be the OS? http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-predict1jan01,0,3503327.story -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

About a year and a half ago, someone answered a request on how to set up rsync so that the encryption was automatically setup (wish I knew more about the technical aspects). It has been in use for the time since then and it has been great. Now I have to replace the destination computer and setting up, what I call the encryption part, is the part I have forgotten how to do. This is the

I have an external USB drive that was formatted with NTFS and I want to use it to backup some files from my Centos 5.5 system. When I check my documentation, I am not certain of the best way to do the formatting. Suggestions welcomed.... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

In an effort to prevent getting many minutes into an installation only to have a CD read fail (I did verify the CD's first), I did a minimal install. Can I use the minimal install to add the necessay packages for a HTTP server and graphical interface? Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

My www directory is owned by "apache" and the group is "todd" and the permissions are 775. My Windows computers use Samba and they log into Linux with "todd". Under the www directory there are various directories which may have a group belonging to a user e.g. "viewpoint". Using this example, there is a directory under www (acutally called httpd),

One user gets the gnome-session: 5212 error when he tries to log on. The error states that "Could not create /home/.gnome2/ Permission denied" and "Could not create ~/.gnome/ Permission denied" Any suggestions are welcomed...... Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

Disclaimer: I may need help in asking the question properly! Currently, my http root is /home/httpd/, so http://209.204.172.137/ takes you there. Is it possible to assign a specific page for a user? Lets say I have a user, "smith", and his directory is /home/smith/. Could "smith" have a root page, /home/smith/www/? With this, "smith" could ftp his html to his

I shut the server down last evening due to power surges and when I tried to bring it back up, it stops at starting sendmail. Is there a way around this? Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

I was able to remove the NTFS partition and repartition the HD as a type Linux (83). Next I created the ext3 file system. If I reboot with the USB drive attached, the boot process hangs, however if I turn off the drive, boot and then turn it on, all is fine. # cat /etc/fstab shows the drive, but I am not sure how to use it for a backup nor do I know how to access it. Any help would be

I am running Centos 4 and I am trying to use a printer on a Windows domain that is connected to a Windows XP Pro computer. If I do smbclient //ComputerName/PrinterName password -U UserName and then /> printmode text /> print /tmp/test.txt the printer works. However, if I setup the printer and check the CUPS printers.conf, it appears to be correct, but I get NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL when

Basic tar question: I have created a ar file with tar -prvf /tmp/ib_backup.tar /opt/interbase/data/* The file has been copied to another box and I want to untar the file into /opt/interbase/data/ I am not sure about the syntax; how to specify where I want the data to be placed. Here is my start of the command: tar -xvf /tmp/ib_backup.tar #The tar file is in /tmp Todd --

Unfortunately, I blew MySQL away by replacing the MySQL control tables with others and not making a copy of the folder. My data is backed up, so that is not a problem, but I cannot reinstall MySQL and create the mysql directory with the control tables (e.g. user, db, host). I have run "yum remove mysql" and "yum install mysql" and "yum install mysql-server" and

To synchronize my server with the "standby" server, I run the following: rsync -a -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ As expected, I am asked for a password from the destination computer. Is there a way to avoid that so I can make a crontab to run the rsync nightly? Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

When I run yum update (as I said in a previous message), I get some errors stating that I have dependencies. One viewer stated that I am getting yum data that is out of date. Where is the config file that holds this data and what is the correct location? Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

I started a new thread since the original one is getting rather long. I have retrieved the files I deleted in /boot and /boot/grub, however I need to make links for /boot/System.map (System.map -> System.map-2.6.9-89.35.1) /boot/vmlinuz (vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.35.1) /boot/grub/menu.lst (menu.lst -> ./grub.conf) If it was not so important to get it correct, I would appreciate