Re: [Sheflug] Blasted RAID arrays (serves you right. .. .;))

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

>  OK, by stock I meant the kernel that RedHat ships with it`s distros as
> standard, rather than an unsullied, pure, clean and refreshing Linus
kernel :-)

It reaches the parts other kernels can't, you know. Except maybe openwall ;)

>  I`ve tried upgrading with 2.2.16-3 (which turns out to be a real/Linus
2.2.16
> tar.gz plus a whole horde of patches...maybe I got the wrong one?) and
with the
> pure 2.2.16.
>
>  No joy with either.

Did either of them have a software RAID fix? Have a look at
http://www.uk.linux.org/, in the 2.2.16 errata. Given it's on Alan O' Cox's
webpages, I would expect to find it rolled into the Redhat import kernel,
but that's not necessarily the case I suppose.

>  AND I intend to install AOLserver and Oracle over the weekend. One day
(yes, a
> whole 24 hours - 280Mb over a 56k modem!!) to download and another to get
it all
> working.

AOLserver is supposedly very good - I've heard a lot of good stuff about it
from people. Never tried it myself, for obvious blind, bigoted reasons, but
you shouldn't have too much trouble ;)

>  I`ve sort of got Samba going (just before I kill my only functioning
Linux
> box...) but how do I go about accessing the files on the Windoze machine,
other
> than smbclient (the ftp-like samba program)?

smbmount. smbwrapper. Either or. smbwrapper is better. smbclient, good
grief... you like making hard work for yourself, don't you? ;))

> And is there any way to print to a printer connected to a Windoze machine
(an
> HP Deskjet if it makes the slightest bit of difference)?

That would require making a pact with the Printing Demons. And smbprint. But
smbprint is a push-over; getting the Linux printing system working requires
special magic.

Cheers,

Alex.

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