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BuildAPCLinuxNetwork Stephen D. Holder, Joe Steiner, Rajiv Sinha, Ed Fazekas Got Virtual Box up and running on one of the NASA computers. The root system is windows XP and the virtual drive is redhat I think there are problems with all the NASA computers, heating issue(s) I'm sure, because they keep just powering off out of nowhere. ED Installed new ATI video drivers on other redhat machine, but is unable to open up second life due to an error of 'unable to open window' Got password for gateway-redhat box - will try to install virtual box running windows soon enough. The GPU quit working today. It is an ATI RX300 HM. We fixed this problem by using the standard computer repair method; reseat the hardware and hope it works. Fortunately, it did, though the now the system is doing strange things during POST. SecondLife is giving us problems. It seems to keep causing systems to hang. Joe Steiner March 27, 2007, at 12:53 PM We had a problem reinstalling the pci express card. WE followed this advised to solve it: PC Hangs: Verifying DMI Pool Data At times, some systems may experience a hang condition after partitioning, formatting and initial boot-up of a hard drive. In Windows 95 and 98, changes to the motherboards BIOS settings, changes in hard drives or to hard drive settings alters this pool data. The message, "Verifying DMI Pool Data" appears and the system hangs. This condition may continue even after the physical drive has been removed from the system.
->Apply power to the computer.
->Access the system BIOS.
->Set "Reset configuration data" to enable (most likely to be found in PCI/PnP section of BIOS)
->Save the BIOS changes and restart PC.
Found out how to mount the windows drive. Have not made it automatic on log in though. In order to mount at the command prompt type: mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/winlin Then you can access the drive through cd /mnt/winlin. Was also able to install Mozilla 1.7 on the Linux OS. Couldn't find an installer version of the download for any of the newer versions. Edward Fazekas March 20, 2007, at 12:29 PM Hot-dog I left the paper with all Dr. C's programs in the lab. Anyone know the name of them? I think one is like Hot vault or something..? --- Hooked up all NASA computers to KVM on metal rack Installed Windows 2003 on #3 need drivers for BIOS of NASA computers, are out of date. May need new floppy drive to install b/c needs to boot in DOS Ed and I got new power supply installed in other machine. Ed d/l'ed Firefox for Linux o/s but we do not know where to mount the windows drive within will tar a look at Dr. C.'s Linux programs I'm thinking we could use a laser printer in the lab. HP makes some pretty good ones, or if there are any old printers laser printers in surplus - because right now we can't print anything... So integrate that with Cos(x)+E(to the X) -- YESSSsss Math... Stephen D holder March 09, 2007, at 09:56 AM We have used Partition Magic to repartition the windows hard drive into a 6 GB NTFS partition for the Windows OS, a 30 GB FAT32 drive to share files between the Linux OS and windows, and we've left the rest of the drive empty for the Linux system. Edward Fazekas March 09, 2007, at 09:36 AM http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-dualboot.html Stephen D Holder March 09, 2007, at 09:16 AM We have connected to the internet. Currently, we are working on getting a dual boot with Windows XP (or maybe Vista) but are encountering some problems. Due to the recent hack on the Linux Lab, we are working on network security as well. Joe Steiner March 02, 2007, at 10:23 AM Currently, we are trying to discover why our machine will not connect to the internet through a router. It is a FoxConn board, which could be the problem, because the router worked fine on the previous Asus board. Feb. 12, 2007 |