Linux-Hardware Digest #710, Volume #9 Fri, 19 Mar 99 07:13:31 EST
Contents:
Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!! ("James Kosin")
OPL3-SAx sounds like broken record (Mike Epstein)
Re: Any success with Acard SCSI && kernel 2.2.x? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2??? (root)
Re: USB support under linux (Dan Nguyen)
Anyone have any experience with Intel DK440LX motherboard and CELERON?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux RH 5.2 boot : monitor off and freeze ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Parallel ZIP drive slow in Linux. (Ryan S Warner)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive (Brett W. McCoy)
Re: STB Velocity 128 Video Card (Whigdon2)
Re: Good uses for the 'Window keys' on keyboard? (Bud Rogers)
Re: Adaptec AIC - 7890 ("Dan")
Re: HELP! Mouse not working in Xfree86 ("Alien")
Re: Power Down with Linux? (gus)
ATI Xpert under Linux only does 640 x 480 ?!?! ("Andrew Roberts")
Linux setup on Alpha ("Headley Sappleton")
Another MO question... (Vincent Lai)
Re: USR Courier V. Everything ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive ("Greg Waugh")
XFree86 on Toshiba Satellite 2535 CDS (Brent Rader)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on Compaq ProLian 1850R - any luck? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "James Kosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:43:59 GMT
Dear ALL,
I finally found my problem...
Always check you memory first! Even If you have already checked it a few
months ago.
I lost a SIMM.
Thanks for all the replys,
James Kosin
James Kosin wrote in message ...
>Anyone.... Please HELP.
>
>I've had problems with RH Linux and my HD since day 1... I can run
>diagnostics on my hard drive and everything comes out OK. Works great
>on Windows 98.
>
>The controller is an Intel 440FX chipset ...
>I'm running a PII Overdrive 333MHz CPU and 256MB of memory.
>2 - WD Hard-Drives one 5.1G and one 4.0G drive.
>
>Anyone have any good suggestions???
>
>My HD's are good. Memory is good. CPU almost brand new.
>
>Thanks,
>James Kosin
>
>
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From: Mike Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPL3-SAx sounds like broken record
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:43:58 GMT
I'm running RedHat 5.2, with kernel 2.2.3. I've just configured my
on-board Yamaha OPL3-SAx manually with insmod, and when I play a sound
(either with "play" from the command line or with FreeAmp) each
segment (about a second or so) of the sound plays three times, then
the next segment plays, and so on. The card works fine under Win95.
I don't seem to have any IRQ, I/O or DMA conflicts according to the
relevant entries in /proc. Has anyone solved this problem? I'd
appreciate any help.
--mike
ZZ http://hcs.harvard.edu/~mike/ mike at hcs.harvard.edu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any success with Acard SCSI && kernel 2.2.x?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:48:42 GMT
Hi,
I tried with kernel 2.2.3 and got the same error as you. I only have a
CD-recorder connected to my 6710S card, and as soon as I have it powered on,
the boot fails with the same error message as you got.
This setup works perfectly with Win 98...
Regards,
Kenneth
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michel Mauny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in trouble with my Acard SCSI-3 (6710S) and linux kernels
> 2.2.x. The card is correctly detected, but the boot process (or
> atp870u.o module insertion) stops with the following message:
>
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1, scsi0, channel
> 0, id 1, lun 0, ...
>
> I know that this cards works perfectly with kernel 2.0.37.
>
> Anyone having success with this card/driver and kernel 2.2.x? If yes,
> any hint to make it work?
>
> Please cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well, since the traffic of this
> group is rather high, and I don't want to miss your replies.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --Michel Mauny
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2???
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:53:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Dear Aaron,
: > I cannot get the 2.2.2 kernel to work correctly under RedHat 5.2.
Hi - I wasn't able to do that either - but all of my problems vanished after
having upgraded to kernel 2.2.3. Cheers, juergen.
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: USB support under linux
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:12:14 GMT
In alt.os.linux Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Apple imacs runs with USB, so it is not a win98 only thing. And the fact that
: LinuxPPC runs on imacs, Linux support USB.
Linux does not support USB. USB support is still in development.
True you can load an imac was Linux, but any USB devices will not be
detected and will be unusable.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Anyone have any experience with Intel DK440LX motherboard and CELERON?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:48:44 GMT
According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I recently stumbled across the Intel DK440LX motherboard which
> provides dual pII capability, onboard SCSI, sound and ethernet. Best
> of all they can be had as cheap as $130! This almost seems to good to
> be true -- somebody pinch me please!
Thanks to those who have replied. It sounds like this board will suit
my purposes. Also, in some extended web searching, I discovered a
vendor selling a system with this motherboard and a Celeron CPU.
According to the Intel pages, "the use of the Celeron in a DK440 is
not supported, although it may appear to work"
If the Celeron does work, this would be a great bonus for me as I
could shave $100 off the price of my system. My application is *far*
from mission- critical, but I would like to know what I'm getting
myself into.
Finally, I've read that a "termination card" must be used in the
secondary slot if only one CPU is to be used. Is this card included
in the boxed (accessoried) version of the motherboard, or must it be
purchased separately?
Again, thanks in advance for any info!
-p.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Linux RH 5.2 boot : monitor off and freeze
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:52:52 GMT
Excuse me for reposting I am desparate,
I have two Dell poweredge XE 590 who are not able to boot from the RH 5.2
boot diskettes. I have made several RH 5.2 boot floppies from both the web
and cd's but no luck. I used several floppies, made on several platforms and
several diskdrives.
Here's what happens :
I can see the Welcome to Redhat Linux bootmessage, I can switch between
screen(F1,F2,F3,F5,F6). After I hit enter, I see :
Loading initrd.img...
Then the sreen starts scrolling and after a few seconds the monitor switches
off.
My system :
Dell PowerEdge XE 590 (EISA/PCI)
Intel Pentium 90
64M memory
On-board NCR 53C810 SCSI hostadapter (PCI)
Adaptec AHA-1740 Eisa SCSI hostadapter (EISA)
ATI68800AX videocard
The bootdiskettes work perfectly well on a Dell optiplex, so I assume there's
nothing wrong with the diskettes. Also RH 4.2 installed like a charm, even on
the same diskettes!
I have seen only a few postings on dejanews, but there was no reply, so is
there anybody out there who can help me out?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan S Warner)
Subject: Re: Parallel ZIP drive slow in Linux.
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:48:58 GMT
I got the problem fixed. I upgraded to Linux 2.2.3 and the EPP support
in the new ppa driver is very good. My drive is running more than an
order of magnitude faster. Seriously. Thanks for the suggestions.
Ryan
Ryan S Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I just added a parallel ZIP drive to my PC. I compiled a kernel with ppa
: (not a module) and it works under Linux. An informal benchmark I did
: showed, In Windows I could copy a 40Mb file to the hard drive at
: 340 Kbytes/sec. Under Linux however copying the same file is real slow,
: only 22 Kbytes/sec. I have my port set to "Standard and Bidirectional
: Mode" in the BIOS, which actually sped things up compared to when it was
: set to EPP Mode. I repeated the test several times.
: Help? Is there a newer driver than ppa? This is the ppa from the RedHat
: 5.2 distro.
: Ryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett W. McCoy)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:52:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:54:07 -0500, Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, there are several reasons I want to move it. First of all, it works
>perfectly, second of all, the drive that it's currently on is slow and very
>old and I don't really trust it anymore. That and I don't really have room
>in the case for it with these new drives. I suppose I could do it that way,
>but like I said, it's a server so I don't really want it down that long... I
>was hoping I could prepare the second disk, reboot and have it ready to go
>in a few minutes...
At the very least, you will need to create a swap partition and such.
And there's the issue of the boot partition... I'd do a minimal
installation, then move your old system over (i.e., /etc, /home, etc.)
partition by partition. Make sure you make a good back up of everything
first!
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http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Whigdon2)
Subject: Re: STB Velocity 128 Video Card
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:44:00 GMT
>Any good information on this video card. Couldn't find any compatibly list
>from Red Hat, Caldera or Linux.org on this card.
>
>Thank
>
>John
>
I have the STB Velocity 128 Video Card, and my newly installed Linux seems to
work fine on it, including Startx. I haven't given it a real workout yet, but
I think the answer to your question based on my experierce, is yes -- it is
compatible.
Bill
>
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From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good uses for the 'Window keys' on keyboard?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:44:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel) writes:
> What use can the Windows specific keys on the keyboard
> be put to under linux? Either under X or console.
>
> It seems like such a waste. I mean after all Bill went
> to such trouble to change the standard keyboard. The
> lest I could do is find a use for them under Linux.
I have the right one bound to Compose-character. Makes it handy to enter
special characters like �, �, �, etc. Man xmodmap.
--
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Linux twocups 2.0.36 #2 Tue Feb 23 18:47:52 CST 1999 i586 unknown
12:06pm up 18 days, 16:41, 5 users, load average: 0.16, 0.20, 0.09
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From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC - 7890
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:51:39 GMT
Do you know if the AIC7896 is also supported under RH 5.2 (I will also
install the latest kernel)? I'm about to build a dual-processor web-server
with the new L440GX+ intel board. The AIC7896 comes on the board. Thanks.
DR
Michael W. Ryder wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The 7890 is a Ultra2 chipset. As far as I know it is Not supported
>under Redhat 5.1. You need to upgrade to 5.2 to use it. But it works
>fine and is auto detected by the new versions of Linux (2.0.36 and
>above).
>Hope this helps.
>
>Michael W. Ryder
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> 1 - I try to install REDHAT 5.1 on a dual pentium Gateway ALR 7200
>>
>> 2 - It has an Adaptec AIC - 7890 SCSI that is not recognized,
>> I went to
>>
>> ftp.redhat.com/support/5.1/i386/aic7xxx-kernel
>>
>> and downloaded the vmlinuz file.
>>
>> 3 - I downloaded the boot.img and supp.img files from a nearby directory,
>> and used rawrite to build the two diskettes...
>>
>> 4 - Now I am not sure what to do. I can not replace the
>> vmlinuz with aic7xxx-kernel/vmlinuz because
>> there is no enough space in the boot disk.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> D. Rey
>>
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From: "Alien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HELP! Mouse not working in Xfree86
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:52:16 GMT
I have a same MS 2-button PS2 mouse like yours. While I was installing the
RH5.2, I use the wrong protocol. After installing, I have to run
mouseconfig to select the right protocol--Generic Mouse (PS2) for it. If
you run stratx immediately, the mouse wouldn't work. I have to re-run
XConfigurator to setup the X-windows again. Then the mouse would work. You
may want to try this.
jsf
Josh Miller ���g��峹 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Have you tried editing the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config in the mouse
section...
>the line
># Emulate3Buttons
>You may need to just remove the hash mark. worked for me on one of my mice.
You could also be using
>the wrong mouse protocol... but who knows.
>
>Med Bennett wrote:
>>
>> I am having problems similar to that described by Chad Dale in an
>> earlier post. When I start Xfree86, the mouse cursor starts in the
>> middle of the screen, but any movement of the mouse causes the cursor to
>> jump to the upper left corner and stay there, or twitch slightly, but
>> it's basically useless. I have a very standard Microsoft 2-button PS/2
>> mouse (v. 2.0A) attached to a Dell P133, 48MB RAM. I've tried various
>> mouse settings via mouseconfig to no avail. When I kill X with
>> Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, I see on the screen the message "Warning: /dev/mouse
>> unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl for device)".
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions -
>>
>> Med Bennett
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Power Down with Linux?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:45:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mohd H Misnan wrote:
>
> Clive Andeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Jim Zubb wrote:
> >
> >> halt -p didn't work from the command line for me.
>
[snup]
>
> >> I had to edit my halt script in init.d to read:
> >>
> >> *halt)
> >> message="The system is halted"
> >> command="halt -p"
> >>
> >> Added the -p on the command line. This is on Redhat 5.2
> >> system, YMMV on other distros.
>
> This will work nicely on most of other distributions too.
>
> >I had this feature working quite nicely in RedHat 5.1 kernel 2.0.36. I have
> >upgraded to RedHat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.2 and I cannot get it to work again. Did this
> >feature get broken in kernel 2.2.2?
>
> At first I thought so and went to the codes and add shutdown codes into one
> of the source code inside the kernel until somebody pointed out that
> halt -p will do the same thing and much better (dunnot need to mess with
> the kernel).
>
> --
> |Mohd H Misnan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] + [EMAIL PROTECTED] |i
I (now) have SuSE 6.0 ...
FWIW, I have been struggling with this for a couple of months now, since
2.2.0-pre7 I think was out. Anyway, I haven;t been able to pay it much
attention, although I knew I was meant to use halt -p to poweroff. Did
not work for me, and I thought it was simple enough to manually switch
the machine off, and it was a low priority "fix". Since reading the
above post, I started going through the /sbin/init.d directory and the
scripts in there. I found the logic flow to be quite complex, but when
going to run level 0 (halt) the rc script calls the "halt" script. This
has the lines as described above. I edited the halt line to read "halt
-p". My machine now powers off when halted. It does not seem to have
much to do with the flags passed from the command line.
Well, that fixed my SuSE poweroff problem.
Cheers and thanks, Jim
gus
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From: "Andrew Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Xpert under Linux only does 640 x 480 ?!?!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:52:34 GMT
I have installed Redhat Linux 5.2 And everything is (appears :-) ) to be
working fine exvcept my graphics card under X-Windows
It is an ATI Xpert@Play PCI 4MB and even when I select Xpert@Play from the
list of cards on installation (and select my Samsung SyncMaster 3Ne from the
list) I have to manually choose screen modes and do select all relevent
ones. However the system will only boot into 640x480 no matter what. It
tells me there is no setting info for 1024x768 and 800x600 or something.
Does anyone know how to install this card under said version of Linux. As
it is a popular card I would have thought this was a common problem. Any
help would be appreciated. I don't mind reinstalling the whole of Linux as
it only take s afew minutes.
An email reply would be appreciated if possible, and in case you need to
know the full machine spec is:
K6 300 on a Tekram board with 512K cache
64Mb SDRAM
3.5Gb IDE UDMA Drive (450Mb partition for Linux and 50Mb partition for swap)
Internal 24x CD-Rom
Internal IDE Zip drive
ISA Soundblaster AWE 64 (Haven't a clue where to start on that but not
bothered about sound anyway :-) )
ISA Rockwell Chipset v90 modem
Realtek network card
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From: "Headley Sappleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.alpha,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Linux setup on Alpha
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:53:33 GMT
Can someone who may have installed Red Hat Linux on a Alpha Multia box help
me?
I am not getting anywhere with this. I added an external SCSI box with a
hard drive and CDROM.
Nothing seems to happen when i put in the RH booth disk into the multia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Lai)
Subject: Another MO question...
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:51:59 GMT
I am using Fujitsu slim FN640 turbo MO and RH5.2 Kernal 2.0.36.
Now I can mount my MO ... but I face another problem ...
Can I use 640 MB MO block size 2048 to boot up my Linux??
If Yes, how can I do that...?
Thx.
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR Courier V. Everything
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:49:27 GMT
Are you sure the modem setup command string has enabled v.90 ? Look up
the settings for register S32. I don't have my chart handy.
G. Franklin McCullough wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:51:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G. Franklin McCullough) wrote:
>>> I installed Red Hat 5.2 recently and everything works great except my
>>> modem which is the USR Courier V. Everything. It is a 33.6 upgraded
>>> to 56K and V90. Works great under windows 95 with connect speeds up
>>> to 52000. Under Linux it will only connect at 26400. I would
>>> certainly appreciate any help from someone who has already went
>>> through this problem.
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>
>>I have a V.Everything, also upgraded via the official USR Windows95
software
>>and it connects to my ISP at 40.0 nearly every time using the V.90
protocol.
>>
>>It is difficult to see the connect speed in Windows. Relying on the
system
>>tray to tell you is not exactly accurate. Note that 52000 is roughly
twice
>>your 26400 rate. That could be a clue that you're not dialing in as fast
as
>>you expect.
>>
>>Of course, you could have done all this research already yourself and I
could
>>be going on and on about stuff you already know, but I just thought I'd
put
>>in my two cents.
>>
>>Good luck,
>>Paul.
>>
>
>
>Thanks for the help Paul. As to the connection speed in Linux it is
>noticeable slower than windows even if the windows tray does not give
>exactly the right speed. Using wvdial in Linux it shows that I am not
>in V90 or X2 mode so I am not sure exactly what is going on.
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From: "Greg Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:49:23 GMT
Well, there are several reasons I want to move it. First of all, it works
perfectly, second of all, the drive that it's currently on is slow and very
old and I don't really trust it anymore. That and I don't really have room
in the case for it with these new drives. I suppose I could do it that way,
but like I said, it's a server so I don't really want it down that long... I
was hoping I could prepare the second disk, reboot and have it ready to go
in a few minutes...
Wait a second... crazy idea... has anyone ever moved a Linux installation
using Patition Magic 4.0 for Windows? I know it sounds crazy, but I've used
it very successfully to move NT before and it claims to do Linux... that's
just another thought too...
Brett W. McCoy wrote in message ...
>On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:04:28 -0500, Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hey fellow Linux users! I'm going to be moving my current RedHat 5.2
Linux
>>server to a new hard drive. Everything in the system is going to be the
>>same, just a new /sda drive. I'm just curious if anyone has a procedure
to
>>do this of if it is documented anywhere. I thought I would do a cp -a *
(or
>>a few with correct tmp mount points), then boot from a floppy with the new
>>HD as root and run LILO, but I'm fuzzy on how to set up the /proc and /dev
>>filesystem.... and if there are going to be any issues with the swap
>>space... Thanks everyone! Any help would be very appreciated!
>
>The /proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem and is created dynamically by
>the loaded kernel. /dev is a different story. You may be better off
>backing up your important stuff (i.e., /home & /usr directories),
>reinstalling directly onto the new hard drive, and then restoring your
>backed up stuff.
>
>But is there any reason you can't keep your boot partition on the current
>drive and just create new (and bigger) partitions on the new one?
>
>--
>Brett W. McCoy
> http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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From: Brent Rader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: XFree86 on Toshiba Satellite 2535 CDS
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:52:28 GMT
Has anyone tried to get X windows to run on a Toshiba Satellite 2535 CDS
laptop? The chipset it uses is Chips & Technologies 6900. I am using
Red Hat 5.2 and I have tried some of the drivers for other C & T
chipsets and I havn't been able to make one work. Any ideas?
Also, with this laptop when it is in the regular text mode the display
doesn't fill the screen. It fills it ithe horizontal direction but not
vertical. It looks like one of those videos in the wide screen formats.
Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks for any help,
Brent
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alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:52:35 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey fellow Linux users! I'm going to be moving my current RedHat 5.2 Linux
> server to a new hard drive. Everything in the system is going to be the
Simple. Setup the new drive with fdisk, etc and mount it under /mnt.
Mount all the partitions there, just like it'd be if you booted
up.. you know, /mnt /mnt/usr or whatever you like. Then do
cd /
find . | grep -v /mnt | grep -v /proc | cpio -dpmu /mnt
You should be able to edit your lilo.conf to point to the new drive,
then run lilo, then boot the new drive. This has worked for me, but I
may have left something out, so check the man pages and THINK before
you act.
robert
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robert cope austin, texas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.linuxwizard.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on Compaq ProLian 1850R - any luck?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:53:08 GMT
Hello
During installation you cannot configure the NIC. Therefore after complete
installation follow the procedure given below.
1. Execute the command "insmod tlan" at the prompt. 2. Execute the command
"netconf" at the prompt. 3. Configure the NIC by selecting the "Basic Host
Information option" and entering the IP Address, Netmask, Net device as eth0
and Kernal as tlan. 4. Select the "Gateway and routing" option from main menu
and fill in the detail of Gateway address and without fail enable the Gateway
option. 5. Accept the changes and exit from utility. 6. If you are installing
Redhat Linux 5.0 or 5.1 add the line "insmod tlan" in
/etc/rc.d/init/d/network. 7. To confirm about the configuration execute the
command "ifconfig -a" which will display the details of your NIC configured.
Regards
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Sinnott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get Linux up and running on the ProLiant 1850R? I
> know it is possible, since Compaq is now shipping these boxes configured
> for Linux. The only problem I am having is getting the embedded 10/100
> UTP NIC that comes with the box working. Is there a compatible driver
> available, or do I need to just purchase another NIC for one of the PCI
> slots?
>
> Thanks
> John
>
>
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