Linux-Hardware Digest #713, Volume #9 Fri, 19 Mar 99 07:13:31 EST
Contents:
Re: Pin outs for parallel port zip drive cable? (Kyle Dansie)
Re: $2500.00 DREAM machine (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: HP 2100 and ghostscript (wizard)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session ("M. le
Rutte")
Re: ATI Xpert under Linux only does 640 x 480 ?!?! (Rod Roark)
Almost There, Please Help! (John Thrasher)
Re: Disk Striping (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Henning
Strandin)
Re: partition ("Fr�d�ric Bachelier")
PPro 200 w/ 256K vs. Celeron 333A (root)
Re: Can I use a Lexmark 3200 under Linux? ("Paul Simard")
Olympus D220L Digital Cam...under linux? (Michael D. Knight)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed ("James Giles")
Re: Which SMP Motherboard? (Daniel Tisserand)
HELP: null modem and getty (Patrick Drouin)
Re: Hardware drivers... and a lot more! (Mircea)
Re: 4mm Sun DAT under Linux? (Ralf Draeger)
Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive ("Greg Waugh")
Re: Redhat linux and Iomega Zip 250 drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
can't get dial tone on modem (Michael D Sohn)
Maxtor 8.4, Maxblast, EZ-Bios and SuSE. HELP!!! (Barry Bogart)
Re: test 2 (Ben)
Re: Large (1MB) writes (Michael Nolan)
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From: Kyle Dansie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pin outs for parallel port zip drive cable?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:55:19 GMT
Daniel wrote:
>
> I suppose I could buy a ready made cable but I
> interested in building one of my own. Does
> anyone know where I can find the pin outs of
> the parallel port cable for the iomega zip drive?
>
> -Daniel
Not sure if I have seen one of these online, but check out this link for
a mail list address and lots of other web pages on parallel port
information.
http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html
Cheers,
Kyle Dansie
--
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Linux Rules Iomega Zip Drive Mini - HOWTO
-
http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
or
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: $2500.00 DREAM machine
Date: 18 Mar 1999 03:32:35 GMT
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:11:44 -0500, dsyates wrote:
>I have got exactly $2500.00 to spend on a new Linux machine. I want the
>most (fastest) bang for my buck.
>I am looking fo advice on: processor (make /speed) , motherboard,
>SCSI/IDE/or UDMA, Monitor, video card, vid acclerator, soound card,
>removable media, etc
>Should I build it myself, or go through Varesearch, ASlabs,
>penguincomputing, Dell, or what?
I have a page which shows some sample quotes comparing linux vendors.
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/linux/quotes.html
This is not a complete list, but a partial list which gives you some
idea of the market. I only include the vendors who offer lower prices.
About linux vendors: I know some people who reported
good experiences with SW technologies http://www.swt.com . I am
buying mine from tcu-inc ( http://www.tcu-inc.com ) because their prices
are better.
The advantage of going with Dell is that their warranty is generous,
their service doesn't suck too much, and they will be in business when
your warranty expires. The disadvantage is they don't support linux, and
their parts aren't brilliant under linux.
Buy the monitor seperately ( unless you buy from Dell, who throw in the
monitor at a discounted price when you buy a system ). It will be much
cheaper.
Motherboard:
You don't mention this, but it is more important than the CPU in many
ways, since it represents your "upgrade ceiling". If you go with an
intel CPU, make sure you get a BX based motherboard.
I'm buying a system and my choice is the ASUS P2B-F.
CPU:
Depends on what you are doing. I prefer to spend less on the CPU.
( eg I can put a P350 in my board, and upgrade to a PIII for about $200-
or so next year. )
Monitor:
This greatly effects what the budget for the rest of your system will
look like. Maybe you should start by having a good think about how much
you want to spend on the monitor and what kind of monitor do you want
( shadow mask or trinitron ? it's a religious question again ... )
There are a lot of trade offs here.
For example, a cheap 19" will cost less than a high end 17". Don't get
less than a good 17" (eg Sony GDM 200PS ) or a cheap 19"
( eg : Optiquest V95 ) for the monitor... ( JMHO ... )
You can get good prices on monitors from www.pricewatch.com
Video cards: Do you want:
(a) 3D accel on windows and linux ? ( not that many linux apps have 3d
acceleration ... )
(b) 3D accel on windows. No 3d accel on linux
(c) No 3D acceleration. Just a good 2D card.
My picks:
(a) The only 3d hardware accelerators that work with linux are the
Voodoo and voodoo2 cards ( such as Diaomond Monster I and II ).
Get this + a Matrox G200.
(b) Go with a TNT card such as a Diamond Viper V550 . Note that the
TNT card is the best choice if you get a Dell (IMO )
(c) Matrox G200. The Matrox cards are highly regarded as 2D cards.
Their main weakness is that their 3D performance is so-so ( unless used
in conjunction with a voodoo )
SCSI vs IDE :
Hmmm ... tough one. Religious question.
What are you going to be doing with this machine ?
if you plan to use a lot of storage devices ( eg CDROM + ZIP drive +
tape drive + 2 or more hard drives ) it's a no brainer ( SCSI!!! ). If
you want just one HD + a CDROM and don't plan to add anything , SCSI
seems less appealing unless you really need the extra speed.
You are probably going to find that SCSI really will cut into that
budget unless you're willing to settle for a smaller HD.
Removable media:
I have a parallel port zip. The ppa module in the 2.0.x kernels is
woefully out of date, so it is slow under linux. I use the ZIP drive
because my school have them so I can download over the campus T1. It's
handy for saving my downloads, but too small to be a serious backup
device.
Soundcard:
Linux doesn't do much , sound-wise. All the linux shops
seem to ship the Creative labs cards ( Soundblaster and friends )
My old Soundblaster 16 installed easily in linux. It's adequate for my
needs ( occasional game playing ) but hardly cutting-edge.
--
Donovan Rebbechi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/
Web designer for Independence -- Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org/
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From: wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 2100 and ghostscript
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:55:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Simpson wrote:
> I was wondering: does the HP Laserjet 2100 work with ghostscript?
> The ghostscript web page says:
> lj5gray H-P LaserJet 5 & 6 family, gray-scale bitmap;
>
> But I am about to buy the 2100 and plan to use ghostscript. I noticed
> this printer uses PCL 6 instead of PCL 5; in any case, does this printer
> work OK with ghostscript?
>
> Thanks very much for any help.
>
> Bill Simpson
Hi Bill;
I can't answer this question as I was down at the store looking at one of
these myself. The question I got is why not choose the Postscript
option. I realize that its not true Postscript, but rather an
emulation, but this seems to be a far better choice than loading your
machine down with Ghostscript.
So to extend the question has anybody out there used the Postscript
emulation available on the HP2100?? If so how and what were the
results?
Another question related to laser printer is Adobies PrintGear controller,
anybody have experience with printers using these??
Dave
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From: "M. le Rutte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:52:37 GMT
Gerhard Traeger wrote:
> [...]
> Changing spatial resolution for X-servers is done by pressing
> <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Num "+"> or <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Num "-">
>
> Way simpler than searching for the "desktop - properties - settlings" icons!
> [...]
GUI rule #1: All actions *MUST* be accessible with a menu option or an
icon and *MAY* be accessible with a shortcut key assignment.
Why do Linux people always seem to forget that 99.9% of the people who
use a computer are not experts. Try to explain to my mom that you should
press some keys to change resolution (if she knows what that is), or
that she should 'just rebuild the kernel' to include some feature.
Maurice. (not a fan of MS either)
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert under Linux only does 640 x 480 ?!?!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:52:59 GMT
Andrew Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
What tells you that? Be specific.
>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.
Run xf86config, you don't have to reinstall.
>An email reply would be appreciated if possible,
It's possible, but that's not what newsgroups are about. :-)
>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 :-) )
Here's a clue: run "sndconfig". :-)
>ISA Rockwell Chipset v90 modem
>Realtek network card
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
======================================================================
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From: John Thrasher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Almost There, Please Help!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:55:23 GMT
I have a generic scanner and SANE (w/xscanimage) on my RH 5.2 system
and
Mitsumi CD-R and xcdroast. How do I get my system or these apps to
see
my devices.
Linux can see my Mitsumi as a CD Rom but xcdroast doesn't detect it.
If I can get these two devices to work I can finally dump Windows,
please help.
Please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you,
John
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Disk Striping
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:47:55 GMT
"Hon N. Tam" wrote:
> I am interested in creating disk striping using both OSes. I know I
> can do it with FreeBSD but I am not sure if it is possible with RH
> 5.2. I have 2-18.2 Gig U2W disks and I would like to combine them to
> 1-36.4 Gig partition.
>From /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.md :
Tools that manage md devices can be found at
sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr
in public/Linux/md035.tar.gz.
regards Henrik
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From: [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 07:55:40 GMT
According to Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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.
Yup indeedoodaladeedily it is! It can be found in any of the HOWTO
archives, including the ones on your RH cdrom.
-p.
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From: Henning Strandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:48:33 GMT
Tim Hanson wrote:
>
> Don wrote:
> >
> > Henning Strandin wrote:
> > >
> > > Jeff Szarka wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:23:47 +0100, Henning Strandin
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> > I probably dont know enough to be sure, but at this point, I cant help
> > but wonder if the biggest problem with linux isnt the documentation. Ive
> > RTFMed a lot, and so far all of it has been a bunch of disconnected
> > rubbish. Most of the authors of this documentation cant stay on one
> > subject long enough to give any cohesive information about it. I truly
> > feel if I had decent documentation that I could have solved most if not
> > all my problems long ago. I cant help but wonder if it might improve if
> > it were not a free system. If it was paid for and people depended upon
> > it to stay in bussiness, maybe we would have better docs!
> >
> > Don
>
<snip>
> The docs will get written. Care to write some of them?
This is actually a very valid point. In the early days of Linux when
just about every user was very aware how Linux things came into
existence complaints about the quality of things usually awarded answers
of the type, "Don't whine, fix it!". Because that is after all the only
way things get fixed in the Linux world. By responsible users making an
effort. THat's where it came from and, basically, you can't count on
that someone else will fix it for you. There even used to be debates
among Linux users on whether the Linux community was interested in non
contributing users, or 'free-riders'. Much have changed since then (or
has it?), but it's healthy to remember sometimes that Linux come from
volunteer efforts and that some one has sacrificed his/her spare time to
write that disconnected rubbish.
--
"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here"
- A. Lincoln
Henning Strandin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Fr�d�ric Bachelier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:57:05 GMT
>Is there any
>way that I can combine two DOS partitions to one without destroying
>the files on the original DOS partition?
I would like to know the answer too...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking
Subject: PPro 200 w/ 256K vs. Celeron 333A
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:51:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All things other than the CPU being equal, which is faster under a 32 bit
operating system (Linux):
Pentium Pro 200 with 256K cache (overclocked to 233Mhz)
or
Celeron 333A with 128K cache (overclocked to 375Mhz)
The PPro is on a SuperMicro P6SAS with 72MB EDO (soon to be 104MB), and the
Celery is on an Abit BH6 with 160MB of PC100 SDRAM. The BH6 has faster
memory speed, but I'm not sure if it makes up for the larger cache and 32
bit optimization of the PPro. My main concern is compile speed.
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From: "Paul Simard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use a Lexmark 3200 under Linux?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:55:41 GMT
Reply-To: "Paul Simard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I need to know the answer to this too, please!
Paulo C�sar Carvalho wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>How can I configure my printer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cesar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael D. Knight)
Subject: Olympus D220L Digital Cam...under linux?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:57:32 GMT
I am shamefully running win98 on my new Celeron 300A.
I will probably install linux on it next month. I want to find out it
my Olympus D220L digital camera will work under linux or not.
It is a simple serial interface, so that shouldn't be a problem. I
guess I'm looking for some drivers that will be able to download the
pics off the camera. Are there any tools available to do this?
I have been away from Linux for a couple of years now, so I'm not sure
what is out there for this type of thing.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Look at email address carefully....anti-spam in effect.
-Michael
--
COMBAT AIRCRAFT: A mix Michael David Knight F-4 | Phantom II
of sharp teeth, cold Gulfstream Aerospace /O\
steel, cosmic warlords, Georgia Tech Aerospace \_______[|(.)|]_______/
and evil spirits mknight2@*spam*worldnet.att.net ++ O ++ o
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From: "James Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:54:43 GMT
Jeffrey J. Potoff wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
...
>> All these people
>> are twiddling their thumbs while the code runs. All they each care about
>> is turnaround.
>
>You're right, all I care about is how fast my code finishes. If that means
>I buy more slower CPUs so that it's not waiting in a queue for days, then
>I do it. Or more slower CPUs so that each job can run on its own CPU, then
>I do that too. To me, it's all just tools in a tool box. Fast single
>CPU machines have their place, as do slower multi-CPU boxes.
I didn't say otherwise. I specifically stayed out of the CPU type/number
debate. All I said was that there are contexts in which turnaround is
not correlated to throughput and in those contexts all the user cares
about is turnaround. I was, in fact, merely countering the suggestion
that anything that improves throughput is automatically a good thing.
--
J. Giles
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From: Daniel Tisserand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Which SMP Motherboard?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:54:40 GMT
Hefin,
Our current system is dual P2/350MHz on a SuperMicro P6DBS board, runs
great. We are using the intel pro/100, it also is great. We run a
distributed Oracle database and not a lick of problems. Averaging over
10GB/wk between the servers without a problem.
The local
university has 6 linux servers, including a full feed news server, all
using the intel card on dual
pentium/233s and have not had one problem. Very stable.
Good luck,
Daniel
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Jason McKnight wrote:
> I must agree with the other posters. I have an ASUS P2B-DS and have had
> no troubles with it. I don't have any Celeron's :) but I would if it was
> my system at home. I have 2 PII450's and it is a sweet system.
>
> Hefin James wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm currently specifying a machine for a major Linux based server
> > project.
> > Has anybody using the Intel L440GX+ motherboard?
> > It has a Adaptec AIC7896 U2W and UW channels, and a graphics card on
> > board, which is supported by Linux.
> >
> > It also has Intel EtherExpress PRO 100+ chip onboard but it uses the
> > Intel 82559 chip which is not mentioned in the eepro100.c driver. Has
> > anybody else got this card? and more importantly does it work?
> >
> > What SMP motherboard you running?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Hefin
>
>
>
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From: Patrick Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: null modem and getty
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:56:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone,
I have a problem with my Linux and a Win95 PC box I want to use to log
in using a null modem. I had the setup working on my old Slackware
install but I have installed Red Hat 5.2 and I just can't get it to
work... (yeah, yeah, I should have kept a copy of my config files)
Anyhow, here are the files I have as of now:
/etc/inittab
t1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100
/etc/gettydefs
DT9600# B9600 CS8 CLOCAL # B9600 SANE -ISTRIP CLOCAL #@S login #DT9600
In fact, I did get this to work for a few minutes but it crashed during
a file transfer and it now refuses to work. I have cheked the running
processes and the getty is there. If I kill it and restart it, I will
see the login prompt show up on the Win95 box but I can't enter
anything. Do I need any other files in /etc/default to get ttyS1 to
work?
I have double-checked and this is not a problem with the echo setting,
I have tried to do a login even tough nothing happens and I can't get
the HD to spin. The FAQs did mention to similar problems and refered to
the IRQ settings but I know for a fact this was not changed since my
Slackware install.
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards,
Patrick
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware drivers... and a lot more!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:56:50 GMT
Yes, _really_ clever to post advertising about Windows drivers in a
Linux newsgroup...
MST
Dutch Hardware & Driver Page� ( www.nhdp.nl/english/ ) wrote:
> (...)
> Using Windows?
> Visit now: www.nhdp.nl/english/
>
> (*=coming soon)
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Dutch Hardware and Drivers Page�
> http://www.nhdp.nl/english/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (correspondence)
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From: Ralf Draeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4mm Sun DAT under Linux?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:58:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> I'm looking at buying a Sun 4mm 8GB DAT:
>
> Brand new Sun SPARCstorage Unipack
> external 8GB 4mm DAT drive
> in a 611 case sun P/N 595-3915-04
> Model X6254A.. In original box with cables, manual
> one tape and head cleaner.
>
> Any reason to suspect this would not work with Linux? So far I haven't
> hit anything that was SCSI that did not work.
>
> Any experience with this partiuclar drive would be appreciated.
Don't know about tapes, but Sun-CDRoms do *NOT* work on non-Sun SCSI
adapters because of their different blocksize ...
Regards, Ralf.
--
Ralf Draeger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Intraplan Consult Gmbh Orleansplatz 5a 81667 Muenchen +49 89 45911-0 -
> What is the most widely available Unix utility to randomize lines
> in a file?
vi. Just ask a novice to edit the file for you. (Cal Dunigan in c.u.s)
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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: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:48:35 GMT
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!
--
==========================================
Greg Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Manager of Systems Operations
Productivity OnLine
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat linux and Iomega Zip 250 drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:54:45 GMT
Thanks to both Kyle and Lance.
I got the zip drive working finally, using kernel 2.2.3.
I was using the 250MB disk supplied by iomega. It was partitioned and
preformatted. So it was not a problem with the disk as Lance suggested.
I also had the scsi device files setup in /dev (/dev/sda*, /dev/sdb* etc).
So it could only be the driver problem.
I got linux kernel 2.2.3 from www.linuxhq.com and compiled it. It has
a more recent version of imm driver (0.2x) as opposed to the 0.18
I was using with kernel 2.0.36. I got the 0.18 version from
http://www.torque.net/~campbell
But I don't think you should get imm v0.18. Kernel 2.2.3 has in-built
support for imm 0.2. I mean, you can select imm support while configuring
the kernel.
It took me 3-4 kernel compiles to get everything right. For my micron
millennia pc with pentium II 450, I had to select the following:
general setup -> parallel port support (parport.o),
pc style hardware support (parport_pc.o)
scsi -> scsi support, scsi disk support
Elsewhere, it had an option for ppa or imm drivers. I selected imm.
The kernel probes the parallel port while booting. To do this and detect
the port type correctly, it needs parport.o and parport_pc.o precompiled
into the kernel. They should not be modules.
Then imm driver (also compiled into the kernel) detected the drive correctly.
The disk was assigned to sda and the partition check identified sda4
as expected for windows formatted zip disk.
Another tip, kernel 2.2.3 was too big to be make a zImage file even though
I selected minimal support. You can save a few minutes if you do
make bzImage instead of make zImage.
-subbarao
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From: Michael D Sohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't get dial tone on modem
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:54:42 GMT
I'm having difficulty configuring my modem. I'm running Red Hat Linux
5.2. I have a U.S. Robotics 56K Voice Internal PnP modem. It is
located on COM2 with I/O Range: 02F8-02FF and Interrupt: 03. This is
not a winmodem
What ever I do, I can't seem to get dial tone (I'm assuming I should get
dial tone since the speaker on the modem is not connected to my sound
card, which I haven't configured yet).
I boot linux using a floppy disk and everything else is on my second
hard drive.
When I login as root, I make sure to see that the software is configured:
[root@localhost /root]# grep -i "TCP/IP" /var/log/messages
Mar 14 13:41:25 localhost kernel: Swansea University Computer Society
TCP/IP for NET3.034
I then load the ppp stuff:
[root@localhost /root]# insmod slhc
[root@localhost /root]# insmod ppp
[root@localhost /root]# grep -i "PPP" /var/log/messages
Mar 14 13:52:55 localhost kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel
allocation)
Mar 14 13:52:55 localhost kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code
copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Mar 14 13:52:55 localhost kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
I then run minicom with the serial device set as: /dev/ttyS1 I then try
to initialize the modem in minicom but I can't seem to get dial tone.
What am I missing?
thanks,
Mike
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From: Barry Bogart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maxtor 8.4, Maxblast, EZ-Bios and SuSE. HELP!!!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:48:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a primary/master Quantum 850 with Win95. Also a Maxtor 8.4 on
Secondary/master. The default automatic install of Maxblast creates one
physical partition and a number of virtual ones after that. The Maxtor
overlay software made them all visble from Win95, and EZ-BIOS made them
visible to DOS, so I was able to do the install. The source was on one
of the virtual drives (my CDROM was NOT visible from DOS), and the
destination was on the physical partition of the Maxtor. The install
seemed to work, but abended with some disk error. Now Linux WILL run off
that drive, and it seems to be contained withing that physical
partition. However the other virtual partitions are no longer visible
from Win 95 OR DOS(!). I have tried 'restoring the boot block' using the
Maxtor Maxblast install disk/advanced options, but it doesn't help. Did
the Suse install blow the partition table? I am sure that the rest of
the stuff is still there intact, but how do I resurrect it? Has anyone
solved this problem? If so, please email me directly.
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From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: test 2
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:54:31 GMT
Beru wrote:
>
> Sorry
Please use alt.test for testing, NOT these newsgroups.
Ben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Nolan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Large (1MB) writes
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:48:55 GMT
In article <01be6f0d$c3f628e0$c3ed4e0c@nilrem>,
Norm Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Are there any drivers to do large (1MB) tape read and write? The limit
>> in 2.0.xx was ~64k, but if we can't do at least 1MB, we're stuck with
>> Solaris.
>>
> Why not modify the original or write your own; that is, after
>all, one of the most important things about Open Source, n'est pas?
As I understand the source, it uses a buffer deep within the kernel that
I was unable to figure out, and would not lightly change. If there's
another way, I'll do it, including mallocing buffers in the driver:
I'll happily trade memory for speed in this case.
-Mike
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