Linux-Misc Digest #768, Volume #21 Sat, 11 Sep 99 19:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: New Red Hat - fdisk gone? (Charles M)
Linux IP Masquerading mini HOWTO(deutsch) (Johann)
Re: Blackbox install problem (letdown)
Re: W98 removed lilo (Leonard Evens)
Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Cannot open root (Leonard Evens)
Re: Floppy disk problem (Leonard Evens)
Installation Help (The Kusinski's)
Re: Modem Lights applet (Todd Knarr)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Guy Macon)
Squid in Mandrake ("Gene Zesch")
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Guy Macon)
Re: Blackbox install problem ("G.C. Miller")
Re: kfm reads / as over written (Carl Fink)
Re: STUPID C question ("jaems")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles M)
Subject: Re: New Red Hat - fdisk gone?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:56:24 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Does anyone know if Red Hat is really removing this, the only
> > usable partitoning tool?
>
>
> Jesus, I haven't heard that... but I'm still absolutely steaming
> from the fact that they took away glint for RPM management with
It was in Linux Weekly News. Check out:
http://www.lwn.net/1999/0909/dists.phtml
wherein they state:
'Fdisk is gone - the installation throws the user, willing or not,
directly into DiskDruid. "Expert mode" might still provide fdisk - we did
not check. '
CMM
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From: Johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linux IP Masquerading mini HOWTO(deutsch)
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:09:43 +0200
Hi Allerseits !
Die populaere Linux IP Masquerading mini HOWTO wurde kuerzlich von mir
ins
Deutsche uebersetzt. Es wird gebeten sie zu lesen und zu testen und die
Eindruecke sowie Fehler mir zu schildern.
Die erste Vorabversion 1.65(ich habe die Versionsnummern beibehalten)
findet sich unter folgender Adresse:
http://www.hoexter.netsurf.de/homepages/John.M/linux/masq/index.html
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From: letdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blackbox install problem
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:25:32 -0400
Kajohn Rojanametin wrote:
> I try to compile and install Blackbox on RH 6.0. But it has a problem.
> After type ./configure in blackbox directory, it told
> "creating cache ./config.cache"
> "checking for a BSD compatible install ... /usr/bin/install -c"
> "checking wheter build environment is sane... yes"
> "checking wheter make set ${MAKE}... no"
> "checking for working aclocal... missing"
> "checking for working autoconf... missing"
> "checking for working automake... missing"
> "checking for working autoheader... missing"
> "checking for working makeinfo... missing"
> "checking for gcc... no"
> "checking for cc... no"
> I can't do further. How can I solve this problem?
> thank
> KJ.
install make and gcc
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: W98 removed lilo
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:18:07 -0500
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> In <7rajb9$g3a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Peter Scully" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >I upgraded to W98 (dual boot) and now I can't get back into Linux. If I use
> >a boot disk it complains because it looks for /boot on hdc5 (it's on hda5) -
> >any of you helpful people know how I can get lilo back in place?
>
> Yes, windows does that. It is trying to be helpful, since now that you
> are running the worlds greatest operating system, you would have no
> reason to use anything else. (Actually, it does warn you tht it is doing
> this in the install procedure-- you probably just paged over it without
> thinking)
> You have to run lilo again under Linux with a new /etc/lilo.conf.
> Use the boot and rescue disks to boot a copy of linux off the floppy
> drive. Then mount /dev/hda5 somewhere (eg /mnt/) and run lilo with
> lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
This might work, but I would be more confident about
/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
By the way, it would be nice to know what the original partitioning
was since apparently this doesn't always happen. Also, where
in the Windows 98 upgrade is one given the option to mess up
Linux, so I'll recognize it should I choose to upgrade?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Cannot open root
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:10:02 -0500
Ricardo Wagner wrote:
>
> Tks Sasa: Your solution worked but with /dev/hda5 ...but now, I am afraid of
> rebooting... what happened,, why Linux lost its root mount point.. Is it
> now fixed (after successful reboot and FS check)? or should I rdev -R ?..I
> am now in PANIC !!
>
> Sasa Ostrouska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Have you tried at lilo prompt to tell linux where is root ?
> >
> > lilo: linux root=/dev/hda1
> >
> > Sasa
> >
> > Ricardo Wagner wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, I think I got into trouble since I do not have a rescue disk...can
> > > anyone help?
> > >
> > > Dist: RH 6.0, PII 400,256 MB Just upgraded from 128.
> > >
> > > Everything worked fine after about 6 hours of doing so many things on my
> > > box, among them, trying to put Squid to work and a lot of Linuxconf
> commits,
> > >
> > > After a hard reboot got the deadly : "VFS: Cannot open root device
> 30:5b
> > > Kernel Panic:
> > > Unable to mount root on 30:5b"
> > > came into the scene an cannot get rid of it...
> > >
> > > any ideas?.. help pls
> >
rdev doesn't have much to do with it in most cases. It probably
won't hurt to tell your kernel what the root device is, but
normally you should have a
root=/dev/hda5
statement in your /etc/lilo.conf. Here is what a lilo.conf
might look like if one were booting both Linux and Windows
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=win
table=/dev/hda
Make sure you run /sbin/lilo and you should be okay unless
there is something bizarre on your system.
Also try
fdisk -l
to see if somehow the partitioning information was messed up.
But were this the case, I don't see how
LILO: linux /root=/dev/hda5
would work.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy disk problem
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:23:06 -0500
Torben Hoffmann wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I use RH6 and have the following problem with floppy disks:
>
> I make backups of certain files to the floopy using "mcopy" and on one
> of my two backup floppies (yes I am paranoid about loosing data) gives
> me the following error:
>
> Bad FAT entry 2848 at 2847
> Bad FAT entry 2848 at 2847
> Bad FAT entry 2848 at 2847
> Fat error detected
>
> Could this be due to a defect disk? No, I have tried 10+ disks and they
> all give me this error.
>
> The one floppy disk that does not give me an error is a very old disk
> (of which I have none left).
>
> Why am I experiencing these problems?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Torben
I've seen this once or twice with RH6.0 where I used
mdel to delete a file from the floppy. Just using mcopy
doesn't seem to create any problem. Also, I think if you
mount the floppy as a vfat or msdos file system and use
normal Unix commands to copy or delete files, it may not
happen.
Try formatting a floppy with Windows and then see if you can
recreate the problem at will.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: The Kusinski's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installation Help
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:47:37 -0700
This is a long question, so let me get my system stats out of the way
first (It's a HP Pavilion 8576C).
PIII 450MHz
128 Meg Ram
19.2 Gig Quantum "Fireball" HD
DVD
HP CD-RW (Model 8100)
ATI Rage Pro with 8 Meg
HP M70 17" monitor
Windows 98
Question #1. I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 (tried). During the LILO
installation I get a message that LILO could not be installed. The rest
of the installation goes great. Once I finish and the system reboots I
get "LI" and it hangs up. I know that means the first stage of the boot
loader loaded the second stage, but that it could not execute it. I
then tried to boot from a boot disk. This way a got up to "LILO" but
the system just hangs there. I tried putting lilo.conf in both the MBR
and in /root. It does the same thing in either place.
Question #2. I then tried to install Open-Linux 2.2. Installing it is
great. I get done in under 15 minutes and I'm at the desktop. I can
make changes to lilo.conf, play around with KDE, etc. When I reboot the
system I go right into windows 98. Using a boot disk (made using
rawrite) I still go right into windows.
I tried to install both of these as the only os on my system - both of
them installed great and ran after rebooting. I just cannot get them to
live with windows 98. I need to keep windows 98 on my system for
work/school reasons. I tried to partition my hard drive using partition
magic (the ones that come with these versions of Linux), FIPs, partition
manager, MSTBoot, and FDISK (had to format, reload, etc.).
So far I am lost, can someone help me out (I have read and reread just
about every How-To I could find and three different books).
Thanks
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Lights applet
Date: 11 Sep 1999 21:46:30 GMT
Timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For my 'Modem Lights' applet, I've put 'ifup ppp0' to connect and that
> works fine. I've also put 'ifdown ppp0' for disconnect, but this
> doesn't seem to work. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks... :)
One question: does the green light at the bottom of the applet come
on when you bring up the connection? If it doesn't, you might check
that the lock file used by the applet matches what PPP will be using.
The Modem Lights default is "/var/lock/LCK..modem", which is fine if
PPP is using "/dev/modem" as it's serial device. If PPP is using, for
example, "/dev/ttyS0" as the serial device, then the applet has to
be changed to use "/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0" as the lock file. This can
be done in the top item on the "Advanced" tab of it's properties dialog.
--
Safety hint, dude ... never, ever get up to go to the john at night unless
you can actually feel your body.
-- Sonya Marie Gildencrantz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Macon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: 11 Sep 1999 15:04:14 PDT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E.
Bell) wrote:
>
>
>
>Guy Macon wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Thomas)
wrote:
>>
>> >Recently, my BIOS clock got reset (year 2099) for no good reason.
>> >This caused Win98 to start breaking in odd ways. In my attempts to
>> >fix this, mostly by re-installing packages that I thought might have
>> >been corrupted by bad .dlls, things got progressively worse.
>> >Eventually I decided to re-install Win98, WHICH THE DOCUMENTATION
>> >ACTUALLY SUGGESTS! On about the third attempt to re-install, Win98
>> >trashed my entire partition table. This led to all 3 operating
>> >systems on the machine being trashed, and the eventual re-formatting
>> >and re-partitioning of the drive.
>>
>> I finally got so tired of this kind of nonsense that I purchased
>> a number of removable hard drive rack/tray combinations. Now when
>> Win98 is running the hard drive containing QNX, the hard drive
>> containing Linux and hard drive containing NT are all several feet
>> away from the computer. Even Microsoft has trouble corrupting
>> other OS's when I do this.
>
>I just discovered that a store down the street has such frames, and
>since I am on the verge of building a Wintel box (mainly so I can play
>my games and keep up with technology I need to know for work, not that I
>like Wintel), I will include these, as they will allow me to do just
>that. I will probably keep some kind of hard drive in there (my current
>1.08GB?) as a drive for transferring files from one OS to another
>(mostly plain text, HTML, and graphics).
>
>Very usefull.
I have since found an additional use. PowerQuest makes a utility called
DRIVE COPY that clones drives 100% bit for bit. I now buy two of the
same brand of drive (it can handle different brands/sizes, but I am
very conservative) to put in two of the racks and clone the working
drive right before I install or reconfigure anything. It works with
DOS, Windows 95 Fat16, 98 Fat 32, NT NTFS. and Linux. I haven't tried
QNX because QNX has never destroyed itself. It's a wonderful thing to
recover from a blown install in 10 seconds.
Also, no worry about which partition is primary, on the first drive,
<1024 cyls, or readable by all of my OS's. I just install each OS as
if it were the only OS in the world.
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From: "Gene Zesch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Squid in Mandrake
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:06:19 -0500
Trying to set up squid in Mandrake 6.
The version on their cd is squid-2.2.STABLE1-2mdk.i586.rpm.
The rpm doesn't seem to include any of the docs, as when I install it, the
files are empty. Does anyone know how to start this version?
I had an older squid-1.1.21 and it doesn't respond to the same commands as
that.
I've looked at the Squid page and mandrakes version doesn't respond to the
commands they give, either.
Can anyone help here?
Thanks,
Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Macon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: 11 Sep 1999 15:11:04 PDT
In article <7reaam$7kl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Cosby) wrote:
>
>I can really see that.
>
>Jane starts up her computer. If she holds down both mouse buttons
>as it boots, she is given a screen allowing her to choose
>'supervisor' or 'Jane'. Otherwise she boots into the 'Jane'
>workspace.
>
>Let's say she has 'Scheduler' and 'Word' installed. Booting into
>the 'Jane' workspace, she is given a screen with two 'button'
>regions, one labeled 'Scheduler' and the other labelled 'Word'.
>She clicks on Word. At this point, a timeline icon appears, going
>'back in time' will take her back to the 'Choose Program' screen,
>going forward will return her towards her latest point.
>
>Opening Word, she gets a screen with a list of all her word docs.
>Nothing else on the screen, but the floating timeline gadget. She
>clicks on a doc, or 'New Doc', and that opens for editing. At any
>point, she has a 'Document Name' gadget, if she changes the name
>of the doc it saves (transparently) under that new name.
>
>When she exits, the doc saves. Why shouldn't it? From her 'list
>of word doc' screen, she has a trashcan, with maybe a five or ten
>level 'undo' function. Actually, I can't see a reason for more
>than one level of 'undo'.
>
>Her 'Word' screen would have 'available storage' displayed along
>the top. Maybe 'available work space' (RAM) also.
>
>...
>
>From 'supervisor' mode, there would be a 'Jane' directory, with a
>'Word' and a 'Scheduler' subdirectory.
>
>...
>
>I can see a lot of 'issues' with that, but for a user with a very
>distinct set of needs and no 'power user' urges, that would be a
>-much- more pleasant work environment.
>
>Really, it resembles the Mac interface, but is even easier. And
>of course, with the 'Supervisor' mode, there is more flexibility
>for those who -do- want 'power user' abilities.
Exactly. one could quibble about details (and will, this being Usenet!)
but the idea is clear. Don't saddle the user with extra options that
the user doesn't need, but still offer a way for the user to learn and
turn on those option as her needs change, and a way for you or me to
see every option and to see exacltly what is going on under the hood.
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:40:40 -0700
From: "G.C. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blackbox install problem
Kajohn Rojanametin wrote:
> I try to compile and install Blackbox on RH 6.0. But it has a problem.
> After type ./configure in blackbox directory, it told
> "creating cache ./config.cache"
> "checking for a BSD compatible install ... /usr/bin/install -c"
> "checking wheter build environment is sane... yes"
> "checking wheter make set ${MAKE}... no"
> "checking for working aclocal... missing"
> "checking for working autoconf... missing"
> "checking for working automake... missing"
> "checking for working autoheader... missing"
> "checking for working makeinfo... missing"
> "checking for gcc... no"
> "checking for cc... no"
> I can't do further. How can I solve this problem?
> thank
> KJ.
You are missing the development rpms, I dont remember what they are
specifically but you should be able to figure it out by looking the RPMS
directory of the Red Hat CD or the ftp directory you installed from.
G.C. Miller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: kfm reads / as over written
Date: 11 Sep 1999 17:12:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:32:36 GMT root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>in rh6.0 (2.2.5-15)
>downloaded a directory as root with netscape(save link as)that kfm
>reads the structure for when upped one higher from root. the files are
>not there when clicked.
Why not report this using the KDE bug-reporting mechanism?
I reported a few before uninstalling KDE, and a KFM developer got
back to me *within a day*, sometimes with the very gratifying "Fixed
in the CVS. Thanks."
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: "jaems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: STUPID C question
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:04:42 GMT
you have to declare the array at the beginning of the program (in main() ).
C doesn't allow you to haphazardly declare variables throughout the program
like C++ does....try moving the declaration and initializing the array. if
that doesn't work, I'd have to take a closer look at the code to help
(inless I'm just completely wrong! :-) ). you may want to take out the 80
and use a #define for easier maintanence later....Code Complete is a good
book to read if you're interested. Good Luck!
--James
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