Linux-Misc Digest #675, Volume #23 Fri, 25 Feb 00 19:13:03 EST
Contents:
ATI All-In-Wonder 128/16M (Stephane Faroult)
NFS Mount problem
Re: NFS Mount problem
Who/What does modify my /etc/motd during boot? (Otto Wyss)
Re: A Tarred file question (Mircea)
Perl Scripters needed! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Experienced Linux users please take look... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure ! (Bob Tennent)
Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure ! (Neil Sluman)
Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Problems (Manfred =?iso-8859-1?Q?Preu=DFig?=)
Re: Stopping an Xserver (Krzys Majewski)
Re: apropos is broken (Krzys Majewski)
Re: LILO upgrade for the new millenium (Bob Martin)
A few problems: amd, boot, modules (Damir Cosic)
Re: Creating a spare boot disk (Juergen Heinzl)
URGENT: W3C form standards for non-wintel platforms (James Salsman)
jre 1.2.2 (Matthew King)
please help! can't login! (Yonatan Mittlefehldt)
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From: Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI All-In-Wonder 128/16M
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:11:02 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anybody a driver for an ATI All-In-Wonder 128 card ? I have Linux
Mandrake 6.5 (based on Red Hat 6.something), it contains drivers for ATI
All-In-Wonder and All-In-Wonder Pro, but none of them works. Didn't find
any info at Xfree86.org and rather scared by the idea of downloading
something enormous without any certainty about finding the proper driver
in it (only saw mention of Rage 128). Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks for e-mailing me directly.
--
TIA,
St�phane Faroult
Oriole Corporation
Performance Tools & Free Scripts
==================================================================
http://www.oriolecorp.com, designed by Oracle DBAs for Oracle DBAs
==================================================================
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS Mount problem
Date: 25 Feb 2000 21:28:31 GMT
Hello. I have two Linux systems. Host1 mounts a directory from host2.
host1> mount -t nfs host2:/home /home
No problems.
But, I rebooted host2. Now, on host1, I get:
host1> ls /home
ls: /home: Connection refused
host1> mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)
host2:/home on /home type nfs (rw,addr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
host1> umount /home
Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered
umount: /home: device is busy
I can cd to /home but can't do anything.
How do I re-mount it? Can I set it up in such a way that if host2 goes
down, that it will remount the directory when it comes back?
Thanks for any tips!
--
Tom Funk
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS Mount problem
Date: 25 Feb 2000 21:36:18 GMT
Sorry. Please disregard the previous post. I realized that nfsd was not
restarted on host2.
Tom Funk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
Subject: Who/What does modify my /etc/motd during boot?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:58:19 +0100
Amazingly anything does change my first line of /etc/motd during boot.
Do I have to go all through the initialisation to find out what's going
on? Or is there any easier way?
O. Wyss
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Tarred file question
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:00:42 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Ok, "unexpected end of file", what does that mean? Trying to un gzip and
> untar a file
>
> --
Probably a bad download.
MST
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Subject: Perl Scripters needed!
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:11:42 GMT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup,it.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Experienced Linux users please take look...
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:27:15 GMT
> (Tried installing RedHat 6.1 and Mandrake -I think 6.0)
> Problem 1:
> At the end of the Linux installation process when it tries to write
the LILO
> info into the master boot sector I get an error message that
says "Error
> writing to boot sector". I also tried writing it to the Linux area as
well
> and I get the same message. - bombed installation
>
You certainly can have a bootable partition above the 1024 cylinder
limit.
When you use lilo you , you need to use the LINEAR option. This makes
lilo put absolute references to the partition.
I have many many many times put my boot partition far far far past the
1024 cyl "limit"
G
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure !
Date: 25 Feb 2000 22:38:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:46:09 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Because you dickheads offer the source code of your programs (!!!)
>
So then how do you explain why Windows programs are even more insecure?
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From: Neil Sluman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure !
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:40:57 +0000
D. Butler <nospam*[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:895ika$rm6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hackers will exploit the bugs to the bone until someone reposts them !!!
>>
>> http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/archive.html
> Just out of curiousity, did you happen to notice that a good chunk of those
> were Microsoft security issues? I guess I must have missed the point here.
Yeah. Odd isn't it. For some reason, when people find a hole in MS
security, they exploit it. When they find a hole in Linux security they
fix it. I wonder why.
--
Sq. Neil
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:02:21 +0100
From: Manfred =?iso-8859-1?Q?Preu=DFig?=
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>
> Hey all:
>
> I just compiled dev kernel 2.3.47. I used this process.
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make bzImage
> and
> make bzdisk
>
> I copied the bzImage to my boot directory and added it to lilo.conf. I
> ran lilo.conf and all was ok.
>
> Upon reboot from either the diskette or using hda, I get a problem that
> has to do with VFS
>
> Something like,
> Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root filesystem 03:03
>
> I know that my boot partition is /dev/hda3 and it works for other
> kernels (2.2.12).
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? I have tried compiling the kernel
> with RAM disk and without RAM disk thinking that might help.
>
> Aaron Cline
> ender at alltel.net
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Do you use modules? Are all of the drivers used for the root (the
fs-driver
and these for the hardware) build-in to the kernel? Perhaps there is a
faulty
module option which had sneaked into your configuration. That's normally
the reason for this error.
greetings
Manfred Preussig
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stopping an Xserver
Date: 25 Feb 2000 15:08:37 -0800
> > > so that the Xserver isn't started automatically?
> >
> > cd /etc/init.d
> > mv xdm xdm-renamed
> >
> > (quick-n-dirty way, but you'll get the idea).
> >
> Well rather quick and rather dirty! I'd like to know how(where) I can
> remove xdm from the boot init and use startx instead.
The files /etc/rc<n>.d
(where <n> is one of 0,1,..,6,S and corresponds to a runlevel)
contain symbolic links to files in /etc/init.d. The names of the
symbolic links (e.g. S99xdm, K01xdm) indicate the order in which the
scripts are run, and whether they get the "stop" or "start" argument.
For example, after your machine boots up it typically enters runlevel
2, at which point something like /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm will be run with
the "start" argument (but only after scripts with smaller numbers have
been run). So another way to get rid of xdm is to delete the symlink
in runlevel 2.
If you want startx to happen automatically, you could
put it in your .login file.
>
> > > And where do I configure the window manager I'd like to have?
> >
> > In the last line of your ~/.xsession put
> >
> > exec my-window-manager
> >
> > (no "&" at the end)
> >
> > HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs help me a lot (in general). You can get them
> > from www.debian.org/Packages/stable/doc or read then on-line somewhere
> >
> What's the best way to read the HOWTO's, hopefully without first
> decompressing.
Dunno, I just downloaded a bunch of them (the debian howto's package
or whatever) and read them with Netscape.
The stuff like /etc/rc<n>.d is Debian-specific, startx is AFAIK a
linux thing, your other questions are UNIX-general, so any UNIX docs
should help you as well. Though never underestimate the power of
trial-and-error!
-chris
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: apropos is broken
Date: 25 Feb 2000 15:10:50 -0800
I don't have makewhatis (on Debian). -chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Bacon) writes:
> Did you try running "makewhatis"? This rebuilds the database used
> by whatis and apropos.
>
> -Jason
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO upgrade for the new millenium
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:13:19 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Andrew Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you set your BIOS to boot from the A: drive first then you can still
> > use floppies to boot.
> >
> > LILO only takes control when the MBR on your hard drive is read.
> > You might be able to set your BIOS to try the floppy and/or CD-ROM drive
> > before it tries to boot from a hard drive.
> >
>
> been there done that. The light flashes on the floppy for an instant,
> but LILO still rules. There is no escape clause for him, is there?
Make sure you have the boot order correct in the BIOS, the floppy light
should always flash once when the system is booting. If you have the
boot order c:,A: then you are always going to boot from the HD unless
it's failed. Make sure the floppy drive actually works, try booting from
a DOS boot disk
Lilo doesn't really control anything, it just start the process of
loading the kernel which then starts the init process, this is what you
want interactive and in the RH 6.1 there is an option to do an
interactive init.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Damir Cosic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A few problems: amd, boot, modules
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:33:41 -0600
Hi,
I have Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 with kernel 2.2.14. It worked fine, until
it froze today and after reboot hung on 'Starting AMD' for 5-10 min. Now
it does that on every reboot. Attached is part of system log related to
this part of booting process. You can see that there is a difference of
5 min between adding swap and first amd log. Again, everything was fine
before and I didn't change any config files.
Another issue are modules that linux tries to load on startup. You can
see on the end of this message that it fails to load sunrpc.o and
sound.o modules because of unresolved symbols. This has been going on
for some time already. I believe that I caused it by compiling the
kernel and that version information somehow got corrupted, since kernel
symbols I got with ksyms have different extensions than those from error
messages. But I can load some other modules, like ip_masq_ftp.o, so I am
really not sure what is going on and even less, how to fix it.
I would really appreciate any help, suggestion, pointer, moral support,
etc. Thanks!
Damir
==================== /var/log/messages ================
Feb 25 14:35:34 snowbird kernel: Partition check:
Feb 25 14:35:34 snowbird kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 >
Feb 25 14:35:34 snowbird kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.
Feb 25 14:35:34 snowbird kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k
freed1 >Feb 25 14:35:34 snowbird kernel: Adding Swap: 160608k swap-space
(priority -1)
>Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: using configuration file /etc/am.d/conf
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: AM-UTILS VERSION INFORMATION:
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Erez Zadok
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College
of Science, Technology & Medicine
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the
University of California.
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: am-utils version 6.0 (build 7).
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: Built by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
date Fri Nov 19 01:38:48 MST 1999.
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: cpu=i386 (little-endian), arch=i386,
karch=i686.
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: full_os=linux, os=linux,
osver=2.2.12, vendor=pc.
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: Map support for: root, passwd, union,
nisplus, nis, ndbm, file, error.
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: AMFS: nfs, link, nfsx, nfsl, host,
linkx, program, union, inherit,
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: ufs, auto, direct, toplvl,
error.
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: FS: nfs, ext2.
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: Network 1: wire="198.61.23.0"
(netnumber=198.61.23).
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: Network 2: wire="209.181.150.0"
(netnumber=209.181.150).
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: Network 3: wire="209.180.92.0"
(netnumber=209.180.92).
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[480]: My ip addr is 0xc63d170a
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[484]: released controlling tty using
setsid()
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[484]: file server localhost type local
starts up
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[484]: /dev/hda1 restarted fstype ufs on /
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[484]: /dev/hda2 restarted fstype ufs on
/usr
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[484]: /dev/hda5 restarted fstype ufs on
/home
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[484]: devpts restarted fstype link on
/dev/pts
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[484]: /proc restarted fstype link on /proc
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol boot_cpu_data_Rsmp2gig_4d12d1d7
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol kernel_flag_Rsmp2gig_a99dd800
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __global_cli_Rsmp2gig_64576b05
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __verify_write_Rsmp2gig_203afbeb
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __generic_copy_from_user_Rsmp2gig_116166aa
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __global_restore_flags_Rsmp2gig_54dd1dcb
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __generic_copy_to_user_Rsmp2gig_d523fdd3
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol synchronize_bh_Rsmp2gig_f0dfc0d2
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __global_save_flags_Rsmp2gig_5d902e96
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol waitqueue_lock_Rsmp2gig_fcdc212d
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol kernel_thread_Rsmp2gig_7e9ebb05
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __global_sti_Rsmp2gig_da4456dd
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol global_bh_lock_Rsmp2gig_e1c7db8d
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird amd[485]: /auto: mount: No such device
Feb 25 14:40:35 snowbird cron[512]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol boot_cpu_data_Rsmp2gig_4d12d1d7
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol kernel_flag_Rsmp2gig_a99dd800
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __global_cli_Rsmp2gig_64576b05
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __verify_write_Rsmp2gig_203afbeb
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __generic_copy_from_user_Rsmp2gig_116166aa
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __global_restore_flags_Rsmp2gig_54dd1dcb
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __generic_copy_to_user_Rsmp2gig_d523fdd3
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol synchronize_bh_Rsmp2gig_f0dfc0d2
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __global_save_flags_Rsmp2gig_5d902e96
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol waitqueue_lock_Rsmp2gig_fcdc212d
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol kernel_thread_Rsmp2gig_7e9ebb05
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol __global_sti_Rsmp2gig_da4456dd
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sunrpc.o:
unresolved symbol global_bh_lock_Rsmp2gig_e1c7db8d
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird amd[485]: /auto: mount: No such device
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird amd[485]: mount_amfs_toplvl: No such device
Feb 25 14:40:36 snowbird amd[484]: /auto: mount (amfs_auto_cont): No
such device
Feb 25 14:41:02 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/sound.o:
unresolved symbol boot_cpu_data_Rsmp2gig_4d12d1d7
Feb 25 14:41:02 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/sound.o:
unresolved symbol __global_cli_Rsmp2gig_64576b05
Feb 25 14:41:02 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/sound.o:
unresolved symbol __verify_write_Rsmp2gig_203afbeb
Feb 25 14:41:02 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/sound.o:
unresolved symbol __generic_copy_from_user_Rsmp2gig_116166aa
Feb 25 14:41:02 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/sound.o:
unresolved symbol __global_restore_flags_Rsmp2gig_54dd1dcb
Feb 25 14:41:02 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/sound.o:
unresolved symbol __generic_copy_to_user_Rsmp2gig_d523fdd3
Feb 25 14:41:02 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/sound.o:
unresolved symbol __global_save_flags_Rsmp2gig_5d902e96
Feb 25 14:41:02 snowbird insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14/sound/sound.o:
unresolved symbol __global_sti_Rsmp2gig_da4456dd
F
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Creating a spare boot disk
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:49:34 GMT
In article <896b7j$3ii1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, C Foster wrote:
>RedHat 6.1 i386 (2.2.12-20)
>
>Dear All,
>
>I'm setting up a Linux-only PC for use as a web proxy cache.
>The machine has 3 disks - a 20G IDE and two 18G SCSIs, with
>the IDE (system disk) partitioned as follows (LILO in the MBR):
>
> Name Flags Part Type FS Type Size (MB)
> hda1 Boot Primary FAT16 2146.80
> hda5 Logical Linux ext2 24.68
> hda6 Logical Linux ext2 15611.59
> hda7 Logical Linux ext2 838.98
> hda8 Logical Linux swap 542.87
> hda9 Logical Linux ext2 526.42
> hda10 Logical Linux ext2 526.42
> hda11 Logical Linux ext2 106.93
> hda12 Logical Linux ext2 57.58
> hda13 Logical Linux ext2 106.93
>
>What I'd like to do is keep duplicates of the / (hda13),
>/boot (hda5), /usr (hda7) and /var (hda11) filesystems on one
>of the SCSI disks, in the hope that I would be able to boot from
>that disk in the event of a total system disk failure. I do
>this sort of thing with IRIX and Solaris; is it possible under
>Linux with my configuration?
[...]
Yes, sure ...
Mount all the spare disks / partitions under /mnt
/mnt
/mnt/boot
/mnt/var
Copy it all over ...
cd /
find -mount | cpio -pvd /mnt
cd /usr
find -mount | cpio -pvd /mnt/usr
...
!! Edit /mnt/etc/fstab !!
[...]
>Presumably, having copied /, /boot, /usr and /var to the SCSI
>disk (which would also have a swap partition), I could load LILO
>from my boot floppy and then tell it to boot from the SCSI disk.
[...]
Create a kernel image with all required drivers and then simply
do a ...
cat zImage (or bzImage) > /dev/fd0u1440
rdev /dev/fd0u1440 /dev/hda13
... and of course create two floppies 8-) LILO is not required here
at all.
Try them out. For instance my second / is on /dev/sdb11 and all
the important binaries, including tar, mt and cpio are in /bin,
not /usr/bin so in case of a disk failure I can get it all back
from a tape. At worst someone would have to lend me an installation
CD (crash of both disks).
>I have another more fundamental problem (with Linux, not personal...)
>I tried using dump/restore to copy / to the SCSI disk:
> dump -0 -f - / | ( cd /mnt ; restore -xvf - . )
[...]
Sorry, not using dump here.
[...]
Cheers,
Juergen
--
\ Real name : J�rgen Heinzl \ no flames /
\ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:52:24 -0800
From: James Salsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.speech.research,comp.speech.users,comp.speech,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: URGENT: W3C form standards for non-wintel platforms
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY -- especially in Mac and Linux communities
Yesterday evening I spoke with a member of the W3C HTML Working
Group who removed all my remaining doubt that the HTML WG has any
serious support for open, non-proprietary web form upload standards
for non-wintel platforms. The HTML WG keeps including Microsoft's
OBJECT catch-all element tag, even in "scaled down" versions of
HTML, but refuses to support the non-proprietary device upload
proposal. Your help is needed to correct this situation.
Please read and endorse this petition: http://www.bovik.org/devup-petition
We need as many people as possible to request these features and
support the standard. Thank you for your help with this effort.
Cheers,
James Salsman
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From: Matthew King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.help
Subject: jre 1.2.2
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:53:29 +0000
This doesn't work for me, because /bin/i386/realpath exits with a
sigfault
I'm running linux 2.2.14, and i don't remember how to find out which vv.
of glibc, but it's suse 6.1
can anyone explain this?
maybe i need this file replaced?
Thanx for any help
--
Matthew "TheNut" King
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From: Yonatan Mittlefehldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: please help! can't login!
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:45:20 -0500
help!!! i'm running redhat linux 6.0. when i try to boot linux, during
the normal boot process, it tells me that the kernel logger fails (so does
http). and when it comes to a login prompt, it won't let me log in with
any users... not even root. how can i fix this? thanks in advance!
yono
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