Linux-Misc Digest #861, Volume #23 Thu, 16 Mar 00 02:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Older Dell Pentium 90 won't recognize 10G Hard Rive (Alan Burns)
Need help with distro ... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux based software to US government? (The Scotts)
Re: Network is unreachable (David Efflandt)
How to make mounted floppy user writeable? ("Christopher R. Carlen")
Re: Linux based software to US government? ("E. Robert Tisdale")
scsi tape compatibility problem? (Ed Franks)
Re: unkillable linux box (John Todd)
Re: login incorrect...What now!? (Mike Redan)
Re: No Sound (David Steuber)
Re: RH Linux on a Labtop (David Efflandt)
problems with boot and halt on laptop (Allan Adler)
XFree86 on Redhat Linux 6.1 ("Scott Bate")
Re: Which RDBMS would you choose? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Do I need a FQDN to set up a mail server at home? ("A Favored Son")
remove lilo from logical fat disk (scott_wu)
TrueType (ISO -8859-2 and 1) problem (Rafael)
Re: Help with Linux advocacy (Mihaly Gyulai)
Re: mandrake 7.0 installation problem (David Eastcott)
Re: new version of RPM (David Eastcott)
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From: Alan Burns <aburns@!SPAMTRAP.ebicom.net>
Subject: Re: Older Dell Pentium 90 won't recognize 10G Hard Rive
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:09:05 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vlar Schreidlocke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got a 10G hard drive for it, but the BIOS
> apparently won't recognize anything above 2G, so Linux Mandrake can't
> create the file system because no acceptable devices are recognized.
Don't know if this will work for you or not, but you might try turning off
hard drive detection in your BIOS but leaving the controller enabled.
Linux will look for IDE devices independently of whatever the BIOS may
or may not see. Linux will often see the full capacity, even if the BIOS
can't.
My motherboard BIOS will only see 512 MB of my Maxtor 27GB, but
I have accessed the full 27 GB under Linux using this trick.
Hope this helps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Need help with distro ...
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 02:21:08 GMT
I've been trying to compile and put together a minimal distribution of
the Redhat 6.0 to run on a Intel IXp1200 board. The distribution needs
to support TCP/IP .
Here's what I have done :
1. Compiled the kernel with TCP/Ip support(CONFIG_INET=y).
2. Created the scripts :
A. /etc/hosts.
B. /etc/rc.d/init.d/network.
C. ifconfig and route are present.
When I boot off the floppy and run telnet : I get the foll message :
telnet/tcp : unknown service.
ftp gives the same message saying :
ftp/tcp : unknown service.
a ping says : unknown protocol : tcmp.
Where have I missed out ??? Do I need to copy the /dev/ip, /dev/tcp
etc. files into the distro too ??
Please advice, this is driving me and my boss insane !!
Krishna
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 02:43:57 +0000
From: The Scotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux based software to US government?
I can neither confirm nor deny that the US government already uses Linux
in network servers and firewalls.
Seriously, unless there is a specific requirement or prohibition in the
government contract, it shouldn't matter at all what software does the
task. Check with the government contracting officer with whom you do
business.
Bob Scott (not speaking as an agent of the US government)
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:55:59 +0100, John wrote:
> >Hi there!
> >
> >We are currently evaluating Linux (RTLinux to be more specific) as the
> >operating system for our control software. Part of our products are sold to
> >the US government. Does they accept products which are 'equipped' with
> >Linux? Is there a place where I can find more info on this?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Network is unreachable
Date: 16 Mar 2000 03:21:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Olaf Ziebell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to set up my linux box in a MS-based environment (I don't
>thing this is the problem as such). When I try to ping 127.16.0.2 (my
>own adress) I get: Network is unreachable.
I hope you are not trying to set 127.16.0.2 on eth0, because that would
never work. But you should be able to ping any 127.x.x.x address, whether
you have a network card or not, because all 127 addresses should loop back
to you internally. The 127.0.0.1 lo device has to show up in ifconfig and
127.0.0.0 gw 0.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 in route -n before any other
networking will work. Maybe you forgot to install networking when
installing Linux or munged it trying to set this up.
You might start with /usr/doc/HOWTO, or wherever your HOWTO's are, and
read files related to NET and Ethernet. Then if you think you set it up
correctly and it still doesn't work, show us the output of 'ifconfig' and
'route -n'.
--
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From: "Christopher R. Carlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make mounted floppy user writeable?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:26:24 -0800
I have an ext2 floppy. I have the permissions on /floppy:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root users 1024 Jan 5 12:57 floppy
And this line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
So, I have no trouble to mount the floppy as a user. However, the
permissions forbid me to write to it.
I tried changing the /floppy permissions to 775 and group users, but it
changes back to 755 root root after I mount it.
I can't specify a umask mount option in fstab for ext2, like I can for
ntfs, which fixed the same problem with that.
What should I do to make it writeable by the user who mounted it, but
not make any security blunders?
Thanks.
--
_____________________
Christopher R. Carlen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux 2.2.10
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From: "E. Robert Tisdale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux based software to US government?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 03:26:58 +0000
John wrote:
> We are currently evaluating Linux (RTLinux to be more specific)
> as the operating system for our control software.
> Part of our products are sold to the US government.
> Does they accept products which are 'equipped' with Linux?
> Is there a place where I can find more info on this?
They have done and they might again.
The US Navy favors Windows NT just now
but I can only believe that they must be changing
their opinion on that decision in light of the fact that
Microsoft seems to be moving away from Windows NT
in favor of Windows 2000.
My guess is that you would have the best luck
with US government agencies that use UNIX systems.
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From: Ed Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi tape compatibility problem?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:53:27 -0700
Hi,
I am having trouble reading a 4 mm tape which I created on another
system.
The source system is a Sun E-450 with a 4mm DDS-3 tape drive and is
running Solaris 2.6. I want to move a 600 Mb CD image file from
there to another system, which only has modem connectivity to the
Internet. I dump the file to tape like this:
cd /tmp
find . -name "cddemo.img" -print | cpio -vocB > /dev/rst11
mt -f /dev/st0 offline
This dump took about 20 - 30 minutes.
The target system is a PC with a 586-133 CPU, a Archive/Seagate
Peregrine 4mm DDS-2 drive and runs RedHat 5.2.
I attempted to read the tape like this:
cpio -vicB < /dev/st0
This yields the following error message:
cpio: read error: Input/output error
What is wrong with this? Is there a density issue? Thanks for
any help with this.
thanks
ed
--
Life is not fair. But the root password helps.
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From: John Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unkillable linux box
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:49:14 -0800
Possibly the floppy is set as B? Did you try that in BIOS?
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, cathy gramze wrote:
>I inherited an old 486 Red Hat 5.2 box, sitting idle on a shelf, with my
>network admin job. I want to make it a Win 95 box (rarely used!) so I can
>swipe the existing Win95 box with a faster CPU and a bigger hard drive. I
>plan to install Red Hat 6.1 and HP OpenMail on the better box.
>
>I can't kill the Red Hat 5.2! No one knows the root password, or any other
>password. I've set the BIOS to boot to the A: drive, rebooted with a
>bootable DOS disk (to trash the partitions with) and watched as Linux
>cheerfully booted from the hard drive. How can I kill this Linux off so I
>can get on with my fiendish plan to create a better Linux box?
>
>cathyy
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From: Mike Redan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: login incorrect...What now!?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 04:53:22 GMT
you can try two things:
1) at the lilo prompt type
linux single (or what ever you called your kernel, hit tab to see a
list)
this will boot into single user mode, and you can try logging in this
way...if that doesn't work try this
2) make a linux boot disk...or try a minidistro (search
http://freshmeat.net for these, toms rootboot, coyote linux, mulinux,
etc) then mount your root partition, and edit your /etc/passwd file
good luck,
Mike
John Dixon wrote:
>
> After installing a new version of bash from the "cooker" ftp site I rebooted
> to find that my Linux Mandrake 7.0 installation had forgotten my password.
> I can't login....other than as guest, but then I don't have root access to
> get at the problem. Is there anything to be done short of re-installation?
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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Subject: Re: No Sound
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 05:00:01 GMT
Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' If I'm not totally wrong you can't use OSS, as the AWE 64 is not
' supported. You can't use isapnp either, AFAIK, as this is a PCI device.
' Again, this is easy, you just have to edit the conf.modules, as I
' described it on my homepage...
Well, I'm pretty sure the card is ISAPnP.
Anyway, I seem to have it working now.
Thanks, everyone!
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.packetphone.org/
There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one
works.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: RH Linux on a Labtop
Date: 16 Mar 2000 05:30:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:44:28 +0000, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Dell Latitude labtop with a Syntapics Touchpad (mouse) and a
>Neomagic
>graphics card. Is RH 6.0 compatible with this hardware?
I don't know about 6.0, but the standard SVGA X driver and LCD 1024x768
monitor setting works in RH6.1 for NeoMagic graphics on my Sony. The
mousepad should work like a regular PS/2 mouse. What sound chip do you
have? RH6.1 has a driver for NeoMagic 256 sound, but my Sony has Yamaha
DS-GX sound that requires commercial OSS drivers from www.opensound.com.
>Also using Linux FIPS, I have a hard drive with 3 partitions. The
>extended partition
>(D drive) I would like to split and install Linux there. FIPS gave me an
>error message,
>cannot install to extended partitions. Is there a way round this
>problem?
How big is your drive? If your primary partition is smaller than 8G and
your extended partition has enough room for Linux, you probably do not
even have to use FIPS. Make a note of the existing partition types
preferably from Linux fdisk. You could do this by booting the Linux
install, switch to another vt, create the dev for hda (mknod /dev/hda
b 3 0) and then run fdisk /dev/hda and make a note of everything.
NOTE: If your third partition is a separate primary partition for
hyberination, you want to note the type and start/stop cylinders. Then
you want to recreate that as the last partition with exactly the same type
and start/stop cylinders after installing Linux (except maybe it will end
up as partition 4).
Remove anything you need to keep from your second 2 logical drives, remove
both logical partitions and the extended partition with DOS FDISK.
If your drive is larger than 8G it would be a good idea to create a 16 meg
primary /boot partition entirely below cyl 1024, then you can put any
other Linux or Win logical partitions in an extended partition. But make
the extended partition type the same type it was so you can use it for
Linux or Win logical partitions.
If Disk Druid will not partition things the way you want them, create
/dev/hda as described above and use Linux fdisk to set up the partitions.
Just don't change the disk geometry (total heads, cyl) from that set by
Windows.
--
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Subject: problems with boot and halt on laptop
From: Allan Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 Mar 2000 01:00:45 -0500
I've managed to install at least part of the RedHat 5.1 distribution
on a Zenith Z-note 433 Lnc+ (486 chip, 33 MHz, with 8 MB RAM, 250 MB HD).
Using a boot disk, I can start Linux, get a login prompt and log in.
During bootup, it invariably complains that the linux partition was
not properly unmounted and tries to run e2fsck. It then complains that
the linux partition is already mounted and asks me for permission to
proceed anyway. Sometimes it gives me a login prompt for emergency
login as root so that I can run fsck by hand, since the file system
has become inconsistent. When I run fsck, accepting all of fsck's
suggestions, some files sometimes disappear and I have to replace
them with the same files from another machine.
When I halt the system, it does seem to halt but after unmounting all
the file systems, it remounts the linux partition in readonly mode.
I think this might be why, after I power down, and then start the
machine again and boot with the boot disk, it thinks that the
linux partition was not properly unmounted.
I was able to execute
lilo -r /
to install LILO. When I try to boot using LILO, instead of booting,
it runs an infinite loop, giving me the LILO prompt over and over
again, separated by noises of starting over.
It is natural to think that these problems are all related. I suspect
that there is something about the laptop which prevents the hard
drive from ever being completely unmounted, but it would be nice
to know definitely.
I don't know how to trace what is happening in the infinite loop LILO
enters and I don't know how to trace what is happening when I run
the halt command, other than to read the system messages that are
produced.
It is also conveivable that these problems are all caused by not having
installed all of the RedHat 5.1 distribution on the laptop.
If someone has some experience with these kinds of problems, their
comments would be welcome.
Allan Adler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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* metropolitan area. *
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From: "Scott Bate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XFree86 on Redhat Linux 6.1
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:03:59 +1100
To whom it may trigger interest in,
I am running Red Hat Linux 6.1 but have not been able to get 'X' to work. At
the linux prompt after typing startx I get the following:-
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up.
xinit Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to Xserver
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
The file or link referred to at etc/X11/X does not seem to be there. That
may or may not be a cause of problem.
Or maybe it is related to following error when Linux is booting and loading
services:
Starting sshd: error : Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key : No
such file or directory.
I am a Linux newbie but I have perused various manuals, web sites,
newsgroups and HOWTO's in effort to sort out this problem. Can anyone
help.......
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Which RDBMS would you choose?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:06:22 GMT
How come you say switch to SQL Server 7.0 in a linux newsgroup and at
the same time the one want to listen some suggestions for alternative
RDBMS which is open source!
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From: "A Favored Son" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Do I need a FQDN to set up a mail server at home?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:24:58 -0800
or can I just call my box 64.184.XXX.XX (my ip number)
will that work?
Or do I need a fully qualified domain name to set up a mailserver?
i.e.: torgo.redhat.com
any advice appreciated.
tia
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From: scott_wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: remove lilo from logical fat disk
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:30:02 GMT
Dear all:
I install LILO in a logcal FAT disk
which cause my data missing, LILO can'y work too
How can I save my FAT disk back
Partiton table like this
Primary --- NT 2039MB
Primary --- 98 500MB
Extend --- 3500MB
logical ---2039 MB FAT ===> LILO install here cause data missing,
LILO can't work too
logoial ---500MB Linux swap ===> Another LILO ,work properly
logical ---1000MB Linux native
How can I save the data at logical disk which under extend partition back
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TrueType (ISO -8859-2 and 1) problem
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:17:51 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TrueType (ISO -8859-2 and 1) problem
I am using RedHat (6.1 and 6.2 beta)Linux and I have problem with
truetype fonts. I copied some of the fonts I use in Windows 98. But they
don't work like it should. I could not use fonts from ISO -8859-2
(Latin2 ), I can use all english letters but not latin. Only one of ten
truetype font I can use in latin2 (Arial Narrow). What the problem is?
Does xfs understand unicode fonts is it this problem?
I wouls like to write documents in Linux, and make it possible for
others using Windows 98 or others be posible to read it?
Another question, My StarOffice Word can not use at all my truetype
fonts?
PLEASE HELP!!!
I read also whole Howto about Truetype, but withouresult.
Rafael
P.S Send answer also to my email.
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From: Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with Linux advocacy
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:47:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Loukidels) wrote:
> 2. As an alternative, I could go out and buy one kick-ass machine, a
> Linux distribution that includes Netscape and StarOffice 5.1 and
> two legacy machines (say 486 66's with 24MB RAM each etc). My
> guess is that that would cost me about CDN$4,000.
A 486 machine won't be suitable for running Netscape and
StarOffice... (it would be slow).
Buy a cheap but reliable Pentium-class PC with at least 64 MB RAM,
but this machine will be some kind of server, so you'll need 128 MB
or more...
One machine cannot cost more than 1500 US$.
--
Mihaly Gyulai
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Eastcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mandrake 7.0 installation problem
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:00:36 GMT
check out alt.os.linux.mandrake
I seem to remember this coming up a number of times there.
Dave
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From: David Eastcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new version of RPM
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:02:26 GMT
check out linux.redhat.rpm,
the guys there should be able to help you
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