Linux-Misc Digest #162, Volume #24 Sat, 15 Apr 00 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Creating a umsdos partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help!!!! Added second nic card, now neither work... (no email services available
(Andre - Nospam Wanted!!!))
Re: help with dual Win98 and Linux6.1 (billy)
Re: newbie: Help! Ultra66 & Linux (Silviu Minut)
Re: linux download sites ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Win4Lin (Jim Tom Polk)
boot messages!!! (asage)
Red Hat Linux 6.0 UMP/Netscape plugin -- no sound (Barry L. Bond)
/dev (Charles Brands)
Re: Copying NTFS, ext2 partitions (Alex Jenner)
/dev/dsp problem (Rafael)
Re: promise ata66 control card (Ron Gibson)
Re: /dev ("Brian D. Smith")
HOW to set dynamic library path in RH 6.1? (lu ming)
Re: doom for linux (wayne rattz)
Re: Q: Best printer for linux box? (Tim Williams)
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:58:54 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Creating a umsdos partition
I know how to do this through linux. But is there a DOS version of
umssync or some similar tool???
(I have a friend that wants to try out linux without having to
repartition her hard drive first)
if not, then how do i generate a --linux-- file???
thanx
ali
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (no email services available) (Andre - Nospam Wanted!!!)
Subject: Help!!!! Added second nic card, now neither work...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:58:46 GMT
I installed a linksys card into my rh6.1 system as a secondary nic card and
the linksys card fails to load at bootup of redhat. The new nic should be
eth1and the old nic which was already in there and working fine for months is
eth0. Now that I installed the second nic card (eth1) not only does eth1 not
work, but neither does eth0
I ran nmap locally on my ipaddress and it says: 'SIOCGIFCONF claims you have
no network interfaces!'
I tried editing conf.modules and tried running linuxconf to fix it but both
have failed to bring up either interface while both nics are installed. I can
always remove the second nic and get eth0 back just fine, but that's not what
I want. I want both working.
/etc/config.modules:
alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x240, irq=5
alias eth1 ne
options ne i0=0xe000, irq=11
Attempted to append statments to /etc/lilo.conf. I've tried each of these with
no success:
append="ether=0x240, 5, eth0"
append=.ether=0e000,11, eth1
append="ether=0e000,11, eth1"
The above have syntax errors, I don't know the correct syntax to make lilo
stop saying syntax errors in these lines. Any idea what the correct syntax is?
Also ran netcfg to try to activate the interfaces. Netcfg shows a status
of active when I click on the activate button but I still cannot access
neither interface (it shows disabled when I first startup netcfg). As soon as
I exit netcfg and come back into netcfg the settings are back at disabled. No
way to make them stay active, and yes I tried saving.
Since the two cards work fine under windows I know it must be a configuration
error under my linux settings -- I just don't know what to check and what to
change.
I haven't tried installing the linux driver that was on the linksys diskette
because it required rebuilding the kernel with what looked like a driver for
an older kernel version. No desire to crash my entire system because of adding
an error to the kernel.
Besides rebuilding the kernel, I'm out of ideas at this point. Can you help?
Thanks!
Andre'
p.s. This is a dual boot pc running win95 and rh6.1. eth1 is connected to my
networked pc and eth0 is connected to my dsl modem. When I boot to win95 both
nics work fine. Under linux neither eth card works when both nics are in at
the same time.
Already tried editing:
- linuxconf
- conf.modules
- lilo.conf
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From: billy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with dual Win98 and Linux6.1
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:30:06 GMT
Stephen wrote:
>
>
>
> "billy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi:
> > I have a AMD K6 II computer. I partitioned the hard drive(4 GB) into
C:
> > (2 GB) and D: (1.79 GB). Actually I installed Win98 on C drive and
> Linux6.1
> > on the D drive, but when I tried to reboot my PC, it only boot
Linux6.1.
> > So, I decided to Format Win98 (on C drive). Now I only have Linux6.1 on
my
> > system and C drive is empty.So , my question is how I should reinstall
> > win98, which can dual boot with Linux6.1. please more specific with
> > steps.....thank you very much....
> >
> > --
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> > http://www.help.com/
>
> hmmm
> you didn't have to format your c drive but just type
> dos when lilo starts up!!!
>
what about if I reinstall Win98? does the win98 boot file overwrite
Linux6.1`s. is it Ok if I do that?
>
>
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie: Help! Ultra66 & Linux
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:43:01 -0400
You mean 2.2.10 supports Udma66?
Leonard Evens wrote:
> Silviu Minut wrote:
> >
> > Not true. No 2.2.x kernel supports it out of the box.
> Is this a typo? Do you mean 2.3.x? Otherwise, you are contradicting
> yourself and what you say does not agree with various bits of
> documentation.
>
> > There exist patches
> > for 2.2.x.
> > However kernels around 2.3.4 and above are supposed to support it by
> > default. These are developmental kernels though and might not be stable.
> >
> > Andrew Tkachenko wrote:
> >
> > > is it truth, that Ultra ATA/66 supported in kernel ver. higher 2.2.10? I
> > > saw it in a READ.me for Ulotra 66 driver, wich i downloaded from
> > > promise.com.
> > > Neither Mandrake 7.0 nor RedHat 6.2 can't find my drives, connected to
> > > Ultra66. Terrible..:((
> > > --
> > > ===========================================
> > > Buing a Pentium III you can reboot faster
>
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux download sites
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:28:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
gopinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> I am having a PC (2GB harddisk, 32MB RAM, PentiumI). I want to download
> Linux operating system. Is there any site which is providing the O/S for
> free of cost?
>
> Kindly do the needful.
>
> Thanking You.
>
> --
Approach any of the linux sites say, www.linux.org The newest version of
RedHat Linux (arguably the most poppular distribution) can be had at
www.redhat.com (if you have the bandwidth) P.S. - If you are posting this
from India, approach PC Quest or Chip Mags.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Jim Tom Polk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win4Lin
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:40:33 -0500
I am very impressed. I installed it on the 6th, and haven't rebooted
into Windows since then. I've also used it to access some Windows
applications that I like to use in developing websites.
The first thing I have discovered is that running win4lin (I'm using
Windows 98) is MORE stable that running Windows 98 natively.
The main Windows applications I use are HoTMetaL Pro 6.0, Ulead 5.0
(it's graphics optimizer is the best IMHO), Adobe Acrobat 4.05, Office
97 to see files that customers send to me exactly as they were sent, and
of course MSIE to test how my pages look.
I have verified that it works well by creating a 70 page web site and
publishing it totally under win4lin, and putting some finishing touches
on another site of about 30 pages.
The main advantage to me is that when putting in the hooks in the web
pages to the database (I use PHP as a module to access the PostgreSQL
database), I can run emacs with however many files I want open on the
remote site and have telnet windows open to various places in the remote
site's filesystem and open directly on the database, without having to
worry about Windows crashing and losing all those sessions, since they
are running in Linux and it I cannot remember the last time
But here is the funny thing...Windows ain't crashing hardly at all. In
large part, it is because win4lin allows Linux to handle the networking.
I would still have to reboot into windows if I wanted sound, access to
my com ports or to use a scsi scanner. However, I don't use my com
ports, I could care less about sound (only a couple of web sites that I
work on have that).
On my system I had Windows installed on /dev/hda1, /dev/hda6 and
/dev/hda7.
Win4lin works by installing windows into a win directory for each user,
$HOME/win (aka ~/win).
That becomes drive C:\.
The thing that caused me the most trouble was accessing my two dos
partitions, /dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7.
What was not clear to me was that to mount or ''attach'' those under
win4lin, they should NOT be mounted as a part of the Linux filesystem.
After unmounting them as root, I was and have been able to easily access
them as drives D and E.
The other negatives I have enountered are that I had to install the
HoTMetaL Pro 6.0 sitemaker DB in a different directory than the default
to have it work, and one of the button in ULead 6.0 is a little sticky.
However, the boost in my productivity from not having Windows crashing
all the time when I'm working on an important and time constrained
project totally wipes out these negatives and leaves the positive column
with a huge stack and some!!
--
Jim Tom Polk -:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
''You might as well fall flat on your face as
lean over too far backwards.'' --James Thurber--
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
- G'Kar "Survivors"
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From: asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot messages!!!
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:48:31 -0400
I have compiled 2.3.99-pre3 without messages.
But when it boots, the following messages appear:
Checking
filesystems
OK
Mounting local filesystems mount: fs type devpts not supported by
kernel FAILED
(This fs type devpts message appears again after Initializing random
generate)
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag is missing -- cannot control IP
defragmentation
I have not had success finding what these messages mean. Please if
anyone can help, I'd appreciate it! I've read that it's possible to get
this build to run okay...
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry L. Bond)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Red Hat Linux 6.0 UMP/Netscape plugin -- no sound
Date: 15 Apr 2000 20:52:51 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings!
I've installed UMP (Unix MIDI Player) in my Linux (Red Hat 6.0)
Netscape. I believe I do have it installed. But, I don't hear any
sound (even when I run Netscape as root).
Now, I didn't say anything about this for the past couple/few weeks,
because my sound system was suspect. (I only about a week ago got my
sound system working. I paid $30 to OSS for the license and latest
drivers for my SoundBlaster AWE64. I paid for and installed the MIDI
stuff as well as the basic drivers for Linux.)
MIDI does work, and it works VERY well! It sounds great, in fact!
I, for example, execute:
/usr/lib/oss/mplay 1 cavatina.mid
...and it sounds terrific!
Now, when I first installed UMP, I got all kinds of error messages.
(Sometimes, it was the /dev/dsp wasn't available. Sometimes it was all
kinds of dialog boxes with errors. I ruled these up to my sound system,
and I believe it was.) Now, when I access pages that (supposedly) play
MIDI clips, I don't get any errors at all, but I get absolutely nothing
else, either (no errors but no sound, either).
One page, for example, I've attempted it with is:
http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/
This page starts off with "No longer do UNIX users need to hide their
heads in shame while their PC and MAC counterparts enjoy embedded MIDI
sound at their favorite websites." :-) (Which IS, I'll have to admit, part
of my motivation!) :-D
I access the "test page" at this URL, and it sends me to:
http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html
...and I see the UMP "logo" in the upper left corner (with a treble
cleff and a plug). I see "click here for led zeppelin" and click it. I
then see "X% of 50K" in the lower part of Netscape, and it finishes pretty
quickly. But, I hear nothing.
I've accessed a couple other pages, as well, that I at least suspect
plays MIDI music. (I used to get the dialog boxes of errors. Now, I get
nothing.) For example, single player Wheel of Fortune at this URL, when
actually playing the game:
http://www.station.sony.com/wheel/
Can anyone offer me any suggestions as to what the problem may be now?
I've even set the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable recommended on the
hoff URL page! :-) What advice do you offer?
Thank you!
Barry
--
Barry L. Bond, Software Engineer | Barry L. Bond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <- personal | Lockheed Martin, LM/CLCS
72235,1530 (CIS) <- personal | KSC, FL 32899
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <- work | (407) 861-9096
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From: Charles Brands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:08:41 -0400
Hi
I would like to prune my /dev directory of anything I don't need.
Unfortunally for most files in that directory I have no idea what
they are for. I know that these files represent devises and that hda
represents my first harddrive, therefore I can guess the meaning of
hdb but for the others I am without a clue. None of the linux books I
have mentione the files in the /dev directory other than hda(x). I was
wondering if someone knows a website that describes these files so
that learn there meaning.
Thanks
Charles Brands
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alex Jenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: nz.comp,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Re: Copying NTFS, ext2 partitions
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:10:11 +1200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Ditto for the Linux/ext2 partition. Will a plain cp -dpR from a boot
> >floppy work (i'm worried about hard links, mainly) or should I use
> >something else?
>
> No. Bad, bad idea: cp does not properly copy block devices, symbolic links,
> or file ownership.
Hi, I would probably use tar myself, but isn't that's what the "-dpR"
options in GNU cp are for?
modena# cd /
modena# mkdir newdev
modena# cp -dpR /dev/hda* /newdev
modena# ls -l /newdev
total 0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Aug 2 1997 hda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Aug 2 1997 hda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 10 Aug 2 1997 hda10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 11 Aug 2 1997 hda11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 12 Aug 2 1997 hda12
<snip lots of block device files>
> This reminds me: I am still looking for an NT tool capable of writing a disk
> image, preferably a *compressed* disk image, directly to a hard drive (for
> writing an arbitrary image on an installed disk for use elsewhere). Has anyone
> got anything?
Don't know if they have exactly what you want, but try
http://www.sysinternals.com/
They have a lot of good stuff for NTFS.
Best Regards
--
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Alex Jenner - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev/dsp problem
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 22:43:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/dsp
I can't play midi files in KMidi application, both in Gnome and KDE
, but I can play the same midi file in KDE Karaoke application. What the
problem could be. I debug this application and there seems be problem in
/dev/dsp device, how to correct this problem?
Rafael
P.S Please send answer also to my e-mail . Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Subject: Re: promise ata66 control card
Date: 16 Apr 2000 02:07:32 GMT
can orhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated with conviction:
> I have a WD27.2 ata66 drive and win2k and redhat 6.1 is installed on it
> but my motherboard does not support ata66 for that reason i bought a
> promise controller card but i could not run it using the controller card
> when i connect the card it says drive not found error even i tried to
> install 6.2 on it
> can you pls help me
You have to upgrade to kernel 2.2.14 and apply an ATA66 Patch.
I forgot where to get the patch but someone will remember...
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 56576008
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From: "Brian D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 02:25:45 GMT
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Charles Brands wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I would like to prune my /dev directory of anything I don't need.
> Unfortunally for most files in that directory I have no idea what
> they are for. I know that these files represent devises and that hda
> represents my first harddrive, therefore I can guess the meaning of
> hdb but for the others I am without a clue. None of the linux books
I
> have mentione the files in the /dev directory other than hda(x). I
was
> wondering if someone knows a website that describes these files so
> that learn there meaning.
> Thanks
> Charles Brands
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd strongly recommend leaving /dev alone. You not going to gain much
deleting anything there. Those files are mostly special files for
accessing hardware. (i.e., /dev/hda is your first harddrive). If you
delete the wrong file, you could be in for a lot of grief.
- -Brian Smith
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From: lu ming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HOW to set dynamic library path in RH 6.1?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:29:58 -0700
Hi every one,
Is there a way to let program know where is the dynamic library path? I
have a program require some dynamic library file, I do have this file,
but the program also complain that it can't find it. Thanx very much for
help!
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From: wayne rattz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: doom for linux
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 02:30:10 GMT
HELLO:Go to my site and read the howto for tars.Its
http://www.geocities.com/wrattz/linux1.html Click on the howto's(top right
side of page.
bc wrote:
>
> i'm a beginner with linux and i tried to install doom for linux. i dont
> know much, but i gunzipped the file i downloaded and now its a tar file.
> what do i do next? how do i finish installation? thank you.
>
> bc
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Williams)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Q: Best printer for linux box?
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:17:52 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:16:18 -0400, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alexis Bilodeau wrote:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> > Can somebody recommend a printer?
>> >
>
>DON'T buy the Lexmark Z-series stuff. They're Windows-only printers.
>
also don't buy Lexmark 3200. I have one, and although it's fine for
Win9x, for Linux, it's useless.
--
Tim Williams
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