Linux-Misc Digest #718, Volume #24 Mon, 5 Jun 00 14:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
(Steve)
Re: Installing Netscape 6 (Craig McCluskey)
Re: root login remotely (Craig McCluskey)
Re: Yast-Like for RedHat (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Zip for Linux (brian moore)
Re: RedHat on Sparc 20 ("David Murray")
how to start VNC during boot? (Klaus Meier)
Installing Redhat 6.2 over FTP on a notebook ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FTP in GNOME file manager? [gmc 4.5.50, Helix GNOME 1.2.1] (D. D. Brierton)
DSL under linux: Now working!!!! ("Cameron, Gary [WDLN2:2X82:EXCH]")
Re: Yast-Like for RedHat ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: best video capture card... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where to get Java Compiler ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What does "Unix-like" mean? (Brian V. Smith)
Re: good printer servers that support lpr? ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: Something to monitor download speeds ? ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: DSL under linux: No Joy :-< ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: Connect Linux to internet with DCHP? (feng chen)
Re: First Boot of Winlinux
troubles compiling kernel/modules ("Jeroen de Vries")
Re: Newbie question (Duane)
Re: Installing Netscape 6 ("David ..")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:01:31 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Roger Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 07:36:00 -0230, FellowTraveller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Your approach is kinda backward IMHO. HTML, Java and XML formatting has a
> >place in the new world of the Internet. Just because you support legacy
>
> That's a matter of opinion. As far as I'm concerned the Net is a text-only
> medium. I have no need for silly cartoons and sound effects with my
> information.
>
Absolutely - agree with you there bud. Let's leave the rich multimedia to
the webtv'ers. <g>
BTW FellowTraveller, IE and OExpress both exist on the Mac platform.
--
Steve - Toronto
===============
Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately they
use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming.
-- Simon Slavin, in the Monastery.
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Netscape 6
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:09:48 -0500
Brad wrote:
>
> Am new to linux using Caldera 2.3 and have downloaded Netscape 6 and wish
> to install it but now idea how to install a tar.gz file.
Where does one get Netscape 6? All I've seen for Linux is Netscape 4.73.
Craig
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: root login remotely
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:14:35 -0500
Chi Kwong wrote:
> I can only login to root via su at the mo. Can someone let me know what file
> it is that enable root to login from the login prompt ?
You DO NOT want to do that!
If you want to use remote root access, use ssh to connect to the system
as a normal user and then execute "su -" to switch to root and have your
system act like you just logged in.
NOTE: Do NOT use telnet or you will broadcast your root password all
over
the 'net and will be handing your system over to anyone who wants
to mess it up.
Craig
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yast-Like for RedHat
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:18:44 -0400
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I prefer Suse, too, but am trying to switch to RH. Why? Because I
want to move to one version of the OS and I have several machines that
must NFS install (no CDROMs). RH makes (used to make?) this
easy....Suse does not really support it. Although Suse has an option
that sounds like it will support it, that option does not set up a
network card to allow the machine being installed on to talk to the one
with the cdrom. I'm sure an admin guru could install a little version
of linux and set up the machines and then NFS....but I am struggling
with everything I do in Linux because it is all new. If I could set up
my own distro, I wouldn't need one that worked for me. But, I REALLY
miss Suse. I like GNOME as well as KDE, I like the more rapid security
updates of RH that are readily available on CDROMs, but well, I just
like SUSE better in general. And since I had to go back to RH6.0 (6.2
would not install on the older machines), I am doubting my decision.
Note, RH will run RPM from the command line to install packages.
But it is not so sophisticated as YAST.
News wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> I have been using SuSE for a long time. Now I installed RedHat 6.2 (only to
> see how it's like).
> I am missing something like Yast in RedHat. Is there any other Config Tool
> (other than linuxconf) that doesn't run under X? The documentation shipped
> with the Standard Edition is very poor (maybe one of the poorest I've ever
> seen) and doesn't point to any post-install tool.
>
> Some comments:
> At this time I am very disappointed with RedHat and I wonder why so many
> people are using it!? Why does RedHat ship only few packages with the
> standard edition? Standard, Deluxe and Professional Edition kind of reminds
> me of Microsoft.
>
> Even the Modem and Internet Access Tools didn't work, which is kind of
> neccesary to access the online documentation, so that I had to configure it
> manually (with SuSE Kppp or wvdial config worked without problems).
>
> For those who haven't decided yet I highly recommend SuSE
>
> Akubi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Zip for Linux
Date: 5 Jun 2000 16:27:18 GMT
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 18:54:12 GMT,
fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : brian moore wrote:
> :>
> :> On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 04:54:51 GMT,
> :> Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> > www.pkware.com
> :>
> :> Um, no. That's shareware, and at $119 expensive shareware at that.
> <snip>
> : I'm amazed that it costs that much. We bought a legit copy just because
> : we'd been using the program under DOS (maybe even cp/m, but that was a LONG
> : time ago) for a long time and thought that the right thing to do was send
> : them some money.
>
> : Doesn't gzip come with most distributions?
>
> Yes, but gzip is a whole different animal. Gzip/gunzip are used as
> replacements for the traditional unix 'compress' program, i.e., they
> compress/uncompress a single file (such as a tar or cpio archive).
>
> Zip/unzip are pkzip/pkunzip near-clones. Fully compatible at the
> zip-file level (except they don't currently handle archives split onto
> a seeries of loppies like the PK versions do) though the user interfaces
> differ somewhat. The best part is it's free, you get the source, and it
> compiles virtually anywhere.
They do handle split zips just fine. The 'trick' is to cat all the
pieces-parts together.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: RedHat on Sparc 20
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:36:57 -0500
Not sure if this helps, but I have a SS20 with a TGX and installed RedHat
6.2 with no problems.
--DavidM
"Marcelo Rodrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8hg5cj$efl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I have a Sparc 20 that I've been trying to install RedHat 6.1 on
> but it dies at the point where you get to make a selection on what
> type of installation you want ( Workstation , Server, etc. ) I've also
> not been able to install 6.0 on it. I'm starting to believe that the
> problem lies in the fact that I have an SX frame buffer ( 8 MB VRAM)
> instead of some other more common frame buffer. Any one successful
> in installing RedHat on a machine with this frame buffer ?
>
> Thanks,
> Marcelo
>
>
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From: Klaus Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: how to start VNC during boot?
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:39:41 +0200
Hello,
how can I start VNC during boot - without logging in as root?
Currently he is started in rc.2. But he raises the error "couldn't find XAUTH in your
path "
Also trying to start him in rc.3 does not solve the problem (and I do not need X on
the server).
***
warm and sunny greetings from Franken / Germany.
***
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installing Redhat 6.2 over FTP on a notebook
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 16:33:44 GMT
Hi Folks,
Could anyone give me a step-by-step guide to creating a custom
PCMCIA/NET install disk for RedHat 6.2?
I have a laptop that I would like to install it onto, but it has no
CDROM drive (or rather, the CDROM drive broke and was discarded) and my
PCMCIA ethernet card is not supported on the disk. I have the linux
module, etc (and source) for the driver on my other box all compiled..
I just need to find a way of putting it onto the RedHat install disk so
that I can do a network install.
Many Thanks
Chris Masters
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. D. Brierton)
Subject: FTP in GNOME file manager? [gmc 4.5.50, Helix GNOME 1.2.1]
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 16:39:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm using:
Linux Mandrake 7.0
Helix GNOME 1.2.1
The GNOME Users Guide and other GNOME documentation says that gmc, the GNOME
file manager, can be used for FTP transfers, and for brosing remote directories.
However, I cannot get this to work. If I type in at the location bar an address,
say ftp://ftp.redhat.com, and then hit return, the address just reverts back
instantly to what it was. FTP works otherwise, i.e. from within a terminal,
Netscape, or with gFTP. Does anyone know what might be the problem?
Best,
Darren
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D. D. Brierton, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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From: "Cameron, Gary [WDLN2:2X82:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: DSL under linux: Now working!!!!
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:40:10 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
< Snip >
>
> Any time you see a proto of "0x7eff", means you have the "sync" option
> of pppd turned on, but not the "-s" option of pppoe. It also probably
> means that /etc/ppp/options is not empty, which likely means you didn't
> read the Roaring Penguin documentation. :-) Tsk, tsk.
>
> Anyway, empty out /etc/ppp/options and all should be well.
Did that and got it working on friday night - thanks. Now runs like a
charm. I didn't see the documentation, since I installed from the .rpm
file, which automagically buried it in /usr/docs or something like
that. To make matters worse, SuSE has their default doc directories set
up slightly differently than Red Hat. When I unpacked the tarball
version, I was able to find the missing documentation you referred to.
A grep through my /usr directory found the copy installed by the .rpm
client, but I had to know it was there so that I knew what to look for.
SuSE has about 4000+ packages, and it is very easy to miss what was
being added. I should use the maximum verbosity level when installing
.rpm files so I could see exactly what was going where. Thanks for your
help anyway. It was nice to see that you were willing to help somebody
get your software working, even somebody who didn't read (because I
didn't know where it was hiding) the documentation.
A polite suggestion to help newbies - post a readable copy of the
complete documentation on your web page so that they can read and print
off the instructions before doing the .rpm install. When I install
software from .tar files, (or compile them from directly from the source
code) all of the documentation unpacks into the same directory, so I
don't lose track of anything. It just means I have to manually move
files where I want them to go, and I cannot upgrade automagically. If I
had installed the .tar version of your software I wouldn't have run into
this problem. Another suggestion would be a pre-compiled i686 .rpm
version optimized for Pentium 2/3 or K7 class CPUs.
I had to modify your adsl startup script in /usr/sbin to work with
SuSE, so I can start and stop it from YaST. SuSE does their inits a bit
differently than RH, although the adsl-start and adsl-stop scripts work
properly under SuSE 6.4 I can send you or post my mods if anybody is
interested. Other than that, everything was fine, and it was easy to
install - once I found and read the missing documentation. And unlike
the windows client, it is free, and can be set up not to drop the
connection, something I found annoying if you spent too long reading a
web page before deciding to surf elsewhere. Excellent Work!
Maybe it is time for a linux.adsl or linux.pppoe newsgroup???
--
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yast-Like for RedHat
Date: 5 Jun 2000 16:32:06 GMT
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: I prefer Suse, too, but am trying to switch to RH. Why? Because I
: want to move to one version of the OS and I have several machines that
: must NFS install (no CDROMs). RH makes (used to make?) this
: easy....Suse does not really support it. Although Suse has an option
WHAAAAT? You have this completely backwards! I have never installed
SuSE any other way! It's absurdly easy. Just point yast at any SuSE
site and proceed. Oh .. NFS? You mean FTP, surely? I've never tried it
via NFS. But NFS would be trivial, as all you have to do is mount the
NFS dir and point yast at it as a local disk. FTP is the usual method.
: that sounds like it will support it, that option does not set up a
: network card to allow the machine being installed on to talk to the one
Eh? Yes it does. It's just absolutely as normal. What are you doing?
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: best video capture card...
Date: 05 Jun 2000 10:05:00 -0700
Thierry BUCCO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> What is the best pci video capture card for linux, (chip, video4linux
> compatible, and good quality).
>
> Without TV reception.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> thierry
Toms hardware (www.tomshardware.com) reviewed various video cards
recently. You might check there. Cards based on the Brooktree chips
should be supported under linux. My own card, an STB-PCI card works
fine for me but it's the only card I'm familiar with so I can't compare
it to others.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Where to get Java Compiler
Date: 3 Jun 2000 13:39:05 -0700
I seem to have read somewhere that the blackdown version of JDK
supports native threads (i.e. kernel threads), but I do not think
the Sun Linux JDK does that yet. I think Sun JDK 1.3 for Linux which
will be comming out soon will do that.
So, for threaded applications, you might get a little better
performance using the blackdown JDK.
I also remember reading that they will combine those JDK's into
one common linux JDK, or at least have one common source tree
where Sun/Java and Blackdown engineers will work from.
Java on Linux is looking better all the time. Good for Java and
Linux.
Nasser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian V. Smith)
Subject: Re: What does "Unix-like" mean?
Date: 5 Jun 2000 16:57:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andrew E. Schulman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> Why is Linux often referred to as a "Unix-like" operating system, as
|> opposed to just a flavor of Unix? Is this some silly copyright problem?
|>
|> As a user, I find Linux to be a flavor of Unix, no more or less.
I think those people are being just a little pedantic. Technically, Unix is a
trademark
owned by Bell Labs/Unisys and only they can call theirs *Unix*.
I've used Ultrix, SunOs, BSD, Linux, Solaris, and I think of them all as variations
of Unix.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Check out the xfig site at http://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the
glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big
as it needs to be.
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good printer servers that support lpr?
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:16:21 -0500
I just more or less gave up trying to use these kinds of solutions for
printing. I need that control over the print queue's to be able to cancel a
long graphics print if something looks wrong on the page as it comes forth
from the printer.
I'm back to just shoveling in all three printer ports on a server box and
setting them up.
Cheers;
Jeff
Villy Kruse wrote in message ...
>On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 22:04:27 GMT, Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I am hoping to replace our host-based printer system with print
>>servers attached to each printer. I know that the JetDirect print
>>servers support LPD, but what about other ones? The JetDirects tend to
>>be pricey, so I was hoping to have a selection from which to choose
>>rather than being forced to only use one product.
>>
>>Anyway, I tried to do some research but all I can find are "Windows NT
>>compatible" print servers.
>>
>
>
>We are using a few HP Jetdirect. One problem I see is that when it
>it is busy printing it will not anwer any status or cancel commands
>from the LPR system. Therefore lpq will appear to hang.
>
>
>I wonder if there are any print server boxes that is able to answer
>printer status query while it is busy printing. The query is
>meaningless, of course, because the box won't queue any requests
>anyway, but the lpd system will send the query anyway as if the
>printer server was a real spooling system.
>
>
>
>Villy
>
>
>
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Something to monitor download speeds ?
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:20:09 -0500
IPTraffic watches all connections and posts its results for your webserver
"apache" and viewable by looking at a page from it.
Not a solution for what he wants.
Andreas Kahari wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <Qjh_4.377$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Secx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Is there a program that will display your bandwith usage, how much you
>>downloaded since the beginning of the month, what speed a particular file
is
>>downloading, etc... ?
>>
>>Only requirement it must be a console program (not a gui thing that runs
>>under X)
>>
>>Thanks !
>>
>>
>
>I think IPtraf does some of those things, see
><URL:http://cebu.mozcom.com/riker/iptraf/> (found via Freshmeat).
>
>/A
>
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DSL under linux: No Joy :-<
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:27:06 -0500
It is for this reason popular.
The ISP's and telco's providing it, use it to provide "special" services to
their lower paying customers that don't want a 24/7 connect.
You are sold a package that allows you up to say 100 hours per month. When
you exceed this, you are then billed for every consecutive minute
thereafter, till the end of your billing cycle.
For a lot of people, this is a good thing. For some of us, it's a royal pain
in the asp...
I just went and got a standard 24/7 256k connection to my ISP and left it at
that. Fixed IP, no specific domain name (extra 50/yr), but it's always on
and my connection to it (Cisco 675) is through a 2nd ethernet card in my
server. This gives me full time access and full firewalling with my
standard server stuff. Pretty secure too.
Cheers;
Jeff
David Steuber wrote in message ...
>Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>' John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>' In a message on Sun, 4 Jun 2000 03:25:44 GMT, wrote :
>'
>' JH> Paul Lew wrote:
>' JH> > PPPOE is the money making way (for the ISP) in providing DSL as it
requires
>' JH> > signing in;
>' JH>
>' JH> How does that make them money?
>'
>' It allows them to collect accounting information (when you login and
>' when you logout). They then charge by the number of hours & minutes you
>' are logged in.
>
>Which ISPs are doing this now?
>
>I thought the reason telcos were using PPPoE was because it was
>cheaper for them to set up, damn the consumer.
>
>I missed the original post, and don't feel like searching deja for
>it. Is the original poster using the Roaring Penguin client? That's
>what I am using, and I have had no troubles.
>
>Also, is this a single machine using the DSL connection, or a LAN?
>
>I am using Bell Atlantic DSL. I had to use their 'Green CD' to get my
>account set up. Once I did that, it was a matter of seting up
>/etc/ppp/pap-secrets, making sure that /etc/ppp/options was empty, and
>running the adsl-connect script. The whole afair was more painless
>than signing up with that @#$%@# Green CD.
>
>Windows is now gone from my system. I was so pissed off at the setup
>procedure that I wiped the partition and used it as extra space for
>Linux. I've never looked back.
>
>--
>David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
>NRA Member | a hoploholic.
>
>All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
> -- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: feng chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connect Linux to internet with DCHP?
Date: 5 Jun 2000 17:07:41 GMT
Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: feng chen wrote:
: You're probably running pump as the DHCP client. "ps ax | grep pump"
: to check to see if it's running. If you want to use dhcpcd (which
: I did because of some problems with pump), you should check out
: this site.
: http://www.scrounge.org/linux/dhcpcd.html
: To view loaded modules, type "lsmod". It appears that the tulip
: driver is working since it configures the NIC. You're going to
: get an error by brining up the interface when trying to negotiate
: an IP address by manually starting the DHCP client. What you want
: is to bring the interface down "ifdown eth0". Make certain that
: the DHCP client is killed which is probably pump "killall pump".
: Bring the interface up manually "ifconfig eth0 up" and then load
: the DHCP client "pump -i eth0" (from memory, double check) or
: "dhcpcd eth0". If you're going to stick with pump, make sure it's
: updated to the latest version.
Thanks, Akira.
I used "ps ax | grep pump" and found that the "pump -i eth0" process
is still there even though the initialiation of eth0 is failed.
I then followed your instructions and that from the home page dhcpcd.html
to modify the ifup and ifdown scripts. After that, I started "ifup eth0",
but the command still failed.
I then checked /var/log/messages and found following info:
"localhost dhcpcd[pid]: time out in waiting for a valid DHCP response."
When I use "ifconfig", I can see only lo and eth1. If I use "ifconfig -a",
I can see lo, eth0 and eth1.
The files /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf are almost blank. I suppose
DHCPcd will fill them with the new IP address and nameserver etc. Is this
right? Or I should put IP of nameserver and DHCP server in some files?
Do you think if following way will work?
Start Windows 98, connect to the network, then use winipcfg to get those
information such as IP, nameserver, DNS, WINS and gateway. Then shutdowm
windows 98 and start Linux, configure interface eth0 using above data, then
reboot the computer. If we assume during this time period, no other computer
will take that IP address away, will this connect the Linux to the network?
Thanks.
Feng
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: First Boot of Winlinux
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:30:20 GMT
Hey whats up, I got WinLinux2000 also and noticed the same problem. I
think this should fix it up. Just go back into Windows and use ScanDisk
(Thorough) It will fix any messed up files that are usually in the FAT
system. I hope it works for you like it did for me.
Monty wrote:
>
> I just got the non beta version of Winlinux 2000. When I boot it for the
> first time it says it is checking the FAT system, since it is the first
> boot. It never stops doing this. Could someone help me?
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From: "Jeroen de Vries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: troubles compiling kernel/modules
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:39:02 +0200
Hi,
I'm currently recompiling my kernel making it usefull of burning CD's
I have to configure it so that my ide cd-rom act as a scsi drive.
I read all about it in the cd-writing HOW-to.
But i've one problem, kernel is compiled and installed, modules are made and
installed, but when i reboot the machine and it comes with finding module
dependencies i get a list of modules and an error of unresolved symbols...
when i try to load a module: modprobe scsi_mod i get the error:
/var/log>modprobe scsi_mod
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/scsi/scsi_mod.o: couldn't find the kernel version the
module was compiled for
Does somebody can help me??
With regards:
Jeroen de Vries
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie question
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 14:48:37 -0700
Markus wrote:
>
> > Markus wrote:
> > > Now, one more question: I tried to change my mouse type by using
> > > Xconfigurator at the shell prompt and all it would let me tweek was
> the vga
> > > settings. Is there a way to change my mouse type without running an
> install?
> > >
> > > -Markus
>
> > Use mouseconfig or setup. You can also edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and
> > change it manually. I'm assuming RH 6.2 keeps it in the same place.
>
> <sigh> I tried it manually and did something wrong as now when I boot up
> my mouse
> pointer just goes nuts or sits up in the corner. I could easily fix the
> config
> file to read what it did originally, if I could only get to it. I have
> X set to
> load automatically and when it does, I of course can't use the mouse to
> open the
> terminal to get to a (shell?) prompt. Using tab and or arrow keys don't
> do it. Is
> there a way to get the panel to recognize keyboard inputs? Or someway
> during boot
> up I can stop X from loading and thus just get to the command prompts?
>
> Using redhats 6.2
Are you using LILO? Then at the LILO boot prompt, type "linux 1". That
boots you into "single user" mode, and even more important, dumps you
onto a command line prompt.
> -Markus (wondering at this point if linux is really a step forward)
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Netscape 6
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:48:19 -0500
Craig McCluskey wrote:
>
> Brad wrote:
> >
> > Am new to linux using Caldera 2.3 and have downloaded Netscape 6 and wish
> > to install it but now idea how to install a tar.gz file.
>
> Where does one get Netscape 6? All I've seen for Linux is Netscape 4.73.
>
> Craig
http://www.netscape.com/download/previewrelease.html?cp=dowsea
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