Linux-Misc Digest #755, Volume #24 Thu, 8 Jun 00 22:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: How can I install a zip drive in Redhat 6.1, and change lilo default boot?
(Dances With Crows)
Re:Help!! installing /dev/bios module (Prashant)
Re: Modem, Soundcard, and Zip Drive Problems (Dances With Crows)
Re: Mounting file systems across network (Robert Heller)
Re: Linux kernel builds on different platforms (Pete Zaitcev)
Re: How can I install a zip drive in Redhat 6.1, and change lilo default boot?
(David M. Cook)
Re: What distribution is most popular? (muzh)
Help! X problem on toshiba tecra 8100 notebook ("porsche")
Re: cfdisk tells nonsense, fdisk lies? (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Re: Trouble Printing ("Ken Abrahamsen")
CSSC compile? (J. Otto Tennant)
OH YES, Linux RULES.... ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: gnome ("David ..")
Re: Can't "make" it! (Paul Kimoto)
Re: TN3270 emulator for Linux (J. Otto Tennant)
Mystery Reboot - Have I been cracked? ("L. Bailey")
Re: Mystery Reboot - Have I been cracked? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: booting 3 OS's on one machine win98-win2k-linux (Neurocrat)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How can I install a zip drive in Redhat 6.1, and change lilo default boot?
Date: 08 Jun 2000 19:55:27 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:30:08 GMT, usfisher
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have a NEC Zip drive, which is supported win95/98/NT. my linux system
>detect it, it might be installed as well. But I don't known how to operate
>it in the terminal. What should the directry of zip drive be?
Read your manual. The answers to this common problem are in there.
# mkdir /mnt/zip
(insert MS-DOS formatted ZIP disk into drive)
# mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
(replace "hdd" with the drive designation for IOMEGA ZIP you find in
/var/log/boot.msg)
(access files under /mnt/zip)
# umount /mnt/zip
"man fstab" and read the manual to find out how to let users other than
root do this.
>and how can I change lilo's default boot from linux to window 98?
In /etc/lilo.conf, insert the following line before the first image= line,
then re-run LILO:
default=dos
replacing "dos" with whatever you called the Lose98 partition.
Go to http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO and look around, it'll spare you a lot of
pain.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: Prashant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re:Help!! installing /dev/bios module
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:58:28 -0500
Hi,
This is a posting I made about installing a Linux module, I am wondering
whether there's another newsgroup where this posting would be more
appropriate, please do direct me to the right place.
Thanks,
Prashant
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Prashant wrote:
> Hi,
> I am tryting to install the bios driver from the /dev/bios project by
> Stefan Reinauer(http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~stepan/bios/)
> I am on an HP LPr box running RedHat Linux 6.1 with kernel-2.2.12-20, and
> egcs-1.1.2-24. It is an SMP with two i686's.
> When I do
> insmod bios.o
> I get the following symbol referencing errors
> bios.o: unresolved symbol securebits
> bios.o: unresolved symbol __generic_copy_from_user
> bios.o: unresolved symbol unregister_chrdev
> bios.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev
> bios.o: unresolved symbol pci_find_class
> bios.o: unresolved symbol create_proc_entry
> bios.o: unresolved symbol vfree
> bios.o: unresolved symbol pcibios_present
> bios.o: unresolved symbol pci_devices
> bios.o: unresolved symbol vmalloc
> bios.o: unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry
> bios.o: unresolved symbol pci_find_device
> bios.o: unresolved symbol sprintf
> bios.o: unresolved symbol printk
> bios.o: unresolved symbol __const_udelay
>
> When I compile a normal C programs without any includes having sprintf()
> it works, I am not too familiar with module installation so it might be a
> very silly thing :-|
> Thanks for the help,
> Prashant
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem, Soundcard, and Zip Drive Problems
Date: 08 Jun 2000 20:05:33 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:37:24 GMT, Paul Eisenberg
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>
>Thanks for the help, the message did say
>hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
>
>as Linux booted up, then I typed in the two commands you said as
>mkdir /mnt/zip
>mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
>Is it suppose to work everytime it boots up now? Because I still
>can't acess the Zip drive at this point.
?? Ah. You're pretty new at this. Read the manual.
Unix has a totally different view of things than DOS. Unix systems don't
necessarily have the concept of "drives" built in. They do have "device
nodes", always found in /dev, and "mount points", usually found in
/mnt. To access a filesystem on a ZIP disk, you have to integrate the
filesystem into the main filesystem tree using the "mount" command. mount
takes the device node (in this case /dev/hdd4, the fourth primary
partition on the secondary slave IDE device), accesses the device attached
there, and looks for a filesystem. If it finds a filesystem and
everything checks out, this filesystem is integrated into the main
directory tree at whichever mount point you specified--in this case,
/mnt/zip.
You almost always want to mount a removable disk manually, and you have to
mount the disk before you can access the filesystem on it. You always
need to umount the disk before ejecting it as well. The graphical
filemanagers like KDE's kfm and GNOME's gmc try to make this a painless
process--click on "ZIP" icon and the disk is mounted, right-click on ZIP
icon and choose "unmount" or "eject", device is umounted/ejected.
"man fstab" and read the manual to find out more. It's a bit of a
learning curve, but all Unices do things this way (save for the device
node names, which are very OS-specific) so you only have to climb it once.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting file systems across network
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 00:16:37 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bios),
In a message on Thu, 08 Jun 2000 16:01:23 GMT, wrote :
B> Hello
B>
B> Nowaday, Can Linux mount file systems across network?
Yep. From other UNIX or Linux systems using NFS, from MS-Windows boxes
with smbfs (samba).
B>
B> Just suspect.
B> Regards,
B> theArray : Just another newbie.
B>
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Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Zaitcev)
Subject: Re: Linux kernel builds on different platforms
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 00:23:22 GMT
> Hi! I'm in the process of upgrading my RedHat 6.0 box to the latest
> 2.2.16 kernel and I asked myself: has does the Linux kernel
> configuration process (I'm using xconfig and Tcl/Tk) know what hardware
> platform I'm running on?
This is typically done with "uname -m". There is an example
in /usr/src/linux/Makefile.
--Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: How can I install a zip drive in Redhat 6.1, and change lilo default boot?
Date: 9 Jun 2000 00:28:47 GMT
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:30:08 GMT, usfisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a NEC Zip drive, which is supported win95/98/NT. my linux system
>detect it
Find out what device it is by looking in /var/log/dmesg. Suppose it's
/dev/hdd. Then add a line to /etc/fstab like
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user 0 0
You'll also have to make the /mnt/zip directory:
mkdir /mnt/zip
You can then mount/unmount with
mount /mnt/zip
umount /mnt/zip
GNOME and KDE also allow you to put an icon on the desktop for this.
Dave Cook
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From: muzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What distribution is most popular?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:33:41 +1200
> Red Hat seems to be the most widely available.
>
> I took the plunge a few days ago and installed SuSE 6.4 on my old
> Pentium 1 MX200 without any major dramas.
>
> One feature that had attracted me to the SuSE distribution was the new
> user-friendly YaST2 installation tool, but it turned out that 48mb Ram
> wasn't enough for this and I had to install using standard YaST anyway.
>
> This still worked fine, was able to configure XFree86 3.3.6 even
> though it couldn't find a driver for my Dell monitor.
>
> I had foolishly forgotten to note down my Awe32 soundcard settings
> before trashing Win98, but the suggested Soundblaster defaults
> seem to work just fine.
>
> However, I wouldn't recommend this exercise to someone new to computers.
>
> As most of the software I need is on Win98 I will still use my new pc
> most, but I am getting to like that KDE 1.2 desktop :)
>
> The only drawback is that the dreaded Netscape 4.72 bloatware is the
> default browser for displaying Linux help within KDE, will have to
> figure out how to get rid of this!
Konqueror (The Kfm file manager) works fine with the SuSE help system.
Just type "http://localhost" (without the quotes) in the Location field,
then follow the links to the help system.
As this is internal, you do NOT have to be connected to the Internet for
this.
--
Never trust a man in a suit --
cll
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From: "porsche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! X problem on toshiba tecra 8100 notebook
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:46:35 +0800
hi,
My system is RedHat 6.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8100 notebook.
Does anyone have successfully installed X on this machine??
the configuration seem don't work with this machine.
thanks if someone can tell me how to configure it properly.
porsche
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Subject: Re: cfdisk tells nonsense, fdisk lies?
Date: 08 Jun 2000 20:38:46 -0400
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4982 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048256 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 256 4982 37969627+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 256 258 24066 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 259 324 530113+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda7 325 707 3076416 83 Linux
> Why does fdisk show me the (imo unpartitioned space as a extended
> partition of 37969627+ 5 Extended
Your configuration appears reasonable. Your confusion results from a
poor understanding of the (screwed up) PC partition scheme. Check out
the following for info:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-3.html
Start reading at "The number of partitions on an Intel based system
was limited from the very beginning..."
Collin
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From: "Ken Abrahamsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.smb,comp.unix.misc,linux.samba
Subject: Re: Trouble Printing
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:30:38 -0700
As a variation to this senario, has anyone figured out how to allow printing
with these other needs:
1. Users are dialin PPP users (ie; remote users with TCP/IP networking
functionality) with a valid samba setup (No problem)
2. The remote user's PC has a printer properly configured under WIN9x
connected to their system (probably parallel port) (No problem)
OK, here's the zinger,
The dialin PPP user's IP address will be issued dynamically out of a DHCP
server when they connect, so their IP address will be any valid IP address
out of the DHCP range.
So, how do you map the user's IP address to the proper host name for the
user's printer when the issued IP address will most probably change each
time the user dials in???????
I'm trying to let dialin remote user's print files to their local PC's
printer but am stumped on how to reliably route a file on the server out to
the PC's locally connected printer.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks!
ken
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Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>1) The printer must have a IP address.
>(see the doc of your printer - chapter on TCP/IP or Unix printing)
>
>2) On server in /etc/hosts : something like that
>192.168.1.15 HPLJ5si.yourdomain HPLJ5si
>
>3) On server you have to put you printer in the /etc/printcap file
>with a name say HPLJ5si and with rm=HPLJ5si the name of your printer
>in /etc/hosts
>(see "man printcap")
>
>4) after put this in your smb.conf file :
>
>[printers]
> path = /usr/spool/public
> guest ok = yes
> printable = yes
> read only = yes
>
>5) on command prompt :
>mkdir -p /usr/spool/public
>chmod 1777 /usr/spool/public
>testprns HPLJ5si
>
>6) after you can
>do "net use lpt1: \\server_name\HPLJ5si" on clients
>or use "\\server_name\HPLJ5si" in the properties of a network printer
>or see the printers on the "Network Neighborhood"
>
>Bye
>
>Francois-Xavier Le Bail
>
>John Kelly wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know how to hook a remote printer to a
>> samba server for use
>> by the rest of the samba network? I am trying to
>> eliminate IPX from our
>> network, and printing is currently administered by an
>> NT server using
>> IPX to print to the remote printer(HP Laserjet 5si
>> MX).
>>
>> Any help would be greatly apprceiated.
>>
>> John
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>> In a world without walls, who needs windows?
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>
>--
>______________________________________________
>Francois-Xavier LE BAIL - Linux and Samba user
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Subject: CSSC compile?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Otto Tennant)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 01:26:04 GMT
Has anyone tried to compile CSSC (a clone of SCCS) under Linux?
I _think_ I've found a minor error in one of standard header
files, but I do not know to whom to report it.
But, even when I fix that, I get a flood of error messages.
I recognize that this is a product of little interest.
One should use RCS. But, for legacy reasons, I'd really
like to get CSSC to work.
Thanks for any thoughts.
--
J.Otto Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OH YES, Linux RULES....
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 19:20:15 -0600
After severe and repeated power outages all day at my home, I came home
from work to see one of my servers patiently waiting for help fsck'ing the
drive. Well, a few file systems were very corrupt, but luckily (!) I had
just backed up important data *this morning*.
So, I'm mucking around looking for damage, when I find that the *entire*
/boot file system had been lost. Everything.... but there I was, booted up
and running. Of course, some things complained about the System.map and the
like, but I was still into a position to wget the latest kenel source (good
thing 2.2.16 came out today)...
Yeah, like I could still boot up my Windows machine if something like that
happened.
steve
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux
Subject: Re: gnome
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:14:30 -0500
Casper wrote:
>
> hi
>
> i'm compiling gnome on my suse 6.2 linux box, but to compile,
> gnome-utils-1.2.0 i need e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-devel. Where can i find
> that package??? I don't find it on the gnome-site.
>
> tx
http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/e2fsprogs.html
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Can't "make" it!
Date: 8 Jun 2000 21:29:14 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8hpa2r$pfs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can someone tell me why do I get "bash: wrong command" or something
> like that when I'm trying "make" or "make install" for a new
> module I want to install?
(Does it say "command not found"?) Do you have the "make" program
installed?
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: TN3270 emulator for Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Otto Tennant)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 01:39:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **) writes:
>Turned up several hits in the 1st pages returned at Google with
> tn3270 rpm
>and
> tn3270 tgz
>as search strings.
I have not looked at the source lately, since these have not
changed in quite some time. There is a minor error in tn3270
and x3270, which allows the entry of alpha data in a numeric
field. The fix is simple, but I have been unable to determine
the master source, or the maintainer, to whom I could suggest
a change.
Using these things also requires a valid /etc/map3270 file
(the equivalent of a "termcap" file.) I don't think that
one exists, except for (maybe) an ADM-3a.
--
J.Otto Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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From: "L. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Mystery Reboot - Have I been cracked?
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:47:32 -0500
Hi,
I got home tonight and found out that my server had rebooted.
Has this ever happened to anyone else?
Here is my configuration.
SuSE 6.3
Kernel 2.2.14 (Mine)
Abit BP6
2 Celeron 366's overclocked to 550
384 Megs of RAM
Tekram U2W SCSI card
1 each Fujitisu MAE3091LP and MAE3182LP Hard Drives
Could it be something funky with the CPU's? This machine has been
running for months, and aside from the SMP bug way back in October has
been rock solid.
I have cable modem and a strong firewall between me and the world at my
ISP. Have I been cracked anyway?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Mystery Reboot - Have I been cracked?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 01:53:39 GMT
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:47:32 -0500, L. Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I got home tonight and found out that my server had rebooted.
>Has this ever happened to anyone else?
>
>Here is my configuration.
>
>SuSE 6.3
>Kernel 2.2.14 (Mine)
>
>Abit BP6
>2 Celeron 366's overclocked to 550
>
>384 Megs of RAM
>Tekram U2W SCSI card
>1 each Fujitisu MAE3091LP and MAE3182LP Hard Drives
>
>Could it be something funky with the CPU's? This machine has been
>running for months, and aside from the SMP bug way back in October has
>been rock solid.
>
>I have cable modem and a strong firewall between me and the world at my
>ISP. Have I been cracked anyway?
Do you have a UPS? I would think most crackers would not do anything to
attract attention, like an unexplained reboot. And why would they need
this anyway? You can do anything except install a new kernel, or
hardware without rebooting.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: booting 3 OS's on one machine win98-win2k-linux
From: Neurocrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 09 Jun 2000 13:11:46 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
> ... So now I install Linux with LILO located at the first sector of
> the linux partition, again, windows2000 doesn't like this and it
> gives me the same error message.
I think you were on the right track here. You'll get conflicting
advice but IMO it's better NOT to put lilo on the MBR when you're
already using a bootloader like Win2k or NT4.
I have a few suggestions, but it might require starting from scratch.
Are you prepared to do that?
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