Linux-Misc Digest #845, Volume #24 Sun, 18 Jun 00 02:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Rescue disk without rdev? (Floyd Davidson)
Licq doesn't want to go online (C.�.R.�.�.�.M.P)
Re: Mandrake Linux (T.T. Lee)
Re: Rescue disk without rdev? (Grant Edwards)
Re: Freewwweb prompts for System password only (Was "Re: No answer from freewwweb")
(Andrew Purugganan)
Re: FTP Script? (Akira Yamanita)
xmms ("Stephen E. Hargrove")
Re: Drivers (David M. Cook)
netscape mail files windows vs. linux (Henricus Holtman)
Re: how to change text mode? (Robert Glass)
Re: Linux modules to connect to ISP ("David ..")
Re: X server problem (Dowe Keller)
Re: X server problem (Dances With Crows)
Re: MS word and linux (David Steuber)
Re: Linux Partition: Primary or Logical? (Robert Heller)
Re: vote on MS split-up (David Steuber)
Re: limitation of processes? ("Wouter Verhelst")
PPProblem (rasteri)
Re: point to point (The Procrastinator)
Re: 64 megs of RAM on a 256????? ("John Lee")
Getting >2GB files under kernel 2.4.0-test1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
platform identification (Prashant)
Re: Cannot use large IDE disk w/ fdisk ("David R. Klassen")
Re: Linux freeze when running at 500 Mhz (kamborg)
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rescue disk without rdev?
Date: 17 Jun 2000 20:19:39 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) wrote:
>I rearranged the drives/cables in one of my Linux boxes (we'll
>call it A) [you can skip this part] because I need the mounting
>brackets out of machine A to install a new IDE disk in machine
>B so that I can take the old IDE disk out of machine B and put
>it in machine C, so that I can take the SCSI disk out of
>machine C and put it in machine D.
This sounds like a soap opera to me. You was shacked up
with A, kissing B, messing with C, and want a little
of D. And A cut you off.
Make perfect sense, now.
>Anyway, I ended up with a non-booting machine A because the
>drive order changed. Which I expected. No worries.
>
>When I couldn't find my resque disk, so I shoved in
>tomsrtbt-1.7.<something>, since I've always heard it was
>cooler-than-cool.
>
>It started up nicely and has more stuff than one would expect,
>but it doesn't have rdev! Yikes, that's about the 5th most
>important think you can put on a rescue disk after a shell, a
>text editor, mount, and fsck.
Does it have it under some other name?
>Doesn't anybody else ever need rdev when fixing up a broken
>installation, or am I the only one who gets himself into those
>situations?
>
>I know I've got a resque image around somewhere....
Does that other one boot to a RAMDISK? If so, you just umount
the floppy, take it out, go find yourself a floppy with enough
space on it, put into that hussy D (or B or C) and copy
rdev onto the floppy which you then put into A, mount
and run it. But I'm not sure what you need rdev for???
Are you using LILO? For one thing you can boot it directly
by stopping it at the LILO prompt and entering something like
"linux root=/dev/hda3" to boot with the right partition as
root. Virtually any parameter you need can be set at that
prompt one way or another.
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: C.�.R.�.�.�.M.P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Licq doesn't want to go online
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 05:20:37 GMT
I keep trying but the darn thing doesn't go. In the Network window, it
just coughs up this:
[UDP] Requesting logon (#1)...
[UDP] Resolving icq.mirabilis.com...
[UDP] ICQ server found at 205.188.179.34:4000.
[UDP] Opening socket to server.
[WRN] Timed out after 20 seconds (#1), retry 1 of 3...
[WRN} Timed out after 20 seconds (#1), retry 2 of 3...
[WRN] Timed out after 20 seconds (#1), retry 3 of 3...
[WRN] Timed out (#1).
...and then that's it! help
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From: T.T. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake Linux
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 05:22:55 GMT
Mandrake has bugs too, especially the new 7.1 version.
I just upgraded my Mandrake 7.0 to 7.1 (a complete install) and guess
what, although 7.0 detected my network card (tulip driver) on the first
try (it's a very popular DEC PCI network card), but 7.1 didn't detect
it for some reason. Then I tried out RH 6.2 and RH6.2 was able to
detect the driver too.
So now my linux box has RH6.2 on it, IMHO, Mandrake is more aggressive
on upgrading and release new versions, but Redhat overall seems to be
more conservative and more reliable. just my 2 cents.
In article <39467404$0$148$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had been using Red Hat and liked it but there were a few bugs.
Mandrake is
> like a better version of Red Hat. NO bugs , an easy installation and
a few
> nicer features. i would recommend it.
> Philo
> Koen Van Baelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > is Mandrake Linux any good? I've heard it's very easy to install and
> > it's the perfect distribution for newbies.
> >
> > --
> > Koen Van Baelen
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://users.pandora.be/koen.van.baelen
> > --
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Rescue disk without rdev?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 05:38:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Floyd Davidson wrote:
>Does it have it under some other name?
Could be -- I looked through all of the bin directories and didn't see
anything likely.
>>Doesn't anybody else ever need rdev when fixing up a broken installation, or
>>am I the only one who gets himself into those situations?
>Does that other one boot to a RAMDISK?
Yup.
>If so, you just umount the floppy, take it out, go find yourself a floppy
>with enough space on it, put into that hussy D (or B or C) and copy rdev
>onto the floppy which you then put into A, mount and run it.
That probably would've worked -- assuming that rdev was statically linked. I
had a resque image on another machine, so I just made a resque floppy.
>But I'm not sure what you need rdev for???
>
>Are you using LILO?
Yup.
>For one thing you can boot it directly by stopping it at the LILO prompt and
>entering something like "linux root=/dev/hda3" to boot with the right
>partition as root.
The fstab entries would still be wrong, but that's easy enough to fix with
either of the rescue disks.
>Virtually any parameter you need can be set at that prompt one way or
>another.
Doh! I _knew_ that, and rdev'ing the kernel on the hard-drive doesn't really
help when the default LILO configuration overrides it, so I ended up
rdev'ing the kernel and writing it to a floppy. After booting from the
floppy, fix the LILO configuration and Bob's your uncle...
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hello? Enema
at Bondage? I'm calling
visi.com because I want to be happy,
I guess...
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:00:02 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Freewwweb prompts for System password only (Was "Re: No answer from
freewwweb")
Distribution:
Bob Hauck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:55:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >I don't understand. Isn't using minicom the way to get raw response
: >from the PPP server?
: Yes, but many (most?) terminal servers don't even start ppp until they
: are told to or until they see ppp frames coming from the other end.
: OTOH, there is no law that it has to give you a "username" prompt
: either. That stuff is all fully adjustable on all popular term
: servers.
: Just set it up to use PAP and try again. I don't use Freeweb, but
: people here say it does work if you do that.
Just tried it and it works after putting PAP authentication
Yong321, it resembles dialup networking in Winblows world, where you
enter the username and password 'up front'
I even removed all scripting entries! Try it out...
--
jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Registered linux user no. 164098
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 03:33:42 -0400
From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP Script?
"Gerald R. Jensen" wrote:
>
> I don't need this to download ... I need it to upload files at specified
> intervals, so it needs to run from a cron job.
Check out ncftpput. It should do what you want.
ncftpput -u user -p pass ftp.hostname.com /remote-directory /local-files
man ncftpput
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:13:53 -0400
From: "Stephen E. Hargrove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xmms
i'm having a heck of a time getting xmms working. i've tried everything i
know, but still the problem persists. i'm sure i have my sound set up
correctly. i've tried both the commercial OSS (soundon) and compiling
sound into the kernel. either way when i play a CD, it works great.
however, when i try to play an MP3 with xmms, xmms moves /very/ slowly
(i.e., 5 seconds real time = 1 second xmms time) and (predictably) there's
no sound.
here's a breakdown of what i've tried:
01 reinstall the rpm
02 download, compile and install the tar.gz
03 try xmms with the commercial OSS (soundon)
04 try xmms with sound compiled into the kernel
05 alternate the output plugin between esound and OSS
06 delete ~/.xmms and restart xmms
still, no joy. i'm running gnome on redhat 6.1. any ideas would be
greatly appreciated. i'm completely lost and starting to get a little
pissed about the whole thing. thanks.
(btw, the MP3s stream fine on Win9x machines.)
--
steve
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 03:02:34 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: Drivers
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 03:05:32 GMT, Java__Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes, My Xwindows are huge.
Yup, sounds like the video is misconfigured.
Video cards do have drivers. These are usually part of a "server", e.g.
the SVGA (which has drivers for lots of video cards) or S3V servers, which
are themselves part of XFree86.
You can find out if the card is recognized by running
SuperProbe
I think that either the S3V or SVGA servers should work for your S3 Virge
card. On a Red Hat system, you can run
Xconfigurator
to configure the video. Other distros may use XF86Setup, sax, or xf86config.
3D stuff is handled by the glint and mesa libraries. See linux.3dfx.com.
Dave Cook
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:03:45 -0400
From: Henricus Holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: netscape mail files windows vs. linux
I was wondering if the Netscape saved mail files were any different
between windows and linux. It would be most convenient if I could save
mail
that I got in either system in the same place, and read it from either
system's
Netscape without fouling things up. I know from observation that linux
creates
another file, presumably a database file, but don't know if that fouls
things
up, though my crude experiment indicates that it does not. If anyone
has any idea mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Henricus Holtman
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:13:47 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Glass)
Subject: Re: how to change text mode?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000 14:26:31 GMT, Craig Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the answer, but I want 50 lines for almost everything I do,
>so I'd like lilo to start me up in 50. Sometimes, however, I'd like to
>use 25 lines, and I don't want to have to reboot to get it! So how do
>I change the current mode on the fly??
Sounds like what you want is a package called svgatextmode. It's included in
most Linux distributions.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
RG
--
Robert Glass
Military historian, film buff, and (alas) Minnesota Twins fan
Remove "harlech" from my address to reach me by e-mail
2. exc�s
exclure la raison, n'admettre que la raison.
--Pascal, Pens�es
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:16:47 -0400
From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux modules to connect to ISP
jafgon wrote:
>
]snip]
> The ISP wants to be able to automate the whole registration process, very
> Laisse-Faire. What I'm looking for is something that a Linux user can
> download from the ISP website and setup the account "that night".
To do this the program would have to run as "root" in order to make the
needed changes to the configuration files and for "security", this is
not good practice on a linux system.
[snip]
> I doubt that such a user-friendly application exist under Linux but
> I wanted to put it out there none-the-less just to see.
Your probably right since AOL is NOT at all linux friendly.
At least not the last time I heard about it.
No loss.
As I said in my earlier post, all that is needed is some information.
Best of luck.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 00:21:53 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowe Keller)
Subject: Re: X server problem
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The general rule for *anything* you don't understand is "don't mess with
>it unless you've made a backup of it and can restore that backup." Then
>feel free to mess with it--how else are you going to learn? BTW, don't
>ever delete libc or ld.so--it's somewhat difficult (but possible!) to
>recover from that...
I assume from this statement that I am not the only one who zorched their
libraries during my newbihood :-/
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
I wanted to emulate some of my hero's, but I didn't know thier
op-codes.
--dowe
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 00:01:03 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: X server problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:35:09 +1000, Anson Lau
<<8i4345$622$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I'm running Redhat 6.0 on my P166. Last night I deleted the directory
>/tmp/.X11-unix/ and since then my X window will not start. I get the error:
>
>"_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111.."
That isn't the error message--the *REAL* error message is before that line
in the error log, most likely. So what's the real error message?
Are you sure that's all you did? On the Redhat portion of my drive (not
using it atm, using SuSE) there's a /tmp/.X11-unix/ directory, but it's
empty. The SuSE /tmp has that directory, and there's a socket in
there because I'm using X right now. Try doing this as root:
mkdir /tmp/.X11-unix
chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix (sticky bit probably a good idea.)
Then try starting X.
The general rule for *anything* you don't understand is "don't mess with
it unless you've made a backup of it and can restore that backup." Then
feel free to mess with it--how else are you going to learn? BTW, don't
ever delete libc or ld.so--it's somewhat difficult (but possible!) to
recover from that...
--
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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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 03:00:01 -0400
Subject: Re: MS word and linux
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Wouter Verhelst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' That is true: +-65Mb.
' But IMHO it's worth it.
Isn't that about half the size of MS Office?
--
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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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:02:31 -0400
From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Partition: Primary or Logical?
Forrest Gehrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:05:32 GMT, wrote :
FG> Hello,
FG> I want to partition an IBM ata66 20.5 GB hd for Win98, OS/2 and Linux.
FG> I know that Win98 requires a primary partition and that OS/2 may be
FG> located in a logical partition as extended. But what does Linux
FG> require?
FG> As OS/2, may it be either primary or logical?
Linux does not care. LILO only cares if the root (/) or /boot partition
is wholy under the 1024th cylinder (unless you get the new magical LILO
and have a new enough BIOS) -- LILO uses the BIOS to load the kernel and
ramdisk (if needed). Once Linux starts up it uses its own drivers and
these drivers don't use the BIOS and don't have any special requirements
WRT primary or logical partitions.
FG>
FG> BTW does Linux support ATA66? If so, what driver?
FG> //
FG>
FG>
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 03:00:01 -0400
Subject: Re: vote on MS split-up
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' I give them a lot of credit. I USE Linux on my home machine, BUT, unless
' Microsft is hobbled, no other OS is going to get a chance to really
' compete. That has been proven. The ONLY reason inroads have been made is
' that no companies have been able to go public with Microsoft's
' "business" techniques.
It might also help if hardware OEMs were required to release
specifications for creating hardware drivers for !Windows operating
systems. They only aid in the Microsoft monopoly by refusing to do
so.
The DMCA is also an aid to Microsoft. Since when does Congress have
the power to make reverse engineering illegal?
--
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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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:59:55 -0400
From: "Wouter Verhelst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: limitation of processes?
David .. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Nikodemus Karlsson wrote:
> >
> > I played with fork(). Placed in a loop, the new processes started
another processes and so on.
> > The sysetm became inusable, of course, and I had to switch the power
off.
Been there. Did it with bash, though:
(filename 'loop')
while true
do
loop &
done
> > Is there any way to limit the number of processes currently running for
a user?
>
> It can be done in the limits.conf file.
>
> # /etc/security/limits.conf
> #
> #Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:
> #
> #<domain> <type> <item> <value>
> #
> #Where:
> #<domain> can be:
> # - an user name
> # - a group name, with @group syntax
> # - the wildcard *, for default entry
> #
> #<type> can have the two values:
> # - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits
> # - "hard" for enforcing hard limits
> #
> #<item> can be one of the following:
> # - core - limits the core file size (KB)
> # - data - max data size (KB)
> # - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
> # - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
> # - nofile - max number of open files
> # - rss - max resident set size (KB)
> # - stack - max stack size (KB)
> # - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
> # - nproc - max number of processes
> # - as - address space limit
> # - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
> # - priority - the priority to run user process with
> #
> #<domain> <type> <item> <value>
> #
>
> #* soft core 0
> #* hard rss 10000
> #@student hard nproc 20
> #@faculty soft nproc 20
> #@faculty hard nproc 50
> #ftp hard nproc 0
> #@student - maxlogins 4
>
> # End of file
Problem is that a process gone mad in loop, fork()ing instances of itself
going as mad as itself, takes away all CPU-time so that it makes it very
hard for the kernel to stop this.
(You get a system load of 100 and more in just a couple of seconds)
ulimit should be able to stop it, but I'm afraid not... unless you set your
limit extremely low (just enough for a shell & some userapps, but not much
of them), which would not be kind to our 'normal' users...
--
Greetings,
Wouter
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:40:26 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rasteri)
Subject: PPProblem
I have a small problem. (OK, it's actually quite a big problem)
I am trying to get my linux box to connect to my ISP, but for some
reason it just won't work. When I use the -detach and -debug options
to pppd, then I get a lot of these....
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xWhatever> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
with the occasional....
rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xWhatever> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
I have checked to see that PPP is actually running on my ISPs computer
(i.e. I check that there are a lot of weird characters). This is
happening no matter what ISP I connect to (I have accounts on a few
ISPs). All the ISPs work fine when I plug my modem into my windows 95
box. It was working fine yesterday morning, then I disconnected and
reconnected about 5 mins later and it didn't work. Noone logged on
during that 5 mins, let alone modified any config files (if my log is
telling the truth). How is it possible that my config files are
untouched, noone logs on, yet pppd suddenly starts to fail? I can log
in to my ISP using minicom and then start up a ppp session, but even
that doesn't work when I close minicom and run my ppp script.
HELP!
rasteri
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:17:28 -0400
From: The Procrastinator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: point to point
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had 2 windoze machine connected point to point,I no longer use windoze
> and use linux and wonder if anyone can point me in the right dirrection or
> what to read to accomplish the same thing on linux a network with 2
> machines.
> Thanks
NET-3-HOWTO
Begin what I think works but dont guarantee it
To connect two linux boxen using the serial port
Use
slattach -p cslip -s 19200
ifconfig sl0 ip1 pointopoint ip2 up
route add ip2 dev sl0
On each of the boxes where ip1 is the ip address of one eg. 198.162.0.1
and ip2 is the address of the other eg. 198.162.0.2
Of course the ip addresses need to be the other way around on the other box.
Using the parallel port
modprobe plip
ifconfig plip0 ip1 pointtopoint ip2 up
route add ip2 dev plip0
End what I think works but dont guarantee it
If you are using network cards then you need to do something different :-)
I found myself editing /etc/hosts /etc/route.conf
and some other files.
/sbin/init.d/route etc may need to be fiddled with
man ifconfig
man slattach
man route
Hope you get it to work, seems to work okay for me SuSE 6.2 distribution.
Adrian
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:09:07 -0400
From: "John Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 64 megs of RAM on a 256?????
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Lonni J. Friedman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Robert Heller wrote:
>>
>> Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, In a message on Mon, 12 Jun 2000
>> 12:30:06 GMT, wrote :
>>
>> T> I installed Mandrake 7 a while ago and everything is running
>> smoothly, T> internet and all. The only problem I have is, I have a 256
>> meg RAM single T> module, and linux only sees 64 megs of it. This is
>> the most baffling T> problem ive ever run into with linux. can anyone
>> help me out with this? Im T> not a newbie to linux so feel free to be
>> techinal. just keep it T> understandable haha
>>
>> You have a 'brain dead' BIOS (some are). You need to add a line like:
>>
>> append = "mem=256meg"
>
> If he adds that line, it certainly isn't going to help, considering that
> the syntax is wrong. What he should add is: append="mem=256M"
Don't forget to run '/sbin/lilo' after you make the change in your '/etc/lilo.conf'
file. If you
open this file you will most likely find and entry that starts 'append=""' . Just put
'mem=256M' between the quotes and then run lilo. On a reboot linux will see all of you
ram.
regards
jrlee
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:49:19 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Getting >2GB files under kernel 2.4.0-test1
G'day, all.
I've compiled and installed the linux-2.4.0-test1-ac14 kernel onto my
Mandrake 7.0 system, as I was under the impression that this would give
me the ability to create files greater than 2GB on this machine. It's
a file server used mostly for backups.
Well, the compile went exceedingly well and I chose to see if I could
get away with not upgrading any of the recommended packages such as
libc5... so I booted the new kernel. Viola! It works and there are
only a couple of warnings during boot which I think I can live with
for now.
But the 2GB limitation still exists even with the new kernel. I'm
using Samba to talk to the file server from a Win98 box which I'm
attempting to backup, not using NFS. Is there something obvious that
I've missed that would enable the larger file sizes? I'm at a loss as
to what to do next; any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
- Leo
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:01:50 -0400
From: Prashant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: platform identification
Hi,
I wanted to know whether there is anyway to find out the vendor(eg. Dell,
Compaq) of a particular machine. Is there any field in the CMOS/BIOS which
could help?
Thanks for the help,
Prashant
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:52:05 -0400
From: "David R. Klassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot use large IDE disk w/ fdisk
You can tell Linux the geometry of your disk in your /etc/lilo.conf
file. In the image section add the line:
append="hdd=cyl,head,sector" (put in the actual numbers).
Cyrille Artho wrote:
>
> I added a large (40 GB) IDE disk to the system. I had problems with LILO
> and the BIOS, so I disabled the HD in the BIOS.
>
> Unfortunately, Linux does not discover the correct number of cylinders
> (using Kernel 2.2.12). I tried to override this when partitioning the
> hard disk. However, as soon as I quit fdisk, the system "forgets" the
> physical layout again, and fdisk shows:
>
> Disk /dev/hdd: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 870 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdd1 1 2048 16450528+ 83 Linux
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(2047, 254, 63)
> /dev/hdd2 2049 4982 23567355 83 Linux
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(2048, 0, 1)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(4981, 254, 63)
>
> Even though I could initially format the disk without getting error
> messages, I then found out that Linux uses the physical layout, mapping
> different sectors on the same target! This resulted in some "funny"
> results, including duplicate blocks, corrupt inodes, and a kernel panic
> when trying to umount the file system. Certain corrupted files cannot be
> removed anymore (rm blocks the entire system), and I lost some data
> (since I originally thought the drive could work without using the
> BIOS). I now have copied all the data back, so I can re-partition the
> hard drive.
>
> How do I tell Linux the number of cylinders? How can I use the drive if
> I disable it in the BIOS?
--
David R. Klassen voice: 856-256-4500 x3273
Department of Chemistry & Physics fax: 856-256-4478
Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Glassboro, NJ 08028 http://elvis.rowan.edu/~klassen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kamborg)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Linux freeze when running at 500 Mhz
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 05:40:41 GMT
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:06:44 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
>Subject: Linux freeze when running at 500 Mhz
>Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:06:44 +0200
>X-Trace: nnrp3.clara.net 961276155 212.43.241.160
>NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 22:09:15 BST
>Xref: dfw-artgen.news.verio.net alt.os.linux.mandrake:49954
comp.os.linux.misc:121584
>I'm using a Mandrake 7.02 on a Pentium III 500 Mhz with an asus P3B-F
>motherboard. I had a big problem of high temperature (120�C when running
>at 333 Mhz).... I used a thermal paste and the temperature went down to
>less than 80 �C ..... It's running fine under windows but now my linux
>is freezing and act really weirdly !!! I really don't
>understant. I suppose it's a Linux problem but....I don't know what to
>do ??
There are those among us who refuse even to respond to cross-posted
inquiries, but I'll tell you this:
Linux does NOT freeze at eighty degrees Centigrade !
for sure,
kamborg
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