Linux-Misc Digest #861, Volume #25 Sun, 24 Sep 00 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: installation problem (E J)
script needed... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Warning can't open initial consol (Dances With Crows)
Re: Getting java recognized in my evironmental path (Dances With Crows)
Re: Helix Bug/Black Screen of Death, any ideas?? ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
web cam and still photo cams ? ("Michael Westerman")
2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!! (Igor)
Re: Can we fix my wtmp/utmp, please?
Re: Error on "make bzImage"... ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
Re: 2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!! ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
Re: Error on "make bzImage"...
Sharing Packages Among Multiple Distributions on One PC (Felix Miata)
Re: Linux file burned onto CDR from Win98 machine (Ralf Cirksena)
Re: Error on "make bzImage"... (MH)
M$ OE5 and Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Error on "make bzImage"... (MH)
Re: Belkin UPS model F6C525-SER & Linux (Eric Lawson)
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installation problem
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 18:23:04 -0700
No. The notes for RH6.2 states that USB is not supported.
RH7.0 may has some USB support.
Wait until Kernel 2.4 is released for full USB support.
You could try for a minimal RH6.1 install on your thinkpad harddrive,
and download the development kernel 2.3.99 or kernel 2.4-test and try to
install Linux on the USB harddrive if you can see it.
Chris Tokar wrote:
> I am installing RedHat 6.1 on a IBM thinkpad with an external BusLink
> USB hard drive. When booting from the CD, I get the error message "no
> valid modes found". Is there a way to get around this through expert
> mode perhaps, if so how?
>
> Help much appreciated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: script needed...
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 01:25:36 GMT
Hello,
Can anybody please give me some php or cgi script which can upload files
to server.
It's good, if that script supports many users and very good if it
supports SSL
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Janar kokk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Warning can't open initial consol
Date: 25 Sep 2000 01:44:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:32:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I added a new partion to my HD and after that I install win98, then I
>lost my lilo boot for linux. However, I installed partionMagic and I
>got bac linux but when it's booting it stopped with this Warning: can't
>open init consol.
When you added a new partition, things got rearranged on disk. For
example, if before you had:
/dev/hda1 FAT32 C:
/dev/hda2 <extended>
/dev/hda5 ext2 /
/dev/hda6 swap swap
and you added a partition, it's quite possible that you now have:
/dev/hda1 FAT32 C:
/dev/hda2 <extended>
/dev/hda5 FAT32 D:
/dev/hda6 ext2 /
/dev/hda7 swap swap
Notice how / has moved from hda5 to hda6. This confuses the heck out of
the kernel. It's fairly easy to fix; at the LILO: prompt, boot with
"linux root=/dev/hdaX" where X is the location of your / partition. You
can edit /etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo to make this change permanent,
most likely.
If this doesn't help, post the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda" and all the
exact error messages you get, not just the last (misspelled) one.
Things like this are why experienced users keep backups of their
partition tables and the output of fdisk -l around, as well as the
extremely nifty Tom's RootBoot rescue system. http://www.toms.net/rb/
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Getting java recognized in my evironmental path
Date: 25 Sep 2000 01:44:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:22:23 -0400, jafgon wrote:
> I've recently downloaded the jdk-118 from Blackdown and would like
>to have it recognized in my environment path. The README says to insert
>"export PATH=/jdk_118v1/bin:$PATH" into my PATH environmental variable.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>bash and still no command line completion when typing java at the
>command line.
Is this Java thing actually installed in /jdk_118v1/bin/java ? Didn't
think so. Try its actual location, like "/usr/local/jdk_118v1/bin" or
"/usr/jdk_118v1/bin" or "/usr/bin/jdk_118v1/bin" or wherever it actually
got put. HTH, HAND, tell the Blackdown folks their README has a typo in
it....
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Helix Bug/Black Screen of Death, any ideas??
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:57:23 -0400
Anita Lewis wrote:
>
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:26:38 -0400, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> >
> >I would like to see the option of booting into level 5 removed.
> >
> >--
> >Rinaldi]$
>
> If you mean that you want it to no longer be the default, you can do that by
> editing /etc/inittab, very carefully. Just replace the 5 with a 3 to
> produce:
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> The option will still be there to boot into level 5 with 'linux 5' at the
> LILO prompt, but by default it will boot into console.
>
> Anita
Yes. But I have never booted to level five and seeing the number of
problems that can happen I think it is a _bad_ thing.
--
Rinaldi]$
"The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people,
too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the
Constitution." --Ronald Reagan
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: web cam and still photo cams ?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:02:36 +1000
what is needed to run these on linux
i hava a usb camera that can be used as a web cam and photo cam under
windows.
but i want to use it on linux.
is there special drivers needed
what software is avaliable for mpeg movie making / editing.
please email me any info you have on this topic thank you...
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Michael Westerman - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The University of Southern Queensland
The opinion expressed is that of the writer,
and not necessarily that of the University.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Igor)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: 2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!!
Date: 25 Sep 2000 02:00:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi... I am trying to get a 2.4.0 test5 version of the kernel to run.
I have compiled it etc. When I get to the lilo prompt and try to
select linux-240, it says something like "starting kernel" and then
hangs. I have verified that the kernel is where the lilo.conf
says it is. Any ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Can we fix my wtmp/utmp, please?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:04:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ray wrote:
>I run RH6.2. Waaaay back, maybe in RH6.0 I screwed up /var/log wtmp and
>
>utmp. I don't now know how I did that. When I ask for "last", i get
>
>[ray@gordo ray]$ last
>
>wtmp begins Wed Mar 7 21:48:32 1934
>
>1934? Hmm, I don't think so. lastb still works. Here's what it looks like
>
>in there from a ls -alu
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 16 09:04 utmp
>drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Sep 24 04:02 uucp
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 34561 Sep 24 07:17 wtmp
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 21504 Sep 23 09:53 wtmp.1
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 2537088 Sep 23 09:53 wtmpx
>
>This is all "data" and I have no idea how to get things back to "normal"
>
>in there. The reading is all about how to USE these things, but that's
>
>not much help when they are corrupt. (if they are).
>
>TIA
>
>--
>Ray R. Jones
>Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
[korthals@bsh1-578 korthals]$ ls -l /var/run/utmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 5376 Sep 24 22:00 /var/run/utmp
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Error on "make bzImage"...
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:07:54 -0400
MH wrote:
>
> Recently, while trying to compile a new kernel, I did "make bzImage" and
> everything proceeded normally until the very end. I got the following
> error:
>
> make[1]: as86: command not found
> make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127"
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
>
> I remembered having this error before and resolved it by installing an
> RPM package that contained some utilities. It took me awhile to locate
> the right package, since it was not part of the ISO. The package is
> called "bin86*****" and had I not remembered the "bin" part, I never
> would have found it.
>
> In any case, it seems very odd that this package is not part of the ISO,
> since it is REQUIRED to compile a new kernel. Even stranger, it is
> apparently not part of the GNU utilities, nor even a GPL application,
> since it is listed as "contrib" on RedHat's site. Does anyone else find
> this disturbing given that GNU/Linux is supposed to be "free" i.e.
> licensed under the GPL? Am I missing something here?
I've compiled probably a dozen kernels; some even worked when I finished
- and never choked on the bzImage make. All were from kernel org
tarballs with various and sundry patches applied. I'd look elsewhere
for your problem.
--
Rinaldi]$
"The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people,
too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the
Constitution." --Ronald Reagan
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!!
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:23:06 -0400
Igor wrote:
>
> Hi... I am trying to get a 2.4.0 test5 version of the kernel to run.
> I have compiled it etc. When I get to the lilo prompt and try to
> select linux-240, it says something like "starting kernel" and then
> hangs. I have verified that the kernel is where the lilo.conf
> says it is. Any ideas?
>
Stay away from 2.4.test-pre-alpha-whatever until 2.4.10 is available.
Unless you like kernel hangs at boot.
see news://muc.lists.linux-kernel and get the latest info.
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Rinaldi]$
"The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people,
too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the
Constitution." --Ronald Reagan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Error on "make bzImage"...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:21:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MH wrote:
>Recently, while trying to compile a new kernel, I did "make bzImage" and
>everything proceeded normally until the very end. I got the following
>error:
>
>make[1]: as86: command not found
>make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127"
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
>make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
>
>I remembered having this error before and resolved it by installing an
>RPM package that contained some utilities. It took me awhile to locate
>the right package, since it was not part of the ISO. The package is
>called "bin86*****" and had I not remembered the "bin" part, I never
>would have found it.
>
>In any case, it seems very odd that this package is not part of the ISO,
>since it is REQUIRED to compile a new kernel. Even stranger, it is
>apparently not part of the GNU utilities, nor even a GPL application,
>since it is listed as "contrib" on RedHat's site. Does anyone else find
>this disturbing given that GNU/Linux is supposed to be "free" i.e.
>licensed under the GPL? Am I missing something here?
[korthals@bsh1-578 korthals]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/as86
dev86-0.15.0-2
[korthals@bsh1-578 korthals]$ ls /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS | grep dev86
dev86-0.15.0-2.i386.rpm
>From the README in /usr/doc/dev86-0.15.0
This is based on the as86 and ld86 distribution written by Bruce Evans.
Bruce has released this under the GPL and the changes I've made are
also under the same license
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From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Sharing Packages Among Multiple Distributions on One PC
Reply-To: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:25:41 -0400
I'm too new to Linux to choose "the best" distribution for my needs, so
I've installed the following on a spare system with P55C 233 CPU and 96
Mb RAM:
common data /dev/sdc6 0.5 Gb
swap /dev/sdc7 125 Mb
RedHat 6.1 /dev/sdc8 1.1 Gb
Corel Linux 1.1 /dev/sdc9 1.1 Gb
Mandrake 7.1 /dev/sdc10 1.1 Gb
FWIW, I also have the 1.2 CLOS CD and the 6.2 RedHat CD and anticipate
moving to a larger HD to provide more space so that all packages I might
ever need can be installed up front instead of trying to save space by
leaving some out before knowing how to choose what's unnecessary, and
replacing the above with the newer versions. On the bigger disk I should
think an extra partition for shared packages would also make good sense.
The point of the exercise is to gain some familiarity with the different
distros and their default VWMs in order to choose one to possibly use to
eventually take over my daily chores currently performed by OS/2. Most
of what I do is either web related and run in native OS/2 apps, or not,
and handled by DOS apps.
Netscape is the one app I'm already familiar with which is available in
native versions for windoze and OS/2 and Linux, so that is where I'd
like to begin my investigation into some of the workings of Linux that
differ from what I'm used to. Right now I have three separate Netscapes
for Linux: RH 6.1 has 4.08, CLOS has 4.7, and ML has 4.73. I've
downloaded the i386 gz of 4.75, so I'd like to upgrade the other three
by removing them and installing 4.75 only once, and the main question I
believe is more of a philosophical one than a practical one: Where
should I install it?, followed by: How?
I've yet to find a suitable HOWTO or FAQ that addresses making such
choices, nor one that explains the significance and practical aspects of
shared libraries. Suggestions and/or doc pointers would be much
appreciated.
Part 2: I think DOSEMU would be a good next step following the Netscape
exercise. Attempting to execute dos in RH 6.1 gives me error messages,
in ML 7.1 "bad command or file name", and CLOS 1.1 a DOS prompt
indicating version 3.31 compatibility, and I need at least v5.0
compatibility for my apps. So logically, I should remove whatever DOSEMU
is currently installed and install a shared newer version, assuming one
exists. Suggestions and/or doc pointers would also be much appreciated
on this subject.
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NKJV
Team OS/2
Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net
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From: Ralf Cirksena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.cdr,linux.redhat,staroffice.com.support.install.linux
Subject: Re: Linux file burned onto CDR from Win98 machine
Date: 24 Sep 2000 20:04:37 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <8ql6hb$q1q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> Will a Redhat Linux 6.2 machine be able to read this CD which has the
> StarOffice installation file?
Yes. If it is ISO9660.
> Will there be translation problems because it was moved from various
> Windows machine before going to a Linux machine?
Yes. Win does not really support case sensitive file names. Therefore
file names are upper case.
Make sure to burn with rock ridge extensions. There extended filenames
and *IX permissions are mapped to ISO9660 file names.
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error on "make bzImage"...
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:38:52 -0700
"Rinaldi J. Montessi" wrote:
> MH wrote:
> >
> > Recently, while trying to compile a new kernel, I did "make bzImage" and
> > everything proceeded normally until the very end. I got the following
> > error:
> >
> > make[1]: as86: command not found
> > make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127"
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> >
> > I remembered having this error before and resolved it by installing an
> > RPM package that contained some utilities. It took me awhile to locate
> > the right package, since it was not part of the ISO. The package is
> > called "bin86*****" and had I not remembered the "bin" part, I never
> > would have found it.
> >
> > In any case, it seems very odd that this package is not part of the ISO,
> > since it is REQUIRED to compile a new kernel. Even stranger, it is
> > apparently not part of the GNU utilities, nor even a GPL application,
> > since it is listed as "contrib" on RedHat's site. Does anyone else find
> > this disturbing given that GNU/Linux is supposed to be "free" i.e.
> > licensed under the GPL? Am I missing something here?
>
> I've compiled probably a dozen kernels; some even worked when I finished
> - and never choked on the bzImage make. All were from kernel org
> tarballs with various and sundry patches applied. I'd look elsewhere
> for your problem.
>
You don't seem to read very well do you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: M$ OE5 and Linux
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:30:38 GMT
Hi again,
Anyone know some e-mail client for linux what can import Microsoft
Outlook Express 5 mails.
Btw. I'm using Suse 6.4, 2.2.14 kernel and KDE 1.1.2
Janar
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error on "make bzImage"...
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:49:56 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MH wrote:
> >Recently, while trying to compile a new kernel, I did "make bzImage" and
> >everything proceeded normally until the very end. I got the following
> >error:
> >
> >make[1]: as86: command not found
> >make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127"
> >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> >make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> >
> >I remembered having this error before and resolved it by installing an
> >RPM package that contained some utilities. It took me awhile to locate
> >the right package, since it was not part of the ISO. The package is
> >called "bin86*****" and had I not remembered the "bin" part, I never
> >would have found it.
> >
> >In any case, it seems very odd that this package is not part of the ISO,
> >since it is REQUIRED to compile a new kernel. Even stranger, it is
> >apparently not part of the GNU utilities, nor even a GPL application,
> >since it is listed as "contrib" on RedHat's site. Does anyone else find
> >this disturbing given that GNU/Linux is supposed to be "free" i.e.
> >licensed under the GPL? Am I missing something here?
>
> [korthals@bsh1-578 korthals]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/as86
> dev86-0.15.0-2
> [korthals@bsh1-578 korthals]$ ls /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS | grep dev86
> dev86-0.15.0-2.i386.rpm
>
> From the README in /usr/doc/dev86-0.15.0
> This is based on the as86 and ld86 distribution written by Bruce Evans.
> Bruce has released this under the GPL and the changes I've made are
> also under the same license
Interesting. Any idea why RedHat is listing it as "distributable" rather
than "GPL"?
Also, I have another question if it's not a bother. Excuse my ignorance,
but what is an "assembler and linker"--(I'm not a programmer, though I have
dabbled a bit with BASIC and VBA.)
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From: Eric Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Belkin UPS model F6C525-SER & Linux
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:04:26 GMT
Try nut at www.exploits.com It has a driver for some belkin UPSs.
Eric
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