Linux-Misc Digest #189, Volume #26 Mon, 30 Oct 00 22:13:02 EST
Contents:
RX MODE (Oliver Moser)
Setting up the modem - Newbie ("CSP Internet")
RX MODE (Oliver Moser)
Re: ftp tools for linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Setting up the modem - Newbie ("Dusty Dew")
Which is the best distribution? (Victor Dods)
Re: Which is the best distribution? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: daylight savings. (Bob Hauck)
Re: Corporate email help (Roger Atkinson)
Re: cron and end of daylight savings time (HermDog)
Re: Which is the best distribution? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux (Mihai Cartoaje)
Re: Linux PDA (Christopher Browne)
Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux (Stephen Marotta)
Re: daylight savings. (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Ghost Linux (Dan Amborn)
Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: RANDOM shell variable in bash (Roy Wilson)
Modules in RH 7.0 (Tracy Malkemes)
Re: Corporate email help ("Jeffrey J. Potoff")
Re: users,groups,persmissions etc (Garry Knight)
Where are the scripts that load the modules located? (mike)
Re: Recompiling the kernel for a 386 machine ("lobotomy")
Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mount swap in /tmp (Dances With Crows)
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From: Oliver Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RX MODE
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:13:10 GMT
Hello,
I' ve got a question about the messages logfile made made by syslogd.
After my machine has finished booting linux, a message like the one
below appears in the logfile:
Oct 30 20:31:47 scenic kernel: eth0: Setting Rx mode to 2 addresses
Does someone know what that means?
Thanks in advance.
om
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From: "CSP Internet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up the modem - Newbie
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:15:20 -0800
Can anyone help me setup my modem,
I started with the minicom, and I got the welcome screen to show, but I
couldn't type anything,
I tried ATDT and nothing happened...
So I don't know if my modem is setup correctly, how can I tell what com port
(ttyS0 or ttyS1 or ttyS2) its using?
Thanks,
Alain
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From: Oliver Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RX MODE
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:16:31 GMT
Hello,
I' ve got a question about the messages logfile made made by syslogd.
After my machine has finished booting linux, a message like the one
below appears in the logfile:
Oct 30 20:31:47 scenic kernel: eth0: Setting Rx mode to 2 addresses
Does someone know what that means?
Thanks in advance.
om
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ftp tools for linux
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:07:50 GMT
You've got alot of great ftp client suggestions Te-Cheng, but i have to
plug Dead FTP, a program i stumbled across in
SourceForge. It works great (doesn't overwrite files automatically
though - a slight drawback) and i dig the skull and crossbone icon!
http://www.hardcorelinux.com
> Is there any ftp tools like WSFTP on windows platform such that
you
> can download the whole directory.
>
> Best
>
> STC
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Dusty Dew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up the modem - Newbie
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:33:29 -0600
Read the modem how-to:
http://www.pluto.linux.it/ildp/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html
~Dusty
"CSP Internet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone help me setup my modem,
>
> I started with the minicom, and I got the welcome screen to show, but I
> couldn't type anything,
> I tried ATDT and nothing happened...
>
> So I don't know if my modem is setup correctly, how can I tell what com
port
> (ttyS0 or ttyS1 or ttyS2) its using?
>
> Thanks,
> Alain
>
> --
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:45:55 -0800
From: Victor Dods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which is the best distribution?
I have been using Corel Linux recently, and have found it to be very
irritating to use. I has modified libraries and such which complicate
installing many things. In light of this, I want to install a different
flavor of Linux, and would like to know people's opinions on the
matter. I was thinking either Red Hat or Debian, because of the nice
package features, although I've heard conflicting accounts for all
different distributions of Linux. Anyway, give me your two cents!
Victor Dods
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Which is the best distribution?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:12:58 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:45:55 -0800, Victor Dods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have been using Corel Linux recently, and have found it to be very
>irritating to use. I has modified libraries and such which complicate
>installing many things. In light of this, I want to install a different
>flavor of Linux, and would like to know people's opinions on the
>matter. I was thinking either Red Hat or Debian, because of the nice
>package features, although I've heard conflicting accounts for all
>different distributions of Linux. Anyway, give me your two cents!
This is like asking what are the best shoes? Different people have
different opinions depending on thier needs and viewpoints. If there was
one that was 'best', everyone would use it, and the others would fade.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: daylight savings.
Reply-To: bobh{at}haucks{dot}org
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:43:44 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:34:05 -0500, Samuel Irlapati
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a way to change the time automatically for daylight savings for
>Linux?
Set the BIOS clock to UTC rather than local time.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: Roger Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Corporate email help
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:49:50 -0800
Since you already have a business relationship with your ISP they should
be willing to point an MX record to your Local Server where you can run
Sendmail and qpopper to deliver and collect all of your email. If you
need fancy address books you might look into an LDAP server but POP mail
should work quite well these days. And as others have mentioned, the
price is right if you take the time to understand Sendmail and DNS setup
for mail routing. It will also be very reliable and if you do routine
backups, disaster recovery will be snap when compared to the total
restore Exchange will take.
Another good point, that i did not see mentioned, is that you can do
content filtering using something like procmail if you need too, where
as you can't filter anything with Exchange, with out, yet another very
expensive third party licensed software. BTW did I mention Virus
protection, don't even think of using Exchange without a Virus Scanner
unless you don't value your email and your employees productivity. I
know our CEO does! So add another $5K to $10KUS on your estimate below,
if you want to be *as safe* as you can running Exchange.
HTH
Phil Labonte wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I work for a small company of approx 70 employees, we plan to grow to about
> 200 in the next year.
>
> What kind of linux solutions are there for email? We want to host our own
> email internally, right now we use our isp.
>
> I checked and for Microsoft Exchange it would cost us about 10000$ in
> licenses and hardware. What are some Linux solutions that would work with
> our small company?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Phil Labonte
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HermDog)
Subject: Re: cron and end of daylight savings time
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:50:57 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:19:23 -0500,
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>HermDog wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:31:19 -0500,
>> Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I found out what cron does when daylight savings time ends. It
>> >does not know about it and runs some jobs twice.
>> >
>> >I have a 2.5 hour job (backup of my hard drives to mag tape) I
>> >run every morning at 1:04AM; it is part of /etc/cron.weekly and
>> >/etc/cron.daily. This morning it started at 1:04AM EDST as
>> >usual. When 1:59AM EDST arrived, it was not finished, of
>> >course. But at 2:00AM EDST, the system set its time back to
>> >1:00AM EST as expected. Then, when 1:04 EST arrived, cron
>> >started up those tasks again. (cron.weekly). Most of them are
>> >fast and harmless, but it tried to restart the backup.
>> >(Incidentally, BRU, the backup software, died with a
>> >segmentation fault, not what I like to see, instead of some
>> >kind of device busy fault. Luckily, the instance that failed
>> >was the second instance.)
>> >
>> >So I just diddled my /etc/crontab to start nothing on Sundays
>> >between 1:00 AM and 2:00 AM.
>> >
>> >Any other pitfalls out there that I should know about?
>>
>> Yes. Running a Linux system like it's a Windows box.
>
>I feel insulted. ;-) I have no Microsoft software whatever on this
>machine.
Damn. Well, I maintain that it's still a good answer when the problem
is "Why does my machine fsck every time I reboot?" Not so good in this
case. I'm a bit disappointed to find that crontab apparently doesn't
do a TZ to GMT translation (or vice versa) when cron files are edited.
>I could not find anything in the cron documentation that specifically
>addresses this issue. I did not examine the source code for cron. I
>assume that, usually, crond examines the various cron tables once a
>minute and acts accordingly. Since these tables are all in local time,
>not UTC, they act as I expect (but never thought about before). And if it
>says to run something at 1:03, that is what it does, whether or not a
>given day (such as yesterday) has two 1:03 AMs or not.
>
>BTW, my /etc/crontab does not start anything between 1AM and 3AM on
>Sundays anymore (do not want to skip anything in the spring advance to
>EDST).
>
>--
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
>/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
>^^-^^ 8:05am up 5 days, 20:24, 2 users, load average: 3.45, 3.39, 3.27
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Which is the best distribution?
Date: 30 Oct 2000 20:51:24 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Victor Dods wrote:
> I have been using Corel Linux recently, and have found it to be very
> irritating to use. I[t?] has modified libraries and such which complicate
> installing many things. In light of this, I want to install a different
> flavor of Linux, and would like to know people's opinions on the
> matter. I was thinking either Red Hat or Debian, because of the nice
> package features, although I've heard conflicting accounts for all
> different distributions of Linux.
Debian is easiest to upgrade, and offers a ridiculous number of programs
that you may install. The packaging system should look familiar to you,
since Corel uses the one developed by Debian.
What are _your_ priorities?
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Mihai Cartoaje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:00:51 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I?m new in Linux world; I need to know how to use the floppy drive.How
> do I copy files from hard drive to floppy and how from floppy to hard
> drive. What commands should I use?
> Any suggestion is appreciated.
> Thank you
You should create a directory from which you will access your floppy,
mkdir /floppy
then use the command mount to have it available. For example, for a MsDOS
floppy, write,
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
And you will be able to access your floppy as if it was at that
directory. When you want to remove it, write,
umount /floppy
or,
umount /dev/fd0
I do not know the other file systems by heart. Write back if you
experience any problems.
Mihai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Re: Linux PDA
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:01:46 GMT
In our last episode (Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:38:58 GMT),
the artist formerly known as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Omura) wrote:
>[snip]
>> around a bit, I found that the latest downloadable image file for
>> Pocket Linux (available for the Compaq iPaq, VTech Helio, and Casio)
>> is dated Oct. 11, 2000. I haven't tried it out, but it does look
>> like there's progress being made.
>
>Of course, if you get a PPC, like iPaq or Casio, and load Linux,
>you still pay Mr Gates for PPC. In the next year, there will be
>handhelds shipping w/ Linux. I'll wait. Given the price of the
>Agenda, I wonder how much of the iPaq price tag is due to the PPC
>license...
Well, there _is_ a significant difference between them in terms of
both memory space and of the sophistication of the LCD screen, the
iPaq being considerably "more" in both respects.
- 16MB flash memory versus 2MB is a rather significant difference, as
is 32MB SDRAM versus 8MB SDRAM.
- So also is 16 level gray-scale 160x160 versus 4096 colours at
240x320
[Mind you, I'd be inclined to like the idea of using the bits to
get gray-scale at an _even higher_ resolution; 8-bit gray-scale
with better than 240x320 would be a Cool Thing, particularly if it
cut power consumption...]
- The iPaq has a CompactFlash expansion port; no such option for
Helio.
The cost of PPC licenses can readily disappear in this kind of noise.
I'll hold to the "waiting for it to stabilize" position for now;
PocketLinux, if it stabilizes for another few months, could become
something _actually useful_ to run on these little machines.
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@" "hex.net")
<http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/pims.html>
HELP! I'm being attacked by a tenured professor!
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From: Stephen Marotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:15:36 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I?m new in Linux world; I need to know how to use the floppy drive.How
> do I copy files from hard drive to floppy and how from floppy to hard
> drive. What commands should I use?
> Any suggestion is appreciated.
> Thank you
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
As long as you mount the floppy drive when you put in a disk, you can
just copy any files to the "/mnt/floppy" directory. You have to be root
to mount the drive, but it should work fine.
/* Steve */
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: daylight savings.
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:21:05 -0500
Juergen Heinzl wrote:
> In article <8tk0qo$5ud$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Samuel Irlapati wrote:
> >Is there a way to change the time automatically for daylight savings for
> >Linux? I had to swallow my pride and boot into windoze98 to get the right
> >time. I know there is also a Unix command to change time. Does anyone know
> >what is that command?
> [-]
> It ought to get it right ?! Is there a symbolic link localtime in /etc
> like this one ?
>
> lrwxrwxrwx [...] /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/MET
>
> Can assure you my machine went back from 3 o'clock in the morning
> to 2 o'clock Sunday morning %-)
Really? I was watching my machine and it went from 01:59 AM EDST to 01:00
AM EST. I.e., here in U.S.A., the time change takes place at 2AM local time.
Is it different in Germany?
> Cheers,
> Juergen
>
> --
> \ Real name : J�rgen Heinzl \ no flames /
> \ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
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.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 9:15pm up 6 days, 9:34, 3 users, load average: 4.17, 4.00, 3.84
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From: Dan Amborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ghost Linux
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:30:37 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:46:15 +0200, Rafael - LumesITSupport
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes , Ghost will work. I use Ghost to ghost machines with Linux and
>Windows preinstalled.
>
>Rafael
I have never tried Ghost to image a Linux partition but I have used
Drive Image 3.0 and 4.0. Its a lifesaver. I have also used it to move
Linux from one drive to another. The only thing is that you have to go
in and manually edit fstab once you are done.
--
Dan Amborn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:25:15 -0500
Mihai Cartoaje wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I?m new in Linux world; I need to know how to use the floppy drive.How
> > do I copy files from hard drive to floppy and how from floppy to hard
> > drive. What commands should I use?
> > Any suggestion is appreciated.
> > Thank you
>
> You should create a directory from which you will access your floppy,
>
> mkdir /floppy
>
> then use the command mount to have it available. For example, for a MsDOS
> floppy, write,
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>
> And you will be able to access your floppy as if it was at that
> directory. When you want to remove it, write,
>
> umount /floppy
>
> or,
>
> umount /dev/fd0
>
> I do not know the other file systems by heart. Write back if you
> experience any problems.
>
> Mihai
In all the Red Hat distributions (the only ones with which I am familiar),
there already are mount points /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom where these things
get mounted. If you use GNOME/Enlightenment, you can arrange to have little
applets on the panel (task bar for Windows folks) that mount and unmount.
The cdrom will even eject the disk from the drive if you want.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 9:20pm up 6 days, 9:39, 3 users, load average: 3.87, 3.95, 3.85
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From: Roy Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RANDOM shell variable in bash
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:30:12 -0000
Paul,
Before posting, I had attempted what I think you are suggesting. I have
version 1.14.7(1) of bash and my bash(1) man page is dated in 1995. Does
your version provide the information I'm after?
Roy
My version of
Paul Kimoto wrote:
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Wilson wrote:
> > How can I find out the maximum integer value that RANDOM can return?
I'm
> > using Redhat 6.1 (which has bash2 I think).
>
> The bash(1) man page, perhaps? Search for "RANDOM".
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto
> This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
> hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
> and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Tracy Malkemes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modules in RH 7.0
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:30:20 -0000
I finally installed RH 7.0 and now my sound card and network card won't
work.
While linux is booting I get messages like, "/lib/modules/2.2.16-
22/modules.dep: no such file or directory" or the same path with does not
exist at the end. It is something to that effect.
I also get these messages when I try to run depmod from the console. So I
am guessing it has something to do with directory paths and modprobe,
depmod, or the modules.dep file. I am not sure and I am at kind of a road
block. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Tracy Malkemes
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From: "Jeffrey J. Potoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Corporate email help
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:31:10 GMT
Phil Labonte wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I work for a small company of approx 70 employees, we plan to grow to about
> 200 in the next year.
>
> What kind of linux solutions are there for email? We want to host our own
> email internally, right now we use our isp.
>
> I checked and for Microsoft Exchange it would cost us about 10000$ in
> licenses and hardware. What are some Linux solutions that would work with
> our small company?
>
How about the standard, sendmail? It works well and is free. There is
also qmail, which is supposed to be more secure than sendmail.
Jeff
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: users,groups,persmissions etc
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:02:02 +0000
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, John Karampetsos wrote:
>who can point me to a location or document which specifies how to go about
>assigning file permissions,creating users and groups etc in linux?
The book "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh et al does a good job of doing this in
about 6 pages. It also contains a mass of other useful stuff and I'd recommend
it to anybody.
Also, you can use the man and info commands to get documentation on commands
specific to users, groups and permissions. You can find out which commands are
useful in this respect by using the apropos command. For example:
apropos permission
which lists several useful commands including, for example, chmod, so you can
man chmod
to find how to use this command. However, 'apropos user' and 'apropos group'
throw up a lot of results, so you might want to explore the following to start
with: chmod, chgrp, chown, umask, groups, groupmod, groupadd, groupdel,
usermod, useradd, userdel.
--
Garry Knight
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where are the scripts that load the modules located?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:33:09 GMT
Hi,
I was wondering where the module loading scripts are
located. Example. I am using Redhat 6.1 and I have
a PCI NE2000 ethernet card. It has already been installed
and running. In /etc/conf.modules there is
a line:
alias eth0 ne2k-pci
Does this line cause ne2k-pci.o module to be loaded
or does it just associate it with the eth0 device. If
it just associates the module with the eth0 device, then
some other script elsewhere is loading the ne2k-pci module.
If so, where is it being loaded from?
I understand that rc.local can be used to load modules,
but it is not there. There are a number of modules
loaded in the system that are not referenced in conf.modules.
Thanks
Mike
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From: "lobotomy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recompiling the kernel for a 386 machine
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:36:25 GMT
It looks like you know what to do. You will have to recompile the kernel
and modules with either 386 or 486 optimizations (You might want to look around
for information on using Linux on the Nx586 -- I don't know if it would
benefit from 486 optimizations, or run slower with them like a Pentium
does). You should rebuild the modules but you don't have to copy them
manually: 'make modules_install' will do that for you. Then, add an entry for the
kernel image, wherever you put it, to /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. You can find more
information in the lilo man pages, as well as the documentation with the kernel,
for these things.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Hi
> I installed Redhat 6.1 on a Pentium 166 machine and I moved the hard
> drive to a machine that has a NexGen "586" chip in it. The Linux won't
> run on it. I got kernel panic. I forget the exact message, but it gave
> me the impression that the Linux Redhat 6.1 would run, if I recompiled
> the kernel for a 386 type machine.
> I am not sure what has to be done. Do I just have to recompile the
> kernel and copy the kernel into the /boot directory of the NexGen
> machine or do I have to recompile all the modules also and copy them in
> to the appropriate directories ?
> Somewhere I heard that the way Redhat installs a system, is that it
> detects the processor and has copys of different kernels on the cd that
> are optimized for that processor which it installs in the particular
> system. Is that true. If so then it wold make sense that the Linux
> version that was installed on my Pentium 166 would not work on a machine
> with a 386 like chip.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:41:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm new in Linux world; I need to know how to use the floppy drive.How
> do I copy files from hard drive to floppy and how from floppy to hard
> drive. What commands should I use?
Look at the man page for mtools:
mdir mformat mcopy mdel mcd mdeltree, and others I can't remember.
You can also mount the disk on a Linux directory and use ordinary
Linux commands on it:
root@zaphod# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
[... work with files on floppy
(read only here, as I had it write-protected) ...]
root@zaphod# umount /mnt
root@zaphod#
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: mount swap in /tmp
Date: 31 Oct 2000 02:44:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 Oct 2000 20:06:50 -0400, * Tong * wrote:
>How can I mount swap in /tmp?
>I used to have a linuxswap partition for the swap, but now since I
>noticed that my swap utilization is extremly low, I want to change it for
>/tmp volume. Please also provide some comments or tips on this.
You don't really want to go without swap. Linux without swap will run
rather slowly, especially if you don't have much RAM. You don't
necessarily need a partition dedicated for swap, however. You can turn
your swap partition into an ext2 partition (and keep some swap around)
by doing the following things. This assumes your swap partition is
/dev/hda6 ; modify for your actual setup:
0. init S (single-user mode, not essential in Linux but a good idea
for the stuff we're about to do. Many Unices have a hard time when
swap goes bye-bye, so we minimize the danger here....)
1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=64 && sync && sync
(creates a 64M swapfile in / which you'll use later)
2. mkswap /swapfile (initializes /swapfile)
3. swapon /swapfile (turn on new swap)
4. swapoff /dev/hda6 (turn off old swap)
5. mke2fs /dev/hda6 (create new filesystem on hda6)
6. mkdir /mnt/other ; mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/other
7. cp -a /tmp /mnt/other
8. rm -rf /tmp/*
9. umount /dev/hda6 && mount /dev/hda6 /tmp
10. chmod 1777 /tmp
11. Edit /etc/fstab. Remove the previous entry for swap, and replace
it with the following 2 lines:
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /tmp ext2 defaults 1 2
12. init 3 (or whatever your normal runlevel is)
HTH, good luck.
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