Linux-Misc Digest #248, Volume #26 Mon, 6 Nov 00 15:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Mandrake install problems ("CSNI")
An unorthodox question about a Win NT/Linux machine. (Madhusudan Singh)
Re: An unorthodox question about a Win NT/Linux machine.
>2GB process memory (Andre Rohe)
crash (1M) command in Linux? ("Bogdan Calmac")
Re: Kernel compilation problem ("Nicholas Knight")
Re: >2GB process memory ("Peter T. Breuer")
Use append to tell linux where Linksys card lives ("Reflexiv")
xdm -> shell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Adam Theo)
Re: Telnet to RedHat 7 (Jimmy Navarro)
Re: Use append to tell linux where Linksys card lives ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Telnet to RedHat 7 (DualIP)
Re: HD mirror (DualIP)
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Reply-To: "CSNI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "CSNI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Mandrake install problems
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:12:22 GMT
I changed the bios setting to enable the memory hole.
at the cdrom install I got:
Intatll exited abnormally -- received signal 11
sending termination signals
sending kill signals
Unmounting file systems
/proc
/tmp/rhimage
it is safe to reboot..........
"Ez-Aton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:newscache$vxxl3g$ug6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Do you have the memory hole (betwin 15 and 16M) enabled in the BIOS? That
is
> the reason.
> Ez.
>
> "CSNI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:xSsN5.583077$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have 128M
> >
> > I also get an error when loading the second stage ram disk.
> >
> > I can get as far as partitioning the hard disk. It will either halt or
> > reboot about half way through. And at the Misc menu it says it only has
> > 127M?
> >
> >
> > "Daniel Lenski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:8u54rb$g4u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Linux sometimes has a problem detecting how much memory your computer
> > > has. This causes it to try to access RAM that isn't there! How much
> > > memory do you have?
> > >
> > > When you install 7.1, try pressing F1 at the first
> > > screen and typing in 'linux ram=???M', where ??? is the number of
> > > megabytes of RAM that you have. This has worked for me many times.
> > >
> > > > Im installing mandrake 7.1 on an Asus CUSL2 Intel 815E Atx 133
> > > > motherboard with a 733 processor. Using the Drakx install program,
> when
> > > > I reach the partition format proceedure, the system hangs or
sometimes
> > > > reboots on its own, usually at the latterportion of the hard drive.
I
> > > > also get an error saying that
> > > > "seems like memory is missing as install crashes'
> > > >
> > > > does anyone have any ideas?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel Lenski
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > "If we couldn't laugh at things that didn't make sense,
> > > we couldn't react to a lot of the world around us."
> > > --Calvin and Hobbes
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: An unorthodox question about a Win NT/Linux machine.
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 13:20:21 -0500
Hi all,
I have a somewhat strange question to ask. I have a dual boot system
with Win NT (service pack 6) and Red Hat 6.1. Mostly I and others use
Linux, but some of my friends still amazingly find some use for NT. This
becomes a problem as many of them forget to reboot the computer into
Linux (I am using System Commander
with Linux as the default OS) and I cannot access it remotely.
Is there a way to hack into NT and force it to reboot, say, half an
hour after every logout ?
I know its a funny way of doing it, but still I would be interested in
an answer, if there is one.
Thanks,
Madhusudan Singh.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Re: An unorthodox question about a Win NT/Linux machine.
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:24:13 GMT
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 13:20:21 -0500, Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
> I have a somewhat strange question to ask. I have a dual boot system
>
>with Win NT (service pack 6) and Red Hat 6.1. Mostly I and others use
>Linux, but some of my friends still amazingly find some use for NT. This
>becomes a problem as many of them forget to reboot the computer into
>Linux (I am using System Commander
>with Linux as the default OS) and I cannot access it remotely.
> Is there a way to hack into NT and force it to reboot, say, half an
>hour after every logout ?
>
>I know its a funny way of doing it, but still I would be interested in
>an answer, if there is one.
Run NT in a vmware virtual machine.
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From: Andre Rohe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: >2GB process memory
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:25:03 +0100
Hello,
we have a 2GB memory and 2GB swap-space machine here, and I would like
to address about 3GB of memory in one process. We tried the standard Suse 7.0
kernel and 2.4.0 test9 (we tried the 4GB and 64GB memory option).
We never managed to malloc >2GB in one process. We also tried to play
with shared memory, but nothing worked.
Can somebody tell me what we do wrong ? Do we need more swap space ?
Thanks in advance
Andre
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From: "Bogdan Calmac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: crash (1M) command in Linux?
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:35:48 -0800
I know, that there is the crash(1M) command in System V. Is there something
like crash(1M) in Linux?
Thanx,
Bogdan.
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From: "Nicholas Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel compilation problem
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:41:27 GMT
"Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3RBN5.80433$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Isn't 2.2.17 an "insecure" version of the kernel? Maybe that's it, try
going
> for the stable 2.2.16 instead.
uhhh????
2.2.17 IS the latest *STABLE* version of the kernel... 2.2.18 is the 2.2.xx
that's yet to be released as stable
>
> "Clifford W. Racz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8u6n92$dvm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have performed a fresh install of Linux Mandrake 7.2 and it has worked
> > well. I am experimenting since Linux is new to me. My system is a
> > P2-350MHz, 128MB PC100, Soundblaster Live! card.
> >
> > I have been trying to compile the 2.2.17 kernel so that I can get sound
in
> > the Kernel (it works with the "O-negative" kernel like the kernel How-to
> > calls it) but it doesn't always work.
> >
> > Anyway, I downloaded the kernel tar.gz source from kernel.org and
followed
> > the directions as in the Kernel-How-To, my RedHat book (Osbourne
complete
> > RedHat reference), the Mandrake manual, the README that comes with the
> > kernel source and checked out some newsgroup archives. I have tried the
> > compilation 6 times and I always get an "Error 2" after a long time of
> > compiling.
> >
> > I have made sure the binutils-2.10.0.24-4mdk.i586.rpm was installed (as
> one
> > of the posts said in a newsgroup archive) and I still got the error.
> >
> > Can anyone figure out a solution?
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: >2GB process memory
Date: 6 Nov 2000 18:38:58 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Andre Rohe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: We never managed to malloc >2GB in one process. We also tried to play
: with shared memory, but nothing worked.
It's not surprising, since the SuSE kernel is configured for 1G/3G
split between user and kernel.
: Can somebody tell me what we do wrong ? Do we need more swap space ?
You failed to look hard when configuring and compiling your kernel:
choice 'Maximum Physical Memory' \
"1GB CONFIG_1GB \
2GB CONFIG_2GB" 1GB
Peter
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From: "Reflexiv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Use append to tell linux where Linksys card lives
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:53:31 -0500
Here is one thing that I had to do in addition to getting and compiling the
new drivers for my LNE100TX card to work, that hopefully will help others:
I had to add an "append" line into my lilo.conf file to tell the kernel
where my Linksys card was, since Red Hat 6.2 would not autodetect it.
I learned how to do it from the Linux Network Administrator's Guide, which
is online at O'Reilly, as well as elsewhere. The relevant section is:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/ch03.html#X-087-2-HARDWARE.DRIVER
S.ETHERNET
Once I did this the card started working.
The format of the command is
append="ether=irq,base_addr,[param1,][param2,]name"
so, for example, append="ether=10,300,eth0", would force Linux to look at
IRQ 10, base address 300 for an ethernet device, and name it eth0.
You need some diagnostic software to tell you what the IRQ and base address
of your card is. Linksys includes a disk with their card which has a
diagnostic utility to do this, I think its in a directory called diag, and
the file is called diag.exe or something like that.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8tspk2$u0q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i agree 100%. i was conned into buying the LNE100TX for the same reason.
> "linux tested " - yeah, right! my foot!! went through the same steps but
> still havent been able to configure the damn card.
>
> could SOMEBODY pls. provide a step-by-step approach to this
> problem...dont want to give up on linux. not just yet...
>
>
>
> In article <PO2K5.11479$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > LinkSys betrayed us!
> > I bought a LinkSys LNE100TX ethernet card because it had the box label
> > "Linux Tested".
> > It came with a driver floppy disk, but it had no driver for Linux.
> The
> > floppy disk had instructions for installing an old copy of tulip onto
> RedHat
> > 5.0, which used kernel 2.0; I have RedHat 7.0 w/ kernel 2.2.16. I
> have one
> > of the later versions of LinkSys LNE100TX, version 4.1, and this needs
> the
> > latest tulip driver.
> > LinkSys should have given us a working binary files with detailed
> > step-by-step installation instructions. LinkSys wants us to
> *download* the
> > necessary files/drivers, but without the drivers, I can't get on the
> > internet to download them. The old catch 22; without experience,
> can't get
> > a job, but without a job, can't get experience.
> >
> > I went to the tulip web site http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
> , but
> > the instructions there were so poor and ambiguous that an average user
> could
> > never follow. The web site leaves you wondering if there are multiple
> ways
> > of installing the driver, or one way, but different steps.
> > Do I do either "Using the Source RPM Package" or "Installing the
> Individual
> > Drivers", or do I do both? What does it mean to install "individual"
> > drivers? I have *one* card, which needs *one* driver! What do you
> mean by
> > individual?!
> > There's also the section, "Building updated drivers into the kernel".
> Do I
> > do this in addition to the above instrucitons, or is this something
> > separate?!
> > I went to the web site http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html , but
> this
> > web site also has poor instructions, and refers you to somewhere else
> to
> > learn how to install modules.
> >
> > Linux has a long way to go before it can become a common platform, if
> at
> > all. Linux is for hobbiest who have time to tinker with their
> computers.
> > There are no simple ways to click-and-drag to get things working.
> > Everything is a struggle; you have to learn something new for every
> petty
> > task. Imagine if you had to know how the car's engine transferred
> power via
> > the transmission system before you can drive your car,... Few of us
> know
> > how a calculator works, and we take it for granted and use it as a
> fuctional
> > tool. That's what a computer should be; a functional tool to increase
> > productivity. Too much time/effort is required to use Linux.
> However,
> > Win2K is just as stable, but easy and user-friendly. How much is my
> time
> > worth? How much is Win2K? Win2K starts to seem pretty attractive,...
> >
> > -----
> >
> >
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: xdm -> shell
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:03:52 GMT
I'm using xdm to login into my machine; is there anyway to
run a script which will kill the xdm/x and return the system
to shell prompt?
Kurt
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From: Adam Theo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:01:55 GMT
> If at all possible, please, write it up using DocBook and make it
> available via the LDP, http:/www.linuxdoc.org/. It'll be archived
> permanently, and you'll receive appropriate credit for your work.
>
> --
> Robert Kiesling
what is DocBook? i assume i can use it well on linux? if it is easy to
use, and can be exported into at least plain text (hopefully html or
xml as well), i'll do it.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet to RedHat 7
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 11:05:29 -0800
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Use append to tell linux where Linksys card lives
Date: 6 Nov 2000 19:02:36 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Reflexiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Here is one thing that I had to do in addition to getting and compiling the
: new drivers for my LNE100TX card to work, that hopefully will help others:
: I had to add an "append" line into my lilo.conf file to tell the kernel
This is only the case if your kernel has the code compiled in, which is
NOT normally the case nowadays! Most people will load the driver code
as a module, and as such they need the params in conf.modules.
: so, for example, append="ether=10,300,eth0", would force Linux to look at
: IRQ 10, base address 300 for an ethernet device, and name it eth0.
Only if the driver accepts that kind of treatment. A pci card
negotiates its own irq with the pci bus. Check the possible options
for the driver you are using.
: You need some diagnostic software to tell you what the IRQ and base address
: of your card is. Linksys includes a disk with their card which has a
Only if it's an isa card. A pci card will tell YOU (/proc/pci).
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Subject: Re: Telnet to RedHat 7
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:17:36 GMT
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 02:42:02 -0500, Bob Hutzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I used to run a Caldera OpenLinux system where the default install allowed me
>to telnet into my system and log in remotely. I'm now running RedHat 7 and when
>I telnet my ip address the response I receive everytime is Connection Refused.
>What configuration file do I need to look into to allow logins from remote
>terminals. Thanks for any help, Bob
in RH62:
/etc/inetd.conf
Also obvious the telnet deamon should be installed
DualIP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Subject: Re: HD mirror
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:18:52 GMT
On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 09:19:38 +0100, Oliver Marugg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The
DOS based tool Ghost 6.x did the trick for me..
DualIP
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