Linux-Misc Digest #324, Volume #26 Thu, 16 Nov 00 13:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Boot from floppy very slow (Villy Kruse)
Re: script (-ljl-)
Re: sail game modified for linux (Russell Marks)
Re: Video Driver ("Gene Heskett")
Weird problem. (Valentine Kouznetsov)
RPM- Create rpm from RH7 for RH6.1 ...How? (AZ_Man)
Re: Upgrading kernel (From 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.17) (Eric B)
HP-Omniback vs. Reiserfs (Konstantinos Agouros)
Re: [Lynx/screen] Loading a File into a Web form Box (Mike Castle)
Re: Rogue Find? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cannot modify file by root!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel Too Old error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Boot from floppy very slow
Date: 16 Nov 2000 16:17:29 GMT
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:35:43 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recently did this and now start Linux by
>booting from a floppy. The problem is that
>startup is very slow - takes about 10 minutes on
>a Celeron 633 with 64 MB memory. Is this normal,
>and is there any way to speed this up?
>
Try to add compact to lilo.conf. That is, if you boot with lilo installed
on the floppy.
Villy
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: script
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:18:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Neiderer ) wrote:
> I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my Dell but I can't
> get "script" to work.
>
> When I start script, it immediately stops with nothing
> going to typescript.
Are you sure it stops. While in script if I do "ls -l" it
shows typescript with a length of 0; but when I "exit" it shows
a length. The file "typescript" is not written until you exit
script. Take a careful look at "man script".
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Subject: Re: sail game modified for linux
From: Russell Marks <russell.marks@spam^H^H^H^Hntlworld.com>
Date: 16 Nov 2000 16:32:07 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Veale') wrote:
> I'm looking for a version of the old curses based game, sail, that has
> been modified to run under Linux.
[...]
> If anyone has modified sources or differences or knows where they
> might be, I'd appreciate a reference.
A version that runs on Linux is included in the `bsdgames' package,
which should be pretty easy to find.
-Rus.
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Date: 7 Nov 2000 7:49:29 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Driver
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Raimondas ;
You'll need the xsis driver from SuSe. And XFree86 >=3.3.2.
I'm also seen it that its supported by XFree86-4.0.1 but have not tried
it yet, can someone please testify?
> look at messages that X server produces on start, with this description
> you won't get any help.
> try
> # X -probeonly > x.log 2>&1
> and then look at x.log with vi or whatever
> Raimondas
> K wrote:
>> Has anyone got a clue on how to make a generic AGP video card with an
>> SIS6326 chip. It's not a new card. The closest I can get is getting
>> xwindows up to what is a blank screen, usually blue or green, and sometimes
>> with a vertical line from top to bottom for the mouse.
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers, Gene
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From: Valentine Kouznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weird problem.
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:46:07 -0600
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Dear Linux'es
I've got a weird problem which is out of my knowledge.
Definitions:
1) I have a CD with MP3 files
2) It contains some directories in my native language (Russia),
in general 8-bit characters.
3) I have two distributions: RedHat 6.1 & Mandrake 7.2
4) CD was written using MS windows (I just got it from shop).
Problem:
1) Under RH6 I can mount my CDROM and make listing of my directories
> ls /mnt/cdrom
..... sounds ...
> ls /mnt/cdrom/sounds
????
> ls /mnt/cdrom/sounds/"????"/
some files.
Well question marks are directory in Russian characters
2) Under Mandrake: when I mount CDROM first of all directory sounds becomes
Sounds (with capital S), it is empty
> ls /mnt/cdrom/Sounds/
nothing !!!! But if I'll make df /mnt/cdrom it actually show right size (~700Mb)
which is most sound directory. If I'll make du -ks /mnt/cdrom/Sounds/ it show 0 (?!)
Questions:
1) Is it problem of mount?
2) is it problem of Mandrake?
3) is it problem of environment variables (I have bash) and/or
internalization?
Any suggestion are welcome.
Valentine.
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<pre>Dear Linux'es</pre>
<pre>I've got a weird problem which is out of my knowledge.</pre>
<pre>Definitions:</pre>
<pre>1) I have a CD with MP3 files</pre>
<pre>2) It contains some directories in my native language (Russia),</pre>
<pre>in general 8-bit characters.</pre>
<pre>3) I have two distributions: RedHat 6.1 & Mandrake 7.2</pre>
<pre>4) CD was written using MS windows (I just got it from shop).</pre>
<pre></pre>
<pre>Problem:</pre>
<pre>1) Under RH6 I can mount my CDROM and make listing of my directories</pre>
<pre>> ls /mnt/cdrom</pre>
<pre>..... sounds ...</pre>
<pre>> ls /mnt/cdrom/sounds</pre>
<pre>????</pre>
<pre>> ls /mnt/cdrom/sounds/"????"/</pre>
<pre>some files.</pre>
<pre>Well question marks are directory in Russian characters</pre>
<pre>2) Under Mandrake: when I mount CDROM first of all directory sounds becomes</pre>
<pre>Sounds (with capital S), it is empty</pre>
<pre>> ls /mnt/cdrom/Sounds/</pre>
<pre>nothing !!!! But if I'll make df /mnt/cdrom it actually show right size
(~700Mb)</pre>
<pre>which is most sound directory. If I'll make du -ks /mnt/cdrom/Sounds/ it show 0
(?!)</pre>
<pre></pre>
<pre>Questions:</pre>
<pre>1) Is it problem of mount?</pre>
<pre>2) is it problem of Mandrake?</pre>
<pre>3) is it problem of environment variables (I have bash) and/or</pre>
<pre>internalization?</pre>
<pre></pre>
<pre>Any suggestion are welcome.</pre>
<pre>Valentine.</pre>
<pre>
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From: AZ_Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM- Create rpm from RH7 for RH6.1 ...How?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:36:38 GMT
OK.. the company has clients that are at RedHat 6.1
I need to create RPM's for them but I'm at RH7.
How?
Please email back~!
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From: Eric B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Upgrading kernel (From 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.17)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:56:34 GMT
Kaybenn Sturas wrote:
>
> Eric B wrote:
>
> > Kaybenn Sturas wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings :)
> > >
> > > I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.17. I am
> > > running Red Hat 6.2 on a Pentium 166 Mhz MMX with 40Megs of RAM and a
> > > 1Gig ext2 partition set aside for linux.
> > >
> > > I've gone through the make mrproper, xconfig, dep, clean, bzImage,
> > > modules, and modules_install all while logged in as root and all without
> > > error. I then modified my lilo.conf as follows so it included a new
> > > section "linux2" for the new kernel Image:
> > >
> > > boot=/dev/hda
> > > map=/boot/map
> > > install=/boot/boot.b
> > > prompt
> > > timeout=50
> > > linear
> > > default=linux
> > >
> > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> > > label=linux
> > > read-only
> > > VGA=788
> > > root=/dev/hda3
> > >
> > > image=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> > > label=linux2
> > > read-only
> > > VGA=788*
> > > root=/dev/hda3
> > >
> > > other=/dev/hda1
> > > label=dos
> > >
> > > * I was sure to include the option in the kernel to allow VGA consoles.
> > > However I have tried commenting this line out with no change :(
> > >
> > > I then ran /sbin/lilo -v to update the mbr.
> > > Now when I try to load linux2 from the LILO: prompt I get:
> > >
> > > Loading Linux .............
> > >
> > > Then the screen goes black, however my HDD light blinks as if the kernel
> > > is booting, I just can not see it :(. I can't change virtual terminals
> > > and need to <ctrl><alt><del> to reboot the system. (I have tried logging
> > > in and rebooting blindly but it dosen't seem to work).
> > >
> > > I have read the kernel-HOWTO, the README file that came with the kernel
> > > and many docs online (As well as searched usenet for similiar questions)
> > >
> > > Have I left out a needed video driver?
> > > Is there a way to log what is happening while my screen is black?
> > >
> > > Any assistance is greatly appreciated :)
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Kaybenn :)
> > >
> > > Note: Remove the NOSPAM to reply by email :)
> > You should not path lilo to the /usr/src/linux directory, it is probably
> > way out of the 1024th cyl. You need to copy bzImage to
> > /boot/vmlinuz.new (for example). In addition copy the
> > /usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot/System.map (save the old one as
> > System.map.old). Now edit your lilo.conf so that your second entry
> > points to /boot/vmlinuz.new. Next run /sbin/lilo. Here is my lilo.conf
> > file for reference, but keep in mind that it is off a Slackware box,
> > there is an entry for the frambuffer console (I like the cool penguin
> > logo:), and an entry to map my cdrom burner to ide-scsi, you can ignore
> > these if neccessary. I would definetely forgo experimenting with the
> > framebuffer video driver until you have your kernel booting
> > successfully.
> > Eric bueschel
> >
> > # LILO configuration file
> > #
> > # Start LILO global section
> > boot = /dev/sda
> > prompt
> > timeout = 1200
> > # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
> > vga = 791
> > # End LILO global section
> > # boot primary linux kernel
> > image = /boot/vmlinuz
> > root = /dev/sda3
> > label = Linux
> > read-only
> > append="hda=ide-scsi"
> > # DOS bootable partition config begins
> > other = /dev/sda1
> > label = DOS
> > table = /dev/sda
> > # DOS bootable partition config ends
> > # backup kernel config
> > image = /boot/vmlinuz.old
> > root = /dev/sda3
> > label = old
> > read-only
> > # Linux bootable partition config ends
> >
> > --
> > Windows: A 32 bit shell for a 16 bit operating system, originally
> > written for
> > an 8 bit processor on a 4 bit bus by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1
> > bit of
> > competition!
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it but same results :(
> Are there any special permissions that an Image file must have?
In that case I would have to say that it is possible that something
neccesary was left out of the kernel config. I'd boot to the old kernel
and give it another go. Make life easy on yourself and save your kernel
config to a file, then load that file every time you build one. This is
much easier than starting from scratch every time, and you can keep
multiple config files around for experimentation. Plus, you can save
your config when you upgrade your kernel (I've been using the same basic
config file through like 20 kernel upgrades, I just add in the new
features I want). You can also go to your old 2.2.14 source tree (I
know you saved it right?) and pull your kernel config file out of that
tree and copy it into your new tree. Then load that file under xconfig
and you will have the same features selected as was in your original
kernel. Build and install that to get started, then work on adding new
things.
Eric
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bit of
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros)
Subject: HP-Omniback vs. Reiserfs
Date: 16 Nov 2000 07:57:21 +0100
Hi,
we have the following problem:
We recently migrated some of our files to reiserfs-partitions since we got a
bigger RAID. We do our backup using HP's Omniback and the Linux-Fileserver is
just a backup client, the tapedrive is connected to another machine.
Since the migration the backup-client on the linux-machine only sees the ext2-
Filesystems but nothing from the reiser-partitions. Is this a known issue?
Is there maybe a new version that fixes this?
Kernel-Version is 2.2.17+reiser.
Konstantin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: [Lynx/screen] Loading a File into a Web form Box
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:51:02 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Bacalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>this from the console. Screen allows cut and paste from the console, but
>it won't allow me to copy more than one console-screen's worth. The man
Yes it will. You just have to know how to do it.
>From the man page:
Enter copy/scrollback mode. This allows you to copy text
from the current window and its history into the paste
buffer. In this mode a vi-like `full screen editor' is
active:
Movement keys:
h, j, k, l move the cursor line by line or column by
column.
0, ^ and $ move to the leftmost column, to the first or
last non-whitespace character on the line.
H, M and L move the cursor to the leftmost column of the
top, center or bottom line of the window.
+ and - positions one line up and down.
G moves to the specified absolute line (default: end of
buffer).
| moves to the specified absolute column.
w, b, e move the cursor word by word.
C-u and C-d scroll the display up/down by the specified
amount of lines while preserving the cursor position.
(Default: half screen-full).
C-b and C-f scroll the display up/down a full screen.
g moves to the beginning of the buffer.
% jumps to the specified percentage of the buffer.
So you could cat a file to the screen, C-a [, C-b as many times as
necessary, space-bar, G to go to bottom of the screen, position as
necessary, and voila.
You may also look at the readbuf command (C-a <). Do something like
cp file /tmp/screen-exchange
C-a <
C-a ]
I assume you're using a recent enough version of lynx that supports
automatic growing of textfields. Also, recent enough version of lynx
supports spawning an external editor for a textfield, and then you could
just use the editor the read in the file into the buffer.
mrc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rogue Find?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:03:01 +0000
Bill Boman <BB> did eloquently scribble:
> After 5-10 mins of being booted up my SuSE 6.4 Linux runs "Find" on
> its own accord. Whether or not I'm connected to the net or running X
> seems not to matter.
> What makes this happen?
Cron, most likely.
> What is it looking for?
Files that need to be "tidied" up, such as files above a certain age in
/tmp, or log files above a certain size in /var/log.
> Can it be stopped?
You can disable CRON... But it's important for the system to do some
housekeeping once in a while.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cannot modify file by root!!!
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:51:14 +0000
Hello World <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> with permission 0644 and owned by root, i cannot modify or delete the file
> with the root account ........ keep saying that permission denied. can
> anyone suggest and reason of this and how can i solve this?
ls -l.
See what the attributes are set to.
(It's possible the attributes have become corrupted)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel Too Old error
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:32:58 +0000
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> I get this message trying to install a package built on one machine and
> then installing on another. The target system is very minimal with no
> compiler, etc. and running 2.0.38 kernel. So I have to build this rascal
> on a 2.2 system. Surely there is a way to do this. Any help appreciated.
You'll need to install the 2.0.38 kernel includes somewhere and force the
compiler to use those rather than the standard 2.2 set.
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