Linux-Misc Digest #855, Volume #26 Fri, 19 Jan 01 07:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: freaky netscape stuff ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: freaky netscape stuff ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kickstart creation (Josef Moellers)
gcc environment question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems with Netscape 4.75 and the email addressbook (Daniel Schroeter)
Modem Creative D15655 cannot be detected ("Bindou")
Mounting MS-DOS File System Problems, e2fsck & Miscellaneous Questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: woody, reiserfs, and kernel compilation (Steve Withers)
Re: debian2.2r0: unable to read a tar from a DAT created on a SparcSolaris 7
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: dmesg (Steve Withers)
Re: The Future of Corel Linux (Steve Withers)
Eudora 4.02 (En): Extended ASCII displayed as Japanese! (Frederic Faure)
Re: Eudora 4.02 (En): Extended ASCII displayed as Japanese! (Frederic Faure)
Re: What is dnetc?? ("Robin")
Re: [xcdroast] why does my mouse hangs? (Reiner Griess)
Re: woody, reiserfs, and kernel compilation (elmig)
Re: gcc environment question (Joe Durusau)
Devices changing owner and permissions... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
VMWare: Problem installing guest OS Win98 (Subba Rao)
Re: Mounting MS-DOS File System Problems, e2fsck & Miscellaneous Questions (Robert
Heller)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: freaky netscape stuff
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:06:53 GMT
In article <948mps$o9b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I sit at Linux Box A and 'ssh' to Linux Box B and start
> netscape-navigator from the command line, it gives me a few surprises:
>
> a) it can access files on A
> b) it saves files to A
>
> This must be a security bug, since one would assume that running an
> application on B would not give it write permissions on A.
>
> Wroot
BTW, for this to happen, I have to be already running a netscape process
on A. Still.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: freaky netscape stuff
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:33:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > when I sit at Linux Box A and 'ssh' to Linux Box B and start
> > netscape-navigator from the command line, it gives me a few
surprises:
> >
> > a) it can access files on A
> > b) it saves files to A
> >
> > This must be a security bug, since one would assume that running an
> > application on B would not give it write permissions on A.
> >
>
> When you start ssh and run program using that ssh connection, you are
> actually running programs on A machine. It does not matter what
program
> you run. Infact, if I run telnet or rlogin from machine A to machine
B,
> I can use the CD writer and burn CD on machine B while I am sitting in
> from of machine A.
>
Alex, what you are talking about is THE EXPECTED behavior. What I was
describing is the unexpected: I connect from A to B, start netscape on
_B_, and it saves files (through Alt-S) on _A_ (local machine)
OTOH, as I mentioned, another instance of netscape has to be running
locally on A. Additionally, even though I could repeat this twice, after
some kill-9'ing and exiting, I can not reproduce this behavior.
Wroot
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From: Josef Moellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kickstart creation
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:38:29 +0100
bill davidsen wrote:
> =
> I have to install a bunch of servers, and for various reasons will be
> using Redhat. I see how to install using a kickstart file, but how do I=
> create the kickstart file? There are references to a utility which take=
s
> the current installation and creates the ks.cfg file based on the
> current install. Obviously there is such a thing, but I sure don't see
> the name of it.
> =
> I have several 600+ page Redhat books, but they all want to tell me how=
> to use a ks.cfg, not how to create one in some way better than by hand.=
There used to be an mkkickstart utility (and package), at least I'v
found one on a 6.1 and a 6.2 CD, but not on the 7.0 CD. It was a shell
script which generated the kickstart file for you. When I did my RHCE
with 6.0, there were some bugs in it (among others, partition sizes and
mouse directive were incorrect). I've never used it, so I can't give any
further details.
-- =
Josef M=F6llers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC)
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize (T. Pratchett)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,gnu.gcc.help,linux.redhat
Subject: gcc environment question
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:41:50 GMT
Hi,
After being forced to build gcc-2.95.2 from source (to replace
Redhat's buggy gcc-2.96), I can only get it to run if I add
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/
and
-I/usr/include/g++-3/
to the command line options. This is a bit of a drag when compiling
other people's code (have to edit Makefile, etc.).
I tried adding
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96:$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
to ~/.bashrc and `re-sourcing` to get rid of the first option. Doesn't
help. As to the second option (include files directory), I'm completely
clueless.
What can I do?
Thanks in advance.
Wroot
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:51:28 +0100
From: Daniel Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Netscape 4.75 and the email addressbook
you need to delete one line in ".netscape/preferences.js", but i don't
know wich one. netscape have a own news-group-server. there they helped me.
sorry, i saved know information, but it works by me. try to find the
news-server.
good luck....
CU
Blake LeBaron wrote:
> I'm using netscape 4.75 under RH 7.0. I seem to be unable to get my own
> personal address book functioning. I put addresses in, and I have the
> preferences set to look for names in my own address book, but it doesn't
> find them.
>
> When I change it to use the netscape general address books it works ok,
> but I don't want their giant address book.
>
> Is the best solution just to upgrade Netscape to the latest version?
>
> Also, where are the best sources for netscape documentation on the web?
> I often find the help info related to the windows version, and not the
> linux version.
>
> Blake LeBaron
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From: "Bindou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Creative D15655 cannot be detected
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:33:50 +0400
Hi all,
I am very new to redhat linux and i have an internal modem creative D15655
which works well under windows me but is not detected under linux redhat
7.0.
I read somewhere that i had to run pnpdump in order to find the modem.but
nohing was detected .
Any help please..
Rgds
Bindou
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mounting MS-DOS File System Problems, e2fsck & Miscellaneous Questions
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:40:06 -0800
Hoy!
I am having trouble mounting volumes containing MS-DOS filesystems. I am using
Debian/GNU 2.2 and logged in as root. I can mount a 1.44MB diskette with msdos
but not a 720KB diskette - why?
command: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
response: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
Transaction block size=512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/fd0,
or too many mounted filesystems
Do some msdos filesystems use FAT12?
The 720KB diskette has been verified to be readable with MS-DOS.
I have a HDD containing Linux ext2 partitions connected to the primary IDE
channel (hda), and a HDD containing an MS-DOS partition to the secondary
IDE channel (hdc). The MS-DOS version is 6.21. I created a symbolic link
to /dev/hdc called Winchester.
Why cannot I mount hdc?
command: mount -r -t msdos /dev/hdc /Winchester
response: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
Transaction block size=512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 16:00
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/hdc,
or too many mounted filesystems
I have a few miscellaneous questions. After reconfiguring XFree86 and running
it,
the system froze. I reset it, and when the system booted, it said that hda1 (and
others)
was not cleanly unmounted and check was enforced. Some partitions mounted read
only
and I tried to fix it with e2fsck but it said bad superblocks on some partitions
and bad magic number or something. I tried -av on e2fsck and -b 8193 and other
numbers,
but it kept saying to try -b 8193. Is there a way to repair the file system once
this
kind of damage has occurred without rewriting everything?
I noticed when I had initialised the partions it reported the backup locations
of the
superblocks while it was writing the inode tables. I neglected to write them
down. Is there
a way to find out where backup superblocks are located?
Is there a way to enable the print screen key? e.g. what's currently displayed
on tty1 to
be sent to lp0
Is there a way to enable Alt+nnn character entry? e.g. in DOS and Windows you
can hold down
alt and type a number on the keypad to type a character that isn't on the
keyboard.
gratis!
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: woody, reiserfs, and kernel compilation
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:47:23 +1300
Jeff Strunk wrote:
>
> hi everybody,
> I am having a lot of trouble compiling a custom kernel. I just completely
> redid my
> system yesterday, with reiserfs and woody. So, I have all of the necesarry
> versions of what is required to compile 2.4.0. I patched the kernel source
> that i got from kernel.org to support reiserfs. Then i did the usual make
> menuconfig, dep , etc. During make bzImage, there seem to be errors that
> stop compilation in random places(I never get the same error). sometimes
> there where assembler errors. After many tries of downloading patching and
> compiling, I decided I'd try plain 386 instead of k6-2, k6-3. it still
> didn't work. I tried 2.2.18 and applied the proper reiserfs patch and had
> the same problems. Has anybody else had these problems or seen something similar?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
You don't say what distro and version you are using....
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: debian2.2r0: unable to read a tar from a DAT created on a SparcSolaris 7
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:36:19 GMT
That;s just smashing!
Many many Thanks LJL, you're tip works fine.
I've extracted my tapes yesterday evening.
Just, Simply, Great!
The Die.
> >
> > Try setting Linux's tape-device to variable-block-mode:
> > mt setblk 0
> > Reference: /usr/src/linux/drivers/README.st
> > DATs support this feature.
> >
> > The st (SCSI Tape) driver is how this is controlled.
> >
> > --
> > Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dmesg
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:51:47 +1300
Harry wrote:
>
> Can anyone point me to a document that describes the linux boot
> process in detail (ie a work through the lines of dmesg, I suppose)?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Harry
You can also browse /etc/rc.sysinit....it's pretty much all there.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Future of Corel Linux
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:04:18 +1300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
................
> > It was always a gamble for Corel. It's shame it didn't pay off. I
> > think they were ahead of their time rather than having gone a
> > (software) bridge too far.
>
> Corel had a "strategic challenge" in that the money flows reportedly
> depended _heavily_ on huge long-term licensing agreements for
> WordPerfect with the Canadian government that were signed when the
> Conservative Party was in power. [There was such _spectacular_ hatred
> for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that, in the next election, the
> Conservatives went from having a powerful majority to being two seats
> away from being _utterly eradicated_ from the legislature. He
> apparently then moved to the United States, although there are also
> recent reports that he's now commuting between NYC and Montreal as
> Chairman of Forbes Global Business & Finance...]
Mulroney and the Conservatives worked hard to earn the drubbing they
got. They deserved it. But it is a shame that the 14% of the vote they
won in that disastrous election resulted in less than 1% of the seats.
But then Canada had for years been electing government that most people
didn't vote for. This one of the huge failings of the first past the
post voting system used to elect MPs in Canada. Government win
majorities in Parliament that simply aren 't justified by the 40% of the
total vote they got.
Canada needs a proportional voting system.
The outcome for Corel might not have been any different...but for Canada
as a whole, things would be very different indeed.
> The Liberals, who have been in power ever since, have, presumably with
> considerable spite involved, given subsequent contracts to Microsoft.
They fail the IQ test right there. But then the Liberals always have
been technocrats and used car salesmen.
> There lies a _HUGE_ monkey on Corel's back to try to overcome.
............
>
> In their expectation that this would give them a "stranglehold" over
> some aspect of Linux, they neglected to realize that much of the
> reason why Linux had grown popular was the absolute _LACK_ of
> "strangleholds."
100% agreement from here.
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Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Eudora 4.02 (En): Extended ASCII displayed as Japanese!
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:13:19 GMT
Hi,
I'm running W2K US and Eudora 4.02 US, and also have the Japanese
input added to my list of supported keyboard layout.
After giving up on Outlook Express, I wanted to go back to my beloved
Eudora... only to find out that any French character (extended ASCII)
is displayed as Japanese! I did try to install the Japanese version of
Eudora to see if I could type Japanese e-mail, but it failed to run
(probably some calls to APIs that only exist in the localized versions
of Windows), so uninstalled it, and went back to the US version.
FWIW, here's the header of such test e-mail:
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 (demo)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed
X-UIDL: :S%#!aJJ"!N'a"!6"D"!
=> Is iso-8859-1 Japanese, and what about format=flowed? I didn't see
anything charset-related in eudora.ini. Any idea?
Thx
FF.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Re: Eudora 4.02 (En): Extended ASCII displayed as Japanese!
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:17:33 GMT
Oops. Wrong NG. Sorry
FF.
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From: "Robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is dnetc??
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:09:17 -0000
Agree with you in terms of not being RT. The kernel is RT but user space
(applications are not). In principal it's because the needs of an
application can not pre-empt execution out of the kernel.
"Daniel Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:39:10 GMT, Thomas Rasmussen
> >If it's your own computer and you haven't started it, then I really
> >don't know what it is... but since it is niced to 19, it shouldn't
> >affect any other processes.
>
> This is not 100% correct. Linux is not a real-time operating system.
> Even with a nice of 19 the process will be given the CPU once in a
> while. To test this you can run something like Seti@home or dnetc with
> a nice of 19, and then launch another CPU intensive job such as MP3
> encoding without any nice. On my system Seti@Home still gets around
> 6-8% of the CPU.
>
> This is due to the fact that Linux (and most Unix systems) is
> optimised for average case performance. Users expect there jobs to get
> a bit of work done even if a higher priority job is available in the
> system.
>
> If you want more information on this phenomenon look up the RTLinux
> site at www.rtlinux.org.
>
> Just my two cents (sorry for nit-picking, but as the objective of a
> newwsgroup is to share information I thought I might as well but in)
>
> :-)
>
> Daniel
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> "He who breaks a thing to find out what it is,
> has left the path of wisdom" - Gandalf
>
> Web page : http://student.ulb.ac.be/~drobinso
> -----------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reiner Griess)
Subject: Re: [xcdroast] why does my mouse hangs?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 02:56:05 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17 Jan 2001 01:33:07 GMT,
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:39:23 +0100, Reiner Griess staggered into the
>Black Sun and said:
>>i use xcdroast to burn cd's. first i make a cd raw image and then i
>>burn it. i have a dawicontrol ultra scsi card, yamaha writer an teac
>>reader.
>>when i read from cd, my mouse is sticking around. it isn't possible to
>>move it smoothely. does anybody know what the problem is?
>
>The CD-R(W) you're using is generating a lot of interrupts, as is the
>hard drive you're reading the data from. cdrecord also likes to run at
>a high priority if you let it, so it has more processor time available
>to do things with.
>
>All this means that the interrupts generated when you move the mouse are
>shuffled to the bottom of the queue, and some of them can't get serviced
>in time because cdrecord's using a lot of processor time. FWIW, I get
>the same "sticky" mouse movement for a few seconds when I load a Web
>page. (Damn serial devices seem to generate 1 IRQ per byte sent or
>received!)
>
>This doesn't happen in WinXX because there, the mouse interrupt
>generally has priority over whatever else is going on.
>
Hi and thanks!
This sounds right. I get this problems too when downloading web pages or
whatever. This sucks! xcdroast takes a lot of CPU power and I'm still
asking me: why does I have a SCSI Controller? Why? This thing is
worthless to me. I can not work the same time write a CD? I have never
had these probs on my NT machine (but it sucks otherwise ;)). Ah,
I'm using a PS/2 mouse.
bye
Reiner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (elmig)
Subject: Re: woody, reiserfs, and kernel compilation
Date: 19 Jan 2001 11:31:40 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Withers) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Jeff Strunk wrote:
>You don't say what distro and version you are using....
woody == Debian "woody" (unstable version, probably 2.4 or 3.0)
+--------------------------------+
|elmig |
|http://www.alunos.ipb.pt/~ee3931|
|Luis.Figueiredo AT pt.bosch.com |
+--------------------------------+
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From: Joe Durusau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,gnu.gcc.help,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: gcc environment question
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 06:36:14 -0800
You could redefine the command cc to mean a script that does what you
want.
A little messy, but otherwise you have to look into how you compiled it
and
recompile it differently, or perhaps run gcc -v <whatever> and link the
libs, etc
that you want into the places it already looks.
Speaking only for myself,
Joe Durusau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After being forced to build gcc-2.95.2 from source (to replace
> Redhat's buggy gcc-2.96), I can only get it to run if I add
>
> -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/
> and
> -I/usr/include/g++-3/
>
> to the command line options. This is a bit of a drag when compiling
> other people's code (have to edit Makefile, etc.).
>
> I tried adding
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96:$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> to ~/.bashrc and `re-sourcing` to get rid of the first option. Doesn't
> help. As to the second option (include files directory), I'm completely
> clueless.
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Wroot
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Devices changing owner and permissions...
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:41:32 GMT
Question: How can I keep files in /dev from changing owner and
permissions?
Details:
I recently installed LPRng. In order for lpr to work it is required
that /dev/lp0 (the port to which my printer is attached) is owned by
daemon. I then changed appropriately the files in /etc/makedev.d so
that /dev/lp[0-3] is owned by daemon, and in the group daemon.
In particular, for my 7.0 Red Hat distribution, I had to edit the file
/etc/makedev.d/linux-2.2.x so that it contained the line
c 600 daemon daemon 6 0 1 4 lp%d
However, when I log in as matteo, the command "ls -l /dev/lp*" gives
the following output:
crw------- 1 matteo root 6, 0 Jan 19 11:50 /dev/lp0
crw------- 1 daemon daemon 6, 1 Jan 19 11:50 /dev/lp1
crw------- 1 daemon daemon 6, 2 Jan 19 11:50 /dev/lp2
crw------- 1 daemon daemon 6, 3 Jan 19 11:50 /dev/lp3
Something changed the owner and group of /dev/lp0 (but not of the
other /dev/lp[1-3] files). This presumably has something to do with PAM.
However, in the file /etc/security/console.perms there are no entries
concerning /dev/lp0. So I am stuck with no further ideas.
Has anybody clues or suggestions?
Thank you,
Matteo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Subba Rao)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: VMWare: Problem installing guest OS Win98
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 Jan 2001 12:10:10 GMT
I have been trying to install Win98 as a guest host on my Linux system.
The partition I plan to use for Win98 is /dev/hda3. I have tried toggling the
partition id to FAT16, ext2 and FAT12.
I am trying to install the Win98 on a virtual disk and not to a raw partition.
FATXX id
========
(0)root@myhost:~# fdisk /dev/hda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 357 2867571 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 358 383 208845 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 384 524 1132582+ 6 FAT16
Command (m for help): q
(0)root@myhost:~#
At this point, when I try to poweron the virtual machine. I get the following
error message box
=============
"Failed to open disk /windows98/win98.dsk. No such file or directory.
Failed to configure ide0:0.
The virtual machine cannot be powered on with an unconfigured disk."
=============
When I do a listing of the /windows98 directory, I can see only these files.
(0)root@myhost:~# ls /windows98
./ ../ win98.cfg* win98.log*
(0)root@myhost:~# mount
/dev/hda3 on /windows98 type msdos (rw)
EXT2 id
========
Now, I have even toggled the partition ID to ext2.
(0)root@myhost:~# fdisk /dev/hda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 357 2867571 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 358 383 208845 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 384 524 1132582+ 6 Linux native
Command (m for help): q
If I do a mount command:
/dev/hda3 on /windows98 type ext2 (rw)
Now, I try to poweron the virtual machine, I get the following message,
"Windows 98 has detected that drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32
partition. There are several possible causes. ......"
I have even tried to do a mkdosfs to the /dev/hda3 and that did not help.
Currently, I have a NT 4 installed as a guest OS on a virtual disk in a ext2
partition. I am not successful in installing Win98.
I don't know where I am missing a step. An outside opinion would help.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Subba Rao
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting MS-DOS File System Problems, e2fsck & Miscellaneous Questions
Date: 19 Jan 2001 06:02:39 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
In a message on Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:40:06 -0800, wrote :
%> Hoy!
%>
%> I am having trouble mounting volumes containing MS-DOS filesystems. I am using
%> Debian/GNU 2.2 and logged in as root. I can mount a 1.44MB diskette with msdos
%> but not a 720KB diskette - why?
%>
%> command: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
%> response: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
%> Transaction block size=512
%> VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00
%> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/fd0,
%> or too many mounted filesystems
%>
%> Do some msdos filesystems use FAT12?
%>
%> The 720KB diskette has been verified to be readable with MS-DOS.
Try:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0D720 /floppy
(or
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0h720 /floppy
)
%>
%> I have a HDD containing Linux ext2 partitions connected to the primary IDE
%> channel (hda), and a HDD containing an MS-DOS partition to the secondary
%> IDE channel (hdc). The MS-DOS version is 6.21. I created a symbolic link
%> to /dev/hdc called Winchester.
%> Why cannot I mount hdc?
%>
%> command: mount -r -t msdos /dev/hdc /Winchester
%> response: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
%> Transaction block size=512
%> VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 16:00
%> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/hdc,
%> or too many mounted filesystems
%>
Try:
mount -r -t msdos /dev/hdc1 /Winchester
(Hard disks have partition tables!)
%> I have a few miscellaneous questions. After reconfiguring XFree86 and running
%> it,
%> the system froze. I reset it, and when the system booted, it said that hda1 (and
%> others)
%> was not cleanly unmounted and check was enforced. Some partitions mounted read
%> only
%> and I tried to fix it with e2fsck but it said bad superblocks on some partitions
%> and bad magic number or something. I tried -av on e2fsck and -b 8193 and other
%> numbers,
%> but it kept saying to try -b 8193. Is there a way to repair the file system once
%> this
%> kind of damage has occurred without rewriting everything?
%>
%> I noticed when I had initialised the partions it reported the backup locations
%> of the
%> superblocks while it was writing the inode tables. I neglected to write them
%> down. Is there
%> a way to find out where backup superblocks are located?
%>
%> Is there a way to enable the print screen key? e.g. what's currently displayed
%> on tty1 to
%> be sent to lp0
%>
%> Is there a way to enable Alt+nnn character entry? e.g. in DOS and Windows you
%> can hold down
%> alt and type a number on the keypad to type a character that isn't on the
%> keyboard.
%>
%> gratis!
%>
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