Linux-Misc Digest #348, Volume #27 Tue, 13 Mar 01 05:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and
it won't boot with it. ("Newbie from Win98")
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and
it won't boot with it. ("Newbie from Win98")
oms_shell, omi_gtk failed to open video output plugin (IH)
Re: DPT SmartRAID VI on BIG server ("Deanna")
Re: Tar for backups - How big? (Michael Heiming)
Re: Patching the kernel - more info needed (Michael Heiming)
location of libraries ("Martin Collins")
How to "preload a glibc shared object"? (Gaurav Navlakha)
Re: r/w attribs when burning CDs for DOS (Lew Pitcher)
Re: location of libraries (Michael Heiming)
Redhat Linux7.0 i386 version BUG report ! (morpheus_w)
Does Linux support Pentium 4 CPU (Morris M M Law)
Re: ssh on RedHat 6.2 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: RPM difficulties ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: "Newbie from Win98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a
CD and it won't boot with it.
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 05:27:14 -0000
Thank you everybody, I worked it out with some help from a useful post in a
hardware newsgroup on CD's.
Nero - Nero wil try to launch a CD writing wizard. This wizard removes the
option to "Burn Image" from the File menu list. Cancel the wizard and then
the Burn Image option is back in the list. There is no mention of this in
the Nero help file - Nero ver 4.0.5.0. Nero is now on version 5 so maybe
this has been addressed.
The version of Nero that I have came with my Creative CD-RW package. No
doubt there are thousands of other people out there having this same
problem - Creative are probably one of the biggest sellers of CD-RW
solutions, at least in the UK.
Thanks again everyone for offering your suggestions and time, you are
appreciated.
Regards.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:zrYp6.2965$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.networking Newbie from Win98 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There is no mention anywhere on the SuSE FTP site of how to burn the ISO
> > image or make the ISO file write itself and aself expand at the same
time.
> > I've spent 2 days searching the internet and reading the HOT-TO's. None
of
> > them specifically say the whole steps involved to successfully download
an
> > ISO, burn it to a CD and make it a suitable start up disk - under
Windows.
>
> Hmm... You've caught me with a CD writing app that I know nothing
about...
> Search the help on that program, or see what you can find on the manuf.
site
> regarding writing a "disk image" to the CD, since that is what the ISO
is -
> as you have probably already gathered, from your own research and the
messages
> here....
>
> If you had Adaptec's Easy-CD Creator, well - then I could help, and maybe
> even with Sony Hotburn... But...
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Kris
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From: "Newbie from Win98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a
CD and it won't boot with it.
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 05:23:00 -0000
Don't be such an ass.
All it says on Tucows and SuSE and RedHat is that you "burn the ISO file to
a CD". It does not say that "burning" is different to copying. To a newbie
"burn" would appear to be slang for "writing files to a CD". I have often
heard people say "burn a backup onto a CD", which meant copy the backup
files on to a CD.
Peter if you are not capable of providing a helpful answer please don't feel
so impotent that you have be derogatory. Just because you don't know the
answer doesn't mean that you are stupid and useless, but by sending idiotic
replies this does prove that you are indeed quite useless and a waste of
space.
Regards.
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.misc Newbie from Win98 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There is no mention anywhere on the SuSE FTP site of how to burn the ISO
> > image or make the ISO file write itself and aself expand at the same
time.
>
> Don't be silly. When you copy a painting you don't copy the frame. When
> you copy a floppy you don't make a file the size of the first floppy
> inside the second. Copy means copy. Nothing more, nothing less.
>
> > I've spent 2 days searching the internet and reading the HOT-TO's. None
of
> > them specifically say the whole steps involved to successfully download
an
>
> Oh, go waaaay!
>
>
> > ISO, burn it to a CD and make it a suitable start up disk - under
Windows.
>
> Of course not. Ask in a windows helptherapy session for how you copy a
> cdrom.
>
> Peter
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From: IH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x.video,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: oms_shell, omi_gtk failed to open video output plugin
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:45:05 GMT
Hi,
I am using OMS 0.1.2, OMI 0.1.0, libcss 0.1.0 with an ATI
all-in-wonder-pro AGP 8M with kernel-2.4.2-9mdk and XFree86-4.0.2 as
well as the ATI package - ATI-4.0.2.i386.tar.gz - from linuxvideo.org.
I have xawtv working but I can't get omi_gtk or oms_shell to work. They
both report the an error on load see below. The common problems on the
linuxvideo.org site says:
error loading video plugin 'x11'
Recent versions of XFree86 (so far, 4.0.x) don't come with all the
shared libraries they should. You should notice that you have
/usr/local/lib/oms/plugins/display_x11.a but not
/usr/local/lib/oms/plugins/display_x11.so. If this is the case, run the
following commands:
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib
# ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXxf86dga.so libXxf86dga.a
# ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXv.so libXv.a
# /sbin/ldconfig -v
Now I checked for display_x11.so but it didn't exist so I followed the
above steps recompile css, oms, omi and tried again but it still didn't
work. I checked again for the display_x11.so but it still wasn't there
so I thought maybe i was supposed to "ld --whole-archive -shared -o
display_x11.so display_x11.a and that did create the file but now on
loading oms_shell gives me another error. I guess my problem is I don't
really know how the above commands were supposed to generate the
display_x11.so file?
<ORIGINAL ERROR>
LOG_INFO oms.c:oms_init#104 BUF allocated! 0x804b948
LOG_INFO video_out_sdl.c:_sdl_close#321 SDL video out: SDL Is
not opened. No need to continue sdl_close().
LOG_INFO video_out_sdl.c:_sdl_close#321 SDL video out: SDL Is
not opened. No need to continue sdl_close().
LOG_INFO render_mgr.c:_render_load#84 plugin_id 7 sys
LOG_INFO plugin_mgr.c:pluginLoad#533 loading plugin:
(output_audio_plugin) (null), sys
LOG_INFO plugin_mgr.c:plugin_find#424 plugin
/usr/local/lib/oms/plugins/audio_sys.so matched (null), sys : (null), sys
Opened audio device "/dev/dsp"
LOG_INFO audio_sys.c:_audio_sys_open#202 fragments = 256
fragstotal = 256
fragsize = 256
bytes = 65536
LOG_INFO render_mgr.c:_render_load#116 opening audio output
plugin succeed.
LOG_INFO render_mgr.c:_render_load#84 plugin_id 8 x11
LOG_INFO plugin_mgr.c:pluginLoad#533 loading plugin:
(output_video_plugin) (null), x11
LOG_ERROR render_mgr.c:_render_load#90 failed to open video
output plugin
<NEW ERROR>
LOG_INFO oms.c:oms_init#104 BUF allocated! 0x804b948
LOG_INFO video_out_sdl.c:_sdl_close#321 SDL video out: SDL Is
not opened. No need to continue sdl_close().
LOG_INFO video_out_sdl.c:_sdl_close#321 SDL video out: SDL Is
not opened. No need to continue sdl_close().
LOG_INFO render_mgr.c:_render_load#84 plugin_id 7 sys
LOG_INFO plugin_mgr.c:pluginLoad#533 loading plugin:
(output_audio_plugin) (null), sys
LOG_INFO plugin_mgr.c:plugin_find#424 plugin
/usr/local/lib/oms/plugins/audio_sys.so matched (null),
sys : (null), sys
Opened audio device "/dev/dsp"
LOG_INFO audio_sys.c:_audio_sys_open#202 fragments = 256
fragstotal = 256
fragsize = 256
bytes = 65536
LOG_INFO render_mgr.c:_render_load#116 opening audio output
plugin succeed.
LOG_INFO render_mgr.c:_render_load#84 plugin_id 8 x11
LOG_INFO plugin_mgr.c:pluginLoad#533 loading plugin:
(output_video_plugin) (null), x11
LOG_INFO plugin_mgr.c:plugin_find#424 plugin
/usr/local/lib/oms/plugins/display_x11.so matched (null), x11 : (null), x11
oms_shell: error while loading shared libraries:
/usr/local/lib/oms/plugins/display_x11.so: undefined symbol: XOpenDisplay
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From: "Deanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DPT SmartRAID VI on BIG server
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:59:07 GMT
Hey
I work for Adaptec writing the driver for that card. The problem is that
the default configuration has 1G of vm space for the kernel. When the
kernel initializes the first thing it does is map all of available RAM into
the kernel vm space (leaving a 64M moat at the top). This space is used for
loading modules and ioremapping. The old driver would try to map the 1M of
io space for the i2o transactions plus all of the cache on the card into the
kernel vm space. Depending on how many modules you have loaded and how much
cache you have, you quickly run out of free vm mapping. To compound the
problem the vmalloc routine did not always properly return NULL when it ran
out of space, so when the driver loaded it did not get mapped but it did not
know it.
One fix for the problem is to recompile the kernel with the 2G option set
(BIGMEM does not seem to fix it). The other is to try the new driver. It
has a much smaller memory footprint and does not try to map in the cache.
Contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the new driver.
Deanna
"Doug Forbush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:96e1nn$hfm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I put together a linux box at work here, it has the DPT smartRaid VI.. It
> also has 2G of RAM on it.. The install was great, simple kernel patch,
> compile and install.. The RAID works great IF I tell linux that there is
> only 900M RAM.. I'm not sure exactly how high I can go, but at 960M, the
> RAID initialization fails and /dev/sdc is not there..
>
> Any ideas on why this happens and how to get back over a gig of RAM?
>
> doug
>
>
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:44:12 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tar for backups - How big?
Doug Poulin wrote:
>
> If I use tar for backing up data (maybe with -z for compression), and I
> have about 80GB to backup, what do you suppose the size of the
> compressed archive might be?
Depends on what kind of data you want to compress, you could use -I for
bzip2 compression, which has better compress ratio then gzip.
Anyway, I wouldn't use compression on backups, only hw compression, if your tape
supports that. If your tape gets flacky, compressed data will be lost, without
gzip/bzip2 you will only loose the one file that is broken on your tape.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
> Are there better compression tools I could
> use? I know the size of the compressed archive is highly dependent, but
> even rough ideas would be fine.
>
> Thanks.
>
> While I'm at it, anyone have any luck with network attached storage and
> Linux?
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:52:56 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Patching the kernel - more info needed
Paul Lew wrote:
>
> I've read the "howto" for the "patching the kernel" in the howto for the
> kernel; also have read the man pages.
Really, than you must have a different Kernel-Howto?
> Both do not provide enough info
> as nowhere is mentioned the prompt for "file to patch:". It took me a while
> to figure out that it meant the *patch* file itself and NOT the file
> I want to patch.
>
> I got the "file to patch" prompt about 3 times in trying to patch the
> 2.4.2 kernel with the patch-2.4.2-ac18 in hopes of fixing my timezone
> problem as there is a patch for the timezone stuff. Now, how long
> should I expect the patch to run as it is now 4 hrs on my 900 mhz athlon
> and still going;
I would suggest that it should take below 1 sec to aply the patch on your machine.
> is the patch patching the kernel 3 times since I entered
> the patchfile name 3 times??? Should I have just press the enter key
> when prompted on the 2nd & 3rd times??
>
> Something must be wrong as it is takeing VERY much longer to patch than
> to update the kernel from scratch....will probably kill the process after
> watching tv....oh, I used "patch -e -p0 -i patch-2.4.2-ac18".
Huh, the Kernel-Howto (the one I have) suggests:
"patch -p0 < patch46" (if the patch isn't compressed)
Michael Heiming
>
> Help!!!????
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From: "Martin Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: location of libraries
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:40:27 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to get afterstep to work on my Caldera eDesktop 2.3 system.
Afterstep complains
that it can't find libjpeg.so.6 However "locate" tells me there are a couple
of libjpeg.so.6's
on the system. How do I tell afterstep where one of them is?
Thanks,
Martin.
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From: Gaurav Navlakha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to "preload a glibc shared object"?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 01:44:06 -0600
Hi all,
I'm trying to make RealPlayer run on linux with a
patch available at www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen. It says that there is a
shared object that must be preloaded when running RealPlayer.
If someone can please look at this site and figure out and let me know
how to go about doing this, I should be grateful.
Thanks very much,
Gaurav.
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: r/w attribs when burning CDs for DOS
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:47:41 -0500
malicorne wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am making backups of Win/DOS data on CDROM using mkisofs and cdrecord.
> Works all right, but when I copy this data in a directory to use with
> Windows every single file is marked as read-only, which is not very useful
> and a bit of a hassle to fix since the DOS attrib command is not recursive
> on sub-directories I think.
>
> Here's what I do to burn the files on CD:
>
> After copying the data I want to burn in a temp directory I use:
>
> mkisofs -r -J -l -V "Volume" -o cd_image disktemp/
/
Here ------' is your problem. Don't use the -r flag in mkisofs, and
your files won't be marked as read-only. From the `man mkisofs` manual
page:
-r This is like the -R option, but file ownership and
modes are set to more useful values. The uid and
gid are set to zero, because they are usually only
useful on the author's system, and not useful to
the client. All the file read bits are set true,
so that files and directories are globally readable
on the client. If any execute bit is set for a
file, set all of the execute bits, so that executa-
bles are globally executable on the client. If any
search bit is set for a directory, set all of the
search bits, so that directories are globally
searchable on the client. **ALL WRITE BITS ARE
CLEARED**, because the CD-Rom will be mounted read-
only in any case. If any of the special mode bits
are set, clear them, because file locks are not
useful on a read-only file system, and set-id bits
are not desirable for uid 0 or gid 0.
**my emphasis**
> And with the cd_image I use to burn:
>
> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image
>
> I use the RockRidge extensions, then the Joliet format for better
> compatibility with Windows, and then the -l switch to allow long filenames.
>
> Is there a way to make the files readily readable _and_ writable once
> copied to disk from the CD ?
>
> Alain
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:36:01 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: location of libraries
Martin Collins wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get afterstep to work on my Caldera eDesktop 2.3 system.
> Afterstep complains
> that it can't find libjpeg.so.6 However "locate" tells me there are a couple
> of libjpeg.so.6's
> on the system. How do I tell afterstep where one of them is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin.
Hello,
check /etc/ld.so.conf
add the path to the needed libs, you have on your system, to this file and run:
ldconfig -v
Done...
Michael Heiming
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From: morpheus_w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat Linux7.0 i386 version BUG report !
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:30:03 -0000
Linux7.0 i386 version BUG report:
I'm sure everything I've done is correct when I install 7.0 on my machine
with Monitor type "Mitisubishi Diamond Scan 50", but It just can't detect
it correctly, and after I start X, all applications on screen appear
TRANSPARENT WINDOW, I got no clue if that's not BUG.
Any ideas on what the problem may be if that's not bug?
Thanks advance!
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Morris M M Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Linux support Pentium 4 CPU
Date: 14 Mar 2001 00:36:10 GMT
Dear Linux users,
Did anyone run Linux on Pentium 4 1.5GHz CPU? I just want to instead
in one of the new machine that run the above processor and the installation
fail when booting the kernel.
I am using RH 7.0. Both CDROM and network install failed.
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Regards,
--
Morris Law
Assistant Computer Officer Address : 224 Waterloo Road, KLN, Hong Kong
Science Faculty Tel : (852) 23395909 Fax : (852) 23395862
Hong Kong Baptist University WWW : http://www.sci.hkbu.edu.hk/~morris
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 6380626
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ssh on RedHat 6.2
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:45:20 +0100
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:40:20 GMT, buffalo staggered into the Black Sun
> and said:
>>I'm trying to install ssh rpms on my RedHat 6.2 box. New versions of
>>initscripts and glibc are required. I've heard I can break my system
>>by switching to the higher version of glibc. Is this true? What
>>advice?
> Compile ssh from source? All the initscripts would do is start sshd at
> some point; you can just put "/usr/local/sbin/sshd" into
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local for that. I have no idea why ssh requires a glibc
> upgrade; I have compiled ssh and openssh on machines with glibc 2.0 and
> 2.1 with no problems.
Ditto libc5.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM difficulties
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:09:19 +0100
Andrew McGillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been having difficulty using RPMs in Corel Linux. I use Corel update
I would hope so! It should use .debs. It's a debian derivative, not a
redhat derivative.
> to make sure I have all of the libs required by the app I'm trying to install,
Well, that would be orthogonal.
> but Corel update tells me that there are conflicts, then I continue, and it
Good.
> tells me there are missing libs. It then says "cannot convert rpm to debian
That's also good.
> package" or something like that. How do I correct this?
There's nothing to correct. Those are facts. You shouldn't be using
rpms in the first place - but I am glad to see that debian is
converting them to debs, thus debianizing them, and thus utilizing
its own database instead of rpm's.
If it says it can't convert an rpm, then I presume its an rpm4 instead
of an rpm3 - and thus probably also binary incompatible (not merely
configuration-incompatible). SO you don't want it, even more than
you usually don't want it.
But without details we can't say with any accuracy.
Peter
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