Linux-Misc Digest #378, Volume #27 Sat, 17 Mar 01 11:13:02 EST
Contents:
Afreey DD-3206E DVD access problem (Andrew Ebling)
Re: Bootable backup CDs (Andrew Ebling)
Please help (login denied, but strange) ("Messi")
Re: XF86Config files (Richard D. McRoberts)
How can I boot Primary Slave with LILO? ("Chris Fancia")
Re: Extracting the bootimage from a bootable (El Torito) CD ? ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Please help (login denied, but strange) (Michael Heiming)
Re: 10 gig disk in a 500 meg BIOS ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Free e-mail account question. (Carl Fink)
bash environment (Goodyear)
RE: Re: PPP dialer that handles dynamic one-time passwords. (Will Renkel)
Re: KDE must learn from GNOME (Michael Perry)
xinetd (telnet) problems with RHL7 ("Clint Laskowski")
Re: Scrambled mouse cursor in X11? (Bob Hauck)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Ebling)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Afreey DD-3206E DVD access problem
Date: 17 Mar 2001 10:01:34 GMT
Hi all,
I am having problems using the above dvd drive in linux (also sold under
the name I/O Magic x6 DVD. I do not seem to be able to access past 2.5GB
or so. If I mount a disc (either as udf or iso9660) and run file on the
contents I get the following output:
/dvd/video_ts/video_ts.bup: data
/dvd/video_ts/video_ts.ifo: data
/dvd/video_ts/video_ts.vob: MPEG system stream data
/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_0.bup: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_0.ifo: data
/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_0.vob: MPEG system stream data
/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob: MPEG system stream data
/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_2.vob: MPEG system stream data
/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_3.vob: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_4.vob: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_5.vob: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_6.vob: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_02_0.bup: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_02_0.ifo: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_02_0.vob: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_02_1.vob: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_03_0.bup: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_03_0.ifo: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_03_0.vob: file: read failed (Input/output error).
/dvd/video_ts/vts_03_1.vob: file: read failed (Input/output error).
And in /var/log/messages (last few lines):
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: 16:40: rw=0, want=5953194, limit=1311236
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: 16:40: rw=0, want=5953210, limit=1311236
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: 16:40: rw=0, want=5953212, limit=1311236
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: 16:40: rw=0, want=5953384, limit=1311236
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Mar 17 09:56:12 debian kernel: 16:40: rw=0, want=5953386, limit=1311236
df reports the capacity of the disc correctly:
/dev/hdd 5954922 5954922 0 100% /dvd
however /proc/ide/hdd/capacity gives it as 2622472.
If I mount the drive via ide-scsi I can read even less of it!
I know of at least one other linux user with the same drive who has the
same problems... please can you mail me if you have the same experience
with this or any other DVD drive.
regards,
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Ebling)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Bootable backup CDs
Date: 17 Mar 2001 10:13:05 GMT
Could I recommend mondo backup... it creates multiple CD backups of your
system from linux (it can even backup windows partitions), the first of
which is bootable.
Find it in freshmeat.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:15:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
: wrote:
: > On 12 Mar 2001 00:56:48 GMT, Ed Ohsone staggered into the Black Sun and said:
: > >I would like to make backups of my hard drives on multiple CDs.
: > >It seems there are some tools for linux, like cdrecord, but
: > >I do not know if there exist tools which can create bootable CDs.
: > >
: > >MS Windows world has some tools capable of this task.
: > >Are there any in linux world?
: > >Since my system is mutiboot with win95, linux6.1, freeBSD, Solarisx86, etc,
: > >each of them taking about 2GB, ideal tool should be able to create bootable
: > >CDs for all of the OSs.
: > >
: > >I am not familiar with booting mechanism. So there may be some
: > >special way of creating bootable CDs with cnventional tools like cdrecord.
: > >
: > >I would appreciate any pointer/comment.
: >
: > cdrecord does not create a bootable CD; it just takes an ISO9660 image
: > and writes it to a CD. Check the man page for mkisofs, paying attention
: > to the -b and -c options.
: Well, what does the bios look for on the cd when 'boot from cd' is
: enabled and 'atapi cdrom found' is issued? Is there a separate small
: image of some sort that provides a root image and maybe atapi cdrom
: drivers for immediate use by the otherwise bare system?
: > The basic idea is that you create a 1.4 or
: > 2.8M floppy image, then specify the name of that image to mkisofs in the
: > -b option. I don't think you can specify more than one boot image
: > though. However, if you get the 2.8M image of Tom's RootBoot, you can
: > make a bootable CD that will boot into a Linux rescue system that has
: > enough stuff to recover any Linux installation. If you choose an
: > appropriate format for your backups, you can probably use Tom's to
: > restore Win9x, *BSD, and Solarisx86 installations as well.
: >
: > Check freshmeat.net for CD-R backup tools. The 2.8M Tom's image is
: > available at http://www.toms.net/rb/ .
: >
: --
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From: "Messi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help (login denied, but strange)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:43:38 GMT
Hi all!
I have a really serious problem with my Linux box which is running RedHat
7.0.
My RH 7 with Lotus Domino 5.0.3 worked perfectly, until Domino began to make
problems (see my post in comp.groupware.lotus-notes);
Now my Linux doesn't let me log in, neither as root nor as any other use
present. It is a bit strange because start up completes normally, even
shutdown is ok (via Ctrl+Alt+Del!) and I have ftp-access (all daemons and
services start up correctly); However, when I log in on the server console I
enter the login (e.g. "root") and... nothing happens. I can then press
Ctrl+C and can try again, no matter whih console/user combination I try, I'm
never asked for user's password.
I tried via telnet then, but it doesn't help... telnet, although running,
doesn't even ask me for my username (but it sends the "RedHat Linux 7
(Guiness)..." message to the client)
Please help, I'm really stuck
kind regards
Messi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard D. McRoberts)
Subject: Re: XF86Config files
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Mar 2001 04:51:38 -0500
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:02:03 -0500, charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>What's the difference between XF86Config and XF86Config-4? Are
>both files used if I have XFree86 4.0.1 installed? If I want to
>add a second input device to get a touchpad and a mouse both
>work at the same time, do I have to add new sections in both
>of these files?
It is possible to have installed (for example) both XFree86 3.3.6
(which uses XF86Config) and XFree86 4.0.x (which uses XF86Config-4).
A typical example is the system with which I'm familiar, Red Hat 7.
They supplied both versions in order to support a wider range of
hardware. Which server is actually being run is selected by what
the symbolic link /etc/X11/X points to. For example, if it points
to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86, that'll be XFree86 4.0.x. If you didn't
happen to know that, you could learn it on a Red Hat or other
RPM-based system by
rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
Another common configuration is when /etc/X11/X points to
/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86_SVGA, which belongs to XFree86 3.3.6 on
recent systems.
Hope this helps.
Richard D. McRoberts
Union, WV USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chris Fancia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I boot Primary Slave with LILO?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:05:13 +0800
I have a 40GB harddisk installed on my computer.
I put a chinese win2k & a chinese win-me on it.
And I want to boot them with LILO without changing the BIOS settings.
When I try it ( I typed the os name and hit enter ),
it said :
Loading cwin2k [ cwin2k is my chinese win2k label ]
L? [ i don't know what is it ]
And the chinese win-me got the same result without the L? line.
I typed the following things in my /etc/lilo.conf:
boot = /dev/hda
delay = 100
vga = normal
default = linux
compact
.. [ my linux configurations ] ...
... [ my eng win2k configuration on /dev/hda1 ] ...
other = /dev/hdb1 # This is the problem chinese win2k
table = /dev/hdb
label = cwin2k
other = /dev/hdb2 # The chinese win-me
table = /dev/hdb
label = cwinme
I also tried linuxconf.But it didn't work.
Thanks
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Extracting the bootimage from a bootable (El Torito) CD ?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:25:16 GMT
"Juergen Pfann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Rainer Krienke wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > dd if=/path/to/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
> > >
> >
> > This is roughly the image but not exactly. It seems that there is still
a header
> > in front of the image because the first 1440K contain for example the
options of
> > mkisofs, the command the ISO filesystem on the CD was created with.
> > Thats why I asked for a tool that exactly extracts only the image
leaving all
> > other iso9660 stuff alone).
> >
>
boot.img is the standard installation boot diskette image - it does not need
be the same the CD is booting from.
The real boot diskette image is outside of the file system, pointed to by a
pointer in the CD contents catalog. There may actually be several different
boot images on an El Torito CD.
IMHO, the only way to get the real boot image is to follow the links.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:27:39 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help (login denied, but strange)
Messi wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I have a really serious problem with my Linux box which is running RedHat
> 7.0.
> My RH 7 with Lotus Domino 5.0.3 worked perfectly, until Domino began to make
> problems (see my post in comp.groupware.lotus-notes);
> Now my Linux doesn't let me log in, neither as root nor as any other use
> present. It is a bit strange because start up completes normally, even
> shutdown is ok (via Ctrl+Alt+Del!) and I have ftp-access (all daemons and
> services start up correctly); However, when I log in on the server console I
> enter the login (e.g. "root") and... nothing happens. I can then press
> Ctrl+C and can try again, no matter whih console/user combination I try, I'm
> never asked for user's password.
> I tried via telnet then, but it doesn't help... telnet, although running,
> doesn't even ask me for my username (but it sends the "RedHat Linux 7
> (Guiness)..." message to the client)
>
> Please help, I'm really stuck
>
> kind regards
>
> Messi
Hello,
boot a rescue system from your distro CD, mount your / to /mnt
and check the various logfiles in /mnt/var/log may be this gives
you a clue what went wrong. Post real data from those files if
you can't get it right on yourself.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 10 gig disk in a 500 meg BIOS
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:59:40 +0100
> /boot and this would be where your kernel image is. The kernel has
> to be under 1023 cylinders entirely (newer Lilos don't need this anymore),
They probably wont work with a MoBo this old.
The new LILO's use the so called extended int13 calls, which are
a way to overcome the problems of the disk access calls, that
could only address up to 1024 cylinders. Old BIOS's have no
support for these calls
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: Free e-mail account question.
Date: 17 Mar 2001 13:30:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:37:52 GMT Mordak <[email protected]> wrote:
>Are there any free email account services that can be accessed by telnet? I
>don't have actual web access at work just usenet, telnet, ftp and company
>email. I used to have an ISP that ran Red Hat Linux 6.2 on their server and
>it was real easy to log in and check my mail. I can't do that with
>roadrunner. :-(
You could have a cron job that runs fetchmail, and a mail server on
your home (presumably Linux) computer, and sshd (not telnetd unless
you like having people hack into your system) so you could check from
work, assuming work lets you run ssh.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I-Con's Science and Technology Programming
<http://www.iconsf.org/>
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From: Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bash environment
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 09:27:00 -0500
Hi
I have made some changes to the bash environment (KDEDIRS=/opt/kde2) in
/etc/profile and etc/cinfig.d/shells/bashrc but they don't stick. Is there
some other place where Caldera put a setup file that I don't know about?
--
thanks....Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Renkel)
Subject: RE: Re: PPP dialer that handles dynamic one-time passwords.
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:25:59 +0000 (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) writes:
>In John Marley writes:
>
>]Our company has decided to implement strong authentication for dial-in
>]access. They've issued us all with hardware tokens that generate a dynamic
>]password when we enter our PIN. Obviously, I can't put a dynamic password
>]into my chat script (can I?) so is there a ppp dialer that automates all
>]the modem configuration and dialing bits, but propmts the user for username
>]and password? I've look in FAQ's and HOWTO's but can't seem to find
>]anything.
>
>See some programs at
> http://www.inetport.com/~kite/
>-- SecurID and chatbypipe which may do what you want. These are by now
>somewhat older files for older versions of chat (although as far as I
>know chat has changed very little).
Why not?
I do the following:
I have the script with place for the dynamic passwd coded like ...PPAASSWWOORRDD.
Then I wrote a shell script with one arg - the dynamic passwd -
and it uses sed to modify the script and start it.
NOTE: this only works on my demand (manual) start up.
--
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Will Renkel
Wheaton, Ill.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Golf and bowling are not a matter of life and death ...
they transcend such trivial matters!"
"da little BIG DOG!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: KDE must learn from GNOME
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:26:51 -0000
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:35:27 -0300, Mad@Spammers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
><...>
>> I guess the point of all this is simple... RPM is not a bad way
>> to package files, but some sort of automatic system for dependencies
>> is sorely needed. It would even be enough for it to (at least
>> temporarily) to have a slightly longer depends field, which could
>> be used by the developoer to add the name of a package that would
>> contain the file that would fulfill the dependency. Not a perfect
>> solution, but I would say that it would help out a lot...
>
>apt-get has been recently ported to support rpm packages. Take a look
>at:
>
>http://en.conectiva.com/linux/
The main point that someone else brought up are accurate I believe. But I
think debian also offers a rich experience with multiple version levels of
their distribution that one can play with (perhaps even break and learn, fix
and try again). I am probably a novice at the real power of things like
dpkg and apt; but one thing I have grokked is that apt is truly a remarkable
little thing and combine that with almost 4000 packages and 3 different
levels, and you have either the setting for a great one person shooter game
or one of the great Linux distributions of all time :)
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Clint Laskowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: xinetd (telnet) problems with RHL7
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:08:33 GMT
Hi. I'm kinda new to inetd, but have been using variants of *nix for years.
I installed RH7 from the RHL7 Bible book (workstation install with GNOME).
Works fine. But, when I try to telnet to the system from another machine on
my network, I can't. So, I did a port scan and found smtp, sun-rpc, spooler
and motorola cable modem test ports open (25, 111, 515, and 1024). Seems
kinda strange. No telnet (port 23).
According to my boot dialog, inetd does start. But, there is nothing in my
/etc/xinetd.d directory other than linuxconf-web, which again seems weird
(no xinetd.conf files and no xinetd.conf on my system).
This is a completely fresh RHL7 install. I did nothing to it but install and
check for telnet services.
What am I doing wrong? Was I suppose to do the server install?
Any help will be appreciated. Since I'm having trouble with my machines, an
email to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be appreciated.
Sorry if this is the wrong group or a newbie or FAQ question. I searched for
an answer but couldn't find any.
-- clint
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Scrambled mouse cursor in X11?
Reply-To: bobh = haucks dot org
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:43:45 GMT
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:01:12 -0800, Doug O'Leary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I just got a new monitor, plugged it in, reran the Xconfigurator,
>selected the right monitor, what not.
>
>When I get into X11, everything looks great except the mouse cursor; it's
>all scrambled and shifting back and forth. Only the mouse cursor.
Some video cards have problems with the hardware mouse cursor at high
dot clocks. My cirrus-based laptop for instance. The fix in my case
was to put "Option sw_cursor" in the Device section of XF86Config.
Maybe your card has a similar option.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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