Linux-Misc Digest #13, Volume #28 Sun, 3 Jun 01 01:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: how to deal with 1024 cylinder limitation when installing rh7.1? (Robert Heller)
Re: 2GB File size limitation ("Dave Mann")
Re: Remote X sessions. ("Joel")
Re: I need a really small distro for an old puter (Rob Hazlewood)
Re: how to deal with 1024 cylinder limitation when installing rh7.1? ("ThanhVu
Nguyen")
gcc version in RH 7.0, 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 (Timur Aydin)
Re: sshd - slow initializing connection (David Efflandt)
Re: gcc version in RH 7.0, 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 (Dave Uhring)
Mozilla a memory hog (Timur Aydin)
Re: how to deal with 1024 cylinder limitation when installing rh7.1? (Dave Uhring)
Re: Most frustrating experience ever... (Dave Uhring)
Re: CD Burning/SCSI emulation with RH 7.1 (David Efflandt)
Re: how to deal with 1024 cylinder limitation when installing rh7.1?
("news1.sympatico.ca")
Re: help a newbie? ("news1.sympatico.ca")
Re: portmap ("news1.sympatico.ca")
i386, i586, i686? ("Tom Edelbrok")
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to deal with 1024 cylinder limitation when installing rh7.1?
Date: 3 Jun 2001 03:32:14 GMT
"ThanhVu Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:47:46 -0400, wrote :
"N> I have a 20 gigs hd, 10 gigs for windows 2k and another 10 gigs planning
"N> to put linux rh7.1 on it.
"N> I search at google and found couple of posts for this but most are suggested
"N> to move the /boot to the first 8 gig but that is where my w2k resides, and I
"N> don't want to have it removed (I am not a fan of parition magic either).
"N> What can I do ? Can I use the fdisk option instead of disk druid ? If so,
"N> how to do without causing any damage to other partitions ?
"N>
"N> ps : once I am 'in' linux, I can update lilo with lba32 supported, but now I
"N> can't seem to figure out how to do it.
You don't *have* to even install lilo, if you can't install a version no
free of the '1024 cylinder' curse. You can just make a boot floppy. A
boot floppy will *always* work, no matter where /boot is. Once things
are installed from CD, you can upgrade lilo.
Actually, I understand that the lilo that comes with rh7.1 is free of
the '1024 cylinder' curse (assuming you have a 'modern' BIOS), but the
install script is ignorant of the 'lba32' option. What you do in this
case is install lilo (but it won't work) *AND* make a boot floppy. Once
the install completes, don't even try to boot directly from the HD -- boot
with the floppy and fix /etc/lilo.conf (put in the lba32 option). Then
re-run lilo to install a 'fixed' boot loader.
"N>
"N> Thanks for all inputs
"N>
"N>
"N>
--
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Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: "Dave Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2GB File size limitation
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 03:16:07 GMT
"Aniartia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9f9uv5$sd7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > My advice: just don't. Why do you need big files, anyway?
>
> An audio enginer that uses a lot of computerised equipment.
> 2Gb = ~7:17 min of 32 channel audio
> So when recording say a 2 hour session I expect to eat the greater part of
> a 40Gb hard drive.
>
> Ani
Use BeOS instead for audio production. It was designed with audio
engineering in mind (among other multimedia uses)
Try it, You'll like it. www.beos.com www.bebits.com
Dave
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From: "Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remote X sessions.
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:10:36 -0500
Thanks, I'll try that, but is there a way to (at boot) start that X server,
instead of running it locally? X starts automaticaly when I boot, can it
start the remote session instead? Thanks for your info.
"ToZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:HdgS6.2419$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Joel wrote:
>
> > Hi. I have Redhat installed on a slow comp, but will soon be installing
> > on
> > a fast one. I want the slow computer to log on to the fast one. What
do
> > I
> > have to do to set this type of thing up? I know it's possible, but how?
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> switch to a virtual console, log in as root and...
>
> X :1 -depth 16 -query x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is ip address of fast
> server)
>
> man X -> if you want more info
>
> [ Tony ]
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From: Rob Hazlewood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need a really small distro for an old puter
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:43:18 +1000
Hi,
machine with 8 meg of ram and 216 meg hard drive can do more than use lynx!
poor little thing..
get debian, and remove most of the daemons. Recompile the kernel to your
own needs (there should be a howto on this..), and you have yourself with
quite a capable machine. I'm not sure if it will like the idea of running
x, but you can always try. If you do, make sure you use a lightweight
window manager (if at all).
This will make the machine useful for anything for things such as email,
newsgroups, programming, icq, lynx..the list goes on - all the stuff that
you would use a more powerful machine for (minus graphics)
Just avoid graphics and you will do fine :)
Rob
Dennis Robbins wrote:
> Missy wrote:
>
>> I have a PS/2 56 or 57 made in 1992 with OS/2 currently on it. I know
>> nothing about OS/2, nor really want it. I got this puter to put Linux on
>> and tinker with it without destroying my parents puter. lol Does anyone
>> have suggestions of what distro to put on it? It has a 216MB hard drive
>> and 8MB of RAM, a floppy drive, and a 'cd-rom reader with a caddy' that
>> I've yet to install. Thanks!
>>
>> Missy
>
> Theres a few out there but the one that pops into mind is pygmy linux. I'm
> not sure how you'd get to run on os2 but I know it installs on a dos
> drive(maybe you can put dos on it). I tried an older pygmy on a 386 with
> 4meg of ram, stuck an old NE2000 ethernet card in it(I had sygate running
> on anotherbox in the other room with windows...its a proxy software) and
> set up the 386 to go to the win boxs ip as a host, launched lynx and was
> crusing the web in text mode. Believe it or not it was fast(no pics). I
> could ftp, telnet...............really don't know all that pygmy is
> capable of.............but it ain't bad.
>
> Let me know how it does
>
>
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From: "ThanhVu Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to deal with 1024 cylinder limitation when installing rh7.1?
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:41:37 -0400
I understand that I don't have to install lilo, I used to boot to linux from
floppy and make a new /etc/lilo.conf to fit my needs (to dual boot with
windows)
But this is not the case now since I can't install RH, it won't let me
continue further (installing lilo and making floppy are later options). I
get stuck at the disk druid's partition edit. It seems like my only choice
is use fdisk, but I am not sure if it would work, and how to use it.
> You don't *have* to even install lilo, if you can't install a version no
> free of the '1024 cylinder' curse. You can just make a boot floppy. A
> boot floppy will *always* work, no matter where /boot is. Once things
> are installed from CD, you can upgrade lilo.
>
> Actually, I understand that the lilo that comes with rh7.1 is free of
> the '1024 cylinder' curse (assuming you have a 'modern' BIOS), but the
> install script is ignorant of the 'lba32' option. What you do in this
> case is install lilo (but it won't work) *AND* make a boot floppy. Once
> the install completes, don't even try to boot directly from the HD -- boot
> with the floppy and fix /etc/lilo.conf (put in the lba32 option). Then
> re-run lilo to install a 'fixed' boot loader.
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From: Timur Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gcc version in RH 7.0, 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:47:15 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Why doesn't RH 7.0 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 use stable and released versions of
the gcc compiler (2.95.3 currently) and instead use a development snapshot
2.96?
Is it possible to use gcc 2.95.3 on these platforms? Two issues come to
mind:
- Can (or should) gcc 2.95.3 be built using 2.96 ?
- There are many programs that depend on libstdc++ 2.96. How would you
replace this with libstdc++ 2.95.3?
Timur.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.questions,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: sshd - slow initializing connection
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 03:50:16 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 02 Jun 2001, inetquestion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running redhat 7.1 and was reading an article about different
> methods of starting sshd. One problem I noticed is that the
> connection to the server is very slow. The article mentioned
> that this could be because the services is restarting evertime a
> connection is attemped instead of running all the time.
>
> Can anyone one offer an performance tuning to sshd or maybe
> some other areas I should look into.
There have been many replies about correct DNS setup, but I don't even
think that is an issue if running as a daemon. When I connect ssh to
another box on my LAN it is connected in about 2 seconds (RSA passphrase
auth using ssh-agent). Other shell accounts on the internet take 3-5
seconds (unless high load ave).
On the other hand local telnet will not connect until I am either
connected to the internet (nameserver) or DNS times out if not connected
(about a minute).
If you are starting sshd from (x)inetd, then there may be a startup delay
for sshd, plus a delay for DNS lookup, like I get for telnet.
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc version in RH 7.0, 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:55:11 -0500
Timur Aydin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why doesn't RH 7.0 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 use stable and released versions
> of the gcc compiler (2.95.3 currently) and instead use a development
> snapshot 2.96?
>
> Is it possible to use gcc 2.95.3 on these platforms? Two issues come to
> mind:
>
> - Can (or should) gcc 2.95.3 be built using 2.96 ?
>
> - There are many programs that depend on libstdc++ 2.96. How would you
> replace this with libstdc++ 2.95.3?
>
> Timur.
>
>
Install the compat.XXXX rpms and get kgcc. mv /usr/bin/gcc
/usr/bin/gcc-2.96, ln -s /usr/bin/kgcc /usr/bin/gcc.
Don't try to replace gcc-2.96 with gcc-2.95.3, you'll regret it.
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From: Timur Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mozilla a memory hog
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:02:25 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I run the mozilla browser, it creates five threads, each using about
20 megs of memory. The total memory usage is therefore 100 megs and boy, it
is sloooow !!!
Timur.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to deal with 1024 cylinder limitation when installing rh7.1?
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:58:31 -0500
ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
> I understand that I don't have to install lilo, I used to boot to linux
> from floppy and make a new /etc/lilo.conf to fit my needs (to dual boot
> with windows)
>
> But this is not the case now since I can't install RH, it won't let me
> continue further (installing lilo and making floppy are later options). I
> get stuck at the disk druid's partition edit. It seems like my only
> choice is use fdisk, but I am not sure if it would work, and how to use
> it.
>
>
>> You don't *have* to even install lilo, if you can't install a version no
>> free of the '1024 cylinder' curse. You can just make a boot floppy. A
>> boot floppy will *always* work, no matter where /boot is. Once things
>> are installed from CD, you can upgrade lilo.
>>
>> Actually, I understand that the lilo that comes with rh7.1 is free of
>> the '1024 cylinder' curse (assuming you have a 'modern' BIOS), but the
>> install script is ignorant of the 'lba32' option. What you do in this
>> case is install lilo (but it won't work) *AND* make a boot floppy. Once
>> the install completes, don't even try to boot directly from the HD --
>> boot
>> with the floppy and fix /etc/lilo.conf (put in the lba32 option). Then
>> re-run lilo to install a 'fixed' boot loader.
>
>
>
>
I have RedHat-7.1 installed 33GB inward on a 45GB drive. You have other
problems. Lilo, BTW, works perfectly booting Mandrake 8 from /dev/hda1,
FreeBSD from /dev/hda2, Solaris 8 from /dev/hda3 and Red Hat from /dev/hda6.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Most frustrating experience ever...
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:03:51 -0500
MH wrote:
> I have 3 boxen on a LAN each with different distro/version of Linux.
> Originally, all boxes were configured with RH 6.0 and I was able to SEND
> and RECEIVE mail messages on ALL boxen.
>
> I have since installed RH 7.1 and Progeny 1.0 and can no longer send AND
> receive mail on ANY of the boxen except the RH 6.0 box. The box with RH
> 7.1 can send but not receive. The box with Progeny 1.0 can receive but
> not
> send. I've spent several hours reading info pages and pouring over the
> HOWTOs and still have not found anything appears to address the problem.
> I've tried posting to NGs for an answer and have basically gotten no
> response.
>
> Since I've heard that Postfix was easier to configure and manage, I
> decided
> to try and install it on the RH 7.1 box (Progeny box runs Postfix). Now I
> can neither send nor receive on the RH 7.1 box!!!
>
> All installations except the latter were done using the default software
> supplied by the distro (sendmail for RH, postfix for Progeny). In the
> latter case, I installed postfix via RPM. All settings are default
> settings.
>
> IS THERE A REASON THE LASTEST DISTROS SEEM TO HAVE DISABLED MAIL SERVICES?
>
Yes, the earlier releases were so full of root holes that Red Hat finally
got smart enough to release a secure version. RedHat-7.0 as released was
easier to root than Windoze.
Read the release notes on CD 1 to find out how to fix your problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: CD Burning/SCSI emulation with RH 7.1
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 04:04:42 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 03 Jun 2001, Name too long
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 00:53:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 19:41:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>I used to have RH 7.0 running the 2.2 kernel, and then I upgraded to 7.1
>>>with the 2.4 kernel. Both of my CD drives (IDEs) were working under
>>>/dev/scd0 (the reader 0,0,0) and /dev/scd1 (the burner 0,1,0). After
>>>the upgrade, kudzu found my CD-ROM drive for some reason and added it to
>>>/etc/hosts even though it was already set under /dev/scd0. It is no
>>>longer recognized as being SCSI. My CD burner was left at /dev/scd1 and
>>>is still recognized as a SCSI device, but is now at 0,0,0. cdrecord's
>>>scanbus option no longer can detect my reader so I can't make disc
>>>copies as easily as I could before. What should I do?
>>>
>>
>>rebuild the kernel with:
>>scsi cdrom support
>>generic scsi support
>>ide-scsi driver
>
> and of course, put 'append="hd<x>=ide-scsi"' in lilo.conf where /dev/hd<x>
> is your ide drive letter for the cdrom.
Actually for 2.4 kernels it is just scsi instead of ide-scsi.
But if SCSI emulation, SCSI support and SCSI generic support are built
into the kernel, you don't even need the append. SCSI cdrom support can
be a module (sr_mod) and ATAPI cdrom should NOT be built-in (it can be a
module for alternate kernels).
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: "news1.sympatico.ca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to deal with 1024 cylinder limitation when installing rh7.1?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:13:20 -0400
Go through the motions of installing. This will place all the necessary
files and other things on the hdd ( including setting which services to
start when the system boots up.).When it asks you yo put make a boot disk,
do so. But when it comes to putting in the boot loader, abort and hit the
ctrl-alt-del keys. this will cause the install to ( hopefully) reboot. Boot
the system with the boot floppy and do what ever is necessary.
Note that atleast the /boot partition ( or where ever the kernel resides )
must be a primary partition.
later.
joseph
"ThanhVu Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9fc8ep$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a 20 gigs hd, 10 gigs for windows 2k and another 10 gigs planning
> to put linux rh7.1 on it.
> I search at google and found couple of posts for this but most are
suggested
> to move the /boot to the first 8 gig but that is where my w2k resides, and
I
> don't want to have it removed (I am not a fan of parition magic either).
> What can I do ? Can I use the fdisk option instead of disk druid ? If
so,
> how to do without causing any damage to other partitions ?
>
> ps : once I am 'in' linux, I can update lilo with lba32 supported, but now
I
> can't seem to figure out how to do it.
>
> Thanks for all inputs
>
>
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From: "news1.sympatico.ca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.redhat,linux.dev.newbie
Subject: Re: help a newbie?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:17:22 -0400
What does /var/log/XFree86.log say ?
"Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm not stupid but... after a successful RedHat 7.0 install, my
> resolution comes up at 640x480... I read that CTRL-ALT-+/- changes the
> monitor resolution,
> but there's no response when I try that... the install recognized my
> video adapter and my monitor OK and my /etc/XF86Config looks fine...
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Thanks for any help/pointers!
>
> Newbie
>
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From: "news1.sympatico.ca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: portmap
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:23:19 -0400
Odd. portmap is the first thing I *removed* from my redhat installatin as
soon as I booted up.
the long times may be due to dns lookups. put the ip-name pairs of your
hosts into the hosts file.
"Ransom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> this is probably a very silly question, but I couldn't find any info
> yet. Here is my problem:
>
> I decided to tighten up security on my linux box and wanted to close
> port 111. Unfortunately I came across a strange problem: When I shut
> down portmap, sendmail, syslogd and some other services take a very
> long time to start. When the system is up and running and I try to
> login, Ithe same thing happens: After entering the password it
> takes a long time to log in. I don't have any rpc programs running and
> I don't connect to any rpc servers, so why is it a problem to stop
> portmap?
>
> I have
> kernel 2.4.4
> portmap 4.05
> redhat 6.0 with lots of programs upgraded
>
> Any info on this is greatly appreciated.
>
> Ransom
>
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i386, i586, i686?
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 04:55:59 GMT
I have a Pentium II-233 running Redhat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5-15.
I am upgrading the kernel to 2.2.14-5.0. Should I use the i386, i586, or
i686 rpm?
Thanks,
Tom
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