Linux-Networking Digest #717, Volume #9 Wed, 30 Dec 98 17:13:48 EST
Contents:
Re: Q re Bind and Hosts ("Andrew Kunz")
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! ("Tommy
Cox")
serial line is in loopback (Joe Cantlon)
Re: Internet Connection failure (Clifford Kite)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (THE
DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (THE
DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM)
Re: Help with automating fetchmail (peter)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (THE
DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM)
Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am stuck
in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (THE DUNGEONS OF
DOOOOOOOOOOM)
MI/X on Macintosh: FATAL ERROR on startup. Help. (Spiegs)
Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am stuck
in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (THE DUNGEONS OF
DOOOOOOOOOOM)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (THE
DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM)
Re: PostgreSQL and Microsoft Access 97 (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (Mantikor)
Re: 100Mbit. Need hub? (James Knott)
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From: "Andrew Kunz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q re Bind and Hosts
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:23:31 -0500
just leave the entry for localhost in the /etc/hosts file... the rest will
go through DNS then
Marc wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>O'riely (I think that is how it is spelled :) ) puts out a good book called
>DNS and BIND that has that information,,unfortunatly I lent my copy to a
>friend so I dont remember the files offhand,but I think you are mentioning
>the "order" in which requests are processed,,,"NIS DNS YPSERV" etc........
>mabye this jog your memory???? Hope it helped :)
>
>Gerald B. Rosenberg wrote:
>
>> A bit of help please.
>>
>> I am trying to setup DNS on my brand new RH5.2 box. I cannot seem to
>> find documentation regarding the interaction between the /etc/hosts
>> system and the /var/named system.
>>
>> It has been several years since I last worked with these systems (on SCO
>> OpenServer). But I seem to remember that you had to remove or disable
>> /etc/hosts in order to have the DNS system used. It now looks like a
>> /etc/host.conf file controls the order that hosts and bind are used.
>> However, so long as there is a /etc/host file at all, ping seems to
>> insist that all pingable hosts be listed there, regardless of the DNS
>> tables.
>>
>> I looked through the BOG related documentation from www.isc.org with no
>> success. So, where is the documentation on /etc/host.conf and the
>> interaction between hosts and Bind? Any quick pointers on what to do
>> would also be appreciated.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Gerald
>
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From: "Tommy Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but
am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:47:25 -0600
> Re: can't recognize ethernet card
Ok.. I had same problem.. RH 5.1 worked fine and RH 5.2 had trouble
recognizing my ethernet card. As of yet, no solution to that.
> Re: your multiple OS question
Also, I would suggest Partition Magic 4.0 by Power Quest. It comes with Boot
Magic. I am successfully running Win98/NT/Linux on a PentII machine and
Win98/Linux on a AmdK6 266. You can move partitions around on your hard
drive and just put the boot partition for Linux on the first portion of the
first hard drive. You can put /usr etc.. wherever you want. I am very
pleased with this latest version of PMagic.
Just FYI:
I am going to go back and install RH 5.2 again via FTP. If I run into same
trouble again, will post it here.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joe Cantlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: serial line is in loopback
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:03:53 GMT
When I run pppd to connect to my ISP, pppd logs an error message that
says, 'serial line is in loopback'. pppd then quits.
When I run ifconfig, I see lo, but not ppp0.
Any direction will be greatly appreciated.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clifford Kite)
Subject: Re: Internet Connection failure
Date: 30 Dec 1998 14:38:50 -0600
Ossie Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi
: I am a newbie to Linux and am trying to setup a connection to ISP
: Am using RedHat 5.2 and extrnal modem.
: I have setup the modem and network configurations and can dial into the ISP
: but the connection always fails shortly thereafter.
: Here is the output from /var/log/messages;
<snip>
: Dec 30 00:00:11 ozwil chat[2019]: timeout set to 5 seconds
: Dec 30 00:00:11 ozwil chat[2019]: expect (~)
: Dec 30 00:00:11 ozwil chat[2019]: ^M
: Dec 30 00:00:11 ozwil chat[2019]: ^M
: Dec 30 00:00:16 ozwil chat[2019]: alarm
Timeout.
: Dec 30 00:00:16 ozwil chat[2019]: send (^M)
: Dec 30 00:00:16 ozwil chat[2019]: send (^M)
: Dec 30 00:00:16 ozwil pppd[2014]: Serial connection established.
: Dec 30 00:00:17 ozwil pppd[2014]: Using interface ppp0
: Dec 30 00:00:17 ozwil pppd[2014]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua1
: Dec 30 00:00:47 ozwil pppd[2014]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
: Dec 30 00:00:47 ozwil pppd[2014]: Connection terminated.
: Dec 30 00:00:47 ozwil pppd[2014]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
: Dec 30 00:00:47 ozwil pppd[2014]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
: Dec 30 00:00:48 ozwil pppd[2014]: Exit.
The ISP seems to be sitting at prompt expecting something else from the
chat script. It times out looking for `~', the signal that the ISP ppp
has started. You need something else in the chat script to start ppp at
the ISP, or alternately, the ISP might accept PAP or CHAP authentication
without the login/password chat sequence.
You can ask the ISP or try using minicom to see what's going on after the
login/password.
--
Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a guru. (tm)
/* Those who can't write, write manuals. */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM )
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home
but am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:02:35 GMT
Yeah, well why don't you stuff a pie in your face, FARTBRAIN !!!!!!!!
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:28:15 -0500, Michael
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM wrote:
>> P.S:
>> PLEASE DO NO TELL ME TO USE ANOTHER VERSION OF UNIX SINCE I KINDA AM
>> USED TO RH LINUX. ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME HOW TO PARTITION MY HARD
>> DRIVE SINCE MY 75. GB HARD DRIVE IS NEARLY FILLED UP. I PLAN TO
>> INSTALL REDHAT LINUX 5.2 TO MY OLDER 730 MB HARD DRIVE SO PLEASE DO
>> NOT BRING IN 7.5 GB INTO THE PICTURE UNLESS YOU ARE GONNA GIVE ME A
>> FREE CD-RW DRIVE FIRST !!! ALL I AM ASKING IS THAT YOU GIVE ME A
>> SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM I GOT. DO NOT GIVE ME IRRELEVANT BULLSH**
>> SUCH AS TELLING ME TO PARTITION MY OTHER HARD DRIVE. I WILL CONTINUE
>> TO POST THIS MESSAGE UNTIL SOMEONE HELPS ME FIX THIS PROBLEM !!!
>
>Well, with this attitude, I'm not even going to think about
>trying to help this guy out.
>
>>
>> Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
>> past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
>
>It figures... I'm gonna post this message repeatedly until
>someone helps me WAHHH!!! and he doesn't see the connection
>to having his account terminated?
>
>Set your computer back to Wintendo mode and be content with
>it until you grow up a little, adjust your attitude, and
>learn how to break text into paragraphs.
>
>Best regards,
>Michael.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM )
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but
am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:04:56 GMT
HEY MAN !!! I AIN'T PAYING SH** FOR LINUX !!! AND I WILL CONTINUE
POSTING FOR HELP UNTIL IT'S DONE !!! SO EITHER YOU HELP OR GET LOST
AND STUFF A PIE IN YOUR FACE, FARTFACE !!!
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:42:02 -0500, "Karl W. Gaston"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM wrote:
>
>> Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
>
><snip> blah blah blah <snip>
>
>> P.S:
>
><snip> blah blah blah <snip>
>
>> SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM I GOT. DO NOT GIVE ME IRRELEVANT BULLSH**
>> SUCH AS TELLING ME TO PARTITION MY OTHER HARD DRIVE. I WILL CONTINUE
>> TO POST THIS MESSAGE UNTIL SOMEONE HELPS ME FIX THIS PROBLEM !!!
>>
>> Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
>> past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Dear Whateveryournameis,
>
>I can't imagine why someone would pick you to slam with e-mails.
>
>You might have wanted to include the following information in your previous note.
>If it was there I didn't see it due to the lack of white space (some people call em
>paragraphs), plus the whining in UPPER case was a nice touch.
>
>Do you want access to the Win98 32 bit partition from Linux?
>Or are you planning on just running Linux on the 700M drive?
>
>Since your note says you are familiar with RH Linux, spend $50-60 and get a CD from
>RH, then you will have no need to download, ftp, or backup any of your stuff, just
>format the drive and go. Or you can DOS format a partition on the 700M drive,
>enough to hold the Linux distribution, copy all of the distribution to it (via your
>internet connection), then use the boot disks to fdisk, format and install the
>unallocated space of the 700M drive under Linux (like using the DOS as a bootstrap,
>instead of purchasing a CD, or Jaz, or CD RW).
>
>Good luck & stop whining
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Subject: Re: Help with automating fetchmail
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:17:39 GMT
In article <76dtst$37k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hi Peter
>
> I've solved this problem by deleting the 'M' flag in the relay line of the
> mailers in sendmail.cf
> (close to the end)
>
> The line locks something like: relay xxxxx F=xxxxxMxx
> ( x= some other carracter, I haven't the file handy at the moment)
>
> Hope this helps, otherwise repost question and I will post the entire line
> for you.
>
>
>
I want sendmail to replace the sender with a different adress that is
different for each user.
so when [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a mail from mymachine.mydomain I
want thats the sender of this mail is not [EMAIL PROTECTED] but
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and when [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a mail it should look like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] has send this mail.
thanks,
peter
=================
pilsl@
ANTISPAM
riemann.atat.at
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM )
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but
am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:08:07 GMT
CAN'T YOU READ, YOU DUMBFART !!! I SAID I DON'T WANT TO PARTITION MY
7.5 GB HARD DRIVE !!! I ONLY WANT TO INSTALL IT ON A 700 MB HARD DISK
!!! Now there, will you please help me out on the ftp part when I try
to install Linux via ftp please?
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:47:25 -0600, "Tommy Cox"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Re: can't recognize ethernet card
>Ok.. I had same problem.. RH 5.1 worked fine and RH 5.2 had trouble
>recognizing my ethernet card. As of yet, no solution to that.
>
>> Re: your multiple OS question
>Also, I would suggest Partition Magic 4.0 by Power Quest. It comes with Boot
>Magic. I am successfully running Win98/NT/Linux on a PentII machine and
>Win98/Linux on a AmdK6 266. You can move partitions around on your hard
>drive and just put the boot partition for Linux on the first portion of the
>first hard drive. You can put /usr etc.. wherever you want. I am very
>pleased with this latest version of PMagic.
>
>Just FYI:
>I am going to go back and install RH 5.2 again via FTP. If I run into same
>trouble again, will post it here.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM )
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:09:25 GMT
Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
you all will be able to figure out the sticky problem I'm stuck with
and may even know how to help me out of it. I currently am running
Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
that's what I have been told and eventually found out. Besides, sure I
can download 500 MB in 2 hrs without any trouble via my cable modem,
but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
install). I'm not sure if Linux will do it off my zip disks if I copy
linux to 6 zip discs. In any case, these wonderful people keep on
changing the versions of RH Linux. Therefore having got fed up with
it, I looked in the book which talked about RH Linux and how to
install. Well, I had versions 3 and 4 of RH but since some of my
crucial hardware at that time could not be recognized I abandoned RH
until I finally found out that if I had a direct connection with
Cox@home just like corporations and universities that have a direct
connection with their T1, T3, OC-3, etc... server, then you don't even
have to download RH linux. All you really have to download are the
boot.img and supp.img files and transfer them to two blank but
formatted 3.5" high density disks. So I did just that and booted up my
machine and when I got to the installation method option, I chose ftp
method. When I got to the ethernet card question, I 3c509 driver. By
the way, I still have the 3c509b PnP 16-bit Ethernet adaptor which I
obtained when I used to attend another university. Rather than sell
it, I kept it for something like a cable modem. In fact that same
ethernet card I had was part of the requirements for my cable modem
installation. Anyway, RH Linux never in the past had any trouble
recognizing my ethernet card. The only trouble was recognizing my
video cards,my parallel port zip drive, and my higher capacity hard
drive. here, in 5.2 that was not the problem. however, when I got to
the options of DHCP, BOOTP, and Static Address, I chose the Static
option and filled in my fields correctly. However, I got an error
message saying unable to connect to host. I fully verified the ftp
site address and typed it correctly. So I then went back and tried the
other two options only to get the "no response" error message from
bootp and dhcp. So the question still remains, isn't it possible to
install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
are to be made during installation?
P.S:
PLEASE DO NO TELL ME TO USE ANOTHER VERSION OF UNIX SINCE I KINDA AM
USED TO RH LINUX. ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME HOW TO PARTITION MY HARD
DRIVE SINCE MY 75. GB HARD DRIVE IS NEARLY FILLED UP. I PLAN TO
INSTALL REDHAT LINUX 5.2 TO MY OLDER 730 MB HARD DRIVE SO PLEASE DO
NOT BRING IN 7.5 GB INTO THE PICTURE UNLESS YOU ARE GONNA GIVE ME A
FREE CD-RW DRIVE FIRST !!! ALL I AM ASKING IS THAT YOU GIVE ME A
SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM I GOT. DO NOT GIVE ME IRRELEVANT BULLSH**
SUCH AS TELLING ME TO PARTITION MY OTHER HARD DRIVE. I WILL CONTINUE
TO POST THIS MESSAGE UNTIL SOMEONE HELPS ME FIX THIS PROBLEM !!!
Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
================================================================================
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spiegs)
Subject: MI/X on Macintosh: FATAL ERROR on startup. Help.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:15:43 -0600
I have downloaded MI/X for the Power Macintosh and have been unable to get
it to run. WHen I double click on it it gives me some warning messages,
and then it gives me a, "FATAL error. Unable to find font 'fixed'." (Or
something VERY similar to that.)
Does anyone know how to get rid of that fatal error and how to get MI/X up
and running? I've played around with it for some time and have made no
progress.
BTW, this is for connecting a Mac to a RedHat 5.0 machine through
EtherNet, if that makes a difference.
Thank you for any help. Also, if you can please respond to me in email I
would greatly appreciate it. THANKS!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM )
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:46:46 GMT
Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
you all will be able to figure out the sticky problem I'm stuck with
and may even know how to help me out of it. I currently am running
Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
that's what I have been told and eventually found out. Besides, sure I
can download 500 MB in 2 hrs without any trouble via my cable modem,
but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
install). I'm not sure if Linux will do it off my zip disks if I copy
linux to 6 zip discs. In any case, these wonderful people keep on
changing the versions of RH Linux. Therefore having got fed up with
it, I looked in the book which talked about RH Linux and how to
install. Well, I had versions 3 and 4 of RH but since some of my
crucial hardware at that time could not be recognized I abandoned RH
until I finally found out that if I had a direct connection with
Cox@home just like corporations and universities that have a direct
connection with their T1, T3, OC-3, etc... server, then you don't even
have to download RH linux. All you really have to download are the
boot.img and supp.img files and transfer them to two blank but
formatted 3.5" high density disks. So I did just that and booted up my
machine and when I got to the installation method option, I chose ftp
method. When I got to the ethernet card question, I 3c509 driver. By
the way, I still have the 3c509b PnP 16-bit Ethernet adaptor which I
obtained when I used to attend another university. Rather than sell
it, I kept it for something like a cable modem. In fact that same
ethernet card I had was part of the requirements for my cable modem
installation. Anyway, RH Linux never in the past had any trouble
recognizing my ethernet card. The only trouble was recognizing my
video cards,my parallel port zip drive, and my higher capacity hard
drive. here, in 5.2 that was not the problem. however, when I got to
the options of DHCP, BOOTP, and Static Address, I chose the Static
option and filled in my fields correctly. However, I got an error
message saying unable to connect to host. I fully verified the ftp
site address and typed it correctly. So I then went back and tried the
other two options only to get the "no response" error message from
bootp and dhcp. So the question still remains, isn't it possible to
install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
are to be made during installation?
P.S:
PLEASE DO NO TELL ME TO USE ANOTHER VERSION OF UNIX SINCE I KINDA AM
USED TO RH LINUX. ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME HOW TO PARTITION MY HARD
DRIVE SINCE MY 75. GB HARD DRIVE IS NEARLY FILLED UP. I PLAN TO
INSTALL REDHAT LINUX 5.2 TO MY OLDER 730 MB HARD DRIVE SO PLEASE DO
NOT BRING IN 7.5 GB INTO THE PICTURE UNLESS YOU ARE GONNA GIVE ME A
FREE CD-RW DRIVE FIRST !!! ALL I AM ASKING IS THAT YOU GIVE ME A
SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM I GOT. DO NOT GIVE ME IRRELEVANT BULLSH**
SUCH AS TELLING ME TO PARTITION MY OTHER HARD DRIVE. I WILL CONTINUE
TO POST THIS MESSAGE UNTIL SOMEONE HELPS ME FIX THIS PROBLEM !!!
Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
================================================================================
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM )
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home
but am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:17:44 GMT
Why don't you give me a free CD-R drive first and then I will do all
that backup stuff. Don't even ask me to use any other drive because
they all suck and their cartridges are a hell or a lot more expensive
than that of a CD-R disc.
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 05:04:24 GMT, "Matthew J. Stott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>---SNIP---
>> I currently am running
>> Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
>> 32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
>> that's what I have been told and eventually found out.
>
>First of all, what the heck are ya gonna do with 7.5 GB's of space with
>Win98??? Backup any critical data and then re-partition your drive. You
>could buy a copy of partition magic (supports linux partitions ext2).
>Or you could just blitz everything and start over. Do NOT use FAT32,
>use FAT16 for the Win98 partitions and keep them at 2048.
>
>Create two Linux partitions using the boot disks. One swap partition
>and one big partition for all things Linux. Leave yourself some extra
>space unpartitioned so you can add to either Win98 or Linux as the need
>arises.
>
>When configuring you're network for the FTP RH installation, make
>certain of your IP settings. IP Address, Hostname (this one's
>important), DNS servers, etc. I was able to do an FTP install with a
>cable modem but you are going to want an FTP server that isn't bogged
>down. Try one of the mirrors.
>
>Alternative:
>
>Create a FAT16 partition and download RH Linux 5.2 to the FAT16
>partition, then boot from diskettes and choose the Install from Hard
>disk: Follow these directions as they helped me:
>
>(credit Hy Vu for these: hy vu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>1. Download 'mv' for Linux and save it under RedHat.
>2. Keep install Linux till 'error opening directory'.
>3. Hit Alt-F2. goto Linux prompt
>4. ls /tmp/hdimage -> should be something here.
>5. umount /tmp/hdimage
>6. mount -t vfat {devicename} /tmp/hdimage -> mount to your RedHat
>drive
>7. cd /tmp/hdimage/RedHat
>8. ./mv rpms me # Don't forget the ./
>9. ./mv me RPMS # Don't forget the ./
>10. cd /
>11. umount /tmp/hdimage
>12. Alt-F1
>13. Retry
>
>"where {devicename} would most likely be /dev/hda1"
>
>---SNIP----
>> but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
>> and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
>> to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
>> install).
>
>CD-R/RW drives are ideal for this purpose, as it gives you a simple
>medium to store the downloaded installation files. Yes they are
>expensive but I found a heck of a lot of uses for them. The media is
>cheap, so I back stuff up on them. I make my own music CD's, I put all
>my floppy install sets on them, etc., etc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and Microsoft Access 97
Date: 30 Dec 1998 15:24:42 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
M. Brian Akins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> You have to configure the postgresql side to allow access
>> (in it's pg_hba.conf file) and install the postgresql odbc
>> driver on the PC side with the right connect info. There
>> may be some problems with different data types but basically
>> it just works once you have established the connection.
>Any more detailed information how to do this? like a step by step.
Start by making sure you have the latest versions of everything
so you don't waste time having to update right away. You
should get postgresql 6.4.2 from www.postgresql.org
(being updated right now - should be available soon) and
version 6.4.0.0002 of the pgsqlODBC driver either from
ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/odbc/psqlodbc_download.html
or its home site http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc/. Read
the Configuration Help, FAQ, and Technical Notes from the
latter site in any case. It tells what you need better than
I can. If you have trouble, post the details of how far you
got and what failed.
Les Mikesell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mantikor)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home
but am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:19:16 GMT
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 05:04:24 GMT, "Matthew J. Stott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>---SNIP---
>> I currently am running
>> Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
>> 32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
>> that's what I have been told and eventually found out.
>
>First of all, what the heck are ya gonna do with 7.5 GB's of space with
>Win98??? Backup any critical data and then re-partition your drive. You
>could buy a copy of partition magic (supports linux partitions ext2).
>Or you could just blitz everything and start over. Do NOT use FAT32,
>use FAT16 for the Win98 partitions and keep them at 2048.
This method will help as far as installing goes, but its godawful
advice.
Formatting your drive as FAT16 in 2Gb partitions means every single
one byte file takes up 32k of disk space. Perhaps you enjoy being
unable to copy 300Mb of data to a drive that supposedly has 500Mb
free, but I hate it.
I dont know about RedHat 5.2, but Slackware 3.6 supports FAT32 without
any hassle off the bootdisks. If necessary, we could chuck the kernel
from Slack 3.6 on a RedHat bootdisk and see what happens...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Subject: Re: 100Mbit. Need hub?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:32:26 -0500
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> You don't need a hub, you can use a crossover cable. They can be
>bought for about $15 or if you have a crimping tool you can make one
>yourself out of CAT5 cable. The instructions are easy to find with
>any search engine.. You switch a couple wires in one of the ends, I
>forget which ones at the moment (2 and 6?) Have fun!
For a cross over cable, connect 1 --> 3 & 2 --> 6.
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