Linux-Setup Digest #8, Volume #19 Tue, 27 Jun 00 11:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mandrake 7.1 Install Problem "could not mount a CD" using 1542cf ("Eric A.
Cottrell")
Re: ok, i'm fucking pissed. dual boot winnt and linux (Eric)
Cannot ping localhost; just hangs (JDonner)
Re: Remote X login to linux server ??? (Paul Dragicevich)
Re: Setting up Personal LAN through TCP/IP on Internet (Eric Heidel)
About PPPoE (Cheung-Yu Chong)
Re: How to turn on remote root login? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mind?) (Dances
With Crows)
Re: How to turn on remote root login? (Michael Nadler)
Re: How to turn on remote root login? (J Bland)
Re: serial mouse with laptop? (J Bland)
Re: CD-ROM , not a block device? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
AMD ethernet setup (Becky)
booting from ls120 superfloppy ("Kieran Tyrrell")
Re: phpMyAdmin error (Carsten Huettl)
Re: Newbie: installing applications (Gustin Kiffney)
DA: Foxpro 2.6 for Unix/Terminfo files (Dennis)
SCSI and network card conflict? Linux refuses to boot. ("Brendan Boyle")
Re: Help! ./file doesn't work either (aflinsch)
Re: dual boot with Windows 2000 ("Clif Bauer")
new to linux (sylvain hutchsion)
intallation prob (sylvain hutchsion)
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From: "Eric A. Cottrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 Install Problem "could not mount a CD" using 1542cf
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:13:55 -0500
Buchan Milne wrote:
>
> You can get to a console using CTRL-ALT-(1-6) and try fix it from there. Have you
> tried booting from a floppy (I can't remember if the other images might have
> support for more scsi devices). Have you checked that mandrake supports your scsi
> controller. Check at http://www.linux-mandrake.com
Hello,
I was able to "fix" the problem by using a 2940. It would only work if
it detected the SCSI card. If I used expert mode and set the card type
then I got the same could not mount error.
So there is either a parameter I am not entering (I used the autoprobe
selection when asked) or there is a problem with the install after it
asks for a scsi card.
I tried floppy boot. I downloaded a new bios/mcode for the 1542cf that had
a bootable CD option but it does not work. I tried the bootable CD
on the 2940 and a 2940 on another machine and could get it to fail in expert
mode. I did a MD5Sum check on the install iso file and it matches.
I will see if I can get to a console when that error message pops up.
73 Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] WB1HBU
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ok, i'm fucking pissed. dual boot winnt and linux
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:42:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mike wrote:
>
> *sigh*
> Ok I was able to mount my linux partition, but in the process I managed to
> somehow hose up a logical drive in an extended partition right after my
> linux root partition.
This probably happened during the creation of the new partitions.
Since you can mount the linux partition, do so, and backup any data you
don't want to lose on this partition to C: before continuing!
> In other words, in NT Disk Administrator from front
> to back I have a 4GB C: primary partition, a 128MB linux swap, a 3GB linux
> root, and a 4GB FAT logical drive, which I can't access. NT says unknown
> file type and linux says, bad fstype, or etc. etc. Disk Administrator
> shows it as the proper size, but not type, fdisk -l under linux says that
> /dev/hda6 (linux root) and /dev/hda7 (windows logical) overlap. The p
> option in fdisk shows the ending sector of /dev/hda6 to be 915 and the
> beginning sector of /dev/hda7 to also be 915 not 916. So do I move the
> beginning sector of /dev/hda7 or the ending sector of
> /dev/hda6?
> And what would be the best way to go about it?
As I said, backup whatever you can before doing anything. After that I'd
try to remove the last windows partition and create a new one. I still
assume there's no data in /dev/hda7 ,since in the original post you
mentioned that you created some new win partitions. If there is data in
hda7, I cannot mention this often enough, BACK-UP hda6 and try to
restore hda7 by making it the size it should have. I'm not sure but IIRC
there are tools that scan your
hardisc to find the beginning of the partitions on that disc, so you can
retrieve lost partitions. Unfortunately I do not know the name of any of
these programs (search freshmeat, try some keywords like 'partition'
'retrieve' 'restore' or such)
> I'm going to try Partition
> Magic tomorrow and if that doesn't work then I'll just try to recover the
> data and copy it to a new partition.
I can only hope for you that it can restore the corrupted table, but I
wont take any bets on it.
Eric
> Any ideas are welcome,
> thanks mike
>
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From: JDonner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot ping localhost; just hangs
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:42:40 GMT
Hi I'm a ppp user (no net card) and I can't ping localhost (I do
have it defined). I think I need to add it to my routing table
somehow. Here's some output:
[root@mystery jd]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
127.0.0.1 mystery mystery.localdomain
[root@mystery jd]# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
LOOPBACK MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:63.214.108.242 P-t-P:209.247.23.42
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1
RX packets:1703 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1409 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
[root@mystery jd]# /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
209.247.23.42 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
0.0.0.0 209.247.23.42 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ppp0
So it looks like I need a route to localhost. When (from the route
manpage)
I do:
[root@mystery jd]# /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
[jd@mystery jd]$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
(hangs; have to ^C)
(I was online for these tests)
I appreciate any help,
Jeff
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:44:33 +0800
From: Paul Dragicevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,sg.linux
Subject: Re: Remote X login to linux server ???
Jeremy Low wrote:
>
> Anyone has any idea how I may do a remote X login to a linux server from a
> windoz box. I wish to see the same X login display like I am in front of a
> linux terminal presenting to me an X login.
>
> thanx there :-)
I've had good results with XWin32 and also XCursion. To have the login
etc like you want to, use Xcursion and connect using XDMCP mode. xdm
has to be running on the linux machine for this to work. When you
connect, you will get a full screen window with your x login prompt
which will then go on to display whatever window manager/desktop
environment you use.
With XWin32 you can use XDMCP mode as well but it doesn't work as well,
I think it's because XWin32 acts as your window manager as well as your
X server - I had errors from enlighnenment trying to start up.
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From: Eric Heidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Setting up Personal LAN through TCP/IP on Internet
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:46:48 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
tom_blank@*nospam*hotmail.com says...
> On this LAN I have my 3 computers...( all
> are win9x workstations ).
>
> I have set up PPTPD on my Linux box to allow them to log in and use
> the 192.168.X.X addresses as I have on my Internal network. They can
> connect fine using the Microsoft VPN Adapater, and route through me
> fine but are not visible through network neighbourhood. ( they can be
> pinged on their 192.168.x.x ip )
Tom - As weird as it sounds, this may be a Win9x thing. Make sure the
people who are connecting into your network have the right domain or
workgroup name in their network settings in Win9x. I'm still pretty new
to Linux, but I do netadmin stuff for Win9x/NT (hey, it's a paycheck!). I
had some troubles browsing on my personal network until I changed the
names to match.
Let me know if that helps.
-Eric
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From: Cheung-Yu Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: About PPPoE
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:51:55 +0000
Hi,
I'm using PPPoE and rp-pppoe-1.9 to connect to internet. To start the
connection, I need to change to root and then run the script
"adsl-start". My question is: Is it possible to run the script as a
user? What is the advantage (or disadvantage) to run the script
"adsl-start" as root? Is it a must to connect to the internet?
In fact, I faced similar problem when I use kppp and my modem to connect
to internet. I think it is a general problem about using PPP. Right?
However,
I have no idea.
Thank for your help in advance.
Freddy
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Date: 27 Jun 2000 9:3:43 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to turn on remote root login?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to C Sanjayan;
CSR> Kheng-Teong Goh wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for being helpful. To the question is there any reason I
>> can't login
>> in as normal user? and su? It's seems that su can't do a lot of
>> things.
>>
CSR> actually, if you "su -" it will act as if you had just logged in
CSR> as root. I've not been able to find one that root can do that
CSR> "su -" cannot. It is also *much* safer.
Yes, and no.
An su'd user first still has his user $PATH, which may or may not be the
roots $PATH. So to get full functionality on some systems, he will
either have to give the full path to somethiing thats not in *his*
$PATH, or manually add to his $PATH.
I've been told that an 'su -- -root' fixes that, but it doesn't on either
of my systems.
Cheers, Gene
--
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
ISP's please take note: My spam control policy is explicit!
#Any Class C address# involved in spamming me is added to my killfile
never to be seen again. Message will be summarily deleted without dl.
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material, is
� 2000 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mind?)
Date: 27 Jun 2000 09:21:29 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:45:00 GMT, Paul Eisenberg
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hey! I finally got my a modem to work and connect with my Internet
>Server after using the following line
>
>setserial /dev/ttyS2 auto_irq autoconfig
>
>It then seems to dial fine after putting a # sign in front of auth on
>the /etc/ppp/options(i think correct path). Now after I connect and
>it logs in I am unable to use Netscape, telnet, or anything else. It
>seems like I'm not connected at all. I tried pinging, telnet, etc,
Can you ping an IP address once connected? For example,
ping 64.28.67.48 (IP of slashdot.org)
should give you something. If it does, then you are connected, you just
don't have DNS. You can fix that by either manually adding the DNS lines
in /etc/resolv.conf or having the PPP-up script do that for you. kppp or
GNOME's PPP dialer have options to fill in the DNS servers. The format of
the /etc/resolv.conf file is like so:
search
nameserver xxx.yyy.zzz.www
nameserver aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
Replace those with the actual IP addresses of your ISP's DNS servers,
naturally. Your ISP should be able to tell you those.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: Michael Nadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to turn on remote root login?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:04:10 -0700
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Unrot13 this;
> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to C Sanjayan;
>
> CSR> Kheng-Teong Goh wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thanks for being helpful. To the question is there any reason I
> >> can't login
> >> in as normal user? and su? It's seems that su can't do a lot of
> >> things.
> >>
>
> CSR> actually, if you "su -" it will act as if you had just logged in
> CSR> as root. I've not been able to find one that root can do that
> CSR> "su -" cannot. It is also *much* safer.
>
> Yes, and no.
>
> An su'd user first still has his user $PATH, which may or may not be the
> roots $PATH. So to get full functionality on some systems, he will
> either have to give the full path to somethiing thats not in *his*
> $PATH, or manually add to his $PATH.
>
> I've been told that an 'su -- -root' fixes that, but it doesn't on either
> of my systems.
>
"su" works as you describe, but "su -" does not. The "-" option forces
(essentially) a fresh login to take place and PATH *will* change.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: How to turn on remote root login?
Date: 27 Jun 2000 12:00:13 GMT
>About the ssh. where can I get it? Did it come in Red Hat 6.2 power tools cd?
>It's ok. I think the web search is powerful enough.
Due to USA encryption nonesense it may or may not be in your distro.
But you can find it here: http://www.ssh.org/
or OpenSSH (an opensource, and fully free version) here:
http://www.openssh.com/
The fact that the commercial one is at a .org and the free at a .com is a
bit puzzling but there y'go ;).
Frinky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: serial mouse with laptop?
Date: 27 Jun 2000 12:07:13 GMT
>> Alex, I'm trying to figure out how to use both an
>> external mouse and keyboard with my laptop even though
>> I only have one ps2 slot. I tried using a serial
>> mouse but that didn't work, do you know why?
>
>Did you confugure it correctly?
>I've used a ps2 keyb and a serial mouse for a while...
Same here (and you can use the ps/2 mouse as well if needs be).
For a standard 2/3 button serial mouse, use the "Microsoft" protocol, on
device "/dev/ttyS0" if it's on the primary serial port. Enable 3 button
emulation too.
You can, of course, stick a PS/2 mouse into the extrrnal slot and use that
(which should need no configuring), the built in pointer will also be
working at the same time though which can be a good or bad thing depending
on whether you like the built in one.
Frinky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD-ROM , not a block device?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:22:31 GMT
Thank you for your attention to my problem:
A strange thing is that when I installed Debian Linux 2.2.12, I used
the CD drive, and mounted manually many times after the installation.
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /cdrom worked!
Lately, I found it not working, and getting an error,
The kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device.
I placed different known good CDs on the drive to test. Got the same
result.
I tested with another Linux box with CDROM's power cable disconnected,
booted it up and tried to mount it. I got the same error as above.
So it may be hardware problem?
Any idea??
-Hiroshi
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi All:
> >
> > When I tried to mount CD-ROM drive, I got an error message,
> > the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device. (It was
able
> > to mount.)
> >
> > What to check to correct the problem?
> does your kernel support ATAPI/CDROM protocols?
> Was there a CDROM in the drive?
> is the ISO9660 fs supported?
> just a few places to start.
>
> --
> Sanjay
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Windows has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer.
> Press any key to reboot.
>
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Before you buy.
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From: Becky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD ethernet setup
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:29:56 -0400
I have the pcnet32 nic driver, which is called pcnet32.o my question is,
how do i install it? I am pretty knowledgable about linux, i know how to
make config and all that good stuff, but i have never recompiled my
kernal or installed a nic. Luckily all my hardware was detected and
installed automatically up until now. Im trying to get my AMD 37C970 to
work in MUlinux (small distro that fits on a floppy. I successfully
installed mtr before (hooray!!) so thats how i know how to make config,
make depend, etc, etc. One person told me its simply a matter of copying
pcnet32.o to a certain directory, run insmod on it, and then add another
entry manually into my boot file( whatever that is) to bring it up. Can
anyone help? Ive been reading the howtos all week but still cant figure
itout. Could you please send any replies to me as well as the newsgroup?
john
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From: "Kieran Tyrrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: booting from ls120 superfloppy
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:36:45 +0100
Hi,
Has anyone managed to get a linux system to boot from a 120MB ls120
superfloppy?
So far i have tried:
make bzdisk (changing /dev/fd0 for /dev/hdb which is the ls120)
results: I get a crc error when 'Uncompressing Linux...'
treating the ls120 as a hard disk and installing lilo in the MBR of /dev/hdb
results: at bootup lilo reports
LILO
Error 0x01
creating a partition on the ls120 and installing lilo in /dev/hdb1
results: 'LIL' ... hang...
Anyone have any ideas?! Im sure it's possible, but I'm not having much luck
yet!!!
Kieran.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carsten Huettl)
Subject: Re: phpMyAdmin error
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:33:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 05:34:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carsten Huettl)
wrote:
>
>>You may need to activate mysql support for your php3 installation.
>>php3 comes with many many useful interface, by default, not all of them are
>>activated.
>>
>Postgresql support is enabled/activated as my phpinfo shows.
In the meantime I figured out, was was going wrong with my
postgresql installation.
I made a big mistake configuring the config.inc.php3 file
There I had wrong entries for user and stduser. After correcting this
phpPGadmin work quite well.
C.
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From: Gustin Kiffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: installing applications
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:26:27 GMT
Look on the caldera cd for the bru2000 package file. It should be
pretty big and it might have either a '.tgz' or '.rpm' extension (or
something else, in which case this response won't help). If it's an
rpm, then cd'ing to that directory and typing 'rpm -i
brupackagename.rpm' )(while logged in as root) should install your
package. Once it's done, doing 'rpm -qilp brupacckage.rpm|less' should
tell you where rpm stuck the program and what it's called and where the
READMEs, etc are located.
If it's a tar or tgz package (which is just what people conventionally
name a tar archive that's also been gzipped for compression), cd to
that same directory and do 'tar xzf brupackage.tgz'. This should
extract the stuff to the various directories they need to be in. Tar
isn't like rpm in that rpm uses scripts to modify initialization and
config files for you - tar can't do that, so reading the READMEs and
man pages should show you what to do next to use that program.
"Jeff Malka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a total neophyte to Linux and Unix and am not sure how to install
> applications into my Linux system (TurboLinux 6 workstation).
>
> I have found some applications on CDs of other distributions. In
particular
> something I would like (BRU2000) from a CD of Caldera Open Linux 1.3
that
> comes in a book I purchased. Is it possible to install an
application from
> such a CD into my Turbolinux installation?
>
> If I run turbopkg on this Caldera CD, it, not surprisingly finds
nothing to
> install. How do I proceed to install from a different CD? I am
concerned
> to run the Caldera's install because it might overwrite my present
> installation.
>
> --
> Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis)
Subject: DA: Foxpro 2.6 for Unix/Terminfo files
Date: 27 Jun 2000 14:44:13 GMT
Hi. Was waiting for a reply from the comp.os.linux.setup usergroup when I
noticed my thread was gone. I remember sending a half completed message and
deleting that message, but I didn't know it would delete the entire thread.
Anyway, I found both gpm and ncurses on my RedHat-Mandrake 7.0 RPM CD-ROM.
Installed them. Now my usr/src/RPM/SOURCES directory has several bz2 files,
including gpm-1.18.0.tar.bz2 and ncurses-5.0.tar.bz2. What's a bz2, like a
supercompression? So, which files should I use and how? What's the next
steps?
P.S. Do you want me to e-mail this thread on this usergroup?
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From: "Brendan Boyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI and network card conflict? Linux refuses to boot.
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:41:39 +0800
I have recently had a cable modem installed with the idea of setting up my
PC as a server for internet access in my office network of 3 PC's. The
cable modem installed in Windows 98 after only 8 reboots (a new record
maybe?) and 4 hours. I have a Linux partition running Redhat 6.2 that I was
hoping to use for the majority of the time. The RH partition was in place
before the cable modem and it worked fine.
Now that the modem is installed Linux refuses to boot (even from a floppy).
The hardware is as follows:
PCI Fast Ethernet DEC 21140 for the Cable modem with a static IP address
supplied by my ISP
Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet adapter with a static IP supplied by me
Adaptec 2940AU PCI SCSI Controller that runs my scanner and CD burner.
The boot process runs as normal until it locates the SCSI card. Then the
messages are as follows:
scsi: 1 host
scsi: aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun
0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
scsi: aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun
0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
Then the system freezes.
If I ctrl+alt+del I get the message: Stopping all md devices and the system
reboots.
The timeout messages happen very quickly so I don't think that is the
problem. Before the network card for the cable modem was installed
everything worked fine.
My first solution was to reinstall Linux as it was a pretty clean copy
anyway. This made no difference. I really don't want to play with Windows
anymore so if anyone has come across this problem before or can point me in
the direction of some help I would be most grateful. I'm more than happy to
install Linux again with different parameters. Last time I installed it I
disabled the cable modem ethernet card on boot just to try to get in and
that didn't work.
If possible could you please direct responses to the newgroup as well as to
my email address. I'm a bit of a networking/Linux newbie so please be
gentle with your responses:)
Thanks in advance
Brendan Boyle
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! ./file doesn't work either
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:32:07 -0500
Shao Jun Ping wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Typing ./file has been suggested by many pple
> but that was one of the first things I tried!
>
> Note that when I created a new file with the exact same contents
> with a text editor, the script executes perfectly.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Been there/done that drove me fsck'ing nuts trying to figure it out.
Turned out to have an extra \r at the end of the #! line
if it's on the cd, there is nothing much that you can do. If it is on
a writeable disk, try deleting and retyping (not cut and repaste) the
first line of the script, or use an editor that shows lf's & cr's as
escaped chars.
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From: "Clif Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: dual boot with Windows 2000
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:51:20 -0400
During the RedHat test mode setup, when you get to the point where you can
name the other OS that LiLo will boot, you should be able to press F3(Or F2,
can't remember which) to set either Linux of NT as the default OS to boot.
Just highlight whichever selection you want to be the default and press the
appropriate F key. This will place an * next to the selected OS. If you
are running Linux as a secondary OS and you don't want to have to sit
through bootup and tell LiLo to boot NT, then this will automatically goto
the Windows operating system after the short 5 second wait at the LiLo
prompt.
Clif
"Steve Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3927e916.42766636@news...
> On Sat, 20 May 2000 17:02:31 GMT, "dsgfu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I want to setup a dual boot with RedHat 6.2 and Windows 2000. The
problem
>
> You can setup a dual boot but the boot drive cannot be NTFS. If you
> configure your Windows 2000 as a Fat32 drive then RedHat can install
> lilo on the master boot record and you can pick your os at boot time.
>
> >I'm having, i think, is that I want them both on the same hard drive. I
> >have Windows 2000 installed now and I have set up a Linux swap and native
> >partitions at the end of the drive. I thought I read somewhere that both
> >Linux and Windows 2000 want to be at the beginnning of the drive. Any
> >advice...
> Example for a 10gig drive:
> What I did was create 4gig Windows partition, fat32 using fdisk.
> Leave the rest of the drive unpartitioned. Format c:/s and install
> Windows 2000 (or you can boot from CD and use the setup to make the
> Windows2000 partition). Whichever, get Windows2000 installed on drive
> C. Then boot RedHat from CD (or floppy) and when it asks what
> partition to use, select available free space (basically the area not
> occupied by Windows 2000). Be sure to mount the Windows2000 (Fat32)
> partition somewhere like /Win2000 so you can use/see it when you are
> running Linux. When the lilo installation comes up, select mbr and
> Linux will install the boot selector on the C drive. I let RedHat
> create the partitions automatically, usually a boot, a root and swap
> partition.
> When you reboot the first time it should go directly into Linux but
> after that you will see the lilo prompt:
>
> LILO boot:
>
> Press tab and you should see
>
> linux Win2000
>
> type in Win2000 (or whatever you labeled your Windows2000 at the lilo
> setup/installation menu) to boot Windows2000.
> By default, your computer will boot linux. You can change this using
> linuxconf or by editing the lilo.conf file (need to run lilo in Linux
> whenever you change lilo.conf to make the change stick - refer to the
> lilo man).
> Hope this helps...
>
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From: sylvain hutchsion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new to linux
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:00:12 -0700
hi, I've tried to install Red Hat 6.1 on my PC, and I can't get the GUI
to work because of my graphics card, it's on my motherboard, the adapter
type is INtel Corporation 810 Graphics, controller Hub with only 4MB of
memory. I was told to download a driver or something, but I really don't
know what to do!
Thanks a lot for any information you can give me.
Sly.
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From: sylvain hutchsion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: intallation prob
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:03:09 -0700
hi, I've tried to install Red Hat 6.1 on my PC, and I can't get the GUI
to work because of my graphics card, it's on my motherboard, the adapter
type is INtel Corporation 810 Graphics, controller Hub with only 4MB of
memory. I was told to download a driver or something, but I really don't
know what to do!
Thanks a lot for any information you can give me.
Sly.
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