Linux-Setup Digest #29, Volume #19 Wed, 28 Jun 00 21:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: RH 6.1 after installation (Sean Zhai)
Re: Linux Install Lockup (Andrey Vlasov)
Proble with System Comander Deluxe and LINUX ("Du�an Drobn�")
eval not working in bash? (Dave Struble)
Re: Why should I create a /boot FS (J Bland)
Re: Partial Results with a SupraMax 'winmodem?' (Jago)
Re: Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mind?)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
telnet connection refused? (Yong Zhao)
Re: eval not working in bash? (Michael Nadler)
Does Linux support Sis 620 multimedia chip set
i810 video card driver support in xfree86 4.0 ("Dave Breece")
Re: X-windows (Patricia)
Red Hat 6.1 Installation Lockup (George)
R: X-windows ("Francesco Rossi")
Starting SAMBA server ("Francesco Rossi")
NFS installs (JGLaBounty)
UN-installing Linux dual boot -- my recent experiences (Jerome Mrozak)
Can't compile RTL8139.c; PAGE_OFFSET_RAW error ("news.compuserve.com")
"Maximal count reached" ("Daniel G�linas")
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:20:56 -0400
From: Sean Zhai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 after installation
I'm trying to solve a similar problem, so I would like to know some details.
Do you have Window on the same computer also? How did you configure the
harddisk? The document says that if Linux is located higher than 1024
cylinders in harddisk, you'll have trouble to boot it from harddisk. But you
should be able to boot in with a floppy (linux boot disk).
Sean
Vladimir Royter wrote:
> Can somebody help me?
> After successfull installation of RH 6.1 each time on rebooting I see only
> LILO message
> "Loading Linux" and mashine always down
> I've 20Gb harddrive, 128 Mb RAM, Voodoo 3
>
> Thank you
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux Install Lockup
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:19:33 -0700
Hi there,
you should use Windows system floppy and run command
fdisk /MBR
it will remove lilo from MBR. After that use fdisk as usually and
partiotion disk according your requirements.
Andrey
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From: "Du�an Drobn�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Proble with System Comander Deluxe and LINUX
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 23:33:33 +0200
I use System Commander Deluxe to run multiple OS-es on one hardrive. I have
2 x Windows 98SE and 1x Linux RedHat 6.2. I followed all instructions and
documentations but after I boot up Linux from System Commander menu and then
restart the system I get always this message: "Insert Boot-disk and press
any key." What should I do? The only solution that I have found is to boot
up from Floopy and thru FDISK change active/bootable partition to the one of
the Windowses. Please HELP !!!!
Dusan
ICQ#(UIN): 3188276
YahooMess: dusand76
SZM Odigo: Lost (786509)
AOLMess: Dusan1976
MSNMess: DusanD76
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From: Dave Struble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eval not working in bash?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:34:35 -0500
The .config file for the print queue associated with my HP LJ6 (running
on a Win98SE machine) looks like:
share='\\Dave\hplj6'
hostip=192.168.1.101
user=''
password=''
workgroup='LOCAL"
smbprint fails whenever I attempt to print to this remote printer. The
following line is in smbprint:
eval `cat $config_file`
The $config_file variable is set up properly, but after this line
executes, the $share and $hostip variables are still null. Any
suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? It's as if eval is broken!
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Why should I create a /boot FS
Date: 28 Jun 2000 21:48:30 GMT
>I have read various places that you should create /boot
>as a seperate filesystem. But I have never read a good
>reason for doing it.
>
>Why should I create a seperate /boot filesystem?
It *used* to be that LILO couldn't boot your kernel if some or all of it was
contained over cylindar 1024 on your harddisc (and still can't I think if
your BIOS is old/odd, I may be wrong).
So what you would do is create a small (20MBish) partition, entirely below
cylindar 1024 (usually at the start of the disc, or right after the windows
partition), stick the kernel and lilo in that and everything would be fine.
You were then free to make any other partitons where you liked, and as big
as you liked.
Frinky
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From: Jago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.corel
Subject: Re: Partial Results with a SupraMax 'winmodem?'
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:57:24 -0500
Snuggles the Psycho Shepherd wrote:
>
> I'm using a diamond SupraMAX 56i PCI modem, Mandrake 7.1, & a PIII
> w/256 mb ram, 80 mb swap. Anyhoo I can get as far as a 'modem is busy'
> result with the 'query modem' button in the modem setup. Is anyone else
> working on this? (this result occurs when I say the modem is on either
> dev/tty2 or dev/tty3)
>
> Is there a winmodem /linux project site that anyone knows of? Any help
> would be really green.
>
> -Snuggles the P.S.
>
> replies here or to:
>
> louis_a_j@
>
> ><nospam><
>
> hotmail.com
http://www.linmodems.org but you won't have much luck unless you have a
lucent based chipset.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mind?)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 28 Jun 2000 18:09:59 -0400
In comp.os.linux.misc Paul Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
If you have a shell account (dial up, terminal emulation) have you tried
minicom or seyon? Just checking that all is working with the modem.
If that is working, it sounds like a DNS configuration problem. Most
distributions have a configuration programme to help in setting those (in
TurboLinux is it turbonetcfg, for example). You'll, of course, have to
know the IP addresses for your ISP's DNS servers.
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:22:51 -0500
From: Yong Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: telnet connection refused?
Hi,
Got a problem about telnet (and ftp) connection to my linux box. It
always shows "Connection refused". How is that?
by the way, it is Red Hat 6.1, with "xinetd" installed.
And I can make telnet, ftp and http connection to internet.
What should I do?
Thanks
Yong
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From: Michael Nadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eval not working in bash?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:20:50 -0700
Dave Struble wrote:
> The .config file for the print queue associated with my HP LJ6 (running
> on a Win98SE machine) looks like:
>
> share='\\Dave\hplj6'
> hostip=192.168.1.101
> user=''
> password=''
> workgroup='LOCAL"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Did you intend to have a double-quote here? Should be a single-quote?
>
>
> smbprint fails whenever I attempt to print to this remote printer. The
> following line is in smbprint:
>
> eval `cat $config_file`
>
> The $config_file variable is set up properly, but after this line
> executes, the $share and $hostip variables are still null. Any
> suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? It's as if eval is broken!
>
> Dave
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Linux support Sis 620 multimedia chip set
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:30:07 GMT
Hi guys,
Can any body tell me whether Linux supports Sis 620 multimedia chipset.
If it does how do I be able to install it on my Red Hat Linux 6.2 Gnome
Workstation. A detailed explanation is requested.
Thanks
Yousuf
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From: "Dave Breece" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i810 video card driver support in xfree86 4.0
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:35:00 -0700
Supposedly, xfree86 4.0 supports Intel's i810 chipset, including
the i810e board that is in my quantex box. Although it's not listed
in the x86config card database, you can edit the XF86Config by
hand.
After getting everything set up, running startx gives me the error:
(II) I810(0): AGPIOC_ACQUIRE failed
Does anyone know how to fix this, or alternately, does anyone
know where I can look this error up?
Thanks in advance.
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-windows
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:34:43 +0200
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, sylvain hutchison wrote:
>I'm new to Linux, and I was wondering what do I have to do to run
>X-windows from the start, without having to type startx or whatever,
>every time I reboot.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sly.
Sly
login as root of su
edit /etc/inittab
replaceid:5:initdefault: (default startup in tekstmode)
with id:3:initdefault: (default startup in X mode)
this is for Redhat
could be different for other distributions
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Good Luck
Patricia
ICQ 69588792
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
http://beginnerslinux.org
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15
12:36am up 2 days, 2:06, 1 user, load average: 1.28, 1.32, 1.32
Thu Jun 29 00:36:20 CEST 2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Red Hat 6.1 Installation Lockup
Date: 28 Jun 2000 22:42:33 GMT
After the partitions are formatted and the package
installation begins, RH 6.1 locks up randomly, but
always: sometimes in the very beginning (after only
a few packages has been installed), sometimes near
the end, and most often somewhere midway through the
package installation.
I suspected it had something to do with the way
the HDD is recognized, so I tried changing its
mode in the BIOS from LBA to Normal, and selecting
or unselecting "linear" in the LILO setup dialog,
as well as supplying the HDD geometry to the kernel
when in "normal" mode. All to no avail. During the
partition dialog RH reports the disk as
C=1826,H=255,S=63 and size 14323M.
Any ideas what could be wrong and how to fix it?
My hardware:
Elite P5TX-Ae MB, Pentium 233 MMX, 80MB of memory,
Trident 9440 video card, Quantum lct10 15GB IDE HDD.
Thanks, George
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From: "Francesco Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: R: X-windows
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 01:00:05 +0200
Hi,
in SuSE 6.4 you can set X-windows at start-up using yast program.
sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm new to Linux, and I was wondering what do I have to do to run
> X-windows from the start, without having to type startx or whatever,
> every time I reboot.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sly.
>
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From: "Francesco Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Starting SAMBA server
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 01:10:40 +0200
Hi,
i have configured the samba for make my Linux SuSE 6.4 a server and all run
very good.
But i must run smbd -D and nmbd -D manually.
There is two line marked as comment in /etc/inetd.conf that rappresents the
netbios services for samba.
I have deleted the simbol # for comments, but the samba server don't start.
No error was found, simply don' t start.
1) There are other modifies to the Linux for start the services from inetd ?
2) Enyware, how can i run the two samba daemons from /etc/rc.d ?
Thank.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JGLaBounty)
Subject: NFS installs
Date: 28 Jun 2000 23:25:59 GMT
We have our systems setup for NFS install using RH6.2. Now when Redhat issues
an updated rpm, can we just copy it to the NFS directory so that the next
install will pickup the updated rpm? Are there other files to modify to tell
the install program of the new kernel changes?
For example the basic kernel in the 6.2 release is 2.2.14-05. Redhat has made
available 2.2.16-06. How do I setup the NFS directory so that it installs
2.2.16-06?
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From: Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UN-installing Linux dual boot -- my recent experiences
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:49:39 -0500
Having had recent access to a CD burner and a fat pipe, I have been
evaluating Linux distros on a couple of laptops, with a view of settling
on one for my wife's computer. I have installed and uninstalled ISO
copies of Storm Linux (rain), Red Hat 6.2, SuSE 6.4 and Mandrake 7.1.
In all cases I tried to keep the computers dual-booting into Windows 9x
(one laptop has 95, the other 98). I still need them for
Windows-related consulting.
When I was done playing with a distro, I would remove it from the HD
because this was least confusing to the user (me) and to the next Linux
install.
Which leads to my first observation: Remove the OS loader BEFORE
removing the distribution. RH and SuSE use LILO, which is fairly
harmless in the MBR. Storm installs its own graphical selector. If you
use fdisk to remove the Storm file system and then reboot you lose the
ability to boot the hard disk! You need to recover through a DOS floppy
and then correct the MBR through fdisk /mbr. After learning this
through my Storm experience, I didn't want to see if GRUB behaved like
Storm or LILO. I merely played it safe. My procedure for installing is
first get to MS-DOS and use fdisk /mbr to remove the dual-boot loader.
Then use the Linux installer to get to the disk partitioner and erase
the Linux partitions. When only MS-DOS is left then cold boot the
computer and your Windows is restored.
My second observation concerns Mandrake 7.1. Their graphical
installation is truly nifty (when it works--see below) and they include
a "point and grunt" disk partitioner (you don't get the chance to use
fdisk). Before my Linux install I had three partitions on the disk: a
small primary (hda1) for DOS C:, the rest of the disk for extended
partition, and a small secondary (hda5) for D:. With Mandrake I duly
did the fdisk /mbr (to remove GRUB), went into Mandrake's intaller and
deleted the hda6 (swap), hda7 (/home) and hda8 (/) partitions and saved
them. It complained about having no swap partition but seemed to like
it enough.
When I rebooted back into Mandrake install the disk partitioner showed
me it had, indeed, saved my changes. Only two partitions (/mnt/windowsc
and /mnt/windowsd) were shown (note that this graphical partitioner
doesn't ever show the extended partition). I cold booted again, this
time into DOS to see what fdisk thought of this. The result was an
intact C: drive (a primary partition) and a non-DOS partition the size
of my D: drive but unreachable from DOS. The extended partition was
gone!
I explicitly recreated the same situation, this time with the SuSE 6.4
distro. I installed the Linux, then did the fdisk /mbr to erase LILO,
and then began the install again to remove the Linux partitions. It
turns out that YaST2 won't let me remove all partitions and save the
result. YaST1 (text-mode YaST) lets me do this OK, and after reboot I
had a Windows-only computer again with my C:, extended partition and D:
intact.
With any of the distros I suppose I could have booted into Linux as root
and used fdisk in a console to erase the file system, then cold booted.
This would avoid the installer problem with Mandrake, but the fact
remains that the Mandrake installer did me dirty, without warning.
DISTRO OBSERVATIONS
I won't resist very short reviews of my ISO distros. Sort of like
dipping a foot into various oceans and then rendering a judgement on
oceans. But here goes...
Storm Linux ("rain" edition): Storm is based on Debian but has updated
many files, including a 2.2 series kernel. The install went smoothly
enough, but I wasn't asked what I wanted installed. What was selected
for me included both KDE and Gnome, and had separate GUI menus for KDE,
GUI and Debian software. Vim wasn't installed. I tried to get Storm to
install a package (I can't remember if it was AbiWord or something of
KDE) but couldn't convince apt, dselect or Storm's updater to do the job
for me. All in all, I'm not enticed to keep this one.
Red Hat 6.2: It found my external SCSI (which I can't boot off of on
that computer--only floppy or HD boots) and installed, giving me
choices. One time I installed this distro and got bad results (Xwindows
failure to login screen continually, once per second). Another time it
installed and worked OK. All of those "RedHat" icons got me down,
though. An acceptable distro.
Mandrake 7.1: Except for my install problem below, it installed on my
ThinkPad just fine. Includes latest KDE and Gnome 1.2. Their installer
couldn't handle my downloaded KDE 1.91 stuff. Maybe my Mandrake-version
RPMS are downloaded broken, and maybe things don't work. DrakeRPM
failed me, and trying to install some RH-distro RPMS led to odd results
-- they said " failed to install due to dependencies " and then
completely disappeared from install and installed menus! I never could
install this on my HP Omnibook 800ct because at the time of package
selection it said "No hdlists found". At least it did 90% of the time,
but it failed elsewhere the rest of the time. Of the distros I list
here I feel (with no real justification otherwise) that this is the one
voted "most likely to publish an up-to-date Gnome desktop".
SuSE 6.4: Worked fine, no problems on any machine. Using Yast package
installer actually installed the KDE 1.91 extensions. To be expected, I
guess, from the most aggressive KDE fan of Linux distros. Still has
Gnome 1.0 code, and I wonder if 6.5 will contain it? Helixcode has a CD
for you, but currently only up to Mandrake 7.0 and SuSE 6.3. I hear
people complain tha SuSE does things just a little different than RH and
this causes RPMs to work here and not there.
If I had to choose I'd be hard put between Mandrake and SuSE. I will
choose later this year.
Thanks for your time...
Jerome.
--
Jerome Mrozak "Never buy a dog and bark for yourself"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] --"Slippery" Jim DiGriz
(the Stainless Steel Rat)
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From: "news.compuserve.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Can't compile RTL8139.c; PAGE_OFFSET_RAW error
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:20:58 -0400
I'm trying to compile the rtl8139.c code for an SMC1211TX card, but I
can't get it to compile. Here is a transcript of the compile session:
==========BEGIN TRANSCRIPT==========
[root@linux temp]# gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c
In file included from /usr/include/linux/capability.h:13,
from /usr/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:8,
from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from rtl8139.c:103:
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:813: redefinition of `mark_buffer_highprio'
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:799: `mark_buffer_highprio' previously defined here
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:818: redefinition of `mark_buffer_lowprio'
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:804: `mark_buffer_lowprio' previously defined here
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:827: redefinition of `buffer_lowprio'
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:274: `buffer_lowprio' previously defined here
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:863: redefinition of `mark_buffer_dirty_lowprio'
/usr/include/linux/fs.h:846: `mark_buffer_dirty_lowprio' previously defined
here
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function `get_pgd_slow':
In file included from /usr/include/linux/vmalloc.h:7,
from /usr/include/asm/io.h:101,
from rtl8139.c:111:
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:408: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared (first use in
this function)
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:408: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
once
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:408: for each function it appears in.)
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function `pte_alloc_kernel':
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:497: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared (first use in
this function)
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:505: warning: control reaches end of non-void
function
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h: In function `pte_alloc':
/usr/include/asm/pgtable.h:515: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared (first use in
this function)
/usr/include/asm/io.h: In function `virt_to_phys':
In file included from rtl8139.c:111:
/usr/include/asm/io.h:112: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared (first use in this
function)
/usr/include/asm/io.h:113: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
/usr/include/asm/io.h: In function `phys_to_virt':
/usr/include/asm/io.h:117: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared (first use in this
function)
/usr/include/asm/io.h:118: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
/usr/include/asm/io.h: In function `check_signature':
/usr/include/asm/io.h:175: `PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' undeclared (first use in this
function)
==========END TRANSCRIPT==========
Can anybody explain the source, and more importantly, the solution to
this problem? Links to sites on the Web are just fine. For the record, I
am running an install of Red Hat 6.0, with a kernel version of 2.2.5-15. Is
this important? Do I need to update my kernel? I searched on Deja for the
better part of an hour, but I couldn't find a message that came close to
describing my problem. TIA...
Amiri Jones
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From: "Daniel G�linas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "Maximal count reached"
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 01:06:32 GMT
Hi,
What I must do if I don't want to have sometimes
the following message at the console, when I
mount a filesystem:
"EXT2-fs warning: maximal count reached, running e2fsck is recommended"
Thank's
Daniel G�linas
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