Linux-Setup Digest #38, Volume #19 Thu, 29 Jun 00 22:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: new to linux (mindglow)
Re: gcc compiler (mindglow)
Re: network question (sylvain hutchison)
Re: Requirements for upcoming 2.4 kernel (Paul Kimoto)
Can Linux Read/Write to NTFS????? (root)
Re: gcc compiler (Bill Unruh)
Re: setting up kppp on USRobotics 56K fax modem (Patricia)
Re: starting files... (Patricia)
Re: Upgrading to 2.2.16smp (mindglow)
Re: DSL question in Arizona... (Hal Burgiss)
Re: rebuilt kernel doesn't autoload modules ("David ..")
Re: telnet connection refused? (Andy Kinsey)
Re: Can Linux Read/Write to NTFS????? (Draco Ravenloft)
Copying files to Win98 directory (Steve)
Grub on separate /boot partition ? (Max Heijndijk)
Re: telnet connection refused? (Jose Luis Domingo Lopez)
Redhat 6.2 kernel panic on boot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: lexmark 5700 printer drivers (Jay Lensgraf)
Boot problem (0x04) ("Shaun")
Re: "screen" problems while using a vt320 (Pete Zaitcev)
Newbie needs help.... Dialup Problem with Caldera Distribution (Christopher Adams)
Need Rescue/LILO Help ("Dr. David N. Haney")
Re: lilo.conf append help. ("Dr. David N. Haney")
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From: mindglow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new to linux
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 20:59:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I kind new to linux, and I am trying to get myself connected to the
> server, but the IT guys don't know to it with linux!!!!
>
> I was told that I needed to use a couple of commands. Does anybody
know
> any commands that can help me,
>
> thanks a lot for any information!!!!
>
> Sly
>
depends on several things, ie. are you using Linux to connect to a
server, using Linux to connect to a Linux box serving something, using
some other os to connect to a Linux box...you get the picture.
you might try something like this:
-use your brouwser and go to http://the.server or ftp://the.server
-open a telnet session to the server
if you're using a micro$oft product see if you can find the server in
"network neighborhood" or do start>run> \\the.server\ to see if samba is
active and you have access.
it could be that the server is configured to perform a special task like
DNS or proxy or time, news whatever. in that case you'll probably have
to ask (nicely) before you'll be allowed into the server
good luck!
- mindglow
>
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From: mindglow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc compiler
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:04:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Me again, I am looking for a gcc compiler. I'm thinking of downloading
> it off the web, do I have to do anything else but install it on my
> pc???? And if anybody knows a site where I can download c++ compliers
> from???
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Sly.
>
>
it is possible that you have a perfectly good compiler already installed
in your new linux box you were talking about. check, or ask the (tech)
person who installed the box. if it isn't there you could install if
from the distro that was used to setup the Linux box. if all else fails
try this: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html it worked for me.
bye
- mindglow
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: network question
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:13:42 -0700
Thanks a lot, I'll be back tomorrow, have to go in a rush!!
Sly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Requirements for upcoming 2.4 kernel
Date: 29 Jun 2000 17:17:03 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote:
> I would like to prepare for the new 2.4 kernel. What are the
> requirements?
The Documentation/Changes file in the source code can also be found
on the web at
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/kaboom/linux/Changes-2.4/changes24.html
--
Paul Kimoto
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:19:58 -0500
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can Linux Read/Write to NTFS?????
Hi all,
I have a Dell Insperion 7500 notebook and for work I must use Windows NT
(yea I know so please don't give me any grief) and my hard drive and my
data are on NTFS partition. I have RH6.2 installed on another
partition and would like to access my windows data from linux. When I
first started investigating linux everyone told me linux could
read/write to ntfs. Now I am just confused?? The man pages for mount
note ntfs for the -t switch yet it gives me errors and a lot of how-to's
say it cannot be done.
So what is the final word???
Thanks
Phillip J.Allen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: gcc compiler
Date: 29 Jun 2000 21:32:56 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Me again, I am looking for a gcc compiler. I'm thinking of downloading
>it off the web, do I have to do anything else but install it on my
>pc???? And if anybody knows a site where I can download c++ compliers
>from???
All linux distros I know already include both a c and c++ compiler.
Either gcc (gcpp) or egcs. Maybe you forgot to install it (
development stuff).
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up kppp on USRobotics 56K fax modem
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:50:25 +0200
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, JJ wrote:
>Hello everybody!
>I recently installed the latest version of Mandrake and still can't get an
>internet connection with kppp. The linux.org site says my modem should be
>recognized and I get it to dial out with the mini terminal option under kppp
>but for some reason it hangs when I try to establish a connection via kppp.
>If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.
>Thanks,
>Alex
Alex
could you give some more details?
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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
10:50pm up 3 days, 20 min, 1 user, load average: 1.16, 1.52, 1.58
Thu Jun 29 22:50:46 CEST 2000
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: starting files...
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:52:49 +0200
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Pfunk wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Does anyone know the name of the files linux red hat 6.2 is reading when
>starting, so that I can insert my alias and other needed stuffs ?
>I've been trying to create a .profile file in /home/the_user/, but it would
>work.
>Thanx in advance
>
>Pfunk.
Pfunk
Take a look in
/etc/rc.d
rc
rc.local
--
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
10:53pm up 3 days, 23 min, 1 user, load average: 1.15, 1.39, 1.52
Thu Jun 29 22:53:45 CEST 2000
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From: mindglow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 2.2.16smp
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:31:26 GMT
have you tried downloading the kernal sources from
http://www.kernel.org/ and compiling them on your box.
i know rpm's work perfectly well (i use redhat myself alongside
slackware) but somehow i don't trust them with the kernal
- mindglow
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: DSL question in Arizona...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:41:21 GMT
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:33:51 -0700, Bryan Roseberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have Linux and I want to get DSL from USWest in Arizona. What
>hardware should I get? External or internal modem? Any suggestions
>about preparing for an install?
You don't really have a choice, get an external, ethernet modem.
http://feenix.eyep.net/dsl/linux_dsl.html
--
Hal B
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rebuilt kernel doesn't autoload modules
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:28:40 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
[snip]
> Nope, I didn't include these things. I don't have an EISA motherboard
> though. What are they for?
There are to right there next to each other at "CONFIG_DEC_ELCP" one is
the old on the other is a newer version. You will need to read the
"HELP" file to see which your system needs. The CONFIG_DEC_ELCP is the
module I have to use for a linksys 10/100 card or it won't work.
The EISA one has something to do with the PCI and something else, I
don't remember the wording so you may want to read the HELP file on it
also.
>
> > Did you use the new "tulip.c" module?
> >
> > What brand & model NIC is it?
>
> Ya, there were two: tulip.o and old_tulip.o. Actually either seemed to
> work, and I compiled both as modules. When RedHat configured my
> system originally, it added:
>
> alias eth0 old_tulip
>
> to /etc/conf.modules, so I would have expected it to load the old_tulip
> driver. It's a Kingston 10/100 NIC.
Read the HELP files in "network devices". If there isn't a specific
choice for the kingston 10/100 you may need to use one of the other
modules like I mentioned above.
Also when starting the network use:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
or /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
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From: Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: telnet connection refused?
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:52:35 +0000
Yong Zhao wrote:
> 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
Yong,
You didn't mention if you were attempting to telnet to your linux box as
"root". Telnetting in as root is disabled by default in Linux, and not
recommended. If you need to telnet as root, it is suggested you log in
as a normal user, then use the su command to become root.
Hope this helps.
Andy
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From: Draco Ravenloft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Linux Read/Write to NTFS?????
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:57:07 -0500
yeah.
It's just a problem that apparently some people have found problems with it
wanting to goof up writing to NTFS..... although I don't happen to know what
kernel they were trying to use or anything. Perhaps by now the distros have
remedied this problem.
root wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Dell Insperion 7500 notebook and for work I must use Windows NT
> (yea I know so please don't give me any grief) and my hard drive and my
> data are on NTFS partition. I have RH6.2 installed on another
> partition and would like to access my windows data from linux. When I
> first started investigating linux everyone told me linux could
> read/write to ntfs. Now I am just confused?? The man pages for mount
> note ntfs for the -t switch yet it gives me errors and a lot of how-to's
> say it cannot be done.
>
> So what is the final word???
>
> Thanks
>
> Phillip J.Allen
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:58:29 -0400
From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Copying files to Win98 directory
Hello,
I can not copy files to the Win98 ( /win ) directory when I am not
root. Is there a way to set the permissions so I can do this?
Thanks,
Steve
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From: Max Heijndijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Grub on separate /boot partition ?
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:19:41 -0400
Hello, does anyone know how to install GRUB on a system with a seperate
partition for /boot ? I've tried for several days now, but nothing
works. My /boot is on /dev/hda1, and the root partition is /dev/hda5.
The most common error I get is "File not found".
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From: Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: telnet connection refused?
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:29:01 GMT
Hi Yong Zhao:
>
> 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
First, check the file /etc/inetd.conf to see if there are uncommented
lines for the services you wish to be offered (apart from being sure
that inetd is up and running).
Next you should verify that there are no restrictions to connect based
on source addresses or login name of the users, as defined in the
tcp_wrappers. Look at the files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny: no
matter what the latter says, the former should have the following lines
, just in case:
/etc/hosts.allow
in.telnetd: IP_source_address
in-ftdp: IP_source_address
The names before the colon must be those at the end of the corresponding
line in /etc/inetd.conf.
There is still another possible (though unlikely in your case) reason: a
firewall in the destination machine that is blocking the packets for
these services.
Jose Luis Domingo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Redhat 6.2 kernel panic on boot
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:45:43 GMT
I just set up an AMD Athlon 750 MHz system, with a 20 GB Ultra DMA IDE
hard drive, 384 MB RAM, 8 MB AGP video card (not sure of exact model),
and a motherboard running AMI bios with Gateway's CMOS sitting on top of
it. For those that are familiar with them and know the hardware shipped
with them, this is a Gateway select computer.
I've installed Win2000 Professional on the primary partition, which is
approximately 6.0 GB. I then installed Red Hat Linux 6.2, making sure
to keep the boot partition within the first 1023 cylinders.
Installation went great! Then, when attempting to boot the linux
configuration for the first time, I get a kernel panic, and the boot
process hangs, permantently. I tried booting from the floopy and got
exactly the same problem. This appears to be a problem with the kernel
(2.2.14-5.0), and it's hardware drivers.
I'll try to list some of the boot messages in more detail, but keep in
mind that this is a screaming machine, and once the kernel's been
unpacked, everything scrolls by so fast, I can't get all of the
messages.
(last page of boot messages before crash...copied by hand)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache has table entries: 524288 (order 9, 2048k)
Page cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
VFS: Disk quotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
L1 I Cache: 64k L1 D Cache: 64k
L2 Cache: 256k
CPU: AMD AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
Enabling extended fast FPU save & restore...done
Disabling CPU ID Serial Number...general protection fault: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c02340f4>]
EFlags: 00010282
eax: 00000020 ebx: 179c0f80 ecx: 00000119 edx: 00000001
esi: 00098800 edi: c0106000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c0233fc8
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss:0018
Process swapper (pic:0, process nr: 0, stack page=c0233000)
Stack: c0106000 c02344e2 c02143a0...etc....etc...
179c0f80 c063f080 d8000000...etc....etc...
Call Trace: [<c0106000>][<c01d7d0b>]]<c0100175>]
Code: of 32 od 00 00 20 00 0f 306821 781dc0 e8...etc...
Kernel panic: Attempted to keill the idel task!
In swapper task - not syncing
Any help or advice will be very much appreciated.
-Josh Rigler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Lensgraf)
Subject: Re: lexmark 5700 printer drivers
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:34:29 GMT
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 06:23:27, "JJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about printer drivers and more importantly
> anything on this printer.
> The company said tough luck -- this works only in Windoze so I am trying to
> find some kind of alternate/compatible drivers or some way to build one.
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
check here:
http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/l7kdriver/
Jay
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From: "Shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot problem (0x04)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:56:22 +1200
Hi. Whenever I try to boot up my box from a floppy, all I get is "Error
0x04" and it won't do anything else, even if I type in "rescue".
Here is my setup:
I'm using Linux Redhat 6.0 on a Pentium II 466.
I've got a 15gb and a 17gb hard drive. My linux partition is on my second
hard drive (hdb1) and I'm using 3gb. My swap space is 500mb.
I'm using a floppy to boot into linux because lilo always overwrites the
windows partition and so I can't boot into windows.
If you have any suggestions on how to boot into linux, I would be very
grateful.
==========
Shaun Henderson
http://www.nirvana.co.nz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Zaitcev)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: "screen" problems while using a vt320
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:02:42 GMT
> readlink("/proc/self/fd/0", "/dev/ttyS1", 4095) = 10
> stat("/dev/ttyS1", {st_mode=S_ISGID|0101, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> geteuid() = 0
> getegid() = 0
> open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDWR) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
Make sure you do not run getty on /dev/cuab. Run getty on /dev/ttyS1.
If you do not shorten ready lines on the connector, program getty
to activate "clocal" mode. It's getty specific, so refer to your
manual. I use agetty with -L flag:
S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
Use of call-up devices in Linux is deprecated.
--Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Adams)
Subject: Newbie needs help.... Dialup Problem with Caldera Distribution
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:04:07 GMT
Hi -
I have gotten mixed answers to my problem, and none of them seem to
work - I need HELP!!!!
I have a system running the latest Caldera distribution. It's a
pentium 233 with 64 mg, with an internal modem on ttyS3 and a network
card in a PCI slot which is unused right now. When I dial up my ISP
via KPPP, I get a connection, but I am not able to get my browser to
fetch any web pages - the addresses don't seem to be resolved.
What could I be doing wrong? I am filling in the DNS addresses in
KPPP setup - any ideas????
Thanks in advance....
Chris
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From: "Dr. David N. Haney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Rescue/LILO Help
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:14:30 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RedHat Gurus:
I have attempted to install RedHat Linux 6.1 on a SCSI hard drive. It
took several trys to get it to
work mostly because first it had difficulties with my CDROM, then it had
difficulties
with the non-standard address for my NIC. Finally, after all worked, I
found that LILO
seemed to be corrupt, so I deleted it using the DOS function fdisk /mbr.
Now I need to reinstall LILO so that I can boot my LINUX which is on a
SCSI disk at /dev/sda3
(/, /boot, /usr, and everything). This is the 3rd partition of a SCSI
disk with the first
partition being my windows and the second being the linux swap. I have
tried the trick
that I have seen for IDE disks of booting from the installation "boot:"
prompt by typing
vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3. However this results in a Kernal Panic error (I
assume due
to the fact that this is a SCSI disk). I have also escaped to the mini
bash shell (which
is available after I enter all my SCSI info etc) and been able to mount
the /dev/sda3
and view all the files, but you cannot run lilo because it expects
things to be in the /
directory not some other mount directory. I tried using ROOT=/root (my
mount point for
the real /), but that did not work either. Do I have to redo the whole
RedHat installation again
or is there a simple way to install LILO, or create a rescue floppy that
allows me to boot
the existing installation?
Thanks for all the help.
######### David N. Haney, Ph.D. ###########
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From: "Dr. David N. Haney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo.conf append help.
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:20:55 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"David .." wrote:
> james wrote:
> >
> > i've been trying to install an ISA ne2000 clone in my rh6.2 machine today,
> > and have had some troubles. i read somewhere that i have to put 'append=
> > [something]' into lilo.conf so that linux will see my ISA card as eth0.
> > under win98, the card was IRQ10, I/O 300h. any ideas what i
> > have to add exactly?
> >
> > thanks,
> > james.
>
> add to /etc/conf.modules
>
> alias eth0 ne2000
>
> Then restart the network with:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
>
> --
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
I found that you had to tell linux the ISA cards address by adding the line
options eth0 io=0x300 under the alias command.
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