Linux-Setup Digest #64, Volume #19 Mon, 3 Jul 00 17:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Weird Mandrake7.1/Windows interaction regarding partitions (David Efflandt)
Re: cdrom (E J)
RH 6.2 random rants and raves -- advice wanted (Edward A. Falk)
Re: You have mail, when I don't. (David Efflandt)
Re: Can't get modem detected (E J)
linux wont boot after i updated glibc ("Jonni Roos")
Re: friendly reply please (i'm new) ("Jonni Roos")
Ethernet without router. (Ignacio Valdes)
how to change the resolution on Xwindows? (Xiang Long Huang)
Re: Disk management ("Ed Bras")
Re: Telnet not starting on RH 6.2 (Fred Nastos)
Problem starting RedHat 6.2 ? ("Ed Bras")
Re: Font server and XFree 4.0 (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: CDROM mounting problems (Write tome)
Re: Fetchmail and Exchange ("Jeffrey Lacy")
Re: Again : Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card (HomerWelch)
Re: Install OpenGL on TNT 2 (Craig Kelley)
Re: Help! root directory mounted as readonly. What to do? (Rob Harvey)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Weird Mandrake7.1/Windows interaction regarding partitions
Date: 3 Jul 2000 18:18:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 03 Jul 2000, Alberto BARSELLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I already noticed that some problems can arise with win95
>extended partitions and Mandrake, but I had a weird problem.
>My setup:
>
>hda -> 1.2 gig disk, with a 256Mb win95 primary partition (hda1), rest
> is linux
>
>hdc -> 4.3 gig disk, with a 256Mb win95 primary (hdc1) and 700Mb
> extended (hdc7).
>
>Before install, while using RH 6.2, windows allocated C: for hda1, D:
>for hdc1, E: for hdc7 and F: for the ide Zip drive.
>
>After Mandrake installation (I played with the linux partitiond but
>didn't touch the dos ones) I have:
>
>C: for hda1, D: for hdc1, ** F: for hdc7 ** and ** E: for the ide Zip
>drive**.
>
>I can access all data without problems and everything is fine.
>Anyone knows what changes in the partition tables can trigger this
>behaviour in windows?
Take a look at your partitions in Linux fdisk and see if any of them are
not Linux or Linux swap. You might also see if the partition order is
jumbled (not in consecutive order).
Windows recognizes additions, but is not too bright about drive or
partition removal. Maybe all you have to do is remove all the disk
related devices in Windows and reboot so it can put its house in order
again. Or it could be that BIOS creates a phantom drive because your
drives are out of sequence (what is on hdb?).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrom
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 11:21:25 -0700
Could it be that /dev/cdrom is linked to wrong /dev/hdX (IDE) or /dev/sdX
(SCSI)?
Put in an CDROM and as root try to mount it. (My CDROM is IDE secondary
master, /dev/hdc)
# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
If this solves your problem,
relink your cdrom
# mv /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom.orig
# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
Siva Kumaran Nadarajah wrote:
> I have the following problem with my cdrom:
>
> When I try to mount it with %mount /dev/cdrom
> I get the following response:
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
>
> My fstab file contains the following line
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0
>
> Could you please provide me with some suggestions to fix this problem?
>
> Thank You
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward A. Falk)
Subject: RH 6.2 random rants and raves -- advice wanted
Date: 3 Jul 2000 18:21:37 GMT
Well, I installed RH 6.2 yesterday. I was mostly very impressed --
a real GUI install this time! Wow. Also, it looks like NFS server
might be working again (it broke in 6.0). I'm dreaming that SCSI
tape might be working too, but I think it's just a dream.
Here are the things that are driving me nuts:
* Vim no longer supports digraphs. WTF is with that?
Now I have to find the source code and compile it myself.
* Xterm now draws bold text in white instead of in the
text foreground color. That makes bold text unreadable
on my black-on-white windows. I was able to work around
the problem by adding
-xrm '*VT100.colorBD: black'
to the xterm command line, but I shouldn't have had to do
that.
* Xterm changed the default backarrowKey resource to False.
Meant I couldn't enter backspace until I figured out how to
fix it.
* Underlined text now drawn in hard-to-read colors intead
of underlined. I can turn the color off by setting
VT100.colorULMode to false, but I can't turn the underlining
back on.
I'm sure I'll find more problems as I go, but these are the ones that
started driving me nuts right away.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: You have mail, when I don't.
Date: 3 Jul 2000 18:32:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 08:38:48 -0500, Ignacio Valdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>When I send an e-mail to a localuser, the e-mail comes across and can be
>read using Pine. However, the 'You have mail' message that comes up when
>you log in doesn't ever go away. You can bring up Pine and look for new
>messages and nothing is there. What gives?
That is something pine started doing in 4.x versions to store IMAP info.
But it does cause a problem for the old mail checkers which just check if
the folder is empty.
If you do not use IMAP press S, C in pine and check
quell-folder-internal-msg (press ? when on it to read help info).
Then make sure that mail folder is empty (except for the dummy msg) and:
cp /dev/null /var/spool/mail/username
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get modem detected
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 11:41:16 -0700
Did you install minicom during the installation?
$ which minicom
/usr/bin/minicom
or
$ locate minicom
If not, go to your distribution linux CD and install it.
"Theodore J. Mooney" wrote:
> Run Minicom from the command line?
> Gives no such command error.
>
> --
> ========================================================
> The views, opinions, or statements stated above or below
> are not necessarily those of the poster. So there! Nyah!
>
> ---
>
> "Keyboard? How quaint!" - Scotty
>
> ========================================================
>
> "E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Here are the defaults:
> > Com1 uses IRQ 4
> > Com2 uses IRQ 3
> > The soundcard uses IRQ5
> > Doesn't windows give an explaination point
> > (start->settings->control-panel->system) when it see that Com3 and the
> > Sound Card are using the same IRQ?
> > Do you have an old BBS number to dial up?
> > Try using minicom to see if the modem works with the Com3 port
> (/dev/ttyS2)
> > and IRQ5
> >
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From: "Jonni Roos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux wont boot after i updated glibc
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:03:50 +0300
Hello,
can anyone tell what should i do to get linux running again? I had a
properly running Linux box froma Storm distro (based on debian), then i
updated glibc to 2.1.3 with dpkg. It was ok, ran Staroffice etc, but after i
booted it it wont load the operating system. What should i do?
linux is wonderful, it is just that it is so hard to maintain
J.
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From: "Jonni Roos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: friendly reply please (i'm new)
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:10:30 +0300
mandrake sounds fun but it wouldnt install on my computer, whatever i did it
crashed during installation, like corel. I thought i was lucky cause i didnt
buy them. Storm installed easily, thought it isnt perfect either
Kraylus kirjoitti viestiss� ...
>linux mandrake 7.0 sounds like a fine OS.
>
>before i buy, i gotta few questions.
>
>i run off an internet connection on my wife's computer who is using windows
>(she wont part with windows... ever). my own puter has a winmodem, so i
>can't sign onto the net with it. my question is, can i still share my
>wife's windows internet connection via our network? can we even still
share
>files across our network if i have linux and she has windows?
>
>lastly, does it come with bootdisks? i really do NOT want to attempt to
>make a bootdisk with proper modules and whatnot. i'm still kinda stupid
>when it comes to that kinda thing.
>
>please reply via email if possible. i can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>thanks for your time,
>
>ryan
>
>
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From: Ignacio Valdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet without router.
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:06:24 -0500
Hello all,
I'm wiring my house for a 3 node Ethernet network. I have a router and
the network running fine with the wire on the floor right now. The
thought occurred to me: is it possible for me to splice into a single
wire and thus not have to have a router? Coax does this right now,
right? This is a short distance network, < 50 ft. I was thinking that I
could have a splice at the wall plate and continue it onto the next wall
plate. Shouldn't this work? It works with cross-over cable on a two node
network. If this doesn't work, then why not? Curious minds want to know.
-- IV
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From: Xiang Long Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to change the resolution on Xwindows?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 15:35:44 -0400
I can't use Xconfigurator because I used a vedio card driver which is
not provided by redhat. Every time I start Xconfigurator the redhat will
try to change the vedio card config to the one that doesn't work.
But how to change the resolution, say from 1024x768 to 640x480, without
using Xconfiguartor then? Thanks
--
Long
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk management
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:43:12 +0200
Thanks,
Ed
Jesper Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Which tools, I prefer from the command prompt, can I use for disk
> > managemant, that is to view the size of the disk and the space available
?
>
> df
>
> > And is it (and how) possible to change the /usr/ partition ?
>
> There is a tool:
> ftp://ftp.powerquest.com/pub/utilities/resize2fs.rpm
> This should do it.
>
> --
> /Jesper Krogh
> Student at DTU Denmark.
> See the future ... Choose Linux.
>
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From: Fred Nastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet not starting on RH 6.2
Date: 3 Jul 2000 19:46:09 GMT
C.J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I'm stumped (not that it is all that hard) on this one. It loks like
> the few things I could think of to check/try you already did.
>>I have this line in other box and it is working ok. Did I miss something
>>doing a custom install.
Um. Do you have telnet? The last RH6.2 installation I saw didn't install
(maybe didn't even come with) telnet or an ftp program. I had to download
telnet and ftp. You can use gnorpm and the "web find" command to do that.
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem starting RedHat 6.2 ?
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:54:06 +0200
My RedHat does a bit weird:
1: Sometimes it doesn't allow me to write a database in the /var/lib/mysql
dir, whereas df says it has enough space left ? I can't found the solution
and after booting it works again (nothing appears in the log).
2: Now I have the problem that the console doesn't come up normaly, that is
the keyboard doesn't react and the screen flashes. But I am able to work on
it, by a telnet and X session. It now does the same thing after I booted
him.
How can I see in which runlevel it is in, as I needed to start the smbd
manual ??
Does anyone has an idea what isn't working properly ?
Ed
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Font server and XFree 4.0
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:17:53 +0300
James Franklin wrote:
> I disagree with you regarding the necessity of xfs. I read your comment
about
> it not being needed. Since I am the only user of my system, and I log in
only
> at the computer, I appeared not to need xfs. I promptly removed it from
> startup etc, and found that my computer would not go into graphical mode
(X)
> anymore. I had to put it back the way it was for X to start.
> --
> James
--
Nevertheless, you don't need xfs if you are the only user. But - there's
always some little "but" ...
Your /etc/X11/XF86Config file contains some little line :
FontPath unix/:-1
This means in short " go to font server for any fonts"
Just comment out/remove this line and put the paths to the font
directories into the /etc/X11/XF86Config - and remove the xfs with no worry.
Example :
Instead of
FontPath unix/:-1
this would be
FontPath my_font_directory1
FontPath my_font_directory2
FontPath you_name_it.
Regards,
Alex Chudnovsky
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 35559910
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From: Write tome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDROM mounting problems
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:07:06 GMT
test
Siva Kumaran Nadarajah wrote:
> I have the following problem with my cdrom:
>
> When I try to mount it with %mount /dev/cdrom
> I get the following response:
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
>
> My fstab file contains the following line
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0
> 0
>
> Could you please provide me with some suggestions to fix this problem?
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thank You
>
> Siva Nadarajah
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From: "Jeffrey Lacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Fetchmail and Exchange
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:34:58 GMT
Could you explain what
set syslog
set bouncemail
set properties ""
do? Thanks in advance! :-)
[....]
> Steve Cowles
>
> ---------------------------------------
> set syslog
> set postmaster "scowles"
> set bouncemail
> set properties ""
> set invisible
> poll mail.myisp.net with proto POP3 timeout 60
> user "swcowles" there with password "my-password" is scowles here
> smtphost ms-exchange.mydomain.com
>
>
>
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From: HomerWelch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,sg.linux
Subject: Re: Again : Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:40:44 GMT
Jeremy Low wrote:
>
> Hie there
>
> Really sorry that I am posting it again but you can say that I am really
> desparate here and I really am :(
>
> Recently bought a LinkSys Fast Ethernet 10/100 card. Inserted into that
> system that runs on Redhat Linux 6.2 and Windows98, complete with 166MMX,
> 24MB and with Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
>
> The network card worked out fine in Windows. In Linux, I downloaded the
> driver source (tulip.c and kern_compat.h), compiled it with the appropriate
> option as specified in tulip.c and copied the object file tulip over to
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/. Next changed the permissions to executable.
>
> Next did "depmod -a" followed by "modprobe tulip.o" I was issued a :
>
> tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> I also edited /etc/lilo.conf to look like this
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=Windows
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=Linux
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda3
> append="ether=9,0x6000"
>
> I issued "lilo" and edited my /etc/conf.modules file to look like this :
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias sound-slot-0 es1370
> alias eth0 tulip
> options eth0 io=0x6000-0x60FF irq=11
> *similar to the settings in Windows and output of "cat /proc/pci"
>
> then restarted the system and did "dmesg | grep eth0 -" and was shown
> nothing. Knowing that my LinkSys card is still not being seen by the system,
> I checked by doing "lsmod" and was given :
>
> Module Size Used by
> nfs 29152 1 (autoclean)
> autofs 9476 1 (autoclean)
> lockd 31592 1 (autoclean) [nfs]
> sunrpc 53540 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
> nls_iso8859-1 2240 4 (autoclean)
> nls_cp437 3748 4 (autoclean)
> vfat 9500 4 (autoclean)
> fat 31168 4 (autoclean) [vfat]
> es1370 22484 0
> soundcore 2692 4 [es1370]
>
> True enough, the tulip driver was not loaded. I then tried to manually load
> it by doing "insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net tulip.o" but was given a :
> tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> I then did "cat /proc/pci" and got :
>
> PCI devices found:
> Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
> Host bridge: Intel 82437 (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
> ISA bridge: Intel 82371FB PIIX ISA (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No
> bursts.
> Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
> IDE interface: Intel 82371FB PIIX IDE (rev 2).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
> Latency=32.
> I/O at 0x3000 [0x3001].
> Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
> Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
^^^^^^^
It appears thatt your ethernet device expects IRQ 11.
Search the archives of this newsgroup. There have been
several posts regarding this card.
--
Homer J. Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Troy, Michigan
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Subject: Re: Install OpenGL on TNT 2
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Jul 2000 14:56:33 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Easy) writes:
> Craig Kelley wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Easy) writes:
> >
> >> I am having many problems installing The OpenGL drivers for a TNT 2
> >> card. I downloaded the drivers from the NVidia web site and it
> >> refuses to install them saying XFree86 must have a version >= 4.0. I
> >> am pretty sure that I have installed XFree86 4.0 so what the hell is
> >> wrong?
> >
> >Did you install XFree86 via RPM?
> >
> >You probably should, unless you want to dissect the NVIDIA rpm files
> >and place them by hand (not too difficult -- perhaps even easier than
> >finding a good RPM for XFree86 4...)
> >
> No. I couldnt find an RPM for it. Do you know where I might find one?
Any RedHat mirror that carries the rawhide/ directory will have a
single file like XFree86-4.0-19.src.rpm in the SRPMS directory. You
can build the RPM like this:
rpm --rebuild XFree86-4.0-19.src.rpm
and then install all the XFree86 binaries that are created in
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (or whatever arch you're using).
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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Subject: Re: Help! root directory mounted as readonly. What to do?
From: Rob Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:02:50 -0700
Can you tell us more about what you have done? Did you try
rebooting?
Have you tried the different /bin/mount options?
It is probably in Read-Only because the system wants you to do a
file system check, the standard operating procedure for an
incomplete shutdown. This can be done with /sbin/fsck.
Rob Harvey
Programmer, Networker, Consultant.
Specializing in C++, Java and Linux systems.
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