Linux-Setup Digest #135, Volume #19 Tue, 11 Jul 00 14:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Autorun apps at booting (CK Ng)
Re: Chrooting Apache ! Please help ! (Denice)
Re: Help with Install... (Eric)
Re: GCC configuration (Myint)
Re: GCC configuration (Myint)
Re: Four primary partitions (3 FAT32, 1 ext2fs) can't install RH62 without swap
partition? ("mnip")
please help with serial null modem to win98 hyperterm ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP with install... (Krzys Majewski)
Re: Adding NFS partition during installation of RH6.2 ? (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: linux: 'insmod sr_mod': no module by that name found (Duane)
CRON / CRONTAB Help. ("Adam H.")
Re: please help with serial null modem to win98 hyperterm (bunny)
Re: Adding NFS partition during installation of RH6.2 ? (Tobbe)
CHROOT'd Accounts with wu-ftpd and CuteFTP (Dionv)
Re: Help Loadlin vmlinuz (Tobbe)
Re: Flickering Screen (cabal2112)
Redhat 6.2 disk problems ("Matthew N. White")
"kernel:svc:unknown version" errors on RH6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Some questions about /dev (Jerry Shenk)
Re: KDE vs Gnome (WOOD DAVID M)
Re: LILO/ NT Boot Loader experts (Daniel Gunyan)
Removing Linux install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: CK Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Autorun apps at booting
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:07:32 GMT
Hi,
Anyone can give me a guide on how to run an application as a
daemon/service on booting linux??
I read something on /etc/rc.d and runlevel..etc, but what are the exact
steps and is there any requirement on the application?
An url or any reference is much appreciated.
Thanks.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Chrooting Apache ! Please help !
From: Denice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Jul 2000 17:30:33 +0200
KingKirill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Grrr I am in troubles here: I was able to sucessfuly chroot the named, but I
am
>failing miserably on the apache httpd.
>My setup is a 2.2.16 box with suse base system on it. My goal is to chroot the
>apache into the /chroot/apache cage
>I have followed the instruction found on page http://penguin.epfl.ch/chroot.ht
ml
>but it seems like my httpd has troubles finding some files. The only
difference
>between his inscruction and my install is that I have my apache under
>/chroot/apache/www instead of /www/apache as he has.
>I have done everything 1:1 as in the instruction twice, but still when I try
to
>start apache with the command:
>cuba:/chroot/apache # chroot /chroot/apache /www/bin/apachectl start
>I am getting this DAMNED error:
>httpd: bad user name www
>/www/bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
I'm the culprit who wrote those pages... does your chroot-ed system work
if you do this (ie. testing that your nsswitch.conf file works):
# chroot /chroot/apache sh
Do you get the shell? Then (with 'ls' still installed in the chrooted tree),
what do you see if you list some files owned by your user 'www'; eg:
# ls -la /www/htdocs/
You should see the listing as owned by 'www' and NOT as '888'
You might also try changing your httpd.conf file and set the user to:
User #888
(just to see if you can start apache...)
--
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<*> This moment's fortune cookie:
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with Install...
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:46:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jérôme Meyer wrote:
>
> Thank you for your help,
> just still questions about your answers:
> You wrote that : install linux, and create a FAT partition of 4G!
> - I should create a FAT partition under Linux like a Swap (/dev/hda2
> /FAT)...?
Yes, if the installer lets you, else leave the space unpartitioned and
create the partition later
> You wrote that : ...you can put in the root partition just as well. Then
> you'll have
> to mark that the partition as the active one. Just give it a try, but
> make sure to start
> with windows and then linux.
> - How could I make this partition root active? Active in Linux or
> Windows? How select windows first...?
With fdisk (both the windows version and the linux version) you can
select any one partition to be the active one. This partition is chosen
by the bios to boot from, after the MBR was visited. (So putting lilo in
the MBR catches this booting process before the active partition is
selected) Make sure to have only one active partition (IIRC linux fdisk
allows you to set more than one active partition, you don't want this!)
But anyhow, just install windows in a first 6 G partition, (you may have
to create it first, but I'm not sure about this) Then put in the linux
CD and install linux. It'll be an almost painless thing to do :-)
(I like installing linux better than windows, because of it's
flexibility it's easier) Since it's all a clean install, you don't have
to fear losing any data, just some time if you mess up, so just give it
a go.
Eric
>
> Big Thanks,
> Jerome
>
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > Jérôme Meyer wrote:
> > >
> > > I will install on my PC both Linux(Suse6.4) and Windows98 with
> > > the size ~10GB for Windows and ~15GB for Linux.
> > > I've just few question about the installation:
> > > - What I should install first Windows or Linux (easy way)?
> > > - I cannot understand how we can choose (on starting) Windows or Linux.
> > > Because Linux
> > > use the LILO boot system and not windows. How could I configure this
> > > features?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for your help,
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > JM
> >
> > Make sure that you keep a small partition free for the /boot partition
> > of linux below cyl 1024, or you'll end up with some problems to solve
> > later on.
> > I'd advise you to make C: 6G and install win98 there. Then install
> > linux, and create a FAT partition of 4G too. windows will see this as D:
> > later on.
> > Starting windows is very easy in lilo, you'll be able during the linux
> > install to setup lilo for booting windows too (At least in RH you would,
> > I suppose Suse does this too) If it isn't done during install, you can
> > always afterwards set this up, it's very easy. Where you put lilo isn't
> > very important, I usually put in the MBR but if that scares you, you can
> > put in in the root partition just as well. Then you'll have to mark that
> > partition as the active one. Just give it a try, but make sure to start
> > with windows and then linux. It'll save you a lot of time and trouble.
> >
> > Eric
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From: Myint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC configuration
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:30:04 GMT
Paul Kimoto wrote:
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Myint wrote:
> > I coppied cc, gcc and gcc-egcs to /usr/bin. cc->gcc, gcc->egcs
> > /usr/bin is in path.
>
> These do not comprise a complete, working gcc installation.
>
> > On configuration step of GCC installation, I got:
> >
> > Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld host cc: installation problem,
> > cannot exec 'cpp': No such file or directory***The command
'/usr/bin/cc-o
> > conftest -g conftest.c fail.*** Youmust set the evnironment variable CC
to
> > a working compiler.
>
> Your cc(1) can't find cpp, its C preprocessor (more or less). Run
> "cc -v -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null" to see where it is looking.
>
> (By the way, are you trying to [re]build gcc itself? And where did
> you get your gcc from?)
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks,
Sorry for delay to say thanks. I was sick.
I got Tiny linnux(bare). I down loaded gcc from gnu.org. Happened to be
the first one I try to install on it. I am just learning.
Rgds.
Myint
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From: Myint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC configuration
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:30:05 GMT
Michael Meissner wrote:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto) writes:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Myint wrote:
> > > I coppied cc, gcc and gcc-egcs to /usr/bin. cc->gcc, gcc->egcs
> > > /usr/bin is in path.
> >
> > These do not comprise a complete, working gcc installation.
> >
> > > On configuration step of GCC installation, I got:
> > >
> > > Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld host cc: installation
problem,
> > > cannot exec 'cpp': No such file or directory***The command
'/usr/bin/cc-o
> > > conftest -g conftest.c fail.*** Youmust set the evnironment variable
CC to
> > > a working compiler.
> >
> > Your cc(1) can't find cpp, its C preprocessor (more or less). Run
> > "cc -v -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null" to see where it is looking.
>
> Most likely you don't have the directory where the real compiler and
> preprocessor live (gcc is just a cover program that runs the preprocessor
> (cpp), then the real compiler (cc1 for C, cc1plus for C++, etc.), then
the
> assembler (as), and finally the linker (ld) or linker cover program
> (collect2). To see the list of directories that the compiler will search
for
> programs, do:
>
> gcc --print-search-dirs
>
> and look for 'programs:'.
>
> --
> Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company.
> PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
> Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: +1 978-486-9304
> Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: +1 978-692-4482
Thanks.
Sorry for delay in saying Thanks. I was sick.
Rgds.
Myint
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From: "mnip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Four primary partitions (3 FAT32, 1 ext2fs) can't install RH62 without
swap partition?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:43:16 GMT
I just tried fdisk, is there any command in that to mount a partition as
part of the unix filesystem (eg: partition 4 as "/"?) I didn't see one, even
in the expert commands.
RH62 lets you do any monkeybusiness in fdisk, but without a mounted "/"
which includes "/boot", the next screen is still diskdruid, and it won't
proffer the next button...
I wish future versions of this would let you proceed with a warning, instead
of blocking forward progress with an unusual partition configuration.
"Steve Versteeg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Isn't there a 'damn the torpedoes' override for disk druid? I'm willing
to
> > experiment with this last partitionable space, but I don't want to risk
my
> > critical fat32 partitions by using fdisk (the linux one). Besides, the
new
> > lilo changes a lot of the rules about what a /boot can be.
> >
> I'd try using fdisk. It's very straight forward, and a lot better
> than disk druid. In Redhat 6.2, just check the "use fdisk" box at
> the installation option screen. When you get to the fdisk screen,
> type "m" for help, that will list your options. Type "p" to list
> you partition table as it currently stands. Don't touch your
> FAT partitions, delete whatever partitions you've stuffed up with
> disk druid and start again. You don't need to worry about stuffing up
> your
> FAT partitions. If you do mess something up, just quit without saving.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: please help with serial null modem to win98 hyperterm
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:43:23 GMT
I hope someone can help me.
I'm trying to establish a login session over a null modem cable from a
terminal (hyperterm) to a linux box.
When I click the connect button in Hyperterm on the Windows box, I
never can get a login prompt. But if I type "echo hi >/dev/ttyS2" on
the console of the linux box, it shows up in the Hyperterminal window.
This verifies that the baud rate settings are correct and the
connection is good.
I've read the trouble shooting section of the Text Terminal HOWTO, but
it doesn't address my problem.
Thanks in advance for any help
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP with install...
Date: 11 Jul 2000 16:16:21 GMT
Unless you have two hard drives, you will probably need to partition
your hard drive first. If your drive is already partitioned, then you're
set -- put windows on one of the partitions, and linux on another.
You can probably do this in whichever order though I've only tried the
order {Windows, Linux}. If your drive isn't partitioned, you'll need
to use something like fips or partition magic to shrink the existing partition
(assuming you have something interesting on it) so that your linux install
can create a new one in the resulting empty space.
Short answer: I've tried windows first, then linux, and that worked fine.
Lilo is a program that writes some stuff to the part of your disk which
normally loads the operating system. So when you boot up your machine
it says "do you want linux or windows?" and you say, of course, "linux".
-chris
J. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will install on my PC both Linux(Suse6.4) and Windows98 with
> the size ~10GB for Windows and ~15GB for Linux.
> I've just few question about the installation:
> - What I should install first Windows or Linux (easy way)?
> - I cannot understand how we can choose (on starting) Windows or Linux.
> Because Linux
> use the LILO boot system and not windows. How could I configure this
> features?
> Thanks a lot for your help,
> Regards,
> JM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: Adding NFS partition during installation of RH6.2 ?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:16:01 GMT
On 11 Jul 2000 14:43:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal
Szymanski) wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm installing RH6.2 on PCs at work.
>To my great surprise, I could not find familiar (from earlier releases)
>"Add NFS" button on the partitioning window in graphic install of RH6.2.
>Has it been removed on purpose? I have a bunch of older machines with
>small disks which mount the whole /usr from a server. Without
>this "Add NFS" option I won't be able to install the new release on
>those machines.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Add NFS" button. If you are trying
to do an NFS installation, you need to make a boot disk with this
option (there is an image for the disk, but I don't think it is
included as a floppy in the official box). If you are trying to mount
an NFS partition after installation, you can put an appropriate line
in the /etc/fstab to mount the NFS partition (and, of course, the
serving machine must export it).
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: linux: 'insmod sr_mod': no module by that name found
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:59:19 -0700
Carlos Villegas wrote:
>
> My goal is to have the 'sr_mod module' load automatically.
>
> As root I typed: 'insmod sr_mod'
> And I got this:
> insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found
>
> How can I get the sr_mod module to load automatically given the above
> obsticle?
Some Linux distributions by default compile the SCSI CDROM support (sr)
into the kernel. Redhat 6.1 is one that does this. In that case, there
is is no sr_mod. Almost certainly the case here, so no loading is
required.
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From: "Adam H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CRON / CRONTAB Help.
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:26:11 +1000
Hi,
I'm having a little trouble trying to understand this CRON business.
Can someone help me please.
All I want the server to do, is execute 'samba restart' at 4:30am every
day. (The linux box will be sitting at a login prompt).
Can someone please tell me how to do this...
TIA
Adam
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From: bunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: please help with serial null modem to win98 hyperterm
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:00:21 +0100
I have a similar problem. I found quite by accident I can effect a kind of
fix by launching minicom on the serial port and then quitting it (I was
fiddling with minicom to check the connection when I discovered this).
This seems to reset the connection and behold up pops the login prompt on
hyperterminal the connection then usually work okay. I also found that
unless I chose to use one of the fixed baud settings for uugetty rather
than the loop of switching ones then generally things wouldnt work either.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I hope someone can help me.
>
> I'm trying to establish a login session over a null modem cable from a
> terminal (hyperterm) to a linux box.
>
> When I click the connect button in Hyperterm on the Windows box, I
> never can get a login prompt. But if I type "echo hi >/dev/ttyS2" on
> the console of the linux box, it shows up in the Hyperterminal window.
> This verifies that the baud rate settings are correct and the
> connection is good.
>
> I've read the trouble shooting section of the Text Terminal HOWTO, but
> it doesn't address my problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
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From: Tobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding NFS partition during installation of RH6.2 ?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:55:10 +0100
Michal Szymanski skrev:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm installing RH6.2 on PCs at work.
> To my great surprise, I could not find familiar (from earlier releases)
> "Add NFS" button on the partitioning window in graphic install of RH6.2.
> Has it been removed on purpose? I have a bunch of older machines with
> small disks which mount the whole /usr from a server. Without
> this "Add NFS" option I won't be able to install the new release on
> those machines.
>
> any hints?
>
> regards, Michal.
>
> --
> Michal Szymanski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND
Dont know RH6.2 , but change console (ALT FX) mount it
then go back to installation.
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-46021/
/Tobbe
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From: Dionv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CHROOT'd Accounts with wu-ftpd and CuteFTP
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:52:28 GMT
I am running RedHat Linux 6.1 with wu-ftpd 2.5.0 (I'm sure there's an
upgrade available, but this works on our DG box with wu-ftpd 2.4 so it
should work here).
I have some users who will have accounts on the system, but I only want
them to have guest access.
I have adjusted their home directory path in /etc/passwd to
be "/home/accountname/./public_html" as directed in the man page for
ftpaccess.
I have created "etc" and "bin" directories as per the ftpd man page.
The problem? Logging in with Microsoft FTP or Unix FTP works fine, I
can see all the files in the user's directory just fine. However,
logging in with CuteFTP shows nothing at all. Only the parent directory
marker if I am in a sub directory.
Is this a CuteFTP thing, or have I missed a configuration step?
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--
Dion
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From: Tobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Loadlin vmlinuz
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:17:15 +0100
suresh skrev:
> hi all
> I need vmlinuz and loadlin for Redhat 6.0, anybody can write from where
> i could get it
> I lost my access to my Linux box
> thanks in advance
Make a Slakware boot disk, RAWRITE.EXE bare.i
at the lilo-promp type mount root=/dev/ your-linux-partion
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware/bootdsks.144/
/Tobbe
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-46021/
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From: cabal2112 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Flickering Screen
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:14:08 GMT
hi...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Key" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is RH6.0. The display keeps on blinking that makes me unable to run
> Xconfigurator or any other command.
>
> All services/daemons start OK until the login screen appears. It
begins to
> blink and I can do nothing but press the ctrl-alt-del to stop it. The
> flickering stops immediately and the system shutdown in a normal
manner.
>
> The thing I need to know is how to stop loading X. Is there a hot key
to
> stop loading X?
>
yes (well, not a hot key as such)...
at the LILO boot: prompt type 'linux 3' (no quotes of course) this will
load linux as normal into the console (no x) you should be able to run
the various aforementioned configuration apps from there. this is
regardless of distro/release.
> Key
> +++
>
> Bit Twister wrote in message ...
> >Kinda helps if you would indicate the Distro/release. It can make
> >a differences.
> >
> >Try
> > Xconfigurator
> > XF86Setup
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:04:18 +0800, Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>I have another newbie problem on my Linux box. The screen continues
> >>flickering and cannot start X. Problem is on the X server since I
have
> >>picked up a wrong setting on the screen resolution/freq.
> >
> >
> >--
> >The warranty and liability expired as you read the message.
> >If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
> >Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
> >Do a, man every_command_here, before doing anything or running a
script.
>
>
hope this helps you
cabal(excuze my winblows, im at work!)
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From: "Matthew N. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 disk problems
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:27:49 -0400
Hi,
Was wondering if anyone could possible shed some
light on a problem I'm having installing linux
(Redhat 6.2) My setup is this:
Dell Dimension XPS with 700 MHz Pentium III with a
Promise Ultra66 ATA controller card and a 20G
HD hanging off of the card.
Primary IDE controller has 2G HD attached. I have
Windoze98 installed on the primary hard drive( the
20G) and the system boots the ATA controller card
first. I have System Commander Deluxe installed and
it boots windoze fine. After this I attempted to
install linux on the 2 G hard drive on the primary
IDE controller since the redhat installer doesn't
recognize the ATA controller card :(. The system
BIOS recognized the 2G HD fine with correct geometry
(CHS), as does system commander. The problem is,
when I attempt a network ftp install of RH 6.2,
fdisk and the other program that is used to
create/delete partitions during the install think
that the Hard drive is 40G or something. After more
in depth analysis, I recognized that for some reason
the RH install disk and the kernel think that the
drive has 255 Heads instead of the 63 that is
labeled on the disk. I also tried turning LBA
on/off, but this didn't help anything. I then
decided to pass parameters to the kernel
(hda=1023,63,64) to tell it the disk geometry. This
worked during the install. Then however, after
installing and putting the LILO bootloader in the
/boot partition superblock on the hda (20G) drive,
when I try to the boot the partition, only
"LI" comes up. I researched this in the lilo docs,
and it said probably something is wrong with the
disk geometry. After this, I specified a "disk =
/dev/hda bios =0x80 cylinders=1023, heads=63,
sectors=64" in the lilo.conf file, but to no avail.
Redhat boots with the boot disk created during
install, but I cannot get the system to boot from
/boot on hda. I've also tried specifying
"linear" in lilo.conf. And no, I didn't forget to
run /sbin/lilo after changing lilo.conf. How does
lilo know about the disk geometry, and how does the
kernel know about the disk geometry?
Maybe I'll just try a new drive since I've installed
RH about 10 times trying to get this to work.
Please help, I'm going to kill myself soon.
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "kernel:svc:unknown version" errors on RH6.2
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:17:45 GMT
Hi all
I am getting " kernel: svc: unknown version (3)" errors in my messages
file on my RedHat 6.2 nfs servers.
As far as I could find out - that they are for nfs version 3 errors - is
that true ? any suggestions on how to get rid of them...
thanks in advance
GD
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From: Jerry Shenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Some questions about /dev
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:23:54 GMT
I'm working on a very similar issue right now. My /dev/console is
missing but the /dev directory is there. Mine is an RH60 system so I'm
planning to boot from an emergency floppy and the install the dev*.rpm
file. If you're missing the entire /dev directory, you're gonna need a
ton of stuff.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roelof Knibbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My system crashed a while ago. It used to work fine.
> (RH6.0, Lilo dual boot.)
>
> I've tried several LILO options like:
> linux single
> linux root=....
> linux /bin/sh
>
> These options all produce the same error. I do not get a
> kernel panic
> error.
> It says:
> ....
> VMS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 60 k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>
> In the SUSE support database I read that tty1 could be erased. I think
> this is the case.
> When I startup with a rescue image I can mount the root (/dev/hdb1)
and
> create a console (mknod ...).
> After rebooting the system still halts but I do not get the 'unable to
> open an initial console' warning.
>
> When I look on the mounted disk, /dev is empty, except for the
console I
> created. (In fact /dev didn't
> even exist at first.)
>
> My questions:
> What could have happened to /dev? Did I lose data from harddisk?
> Can I somehow copy /dev from rescue floppy to my hard disk? How?
> If not, any suggestions?
>
> I would be grateful if someone has some useful suggestions.
> Thanks
> Roelof
>
>
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From: WOOD DAVID M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE vs Gnome
Date: 11 Jul 2000 17:35:58 GMT
Richard Arts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am about to install RedHat Linux 6.2. However I can choose between KDE and
> Gnome and I don't know which one to install. Can anybody point out the
> differences between the two? What are the strong and weak points of the two
> environments?
To my surprise, RedHat Linux 6.1, though I (think I) specified Gnome,
installed both, though making Gnome the default--all I had to do was
select the enviroment at login. Also, you can access the Gnome menus
from KDE and (maybe) vice versa.
I have found the KDE environment more visually appealing and elegant.
Some say, however, that the Gnome environment is better thought out.
Check out: http://www.wideopen.com/story/312.html
--
David M. Wood
Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
Phone: (303) 273-3853; Fax: (303) 273-3840
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; NeXTMail welcome
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From: Daniel Gunyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO/ NT Boot Loader experts
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:47:33 -0700
Bent wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have the same "LI" problem. My linux partition is at the end of a 20GB
> disk and beond the 1024 cyl restriction in LILO. I have seen this patch
> earlyer and now I cant find it. The patch is at least half a year old and
> should therefore be spread all over internett.
I heard that the latest version of LILO handles >1024 cylinders now.
--
DG
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Removing Linux install
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:43:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Don Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having a problem installing RH Linux on a
dual boot with 98 on one
> drive and putting Linux on another.
I have had this same problem.. on two systems I
solved the problem by removing the Win98 drive
and removing all partitions on the Linux drive
using fdisk.
I can install linux on a single drive after
removing all windows partitions with no problem.
>
> Unfortunately, after about 6 attempts I looked
and saw that my AMD K6
> 400 and mother board have known problems with
installation lockups (No
> solutions in RH 6.1/6.2 hardware help).
>
> How do I clean up the linux partitions off my
second drive and get rid
> of lilo? Just want to wipe my system of all
Linux traces. I think lilo
> -u /dev/hdb1 would clean up my MBR but since
the install never worked I
> cant get to a linux prompt to run it. When I
use the boot disk provided
> by RH it always goes into the installation
routine without ever letting
> me access a linux prompt. I need to remove the
Linux partitions then
> remove lilo somehow.
I think the best way to remove linux partitions
is to use a utility called delpart.exe you can
find it on the internet by doing a search for
delpart. This should be able to remove any Linux
partitions and NTFS patitions. Then you can go in
and re-fdisk the drive.
I hope this helps
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
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