Linux-Setup Digest #145, Volume #19 Wed, 12 Jul 00 20:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Clock skew detected? (".@.")
Re: pppd runs OK(?) but still no connection to Internet (Kevin Milburn)
linux sees only half my memory ("Jon Morin")
Re: Boot sequence (Alan Chandler)
HELP :Using PXE ("Robichaud, Jean-Philippe [BAN:6S33:EXCH]")
Re: Again : Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card (Kevin)
Re: linux sees only half my memory (Patricia)
Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha... (John Beardmore)
Re: dualboot : mandrake 7 and windows 98 (Aaron Ginn)
Re: Ricoh MP6200S and Mandrake (John McCabe)
Re: linux sees only half my memory ("Jon Morin")
can't find my modem ("Jon Morin")
Re: dualboot : mandrake 7 and windows 98 (Rod Smith)
Re: AMD linux Laptop (Hamid Misnan)
Re: can't find my modem ("David Stackis")
Re: Hot Webcams FREE - GRATIS (Robbie Pickering)
ftponly ("Devon Harding")
Re: Starting Gnome (Steven Fosdick)
Re: Help Uninstalling Linux (Jim)
Help in setting up a simple DNS configuration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: ".@." <.@.>
Subject: Clock skew detected?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:16:16 -0700
I get this error whenever I try to recompile a kernel. I did a make mr
proper and most of the errors left, but I still get them - scrolling to
fast to catch the source of course.
What is it and how do I fix it?
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From: Kevin Milburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd runs OK(?) but still no connection to Internet
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:13:11 +0100
David Stackis wrote:
> <snip>
> You need to open up your linuxconf, which is located under the
> Administration menu...
>
> Sounds like you need to put in your DNS numbers from MSN into the
> NAMESERVERS field.
>
An alternative, which does not appear in any how-to's that i've got,
pppd now supports (post 2.3.6 IIRC) the option usepeerdns, which
asks the peer for up to 2 DNS server addresses. The addresses
supplied by the peer (if any) are passed to the /etc/ppp/ip-up
script in the environment variables DNS1 and DNS2.
This is definately a better way to do it if you have accounts with
different ISPs
Kev
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From: "Jon Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux sees only half my memory
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:21:22 -0400
Hi all. I am successfully running Mandrake 7.1 on my P133 right now. The
machine has 128MB of RAM. When I boot up, the bios reports the machine as
having 128 megs, so that's all fine. When I run linux, though, and use a
utility to see how much memory I am using, such as top, it says that I only
have 64 megs and that almost all of it is being used up. This can't be
right. Any clues would be greatly appreciated.
Jon J. Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot sequence
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:31:24 +0100
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:36:19 -0500 "Rod Roddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Does anyone have a white paper or other document explaining in detail the
>sequence of events ( scripts that are run ) that happens when Linux is
>booted?
>
>I want to have a handle on what a Linux computer does, the same way I have a
>handle on how a DOS computer starts up.
>
It all depends on the actual distribution - but its not hard to work
it out for yourself. You just need a starter.
Lilo loads the kernel (compressed) and uncompresses it. The kernel
starts up (with its precompiled stuff) and then starts INIT.
You should read MAN INIT to get an idea of what it does, but take a
look at /etc/inittab and work through it, its not hard.
Fairly early on there is probably a line of the form
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit
and init loads this every time it boots. This is a shell script that
does some kernel module checks, mounts the disks (checking them if
necessary), loads the system time from the hardware clock, loads any
non default keyboard map and switches the swap file(s) on. It does
some other stuff that I don't worry about so I chopped out like handle
sound etc.
Then later there is a series of lines (or at least in REDHAT they are
- I hacked mine beyond recognition because I wanted to learn so this
in not exact)
I0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
I1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
...
I6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
What this tells INIT to do is whilst transferring to run level 0 to 6
to execute the appropriate script (and wait for its completion). What
the rc scripts (with the runlevel parameter) does is basically call
all the scripts in /etc/rc.d/rcn.d/Kxxyyy and then Sxxyyy in numeric
order of xx (rcn.d is rc0.d through rc6.d). Each one is not a scripts
but a link to an individual script in /etc/rc.d/init.d which does its
stuff assumimg a parameter start or stop (depending on with it was
linked with Sxx or Kxx). These use a whole set of functions in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions so its worth reading them and
understanding.
Finally INIT then processes lines of the form
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
...
what this is saying is run program mingetty when entering run levels 2
through 5 and when it exits start it again. Each of these lines
responds to a virtual terminal.
Thats it!
NOW after making you read all of that there is a HOW-TO on my
distribution called "Linux from Scratch HOW-TO". This takes you
through the whole process of setting a Linux up from scratch for
yourself (you create all the init scripts). You don't have to do it,
but its a good read if you are interested).
>
>
>
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.chandler.u-net.com
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From: "Robichaud, Jean-Philippe [BAN:6S33:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.install
Subject: HELP :Using PXE
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:40:41 -0400
Hi everybody !
I have Intel cards that only support PXE booting but I can't find a
manual that will explain correctly the procedure to setup the server.
I've download the package from the redhat site, but no docs...
Can anyone tell me how to setup this things please !
Regards,
Jean-Philippe
--
Jean-Philippe Robichaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(514) 818-7750
(ESN) 888-7750
St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
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From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Again : Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:00:50 GMT
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:44:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For pci cards, you shouldn't have to manually set the irq and io. Just
insmod/modprobe the module, and check /proc/pci. It should have an entry
for ethernet controller, and give some information about it, like irq.
Then you can set the card up with ifconfig (if needed).
>I too am having problems. I have installed the latest RPM and now at
>least it recognises the card ( Although it says it is a ADK Comet
>under 'dmesg', I assume ( hope ) this is because of similar chip sets ).
>When I try to ping anything other then the local host, it can't find
>anything and if I use 'ifconfig' it comes up with errors under TX and
>RX.
>
>When I do 'cat /proc/ioport' I get a value of
> c2824c00-c2824c7f : eth0
>
>I initially try to set io=0x300 and irq=11. Any suggestions would be
>gratefully recieved.
>
> Joseph
>
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux sees only half my memory
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:05:01 +0200
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jon Morin wrote:
>Hi all. I am successfully running Mandrake 7.1 on my P133 right now. The
>machine has 128MB of RAM. When I boot up, the bios reports the machine as
>having 128 megs, so that's all fine. When I run linux, though, and use a
>utility to see how much memory I am using, such as top, it says that I only
>have 64 megs and that almost all of it is being used up. This can't be
>right. Any clues would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Jon J. Morin
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon
At the LILO prompt type Linux mem=xxMB
or
log in as root or su
edit /etc/liloconf
add
append="mem=xxM"
save /etc/lilo.conf
type /sbin/lilo
reboot
type free to see if it works.
--
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
11:05pm up 5 days, 15:45, 2 users, load average: 1.09, 1.20, 1.28
Wed Jul 12 23:05:46 CEST 2000
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha...
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:23:26 +0100
I've now got the two alphas 2100 A500MP Server here so, I know nothing
about them, now the fun bit...
I've tried to boot the first one but this fails with message:
Fail CPU 00 0007
before any video signal is output to the monitor. Does anybody know
what this indicates ?
I've also tried the second one which gets further. It lists the
installed cards, then states
"OS type NT"
though I don't know where it gets that information from. Might be BIOS
config or disk I guess ? It checks its CPU, RAM etc, but then loops,
repeating the message:
Waiting for dra.0.0.7.0
While two adjacent adapter cards flash their LEDs at the back of the
box.
Any idea what dra.0.0.7.0 is, and why it's waiting for it ? Is it just
sulking because it's not plugged into a network ? Plugging the only
RJ45 socket it into an old 10MHz ethernet hub didn't help.
Or does the 7 in "dra.0.0.7.0" indicate it's SCSI controller problem ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: Aaron Ginn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dualboot : mandrake 7 and windows 98
Date: 12 Jul 2000 14:04:45 -0700
js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have some problems with windows (like so many others) :
>
> I properly installed win98. After that I made some partitions with
> PartitionMagic 5.
>
> �--Linux Swap--�---Linux ext---�----windows 98----�
> 156M 1.5G 2G
>
> Booting the Linux with lilo as bootmanager works fine. But if I would
> boot my windows part it comes a small dos prompt with the message :
> "Please enter the location of the command interpreter command.com"
>
> I can do this but nothing happened.
>
> Can someone help me please ?
>
> Thanx a lot.
>
> Greetings
>
> Jens
Well, I'll give this a shot. Check out this page for possible problems.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/MSDOS/technote/messages.asp
In particular, note this paragraph:
Bad or Missing Command Interpreter
==================================
The command interpreter cannot be found. Restart your system from another system disk,
and then check the CONFIG.SYS file of your original system disk for a SHELL command. If
there is a SHELL command, make sure the path to the command interpreter is correct. If
there is no SHELL command, either make sure there is a copy of the COMMAND.COM file
in the root directory of the startup drive on the system disk, or add a SHELL command
specifying the location of the COMMAND.COM file or an alternate command interpreter.
HTH,
Aaron
--
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Phone: (480) 814-4463 SemiCustom Solutions
Fax: (480) 814-4058 1300 N. Alma School Rd.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chandler, AZ 85226
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: Ricoh MP6200S and Mandrake
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:30:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McCabe) wrote:
I have just found out the card is an Adaptec AVA-1502. Does that help
shed any light on it? Does anyone know where I can get a Linux driver
for that card?
Thanks.
>Hi
>
>I have just installed Mandrake 7.0 on my system which has a Ricoh
>MP6200S CD-R/W with the ISA SCSI card that came with it installed.
>
>Does anyone know how I can get the SCSI card to be detected? I tried
>setting up the I/O and IRQ settings I got from Windows when installing
>it, but it wasn't found.
>
>Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
>
>
>Best Regards
>John McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Best Regards
John McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Jon Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux sees only half my memory
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:02:41 -0400
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Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:00071223054900.21749@localhost...
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jon Morin wrote:
> >Hi all. I am successfully running Mandrake 7.1 on my P133 right now.
The
> >machine has 128MB of RAM. When I boot up, the bios reports the machine
as
> >having 128 megs, so that's all fine. When I run linux, though, and use a
> >utility to see how much memory I am using, such as top, it says that I
only
> >have 64 megs and that almost all of it is being used up. This can't be
> >right. Any clues would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Jon J. Morin
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jon
>
> At the LILO prompt type Linux mem=xxMB
> or
> log in as root or su
> edit /etc/liloconf
> add
> append="mem=xxM"
> save /etc/lilo.conf
> type /sbin/lilo
> reboot
> type free to see if it works.
> --
> 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
> 11:05pm up 5 days, 15:45, 2 users, load average: 1.09, 1.20, 1.28
> Wed Jul 12 23:05:46 CEST 2000
Hi Patricia. I tried putting in that line, but I get a syntax error with it
in. Is xxM the number of megs of ram I type, so if I have 128 megs I would
type: append="mem=128M" or append="mem=128" or literally append="mem=xxM"?
I have tried it a bunch of ways and it is still a syntax error.
Jon
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From: "Jon Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't find my modem
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:06:27 -0400
I have a Zoom 2919 ISA modem in my linux box. When I try to connect to the
Internet, kppp tells me that my modem is busy. I have been trying to change
the settings, but DrakConfig cannot even find my modem. Oh, yeah, I'm
running Mandrake 7.1 on a P133 128M. Thanks for any help anybody can give.
Jon J. Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: dualboot : mandrake 7 and windows 98
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:30:40 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have some problems with windows (like so many others) :
>
> I properly installed win98. After that I made some partitions with
> PartitionMagic 5.
>
> �--Linux Swap--�---Linux ext---�----windows 98----�
> 156M 1.5G 2G
>
> Booting the Linux with lilo as bootmanager works fine. But if I would
> boot my windows part it comes a small dos prompt with the message :
> "Please enter the location of the command interpreter command.com"
If you're lucky, something about the way you did these changes just
resulted in a bit of confusion on Windows' part, which you can correct
by booting with your Windows 98 emergency floppy (you DID create one,
didn't you?), verifying that C: is the Win98 partition, and typing "SYS
C:". You should then be able to reboot and get either Windows or Linux.
If you're unlucky, your juggling has seriously hosed your Windows
partition, and you'll need to reinstall Windows.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamid Misnan)
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: AMD linux Laptop
Date: 12 Jul 2000 00:47:58 GMT
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:51:37 GMT, John Hasler wrote:
>Hamid Misnan writes:
>> You dunnot need them, Linux has the feature built into the kernel.
>
>Yes. It always has.
>
>> Surely in Linux you need to enable APM for this feature to work.
>
>No. It uses the 'hlt' instruction, which has nothing to do with APM.
I may be wrong, but I was based my finding from Configure.help inside
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/. Anyway, we got the message across, Linux doesn't
need Rain or Waterfall for it :)
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- Press every key to continue.
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't find my modem
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:40:59 -0700
"Jon Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:a_5b5.388$P2.8725@harpo...
> I have a Zoom 2919 ISA modem in my linux box. When I try to connect to
the
> Internet, kppp tells me that my modem is busy. I have been trying to
change
> the settings, but DrakConfig cannot even find my modem. Oh, yeah, I'm
> running Mandrake 7.1 on a P133 128M. Thanks for any help anybody can
give.
>
> Jon J. Morin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Click here for Free Video!!
> http://www.gohip.com/free_video/
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robbie Pickering)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Hot Webcams FREE - GRATIS
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:44:07 +0200
ghgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sexo Gratis - Free Sex
Come on. These are Linux groups. No one here is interested in sex.
Apart from that, if you ever spam here again, you can start looking for
a new ISP.
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From: "Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ftponly
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:01:55 -0400
Where is the site to setup the ftponly script?
-Devon
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Starting Gnome
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:51:16 +0000
In article <8kdnvm$9lm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you're using startx, just edit (create if necessary) your .xinitrc in your
> home directory, entering the following line:
>
> exec gnome-session
>
> Make sure there are no other references to window managers, etc, as
> they should be selected/configured from within the gnome session
> via gnome's control-center.
>
> Then startx should get you into gnome.
If you are using, or would like to use, a graphical login screen then check out the
gdm package (Gnome Display Manager) which is an xdm like application that by
default starts a GNOME session but allows other session types to be chosen from
a pull down menu.
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From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Uninstalling Linux
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:13:24 +0200
Boot your system with a bootable floppy drive containing fdisk.
At the A:> prompt issue the following command:
fdisk /mbr
This will restore your Master Boot Record to its original condition
and Linux will disappear.
Jim
www.GlobalLinux.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.1 onto my Hard Drive, Using
> the Windows partition. I have tried many a time to get into Linux, but
> it just doens't seem to work. I am in dire need of help to uninstall
> Linux-Mandrake 7.1 from my Windows Partition. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Help in setting up a simple DNS configuration
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:32:16 GMT
Here is my situation.
I have a static IP from my ISP(ADSL service). Let's say the hostname is:
myhost.myisp.com
My ISP said that all DNS request for sub-domain under my site, will be
forwarded to my site. (myhost.myisp.com).
I don't have multiple external visible machines. What I want to do is
simply resolve all the request for sub-domain under my site to my only
one machine (myhost.myisp.com). For example, www.myhost.myisp.com and
mail.myhost.myisp.com to myhost.myisp.com.
What is the simplest way to set up this ?
Currently, DNS is running locally, but not really used. Is there any
easy way to set up the configuration so that I don't have to set up the
DNS rules, but use only /etc/hosts to resolve ?
If I have to set up DNS, can you give a little detailed example ?
Thanks in advance.
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