Linux-Setup Digest #152, Volume #19 Thu, 13 Jul 00 19:13:12 EDT
Contents:
lilo trouble ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installed Linux OS on CD-R to boot? (Guy Fraser)
nvidia video card install problem ("Alain et Sonia")
Help needed with Apache and .htaccess ("Brian Lucas Kaczmarek")
Reducing bell volume (Keith Rhodes)
Re: problem with mouse (Keith Rhodes)
Re: problem with mouse (der chef als normalbenutzer)
Re: Help in setting up a simple DNS configuration (ray)
Re: modifying font aliases (Jerry Peters)
Linux Newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Changing Prompt Color (Kevin Brown)
Re: Changing Prompt Color (Keith Rhodes)
Re: big ass partitiions ("Steven Farlie")
Re: Getting a working libg++ on Linux (Nick Kew)
Re: big ass partitiions ("Steven Farlie")
Kernel compile 2.4.0 (root)
Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha... (John Beardmore)
Re: RedHat is slow ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
winmodems ("Mimo")
Re: modifying font aliases (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Turning off startup services? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: lilo trouble
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:59:59 GMT
Lilo took a dump on my machine last night where when you boot up it
just comes up LI and never goes any further. This has happened before,
and all I had to do was act like I was doing an up grade and just tell
it to put LILO back on the mbr. Well it ain't working this time. I
have even reinstalled completely, yet it won't update the mbr. Any
ideas out there
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Before you buy.
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From: Guy Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.corel,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Installed Linux OS on CD-R to boot?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:59:26 -0600
Darren Welson wrote:
>
> Is it possible to install a Linux distribution to a CD-R and boot to the
> CD-ROM? How about copy and existing install to a CD-R and boot from this?
> I know that the OS needs to access certain files that would be now rendered
> unchangeable, but is it feasable to get around this?
> I want to burn these to CDs so I can use this like a removable HD.
>
Read the CD-Writing-HOWTO and the "/usr/doc/mkisofs-*/README.eltorito"
files.
It explains how to make a bootable (eltorito) CD.
Note: You should not try to put more than 620MB on the CD, do to file
system
overhead.
Here is a brief example of how to build the CD from the documentation.
# export CDROOT=/home/user/images/test-cd/
# mkdir $CDROOT
Put the CD's contents into $CDROOT, and make a boot directory if you
havent already.
# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=$CDROOT/boot/boot.img
# cd $CDROOT
# mkisofs -b boot/boot.img -c boot/boot.catalog -o ../bootcd.iso .
The boot.catalog file should be created automaticaly, and the CDs
iso9660 image
will be created into the ../bootcd.iso file.
Here are the instructions to mount CDs iso9660 image to verify it.
# mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 bootcd.iso /mnt/cdrom
# cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,6,0 -data cd_image
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From: "Alain et Sonia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: nvidia video card install problem
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:13:19 -0400
I just got Caldera OpenLinux 2.2. for my PC (also running Win98) with a
NVidia Vanta 32MB AGP video card and installing by booting from the CD-ROM.
Durring installation (using lizzard) I get:
NVIDIA Unknown chipset (0x002c) rev 17
in the video card configuration page. Trying a video card probe or testing a
video resolution causes the screen to mess-up and lock-up, although the
installation program seems to still be working (CD and HDD activity).I've
tried Ctrl-Alt-Bksp and Ctrl-Alt-Del but nothing worked. If I don't try any
tests, then the screen still messes up after installation just before the
logon process. Durring the installation, the 'tetris' game works fine and
the screen is fine (except when I test or probe).
According to the Caldera web-site, NVIDIA cards aren't supported but there
are X server patches/drivers available for the chipset.
My question is: how do I install a new driver if I can't even get into linux
in the first place because installation never completes? Can I force the
install wizzard to load a generic VGA Xserver? (what would the command line
be) Or can I install Linux for character-only mode?
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From: "Brian Lucas Kaczmarek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help
Subject: Help needed with Apache and .htaccess
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:14:00 -0400
I am looking to secure a separate section of my website and am running into
some problems.
I'm not exactly sure how .htaccess is used and what I need to do to set it
up correctly.
So far, I have created the file, .htaccess :
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/acctman
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType Basic
AuthName "password"
<LIMIT GET POST>
require valid-user
</LIMIT>
I have created a separate directory to be protected and copied .htaccess
into it.
In httpd.conf, I created an alias, and underneath it wrote this :
<Directory "/usr/local/apache/members">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order deny,allow
</Directory>
If anyone could tell me what I'm overlooking, it would be greatly
appreciated. Thankyou!
~~Brian Kaczmarek
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reducing bell volume
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:15:46 +0200
I would like to reduce the bell volume of X.
I'm running XF863.3.6 on a dual Celeron Abit BP6
motherboard.
The connecter from the motherboard goes to a small speaker
in the front of the case...
xset -q shows the default of volume 50 pitch 400 duration
100.
When I try xset b 25 then make the bell sound, there is no
difference in the volume.
Using xset b 25 900 50 raises the tone and shortens the
duration, but the volume stays the same.
Is this normal? Is the speaker circuit of a PC incapable of
varying the volume?
Alternatively, is there a way of sending the X bell through
the sound card (via esd, for example)?
KR.
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with mouse
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:14:50 +0200
If I remember rightly, the fat round keyboard connecter is called an AT connecter.
The smaller diameter ones are calle PS/2 connecters. I believe that the two PS/2
connecters go to a single hardware interface.
Check that your /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/psaux.
Apart from that, I'm afraid I can't hlp much... I can't get my PS/2 mouse to work
either,
even though the PS/2 Keyboard is find...
--
==
I don't like spammers. So take the warning
out of my address before you reply.
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:20:40 +0200
From: der chef als normalbenutzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problem with mouse
hi,
first of all: do you use gpm? if so, you may first try to switchit off
(or deinstall it, resp.).
your problems may be caused by the mouse itself. i had got two
logitech-mice, which didn't work - i had to start XF86Setup _before_ i
started X, set the mouse type to "mouse man", type a (= "apply"), set
the mouse type to "ps/2", type "a" again, leave XF86Setup _without_
saving the changes and then start X.
a few weeks later i decided to no longer do such silly things, got rid
of the logitech mice, bought a standard 5$-ps/2 - mouse and all goes
well.
hope, that helps you, too.
yours siggi
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help in setting up a simple DNS configuration
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:29:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Try this site, a simple zone record is here, by example.
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO-1.html
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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From: Jerry Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modifying font aliases
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:34:01 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x Vitali A Chipitsyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am not sure if "font aliases" is the right term. However, what I need to
> do is: Change the font to which font names like "Courier", "Helvetica" are
> aliased. I need to be able to substitute different fonts (for a different
> encoding) in place of the default fonts, because some applications do not
> allow to specify fonts by their standard pattern *-*-*-...-*.
> Could someone help me with an advice, please?
> I looked at font.alias files in font/* directories, and they don't seem to
> describe aliasing for the default font names.
> --vc
On my slack 7 system,
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1
variable -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
5x7 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso8859-1
5x8 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso646.1991-irv
6x9 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-c-60-iso646.1991-irv
6x10 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x12 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso646.1991-i
rv
6x13 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
6x13bold -misc-fixed-bold-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
7x13 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
--cut--
Make sure /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias is first in your fontpath,
then add or change alaises as you wish.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Newbie
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:37:17 GMT
Hello,
I've just recently installed Redhat 6.1 twice. With the first install
I was able to browse using Netscape, second time I am unable to
browse. I'm getting "unknown host" errors. I've been searching the
docs, usenet, redhat, etc. to find more information to properly setup
the internet connection with, but I'm new at configuring linux and am
not sure where to start.
I'm connected to a token ring LAN. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Matt Sleeper
webmaster - www.cfins.com
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Changing Prompt Color
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:52:23 GMT
How do I change the color of the prompt when using bash or tcsh? Also,
how do I get it to display the full path instead of just the current
directory?
Thanks,
Kevin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing Prompt Color
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:18:55 +0200
Dare I suggest that you read the BASH-Prompt-HOWTO ?
==
I don't like spammers. So take the warning
out of my address before you reply.
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From: "Steven Farlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: big ass partitiions
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:25:02 +1000
> The RH installer does not like /boot being over 1024 cylinders, and is
> prone to giving misleading error messages. This may be the snag. Try
> creating a smallish /boot partition (20M) first, then as big as you want
> for the rest. I have several partitions over 1G on RH6.2. I have never
> had a problem, but always had a separate boot partition too.
It has nothing to do with the 1024 cylinder limit, it's just that the
RH gui partition wizard has always limited me to 1 gig partitions.
I think it's strange too.
I have been using RedHat since 5.0 and it has always done this
to me. I'll just fdisk and mke2fs it and it should be fine.
Thanks
Steven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Kew)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,gnu.g++.help
Subject: Re: Getting a working libg++ on Linux
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:23:32 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I was able to get a program which uses the Integer class
> working at the weekend by simply copying *.h, *.hP and *.cc
> files out of the src/ subdir of the latest libg++ (2.8.1a
> I think) and compiling as follows:
Following your post and Nix's insights, I've tried another variant on
this approach, creating a libmini-g++ with only what I need from libg++,
and taking the real libg++ right out. I'm getting promising-looking
results (compiles and links cleanly, and appears to run but needs more
testing).
This works by statically linking libmini-g++.a - at the obvious cost of
an extra 150Kb+ on my executable sizes - which are now significantly
larger than on FreeBSD (where the S/W has always worked cleanly).
> g++ -I. *.cc *.cpp -o my_program
I've used a slightly more sophisticated approach to build the mini-lib
as standalone. Since parts of my S/W are GPL and LGPL, that'll leave
users the option to use mini-g++ or the real thing.
Testing over the weekend - round tuits permitting.
--
Nick Kew
Peninsular Penguin - Linux in the SouthWest
http://www.pen-pen.co.uk/
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From: "Steven Farlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: big ass partitiions
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:27:00 +1000
> There *shouldn't* be any limitation like that...
He he, I've heard that before.
Don't worry about me, I'll be fine.
EVERYBODY PLEASE END THIS THREAD!!!!!
Steven
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel compile 2.4.0
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:32:47 GMT
I'm compiling the latest beta of 2.4.0 and get hung at the make bzImage step.
It complains about an undeclared member function and undeclared vairable in
timer.c and because of this error, it doesn't make bzImage. What should I do?
Is this a legitimate bug to report?
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:37:42 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike N
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:52:41 +0100, John Beardmore
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>>It turns out that the boxes we have been given are 2100 servers, type
>>A500MP. I don't know anything about them yet. Can I assume 500 MHz
>>twin CPU ?
>>
>>This is the first machine I've owned that's big enough to parallel
>>park !
>>
>Those are very nice (and big!!) machines, I own 3 of them myself.
Two of us have just been given four of them, though we have still to
collect the second pair, and none of them boot right now.
>Unfortunatly RH Linux will not run on them. I have tried in spite of
>the Red Hat docs saying incompatible. Also, there is no SMP support
>(IIRC).
OK, does anybody know if any distributions will work on them ? And with
SMP ?
>Digital UNIX (aka Tru 64) is a great choice for the box, there is a
>non commercial version available from Compaq for like $99.00.
OK. That sounds good in a way, but I assume it's not open source ?
And tools will be extra, and I won't be able to write my own drivers
easily ?
In that case, it might almost be as well to go down the NT route... :(
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: RedHat is slow
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:47:55 GMT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 03:41:33 -0700, luke skywalker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Homer Jay wrote:
>
>Linux is also slow on my machine:( I'm running a celeronA 450 w/ 64megs of ram
>and kde... I just installed rh6.2 And the video is really funny looking,
>windows video was much better.. I'm using a velocity 128 8 meg video card w/ the
>nvidia chipset... WHY SO slow?? windows was as fast as this!
You are probably using the stock SVGA X client driver. Get the driver
for your video card (assuming its supported) and see if that helps. I
run 6.2 on a voodoo3 and its pretty darn snappy.
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Reply-To: "Mimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Mimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: winmodems
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 07:40:03 GMT
Hello, this is my first message here.
I�ve got a Supramax 56 Voice PCI -winmodem-, and I�ve seen some drivers for
LT winmodems at linmodems.org. Does anybody know if these drivers works with
Supramax? Has anybody the same modem working in Linux. Unfortunately, I��ve
got to write this message in W98 8:o(
Thanks a lot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: modifying font aliases
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:53:13 GMT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:10:39 GMT, Vitali A Chipitsyn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am not sure if "font aliases" is the right term. However, what I need
>to do is: Change the font to which font names like "Courier",
>"Helvetica" are aliased. I need to be able to substitute different
>fonts (for a different encoding) in place of the default fonts, because
>some applications do not allow to specify fonts by their standard
>pattern *-*-*-...-*.
>
>Could someone help me with an advice, please?
Great explanation of this somewhere on this page:
http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf
--
Hal B
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Turning off startup services?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:53:25 GMT
Hey Tobbe!
Thanks for that very informative yet useless comment!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev:
>
> > Hi-
> >
> > I have an old P133 running Mandrake 7.1. Currently when it boots, I
> > can see it starting all kinds of crap (you know, with the
> > green "[PASSED]" or red "[FAILED]" markers), which I'd rather it
not.
> > For example, it tries to detect USP stuff (my computer dosn't have
> > USB!) and it does some raid stuff, starts httpd, starts sendmail
etc.
> > I'd like some information on how to turn this stuff on and off. I'm
> > not interested in fancy gui tools either, I'm trying to learn the
> > basics so no X here (it runs like a dog anyways!).
> >
> > Also, does anyone know of a good site I could go to and learn about
all
> > this stuff? Thanks.
> >
> > -capt_troy
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> Slackware is much cleaner and faster.
> /Tobbe
>
>
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