Linux-Setup Digest #164, Volume #19 Sat, 15 Jul 00 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: resizing partitions in linux (Craig A Lebowitz)
Re: Fdisk BIG problem (Bit Twister)
Re: Mail client to handle multiple accounts (David Michael Harris)
Re: Please help me configure the Microsoft IntelliMouse in XF86Setup (James)
Re: Making boot floppy with non-default kernel (E J)
Re: Which package is most easily supported? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Fdisk BIG problem ("David ..")
Re: Fdisk BIG problem (Valentin Guillen)
Re: Graceful shutdown from KDE; default login desktop (E J)
Re: How to boot from CD-ROM? (E J)
Re: Switch in-between terminals in X-Windows (Patricia)
Problem in loading PhatLinux 3.2 need help (jaidan)
Re: partitions are not visible (Jonathan)
Re: newbie question - no sound (Jonathan)
How to bring RH62 up to "Rawhide" Glibc levels, etc. Neet to install XFree86 4.0.1
("mnip")
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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:27:04 -0400
From: Craig A Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: resizing partitions in linux
This is very thoughtful advice, thank you very much. How about getting rid
of LILO once the Windows partition is taken over by linux?
John Thompson wrote:
> Craig A Lebowitz wrote:
>
> > I'm running Red Hat 6.2 and I'd like to get rid of Windows and resizem
> > my linux partition. Can anyone suggest the best way to do this? I
> > really don't want to mess up my config at this point.
>
> The simplest way to do this would probably be to run mkfs.ext2 on
> the Win partition to wipe the FAT filesystem and make an ext2
> filesystem on the partition. You can then mount it aand use it
> as needed from linux. This method has the advantage of not
> changing your existing partitions at all and therefore not
> changing your partition numbering, which would require you to
> modify your kernel to reflect the changed numbers of the root and
> swap partitions.
>
> > Also - what is a good way to see where HD space is being used on my
> > filesystem?
>
> "df -h" from an xterm to show free space, "du -h" to show usage
> information.
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Fdisk BIG problem
Reply-To: This_news_group.invalid
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:33:12 GMT
You could use linux fdisk to delete all partitions.
Then dos fdisk /mbr to erase lilo.
Then dos fdisk to start over.
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:45:17 +0800, Michael Tan
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I hope someone can help me. I started my hd with Win98, then I deleted it
>and
>switched over to Linux.
>
>Now, I've decided to start with win98 & than install
>linux Mandrake 7.0. But my win98 refused to work
>& I discovered that the problem was that, by now, fdisk is
>completely screwed up. There is no way to completely
>undo fdisk (to start afresh) because the logical dos partition
>is in the primary partition - for which fdisk has no delete solution!!!!
>
>I'm a complete newie to linux, so I hope u will be patient &
>go step by step.
>
>Thank you in anticipartion.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>
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Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
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From: David Michael Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail client to handle multiple accounts
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.admin.isp,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:34:10 +0100
On Mon, 08 May 2000, Robie Basak wrote:
>On Sun, 07 May 2000 19:14:53 GMT, Matthew Montgomery said:
>>John wrote:
>>
>>> I am looking for recommendations for a mail reader that
>>> can handle multiple e-mail accounts. A GUI reader is prefered
>>> but I will look at any others. Thanks for any info.
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Holmes
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>I have been able to use kmail without any problems to pop mail from
>>multiple e-mail accounts and divy them out to their respective folders.
>>it works great.
>
>Alternatively (I can't remember if I suggested this before), use
>fetchmail (fetchmailconf will configure it), then use any mail client's
>'local spool' or similar option.
>
>Robie.
>--
I use SuSE....and the KDE environment...it has a neat mailer called K-Mail that
can handle as many pops as you like.
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James)
Subject: Re: Please help me configure the Microsoft IntelliMouse in XF86Setup
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:36:16 GMT
Thanks for getting back to me. Will give it a try
James
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:25:06 GMT, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>James wrote:
>>
>> Could you help me chose the proper parameters? Just can't seem to get
>> the mouse working by myself.
>> Should the protocol be Microsoft, IntelliMouse of PS/2?
>
>should be IMPS/2
>
>> Is the Mouse Device /dev/psaux or another file?
>> Since the mouse has 2 buttons and a wheel, should I chose 3 buttons?
>> (there is no 2 button options).
>> Do I set Emulate3Buttons?
>
>No
>
>> What should the baud rate be?
>> What should the resolution be?
>> What should the sample rate be?
>> What should the number under Emulate3Timeout be?
>> Thanks
>
>Let the rest as is.
>
>Eric
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Making boot floppy with non-default kernel
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:42:37 -0700
Do you still have the boot floppy created during the instatllation of
RedHat 6.2? I found that is the easiest to modify.
Make a copy of the linux boot floppy.
Under DOS
diskcopy a: a:
Under Linux
(use mkbootdisk and dd)
Mount your newly created linux boot floppy and make sure it is write
protect switch is off
$ su -
password: <secret>
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
# cd /mnt/floppy/etc
# vi lilo.conf
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
# note: this message is in /boot on the harddisk
message=/boot/message
prompt
# note: this image is in /boot on the harddisk
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-6.1.1
label=linux
root=/dev/hda4
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
# /sbin/lilo -C /mnt/floppy/etc/lilo.conf
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> I boot RedHat linux 6.2 using one of two kernels:
> the default one that came with 6.2, and a modification
> of it that allows me to run windows 98 from within linux
> using Win4Lin (www.trelos.com). When running
> Boot Magic (PowerQuest, Inc., maker of Partition
> Magic) I have no problem, but on another computer
> I cannot install Boot Magic because of not having a
> FAT partition at the front of the disk. A simple
> solution is to create a second boot floppy that will
> boot into this second kernel. Does anyone have
> a procedure for making such a floppy? The way
> mkbootdisk is set up, the file naming conventions
> it uses do not work for me. Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Frank E Harrell Jr
> Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics
> Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
> Department of Health Evaluation Sciences
> University of Virginia School of Medicine
> http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Which package is most easily supported?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:42:44 GMT
On 14 Jul 2000 22:40:23 -0700, Aaron Ginn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>"Gary L. Elinoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I just installed LINUX, and I'm running into the typical newbie
>> problems and issues. When I email my vendor for help, I don't get any
>> answers, so I guess I'm on my own, except for groups like this. My
>> question is, which commercially available LINUX is the most popular,
>> the most easy to get help with from forums such as
>> comp.os.linux.setup?
>
>Don't worry. These newsgroups will provide you better support than
>any vendor ever could. If you have a problem, I guarantee you that
>someone else has experienced the same thing and has already answered
>your questions.
[...]
I would agree, and add that user to user support is much faster than
vendor support. Also, some vendor support has very fine print as to what
is actually covered. I know RH used to be only installation support.
Once installed, they are off the hook. I believe they have different
plans now, so this may be different.
--
Hal B
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fdisk BIG problem
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:32:12 -0500
Michael Tan wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I hope someone can help me. I started my hd with Win98, then I deleted it
> and
> switched over to Linux.
>
> Now, I've decided to start with win98 & than install
> linux Mandrake 7.0. But my win98 refused to work
> & I discovered that the problem was that, by now, fdisk is
> completely screwed up. There is no way to completely
> undo fdisk (to start afresh) because the logical dos partition
> is in the primary partition - for which fdisk has no delete solution!!!!
>
> I'm a complete newie to linux, so I hope u will be patient &
> go step by step.
>
> Thank you in anticipartion.
>
> Mike
Boot linux and run "lilo -u" then use the linux "fdisk" and delete all
linux partitions. Reboot with a windoz bootdisk then format the drive.
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ID # 123538
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fdisk BIG problem
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 09:56:19 -0600
Michael,
Your best bet at this point might be to make the hard drive like it was
when it left the factory, and start COMPLETELY over again. Your hard
drive requires to edit some hidden sectors on the hard drive which
contain the partition info and to completely remove all prior existing
partition information.
The only practical way I know to do this is: I would boot the computer
with a dos or windows floppy boot diskette. Now this boot diskette must
also have the DOS debug.exe file on it. I would then run debug, and
then run the script appended below. The script is a very small (about 8
or 10 lines), and when you run the script, it will clear out the
partition table which is hidden on the drive, and your hard drive will
then be like new. Here's the script:
http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/hdclear.htm
DEBUG Script to Clear Partition Sector of Hard Drive
Summary: This DEBUG script is used to erase a hard drive when other
methods are not sufficient.
Even if you have repartitioned the hard drive, FDISK does not update the
entire partition sector after the first time. The
following DEBUG script will clear the partition sector (cyl 0, head 0,
sector 1) of the first hard drive, which will force
FDISK to completely start over. This is sometimes useful for removing
Disk Manager or EZ Drive and should also remove any
boot sector viruses, providing that the virus is not active in memory,
which should be the case if you have booted clean from
a non-infected diskette. Although this script clears only the first
physical drive, we recommend unplugging other drives to
prevent accidental data loss. Letters in script are not case-sensitive.
A:\>DEBUG
- f 200 L200 0
- a 100
xxxx:0100 mov ax,301 (ignore segment:offset values at left)
xxxx:0103 mov bx,200
xxxx:0106 mov cx,1
xxxx:0109 mov dx,0080
xxxx:010C int 13
xxxx:010E int 3
xxxx:010F (Press ENTER an extra time here)
- d 100 LF
xxxx:0100 B8 01 03 BB 00 02 B9 01-00 BA 80 00 CD 13 CC
(make sure that hex values match above line before proceeding)
(if values do not match, type Q and start over)
- g=100
(ignore register display)
- q (quits back to DOS)
FDISK should now show "No partitions defined".
Now then, if the script is not really exactly clear, then you really
should read the footnotes at the website, or write back to me and I'll
explain it a bit further. Remember to remove the anti spam crap from my
email address when writing to me.
Regards,
Valentin Guillen
Tan wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I hope someone can help me. I started my hd with Win98, then I deleted it
> and
> switched over to Linux.
>
> Now, I've decided to start with win98 & than install
> linux Mandrake 7.0. But my win98 refused to work
> & I discovered that the problem was that, by now, fdisk is
> completely screwed up. There is no way to completely
> undo fdisk (to start afresh) because the logical dos partition
> is in the primary partition - for which fdisk has no delete solution!!!!
>
> I'm a complete newie to linux, so I hope u will be patient &
> go step by step.
>
> Thank you in anticipartion.
>
> Mike
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graceful shutdown from KDE; default login desktop
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 09:01:20 -0700
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> When I do shutdown or restart from the KDE logout window
You can't!!!
>From the console window type this
$ halt
or
$ reboot
or make up your own halt and reboot application icon from KDE
Right click on your KDE start button or
$ kmenuedit
>
> I get many error messages that appear to be related to X-windows.
> How do I gracefully exit from Linux from KDE?
Usually click on the Log Out button ('X' on the bottom panel or KDE
start button->'X' Log Out)
$ cat .xsession-errors
>
>
> I have both KDE and Gnome installed on my computer. My
> default login screen is Gnome. I can click on KDE from that
> but would like KDE to be the default. How is that done?
>
$ switchdesk
>
> Thanks in advance -Frank
>
> --
> Frank E Harrell Jr
> Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics
> Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
> Department of Health Evaluation Sciences
> University of Virginia School of Medicine
> http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to boot from CD-ROM?
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 09:05:24 -0700
PasirRis wrote:
> >Yes, it is. Linux Gazette had an article on how to do. It would be good
> for
> >a harden standalone webserver (webpages and all executables). If someone
> >hacks it, just reboot and your webserver is back.
>
> May I know where to find the article?
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue54/nielsen.html
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Switch in-between terminals in X-Windows
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 18:27:33 +0200
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, PasirRis wrote:
>OS: Redhat 6.0
>
>I know that Alt-Fn keys can bring me to different virtual terminals.
>And I know that Ctrl-Alt-Fn keys would function similarly if I'm in
>X-Windows environment. It do switch to another tty but when I switch back to
>the X-Windows tty, I can only see text mode (no longer windows mode) and it
>appears 'hung' (not really, but no effect no matter what keys or commands I
>type). I was still able to switch back to other text-mode ttys.
>
>What's the fault?
>Thanks for your advice.
Hi
ALT-F7 should bring you back in Xwindows
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Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)Kernel 2.2.5-15
6:28pm up 20:28, 1 user, load average: 2.20, 2.27, 2.34
Sat Jul 15 18:28:41 CEST 2000
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From: jaidan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem in loading PhatLinux 3.2 need help
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:30:05 GMT
It is my first time in using linux and i am installing Phatlinux 3.2.
But i'm having a problem, each time it loads and reaches the point
of "Creating /mnt/disk/bin/mkdir : /bin/mkdir: cannot execute binary
file [FAILED]" my PC hung.
Can you please help me on how to fix this problem. Thank you for
time....
Jaidan
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partitions are not visible
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:43:20 GMT
In article <8ko3ue$610$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Richard Arts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just installed RedHat 6.2 on my computer and encountered the
> following problem:
>
> There are two harddisks installed in my computer:
> The primary master is 3.2 Gb and dedicated to Windows.
> The secondary master is 20.4 Gb and contains the necessary linux
partitions
> and three partitions using the fat filesystem.
>
> When linux boots the only partitions that are detected are the Primary
> master and the linux partitions. The other partitions simply are not
> visible.
>
> Can these partitions be made visible to linux, and if so, how is this
done?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Richard Arts
>
>
Are the three partitions using FAT16 or VFAT (Win9x)? You must
already have vfat support in the kernel since you can see the Primary
Master (Windows). Try mounting the FAT partitions manually. You must
have a mount point first (mkdir /mnt/hdb1, 2, etc.)
then try:
mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
or
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
etc.
If you can mount the partitions, you can add lines to /etc/fstab to
mount them automatically when you boot. Just copy the line that mounts
your vfat partition on hda1 and make the necessary changes for hdb and
filesystem, if necessary.
If this does not work, you may not have msdos filesystem support in your
kernel or as a module, which will require recompiling.
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie question - no sound
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:50:11 GMT
In article <uSOb5.80583$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeff Hummer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just installed Gentus Linux 6.2 last night (I'm a total Linux
newbie).
> There's no sound at all. According to the friend that helped me
install, my
> sound card isn't supported by this distribution. It's a Soundblaster
Live!
> 256 on an Abit BE6-2 motherboard. Would anyone happen to know where I
can
> find drivers for this card, or ideas on how to get around this
problem?
> Thanks in advance
> Jeff
>
>
The emu10k1 driver works great - you can get instructions here:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/soundcards/sblive.html
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From: "mnip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: How to bring RH62 up to "Rawhide" Glibc levels, etc. Neet to install XFree86
4.0.1
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:02:18 GMT
I've got a fresh install of RH6.2, and I'm not having any luck with the
official installer of XFree86 4.0.1 for my TNT2.
I found the Rawhide dir full of recent (and probably 'at your own risk')
RPMs, but most of them require some dependent packages to get installed.
Chicken and Egg.
The sequence of problems read like a list from The Simirillion:
.. rpm4 dependency begat Glibc dependency begat libdb.so dependency ....
on an on, almost all packages need some baseline newer than the one on my
RH6.2 CD. I don't know where to start. RPM doesn't help much with suggested
packages to upgrade first.
I'd like to try using the RPMS, since they're probably going to be geared
for RedHat's layout. I did OK with Apache and PHP4 tarballs, but X 4.0.1 is
on another level of complexity when the config script doesn't work.
How does one go about doing a massive rawhide upgrade of a fresh RH62
install? Is there a better use of RPM for this purpose than "-Uvh"?
Thanks.
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