Linux-Setup Digest #177, Volume #19 Mon, 17 Jul 00 12:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: SANE (Guy Maskall)
Re: How to bring RH62 up to "Rawhide" Glibc levels, etc. Neet to install XFree86
4.0.1 (Toby Haynes)
Swap Partition - Killed? ("pj")
Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14 (Thomas Adams)
Re: Small Linux Diss (Alan.J.Thackray)
Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help! ("albert")
Re: Swap Partition - Killed? (Homer Jay)
rpm 4.x + (gnorpm && helix-update) (Pete Hurd)
Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help! (Dances With Crows)
Re: GCC problems (Klaus Muth)
Problems with Netscape 4.6x and Netscape 4.7x ("Lammergeier")
web server: internal error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Somebody tell me how to stop the installer! (RH 6.2) (Antti
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Koskip=E4=E4?=)
Re: rpm 4.x + (gnorpm && helix-update) ("ne...")
Re: Installation Error -- signal 11 (Homer Jay)
Re: Problems with Netscape 4.6x and Netscape 4.7x ("ne...")
Re: resizing partitions in linux ("Rex Dieter")
Re: Small Linux Diss (Homer Jay)
Re: tar (Homer Jay)
Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14 ("ne...")
wvdial - modem not responding ... (Krishnan Sridhar)
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From: Guy Maskall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SANE
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:15:17 +0100
Your best bet is to check out the mostang site.
"panda.mostang.com/sane". You should be able to check there what is
supported h/w-wise. Also instructions should be there.
There'll also be README's after you've downloaded and extracted the
files. Essentially, as I recall you run 'configure', then 'make', and
(as root) 'make install'. It's pretty painless. Just go have a cup of
tea whilst it compiles! 8-)
Guy
"H.A.J. van Niekerk" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anyone tell me how to intall and use SANE? I have a Mustek
> ScanExpress 12000SP connected to the SCSI-card supplied by Mustek
>
> Thanks,
>
> Huub
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: How to bring RH62 up to "Rawhide" Glibc levels, etc. Neet to install
XFree86 4.0.1
Date: 17 Jul 2000 09:26:39 -0400
!! "mnip" == mnip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mnip> I've got a fresh install of RH6.2, and I'm not having any luck
mnip> with the official installer of XFree86 4.0.1 for my TNT2.
mnip> I found the Rawhide dir full of recent (and probably 'at your
mnip> own risk') RPMs, but most of them require some dependent
mnip> packages to get installed. Chicken and Egg.
While the dependencies are a problem, they are also necessary to avoid
the DLL-Hell of incorrect libraries floating around your various /lib/
directories.
mnip> The sequence of problems read like a list from The Silmarillion:
mnip> .. rpm4 dependency begat Glibc dependency begat libdb.so
mnip> dependency .... on an on, almost all packages need some
mnip> baseline newer than the one on my RH6.2 CD. I don't know where
mnip> to start. RPM doesn't help much with suggested packages to
mnip> upgrade first.
mnip> I'd like to try using the RPMS, since they're probably going to
mnip> be geared for RedHat's layout. I did OK with Apache and PHP4
mnip> tarballs, but X 4.0.1 is on another level of complexity when the
mnip> config script doesn't work.
The Xinstall script is okay - but if you currently run an RPM-based
system I can understand wishing to keep as much software under RPM's
umbrella as possible.
mnip> How does one go about doing a massive rawhide upgrade of a fresh
mnip> RH62 install? Is there a better use of RPM for this purpose than
mnip> "-Uvh"?
rpm -Uvh *.rpm is a good start. Then all the packages which failed need
to be identified. Look to see if there are any packages listed as
dependencies which you don't have, and get them. Then run rpm -Uvh *.rpm
again. This time all the base packages should be in place after this
run. Now rpm -Uvh *.rpm again (or you can be more selective and just
install the previously failed packages) and again until you work through
the dependency tree. There may be tools to resolve the RPMs you need
automatically - I seem to remember a proggy called AutoRPM out there
somewhere, but I tend to live on the command line and use
Perl/grep/sed/awk for the messy stuff.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: "pj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.act.newbie,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Swap Partition - Killed?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:42:16 -0400
I'm running RH Linux 6.2 (Kernel 2.2.14-5.0) Zoot on an Pentium 200 w/ 64 mb
of ram. When the system boots up, and the sequence for "Activating Swap
Partitions" shows, I get the following error message:
swapon:/dev/hda5: Invalid Argument
Then in the boot sequence, I get an "OK" when the line for Swap Partition is
Activated shows.
I was told from a friend of mine that the swap partition is destroyed. How
can I restore the partition without doing a complete rebuild?
PJ
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From: Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:50:14 -0400
I am working on kernel 2.2.14 as a new linux user.
Mandrake installed linux version 2.2.14 without any
kernel source files.
When I downloaded version 2.2.14 I ended up with a
lot less 'stuff' than with version 2.2.16. So I am having
a lot of trouble running commands (menuconfig, xconfig)
under 14 that work great under 16. I lacked a lot of
important files under the 'net' subdirectory. For example,
I lacked Config.in in the 'net' subdirectory. You seem
to be bailing out of that directory, so maybe you have
files missing there.
I haven't determined if I'm unpacking things wrong or
if version 2.2.14 is deficient. I need help here myself.
In any event I would compare your files to a later
kernel version and see if you're missing files.
Tom Adams
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan.J.Thackray)
Subject: Re: Small Linux Diss
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:23:37 GMT
You will need at least a 386 to run Linux. However there are some
Unix clones which will run on an old 8086. Try "minix".
I haven't used it myself, so I can't comment on how well it works.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:09:58 GMT, Hiamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have an laptop 286 or 386 (msd says 386 but i think it is a 286 and
>hwinfo just wont start)
>and 1MB RAM :-)
>
>I have tried with hal91, tomsrtbt and trinux but no one will work.
>Is there a diss how works with so litle? Is muLinux an alternative?
>
>Thanx!
>
>
>
>--
> [ --- Hiamal --- ]
>
>--
> [ --- Hiamal --- ]
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: "albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help!
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:57:00 +0100
Hi,
Having passed the configuration prob, I managed to install RH 6.2 on my
windows 98 box, I have my 8.4gb disk splitted in 4x 2.1gb partitions (one
for w98, 2nd for shware, personal docs and the 4th I wanted to put linux
there) Here's the glitch, for my surprise, Rh installed perfectly and even
lilo didn't bother with the 1024 cylinder limit thing, but the lilo boot was
always jumping to linux instead of win98, so I tryied a program called
BOOTMAGIC, and selected the windows partition for boot and also the Linux
partition so that I could choose between one or the other. But when I tryed
it, only windows98 would boot ok!!! Well I tryed the linux rescue disk that
I madde when I was installing linux, but it didn't work too well because now
when I boot to linux is says "kernel panic ..." and the pc stalls
completely.
can one you guros help me out here???
thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.act.newbie,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Swap Partition - Killed?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:05:31 -0600
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:42:16 -0400, pj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running RH Linux 6.2 (Kernel 2.2.14-5.0) Zoot on an Pentium 200 w/ 64 mb
>of ram. When the system boots up, and the sequence for "Activating Swap
>Partitions" shows, I get the following error message:
> swapon:/dev/hda5: Invalid Argument
>Then in the boot sequence, I get an "OK" when the line for Swap Partition is
>Activated shows.
>I was told from a friend of mine that the swap partition is destroyed. How
>can I restore the partition without doing a complete rebuild?
>PJ
Uhhh... no, it's not "destroyed". Check your /etc/fstab for a line like:
/dev/hda11 swap swap defaults 0 0
That's what activates your (previously formatted) swap partition. You
might have some parameter errors in that line causing a (perhaps harmless
``invalid argument'' error--I don't know for sure. However, you are
booting ok it seems. Check how much swap is active after boot with:
``cat /proc/meminfo''. If you don't have any, try activating your swap
with ``swapon /dev/hd??'', where ?? correspond to your swap partition.
If that fails, perhaps you don't have a swap partition. Read up on
how to make one in ``man mkswap''.
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From: Pete Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rpm 4.x + (gnorpm && helix-update)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:16:14 -0600
Hello all,
I've got rpm-4.0-0.45 installed and apparently working fine. It queries
and upgrades fine from with the command line, however:
gnorpm fails,
[root@pug pete]# gnorpm
gnorpm: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librpm.so.0: undefined
symbol: ufdio
as does helix-update,
[root@pug pete]# helix-update
/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
old format database is present; use --rebuilddb to generate a new format
database
** WARNING **: Cannot open RPM database!
I've tried -rebuilddb with %_dbapi 1 and 3 in macros, no change in
behavior.
Any hints?
-P.
--
Peter L. Hurd, Ph.D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.zo.utexas.edu/research/phurd fax 512.471-3878
Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 USA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help!
Date: 17 Jul 2000 15:16:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and mailed]
[followups set, inappropriate crossposted NGs trimmed]
Don't crosspost to so many bloody NGs, and if you *must* crosspost, pick
appropriate groups! What made you think that your problem has
*anything* to do with X?
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:57:00 +0100, albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>there) Here's the glitch, for my surprise, Rh installed perfectly and even
>lilo didn't bother with the 1024 cylinder limit thing, but the lilo boot was
>always jumping to linux instead of win98, so I tryied a program called
>BOOTMAGIC, and selected the windows partition for boot and also the Linux
>partition so that I could choose between one or the other. But when I tryed
>it, only windows98 would boot ok!!! Well I tryed the linux rescue disk that
>I madde when I was installing linux, but it didn't work too well because now
>when I boot to linux is says "kernel panic ..." and the pc stalls
And what exactly did you do with your rescue disk? BootMagic may have
done something to your hard drive; I'm not familiar with that particular
program so can't help there. However, the rescue disk should be able to
do the following:
0. boot from rescue disk
1. mount /dev/hdXY /mnt
2. edit /mnt/lilo.conf so that it's appropriate for your setup. A
relatively normal one follows:
boot=/dev/hda # warning, uses MBR
message=/boot/message # not entirely necessary, but nice to have
map=/boot/map
prompt
timeout=100 # 10 second-wait at boot time
image=/boot/vmlinuz # change to whatever kernel you use
root=/dev/hdXY # change to your root partition
label=linux
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
Replace X and Y with the letter and number of your Linux root partition.
3. lilo -r /mnt
4. shutdown -r now
If for some sick reason you want to make Lose9x the OS that boots by
default after 10 seconds, switch the order of the image= and other=
blocks. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
"Man could not look too long into the face of the Computer or her
children and still remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did they become
as Gods, or as Usenetters?" --Matt G
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From: Klaus Muth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: GCC problems
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:19:27 +0200
"H.A.J. van Niekerk" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> when trying to make SANE work I get this:
>
> ./configure
> loading cache /config.cache
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot create executables
>
> What is going wrong and how do I solve this?
Sounds like missing libraries. Check for glibc-devel.
Look for config.log (or something like that). There is the output generated
by the gcc check: there should be hints, why gcc could not create
executables.
klaus
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EDV-Programmierung D-70565 Stuttgart fax: (+49) 711 78805-99
http://www.hagos.de Germany mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Lammergeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Netscape 4.6x and Netscape 4.7x
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:19:21 +0800
Hello.
I am having a few problems with Netscape Communicator, and I recently bought
Redhat 62 Professional Edition. While I purchased this edition to take
advantage of the numerous networking applications within, I had also hoped
that the upgrade would solve my Netscape communicator problems that had
ocurred when I was using Redhat 6.2 Deluxe Edition.
Now, I get down to describing my problems.
At some point during the period that I was running Netscape Communicator 4.6
on Redhat 6.1, the browser suddenly hanged for several minutes after being
started up when I was working offline. I subscribe to a dial-in internet
service. After those few minutes, the home page, which was a file on the
local harddisk would load. Communicator 4.6 setup with the initial
installation of Redhat 6.1
Ever since that event, the same thing occurs everytime I start up
Communicator.
I�ve got other communicator problems too. For instance, Communicator crashes
when the Java 1.2.2 plugin from Blackdown has been installed, as it does
with the Macromedia Flash 4 plugin.
In an attempt to solve these problems, I uninstalled all the Netscape RPMs,
and deleted the /usr/local/netscape directory. Then I reinstalled all the
Netscape RPMs that go with Communicator and reconfigured everything.
The above problems remained.
I once again uninstalled all the Netscape RPMs and installed all the RPMs
associated with Navigator 4.6, and tried again. The first problem ceased.
But the latter two problems remained.
The upgrade to Redhat 6.2 Professional did not bring about improvement in
the above situation.
I need to view sites with Flash 4 content and run Java applets on my Linux
machine, but am unable to do under present conditions.
Would you please advise on the solution to my Communicator problems.
Regards.
Kelvin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: web server: internal error
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:24:15 GMT
Hi,
we just installed a sql based web server that runs web application in
perl/html. When users try to log in, they get the internal error
message. httpd is still running. what might be the problem?.
email me a copy of your helping post reply.
thanx.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Antti =?iso-8859-1?Q?Koskip=E4=E4?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Somebody tell me how to stop the installer! (RH 6.2)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:33:49 +0300
Hi...
I've installed RH 6.2 on my second hdd. I did not install
LILO, and forgot to create a boot disk. No problemo, just
copy loadlin.exe, vmlinuz and initrd.img from the install CD
and boot from DOS with it.
When linux boots, it starts the installer! And the system is already
installed! How can I prevent this? The boot messages go something
like this:
...partition check blah blah...
Greetings.
Red Hat Install init v6.2 starting
...blah blah...
running installer
running sbin/loader
And then the installer starts. (in text mode)
I booted into rescue mode and manually mounted:
# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/harddisk
(hdb1 is the linux partition, mount point /, no other partitions)
I cd into '/mnt/harddisk' and the funny thing is, there's no
such file as sbin/loader! (the directory is there however)
What's going on?
I'm rather new to Linux. Do I use loadlin with the wrong files?
If that's so, well, I can't even mount my DOS volumes or the
floppy drive so I could copy the correct ones to my C: drive:
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy or
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos-c
Both do nothing.
Help!
--
- Antti
Lbh unir whfg jnfgrq lbhe gvzr ol qrpbqvat guvf hfryrff fvtangher. ;-)
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm 4.x + (gnorpm && helix-update)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:35:26 GMT
On Jul 17, 2000 at 10:16, Pete Hurd eloquently wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I've got rpm-4.0-0.45 installed and apparently working fine. It queries
>and upgrades fine from with the command line, however:
>
>gnorpm fails,
>[root@pug pete]# gnorpm
>gnorpm: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librpm.so.0: undefined
>symbol: ufdio
>
>as does helix-update,
>[root@pug pete]# helix-update
>/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
>old format database is present; use --rebuilddb to generate a new format
>database
>
>** WARNING **: Cannot open RPM database!
>
>I've tried -rebuilddb with %_dbapi 1 and 3 in macros, no change in
>behavior.
>
>Any hints?
Seems the libraries in rpm-4.0 are not compatible with
the version of gnorpm and helix-update. Grabbing the
gnorpm source and recompiling might solve that problem.
This might also work for helix-update. If it doesn't,
you'll have to downgrade to rpm-3.0.5 which, I believe,
handles rpm-4.0 rpms.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653
Even bytes get lonely for a little bit.
11:29am up 7 days, 14:41, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: Installation Error -- signal 11
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:40:55 -0600
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:58:05 GMT, James Hartwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"exited abnormally -- received signal 11"
>
>I have been trying to install Redhat6.2 from a release CDRom onto my old 486
>for two days... I continually get this error at different times during the
>installation process. Usually when the install is copying to the Hard
>Drive.
>I took the harddrive out of the 486 at one point and used my p3 to install
>Linux onto it. No problem, worked like a charm the first time... so I know
>the problem isn't with my CD or the hard drive... The problem was that when
>I plunked the HD back into the 486 expecting the installation to be
>finished, the kernel "Panicked" because it had been compiled for a Pentium+
>machine... and I don't have the expertise to know how to get around that...
>My best guess now is that I have some faulty hardware in the 486, but this
>is odd because everything was running fine (albeit slowly) under win98.
>If someone could shed some light on what a "signal 11" is, or perhaps point
>me to a website that has a list of error signals that would be fantastic...
Good guess. Sig11 generally indicates bad RAM or, much less often, bad
motherboard. Fire up winblows and surf to: www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP
and check out the GCC-SIG11-FAQ for more info on the error. Upon reading
it, you will gain more insight into why Winblows will still (sort of)
work: it taxes the system much less heavily.
>OR if someone could tell me how to change my kernel so that it is not
>optimized for a Pentium+ when compiled on my Pentium+ machine, that would be
>almost as good (assuming there are no other problems with doing that which I
>haven't foreseen).
I've never actually done this, but it seems pretty easy in principle.
Just go through a compile as you normally do, but select the drivers and,
most important, processor level, that correspond to your 486. In fact,
this is a *much* better way to go, even if your 486 was working ok
because the Pentium will compile *much* faster. (See the Kernel-HOWTO
for more on the compiling process.)
Finally, try pulling (if possible) or swapping RAM to try to isolate the
bad chips. I would suggest downloading a copy of memtest86 to help you
in this hunt for bad memory before doing anything else.
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Netscape 4.6x and Netscape 4.7x
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:45:41 GMT
On Jul 17, 2000 at 15:19, Lammergeier eloquently wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I am having a few problems with Netscape Communicator, and I recently bought
>Redhat 62 Professional Edition. While I purchased this edition to take
>advantage of the numerous networking applications within, I had also hoped
>that the upgrade would solve my Netscape communicator problems that had
>ocurred when I was using Redhat 6.2 Deluxe Edition.
>
>Now, I get down to describing my problems.
>
>At some point during the period that I was running Netscape Communicator 4.6
>on Redhat 6.1, the browser suddenly hanged for several minutes after being
>started up when I was working offline. I subscribe to a dial-in internet
>service. After those few minutes, the home page, which was a file on the
>local harddisk would load. Communicator 4.6 setup with the initial
>installation of Redhat 6.1
What is the order of your /etc/host.conf file?
Make sure it is 'hosts,bind'. Seems netscape
is looking to the net for dns and timing out.
>Ever since that event, the same thing occurs everytime I start up
>Communicator.
>
>I've got other communicator problems too. For instance, Communicator crashes
>when the Java 1.2.2 plugin from Blackdown has been installed, as it does
>with the Macromedia Flash 4 plugin.
Known problem, this java and netscape tiff. I think I read
a post yesterday stating that this has to do with fonts. I
believe java needs the misc fonts and these are missing.
Do a Deja search, you should get some hits. This is the
first I have heard of the Flash problem.
[...]
--
Registered Linux User # 125653
Allen's Axiom:
When all else fails, read the instructions.
11:35am up 7 days, 14:47, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Rex Dieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: resizing partitions in linux
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:51:02 -0500
"John Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Craig A Lebowitz wrote:
> > Might this create a problem because it would be taking out my "primary"
> > bootable partition?
> Shouldn't be a problem. Only Microsoft's operating systems
> insist on having a primary partition to boot from.
Without Lilo, isn't a bootable (ie, active) primary partition required?
--
Rex Dieter
Computer System Administrator
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska Lincoln
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: Small Linux Diss
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:47:41 -0600
Minix is good stuff. POSIX compliant, it can compile all kinds of free
software such as gcc, etc. It's not for production use--that's why linux
was proffered in the first place: because Minix wasn't going to evolve
into a production system--but if it's got 1MB or RAM it isn't going to
be a server anyway.
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:23:37 GMT, Alan.J.Thackray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You will need at least a 386 to run Linux. However there are some
>Unix clones which will run on an old 8086. Try "minix".
>I haven't used it myself, so I can't comment on how well it works.
>
>On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:09:58 GMT, Hiamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I have an laptop 286 or 386 (msd says 386 but i think it is a 286 and
>>hwinfo just wont start) and 1MB RAM :-)
>>I have tried with hal91, tomsrtbt and trinux but no one will work.
>>Is there a diss how works with so litle? Is muLinux an alternative?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: tar
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:52:12 -0600
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:53, thierry baertschiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I 'd like to "tar" my home directory but not all subdirectory (like
>excluding for instance /home/myname/directory_to_exlcude but keeping
>/home/myname/directory1 and /home/myname/directory2 and all files that
>are directly in /home/myname)
>How can i do ??
>I tried to use stuff like "tar cvf tar_file.tar ` print /home/myname
>..... ` " but tar says the argument is too long !!!
It depends on what tar your are using. GNU tar allows the ``--exclude''
switch to exclude files and/or directories.
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Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:54:56 GMT
On Jul 17, 2000 at 09:50, Thomas Adams eloquently wrote:
>I am working on kernel 2.2.14 as a new linux user.
>Mandrake installed linux version 2.2.14 without any
>kernel source files.
That is because you did not install the kernel source
rpm.
>When I downloaded version 2.2.14 I ended up with a
>lot less 'stuff' than with version 2.2.16. So I am having
>a lot of trouble running commands (menuconfig, xconfig)
>under 14 that work great under 16. I lacked a lot of
>important files under the 'net' subdirectory. For example,
>I lacked Config.in in the 'net' subdirectory. You seem
>to be bailing out of that directory, so maybe you have
>files missing there.
See above.
>I haven't determined if I'm unpacking things wrong or
>if version 2.2.14 is deficient. I need help here myself.
As root do the following:
1) cd /usr/src
2) ls -al and make sure 'linux' is a link to linux-<kernelversion>.
If it is not 'mv linux linux-<kernelversion>'.
3) rm linux
4) tar xzf /path/to/kernel/source/linux-<version>.tar.gz or
tar --use-compress-program bunzip -xf /path/to/kernel/source/linux-<version>.tar.bz2
5) mv linux linux-<version>
6) ln -s linux-<version> linux
7) cd linux
8) make menuconfig etc.......
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From: Krishnan Sridhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wvdial - modem not responding ...
Date: 17 Jul 2000 15:58:42 GMT
I tried this posting this before but had problems.
I have SuSe 6.3 loaded on my 90 Mhz pentium machine and
I am trying to get ppp up and running. I am using wvdial
for this. For some reason, I keep getting a message
that my "modem is not responsing" when it tries to
send the initialization string ATZ. I have tried changing
the string but to no avail.
Just to be sure that there was nothing wrong with my modem,
I used minicom and manually dialed a number. The modem
works fine. Also, I have used this modem before with
Redhat 5.0 and had no problem getting ppp to work.
Would appreciate if somebody can give me some insights
into what migt be going wrong. Thanks in advance.
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