Linux-Setup Digest #178, Volume #19 Mon, 17 Jul 00 14:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: USB Zip setup in Linux
Re: web server: internal error (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help! (Chem-R-Us)
Lilo append param ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: wvdial - modem not responding ... (David Punsalan)
Re: tar (John Thompson)
Re: core problem (John Thompson)
diskcopy / dupdisk (Scott Smith)
/dev/dsp and /dev/mixer (Sean Andersson)
Re: wvdial - modem not responding ... (Homer Jay)
can I print to a fax or pdf file with apsfilter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ##CHanged SCSI card Redhat will not boot (John Thompson)
can't boot 98 (Bob Bolin)
Re: diskcopy / dupdisk (Homer Jay)
Redhat cannot detect 40 Gig Hard disk ("Unmil P. Karadkar")
problem with GNU make on RH 6.1 ("Guowei (Daniel) Sun")
Re: Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT... ("Robert Banfill")
Re: /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer (Lew Pitcher)
Re: How Do I Install Star Office (Mart Rootamm)
Re: 3com 3c509b driver (John Doe)
Re: Lilo append param ("ne...")
Re: PROBLEM: KERNEL 2.2.14 (Thomas Adams)
Re: can't boot 98 (Perry Pip)
Re: IPOP3D setup problem (cabal2112)
ImageMagick, rpm and libttf.so.4 problem (David Punsalan)
Re: Somebody tell me how to stop the installer! (RH 6.2) (Chiefy)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: USB Zip setup in Linux
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:16:49 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:01:00 GMT, mnip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Am I to infer that ,with some degree of effort, there *is* a way to get USB
>zip drives working and mounted with linux already? Any word on the
>Castlewood Orb USB?
Perhaps. Those instructions merely reflect the quirks present
when running a SCSI Zip drive under Linux.
>
>I've been hoping USB removable drive makers (such as Castlewood's Orb, or
>the Kanguru drive casing) would clue in to the possibilities of the Linux
>kernel as a way to ship a bootable disk that can mount their product, with
>the purpose of restoring a Ghost or other large HD image directly from the
>boot-disk environment.
Actually, such devices should be fairly mundane in terms of USB.
>
>Is there a Ghost equivalent available on linux, that would be able to make a
>compressed image of a drive/partition for offline backup and restore?
Just use any standard file/partition copy tools. There are no
special purpose files that you have to work around in a Unix
system.
Something as simple as "cp -a <mystuff> /orb" could be sufficient.
>
>"peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> try /dev/sda4 if it's anything like the current production kernels...
>> mine does the same thing
>
>
--
The LGPL does infact tend to be used instead of the GPL in instances
where merely reusing a component, while not actually altering that
component, would be unecessarily burdensome to people seeking to build
their own works.
This dramatically alters the nature and usefulness of Free Software
in practice, contrary to the 'all viral all the time' fantasy the
anti-GPL cabal here would prefer one to believe.
|||
/ | \
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Subject: Re: web server: internal error
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:21:12 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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?.
This usually refers to a bug in the script which accesses the db.
Check the error log for the httpd. If it is apache, then check
/var/log/httpd/error_log. The path might be different. That file
will have the diagnostic messages which will help you resolve the bug.
Vilmos
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:25:50 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help!
albert wrote:
>
> 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
No need for this. LILO can be set to boot winders by default. Just add
default=DOS (or winders, or whatever) to lilo.conf. Change the /dev/hda*
values as needed for your situation.
===========/etc/lilo.conf============
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=winders
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=winders
table=/dev/hda
======================================
--
Chem-R-Us
PGP keyserver:
http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=Chem-R-Us
Search For: Chem-R-Us-RSA, Chem-R-Us-DSS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lilo append param
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:19:37 GMT
I'm trying to use append in my lilo.conf ie:
append="vga=791"
So I get a good text resolution, however this doesn't seem to work and I
have to type 'linux vga=791" at the lilo prompt every time I boot. Am I
missing something?
Richard Jones
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wvdial - modem not responding ...
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:30:44 -0500
Are you sure that you have the right port (/dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1,
etc....) specified in the your /etc/wvdial.conf file?
Using trial and error, I was able to get it to work on my 486dx 50mHz.
- David
UT Austin - Department of Chemical Engineering
Tel: (512) 471-4789 Fax: (413) 215-9854
Office: CPE 3.428
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:06:52 -0500
thierry baertschiger 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 !!!
The "X" switch tells tar to exclude files/directories listed in a
file (one entry per line). Eg: "tar cvfX tar_file.tar
~/exclude.file /home/myname" will exclude any files or
directories listed in ~/exclude.file.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: core problem
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:08:38 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i have one core icon in my desktop, i don't why it appear in here and
> which program can i see the content.
Core files are created when a program crashes. To see which
program caused the core dump, run "file core"
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: diskcopy / dupdisk
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:19:12 -0500
Is there a utility or a way to copy one linux disk to another? I want to copy my boot
disk in case it fails. I know how to create the bootdisk using some of the utilities,
but I was wondering if there was a utility like this...Windows has diskcopy and
dupdisk (Nortons Utils)...so does Linux?
--
Scott Smith
Network Engineering Services
Southern Illinois University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Sean Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:43:42 -0400
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
As I understand it these devices are
allocated to the first user to log
in to the machine. Is there a way
to change this? We have users that
need to log in remotely and access
the sound devices but they are
unable if someone has logged in
locally or previously. At the
moment I just log in when they ask
me to fix this and set the
permissions.
--
Sean Andersson
Graduate Research Assistant
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
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<html>
As I understand it these devices are allocated to the first user to log
in to the machine. Is there a way to change this? We have users
that need to log in remotely and access the sound devices but they are
unable if someone has logged in locally or previously. At the moment
I just log in when they ask me to fix this and set the permissions.
<pre>--
Sean Andersson
Graduate Research Assistant
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland</pre>
</html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: wvdial - modem not responding ...
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:48:52 -0600
On 17 Jul 2000 15:58, Krishnan Sridhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
Did you use the ATZ init string or something else?
>works fine. Also, I have used this modem before with
>Redhat 5.0 and had no problem getting ppp to work.
Perhaps your chat script is faulty, in other words it's sending the init
string improperly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can I print to a fax or pdf file with apsfilter
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:35:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible to make a filter for apsfilter
which enables me to print directly to a fax a .pdf or a .ps file. I have
Suse 6.2, efax and psutils installed.
Thanks
Mike Bosschaert
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: ##CHanged SCSI card Redhat will not boot
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:17:53 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:21:04 GMT, PC Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have switched my SCSI controller from a Buslogic 454S to an Asus
> >SC875 controller. When I tried to boot Redhat 6.2 it tried to load the
> >Buslogic controller. It received a
> >
> >Kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modrprobe -s -k block-major-8, errono=2
> >VSF: cannot open root device
> >Kernel Panic unable to mount root fs
> >
> >What is the best way to reconfigure Redhat to use the new controller?
> Make sure you have the same LBA setting as before.
SCSI doesn't use LBA.
It appears that he needs to build the proper module for the new
card. Compile the proper module and install it and it should
work.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Bob Bolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't boot 98
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:59:03 -0400
Okay, this is probably a common issue that someone can answer right
away, but I hope you will bear with me. I will run down the whole set
up
procedure to see if it will shed any additional light.
Clean install of Win 98 (first edition + service pack 1) on a freshly
FDISked
and Formatted IBM Deskstar 20 gig. I set up the primary DOS partition
as a
6 gig and left the rest of the space unpartitioned. Set up the my
hardware
and last few Winblows programs I use, booted into safe mode to defrag,
rebooted and ran a custom install of Red Hat 6.2 from factory CD. All
went
very smoothly, and after a little messing around with my sound card
and
modem I have everything working under Linux (won't be long before I
can
kiss 98 goodbye). After getting everything set I decided to boot into
Windows to make sure it was still in good shape, and am leaving my
email
on 98 for the time being (shared account with my wife, going to ease
her
into Linux). The problem is, when lilo comes up and I type win98 it
just
hangs for an indefinite period. I then ctrl-alt-del to reboot and get
back into
LILO and Linux. I know I have read about this issue before, but I
can't recall
the fix. My system specs are below, although I am sure it is not a
hardware
issue, and I included the output from running
fdisk /dev/hda -l > /tmp/hdaconfig.txt.....
AMD K6-2/500
192 MB PC 100 RAM
DFI K6BV3+2/66 mobo
ATI XPert@Play 98 PCI
SoundBlaster 16 PNP/ISA
3COM 2977 PCI Hardware Modem
20.5 GIG IBM Deskstar
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2495 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 765 6144831 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 766 768 24097+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 769 2495 13872127+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 769 1023 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1024 1151 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1152 1168 136521 82 Linux swap
Any help is more than appreciated and will be reciprocated in time=)
To error is human, to blue screen is M$.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: diskcopy / dupdisk
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:59:32 -0600
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:19:12 -0500, Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a utility or a way to copy one linux disk to another? I want to copy my
>boot disk in case it fails. I know how to create the bootdisk using some of the
>utilities, but I was wondering if there was a utility like this...Windows has
>diskcopy and dupdisk (Nortons Utils)...so does Linux?
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you mean a _floppy_ boot disk? Try dd to copy it to your hard disk:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/username/bootdisk.img bs=1440
..and back to a floppy:
dd if=/home/username/bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0
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From: "Unmil P. Karadkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Redhat cannot detect 40 Gig Hard disk
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:56:43 -0500
Hi,
I'm trying to install Redhat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.14) on a Dell Dimension
with a 40 Gig IDE Hard disk. The installation cannot proceed beyond the
partition drives stage, as Redhat simply does not detect the hard disk
Does anyone know how to overcome this problem? I did see a note on the
Redhat site that I should get kernel 2.3.21 and install it, though i
don't know exactly how i could do it, unless i already had installed
Linux on the system
thanks,
-unmil.
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From: "Guowei (Daniel) Sun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: problem with GNU make on RH 6.1
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:02:23 -0500
Hi, there,
I have Redhat 6.1 with developement packages like, GNU c/c++ compiler,
make, etc. intalled. When I use make to compile. I got following error
message:
', needed by 'default'. Stop.et `all
Definetely, it is not the problem of Makefile, because it can be used to
make the same program(s) on another Linux box.
Anybody knows why and how I fix it.
Please email your response to me. Thank you very much!
--
Daniel
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From: "Robert Banfill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT...
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:13:06 -0600
Take a look at RedHat bug # 10418. I've downloaded the latest aic7xxx
driver (5.1.31) from Doug Ledfords web page
(http://people.redhat.com/dledford/aic7xxx.html). This did not change
anything for me, I still get exactly the same behavior, but it might help
you.
Regards,
Robert Banfill
MURVAI Buzogany Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8kpeod$jch$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi!
>
> Robert Banfill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I'm trying to install RedHat 6.1 on my Dell XPS-T450 computer. This
machine
> > has an older Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI host adapter in it. Everything
works
> > fine until the aic7xxx module loads. At that point, the following
messages
> > are displayed and the system hangs. Been through all of the various
setting
> > in the CMOS and so forth but I don't see any problems. Here are the
> > details:
>
> > SCSI adapter BIOS version message at boot time:
> > Adaptec AHA-2940 BIOS v1.11S
> > Boot messages:
> > Everything looks normal up to here...
> > Loading aic7xxx module
> > (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 15/0
> > (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
> > scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI)
5.1.20/3.2.4
> > <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter>
> > scsi : 1 host.
> > (scsi0) BRKADRINT error(0x48)
> > Sequencer Ram Parity Error
> > PCI Error detected
> > (scsi0) SEQADDR=0x17
> > Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT.
>
> > In interrupt handler - not syncing
>
> I can't say why this happened ... I have a similar problem, but while
trying
> install Debian. The machine is a Dual-PIII PC, with a working RH 6.1 on
it.
> The SCSI card is an Adaptec 7895 which was flawless installed under RH
(the
> man who installed the system said that no problem occured while installing
it.)
>
> The Debian Rescue+Root disc scans the first channel, then the second one,
and
> while scanning the second one, it hangs without saying anything.
>
> > Robert Banfill ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> So, if anyone can help us in any way whith the problems, we'd surely be
thankful.
>
> Bye,
> --scissors--
>
> --
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:19:54 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:43:42 -0400, Sean Andersson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
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>
>As I understand it these devices are
>allocated to the first user to log
>in to the machine. Is there a way
>to change this? We have users that
>need to log in remotely and access
>the sound devices but they are
>unable if someone has logged in
>locally or previously. At the
>moment I just log in when they ask
>me to fix this and set the
>permissions.
Realize that when you permit other users (local or remote) access to
these devices (specifically /dev/dsp), you are introducing a non-file
security risk. Imagine a remote user that starts a process to read
from /dev/dsp (and switch /dev/mixer to "microphone input, max gain"),
and transmit the raw data to another system where the audio is then
reconstructed on the remote system and output to it's speakers.
This would effectively permit that remote user to eavesdrop on the
microphone's location. If the intercepted sound is of a sensitive
nature (a confidential conversation, for instance), whatever privacy
and/or security was assumed to be in place has now been breached.
>--
>Sean Andersson
>Graduate Research Assistant
>Institute for Systems Research
>University of Maryland
>
>
>
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>
><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
><html>
>As I understand it these devices are allocated to the first user to log
>in to the machine. Is there a way to change this? We have users
>that need to log in remotely and access the sound devices but they are
>unable if someone has logged in locally or previously. At the moment
>I just log in when they ask me to fix this and set the permissions.
><pre>--
>Sean Andersson
>Graduate Research Assistant
>Institute for Systems Research
>University of Maryland</pre>
> </html>
>
>--------------86E5F96DBB9F95BA7EDA729D--
>
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Mart Rootamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Do I Install Star Office
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:25:21 +0300
> I recently downloaded StarOffice, and burned it to a CD. The file has a .bin
> extension. Being a newbie to Linux I am not quite sure on how to proceed in
> installing this application.
>
> I am use to installing .rpm files, but have not installed a file w/a .bin
> extension. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Although I am a newbie to Linux, too, I learned that Unix/Linux files are
differently attributed than those of DOS. The mark that it is executable, is set
in the file attributes and not in an extension. A separate per-user attribute is
also attached.
I am trying here to make a working example:
in the Linux prompt, called bash (Bourne Again SHell), type something like ls
-la (this shows a list of files in the current directory). The first letter in a
row of listed files shows the file type. Check from the Linux How-To
documentation ( http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO ) for the full list of file types
and their respective meanings (needs some searching around). The
HowTo-documentation also includes other most useful information.
-Mart.
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From: John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com 3c509b driver
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:29:24 GMT
"Hector Mendoza Jr." wrote:
>
> Does linux support this network card? I installed Mandrake 7.0
> distribution, and my eth0 interface doesn't come up.
What are you attaching it to, DHCP or a static address? If you are using
DHCP and it doesn't find a nameserver it will not show up. I have used
Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 on my 3c509b without any problem, on Slackware it
won't load without the DHCP working.
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo append param
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:34:08 GMT
On Jul 17, 2000 at 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] eloquently wrote:
>I'm trying to use append in my lilo.conf ie:
>
>append="vga=791"
>
>So I get a good text resolution, however this doesn't seem to work and I
>have to type 'linux vga=791" at the lilo prompt every time I boot. Am I
>missing something?
No need for the append in lilo.conf. See my lilo.conf
below:
boot=/dev/fd0
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
vga=792 <<=====
timeout=30
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16
label=linux
append="video=matrox:vesa:402"
read-only
root=/dev/hdb7
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=olde
append="video=matrox:vesa:402"
read-only
root=/dev/hdb7
--
Registered Linux User # 125653
Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
1:30pm up 7 days, 16:42, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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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 13:41:02 -0400
"ne..." wrote:
> 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
I appreciate your cookbook instructions. I am going to
unpack my tar file again and see what I get.
Your 'tar' command has fewer tags than that in the
kernel HOWTO, namely:
`tar zxpvf linux-x.y.z.tar.gz'
I probably used this HOWTO form (going from memory though).
Maybe the 'p' and 'f' tags limit what gets unpacked.
The manual pages mention -p and -f, but this may not be the
same as plain 'f' and 'p'. Also, -p and -f would not seem to limit
what gets unpacked.
On the other hand, you may be telling me to download 'rpm'
files. I just looked briefly today for such files at the kernel ftp
site without success. I'll look harder later.
I am left wondering though, why kernel version 2.2.16 had what I
needed ('rpm' files? .. net/Config.in), but version 2.2.14 did not.
That's why I suspect I unpacked wrong.
Thanks
Tom Adams
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Pip)
Subject: Re: can't boot 98
Date: 17 Jul 2000 17:37:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about posting a copy of your lilo.conf?
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:59:03 -0400,
Bob Bolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Okay, this is probably a common issue that someone can answer right
> away, but I hope you will bear with me. I will run down the whole set
>up
> procedure to see if it will shed any additional light.
>
> Clean install of Win 98 (first edition + service pack 1) on a freshly
>FDISked
> and Formatted IBM Deskstar 20 gig. I set up the primary DOS partition
>as a
> 6 gig and left the rest of the space unpartitioned. Set up the my
>hardware
> and last few Winblows programs I use, booted into safe mode to defrag,
>
> rebooted and ran a custom install of Red Hat 6.2 from factory CD. All
>went
> very smoothly, and after a little messing around with my sound card
>and
> modem I have everything working under Linux (won't be long before I
>can
> kiss 98 goodbye). After getting everything set I decided to boot into
> Windows to make sure it was still in good shape, and am leaving my
>email
> on 98 for the time being (shared account with my wife, going to ease
>her
> into Linux). The problem is, when lilo comes up and I type win98 it
>just
> hangs for an indefinite period. I then ctrl-alt-del to reboot and get
>back into
> LILO and Linux. I know I have read about this issue before, but I
>can't recall
> the fix. My system specs are below, although I am sure it is not a
>hardware
> issue, and I included the output from running
> fdisk /dev/hda -l > /tmp/hdaconfig.txt.....
>
> AMD K6-2/500
> 192 MB PC 100 RAM
> DFI K6BV3+2/66 mobo
> ATI XPert@Play 98 PCI
> SoundBlaster 16 PNP/ISA
> 3COM 2977 PCI Hardware Modem
> 20.5 GIG IBM Deskstar
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2495 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 765 6144831 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 766 768 24097+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 769 2495 13872127+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 769 1023 2048256 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 1024 1151 1028128+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 1152 1168 136521 82 Linux swap
>
> Any help is more than appreciated and will be reciprocated in time=)
>
> To error is human, to blue screen is M$.
>
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From: cabal2112 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IPOP3D setup problem
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:31:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincenzo Ciminelli) wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed the RedHat 6.2 distribution of Linux for an e-mail
> server (Sendmail 8.10.2).
> When an user log in for downloading his e-mail with the pop3 protocol,
> I see in the file /var/log/maillog this message:
> ipop3d[6128]: Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have
> 1777 protection.
>
> What means this, and what can I do to solve the problem.
> Thank You in advance.
>
hey,
for security purposes, your mailbox needs the sticky bit set (the '1' in
'1777'). this means that only the file owner or the su can write to the
file.
type in 'chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail' (no quotes ofcourse) as su or sudo
or in root. to make sure files are ONLY read and writeable by their
owners do 'chmod 600 /var/spool/mail/*'
hope this helps,
cabal(excuse my windoze..im at work)
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: ImageMagick, rpm and libttf.so.4 problem
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:38:30 -0500
Hi,
I need libtff.so.4 to install ImageMagick, but I can't find where to get
it.
I am running RH6.1 on 486dx 50mHz pc.
Since my resources are severly limited - I installed a very small set of
applications and libraries on this computer.
Now I want to add ImageMagick. So I login as root, goto the RPMS directory
on my RH6.1 cdrom and do this:
> rpm -i ImageMagick-4.0-4-i386.rpm
error on install:
libttf.so.4 is needed by ImageMagick-4.0-4-i386.rpm
But where can I find this *.so file? I've tried the -f and -whatprovides
(sp?) query options and it tells me that it can't find it.
Can anyone tell where I can get this libttf.so.4 file? or any other useful
information?
Thanks,
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: Somebody tell me how to stop the installer! (RH 6.2)
Date: 17 Jul 2000 17:46:27 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:33:49 +0300, Antti Koskip�� did write:
[snip]
>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:
Hello Antti
I haven't logged a lot of RedHat time, but I do use LoadLin.
On my DOS partition I have a copy of loadlin.exe and a copy of the
kernel, vmlinuz.
The only other thing required to boot into Linux is a small .bat file.
Mine goes something like this; "c:\linux.bat"
smartdrive /C
loadlin.exe c:\vmlinuz compact vga=4 root=/dev/hda5 ro
That's it, hda5 is my Linux partition, replace it with yours.
Execute the batch file and away you go :-)
LGB.
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ran into the woods and chucked all the wood before the woodchuck could?
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