Linux-Setup Digest #197, Volume #19 Wed, 19 Jul 00 08:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory (kernel compile error) (Rasputin)
Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ??? ("Judy Ming")
Re: system =?iso-8859-1?Q?h=E4ngt?= sich beim booten auf ("michael.fengler")
PLEASE HELP !!!! ("Bluefoot")
Re: New User: INSTAL ON WIN98 (FAT32) partition (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Redhat 6.2/ATI Rage 128 Pro (Ron Le Blanc)
Re: How to change runlevel at boot time ? (Sid Thomas)
Linux, here i come - but one BIG problem stopping me (Peter Lairo)
sql UPDATE Problem (michael)
Re: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory (kernel compile error) (Villy Kruse)
Re: buying computer with linux preinstalled (Wolf =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6per?=)
Re: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory (kernel compile error) (Rasputin)
Re: PPP and eth0 ("Ben Brown")
Re: PLEASE HELP !!!! ("Ben Brown")
Re: Printing from RH62 to NT printer (Wolf =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6per?=)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory (kernel compile error)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:10:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Clyde Spencer> wrote:
> I ran 'make mrproper' and started over completely, including re-running
>'make menuconfig.' Everything compiled and I was finally able to boot off
>the floppy image. However, during the booting process, there was a long
>list of errors reported by 'depmod' each line said "unrecognized symbol."
>It seems that many of them were related to things that I marked "no" when
>running 'menuconfig.' Any thoughts on what is causing this and how to fix
>it?
Copy /usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot/System.map.2.2.16
(or whatever the version number is)
and make a symlink to it called /boot/System.map
If that doesn't work, go into /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig and disable
"Check version information on all symbols"
and rebuild.
>Clyde
>
>Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Clyde Spencer wrote:
><snip>
>>Did you make clean or make mrproper before recompiling? If you nave
>>a .config mv it to ../ before doing that.
>>--
>>Rinaldi]$
>>http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates9.html
>
>
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: "Judy Ming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ???
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:42:03 -0400
I installed debian 2.1 base from FAT32 partition.
So I got 60 meg root, 500 meg /usr, 170 meg /var. Is this a ok setup? if I
got another disk, I can link it to get a bigger /var, right?
The problem is, the first component that I want to add is X. Then I can do
the rest piece by piece. (I did not use profile or task.) I'm downloading
piece by piece, and only the ones I needed.
So I dselected some essential X packages, like xserver, font, xterm, twm,
xfree86setup.... But I can only unpack them, not install. It appears to me
that some other packages outside X11 section is needed, (by ctrl-Q the
script). Like lib2c,....
So can I do '# dselect | tee dselect.log' to see what is missing? Is there
a good way out of this?
Thanks.
/ming
"C Sanjayan Rosenmund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Steve Martin wrote:
> >
> me. On that small system, I would use Debian. Install just the base
> package and add only the applications you *actually* use. . . ends up
> with a VERY small install footprint, which gives you more room for
> data.
>
> --
> Sanjay
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Windows has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer.
> Press any key to reboot.
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From: "michael.fengler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
maus.computer.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,fido.linux-ger,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: system =?iso-8859-1?Q?h=E4ngt?= sich beim booten auf
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:09:58 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Markus Weinkauf wrote:
>mein system (suse 6.4. auf einem fujitsu liteline notebook) h=E4ngt sich
>immer bei SETTING UP the CMOS clock .... auf. Es kommt nicht zum DONE ;(
>
>Ich hoffe ein "EXperte" erbarmt sich und hilft mir, denn es geht mir
>echt auf die nerven.
Trsl: his box does not boot past "Setting up the CMOS clock"
I don't claim to be an expert but you might give this a go:
First of all, disable the routine in /sbin/init.d/boot
(line 315 ff in my Suse-6.3 version). If the next boot goes well,
try to enter the commands as root (you can look up the variables
like "GMT" in /etc/rc.config). Maybe that way you can see,=20
where exactly setting up the clock fails.
HTH - mike
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From: "Bluefoot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.linux
Subject: PLEASE HELP !!!!
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:08:52 +0100
This is starting to get frustrating, and I'm starting to think that nobody
is going to be able to answer my question at all - I have trawled through
various help documents and F.A.Q.s online to no avail :-
Okay - I've got Apache 1.0.0 running on my Slackware 96 Linux system - bit
of an odd one this - I run httpd -f [configpath] and httpd gets up and
running - I've told it (in srm.conf) that the document root is
/www/vhtdocs - this directory has a completely blank document in it called
index.html.
Then I go into X and launch arena web browser and point it at
http://ns.equaliser.net (me) and it serves up the following page:-
This is /usr/libs/httpd/htdocs/index.html - - a sample HTML page. You'll
probably want to replace this with the starting page for your web server.
Problem [1] this is not where I told Apache to look
Problem [2] beyond /usr/lib/, the rest of the directory path above doesn't
even exist on my machine.
To further expand - I've had to set up my machines I.P. as 127.0.0.1 as
localhost because I do not have a network interface, and I can't seem to get
the dummy interface that somebody told me to use to work at all.
Httpd answers my telnets to port 80 just fine - so I assume it is listening
okay. I have now tried moving my html document root to the document root
that Apache claims to be serving up, and it hasn't made a blind bit of
difference. I have now been through so many attempts to get this working
that I am considering giving up on Linux altogether.
I can't get DNS to work properly, but I can worry about that later - for now
I would like to know why Apache is telling me lies. If nobody can answer my
query this time, then I will have to assume that nobody knows what is wrong
and consider dumping the whole project.
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New User: INSTAL ON WIN98 (FAT32) partition
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:17:45 +0000
Peter Lairo wrote:
> Hi,
Welcome to Linux-land!
> i want to move from M$ to Corel Linux (but also KEEP Win98 for now) and
> have a few questions:
Is Corel distribution a MUST? If you want to keep your FAT partitions
untouched for the time then Slackware has whole working distributions
ZipSlak and BigSlak which are in zip format to be unzipped under DOS (or
windows) on FAT file system. They include UMSDOS translator and of course
are much slower than when runing on the native file system.
Recommended for getting the taste of this OS.
> 1. i want to install paralell onto a win98 drive (C:\windows\ +
> C:\Linux\ - all Fat32). will this ruin my win98 installation?
>
> 2. if i decide to later install Linux onto its own partition with its
> own file system, how do i delete linux from my fat32 C: drive without
> disturbing my win98 installation?
See above. Simple delete.
> 3. are there any benefits to the linux file system?
For Linux YES.
> 4. could you give me some examples of these benefits?
After changing from UMSDOS to ext2 see for youself.
Main one is security which for multiuser system is primary consideration.
On single user box not so important except it may keep you from mischief.
> 5. if linux is on my C: drive (fat32) with windows, can linux
> wordperfect red my win wordperfect documents, and vica-versa?
Yes. But why use the same application under two OS's.
> 6. if linux is on its own partition with its own file system, can linux
> WP then still read my win WP documents on my C: drive (fat32)?
Yes.
> 7. any suggestions on how to best share files between the two system
> during my (long) transition period between linux and windows 98?
Once in Linux the period will be short.
> Regards,
>
> Peter Lairo
Quoting SuSE "Have a lot of fun..."
Stanislaw.
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From: Ron Le Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2/ATI Rage 128 Pro
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:22:58 -0400
asage wrote:
>
> Ron Le Blanc wrote:
>
> > New computer, a Dell 4100 with an ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP video card w/8MB
> > of memory. Dead to linux.
> >
> > Cannot get the ATI video card to run under X. Has anyone been able to
> > get this card configured and running under Redhat 6.2???
>
> The following is a very good site for help with getting that video card
> operational in Linux:
>
> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/rage128-howto.html
Update!
The Mandrake 7.1 distribution sets up the Dell Dimension 4100 just fine.
Redhat is still a problem, it does not "see" the correct ATI Rage 128
Pro card, and it screws up the sound. The Dell Dimension 4100 uses the
new Intel Coppermine series of CPUs. These are in the 370 socket
package. Linux now zipping along at 733 MHZ with 32-bit pixels at
1024x678. Great stuff.
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:16:58 -0400
From: Sid Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: How to change runlevel at boot time ?
Perry Pip wrote:
> See /etc/inittab
> and `man inittab`
>
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:00:29 GMT,
> mikey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I would like to change run level at boot time. Normally it defaults to 5. But
> >sometimes I don't want xdm. (say there is a prob with my xconfig etc.) I read
> >all relevant HOWTOS, and found nothing. I thought I should be able to pass it
> >to the kernel from lilo ?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Mike
> >
> >
> >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> >Before you buy.
If you want to boot to the command line one time only then.... at the Lilo
prompt, type 'linux 3'. This will not change your defaults.
Sid Thomas
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From: Peter Lairo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux, here i come - but one BIG problem stopping me
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:25:20 +0200
Hi,
i wanted to get ready to install Corel Linux last night and installed
partition magic to partition my hard drive (currently 2 win98 fat32
partitions).
when i ran partition magic, it gave the following error:
Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
Any ideas on how i can fix this mess so i can create some partitions for
linux???
==========================================================
Here is what i got after running "partinfo.exe":
==========================================================
Partition Information Program
May 12 1997 - DOS Version
Copyright (c) 1994-1997, PowerQuest Corporation
Permission is granted for this utility to be freely copied so long
as it is not modified in any way. All other rights are reserved.
PowerQuest, makers of PartitionMagic, can be reached at
Voice: 801-437-8900 Web site: http://www.powerquest.com
Fax: 801-226-8941 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
==============================================================
Disk 0: 32760 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track.
The BIOS supports INT 13h extensions for this drive.
====================== Partition Tables ======================
Partition ----Begin---- ------End----- Start Num
Sector # Boot Cyl Head Sect FS Cyl Head Sect Sect Sects
======= = ==== === ==== ==== == ==== ==== ==== ======= =======
0 0 80 0 1 1 0C 1023 254 63 6324579387
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 0 80 0 1 1 0C24384 5 63 6324579387
Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndHead expected to be 15, not 5.
0 1 00 1023 0 1 0F 1023 254 6324579450 8434125
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 1 00 24384 6 1 0F32751 8 6324579450 8434125
Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 6.
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndHead expected to be 15, not 8.
Warning: Logical drive chain points to sector without partition table.
========================================================================
Disk 0: 16124.1 Megabytes
========================= Partition Information ========================
Volume Partition Partition Start Total
Letter:Label Type Status Size MB Sector # Sector Sectors
============= =============== ======== ======= ======= = ======= =======
FAT32X Pri,Boot 12001.7 0 0 6324579387
ExtendedX Pri 4118.2 0 124579450 8434125
EPBR Log 0.0 None -24579450 63
Free Space Log 4117.6 None -24580080 8432928
Free Space Pri 3.9 None -33014016 8064
--
Regards,
Peter Lairo
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From: michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sql UPDATE Problem
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:29:35 +0200
Hi
I have to UPDATE an sql-table with a field name "value". Now I'm always
getting a syntax error, because "value" is a reserved word. I don't know
how they managed to build a table with this field-name without getting
the same error... is there a possibility to do so, or to do an UPDATE
query?
thx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory (kernel compile error)
Date: 19 Jul 2000 11:39:16 GMT
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:10:02 GMT,
Rasputin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Clyde Spencer> wrote:
>> I ran 'make mrproper' and started over completely, including re-running
>>'make menuconfig.' Everything compiled and I was finally able to boot off
>>the floppy image. However, during the booting process, there was a long
>>list of errors reported by 'depmod' each line said "unrecognized symbol."
>>It seems that many of them were related to things that I marked "no" when
>>running 'menuconfig.' Any thoughts on what is causing this and how to fix
>>it?
>
>Copy /usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot/System.map.2.2.16
>
Oh dear, Oh dear.
System.map definetely has nothing to do with it. The unresolved symbols
comes from modules left in /lib/modules and which has been selected out.
These modules ought to be removed. These modules will always give
unresolved symbols when running depmod at boot time.
Villy
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:47:30 +0200
From: Wolf =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6per?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: buying computer with linux preinstalled
I have recently seen a DELL flyer which says their systems
are Red Hat tested.
Another retailer for Linux tested systems is:
www.transtec.de
"Marcos H. Woehrmann" schrieb:
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations as to good vendor of a
> Pentium based system with Linux pre-installed? I've installed
> various versions of RedHat on a bunch of machines and have
> grown tired of trying to buy hardware that was old enough to be
> supported by Linux.
>
> marcos
> --
> Marcos H. Woehrmann | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.zipper.com/
>
> "On Mallrats, perhaps indicating that DVD has already become
> too postmodern for its own good, there's a hidden clip of the
> director telling you to stop looking for Easter Eggs and do
> something useful." - dvdfaq.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory (kernel compile error)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:51:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Villy Kruse> wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:10:02 GMT,
> Rasputin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Clyde Spencer> wrote:
>>> I ran 'make mrproper' and started over completely, including re-running
>>>'make menuconfig.' Everything compiled and I was finally able to boot off
>>>the floppy image. However, during the booting process, there was a long
>>>list of errors reported by 'depmod' each line said "unrecognized symbol."
>>>It seems that many of them were related to things that I marked "no" when
>>>running 'menuconfig.' Any thoughts on what is causing this and how to fix
>>>it?
>>
>>Copy /usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot/System.map.2.2.16
>>
>
>
>
>Oh dear, Oh dear.
>
>
>System.map definetely has nothing to do with it. The unresolved symbols
>comes from modules left in /lib/modules and which has been selected out.
>These modules ought to be removed. These modules will always give
>unresolved symbols when running depmod at boot time.
>
I stand corrected; missed the original thread, I take it this is a
recompile of an existing kernel version,then? fair enough.
But I know you *do* get wierd ass errors if you don't copy System.map,
and someone (was it you?) had already mentioned the whole
rm -r /lib/modules/<version> thing...
[I actually wrote that, then thought 'no, that's been said']
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: "Ben Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP and eth0
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:31:05 +0100
ensure the defaultroute option is in /usr/sbin/ppp-on or /etc/ppp/options.
Ben Brown
Alan Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> If I have the eth0 network card enabled I find that my internet
connection,
> both UKLINUX and Demon connections report within Netscape that there is no
> route to host!
>
> If I disable eth0 the internet connection will work ok!
>
> I have RedHat 6.0 using the default kernel.
> It is a dual boot system with Win98SE on a pentium II 350 using an
Motorola
> Voice SUFR modem on Com1.
>
> Any help is much appreciated
>
> TIA
>
> Alan
>
> replies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "Ben Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.linux
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP !!!!
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:29:25 +0100
Are you sure Arena isn't caching the page? telnet to port 80 and type GET
http://ns.equaliser.net/ and nit enter. Does this serve the correct page?
Also check out the /var/log/httpd/ directory and the files contained there,
ie access_log and error_log - this may give some clue as to what is wrong.
Ben Brown
Bluefoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8l42cl$jbb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This is starting to get frustrating, and I'm starting to think that nobody
> is going to be able to answer my question at all - I have trawled through
> various help documents and F.A.Q.s online to no avail :-
>
> Okay - I've got Apache 1.0.0 running on my Slackware 96 Linux system - bit
> of an odd one this - I run httpd -f [configpath] and httpd gets up and
> running - I've told it (in srm.conf) that the document root is
> /www/vhtdocs - this directory has a completely blank document in it called
> index.html.
>
> Then I go into X and launch arena web browser and point it at
> http://ns.equaliser.net (me) and it serves up the following page:-
>
> This is /usr/libs/httpd/htdocs/index.html - - a sample HTML page. You'll
> probably want to replace this with the starting page for your web server.
>
> Problem [1] this is not where I told Apache to look
>
> Problem [2] beyond /usr/lib/, the rest of the directory path above doesn't
> even exist on my machine.
>
> To further expand - I've had to set up my machines I.P. as 127.0.0.1 as
> localhost because I do not have a network interface, and I can't seem to
get
> the dummy interface that somebody told me to use to work at all.
>
> Httpd answers my telnets to port 80 just fine - so I assume it is
listening
> okay. I have now tried moving my html document root to the document root
> that Apache claims to be serving up, and it hasn't made a blind bit of
> difference. I have now been through so many attempts to get this working
> that I am considering giving up on Linux altogether.
>
> I can't get DNS to work properly, but I can worry about that later - for
now
> I would like to know why Apache is telling me lies. If nobody can answer
my
> query this time, then I will have to assume that nobody knows what is
wrong
> and consider dumping the whole project.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:57:31 +0200
From: Wolf =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6per?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing from RH62 to NT printer
And now: the same for SuSE Linux, please!
> > frankr wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all...has anyone managed to get rh62 to print to an nt 4 server
> > > print queue? If so, how was the feat accomplished?
> > >
> >
> > Yes. The easiest way is to
> >
> > 1) run printtool on RH6.2
> > 2) Select SMB/Windows 95/... printer
> > 3) Tell it the Hostname of the Server (Name as it would appear in a
> > network neighborhood)
> > 3a) You don't need IP number
> > 4) Tell it the Printer Name (as it would appear if you opened the
> server
> > in a network neighborhood)
> > 5) Tell it the Workgroup
> > 6) Select the appropriate filter
> >
> > That should do it. If the printer on the server is set up to be
> > accessible by Everyone, then you don't need to provide User or
> Password.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Bratcher
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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