Linux-Setup Digest #202, Volume #19 Wed, 19 Jul 00 21:13:14 EDT
Contents:
LINUX BOOT PROBLEMS/INSTALL
NFS configuration in rc.d changed for Redhat 6.2? (Ethan Brown)
Exporting file systems using NFS (Patrick Babb)
smc-ultra ethernet card (manhattanian)
Re: Installing .bin files [StarOffice] -warning (Chem-R-Us)
Re: Linux & c++ ("dale hites")
Re: No Sounds - SBLive! - Need Forced Settings (Chris Barone)
Dual Boot With Windows98 and Linux (Phil)
Re: RPM query problem ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: Dual Boot With Windows98 and Linux ("Robp2001")
lilo + serial console ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: suse manual (James Alan Brown)
@Home Cable Modem Setup Problems ("Dj")
FREE Thru 7/21 - Huge LINUXWORLD EXPO Aug. 14-17 In San Jose, Calif. (Mark S. Bilk)
Re: Dual Boot With Windows98 and Linux ("Dj")
Re: Can't get modem detected ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
microsoft - ("Robp2001")
Re: Linux networking Tools (Guy Fraser)
Re: microsoft - ("Robp2001")
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LINUX BOOT PROBLEMS/INSTALL
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:30:05 GMT
I have never used linux before. Im awesome at dos windows and mac and
wanted to try it out so i partitioned my hardisk made a swap and an ext2
with partition magic i also installed boot magic for windows. Well then i
went and installed linux. I want to use a version that supports RPM's so I
had redhat 5.2, Mandrake; 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0 so I figured i would use the
newest version of mandrake 7 well I installed it and then i went to set up
lilo no matter what i did where i installled it it would not go so i
figured i could boot off the cd no problem the command was "linux
root=/dev/hda5 noinitrd" so then it wanted my graphics card i have a 3dfx
vodoo 3 3500 tv agp. Wasn't supported so i picked standard vga. I got the
servertype set up I saw the desktop then it wanted me to make a bootdisk.
That kept failing so i gave up on it i had one from linux 6 and i have the
cd's. Well then I went to boot and it loaded up but about half way through
loading it stopped and said kernal panic couldn't mount VFS (filesystem i
believe, not sure just seems logical virtual file system?) thats where im
stuck! I installed the other versions of linux that i have them and they
wouldn't boot or my graphics card didn't work at all so i came back 2 7.0
and thats where i am i tried reinstalling same thing. If someone could
help me i would really appreciate it! Thanx in advance~Tyler
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Subject: NFS configuration in rc.d changed for Redhat 6.2?
From: Ethan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Jul 2000 15:27:39 -0700
Dear fellow Linux users--
I recently upgraded from Redhat 6.0 to Redhat 6.2 and noticed that my
NFS stopped working from boot. It would work, however, when i ran
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start.
I compared the old configuration and found that in rc3.d (my bootup
runlevel) the link name was something like S60nfs (link to
../init.d/nfs), but in the 6.2 configuration it was something like K25nfs.
Looking in /etc/rc.d/rc I saw that the "K" scripts get run before the
"S" scripts--the "K" scripts are also referred to as "Kill
scripts"--so my feeling is that the init.d/nfs script commands like
rpc.portmap, rpc.mountd, etc. are being run before some other key
services necessary for NFS are available. Experimenting and replacing
the link K25nfs with S60nfs seems to make NFS work fine after boot.
My questions are: (1) has anyone else run into this? (2) Does your 6.2
configuration look like mine? and (3) can you see any downside to my
fix of just renaming the link to S60nfs in the rc.d/rcN.d directories?
Thank you very much for your opinions and advice.
--
--Ethan Brown
--Science Applications International Corp.
--Monitoring Systems Operation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--10260 Campus Point Drive, M/S X-2
--San Diego, CA 92121
--(858) 826-2676
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Subject: Exporting file systems using NFS
From: Patrick Babb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:46:35 -0500
I've got a friend who's got a question about SW 2.0.13. He's trying to
export a fs via nfs, and get it to survive reboot. Any help would be
appreciated.
Patrick
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From: manhattanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: smc-ultra ethernet card
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:57:59 -0400
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Hi,
I have an old smc-ultra network card installed on Packard Bell 8950
computer. The computer can detect its existence (using ifconfig, at
io=0x380 irq=10). I can also see it from conf.modules (alias eth0
smc-ultra). I also checked the host, ip address, rounter. Everything are
fine. However, when I tried ping, it does not work.
Actually, at one time (several month ago, it worked) It does not working
since last week I restall the RedHat 6.1. Anybody can remind me possible
solution.
Also, the options smc-ultr io=0x380 irq=10 does NOT work at all.
Thanks.
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David
Tel: 212-802-6276
Fax: 212-802-6253
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Hi,
<br>I have an old smc-ultra network card installed on Packard Bell 8950
computer. The computer can detect its existence (using ifconfig, at io=0x380
irq=10). I can also see it from conf.modules (alias eth0 smc-ultra). I
also checked the host, ip address, rounter. Everything are fine. However,
when I tried ping, it does not work.
<p>Actually, at one time (several month ago, it worked) It does not working
since last week I restall the RedHat 6.1. Anybody can remind me possible
solution.
<p>Also, the options smc-ultr io=0x380 irq=10 does NOT work at all.
<p>Thanks.
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_________________________
David
Tel: 212-802-6276
Fax: 212-802-6253</pre>
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:52:44 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Installing .bin files [StarOffice] -warning
Mike Douglas wrote:
>
> By the way, I want to warn you that you should be careful when you install
> StarOffice if you use KDE. The install wipes out all of your KDE settings and
> tells you that a new version of KDE has been installed. This wasn't a huge
> problem for me until I went to my KDE address book and found all of the entries
> wiped out. I was not pleased. Just a heads up.
So *that* is what nicked my address book a couple of months ago! I just
thought KDE arbitrarily barfed for reasons on it knew.
--
Chem-R-Us
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Reply-To: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux & c++
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:09:01 -0500
The lack of int associated with main is only a typo on my part. The segment
fault is caused by cout, not main.
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From: Chris Barone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Sounds - SBLive! - Need Forced Settings
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:26:15 GMT
If only it was that simple. I had techsupport from Creative try and figure this
out, to no avail. I would be happy with garbled sounds at this point!
Eventually, I'll find someone to help with forcing the settings. Since I can't
turn off the Pnp in my bios, like the tip you offered suggests, I have a
feeling that might be the cause, or at least adding to it. I will try and
re-load the drivers. They're instructions are a little generic for my level of
use. The very first step they want, will not execute. 'tar -xvfz' Since I am new
to Linux, this is a slow battle. Thanks for your time - Chris
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>You really should just get the latest sblive driver snapshot from the
>Creative site:
>
>http://opensource.creative.com
>
>I don't think you need to force settings; the driver is written by Creative
>for the sblive.
>
>It is very fast to install. Just follow their instructions.
>
>While you have the source and docs, you can probably answer your question
>about forcing settings (I don't have them right now, or I'd try to see
>myself)
>
>I had some problems with garbled sounds with the driver that shipped with
>RH6.2. Upgrading the driver fixed the problem. That's why I think this may
>be relevant for you too.
>
>hth
>Chris
>
>In linux.redhat.install Chris Barone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Yes, the card is a 'real' Sound Blaster product. Is there a reason
>: that no one has addressed my question? Can settings be forced?
>: Thanks for your time - Chris
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From: Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual Boot With Windows98 and Linux
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:30:11 GMT
I have a Corel version of Linux and want to install it on a Windows 98
machine. I have 2 drives available so can give one of them to Linux.
Will the Linux install take over the machine or should I install it in a
DOS/Windows partition?
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM query problem
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:53:20 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> when i type this command "rpm -qa", have received following error
> message:
>
> usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: error while loading Shared libraries: libbz2.so.0:
> cannot not open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> my RPM version is 4.0
A better question is what did you do? RPM doesn't get broken on its
own. Do you have bz2 installed?
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From: "Robp2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Boot With Windows98 and Linux
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:10:11 +0100
Linux needs its own partition, its not FAT32 like Win98's one, so you'll
have to re-partition it, ok?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: lilo + serial console
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:21:04 GMT
I've been trying to setup serial console on my server...got the kernel
compiled correctly, correct kernel append lines in lilo, got mgetty
running on the serial port so I can log in...the problem is that I can't
interact with lilo over the serial port. I can interact with everything
after that, but not lilo. I can talk to lilo with the keyboard and it
outputs correctly to the sreial port (so I know that at least the TX
serial is setup correctly). Here's my /etc/lilo.conf. Anybody have any
pointers or suggestions?
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=500
append="mem=512M"
serial=0,9600n8
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
read-only
append="console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux-old
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img
read-only
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From: James Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suse manual
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:30:08 GMT
H Briggs wrote:
>
> Hi, i recently tried to install suse linux 6 but encountered probs
> when trying to configure xfree and my vid card ( ati 3d rage pro agp
> x2) I downloaded and installed the xfree4 update but still didn't
> have any luck. before i try again i want to read the suse manual but
> its in a format iam unfamiliar with " suse_lxe.rpm" does anyone know
> what windows program will open this?
As your in the UK and running SuSE Linux first check out my web site:
http://www.jabcomp.force9.co.uk/
If your not to far away maybe phone me and I will be glad to provide you
with all the free help you need in setting up your system.
Regards,
James
JAB Computers Bristol UK
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From: "Dj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: @Home Cable Modem Setup Problems
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:32:36 GMT
Hi there:
Here's what I have: redhat 6.2 and 3COM 509(b) card. IP assigned by DHCP.
I followed the instructions (used netcfg) to configure eth0, hostnames, DNS,
etc.
After I run dhcpcd and ifconfig I can see eth0 interface with assigned IP
address. I can even see the number of RX/TX packets. I also can see traffic
going back/forth on gnome network manager.
The weird thing is that I cannot access anything outside -- I can't even
resolve the names.
The only thing I didn't do was to turn off PnP on my card, but eth0
interface is initiated OK, so that shouldn't be a problem, I think.
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much,
Dj
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark S. Bilk)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
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From: "Dj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Boot With Windows98 and Linux
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:38:59 GMT
read how-to to partition the second drive for Linux.
Dj
"Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Corel version of Linux and want to install it on a Windows 98
> machine. I have 2 drives available so can give one of them to Linux.
> Will the Linux install take over the machine or should I install it in a
> DOS/Windows partition?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't get modem detected
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:28:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It's not a major brand modem (Jaton, 56k) and it's in an ISA slot.
> Go to http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html to see if you have a
> winmodem.
It's most definitly NOT a WinModem. Take it out of PNP mode and set it
to fixed irg/io values. I use COM3 and IRQ 7. Works great.>
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From: "Robp2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: microsoft -
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:46:56 +0100
justa quick post to say... Ive just got linux...thank god !!
went to microsoft site to get win98 'update' (thats a hole fix, in english)
and this one patch was called 'critical update 1' - (which is a microsoft
cock up, in english) I quote: "this patch increses the stability of windows
98 2nd edition"..
well started to download, and IE 5 crashed !!!.
windows is a pile of bill gates.... Go linux !!.
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From: Guy Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Linux networking Tools
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:40:09 -0600
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David wrote:
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> Hi Guy
>
> Thanks for replaying my question.
>
> Is traffic shaping, the tools name ? or a program in Linux installation CD,
> or a separate program ? I tried to find it on the net, but couldn?t manage
> it.
> Is it possible to point me to their web site.
>
> Thanks David
The program is called :
shapecfg
This is the command line stuff :
shapecfg attach <device> <device>
shapecfg speed <device> <speed>
Attached will be the docs.
Guy
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Traffic Shaper For Linux
This is the current ALPHA release of the traffic shaper for Linux. It works
within the following limits:
o Minimum shaping speed is currently about 9600 baud (it can only
shape down to 1 byte per clock tick)
o Maximum is about 256K, it will go above this but get a bit blocky.
o If you ifconfig the master device that a shaper is attached to down
then your machine will follow.
o The shaper must be a module.
Setup:
A shaper device is configured using the shapeconfig program.
Typically you will do something like this
shapecfg attach shaper0 eth1
shapecfg speed shaper0 64000
ifconfig shaper0 myhost netmask 255.255.255.240 broadcast 1.2.3.4.255 up
route add -net some.network netmask a.b.c.d dev shaper0
The shaper should have the same IP address as the device it is attached to
for normal use.
Gotchas:
The shaper shapes transmitted traffic. It's rather impossible to
shape received traffic except at the end (or a router) transmitting it.
Gated/routed/rwhod/mrouted all see the shaper as an additional device
and will treat it as such unless patched. Note that for mrouted you can run
mrouted tunnels via a traffic shaper to control bandwidth usage.
The shaper is device/route based. This makes it very easy to use
with any setup BUT less flexible. You may well want to combine this patch
with Mike McLagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'s patch to allow routes to be
specified by source/destination pairs.
There is no "borrowing" or "sharing" scheme. This is a simple
traffic limiter. I'd like to implement Van Jacobson and Sally Floyd's CBQ
architecture into Linux one day (maybe in 2.1 sometime) and do this with
style.
Alan
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From: "Robp2001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: microsoft -
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:52:27 +0100
anyway... im reseting, and getting the hell out. :-)
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