Linux-Setup Digest #219, Volume #19 Sat, 22 Jul 00 00:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Question on netcfg on Redhat6.1 (Swapnajit Mittra)
Re: Linux dialing up to a NT server (Jimmy Navarro)
Red Hat 6.0 Linux partition ("bmeson")
fdisk question... (sharkfish)
Re: ATI Rage 128 PRO and RH 5.2 ("S. Park")
how to change boot drive? (clutz123)
Help setting up Sblive Xgamer in Corel. (WithinU)
Re: Resolution ("S. Park")
Re: LINUX BOOT PROBLEMS/INSTALL
Re: NFS ("S. Park")
disk manager software (Keith Marshall)
Re: apache_server config (Mr Slot)
Re: NFS configuration in rc.d changed for Redhat 6.2? ("S. Park")
Re: Adding a new hard drive (Gary Dolan)
Re: red hat 6.2 installation ("S. Park")
Re: Question on netcfg on Redhat6.1 ("dale hites")
Re: Is data on old partitions kept in new installations? (Phil)
Re: fdisk question... (Keith Marshall)
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From: Swapnajit Mittra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Question on netcfg on Redhat6.1
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:09:26 GMT
Hello all,
Can somebody please help me on how to use netcfg
on Redhat6.1 ?
I would like to set up my DSL connection. I have
the following information.
i. WAN IP
ii. WAN Gateway
iii. NAT information - Allocation
iv. NAT information - Router LAN address
v. NAT information - Subnet Mask
vi. NAT information - DNS
Could somebody please tell me how to use netcfg
step by step to input this information ? Also
what is "NAT" ? I am new to Linux.
Thanks in advance.
- Swapnajit.
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From: Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Linux dialing up to a NT server
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:28:00 -0700
Grant Edwards wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jimmy Navarro wrote:
>
> >I was trying to connect at my work's NT server based modem pool, I get
> >this persistent error 'PPP-logfile':
>
> >Jul 21 06:53:43 localhost pppd[860]: Remote message: E=691
> >Jul 21 06:53:43 localhost pppd[860]: PAP authentication failed
>
> >Any idea?
>
> I think I usually use CHAP rather than PAP for logging into NT
> systems.
>
I copy cat the same config like M$ Windoze, CHAP neither worked! :-(
Jul 21 18:22:34 localhost pppd[852]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Jul 21 18:22:34 localhost pppd[852]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 21 18:22:34 localhost pppd[852]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Jul 21 18:22:37 localhost pppd[852]: Remote message: E=691 R=1
Jul 21 18:22:37 localhost pppd[852]: CHAP authentication failed
Jul 21 18:22:37 localhost pppd[852]: Connection terminated.
Jul 21 18:22:37 localhost pppd[852]: Exit.
--
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From: "bmeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 6.0 Linux partition
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 21:45:56 -0400
Hi, there,
A lot of discussion about Linux partition here recently so I hope my
question doesn't bore you. I also try to give you the detail of my question,
so it's bit long.
I had a 10G disk on my PII-400 with Win95. It is partitioned into C:, D:,
and E:, each about same size of 3G.
I just bought a new 30G disk. So I installed it as promary slave and changed
the old one as master drive. Use DOS Fdisk, I partitioned the new disk into
3 10G partitions. Some how the primary partition on the new disk was
recognized as D:, so my old D: and E: become E: and F: instead. Now my DOS
Fdisk shows:
Disk Drv ... System Type
(Master) 1
C: FAT32 Pri DOS
E: FAT32 Ext DOS
F: FAT32 Ext DOS
(Slave) 2
D: FAT32 Pri DOS
G: FAT32 Ext DOS
H: FAT32 Ext DOS
Then I try to install Red Hat 6.0 on the new disk (I plan keep the Win95 and
make a dual system machine), but the Disk Druid displays the error message:
> Fdisk error reading partition table for block device hdb
> error: Partition table corrupt
If I then skip this stage, it only displays info of the old small disk.
So I went back and try Fdisk on the Red Hat. It seems can find both:
> /dev/hda - Model WDC AC310100B
> /dev/hdb - Model WDC WD307AA
So my question is: Is this really something wrong with my disk or it's just
the Red Hat Disk Druid? (I write into the new disk from Win95 and seems all
right). Also, can I install the Linux on the slave drive instead of the
master? I plan to install LILO.
Another related question: I installed Red Hat 6.0 before and it only allows
maximum size 125M swap partition (my PC has 128M memory) so I made 2 125M
swap partitions. Does this make sense or I just wasted 125M disk space (i.e.
can Linux use multiple swap partitions?)
Thanks for all input,
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Subject: fdisk question...
From: sharkfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:44:48 -0700
I am installing Red Hat 6.1 on a IBM Thinkpad 600X. I am using
the text installation, and my hard disk is 10Gig. First
partition is 3G FAT (NT 4.0), second partition 3G NTFS, third
partition is 3G FAT.
Red Hat install won't give me the option to format my last
partition. It sees it as DOS >= 32, and it says it will only
load Linux onto a Linux partition. Well...
how do I format the FAT partition so it will be Linux? Is there
some DOS utility that will let me format my FAT partition to
Linux?
TIA
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From: "S. Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128 PRO and RH 5.2
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:49:34 GMT
Eric Nicholson wrote:
>
> RH Linux does not recongnize my ATI Rage 128 PRO video card. Does anyone
> know a way to fix this? I would prefer not to get a new video card and I
> am not yet ready to get a new version of Linux
> Thanks,
> --
> Eric Nicholson
> LANFORCE Consulting Group
> (404) 206-8629 Ext. 117
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Either upgrade your Linux to Redhat 6.2 or upgrade X to XFree86 3.3.6 or
later.
Cheers.
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Subject: how to change boot drive?
From: clutz123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:49:51 -0700
hi,
i am trying install linux on a 486DX/66 with 8 mb ram. My
problem is that I have a 5.25" drive that is set to a:. Is
there any way to change it to my 3.5" floppy? I tried changing
the BIOS, but it didn't work...
jonathan
p.s. after reading some posts, i'll try and track down a 5.25"
disk and try to write a disk image on that...
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Subject: Help setting up Sblive Xgamer in Corel.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WithinU)
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:55:45 GMT
Hi guy's, I took the plunge and loaded Corel's Linux as dual booting
OS adjacent to Win98.
Everything went according to plan on the install, except for the
sound card installation. According to the file the is no sound card
installed.
So I jot on over to linuxnewbie.org for some help and they had the
exact help file I'm looking for so I go to install this emu10k1 file
and I get to the point of the compiling part of it, the help file
says to enter these commands after you get it extracted.....
rm *dep*
rm depend
make install
make
I try to do these commands and it keeps telling me that it is a bad
command or something to that effect.
I'm kind of stuck here, can someone lend a hand.
Thank you
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From: "S. Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Resolution
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 02:02:06 GMT
WantToKnowPlease wrote:
>
> Hello there
> when I was installing (RedHat 6.1) I tested all screen resolution that are
> greater than
> 640x480 they didn't work.!
> Can anyone tell me what is going on please?
> I am running Windows98 on the same machine and it works fine with all
> resolutions
> Thanks in advance.
Did you install correct X server for your graphic card, and set up
/etc/X11/XF86Config for your card and monitor?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX BOOT PROBLEMS/INSTALL
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:30:10 GMT
I thouhg i had enough my original message was really long. But it didn't
all submit i guess. Im on an IBM aptiva E series 550, Pentium 3 500 mhz it
has 96 megs of ram a sony cd re writable at 4X a dvd rom drive, On board
essolo motherboard. 4 gig linux partition as hda5, 13 gig windows
partition., a swap partition. It runs boot magic to load Os's it has a HVC
Copnextant win modem. I know that won't work with linux. A Vodoo 3 3500 TV
AGP graphics card. and thats about all I know about it. I got to the make
a boot disk part in the install and form there everything wen twrong.
First the bootdisk wouldn't make so I skipped that. Then I set up the X
but my graphics card wasn't supported so I used a vga driver from the
list. Then Lilo said it couldn't install on my boot sector of the hgard
disk and I know I need lilo to even think about getting Boot magic to
work. I tried the lilo install to the first partition of the hard disk it
couldn't do that either since there was a problem that my linux partition
existed beond a certain number of cylenders on the disc. So I then skipped
the lilo install. Everything finished and it said that it was installed so
I rebooted and using the install cd I typedlinux root=/dev/hda5 noinitrd
at the prompt because a friend had told me to use that to boot linux from
the cd's prompt. It started loading linux then it got about half way
through it said "VFS: cannot open root device 08:01" "Kernal panic: vfs:
unable to mount root fs on 08:01" If you need more info tell me where to
find it and i will gladly give it to you
Nova1313 wrote:
>
> 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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From: "S. Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 02:37:53 GMT
DeAnn Iwan wrote:
>
> You can set an NFS volume for automount in /etc/fstab. This is
> on the import side. I think export is done in /etc/exports, in
> combination with access you have set up in /etc/hosts.allow and
> /etc/hosts.deny. (Hmm, I don't do this often, so I may be missing
> something here.)
>
> sylvain hutchison wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know where NFS (YP) and automounter are configured??
> > I'm using RH 6.1.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sly.
Install autofs for automounter stuff. Check "man autofs," "man
auto.master."
Cheers.
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From: Keith Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: disk manager software
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:38:14 +1000
hi,
I'm about to install a new 10 gig seagate hard drive and want to know
this, If my bios cant handle drives bigger than 8.4 gig (don't know
this) I might have to install some software to overcome this (like
seagate's disk manager) will lilo be ok with this do you you think?
any experiences with this?
thanks
Keith
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From: Mr Slot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: apache_server config
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:03:44 +1000
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:28:54 -0500, gLiTcH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chose
to put into words the following :-:
>[posted and mailed]
>
>I have heard that RH messes up the httpd.conf file if you use linuxconf to
>configure Apache. The <Files> directive I believe needs to be changed to
>something like <Files ~/.ht> or something along those lines. I'm sure it
>is either in this newsgroup or in another, the correct fix that is. I know
>I'm close but what I typed doesn't look quite right.
<Files ~^\.ht>
Satan Clause, he's out there, and he's just getting stronger.
--- Bruce Willis, The Last Boyscout.
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From: "S. Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS configuration in rc.d changed for Redhat 6.2?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 03:10:12 GMT
Ethan Brown wrote:
>
> 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
For security reason, Redhat decided not to set many network services
automatically run by default. So if you want to run nfs automatically,
set it up so using either linuxconf or chkconfig.
As root:
run linuxconf; select nfs service in "Control/Control service activity";
then check "automatic startup"
or
chkconfig [--level 35] --add nfs
Cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Dolan)
Subject: Re: Adding a new hard drive
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 03:13:46 GMT
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:05:33 GMT, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>your idea seems very good
>so a few points if you use a linux fdisk to remove your old partitions
>(when your done with them) and a dos fdisk to add a new (single
>partition) then format you should be fine.
>cp -a as root should be fine but see
>Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Hard-Disk-Upgrade
>it can save you a lot of grief
I just did something similar, and followed the
Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Hard-Disk-Upgrade, and it did
save me a lot of grief. I recommend it.
--
Gary Dolan
Debian GNU/Linux, Kernel 2.2.17
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From: "S. Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: red hat 6.2 installation
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 03:30:45 GMT
Andrew Wong wrote:
>
> Hello everyone
>
> I tried to install red hat 6.2 in my system, but unsuccessful countlessly.
>
> I have win98 already installed and use partition magic to setup the
> partition suitable for both os. The strange thing was win98 was able to
> recognize the HD, but not linux. It said that it couldn't find the
> filesystem to install.
>
> My system
> PIII 500
> 120Mb
> 13GB (7 for redhat, 6 for win98)
> video & sound card
> DVD-ROM & CD-RW
> Parallel port zip drive (which I intend to setup later)
> scanner
> printer
>
> Why linux can't install?
>
> --
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Did you activate Ultra 66 DMA or install a Ultra 66 card such as
Promise? If yes, you'd want to check a mini-howto "Ultra-DMA."
Cheers
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Reply-To: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question on netcfg on Redhat6.1
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:27:15 -0500
Swapnajit,
Whoa, way too much. You need to get the RedHat bible. There's a couple of
chapters in there on your question.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Subject: Re: Is data on old partitions kept in new installations?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 03:46:11 GMT
>Well, assuming to have access to nothing but the CD, I would check the
>manuals that came with the CD. That's assuming you bought the official
>RH CD, of course. But then assuming you have access only to the CD,
>there is no reason for me to write this there?
>
>Well, assuming it is within your means to read this message, then I'll
>assume that even if you don't have the afore mentioned manuals, that it
>is within your means to go to a web site. Maybe www.redhat.com?
>
>To answer your question, there should be no problem installing RH and
>keeping a particular partition. However, be a little careful. I would
>suggest that you don't tell the install program that you want to mount
>that partition, and add the partition to fstab after the install. This
>will ensure that the partition won't get reformatted.
>
>You could also do an upgrade, instead of an install, in which case
>nothing should get reformatted unless you tell it to reformat it.
>
>--Nathan Davis
It worked, I did an install and I didnt tell the CD to mount them and
all my data is still there. =) And I have 2 swappable hardrives that
run off the same processor...I`m on windoze right now lol. thanks
phil
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From: Keith Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk question...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 14:00:57 +1000
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:44:48 -0700, sharkfish
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am installing Red Hat 6.1 on a IBM Thinkpad 600X. I am using
>the text installation, and my hard disk is 10Gig. First
>partition is 3G FAT (NT 4.0), second partition 3G NTFS, third
>partition is 3G FAT.
>
>Red Hat install won't give me the option to format my last
>partition. It sees it as DOS >= 32, and it says it will only
>load Linux onto a Linux partition. Well...
>
>how do I format the FAT partition so it will be Linux? Is there
>some DOS utility that will let me format my FAT partition to
>Linux?
>
>TIA
>
You need to delete that last FAT partition using fdisk and then run
the Red Hat installation. Then during the install you should have the
option to create some ext2 partitions for linux.
Keith
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