Linux-Setup Digest #230, Volume #19 Mon, 24 Jul 00 00:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: free isp ("George Herzog")
Change boot parameters LILO ("Ken Crofts")
X freezes ("WF")
Re: Booting from 1.68MB floppy (Clay Calvert)
Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated ("Robert Schumacher")
Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated ("jeff")
Re: Change boot parameters LILO ("xiangola")
Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated (Troutman)
Printer Setup ("John Tankersley")
Re: How to modify the floppy boot disk after recompiling the kernel ("David ..")
Re: One perl script works, others don't (Zebee Johnstone)
Re: Apache ("djmiller")
Re: Just Getting Serious ("David ..")
Need help: share partition with Win95 ("bmeson")
Re: One perl script works, others don't (David Efflandt)
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From: "George Herzog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: free isp
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:10:40 -0400
I first registered and set up my account on my Windows 95 OS. After I got it
working I took the TCP/IP information from my windows account and used it
with my linux OS and kppp. The one username and password that I established
on windows works fine with linux. George
Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Are you using this with Linux? It appears you need to use two
> user IDs and passwords, one for dialup and another for user
> account. How do you set up the KPPP or gnome-ppp dialer to
> accomplish this?
>
> Dick
>
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From: "Ken Crofts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Change boot parameters LILO
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:17:02 +1000
Hi,
I am a newbie to Linux and need probably what is simple help.
I have just installed Red Hat 6.2 onto my Toshiba Satellite 4100XDVD laptop.
To prepare I created a separate partition of about 2GB using Partition Magic
in native Linux file format. The first partition on my drive is 2GB Fat32
running Win95. I then installed BootMAgic and disabled it, the intention
being to enable it once Linux software was installed so I could bott into
either Linux or Windows.
I installed Linux off bootable CD on front cover of APC magazine. It kept
on falling over when using standard install and throwing to a blank screen,
so I used option of text <cr>. This installed and Linux seems to work fine.
I use startx and this brings up KDE user interface.
My major problem is that machine now automatically boots into Linux and I
can't bring up Windows 95. How do I alter Lilo so I have option of booting
into Windows? I'd prefer to use BootMAgic as my main boot program as I am
more familiar with it. Bootmagic mentions loading Lilo into Linux partition
only and not overwrite mbr. Is this easily done?
Thanks,
Ken
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:09:29 +0800
From: "WF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X freezes
I tried to install XFree and initially I had problems installing RH6.2 in
GUI mode because the computer just freezes on me. So I installed RH6.2 in
text mode and tried to install X when I was done with RH6.2.
Problem started when I tried to startx and I did get it to start for a few
seconds then the entire screen freezes and so is my system. The mode that
the autoconfig selected for me was 1024*768 # 32bpp. When X managed to start
for a brief moment I could see that the colours were right and suddenly a
blank screen with white stripes appeared and the system freezes.
I use a Trident 3DImage975 AGP card and an unlisted monitor... basically a
monitor by the brand name Likom. But I have the manual and I entered
everything as per the monitor manual suggested.
What could be the problem? The SVGA server? My monitor? The clock setting?
Hope someone can help me out here.
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From: Clay Calvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Booting from 1.68MB floppy
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:36:35 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:44:16 GMT, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I,
>
>I have start to study Linux LRP (Linux on a floppy) and to put more
>informations (like BIND), i wish to use a floppy who can contain more
>than 1.44Mb.
>
>So I use WinImage in Win98 to format and copy a DOS bootable 1.44 LRP
>floppy to a new 1.68 floppy.
>
>Every thing are there but it refuses to boot. I receive a message like
>"boot error" because it cannot find the boot files (ldlinux.sys).
>
>How can I correct this situation^
You can't boot from the 1.68MB format, sorry. Somebody please prove
me wrong.
In the DOS world I extract a zipped file into a 2MB or so RAM disk
(yes, I was doing this before Win98 came out). I don't know how to do
that in Linux, but I'm sure it has been done. Look at a Win98 Startup
disk to see how it is done in "DOS", except MS uses .CAB fomat instead
of .Zip.
>Serge Boisvert
>Victoriaville, Qc.
>Canada
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clay Calvert
Replace the "W" in my e-mail address with an "L" to reply.
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From: "Robert Schumacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 02:42:43 GMT
I am having a problem installing Linux (tried four distributions thus far).
Keeping the differences between distributions in mind, basically what is
happening is that the installers either a) freeze at language selection or
b) the keyboard and mouse will not work in the installer. I can't tell for
sure which is the case, but at any rate I boot up with the Linux CD in the
drive, the installer runs, I get the language selection screen and that is
it...I have no way to provide any input or continue the installation
process. I don't believe it's a hardware problem, at least not with the
keyboard or mouse (and the computer itself is less than a year old and
performs flawlessly in Windows). That is the dilemma. I've poured through
www.linuxnewbie.org, and the sites for the distributions I've tried
(Mandrake 7.1, Red Hat 6.2, WinLinux 2000, and Corel), and found no answers
(I haven't even seen a similar problem listed). Has anyone encountered
this, or have any suggestions for a workaround. My computer setup is as
follows:
Pentium III 450 MHz
96 MB RAM
6.8 GB HDD (6.0 GB Windows, 1.8 GB Linux partition with 125 MB Linux swap
partition, set up using Partition Magic 5)
Toshiba 40X CDROM and HP 8210i CDRW
3Com EtherLink 3C905C-TX NIC with Internet access via cable modem
Microsoft Intellieye Explorer PS/2 mouse (but tried each installation with a
"plain" PS/2 mouse also, no difference).
Plain, garden variety 102 key US keyboard
Thanks in advance.
--
Robert Schumacher
remove IDONTTHINKSO to reply by e-mail
"I've always wondered why the needle is sterilized for execution by lethal
injection."
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From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:54:35 -0700
What type of motherboard? Standard internal IDE CD drive? If everything is
standard and supported, you might try to reset CMOS setup to its default
values. Also check for any motherboard jumpers that may be non standard.
Also, if you have a functioning MS Windows system, check the Device Manager
for any device conflicts.
-jeff
"Robert Schumacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:D2Oe5.2606$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am having a problem installing Linux (tried four distributions thus
far).
> Keeping the differences between distributions in mind, basically what is
> happening is that the installers either a) freeze at language selection or
> b) the keyboard and mouse will not work in the installer. I can't tell
for
> sure which is the case, but at any rate I boot up with the Linux CD in the
> drive, the installer runs, I get the language selection screen and that is
> it...I have no way to provide any input or continue the installation
> process. I don't believe it's a hardware problem, at least not with the
> keyboard or mouse (and the computer itself is less than a year old and
> performs flawlessly in Windows). That is the dilemma. I've poured
through
> www.linuxnewbie.org, and the sites for the distributions I've tried
> (Mandrake 7.1, Red Hat 6.2, WinLinux 2000, and Corel), and found no
answers
> (I haven't even seen a similar problem listed). Has anyone encountered
> this, or have any suggestions for a workaround. My computer setup is as
> follows:
> Pentium III 450 MHz
> 96 MB RAM
> 6.8 GB HDD (6.0 GB Windows, 1.8 GB Linux partition with 125 MB Linux swap
> partition, set up using Partition Magic 5)
> Toshiba 40X CDROM and HP 8210i CDRW
> 3Com EtherLink 3C905C-TX NIC with Internet access via cable modem
> Microsoft Intellieye Explorer PS/2 mouse (but tried each installation with
a
> "plain" PS/2 mouse also, no difference).
> Plain, garden variety 102 key US keyboard
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Robert Schumacher
> remove IDONTTHINKSO to reply by e-mail
> "I've always wondered why the needle is sterilized for execution by lethal
> injection."
>
>
>
>
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From: "xiangola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Change boot parameters LILO
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:11:50 -0400
Greetings:
You would need to reinstall LILO to the superblock of the partition that
your Linux system rests in. And then have BootMagic (or whatever boot
manager you care to use) add the partition into the menu of partitions that
would also include your Windows. (By the way, what's APC? Mail me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you care)
Live long and prosper.
Xiangola
Ken Crofts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie to Linux and need probably what is simple help.
>
> I have just installed Red Hat 6.2 onto my Toshiba Satellite 4100XDVD
laptop.
> To prepare I created a separate partition of about 2GB using Partition
Magic
> in native Linux file format. The first partition on my drive is 2GB Fat32
> running Win95. I then installed BootMAgic and disabled it, the intention
> being to enable it once Linux software was installed so I could bott into
> either Linux or Windows.
>
> I installed Linux off bootable CD on front cover of APC magazine. It kept
> on falling over when using standard install and throwing to a blank
screen,
> so I used option of text <cr>. This installed and Linux seems to work
fine.
> I use startx and this brings up KDE user interface.
>
> My major problem is that machine now automatically boots into Linux and I
> can't bring up Windows 95. How do I alter Lilo so I have option of booting
> into Windows? I'd prefer to use BootMAgic as my main boot program as I am
> more familiar with it. Bootmagic mentions loading Lilo into Linux
partition
> only and not overwrite mbr. Is this easily done?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> CAUTION - Any views expressed in this message are those of
> the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the
> views of Department of Public Works and Services
> ----------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Troutman)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated
Date: 23 Jul 2000 23:09:30 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Schumacher) graced us with
the following:
>I am having a problem installing Linux (tried four distributions thus
>far). Keeping the differences between distributions in mind, basically
>what is happening is that the installers either a) freeze at language
>selection or b) the keyboard and mouse will not work in the installer.
Had the same thing happen with my HP Pavilion N3270 laptop. My solution
was to throw it into suspend mode when it froze, then bring it back out of
suspend. Fixed it on the laptop...desktop I don;t know. Remove keyboard
connection and re-attach?
--
______________________________
Mike Troutman
http://www.troutman.org/
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From: "John Tankersley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer Setup
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:47:42 -0500
Hello,
My name is John Tankersley [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am seeking some help with
setup of my printer. I have a HP Laserjet 4000. Here is my specific
problem. I have SuSE 6.4 installed. I can't get my printer to print out
under Linux. I can get it to print out under Windows 98.
Here is a listing from a lprsetup command.
SuSE APSfilter setup found these entries:
fax device=/dev/null
###PS_1200pi letter mono 1200 ###
asci device = /dev/lp0
lp device = /dev/lp0
raw device = /dev/lp0
asci queuing is enabled
printing is enable
3 entries in spool area
no daemon present
lp: queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
2 entries in spool area
no daemon present
raw: queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
pr
did lpc up all (to enable daemon)
fax:: printing enabled
lpc: connection refused
asci: Couldn't start daemon
printing enabled
lpc: connect: Connection refused
I want to know how to engage and start daemon. Second, I would like to know
purpose for asci,lp, and
raw. If anyone can help me with this I would be very grateful.
Thank-you,
John Tankersley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to modify the floppy boot disk after recompiling the kernel
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:35:12 -0500
Ross Xu wrote:
>
> Dear there,
> I have recompiled my 2.2.14 kernel.
> But for the hard disk reason, my linux machine can only boot from the floppy
> boot disk.
> So, how can I modify the floppy disk after recompiling the kernel?
> What is the problem? How can I do?
Emergency Boot Disk
To make an Emergency Boot Disk insert a blank floppy and give the
commands:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 # formats 1.44MB floppy
mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 x.x.xx # x.x.xx is kernel
version.
Rescue Disk
To make an Emergency boot disk you need a blank floppy and to give the
command:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 # formats 1.44 MB floppy
cp /boot/vmlinuz /dev/fd0 # copies the kernel (vmlinuz) to
floppy
rdev # Shows kernel root device such as "/dev/hda5"
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdaX # hdaX root device shown by command
above.
rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 # This makes the root device read only
If you wish to test the new disks simply put one of the disks in A:
and reboot with the command
shutdown -r now
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebee Johnstone)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: One perl script works, others don't
Date: 24 Jul 2000 02:51:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.setup on Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:57:50 GMT
P&C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[Sun Jul 23 21:47:07 2000] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec
>of /home/httpd/cgi-bin/envtest.pl failed
>
OK, so some file isnt being found.
DId you get these scripts from somwhere?
Have you checked that all files, including the one called in the very
first line after #! are there?
If they work by hand and not via script, then it's a path problem. So
look in your script and check all paths.
Zebee
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From: "djmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:54:13 GMT
I had a similar problem trying to hit www.myaddress.com/~username. The
/home/username/public_html directory had full permissions (rwxrwxrwx), just
for kicks, but for some reason, it was coming up "forbidden."
I noted that the /home/username directory had rwx------ permissions by
default. Makes perfect sense to me; I only want the specified user to be
able to do anything in their directory. But just for kicks, I added r and x
to group and world on that folder, so I had rwxr-xr-x on /home/username.
Guess what? www.myaddress.com/~username was no longer Forbidden!
It would seem that the users' home directories need to have sufficient
permissions before Apache can get to the public_html directory inside. Of
course, this means that eviluser can now read username's files, which I
don't like. How do I fix *that*??
"Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:uxEd5.76894$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I've got Apache 1.3.12 up and running.
> My DocumentRoot was /www/htdocs
> but i changed it to /home/testuser/public_html
>
> but i keep getting a Forbidden message when going to the website.
> EVerything works fine when I change DocumentRoot back to /www/htdocs
>
> Any suggestions on how to solve this?
> I have Redhat Linux 6.1. I tried some chmod stuff but that didn't seem to
> help much.
> I also have <Directory /home/testuser/public_html> thing in my httpd.conf
> file.
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> Michael B
>
>
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Just Getting Serious
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:48:29 -0500
Kenneth Downs wrote:
>
>
> Linux box that can be my "Household ISP." I'd like it have a web
> server, a mail server and an FTP server, and I'd like to point the
> domain name I've registered to this box. I'd like Network Address
> Translation so that the ADSL line can be shared (right now I'm using
> Sygate 3.1 on an NT workstation to do that). For file sharing, I'm
> using an NT server, and can continue to do so indefinitely, as what I've
> read suggests that attaching to Linux shares from a Windows box is
> klunky at best.
>
> So, Question 1. I have Red Hat 5.2. Can I do it with this? Or do I
> need to get 6.2?
Yes, 6.2 comes with Apache which is FREE
Proftpd for the ftp server which is FREE
qmail for the mail server which is FREE
Samba which also FREE, if you are wanting to share files with M$ OS.
I would get 6.2 it is more up to date with hardware and drivers. You can
download it for FREE.
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/
> Question 2. If I put a 2Gig FAT partition on the target box to start
> with, can I download images and install from that partition?
Yes! I have a 1 GB Windoz partition for just that purpose. Doesn't get
used any more except for storage.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "bmeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help: share partition with Win95
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:05:33 -0400
Hi, I just installed Red Hat 6.0 together with Win95.
My disk partition is following:
/ hdb1 Linux native
/usr hdb3 Linux native
hdb4 Linux swap
/disk1 hda5 Linux native
/dos hda6 Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
But the mount of /dos failed with the error message:
> wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblocks on /dev/hdb6
> or too many mounted file system
The fstab entry for /dos is:
> /dev/hdb6 /dos ext2 defaults 0 0
So what should I do to solve this problem and make Linux share a disk
partition with Win95? Also, what does (LBA) mean in the FAT32 partition?
Thanks,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: One perl script works, others don't
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 04:06:44 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:57:50 GMT, P&C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have one perl script that works just fine and two others that do not
>work at all. Both the failing scripts are variations of scripts that
>print out the enviornment variables. They both syntax check ok and
>both work fine from the command line.
>
>The browser returns a 500 error:
>"Internal Server Error
>
>So, checking the error log shows:
>
>[Sun Jul 23 21:47:07 2000] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec
>of /home/httpd/cgi-bin/envtest.pl failed
When you test them from the command line, run them as ./scriptname and NOT
'perl scriptname', since the latter will not reveal some errors.
If the first line of all the scripts is the same, my guess is that the
scripts have been tainted by a DOS/Win system. DOS/Win use CR-LF (^M^J or
\r\n) to end lines of text and Linux and Unix text files just use a
newline (\n). So the shell cannot find 'perl^M' to interpret the script.
Either ftp upload the scripts as ASCII text (not binary) or load them into
pico, do a space, backspace and save the file (^X).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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