Linux-Setup Digest #232, Volume #19 Mon, 24 Jul 00 04:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: kernel compile issues ("Michael Perry")
Redhat 6.2 boot prob (cdrom_pc_intr) ("Ross Levis")
can't install rpm packages - red hat 6.2 (Brian Jepperson)
Re: Promblems with SCSI in RH 6.2 (Anthony Ewell)
Re: Need help: share partition with Win95 (Gene Montgomery)
Re: Need help: share partition with Win95 (Davide Bianchi)
Re: can't install rpm packages - red hat 6.2 ("David ..")
Re: Two problems (Gene Montgomery)
Re: Apache (Zebee Johnstone)
Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated ("Robert Schumacher")
ACER Cd-rom kernel probe problem! ("Nicola Martello (SIA) TEI/OT/IO")
Re: Change boot parameters LILO ("Ken Crofts")
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From: "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel compile issues
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:21:28 -0800
In article <8lgfu4$u4q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J. Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> michael,
>
> I am curious what exact commands
>> you are using to build a kernel and whether you have tried to download
> and install a new
>> kernel and if it still fails.
>
> I have not downloaded a new kernel. I'm using what came with RH6.2 Do
> you think that this might help with my problems?
>
> As far as what I am doing. First I run make xconfig Save and exit ,
> then run make dep; make clean; make bzImage
>
> I then attempt to run: make modules make modules_install
>
> However the make is bailing out on errors, I see. Here are the errors:
>
> make[2]: *** [radio-miropcm20.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/char' make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_char]
> Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers' make:
> *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
>
> I don't know what these errors mean or how to remedy this.
>
> Again, you help is greatly appreciated!
> --
> Janine Roe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ...the more i learn, the less i know about before
> the less i know, the more i want to look around...
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
Hmm. Interesting. Does the regular kernel make occur without problems? I think you
have
some defaults there that are causing problems with the modules installation. I don't
quite know what the character mode radio-pc module is but that is one that's
complaining.
Since you do not have the original .config from the installation, do you know any
values
you may have changed for creating modules when you did the make xconfig?
I have not used redhat for quite some time but I never stuck with their original
kernels when
I did. I am not saying to go out and try a 2.2.16; but that would be an interesting
experiment.
You really could try this by downloading the latest sources, compile a 2.2.16 kernel or
attempt to use lsmod and depmid to figure out what modules are causing problems in
the redhat kernel. Either way, I would keep a lilo.conf entry for the original kernel
that
allows you to boot the system.
The other followup poster's advice about doing some detective work on the modules
loading is good advice.
-
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ross Levis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 boot prob (cdrom_pc_intr)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:48:15 +1200
Please help!
Experience: First Linux installation for me though I have some technical
experience with SCO Unix.
Problem: Played with some network settings in linuxconf and the computer
locked up when writing the changes. After a hard reboot, I receive the
following text continuously every 10 seconds.
hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason=0x 1)
The machine has 2 CD-ROM's but it worked fine on first boot & I didn't play
with anything to do with disk drives/CD-ROM etc.
How can I interrupt the boot process and fix this?
Thank you in advance.
Ross Levis.
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:47:42 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Jepperson)
Subject: can't install rpm packages - red hat 6.2
I just installed Red Hat 6.2 on my gateway pc, this is my first endevor into
Linux. Anyhow, I can use RPM to install packages from all the red hat disks
except one - the "Powertools Applications" Disk. When I try to install
packages from this disk, it claims to install them, but when I query the
package it says it was installed to "/", and it is nowhere to be found.
If I then select "uninstall" it complains that it can't find the files.
Has anyone else experienced this? It's bizarre because this doesn't happen
with the other disks.
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:55:22 -0700
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Promblems with SCSI in RH 6.2
Hi Chris,
Ouch!
The only thing I can susgest is to upgrade the scsi bios
on your 2940 card.
Good luck,
--Tony
Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> I'll check it out...
>
> However, using Slackware Linux and Winblows, I could access everything no
> problem.
>
> Thanx!
>
> Chris
>
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Just a wild guess, but it sounds like a termination problem.
> >
> > Here are some tips:
> >
> > 1) turn all of your terminators off on your peripherals and use
> > an "active" terminator at the end of your cable. (Yeh, active
> > terminators cost more, but the passive ones have stopped
> > working for years now.)
> >
> > 2) put your scsi card's bios into "automatic" termination
> >
> > 3) while you are in your scsi card's bios, use the "scan bus" utility
> > to check for all your devices
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > --Tony
> >
> > Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card to work under properly
> > > under RedHat 6.2 (using aic7xxx module). Redhat detected the card just
> > > fine, the module is loaded at boot, however, when I access the drives, I
> > > keep getting an interruption. I noticed once that the SCSI bus was
> > > getting reset.
> > >
> > > Anybody have any ideas how to fix the problem?
> > >
> > > Thanx!
> > >
> > > Chris
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From: Gene Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help: share partition with Win95
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:10:22 GMT
bmeson wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Tip 1. Do a
man fstab
< you should find the file types somewhere down in that man
page. ext2 is definitely not correct. I would put my money
on msdos. >
Then do a
man mount
< you should find some fat file types down in that man page
namely msdos, umsdos, and vfat as part of the mount options
for fat. ALso listed is the msdos file system as "currently
supported". Again, I would put my money on msdos, although
I think I have also used vfat with W98 or NT, can't remember
which, and don't remember which fat system I was using on
that box. >
My suggestion is to substitute msdos in your fstab file,
and do a mount of /dos. If that doesn't work, try the others
from the mount man page in succession.
Tip 2. cd to /usr/doc/howto/mini, and do a
grep LBA *
< there should be some hits - open a file and read about the LBA
so you understand it. >
BTW, why not go with RH6.2 - major step up from 6.0?
Gene Montgomery
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Need help: share partition with Win95
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:37:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:05:33 -0400, "bmeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi, I just installed Red Hat 6.0 together with Win95.
>
>My disk partition is following:
<ZAP>
>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?
The FAT32 and similar filesystems (Win 95/98) are "vfat". Be sure to
have the filesystem support into the kernel.
Davide
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't install rpm packages - red hat 6.2
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:38:26 -0500
Brian Jepperson wrote:
>
> I just installed Red Hat 6.2 on my gateway pc, this is my first endevor into
> Linux. Anyhow, I can use RPM to install packages from all the red hat disks
> except one - the "Powertools Applications" Disk. When I try to install
> packages from this disk, it claims to install them, but when I query the
> package it says it was installed to "/", and it is nowhere to be found.
> If I then select "uninstall" it complains that it can't find the files.
If you are trying to install "src.rpm" files they are being installed in
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES so that you can build the binary rpm's
You can use "rpm -q filename" to see if rpm's are installed but it won't
list any that are in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
--
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: Gene Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two problems
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:13:03 GMT
Michael Mitchell wrote:
>
> Running Redhat 6.1
>
> Problem No. 1- I have cable service through Intermedia@Home, Netscape
> opens fine, looks good, but I can't get my settings to enable the
> Netscape Messenger. In windoze, the pop server is - mail - and the
> smtp is - mail -, what are they running Linux.
>
.
On my Netscape 4.73, under edit -> preferences -> Mail & Newsgroups ->
Mail Servers, I set up the following:
Incoming mail server - mail.gte.net
Outgoing mail server - smtp.gte.net
My recollection is that before ADSL, my ppp dialup account with
flash.net was the same (that is, incoming was mail.flash.net,
and outgoing was smtp.flash.net).
You might try that.
Gene Montgomery
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebee Johnstone)
Subject: Re: Apache
Date: 24 Jul 2000 06:28:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.setup on Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:54:13 GMT
djmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>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*??
they don't need read, they just need execute. Try it and see...
Zebee
>
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From: "Robert Schumacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:40:19 GMT
The keyboard didn't work at all...no keys worked. At this point, I've
unplugged and plugged back in both the keyboard and mouse, and even tried
different ones. I'm still not sure if the system freezes or if it's the
mouse/keyboard, but nothing responds. I've had one person tell me via email
that they suspect video, I have an NVidia Riva TNT 16 MB AGP card, but both
Red Hat and Mandrake claim to support this card. I've checked in Windows
for conflicting hardware (as suggested in another post) and there are no
conflicts. The CD ROM is a standard internal IDE drive, and I verified that
the BIOS values were all at defaults (also suggestions from other posts).
Thankfully I'm not depending on Linux for anything, because from what I've
seen these "user friendly" installers aren't too hot. My computer is pretty
standard as far as hardware, nothing too complicated or out of the ordinary
(and Windows works just fine), but for the sake of making sure I pulled it
apart today (needed cleaning anyway), reseated all cards and RAM, checked
all cables and connections, and all appears in order (even cleaned the
contacts on the cards and RAM sticks). The only thing out of the ordinary
in there was a bunch of dust. :)
So, I'm still at square one. Is running Linux as much of an uphill battle
as installing it?
--
Robert Schumacher
remove IDONTTHINKSO to reply by e-mail
"I've always wondered why the needle is sterilized for execution by lethal
injection."
"David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Robert Schumacher wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> In the RedHat 6.2 install did you use the TAB and SHIFT keys to answer
> the questions until you got to the partition section? The mouse has
> never worked for me during the installation of RedHat.
>
> --
> 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: "Nicola Martello (SIA) TEI/OT/IO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ACER Cd-rom kernel probe problem!
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:51:05 +0200
Hello guys,
I have some problem with my new CD-ROM (ACER 50X max CD650P) on linux.
When linux is booting report this error messages:
==========================================================================
[niky@RuleZ niky]$ dmesg | grep hd
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: IBM-DTTA-350840, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 50X MAX, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: M2684TA, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DTTA-350840, 8063MB w/467kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
hdc: M2684TA, 504MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1024/16/63
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdb:
hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: packet command error: error=0x54
ATAPI device hdb:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda3
hdc: hdc1 hdc2
hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: command error: error=0x54
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2
ATAPI device hdb:
hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: command error: error=0x54
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
ATAPI device hdb:
==========================================================================
Is very strange becouse it works fine with only data CD but doesn't work
with
Audio CD or mix CD, instead when i start Windoze in every above cases it
works fine!! :-(
If i start VMware with win95 as guest OS i got this error:
==========================================================================
================
Pop up window 1:
================
Title:
"VMware Workstation Error"
Text Msg:
"CDROM:'/dev/cdrom'exists,but does not appear to be a CDROM device.
Error connecting the CDROM device."
================
Pop up window 2:
================
Title:
"VMware Workstation Error"
Text Msg:
"Failed to connect device ide0:1"
==========================================================================
Someone can Help Me?
I hope that this ACER CDROM is not designed for Windoze only! :-(
Thank you in advance!
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From: "Ken Crofts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Change boot parameters LILO
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:48:47 +1000
I tried changing LILO to that described below, and even made Winders default
but it wouldn't boot into Windows. When I booted off a Window 95s floppy
into DOS and ran Fdisk, it shows the first partition as a non-dos partition
(ie my original Win 95 installation) Is there any hope of restoring this by
changing location of LILO or is my Win95 installation history?
Ken
"Chem-R-Us" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ken Crofts wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> You don't need boot magic. LILO will also boot winders. Just add it to
> /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> -----cut here-----
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=winders
> table=/dev/hda
>
> -----cut here-----
>
> And you can, errgh, even make winders the default. Just add to the top
> of /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> default=winders
>
> HTH. HAND.
>
> --
>
> Chem-R-Us
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