Linux-Setup Digest #238, Volume #19 Tue, 25 Jul 00 00:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Booting from 1.68MB floppy (Clay Calvert)
Re: Change MD3 to crypt() (ljb)
SuSe Linux Installation Problem ("David")
Re: Will FIPS work on WIN NT SP5 ? (Tom Pfeifer)
cant boot redhat 6.2 with loadlin (Carl Montgomery)
Re: Change boot parameters LILO ("Ken Crofts")
ps2 mouse problem with portege 7020 running win98 ("U. Moon")
Re: Installing Corel linux on PC ("prosper")
Re: How to modify the floppy boot disk after recompiling the kernel ("David ..")
Linux won't boot - 386/387 coupling failed (Xzera)
Re: fstab problems ("David ..")
Re: fstab problems ("David ..")
Re: Change boot parameters LILO (Stanislaw Flatto)
The RAS error code was: 629, means what??? (David)
Re: free isp ("George Herzog")
Help with using X-Win32 to run Linux X Server from windows client (Hung Ngoc Lai)
Expanding partitions. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: can't install rpm packages - red hat 6.2 (Brian Jepperson)
Re: Help with using X-Win32 to run Linux X Server from windows client ("Aurelien
Marchand")
Re: Linux Mandrake & Win 2000 & LILO ("Aurelien Marchand")
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From: Clay Calvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Booting from 1.68MB floppy
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:29:05 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:22:07 +0200, "Tabatha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>> You can't boot from the 1.68MB format, sorry. Somebody please prove
>> me wrong.
>yes yes u can boot from these, maxdisk formats up to 1.72mb and a simple "sys a:"
>after
>format make it bootable...
Where can I get a copy of maxdisk? I would really like to play with
this software.
Thanks in advance,
Clay Calvert
Replace the "W" in my e-mail address with an "L" to reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: Change MD3 to crypt()
Date: 25 Jul 2000 00:33:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi!
> Does any one tell me what is the safest way to change the passwd and
>shadow encryption from MD5 approace to crypt()? I need make SGI and
>Solaris Client also can read NIS information from a Linux server. I do
>not want to end up with no access to my computer because the change.
You need the Glibc DES-crypt add-on library, I think. In Slackware-7
this is called "descrypt"; the actual file is libcrypt-2.1.3.so.
Once you have this file installed, you can edit /etc/login.defs and
change MD5_CRYPT_ENAB to no. Then all new or changed passwords will
use the old-style crypt(). There is nothing you can do about passwords
which are already in there with MD5 encoding - no automatic way to convert
them. Note that with this library installed, both MD5 and old-crypt()
passwords will work for login, so it should be safe.
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSe Linux Installation Problem
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:42:56 -0500
Having finally decided to take a Linux plunge (after 15 years away from
Unix), I picked up a $29 copy of SuSe Linux thinking I would put it on an
extra PC that's just laying around.
The PC is a P-III 200, 6GB HD, 64MB memory, 2MB STB video. The HD has had
2 partitions -- a 2GB FAT16 and a 4GB NTFS. First, I'm having a tough time
getting rid of the existing partitions. MS-DOS 6.22 FDISK won't do it
(can't delete partition while logical drive active, but can't see a logical
drive). I don't own Partition Magic or anything like it.
Anyway, when I try to boot to install, it runs some kind of script that
finally terminates with a kernel panic and says something about not being
able to mount the root filesystem.
Any suggestions? TIA..
David
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From: Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will FIPS work on WIN NT SP5 ?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:43:41 GMT
Dj Khanmamedov wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> Does anybody know if FIPS .20 will work on partitioning WIN NT NTFS
> Harddrive ?
>
> Also, what is the defrag I should use for NT ? It doesn't seem to have the
> defrag Win 95 has.
>
> Please help !
>
> Thank you in adavance,
> Dj
Fips will only work on FAT16 or FAT32, but you could take a look at
pdisk.exe, which is a stand alone program included with Bootit Direct
found here:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/BOOTITD.HTM
I've never tried it on NTFS, but it is supposed to be able to shrink
NTFS partitions.
You won't need a defragger if you use pdisk, but Diskeeper Lite is a
well known one for NT, and it's freeware:
http://www.execsoft.com/downloads/menu.asp
Tom
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From: Carl Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cant boot redhat 6.2 with loadlin
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:54:30 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I cant get linux to boot any way I try. I installed red hat from cd onto
the second partition on my one HD just after the windoze partition
(fat16). Although I setup lilo during the install (5 times) it just
doesn't work. I never get the lilo: prompt.
Failing this I used loadlin to avoid the problem. However, the boot gets
to "kernel panic :vfd unable to mount....". I'm certain that I have
loadin pointing to the right partition (hda2) since I took notice of
this during the last 3 time I installed. I'm using the vmlinuz kernel
image off the cd since I have no other.
Please someone help a linux newbie with this problem, I't REALLY driving
me to distraction. I'm new to this so please use small words :)
Carl
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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: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:54:31 +1000
"Stanislaw Flatto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ken Crofts wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Hi tourist in Linux-land.
> After rewriting lilo.conf and saving it run as root
> /sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf #capital C
> meaning "Please Lilo install yourself in MBR with the new parameters as
writen
> in directory /etc file lilo.conf."
> It should do it - does always for me.
> Have fun.
> Stanislaw.
>
THANKYOU!
I ran the above commands and my beloved Windows 95 is now back again. It
looks as though I'll need to do a lot more reading on LILO and Linux in
general to understand the system. On first appearance it certainly isn't
user friendly, but I'm going to persevere some more and hopefully understand
why so many people believe Linux is a Good OS.
Cheers,
Ken
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From: "U. Moon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.laptops,japan.comp.toshiba,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ps2 mouse problem with portege 7020 running win98
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 01:00:49 +0000
I have a Toshiba laptop Portege 7020 that initially came with Windows NT
operating system. Since then I have installed commercial version of
Windows 98 SE in order to get USB and IR ports working. But through
this process, PS2 mouse stopped working. This is when the BIOS is set
to "simultaneous" which is suppose to allow both PS2 and "accu-point" on
my laptop to work at the same time. Setting the BIOS to "auto detect"
will make PS2 mouse work, but of course the "accu-point mouse" on my laptop
is disabled in that mode.
I have downloaded all that is available on Toshiba website (to my best
knowledge), and Toshiba tech support was not able to help me.
PS2 and accu-point mouse worked together just fine in NT. And in my
dual boot setup, Linux mode also works fine.
Q1: Anyone have any idea how I can fix this problem?
Q2: Anyone know if the commercial version of Windows 2000 would fix this?
I would appreciate anyone's help/pointers regarding this.
Regards,
Un-Ku Moon
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From: "prosper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Corel linux on PC
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:10:27 +1200
have you tryed taking the cd out?
As your cmos is set to boot off your cdrom
Praveen Padala wrote in message ...
>Hi,
>
> Recently i got a PC which has been preloaded with windows 98.. I wanted
>to install linux on my m/c and order for a Corel linux CD.. My PC has the
>following configuration.. 533 celeron, 63 MB Ram(+1MB video memory), 20 GB
>HD.. My problem is when i reboot the m/c while keeping the linux
>installation CD in my cd-rom, it boots up and shows the installation
>process.. First of all it will say some thing like 'checking the hardware'
>then 'verifying' and lastly it says 'installing linux'.. After that one
>more screen comes up and mentions that 'Installing the GUI interface'..
>That's it , after that the installation halts and the m/c reboots.. I don't
>understand what the problem is.. I tried the same on another PC (windows
>NT, 64 MB Ram), it worked fine.. But why it's not working on my PC..
>
>Help me
>
>Regards
>Praveen
>
>--
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>http://www.help.com/
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to modify the floppy boot disk after recompiling the kernel
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:05:18 -0500
Ross Xu wrote:
>
> My Linux is Mandrake 7 whose kernel version is 2.2.14.
> After "make bzdisk", I did:
> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdklinus
>
> In /boot, there is a symbolic link file vmlinuz which links to
> vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdklinus.
> I am not running X.
Ok after you
copied the "bzImage" to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdklinus did you delete
the symlink and then make a new one?
rm -f /boot/vmlinuz
ln -fs /boot/vmlinux-2.2.14-1mdklinus /boot/vmlinuz
Or did you just leave the old symlink in place?
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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From: Xzera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux won't boot - 386/387 coupling failed
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:24:04 -0500
I cannot get any flavor of Linux to boot. Ive tried Mandrake, Slackware, and Redhat.
What's wierd is, I could when I was first setting up the machine.
What I have is:
PIII 500 (coppermine)
Gigabyte VIA Apollo MoBo
126K mem
Voodoo 3
Sb Live!
Linksys 10/100
Symbios Logic SCSI card
On boot up, it hangs with:
checking 386/387 coupling :<3> error: trying to reset 386/387
trying to reset 386/387 coupling..
and it scrolls the last line into infinity, forcing me to hit the power button to
reset.
Did I change a bios setting? Could it be an IRQ thing? WHat?
Anybody got any ideas?
I loaded Linux before I put in any of the extras, sound card, etc. and it worked. But
after putting in all cards it wouldn't.
I tried taking out one card at a time and it did the above 396/387 coupling thing
every time.
Help!
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fstab problems
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:12:23 -0500
Tim Taylor wrote:
>
> So how can I get it to be unmounted until I tell it to mount?
This line works for me. It should all be on one line in fstab/
/dev/sda1 /mnt/w95 vfat
user,owner,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fstab problems
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:13:15 -0500
Tim Taylor wrote:
>
> So how can I get it to be unmounted until I tell it to mount?
This line works for me. It should all be on one line in fstab/
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat
user,owner,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Change boot parameters LILO
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:23:29 +0000
Ken Crofts wrote:
> "Stanislaw Flatto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Ken Crofts wrote:
> Linux is a Good OS.
>
> Cheers,
> Ken
It is. But in case of lilo, the prompt appears BEFORE any OS is called so the
lilo.conf cannot be read by the active booter. You have to order it to read and
memorise the script. Many times this little item is not explained.
Have fun...
Stanislaw.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David)
Subject: The RAS error code was: 629, means what???
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 02:45:32 GMT
Hi,
I am getting this error message from a server on a Lan that has no
dialup interface. What does it mean and how do I get rid of it?
Thanks
David.
An error occurred while attempting a RAS dialup to "Hostname"
The approximate time of the error was: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:14:02 +1200
The RAS error code was: 629
Which means: [RAS] Error: Remote disconnection
An error occurred while attempting a RAS dialup to "Hostname"
The approximate time of the error was: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:13:38 +1200
The RAS error code was: 630
Which means: [RAS] Error: Hardware failure
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From: "George Herzog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: free isp
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:13:46 -0400
Dick, when I first set up my account with freeatlast on my windows os, I
didn't like the idea of an assigned name and password, so I used the
telephone number that was given for support. They set me up with the name
and password of my choice. They also told me that their CD installation
would allow that choice. George
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Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> When I set up the freeatlast account in Win95, I had to use two
> IDs and passwords. The first is a "dialer" ID/password that they
> assigned when I registered. The second is a user account
> ID/password that I chose. I tried all combinations of these
> ID/passwords that I could think of using KPPP, but can't get it
> to work. I get a connection, but then get disconnected after a
> few seconds. Which ID/password are you using -- the "dialer"
> ID/password that they assigned, or the "user account"
> ID/password that you chose?
>
> Thanks,
> Dick
>
>
>
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>
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with using X-Win32 to run Linux X Server from windows client
Date: 25 Jul 2000 03:11:03 GMT
Hello everyone,
First of all, let me say that I am relatively new to Linux. My background comes
from Windows NT environment. I have been using Linux (RH 6.1) for about 6 months
and I really like a lot. Linux is much more stable and perform much better than
Microsoft windows. In the past 6 months, I have learned a few things about Linux
and I am falling in love with it.
At the moment, I am setting a Linux box running on a PIII 600Mhz with 256 MB of
RAM. X-windows is working fine (I can start x from the command line or set it
to level-5 with linuxconf). I even know how to install and configure SSH and get
it to work when I am at a windows client (by the way, I am using Secure CRT running
on Microsoft windows). Furthermore, I am using StarOffice 5.1 on the Linux box.
Everytime I want to use StarOffice, I have to go to StarOffice directory and
mannually start it there (if anybody know how to do it automatically from X, please
let me know).
Here is my problem. I am trying to convince my boss and a few people in the office
to use linux. We have no problem telnet to the Linux box; however my goal is to
allow these people to use X-window application from their win98/NT machines. The
X-window client application I am using right now is X-win32. I do NOT have any clues
on how to set up these things. What do I need to do on both the Linux machine and
Win98/NT machine? If anybody has done this before, please help me. Let me know
what needs to be done at both end (i.e. Linux server and win98/NT). Also, please make
your instructions a precise as possible (remember you are dealing with a new
Linux user here [me]). Bottom line, PLEASE HELP.
You can send me email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.
David
============= LONG LIVE LINUX ==============
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Expanding partitions.
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 03:08:36 GMT
Many of the partitions on my hard drive are quite full at the moment,
though I have a lot of unpartitioned space at the end of the drive.
Is there a way to 'widen' the existing partitions so they take up more
space?
I know I can mount further subdirectories like '/var/log' and so on to
save space, but I'd prefer not to do this as I don't to have a horribly
complicated partition table.
Also, is there any good documentation for fdisk available?
Thanks,
Chris
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:37:31 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Jepperson)
Subject: Re: can't install rpm packages - red hat 6.2
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David .."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
Doh! That's what it was, I guess I was installing the source accidentally.
Thanks for your help!
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From: "Aurelien Marchand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with using X-Win32 to run Linux X Server from windows client
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 03:46:13 GMT
Hey
To see a graphical of a Linux box on a Win box, follow this link
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html
To prevent yourself from cd-ing to the staroffice directory, simply add it
to your path:
from your shell:
# PATH=$PATH:/path/to/staroffice/bin
# export PATH (or export $PATH??)
If you don;t want to do that everty time, simply modify your ~/.bashrc file
If nowhere it talks about PATH in your ~/.bashrc file, add it:
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/staroffice/bin
Salut
Aurelien
Hung Ngoc Lai wrote in message <8lj0g7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello everyone,
>First of all, let me say that I am relatively new to Linux. My background
comes
>from Windows NT environment. I have been using Linux (RH 6.1) for about 6
months
>and I really like a lot. Linux is much more stable and perform much better
than
>Microsoft windows. In the past 6 months, I have learned a few things about
Linux
>and I am falling in love with it.
>
>At the moment, I am setting a Linux box running on a PIII 600Mhz with 256
MB of
>RAM. X-windows is working fine (I can start x from the command line or set
it
>to level-5 with linuxconf). I even know how to install and configure SSH
and get
>it to work when I am at a windows client (by the way, I am using Secure CRT
running
>on Microsoft windows). Furthermore, I am using StarOffice 5.1 on the Linux
box.
>Everytime I want to use StarOffice, I have to go to StarOffice directory
and
>mannually start it there (if anybody know how to do it automatically from
X, please
>let me know).
>
>Here is my problem. I am trying to convince my boss and a few people in
the office
>to use linux. We have no problem telnet to the Linux box; however my goal
is to
>allow these people to use X-window application from their win98/NT
machines. The
>X-window client application I am using right now is X-win32. I do NOT have
any clues
>on how to set up these things. What do I need to do on both the Linux
machine and
>Win98/NT machine? If anybody has done this before, please help me. Let me
know
>what needs to be done at both end (i.e. Linux server and win98/NT). Also,
please make
>your instructions a precise as possible (remember you are dealing with a
new
>Linux user here [me]). Bottom line, PLEASE HELP.
>
>You can send me email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Thanks.
>David
>------------- LONG LIVE LINUX --------------
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From: "Aurelien Marchand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake & Win 2000 & LILO
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 03:50:20 GMT
Ola,
don't panic... you did not loose your system!!
Once you followed the advise of the preceeding dude, simply modify your
lilo.conf file
THE BEST WAY TO DO IT:
run this command:
# linuxconf
(# is your prompt)
You will be able to see some boot options. Say you want to add another OS.
Point to /dev/hdaX (where /dev/hdaX is the partition containing W2K), save
and run and reboot!
Salut
aurelien
Linux Newbie wrote in message <8li9ee$8du$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi Gurus,
>
>Ive a PII 233 MHz Sony Vaio
>w/ 4.1 GB hard drive partitioned into 2.5/ntfs, 1/ext2 (linux), .6/fat16
>160 MB RAM
>
>Ive Win 2000 on 2.5G partition
>I was able to install linux-mandrake 7.0 on 1G partition
>
>but now when I boot up LILO only gives me two options
>1) linux or
>2) floppy
>
>I cant start win2000 anymore. I tried adding another entry to lilo but
>I dont know what partition (hda, hda1, hda2, hdc... etc) my win2000 is
>on. How do i fix this?
>
>Im a newbie to Linux and first time trying to configure LILO or any
>other boot loader.
>
>Please Help!
>
>
>Tejas Patel
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