Linux-Setup Digest #256, Volume #19 Thu, 27 Jul 00 14:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Re: Couple 'o Questions (Michael Nadler)
How to setup X? ("Xin Hong")
Re: Couple 'o Questions (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Couple 'o Questions (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Large HD + Linux + Win98 (Rasputin)
Re: Apache "Forbidden" error in RH 6.2 ("Mark Cookson")
Re: Problem with apache-1.3.12-2 (Rasputin)
Re: help with /dev/agpgart device (D G)
Castlewood ORB drive help (Smitty)
Re: How to setup X? ("fred dorn")
cannot get exclusive lock on database ("lin juang")
Large disk problem ("tempo32")
Help, CHAP error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Token Ring Network card on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Normal Red Hat Install? ("HSC")
Re: Install Linux from floppy (DeAnn Iwan)
toshiba satellite 410 415 & linux info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ps2 mouse problem with portege 7020 running win98 ("The Magicman")
Re: help with installing printers ("Edward T. Rewolinski")
Re: Unable to boot into Linux ("Gary")
Re: Large HD + Linux + Win98 ("Gary")
Installing ("Iwan Wendy Oen")
Re: Gnome or KDE (Rasputin)
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From: Michael Nadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Couple 'o Questions
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:25:22 -0700
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I can answer 2 and can guess at an answer for the third.
dA FlaVa wrote:
> Linux newbie questions here:
>
> 1) How do I get a list of process ID's so I can kill a process?
>
ps -ef
gives a list of all processes and their IDs. To trim that down a bit,
use grep to pick out the process-name of interest:
ps -ef | grep "process-name"
however, the grep command will find itself in the ps output, which can
be confusing. So alter the grep match string to include a special
character. If the process-name of interest is "foobar", then:
ps -ef | grep "[f}]oobar"
will show only foobar entries.
And finally, there is the the killall command, which will kill all
instances of the given process-name:
killall "process-name"
>
> 2) How do I determine how much space is free per partition?
>
df
>
> 3) How do I disable Telnet?
>
I think you can do it via /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, or by
commenting out in.telnetd in inetd.conf. But there is probably some
easier way.
>
> Thanks!!
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From: "Xin Hong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to setup X?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:22:40 +0800
Hi , all,
I am new to Linux. I installed Red Hat 6.2 but could not configure
Video card properly so could not start X window. My video card
is Intel 810 graphic card. Monitor is Dell E770S. How should I configure
the X? Any help appreciated. Thanks is adv.
Xin Hong
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Subject: Re: Couple 'o Questions
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:32:55 +0200
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Michael Nadler wrote:
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> > 3) How do I disable Telnet?
> >
>
> I think you can do it via /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, or by
> commenting out in.telnetd in inetd.conf. But there is probably some
> easier way.
To disable it totally, comment out the telnet line in
/etc/inetd.conf. This is the way to do it. Of course you could just
uninstall the daemon, but then you would get a lot of 'in.telnetd not
found'-type errors...
Rasmus B. Hansen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Couple 'o Questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:40:15 GMT
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:59:57 -0400, dA FlaVa
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Linux newbie questions here:
>
>1) How do I get a list of process ID's so I can kill a process?
ps -aux
Use
man ps
to get an explanation
>2) How do I determine how much space is free per partition?
df
Use
man df
to get an explanation
>3) How do I disable Telnet?
1) Determine what process is your telnet server. You need to know the program
name in order to be able to disable it. On my system(s) the name is in.telnetd
2) grep through your /etc/rc.d/ scripts for the name of the telnet server
(established in step 1, above). Edit each script so located, and comment out the
logic that starts up the telnet server.
3) edit your /etc/inetd.conf, and comment out the line that reads
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
4) kill your telnet server if it is still up
5) telinit q to reprocess the current runstate (probably not necessary, but
should test the changes to your rc.d scripts)
>Thanks!!
>
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Large HD + Linux + Win98
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:10:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Jan Fischer> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I have got the following problem:
>I want to install both Linux (SuSE6.4) and Windows 98 on a new system
>with a 20.5 GB Western-Digital IDE HD. I have already spent some time
>trying, but nothing seems to work.
>
>Obviously Windows and Linux cannot agree on the partitioning of the
>harddisk. I have tried both LBA and NORMAL as BIOS modes for the disk.
>Every time the result was that one of the OSes only recognized 500MB or
>8GB of the disk, or the partitions overlapped.
>
>Thus my questions are:
>- which mode is the right one (LBA, NORMAL or LARGE)
>- which software should be used for the partitioning (DOS fdisk,
>Linux fdisk, cfdisk, yast or WD Data Lifeguard)
>- are there special parameters for the kernel or for fdisk that have to
>be specified
>
>So far I think I have found out that Windows only works with LBA, Linux
>only with NORMAL.
Funnily enough I had exactly the same problem last night.
The symptoms look like there's something wrong with the boot sector;
everything copies onto the drive OK, but DOS won't boot off it.
It was actually fine until I noticed that the primary DOS partition
started about 1.2Gb into the disk and moved it with
Partition Magic (fool).
My fix was going to be to use cfdisk to create a 1.5Gb DOS partition at the
front of the drive, carry on installing Slackware and use lilo to recreate a
usable boot sector. And remember *never* to run "lilo -u".
So if LBA is a problem (and I doubt it is), it affects DOS too....
If I find anything useful, I'll let you know.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: "Mark Cookson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache "Forbidden" error in RH 6.2
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:24:34 -0700
I finally figured out what was wrong, the file directive was set to deny
all. Apparently this one directive has priority over all the other ones so
the server couldn't read any of the .html files.
All better now.
Thanks for everyone's help,
Mark
"Mark Cookson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:hoPe5.129$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, I have installed RedHat 6.2, and after getting sendmail working, I'm
> totally stumped by Apache. I can't get to serve even the default pages.
It
> didn't work right out of the box (even locally), and after lots of
fiddling
> I can't get it to serve pages to the localhost, or to remote hosts.
>
> I have checked that the complete path the to html files is world readable
> (and executable), and the strange thing is that the error I get is:
>
> You don't have permission to access / on this server.
> Apache/1.3.12 Server at www.marksplace.org Port 80
>
> How can this be? Isn't / world readable?
>
> The error in the log is:
>
> client denied by server configuration: /home/httpd/html
>
> I have set the owners of the various files and directories to be
> root/nobody.
>
> Any tips would be appreciated as I haven't been able to figure this one
out
> by reading the FAQs and tip pages.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with apache-1.3.12-2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:28:38 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Kousik Nandy> wrote:
>Hello,
> I am running Red Hat Linux 6.1 which came with apache-1.3.9 httpd.
>It was running happily until I upgraded it to apache-1.3.12-2. Earlier the
>URIs http://ipdc_tokyo/ http://ipdc_tokyo.spd.analog.com/ and also
>http://137.71.79.135/ all were fetching the DocumentRoot/index.html but
>after the upgrade only http://137.71.79.135/ works, and other two returns
>an error:
Don't know if it's relevant, but underscores aren't valid characters in
DNS hostnames. Maybe the new apache is more picky than your DNS servers?
As a more practical solution, netcat is handy for impersonating servers.
You could set that up to listen on port 80, and see what headers these
browsers are sending.
Search on freshmeat.net; if the headers look OK, *then* try changing
the hostname, maybe...
>
> Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
>
> Client sent malformed Host header
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Apache/1.3.12 Server at ipdc_tokyo.spd.analog.com Port 80
>
>My hostname (ipdc_tokyo) is resolved by all the nameservers of our domain,
>and I am not using VirtualHost. In the error log I get:
>
>[Thu Jul 27 18:29:07 2000] [error] [client 137.71.22.20] Client sent
>malformed Host header
>
>Anyone got any clue why we can't access the web-server by the hostname but
>can only thru IP address?
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with /dev/agpgart device
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:30:17 -0700
Servicios de proyectos wrote:
>
> Hi :
> I install the kernel 2.2.14-12, I'm try to run X-Windows over my i810 (
> Intel Chipset ). My problem is when run X is aborted, say " can'not open
> /dev/agpgart".
>
> How I create this device ?
> It's supposed that the 2.2.14-12 version include it.
If so, then you should have agpgart.o in your modules directory (usually
/lib/modules/[kernel version]/misc). Try 'locate agpgart.o' to find
it. You'll need to load this first before running X ('/sbin/insmod
agpgart.o').
>
> I view the devices.txt ...
> devices.txt ---------------------------
> 10 char Non-serial mice, misc features
> 175 = /dev/agpgart AGP Graphics Address Remapping Table
>
> But this device is not in my /dev directory.
Then add it. 'man mknod' for info.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Castlewood ORB drive help
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:42:52 -0400
I have installed a EIDE ORB drive as /dev/hdb on my RH 6.1 Linux box.
The 2.2 GB disk that comes with it has a dos partition on it. Does
anyone know how I can reformat and repartition the disk for Linux HD
backup?
Smitty
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From: "fred dorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to setup X?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:48:41 -0400
try the XFCom-i810 X server!!!
you can get it from : ftp://ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/precisio/XFCom/
I recommend getting the the source for the kernel module
I819Gtt!! this is very important to have!! and do a
rpm --rebuild <name of source rpm>
this will built the module for you...then just goto the directory where the
install rpm that you built is and do a
rpm -i <name of install rpm>
and then goto /usr/doc and look for the directory for the XFCom server and
read the readme's!!
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From: "lin juang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cannot get exclusive lock on database
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 01:02:34 +0800
Hi All!
I am a newbit.
When i install "kernel-headers-2.2.5-15CLE.i386.rpm
(use "rpm -i kernel-....rpm command), a message appear and say "cannot get
exclusive lock on database".
can any expert tell me why it appear and what shoud i do.
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From: "tempo32" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Large disk problem
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:03:02 +0200
On a box PIII 550 with redhat 6.1
I use a 6.4 Go for system (some partitions on it).
I have newly got a 40 Go Maxtor for the data I would like to format with
fdisk and mount as a side file system for big amount datas but fdisk doesn't
recognize the size of the disk's blocks and it appears that it sees 512k
block instead of
I forced in lilo my CHS parameters
like 16383,16,63 but with 512k blocks my disk on owns about 9Go instead of
2048k block that would provide 40Go
The first disk is on primary IDE with the CDrom as slave.
This big disk is on secondary IDE in master position
Could someone please tell me a place ta find a solution or much greater for
me post THE solution in that newsgroup
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help, CHAP error
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:58:27 GMT
Hi,
I have problem login to my isp using chap, here is the logfile:
===========================================
Serial connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x545cd29e> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 < 00 04 00 00> <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0x0> <auth
chap MD5> <pcomp> <accomp> < 11 04 05 f4> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 91 2c 45>]
sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 < 00 04 00 00> < 11 04 05 f4> < 13 09 03 00 c0
7b 91 2c 45>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MD5>
<pcomp> <accomp>]
sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MD5>
<pcomp> <accomp>]
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x545cd29e> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x545cd29e> <pcomp>
<accomp>]
rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1 <06fd4fd79de3df84888d0e6f5e597da8>, name
= "tnttlpg1-1"]
sent [CHAP Response id=0x1 <fe3a38a7ce0f123949d032b13d47c86e>, name
= "myusername"]
rcvd [CHAP Failure id=0x1 "\016Request Denied"]
Remote message: ^NRequest Denied
CHAP authentication failed
sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "Failed to authenticate ourselves to peer"]
rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2]
Connection terminated.
=================================
also include my options file:
=============================options
debug
remotename tnttlpg1-1
user myusername
/dev/ttyS1
115200
modem
crtscts
lock
connect /etc/ppp/net-connect
usepeerdns
default-asyncmap
defaultroute
noauth
:
=================================net=connect
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/chat -v -t 60 -f /etc/ppp/net-chat
=================================net=chat
ABORT '\nBUSY\r'
ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r'
ABORT '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r'
ABORT '\nNO CARRIER\r'
"" AT&F\r
OK AT&D2&C1L0\r
OK ATDTXXXXXXXX\r
CONNECT '\d\c'
:--: myusername
word: mypassword
================================chap=secrets
myusername tnttlpg1-1 mypassword
=================================
any suggestion?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Token Ring Network card on Linux
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:58:51 GMT
I've used older IBM cards and older 3Com ISA cards.
> Only IBM ISA cards that are NOT LAN_Streamers are supported. A very
few other cards will work because they use the IBM
> chipset. The very latest PCI card from IBM is also supposed to work,
but I have not tried them yet. I have TR running
> on a number of Linux PC's, including my laptop, but they all use IBM
brand, older model cards.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon He wrote:
> > From: "Simon He" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Newsgroups:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.
os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
> > Subject: Token Ring Network card on Linux
> > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:49:51 +1000
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was trring to setup Red Hat Linux 6.2 on a Token Ring Network,
somehow the
> > token ring card could not be initialized at bootup even after
editing the
> > conf.module file. The error message I'm getting is:
> >
> > localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-12/net/ibmtr.o: init_module:
Device or
> > resource busy
> > localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-12/net/ibmtr.o: insmod tr0
failed
> > localhost kernel: ibmtr: register_trdev() returned non-zero.
> >
> > I have tried both ISA and PCI card but to no avail, could anyone
provide me
> > with solution to this problem ?
> >
> >
> > Simon
> >
>
> Werner Kliewer
> in Winnipeg
>
>
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From: "HSC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Normal Red Hat Install?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:17:02 GMT
The system appears to be working fine.
At the end of every default server installation of RH 6.1, I receive an
error in the background that goes something like, " _X11 TransSocket
UNIXConnect: Can't..." I was unable to get the rest as it was behind the
active "window".
What does this mean? Is this normal for Red Hat installations?
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install Linux from floppy
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:18:56 -0400
to add to what others have said, Debian has a floppy boot, too.
Actually, you can make floppies for a "base system" that will get you
started, then use that system to access files for further installation.
The current base is 7-10 floppies. Then, you can use a serial link (eg
PPP) to another machine with a cdrom to retrieve the rest (or a network
card to ftp or nfs the files, etc.).
Both Debian's base system floppies and Slackwares (A files) are
typically available as floppy disk images somewhere on the distribution
cdrom or distribution www site. Both distributions cdroms have the
tools to write linux disks from dos/win (rawrite), or you can dd the
disk-images from a linux system.
Daniel wrote:
>
> Hi there. Anyone had tried to install Linux distribution totally from floppy
> disk to hardisk?
> Any Linux distribution to recommend?
> I 'm new to Linux and want to use my old laptop (with cdrom) to surf net
> using linux os.
> Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: toshiba satellite 410 415 & linux info
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:18:52 GMT
The Linux Laptop HOW-TO's refers to the following site for
installation help for Toshiba Satellite 410cs:
http://www.eskimo.com/~ians/linux-t410cs.html
However, that document is "Not Found". Anybody know where the
page is now, if anywhere? (I saw other site that give *some* info,
but it sounds like the above site was by far the best.)
Thanks!
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From: "The Magicman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.laptops,japan.comp.toshiba,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ps2 mouse problem with portege 7020 running win98
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:29:02 +0200
There are conflicts with some custom mouse drivers like some versions of the
logitech mouseware.
Ever thought about a USB mouse ?
"U. Moon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Edward T. Rewolinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,apana.lists.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,hk.comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: help with installing printers
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:32:17 GMT
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I have a similar problem to WB's except in my case I have two printers: a HPIV
with ps capability and an Epson 640. The HP is in dos at lpt2 and the Epson is at
lpt1. In linux, the HP works ok pumping out postscript print jobs, but the Epson
doesn't. The conf.modules has three ports set up, two of which reflect the dos
settings along with the aliases. If I attempt to print to the Epson, the job just
causes the print queue to pulsate -- nothing is printed, yes, I'm using an
appropriate Ghostscript filter, etc. I'm using Red Hat 6.2; curiously, all this
worked back under 5.1!
Wally Brock wrote:
> Place the following line into your "/etc/conf.modules" file:
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Wally
>
> Eric Wong wrote:
>
> > Help me please......
> > i've just install RedHat linux 6.0 to act as a server in my office of 8
> > win98pc and 2 Macs, it works fine as a file server. But I hit a brick wall
> > when I tried to install an Epson Laser (EPL-5700L) printer. I couldn't get
> > it work. I look at the printtool section and couldn't find my printer on
> > the select list.
> >
> > The Question is how do I install the printer to act as network printer
> > amongs the pcs and the Macs?? Help is very much appreciated..
> >
> > Thanx you in advance
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Eric
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unable to boot into Linux
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:49:09 +0100
Hi Manfred,
You could try using Yast 1 and making a boot floppy from Lilo.
Gary
"Manfred Suttorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:AXXf5.3865$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> After 2 days trying to get a working SuSE 6.4 installation on my PC, it
gets
> really frustrating....
>
> In setup (YaST2), there are several options where to install LILO to, but
> none of them seem to work.
>
> If I choose to install it to floppy, it doesn't. It doesn't even attempt
to
> access the floppy drive. (The drive is OK. I tried to boot a RedHat boot
> disk and that worked, I used the same drive to create a boot disk using
> rawrite and that worked.)
>
> If I choose to install it to the MBR, it doesn't. After rebooting, LILO
does
> not appear. Instead, the NT boot manager shows up.
>
> Of course, installing the freaking stuff cost you over an hour from start
to
> finish.
>
> Then I decided to create a bootfloppy manually. The manual optimistically
> says: use
> dd if=Your_Kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
> and for Your_Kernel, /boot/vmlinuz should be filled in.
> Of course, it isn't there, and also not in the root (as it used to be
> according to the manual)
>
> Of course, the recommended NT-coexistence install doesn't work for me
> either, because I wouldn't know WHAT to fill in at the 'image=' entry of
> lilo.conf.
>
> When I installed RedHat 5.2 some year ago (on the very same machine, same
> setup with NT), I didn't have all these problems.
> In fact, in utter frustration, I have just re-installed RedHat 5.2 again
and
> it works right away.
> I am NOT impressed, NOT amused, and very tired.
> Can anybody help me get back on track with this one and prevent me
throwing
> the entire SuSE box and CD's in the shredder?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Manfred
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Large HD + Linux + Win98
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:52:15 +0100
I would recommend using text based yast1.You can create and format all your
partitions from that quite easily. I wouldn't waste time with dos fdisk.
Gary
"Rasputin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Jan Fischer> wrote:
> >Hello!
> >
> >I have got the following problem:
> >I want to install both Linux (SuSE6.4) and Windows 98 on a new system
> >with a 20.5 GB Western-Digital IDE HD. I have already spent some time
> >trying, but nothing seems to work.
> >
> >Obviously Windows and Linux cannot agree on the partitioning of the
> >harddisk. I have tried both LBA and NORMAL as BIOS modes for the disk.
> >Every time the result was that one of the OSes only recognized 500MB or
> >8GB of the disk, or the partitions overlapped.
> >
> >Thus my questions are:
> >- which mode is the right one (LBA, NORMAL or LARGE)
> >- which software should be used for the partitioning (DOS fdisk,
> >Linux fdisk, cfdisk, yast or WD Data Lifeguard)
> >- are there special parameters for the kernel or for fdisk that have to
> >be specified
> >
> >So far I think I have found out that Windows only works with LBA, Linux
> >only with NORMAL.
>
> Funnily enough I had exactly the same problem last night.
> The symptoms look like there's something wrong with the boot sector;
> everything copies onto the drive OK, but DOS won't boot off it.
> It was actually fine until I noticed that the primary DOS partition
> started about 1.2Gb into the disk and moved it with
> Partition Magic (fool).
>
> My fix was going to be to use cfdisk to create a 1.5Gb DOS partition at
the
> front of the drive, carry on installing Slackware and use lilo to recreate
a
> usable boot sector. And remember *never* to run "lilo -u".
>
> So if LBA is a problem (and I doubt it is), it affects DOS too....
> If I find anything useful, I'll let you know.
> --
>
> Rasputin.
> Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: "Iwan Wendy Oen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:46:41 +0700
Could anyone help me to install linux ?
I had partitioned my hard drive using fdisk into fat32 fully system no room
for another system, how can i partition my hard drive ?
Thank you very much for your help
regards
Iwan wendy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Gnome or KDE
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:56:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Pig> wrote:
>Hi All:
>
>I am a newbie of Linux and using the SUSE linux 6.3.
>I've tried different GUIs.
>I think the Gnome and KDE are the best.
>So, which one is better? Pls. suggest.
You might as well ask: "Islam or Judaism"?
If anyone needs me, I'll be in my Flame Bunker (pat. pending).
<Any reason you don't want to try them both?>
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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