Linux-Setup Digest #262, Volume #19 Fri, 28 Jul 00 06:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: 3com 3c509b driver ("takebo")
Re: Castlewood ORB drive help (Michael Perry)
Re: Couple 'o Questions (Michael Perry)
Re: Need to shrink linux partition. (E J)
Re: Disk Druid help ("David ..")
MODEM issues ! ("Dirk Van Den Wouwer")
make modules/aci mixer??!! (Peter Bismuti)
RH 6.2 installation crash (Martin Lemenu)
Re: screen resolution (Martin Lemenu)
Clicking noises,sort of crackle with ALSA/SB128 (Hamel Gilles)
Mail Server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Changin the default Passwd file ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mandrake 7.1 on a Sony Vaio N505X (Ben Ritchie)
Re: Installing Mandrake 7.1 (Ben Ritchie)
Manipulating screen resolution on RH6.0 ("Imran M N")
Re: Manipulating screen resolution on RH6.0 (Davide Bianchi)
Re: Gnome or KDE (Chem-R-Us)
[LILO] says "LI" even with small /boot partition (Jerome Sarthe)
Re: [LILO] says "LI" even with small /boot partition (Repo)
Re: Newbie Setup ?? (Stanislaw Flatto)
Setup RH6.0 on Dual CPU Machine (Chiam Choon Yee)
Re: LILO, again (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: [LILO] says "LI" even with small /boot partition (Jerome Sarthe)
Re: Mail Server (Zebee Johnstone)
Re: How to remove LILO (Stanislaw Flatto)
Two windows and one linux (Francisco Mayol)
Re: e2fsck problem (Marco Baiocco)
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From: "takebo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com 3c509b driver
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:16:22 +0900
Hello
I'm beginner of REDHAT
When I am survaying how to detect 3Com 3c509,I found this news.
Please teach me how to apply 3c509B
> If you know irq and io of 3c509(b) card then try supplying this info by
> appending following to the kernel boot command at the end:
> ether=irq,io,0,0,eth0
> e.g., if irq=5, io=0x210, and you have only one ethernet card then this is
> what you supply
> ether=5,0x210,0,0,eth0
> This should work if you have compiled ethernet drivers in the kernel.
> After booting do dmesg | less at the prompt and check if eth0 actually
came
> up.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Castlewood ORB drive help
Date: 28 Jul 2000 05:39:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:42:52 -0400, Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
I own a scsi orb drive. I installed it, put in an orb drive cartridge, left
the drive unmounted, and typed "fdisk /dev/sdc". This then gave me the
partition table on my orb drive. I erased the dos partition, set up a ext2
partition on it, and wrote the file system. I then used mkfs to create a
ext2 file system at /dev/sdc1. End of story. Subtitute the pertinent parts
for your answer.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Couple 'o Questions
Date: 28 Jul 2000 05:43:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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?
>
>2) How do I determine how much space is free per partition?
>
>3) How do I disable Telnet?
>
>Thanks!!
>
1) Open an xterm and type "ps ax" or something akin to that. Do a "man ps" to
see or you can use the command "top" to see what is running.
2) Run the df command inside an xterm such as "df -h". The -h will give
output in readable format or something you are used to.
3) Open up /etc/inetd.conf. Look for a line starting with telnet. Comment
that line out. Then do a kill -HUP on the PID of inetd and it restarts
itself. Often the first few lines of an inetd.conf file tell you how to
kill -HUP it.
Your welcome and have a great day!
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need to shrink linux partition.
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:06:18 -0700
Steve Mading wrote:
> I have an interesting problem. Often people talk about
> how to shrink a Windos partition with FIPS to make room
> for installing Linux, but I need to go the other way
> around. I have a machine that was preconfigured for
> Linux by Dell, and it used the whole hard drive for
> the / and /usr partions and I'd like to shrink one of
> them and make room for a small partition for a minimal
> windows installation. Is there an analogous tool to
> FIPS that does the same thing for ext2 partitions -
> shrinking the partition without destroying data?
ext2resize from the RH6.2 Powertool CD or from a mirrored RH6.2 site
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk Druid help
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 01:25:01 -0500
GL wrote:
>
> I'm using Linux 6.2 with a bash text shell. How do I run Disk Druid?
> I've only seen it on the installer but I'd like to mess around with
> some of my partitions without using "fdisk". Is this even possibile or
> is Disk Druid for installing ONLY?? Thanks
If you are wanting to play around with the partitions on a running
system there is a program named "parted" that may be more of what you
are looking for.
--
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: "Dirk Van Den Wouwer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MODEM issues !
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 06:45:44 GMT
PCI MODEM US ROBOTICS/3COM
SUSE 6.4
A problem to install this config !!!
the lspci -v command tells me : I/O port e800 IRQ 5
The serserial command
$ setserial /dev/modem port 0xe800 irq 5
is executed well...
But YaST(2) does not detect the modem
Can anyone help me ? Thx Dirk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: make modules/aci mixer??!!
Date: 28 Jul 2000 06:44:02 GMT
I'm trying to get a new kernel and am getting this error message when
I try to run make modules:
In file included from radio-miropcm20.c:13:
../sound/lowlevel/miroaci.h:9: #error Compiling a driver that needs the ACI-mixer but
without ACI-mixer support
radio-miropcm20.c: In function `pcm20_mute':
radio-miropcm20.c:33: warning: implicit declaration of function `aci_write_cmd'
radio-miropcm20.c: In function `pcm20_setfreq':
radio-miropcm20.c:73: warning: implicit declaration of function `aci_write_cmd_d'
radio-miropcm20.c: In function `pcm20_getsigstr':
radio-miropcm20.c:81: warning: implicit declaration of function `aci_indexed_cmd'
make[2]: *** [radio-miropcm20.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/char'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_char] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
Anyone know how I can fix this?
Thx
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From: Martin Lemenu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.2 installation crash
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:38:07 -0400
I've been trying to install RH 6.2 on a P133 with no success. I go
through the installation and half way through the rpm installation, it
freezes, then says that it quit abnormally and is rebooting. What gives?
I've had this problem on another computer, but was eventually able to go
through all of it. This one, however, won't finish. I've tried copying
the cd to my HD and do the installation from there in case my cdrom was
at fault, but no, same result. Has anyone had this problem? I have 64
megs of ram and a 4 gig HD. I once installed RH 6.1 on it and it went
fine.
If anyone can help me with this, I would really appreciate it!
Martin
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From: Martin Lemenu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: screen resolution
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:05:04 -0400
XF86Setup works for me. You can reconfigure your graphical setup with this
and specify the resolution and color depth.
Have fun!
Martin
Raphael Wolfe wrote:
> I'm a newbie to linux and would like to know how to change my screen
> resolution. I use Red hat 6.2 and the GNOME Gui. Any help would be much
> appreciated.
> Regards
> Raphael
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From: Hamel Gilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,linux.dev.sound
Subject: Clicking noises,sort of crackle with ALSA/SB128
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:16:22 +0200
Hello,
I have a sound blaster PCI 128 (driver es 1371). My alsa version is
0.5.8 on a kernel 2.2.14. My distrib is suse 6.4.
My problem is describe in "ALSA HOWTO/FAQ" :
===============================================
3. I hear clicking noises,sort of crackle, my card is ens 1370.Any fix?
Apparently, BIOS implementations are supposed to use a round-robin style
of resource management for allocating control of "the bus" between the
CPU and PCI. However, some BIOS
writers found that they could improve benchmarks of their BIOSes if they
gave the CPU a slight advantage over the PCI... (i.e. letting it win
every time both need the bus, which starves the
PCI..) In my BIOS, (flashed to the latest version) this can be turned
off by disabling "PCI Delay Transaction." This gets rid of all of the
sample-rotation-type audio problems that I was
experiencing. The other thing I did was turn on the SDRAM optimization
to 2 instead of 3 cycles for sync... (I think that's what it's called)
and turn off DRAM altogether, since I don't use
any on my motherboard. (This minimizes any remaining clicks by throwing
them outta sync)
===============================================
I have disabled "PCI Delay Transaction." and turned on the SDRAM
optimization to 2 instead of 3 cycles without success.
However, when i boot my linux from Windows 98 with Loadlin this problem
disappear and the sound is clear. Windows must initialize some sound
hardware stuff and linux not.
How to correct this ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mail Server
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 07:24:08 GMT
hi,
I have a Lan with 10 computers , 2 of them as NFS servers and one as
a NIS server. I want to make one of them into a mail server and block
mail reception from the other machines.
Also in the mail configuration , I want some static options for
example , the name by which mail is sent has to be admin-defined.
Please help me out here.
Thanking you in advance
Sandy
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Changin the default Passwd file
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 07:29:38 GMT
hi,
I want to change the default passwd file which is used for nis. I
want to do this to keep priveleged user passwds separate. So ordinary
users should be able to log on any machine in a nis domain with one
passwd file and root etc should be able to use the local passwd file.
Can I do this?
Otherwise can I simply change the passwd file to be used for nis.
Thank You
Sandy
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Ben Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.1 on a Sony Vaio N505X
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:28:13 +0100
Hi All
I'm having problems upgrading from Mandrake 7.0 to 7.1. My Vaio (a
N505X) has a PCMCIA CD-ROM which has, in the past, worked fine provided
that linux is told where to find it, using
linux ide2=0x180,0x386
(This is how I installed Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.x before it). The
Mandrake 7.1 installer suggests that you need expert mode to pass these
parameters. Fine, except I can't get it to work. Whatever I've tried, on
the initial boot up only ide0 and ide1 are detected, and the installer
then asks what driver to use (SCSI or a miscellaneous selection of other
CD-ROM's like the old SB drives, none of which apply). My CD is on ide2,
which hasn't been found anyway, so I can go no further.
Anybody know how I get the installer to detect ide2?
Cheers,
Ben.
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From: Ben Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Mandrake 7.1
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:38:46 +0100
My advice would be to
(1) Repartition the hard disk as required. Use Partition Magic or similar if
you have a windows installation which includes stuff you'd rather not
reinstall. FWIW, Mandrake 7.0 came with a utility to resize a FAT32
partition which worked OK for me - however YMMV, and RTM first.
(2) However you decide to do (1), windows needs to be on the system first.
It doesn't like to share, and the MBR is much better off in the hands of
linux anyway ;-)
(3) Install Mandrake - booting directly from the CD is easiest if your
system allows it, otherwise you can create a boot floppy easily from windows
- take a look in the dosutils directory on the CD for instructions. Mandrake
- and most, probably all other modern distros - are pretty good about
sharing with windows.
(4) When you boot up again you'll get a linux-installed boot manager -
ISTR that Mandrake 7.1 uses GRUB, not LILO. It will give you the choice of
booting into linux or windows. Of course, it will probably make Linux the
default (and, hey, that's not a bad thing).
Best of luck - mail me if you need any more info
Ben.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK, I've heard all the hype about Linux, and are downloading Mandrake 7.1
> right now. I am wondering what is the process of getting the system
> prepped, etc. I am going to be installing it on a PC other than the one
> I'm DLing it from. Anyway, it is running Win 98 SE now, and I have System
> Commander. I would like to keep that, and be able to boot with either. I
> am wondering what I install first, and I have heard that Mandrake takes
> over the MBR and all that. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: "Imran M N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Manipulating screen resolution on RH6.0
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:27:02 +0800
Hi All
I have RedHat 6.0 installed on my system. Trouble is the screen resolution
is extremely small such that everything appears inflated. Can someone tell
me how to increase the screen resolution. Thanks.
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to this newsgroup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Manipulating screen resolution on RH6.0
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:05:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:27:02 +0800, "Imran M N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I have RedHat 6.0 installed on my system. Trouble is the screen resolution
>is extremely small such that everything appears inflated. Can someone tell
>me how to increase the screen resolution. Thanks.
>
Usually, pressing CTRL/ALT+ (the gray + on the numeri keypad), you can
increase the resolution accordly to what configured in your X config
file. In the same way, using CTRL/ALT- you decrease the resolution.
Davide
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:06:10 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Gnome or KDE
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.
Given the choice of those two, use KDE (Gnome is slower).
--
Chem-R-Us
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From: Jerome Sarthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [LILO] says "LI" even with small /boot partition
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:31:53 +0200
Hi all
Here is again a problem with Lilo.
As usually, it is just displaying "LI" when booting.
I've checked many documentations that claims booting
via a floppy and running /sbin/lilo should solve this
problem.
Did it many times, checked lilo configuration, and it
is still refusing writing "LO" after "LI".
I also tried to fdisk /mbr after booting from a DOS floppy,
then back into linux (via floppy again) and run /sbin/lilo
again. This did not change the lilo behavior.
Here is the fstab :
/dev/sda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb1 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode0622 0 0
where /dev/sda1 is 15 Mo big at the beginning of first disk.
also, here is my lilo.conf
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15smp
label=linux
root=/dev/sda6
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15smp.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux-up
root=/dev/sda6
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img
read-only
Don't know if this shows a big mistake (I hope it does), but
thanks to help.
By the way, why is linux (fdisk or somebody else) numbering partitions
always 1, 5 and 6 ? Why not just 1, 2 and 3 ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Bye for now,
Jerome
Thanks
Jerome
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| Jerome Sarthe |
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-----"Don't force it, get a larger hammer !"-----
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From: Repo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LILO] says "LI" even with small /boot partition
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:34:08 +0200
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jerome Sarthe wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Here is again a problem with Lilo.
>
>As usually, it is just displaying "LI" when booting.
>I've checked many documentations that claims booting
>via a floppy and running /sbin/lilo should solve this
>problem.
>Did it many times, checked lilo configuration, and it
>is still refusing writing "LO" after "LI".
>
>I also tried to fdisk /mbr after booting from a DOS floppy,
>then back into linux (via floppy again) and run /sbin/lilo
>again. This did not change the lilo behavior.
>
>Here is the fstab :
>
>/dev/sda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/sdb1 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>none /dev/pts devpts mode0622 0 0
>
>
>where /dev/sda1 is 15 Mo big at the beginning of first disk.
>
>also, here is my lilo.conf
>
>
>boot=/dev/sda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15smp
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda6
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15smp.img
> read-only
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=linux-up
> root=/dev/sda6
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img
> read-only
>
>
>Don't know if this shows a big mistake (I hope it does), but
>thanks to help.
>
>
>By the way, why is linux (fdisk or somebody else) numbering partitions
>always 1, 5 and 6 ? Why not just 1, 2 and 3 ?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>Bye for now,
>Jerome
>
>
>Thanks
>Jerome
Jerome
Perhaps a typo?
try
boot=/dev/sda1
--
Good Luck
Repo
ICQ 69588792
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
http://beginnerslinux.org
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)Kernel 2.2.5-15
11:35am up 6 days, 14:02, 3 users, load average: 2.32, 2.62, 2.64
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Setup ??
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:36:30 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Thanks in advance for responses.
>
> I have full version of Partition Magic and could do partitioning
> in advance. The / (root), user, etc is a little confusing.
a) On "virgin" drive no need to use Partition Magic - the OS programms
fdisk or cfdisk are called and can do the job.
b) As absolute minimum you need two partitions swap and root. With your
resources a swap of about 120M is enough. Your distro will install many
documents in which you will find info about Linux partitions and their
organisation. The main point is: It is a multiuser OS so the file system
is set in such a way that the users are unably to destroy other users
info nor disably programs. With time you will learn it - now accept the
defaults of your distribution.
>
>
> Wanting basic single user workstation setup.
> KDE ?
> Gnome ?
>
Try them all - you are in "window shopping" stage.
>
> In the end I would like to put the windows drive back in and
> use bios to tell system which drive to boot to.
No need to use BIOS. LInux LOader - LILO for short does it on many
boxes, it is standart part of every Linux distro.
>
> I would like to keep both systems totally separate.
>
> All constructive critisisim accepted.
>
> :-) Greg B.
And quoting SuSE "Have a lot of fun..."
--
Stanislaw on Slak 7.1
Registered on Linux counter No. 162760.
Even put Ulladulla on their database.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiam Choon Yee)
Subject: Setup RH6.0 on Dual CPU Machine
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:34:01 GMT
How do I set up RH6.0 on a Dual CPU machine so that it maximizes both
the CPUs? Any pointer to any docs?
Thanks.
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO, again
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:44:26 +0000
Robp2001 wrote:
> could someone help PLEASE !!!!
I would like but:
> lilo is set up to auto boot linux after about 10 secs. I go into KLILO to
> change this, but when i write to disk, it says LILO died.....
What the heck is KLILO? for changing /etc/lilo.conf any editor will do. (as
root)
> what could I be doing wrong.? any ideas?
Using "helper" programs instead of the stuff residing between your ears, I
know, I know, I am lazy too.
>
> + i cant find out info easy, cos' im in windows at the mo. , (yes i know, i
> hate it too.. :-) )
>
> - i wont re post this again.
Have fun...
--
Stanislaw on Slak 7.1
Registered on Linux counter No. 162760.
Even put Ulladulla on their database.
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From: Jerome Sarthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LILO] says "LI" even with small /boot partition
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:54:12 +0200
Not. This does not change anything.
Repo a �crit :
>
>
> Jerome
> Perhaps a typo?
>
> try
> boot=/dev/sda1
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| Jerome Sarthe |
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-----"Don't force it, get a larger hammer !"-----
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebee Johnstone)
Subject: Re: Mail Server
Date: 28 Jul 2000 08:38:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.setup on Fri, 28 Jul 2000 07:24:08 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi,
> I have a Lan with 10 computers , 2 of them as NFS servers and one as
>a NIS server. I want to make one of them into a mail server and block
>mail reception from the other machines.
> Also in the mail configuration , I want some static options for
>example , the name by which mail is sent has to be admin-defined.
> Please help me out here.
>
Get postfix, it's far easier than sendmail to deal with.
get it, install it, read the instructions. Doing things like all mail
going out is [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] is easy.
I recommend postfix because it is simple, it doesn't need root privs,
it's less prone to hack attempts and it's far easier to configure for
things like virtual domains.
Blocking mail reception is easy - don't have anything listening for
mail. Stop sendmail or equivalent from running on those machines
listening on port 25.
Set up postfix to accept mail from your local machines and mail for
your local machines, then decide how the users will get the mail -
POP, IMAP, shell account, whatever.
For example you could have /var/spool/mail mounted as an NFS drive on
all machines, mail is parked there and their mail program reads it.
That has the drawback that mount race conditions can happen, and huge
mailboxes can slow the whole thing down.
Zebee
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awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating
System Administrators in technical as well as professional issues.
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to remove LILO
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:57:28 +0000
Tony Tremblay wrote:
Hi!
Prepare DOS bootable diskette Ver.6.2 is good enough, copy FDISK.EXE
on it. Boot your box and with FDISK delete all partitions (Linux
partitions register as NON-DOS) then call FDISK /MBR.
You get a pristine hard drive.
As you are going MS-Glassware I cannot greet you with "Have fun..."
Cheers
--
Stanislaw on Slak 7.1
Registered on Linux counter No. 162760.
Even put Ulladulla on their database.
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From: Francisco Mayol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Two windows and one linux
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:22:11 +0200
Hi,
My problem is that I need to install two different version of Windows
95 in only one hard disk and also, in a third partition, Linux.
I have partitioned my hard disk as follow:
/dev/hda1 ---> first Windows 95 installation
/dev/hda2 ---> second Windows 95 installation
/dev/hda3 ---> SuSE Linux 6.2
I have set the two first partitions as bootable using fdisk and I have
configured LILO in order to boot them with three different labels (W1,
W2, LX). Well, when I select W1 or W2 in the prompt of LILO, the first
Windows always boots, of course if I type LX, Linux boots. Then I put
only the second partition as bootable and in this case, typing W1 or W2
always boots the second Windows. Finally, I have removed the bootable
property to the two partitions, and in this case, like in the first,
always the first Windows boots.
I would like to be able of boot the three partitions without need the
use of fdisk.
Anybody knows how can I solve this problem?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
All the best,
Paco.
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From: Marco Baiocco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: e2fsck problem
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:08:04 +0200
On 27 Jul 2000 21:59:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:09:32 +0200, Marco Baiocco wrote:
>> It has always run fine till now, and it still does, but
>>today I have noticed a small warning during the boot messages.
>>It says something like the checking time has arrived, and that it
>>should be wise to run e2fsck on the linux partitions. It has nothing
>>to do with the maximal mount count, though, because it was written
>>before, during and after the "forced check" due to the mount count.
>>But then the warning still popped out. What should I do to convince
>>linux I'm a good guy and I regularly check my filesystems, and that I
>>just checked them?
>
>This is a bit odd, since an fsck should set the "time since last check"
>field appropriately. Anyway, you can disable the message by entering
>"tune2fs -i 0 /dev/hdXY" when that particular partition is mounted
>read-only. Have a look at the man page for tune2fs as well....
I did. It didn't work. I tried either with -i 0 and with -C 0, fooling
it by telling that it was the first time it was mounting the
filesystem, but it didn't work in neither of the two ways: it still
says something like:
EXT2 Warning: checktime reached: running e2fsck is recommended.
Any other clue? Can I brute force alter that counter? If yes, how?
Thanks,
Marco
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