Linux-Setup Digest #269, Volume #19 Sat, 29 Jul 00 01:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Toshiba Satellite 225CDS ("Evan DiBiase")
Re: booting from ls120 superfloppy (Gene Wiggins)
Re: Copying files to Win98 directory (Gene Wiggins)
compiler question ("Craig A. Lebowitz")
"linux single" won't work Can't boot. (J. Roe)
new modem - aaaaack!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: compiler question ("David ..")
Re: apache UserDir question ("djmiller")
Re: Q abt Lilo (Gene Wiggins)
WU-FTP Anon Users (Jeremy Huddleston)
Re: Token Ring Network card on Linux (Gene Wiggins)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (brian moore)
Re: cant boot redhat 6.2 with loadlin (Gene Wiggins)
red hat linux installer can not find my hard disk (John)
Newbie Mandrake Problem
Re: System freezes minutes after startx (Gene Wiggins)
Re: Gnome or KDE (Charlie Ebert)
Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated (Gene Wiggins)
Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha... (Christian Weisgerber)
Re: X freezes (Gene Wiggins)
Iomega Ditto 3200 Configuration (ECStahl)
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From: "Evan DiBiase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Toshiba Satellite 225CDS
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:21:08 -0500
Hello,
I just got a Toshiba Satellite 225CDS, and want to install Linux on it.
I'm very familiar with Linux, but not so familiar with Linux on a laptop.
I'm having some problems, and I'm getting annoyed about it :)
Basically, the Red Hat (and Mandrake 7.0) installs see my PCMCIA cards
(on top, a 3Com 3C589B card, on bottom, a USR Megahertz 56K PC Card Modem)
as "Anonymous Memory" devices, which is unfortunate because I need the
installers to see the network card (the computer has no CD-ROM drive).
Has anyone heard of this before? Any leads would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks.
Evan
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: booting from ls120 superfloppy
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:29:50 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> From: "Kieran Tyrrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone managed to get a linux system to boot from a 120MB ls120
> superfloppy?
>
> So far i have tried:
There are several possibilities. Some of them might even work. My
sister boots into DOS and uses the loadlin approach. That's pretty
stratightforward. It does, however, require you to boot from a
non-linux source.
If you can get someone with a "normal" diskette drive to copy the
kernel to a standard diskette, you might be able to boot that way.
Of course, you'll have to set all the parameters in the kernal using
rdev.
>
> make bzdisk (changing /dev/fd0 for /dev/hdb which is the ls120)
> results: I get a crc error when 'Uncompressing Linux...'
>
> treating the ls120 as a hard disk and installing lilo in the MBR of
> /dev/hdb
> results: at bootup lilo reports
> LILO
> Error 0x01
>
> creating a partition on the ls120 and installing lilo in /dev/hdb1
> results: 'LIL' ... hang...
>
> Anyone have any ideas?! Im sure it's possible, but I'm not having
> much luck
> yet!!!
>
> Kieran.
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-- Gene Wiggins
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Copying files to Win98 directory
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:37:08 -0500
Sure. Edit /etc/fstab to allow you to mount it as a regular
(non-root) user:
/dev/hda1 /win vfat noauto,user 0 0
This allows regular users to mount.
Steve wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I can not copy files to the Win98 ( /win ) directory when I am not
> root. Is there a way to set the permissions so I can do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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-- Gene Wiggins
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From: "Craig A. Lebowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compiler question
Date: 29 Jul 2000 03:38:29 GMT
I recently installed Redhat 6.2, and I guess I failed to install the development tools
- gcc, cc, make, etc.
I have access to the redhat 6.2 rpms. Could someone suggest the specific RPM's I need
to install all the development tools?
craig
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From: J. Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "linux single" won't work Can't boot.
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 03:34:40 GMT
Hi,
After running sndconfig and modifying the conf.modules file I can't boot
into linux from LILO. It freezes when attempting to load the sound
module. I don't know what to do. I've tried linux single, linux rescue
and nothing works. I'm running RH 6.2.
There has to be a way I can get into my system and modify the
appropriate file. I hope someone can help me.
I've also tried to boot from the install CD running linux rescue, but, I
don't know what to do once I've booted. When I go into /etc I don't see
any config files.
Please help.
--
Janine Roe
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the less i know, the more i want to look around...
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: new modem - aaaaack!!!
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 03:40:40 GMT
I'm going nuts. This is fairly lengthy; hope you'll bear with me.
I have just installed a U.S.Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem, model #
00568500 (I had checked at a website (~gromitk?) that it would work).
I actually had troubles installing it in Windows, but finally got
around the issue when I used the CD's software instead of the driver
that Windows wanted to use.
Beside the point for Linux I guess. Anyway, I installed the modem in
Linux, following Bill Unruh's very helpful 'How to hook up PPP in
Linux'. It worked very well with a previous modem installation.
The new modem installed properly initially, and I was able to run pppd
in the command mode, and in X Window, using Kppp. The next day, when
I next fired up Linux and tried to go online, the modem was found to
be busy.
I looked for a lock file but found none; I tried the killall pppd
command, but pppd wasn't running; I tried other possible ttySs without
success. When I run /usr/sbin/pppd I do get the garbage. But I can't
connect to my ISP.
I tried using the 'setserial -v /dev/ttySx port 0xXXX irq Y uart
16550A command; I ran dmesg to find out what settings Llinux wants to
use, as opposed to what Windows is using. I tried both. (They are
normal settings - Windows uses COM3 irq 5 range 03F8-03FF, Linux wants
to use ttyS0, irq 4 range 03E8-03EF.
I tried accessing the control panel logged into X Window as root. The
buttons for network and modem depressed, but no function window opened
up.
Sigh. Any help would be gratefully received.
Allison Sage
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compiler question
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:43:54 -0500
"Craig A. Lebowitz" wrote:
>
> I recently installed Redhat 6.2, and I guess I failed to install the development
>tools - gcc, cc, make, etc.
> I have access to the redhat 6.2 rpms. Could someone suggest the specific RPM's I
>need to install all the development tools?
>
> craig
egcs...rpm
make...rpm
--
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "djmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: Re: apache UserDir question
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:00:08 GMT
I had the same problem. You need to set all /home/user directories to world
readable (rwx---r--). (If your users want private files, they can create a
directory under /home/user with only owner permissions.)
"Scott Beckman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Apache and am stumped as to how to get the
> http://my.compter.com/~user to refer to /home/user/www/index.html
>
> I've set in srm.conf:
>
> UserDir /home/*/www
>
> In access.conf I've set
>
> <Directory /home/*/www>
> Order Deny,Allow
> Allow from All
>
> Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
>
> AllowOverride None
>
> order allow,deny
> allow from all
>
> </Directory>
>
> Then I restarted the server with the command
>
> apachectl restart
>
> and received no warnings
>
> Then I've written a short file for /home/user/index.html and changed the
> permissions with
>
> chmod 777 -R /home/user/www
>
> When I try http://my.compter.com/~user
>
> I'm given a page showing, "You are not authorized to view this page"
>
> So what am I forgetting? I've read through the manual several times,
> but can't seem to find the mistake in my work.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Scott
> --
> ====================================================
> Scott Beckman
>
> University of California at Berkeley
> Material Science and Mineral Engineering Department
> 577 Evans Hall #1760
> Berkeley, CA 94720-1760
>
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> =====================================================
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q abt Lilo
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:58:29 -0500
If you repartition your disk so that your /boot directory is on a
partion below the 1023 cylinder (or is it 1024?) it doesn't make any
difference where the kernel is located. This helped me when I had
already installed Linux on a partition that crossed the 1023
cylinder boundary. I had a little unused space below 1023 that I
made into a small partition of about 10Meg and copied /boot there,
and deleted it from it's previous location. Made /boot partition
bootable with fdisk.
Michael wrote:
>
> How to enable lilo start kernel beyond HD cyl. 1023
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From: Jeremy Huddleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WU-FTP Anon Users
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:11:47 -0700
Anyone know why for some reason anon users of my ftp server can't see
any files via 'ls', but they can get and mget them just fine.
I'm using the latest version of wuftp
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From: Gene Wiggins <[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: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:09:03 -0500
Madge makes several token ring cards with drivers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 29 Jul 2000 04:23:26 GMT
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:47:24 -0700,
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Red Hat is a sinking ship?
>
> Red Hat's CFO is abandoning ship.
Or he got a better offer. Or he likes California more than North
Carolina.. or lots of things.
> http://www.it-director.com/00-07-28-3.html
Gads, you get business analysis from an IT trade rag? That's akin to
using Penthouse as a dating guide.
Get a clue.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cant boot redhat 6.2 with loadlin
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:24:54 -0500
If your root partition (the partition where the root of the file
system directory tree is located) is the second partition, this
should work:
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2
Any other parameters you need to pass can also be passed on this
line.
Carl Montgomery wrote:
>
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: red hat linux installer can not find my hard disk
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:30:03 GMT
I tried to install Red hat Linux 6.1 from a CD with server installation but
got a message back saying that it could not find hda ("no such
file/directory"). Is there somehting wrong with the CD?
Thanks a lot!
John
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie Mandrake Problem
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:30:04 GMT
OK, I'm having problems. I just installed Mandrake 7.1, and now I can't
get it to work with my CD-ROM. I have a Mitsumi IDE CD, and when it asks
what driver to use, I have tried Mitsumi, Mitsumi Alternate, and the cd-
ide. I told it to automatically figure out the settings. How do I get this
to work? Thanks a million.
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System freezes minutes after startx
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:29:16 -0500
Possibly is power management enabled on your machine? That shouldn't
make any difference, but who knows? You might also check your
system logs and dmesg output. Maybe something there will help
identify the problem.
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-- Gene Wiggins
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've got an HP Kayak XA system that I just converted from NT to Linux
> (RedHat 6.2). The system stays up if I stay in the standard terminal
> mode that you get when you log in. However, if I go into X-windows
> then the system will freeze (won't respond to pings, etc.) after a
> short period of time (10 - 120 seconds). This happens *every* time.
>
> While I can do much of my work without X-windows, I'd love to have it
> running. Can anyone point me in the right direction for what to look
> for? The test patterns for Xconfigurator worked fine during the
> install (found the video card and I set the monitor to the correct
> name) and also when I ran it separately afterward.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --Warren
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: Charlie Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Gnome or KDE
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:37:21 GMT
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.
When GNOME and KDE were first released, I used KDE as I
liked it's looks better. It was also more stable than GNOME
at the time.
I still think KDE has an appearance EDGE over GNOME but,
GNOME is more stable with 1.2 and it seems to have nicer
toys than KDE does.
I used to use KDE on Suse.
So, I'm GNOMING now on Debian.
And GNOMING on DEBIAN is COOL!
Charlie
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:36:10 -0500
By any chance, are the keyboard and mouse USB?
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
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Robert Schumacher
> remove IDONTTHINKSO to reply by e-mail
> "I've always wondered why the needle is sterilized for execution by lethal
> injection."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Weisgerber)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha...
Date: 29 Jul 2000 03:47:23 +0200
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The AlphaServer 2100 will be supported in FreeBSD 4.1, to be released
> >any day now.
>
> Multiprocessor ?
No. SMP support in FreeBSD/alpha-CURRENT has been "real soon now"
for quite some time. However, considering that the whole SMP thing
is about to be ripped apart completely in the move for fine-grained
locking, this may yet take a while.
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X freezes
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:39:08 -0500
X can be a challenge if things are not quite right. I've had
problems with Trident cards and X.
You might check and see if you can get XFree86 version 3.3.6. Try
downloading from SuSe. They have very good X support.
WF wrote:
>
> I tried to install XFree and initially I had problems installing RH6.2 in
> GUI mode because the computer just freezes on me. So I installed RH6.2 in
> text mode and tried to install X when I was done with RH6.2.
> Problem started when I tried to startx and I did get it to start for a few
> seconds then the entire screen freezes and so is my system. The mode that
> the autoconfig selected for me was 1024*768 # 32bpp. When X managed to start
> for a brief moment I could see that the colours were right and suddenly a
> blank screen with white stripes appeared and the system freezes.
> I use a Trident 3DImage975 AGP card and an unlisted monitor... basically a
> monitor by the brand name Likom. But I have the manual and I entered
> everything as per the monitor manual suggested.
> What could be the problem? The SVGA server? My monitor? The clock setting?
> Hope someone can help me out here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ECStahl)
Date: 29 Jul 2000 05:04:33 GMT
Subject: Iomega Ditto 3200 Configuration
I have an internal Iomega Ditto Easy 3200, presently attached directly to the
floppy controller (will try the accelerator card later).
My Linux is SuSE 6.4.
The software configuration for the tape drive does not appear straight forward
- even after reading the Howto's and misc docs. Does someone have the real life
step-by-step procedures for the software configuration of this tape drive, with
and without the accelerator card?
Your assistance appreciated
(This will help me get off MS Windows/NT as my primary desktop platform)
Eric Stahl
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