Linux-Setup Digest #270, Volume #19 Sat, 29 Jul 00 04:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: PPP problems, help! (Bob Martin)
user user mailbox doesn't exist; how do I create? (Cafall)
Re: configuring a pci modem....hmm?
Installing Linux on a Win ME + Win 2K dual booting system
corrupt partition? ("LeeRoy")
Emergency boot floppy on SCSI system. Unable to create boot floppy with LS120's
("Magix news")
Re: How to set hardware time correctly from shell? (David Efflandt)
tinylogin, passwd cmd complains: Cannot determine your user name. (Yibing Fan)
Re: terminal colors (Alan Tam)
Re: Which version to install? (Gene Wiggins)
Re: Linux doesn't boot from an extended partition (Gene Wiggins)
Database ("Deon Boshoff")
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Christopher Browne)
Re: [LILO] "linear" - explanation (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: How to remove LILO(Part 2 and a half) (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP problems, help!
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:31:03 -0500
Ivan Lima wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a Linux laptop at home running Red Hat 6.2, and I'm trying to
> connect to network at work through a modem. I set up the ppp and chat
> configuration files (through netcfg) and the modem seems to be working
> fine. The modem dials in and the connection is established, but a few
> seconds later the connection is terminated and the modem starts to
> dial again.
>
> In my /var/log/messages file I have:
>
> ...
> Serial connection established.
> Using interface ppp0.
> LCP: timed out sending config requests.
> Connection terminated.
> Receive serial link is not 8 bit clean.
> Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0.
> Hangup (SIGHUP).
> Exit.
>
> Then in one of the FAQs I found:
>
> " 'The line is not 8 bit clean'. This means that you need to have
> eight data bits, no parity, and on stop bit. The PPP link absolutely
> requires eight data bits"
And check the ppp howto, it also says this is because the ppp server on
the other end is not starting before you are trying to start pppd
--
Bob Martin
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From: Cafall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: user user mailbox doesn't exist; how do I create?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:18:38 GMT
I started to delve into my Mandrake 7.0 mail system recently and am a
newbie to the more intricate (non-http) administration issues. (ie,
Apache's almost second-nature, but sendmail baffles me) =)
I installed the mutt mail reader yesterday and get the following error
upon startup:
"/var/spool/mail/username: No such file or directory (errno = 2)"
Even though mutt gives me this message, I'm certain that this is a setup
issue because my $MAIL shell variable is (as above)
"/var/spool/mail/username".
I checked /var/spool/mail (which exists), but there is not one entry in
the directory; it's completely empty.
I assume I have to go through some sort of process to create a mailbox
here and would appreciate any help you could offer me, be it redirection
to another newsgroup, or anything.
TIA,
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configuring a pci modem....hmm?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:30:05 GMT
Rob Clark wrote:
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >the modem is a - Conexant
> > MDP 3880-w-modem (w for win I assume)
>
> Sorry, it's a Conexant HSF (soft) modem-- you need those Windows drivers
> :(
>
> Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>
Thanks for the info. Goin to get dsl soon anyways. :)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux on a Win ME + Win 2K dual booting system
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:30:07 GMT
I'm considering trying this again (I've tried before with Win 2k and
Win98), but usually Linux messes up my installation of Win 2k, by
replacing the MBR, but without the Linux MBR, I can't boot Linux (without
a boot floppy). Is there a way these three can coexist? Is there a good
bootloader someone could recommend that might let me boot all three? Thank
you!
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From: "LeeRoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: corrupt partition?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:41:39 -0600
I ran fdisk /mbr from my win 98 startup disk.
I was trying to get rid of windows completely so I only have linux.
however when I try to boot my boot disk or something else I can't access my
partition anymore to reload lilo??
I can run fdisk see's everything fine.
I can run e2fsck it says everything is fine
but when I try to mount it I get this message
EXT2-fs: 03:01: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features.
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblick on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems
How do I fix this? any help greatly appreciated
If there is no other way then the last resort will the to reload from start
but I would rather not do that.
Thanks
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From: "Magix news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.dev.newbie,linux.redhat.install,sg.linux
Subject: Emergency boot floppy on SCSI system. Unable to create boot floppy with
LS120's
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:07:32 +0800
Installed Linux the other day.
My system has no real floppy . IRQ 7 is free.
I use an LS120 on 1 IDE channel.
All my HD's are SCSI. Windows 2000 is on my primary partition and a few
other disks in extended partitions are NTFS 5.
This seemed to create my first problem. I could not create a boot floppy
using the Red Hat 6.2 installer. Hangs on create boot floppy.
I skipped the boot floppy creation, installed Linux with no other problems.
Did not install LILO.
I thought I would use the supplied red hat boot floppy disk.
I tried vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 at the lilo boot: prompt.
Seems to work but no SCSI driver is loaded.
So I get a VF failiure.
Any ideas how to get my AH2940 driver working and my machine to boot into
Linux.
Grahame
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to set hardware time correctly from shell?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:52:20 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28 Jul 2000 10:31:00 -0700, Charlie Zender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks, rdate works as advertised and is much simpler to use than
>hwclock for my purposes.
You should still use hwclock (or setclock in RedHat) to set the hardware
clock/calendar so it will be correct when you reboot to that other OS.
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From: Yibing Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.sources.kernel
Subject: tinylogin, passwd cmd complains: Cannot determine your user name.
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:59:37 GMT
Hi Everyone,
I build a single floppy boot diskette.
I am using busybox, tinylogin and kernel 2.2.14.
I config it with a sh on ttyS0 and getty on ttyS1.
On ttyS0 I got console, no login needed.
On ttyS1, I cannot login because incorrect password.
On console, I try to adduser. It complains "Cannot determine your user
name." due to passwd command.
But if I use logname or whoami, I got first enter in the passwd file if
it exist, otherwise blank. Other cmd works, such as mount. May be
something missing for passwd command.
Please help, I struggled with this for a few days now.
Many Thanks an advance!
Yibing Fan
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From: Alan Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: terminal colors
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 06:21:55 +1200
man setterm.
"B.Lim" wrote:
> Sorry for this silly question but how do I change colour of text on virtual
> terminal to white on Redhat 6.2 instead of being stuck with the boring
> greyish colour.
>
> Thanks.
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which version to install?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:20:11 -0500
I've used several distributions. My favorite is now SuSE 6.4
although I had good success with older Caldera versions too. Caldera
Open Linux 2.4 had some things that changed significantly from 2.3,
so I switched to SuSE. COL 2.3 is great, though, as is COL 2.2, and
I've used SuSE 6.1 and SuSE 6.2. The last Redhat I used was 5.1.
Before that, 3.03. They worked okay. I haven't tried Redhat
recently, so it might be pretty good too. I just go with Caldera or
SuSE because of price. Redhat seems a little high.
I don't know what will happen with the STB card. I am not familiar
with it. Caldera does a very nice job of setting up video cards.
SuSE does well too.
Kitty Kat wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to Linux and know just a bit of Unix. I would like to install
> something easy to setup and use. My computer is 2 years old P300, 64M ram,
> STB Velocity Video Card, SB compatible Sound Card. So far I'm considering
> Mandrake and Red Hat. Would like to be able to boot to multiple OS (not just
> two). Is BDS an alternative for a newbie?
>
> Any comments and web addresses appreciated,
> Kitty
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux doesn't boot from an extended partition
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:45:01 -0500
I think /boot partition has to be primary partition instead of
logical. Try that.
See if it solves the problem. The rest of the Linux partitions can
be anywhere, but it seems to me the /boot partition must be in a
primary partition completely contained below 1023 cylinders.
Stefan H=F6rz wrote:
> =
> Hi,
> =
> I installed SuSE Linux 6.4 on my first Computer and it worked without
> any porblem (see the partition tables below).
> Then I put the Harddisk in a second computer an booting failed.
> Lilo stopped with "LI".
> All my partitions are inside an extended partition but /boot is below
> cyl. 1024
> =
> After booting from a bootdisk the system is working fine.
> Then I reinstalled lilo with /sbin/lilo (see lilo.conf below) but the
> problem remained.
> =
> Is the problem, that the boot partition is in an extended partition?
> Lilo should be in the MBR.
> =
> What could be the problem?
> =
> Stefan H=F6rz
> =
> ---------------------------------
> # fdisk /dev/hda
> =
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1240.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> =
> Command (m for help): p
> =
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1240 cylinders
> Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> =
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Mount-Point
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1240 9960268+ 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 1 33 265009+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 34 36 24066 83 Linux /boot
> /dev/hda7 37 355 2562336 83 Linux /
> /dev/hda8 356 738 3076416 83 Linux /usr
> /dev/hda9 739 1240 4032283+ 83 Linux /var
> =
> Command (m for help): q
> =
> #
> --------------------------------
> Meine Mount-Points sind folgende
> =
> # df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda7 2481936 257872 2095948 11% /
> /dev/hda8 2979840 996792 1829228 35% /usr
> /dev/hda9 3905676 31004 3673060 1% /var
> /dev/hda6 22547 2291 19053 11% /boot
> =
> #
> ---------------------------------
> =
> /etc/lilo.conf:------------------
> =
> # LILO Konfigurations-Datei
> # Start LILO global Section
> # If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=3D/bin/bash,
> # restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the
> option
> # restricted.
> #password=3Dbootpwd
> #restricted
> initrd=3D/boot/initrd
> boot=3D/dev/hda
> #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
> vga=3Dnormal
> read-only
> prompt
> timeout=3D100
> # End LILO global Section
> #
> image =3D /boot/2.2.16
> root =3D /dev/hda7
> label =3D 2.2.16
> =
> #
> image =3D /boot/vmlinuz
> root =3D /dev/hda7
> label =3D linux
> =
> -------------------------------
-- =
-- Gene Wiggins
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From: "Deon Boshoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Database
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:33:04 +0200
We are looking for a free multi purpose php database structure for learning
and to be amended and used in different ways.
Any help will be appreciated.
Deon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 06:48:12 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when brian moore would say:
>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.
Indeed. And there _could_ have been something negative about RHAT.
Although it seems more likely that it would have something to do with
the fact that six months ago, the "startups" were looking exceedingly
good, and the stock market is now taking a dimmer view of them. Which
doesn't forcibly have anything _direct_ to do with RHAT.
I seem to remember "Rasterman" moving to California because he
didn't like the nightlife in the Research Triangle, so there are
certainly reasons and to spare...
>> 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.
I once had a coworker who tried to impress people with jokes out
of Playboy. The less-than-impressive part was that his family ran a
convenience store, and it was fairly evident that most of the things he
read were borrowed from the family newsstand. Suffice it to say this
did _not_ impress the women in the office...
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Mary had a little lambda
A sheep she couldn't clone
And every where that lambda went
Her calculus got blown
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LILO] "linear" - explanation
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 16:53:39 +0000
Jerome Sarthe wrote:
> Hi all
> However, few questions remain.
>
> 1. Could somebody explain (more than the man page :) what
> is this "linear" meaning ?
Just by chance browsed my directory tree and went
/usr/doc/lilo(xx.yy-zz) [this represents the version
number] and there found a lenghthy document explaining lilo. It touched
the subject of "linear" reading of hard drives.
>
> 2. I noticed that "LILO boot" is (at least) displayed on
> startup, but that the kernel is loading pretty slow now.
> Is this "slowliness" efficient only during boot time or
> will my machine run slow all the time ?
Slow is relative, maybe some hickup in hardware configuration, if so it
will surface everytime you access this part.
> Thanks in advance for your answers.
>
> Jerome
>
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> -------------------------------------------------
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to remove LILO(Part 2 and a half)
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 17:14:41 +0000
Tony Tremblay wrote:
> Thanks for the help. Just manage to wipe out LILO and the Linux native
> partitions by using the Linux partition utility which comes with DrakX. MS
> fdisk just couldn,t do the job...
> Now running back Win98 since last night after a year of Linux, and it feels
> really really really bad. Windows crashed 5 times after only 20 minutes it
> was installed.
> I didn't remember how slow and sluggish that OS was...
> I will come back home soon to my favorite penguin !
By chance a diskette created from MS-Glassware DOS-PROMPT window.?
This would be DOS ver 7, it is "good for nothing".
For future use get the 6.xx variety - a workhorse. Did this kind of work for
me few times
faultessly.
Drop a word when you come back to "our" arctic colony.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:20:16 -0700
brian moore wrote:
>
> 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.
>
No. Wall Street told me RH is a sinking ship.
Have you ever wonder why Bob Young dumped almost half of his shares of
RH right before
the RH shares hit below ground zero?
And why Bill Gates (yes, the Microsoft's CEO Gates.) filed at the FTC to
dump almost $500million worth of RH shares shartly after Bob Young
dumped his?
Why Bill Gates owns so much of RH? How much more RH shares Gates still
owns?
> Get a clue.
>
Vi messed up your head!?
I read WSJ, Barrons and Forbe for financial news.
- blowfish.
> --
> 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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