Linux-Setup Digest #312, Volume #19 Thu, 3 Aug 00 11:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Postinstall RAID1 for RH6.1 : help needed. (Karim AMRANI)
Re: PXE port (Alexander Runge)
Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Setting clock on Linux machine ??? ("Ed Bras")
disk druid /fdisk dissapearance (Timothy J.Vieweg)
Re: NTFS FileSystem (Fantod)
Re: Netscape Installation Problems (Yidao Cai)
Re: Using KPPP as a user (Dick Wisan)
Re: Time Jumps + 10 hours - RH 6.2 (David Efflandt)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Bernd Paysan)
Help installing Linksys EtherFast 10/100 card (frank)
3 Linux Problems (Mark_Harju)
Re: PXE port (Tim Hurman)
Kensington mouse (Rilke)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Jay Maynard)
patch for root raid (gryphon)
patch for root raid (gryphon)
Re: cripes-now what do I do - pleeeaaassseee Pkg dependencies ??? (Michael Perry)
Installing Suse 6.4 from burned CD (Nagi Nasser)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Phillip Lord)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Phillip Lord)
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From: Karim AMRANI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Postinstall RAID1 for RH6.1 : help needed.
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:08:02 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a RH 6.1 box with 1 disk and I just added another one to
associate it with the first one and make a RAID1 device (20 GB Western
Digital both of them).
The box is used in production and I can't afford to loose the data on it
(or even the configuration of installed progs (Oracle, ...)).
So I have to do that very securely and I'm not experienced in that
stuff...
I created the partitions on the second disk (same as on the first one).
The how-to recommends to check that the actual kernel contains the RAID
stuff built-in (not as modules)...
How do I make sure of that ?
The how-to recommends to declare the #1 disk (full of data) as
'failed-disk' in the /etc/raidtab, make the raid device and then put the
#1 disk back in the raid...
Shouldn't it be the contrary ? The #1 is the reference disk and #2
is the failed one ?
Does it really preserve the data ?
...
Is it worth going to RH 6.2 for that aspect ?
The best for me would be to have some kind of step by step doc....
Any pointers/suggestions,
TIA,
Karim AMRANI
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From: Alexander Runge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.solaris,alt.os.linux.slackware,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: PXE port
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:02:21 +0200
Tim Hurman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using the Redhat/Intel PXE daemon under x86 Linux and have had
> great success at creating automated installs and booting. However I already
> have a Solaris boot server, and instead of installing another, it would be
> useful to use the existing boot server.
>
> The only problem is that the PXE daemon seems to have a large endian problem
> when compiling under SPARC Solaris. I have managed to fix most of theses
> however some still exist. I have contacted Intel and Redhat over this and
> neither seem to be able to correct it.
>
> The real question is has anyone tried this before and got it working, or
> better is there a port for other OSes?
>
> Tim.
Are you talking about real Sun clients?
As far as I know these machines only support RARP per default.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:02:37 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias Nutt:
|> there are rumours that it takes up to a week until SuSE answers
|> your question. So you will not gain much support time.
Odd. I had an overnight email reply on a SuSE 6.4 question just yesterday and
that, emailing my question only 15 minutes or so after web registering. In my
book, for $US30, a 480+ page excellent manual, six CDs, and actually the most
troublefree X install I've ever witnessed: well, excellent service and value.
[Snip...]
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting clock on Linux machine ???
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:29:35 +0200
My clock on the RedHat 6.2 is one hour behind.
I then change it with date ......
However, every time I restart the machine it contains the old time again ???
What am I doing wrong ??
Regards,
Ed Bras
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J.Vieweg)
Subject: disk druid /fdisk dissapearance
Date: 03 Aug 2000 13:36:13 GMT
When installing Linux Red Hat 6.2 I'm only presented with Disk Druid to
partition my drive. I used this tool before and my hard drive passed away! Now
I've partitioned a new drive with Partition Magic but when I run Linux setup
I'm not given a choice of fdisk or by-pass of the partition stage.
How can I set up Linux on the partitions I've created oin Partition Magic?
Thanks.
Timothy J.Vieweg
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Subject: Re: NTFS FileSystem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fantod)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:35:13 GMT
[Jos� Pedro]:
>How can I mount an NTFS partition ?
mkdir /cntfs
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /cntfs
You will need NTFS support compiled into the kernel. Also, this will
only read.
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 24hoursupport.helpdesk,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Netscape Installation Problems
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:41:22 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kpackage it gives the error message: Dependency Problem
> netscape-common is needed by netscape-communicator4.61
> glibc2-1mdk, this is when i try installing netscape-common i also
> recieve this message when trying to install netscape-communicator
If you install both together, your system will be happy:
rpm -Uvh netscape-comm*
cai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dick Wisan)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Using KPPP as a user
Date: 3 Aug 2000 13:04:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Bring up a xterm or console window.
>$ kppp
>Was there any errors in the console window when kppp would not work?
>
>In my case , I had a Xauthority error so I correct it by editing the
>.bash_profile
>file
>and add the following ...
Had the same trouble. Kppp works from root but not from my user account.
Followed your advice, but my error message turned out to be:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
kppp: cannot connect to X server :0
:-(
I have no idea what an invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key might be or what
to do about it. Can you --or someone-- advise or point me to advice?
As a general thing, is there any particular place one can look to
find out what errors mean? (Unfortunately for newbies like me, most
explanations of error messages are encrypted in the same jargon we
didn't understand in the first place.)
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From: David Efflandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time Jumps + 10 hours - RH 6.2
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:50:57 -0500
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, E J wrote:
> I tried removing APM daemon from starting up (deleted the S05apmd from my
> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d) and rebooted.
> When my Compaq's hard disk or screen went into snooze mode, without the APM
> daemon running, it would wake up and the clock would still go back 7 hours.
> I used my Compaq setup floppy to change different automatic power options
> combinations on the BIOS such as turning off the monitor and/or screen.
> My only option was to turn off all automatic power options in the BIOS.
> If I am bored and have a lot of time :) I might consider recompiling the APM
> kernal with CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT set to N,
> or take a look at time.c, to see if I can fix it.
Well that explains it. If you enable power management functions in BIOS,
then Linux might have little or no control over it, especially if it
still happens with apmd disabled.
If instead you DISABLE power management in BIOS, then you would be able to
control power management functions in Linux. Even without apmd you can
set your extra drives to automatically spin down with 'hdparm' and you can
set your monitor to go into standby or power down with 'setterm' in the
console or an XF86Config setting (if your card and monitor support that).
Putting a box completely to sleep also typically disables all network
functions, so you would not want to do that with a box you network
locally. Even with a laptop, you often have to disable network cards
before going into suspend, or the system may hang when it awakens.
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:21:37 +0200
From: Bernd Paysan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Johan Kullstam wrote:
> this always happens. many people say that the united states of
> america is a free country yet there are many things which are
> illegal. you can't just go around killing people wantonly. you
> cannot use many drugs. the first infringes upon other people's
> freedom. the second, however, does not yet it is still forbidden.
> free doesn't necessarily mean anarchy.
In fact, anarchy often means the contrary of freedom. You may do what
you want, but in fact, you are at war with your neighbours (or some
boons who want to make the best out of this "freedom" by enslaving poor
suckers that can't defend themselves). And being at war isn't exactly
"freedom".
BTW: Drugs do impact others. Many violent crimes are performed under
influence of alcohol, so are many traffic accidents. Passive smoking
causes cancer. Hard drugs such as heroine or cocaine make people unable
to earn their live for themselves, and therefore creates thiefs and
prostitutes (although being illegal is one of the main causes that these
drugs are so expensive and have such an impact).
We are now in a society that allows proprietary software. For our all
freedom, this is no good. The FSF wants to get to a more free society,
where there is no proprietary software anymore. They do so by using
copyright to protect their software from being "enslaved" again. Some of
the BSD whiners tell us that making derivatives proprietary isn't
"enslaving" the original software, which is still free. This is like
saying (in the south states, 150 years ago): "If you give your niggers
(TIC!) freedom, ok, but if they can't sell their childs as slaves, they
aren't really free".
--
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
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From: frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help installing Linksys EtherFast 10/100 card
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:19:14 -0400
Hi All,
I am using Mandrake 7.1 the tulip module fails to load with
Device or Resource busy !
I have tried all possible setting in my bios etc with no luck :(
Anybody have any idea's on this,
TIA.
Frank.
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From: Mark_Harju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3 Linux Problems
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:57:46 GMT
Hi all:
Aside from a few minor problems, I'm getting Samba to run on Mandrake
6.0, and my Win95 laptop is running around on my desk, wearing a
blindfold, and yelling, "THERE IS *NO* DIFFERENCE!!!" (hehehe).
But here are the (jerky) problems:
1. Despite having all the pertinent domain info in Samba, and with DNS
on the W95 machine either disabled or pointing to an IP address on the
Samba box, I'm still getting a "no domain server" on Win95 login. I'm
also using Share-level, as opposed to user-level security. I've got the
smb.conf file doctored to share a /public area, as well as a couple of
others. One thing at a time...
2. Samba works great until I install an ESS1688 PnP sound card into the
Mandrake box, which (after a bit of fumbling with multimedia controls)
works like a champ, and I'm now playing "Civilization - Call to Power"
(yeah, I know, I haven't put Q3 in there yet. Just hold on - that's
another problem). BTW the Mandrake box is running the KDE GUI. Now my
Win95 client can't connect to the Samba box. It's not the address or
IRQ, I'm thinking it might be the DMA? This makes no sense. The NIC is
an SMC Ultra-16, I/O base 300h, IRQ A, with an exclusion starting at
C800h (I think). I have no idea which DMA channel the ESS card is
using, though I could look in the .conf file for sound configuration
and possibly find out. There's obviously not an address or IRQ conflict
between them, though...
3. I have a Boca ISA 56k modem installed in the Mandrake box with PnP
disabled, defaulting via jumpers, oddly enough, to COM2, IRQ 3, which
is all well and good, until one tries kppp with it. I was able to get a
dialup, but the negotiations kept failing, and it was leaving a pppd
PID that I couldn't kill -9 to save my life - I had to start the box
over (shades of Windows!)to get the daemon to clear out (BAD daemon!
BAD!). Is there a cleanup routine or script that can be run that will
turn off the pppd when there is a modem negotiation failure, or should
I be looking to the modem script?
Any suggestions on how to fix these problems? Every day that I'm
successful with Linux brings me closer to doing what a friend of mine
has done - creating a "Microsoft-free environment" in my home...
Thanks in advance!!!
mh
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From: Tim Hurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.solaris,alt.os.linux.slackware,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: PXE port
Date: 3 Aug 2000 14:26:40 GMT
In comp.unix.solaris Alexander Runge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you talking about real Sun clients?
> As far as I know these machines only support RARP per default.
No, only using a Sun running Solaris or even a Sun running Linux to be a boot server
running the PXE daemon to a series of PC clients.
Tim.
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From: Rilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kensington mouse
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:30:03 GMT
How does one correct the jumping of the pointer when using a Kensington
mouse in Linux? What is the proper entry as mouse device?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maynard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 3 Aug 2000 14:34:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:21:37 +0200, Bernd Paysan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We are now in a society that allows proprietary software. For our all
>freedom, this is no good. The FSF wants to get to a more free society,
>where there is no proprietary software anymore. They do so by using
>copyright to protect their software from being "enslaved" again.
In the process, they want to destroy the concept that I'm entitled to
benefit from my own labor. This is the exact antithesis of freedom, and
calling it freedom is just plain offensive.
> Some of
>the BSD whiners tell us that making derivatives proprietary isn't
>"enslaving" the original software, which is still free. This is like
>saying (in the south states, 150 years ago): "If you give your niggers
>(TIC!) freedom, ok, but if they can't sell their childs as slaves, they
>aren't really free".
I take particular offense at this, as I consider myself a Southerner. Once
again, you ignore basic facts and human rights, just as with your leftist
gun-grabbing position: selling your children into slavery harms them, but
the original software is now, and will forever be, free, NO MATTER WHAT
ANYONE ELSE DOES WITH IT. You seek to deny me the right to control my own
work merely because it is an improvement on your work. This is not freedom.
It is communism.
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From: gryphon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: patch for root raid
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:33:39 GMT
Hello guru,
When implementing root raid 1 on RH 6.2 with kernel version 2.2.14, I
have to add the kernel patch - raid-2.2.14. After I download the patch,
it is text file just like :
--- linux/init/main.c.orig Thu Dec 16 15:22:53 1999
+++ linux/init/main.c Thu Dec 16 15:23:25 1999
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <linux/ioport.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/raid/md.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/blk.h>
#include <linux/hdreg.h>
@@ -487,7 +488,7 @@
How can I use this file to patch my kernel? Thanks very much for your
help!!!
griffin
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From: gryphon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: patch for root raid
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:34:58 GMT
Hello guru,
When implementing root raid 1 on RH 6.2 with kernel version 2.2.14, I
have to add the kernel patch - raid-2.2.14. After I download the patch,
it is text file just like :
--- linux/init/main.c.orig Thu Dec 16 15:22:53 1999
+++ linux/init/main.c Thu Dec 16 15:23:25 1999
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <linux/ioport.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/raid/md.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/blk.h>
#include <linux/hdreg.h>
@@ -487,7 +488,7 @@
How can I use this file to patch my kernel? Thanks very much for your
help!!!
griffin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: cripes-now what do I do - pleeeaaassseee Pkg dependencies ???
Date: 3 Aug 2000 14:45:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 18:48:12 +0100, Ian Turnbui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In an attempt to get my LPC3-TX Ethernet card working I'm having to go thru'
>all sorts of minefields. Part of the makefile supplied uses gcc ????. I
>have found various gcc-.... .rpm files on my cdrom but when I copied
>gcc.2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm to /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 and then:
>
>rpm -i gcc-2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm it failed reporting:
>
>error: failed dependencies:
> binutils >= 2.9.1.0.25 is needed by gcc-2.95.2-3mdk
>
>and guess what - I can't see this on my cdrom anywhere ???
>Please put me out of my misery.
>Also, I'm getting tired of having to constantly retype stuff I typed on just
>the line before when it needs just a little change. Is there anyway to
>recall the last command in the console - sort of like F1 / F3 in DOS where
>F1 allows the same char to be typed and F3 brings the whole of the last
>command back?!
>TIA
>Ian Turnbull
>0961 931941
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Web : www.turnbui.freeserve.co.uk
>
>
>
I don't do rpm stuff but for the command line completion and history, if you
want to recall the command you just typed, try hitting the up arrow once.
If you want to cycle through a lot of command keep on up arrowing. If you
want to do command completion, type the first few letters of executable or
file name and hit tab. As an example, rpm -i gcc-2...TAB should give you
the whole name. If two files are closely named, the tab completion will go
up to a point where the similarity ends. Linux has rather anal command
history functionality I think. Note if you find a previous command you
would like to change somewhat, you can left arrow through the command,
change what you want and rerun it. This is nice for copying and cding to a
long directory path in linux.
Try doing a few rpm management commands to see what you already have. For
example, try rpm -q binutils and see what the system responds with. Try rpm
-q gcc and see what it responds with. Try doing a man rpm. Its pretty
comprehensive.
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From: Nagi Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Installing Suse 6.4 from burned CD
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:54:44 -0400
I was successful booting an image that I copied onto a floppy disk using
rawrite to write the yast2 image. But when I boot up using the floppy I
have a problem getting the setup program to read from a cd that I burned
the installation files to. When I tell it to install from CD it returns
an error saying that it can find image. I tried selecting hard disk and
the giving it the path to the cd (/dev/hdc). The cd spins but yet it
returns an error saying that it cannot mount the drive. I've made the cd
using the ISO 9660 format, and the files were downloaded from
sunsite.unc.edu/linux/distributions/suse/6.4/suse/....
Any help would be appreciated
Nagi Nasser
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 03 Aug 2000 16:04:43 +0100
>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Paysan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bernd> Johan Kullstam wrote:
>> this always happens. many people say that the united states of
>> america is a free country yet there are many things which are
>> illegal. free doesn't necessarily mean anarchy.
Bernd> In fact, anarchy often means the contrary of freedom. You may
Bernd> do what you want, but in fact, you are at war with your
Bernd> neighbours
I think that the term anarchy is widely misused. It means
lack of government, which personally I do not necessarily equate with
absence of law. Many societies have a rule base, and often a fairly
rigid one, but have no legislature.
Bernd> Hard drugs such as heroine or cocaine make people unable to
Bernd> earn their live for themselves, and therefore creates thiefs
Bernd> and prostitutes
So does the absence of social housing, but no one takes the
government to court.
Bernd> (although being illegal is one of the main causes that these
Bernd> drugs are so expensive and have such an impact).
As you say drugs laws are largely self fulfilling prophecies.
Bernd> Some of the BSD whiners tell us that making derivatives
Bernd> proprietary isn't "enslaving" the original software, which is
Bernd> still free.
Now that one is definitely going to get you flamed from
several sources...
Phil
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 03 Aug 2000 16:09:33 +0100
>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jay> This is the exact antithesis of freedom, and calling it freedom
Jay> is just plain offensive.
[...]
Jay> You seek to deny me the right to control my own work merely
Jay> because it is an improvement on your work. This is not freedom.
Jay> It is communism.
Jay my ol' mucker.
Seeing as you insist that only you are able to define the word
"free" and that anyone who uses it in a way that you do not like is
being "plain offensive", I think I shall return the compliment and
mention that you are displaying again a complete lack of understanding
of the word "communism". Can you please stop using it, until you
understand what it means (that is until you use it as I understand and
define it).
Cheers
Phil
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