Linux-Setup Digest #320, Volume #19 Fri, 4 Aug 00 10:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: HELP ME (Davide Bianchi)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Jonathan Thornburg)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Phillip Lord)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Phillip Lord)
Re: vim tab (Kousik Nandy)
Re: disk druid /fdisk dissapearance (Chris)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Any SAMBA Gurus out there? (JosB)
Help!! apache scripts and setuid (jtoy)
Re: Help!! apache scripts and setuid (jtoy)
Re: Help!! apache scripts and setuid (jtoy)
very newbie needs help! PLEASE. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Redefine cntrl+alt+delete ("a")
Almost Lost Hard Drive After Linux Install (mike)
Re: Almost Lost Hard Drive After Linux Install (Davide Bianchi)
HELP!!! (was Install RH from Slack?) (David Lewis)
Re: Win NT + Linux in a 20GB HD ("Kai Uwe Schmidt")
Re: Please help ! Really no ideas of what's happening! ("Kai Uwe Schmidt")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: HELP ME
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:23:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:55:29 +0100, "Tiago Martins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I've a prolem with my Red Hat Linux.
>
>My Database Server adminstrator moved away from my company (bad
>professional), and he didn't let my know the root password of this PC.
>It has Oracle 8i installed and it's a database server.
>
>How can i recover my root password? I need to have access to it? Or can i do
>it remotly?
>
>It's very urgent because without access to this PC my company can lost some
>clients.
Start the machine with a boot disk, manually mount the / directory and
then edit the /etc/passwd file, remove the password for the user root.
This if you (the machine) are not using Shadow password or NIS...
Are you sure that is a case of bad professionalism or is a case of
a very good professional VEEERY hungry about a crufty company ?
Davide
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 04 Aug 2000 07:30:48 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebee Johnstone) writes:
> In comp.os.linux.setup on 03 Aug 2000 18:08:02 -0400
> Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Note that RMS specifically rejects as "free" any license that
> >restricts the right to sell the work (therefore, the Aladdin license
> >is not regarded as "free"). One can argue about how relevant the
> >right to sell is in the absence of a right to keep secret, although
> >it's certainly not irrelevant (Red Hat, Cygnus before they were bought
> >by Red Hat, SuSE, and others all make money selling GPL software).
>
> Isn't it more accurate to say they make money packaging GPL software
> in a usable form and writing manuals to go with it?
Maybe, but what difference does it make? At the end of the day,
they're selling boxed sets containing a few CD's and a manual.
Microsoft is selling boxed sets containing a few CD's and a manual.
The difference is that Red Hat allows copying of said CD's and
Microsoft doesn't.
> And how much money are they really making from that?
Surely less than what Microsoft is making, but again, so what? Nobody
claimed that it's practical to make AS MUCH money selling GPL software
as selling proprietary software.
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Thornburg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 4 Aug 2000 13:26:04 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[[referring to Red Hat]]
>what difference does it make? At the end of the day,
>they're selling boxed sets containing a few CD's and a manual.
>Microsoft is selling boxed sets containing a few CD's and a manual.
>The difference is that Red Hat allows copying of said CD's and
>Microsoft doesn't.
And that Red Hat allows you to use the same boxed set for more than
one machine. (This makes a *big* difference in the cost when you have
a network of N machines.)
And that Red Hat's boxed-sets are a *lot* cheaper.
--
-- Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.thp.univie.ac.at/~jthorn/home.html
Universitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria) / Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
Q: Only 5 countries have the death penalty for children. Which are they?
A: Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United States
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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: 04 Aug 2000 12:27:15 +0100
>>>>> "John" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> blowfish writes:
>> Copyright does not interfers with free market.
John> The express purpose of copyright is to suppress the free
John> market in copies of copyrighted works.
The free market can not exist where there is not a limited
supply. So for instance (to a broad approximation) there is no market
for air, because everyone can get it, and limiting its supply is not
practical.
The existence of copyright allows restriction on words and
hence creates a market place where otherwise there would not have been
one, i.e. for words.
You are correct that it suppresses the free market in
copies of the work though. Of course that sort of free market does
still exist. None of Shakespeare's work are copyrighted for instance.
What is an interesting point to speculate on though is would
Shakespeare have needed copyright to make a living. Well of course we
know that he did not, because the form of copyright protection that we
have now didn't exist then. He made his money in a different way, that
is by writing directly for a production company. The world is however
very different now, and its is interesting to ponder whether
Shakespeare would have been able to live of his writings now.
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: 04 Aug 2000 12:42:39 +0100
>>>>> "blowfish" == blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
blowfish> John Hasler wrote:
>> Phillip Lord writes: > ...rather than in capitalist state where
>> the ruling class gain the > benefit from the fruits of their
>> employees work.
>>
>> This of course is not capitalism but plutocracy.
>>
>> > Indeed Marx's definition...
>>
>> He mentioned communism, not Marxism (I favor neither, but
>> communism at least makes sense).
blowfish> If communism make sense. Then, why China - the last BIG
blowfish> communism country in the world is opening up to
blowfish> capitalism!?
Possibly you should actually read the notes in a thread, and
understand what they are trying to say before you comment on them. Do
you need the activities of global capitalism to tell you that the
Chinese government are not so great? Was Tiananmen square not enough
for you?
blowfish> Coke. McDonald's, Levi's, Nike's, Mercedes Benz, BMWs,
blowfish> Audis, Rolex, Marboro cigarettes, Pizza Huts, Sony tv,
blowfish> Avon (yes, the best selling thing for the Chinese women in
blowfish> China!) are so popular in this communist country?
blowfish> Those are all symbos of major capitalism. No?
If capitalism is so wonderful why then is it investing in
a massively repressive regime? And why does the indispensable nation
which is so totally committed to freedom give it preferred trading
status. "Constructive engagement" right? Perhaps. And how does this
apply to E. Timor, or Somalia, or Kosovo? Or is it just that
global capitalism could not really care less about freedom.
blowfish> Get some REAL clue of what real FREEDOM means.
Perhaps you could enlighten me?
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kousik Nandy)
Subject: Re: vim tab
Date: 4 Aug 2000 11:44:26 GMT
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:47:31 -0700, Peter Huang wrote:
> I'm new with vim and I'm using it for C programming. I like the feature with
> indenting after I enter a '{' sign. However, its indenting 8 spaces at a
> time. I would like to change the indenting to 3 spaces.
Peter,
Welcome to vim! In `ESCAPE' mode, issue the command
:help tabstop
-Kousik.
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disk druid /fdisk dissapearance
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:48:44 -0300
On 03 Aug 2000 13:36:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy
J.Vieweg) wrote:
>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?
If you've partitioned with Partition Magic, then you must use Disk
Druid just for assign the root partition ("/") to the new partition,
and let the installer format it.
Don't forget the swap partition
Christian Echetto
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:20:05 GMT
Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is an interesting point to speculate on though is would
> Shakespeare have needed copyright to make a living. Well of course we
> know that he did not, because the form of copyright protection that we
> have now didn't exist then. He made his money in a different way, that
> is by writing directly for a production company. The world is however
> very different now, and its is interesting to ponder whether
> Shakespeare would have been able to live of his writings now.
consider this. what if the copyright was extended to 500 years after
the person's death? and what it is retroactive as well? this is just
like the 50 to 75 year extension recently passed by the united states
congress. if it's really property, why stop at 75?
the copyright is justified in the first place as being an incentive to
creativity. the retroactive feature implies that perhaps all is not
over despite death. immagine, if you will, disinterring the remains
of william shakespear, re-animating the corpse and allowing the
zombie-shakespear to write more plays!
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: JosB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any SAMBA Gurus out there?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:19:08 GMT
In article <zPsi5.17894$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Chaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hope you can help. I've got samba on MD7. and NT on my other systems.
i can
> see the linux box in network neighborhood but when i try to access
it, i get
> " \\linux not avialable. The network path was not found." any
ideas. I
> suspect it's a setting in smb.conf or similar file but I can't find
any info
> on samba setup. Thanks in advance.
>
Info on SAMBA setup can be found in the SMB-HOWTO....
Sure you are sharing dirs on the Linux box for the NT user?
Regards,
Jos Buurman
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From: jtoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.caldera,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Help!! apache scripts and setuid
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:07:53 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am writing a basic bash CGI script that when executed, makes a file.
The script doesn't work if anyone uses it, but I gave it all
rights(ugo+x) as root. Only I can run it, but I want it to be on the
webserver.
How can get around this so that I can create a file when the script is
run from apache? I also tried having the script modify a line with sed
and that didn't work!!?!?!? I'm sure there is a simple way around
this. Thank you. All I want to do is create a 'flag' that if another
program sees, it will execute some commands.
script:
date >> /some/dir
echo "<HTML><body>thanks</body></html>"
Than another program will check every minute via cron to see if the file
exists. If so it will do some commands. Also, is using cron every
minute goign to eat too much memory? If so, how would I make this
script run as a daeamon or are there other methods? The reason why I
need this script to creat a file instead of do the actual commands, is
because the commands are all root commands. Also, how do you change
program permission with setuid? I maned it but got almost no
information and ther is no actual setuid command on my box(redhat 6.2),
but I've heard about it so much. thanks.
--
Jason Toy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://toy.eyep.net
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From: jtoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.caldera,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help!! apache scripts and setuid
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:15:31 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I forgot to write the sed script I wrote:
#!/bin/bash
/bin/sed s/1stword/2ndword/ /some/file
echo "thank You"
jtoy wrote:
> I am writing a basic bash CGI script that when executed, makes a file.
> The script doesn't work if anyone uses it, but I gave it all
> rights(ugo+x) as root. Only I can run it, but I want it to be on the
> webserver.
> How can get around this so that I can create a file when the script is
> run from apache? I also tried having the script modify a line with sed
> and that didn't work!!?!?!? I'm sure there is a simple way around
> this. Thank you. All I want to do is create a 'flag' that if another
> program sees, it will execute some commands.
> script:
> date >> /some/dir
> echo "<HTML><body>thanks</body></html>"
>
> Than another program will check every minute via cron to see if the file
> exists. If so it will do some commands. Also, is using cron every
> minute goign to eat too much memory? If so, how would I make this
> script run as a daeamon or are there other methods? The reason why I
> need this script to creat a file instead of do the actual commands, is
> because the commands are all root commands. Also, how do you change
> program permission with setuid? I maned it but got almost no
> information and ther is no actual setuid command on my box(redhat 6.2),
> but I've heard about it so much. thanks.
>
> --
> Jason Toy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://toy.eyep.net
--
Jason Toy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://toy.eyep.net
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From: jtoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.caldera,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help!! apache scripts and setuid
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:15:54 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I forgot to write the sed script I wrote:
#!/bin/bash
/bin/sed s/1stword/2ndword/ /some/file
echo "thank You"
jtoy wrote:
> I am writing a basic bash CGI script that when executed, makes a file.
> The script doesn't work if anyone uses it, but I gave it all
> rights(ugo+x) as root. Only I can run it, but I want it to be on the
> webserver.
> How can get around this so that I can create a file when the script is
> run from apache? I also tried having the script modify a line with sed
> and that didn't work!!?!?!? I'm sure there is a simple way around
> this. Thank you. All I want to do is create a 'flag' that if another
> program sees, it will execute some commands.
> script:
> date >> /some/dir
> echo "<HTML><body>thanks</body></html>"
>
> Than another program will check every minute via cron to see if the file
> exists. If so it will do some commands. Also, is using cron every
> minute goign to eat too much memory? If so, how would I make this
> script run as a daeamon or are there other methods? The reason why I
> need this script to creat a file instead of do the actual commands, is
> because the commands are all root commands. Also, how do you change
> program permission with setuid? I maned it but got almost no
> information and ther is no actual setuid command on my box(redhat 6.2),
> but I've heard about it so much. thanks.
>
> --
> Jason Toy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://toy.eyep.net
--
Jason Toy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://toy.eyep.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: very newbie needs help! PLEASE.
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:59:24 GMT
My question is what book is best for configureing redhats 6.1 kde.
I've printed a few howtoo's but either permission is denied or the file
doesn't exsist. I understand that linux is one giant file system but
does that mean to load modules I have to make new directories. Just one
of many questions I have. Any help would be appreciated, because as
linux is freely distributed in some instances information is not as
I've noticed in chatrooms with the sarcasm that goes on when someone
doesn't know something.
thanks for any help on this issue.
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Before you buy.
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From: "a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redefine cntrl+alt+delete
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:15:40 +0200
Reply-To: "jan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello !
Sorry but I can't find out how to redefine the cntrl+alt+delete sequenz to
let's say cntrl+altgr+del. The Alt key is disabled, and I want the reboot
hotkey on the altgr key. This ist RH 6.2.
Please answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks a lot !!!
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Almost Lost Hard Drive After Linux Install
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:20:26 -0400
Hi,
the problem may be due to the basic hardware and bios
configuration, but it happened after an install of Mandrake 7.0
I just installed a 20 gb hard drive in my old pentium 166 system,
80 mb memory. The bios only recognized about 8 gb so I
assumed that I could put Windows on the 8 gb and then
proceed to install different versions of Linux on the rest of
the drive. I installed Win95 and then Mandrake 7.0. The
installation went without hitches. When rebooted the
system, I got "LI" and lots of zeros.
During the install of Mandrake, I made a seperate /boot
partition of 7 mb below the 1024 cylinders. It was very close
as it complained with 8 mb. Win95 would not boot either.
I removed the "linear" switch in lilo.conf and Mandrake booted.
Win95 still wouldn't boot.
I figured that I would regenerate the MBR via fdisk /mbr.
What happened was very disturbing. My Win95 boot floppy
would not boot, but the Linux boot floppy would boot.
I tried to regenerate the MBR by doing Lilo - u , which I believe
is supposed to do it, but it didn't.
The next step that I thought of was to make the new drive
a slave and put my old 6.4 gb Win95 drive as master. I figured
that I could somehow repair the drive with a bootable Win95
system. My old drive wouldn't boot either.
I decided that the only possibility would be to try to fix the
hard drive through Mandrake. I did fdisk -o, which put a
DOS partition on the hard drive. After I did it, I was able
to boot my Win95 floppy. I did fdisk / mbr and it did not
regenerate the C: drive. I used Partition Magic and deleted
the existing Win95 partitions and then used fdisk again.
I then tried to transfer the Windows DOS with sys c:
and it said system transferred, but it wouldn't boot. Then
I did format c:/s and I got a message "not enough memory
to load system." Then I did just plain format c: and it formatted
the c: drive without the system. Again, I did sys c: and the message
was "system transferred", but again it didn't boot and said "
missing operating system".
Finally I did format c:/s again and it said "system transferred"
and it actually worked.
This was the most frustrating time I ever had with a computer.
I can't understand why a change on the MBR of a hard drive
would prevent a DOS boot floppy from booting. I thought
that if the bios was set for A,C booting that the floppy would
take priority independently from the hard drive, whether it
was bootable or not or not even there, but it seems that what
probably happened was that the boot process somehow still
needs some sort of confirmation from the hard drive. I
wish I had a handle on what happened because I never want
it to happen again.
Does anyone know why it happened and how I can setup
my present hardware to do what I origionally wanted it to do?
Thanks
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Almost Lost Hard Drive After Linux Install
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 13:51:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:20:26 -0400, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi,
> the problem may be due to the basic hardware and bios
>configuration, but it happened after an install of Mandrake 7.0
> I just installed a 20 gb hard drive in my old pentium 166 system,
>80 mb memory. The bios only recognized about 8 gb
<ZAP>
If your BIOS is not able to detect correctly the size of the
hard disk, there are high possibility that no OS will run
in a good way on that hardware.
Upgrade the BIOS (if you can) or change the MoBo.
Davide
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From: David Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!!! (was Install RH from Slack?)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:50:36 -0500
Tried the boot disk to no avail. Went out and bought a book that
included an RH6.2 CD. Booted from it and Voila! it started up.
Unfortunately I didn't have everything ready, backups and such
so I aborted it. Then when I went back in it did the same thing -
locking up at /usr/sbin/loader.
Tried expert mode and this time it worked. Went all the way
to where it starts to load the files and it locked again. Did that
twice.
Does anybody have any ideas?
David Lewis wrote:
> I'm trying to install RH6.1 on a Pentium-s 133 that is
> currently running SlackWare 3.2. How is the best way
> to do it?
>
> I've tried booting from the RH CD-ROM but it hangs
> when it tries to run /sbin/loader. I've tried expert mode
> (not that I'm ACTUALLY an expert) but it hangs after
> I say "done" loading special drivers (or something like
> that - I didn't load any special drivers).
>
> Can I run the install after booting into Slackware? Do
> I need to set something different? Has anyone else had
> /sbin/loader lock up?
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From: "Kai Uwe Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win NT + Linux in a 20GB HD
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:57:39 +0100
"Lawrence C. W. Tai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there any possible way to install Win NT 4 and Linux in a 20GB HD?
>
> Thanks.
Yes, there's a way. I'm running Windows95, Windows NT 4.0 and SuSE Linux 6.3
on a 10GB HD (although my system just sees 8 GB), so why shouldn't it work
with a 20GB HD?
First you should install Windows NT 4.0. A little partition (around 500-750
MB) just for the \WINNT directory should be enough. Then boot up Linux and
create a little /boot partition (8 MB). This partition should be ENTIRELY
under the 1024. cylinder of your hard disk. Now create - running Windows NT
4.0 - a partition where you want to store your Windows NT 4.0 software (e.g.
Visual C++). The rest sould be taken for / under Linux.
Boot strategy: DO NOT install Lilo into the MBR! It won't work! Install into
your /boot partition. Then you have to take out the lilo code of the first
512 bytes of your /boot partition. This is done by the following line: "dd
if=/dev/<your /boot partition> bs=512 count=1 of=/bootsect.lin" Now copy the
file /bootsect.lin to your Windows NT 4.0 startup drive (e.g. via a floppy,
to a NTFS partition shouldn't be written via Linux). Boot up Windows NT 4.0
and modify the file boot.ini on your Windows NT 4.0 startup drive.
Attention: This file is write-protected and hidden. Append the following
line: "<letter of your Windows NT 4.0 startup drive>\bootsect.lin=SuSE Linux
6.3"
Reboot and your Windows NT 4.0 boot menu should have a new line called "SuSE
Linux 6.3" which boots up your Linux system.
Complicated, isn't it? But be careful! Danger of data loss! And: No
warranty, but my system works really fine!
Kai Uwe
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From: "Kai Uwe Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help ! Really no ideas of what's happening!
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:02:08 +0100
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:8mbkgg$hj0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> As i really don't solve that probeme and noone has help until now, i'm
> trying again....
>
> The system don't boot !
>
> I want to install linux RedHat 6.0 on a 486 DX2 66 Mhz with only ISA
> slots and 16 M0 of memory.
> I had an old 450 Mo harddisk in it and added a 1 Gb disk too.
> I reached to install Win95 on it as a test for the configuration.
> It seems to work properly.
>
> When i'm trying to install the RedHat 6.0, I can boot with the install
> disk, do the partitionning and format each partition (No pb with the LBA
> mode for example).
>
> Than i can install everything and make a boot disk too, following the
> normal process.
>
> The problem is that when i reboot, the system starts and uncompress the
> kernel correctly.
> Firts boot messages seem correct (except "keyboard not fournd" but it
> is'nt a PS/2 type keyboard so i suppose it's normal as it works anyway).
>
> Then is have something like theses:
>
> Ram disk driver initialized : 16 RAM disks of 4096 Kb
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1080 .... drive
> hdb: ST34... XR drive
>
> then the system hangs ....
>
> This is really strange. With the boot disk it's the same problem. I just
> can boot with the install disk.
> On an other hand i tried to remove the second disk but it hangs anyway
> (when detecting the first one).
> I also tried the LILO noprobe option and neally all HD option possible
> but it hangs anyway.
>
> Could it be a memory problem ?
>
> Do i have to reinstall linux each time i'm trying to remove one of the
> harware boards to tests if it's a problem with it, or is'nt it necessary
> to be sure that the kernel is no more looking for it?
>
> Is the line "RAM Disk Drive initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096 " normal
> as this PC only have 16 Mo of RAM (45 Mo of SWAP)?
>
> Thanks a lot for anything that could help !!
>
> Christophe
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I don't think that's a memory problem (yeah, Linux also runs with 8 MBs of
RAM and 175 MB of HD)
Kai Uwe
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