Linux-Setup Digest #347, Volume #19 Mon, 7 Aug 00 21:13:17 EDT
Contents:
connecting two networks. ("busware")
Re: Problem with EIDE? (Dances With Crows)
lilo not overwriting MBR (Peter Bismuti)
lilo not overwriting MBR (Peter Bismuti)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
45GB harddisk with old BIOS??!! ("K. Posern")
Re: lilo not overwriting MBR (Tom Pfeifer)
Re: INIT: Id "x" respawining too fast: disabled for 5 minutes -- and it ("K.
Posern")
Re: 45GB harddisk with old BIOS??!! (E J)
Re: problem on using kppp to conenct to ISP (Preacher Mike)
Re: Help installing Linksys EtherFast 10/100 card (siva)
initrd lilo option? (Peter Bismuti)
X no like booting from HD, only from floppy (Peter Bismuti)
no sndconfig with RH 6.2 (Murray Eisenberg)
Re: man man shows "lines ?-?/?" (ljb)
Re: free isp (Goofy root)
Re: Setting up an automated login ("Duane H�bert")
Wu-FTP setup help needed (Joe Blow)
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From: "busware" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: connecting two networks.
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:22:53 -0400
hello,
this may not be directly linked to linux. however we have a red hat 6.2
server in a windows 98 lan.
the win98 connects by telnet to the linux box.
we have three win98 machines in another building in a lan.
how do we use regular phone lines to connect these two lans running tcp/ip.
does anyone know of any way to achieve this without any major router or
multiplexor configuration.
does anyone know about the cnet904 device.
www.cnetusa.com
thank you.
kenny.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup
Subject: Re: Problem with EIDE?
Date: 7 Aug 2000 23:18:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:13:19 -0700, Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
>Sorry for the crossposts, but I'm having troupble installing either Linux or
>NT. I've removed the HD (WD 20.5 GB EIDE 66) and inserted the original Linux
>1GB drive that installed on another computer and the system seemed to work
>just fine. When I went to install Linux onto the 1GB drive I got the same
>behaviour and before:
>
><tons of hex numbers>
>code : 8b 69 08 81 fd 2b 2f c3 a5 0f 85 df 00 00 00 8b 69 0c 85 ed
>Aiee, killing interupt handler
>unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at vrtual address at
>
>Then I gave up and tried to install NT on the 30GB drive (using only the
>first 2GB) and kept getting the same problems with the NT CD (can't copy
>mfc42.dll, etc) and the NT the CD is fine (no scratches or anything). I
>also, tried using different NT CD's and got the same probelms...
>Is there a problem with trying to install Linux (or NT for that matter) with
>an onboard EIDE controller and a EIDE hd with a IDE CDROM?
There shouldn't be--I've done that very thing lots of times. It might
be that the onboard IDE controller(s) aren't quite happy, for whatever
reason, or that the CD-ROM is on its last legs. If you're not sure
about the hardware, try booting from a Linux boot floppy such as Tom's (
http://www.toms.net/rb/ ) and attempting to mount/read/write both the
CD-ROM and the hard drive(s). If errors are reported during this
process, it's likely that there's flaky hardware around.
Also, post the make/model of the IDE chipset you have and the CD-ROM
that you're using. (look in the output from dmesg.) Some older
chipsets like the CMD640 have nasty bugs. If all else fails, you can
pick up a 24x IDE CD-ROM for about $35 these days....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: lilo not overwriting MBR
Date: 7 Aug 2000 23:19:15 GMT
Previously I posted a note that I could only boot using a floppy
after overwriting the MBR trying to install Win98 on another partition.
I was told to run lilo.
I've tried running lilo to rewrite the MBR, but it is not working,
my machine is still trying to boot into Win98. This is the output
from lilo -v:
[root@roughneck /root]# lilo -v
LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda5
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
Added linux *
Boot other: /dev/hda1, loader /boot/chain.b
Added dos
/boot/boot.0305 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: lilo not overwriting MBR
Date: 7 Aug 2000 23:19:48 GMT
Previously I posted a note that I could only boot using a floppy
after overwriting the MBR trying to install Win98 on another partition.
I was told to run lilo.
I've tried running lilo to rewrite the MBR, but it is not working,
my machine is still trying to boot into Win98. This is the output
from lilo -v:
[root@roughneck /root]# lilo -v
LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda5
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
Added linux *
Boot other: /dev/hda1, loader /boot/chain.b
Added dos
/boot/boot.0305 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 16:27:20 -0700
kristian ragndahl wrote:
>
> >>>>> "b" == blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> b> John Hasler wrote:
>
> >> You know even less about accounting then you do about
> >> copyright, and you have clearly never operated a business.
>
> b> Those are the jobs of my attorney and tax accountant. That's
> b> what they're for. ;-)
>
> I guess they don't cost you anything since their services
> are tax deductable?
>
Part of their services charges are tax deductable.
And I consider it money well spend if I don't have to deal with the
taxmen.
> --
> kristian ragndahl, http://www.ragndahl.cx/
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer
user.
(Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1.)
--
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his
hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
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deer.) RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
(c)Copyrighted by Alex / blowfish. 2000.
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From: "K. Posern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: 45GB harddisk with old BIOS??!!
Date: 7 Aug 2000 23:35:48 GMT
Hi.
I've got a IBM 45GB harddisk IBM-DLTA307045 as /dev/hdc (at ide1) in a
pentium 200 with an AWARD 4.51 BIOS. The BIOS could not detect harddisks
greater than 8GB and there is no BIOS-update available.
Till now I had a Maxtor 10GB harddisk as /dev/hdc - for which the BIOS
detected a 8GB hdd and linux detected the 10GB harddisk.
But with the IBM 45GB as hdc the BIOS tells me "none" (no disk) and
linux (2.2.14) doesn't probe for hdc so there is'nt any /dev/hdc
available.
I think this is because the BIOS found no /dev/hdc and so linux doesn't
probe for it?!
So I tried to pass some parameters to the kernel:
"ide1=autotune hdc=autotune"
- result: the same as without thesse parameters: no /dev/hdc
"ide1=dma hdc=1024,16,63 hdc=autotune"
- (I thought linux corrects these values after successfull
probing)
- result:
...
ide: Assuming 40MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6008-0x600f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: IBM-DHEA-36481, ATA DISK drive
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
hdc: non-IDE drive, CHS=1024/16/63
hdd: CD-ROM CDU621-D, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DHEA-36481, 6197MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=790/255/63, (U)DMA
...
So... is it possible to somehow let linux detect (and work with) this
disk (even without the BIOS)??
Help on this would be great!
Ciao,
Knuth.
P.S.: Please excuse my bad english.
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From: Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo not overwriting MBR
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 23:57:27 GMT
Peter Bismuti wrote:
>
> Previously I posted a note that I could only boot using a floppy
> after overwriting the MBR trying to install Win98 on another partition.
> I was told to run lilo.
>
> I've tried running lilo to rewrite the MBR, but it is not working,
> my machine is still trying to boot into Win98. This is the output
> from lilo -v:
>
> [root@roughneck /root]# lilo -v
> LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
>
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda5
> Merging with /boot/boot.b
> Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> Added linux *
> Boot other: /dev/hda1, loader /boot/chain.b
> Added dos
> /boot/boot.0305 exists - no backup copy made.
> Writing boot sector.
>
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!
Based on that output from Lilo, it looks like you have this line in
/etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda5 (this installs Lilo in the boot sector of /dev/hda5)
To install Lilo in the MBR, it needs to be:
boot=/dev/hda
Tom
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From: "K. Posern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: INIT: Id "x" respawining too fast: disabled for 5 minutes -- and it
Date: 8 Aug 2000 00:13:58 GMT
Hi.
Dave Brondsema wrote:
> Now I get the following message after everything boots and starts (no
> problems):
>
> INIT: Id "x" respawining too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
something wrong with your /etc/inittab - but can not tell you what exactly
(perhaps post the inittab-file).
> so the windows system will automatically launch after
> everything boots???
This is done by putting the following two lines in your inittab (or
correcting an existing initdefault-entry to runlevel 3).
# default runlevel
id:1:initdefault:
Hope this helped.
Ciao,
Knuth.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 45GB harddisk with old BIOS??!!
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:26:45 -0700
Look at the IBM documentation and find out what the correct CHS and pass
the correct parameters to the kernal.
You can't fool it by giving fake CHS numbers hoping to get the correct CHS
from autoprobing.
The recent fix to the handle hard disk bigger than 32G is probably in your
kernal.
I know in the Maxtor, you can jumper the 40G so it looks like a 2G hard
drive, but it give you a new set of
CHS numbers to access the entire hard disk. See if you can do the same
thing for the IBM drive.
As a last resort, you can get a disk overlay for your IBM 45G Hard drive.
You might try the IBM website to see if you download it.
For Maxtor, I usually get the disk overlay program EZ-BIOS from their
website.
"K. Posern" wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've got a IBM 45GB harddisk IBM-DLTA307045 as /dev/hdc (at ide1) in a
> pentium 200 with an AWARD 4.51 BIOS. The BIOS could not detect harddisks
> greater than 8GB and there is no BIOS-update available.
>
> Till now I had a Maxtor 10GB harddisk as /dev/hdc - for which the BIOS
> detected a 8GB hdd and linux detected the 10GB harddisk.
> But with the IBM 45GB as hdc the BIOS tells me "none" (no disk) and
> linux (2.2.14) doesn't probe for hdc so there is'nt any /dev/hdc
> available.
> I think this is because the BIOS found no /dev/hdc and so linux doesn't
> probe for it?!
>
> So I tried to pass some parameters to the kernel:
>
> "ide1=autotune hdc=autotune"
> - result: the same as without thesse parameters: no /dev/hdc
>
> "ide1=dma hdc=1024,16,63 hdc=autotune"
> - (I thought linux corrects these values after successfull
> probing)
> - result:
> ...
> ide: Assuming 40MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6008-0x600f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: IBM-DHEA-36481, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
> hdc: non-IDE drive, CHS=1024/16/63
> hdd: CD-ROM CDU621-D, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: IBM-DHEA-36481, 6197MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=790/255/63, (U)DMA
> ...
>
> So... is it possible to somehow let linux detect (and work with) this
> disk (even without the BIOS)??
>
> Help on this would be great!
>
> Ciao,
>
> Knuth.
>
> P.S.: Please excuse my bad english.
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From: Preacher Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem on using kppp to conenct to ISP
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:31:38 GMT
foxin wrote:
> hello!
>
> i m using RedHat Linux 6.1
> under Gnome,
> i tried to use kppp to dial-up my ISP,
> but i fail everytime
> when the dialog box shows 'logging on to the netword'
> after a while another dialog box show 'pppd died unexpectedly'
>
> i use the setting same as my window98 settting based on the same ISP
> like ip, DNS, gateway......
>
> can u guys help to figure out what is the problem?
I had the same problem. The first step i took was to change myISP. Now,
I'm sure someone can offer us more information of a more
technicalnature, but even after i got it to work with the new ISP, the
daemon would die if my username was not preceeded by ELN/<username>. The
'ELN' (in my case for Earth Link Network) is some sort of code. They
should tell you this stuff, although some ISP's won't support Linux. And
by 'support' it could mean they won't talk about it OR their machine is
not compatible.
I dunno but sometimes uninstalling and installing the PPP or the TCP/IP
modules helps(hearsay).
-newbie wan
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From: siva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help installing Linksys EtherFast 10/100 card
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:30:02 GMT
Hi,
Check this URL...
http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
--Raj.
frank wrote:
>
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: initrd lilo option?
Date: 8 Aug 2000 00:34:43 GMT
In my old lilo.conf file there is an option:
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
I can't find it in the man pages, what does it do? Do I need it,
and if so where/how do I get the *.img file?
Thanks again
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: X no like booting from HD, only from floppy
Date: 8 Aug 2000 00:31:32 GMT
I can boot my Linux machine now from either the floppy or the hard disk,
but when I boot from the hard disk something is wrong with the X server.
The image flickers and when I kill it it goes crazy. There is an
error message that is not readable except for the word "deleted" I believe.
Anyone know what the problem is?
Thanks
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:37:03 -0400
From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: no sndconfig with RH 6.2
I newly installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 from Red Hat's distribution CD,
choosing the Gnome Workstation option. The RH docs say that to
configure for sound, use the sndconfig command. But when I try this in
a console window, I get the error message that this command was not
found.
Where is it?
--
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Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: man man shows "lines ?-?/?"
Date: 8 Aug 2000 00:47:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
> After installing Slackware 7.1, I tried to read some man
>pages, but I always get "lines ?-?/?". Here is the dump of
>"man -d man", can anyone tell me whats wrong?
>
>...
The ?'s come from 'less' (or 'more') when it gets no input.
Which means something earlier in the pipe failed.
Seeing as it's Slackware (been there myself), I'm guessing you
need to install the 'groff' package on the ap1 disk set.
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From: Goofy root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: free isp
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:42:23 GMT
George, I use Red Hat 6.2 and also use freewwweb.com using kppp. Only
thing I can't figure out is how to dial out kppp as non-root because
when I click kppp as non root after prompting password and entering it
the dialog disappears. Anyway, yesterday I login at freewwweb.com using
pppd and the proxy server of freewwweb.com came up. I deleted all the
chat files at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and back again no juno web
page thing. But still I need to configure kppp to be able to dial out
as non root.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"George Herzog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dick, when I first set up my account with freeatlast on my windows os,
I
> didn't like the idea of an assigned name and password, so I used the
> telephone number that was given for support. They set me up with the
name
> and password of my choice. They also told me that their CD
installation
> would allow that choice. George
> --
> registered Linux user #184428
>
> Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > When I set up the freeatlast account in Win95, I had to use two
> > IDs and passwords. The first is a "dialer" ID/password that they
> > assigned when I registered. The second is a user account
> > ID/password that I chose. I tried all combinations of these
> > ID/passwords that I could think of using KPPP, but can't get it
> > to work. I get a connection, but then get disconnected after a
> > few seconds. Which ID/password are you using -- the "dialer"
> > ID/password that they assigned, or the "user account"
> > ID/password that you chose?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dick
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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From: "Duane H�bert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up an automated login
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:56:48 GMT
> You should add the command that starts your app to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and
> it should have a '&' at the end of it like:
>
> /path/to/command &
>
> This starts it in the background, letting you do other stuff. If you want
> to stop it, just kill it's PID:
>
> /sbin/pidof appname | xargs kill -9
>
> This will stop the program completely -- you'll need to run
> '/path/to/command &' to start it again.
That was the first thing I tried. Problem is, the app loads and then the
login prompt appears. I need the app to run and get hold of the console as
it needs to be displaying status to users. It has a simple GUI made with
SVGAlib. It works that way if I load it in /etc/rc.d/rc.system but then I
can't open another console and login.
I had heard somewhere that it was possible to write a script to perform an
auto login, then I could load the app in that "user's" .bashrc file. This
is what I would like but I have no idea how to pass the login and password
information via a script.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
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From: Joe Blow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wu-FTP setup help needed
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 01:04:58 GMT
Can someone tell me how setup and restrict users to certain directorys
on my ftp site ? Right now when I logon to my site I am able to use the
up directory button and see the /etc, /home, and /usr directories.
I would like to setup my FTP site as follows
/home/ftp/Autocad Drawings (download only, by everyone)
/home/ftp/Word Documents (download only, by everyone)
/home/ftp/Excel Data Sheets (download only, by certain users)
/home/ftp/upload (upload, download, by everyone)
I think it goes without saying that no users should be able to go to any
directory above /home/ftp/
I think you set this up in the FTPACCESS file but I am unsure of the
syntax
Thanks for any help
Steve
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