Linux-Setup Digest #374, Volume #19 Fri, 11 Aug 00 09:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: CallBack (E J)
Re: Installing Zip drive (root)
mdmpoold/npcomm - Looking for a similar solution (Jeff Gerard)
[Help]Linux for Windows. ("Hsin-Hung Yu")
Re: Looking to pop from Outlook, no luck so far. (Villy Kruse)
Re: starting ftpd during bootup (Villy Kruse)
Re: lilo/hard drive (James Bilitski)
Help, i'm trapped in linux! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: APM (Raffael Herzog)
Re: mounting tool (Raffael Herzog)
Re: Help, i'm trapped in linux! (Raffael Herzog)
Re: ISDN 128K modem (sideband)
Re: Help, i'm trapped in linux! (Manfred Bartz)
Linux server ("TJ O Connor")
Re: Linux on AMD (J Bland)
samba (system)
Re: Access to FAT32 file systems (Kousik Nandy)
Re: Linux on AMD (Paul Milliot)
Linux Install on Asentia J (Kevin Passey)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: samba (Andree Zaja)
Dual Boot & 40 GB HD -- any problems? (Jerome Mrozak)
install linux and windows 98 & NT problems? ("Ivan")
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CallBack
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:29:31 -0700
Micky wrote:
> It is possible to have a callbox on a Linux Box? Like a RAS on NT?
Yes, you can modify the code on an open source RADIUS. (Remote Access
Dial In User Service? ))
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Zip drive
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:34:34 -1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mario Klaric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I tried installing Zip drive on my Red Hat Linux box. The kernel was
> > already configured for it, with the following:
>
> > SCSI Support - SCSI support - Y, SCSI disk support - Y
> > SCSI Low-Level Drivers - IOMEGA Parallel Port ZIP drive SCSI support
> > - M
> > Character Devices - Parallel Printer support - M
>
> > I created directory /zip. When I did insmod ppa I got
>
> > # insmod ppa
> > ppa: Version 1.42
> > ppa: Probing port 03bc
> > ppa: Probing port 0378
> > ppa: SPP port present
> > ppa: PS/2 bidirectional port present
> > ppa: EPP 1.7
> > ppa: Probing port 0278
> > SCSI: 0 hosts.
> > /lib/modules/preferred/scsi/ppa.o init_module: Device or resource busy.
>
> > Can anyone help me, please? What am I missing?
>
> > Thanx a lot.
>
> > Mario
>
> The ppa module did not work for me either. I have on my /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
>
> insmod parport
> insmod imm
>
> "imm" is the newer module for parallel port Zip drives.
I have the same problem with RH 6.2 however if I boot from diskette it works
fine. It seems like something is hanging up the parallel port when I boot
from hard disk, but I can't see what.
both the parport and parport_probe modules appear in my lsmod output.
Any thoughts other than recompiling the kernel?
Mike L
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From: Jeff Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: mdmpoold/npcomm - Looking for a similar solution
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 05:54:00 GMT
I'm trying to find a software combination that works in the same fashion
as mdmpoold for linux and npcomm for windows to enable modem sharing.
Presently, I have to have my ISA modem in my linux box and need to
access it over the internal network from my windows box. mdmpoold and
npcomm work great as long as I am using Win98/ME/NT. I need this to
work in Windows 2000 but it seems NPComm does not function properly in
Win2000.
Can anybody offer any other solutions?? (I am trying to avoid using
masq/routing tables as this setup allows for fax/data/DUN where masq
would only allow for ppp connecitons.)
Any help/comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Jeff Gerard
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From: "Hsin-Hung Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Help]Linux for Windows.
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:24:20 +0700
Other than Linux for Windows (LNX4WIN) of Mandrake, is there any other
similar program?
I have been using MS Windows and would like to try out Linux. After trying
LNX4WIN of Mandrake and installing Linux, I began to love Linux. But I
would like to try other distributions, too. I don't think LNX4WIN is able
to install Linux from other distributions. Since I had tried to install Red
Hat Linux 6.1 but unsuccessful.
Definitely, I will format my HDD and install Linux somedays in the future
but not until I am able to handle Linux. Since at the moment, I don't know
how to setup the printer, network, MODEM and so on.... Still have to clang
on Windows.
TIA!
Howard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Looking to pop from Outlook, no luck so far.
Date: 11 Aug 2000 07:04:39 GMT
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:58:46 GMT, Buschman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>popt-1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
The popt package is unrelated in any way and form to the pop3 protocol
Do rpm -qpi popt-1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm to see what it is. Then when you
are at it notice the Name entry. That is the argument to use if you
want to remove it.
>but when I type:
>
>rpm -i popt-1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
>
>it says it is already installed and when I type:
>
>rpm -e popt-1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
>
Should be:
rpm -e popt-1.3-2mdk
or
rpm -e popt
The name of the package is not popt-1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm. This is the
name of the *file* which contains the popt package.
>it says that the package is NOT installed.
>
>First of all is the the right package for me to install and why isn't
>it installing or uninstalling?
>
>My goal is to be able to pop my linux server from my windows machine
>at home. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
And besides, the pop3 server is nost likely in a package called imap
found in a file called imap-***.rpm, where the *** is the release
version architecture information.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: starting ftpd during bootup
Date: 11 Aug 2000 07:12:16 GMT
On 10 Aug 2000 21:59:48 GMT, Peter Bismuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>#
>ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
>telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
>
Suspect no one: No in.ftpd program anywhere. On some system this
comes with the wu-ftpd package, which you might need to install.
If not wu-ftpd, then install whatever provides ftp service.
Suspect no two: Access denied by /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow.
Villy
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From: James Bilitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo/hard drive
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:42:35 -0700
Fixed it. Had to Low level format the hd using scsi bios tools.
Also had to make sure I used linear mode since it was a scsi drive.
James Bilitski wrote:
> What is the best tool for wiping out everything on a hard drive? I
> can't seem to get rid of Lilo. My previous installation had 2 options
> when booting "linux" and "linux-up" which stood for upgraded linux. I
> have tried windows Fdisk, fdisk /mbr, IBM's wipe, IBM's zap (which
> supposedly zero writes boot sector) PQs magict. I have tried all of
> these. None seem to work. When I install linux it still always has
> those two boot options when you press tab, "linux" and "linux-up".
> Neither of these will even boot the machine. They try to mount /hdc
> where in my case it won't work as I have a scsi drive /sda.
> Please help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help, i'm trapped in linux!
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:43:31 GMT
hi,
i installed linux and it doesn't even get to the GUI (must have some
config settings wrong). Problem is i mistakenly have my boot config so
that only LILO loads w/o giving me a choice of loading DOS. I think i
should have put LILO on the first disks's MBR but it's in the linux
root partition. So i'm trapped in linux (at the root# command line) and
i can't get out! Can someone tell me how to change the boot config from
the root# command line so i can get back to dos? Or, how the heck do i
get outta here? Thanks for any help.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: APM
Date: 11 Aug 2000 10:00:22 +0200
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Andrew Shaw verbalised:
> My Advanced Power Manage ment does not seem to be working on my
> linux box. Specificly when it comes to my hd. I can power it down,
> but after a second or so it powers back up. I would like to put my
> hd to sleep so it doesn't get fried. I am running RH 6.1. Closeing
> autorun doesn't help. I am on a network but there should be no
> trafic on it. Any one have any ideas what the problem could be?
There is a HOWTO for such issues:
http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered.html
This should help you to fix this.
--
Raffael Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED]
May the penguin be with you!
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From: Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: mounting tool
Date: 11 Aug 2000 10:07:28 +0200
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, David Punsalan spake thusly:
> Hi,
>
> I am running RH6.1 on a 486DX 50 MHz w/ 16MB Ram. Is there a good
> gui mounting tool available for twm/fvwm? I can't run GNOME or KDE
> b/c of my limited speed.
Try mount.app. It's a WindowMaker Dock Applet, but it also works with
other WM's if you start it with the -n option.
http://mountapp.sourceforge.net/
BTW : WindowMaker is a very nice WM which provides a more comfortable
environment than twm/fvwm but still doesn't use much resources. Maybe
it needs still too much, I've never tried to run it with 16M of RAM,
but you could try it (if you didn't yet).
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Raffael Herzog
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May the penguin be with you!
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From: Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help, i'm trapped in linux!
Date: 11 Aug 2000 10:13:40 +0200
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> hi, i installed linux and it doesn't even get to the GUI (must have
> some config settings wrong). Problem is i mistakenly have my boot
> config so that only LILO loads w/o giving me a choice of loading
> DOS. I think i should have put LILO on the first disks's MBR but
> it's in the linux root partition.
No problem.
> So i'm trapped in linux (at the root# command line) and i can't get
> out! Can someone tell me how to change the boot config from the
> root# command line so i can get back to dos? Or, how the heck do i
> get outta here? Thanks for any help.
Start an editor (emacs, vi, joe, .......) and edit the file
/etc/lilo.conf. Add the following lines:
other = /dev/hda2
label = win
table = /dev/hda
Replace /dev/hda2 with the partition your windows is installed on.
Afterwards save the file and exit the editor. Issue the command
"lilo". It should output something like:
Added linux*
Added win
Afterwards you can just type "win<ENTER" at the LILO boot prompt to
boot Windows.
For more information on LILO configuration see:
http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html
man lilo.conf
Hope this helps!
--
Raffael Herzog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
May the penguin be with you!
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ISDN 128K modem
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 04:23:32 -0400
"David .." wrote:
> Looking for recommendations for a good stable 128K ISDN modem internal
> or external to use with linux. Will be used to give internet access to
> 24 users systems.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
I've had good luck with the NETGEAR XM128 and a high speed serial card.
The modem's serial port is capable of 460.8Kbps, so get a serial card
capable of at least that. The cost is nice too... $169 for the modem, and
$30 for a decent serial card that will handle the thruput.
HTH.
-SSB
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Subject: Re: Help, i'm trapped in linux!
From: Manfred Bartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:34:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> i installed linux and it doesn't even get to the GUI (must have some
> config settings wrong). Problem is i mistakenly have my boot config so
> that only LILO loads w/o giving me a choice of loading DOS. I think i
> should have put LILO on the first disks's MBR but it's in the linux
> root partition. So i'm trapped in linux (at the root# command line) and
> i can't get out! Can someone tell me how to change the boot config from
> the root# command line so i can get back to dos? Or, how the heck do i
> get outta here? Thanks for any help.
Below is a sample lilo.conf. Copy the relevant bits and edit for your
purpose, then run ``/sbin/lilo''; watch for error messages.
==========8><=========================================================
# Start LILO global section
default=dos
boot = /dev/hda
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
prompt
vga = normal
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda4
label = s2213
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = dos
table = /dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
==========8><=========================================================
HTH
--
Manfred Bartz
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From: "TJ O Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux server
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:42:08 +0100
Hi all
I'm setting up an internal LAN here at work to test my firewall.
I'm using Linux (SuSE 6.3)(192.168.2.1) as my internal server. I need it to
control www, mail and DNS.
I have started setting it up according to the Linux-Howto and I can ping all
over from the internal LAN.
But my question is how can I set it up so that i can control mail coming in
and out.
internal server-192.168.2.1-eth1
192.168.1.38-eth0
internal pc 192.168.2.2
external LAN server -192.168.1.4 (controls mail,www,dns for employees)
default gateway(192.168.1.1). This is where
i will eventually be placing my firewall.
I am also confused as to what my default gateway's are for the internal
server and internal pc.
I need help!
cheers
TJ
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Sys Admin. Kinsale Rd., Cork, Ireland.
Comnitel Technologies Ph: +353 21 7305620
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: 11 Aug 2000 09:56:50 GMT
>> >SuSE 6.4 have default K6-3DNow optimisation as well.
>>
>> Do they? Never seen it myself. I wonder how you get 3dnow optimisations in
>> an i386 rpm...
>
>Yes SuSE does. It's in the kernel. You can chose AMD-3D support during
>setup in YaST2. :-)
Heh, that's like saying if you choose a pentium optimised kernel the whole
distro is pentium optimised.
The majority (everything apart from the kernel) of SuSE, even 6.4, is
compiled for i386 (or ppc, apx etc) and does not use 3dnow. The kernel
doesn't do enough maths for the 3dnow patch to make a significant
difference. If you want 3dnow support in packages that will make real use of
it you need to recompile them yourself (things like xmms/mpg123 spring to
mind).
The kernel is optimised for it, everything else isn't.
Frinky
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From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba
Date: 11 Aug 2000 18:13:12 +0800
Hi any of you knows how to setup smaba on the linux box.
I need to acess my windows workgroup. Hence need to configure my linux to access the
NT workgroup.
--
Paul Wong Peng Kai
System Engineer
StarHub Internet
Tel: 8257-820
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kousik Nandy)
Subject: Re: Access to FAT32 file systems
Date: 11 Aug 2000 09:59:24 GMT
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 05:32:48 +0800, Anthony Fooks wrote:
> ... but I have been unable to set up to access My Windows drive when it
> is set up with a FAT32 filesystem. It can access it fine if I use a
> FAT16 file system for Windows, but if it is set up as a FAT 32,
> Linuxconfig in Gnome does not find the drives.
What does it say when you use
# fdisk -l /dev/hda (or whatever way you identify your disk)
Does it reckon your FAT32 partition? If it does, what happens when you try
to mount it by
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos_c (say /dev/hda1 is reported FAT32)
if you can do it, I wonder why linuxconf doesn't see that, and without
linuxconf, you can add one line in your /etc/fstab anyway (man fstab, man
mount).
HTH,
Kousik
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From: Paul Milliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:31:57 GMT
Hi,
Boddhisatva Troutwaxer wrote:
>> shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I am thinking of setting up Linux on an AMD machine. Did you
>> have any
>> >problem with the install or after the install?
>> >
>> >Shook
>>
>> The one issue you should be aware of if you are using AMD to save
>> money is that you cannot go cheap on the memory. Linux really
>> needs to have good, high quality memory.
>>
>> Also, if you have one of those motherboards that uses both kinds
>> of memory, be aware that the 72 pin implementation on some of
>> those motherboards is not very good. Return your 72 pin memory to
>> the store and get the good stuff.
>>
>> I also had terrible problems with overheating the first time I
>> tried an AMD, but that was because I had a ribbon cable caught
>> in the fan. ;)
Funny I've got exactly the same problem.
I think this is an AMD thing. :-)
>I've set up an AMD K-6/3 3DNow on an Epox mobo , with 2x64MB PC-100RAM.
>It's pretty nice. Yeah, you do need a good heatsink and a good ball
>bearing fan.
I run the Mandrake 7.1 distro on an AMD 350 Mhz with 96 MB PC-100RAM
without any kind of problem.
A dream.
Until next time,
Paul (from France).
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From: Kevin Passey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Install on Asentia J
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:57:47 +0100
This is my first stab at loading Linux on my old laptop.
What does Lost Interrupt mean when executing ./ide start hdc.
Tia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:37:44 +0100
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> So. You're hired hand for Debian. Or unofficial hired hand (or coder, if
> you prefer.) No?
It's rather traditional to be payed when someone hires you...
When did Debian pay him anything?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:39:41 +0100
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> John Hasler wrote:
>>
>> blowfish writes:
>> > Anyway. You have sold your code for profit.
>>
>> For there to have been a sale there would have to have been a contract
>> which obligated me to deliver the code and my customer to pay me. None of
>> my Debian work has involved such a contract (some of my other work has).
>>
> Then, please enlighten me in how to make $25k for no reason.
He's already explained the VA Linux IPO!
Are you thick, or what?
> I don't mind to have that happen to me a few times a year. :-)
>> > Because you know the whole idea of GNU-GPL, FSF and profit takings are
>> > contradictory to one another.
>>
>> Wrong.
> Right!
No, wrong!
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From: Andree Zaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:37:06 +0200
take a look at:
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~djbrosem/sambahowto/Samba-Beginners-HOWTO.html
andrew
system wrote:
> Hi any of you knows how to setup smaba on the linux box.
> I need to acess my windows workgroup. Hence need to configure my linux to access the
>NT workgroup.
>
> --
> Paul Wong Peng Kai
> System Engineer
> StarHub Internet
> Tel: 8257-820
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From: Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual Boot & 40 GB HD -- any problems?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:36:04 -0500
I have been given a new Dell desktop computer at work, and I can put on
it either Win2000 or WinNT 4. I can also put a Linux partition on it.
My question is, will I have any problems with LILO (or GRUB) if I
allocate the first 30+ GB to the WinXX system and the final amount to a
modern Linux distro?
TIA,
Jerome.
--
Jerome Mrozak "Never buy a dog and bark for yourself"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] --"Slippery" Jim DiGriz
(the Stainless Steel Rat)
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From: "Ivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install linux and windows 98 & NT problems?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:43:05 +0800
Hello, I want to install linux, cwin 98 and window NT in the same pc, what
can I do now?
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