Linux-Setup Digest #375, Volume #19 Fri, 11 Aug 00 13:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Accentuated characters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mandrake 7.1 on a Sony Vaio N505X ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lilo strikes again ! ("Jean-Pierre Prieto")
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (John Hasler)
Re: starting ftpd during bootup (vururu)
Bootup Hangs at Sendmail ("Cindy Bartorillo")
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
Re: Lilo strikes again ! ("Jean-Pierre Prieto")
Re: install linux and windows 98 & NT problems? ("so")
autofs (sylvain hutchison)
HELP needed on Tekram K7KX-A AMD Athlon ATX Motherboard (Dmitry Litvintsev)
Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem. (aflinsch)
Sound card configuration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
MASQ: failed TCP/UDP Checksum from (Somsak Limavongphanee)
Re: Lilo strikes again ! (DeAnn Iwan)
RedHat Network Interface Init Script (Jinsong Liu)
Re: RedHat Network Interface Init Script ("dale hites")
Can't Read Hard-Disk MBR/Boot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ISDN 128K modem (C Schulz)
Remove autoindent on vim (samuel-wk sum)
Re: Simple question about CD-Writing for Linux (Greg Davis)
Re: Installing Zip drive (Alvaro Palma Aste)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Accentuated characters
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:46:29 GMT
Hi to all
In Windows9x, I use an English 101 US keyboard configuration. That setup permits
to have � (e with a accute accent) with the alt-130 combination, for example.
Is it possible to configure kde (and Linux) to have those same options?
What I mean is that I would like to use the same sequences as in Win9x, i.e.
alt-130 for �...
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 on a Sony Vaio N505X
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:38:14 GMT
Hello Ben, I have been having the same problem with a new install of 7.1 on a
Vaio Z505R. I was finally able to load 7.1 but with some unresolved issues -
since it was not a clean install I had to re-install Win2000, work machine.
The way it worked for me was to create a PCMCIA floppy from the image on the
install disk. Boot from this floppy, you will not need to pass anything to
the kernel, a media selection dialog will appear, select local CDROM, ensure
the install CD in in before selecting. This will allow you to do a complete
install of 7.1 but in my case only the install CD. Tried 4 times to have the
extension CD included but it failed all four times, your machine might be
different. Also important, disable memory stick if your machine has one, the
disk config section will try to write to the partition table, fail and go no
further.
Now for the unresolved - System booted, did not see the GRUB loader although
I selected it, once logged in could not access the CD-ROM and Ethernet was
dead. As mentioned before have not had time to work on this since the PC is
my work machine and needed to have it up and running ASAP, plans were to have
VMware handle a virtual win98 session. If you have any luck in resolving
these issues drop me a line.
Good luck, Winston Chai.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ben Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I'm having problems upgrading from Mandrake 7.0 to 7.1. My Vaio (a
> N505X) has a PCMCIA CD-ROM which has, in the past, worked fine provided
> that linux is told where to find it, using
>
> linux ide2=0x180,0x386
>
> (This is how I installed Mandrake 7.0 and RedHat 6.x before it). The
> Mandrake 7.1 installer suggests that you need expert mode to pass these
> parameters. Fine, except I can't get it to work. Whatever I've tried, on
> the initial boot up only ide0 and ide1 are detected, and the installer
> then asks what driver to use (SCSI or a miscellaneous selection of other
> CD-ROM's like the old SB drives, none of which apply). My CD is on ide2,
> which hasn't been found anyway, so I can go no further.
>
> Anybody know how I get the installer to detect ide2?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben.
>
>
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From: "Jean-Pierre Prieto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo strikes again !
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:48:19 +0200
Hi,
I have the usual Lilo problem, only worse : the PC does not boot at all (no
message, just hangs).
My Linux is installed on a 2G disk and works great when booted from the
bootdisk. This PC was previouly working (and booting indeed) under Windows.
I have tried all possible variations on lilo.conf (bios=, disk= geometry,
linear, fix-table, etc). with no effect.
OK, time for fdisk /mbr ? -> It says : "The MBR has not been updated".
fdisk alone says "Read error on hard drive" when started and stops.
Well, then, "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=446". then reinstall
lilo -> same.
Seems like my first sector is dead (but only the first sector). I don't buy
that.
At this point I would rather throw the disk away, still, my systems works,
after all, so ...
Thanks for any hint you can provide,
jpp
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:55:45 GMT
Andrew Halliwell writes to the blowfish:
> Are you thick, or what?
You can only play a fish for so long before you have to either gaff it or
release it. He's given some good sport, but he's getting tired now. Let's
let him go.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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Subject: Re: starting ftpd during bootup
From: vururu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 06:49:58 -0700
in file /etc/hosts.deny
you comment the line:
ALL:ALL
vuru
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From: "Cindy Bartorillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bootup Hangs at Sendmail
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:02:24 -0400
After Linuxconf crashed in the middle of setting up networking, my bootup
(of my RedHat 6.1 system) hangs at the sendmail startup. I have a bootdisk
which the man page said could be used as a rescue disk, just type 'rescue'
at the LILO prompt. I did this, but a 'root disk' is also asked for. Hitting
enter at this point didn't work.
Any suggestions about how I can get into my system to at least copy off a
few files before I install a new linux? I've ordered Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe.
Also, will a linux file, copied onto a Windows disk, be usable later (copied
back to the new linux system)? In other words, will the Windows file system
hose the files?
I've done considerable research on this, and nothing seems to fit my case:
Loadlin just bypasses LILO, which is not my problem. My problem is the linux
boot itself.
I've looked for a 'root disk' on at least half a dozen linux ftp sites, but
haven't found anything that looks right.
I found a program called Explore2fs, but that is apparently unusable. My
linux is on a separate hard drive not recognized by Windows, and all drives
were partitioned with Partition Magic.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
CindyB
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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: 11 Aug 2000 10:19:33 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
> I don't see any worms. Of the Morris variety or otherwise...
I guess we've just discovered that worms can infect a blowfish, after
all.
--
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: "Jean-Pierre Prieto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo strikes again !
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:13:57 +0200
Oops ! Found it !
My Caviar 2G HD should have been jumped in the "neutral" way, not "master",
because it's alone on its cable.
THAT was preventing booting. Now I feel better. Would you have suspected
that ?
jpp
"Jean-Pierre Prieto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
8n10af$8h1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> I have the usual Lilo problem, only worse : the PC does not boot at all
(no
> message, just hangs).
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From: "so" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install linux and windows 98 & NT problems?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:16:41 +0200
first install win98, but don't use FAT32.The partition must be FAT16 to work
with NT.
then install NT in the same partition. An entry for win98 is made
automatically in boot-menu by NT.
At last install linux in a new partition or create several new partitions
for linux.
If you want to start linux from the NT bootmenu you have to save the
bootsector (with "dd" , see manpage or howto) in a file(bootsek.lin), save
it on a disk and copy it to c:\. then you edit boot.ini and add an entry for
Linux like the Win98 entry. The path for the bootfile is then
c:\bootsek.lin.
Now you can start NT, Win98,and linux with the bootmenu of NT.
"Ivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:8n0s7o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello, I want to install linux, cwin 98 and window NT in the same pc, what
> can I do now?
>
>
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: autofs
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:27:18 -0700
Hi there,
I'm trying to install the automounter on my linux PC (Red Hat 6.1), but
I noticed that the autofs startup script is missing in my init.d/, what
do I do?? I've downloaded the autofs automounter off the web, I've
configured it and install it, but how do I get the startup script to
come up into my directory??? If anybody knows, please let me know, I'm
kind of new to linux, but I think I'm missing something, apparently it's
supposed to be installed when I've installed RH 6.1, I guess it didn't
install it :).
Thanks a lot for any help!!!
Sly.
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From: Dmitry Litvintsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP needed on Tekram K7KX-A AMD Athlon ATX Motherboard
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:35:01 -0500
Hi Folks,
I was gonna buy the following configuration:
AMD K7 Athlon(TM) 800 MHz
Tekram K7KX-A AMD Athlon ATX Motherboard
Does anybody have experience with Linux installation with this
motherboard?
I was told it has build in Ultra66 interface. That is why I'm worried
if:
- Linux will recognize the drive
- if not, is there any 'soft' workaround
- if there is no 'soft' workaround , is it possible to
have this
motherboard+HDD configured as standard IDE (or
Ultra 33)?
Your input will be greatly appreciated.
Dmitry Litvintsev
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem.
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:18:40 -0500
Buschman wrote:
>
> My linux machine itself can telnet to other established linux/unix
> servers, but I can not telnet to my linux machine. I know my windows
> machine is fully functional and it too can telnet to linux/unix
> servers with no problem. The name of my server, let's call it
> whatever.com, can be resolved but it just sits there and times out.
> In other words, in windows if you go to run and type telnet
> whatever.com it will resolve the name but that's it. The telnet
> screen is blank and after a matter of seconds it times out. It's like
> the windows machine sees where my linux server is, but my linux server
> refuses to talk. Damn snobby linux servers! I have no fire wall at
> this time and have a static IP so neither of these are a
> consideration. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.
>
Looks like you have the telnet client installed, but not the server.
Some of the distros out there split them into individual packages
about a year ago. Check to see that you have both telnet and
telnet-server packages installed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound card configuration
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:37:09 GMT
Hi to all
I just added a new sound card to my system (SoundBlaster Live!). Working fine
under Win 98 but silent with Linux. I tried sndconfig and here is what I got:
1- It detected Creative labs ISB Live (audio)
2- It found that /etc/config.modules exists and would be renamed
/etc/config.modules.bak
3- It then tries to test but fails and reports
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/misc/emu10k1 init_modules ressouces or peripheric
occupied
Maybe a port or IRQ conflict, or an older sound card that I had installed before
is still "installed"?? Where to check that information? How to debug that??
Thanks
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From: Somsak Limavongphanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP Checksum from
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:25:21 +0700
MASQ: failed TCP/UDP Checksum from (IP.no)
Can any suggest what is this error all about?
Why my masq server report this error?
How can I fix it?
Thank,
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo strikes again !
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:00:11 -0400
I am not sure from your description, but you may have run into the
problem that windows does not handle a disk which is entirely devoted to
a non-microsoft OS. Windows on C: (hda) will be happy, and will stay
happy with an empty hdb. But if you make hdb ext2, etc. (no fat, NTFS,
etc), then windows will die in an infinite hang. However, in this case,
you would still be able to use LILO to boot into linux.
If this does turn out to be your problem, you can "fix" it by
putting a tiny fat partition on hdb so that windows has something to
"find" on the disk. Note, this tiny partition will become drive D: and
may thereby mess up your registry. Magic Mover in the Partition Magic
package can correct this problem.
Jean-Pierre Prieto wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the usual Lilo problem, only worse : the PC does not boot at all (no
> message, just hangs).
> My Linux is installed on a 2G disk and works great when booted from the
> bootdisk. This PC was previouly working (and booting indeed) under Windows.
>
> I have tried all possible variations on lilo.conf (bios=, disk= geometry,
> linear, fix-table, etc). with no effect.
> OK, time for fdisk /mbr ? -> It says : "The MBR has not been updated".
> fdisk alone says "Read error on hard drive" when started and stops.
> Well, then, "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=446". then reinstall
> lilo -> same.
>
> Seems like my first sector is dead (but only the first sector). I don't buy
> that.
>
> At this point I would rather throw the disk away, still, my systems works,
> after all, so ...
>
> Thanks for any hint you can provide,
>
> jpp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jinsong Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat Network Interface Init Script
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:00:28 -0400
hi group:
I am using redhat 6.1. I want to modify the network interface init
script. would anyone let me know, which conf file redhat used to init
network interface card?
thanks
Jinsong Liu
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Reply-To: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat Network Interface Init Script
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:18:09 -0500
Jinsong,
The Redhat site has a how to on manually configuring your network card.
There's about 6 pages to the whole document and it covers all the files you
need to know.
Dale
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't Read Hard-Disk MBR/Boot
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:20:57 GMT
I have a Maxtor Hard Drive which I installed EZDrive on. When I try to
install Linux The Linux software can not read the Boot Block. Got any
suggestions? Is there some software to rebuild the Hard Disk MBR?
Wish I had never used EZ Drive now, but at the time the Hard Drive was
too big for my BIOS.
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From: C Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ISDN 128K modem
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:59:02 +0100
sideband wrote:
>
> "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
Why not go for a PCI ISDN card, like an ASUS or AVM Fritz. They are
capable of channel bonding and give you 128K access without the need of
an additional serial card and are much cheaper: you should be able to
get them for less than �50.
Christian
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From: samuel-wk sum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remove autoindent on vim
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:11:45 -0600
Hi,
I am currently using Mandrake 7.1
By default, vim has autoindent set (Must be a programmer's decision).
Anyway, how do I disable it?
It's getting annoying and driving me nuts.
I tried :se noautoindent and it doesn't work.
I also tried putting :se noautoindent in .vimrc
and it also didn't work.
Thanks.
--
Samuel W Sum
Agilent Technologies
Tel (Office): 1(970)288-1336
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From: Greg Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.apps.cdwrite,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Simple question about CD-Writing for Linux
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:41:30 -0700
What is the setup of your EIDE/IDE channel(s)? Which devices, where,
and how are they jumpered?
Greg
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From: Alvaro Palma Aste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Zip drive
Date: 11 Aug 2000 16:52:18 GMT
And what happens if you set your parallel port built in the kernel, and no as a module?
Also perhaps may be usefull to include the "Foriegn hardware support", since some
motherboards doesn't provide "Standards Parallel Ports" (In my case, I can't get a
Laser Printer HP1100 works, until this support was added to the kernel, strange things
of Linux.... :-)
root escribio:
>[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
--
Atte.
�lvaro Palma Aste
Grupo de Ing Biom�dica - U. de Chile
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