Linux-Setup Digest #389, Volume #19 Sun, 13 Aug 00 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Edit boot file in Win2k ("catastrophe526")
Re: Edit boot file in Win2k ("psybertech")
Smallest Linux?? ("TH^v^")
Re: MP3 converter (Christian Burstein)
Re: MP3 converter (Thomas Rasmussen)
Strange GNOME behavior... (Jim Morrissey)
Re: A color question. (David Efflandt)
Re: (Rant) Installing RPMs: Endless fun... (Colin Watson)
Help with Partition Magic and BootMagic ("Terry Smerling")
Re: message in secure log file? (David Efflandt)
Re: xanim on rh6.2 - work bad. (David Efflandt)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working.... (bernieo)
Re: Saving and Restoring an MBR ("Torstein Pettersen")
Re: Tri Boot win98,w2k,linux using w2k boot manager? ("JT Carvalho")
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From: "catastrophe526" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Edit boot file in Win2k
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:22:53 -0500
I would like to triple boot my win98+win2k+linux machine using the win2k
boot loader. Could anyone tell me which file is to be edited for booting
these options?
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From: "psybertech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Edit boot file in Win2k
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:25:53 GMT
catastrophe526 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:z8yl5.376$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would like to triple boot my win98+win2k+linux machine using the win2k
> boot loader. Could anyone tell me which file is to be edited for booting
> these options?
>
Don't bother. I have just this setup on my box, and windows 2k/98 have crap
boot loaders. I recommend using lilo in your boot sector and the win2k boot
loader on the first dos partition for choosing which windows platform to
choose.
So first you choose whether you want linux or dos, then if you want dos you
have to choose which one.
Kipz.
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From: "TH^v^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Smallest Linux??
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:52:50 GMT
What is the smallest distribution of linux available capable of running
VMWare?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Burstein)
Subject: Re: MP3 converter
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:57:13 +0200
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:56:24 +1000, Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
> I'm looking for something to convert wav files to MP3's I have
Try lame, gogo or mpg123 or xmms or ...
>
>Any ideas where to go?
www.freshmeat.net
>
>Ta
>
>Julian
>
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Subject: Re: MP3 converter
From: Thomas Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:56:21 GMT
>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Burstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christian> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:56:24 +1000, Julian Bordas
Christian> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello I'm looking for something to convert wav files to MP3's I
>> have
Christian> Try lame, gogo or mpg123 or xmms or ...
^^^^^^ ^^^^
How on earth have you gotten mpg123 or xmms to convert *WAV* to *MP3*
?
/Thomas
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-- Homer Simpson
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From: Jim Morrissey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Strange GNOME behavior...
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:11:33 GMT
I'm running Redhat 6.0 with Gnome. When I initially log on, it sometimes
takes quite a long while for the display to appear normally (with icons,
menubar, last running apps, etc). This seems to leave a core file in my
home directory. Also, sometimes when I attempt to shutdown by clicking
on the menu bar icon and choosing log out...nothing happens. In this
case I must log out by doing a CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE to destroy the
X-session, then selecting system shutdown. Yet other times there is no
problem and all works normally. I'm perplexed. Any ideas on how to
rectify this frustrating behavior? Thanks.
-Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: A color question.
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:25:53 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 01:15:26 GMT, Manfred Bartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>darkstar51 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> When you install Slackware, and run a command such as "ls", files,
>> directories, and executables are shown in different colors. Is there
>> an option to do this in a different distrobution? Or how else can
>> this be done?
>
>Most distros would have ``/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Colour-ls.txt.gz''
>or wherever your distro puts the documentation this year. For
>some reason, I can't find it anymore at <http://www.linuxdoc.org>.
>If you have not got it on your system, email me and I send you a
>copy.
Or simply type 'man ls' and read. For example you can put an alias in
/etc/bashrc:
alias ls="ls -F --color=auto"
><rant>
>I don't understand why color-ls is not standard on all the big
>distributions? Slackware had it years ago.
They do, but it is simply called 'ls'.
>On a similar note,
>why do millions of Linux users worldwide *all* have to fix the
>backspace key under X?
></rant>
I haven't had to do that for many years, except when I installed FreeBSD
that used the real 'sh' by default instead of 'bash'. On the other hand
some systems I telnet into (RedHat, Mandrake, BSD) automatically recognize
which erase character is being used, and some (Solaris) do not.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: (Rant) Installing RPMs: Endless fun...
Date: 13 Aug 2000 11:45:02 GMT
Frederic Faure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><RANT>
Noted :)
> Now, not only are release #'s incremented and
>mutually-dependent (ie. the different packages are built to only
>install if other modules match the ones that were used by whoever
>built the package you're trying to install),
This really is often correct. It guarantees, as well as the packager
can, that the package will actually work once installed. My experience
is with Debian, which IMHO has a far superior packaging system, but
there any package that contains code linked to shared libraries [1] is
automatically given a dependency on whatever the library records as the
last version at which you can expect compatibility (of course, the
packager can override this if necessary). In the absence of libraries
recording this information, "at least the build version" is the best you
can do. You can expect some measure of compatibility from future
versions, but not from past ones.
[1] Currently only native code, not things like Perl, but packagers
should be aware of this sort of thing themselves.
Admittedly, you usually don't have to be quite as careful with Perl, but
it does no harm. There are few things more confusing than a package that
works for some people but not for others. Shouldn't there be some kind
of tool for Red Hat that automatically upgrades stuff for you?
>but to some people, this was just not enough fun: Let's make this more
>exciting by also _changing the names_ under which those different
>packages are known...
>
>For instance:
>
>DBI-perl-bin-0.93-1.i386.rpm
>DBI-1.13-1.i386.rpm
>perl-DBI-1.13-1mdk.i586.rpm
>
>perl-Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2210-2.i386.rpm
>mysql-DBI-perl-bin-1.825-1.i386.rpm
>mysql-perl-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm
Move to Debian and get away from this! By policy, every Perl module must
be called lib*-perl, where the * is the lowercased name of the module
with :: changed to -; so DBD::mysql is in libdbd-mysql-perl.
And, better, the simple command 'apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl' will
install the package and pull in any dependencies that it needs, from a
CD if you have one or from the net if you don't. No hunting around the
mess in rpmfind.net. No fuss.
>Where's a simple SETUP.EXE when you need it...
Ah, yes, a tool with hardly any dependency checking at all, what a good
idea, everything's bound to work then. :)
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Ye GODS! NT crashed the microwave!" "Hmmm. Am thinkink we should put
Elder Sign seal on microwave now. Leave alone." - User Friendly
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From: "Terry Smerling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Partition Magic and BootMagic
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:30:54 GMT
I have Partition Magic 4.0, which includes BootMagic (1.0?). My
question concerns what type of partition to create with Partition Magic in
order to install Boot Magic. My first hard drive is 12 gigs and contains
Win2000 and Win98; and my second hard drive (4 gigs) contains Corel Linux.
As I understand it, I have to create a new 8 meg primary partition at the
beginning of my first hard drive to accomodate BootMagic. I did so, but
Partition Magic made the new primary partition hidden. Since BootMagic will
not install on a hidden partition, I started to make the new primary
partition active (using PartitionMagic) and received a warning message about
the perils of having more than one primary partition active. Am I on the
right track? Can I safely activate the 8 meg primary partition without
jeopardizing the balance of my installations on my first (and second) hard
drives? Will BootMagic install in a logical partiton? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: message in secure log file?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:31:31 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:34:30 +0200, Andrey Shipsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could anyone please explain to me what this message means in my secure
>log file:
>
>
>pam_console[957]: console tty1 is owned by UID 0
>pam_console[957]: console tty1 is a character device
>
>I am using RH 6.2. I am pretty sure I have not seen this message
>before... Is it good or bad news in this message?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Andrey.
It tells you that root is on the first vt (Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F1 from X).
What were you doing at the time?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: xanim on rh6.2 - work bad.
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:35:39 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:30:49 +0200, Yuval Yohai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
>
>My "off the CD" xanim works bad on my RH6.2 with ATI mach32 8MB card.
>It shows the video clip with horiz stripes and not in the right speed.
>Looking for suggestions.
>Thanks,
>Yuval
I think you need to download a more complete one from the xanim website.
The simple one included does not have all the codecs. For example when I
try to play .mpg (mpeg) video in Mandrake 7.0, I just see bits and pieces
of the images, which is not surprising since the distributed version does
not mention support for mpeg.
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From: bernieo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working....
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:41:21 GMT
Carlos wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I think it would sure make life a lot
> >> easier for the average Linux user if distributions just used ide-scsi,
> >> and left ide-cd to people that wanted to configure it themselves.
> >
> >It would surely make life easier for us who have IDE CD burners, but it
> >might be a bit of a pain for those with SCSI drives. I've no experience
> >using a computer with IDE and SCSI drives, and I don't know how well
> >a "real" SCSI driver would coexist with SCSI emulation.
>
> My system has 2 scsi HD's, and ide CDROM and CDRW using the ide-scsi
> trick. Works flawlessly but was a pain to configure the first time
> (probably would take less than 5' now...). No problem with mixed ide and
> scsi systems.
>
> Carlos
I have and IDE CDRW and a SCSI Scanner.
I tried to enable the CDRW under linux as a Writer, but when I did, I lost
access
to the TRUE SCSI Scanner.
How can I setup the IDE CDRW drive to go through the IDE-SCSI Emulation,
yet still have access to my SCSI Scanner.
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From: "Torstein Pettersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Saving and Restoring an MBR
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:45:52 +0200
It's much simpler to just boot with a win9x startup disk
and type: fdisk /MBR.
The /MBR parameter for fdisk undocumented, but it works.
(/MBR stands for Master Boot Restore).
Torstein
"Randy Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have noticed a lot of questions regarding recovering lost / damaged
> Master Boot Records (MBR) lately. So I thought it was about time to
> repost this.
>
> You should make a backup copy of your MBR on a bootable floppy disk
> before installing Linux and then again after installing Linux.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I can suggest two ways that you can back up the Master Boot Record (MBR)
>
> on an IDE drive under Windows and DOS.
>
> 1. Use the Norton Utilities.
>
> 2. Use Debug, as found in DOS, it is also available from the DOS prompt
> in Windows/95 so I assume it is also available in Windows/98.
>
> Enter the following commands to save the MBR on the C drive, ignore
> the text after the '<=' on each line as it is only a comment:
>
> DEBUG MBR.DAT <= Ignore the FILE NOT FOUND message
> A <= Assemble a program
> MOV DX,9000 <= Use segment 9000
> MOV ES,DX <= Setup the segment register
> XOR BX,BX <= Clear BX to zero
> MOV CX,0001 <= Start at track 00 sector 01, the MBR
> MOV DX,0080 <= 80=C:, 81=D:, 00=A:, 01=B:
> MOV AX,0201 <= Read 1 sector, 02=read
> INT 13 <= BIOS disk i/o call
> INT 20 <= Return to o/s
> <= Press the return key to end program entry
> G <= Execute the program
> R CX <= Display the value of CX
> :200 <= Change the value of CX to decimal 512, size of
> MBR
> W 9000:00 <= Write the sector stored at address 9000 to
> MBR.DAT
> Q <= exit DEBUG
>
> If you examine the contents of MBR.DAT using a disk file editor the last
>
> 2 bytes must be AA55.
>
> At this point you should copy the MBR to a bootable floppy along with
> DEBUG.EXE
>
> This technique may be used to recover the MBR as well, assuming you can
> boot from another device (say a floppy with DEBUG.EXE on it).
>
> Enter the following commands to restore the MBR on the C drive, ignore
> the text after the '<=' on each line as it is only a comment:
>
> DEBUG MBR.DAT <= The file containing the desired MBR, if you
> get a
> FILE NOT FOUND message type Q immediately! If
> you
> continue you will write garbage over the MBR.
> L 9000:00 <= Load the MBR into memory at this address
> A <= Assemble a program
> MOV DX,9000 <= The segment address containing the MBR
> MOV ES,DX <= Setup the segment address
> XOR BX,BX
> MOV CX,0001 <= Track 00, sector 01
> MOV DX,0080 <= 80=C:
> MOV AX,0301 <= Write one sector, 03=write
> INT 13
> INT 20
> <= Press the enter key to stop program entry
> G <= Execute the program
> Q <= Exit DEBUG
>
> The MBR should now be restored to the C drive, making it bootable.
>
> For more information on this technique for saving and restoring an MBR I
>
> refer you the book 'The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide' by
> Mark
> Minasi, published by Sybex.
>
> Once you have Linux running you can save the boot record with the
> command:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/boot.MBR bs=512 count=1
>
> It can then be restored with:
>
> dd if=/boot/boot.MBR of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
>
> or if you do not want/need to overwrite the partition table with:
>
> dd if=/boot/boot.MBR of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
>
> as the partition table is kept in the last 66 bytes of the MBR.
>
> DISCLAIMER:
> Although I have double checked the above, I cannot be held responsible
>
> for any errors. I suggest you try it on a bootable floppy disk before
> using it on a hard drive. If it does not work on a floppy disk let me
> know.
>
> BTW: I find it easier to boot Linux from a floppy disk or CD-ROM than to
>
> recover an MBR from DOS. The Slackware 3.5 (or greater) CD-ROM
> makes a
> good rescue disk if you have a bios that supports bootable CDs.
>
>
>
>
> I can suggest two ways that you can back up the Master Boot Record (MBR)
> on an
> IDE drive under Windows and DOS.
>
> 1. Use the Norton Utilities.
>
> 2. Use Debug, as found in DOS, it is also available from the DOS prompt
> in
> Windows/95 so I assume it is also available in Windows/98.
>
> Enter the following commands to save the MBR on the C drive, ignore
> the text
> after the '<=' on each line as it is only a comment:
>
> DEBUG MBR.DAT <= Ignore the FILE NOT FOUND message
> A <= Assemble a program
> MOV DX,9000 <= Use segment 9000
> MOV ES,DX <= Setup the segment register
> XOR BX,BX <= Clear BX to zero
> MOV CX,0001 <= Start at track 00 sector 01, the MBR
> MOV DX,0080 <= 80=C:, 81=D:, 00=A:, 01=B:
> MOV AX,0201 <= Read 1 sector, 02=read
> INT 13 <= BIOS disk i/o call
> INT 20 <= Return to o/s
> <= Press the return key to end program entry
> G <= Execute the program
> R CX <= Display the value of CX
> :200 <= Change the value of CX to decimal 512, size of
> MBR
> W 9000:00 <= Write the sector stored at address 9000 to
> MBR.DAT
> Q <= exit DEBUG
>
> If you examine the contents of MBR.DAT using a disk file editor the last
> 2
> bytes must be AA55.
>
> At this point you should copy the MBR to a bootable floppy along with
> DEBUG.EXE
>
> This technique may be used to recover the MBR as well, assuming you can
> boot
> from another device (say a floppy with DEBUG.EXE on it).
>
> Enter the following commands to restore the MBR on the C drive, ignore
> the text
> after the '<=' on each line as it is only a comment:
>
> DEBUG MBR.DAT <= The file containing the desired MBR, if you
> get a
> FILE NOT FOUND message type Q immediately! If
> you
> continue you will write garbage over the MBR.
> L 9000:00 <= Load the MBR into memory at this address
> A <= Assemble a program
> MOV DX,9000 <= The segment address containing the MBR
> MOV ES,DX <= Setup the segment address
> XOR BX,BX
> MOV CX,0001 <= Track 00, sector 01
> MOV DX,0080 <= 80=C:
> MOV AX,0301 <= Write one sector, 03=write
> INT 13
> INT 20
> <= Press the enter key to stop program entry
> G <= Execute the program
> Q <= Exit DEBUG
>
> The MBR should now be restored to the C drive, making it bootable.
>
> For more information on this technique for saving and restoring an MBR I
> refer
> you the book 'The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide' by Mark
> Minasi,
> published by Sybex.
>
> Once you have Linux running you can save the boot record with the
> command:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/boot.MBR bs=512 count=1
>
> It can then be restored with:
>
> dd if=/boot/boot.MBR of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
>
> or if you do not want/need to overwrite the partition table with:
>
> dd if=/boot/boot.MBR of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
>
> as the partition table is kept in the last 66 bytes of the MBR.
>
> DISCLAIMER:
> Although I have double checked the above, I cannot be held responsible
>
> for any errors. I suggest you try it on a bootable floppy disk before
> using it on a hard drive. If it does not work on a floppy disk let me
> know.
>
> BTW: I find it easier to boot Linux from a floppy disk or CD-ROM than to
>
> recover an MBR from DOS. The Slackware 3.5 (or greater) CD-ROM
> makes a
> good rescue disk if you have a bios that supports bootable CDs.
>
>
> --
> Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mail checked week nights and weekends)
>
>
>
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From: "JT Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: microsoft.public.win2000.setup
Subject: Re: Tri Boot win98,w2k,linux using w2k boot manager?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:04:27 +0100
Hi
I'd a similar sitution.: I had w95 on fisrt parttion (fat32) instead of
win98 and W2000 on second partition and someone gave me this link when I
needed to instal Linux on a 2nd HD:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader
it explains dual-boot with NT and Linux, but I follow the instructions to
make a tri-boot system (W95/W2000/Linux) and everything worked fine.
Let linux create the partitions for it (do not use NT disk admin)
Attention to items 3.3 and 3.4
I hope I helped
JT
Don't forget backup!
"Larry Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8n5jm0$3i9m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi- I have system with win98 (first partition on HD, FAT32) and w2k
(second
> partition on HD, FAT32) on it that I am going to add linux to. The system
is
> currently using w2k's boot manager to dual boot the system. My plan is to
use
> partition magic to make a third partition for RH linux 6.2, put lilo on
that
> partition to load RH, and manually modify the w2k boot manager file
(boot.ini)
> to tri-boot the system (win98, w2k, RH linux) at startup. Does any one
know
> the text to add to boot.ini that would allow this to be done? Thanks in
> advance, Larry
>
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