Linux-Setup Digest #440, Volume #19 Mon, 21 Aug 00 03:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Lilo Installation Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD writer setup question (Carlos Moreno)
Re: How to run WM on remote display? ("Jon Davis")
Re: ATI RAGE FURY PRO HELP!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux reports 16MB RAM when I have 128MB! (Carl Tan)
Re: How to run WM on remote display? ("Jon Davis")
Re: Which verison of X Free 86 is in Mandrake 7.1? (moonie;))
Re: Mandrake 7.1 install on AMD UDMA66 system (moonie;))
Re: Linux reports 16MB RAM when I have 128MB!
Re: SMBMount ("Micky")
Re: Lilo Installation Problem (Eric)
Re: Lilo Installation Problem (Davide Bianchi)
Re: Mounting CDROMs (Eric)
Re: Mounting CDROMs (Davide Bianchi)
Re: How do I upgrade my glibc??? (Davide Bianchi)
Re: Simple question re Partitions (Eric)
Re: MBR [Re: I will unplug windows drive before installing mandrake] (Eric)
Re: SMBMount (Konstantinos Agouros)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lilo Installation Problem
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:55:08 GMT
Hi
I have a 20Gb hard disk. I partitioned it into 13Gb for Windows98 and
left the rest for Linux. I installed windows 98 and then used RedHat6.2
to boot in for installing Linux. I partitioned the remaining as 125Mb
for Linux Swap, 2775Mb for /home and rest for / and installed the Gnome
workstation. Installation goes well and I create a boot floppy and
restart the system. I only get LI on my screen and system hangs. I am
not sure if this because of lilo or any other problem. I tried various
ways but still it doesn't work. Urgently need help.
Thanks in advance
Vikram
PS: Sorry if I am posting again. I am using Deja for first time.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Carlos Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD writer setup question
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:15:02 -0400
Thanks for a detailed message with instructions!
I don't have time right now to try this, but I'll save your message
and take a look at it as soon as I can... It'll definitely be a
blessing not having to reboot to Windows ever again (currently, the
very only reason why I do it is to record CD's!!!)
Carlos
--
E J wrote:
>
> I got my redhat 6.x to use my CD-Writer. [...]
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From: "Jon Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: How to run WM on remote display?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 04:28:38 GMT
Thanks Jack, but I'm not exactly sure what you are saying. I'm new to
Exceed as well, not just new to Linux, and I need a bit more detail.
Thanks,
Jon
"Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:wn1o5.32244$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <hf%n5.121356$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jon
> Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm a newbie to Linux. I have Hummingbird Exceed and I have
> > successfully managed to get X programs running on my Linux computer to
> > display on my Windows 2000 computer.
> >
> > Is there a way to run the whole HELIX GNOME window manager / desktop and
> > display it on the Windows 2000 computer? I've exported the DISPLAY
> > property to the IP of my Windows 2000 computer but when I run "startx"
> > even from a telnet session it loads up the WM on the Linux computer's
> > display.
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
>
> Exceed will present whatever the
> user has chosen as thier default window manager. First reconfigure the
> users settings to bring up Gnome on login and then logging in from Exceed
> should work the same.
>
> Jack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: ATI RAGE FURY PRO HELP!!!
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:30:15 GMT
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:04:47 -0600, Ben Goble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am another that is having a problem with the
>ATI Rage Fury Pro 32 Mb which has the Rage 128 chip set.
<snip>
>>
>> I have the same problem with my ATI Rage Fury 32Mb.
<snip>
>> > Ati Rage Fury Pro (32mb)
<snip>
All three of these cards are supported under XFree86 4.0 or later.
=====
After many hours of trying and praying (I converted to 7 different religions over the
course of an hour. None of them had Linux tech support)
--Dru Lee Parsec from a post made on linuxnewbie.org message boards
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From: Carl Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux reports 16MB RAM when I have 128MB!
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:42:09 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> add this line in your /etc/lilo.conf
>
> /etc/lilo.conf
>
> append="mem=128M"
>
> -----------------
>
> options can also be passed to the kernel during booting
>
> boot: linux mem=128M
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Hi all,
Thanks for giving this advice. However, I have tried that and yet it
still reports 16384k in dmesg! Have I done something wqrong in my setup?
Would appreciate some help here as my HD is swapping like crazy
everytime I open Communicator (But it could just be communicator's
quirks..... ;-)
Regards
Carl.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jon Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: How to run WM on remote display?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 04:50:34 GMT
Jack,
Thanks for the reply but I am explicitly opting out of "bringing up Gnome on
login" because I don't want any automatic anything. I'm assuming that's
off-topic; the point is when I start Gnome remotely using "gmc" it fails to
work within Exceed (console error message is "** WARNING **: Root window
clicks will not work as no GNOME-compliant window manager could be found!")
although something does show up in Exceed with a few icons and a file
manager window but no desktop or anything I get in "startx", and if I start
it remotely with "startx" it boots fine but it uses the local display
instead of the remote display.
Jon
"Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:wn1o5.32244$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <hf%n5.121356$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jon
> Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm a newbie to Linux. I have Hummingbird Exceed and I have
> > successfully managed to get X programs running on my Linux computer to
> > display on my Windows 2000 computer.
> >
> > Is there a way to run the whole HELIX GNOME window manager / desktop and
> > display it on the Windows 2000 computer? I've exported the DISPLAY
> > property to the IP of my Windows 2000 computer but when I run "startx"
> > even from a telnet session it loads up the WM on the Linux computer's
> > display.
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
>
> Exceed will present whatever the
> user has chosen as thier default window manager. First reconfigure the
> users settings to bring up Gnome on login and then logging in from Exceed
> should work the same.
>
> Jack
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Which verison of X Free 86 is in Mandrake 7.1?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 01:07:12 -0400
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Andrew N. McGuire wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, moonie and UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTERmooniequoth:
>
>~~ Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:52:18 -0400
>~~ From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>~~ Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake, comp.os.linux.hardware,
>~~ comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup
>~~ Followup-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake, comp.os.linux.hardware,
>~~ comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup
>~~ Subject: Re: Which verison of X Free 86 is in Mandrake 7.1?
>~~
>~~ On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Gerardo wrote:
>~~ >Which version of X Free 86 is in Mandrake 7.1? Is Xfree 86 4.0 available in
>~~ >any distribution?
>~~ >
>~~ >Thanks,
>~~ >Gerardo
>~~ >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>~~
>~~ Both XFree86 4.0, and 3.3.6 are in M 7.1. I believe to use 4.0 you have to do
>~~ an expert install.
>
>Good thing I marked my previous response with "could be wrong" huh? :-)
>
>Regards,
>
Even I find it hard to be right all the time (don't tell my kids) lol ;)
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Stripped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 install on AMD UDMA66 system
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 01:50:20 -0400
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Bill Piety wrote:
>Below are the basic specs on my new Atlas-Micro AS6000, upgraded to
>thunderbird, which came pre-installed with a single Win98 fat-32
>partition:
>
>Processor AMD Athlon Processor Family w/Enhanced 3D Now (900mhz
>thunderbird)
>
>Main Board EPOX 7KXA VIA KX-133 4X AGP 200MHZ FSB UDMA-66 Support
>
>Memory 128MB PC-100 SDRAM
>
>L2 Cache 512K On Processor
Not with the Thunderbird you don't, they only have 256K (full speed though)
>
>Hard Drive 20GB Ultra DMA 66 Hard Drive
>
>Video Nvidia TNT2 M64 32MB AGP Video Card
>
>CD/DVD Shuttle 10X DVD-ROM Drive
>
>Sound Onboard PCI Stereo AC '97 Codec PCI Sound
>
>Modem Internal Motorola 56K V90 Modem w/Voice
>
>Floppy Drive 1.44MB 3 1/2 Floppy Disk Drive
>
>Question: has anyone tried to install Mandrake 7.1 on a similar
>system? 1st attempt with auto install wouldn't let me get past a
>search for SCSI devices (of which, I believe, I have none).
>
>2nd attempt was custom install, hoping to bypass SCSI search, but then
>advised could find media to install files.
>
>Deja search advises 7.1 has support for UDMA66. Modem's not going to
>go but I have an external that's OK. Would appreciate any helpful
>hints for this system. I've now gone 48 hours without Linux! :(
Not a problem with the controller, I am pretty certain that this uses the VIA
686 controller its the same one that is in this machine (FIC 503a with
K6-III/450) and has run Mandrake 6.1, and now 7.02.
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Stripped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Linux reports 16MB RAM when I have 128MB!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:01:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Tan wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> add this line in your /etc/lilo.conf
>>
>> /etc/lilo.conf
>>
>> append="mem=128M"
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> options can also be passed to the kernel during booting
>>
>> boot: linux mem=128M
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
>
>Hi all,
>
>Thanks for giving this advice. However, I have tried that and yet it
>still reports 16384k in dmesg! Have I done something wqrong in my setup?
>Would appreciate some help here as my HD is swapping like crazy
>everytime I open Communicator (But it could just be communicator's
>quirks..... ;-)
>
>
>
>Regards
>Carl.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If your bios has the option memory hole enabled disable it.
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From: "Micky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMBMount
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:09:35 +0200
> >But if I go to see the directory the day after I cannot reach any
> >information and I must remount again the unit.
>
> What version of Samba are you using? I had similar problems until
> updating to the newest version (2.0.7).
>
I used the version 2.0.6 now I updating to 2.0.7
Thanks
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo Installation Problem
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:22:24 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi
> I have a 20Gb hard disk. I partitioned it into 13Gb for Windows98 and
> left the rest for Linux. I installed windows 98 and then used RedHat6.2
> to boot in for installing Linux. I partitioned the remaining as 125Mb
> for Linux Swap, 2775Mb for /home and rest for / and installed the Gnome
> workstation. Installation goes well and I create a boot floppy and
> restart the system. I only get LI on my screen and system hangs. I am
> not sure if this because of lilo or any other problem. I tried various
> ways but still it doesn't work. Urgently need help.
> Thanks in advance
> Vikram
> PS: Sorry if I am posting again. I am using Deja for first time.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
This is a FAQ, so you could check deja for previous answers,
but I'll try to help you anyway.
You're suffering from the problem that the bios (and therefor lilo too)
cannot access any data beyond cylinder 1024 on the harddisk. There are
relative new extensions in the bios calls which enable newer bios'es to
go beyond that limit. But the lilo version in the current distro's don't
make use of these calls. So go get a newer version of lilo (search
freshmeat.net for the latest)
and install that. You'll need to boot with your bootfloppy for now,
untill you have the new lilo installed. If your bios doesn't support the
new calls, you'll need to create a /boot partition below cylinder 1024,
or remain booting from floppy.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Lilo Installation Problem
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:23:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:55:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi
>I have a 20Gb hard disk. I partitioned it into 13Gb for Windows98 and
>left the rest for Linux. I installed windows 98 and then used RedHat6.2
>to boot in for installing Linux. I partitioned the remaining as 125Mb
>for Linux Swap, 2775Mb for /home and rest for / and installed the Gnome
>workstation. Installation goes well and I create a boot floppy and
>restart the system. I only get LI on my screen and system hangs. I am
>not sure if this because of lilo or any other problem. I tried various
>ways but still it doesn't work. Urgently need help.
>Thanks in advance
>Vikram
>PS: Sorry if I am posting again. I am using Deja for first time.
Try to add the "linear" option to your LILO configuration, or remove
the option if it is already present.
Davide
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting CDROMs
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:25:04 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrew Overholt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have spent the last few hours trying in vain to fix my CD drive
> problems. The good new is that I got my CDRW drive to work with
> IDE-SCSI stuff (from someone else's post here)!
>
> The bad news is that I can't get my other CD drive to mount anymore.
> Following is my fstab file and when I try to mount my CDROM (hdd - a
> Creative 48X), I get an Input/Output error.
>
> /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/hda1 /windows vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hdd /cdrom auto user,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Andrew
I'm not sure about this, but try mounting it as a scsi device. It is
seen by the kernel as a scsi device (/dev/sXXX) instead of /dev/hdd.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Mounting CDROMs
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:24:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 02:25:45 GMT, Andrew Overholt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have spent the last few hours trying in vain to fix my CD drive
>problems. The good new is that I got my CDRW drive to work with
>IDE-SCSI stuff (from someone else's post here)!
>
>The bad news is that I can't get my other CD drive to mount anymore.
>Following is my fstab file and when I try to mount my CDROM (hdd - a
>Creative 48X), I get an Input/Output error.
If you have disabled the IDE CD interface, you can't use /dev/hdd to
refer to your CD Rom, you must use /dev/scd1. Try substitute
/dev/scd1 in your fstab.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: How do I upgrade my glibc???
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:25:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:46:11 -0400, James Kimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
>I'm running RH 6.0 and need to upgrade my glibc to allow me to use
>JAVA 1.2 (Blackdown). Do I just need to replace the glibc lib file or
>is there more to it? Thanks for any help.
Install the RPM for GLIBC, I don't remember where I downloaded it, but
it run quite fine. Look in the redhat web site.
Davide
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Simple question re Partitions
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:34:02 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
>
> This concerns installing Linux on a machine with OS2 and its dual boot
> progam installed. Is it the case that each partition has its own master
> boot record, so that if I install Linux on a primary or logical
> partition that LILO will be installed on that partition's MBR that of
> the partition on which the dual boot program is located?
>
> Thanks
>
> djtuchler
lilo is installed where you tell it to install!
if you write in the lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
it is installed in the MBR (there's only one MBR in your entire PC)
if you write in the lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hdaXXX
it is installed in the start of the partition you defined.
You let the OS2 bootloader point to that partition (if that can be done
with this loader) and then lilo takes over the booting process for
linux.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MBR [Re: I will unplug windows drive before installing mandrake]
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:46:36 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whooo, you are way more afraid than you need to be.
I've installed linux many times on many PC's, and always placed lilo in
the MBR. All you need to be afraid for is that windows will mess with
the MBR afterwards (if you need to reinstall eg.) or virus programs,
wrongfully assuming that lilo is a MBR virus. If you keep a boot floppy
aside, you'll always be able to restore lilo so these threads aren't
really worth worrying too much. If you're really afraid, you can place
lilo in the root partition on the 2nd HDD and make that the active
partition. If you (can) change the boot order to boot from that disc
first you can boot both linux and windows from there, otherwise you can
always boot linux from floppy, without any danger (which doesn't really
exist in the first place)
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros)
Subject: Re: SMBMount
Date: 19 Aug 2000 10:36:07 +0200
In <8nkhga$4av$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Micky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I mount a NT share on Linux (RedHat) with a command SMBMOUNT,
>everything is
>> working.
>> But if I go to see the directory the day after I cannot reach any
>> information and I must remount again the unit.
>> Someone know why?
>>
>>
>Hi! What version of Samba are you running? If not 2.0.7, first upgrade
>to 2.0.7 and see what happens.
>With 2.0.7, the "smbmount" is no longer used. "mount" is used with the
>"smbfs" filesystem type.
But which version of /sbin/mount do I need for that to work?
Konstantin
--
Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
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