Linux-Setup Digest #482, Volume #19 Sat, 26 Aug 00 16:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Floppy boot waaay too slowwww (David Schrittesser)
Re: SuSE 6.4? (David Schrittesser)
SLOW boot installing SuSE 6.4 (David Schrittesser)
kernel panic: init not found ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: access linux partition from windows (Michael Perry)
ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel (Peter Kelly)
Re: Stupid Question - 1 (brian)
Re: Path doesnt get set! (brian)
Re: modules.conf and fstab ignored in RedHat 6.2 (brian)
Installation Problem Here's my hardware. (Kalieaire)
Re: User Crontab (brian)
Re: Where is ppp? Mdk 7.1 Maximum Linux CD (Garry Knight)
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From: David Schrittesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy boot waaay too slowwww
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:22:15 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I�m still pretty new to this, so bear with me..;-)
I�m experiencing very much the same problem in a very different
situation.
I tried to install SuSE 6.4 tonight, but I never even get past the
booting process.
I waited for ten minutes till the Loading... showed up on the screen at
24:00 and then I went to bed and when I checked again at 10:00 in the
morning the screen read:
Loading initrd.......(wich means the ram disk(?) is loaded -THIS IS
SERIOUS)
I�ve read somewhere (SuSE support Database) there is a problem with IDE
drives.
but how can I ever fix it if I don�t get to boot? It�s also strange that
everythings fine with RH5.1, wich is also installed.
My configuration:
M6VBE-A
PIII 500 Mhz, 128 MB RAM
with Win98 on a primary partition on my 20GB hd and everything else on
an extended partition on that drive.
Programmer wrote:
>
> I've just installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 from the CD I downloaded from the Red
> Hat site. When I boot from floppy, the floppy takes about 5 minutes to
> boot. It says Loading........ and slowly keeps printing periods until it
> gets about 3/4 of the way across the screen, then it finally boots after 5
> minutes (I timed it).
>
> Here's my configuration:
>
> Dell Dimension V400 (1st PC I didn't build myself)
> PII 400Mhz,
> 128MB RAM
> hd0 = 20GB IDE
> hd1 = 13GB IDE
>
> I've got Windows 98 and Windows 2000 installed in a 15GB partition on hd0
> with VFAT32.
> Linux is installed on same drive:
> Swap partition - 133MB
> /boot = 15.7MB
> / = ~3.8GB
>
> I installed everything.
>
> I've chosen to boot from floppy, because last time I installed the same Red
> Hat release on my prior PC, I used LiLo with Linux on a 2.1GB SCSI drive and
> Win98 on my 20GB. When I booted, it just locked up after displaying "LI".
> At that time, I re-installed, choosing floppy boot. It booted in a
> reasonable amount of time then on a PII 266Mhz w/ 64MB RAM (same hard
> drives, but with the additional 2.1GB SCSI).
>
> I'm an advanced programmer, but I'm totally green on Linux. Can anybody
> help a totally green Linux newbie on this one? I've scanned through about
> 5,000 posts on various linux news groups and have not found anyone with this
> same problem. I also went out and bought the book, "Red Hat Linux 6
> Unleased" by SAMS press. I couldn't find anything in there either.
>
> Thanks in advance!
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From: David Schrittesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.4?
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:36:04 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I posted this somewhere else a minute ago, but I guess You might be
interested:
Maybe one of you has experienced something similiarly - strange...
I tried to install SuSE 6.4 tonight, but I never even get past the
booting process.
I waited for ten minutes till the Loading... showed up on the screen at
24:00 and then I went to bed and when I checked again at 10:00 in the
morning the screen read:
Loading initrd.......(wich means the ram disk(?) is loaded -THIS IS
SERIOUS)
I�ve read somewhere (SuSE support Database) there is a problem with IDE
drives.
but how can I ever fix it if I don�t get to boot? It�s also strange
that
everythings fine with RH5.1, wich is also installed.
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From: David Schrittesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SLOW boot installing SuSE 6.4
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:17:08 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I try to install SuSE 6.4, I just can�t boot from CDROM.
The booting process takes ages.
I once left it to itself for 10 hours, only to find it had aborted and
started again, but even then it had not gotten past initrd....
What do I do?
conf:
M6VBE-A with PIII, 500 Mhz, 128 MB RAM, Maxtor IDE hd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kernel panic: init not found
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:54:51 GMT
Hi,
my problem is the following:
I made a 2 disk boot/root on my system:
Mitac Laptop 6120
Pentium III 650
128 SDRAM
REDHAT 6.1 :-) YEAH STILL
Kernel 2.2.16-3 , zImage
I did as described in the Bootdisk-Howto.
But when booting, after loading the root-filesystem int the ram i got
the message:
kernel-panic: init not found (try kernel parameter: init=..)
but i have the file init in /sbin/init. I tried also in etc and bin.
if i include a link linuxrc pointing to init
i got the error: kmod: error invoking modprobe ......err=8
so it seems HE (the kernel) cannot access the root-fs.
But he can start linuxrc?!?!?!?!
What could be wrong?
Iam graceful for every kind of help............
p.s. this error was already posted in another group, but unfortunately
not answered.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: access linux partition from windows
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:09:30 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:44:56 +0800, sllai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I access linux partition from windows operating system
>
>thanks
>sllai
>
>
Samba does it just fine. I can browse my home directory, a public share,
printers, etc. I have a win98 laptop which I use for a few things and I
have samba setup on my debian box. It provides file and printer sharing. I
can also "share" my cd if I would want. I have gotten the preexec and
postexec stuff to also share a zipdrive.
--
Michael Perry, Technical Project Manager, Scalable Solutions
Linuxcare Professional Services, Linuxcare, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/
Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
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From: Peter Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:40:50 GMT
the saga continues....
I'm building linux learning/router/firewall that will live between the
cable modem and the Win98 box in the end. I started with the Redhat
6.2 distro.
The NICs I bought (because the model worked just fine for the linux
partition on the Win98 box) were no longer compatible. I needed to
upgrade to 2.3.99 kernel. I got the entire source tarball, un-tarred
it, and built the kernel. I've got the linux box
A. Talking to the internet through eth0
B. Assigning dynamic IPs to the Win98 box through eth1.
C. Not talking between eth0 and eth1.
I've used the ipchains HOWTO to get everything set up. As far as I
can tell, there are no error messages at boot, except for a NFS lockd
problem. I'll fight that one later.
After a lot of searching/head scratching, I found that when I just
type in
/sbin/ipchains -F
I get the error message 'ipchains: Incompatible with this kernel'
Doing a 'find' for ipchains, I see more source sitting under
/usr/src/linux/<even deeper>, so I know I need to compile it and get
it installed. First question, is there any special trick to this?
Watching the kernel compile, there are lots of arguments during the
kernel and module builds. I'm guessing that they are important for a
correct .o file. Also, since there is a problem with /sbin/ipchains,
I'm only going to assume that there is at LEAST one more binary that
will need to be updated. Is there a 'make' (or something similar)
that will re-compile and re-install everything in the /sbin and /bin
directories? I've looked in the kernel HOWTO, a couple of linux books
that I bought, but don't see anything in there about new /bin files.
Just 'make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install' after 'make
config'.
Help would be wonderful at this point.
Thanks.
Peter
When responding by email, please change the no-spam to disco.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Spam really sucks.
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid Question - 1
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:42:16 -0500
Partition Magic from Power Quest will handle Linux very well. The initial
out of the box 4.0 version of Partition Magic failed to correctly format
the ext2 partition and swap partition for Linux. The upgrade works fine.
But, I simply let RedHat installation procedure go ahead and include
reformating the ext2 partition. Everything worked fine. It does handle
switching partitions to different formats, too. At least, I tried with a
partition for data storage and it worked fine to convert from ext2 to
vfat32.
Brian
PlzBeMine wrote:
> Linux Gurus,
>
> I have almost similar problem with Bing. I have a 20Gb HDD with pre-
> installed Win98 and now I want to install Redhat Linux as well.
>
> I have this Partition Magix but I really dont know what the software
> can do aside from partitioning your hard drive withour destroying your
> current setup.
>
> Question : Is Partition Magic applicable to dos and linux os as well? I
> am assuming that Partition Magic will just partition the drive on the
> Win98 system.
>
> If I use Partition Magic will Linux installation recognize the
> partitioned space? Please advise...
>
> thanks...
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Path doesnt get set!
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:48:44 -0500
The /etc/profile makes the $QTDIR available to all users.
Brian
Ingemar Lundin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just finished installing qt2.11 for Opera that i downloaded, since qt
> was'nt installed bfore i had to set $QTDIR in my .profile, but the
> strange thing is
> that if i put a .profile in my /root folder the path doesnt get set but
> if i put it in the /etc/profile it does; anyone got a clue as to why?
>
> Running RedHat 6.2
>
> /IL
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modules.conf and fstab ignored in RedHat 6.2
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:54:42 -0500
I use RedHat 6.2 and find a similar problem. I'm looking into the
"linuxconf" program as a possible cause. I have tried the suggestions named
so far. Somewhere buried in one of the start up scripts there is a line
that I hope clear this up.
Brian
Colin Watson wrote:
> D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have the cdrom set up in fstab as follows:
> >
> >/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noauto,unhide 0 0
> >
> >However, everytime I mount it, RedHat 6.2 insists on mounting it as
> >noexec, nosuid. So I change the line explicitly to
> >
> >/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,suid,dev,users,exec,noauto,unhide 0 0
> >
> >And it *still* gets mounted as noexec,nosuid. So now I have to mount it
> >with -o exec on the command line. How can I fix this behavior?
> >Everything worked fine with RedHat 6.1.
>
> You should at least change it to ro,users,exec,suid,dev,noauto,unhide;
> users implies noexec, nosuid, and nodev, unless overridden by
> *subsequent* options. See 'man mount'.
>
> I don't know why it's getting mounted noexec above, though ...
>
> >Also, the modules.conf file is getting ignored. Modules won't load or
> >unload automatically, even though they worked fine under 6.1. I did
> >have to change conf.modules to modules.conf to make 6.2 happy, but that
> >was the only change I made. Anyone else having these problems?
>
> Check /var/log/messages or /var/log/kern.log or wherever kernel log
> messages go in RH 6.2, as if loading a module fails then it will
> probably be logged there.
>
> Check, perhaps, that kmod support is compiled into the kernel (it's in
> "Loadable module support" if you end up needing to recompile). You can
> tell because /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe exists if and only if kmod is
> there. Also, that file should contain the correct path to your modprobe
> executable (probably /sbin/modprobe). If you need to change it, note
> that you'll need to put something in your startup scripts to do so every
> time you boot; /proc isn't a real filesystem, it's just created by the
> kernel as an interface to some of its internals.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> "And after the fire there came a still small voice ..."
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From: Kalieaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installation Problem Here's my hardware.
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:05:22 GMT
Here's the problem:
I use my CD-Rom to Boot up Linux Redhat 6.2 i386 distro.
After I boot, I hit enter to begin installation. I select my generic ps/2 mouse
w/ 3 buttons, select my time zones, setup my accounts, select a generic svga
card, and my ctx-1765 monitor. It begins to install.
Through installation on the last 47-44 packages of the install on the postscript
stuff or something to do with tex, it freezes and the computer becomes
non-responsive. Sometimes the installation will just stop<meaning no files are
transferred, no progress occurs>, but my mouse is still usable, and i can still
turn on and off the three lock keys.
There was one occasion last night, in which I was able to install, but then it
told me I had faults w/ my hd or something and to run fsck and that it'd load me
up in the shell as root. I load up and type fsck, and it says something
parallelizing or something, and gives me back the prompt.
Well I got tired of this because I didn't know what to do, so I am attempting to
install it again.
I will change to a different hard drive after the current attempt at
installation.
Here's the hardware:
Pentium 2 - 333 off a 66mhz FSB
64 Megs of PC66 Ram
Unknown Motherboard - Dual processor board w/ onboard scsi & sound off a Phoenix
4.0 bios
1.44MB Mitsumi FDD
24x Generic EIDE CD-ROM
EIDE AC32500 Western Digital 2.5 Gig HD
3Com 3c509b-TPO ISA ethernet card
AccelGraphics AccelGalaxy video card based on the Evans & Sutherland RealImage
2100 chipset
--
I feel that the hard drive should be fine because it previously ran Win NT 4 SP5
alright, so I tried switching Video cards to something supported, I chose my
spare Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, same problems in the same place.
But because I am running off of an unknown motherboard, I will try to install
on my Dual Celeron 500 abit bp6 w/ a removable HD System since this is supported
and even has its own distro of linux from abit.
--
Something else
--
I tried installing linux on my friend's computer, it never got into language
selection. It'd error out and give me a signal 11.
I attempted expert install as well, and it'd error out in the drivers area.
His Hardware:
Video - Matrox MGA Chipset
CD - Mitsumi CD-ROM 24x
TEAC 1.44mb FDD
FIC VA-503+ K6 Motherboad
K6-2-333mhz
128 megs of Ram on SIMMs.
I am thinking that the motherboard has some problems, either that or the
k6-2-333mhz has probs itself <I remember reading that K6-2 300's had problems,
but didn't know if they meant all 300's>
===========
So hey, Thanks for all your thoughts guys, email me back answers as well as post
replies. thx.
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: User Crontab
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:04:36 -0500
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Ooops! The below example does not show 3:15pm for each day, it shows
3:59pm.
Sorry. But, I imagine everyone caught that mistake :)
Brian
brian wrote:
> After searching the internet, I found the answer that solved my
> problem.
>
> Anyone wanting to run a program in xwindows at specific times or
> intervals
> can use crontab. First read the man pages by typing the following at
> the
> unix prompt (found in any terminal):
>
> man crontab
>
> Learn how to write a basic cron statement.
>
> Any xwindow program can be activated on your display server by adding
> -display :0.0
>
> For example:
>
> 59 15 * * * acroread -display :0.0
>
> This will activate Adobe Acrobat Reader at 3:15pm each day within
> Xwindows!
>
> brian
>
>
>
>
>
> brian wrote:
>
>> I have no problem running crontab from root. Yet, as another user,
>> I
>> cannot seem to get crontab going.
>>
>> Doing the following command does not seem to make it work:
>>
>> crontab [name of crontab file]
>>
>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated to allow a user to use their
>> own
>> crontab file.
>
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Ooops! The below example does not show 3:15pm for each day, it shows
3:59pm.
<p>Sorry. But, I imagine everyone caught that mistake :)
<p>Brian
<br>
<br>
<p>brian wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>After searching the internet, I found the answer
that solved my problem.
<p>Anyone wanting to run a program in xwindows at specific times or intervals
<br>can use crontab. First read the man pages by typing the
following at the
<br>unix prompt (found in any terminal):
<p>man crontab
<p>Learn how to write a basic cron statement.
<p>Any xwindow program can be activated on your display server by adding
<b>-display
:0.0</b>
<p>For example:
<p>59 15 * *
* acroread -display :0.0
<p>This will activate Adobe Acrobat Reader at 3:15pm each day within Xwindows!
<p>brian
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<p>brian wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I have no problem running crontab from root.
Yet, as another user, I
<br>cannot seem to get crontab going.
<p>Doing the following command does not seem to make it work:
<p>crontab [name of crontab file]
<p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated to allow a user to use their
own
<br>crontab file.</blockquote>
</blockquote>
</html>
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Where is ppp? Mdk 7.1 Maximum Linux CD
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:49:41 +0100
"Gerardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just installed Mandrake 7.1 (the disk that came with Maximum Linux). I
>want to setup an internet connection, but I can't find PPP in any of the
>menus? I am working on KDE. I am new at this, please help,
You should have an icon for the Mandrake documentation somewhere on your
desktop. Open it, go to the User Guide, and have a look at the "Configuring an
Internet connection" topic. It shows you, step by step, how to set up kppp.
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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