Linux-Setup Digest #506, Volume #19 Tue, 29 Aug 00 08:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Install question - newbie- Laptop (Frank Steiner)
Re: Low volume wit ESS Solo 1 (Frank Steiner)
Re: Restaurant Booking System (Phil)
Re: Wierd Error on Install. (Anaconda?) ("Tony Neville")
help setting up a DNS (Michael Herzog)
Re: "weird" partitioning - how to make Suse 6.3 bootable? GeForce? (Eric)
Re: Unable to detect modem ("N. McNeill")
Linux RH6.2 RAID1 - Anyone succeed at this? (Professor Bruno)
pap-secrets question (Jon)
Re: triple boot ("De Kleyne")
accessing fat32 partition (Paolo Meriggi)
A GURU question? Sending CTRL-ALT-F4 to /dev/console (Jean-Serge Gagnon)
make Win98 the default OS on LILO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Restaurant Booking System ("Colin McKinnon - No Spam please")
Re: capture screen output during booting (Jean-Serge Gagnon)
RH6.2 Kickstart Anaconda Problemes (Dominik Epple)
Problem with TomCat 3.1 ("Krzysztof Binias")
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From: Frank Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Install question - newbie- Laptop
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:10:54 +0200
Valentin Guillen wrote:
=
> All of this stuff is usually invisible to the new user running an
> install. I would recommend SuSE. After using several distros over the=
> years, it's the one I prefer. It always works, and the
> installation/user manual included is *alone* worth the price of the
> shrinkwrap.
> =
> On the CD #1 you'll find a /dosutils subdirectory which will have
> different image files for booting from, boot loaders, DOS network
> clients, windows9x Xwindows clients, rawrite and many other usefull
> tools and drivers.
> =
> So, in your case, you would put the loadlin.exe and the image file for
> enabling and installing from the CD-ROM drive, onto the hard drive.
> That way, you boot off of the hard drive into a dos prompt, probably c:=
You can even call setup.exe ;-) from the first SuSE cd. It will ask you
if you want to use loadlin and then install everything properly and start=
the installation automatically.
Best regards,
Frank
=
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Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
CAU Kiel, Olshausenstra=DFe 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -7613
D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst=
/
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From: Frank Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Low volume wit ESS Solo 1
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:13:32 +0200
Cavallo wrote:
> =
> Hi,
> =
> I just installed sound on my TI TravelMate 513TE, RH 6.1, kernel 2.2.12=
=2E
> I used sndcnfig, and it worked properly.
> =
> However, the volume of the demo it played was really low...
> I played a CD from KDE, but it is the same. All the "knobs" I can use t=
o
> control the voulme are at their maximum, but I still can hardly listen
> to the music.
> =
> With w98, I have to keep the level at 30%, to not break my ears.
> So, I think HW is OK.
=
Can you change volume at all with Linux? Maybe your sound driver does
not support the mixer device. I recommend trying alsasound and also
different mixers. On my laptop I found that only 2 of 5 mixers that I had=
installed could change the volume of the speaker...
Best regards,
Frank
-- =
Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
CAU Kiel, Olshausenstra=DFe 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -7613
D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst=
/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Restaurant Booking System
Date: 29 Aug 2000 10:24:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Richard Watson -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil) writes:
>> You're forgetting he's taking online bookings. I presume payment needs to be
>> made as well.
>
>I doubt it would as I've never paid when I've booked a table at a
>restaurant. I usually wait to see if there's a fly in the soup before
>I do that.
Some restaurants require proof that you are actually booking a table, and
if you don't show, they'll charge you a standard charge for the loss of that
table for a given amount of time. It's fairly standard and seems sensible.
Although I said payment, verification was also implied. It depends what sort
of restaurant it is.
>> Forgetting for one minute the hassle of having your own
>> webserver you're also going to have to think about security. Security in the
>> form of the transmission of the data and also the storage of the
>> data.
>
>You mean like securely stored on a remote web server and encrypted
>with PGP - credit card numbers erased after being retrieved by 128bit
>secure http?
Either way, you're going to need a key, stored somewhere on the server. Unless
you are adamant about the security of your server this isn't secure. As I
said, this is the reason to go for a third party who can guarantee security.
>Strange as it sounds remarkably like my weekend as I've just sorted
>something exactly like that out for someone.
I've done it three time so far, no problems, but I'm guaranteeing security on
the servers.
>> If you're not taking the credit card numbers over the web, I would advise
>> going your own or getting someone else to setup the stuff for
>> you. It wouldn't be that expensive,
>
>I'm not sure why you say that. Why does it matter where the server
>is? Now I'm not against people setting up web servers, in fact I'm all
>for it (that's why there's one under my desk) but this sounds like
>something that can be handled for low cost by an existing server
>operator of which there are plenty. Even a co-location is going to be
>better for most people than having the thing on the premises and
>sorting out the right internet connectivity.
I think you might have misunderstood me. I said if he wasn't taking credit
cards numbers over the web, he shouldn't consider the jokers he was on about
and just go off to do something himself, whether that means hiring another
third party, buying a co-lo, setting up their own server or using web hosting.
I just meant to stay away from anyone who's gonna be getting paid for every
single booking.
>> If you want something like this give me a shout.
>
>Nothing like a good piece of advertising ;-)
>(note smiley)
Well I've done (both secure and insecure) this kind of transactions before,
it's my second profession after administrator ;)
Phil.
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From: "Tony Neville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wierd Error on Install. (Anaconda?)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:46:19 +1200
"Adam H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi Tony,
>
> Hmm... interesting. I've tried installing it multiple times now,
> (including 'Check for bad sectors when formatting'), but it
> made no difference.
I was actually referring the partition on my poxy old HD where
the RPMs were stored, not destination where they would have
been unpacked and installed.
> Maybe I should try it on the same PC, but a different HDD...
It's difficult to know what to do when unintelligible error messages
such as that traceback exception crop up. Best of luck.
Cheers,
Tony
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From: Michael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help setting up a DNS
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:36:51 GMT
Hi all,
i have problems to set up a DNS. My problem is that i want to know how a
Linux-Box must be configured (not the bind8).
Everything could be helpfull for me!
Thanx, Michael
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Before you buy.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "weird" partitioning - how to make Suse 6.3 bootable? GeForce?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:59:38 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> a few days ago I failed to make my Suse 6.3 (german) Linux operate as
> planned. Why? I have a 16GB HD with two NTFS5-Partitions, both
> primary. The first (2GB) is my W2K-System-partition, the second (10GB)
> is for data / apps. i habe about 4GB left at the end of the HD and no,
> I don't want to re-partition.
> During installation I had to read, that LILO cannot access partitions
> above the magical 1024-cylinder-border. What I *wanted* to do was save
THIS IS NOT A LILO PROBLEM!
People keep assuming that booting from beyond cyl. 1024 is a problem
related to lilo, but in fact this is a problem of the BIOS (newer
bios'es don't have this problem, nor do the newer lilo-versions).
Try putting Windows in a partition entirely above cyl. 1024 and see how
well it boots. a) you probably cannot even install it there!
b) if you could it would not be bootable!
Eric
> the first block of the linux-partition to file and include this file
> in the W2K-bootmanager which has no problem with large drives.
> Unfortunately I didn't have a manual, so I tried to find a reference
> online. Nothing showed up.
>
> The second problem, however, was that I couldn't make X-windows start
> with anything other than standard-VGA, because unfortunately I have a
> GeForce graphics-adapter (ELSE Erasor X2) for which there are no
> drivers supplied with Suse 6.3. It wouldn't even run in SVGA (well, it
> ran, but I couldn't decypher any of the weird pixels on my screen,
> which seemed to be text-mode, though).
>
> All I ever wanted was a C-compiler, and I was hoping to be able to use
> GNU-C++. I know from early experiences with linux on a 386 years ago,
> that the GNU-compiler can cross-compile for a multitude of platforms,
> and indeed I wanted to compile something for Win32 again... so, If you
> know a good, free C-compiler that doesn't have to support a GUI (the
> application has to be _fast_, nit nice) and that runs under W2K that
> would also help.... ;-)
>
> Frank
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From: "N. McNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unable to detect modem
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 06:16:15 -0400
Aaron Burton wrote:
> I'm a having a major problem trying to install my modem using Red Hat 6.1
> The error message I receive is "Application rp3-config (process 849) fatal
> error segmentation fault". The message also refers to the Gnome Application
> Crash
> Page. I've spent two days searching for this crash page. I really need
> help...
> Thanks.
> A. Burton
1. start control-panel from a xterm and pick the phone/modem icon
make sure you pick right com port.
2. start netcfg from a xterm and pick interfaces, do a add.
3. after the create interface closes, select ppp0 from the menu and click on
activate.
If that works then you should be able to use Gnome or KDE ppp apps to connect
to
your ISP.
I hope you are trying this on a external modem.
--
N. McNeill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://linuxexcite.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Professor Bruno)
Subject: Linux RH6.2 RAID1 - Anyone succeed at this?
Date: 29 Aug 2000 10:30:47 GMT
[ Article crossposted from panix.user.unix,panix.questions ]
[ Author was Professor Bruno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ]
[ Posted on 25 Aug 2000 17:17:04 GMT ]
Per subject line, I've been trying to setup RAID1 on a RH6.2
which has two Seagate 20.5 GB drives, but can't
get my root and boot partitions on the RAID1.
I've combed through the HOWTOs and the linux-raid
archives trying to figure this out. Anyone
on this panix newsgroup been successful?
Thanks!
Max Pyziur BRAMA - Gateway Ukraine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brama.com/
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 06:33:36 -0400
From: Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pap-secrets question
Setting up PPP dial out on a fresh RH 6.2 install and it
required that I place ppp0 in the pap-secrets file;
account.userID ppp0 password
I thought account.userID * password would work as a wild card ?
Any idea why it wouldn't work with a wild card of connect whatever ?
Jon
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From: "De Kleyne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: triple boot
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:08:12 +0200
98 (or ME), NT (or 2k), Linux
for more info howto on NT+ Linux => it is quite easy, once you take the plunge
succes
"Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:yxHq5.112246$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> From my earlier post (taking the plunge) it seems that Mandrake is the
> easiest to install for a newbie like me. When I get my new comp, I plan to
> reformat and install Windows Me (for those games), Win2k, and Linux. What
> order should I install (i'm pretty sure it would matter). I'm guessing Me,
> 2k, linux?
>
> From Me-->2k I know that 2k automatically makes a dual boot. Would the
> mandrake installation autodetect those and make it's own bootloader?
>
> Also, if should I buy a boxed version of Mandrake, or should I download it
> somewhere (have cable) and buy a separate linux book?
>
> Thanks,
> Edward
>
>
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From: Paolo Meriggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: accessing fat32 partition
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:26:51 GMT
Hi all, I got a Mandrake 71 distribution and I recompiled my kernel
(2.2.14) in order to work with RTLinux. Since then, I can see the dos
partitions (a 2.5 Gb primary and a 500 Mb extended) only with the
origuinal kernel (2.2.15) shipped with the distribution.
When I boot from the patched RTLinux Kernel, it says "Wrong major or
minor Number".
My fstab is :
=============================
/dev/hda6 / ext2 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dosC vfat user,exec 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/dosD vfat user,exec 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
==============================
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Paolo Meriggi
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From: Jean-Serge Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: A GURU question? Sending CTRL-ALT-F4 to /dev/console
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:28:22 GMT
Hi,
Anyone know how to send an arbitray set of key presses to the
console? I know that 'chvt 4' will basically do that, but it doesn't
work when VMWare is running in full screen mode.
I tried using 'showkey' to figure out the keys I was pressing and then
using 'echo -ne "\oct1\oct2\oct3..." > /dev/console' but that didn't
work.
The problem I have is that I need to send that key sequence to the
console when apm shuts down my laptop in case a VMWare session is in
full screen mode.
Thanks.
P.S. Sorry for the cross post. I've posted before to only two groups and
never got any replies at all!
--
Jean-Serge Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applications Director 613-225-0516
Newlix Corporation http://www.newlix.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: make Win98 the default OS on LILO
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:18:19 GMT
hi all,
Recently, I installed win98 and Redhat6.0 successfully on my PC, but
the default os loaded by LILO is Redhat6.0, how do I change it to Win98?
thanks in advance
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Before you buy.
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Reply-To: "Colin McKinnon - No Spam please" <colin (at) wew (dot) co (dot) uk>
From: "Colin McKinnon - No Spam please" <colin (at) wew (dot) co (dot) uk>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Restaurant Booking System
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:34:10 +0100
Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Darren Paxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Apologies for cross-posting, but I felt the need to do this in order to
gain
> > the greatest level of responses from the Linux Users.
> > I work for a restaurant chain based in Glasgow, Scotland, and we would
like
> > to introduce some form of online restaurant booking system to our
website.
Have you looked at MRBS? It does most of what you want, AIR is GPL. Its
written in PHP and looks quite nice. If you can make it to the Slug meet at
Borders Bookshop on Thurs I'll be proving how little I know about PHP by
giving a short presentation.
HTH
Colin
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From: Jean-Serge Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: capture screen output during booting
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:57:31 GMT
MH wrote:
> WesRight wrote:
> > mikey wrote:
> > > Is there a way to capture screen output from the kernel during
> > > booting ??
> > When the bootup is complete and you're sitting at the login prompt, hit
> > the right <shift> and <pg-up> or <pg-down>. It must be the right shift
> > key and then page-up or down will scroll all the way back to the beginning
> > of the boot process.
> Now that's cool. There have been many times when that little trick
> would have come in handy.
Try this if you need to capture the current contents of /dev/tty1. You
may want to capture the lines just before the screen clears by putting
this in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
dd cbs=80 conv=unblock < /dev/vcs1
I've found this very usefull when remotely accessing a machine and
needing to see what was on the console.
Of course, the other advice about the dmesg command and the SHIFT-PGUP
are great too...
--
Jean-Serge Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applications Director 613-225-0516
Newlix Corporation http://www.newlix.com
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From: Dominik Epple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.2 Kickstart Anaconda Problemes
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:58:12 +0200
Hi,
I want to do a kickstart installation of RedHat 6.2. I already
successfully did this with RedHat 5.2, so I did not expect problems.
However, doing the kickstart installation gives me the following error
message after the SCSI module is being loaded:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", lise 341, in ?
extraModules = extraModules)
File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 334, in __init__
self.setClass(instClass)
File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 816, in setClass
todo.addMount(dev, mntpoint, fstype, reformat)
File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 397, in addMount
self.mounts[location] = (device, fsystem, reformat)
AttributeError: mounts
I searched the ks.cfg file for errors and did not find any. It is
attached to this message (just 901 bytes, sorry anyway). I also played
with the parameters (install method; cdrom or nfs and such) without
changing the error message. I also changed the location of the kickstart
file (it was first on a DHCP server, but now I put in on the floppy and
use linux ks=floppy), but all my tries were to no avail.
I use the last available boot images from RedHat and the update-disk.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, dominik
# kickstart file ks.cfg follows
lang en_US
network --bootproto dhcp
cdrom
keyboard us
zerombr yes
part / --onpart sda1
part /usr --onpart sda5
part /var --onpart sda6
part /tmp --onpart sda7
part swap --onpart sda8
part swap --onpart sda9
part swap --onpart sda10
part swap --onpart sda11
install
mouse generic3ps/2 psaux
timezone MET
skipx
rootpw password
auth --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain [domain] --nisserver [server]
--useshadow
lilo --location mbr --append "mem=512M aic7xxx=reverse_scan" --linear
%packages
@ Base
@ Printer Support
@ X Window System
@ GNOME
@ KDE
@ Mail/WWW/News Tools
@ DOS/Windows Connectivity
@ Graphics Manipulation
@ Games
@ Multimedia Support
@ Networked Workstation
@ NFS Server
@ Network Management Workstation
@ Authoring/Publishing
@ Emacs
@ Development
@ Kernel Development
@ Utilities
XFree86-Xnest
XFree86-Xvfb
XFree86-100dpi-fonts
autofs
xntp3
gnuplot
transfig
xfig
dhcp
%post
[commands]
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From: "Krzysztof Binias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with TomCat 3.1
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:04:23 GMT
I have RedHat 6.2 with TomCat 3.1.
When I run TomCat "tomcat.sh run" everything is OK.
When I try to connect to TomCat server (with telnet for example) I get
message
message and server is stopped:
"java.net.SocketException: Interrupted system call"
...
Endpoint ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=8007] shutdown
due to exception:
Endpoint ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=8080] shutdown
due to exception:
What 's the matter ?!
Krzysiek.
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