Linux-Setup Digest #509, Volume #19 Tue, 29 Aug 00 14:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: help setting up a DNS (Black Dragon)
make the panel appear on Gnome desktop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RH6.2 hangs while "Starting pcmcia" (aleks)
Re: MDK 7.1 Installation help - Newbie (Richard Lyon)
make the panel appear on Gnome desktop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows (The Ghost In The Machine)
automounting using sun yp maps? (Matthias Georg Imhof)
Re: Is it a WINMODEM ?? (John Beardmore)
hard drive partition table messed up! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
When Was the Swap Size Limit Raised? (Jason Nash)
bootproblem after compiling kernel (lily blancke)
Re: 2 Ethernet cards, system won't boot (David M. Siegel)
Re: RH 6.2 cdrom install lost interrupt` (The Contact)
Re: 2 Ethernet cards, system won't boot (The Contact)
Calling Linux Gurus familiar with Partition Magic (PlzBeMine)
Re: Low volume wit ESS Solo 1 (The Contact)
Re: When Was the Swap Size Limit Raised? ("Rex Dieter")
Play mp3 on Dell inspiron with Redhat (Zhihui Zhang)
Re: Calling Linux Gurus familiar with Partition Magic (Martin Herrman)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: help setting up a DNS
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:11:09 GMT
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:36:51 GMT in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Michael Herzog' said:
>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
1) To reslove internet names, your ISP's dns server IP addresses must be listed
in /etc/reslov.conf
=================================================================
nameserver 192.168.1.1 # I use a caching DNS server
nameserver 24.92.226.13 # my isp's primary domain name server
nameserver 24.92.226.174 # my isp's secondary domain name server
2) To configure your own DNS server, refer to the DNS-HOWTO. It explains what
to do, very well.
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: make the panel appear on Gnome desktop
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:11:14 GMT
hi all,
I just played around with the menus on the Gnome Window Manager to try
to switch to FVWM or FVWM2, but somehow I made the bottom panel which
had the most menus disappear. I could not bring it back on my desktop
again. So I can not log out from X window.
How do I bring the panel back to my desktop again?
many thanks
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From: aleks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.qeuestions
Subject: RH6.2 hangs while "Starting pcmcia"
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:20:51 +0200
Reply-To: .
Hi all,
I've changed network device for Toshiba Tecra8100 from 3Com PCMCIA card
to
docking station (3c905C PCI). After that it hangs on message:
Starting pcmcia
If I use PCMCIA network card, it boots ok. In case using Toshiba
docking station and if I use interactive mode and don't start PCMCIA,
it boots to level 5 and network is up.
I've only installed drivers from 3Com and changed an entry in
conf.modules:
alias eth0 3c90x
I use the same name for interface, as it was before.
Could anyone correct me, if I made something wrong or tell how
to find the source of problem /solve it?
Regards,
Aleks
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From: Richard Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MDK 7.1 Installation help - Newbie
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:17:06 GMT
In article <39a94d30$0$51205$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Gerardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Compaq laptop LTE 5280 with a 1.2 GIG HD that I would like
to
> install the Maximum Linux MDK 7.1 as the ONLY OS. Here is the
problem and
> some information:
> 1. Right now it has Windows 98 SE.
> 2. The laptop cannot boot from CD only (the BIOS won't accept it).
> 3. The laptop only has one bay, therefore, I can only have inside the
> floppy drive OR the CD drive. But NOT both at the same time.
>
> Since I cannot boot from the CD, and my Linux is in a CD, I have to
boot the
> computer from Windows with the CD drive in the bay. QUESTION: How do
I
> install LINUX to totally reformat the entire HD after being launched
from
> Windows, so LINUX ends up being the only OS.
>
> Thank you,
> Gerardo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
The only way to go with the Compaq would be to borrow or buy an
external CD drive that uses the parralel port and boot from a floppy
disk to activate it. I had a similar problem with a laptop that had no
CD and the OS I was installing had to use a CD to install it. I
borrowed a drive and did the install from it. Then I was able to
activate the network adapter and get other installs from my home
network. Good luck with the install.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: make the panel appear on Gnome desktop
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:21:41 GMT
hi all,
how do switch to fvwm2 from Gnome, within or outside Gnome?
thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.text.xml,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:33:04 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote
on Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:09:42 -0700
<8ofguf$vpb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>paul snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:CHGq5.21149$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>> Suppose the hard disk crashes. I can buy another, and assuming I can lay
>my
>> hands on all my CDs, I can rebuild my machine yet again (losing only my
>> unqiue work, if I failed to transfer it too to some external storage).
>And
>> I supply all the answers to all the decision points yet one more time.
>
>Are you in the habit of discarding you installation media when you may still
>need it in the future?
>
>Once you have everything installed the way you want it just make a backup
>copy of the installation and you are all set. Under unix we already have a
>couple of very complex and capable programs that can take care of the
>situation that you have painted here.
I will also note that Windows 95 doesn't appear to mind much if one
does something as simple-minded as:
cd /; tar czf /somewhere/c.tgz c
rm -rf /c/*
cd /; tar xzf /somewhere/c.tgz
which one might characterize as a particularly stupid, but effective,
disk defragmenter, assuming one mounts one's C: drive on /c, as I do,
and has sufficient disk space. The only things that gets lost are
the hidden and system bits, which Linux pretty much ignores anyway
(and so does Windows, apparently). Note: no warranties expressed
or implied if this futzes up your system. :-)
One would surmise that this is far more effective than Win95's
disk defragmenter, pretty as it otherwise might be. (However, I
have questions regarding defragmentation anyway, as new files are
created in the clear area, which might be all the way on the
other side of the disk.)
A few other things can be done to improve fragmenting even more,
especially if one replaces tar with cpio (which takes pathnames from
standard input -- pathnames can be sorted!) or lists the files
into a shell script using sed, sorts the script, then runs it.
>They can work on a local host or with
>the assistance of a couple of other very complex programs they can work
>across the network even with multiple hosts on opposite sides of the planet
>from each other. They can backup any filesystem and any storage device, not
>just the harddrive. They can be used on non-unix hosts by using a floppy
>based mini-unix installations. What are these two programs? They are "cat"
>and "dd". So do you really think preventing repeated reinstallations is so
>complex?
One might also mention rsh/ssh, rdist, tar and cpio, and NFS mounting.
There might even be a bru, as an add-on (I don't appear to have it).
What does Windows have? Explorer, COPY/S, XCOPY, and maybe a GUI
backup tool. Far less flexible, IMO. (Of course, one could also put
GNU Tar on WinNT -- but isn't that a form of cheating? :-) )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Georg Imhof)
Subject: automounting using sun yp maps?
Date: 29 Aug 2000 15:51:05 GMT
We have a sun server providing yellow pages (NIS to be more modern). On my
linux box, I can use passwords and groups provided by the yp server (SUN).
However, I did not have any luck to get linux to use the yp automount.master
map and its subsequent automounter maps.
How can I get linux to use yp automount maps?
Matthias Imhof
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is it a WINMODEM ??
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:25:35 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, R�diger Arp <r-arp@t-
online.de> writes
>Am 18.08.00, 20:41:57, schrieb "KMX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Is it a
>WINMODEM ??:
>> Hi,
>
>> I have got a copy of SUSE 6.4 evaluation and will try and install on my
>pc.
>> there will be two operating systems hopefully, with a dual boot option or
>> something.
>
>> I have a WINMODEM, but have seen a internal modem for 20 in a local cheap
>> shop. there is no mention of WINMODEM on the box so ca I tell if it will
>> work with linux by looking at it for looking for some specification ?
>
>> Thanks
>
>> KMX
>
>have a look here:
>http://www.linmodems.org/
Is there a corresponding site for ISDN kit ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: hard drive partition table messed up!
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:47:28 GMT
Hello all, I was trying to format my 8GB Maxtor drive the other day
with Windows NT 4.0 so that I can free up some space for linux. The
whole drive had NT before, so I used the NT 4.0 boot disk to boot up and
delete the old partition and then create a new smaller one, 3GB. The
setup then proceed to format the smaller partition for NTFS. Half way
through the power to the PC was accidentally disconnected. So then I
redo the process, but now the NT setup thinks that the whole drive is
only 3GB, Darn!!! So I figure maybe go ahead and install NT and
hopefully Linux installation will figure out the extra space later.
Anyway, I went ahead and installed NT on that 3GB partition, that's all
the damn NT OS will see. So after the NT installation was completed, it
asked me to restart my machine. When the machine reboot, the first
thing I see is something like "No Operating System detected". Darn!!!
I boot up with my Linux boot disk and did an CFDISK and wow! the whole
8GB is there and that @@#$ing! 3GB NT partition is also still there.
But the @#$@ing thing won't boot. Only reason I need NT is because at
work we develop in NT, otherwise I would put the penguin on my whole PC.
Anyway, does anyone out there know how I can get my Maxtor 8GB to boot
again? I rather not post to comp.os.windows.nt because you know how I
feel about it. Thanks a lot.
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From: Jason Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: When Was the Swap Size Limit Raised?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:50:07 -0400
It used to be that swap partitions were limited to 128MB. When was this
raised? I need to know this for some training material...
Thanks...
Jason Nash
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From: lily blancke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bootproblem after compiling kernel
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:28:50 GMT
I compiled a new kernel(2.2.16), but when i tried to boot with the new
image, i got following error-message:
'kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -h binfmt=464c, errno = 8'
it fills the whole screen, so i don't know if it is preceeded by some
other interesting messages.
I run Debian 2.2 with a 2.2.15-idepci kernel.
the compiling itself went fine(i even remembered running lilo for a
change).
I've got no idea what could be causing this, so i can't think of more
relevant info i could give...
should i use some sort of idepci-kernel, if so, where can one find
these?
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From: David M. Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 Ethernet cards, system won't boot
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:20:40 GMT
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 06:28:44 -0800, "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David M. Siegel
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've just gotten a new development system, with 2 ethernet cards, so
>> that it can also be used as a firewall.
>>
>> The system works fine with one ethernet card. With two cards, though,
>> the system won't start; it seems to shift the address of my ide drives,
>> and consequently it can't find the kernel.
>>
>> Here's the configuration:
>>
>> Linux Mandrake 7.1 Asus P2B motherboard
>> 2 750 MHz PIIIs
>> 512 Meg RAM
>> 2 Maxtor 40 Gig hard drives
>> Promise Ultra/66 controller (both drives are connected to the Ultra/66
>> controller; that's what pushed me to Mandrake, which contains a kernel
>> with Ultra/66 support) Soundblaster Live Value Elsa Erazor TNT2
>> 2 3com 3c905c PCI ethernet cards
>> and the usual floppy, keyboard, etc.
>>
>> Because of the ultra/66, my two drives are hde and hdg. If I put in the
>> second ethernet card, the system claims to find partitions at hdi and
>> hdk. The numbers and sizes of these partitions match the ones that
>> should be at hde and hdg. Of course, since it's looking for hde and
>> hdg, the boot fails claiming that it can't mount the filesystem.
>>
>> Once I went ahead and reinstalled the OS. When I did that, the 3c509
>> module wouldn't load, claiming that the device or resource was busy. I
>> looked at the information in /proc/interrupts and
>> /proc/pci and could see no conflict. According to the bios, it's
>> assigning the second card to IRQ 5; I see nothing else that wants IRQ 5.
>> Since that time, I reinstalled again with one ethernet card; I don't
>> have copies of the /proc listings.
>>
>> I might, I suppose have conflicts with i/o ports and/or device memory.
>> I'd appreciate suggestions for detecting and fixing these problems.
>>
>> If I install the second ethernet card, as I mentioned above, the boot
>> fails, claiming that it can't mount the first filesystem. If I then use
>> the Mandrake 7.1 boot CD as a rescue image, it allows me to mount the
>> partitions on hde!
>>
>> Deeply confused,
>> -dms
>
>Does the promise ide controller take an irq?
Yes, but I don't think it's the problem. I've got another machine
with a similar configuration, but without the sound card, and with a
lower end ATI video card, and its doing fine, both ethernet cards
recognized.
> I imagine you can boot with
>one nic card but not two.
Right. With two cards, IDE addressing gets screwed. I might
be able to override that with LILO options, if I read some other
messages here correctly.
> Just to keep up here, where is your soundcard located
>irq-wise?
5.
> I am no ultra66 user. I tend to stick with scsi stuff;
I was hoping to take advantage of the price/performance of the new
ultra/66 drives, having seen some superb reviews. I may have been
overreaching.
>One other thought, are you using a shared irq spot for the pci promise controller that
>may be right next to the second ethernet controller?
No.
> A few of the pci bus share
>irqs.
The first ethernet controller and the video card seem to be sharing
IRQ 11 successfully.
> Have you manually moved one of the nic cards to another pci slot and tried
>again?
Can't. All 4 PCI slots are occupied (2 ethernet, sound card, ultra/66
adapter).
I can reassign IRQs through the BIOS, but I'm beginning to suspect a
port conflict between the sound card and the second ethernet card,
rather than an IRQ problem. No hard evidence, though.
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 cdrom install lost interrupt`
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:30:18 GMT
D G wrote:
> I've been having a similar problem. Upgrading to 2.2.16-3 appears to
> have fixed it. That won't help with the initial install though :(.
Don't mind it. Now i have RedHat 6.2 installed on it (kernel 2.2.14-5.0)
so my only concern is to place the new kernel sources on it (which is
rather difficult since my CD doesn't work and my ethernet neither) but
I'm thinking on writing a bootable CD (with linux on it) with all the
necessary files (a bit like linuxcare's bootable business card).
--
The Contact
"Ones and zeros represent more than just the binary count.
They represent the mass knowledge we know as Internet."
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: 2 Ethernet cards, system won't boot
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:39:24 GMT
"David M. Siegel" wrote:
> Because of the ultra/66, my two drives are hde and hdg.
> If I put in the second ethernet card, the system claims to find
> partitions at hdi and hdk. The numbers and sizes of these partitions
> match the ones that should be at hde and hdg. Of course, since
> it's looking for hde and hdg, the boot fails claiming that it can't
> mount the filesystem.
In the kernel there is an option somewhere that makes the system first
ID hd's and other IDE-material via the pci-controller (thus giving you
hda and hdc) and then the normal IDE controller. Maybe this way it won't
change dev'.
> If I install the second ethernet card, as I mentioned above, the boot
> fails, claiming that it can't mount the first filesystem.
> If I then use the Mandrake 7.1 boot CD as a rescue image, it allows me
> to mount the partitions on hde!
Does the rescue-image also initialize eth0 and eth1, or isn't that
supported in the rescue-image?
> Deeply confused,
Try to boot first without the soundcard. If this works, well... we then
know where the problem is located.
--
The Contact
"Ones and zeros represent more than just the binary count.
They represent the mass knowledge we know as Internet."
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From: PlzBeMine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Calling Linux Gurus familiar with Partition Magic
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:32:17 GMT
Hello Linux Gurus,
Planning to Install Redhat Linux on my PC. Currently I have partitioned
my HDD via Partition Magic 5.0 My current partition is 1 primary and 1
extended with 2 logical drives. I am intending to partition another one
for my Linux OS.
Creating a partition will ask me to choose if I intend to use it for an
OS installation (primary) or use it as a data (logical) drive only. As
far as I know Linux can be installed on a logical drive as well. Which
one will you advise me to use? Will I need to create 2 partitions, 1
for Linux Ext2 and 1 for Linux Swap... or just create one partition and
leave the swap partition during Linux installation?
Umm... do you by the way understand what I am trying to explain here???
Duh.. sorry... I am one of those stupid linux (trying to be) beginner.
Teeheeheee... Anyone interested in email chatting one-on-one with me???
Come on.. pleaseeee =)
Best regards,
PlzBeMine
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From: The Contact <[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 17:41:19 GMT
Cavallo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed sound on my TI TravelMate 513TE, RH 6.1, kernel 2.2.12.
> 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 to
> control the voulme are at their maximum, but I still can hardly listen
> to the music.
I have an ESS Solo 1 too (but not in the notebook), but with use of a
more-up-to-date kernel. Maybe compiling a newer kernel could help you
out (2.2.16).
--
The Contact
"Ones and zeros represent more than just the binary count.
They represent the mass knowledge we know as Internet."
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From: "Rex Dieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: When Was the Swap Size Limit Raised?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:46:45 -0500
"Jason Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:50EE319346D0D311ADCF009027E506CE52DD6A@PP-EXCHANGE...
> It used to be that swap partitions were limited to 128MB. When was this
> raised? I need to know this for some training material...
I believe that the linux kernels version 2.0.x were the last to have the
128MB swap partition limit.
--
Rex Dieter
Computer System Administrator
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska Lincoln
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:45:33 -0400
From: Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Play mp3 on Dell inspiron with Redhat
I just installed Redhat 6.2 on a Dell inspiron 5000 laptop. Please tell me
how to make the sound work. How to download a player like x11amp from
where?
Thanks for your help.
-Zhihui
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: Calling Linux Gurus familiar with Partition Magic
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:52:27 +0200
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:32:17 GMT, PlzBeMine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Linux Gurus,
>
> Planning to Install Redhat Linux on my PC. Currently I have partitioned
> my HDD via Partition Magic 5.0 My current partition is 1 primary and 1
> extended with 2 logical drives. I am intending to partition another one
> for my Linux OS.
>
> Creating a partition will ask me to choose if I intend to use it for an
> OS installation (primary) or use it as a data (logical) drive only. As
> far as I know Linux can be installed on a logical drive as well. Which
> one will you advise me to use? Will I need to create 2 partitions, 1
> for Linux Ext2 and 1 for Linux Swap... or just create one partition and
> leave the swap partition during Linux installation?
doesn't make any difference. During the install you're are asked which
partitions you want to use, and you can make/delete partitions and you
will be able to format them. Just have some empty space on the disk which
can be used for linux and everything will be fine during install.
> Umm... do you by the way understand what I am trying to explain here???
yep :-)
> Duh.. sorry... I am one of those stupid linux (trying to be) beginner.
> Teeheeheee... Anyone interested in email chatting one-on-one with me???
hihi.. if you want to ask something, you'd better read the docs first,
then ask a newsgroup. But maybe if you have a very little beginners
question and you can't find the answer in the docs, or are just too
lazy to read them you are allowed to write me an e-mail..
bye,
Martin
> Come on.. pleaseeee =)
>
> Best regards,
> PlzBeMine
>
>
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