Linux-Setup Digest #510, Volume #19 Tue, 29 Aug 00 17:13:14 EDT
Contents:
tape drives (dave frost)
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
Re: hard drive partition table messed up! (Leonard Evens)
kISDN Internet ("Falk M.")
Re: hard drive partition table messed up! (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
default gateway and netmask files (Silviu-Alin Bacanu)
Re: Play mp3 on Dell inspiron with Redhat (Zhihui Zhang)
"Unresolved symbol errors" in sound and parallel port modules of kernel ("Richard
M. Denney")
Re: make the panel appear on Gnome desktop ("Richard M. Denney")
lp trouble (John Janmaat)
Annoying X problem - PLEASE HHHHEEEELLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!! (Bozzy)
Re: Slrn - SSL (Gary Jones)
Re: default gateway and netmask files (Black Dragon)
Re: MDK 7.1 - 650MB HD enough? ("Richard F. Jr.")
Re: Play mp3 on Dell inspiron with Redhat (Black Dragon)
mount fails on hda2 (Rodney Loisel)
Re: tape drives (Leonard Evens)
Re: PCTEL modem works, now ttyS0 doesn't. (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: A GURU question? Sending CTRL-ALT-F4 to /dev/console (M. Buchenrieder)
Bios damaged when i tried to install Linux Mandrake on my Laptop ("Tomas")
Re: ext2 partition between FAT32 partitions (Rodney Loisel)
Re: Play mp3 on Dell inspiron with Redhat (Yidao Cai)
Re: default gateway and netmask files (Silviu-Alin Bacanu)
Re: Linux Bargain at CompUSA! (Rick)
Re: What are my options on booting a two disk PC (Rodney Loisel)
Re: hard drive partition table messed up! (Black Dragon)
Linux and MS Server2000 on one HD ("Stephan J")
screen problems ("Ren� Vanhaverbeke")
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From: dave frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: tape drives
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:20:17 +0100
hi all,
can anyone suggest a good quality tape drive that will work well under
linux - in particular suse linux.
cheers
dave
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 11:09:49 -0700
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
paul snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:RQNq5.22657$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8off6l$f3c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Have you not ever encountered or heard of any of these system?
> Of course. But how is the persistent state of a swich interestingly
> different than storage? Or in other words, how is this computational
model
> significantly different than a Turing machine? (Hint: it isn't)
I was not addressing my reply in any way to your citation of Turing machines
since your citation was an invalid attempt to try to falsely intellectualize
your position. I for one am not foolish enough to fall into your trap that
you have not even tried to hide.
What persistance? The switches used in this style are higly volatile more
so than core storage and are perhaps the equals of the processor's registers
in terms of the survivalibility of the data. Those toggle switches used to
provide the machine code instruction the the processor a byte or word at a
time are not used for storage. They are a means of communications to with
the processor or to the core storage. If you consider those toggles as
storage then you would have to consider the keyboards as storage as well
because they are used for a similar purpose.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: hard drive partition table messed up!
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:09:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
It is unclear whether or not you have Linux on the machine.
If you don't, I don't see how you ran cfdisk. If you do
have Linux on the machine, and you put the lilo boot loader
in the master boot record, there is a good chance you wouldn't
be able to boot NT afterwards. But I am just guessing.
Let us know about Linux.
If all you have on the machine is NT and you were using a Linux
rescue system in a ramdisk, use it to delete the NT partition.
Then try to find a DOS/Windows startup disk and boot from it
and run
fdisk/mbr
Then the disk ought to look clean to the NT installer.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Falk M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kISDN Internet
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:46:02 +0200
hello,
kISDN already finds my ISDN card but as soon as i try to get a connection to
the internet
there is the message unable to find server. apparently no connection to the
ISP can be established.
i would appreciate any advice
thank you
-falk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: hard drive partition table messed up!
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 18:55:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>When the machine reboot, the first
>thing I see is something like "No Operating System detected". Darn!!!
You have to provide the exact message.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Silviu-Alin Bacanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: default gateway and netmask files
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:59:33 -0400
Hi guys!
I have Redhat 6.0 and I want to install from scratch Redhat6.2.
I need to know the files where RH keeps the default netmask and default
gateway
in order to preserve the original settings.
Thanks!
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:06:14 -0400
From: Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Play mp3 on Dell inspiron with Redhat
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
> 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?
>
I have been able to use sndconfig to configure the sound.
-Zhihui
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:17:10 -0500
From: "Richard M. Denney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "Unresolved symbol errors" in sound and parallel port modules of kernel
Well, I am doing what I know I shouldn't do, attempting to upgrade a
kernel when everything is working OK. Nevertheless, here is the
situation.
Currently running RH 6.0 with a kernel 2.2.12 I previously compiled in
February, 2000. Under this older kernel (2.2.12), everything (including
sound on a Soundblaster 16 and the parallel port printer work fine.
To compile the new kernel to 2.2.16 (downloaded from a kernel.org mirror
site), I did "make clean dep modules bzImage modules_install install".
Everything compiles fine with no evidence of errors. The new modules
appear in /lib/modules/2.2.16, as expected. The /boot directory has a
System.map with the appropriate new date and linked to
System.map-2.2.16. I altered LILO to boot the new kernel, leaving an
option to boot the old kernel at the LILO prompt as "old".
When the new kernel boots, most functions come up as they should, with
the exception of the sound and the parallel
port. For both kernels 2.2.12 and 2.2.16, these functions are compiled
as modules (with kernel
module loader compiled into the kernel). (On the problematic 2.2.16
kernel, other modules, the ethernet
ne.o for example, automatically configure at boot time and appear in the
module list with lsmod.) The conf.modules file in /etc is unaltered from
the older, functioning kernel 2.2.12. This contains the information for
the IRQ, DMA and address of the sound card.
Attempting manually to load any sound-related (soundcore.o, sound.o,
sb.o, mpu401.o etc.) or parallel port-related module (parport.o,
parport_pc.o, etc.) while kernel 2.2.16 is running results
in an "unresolved symbols" error. I have compared the modules in
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc (which work) with the new
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc directory generated at compile time. For
sound, they seem all to be there
(soundcore.o, sound.o, uart401, awe_wave.o, mpu401.o, opl3.o, v_midi.o,
and sb.o. For the parallel port, they are parport.o, parport_pc.o and
lp.o. (Not sure about the function of uart6850.o, but it is present in
both versions.) None of these modules can be manually loaded with
modprobe (or insmod) without the "unresolved symbols" error.
Running depmod -a under kernel 2.2.16 results in the same "unresolved
symbols" error for the sound and parallel port modules listed above, and
no errors for any other, unrelated modules.
I have tried recompiling kernel 2.2.16 a couple of times on the
possibility that random
random compilation errors made these particular modules unusable. The
result is exactly the same.
WHAT COULD BE THE REASON FOR THE "unresolved symbol" errors? Has anyone
else run into these difficulties with kernel 2.2.16? Is it possible that
I got a bad tar.gz file of the kernel? It seems unlikely.
Fortunately I am NOT in dire straights because I am using LILO so that
I can boot
either the new or the old kernel. Nevertheless, I see no reason why
kernel 2.2.16 should be giving me these problems. This is a humbling
experience, since after nearly three years of running various version of
RH Linux successfully (and compiling a number of kernels and programs),
I thought I almost knew what I was doing...
Rick
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:23:49 -0500
From: "Richard M. Denney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make the panel appear on Gnome desktop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
This has happened to me a few times, and I don't know the complete
answer. You can definitely get a panel back by opening a terminal and
typing "panel". This runs the panel program. To see that the panel runs
again when X is started, one can save the current session settings
(footprint icon >> Settings >> Save current session).
The problem I have had is that even though the panel reappears, afterward
I sometimes cannot get X to shutdown with the shutdown icon on the panel.
I have been forced to go to a fullscreen terminal and use kill -9 to end
the gnome session and all its functions. With lots of fiddling, I have
generally managed to get the system back into a functional state, but I
really don't know the secret.
Anyway, run "panel" and see what happens. Maybe you will be lucky!
Rick
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From: John Janmaat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lp trouble
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:33:56 -0300
Hello,
I am trying to set up a printer. I get the message "Get_Local_Host
hostname 'name here' bad" and it exits.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, John.
--
_________________________________________________________________
John Janmaat, Department of Economics, Acadia University,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. B0P-1X0
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From: Bozzy <cbostock@=antispamremove=btinternet.com>
Subject: Annoying X problem - PLEASE HHHHEEEELLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:44:06 +0100
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.0 on my new PC:
Athlon 600
ASUS K7M Motherboard
G400 Graphics card (32Mb)
Mitsubishi Pro 710 monitor
The problem is that that periodically, possibly anywhere between 30
seconds to several minutes, my screen blinks. That is it goes blank
for about a second after which the desktop display returns. I have
tried upgrading to 7.1 of Mandrake, but that did not help. I am
running KDE, but the same problem also manifests itself when I switch
to Gnome. I did notice that when I try to configure my graphics card,
specifying 32M, that when I go back in to configure it again it seems
to reset it to a 16M G400, though I don't know whether this is an
issue.
Since upgrading to 7.1 I have selected my monitor from the list
provided by the X-config utility and the Vertical and Horizontal sync
rates match between my monitor manual and the XF86Config file.
This is a really anoying bug that's driving me up the wall so any help
would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Clive.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Jones)
Crossposted-To: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Slrn - SSL
Date: 29 Aug 2000 19:53:10 GMT
Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Could anyone tell me if there is a way to make slrn use ssl
> connections to a news server, or if there are any other
> news readers that can. It'd also be useful if you told me
> how to go about doing it. ;) Of course assuming the server
> accepts ssl connections.
Not that I'm aware of, but since the source is available its not impossible
that someone has written a patch to do so. Note x-post and FUs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: default gateway and netmask files
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:56:15 GMT
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:59:33 -0400 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Silviu-Alin Bacanu' said:
>Hi guys!
>
>I have Redhat 6.0 and I want to install from scratch Redhat6.2.
>I need to know the files where RH keeps the default netmask and default
>gateway
>in order to preserve the original settings.
>Thanks!
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: "Richard F. Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MDK 7.1 - 650MB HD enough?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:22:49 -0400
an older distro of Mandrake may fit or try Red Hat (eww)
"root b33r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> no
>
>
> Gerardo wrote:
> >
> > I have a laptop with Win98 SE (1.2 Gig HD) that has about 650 to 700 MB
left
> > in the harddrive. Is that enough for a decent MDK 7.1 installation?
> >
> > I plan to use the Partition Magic that comes with the Macmillan
Mandrake
> > 6.5 to partition the HD and install the Maximum Linux magazine Mandrake
7.1.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Gerardo
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Play mp3 on Dell inspiron with Redhat
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:00:13 GMT
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:06:14 -0400 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Zhihui Zhang' said:
>On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>I have been able to use sndconfig to configure the sound.
Now you need XMMS -- X MultiMedia System.
http://www.xmms.org
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: Rodney Loisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mount fails on hda2
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:06:07 -0400
recent installation of RH6.1
physical C:drive is msdos (vfat) - Linux - msdos (vfat)
shows up on boot as hda1 hda2 <hda5..6...7.....8>
= (C:) (data:) (Linux /boot /root
/swap etc)
able to mount ide-zip floppy and c:(hda1) with no problem
the drive configuration this time seems different than the installation
I
had on here about a year ago, at which time I had no problem with the
data: partition.
Last time I think it showed linux on hda4 with a /swap and /root as
logical partitions.
There is also an error on bootup in 'dmesg' for the data: partition.
Since I use that
partition for dl'd files for Linux and shared files for the two
systems,
my only alternative at the moment is to move the files
to the Zip drive first in Windows.
[root@localhost zip]# mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /mnt/dat
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,
ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:02.
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
Any help appreciated
rod loisel
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: tape drives
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:01:28 -0500
dave frost wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> can anyone suggest a good quality tape drive that will work well under
> linux - in particular suse linux.
>
> cheers
>
> dave
I have been using the HP internal IDE drive for a few years,
and it seems more than adequate. These drives seem to vary
in capacity between 2.5 and 5 BG or more. It is by far the
least expensive alternative as far as I can see.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: PCTEL modem works, now ttyS0 doesn't.
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:33:17 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Satan) writes:
>I compiled and installed pctel.o to get my PCTEL software modem
>working, but my terminal
>on /dev/ttyS0 doesn't work while pctel.o is installed. Any ideas?
[...]
IRQ conflict.
man setserial
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: A GURU question? Sending CTRL-ALT-F4 to /dev/console
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:32:23 GMT
Jean-Serge Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
Sorry, no answer for your question, however:
>P.S. Sorry for the cross post. I've posted before to only two groups and
>never got any replies at all!
[...]
This is not necessary, because the list of newsgroups you crossposted
to did only contain precisely 1 (one) existing newsgroup.
comp.os.linux.admin - never existed
comp.os.linux.questions - superseded by the current col.* hierarchy
some 4-5 years ago
comp.os.linux.redhat - never existed
comp.os.linux.development - is a directory and not a group
Complain to home.com and demand that they should update their
newsgroups listing - and possibly install pgpverify.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Tomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bios damaged when i tried to install Linux Mandrake on my Laptop
Date: 29 Aug 2000 20:20:21 GMT
Reply-To: "Tomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi
I�ve got a message that bios was damaged when i tried to install Linux Mandrake
on my Laptop. I couldn�t fnish
the intsallation and can�t install anything else now. Something is wron with
my laptop. Do you have any idea what
the problem could be and what you could do about it? Else i appreciate if
you have tip on where you can find
help about my problem.
thanks in advance
/Tomas
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From: Rodney Loisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ext2 partition between FAT32 partitions
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:18:20 -0400
John Thompson wrote:
> Rich S wrote:
>
> > I recently posted here getting advice about partitioning my hdd. And
> > although it was just what I needed I have now just found out that it might
> > not be possible.
> > I want to do the following
> > 2gb - Win98SE
> > 5gb - Linux
> > 10gb - Windows Data
> > 10gb - windows Data
> > 3gb - spare
> >
> > However, upon reading my installation manual (SUSE 6.4) it read that I
> > couldnt have the linux partition in between windows partitions. Is this
> > true?
>
> I don't think linux will care much but IIRC, Windows is unable to
> find FAT partitions that lie beyond non-FAT partitions. As soon
> as Windows sees a non-FAT partition it just gives up looking any
> further.
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I have just reinstalled Linux between 2 vfat partitions on a 4 gb drive and
Windows has no problem with the third partition but Linux cannot mount it...
See my new post today about that.
rod loisel
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Play mp3 on Dell inspiron with Redhat
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:11:36 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
> 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
If your sound card is detected at boot time, it should work out of the
box --- no configuaration or downloads. xmms is included just go and
select multimedia, then xmms.
If sound card is not detected, and your card is supported, try to add a
line
alias sound driver_name
where driver_name is the module for your sound card.
cai
--
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Silviu-Alin Bacanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: default gateway and netmask files
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:24:59 -0400
Thanks!
Black Dragon wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:59:33 -0400 in comp.os.linux.setup,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Silviu-Alin Bacanu' said:
>
> >Hi guys!
> >
> >I have Redhat 6.0 and I want to install from scratch Redhat6.2.
> >I need to know the files where RH keeps the default netmask and default
> >gateway
> >in order to preserve the original settings.
> >Thanks!
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
>
> --
> Black Dragon
>
> "Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick)
Subject: Re: Linux Bargain at CompUSA!
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:24:33 GMT
DW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Picked up a Linux bargain at my local CompUSA Yesterday. Corel Linux
>Deluxe boxed set for $4.99, usual price $49.99. Went back Today to
>get some more and SUPRISE SUPRISE, they had sold out! Store Manager
>said they sold over 250 copies Yesterday!!
>
>
>Looks like I am gonna get rid of my WinLinux and get Corel loaded next
>week. Anyone have any comments on Corel Linux ?
>
>
>Thanks In Advance
>
>DW
>(Invalid Mail Address so please don't try to send
> to it!!)
Be careful. I've read on this group that during the install, Corel
will modify the MBR without asking you for permission. If you have a
dual boot system, you could be in trouble. Maybe someone here who has
run into this problem can shed more light on this subject.
Rick
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From: Rodney Loisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What are my options on booting a two disk PC
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:29:26 -0400
on my system , as soon as the LILO: boot shows up you hit
<tab> and get a choice of dos or linux.and/or whatever other
OS's you might have.
if you type in dos then Windows starts up.
You can also reverse the order of the options in the lilo.conf file but
since I have not done that myself I will leave it to someone else to
enlighten us.
rod loisel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i have Linux (SuSe 6.3) installed on a separate 2GB disk. my first disk
> has win98. the system normally boots into win98 (mbr on master config),
> but if i want to run linux, i simply insert the boot diskette into the
> floppy drive.
>
> i have installed boot magic by Powerquest, followed their directions,
> but to no avail. i simply don't know why it doesn't work. of course, i
> could use LILO, but i don't understand the instructions in my manual
> pertaining to win98 as the default, in particular, the "table" entry. i
> had LILO installed, but have cleared my mbr since, because it only
> booted up into linux.
>
> i've also read about loadlin.exe and have seen suggestions about setting
> up my config.sys and autoex files, but am unsure about trying this out.
>
> what is my best approach to being able to have a dual-boot system with
> my two hard disks?
>
> thank you all
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: hard drive partition table messed up!
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:40:23 GMT
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:47:28 GMT in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' said:
>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.
It sounds like your partition tables are screwed, read on. . .
I had a similar thing happen to a 6.4GB WD drive in a NT box at work while
installing an Iomega Zip drive not to long ago. After attempting to
re-partition it with disk-administrator and format it in another NT box after
attempting to re-install NT on the original machine with no luck, and then
attempt to install NT on it twice only to have it not boot, twice, again, I
gave up, brought it home, stuck it in my Linux box, ran fdisk on it, printed
the partition table, and lo-and-behold, the three partitions ended in the
middle of cylinders (supposed to end at the end of a cylinder) and were
crossed (over lapped) to boot. In other words, the partition tables were
fucked, and nothing I did with NT warned me about it, it just proceeded to
waste my time. I also tried fdisk from a DOS 6.22 system floppy at work.
Nada. With Linux fdisk, I just created a new empty dos partition table, exited
fdisk to save the changes, re-entered fdisk, created one primary, and two
logical dos partitions, took the drive back to the shop, formated it and
successfully and finally had the box back up and running after the usual
re-boot it 15-20 times song and dance routine.
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: "Stephan J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and MS Server2000 on one HD
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:44:20 +1000
Hi all,
Can somebody give me the definitive answer on how to have 2 OS on the one
hard disk. I wish to have a partition for Linux (say 3GB) and one for MS
Server 2000( about 3 GB). Which OS should I install first and where?
Please help!
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Stephan J
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From: "Ren� Vanhaverbeke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: screen problems
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:53:21 GMT
my screen turned white pressing ctrl+alt+ min or plus to change resolution i
the login-screen. This happened on my Medion laptop. From the moment my
computer starts up, the screenis white and remains like that. I can hear
everything start up as normal, corel linux and windows, but I can't see
anything, and ctrl+alt+ min or plus doesn't work anymore.
Any suggestions? Even radical ones, cause everything I tried failed
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