Linux-Setup Digest #517, Volume #19 Wed, 30 Aug 00 07:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Redhat 5.2 config Viewsonic ("George Pennybaker")
Re: dumb question: copying to floppy
Re: hard drive partition table messed up! ("Tony Neville")
hostadaptor installation (Tobias Ceglarek)
How to increase clock limits (Bingfeng Mei)
PCMCIA netword card detection ("sllai")
virtual hosts ("Jenny Zepf")
Re: sendmail is acting like a snail (Rune Elvemo)
Re: RPM Installations (Johannes Reese)
Re: PCMCIA netword card detection ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
still can't make win98 the default os on LiLo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
maximal count = no desktop icons (David Turner)
Re: system hangs (Theresa)
ping to ISP gets no answer (Peter Schmelz)
Re: named,httpd,sshd Aren't Started During Boot (Theresa)
Re: system hangs (Andreas Kahari)
Re: dumb question: copying to floppy (Tommy =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F6gren?=)
Re: Internal Modem setup (M. Buchenrieder)
How to switch to other Window managers e.g. fvwm2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X configuration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems with an ISP connection (Peter Nunn)
Cannot boot from SCSI drive (Andrew Wai)
Re: Wierd Gnome Panel Problem (Sergiusz Jarczyk)
Re: default font not found (kari savolainen)
Username wird nicht angezeigt (FTP) ("Thorsten Ha�iepen")
Username not shown (FTP) ("Thorsten Ha�iepen")
Problems with starting KDE in Linux Mandrake 7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "George Pennybaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Redhat 5.2 config Viewsonic
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 03:17:46 -0400
Trying to get my Viewsonic 21PS to view entire screen. All I can get is a
corner at very low res. Used configurator with new rivers for Voodoo3 card.
Help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: dumb question: copying to floppy
Date: 30 Aug 2000 01:03:20 -0700
mpulliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: my ability to mount the drive please tell me how to work around
: it. I go:
: mount -t H1440 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
: err: fd type H1440 not supported by kernel.
man mount says -t specifies the file system. H1440 in your line looks
like you're telling it to mount the format of the floppy instead of the
file system on the floppy
: support? I can't tell from the names.
: I look at /etc/fstab, which contains the line:
: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto, owner
This line tells you the device is /dev/fd0, the mount point is
/mnt/floppy, the file system on the floppy is ext2
It looks like you need to do:
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Good luck
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From: "Tony Neville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: hard drive partition table messed up!
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:35:10 +1200
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8oglu7$ftn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>I would put the penguin on my whole PC.
There are days when I'd like to feed him to the Eskimos.
> 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.
Do what Svend Olaf Mikkelsen says. He's successfully helped many people
in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage recover their lost partitions.
Cheers,
Tony.
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From: Tobias Ceglarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hostadaptor installation
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:24:37 +0200
hello,
i am installing my scsi-cd-writer.
because of that i have to install my scsi-hostadaptor, haven't i ?
two problems:
1. how can i check which kind of hostadaptor i have ?
2. how can i install it ?
thanks a lot :-)
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From: Bingfeng Mei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to increase clock limits
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:40:18 +0200
I just installed a RedHat6.2 on my Dell GX110, which employ 810e
motherboad.
Now there is a problem. I want the XServer run at 1280X1024 X 85 Hz. But
the system
always report fatal error, which said the clock frequence (about 157
MHz) had execeed
configured limit (128 MHz). My monitor(P790) and graphic card all
support this resolution
and refresh rate. But where can I modify this limit (128 MHz)? I spend
much time to look
for where this limit is located, but failed. Who can tell me? Thank you.
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From: "sllai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: PCMCIA netword card detection
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:47:09 +0800
Dear
I am currently running linux on the notebook, I have installed the pcmcia
image from the installation CD. I am doubt whether the PCMCIA card has been
detected or not. This is because I can use it to telnet to the local area
network but I can't access the external network.
Anybody has any idea on it.
Thanks
sllai
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From: "Jenny Zepf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: virtual hosts
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:00:49 +0200
can anyone tell me how i can set up virtual hosts in suse linux 6.4 i know
what to do in the apache httpd.conf, but what else do i have to do??
jenny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rune Elvemo)
Subject: Re: sendmail is acting like a snail
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:56:17 +0200
In article <8ohlfv$g8s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Watson wrote:
>Rune Elvemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Yeah, that's right. Right now sendmail is running REALLY slow here at
>>my system.
>>Fetching mail takes forever, even on my connection (6.9 mbit), sending
>>mail isn't fast either, pine/mutt sits around waiting for a confirm
>>from sendmail for several minutes....
>>APART from that everything is like it should...
>>
>>BUT this is kinda annoying, so I was wondering if ANYONE out there
>>would happen to know what might be causing this ?? (starting up
>>sendmail on bootup takes several minutes aswell, btw)
>
>Notoriously, this is due to DNS being broken. Check that you can
>correctly look up hostnames from IP addresses, and in particular that
>any local non-Internet hosts that might communicate with your sendmail
>daemon (including the system running sendmail itself) are listed in
>/etc/hosts.
>
OK.. then I guess I know what is causing this.... when I installed
Debian 2.2, the installer suggested "naming" my computer Debian, so
my etc/hosts file looks like this:
127.0.0.1 debian localhost
So what I should do is change this line into this? :
127.0.0.1 hybel121.grm.hia.no localhost
or ???
Thanks!
--
---
Rune Elvemo --- Octagon / Digital Minds
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.c2i.net/elvemo
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From: Johannes Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM Installations
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:17:50 +0200
So there are two types of rpm-packages? I have run two packages
yesterday (rpm -i NAME.rpm) and all they did was copying a tar.gz-file
to /usr/src/packages. I understood from the documentations that rpm
could install packages in a ready-to-run-form. (After trying ./configure
afterwards, I was told that "X includes" lacked, so I didn't succeed at
all)
Johannes
LINUX-newbie
Davide Bianchi schrieb:
>
> Exactly. If you use the "list" option (or was the
> query option???) with rpm, it will tell you WHERE the
> various files will be installed, this only if the
> rpm is not a SOURCE rpm, in this case the sources will
> be installed somwhere under /usr/src.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA netword card detection
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:35:01 GMT
The card is working perfectly if you can telnet from the laptop to
another machine on your lan, .
Try checking your network gateway setting if you can't get beyond the
lan.
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:47:09 +0800, "sllai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear
>
>I am currently running linux on the notebook, I have installed the pcmcia
>image from the installation CD. I am doubt whether the PCMCIA card has been
>detected or not. This is because I can use it to telnet to the local area
>network but I can't access the external network.
>
>Anybody has any idea on it.
>
>Thanks
>sllai
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: still can't make win98 the default os on LiLo
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:27:22 GMT
hi all,
Thanks for the advice "add default=dos to lilo.conf".
But it did not work.
I added "default=win98" (my windows partition has label win98)to the
last line of lilo.conf. I then typed lilo at xterm. It said some error
at the last line where "default=win98" is.
I then tried to add this line to somewhere else in lilo.conf, but still
it reported an error.
So where shall I add this line to?
Thanks again
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From: David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: maximal count = no desktop icons
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:29:50 GMT
Unpredictably whenever my Mandrake 7.02 bootup does its 'hda has reached
maximal count' thing, my desktop icons disappear shortly after logon.
Relogon gets 'em back. Is this video driver or gpm mouse services
related?
--
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From: Theresa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: system hangs
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 04:38:36 -0500
Do you mean /boot is 23 megs?
Thomas
Norman Zhang wrote:
> I am trying to install Red Hat 6.2 on my Intel system. The system has two
> SCSI hard drives. I setup the system in the following manner,
>
> /boot sda1 23M Linux native
> <swap> sda8 517M Linux swap
> <swap> sdb7 517M Linux swap
> /root sdb9 23M Linux native
> / md0 1506M RAID1[sda5,sdb1]
> /home md1 800M RAID1[sda7,sdb6]
> /var md2 902M RAID1[sda6,sdb5]
> /tmp md3 502M RAID1[sdb8,sda9]
>
> The process went smoothly. At the very end the system hangs with the
> following message, "Performing post install configuration..." Does anyone
> what gives? Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Norman
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From: Peter Schmelz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ping to ISP gets no answer
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:44:38 +0200
Hallo,
I need some help.
I've installed Suse 6.4 with i4l. When I dial to the ISP, I get a
connection and a dynamic IP. The device ippp0 is then installed with the
new IP. An ifconfig also shows the new IP. But when I ping to the ISP, I
don't recive any packages.
I don' t know, where the mistake is.
Thanks for a hint!!
Greetings, Peter
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From: Theresa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: named,httpd,sshd Aren't Started During Boot
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 04:44:36 -0500
Look at the chkconfig command, ntsysv (menu-driven tool), or tksysv (X-based
tool).
Thomas
"Scott B. Drummonds" wrote:
> Greetings, all,
>
> I'm trying to figure out why named, httpd, and sshd daemons aren't starting
> automatically when I boot my (Linux) system. My impression, from
> convention, was that I need to create a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d and
> create a S[0-9][0-9] symbolic link to it in /etc/rc.d/rc.[0-6]. I have done
> exactly this for rc3.d/S72sshd, rc3.d/S85httpd, and rc3.d/S43named but none
> of these services seem to be started when I cycle the power. Am I missing
> something?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Scott
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: system hangs
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 30 Aug 2000 11:53:57 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Theresa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Do you mean /boot is 23 megs?
>
>Thomas
>
I was more astonished by the two (!) 517 Mb (!!) swap partitons...
Usually it's enough with something between one and two times the
physical memory. For home use, 64 Mb should be enough. I only use more
when I crash an application (such as unstable Gimp), and that's only
for a short period (long enough to fill the swap partition and to dump
core).
/A
>Norman Zhang wrote:
>
>> I am trying to install Red Hat 6.2 on my Intel system. The system has two
>> SCSI hard drives. I setup the system in the following manner,
>>
>> /boot sda1 23M Linux native
>> <swap> sda8 517M Linux swap
>> <swap> sdb7 517M Linux swap
>> /root sdb9 23M Linux native
>> / md0 1506M RAID1[sda5,sdb1]
>> /home md1 800M RAID1[sda7,sdb6]
>> /var md2 902M RAID1[sda6,sdb5]
>> /tmp md3 502M RAID1[sdb8,sda9]
>>
>> The process went smoothly. At the very end the system hangs with the
>> following message, "Performing post install configuration..." Does anyone
>> what gives? Your help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Norman
>
--
Andreas K�h�ri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>.
All junk e-mail will be reported to the appropriate authorities.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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From: Tommy =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F6gren?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dumb question: copying to floppy
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:54:38 +0200
Erh....if you like keep installing this is a good thing to do I guess
(I'm doing right now at home and I sure don't like it), but instead...
Why don't you start modify your system into the perfect system, since
Linux is to be very configurable?
tommy
mpulliam wrote:
>
> I decided I want to back up my configuration files because I
> keep installing new
> versions of Linux in search of the perfect system (still
> looking).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Internal Modem setup
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:31:45 GMT
"Jack Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have an IBM Aptiva with a Conexant HCF v90 56 data fax PCI modem.
This is not a modem at all.
>Linux finds it but can't dial out using this modem.
>Can anyone offer any ideas??
[...]
Junk it and buy a nice external serial modem instead.
Michael
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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]
Subject: How to switch to other Window managers e.g. fvwm2
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:09:21 GMT
Hi all,
I am tring to switch to the fvwm2 window manager from Gnome.
But how to d it?
thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X configuration
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:13:47 GMT
Hi,
thanks for your advice. My PC has a Intel(r) 808210 Graphics controller
4.10.01.2576 , a vedio RAM of 2Mb. My Redhat6.0 has XFree86 3.1.2D.
I ran Xf86conf, but my Graphics Controller is not listed there, so I
did the setting for it manually according to the specification for my
monitor. I also found out my Graphics Controller can enable 24 bit
colours, so roughly 16M colours, so I selected the SVGA server, but it
is not available, in fact there is only one server VGA 16 that only
support 16 colours, I have to use it.
So I reckon the problem is that SVGA is not there. That's why my destop
icons look awkward.
More advice?
Cheers
David
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From: Peter Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with an ISP connection
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:31:38 +1100
Hi all I am wondering if there is anyone out there that can help me.
I am trying to setup a linux box as my internet gateway to a new ISP.
I had this all working fine for one ISP, but since trying to change to
a new one, the connection is made OK, goes like a rocket for a few
minutes, and then just stops.
I can still ping and traceroute OK, but can't upload anything through
the connection..
I can still connect to web pages (but not down load them), check news
groups as long as there are no headers to down load, and connect to
the mail server (as long as there isn't any mail).
The same modem on a Windows dial up works just fine.
The Linux box (as I said) was working just fine on another ISP
The box is RH6.2 running pppd and Hylafax.
The ISP supposedly uses dynamic DNS settings (I don't set them in the
windows setup) and I don't know if that has anything to do with it
because they publish the DNS settings on their web page anyway.
They (naturally) are no help at all!!
Is there any hope? Do I give up on Linux?? Where do I start looking?
How do I find out if the Windows box is sending some strange settings
to my modem??
Ta
Peter Nunn
Peter Nunn
DownUnder
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From: Andrew Wai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot boot from SCSI drive
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:39:14 +0800
Hi,
I just upgraded a PC with an IDE drive to another PC
which has a Adaptec 2940U2W and a Seagte 9.1 scsi drive.
I followed the mini hard disk upgrade howto, copying all
the contents of the IDE drive to the SCSI drive.
Now when I reboot it cannot find the hard disk to
boot the kernel.
I was running RH6.1 and even tried upgrading to RH6.2
by booting the CDROM but after the upgrade it still
cannot boot from the hard disk.
I don't get the lilo prompt after the reboot. How do I
set up the system to see the drive?
Thanks,
Andrew
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From: Sergiusz Jarczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wierd Gnome Panel Problem
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:43:02 +0200
jp wrote:
> For some reason whenever I log on to my account (from xdm)
> with a gnome session, my panel starts off to the right side of
> my screen and in the middle (only half is visible, the other half
> is off the screen). If I hide it, then it will return to the correct
> position (at the bottom). I know its not a problem with the panel
> configuration (its edge type), and I don't even thing it has to do
> with my gnome configuration (I tried removing my config in my
> home and resinstalling the default rc and other files and it still
> showed up in that wierd spot). The panel works fine on all the
> other accounts on this machine, so its not the default's problem
> (and I checked diff between almost all the files -- nothing
> that would point to any thing wierd). I also tried to diff the general
> X config files in my home against the defaults, but that turned up
> nothing as well (literally nothing, since they matched). So
> I'm at a loss. :\ Its not really that big of a deal, just kind of
> an annoyance since I have to click on it whenever I start up...
> but if anyone has a solution, I'd be somewhat happy. :)
>
Try to remove $HOME/.gnome/session. It should help.
Sergiusz
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From: kari savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: default font not found
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:51:11 GMT
I had the same problem, xfs wouldn't start, it gave the same error
message. The reason was pretty surprising, my disk was full! After
removing some 800MB of not-so-useful stuff from my homedirectory the
problem was fixed just like that.
// kari
> > Hi
> > i try and startx but it, for some reason, says that it cant find my default
> > font 'fixed'
> >
> > What should i do
> >
> > Mandrake 7.1, just upgraded to xfree86 4.01.
> >
> > please help, i wanna get linux working before bedtime
> >
> > sergio
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From: "Thorsten Ha�iepen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Username wird nicht angezeigt (FTP)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:03:05 +0200
Hallo!
Ich habe folgendes Problem:
Wenn ich mit einem FTP-Client auf meinen Server gehe, bekomme ich statt des
Usernamens immer nur die UID angezeigt zu den Dateien. F�r die Gruppe
erhalte ich aber den Gruppennamen angezeigt.
Was mu� ich nun machen, um auch den UserNAMEN angezeigt zu bekommen?
Danke
Thorsten
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From: "Thorsten Ha�iepen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Username not shown (FTP)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:05:34 +0200
Sorry, here again in english:
When connecting to my server with my FTP-client, the server only shows me
the UID of the user but the name of the group.
What do I have to do so the server also displays the username instead of
UID?
Thanks
Thorsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems with starting KDE in Linux Mandrake 7.0
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:04:57 GMT
I have just finished installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 successfully (thank
god, needed help with that even) on my machine as the only OS on it
(no partitions, no swappable drives, etc).
It is set to boot to X-Windows/KDE on boot, which it more or less
seems to. I get the prompt to enter a username and password in a
GUI-looking environment, and I am logging into my root with the proper
password.
But after it validates that, it moves me to a screen which LOOKS like
a GUI, but all it has in it is two text windows and some sort of log
screen.
I don't see the menu bar that KDE is described as having in the
manual, I cannot right-click anywhere to pull-up a menu...
In short, I can't do ANYTHING except type in the various text windows.
If I try to startx from one of them, it gives me the error that X is
already running. If I quit/exit from one of the text windows, the
system reverts back to the GUI-ish login prompt.
Anyone have any ideas? Help would be appreciated.
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