Linux-Setup Digest #519, Volume #19 Wed, 30 Aug 00 12:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: dumb question: copying to floppy (Eric)
Re: Bios damaged when i tried to install Linux Mandrake on my Laptop (Eric)
DEC LG31 (Terence Chan)
Epson Stylus Photo 700 (Terence Chan)
Re: Linux Bargain at CompUSA! (Rod Smith)
Re: system hangs ("Norman Zhang")
Re: system hangs ("Norman Zhang")
Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700 (The Contact)
user account (Anson Ng)
Re: Solaris and Linux compat ... ("Eoin Verling")
Re: Once upon a time ... (Yibing Fan)
Re: user account (Black Dragon)
Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700 (Jan Wielemaker)
Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700 (Black Dragon)
Re: ping to ISP gets no answer (Greg Horne)
hummingbird exceed no login manager or anything ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dumb question: copying to floppy
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:18:28 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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). Thought
> this would be a piece of cake, but I never tried copying to a
> floppy before
> in the 9 months I've been using Linux and I can't figure out how
> to go about it.
>
> With the help of six different reference books :-) I first
> formatted the blank
> floppy like this: no problem
>
> fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
mkdosfs /dev/fd0
or
mke2fs /dev/fd0
will do too
> Then I tried mounting the floppy drive on my filesystem. If it
> makes any difference,
> I am currently booting from a floppy, which works. However if it
> is screwing up
> 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.
it desn't say "fd type", it says "fs type", indicating you told it to
mount a H1440 filesystem, which obviously doesn't exist.
You can mount with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> This seems unlikely because a) H1440 is pretty universal; and b)
> it just formatted
> the blank in H1440, but OK.
>
> I look at my CDROM (RH 6.1 this time). What RPM do I want to
> install to get kernel
> support? I can't tell from the names.
>
> I look at /etc/fstab, which contains the line:
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto, owner
>
> Looks like the floppy drive actually IS mounted, regardleess of
> what the error code said.
fstab does NOT show you what IS mounted but what you CAN mount.
mount shows you what is mounted.
> I also tried simply
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> err: "you must specify the filesystem type."
Yep, your disk wasn't formatted, or not formatted with the expected FS
(ext2 according to your fstab)
> All right, whatever. Dead end #1.
>
> OK, I think. Let's just try copying something over there to see
> what happens. Say I want
> to copy /etc/syslog.conf. I go:
>
> cp /etc/syslog.conf /dev/fd0
>
> "overwrite /dev/fd0?"
>
> This sounds bad. I look on a different terminal and discover
> /dev/fd0 is some file
> on my hard drive. I say no. Tell me if saying "yes" would get
> /etc/syslog.conf copied
> to the floppy instead of messing up some file on my HD, please.
> I don't want to overwrite
> something I need. Not really a dead end, but a question.
Won't hurt, but won't do what you want either. /dev/fd0 is not a file on
your HDD, look at it more closely (ls -l /dev/fd0). you get something
like this:
brw-rw---- 1 user floppy 2, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/fd0
The b tells you that fd0 is a block special device, a c would mean a
character device (look at some other listings in /dev)
You could use cp if the file you're copying there contains a filesystem,
and thus would be a disc-image.
> OK, I try a different command:
>
> dd if=/etc/syslog.conf of=/dev/floppy
did /dev/floppy even exist?
> result gets printed:
>
> 1+1 records in
> 1+1 records out
>
> However, the floppy never moved, and I know it didn't actually
> write anything on there.
> No idea what it did - /dev/floppy on my HD thinks it now
> contains /etc/syslog.conf, but that's not where I want to put
> it.
Yeah, you probably just created it, by copying /etc/syslog.conf to
/dev/floppy
No big mystery sofar.
> Obviously I am missing something very simple, but even having
> read man mount, man dd, man cp, and piecing together stuff from
> six paperback books I can't see it. Somebody straighten me out,
> please!
>
> Thanks! (a copy e-mailed to me in addition to the list would be
> most helpful)
>
> MP
So the basics:
format the floppy with mkfs (mkfs.dos, mkfs.ext2, whatever you want)
mkfs.ext /dev/fd0
(BTW mkfs.ext2 is the same as mke2fs)
then mount it,
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
(I assume /mnt/floppy exists, else create it with mkdir /mnt/floppy)
/mnt/floppy must be an empty directory!
now show to yourself that it's really mounted,
mount
(/mnt/floppy is in the list)
cd /mnt/floppy
Your on the floppy now :-)
(you don't need to go here to copy stuff here ofcourse)
cp /etc/syslog.conf .
cd
(leave the mounted directory)
umount /mnt/floppy
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bios damaged when i tried to install Linux Mandrake on my Laptop
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:21:09 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Yuan wrote:
>
> Tomas:
> I also think it might be a boot virus, check
> http://www.avpve.com/viruses/classification/2boot_vi.html for the
> explanation of boot virus.
>
> David:
> if you put LILO on a partition, will you be able to choose which OS to boot
> at system power on? thanks
I'm not david but I'll answer it for him ;-)
Yes, you can, just make that partition the active one, and for the rest
there are no differences.
Eric
> --
> Michael Yuan
> Linux Counter http://counter.li.org
> ID # 185611
> "David Efflandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On 29 Aug 2000 20:20:21 GMT, Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >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.
> >
> > Are you sure it was not a message about a possible boot sector virus. The
> > BIOS on some computers monitor changes to the MBR and if anything changes,
> > like installing LILO, thinks it is a virus. You could try disabling that
> > in CMOS setup.
> >
> > I prefer to put LILO on a partition instead, so I do not have to worry
> > about it getting stepped on by Windows updates.
> >
> > --
> > David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
> > http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> > http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: Terence Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DEC LG31
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:28:58 +0800
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Our office has a old DEC LG31 Line Printer (Serial Port). Can I
configure it as a printer for Red Hat Linux.
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Our office has a old DEC LG31 Line Printer (Serial Port). Can I configure
it as a printer for Red Hat Linux.
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-(^)-(^)- ! Terence Chan
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From: Terence Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson Stylus Photo 700
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:30:46 +0800
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I can print plain text with my RH 6.2 setting. What should I check?
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I can print plain text with my RH 6.2 setting. What should I check?
<pre>--
-(^)-(^)- ! Terence Chan
b ! <A
HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux Bargain at CompUSA!
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:46:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick) writes:
>
> 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.
Yeah, Corel installs LILO in the MBR, without asking permission. What's
worse, Corel 1.2 *RE*-installs LILO this way on every boot or shutdown
or some such. Even if you edit /etc/lilo.conf to install LILO elsewhere,
the system trashes the MBR every time. That's extraordinarily annoying.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Norman Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: system hangs
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:03:13 -0700
Yes, the 23M means 23 megs. I originally had 16M but Red Hat gives it an
additional 7M when setting up the partitions. But I don't think this can be
the problem though.
"Theresa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Norman Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: system hangs
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:08:07 -0700
I setup the 517MB as equal to the size of the physical memory. This will be
server, with a lot of traffic. The other 517MB <swap> is setup for RAID
purpose. Do you why does the installation hangs at the end?
"Andreas Kahari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> 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.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:02:19 GMT
Terence Chan wrote:
> I can print plain text with my RH 6.2 setting. What should I check?
Check? Nothing, just run printtool (as root), select the driver that
fits the most to your printer, run the tests, and keep us informed.
--
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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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Anson Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: user account
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:17:55 -0400
During installion of Redhat Linux 6.2, besides setting the password for
root, I can also setup a few more user account. So I add a user account
"boredegg" to it; Is the user account created during installation the
same as the ones I add with "linuxconf"??
The UID of "boredegg" is automatically set to 500, but I wanted to add
another user account "admin", which I'd like to have a UID less than my
normal user account, like "boredegg". Then I launched "linuxconf" and
edit the "boredegg" account's username to "admin" and also all the other
settings except the UID 500. But that didn't work, so I deleted the
"boredegg" account and added the "admin" user account with the UID 500.
That worked fine. Problems came after I added back "boredegg" to UID
550. It worked fine in some ways, like telnet, ftp, etc. But when I
login to Gnome using "boredegg", core dumped. I tried it several times,
still. I even deleted the "boredegg" account, restarted and added it
again, still.
So I'm now worrying if there may be conflict somewhere if I add a user
with same username, which had already been deleted?? Or would it be
because that "linuxconf" didn't update all the necessary files so there
may still be some settings for "boredegg" with the old UID or related
things??
This is really puzzling for me. Could somebody give me a hand?? Thank
you very much.
Best Regards,
Anson
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From: "Eoin Verling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Solaris and Linux compat ...
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:29:59 +0100
Larry Herzog Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Do you have the format of the "/etc/exports" file right??
>
> ex:
> /exported/filesystem client-hostname(rw,no_root_squash)
>
Well blast it!!! It was the format of the file ...
I had:-
<exported_fs> (rw,no_root_squash)
thinking that leaving the blank would apply to all machines. In fact, even
when I put in a wild card there (*,?) it doesn't work ... but never mind
that, I can have multiple entries
So, thank you to all ...
good man Larry
cheers
E
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From: Yibing Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Once upon a time ...
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:32:56 GMT
rootboy slim wrote:
>
> Yibing Fan wrote:
>
> > Once upon a time, I had linux and I subscribed Rogers @home.
> > Wow, it was so wonderful, I setup:
> > a web server; I registered doman name.
> > a mail server, pop2, pop3, imap;
> > a news group server; only served two workstation
> > a firewall to my home LAN.
> > a samba file/printer server to other win95 machines.
> > a dial-up terminal server and ppp daemon,
> > a fax server.
> > a SQL database server (mySQL).
> > a Bootp and tftp server for a NCD x-terminal.
> > and more ...
> > What a showoff to my friends! Hey, you can send me e-mail
> > directly to my home PC or visit my home page.
> > Yes, they did. The e-mail gets to my home machine, but also
> > detected by @home's watchdog. They add me to the abuser list!
> > I was given 24 hr to shutdown all my servers or they will
> > suspend the service. They scan all ports on my machine every 24 hr.
> >
> > Now my linux machine is no better than any windows.
> >
> > The happy story ends.
> >
> > Just warn you guys out there: yes, you are ready for linux,
> > but the world isn't.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Yibing Fan
> > ------------------
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Ah Yibing, didn't you read your contract with Rogers? As an @Home user,
> I don't think you're allowed to offer web server functions on your
> machine. I don' think this is a linux thing.
Well, I did it purely for my own educational purpose, I am not
offering any services to anybody. I am not blame linux.
I post the story because I saw a lot of questions like how to
setup mail server etc. etc. I think some of them might just
like my case. Just let others know.
Yibing Fan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: user account
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:36:08 GMT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:17:55 -0400 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Anson Ng' said:
>During installion of Redhat Linux 6.2, besides setting the password for
>root, I can also setup a few more user account. So I add a user account
>"boredegg" to it; Is the user account created during installation the
>same as the ones I add with "linuxconf"??
>
>The UID of "boredegg" is automatically set to 500, but I wanted to add
>another user account "admin", which I'd like to have a UID less than my
>normal user account, like "boredegg". Then I launched "linuxconf" and
>edit the "boredegg" account's username to "admin" and also all the other
>settings except the UID 500. But that didn't work, so I deleted the
>"boredegg" account and added the "admin" user account with the UID 500.
>That worked fine. Problems came after I added back "boredegg" to UID
>550. It worked fine in some ways, like telnet, ftp, etc. But when I
>login to Gnome using "boredegg", core dumped. I tried it several times,
>still. I even deleted the "boredegg" account, restarted and added it
>again, still.
>
>So I'm now worrying if there may be conflict somewhere if I add a user
>with same username, which had already been deleted?? Or would it be
>because that "linuxconf" didn't update all the necessary files so there
>may still be some settings for "boredegg" with the old UID or related
>things??
>
>This is really puzzling for me. Could somebody give me a hand?? Thank
>you very much.
>
>Best Regards,
>Anson
I suggest taking a look at the man pages for, and using "useradd" and
"userdel".
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wielemaker)
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700
Date: 30 Aug 2000 15:24:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Contact wrote:
>Terence Chan wrote:
>> I can print plain text with my RH 6.2 setting. What should I check?
>
>Check? Nothing, just run printtool (as root), select the driver that
>fits the most to your printer, run the tests, and keep us informed.
Well, my advice is to get the Stylus printer driver for gimp called
stp, build the GIMP pluggin, get the latest ghostview sources from
Alladin and add this printer driver to them. I've done so for the
Stylus photo 870 and it prints anything at any resolution, including
perfect photos. This driver supports a large number of Epson Stylus
printers.
Success --- Jan
P.s. Now I'd like to move my printer about 10 meters from my computer
and they say that will only work using USB. Would that work
without too much trouble on a SuSE 6.4 (2.2.14 with 2.3.x USB
backport) system?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:42:21 GMT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:30:46 +0800 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Terence Chan' said:
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>I can print plain text with my RH 6.2 setting. What should I check?
>
>--
>-(^)-(^)- ! Terence Chan
> b ! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
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[...]
Umm, dude ! Set Netscape Messenger to post only *text* to usenet, not text AND
html. Thank you.
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: Greg Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ping to ISP gets no answer
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:34:34 -0500
Have to configured the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf to point to the ISP's
DNS servers? Are you pinging using IP address (w.x.y.z.) or domain name
(www.myisp.com)?
Peter Schmelz wrote:
> 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
--
Gregory D. Horne L I N U X .~.
Systems Analyst The Choice /V\
of a GNU /( )\
Generation ^^-^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: hummingbird exceed no login manager or anything
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:35:52 GMT
I'm trying to get Exceed to work with a Linux machine. I have
configured it to use XDMCP-Query and pointed it to the machine, which is
running gdm. (I've also tried linking prefdm to kdm instead)
When I start up Exceed I get a plain grey screen as if X is running with
no manager and no means of starting other programs (and certainly no
means of logging in)...
Any suggestions?
I have Exceed working fine talking to a solaris machine.
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