Linux-Setup Digest #528, Volume #19 Thu, 31 Aug 00 22:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux, Windows and huge IDE drives? ("Shawn Mann")
Re: SCSI ncr53c8xx module (D G)
help: rpm locks up system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Mail Server (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Linux Mail Server (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Can't see partitions; can't create partitions. Help! ("Arctic Storm")
Anybody Wanna Fuck My Virgin Whiteboy Ass? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Restaurant Booking System (Christopher Browne)
Problem in Red Hat Linux 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Calling Linux Gurus familiar with Partition Magic (Brad)
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From: "Shawn Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, Windows and huge IDE drives?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:48:52 -0500
Oops, I meant "486 PCI board"
"Shawn Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:oeAr5.1866$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The M919 VIP is a 456 PCI board, isn't it? If so and you have a free PCI
> slot, I have had good luck with Promise Ultra66 add on controllers. If I
> remember correctly there is supposed to be beta linux drivers for these
> controllers from promise (www.promise.com) They are reasonably priced
> (<$25) if you do your homework, so you wouldn't be out too much money if
it
> didn't work. An even cheaper alternative would be get a newer motherboard
> off of E-Bay or a local computer shop. The local shop in my town gives
away
> Pentium motherboards to save the trouble of throwing them out.
>
> Good luck to you
>
> Shawn
>
> "Donald Newcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8olqq2$i8n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I know this is a common problem, so a pointer to the appropriate FAQ
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > My present system is built on an old M919 VIP mothercard with an AMI
> > BIOS dated about 10-10-94. It supports LBA but not huge disks. It has
> > two integrated IDE interfaces. The bios will allow you to lie to it
> > about the configuration of the disks on the first IDE interface but the
> > second interface seems to take whatever the disk tells it. I want to
> > run both Windows95 and Linux (RH 6.0). I have had a Maxtor 7.2 GB disk
> > on the first interface and an old WD 1.2GB on the second as my Linux
> > disk. I recently decided I needed a way to back-up my Windows disk and
> > figured that these new WD 30+ GB drives were cheaper than tape. So, I
> > bought one.
> >
> > This is where the problems start. We (including myself) now understand
> > the problem of using huge disks with a BIOS that does not support them.
> > You have to use this program called EZ-BIOS that loads itself onto the
> > boot sector of the disk. I've been using this on the Maxtor drive for a
> > while. The problem is that EZ-BIOS does several things I don't
> > understand. It seems to bootstrap itself into memory where it takes
> > over the function of the ROM BIOS to permit OSs like Windows to deal
> > with the big disk. OK, that's good. But it also seems to doctor the
> > partition table so that only Windows-like OSs can use it. Perhaps I
> > just don't understand what's going on.
> >
> > I understand why having a program on the boot sector can screw up LILO.
> > For the sake of simplicity, let's assume I'M NOT USING LILO. I'll boot
> > Linux using either loadlin or a boot floppy.
> >
> > The best thing I've found for it, so far, is to lie to the BIOS and
> > tell it that the 30 GB slave on the first interface does not exist.
> > Linux loves it this way. It seems to get the configuration directly
> > from the drive and reports CHS=59598/16/63. No need to set any jumppers
> > that tell the disk to misreport its size or anything like that.
> > However, when I do this the disk becomes invisible to Windows. Not
> > exaclty what I had in mind. In other configurations (where the disk is
> > visible to Windows, lies about it's true size and is managed by EZ-
> > BIOS) Linux can't read or write to the disk.
> >
> > Right now, I think that a hardware solution would be best. Either a new
> > mothercard (one that supports huge disks and a somewhat less less
> > bucolic CPU rate) or a third disk (they're cheap). One main Windows
> > disk, one Linux drive (Excluded from the BIOS setup) and one Windows
> > backup drive on the second interface. But I'd actually like a way to
> > make this thing work the way it is. I think that there has to be a way
> > to get Linux can access a large disk that set up to be managed by EZ-
> > BIOS. Perhaps, I can pass an explicit configuration for hdb to Linux at
> > boot time so that it will ignore what the BIOS and disk are telling it.
> > Is there any way that the EZ-BIOS on the first (Windows) disk can carry
> > the configuration of both disks. This way, I could continue to tell the
> > ROM-BIOS that the second disk doesn't exist. This may permit this disk
> > to be accessable to both Windows and Linux. Does that make sense?
> >
> > Comments and suggestions appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > Donald R. Newcomb
> >
> >
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> > Before you buy.
>
>
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI ncr53c8xx module
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:54:20 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a problem on a RedHat 6.1 system.
> I am trying to upgrade a kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.16 which works fine
> apart from one problem loading the SCSI module. I have a working 2.2.16
> kernel which loads all modules I need (network, nfs etc.) but only with
> the SCSI driver (ncr53c8xx) in the kernel and not as a module. I have
> created the initial ram disk (initrd) and I have tried different append
> options to lilo but I cannot get the kernel to load the ncr53c8xx
> driver as a module, although it is a module with the 2.2.12 kernel.
> When I try and boot the 2.2.16 kernel with the modular SCSI driver I
> get messages on the console like scsi: 0 hosts and then VFS Kernel
> Panic can't mount root filesystem, so it looks as though the module
> isn't loaded and therefore the root disk isn't detected.
I just went through this. Here's how I remember fixing it (as root, of
course):
1) make sure /etc/conf.modules exists with the line:
alias scsi_hostadapter ncr53c8xx
RedHat is somewhat uncertain as to whether it wants conf.modules or
modules.conf, but mkinitrd only looks at
conf.modules.
2) do 'mkinitrd --with=ncr53c8xx /boot/initrd-2.2.16-3.img 2.2.16-3'
The --with=ncr53c8xx was the key for me. mkinitrd is supposed to add
scsi modules automatically, but it wouldn't for me.
3) add to /etc/lilo.conf as follows (modify to suit your system):
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-3
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16-3.img
read-only
root=/dev/sdb9 (I'm sure this will be different for
you)
4) reboot
Otherwise, I suppose you could always compile the module into the
kernel, which it sounds like you tried.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help: rpm locks up system
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:25:18 GMT
Here is my problem.
I accidentally installed two versions of MandrakeUpdate (on a
800Athlon/128M/MAndrake7.1). I thought I had selected upgrade in
Kpackage when I was doing it, but apparently it did not work. Now every
time I try to install any package using ANY means (Kpackage, rpmDrake,
rpm from terminal) the system completely hangs up. All I can see is the
swap being slowly eaten up and eventually everything locks and I have to
turn off the computer. I couldn't even install helix-gnome downloads all
packages and then does the same thing with the swap.
I can't uninstall the MandrakeUpdate with kPackage or rpmdrake, because
they tell me that MandrakeUpdate points to multiple packages.
I tried:
rpm -e --allmatches MandrakeUpdate
but it leads to the process explained above? Is there any other way I
can get rid of MandrakeUpdate, except for the rpm related ways?
Any help would be appreciated!
Peter
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:22:28 +0200
Uhhm neither Linux nor FreeBSD or any other Unix system can hold 500.000 mailboxes
and therefor users.
The password wile can only handle 64K on users. thats no 500000 users!
Raymond
Phil wrote:
> Dustin Puryear -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
> >On 28 Aug 2000 13:28:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil) wrote:
> >>
> >>Not necessarily, I've heard of a guy over in the Netherlands running postfix
> >>(ok it's FreeBSD so I'm cheating a small bit) on a standalone box with 500,000
> >>users.
> >
> >I assume you mean he is running Postfix on FreeBSD and not that
> >Postfix only runs on FreeBSD since I have Postfix running quite nicely
> >on Linux (and SCO OSR5).
>
> Yes, considering the guy was talking about Linux, talking about postfix
> running on FreeBSD is cheating a small bit. I see no reason why Linux couldn't
> do the same, but anyways, a standalone box for a mail server is probably
> impractical, especially for that many users
> Phil.
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:38:30 +0200
I am completly ammused by people pointing to sever SMTP MTA's without
seeing the big picture (except for the last person).
500000 user accounts is almost impossible (specially on linux it stops ad
user account 65535).
Imagine the amount of diskspace you need and teh ammount of INodes.
I think you are way out of your league with Linux. Now you are only
talking about SMTP what about pop3 which is a real resource hog when it
comes to collecting mail! 1 systems is not enough!
Raymond
Jason Ng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the best mail server for Linux? I would like to support a large
> population... above 500, 000. Any comments?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
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From: "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't see partitions; can't create partitions. Help!
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:18:04 -0400
Hey, thanks!
Ranish Partition Manager worked.
I think that it's better than fdisk.exe that comes with DOS.
Perhaps RPM should be part of DOS in place of fdisk.
=====
Jeff Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8olnj5$2s7g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have had success with ranish partition manager (found on the web) for
> getting rid of weird partition problems and to clean up and setup new
> partitions. I then use os-bs (found on web) to create a dual boot menu.
> Always works, no fuss. The final way I have used is to borrow a set of NT
> 4.0 boot diskettes and let the nt setup program find the partitions and
have
> it delete and or resize them etc.
>
> --
>
>
> =/ /
> / /
> /|o|
> `| - |
> ---
> Start Seeing Stars
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <8oll1e$ath$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >While trying to install Win98SE and RedHat Linux 6.2, I
> >partitioned/formatted the drive many times, using fdisk and format.
> >After numerous repartitioning/deleting using fdisk, and installing both
> >Win98SE and RedHat 6.2, I got to a point where the system boots to
> >RedHat Linux, only, without giving me an option to choose the OS.
> >After that, I deleted some partitions, and now the drive may be damaged.
> >
> >There's a primary DOS partition.
> >There's an extended partition.
> >When I try to delete the extened partition, I get an error saying that
> >because there's a logical partition, I can't delete the extended
> >partition.
> >When I try to delete the logical partition, it says that there is no
> >logical partition.
> >These two error messages contradict each other.
> >When I try to create an additional logical partition, I get an error
> >saying that all the available space is used up. However, the
> >combination of primary and extended partitions does not add up to 100%!
> >
> >When I do fips, it shows 4 partitions, and a warning that there's a
> >free space between 2 of the partitions.
> >
> >Is there a DOS program that will clear everything in the drive,
> >including the partitions; basically, return the drive to pre-fdisk
> >state, as if it came right from the factory.
> >
> >Any help would be appricated.
> >Thanks.
> >
> >-
> >
> >
> >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> >Before you buy.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Restaurant Booking System
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:44:30 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Ian Briggs would say:
>Darren Paxton wrote:
>:I work for a restaurant chain based in Glasgow, Scotland, and we would like
>:to introduce some form of online restaurant booking system to our website.
>
>I have vague memories of seeing some kind of pizza-shop software -- I
>think at Linuxberg or somewhere like that. I've no idea what it does.
The "Pizza app" was for managing pizza shop _sales_. Probably of
limited usefulness to what is essentially a scheduling application.
I don't think there's any "generic" web-based booking system for
restaurants yet, not as free software, anyways.
--
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<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/>
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem in Red Hat Linux 6.2
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:02:33 GMT
My video card or display adapter is not supported by redhat linux 6.2.so
i start installation in expert mode.All goes well i choose packges then
packges installation begins but when half packges installed
a red screen came that say it is now safe to restart your computer.then
i again installed redhat linux 6.2 without selecting x window then also
when packges installation start the red screen came in about two minutes
and same error.
I am over to format my harddisk again and again.
So what is that?
Can someone tell me?
Can i ever install redhat linux?
i also installed redhat linux 6.0 no error came in installation,all goes
well but when reboot computer after the installation complete.when
login come i type root
and it say an error in some files.
One thing is that i start installation by CD-ROM because my computer
support boot from CD.
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Calling Linux Gurus familiar with Partition Magic
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:29:06 GMT
Hello,
I'm asking myself this very same question. Should I create a swap
partition along with the partition I created for RedHat? How should the
partitions be sized?
Well, I think that Brian was right when he said to create 1 partition and
then let the RedHat installer walk you through whatever else you need.
Thanks Brian!!!
-Brad
PlzBeMine wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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..
>
> actually I have successfully installed Linux in my previous terminal so
> I am familiar with the installation process already. The difference
> is : On my previous installation, everything was partitioned perfectly
> before Win98 OS was loaded, now... everything is loaded and I have to
> use this partition magic in order not to destroy current setup.
>
> duh, hope this makes sense...
>
> email me not =)
> PlzBeMine
>
>
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