Linux-Setup Digest #532, Volume #19 Fri, 1 Sep 00 17:13:18 EDT
Contents:
Laptop Help Request (Henry W Meyerding)
i386, i586... (Terence Chan)
NT/Red Hat 6.2 (dmpeca)
Simple questions about building the kernel (Robert Morelli)
Trouble compiling lilo source code (V. Tsang)
Which Card Modem for laptop for Linux? ("Gerardo")
Re: BIOS-->hdb-->LILO-->{linux(hdb);windows(hda)} ("Dan Jacobson")
CDRW set up as ro (Mark Schneider)
Re: Playing music CDs, No sound (D G)
Re: NT/Red Hat 6.2 (D G)
SAMBA - printing to NT (Wayne Vagtborg)
mounting 16bit dos partition (nickmbell)
Re: best install for 2 HD dual boot? (Martin Gregorie)
Re: Laptop Help Request (The Contact)
gcc lib missing (Gabriel Ki)
Re: printer problem lp* off-line (Matthew Leinhos)
Re: MandrakeInstall not working after grpmi upgrade ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How To Boot Windows Or Linux ??? ("kurt")
Total Beginner Needs Help!!
GTK & LIBSIGC install on redhat 6.2 ("Daniel D. Downing")
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From: Henry W Meyerding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Laptop Help Request
Date: 1 Sep 2000 09:01:40 -0700
I am trying to install Rehat 6.1 to a Toshiba Satelite Pro 425 CDT
I made a boot.img floppy and a pcmcia.img floppy, but both of these just
prompt me to "Insert driver disk." I do not have a drivers disk and do
not know how to make one.
Would someone who has experience installing Linux to Toshiba laptops
please contact me and assist me in getting this installed?
Thanks
HWM
Please contact me either at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks again.
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From: Terence Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i386, i586...
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 00:09:56 +0800
Sorry for another silly question. I want to upgrade the kernel of my
Redhat linux 6.2 installation. I found each ix86 directory has a kernel
file. Which one should I use? If i see i686 in login screen,
should I download the i686 verions for the kernel?
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From: dmpeca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NT/Red Hat 6.2
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 17:51:59 +0100
Hi,
How to install NT 4.0 and Red Hat 6.2 on same disk (3 partitions; 2NTFS and
1 Linux).
Is it possible?
If yes, how?
The problem is that after (in that order) NT is installed, and after that
Linux, LILO loader hangs us.
Peca
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From: Robert Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Simple questions about building the kernel
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:21:21 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have 2 very basic questions about building the kernel from
sources.
1. Do the major distributions (Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, Caldera,
...) make any modifications to the kernel at all (apart from choosing
what to include and exclude)? To put it another way, if I overwrite
/urs/src/linux with the sources from say linux.kernel.org will that
cause any problems?
2. Are there any expected backwards compatibility problems with any
of the distributions when going from say a 2.2.x kernel to a 2.2.y
kernel (with y > x)?
I assume the answer to both questions is no, but I just want to make
sure before plunging headlong.
Thanks,
Robert Morelli
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (V. Tsang)
Subject: Trouble compiling lilo source code
Date: 1 Sep 2000 15:29:05 GMT
I've recently downloaded the latest lilo source code (both 21.4.4 and
21.5.1) but I have problems compiling either of them. When I run
"make" I have them dying when compiling (using as86) the assembly
code (anything with extension .s). The specific line(s) which
as86 dies on looks something like this:
je near toNull
Whenever I have a "j near" statement, as86 dies. I'm not very proficient
with assembly code, does anyone know how to get around this? Or what
should I tweak in the "Makefile" to get this to work?
(No, I can't use my old lilo because I recently upgraded my pc to have
> 1023 cylinders.)
TIA,
Viv
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From: "Gerardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Which Card Modem for laptop for Linux?
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 12:43:07 -0400
I need to buy a modem for my laptop that will work with Linux for a Open
PCMCIA Type II or Type III slot (I think). I have an IBM card modem that I
think is a winmodem.....
Please recommend, low $$ preferred.
Thanks
Gerardo
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIOS-->hdb-->LILO-->{linux(hdb);windows(hda)}
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 21:36:56 +0800
Using hexdump, I see the MBR of hda, a totally win98 drive, looks like:
0000000 c033 d08e 00bc fb7c 0750 1f50 befc 7c1b
0000010 1bbf 5006 b957 01e5 a4f3 becb 07be 04b1
0000020 2c38 097c 1575 c683 e210 cdf5 8b18 8b14
0000030 83ee 10c6 7449 3816 742c bef6 0710 ac4e
0000040 003c fa74 07bb b400 cd0e eb10 89f2 2546
etc. Couldn't find any 0x80 in that area, though it's supposed to be
fat32 file.
Looking at the MBR of hdb, a totally Linux drive,
0000000 ebfa 006c 0000 494c 4f4c 0001 0014 00ec
0000010 0110 0000 b317 39a2 0221 0080 2201 8002
0000020 0100 0220 0080 0101 00b6 0224 0080 2501
0000030 8002 0100 0035 0680 3601 8000 0106 0037
0000040 0680 3801 8000 0106 0039 0680 3a01 8000
etc. I see several early mentions of 0x80, especially at point 0x30....
But of course it's the windows MBR [last paragraph, above] I'm hoping to
modify...
Anyway, looking around my ASUS SP97-V BIOS manual, and the windows
system information into text file tool , I also see mention of a 0x40
address... again
not very prominent in my dumps... anyway the concept seems excellent, but
just what
byte to flip?... cant seem to track it down... [by the way,sure hope such
tinkering won't
end up with the 'big payback' later in misdirected disk writes, etc.:-(]
[for those just joining conversation: I've told BIOS to boot from hdb, and
want to make
a choice in lilo to transfer control to MBR of hda if windows is chosen as
OS at lilo choice query. Yes I could redo MBR of hda, but I thought I
could leave win98's disk untouched when installing linux.]
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ????? news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi Dan,
>
> I got one thing left for you to try:
>
> Found this on the web once, don't remember the URL though,
> Where ever it says /dev/hdc, you'll need to change it to /dev/hda.
>
>
**************************************************************************
**
> Windows might give you problems when not booting it from the first
> ide-hdd
> Configure lilo as follows:
> other=/boot/win98.bootsect
> label=win98
> table=/dev/hda
>
> The file called /boot/win98.bootsect is to be created as follows:
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/win98.bootsect count=1 (bs=512, defaults to
> this)
> assuming it's a FAT32 filesystem, the byte at offset 0x40, which now
> contains
> the value 0x80 (bios-code for the first ide-disc), should be changed to
> 0x81, the bios code for the second ide-disc.
> make sure to get the right byte, it's FAT size dependant, and the right
> value
> to change it to: 0x80 is bios number for first disk, 0x81 is 2nd, etc.
>
> Although hda is disc one at ide0 and hdb is ide0:disc2, hdc=ide1:disc1
> and
> hdd=ide1:disc2 , this doesn't mean hda=0x80 for the bios!
>
>
**************************************************************************
**
>
> Eric
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From: Mark Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDRW set up as ro
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:53:39 -0400
I purchased a scsi-3 CDRW for my Linux web server. I want to be able to
write to this drive/media. If I have a blank, unformatted cd it will
not mount. If I have a formatted CD it will mount, but as read-only.
mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw
In my fstab I have:
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 rw
0 0
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I may mount the CDRW media as
rw?
I've read the howto but am still at a loss.
Thanks in advance!
Mark
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Playing music CDs, No sound
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:11:53 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Alright, I've checked this now. The "loopback" option is off.
>
> The only channels I have ON are:
>
> Master Volume
> PCM
> PC Speaker
> CD
> Video
>
> Playing WAV/mpeg3 files works fine with these five channels (it
> works also with just the first two alone).
>
> All other channels are off. Channels like Line,Input Gain, Phone, Mic
> etc don't affect the music playing.
>
> There's still no sound from the CD.
Make sure your CD sound cable is plugged into your sound card.
>
> I've noticed the CD icon doesn't appear on the desktop when there's
> a music CD in the drive. And if I change directory to /mnt/cdrom
> and do an ls, nothing shows up.
> If I try mount /dev/cdrom I get
>
> mount: Wrong medium type
>
> I don't know if this has anything to do with the problem.
Nope. CD tracks are not a filesystem. Though I wouldn't be surprised
if someone has written a program to simulate a CD filesystem.
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT/Red Hat 6.2
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:15:59 -0700
dmpeca wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> How to install NT 4.0 and Red Hat 6.2 on same disk (3 partitions; 2NTFS and
> 1 Linux).
> Is it possible?
Yes.
>
> If yes, how?
>
> The problem is that after (in that order) NT is installed, and after that
> Linux, LILO loader hangs us.
Hope you made boot disks. If so, try using those to boot into each
system. If you can't boot from the floppy, there is likely a different
problem. If you can boot from floppy, post your /etc/lilo.conf file
contents and how your partitions are laid out.
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From: Wayne Vagtborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: SAMBA - printing to NT
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:44:21 -0700
Have Samba running on RH6.2. Can print from NT box to Samba Server.
Have run printtool to set-up printing local on the Samba Server and
to print to the printer on the NT machine. No luck in printing from
the Samba machine (RH6.2) to the NT machines printer.
Have set-up smbpasswd file. Can see Samba machine in network
neighborhood, can ping by name/ip both ways.
When in printtool and I try to print a "test" to the NT printer,
don't know where the print job disappears to. I am suspecting that
there is a permission problem somewhere, as I don't think the print job
is actually leaving the Samba server to the NT printer. Never see
anything show up in the NT's printer spool.
Any suggestions - where to start looking??????
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From: nickmbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting 16bit dos partition
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 17:29:08 GMT
I would like to be able to share files on one partition between win98 and
Red Hat 6.0 (At least until I get a PPP connection figured out) Is there
a way that I can simply mount the drive in Linux and see it in Windows?
Do I need samba? Any help would be great!
Thanks
Nick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: best install for 2 HD dual boot?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 16:10:26 GMT
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 14:29:05 GMT, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the best way to install Redhat so that I can switch (fairly easy) between
>WIN98 and
> RedHat?
> (keeping in mind that my experimenting may cause accidents that
> better not effect the WIN98 side)
NOT a facetious answer, but:
You could always buy or scrounge an unwanted P133 with 16 MB or more
RAM, a bog standard SVGA card and 1GB or more of HDD and install
Redhat 6.2 on that. Then get two network cards and a segment of thin
ethernet and network the two systems.
I've done effectively that except my freebie mother board had 128 MB
RAM and I bought a new 10GB drive plus a pair of 3c509B cards. I
recycled a 386 minitower that already had a Pine SVGA card, an 8x
CD-ROM and a floppy installed. Total cost GBP250.00, ($375.00)
including RH 6.2.2 Standard.
Install the freeware TeraTerm telnet client on your PC for login
access (the M$ telnet client is junk) and implement Samba to let you
file and print share between the boxes.
This solution is relatively cheap, simple and guarantes there's no
chance of messing up your Win 98 system.
Unless your Windoze PC is a real rocket I bet you'll find RH 6.2 runs
faster on the P133 than W98 does on your current PC.
HTH
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com | +44 020 76379111
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Laptop Help Request
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 17:42:49 GMT
Henry W Meyerding wrote:
>
> I am trying to install Rehat 6.1 to a Toshiba Satelite Pro 425 CDT
>
> I made a boot.img floppy and a pcmcia.img floppy, but both of these just
> prompt me to "Insert driver disk." I do not have a drivers disk and do
> not know how to make one.
>
> Would someone who has experience installing Linux to Toshiba laptops
> please contact me and assist me in getting this installed?
I don't own a Toshiba, so if it is a toshiba-related problem, this won't
help... otherwise:
Do you have CD-ROM and floppy? If so, do you have the possibility to
boot from CD (in the BIOS). Otherwise, when placing boot.img in the
floppy and booting from it (be sure you use boot.img and not
bootnet.img, unless you want to install from FTP/HTTP/NFS), and it asks
for a driver disk, are there other options available? Did you, on
boot-up, just pressed enter or did you type 'linux dd', which will force
to ask for a driverdisk? Do you have the possibility to run RedHat 6.2
(with the bugfixes bootdisks) or is 6.1 the only option?
If you only have OR CD-ROM, OR floppy, the only way to install is with a
bootable CD (such as RedHat's) and aan el-torito-supporting BIOS (i.e. a
BIOS that allows you to boot from CD-ROM).
Also, if you think you have too little space, I can recommend you to use
Peanut Linux (http://metalab.unc.edu/peanut/). It only takes about 170
meg off you harddisk, runs KDE, a HTTP/FTP/Telnet-server, support for
Network, Dial-In, ... the whole. I have just installed it on my laptop,
and I LOVE it! It even comes with kernel 2.2.16 (the main reason why I
installed it - my CD-ROM wasn't supported untill 2.2.16).
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From: Gabriel Ki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gcc lib missing
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 18:26:35 GMT
Hi all,
I am still new to Linux. I install gcc on redhat 5.2 but when I
compile, it dumps error like
stdio.h No Such file or directory
stdlib.h No Such file or directory
could someone tell me what am i missing? many thanks.
gabriel
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:01:43 -0600
From: Matthew Leinhos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer problem lp* off-line
I have a similar problem with SuSE. I found that if I login as root and
manually kill lpd, then restart it (as root, of course), then the problem
goes away.
I didn't have that problem with previous versions of SuSE, so I don't
understand what the problem is. In any case, I'm moving to slackware -- it
does what I tell it to, not what it thinks I want.
Matt
On Aug 28,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -----------------
No matter what I do, (cat file > /dev/lp0) I get
the message '... kernel: lp0 off-line' in
/var/log/messages.
I have Suse6.3 (Linux 2.2.13) installed. Lsmod
reports that the modules lp, parport, parport_pc
are inserted. In /var/log/messages the parport
seems to be OK (io=0x378,irq=7). Everything I
found for /etc/modules.conf (aliases and so on) is
inserted.
Tried it with different IRQs and io-Bases. Tried
every option on the printer (which is a Kyocera
FS1200 which printed several weeks ago without
complaining!!!)
When I start Windows printing works!
Help! (I compiled the Kernel 3-times last 5
Hours!)
Antworten in Deutsch auch SEHR willkommen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misk
Subject: Re: MandrakeInstall not working after grpmi upgrade
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 19:20:37 GMT
Try editing the grpmi.pm file and comment out (insert a # in front of
line) the 5th line where the script is trying to create a new /root/tmp
directory. Seems MandrakeUpdate is not working because script is
bombing out on that section. You can double check this by running
MandrakeUpdate from root shell and looking at the messages returned in
the window.
Worked for me...
sji
In article <8o68gv$ro$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> did anyone upgrade grpmi with MandrakeUpdate? Did MandrakeUpdate
still
> work after that? Mine doesn't. How can I fix it?
>
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From: "kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How To Boot Windows Or Linux ???
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:19:05 GMT
Hello,
I'm Kurt 23 years from Belgium, and I must say, i'm new at this ...
i just wanna ask a question...
I'm Using Best Linux
and my wife wanna use Windows ....
now, this is my problem ...
I Have 2 HD
on hda1 there is Windows
on hdb1 there is BestLinux
on hdb2 is the swap file
but when I'm trying to boot, it just strats windows ....
isn't there a way to have a screen on the startup , so I can choose with OS
I wanna Use ???
Thanks
Kurt
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Total Beginner Needs Help!!
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:29:04 GMT
I installed Mandrake 7.0 onto my PC. When I start up my PC and LILO
begins, the default OS is Linux. How can I change it so the default is
Windows. I like to be able to turn my PC on then leave it to boot itself
up.
Also, when I do choose Linux, sometimes the log-in screen (with the
penguin) flashes and won't accept any input (except for CTRL/ALT+DELETE
and it shuts down when I do that!!)
Any Ideas?
I have no experience at all with Linux, but in time would LOVE to be able
to scrap Windows98 permanantly!!
Any help much appreciated!
Alan.
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From: "Daniel D. Downing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GTK & LIBSIGC install on redhat 6.2
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 14:01:45 -0700
I am trying to install GTK++, and was directed to install LIBSIGC first.
This I did
and ran all of the test to check the LIBsigc installation and they
passed. Then
I ran the configure program for GTK++ and it said LIBsigcc was not
found.
I checked the configure script and it appears to look for the
enviromental variable
SIGC_CONFIG which was net set. I'm very new to RED HAT and haven't
done anything with UNIX in 10 years.
dan
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