Linux-Setup Digest #537, Volume #19 Sat, 2 Sep 00 19:13:13 EDT
Contents:
setuping up Linux to a SCSI HD machine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Wiped Linux but LILO still there
dialup and a proxy server ("Steven L. Dahlin")
LILO Problems getting 01 01 01 01 (Andrew Lee Stubbs)
Can't make initrd-2.2.16.img (Mark Cannata)
Re: associations ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Soundcard config ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: binaries that won't execute (Steve Wright)
Re: ppp failure (Peter Riggs)
Re: ppp failure (Peter Riggs)
Re: dialup and a proxy server (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: How to print with HP Deskjet (mpulliam)
Re: Install question - newbie- Laptop ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: binaries that won't execute (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Ftp file missing (Glitch)
using ppp to connect to the Internet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ftp file missing (Glitch)
Re: Is there a list of compatible videocards for x window? (Glitch)
Re: Trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0, where in heck is KDE? (mpulliam)
Re: Can I dual boot with windows 2000? (Glitch)
Turning X-capable workstation into X terminal (Jean-Louis Leroy)
X configuration ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mkisofs: cannot fwrite 2048*1? (Peter Bismuti)
/usr partition won't unmount on shutdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: dialup and a proxy server (Brian Duffell)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: setuping up Linux to a SCSI HD machine
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 20:15:42 GMT
My machine has an adapect AHA2940U2W SCSI card which is connected to an
IBM 9gb SCSI HD model DNES-309170. I want to run Red Hat�s 6.2 setup
and have it installed but I can�t make it work.This is the first time I
install Linux on a computer with a SCSI adapter. When I run setup the
system recognizes the SCSI module aic7 but then it just locks. I wonder
if I have to pass any parameter such as rescue on the setup�s initial
screen of Red Hat�s.
Thank you for your help!
Carlos Antunes.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wiped Linux but LILO still there
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 20:29:05 GMT
I used to share my 10gb drive between Linux Mandrake 7.0 and Windows 98SE.
However I wiped the Linux partition using Partition Magic 5.0 Pro as I
want to use 2 seperate drives for 2 seperate OS's. The problem is that
LILO still wants to boot into Linux(which isn't there) as a default. This
means that I can no longer turn on my PC and leave it to come on, as it
tries to boot Linux, with obvious results. Can I either remove LILO
altogether or at least make Windows the Default OS? I know very little
about Linux, so please be gentle!
Thanks in advance!
Alan.
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From: "Steven L. Dahlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: dialup and a proxy server
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:17:58 -0700
Can anyone tell me if there is a product or a way to setup a proxy server
with dial up capabilities, i.e., allowing anyone on my network to make a
request and, if there is no current connection to the ISP, disl up and
establish the connection. Earlier I tried diald but despite a lot of input
from several and a lot of elbow grease I was unable to make it work.
Currently I am using a product call WinProxy on an NT workstation that works
like a charm. It was easy to setup and configure and has been easy to
maintain. But I would certainly prefer to have a linux server in that role,
but the pain and trouble of diald was too much.
Thanks,
Steve
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From: Andrew Lee Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO Problems getting 01 01 01 01
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:42:58 -0400
I have tried loading several different versions of linux and each time the
lilo gives me nothing but 1's and 0's on the screen. I have tried several
different methods of installing linux and none of them work, even off of
the floppy. Any help is appreciated.
Andrew Lee Stubbs
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Cannata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't make initrd-2.2.16.img
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:38:21 GMT
Hi,
I'm kind of new at this so please bear with me.
I'm trying to configure Kernel 2.2.16 with Redhat 6.1. When I execute
the mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16.img 2.2.16 command I get the following
message:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/loop0 as a block device
(maybe'insmod driver'?)
Can't get a loopback device.
What does this mean? How can I fix it?
The book I'm reading (Red Hat Linux 6 Server by Kabir) shows the img
file listed in the configuration segment in the lilo.conf file, but it
isn't listed in the configuration segment for the kernel I'm using now
(2.2.13).
I tried booting into the 2.2.16 kernel without the img file, but got a
kernel panic message saying "can't find the root filesystem". Is not
having the img file the problem or have I got other issues, besides not
having a clue?
Thanks for your time,
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: associations
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:35:38 GMT
Go into the Gnome Control Panel and go to Edit MIME Types.
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8ojpft$bkb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I associate an application with a particular file type, like a
> certain editor with text files? I use rh62 and am using gnome in X.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Soundcard config
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:41:01 GMT
I'm a newbie using Debian linux... How do I go about manually
configuring my soundcard? It's a VIA 686 AC97 codec chipset that's not
supported by OSS, but must be "manually configured." Am I wasting my
time doing that or should I look to ALSA?
Thanks,
John
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From: Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: binaries that won't execute
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:46:30 +0000
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, Paul Kimoto wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Wright wrote:
>> Why won't linux run this binary?
>>
>>> Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# ls wish* -al
>>> rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 3 2000 wish -> wish8.0
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 441063 Dec 2 1997 wish8.0
>>>
>>> Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# wish
>>> bash: /usr/bin/wish: No such file or directory
>
>Perhaps you don't have a required interpreter or dynamic loader. ("wish"
>is itself an interpreter, though, right?)
>
>What is the output of "file /usr/bin/wish8.0"? If it's "dynamically
>linked", what is the output of "ldd /usr/bin/wish8.0"?
>
>--
>Paul Kimoto
>Disclaimer: Other than explicit citations of URLs, hyperlinks appearing
>in this article have been inserted without the permission of the author.
ok wish is the Tcl/Tk interpreter from one of the following packages. umm not
sure which it came from. I didn't discover the problem until a week or so
after I installed them. I'm sure it came a Tcl/Tk package.
Peanut-Linux:/# ls t*
tcl-8.0p2-1.i386.rpm tcl-8.3.1-45.i386.rpm
Peanut-Linux:~# file /usr/bin/wish
bash: file: command not found
Peanut-Linux:~#
Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# ldd /usr/bin/wish8.0
ldd: can't execute /usr/bin/wish8.0 (No such file or directory)
Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin#
it's got me. I'm new at this Linux stuff, but this problem defies logic.
I bought Sybex Linux Complete (the book) it doesn't help with this sort of
thing.
Steve
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From: Peter Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ppp failure
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:05:18 GMT
Dan Glover wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Riggs
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have recently done a big upgrade (oh dear) to let me use XFree86-4.0.1
> >amongst other things. The problem is that after all the various
> >dependencies were eventually satisfied (hence the BIG upgrade) I am
> >unable to get ppp to log in to my ISP. It dials in ok and does the noisy
> >but it fails to reach the connect phase. I have been monitoring the chat
> >progress and it fails on an alarm whilst waiting for CONNECT.
>
> Exactly.
>
> >Sep 1 21:08:34 linux chat[17146]: send (ATDT856666^M)
> >Sep 1 21:08:34 linux chat[17146]: expect (CONNECT)
> >Sep 1 21:08:34 linux chat[17146]: ^M
> >Sep 1 21:09:04 linux chat[17146]:
> >Sep 1 21:09:14 linux chat[17146]: CARRIER 52000^M^M
> >Sep 1 21:09:34 linux chat[17146]: Welcome to 3Com Total Control HiPer
> >ARC (TM)^M
>
> For whatever reason the modem isn't returning CONNECT. Does the same
> thing happen if you try with minicom? I think something has gone a bit
> wrong with the initialisation to make it return CARRIER rather than a
> normal CONNECT message.
>
> Workround: make the script accept CARRIER instead.
> Fix: send correct combination of AT commands.
>
> Not a problem with pppd itself.
>
> Dan
>
> --
> Dan Glover ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Thanks for the comments. I have also been having problems in getting a
terminal emulator to work (I prefer Seyon) but I shall persist. All the
connection scripts have been in use and working for a long time (perhaps over
a year now). The connection log I included was with an extended timeout,
using the normal timeout caused the script to fail before CARRIER was
reported.
Before the upgrade the connect scripts ran ok with a default timeout, as per
the following log:-
Aug 27 09:33:16 linux ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at 115200
Aug 27 09:33:16 linux pppd[21734]: pppd 2.4.0b1 started by root, uid 0
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: abort on (BUSY)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: abort on (ERROR)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: abort on (Invalid Login)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: abort on (Login incorrect)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: abort on (Serial line is looped back.)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: report (CONNECT)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: send (ATZ^M)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: expect (OK)
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: ^M
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: OK
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: -- got it
Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: send (ATDT856666^M)
Aug 27 09:33:18 linux chat[21736]: expect (CONNECT)
Aug 27 09:33:18 linux chat[21736]: ^M
Aug 27 09:33:37 linux chat[21736]: ^M
Aug 27 09:33:37 linux chat[21736]: CARRIER 52000^M
Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: ^M
Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: PROTOCOL: LAP-M^M
Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: ^M
Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: CONNECT
Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: -- got it
Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: send (^M)
Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: expect (ogin:)
Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: 115200^M
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: ^M
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: Welcome to 3Com Total Control HiPer ARC
(TM)^M
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: Networks That Go The Distance (TM)^M
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: ^M
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: login:
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: -- got it
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: send (login name^M)
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: expect (ord:)
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: login name^M
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: Password:
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: -- got it
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: send (password^M)
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: timeout set to 5 seconds
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: expect (~)
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: ^M
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: ~
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: -- got it
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: send (^M)
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux pppd[21734]: Serial connection established.
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux pppd[21734]: Using interface ppp0
Aug 27 09:33:39 linux pppd[21734]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
All of which makes me think I broke something. The problem is that I still
have not worked out what.
Using Win98 for Internet is not too much of a pain but setiathome on my Linux
box is waiting to exchange work units and ranking will be slipping (I was in
the top 6%) ;-)
Any more suggestions?
Cheers,
Peter.
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From: Peter Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ppp failure
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:08:11 GMT
Nick Kew wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Peter Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Sep 1 21:08:34 linux chat[17146]: -- got it
> > Sep 1 21:08:34 linux chat[17146]: send (ATDT856666^M)
>
> Is that really your ISP's number?
>
> --
> Nick Kew
>
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> Now available at <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: dialup and a proxy server
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 00:19:12 +0200
I totally agree about your diald findings. It took may 2 days before I got it
to work (and I still hate it and I never wish to use it again!)
I suggest that you might use FreeBSD it has a great and easy natd that dials
like a charme and is so easy to setup it took my less then 15 minutes. It is
also more robust than diald.
Other than that you have the same advantages as Linux with FreeBSD it is almost
simular when you look at software availability. To get in to it is also pretty
easy once you hav emastered another Unix variant.
Raymond
"Steven L. Dahlin" wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if there is a product or a way to setup a proxy server
> with dial up capabilities, i.e., allowing anyone on my network to make a
> request and, if there is no current connection to the ISP, disl up and
> establish the connection. Earlier I tried diald but despite a lot of input
> from several and a lot of elbow grease I was unable to make it work.
> Currently I am using a product call WinProxy on an NT workstation that works
> like a charm. It was easy to setup and configure and has been easy to
> maintain. But I would certainly prefer to have a linux server in that role,
> but the pain and trouble of diald was too much.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: How to print with HP Deskjet
Date: 2 Sep 2000 22:21:53 GMT
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:32:19 +0200,
T. Bundies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I installed Red Linux V.8 and I am
nearly satisfied. But there is still
>one problem: my HP Deskjet 895Cxi is
not working. Somewhere I read that
>it is possible to print with, but how
to I do not know
First, you can check out printer compatibility
at this URL:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
Most of the HP Deskjets work I think.
If the printer is OK, then tell us more
about what is/isn't happening and how your
hardware is set up.
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Install question - newbie- Laptop
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 18:26:08 -0400
If you've got PartitionMagic you are all set, it's the best solution for
paritioning your drive.
Gerardo wrote:
>
> 1. Can I format the hard drive in my laptop with the Linux partition system
> using a DOS program from a small DOS partition in my hard drive? What
> program do I use? At the end I will have a small DOS partition and the rest
> of the HD ready for LINUX. (like a DOS Partition Magic...) .
>
> 2. Is there a Linux Distribution (I prefer Mandrake) that I can put the
> "setup.exe" program in my small DOS partition in my HD, and install LINUX
> from the CD? (My floppy drive would not be available during the
> installation).
>
> Thank you,
> Gerardo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: binaries that won't execute
Date: 2 Sep 2000 18:25:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Wright wrote:
> ok wish is the Tcl/Tk interpreter from one of the following packages. umm not
> sure which it came from. I didn't discover the problem until a week or so
> after I installed them. I'm sure it came a Tcl/Tk package.
>
> Peanut-Linux:/# ls t*
> tcl-8.0p2-1.i386.rpm tcl-8.3.1-45.i386.rpm
Do these packages come from your distribution? I wonder whether they use
libc5, and your system uses libc6; or vice versa.
> Peanut-Linux:~# file /usr/bin/wish
> bash: file: command not found
(Well, please install the "file" command, hmm?)
> Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# ldd /usr/bin/wish8.0
> ldd: can't execute /usr/bin/wish8.0 (No such file or directory)
> Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin#
>
> it's got me. I'm new at this Linux stuff, but this problem defies logic.
If you have "less", then run "less /usr/bin/wish8.0". The file is
an ELF executable if it has "ELF" somewhere near the very beginning.
A few hundred bytes in (a few lines down in the output, probably),
a dynamically-linked ELF executable will have either "/lib/ld-linux.so.1"
(which means that it is a libc5 program) or "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" (a libc6
program). Your program won't run if you don't have the appropriate
/lib/ld-linux.so.* file, and that could be the thing that "No such file or
directory" refers to.
> I bought Sybex Linux Complete (the book) it doesn't help with this sort of
> thing.
Has anyone ever heard of this book? Is it supposed to be worthwhile?
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Disclaimer: Other than explicit citations of URLs, hyperlinks appearing
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 18:34:15 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ftp file missing
if inetd is configured to execute in.ftpd when an incoming ftp
connection is detected and in.ftpd doesn't exist then that could very
well pose a problem.
try proftpd and use that...or download in.ftpd again (it may have just
got moved around though on the system)
Help Desk wrote:
>
> Hi Group,
>
> I have installed RH 6.1 Linux (about 4 months ago)and everything was working
> OK. Installed Apache and Front Page Extensions, these worked OK as well. Was
> able to publish my web pages to Linux, use FTP etc.
>
> Sometime in the last month, FTP has stopped running and no longer allows me
> to connect from any machine to the Linux box. I checked the inetd.conf
> file and it says it will daemon in.ftpd but I cannot locate this file on
> my machine. Is in.ftpd indeed required, or is something else causing the
> problem.
>
> Regards
>
> Noel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: using ppp to connect to the Internet
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:16:43 GMT
hi all,
My PC runs win98 and Redhat6.0. I can use the Internet alright on
win98, but I can not connect to Internet on Redhat6.0.
My PC has an internal 'HAMR 5600 Voice Mail' modem using COM3 which is
equivalent to '/dev/ttyS2'. I did all the setting right in the Network
configurator Programme, but I just can not connect to the Internet.
Advice please.
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 18:35:33 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ftp file missing
I forgot to add that looking at /var/log/messages when trying ot connect
through ftp should provide at least an initial error message (if there
is more than one problem) that you can go on to fix the problem.
Help Desk wrote:
>
> Hi Group,
>
> I have installed RH 6.1 Linux (about 4 months ago)and everything was working
> OK. Installed Apache and Front Page Extensions, these worked OK as well. Was
> able to publish my web pages to Linux, use FTP etc.
>
> Sometime in the last month, FTP has stopped running and no longer allows me
> to connect from any machine to the Linux box. I checked the inetd.conf
> file and it says it will daemon in.ftpd but I cannot locate this file on
> my machine. Is in.ftpd indeed required, or is something else causing the
> problem.
>
> Regards
>
> Noel
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 18:47:21 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a list of compatible videocards for x window?
linuxdocs.org has all the howtos. Therefore they should have the
hardware compatiblity howto. Look in the Video card section to see if
yours is supported
this is the direct link to the hardware howto:
http://linuxdocs.org/Hardware-HOWTO.html
HTH
Brandon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Do you know of any list of compatible videocards that support X window.
>
> Thanks
> Lisa
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: Trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0, where in heck is KDE?
Date: 2 Sep 2000 22:44:18 GMT
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 00:17:59 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... I went into the xterm and
typed "startkde" and it said the
>command was not found....
>
>So where is KDE, and how do I get
it on my machine? I'm installing
>from the Mandrake 7.0 set you buy retail in stores ...
Two ideas:
1) at the commandline, try going
switchdesk (then press enter)
May give you a screen where you can choose your
window manager.
2) try this if switchdesk doesn't work:
startx fvwm
If that works, you will get a nice plain-vanilla
window manager and you can do some exploring of
your Mandrake system. Then if you want to install
KDE later on, you can pull it from your CDROM
with the rpm command -- you will have to mount
the CDROM, move to the directory where you mounted
it, and use the rpm command to put it on your hard
drive. If you need help with those you can come
back and ask, but for now see if you can get *any*
window manager up and running just for the
satisfaction of doing so.
MP
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 18:50:16 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I dual boot with windows 2000?
during installation you will be asked where you want LILO to be
installed (the boot manager): either on a floppy, the mbr of the hard
drive, or the root partition I think is the last option. Just choose on
the mbr of the master drive and select what OSes you have that you want
to boot to and their labels (what u will type in to boot that particular
OS) and that should be it.
next time you boot you will get the LILO prompt, hitting TAB wil provide
a list of options, typing an option will boot an OS.
Greg wrote:
>
> I recently Installed Windows 2000 on a ten Gig partition and would like to
> put mandrake 6.0 on the other Ten Gig. How would I go about getting linux
> on without using bootmagic. I once Saw on a laptop linux and windows on
> the same machine and all that you had to do was at the lilo boot was type
> windows. Please help...
>
> Greg
>
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From: Jean-Louis Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Turning X-capable workstation into X terminal
Date: 03 Sep 2000 04:28:27 +0200
Hello,
I have two computers properly (I think) set up with Linux and
XFree86. Their name are 'enterprise' and 'caillou'. I want to use
caillou as a X terminal attached to enterprise. What's the simplest
procedure? I've pored over `man xdm` and `man X` but have not been
inspired yet ;-)
TIA.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat
Subject: X configuration
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:42:02 GMT
Hi all,
My PC runs win98 and Redhat6.0. The Icons on the desktop and the panel
at its bottom are very big; the width of the panel is about 3cm. I
thought the problem is to do with one of the settings on the
XF86config; but which one and how?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: mkisofs: cannot fwrite 2048*1?
Date: 2 Sep 2000 22:46:13 GMT
I'm trying to use mkisofs to backup some directories:
mkisofs -r -o directory.iso DIRECTRY
and keep getting errors like:
cannot fwrite 2048*1
Also, the -l flag is supposed to allow for long names, but I'm
still getting messages like:
Using FILENAME:001 for ......
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: /usr partition won't unmount on shutdown
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:50:09 GMT
Hi All,
I recently purchased a new laptop from "tuxtops" with Redhat 6.2
pre-installed. Annoyingly they had placed /usr on quite a small
partition leaving very little room for new software. I decided to swap
the contents of the /usr and /home partitions, which I did using a "cp
-R" (yes, I know I should have used tar, but all things are obvious in
hind-sight). I then swapped the mount-points of these partitions.
Unfortunately this has created a number of problems, the most serious of
which is that when I try to shut down my machine it hangs, saying that
hda5 (the /usr partition) is busy and can't be unmounted. I therefore
have to switch off my machine and wait for a fsck when I reboot. this
is far from ideal. On a friends suggestion I did a "telinit 1" and did
a lsof to see what files were still open on /usr, unfortunately the only
files I could see open were those I had used to run the lsof command (I
did some grepping, awking, sorting, and uniqing just for good measure).
Another less serious problem is that many of what used to be symbolic
links in the /usr/lib directory are now copies of the file (rpm
complains about this regularly).
Can anyone suggest what might be causing the first problem, and how I
can fix it? I really don't want to have to do a reinstall as I suspect
there are a number of clever things which tuxtops do that I would need
to replicate.
Best regards,
Ian.
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From: Brian Duffell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: dialup and a proxy server
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 23:56:15 +0100
On 2 Sep,
"Steven L. Dahlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if there is a product or a way to setup a proxy server
> with dial up capabilities, i.e., allowing anyone on my network to make a
> request and, if there is no current connection to the ISP, disl up and
> establish the connection. Earlier I tried diald but despite a lot of input
> from several and a lot of elbow grease I was unable to make it work.
> Currently I am using a product call WinProxy on an NT workstation that
> works like a charm. It was easy to setup and configure and has been easy
> to maintain. But I would certainly prefer to have a linux server in that
> role, but the pain and trouble of diald was too much.
I'm having limited success with pppd (2.2 kernel) but I can setup the ppp
connection ok. unfortunately the calling application is unable to resolve
unless I ping an unknown ip address first, and give time for the link to
setup before I use the resolver for the actual download. It may be fine with
a linux network rather than mixed OS's
--
Brian Duffell RiscPC600 | StrongARM 233Mhz RISC OS 4 50Mb
Darlington Dolphin Masters ASC |<www.darlington-masters.org>
Thornaby ASC | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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