Linux-Setup Digest #547, Volume #19 Mon, 4 Sep 00 04:13:12 EDT
Contents:
LINUX Installation Problem with Large disk (K.C.RajKumar)
Recommended CD-RW drive for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How do I launch Star Office applications? ("Jack Kessler")
Debian 2.2 ("Cooper")
Re: Recommended CD-RW drive for Linux (Isaac To)
mouse problem in lsdoom (als)
Gnome GUI Login Fixed + Netscape Address Book Error! (Mike Gifford)
Re: Installing hdparm utility (and compiling it) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Recommended CD-RW drive for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need help restoring Windows (Igor Mercier)
Suggestion? (Someone Else)
Re: Install Linux from floppy (Igor Mercier)
RAID1 Boot fails with LILO Error L40 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Please contribute. Null modem serial connection Windows/Linux ("Peter T.
Breuer")
Re: Recommended CD-RW drive for Linux ("Steven Cory")
Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Need help configuring soundcard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Restrict user login (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: How do I launch Star Office applications? (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Ethernet Problem (Marc Andre Selig)
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From: K.C.RajKumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LINUX Installation Problem with Large disk
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 05:28:59 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to install linux on Dell Optiplex XL-590 computer. I had a
20GB Hard drives, and I installed it on that PC. Since the system BIOS
doesn't support Big Harddrives, I installed the ATA PRO FLASH BIOS Card
and when I looked the drive with windows 98 boot floppy, I can see all the
20 GB.
When I tried to install RedHat 5.2 during Disk Partitions ( using Disk
Druid ) I am able to seen the Disk Geom as 39566/16/63 as the C/H/S
factor. But when I tried to Install RedHat 5.2, it failed on many RPM's
saying bad file descriptor error -3.
I tried to Install Suse 6.4 and it also found 20 GB but failed to
install the cpio saying "Bad Magic Number"
Could anyone please help what to do to install Linux on that PC. I do
have RH 6.0 and 6.1 CD's but no floppy boot disk. Unfortunately, I
couldn't boot from CD with this latest BIOS also. If I buy RH 6.2 and try
to install, will it solve the problem??? Please Help Me
TIA,
KC.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Recommended CD-RW drive for Linux
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:04:21 +0800
Hi, can someone recommend a good CD-RW drive for linux?
I'm looking at the following especially HP's. Are they compatible with
Linux? Thank you.
Toshiba SD-R1002
CD-RW/DVD-ROM
Ricoh MediaMaster
MP9060A (24X/6X/4X)
HP CD-Writer Plus 9100i
(32X/8X/4X)
Regards
Damon
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From: "Jack Kessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I launch Star Office applications?
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:58:16 -0700
I learned how to mount the second CDROM, located Setup on it, and set up
Star Office using Gnome. As it exited, it told me that it had opened a line
in KDE from which to run it. Red Hat's default is Gnome, which has a menu
category for applications. None of the Star Office applications appear on
it. What do I do to invoke / launch it?
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From: "Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian 2.2
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 02:13:42 -0400
Now that I've found out that certain files have been deprecated in Debian
2.2, I feel a little better. Unfortunately, now I know that things aren't
always gonna work for books and docs written pre-2.2.
Anyway, I have Debian 2.2 set up on an IBM Micro-Channel PS/2 85 that I am
setting up as a proxy server. I have two network cards. From the internal
network, I can ping either card (and from the Linux box I can ping anything
on the internal network). Currently, I have both cards set up with static
IPs. With the static IPs, I can even ping the default gateway on my cable
modem network.
But that doesn't let me surf the internet from any box in my network.
Here's what I need to be able to do:
1). Set up the eth1 to the equivalent "obtain IP address automagically"
of Windows (I know the IP of the DHCP server on my network, the IP of the
Default Gateway, and the IP of the DNS. I don't know how to do this and I
can't find a doc to tell me how for Debian 2.2.
2). Although I can currently ping the Default Gateway from my Linux
box, I can not ping the Default Gateway from a computer inside the network.
I must have something set wrong with ip-forwarding.
Will I need to set up a DHCP client? I think I can figure out how to do
that if someone lets me know I'm on the right track. What is the difference
between TCP/IP ipv4 and ipv6 (state briefly, or point to a doc)? Should I
have the ipv6 package installed at all? Do I need to modify the
/etc/sysctl.conf file?
In addition, can someone point me to where I can find some docs on the new
2.2? I can't seem to find anything that is not outdated.
TIA,
Cooper
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From: Isaac To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Recommended CD-RW drive for Linux
Date: 04 Sep 2000 14:09:48 +0800
>>>>> "Damon" == so excited <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Damon> Toshiba SD-R1002 CD-RW/DVD-ROM
Damon> Ricoh MediaMaster MP9060A (24X/6X/4X)
Damon> HP CD-Writer Plus 9100i (32X/8X/4X)
If you actually get to read the CD-ROM How-to, you will get the answer in a
very simple way:
All SCSI and IDE (i.e. ATAPI) CD-ROM and writers are supported. The
latter is supported via SCSI emulation, which is the "native" mode for
ATAPI devices.
Regards,
Isaac.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (als)
Subject: mouse problem in lsdoom
Date: 4 Sep 2000 05:30:48 GMT
I have downloaded the latest lsdoom/lxdoom source, successfully
compiled it, installed and run it.
It (lsdoom) works fine, but completely ignores the mouse.
Mouse (/dev/mouse --> /dev/psaux) works fine in X and Quake 2.
/etc/vga/libvga.config is proper. SVGAlib is current.
Kernel is 2.2.13-SMP (SuSE 6.3).
Any ideas?
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From: Mike Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Gnome GUI Login Fixed + Netscape Address Book Error!
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 06:28:02 GMT
Hello All,
I've been having trouble with Red Hat 6.2, Gnome's GUI Login & Netscape
for a long while.
I had asked for help on a couple newsgroups & had come up with nothing
that worked to resolve the problem. Basically, the GUI interface for
gnome only worked for root and one other user. Everyone else bounced
back to the main screen. With netscape, I couldn't use the address
book.
I don't know what exactly caused this problem, but I wanted to let you
that with the help of a friend, I've discovered a work around, if not
what was stopping some of the users of my system from logging into it.
As I said, Gnome's GUI Login would not accept two of my users. I had
already tried to deleted those user accounts and set up new ones, but
I'm a Linux newbie, so I used the kde user manager. I figured, why
not... It should work. And for many things it did work just fine.
However, not for using the GUI login.
I ended up deleting the user, and all traces of the user from
/etc/passwd,
/etc/group, & all user related files from /tmp/ I then copied the
data files
into another directory, deleted /home/user and then set up a new user
using the shell command, adduser, finally logging out as root and
logging back in as the new user.
So KDE & Gnome may ship together, but they don't seem to work nicely
with one and other...
Somehow, doing this also somehow got the guestbook working in Netscape
too. This is excellent!
I just wanted to post this in case someone else was having similar
dificulties.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing hdparm utility (and compiling it)
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 06:19:18 GMT
After some search I've found the adequate .DEB files at www.debian.org
(Download packages).
In order to install hdparm I needed also libc6 and ldso. But to install
these 3 .DEB, it was easy within KDE and tool provided by COREL ("COREL
Update" --> "Install a .DEB file").
On my laptop hdparm works now and it increased disk's rate transfer
from 3 Mb/s to almost 8 Mo/s activating DMA. Quite a good opportunity
(it takes now 20 seconds to start STAROFFICE (1st time) rather than 30
before)
Thanks
Bye
In article <8opcnc$msl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >Colin, Thank you for your help. The best thing I should do could be
to
> >find some ".DEB" packages (at debian.org I think) and try to use them
> >with the integrated tool "COREL Update" (under KDE), provided by
COREL.
>
> That should usually be possible, yes.
>
> >To answer to your first question, COREL doesn't seem to provide any
> >MAKE or hdparm or things like that.
>
> Try the following links (apologies for having to wrap the long lines):
>
> ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux/dists/corellinux-1.2/main/
> binary-i386/make_3.77-4.deb
>
> ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux/dists/corellinux-1.2/main/
> binary-i386/hdparm_3.3-3.deb
>
> If you're on Corel 1.0, then there are similar packages there (in
fact,
> they seem to be exactly the same versions, so just replace "1.2" with
> "1.0" above).
>
> If you can't find these in Corel Update, then you might want to check
> that you've got it configured correctly. It'll probably be easier to
set
> this up properly than to try to track all the package dependencies
> yourself. :) Alternatively, you could just use Debian's "Advanced
> Package Tool", or apt, with which you can type 'apt-get install make'
or
> 'apt-get install hdparm' and have the whole thing done for you
> automatically.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> --
> Colin Watson
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> "This is the only networking technology
> that earns frequent flyer miles." - RFC 2549
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Recommended CD-RW drive for Linux
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:59:11 +0800
Thank you, Isaac. :-)
Isaac To wrote:
> >>>>> "Damon" == so excited <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Damon> Toshiba SD-R1002 CD-RW/DVD-ROM
>
> Damon> Ricoh MediaMaster MP9060A (24X/6X/4X)
>
> Damon> HP CD-Writer Plus 9100i (32X/8X/4X)
>
> If you actually get to read the CD-ROM How-to, you will get the answer in a
> very simple way:
>
> All SCSI and IDE (i.e. ATAPI) CD-ROM and writers are supported. The
> latter is supported via SCSI emulation, which is the "native" mode for
> ATAPI devices.
>
> Regards,
> Isaac.
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From: Igor Mercier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help restoring Windows
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 18:22:20 +1000
Victor Zandy wrote:
> In the course of installing Linux on a friend's Gateway Solo 2150
> laptop, I broke its ability to boot Windows.
>
> We created a partition for Linux by splitting the original Windows 98
> partition with fips. Goback -- a disk backup utility -- is installed
> on the Windows partition. I think Goback usurps the standard Windows
> boot code, replacing with something unconventional that conflicts with
> LILO. When I changed the default boot partition with LILO, I believe
> I inadvertently screwed up Goback's boot code. In any event, now when
> we boot dos we get stuck at a prompt that says (roughly)
>
> Type the name of the command interpreter (e.g. C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM)
> A>
>
> Perhaps one first step toward fixing this would be to replace the
> bootsector with one that boots a Windows partition running Goback.
> Can anyone provide me with an image of such a bootsector? I believe
> from Linux you can copy such a bootsector into the file named MBR with
> this command:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR bs=512 count=1
>
> (replace /dev/hda with the name of the boot device, if different).
>
> Otherwise, does anyone have any suggestions? Anyone know a Goback
> guru?
>
> Thanks.
> Vic
Hi Vic I had some problem with win98 and linux . LILO kept on booting up
with no option to boot into windoze . The way I fixed mine was to boot
from a msdos win98 boot disk amd type in at the A prompt fdisk /mbr this
overrides the lilo that is there and windoze booted again. Now to boot
linux I use a boot disk that was created during instalation of linux.
Please not this worked for me All my systems are backed up but I had no
crach or lose of files
Igor
land down under
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From: Someone Else <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suggestion?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:18:42 +0200
hi people,
I want to have a new computer, specially for linux. I have had a AMD
K6-2 on some motherboard who had a chipset of "AGP" named AGPPro. It was
just fine for normal works but it had some trouble with UDMA-2 and some
other probelems. I want now a stable computer.
Can some one suggest me, which mother board should I buy for which
Processor? In case of dual board, which motherboard is from price and
performence sight good ?
waiting for Your suggestions !
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From: Igor Mercier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install Linux from floppy
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 18:41:02 +1000
G'day Somerton
>From floppy ??? I am like you new to linux but I would never install from floppy
Why!
if disk takes 1.4m per disc and the instalation I did took 540 meg and that was not
full instalation how may floppys would you need
If you have a cd rom why not use it I used red hat 6.0 this version of linux lets
you install from cdrom if your pc via bios can be made to autoboot the cdrom , or it
lets you create a insalation boot disk to use the cdrom
I hope that this may be of help
Igor
from land down under
SOMERTON KENNEDY wrote:
> try woven goods for linux
>
> "David .." wrote:
> >
> > Daniel wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there. Anyone had tried to install Linux distribution totally from floppy
> > > disk to hardisk?
> > > Any Linux distribution to recommend?
> > > I 'm new to Linux and want to use my old laptop (with cdrom) to surf net
> > > using linux os.
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > Slackware is one of the few that you can install from floppy
> >
> > http://www.slackware.com/
> >
> > --
> > Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> > Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> > ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RAID1 Boot fails with LILO Error L40
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 07:17:28 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to get a Redhat 6.2 system booting with 2 disks in
RAID 1 configuration.
As you would probably expect, it does not work ;-)
Here are some system details:
- HP Netserver LPr
- 2 original HP disks of 9.1G - SCSI
- Redhat 6.2 "out of the box install"
The first problem I encountered was the stock Redhat 6.2 LILO
(sorry, do not know version anymore) said :
"can't handle device 0x0901".
I figured it was a more recent LILO that I needed.
So, I installed the latest from MetaLab, version 21.5-1.
Now I get a LILO error when booting:
L40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40...
This error code indicates a "seek error" according to the
LILO readme.
I also tried to specify disk geometry as reported by the
power-on selftest screen as C/H/S=1024/64/32,
without positive result.
This is my current lilo.conf file:
Note: /dev/md1 is my root, /dev/md0 is swap.
=======================================================
boot=/dev/md1
root=/dev/md1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
read-only
root=/dev/md1
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux-up
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root=/dev/md1
=======================================================
when running LILO the reply is:
=======================================================
boot = /dev/sda6, map = /boot/map.0806
Added linux *
Added linux-up
boot = /dev/sdb6, map = /boot/map.0816
Added linux *
Added linux-up
=======================================================
Strangely enough, I did almost the same thing with 2 IDE disks on a
homebuilt system and it works flawlessly with LILO 21.5 (also had
to upgrade the standard Redhat 6.2 LILO version).
Should I escalate this problem to the LILO maintainer(s) ?
What is screwing me here BIOS, LILO, something else ?
Please advise on this issue.
Many thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
--
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R&D Engineer, Network Administrator
IDCS N.V.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Please contribute. Null modem serial connection Windows/Linux
Date: 4 Sep 2000 07:26:16 GMT
In comp.os.linux.help Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am unable to find a "how to" on establishing a null modem serial
: connection between a Win98SE/Win2K computer and a Linux computer.
Read the Serial-HOWTO. (not that there's a lot to explain!).
: There have been many posts confirming such connection, but no "step-by-step"
: instructions on how to accomplish it.
Well, it rather depends what you have at the windows end. Myself, I'd
put a terminal client that end and let it log in to the linux end
acting as server.
Peter
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From: "Steven Cory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Recommended CD-RW drive for Linux
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 07:27:00 GMT
I am using a memorex 4224 cd-rw and i don't recommend it for u. It doesn't
get recongized by Linux and you have to manualy tell it to use a scsi
emulator. To much work for it
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy?
Date: 4 Sep 2000 07:35:09 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware @ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: mount /mnt/cdrom commnad, it respond " mount:mount point /mnt/cdrom does not
: exit"(my setting in /etc/fstab---/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauot,owner 0
: 0).
Well, does it exist? It has to. you know! Sounds like you have a
fundamental misunderstanding that you need to fix.
: 2)when i exec mount /fd0/floppy, system respond "fs type vfat not supported
: by kernel". Is modfying kernel a only way to deal with, if so where can i
The correct type would probably be msdos. If you have a vfat module,
load it, otherwise don't worry. I need to see the fstab entry to
comment further.
: get better sources to do so('cause i read some HOWTOs but dont explain
: clearly to deal wiht my problems)
Yes they do. Try and realize that you don't undertsand them clearly,
not that they don't explain them clearly.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy?
Date: 4 Sep 2000 07:37:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In comp.os.linux.hardware @ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: : mount /mnt/cdrom commnad, it respond " mount:mount point /mnt/cdrom does not
: : exit"(my setting in /etc/fstab---/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauot,owner 0
: : 0).
BTW, that fstab line is completely misspelled. Shouldn't it be:
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Need help configuring soundcard
Date: 4 Sep 2000 07:57:12 GMT
In alt.os.linux.mandrake Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[]"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[]>Im running Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and have a SoundBlaster Live! Value soundcard.
[]>harddrake and sndconfig find it but I cant hear anything when i do a Test.
[]>What can I do to get sound?
[]Did you check the mixer volume levels? Try kmix or aumix.
And if your speakers have a mute button, make sure it isn't muting
the sound. I did that to myself, my sound works now.
D.J.
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Subject: Re: Restrict user login
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04 Sep 2000 09:53:16 +0200
Jack Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I restrict the user login from remote side but allow from some
> specified IP and users
There are several options, the easiest of which is probably
tcp_wrappers. See hosts.allow(5), which includes examples as well.
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Subject: Re: How do I launch Star Office applications?
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04 Sep 2000 09:55:03 +0200
"Jack Kessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I learned how to mount the second CDROM, located Setup on it, and set up
> Star Office using Gnome. As it exited, it told me that it had opened a line
> in KDE from which to run it. Red Hat's default is Gnome, which has a menu
> category for applications. None of the Star Office applications appear on
> it. What do I do to invoke / launch it?
Probably just "soffice&", entered at a terminal prompt.
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Subject: Re: Ethernet Problem
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04 Sep 2000 09:48:26 +0200
[Javi originally complained about "unknown host" errors from netscape,
concluding from this that his ethernet card was setup incorrectly.]
"Javi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[output from /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route snipped]
Your ethernet setup appears sensible. To test it, try to ping
somebody by giving his IP address (e.g. "ping 146.140.2.41", but
choose a computer near you that will reply to pings). If that works,
stop worrying about your network card.
> and finally the etc/resolv.conf was just the word 'search'
Your nameserver setup is non-existent. If your ethernet works, but
your computer does not know about any nameservers, netscape (and
everybody else) will not be able to resolve host names into IP
addresses. You would get "unknown host" errors all over the place.
Find out what the IP of your nameserver is. Then erase the "search"
in /etc/resolv.conf. Replace it by a line saying "nameserver
ip.of.name.server", of course replacing "ip.of.name.server" by the
real IP. If you've got two nameservers, simply use two lines in
resolv.conf:
nameserver ip.of.first.ns
nameserver ip.of.second.ns
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