Linux-Setup Digest #550, Volume #19 Mon, 4 Sep 00 18:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: New Helix Gnome Installer (Jim)
Re: make zImage error? (Norman Levin)
Re: X Windows Can't Support Sony Monitor? ("B. Joshua Rosen")
X-Server Startup problem (Ryteone)
Apache DirectoryIndex and VirtualHost problem. Plz Help!! ("Philippe Laflamme")
LILO and Boot Magic (Daniel)
Riva128 + XFree86 3.3.x, RH 6.2 ("Brandon Klaus")
Why does RH 6.2 give a different user PATH than 6.0? (john slimick)
Re: Riva128 + XFree86 3.3.x, RH 6.2 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: LILO and Boot Magic (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs? (mike)
Linux does not detect my 128 MB NVRAM (Tito Costa)
Changing Desktop Appearance ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
cursor shape compiled into kernel (B.Lim)
Re: Linux does not detect my 128 MB NVRAM (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Changing Desktop Appearance (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Good distr for Thinkpad 701C? (Richard D. McRoberts)
Re: IP tunnelling and VPN (Glenn Valenta)
Re: LILO problem (Achim Linder)
Clearing MBR (Crix)
ZIP 100 Plus and ZIP ZOOM SCSI (aha152x.o) (Ed McFadden)
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From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Helix Gnome Installer
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 16:14:36 GMT
In article <8p0er5$1qv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone else had problems with the Helix Gnome Installer? It worked
fine
> over the Internet but I saved the files so I could perform the upgrade
> on another machine.
>
> I ftp the files to the second box but the problem is, as soon as I
click
> the "Local Media" radio button to allow me to install from local media
> (my hard drive), the "Next" button becomes disabled making it
impossible
> to continue.
All, I got the answer from Kevin in an earlier post which I'd forgotten
about. :-0
I was missing the metapackages.xml, packages.xml and updates.xml files.
Thanks, again, Kevin!
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Before you buy.
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Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:02:13 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: make zImage error?
Don Belmore wrote:
>
> Hi All!
>
> Being the newbie that I am, I recently found out that I need to
> recompile my kerneland all that. So I went through the steps as outlined
> in the /usr/src/linux-2.0.36/README file. Everything seemed to have gone
> find until I ran 'make zImage', then the following error occured:
>
> (this is just the last few lines that contained the error message)
>
> make[1]: as86 Command not found
> make[1]: ***[bootsect.o] Error 127
> make[1] Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot'
> make: ***[zdisk]Error 2
>
> I checked to see if either the 'as86' or the 'bootsect.o' command
> was anywhere to be found on my hd but without any success. I'm going to
> guess that either the files where not installed or have gone missing since
> my installation. What would be the easiest way for me to get these files?
> Re-Install some part of 5.2 again?
** I had this problem the first time I compiled a kernel. THere is a small
package, something like "bin86 utilities" that needs to be there.
--
Norman Levin
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X Windows Can't Support Sony Monitor?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:45:32 -0400
Run Xconfigurator. If your monitor isn't in the menu then pick custom
monitor. You can use Xconfigurator to try various combinations of
refresh rates, resolutions and depths. You should be able to find a
setting that works.
"T.F.Lai" wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm installed RedHat 6.2 on the following hardware :
> AMD K6-400, 32MB RAM, S3 Trio3D Graphics Card, Sony CPD-15SF II.
>
> But the X Windows seem to detect the graphics card but when I type startx at
> the command prompt. The monitor doesn't display and the button become
> orange.
>
> Can anyone give me some tips or hints?
>
> I'll appreciate for your kindly help.
>
> Thanks.
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From: Ryteone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X-Server Startup problem
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:02:40 -0500
I've installed RedHat 6.1 with Gnome and KDE on a old laptop I have a
compaq presario 1681 with just Linux on it (no dual op system)
I've been having to adjust the X86Config file to get the video
correct. Upon the last trial it was much worse and couldn't read the
screen (kept flickering trying to start the Gnome logon). After
pressing the ctrl-z and ctrl-x and many others to get to stop I got to
the shell login prompt. I changed the X86Config file back to the
previous one and rebooted. This is the error I'm getting now and I'm
not sure what I need to do to correct it.
*****************************************************************
_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_SSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
Fatal server error:
Cannot establis any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
already running
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last message
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
**************************************************************
I've tried turning it off and restarting thinking that maybe that
would kill the process if it was running. I didn't see any process
running on the list when I did the ps command.
Any help would be greatly appricated.
Thanks Scott....
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From: "Philippe Laflamme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache DirectoryIndex and VirtualHost problem. Plz Help!!
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:31:40 -0400
Hello,
I've setup my apache server without a glitch. It runs smoothly, but now
I want to add a VirtualHost. It works fine : both adresses are accesible
from the web and the server handles the accesses correctly. Except for one
thing. In one of my virtual hosts, I want the directory index to be
index.shtml. I added the line
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html
in the default context. It didn't work: the virtual host using index.shtml
returns a 404 saying it can't find index.html. So I added the line in the
virtual host section, didn't work either! I then added the line in the
Directory section describing the root of that virtual host and it still
didn't work! What's going on?!?!
Please help me!
Phil
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO and Boot Magic
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 11:10:16 -0700
I've just installed Red Hat 6.2 and use Boot Magic to load linux or
Win98. When I choose to load linux, LILO gets called and gives me the
boot: prompt to choose linux or Win98. Since I use Boot Magic, do I need
to remove LILO (and if so, how do I remove it)? Or, if I need to have
LILO to load linux, how can I cange its configuration to load ONLY
linux?
Thanks,
Daniel
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email address.
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From: "Brandon Klaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Riva128 + XFree86 3.3.x, RH 6.2
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 11:05:08 -0700
Just got my dual boot with Win98 and Linux running now its time to get Linux
all set up.
I have a Diamond Viper V330 that I would like to see XFree86 run on. So far
it hits 640x480 just fine but I want more. Basically I'm lookig to get all
the resolutions the Win98 side can get (800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864,
1280x1024) in all the same color depths. Is there a guide, file, web site,
or nice person out there that can point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance for any help.
--Brandon Klaus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. After the video I'll be going for the network, sound and CD-RW but
I'll worry about that later. ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john slimick)
Subject: Why does RH 6.2 give a different user PATH than 6.0?
Date: 4 Sep 2000 18:33:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recently wrote of a problem
I was having with C++ and RH 6.2 .
The problem is that RH 6.0 set my PATH to:
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
:/home/myname/bin
RH 6.2 sets the PATH to:
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:
:home/myname/bin:/usr/local/netscape
It seems that there are include files in
/usr/local/bin that cause my C++ compilations to
fail.
There are two problems:
(1) I can't find anyone other than "anachron" whose
initial PATH is as given above. Why am I getting
my initial path from anachron?
(2) Yes, yes, I know how to fix this by doing a
force in /etc/profile, or in the profile given by
anachron -- is there a safer way of doing this?
Thanks in advance
john slimick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Riva128 + XFree86 3.3.x, RH 6.2
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:37:10 +0200
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Brandon Klaus wrote:
> Just got my dual boot with Win98 and Linux running now its time to get Linux
> all set up.
>
> I have a Diamond Viper V330 that I would like to see XFree86 run on. So far
> it hits 640x480 just fine but I want more. Basically I'm lookig to get all
> the resolutions the Win98 side can get (800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864,
> 1280x1024) in all the same color depths. Is there a guide, file, web site,
> or nice person out there that can point me in the right direction?
I have a V330 myself, and it is well supported. To get the higher
resolutions, you could try out Xconfigurator.
However it gave me a little trouble, so you could also try XF86Setup (not
installed by default, but is on the CD) or xf86config. The last one is a
pretty simple, textbased one, which nearly always works if you know your
hardware well...
> P.S. After the video I'll be going for the network, sound and CD-RW but
> I'll worry about that later. ;-)
For network, try running netcfg or linuxconf.
For sound, run sndconfig.
For CD-RW, you should read the CD-Writing-HOWTO.
Rasmus B. Hansen
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and Boot Magic
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:38:55 +0200
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Daniel wrote:
> I've just installed Red Hat 6.2 and use Boot Magic to load linux or
> Win98. When I choose to load linux, LILO gets called and gives me the
> boot: prompt to choose linux or Win98. Since I use Boot Magic, do I need
> to remove LILO (and if so, how do I remove it)? Or, if I need to have
> LILO to load linux, how can I cange its configuration to load ONLY
> linux?
Set it to linux as default with a dealay (timeout) of one decisecond - it
seems like booting immediately.
Rasmus B. Hansen
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:01:16 -0400
Hi Steve,
I was wondering if you can boot from a floppy. If you can I would
try to get the new Lilo. I think it is version 21.5. It is available from
ftp://ftp.metalab.org . All you have to do is untar it, I believe, in the
/usr/src
directory and go in to the new directory it just created and do QuickInstall
It will compile and install it. It asks you questions along the way. I had to
add
lba32 to the lilo.conf file to accept my new 20 gb WD hard drive. I also
changed the delay factor from 5 to 50 to be able to have more time
to press the shift key on boot up to see the lilo menu. In my old computer
whos bios wouldn't accept a large hard drive I added a Promise DriveMAX
card that extends the bios to recognize up to 132 gb of hard drive.
Mike
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From: Tito Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux does not detect my 128 MB NVRAM
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 16:17:18 +0200
Hi guys!
My AMD K7-equipped PC has 128 MB NVRAM installed; both BIOS and Windows
98 detect 128 MB but RedHat 6.2 doesn't.
Initially I noticed that X-windows was extremely slow; then using
commands free, top and dmesg I was surprised when I read "14xxx/16384 kb
available".
How can I make Linux detect all the RAM installed?
Other hardware information:
AMD K7 - 700 MHz
128 MB NVRAM
13 GB EIDE Hard Disk
ATI All in Wonder PRO Video card
Yamaha SV550 Sound card (which is declared unsupported by sndconfig)
1 CD-ROM IDE, 1 CD-ROM writer IDE.
RealTek RTL 8139 Network Card
NO SCSI devices installed
Thank you in advance for your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Changing Desktop Appearance
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 19:24:51 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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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B.Lim)
Subject: cursor shape compiled into kernel
Date: 4 Sep 2000 19:52:02 GMT
I would like a non-blinking block cursor compiled into the kernel. I don't
particularly like the default blinking underline cursor that comes with
Debian 2.2. Is there a way to achieve this? I've read VGA-softcursor.txt in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation but it doesn't say how to enalne it in the
kernel - only through 'echo' commands. I've tried looking at the various vga
header files in the source tree but can't find it.
Thanks.
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"Security through obscurity is an unworkable principle."
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux does not detect my 128 MB NVRAM
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:57:13 +0200
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tito Costa wrote:
> Hi guys!
> My AMD K7-equipped PC has 128 MB NVRAM installed; both BIOS and Windows
> 98 detect 128 MB but RedHat 6.2 doesn't.
NVRAM??? Are you sure, that you do not mean SDRAM?
> Initially I noticed that X-windows was extremely slow; then using
> commands free, top and dmesg I was surprised when I read "14xxx/16384 kb
> available".
Well yes. Thats pretty little ram to use, when you have 128Mb...
> How can I make Linux detect all the RAM installed?
Add a 'append = "mem=128M"' line to your /etc/lilo.conf. That should fix
it.
Rasmus B. Hansen
---
If you only have a hammer
everything looks like a nail
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing Desktop Appearance
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:05:26 +0200
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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?
Probably not. It is more likely a problem with KDE or GNOME.
If you are running KDE, you can change the icon settings from the
controlpanel.
The size of the panel can be adjusted by rightclicking on the panel and
choose settings. Then you will get the option of small/normal/huge size of
the panel.
If you are running GNOME, I'm afraid, I can't help you...
Rasmus B. Hansen
---
If you only have a hammer
everything looks like a nail
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard D. McRoberts)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Good distr for Thinkpad 701C?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Sep 2000 16:26:49 -0400
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 23:27:55 -0400, Raymond Blum
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a thinkpad 701C (the "Butterfly") with 24 MB of RAM
> and a 500 MB HD. I have finally gotten the floppy drive for
> it and would welcome any advice as to a good distribution
> to do an NFS install of onto this machine. My goal is to set
> this up as a machine to run KDE, Organize, a word processsor,
> etc. Obviously the more disk space left for the applications
> the better. I can not easily get a CD-ROM hooked up directly
> to the machine. I have tried the RedHat and Suse boot disks
> and both recognize the Ethernet card, hence my determination
> to use an NFS install.
I installed RH6.1 on a 701C from SCSI-CDROM, so I can't
comment on an NFS installation. Attempting a graphical
installation, it didn't recognize the video hardware, so
I did a text-mode install, then installed X later. Ran
Xconfigurator and specified video chip as C&T 65545 and
the display as "LCD Panel 640x480".
It works fine. However, it's a small machine by today's
standards, and either KDE and GNOME might be a bit heavy
for it.
Don't forget the usual Linux/Laptop sites (but I haven't
checked these URLs recently) --
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
http://www.e-oasis.com/linux-tp.html (Linux on ThinkPads)
http://home.snafu.de/wehe/index.html (another Linux
laptop site, with the HOW-TO)
Hope this helps, and happy Linux-ing.
--
Richard D. McRoberts
Union, WV USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Glenn Valenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,fa.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: IP tunnelling and VPN
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:34:24 GMT
Tomas Kral wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone explain how to create and set a tunnelling device. I have read
> some VPN docs and Networking HOWTOs, but I am not any wiser.
>
> I am on 2.2.12-20 and tunneling (CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m) has been compiled in.
>
This works best for me.
http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html
BTW, could you translate a e-mail into english that someone sent to me in cz?
The person has the same last name as me and I think the guy wishes to search
his family tree.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Achim Linder)
Subject: Re: LILO problem
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:31:01 +0200
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:39:49 +0100, Phil Evans wrote:
>I have recently installed SuSE Linux 6.4. Everything was going ok at first,
>but now LILO refuses to work properly. I have a 30GB hdd, and whenever I
>try to setup LILO it does warn me about the partition being over the 1024
>cylinder limit,
ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo/
Achim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Crix)
Subject: Clearing MBR
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 21:23:43 GMT
I have a drive which previously contained Corel Linux. I would like to
put WIN2000 on it. The problem I have is that I can't boot from a
floppy to run fdisk. It boots from the hard drive every time, even if
I set the bios to ignore ide(0) during boot sequence.
Help please.
Regards
RobK.
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From: Ed McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ZIP 100 Plus and ZIP ZOOM SCSI (aha152x.o)
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 21:58:01 GMT
I'm trying to set up my ZIP 100 Plus on Linux version 2.2.14-5.0 and
have read everything out there (that I could find). My problem appears
to be linked to the ZIP ZOOM card. I've run ./insmod aha152x.o as
instructed in the documentation I've found and I receive the following:
aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
The ZIP ZOOM SCSI card has the following settings according to the
jumpers:
irq=9
i/o=0140
I've added the following line to lilo.conf (the mem statement is just
for my >64 RAM):
append = "aha152x=0x140,9,7,1 mem=112M"
I've added the following line to fstab:
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user 0 0
Any suggestions? Thanks
-Ed
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