Linux-Setup Digest #551, Volume #19 Mon, 4 Sep 00 22:13:12 EDT
Contents:
how to setup internal modem card under linux? ("jedy")
Re: cursor shape compiled into kernel (Juergen Heinzl)
/dev/audio in 2.2.x (Judah Milgram)
Re: cannot get the post install to complete properly (Larry Ebbitt)
Re: CDRW set up as ro (Fluri Dave)
Adding second hard drive on Redhat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to bring RH62 up to "Rawhide" Glibc levels, etc. Neet to install ("Michael
K. Dittmeier")
Cannot start gnome through gdm, only through xinit ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
��� ANIA DESNUDA !!! La de GRAN HERMANO ("Info")
Re: Strange output in Gnome. (Steve)
ftp.... ftp4all...help ("Jack Crack")
Xircom Ethernet Card RedHat6.1 ("Javi")
Re: Cannot start gnome through gdm, only through xinit (Kevin McInerney)
shutdown my laptop when power gets low?? (Douglas Nichols)
Re: My Lan card can't determinie IP information (Rob Kroll)
Re: Ethernet Problem ("Chris")
Re: Good distr for Thinkpad 701C?
I need to get X version 4.0, the hell off my system... (peter)
Re: Adding second hard drive on Redhat 6.2 (Arturo C)
cd writer? ("Bob R")
Lost my graphic login (David Stafford)
Installation of Linux onto a Win 98 PC/ Hardware Issues. ("Earthlink News")
Red Hat Help ("Timothy N. Couch")
Re: Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs? ("Richard Cornelius")
Re: I need to get X version 4.0, the hell off my system... ("Ingemar Lundin")
Re: Lost my graphic login ("Ingemar Lundin")
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From: "jedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to setup internal modem card under linux?
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:56:09 +0800
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: cursor shape compiled into kernel
Date: 4 Sep 2000 22:26:14 GMT
In article <8p0uh2$1s37$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, B.Lim wrote:
>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.
[-]
See --
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/console_struct.h
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/console.c
-- to start with. See esp. CUR_DEF. See setterm too, though you'd to
have to change the sources all the time while running setterm in one
of the initscripts ( like /etc/rc2.d/S10console -> /etc/init.d/console )
will do the job all the time.
Oh yes. I've never tried to change it using the source so while the
meaning of CUR_BLOCK is obvious to me disabling the blink attribute
is left to the ones who can remember more about that stuff. One bit to
set o. clear AFAIK but which one (?)
Cheers,
Juergen
--
\ Real name : J�rgen Heinzl \ no flames /
\ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Judah Milgram)
Subject: /dev/audio in 2.2.x
Date: 4 Sep 2000 18:38:45 -0400
Just did a kernel upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.2.16. No hardware change.
Compiled in sound support. It's a soundblaster and I specified same
isp, port, dma, etc as with the old system. Sound seems to initialize
(per syslog and /dev/sndstat) but I get "/dev/audio: No such device".
Or any other device. Yet in kernel config (xconfig), there was no place
to specify /dev/audio support (like there used to be in previous kernels).
What am I missing here?
thanks,
J. Milgram
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Judah Milgram [EMAIL PROTECTED]
finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key
or: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~milgram/
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Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 18:44:28 -0400
From: Larry Ebbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot get the post install to complete properly
Glasco Taylor wrote:
>
> I have been attempting to install RedHat 6.2 for days and have not been able
> to get the post install to complete. Does any one have a clue as to why
> this is?
Please share your symptoms with us. Error messages, events, whatever tells
you that it isn't working.
--
Larry Ebbitt - Linux + OS/2 - Atlanta
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From: Fluri Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDRW set up as ro
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 21:27:28 -0400
Mark Schneider wrote:
>
> I purchased a scsi-3 CDRW for my Linux web server.
Nice! :-)
> I want to be able to
> write to this drive/media. If I have a blank, unformatted cd it will
> not mount.
Of course not. You can only mount a CD if it has a
filesystem on it. An "unformatted" CD has no filesystem and,
thus, can't be mounted. That doesn't mean you can't write to
it, though.
> If I have a formatted CD it will mount, but as read-only.
>
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw
A mounted filesystem in a CD-ROM, of any description, is, by
definition, read-only.
>
> In my fstab I have:
>
> /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 rw 0 0
Looks good to me...
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try
man cdrecord
Once I'd set up my burner with the HowTo, the cdrecord man
pages answered all my questions and got me going within
short order.
Dave Fluri
North Bay, Ontario Canada
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adding second hard drive on Redhat 6.2
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:31:26 GMT
I'm having a problem getting my 60 GIG hard drive to work on Redhat 6.2.
I have a promise ATA-66 controller card that is connected to the hard
drive. I think Redhat sees the controller card and the hard drives.
Redhat is running on a seperate SCSI hard drive. This is the main drive.
Can someone help me configure this to work? Here is a copy of my dmesg:
PIIX4: IDE controllPIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 91
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1050-0x1057, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
er on PCI bus 00 dev 91
Thanks.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Michael K. Dittmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: How to bring RH62 up to "Rawhide" Glibc levels, etc. Neet to install
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:54:08 GMT
I am in the same position. I have reciently started using linux,(the big move
away from Microsoft) and would like to upgrade my system to the new images.
Help!!!
mnip wrote:
> I've got a fresh install of RH6.2, and I'm not having any luck with the
> official installer of XFree86 4.0.1 for my TNT2.
>
> I found the Rawhide dir full of recent (and probably 'at your own risk')
> RPMs, but most of them require some dependent packages to get installed.
> Chicken and Egg.
>
> The sequence of problems read like a list from The Simirillion:
> .. rpm4 dependency begat Glibc dependency begat libdb.so dependency ....
> on an on, almost all packages need some baseline newer than the one on my
> RH6.2 CD. I don't know where to start. RPM doesn't help much with suggested
> packages to upgrade first.
>
> I'd like to try using the RPMS, since they're probably going to be geared
> for RedHat's layout. I did OK with Apache and PHP4 tarballs, but X 4.0.1 is
> on another level of complexity when the config script doesn't work.
>
> How does one go about doing a massive rawhide upgrade of a fresh RH62
> install? Is there a better use of RPM for this purpose than "-Uvh"?
>
> Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cannot start gnome through gdm, only through xinit
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:54:38 GMT
Hi,
Until today, gnome was working fine--I could log in from gdm
started at boot (initdefault 4). Today, I installed XFree86 4.0.1.
Now, when I try to start a gnome session from the gdm login, the
screen goes black and then returns to the gdm login. Same for
root. Starting gnome using gnome-session after xinit from command
line works fine.
No errors appear in any files in user's (or root's) home directory.
I can log in to 'failsafe' session from gdm.
I guess its permissions or something. Hopefully there are some
errors logged somewhere...
How can I make this work ?
Thanks,
Kevin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Strange output in Gnome.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Sep 2000 01:06:22 +0100
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:44:26 GMT, Yura wrote:
>Hi people. Every time I start any "G" program
>(Gnome compatible or just GTK written) I get this
>kind of output:
>
>But is I start "G" soft as root or any other user,
>I don't have this output. I mean, even with this
>output, program starts fine, I jsut want to get rid
>of it.
>
>I hope anyone has an idea. I suppose somethign is
>messed up in my personal Gnome's configuration.
Sounds like your fonts or your path or something
in your porfile that refers to fonts is messed up.
Try making a backup of your .bashrc and .bash_profile
and copy another users .bashrc and .bash_profile to your
home directory, that may solve it.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
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or http://start.at/zero-pps
11:59pm up 14 days, 4:17, 3 users, load average: 1.08, 1.02, 1.01
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From: "Jack Crack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftp.... ftp4all...help
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:08:46 -0700
Hi,
I am trying to setup and ftp server using ftp4all. I can
get the server runing. it attemps to log in but gets permission denied.
I am figuring this is due to my user or group file. Does any one have an
example of what these files should look like?
Thank ahead of time.
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From: "Javi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xircom Ethernet Card RedHat6.1
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:15:20 -0500
I notice that when I /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop I get [failed] device
not found. But if I etc/rc.d/init.d/network start both 'lo' and eth0 are
[ok] . I think this is the root for my problem with my ethernet card. I
hope someone can explain me to fix this.
-Javi-
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From: Kevin McInerney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot start gnome through gdm, only through xinit
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 00:33:49 GMT
Found the problem. The directory structure was changed in XFree86
4.0.1.
It comes with an installer script that "fixes up" many links but there
is a
problem in that /var/X11R6/lib/xdm is a symbolic link to
/etc/X11/lib/xdm
...which is in turn a symbolic link to /var/X11R6/lib/xdm
I removed the symlink /var/X11R6/lib/xdm, created a directory, and
copied
the Xsession script from the directory where I had saved the old files
before
the new install of XFree86. The Xsession script is where the
.xsession-errors
file is created, this is why I never saw errors.
I can now start a gnome session by logging in through gdm.
Thanks for reading and for your helpful intentions!
-Kevin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Until today, gnome was working fine--I could log in from gdm
> started at boot (initdefault 4). Today, I installed XFree86 4.0.1.
> Now, when I try to start a gnome session from the gdm login, the
> screen goes black and then returns to the gdm login. Same for
> root. Starting gnome using gnome-session after xinit from command
> line works fine.
>
> No errors appear in any files in user's (or root's) home directory.
> I can log in to 'failsafe' session from gdm.
>
> I guess its permissions or something. Hopefully there are some
> errors logged somewhere...
>
> How can I make this work ?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Douglas Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shutdown my laptop when power gets low??
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 17:41:54 -0700
I want my laptop to shut itself down when the power get really low and I
haven't plugged it in. I read in the man pages that this is possible but
cannot find anything about how to do this!
Can someone point me to a doc o r tell me how this is done?
Thanks
dn
Douglas Nichols
DBA NWTSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: My Lan card can't determinie IP information
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Kroll)
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 00:35:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>When I use ifup to call my ethernet card, the error message is shown.
>What can I do?
>
It entirely depends on your configuration, what the message is, etc.
For example, are you trying to use DHCP to retrieve @Home configuration?
Are you trying to use pump to read information from a DHCP office network?
etc.
Please repost more information, including:
1) The exact error message, if possible
2) The NIC card make/model
3) The kernel version you're using. (Which can affect the outcome, if
you're using the drivers that came with the kernel source.)
4) Does it work in Static configuration?
etc.
thanks.
-RK
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Problem
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 01:08:12 GMT
Hi,
I am receiving errors similar to the one that Javi originally wrote about.
However I am using Mandrake 7.1, and I believe that I have entered the IP of
my ISP's name server's correctly. Is there something else that I should be
looking for? Please forgive my ignorance, I am completely new to Linux.
Thanks in advance.
"Marc Andre Selig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Good distr for Thinkpad 701C?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 01:13:10 GMT
I run Slackware 7.0 on one --I wanted a distro I could keep small. Again,
a CD install, not NFS. The Slack 7.0 boot (bareapm.i)/root (color)/and
pcmcia disks had no trouble whatever with the Linksys pcmcia NIC I put in
the thing, so I suppose and NFS install would have been possible. X runs
smoothly, but with the lack of horsepower from a 486DX4/75 and 40 Megs of
memory, I use fvwm2 as the window manager. Wouldn't even consider
inflicting anything big, slow and bloated like KDE on it. It can run
WordPerfect 8 OK, though a tad slow on the scrolling and screen redraws.
Star Office is completely beyond it. Netscape is usable; streaming media
isn't (too slow). Sound works with the soundblaster (sb) module loaded and
parameters set for 8-bit. The laptoppy stuff is mostly OS independent,
except for the hibernate feature which will only operate with a FAT16 and
requires 2X the space of the physical RAM.
If you load Suse on the 701, you'll have to do some seriously ruthless
package selection, since their so-called "minimum" install takes up ca.
600 Megs. You won't have much trouble keeping Slack (or Debian) to under
half that. Also, all the Suse precompiled kernels with APM support are
optimized for pentiums. So the first thing you'll find yourself doing is
loading the generic ide non-APM kernel (which supports 386/486's) and then
compiling yourself a custom kernel with APM for a 486. Takes the poor
little 701 between 5-7 hours to compile and install a custom kernel &
modules.
But in general the 701 is a good little machine. Use any of the smaller
distros, use the lightest possible X confguration, rely mostly on
text-mode and you'll like it just fine.
--Kevin
On 4 Sep 2000 16:26:49 -0400, Richard D. McRoberts
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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: peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: I need to get X version 4.0, the hell off my system...
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 22:38:31 -0400
If it's not one thing, it's another...
I'm sick and tired of re-installing Linux, everytime is something
else. X 4.0.0 wont work on my computer, I need to install 3.3, is
there anyway to do this from the command line ?
I don't want to have to reinstalling linux AGAIN...
I'm using Mandrake 7.1
When the install ran the video test, it worked fine, but of course
with linux that doesn't means shit. Because when you try to run X,
you get nothing...
everyday, every version it's the same old crap...I guess I'm asking
too much...and all my equipment is supported also...
Days after day wasted...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arturo C)
Subject: Re: Adding second hard drive on Redhat 6.2
Date: 5 Sep 2000 00:29:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:31:26 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having a problem getting my 60 GIG hard drive to work on Redhat 6.2.
>I have a promise ATA-66 controller card that is connected to the hard
>drive. I think Redhat sees the controller card and the hard drives.
>Redhat is running on a seperate SCSI hard drive. This is the main drive.
>Can someone help me configure this to work? Here is a copy of my dmesg:
>
>PIIX4: IDE controllPIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 91
>PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1050-0x1057, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>er on PCI bus 00 dev 91
ide0 and ide1 are usually the on-board IDE controllers of your Mobo.
What kernel are you using? 2.2.XX? If so, you will need to patch
your kernel and recompile it so that it will recognize the promise
card.
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From: "Bob R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: cd writer?
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:39:26 -0400
I just loaded Mandrake 7.0 from CD. Everything seemed okay, but now when i
log on as user or root
I cannot access the CD. The CD is a HP 8250i CD Writer. Mandrake sees it
as an IDE/HDC
I tried changing the properties of the device, but that did not help. If I
try to view the files through KDE Explorer
it says it cannot open them. It is mounted, although it says it is a locked
directory.
Any assistance will be appreciated. I would like to install some more
software that I have, but I need to access
the CD.
My system is an K6-2/350mhz
96 megs of ram
2 HD
Windows on first HD
Linux on 2nd.
HP-CD Burner (only CD on system)(IDE type on second IDE channel as Master)
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From: David Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lost my graphic login
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 18:41:09 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After successfully installing Mandrake 7.0 last week and
having fun learning Gnome and KDE, I goofed something up
after using Xconfigurator. Now, bootup presents a text
only screen. Now, I can login in as a user but I haven't
figured out how to login as root so I can use Xconfigurator
again. What am I doing wrong?
Dave
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From: "Earthlink News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installation of Linux onto a Win 98 PC/ Hardware Issues.
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 01:49:15 GMT
I am new to Linux and would like to run it with my Windows 98 too so I have
a choice between a version of Linux and Windows 98 and maybe even Win 2000,
not decided though.
I however, have a 20 GIG hard drive wanting to split it up allowing my
Windows allowed to have 10 and Linux to have 10 partitioned. I was going to
use PatitionMagic 5.0 to do the backing up of my current files on my
computer and the partitioning.
Next, I really am confused on which version of Linux to choose. I am curious
as to what other people recommend for flavors of Linux. Also, I have
componets such as a 3Com WinModem and a UMAX Parallel Astra 2000 scanner. I
read in the HTML docs that these were not supported. I can understand the
WinModem, but I don't understand the scanner. But, all of my other componets
should work fine according to the information on linuxdocs.org
So, which flavor of Linux do you recommend to the Linux newbie and is the
eaisiest, most hardware supported and has pretty cool GUIs and can
administrate thing sort of like Windows can.
Sincerely,
Jeff
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From: "Timothy N. Couch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat Help
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:17:19 -0800
I'm trying to set up a server using RH 6.1. Here is what I want to do.
I want my two Win98 systems to have access to the files on the Linux box, as
it will be used for storage. I want my Win98 systems to login to the Linux
box, so it knows who we are. My question is what "How To" do I need to read
for this type of setup?
I also plan to set up a web & email server on the Linux box at a later
date.
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Reply-To: "Richard Cornelius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Richard Cornelius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs?
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 20:03:31 -0600
I have been putting together a couple AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" (slot A)
systems with TekRam SCSI controllers. I got the same "CPUID Serial number"
kernel panic when I tried to boot the SCSI drive with the 2.2.14 kernel
installed with RedHat 6.2. The CPUID serial number is an Intel Pentium III
"feature" that the kernel tries to disable in the AMD Duron cpu, obviously
unsuccessfully.
I got around both the CPUID-induced kernel panic and my inability to boot
from the Tekram SCSI controller by installing an old slow 8 GB EIDE hard
drive and building a new kernel as follows: Load the RedHat (6.2?)
distribution onto the EIDE drive. When it tells you to remove the floppy so
you can reboot from the hard drive, just leave the boot floppy in and reset
the system. Boot the system in "rescue" mode, so it uses the Linux kernel
from the install floppy, but uses the root file system from the hard drive.
Rebuild the Linux kernel in /usr/src/linux with the drivers that you select
for your system with "make config" (or "make menuconfig"...). The resulting
kernel can then be mapped for booting by LILO. The LILO message you
mentioned is in the LILO documentation -- the second stage boot loader
failed. Some experimenting with "/etc/lilo.conf" and your partition layout
can fix this problem. Since the system dual-boots with Windows, there is a
good chance that your Linux boot partition is not within the 1024 cylinder
limit. Again, the LILO documentation (even the mini-HOWTO!) is going to be
a lot more helpful that I can be here.
Good Luck!
"Stephen Bridges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I put together a computer with a socket A motherboard and a Duron 700MHz
> CPU
> I installed Red Hat. And that did not work. If I turn my computer on
> now the lilo prompt is for some reason getting stuck on LI. The boot disk
> works, but only has a linux record in it.
>
> This sounds like the lilo probs with large disks from other posts on here
> and i can probably deal; with it eventually. But I also have another
> problem.
>
> The new linux partition doesn't boot. After loading the kernel in, it
boots
> and finds the Duron processor . . . .
>
> CPU: AMD AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 00
> Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done.
> Disabling CPUID Serial number...general protection fault: 0000
>
> Then lots of numbers and Stack numbers are printed in hex which i can copy
> if they help. This all finishes with a kernel panic and the whole thing
> hangs
> Widget
>
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From: "Ingemar Lundin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I need to get X version 4.0, the hell off my system...
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 02:09:26 GMT
aaa...but thats a no-no...even *trying* to imply that *anything* would not
work in Linux ;-)
i just came from comp.os.linux.advocay and there you'll get nuked to hell
just to say that you have been running Windows 98 for 3 1/2 days without a
reboot (as i have)...these people really do need to get a girlfriend ;-)
As to xfree86 4.0...well i have tried it on my SuSE Linux 6.4 with about the
same problems that youre describing, it isnt simple ready for day to day
use, still very much beta, im so! close to getting back to Windows -only
im sure some "guru" can tell you to make a amnesia fix to that problem, but
for the rest of us, its re-install (or de-install) that is the name of the
game when something isnt working in linux (and that happens alot of times)
/IL
"peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If it's not one thing, it's another...
>
> I'm sick and tired of re-installing Linux, everytime is something
> else. X 4.0.0 wont work on my computer, I need to install 3.3, is
> there anyway to do this from the command line ?
>
> I don't want to have to reinstalling linux AGAIN...
>
> I'm using Mandrake 7.1
>
> When the install ran the video test, it worked fine, but of course
> with linux that doesn't means shit. Because when you try to run X,
> you get nothing...
>
> everyday, every version it's the same old crap...I guess I'm asking
> too much...and all my equipment is supported also...
>
> Days after day wasted...
>
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From: "Ingemar Lundin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lost my graphic login
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 02:10:44 GMT
type "su"
<password>
and there you have it
"David Stafford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> After successfully installing Mandrake 7.0 last week and
> having fun learning Gnome and KDE, I goofed something up
> after using Xconfigurator. Now, bootup presents a text
> only screen. Now, I can login in as a user but I haven't
> figured out how to login as root so I can use Xconfigurator
> again. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Dave
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