Linux-Setup Digest #554, Volume #19 Tue, 5 Sep 00 07:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: samba problem (Harry Lewis)
Re: IP tunnelling and VPN (Tomas Kral)
Re: BIOS-->hdb-->LILO-->{linux(hdb);windows(hda)} (Eric)
Panel + Menu Icons Gone?? ("Greg Gailer")
Re: "weird" partitioning - how to make Suse 6.3 bootable? GeForce? (Eric)
Re: Syslog problem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Setup screen (Rafa Castillo)
Re: Syslog problem ("Sylvain")
Re: Blank Screen after Choosing OS from LILO (Eric)
Re: How do I launch Star Office applications? (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Blank Screen after Choosing OS from LILO (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Ethernet Problem (Marc Andre Selig)
Expanding the partition size ("choon tat")
Redhat 6.2 and Apache (Darren Christie)
Deactivate Shadow Passwords (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda)
Re: /dev/audio in 2.2.x (Judah Milgram)
Re: ATI Video Problem (Huw Lynes)
Japanese keyboard on Red Hat 6.2 ("Olivier Thomas")
RH 6.2/KDE/Windows title (Peter Croyden)
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: samba problem
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:13:10 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the tip - you're right, named was required. Also, I had to
change the authentication of Samba clients from SHARE to USER. I chose
SHARE because the help files indicated this was the easiest to set up -
the documentation said you'd have to set up a guest account for USER.
Yet when I switched to USER, everything worked fine, even without
defining a guest account. I'm mystified!
Harry
Daryl Fonseca-Holt wrote:
>
> Are you running named? I had to add the names and IP's for all my Windows
> clients in my named.hosts file on my Linux server so the names could get
> resolved. I also added them to named.rev so reverse lookups (IP number to
> name) would work. Check out the documentation on the program bind. I think
> it has information about setting up the control files for named.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomas Kral)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,fa.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: IP tunnelling and VPN
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:01:52 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> 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.
I could, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I will see what I can do.
--
_______
SCIENCE Thomas Kral
SYSTEMS http://www.scisys.cz
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIOS-->hdb-->LILO-->{linux(hdb);windows(hda)}
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:58:27 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
> Using hexdump, I see the MBR of hda, a totally win98 drive, looks like:
> 0000000 c033 d08e 00bc fb7c 0750 1f50 befc 7c1b
> 0000010 1bbf 5006 b957 01e5 a4f3 becb 07be 04b1
> 0000020 2c38 097c 1575 c683 e210 cdf5 8b18 8b14
> 0000030 83ee 10c6 7449 3816 742c bef6 0710 ac4e
> 0000040 003c fa74 07bb b400 cd0e eb10 89f2 2546
> etc. Couldn't find any 0x80 in that area, though it's supposed to be
> fat32 file.
>
> Looking at the MBR of hdb, a totally Linux drive,
> 0000000 ebfa 006c 0000 494c 4f4c 0001 0014 00ec
> 0000010 0110 0000 b317 39a2 0221 0080 2201 8002
> 0000020 0100 0220 0080 0101 00b6 0224 0080 2501
> 0000030 8002 0100 0035 0680 3601 8000 0106 0037
> 0000040 0680 3801 8000 0106 0039 0680 3a01 8000
either hexdump is messing up or you have a seriously messed up MBR here
ther appear to be bytes swapped (LILO=4c494c4f and not 494c4f4c=ILOL)
use mc to look at the file.
For the first MBR I don't know what that contains, sorry. I do have a
somewhat similar file at a linux only PC, that contained no OS before
installing linux, the boot.0030 file contains a very similar MBR. So
perhaps windows doesn't write any info in the MBR itself. (sounds true
to me, although I'm not 100% sure)!) Try getting the first 512 byte from
the partition (C: drive) that windows is on (dd if=/dev/hda1
of=bootsect.hex bs=512 count=1) and take a look at that. That may well
be the part you need. (look at position 0x40 {with mc not hexdump})
Eric
> etc. I see several early mentions of 0x80, especially at point 0x30....
> But of course it's the windows MBR [last paragraph, above] I'm hoping to
> modify...
>
> Anyway, looking around my ASUS SP97-V BIOS manual, and the windows
> system information into text file tool , I also see mention of a 0x40
> address... again
> not very prominent in my dumps... anyway the concept seems excellent, but
> just what
> byte to flip?... cant seem to track it down... [by the way,sure hope such
> tinkering won't
> end up with the 'big payback' later in misdirected disk writes, etc.:-(]
>
> [for those just joining conversation: I've told BIOS to boot from hdb, and
> want to make
> a choice in lilo to transfer control to MBR of hda if windows is chosen as
> OS at lilo choice query. Yes I could redo MBR of hda, but I thought I
> could leave win98's disk untouched when installing linux.]
>
> "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ????? news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > I got one thing left for you to try:
> >
> > Found this on the web once, don't remember the URL though,
> > Where ever it says /dev/hdc, you'll need to change it to /dev/hda.
> >
> >
> **************************************************************************
> **
> > Windows might give you problems when not booting it from the first
> > ide-hdd
> > Configure lilo as follows:
> > other=/boot/win98.bootsect
> > label=win98
> > table=/dev/hda
> >
> > The file called /boot/win98.bootsect is to be created as follows:
> > dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/win98.bootsect count=1 (bs=512, defaults to
> > this)
> > assuming it's a FAT32 filesystem, the byte at offset 0x40, which now
> > contains
> > the value 0x80 (bios-code for the first ide-disc), should be changed to
> > 0x81, the bios code for the second ide-disc.
> > make sure to get the right byte, it's FAT size dependant, and the right
> > value
> > to change it to: 0x80 is bios number for first disk, 0x81 is 2nd, etc.
> >
> > Although hda is disc one at ide0 and hdb is ide0:disc2, hdc=ide1:disc1
> > and
> > hdd=ide1:disc2 , this doesn't mean hda=0x80 for the bios!
> >
> >
> **************************************************************************
> **
> >
> > Eric
> --
> www.geocities.com/jidanni ... fix e-mail address to reply; ???
> Tel:+886-4-5854780; starting in year 2001: +886-4-25854780
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From: "Greg Gailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Panel + Menu Icons Gone??
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 20:20:19 +1000
Greetings all
I don't know what I have done, but all the icons on my Gnome panel and menus
have dissappeared. I have looked through the Global properties but cannot
find any reference to the icons. Everything works fine in KDE but I am trying
out the new Helix Gnome for a while and would like to have the icons back.
Does anyone know where the setting is to get them back.
TIA....Greg
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "weird" partitioning - how to make Suse 6.3 bootable? GeForce?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 11:24:36 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:59:38 +0200, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >THIS IS NOT A LILO PROBLEM!
>
> Good to know!
>
> >People keep assuming that booting from beyond cyl. 1024 is a problem
> >related to lilo, but in fact this is a problem of the BIOS (newer
> >bios'es don't have this problem, nor do the newer lilo-versions).
>
> Meep. Wrong. If it was BIOS-related only, why can W2K (AFAIK) be
> installed anywhere on my larger drive, while NT4 cannot?
Meep. And the answer is.....
A new bootloader that knows of the newer bios calls?
new versions of lilo (v>=21.4.3 IIRC ) can boot from beyond the 1024
bios limit too.
> >Try putting Windows in a partition entirely above cyl. 1024 and see how
> >well it boots. a) you probably cannot even install it there!
> > b) if you could it would not be bootable!
>
> True for 9x, but those are not really OS's. Ture for NT4, which dates
> back to '96. Not true for 2000, IIRC.
As said before, it has nothing to do with the OS, it's a bios issue. It
does have to do with the OS loader (if present at all: not for win9x) If
that does support the new bios calls, and the bios understands these
calls (older bios'es don't) then you can boot from beyond cyl. 1024
Eric
>
> Frank
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Syslog problem
Date: 5 Sep 2000 09:18:15 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Note : I boot the system with a read-only root fs and a ramdisk over /var.
A read only root fs is a neat trick. How do you make /dev/console
writable?
: Kernel is 2.2.16 patched with devfs. When rebooting with a read-write root
: fs, I have no problem at all !!
Yeah, well, somehow I'm not entirely surprised.
The few occasions I've tried to make / readonly, I've regretted it.
Needs mods to mount and umount for one thing. It probably is feasible
if you start off rw and ro and some later stage, after replacing
/etc/mtab, /etc/motd, /etc/issue and friends with symlinks to /var.
The real stinker is /dev.
Peter
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From: Rafa Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setup screen
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 11:56:46 +0200
Does anyone know how to capture setup screens?
Thk's a lot.
--
Firma provisional
May the force be with you
Te recomiendo dos webs:
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Linux: http://www.valux.org
Quita NO SPAM para contestarme
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From: "Sylvain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Syslog problem
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:20:07 +0200
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
8p2don$m1q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In comp.os.linux.misc Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Note : I boot the system with a read-only root fs and a ramdisk over
/var.
>
> A read only root fs is a neat trick. How do you make /dev/console
> writable?
>
> : Kernel is 2.2.16 patched with devfs. When rebooting with a read-write
root
> : fs, I have no problem at all !!
>
> Yeah, well, somehow I'm not entirely surprised.
>
> The few occasions I've tried to make / readonly, I've regretted it.
> Needs mods to mount and umount for one thing. It probably is feasible
> if you start off rw and ro and some later stage, after replacing
> /etc/mtab, /etc/motd, /etc/issue and friends with symlinks to /var.
> The real stinker is /dev.
Just using devfs ... This do the trick without problem !
There's 2/3 HOWTOs on the subject with lots of valuable informations.
>
>
> Peter
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blank Screen after Choosing OS from LILO
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 12:20:11 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jeff wrote:
>
> I'm extremely new to Linux; therefore, I'm not quite sure how to resolve
> the problem I have created. My problem goes like this...
>
> I have a Dell Latitude CPi R400GT with a Neomagic video card. Anyways, I
> was unable to load the Xserver properly (it was stuck in a baaaaad
> resolution, something like 320x200).
>
> Anyhow, after doing a lot of research, I found out about XFree86. Ran
> that... got more confused and was still stuck in the same resolution.
>
> I then found a site where a person said to change a line in the LILO file.
> This line was the vga line. I changed it from:
>
> vga=normal to vga=791 <-----------------
>
> The site indicated that this was a key factor in getting the resolution to
> work. After I rebooted, I got my LILO prompt, only once linux began to
> load, the screen turned black. I have reinstalled the Linux OS (Mandrake
> 7.0) and the same problem occurs. I am not interested in formatting (I have
> some text files I created on the drive), so if anyone could help me, I'd
> appriciate it very much!
>
> I now have the correct settings (video) for my XF86Config file; however, I
> am unable to get into the command line (the screen is blank!!). Please help
> me! Thanks!!!
>
> - Jeff
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
You can bypass settings in lilo.conf at the lilo bootprompt
At the lilo prompt you'd normally enter "linux"
now enter "linux vga=normal"
HTH,
Eric
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Subject: Re: How do I launch Star Office applications?
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Sep 2000 11:57:26 +0200
"Jack Kessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Probably just "soffice&", entered at a terminal prompt.
> Thanks, Marc, but that doesn't work, nor does it work without the ampersand,
> even in the directory where it lives....
Well, what error message do you get?
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Subject: Re: Blank Screen after Choosing OS from LILO
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Sep 2000 11:54:04 +0200
jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I then found a site where a person said to change a line in the LILO file.
> This line was the vga line. I changed it from:
>
> vga=normal to vga=791 <-----------------
>
> The site indicated that this was a key factor in getting the resolution to
> work. After I rebooted, I got my LILO prompt, only once linux began to
> load, the screen turned black.
You can temporarily undo that change by entering "linux vga=normal" at
the LILO prompt. The system should boot in its default video mode.
Once it is up and running, edit /etc/lilo.conf do set vga= back to
normal, then run /sbin/lilo.
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Subject: Re: Ethernet Problem
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Sep 2000 11:48:09 +0200
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
Where exactly does your problem lie?
Can you ping yourself (ping 127.0.0.1)?
Can you ping a remote IP address (ping 216.92.94.3)?
Can you ping a remote symbolic address (ping www.sedacon.com)?
(Ideally, replace 216.92.94.3 and www.sedacon.com by addresses on your
local internet provider's network. Also, if you have a firewall in
place, different tests are probably required.)
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From: "choon tat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Expanding the partition size
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:31:53 +0800
hi, my linux partition is running out of space in the initial created
partition of 1800MB,
my harddrive still have 2300MB free unpartition free space, how can i
configure
linux to use the the remaining 2300MB of space or expand the 1800MB
linux partition to 3000MB.
this setup is on a 12 GB harddrive dualboot with WIN ME
hda1 Windows ME 7.5GB
hda2 Linux 1.8 GB
hda3 Linux Swap 300MB
Free Space 2300MB
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From: Darren Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 and Apache
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 12:39:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Redhat 6.2 installed on my laptop, it has Apache installed.
However I want to remove this and have the version of Apache that I have
compiled (which is in /usr/local/apache) used as the default.
How do I do this?
Thanks in advance
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda
Subject: Deactivate Shadow Passwords
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 12:43:04 +0200
Hi all,
I use Redhat 6.0 linux on a Old IBM PC.
Unfortunately, I've activated the shadow passwords on a machine must not
have it.
Is it a way to deactivate shadow passwords and have normal ones (in
/etc/passwords instead of /etc/shadow) ?
Thanks in advance.
Sebastien
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Judah Milgram)
Subject: Re: /dev/audio in 2.2.x
Date: 5 Sep 2000 06:48:38 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, myself <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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).
>
> I just did the same upgrade and I am having the same problem
> which I haven't resolved either, but have you got a symlink
> from /dev/audio to /dev/whatever is the location of your
> Soundblaster?
No ... that's something I never encountered before. What should the
name of the SB device look like?
(This is an ISA Soundblaster, by the way.)
To add to the confusion, I just checked my work machine, also running
2.2.16 but with a PCI SB card w/ es1371 chip. That works fine, but
/dev/dsp only. The strange thing: sound works fine on this machine,
but /dev/sndstat and /proc/sound don't exist at all. Strange.
Judah Milgram
--
Judah Milgram milgram at eng umd edu
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From: Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Video Problem
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:42:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all:
> I am having great difficulties installing RedHat 6.2 on my machine.
The
> Videocard is an ATI XPERT 128 that I would like to keep since my
machine
>
> has to be doublebootable with Win98. Is there any workaround for this
> particular Videocard so I can setup Linux too???
> Thanks alot
> Axel
>
I'm assuming that you are using Xfree 3.3.6 and that this is a rage 128
chipset card (judging from the name). I'm also assuming that whatever
automatic configuration utility you are using is failing to detect the
card. There are two roads to go down.
1) get a commercial (but free) x-server for the rage128 chipset such as
SusE's XFCom_Rage128 and create a symlink from XF86_SVGA to this
server. If you then edit /etc/XF86Config to use the SVGA server your
card should work. read the relevent man pages about editing
XF86Config , there are also some good HOWTO's (www.linuxdoc.org as
usual).
2) Upgrade to Xfree 4. The binary installation is fairly simple and
includes the r128 driver which should support your card much better
than 3.3.6. You will have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config so that the r128
driver is used.
Something like driver = "r128" but the docs that come with the
installation should explain everything else.
Hope this helps
Huw Lynes
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Olivier Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Japanese keyboard on Red Hat 6.2
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 19:42:32 +0900
Hi,
I installed Red Hat 6.2 in english on my Japanese vaio.
I could declare my jp106 keyboard in the configuration of my X server but I
can't declare my keyboard for the console mode. When I type loadkeys jp106,
I got an error message saying that there is a violation of mapping and it
doesn't load the japanese mapping.
Does anybody know where it may come from ?
Olivier.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Croyden)
Subject: RH 6.2/KDE/Windows title
Date: 5 Sep 2000 11:00:06 GMT
I've just installed RedHat 6.2 and use KDE. Everything seems fine
except for windows titles for "xterms". I give a command like :-
xterm -Tmywindowtitle
In previous versions (6.0/6.1) the name in the windows titlebar and
the KDE taskbar would be "mywindowtitle". In 6.2, I now get :-
username@hostname: working directory
Initially the text is "mywindowtitle", but something then overwrites
it almost immediately.
I've gone through all the sections of the KDE Control Center, but
can't find anything. Any pointers on where to look would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter
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E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 606755 x2964 FAX: +44 (0) 1273 271956
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