Linux-Setup Digest #572, Volume #19 Thu, 7 Sep 00 09:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Installing RH 6.2 screwed up Win98 (Eric)
Re: Can't mount my Win98 drive (Eric)
Re: VirtualHost disables main server!!! (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: RH6.2 and kernel 2.2.16 (Mark Hymers)
Re: installing redhat with NT 4 (Eric)
Mandrake 7.0 installation -- falling at the first hurdle (Ian Wade)
Re: rpm question (Eric)
no active partition ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: no active partition ? (Eric)
Re: rpm question (Arturo C)
HELP!!!!! Need help on linux installation!!!!!!!!! Linux Newbie question!!!!
("glico")
Re: RH 6.2/KDE/Windows title (Peter Croyden)
Re: Begginer questions (Jonathan)
Re: HELP!!!!! Need help on linux installation!!!!!!!!! Linux Newbie question!!!!
(Davide Bianchi)
Install trouble redhat 6.2 ("Danny Wilson")
Re: HELP!!!!! Need help on linux installation!!!!!!!!! Linux Newbie question!!!!
(Eric)
Re: @home cable modem setup ("Andrew P. Billyard")
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Installing RH 6.2 screwed up Win98
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 13:31:47 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fubar X. wrote:
>
> On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:59:28 +0200, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Fubar X. wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> On my primary 10 GB disk, I set aside 3 GB for Linux and installed
> >> WIn98 on the other 7GB. I now installed RH 6.2 w/o any problems.
> >> Installation was done for 'workstation', meaning the install program
> >> automatically selected the partitioning. Linux runs w/o any problems.
> >> However, when I start Win98, all of a sudden I have a new partition,
> >> which, from Win98's perspective, is unformatted. Therefore, Win98
> >> slows down terribly for almost any operation. And another bad
> >> side-effect is that many programs don't run anymore, since they were
> >> on drive E:, but now they're on F:, because the new drive was inserted
> >> in the middle. This problem did not happen in RH 6.0.
> >> I reinstalled RH 6.2 in custom mode, and selected the main Linux
> >> partition as 'Linux native' (I assume it means ext2), but the problem
> >> persists.
> >> I searched the HOWTOs, but didn't find an answer.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >
> >Thjis isn't really a big problem, all you need to do is make sure that
> >windows is unaware of the linux partition.
> >This means change the partition ID of the extended partition linux is in
> >to linux extended(this can be done without danger) It now probably has
> >the ID extended, and windows sees this partition, and then will assign a
> >drive letter to it. Change this, and your windows system is back in the
> >old state.
> >
> >Eric
>
> With help from a Linux guru, the problem was solved:
> a) Use FDISK to partition the 3GB partition, using 'linux native'
> only, since the 'extended' is seen by Windoze.
could have been linux extended just fine, windows wouldn't see it
either.
> b) After that, LILO would hang. Running FDISK again, I noticed that it
> displays a warning that my HD has 1232 cylinders, but anything above
> 1024 might cause problems, for example (surprise!) to LILO.
NOT A LILO PROBLEM.
answered this many times before, search deja for more info
> c) So I assigned 128MB for the swap, and the rest up to cyl #1024 to /
> and everything is cool now.
Then the linux guru should have given you a better advise, only /boot
needs to be below cyl. 1024 (that's where the kernel image is stored).
So make a separate /boot partition below cyl. 1024, the remaining part
of / will very happily reside far above cyl. 1024.
> Downside - unused 1.5 BG on my 10GB disk.
You're problem, no reason why you cannot use it. Either as a separate
partition under /mnt, or as part of the normal directory structure, like
/usr /home or even / as I mentioned before
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't mount my Win98 drive
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 13:38:04 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Donald Mided wrote:
>
> I am a newbie, and I've installed Red Hat Linux on a Pentium II that has
> dual hard drives. The boot drive has a single Win98 partition, and the
> second drive has a Linux native partition and a Linux swap partition.
>
> Using LILO, I can successfully boot either Linux or Win98, but I'm not able
> to mount the Win98 drive in Linux.
>
> I've already gotten a lot of help with this in alt.linux, but we've hit a
> dead end and I was referred here in the hope of finding someone more
> experienced/expert.
>
> Here are the facts so far. This command:
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win95
>
> generates the mount version, followed by several lines of mount parameters,
> followed by these error messages:
>
> VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01.
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many
> mounted filesystems
>
> mount /dev/hda1 /win95
> produces the same result, and an analogous line inserted in fstab also does
> the same.
>
> I have two questions about the VFS error message. Why does it complain
> about no "valid MSDOS filesystem" rather than no "valid vfat (or FAT16 or
> FAT32) filesystem"? Also, how and why does it convert /dev/hda1 to dev
> 03:01?
>
> fdisk reports my boot drive as follows:
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 623 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 622 1253920+ b Win95 FAT32
>
> So, there is only one partition on hda, it is the boot partition, and it is
> a Win95 FAT32 type. And, I'm certain that it is a valid, uncorrupted
> partition because I can boot into it and work on it.
>
> fdisk reports my second drive this way:
> Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 1 460 927328+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hdb2 461 525 131040 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 461 524 128992+ 82 Linux swap
>
> And, as noted, there's no problem in mounting this drive (it mounts through
> fstab entries along with my CD-ROM).
>
> I have verified that /win95 and /dev/hda1 exist in my Linux setup because I
> can cd to either directory.
>
> The man mount pages document the various names that can be used for the
> filesystem parameter and none of them is Win95 FAT32. However vfat is
> listed and I assume that that is the correct "alias" for Win95 FAT32. The
> man mount pages also refer to a listing of valid
> filesystem names at linux/fs/filesystems.c, but that file does not exist on
> my system.
>
> find / -name filesystems.c -print or
> find / -iname filesystems.c -print
>
> produce no result. Furthermore, if I do:
> find / -iname files*.*-print
>
> I get 5 files in various sub-directories, but filesystems.c is NOT among
> them.
>
> Would the lack of filesystems.c cause the problems I've been having? It
> doesn't seem to matter to the mounting of the Linux and CD-ROM drives that
> get mounted by fstab.
>
> Is it possible that I just have a bad install? I did not accept the default
> packages list (long story as to why not) but supposedly RedHat would warn me
> about required packages and install what was needed anyway if something was
> missing. I got no such warnings!
>
> I guess I could re-install, but it may not solve the problem and I'd like to
> avoid the hassle. There is nothing critical on the system as it now exists,
> it's just a playground for learning.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Don
>
> Posted to:
> comp.os.linux.setup
> alt.os.linux
Just a guess, the first disc contains WINNT ?
then it's probably formatted with the NTFS filesystem and not with a FAT
FS
Partition ID's do not tell you what filesystem is on the partition.
If that's not the case, please report back here.
Eric
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: VirtualHost disables main server!!!
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:41:37 +0200
It should be name ipaddress portnumber
and then every side that you host also your so called mainside should have a
VirtualHost directive.
It is a bit confugsing but also pretty logical once that you know that
VirtualHosts enables a different way of hadneling calls. It sees a domainname
and it will look for the right documentroot for that domainname, this also
happens ofcourse for his standard domain.
Raymond
Percy Cheng wrote:
> Hi Devon,
>
> It should be a problem if attempt the naming host to domain name,
> try to use ip, dhcp can assign a fix ip to specific host too.
>
> Devon Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:tVCt5.10405$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > When I enable VirtualHost in httpd.conf, request to the main site is being
> > redirected to the VirtualHost site. I have to create another VirtualHost
> > for the main site. Take a look at my httpd.conf:
> >
> > Note: I have to use dns name for NameVirtualHost because the adapter on
> that
> > ip is obtained by dhcp
> >
> > ### Section 3: Virtual Hosts
> > #
> > # VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
> > # machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them.
> > # Please see the documentation at <URL:http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/>
> > # for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
> > # You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
> > # configuration.
> >
> > #
> > # If you want to use name-based virtual hosts you need to define at
> > # least one IP address (and port number) for them.
> > #
> > #NameVirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80
> > NameVirtualHost venus.domain.com
> >
> > #
> > # VirtualHost example:
> > # Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
> > #
> > #<VirtualHost ip.address.of.host.some_domain.com>
> > # ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > # DocumentRoot /www/docs/host.some_domain.com
> > # ServerName host.some_domain.com
> > # ErrorLog logs/host.some_domain.com-error_log
> > # CustomLog logs/host.some_domain.com-access_log common
> > #</VirtualHost>
> >
> > <VirtualHost _default_:*>
> > </VirtualHost>
> >
> > <VirtualHost venus.domain.com>
> > ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ServerName siresol.domain.com
> > DocumentRoot /www/docs/siresol.domain.com
> > ErrorLog logs/siresol.domain.com-error_log
> > CustomLog logs/siresol.domain.com-access_log common
> > </VirtualHost>
> >
> > <VirtualHost venus.onedesigns.com>
> > ServerAdmin [email protected]
> > ServerName www.domain.com
> > DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html
> > </VirtualHost>
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Hymers)
Subject: Re: RH6.2 and kernel 2.2.16
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:53:02 GMT
Thanks everybody. It was my own stupid fault. I'd enabled Use DMA by
Default without thinking about it. Both 2.2.16 and 2.2.17 now work
with it disabled. Sorry to have troubled everybody.
Mark
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing redhat with NT 4
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 13:55:54 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lee Friend wrote:
>
> hello there
>
> I am planning to have a multi Os with red hat linux and nt on one
> machine.
>
> i already have NT installed. what is teh best way to go about
> installing Red hat. should i reformat and install red hat, then NT,
> or the other way around?
>
> ideas?
>
> cheers
>
> Lee
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
No, it's best to keep NT installed, and add linux as the last OS to
install.
just put in the linux installation CD and go ahead. Just make sure not
to overwrite the MBR, since that contains the NT bootloader. LILO must
be written in the root partition (/) and NOT in the MBR. You can use the
NT loader to boot linux too. The details are in the bla-bla-bla HOWTO
(don't recall the right name, search for NT bootloader + linux + howto
on the web)
I do assume that you have free space to install linux too (preferably 20
MB below cyl. 1024). If not you have to create that first.
Eric
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From: Ian Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.0 installation -- falling at the first hurdle
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:57:56 +0100
Trying to install Mandrake 7.0 from scratch.
Boot from diskette: OK
Boot from CD: OK
Reaches "second stage install"
Then, after about a minute, fails with X11 error messages (can't
connect, errno 111, cannot open display:0 at my_gtk.pm line 139).
Terminates, kills, umounts and tells me I may safely reboot.
Surely it isn't trying to open an X window at this early stage of the
proceedings? What do I do now?
(BTW, RedHat 6.0 installs without any problem).
Ian Wade
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm question
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 13:59:47 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
> i have a RH6.0 and i installed a few packages that i would like to
> uninstall.
>
> So i do rpm -e my_package.rpm
> and i get an error saying that package is not installed.
> But then if i do rpm -i my_package.rpm
> then i get an error saying that package is already installed!!!
>
> There's something wrong!! How can i get rid of those packages i want to
> squeeze out??
> Thanks for your suggestions,
> Jean-Marc
install:(update actually)
rpm -Uvh package.version.arch.rpm
rpm -Uvh gtkyahoo-0.16-1.i386.rpm (example)
remove:
rpm -e package.version
rpm -e gtkyahoo-0.16 (example)
mind the part not to include in the name during the removing of
packages.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: no active partition ?
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:45:06 GMT
try to install RedHat 5.0 on a empty HD ,set partition,install software
everything go fine no problem at all but when install finish and reboot
,it will say no Active partition so the system can't boot ?!
what can i do ? i already install LILO on MBR.
i know how to make a partition active in dos/win but how to do it at
linux ?
thx
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no active partition ?
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:14:52 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> try to install RedHat 5.0 on a empty HD ,set partition,install software
> everything go fine no problem at all but when install finish and reboot
> ,it will say no Active partition so the system can't boot ?!
>
> what can i do ? i already install LILO on MBR.
>
> i know how to make a partition active in dos/win but how to do it at
> linux ?
>
> thx
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
As far as I can tell (but I'm no expert) this shouldn't be needed,
though I a dual boot system, with win98 so i do have an active
partition.
You can make any partition active with the linux fdisk, but ofcourse
you'd need a linux up and running to use it. So boot from the floppy
disc and run fdisk once linux is up. (BTW, the BIOS is trying to boot
from the correct HDD?)
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arturo C)
Subject: Re: rpm question
Date: 7 Sep 2000 10:46:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:01:18 +0200,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So i do rpm -e my_package.rpm
>and i get an error saying that package is not installed.
>But then if i do rpm -i my_package.rpm
>then i get an error saying that package is already installed!!!
>
>There's something wrong!! How can i get rid of those packages i want to
>squeeze out??
Don't use the .rpm extesion or version numbers.
For example if you installed:
xmms-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm
pilot-link-devel-0.9.3-10.i386.rpm
and wanted to delete them.
rpm -e xmms
rpm -e pilot-link-devel
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From: "glico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!!!!! Need help on linux installation!!!!!!!!! Linux Newbie question!!!!
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:19:19 +0100
Hello i am a windows user but i want to give linux a try, although i can't
afford to buy a new computer but i have bought a second-handed harddisk
instead. I hope to install linux on my new second-harddisk without erasing
the win98, how do i do that??? How do I create a dual boot so that i can
select which OS to start up with???? Also the harddisk I bought is FAT32,
how do I change it to FAT16 so that I can install redhat linux 6.2 on it???
Please help..
-Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Croyden)
Subject: Re: RH 6.2/KDE/Windows title
Date: 7 Sep 2000 12:14:09 GMT
Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Peter Croyden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >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.
: Looks like your shell is setting the window title, perhaps. What does
: 'echo $PS1' say?
It is [\u@\h \W]\$
This doesn't quite give the text in the titlebar, but is a pretty good
approximation. i.e. "myhome" instead of "/home/myhome" for the "\W"
However there is an environment variable $PROMPT_COMMAND which is
echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"
which gives all the right text, so your idea of pursuing the shell
rather than the windowing system looks promising. I had spent some
time looking through the Qt to see if it set the caption, but then I
realised that the same error occurs when I use GNOME, which (I think?)
doesn't use Qt.
Thanks for the idea.
Peter
--
Peter Croyden,Computing Service,University of Sussex,BRIGHTON BN1 9QJ,UK
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 606755 x2964 FAX: +44 (0) 1273 271956
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Begginer questions
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:22:35 GMT
In article <8p6so5$3tr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Have a couple of questions for the experts here.
> I pretty much have decided on Mandrake Linux 7.1 release, but...
>
> a) should I pay the $50+ or downloaded it for free. What is the
> difference in contents?
> b) Which websites will allow me to download applications?
>
> I am a systems engineer working in the flight simulation business,
have
> done C, C++ and MFC programming a couple of years back, and am wiling
> and eager to dip myself into a few ongoing Linux projects.
>
> Saying so, where can I find relevant information on such projects?
> Is there any good book on Linux programming, ie, kernel, low-level
> calls, exception handling, memory management, etc?
>
> RRF
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
I would just d/l the images from the website if you have the bandwidth.
You can get the install and applications cds and all the documentation
online and burn .iso images for free.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!! Need help on linux installation!!!!!!!!! Linux Newbie
question!!!!
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:29:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:19:19 +0100, "glico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello i am a windows user but i want to give linux a try, although i can't
>afford to buy a new computer but i have bought a second-handed harddisk
>instead. I hope to install linux on my new second-harddisk without erasing
>the win98, how do i do that??? How do I create a dual boot so that i can
>select which OS to start up with???? Also the harddisk I bought is FAT32,
>how do I change it to FAT16 so that I can install redhat linux 6.2 on it???
If you start the RedHat installation, it will guide you trought the
various step. Read some documentation on the CD or on the RedHat web
site, is the better thing to do.
Davide
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From: "Danny Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install trouble redhat 6.2
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 22:50:53 +1000
Im a newbie at linux and tryed to do a partitionless install on my win98
system. with the graphical install it went through "Creating loopback
filesystem on device /dev/hda1..." then got to the "installing packages"
screen and just hung.
I tryed to install in text mode and the same thing happened, except that it
gave said "Exception occured", (listing files, it was quite complex) then
after pressing the ok button it exited the install gracefully without
hanging and tells me its safe to reboot.
can someone please help.
thanks.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!! Need help on linux installation!!!!!!!!! Linux Newbie
question!!!!
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:50:49 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glico wrote:
>
> Hello i am a windows user but i want to give linux a try, although i can't
> afford to buy a new computer but i have bought a second-handed harddisk
> instead. I hope to install linux on my new second-harddisk without erasing
> the win98, how do i do that??? How do I create a dual boot so that i can
> select which OS to start up with???? Also the harddisk I bought is FAT32,
> how do I change it to FAT16 so that I can install redhat linux 6.2 on it???
The harddisk you bought is fat32 ?????
I may be formatted with a FAT FS, but that will be removed during
install anyway. No need to convert anything to FAT16, linux uses the
extended 2 FS and will run best on such a FS (although umsdos is an
option, you most likely do not want it) During the install make sure not
to remove any partitions on /dev/hda (first HDD). You can install LILO
in the MBR of /dev/hda, but for the rest /dev/hda should remain
untouched.
BTW connect the 2nd HDD as /dev/hdb (slave drive on the first IDE
controller),
because some bios'es aren't able to boot from the second controller.
Eric
> Please help..
>
> -Hans
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @home cable modem setup
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 13:07:31 GMT
That's not necessarily true. I had no such trouble with my @home DHCP server....
Craig Kelley wrote:
> I have @home as well, and their Windows DHCP servers won't talk to
> linux machines for some reason... All you need to do is run winipcfg
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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