Linux-Setup Digest #573, Volume #19 Thu, 7 Sep 00 11:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: MySQL Problem ("Gero H. Marten")
Re: Good distr for Thinkpad 701C? (Sven Utcke)
Re: RH 6.2/KDE/Windows title (Peter Croyden)
Re: Can't mount my Win98 drive ("Don Mided")
Help ypdomain (Law Ka Hing)
Re: Can't mount my Win98 drive (Eric)
Re: Promise ATA100 and Linux ("Udo A. Steinberg")
Re: scsi will not load ("Mr. Bean")
Re: scsi will not load ("Mr. Bean")
Re: scsi will not load ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Getting a USB Graphire tablet to work under XFree86 4.0.1 (Matt Powell)
Aftwr recompiling the kernel, NIC stops working (Hung Ngoc Lai)
Re: HELP!!!!! Need help on linux installation!!!!!!!!! Linux Newbie (mst)
setting up ipchains and email on server (Richmond)
Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning) ("S. Umar")
Partition Problem (Terence Chan)
Re: super mounting not working ("ascii_superstar")
Re: Kernel Compile Going Nowhere (mst)
Re: Can't mount my Win98 drive (Eric)
Re: Apache DirectoryIndex and VirtualHost problem. Plz Help!! ("Tristan Day")
Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk. ("Roger")
Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MySQL Problem
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:11:57 +0200
> sam wrote:
>
> Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> Encoding: quoted-printable
Still can't read your message. In newsgroups (and mail!) please post in
plain ascii.
Thanks
--
Gero H. Marten
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From: Sven Utcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Good distr for Thinkpad 701C?
Date: 07 Sep 2000 15:15:20 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
> 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.
Consider buying more memory and HDD. I'm serious. The limit for RAM
is 40MB with your model, and HDD are at least supported up to 6GB, but
under Linux I would think that it least 8GB should work, possibly up
to 32GB.
> > > 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.
I seriously doubt you will have fun doing so.
> > > I have tried the RedHat and Suse boot disks and both recognize
> > > the Ethernet card, hence my determination to use an NFS install.
I did an FTP-install (NFS didn't work) of SuSE 6.0 two years ago, see
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~utcke/Laptop/linux701.html
for more info. The information is seriously dated and incomplete, but
might be a starting point.
> > 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.
Yes. I still use it as my main workhorse at home (my wife is running
Windows on an AMD KII 400MHz). But even with 40MB of RAM and a
reasonable HDD this machine is pretty much maxed out just running X
with fvwm, Emacs and Netscape 3.04.
> 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.
Indeed.
> Star Office is completely beyond it.
Well, it does start and sort of crawls along, but is not anywhere near
useable.
> Netscape is usable;
As I said, I went back to 3.04, and for a reason...
> streaming media isn't (too slow).
For me, the RealPlayer does about one frame every 10 seconds. Not
much fun...
> 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.
No. You have to have room for your RAM, the graphics Video and some
overhead, approx 42MB. Leaving 50MB would be plenty. The Thinkpad is
able to create the hibernation file on an empty FAT16 partition, no
additional tools needed (as opposed to many other Thinkpads).
> 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.
Indeed. Getting it on 500MB and actually have some space left for
swapping, hibernation and work is damn near impossible. And you can
not have the hibernation file double as swap either, of course...
> 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.
Not at all. The BIOS of the TP701 is so good that you would hardly
miss APM, at least in my experience. All I need to remember is to
start a small script after wakeup which restores ports, PCMCIA, Sound
and the clock...
> 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.
I use it exclusively in X (unless you count Emacs under X as textmode
:-) and that's fine too. But remember: it is old, and not well suited
to fancy GUI stuff...
Sven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Croyden)
Subject: Re: RH 6.2/KDE/Windows title
Date: 7 Sep 2000 13:17:36 GMT
Peter Croyden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[snip]
: : Looks like your shell is setting the window title, perhaps. What does
: : 'echo $PS1' say?
[snip]
: However there is an environment variable $PROMPT_COMMAND which is
[snip]
Unsetting $PROMPT_COMMAND in /etc/bashrc solves the problem.
Thanks again.
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: "Don Mided" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't mount my Win98 drive
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 13:47:40 GMT
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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
No, the first disk contains Win98 and, according to fdisk, is formatted as
FAT32. I've never used and have no access to WinNT so I don't think that
there's any way that it could be an NTFS filesystem.
Don
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From: Law Ka Hing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help ypdomain
Date: 7 Sep 2000 14:03:02 GMT
I have a linux(suse) server and a unix(irix) server running on a network.
Recently the linux server keeps giving warning message "YPDomain not
found". And finally the unix server got hang up as well.
I can still telnet, ftp and even access exported path from my ypclient
server(the Suse one). I have checked that the "ypserv" is running on yp
master server(the Irix one) and the "ypbind" is running on
ypslave/ypclient
server(the Suse one). However, I also found that the there is missing an
entry for ypclient in file /var/ns/domains/my_ypmaster/ypservers. Would it
be the cause?
It is so strange that I can access exported paths and even login as user
of ypmaster server on ypclient server(Suse one).
Thks!
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't mount my Win98 drive
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:14:01 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don Mided wrote:
>
> "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > 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
> No, the first disk contains Win98 and, according to fdisk, is formatted as
This is a mistake, fdisk does NOT tell you how a partition is formatted,
it can only tell you a partition ID. It could just as well be entirely
unformatted what fdisk concerns.
> FAT32. I've never used and have no access to WinNT so I don't think that
> there's any way that it could be an NTFS filesystem.
>
> Don
But if it's supposed to be a FAT FS, try to find out if the vfat module
is correct. Try to mount a floppy with a FAT FS on it (either format in
linux with "mkdosfs /dev/fd0" or format a floppy in windows) try if you
can mount that. mount command is: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
If this fails too, try to recompile the module (or the kernel if
needed).
Eric
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From: "Udo A. Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Promise ATA100 and Linux
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:11:43 +0200
Frederic Vanneste wrote:
> Now it's not perfect, but I get about 20M/sec.
> Just get the ide-patch from
> ftp://ftp.be.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
> (or some other mirror)
> And compile it with support for dma and your card,
> eg. the Promise Ultra66 is the PDC20262.
> See the kernel docs for your card...
Or get Linux 2.4.0 which already comes with the latest
IDE/Promise drivers built-in. Bear in mind that 2.4.x are
test kernels and up to test8pre6 had a bug in the ext2
filesystem which can cause filesystem corruption.
With 2.4.0 I have transfer rates of 36 MB/s with an
IBM-DTLA 307030 on the ATA-100 channel.
Cheers,
Udo.
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From: "Mr. Bean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi will not load
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 22:20:05 +0800
Lilo usually requires /boot to be on the 1st 1024 cylinders. Your sda5
probably lies outside this range. I am not sure, but repartitioning your
sd probably helps, with / to be on sda1, and sda1 to be within the 1st
1024 cylinders.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can install Redhat 6.2 succesfully, but the system reboots and
> cannot see any scsi hosts, and so kernel panics.
>
> Symbios NCR8x SCSI controller PCI card:
> 0 disks
>
> Adaptec 7800 SCSI controller on board:
> 0 disks
>
> Netraid 3si SCSI RAID controller PCI card:
> 8 disks @ 18Gb configured:
> 0 disks on controller0
> 4 disks on controller1
> (first two disks are RAID1)
> 4 disks on controller2
> (second two disks on controller1 and all disks on controller2 are
> RAID5)
>
> During the install process the system correctly detects the Netraid
> 3si scsi controller and loads the megaraid driver. The disks are
> visible to the install OS, and after partitoning /boot on sda1, / on
> sda5, and swap on sda6, the OS formats the partitions and installs the
> packages.
>
> The system then reboots and gets as far as detecting the IDE CDROM.
> Then it kernel panics because it has not loaded the megaraid scsi
> module, and therefore it cannot see the root partition on sda5.
>
> I have used a rescue disk to access the system, and gone into the
> initrd file using losetup /dev/loop, and I saw that the megaraid.o
> driver was under /lib/modules, and I even added insmod megaraid.o to
> the linuxrc file.
>
> The problem remains.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas...?
>
> Peter
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From: "Mr. Bean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi will not load
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 22:21:19 +0800
And don't make another /boot on any partition.
"Mr. Bean" wrote:
> Lilo usually requires /boot to be on the 1st 1024 cylinders. Your sda5
> probably lies outside this range. I am not sure, but repartitioning your
> sd probably helps, with / to be on sda1, and sda1 to be within the 1st
> 1024 cylinders.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can install Redhat 6.2 succesfully, but the system reboots and
> > cannot see any scsi hosts, and so kernel panics.
> >
> > Symbios NCR8x SCSI controller PCI card:
> > 0 disks
> >
> > Adaptec 7800 SCSI controller on board:
> > 0 disks
> >
> > Netraid 3si SCSI RAID controller PCI card:
> > 8 disks @ 18Gb configured:
> > 0 disks on controller0
> > 4 disks on controller1
> > (first two disks are RAID1)
> > 4 disks on controller2
> > (second two disks on controller1 and all disks on controller2 are
> > RAID5)
> >
> > During the install process the system correctly detects the Netraid
> > 3si scsi controller and loads the megaraid driver. The disks are
> > visible to the install OS, and after partitoning /boot on sda1, / on
> > sda5, and swap on sda6, the OS formats the partitions and installs the
> > packages.
> >
> > The system then reboots and gets as far as detecting the IDE CDROM.
> > Then it kernel panics because it has not loaded the megaraid scsi
> > module, and therefore it cannot see the root partition on sda5.
> >
> > I have used a rescue disk to access the system, and gone into the
> > initrd file using losetup /dev/loop, and I saw that the megaraid.o
> > driver was under /lib/modules, and I even added insmod megaraid.o to
> > the linuxrc file.
> >
> > The problem remains.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas...?
> >
> > Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: scsi will not load
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:14:18 GMT
My /boot partition on sda1 is only 128 Mb, so the 1024 cylinder limit
should not be a problem...
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 22:20:05 +0800, "Mr. Bean"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lilo usually requires /boot to be on the 1st 1024 cylinders. Your sda5
>probably lies outside this range. I am not sure, but repartitioning your
>sd probably helps, with / to be on sda1, and sda1 to be within the 1st
>1024 cylinders.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can install Redhat 6.2 succesfully, but the system reboots and
>> cannot see any scsi hosts, and so kernel panics.
>>
>> Symbios NCR8x SCSI controller PCI card:
>> 0 disks
>>
>> Adaptec 7800 SCSI controller on board:
>> 0 disks
>>
>> Netraid 3si SCSI RAID controller PCI card:
>> 8 disks @ 18Gb configured:
>> 0 disks on controller0
>> 4 disks on controller1
>> (first two disks are RAID1)
>> 4 disks on controller2
>> (second two disks on controller1 and all disks on controller2 are
>> RAID5)
>>
>> During the install process the system correctly detects the Netraid
>> 3si scsi controller and loads the megaraid driver. The disks are
>> visible to the install OS, and after partitoning /boot on sda1, / on
>> sda5, and swap on sda6, the OS formats the partitions and installs the
>> packages.
>>
>> The system then reboots and gets as far as detecting the IDE CDROM.
>> Then it kernel panics because it has not loaded the megaraid scsi
>> module, and therefore it cannot see the root partition on sda5.
>>
>> I have used a rescue disk to access the system, and gone into the
>> initrd file using losetup /dev/loop, and I saw that the megaraid.o
>> driver was under /lib/modules, and I even added insmod megaraid.o to
>> the linuxrc file.
>>
>> The problem remains.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas...?
>>
>> Peter
>
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From: Matt Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting a USB Graphire tablet to work under XFree86 4.0.1
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 06:17:52 -0400
Okay, I can't seem to get this tablet to work properly. I have the
kernel drivers (with 2.4.0-test4), I got xf86GraphireUSB.c which is
supposed to work with XFree86 4.0.1 and it even compiled, and I set
XF86Config to use the wacom driver to make cursor, stylus, and eraser
input devices that read from /dev/input/event0. From what I have found
on the internet, this should make everything work. However, the X server
crashes on start up. At the end of the log file I find that the Wacom
module complains of Unknown error 1013.
Right now I am using the tablet as an emulated PS/2 mouse on
/dev/input/mouse0, but I want it to work fully.
Signed,
Matt Powell
"I said, 'Hey! Listen to me! Stay sane inside insanity!'
But he locked the door and threw away the key."
-Columbia, Rocky Horror Picture Show
reverse the part of my email address after the @
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aftwr recompiling the kernel, NIC stops working
Date: 7 Sep 2000 14:07:55 GMT
Hi Everyone,
I am having this problem and I need help from Linux gurus ASAP.
Currently I am running Redhat Linux version 6.1. This linux is
functioning as a gateway (i.e. IP chains, IP masquarade) with 3
NICs (2 Internal networks and 1 external). The 2 internal
networks has the following IP network address: 172.16.1.0/24
and 192.168.1.0/24. The external interface has an IP address
of 199.0.216.222. Everything is working at this point with linux
kernel 2.2.16-3.
I download the new linux kernel 2.2.17 and recompile the kernel
with the same instructions I use when I upgrade the kernel from
2.2-12 to 2.2.16-3. After I recompile the new kernel 2.2.17,
my external interface no longer works..... The internal interface
is working properly but not the interface. The NICs that I am
using is 3com905-XL model. Please help...
Thanks....
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!! Need help on linux installation!!!!!!!!! Linux Newbie
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:25:14 -0400
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???
If you attach the second HD as slave on your primary IODE controller,
Linux will see it as /dev/hdb, whereas your primary master (where I
assume W98 lives) will be /dev/hda; no danger to ovberwrite anything
unless you make a typo.
> How do I create a dual boot so that i can
> select which OS to start up with????
Most distributions use LILO to provide multiboot.
> 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???
????? Who told you that - it's false. Linux uses its own partition type,
called (for now) Ext2. There are other partition types which Linux can
be installed onto, but I won't go into this here. The installer will
"format" the partition for you - the Linux equivalent of DOS "format" is
mke2fs -, and, usually, even partition the disk for you, depending on
your distribution (I'm not familiar with the RH installer). All you have
to make sure is there's enough free, unpartitioned, space on the HD.
MST
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From: Richmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setting up ipchains and email on server
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:33:48 -0400
I am getting a 3 meg service thru DSL for my hospital. I have a 233 mhz
pentium with 300 meg of memory and 9 gig scsi drive that I want to use
for a linux server. I know this server is more than enough to handle
the number of users I will have for the internet. I have several
questions. The network is setup as such. I didn't really plan for
internet service when I setup up internal network. I am using a super
mask of 255.255.248.0, which I know shouldn't be a problem, but I am
using a network that goes from 180.248.248 to 180.248.255 for my users.
I do not own these addresses for the internet. I want to use
IPchains with redhat 6.2 server. I know this is possible. My question
is 2 fold. Do I have to change my network addressing to 192.168.0 thru
192.168.whatever? The ISP is giving me 5 legitimate IP addresses for
the internet. The DSL will be coming directly into my linux server then
I will have another ethernet card that will interface with my internal
network so the packets shouldn't reach the internet. Is my assumption
right? That is part one of my questions. My next question is I want to
use the same box to setup internet email for my users. Since the ISP is
giving me 5 static addresses to work with, how would the best way to use
this one box for masquarading and internet email. I want to use
sendmail. Is this a good enough email for this. I want to setup pop3
and smtp service on this server. The ISP will handle the DNS part for
me. I have a registered domain name. All suggestions will be
appreciated.
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From: "S. Umar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning)
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 09:23:29 -0500
Did you compile the kernel module from source rpm? I have no problems
using ANY of the nvidia drivers with my GeForce 256 and 2.2.16 kernel.
I don't think using your ext2 partition had anything to do with these
drivers....I think NVIDIA has done a great job putting together a
install FAQ....As I said I have been using 0.92 through 0.95 WITH NO
PROBLEMS!!! Let's be more fair.
--
Prof. S. Umar
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
Tel : (615) 322-2459
Fax : (615) 343-7263
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu/~umar/resu.htm
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From: Terence Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partition Problem
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 22:33:06 +0800
When I install RedHat 6.2 serveral week ago. I use partition Magic 4.0
to make space in my 20GB harddisk for RH installation. Everything looks
fine. But when I used PM again. I get the following error from PM 4.0
rescue disk.
"#120 The logical drive chain is incompatible
This error occurs under some OS when logical partitions are not chained
in the expected order. Dos ... require thaa the logical partitions be
chained together in accending order. Some other OS don't require this.
For example, some versions of the Linux FDISK utility chain logical
partition together in order they are created.
This error message identifies a very danagerous situation. Using
DOS FDISK in this situation can cause loss of one or more partitions."
I used fdisk /dev/hda and ping the partition as follows:
255 heads, 63 sectors, 2495 Cylinders
partition Start End blocks id System
/dev/hda1* 1 849 6819561 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 850 2495 13221495 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1386 2230 6787431 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 2231 2495 2128581 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 851 852 24034+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 853 1376 4208998+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1377 1385 72261 82 Linux swap
When I used cfdisk, i got "Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical
partition overlap.
What's should I do? I'm worry about loss my partitions.
--
-(^)-(^)- ! Terence Chan
b ! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- !
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Reply-To: "ascii_superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "ascii_superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: super mounting not working
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:34:57 +0100
ahhhh, I actually dont have the supermount module installed with my new
kernel.
I do however have automount.
I have autofs installed , but it doesnt work :-(
sergio
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Going Nowhere
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:33:16 -0400
Alastair Foster wrote:
>
> When I type 'make xconfig', I get a little bit of commentary, but it
> ends when it gets to the following:
>
> cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
>
> It stops at this point, although it doesn't lock up. It just sits there
> until I terminate it by pressing [ctrl]+[z].
>
> If I try 'make menuconfig', it ends with:
>
> Preparing scripts: functions, parsing........done.
>
> I have also tried 'make config'. This got me through the configuration
> process okay, but when I tried 'make dep', it ended with:
>
> nothing to be done for 'dep'.
> make[1]: leaving directory '/home/ala/linux/arch/i386/boot'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here's your problem - you unpacked the kernel sources in your home
directory. Don't tell me you're also compiling as a normal user! The
scripts expect the kernel tree to be found in /usr/src/linux, and the
user to be logged in as root for the compile. Read the Kernel-HOWTO
(http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO)
Also, I would recommend that you use menuconfig over xconfig. Haven't
checked lately, but I remember xconfig was somewhat buggy a while ago.
MST
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't mount my Win98 drive
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:36:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don Mided wrote:
>
> "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > 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
> No, the first disk contains Win98 and, according to fdisk, is formatted as
> FAT32. I've never used and have no access to WinNT so I don't think that
> there's any way that it could be an NTFS filesystem.
>
> Don
Oh yeah, I just realized, you said that you didn't make a default
install.
You did not by any chance leave out support for msdos or fat, did you?
If you only have the vfat module, you will not be able to mount a fat
FS, because this uses the fat.o module, which in turn uses the msdos.o
module.
you'll need at least msdos.o to mount the FAT32 FS, but if you want more
functionality (long filenames eg.) you should get fat.o and vfat.o
I'm not sure what is exactly where in these modules.
Eric
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From: "Tristan Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache DirectoryIndex and VirtualHost problem. Plz Help!!
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:39:08 +0100
you could create a symbolic link from index.html to index.shtml.
I know this would not be the "proper" way to do it (I don't have much apache
experience, sorry) but I can't think of a reason it would not work (so long
as followsymlinks is enabled).
"Philippe Laflamme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:s6Rs5.2418$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk.
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:07:59 +0800
Reply-To: "Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ive RH 6.0 install in my laptop.I created a boot disk from RH 6.2 CD in
another system.
Used the boot disk (floppy) to boot in my RH 6.0 laptop and was told cannot
find hard disk in my system.
Must I transfer the Base and RPM files in other for the boot to find the
hard disk?
Thanks.
Roger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:43:28 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x S. Umar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did you compile the kernel module from source rpm? I have no problems
> using ANY of the nvidia drivers with my GeForce 256 and 2.2.16 kernel.
> I don't think using your ext2 partition had anything to do with these
> drivers....I think NVIDIA has done a great job putting together a
> install FAQ....As I said I have been using 0.92 through 0.95 WITH NO
> PROBLEMS!!! Let's be more fair.
> --
OK then... Let's be fair:
I've used .92, .93, and .94 on my TNT2. Within seconds of starting most
3D apps, my computer has completely locked up on me. Couldn't even ping
it. Forced a hard reboot. Spent 30 minutes fsck my hard disk. Once, my
home directory was so screwed I had to restore everything from tape. Now,
perhaps nVidia isn't responsible for the fact that my home partition was
screwed up, but their drivers *did* cause the lock up that led to hitting
the power switch.
Let's continue to be fair:
I sent a couple messages to the e-mail address nVidia supplied, describing
the situation. I never got a response. Not *one* response to that
problem. So, I visit the irc channel for them. Although there were
plenty of nice people there, *none* of them were helpful.
So, in the grand tradition of being fair, nVidia blows me off as customer
so I blow them of as a manufacturer. They've lost a customer. And until
they change their attitude, I will *not* be coming back.
Adam
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