Linux-Setup Digest #593, Volume #19 Sun, 10 Sep 00 11:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Lilo trouble
Re: Linux - What Do I Need To Know? ("philo")
Re: SUSE/YAST: question about autoconfig ("peter hollings")
Unresolved symbol(s)!?! (rvc)
Re: sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RedHat 5.0 error ("Pat Parsons")
Re: Installing Win98, Win2000 and Linux on one PC?! (noodlez)
bad partition table ... upgrade error ("1399")
Re: ipchains setup (Jan Klaussner)
Re: XFree86 4.0.0 and SiS 6326 ("D. D. Brierton")
trident graphics with linux 6.2 (Skarma Dharma)
Re: sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: chown give away ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux boot files & multi-booting (Rod Smith)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo trouble
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:57:52 GMT
Hi.
I've got a working Red Hat 6.2, but I boot from a floppy.
My partitions:
hda
hda1 13gb fat with win98 and win2000
hdd
hdd1 28gb fat
hdd2 8mb linux native /boot
hdd3 256mb linux swap
hdd4 ~2gb linux native /root
I'm trying to get the NT bootloader to boot Linux but it keeps failing.=
I've even tried to install Lilo on the MBR on hda but then I get 'Li 01 =
01 01 ....'
I've got the latest version of Lilo.
Any sugestions?
<johan>
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From: "philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux - What Do I Need To Know?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:23:55 -0500
i would personally recommend mandrake...but it is true...alll distros are
similar...some nearly identical...
but you will just have to install it and work with it.
the best thing to do is create a partition for it...
then once you get to the installation...delete that partition to create the
free space to add your linux partitions.
with the low price of harddirves...i just experimented on an empty drive
until i got the hang of it
Philo
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From: "peter hollings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SUSE/YAST: question about autoconfig
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:52:57 GMT
YaST is supposed to backup configuration files that are not the same as
those known to the RPM database, i.e., resulting from a prior RPM of the
package. If the configuration file resulted from a "foreign" (i.e., non-RPM
installation) the backup has .rpmorig appended. If the configuration file
was created during a prior RPM and them modified it has .rpmsave appended.
Peter Hollings
Atlanta, Georgia
"Kai Uwe Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8pb3g6$nai$18$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You can easily disable ALL modifications by setting the variable
> ENABLE_SUSECONFIG to NO in /etc/rc.config, but I don�t know how to tell
YAST
> to inform about modifications taken, perhaps you can look at the postings
/
> questions in the SuSE Support Database (SDB) on www.suse.de.
>
> Kai Uwe Schmidt
>
> "Hanspeter Schmid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Dear Readers,
> >
> > I heard from a friend that SUSE's YAST automatically changes
> > configuration files when one installs new software and sometimes
> > discards manual alterations made to certain config files without
> > telling the user and without making a backup.
> >
> > Specifically, my colleague had altered the sendmail configuration;
> > after the installation of a seemingly unrelated package, his manual
> > alterations had disappeared.
> >
> > Is there a way to tell YAST to keep manual changes made to
> > configuration files or at least to inform the user what was done and
> > make a backup? Or is the problem maybe solved in the SUSE 7.0
> > distribution?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > --
> > Hanspeter Schmid A philosopher who is not taking
> part
> > Analogue-IC Designer (Research) in discussions is like a boxer
> who
> > Signal Processing Laboratory, ETHZ. never goes into the
> ring.
> > http://www.isi.ee.ethz.ch/~schmid/ (Ludwig
> Wittgenstein)
>
>
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From: rvc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unresolved symbol(s)!?!
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:53:20 +0300
I've just recompiled my kernel and when i do a depmod -a i get a
bunch of unresolved symbols, and truly i cannot wonder why, because
when i look /proc/ksyms i can see that those symbols don't even exist!
There are some symbols which match allmost but not quite...
This is what part of my ksyms looks like:
c01f4e70 best_memcpy_R__ver_best_memcpy
c01f4f28 best_memset_R__ver_best_memset
c01f4fd0 best_copy_to_user_R__ver_best_copy_to_user
c01f50a4 best_copy_from_user_R__ver_best_copy_from_user
c01f5178 __best_copy_to_user_R__ver___best_copy_to_user
c01f5210 __best_copy_from_user_R__ver___best_copy_from_user
And here's a sample of what depmod -a -e says:
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/lockd.o
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memcpy
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memset
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/coda.o
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memcpy
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memset
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_to_user
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_from_user
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/minix.o
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memset
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_to_user
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_from_user
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/hfs.o
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memcpy
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memset
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_to_user
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_from_user
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/nfs.o
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memcpy
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memset
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_to_user
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/nfsd.o
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memcpy
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memset
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_from_user
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/sysv.o
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memcpy
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memset
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_to_user
Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_copy_from_user
...So could somebody please help me?
Thank you in advance!
-rvc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:39:07 GMT
#AND here is the results
Findpart, version 3.81.
Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2000.
Searches for partitions type 01, 04, 06, 07, 0B, 0C, 0E, 82, 83,
plus Fdisk F6 and Lilo sectors. Information based on bootsectors
is marked B. If the disk is larger than supported by BIOS, the
supported part of the disk is examined. Disks are numbered from 1.
OS: DOS 7.10
Disk: 1 Cylinders: 1826 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 14324
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 - 0B 63 12289662 6000 0 1 1 764 254 63 B OK
0 - 83 12289725 5863725 2863 765 0 1 1129 254 63 B5 OK
765 1 83 63 32067 15 765 1 1 766 254 63 OK OK
765 2 05 32130 2923830 1427 767 0 1 948 254 63 765 OK
Lilo sector 765 0 1
767 1 83 63 2923767 1427 767 1 1 948 254 63 NB OK
767 2 05 2955960 514080 251 949 0 1 980 254 63 765 OK
767 - 83 63 2923760 1427 767 1 1 948 254 56 B0 OK
949 1 82 63 514017 250 949 1 1 980 254 63 OK
949 2 05 3470040 2907764 1419 981 0 1 1023 254 63 765 NB
981 1 83 63 2907701 1419 981 1 1 1023 254 63 NB NB
981 - 83 63 2907696 1419 981 1 1 1161 254 57 B0 OK
991 1 83 63 13044717 6369 991 1 1 1802 254 63 OK OK
Lilo sector 991 1 1
1024 1 0B 63 12884067 6291 1024 1 1 1825 254 63 F6 OK
Fdisk F6 sector 1024 1 1
Fdisk F6 sector 1025 0 1
Fdisk F6 sector 1025 1 1
Fdisk F6 sector 1026 0 1
Fdisk F6 sector 1026 1 1
Fdisk F6 sector 1027 0 1
Fdisk F6 sector 1027 1 1
1049 1 83 63 1799217 878 1049* 1 1 1160*254 63 OK OK
1085 1 82 63 224847 109 1085* 1 1 1098*254 63 OK
1085 2 05 5365710 996030 486 1099* 0 1 1160*254 63 765 OK
1099 1 83 63 995967 486 1099* 1 1 1160*254 63 OK OK
1105 1 82 63 256977 125 1105* 1 1 1120*254 63 OK
1105 2 05 5719140 642600 313 1121* 0 1 1160*254 63 765 OK
1121 1 83 63 642537 313 1121* 1 1 1160*254 63 OK OK
1130 1 82 63 497952 243 1130# 1 1 1160*254 63 OK
1151 1 82 63 160587 78 1151* 1 1 1160*254 63 OK
=====FAT CHS =Size Cl ==Root =Good =Rep. Maybe ==Bad YYMMDD DataMB
0 1 33 11979 4 2 11979 0 0 0 990906 3670
964 2 1 Second FAT not found.
Partitions according to partition tables on first harddisk:
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1*0B 63 12289662 6000 0 1 1 764 254 63 OK OK
0 2 05 12289725 6377805 3114 765 0 1 1161*254 63 OK
0 3 83 15759828 2907701 1419 981 1 1 1023 254 63 NB NB
981 1 1 1161 254 62 Actual
0 4 0B 18651465 10683225 5216 1161* 0 1 1825*254 63 NB OK
765 1 83 63 32067 15 765 1 1 766 254 63 OK OK
765 2 05 32130 2923830 1427 767 0 1 948 254 63 OK
767 1 83 63 2923767 1427 767 1 1 948 254 63 NB OK
767 2 05 2955960 514080 251 949 0 1 980 254 63 OK
949 1 82 63 514017 250 949 1 1 980 254 63 OK
949 2 05 3470040 2907764 1419 981 0 1 1023 254 63 NB
981 0 1 1161 254 62 Actual
981 1 83 63 2907701 1419 981 1 1 1023 254 63 NB NB
981 1 1 1161 254 62 Actual
#and some turkish fdisc report here
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B�l�m Durum T�r Birim Ad� Mbayt Sistem Kullan�m
C: 1 A PRI DOS 6001 FAT32 42%
2 EXT DOS 3114 22%
3 Non-DOS 1420 10%
D: 4 PRI DOS 5216 UNKNOWN 36%
Toplam disk alan� 14324 Mbayt (1 Mbayt = 1048576 bayt)
Uzat�lm�� DOS B�l�m� Mant�ksal DOS S�r�c�leri i�eriyor.
Mant�ksal s�r�c� bilgisini g�stermek istiyor musunuz (E/H)......?[E]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I love you.Pros never helped me before I'm working in an isp as an
> >Helpdesk but even our "debian guru workers" didn't help
either.Thanks i
> >will try to run your program ,but first i want you to know that i've
> >installed mandrake again ,there is no big difference on my partition
> >table ,still windows can't reach d: drive (hda4).
> >
> >6gb fat32
> > mandrake on 1 boot
> > 1 root
> > 2 home
> > 1 swap)
> > again;
> >5gb fat32
>
> I cannot say what happened, but still, if you do
>
> findpart all +fat fp.txt
>
> and post the content from fp.txt, I might be able to give you an
> evaluation.
>
> There is a risk that partitions overlap, and in that case nothing of
> cause should be written to partitions that might overlap the lost
> partition.
> --
> Svend Olaf
> http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
>
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From: "Pat Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 5.0 error
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 08:59:35 -0700
Does anyone know what it means when during the installation you get an error
message that says - Kernel panic Free list corrupted
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (noodlez)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux,microsoft.public.win2000.applications
Subject: Re: Installing Win98, Win2000 and Linux on one PC?!
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:58:46 GMT
don't forget to create a linux swap partition as well as one mounted
as /home .
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 10:22:42 -0700, "Gene Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>What you are proposing won't be hard. The only thing to mention is that you
>must install win2k with FAT32 file system. If you use NTFS, win98 won't be
>able to see that partition.
>Gene
>"Shicheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8pdk29$pii$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hello there,
>> We would like to install Win98, Win2000 and linux (redhat 6.0)
>> three OSs onto our PC. The PC has a 30 GB hard disk, 128 MB memory
>> and a 700 MHz CPU.
>>
>> We would like to have the above three OSs installed; after the
>> installation, we could select one of the three OSs during the boot time,
>> otherwise, the PC will be booted automatically to the default
>> OS (Win 2000 is the default one). Each OS would use one partition,
>> so the three OSs would need three partitions.
>> Apart from these three OS partitions, we may also need to create
>> two more partitions using the remaining space of the disk:
>> one such a partition would be for the storage of linux's data and the
>> other one would be for the data storage for both the Win98 and Win2000
>> OSs; so the last data partition needs to be seen by both the 98 and the
>> 2000 OSs.
>>
>> We would be grateful you could give us some advice on the above.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Shicheng
>>
>>
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>
>
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Fingerprint: 0EE8 0DBB EB08 C472 2EA4 27C1 93AF 0484 9A40 9D9D
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From: "1399" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bad partition table ... upgrade error
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 06:09:02 -0400
Upon trying to upgrade my server (currently running redhat 5.0) to 6.2,
I get the following error after selecting the upgrade existing setup
screen:
Bad Partition Table
Initialize or Skip Drive
upon choosing Skip Drive I get another message:
No Drives Found
Any help in getting around this issue is appreciated ...
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From: Jan Klaussner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipchains setup
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 16:34:55 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello!
Brad Hein wrote:
>
> What is the ipchains command to forward incoming connections on port 80 to a
> different computer on my lan? yes, i have searched faqs and websites, but
ipchains can't do forwarding, only masquerading. Use a portforwarder
like ipmasqadm for this purpose.
> dramatically when routed through my linux server? Could it be that its a
> 60mhz computer? or is it a different problem?
If this server is used only for routing, then it is enough.
cu Jan
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From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.0 and SiS 6326
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:39:59 +0100
Richard Ketchersid wrote:
>
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
>
> > I can't seem to get XFree86 4.0.0 to work with my onboard SiS 6326. This
> > isn't an urgent problem as XFree86 3.3.6 works okay, and Mandrake 7.1
> > installs both 3.3.6 and 4.0.0. However, I'm curious to see if
> > performance is better with 4.0.0 and according to the docs the SiS
> > driver was written specifically for the 6326 chip, so I'm puzzled as to
> > why I can't get it to work. I suspect that there is a simple solution,
> > but unfortunately I don't know what it is! I read the docs concerning
>
> ... CUT
>
> > (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
>
> ... CUT
>
> This seems to be a problem. SiS 6326 doesn't like 32 bpp for anything. I
> have found that the following works to get X started in 24 depth (4.0 and
> 4.0.1) but some applications don't like this, e.g. mtv and acroread to
> name a couple:
>
> X -pixmap24 <== Tell X to use 24bpp for pixmaps
Ahh. I had wondered about that "Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp"
message. I did know that the SiS 6326 doesn't support 32bpp (the XF86
SiS docs say so). In fact I have since posting the original message
managed to get XF86 4.0.0 working at 16bpp, although the performane was
worse than with 3.3.6.
Anyway, what is the equivalent line to add to XFree86 to achieve the
same result as X -pixmap24?
Thanks for your response,
Best
Darren
--
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D. D. Brierton Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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From: Skarma Dharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trident graphics with linux 6.2
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 09:46:49 -0400
Hi.
I have the trident graphics card Image 9750. I was wondering if anyone has
had the experience in installing that card with linux 6.2???
Anyhelp will be greatly apprecitaed.
Murugan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sorry but i couldnt find a way to rescue
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 14:47:30 GMT
sorry but i hope you can understand even it's turkish :-)
B�l�m Bilgisini G�ster
Ge�erli sabit disk s�r�c�s�: 1
B�l�m Durum T�r Birim Ad� Mbayt Sistem Kullan�m
C: 1 A PRI DOS 6001 FAT32 42%
2 EXT DOS 3114 22%
3 Non-DOS 1420 10%
D: 4 PRI DOS 5216 UNKNOWN 36%
Toplam disk alan� 14324 Mbayt (1 Mbayt = 1048576 bayt)
Uzat�lm�� DOS B�l�m� Mant�ksal DOS S�r�c�leri i�eriyor.
Mant�ksal s�r�c� bilgisini g�stermek istiyor musunuz (E/H)......?[E]
FDISK Se�enekleri'ne d�nmek i�in Esc tu�una bas�n
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: chown give away
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 14:51:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon) wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:34:47 GMT in comp.os.linux.setup,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' said:
>
> >I am writing a small script that needs to load pictures from a disk
onto
> >the hard drive, but I want to give away the ownership
> > so the person loading cannot accidently change the original photo. I
> >have tried chown, but it won't give away ownership.
> >
> > How could I do this?
> >
> >This is just a stand alone, so I'm not so worried about the risk.
> >
> > Running Redhat 6.1
> >
> > Thanks Sherman Stebbins
>
> By "disk" I'm assuming you mean floppy, and if that's the case, just
mount it
> as read-only using -r or -o ro in the mount command string.
No, I was refering to the hard drive. They need to load from a floppy
disk on to the hard drive, but not be able to edit the photo.
thanks Sherm
>
> --
> Black Dragon
>
> "Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
>
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux boot files & multi-booting
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:05:39 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <qZuu5.30519$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"PC Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am multi-booting various versions of Windows 9x, NT, and Linux, using
> partition magic 5.01. They all seem to need these reqs:
> Install on 1st drive (C)
> Install on its own primary partition
> Install starting below 2 GB
> Install below 1024 cylinder limit.
Only the last of these is a requirement for Linux, and that only if
you're using less than the latest version of LILO. Windows 9x also is
not bothered by a 2GB limit; it can go up to the 1024-cylinder limit
(roughly 8GB).
> Multi-booting below 2 GB can get crowded!
>
> I am thinking of installing the Linux boot files on a small partition ( ?
> mb ) and putting the rest on a 2nd hard drive.
>
> What Linux boot files do need? (I know their are different versions).
> Comments Welcome.
If you want or need to create a small Linux boot partition, make it
5-20MB and mount it at /boot. Put the Linux kernel in that partition;
the rest will take care of itself.
FWIW, I cover all this in much greater detail in my book, _The
Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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