Linux-Setup Digest #614, Volume #19 Wed, 13 Sep 00 08:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: NT/Red Hat 6.2 (Jon Sjostedt)
How to install linux in laptop without CD drive (rubbles)
Help with DualBoot Problem Please (JDoe)
Re: LILO has blocked my windows partiton (Jos� Luis P�rez Diez)
Linux-Installation (Hubertus Gloger)
Re: Can I bypass RedHat installation to recover...? (Kenny A. Chaffin)
Re: RPMs vs source distributions (Kenny A. Chaffin)
IRQ timeout errors on hdb - RH 6.2 ("Vinson Armstead")
Re: not able to get a ftp session (Kenny A. Chaffin)
Root filesystem read-only, NOT fixed by section 10.11 in the FAQ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dual Head notebook ("Shadow")
How to pass kernel parameters when booting from floppy? (Damijan Sencar)
Re: DNS problem ("Tristan Day")
Re: Dialup and Lease line ("Tristan Day")
the df command excludes my floppy drive (astorwilliam)
isdn card detected ok, but as eth-device (redhat 6.1) (Andreas Bergmann)
Re: help: upgrading redhat 6.2 server install with GUI (Akira Yamanita)
Re: DNS problem (Harry Lewis)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Sjostedt)
Subject: Re: NT/Red Hat 6.2
Date: 13 Sep 2000 09:15:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> dmpeca wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How to install NT 4.0 and Red Hat 6.2 on same disk (3 partitions; 2NTFS and
>> 1 Linux).
>> Is it possible?
>>
>> If yes, how?
>>
>> The problem is that after (in that order) NT is installed, and after that
>> Linux, LILO loader hangs us.
>>
>> Peca
>
> No problem at all. I have 3 Os total.
> I installed NT first, then Win98, and the last was RH6.2 in extended dos
> partition.
> I use NT loader to boot all OS.
> In this configuration don't forget to make RH boot disk during
> installation and don't install lilo in MBR.
> You have to put all (Win98, RH6) boot sectors as files in WinNT
> partition.
> Read howto about it.
>
> Aleks
where can i find this HOWto?
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From: rubbles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to install linux in laptop without CD drive
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:25:41 GMT
Hi,
I am a newbie in Linux. I have Red Hat Linux 6.2 Deluxe and would like to
install it in a Toshiba Satellite T2130 laptop. The laptop has a 486 processor
with a floppy and a 500 MB hard drive, no CDROM drive. The laptop has been
sluggish using Windows so I am thinking that Linux will run more decently on
this system. I am only going to install Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux on this
system and maybe some internet surfing using a PCMCIA modem. I also would like
to be able to connect to our Windows NT network file server.
Does anybody have any suggestion on how I may go about installing it in the
laptop?
Thanks.
Johnny Rubbles
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From: JDoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Help with DualBoot Problem Please
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:27:26 GMT
Hi,
I'm running Redhat 6.2 on /dev/hda1 and I have win98 installed on
/dev/sda1. Both boot up properly on their own.
However, I'm trying to put the option into LILO so that I can boot
windows also from the lilo prompt.
Here is my lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda1
append="mem=128M"
other=/dev/sda1
label=win
table=/dev/sda
loader=/boot/chain.b
Linux will boot up fine, but Windows will not. All I get is a message
saying "Please insert system disk... press any key when ready"
I've tried lots of other settings, including specifying "linear" in
the conf file and remapping BIOS drives like below, but nothing seems
to work.
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
I've read the man pages and all the how-tos I can get my hands on,
as well as every relavent message posted in the NGs
but my setup is even simpler than others and I can't get this to work!
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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From: Jos� Luis P�rez Diez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO has blocked my windows partiton
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:24:26 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Iwaszkiewicz wrote:
> Windows partiton. Now I can't boot windows nor mount hda1 to Linux
> filesystem. Still I can operate on windows partition if I use windows
> boot floppy. Please help. Jan.
>
Boot from your windows bot floypy and do sys C: hda1 has to be mounted as an MS
file system try with vfat first.
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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:33:41 +0200
From: Hubertus Gloger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux-Installation
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kann ich tun, um Linux trotzdem zu installieren?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny A. Chaffin)
Subject: Re: Can I bypass RedHat installation to recover...?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 04:44:37 -0600
In article <8pm3vr$d48$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>
> It is easy. Boot the Installation CD (with
> expert or text parameters) until you are asked to
> create the partitions, then press <alt> <f4> or
> <f5> and you will see a bash prompt.
>
> If you have an ide drive, you can do...
>
> mkdir /disk
> mount /dev/hda1 /disk <- or whatever your
> partiion is
> then cd /disk/etc/ and edit your file.
>
> SCSI is similar.
>
> You should enable the X font server by creating a
> link in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d to the startup file
> in /etc/rc.d/init.d, not by modifying rc.local
>
> In article <8plooh$uoc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am/was running RedHat 6.1 until I modified
> rc.local to try to start
> > the font server but it fails and the boot
> process halts. I am looking
> > for a way to edit the rc.local file but I do
> not have a boot diskette
> > except for the RedHat installation CD/diskette.
> Is there a way I can
> > bypass all the installation so that I just get
> a root login from which
> > I hope to be able to mount the hard disk
> partition and edit the file?
> > Alternatively, I do not suppose there is any
> utility which allows me to
> > access a Linux partition from Windows (just a
> thought).
> >
> > Could you please email a copy of your response
> to me at
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> > Phil
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
or if you have a windows machine/partition that is working you can use
the cd under windows to create a boot floppy disk.
KAC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny A. Chaffin)
Subject: Re: RPMs vs source distributions
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 04:46:08 -0600
In article <Prxv5.9315$hP2.20436@news1-hme0>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> hi
>
> i've recently been trying to get into linux from more than just a user side
> of things but have found install and upgrading software to be a tad
> confusing.
That's the understatement of the day. RPM is just confusing to me.
>
> i like the idea of RPMs, especially with rpmDrake and other utilities but
...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tom.
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Vinson Armstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: IRQ timeout errors on hdb - RH 6.2
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:40:51 GMT
Hello,
I have RH 6.2 running on a system with two IDE hard drives connected as
master/slave to the primary IDE controller on my motherboard.
I recently began seeing this message in my logs and it seems to me that my
hdb device maybe "heading from that big pile of computer equipment in the
sky" (about to crash)
Can anyone provide some insight?
kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: ide0: reset: success
kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x79 { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete
DataRequest Error }
kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound}, LBAsect=196685,
sector=131614
kernel: ide0: reset: success
kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: ide0: reset: success
If so, then what is the best way to replace the hdb without re-installing RH
6.2?
Thanks for you assistance in advance
Vinson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny A. Chaffin)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.rdhat
Subject: Re: not able to get a ftp session
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 04:50:49 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> In fact, I tried in.ftpd also to no avail.
> I tried telnetd and in.telnetd as well, and the services never start up.
>
> Jordan Thompson wrote:
> >
> > I am having the same trouble, but I know that there is no ftpd. I tried
> > ftpd but root does not have it its path. I tried wu.ftpd and it runs
> > and returns, but there is no daemon running. Any suggestions?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Jordan
> >
> > Nick Rout wrote:
> > >
> > > silly question maybe, but do you have ftp server installed?? Its a
> > > different rpm to the ftp client....
> > >
> > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:13:59 GMT, "Armando (Andy) Stirpe"
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Hi everyone...this may sound like a very stupid question, but here it
> > > >goes....
> > > >
> > > >I have a linux workstation (Redhat 6.1) in which i am having trouble
> > > >FTPing to ( ...trying to get access to any user account). The
> > > >worstation retuns a "connection failed" message. I am able to FTP to
> > > >other computers from the workstation as well as surf until I'm blue. As
> > > >for security on the workstation, there are no entries in the hosts.allow
> > > >or hosts.deny files and the service is enabled in the inetd.conf file.
> > > >
> > > >Any help or input will be greatly appreciated
> > > >
> > > >Andy
> >
> > --
> > =================================================
> > Jordan R. Thompson
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://JordanThompson.freeyellow.com
>
> --
> =================================================
> Jordan R. Thompson
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://JordanThompson.freeyellow.com
>
These are actually controlled by inetd -- make sure it is installed and
starting up.
KAC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Root filesystem read-only, NOT fixed by section 10.11 in the FAQ
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:21:35 GMT
My root filesytem is coming up read-only and I for the life of me I
can't figure out why.I rebooted the box correctly ( I SWEAR I used
shutdown -r now) and the root filesystem came back read-only. I cannot
get in unless I boot in single mode or with a rescue disk. I have run
e2fsck -f on ALL my partitions. My fstab looks good, and I don't know
what other files to look at. The last thing I get is Init: id X
respawning to fast : Disabling for five minutes. I get 6 of them ,
numbered 1 through 6 and they just keep repeating. But higher then that
I see all the stuff trying to start dying saying "filesystem is read-
only". I read and reread the FAQ, but other then "run e2fsck" thats all
it says. My system is a redhat 6.1 based install. Any help would be
greatly apreciated.
Nathan Spitzer
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MCSE MCP+I MCP
I-Net+ A+
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From: "Shadow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Dual Head notebook
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:30:54 GMT
I want to set up my notebook as a dual head machine (ie 2 screens running
side by side to double my desktop size). It works using win 98 and I would
like to know if I can set up something similar under Linux.
I have a Compaq Armada M700 with a Rage Mobility-P 8Meg AGP graphics card.
Under Windows the internal and external screens can be configured as 2
independant screens (as in a dual head configuration). There appears to be
separate I/O and memory addresses for internal and external ports but they
share the same IRQ.
XFree86 version 4.0.1 lists support for the Rage Mobility-P but I can't seem
to find info on setting up a dual head system.
Any thoughts?
David
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From: Damijan Sencar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to pass kernel parameters when booting from floppy?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:29:13 +0200
Hi!
I can pass parameters to kernel with lilo (to detect second network
card) but I am wondering how to set up the same thing when booting from
floppy (bzImage)?
With rdev I can only set up video, root disk but how can I tell kernel
to detect my second network card?
Thanx,
Damijan
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From: "Tristan Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS problem
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:58:45 +0100
yes (add 10.0.0.2 as default gateway to /etc/route.conf)
try changin /etc/rc.config (errr, is it the same in Mandrake? I use SuSE)
there is a paramter (nameserver = (as an example) 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.4 (space
delimited))
hth
"Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:39bf3d9a$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Everytime I restart my Mandrake system, /etc/resolv.conf contains only one
> line:
> nameserver 10.0.0.2
>
> I edit the file, input three more dns's names, but no, I reboot it's one
> again.
>
> Also, I can't get to the internet. The ISDN line of the company is
connected
> to a WinNT machine (10.0.0.2). Do I need to specify this as the default
> gateway?
>
>
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From: "Tristan Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dialup and Lease line
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:59:37 +0100
Hi,
I don't know (I would assume you can but I do not know how).
Out of interest, why would you want to do this?
"Eric Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8pneh3$pt6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> My computer is currently using a lease line to connect to the
> Internet with Slackware 7 (kernel 2.2.15).
> Is it possible to set it up so that I can sometimes use the
> lease line and sometimes use the dialup (56K) ?
> If possible, please point me step by step instructions.
>
> Thanks a million in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
> Eric Ho
>
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From: astorwilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: the df command excludes my floppy drive
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:52:40 GMT
When I type the df command at the $ prompt, it gives the values of all
my partitions EXCEPT /mnt/floppy AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO. I have Linux
Mandrake 7.1 now but when I had LM7, I used to have all my floppies
display the values with the df command.
The df values are very useful because you will know how much remaining
memory space you have left.
PLEASE can someone provide an answer ?
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From: Andreas Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: isdn card detected ok, but as eth-device (redhat 6.1)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:03:11 +0200
concerning RedHat 6.1 - de and fritc!card pci
at system bootup kudzu (redhat's hw-detection) detects my avm a1 - pci
fritz! isdn adapter and i find a new ethernet device...
how do i change this to be an ippp-or isdn-device ??? trying to rename
or clone or alias the device in linuxconf or the control-panel's netcfg
is mere cosmetics, true or false ? what i can do is load the hisax
driver, type isdnctrl addif eth2 and ping the card...
### QUESTION NO.2 ### not related ####
how do i keep more than 4 weeks of backlogs... just changing the entry
in /etc/logrotate.conf seems not to be enough... (produces errors)
thanks a lot
Andreas Bergmann
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: help: upgrading redhat 6.2 server install with GUI
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:05:11 GMT
"David. E. Goble" wrote:
>
> Hi all;
>
> Had problems installing redhat 6.2. Managed to install a server
> install. How I want to add gnome/kde, from linux.
>
> I tried running rpm, but could not figure out which package to
> install. So I tried;
>
> rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>
> This just gave a list of conficts.
>
> How can I add a GUI....?
Start with this.
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.2/gotchas-6.2-6.html#ss6.2
There's more to install but that will get XFree86 installed.
Then you can start adding the Gnome or KDE RPMs.
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS problem
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:05:48 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got no idea what's altering your /etc/resolv.conf, but you might
try changing its permissions to read-only and see what complains.
As for internet access via the NT box - NT will forward IP packets
between NICs, if configured to do so, but I don't think it'll forward
packets between an NIC and dial-up adapter without Proxy Server (even if
it did, you'd still need a proxy server to get forwarding to the
Internet to work - your LAN's IP addresses are private ones, not ones
registered with internic.net). I think your best bet is either to buy
some proxy software for the NT or move the ISDN connection to your Linux
system and configure it as a proxy server (something I'm considering
doing in my home LAN). Also, Windows 2000, like Windows 98SE, allows
"sharing" of internet connections, which (as I understand it) is proxy
serving over NetBIOS.
Harry
Peet Grobler wrote:
>
> Everytime I restart my Mandrake system, /etc/resolv.conf contains only one
> line:
> nameserver 10.0.0.2
>
> I edit the file, input three more dns's names, but no, I reboot it's one
> again.
>
> Also, I can't get to the internet. The ISDN line of the company is connected
> to a WinNT machine (10.0.0.2). Do I need to specify this as the default
> gateway?
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