Linux-Setup Digest #651, Volume #19 Tue, 19 Sep 00 12:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dual Boot Blues (Eric)
Re: How to multiboot Win98 and Linux? (Rod Smith)
Re: Dual Boot Blues (Rod Smith)
Samba setup ("Kyle Mulvey")
NT and Linux outside 1024 Cylinders (Michael Kuebbeler)
Docked laptop loses network connection (Tom Bebee)
IP Masquerading (Martin Desrosiers)
boot question ("robert zhang")
Re: Best time synch program for "official time" (Bob Beaty)
signal 11 received when trying to start an application ("Southeastern Computer
Services")
Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning) (Stuart Levy)
Re: Debian 2.2 virtual consoles (Miguel Rodriguez Penabad)
IP Masquerading (Martin Desrosiers)
Re: installing without an existing os (John Thompson)
Re: Move LILO remove drive help (Troutman)
New Linux Install ("James M. Luongo")
superblock prob moving root filesystem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Boot Blues
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:10:36 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds to me like a 1024 cyl. problem. Check that first, and upgrade
lilo if needed.
Eric
GreatSage wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a computer that has one SCSI hard drive which I have partitioned for
> WIN2000 and Red Hat Linux. I first installed WIN2000 on the first partition
> and then installed Linux on the second partition. I had LILO installed in
> the Linux partition and NOT in the master boot record. I can currently boot
> to Win 2000 and can also boot to Linux but to linux via a boot disk. I am
> currently trying to utilize the Win2000 boot loader to load both Linux and
> Windows but Im having problems. This is what I did:
>
> 1) I stripped from the Linux partiiton the bootsector (dd if=/dev/sda6
> of=/LINXLOAD.LNX bs=1300 count=1).
> 2) I copied this to a floppy.
> 3) Then in Windows 2000 I copied this file to the root directory c:\
> 4) I edit the boot.ini file (after removing the system and read only
> attributes) to add the following line (C:\LINXLOAD.LNX="Linux")
>
> So, when I reboot, I indeed get the boot menu and can successfully load
> Win2000 but when I select "Linux" the screen goes black and just prints the
> two leters "LI" at the left of the top most line. The computer never loads
> Linux and seems to just hang ??
>
> Does anyone have any insight into what I have done incorrectly.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: How to multiboot Win98 and Linux?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:13:02 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8q5p0s$rs1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Meissen) writes:
>
> I've got a Hewlett-Packard AMDK6-2 w/8 Gig HD. I've partitioned the
> drive to have 5.5 Gb DOS/Win98, and the remaining 2.5 Gig as Linux
> Partitions for system, swap, and user using Partition Magic which also
> installed Boot Magic. I then installed RedHat Linux 6.2 in the Linux
> partitions.
>
> Now when I boot the computer, it always boots up in the OS system I
> last used. If I reboot from LINUX, it boots into LILO but the only
> option(s) LILO offers are Linux. I can boot into Win98 from a rescue
> floppy, but then when I reboot, I get the Boot Magic screen: it offers
> both Win98 and Linux but if I choose LINUX the computer hangs up on
> the message, "preparing machine to load Linux."
It sounds to me like you've used primary partitions for both Linux and
Win98, and installed LILO on the Linux boot partition, not on the MBR.
(This is fine; I mention it only because if that's NOT how you've
configured things, I'm working under some incorrect assumptions.) I
don't know why BootMagic isn't working; it should be. You might try
another approach, though: Boot into Linux and modify your /etc/lilo.conf
to include an entry for Windows. It should look something like this:
other=/dev/hda3
label=win98
You may need to change the partition ID, of course. When you've done
this, type "lilo" to re-install LILO. When you reboot Linux, you should
be able to type "win98" to boot Windows. You can then ditch BootMagic
and use LILO exclusively.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Dual Boot Blues
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:19:28 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8q5v15$42b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"GreatSage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a computer that has one SCSI hard drive which I have partitioned for
> WIN2000 and Red Hat Linux. I first installed WIN2000 on the first partition
> and then installed Linux on the second partition. I had LILO installed in
> the Linux partition and NOT in the master boot record. I can currently boot
> to Win 2000 and can also boot to Linux but to linux via a boot disk. I am
> currently trying to utilize the Win2000 boot loader to load both Linux and
> Windows but Im having problems. This is what I did:
>
> 1) I stripped from the Linux partiiton the bootsector (dd if=/dev/sda6
> of=/LINXLOAD.LNX bs=1300 count=1).
The boot sector size is just 512 bytes, not 1300 bytes. I don't see why
grabbing more than you need should cause a problem, but it might.
> 2) I copied this to a floppy.
> 3) Then in Windows 2000 I copied this file to the root directory c:\
> 4) I edit the boot.ini file (after removing the system and read only
> attributes) to add the following line (C:\LINXLOAD.LNX="Linux")
>
>
> So, when I reboot, I indeed get the boot menu and can successfully load
> Win2000 but when I select "Linux" the screen goes black and just prints the
> two leters "LI" at the left of the top most line. The computer never loads
> Linux and seems to just hang ??
My best guess is that LILO isn't installed or is misconfigured on your
system. Try checking the /etc/lilo.conf file and verifying that it's
reasonable, then type "lilo" to re-install LILO. You'll then need to do
the dance with moving the boot sector file over to Win2K.
Alternatively, if Linux is on a primary partition, you can try changing
that to the active partition and booting directly. You can add an entry
to /etc/lilo.conf to boot Windows. It'll look something like this:
other=/dev/hda2
label=win2k
You can then use LILO to select Linux or Windows at boot time, and not
have to muck around with copying boot sectors whenever you change your
kernel or Linux boot options. Even if Linux isn't on a primary
partition, you can do it this way by installing LILO on the disk's MBR.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Kyle Mulvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba setup
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:23:34 -0400
Hi,
I am trying to set up a small network (two machines) , one with Red Hat 6.0
the other with Win98. Currentlky I can see the Linux ,achine in Network
Neighborhood but when I click on it I get the message "machine not
accepting requests" or a similar message. What am I doing wrong ?
Thanx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Kuebbeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NT and Linux outside 1024 Cylinders
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:33:06 +0200
Hi,
I have NT as primary OS and have installed Linux on the 3rd-5th
partition starting with a boot-disc. Now, there is a description to
export the LiLo-Bootsector as bootsek.lin from /boot to NT-root (C:\)
and put it into boot.ini of NT to let the Boot-manager start Linux. Is
this a possible solutions for those who can't install /boot under the
1024 cylinder limitation. So, can I alter my boot system from floppy
boot to NT-loader this way or do I need to have /boot under 1024
cylinders???
Thanks fpr your help.
Michael.
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From: Tom Bebee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Docked laptop loses network connection
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:49:57 GMT
I have an HP Omnibook 5700 running Caldera 2.3 (2.2x kernel). I have
installed the OS several times while the laptop is docked and during the
installation specify that the IP configuration should use DHCP. The
docking station has an SMC 8415T ethernet card and once the installation
is completed, everything works perfect. However, when I shutdown the OS
and restart the next day, the network setup fails because the DHCP
server cannot be found. I thought at first it has something to do with
my un-docking the laptop and re-inserting the next morning. However, I
re-installed for the 4th time yesterday and just did shutdown/restart,
getting the same network problem. Is it possible anyone else has run
into this with either the Omnibooks or other laptops that use an
ethernet card that is installed in the docking station.
Any info would be appreciated.
--
Tom Bebee
Welch Allyn Inc.
Skaneateles, Falls NY
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From: Martin Desrosiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: IP Masquerading
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:08:43 -0400
Hi,
I am trying to connect my laptop (Win98) to the Internet through my
linux box using IP Masquerading. My kernel is 2.2.16 and the modules
necessary for ipchains and IP Masquerading are loaded. ipchains seems to
be working fine since from my server I can connect. Here's my ipchains
policies:
# ipchains -L
chain input (policy ACCEPT):
target prot opt source destination ports
ACCEPT udp ------ anywhere anywhere bootps -> bootpc
chain forward (policy DENY):
MASQ all ------ 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere n/a
chain output (policy ACCEPT):
Should I get anything when I type (because I don't) ?
# ipchains -M -L
IP masquerading entries
#
On my laptop, I have set the IP address to 192.168.0.3, the gateway to
192.168.0.1, dns server IPs and host name to the laptop name. As a
domain name, I am not sure about that but I tried with my ISP domain
name. Does it make sense?
Any help would be appreciated,
Martin
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From: "robert zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot question
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:12:23 -0500
I have both w98 and linux on my pc, now what happens is something went wrong
with w98 and i had to reinstall it but after that i can't seem to boot into
linux, the thing is i don't have the boot floppy disk (lost), could anyone
give me help on that issue?
thanks a lot!
-robert
--
===========================================================================
Robert Zhe Zhang, Ph.D.
Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets
3242 Digital Computer Lab
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801 Tel: (217) 333-8954
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Beaty)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.best,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best time synch program for "official time"
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:10:00 GMT
"Howard Williams" wrote:
> I need to synchronize a few servers on the network.
> [...snip...]
> but I'm mostly curious as to how I can synchronize a "master"
> with the official US time clock, or Grenwich or somewhere.
Get xntpd from any of a number of sources. RedHat 6.x has it on the
disks, and if you can't find it there, search goole.com for it.
Freshmeat.net probably has it as well - it's very popular for this type
of thing. It also exists for Solaris, Irix, and other platforms.
Basically, xntpd runs on all machines. You set up one host to be the
"master" in your network, and that machine gets it's time from an
external source - xtnpd has a list of many sources from which to get the
time. Then, all the other hosts on your network use this one "master"
host as their time source.
This master/slave setup works wonderfully. I've seen it work in several
different installations, and each time it was a "set it, and forget it"
installation.
Thanks,
Bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The Man from S.P.U.D.
We will write no code before it's designed.
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From: "Southeastern Computer Services" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: signal 11 received when trying to start an application
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:20:09 -0400
I'm setting up a Mandrake 7 Server and am installing Acucobol 4.3. Acucobol
has a program call acushare that has to be running in order for the runtime
to work properly. When I try to start acushare, it gives me this message:
"acushare: 09/19/2000 19;04;37 - signal 11 caught (defined in
/usr/include/signal.h) "
Does anyone know what this signal means and what I can do to solve the
problem?
Thanks for the help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Levy)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning)
Date: 19 Sep 2000 10:34:29 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hate to burst your bubble but its not the drivers themselves, I have VIA
>chipset with K6-III/450 running ATA/66 with DMA and all the optimizations
>running with XFree86 4.0, Nvidia .94's on a TNT2U. Same with my friends C300
>with TNT. My sons system doesn't like (locks up on boot up) the optimizations
>(pcchips mobo, going to replace it soon with the 503a like mine) with or
>without XFree86 4.0/.94 nvidia.
>--
>moonie ;)
It's hard to see how you can claim that there must be no problem with the
drivers themselves, just because they work for you!
Of course I wouldn't want to be in NVidia's position trying to support
all combinations of motherboard and NVidia-based cards.
I was interested to see, in a tomshardware.com review of 3D cards
with NV Linux drivers, that he encountered one of the same symptoms I had:
a scrolling text window could freeze, apparently in mid-bitblt
(or perhaps after one of several bitblt's needed for scrolling?),
only to resume when he touched the mouse! This often happened to me,
and when lockups occurred it was usually the immediate precedent.
Stuart Levy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Rodriguez Penabad)
Subject: Re: Debian 2.2 virtual consoles
Date: 19 Sep 2000 18:00:12 GMT
Use Alt+F1,F2..F6 for consoles. alt+F7 goes
to VT7 which is usually set up for X
HTH
Miguel
In article <39c57499$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cooper wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>How do u switch between virtual consoles with Debian 2.2. I only have a
>text based set up. Sometimes the networking command freeze up the system
>and the only way to get out is <aagh> reboot! I'd like to switch to another
>console and kill the old process.
>
>TIA,
>Cooper
>
>
>
>
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Laboratorio de Bases de Datos http://emilia.dc.fi.udc.es/labBD
Facultade de Inform�tica Universidade da Coru�a (Spain)
Debian 2.1 [2.2.13] Usuario Linux 124962
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From: Martin Desrosiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: IP Masquerading
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:49:01 -0400
Hi,
I am trying to connect my laptop (Win98) to the Internet through my
linux box using IP Masquerading. My kernel is 2.2.16 and the modules
necessary for ipchains and IP Masquerading are loaded. ipchains seems to
be working fine since from my server I can connect. Here's my ipchains
policies:
# ipchains -L
chain input (policy ACCEPT):
target prot opt source destination ports
ACCEPT udp ------ anywhere anywhere bootps -> bootpc
chain forward (policy DENY):
MASQ all ------ 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere n/a
chain output (policy ACCEPT):
Should I get anything when I type (because I don't) ?
# ipchains -M -L
IP masquerading entries
#
On my laptop, I have set the IP address to 192.168.0.3, the gateway to
192.168.0.1, dns server IPs and host name to the laptop name. As a
domain name, I am not sure about that but I tried with my ISP domain
name. Does it make sense?
Any help would be appreciated,
Martin
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing without an existing os
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:36:36 -0500
E J wrote:
> david23 wrote:
>
> > I have an old PC with 2 hard drives.
> > The drive which has windows is small and I do not want to use it.
> > The other drive is new and was used as a slave drive.
> > I would like remove the old small drive and to install linux on the slave
> > drive.
> > Will I need windows/dos installed on the slave drive to install linux?
> > Are there installers that run off a boot disk?
> You will need a CD-ROM or network card to install Linux on your old machine.
>
> You will have to create a linux boot floppy.
> If you decide to use redhat hat to do your installation:
> Download rawrite and boot.img (for CDROM) or bootnet.img (for network card)
> Use rawrite to create the linux boot installation floppy.
Here's another related question: I have an old Compaq laptop
(486sx25 12MB) with a non-functional display, one PCMCIA slot and
no CDROM. I have considered using this machine as a firewall
machine if/when I go to a fulltime internet connection. I could
attach an external monitor to boot from a floppy to initiate a
network installation of linux (I have a working PCMCIA ethernet
card), but as the Compaq floppy plugs into the single PCMCIA slot
where the network card must also go, I fear I may have a
"catch-22" situation. Is it possible to boot from the floppy,
copy the necessary kernel/modules and such to the HD, rdev the
kernel to make it happy with the new location and then reboot
from the HD to do a more complete network installation with the
ethernet card now in the PCMCIA slot? Anybody tried anything
like this? Think it would work?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Troutman)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Move LILO remove drive help
Date: 19 Sep 2000 11:52:46 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (OSguy) graced us with the following:
>You will also need to change your mount points in fstab so that every
>hdb in /etc/fstab is changed to hda. Otherwise you won't be able to
>mount your partitions including the swap /bin, and /sbin directories...
That all depends. If he leaves the second drive in place, it will remain
hdb. hda=primary master, hdb=primary slave, hdc=secondary master,
hdd=secondary slave. I may have the b mixed up, b may be the secondary
master...
--
___________________________________________
Mike Troutman
http://www.troutman.org
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From: "James M. Luongo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: New Linux Install
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:51:45 -0400
I plan on installing Linux Mandrake 7.1 for the first time. I need some
help. How big should the partitions be? And, I heard something about
LiLo not recognizing a Linux partition after a certain disk cylinder (or
sector, whatever). I think it was 1023, but I'm not sure. Is this
true? Help!
--
========================
James M. Luongo x1427
Draper Laboratory Room 4207
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: superblock prob moving root filesystem
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:46:05 GMT
I had a standard Linux distribution installed on my first hard drive
hda. I then installed Linux from scratch on my second hard drive hdc,
with my root filesystem as hdc1. I can boot it fine. I then
repartitioned hda into several partitions, seperating out /, /boot,
/usr, and /home. My intent was to then designate all of hdc1 as the
/var filesystem. I tared my filesystems from hdc1 to their respective
partitions on hda. I also tared the /var from hdc1 up a level so that
it could be /var itself. I then ran LILO to boot the image in the new
/boot on hda. It boots, but dies when it tries to mount /dev/hdc1 to
/var saying the the superblock is bad. And e2fsck thinks all the
backups are bad too. But it does not complain about the superblocks
when I boot to /dev/hdc1 and use the setup that is still their!
How can I tell the superblock on /dev/hdc1 that it is now a /var
filesystem and not root? I assume the problem has something to do with
this.
-Steve Maring
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