Linux-Setup Digest #658, Volume #19 Wed, 20 Sep 00 12:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: New Linux Install ("James M. Luongo")
Re: New Linux Install ("James M. Luongo")
Re: Changing from RedHat to Mandrake. (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?=)
What to dowload to upgrade kernel? ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Bootable diskette w/ NFS server ??? (Nicolas Anquetil)
Re: Best time synch program for "official time" (James Knott)
Re: What to dowload to upgrade kernel? (Paul Kimoto)
trouble compiling util-linux (B.Lim)
Signal 11 from install disk ("Thomas Martin")
Gnome configure error, gnome-libs version not seen correctly ("Joe")
Modifying RedHat 6.2 install image - problems (Larry Williamson)
Re: Changing from RedHat to Mandrake. (Shell Hung)
RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card ("Lorenz")
Re: Signal 11 from install disk (Vilmos Soti)
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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: Re: New Linux Install
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:01:15 -0400
Blake Leverett wrote:
> ps Draper? Are you a fellow MIT grad?
Nope, I work at Draper (which is next to MIT) as a part of Northeastern
University's cooperative education program. I am a UNIX sysadmin, thus
I would like to further my knowledge at home. At work, I work on
Solaris 2.51, 2.6, and also Digital UNIX.
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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: Re: New Linux Install
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:05:56 -0400
OK, thanks for all the help. I have Mandrake 6 on cd, that's why I
didn't know about grub. I was planning on downloading the 7.1 ISO from
mandrake's website. I'll let you know if I have any problems with the
install. I have a number of ide and scsi devices, and also 2 USB
devices and an SB Live, i heard there was some probs with that. But
I'll see what happens.
kosh wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "James M. Luongo"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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!
>
> If you are installing Mandrake 7.1 just read the docs it has with it. I
> have installed Mandrake 7.1 on many boxes and never had a problem on
> anything more modern then a P90. It does a very good job at detection. If
> you put the kernel where lilo can't reach grub is used automatically. The
> mandrake 7.1 install is about the easiest linux install I have ever used.
>
> That is why whenever I help a customer who wants to get rid of windows I
> help them dual boot Mandrake and let them install it with me watching.
> Usually they never ask me a single question during the install. Usually I
> get comments about how easy it is to set up.
--
========================
James M. Luongo x1427
Draper Laboratory Room 4207
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.os.linux,linux.help
Subject: Re: Changing from RedHat to Mandrake.
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:11:03 +0800
Here I do not want to lose all my settings, informations and packages installed.
I have installed many programs and have many data stored in the drive. It will
be time consuming if I follow your method. Anyway thanks for helping.
"����" �g�D�G
> Hi,
>
> What kind of data you concerned ? Just the documents stored on
> /home/{username} folder or/and the settings information for your system ?
> For the first case, I suggest you make another partition (I assume you have
> unpartition space or another harddisk on your computer); then, mount this
> partition on a directory (for example, you 'mkdir /backup' on your root).
> Then, copy all of data on /home to /backup (just example name, you can
> change it). Reboot the system and just install the new Linux (of course,
> don't touch the partition/harddisk you stored the data) but don't create any
> new user (root is nevermind because root's home is at /root instead of
> /home). If you are able to use the partition (you stored the old data at
> here) as the /home, just tell the installation program to mount this
> partition as /home; otherwise, no need to take care about this partition at
> the installation stage.
>
> After finished the installation, just 'mkdir /backup' and mount the
> partition (which stored the data) on /backup and copy them back to /home.
> Of course, after copied, unmount the /backup partition and change back the
> relative Onwer/Group to relative users at /home.
>
> Regards
>
> �L�W�p�l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Is there any method to change from RedHat to Mandrake without losing any
> > data in the hard drive?
> >
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What to dowload to upgrade kernel?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:34:54 GMT
Please forgive me if this has been asked before....I've been fiddling
with the new 2.4 kernel and am quite perplexed on what to download in
terms of patches. As my reference point, I downloaded the kernel from
ftp.kernel.org in the /pub/linux/kernel/2.4 directory. Also,
I downloaded that from that site test9-pre1 from the
/pub/linux/kernel/testing directory and patched in in my /usr/src/
directory with "patch -p0 < test9-pre1. Everthing went smoothly in
terms of compiling (after some initial trials) but I noticed some
glitchyness when I booted up. Going back to ftp.kernel.org I noticed
that there were more test0-pre# (where #=2 to 4), so I downloaded them
as well. I then did a "patch -p0 < test9-pre2" and started getting
messages like "Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume
-R? [n] Apply anyway? [n]". I was under the impression that the
patches were sequential. Is this incorrect? Does test9-pre4, for
instance, include the fixes for test9-pre1 to test9-pre3 (i.e., instead
of downloading all patches and applying them sequentially, did I need to
just download testt9-pre4 and apply it to the original source code?
Finally, I noticed that in the /pub/linux/kernel/2.4 directory there are
files called, for instance,
patch-2.4.0-test8.gz : is it safe to assume that this is the patch to
bring the 2.4.0-test7 up to 2.4.0-test8 (i.e., if I downloaded
linux-2.4.0-test8.tar.gz, I don't need to worry about 2.4.0-test8)?
Many thanks in advanced.
Andrew
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Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Nicolas Anquetil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bootable diskette w/ NFS server ???
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:45:07 -0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I want to create a linux boot diskette with NFS server capabilities.
I configured (and compiled) a kernel (RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.16) with
NFSserver option (and everything for my PLIP network).
I copied `exportfs', `portmap', `rpc.mountd', `rpc.nfsd' and `rpcinfo'
on the root partition diskette.
I copied `/etc/services', created a `/etc/exports' file, as well as an
empty `/var/lib/nfs/xtab' file (required by `rpc.mountd').
See list of files on the root diskette at the end of this post.
I am doing all the steps mentionned in the NFS-HOWTO, apparently
everything is going well (all daemons starts without complaining,
services show allright with `rpcinfo -p', `exportfs' seems to work fine)
But when I try to mount on the client side, I get a permission denied
from the server.
Anybody can explain me what's wrong?
thanks
nicolas
List of files on the root diskette:
/bin/
/bin/ash
/bin/cat
/bin/cp
/bin/dd
/bin/df
/bin/gunzip -> gzip
/bin/gzip
/bin/ifconfig
/bin/init
/bin/kill
/bin/ls
/bin/mkdir
/bin/mount
/bin/mv
/bin/pico
/bin/ping
/bin/portmap
/bin/ps
/bin/rm
/bin/route
/bin/rpc.mountd
/bin/rpc.nfsd
/bin/rpc.statd
/bin/rpcinfo
/bin/sh -> ash
/bin/sync
/bin/tar
/bin/umount
/dev/
/dev/console
/dev/fd -> ../proc/self/fd
/dev/fd0
/dev/fd0H1440
/dev/hda
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2
/dev/hda3
/dev/hda4
/dev/hdb
/dev/hdb1
/dev/hdb2
/dev/hdb3
/dev/hdb4
/dev/hdc
/dev/hdc1
/dev/hdc2
/dev/hdd
/dev/hdd1
/dev/hdd2
/dev/loop0
/dev/null
/dev/ram
/dev/ram0
/dev/ram1
/dev/ramdisk -> ram0
/dev/scd0
/dev/scd1
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda4
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdc1
/dev/sde
/dev/sde1
/dev/sdf
/dev/sdf1
/dev/sdg
/dev/sdg1
/dev/systty
/dev/tty0
/dev/tty1
/dev/tty2
/dev/tty3
/dev/tty4
/dev/ttyp0
/dev/ttyp1
/dev/ttyp2
/dev/ttyp3
/dev/ttyp4
/dev/zero
/etc/
/etc/exports
/etc/fstab
/etc/group
/etc/hosts
/etc/mtab
/etc/passwd
/etc/plip-on
/etc/protocols
/etc/services
/etc/termcap
/lib/
/lib/ld-2.1.1.so
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.1.1.so
/lib/libNoVersion-2.1.1.so
/lib/libNoVersion.so.1 -> libNoVersion-2.1.1.so
/lib/libc-2.1.1.so
/lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.1.1.so
/lib/libproc.so.2.0.0
/lib/libtermcap.so.2 -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8
/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
/mnt/
/mnt/cdrom/
/mnt/dosc/
/mnt/floppy/
/mnt/image/
/proc/
/sbin -> bin
/tmp/
/usr/
/usr/bin -> ../bin
/usr/lib/
/usr/sbin -> ../bin
/usr/share/
/usr/share/terminfo/
/usr/share/terminfo/l/
/usr/share/terminfo/l/linux
/var/
/var/lib/
/var/lib/nfs/
/var/lib/nfs/xtab
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From: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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"
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:56:52 GMT
One thing you'll get from internet time sources, is
"jitter", when due to variable delays, your clock gets
adjusted when it shouldn't be. On my system, I run a time
check once an hour, and write the results to a log file.
Scanning back, I occasionally see occasions where the time
is "corrected" by a second (sometimes 2 or 3) and on the
next run, it's corrected in the opposite direction, by the
same amount. Overall, the computer clock runs slightly
slow.
"David .." wrote:
>
> Bill Unruh wrote:
> >
> >
> > If they are always on the net, use xntp.
>
> Atomic clock server IP's or addresses are available here:
>
> http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/service/time-servers.html
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: What to dowload to upgrade kernel?
Date: 20 Sep 2000 11:14:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and e-mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew P. Billyard wrote:
> As my reference point, I downloaded the kernel from
> ftp.kernel.org in the /pub/linux/kernel/2.4 directory. Also,
> I downloaded that from that site test9-pre1 from the
> /pub/linux/kernel/testing directory and patched in in my /usr/src/
> directory with "patch -p0 < test9-pre1. Everthing went smoothly in
> terms of compiling (after some initial trials) but I noticed some
> glitchyness when I booted up. Going back to ftp.kernel.org I noticed
> that there were more test0-pre# (where #=2 to 4), so I downloaded them
> as well. I then did a "patch -p0 < test9-pre2" and started getting
> messages like "Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume
> -R? [n] Apply anyway? [n]". I was under the impression that the
> patches were sequential. Is this incorrect? Does test9-pre4, for
> instance, include the fixes for test9-pre1 to test9-pre3 (i.e., instead
> of downloading all patches and applying them sequentially, did I need to
> just download testt9-pre4 and apply it to the original source code?
Yes. You can tell that test9-pre4 should be applied to the 2.4.0-test8
source code by looking at the first line of the (uncompressed) patch:
: diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test8/linux/CREDITS linux/CREDITS
> Finally, I noticed that in the /pub/linux/kernel/2.4 directory there are
> files called, for instance,
> patch-2.4.0-test8.gz : is it safe to assume that this is the patch to
> bring the 2.4.0-test7 up to 2.4.0-test8 (i.e., if I downloaded
> linux-2.4.0-test8.tar.gz, I don't need to worry about 2.4.0-test8)?
Yes. The first line of patch-2.4.0-test8 is
: diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test7/linux/COPYING linux/COPYING
--
Paul Kimoto
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consent, and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B.Lim)
Subject: trouble compiling util-linux
Date: 20 Sep 2000 15:05:38 GMT
I'm having a problem trying to compile util-linux-2.10o under Debian 2.2
as described in the Loopback Encrypted Filesystem HOWTO. My initial
thoughts were that I needed -lcrypt because lomount.c had trouble compiling
since it was patched to recognize additional encryption algorithms. I
believe that lcrypt is part of libcrypt which comes packaged with libc6.
I have libc6 installed and therefore libcrypt is present. I then added
'/lib' in ld.so.conf to recognize where libcrypt is located and ran ldconfig.
All seemed fine but compiling util-linux again had the same errors. I can't
get my head around this problem. Help would be appreciated.
Below is the output from 'configure' and 'make':
=====output from configure======
You have inet_aton()
You have <scsi/scsi.h>
You don't have <linux/blkpg.h>
You don't need <linux/tqueue.h>
You have <linux/kd.h>
You have <term.h>
You have ncurses. Using <ncurses.h>.
You have termcap
You need -lcrypt
You have <locale.h>
You have <libintl.h> and gettext()
Assuming that you want to enable NLS support.
(Otherwise, edit defines.h and remove the line with ENABLE_NLS)
You have <langinfo.h>
You have __progname
You have <pty.h> and openpty()
You don't have wide character support
You have nanosleep()
You have personality()
You don't have __NR_pivot_root
You have a tm_gmtoff field in struct tm
Your rpcgen output does not compile
======output from make=======
lomount.c:49: `LO_CRYPT_SERPENT' undeclared here (not in a function)
lomount.c:49: initializer element is not constant
lomount.c:49: (near initialization for `crypt_type_tbl[7].id')
lomount.c:50: `LO_CRYPT_MARS' undeclared here (not in a function)
lomount.c:50: initializer element is not constant
lomount.c:50: (near initialization for `crypt_type_tbl[8].id')
lomount.c:51: `LO_CRYPT_RC6' undeclared here (not in a function)
lomount.c:51: initializer element is not constant
lomount.c:51: (near initialization for `crypt_type_tbl[9].id')
lomount.c:52: `LO_CRYPT_DFC' undeclared here (not in a function)
lomount.c:52: initializer element is not constant
lomount.c:52: (near initialization for `crypt_type_tbl[10].id')
lomount.c: In function `set_loop':
lomount.c:261: `LO_CRYPT_SERPENT' undeclared (first use in this function)
lomount.c:261: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
lomount.c:261: for each function it appears in.)
lomount.c:262: `LO_CRYPT_MARS' undeclared (first use in this function)
lomount.c:263: `LO_CRYPT_RC6' undeclared (first use in this function)
lomount.c:264: `LO_CRYPT_DFC' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [lomount.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/util-linux-2.10o/mount'
make: *** [all] Error 1
--
B.Lim - http://unixbox.freewebsites.com
GNUPG key fingerprint = C94E C318 90D5 38F7 EF1A 657B DDC9 7BD7 5BC2 AE1E
"Security through obscurity is an unworkable principle."
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From: "Thomas Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Signal 11 from install disk
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:25:20 -0500
Anyone know how to get around a Signal 11 error when booting from the Redhat
6.2 install disk? It is on an Athlon 800 and ASUS mb.
Thanks...
Thomas
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From: "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome configure error, gnome-libs version not seen correctly
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:32:27 -0700
I am trying to install Gnome on a Suse 6.2 install. I am going down the
list and installing the packages per instructions. When I try to
./configure control-center-1.2.1 I get an error that "gnome-libs 1.0.60 or
higher is required". I have installed gnome-libs-1.2.3. Why does the
install program not realise that 1.2.3 is higher than 1.0.60 ? More
importantly, how do I get around this ?
Thanks
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From: Larry Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modifying RedHat 6.2 install image - problems
Date: 20 Sep 2000 11:05:23 -0400
I would like to install a modified 6.2 system. I want to include a
number of the security and bug updates and put them on our kickstart
server in the RedHat/RPMS directory so that the kickstart install will
pick up the new packages automatically.
The problem I have is that if I replace (say, for example)
glibc-2.1.3-15.i386.rpm with the newer glibc-2.1.3-21.i386.rpm,
kickstart fails to find the new version. It wants to continue to use
the old version.
Clearly there is "knowledge" of what version should be on the CD. But
where? I have scanned all over that CD looking for something that
might be the map, but so far, no luck.
Any suggestions?
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From: Shell Hung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.os.linux,linux.help
Subject: Re: Changing from RedHat to Mandrake.
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:54:13 +0800
Just a little question, before Mandrake was base on RedHat, why need to
have a change ?
If you want for package, you may download yourself, this make me confuse
"����" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What kind of data you concerned ? Just the documents stored on
> /home/{username} folder or/and the settings information for your system ?
> For the first case, I suggest you make another partition (I assume you have
> unpartition space or another harddisk on your computer); then, mount this
> partition on a directory (for example, you 'mkdir /backup' on your root).
> Then, copy all of data on /home to /backup (just example name, you can
> change it). Reboot the system and just install the new Linux (of course,
> don't touch the partition/harddisk you stored the data) but don't create any
> new user (root is nevermind because root's home is at /root instead of
> /home). If you are able to use the partition (you stored the old data at
> here) as the /home, just tell the installation program to mount this
> partition as /home; otherwise, no need to take care about this partition at
> the installation stage.
>
> After finished the installation, just 'mkdir /backup' and mount the
> partition (which stored the data) on /backup and copy them back to /home.
> Of course, after copied, unmount the /backup partition and change back the
> relative Onwer/Group to relative users at /home.
>
> Regards
>
> �L�W�p�l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Is there any method to change from RedHat to Mandrake without losing any
> > data in the hard drive?
> >
--
Best Regards,
Shell Hung
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From: "Lorenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:12:34 +0200
Hello there,
I'm rather new to Linux, so i apologize if my question seems too simple.
I have just installed redhat 6.2 on a compaq Armada V300 laptop; it has a
3Com 3c574 PCMCIA 16 bit 10/100 Ethernet card (a very common model), and it
seems that the card is correctly identified and initialized (the 100mb led
on the cable turns on as Linux boots). Now i'd like to connect my laptop to
the network (that is, i think, loading the correct module an configuring the
ETH0 interface); but i don't know how.
So: how should i find if this card has an appropriate module for it? How
should i configure the ethernet connection?
Thank you for your help,
-Lorenz
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Subject: Re: Signal 11 from install disk
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:08:06 GMT
"Thomas Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone know how to get around a Signal 11 error when booting from the Redhat
> 6.2 install disk? It is on an Athlon 800 and ASUS mb.
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11
For me, it was broken cache chipset.
Vilmos
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