Linux-Setup Digest #659, Volume #19 Wed, 20 Sep 00 16:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't install LILO when Linux > 8 GB limit with PC with BIOS restriction (-ljl-)
Re: What to dowload to upgrade kernel? ("Andrew P. Billyard")
MIDI error when using wine (Cheng Huang)
easy questions for a linux user w/ a little experience (Buschman)
Re: Win 2000 always find new hardware after using Linux (sinister-catsup)
How do I get GRUB out of CMOS? (Marshall Wren)
Re: Best time synch program for "official time" (Bill Unruh)
FYI: ltmodem and modules.conf in redhat 6.2 (D G)
linux mandrake on a win98 network how? ("dave")
Re: RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I get GRUB out of CMOS? (Roger Blake)
Re: easy questions for a linux user w/ a little experience (Pete)
modprobe error ("KonusVector")
Mobo for Duron - any advices? (Kirill)
seagate 20gb drive question (Tristan White)
Re: How do I get GRUB out of CMOS? ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Mount in Corel Linux 1.1 (Kieron Dunbar)
Recognizing 3com 3c905c NICs Wtih FloppyFW ("kjbecker")
Recognizing 3com 3c905c NICs Wtih FloppyFW ("kjbecker")
Recognizing 3com 3c905c NICs Wtih FloppyFW ("kjbecker")
Re: Making LILO wait? [Solved!] (please hold)
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Can't install LILO when Linux > 8 GB limit with PC with BIOS restriction
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:57:22 GMT
In article <L6Gx5.125$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Wouter Bovelander" <wbovelander@*nospam*antares.nl> wrote:
> hmmm,
>
> the bios restriction is really no problem for linux once it is
running. it
> will only bother you when linux boots. the linux boot partition has to
> reside below cylinder 1024 if i'm not mistaken.
LILO version 21 by Werner Almesberger has been updated to support
booting from disks > 1024 cylinders using a new 'lba32' option
(-L new command line switch). Version 21.5.1 now adds a menu-driven
user interface to the Linux boot process.
Note: booting beyond cylinder 1024, something new.
Full text ... at:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/lilo-21.5.1.announce.txt
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What to dowload to upgrade kernel?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:18:44 GMT
Thanks.
Paul Kimoto wrote:
> [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
> This message was originally posted in plain text. Any images,
> hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my
> consent, and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Cheng Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MIDI error when using wine
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:26:46 -0500
I tried to run a small windows application, which might be made in
flash(I'm not sure), by wine. But I get the following error message. I
don't know how to correct the error because I can't find help with MIDI,
can anybody give some advice? Thanx.
Error message:
Invalid path 'c:\windows\Profiles\Administrator' for profile directory
Can't open MIDI device '/dev/sequencer', errno 19 (No such device) !
err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0
addr 0x407a957c
--Cheng
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: easy questions for a linux user w/ a little experience
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:19:38 GMT
OK I am trying to run Ip Masquerade on Mandrake 7.1. I tried using
an identical pair of 3 Com 3c905b-tx 10/100 cards but they wouldn't
seem to work together, but mandrake would recognize them during setup.
I went out and bought a pair of linksys LNE100TX 10/100 cards because
I was advised that they worked very well in such a situation and were
cheap.
OK so I rebuild the machine from scratch but Mandrake doesn't
recognize the cards. I find out that it requires a 'tulip' driver.
Mandrake offers two generic tulip drivers, but neither of them work.
OK so I go to linksys's site and download the correct tulip drivers.
Now I have a couple of problems.
a) I can't seem to mount my floppy drive. Short of restarting my
machine and watching carefully is there a way for linux to tell me a
list of the devices and what it is taging them as? (i.e.
HD0,Part0=hda, HD0Part1=hdb,CDROM=hdc,floppy=???)
b) In the setup I checked supermounting. Under X i am getting errors.
Once I find out what linux is calling my floppy, how do I change that
in X? The last time I installed 7.1 I did not check supermount and
there was a mount/unmount entry in the drop down menu. You could
configure the properties of mount and unmount. Now that supermounting
is enabled, how do I alter those properties?
c) Is the mount command for floppy the exact same as for CDROM?
Obvious with a different /dev/???...
d) I am a little confused by these kernel modules? Could someone
give me the low down on how they interact with the kernel? How is
adding a module different from recompiling the kernel? What does
recompiling the kernel do? I do have a programming background and
understand how compiling and open source code works. So i think I
understand, but would just like some confirmation.
e) How come my CDROM is called hdc or hdd instead of being called
cdrom like it used to? Is this the new version of mandrake that does
this? previously I was using mandrake 6.1 so there are a lot of new
things here.
Thanks for your time.
Buschman
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Subject: Re: Win 2000 always find new hardware after using Linux
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: sinister-catsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:21:38 -0400
"Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just brainstorming, but it sounds like a plug and play problem. Maybe
> Mandrake is resetting the PnP devices, and then Win2K is detecting them=
as
> new devices because they are now using different resources?
>=20
> Just a thought. I don't have any handy fix :(
>=20
> Brian
>=20
> "Oggie Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed Mandrake 7.1, dual booting with Win 2000 Pro. I
> > installed Linux for doing some C++ programming for a CS course.
> >
> > Installation went fine, most of the things that I needed are working
> > (no complain here). I can connect to the Internet using cable modem
> > with NetGear FA310TX. I also have a second NIC card 3com 3c509b that
> > works under Win 2000 but not with my Linux. However, I this is not a=
n
> > issue since I can connect to the Internet using my NetGear card and I
> > don't need to get the 3com card working under Linux since I use it
> > only for occasional files/printer sharing and ICS using Win 2000 to m=
y
> > laptop.
> >
> > The problem is every time after I finish using Linux and restart back
> > to Win 2000 I can never connect to the Internet on the first reboot.
> > Every time I boot back to Win 2000 from Linux, the hard drive works
> > really hard and when finished Win 2000 always says that it has
> > finished installing new devices and asks me if I want to restart the
> > system.
> >
> > I have to restart Win 2000 before I can connect to the Internet again=
=2E
> > This is a minor but annoying problem because my Win 2000 takes about =
3
> > minutes to fully reboot. Therefore, it takes me about 6-7 minutes to
> > reboot twice in order to have a "working" Win 2000 system after using
> > Linux.
> >
> > I have not been able to pin point what hardware or software causes
> > this problem. Can anybody please point what might be the problem? I=
s
> > it normal? What can I do to eliminate this problem?
> >
> > In the past, I have tried Corel Linux and Caldera eDesktop 2.4 and al=
l
> > caused similar problems with Win 2000 after using Linux. So, I am
> > pretty sure the problem is not particular to Mandrake. I also tried
> > Armed Linux beta 1.1 that resides on a FAT partition, and I did not
> > have this problem. However, Armed Linux doesn't come g++ compiler tha=
t
> > I need (or did I miss something here?).
> >
> > The following is my hardware/software configuration:
> >
> > Hardware:
> > - Generic PC with Celeron 366 with 128MB
> > - PC Chips M747 motherboard with onboard SIS 6326 video card 8M=
B
> > - Built-in SoundPro 3D chip CIM8330 (disabled with a jumper;
> > doesn't work with either Win 2000 and Linux)
> > - Sound Blaster 16 ISA (PlugnPlay I guess ??)
> > - Netgear FA310TX PCI NIC (connected to the external cable
> > modem)
> > - 3com 3c509b ISA NIC in PNP mode
> > - Generic Lucent 56k PCI Win modem (I don't use this anymore,
> > but is properly installed in Win 2000)
> > - A Seagate 10GB IDE HD
> > - A generic 40X IDE CD-ROM reader
> > - HP 7500i CD-RW (IDE)
> >
> > Software:
> > - Win 2000 Prof
> > - Mandrake 7.1 Linux
> > - Atguard 3.22 (I only use it to get rid ads; I don't use the
> > firewall portion)
> > - Zone Alarm
> > - Nero 5.018 (No Adaptec software installed)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> >
> > Oggie Lee
> >
check in your bios regarding plug and play options, linux is not plug and=
play
last I remember, when I was using NT I had the toggle the settings for so=
me
hardware.
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From: Marshall Wren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I get GRUB out of CMOS?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:30:04 -0000
The problem here involves the fact that GRUB is apparently written to CMOS
if you have designated LINUX as the primary boot OS. I have a problem
where I created a dual boot of Windows 98 with Linux Mandrake 7.1. I
designated Linux to be my primary boot OS via Boot Magic. Windows was
already installed and after I install Linux, I could not get a proper boot
of Linux due to my incorrect entry of the mounting point. Therefore, I
decided to start over and deleted the partitions created for both
operating systems and reformated the drive with the intent of reinstalling
Windows 98 first, followed by repartitioning remaining space to Linux
using Partition Magic. However, even though the drive has had fdisk
executed against it and reformated with a DOS operating system, CMOS still
tries to boot Linux via GRUB without ever looking at my operating system
on the drive. I am posting this situation as a question as well as
passing it on as an answer and clarification of Somerton Kennedy's
question. Hope to hear from someone soon!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
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: 20 Sep 2000 17:53:02 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
]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
That is why you use programs like chrony of ntp, which try to take
account of that jitter, and refrain from adjusting the clock if the
delays are too long or too variable. You also use more than one source
to try to compensate for jitter at least from teh far side, and time the
trip both ways, to take into account propagation delays. Simply
downloading a time does not work well at all.
]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.
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FYI: ltmodem and modules.conf in redhat 6.2
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:57:57 -0700
I was having problems autoloading ltmodem and getting ppp to work after
upgrading to redhat6.2 and kernel 2.2.16-3. Here is my solution:
alias char-major-62 ltmodem
install char-major-62 /sbin/insmod -kfs ltmodem
Add the above two lines to /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/conf.modules,
whichever you have) in place of the original ltmodem stuff (if you had
any).
I posted earlier about how to use ppp.o from earlier kernels (<2.2.15).
If you have problems autoloading ppp, this might help:
alias ppp0 ppp
pre-install ppp slhc
Again, add these lines to /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/conf.modules). I
found that I didn't need the above two lines if I compiled the kernel
with modversions off (the ltmodem stuff still applies, though).
--
DG
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From: "dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux mandrake on a win98 network how?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:16:16 +0100
I have a five machine win98 peer to peer network
and am investigating linux.
As a first step i have put linux mandrake 7.1 on a spare machine
along with star office.
I need to be able to place this machine on my network just as if
it was another win98 machine. How?
i dont want to set up a server system just to try it out.
i just wish to be able to send and recive files etc
maybe access network printers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:27:08 GMT
In article <8qanal$r30$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Lorenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
if your card is initialized already,
its not a question of module.
with rh, theres an utility called linuxconf,
to setup (among others) your network.
you probably just have to assign a networkadress to eth0.
but go through the full menu -
card up at boot, ipadress, subnetmask, gateway -
test with ifconfig -a
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: How do I get GRUB out of CMOS?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:57:47 GMT
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:30:04 -0000, Marshall Wren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The problem here involves the fact that GRUB is apparently written to CMOS
>if you have designated LINUX as the primary boot OS. I have a problem
What makes you think that grub would write to your system's CMOS?
(Unless of course in your mind CMOS == disk_boot_sector in some
bizarre fashion.)
Setting that aside, if you want to restore a "normal" Windoze boot sector,
start up on your emergency Win98 boot diskette and issue the command
"FDISK /MBR" -- this should do the trick.
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: easy questions for a linux user w/ a little experience
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:03:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman) wrote:
>
>
> OK I am trying to run Ip Masquerade on Mandrake 7.1. I tried using
> an identical pair of 3 Com 3c905b-tx 10/100 cards but they wouldn't
> seem to work together, but mandrake would recognize them during setup.
>
> I went out and bought a pair of linksys LNE100TX 10/100 cards because
> I was advised that they worked very well in such a situation and were
> cheap.
>
> OK so I rebuild the machine from scratch but Mandrake doesn't
> recognize the cards. I find out that it requires a 'tulip' driver.
> Mandrake offers two generic tulip drivers, but neither of them work.
> OK so I go to linksys's site and download the correct tulip drivers.
>
> Now I have a couple of problems.
>
> a) I can't seem to mount my floppy drive. Short of restarting my
> machine and watching carefully is there a way for linux to tell me a
> list of the devices and what it is taging them as? (i.e.
> HD0,Part0=hda, HD0Part1=hdb,CDROM=hdc,floppy=???)
>
> b) In the setup I checked supermounting. Under X i am getting errors.
> Once I find out what linux is calling my floppy, how do I change that
> in X? The last time I installed 7.1 I did not check supermount and
> there was a mount/unmount entry in the drop down menu. You could
> configure the properties of mount and unmount. Now that supermounting
> is enabled, how do I alter those properties?
You should be able to sort all of these issues out in drakconf - to
stop supermount use 'startup services' and uncheck the box against
supermount. Use Linuxconf to have a look at what is being mounted
(Linuxconf--File Systems--Access Local drive) and where (floppy
=/dev/fd0 if drive A), or just type mount at a prompt. You can mount
drives in Linuxconf as well. The format for mounting a floppy is
su -c mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
<secret>
change ext2 to vfat if necessary and make sure directory /mnt/floppy
exists first!
>
> c) Is the mount command for floppy the exact same as for CDROM?
> Obvious with a different /dev/???...
No -different filesystem.
su -c mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
<secret>
>
> d) I am a little confused by these kernel modules? Could someone
> give me the low down on how they interact with the kernel? How is
> adding a module different from recompiling the kernel? What does
> recompiling the kernel do? I do have a programming background and
> understand how compiling and open source code works. So i think I
> understand, but would just like some confirmation.
Modules can be loaded as/when necessary and can be swapped if memory is
getting tight. The Kernel itself can't. By recompiling the Kernel you
are creating one specifically for your machine without any unecessary
bits added in so you should end up with a smaller kernel than the
current one :-)
>
> e) How come my CDROM is called hdc or hdd instead of being called
> cdrom like it used to? Is this the new version of mandrake that does
> this? previously I was using mandrake 6.1 so there are a lot of new
> things here.
Looks like the sym link hasn't been set up for some reason:-
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
Pete
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Buschman
>
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From: "KonusVector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modprobe error
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:22:12 +0200
hi all
my problem is that the kernel give a output during the start :modprobe:
can�t locate module char-major-4
what it means with this and how can i correct my problem.
thanks
Michael Froh
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From: Kirill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mobo for Duron - any advices?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:19:13 +0200
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<html>
PPL, does anyone have a Duron-based system? Please tell what motherboard
you
<br>have chosen and how it works for you and also the distribution you're
using.
<br> Thanks in advance,
<br> Kirill</html>
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From: Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: seagate 20gb drive question
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:24:15 -0400
I have a question about a 20gb seagate drive. I have it installed on a
P100 with a bios overdrive card. I can get untranslated geometry of
16383,16,63, or a variety of LBA translation methods which don't seem to
quite cut it.
When I've used IBM drives of similar size it has been no problem to give
the physical geometry to linux and let linux handle the whole size.
Doesn't seem to work in this case. I wonder if there are any ideas?
I installed once without specifying the geometry and when I did "v" with
fdisk I got a lot of errors about things not ending on cylinder
boundarys
and after a couple of days some of my stuff "went away" and I got a
bunch
of geometry related errors and I'm back to the format now.
I wish I could give more information, but I'm kind of baffled and this
is all I can find now. Seagate's site is not useful so please don't
reccomend that.
Tristan
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I get GRUB out of CMOS?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:54:37 -0400
If you've got GRUB in your CMOS then you have some pretty serious
problems. More likely is that you have GRUB in your MBR. You get it
removed by writing a different bootloader to the MBR.
Marshall Wren wrote:
>
> The problem here involves the fact that GRUB is apparently written to CMOS
> if you have designated LINUX as the primary boot OS. I have a problem
> where I created a dual boot of Windows 98 with Linux Mandrake 7.1. I
> designated Linux to be my primary boot OS via Boot Magic. Windows was
> already installed and after I install Linux, I could not get a proper boot
> of Linux due to my incorrect entry of the mounting point. Therefore, I
> decided to start over and deleted the partitions created for both
> operating systems and reformated the drive with the intent of reinstalling
> Windows 98 first, followed by repartitioning remaining space to Linux
> using Partition Magic. However, even though the drive has had fdisk
> executed against it and reformated with a DOS operating system, CMOS still
> tries to boot Linux via GRUB without ever looking at my operating system
> on the drive. I am posting this situation as a question as well as
> passing it on as an answer and clarification of Somerton Kennedy's
> question. Hope to hear from someone soon!
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From: Kieron Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mount in Corel Linux 1.1
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:34:19 +0100
I've been having difficulties in mounting a hard disk with my current set-up.
I've got Linux installed to a file on a hard disk, but when I try to mount
the other hard disk with "mount -t affs /dev/hdb /usr/dh0" I got the response
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or too many mounted file
systems". Is there any way I can find out what the problem could be?
kwaheri, Kieron (reverse username to reply)
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From: "kjbecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recognizing 3com 3c905c NICs Wtih FloppyFW
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:45:36 GMT
Dear List,
I am attempting to install two 3com 3c905c NICs on an
old 586 PC for use as a firewall using the FoppyFW distribution
(runs off a single floppy). I downloaded the 3c509 driver (supports
the 3c905c NICs I am told) module from the FloppyFW website,
added it to the modules subdirectory, and added the name of
the module to the modules.lst file using DOS EDIT. However, after
booting from FloppyFW I find that ifconfig does not recognize
eth0 and eth1; suggesting the module is not loading. When I
check the two NICs under DOS using the 3link-id.exe utility from
3com, both cards and their details appear.
I am at a point on the learning curve somewhere between newbie
and intermediate and have simply run out of ideas. Does anyone
have any experience getting 3c905c NICs to work and if so what
did you have to do? How does one normally use modules? Do I
have to use rawrite on the module in any way? Any and all comments
will be appreciated. Sure would like to get this project moving again.
Respectfully,
Ken Becker
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From: "kjbecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recognizing 3com 3c905c NICs Wtih FloppyFW
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:46:24 GMT
Dear List,
I am attempting to install two 3com 3c905c NICs on an
old 586 PC for use as a firewall using the FoppyFW distribution
(runs off a single floppy). I downloaded the 3c509 driver (supports
the 3c905c NICs I am told) module from the FloppyFW website,
added it to the modules subdirectory, and added the name of
the module to the modules.lst file using DOS EDIT. However, after
booting from FloppyFW I find that ifconfig does not recognize
eth0 and eth1; suggesting the module is not loading. When I
check the two NICs under DOS using the 3link-id.exe utility from
3com, both cards and their details appear.
I am at a point on the learning curve somewhere between newbie
and intermediate and have simply run out of ideas. Does anyone
have any experience getting 3c905c NICs to work and if so what
did you have to do? How does one normally use modules? Do I
have to use rawrite on the module in any way? Any and all comments
will be appreciated. Sure would like to get this project moving again.
Respectfully,
Ken Becker
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From: "kjbecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recognizing 3com 3c905c NICs Wtih FloppyFW
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:47:45 GMT
Dear List,
I am attempting to install two 3com 3c905c NICs on an
old 586 PC for use as a firewall using the FoppyFW distribution
(runs off a single floppy). I downloaded the 3c509 driver (supports
the 3c905c NICs I am told) module from the FloppyFW website,
added it to the modules subdirectory, and added the name of
the module to the modules.lst file using DOS EDIT. However, after
booting from FloppyFW I find that ifconfig does not recognize
eth0 and eth1; suggesting the module is not loading. When I
check the two NICs under DOS using the 3link-id.exe utility from
3com, both cards and their details appear.
I am at a point on the learning curve somewhere between newbie
and intermediate and have simply run out of ideas. Does anyone
have any experience getting 3c905c NICs to work and if so what
did you have to do? How does one normally use modules? Do I
have to use rawrite on the module in any way? Any and all comments
will be appreciated. Sure would like to get this project moving again.
Respectfully,
Ken Becker
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From: please hold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making LILO wait? [Solved!]
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:38:12 GMT
In article <8q9iu7$jt5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
please hold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8q89e8$384$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> please hold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > How can I make LILO wait until I tell it to boot?
> >
> > In `man lilo.conf' I read this:
> >
> > `prompt': forces entering the boot prompt
> > without expecting any prior key-presses.
> > Unattended reboots are impossible
> > if `prompt' is set and `timeout' isn't.
> >
> > I took that to mean:
> >
> > If
> > the keyword/verb `prompt' is present in lilo.conf
> > and
> > `timeout' is absent
> > then
> > LILO will not do anything
> > until
> > the user types something in.
> >
> > But that is not what seems to have happened.
> >
> > I took the `timeout' spec out of my lilo.conf
> > but LILO went right ahead
> > and booted the default image.
> >
> > How can I make LILO hold off until I tell it to boot?
> >
>
> Ok, I deleted `prompt' and now LILO sits and waits.
>
Nope, still not right.
If I type "?" to make LILO display the boot options,
LILO then waits for me to choose one.
Otherwise, LILO waits DELAY/10 seconds
(default = 15 seconds?)
and then boots the default image.
--
"Whatever that means." (J. Carson)
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