Linux-Setup Digest #666, Volume #19 Thu, 21 Sep 00 13:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: still can't upload via anonymous ftp (Don)
Re: Getting started (John Thompson)
Re: Can't install LILO when Linux > 8 GB limit with PC with BIOS restriction ("He
Kun")
Re: easey peasey questions (Josef Oswald)
Re: Making XDM work like startx --bpp16 (Chris Kuhl)
Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work? ("City Jim 3000")
Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work? ("City Jim 3000")
Re: Installing Win98, Win2000 and Linux on one PC?! (Dave Martel)
Re: Can't login! Was I cracked? (Smitty)
Re: Boot w/o Keyboard (Martin Gregorie)
Starting Fresh with new hard disk (Michael)
KPPP user failure solution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
smrsh (system)
Encyppt whole Linux system ? (Beggar)
PPTP question between Linux server and W2000/NT4 client (Jason Hong)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 Installation errors (SOMERTON KENNEDY)
IP Masq ("Warren Cundy")
Dual boot lilo problem ("Andrew Molloy")
Re: easy questions for a linux user w/ a little experience (Buschman)
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From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: still can't upload via anonymous ftp
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:56:53 -0400
I reread the FAQ and redid my ftpaccess file but to no avail (same problem). Oddly
enough though, I can download files from the server's /home/ftp/pub directory even
though I specified no uploading in the same access file. It seems that the
/etc/ftpaccess file is being completely ignored??? Regardless, it seems that I can
download from it but cannot upload to it which is what I want to do.
Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way. What I actually want to do is to be
able to transfer files from my internal network to my web server in the /home/ftp/pub
directory. I don't really need to give anyone else ftp access.
If I comment out aftp from both /etc/services and the /etc/inetd.conf, the connection
is refused so I know of no other way to allow ftp to this server.
One other thing...I installed and am using the TIS firewall proxies and configured my
/etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services file accordingly
Here's my updated ftpaccess file
==============================
class all real,guest,anonftp,anonymous *
email root@localhost
loginfails 5
readme README* login
readme README* cwd=*
message /welcome.msg login
message .message cwd=*
compress no guest,real,anonymous
tar no guest,real,anonymous
chmod no guest,anonymous
delete no guest,anonymous
overwrite no guest,real,anonymous
rename no guest,anonymous
class anonftp anonymous *
upload /home/ftp/ * no
noretrieve .notar
upload /home/ftp /pub yes ftpadmin ftpadmin 0440 nodirs
noretrieve /home/ftp/pub
upretrieve /home/users/bin
upretrieve /home/users/etc
upretrieve /home/users/dev
upload /home/users/ftpadmin * no
upload /home/users/ftpadmin /tmp yes nodors
upload /home/users/ftpadmin /home/users/ftpadmin yes
upload /home/users/ftpadmin /home/users/ftpadmin/* yes
upload /home/users/ftpadmin /home/ftp/pub yes ftpadmin ftpadmin 0440 nodirs
log transfers real,anonymous inbound,outbound
shutdown /etc/shutmsg
passwd-check rfc822 warn
==============================
The Drag wrote:
> Well, you didn't actually read the FAQ or you would have the answer.
> (or perhaps you just don't understand how anon-ftp is actually
> supposed to be used)
>
> Please tell us why you insist on installing anon-ftp for a production
> webserver. At this point you have a breachable server as you didn't
> setup enough security in your ftpaccess file.
>
> Tell us what you want to accomplish, and we'll post an appropriate
> config to help you out. The point being that none of us want to help
> you get rooted by offering the same lack of security as the ftpaccess
> file you posted.
>
> TD
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:02:09 -0400, Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Ok, I'm waving the white flag. After upgrading to wu-ftp 6.1 and
> >modifying my ftp access file according to the docs, I still can't
> >upload, i.e., I am getting "permission denied on server" error messages
> >when I try yo upload to the /home/ftp/pub directory. Does someone have
> >an example ftpaccess file I can look at? Here is mine so maybe you can
> >spot the problem.
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >Don
> >
> >===========================================
> >class all real,guest,anonftp,anonymous *
> >
> >email root@localhost
> >
> >loginfails 5
> >
> >readme README* login
> >readme README* cmd=*
> >
> >message /welcome.msg login
> >message .message cwd=*
> >
> >compress yes all
> >tar yes all
> >chmod no guest,anonymous
> >delete no guest,anonymous
> >overwrite no guest,anonymous
> >rename no guest,anonymous
> >
> >class anonftp anonymous *
> >upload /home/ftp /pub yes ftp ftp 0440 nodirs
> >noretrieve /home/ftp /pub
> >
> >log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound
> >
> >shutdown /etc/shutmsg
> >
> >passwd-check rfc822 warn
> >===========================================
> >
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting started
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:44:46 -0500
Jonno wrote:
> I'm running a 1.2gb hard drive, with a pentium 133 and 32mgs of RAM. Can
> anyone tell me the best How-to's to look through and what version of linux
> would suit if I wanted to dual boot the machine with Windows 98.
HOWTO/mini/LILO
HOWTO/mini/Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2
HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95
HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95
But with a 1.2G drive, things may be pretty tight for
dual-booting Win95 and linux. You may want to add another drive.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "He Kun" <[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: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:01:04 +0800
Yes,I am agree with u!
My suggestion is that you can reside your boot parition under 1024 cylinders
but all
your other partitions to behind 8 GB.(1024 cyclinders equal 8 GB
approximately).
My meaning is that you needn't let a operating system's different paritions
be all together!
Just seperate them.Make their boot partition before 1024 cylinders will be
enough!
"Wouter Bovelander" <wbovelander@*nospam*antares.nl> wrote in message
news:L6Gx5.125$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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. all other partitions
(swap,
> root, etc.) can live anywhere you like on the disk.
>
> i have redhat myself (6.0) and it didn't force me to do anything. redhat
> uses diskdruid to let you choose the partitions where you want to install
> your stuff. just make sure you create your /boot partition below cylinder
> 1024 of your harddisk.
>
> maybe you should try and get some support on diskdruid or read it's manual
> thouroughly.
>
> it would be interesting to see the error message you get though.
>
> good luck
> wep
> http://www.planetzztpp.com
>
>
>
> "Pieter Langendonck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a PC which has a BIOS restriction of maximal 8 GB.
> > I have bought a 20,4 GB Harddisk. I would like to install
> > Linux, Windows95 and Windows NT on this system.
> > I know I can use the full 20,4 GB for Windows 95 with
> > Maxblast software.
> >
> > What I want is to use all GBs > 8 GB for Linux. Below 8
> > GB I want to use Windows95 and NT. This is not a problem.
> > Unfortunately I can't get LILO installed. The Red Hat 6.0 setup
> > program gives a strange error.
> >
> > I tried to make a small Linux partition below 8 GB, but the
> > Red Hat setup program forces me to install everything below
> > 8 GB or nothing. I don't want to fully install Linux below 8 GB,
> > because I would like to have as much GBs as possible for
> > Windows95 and NT.
> >
> > I'm willing to install a small part of Linux below 8 GB...
> > But I have no clue how to do that with setup program
> > of Red Hat.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Or can anyone explain me what to do, why I have the
> > problem installing Lilo. Everything during the install till that
> > point is working fine....
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Pieter Langendonck
> >
> > P.S. It is not possible that I flash my BIOS. The BIOS does just not
> > support partitions > 8 GB.
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: easey peasey questions
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:01:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> 1. what is the best software for mounting my psion revo on my linux OS.
> (yes I have read PSION How To)
> 2. Is there anything that downloads the pictures from my digital
> camera (Olympus C420L)
> 3. Is there any way to get my cheap winmodem (connexant HCF) to work?
Sorry no way :-(
> 4. if Q3 is no, would an AMR modem be any better?
Look up your favorite Linux distribution to check the Hardware data
base.... just checked with SuSE.com there could not find one
> 5. Any software out there like Mathcad?
> 6. any software out there for 3D drafting (I'm a design engineer)?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
-Strange it works but we don't know why: it's Windows it does not have bugs
only features....
the lie of the 20th. century..... will it continue in the third Millennium?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Kuhl)
Subject: Re: Making XDM work like startx --bpp16
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:07:48 GMT
Just set "DefaultColorDepth 16" in the screans section of your
XF86Config file which is usually in "/etc/X11"
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:39:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Making XDM work like startx --bpp16
>
>My xdm starts in 8 bit mode. how can I get it to work like startx -
>bpp16??
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: "City Jim 3000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:15 +0200
You'll always need loading of kernel modules =) But what you mean is
propably that the install will set up things for you. I'd recommend an Intel
EEPro 100 Mbit card or a D-Link DFE530TX but any NE2000 compatible PCI card
should do alrite if you don't need 100Mbps.
"Peter Bismuti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8q1lql$bjm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi, are there any reccomendations for a moderately priced ethernet
> card that is gauranteed to be detected by RH6.? and not require any
> configuration, loading of kernel modules, etc. etc?
>
> Thanks
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From: "City Jim 3000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:13:56 +0200
Sorry, meant Ether Express 100+ as in the other post...
"City Jim 3000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You'll always need loading of kernel modules =) But what you mean is
> propably that the install will set up things for you. I'd recommend an
Intel
> EEPro 100 Mbit card or a D-Link DFE530TX but any NE2000 compatible PCI
card
> should do alrite if you don't need 100Mbps.
>
> "Peter Bismuti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8q1lql$bjm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Hi, are there any reccomendations for a moderately priced ethernet
> > card that is gauranteed to be detected by RH6.? and not require any
> > configuration, loading of kernel modules, etc. etc?
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
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From: Dave Martel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:18:04 -0500
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:05:44 +0100, Michael O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Shicheng wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>Consider reviewing the following website:
>
>http://www.v-com.com/
>
>I have dl'd System Commander 2000 to my system. Originally I had
>intended upgrading the PC I'm using, but now I'm building a new one from
>scratch, starting wit ha 40Gb Maxtor HD with a view to partitioning it
>somilarly to your own.
I picked up a copy of System Commander at a garage sale and tried to
use to partition a new 40-gig HD. Three hours after starting out I was
still fighting with the confounded thing. By contrast it took only a
few minutes with Partition Magic 5 to set up my partitions, and then I
went and did other things for a half hour while PM formatted them for
me.
After trying about a dozen boot managers I finally gave up on those,
too. Every last one I tried managed to screw up my partitions one way
or another. Admittedly it was sometimes user error - I forgot to
uninstall or disable the boot manager before tweaking partitions with
Partition Magic - but I really don't care for something that permits
such an easy mistake to wipe an entire 40-gig HD. I'll just stick with
some batch files, Norton's gdisk (it comes with Norton Ghost), and
loadlin.
(Someone's bound to mention LILO. It's great in some cases but in this
one it just didn't let me do all the things that I wanted).
FWIW, of the boot managers I tried, the two that I liked the most were
XOSL (free) and PTSBoot ($20).
>Partition Magic is probably best for partitioning HDs
Agreed.
>Norton Ghost is probably best for copying a disc image to your new
>disc/partition.
I just picked up Ghost 2001. Not only writes directly to CD burners
from DOS, but supports linux EXT2 partitions as well as Windows and
DOS partitions. One program to back up everything! I haven't tried it,
but it can supposedly also make the CD's bootable using your choice of
bootable floppies.
Watch out if you're using Ghost 2000. If one partition is active and
you restore another partition that was already active when you backed
it up, then it, too, will be made active. You now have two active
partitions and DOS/Windows will refuse to boot off the HD. It gets
complicated to explain but the older version of gdisk doesn't give you
a way to clear TWO active partitions because it presumes there's never
more than one active partition. Partition Magic 5 suffers exactly the
same limitation.
Again I haven't had an opportunity to try it, but the newer version of
gdisk that comes with Ghost 2001 claims to be able to deactivate
arbitrary partitions now.
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From: Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Can't login! Was I cracked?
Date: 21 Sep 2000 08:28:54 -0400
Jake wrote:
>
> Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8qca34$ks5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > When the LILO prompt come on at bootup enter
> > linux 1
> > (ie do not let it boot up by itself)
> > Now, you will be dumped into a console as root.
> > edit /etc/inittab and change the line
> > id:5:initdefault:
> > to
> > id:3:initdefault:
>
> Check /etc/password for new entries and /root/.bash_history
> for unaccounted commands run by root. The root-kits used
> by the script kiddies tend to forget about .bash_history
>
> I'm not saying you were rooted but it's a possibility.
> Exploits on Bind and WU-FTPD (if unpatched) are all the
> rage this past month or two.
>
> Some reading for good measure.
>
> http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/host_security_article-1585.html
>
> Not sure what security measure you had taken before the problems.
>
> Jake
Rather than use telnet, which is very unsecure, use ssh. Telnet should
only be used in a small internal network. Never over the internet,
where doing so is asking for trouble.
Smitty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: Boot w/o Keyboard
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:25:16 GMT
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:19:11 -0600, Ralph Cumberland
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Linux 6.1 on Digital 5200 PC
>Is there a way to boot without a keyboard?
>
>When I boot without a keyboard it doesn't start the IPservices. Seems
>to lock up at the login screen. I can't ping or telnet. I looked in
>the ROM for a keyboard disable but I could only disable the mouse port.
>
I don't think its anything to do with Linux.
My experience says that if you can boot to DOS without a keyboard then
Linux will be fine, but if you can't set the BIOS to allow this then
you need another motherboard that will allow it. Unless, of course you
build a keyboard faker to keep the BIOS happy.
Having said that, I don't suppose its anything as obvious as
configuring Lilo or Linux to require keyboard input during boot up is
it?
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Starting Fresh with new hard disk
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:16:20 GMT
I'm getting a new HD and I want to set it up with Win 98. Then use my
old HD for Linux. I have never used Linux so I would appreciate help on
how to set this up. Partition sizes etc.
My hardware is as follows:
DiamondMax Plus 45 30.7 GB ATA/100 (the new drive)
Controler Card- haven't selected one yet
DiamondMax Plus 5120 10.2 GB ATA/33 (old drive)
AMD k6-2 450
Please help me get started. I'm kinda slow witted so i'll take any
advice I can get
Thanks Michael
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: KPPP user failure solution
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:23:02 GMT
Dear Folks,
Had hairpulling time trying to figure out why KPPP would dial out when
using root password but would not work as user. ( When I hit KPPP as
user, nothing happened). Here is question that led to solution. (Has
something to do with Redhat 6.2)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fred Mulharin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running Redhat 6.2, and when I initiate kppp it prompts me for
the
> root password. How can I allow users to dialin to an ISP without
> requiring users to use the root password?
> --
> Fred Mulharin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Dear Fred,
Had similar problem. Found link refered to in your thread:
www.kppp-archive.freeserve.co.uk/console.html
essentially you open shell and:
"However you might want to just get rid of consolehelper and run the
real kppp binary directly. To do this type (as root)"
ln -sf /usr/sbin/kppp /usr/bin/kppp
chmod +s /usr/sbin/kppp
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
After I typed 3rd line the shell said "no such file or directory". Do
not fear.( This may be peculiar to my RH 6.2 system) Exit as root. Log
back in as user. Hit kppp and it will come up as a new blank dialer. Add
new account with same info as it appears in the kppp that appears under
root.
As a new Linux user I sometimes feel that as a teenager I should have
joined an occult-magic group so that I could get used to mystical
incantations and secret spells. That experience would have prepared my
for Linux.
coyotebert
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Before you buy.
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From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: smrsh
Date: 22 Sep 2000 00:32:54 +0800
Any one knows how to setup smrsh in linux redhat 6.2
--
Paul Wong Peng Kai
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From: Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.misc,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Encyppt whole Linux system ?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:28:41 +0800
Hi all,
I am developing a product that base on Linux box. Is there any method
that can
encypt the whole file system that cannot be read by someone who have
access
the machine physically.
At least, I don't want people use other system boot up the machine and
mount the Linux system.
Many thanks for any help!!
Dicky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: PPTP question between Linux server and W2000/NT4 client
Date: 21 Sep 2000 16:42:14 GMT
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have suggestions.
1. Downloaded poptop rpm packages from http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn
pptpd-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
2. Installed poptop daemon on RedHat6.2, and the Linux box is a VPN server.
3. I can hookup W2000 or NT4.0 clients to the server and have no problems.
Question:
I am not sure if poptop has a good encryption in order to protect data for
remote working employee. What will be the quick and dirty solutions for
encryption for W2000 or NT4 clients? Again, the linux box is the server.
I try not to compile Linux kernel but I am trying to hook up MPPE.
Thank you,
Jason
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have suggestions.A
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From: SOMERTON KENNEDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 Installation errors
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:54:03 GMT
praise the lord
Felix Miata wrote:
>
> Felix Miata wrote:
>
> > lilo: linux ncr53c8xx=tags:0,disc:n &
> > lilo: linux ncr53c8xx=tags:0,disc:n.
>
> Oops! Second line should have read:
>
> lilo: linux ncr53c8xx=safe:y
> --
> A man of knowledge uses words with restraint . . . . Proverbs 17:27
> NKJV
>
> Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net
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From: "Warren Cundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: IP Masq
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:54:41 -0700
Hi All,
I'm running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 and I'm having some problems with Ip-Masq.
I've got the kernel configured properly with everything it needs, and I've
followed all of the steps in the IP-Masq HOWTO. I am running the testing
part of it and I get stuck at step 5, which is pinging an external IP from
an internal machine.
I'm using 2 3com 509s in the linux box, one public, one private. The linux
box is working fine, it can contact both the internet and the internal
subnet.
The internal machine is a WinNT workstation. It can ping the linux box,
both its internal and external IP's, but can't get any farther than that.
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks
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From: "Andrew Molloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual boot lilo problem
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:57:46 +0100
I was attempting to get lilo to recognise my 2nd slave hard disk.
All that happens now is that lilo hangs with a "LI" prompt at the begining.
I've checked over lilo.conf using a boot floppy and can't find anything
wrong.
Any suggestions of where to go to solve this?
Thanks
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: easy questions for a linux user w/ a little experience
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:04:00 GMT
Wow! That was a great post bluster. thanks for taking time out of
your day to try and help a newbie.
I am still unable to mount the floppy. I always get the same error no
matter what or where I try and mount it.
mount: /mnt/floppy is not a block device
return 32
I have no clue what this means. I have thried changing the name of
the drive, the device, the mnt, the filesystem. Everything. But
still the same message.
Thanks,
Buschman
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:10:06 -0400, "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Buschman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> 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=???)
>to see which device files are linked by /dev/cdrom /dev/floppy etc....
>
>ls -l /dev
>
>To list the partitions on a drive use "fdisk -l" e.g. type:
>
>fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
>to list the partitions on the primary ide controller, slave drive.
>
>floppy drive device file names:
>fd0 = first floppy (DOS A:)
>fd1 = second floppy (DOS B:)
>
>ide device file names are standardized in linux and assigned as follows:
>hda = ide0 - drive0 (primary ide controller, master drive)
>hdb = ide0 - drive1 (primary ide controller, slave drive)
>hdc = ide1 - drive0 (secondary ide controller, master drive)
>hdd = ide1 - drive1 (secondary ide controller, slave drive)
>
>partition numbers are appended to the raw device name, e.g.:
>hda1 = first partition on primary ide controller, master drive
>hdc4 = fourth partition on secondary ide controller, master drive
>
>
>> 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?
>I don't know about Supermount, but the mount/unmount commands use the
>settings in the /etc/fstab (File Systems TABle) file, these can be
>viewed/changed in linuxconf, go to the "filesystems-local drives" section
>and click on the list to see properties for a particular entry, or the
>/etc/fstab file can be editied by hand, for info on what to put in there
>type "man fstab".
>
>> c) Is the mount command for floppy the exact same as for CDROM?
>> Obvious with a different /dev/???...
>The un/mount commands use the settings in /etc/fstab so the mount commands
>can look the similar, in fact if fstab is good you need only type the mount
>point OR device file name not both e.g. "mount /mnt/cdrom" will work since
>the mount command will look up the rest of the info (dev file, filesystem
>etc.) in fstab. Un/mount command line settings will override those in fstab
>e.g. if you type "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/dosflop" mount will use the
>msdos filesystem and mount the first floppy (A: in DOS) onto the
>/mnt/dosflop dir regardless of the settings in /etc/fstab.
>
>> d) I am a little confused by these kernel modules? Could someone
>> give me the low down on how they interact with the kernel?
>I don't know the low levels (yet), but modules are pieces of the kernel
>executuable (binary) which have been separated from it (compiled separately)
>so they can be loaded/unloaded into active memory on demand.
>This is done using the insmod (install module) and rmmod (remove module)
>commands.
>Other module utilities include: modprobe, depmod, lsmod, check the man pages
>of these commands.
>Most modules are hardware device drivers (e.g. mouse, NIC, sound)
>and can be added to enable new hardware without recompiling the kernel.
>
>> 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.
>Most systems put a symbolic link called cdrom into the /dev dir for ease of
>use. If the /dev/cdrom link is not there you can create it with the ln
>(link) command
>(as root) type:
>
> _ make a symbolic link
> / _ existing file to link to
> / / _ link name
> / / /
>ln -s /dev/hdX /dev/cdrom
>
>where hdX is the raw ide device file of your cdrom e.g. hdc for a cdrom on
>the secondary ide controller, master drive.
>
>hope this helps!
>bluster
>
>
>
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