Linux-Setup Digest #667, Volume #19 Thu, 21 Sep 00 15:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: installing slackware 7 (Shell Hung)
Re: Getting started ("Jonno")
Re: Sharing swap space between windows and linux (Andreas Schweitzer)
Re: Increase memory to 128M ("Teck Meng, Liaw")
Re: easy questions for a linux user w/ a little experience (Flotsam)
review on VA Linux hardware quality/support (Jason Hong)
Two network interface = 200 Mbps throughput? (Beggar)
Re: PPP on mandrake 7.0 (Bill Unruh)
Tripwire config for RH 6.2 wanted. (Ward)
Re: Two network interface = 200 Mbps throughput? ("Simon")
Re: Two network interface = 200 Mbps throughput? (Andreas Schweitzer)
Re: IP Masq (Kamran Aslam)
Instalacja (?) linuxa ("Belial")
Rockwell Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Rockwell Modem (Josef Oswald)
Re: IP Masq (mike)
Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Ethernet interface problem ("Chakravarthy Sannedhi")
Re: Dual boot lilo problem (Josef Oswald)
Re: Encyppt whole Linux system ? (Chang-Han Jong)
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From: Shell Hung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing slackware 7
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:03:40 +0800
You may use their GUI tools 'setup' to install these package.
SOMERTON KENNEDY wrote:
>
> i have recently installed slack 7 on my computer and i get login and
> password prompt and then it goes to the graphical user interface their
> is not much info on the gui really basically im looking for more info on
> the first cd it comes with 3 more cds on the cover of the package it
> says that it comes with gnome kde and two thousand applications is their
> anyone out their who knows how to set up slackwares entire 4 cds thanks
> in advance you can email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux rules
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Best Regards,
Shell Hung
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From: "Jonno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting started
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:15:10 +0100
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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])
Thanks for this. I'll have a go.
Jonno
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sharing swap space between windows and linux
Date: 21 Sep 2000 17:13:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <C1by5.254$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bluster wrote:
<snipped description how to use /win/win386.swp>
That sounds easy. But *I am pretty sure* that I saw
a HOWTO or something that uses a whole partition that
can be shared between Win98 (not 3.1) and linux.
It worked similarly. But you had to fool Win even more :
- Convincing Win to only use a certain drive
and not do anything else with it plus some adjustments
about the warning "running low on disk space"
- Linux has to restore parts of the Win file system upon
shutdown.
- Convincing Win to not do a file system check, since
it just got a "new" filesystem.
And in the end you would not swap on win386.swp but the whole
drive.
HTH
Andreas
--
Andreas Schweitzer
http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/
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From: "Teck Meng, Liaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Increase memory to 128M
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:22:05 +0800
Thanks David, this time is work.
Teck Meng, Liaw
"David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Teck Meng, Liaw" wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have install RedHat 6.2 with 64M ram, now I have upgrade the server
> > to128M, how do I change the system configuration to utilize all there
128M?
> > Any help is appreciate.
> >
> > Teck Meng, Liaw
>
> It should find it automatically. If it doesn't then you need to add this
> line to /etc/lilo.conf
>
> append="mem=128M"
>
> --
> 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] (Flotsam)
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
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:24:40 GMT
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:19:38 GMT, Buschman <buschman_007@nospacom> 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.
You could probably use either pair, but there's some special
configuration involved when you have two identical NICs.
http://www.scyld.com/expert
Also (near the end of) Ethernet Howto, http://linuxdoc.org
Best info on various cards & drivers, http://www.scyld.com/network
http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/
>d) I am a little confused by these kernel modules?
If you have any modules that you had to compile, be sure to
recompile them when you change to booting a different
kernel. Each kernel has a separate /lib/modules/* .
Flotsam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: review on VA Linux hardware quality/support
Date: 21 Sep 2000 17:26:30 GMT
My team plans to buy VA Linux 1150 which is a rack mountable slim box. The
price is about $4500 for
800 PIII +
512MB RAM +
2 x 18G SCSI +
dual 2 10/100 +
cd-rom + floppy.
And we are planning using Linux for the whole web application from Solaris.
so, we are going to buy tens of VA linux servers. Right now, we are using
Apache on Solaris 2.5.1, but we will port to RedHat 6.2 with tomcat and all
ssl stuffs.
I would like to get some reviews on
1. if VA Linux whether their product is solid close to Sun hardware
2. if VA support its customers in timely manner with quality.
3. if there are better vendors outthere, which one do you recommend?
If you have suggestions, please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you,
Jason
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have suggestions.
======================================================================
Jason Hong, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Administrator for Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Auspex
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From: Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Two network interface = 200 Mbps throughput?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:24:02 +0800
Hi all,
I want to run a server program that use more than 100Mbps but don't
want to buy a gigabit ethernet. I am considering use two NICs using
the same IP (or different IP) to fully utilize the CPU power.
Is there any exist program or method that can bridging between the
server program and the NICs ?
I know Windows 2000 have such function. Any expert can help ??
Thanks very much !!
Dicky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: PPP on mandrake 7.0
Date: 21 Sep 2000 17:33:44 GMT
In <8qcunm$f1t6e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Tony Neville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
]"Zhihui Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
]news:Pine.GSO.BU-L4.10.10009162010040.7722-100000@bingsun2...
]>
]> I try to configure PPP on Mandrake 7.0 on Dell Inspiron 5000 portable. It
]> gives me the following information:
]>
]> Sep 16 19:38:14 localhost ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at
]> 115200
]> Sep 16 19:38:14 localhost modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
This is a bug in the pppd code which issues an inappropriate error
message. Ignore it.
]I extracted the following from "/usr/doc/ppp*/README.linux" on my
]RedHat 6.2 installation. It just looks relevant to the problem you're
]having.
]" To talk to the new driver, pppd needs to be able to open /dev/ppp,
] character device (108,0). If the special file node /dev/ppp is not
] present, pppd will create it. However, if you are running with /dev
] on a read-only filesystem, pppd will not be able to create /dev/ppp.
] In that instance you should manually create /dev/ppp using the command
] `mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0'."
This is for the 2.4.0 kernels. The 2.2 kernels do not use this. ppp
checks for the new driver and issues the bad eror message if it does not
find it. It does not actually care as it uses the old driver just fine.
DO NOT manually create dev ppp on a 2.2 kernel. It is not needed or
wanted.
]That would be 'mknod /dev/ppp0 c 108 0' in your case.
]Incidently; from GNOME I use 'RH Dialer' to connect to my
]intenet provider. RH Dialer uses ppp, and the pppd was
]certainly up and running, yet I found no /dev/ppp* listed.
]Maybe pppd for mandrake does things a little differently.
No. Older versions of pppd had that fake error messages. This bug was
corrected in later versions. Mandrake 7.0 used one ofhte buggy pppd
drivers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ward)
Subject: Tripwire config for RH 6.2 wanted.
Date: 21 Sep 2000 14:22:53 GMT
Installing tripwire 1.3 ASR on RH 6.2 and was wondering if there
was any good config(s) floating about.
--
Ward Goodwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Be sure to remove the forward and backward spam from the addy...
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From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Two network interface = 200 Mbps throughput?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:37:51 GMT
Checkout "Balance" on http://Freshmeat.net
Simon
"Beggar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I want to run a server program that use more than 100Mbps but don't
> want to buy a gigabit ethernet. I am considering use two NICs using
> the same IP (or different IP) to fully utilize the CPU power.
> Is there any exist program or method that can bridging between the
> server program and the NICs ?
>
> I know Windows 2000 have such function. Any expert can help ??
>
> Thanks very much !!
>
> Dicky
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Two network interface = 200 Mbps throughput?
Date: 21 Sep 2000 17:39:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Beggar wrote:
>want to buy a gigabit ethernet. I am considering use two NICs using
>the same IP (or different IP) to fully utilize the CPU power.
bandwidth ?? ^^^^^^^^^
You need the bonding kernel patch :
http://pdsf.nersc.gov/linux/
It comes from the cluster projects. See
e.g. http://www.beowulf-underground.org/
>I know Windows 2000 have such function. Any expert can help ??
And then get full 90 Mbs ... SCNR ...
Andreas
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http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/
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From: Kamran Aslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: IP Masq
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:59:02 -0400
Make sure you set the gateway of the masq'd machine to the IP of the machine
running the IP masq. The networking appears to be functional as you can ping
both the private and public IP's of the server.
Warren Cundy wrote:
> 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: "Belial" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Instalacja (?) linuxa
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:00:50 +0100
mam trzy pytanka:
1. czy mozna linuxa zainstalowac na jednej partycji
rozszerzonej
2. ile ok. trzeba na poszczegolne dyski
logiczne zakladajac tylko opanowanie podstaw systemu
3.jakiego linuxa instalowac
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Rockwell Modem
Date: 21 Sep 2000 17:55:35 GMT
Environment: IBM Aptiva 245E
Memory: 64MB
OS: Linux Redhat 6.2/Win 98
Modem: Rockwell built-in the mother board
Problem:
NOTE: My Rockwell modem does connect to my ISP on my Win 98 partition.
I have correctly configured my modem on Linux using linuxconf and
ppp0 w/ the correct string. I copied everything from my Win 98 configuration.
However, when using Linux Redhat 6.2 OS, my modem cannot connect to my
ISP. My userid and password are correct. The modem keeps dialing, but
never can make a connection. What am I missing? Please feel free to request
more details. Currently, I'm not at my home pc, which has the RH 6.2.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remove the spam.
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From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rockwell Modem
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:24:10 GMT
Hi:-)
Just a wild guess: Is your Modem a PNP modem? If yes you might need isapnp ( or
compile pnp) support into your kernel.
don't know if this will solve the problem :-(
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> Environment: IBM Aptiva 245E
> Memory: 64MB
> OS: Linux Redhat 6.2/Win 98
> Modem: Rockwell built-in the mother board
>
> Problem:
> NOTE: My Rockwell modem does connect to my ISP on my Win 98 partition.
>
> I have correctly configured my modem on Linux using linuxconf and
> ppp0 w/ the correct string. I copied everything from my Win 98 configuration.
> However, when using Linux Redhat 6.2 OS, my modem cannot connect to my
> ISP. My userid and password are correct. The modem keeps dialing, but
> never can make a connection. What am I missing? Please feel free to request
> more details. Currently, I'm not at my home pc, which has the RH 6.2.
>
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Remove the spam.
--
-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: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: IP Masq
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:31:04 GMT
also, don't forget to enter the DNS information on your NT box, it should be
IDENTICAL to what is on your Linux box.....
If you don't, you'll only be able to ping specific IP addresses and not domain
names
Hope this helps
Mike
Warren Cundy wrote:
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:36:04 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware City Jim 3000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: You'll always need loading of kernel modules =) But what you mean is
Not necessarily -> one can still setup their kernel to be monolithic and
not use modules at all.
But, what I believe he means is he is looking for a card that has drivers
explicitly in the kernel (IE you can select it to be built into the kernel
and not as a module) - as opposed to say, the Linksys LNE100TX 4.1 model
which *has* to be a module.
And as far as that goes, my experience is limited, but I know at least
most, if not all of the 3com cards (I know firsthand the 509, but that's a
10BT card) falls under that category.
--
Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You're one of those condescending UNIX users! ...."
"Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
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From: "Chakravarthy Sannedhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet interface problem
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:36:07 -0500
I am using the Redhat linux for a particular project. I had problem whenever
i reboot my machine. Whenever i reboot the two ethernet interface cards
(eth0 and eth1) on my machine are becoming inactive. So all the time i am
doing the following course to make them active.
System -> Control Panel -> Networking configuration
after that i am pressing the Interfaces tab and making them acive and then
quit.
Is there any permanent solution to get around this problem. What is the
command i could use. How come they could be default active?
Thanks in advance
Chakravarthy K Sannedhi
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From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot lilo problem
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:44:22 GMT
Hi:-)
Andrew Molloy schrieb:
> I was attempting to get lilo to recognise my 2nd slave hard disk.
Is your /boot/ partition on that second slave disk now?
Normally LI shows up because of a bad HDD Geometry or /boot/boot.b was moved
without running LILO.
If you want to mount another HDD you need to make some entries in /etc/fstab.
Also you have to cd to /mnt/ and make a directory for the HDD....
You only configure LILO when you want to start up your Linux with 2 different
kernels, or when you have a dual boot system, other then that you don't need to
change anything in LILO.
You stick in your PC 2 more HDD without touching LILO. ( Unless of course you
change your Master HDD)
> Any suggestions of where to go to solve this?
Just start up Linux from the HDD you installed it on:-)
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
registered-linux-user # 13.818 at http://counter.li.org
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-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: Chang-Han Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.misc,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Encyppt whole Linux system ?
Date: 21 Sep 2000 18:52:22 GMT
In tw.bbs.comp.linux Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
There are some crypto-filesystem.
you can search for them.
--
Chang-Han Jong , Distributed System and Network Security Lab.,
Dep. of Computer Science & Information Engineering,
National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
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