Linux-Setup Digest #692, Volume #19 Mon, 25 Sep 00 06:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: I NEED A JOB!! ("MThompson \(the-werd.com\)")
Re: Installation problems with 40GB disk ("Mr. Liaw")
Re: I NEED A JOB!! (D.J.)
Re: Printing from windows to a Linux printer (Michael Perry)
Re: Help! Cannot get win98 to boot with lilo (Eric)
Re: dual boot linux+win98 -> no access to cd-rom ? (Eric)
Re: Ram Problem (Eric)
Re: Problems using the menuconfig option for kernel (Colin Watson)
Re: cgi Q: (Colin Watson)
S3 Savage problems with XFree86 3.3.6 (Kim Oechsle Hansen)
No sound when playing audio CD's (John Wilkinson)
Re: Firewall Testing -- HELP!! ("michael.fengler")
Re: No sound when playing audio CD's (Davide Bianchi)
Kernel panic: No init found. Try the init= option... (jmsalvo)
inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use ("Vinson Armstead")
ATA100 (Stephane Dugravot)
Re: 2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!! (ray)
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From: "MThompson \(the-werd.com\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: I NEED A JOB!!
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:31:44 GMT
yes, apply for a linux job...
i did ;P~
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Message:set:end
mail from:!;Mathew Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Dee Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone give me leads on how I can use my knowledge of linux to get a
> job?
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From: "Mr. Liaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation problems with 40GB disk
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:49:50 +0800
Hi EJ
I have a similar problem to format my 20G for my Reh Hat 6.2. Later by
accident, I reset my BIOS setup to standard manufacturing BIOS setup, the
installation went without any problem. It seem there are certain settings
of the mother board casing the probelm (which I have no idea which one of
them because there are too many such parametes in BIOS setup). Any comment?
TM Liaw
E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I also have problem with my 40G maxtor harddisk using RH6.2.
> I have trouble formatting 20G at the end of the harddisk for linux. (My
harddisk
> started to formatting fine then bad smacking sound
> and never formated 20G parition.)
> I had to arrange my harddisk with 7G at the beginning for linux while 32G
at the
> end for windows, because of lilo
> booting up windows beyond the 1024 cylinder.
> I would recommend updating to the latest kernel and getting the latest
lilo. (or
> get RH7.0 when it is available)
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D.J.)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: I NEED A JOB!!
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:43:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.geekfinder.com/
JimP.
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djim55 at tyhe datasync dot com. Disclaimer: Standard.
My Web pages Updated: September 23, 2000:
http://www.crosswinds.net/~djim51/
Registered Linux user#185746
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Printing from windows to a Linux printer
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:01:52 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:21:44 GMT, Brian McKeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
> I just installed a local printer to my Linux server and would like to use
>it as a remote printer for my windows machines on my network. Anyone know
>how to do that? Any suggestions are appreciated. thanks in advance
>
>
This is actually pretty easy to accomplish. Ensure you have a working
printer in your /etc/printcap file that you can print from linux to. Now
you will need to get samba working on the linux box and be able to browse
the network on the 98 box or boxes. This may take a bit because you will
have to mess with encrypted passwords, etc. There are some good howto's on
samba and I would start at the samba web site. What I did on debian was
read over the /etc/samba/smb.conf file and make changes in there I wanted to
make like for printers, home directories, file and directory permissions. I
set up a second share for a public group to share files. I went to a win98
box and elected to setup a network printer and went to the file share that
pointed at my linux printer. I installed the windows printer drivers for my
Lexmark E310 laser printer. Now it works quite well. I also queue my
printing from other linux boxes to my debian box. I have a redhat 6.2 box
that I play with. I upgraded to lprng because I could not seem to get lpr
to see the printer and believe it was turned on or accepting connections. I
also used a nifty little program called rlpr which prints directly to tcpip
addresses out there.
I expect it took me about 30 minutes of effort and I got printing working
across my home network. The hardest part was the continual rebooting that
windows subjects people to for network changes. What a consummate bore. :)
--
Michael Perry
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Cannot get win98 to boot with lilo
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:16:45 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pascal VINCENT wrote:
>
> Hi, I've just purchased a new 15Gig disk mostly to accomodate the
> resource-hungry Windows98, and can't get Lilo to boot it.
>
> Lilo reports a "0x01" error code when I try to boot win98.
>
> Please help!!!
>
> Here is what I did:
> * I installed Win98 on a 6.5 Gig partition on the new drive (temporarily
> set as primary master, with my old disk temporarily disconnected, so
> that Win98 would accept to install and not erase the old disk...). It
> did boot.
> * I reconnected my old disk as primary master, and set the jumper of the
> new disk as primary slave, (I have a cdrw and cdrom drive as secondary
> master and slave, and can't really connect all of these otherwise due to
> cable and screw hell inside the box...)
> * I changed the lilo configuration as follows:
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> timeout = 50
> prompt
> default = linux
> vga = normal
> append = "mem=128M"
> read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = linux
> root = /dev/hda5
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label = linux-backup
> root = /dev/hda5
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = win95
> table=/dev/hda
> other = /dev/hdb1
> label = win98
> table=/dev/hdb
> # map-drive = 0x80
> # to = 0x81
> # map-drive = 0x81
> # to =
> 0x80
Why did you comment this part out?
It should work, make sure to rerun /sbin/lilo after you changed the
lilo.conf
Eric
> Well, actually I tried several variations, but always got this 0x01
> error... (LILO version 21)
> What's wrong, what does that error mean...
>
> Please help!
>
> --
> Pascal VINCENT
> tel: (514) 733-4670
>
> Laboratoire d'Informatique des Systemes Adaptatifs
> Departement d'Informatique et de Recherche Operationnelle
> Universite de Montreal
> tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 1794
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> "Infini est le potentiel creatif
> de chaque instant de votre vie" [Shakti Gawain]
>
> "Un navire est a l'abri au port...
> mais les navires ne sont pas faits pour ca." [je ne sais plus de qui
> c'est...]
>
> "If you love somebody,
> set them free!" [Sting]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual boot linux+win98 -> no access to cd-rom ?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:28:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
blackk wrote:
>
> Hye,
>
> Big issue for my tiny head ! and no answer until now from neither from nec
> nor my reseller...
>
> I just bought a nec versa ax notebook.
>
> I tried to make a dual boot with Linux and W98 on my laptop. I have now a
> serious problem: no way to access to the cd-rom anymore.
>
> I may have crashed the master boot.
>
> I don't have the masterCD to recover my laptop to the original state.
I'm just curious, what is a masterCD? (Are you making pressed duplicates
of CD's? I know that's called a master)
Can you enter the BIOS settings? Is boot from HDD switched off?
Else make a linux boot floppy (image is on the installation CD) and boot
from there. Then your installation program will have access to your
CD-ROM (unless it's a hardware error)
Or try a DOS bootdisk. You can run fdisk /mbr . It'll restore the MBR to
a fresh new state (You'll lose all data on the HDD)
Eric
> I downloaded on nec's site a program to create a recovery disket. At the end
> of running it is asking me a system serial number but my s/n does not work
> ??
>
> 1/ Does anyone think the diagnostic is ok or is there another cause (despite
> hardware pb) ?
> 2/ Is there any way to download the Mastercd somewhere ?
> 3/ What does mean the system serial number asked by the program run from the
> recovery disk. How could I find it ? Is there any program running without
> asking it ?
> 4/ Is there any other program, site, mailing list or newsgroup that could
> help us ?
>
> Thanks, really thanks to everybody,
>
> Black Kevin
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ram Problem
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:32:13 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John D. Cassidy wrote:
>
> I have just installed linux, and it will only recognize 64 of my 256 mb's of
> ram. Anybody have any ideas of what to do. Remember, I am a new user, so
> please be as detailed as possble.
I will be very detailed : RTFM
This is a faq, search deja, search redhat.com (or any of the other
disributors for their FAQ's)
You'll need to add te following to your lilo.conf : append="mem=256M"
and rerun /sbin/lilo afterwards.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Problems using the menuconfig option for kernel
Date: 25 Sep 2000 07:34:24 GMT
K. Crane <kcrane@kcsaturn(dot)dyndns(dot)org> wrote:
>I am wondering if somebody can tell me what packages I will need in order to
>be able to do a "make menuconfig" on a Linux kernel.
The exact names depend on your distribution, but the errors you show
come from not having the ncurses development packages installed. These
might be called things like ncurses-devel (Red Hat, I think) or
libncurses5-dev (Debian).
>The system is my firewall system and I don't want to install X on it to
>use "make xconfig".
Some people install just the X libraries (no X server) on such systems
so that they can run X programs there on a remote display.
>I also do NOT want to use the Q&A session that results from simply
>typing in "make".
That calls 'make config', which I agree is a pain. It's an older system
than either of the other two.
>I installed the ncurses package and all other ncurses apps seem to work
>fine but trying to do a "make menuconfig" results in the error message
>shown below.
This is the usual run-time versus development question. You need one
package to run programs based on ncurses and another package to compile
programs based on ncurses. Many people won't need the latter form of
many libraries, so they're usually kept separate.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: cgi Q:
Date: 25 Sep 2000 07:48:38 GMT
Emilio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just installed a counter program for my web page.
>When executing it manually from Linux, (./count counter.dat), the # in
>counter.dat increments. However, when executing from my html page with <!--
>#exec cmd="./count counter.dat" --> nothing happens.
Did you look in the web server's error log file (probably something like
/var/log/apache/error.log or /var/log/httpd/error.log) to see if the
server reported any errors? This should be your first reaction to this
sort of thing going wrong.
You're assuming here that 'count' is actually in the same directory as
the HTML page you've put that in. (It probably shouldn't be; standard
practice is to have a separate cgi-bin directory for these things,
mostly for security reasons.) If it isn't, you need to give the full
path. In fact, I'm not even sure what current directory #exec cmd will
give to whatever it executes, so give the full path anyway.
Personally I'd use a CGI script instead (and #include virtual), as
executing random programs from server-side includes is ... unusual.
>I know that the html command <!-- --> means exclude but the procedure says
>to use it. The command w/o the <!-- --> doesn't work either, however.
Forget about that; <!--#... --> is a special incantation that's parsed
by the web server. It borrows the HTML comment syntax so that, even if
it doesn't get parsed, the SSI code doesn't get displayed by web
browsers.
(Non-existent newsgroup removed and follow-ups set, as this isn't
Mandrake-specific.)
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Master," I complained, "the programmer who wrote this code is lazy!
It's a simple bug and yet he's done nothing about it." My Master asked
me, "Why, then, have you not fixed it yourself?" I was then enlightened.
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From: Kim Oechsle Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3 Savage problems with XFree86 3.3.6
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:31:07 +0200
I'm having trouble with Mandrake 7.1 with XFree86 3.3.6 on a laptop with
a S3 Savage MX/IX card. The resolution is only 320x200.
Some people have told that they solved this problem by using the
s3_savage driver.
In the startx output the XF86_SVGA server reports about a lot of
drivers, including the s3_savage driver. Trouble is, it doesn't
recognize my card and hence doesn't use the s3_savage driver.
Question: how do I force it to use this particular driver? There must be
some place in the XF86Config file where this can be set?
Regards,
Kim Oechsle Hansen
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From: John Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No sound when playing audio CD's
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:22:50 GMT
Hi all,
I know this question has been posed before, but I can't read the
answers, as the posting is too old. So be patient with me.
I have a Mandrake 7.1 install. I also have a Soundblaster ISA card that
has been setup and works for system sounds and also playing MP3 files
with XMMs or whatever it is called. So I know my setup an card are OK.
When I try to play any audio CD with ay the KSCD player or the Gnome
player, there is no sound. The CD is accessed, and the light flashes.
The player says playing track 1, but still no sound.
Any ideas?
Regards,
John.
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From: "michael.fengler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Firewall Testing -- HELP!!
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:55:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24 Sep 2000, David K. Means wrote:
>I'm not sure that a script would be up to that level of checking. You don't
>say
>if you are using ipfwadm or ipchains, but in either case, you might look at
> http://www.digitalelephant.org/computing/fire/fire.html
>for an explanation of the one good way to set up a masquerading firewall.
Make that http://www.digitalelephant.org/computing/fire/firewall.html
^^^^
- mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: No sound when playing audio CD's
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:02:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:22:50 GMT, John Wilkinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<ZAP>
>When I try to play any audio CD with ay the KSCD player or the Gnome
>player, there is no sound. The CD is accessed, and the light flashes.
>The player says playing track 1, but still no sound.
Are you sure the CD is connected with the Sound Card ? Open the
PC and check if there is a little white (usually) cable that
connect the CD to the sound card.
Davide
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From: jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel panic: No init found. Try the init= option...
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:58:42 GMT
Kernel 2.2.16
Before I rebooted and got the message above, all files seems to have
"disappared" (but not really. More on later/below). For example, 'ls' or
'sh' gives a "No such file or directory".
Unfortunately, I did not try '/bin/sh'.( I am saying this as this has
impotance below)
However, I can pwd, cd, set.
I rebooted, and got the kernel panic specified in the subject of this
post. The kernel panic shows after mounting the root fs in read-only
mode and after the "Freeing unused kernel memory: 44kb freed" message.
To get around the kernel panic, I tried, from within the LILO prompt,
like:
LILO: linux-latest init=/bin/sh debug root=/dev/hda7 panic=10
...without any luck.
Now the strange part:
I can mount and see the entire contents of my root partititon (and
everything else for that matter), if I:
* Boot from CD using the RedHat installation CD, then
* Select Install
* Tell the installation to use fdisk to partition hda (I did this only
so I can mount the root fs), ...
* Then while the installation is in fdisk ( but not changing anything on
the partititon tables ), I switch to a console (Alt+F2) for the bash
prompt and I mount the root fs:
mount -t ext2 hda7 /tmp/disk1
.... and there is my root fs.
* sbin/init is there (I tried executing /tmp/disk1/sbin/init to test if
it is corrupted. It worked so it is not corrupted)
* bin/sh is there ( also tried executing /tmp/disk1/bin/sh. Worked. No
file corruption )
* etc/inittab is there and I can read it using 'cat
/tmp/disk1/etc/inittab' )
Verified that the root fs specified in the kernel is /dev/hda7, so I ran
:
/tmp/disk1/usr/sbin/rdev /tmp/disk1/boot/vmlinuz-latest
and it gave me:
Root 0x0307
...which is correct.
All in all:
* Not a LILO problem
Otherwise, the kernel would not have loaded in the first place and the
kernel would not have been able to mount the root fs in read-only mode.
* Not a partition table problem.
Otherwise, I would not have been able to mount and read/execute files
from my root fs using the procedure above.
* Not a kernel problem.
Otherwise, rdev would have shown a different value for the root
partition
Any ideas out there?
What is unique about a root partition / fs that allows it to be mounted
but not have the kernel read or execute anything?
Regards,
John Salvo
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Vinson Armstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:25:35 GMT
Hello,
I have been noticing a large number of the below message in my log files. I
am not sure but it seem that my system thinks there is another system on the
network with same IP address it has?!?!?!?!?
"inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use"
Any clarity would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Vinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stephane Dugravot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATA100
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:30:20 +0200
Hi all,
I have problem when installing linux (whatever distribution). I am
having a PCI promise ATA100 controller and when a boot from cdrom or
floppy, the PC hang just after trying to configure IDE controller... Any
suggestion, i didn't find anything on www.redhat.com...
Tx
Stef.
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!!
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:47:02 GMT
"Rinaldi J. Montessi" wrote:
> Igor wrote:
> >
> > Hi... I am trying to get a 2.4.0 test5 version of the kernel to run.
> > I have compiled it etc. When I get to the lilo prompt and try to
> > select linux-240, it says something like "starting kernel" and then
> > hangs. I have verified that the kernel is where the lilo.conf
> > says it is. Any ideas?
> >
>
> Stay away from 2.4.test-pre-alpha-whatever until 2.4.10 is available.
> Unless you like kernel hangs at boot.
>
> see news://muc.lists.linux-kernel and get the latest info.
>
> --
> Rinaldi]$
> "The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people,
> too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the
> Constitution." --Ronald Reagan
I can't possibly know if the kernel hang is intrinsic in the 2.4 test
series on your hardware. However,
I do know that on my box, I have run them all from test2 to test7 (i have
8 but havent compiled yet) I have experienced totally rock solid
performance. I read several newsgroups, and this issue is certainly not
endemic.
Many people are using the 2.4. tests including the forward reaching
features, without issues. I am running the
LVM stuff here, on a daily basis. I would rather suspect some issue with
compile time choices. This is RH6.2
on very generic PC hardware. Maybe try compiling a very simple kernel,
find the boot issues, then add
things you need.
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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