Linux-Setup Digest #708, Volume #19 Wed, 27 Sep 00 07:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Change graphics in Run Level 5 login screen? ("Michael Mowbray")
Re: Change graphics in Run Level 5 login screen? ("David ..")
Re: Network shares. (Adrian Hicks)
Re: Sharing swap space between windows and linux (John)
Re: boot linux from lan (John)
Re: How do I install new software? (John)
Re: Kernel panic: No init found. Try the init= option... (John)
Re: Second display (John)
Re: Physical vs logical partitions - inherent superiority? (John)
help: configuring fetchmail (David. E. Goble)
Re: help: sending external mail (David. E. Goble)
Re: New Linux Install (Chris Sherlock)
Re: Physical vs logical partitions - inherent superiority? (Jim Backus)
Re: AUGH!! Mandrake 7.1 Installation Errors (partitions) (Tom Seiffert)
Re: ftp still login incorrect ("Jimmy HSIEH")
"lost interrupt" -- booting from CD (Mike Oliver)
Redhat Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT WS ("Peter van Dam")
windows sees linux partitions ! ("Emmanuel Thiry")
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From: "Michael Mowbray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Change graphics in Run Level 5 login screen?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:33:31 +1000
Got my machine set up to boot at run level 5 to get the graphic login
screen. Any pointers where to look to replace the default Red Hat and/or
Gnome logos with those of my company? TIA. Michael.
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The contents of this E-mail are the opinion of the writer only and are not
endorsed by Mincom Limited unless expressly stated otherwise.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Change graphics in Run Level 5 login screen?
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 02:00:53 -0500
Michael Mowbray wrote:
>
> Got my machine set up to boot at run level 5 to get the graphic login
> screen. Any pointers where to look to replace the default Red Hat and/or
> Gnome logos with those of my company? TIA. Michael.
>
> *** NOTE: e-mail return address mangled to protect my in-box ***
>
> The contents of this E-mail are the opinion of the writer only and are not
> endorsed by Mincom Limited unless expressly stated otherwise.
In "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0" with the line below.
/usr/share/pixmaps/redhat/redhat.logo.png
Or in "/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf" in the "Logo=" line.
--
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] (Adrian Hicks)
Subject: Re: Network shares.
Date: 27 Sep 2000 07:26:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) wrote in
<s0vz5.11470$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>How do I get redhat 6.2 to recognize my win98 network shares and connect
>to them. Aand how do I set up 6.2 to allow access to my win98 machine?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Steve
>
>
>
Theres a command called 'smbmount' which allows you to connect to Win
shares. Check the man page for all the options.
If I do: smbmount //lan113/cd /mnt/lan113cd -o guest ro
I get a connection to my Win box, though it only stays there till I reboot
the Linux box.
I guess if you want a permanent connection you'd have to put the resulting
command in a startup file, though I can't tell you which one.
Adrian Hicks
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sharing swap space between windows and linux
Date: 27 Sep 2000 15:06:03 +0800
Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:34:48 -0400, "Space Cowboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>Am I correct in assuming this would make linux run a little slower since
>>you're using a FAT32 drive for the swap file rather than a linux native
>>partition?
>>
> Yup. Going through the file system slows things down.
> Also with a swap partition not only do you bypass the
> file system but the pages are contiguous. It doesn't
> get fragmented the way a swap file can.
but probably not slower enough to notice. Most of the overhead would be
in opening the file. Once that's done, Linux will simply rattle round inside
the known file size.
If swapping gets so desperage that it's a problem, you need more RAM,
not faster swap.
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot linux from lan
Date: 27 Sep 2000 15:13:40 +0800
>> Is there a way to boot linux from lan network, or how does the boot from lan
>> (in bios setup) work at all?
> The Network Card's bios mu�t support this, esp. the nic *has* a bios/rom.
> After initialisation of the system the master bios seeks a boot device,
> this may over take by a BootProm on the NIC.
> After this sage the boot process may start, the NIC rom broadcasts
> into the Ethernet an searches vor a aktive bootp server,
> this assigns a IP Address to the Boot-Client,
> and delivers over tftp a "Boot" image = the Kernel file.
> Further initialisation is the part of the "initial Ramdisc" contents
> and ther existing scripts to boot up the diskless client.
> Search the ftp.kernel.org for "boot/etherboot" and simular environments
> do setup such beast.
Also search your HDD and CD for relevant howtos.
You can boot Linux on a system with no boot ROM and no local Linux by
creating a floppy with a kernel with bootp (or with 2.4 kernels, DHCP) support
and precious little else. Oh, support for the NIC too, compiled in. I HAVE done it,
the docs saif the driver must be compiled into the Kernel and I could not find
a way to prove it wrong.
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I install new software?
Date: 27 Sep 2000 15:19:22 +0800
Valentin Saca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi ,
> I have a software for Linux in three *.bin files . How can i install now
> the software on my computer?
By folowing the instructions that come with the software.
*.bin is not a standard format, so there are no generic instruction.
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic: No init found. Try the init= option...
Date: 27 Sep 2000 15:16:39 +0800
H Dziardziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, is the root / under the magic 1024 cylinder so lilo
> can find it? The /boot does not have a file system.
The root partition does not have to be under 1024 cylinders; by the time
that matters, the Linux kernel's loaded and using its own access methods.
It's only duting the currency of the boot loadee that files must be located below 1024
cylinders.
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Second display
Date: 27 Sep 2000 15:27:11 +0800
John Janmaat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Antoine Martin wrote:
>>
>> > I have a thinkpad A20m, and need to connect to an external monitor.
>> > Ideally, I would use the Fn-F7 combination to switch to the external
>> > monitor. I need some pointers on how to configure XFree86 for two
>> > monitors, and switching between them.
>>
>> I believe this should be handled by the laptop itself (bios?) and not
>> XFree.
> The BIOS is involved with the switching, but XFree has to be configured
> to supply an appropriate signal that the external monitor can
> understand. Since the panel display has a sync rates that are likely to
> be different from the external CRT, I need some way to switch these
> things when I switch to the second display.
I take it then, that you don'e want to do it while XFree is running?
Red Hat Linux 6.2 has some DDC stuff in its installer. If you don't
have it, you can download the installer tree (or relevant bits of it).
There's a couple of binaries at least that may help; one can generate
modelines.
>From the information these provide, you could switch (perhaps by changing a symlink
in /etc/X11) to select the configuration appropriate to your monitor.
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Physical vs logical partitions - inherent superiority?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Date: 27 Sep 2000 15:34:24 +0800
In comp.os.linux.setup Ergophobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess the subject says it. Using FDISK for DOS to get going, I ended up
> with one active regular partition, which gets my boot loader and whatever.
> Then my extended partition has logical partitions that hold COL 2.4, Win2K
> and a FAT-32 partition for data sharing between Win and Lin. The question
> is, would it be inherently superior to have these four partitions set as
> physical partitions rather than three logicals? So much superior that I
> might want to re-install (I'd rather do it now while I still ahve almost no
> customization then after I get everything set up.
> All opinions... er make that all informed opinions are welcome!
Nah.
Its just a few (probably less than ten) when you mount or otherwise access
"for the first time" each partition.
Once it's mounted, the kernel knows and remembers where it is.
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: help: configuring fetchmail
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:50:20 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
Hi all;
Can you set fetchmail to not delete the mail when it fetches it, how?
--Regards David. E. Goble
goble [AT] kin.net.au
http://www.kin.net.au/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: help: sending external mail
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:50:25 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:26:48 GMT, tommy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Sendmail do a dns lookup, you most there for set some rewriting rule�s
>in sendmail.cf at the bottom you can type in you rewriting rules.
>
Hi;
Ok, how?
The problem is this;
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.kin.net.au.:
>>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=48
<<< 501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist
501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data format error
So what do I need to do to have sendmail change the from header from
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ???
--Regards David. E. Goble
goble [AT] kin.net.au
http://www.kin.net.au/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA 5223
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:02:31 +1000
From: Chris Sherlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: New Linux Install
Huh? What is that supposed to mean?
Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:47:20 +1000, Chris Sherlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From what I understand, the new LBA32 extensions in LILO will circumvent
> >this problem. I don't know much more about this as I haven't had to
> >worry about hitting the 1024 cylinder ceiling yet.
> >
> >Would someone care to comment?
>
> Paranoia doesn't incurr that much overhead.
>
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >"James M. Luongo" wrote:
> >>
> >> I plan on installing Linux Mandrake 7.1 for the first time. I need some
> >> help. How big should the partitions be? And, I heard something about
> >> LiLo not recognizing a Linux partition after a certain disk cylinder (or
> >> sector, whatever). I think it was 1023, but I'm not sure. Is this
> >> true? Help!
> >> --
> >> ------------------------
> >> James M. Luongo x1427
> >> Draper Laboratory Room 4207
> >> ------------------------
>
> --
>
> I doubt, therefore I might be.
>
> Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
> -- James Thurber
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:10:40 +0100
From: Jim Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Physical vs logical partitions - inherent superiority?
"L. Friedman" wrote:
>
> As far as I know, there is no performance or stability difference
> between using physical or logical partitions.
>
AFAIK, logical drives in an extended partition have extra local
partition table (extended partition tables?). If the OS has to look at
these each time it accesses the disk there would obviously be a small
performance hit, but it is more likely that these are read at boot time
and stored from then on. Otherwise can see no reason not to use logical
drives. Presumably "primary" is intended when "physical" is written?
(this from the original post). Remember that there can only be 4 primary
partitions on a physical drive.
--
Jim Backus
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From: Tom Seiffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: AUGH!! Mandrake 7.1 Installation Errors (partitions)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:22:15 +0200
Hello!
I `ve got the same problem! Only the "expert"-installation has this BUG!
When you use the normal or advanced installation-method
(option 1 and 2 - I don�t know the name..), it will do his work!
greeting
Tom
[germany]
Brando schrieb:
>
> I'm trying to install Linux-Mandrake 7.1 from Windows98 using lnx4win.
> On a HP Pavilion N3250 laptop. I'm running in Expert/Developer mode.
> Everything goes fine up until setting up the partitions.
>
> It asks for the Root and Swap sizes. I go with 3GB for root and 65MB
> for swap (default size). I have a 6 GB harddrive, 2GB used by
> Windows98.
>
> Then it asks which ones do I want to format:
>
> * /mnt/windows/lnx4win/linuxsys.img
> * /mnt/windows/lnx4win/swap
>
> I select both to be formated and then I get this error:
>
> An error occurred
> failed to create loopback file
>
> I hit OK. I get the window with the partitions laid out. There are two
> tabs: hda and loopback. I select the loopback tab and there are to
> segments, a red one for root (/) and a yellow one for swap. I click on
> the root and click format. I now get this error:
>
> An error ext2 formatting of /mnt/windows/linx4win/linuxsys.img
> failed.
>
> I hit OK and then this comes up:
>
> You don't have any room for lnx4win
>
> So I click on the swap and click format and it the proceeds to format
> it just fine.
>
> So I try to format the root again and now I get this error:
>
> ext2 formatting of /mnt/windows/lnx4win/linuxsys.img failed at
> /usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line 85
>
> I then get this error:
>
> failed to create loopback file at /usr/bin/perl-install/loopback.pm
> line 70
>
> Now, what the hell is going on here? Why can it format the swap but
> not the root? I have enough disk space. I have around 1GB left between
> Windows and Linux. I checked the m5sum of the cd image and it matches
> correctly. What is the problem? What can I do to fix this? Please
> help, this is sooooo frustrating!!
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From: "Jimmy HSIEH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ftp still login incorrect
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:28:42 +0800
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My ftp server has same problem. and I don't know how to fix it too.
but I create new user on system, the new user can login ftp correctly.
It's RH6.1 on my server.
"Sharon Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
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Connected to host.domain=20
220 host.domain FTP server (Version wu-2.5.0(1) Tue Sep 21 16:48:12 =
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Name (host:me): me=20
331 Password required for me.=20
Password:=20
530 Login incorrect.=20
Login failed.=20
ftp> quit=20
I thought the problem might be because /etc/shadow was missing=20
in my initial installation of RedHat 6.1 and ftpd (or in.ftpd)=20
needs to check this file, so I created /etc/shadow using pwconv.=20
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speculating that ftpd somehow failed to get the password=20
correct for any given user. What else could possibly be wrong?=20
Thanks.=20
_______________=20
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# in /etc/ftpaccess=20
loginfails 2=20
class local real,guest,anonymous *.domain 0.0.0.0=20
class remote real,guest,anonymous *=20
limit local 20 Any /etc/msgs/msg.toomany=20
limit remote 100 SaSu|Any1800-0600 /etc/msgs/msg.toomany=20
limit remote 60 Any /etc/msgs/msg.toomany=20
readme README* login=20
readme README* cwd=3D*=20
message /welcome.msg login=20
message .message cwd=3D*=20
compress yes local remote=20
tar yes local remote=20
private yes=20
passwd-check rfc822 warn=20
log commands real=20
log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound=20
shutdown /etc/shutmsg=20
delete no guest,anonymous # delete permission?=20
overwrite no guest,anonymous # overwrite =
permission?=20
rename no guest,anonymous # rename permission?=20
chmod no anonymous # chmod permission?=20
umask no anonymous # umask permission?=20
upload /home/ftp * no=20
upload /home/ftp /incoming yes root daemon 0600 dirs=20
upload /home/ftp /bin no=20
upload /home/ftp /etc no=20
alias inc: /incoming=20
cdpath /incoming=20
cdpath /pub=20
cdpath /=20
path-filter anonymous /etc/pathmsg ^[-A-Za-z0-9_\.]*$ ^\. ^-=20
path-filter guest /etc/pathmsg ^[-A-Za-z0-9_\.]*$ ^\. ^-=20
guestgroup ftponly=20
email user@hostname=20
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root=20
uucp=20
news=20
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no =20
=
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=
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=20
no</TT> <BR><TT>upload /home/ftp =
/incoming =20
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dirs</TT>=20
<BR><TT>upload /home/ftp =20
/bin no</TT>=20
<BR><TT>upload /home/ftp =20
/etc no</TT>=20
<BR><TT>alias inc: /incoming</TT>=20
<BR><TT>cdpath /incoming</TT> <BR><TT>cdpath /pub</TT>=20
<BR><TT>cdpath /</TT> <BR><TT>path-filter anonymous =20
/etc/pathmsg ^[-A-Za-z0-9_\.]*$ ^\. ^-</TT>=20
<BR><TT>path-filter guest =20
/etc/pathmsg ^[-A-Za-z0-9_\.]*$ ^\. ^-</TT>=20
<BR><TT>guestgroup ftponly</TT> <BR><TT>email =
user@hostname</TT><TT></TT>=20
<P><TT># in /etc/ftpuser</TT> <BR><TT>root</TT> <BR><TT>uucp</TT>=20
<BR><TT>news</TT> <BR><TT></TT> <BR><TT></TT> =
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From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "lost interrupt" -- booting from CD
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 03:35:03 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got my RH6.2 disks the other day (from cheapbytes) and
I thought I'd see what the install utility looked like,
even though I'll be upgrading my hardware before I actually
do the install.
So I type "expert" at the boot prompt to give myself maximum
control, and it starts checking things out, accurately identifies
my IDE devices, and then starts into a partition check. It
gets through the two hard drives, then starts printing
hdd: lost interrupt
over and over again. There seems to be no way to get past it;
the only key combination with any effect is Ctrl+Alt+Del, which
aborts the thing entirely.
hdd is my Iomega ZIP drive, by the way.
Well, in the configuration in which I'm actually planning to install,
I won't have that drive. Still, this is not an encouraging start.
Does anyone recognize this problem/know what to do about it?
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From: "Peter van Dam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat Linux, Windows 98, Windows NT WS
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:00:10 +0200
I need to install Redhat Linux 6.2, Windows 98 and
Windows NT WS on a single machine with a single 20 GB disk.
Windows 98 and Windows NT WS are installed already and use
4 partitions of 2 GB so 12 GB should still be available for
Linux. But how the *** do I install it?
Disk Druid shows the 4 partitions and below shows 12 GB
free. How do I create the Linux partitions on the 12 GB?
I am lost. There are some FAQs on the subject but they
all asume you are familiar with fdisk and other utilities.
Please help!
-peter
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From: "Emmanuel Thiry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: windows sees linux partitions !
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:03:37 +0200
Hi,
On the first HD in my PC I have a primary partition where Windows 98 is
installed and a extended partition that contains several linux partitions,
and others HD with several FAT32 partitions.
I used this settings seuucesfully for years, but now, it doesn't work
anymore : Windows sees Linux partitions and messes with driver letters.
My setting used to look like this :
IDE HD1 (master on first controler)
pri 1 -> C:
log1 -> /
log2 -> /home
log3 -> linux swap
IDE HD2: (master on second controler)
pri 1 -> D:
log 1 -> E:
log 2 -> F:
SCSI HD :
log1 -> G:
But now (and I don't know how it happened), the setting looks like this :
IDE HD1 :
pri 1 -> C:
log1 -> /
log2 -> /home
log3 -> linux swap
IDE HD2:
pri 1 -> D:
log 1 -> H:
log 2 -> F:
SCSI HD :
log1 -> G:
and Windows sees a new E: HD. If I delete all Linux partitions, everything
is back to good order (except that I don't have Linux anymore).
Please note that 1 and only 1 "phantom" disk is created, whatever the number
or Linux partitions present.
Do you know how to solve my problem ?
--
Emmanuel Thiry
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