Linux-Setup Digest #717, Volume #19 Thu, 28 Sep 00 09:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Best way to Partition my harddisk ("Patrick")
Re: RedHat 7.0 and Windows Me ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 7.0 upgrade trouble (Mogens Kjaer)
Re: RH7.0 problems (Mogens Kjaer)
PS/2 Mouse with Serial adapter ("Gerald L. Norris Jr.")
How to add second SCSI controller ? (Andr� Schild)
Re: Increase memory to 128M (Stephane Masson)
Raising the userID limit of 64 k (Jonathan Bruce)
Re: Desktop is Only 1/4 of Full Screen (Harry Lewis)
Re: RedHat 7.0 and Windows Me (Harry Lewis)
Re: Red Hat 6.1 doesn't find printer (Harry Lewis)
Re: windows sees linux partitions ! ("Emmanuel Thiry")
Re: PS/2 Mouse with Serial adapter ("Philo")
Re: newbie, problem launching gnome, installing lilo (ksandre)
Re: Timeserver for RH 6.1 or 6.2 (ray)
Re: RedHat 7.0 ISOs OK? ("Robert A. Smith")
Re: PS/2 Mouse with Serial adapter (moonie;))
Linux Deployment Tools ("J.Smith")
Re: Firewall Testing -- HELP!! ("Marc R. Kooij")
Re: windows sees linux partitions ! (Eric)
Re: windows sees linux partitions ! (Eric)
*{|--*Linux Help*--|}* ("*--sLick--*")
Re: Increase memory to 128M (barth)
Does Anyone know How to DO this? ("Jack")
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From: "Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best way to Partition my harddisk
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:17:41 +0200
Hi,
I'm a Linux newbie and I want to do a complete re-install of my system. I
have 1 harddisk of approx. 7.5 Gb, and I want to install Win2K as my primary
OS, win98SE and SuSE Linux 7 for some experiments.
What is the best way to partition my disk, I like to use the Win2K boot
manager to boot Linux (LILO) and I need the following space (Approx.)
Win2K 4 - 4.5 Gb
Win98 1.5 - 2 Gb
Linux 1 - 1.5 Gb
I know Linux likes 2 partitons 1 for \ (and \boot) and 1 for \swap and msut
reside below 1024 cilinders in order to work.
also I don't like to have a OS in my boot partion for Win2K and Win98 SE...
In my old config without Linux I had 3 partion 1 boot (winnt) and 1 for
WinNT and one for Win98SE, I liked this and it would be good to have this
again... but i can't figure out how....
I hope someone can help me out,
TIA, Patrick.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 and Windows Me
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:24:26 GMT
Somewhat of a problem there. As lilo doesn't load, I have no way of
booting to linux and obviously I can't access nor edit lilo.conf in
Windows. How would I go about loading linux in order to do this?
===============
mjrand
In article <OnkxNDTKAHA.141@net003s>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> first edit /etc/lilo.conf to configure the lilo boot loader. Next,
> run /sbin/lilo and then reboot the system. Watch it! :-)
>
> More help with 'man lilo'
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
> Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.17 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
> 11:40am up 2:42, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.27, 0.25
> Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Mogens Kjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 upgrade trouble
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:31:27 +0200
Eric Hathaway wrote:
>
> "Kirk R. Wythers" wrote:
> >
> > I am upgrading to RH 7.0. When the installer get to the point of "choose
> > cdrom or hard disk install", I get the error, "can't find redhat cdrom".
> > However, I booted from the redhat 7.0 cdrom. Any thoughts on what is
> > going on here? COuld I have downloaded a bad iso image?
> >
> > Kirk
>
> I had the same problem with the RedHat 7.0 iso image. Upon further
> investigation, I found that I could mount the burned cd on an existing
> linux box, the directory structure appeared correct, but many of the
> files (including ALL of the rpms) appeared to be unreadable. I thought
> that there was a problem in downloading or burning the cd, but now I'm
> not sure. I downloaded the images several times, and I couldn't get the
> md5 checksums to match those provided by RedHat. Could there be a
> problem with the images themselves?
I can see several reasons:
1. Are the sizes of the iso files correct? I have:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ftp 678035456 Sep 26 19:32
7.0-i386-SRPMS.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ftp 670564352 Sep 26 16:00
7.0-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ftp 676231168 Sep 26 16:01
7.0-i386-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ftp 650471424 Sep 26 19:25
7.0-i386-docs-8bit.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ftp 614799360 Sep 26 16:02
7.0-i386-powertools.iso
2. Do you get the same, but incorrect, md5sum after each download?
3. Have you downloaded the file in ASCII mode instead of BINARY?
4. Maybe the iso file wasn't up-to-date (i.e. not fully downloaded) on
the mirror you've downloaded from? When I looked for the iso files, I
found
places where the files weren't completed yet.
Mogens
--
Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg Laboratory, Dept. of Chemistry
Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark
Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.crc.dk
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From: Mogens Kjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.0 problems
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:33:29 +0200
Silviu Minut wrote:
>
> Did anyone else experience problems with anaconda while installing?
> Installation failed several times with the graphical installation. A window
> popped out saying that it is probably a bug and that I should e-mail it to
> bugzilla. The only way I managed to install was in text mode.
If you choose to have a window partition mounted (together with the
Linux partitions)
during the Disk Druid setup, you will see this. Don't do this... You can
always
mount it after the install.
Mogens
--
Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg Laboratory, Dept. of Chemistry
Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark
Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.crc.dk
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From: "Gerald L. Norris Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PS/2 Mouse with Serial adapter
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:40:16 GMT
Hullo, all.
Here's the specs that I have so far:
Mouse type - generic 2 button PS/2 for a compaq machine (using serial
adapter)
LINUX distribution - SUSE 6.2
Computer - hybrid 486 dx 100
RAM - 24M
Disk Space - 8.4G
The purpose - Play with another operating system and set the box up as a
house server. Since I'm not expecting a huge amount of traffic (we have two
boxes running Win98 + 1 laptop (Win95) I just want a place to store my MP3s
and JPGs as well as a place that my 10 year old son can put the games that
he likes to play (to my chagrin, teaching the boy about computers made him
very savvy about loading a game while remaining absolutely ignorant about
taking games off (Myself: "You haven't played that game in over a year" My
son: "I still LIKE it!" sigh)).
The problem - I've got the system up and running, and I'm going to attach it
to the network "real soon now". The mouse is a PS/2 with a serial adapter
attached because the box/motherboard was made before they had PS/2
interfaces. When I try to configure the mouse as a serial mouse on
tty0/tty1 it doesn't work. When I try to configure the mouse as a PS/2 it
doesn't work.
The questions - What am I missing? Do I really need to set up for Xwindows
in order to configure the machine to act as a server (obviously not, since
there are so many boxes that were configured w/o Xservers at all, but how
much easier does it make server configuration?)? Do I just need to get a
serial mouse and say to hell w/ the other? Do I need more tequila (Okay,
the last one doesn't much concern the problem, but I usually feel better
afterwords....)?
Thanks for any help.
--
Gerald L. Norris Jr. -- Houston, Tx.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gerald of Leesville, a bard of Stargate -- Kingdom : Ansteorra
Husband, father, lover, singer, writer
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From: Andr� Schild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to add second SCSI controller ?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:51:53 GMT
Hello,
we have a Linux system (Suse 6.3) running with the disks connected to a
cpqarray controller.
So far everything works fine.
Now for the tapedrive we added a adaptec scsi card.
How do I tell the installed system to load the aic7xxx driver during
startup ?
When I boot from the setup disks, then I can specify it and the tape is
recognized, but in the installed system.... where do I tell it to load
this additional driver ?
Andr�.
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From: Stephane Masson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Increase memory to 128M
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:54:11 +0200
Add the following line in the section corresponding to your linux kernel in
your /etc/lilo.conf:
append="mem=128M"
If a line append already exists, just add the mem=128M to the line.
Then save the file and su to root. Finally run /sbin/lilo.
Stephane.
"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
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From: Jonathan Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Raising the userID limit of 64 k
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:58:46 GMT
Hi -
Is there any way of raising the ceiling on userID's on RedHat 6.2 ? I'm
hitting a limit of 64k and I need to raise it to at least 128k.
For example, if I add an two entries into /etc/passwd
test1::65535:10::/:/bin/bash
test2::65536:10::/:/bin/bash
I can login with user 'test1', but not with user 'test1'. Any ideas on
how I can raise the barrier much appreciated. A possible fix will allow
all authentications on this box to use NIS maps that are well
established and are working fine for all Solaris boxes.
-Jonathan
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Desktop is Only 1/4 of Full Screen
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:28:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It sounds like you've set up X for more than one screen resolution - try
CTRL-ALT-+ where the plus is on the numeric keypad (this may not work if
your keyboard set-up isn't right!).
Harry
John wrote:
>
> Having some trouble with an install.
>
> I have a sharp picture, but I'm only seeing 1/4 of the full desktop.
> If I move the mouse to the edge, I can move the screen around the desktop.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> TIA
>
> -john
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 and Windows Me
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:30:17 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you create a boot disk during installation? If so, boot using that.
Harry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Somewhat of a problem there. As lilo doesn't load, I have no way of
> booting to linux and obviously I can't access nor edit lilo.conf in
> Windows. How would I go about loading linux in order to do this?
>
> ---------------
> mjrand
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.1 doesn't find printer
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:34:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here are a couple of gotchas that got me when installing Linux/Winders:
1. Printer daisy-chained off external zip drive and zip drive switched off
2. Printer on "standby" (if you send print to it, it turns itself on,
but Windows and Linux won't detect it).
Harry
"S�REN CHRISTENSEN" wrote:
>
> I have a peculiar problem. I've just installed Red Hat 6.1, almost
> everything went fine, except that i claims that it can not detect any
> printer using 'printtool'.
> I guess it's not an arugment to say that everything works fine using
> Windows, but on the other hand my hardware have been bought to meet Linux's
> demands.
>
> Hardware:
> Motherboard Aopen AX63 Pro,
> Processor: PIII, 500 MHz
> Printer: Lexmark Optra E310, Postscript.
>
> I can't figure out whats wrong, is there some way to bypass 'printtool' and
> setup up the printer by hand?
>
> Having a computer and not being able to print anything is a little bit sad.
>
> S�ren Christensen, Norway.
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From: "Emmanuel Thiry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows sees linux partitions !
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:08:18 +0200
Finally I found a workaround : making linux partitions primaries (and not
logical). This way Windows doesn't see them. But I still don't understand
why logical partitions used to work, but doesn't anymore.
Because I'm curious, I'll try Svend Olaf's findpart (and post the result
here tonight) both with primaries and logical partitions.
--
Emmanuel Thiry
Pour me r�pondre/to reply, effacer/remove .toto
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse with Serial adapter
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:07:55 -0500
unless the mouse was specifically designed to be used with a serial
adapter...it probably won't work...
i think i'd just get a serial mouse as they seem to usually do the job
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ksandre)
Subject: Re: newbie, problem launching gnome, installing lilo
Date: 28 Sep 2000 08:10:24 -0400
George Shapovalov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
<snip>
: To avoid doing it manually upon every boot you will need to modify
: /etc/inittab. But before that try "init 5" as root. If all goes well you
: should see graphical login screen gdm, kdm or xdm depending on
: distribution and your choice. From this screen you can choose your
: window manager when you log in.
:
: If that worked edit /etc/inittab and find line looking like this:
:
: id:3:initdefault:
: change it to read:
: id:5:initdefault:
: (that is replace 3 with 5).
: Reboot, and here you go.
Why "5" and not "4?" I thought "5" == "3" anyway? (I'm a newbie to
Slackware [7.0]. Is this recommendation specifically for RH [the original
poster's Linux flavor]?) I thought "4" was for X. Oy. I'd better read
ALOT more.
--
=ksandre=
"Gold is the corpse of value...." _CRYPTONOMICON_ by Neal Stephenson
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Timeserver for RH 6.1 or 6.2
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:12:52 GMT
"David M. Cook" wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:04:08 -0400, jhuman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know where I can find a timeserver (Redhat) for my internal LAN?
>
> Look for xntp or ntp on your distro CD.
>
> Dave Cook
Yes, and then, look here for setup help
http://raymondjones.net/ntpguide.html
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://raymondjones.net
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From: "Robert A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 ISOs OK?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:34:57 +0100
> So I was wondering: Could anyone confirm that you have in fact been
> able to download the CD image files, burn them to a CD, and successfully
> install/upgrade RedHat 7.0?
Sort of. I have managed to download the 2 iso files and burn them, booted
from the CD and the graphical install went fine first time (i didn't try to
upgrade - just told the installer to re-format the old RH 6.2 partition).
Linux boots fine, but I am having display problems which make the system
unusable with a GUI. Something to do with XFree86 4 and my viper II card i
think. command line works fine though.
Rob Smith
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse with Serial adapter
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:28:47 -0400
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Gerald L. Norris Jr. wrote:
>Hullo, all.
>
>Here's the specs that I have so far:
>
>Mouse type - generic 2 button PS/2 for a compaq machine (using serial
>adapter)
>LINUX distribution - SUSE 6.2
>Computer - hybrid 486 dx 100
>RAM - 24M
>Disk Space - 8.4G
>
>The purpose - Play with another operating system and set the box up as a
>house server. Since I'm not expecting a huge amount of traffic (we have two
>boxes running Win98 + 1 laptop (Win95) I just want a place to store my MP3s
>and JPGs as well as a place that my 10 year old son can put the games that
>he likes to play (to my chagrin, teaching the boy about computers made him
>very savvy about loading a game while remaining absolutely ignorant about
>taking games off (Myself: "You haven't played that game in over a year" My
>son: "I still LIKE it!" sigh)).
>
>The problem - I've got the system up and running, and I'm going to attach it
>to the network "real soon now". The mouse is a PS/2 with a serial adapter
>attached because the box/motherboard was made before they had PS/2
>interfaces. When I try to configure the mouse as a serial mouse on
>tty0/tty1 it doesn't work. When I try to configure the mouse as a PS/2 it
>doesn't work.
>
>The questions - What am I missing? Do I really need to set up for Xwindows
>in order to configure the machine to act as a server (obviously not, since
>there are so many boxes that were configured w/o Xservers at all, but how
>much easier does it make server configuration?)? Do I just need to get a
>serial mouse and say to hell w/ the other? Do I need more tequila (Okay,
>the last one doesn't much concern the problem, but I usually feel better
>afterwords....)?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>--
>Gerald L. Norris Jr. -- Houston, Tx.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Gerald of Leesville, a bard of Stargate -- Kingdom : Ansteorra
>Husband, father, lover, singer, writer
I keep a serial mouse (actually one that does both serial, and PS/2) around
because all the other rodents in the house are PS/2 only, they don't contain
the protocols for serial operation. Actually my 11 year old son has stolen it
for his Linux box at the moment (got tired of his trackball)
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
http://counter.li.org
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Deployment Tools
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:35:28 +0100
Hi.
I am looking for tools that would help to deploy and manage Linux and
replace M$-Windows. However, I have become rather accustomed to the
deployment and management tools that the M$ world has to offer. Some
examples of what I am looking for for Linux are:
* Automated OS installation on a clean system, possibly in combination with
boot from network.
* Automated hardware detection and installation during the automated OS
install.
* Scheduled and automated application installation, removal, and
configuration.
* wake up from lan.
* Hardware and Software Inventory.
* Centralized user management
It would be nice if there was some kind of integrated deployment toolkit out
there, but I doubt there is. I guess that it will boil down to getting
seperated packages that do *ONE* of these things, and then integrate it all
myself using shell-scripts and such?
All information, tips, or links to web-sites on Linux Deployment and
management in medium to large sites is more than welcome.
Thanks.
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From: "Marc R. Kooij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Firewall Testing -- HELP!!
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:40:35 GMT
Here's some sites that do firewall-checking. They're supposed to test
windows-systems, but I assume they work on linux-firewalls as well. Please
correct me if this assumption is wrong.
I'm pretty sure these sites are bonafide. You may want to ask the opinions
of others as well.
http://grc.com
(the www missing in the link is intentional
www.hackerwacker.com
If you choose to run the test from hackerwacker, you should choose all
options. It's a commercial site, and you get only one free test.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows sees linux partitions !
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:41:10 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emmanuel Thiry wrote:
>
> 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
> Pour me r�pondre/to reply, effacer/remove .toto
You have made a change, because this does not happen al of a sudden.
It can be easily helped though. Just make sure that the extended
partition linux is in is of the type "linux extended" and not plain
"extended".
You can change this with the help of fdisk. Just change the partition
types, nothing else, then there's no danger of losing any data.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows sees linux partitions !
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:55:33 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emmanuel Thiry wrote:
>
> 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
> Pour me r�pondre/to reply, effacer/remove .toto
You have made a change, because this does not happen al of a sudden.
It can be easily helped though. Just make sure that the extended
partition linux is in is of the type "linux extended" and not plain
"extended".
You can change this with the help of fdisk. Just change the partition
types, nothing else, then there's no danger of losing any data.
Eric
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From: "*--sLick--*" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: *{|--*Linux Help*--|}*
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:58:35 +1000
I'm planning to install Linux for the first time sometime next week and I
was wondering if you guyz can reccomned a good Linux Distribution...I was
thinking SuSE or Red Hat...Also you guyz know any good Java compliers for
Linux?
==========================================================
*--{|*_sLick_*|}--*
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From: barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Increase memory to 128M
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:04:05 +0200
> Add the following line in the section corresponding to your linux kernel in
> your /etc/lilo.conf:
> append="mem=128M"
> If a line append already exists, just add the mem=128M to the line.
> Then save the file and su to root. Finally run /sbin/lilo.
> Stephane.
I had the same problem with mandrake 7.0 and i added mem=128M in the line append,
but it didn't work!
append="xxx xxxx mem=128M" wasn't working
The problem was solved when i put mem=128M in first place in the append
line...strange...isn't it?
append="mem=128M xxx xxxx" was working...
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From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Anyone know How to DO this?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:52:30 +0100
I had 2 6GB HD with NT and other stuff on the first HD.
The second HD had 3GB (FAT) first partition for my data
The rest of the 2nd HD partition were used for linux. With
the boot partition on /dev/hdb5
Now I have replaced the 2 6GB HD with a single 13GB HD
I have done an image copy (using Power Quest's Drive Image)
of my NT and linux partions from the old 2 6GB HD onto the
new single 13 GB HD successfully. NT boots OK. The boot
partition for Linux has now changed to say /dev/hda5
Problem:
Obviously my original bootable floppy and etc/fstab on the current HD
still points to hdb5. I have edited /etc/lilo.conf on the floppy to point
to
/dev/hda5 and when I boot from the floppy reports a "panic" (i think kernel
panic)
error. I have tried re-booting using the Redhat 6.2 CD in rescue mode and
using:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 / to mount the root directory. I think it mounts
the dir
because the listing shows some of my files. However when I when I do a
listing
in the /etc directory I only see files that were already there by the virtue
of the
bootable CD. Hence /etc/mtab is there but /etc/fstab is NOT there.
Que
How can I restore the system from here. What files do I need to modify.
Any link? how to? Any help greatly appreciated.
Jack
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