Linux-Setup Digest #741, Volume #19 Mon, 2 Oct 00 07:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!! ("J.Smith")
Re: Urgent! Really need help setting up dialup ISP service - DYNAMIC (Chris
Sherlock)
Diffrences xinetd and inetd ("J.Smith")
Re: Downloading help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RH70: Gnome config tool not available using enlightenment windowmanager? (Bernhard
Mogens Ege)
Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this? ("Jack")
Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this? ("Jack")
ipp drivers for win95 and win 98 needed! (Josef Strohmeier)
Re: modem hangs up in 2.4 (2.2ok) (Antoine Martin)
Diamond Stealth 64 display adaptor installation (Dusty Bin)
Re: WU-FTP help needed (Luke Vogel)
Re: what is char-major-6 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Redhat 7.0 and Kernel 2.2.17 (Chris MacKenzie)
Re: RH6.0 installs, but won't boot (Michael Mitchell)
Re: SuSE Linux (Volker)
WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??! (The Archimage)
Re: The modem dials and connects fine, but then it drops the connection (Glitch)
Re: ipp drivers for win95 and win 98 needed! (Glitch)
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From: "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!!
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:28:29 +0100
Let me correct that title. That should read 'lnx4win is a piece of shit'.
And that goes for every distribution you try to use lnx4win with. Just do a
standard installation where you either boot from the CD-rom, or boot from
boot disks and it will all be ok again.
"Brando" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> What a crappy distribution. No matter what I do, the installation fucks up
somehow. No
> matter how many times I try to install LM 7.1 using lnx4win (Linux for
Windows), there is
> always atleast one or two packages (and always a different package) that
causes an error
> during installation. There's errors in perl scripts, like for detecting
pcmcia cards.
> Can't even use expert mode because there's errors in perl scripts when
trying to format
> the partition.
>
> Now, this time I get an error during bootup that it can't find the image
file for
> initrd!! WTF!! What, did LM just forget to create one during the
installation? What image
> file is it looking for? linuxsys.img perhaps?
>
> So, if anyone possibly knows what it means when it can't find the image
file for initrd,
> please let me know a way to fix it.
>
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 19:29:10 +1000
From: Chris Sherlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Urgent! Really need help setting up dialup ISP service - DYNAMIC
Through the ppp link. You set it up so that you are assigned an IP
address, and you can get the DNS entries (as was posted by Duncan
Sayers) by using usepeerdns
Chris
Da FaNToM wrote:
>
> Why wouldn't it?
> I was under the impression that DHCP could be used over any TCP/IP
> connection (PPP, Ethernet).
> The majority of Dial up ISP's in sydney use Dynamic IP Addresses to dial
> accounts, which I guessed as being assigned by DHCP. If not how else would
> they do it? (this is a question not a flame)
>
> Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Standard dialup ISP setup. The DHCP protocol takes care of this.
> >
> > Actually DHCP has nothing to do with PPP connects.
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From: "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diffrences xinetd and inetd
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:35:25 +0100
Hi
I just read that Redhat 7 has changed inetd to xinetd. Is anyone willing and
able to quickly describe the differences, pros and cons of both of these
methods? Will xinetd break stuff, or make it incompatible with other redhat
clones like Mandrake ? Is xinetd something Redhat made themselves, or should
this be seen as the GPL version of "inetd part II" ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Downloading help
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 08:36:30 GMT
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:11:50 -0500, "Dave" <@> wrote:
To burn to a CD you need the ISO files... with what you have you can
install from the hard drive :)
Tony
>Here's another question from another newbie...
>I just finished downloading RH 7 from ftp.redhat.com, and I had a few
>questions. I want to burn the files to cd's, but there's a total of 1.3 gig
>of files, and I'm not sure which files go on which cd. Here's a bit from
>the readme file:
>
>DIRECTORY ORGANIZATION
>
>Red Hat Linux is delivered on two CDROMs (disc 1 and disc 2). Disc 1 can
>be directly booted into the installation on most modern PCs, and contains
>the following directory structure:
>
>/mnt/redhat
> |----> RedHat
> | |----> RPMS -- binary packages
> | `----> base -- information on this release of Red Hat
> | used by the installation process
> |----> images -- boot and ramdisk images
> |----> dosutils -- installation utilities for DOS
> |----> COPYING -- copyright information
> |----> README -- this file
> `----> RPM-GPG-KEY -- GPG signature for packages from Red Hat
>
>The directory layout of disc 2 is as follows:
>
>/mnt/redhat
> |----> RedHat
> | `----> RPMS -- additional binary packages
> | `----> instimage -- NFS installer tree
> |----> SRPMS -- source packages (more are on the dedicated
> | SRPMS CD)
> |----> preview -- alpha and beta level packages (source
> | and binary) for the adventurous user
> |----> COPYING -- copyright information
> |----> README -- this file
> `----> RPM-GPG-KEY -- GPG signature for packages from Red Hat
>
>
>The thing is, I don't know which RPM's belong on which cd. Does it really
>matter? Will the installation process prompt for a different cd if it's not
>on the other? Or am I going about this totally wrong?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Dave
>
>
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Subject: RH70: Gnome config tool not available using enlightenment windowmanager?
From: Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:22:34 GMT
I was just trying the enlightenment windowmanager but now the Gnome
Configuartion Center (gnomecc) wont start anymore.gnomecc is needed to
change windowmanager, so I interpret this as a trap (select
enlightenment and you will never use another windowmanager anymore).
Any ideas to how I can make gnomecc run under the enlightenment
windowmanager?
I did file a bugreport already for RedHat 7.0 beta
(bugzilla.redhat.com) but it was apparently never read.
regards,
Bernhard Ege
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From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this?
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:22:54 +0100
Rob
Many thanks for your thorough "HOW TO" regarding this issue.
B4 your mail in this NG, this is what I did:
I booted using the REDHAT 6.2 CD & at the boot prompt, typed
vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5, rw
Initially I got caught out with the last option (rw), I did it few times
without it and of course I couldn't save /etc/fstab & /etc/lilo.conf
after edit as they are read-only. I tried set: noro within vi without
success. Anyway with the rw option, there was no problem.
Now its all done (95%), with a small problem outstanding.
I have an LS-120 drive and I tried creating a bootdisk using
mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.x-yy
but it hangs without any floppy disk activity.
Since my floppy/LS-120 is /dev/hdc, I tried
mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc 2.2.x-yy
This creates the boot disk with all the needed files on the floppy.
However it doesn't boot. If I change the boot line in the lilo.conf
on the floppy from /dev/hdc to /dev/fd0 it boots partially ie LI
Any Ideas? Many thanks in advance.
>
> 1) Create a place to mount the /dev/hda5 to:
>
> cd /
> mkdir mountpoint
> (you can use "mountpoint" if you want, or call it harddisk5, or
> something)
>
> 2) Mount the partion to the mountpoint
>
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mountpoint
>
> At this point you should see your old files in /mountpoint, and /
> should have the files from the rescue floppy. So the file you want to
> edit is /mountpoint/etc/lilo.conf, not /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> 3) Edit /mountpoint/etc/lilo.conf
>
> Emacs won't be on the rescue disk of course, so you may have to vi or
> pico or whatever they put on there.
>
> 4) run lilo
>
> I think you may have been missing this step. You can edit the
> lilo.conf files all you want, but you have to actually run lilo for it
> to take effect. Lilo looks at /etc/lilo.conf by default, and you want
> it to look at the one you modified, /mountpoint/etc/lilo.conf; also
> lilo is now in /mountpoint/sbin/lilo instead of /sbin/lilo. Try this
> command:
>
> /mountpoint/sbin/lilo -C /mountpoint/etc/lilo.conf
>
> Notice how I specify the full path to everything, because at this
> stage stuff is mounted to weird places. Hopefully that will work; if
> lilo is dynamically linked and needs to find something in /lib or
> /usr/lib it might not. If it works, great, otherwise try running this
> command and then try it again:
>
> export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mountpoint/lib:/mountpoint/usr/lib:/mountpoint/usr/local/li
b
>
> So hopefully at this point you can reboot and have your system back.
>
> If you use something other than mountpoint, replace mountpoint
> throughout all these instructions.
>
> If it doesn't work, post again here.
>
> --Rob
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From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this?
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:25:52 +0100
Yes I did with
vmlinuz root=dev/hda5, rw
With this all partitions are automatically mounted.
Many thanks for yor advice.
--
"Bill Shirley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8r6j6s$5kn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Boot from the CD and mount your partition somewhere under /mnt
> Change the /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf and whatever else. Don't forget
> to run lilo after changes.
>
> Bill
>
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From: Josef Strohmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ipp drivers for win95 and win 98 needed!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:10:13 +0200
I want to change our Win NT print server by a linux printer server with
the ipp (internet printing protocoll). Therefore I installed the ESP
Print Pro Software and installed a testprinter (HP LaserJet 4050). For
Win NT there is no Problem to print to this printer, but I have problems
with Win 98 and Win 95. I downloaded the ipp-driver for Win NT but there
is no driver for Win 95 and Win 98.
Could anybody send me a link where I can download these drivers.
Josef Strohmeier
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From: Antoine Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem hangs up in 2.4 (2.2ok)
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 11:17:00 +0100
Thanks all,
I have worked it out... (after I got more debug messages out of syslog)
I was simply missing the async module (not needed/did not exist in 2.2...)
DOH!
Antoine
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From: Dusty Bin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Diamond Stealth 64 display adaptor installation
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:35:25 +0100
Reply-To: Dusty Bin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <8qte8i$e1q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, OhadBC
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Hi'ya.
>
>Had a similar problem with Diamond StealthII G460 just recently.
>My problem was smoothly solved by upgrading to the newest X windows version.
I thought that last time I looked, it said there was no support for S3
stuff with XFree86 v4.0. Maybe I'll check again.
>You may have a driver problem, too, so start with upgrading to Xfree86 4.0
>(RH6.2
>installs Xfree 3.3.6 or somethin').
Yes, 3.3.6-20.
>If that one won't help try commenting out all of your "Screens" but your
>chosen one,
>in which you make sure no virtual screens are put.
Thanks for the pointers
Actually, it turned out to be a more basic problem...
I ran 'startx > tempfile 2>&1' (or similar) and, on inspection, realised
that it was running the SVGA server. This is because the original
RedHat installation was done with the Cirrus card.
I've now installed the S3 server, and everything seems more or less OK.
Interestingly, I see that on the XFree site under 'Information for S3
chipset users', the use of the SVGA server is mentioned in section 9 -
and in particular with 968 chip on my card. I guess it just doesn't
like mine.
>"Dusty Bin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I installed RH62 on my 486 machine with the Cirrus gl5422 display
>> adapter. Everything was fine, with RH installing enlightenment, etc. on
>> XFree86.
>>
>> Now I have replace the display adapter with a Diamond Stealth 64 Video
>> VRAM VLB card. Unfortunately, the screen displays only the top left-
>> hand corner of the desktop, i.e. the display is magnified to about
>> double in each axis.
>> - setup was done using xf86config
>> - I used the specific option for the card
>> - I did not select chip, ramdac, timings since the selected option
>> should be OK, and I had previous tried without selecting the specific
>> card option, but selecting TI3026 for chip and ramdac with the same
>> result.
>> - I've deleted virtual entries in XF86Config display subsections (but
>> desktop didn't move with the mouse anyway).
--
Dusty Bin
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From: Luke Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WU-FTP help needed
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 20:23:20 +1000
"Kenny A. Chaffin" wrote:
>
> In article <7lMv5.2604$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > I have installed wu-ftp on my linux box. I have run rpm -qa | grep ftp and
> > verified it is installed. What I don't know is how to start it! It is
> > installed, but not running. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Arthur
> >
> >
> >
> It's really inetd that does it, make sure it is starting (started) up.
>
> KAC
> --
> KAC Website Design
> Custom Programming (java,Dynamo...), Web Design/Graphics
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kacweb.com
Make absolutely sure BEFORE you start it and put your box online, that
you have the latest patched version of wu-ftp!
The version shipped with many distributions had a buffer-overflow bug
that IS being exploited by every script kiddie on the block.
--
Regards
Luke
PLEASE NOTE: Spamgard (tm) installed.
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all problems begin to resemble nails.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is char-major-6
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:33:36 +0200
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, BC Berrry wrote:
> I installed kernel 2.2.17 on my RedHat 6.2 system. It boots up and runs OK
> but whenever I boot, I get multiple errors in /var/log/messages from
> modprobe complaining that it can't find module char-major-6. I've 'grep'd
> everything I can think of trying to find any kind of reference to
> char-major-6 with no luck. What is char-major-6 and how do I go about
> stopping the messages.
>
char-major-6 is parallel printers.
You can find out what char-major-* and block-major-* type devices are in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt - if you have kernel
documentation installed.
You should be able to fix the problem in one of two ways:
1) You have a printer installed: Put the line "alias char-major-6 lp" in
/etc/modules.conf
2) You do not have a printer: Put the line "alias char-major-6 off" in
/etc/modules.conf
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: Chris MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 and Kernel 2.2.17
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 10:47:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having troubles compiling a new kernel with Redhat 7.0.
> After finishing a complete new installation of Redhat 7.0 (no upgrade)
> I cant't compile kernel 2.2.17.
>
> I do:
> (untarring of course to /usr/src/....)
> make mrproper
> make xconfig
> mape dep
> make clean
>
> And then:
> make bzImage
>
> I get at various parts during compiling:
> "pasting would not give a valid preprocessing token"
>
> Anyone has any idea?
I also had the same problem and tried the make CC=kgcc bzImage with
nothing but errors occuring.
But I did find out how to get it to compile correctly - with the help of
my local lug.
edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile and search for the CC line as show below.
CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)cc -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)
change cc to kgcc and your all set. do the usual make mrproper config
dep clean etc....
It works for me as you can tell from my headers ! *8-)
--
Rgds,
Chris MacKenzie
Windows: "Where do you want to go today ?"
Mac-Os: "Where do you want to be tomorrow ?"
Linux: "Are you comming or what ?"
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From: Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0 installs, but won't boot
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 10:57:59 GMT
You need to go into more detail. How did you format the disc, etc. Bios
settings should have pnp disabled.
Murray Alexander wrote:
> I've been tearing out what little hair I have left. I've got RH6.0, and I've
> installed it (several times, now) on an older box I bought just for this
> purpose (no other operating system on the machine, no dual-booting,...).
>
> It's a Pentium MMX 200MHz, on a GA-586AT motherboard (can't find doc
> _anywhere_) with 32MB of RAM, a 850MB Quantum drive, a Trident 8900CL VGA
> card, a 3Com 3C509 combo card, and your basic 3.5" floppy.
>
> After sorting out the disk geometry problems (another story in itself), LILO
> now seems to work. So, when I boot, I get this:
>
> LILO boot:
> Loading linux
>
> ...and then it freezes. I've disabled PnP on the 3C509, which didn't help at
> all.
>
> Any ideas, anyone? I haven't found any documentation that seems to apply to
> this situation.
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 12:57:49 +0200
From: Volker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE Linux
*--sLick--* wrote:
>
> Hey guyz I'm planning to buy SuSE Linux for the first time tommorow but I
> need to know if my hardware will be compatible. The following are my specs:
...
> Well....thats it and I'm planning to either get SuSE Linux Personnel 7.0 or
> Professional 7.0. I want to get Pro because it has more software and
> features than Personnel but I need to know if it is Compatible. Thanks, all
> help will be appricated.
Goto: http://www.suse.de and check their hardware compatibility
database.
But the componets you list look pretty standard. So my guess is, that
it'll work
with no problems. (Considering on what exotic platforms I already
installed
SuSE Linux...)
Volker
====================================================================
Volker Wedemeier E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (delete all
'n's!)
Br�dermannsweg 60 22453 Tel.: 040 / 4504750
22453 Hamburg
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From: The Archimage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??!
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 05:59:32 -0500
I lost DNS configuration, Apache configuration, Samba (although,
granted, I use SWAT), and service management (although that seems to be
covered now by ntsysv and xinetd).
Why?!?! What the heck happened?!? The DNS config tool was actually
really ggod under 6.2! Going back to editing by hand sucks!
What's up with THAT?!?!
The Linux Archimage
Austin, Texas
Red Hat Certified Engineer
TurboLinux Certified Trainer
Certified NetWare Engineer
Microsoft Certified Trainer
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:07:51 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The modem dials and connects fine, but then it drops the connection
why don't you provide error messages from /var/log/messages? that would
help us help you-- as of now anything could be causing the connection to
be dropped
Eric Lo wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am using RH6.2 and use the PPP Dialer to connect to the internet,
> however, the modem dials and connects fine, but then it drops the
> connection.
> I really hate using windows but if my RH can't connect to internet, this
> force me to using windows again, please help.
>
> I have been asked to reset the init string (not the dial command) to
> AT&F0, but I can't find the init string setting in PPP Dialer.
>
> Eric
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:10:18 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipp drivers for win95 and win 98 needed!
sounds like a windows problem to me, not linux
Josef Strohmeier wrote:
>
> I want to change our Win NT print server by a linux printer server with
> the ipp (internet printing protocoll). Therefore I installed the ESP
> Print Pro Software and installed a testprinter (HP LaserJet 4050). For
> Win NT there is no Problem to print to this printer, but I have problems
>
> with Win 98 and Win 95. I downloaded the ipp-driver for Win NT but there
>
> is no driver for Win 95 and Win 98.
> Could anybody send me a link where I can download these drivers.
>
> Josef Strohmeier
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