Linux-Setup Digest #806, Volume #19 Wed, 11 Oct 00 09:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: Boot Problems, LILO and fsck, need RECOVER help (Gary Sandine)
MP3 decoder-encoder ("Ali")
Licq upgrade ("Ali")
Re: MP3 decoder-encoder (Eric)
Re: trouble compiling a kernel RH7 (Bernhard Mogens Ege)
Re: GRUB ??? (Raymond Laia)
Suggestions in Setting up RH7? (Francis)
Re: KDE problem (thierry baertschiger)
Kde problem ("Martin Schmidt")
Re: Boot Partition too Big!!! ?! ("Gary Leung")
xman is treating me cruel ("Steven Brent")
Re: various LILO vga settings/tux images ("Weedle Fidbaum")
Re: Apache access ("Cedric Edwards")
Re: soffice51 install (Mike Oliver)
Re: MP3 decoder-encoder (Andrew Pritchard)
Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems ("Ed Bras")
Re: Boot Partition too Big!!! ?! (Eric)
Setting the PATH variable ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ipsec VPN masq support in kernel ("Andy")
Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cant=B4?= connect to ISP (Sebastian Niehaus)
Re: MP3 decoder-encoder (Sebastian Niehaus)
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot Problems, LILO and fsck, need RECOVER help
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:18:55 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware David N. Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Attempting to boot with the Linux Rescue floppy yeilds an error...
Did you make "the Linux Rescue floppy" particular to your install??
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes)
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From: "Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: MP3 decoder-encoder
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:20:40 +0100
I`m a looking for an MP3 decoder-encoder, can someone recommend one. I
would like one with GUI and easy enough to configure. I`ve used audiograbber
for use in windows so something along these lines would be great.
TIA
Ali
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From: "Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Licq upgrade
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:16:05 +0100
I`m trying to upgrade Licq to the latest version, the problem is that when I
run the rpm file it fails because
it needs certain files namely:-
libcrypto.so.0
libssl.so.0
Anyone help me with this.
TIA
Ali
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MP3 decoder-encoder
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:41:50 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ali wrote:
>
> I`m a looking for an MP3 decoder-encoder, can someone recommend one. I
> would like one with GUI and easy enough to configure. I`ve used audiograbber
> for use in windows so something along these lines would be great.
>
> TIA
>
> Ali
search freshmeat.net for cd-rippers and mp3 encoders/decoders
I use bladeenc for mp3 encoding, xmms to playback, and cdparanoia for
getting tracks of the cd. But there are many other options.
Eric
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Subject: Re: trouble compiling a kernel RH7
From: Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:45:45 GMT
>>>>> "havesum2" == havesum2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> im using an abit kt7 750 thunderbird and i cant get it to compile a kernel
> with RH7 it works fine with 6.2 anyone else have this problem.
> kernel ver. 2.2.17
> thanks in advance for any help,
> havesum2
In the top level make file, change gcc to kgcc. Do a "make mrproper;
make xconfig; and so on"
It works for me (on the standard 2.2.16 kernel). I had bad luck with
the 2.2.17 kernel and nvidia drivers... Take care.
regards,
Bernhard Ege
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From: Raymond Laia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: GRUB ???
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:25:22 +0200
Martin Racette wrote:
>
> I have installed Mandrake 7.1 and it use GRUB by default, but now I have
> to re-install Windows98, but everytime I do this I need to reconstruct
> the MBR, but when I use DRAKCONF, it install LILO instead of GRUB, and I
> would like to know how do I install GRUB, without having to use the
> Mandrake's CDs, and do an UPDATE, to re-install GRUB
Go to directory /boot/grub and run the command: sh install.sh
The file install.sh should be in the directory.
If necessary you can first edit the file menu.lst.
Raymond
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francis)
Subject: Suggestions in Setting up RH7?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:45:08 GMT
Hi all,
I am going to install RH7 in my computer. I decided to allocate 5GB to
install RH7. However, I have no experience how to partition the
system. Is there anyone kindly suggest me how to partition the hd?
Regards,
Francis
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From: thierry baertschiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE problem
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:04:42 +0200
thierry baertschiger wrote:
>
> Martin Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem with KDE when i create users
> > myself instead of using yast for this purpose.
> > I use Suse 7.0 and i add the users with the
> > useradd command.
> > The problem is that with this users kde wont start
> > and the following error message appears :
> > Waiting 2 seconds for /home/username/Desktop
> > being created by kfm.
> >
> > Does anyone know what causes the problem ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Martin
maybe look in the new /home/newuser if there are some files like
.xinitrc ... and compare with what you have in your /home/ directory
(like /home/martin ) (use ls -a !!)
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From: "Martin Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kde problem
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:16:26 +0200
Hi,
I try to use KDE as standard environment .
The problem appears if i try to create new
users with the useradd command instaed of
creating them with yast (Suse 7.0) .
Kde wont start for this user with the error :
Waiting 2 seconds for /home/username/Desktop
being created by kfm.
Does anyone know what causes the problem ?
Thanks in advance,
Martin
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From: "Gary Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot Partition too Big!!! ?!
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:54:45 +0100
Reply-To: "Gary Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for your help, but I found some sort of the same thing yesterday, and
I try to install it again, I put ~100-200Mb for "Swap", ~4-20 for "/boot",
and the rest for "Native" but it still got problem, it still says " boot
partition too big" and got the line with "/boot" partition in red. then I
can see I can click on "next", I click on it, but it can't continue, just
restart my machine. Does anyone know why it will say "boot partition too
big"?!
Gary
aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Gary Leung wrote:
> >
> > I got 10G HD, I made partition 8G and 2G, I have my Windows 98 on 8G
(c:)
> > then I boot up with the RedHat6.1 CD, and try to install (on my 2G
drive),
> > when I go up to the partition, I can't set up the "Linux Native" drive,
it
> > give reason "boot partition too big". Can anyone know why is that, and
tell
> > me how to make it?
>
> you have an older version of lilo that will not work past cylinder
> 1024.
> You have 3 choices
> 1 - get a newer version of lilo
> 2 - boot from floppy
> 3 - repartition your drive as follows
> 10M - /boot
> 8G - windows
> remainder /
>
> I would go with option 3 as it is probably the easiest to deal with
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From: "Steven Brent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xman is treating me cruel
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 06:23:02 -0400
Hi - I'm a relative newbie to Linux, running Mandrake 7.1 and loving it....
My problem is that every time I try to use xman, the 'getting started'
screen is legible but all the man pages are gibberish, and when i check out
the messages coming from xman its an endless list of 'illegal input
character codes'. These seem to be generated from something called
'ftpconversions'.
The man pages are fine when viewed from the shell. Any help with this would
be humongously appreciated.
thx
sb
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From: "Weedle Fidbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: various LILO vga settings/tux images
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 06:51:41 +0200
A very easy way to check is to put vga=ask in the lilo.conf file.
That way, you can scan for all your valid values when linux starts up.
G'luck!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> JC Vollmer wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone.
> > Can someone tell me what would be the valid settings for vga= in
> > /etc/lilo.conf. What are the different tux images/resolutions
available?
> >
> > --
> > JC VOLLMER TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
> > CONSOLIDATED LINT IGNORE FULLWISE DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
>
> you have to use framebuffer instead of svga... read in
> /usr/src/linux/documentation/fb
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From: "Cedric Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache access
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:54:20 +0100
I also had this problem. I noticed that there were some extra commas in the
httpd.conf file when generated from Linuxconf. This has only happened to me
on Redhat 6.2. I took the following steps to resolve it:
- stop your Apache webserver
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
- rename or delete your original httpd.conf
When you execute the re-install apache does not overwrite the .conf files
if they exist. So delete or rename your existing httpd.conf
- force an install of apache
rpm --force --install apache-1.3.x.x
- Manually make the changes to the .conf file. If you look under the 'main'
area, uncomment and change the Servername to suit. - restart your server
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
This will allow you to log onto your webserver. You can customise your
set-up manually after this as the .conf file is well documented or by
reading the Apache manual.
"Bruce Greeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dumb newbie question.
>
> I can not configure the apache users / groups using linuxconf under
> Redhat 6.2.
>
> The option just shows quit as an option.
>
> When I try to access the site I get "you do not have permission to
> access / on..."
>
> Any help gratefully accepted.
>
> Bruce
>
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From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soffice51 install
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 03:55:25 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"David .." wrote:
>
> Mike Oliver wrote:
>> If I might ask -- how did you find this out? I saw no hint
>> of it on Sun's site (nor, really, any installation instructions
>> of any kind).
>
> I read the directions. ;)
Which were where?
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From: Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MP3 decoder-encoder
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:31:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ali wrote:
> >
> > I`m a looking for an MP3 decoder-encoder, can someone recommend
one. I
> > would like one with GUI and easy enough to configure. I`ve used
audiograbber
> > for use in windows so something along these lines would be great.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Ali
>
> search freshmeat.net for cd-rippers and mp3 encoders/decoders
> I use bladeenc for mp3 encoding, xmms to playback, and cdparanoia for
> getting tracks of the cd. But there are many other options.
I used abcde (A Better Cd Encoder) which unfortunately is command line.
It strings together a number of apps into a shell script (I think) which
goes out to the Net to download the CDDB information using wget (an
application I recommend you have anyway for it's general usefulness) and
then CDparanoia to rip the WAV files off the CD and then LAME (I think)
to encode them to MP3s. Takes about 3/4hour to an hour per CD on a P3
600. I too use Xmms to playback the MP3s.
Andrew
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:45:51 +0200
Hellu there,
I did upgrade my machine from RedHat 6.2. to RedHat 7.0 and have some
problems:
1: First of all I dont' understand the names that appear, for example
smb.conf.rpmsave ?, why does this rpmsave extension means and how is this
file used ? and what about my original smb.conf, which is renamed to this
rpmsave version ?
2: smbd problems. This problem is related to the above. I don't seem to get
this working as the computer doesn't appear anymore in my explorer desktop,
while the configuration is the same ? Even if I copy the rpmsave version
back to the smb.conf it doesn't work
3: Swat problems. Swat doesn't work anymore, while the files /etc/services
and /etc/inetd.conf contain the required lines. ONLY the files inetd.conf
has been renamed to inetd.conf.rpmsave!!
In the log file messages appears: "Swat disabled, removing"
Then I like to know where it is disabled ??? someone has an idea ??
4: Last: I am not able to connect my Xclient (XWinPro) anymore to the linux
machine ?? (before the upgrade it worked !!) . For this to work you need to
edit the file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. However this file has been renamed to
xdm-config.rpmsave, and even if I rename it back, I have the same problem.!!
Please some advice how to solve this,
Ed Bras
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot Partition too Big!!! ?!
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:16:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gary Leung wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help, but I found some sort of the same thing yesterday, and
> I try to install it again, I put ~100-200Mb for "Swap", ~4-20 for "/boot",
> and the rest for "Native" but it still got problem, it still says " boot
> partition too big" and got the line with "/boot" partition in red. then I
> can see I can click on "next", I click on it, but it can't continue, just
> restart my machine. Does anyone know why it will say "boot partition too
> big"?!
>
> Gary
>
> aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Gary Leung wrote:
> > >
> > > I got 10G HD, I made partition 8G and 2G, I have my Windows 98 on 8G
> (c:)
> > > then I boot up with the RedHat6.1 CD, and try to install (on my 2G
> drive),
> > > when I go up to the partition, I can't set up the "Linux Native" drive,
> it
> > > give reason "boot partition too big". Can anyone know why is that, and
> tell
> > > me how to make it?
> >
> > you have an older version of lilo that will not work past cylinder
> > 1024.
> > You have 3 choices
> > 1 - get a newer version of lilo
> > 2 - boot from floppy
> > 3 - repartition your drive as follows
> > 10M - /boot
> > 8G - windows
> > remainder /
> >
> > I would go with option 3 as it is probably the easiest to deal with
Well since appearently it's not that easy for you to find the info, I'll
try to describe it once more:
The problem is not that the /boot partition is too big. I know it's
misleading info. The actual problem is that (a part) of the /boot
partition lies above cylinder 1024 of your HDD. Since (older, but still
a lot) BIOS'es are uncapable of adressing data above cylinder 1024, your
system would be unbootable if you would locate /boot beyond that 1024
cyl. limit.
Thus the RH installer refuses to let you choose a /boot partition that
lies beyond cylinder 1024. It responds with the misleading message: boot
partition too big
The easiest solution is to make a /boot partition that lies entirely
below this 1024 cylinder limit. (This limit is usually around 8 GB) So
you probably need a tool like Partition Magic (not-free) FIPS
(primitive, but free) or GNU parted (get it at www.gnu.org) to shrink
your windows partition to make some room for /boot below cyl. 1024
After that make /boot *below* cylinder 1024, and you'll be able to
continue the install
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Setting the PATH variable
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:17:51 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which scripts set PATH? I have put stuff in .bashrc along with an echo;
so, I know that it is being executed, but when I do a printenv, my mods
are not there. I cannot find the script which resets. Any ideas?
(Mandrake 7.1)
Kevin
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From: "Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.dcom.vpn,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.config,linux.dev.kernel,linux.dev.net,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: ipsec VPN masq support in kernel
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:49:48 GMT
I was told (by RedHat support) that the support for ipsec-VPN masquerading
was not compiled into the kernel that comes with RedHat 7.0, and
furthermore, it was also not compiled into a moldule. I was told that I
could re-compile the kernel to add in this support. My question is, since
this kernel can already load modules on demand, can't I just compile a small
portion of the code to build a binary module that will add the ipsec-masq
support? Or, will it be more of a pain than just running thru the config
program, answering the questions, and building the entire kernel and module
set?
If anyone knows the details of what files I would need to build just a small
module to support ispsec-masq, I would appriciate it.
thanks,
-Andy
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From: Sebastian Niehaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cant=B4?= connect to ISP
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:47:29 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Henrik & Stine wrote:
>
> Hey!
>
> I have for some days now tried to connect to my ISP thrugh an ordinary
> (proper) modem. In the Gnome/Enligtenment GUI I find the modem in a program
> called internet connection. Its placed on /dev/ttyS0 and when I hit the
> debug button it dials-up fine (that is, I hear the usual noise). But then
> the show stops, and nothing more happens. The program says pppd has died
> (exit code = 1).
You might want to remove the "#" before "noauth" in /etc/ppp/options
(not sure if the file is in that location in your distribution...)
Sebastian
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From: Sebastian Niehaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MP3 decoder-encoder
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:49:00 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric wrote:
>
> Ali wrote:
> >
> > I`m a looking for an MP3 decoder-encoder, can someone recommend one. I
> > would like one with GUI and easy enough to configure. I`ve used audiograbber
> > for use in windows so something along these lines would be great.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Ali
>
> search freshmeat.net for cd-rippers and mp3 encoders/decoders
> I use bladeenc for mp3 encoding, xmms to playback, and cdparanoia for
> getting tracks of the cd. But there are many other options.
GRIP is a nice GUI for bladeenc and cdparanoia
Sebastian
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