Linux-Setup Digest #851, Volume #19 Wed, 18 Oct 00 03:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Help me on setup of RH70: How could I install it from hd or ftp ("Haizheng Zhang")
Re: How to find which package contains a lisp file ? ("David ....")
IP masq help (fay aron charles)
cdrecord/cdda2wav - problems copying audio (Adam)
Re: Hardware accelerated OpenGL for RIVA TNT? (second try) (Erik Max Francis)
Hpt370 Question (Cosmo Kramer)
Re: AMD Athlon Thunderbird and Asus A7V Mobo running Linux???????? ("j m")
Re: IP masq help (Lyle Hanson)
trouble setting up LAN ("KingBono")
Re: mouse problems in X (Luis)
Re: Help me on setup of RH70: How could I install it from hd or ftp (E J)
RedHat fails, Debian suceeds (Lord Petrosky)
Re: Shutdown equivalent to rc.local (E J)
Re: using su from the terminal...PROBLEM ("St. Otto")
Re: Redhat FTP install on disk manager IDE drives? (E J)
Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions (Eric)
Re: replacing 2-button with 3-button mouse (E J)
Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions (Eric)
geforce 2 causes scrambled screen? (John Smith)
Netscape and DNS lookup (Hanspeter Schmid)
Sound Card Suggestions ("David N. Haney")
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From: "Haizheng Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help me on setup of RH70: How could I install it from hd or ftp
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:03:42 -0700
Hi, now I have installed win2000 and RH62. but my
video card and network card can't be recognized in
RH62. So I want to set up RH70. But I only find
some image files on the ftp site and when I ftp them,
it's so large. almost 7G and has used up all my hard disk.
When I run the autoboot(loadin), it tell me that it can't run
in virtual mode. I don't know what happened. Now
how can I install it without burning a CDROM?
Thanks
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From: "David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to find which package contains a lisp file ?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:55:34 -0500
Chetan GECOS wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> What is the command for finding out which package contains some lisp el
> ? For example, I'm trying to compile glibc and I keep getting
>
> "checking for makeinfo... no
> configure: error:
> *** Some critical program is missing or too old.
> *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. "
>
> I suppose makeinfo.el is missing somewhere (or older than required). My
> make package supposedly to meet the requirements according to the
> INSATLL for compiling glibc so where and how should I look for the
> missing package in above ?
"makeinfo" is in the "texinfo" package.
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ID # 123538
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Subject: IP masq help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fay aron charles)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:26:35 GMT
I finally got both my network cards installed, and running, but I can't seem
to get IP masquerading to work correctly. From the server, I can ping
computers on my home network, and the internet, and on my network hosts,
I can ping my server, but I can't ping internet computers from my network
hosts.
I am running RedHat 6.0: and here are the relevent files:
/etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=yes
GATEWAY=24.183.22.1
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=24.183.22.45
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:
DEVICE=eth1
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
ONBOOT=yes
When I type "route" with no arguments, I get this table: (some columns omitted)
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Iface
192.168.1.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 eth1
24.183.22.45 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 eth1
24.183.22.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 lo
default 24.183.22.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 eth0
I couldn't find any reference about where to put GATEWAY, so I put it in the
eth0 configuration file. I tried to find where all the "route add" calls
were made, but it looks like it is all done in /etc/rc.d/init.d/network and
the file was too complicated for a newbie like me to edit.
I'm not sure if this information is enough to diagnos my problem. Does anyone
know what else I could do to find why the packets aren't passed correctly
between the networks?
Thanks,
-aron fay
--
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Gates just does it for the money."
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From: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrecord/cdda2wav - problems copying audio
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:41:21 -0400
Hey all..
I'm using RedHat 7 and gcombust. I've got both an IDE CD-R and
CD-ROM. I've recompiled the kernel to support ide-scsi emulation and
this seems to work (ie, the burner is detected fine with cdrecord
-scanbus). The IDE CD-ROM is still in regular block IDE mode (not
using scsi emulation) becuase I couldn't get it to read CD audio when
using the emulation. With this configuration I can create/copy data
CDs with no problem. Audio CDs are a problem, though. cdda2wav seems
to read the audio correctly (ie, I can see .WAV files in the temp
directory and the CD-ROM is reading constantly) but cdrecord won't
burn the files. I keep getting "Can't send CUESHEET" as part of the
cdrecord output... This is in Disc-At-Once (DAO) mode. Here's the
output for both cdda2wav and cdrecord. The CD-ROM is a generic 40x
IDE drive and the burner is a Matshita (Panasonic) CW-7582 IDE burner.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
# CDRECORD OUTPUT
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg
Schilling
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'CD-R CW-7582 '
Revision : '1.10'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-R.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1044288 = 1019 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: Track size unknown. Data may not fit on
disk.
Track 01: audio unknown length no preemp swab
Lout start: 0 MB (00:02/00) = 0 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 6
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11982 (97:22/18)
ATIP start of lead out: 336601 (74:50/01)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 53
Manufacturer: Seantram Technology Inc.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Track 1 has unknown length.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot send CUE sheet.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill
was 100%.
# CDDA2WAV OUTPUT
cdrom device (/dev/cdrom) is not of type generic SCSI. Setting
interface to cooked_ioctl.
86016 bytes buffer memory requested, 4 buffers, 8 sectors
#Cdda2wav version 1.9_linux_2.2.5-22smp_i686_i686 real time sched.
soundcard support
Tracks:12 72:03.62
CDINDEX discid: rE_X5leUwnqZfaQ2BtOfeWRe7ko-
CDDB discid: 0x9d10e10c
CD-Text: not detected
CD-Extra: not detected
Album title: '' from ''
T01: 0 3:40.73 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T02: 16573 8:00.07 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T03: 52580 7:21.61 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T04: 85716 7:56.06 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T05: 121422 1:09.30 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T06: 126627 1:46.70 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T07: 134647 3:34.48 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T08: 150745 7:43.56 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T09: 185526 15:51.47 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T10: 256898 6:59.11 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T11: 288334 4:12.26 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
T12: 307260 3:45.02 audio linear copydenied stereo title '' from ''
Leadout: 324137
samplefile size will be 38979696 bytes.
recording 220.09733 seconds stereo with 16 bits @ 44100.0 Hz ->'-'...
child pid is 1243
overlap:min/max/cur, jitter, percent_done:
W Child exited with 2
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From: Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Hardware accelerated OpenGL for RIVA TNT? (second try)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:37:27 -0700
"moonie;)" wrote:
> Did you uncomment the load glx as well (remove the #)
Yep, that one I got. Still crashes when running anything OpenGL. Any
other ideas? I'm really quite stuck.
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From: Cosmo Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hpt370 Question
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:51:08 -0700
Hi
Im trying to install Slackware 7.1 on my Abit KT7 system but I dont
know what to do with the patch ide.2.2.16.20000630.patch.bz2 file I
downloaded from www.highpoint-tech.com site. Not a whole lot of
documentation there. Any help would be apprieciated.
Thanks
Greg
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From: "j m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD Athlon Thunderbird and Asus A7V Mobo running Linux????????
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:54:41 -0600
do either one of you have linux installed on an ATA100 drive because that is
what im trying to do and it does not work, the kernal keeps panicking, "
cant mount fs root" is the exact msg.. even when i pass the promise's ide
address to the kernel.. any suggestions??
"kept" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i was able to install suse 6.4 just fine once i turned plug&play off in
> the bios...but i was always able to boot....i don't know what to tell you,
> but you should provide more info on your setup (ie, where things are
> located in your system) so that people might see the problem there
>
> for the record i've got an a7v&900mhz t-bird
> RB wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone please tell me if they have information relating to the
> > Asus A7V Motherboard & AMD's Athlon Thunderbird 800Mhz processor used
> > together to run Linux?
> >
> > My install of Linux Mandrake 6.0 and 7.0 failed numerous times. It
> > seems to want to start but just as it starts printing out the load
> > sequence/procedure onto the screen at the LILO initial bootup it
> > freezes after about 20 lines. One line I will always remember mentions
> > this persons name.. "...Richard Gooch".
> >
> > I've installed Linux several times before and didn't think I'd still
> > be at trying to install the OS. I figured I'd be onto learning Gnome
> > by now but this is really hanging me out to dry. Can anyone please
> > help me understand if I'm doing anything wrong here?
> >
> > Much thanks in advance for sure if anyone could help me.
> > Rbh
>
>
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From: Lyle Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP masq help
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:56:04 -0400
Hmmm...what kind of error message do you get? Is the gateway running
dhcpd? Off the top of my head, I'd make sure that your LAN computers
(probably getting their ip/gateway/etc from dhcp) have dns configured
correctly. I think on my setup I have my dhcpd set up to send the
clients the IP addresses of my ISP's nameservers when they request an IP
address.
That help at all? I can give specifics on how to do this if that really
is your problem.
Lyle
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, fay aron charles wrote:
> I finally got both my network cards installed, and running, but I can't seem
> to get IP masquerading to work correctly. From the server, I can ping
> computers on my home network, and the internet, and on my network hosts,
> I can ping my server, but I can't ping internet computers from my network
> hosts.
>
> I am running RedHat 6.0: and here are the relevent files:
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network:
> NETWORKING=yes
> FORWARD_IPV4=yes
> GATEWAY=24.183.22.1
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
> DEVICE=eth0
> IPADDR=24.183.22.45
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:
> DEVICE=eth1
> IPADDR=192.168.1.1
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> When I type "route" with no arguments, I get this table: (some columns omitted)
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Iface
> 192.168.1.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 eth1
> 24.183.22.45 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 eth0
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 eth1
> 24.183.22.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 lo
> default 24.183.22.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 eth0
>
> I couldn't find any reference about where to put GATEWAY, so I put it in the
> eth0 configuration file. I tried to find where all the "route add" calls
> were made, but it looks like it is all done in /etc/rc.d/init.d/network and
> the file was too complicated for a newbie like me to edit.
>
> I'm not sure if this information is enough to diagnos my problem. Does anyone
> know what else I could do to find why the packets aren't passed correctly
> between the networks?
>
> Thanks,
> -aron fay
> --
> "Satan sincerely believes in the triumph of Evil.
> Gates just does it for the money."
>
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From: "KingBono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trouble setting up LAN
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:09:58 -0700
I want to set up an internal LAN and I am running Red Hat7
I have a static IP address on my DSL, and I am having trouble setting my
first eathernet card to my IP and second card to my LAN to 192.168.0.1
First how do I do this, and second I'm I trying to set this up correctly?
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From: Luis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mouse problems in X
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 05:10:04 -0000
i am having the same problem with my new computer. i am trying to use
slackware 7.1... i have no idea what is causing this, but i have the
identical problem. my mouse does work in the console though.
hope someone out there knows what's goin on with this.
luis
Scyn wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems with my mouse in X. I'm trying to setup an X server
for
> my Voodoo Banshee Video card. I loaded the proper files from 3dfx.com
onto
> my linux box and ran the XF86Setup file that comes with it. When I move
my
> mouse curser while in setup the mouse only moves into the upper right
hand
> corner of the screen and won't leave. I have to press Ctrl-Alt-
Backspace to
> get out of X. I have tried selecting different mouse protocols, but none
> seem to work with this server. I have an Intellimouse, using a PS/2
port.
> Does anybody have any ideas?
>
> Thanx for any input!
>
> Ryan
>
>
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me on setup of RH70: How could I install it from hd or ftp
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:27:11 -0700
Get the dos program under dosutil called "rawrite"
and look for "bootnet.img"
Use rawrite to write bootnet.img onto a floppy.
Boot up with the floppy. (hope the network card works now)
install rh7.0 using the ftp install.
Sorry, I have never tried it before.
Haizheng Zhang wrote:
> Hi, now I have installed win2000 and RH62. but my
> video card and network card can't be recognized in
> RH62. So I want to set up RH70. But I only find
> some image files on the ftp site and when I ftp them,
> it's so large. almost 7G and has used up all my hard disk.
> When I run the autoboot(loadin), it tell me that it can't run
> in virtual mode. I don't know what happened. Now
> how can I install it without burning a CDROM?
> Thanks
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From: Lord Petrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat fails, Debian suceeds
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 05:20:28 GMT
I have traditionally been a RedHat person but the other day I just could
not install RH7.0 on my new Quantum 30 Gig UDMA33 drive. Just to see, I
reached for 3 cd's I recently downloaded of Debian 2.2 and it worked no
problem. What is RedHat's problem? This drive is not special. Any
comments?
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shutdown equivalent to rc.local
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:32:54 -0700
How about putting your startup and shutdown scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d if you
are using level 5.
Have this for start up scripts for level 5 startup where ## is the number to
start up:
S##startup_scripts
Have this for shut down scripts for level5 startup where ## is the number to
shut down:
K##shutdown_scripts
Scott Watson wrote:
> In rc.local I call some scripts I want run when my system boots, however, I
> also need to run some scripts when the server is being shutdown. What is
> the equivalent script for shutdown procedures.
>
> thanks
> scott.
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From: "St. Otto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: using su from the terminal...PROBLEM
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:31:05 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
# DISPLAY=<myclienthostname>:0.0
# export DISPLAY
# kpackage
Steffen
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat FTP install on disk manager IDE drives?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:10:45 -0700
If you are using linux and not windows, you do not need a disk management
software.
I have Max Blast software which is my disk overlay.
I would recommend pre-partition with windows fdisk
This is how my hard disk is arranged from start to end of the harddisk:
hda3 16M windows1
hda1 windows2
hda2 size of your RAM windows3
hda1 windows4
When you are install linux using linux fdisk instead of disk druid to change
the partition number from windows to linux partition.
hda3 16M linux /boot
hda1 windows2
hda2 size of your RAM linux swap
hda1 linux /
Apply lilo not to the harddrive (/dev/hda) but to /boot partition (in my case
it is /dev/hda3)
When I boot up, it will go to windows because it was left as the active
partition.
I have to make /dev/hda3 the active partition so lilo will work properly.
Mike Stilado wrote:
> I have an old pentium box running win. It has disk manager on the drives or
> else they wouldn't boot (large HDs not supported by BIOS).
>
> I am considering doing a Redhat FTP internet install. Can I just put in the
> redhat install floppies and will it let me use and reformat these drives
> without disk manager like software? Will it detect the drives OK?
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:15:36 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anita Lewis wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:16:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >Dear All,
> >
> >I am just curious about this point. Did you install RH7.0 after you
> >install Win2K. I would expect Win2k to wipe off your LILO in the MBR
> >had it been the other way around.
> >
> >One thing I need to clearify is how do I 'place lilo' into the ectended
> >partition. Can it be accomplished by editing lilo.conf or what?
> >
> >
> >Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> You must edit /etc/lilo.conf. Where you have 'boot /dev/hda6' change it to
> 'boot /dev/hda3' /dev/hda3 is extended and /dev/hda6 is logical.
>
> After you do that and save it, run 'lilo'. You will have to be root to do
> both of these things.
>
> I'm still not clear on whether or not you have to put
> a bootable flag on /dev/hda3. I think you do. That would mean you would
> have to run 'fdisk /dev/hda', 'a' (to toggle bootable flag), 3 (the
> partition number), and 'w' (to write the partition table update). I've
> never put lilo in something other than the mbr; so I don't know. You could
> try not putting the flag in and see if it boots. If not, then you can try
> putting it in.
>
> Did you try putting it on a floppy, btw?
>
> Can someone tell me what happens if you have the regular windows bootloader
> or whatever it has in the mbr and lilo in another boot sector? Does the
> system bypass the mbr and run lilo? Why doesn't it boot windows? I thought
> the mbr would take priority. Must you take off the bootable flag on
> /dev/hda1?
>
> Anita
The regular MBR you're talking about has code in it to execute the
bootcode in the *only* active partition that is present on the disc. So
when you boot, th BIOS reads/executes the MBR code, which chains through
to the active partition. Here either the windows bootcode is present, or
LILO, if you put LILO in the partition. The windows98 bootcode executes
only it's own kernel image, the NT bootcode starts the NT bootloader,
and LILO starts ... LILO :-)
taking the bootable flag off, will result in a BIOS error message (this
code is in the MBR too) that states "No operating system found"
If you have two active partitions, remove one active flag, it's not
allowed, and will result in unpredictable behaviour.
Eric
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: replacing 2-button with 3-button mouse
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:14:45 -0700
Don't know if this will work on Storm Linux 2000, but it works on Redhat
$su -
password: <secret>
# mouseconfig
"Jeffrey J. Hallman" wrote:
> Two mouse questions:
>
> 1.) I am running Storm Linux 2000, which is based on Debian 2.2. When I
> installed Linux, I had a 2-button serial mouse on the machine, and it worked
> fine. Recently I obtained a 3-button serial mouse and hooked it up in place of
> the 2-button mouse. The left and right buttons work, the middle one doesn't.
> What do I need to do to get all 3 buttons working?
>
> 2.) During the Storm Linux installation, it ran a little mouse detection and
> configuration program. Where is that program, and can I run it now to set
> things up? If not, is anyone working on something like this? One of the very
> few nice things about Windows is that you can often add new hardware, and the
> OS will recognize it on reboot, ask for driver disks, and so on. Changing the
> installed hardware on a Linux system seems much more complicated.
>
> Feel free to reply via email or followups.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jeff Hallman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:19:16 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Indeed, you can have only one bootloader in the MBR, but that usually is
> >not an issue. As far as I can tell, all windows versions, put some
> >bootcode in the first 512 bytes of the partition they live in (Each
> >partition has it's own MBR-kind-of-region in the first 512 bytes. So
> >just pointing to that partition, executes this actual bootcode (The NT
> >loader doesn't do much more) and boots the actual OS. So whether you use
> >LILO as bootloader (I do this) or the NT bootloader, it doesn't really
> >matter. Both will do, you just need to set them up correctly.
> >
> >Eric
> So are you saying that lilo.conf has the usual boot from mbr and the 'other'
> statement for windows/dos? And then the NT bootloader will run when you
> type in 'dos'? Or do you have to put more in the 'other' stanza?
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> <snip to the windows stanza>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=dos
>
> Could one of you who are doing this post your lilo.conf please?
>
> Thanks,
> Anita
here is mine:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda6
other=/dev/hda1
label=WINNT
alias=NT
As you can see, hda6 contains linux (RH6.2) and hda1 contains windows
NT.
I put LILO in the MBR (boot=/dev/hda) because I like LILO, I thinks it's
easily configurable, and much easier to set up a dual boot with NT.
Choosing either NT or WINNT at the lilo prompt, will start the NT
bootloader.
Eric
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From: John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: geforce 2 causes scrambled screen?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 01:48:29 -0500
I have a 866 Pentium III, with 256 RDRAM, and a GeForce 2 graphics card
with 64 MB DDR . .please help!
When I installed from the CD-ROM with DrakX, all went fine until it
asked if I wanted to test my screen resolution. I said yes, and the
screen became all scrambled. I didn't know what to do - I had to turn
off the computer. I guessed it had something to do with my graphics
card, so I followed the link off Linux-Mandrake.com on how to install
nvidia drivers. I tried Xconfigurator to test my chosen resolution and
it scrambled again. I then followed the directions for installing nvidia
drivers for GeForce 2 at www.tomshardware.com. I got it to show NVidia
in the list when I type '/sbin/lsmod', which I thought was a step
forward. I tried 'startx' but it said '
/usr/X11R6/bin/X: /usr/X11R6/bin/X: cannot execute binary file
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
'
Then I typed 'kde' but it said '
xmodmap: unable to open display ''
kcontrol: cannot connect to X server
kaudioserver: Can't connect to the X Server.
kaudioserver: Audio system might not terminate at end of session.
kwmsound: cannot connect to X server
kpanel: cannot connect to X server
krootwm: cannot connect to X server
kfm: cannot connect to X server
kwm: cannot connect to X server
kbgndwm: cannot connect to X server
'
I tried "Xconfigurator" again and it let me pick my resolution. . . even
when i pick the lowest settings (800*600), the screen gets scrambled and
I have to shutdown the computer to fix it. Its so bad I cant even see if
I am typing "shutdown -r now" correctly. Any help you could give would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.
Ben Brinckerhoff
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Subject: Netscape and DNS lookup
From: Hanspeter Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Oct 2000 08:55:31 +0200
Hi,
I'm often using Netscape to read local documentation on a SuSE 7.0
system. Unfortunatly, Netscape hangs when there is no connection to a
DNS server, i.e., I can only read local documentation when I start a
PPP connection or have an Ethernet connection to the Internet. How
can I prevent this from happening?
Cheerio,
--
Hanspeter Schmid A philosopher who is not taking part
Analogue-IC Designer (Research) in discussions is like a boxer who
Signal Processing Laboratory, ETHZ. never goes into the ring.
http://www.isi.ee.ethz.ch/~schmid/ (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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From: "David N. Haney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Sound Card Suggestions
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:01:22 -0700
Linux Sound Gurus:
I have Linux running on 2 separate computers, and the single component
that does not work on either is SOUND. On one computer I have
a YAMAHA OPL3-SAX board. Since "pnpdump" recognizes it, I would think
it would work, but no luck. On the other computer (Compaq) there
is an on motherboard sound that is ESS 1968 (I think). While there
are many ESS versions supported, this one does not seem to be one
of them.
I have not found ALSA driver to be of any help with these cards. In
the latter case (Compaq/ESS) the card does not even work well with
Win98 (consumes way too much CPU or skips like crazy).
I have tried 3 versions of linux: Red Hat, Caldera, TurboLinux and
cant get sound working (I think this is a much harder problem than
SCSI, X video, or other complicated issues).
I am interested in purchasing a sound card that has the following
features:
1. Not too expensive
2. Reasonable performance
3. EASY to get working with Linux
Please suggest some options. Thank you.
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