Linux-Setup Digest #857, Volume #19 Wed, 18 Oct 00 23:13:04 EDT
Contents:
LILO for an old newbie (Jerry Avins)
redhat 7 installation problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RAID help (Jerry Avins)
usb hub in red hat 7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
No matter what I do Linksys and RH 7.0 won't work!!!! ("fimafeng")
red hat 7 man pages not there? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO for an old newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: old P133 - cluster? (Cokey de Percin)
Re: LILO for an old newbie (Monte Milanuk)
filesystem in rh6.2? (JIE YUAN)
Re: help:feeding news to local news server (Frank Hahn)
Re: usb hub in red hat 7 (C. L. Lewis)
Re: mouse problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
*FIXED* Re: Problems with RH7 LILO and Win2K (Carlos Dominguez)
hdparm assitance (Richard Everhart)
Re: red hat 7 man pages not there? (Patrick Farrell)
Changing my system's name (Richard Everhart)
small linux/x/www browser only system (Ronnie Corny)
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From: Jerry Avins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO for an old newbie
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:17:58 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello! please be kind to a supplicant.
I have Win95 installed in a fat-32 5 GB partition, with a second (empty)
fat-32 partition in the three GB above that, which is all that Win95
knows about. Linux, as Mandrake 7.1 (complete), is installed in the 5 GB
above that, leaving over about 160 MB for a swap partition. The version
of LILO with this distribution is reputed not to suffer from the 1024
cyllinder limit, so my problem probably isn't that; more likely, it's
ignorance.
Boot from the hard disk failed entirely, giving the error message "Phase
1 geom error", or something like that. (I wrote it down, but lost it.)
Booting DOS, I could switch to C:, but upon typing WIN, I got an error
message saying the HIMEM.sys was missing; it wasn't. I could boot Linux
from it's boot disk, but Netscape wasn't yet working (I'm using it now),
so I couldn't ask for help. I SYSed C: from my DOS disk, which didn't
fix the HIMEM glitch, so I reloaded Win59 in part, and fixed a few
glitches that that caused. Now I boot Win59 normally and Linux from
floppy, and I want to install LILO so it works. I didn't install it in
the first place - the autoinstall "took care" of that (thanks for
nothing!) - so I have absolutely no idea of how to go about it. Just
starting the installation process from scratch again would be acceptable
in that there's nothing yet in the file system that I nee to keep - what
little I have I can type in again from printouts. My fear is that it
will blow me out of the water again and I'll be another week in drydock,
like last time.
Can someone tell me _exactly_ what to do so I can set up to boot from
hard disk and use either OS? What is Mandrake's "Boot Magic" and how do
I invoke it? I know so little that I don't even know how to find out.
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: redhat 7 installation problem
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:16:37 GMT
I am trying to install Redhat linux 7.0 from my
hard drive using a boot disk. It works in the
beginning of the installation but after
specifying the partition where all RPMS are, I
get this error message
Running anaconda - may take some time to load
read: no such file or directory
install exited abnormally -- received signal 9
I have my RPMS in FAT 32 partition.
Please help. Thank you.
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From: Jerry Avins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID help
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:29:32 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Ferguson wrote:
>
> I am trying to find people who have successfully incorporated Linux software
> RAID into their Enterprise environments. I am currently testing Linux RAID
> software against Windows RAID software, and I am finding a huge difference
> between the two stability wise. Any input would be very helpful. Thank
> you.
>
> John
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Would it be presumptious to ask which is more stable?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: usb hub in red hat 7
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:31:47 GMT
Hi all,
While I'm somewhat new to Linux I figured USB was even newer to it, so I
thought I might have an upper hand, but apparently not:
I upgraded to RedHat7 (2.2.16-??smp kernel) and I have a USB hub on my
ADI monitor and from the hub are attached an Epson printer (photo 750)
and canon scanner. If this USB hub is attached (either during boot up or
if I attach it after boot up) I get messages in the dmesg output about
usb_bulk timeout: hub.c unable to detect port status and this error
repeats again and again. Another symptom is the hard drive activity
light blips once a second and there's a little grind as if the drive's
being accessed. This has become a kind of high tech torture treatment so
I generally unplug the cable when in linux rather than windows, since I
haven't gotten the printer or scanner working in linux anyway. Also if I
have it plugged in during boot up it seems to interfere with the proper
set up of the IDE cdrom drive I have which then can't mount data discs or
play audio ones, but is fine if the USB cable is not attached during boot
up. (This even got beyond annoying to alarming when it interfered during
shut down and then temporarily neither Linux nor Windows would boot, but
that seemed to fix itself after the computer had some "quiet time"
alone.)
Is this a bug in the hub.c stuff? How do I figure out which version of
the usb software came with RedHat7? I haven't been able to seek out all
it's hiding places yet and the red hat documentation, as far as I can
tell, has very very little about the usb functionality.
Interestingly, the USB is functional in a direct connection to a Canon
Powershot s20 digital camera which was quite thrilling and earns a real
tip of the hat to Salvator Sanfillipo's s10sh software! (Downloads 3 MB
images in ~ 7 sec versus ~ 30 sec on windows...cool)
While I understand that Canon is denying release of specs and there's
little hope for the scanner, I would like to get the printer working but
was unsure of where I needed to jump in with the instructions I found.
Since the USB already is there and basically working (for the Canon
camera) I figure I just need an appropriate printer module/driver for the
Epson photo 750. And then it can be loaded in on the fly? or the kernel
needs recompiling? (Still many basic issues aren't clear to me you see!)
Mostly I'd like to get the hub.c stuff working correctly, though.
Thanks,
seth
sorry if this is so verbose...
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From: "fimafeng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.config
Subject: No matter what I do Linksys and RH 7.0 won't work!!!!
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:31:49 GMT
OK
I did a complete reinstall of the system (RH 7.0)
Here's what happens
A. Download the driver source from ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/drivers/
(there are some binaries there too, but I haven't tried them, and the
drivers are easy to compile anyway.) You can take your pick from
netdriver-2.0-3-src.rpm or netdrivers.tgz.
======I used rpm =i netdriver=2.0.src.rpm (copied it from a floppy)
No problems so far
======2nd step I did rpm =bb SPECS/netdriver.spec
again no problems
======3rd step i did rpm =i ==force RPMS/i386/netdriver=2.0=3.i386.rpm
I get the following messages
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/3c59x.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/eepro100.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/epic100.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/hamachi.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/natsemi.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/ne2k-pci.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/rtl8139.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/starfire.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/sundance.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/tulip.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/via-rhine.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/winbond-840.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22enterprise/net/yellowfin.o
what am i doing wrong
B. Install the source using your preferred method. The rpm contains
the netdrivers.tgz file so you'll have to untar it also.
-----Isn;t this what I was doing above?
C. 'make tulip.o'
I went to the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory where netdrivers.tgz
was located and copied all of its files into
into a dummy directory /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/cmn From here I ran
both make tulip.o and pci-scan.o
D. 'make pci-scan.o'
E. Install tulip.p and pci-scan.o in /lib/modules/<your_kernel_version>/net
-------Did you mean tulip.o ?
F. Make sure the relevant rc script (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, or
something in /etc/init.d for the RedHatters?) has a line that loads the
tulip module with 'modprobe tulip'
======I'm not sure where this is?
G. At this point, either reboot, or 'modprobe tulip' yourself and then
bring your interface up with 'ifconfig eth0 <your_ip_address>'
H-Z. Can you please advise
Thank you so much,
Chris Nelson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: red hat 7 man pages not there?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:38:04 GMT
Greetings,
I recently upgraded RedHat 6.2 to 7. I'm pretty sure the man pages were
functioning before, but now if I type "man mount" or "man diff" or
whatever, it invariably tells me there is no man page for mount or diff
or whatever. I have double checked and reinstalled the man rpm package.
Is this not what's needed? Do I need to initiate something so they'll be
properly accessed?
I also did almost all available bug fixes and security advisory updates
from the red hat site a couple of days ago, which included a new gnorpm,
which now doesn't fully work, of course. I used to use the gnorpm query
to see all the different files installed by each package (so I could
actually find what to type to start them when it wasn't obvious) but now
those don't display. Also, when I go to "Install" and then "Add" it's
fine until I actually click to select a .rpm file at which point it
crashes and quits. Anyone else seen this with the "new and improved"
gnorpm? I suppose I should go back to the older one to be sure it's this
package specifically and not something else in those updated files.
If it ain't broke...
Seth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LILO for an old newbie
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 01:03:40 GMT
Hi Jerry
I'm also a newbie of sorts
You could readup on LILO now that you have access to the net from
www.linuxdoc.org
specifically
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO.html
The first doc has quite a bit of information from where you can
determine if you had done something wrong.
Also, when you boot from the recue floppy, do you have access to the
partitions that you have installed linux on ?? (i.e. on the harddisk??)
If you do, then type "mount" on the command line and write down all the
information that you find on the line which contains just the plain "/
". This would be useful when you want to repair LILO.
The LILO configuration file is located in /etc/lilo.conf, update this
file to point "root=xxxn" to whatever the "mount" command above listed
for "/ ".
>From your command line type "lilo -v" for lilo to update the maps and so
on.
Hopefully this should fix the problem. again I do not know the exact
situation so I can't be more helpful, but hey It's a start.
Regards & Have fun
Alex...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello! please be kind to a supplicant.
>
<snip>
> Can someone tell me _exactly_ what to do so I can set up to boot from
> hard disk and use either OS? What is Mandrake's "Boot Magic" and how
do
> I invoke it? I know so little that I don't even know how to find out.
>
> Jerry
> --
> Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
get.
>
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: old P133 - cluster?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 01:13:08 GMT
"William C. Mount" wrote:
>
> Elena,
> I'm using failsafe from SGI on a 15 node P75 cluster.
> I works very very well
> Bill
> Elena Miele wrote:
>
> > About to change P133 tp PIII
> >
> > What to do of the old machine?
> > First possibility is to leave it on network,
> > act as a firewall or other.
> >
> > Then heard about Linux clustering.
> > Beowulf doesnt seem easy, but what about Mosix? No need to recompile
> > anything I run.
> > Somebody knows about so small clusters?
> >
Check out Mosix, not a parallel cluster like Beowolf. Does task & load
balancing across a set of networked machines. Pretty neat. There was
an article at www.byte.com some weeks ago. Gives a nice overview about
what was involved.
Best
Cokey
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO for an old newbie
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:25:12 -0600
Jerry Avins wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me _exactly_ what to do so I can set up to boot from
> hard disk and use either OS? What is Mandrake's "Boot Magic" and how do
> I invoke it? I know so little that I don't even know how to find out.
I've never been real clear on what exactly the 'current' limitations of
LILO are, but in general the 'safe thing to do w/ LILO is to give it a
small (5-10MB) partition below the 1024 cylinder point (i.e. completely
inside the first 2GB), make it an ext2 type filesystem, and mount it as
'/boot'. This will allow a few things:
a) It should make LILO happy, & b) If you wish to use the ReiserFS, the
boot image of the kernel currently still (AFAIK) has to be on an ext2
filesystem, or it won't work.
The other option, is to check out 'grub', the 'gr'and 'u'nified
'b'ootloader, which is the other option w/ LM 7.1 other than LILO. Last I
checked, grub has no problem w/ the location of the kernel image. FWIW, I
don't really think that LILO itself does either, rather LILO asks the BIOS,
some of which get indigestion about things above 1024 cylinder mark.
For reference, on your linux box, try 'man lilo', and 'man grub'. Also, if
you installed the HOWTO's, check out /usr/doc/HOWTO, or /usr/doc/howto
(can't remember which) and look for a LILO-HOWTO, or mini-HOWTO. Plus,
check /usr/doc/ for a lilo* directory for even more documentation.
>
>
> Jerry
> --
> Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
As a tech, how I wish that was what engineers actually believed ;)
Monte
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JIE YUAN)
Subject: filesystem in rh6.2?
Date: 19 Oct 2000 01:34:36 GMT
i want to mount my win98 fat32 partition in rh6.2. so i want to
rewrite fstab. but i still can't mount it after reboot.
i find later that there is not a fat32 type definition in my /proc/file-
systems. how should i define it in rh6.2 environment?
george.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: help:feeding news to local news server
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 02:10:08 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:08:26 GMT, David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>I am running redhat 6.2. My ISPs news server is news.adelaide.on.net
>and my local news server is gtech. My news server is setup with innd
>and pine and I can connect to my ISPs news server with slrn -h
>news.adelaide.on.net.
>
>How ddo I setup my system so my local news server will be feed news
>from my ISPs news server. I perferr to only use whats available from
>the redhat cdrom.
>
I think there are several ways to get news to your system. If
you are wanting a full fledged news feed, then you'll need more
help then I can give. The following can be used if you are
only after a few newsgroups.
One simple solution is to use slrnpull. It is another program
included in the slrn source code archive.
There is another program similiar to slrnpull called leafnode.
For other programs. try a search of http://www.freshmeat.net.
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You don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting
needles.
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From: C. L. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: usb hub in red hat 7
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 02:12:59 GMT
I haven't installed RH 7 yet, so I'm not qualified to offer much help on
it, but what the hell. I may as well waste some bandwidth and share a
little humor.
First though, I'm running a 2.4.0-test9 kernel and have tried most of
the 2.3 and 2.4 up to that point. I've had varying degrees of success
with the USB. I did never have any luck with the 2.whatever variations
other than the kernel that comes generic with COL recognizing the hub.
The only USB device I use is an Intel QuickCam that I've experimented
around to try to get it to work with the drivers that show up on the
video4linux web page. cpio and logtec quickcam I believe they were. I
did get with one of the earlier 2.4 kernels a recoginition of some kind
of capture device.
One of the 2.3 pre kernels recognized my USB hub properly, but
identified a pointing device or mouse attached to it. I posted about the
situation either here or on fa.linux kernel and someone suggested I take
the quick cam and move it around on the mouse pad and see what happened.
I ventured I hadn't got that far because I kept forgetting to close the
privacy shield on the cam when I was in Linux and every time my cat came
into the room the kernel went into a panic and shut down the machine. So
if anyone has a need for a seing eye mouse, I'll see if I can duplicate
the situation and trade it for a Connectrix Quick Cam.
You might try to dl the 2.4.0-test9 from kernel.org and give it a try if
your going to recompile anyway. I'm having good luck with it and it
seems pretty stable for a developmental kernel and I really think that
is basically what RH 7 is all about. Quite a bit of support for a lot of
the latest accessories.
Charles
In article <8slfdj$rhf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
> While I'm somewhat new to Linux I figured USB was even newer to it, so
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mouse problem
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:26:12 GMT
Thanks for the reply...I will do just that!
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:04:40 +0200, "IByte"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You might want to try the imwheel package (shoudn't be hard to find with a
>little searching)
>
>Regards,
>IByte
>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Okay, I have the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer...however, right now
>> I can only use it as a two button mouse. When I go into mouseconfig
>> or DrakeConf (I have Mandrake 7.1) I choose the generic three button
>> mouse and when I save and go back, it is back to a two button mouse.
>> I have it connected via the PS/2 port btw. If I choose Microsoft
>> Intellimouse, it goes wacky and it drifts across the screen and I
>> cannot use it at all. Why is this thing messing up so much. I want
>> to be able to use the scrollball!!!!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan Allen
>
>
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From: Carlos Dominguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: *FIXED* Re: Problems with RH7 LILO and Win2K
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 02:17:45 GMT
In article <8s619u$bpr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Nate Deam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My situation is very similar to yours. I am trying to boot Red Hat >
> 7.0 using the NT boot loader, but LILO hangs at "LI." Nothing new
> there.
Nate,
I got it to work tonight! This is what I had to do.
a) uninstalled the RH7 LILO RPM from my system
b) downloaded source for LILO 21.6 and compiled new LILO binary
c) installed new LILO on my system
d) grep'd README.common.problems file, and README.disk file and
created diagnostic floppy and booted it.
e) Booted from diag floppy and jotted down BIOS information for
my SCSI drives, (since RH7 has no support for my Promise
FastTrak 66)
f) rebooted into RH7 and modified my /etc/lilo.conf file with
hard coded values for my SCSI drives as follows:
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x81
sectors=63
heads=255
cylinders=522
disk=/dev/sdb
bios=0x82
sectors=63
heads=255
cylinders=522
boot=/dev/sda1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=5
#linear
lba32
default=linux
message=/boot/message
I then used dd to create another bootsect.lnx file, and fed that to
WIN2K's boot.ini, and then rebooted. Voila!
I hope that this is helpful for you to solve your LILO problem.
regards,
carlos
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From: Richard Everhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hdparm assitance
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 02:40:52 GMT
In another posting here, someone asked for assistance in speeding up
their system under linux (SuSe 6.4 for me). I have the same problem:
800mhz Athelon, 128mb memory, NVidia GeForce w/ 32mb memory, and in some
respects my system crawls.
So, I took the advice of one of the wise posters and tried hdparm. I
read the man page and tried hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb and also hdparm -d1 -X34
/dev/hdb. Both tries the same thing happened: about 30 seconds or less
after issuing this command everything locked up forcing me to do a hard
reboot. Also, the hd light stayed on when this happened and never went
out, until I rebooted that is.
So, the question is, is my hard drive not capable of using this command
and how would I know? It's you basic maxtor drive, 15gig. Thanks!
Rich
p.s. also any any insight in make my system as fast as it should be
would be much appreciated.
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From: Patrick Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: red hat 7 man pages not there?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:30:53 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Type make whatis
to build the man pages.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> I recently upgraded RedHat 6.2 to 7. I'm pretty sure the man pages were
> functioning before, but now if I type "man mount" or "man diff" or
> whatever, it invariably tells me there is no man page for mount or diff
> or whatever. I have double checked and reinstalled the man rpm package.
> Is this not what's needed? Do I need to initiate something so they'll be
> properly accessed?
>
> I also did almost all available bug fixes and security advisory updates
> from the red hat site a couple of days ago, which included a new gnorpm,
> which now doesn't fully work, of course. I used to use the gnorpm query
> to see all the different files installed by each package (so I could
> actually find what to type to start them when it wasn't obvious) but now
> those don't display. Also, when I go to "Install" and then "Add" it's
> fine until I actually click to select a .rpm file at which point it
> crashes and quits. Anyone else seen this with the "new and improved"
> gnorpm? I suppose I should go back to the older one to be sure it's this
> package specifically and not something else in those updated files.
>
> If it ain't broke...
> Seth
>
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From: Richard Everhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing my system's name
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 03:06:42 GMT
I'd like to change the name of my system. SuSe 6.4 (using yast2)
bestows the name 'linux' on your system. How do I go about changing
this name to something I want. I'm pretty sure this can be done since
something similar was done to my solaris machine at work. The thing is
I just let the network guys do that stuff. Now I suppose it's my turn
to learn. :-)
Thanks!
Rich
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronnie Corny)
Subject: small linux/x/www browser only system
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 03:10:11 GMT
Hi
I have some very old PCs (i486DX2 and Am5x86 with SVGA, 16MB RAM and 40MB HDD)
that I'd like to setup as www browsing stations... looking at mulinux and
other tiny linux setups but would prefer that the system boots directly on the
hdd into linux without requiring DOS... is there any one who can help out on
what needs to be done?
Thanks!
rgds,
- ron
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You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.setup) via:
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Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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