Linux-Setup Digest #871, Volume #19 Fri, 20 Oct 00 22:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Quake2 for Linux, playing non-root? (Tristan Wallis)
USB zip drive help!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I've broken it !! Win 2K RedHat 6.2 boot (Carl Waring)
Re: cd writer? (Gary Sandine)
2.2.16 BIGMEM support 2-4 GB (John Miller)
Re: help RH 7.0 and rsh (David Efflandt)
Power down at halt (Mike Oliver)
Re: Mandrake 7.0 with Windows 98 (David Efflandt)
Re: My extended partition is half the disk ! (David Efflandt)
Re: Which IP is real IP? (David Efflandt)
need a little hdparm help here, guys... (Monte Milanuk)
Newbie question: broken ppp ("Edwin Humphries")
"Branded" machines and linux (marvin greenberg)
Re: help to configure my pcmcia card... (E J)
Re: Logitech Wheel ("Vigil")
Re: ppp disconnect ("Vigil")
Re: Shutdonw problems ("Mick")
Re: Power down at halt (Chem-R-Us)
xdm sometimes locks up (Victor S. Miller)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tristan Wallis)
Subject: Re: Quake2 for Linux, playing non-root?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 00:28:59 GMT
Rob, are you playing the actual Linux version of Quake 2 or the
windows version with a Linux executable? It may be that you
need to change the permissions/ownerships of some of the
Quake datafiles.
www.linuxquake.com is the place to go with Linux quake
problems. They have a few FAQ's which should help you out
Tristan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USB zip drive help!!
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:05:27 GMT
Okay, I got the kernel 2.2.17 and the backport to 2.4 for usb and
successfully compiled them all. Then, I booted up with my usb zip
drive in the usb slot and saw the following on bootup
checking for usb
mounting usb filesystem
which I never saw before, I mean the mounting. Now, where in the
world is the mount to the zip drive. I don't see it in the /mnt
directory. Is there something else I must do?
I have the Microtech USB zip drive. Do I need to do something with
scsi here?
thanks!
Dan Allen
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From: Carl Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I've broken it !! Win 2K RedHat 6.2 boot
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:34:43 +0100
Well here we go then this is what came up from fdisk -l /dev/hdb1 (which is
my boot partition), the last line metioning a valid partition table came back
at the prompt and not within the output file.
Disk /dev/hdb1: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19885 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Disk /dev/hdb1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
And this is my /etc/lilo.conf file:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=win
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-6.1.1
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hdb8
other=/dev/hda1
label=win
I might add here that I can no longer boot into anything unless I use my
RedHat boot floppy !!
I've decided to scrap my Windows 2000 disk and re-format it, I'm going to
install 2000 once I've
figured this problem out.
Best of luck and many thanks
cw
Eric wrote:
> Carl Waring - Pipex wrote:
> >
> > Well I thought I knew what I was doing, but alas not so.
> >
> > Last night I installed an additional hard disk onto my system so that I
> > can install RedHat 6.2 on it as well as having Windows 2K on the
> > original disk. I set up all my partitions, the RedHat installer goes
> > away and then formats and creates the partitions on the disk, no
> > problem. I then tell the installer that I want to use lilo to boot
> > whichever operating system and that I want Windows to be the default
> > operating system to load (so that when the lilo prompt comes up I either
> > type "win" or "linux") for whichever operating system I want.
> >
> > This does not work !! instead I get the lilo prompt coming up and then a
> > load of "0707070707077070" on my screen ??? I had this thing happen to
> > me ages ago but instead of "0707070" I got a pile of "0101010"
> >
> > The only way I can get the system back up is using the linux boot
> > floppy, I have not tried booting Windows because I do not have a boot
> > floppy handy, I'll get one from work today.
> >
> > Any Ideas how to fix this would be appreciated.
> >
> > tia
> >
> > cw
>
> Well, show us your /etc/lilo.conf, and the result of fdisk -l /dev/hdX
> (the relevant discs I mean) perhaps then we can help you.
>
> eric
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cd writer?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:36:22 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Dr Aldo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a similar problem, not being able to get Linux recognize my
> Creative 8433e CDRW. However it seems from the post previous to yours
> (not available at my server) that I must disable ATAPI cdrom in my
> kernel. However, how can I then get Linux to recognize my other ATAPI
> IDE CDROM? or should I program both as SCSI-emulated?. TIA
You should read CD-writing HOWTO - especially section 2.1 where it
details *exactly* how to make ide-cd ignore your CDRW, yet it can
still drive your CDR, DVD, or whatever. The easiest way is via some
insertions in your module configuration file (/etc/modules.conf or
whatever) - does not require a kernel recompile.
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Miller)
Subject: 2.2.16 BIGMEM support 2-4 GB
Date: 20 Oct 2000 23:33:57 GMT
Does anyone know how to get 2.2.16 kernel to support 4 GB of memory.
Right now it seem to only support 2 GB.
We are using Red Hat 7.0
Thanks.
John
John Miller
remove the nojunk in the email address to reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: help RH 7.0 and rsh
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:30:36 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Eros Albertazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to use rsh to run a command on a remote machine, from a new
>RH7 installed.
>Nothing particulary new, however, while I can from several old RH 6
>boxes, I get a "permission denied" now.. My .rhosts on the remote
>machine is as usual.
>
>On the RH7 box the rsh server is working fine and also the rlogin is
>OK....
>Any hints on what I might have changed??
Make sure that both 'shell' and 'login' are uncommented in
/etc/inetd.conf. Seems to me I could could rlogin and rsh with the
'login' uncommented, but could not rcp until I uncommented the 'shell'.
Also make sure that .rhosts is 600 permission. The default umask for RH
gives files 664 permission by default, which will not work.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Power down at halt
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:38:59 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have RH6.2, and I just upgraded to kernel 2.2.17 (by compiling
from source).
With the original kernel (2.2.14-5.0), when I told the computer to
shutdown -halt, at the end of everything it would turn its power
off. After the upgrade, it said it was powering down but it
didn't -- it just hung.
So I went back into the configuration and turned on Advanced Power
Management (whixh the help said was pretty pointless unless you
were using a laptop, which I'm not), and turned on the
Real-Mode BIOS calls for power-down, which it said fixed
some bugs.
Now, when I tell it to halt, it reboots instead.
How to get it to power down for real?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.0 with Windows 98
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:39:16 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Jason Souder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We have a PC that was running windows 98 and installed Mandrake on the
>same PC. The default options were specified, and autoconfigure was
>selected.
>
>Now we cannot boot into Windows. I know the MBR was overwritten. Does
>Mandrake create it's own partition or use the entire hard drive? Is it
>possible to recover the windows disk and if so, how?
When you boot press the tab key at the LILO prompt and see if it gives you
any alternatives (Windows might be called 'dos').
What partitions and types are shown in Linux fdisk? If there are no FAT
or FAT32 partitions then maybe you selected the wrong option during
install. Normally it will set up the system so LILO can boot to the other
OS and will automatically mount the Win partitions in /mnt. Check
/etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab (or the /mnt dir).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: My extended partition is half the disk !
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 01:00:02 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Philippe Rouge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a disk in "NORMAL" mode.
>8354 cylinders.
Not quite sure what you mean by normal, normal for DOS (translated) or
actual linear geometry?
>My problem is that after the installation, i had a Dos primary partition
>on this disk and an extended partition on only half of the disk.
>Therefore, the logical partitions are limited to that extended
>partition.
>
>I don't see how i could open or enlarge logical partitions.
You should have no problem at all adding 2 primary partitions. But to add
logical partitions, you could try copy and paste (print) current fdisk
partition listing, remove all logical and extended partitions, make larger
extended partion and then recreate existing logical partitions exactly as
they are now.
>I've tried to create a new primary partition with fdisk but I don't know
>how I could format and make it recognised by the system.
>I've used mkfs. No way.
What, 'mke2fs /dev/hda3' did not work (or whichever drive it is)?
>Maybe I could enlarge the extended partition ?
>Is there a way without deletind all the logical partitions ?
Deleting partitions does not destroy the data on them as long as you
recreate them again with exactly the same geometry. But it would make
sense to backup anything essential, just in case. I do not see any reason
why the extended partition cannot be made larger, but it might require
deleting and recreating the existing logical partitions like I mentioned
above.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Which IP is real IP?
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 01:03:20 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Adam H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I dial up to my ISP via PPP (56k modem),
>I can check my /var/log/messages file and I see 2 lines:
>
>Local IP address changed to 203.x.x.x
>Remote IP address changes to 203.x.x.x
If you need to do any scripting with your Local IP, you can do that from
/etc/ip-up (or ip-up.local in RedHat). See 'man pppd'
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: need a little hdparm help here, guys...
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:12:56 -0600
Okay. Here's the scenario: Dell OptiPlex GX1 PIII-500 circa about June
1999. Came w/ one Maxtor 10G IDE hd. I presume it is UDMA/33 capable,
not sure about 66. Using hdparm (doesn't matter what distro, as SuSE,
RedHat, Mandrake, Storm, Debian, etc. all return similar results on
these hard drives), this drive (/dev/hda) will jump from about 3-5MB/sec
to 19-20MB/sec by enabling 32-bit I/O, and DMA. Fiddling w/ any other
options just makes the speed go down (relative to 20MB/sec, not
5MB/sec).
The second hard drive (/dev/hdb) is a 17.2G Maxtor, circa December
1997. Not sure what the rating is on it, but I _think_ it was ATA33.
This one is the problem child, per se. Straight out of the box, w/ any
distro I've fiddled w/, this drives transfer rate is btwn 1-2MB/sec.
Again, the only options that seem to make a significant positive
difference is the 32-bit I/O, and DMA. But even so, the speed only goes
up to a blazing 3MB/sec, tops. I've gone thru the hdparm man page,
tried a bunch of different options, and I've never gotten any better
than that, which is kind of depressing.
Any ideas?
Monte
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From: "Edwin Humphries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie question: broken ppp
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:21:20 +1000
G'day,
I'm trying to set up a small office server, using Red Hat 6.2. We did have
ppp running, but it broke whilst trying to get fetchmail to work properly;
I'm not sure if it wasn't due to a segmentation fault/core dump courtesy of
linuxconf.
What happens now is that when started (using ifup ppp0) it goes into a loop:
you hear the hard disk thrashing a bit, you see several modem lights flicker
a bit, you hear the hard disk thrashing a bit, you see ...
I've uninstalled ppp and the associated wvdial and reinstalled, I've tried
to edit the script and configuration files I know about, but it's still the
same.
Does anyone have any clues?
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From: marvin greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "Branded" machines and linux
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 21:35:35 -0400
I'm thinking about getting an HP, IBM or Compaq desktop to put linux on,
because these boxes tend to be quieter (for a music server in the living
room.) Does anyone have any experience putting linux onto these? Any
issues with their (typically) strange propietary bioses or onboard video, etc.?
Anyone with real concrete experience?
Thanks.
Marvin
P.S. I have a RH distro now, but wouldn't have a problem building a kernel
special.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help to configure my pcmcia card...
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:26:37 -0700
Go to the xircom website and get the linux source code for your ethernet card
and recompile it.
I would recommend cutting and pasting the compilation instruction from the
read.me file to a terminal window
because it is long and prone to typos.
Daniel wrote:
> hi
> i need help to configure my pcmcia card (xircom ethernet card) on my linux -
> laptop but the linux is detecting scsi instead of my network card.
> pls help... ps email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Daniel
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From: "Vigil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech Wheel
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:37:24 +0100
Put the following line into your xfree86 v4 config file:
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] had the audacity to claim:
> I have surf to Logitechs homepage and looked for drivers or something to get
> the wheel works in Linux RedHat 7.0 (gnome ed.) but I have found nothing,
> anyone know how to do?
--
.
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From: "Vigil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp disconnect
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:34:21 +0100
Same thing happened to me until I installed the latest version of pppd.
"Larry Krigbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the audacity to claim:
> I'm working with Redhat 6.2 and trying to establish a ppp connection to
> my ISP. I've been following the directions in the ppp HOW-TO using minicom
> and
> 'pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS0 115200'. The ISP uses PAP and I believe I'm okay
> with the pap-secret file/setup. I connect and login to the ISP and
> immediately get the following sequence of messages:
>
> Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0>
> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x01 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3fdddcd> <pcomp>
> <accomp>]
> Modem Hangup Connection Terminated.
>
> I've talked to the ISP who tells me that I'm connecting, authenticating
> and hanging up, but that everything appears okay on their side. I've also
> tried connecting via netcfg per instructions in the "RedHat Linux Bible" and
> also with the Redhat rh-kppp Dialer. Both are equally unsuccessful, though
> less informative.
> Could someone please offer and suggestions on what I might be doing
> wrong, or point me in the direction of some additional resources? Thanks.
>
>
>
--
.
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From: "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shutdonw problems
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 09:53:16 -0700
Dragon,
Thanks
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:58:34 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Power down at halt
Mike Oliver wrote:
>
> I have RH6.2, and I just upgraded to kernel 2.2.17 (by compiling
> from source).
>
> With the original kernel (2.2.14-5.0), when I told the computer to
> shutdown -halt, at the end of everything it would turn its power
> off. After the upgrade, it said it was powering down but it
> didn't -- it just hung.
>
> So I went back into the configuration and turned on Advanced Power
> Management (whixh the help said was pretty pointless unless you
> were using a laptop, which I'm not), and turned on the
> Real-Mode BIOS calls for power-down, which it said fixed
> some bugs.
>
> Now, when I tell it to halt, it reboots instead.
>
> How to get it to power down for real?
Push the power button, or what 'til the rpm for 2.2.17 comes out.
--
.~. ))
Chem-R-Us /V\ ((
//Y\\_c|^^|
/(_|_) `--'
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Subject: xdm sometimes locks up
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 01:58:44 GMT
I've installed RH 7.0 on my Dell M166s with 64MB memory. I enabled
the option that runs xdm to log in. Usually everything works without
problem, but every once in a while, after I log out (I haven't really
done anything out the ordinary that I can see), after the xdm screen
is written, the system appears to freeze: only part of the X for the
mouse cursor is written, and no mouse or keyboard actions yield a
repsonse.
Are there any ideas about how to diagnose this problem?
--
Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
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