Linux-Setup Digest #887, Volume #19 Mon, 23 Oct 00 15:13:05 EDT
Contents:
installing Suse 7.0 with YaST2 ("steveFarris")
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. (Bill Powell)
pppd in Corel Linux (Steve Shackles)
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. ("HW")
Re: installing Suse 7.0 with YaST2 ("Dave Stanton")
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. (Jeff)
complete server lock... ("Marc Cousin")
lpd Daemon not present (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. ("Marc Cousin")
Re: lpd Daemon not present ("Paul R. Woods")
Re: pppd in Corel Linux ("bluster")
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. ("Paul R. Woods")
Question on customizing syslog ($[EMAIL PROTECTED])
HELP!!! Stopping DNS from auto dialing every 5 minutes with IP Masquerade (Chris
Tremblay)
Re: lpd Daemon not present (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. (Jeff)
Re: Speedstream 4060 Drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. (Kevin Croxen)
Re: complete server lock... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
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From: "steveFarris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing Suse 7.0 with YaST2
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:10:13 -0400
When i boot from cdrom, the install program is in character mode, and when
install is
complete KDE is not configured. From the looks of the manual. the install
process is a GUI that defaults to KDE.
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From: Bill Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:08:17 GMT
where is your /boot partition?
You need to have the /boot partition within the first 8 Gigs of the HD.
LILO can not see beyond that until linux is loaded. That is why the floppy
can work, but not LILO. I had a similar issue on my first install.
You also did not give the specs of your HD as far as where is your /
partition (root) and where is your /boot partition. This would be the
first issue I would try to resolve. Make sure your /boot partition is
within the first 8 Gig boundary.
Let me know if that helps.
Jeff wrote:
> Version RedHat 6.1
> I just installed RedHat 6.1 on a 586 box. I can boot from the 'A' drive
> no problems at all, but the hard drive is a different story. All I get
> is "LI" and the system hangs.
> This is the only OS on the box so it's not a multiple boot problem. The
> partition table is
> hda 16M
> hda5 1024M
> hdb 300M (Swap)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jeff
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From: Steve Shackles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pppd in Corel Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:30:02 -0000
I have installed corel linux, its find my modem with no problems and dials
out, dials into freeserve and when it says login on to network the message
comes up saying. PPPD time has expired.. I have increase the time out but
I still can't connect to the net.?
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From: "HW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:34:26 -0700
I have the same problem....
"Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Version RedHat 6.1
> I just installed RedHat 6.1 on a 586 box. I can boot from the 'A' drive
> no problems at all, but the hard drive is a different story. All I get
> is "LI" and the system hangs.
> This is the only OS on the box so it's not a multiple boot problem. The
> partition table is
> hda 16M
> hda5 1024M
> hdb 300M (Swap)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jeff
>
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing Suse 7.0 with YaST2
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:43:39 +0100
"steveFarris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8t1rd8$kb2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> When i boot from cdrom, the install program is in character mode, and when
> install is
> complete KDE is not configured. From the looks of the manual. the install
> process is a GUI that defaults to KDE.
Yes, Yast2 should run as a graphical install, however it would not accept my
SiS6326 graphics card, so I had to run in text mode. Are you prssing any
keys when Yast2 is about to run ?.
Cheers
Dave
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:44:05 -0300
hda is only a 1.2 Gig drive. I tried typing LILO at the command line and got
the error "geo_comp_addr :Cylinder number is too big. (1809>1023)"
if that helps.
Thanks for your help.
Bill Powell wrote:
> where is your /boot partition?
>
> You need to have the /boot partition within the first 8 Gigs of the HD.
> LILO can not see beyond that until linux is loaded. That is why the floppy
> can work, but not LILO. I had a similar issue on my first install.
>
> You also did not give the specs of your HD as far as where is your /
> partition (root) and where is your /boot partition. This would be the
> first issue I would try to resolve. Make sure your /boot partition is
> within the first 8 Gig boundary.
>
> Let me know if that helps.
>
> Jeff wrote:
>
> > Version RedHat 6.1
> > I just installed RedHat 6.1 on a 586 box. I can boot from the 'A' drive
> > no problems at all, but the hard drive is a different story. All I get
> > is "LI" and the system hangs.
> > This is the only OS on the box so it's not a multiple boot problem. The
> > partition table is
> > hda 16M
> > hda5 1024M
> > hdb 300M (Swap)
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Jeff
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From: "Marc Cousin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: complete server lock...
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:50:21 +0200
hi there...
i'm having a weird problem with a brand new server randomly the server locks
completely (screen is black, no kernel panic, nothing in the logs)...
i'm wondering how i could find out what's wrong with the machine ...
the machine is a bi-PIII 550 from gateway (imposed by my company...)
it has three SCSI controllers (two AIC7890 on the mainboard and and AHA 2930
for an external SCSI tower)
there are 2 internal SCSI disks mirrored (raid 1, md0 through md3)
and 3 external SCSI disks raid5, device md4
there's also a 20 Gb Scorpion DAT on it...
i'm using a 2.2.17 kernel, patched with RAID 0.90
is there any incompatibility known with these (i tried to find about
this, but with no success), or is there anything i should
do to find what's wrong with the machine ?
thanks in advance for any hint you may give me
Marc Cousin
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lpd Daemon not present
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:02:33 +0000
Greetings all.
I'm going bonkers trying to get my Stylus 600 printer going on my SuSE
6.4 install. I can print by echoing to lp0, and I can print by using
cat to lp0, but it WON'T print using any other method. When I send
something to the printer by clicking on "Print" in Netscape, for
example, I get a "Connection Refused jobs queued, but cannot start
daemon". When I do "lpc status", I get a listing of my filters "ascii,
lp, lp-mono, raw" etc, and lp shows a job queued, but also shows "no
daemon present". I've gone through all my manuals, the SuSE on-line
docs, and just can't seem to make it print using lpr.
I'm confused.....! I've setup printers many times before, and I've never
run in to this.
Any deas?
TIA, Jim
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From: "Marc Cousin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:01:22 +0200
Dans l'article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeff"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit :
> Version RedHat 6.1
> I just installed RedHat 6.1 on a 586 box. I can boot from the 'A' drive
> no problems at all, but the hard drive is a different story. All I get
> is "LI" and the system hangs. This is the only OS on the box so it's not
> a multiple boot problem. The partition table is hda 16M hda5 1024M
> hdb 300M (Swap)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jeff
>
i bet hda stands for hda1... is it the /boot ? is the kernel you're
booting in the /boot (so it's located at the beginning of the drive
(below the 1024 cylinder boundary) ?
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From: "Paul R. Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lpd Daemon not present
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:28:51 -0700
Jim Jerzycke wrote:
>
> Greetings all.
> I'm going bonkers trying to get my Stylus 600 printer going on my SuSE
> 6.4 install. I can print by echoing to lp0, and I can print by using
> cat to lp0, but it WON'T print using any other method. When I send
> something to the printer by clicking on "Print" in Netscape, for
> example, I get a "Connection Refused jobs queued, but cannot start
> daemon". When I do "lpc status", I get a listing of my filters "ascii,
> lp, lp-mono, raw" etc, and lp shows a job queued, but also shows "no
> daemon present". I've gone through all my manuals, the SuSE on-line
> docs, and just can't seem to make it print using lpr.
> I'm confused.....! I've setup printers many times before, and I've never
> run in to this.
> Any deas?
> TIA, Jim
I had a similar problem. I also had the symptom that two lpd's would
start. Since I had multiple printer setups, I started removing them
until just one lpd would start (I read somewhere that an error in the
printcap file can lead to more than one lpd starting). I am sorry to
say though that I haven't tried to re-install that printer yet, so I
don't know if I can actually get it to work. It is a local printer (HP
895c) that I wasn't using much anyway, but I remember that the lp port
was not being detected which is probably another problem altogether.
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd in Corel Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:32:10 -0400
Steve Shackles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed corel linux, its find my modem with no problems and dials
> out, dials into freeserve and when it says login on to network the message
> comes up saying. PPPD time has expired.. I have increase the time out but
> I still can't connect to the net.?
Take a look for error messages in the /var/log/messages file,
that should tell you where the logon script is broken.
You may have to turn on "debug connection" or something in the
ppp setup to make pppd log more info. to the messages file.
Hope this helps!
Bluster
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From: "Paul R. Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:32:39 -0700
Jeff wrote:
>
> Version RedHat 6.1
> I just installed RedHat 6.1 on a 586 box. I can boot from the 'A' drive
> no problems at all, but the hard drive is a different story. All I get
> is "LI" and the system hangs.
> This is the only OS on the box so it's not a multiple boot problem. The
> partition table is
> hda 16M
> hda5 1024M
> hdb 300M (Swap)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jeff
Without reading all the detail of your problem, let me suggest you try
Mandrake. I have a grumpy old HP machine that was a real bear to get RH
onto, but Mandrake installed very easily without any post-install lilo
incantations.
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From: $[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question on customizing syslog
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:34:55 GMT
I'm running leafnode, and it's generating tons of logs which I would prefer
to keep out of /var/log/messages. I've edited syslog.conf, so that they are
going to a separate logfile... which works, but the messages are still
going to /var/log/messages.
Any idea how I can completely redirect to a different logfile, and
halt logging to /var/log/messages?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Tremblay)
Subject: HELP!!! Stopping DNS from auto dialing every 5 minutes with IP Masquerade
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:36:29 GMT
I have set up a Linux box with IP Masquerade and dial on demand and am
trying to get it to work. I got the instructions on how to do it at
http://www.nic.com/~cannon/Linux/ which is actually a pretty good
description on how to do it.
After following it and adjusting the ipchains script to use my network
ip addresses (192.168.4.1 and 192.168.4.2 ) it worked on the machine
and would dial out on demand. BUT when I went to my Win98 machine
inside the network and opened up Netscape nothing would happen unless
I used an ip address. So I figured that would be a dns problem.
So I added the ISP's DNS server into the Network properties (it used
to be using a windows based proxy to get out). After that every couple
of minutes the Linux box would dial up. This makes me think that the
Windows box is trying to contact the DNS server every couple of
minutes.
I decided to install a caching DNS server (I was planning to anyways)
figuring this may solve it (stupid of me thinking it would) and
removed the ISP's DNS server ip from the /etc/resolv.conf and put the
ip of the Linux box as the DNS server for the Windows machine. But
then I found that the Linux box would dial out on it's own every
couple of minutes if I had the bind daemon running no matter if the
windows box was connected or not. If I stopped the daemon it would
stop dialing out.
What I am trying to figure out is how to stop this autodialling every
5 minutes and what could be causing it.
I am running Redhat 7 (yes I know buggy (supposedly) but haven't had
any other problems)
Any Ideas??
You can respond here or email me at anne at storm dot ca or at christ
at mbm dash law dot com
Thanks!!
Chris
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lpd Daemon not present
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:44:49 +0000
Nope...just the one printer. When I tried "lpc restart all" I got the
error message that there was no daemon to abort, so nothing to restart!
I've gone through the printcap file and the filter files, and it refuses
to start the printer daemon. The Suse docs aren't any help, and even
"Running Linux" (The book) doesn't have anything about a non-starting
daemon.
It's probably gonna be one of those things I'll kick myself over when I
figure it out!
Thanks, Jim
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:44:27 -0300
hda is only a 1.2 Gig drive. I tried typing LILO at the command line and got
the error "geo_comp_addr :Cylinder number is too big. (1809>1023)".
How can I fix this problem? When using fdisk on hda, I picked the starting
default point and ending point. My intention was to give the entire drive to
the Linux native partition and use the second drive for swap.
Thanks for your help.
Marc Cousin wrote:
> Dans l'article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeff"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit :
>
> > Version RedHat 6.1
> > I just installed RedHat 6.1 on a 586 box. I can boot from the 'A' drive
> > no problems at all, but the hard drive is a different story. All I get
> > is "LI" and the system hangs. This is the only OS on the box so it's not
> > a multiple boot problem. The partition table is hda 16M hda5 1024M
> > hdb 300M (Swap)
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Jeff
> >
>
> i bet hda stands for hda1... is it the /boot ? is the kernel you're
> booting in the /boot (so it's located at the beginning of the drive
> (below the 1024 cylinder boundary) ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Speedstream 4060 Drivers
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:36:41 GMT
Actually, I think the Enternet Software might exist for Linux. Check out
http://www.nts.com (Efficient Networks bought NTS, the maker of the Enternet
software). They say that the Linux version "is not available directly to
consumers", but on their "purchase software online" page it seems that one
can nevertheless order it for $29.99 (same price as for the Mac and Windows
versions). Somewhere else they say that "EnterNet is available in minimum
license quantities of 1,000", so I'd be cautious about ordering, unless your
credit card maxes out well before $30,000. Actually, one can order
individual copies of the Mac and Win versions-- they just seem to be cautious
about distributing the Linux or whatever. If anyone is brave enough to order
it, I'd give them lots of moral support :)
I have pacbell dsl (los angeles) and use the 4060 (in Win98). My Supra PCI
modem doesn't work with Linux either, so it'd be nice to have the 4060 work.
Regis
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:46:07 -0400, Donald L Mainier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I am sure they will soon.
>
> Actually I wouldn't count on that. I do not believe Efficient has
> released the necessary specs so that someone else could do it, nor are
> they even working on them themselves. At least, AFAIK.
>
> >Hal Burgiss wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:28:35 -0400, Donald L Mainier
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >Does anyone know of a driver for my speedstream 4060 external usb port
> >> >accessible modem? Any help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> They do not exist, sorry.
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: 23 Oct 2000 18:58:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff wrote:
>hda is only a 1.2 Gig drive. I tried typing LILO at the command line and got
>the error "geo_comp_addr :Cylinder number is too big. (1809>1023)"
>if that helps.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>
>Bill Powell wrote:
>
>> where is your /boot partition?
>>
>> You need to have the /boot partition within the first 8 Gigs of the HD.
>> LILO can not see beyond that until linux is loaded. That is why the floppy
>> can work, but not LILO. I had a similar issue on my first install.
>>
>> You also did not give the specs of your HD as far as where is your /
>> partition (root) and where is your /boot partition. This would be the
>> first issue I would try to resolve. Make sure your /boot partition is
>> within the first 8 Gig boundary.
>>
>> Let me know if that helps.
>>
>> Jeff wrote:
>>
>> > Version RedHat 6.1
>> > I just installed RedHat 6.1 on a 586 box. I can boot from the 'A' drive
>> > no problems at all, but the hard drive is a different story. All I get
>> > is "LI" and the system hangs.
>> > This is the only OS on the box so it's not a multiple boot problem. The
>> > partition table is
>> > hda 16M
>> > hda5 1024M
>> > hdb 300M (Swap)
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Jeff
>
Do you have LBA mode enabled on the drive (in the hardware setup)? Without
at least LBA enabled, you're going to hit the IDE 1024 cylinder limit the
old-fashioned way right at 504 MB. If LBA is not currently enabled, you'll
have to remove your current partitioning scheme, enable LBA mode for the
drive in the BIOS, then repartition and install your OS.
If LBA is not doable for whatever reason, then the /boot hierarchy and the
vmlinuz kernel will have to be in a partition contained entirely within
the first 504 Megs in order to boot from the hard disk. An initial
partition of say 10-15 MB for /boot and the kernel, then the remainder of
the disk could be partitioned as you please for the rest of the filesystem
hierarchy.
--Kevin
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: complete server lock...
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:01:01 +0200
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Marc Cousin wrote:
> hi there...
>
> i'm having a weird problem with a brand new server randomly the server locks
> completely (screen is black, no kernel panic, nothing in the logs)...
>
> i'm wondering how i could find out what's wrong with the machine ...
> the machine is a bi-PIII 550 from gateway (imposed by my company...)
>
> it has three SCSI controllers (two AIC7890 on the mainboard and and AHA 2930
> for an external SCSI tower)
>
> there are 2 internal SCSI disks mirrored (raid 1, md0 through md3)
> and 3 external SCSI disks raid5, device md4
>
> there's also a 20 Gb Scorpion DAT on it...
> i'm using a 2.2.17 kernel, patched with RAID 0.90
>
> is there any incompatibility known with these (i tried to find about
> this, but with no success), or is there anything i should
> do to find what's wrong with the machine ?
>
> thanks in advance for any hint you may give me
Do you have any idea when it happens? You write 'at random' - but could it
happen to be under very high load? I am sitting with a box, which crashes
randomly (dammit) under very high processor utilization (compilation
etc.).
Also - does it run X? Does it crash when running X - or is this not an
issue? X is one of the few programs, that can actually crash linux -
mostly when it is configured wrong.
Rasmus B. Hansen
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