Linux-Setup Digest #894, Volume #19 Tue, 24 Oct 00 11:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Raid recontruction disk (Benoit Patry)
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. (Jeff)
mount & run problem (Paolo Meriggi)
FTP Setup On RedHat 6.1 (Robert M. Kopf)
Passing Thru Requests to Internal Servers (Robert M. Kopf)
2.4.0-test9 and 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. (Eric)
Yamaha sound Card (=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= COLSON)
Re: Eureka I did it!!!! RH on a 486 3 meg ram
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. (Jeff)
Re: 99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left ("Marc Cousin")
Re: Eureka I did it!!!! RH on a 486 3 meg ram ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Binding ftpd to only private internal address ("Marc Cousin")
Re: Can't telnet my host ! ("Marc Cousin")
Re: Upgrading SuSE 6 to 7 on laptop with DVD drive (Kevin Croxen)
Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling. (Eric)
Enlarging partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Install Redhat 7 on existing install with large HDD, please help (Rootman)
how to mount harddisk ? (maybe in FAQ ?) (Marcel Verduyn)
Lost in a sea packages and kernals (Buschman)
Re: Eureka I did it!!!! RH on a 486 3 meg ram
Re: Setup Storm Linux ("Michael Perry")
Re: SBLive and Linux ("Michael Perry")
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From: Benoit Patry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Raid recontruction disk
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:18:41 -0400
root wrote:
> Hi (sorry for my english)
>
> I'm use RedHat_7.0 with RAID 1 software for control two disk ide (hda )
> (hdc)
>
> In my configuration i have four partitions, and the raid software are
> operate witch success
>
> But for testing my raid for that, Ipower down one disk (hdc). My machine
> boot well, all my configuration go
> up.
>
> My problem now I can't reconstruct my raid.
>
> (This is my /proc/mdstat)
>
> md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] 16512 blocks [2/1] [U_]
> md2 : active raid1 hda5[0] 511936 blocks [2/1] [U_]
> md1 : active raid1 hda6[0] 131392 blocks [2/1] [U_]
> md3 : active raid1 hda7[0] 9345024 blocks [2/1] [U_]
>
> I use this command ( raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdc1 )
> and i have this message ( dev/md0: can not hot-add disk: invalid
> argument. )
>
> I use this command to ( raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdc )
>
> I dont have wrong message but I have this in my /proc/mdstat
>
> md0 : active raid1 hdc[1] hda1[0] 16512 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> md2 : active raid1 hda5[0] 511936 blocks [2/1] [U_]
> md1 : active raid1 hda6[0] 131392 blocks [2/1] [U_]
> md3 : active raid1 hda7[0] 9345024 blocks [2/1] [U_]
>
> I think md0 take all my hdc after this command (raidhotadd /dev/md2
> /dev/hdc)
> and I have this message (can
> not hot-add disk: invalid argument.)
>
> What is good methode or command for reconstruct my raid in redhat_7.0 ?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:22:15 -0300
Eric wrote:
> 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
>
> Post the result of fdisk -l /dev/hda and the contents of your lilo.conf
> and then someone may be able to help you.
>
> Eric
Fdisk 0l /dev/hda
START END BLOCKS ID
/dev/hda1 1 64 32224+
83 Linux
/dev/hda2 65 2114 1033200
83 Linux
LILO.CONF
boot=dev/hda1
map/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=Linux
imag=boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
read-only
root=dev/hda2
I installed again and put hda1 as /boot and still no joy :(
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From: Paolo Meriggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mount & run problem
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:41:30 +0200
Dear all,
I have a little rookie question for you: I installed a Mandrake 7.1
dist. of Linux on a big Hard disk.
For several reason, I have now to use a different version of linux,
installed on a little HD, and I don't know how to (after mounting the
Mandrake HD) configure the system in order to run the progs that are
stored on the Mandrake HD...
Any help will be welcome
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From: Robert M. Kopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.config
Subject: FTP Setup On RedHat 6.1
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:38:25 GMT
I have setup RedHat 6.1 on a Pentium 60 to run as a firewall for a
Cox@Home cable modem connection. I have created a packet-filtering
firewall using ipchains to masquerade packets from my internal network
(1 Win98 & 1 RedHat 6.1) and all appears to be working quite well. I
can telnet to the firewall from select hosts, both external and
internal, as defined in hosts.allow. I am now attempting to setup the
firewall machine for ftp.
I have installed wu-ftpd and configured ftpaccess and ftphosts
accordingly. When I attempt to connect from an authorized host, I am
propmted to enter a username and password. I enter a username/password
for a user that is authorized but the login always fails. I am using a
user that can connect via telnet. The /var/log/secure notes only the
connection and a failed PAM authentication. What else do I need to
configure?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
--
Robert Kopf
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From: Robert M. Kopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.config
Subject: Passing Thru Requests to Internal Servers
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:44:21 GMT
I have setup RedHat 6.1 on a Pentium 60 to run as a firewall for a
Cox@Home cable modem connection. I have created a packet-filtering
firewall using ipchains to masquerade packets from my internal network
(1 Win98 & 1 RedHat 6.1) and all appears to be working quite well.
I have setup Apache, PHP, and MySQL on my internal RedHat 6.1 machine
and now wish to have any http requests to my host passed thru to this
internal server. Currently, my firewall script is designed to deny any
http requests. I have read that I must use ipmasqadm to do this, but I
don't seem to have it installed (assuming I can get it at RedHat?). Is
this true? How do I use it? What ipchains rules must I setup to
forward the requests internally?
Additionally, I wish to pass any ftp and telnet requests through to the
internal server, as well, as I do not want any connections made
directly to the firewall machine. How can I accomplish this goal?
Thanks for any assistance you can offer.
--
Robert Kopf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2.4.0-test9 and 2.2.17
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:39:18 GMT
Hi,
I've currently got RH 7.0 running on a 2.2.17 kernel. I downloaded
2.4.0-test9 compiled it and added it to lilo.conf. But when I select it
during bootup I ext2fs complains that it can't read the superblock.
Does anyone know what could be causing this and how I can fix it?
Thanx
Job0
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:51:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff wrote:
>
> Eric wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > Post the result of fdisk -l /dev/hda and the contents of your lilo.conf
> > and then someone may be able to help you.
> >
> > Eric
>
> Fdisk 0l /dev/hda
> START END BLOCKS ID
> /dev/hda1 1 64 32224+
> 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 65 2114 1033200
> 83 Linux
>
> LILO.CONF
>
> boot=dev/hda1
make this first line
boot=/dev/hda
> map/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=Linux
>
> imag=boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
this should be image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
(I suppose this was a typo?)
> label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> read-only
> root=dev/hda2
>
> I installed again and put hda1 as /boot and still no joy :(
What was it when it wasn't /boot? (just curious)
Now make sure to run `/sbin/lilo -v` as root
If there are any error messages, please post them here
Eric
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= COLSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yamaha sound Card
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:55:20 +0200
Lots have problems with Yamaha's Sound Card. I can't configure mine
which is a DS-XG. I heard about sndconfig, but I didn't found it on my
Caldera. Where could I find it? Or maybe is there another solution to
configure it, with Caldera 2.4.
If you have any idea, thanks for your answer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Eureka I did it!!!! RH on a 486 3 meg ram
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:08:03 GMT
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:23:22 -0400, Tim Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:57:03 -0700, Rachelle Elenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> >I't slow, but all there!!!!
>> >
>>
>> W/ a 128M swapfile, you could run a full blown gnome/e/x desktop. I doubt
>> it would be able to boot up in under 8 hours.
>
>But,......... why would you want to?
I have no idea.
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:10:29 -0300
Removing the 1 form boot=/dev/hda1 in the first line and running /sbin/lilo -v
solved the problem. I'm still curious as to why the install program did this so I
may avoid it in the future..
I would like to extend my SINCERE THANKS to all who replied.
Eric wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> >
> > Eric wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > Post the result of fdisk -l /dev/hda and the contents of your lilo.conf
> > > and then someone may be able to help you.
> > >
> > > Eric
> >
> > Fdisk 0l /dev/hda
> > START END BLOCKS ID
> > /dev/hda1 1 64 32224+
> > 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda2 65 2114 1033200
> > 83 Linux
> >
> > LILO.CONF
> >
> > boot=dev/hda1
>
> make this first line
> boot=/dev/hda
>
> > map/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > default=Linux
> >
> > imag=boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
>
> this should be image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> (I suppose this was a typo?)
>
> > label=linux
> > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> > read-only
> > root=dev/hda2
> >
> > I installed again and put hda1 as /boot and still no joy :(
>
> What was it when it wasn't /boot? (just curious)
>
> Now make sure to run `/sbin/lilo -v` as root
> If there are any error messages, please post them here
>
> Eric
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From: "Marc Cousin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:19:45 +0200
audio cd burning : you should give a try to cdrdao for exact
copy of audio cds ... it rips cds, stores the gaps in a table of contents
file and can then burn it back using Disk At Once (no required gaps between tracks)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Eureka I did it!!!! RH on a 486 3 meg ram
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:10:33 GMT
Ah, atlast. Someone else is doing something useless, for no good
reason at all...
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:08:03 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:23:22 -0400, Tim Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:57:03 -0700, Rachelle Elenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>wrote:
>>> >I't slow, but all there!!!!
>>> >
>>>
>>> W/ a 128M swapfile, you could run a full blown gnome/e/x desktop. I doubt
>>> it would be able to boot up in under 8 hours.
>>
>>But,......... why would you want to?
>
>I have no idea.
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From: "Marc Cousin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Binding ftpd to only private internal address
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:29:30 +0200
when a request arrives on ftp port (21), inted makes some checks about
the requester for the connection... you may want to simply deny any
request coming from outside (hosts.deny, add a line ALL:ALL)
and allow a request on ftp from the inside IP("ftp : 192.168." in the
hosts.allow for instance)... for more documentation, try man hosts.allow
cheers
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From: "Marc Cousin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't telnet my host !
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:31:45 +0200
i think i had the problem once on a mandrake 7.0... is in.telnetd
installed on your system (package telnetd i think) ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Upgrading SuSE 6 to 7 on laptop with DVD drive
Date: 24 Oct 2000 14:14:18 GMT
How about just going to the Suse site (or even from your DVD which can be
read from your current Suse or from Win98 if you'd rather use rawrite than
dd) and make a standard YAST bootdisk for the Suse version (7.0) you're
trying to upgrade to. This bootdisk of course includes the correct version
of YAST. Then from the same directory make the supplemental disks modules
1 and modules 2 as well (check the bootdisk directory to ascertain whether
a special supplemental disk is required for your DVD drive; if so, make it
too). Then boot the 7.0 bootfloppy (with YAST 1.05) and, proceeding
through the YAST installation menu, load the hardware modules
as necessary from the supplemental disk(s), and install Suse 7.0.
Scarcely any mess at all beyond rawriting or DDing somewhere between 1 and
4 floppies. Say 20 minutes.
You could also, I suppose, just do an rpm upgrade of YAST first, then run
YAST as you were doing, but version upgrades of running Linux base
installations is never a very good idea, and you're better off using the
boot/module floppies.
Cheers,
--Kevin
In article <8t2vhs$5fv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, (Wm. Randolph Franklin) wrote:
>I have a Sony VAIO SR7K notebook running SuSe 6.3, Win98 and
>Win2K. I`d like to upgrade to SuSE 7 with the DVD, but am being
>blocked at every step.
>
>1. While in linux, I can read the DVD. So I run yast. However,
> it complains that it is 1.03, and that I need 1.05 to upgrade
> from the files on the DVD.
>
>2. I try to boot directly from the DVD. The VAIO BIOS starts
> booting fine from the DVD. However, once linux takes over, it
> says it can no longer see the SuSE Linux installation CD (which
> it just booted from). The reason is that now I need to supply a
> DVD driver (but how do I do that?)
>
>I can imagine various messy potential ways around this, but hoped
>that someone might have an easy solution to get one of the above 2
>methods to work.
>
>Thanks.
>
>----
>(Wm. Randolph Franklin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problems, even tried reinstalling.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:35:13 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff wrote:
>
> Removing the 1 form boot=/dev/hda1 in the first line and running /sbin/lilo -v
> solved the problem. I'm still curious as to why the install program did this so I
> may avoid it in the future..
>
> I would like to extend my SINCERE THANKS to all who replied.
>
Hi jeff,
You could very well have boot=/dev/hda1 on the first line, but I was
trying to pass you a simple solution. All this line describes, is where
to put the LILO bootcode. boot=/dev/hda, means put the code in the MBR,
boot=/dev/hda1, means put the bootcode in the bootsector of partition
hda1. If you would activate this partition, AND (and this was probably
wrong on your PC) have the original DOS bootcode there, than the
bootcode in that partition is executed.
So to clarify this even more:
BIOS first tries to execute bootcode on the floppydrive, if that's not
there, the bootcode in the MBR is executed. A normal MBR contains code
to execute the bootcode in the activated partition. You probably had an
old LILO in your MBR, which was unable to boot the kernel, because it
was no longer where LILO expected it (/sbin/lilo was not rerun) So if
you would have used a DOS bootdisc, and ran FDISK \MBR from there, the
original bootcode in the MBR would have been restored, which meant in
your case, boot from /dev/hda1, and it would have worked too.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Enlarging partition
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:28:16 GMT
1. Can anybody tell me how to enlargen the Linux partition, with Linux and
Windows already installed? 2. How can I install Staroffice 5.2, so several
user are able to access (now I can only install it as root)?
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From: Rootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Install Redhat 7 on existing install with large HDD, please help
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:33:24 GMT
I guess we are delving into areas where my expertise gets left behind,
however I do know that SCSI disks controllers have their own
onboard bios's, perhaps the issue is just sidestepped because of that.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rootman wrote:
> >
> > The 1024 limit is indeen a BIOS issue - as it pertains to the IDE
> > interface, SCSI has no such limitations. While I did not say that
exact
> > fact I did identify it as an IDE problem.
> >
> > Yes you must use LILO, IT is what loads Linux, XOSL as well as most
> > other boot loaders simply chain to the native OS's natural loader.
LILO
> > should be put in the MBR of the alternate drive or first sector of
the
> > partition Linux is in - NOT in the MBR of the first drive.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I fail to see why SCSI disc do not suffer from this BIOS limitation,
> since the limitation comes from the int13 defined calls to access a
HDD.
> (ofcourse with the int13 extensions these problems are gone) Are SCSI
> discs not accessed through these calls? Then how are they accessed?
>
> Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcel Verduyn)
Subject: how to mount harddisk ? (maybe in FAQ ?)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:49:02 GMT
Hello (I am relatively new concerning linux installation),
I just installed RedHat linux 6.0 on linux partition of my harddisk.
But I would like to have access to other partitions (windows) of the
harddisk as well. How do I proceed ?
Maybe there is a FAQ ?
Thanks in advance,
Marcel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Lost in a sea packages and kernals
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:49:54 GMT
Ok I have a little p100 and I have blow it away and tried to reinstall
it like a 100 this far. I was having much better luck in the early
stages than i am now. Let me describe a few of the problems that I am
continuiously running into and maybe you guys will have an idea.
Basically every time I run my machine for the first time none of the
services are listening for anything. Before they were ALL listening.
I want to be able to ssh and ftp to this machine, as well as have it
be a web page server. But I have been having no luck in like the last
20 times I have reinstalled it. Originally I wanted this to be an IP
masquerading and firewalling machine too. I still do, but first
things first. I have to conquer the simple services before tackling
the tough ones. IN the beginning I had one 3com 3c905b-tx NIC. Then
I started to play around with installing Mandrake 7.1 with 2 NICs, and
I tried a lot of different combos. Now I am back to just one so i can
get the services I really need(http,ftp, and ssh) up and running. Not
only will the box not listen but it also installs a second ethernet
adaptor. It calls it ipp0 and always gives it the same IP addy
(something like 168.x.x.x) But that IP does not belong to me and I
don't know where it is getting that from. Also i am able to http out
but not in. I am able to send mail out but not able to receive mail.
I am getting so confused. i have bought 4 books and none of them seem
to help me out. Could I have made a mistake on one install and linux
is redoing that same bad install over and over again? I reformat my
drives every time I reinstall mandrake 7.1. I had a lot less troubles
trying to get mandrake 6.1 to run, is 7.1 just a shitty distribution?
Should I be looking at something other than mandrake?
In the early stages of installing and reinstall 7.1 the prgram seemed
smarter. I mean it auto detected my my video and sound cards. Now It
can't find either and I can only get the video card by manually
telling linux what it is(the sound card was an AWE 32 and is now and
AWE 64). I am doing so much readin that i am confusing myself. I'm
just not getting the install process. I'm not willing to quit but the
current method of learning isn't fast enough for me. I keep beating
my head against a wall. Any suggestions how to learn linux better?
Perhaps some good beginner books or a cheap class that could help me
in getting started. Sorry for the long letter but I really want to
learn this stuff but seem to be getting no where fast. If you have
any questions please feel free to ask me here or write me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks fellow LinuXer's
Later,
Buschman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Eureka I did it!!!! RH on a 486 3 meg ram
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:00:17 GMT
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:10:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:08:03 GMT,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:23:22 -0400, Tim Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:57:03 -0700, Rachelle Elenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>wrote:
>>>> >I't slow, but all there!!!!
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> W/ a 128M swapfile, you could run a full blown gnome/e/x desktop. I doubt
>>>> it would be able to boot up in under 8 hours.
>>>
>>>But,......... why would you want to?
>>
>>I have no idea.
>
>Ah, atlast. Someone else is doing something useless, for no good
>reason at all...
I was just pointing out that linux doesn't need a huge amount of memory
to function properly. If you don't have enough memory, it'll use the swap
file and function properly, albeit really really slow.
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From: "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup Storm Linux
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:01:42 +0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here I was, minding my own business, and wouldn't you know it? Jesper
> Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just had to go and say:
>
>>I'll take your advices and read a lot about Linux before I try to set it
>>up again.
>
> I'd still keep it around. The GUI is mainly just an interface to the
> command prompt, much like Win3.x was. You should still have
> full-function access to the text-based ftp, email, telnet, usenet, and
> web clients, networking, SQL, and tons of other stuff that's well-worth
> looking into. You'll be using most of it anyway, or their GUI
> versions/front-ends, even after you get the GUI up and running. <grins>
>
> -- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
> Warning: The Surgeon General has deemed that excessive displays of
> warning labels and public service announcements produce stress and
> shortens lives.
After reading my post regarding doing some research, I did not mean to
imply that a person should not experiment. If I came across that way,
apologies. I still believe to reach a point of understanding with Linux,
that a bit of research and testing/experimentation will come in handy.
Let me revise my earlier statement a bit. There are difficult things to
get setup under linux. I believe that running X is one of them. You
have to know several variables or know that what the graphical setup tool
is telling you is correct. In several instances, using redhat, the
Xconfigurator tool reported errorneous values for a system I have with a
SiS card (I know, SiS... go figure :) ). But the main point I wish to
make is that one can learn through reading and research and one can also
take a good path by applying that with good, old fashioned
experimentation. I still think reading a lot about Linux either in
printed material or online can save a lot of grief later on.
I still agonize over setting up X. I admit to being an X junkie. I love
having several window managers running on my debian system. So I tend to
try and retry and retry X configurations.
The Linux online community is rich with technical data on how to do
things. I am still amazed at googling along with the level of detail I
can find on various topics.
--
Michael Perry
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From: "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SBLive and Linux
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:06:27 +0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mike"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Don: I've been having the same problem EXACTLY with my Sound
> Blaster Live MP3+. What the hell is up?
>
> Also, my DFE-530TX card doesn't work, even with the help I've used on
> the dlink.com web site. I would appreciate any info anyone has on
> helping us get this thing working.
>
> Also, if anyone knows how to get the NIC working, please message me...it
> is the same type of error as the SB Live (resource busy and all that).
>
> Thank you everyone for all the help you give, Mike
>
>
Are these two cards sitting in pci slots which have the irq shared? My
situation with two pci cards were that while the system claimed to share
IRQs, Linux only reported device or resource busy until I physically
moved the sound card to a pci slot which did not share irqs. BTW, I was
using a SBLive and a Intel Etherexpress 100+.
--
Michael Perry
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