Linux-Setup Digest #895, Volume #19 Tue, 24 Oct 00 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: how to mount harddisk ? (maybe in FAQ ?) (Lew Pitcher)
linux on a Acer laptop with Win98 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lost in a sea packages and kernals ("William Fong")
Re: how to mount harddisk ? (maybe in FAQ ?) (Peter Kadau)
Re: Faster Linux on 486 (Scott Alfter)
compiling kernel (Bart De Schuymer)
RPM 4.0-4 on RedHat 6.1 ("Roel Spijker")
Uninstall linux and reclaim diskspace ("Binh Nguyen")
Re: Lost in a sea packages and kernals (Buschman)
2nd Hard Drive ("Tim Collier")
OLICOM ISA/IV 2173 driver needed (Alexey Gimadiev)
Compex Readylink 2000 PCI card. (Jeff)
RH 6.1 Mouse problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Faster Linux on 486 (DeAnn Iwan)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: how to mount harddisk ? (maybe in FAQ ?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:38:14 GMT
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:49:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcel
Verduyn) wrote:
>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 ?
1) mkdir /mnt/C
(or whatever you want the mount point to be called)
2) mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/C
where /dev/hda1 is the device file for the first partition on the
master drive on your primary IDE controller (commonly called
'C:' ;-) ). Other values can be
/dev/hda2 (Primary IDE, Master drive, 2nd partition),
/dev/hda3 (Primary IDE, Master drive, 3rd partition),
/dev/hdb1 (Primary IDE, Slave drive, 1st partition),
etc.
and /mnt/C is the mountpoint that you want your MSWindows
partition to appear under.
'man mount' will explain the options available with the mount
command
To make this permenant (mounted every time you boot up, edit your
/etc/fstab to include a line that looks like...
/dev/hda1 /mnt/C vfat defaults
or similar (substituting your own values for the device, mountpoint,
and options). 'man fstab' will explain the /etc/fstab layout and
contents.
>Maybe there is a FAQ ?
Much more than a FAQ, there are HOWTOs. But above is the condensed
version.
>Thanks in advance,
> Marcel
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux on a Acer laptop with Win98
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:32:35 GMT
Hi,
I have an Acer TravelMate 600 with Win98. I would like to install Red
Hat Linux 6.2 on it, while maintaining my Win98 (later, I would like to
install W2K on top of that to make it dual bootable between Linux and
W2K).
What shld be the order of install? First W2K, then Linux...or Linux,
then upgrade Win98 to W2K? Will there be any problem in upgrading Win98
to W2K after I install Linux on the machine?
thanks in advance
rb
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From: "William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Lost in a sea packages and kernals
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:45:46 GMT
I'm not sure what you are asking.
To get the services running, you have to have server/daemons running to be
listening for them. To be able to get HTTP services, you need to install an
HTTP server, like Apache. FTP services are normally installed by default
(now that I think about it, so is HTTP...). SSH needs to be installed; I
don't know if MDK7.2 installs it. What exactly is the IP address you are
getting? Is it something like 192.168.x.x?
-will
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"Buschman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> 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] (Peter Kadau)
Subject: Re: how to mount harddisk ? (maybe in FAQ ?)
Date: 24 Oct 2000 15:35:09 GMT
Marcel Verduyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: But I would like to have access to other partitions (windows) of the
: harddisk as well. How do I proceed ?
mount -t msdos /dev/hda<x> <targetdir>
where x is the number of the partition
in case of doubt:
man mount
ciao
peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Faster Linux on 486
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:15:54 -0000
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David N. Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am installing Linux on an old 486 (actually AMDs 486/Pentium 133).
>I have tried both Caldera and Red Hat. The problem that I run into
>is that they seem VERY slow, not only in graphics mode but just in
>text server mode. I was wondering if there is a streamlined version
>of Linux that runs better on the older 486s.
Newer kernels often have everything compiled with at least P5 optimizations
enabled. They run well on newer machines, but not so well on older ones.
One option would be to grab a Linux distro from a few years back. It might
not have the latest and greatest on it, but it'll run faster.
The other option would be to roll your own system (with LFS or a similar
guide) and compile everything with the appropriate optimization for your
system. I recently did this for my firewall system, which uses a Cyrix
5x86-120. Changing from SuSE 6.4 to a 486-optimized LFS speeded things up
considerably. (It freed up some disk space, too, and with only 120 megs to
play with, going from almost full (and no swap) to something around 30 megs
free (with some swap) makes a difference.
I'd give LFS a shot. It'll take longer to get up and running, but you'll
learn a lot in the process.
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(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart De Schuymer)
Subject: compiling kernel
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:48:14 GMT
Hello,
I have recompiled my kernel with the latest linux sourcecode (2.4.
test 7 i believe).
When I boot I get the usual
loading linux .............
uncompressing linux... done.
But then it hangs...
Why can this be? I don't get any kernel panics or anything.
My default kernel is the one delivered by Redhat 7.0...
Thanks,
Bart
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From: "Roel Spijker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM 4.0-4 on RedHat 6.1
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:27:43 +0200
Hi there,
I found a version of NTP which was ntp-4.0.99j-7.i386.rpm. i downloaded it
and tried to install it with RPM.
But I got the message "only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by
this version of RPM".
I thought no problem I 'll downolad the latest rpm package but when I try to
load that with RPM ofcourse I get the same error.
Currently rpm -q rpm shows 3.0-3 on my RedHat 6.1 system.
Have can I upgrade rpm to 4.0-4 on my RedHat box or is it not possible to
run rpm 4.0-4 on Redhat 6.1?
Roel.
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From: "Binh Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Uninstall linux and reclaim diskspace
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:27:03 -0700
Hello,
Before I installed RH7, I made 3 partitions for linux: /,/boot, and <swap>.
I wanted to boot linux from a diskette only because windows ME is my daily
OS. But I forgot to make a bootable diskette when installing linux.
Therefore I used dos' fdisk to remove the linux partition i just installed
and would reinstall linux all over again. I knew I shouldn't use dos' fdisk
to delete linux partition and now linux doesn't boot. The system hangs with
the "LI" on the bottom of screen.
I used dos' FDISK again to reclaim the linux partition but it says: "Unable
to access drive 1". Drive 1 is the drive with windows ME partition and
linux partition I just deleted. Drive 1 is seagate 20GB LBA.
How do I reclaim the diskspace?
How do I remove /boot partition that I made for linux?
If I want to boot linux from floppy disk, should I still need to make /boot
partition?
Neither Linux nor winME is booted for me now. Please HELP.
Please cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Binh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Lost in a sea packages and kernals
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:19:20 GMT
Yes that's the IP! What is that? Why is it installing an ippp0
device and giving it that IP?
As for the other stuff, I am installing all those packages. Inetd is
referrencing them, but for some reason, perhaps a firewall program,
they are not listening. I get security allerts sent to the root, and
they tell me no, or sometimes only a few unimportant, services are
listening. I do install SSH. MDK7.1 goes through this cryptographic
download page. I choose the ssh stuff and netscape communicator. Is
there a way to get that stuff without having to reinstall MDK7.1?
Is MDK7.2 out of beta yet? I am having so many problems with 7.1 that
I probably shouldn't get a distro still in beta testing.
Ultimiately I guess my problem is the books I have are not specific
enough to my needs and to my install. No matter what I try
differently I always seem to be running into the same problems. Like
4 weeks ago when I first got MDK7.1 I would try the install
diferently and would get a different result. But now no matter what I
try I am getting the same problems. I am probably selecting, or not
selecting, a package that I was(n't) before. I just don't know what
these packages are doing to my system. I'm not sure what some of
these packages and services do???
Buschman
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:45:46 GMT, "William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm not sure what you are asking.
>
>To get the services running, you have to have server/daemons running to be
>listening for them. To be able to get HTTP services, you need to install an
>HTTP server, like Apache. FTP services are normally installed by default
>(now that I think about it, so is HTTP...). SSH needs to be installed; I
>don't know if MDK7.2 installs it. What exactly is the IP address you are
>getting? Is it something like 192.168.x.x?
>
>-will
>
>--
>
>______________________________
>William Fong - www.digitaldev.com
>
>"Buschman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>>
>> 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: "Tim Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2nd Hard Drive
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:29:38 -0400
I'm experimenting with Linux. I have it installed on a Pentium 200 with 2
hard drives. I can access all of the hard drive that Linux is installed on
but how do I access and format the other hard drive?
I've searched the documentation that came with SuSE Linux 7.0 and even
bought a book on the OS but haven't come across this.
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From: Alexey Gimadiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OLICOM ISA/IV 2173 driver needed
Date: 24 Oct 2000 18:38:37 GMT
Hi All!
I need linux driver for OLICOM ISA/IV 2173 adapter. Can someone help me?
Thanks!
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compex Readylink 2000 PCI card.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:40:31 -0300
As some of you may know I just installed Linux RedHat 6.1 on a 586
box and had some problems with LILO. Thanks to the great efforts here
it's been solved.
Well I also have a problem with my eth0 device. When I try to bring up
the device the system hangs. The command used is "ifconfig eth0
10.237.31.11", there are no other pc's using this ip address.
This is what I found.
cat /proc/pci
ethernet controller :compex readylink 2000 (rev 10)
medium devlsel. fast back-to-back cabable. IRQ 9
I/O at 0xfce0 [0xfce1]
cat /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 ne2k-pci
Now /var/log/dmesg said nothing about eth0 and /var/log/messages said it
was found at address 0xfce0 and IRQ 9 and that's the last entry before
the one finger salute. Also netconf.log had nothing as well. I looked on
www.redhat.com and nothing was said about parameters for this module in
the list of supported devices.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH 6.1 Mouse problems
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:48:55 GMT
Well I seem to remember having this problem before back in the days of
Mandrake 6.0 but anyway... same problem again.
I installed RH 6.1 on a pc at school... everything fine... but I needed
to change the video card settings, so I went into XF86Setup and changed
them, after that... the mouse went to shit. I attempted what seemed
like every mouse setting in there... but the mouse is all fux0red. Any
ideas? Before I fixed it by reinstalling... but that was back in my
ultra-newbie days.. and I really don't feel like reinstalling. any
ideas would be appreciative.
danke,
Sean
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Faster Linux on 486
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:04:50 -0400
"David N. Haney" wrote:
>
> Linux Gurus:
>
> I am installing Linux on an old 486 (actually AMDs 486/Pentium 133).
> I have tried both Caldera and Red Hat. The problem that I run into
> is that they seem VERY slow, not only in graphics mode but just in
> text server mode. I was wondering if there is a streamlined version
> of Linux that runs better on the older 486s. I thought I would make
> this a firewall/mailserver/printserver, but with the speeds that
> I have been able to get, it is much better as a Windows machine.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.
>
I run linux on a few 486s, so I thought I'd reply. I do not find it
particularly slow, even in graphics mode. Of coures, it is slower than
a 900 MHz PII/PIII....but it does word processing and serving just
fine. A 486 can keep up with a T1 line or 10 Mb ethernet link just
fine. So, you probably have something slowing your system down.
1. Do you have enough memory? The kernel wants 5 MB or so (unless
specially compiled to be small). Most users would want 8-12 MB+ for
text mode and 16 MB+ for graphics mode. I run 32 MB. Note, computer
shows can be a good place to pick up ram cheap. The last show I went to
had 4 MB 72 pin sticks for $2 each, and the previous had 8 MB 72 pin
sticks at $6 each. If you have less than 8 MB of RAM, you probably want
a stripped down linux or an older OS like Win95 or DRDOS.
2. Are you using a hoggy GUI? Try FVWM95 or ICE. They are small
and fast (espcially compared to things like Enlightenment). There are
several small windows managers.
3. As others have mentioned, turn off services you don't need. This
approach helps with security, too.
4. Finally, you can go to a stripped linux. There are a couple of
floppy based Linux you can try to see how much this approach would
help. MuLinux is a 1-3 floppy based system that loads into RAM and is
geared for producing a portable linux anywhere that can network
decently. It even includes 3 (three!) windows managers. But the
resolution is poor (it's a floppy system, afterall). LRP (linux router
project) is a floppy based system designed as a router. If either of
these floppy based systems seems fast enough for you, then a stripped
system might be just what you need.
Good luck.
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