Linux-Setup Digest #900, Volume #19 Wed, 25 Oct 00 10:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Moving /usr From One Partition To Another (Mike Fry)
Re: Win2000 on Linux (John Thompson)
Re: Enlarging partition (John Thompson)
Low sound level with TB Tahiti (not mixer related) (Daniel Enochsson)
Re: Using a tape drive ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: 2.4.0-test9 and 2.2.17 ("John Horne")
Re: Moving /usr From One Partition To Another (Robert Kiesling)
RedHat 7 and ABIT KT7-RAID ("Alim")
No idea at all? (was: Suse 6.4: always stalled modem downloads) (Thomas Henkel)
Pentium 200 Wanted ("DaveL")
problem after shutdown (Cyrile DERANLOT)
Cable Modem (Torsten Becker)
Re: Install Redhat 7 on existing install with large HDD, please help (Rootman)
BT Home Highway & the Speedway Terminal Adapter ("Andy Harcup")
Re: 2.4.0-test9 and 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What is Sound Blaster AudioPCI ? (Jim Morris)
OLICOM ISA/IV 2173 driver needed (Alexey Gimadiev)
switching monitor resolution (Jack Timmons)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Fry)
Subject: Moving /usr From One Partition To Another
Date: 25 Oct 2000 11:30:20 +0200
I have a multiboot system, amongst which, one of the systems is RH 6.2 -
thus the strange partition arrangement.
/dev/hdc5 contains / (root) partition, and
/dev/hdc7 contains /usr
Now, I'm running out of space on /usr and cannot, for the time being,
add another HDD to the machine. I'd like to move /usr from /dev/hdc7 to
/dev/hdc5, but am unsure of how to do this. Can someone list the steps
that I have to go through?
--
Regards, Mike Fry
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2000 on Linux
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:26:07 -0500
Narumanchi Muralidhar wrote:
> I want to install win2k on my m/c which already has Linux .
> All the sites/FAQs that I've come across explain how to install Linux on
> win2k and not the reverse.
> I have imp. data on my machine which I don't want to lose - hence could
> I load win2k without having to format or reload Linux?
I haven't tried it with Win2k, but a Win9x install would merely
overwrite lilo's bootsector, meaning you would have to boot linux
from a floppy and re-run lilo to use lilo again.
Caution is advised. Backups are your friend.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enlarging partition
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:30:54 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1. Can anybody tell me how to enlargen the Linux partition, with Linux and
> Windows already installed?
Assuming you have some room on your current partitions, back up
your system and use Partition Magic or GNU-parted to resize the
partitions to your liking.
> 2. How can I install Staroffice 5.2, so several
> user are able to access (now I can only install it as root)?
As "root," run the staroffice installation program with the
"/net" switch. Then, as a regular user, run soffice in your home
directory.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Daniel Enochsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Low sound level with TB Tahiti (not mixer related)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:36:56 +0200
Running SuSE 6.2 I have successfully compiled a kernel with support
for my old Turtle beach Tahiti sound card. I am not loading it as a
module. This works relatively well, but the levels are very low.
I have all the sliders on max in the mixer (which is functioning), but
still the sound is considerably lower than what I get from the W98
I can dual-boot into. This applies to both wave and CD audio.
For the W98 I can set levels separately from the mixer by TB's own
applications, but that is only for Line in and CD audio.
(Those levels are used in conjunction with the mixer levels.)
Anyone have any ideas how to bring up the levels from Linux?
It doesn't help to boot into W98, set levels and then boot into Linux.
Do you think it works better with OSS or ALSA drivers?
TIA for any help!
/Daniel
ps. If you are replying via email observe the spamtrap!
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using a tape drive
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 05:40:18 -0400
> I have a Sony sdt-5200 dds2 DAT tape drive, internal SCSI; RedHat
> v6.2.
> I have been unable to access the drive. An earlier post about this
> got the observation that tape drives are not mounted (as I thought). And
> a quick test of the drive would be:
>
> tar -cvf /dev/st0 /usr
>
> Well. I got "Cannot access the device: I/O error"
Is the order of your tar options confused? I don't like to put them all at
the start for that reason. Try
tar -v -f /dev/st0 -c /usr
Just a thought, I don't have the man page in front of me.
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From: "John Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test9 and 2.2.17
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:13:48 +0100
In article <8t65m1$qma$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I did run lilo -v after editing lilo.conf.
>
Thought you might have :-) Can you see the partition when you boot from
the 2.2.17 kernel? As far as I remember I couldn't, but that may have
just been that things got a bit screwed up when I tried to install 2.4.0.
If I get time later I'll try downloading the 2.4.0 source and build it
from there to see what happens.
John.
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John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Moving /usr From One Partition To Another
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:19:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Fry) writes:
> I have a multiboot system, amongst which, one of the systems is RH 6.2 -
> thus the strange partition arrangement.
>
> /dev/hdc5 contains / (root) partition, and
> /dev/hdc7 contains /usr
>
> Now, I'm running out of space on /usr and cannot, for the time being,
> add another HDD to the machine. I'd like to move /usr from /dev/hdc7 to
> /dev/hdc5, but am unsure of how to do this. Can someone list the steps
> that I have to go through?
You might want to re-evaluate your disk space requirements, and
especially try to figure out why /usr is filling up so quickly. That
said, this is a critical operation: you need to have a valid /usr file
system available at all times. Don't blame me if something goes
wrong. and have a rescue disk handy in case you get yourself into
trouble.
$ cd /
$ mkdir /newusr # on /dev/hdc5
$ cd /usr; tar cf - * | ( cd /newusr && tar xvf - )
# this is the critical step: note that the name of the mount
# point changes, not the contents.
$ cd /
$ mv /usr /oldusr && mv /newusr /usr
I've had to resort to this a couple of times, but not with the /usr
file system. It should work, but this is untested, so there might be
something less-than-obviously wrong.
--
Robert Kiesling
Linux FAQ Maintainer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.mainmatter.com/linux-faq/toc.html http://www.mainmatter.com/
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From: "Alim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: RedHat 7 and ABIT KT7-RAID
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:55:53 +0100
OK. I've been using RedHat since version 5.0 and have just bought a new PC.
Now Windows2K and 98SE as well as 95 are all cool with the hardware, but
Linux has a few 'problems'. Here goes...
My motherboard is an ABIT KT7-RAID and the HD is an IBM 75GXP 30Gb.
Everything else installed fine before. I will try to remove the first
partition on the disk and reinstall linux there, but don't know if it'll
work...
1. It won't install directly to the HD on the HPT370. Obviously, so I moved
it to IDE1:master.
2. Linux installs on IDE1:master, but won't boot afterwards.
The plan was to install on IDE1 then move disk back to RAID1 after
recompiling with support for HPT370. I have 19Gb partitioned space with
Win2k and 98, and wondered if linux requires boot sector below this space.
Also, when recovery mode from boot Cd is run and i try to lilo the disk, it
says no access to /dev/hda is available. While it's still on IDE1!
Answers appreciated.
alim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Henkel)
Subject: No idea at all? (was: Suse 6.4: always stalled modem downloads)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:17:09 CET
Hello!
I posted this problem a week ago and nobody responded. Does really
no one has an idea, how I could solve this? This really shockes my
faith in Linux. :-)
So please let me know, if someone has *any* ideas about *anything* I
didn't tried yet:
I have a modem connection problem with SUSE 6.4 and I hope, one of you
can help me, as in a german linux newsgroup nobody found a solution to
this:
I always get stalled downloads with larger files under linux. The
downloads hang after some seconds and nothing more happens. If I start
to download other files at this time, the download starts - and again,
after some seconds it also stalls. In netscape I can awake this
downloads only with abort/resume if the server supports http resume.
Its always the same and it doesn't matter if I want to get a file from
my local isp (university) or from a distant server: for some seconds
the modem receives with full speed and then the download dies. Small
files are always loaded (f.e. html pages and small picture, etc.), but
if a larger file appears, the connection hangs.
I tried to change various options in /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial and in the
yast modem configuration, but nothing works. To be precise:
1. changed the initial at commands to 'AT&D2 M0' (my modem doesn't
need more commands to init - at least in windows and on my old
amiga)
1a. Disabled the data compression with 'AT%C0'
2. reduced MRU/MTU to 567 and similar values
3. explicitly enabled RTS/CTS handshaking with 'crtscts', even this
should be a defalut option (a trial and error test with cdtrcts
also didn't work)
4. set ACCM mask to 'a0000' (a default configuration for TCP/IP stacks
on my amiga)
5. set serial speed to 57600 and 115200 from within yast
6. tried the same with 'setserial', but this also didn't work
Now, I have no more ideas and I hope, one of you knows the ultimate
solution.
My configuration: Medion-PC (NPI-667-Avantgarde) and Suse 6.4. I
tested with an Elsa Microlink 33.6 TQV modem and a noname rockwell
modem.
Needless to say that the modems work properly under windows and also
when connected to the amiga.
Tom
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From: "DaveL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pentium 200 Wanted
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:38:47 +0100
Hi,
Anyone in the UK got a Pentium 200 chip for sale? I'm having trouble
installing Linux with a Cyrix 6x86 and, not being particularly technical, I
suspect that changing to a Pentium may be the easiest answer.
Please email with details to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TIA
Dave
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From: Cyrile DERANLOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem after shutdown
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:43:25 GMT
Hi all,
New install of debian potato 2.2.
There is always many things to adjust after an instal but, here , i have=
=20
a new problem for me: the 'shutdown -h now ' command is correct (i read =
'power down') but the computer doesn't shutdown (nor automatically nor=20
with the button in front of the unit). I can't turn off the mains power!=
I don't see where is the problem. Is it in BIOS (maybe the APM) or in a =
particular file?
Some details:
kernel 2.2.17 (generic)
system with one processor
this computer shutdown normally with an madrake 6.1 distrib and with an =
other os (w98)
Thanks in advance for your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torsten Becker)
Subject: Cable Modem
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:07:20 GMT
Hi,
I installed SuSE 6.4 and configured my Cable Modem to access the
Internet. So far, so good ... it is working, I can browse the web and
also connect to IRC servers and so on.
But somehow it seems that the transfer rate on the line is very slow.
It is as if I were using a modem dial up. I have rarely transfer rates
beyond 3k per second. This is very unsatisfying as under Windows I
usually have very fast access (120k per second and more) .
Do I have to change certain settings or are there any other
configurations I have to do?
TIA
Torsten
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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: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:56:33 GMT
I have never experienced the 1024 limit in IDE since I always put a
small 20 meg /boot partition in below the 8 gig / 1024 limit - it's just
been standard practice for me since about my second Linux install (I
suspect I am the dozen or so range by now - mostly reinstalls.)
Frankly I've never had any experience with SCSI on Linux, I was
repeating info that I thought I heard.
Good work on digging up the info.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > Rootman wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >
> >
> > Okay, thanx,
> > I'll try to find an answer to this, cause I can't stand to be
puzzled
> > about these kind of things.
> >
> > Eric
>
> Found this in the (unmaintained) SCSI howto,
> it states that SCSI disc too suffer from this 1024 cyl. limitation.
>
> Did you (rootman) found by expirience that you had no such problem??
> What LILO version where you using then? Or was it perhaps so that you
> used loadlin/nuni unstead of lilo to boot linux?
>
> Eric
>
> 6.4. Partitioning
>
> You can partition your SCSI disks using the partitioning program of
> your choice, under DOS, OS/2, Linux or any other operating system
> supporting the standard partitioning scheme.
>
> The correct way to run the Linux fdisk program is by specifying the
> device on the command line. Ie, to partition the first SCSI disk,
>
> fdisk /dev/sda
>
> If you don't explicitly specify the device, the partitioning program
> may default to /dev/hda, which isn't a SCSI disk.
>
> In some cases, fdisk will respond with
>
> You must set heads sectors and cylinders.
> You can do this from the extra functions menu.
>
> Command (m for help):
>
> and/or give a message to the effect that the HDIO_REQ or HDIO_GETGEO
> ioctl failed. In these cases, you must manually specify the disk
> geometry as outlined in ``Disk Geometry'' when running fdisk, and
also
> in /etc/disktab if you wish to boot kernels off that disk with LILO.
>
> If you have manually specified the disk geometry, subsequent
attempts
> to run fdisk will give the same error message. This is normal,
since
> PCs don't store the disk geometry information in the partition
table.
> In and of itself, will cause _NO PROBLEMS_, and you will have no
> problems accessing partitions you created on the drive with Linux.
> Some vendors' poor installation code will choke on this, in which
case
> you should contact your vendor and insist that they fix the code.
>
> In some cases, you will get a warning message about a partition
ending
> past cylinder 1024. If you create one of these partitions, you will
> be unable to boot Linux kernels off of that partition using LILO.
> Note, however, that this restriction does not preclude the creation
of
> a root partition partially or entirely above the 1024 cylinder mark,
> since it is possible to create a small /boot partition below the
1024
> cylinder mark or to boot kernels off existing partitions.
>
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From: "Andy Harcup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BT Home Highway & the Speedway Terminal Adapter
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:20:46 +0100
Hi Folks,
I have recently purchased Red Hat Linux 7.0 and need some help to get my
Terminal Adapter working. I am new to Linux and I don't think that BT have
written a driver for the Speedway ISDN TA. Has anyone out there managed to
get one of these working ?????
Thanks for any help
Regards
Andy Harcup
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test9 and 2.2.17
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:21:47 GMT
In article <39f6b190$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"John Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8t65m1$qma$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I did run lilo -v after editing lilo.conf.
> >
> Thought you might have :-) Can you see the partition when you boot
from
> the 2.2.17 kernel? As far as I remember I couldn't, but that may have
> just been that things got a bit screwed up when I tried to install
2.4.0.
> If I get time later I'll try downloading the 2.4.0 source and build it
> from there to see what happens.
>
> John.
>
> --
Yes when I select the 2.2.17 kernel from the lilo boot menu it boots up
ok. The 2.4 starts off ok but throws up the superblock error when it
tries to mount the root disk.
Thanks
Job0
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From: Jim Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is Sound Blaster AudioPCI ?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:53:10 -0500
Gennady Agranov wrote:
> I am trying to get my sound card
>
> Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI (16 bit)
>
> to work ...
>
> So far I was not able to find a correct driver/parameters for this card
The "Creative" AudioPCI is probably called the "Ensoniq"AudioPCI in your
kernel configuration. Ensoniq originally designed and marketed the
AudioPCI chipset (ES1370), and later on Creative Labs came along and
bought Ensoniq, and just stuch a "Sound Blaster" in front of the product
name.
Note that there were two flavours of the AudioPCI - based on the ES1370
chip, and the ES1371. Both drivers should be available on your system if
you are running a 2.2.x or later kernel.
There should be no driver options needed, since the card is a PCI
device. At least, that has been my experience.
Hope that helps!
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| Jim Morris | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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From: Alexey Gimadiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: OLICOM ISA/IV 2173 driver needed
Date: 25 Oct 2000 14:05:12 GMT
Hi All!
I need OLICOM ISA/IV 2173 driver for linux, can somebody help me?
Thanks
Alex
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From: Jack Timmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: switching monitor resolution
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:05:54 -0400
I'm new to Linux.
Just installed 7.0 Redhat and when I "startx" KDE comes up in a higher
res than I want. I looked through the various menu's in KDE but was
unable to locate the utility to change it. I read through the Redhat web
site and it looks like I can run linuxconf from the command line but I
was unable to find it last night, I'll try again tonight (it's my home
machine).
I'm sure that I'll eventually find what I need on the web (I didn't buy
the boxed set so I only have CD and web documentation). If some kind
soul out there could point me in the right direction or give me any tips
it would truly be appreciated.
Jack
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