Linux-Setup Digest #902, Volume #19 Wed, 25 Oct 00 17:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Setup the correct colors ? ("Ed Bras")
mail question (Lyle Hanson)
Re: Linux textbook (Jim Jerzycke)
SV: Problems Installing RH7 ("Martin Malek")
Installing problems RH7 ("Martin Malek")
Linux and Windows clock times out of sync (VMware for Win2000 + SuSE 7.0) (Phil
Holland)
multi-linux boots ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: .htaccess use with Apache (Mark)
help login ("Richard Giguere")
Re: NE2000 NIC and Redhat FTP install (mmc)
Packet Size (bluto)
Re: help login (Scott Nolde)
Re: multi-linux boots (Scott Nolde)
Re: multi-linux boots (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Setup the correct colors ? ("rude")
Re: Packet Size (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Redhat 7.0 kernel compilation problems with PIII coppermine ("ne...")
Re: Setup the correct colors ? ("ne...")
aureal sound (Marc Balsys)
Re: modem and sound, something different... ("Kevin Partridge")
Re: compile kernel problem ("Kevin Partridge")
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setup the correct colors ?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:43:48 +0200
Can someone please tell me how to configure the number of colors Linux uses
??
I am using RedHat 7 with gnome and want to configure it to use more than 256
colors ?
Regards,
Ed Bras
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From: Lyle Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mail question
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:32:24 -0400
hi!
Just set up postfix on my firewall. Not useful for much except mail ON
THAT MACHINE. ISP firewalls port 25, and I know how to get postfix to
listen on a different port, but will that allow me to receive
mail? Because after all, every other mail server is going to try to
deliver to 25 (and get rejected).
Is there any solution?
Thanks
LYle
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux textbook
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:26:11 +0000
Get "Running Linux"! Not a lot of pictures, but then that's why we all
learned to read!
It's distribution agnostic, so you can use it as a (very good) general
reference.
regards, drjim
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From: "Martin Malek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SV: Problems Installing RH7
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:23:56 GMT
This is what I get when I try to install (this is right after attempting to
find my scsi card. Its built in on a ASUS P2B-S and the model is aic7890)
Runing Anaconda - may take some time...
exec: Input/Output error install exited abnormally
sending terminations signals ... done
sending kill signals ... done
disabling swap ...
unmounting filesytems...
/mnt/runtime unmount failed (16)
/mnt/source unmount failed (16)
/dev/pts
/proc
You may reboot safely now
Martin Malek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:95EJ5.2553$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi. When I try to install RH7 it keeps crashing. It looks for the scsi
card
> finds it but then i get something like
> exec: i/o and something about not being able to unmount. I had 6.0
> installed before without any problems whatsoever. Has anyone else
> encountered this problem. (the cd i installed from was bought from
> cheapbytes.com)
>
>
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From: "Martin Malek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing problems RH7
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:27:07 GMT
This is what I get when I try to install (this is right after attempting to
find my scsi card. Its built in on a ASUS P2B-S and the model is aic7890)
Runing Anaconda - may take some time...
exec: Input/Output error install exited abnormally
sending terminations signals ... done
sending kill signals ... done
disabling swap ...
unmounting filesytems...
/mnt/runtime unmount failed (16)
/mnt/source unmount failed (16)
/dev/pts
/proc
You may reboot safely now
I installed RH6 earlier without problems.
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From: Phil Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and Windows clock times out of sync (VMware for Win2000 + SuSE 7.0)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:01:46 +0100
I'm a newbie to Linux, but I'm learning fast. I particularly like the
VMware solution to multiple operating systems, but I keep finding
oddities...
Problem:
I can manually adjust the Linux date and time to match that in Windows
using the kcmclock application. However, over a period of time, when
I'm not using Linux constantly, the Linux clock shows a different time,
sometimes fast, sometimes slow. For example this morning it is Oct 25 @
11:52 in Windows, but Oct 26 @ 01:41 in Linux.
Question:
Is there a way to force Linux to use the CMOS clock from within VMware?
Environment:
I am running the following setup:
Pentium III 750MHz laptop
128MB memory
11GB hard drive (C:)
DVD (D:)
Windows 2000 Professional
VMware 2.0.2 for Windows NT and Windows 2000
SuSE 7.0
hda = linux.dsk (1.5GB max, mount=/, /boot and swap)
hdb = linux2.dsk (1.5GB max, mount=/home)
hdc = D:
hdd = C:
64MB memory
Thanks in advance..........Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: multi-linux boots
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:42:14 GMT
Hi,
Quick one i hope:
I wish to have a couple of linuxes installed ..each on different drives.
I want them to not know about each other... ish.
Would like to set which to boot from lilo.
ATM lilo can't see the others /boot/kernel as its root etc is on another
drive.
Ideas on how to do it?
Tried the HOWTOs and came away even more confused :/
Ade.
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: .htaccess use with Apache
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:54:03 GMT
Do you have any OptionsOverride tags?
Mark
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andy Stirpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Does anyone know the reason why a .htaccess file would not be read
when
> accessing a web page which is being run on an Apache server (Redhat
v6.1
> & Apache v1.3)? As far as I know everything is setup correctly (using
> the htaccess script to create the .htpasswd file which is placed in
the
> location specified and .htaccess is specified as the "AccessFileName"
in
> the srm.conf file).
>
> Any guidence or help would be greatly appreciated....Thanx
>
> Andy
>
>
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From: "Richard Giguere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help login
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:10:50 GMT
Like most Linux users i have re-installed linux about 6 times since I got it
like 2 months ago to do something diff. I did this the other day and
everything went fine no problem. I was talking on the phone while i was
entering all the acount info and root password. After install i went to
login as i had done many times
before....................................................... It would not
work.
I figured i entered in the wrong password or something so i re-installed
AGAIN and same thing happend has any one had this problem with 7.0??? I am
thinking of getting 6.2 instead. Thank you for your concern of a very
P.O.'ed linux user : |
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From: mmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NE2000 NIC and Redhat FTP install
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:30:06 -0000
Josh Nurczyk wrote:
>
>
> I have an old computer with an NE2000 compatible Linksys ether16 10baseT
> card. The boot loaderfor some reason cannot load the correct drivers for
the
> NIC. It says the card is busy and can't be polled. It is an ISA card (of
> course) and I am using ISA because it is an older computer. I was also
> planning on installing a slightly outdated kernel to insure it running on
> older hardware. If you can help, please do. Thank you.
>
> Josh
>
>
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From: bluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Packet Size
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:43:28 GMT
Can anybody please point me in the right direction for figuring out how
to adjust the tcp/ip packet size and window size
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help login
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:42:38 GMT
Richard Giguere wrote:
>
> Like most Linux users i have re-installed linux about 6 times since I got it
> like 2 months ago to do something diff. I did this the other day and
> everything went fine no problem. I was talking on the phone while i was
> entering all the acount info and root password. After install i went to
> login as i had done many times
> before....................................................... It would not
> work.
>
> I figured i entered in the wrong password or something so i re-installed
> AGAIN and same thing happend has any one had this problem with 7.0??? I am
> thinking of getting 6.2 instead. Thank you for your concern of a very
> P.O.'ed linux user : |
there are ways around the login prompt for the root user. Reinstalling
is not the answer to everything, except a compromised machine or a
really bad hard drive corruption.
How's the network thing going for you? I haven't heard back in a while.
- Scott
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multi-linux boots
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:46:17 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Quick one i hope:
> I wish to have a couple of linuxes installed ..each on different drives.
> I want them to not know about each other... ish.
> Would like to set which to boot from lilo.
> ATM lilo can't see the others /boot/kernel as its root etc is on another
> drive.
> Ideas on how to do it?
> Tried the HOWTOs and came away even more confused :/
>
> Ade.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Install lilo with one distribution and use a boot disk for everything
else. Else, make sure you know which partitions are boootable.
Personally, a single boot partition would be best.
- Scott
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multi-linux boots
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:57:53 +1000
Welcome to Linux-land!
The trick (or rather the logical way) is to have separate lilo's for each
Linux distribution.
a) The first installed distribution puts it's lilo in mbr and behaves
normal.
b) When installing the second, third, umpteen distribution install it's lilo
in the same
partition. This lilo has to boot this distro only so it does not need menu
choices or waiting period, although a short message informing what is going
on is nice.
c) In /etc/lilo.conf of the primary lilo add
other=/dev/hdyx #yx the partition of the called Linux distribution
label=theOtherOne #any name that you can easly remember.
unsafe # this means "Just do it!"
(Note: rerun lilo)
This will call the partition where the second lilo is waiting and everybody
happy.
Just make sure of three things:
That you create a booting diskette during installation of the other distro.
That the partition is not mounted as the initialisation process needs it
"ro" for checking.
And that you RTFM "man lilo.conf"
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quick one i hope:
> I wish to have a couple of linuxes installed ..each on different drives.
> I want them to not know about each other... ish.
> Would like to set which to boot from lilo.
> ATM lilo can't see the others /boot/kernel as its root etc is on another
> drive.
> Ideas on how to do it?
> Tried the HOWTOs and came away even more confused :/
>
> Ade.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "rude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup the correct colors ?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:18:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in RH you will want to use the xconfigurator, I believe (have a suse
system)
In article <8t763m$jbq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Ed Bras"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone please tell me how to configure the number of colors Linux
> uses
> ??
> I am using RedHat 7 with gnome and want to configure it to use more than
> 256 colors ?
>
> Regards, Ed Bras
>
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Subject: Re: Packet Size
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:21:33 GMT
bluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anybody please point me in the right direction for figuring out how
> to adjust the tcp/ip packet size and window size
For the packet size, man ifconfig and look for the MTU.
Vilmos
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 kernel compilation problems with PIII coppermine
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:35:28 GMT
On Oct 25, 2000 at 16:52, Andrzej Nowak eloquently wrote:
>I set up Redhat Linux 7.0 (guiness) on a PIII coppermine 650MHz
>machine. However it seems impossible to compile ANY kernel version
>on it (I tried 2.2.16 2.2.17 2.2.16-22 2.2.14).
>Each time I change anything in the kernel configuration I get different
>errors and warnings (lots of them) on different files,
>looking just like there was a lot of bugs in the kernel code.
>These kernels compile without problems on a PII233. Is this a common
>problem, and how should I start dealing with it?
This is a FAQ. The answer should be on RH's support page.
Make sure you compile with the correct compiler, kgcc.
Edit the Makefile and change the compiler to kgcc after
making sure you install it.
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup the correct colors ?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:38:26 GMT
On Oct 25, 2000 at 19:43, Ed Bras eloquently wrote:
>Can someone please tell me how to configure the number of colors Linux uses
>??
>I am using RedHat 7 with gnome and want to configure it to use more than 256
>colors ?
man XF86Config makes good reading. Especially the Screen section
and the bit about DefaultDepth.
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From: Marc Balsys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: aureal sound
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:33:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
distribution: suse 7.0
soundcard: terratec xlerate ( chipsatz vortex1)
hallo,
i could not achieve to install my soundcard....
I tried with the newest aureal driver (1.1.1) from
http://aureal.sourceforge.net.
But if I execute the make command : make install10, I get the following
error message:
make install AUCHIP=AU8810
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/aureal'
mv -f /etc/modules.conf /etc/modules.conf.old
gawk -f mod_conf /etc/modules.conf.old > /etc/modules.conf
echo "alias sound au8810" >> /etc/modules.conf
echo "alias midi au8810" >> /etc/modules.conf
mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc cp -f au8810.o
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc /sbin/depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols
in /lib/modules/2.2.16/pcmcia/mpsuni_cs.o
/sbin/rmmod au8810 rmmod: module au8810 is not loaded
make[1]: [install] Error 1 (ignored)
/sbin/modprobe au8810 /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/au8810.o:
init_module: the ressource is already in use.
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/au8810.o:
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/au8810.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/au8810.o:
insmod au8810 failed make[1]:
[install] Error 255 (ignored)
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/aureal'
thank you very very much for every hint
marc
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From: "Kevin Partridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem and sound, something different...
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:02:38 -0700
Thanks for responding. i was beginning to think that no one wanted to touch
this.
> What port and irq did you uncomment for it in isapnp.conf?
>
pnpdump -c -d > isapnp.conf --->this command with the -c -d flags
uncomments what it thinks is best.
i then tried to set up the right irq in rc.serial because isapnp did not get
the irq correct. either that or there are other problems.
> http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/yamaha_alsa.html
>
>
thanks.
> Why would you set spd_vhi and irq 5 for a terminal? Your modem is
> apparently /dev/ttyS2, not tty2. No wonder mingetty went into
> convulsions.
>
after noticing that i made the same typo in my post no less than 4 times i
checked rc.serial. either i fixed my typo in rc.serial the last time i
edited it or i didn't have a typo there (only here in my post). but that
might explain why i don't get the beeps and repeating characters anymore...
or would it? i may just experiment and let you know.
oh, and the spd_vhi sets it so that a 56k V.90 modem is not limited to 56k.
it sets the baud rate to 115200.
> I had Netscape lock up on my once in KDE. At first I could still switch
> to consoles, but eventually back in X the keyboard became unresponsive and
> stayed frozen on that screen even after I killed everything X related from
> my networked laptop. Had to reboot it from the laptop. One other time
> after exiting KDE text in all consoles was black on black, still
> responding, just couldn't see what I was doing.
>
wow! uncool. now, if only some nice linux wizard guru egghead geek rocket
scientist man-i-hate-you-cuz-you know-more type could answer the eternal
question... 'what in the hell makes it do that?'
thanks for the link.
kevin
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From: "Kevin Partridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compile kernel problem
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:09:02 -0700
> Maybe you forgot to mv or rm unused modules from
> /lib/modules/modules-<kernel-version> when compiling for the same kernel
> with less modules. So the old modules in the same modules dir are not
> linked to your current kernel. Also I usually do a 'make install' at the
> end, which updates /boot/vmlinuz, /boot/SystemMap, and runs lilo.
>
so would the 'make install' mean that i wouldn't have to update LILO
manually?
kevin
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