Linux-Setup Digest #906, Volume #19 Thu, 26 Oct 00 11:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: LILO: A contribution for diagnostic purposes. (Eric)
Re: CDE!!! (Marc D. Williams)
Re: syslog.conf man page empty? ("David ..")
booting problem (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?=)
Re: Moving /usr From One Partition To Another (Mike Fry)
Re: problem printing to Linux from Windows (Nick Ruisi)
Re: pc_x-server + redhat + ssh (?) :-P (Nick Ruisi)
Re: CD Audio, question (Nicolas Iselin)
Re: Moving /usr From One Partition To Another (Eric)
Re: NFS help... (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: .htaccess use with Apache (Andy Stirpe)
Re: NFS help.. (DeAnn Iwan)
Burning CD for RH7: Does label matter? (Norman Baccari)
Re: CDE!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dual boot Win2k & Linus (Murray Eisenberg)
Re: ISP access (David Efflandt)
Re: ISP access (David Efflandt)
Win2K NTFS + Linux dual boot: LILO where? (Murray Eisenberg)
Re: Moving /usr From One Partition To Another (Robert Kiesling)
Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions (Murray Eisenberg)
redhat 7 probs netcfg and compiling kernel ("Brian J. Rohan")
Re: Dual boot Win2k & Linus (Rod Smith)
Help RH 7.0 hanging on Enabling Swap during boot (Ward)
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO: A contribution for diagnostic purposes.
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:21:41 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And your lilo.conf file did *not* contain a line with the lba/linear
option specified?
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.developement.system
Subject: Re: CDE!!!
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:13:59 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:37:51 +0100, Jeepster wrote:
>Try here for a free implementation...
>
>http://www.xfce.org/
>
Although it has a CDE-like panel it's hardly an implementation
of CDE. There's a lot more to CDE than that.
Far as I know there is no free version of CDE yet (will there be?).
Note: XFce is a fave of mine so I'm not knocking it.
--
>>ANIME SENSHI<<
Marc D. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8269/ -- Win3.x Makeover
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: syslog.conf man page empty?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:05:39 -0400
Mark Worsdall wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My syslog.conf man page is empty just loads of ~~~~ lines and END
>
> So how can I fix it?
>
> but also:
>
> what would I put in syslog.conf to get all named stuff into a
> /var/log/named.log file?
This is what I use in my redhat systems syslog.conf file. Most of it is
from the original install.
===================================
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.* /dev/console
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none /var/log/messages
# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.* /var/log/secure
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.* /var/log/maillog
# Everybody gets emergency messages, plus log them on another
# machine.
*.emerg *
# Save mail and news errors of level err and higher in a
# special file.
uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.* /var/log/boot.log
# Save warning and error messages to syslog
*.warn;*.err /var/log/syslog
# Save auth user & daemon messages to loginlog
auth.*;user.*;daemon.none /var/log/loginlog
# Save kernel messages to kernel log
kern.* /var/log/kernel
============================================
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: it.comp.linux,hk.comp.os.linux,linux.help
Subject: booting problem
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:20:01 +0800
The following error message is shown when Linux was booting.
Warning: unable to open initial console.
How do I fix this? Do I need to reformat and reinstall my Linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Fry)
Subject: Re: Moving /usr From One Partition To Another
Date: 26 Oct 2000 13:24:52 +0200
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:19:59, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> $ 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.
>
Tried the above (as root), with no seemingly tragic consequences, but it
left me with an empty /usr and two new directories, /oldusr & /newusr,
both containing a copy of /usr. There were some messages about a
non-existent /usr from the last mv command, but I believe these were
because /usr had been emptied. After a bit of trial and error, I got
myself back to where I started from - a small, short-on-space /usr (only
about 450k free). Finally worked out what I originally did wrong:
assigned the / and /usr mount points to the wrong partitions. Duh!
Any other ideas? I don't want to have to reinstall.
I know /etc/fstab has to be changed at some stage - to remove the /usr
mount point, once /usr is back under /.
--
Regards, Mike Fry
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Nick Ruisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem printing to Linux from Windows
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:46:26 -0400
Are you sure you have the printer set up correctly on the linux box
(i.e. can you print a PS test page from printtool?)?
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From: Nick Ruisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pc_x-server + redhat + ssh (?) :-P
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:52:27 -0400
This is another way I've been able to get Xwin32 working with my linux
box:
1. Make sure you give the remote winbox access
2. Start Xwin on windows box
3. Telnet to linux machine. Issue following commands
[foo]$ set DISPLAY=winhost.mydomain:0
[foo]$ export DISPLAY
[foo]$ startkde
~or~
startxfce
etc,etc
Its a kludge, but it works
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From: Nicolas Iselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Audio, question
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:12:40 +0200
Tomas wrote:
>
> BeOS can read the .wav files directly from any music CD.
> (at least the CD:s i have tried)
How fast does Beos read the .wav files, ie how long does it
take to copy a CD of, say, 60 minutes ?
How does Beos behave if the Disc is dirty or has scratches ?
On Linux with CDDA2WAV, i had the problems that drop outs were
copied into the .wav file on the harddisk without any comment.
I discovered these dropouts only when listening to the recorded
CD - which I had to drop. Therefore I switched to EAC (exact audio
copy) which is unfortunately only running on Windows, but
any suspicious microsecond of the data is noted in a textfile,
so I can selectively listen to the extracted sound bits whether
it was only false alarm (like data was corrected, but it can't
be heard) or really something I don't want to hear whenever
I listen to my self-made CD.
> I have BeOS installed, (besides Linux of course :) ), and it is very
> handy, just copy and past any song you want from the CD to the
> harddrive. Is there any drivers/apps for Linux that could do the
> same thing the same easy to use way?
I don't know whether there are, but it would be possible to
write such drivers.
Nicolas
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moving /usr From One Partition To Another
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:25:47 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike Fry wrote:
>
> 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]
Okay, Then I'll give you a step by step help: (Robert explained the
same, but I'll split it up in steps for you)
su - root
mkdir /new_usr
cp -a /usr/* /new_usr
umount /usr
rmdir /usr
mv /new_usr /usr
*now edit fstab: comment out the line with /dev/hdc7
You now have /dev/hdc7 lying around, doing nothing. you can delete it
and use parted(or PartitionMagic) to grow hdc6 so the space isn't left
useless. (if hdc6 is swap, remove that too (if you don't know ho, ask
here again!!) and grow hdc5 (till end of disc - swap) and add new swap
space.
Eric
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS help...
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:38:20 -0400
You should not need to recompile to use NFS. Do you have your
network files (portmapper, hosts....) set up so the machines can see
each other? For example, can the two machines ping each other? If the
hostsallow/deny files seem ok, then check the permissions you used in
fstab and exports. Sorry to not be more specific...I only do this stuff
now and then.
fail006 wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to get nfs working between two computers, both of them running
> linux redhat 7 and windows 98.
> One PC is setup as a nfs server and when i try to mount the shared directory
> on my client machine, it gives me and error saying that permission denied.
> On my server i have edited my /etc/exports file.
> And on my client pc i have edited my /etc/fstab file.
> I was wondering do i need to recompile the kernel so it will support nfs
> file system or does it support nfs by default?
> How do i see the shared nfs directory on my windows machine? Is there a
> windows nfs client?
>
> thanks alot
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From: Andy Stirpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: .htaccess use with Apache
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:12:45 GMT
Nope, there are no "OptionsOveride" tags
Andy
Mark wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
> --
> Please reply to this newsgroup as my Deja mail
> is used as a spam catcher only!
>
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> Before you buy.
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS help..
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:30:17 -0400
check to see that the nfs server is running, that export is set up to
"export" the NFS partitions you want and that the network configuration
allows communications (hostsallow/deny, portmapper....). Also, check
the fstab in the client and network permissions (again,
hostsallow/deny.....) on the client.
fail006 wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to setup NFS on two of my machines, both running redhat 7.
> when i type in rpcinfo -p, i get a message saying bash:bad command....or
> command not found.
> Now when i installed my redhat 7, i installed every single package, that is
> i did the full install. can anyone please help me with this problem.
> On my client side when i try to mount the nfs, it tells me that permission
> denied by the server.
>
> thanks alot
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From: Norman Baccari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Burning CD for RH7: Does label matter?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:43:41 GMT
I've just finished downloading the respin images
for RH7 and Im ready to burn. Does it matter what
the cd label name is? Will the install procedure
ask for cds by label name or does it matter.
I would hate for the install to fail just because
the cds were burned with a wrong label
Thanks!! :)
Norman Baccari
Toronto,Canada
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.developement.system
Subject: Re: CDE!!!
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:59:45 GMT
Why would you want CDE anyway? From my personal experience, it sucks. <a
href="http://www.kde.org">KDE</a> is much better. Or try <a
href="http://www.xfce.org">xfce</a>, it's a CDE clone.
Eugene
In article <8sgoud$umt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"P�man Malekzadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking for a CDE (Common Desktop Environment) clone for Linux, I
have
> located 2 on freshmeat, Dextop and ProCDE but they are not free and
you have
> to order them. Does anyone know of a free CDE clone for linux,
> It must include CDE, OpenMotif, and the Graphical Libs.
>
> thank you,
> Peyman M.
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual boot Win2k & Linus
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:11:38 GMT
This concerns how to configure LILO with an existing installation of
Windows 2000 with NTFS (single 45 GB IDE drive) so as to allow
dual-bootint to Linux (specifically, Red Hat 7.0).
I own "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook" and have also read the "NT
OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO". There seems to be a discrepancy:
The "Handbook", page 104, says, "If you want to use LILO on a system
that also runs Windows NT, it's best to place LILO on the Lunix _BOOT_
partition ... [emphasis added]."
In section 3.4, the mini-HOWTO says, "... specify your
Linux-_ROOT_-partition as your boot device.... This means that ther
root-entry and the boot entry in your /etc/lilo.conf have the same
value...."
Which is it -- root partition or boot partition? I ask because I intend
to create a separate Linux boot partition from the Linux root ( / )
partition. My understanding is that the entire _boot_ partition needs
to be below the 1023 cylinder limit, and since the boot partition can be
quite small, that's no problem. But if LILO is to to to the _root_
partition, that's a different matter entirely; in that case, does the
entire root partition need to go below 1023, or would it be enough for
the root partition to start below 1023; or doesn't it matter at all?
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <lQqG5.1886$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Luc Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi
> >
> > Has anyone had any problems running Win2k Pro and Linux (Mandrake, Red Hat,
> > etc..)?
> >
> > Any experiences would be helpful.
>
> One of my systems currently runs Win2K along with two different Linux
> distributions. Win2K is mostly just like WinNT in terms of its
> multi-boot capabilities. Personally, I'm using System Commander as the
> primary boot loader, with LILO and W2K's OS Loader functioning as
> secondary boot loaders for Linux and Win2K, respectively. It's possible
> to use either LILO or OS Loader as a primary boot loader, though. Once
> both OSs are running, there are also lots of possibilities and issues
> concerning shared filesystems, data exchange, etc. There are dozens of
> FAQs and HOWTOs covering specific issues scattered about the Internet. I
> cover a lot of it in my book, _The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_
> (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/). Some Linux books also have
> multi-boot information, but it's usually geared towards dual-booting
> with Win9x systems.
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ISP access
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:17:41 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Binh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I setup an ISP as root. When a user (non-root) used it, it asked for
>password. How a root can grant the isp dialup access to users?
Which Linux distro? How are you lauching ppp?
For example with RedHat you can use linuxconf (or netcfg in X) to
select a checkbox to allow normal users to bring it up or down. Or you
could set up a script using the demand pppd option. For other distros,
you might try making pppd suid root (chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ISP access
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:17:41 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Binh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I setup an ISP as root. When a user (non-root) used it, it asked for
>password. How a root can grant the isp dialup access to users?
Which Linux distro? How are you lauching ppp?
For example with RedHat you can use linuxconf (or netcfg in X) to
select a checkbox to allow normal users to bring it up or down. Or you
could set up a script using the demand pppd option. For other distros,
you might try making pppd suid root (chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Win2K NTFS + Linux dual boot: LILO where?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:14:00 GMT
This concerns how to configure LILO with an existing installation of
Windows 2000 with NTFS (single 45 GB IDE drive) so as to allow
dual-bootint to Linux (specifically, Red Hat 7.0).
The "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" in section 3.4, says: "...
specify your Linux-_ROOT_-partition as your boot device.... This means
that ther root-entry and the boot entry in your /etc/lilo.conf have the
same value... [emphasis added]."
Is that correct -- that LILO goes to the root partition rather than the
boot partition? This seems to matter, because I intend to create a
separate Linux boot partition from the Linux root ( / ) partition. My
understanding is that the entire _boot_ partition needs to be below the
1023 cylinder limit, and since the boot partition can be quite small,
that's no problem. But if LILO is to to to the _root_ partition, that's
a different matter entirely; in that case, does the entire root
partition need to go below 1023, or would it be enough for the root
partition to start below 1023; or doesn't it matter at all?
--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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Subject: Re: Moving /usr From One Partition To Another
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:26:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Fry) writes:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:19:59, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > $ 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.
> >
>
> Tried the above (as root), with no seemingly tragic consequences, but it
> left me with an empty /usr and two new directories, /oldusr & /newusr,
> both containing a copy of /usr. There were some messages about a
> non-existent /usr from the last mv command, but I believe these were
> because /usr had been emptied. After a bit of trial and error, I got
> myself back to where I started from - a small, short-on-space /usr (only
> about 450k free). Finally worked out what I originally did wrong:
> assigned the / and /usr mount points to the wrong partitions. Duh!
My guess is that you simply renamed the old /usr filesystem back to
itself. The copy using tar doesn't affect /usr, simply duplicates it.
Until you actually "mv" /usr to another name, it's unchanged. Which
shell is the default for root on this system? I was assuming
bash... maybe if the shell is csh or zsh this will work better:
$ mv /usr /oldusr ; mv /newusr /usr
And another thing... make sure you didn't inadvertently omit a space,
and try copying /usr to /usr/newusr, or anything like that.
--
Robert Kiesling
Linux FAQ Maintainer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.mainmatter.com/linux-faq/toc.html http://www.mainmatter.com/
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From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO frezes after PartitionMagic moves LINUX partitions
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:22:43 GMT
Does it work to use LILO on the MBR even with NTFS as the Windows 2000
file system? Everything I've read says no, that if you try that you
will be unable to boot Windows 2000 (actually, NT as these sources say
-- but that's the same thing so far as NTFS goes).
Anita Lewis wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:19:16 +0200, Eric wrote:
> >> Could one of you who are doing this post your lilo.conf please?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Anita
> >
> >here is mine:
> >
> >boot=/dev/hda
> >map=/boot/map
> >install=/boot/boot.b
> >prompt
> >timeout=50
> >default=linux
> >
> >image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> > label=linux
> > read-only
> > root=/dev/hda6
> >
> >other=/dev/hda1
> > label=WINNT
> > alias=NT
> >
> >
> >As you can see, hda6 contains linux (RH6.2) and hda1 contains windows
> >NT.
> >I put LILO in the MBR (boot=/dev/hda) because I like LILO, I thinks it's
> >easily configurable, and much easier to set up a dual boot with NT.
> >Choosing either NT or WINNT at the lilo prompt, will start the NT
> >bootloader.
> >
> >Eric
>
> Thanks, Eric. I was going by what I read in the mini HowTo at LDP on
> installing dual boot with NT. I had also read others saying that it must be
> done that way. You have explained it clearly to me and you have it working;
> so now I understand.
>
> Anita
--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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From: "Brian J. Rohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: redhat 7 probs netcfg and compiling kernel
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:28:22 GMT
I just upgraded to rh7 last night
this morning I rebooted, and my system rebooted to my old kernel, but my
soundnblaster, CD-ROMS (using scsi support for the CD_RW) and ethernet card
did not work. I then changed lilo to load the new kernel 2.2.16-22. My
sound card works, but my ethernet card does not (I am running @HOME). I
tried to go to command line and typ netcfg, but got several error messages.
I then tried getting to netconfig by going to footprint, programs, system,
and network configuration, but nothing happened. I then went to
/usr/src/linux, typed make xconfig, and reset the block devices, and SCSI
sections to make my CD_RW appear as a SCSI, that worked well, I exited, then
tried to make the kernel by typing: make dep clean bzlilo modules
modules_install but after about 30 seconds received error messages (which I
did not write down :-() Can anyone help??
Brian
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Dual boot Win2k & Linus
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:29:10 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This concerns how to configure LILO with an existing installation of
> Windows 2000 with NTFS (single 45 GB IDE drive) so as to allow
> dual-bootint to Linux (specifically, Red Hat 7.0).
>
> I own "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook" and have also read the "NT
> OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO". There seems to be a discrepancy:
>
> The "Handbook", page 104, says, "If you want to use LILO on a system
> that also runs Windows NT, it's best to place LILO on the Lunix _BOOT_
> partition ... [emphasis added]."
>
> In section 3.4, the mini-HOWTO says, "... specify your
> Linux-_ROOT_-partition as your boot device.... This means that ther
> root-entry and the boot entry in your /etc/lilo.conf have the same
> value...."
>
> Which is it -- root partition or boot partition? I ask because I intend
> to create a separate Linux boot partition from the Linux root ( / )
> partition.
In most cases, they're the same thing. Because you're creating a
separate /boot partition, though, I'd put LILO there. LILO *COULD* go on
the root (/) partition *IF* it starts at under the 1024-cylinder mark.
In either case, you'll either need another boot loader (System
Commander, BootMagic, whatever) or the partition on which you put LILO
will have to be a primary partition.
> My understanding is that the entire _boot_ partition needs
> to be below the 1023 cylinder limit, and since the boot partition can be
> quite small, that's no problem. But if LILO is to to to the _root_
> partition, that's a different matter entirely; in that case, does the
> entire root partition need to go below 1023, or would it be enough for
> the root partition to start below 1023; or doesn't it matter at all?
For LILO itself, only the first sector needs to be below the
1024-cylinder mark. LILO loads files, though (namely, whatever Linux
kernels you boot), and THOSE have to be below the 1024-cylinder mark.
The usual practice is for LILO to go on the same partition that houses
the kernels, but this isn't a requirement. If the convention is
followed, though, it's safest to keep the entire partition below the
1024-cylinder mark. It's POSSIBLE that the system will still boot if the
partition straddles this point, because the kernel file might HAPPEN to
fall entirely under the 1024-cylinder point. There's no way of
guaranteeing this will be the case if the partition straddles the
1024-cylinder point, though. Likewise, putting LILO on a partition that
falls partly or entirely below the 1024-cylinder mark does no good if
the kernel file it loads is on a partition that's above that point.
Note that these restrictions are relaxed with recent versions of LILO,
which can load a kernel from above the 1024-cylinder point using recent
BIOSes. LILO itself must normally still reside under the 1024-cylinder
point, if I understand correctly, but the Linux kernel's position is no
longer so restricted. This relies on your having appropriate extended
INT-13 support in your BIOS, which all computers built in the past
couple of years have (probably more, in fact, but I don't know the
exact date). I don't know offhand how common this support is with SCSI
BIOSes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ward)
Subject: Help RH 7.0 hanging on Enabling Swap during boot
Date: 26 Oct 2000 14:40:44 GMT
I installed RH 7.0 from cd.
It hangs when it gets to the enabling swap line during the boot.
Installed RH 7.0 again with same result.
Installed 6.2 from cd and it worked fine.
Used 7.0 cd to upgrade again it worked fine. (1 boot)
Downloaded the updates from updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386
used rpm -Fvh to update.
Reboot following this it hangs at the enabling swap line.
At this point I am going to install 6.2 then upgrade. I will do
a number of reboots to check the stability.
Then I will apply each of the updates one at a time with a
reboot after each one to see if I can id the problem.
Of course it would be much simpler (and quicker...<G>) if
someone has already found a solution to this problem...
BTW if it's any help the laptop I am using is a Trogon Computers
Qualitas Q.24 series. It has a PII 333, IDE 10 gig hd, dvd
cdrom, 8M Rage LT Pro video, mpeg card (for dvd) with 256 M mem.
The specs are at:
http://www.trogoncomputer.com/products/qualitas/q24plus/specific
ation.html
Ward
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Ward Goodwin
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