Linux-Setup Digest #937, Volume #19 Mon, 30 Oct 00 12:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: ISDN TA and linux - anyone? (Nicolas Iselin)
Re: raidstop ?? (Benoit Patry)
SuSE Terminal Emulator hangs ("gina")
Re: boot sector virus after installation?!? (Derek Jolly)
Re: Faster Linux on 486 (Dave Clark)
Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself ("S. Mittelstaedt")
Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself ("S. Mittelstaedt")
Re: Mounting floppies writable using autofs (Michael Behrens)
Re: Changing ethernet card (Marble Head)
Re: Red Hat 7.0 Graphical Lilo prompt ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Re: Red Hat 7.0 Graphical Lilo prompt (Hal Burgiss)
KDE 2 on RedHat 7 works for non-root user from runlevel 3, but not runlevel 5 (Dale
Hennessey)
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From: Nicolas Iselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN TA and linux - anyone?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:06:15 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Has anyone got an ISDN TA (not an ISDN card) working on linux. I can't
> use any of the ISDN utils because they all require an ISDN card not a
> TA, and using the TA as a modem connects OK at 128K, but the fastest
> transfer I get is 1K/s and after a minute or so, even that slows down!!
>
Hi sconn (?)
I use a ZyXEL omni TA128 since two years and it works like a breeze. Ok,
here's my setup:
AMD K6-II 350MHz
128 MB RAM
ZyXEL connected to serial port
pppd / chat use serial port to establish connection. The serial line speed
is set (on ppp commandline) to 115200, and the chatscript has been adopted
to use the proper ISDN parameters (CHECK YOUR TA MANUAL !!)
However, I do not use link bundling, so I am usually connected at 64kbit
and this gives me (to good sites with a reasonable Provider) download
rates within Netscape of about 7.5KB/sec.
Connection managed with pon/poff, but I think these are Debian specials
and not available on every distribution.
BTW, about three years ago I managed Linux-Dial-In boxes with the same
ISDN-TAs connected, at this time we run about 8 concurrent connections to one
box (using a Cyclades Serial Multiport Card) and every customer got
his 7.5 KB/sec, although the machine hat 200 MHz at most !!
Nicolas
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From: Benoit Patry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: raidstop ??
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:03:58 -0500
Benoit Patry wrote:
> Hi ! (sorry for ny english)
>
> I work with RAID on multiple partition.
> I use two disks ide and redhat 7.0
>
> They are my partition config
>
> md0 for /boot (hda1,hdc1)
> md1 for /swap (hda6,hdc6)
> md2 for /var (hda5,hdc5)
> md3 for / (hda7,hdc7)
>
> I would like stop my raid on comand line ( not with shotdown )
> But when i use command (raidstop /dev/mdx)
> I have wrong message device are busy
>
> I use umount command and i have similar message.
>
> Is-it possible stop my raid ?
>
> What are good methode ?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "gina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SuSE Terminal Emulator hangs
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:21:59 +0800
Hi all,
I have just installed the SuSE Personal. Problem is, whenever I activated
the Terminal emulator, the system hangs. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Gina
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Jolly)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: boot sector virus after installation?!?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:21:50 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (gina), in message
<8th6s1$r3v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote
>Hi,
>
>I'm a newbie in Linux, pls help.
>
>I have just installed SuSE Linux on a partition in my WINNT4.0 Server
>harddisk. LILO was installed on a floopy to boot Linux from there.
>Installation has completed successfully.
>
>However, when I tried to boot to Linux for the first time, the system
>prompted a boot sector virus and prevented me from going further. No
>virus information was provided. I'm not sure if this is a CMOS message
>or Linux message, but a funny sound was played from the system.
It's a false alarm. What's happened here is that when installing Linux
you installed LILO to the master boot record of your hard disc (which is
fine, and what you want to do). Your BIOS, in its stupidity, has
detected this as a boot-sector virus.
Switch off virus warnings in your BIOS.
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From: Dave Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Faster Linux on 486
Date: 30 Oct 2000 16:29:03 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware 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
I am not impling that you are as stupid as me, however just
a little anecdote for you: A while back I put in some new memory and
a faster processor in my 486. After I put it all back together and
booted it, it was horribly slow. I had been fooling with a bunch of
motherboard jumpers and I was scratching my head for a while on what
I had done wrong. I ran a benchmark test and it showed my machine was
slower than a 386-25. Hmmm, then after some days it dawned on me: that
assinine feature called the "Turbo" switch. I guess designers put
that feature on 486's so people felt like they had some control over
the system speed or something like that. Anyways, that is one
remotely possible cause for your systems problems. It seems to me
that your high end 486 system should be capable of running RedHat
at a reasonable speed out of the box.
--
Dave Clark
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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From: "S. Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:37:06 GMT
"ne..." wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2000 at 08:18, Kit-pui Wong eloquently wrote:
>
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I have RPM 3.0.4 on our Redhat box 6.2. When I tried
> >to install some packages from Redhat 7.0, it
> >failed and saying that this rpm version was unable
> >to do that. Then I downloaded the lates rpm.xxx.rpm
> >and found that the old version was also unable to
> >upgrade this rpm.rpm package.
> First off you don't want to install rpms from RH7 unless
> you have *ALL* the necessary libraries installed. RH7
> uses glibc 2.1.94, RH6.2. uses 2.1.1 or so.
>
> To install rpm 4.x you first have to upgrade to 3.0.5.
> Then use this to install 4.x. This is o RH's site.
>
> --
> Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
> The party adjourned to a hot tub, yes. Fully clothed, I might add.
> -- IBM employee, testifying in California State Supreme Court
> 8:26am up 13:13, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Same problem. RPM upgrade to 3.05 didn't help. RPM 4 wants glibc upgrade. The
glibc upgrade isn't compatible with RPM 3. Can't get to EITHER the chicken or
the egg...
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From: "S. Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:37:06 GMT
"ne..." wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2000 at 08:18, Kit-pui Wong eloquently wrote:
>
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I have RPM 3.0.4 on our Redhat box 6.2. When I tried
> >to install some packages from Redhat 7.0, it
> >failed and saying that this rpm version was unable
> >to do that. Then I downloaded the lates rpm.xxx.rpm
> >and found that the old version was also unable to
> >upgrade this rpm.rpm package.
> First off you don't want to install rpms from RH7 unless
> you have *ALL* the necessary libraries installed. RH7
> uses glibc 2.1.94, RH6.2. uses 2.1.1 or so.
>
> To install rpm 4.x you first have to upgrade to 3.0.5.
> Then use this to install 4.x. This is o RH's site.
>
> --
> Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
> The party adjourned to a hot tub, yes. Fully clothed, I might add.
> -- IBM employee, testifying in California State Supreme Court
> 8:26am up 13:13, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Same problem. RPM upgrade to 3.05 didn't help. RPM 4 wants glibc upgrade. The
glibc upgrade isn't compatible with RPM 3. Can't get to EITHER the chicken or
the egg...
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From: Michael Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting floppies writable using autofs
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:39:26 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roeland Merks wrote:
>
> Dear Linux users,
>
> I hope that this question is not too frequently asked...
>
> On my system, running SuSE Linux 7.0, floppies are automatically mounted
> using 'autofs' (automount).
> Unfortunately these floppies are mounted as "root". As a result, they
> are only writable for "root", not for the other users.
>
> My floppy is mounted on /auto/floppy. The file "/etc/auto.auto" is the
> following:
>
> floppy -fstype=auto,rw :/dev/fd0
>
> I have tried to mount with the option umask=111", so that the floppy is
> mounted with all permissions set to "rw". As a result, no user may enter
> /auto/floppy, I think because the directory /auto/floppy and the
> directories of the floppy are now not set as executable. I tried to
> mount with umask=000, but this doesn't work and is moreover very messy.
>
> Would you know how to solve this problem in a nice way?
>
> Would it be an idea to make a group "floppywriters"? If yes, how?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Roeland Merks
>
> --
> Roeland Merks
> Section Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science
> Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam
> tel. (+31) 020 525 7582 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.science.uva.nl/~roel
Hello, Roeland!
What about creating a directory (e.g. 'container') on the floopy (as root) and
then
setting it to a+rwx?
If you can live with a vfat-filesystem on the floppy, these options will give
write access
to all members of the group with gid==100:
fd0-vfat -fstype=vfat,user,uid=65534,gid=100,umask=007 :/dev/fd0
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From: Marble Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Changing ethernet card
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:43:24 -0500
If you want to know what hardware is supported, the most useful resource I
found was on red hat's web site, they have (incomplete) lists of supported
hardware.
http://hardware.redhat.com/redhatready/cgi-bin/us/db-hcl.cgi (Not very
useful)
http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/hcl-old.html (More useful)
http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/archive.html (Also useful)
Although it doesn't cause any damage, my experience is that most cards don't
work. I tried 4 different kinds of cards (Smc ultra, ne200, davies, and
intel) in my alphastation 200, and none of them worked. I then bought a
dec-manufactured 2114x card. Once I got the dec card, it was all happy and
sweet.
If you mean "Intel EtherExpress PRO PCI" card when you say "Intel PCI" then
you should be ok. Otherwise, I don't guess so.
Manfred Bartz wrote:
> John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've got a DEC 2100 Alpha server which came with an old 10 MHz half
> > duplex UTP ethernet card in an EISA slot.
> >
> > Linux has found this and configured it, and I can ping my other kit
> > through it, but it won't be up to the sort of work I want to do on the
> > box in the long run.
> >
> > Can I just add an Intel PCI card to this box ?
>
> Should be ok. You may want to look at:
> <http://www.scyld.com/linux_network_drivers.html>
>
> > Assuming Linux can recognise and enable the new card, how do I control
> > the bindings to the two cards ?
>
> man ifconfig
>
> This can be tricky because which one becomes eth0 and eth1 is
> dependent on the PCI connector position on the motherboard. It is
> possible to do this with some scripts and by looking at the ethernet
> address, but the easiest is probably to swap the ethernet cables if
> necessary.
>
> > Could I for example configure the new card to handle all ethernet
> > traffic at the moment, but still leave the old card undisturbed 'just in
> > case' ?
>
> Yes, by setting your routes appropriately. man route.
>
> Also, for the unused card: ifconfig ethX down
>
> > If I want to use the old card to talk to a firewall in the future, where
> > will I need to look to find how to bind the new 100 MHz nic to my LAN,
> > and the old 10 MHz card to firewall ?
>
> See above.
>
> --
> Manfred Bartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP_ID=0xF172019B
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 Graphical Lilo prompt
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:58:49 GMT
That did not remove Lilo's graphical prompt. Any other suggestions?
E J wrote:
>
> Put a human readable message in the /boot/message and execute lilo.
>
> "Andrew P. Billyard" wrote:
>
> > I just installed Red Hat 7.0 and noticed that Lilo now has a graphical
> > prompt (you can switch back with CTRL-x). Anybody know how to turn this
> > off and have just the textual "boot:" prompt?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 Graphical Lilo prompt
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:03:36 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:58:49 GMT, Andrew P. Billyard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>That did not remove Lilo's graphical prompt. Any other suggestions?
>
Remove
message=/boot/message
from lilo.conf, and then rerun lilo. AFAIK, not tried it.
--
Hal B
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From: Dale Hennessey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: KDE 2 on RedHat 7 works for non-root user from runlevel 3, but not runlevel 5
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:04:40 -0500
Hi, everyone.
Just installed RedHat 7, without KDE, and then installed the KDE 2
RPMs from ftp://ftp.kde.org after-the-fact.
Seems that every user can use KDE 2 from runlevel 3 without a problem.
(I used switchdesk to set the .Xclients-default to KDE 2.)
Non-root users, however, cannot start KDE 2 from runlevel 5 using gdm
as the login manager. The screen blanks, then goes right back to the
gdm login. Root does not have this problem and can start KDE 2 from
gdm.
Can anyone tell me what might be going on? What files I can check for
diagnostic/error information?
Many thanks.
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