Linux-Setup Digest #940, Volume #19 Mon, 30 Oct 00 16:13:11 EST
Contents:
animation and gdm/xdm ("John E. Garrott Sr")
Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk? ("Kurt R. Rahlfs")
Bootsector Question (@cisco.com)
Re: Can't install Redhat 7.0 (Scott Nolde)
Re: dns settings for uk isp screaming net (Scott Nolde)
Re: HELP? Acrobat3 on Debian.... (Paul Kimoto)
Re: proxy on linux ("Kurt R. Rahlfs")
Re: Problems Installing RH7 (Alex)
Mandrake printer setup (Dog Meat)
Re: No harddrive detected when installing Suse 7.0 - advice asked. (Scott Nolde)
Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk? (Scott Nolde)
Re: Port scanners (Scott Nolde)
Re: How to Auto Insert USB module? (Scott Nolde)
Re: Red Hat 7.0 Graphical Lilo prompt (Scott Nolde)
Re: FTP installation RedHat 6.2 with NE2000 compatible ISA card (Scott Nolde)
Re: rh 7.0 iso files ("William C. Mount")
SiS 6326 HELP!!!!!!! ("Axl")
Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk? (Victor S. Miller)
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From: "John E. Garrott Sr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: animation and gdm/xdm
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:46:00 -0800
A few days (weeks?) ago I came across an
animated gif of three dancing penguins.
I immediately developed a burning desire
to have them on my login screen, dancing
happily above xdm or gdm, as the case may
be.
Problem: I can't find a viewer that will
allow me to use this file. All that I've
found simply display the first image and stop
(except netscape, of course, which is a little
heavy duty to use for this purpose :-)
I've read documents until my eyes are dropping
out and searched deja.com for an answer.
Anybody know how to do this, or know of a
viewer that will display animated gifs?
Thanks in advance,
John
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From: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:15:30 -0600
"Victor S. Miller" wrote:
> I have an old 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk which runs perfectly
> reliably on Windows 95, but I basically don't use it anymore since we
> now have -- mostly for my wife -- a Gateway 733 with a 30 GB hard
> disk, and a 166Mhz Pentium MMX with a 10GB hard disk running RH 7.0.
> Is it conceivable that I could get some version of Linux (doing
> something useful) to run on the old machine? If so, what version (and
> what features) would you suggest?
> --
> Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
> CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
> 08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
I've set up SuSE 6.3 on similar machines with 16Meg RAM. I used the minimum
configuration. On a pentium of similar size I run a router/firewall with three
machines on it with no problem.
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From: @cisco.com
Subject: Bootsector Question
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:22:13 -0800
Reply-To: @cisco.com
Hi,
I am trying to write a boot sector which does nothing but print a
string. It does not actually boot anything, it only has that 0xAA55
signature at the end of the sector. For some reason it does not seem to
work. The system recognizes that this is a bootsector but does not print
the string.. Can someone please help me with
this. I have been spending quite sometime on this as i am not very
familiar with assembly language. The code
is pasted below.
I compile this with gcc -c file.s command, and from the resulting object
file, i seperate the code segment
machine instructions and copy to the floppy. I did a objdump -d on the
resultnig. file.o file and compared the
bytes with the one in the floppy and looks like they are same. So, i am
confident that i am seperating the machine instructions properly from
the .o file. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance,
Sarat
.text
.globl boot
BOOTSEG = 0x7C0
boot:
/* This instruction sets the CS to 0x7c00 and EIP to start
label. Atleast thats what i feel */
ljmp $BOOTSEG, $start
start:
/* set up es register */
mov $BOOTSEG, %ax
mov %ax, %es
/* read the current cursor position */
movb $0x03, %ah
xor %bh, %bh
int $0x10
/* %dh, %dl are set by now. write the string now */
mov $0x1301, %ax
mov $0x0007, %bx
mov $0x9, %cx
mov $msg, %bp
int $0x10
msg:
.ascii "\r\nHello\r\n"
.org 510
.word 0xAA55
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't install Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:14:00 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Michael J. Johnston wrote:
>
> I've downloaded 7.0-i386-disk1.iso for Redhat 7.0 (From twocows) and Adaptec
> burned it to a CD correctly it appears. When I put the CD in the machine,
> it boots up to the CD and starts the install. After is askes to use
> English, I get an error saying "I could not find a Redhat CDROM in and of
> the CDROM drives. Please insert the Redhat CD and press OK to try again."
> I throught that I did have the Redhat CD rom. I've burned 3 CD and I get
> the same problem everytime. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> I also went to a mirror and downloaded the whole i386 english version, but
> it's over a gig so I can't put it on a CD. Any help would be great!
>
> Mike Johnston
>
>
>
If you have a large enough partition, you could copy the entire directory
to that partition, and boot using floppies, and select a local hard drive
install.
By chance, did you check the md5sums on the iso files before you burned
them? I've burned the iso images and have not had a problem like you have
described. However, there is a respin-disc1 and a respin-disc2 that you
might be interested in.
- Scott
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dns settings for uk isp screaming net
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:15:35 GMT
In windows, use the command winipcfg. Click for details and select the
network adaptor you use. It will have the dns settings that go into
/etc/resolv.conf.
- Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: HELP? Acrobat3 on Debian....
Date: 30 Oct 2000 15:26:41 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Walt Shekrota wrote:
> 2.0.36 kernel deb 2.1
>
> untar file ar302_tar.Z and ./INSTALL
>
> /usr/local/Acrobat3/bin.acroread
> generates the message "can't load libXt.so.6"
> the ".6" libs are there! (including the one in question) So I assume there
> is an indirect reason for not loading?
Find the offending executable (/usr/local/Acrobat3/bin.acroread?) and run
"ldd /path/to/executable". If it's a libc5 program, then you need to
install the xlib6 (not xlib6g!) .deb package.
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: proxy on linux
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:20:21 -0600
Frank wrote:
> Does linux Redhat 6.2 or Suse 6.4 have a proxy server in their release
> packages? Is so, could you please tell me what is the name of the package.
> And if not, where I can download it? Thans.
>
> Frank
SuSE 6.3 has Squid2 proxy server.
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems Installing RH7
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:30:07 -0000
I have an AST Manhatten P5090 (dual P90's) and I get the same error, it has
SYMBIOS (ex NRC) inbuilt scsi controllers and I would be very interested to
find out why Anaconda fails at this point.
Perhaps this is something to do with installing to SCSI?? I had no problems
putting 6.0 on, but 6.2 and 7 will not work??
Regards
Alex
Martin Malek wrote:
>
>
> 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: Dog Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake printer setup
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:24:28 GMT
I'm a newbie.
My Mandrake 7.0 doesn't have my printer listed, the HP OfficeJet 700
"all-in-one". I have it temporarily set up as the 5xx/6xx series
DeskJet.
Is there a way to use my HP 700's scanner function under Mandrake 7.0?
TIA
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No harddrive detected when installing Suse 7.0 - advice asked.
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:20:54 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Padwanna wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to install Suse linux 7.0 on a pretty much standard PC with a 20GB
>h/drive. When the install modules go looking for hard drives to use for the
>installation, it returns the error "No Harddrive detected". The h/d has been
>formatted using Windows 98 fdisk, with large h/d support (and physically formatted
>with 'format' utility). The drive was partitioned into a primary partition and an
>extended partition which was further formatted as a logical drive.
>
> Any help is gratefully accepted.
>
> Thanks and keep smiling
>
> A.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> GSM +31 (0)20 0625 098 643
>
Linux uses it's own filesystem, ext2, and not the fat32 filesystem
natively. I'm not familiar with SuSE, but you might have the option of
selecting a hard drive and partition the available free space.
Do you want linux to share hard drive space with windows? If so, then
you'll have to repartition the drive so that you have available free hard
drive space for linux. You can resize partitions using Partition
Magic. If you're not sharing hard drive space and are willing to reformat
the entire hard drive, you should be able to so so with most any linux
distribution.
- Scott
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Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
3:15pm up 18:40, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:22:20 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, DeAnn Iwan wrote:
> How about using it as a router/firewall to the internet? You
> could either use a specialty distribution (like lrp, linux router
> project, that runs off a floppy) or use any major vendor and tweak your
> own. Note, if you are short of RAM, the new graphical installers will
> probably not work. Suse still provides their old installer, YAST1,
> along with the newer graphical installer, YAST2. Not sure if RH does a
> similar thing. Debian and Slackware set up nicely on small machines and
> older machines.
RedHat does provide a text driven installer.
>
> "Victor S. Miller" wrote:
> >
> > I have an old 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk which runs perfectly
> > reliably on Windows 95, but I basically don't use it anymore since we
> > now have -- mostly for my wife -- a Gateway 733 with a 30 GB hard
> > disk, and a 166Mhz Pentium MMX with a 10GB hard disk running RH 7.0.
> > Is it conceivable that I could get some version of Linux (doing
> > something useful) to run on the old machine? If so, what version (and
> > what features) would you suggest?
> > --
> > Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
> > CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
> > 08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
>
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Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
3:20pm up 18:45, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Port scanners
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:29:36 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff wrote:
> Anyone know a good port scanner for testing firewalls and allowing you
> to determine what ports games run on etc.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
port scanners:
nmap, www.grc.com (shieldsup!), www.hackerwhacker.com
port determination:
tcpdump, which you chould have. I think it comes with iputils rpm.
- Scott
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to Auto Insert USB module?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:34:32 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, John Hall wrote:
> as already mentioned /etc/rc.d/rc.local or if you want to get into the guts
> of your machine make your own rc.sysinit [make sure to backup!]
>
> But alternatively, today's kernels can auto-probe for modules and install
> them automatically; if you're ready to compile a kernel yourself, look into
> it.
>
Believe it or not, my rc.sysinit looks for an executable file called
rc.modules which, if configured as such, will insert whatever modules you
require at boot time.
Adding the command 'insmod module' at the end of rc.local does something
similar, though.
- Scott
>
> "root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Dear sir
> >
> > I am using a Creative Web3 Cam and have installed a usb driver ov511.o.
> > However, I need to use the command "insmod ov511.o" to activate it. I
> > have tried to use xconfig to set "y" instead of "m" and then build
> > kernel again but cannot work :-(. Is there any place in Linux can
> > automatically run some commands during startup (such as AUTOEXEC.BAT in
> > DOS) ?
> >
> > Please give me some advices on this case.
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> >
> > Alan Po
> >
>
>
>
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 Graphical Lilo prompt
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:37:03 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Andrew P. Billyard wrote:
> 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
>
rm /boot/message
echo "Greetings from LILO" > /boot/message
lilo
I believe you must rerun lilo after changing/moving files around in the
/boot directory.
- Scott
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP installation RedHat 6.2 with NE2000 compatible ISA card
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:40:47 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Thomas Eisenzopf wrote:
> When I try to install RedHat 6.2 with FTP installation on a PC with a NE2000
> compatible ISA card I have the problem, that the card is not recognized. The
> installtion disk seems to support only NE2000 PCI cards, not ISA. Is this
> possible?
>
> What possibilities do I have to install using the ISA card? Are there any
> parameters for loading the network drivers which solve the problem?
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas.
>
If you know what irq and memory io address,configure it to use that
info. I have an ISA card for which I nust specify irq=5, io=0x280.
See if that helps,
Scott
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3:35pm up 19:00, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: "William C. Mount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rh 7.0 iso files
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:45:26 -0600
The respin iso's include a glibc update and updates to
the RedHat Update network that was causing problems
right after the initial release of 7.0
Carsten Huettl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am going to download the rh 7.0 iso files for cd image.
> But I found there are
> 7.0-i386-disc1.iso
> in the current dir
> and
> 7.0-i386-respin-disc1.iso
> in the rh70 dir
> What are the right image files the discs?
> What is the right filesize (kb)?
>
> TIA
> C.
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From: "Axl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS 6326 HELP!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:35:38 -0800
hi there,
can someone help me please with the configuration of Xserver.
i have;
- SiS 6326 vga card with 8mb ram on it.
- Mandrake Linux ver 6.0
- I've forgot the xfree ver but SiS 6326 was there.
i can't set up X for use with that card, but when i try a S3 trio 64 it
worked (all other config unchanged)
thanks
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Subject: Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:59:46 GMT
>>>>> "DeAnn" == DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DeAnn> How about using it as a router/firewall to the internet?
DeAnn> You could either use a specialty distribution (like lrp, linux
DeAnn> router project, that runs off a floppy) or use any major vendor
DeAnn> and tweak your own. Note, if you are short of RAM, the new
DeAnn> graphical installers will probably not work. Suse still
DeAnn> provides their old installer, YAST1, along with the newer
DeAnn> graphical installer, YAST2. Not sure if RH does a similar
DeAnn> thing. Debian and Slackware set up nicely on small machines
DeAnn> and older machines.
DeAnn, Thanks (and also to Bill Segraves) for your response. I have
12MB of memory: would that be enough for graphics (or to run an X
server)?
Victor
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Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
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