Linux-Setup Digest #944, Volume #19 Tue, 31 Oct 00 05:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Installing Linux on a 2nd Hard Drive Help Needed (hjkopel)
Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk? (James Knowles)
Matrox G100 (Milan Kratka)
Help, error when booting ("Lamar Thomas")
Re: Stock RH6.2 recompile buggy...Normal? (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: CDROM problem..... (E J)
Help : Cannot create file system error during installation : linux 7.0 (ULTRA ATA
100 Error ???) ("Syed Irfan Raza Zaidi")
Re: RedHat-Need help with CDRW Install... (E J)
Re: Mandrake printer setup (E J)
Installing DSL modem (Ali Faiz)
Re: viewing Chinese. (Eric Wong)
Re: Question for the Debian users out there... ("Michael Perry")
How to setup 2 linux & 1 bsd on same box? (Sherman)
Re: linux - file synchronization (Andrey Shipsha)
Re: Password problem Suse 7 (Eric)
Re: Installing Linux on a 2nd Hard Drive Help Needed (Eric)
Re: animation and gdm/xdm (Eric)
Re: recover MBR for lilo bootup how? (Eric)
Re: Defrag ext2 partition? (Glitch)
Re: recover MBR for lilo bootup how? (Glitch)
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:09:21 -0600
From: hjkopel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux on a 2nd Hard Drive Help Needed
Denied wrote:
> Here is the situation.
>
> I have a Win98 PC with a 20gig HD as my C Drive and a 15 gig HD as my D
> Drive....both are IDE drives.
>
> I have information on both drives formatted in FAT 32, and could easily move
> my files so all they are on one hard Drive, preferably the C Drive.
>
> In other words I would like to install my copy of Mandrake 7.0 on my D
> Drive, and leave win 98 on my C Drive.
>
> Here is the problem......due to a medical condition I have I can't remember
> how to do it, and I can't find anything in the documentation, or on the
> websites that outlines the procedures for accomplishing this task.
>
> I did it before and it worked fantastic....but now I just can't find
> anything that outlines the procedures for installing Linux on a second HD.
>
> I have Partition Magic and Boot Magic ....
Hi, the way that I did it was to go to the BIOS and have it change which
drive boots up as "C:" drive. The drive that had Linux on it booted to the
autoexec.bat which started LILO.
Howard..
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:45:31 -0700
> 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)?
486/66? Good heavens. I wish I could find more of those nice little machines!
I have an old machine that I use as a print server and NIS server. The
second-oldest machine is a file server. Heck, if you throw in a big hard drive,
you could fill it with MP3s and serve music to your entire home. <g>
Back when Linux was new (pre-1.0), I was developing on a 386-40MHz with 8MB RAM
running X. I was using FVWM (the old one, not the Windows-looking one. *ick*) It
worked fine, but when I was able to finagle a total of 16MB it was heaven. I did a
huge data conversion for a large client using Perl and a little C. I didn't have
much disk space, so I figured out how to NFS mount another machine's HD for
storing data. I got sassy and started running xearth in the background. I
eventually got a slower 486/33 with 20MB RAM, which was even better.
I think the key to X is to not load it down with a big window manager. twm is also
a smaller window manager that others in the company liked. Also, reduce your
expectations on responsiveness. <g>
A client I worked with a few years ago had an extra P-60, which I used for
developing and testing programs, along with serving files with Samba.
--
Give yourself time to succeed. You have to develop new habits, thinking, and
knowledge.
- D. Yager
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From: Milan Kratka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Matrox G100
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:38:56 -0600
Does anyone know wether I could use a dualheaded Matrox G100 video card
with Linux (RedHat 7.0 or SuSe 7.0)?
I have dual flat screens as well. Matrox offers a beta drivers for G200
and up and I was trying to follow their README
file instructions but did not get far with it.
Thanks for any hint.
Milan Kratka
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From: "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Help, error when booting
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:38:41 GMT
I am running RH 6.2. As my system boots up I see a list of services
starting up and updating their status to [OK] as it rolls up the screen.
However, I get the following error on the httpd services:
httpd: Cannot determine local host name
Use the ServerName directive to set it manually
I have my system connected to the Internet with a Cable modem with a network
card. Can someone help me? Thanks.
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stock RH6.2 recompile buggy...Normal?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:44:22 -0800
And "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
>I'll need a few more clues. What exactly is the problem?
Uhm, in a word, "RedHat." The more I look, the more problems I find.
At the present, I can't find the following on my install/source CDs:
Linux libc6 C Library 2.0.7pre6 ; ls -l /lib/libc*
Can't tell if it's there. Can't find it on the CD.
Procinfo 16 ; procinfo -v
Can't find it on the CD.
Autofs 3.1.3 ; automount --version
(Possibly) found but not installed yet.
NFS 2.2beta40 ; showmount --version
Can't find it on the CD.
Ncpfs 2.2.0 ; ncpmount -v
Can't find it on the CD.
isdn4k-utils v3.1beta7 ; isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version
Can't find it on the CD.
I'm seriously thinking about switching to Debian and hoping their
distros supply what's needed. I bought the CDs so I wouldn't *have* to
search online. Guess it was too much to ask for... <grins> I wonder if
there's a distro out there that includes everything you need to recompile
the entire distro from scratch...on CD.
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Warning: The Surgeon General has deemed that excessive displays of warning
labels and public service announcements produce stress and shortens lives.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDROM problem.....
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:49:17 -0800
Here is an example what is going on with your cdrom.
# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom # cd is mounted
# cd /mnt/cdrom
# # do stuff with the cdrom
# cd / # make sure you are not in the cdrom at all or else you cannot unmount
# umount /mnt/cdrom # un mount your cdrom, you can eject your CDROM manually
and put in a new cdrom.
# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom # mount your new CDROM
fail006 wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been using linux for about three weeks, everything seems to be
> working fine. There is only one problem, which:
> When i want to change the cd in the cdrom drive, i get a message saying that
> device is busy and that i cannot unmount it. Now I always make sure that
> everything is closed and nothing is using /mnt/cdrom directory, but i still
> get the same message. This does not occur all the time. So at the end i have
> to restart my pc in order to swap cds.
> I am using Rehat 7. Is there any other way of getting around this problem?
>
> thanks..
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From: "Syed Irfan Raza Zaidi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help : Cannot create file system error during installation : linux 7.0 (ULTRA
ATA 100 Error ???)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:45:24 -0800
Hi, I have a Promise Ultra ATA 100 controller with Maxtor 40GB hard disk. I
have made 6 GB linux ext2 partition in extended partition and 256 MB linux
swap drive as well. When I try to install linux 7.0. After taking
information about the keyboard and other things it says cannot create files
sytem.........Do i need to install some kind of driver for ultra
ATA.......Can some body help me about this......where can i find this
driver.........thanx......in advance
irfan
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RedHat-Need help with CDRW Install...
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:54:15 -0800
Give up :) and follow below:
I got my redhat 6.2 to use my CD-Writer.
.
$ su -
password: <scret>
# cp /etc/conf.modules /etc/conf.modules.bak
# vi /etc/conf.modules
Modify conf.modules for your CDROM writer, my CDROM is located at /dev/hdc
Here is my conf.modules
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
# cp /etc/rc.d/rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.local.bak
# vi /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Put this at the end of the rc.local
# load ide-scsi module
insmod ide-scsi
# cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.bak
# vi /etc/lilo.conf
put the append statement for /etc/lilo.conf your cdrom
'append="hdX=ide-scsi"' and run lilo.
Here is /etc/lilo.conf, my CDROM is located at /dev/hdc
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-6.1.1
label=linux
root=/dev/hda4
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
# /sbin/lilo
Now relink the /dev/cdrom to your scsi emulation of your cdwriter
# mv /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom.bak
# ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
Reboot. (I don't know how to restart with new conf.modules and rc.local
in linux :( )
Run dmesg to see if your scsi emulation is working after the reboot
# dmesg
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8100 Rev: 1.0g
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Run cdrecord to see if you scsi emulation is working also.
# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
I hope it works for you, it works for me
"H. P. Friedrichs" wrote:
> Hello:
> I've just set up a box with RH Linux 6.2. It's got a Teac CDRW drive
> (IDE). I have been unable to get it to work.
>
> I started with the Howto at this URL:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
>
> I created the bash script for "quickstart" (see howto) and it appears to
> execute. When I run cdrecord -scanbus, however, it tells me that the
> scsi driver cannot be found.
>
> Next, I prepared the "driver test" script and tried to run it. The
> script reports that sr_mod cannot be found, and cdrecord -scanbus,
> repeats the same fault as before. I think everything else seems to work.
>
> I have been unable to find sr_mod anywhere. What do I need to do to
> integrate this into my machine? Anyone care to mentor a newbie on this
> subject?
>
> Pete Friedrichs
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake printer setup
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:59:15 -0800
Are you insane?
See if the hp scanner will work with other hp drivers in
http://panda.mostang.com/sane/
Dog Meat wrote:
> 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
> -- DM
> ************************
> * NAHC Life Member *
> ************************
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Ali Faiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing DSL modem
Date: 31 Oct 2000 07:15:39 GMT
was wondering if anyone knew how to configure a 3060 SpeedStream
DSl modem from BellSouth. I know little about Linux.
I'm running Mandrake on a dual boot. I also need to configure
my sound card. I can't seem to get it to work. Please be simple
in explaining as I am very inept when it comes to Linux. I have
O'Reilly's Running Linux if that helps at all.
--
Ali Faiz {}
CS Major {} Rockin' & Wreckin'
razors@angband {}
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From: Eric Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.os.linux,linux.help,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: viewing Chinese.
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:33:19 +0800
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From: "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question for the Debian users out there...
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:32:06 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm planning on switching from RedHat to Debian here. I've bought the
> RedHat distro, doc, and source CD's, installed every RPM I have that
> appears to coincide with recompiling the kernel, and I'm *still* coming
> up short. If I get a Debian distro, will I get everything I need to
> recompile the OS?
>
> -- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
> Warning: The Surgeon General has deemed that excessive displays of
> warning labels and public service announcements produce stress and
> shortens lives.
Are you planning on installing off the cdset of debian 2.2? There are a
number of ways to do this. I often just do the 5 floppy diskette install
and then let apt-get run for awhile updating and installing. I also have
done the iso images and they worked quite well. The diskette version of
the install may not give you everything off the bat. You may need to get
things like bin86 and ncurses using apt-get install sessions.
As a normal rule of thumb, I tend to spend 20 minutes or so installing
debian and then about 8 hours of freewheeling apt-gets to get my system
running the way I want it. It may be longer before I decide to recompile
a kernel but I don't do debian kernels so I always just do my own.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to setup 2 linux & 1 bsd on same box?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:22:17 -0800
I need to setup Debian, Mandrake and Free/open BSD on the same box.
The problem I have is setting up lilo to handle it all.
I've got a 30 gig HD and can re-install at will, so how can I
partition & set these things up properly?
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From: Andrey Shipsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux - file synchronization
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:58:26 +0100
Paul Kimoto wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrey Shipsha wrote:
> > I wonder whether anyone could give me any help on how do I synchronize
> > files between my desctop and laptop machines? Both are running Linux. Is
> > there any good software available to do that?
>
> Are you talking about system files (e.g., owned by root), or user files
> (e.g., owned by you)?
I meant my own files. Not system files...
> One popular program is rsync (http://rsync.samba.org/). Your distribution
> probably includes it.
Could rsync help in this case?
Andrey.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Password problem Suse 7
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:52:10 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
news wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Suse 7 installed and functioning correctly until new user login added using
> the 'kuser' (kde) package. It used to work fine on Suse 6.4 but seems to
> have corrupted the user data and now I cannot login as 'root'. Anyone help
> ?? Having just spent half a day installing and configuring I'd rather not do
> it again!!
> Chris
Either reboot as `linux single`
or `linux root=/bin/sh`
Then adjust the /etc/passwd file manually
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux on a 2nd Hard Drive Help Needed
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:00:52 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Denied wrote:
>
> Here is the situation.
>
> I have a Win98 PC with a 20gig HD as my C Drive and a 15 gig HD as my D
> Drive....both are IDE drives.
>
> I have information on both drives formatted in FAT 32, and could easily move
> my files so all they are on one hard Drive, preferably the C Drive.
>
> In other words I would like to install my copy of Mandrake 7.0 on my D
> Drive, and leave win 98 on my C Drive.
>
> Here is the problem......due to a medical condition I have I can't remember
> how to do it, and I can't find anything in the documentation, or on the
> websites that outlines the procedures for accomplishing this task.
>
> I did it before and it worked fantastic....but now I just can't find
> anything that outlines the procedures for installing Linux on a second HD.
>
> I have Partition Magic and Boot Magic ....
copy all data from D: to C:
put the mandrake disc in the CDROM-drive.
reboot
remove partitions on (hdb/hdc depends on your setup, but it must be the
15G disc) but don't touch hda (=the 20G disc)!
No more to it.
(well there are some catches, I would install lilo in the MBR and always
keep a linux bootdisc handy, cause it's probably the easiest solution.
Just make sure that before you reinstall/upgrade win98, you have a
working bootfloppy)
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: animation and gdm/xdm
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:03:15 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John E. Garrott Sr wrote:
>
> 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
ImageMagic
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recover MBR for lilo bootup how?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:04:29 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Afonso Sam wrote:
>
> In my case, Linux (Redhat 6.2) and win98 are installed in different
> partitions of the same hard drive, Lilo is installed at the MBR. But
> now, it has been overwriten by the norton disk doctor after repairing
> the file system of the windows/dos partition.
> (1) How can I recover the lilo on the master boot record?
> if no solution, (2)How can I prevent from the occurance of the same
> problem on my system. Boot lilo on diskette? .... any other
> suggestion? since, for some reason, I cannot kick the windows out of
> the box.
>
> thanks,
> afonso sam
boot to linux from a bootfloppy (you should have made this during the
installation!)
or use the installation CD and boot linux root=/dev/hdaXXXX)
Then run /sbin/lilo
Eric
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:11:34 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Defrag ext2 partition?
Daniel Haude wrote:
>
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:05:41 -0800,
> Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> in Msg. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> | Ah, well my kernel image is not on the root partition, it's on
> | the /boot partition. In that case, can I defrag the root partition
> | without rerunning lilo? Ignoring necessity here -- I ask mainly
> | to get a better understanding of the boot process.
>
> As far as booting is concerned, that's OK. When you run LILO, it creates a
> boot loader which, lacking any OS-level features such as filesystems or
> -names, just knows where on the disk it should look for the kernel image
> to load. If the kernel gets "physically" moved to another spot on the
> disk (even when remaining in the same directory under the same name), LILO
> must be told about it by running lilo.
Don't you run fsck, or whatever program defrags in Linux, by giving it a
partition to work with? If so, then by having the kernel in /boot it
shouldn't be touched since you didn't tell the defrag program to touch
that partition. However, if it runs like MS's defrag it will take teh
whole disk at once if I'm not mistaken, which in that case it would
touch the /boot partition, if it were ran on a Linux disk.
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:17:10 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recover MBR for lilo bootup how?
boot with a rescue disk , get to a prompt, and type 'lilo' at the prompt
to put LILO back into the MBR
don't let Norton tell you you have a boot sector virus when most likely
it is just LILO, or at least don't let it fix it for you until you
verify it. U can put LILO on diskif you want. I've never done this so
you will need to read up on how to do it or ask for more help in this
area.
HTH
Afonso Sam wrote:
>
> In my case, Linux (Redhat 6.2) and win98 are installed in different
> partitions of the same hard drive, Lilo is installed at the MBR. But
> now, it has been overwriten by the norton disk doctor after repairing
> the file system of the windows/dos partition.
> (1) How can I recover the lilo on the master boot record?
> if no solution, (2)How can I prevent from the occurance of the same
> problem on my system. Boot lilo on diskette? .... any other
> suggestion? since, for some reason, I cannot kick the windows out of
> the box.
>
> thanks,
> afonso sam
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