Linux-Setup Digest #958, Volume #19 Thu, 2 Nov 00 08:13:06 EST
Contents:
"Mastering" a live audio CD under Linux (Adam)
linux boot problems (Wazzabi 84)
Machines do not power off after RH7 upgrade (Rithban)
Re: linux boot problems (Eric)
Re: Filesystems (Eric)
Re: Linux newbie needs help with dial up internet and sound card with Corel Linux
("A Popple")
Onstream DI30 I/O errors (Jan Sacharuk)
How can i make the initrd image? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is it RPM or Me being stupid ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
Re: Filesystems ("Nevin Wong")
Re: How Safe to Update Bios? (Sebastian Niehaus)
Re: Filesystems (Glitch)
Re: NDC error (DNS Reload??) (Glitch)
ANN-Upload.it, for sharewarists (and a request) ("Dr.Upload")
Re: How can i make the initrd image? ("Xiaofan")
Beginner trying to connect to M$ Proxy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How Safe to Update Bios? (Viktor)
Re: Filesystems (Eric)
scsi module not loading at boot, but can insmod it ("Dennis Leiterman")
Re: Filesystems (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Screen Saver Question ("Paul A. Louis")
PC-to-phone/PC calls with LINUX?? ("Dr. Jason J. Hogan-O'Neill")
debian + bash + X ("MT")
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From: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "Mastering" a live audio CD under Linux
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 01:20:37 -0500
Hey folks...
I want to take one large (60-70 minute) WAV file and put multiple
track breaks in it. I've been doing this by writing a TOC file for
CDRDAO that breaks this WAV into tracks. This is very time consuming,
however, and prone to errors (bad typing, etc). Is there a software
that makes this process easier?
Windows has CD WAVE, which does exactly what I want but, of course,
it's only for Windows and doesn't seem to make compatible CUE sheets
that CDRDAO can use. If there's not a Linux equivalent for CD WAVE,
is there a Windows program that can make CDRDAO compatible TOC/CUE
files? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wazzabi 84)
Subject: linux boot problems
Date: 02 Nov 2000 06:26:21 GMT
hello, first off i have 2 hard drives, the master hard drive already has win98
installed on it, i tried installing turbolinux on the second hard drive,
everything went smoothly, instead of installing lilo to the master hd i made a
linux boot floppy instead, and when i try to boot from the floppy, all i get is
10101010101010101... and it keeps scrolling that down the screen until i
restart my comp, i also had the same problem when i tried installing mandrake,
i installed lilo to the mbr and it also did the 101010101... can someone please
help me?
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From: Rithban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machines do not power off after RH7 upgrade
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 23:30:19 -0700
Upgraded RH6.2->RH7.0+updates but when you shut down a machine, it does
not automatically turn the power off any more. These are standard
uniprocessor Athlon PCs. Nothing cute or tricky here.
What gives?
--
Four food groups: Fast, Frozen, Instant, and Microwavable.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux boot problems
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:44:15 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wazzabi 84 wrote:
>
> hello, first off i have 2 hard drives, the master hard drive already has win98
> installed on it, i tried installing turbolinux on the second hard drive,
> everything went smoothly, instead of installing lilo to the master hd i made a
> linux boot floppy instead, and when i try to boot from the floppy, all i get is
> 10101010101010101... and it keeps scrolling that down the screen until i
> restart my comp, i also had the same problem when i tried installing mandrake,
> i installed lilo to the mbr and it also did the 101010101... can someone please
> help me?
Try passing the paramteres of your HDD to the kernel while booting (ie.
cyl/head/track)
for the syntax you will have to look at manpages/howto's (on the web)
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Filesystems
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:46:29 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
>
> I have patitioned my drive as 3 partitions, one is a swap (128Mb), one
> ext2, and one fat32. I have a need to add space to the swap partition
> (because I have added more memory). How can I do that under Linux? Is
> there a way not to delete other partitions, but only take some space out
> of it and add it to the swap? Is partition magic the only way to do
> that?
>
> What is the command to manipulate partitions under Linux? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Yours,
> Nev
You can always add a swapfile, but before you do this, do you really
need it?
I think 128M is already a lot of swap.
eric
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From: "A Popple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie needs help with dial up internet and sound card with Corel
Linux
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 06:59:43 +1100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> 1/
> I'm having trouble with netscape seeing my email server at the ISP. I
> can dial in OK and connect, but cant see the email server, or access the
> web. Is netscape seeing the DNS? Is ppp working? Dunno, Please help!
> 2/
> I cant get sndconfig to see my Crystal chipped soundcard. I've tried to
> install OSS but got nowhere. Any advise please?
>
> If you can help directly, or point me at web resource I'll be much
> obliged.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Chris
To find out if PPP is working properly you can try pinging the DNS server
(you should be able to get this from your ISP). If this works then it
would appear that PPP is working properly (which I suspect it is, as you
said it dials and connects OK). If this in deed the case all you simply
have to do is add the DNS IP to the nameserver section of the
/etc/resolv.conf file. There way be a nice graphical way of doing this,
but i'm unfamiliar with Corel Linux. Hope this helps. Unfortuntly I
don't know much about getting sound cards working.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Sacharuk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Onstream DI30 I/O errors
Date: 2 Nov 2000 07:57:12 GMT
I just got an Onstream DI30 tape drive.
I went through, configured the kernel, built it, and everything seems
okay. On boot, the kernel realizes that the drive is there, and maps
it to /dev/ht0 (or so it seems).
When I do anything at all with the drive, I get I/O errors. If I do a
mt -f /dev/ht0 status
I get an I/O error. Same if I ask it to rewind. If I try to tar
anything, thus:
tar -cvvb 64 -f /dev/ht0 /etc
say, I get an I/O error as soon as I reach a point where it has to
write data to the disk.
I tried the drive and tapes out under windows. Everything seems okay
there.
Anybody have any ideas?
JS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How can i make the initrd image?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:07:05 GMT
I have a scsi hard disk(aic7892),i compiled my kerneld(2.2.14-5.0) with
modules to access the scsi hard disk.After the kerneld created,i had to
create the initrd image(mkinitrd /boot/initrd.img 2.2.14-5.0).But the
system tell me all of your loopback devices are in use and the image
didn't create.
How can i make the initrd image?
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Before you buy.
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is it RPM or Me being stupid
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:07:15 +0000
"Andrew P. Billyard" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Red Hat 7.0 (with reasonable success - a couple of
> glitches but nothing too major). I then went to Red Hat's errata page and
> downloaded newer RPMs for security/bug fixes. Again, everything went okay
> except for esound. After downloading esound-0.2.20-0.i386.rpm (the "newer"
> package) I tried running
>
> rpm -Uvh esound-0.2.20-0.i386.rpm,
>
> but then rpm complains and reports that:
>
> package esound-0.2.19-3 (which is newer than esound-0.2.20-0) is already
> installed
>
> Am I on drugs here or doesn't 0.2.19-3 < 0.2.20-0 seem more logical. Is
> the 0.2.19-3 really a newer version or is RPM getting confused about
> something?
>
Hi,
Try giving RPM a boot up the backside by adding the --force option - it
should install it without complaint ;-)
rpm -Uvh --force esound-0.2.20-0.i386.rpm
I just checked my 'mirror' of RH7 updates and I have a slightly newer
version of the RPM for esound - namely esound-0.2.20-1.i386.rpm (file
date Oct 6). I suppose your problem could have been a packaging issue
perhaps.
Regards
Phil Q
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From: "Nevin Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Filesystems
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 16:50:16 +0800
Yo!
Thanks! How can I add a swap file?
Isn't it suggested that amount of swap space = amount of memory x 2 ?
Yours,
Nev
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"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> >
> > I have patitioned my drive as 3 partitions, one is a swap (128Mb), one
> > ext2, and one fat32. I have a need to add space to the swap partition
> > (because I have added more memory). How can I do that under Linux? Is
> > there a way not to delete other partitions, but only take some space out
> > of it and add it to the swap? Is partition magic the only way to do
> > that?
> >
> > What is the command to manipulate partitions under Linux? Thanks in
> > advance.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Nev
>
> You can always add a swapfile, but before you do this, do you really
> need it?
> I think 128M is already a lot of swap.
>
> eric
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From: Sebastian Niehaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.soundcard.sblive,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How Safe to Update Bios?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:59:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
db wrote:
>
> How safe is it to update the bios?
Well, I had bad lock and have been totally locked out until the
manufacturer was able to give me a new flash EEPROM.
Sebastian
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 02:57:33 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Filesystems
Uh, why do you think you need to increase the swap partition size just
b/c you increased your actual RAM???
Nevin Wong wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have patitioned my drive as 3 partitions, one is a swap (128Mb), one
> ext2, and one fat32. I have a need to add space to the swap partition
> (because I have added more memory). How can I do that under Linux? Is
> there a way not to delete other partitions, but only take some space
> out of it and add it to the swap? Is partition magic the only way to
> do that?
>
> What is the command to manipulate partitions under Linux? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Yours,
> Nev
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Nevin Wong @_@ | Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Year 3/3
> Nevolution Sci-fi & Mecha Model Making | http://nev.hello.to/
> The Model Making Ring | http://modelmakingring.hello.to/
>
>
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 03:00:07 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NDC error (DNS Reload??)
look in your /var/log/named.log (or wherever it is) file to see if there
are any errors being detected (typos) in the named.conf file. This can
cause your error to appear.
I haven't worked with ndc for a long time so I wish I could help you
more but I can't. The above possible solution is the only one I can
remember.
Yavin wrote:
>
> When I run ndc and try and reload the database I sometimes get:
>
> Type help -or- /h if you need help.
> ndc> reload
> ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): Connection refused
> ndc: error: cannot connect to command channel (/var/run/ndc)
> ndc>
>
> The only way to fix it is to reboot and try again... anyone know why this
> might be happening?
>
> --Scott
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:54:07 +0100
From: "Dr.Upload" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ANN-Upload.it, for sharewarists (and a request)
Hi!
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are no decoys, but simply a collection of
useful tips and resources. In short, browsing
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I think this may be interesting for programmers
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where to announce the site. If you can help me
on this please email me.
Thanx and enjoy the site!
Regards,
================================================
Dr.Upload [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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NOTE please reply if you feel this is off topic!
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From: "Xiaofan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can i make the initrd image?
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:56:47 +0800
insmod loop.o before you create the initrd image
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8tr7b7$hns$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a scsi hard disk(aic7892),i compiled my kerneld(2.2.14-5.0) with
> modules to access the scsi hard disk.After the kerneld created,i had to
> create the initrd image(mkinitrd /boot/initrd.img 2.2.14-5.0).But the
> system tell me all of your loopback devices are in use and the image
> didn't create.
> How can i make the initrd image?
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Beginner trying to connect to M$ Proxy
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:15:25 GMT
I'm new to Linux (trying Redhat 6.2). I can ping my proxy server
(running MS Proxy), but can't connect to the internet. I guess
Navigator doesn't know about the proxy, how to I tell it?
I've added the proxy's IP into /etc/hosts so I can ping using the name
as well as the ip.
Thanks,
John
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From: Viktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.soundcard.sblive,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How Safe to Update Bios?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:33:37 +0100
I 've flashed a A7V and a P5a(b) Bios about many times !! up and down !!
I'vent had any problems
db wrote:
>
> How safe is it to update the bios?
>
> I have an asus cuv4x which is not as stable as i would like. I think it gets
> confused by 2 cd-roms (one regular, one cd-r). Every time I open "my
> computer" in windows the dialogue window opens with the little flashlight
> icon swirling around forever but it doesn't seem to find the drives (c:) and
> 2 cd rom drives. Then it sorta freezes up.
>
> I don't have these problems in linux (dual boot) and am trying to figure out
> if it is software or hardware. Also, when I run norton disk doctor (win) it
> often finds "incorrect free space information" in the disk. Is this normal?
> Or have I screwed something up in creating the linux partition?
>
> Also, the dreaded soundblaster live crackling keeps happening (in windows
> only). I was hoping a bios update might fix some of these problems. I have
> never done one before and was wondering what I am getting into if I try
> it....
>
> I have the latest 4-in1 drivers installed.
>
> Thanks for help, suggestions, commentary.....
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Filesystems
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 13:29:52 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nevin Wong wrote:
>
> Yo!
>
> Thanks! How can I add a swap file?
>
> Isn't it suggested that amount of swap space = amount of memory x 2 ?
>
I've read this too, and there are some reasons for this advise, but if
you have 128 M of ram, swap will not be used that frequently (depends on
your apps/usage)
you can add swap like this
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=128
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
Add a line to your fstab to use this space again when rebooted
Eric
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From: "Dennis Leiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: scsi module not loading at boot, but can insmod it
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:32:00 GMT
Hi,
Just upgraded from RedHat 6.2 to RedHat 7.0. Was running 6.2 ok with no
problems. After I upgraded, my adaptec 2930 scsi controller is not seen at
boot. If I log in as root and do
insmod aic7xxx
it finds it and it works fine. I checked and in the /etc/modules.conf the
line is there. I also have a line for my etherned adapter and sound card
that seems to work fine. I tried moving it down in the file but that didn't
work either. Thanks in advance.
-Dennis
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Filesystems
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 23:40:03 +1100
Nevin Wong wrote:
> Yo!
>
> Thanks! How can I add a swap file?
>
> Isn't it suggested that amount of swap space = amount of memory x 2 ?
>
> Yours,
>
> Nev
No!
This rule or tradition comes to us from ancient times when memory was scarce
and the system had to have space to save the contents of volatile memory on disk
in case of crash. So the reasoning was equal space for memory swapping plus this
crash space.
On todays boxes you have more volatile memory than whole systems 20 years
ago in hard drives AND tape backups, so swap will be used very rarely and the
128M is enough for single user box.
If you have to administer multiuser network then you may need more swap, but
then you will know how to put it in place.
So do not worry, you are OK.
Have fun and enjoy Linux.
Stanislaw
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Reply-To: "Paul A. Louis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Paul A. Louis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: Screen Saver Question
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 23:50:48 +1100
Hmm, any reason why? I've been battling this for a day or so myself :-(
Cheers
Paul
"Chorng Shiuan CHEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:GhzI5.6866$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi Lamar,
>
> If you login as root, your screen saver will not work.
>
>
> "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:CuvI5.345710$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > How do you get the screen savers to work on RH 6.2 running X? My
monitor
> > just goes blank after about 5 mins. no matter what screen saver I
select!
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Dr. Jason J. Hogan-O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PC-to-phone/PC calls with LINUX??
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:50:54 +0200
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"THE ACADEMIC SITE"
NEW PhD DATABASE - VISIT: WWW.ACADEMIC.ST
---------------------------------------------
My flat mate is able to make free international calls through his
windows PC. Does the same facility exist for LINUX and if so where can
I get it? If not, does anyone know what the current state of development
of such a system is?
Cheers,
Jas
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From: "MT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: debian + bash + X
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:49:51 +0200
Yo!
my default login shell in the /etc/passwd file is /bin/bash,
but when i log on the bash does'nt execute the ~/.bashrc file
(allthough it executes the ~/bash_profile) and it does'nt display
the colors in the 'ls' command (where executable files should be
green, core files red...) the colors are applyed and the ~/.bashrc
is executed only when i run 'bash' from the command line...
whats the problem (i'm using the latest bash, 2.0.3*)
+
however do i conf with the xf86config, the default bpp is 16 (allthough
i want it to be 32bpp) and allthough i tell the configuratur not to,
it stills enables the 'virtual screen' (desktop is bigger then the actual
screen size, and the i have to "ride" with the mouse, to see the parts of
the
sreen, that stay out of the screen range)...what should i do?
I'd be greatful for all the help i can get.
tammx
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