Linux-Setup Digest #967, Volume #19 Fri, 3 Nov 00 16:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Kernel configuration? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ghosting linux server (Dave Martel)
Re: Floppy drive: how 2 add B:? ("ne...")
compiling kernel problems (Wazzabi 84)
Re: crontab won't run ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ghosting linux server (Raman Narayan)
Re: Cylinder Exceeds 1024 (Markus Kossmann)
Re: PC Speaker's too noisy! ("R.K.Aa.")
backspace bug ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ghosting linux server (Buschman)
Re: Installing win2000 after linux (Stefan Heimann)
Linux sees only 896MB of my 1024 MB RAM ("FEEB")
Sound daemon + sound module (Newbie) ("MT")
sound module? (Newbie needs help) ("MT")
Re: compiling kernel problems (Paul Kimoto)
Re: compiling kernel problems (Leejay Wu)
Re: modem aztech for Linux (Vahe Sarkissian)
Re: Installing win2000 after linux (Tux)
Re: ghosting linux server (Dave Martel)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel configuration?
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:03:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ancis Michele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Trying to learn something on Linux, I'm reading a big electronic
> manual called "appunti Linux" (I'm italian, by the way...), which must
> be the
> translation of the Linux documentation Project or something like that. I
>
> started by the system philosophy, where is explained that you have a
> Kernel
> which you must compile and while you're doing that you can choose many
> options,
> that is networking services, IDE devices, SCSI and so on...however I
> didn't
> that when I installed the system, I simply put the CD and follow the
> instructions...now I would like, for example, to know how's my kernel
> configured: is there a way to see, preferably in graphical mode, what
> are those
> options? This leads to the second question: if I would change some of
> those
> options, should I re-compile the kernel? The manual also talks about a
> .configure file, which is deleted when you launch make mrproper and
> should be
> in /usr/src/linux, but I can't see it...could you enlight me?
Is the /usr/src/linux directory there or can you just not see the .configure
file? If you can't see the file, try a 'ls -a' to list all the files
(including hidden) in the directory.
If the /usr/src/linux file isn't there, then you don't have the kernel source
files installed. Check your distrobution CD for a Kernel source package for
your system. If you don't find one, you can always grab the latest source
from www.kernel.org . The latest stable kernel is 2.2.17.
You can grab it here, but check the http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/ for a
closer mirror, first.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.17.tar.gz
cd to the /usr/src directory and do a 'tar xvzf {path-to-tarball}'
>From there, just cd into the linux directory and try a 'make menuconfig' or
'make xconfig' or 'make config' and away you go!
---
FlyingDog
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From: Dave Martel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: ghosting linux server
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:00:31 -0700
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:54:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Buschman) wrote:
> I ran symmantec pghost but the only way it would
>copy the linux directories is as a copy of the entire disk(i.e. an 8
>GB backup file instead of a 1GB backup of the actual data).
Which version was that? I've been using Ghost 2001 (AKA Ghost 6.5) to
back up my linux EXT2 partitions and it doesn't try to save unused
space.
BTW, this latest version also writes directly to must CD burners under
DOS -and- you can make the CD's bootable if you wish. My only
complaint is that it closes out the CD when done, so you can't add
more to the CD later.
It would also be great if it supported ReiserFS!
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy drive: how 2 add B:?
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:12:08 GMT
On Nov 3, 2000 at 14:16, Dog Meat eloquently wrote:
>> >> instead of requiring root to use
>> >> mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mount/floppy2
>> >
>> >I did try this one, as root, using "mount -t msdos /dev/fd1
>> >/mnt/floppy2", since the directory I created for it was /mnt/floppy2.
>> >When I did so, I got an error ".../dev/fd1...not a valid (block?)
>> >file..."
>> Then like you said in a previos msg, you are going to have
>> to make sure the device was recognized. All you need to do
>> is open konsole/kvt and do 'dmesg|less'. Then scroll to
>> where fd0 is and see what it says for fd1. Everything else
>> in this thread applies.
>
>I did the dmesg command and it referenced fd1 in the line with the
>floppy listings, and indicated accurately that it is, in fact, a 1.2meg
>drive. I'll run through the afore-mentioned routine again when I can.
Well now we know the floppy is recognized. So put a floppy
formatted to 1.2Mb and mount it as root with:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2
This should mount it and make sure you do a
umount /mnt/floppy2
before removing the floppy from the drive. Since you have
made an entry in /etc/fstab for it you can mount the floppy
as a user with mount /mnt/floppy2. The unmount command remains
the same.
>BTW, when I was logged on as root, I opened up the file manager,
>clicked on /dev/fd1 and it tried to read the B: drive. However, when
>logged on as a user, it didn't even try. I'll check the permissions as
>well. Is this a "clue"?
It is a clue that it works. Normal users do not generally
have direct access to /dev/fdX. Normal users will have to
access it by the /mnt directory.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Weiner's Law of Libraries:
There are no answers, only cross references.
1:06pm up 12 days, 20:58, 10 users, load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.14
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wazzabi 84)
Subject: compiling kernel problems
Date: 03 Nov 2000 18:53:19 GMT
Ok, here's my problem, i downloaded the 2.4 test kernel, unpacked it to
/usr/src/linux, and then i tried to run "make menuconfig" and it says "bash:
make: command not found", i also get errors like this when i try ./configure,
it says "bash:./configure: no such file or directory", can someone explain to
me what i'm doing wrong?, thanx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: crontab won't run
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:59:16 GMT
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 17:37:49 GMT, "Remy Torre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>> So I just did a reinstall of RH 6.0, and for some reason, none of my
>> crontab jobs are running, either as root or user. I added a cron.allow
>> file to /etc, but still nothing. They don't even start. I've checked
>> the syntac of the crontab files, and they seem to be fine.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>did you check that the crond has started ? :o)
>
>
Yup - but I solved the problem - permissions on the cron.allow file
were wrong.
Figures... :-)
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From: Raman Narayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: ghosting linux server
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 10:54:54 -0800
The easiest way I would imagine is to use the tar command, with
appropriate options to take care of the links and special devices.
Then you can use gzip to compress the data. You can even use split
to split the file into number of small segments. Just use the "cat" to
join the file(without which the first segment will only showup as
a tar archive(because of the magic number) and the latter just "data").
The one thing that you need to do this is a bootable linux disk(not just
the lilo, but a compact kernel). Overwriting a live filesystem will be a
disaster!. Also you need to take special care of writing your /boot
to the beginning sectors of the disk(I hope this problem does not exist
anymore). For a clean reinstall, use dos and use the format /u option
(to overwrite forcefully), then run fdisk chage partition type, and run
tar unzip the data, edit/run lilo, reboot the system. It worked for me!.
(PS: sometime X could file, because of some peculiar soft links,
which you can find using symlinks(before you do a tar), and make sure
to put it back the way it was!).
If you really do not care of saving disk space, you can just use "dd"
Raman
Buschman wrote:
> OK I finally got my server up and running flawlessly. As a side note,
> MDK 7.2 is the freakin BOMB! I love it! All of my issues(except for
> the soundcard) from MDK 7.1 were corrected in MDK 7.2. BUT i want to
> start playing with kernel compiling, firewalling, and Ip Masquerading.
> Before I go fouling my system all up and not being able to get it back
> to the wondeful shape it's in now, can you ghost a linux disk? I am
> using two 8 GB drives(hda- /,/var,/usr, and swap; hdb- /home all on
> seperate partitions). Before I took out hda and installed it in a
> windows machine. I ran symmantec pghost but the only way it would
> copy the linux directories is as a copy of the entire disk(i.e. an 8
> GB backup file instead of a 1GB backup of the actual data). I am not
> as concerned with hdb, but is there a way to back up just the data of
> hda and have it replicate it back onto the drive(or other drive) at a
> seperate time?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated,
> Buschman
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cylinder Exceeds 1024
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 19:20:33 +0100
Cory Phillips wrote:
>
> My computer works fine, but whenever I try to recofigure lilo I get the
> following error. Any thoughts on how to correct this would be great. I
> have a dual boot RedHat 6.0 and Windows 98.
>
> [root@localhost /sbin]# lilo
> Warning: device 0x034a exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1333 > 1023)
> [root@localhost /sbin]#
Install the current version of lilo ( 21.6)
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "R.K.Aa." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PC Speaker's too noisy!
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:23:13 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 18:19:57 +0200, MT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> _-__-
>>
>> Can anybody give me some advice on my linux?
>> I've heard, that bash, less, emacs and other linux console
>> programs can be told to not make a sound with the
>> pc speaker, but to flash the screen... How could
>> i do this?
>
>
> Disconnect the speaker. The quality of the motherboard drivers for the PC
> speaker is almost always a p.o.s.
>
> Or w/ xterm's, hit control/middlemousebutton and select "visual bell".
adding this to some ~/.profile would do the trick:
echo -e "\033[11;0]"
(Disables the escape-code for sound alltogether, so consoles later will
not be affected by them.)
Various newer terminal emulators have disabling sound as an option.
OR.. you can also let the command starting xterm be something like
xterm -vb
where -vb means "visual bell is preferred over an audible one"
(The opposite would be "xterm +vb" indicating that the "visual bell"
should NOT be used) Other emulators take the same parameter.
Just some ideas.
K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: backspace bug
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 19:29:23 GMT
Hey guys, I got a little problem here with xwindows config file ( I
think), I was using KDE and than I installed enlightenment. Now that it
changed my config files, backspace button doesn work, probably screwed
up the keyboard mappings. Switched back to KDE problem persists, any
ideas? I am going nutes here and cant get an asnwer from anyone.
Thank you
icon911
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: ghosting linux server
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 19:40:53 GMT
I have been usiong pghost 2000. I will have to check out pghost 2001.
Are you using the personal or enterprise edition?
Buschman
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:00:31 -0700, Dave Martel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:54:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(Buschman) wrote:
>
>> I ran symmantec pghost but the only way it would
>>copy the linux directories is as a copy of the entire disk(i.e. an 8
>>GB backup file instead of a 1GB backup of the actual data).
>
>Which version was that? I've been using Ghost 2001 (AKA Ghost 6.5) to
>back up my linux EXT2 partitions and it doesn't try to save unused
>space.
>
>BTW, this latest version also writes directly to must CD burners under
>DOS -and- you can make the CD's bootable if you wish. My only
>complaint is that it closes out the CD when done, so you can't add
>more to the CD later.
>
>It would also be great if it supported ReiserFS!
>
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From: Stefan Heimann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing win2000 after linux
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 21:46:55 +0100
Hi
> What I did: I got another hard disc and made a copy of my
> linux-partition on it. Then I removed linux, installed windows and
> restored my Linux-partition (using PartitionMagic). This works. Maybe
> anyone might have a better solution, this was mine.
Ok, do you think, I can safe my linux with a CD-burner?
But how do I get the files back on the hd?
Thank you for helping
Stefan
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From: "FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux sees only 896MB of my 1024 MB RAM
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 14:27:45 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: "FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
During the boot process of kernel 2.2.16-22smp on 2x CPU machine with
1024MB RAM I am getting:
kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used
Is there a limit as to how much memory can kernel utilize?
Thanks
Frank Bures, <grandial at softex.cz>
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From: "MT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound daemon + sound module (Newbie)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 21:48:08 +0200
gmix says, that i don't have sound complied into the kernel and that sound
daemon
is'nt running, can somebody gimme some advice on where can i find such <S>
stuff
(in *.deb format, i use debian) or just give me a string to search them
with...
tammx
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From: "MT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound module? (Newbie needs help)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 21:23:54 +0200
gmix says, that i don't have sound-module installed in my system, where
can i find such thing? (just gimme a string to search)...
tammx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: compiling kernel problems
Date: 3 Nov 2000 14:55:14 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wazzabi 84 wrote:
> Ok, here's my problem, i downloaded the 2.4 test kernel, unpacked it to
> /usr/src/linux, and then i tried to run "make menuconfig" and it says "bash:
> make: command not found"
Did you install the "make" program?
> i also get errors like this when i try ./configure,
> it says "bash:./configure: no such file or directory", can someone explain to
> me what i'm doing wrong?
You are asking to run the file named "configure" in the current directory.
Is there one, and is it executable? (There is no such file in the kernel
source code, of course.)
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compiling kernel problems
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:03:10 -0500
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.setup: 3-Nov-100 compiling kernel
problems by Wazzabi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ok, here's my problem, i downloaded the 2.4 test kernel, unpacked
Test kernel? I hope you know what you're doing, and have a DARN
good reason for trying it. From your question, I'm not at all
sure that you would NOT be better off sticking with 2.2.16.
> it to /usr/src/linux, and then i tried to run "make menuconfig"
> and it says "bash: make: command not found", i also get errors
Like it says. You don't have 'make'. Install it.
Necessary packages are listed, with detail, in Documentation/Changes.
<<< excerpt from the version distributed with 2.4.0-test8:
Current Minimal Requirements
============================
Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've
encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently
running, the suggested command should tell you.
Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already
functionally running a Linux 2.2 kernel. Also, not all tools are
necessary on all systems; obviously, if you don't have any PCMCIA (PC
Card) hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself
with pcmcia-cs.
o Gnu C 2.7.2.3 # gcc --version
o Gnu make 3.77 # make --version
o binutils 2.9.1.0.25 # ld -v
o util-linux 2.10o # kbdrate -v
o modutils 2.3.15 # insmod -V
o e2fsprogs 1.18 # tune2fs --version
o pcmcia-cs 3.1.19 # cardmgr -V
o PPP 2.4.0 # pppd --version
o isdn4k-utils 3.1beta7 # isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version
end excerpt>>>
If your distro has a separate bin86 package, I suspect that you may
need that as well.
> like this when i try ./configure, it says "bash:./configure: no
> such file or directory", can someone explain to me what i'm doing
> wrong?, thanx
'bash' is telling you the truth. Why are you trying to run a
non-existent command? You might want to **READ** the README file
that comes with the kernel.
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|--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
| #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
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From: Vahe Sarkissian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem aztech for Linux
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:32:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> During the installation of Linux Caldera 2.4, the system didn't detect
> my modem, an Aztech MDP 3880-W plugged on Com2.
> Searching on the web, I found nothing for it, and it doesn't seem to be
> a winmodem.
> Any idea to help me?
> thanks, SC
>
>
Hi,
I also had an Aztech MDP (I think it was a 39-something). I hate to tell
you, but it is indeed a winmodem. The only fix to get it working under
Linux is to dump it and get something else.
I had it on a Dell computer. After some persistence, I got them to take
it back and give me a refund. I bought a Diamond SupraExpress external
for the same price, and it's ran beautifully.
Good luck,
--Vahe Sarkissian
Hmm... nospam in the email address. Wonder what that means.
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From: Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing win2000 after linux
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 22:02:24 +0100
> Ok, do you think, I can safe my linux with a CD-burner?
I don't know....this isn't the same as copying the partition. You will
at least have to reconfigure your boot sector and your lilo. I've never
tried this.
> But how do I get the files back on the hd?
You'd need a linux to create an ext2-partition and copy the files (there
are linux-dists that fit on one or two disks).
I'm not sure if your plan will work 'cause you don't have a copy of your
partition but only of your data.
> Thank you for helping
No problem - just telling my experiences. :-)
Tux
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From: Dave Martel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: ghosting linux server
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 13:57:18 -0700
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 19:40:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Buschman) wrote:
>
>I have been usiong pghost 2000. I will have to check out pghost 2001.
>Are you using the personal or enterprise edition?
I'm using the Personal version. The Enterprise edition would be nicer
to have but I don't need it badly enough to justify the price
difference.
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