Linux-Setup Digest #971, Volume #19 Sat, 4 Nov 00 09:13:06 EST
Contents:
won't format (Jason Wagner)
How do I change drivers for video and monitors ("Jeremy S. Dillon")
How do I change drivers for video and monitors ("Jeremy S. Dillon")
Re: Major problem! all files in /boot gone ("David ..")
Re: Need help with size of fonts ("David ..")
Re: crontab won't run ("David ..")
Re: CVS installation problem ("David ..")
Re: long file names in mandrake 6.1 ("David ..")
Old Deskjet 550c ("Andrea Ceccanti")
How to decompress debian package? Pls help (Alan Po)
Re: hang on 'remounting root filesystem'? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help: win98/linux dual boot with 2 HDs (Duncan Pryde)
Re: sound module? (Newbie needs help) ("MT")
Re: Time Prob ("David ..")
Re: RH6.0: Two different NICs ("David ..")
Help with PCMCIA Ethernet card ("Steve Dearth")
Kernel problem (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?=)
X Install no Problem with Peanut ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Some troubles with DOS partitions (Andrei Rares)
Re: How to decompress debian package? Pls help (Philip Armstrong)
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From: Jason Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: won't format
Date: 4 Nov 2000 09:28:44 GMT
hi all,
ross dual hypersparc sparcplug, four hard drives, cd-rom, tape. i'm
trying to install rh6.2. i've tried this install probably going on 20
times now. every combination of drive setting/termination/etc i've tried
( swear to god, i've been at this for weeks ). i get as far in the
install as "formatting / filesystem..." at which point, i can hear the
drive seeking ( sounds like its formatting ) but even if i let this run
overnight, in the morning, its still "formatting / filesystem". i've
tried to put / on many different drives, different sizes, etc.
at this point i'm totally, totally stumped. completely open to ideas.
thanks!!!
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From: "Jeremy S. Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I change drivers for video and monitors
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:21:08 GMT
How do I change (tweak) drivers for video and monitors in RH7? I can't seem
to figure out the commands for xconf or the like.
Jeremy
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From: "Jeremy S. Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I change drivers for video and monitors
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:33:13 GMT
How do I change (tweak) drivers for video and monitors in RH7? I can't seem
to figure out the commands for xconf or the like.
Jeremy
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Major problem! all files in /boot gone
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 22:43:15 -0600
Blackberry wrote:
>
> The unfortunate translation of "ne..."'s Vogon Poetry reading from Wed, 01 Nov
> 2000 20:51:25 GMT reached theears of the unsuspecting...
> >
> >FIRST THINGS FIRST: DON'T REBOOT YET!! Sorry for the shouting
> >I had to get that point across.
>
> Okay. :)
>
> >You will need to reinstall the kernel again. This should be on
> >the cdrom I am assuming you got your distribution from.
Hmmmm?? Not if you are using a tarball to upgrade the kernel.
> I downloaded source for 2.2.17 and compiled that. I had been using 2.2.14.
> Will it matter that I didn't use my distribution's source?
No it won't matter I use the 2.2.17 kernel on a redhat 6.2 system
compiled from a tarball.
> >The message file is not that important,
> >so put some funky text in it.
>
> Done.
Hmmm?? What message file??
> >Initrd is an image file needed to load stuff for ppl using scsi.
> >If you don't use scsi devices forget about it. If you do then you
> >need to create one. Man mkinitrd will show you how to create one.
>
> I have /sbin/mk_initrd. When I run it, it says this:
Hmmm?? I don't even have a initrd image for my kernel on an SCSI system.
> using "/dev/hda6" as root device (mounted on "/")
> creating initrd "//boot/initrd" for kernel "//boot/vmlinuz" (2.2.17)
> no version "2.2.17" modules found
>
> I did specify some things as modules when I compiled the kernel. I did make
> modules and make modules_install also. When I run mk_initrd, there is no file
> called "initrd" created anywhere on my system.
>
> No man entry for either mkinitrd or mk_initrd.
>
> >You will also need a module-info file.
> >I am a RedHatter so this is in my kernel
> >rpm.
Hmmm? I don't use a module-info file either.
> What's it called and where does it go?
>
> >Lastly, you need the System.map file which is also in
> >the kernel rpm. If you compiled your kernel then you should
> >still have a copy of your kernel image and the System.map file.
> >Copy them over. When you have restored the /boot dir, run
> >lilo after making sure it is fine.
When you compile a new kernel you get a new System.map file which needs
to be copied to /boot/ along with the bzImage file.
cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-x.x.xx
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-x.x.xx
Where x.x.xx is the new kernel version
> /sbin/lilo tells me this:
>
> open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory
Did you edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the kernel to the new kernel
before trying to run /sbin/lilo ??
> man lilo says that boot.b is the boot sector? I thought that would be in
> /dev/hda, not in a file in /boot.
>
> It sounds like I need to wait until I get home and use the kernel source module
> from my installation CD... oh well.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --------------------
> "It's enough to make you wonder sometimes if you're on the right planet."
> -- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
> Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- remove "NOSPAM"
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.applixware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Need help with size of fonts
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 10:26:14 -0600
Hitesh Jasani wrote:
>
> As the saying goes, RTFM the Font HOW-TO doc.
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO.html
>
> Hitesh
>
> Lamar Thomas wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed a new video card (NVidia TNT2 Model 64 w/32MB of RAM) and
> > it work just fine. Maybe a little too good! All of my fonts are so small I
> > can't read a darn thing! When I run "Xconfigurator" I can change the
> > resolution (i.e. from 1600x1200 to 800x600) but nothing works. I even tried
> > 640x480 with no luck. Can anyone tell me how to get bigger fonts? Thanks
> > for your help.
> >
> > Lamar
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crontab won't run
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 10:50:05 -0600
[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?
Have you tried restarting cron?
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond restart
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CVS installation problem
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 19:16:15 -0600
Richard Everhart wrote:
>
> I'm new to linux and still haven't figured out the whole installation
> process. Here's my latest problem: I'm trying to install
> CVS-1.11-1-i686.rpm (SuSE6.4) and I get the message that it depends on
> /sbin/install-info. Any ideas? TIA.
>
> Rich
You need to install the rpm package named "info".
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: long file names in mandrake 6.1
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 00:29:33 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> for the life of me i used to be able to access my win98 partition and see
> the long file names. but since i had to re-install mandrake i can't remember
> how to set it up and can't find the info in my books. can someone please
> help? i'm sure it is probably something in my fstab file but i just can't
> find out what goes in there. thanks!
mount the windoz partition as vfat in the fstab file should do it.
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From: "Andrea Ceccanti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Old Deskjet 550c
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 10:34:50 +0100
I use debian Potato, i'm able to print stuff on my old deskjet 550c. The
deskjet printing speed on Linux is half the speed on windows. I would like
to know if there's a way to speed up the deskjet on Linux. Right now i'm
using magicfilter with the default dj550c filter provided with the
magicfilter debian package.
thanks in advance.
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From: Alan Po <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: How to decompress debian package? Pls help
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:43:41 +0800
Dear sir
I have got a ash file but is in debain package (deb extension). I don't
know how to decompress under Red Hat. Would you give me help? Thanks a
lot
Alan Po
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 04:59:23 -0500
Subject: Re: hang on 'remounting root filesystem'?
Greetings!
I had to crash out of Linux tonight -- power switch! --; I was fooling
with nfs and got stuck.
It did it's 'forced checking' routine and gave a [PASSED]; then it seems
to hang at REMOUNTING ROOT FILESYSTEM IN READ-WRITE MODE, altho it
indicates [OK] so perhaps the hang is just after this routine.
I just discovered I don't have a serviceable bootdisk (I'm going to see if
I can get that 'tomsrtbt' bootdisk) but even if I could boot into the
system, I'm not sure what I'm looking to correct.
I welcome some help here; thanks!
It's a RedHat 6.0 system (laptop); I was doing nfs via a pcmcia card to my
desktop. The HD is otherwise intact -- I'm using it now in OS/2 and the RH
cdrom sees the HD though I noticed it hanged also on trying to create a
rescue disk.
>>>I had sent this out yesterday to comp.os.linux.misc and I'm reposting it to this
>group since I didn't get an answer there -- I'm sure someone will try to help, but
>it's getting urgent. I also can't get out on the web, it seems -- some kind of DNS
>problem? -- so I can't get to that bootdisk site. I'll try to make a normal floppy
>install disk but still, once I'm in, I'm not sure what kind of diagnostics I should
>do except to look at fstab. <<<
F.
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Felmon John Davis
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os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
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From: Duncan Pryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: win98/linux dual boot with 2 HDs
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 17:20:13 +0000 (GMT)
I'd like to set up my machine to be dual boot with linux on one HD and
Win98 on another. I've had both on the same HD (12Gb) up until now, but
lack of space (and the fact that I've written over the mbr again >:-( )
has prompted me to buy a second hard drive (20Gb).
Ideally, I'd like windows on my new disc, with linux and lilo kept
separatly from it on the old one. What I therefore need to do is install
windows, copy some of my files across from the old disc, and then put
linux on it.
What is the best way of doing this, in terms of installing the new drive,
master/slave settings, installing the os's, configuring lilo, etc?
Any help (or an appropriate url) would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Duncan
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From: "MT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound module? (Newbie needs help)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:43:42 +0200
cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> he means kernel module. they are under /lib/modules/
>
> so you do an insmod to see if the kenel can find the hardware.
>
> if you don't know what i'm talking about, read sound HOWTO and kernel
> HOWTO. most distros have all the modules pre-compiled, so you don't
> really need to recompile the kernel. you simply need to know which
> module to use.
>
> you can use /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules or something like
> that to get the module automatically inserted.
i found /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o ,
when i run
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
the following error is given:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
sound_init_lowlevel_drivers_Rec0251af
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_mixer_R7afc9d8a
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
register_sound_special_R4cac2a98
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
register_sound_dsp_Re4148a46
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
sound_unload_lowlevel_drivers_Ra675fda1
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
register_sound_midi_Ra08905e6
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_dsp_Rcd083b10
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_special_R99c95fa5
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
sound_preinit_lowlevel_drivers_Rebdfb792
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
register_sound_mixer_R18365667
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_midi_Rfdab6de3
what should i do?
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 21:23:54 +0200, "MT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
>
>
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Time Prob
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 06:11:31 -0600
"K. Creed" wrote:
>
> When I first boot up Linux and launch X the time is displayed correctly,
> but after awhile it resets to a time six hours prior. I've used the
> date command which works temporarily but the time still resets
> incorrectly after awhile.
I fit is always changing by the same 6 hours then this should correct
it.
To check to see if this could be the problem:
cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
This will show you the clock file. If this could be causing the problem
it will probably look like the one shown.
ZONE="US/Central"
UTC=true
ARC=false
It should look similar to this with the correct country and timezone in
the first line. The second line tells Linux to assume the BIOS clock is
set to the UTC or GMT timezone. If this is what yours looks like then
you should change the UTC line to correct it as shown below.
vi /etc/sysconfig/clock
UTC=false
Be sure to save the change when done then reset the correct time.
Hope this helps.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0: Two different NICs
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 06:14:40 -0600
Murray Alexander wrote:
>
> I'm _trying_ to build a firewall/router on an old 486/100 with 32MB of RAM.
> It has an NE2000 clone card, which has been working perfectly. I added a
> 3c509 as 'eth1'.
>
> On boot, the 'ne' module is loaded, and all is fine. The '3c509' module
> doesn't get loaded, so the card is not initialized. I've been through the
> scripts, looked at the HOW-TOs, and still can't figure it out. I _can_ get
> it working if I log in as root, 'insmod 3c509', and 'ifconfig eth1 up'.
>
> I suppose I could modify the scripts to do the 'insmod' step explicitly.
> However, isn't that being done somewhere else? I'd prefer to understand the
> problem and fix it "The Right Way(tm)", rather than use a brutish kludge.
>
> Any ideas?
Yes this is done from /etc/conf.modules so you would add a line like
this:
alias eth0 3c509 # be sure to use the correct module.
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From: "Steve Dearth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with PCMCIA Ethernet card
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:16:13 GMT
I recently switched from RH6.0 to Stormix, and am trying to get my NetGear
FA410TX PCMCIA ethernet card working on an IBM Thinkpad 1452i. It worked
under RH, but I've somehow screwed up the settings on Stormix.
Anyway, the message log gives the following:
pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net address for io base 0x300.
Any idea on what I need to do to get this working?
thanks
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel problem
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 20:49:43 +0800
1) I have downloaded kernel version 2.2.17 and have compiled it. Then I
have copied the bzImage file to /boot directory and edit the
lilo.conf file. After I have reboot the system, there is a warning
message displayed,
Warning: /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel version.
What should I do?
2) I cannot bring up all interface including ppp0 and eth0. When I try
to connect to internet using kppp, there is an error message 'The ppp
daemon died unexpectedly". Is this something to do with the kernel that
I had just compiled?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X Install no Problem with Peanut
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 13:16:02 GMT
For all the newbies like me out there struggling with the X server,
try the Peanut distro. Caldera2.2, corel, RH5.1, SuSe6.2 could not
configure my ATI Rage 128, but the Peanut did. I'm now up and running
with KDE !!!
I have struggled with SuSe6.2 for months, even got the new drivers for
my card but to no avail. What I don't understand is SAX came up fine
during setup but could not get the X running - no screen found.
Now I can play/understand linux. Thanks to the Peanut team.!!!!!
You can get it from http://metalab.unc.edu/peanut. I'm sure the new
release with KDE2 would even be better.
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From: Andrei Rares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Some troubles with DOS partitions
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 14:18:47 +0100
"Kurt R. Rahlfs" wrote:
> Andrei Rares wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > <snip>
> > Everything is ok except a small inconvenience: when I want to copy files
> > on any of my DOS partitions, I get this message:
> > > cp: /dos/c/filename.ext: Operation not permitted
> > However, the file gets copied!
> > <snip>
>
> > Andrei
> >
> > <snip>
>
> This is a normal message for any FAT file system. It is not complaining
> about the copy it is complaining about setting the mode on the file after
> is copied/moved. Since FAT does not have the information of UNIX/LINUX
> file systems it can not change the files to those values. I belive you can
> supress this message when you mount the file system. Check out the
> FAT/VFAT part of the mount command.
>
> You can also redirect stderr from the command to /dev/null e.g.:
> cp xyz abc 2>/dev/null
>
> Hope this helps,
> Kurtrr
Sorry, but this solution doesn't work. I get this message:
cp: copying multiple files, but last argument (2) is not a directory
Try `cp --help' for more information.
That's because the 'cp' command interprets '2' as a directory, and the
previous parameters as files to be copied into it.
And I don't find the 'cp' and 'mv' errors normal anyway (see errors in my
original message). Previously on another dual boot system I did not get errors
when copying files to VFAT.
Moreover, I hope you read my 'P.S.' in the original message. I am writing a
program that does some copying (maybe also moving in the future). Since the
program can be run on any machine, not only on mine, it would be erroneous to
neglect the returned error. So hiding the error is not a solution.
Any ideas?
Andrei
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Armstrong)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: How to decompress debian package? Pls help
Date: 4 Nov 2000 13:07:56 -0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Po <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have got a ash file but is in debain package (deb extension). I don't
>know how to decompress under Red Hat. Would you give me help? Thanks a
>lot
IIRC, debian packages are simple ar archives which you can unpack with
ar. They contain a couple of .tar.gz files which contain the binaries
and control information association with the packaging system
respectively.
HTH,
Phil
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