Linux-Setup Digest #995, Volume #19 Wed, 8 Nov 00 08:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please (Jacques Guy)
kernel 2.4 and ppp ? (Marek Chmielowski)
still, backups via nfs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please look!! (Anita
Lewis)
Re: Dial-IN PPP help!!! Please! (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please look!! (Anita
Lewis)
Re: video card problems ("Riyaz Mansoor")
replicating a machine? (Jean-Christian)
Re: mail server ("Diehard Duck")
Re: hacker...beware (John Savard)
Linux and Change of server (cambio del server) (Ezio PAGLIA)
Linux scsi boot problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: hacker...beware (Colin Watson)
Re: replicating a machine? (CDM)
Re: Installation woes - no valid devices?? (CDM)
Re: dial-up internet from command line? (CDM)
Re: mail server ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: hacker...beware ("Carsten Bauer")
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 10:21:22 +0000
From: Jacques Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please
Nataraj Dasgupta wrote:
> Forget Partition Magic.
[...]
Follow Nataraj's advice. Partition Magic is a useless
piece of software. Time and again (how many? four
times I think) I have been plagued by similar
problems. Always, always, Partition Magic gave
me horrendous error messages, no help whatsoever,
the prize going to an error message which was not
in the manual! Boot from a Linux diskette, run
Linux fdisk, go on from there. Avoid MS fdisk
like the plague, unless you are keen to lose all
your data. Once, 4-5 years ago, MS-DOS decided that
I had no F: disk. The Norton Utilities (what a piece
of shit!) told me to do a low-level formatting.
So, stuffed for stuffed, I booted from a Linux
diskette (I knew bugger all about Linux, just
a little bit of Unix). Eventually, having found
the right /dev/hdax to mount, I could read, edit,
and copy the DOS files on my "lost" disk F:!
>From Linux. I eventually managed, all through
Linux, to re-enable F: (forgot how, posted it
on comp.linux.advocacy, but DejaNews no longer
goes that far back).
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From: Marek Chmielowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.4 and ppp ?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:29:58 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have heard that kernel 2.4 needs some changes to pppd module.
I have compiled kernel 2.4 and everything work OK except ppp
Any suggestions?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 05:58:07 -0500
Subject: still, backups via nfs
Greetings!
Ok, I have my laptop and desktop linked via ethernet and nfs.
Part of the point of the exercise is to have a nice way to back up the
laptop and to restore it in case of catastrophe.
It's got three partitions: VFAT16 (Win98), HPFS (OS/2 Warp 4), RH 6.0,
coming to about 3G altogether.
[i] What's the best way to pile this stuff onto my desktop for storage and
ease of recovery using nfs? I assume somehow tar and gzip but I'm not sure
what incantation. Remember, there's little free space on the laptop though
there's plenty of room on the desktop so any swapping or temp files have
to park on the desktop.
[ii] Also, rough estimate, how long might I expect this to take, say, to
park a 1 Gig partition? The nfs connection is direct: cable from one
computer to the other.
[iii] I also need to consider my strategy for recovery: maybe a bootdisk
which can enable nfs?
Thanks!
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please look!!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:08:51 GMT
On Tue, 07 Nov 2000 05:34:01 GMT, Brando wrote:
>
>I'm trying to recover my partition. I had it split up my 6GB HD into 2.5GB Windows98
>and
>3.5GB Linux (Mandrake 7.1). I just recently could not boot up into Linux. I got this
>error
>during bootup:
>> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
>So, I was going to just remove the Linux partition and freshly install LM 7.2
>But, when I run Partition Magic Pro 6.0 in DOS, I get Error 105:
>> Error 105 Partition starts on wrong boundary
>>
>> Cause of this problem:
>> The hard-disk partition table contains erroneous values. PartitionMagic expects
>> FAT, NTFS, and HPFS partitions to begin and end on the boundaries used by
>> FDISK. If they do not, the disk may be partially corrupted. In this circumstance,
>if
>> PartitionMagic were to make any modifications it might cause loss of data.
>> Therefore, PartitionMagic refuses to recognize any of the hard disk�s partitions.
>
>So what can I do to resize my Windows98 partition to the full size of the HD without
>damaging the Win98 partition?
You might be able to find the actual partition table by using gpart. Then
you could use fdisk to rewrite the partition table. I don't think it will
work to use linux fdisk to rewrite the table to extend it for windows,
because windows will not recognize it unless you use dos fdisk which wipes
out the data. Hopefully if you use gpart you will find what the table
should be and fix the mess PM made.
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/7620/gpart
You will need to get the binary version to put on a floppy and also get
Tom's linux to run a mini linux to use gpart. The url for tom's is on the
gpart page. On tom's there is also rescuept which gives you info on the
partition table, but I find it harder to use than what gpart gives. You can
try both and compare.
Anita
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Dial-IN PPP help!!! Please!
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 07:55:25 GMT
Mark R. Holbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>1) followed the application instructions in the web document above
No.
>2) my laptop is assigned an IP of 192.168.168.51 (which is clear) from
>the Linux box.
>3) I have the linux box setup to forward IP
>(/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward=1)
[...]
This is only one part. You'll need Ip Masquerading up and running
as your laptop doesn't have a valid routable IP address.
Besides that, if you can't even ping the Linux box from the laptop,
your routing is hosed.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please look!!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:33:47 GMT
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:08:51 GMT, Anita Lewis wrote:
>On Tue, 07 Nov 2000 05:34:01 GMT, Brando wrote:
>>
>>I'm trying to recover my partition. I had it split up my 6GB HD into 2.5GB Windows98
>and
>>3.5GB Linux (Mandrake 7.1). I just recently could not boot up into Linux. I got this
>error
>>during bootup:
>>> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>>
>>So, I was going to just remove the Linux partition and freshly install LM 7.2
>>But, when I run Partition Magic Pro 6.0 in DOS, I get Error 105:
>>> Error 105 Partition starts on wrong boundary
>>>
>>> Cause of this problem:
>>> The hard-disk partition table contains erroneous values. PartitionMagic expects
>>> FAT, NTFS, and HPFS partitions to begin and end on the boundaries used by
>>> FDISK. If they do not, the disk may be partially corrupted. In this circumstance,
>if
>>> PartitionMagic were to make any modifications it might cause loss of data.
>>> Therefore, PartitionMagic refuses to recognize any of the hard disk�s partitions.
>>
>>So what can I do to resize my Windows98 partition to the full size of the HD without
>>damaging the Win98 partition?
>
>You might be able to find the actual partition table by using gpart. Then
>you could use fdisk to rewrite the partition table. I don't think it will
>work to use linux fdisk to rewrite the table to extend it for windows,
>because windows will not recognize it unless you use dos fdisk which wipes
>out the data. Hopefully if you use gpart you will find what the table
>should be and fix the mess PM made.
>
>http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/7620/gpart
>
>You will need to get the binary version to put on a floppy and also get
>Tom's linux to run a mini linux to use gpart. The url for tom's is on the
>gpart page. On tom's there is also rescuept which gives you info on the
>partition table, but I find it harder to use than what gpart gives. You can
>try both and compare.
>
>Anita
>
Actually, although PM is refusing to recognize the partitions, does Windows
boot? If it does, you might run into problems if you mess with that
partition using fdisk. If Windows boots, then try running Tom's linux and
try mounting your partitions. Do 'fdisk -l' to see what fdisk says you have
for partitions.
The original problem could be that /boot is on a cylinder above 1024,
although most drives are set so that you would have to have 8 Gig to exceed
that. I have a 4 Gig that exceeds it though. If that is the case, then you
might have it boot sometimes and sometimes not, depending on where /boot is.
So be sure to look at the cylinders too when you do fdisk -l.
If Tom's shows you the partition table, and the cylinders look good, you
might just try reinstalling linux on the same partitions. If the cylinders
are not good for you, then you will need to make a /boot in a small 20 meg
space below 1024 and then reinstall. Write down what 'fdisk -l' produces
and compare it to PM and what you think you made with it.
Anita
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From: "Riyaz Mansoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video card problems
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:43:41 +1000
> I have a Diamond Speedstar A50 (SiS 6326, 8 meg, AGP) working with Rh6.1.
> I added options "no_accel" and "no_bitblt" to /etc/X11/XFConfig in the
> "Device' section. Different cards with the SiS 6326 may need different
> options. See http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/SiS.html for more options.
could u tell me what version of XFree86 u have?
since u didn't say u get better resolution than 480x640, do u get anything
better than that?
and how do i know which server the XFConfig file is using? the version of
XFree86, v4.0.1, uses the "sis" server but it just would not go over 256
colors or 480x640 res.
thanx.
riyaz
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From: Jean-Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: replicating a machine?
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:47:47 GMT
Hi have a linux machine that I would like to replicate (i.e. copy the
machine). The machine I wish to replicate onto doesn't have the exact
same hardware but is nnoetheless very similar. How would I do this?
Jc
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From: "Diehard Duck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:56:03 -0000
Oh, crap.
Here we go again.
"findo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8u99dd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> May I ask about that how to setup a mail server in linux redhat 6.2?Please
> please tell me how to do that!
> Thanks alots
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Savard)
Crossposted-To:
alt.lang.basic,alt.permaculture,alt.surfing,alt.surfing.europe.uk,aus.computers.linux,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: hacker...beware
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:57:13 GMT
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:27:58 +1000, yogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in
part:
>The best thing to do is just chill out... System administrators turn off the
>monitoring facility of firewalls once they are satisfied their rules work...
One is never sure that a firewall always works: monitoring is used to
find out what has happened in case an attack is ever successful. And
fewer computers would be hacked, the more deterrence existed for
attempts to make unauthorized use of them.
John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto.htm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ezio PAGLIA)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,;,;,comp.os.linux.hardware,;,it.comp.os.linux.sys
Subject: Linux and Change of server (cambio del server)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 12:18:54 GMT
Dear linux guru's and masters,
through your kind help, we learned how to make backups and rescue
diskette in order to restart our system in case of crash.
Yet our present aim would be to study the actions needed in case of
change of the server. Suppose you strongly touched a lot a
applications : DNS, sendmail, procmail, web server, perl applications,
news server, ftp area, web server and web pages.
Practically I need to change only the disk device, the ethernet card
and so, but the software would remain the same.
What to do ?
Thank you.
Versione per il newsgroup italiano:
Cari amministratori linux,
grazie anche al vostro aiuto, abbiamo imparato i meccanismi di
ripartenza, ricostruendoci una rescue diskette con il kernel,
applicando i moduli opportuni etc.
Pero' ora mi chiedo che cosa fare se in caso di crash bisogna cambiare
macchina oppure in ogni caso vorremmo cambiare disco con quello di
un'altra tecnologia. Supponete che abbiamo toccato fortemente ed in
maniera a volte difficile elementi del sistema e che quindi quello che
e' nel salvataggio completo ci interessa fortemente. Non e' cioe'
fattibile rifare da capo gli ambienti di dns, sendmail, procmail,
webserver, news server, squid, ftp etc.
Cosa occorre fare per trasportare il sistema su un nuovo disco ?
Ezio.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux scsi boot problem
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 12:41:09 GMT
Hi,
I have a problem trying to get Linux to boot on a machine here and was
wondering if someone here could help.
The background is important so bear with me.
The machine has an asus p2b-s motherboard which has an aic7890 on-board
scsi controller. Plugged into this are a cdrom, a Jaz drive and a 9GB
scsidisk. The cdrom and the Jaz are both plugged into the scsi-2
(50pin) port and the scsi hard disk is in the ultra wide (68pin) port.
There are no IDE disks and the bios is configured to boot from scsi in
the order A, C.
The problem is that the cdrom and Jaz drive are probed first, before the
scsi disk. This means that the Jaz drive is assigned /dev/sda and the
disk /dev/sdb. Thus I have no reliable disk in /dev/sda on which LILO
(or GRUB) can install in the MBR. The machine does boot from the SuSE
floppy (booting from the installed system on /dev/sdb1) so I know it can
be done. I have also unplugged the Jaz and then the scsi disk becomes
/dev/sda.
My questions are these;
1. If I try to use the disk and bios commands in lilo.conf I need to
know the scsi bios numbers. How can I find these out? (I tried
guessing but to no avail - I think the problems are confounded by
the lack of IDE disks).
2. Is there another way to re-map the scsi devices before boot so
/dev/sdb become /dev/sda?
3. If I ditch LILO can and how would I solve this problem using GRUB?
4. Anyone familiar with the hardware know a way of getting the aic7890
to probe the other way around?
5. Any other wierd or preferably wonderful suggestions?
Many thanks,
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To:
alt.lang.basic,alt.permaculture,alt.surfing,alt.surfing.europe.uk,aus.computers.linux,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: hacker...beware
Date: 8 Nov 2000 12:54:36 GMT
John Savard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:27:58 +1000, yogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in
>part:
>>The best thing to do is just chill out... System administrators turn
>>off the monitoring facility of firewalls once they are satisfied their
>>rules work...
>
>One is never sure that a firewall always works: monitoring is used to
>find out what has happened in case an attack is ever successful. And
>fewer computers would be hacked, the more deterrence existed for
>attempts to make unauthorized use of them.
True, but not every access is malicious. The original poster just
asserted that his firewall had detected a cracking attempt, but gave no
details. For all we know it could be somebody telnetting to port 80.
Without more evidence I'm sceptical; people who panic to Usenet about
every portscan obviously haven't run an Internet-connected firewall for
long.
Er, followups somewhere else. To poster will do.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"And I forgot the next verse / Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The music sheet's so hard to find / What are the words? Oh nevermind"
- "Smells Like Nirvana", Weird Al
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CDM)
Subject: Re: replicating a machine?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:49:43 +0100
maybe "dump" ?
"Jean-Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi have a linux machine that I would like to replicate (i.e. copy the
> machine). The machine I wish to replicate onto doesn't have the exact
> same hardware but is nnoetheless very similar. How would I do this?
>
> Jc
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CDM)
Subject: Re: Installation woes - no valid devices??
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:54:08 +0100
I suggest you check out the supported hardware list which is available for
your distribution?
Seems the disk controller is not supported yet. If it is supported then try
to find a boot kernel with that driver enabled.
"John Mravunac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:wV7O5.102$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm attempting to install RH6.2 on a Compaq Proliant 1500 with a Compaq
> Smart2/E array controller. The problem I get is that when I run the
> installation...it gets up to the point where you select what type of
> installation you need (Gnome Workstation, Server...) and then fails. The
> next screen reads "An error has occured - no valid devices were found on
> which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause
of
> this problem"
> But there does not appear to be any hardware problems because Windows NT
> Server had no troubles installing on it.
> Please....if you have any advice to offer please do, as I am in serious
need
> of help here! :)
>
> Thanks very much,
> John :^)
>
>
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CDM)
Subject: Re: dial-up internet from command line?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:58:04 +0100
pretty sure there's a ppp-HOWTO available somewhere....
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8u9235$dml$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I want to create an internet connection from the command line. No GUI. As
> much as possible, I want to directly edit the the necessary files.
>
> The computer recognizes the modem. No winmodem or anything. I am using
> RedHat 5.0. Pretty sure I have TCP/IP working.
>
> I am doing this for educational purposes.
>
> I suppose the thing to do is create a pppd script? Do I need to edit
> resolv.conf? Do I need to do a "route add" ??
>
> Any help appreciated, thank you.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: 8 Nov 2000 12:54:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.admin Diehard Duck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Oh, crap.
: Here we go again.
Pass his case over to the free software people in the gun lobby.
: "findo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:8u99dd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:> May I ask about that how to setup a mail server in linux redhat 6.2?Please
:> please tell me how to do that!
:> Thanks alots
[This space deliberately left empty!]
Peter
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From: "Carsten Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hacker...beware
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 21:01:17 +0800
Crossposted-To:
alt.lang.basic,alt.permaculture,alt.surfing,alt.surfing.europe.uk,aus.computers.linux,sci.crypt
In article <3a0884ad$0$19405$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gary"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following person (who posts on the above newsgroups)has been
> detected by my firewall as attempting to hack into my system. He/she has
> been reported to the isp concerned and details are as follows.
>
> Name E-mail address Date Thread Newsgroup Vic Drastik
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00/04/20 comp.lang.basic.misc Mongolian Horde
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00/01/05 alt.surfing
> *Lauren* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 99/11/06 alt.music.moffatts
> Mongolian Horde [EMAIL PROTECTED] 99/11/05 alt.surfing Mongolian
> Horde [EMAIL PROTECTED] 99/11/05 Location of 203.101.94.94:
> Country = Australia Region = New South Wales City =
> Sydney
> Standard network info
> [ nslookup (1): ip=203.101.94.94,
> hostname=async93-wol-isp-1.nas.one.net.au]
Most likely a skript kiddy trying to look cool.
Can you paste your logfile on here, as i'm interested in knowing what
exactly this "hacker/cracker" did.
--
Carsten Bauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP Key - http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~numloxx/pgp.asc
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