Linux-Setup Digest #19, Volume #20 Sat, 11 Nov 00 21:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: cleaning up old kernel files (Scott Nolde)
Re: Unable to run Sawfish config as non-root (Colin Watson)
Re: CD-ROM problems when Installing Linux Mandrake (MaryP)
rlogin problem (Bob Feng)
Re: Lilo boot option not working (Carl Waring)
Re: Windows/Linux : Disk size issue (Colin Watson)
Re: KDE 2.0 - error msg (Colin Watson)
e2fsck can't fix filesystem (Jason L. Maron)
Re: Setup Newbie! ("Philo")
Re: DSL help (S Varadarajan)
Re: KDE 2.0 - error msg (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Help! Linux router between two NT networks. (Sean)
Re: help! Mandrake 7.2 setup hang ("Jeepster")
Installation/running Problem (Ruth Gomes)
Re: Setup Newbie! ("Chris L.")
Re: Help installing KDE 2.0!!!! ("G Man")
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cleaning up old kernel files
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 00:09:28 GMT
inon21 wrote:
>
> It's a RH 6.1 distribution, and recently I compiled & installed kernel
> 2.2.16. Now, the old one (2.2.12-20) files/modules and all still sitting on
> the disk.
>
> How can I clean up this and make room? Seems like this kernel was installed
> thru kernel-2.2.12-20.*.rpm from RH.
>
> Please help. Thank you
Usually, you can do a 'rm -fr /usr/src/linux-2.2.12' and that will
delete the source tree. The modules you'd erase are in
/lib/modules/2.2.12.
- Scott
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
7:05pm up 19:21, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to run Sawfish config as non-root
Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:20:53 GMT
[I mailed this by mistake, sorry - I'm posting it now as well.]
legend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Under Mandrake 7.2 (and I believe it was the case for 7.1), as a user
>you cannot run 'sawfish-ui' (the app that is run under control panel)
>when you want to configure Sawfish.
>If you run sawfish-ui you get:
>
>error--> (error "can't call sawfish-client")et:
>
>or 'sawfish-client' you get:
>
>can't connect to display:
Looks like your $DISPLAY environment variable isn't set. Normally, in X,
this is set to the address of the X server (e.g. ':0.0'); perhaps your
user's shell startup scripts are unsetting it for some reason? Of
course, then you wouldn't be able to run any other X programs from an X
terminal either.
I'm using sawfish right now on Debian unstable, and it works fine -
well, sawfish-ui still dies, but that's due to database library
brokenness during the glibc upgrade and I kind of expect these sorts of
things from unstable. :) sawfish-ui has certainly worked in the past.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"And after the fire there came a still small voice ..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MaryP)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM problems when Installing Linux Mandrake
Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:24:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric McGill
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7 on a old 75 mhz machine. I want to
> goof around with it before I put it on my a newer machine.
>
> The problem I am having with the installation is this: It pops up after it
> reads the floppy, I hit enter to begin the loading. Once we are inside the
> installation, it automatically begins trying to initialize the CD-ROM drive
> but fails. Then it shuts everything down and says that it is now safe to
> reboot my machine.
I have some older hardware here and I have similarly had no luck putting
Mandrake on it. Red Hat 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1 work fine however. Unless you are bent
on making Mandrake run no matter what, try a different distro and see
if your problems don't vanish.
You can still borrow software packages from the Mandrake disk if you install
Red Hat as a base.
MP
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From: Bob Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
redhat.general,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: rlogin problem
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:32:09 -0800
Hi, all Linux grus,
Can anyone help me to make the "rlogin" works behind a firwall?
I mean I have a redhat Linux 7.0 box sits behind another redhat 6.0
Linux box which does all the IP-Masquerading work to outside world. The
redhat 6.0 box can do everything of course including the rlogin as well.
The redhat 7.0 box can do "telnet", "ftp", "real audio" and "http" but
can never do a "rlogin". Everytime I tried to rlogin to a remote machine
from it I got an error message: Permission Denied. I tried to add a
line: /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_rlogin into my IP-Masquerading script but
it didn't work out.
I appreciate for any help in adavance.
Bob
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From: Carl Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo boot option not working
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 00:32:58 +0000
I'm afraid neither of those worked. I'm going to have to look at my boot
partitions, I think I'm beginning to get confused. Below is an output from df:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb8 1511968 35728 1399432 2% /
/dev/hdb1 99521 2487 91895 3% /boot
/dev/hdb5 2520000 22584 2369404 1% /home
/dev/hdb6 2015984 20 1913556 0% /opt
/dev/hdb12 99521 46 94336 0% /tmp
/dev/hdb9 1511968 464540 970620 32% /usr
/dev/hdb7 1693528 96 1607404 0% /usr/local
/dev/hdb11 148830 8325 132821 6% /var
although I don't have a clue what happened to /dev/hdb2, 3 and 4 those were the
device names install gave me.
The NT disk is hda
cw
"FREDRIK LINDSTR�M" wrote:
> "Carl Waring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > My Red Hat drive is on the secondary IDE controller set to slave. I
> > installed the secondary drive
> > after I had set up the primary drive with NT. Both drives are larger than
> > 1024 cylinders. I'm not too sure what
> > I would do with 'lba32', I attach my lilo.conf file for your perusal.
> >
> > boot = /dev/hdb1
> > timeout = 50
> **********REPLACE linear WITH lba32 *********
> > linear
> ***********************************************
> > prompt
> > default = dos
> > vga = normal
> > read-only
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-6.1.1
> > label = linux
> > root = /dev/hdb8
> > other = /dev/hda1
> > label = dos
> > table =/dev/hda
> >
> > cw
> >
> >
> > Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Carl Waring wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't seem to be having much luck recently. I had a hard disk with
> > > > Red Hat 6.2 installed. I want to put it into a different PC. The new
> > > > PC has NT4.0 service pack 5.0 running on it. I set up the NT no
> > > > problem, I added the Linux disk and booted from a red hat boot floppy.
> > > > The linux installation checked for new hardware which I went through
> and
> > > > for some reason now I can only get linux to boot up ??
> > > >
> > > > I reckon I either screwed up the master boot record or somthing ele is
> > > > not quite right. If I disable the linux hard disk in the bios I get
> the
> > > > lilo loader coming up then a load of "070707070707070" on the screen.
> > > > I've had this before but that is another story. Can somone help me
> out
> > > > so I can get both linux and NT working on the same system thorugh lilo
> ?
> > >
> > > This sounds like the classic old 'my harddrive is larger than 1024
> > > cylinders'-problem. Also it could be a disk on a secondary IDE
> interface -
> > > many BIOS'es won't let such disks boot...
> > >
> > > Try to put 'lba32' in /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo.
> > >
> > > If this does not help, make a small (~10mb) partition for /boot and
> rerun
> > > lilo. Make sure the /boot partition is below the 1024 cylinder limit.
> Also
> > > make sure it is on a disk bootable from the BIOS.
> > >
> > > Rasmus B�g Hansen
> > >
> > > ---
> > > He has his own opinions
> > > - just like the others.
> > > -- Burnin' Red Ivanhoe
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux,uklinux.help.newbies
Subject: Re: Windows/Linux : Disk size issue
Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:30:32 GMT
Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> RedHat 7.0 no longer has the 1024 cyl issue.
>
>Sure, but as I understand I would still have to use LILO (or someother) to
>boot which would need to be able to read /boot and is also limited by the
>restrictions imposed by the BIOS....
Most BIOSes nowadays can handle Enhanced BIOS calls which LILO
originally didn't use, but since version 21-3 it now does (with the
'lba32' option). Many more BIOSes will be happy with this than were
happy with cylinder/head/sector addressing over 1024 cylinders.
By "RedHat 7.0", I think Scott was saying "the version of LILO in Red
Hat 7.0".
However, if you're worried about it, then your original suggestion is
fine. Separate /boot partitions are quite common.
[Trimmed a couple of newsgroups - more than four tends to harm message
propagation as some people assume it's spam.]
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"F(x) = d(y)/d(x)" "This isn't the equation we're looking
for. Move along." - [EMAIL PROTECTED], rec.arts.sf.written
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: KDE 2.0 - error msg
Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:32:22 GMT
inon21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I downloaded the source (.bz2) files for all packages. After tar xvf
>kdesupport, ./configure gave the following error msg.
>"Checking for X...Configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
>your installation and add correct path."
Have you installed the X development packages?
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Fly me to the moon, and let me play among the stars;
Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars" - Bart Howard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason L. Maron)
Subject: e2fsck can't fix filesystem
Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:51:08 GMT
Hi,
My filesystem is damaged, and I haven't been able to fix it with e2fsck.
If the system looses power before you can run /sbin/shutdown, the
filesystem is damaged and you have to run "e2fsck /dev/hda10" to fix it.
While doing so, I get this error:
===============================================================================
error while scanning inodes (195200): can't read next inode. ignore? <y>
===============================================================================
If I say no, e2fsck crashes. If I say yes (the default), e2fsck
finishes, but when I try to boot, I repeatedly get this error:
===============================================================================
hda: hq timeout: status=0x51 driveready seek-complete error.
LBA sect=6424237, sector=3145888
EXT2-fs error (device ide(3,10)): ext2: write_inode: unable to read inode
block- inode=195202, block=393236
===============================================================================
This prolongs the boot, which ends up taking 15 minutes. The operating
system then functions normally. I didn't try to run e2fsck on a
mounted filesystem because it warns that this will "severely" damage
the filesystem.
This is a vexing problem because the sleep function doesn't work on this
500 MHz powerbook.
I can't be sure, but the damage may have resulted from closing the lid
while pmud was active. It tries to put the powerbook to sleep, but is unable
to do so and justs ends up futilely accessing the hard drive.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jason Maron
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup Newbie!
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:02:09 -0600
you will first have to set aside a partition for linux
partition magic is a good way to go...
many linux dostros also have the free utility fips
when you get to the linux installation *delete* partition you've set aside
for linux
to create the free space to *add* your linux partitions.
since you said you don't want your two operating systems to interact...
simply do not mount your windows partition
and the two operating systems will have no interaction.
finally you may choose to install lilo on the mbr and dual boot
or if you want...create a linux boot floppy and don't install lilo
that way unless you boot with the floppy, you would never even know linux is
on your
machine...
and if you use the floppy to boot linux, you will never know windows is on
the machine
--
Philo
website: www.plazaearth.com/philo
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:36:42 -0500
From: S Varadarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DSL help
>
> >
> >Cisco 675
> >ISP: USWEST
> >DSL: USWEST
>
> Is the Cisco a router? (I think it is.) In which case, the linux box
> gets IP from the Cisco. Cisco gets its IP from USWest.
>
> >>
I have Cisco 675 - I dont think it is a router. It is only a modem
(from ethernet to external phone line to DSL provider). If you
want a router, you can get one from LinkSys which is useful
for hooking up multiple PCs to the internet. I just got mine
and am in the process of installing it.
Rajan
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Subject: Re: KDE 2.0 - error msg
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:19:14 GMT
inon21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I downloaded the source (.bz2) files for all packages. After tar xvf
> kdesupport, ./configure gave the following error msg.
> "Checking for X...Configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
> your installation and add correct path."
>
> Then, I included /etc/X11R6/include to the PATH env var. Still the
> error msg is the same.
Adding /etc/X11R6/include has nothing to do with $PATH. $PATH is needed
for the shell to find executable programs.
Do you have the X development stuff? Which distro do you use?
Vilmos
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Linux router between two NT networks.
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:20:32 -0800
NT 4 or 2K? If it is 4 then you need a WINS server. Then there
has to be a browse master on each net. Go to microsoft's
knowledge base and look up 'browsing a remote subnet or network'
or something like that. NT cannot browse a remote subnet without
help.
UM wrote:
>
> Basically I have two networks
>
> 192.168.1.0 (255.255.255.0)
> and
> 192.168.2.0 (255.255.255.0)
>
> Instead of buying a Cisco Router I decided to build a linux router/gateway
> to talk between these two networks. Its actually a laptop with two 3COM
> PCMCIA network cards running Mandrake 7.0.*
>
> After reading the docs I am able to ping a computer on 2.* network from the
> 1.* network.
>
> However, I want the computers to be visible in Network Neighborhood ... ie.
> the NT domain in 2.* should be visible in the 1.* window.
>
> What will that take ?
>
> Thanks!!!!
>
> uday_menon
>
> --
> *ps* This question is genuine and for the sake of bandwidth, only serious
> suggestions be posted instead of anal flame wars I have noticed in other
> threads.
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From: "Jeepster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help! Mandrake 7.2 setup hang
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:25:57 -0000
Cheers mate...that did the trick!
Nice one....
Jeepster
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From: Ruth Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installation/running Problem
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:33:35 GMT
I hope someone can help me. I am on my third or fourth attempt at
installing and running Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I have Linx4win installed
now because I already lost everything on my hard drive with the full
installation. The program ran fine then I just couldn't figure out how
to use it, tried to re-install windows and messed everything up.
Anyway.... now.....
When I try to run from the boot menu or from inside windows I get the
following messages. ......
After a lot of stack #'s and call trace #'s I get this error message....
Code 89 07 8b 3f 83 ee 01 73 etc......
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing
Also I tried to uninstall the whole program again but when I did so I
lost the ability to boot at all. How do I get rid of this program if I
can't get it to work? I mean completely erased from my system leaving
no grub or anything?
Thanks for your patience with this really new newbie.
Ruth Gomes
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From: "Chris L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup Newbie!
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:34:05 -0500
Thanks, the floppy boot sounds like the best option for me to start working
with Linux. My other worry is if my mouse is going to be able to work
(RazerBoomslang 2000 USB)? I do graphics and also gaming, but Linux will be
an OS for learning purposes to familiarize myself for working on UNIX
servers later on.
"Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3a0decea$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> you will first have to set aside a partition for linux
> partition magic is a good way to go...
> many linux dostros also have the free utility fips
>
> when you get to the linux installation *delete* partition you've set
aside
> for linux
> to create the free space to *add* your linux partitions.
>
> since you said you don't want your two operating systems to interact...
> simply do not mount your windows partition
> and the two operating systems will have no interaction.
>
> finally you may choose to install lilo on the mbr and dual boot
>
> or if you want...create a linux boot floppy and don't install lilo
>
> that way unless you boot with the floppy, you would never even know linux
is
> on your
> machine...
> and if you use the floppy to boot linux, you will never know windows is on
> the machine
>
> --
>
> Philo
>
> website: www.plazaearth.com/philo
>
>
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From: "G Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help installing KDE 2.0!!!!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.redhat
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:45:54 GMT
hmmm well my opinion "and you know what opinions are like" is to stay with
a good thing until all the bugs are ironed out. Just like Winblows when a
so called stable release is unleashed on the general masses, there are
many many bugs. Unless your a gluntent for punishment that is. Ask
yourself this "why do you waant to upgrade to kde 2.0 when kde 1.1.2 is
working just fine" OK call me a replican if you will. I know that the
linux community are mostly rebels, but why fix something that isnt broke.
Or at least wait a while for all possitive posts about this new distro.
In article <8ukbkd$hn8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, just to let you know, I am terrible at installing programs in Linux.
> I have ran Linux for a while, but I might as well be classified as a
> newbie. I have tried numerously to get KDE2 installed on my machine.
> (somehow I managed to get a beta version installed a long time ago, but
> have no idea how I did it. It isn't installed on here anymore, just to
> let you know. I reinstalled Linux since then.) Here's a rundown of my
> machine
>
> 400 MHz
> 192 megs of ram
> 5.1 gig drive
> acer 54e monitor (handles 1024x768) ati rage 128 agp video sb live sound
> zoom 56k v90 modem hp cd writer (and a normal 40x cdrom) ls-120
> 1.44 floppy
>
> I don't know what will help you but I might as well write more than
> enough info rather than not enough.
>
> I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 installed as my main and only OS. I already
> have kde 1.1.2 installed on this machine, along with other window
> managers.
>
> The last time I tried to install KDE2, I downloaded all of the files
> from...
>
> http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/
>
> I installed them in this order...
>
> kdesupport.arch.rpm kdelibs.arch.rpm kdebase.arch.rpm
>
> They weren't exactly these file names but the one closest to it at the
> ftp.sourceforge.net address. I would install the library file first and
> then the base file second.
>
> Now I did install other files inbetween these files and probably before
> the first one. While installing them, I told it to check for
> dependencies and if there was a dependency problem, I would uninstall
> what ever RPM that was conflicting with by using the rpm -e <filename>
> or if it needed a file, I would go online and download it. But some of
> these programs would have so many dependencies that I would be here for
> a half hour just uninstalling dependencies for one file. And quite
> often, the dependencies would have dependencies and they would have
> dependencies, and it would go on forever. I did try to reformat the
> partition and install Linux without KDE 1.1.2 in it and it still had a
> ton of dependency problems. Then I tried to just force them all in, but
> that caused a lot of problems. And on top of all of this, it said that
> my xf86 server needed to be updated. (I am currently using 3.3.6.) I
> never got that working right until I reinstalled Linux and that is about
> where I am at now.
>
> If someone could give me detailed instructions on how to install KDE2,
> that would be great.
>
> Or is there an installation program that installs KDE2 for you and
> solves all the dependency problems by itself like the Helix Gnome
> install program?
>
> Is it better to use the RPM files or the tar.gz files?
>
> Please just give me instructions like you were explaining this to a
> person that has never seen a computer before.
>
> Thanks A Lot for your time, David [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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