Linux-Setup Digest #42, Volume #20 Wed, 15 Nov 00 04:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: how install Intellimouse (Eric)
Re: "Invalid partition table" error message (Eric)
Re: Xconfig problem (Eric)
Re: RAM Not Recognized (Paul Kimoto)
Redhat 7 Kickstart ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Intel SBT2 Motherboard and RedHat 7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
vfat 2.2.14 kernel module (Douglas du Boulay)
Re: cd rom drive will no longer mount (Harsh Strider)
Zoom faxmodem problems (NOT a Winmodem) ("Robert J. Hansen")
Re: Restoring RH 6.2 /usr/src/linux tree (Villy Kruse)
Re: vfat 2.2.14 kernel module (Eric)
Re: Restoring RH 6.2 /usr/src/linux tree ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
Re: RAM Not Recognized (Eric)
Install/Partition Table/Fdisk problems (A & G)
.so not loaded (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?=)
Re: can't install win95 on linux with my laptop (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?=)
Re: can't install win95 on linux with my laptop (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?=)
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how install Intellimouse
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:02:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
> When installing Linux (RH 7.0), what mouse should I select for a
> Microsoft Intellimouse -- the kind with the scroll wheel? Can I get the
> scroll wheel to act as a scroll wheel, or instead as a third mouse
> button? How?
>
> When I installed RH 6.2 with the same mouse, I didn't see an option for
> the Intellimouse.
>
That's odd, IIRC, the choice "microsoft intellimouse" is there.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" error message
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:07:14 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Min Kuan wrote:
>
> Hi, guys/gals:
>
> I think I've a problem in my hand - I received a "Invalid partition table"
> error message after I installed and rebotted my machine. I hope someone can
> help me (pls...). :)
I'll try
> Here the configurations of my machine:
> ---------------------------------------
> - 2 hard drives: 30G and 6G hard drives
> - I partitioned my 30G into 3 partitions when I installed Win2K in it.
> The partition with Win2K is NTFS, and the rest of the two (~10G each) are
> unformatted.
> - 128Mb RAM
>
> Here's how I did my CLOS installation:
> ----------------------------------------
> - Rebooted from boot disk provided with CLOS Deluxe.
> - It took me to the screen where it asked if it should "Take over the
> disk (something like that)", or "Editing partition table (something like
> that)". The install in free disk feature was not highlight (don't know why).
Because there's no *free* space, you partitioned it all.
> So, I decided to choose the edit partition table radio button.
Okay
> - Under "hda" director (indicating ~>29000Mb, assumed it was my 30G hd),
> I create a root partition (allocating 2000Mb to it), and a sway partition
> (allocating 128Mb to it).
Sure hope for you, that you left hda1 alone, or else NT is probably gone
> - Then, click next, and checked "check for bad sector", and click next
> to install.
> - It was showing messages likes: partitioning, installing base system,
> and installing packages.. as a progress bar moved on.
> - After the installation, I had to click a button to reboot the system.
> - When it rebooted, I got the error message. :(
I hope that LILO was installed, but I don't know corel. If that's true,
use a bootflop to boot your linux system, and run `/sbin/lilo -u` to
restore the old MBR.
Then reboot, and all should be well again (except you cannot boot linux,
and have to reinstall it)
>
> Please... somone helps me. :)
>
> Min.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xconfig problem
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:08:38 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jhecker wrote:
>
> Hello -
>
> I am trying to set up X under Mandrake 7.2
>
> I am running an S3 (Virge) video controller driving an HP FX70 LCD
> monitor.
>
> Xconfigurator keeps erroring out. Apparently XF86Setup no longer is part
> of their distribution, so I can't cobble up an XConfig file (which I did
> under 7.1).
>
> If anyone has these (or someone has a database of them), I would
> appreciate hearing about it!
>
> TIA -
>
> Regards,
> jh
doesn't mandrake have something called DrakeX (try locate to find the
correct name) to configure X?
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: RAM Not Recognized
Date: 15 Nov 2000 02:29:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <3a11e034$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> append="mem=128M"
> Although I have added, then moved around, the above line in my lilo.conf file,
> Linux fails to recognize the correct RAM capacity. Any suggestions?
Recompile kernel with patch from
http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Memory/memory.html .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Redhat 7 Kickstart
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:21:39 GMT
Hi
Can we provide a drivers during Kickstart installation ?? I mean is
it possible to have kickstart configuration file and drivers on a NFS
server and then install Redhat 7 from NFS so that setup picks up
drivers from NFS server.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Intel SBT2 Motherboard and RedHat 7.0
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:29:15 GMT
Do you think there's any problem installing RH 7.0 on this new
motherboard?
Thanx for your advise.
C.
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Before you buy.
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From: Douglas du Boulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vfat 2.2.14 kernel module
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:46:27 +0800
working with a debian potato system with kernel 2.2.14
fdisk:
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 781 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 520 2096608+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 521 551 124992 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 552 769 878976 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 770 781 48384 82 Linux swap
I cannot mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/hda1 /win
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems
I know /dev/hda1 is a valid filesystem because I can boot into it
from lilo and it is running MS NT4.0
I can mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /win
the only problem is that /win is then read only and no matter
what combinations of umask,uid,gid I use, even as root it is not
possible to write to /win
Having searched around a bit on the web I have noticed that quite
a few folks have been having problems with the vfat kernel module,
though noone has reported my specific problem with the ntfs module
that I am aware of.
Can anyone help me out here? does anyone know if this has been fixed
in some more recent kernel release? is there an alternative module/
mode I should be using?
thanks
doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harsh Strider)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: cd rom drive will no longer mount
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:03:45 GMT
Hello,
Use this command to mount a cd-rom.
mount -t ISO9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom
Peace,
Harsh Strider
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 04:52:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Dear Mr. Brian,
>I have the same problem with Mr. Jon. Whenever I mount the cdrom using
>this commmand:
>mount /dev/cdrom
>I get this error message:
>mount: Wrong medium type
>I've checked my /etc/fstab and it's ok. Plase help me.
>Long.
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: "Robert J. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.ppp,alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Zoom faxmodem problems (NOT a Winmodem)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:12:21 GMT
Howdy, all. I recently purchased a Zoom faxmodem (V.90 and K56Flex) to go
into a new box I built. Under Win2K it works just fine; it's a PnP modem
with on-board controller and DSP, so it should work under Linux. I'm
further encouraged by the fact that box and insert say it works with Linux.
Unfortunately, it just ain't so. At least, not yet. Under Win2K, it tells
me that it's set up to use the following I/O addresses and IRQ:
COM 3
I/O:
0xDC00-0xDCFF
0xE000-0xE0FF
0xE400-0xE4FF
IRQ 17
... A little nonstandard, but hey, it's a PnP card. Reading /proc/pci under
Linux gives me the exact same information.
So. I figure, COM 3 isn't in use, so I'll just set the serial port
appropriately:
setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xDC00 irq 17
... and symlink /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS2, and presto, I ought to be in
business. Simple, right? Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Red Hat's PPP
setup tools can't find any modem connected (no problem, thought I, just a
braindamaged druid, nothing new), and Minicom just hangs when I start it up.
It goes to the normal screen, gives the "Initializing modem" screen, and...
nothing happens. (It doesn't hang, per se--I can get out of it. It's just
that it's not in a usable mode, and it's not sending anything to the modem.)
This is extremely frustrating, given that the modem works fine in Win2K.
Please send replies to my email account as well as to the newsgroup. Given
that my dialup access doesn't work under Linux, sometimes it's hard to
access the newsgroups. :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Restoring RH 6.2 /usr/src/linux tree
Date: 15 Nov 2000 08:32:55 GMT
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:57:28 -0600, Paul Steckler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In an attempt to install a kernel patch for the Onstream DI30 tape drive,
>I deleted my /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 directory in a RedHat 6.2 installation.
>I have a tar.gz for the 2.2.14 kernel, but apparently RH6.2 ships with a
>slightly patched kernel.
>
It is actualy more than slightly patched. If you install kernel.*.src.rpm
from the SRPMS dirctory you can see in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES what
patches are actualy applied.
>So how can I get back the original RH version of this directory, and
>especially
>the original .config file?
>
Install the kernel-source rpm package from the RH6.2 CD. Possible with
the --force flag to force package overwrite. The original config files
are found in /usr/src/linux/configs, one config file for each of the shipped
kernel versions (386, 586, 686).
Villy
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vfat 2.2.14 kernel module
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:34:29 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Douglas du Boulay wrote:
>
> working with a debian potato system with kernel 2.2.14
> fdisk:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 781 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 520 2096608+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 521 551 124992 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 552 769 878976 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 770 781 48384 82 Linux swap
>
> I cannot mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/hda1 /win
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> I know /dev/hda1 is a valid filesystem because I can boot into it
> from lilo and it is running MS NT4.0
>
> I can mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /win
> the only problem is that /win is then read only and no matter
> what combinations of umask,uid,gid I use, even as root it is not
> possible to write to /win
You have absolutely no idea what a filesystem is, do you?
If hda1 contains an NTFS filesystem, it obviously must be mounted as
NTFS.
There is no (reliable) read/write support in linux for the NTFS, so it's
correct that you
cannot write to it.
Trying to mount a NTFS partition as FAT, will fail, because it's not a
FAT filesystem(Duh)
If you want to share a partition between windows and linux, format it
with a FAT filesystem.
> Having searched around a bit on the web I have noticed that quite
> a few folks have been having problems with the vfat kernel module,
> though noone has reported my specific problem with the ntfs module
> that I am aware of.
You didn't read the documentation that comes with it.
> Can anyone help me out here? does anyone know if this has been fixed
> in some more recent kernel release? is there an alternative module/
> mode I should be using?
>
No, not for NTFS (Microsoft isn't very helpful in giving free the NTFS
specs I suppose, and reverse engineering isn't easy. At this moment I
don't think anyone is working on it, so use FAT as your windows FS or be
left without write support to it from linux.
Eric
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Restoring RH 6.2 /usr/src/linux tree
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:11:13 +0000
Paul Steckler wrote:
>
> In an attempt to install a kernel patch for the Onstream DI30 tape drive,
> I deleted my /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 directory in a RedHat 6.2 installation.
> I have a tar.gz for the 2.2.14 kernel, but apparently RH6.2 ships with a
> slightly patched kernel.
>
> So how can I get back the original RH version of this directory, and
> especially
> the original .config file?
>
> -- Paul
Hi,
Mount the RedHat CD and find the RPMS directory on the CD
(/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS IIRC). The kernel source is one of the few
'source' rpms on the 'binary' install CD.
As root type
rpm -U --force kernel-source-2.2.14-5.0.i386.rpm
..without --force rpm will tell you the package is already installed -
as you nuked the directory yourself the rpm database is out of step with
reality. ;-)
If you are lucky the .config file will be part of the rpm - normal
kernel tarballs don't have a .config which in some ways a shame.
Regards
Phil Q
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAM Not Recognized
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:38:03 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Kimoto wrote:
>
> In article <3a11e034$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > append="mem=128M"
> > Although I have added, then moved around, the above line in my lilo.conf file,
> > Linux fails to recognize the correct RAM capacity. Any suggestions?
>
> Recompile kernel with patch from
> http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Memory/memory.html .
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto
> This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
> hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
> and may be a violation of international copyright law.
No need for this (it would be nice if it would be in the standard kernel
though)
rerunning /sbin/lilo as vilmos suggested will do the trick in far less
time
Eric
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From: A & G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install/Partition Table/Fdisk problems
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:03:24 -0800
I was setting up partitions for a new linux machine I was making, but
during the formatting stage of the RH 6.1 Install process, the system
hung. Since then I haven't been able to reformat the drive or get rid
of the partition(s) which were created. Instead every time I try to
install Linux and I get to the stage of indicating what kind of an
Install I want to do (gnome workstation, server, etc...), I get the
messge "an error occurred reading the partition table for the block
device hda: No such file or directory".
I tried deleting the partitions using dos fdisk, but all it could do is
see the partitions, it wouldn't let me delete them.
1. I'd like to try using a linux fdisk, but apparently my linux boot
floppy is dead - anyone know how/where I can get another?
2. MORE IMPORTantly - does anyone know how I can wipeout my partition
table and create a nice new clean one from scratch so I can install
linux on my hd. Currently I can install windows on this hd, but as far
as Linux goes, it just keeps reporting the same error above. BTW the hd
is a new 45gb, so I'm doubting that it's the source of the problems.
Thanks,
Al
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: .so not loaded
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:04:58 +0100
I moved a .so for WACOM tablet into /lib/
then, ran ldconfig in GUI Konsole, then restarted,
The tablet doesn't react.
Any ideas welcome
I had no confirmation message
nor error message to ldconfig command...
the .so strangely has a sheet as icon, is that my problem?
--
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Organisation pour un monde plus optionnel
En ce moment
Orph=E9e - Johanne
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't install win95 on linux with my laptop
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:07:51 +0100
you have to remove lilo
I would boot from a dos emergecy boot disk and type "fdisk"...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >i have a toshibasattelite pro and i have an interchangeable cd drive b=
ut i only have a cd drive no
> >floppy.
> > I cant run Dos because it doesnt exist, the only thing on my computer=
is linux 7.1I tried the
> >dosemulator using the simple commands of placing the win95 cd in the =
cdrom and typing d: then dir/w
> >to see if i could find a setup or install. I also went to kdethen cdro=
m and brought up all the files on the
> >win95 cd and i found an autorun.exe and a setup.exe but kde doesnt rec=
kognize the *.*exe format.
> >i need win 95 to replace linux completely because i have to give my co=
mputer back to my friend, and
> >he is clueless about linux. I made a burned cd of a win98 boot disk fr=
om my girlfriends computer but for
> >some reason it doesn't boot. >i got into my bias and changed the boot =
order. linux booted from the cd
>
> as soon as it started so i think >there is an error in the win98burned =
cd. i
> really need help installing win95 back on my computer. <please help
>
> sean zatorsky
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Organisation pour un monde plus optionnel
En ce moment
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't install win95 on linux with my laptop
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:09:34 +0100
Fr=E8re Orph=E9e wrote:
> you have to remove lilo
> I would boot from a dos emergecy boot disk and type "fdisk"...
>
then remove partitions and recreate dos partitions
then format, install DOS, win95 ...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > >i have a toshibasattelite pro and i have an interchangeable cd drive=
but i only have a cd drive no
> > >floppy.
> > > I cant run Dos because it doesnt exist, the only thing on my comput=
er is linux 7.1I tried the
> > >dosemulator using the simple commands of placing the win95 cd in th=
e cdrom and typing d: then dir/w
> > >to see if i could find a setup or install. I also went to kdethen cd=
rom and brought up all the files on the
> > >win95 cd and i found an autorun.exe and a setup.exe but kde doesnt r=
eckognize the *.*exe format.
> > >i need win 95 to replace linux completely because i have to give my =
computer back to my friend, and
> > >he is clueless about linux. I made a burned cd of a win98 boot disk =
from my girlfriends computer but for
> > >some reason it doesn't boot. >i got into my bias and changed the boo=
t order. linux booted from the cd
> >
> > as soon as it started so i think >there is an error in the win98burne=
d cd. i
> > really need help installing win95 back on my computer. <please help
> >
> > sean zatorsky
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> --
> Lex legis
> Organisation pour un monde plus optionnel
>
> En ce moment
> Orph=E9e - Johanne
> http://www.491.org/projets/mmm/rphee-jo
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En ce moment
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