Linux-Setup Digest #43, Volume #20 Wed, 15 Nov 00 08:13:05 EST
Contents:
Help: I need af_packet ("Jose Militao")
Re: If I switch to Mandrake 7.2, will I take a hit? ("Nico Neumann")
Re: HELP!! Partition Magic Error 105. PartitionInfo inside: Please look!! (Anita
Lewis)
Re: Restoring RH 6.2 /usr/src/linux tree (Dave Butwell)
Re: Help: I need af_packet (Lars Oergel)
How to activate swap space (Knesi)
Lilo and moving an IDE disk (Phil Whiles)
Re: ldconfig ("CDM")
Re: reiserfs in kernel 2.2.14 ("Robert Loos")
Re: USRobotics PCI 56K Modem (5610-rev1) with COM5 in Windows (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: ISDN modprobe failure ... (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Fdisk error: no partition table (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: fdisk and IDE-drives with more than 30 GB capacity? (M. Buchenrieder)
io error on adding rpms from mnt/cdrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
i815E + AGP Riva TNT2 ? ("Jacek M. Holeczek")
Re: reiserfs in kernel 2.2.14 ("noel")
OK now ("noel")
Re: Help installing KDE 2.0!!!! (NDQ)
Re: Memory reported wrong by Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dialup in Gnome??? (Rasputin)
Re: How to activate swap space (Į�꣨derain��)
Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition? (Mark Evans)
Re: Restoring RH 6.2 /usr/src/linux tree (Lee Allen)
using SVGATextMode (maher abedib)
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From: "Jose Militao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: I need af_packet
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:36:44 GMT
Hi,
I'm having some trouble installing dhcpcd.
Now this software says that there is no "net-pf-17".
Someone told me that we must do an alias in the modules.conf file
alias net-pf-17 af_packet
but for this I must have the module af_packet.o.
Where can I find it?
Best
J.A.R.Milit�o
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Nico Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: If I switch to Mandrake 7.2, will I take a hit?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:04:34 +0100
> Well I have been playing around with 7.2 for a few days now on a
> macine similar to yours, and I think it is a shit distribution,
> probably the worst I have used in 5 years of playing with Linux. I
> have had no end of problems.
LOL.. but on a Redhat and dance a SuSe dance :)
Maybe these distributions would appreciate your comments,
I guess none of us here does.
Yours,
daNick
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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, 15 Nov 2000 10:05:21 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?
>
>Here's the PartitionInfo output:
>>General System Information:
>> Total Physical Memory (bytes): 58,159,104
>> Used Physical Memory: (bytes): 54,263,808
>> Maximum Page File Size: (bytes): 237,502,464
>> Current Page File Size: (bytes): 48,635,904
>>
>>
>>
>>===========================================================================================================
>>Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 776 Cylinders, 240 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track
>>Warning: Logical drive chain points to sector without partition table.
>>System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect
>StartSect NumSects
>>===========================================================================================================
>> 0 0 80 1 0 1 84 38 15 63
>15,120 560,448
>>Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
>> ucEndHead expected to be 239, not 15.
>>NOTEBOOK 0 1 00 38 16 1 0B 375 239 63
>575,568 5,109,552
>>Error #105: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
>> ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 16.
>> 0 2 00 376 0 1 05 448 239 63
>5,685,120 1,103,760
>>
>>
I don't know Partition Magic. I would suggest that you try to run a rescue
disk first before reinstalling. I know the RedHat cdrom will run as a
rescue disk; so try that with your mandrake disk. type 'linux rescue' at
the boot prompt unless it gives some different instructions on your disk.
If that doesn't work, use Windows to download and install tomsrtbt on a
floppy. http://www.toms.net/rb/ . That's good to have around anyway.
Once you have linux in RAM, which is what the rescue disk does, you can run
a couple of things.
fdisk -l /dev/hda - this will give you a partition table and possibly the same
information as you got with
e2fsck /dev/hda? where ? is the partition number of your root (/boot) for
linux. If you have a separate /boot partition, be sure to run it on that
too. It doesn't look like you do. I see that you have that OS/2 partition
at the start, and I don't know what that is. I just inherited a server that
has a small partition like that at the start of the drive and it is a sort
of bios; so you better not destroy that partition. If e2fsck fixes things,
good. If not, and you want to reinstall linux, you do not need to
repartition to do it. You just reinstall and use that same partition that
is already there.
I would not use PM for partitioning, but then I've never used it. I just
read all the problems from people who do. There are probably lots of folks
using it successfully though.
Anita
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From: Dave Butwell <[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 10:09:13 +0000
Paul,
Mandrake kernel 2.2.17 come with DI30 support built in. I don't know if this is
standard to 2.2.17, but it may be worth a look.
Dave.
"Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" wrote:
> 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
>
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From: Lars Oergel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: I need af_packet
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:10:15 +0100
Jose Militao wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble installing dhcpcd.
>
> Now this software says that there is no "net-pf-17".
> Someone told me that we must do an alias in the modules.conf file
> alias net-pf-17 af_packet
>
> but for this I must have the module af_packet.o.
>
> Where can I find it?
af_packet.o is a kernel module, so you have to compile a kernel, select
<M> for that module and after compiling the kernel do a make modules;
make modules_install. That`s it.
Bye
Lars
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From: Knesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to activate swap space
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:45:48 +0100
I am trying to setup my old 386 as a web proxy...for fun.
Since it only has 8Mb of memory, the setup routine asks me to install
and activate swap memory before I proceed with the setup.
How do I do this?
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From: Phil Whiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Lilo and moving an IDE disk
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:59:33 +0000
I have the following h/w:
Tyan Trinity S1598 mobo
IBM Deskstar 46Gb HD
Chaintech ATA100R pci controller (HPT370)
I wish to have the following IDE config
CD Mobo Pri
CDRW Mobo Sec
IBM HD HPT370 Pri
ST HD HPT370 Sec
(All on Master)
I can only install RH onto the IBM HD if it is on the mobo controller.
OK ....
I install RH, then modify the lilo.conf (floppy) with the append="ide2
etc etc"
Then I can use :
Lilo: linux root=/dev/hde2
(Having moved the IBM HD back onto the HPT370 of course).
This all boots hunkydory, RH boots from the HD, and can see all the
other IDE devices around.
My question is : how can I config the lilo.conf to use root=/dev/hde2,
to save me having to issue this on the lilo command line each time ?
If I modify lilo.conf to have /dev/hde2, then rerun lilo, it complains :
"Fatal : Not a number : "/dev/hde2"
Errr....
Regards
Phil Whiles
I have installed Redhat 7.0 (several times !) on to this HD.
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From: "CDM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ldconfig
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:42:04 +0100
I suppose a it needs to be assigned a device and a config entry in the
xf86config file....
"Fr�re_Orph�e" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I just moved a .so for WACOM tablet into /lib/ and ran ldconfig from the
konsole in gui, then restarted, artpad doesn't react.
I had no confirmation message nor error message to ldconfig command...
the .so strangely has a sheet as icon, is that my problem?
how do I prevent the start of GUI after boot?
in help files is there a serach engine that may perform text searches
thru all links?
--
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Organisation pour un monde plus optionnel
En ce moment
Orph�e - Johanne
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From: "Robert Loos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: reiserfs in kernel 2.2.14
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:09:57 +0100
you propably installed the linux-sources (not the suse-linux!)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: USRobotics PCI 56K Modem (5610-rev1) with COM5 in Windows
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:56:54 GMT
[Note FollowUp-To: header]
"Jon Tilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Forgive me for jumping on this thread but I have a similar problem with a
>Hayes ISA bus modem which is on /dev/ttyS2 or COM3....It too takes ages to
>respond to commands and pppd/chat times out before the ISP connection
>finishes.
[...]
This is typical for an IRQ conflict. Give the modem an otherwise
unused IRQ of its own; it's probably sharing the IRQ with /dev/ttyS0
(aka COM1) presently, which will not work.
Michael
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: ISDN modprobe failure ...
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:15:47 GMT
Alex Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/hisax.o: init_module: Device or resource
>busy
[...]
What kind of ISDN card is that? Does the kernel detect it at all?
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Fdisk error: no partition table
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:17:56 GMT
"ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>you have to format the disk with a program like system commander. i'm
>looking for it now myself
[...]
No. While "can't read /dev/hda" might be caused by a hosed
partition table, the fact that even the Win98 setup program
can't see the drive indicates some sort of HW error.
Michael
P.S.: Please add your comments below the cited text.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: fdisk and IDE-drives with more than 30 GB capacity?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:19:54 GMT
"Michael Schnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>When I start fdisk it tells me my drive has about 30 GB of capacity.
>I�m using a SuSE 6.4 distribution, with a 2.2.14 kernel and a fdisk
>version v.2.10f.
[...]
Don't. Use SuSE 7.0, as the fdisk version that comes with it
does have support for such huge HDs, whereas the older fdisk
(such as supplied with 6.4) doesn't.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: io error on adding rpms from mnt/cdrom
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:02:52 GMT
i have been trying to install apache/secure-web-server, from the red-hat
6.1 cd on my new linux box, but i am getting nowhere--
first there is an 'io error on hd5', then upon trying to install a
package i get this error "error opening /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm'.
interestingly, everything installed smoothly for the initial install,
which was also done from the cdrom.
any suggestions? fwiw, the cd rom is a TEAC cd 58E
-peter
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From: "Jacek M. Holeczek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i815E + AGP Riva TNT2 ?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:13:05 +0100
Hi,
I am considering buying a new i815E based motherboard.
I would like to use TWO displays. One (lower resolution) using the
build-in i815 graphics, the other one (high resolution) using an
additional NVIDIA Riva TNT2 AGP card.
Is it possible ? Can I use an AGP graphics card AND the build-in graphics
card of i815 simultaneously ? Or will plugging an AGP graphics card switch
off the build-in graphics card of i815 automatically ?
Thanks in advance,
Jacek.
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From: "noel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: reiserfs in kernel 2.2.14
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:52:25 -0000
Robert Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> you propably installed the linux-sources (not the suse-linux!)
>
>
I done this exactly - confusion!!
thanks for replys
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From: "noel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OK now
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:53:12 -0000
noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:lieQ5.15587$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> how do apply the "reiser-patch" download file to the kernel....?
>
> thanks
> noel.
>
>
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Help installing KDE 2.0!!!!
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:56:56 +0100
Reply-To: NDQ <[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
>
I'm not Mandrake's user. But I installed KDE2 (RPM) under RH6.1 without
any prob !!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Memory reported wrong by Linux
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:58:08 GMT
Does the videocard use the last 8meg? Is true in general? I think it
would have to or how would you specify in lilo a size and a start
address.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Les Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> V,
>
> Remember though that if your SiS AGP card is an on-board card that
uses
> shared memory that you will need to take this into consideration when
> using the append directive.
>
> e.g. I have 384M of memory, but 8M of that is shared by my SiS card,
and
> so I have 376M to use for the rest of the system, so I put
> append="mem=376M". Failing to do this will mean that your system
won't
> boot.
>
> L
>
> Vivek Gupta wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am using
> > * Redhat 6.2
> > * Kernel 2.2.17
> > * AMD Athlon
> > * MS-6195 Motherboard.
> > * Sis6326 AGP card
> > * Kingston 128MB PC133Mhz RAM
> >
> > When I boot my system. The BIOS shows the correct memory.
When I see
> > the memory using top or cat /proc/meminfo then, it shows only 64 MB
RAM.
> > I don't know why it shows so less memory....
> >
> > Please help,
> >
> > Vivek
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Dialup in Gnome???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:15:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok, I am using the new Helix Gnome desktop on Linux Mandrake 7.0. I
If Mandrake has it , run netcfg as root
create a new ppp interface (or edit ppp0)
bang in your settings, job done.
Then edit the properties of the GNOME modemlights applet to
run /sbin/ifup ppp0
to bring the line up,
and /sbin/ifdown ppp0
to lower it.
(Alternatively, if you have a free ISP, set up demoand dialling as
someone else suggested).
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: Į�꣨derain�� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to activate swap space
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:16:53 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I am trying to setup my old 386 as a web proxy...for fun.
>
>Since it only has 8Mb of memory, the setup routine asks me to install
>and activate swap memory before I proceed with the setup.
>
>How do I do this?
you may use swapon .
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From: Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Windows corrupts adjacent linux partition?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:03:15 +0000
Anthony W. Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Every version of linux fdisk I've seen warns about creating DOS
> partitions. Stupid doze believes the header information at the start of
> the partition over and above the partition table itself. So if the data
> in the header is corrupt, bang goes the next partition...
> My complaint about stupid doze fdisk is that, having *recognised* the
> disk as having 790 cylinders, it created an extended partition ending on
> cylinder 790, then put inside it a logical partition ending on cylinder
> 791. And no, linux fdisk went nowhere near the disk - indeed, the
> closest linux got to that disk then was to blow away the partition table
> (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd bs=1024 count=1). I thought it wiser to
> give doze a blank partition table and it STILL screws up!!!!!
Except that will just clear the MBR, what you probably wanted
was dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd<n> bs=1024 count=20 where
/dev/hdd<n> is the dos partition.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Restoring RH 6.2 /usr/src/linux tree
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:45:04 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.
>
>So how can I get back the original RH version of this directory, and
>especially
>the original .config file?
The previous post (mount the CD and re-install the kernel source using
RPM) was right on.
But I don't think this results in a /usr/src/linux/.config file.
I think you must grab one of the files from /usr/src/linux/configs and
copy it to /usr/src/linux/.config.
-Lee Allen
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From: maher abedib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: using SVGATextMode
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:07:20 +0800
Hi,
Have you guys ever tried to use SVGATextMode?I wanted to change my font
color to green any maybe wanted to have a block blinking like the oldest
machine.Can I do that with SVGATextMode?If possible,can you guys pls
highlight where should I change the default one in redhat 6.1 .
thank you very much,
regards,
maher
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