Linux-Setup Digest #86, Volume #20 Tue, 21 Nov 00 23:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux Mandrake 7.1 inside Win98 (Julian Bordas)
Re: Windows ME and Linux ("Eric")
Re: Questions from newbie to Linux (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: Which Linux to try? (Michel Catudal)
Re: Not worth the hassle..... (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: How to run RedHat installation program without running fdisk? ("Steven E. Posey")
Re: error compiling tulip.c (E J)
Re: How to get logitech scroll-button to work / Mandrake 7.2
Re: How to get logitech scroll-button to work / Mandrake 7.2
Re: Linux Mandrake 7.1 inside Win98 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mandrake 7.2 question (Richard J. Freedman)
Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token" ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Soniq soundcard does not work ("Kingmonkey")
Re: LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 & Redhat7.0 ("Charlie M")
RPM foolishness in 6.2 (jpd)
Re: Using ps and grep (was Re: setting up a task using crontab) (Richard Allan
Holcombe)
Re: Promise ULTRA100 Mandrake7.0 (Michael)
Re: pppd in Corel Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help - printer won't work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Need Red Hat boot.img file (Poetryman)
Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token" (Rand Simberg)
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From: Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake 7.1 inside Win98
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:11:35 +1100
Noel Ferguson wrote:
>
> I am a Linux Newbie
> Have installed inside Win98
> It runs very slow
> Is there much speed improvement as a stand alone setup?
Yes, I find that linux is as fast if not faster than win98.
How did you install IN WIN98?
--
Julian Bordas
Williamstown Vic
"Windows is yucky. It keeps breaking"
Edward Bordas Age 5.5
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Linux
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:17:26 -0500
"Scott Taubman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8vevmb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there a way to install Linux on my system if I already have and want to
> keep Windows ME? I tried going through the setup with a Susse
distribution
> and it didn't recognize that I already have an operating system installed
> and wanted to erase my existing partition.
>
>
I just installed RH 6.2 on my laptop with WinME. I used fips to roll back
the partition to create room for Linux. Then I went through the custom
install...no problems. I installed LILO to the Linux /boot partition, and
then with fdisk I made that partition active instead of my WinME partition,
thereby providing dual boot without touching the master boot record.
HTH
Eric
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Questions from newbie to Linux
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:22:10 +0000
And Daniel_Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
>------3rd-----
> Dont ever try installing Corel or Debian Linux Distributions...coz
>it'll make you DUMB!!!! -not for newbies-
Just the opposite. It'll drive you nutz, but it'll make you smart.
Someone else doing all the work doesn't make you any smarter, but it
definitely makes things easier when you're new. <grins> PS: Installing
Corel is dumb, period...crappiest commercial distro ever made.
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Warning: The Surgeon General has deemed that excessive displays of warning
labels and public service announcements produce stress and shortens lives.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Which Linux to try?
Date: 21 Nov 2000 19:37:06 -0600
Jim Cleary a �crit :
>
> I am planning to try out Linux and have a partition available to install
> it into.
> I have copies of Corel Linux
> Red Hat 6.2
> and Caldera Open Linux 1.3.
> I would welcome suggestions of which of these three would be the best to
> go for. I have a fair amount of computer experience but none with Linux
> [or Unix].
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jim.
>
Any of them would be fine except for Corel. Depending which version of Corel you got
you may get your partition table blown. Red Hat and Caldera are safe.
SuSE 7.0 would be a better choice though.
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat for all kinds of links and info
http://www.geocities.com/seinsiboire for SuSE 7.0 Linux RPM packages
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not worth the hassle.....
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:22:08 +0000
And "Jade Falcon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
>I'm not bashing Linux, but I don't think it's worth the hassles.
Yeah, personal preference. I -do- think it's worth the hassles, but I
like to bash it anyway, too. <grins> It's not easy to learn how to use and
administrate such a powerful operating system. I'm still learning the
ropes and have a ways to go before I become comfortable with Linux. I had
to do the same with MS-DOS. It's all different, so most of what I've spent
all this time learning in DOS/Windows is now totally useless.
>Everything has to be compiled, debugged, etc.
Not quite true. RedHat6.2 Linux runs my supported hardware flawlessly,
and I've recompiled my kernel only because I wanted to see if I could do
it. (My unsupported hardware doesn't run that well though, and that's only
a TV tuner card.) Linux is about five years behind in hardware support for
a lot of the stuff out there, but then, its only recently been introduced
into the "mainstream."
>I could spend more time messing around with Linux than I
>would getting some work done.
Except for the lack of hardware support Linux is a fully functional
operating system. If you knew your way around Unix, you would see it.
What kind of work do you need to do? Maybe we can help get you going.
>It's just not worth it.
Or maybe not. <grins> Yeah, unfortunately Linux is still sort-of a
hacker's OS, and you have to build up the old gray-matter a bit before you
can produce results with the computer. Nature of the beast. Keep an eye
on the commercial versions; Caldera, Redhat, SuSE. They're attempting to
make the transition from other operating systems easier, concentrating on
ease of installation and use. If you're still at all interested, look
around the net for pdf books on using Unix (not Linux, which is a Unix
variant). Knowing Unix, which has *extensive* documentation, will take you
a long way toward familiarity with Linux...
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Warning: The Surgeon General has deemed that excessive displays of warning
labels and public service announcements produce stress and shortens lives.
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From: "Steven E. Posey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: How to run RedHat installation program without running fdisk?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:55:24 -0500
Unless you've got a master boot record problem, which entails a completely
different conversation, you might want to consider using Disk Druid, because
at some point you'll have to tell the installation which partition you want
for each mount point, and DD or fdisk are the only way I know how to do that
during the install (I much prefer DD, BTW).
The message about "The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 5293.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems" is normal for a drive that
large, and isn't exactly an error message, but the "Unable to read /dev/hda"
certainly is. I'm guessing that you're getting the /dev/hda error because
you haven't defined any mount points, which makes sense if you've skipped
the partitioning phase.
What did you run to define the partitions the way you described? If you're
mounting the partitions by hand, you could just be defining the mount points
on-the-fly, which means you've never really defined them for the
installation. Remember, creating the partitions and defining the mount
points are two different things. Also, formatting a partition and creating
a filesystem are two different things in linux.
Unless I'm really reading you wrong (and I read this about 5 times just to
make sure), you still need to tell the installation to put the mount points
on the correct partitions and to format those partitions and create the
appropriate filesystems on them, which Disk Druid does very well. RedHat's
documentation on Disk Druid is quite good -- I had never tried a linux
install before RedHat 5.1, and the documentation explained it very well,
even then.
Good luck with it,
Steven
Chris F Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an HP 9680C with a 40GB ATA Maxtor drive on it. Win 98 2e was
> pre-installed on the system.
>
> I made partitions (the 1st being below the 1024 cylinder limit) for
> Linux.
>
> However, when I run my RedHat 6.0 installation CD on it. The CD fails
> to install because fdisk refuses to read the partition table.
>
> If at that point, I switch to the bash screen, I can mknod and mount
> the partitions. (Similarly, the partition check that the installation
> CD ran printed out the partitions exactly the way I would expect.)
>
> The question is:
>
> Is there a way to mount the partitions by hand and convince the
> installation program to install into the partitions without running
> fdisk (or disk druid)?
>
> Here is the way the disk is currently partitioned
>
> /dev/hda - Model Maxtor 94098U8
> partitions
> hda1 300MB ext2 (for linux /)
> hda2 300MB unformatted
> hda3 2GB fat32 (win 98 2e)
>
> Extended Partition (rest of disk)
> 128mb swap
> 128mb swap
> 128mb ext2 (for /tmp)
> 128mb ext2 (for /var)
> 2GB ext2 (for /usr)
> 8GB ext2 (for /home)
> 24GB fat32
>
> The error message I get from fdisk is:
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 5293.
> This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g. LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g. DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
>
> Unable to read /dev/hda
>
>
> -Chris
>
>
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*
> Chris Clark Internet : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Compiler Resources, Inc. Web Site : http://world.std.com/~compres
> 3 Proctor Street voice : (508) 435-5016
> Hopkinton, MA 01748 USA fax : (508) 435-4847 (24 hours)
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: error compiling tulip.c
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:13:56 GMT
Maybe try using kgcc instead of gcc.
Peter Bismuti wrote:
> This is the error message I get when I try to compile the tulip.c driver
> from www.scyld.com:
>
> #gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c tulip.c
>
> tulip.c: In function 'tulip_open':
> tulip.c:1437: structure has no member named 'tbusy'
> tulip.c:1438: structure has no member named 'start'
> .
> .
> .
>
> Anyone know what this is about? I'm using Redhat7.0.
>
> Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: How to get logitech scroll-button to work / Mandrake 7.2
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:20:14 GMT
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:39:13 +0800, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How to get Logitech scroll-button to work?
>
>Well if it's Mandrake 7.2 you're using, don't fooled by the Logitech choice in
>the install menu,
>choose M$ Intellimouse instead.
How, pray tell does that support converting the Y axis into a scroll function
when the fourth button is pressed?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: How to get logitech scroll-button to work / Mandrake 7.2
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:21:06 GMT
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:38:26 -0000, Andrew Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can't say that I've tried it myself, but I've found a shed load of other
>useful, easy to apply stuff on MUO. If the Intellimouse doesn't work for
>you, try this
>http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xmouse.html#wheel
Please read the original post.
I don't want support for a @#$%^&! wheel mouse. The logical track ball doesn't
have a scroll wheel.
It has a fourh button to convert the trackballs functionality to scrolling.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake 7.1 inside Win98
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:21:49 GMT
That's because Linux sucks.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:26:28 +1100, "Noel Ferguson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am a Linux Newbie
>Have installed inside Win98
>It runs very slow
>Is there much speed improvement as a stand alone setup?
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard J. Freedman)
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 question
Date: 22 Nov 2000 02:25:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone out there use the "update" install option to update a system
running Mandrake 7.0? I usually do a fresh install but am feeling lazy
and will update if no one has had a bad experience.
--
Dick Freedman
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Date: 21 Nov 2000 20:28:39 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token"
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Rand Simberg;
RS> On 21 Nov 2000 12:43:40 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Gene
RS> Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my
RS> monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>> RS> OK, did that. Still getting exactly the same errors. I'm
>> RS> tempted to do a download and try 2.2.16 instead, just to see if
>> RS> there's a problem with my kernel source.
>>
>>Odd... What do you get when you type:
>>kgcc --version
RS> egcs-2.91.66
RS> BTW, I tried the same thing with 2.2.16, and got similar results,
RS> so it wasn't a kernel source problem.
>>Make sure you have the kernel headers for at least 2.2.16, available
>>from the RH site of course.
RS> ??
RS> Are you saying that I can't just get the tarball from kernel.org?
They may be there now, but the last time I looked, they weren't. They
are on the RH site. 2.2.16-3 I think is the current version.
Cheers, Gene
--
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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Reply-To: "Kingmonkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Kingmonkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Soniq soundcard does not work
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:23:02 +1000
"Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Z9wS5.9532$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Usually, the only hinderance to this card not functioning, is that PNP
> support in the BIOS is turned on. Turn it off and tell your CMOS to reset
> itself on next boot. It will reassign stuff. Sometimes moving the card to
> another slot also helps. Those cards and they're predecessors never had
> problems as did the SB-16's either.
>
>
Wouldn't that be if the card was ISA? The ensoniq is a PCI card. Simply
load the needed modules and turn the mixer up and they should be fine.
Bart:
Read the sound howto
Don't crosspost so this much.
-m
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Reply-To: "Charlie M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Charlie M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 & Redhat7.0
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:55:01 GMT
I'm having the same problem with RH 7 and the LinkSys card. eth0:
initialization delayed message on module load at boot up.
Can you experts point us in the right direction here? Thanks!
"Peter Bismuti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8vf3cc$seq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I'm trying to install the driver for a LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card
> V4.1 with Redhat 7.0. According to the LinkSys page it should work with
> the tulip.o driver that comes with Redhat but it doesn't.
>
> I've tried following the instructions in the linksys page and they don't
work.
> I've tried following the instructions on the www.scyld.com page and they
don't
> work either. I was told that there was an archive that included tulip.c
> and a makefile on the linksys page but I cannot find it.
>
> If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
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From: jpd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM foolishness in 6.2
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:00:53 -0500
I did an rpm -e on the dhcpd package, then wanted to reinstall
it. Rpm tells me it's already there. I try to uninstall it, rpm tells
me it's not there. I rebuilt the db...no errors. Rpm -qa shows
no dhcp packages. Can't freshen it...rpm says it's not there.....
Anybody help?
Jim Drummey
Atlantic Client Server Inc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Allan Holcombe)
Subject: Re: Using ps and grep (was Re: setting up a task using crontab)
Date: 21 Nov 2000 21:32:40 GMT
Wayne Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" wrote:
: > Is cron running? Do:
: > ps -afe|grep cron
: > You should see it running (ignore the grep command if it shows up in the
: > output).
:
: Here's a tip, run:
: ps -afe | grep [c]ron
: Then the grep command itself doesn't show in the output!
:
: -Wayne Pollock
I might have a similar problem to the original post.
I simply can't get cron to do anything. I have tried installing
and uninstalling my crontab, I have stopped and restarted crond, I have
tried everything that I can think of but I can't figure out why nothing
happens.
If I do ps -afe|grep [c]ron I get:
root 541 1 0 Nov18 ? 00:00:00 crond
so the daemon is running, it seems to have accepted my cron tab, because
when I do crontab -l, it lists the crontab entries I just put in.
Any ideas?
The reason that I am trying to use cron is that my computer for some
reason, will set the clock to be about
three hours behind the actual time. It does this approximately once an
hour, but it will do it even when I have stopped the cron daemon, and
no cron jobs were ever supposed to run at the time that it happens.
(I am in the Eastern time zone)
It has done this since my initial install (format hd. install red hat 6.2)
So my attempted hack to fix this is to use cron.
--
Richard Holcombe
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise ULTRA100 Mandrake7.0
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:07:34 GMT
In article <t8oS5.29757$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tommy Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe there is some good info on this at www.concoctedlogic.com
>
> There will be quite a bit more linux info there in the near futuer
but I
> believe what you need is there now.
>
> Tommy
>
> "P. U. Psilanimous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:27:14 GMT, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >Hello boy's and girl's.
> > >I finally have Linux where it will see my ULTRA100 card and drive
> > >at boot by adding this line at the prompt, while booting.
> > >
> > >linux ide2=0xb000,0xb402 ide3=0xb800,0xbc03
> > >
> > >Now how do I make this permanent?
> > >How do I set up the drive so I can make use of it?
> > >I am a complete newbie to linux so go easy on me if you can please.
> > >Oh yes, the drive on the ultra card has win98. Linux is on the
other.
> > >Thanks Michael
> > >
> > >
> > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > >Before you buy.
> >
> >
> > Sounds like you have the exact same setup I have. I am assuming
that
> > you are using an ASUS A7V mobo with 2 or more HD's and you are
booting
> > linux from floppy.
> > Unfortunately, I am not able to pass these parameters at boot
> > automatically, either.
> > Aaron Cline has written a very good mini-HOWTO on this very subject
> > and I am assuming you got these parameters from there. If not, his
> > HOWTO is at http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html
> > He solved his problem by compiling a new 2.4.0 kernel, but like
you, I
> > am fairly new at linux and am a little nervous about this.
> > If you find a way to pass these arguments to the kernel without
typing
> > them in, I would appreciate a note to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Simarlarly, I'll let you know if I make any progress.
> >
> > Darrell
>
>
Thanks guys, i'll check these out as soon as I can.
First off I got my information at
www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/udma66.html
I just changed the settings to fit my card.
It's also in udma mini-howto I think.
As for my system, I have
Epox ep-mvp3g-m mother board (1m)
PRIMARY MASTER
maxtor 10gb ATA/33 drive on motherboard ide (for linux)
SECONDARY MASTER
Acer 52x cd-rom on motherboard ide
maxtor 30gb ATA/100 running off Promise ultra100 card (win98)
128 mb pc-100 mem
AMD k6-2 450
I have to go to bios to change between os's because Promise Card shows
up as a scsi drive. Hope to fix that when i get Linux to fully
recongize the card.
Thanks Michael
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pppd in Corel Linux
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:14:28 GMT
You should consult the following:
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html.
After you have setup pppd.conf you must determine the correct
authentication method your ISP is using. for pap you just need to
modify your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file adding you userid and password.
Assuming you have everything else correct it should work. I followed
the instructions in the above referenced document and achieved success.
odabo
In article <T5KJ5.283$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Shackles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have enabled the debug but it still does not wotk.. I have a Trust
56k
> > ESP External Modem.
>
> What do the entries in the /var/log/messages file report?
> To read it in an xterm type:
>
> [root@zephyr]# less /var/log/messages
>
> and look near the bottom of the file for entries from
> pppd, chat, wvdial, etc., I'm not sure what modem/login
> package corel is using but the entries you are looking for
> should directly follow one from pppd like this:
>
> Oct 25 17:30:20 zephyr pppd[392]: Starting link
>
> Bluster
>
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help - printer won't work
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:32:45 GMT
In article <8ve0jc$gii$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > > what does # lpc status
> > > show happening?
> >
> > I'm at work now, as soon as I get home, I will check and post it.
> > Thanx
> > P.
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> >
>
> Plus (I forgot in my first post) can you send text direct to the printer
> e.g. #cat somefile.txt > /dev/lp0
> obviously your printer may be lp1 or lp2 etc. This will check that the
> hardware is functioning. Hope this catches you before you leave work.
>
> Huw
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
One more piece of info. My /var/log/messages says:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [SPP,PS2]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt driven)
lpd: startup succeeded
Does the fact that it doesn't find an IEEE-1284 device mean that the
printer is somehow not comaptible with my system?
P.
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From: Poetryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Red Hat boot.img file
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:40:43 GMT
After spending hours trying to nail down the source of my install
problems, I have concluded that something is wrong with the boot.img
file for Red Hat 7.0. It is dated 8/30/2000 6:39 p.m., and contains
789,543 bytes.
The error message I get when booting from the floppy that I made (using
RAWRITE) is:
boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue
If I use the official 5.2 boot disk from Red Hat, it gets past that
point, but it dies when autoprobing to figure out my CD-ROM.
Using both RH 5.2 (official) and RH 7.0 (self-made) boot floppies I
tried entering the following command at the BOOT prompt:
HDx=cdrom (where x= b, c, or d - to use different IDE controller
connections)
All of those fail.
* If I try to download it from Red Hat's site, it requires a login name
and password, which I don't have.
* If I try to use an FTP site, well - I can't get any of them to
download using my web browser.
* If I try to use my ftp utility, I can't figure out how to connect
using the ftp utility on any of the mirror sites - even though I
normally use the utility (WS_FTPLE) successfully on several sites.
I have to boot from a floppy because the hard drive is blank and the
BIOS doesn't allow booting from CD.
I could format the hard drive & install Windows, and then install Red
Hat from CD, but that would burn a lot of valuable disk space on a
small (2 GB) drive.
So can someone help me get a new boot.img file - or otherwise get past
these impedimentia?
THX, YRD
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token"
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 04:03:45 GMT
On 21 Nov 2000 20:28:39 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Gene
Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:
> RS> Are you saying that I can't just get the tarball from kernel.org?
>
>They may be there now, but the last time I looked, they weren't. They
>are on the RH site. 2.2.16-3 I think is the current version.
OK, I'm out to sea now. I only know to follow the instructions for
building a new kernel by downloading from kernel.org. If I had the RH
headers, what would I do with them?
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