Linux-Setup Digest #91, Volume #20 Wed, 22 Nov 00 19:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Laptop Hibernation & re-partitioning ("Eric")
How to disable auto-login in Mandrake 7.2 ("Chris Koresko")
a NIC card that works with RH7? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: Linux on AMD (Patrick Boucher)
Re: RH7.0 Install problem (Kevin Gallagher)
Dateisystem von hda16/17 nicht mehr erkannt nach installation(yas t2) & booten
("TU-News-Server")
Re: Linux Mandrake 7.1 inside Win98 ( Black Dragon)
Can't get Linux to work on Dell Workstation 400 (JScrutton)
Re: Help : allocating table damaged!! (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: RH7: rmmod -a in every 10 minutes ( Black Dragon)
Re: help interpreting /var/log/messages ("Jim")
Re: Redhat 7.0 Install problems ( Black Dragon)
how to make a tiny installastin with X? ("news")
Re: RPM foolishness in 6.2 ( Black Dragon)
Re: how to add 'kde' entry??!! ( Black Dragon)
Dump for ResiserFS???? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fax server on linux for windows clients (Benedikt =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=FCrig?=)
Athlon idebus kernel option (EKH)
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Laptop Hibernation & re-partitioning
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:02:36 -0500
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8vh7fh$4tv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have been reading the linux-laptop information and installation
> examples for the Compaq Armada 1592 which I am getting this weekend!
>
> All sounds fine.
>
> Querstion though:
> There is a partition that has Compaq diagnostic software on it and also
> a section of the drive used for hibernation.
>
> I am wondering oif there is any risk of overwirting these during my
> cfdisking and installation of linux. I assume if I avoid that section
> of the partition table, I should be fine, but wanted to check before
> doing anything silly . . .
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I just installed Linux on my Compaq Presario with a similar set up. I used
fips to roll back the primary partition to make room for linux (I had to
move the windows swap file to the restore partition you mention though,
because defrag wouldn't move it to the beginning of the drive, meaning I
didn't have empty space at the end of my drive for fips to work with).
Then I just used disk druid during the RH 6.2 install (note: you will have
to use text setup, graphical setup doesn't seem to work on these
laptops--but you already knew that from the other HOWTOs) to partition the
space created by fips. You will want to select custom installation for two
reasons: 1) The server class installation will DELETE EXISTING PARTITIONS.
2) The workstation class installation wants to make more partitions than you
have room for (/, /boot, /swap). With the primary and Compaq restore
partitions, you can only make two more. I made / and /boot partitions
because I have 128 MB of RAM (so I decided to forego the swap partition),
but / and /swap would work to.
You can remove the system restore partition, but then Compaq will be
confused if you ever call them for tech support on your Windows system (if
you are going to keep your windows system. If not, there is little reason
for keeping Compaq's restore partition, except maybe to restore the system
if you ever wanted to sell or give away your laptop).
HTH,
Eric
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From: "Chris Koresko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to disable auto-login in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:26:13 +0800
I turned on auto-login in a dialog while running Mandrake-Update, and
can't figure out how to turn it off! I've spent more than an hour poring
through the startup scripts, but haven't found any reference to autologin.
The docs that come with Mandrake, a Dejanews search, and a search of the
Mandrake website haven't turned up anything. Can anyone provide a clue?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: a NIC card that works with RH7?
Date: 22 Nov 2000 21:27:42 GMT
Does anyone know of an ethernet card that is *gaurenteed* to work with
RH7? The Redhat hardware compatibility site lists my linksys EtherFAst
10/100 as compatible and "very easy to install", which has turned out to
be untrue, so I no longer have any faith in the info on their site.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Boucher)
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:52:12 GMT
Greetings,
RedHat 7.0 Is working fine on Both Duron 700 and AMD thunderbird
800.. Without any problem at All !
Patrick
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:20:04 +1100, "Noel Ferguson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the replies
>"Noel Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Have been unable to install Linux Red Hat 6.2 on both my AMD 700 & AMD 233
>> Does it run on AMD's ?
>>
>>
>
>
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From: Kevin Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.0 Install problem
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:57:06 -0600
How old is your HP CD-Writer? I bought mine over a year ago. It's a
9110i. It came with a version of Adaptec's Easy CD Creator and Direct
CD. (Adaptec has a free update to this version at their Web site. After
installing the update last December, my version now says 3.5c). This
version of Easy CD Creator has an option in the File pull down menu
called "Create CD from Disc Image". The default file type is CIF. But
the file type menu also lists ISO. Burning the Redhat ISO images onto
CD-R discs was a snap. After burning the CDs, I put the first one into
my drive, changed my CMOS settings to boot from a CD-ROM, and re-booted.
The Linux boot menu popped right up.
Kevin
Jeff Larsen wrote:
> 1. RH7 install fails when installing from Hard Disk (RPMS on
> functioning RH5.2 native linux partition). There are many documented
> bugs on this, but none of the fixes work for me.
>
> 2. My CD Burning software doesn't do ISO images and I don't want
> to spend another $100 on Adaptec Easy CD Creator. (TIP: Don't by
> an HP CD-Writer).
>
> Can I take the downloaded /RedHat/base and /RedHat/RPMS files
> and burn them to CD's as regular files? If so, which files should go
> on which CD and in what directories so the installer will like them?
>
> Jeff
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From: "TU-News-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dateisystem von hda16/17 nicht mehr erkannt nach installation(yas t2) & booten
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:16:34 +0100
PROBLEM:
Nach erfolgreicher Installation von SuSE 7.0 per YAST2
k�nnen /opt (/dev/hda16, ReiserFS) und /home (/dev/hda17,
ext2FS) nicht mehr gemountet werden; die Eintr�ge in /dev/
FEHLEN. ("special device not found") UND DAS, OBWOHL DORT
DATEN HINKOPIERT WORDEN SEIN M�SSEN (Installation mitYAST2
ohne Fehler)!!! [/proc/partitions hat Eintr�ge f�r hda16 und
hda17.]
(Anmerkung: Der Grund, warum ich soviele Partitionen habe,
ist, dass sich auf der gleichen Platte noch Win98-, Win2000-
und Daten-Partitionen befinden.)
L�SUNGVERSUCH:
In /etc/fstab standen FALSCHE ANGABEN zum Dateisystem drin,
was ich korrigiert habe; au�erdem habe ich per mknod, chgrp
und chmod die fehlenden /dev/hda16/17-Eintr�ge erg�nzt -
ohne Erfolg: "bad magic number in superblock" bei beiden
Partitionen.
(K)EINE (WIRKLICHE) L�SUNG:
Die betroffenen Partitonen MIT Dateisystemen z. B. per
Rettungssystem erstellen, fehlende /dev/hdaxx-Eintr�ge
erg�nzen, dann YAST2 zwingen, diese Partitionen NICHT zu
formatieren und Installieren.
Wer hat Rat?
Ciao,
Ren�
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Black Dragon )
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake 7.1 inside Win98
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:30:46 GMT
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:21:49 GMT in alt.linux.sux,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' said:
: That's because Linux sucks.
No it doesn't.
Go humor yourself, kid :
http://www.kimble.org/kimmovie/kimble_themovie.swf (Flash Site)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JScrutton)
Date: 22 Nov 2000 22:54:12 GMT
Subject: Can't get Linux to work on Dell Workstation 400
Help!
linux newbie about to give up, spec of PC:
Dell Workstation 400, twin PII-266, 256MB RAM, two 2 gig SCSI-3 drives with
Adaptec 2940U SCSI card.
Mandrake 6.5 is so slow it is unusable, takes 15 seconds to put calc on screen
in KDE, produces 4.3 bogomips (whatever they are). There are pigeons in my
garden that can count faster than this Linux turd.
Suse 7.0 just does not work, on boot it always locks up around ldconfig or
memstat. (have now tried three times to get it working)
Suse support is less than useless, if you are thinking of buying anything from
Suse, don't.
I have no idea what is going wrong, there are no probs reported during the
instal of Mandrake or Susel, all h/w is identified OK
Linux is the only OS on the PC, ie no dual boot, with clean partitions.
I have spent about three weeks on this and have just about had enough - Linux
easy to install? not in my experience!
Am I unlucky or is it a pile of �$%^ ?
All suggestions welcome, otherwise one more copy of NT Server is about to be
deployed...
Jason Scrutton, London, England.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: Help : allocating table damaged!!
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:14:59 GMT
pjadin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>H� there,
>
>I have I think a serious problem.
>I'm french but I'll try to explain simply. ;)
>Last time I shut down Linux (Mandrake 7.0) there was no problem.
>But now when I boot on Linux there's no more partitions!
>My hard drive is built this way:
>partition principal :
>win98 (c:)
>extended partitions with logical partitions:
>/boot
>/swap *2
>/
>/home
>/tmp
>/var
>Fat32
>When I use fdisk or partition magic it says the second partition is
>unallocated.
>When I use the partition tool from Mandrake it says my allocating table
>is damaged and cannot be restored. :(
>I didn't write down each size and places of my logical partitions and I
>didn't save the table somewhere on a floppy disk.
>But is there a way to restore my extended partition and of course to get
>back my stuff?
>If I make again partitions and don't format them can I find my stuff
>back?
>Any hope? ;)
>Thank you
>Patrick
The problem was solved in mail. The first extended partition table had
been overwritten. Cause unknown.
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Svend Olaf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Black Dragon )
Subject: Re: RH7: rmmod -a in every 10 minutes
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:20:44 GMT
On 22 Nov 2000 11:20:49 +0100 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Tobias Vancura' said:
: I recently installed RH7. Now I get a message in
: /var/log/messages that every 10 minutes rmmod -as is run by
: cron. Though I cannot find any file, where this was
: specified. /etc/crontab does not have a corresponding entry,
: nor does root's crontab.
"rmmod -as" every 10 minutes removes unused/stale kernel modules, if they
exist. It's a good idea to leave it alone, it's self cleaning maintenance.
You will probably find the cron job script in /etc/cron.d/kmod. You will
find other system maintenance cron jobs in /etc/cron.daily, /etc/crond.weekly,
etc.
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From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help interpreting /var/log/messages
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:23:17 +0100
In article <8vgm39$msa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everyone. I am trying to setup my printer. I have managed to tell
> LInux to detect the port at IRQ5, but my printer still won't print. It
> appears that as soon as I try to print anything, it gets deleted from
> the queue. So I've been trying to figure out what's going on and I
> finally looked at my
> /var/log/messages and discovered the following lines about the parallel
> port:
>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [SPP,PS2] parport0: no IEEE-1284
> device present lp0: using parport0 (interrupt driven) lpd: startup
> succeeded
>
> So, I am wondering about the IEEE part, could it be that my parallel
> port is somehow not compatible with Linux, even if it detects it?
>
> Any help will be appreciated - The system is RedHat 7.0, the computer is
> Compaq Presario, the processor AMD-K6 at 500Mhz, 256 Mb of RAM, the
> printer is Epson Stylus 440 (fully supported under Linux).
>
> P.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
Your parallel port is probably working just fine. The part about
"no IEEE-1284" pertains to printers which give feedback to the
system. This just tells you that your printer is not communicating
two ways. Some newer laser jets provide feedback telling the OS
info on the print jobs (Perhaps you've seen under windows the cute
little printer icons that show the paper running thru the printer as it
is actually happening). Your printer apparently is not one of these.
Your problem is probably elsewhere.
Have you tried printing a standard text file from the command prompt?
lpr file.txt lp0
Hope this helps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Black Dragon )
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 Install problems
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:37:06 GMT
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:50:46 -0700 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `qwest' said:
: I scanned the last few hundred headers in this group and didn't see
: anything about this problem so here goes.
:
: I'm currently been running Redhat 6.2 for the last six months on an
: Athlon Motherboard manufactured by Asus. No problems worth mentioning
: until I tried to install 7.0. The installation never detected my network
: card. This was very repeatable over numerous installs. After the
: installation I tried to manually configure the card with both netcfg and
: through the command line with the route command --- no success!
:
: I also noticed that neither the server or the KDE desktop installations
: allowed me to set the default resolution of the video display. This was
: done quite nicely in 6.2.
:
: Just as a sanity check I tried re-installing 6.2 from scratch on a blank
: drive after this experience and everything worked fine the first time.
Is there some feature in Red Hat 7 that's not in 6.* that is making you
want to upgrade, or are you upgrading just for the sake of upgrading?
The reason I ask, is that I've had RH 6.0 running all nice and happy for
over a year, and don't plan on upgrading until the hdd(s) it's on croaks,
and that's going to be a long while 'cause they are fairly new. It's the
time tested and proven theory of: "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It!".
Besides, Red Hat 7.0 is very glitchy, so if ya' gotta' upgrade and want
to use Red Hat, you will be much better off waiting for 7.1, 7.2, or the
next version with the 2.4 kernel and using 6.2 in the mean time.
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From: "news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to make a tiny installastin with X?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:44:06 +0100
Any good advice on how to make an ( preferably redhat6.x ) installation with
X smaller than 128Mb?.
Tony K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Black Dragon )
Subject: Re: RPM foolishness in 6.2
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:41:38 GMT
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:00:53 -0500 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `jpd' said:
: 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?
Use the Force, Luke!
"rpm -Uvh --force dhcpcd*.rpm"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Black Dragon )
Subject: Re: how to add 'kde' entry??!!
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:45:19 GMT
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 21:24:48 GMT in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' said:
: Hi, there:
: RH6.2. When I installed RH6.2, I didn't choose to install KDE 1.1.2,
: only installed Gnome.
:
: Now I download KDE 2, and the installation seems fine. I want to know
: how can I add the 'KDE' entry into 'System' -> 'Desktop Switch Tool' in
: Gnome.
/usr/bin/switchdesk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dump for ResiserFS????
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:49:35 GMT
[ This is a repost of the following article: ]
[ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
[ Subject: Dump for ResiserFS???? ]
[ Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.suse ]
[ Message-ID: <JWYS5.137680$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
Is there a utility to do backups ala 'dump' that is available on most other file
systems/flavors
of UNIX/Linux?
Thanks,
Mike
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From: Benedikt =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=FCrig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.samba
Subject: Re: fax server on linux for windows clients
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:59:19 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS schrieb:
> Look at http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-06/lw-06-hylafax.html
> This may answer your questions.
> "Darren and Marla Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:MABR5.259400$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I need a fax server package that I can run on my Linux firewall/server
> that
> > allows windows clients to access faxes and send faxes. I looked at
> HylaFAX,
> > but it is a Linux server and requires an additional package for windows
> > clients to interact with it. What has anyone used in the past to
> accomplish
> > this, or is this a nightmare?
> >
> >
I had it running very well (Hylafax/Samba on Redhat 6.1 Server, WHFC
(http://www.transcom.de/whfc/) client and Tiff-Viewer
Irfanview(http://www.irfanview.com/) both freeware)
You need to export the Fax-Queue Directories via Samba to the Windows Boxes.
Be careful with r/w-permissions!
good luck!
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Benedikt Suerig,
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: EKH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Athlon idebus kernel option
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:02:57 +0000
Hello there. I have been wondering for a bit now:
I have an Athlon 800 with an Asus K7V MB and have been noticing this in the
bootup:
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
The bus is 200Mhz (or 100x2) right? Can I safetly change this?
Thanks so much,
K
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