Linux-Setup Digest #92, Volume #20 Thu, 23 Nov 00 01:13:04 EST
Contents:
(missing hda16 hda 16 ...)unknown filesystem after installation / boot ("Rene")
Re: a NIC card that works with RH7? ("Michael Schnick")
installing turbo linux workstation 6 on ibm thinkpad i 1250 , in 16 color with sound
("sherif kamel")
Configuring Linux on IBM Thinkpad i 1250 with TFT monitor and Silicon Motion
Graphics card ("sherif kamel")
Re: Windows ME and Linux (Fred)
I need configure my netcard ("Jos� Antonio Alvarez K.")
Mandrake or Red Hat? ("Barry")
Re: Mandrake or Red Hat? ("Jan Oberl�nder")
Re: Mandrake or Red Hat? ("liquidFX")
Re: How do I install Linux from a Network? ("A Popple")
Again, please help: Additional Driver Disk for NE2000 and AMD PCnet?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
want a NIC + RH7.0? Read me! (Peter Bismuti)
Re: RH7.0 Install problem ("liquidFX")
Re: /dev/modem (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: network unreachable outside the domain (Steve Martin)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 question (Ya Yan Lu)
Destroyed my system: Error in loading shared libraries!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Questions from newbie to Linux (Michael V. Ferranti)
(Suddenly) missing /dev/hdaxx -> unknown filesystem after installation / boot
("Rene")
Re: a NIC card that works with RH7? (Peter Bismuti)
Sun Sparc IPX - "IDPROM: Unknown format type!" (Charles Tryon)
Re: netscape 6 crashed on RH 6.2 (Glitch)
Re: netscape 6 crashed on RH 6.2 (Glitch)
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From: "Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: (missing hda16 hda 16 ...)unknown filesystem after installation / boot
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:05:50 +0100
PROBLEM:
After successfully installing suse7.0 with yast2,
/opt //dev/hda16, reiserFS) and /home (/dev/hda17, ext2fs) cannot be mounted
any more; the device entries in /dev are MISSING. ("special device not
found") - and this although there must have been data that have been copied
to those (installation with yast2 without errors, apparently)!!!
[/proc/partitions includes entries for hda16 and hda17.]
(Note: The reason why I have so many partitions is that on the same disk
there are Win98, Win2000 and data partitions.)
ATTEMPT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM:
In /etc/fstab there were WRONG ENTRIES as for the filesystem - which I've
corrected; besides, I added the missing /dev/hda16 and 17 entries manually
per mknod, chgrp and chmod - without any success: "bad magic number in
superblock" at both partitions.
(NO) REAL SOLUTION:
Create the concerned partitions INCLUDING filesystems, e. g. with the rescue
system, add missing /dev/hdaxx entries manually, after that force yast2 NOT
to format these partitions and install.
Who has some advice?
Ciao,
Ren�
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From: "Michael Schnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a NIC card that works with RH7?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:22:50 +0100
Hi there!
> 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.
I know that NICs, model 8029 / 8139 chipset by Realtek are supported by
the kernel.
Take a look at the configuration tool of the kernel (cd /usr/src/linux;
make menuconfig)
There you�ll find those cards supported by the kernel and, thus,
supported by any Linux distribution.
--
CU,
Michael
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From: "sherif kamel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing turbo linux workstation 6 on ibm thinkpad i 1250 , in 16 color
with sound
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:33:17 -0500
Hello everyone , Im a novice with linux, I installed Turbo linux workstation
v 6
on my thinkpad i 1250 with a Silicon Motion SMI Lynx EM+ , 4 Mb graphics
card if only runs in 8 bit color . I loved the interface and would
like to know how to run it 1) Using full colour 2) with sound
Any feed back would be highly appreciated.
Can anyone tell me if there is an internet based data base having sucussful
intallations for different systems like eg , for and ibm thinkpad i 1250 ,
or a compaq presario 1230 etc So one can download it , If not is there
anyone
intersted in setting up such a webpage ? Maybe we can make it our business
and sell them on CD's email for more info
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From: "sherif kamel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuring Linux on IBM Thinkpad i 1250 with TFT monitor and Silicon Motion
Graphics card
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:51:16 -0500
Hello everyone , Im a novice with linux, I installed Turbo linux workstation
v 6 on my thinkpad i 1250 with a Silicon Motion SMI Lynx EM+ , 4 Mb
graphics card if only runs in 8 bit color . I loved the interface and would
like to know how to run it 1) Using full colour 2) with sound
Any feed back would be highly appreciated.
Can anyone tell me if there is an internet based data base having sucussful
intallations for different systems like eg , for and ibm thinkpad i 1250 ,
or a compaq presario 1230 etc So one can download it , If not is there
anyone intersted in setting up such a webpage ? Maybe we can make it our
business and sell them on CD's email for more info
Thanks,
Sherif Kamel
Email :--- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred)
Subject: Re: Windows ME and Linux
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:42:25 GMT
You will need to create a 2nd partition on your drive and install Suse their.
That was my problem, I used the program Fips2 in the Dosuitl folder of disk
number 1. There are other programs like Partion Magic but they cost money.
Fred, I just got Suse7 on, but still trying to get my modem to work.
In article <8vevmb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scott Taubman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
>
>
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From: "Jos� Antonio Alvarez K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I need configure my netcard
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:51:12 -0300
Hi everyone!
I have Linux RedHat 7.0 and want to configure my netcard model DFE-538TX
Fast Ethenert
Somebody can help me??
Thank's
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Subject: Mandrake or Red Hat?
From: "Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:21:13 -0700
I am a total novice as far as Linux goes. My background is DOS and Windows
(3.0 - 98). In the near future I will be purchasing an Athlon based system,
and would like to install Linux for server hosting.
My question is: Which release of Linux will be best for my purposes? I had
originally intended to install Red Hat Linux 7.0, but reading some of the
problems I hesitate. I have also been trying to research other releases, and
Mandrake-Linux has caught my attention. What, if any, advantages or
drawbacks are there?
Any and all help appreciated.
Barry
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From: "Jan Oberl�nder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake or Red Hat?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:37:00 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question is: Which release of Linux will be best for my purposes? I
> had originally intended to install Red Hat Linux 7.0, but reading some
> of the problems I hesitate. I have also been trying to research other
> releases, and Mandrake-Linux has caught my attention. What, if any,
> advantages or drawbacks are there?
Both are fine and good to start with. Mandrake is based on RedHat and has
some improvements: Mandrake has everything compiled and optimized for the
Pentium, while RedHat packages are compiled and optimized for 386 only.
(i am not sure about RedHat 7 though.) Also Mandrake seems to be a lot
faster with putting out updates (as far as i can tell from rpmfind.net).
Jan
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From: "liquidFX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake or Red Hat?
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:02:26 -0500
I've been using Mandrake faithfully since 5.0 and also dual boot into
Caldera edesktop 2.4 and have used Kondara and Red Hat on a regular
basis....and the thing that keeps me coming back to Mandrake is the
outstanding hardware support....they seem to be frequent enough with updates
to keep including new HW....my advice....try a few but you'll come back to
Mandrake for its ease of use...support software includes...good luck..
<<<<hand over the coffee and nobody gets hurt>>>>>
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From: "A Popple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I install Linux from a Network?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:05:30 +0500
NFS shares and domains refer to the information required to mount other
unix file share (ie. this wont work with windows). I am unfamiliar with
Mandrake but I know redhat offers samba (windows file sharing), http and
ftp support as installation methods, although i've had little luck with
any of these methods.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steve"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Mandrake 7.2 CD on a Windows 2k machine on a small home p2p
> network with fixed ip values. Assuming I boot the network pcmcia image
> diskette on my laptop how do I install from the CD on the Win2k machine?
>
> It's asking for NFS shares and domains and such?
>
> What numbers do I plug into the setup program.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Again, please help: Additional Driver Disk for NE2000 and AMD PCnet?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:59:20 GMT
Hi all
I have to install a RH Linux system on a computer with a NE2000, respectively
an AMD PCnet NIC. Unfortunately there are no drivers available anymore on the
boot disks, nor on the additional "drivers.img".
Where could I find those drivers and how could I create such an additional
driver disk, which is loadable during the installation process?
Thanks for any help!
Phil
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: want a NIC + RH7.0? Read me!
Date: 23 Nov 2000 02:00:13 GMT
If you're looking for an ethernet card that you can pop in and will work
the first time and that doesn't cost too much, try the Netgear FA310TX.
It is only 10mbs, but this is good enough for home. I got a home network
kit for 69$ which included two cards and a hub, the same price for a low
end 3com.
I struggled with the Linksys EtherFast 10/100 and never got it working so
I through in the towel. Don't believe Redhat's hardware compatility site,
it is NOT easy to install. I spent a whole day and never got it working.
The Netgear FA310TX I got working in no time at all.
Hope this helps some
BTW, does anyone know how to cross post using tin?
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From: "liquidFX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.0 Install problem
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:11:55 -0500
I have an HP 7500 series that came with Easy CD creator v.2.5 .......and
it does iso's without fail....every time....I also updated to ECD 4 for
29.95.....hmmmm....maybe its not the HP at all????? I have had success
converting iso's using Winimage 5....but ...hehe....its the wrong OS for my
liking...
<<<<<<Hand over the coffee and nobody gets hurt>>>>>>
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/modem
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:13:39 +0000
And Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
>Well that answers my question about where "modem.O" came from.
You sure we're not talking about modem.X, that female spy?
-- 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: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: network unreachable outside the domain
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:15:29 GMT
Giorgio Corani wrote:
> ping 216.115.108.243
> PING 216.115.108.243 (216.115.108.243): 56 octets data
> sendto: Network is unreachable
If I'm not mistaken, this indicates a routing problem,
probably your default route is not correctly set up.
What does the output from the "route" command show?
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From: Ya Yan Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 question
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:12:30 +0800
I had a bad experience updating from 7.1 to 7.2. I had a partition about
1.5GB,
the original 7.1 takes about 0.8GB. If you have a new installation, this
is enough disk space for a complete installation. For upgrating, you will
have only the
two options (300MB minimum or 800MB recommended, no complete
installation). I chose 800MB recommended packages, then the update failed.
Somehow, the updating process does not delete the old 7.1 files, before the
updating is
completed. Then, the updating stops at the middle. The reason is no disk
space left (which the updating process did not tell you). I have to reboot
the PC. At that stage, the old 7.1 is not working completely. I tried to
reboot into 7.1, but I can not even mount /mnt/windows. Finally, I have to
boot into failsafe mode of 7.1, and mount /mnt/windows, to put some backup
files there, then have a new clean installation.
"Richard J. Freedman" wrote:
> 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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Destroyed my system: Error in loading shared libraries!!!
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:17:00 GMT
Hi all
I tried to upgrade my Linux RH v6.1 to v7.0 with the update software on the
netboot floppy disk image. It loaded all the new package information from the
FTP server. But then, during the comparison to the installed packages, it
always crashes.
So because nobody helped me here, when I asked, how to manually upgrade the
system, I tried it with rpmfind and rpm. This broke my system because of all
those libc dependencies. I can't login anymore:
/usr/bin/gdm: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0:
symbol getpwuid_r, version GLIBC_2.1.2 not defined in file libc.so.6 with
symbol reference
How can I repair that? I can't boot from a CD-ROM, but I can still boot the
computer from the harddrive and remote login.
Thanks for any help!
Phil
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Questions from newbie to Linux
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:13:37 +0000
And [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jf arocha) spoke thusly:
>Now, which distribution should I buy?
If you can't do without the tech support, go with RedHat or Corel, and
I'm unsure about Caldera, Mandrake, and SuSE. With Debian and Slackware,
you're on your own, minus the Linux Community support here on the net.
Redhat, Mandrake, and SuSE seem to be the most popular, in that order.
Initially, I went with RedHat, even though I plan switching to a much less
commercialized Debian here shortly. (For purely personal reasons, I don't
want a distro that comes with a modified kernel, and I've always taught
myself when it comes to computers.) As a new user to Linux, I would find
out which distro comes with the most complete level of configuration. Half
the stuff RH6.2 installed on my drives wouldn't even run until I'd
configured them myself. Dunno if RH7.0 is any better...
>Do I have to install Windows first?
If your distro doesn't come with a boot floppy, and if you cannot boot
from CD-ROM, you'll need at least MS-DOS to create a boot floppy via the
rawrite command (included on the CD). You use rawrite to copy a "boot.img"
file to the floppy disk, from which you can boot the computer and start the
installation. (rawrite can also be run from Windows.)
-- 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: "Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: (Suddenly) missing /dev/hdaxx -> unknown filesystem after installation / boot
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 03:40:41 +0100
PROBLEM:
After successfully installing suse7.0 with yast2,
/opt //dev/hda16, reiserFS) and /home (/dev/hda17, ext2fs) cannot be mounted
any more; the device entries in /dev are MISSING. ("special device not
found") - and this although there must have been data that have been copied
to those (installation with yast2 without errors, apparently)!!!
[/proc/partitions includes entries for hda16 and hda17.]
(Note: The reason why I have so many partitions is that on the same disk
there are Win98, Win2000 and data partitions.)
ATTEMPT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM:
In /etc/fstab there were WRONG ENTRIES as for the filesystem - which I've
corrected; besides, I added the missing /dev/hda16 and 17 entries manually
per mknod, chgrp and chmod - without any success: "bad magic number in
superblock" at both partitions.
(NO) REAL SOLUTION:
Create the concerned partitions INCLUDING filesystems, e. g. with the rescue
system, add missing /dev/hdaxx entries manually, after that force yast2 NOT
to format these partitions and install.
Who has some advice?
Ciao,
Ren�
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: Re: a NIC card that works with RH7?
Date: 23 Nov 2000 04:48:04 GMT
Michael Schnick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi there!
:
: > 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.
: I know that NICs, model 8029 / 8139 chipset by Realtek are supported by
: the kernel.
:
: Take a look at the configuration tool of the kernel (cd /usr/src/linux;
: make menuconfig)
If only it were that easy.
:
: There you�ll find those cards supported by the kernel and, thus,
: supported by any Linux distribution.
:
:
: --
: CU,
: Michael
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From: Charles Tryon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Sun Sparc IPX - "IDPROM: Unknown format type!"
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 05:35:06 GMT
I'm trying to load Red Hat 6.2 Linux on an old (REALLY old) Sun Sparc IPX
box. It loads SILO fine when I boot the floppy, and comes up with the
Install options. It even loads the initial ramdisk. However, when it
tries to run, I get the message:
IDPROM: Unknown format type!
Program terminated
It then drops me back to the boot ">" prompt.
Ideas?
(ROM Rev 2.9, 32 MB memory installed, serial #16777215)
--
Your Servant, <><
B. Baggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_________________________________________________________________________
"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!"
--Bilbo, after a scorching from Smaug.
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:56:24 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape 6 crashed on RH 6.2
After installing Netscape 6 under Suse 6.3 I ran the netscap script in
/usr/local/netscape and it loaded just fine. It took a while the first
time but i didn't have any problems.
I've had it crash on me when trying to login into my streamload account
but other than that and it taking a long time to load the first time I
haven't had too much problem with it that I can remember. I've been
using it off and on for about a week and a half.
Steve Martin wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Error msg is following when I start 'netscape 6', installed it on
> > /usr/local/netscape, run by 'cd /usr/src/netscape' and './netscape'.
> > Any help or suggestions?
>
> Firstly, why are you going to /usr/src/netscape to run the
> executable if you installed it in /usr/local/netscape? Is
> this a typo?
>
> > MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=.
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./Cool:.:/root/.kde/lib:/usr/lib
> > LIBPATH=.:./Cool
> > SHLIB_PATH=.:./Cool
> > XPCS_HOME=./Cool
> > MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
> > MOZ_TOOLKIT=
>
> Is there a /usr/local/netscape/Cool directory? It appears that
> this is where the program is looking for its runtime info. If
> not, then either you're launching from an inappropriate
> directory (is NS6 *really* dependent on which directory you
> launch from?? What a piece of crud), your installation is
> whacked, or your environment variables aren't getting set
> properly.
>
> Are the installations on the two computers identical? Are the
> environment variables set identically on the two machines?
> How do the above lines look when you run on the laptop? Do
> they show the same environment variable settings? That might
> give a clue.
>
> Hope this helps.
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:59:25 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape 6 crashed on RH 6.2
Steve Bradley wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your reply!
> > 1. I did run NS6 as root in the 1st time.
> > 2. MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME and MOZILLA_HOME are empty after install NS6. After
> > export these 2 equal to the value you suggested, still get the same
> > error. So I don't want to try NS6 anymore.
> > 3. Let's wait IE for Linux. Netscape is just too bad.
>
> ;-) IE for LInux...what a thought! I mean, I acutally LIKE Internet
> Explorer 5.5- one of the few MS programs I enjoyed - it was quick to start
> (on any kind of a decent system) rendered pages fast, had a nice
> full-screen mode...but the thought of how badly any MS involvement in the
> Linux community would pollute things.....yuck!
>
any browser, including netscape, would be quick to start as well if half
of it was already loaded when you boot the computer. It's called
integration. MS thinks its a good idea or something. Unfortunately they
don't give us an option as to which programs we want integrated.
I installed an Adaptec EZCD creator patch a few weeks ago in the hopes
of getting my cdwriter recognized as a writer under Creator 4.0. Well,
after installing the patch and rebooting I got one of those Java runtime
script errors in the middle of my screen(the errors that ask if u want
to continue running the script on the page). Funny thing with this
error. I JUST REBOOTED AND NOTHING WAS OPEN AND I HAD A JAVASCRIPT
ERROR. I had to end up downloading and installing IE 5.5 to fix java but
the bad part is I had a javascript error w/o even having a browser open.
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