Linux-Setup Digest #97, Volume #20 Thu, 23 Nov 00 23:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Use of defined private addresses ? (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: Missing /dev/hdaxx -> unknown filesystem after installation / boot (Svend Olaf
Mikkelsen)
Samba and really big files ? (John Beardmore)
Re: Best NIC for Red Hat 6.1 internet connection? (Andy Kinsey)
Re: TZ87 DLT drive ? ("Marshall G. Gates")
Re: Which Linux to try? ("Patrick Bartek")
Re: please help with kernel build!! (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Scanfile utility ? (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Linuxrouter and user-compiled kernel (Cokey de Percin)
Help - compiling driver for network card ("Michael J. Barber")
Re: Upgrading rpm ("David ..")
Re: Use of defined private addresses ? ("David ..")
Re: Upgrading rpm (B. Hearn)
Re: network unreachable outside the domain (Adam Weeks)
Re: please help with kernel build!! (Adam Weeks)
Logitech Mouse (Adam Weeks)
Overwriting Win harddisk boot partition w/ LILO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LinkSys Etherfast 10/100 on RH6.2 ("NEJ")
Polish(ed) Linux Distribution? (Richard J. Freedman)
Overwriting Win harddisk boot partition w/ LILO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Subject: Re: Use of defined private addresses ?
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:46:45 GMT
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:29:03 +0000, John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Reading between the lines of a few posts, I gather there are some IP
|address ranges which are reserved for private use behind fire walls that
|won't route across the Internet.
|
|Am I correct in assuming that 192.168.x.x is one such address, that this
|is a class B network and that 255.255.0.0 is the appropriate net mask ?
RFC 1918 reserves the following address blocks:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
The 10.0.0.0 is an old-style Class A
172.16 - 172.31 is a block of 16 old-style Class B's
192.168.0 - 192.168.255 is a block of 256 old-style Class C's
Of course, you are free to use whatever netmask is appropriate for
your network configuration.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: Missing /dev/hdaxx -> unknown filesystem after installation / boot
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:38:20 GMT
"Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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�
The output from my Findpart tool may or may not show something. It is
at http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
You can do from DOS or Windows:
findpart all +fat fp.txt
and post the content from fp.txt.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba and really big files ?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 00:50:14 +0000
I've just set up Samba and as a test, tried to copy a directory from my
Windows 2000 box to the share on Linux using the
xcopy /shreik
command. The xcopy seemed to go well, but when I tried to do a compare
with a utility I wrote ages ago to recursively compare directories in MS
environments, it fell over claiming that read() had failed.
At first, I assumed this was a problem with my xdiff utility, but I
found that when I tried comparing the files individually,
fc /b
from the win2k box, reported that the version on the Samba share was
shorter than the w2k version.
The file in question shows up as
348,584,960 bytes
from the win2k machine both on the native NTFS disk and through Samba.
Is there a problem doing sequential reads, 32k at a time on files this
through Samba ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best NIC for Red Hat 6.1 internet connection?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:34:43 -0500
"moonie;)" wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Nov 2000, Roy Troxel wrote:
> >I'm looking for a good NIC for my firewall, which runs on Red Hat 6.1.
> >
> >I've tried several 3c509Bs. They work OK with the intranet connection, but
> >behave erratically with the cable modem connection to the internet. I've
> >reconfigured the cards, swapped them out, changed ports and IRQs with 3Com
> >software, etc, etc, but the result is always the same. The internet NIC
> >will work OK for a few weeks and then go out.
> >
> >I've corresponded with several people who have had the same problem with the
> >3c509B. I need a NIC that I can configure, install, and then forget about.
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Roy
>
> I have 1 D-Link 530TX and one D-Link 530TX+ in my router. Never had a problem,
> its been up for months and I haven't even had to think about it (except to keep
> from stubbing my toes on it, its under my desk)
> --
> moonie ;)
>
> Registered Linux User #175104
> http://counter.li.org
>
> KDE2
> Kernel 2.4.0-test5
> XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
> RAID 0 Striped
> Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
This may be a stupid question, but did you disable Plug and Play on the NIC?
Andy
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From: "Marshall G. Gates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: TZ87 DLT drive ?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:32:26 -0500
Reply-To: "Marshall G. Gates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Looks like it is a DLT drive. this site had listed compatible media anyway.
Marshall
http://www.bucks.edu/alpha-osf-managers/May1998-6.html
As always, replies were prompt and plenty... Thank you!
The media for the TZ87 DLT is CompacTape III.
CompacTape IIIXT and CompacTape IV will not run on the TZ87
Christian Hansen, IT-Operations
Mobilix A/S
Holmbladsgade 133, DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: +45 32647746
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I got a drive labelled TZ87 in an old Alpha box that I've now put Linux
> on. Does Linux support it ?
>
> I don't know anything about this drive, but the front looks DLT like to
> me.
>
> Can anybody confirm this, and if so, what media does it use and is there
> anything to chose between them ?
>
> Is there backup software for Linux beyond tar and gzip ?
>
>
> Cheers, J/.
> --
> John Beardmore
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From: "Patrick Bartek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Nov 2000 15:03:10 +0800
Subject: Re: Which Linux to try?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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> 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].
I would go with Caldera, but I found Mandrake 7.0 quite easy to
install and use, although it did make a couple of mistakes with
setting up LILO to boot multiple OSs off 2 hard drives. I've held off
upgrading to versions 7.1 or 2: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
philosophy.
I went to the Linux section at Comdex 2000 in Las Vegas this past
week, and came across easyLinux. Had a long chat with them. It is
designed for the home/small business user, either simple, stand-alone
desktop or small network. Almost all of the admin duties --
mounting/unmounting file systems & hardware, configuring, etc. -- can
be done thru X-Window utilities that they wrote and that automatically
attach themselves in KDE's config utility.
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Subject: Re: please help with kernel build!!
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:53:43 GMT
Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I try to build a new kernel;
> using "make dep; make clean" then "make bzImage", I'm getting errors at
> the end of that command, and no bzImage is produces (kernel 2.2.16-22,
> btw) Red Hat support suggested that the image was simply too big, and
> to remove modules (not really sure exactly how, or if that is indeed the
> problem)
What errors are you getting?
Vilmos
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Subject: Re: Scanfile utility ?
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:56:23 GMT
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> I wish for a utility that presents a screen with
>>> fields for specifying: Examples
>>> Partition(s) /
>>> Subset of partition *.txt
>>> String to search for secnews.netscape.com
>>>
>>> and an output box showing all the files and
>>> occurances of the string.
>>
>> I think you still have to use grep. What do you mean under partition?
>> Under /, many other partitions are mounted. Would you like to exclude
>> them? Anyways, the solutions would be to find all the files which you
>> want to search, say *.txt, and grep them.
>>
>> find / -mount -name \*.txt -exec grep -l secnews.netscape.com {} \;
>>
>> I didn't check this command, but something like this would accomplish
>> your requirements.
>
> I think you'll find that this will show you matching lines from the
> files, but not the names of the files they come from.
man grep and look for the -l switch.
Vilmos
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linuxrouter and user-compiled kernel
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 02:08:20 GMT
Tauno Voipio wrote:
>
> "Maciej Kozinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > i got following problem with linuxrouter (http://www.linuxrouter.org/).
> > I want to put customized kernel onto the "idiot image" floppy. I compile
> > it and copy it to the floppy, it boots, but it cannot mount the root
> > filesystem from the ramdisk. The kernel copied from "good", working LR
> > diskette works fine, which indicates this is the problem of the kernel,
> > not the bootloader (syslinux). The kernel compiled from configuration
> > taken from the distribution of kernel/packages copied to the diskette
> > cannot mount the root filesystem too.
> > I got two question: what is the minimum set of drivers to run the
> > linuxrouter from the floppy (ramdisk, filesystems, devices) and what did
> > I miss to do to get my own linuxrouter working?
> >
>
> The initial ramdisk has to be set up suiting the kernel. See Bootdisk-HOWTO.
>
> Tauno Voipio
> tauno voipio @ iki fi
There are a number of patches that must be applied to the standard
kernel source in order to compile/use a kernel with the Linux Router
distro.
Here's a list from the patch install script I'm using for the 2.2.16
LRP kernel:
cat $SRC_DIR/linux-2.2.15-permcursor.patch | patch -p1 -s
cat $SRC_DIR/linux-2.2.13pre15-printkfix.patch | patch -p1 -s
gunzip -c $SRC_DIR/initrd-archive_3.2_2.2.8.diff.gz | patch -p1 -s
gunzip -c $SRC_DIR/linuxrc-always_2-2.1-diff.gz | patch -p1 -s
cat $SRC_DIR/linux-2.2.13pre14-idefloppymsg.patch | patch -usEN -p1
cat $SRC_DIR/linux-2.2.13pre14-serialfix.patch | patch -p1 -s
gunzip -c $SRC_DIR/linux-2.2.14-wanrouter-2.1.3.patch.gz | patch -p1 -s
cat $SRC_DIR/linux-2.2.14-sdla_skbprotocol2.patch | patch -p1 -s
cat $SRC_DIR/linux-2.2.15pre17-sdla_frdlci.patch | patch -p1 -s
cat $SRC_DIR/linux-2.2.15pre17-sdla_iffnoarp.patch | patch -p1 -s
cat $SRC_DIR/linux-2.2.15pre20-sdla_frdlci_+.patch | patch -p1 -s
These patches are available in a single tar file in the sources
dir.
Best
Cokey
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From: "Michael J. Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.linux,alt.comp.linux
Subject: Help - compiling driver for network card
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:15:24 -0500
Hello all,
specs:
RedHat 7.0
Laptop
PCMCIA network card
I downloaded the drivers for my network card. This should be easy.
Except, they make you compile the drivers. The readme outlines how to
do it - make: make install. Two simple commands. I keep getting an
error that I have no idea how to fix.
This is the output of the make command.
make
In file included from pcnet_cs.c:34:
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use
kernel-headers system headers,
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2 #error but headers from an
appropriate kernel-source
In file included from
/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.1.19/include/pcmcia/k_compat.h:87, from
pcnet_cs.c:50:
/usr/include/linux/modeversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use
kernel-headers system headers,
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an
appropriate kernel-source
make: ***[pcnet_cs.o] Error 1
Any help would be huge. Thanks anyone!
Mike
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading rpm
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:55:56 -0600
"B. Hearn" wrote:
>
> Hi Guys (et al)
>
> I'm running SuSE 6.2. It's installation of rpm is 3.0.3
> What I want to do is upgrade the Samba package, or any other).
>
> The samba *.rpm was apparantly done with rpm (vers 4) hence
> my rpm refuses / complains.
>
> Trying to upgrade my RPM (by using rpm's vers.4 .rpm) likewise results
> in whining and refusals. I've been doing some reading on the subject
> (redhat.linux.rpm and I've been to rpm.org) but the more I read the
> less certain I am about which way to turn. Seems as though this change
> is going to cause some widespread anguish?
>
> Is there an easy way to solve my problem?
> Help is greatly appreciated being a newbie -)
I don't use Suse but there is a 3.0.5 version of rpm which corrects some
of the problems.
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Completed more work units than: 98.852% of seti users +/- 0.01%.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Use of defined private addresses ?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:14:17 -0600
John Beardmore wrote:
>
> Reading between the lines of a few posts, I gather there are some IP
> address ranges which are reserved for private use behind fire walls that
> won't route across the Internet.
>
> Am I correct in assuming that 192.168.x.x is one such address, that this
> is a class B network and that 255.255.0.0 is the appropriate net mask ?
>
> Cheers, J/.
> --
> John Beardmore
All of these are from the private class.
10.0.0.0 is a class A IP 255.0.0.0
172.16.0.0 is a class B IP 255.255.0.0
192.168.x.x is a class C IP 255.255.255.0
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Completed more work units than: 98.852% of seti users +/- 0.01%.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. Hearn)
Subject: Re: Upgrading rpm
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:17:03 GMT
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:55:56 -0600, "David .."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't use Suse but there is a 3.0.5 version of rpm which corrects some
>of the problems.
Mmmmm Thanks David.
The situations getting more complicated than that tho'.
Tried the 3.0.5. Won't do 4 without lib upgrades etc.
[ Well, it might but it bitches about dependencies etc.
One can over-ride this but I, at least, then get a whole new set of
complaints and so on]
I expect someone will take me to task over that last statement - too
bad.
I'll say this. I've tried just about every combination including
lib updates. Even they (the new libs) produce complaints about lib
files which _ARE_ on the system. And, yes I have gone down the tarred
path (also no luck but that could just be me)
In short, I wrecked to installation and am starting again from scratch
I expect, I'll not be alone in this mess. New RPM4 is done _with_ RPM4
and won't extract via earlier issuances. I'll get corrected again I
know but, this means that _all_ new libs / patches / upgrades will be
inaccessible (seems that most things come rpm'd these days). Everyone
is going to meet this problem unless they buy a new distro (or ignore
RPM)
I have had a long Email chat with SuSE support and I could, but
wont't, reproduce the correspondence here. They were of little help
(friendly enough after breaking past the standard customer response.
barrier tho')
I don't seem to be able to find a corridor into www.rpm.org to tell
'em.
A final word for SuSE people who might read this -(tho' this will
apply to other distro's at this moment (although maybe not RH)) - The
current issue of SuSE 7 personal and Professional _DOES NOT_
incorporate the RPM 4 version. It may not even when the system issues
a 7.1 version. Hopefully my correspondence with them will trigger an
awareness.
PS. I am just a newbie (wondering if I can ever be anything else) -)
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From: Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: network unreachable outside the domain
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:18:23 GMT
Risto Toivola wrote:
> If you can ping machines in local domain but not outside your
> domain, it sounds to me like the packet don't find it's way out
> from your LAN. How should it find it's way out? Default gateway!
>
> I don't think this has anything to do with DNS (assuming you
> use DNS server provided by your ISP). I suppose when you
> do ping what_ever_external_host, ping does not show the
> actual numeric IP address. That would indicate it could not find
> the DNS host either, so it can't do the name to number mapping.
>
> Check linuxconf =>networking => client tasks => routing and gateways
> => Set defaults => default gateway
>
> R(o)isto
>
> Steve Martin wrote:
>
> > 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?
One other possible thing to check, just in case, and if the pinging
machine is inside the LAN, - make sure your allowing packets out with a
proper ipchains
for exampe: ipchains -A forward -i eth0 -j MASQ
worth a shot if that is the problem :)
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From: Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: please help with kernel build!!
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:24:14 GMT
Vilmos Soti wrote:
> Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > When I try to build a new kernel;
> > using "make dep; make clean" then "make bzImage", I'm getting errors at
> > the end of that command, and no bzImage is produces (kernel 2.2.16-22,
> > btw) Red Hat support suggested that the image was simply too big, and
> > to remove modules (not really sure exactly how, or if that is indeed the
> > problem)
>
> What errors are you getting?
>
> Vilmos
Here is a cut & paste of the last several lines:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/softirq.h:75: warning: `synchronize_bh' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:142: warning: this is the
location of the previous definition
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h: In function `kstat_irqs':
In file included from ksyms.c:17:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: `smp_num_cpus' undeclared
(first use in this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: for each function it appears
in.)make[2]: *** [ksyms.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
[root@cx631025-h linux]#
There is more than this, of course, previously, but these are a copy of the
last several lines. I imagine the imporant errors themselves are the last
five lines. And, the bzImage is not produces or to be found anywhere!
Thanks for the response : )
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From: Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Logitech Mouse
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:25:41 GMT
I have a Logitech "mini wheel mouse" -- feels like it was made for
Linux, btw.
Anyone know how to get the wheel to work?
Thnks - Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Overwriting Win harddisk boot partition w/ LILO
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:22:22 GMT
I have what I think is a rather interesting problem, and all my fault.
I was originally install Slackware on /dev/hda1 after having switched
the primary and slave designations of my two harddrives. This then
made the Win98 drive the Slave. I then decided to switch them back.
However, the header of the "/etc/lilo.conf" must have still pointed to
what was the Linux drive's bootable partiion, but was now the Windows
bootable partion . . .
I had done enough restarting and checking to be certain that I have
written the LILO to the boot partition of the Win98 drive, which is now
back as the primary drive.
I can get into Linux with my Slack boot disk & "mount root=/dev/hdb1"
and use a Win98 boot disk to get there. Although certain, I did not at
anypoint go near the "mbr", I did also tried "fdisk /mbr" from the C:
prompt gotten with the Win98 boot disk.
Thank would have been better because with the Win bootdisk I could have
fixed that.
Any suggestions on how to correct the Win boot partitionwithout doing a
full fdisk & reinstall !?!?
Since this, I have not been able to boot windows at all, even with the
disk or with the LILO correctly identifying /dev/hda1 as a msdos system.
THANKS!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "NEJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: LinkSys Etherfast 10/100 on RH6.2
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:37:12 GMT
Hi All,
I have been trying to get the LinkSys 10/100 to work on RH6.2 (I believe the
kernel is 2.2.15. When I do a ifconfig -a, only the loopback interface shows
up. I recompiled the kernel with the networking options and rebooted, I
still only see the loopback, I can configure the interface in Linuxconf but
it never gets initialized when the S10network reload command is issued, I
get the following message in the Linuxconf
"Bringing up Device eth0"
"Delaying eth0 initialization"
[300c[200D[[1;31mFAILED[0;39m]
Any help would be greatly appreciated !! This is getting most frustrating...
Thanks,
Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard J. Freedman)
Subject: Polish(ed) Linux Distribution?
Date: 24 Nov 2000 03:40:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are a slew of RPMS on rpmfind.net called the Polish(ed) linux
distribution. There are both intel and sparc binaries. Can anyone tell
me anything about their quality and who the originators are? I'm
pariculary interested in the sparc disribution --- anyone know which
sun archetecture(s) are supported? Thanks.
-
Dick Freedman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Overwriting Win harddisk boot partition w/ LILO
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:41:36 GMT
I have what I think is a rather interesting problem, and all my fault.
I was originally install Slackware on /dev/hda1 after having switched
the primary and slave designations of my two harddrives. This then
made the Win98 drive the Slave. I then decided to switch them back.
However, the header of the "/etc/lilo.conf" must have still pointed to
what was the Linux drive's bootable partiion, but was now the Windows
bootable partion . . .
I had done enough restarting and checking to be certain that I have
written the LILO to the boot partition of the Win98 drive, which is now
back as the primary drive.
I can get into Linux with my Slack boot disk & "mount root=/dev/hdb1"
and use a Win98 boot disk to get there. Although certain, I did not at
anypoint go near the "mbr", I did also tried "fdisk /mbr" from the C:
prompt gotten with the Win98 boot disk.
Thank would have been better because with the Win bootdisk I could have
fixed that.
Any suggestions on how to correct the Win boot partitionwithout doing a
full fdisk & reinstall !?!?
Since this, I have not been able to boot windows at all, even with the
disk or with the LILO correctly identifying /dev/hda1 as a msdos system.
THANKS!
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