Linux-Setup Digest #98, Volume #20 Fri, 24 Nov 00 03:13:09 EST
Contents:
SuSe 7.0 installation monitor issues... ("John D. Marinuzzi")
RH 6.2 installation woes. ("David Cumming")
SAMBA and smbfax ("Darren and Marla Welson")
Re: Upgrading rpm ("David ..")
Re: LinkSys Etherfast 10/100 on RH6.2 (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Upgrading rpm (Robert Stia)
Stuck at LI, How to uninstall LILO? (laurieapril)
Re: Stuck at LI, How to uninstall LILO? (Eric)
Re: Netgear FA310-TX and linux (Lukas Mensinck)
Re: Static IP Nightmare ("Julian Quinn")
Re: Overwriting Win harddisk boot partition w/ LILO (Eric)
Re: How should I install Linux and Win2K (dual boot) (Christopher Booth)
s3_VIRGE chipset vs XF86_S3V (RedHat on Digital PC 5000) ("Phlip")
Re: Stuck at LI, How to uninstall LILO? (Eric)
"Dialup Configuration", netcfg ("Phlip")
Re: RH7.0+Win2K:Linux boot floppy doesn't (Eric)
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From: "John D. Marinuzzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSe 7.0 installation monitor issues...
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:12:58 -0500
Hello,
I am attempting to setup SuSe7.0 on my system having all types of
problems. First off the installation screen is somewhat jumbled. I can
read it, but it isn't clear (certainly not like shown in the setup book).
The when I get to monitor setup it cannot automatically detect it. So fine,
I attempt to manually enter the synch ranges listed in the monitor book, but
get absolutely nothing after that screen. I have tried with manually
entering the values, I have tried with VESA, I can not find the monitor
itself in the list so I can't try it that way, I have tried Sony listings
(see below). But it is getting old having to install the packages I want to
get to that screen and get messed up again. Any suggestions? The monitor I
have is a Gateway 2000 Vivitron CPD-GF200 (which I believe was made by
Sony).
Thank you in advance,
NUZZI
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From: "David Cumming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.2 installation woes.
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 04:26:16 -0000
I'm trying to get 6.2 onto a laptop with no internal CDROM. I am using a
SCSI cdrom going in through an Adaptec APA-1460A pcmcia card. Using
pcmcia.img as a boot disk and using the expert option I can get the
installer to ask if I want to install a device and I say yes please and then
choose the AHA 152x driver from the list of options because that's supposed
to be compatible. Then when the files are loaded the system hangs up. Any
thoughts?
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From: "Darren and Marla Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.samba
Subject: SAMBA and smbfax
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 05:03:16 GMT
I want to use SAMBA to allow not only printing, but also faxing
(http://www.hylafax.org/links.html#new), but I am having trouble. Has
anyone successfully used SAMBA alone to fax?
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading rpm
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:01:05 -0600
What are the error messages that you are getting? If you can post what
is happening then it will help to fix the problem. What dependencies is
it calling for?
"B. Hearn" wrote:
>
> 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) -)
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more work units than: 98.852% of seti users +/- 0.01%.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys Etherfast 10/100 on RH6.2
Date: 24 Nov 2000 05:12:28 GMT
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:37:12 GMT, NEJ wrote:
>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
You need to have the kernel module for the card installed. In the case of my
card, they shipped a Linux driver with the card. I suggest you go to
their page
http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=25
and follow the instructions.
HTH
--
Donovan Rebbechi * http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/ *
elflord at panix dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Stia)
Subject: Re: Upgrading rpm
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 05:25:55 GMT
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 03:17:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. Hearn) wrote:
>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]
................snip.............
>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.
>
Welllllll.....It does apply to RH. I still have those exact same
problems in trying to upgrade to RPM -4. Who ever heard of a package
that needs itself to install? Maybe we should all be bitching to RH
or Mandrake, or whoever designed this.
Couldn't be that we are supposed to upgrade our distros al a Windoze,
could it??
Bob Stia
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From: laurieapril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stuck at LI, How to uninstall LILO?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 06:38:01 GMT
I cannot boot to windows or linux without a floppy.and I get LI when i
try. lilo is
on my hard drive and linux is in gigs 16 to 20. I can boot fine from a
floppy to linux. I must get rid of
lilo off my
hda. to get to windows again. I do not have a floppy to boot to
windows.How do I do it? I tried
uninstalling lilo as super user from the console. i do not know linux
command
line comands. (so I do not know how to save changes when I change files.
Any ideas? I do not want to reinstall windows because there is
information on my hard drive and I do not want to lose it.
Nobody told me linux had to be in the first few gigs before I installed
lilo. I tried to change the config lilo file but didn't know how to save
the changes. Can I configure it to nutralize the lilo boot loader if I
cannot remove it? Brian White
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stuck at LI, How to uninstall LILO?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:03:50 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
laurieapril wrote:
>
> I cannot boot to windows or linux without a floppy.and I get LI when i
> try. lilo is
> on my hard drive and linux is in gigs 16 to 20. I can boot fine from a
> floppy to linux. I must get rid of
> lilo off my
> hda. to get to windows again. I do not have a floppy to boot to
> windows.How do I do it? I tried
> uninstalling lilo as super user from the console. i do not know linux
> command
> line comands. (so I do not know how to save changes when I change files.
> Any ideas? I do not want to reinstall windows because there is
> information on my hard drive and I do not want to lose it.
> Nobody told me linux had to be in the first few gigs before I installed
> lilo. I tried to change the config lilo file but didn't know how to save
> the changes. Can I configure it to nutralize the lilo boot loader if I
> cannot remove it? Brian White
try to adjust you're lilo.conf file, I'll explain it in steps:
1) become root
2) cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.bck
3) vi /etc/lilo.conf
important vi commands : <esc> :q! ---> quit without saving
<esc> :wq ---> save and quit
<esc> i ---> enter interactive
mode, now you can edit
If you make a mistake, hit <esc> and then enter :q! and try again
(if you really messed up, restore lilo.conf from the backup
lilo.conf.bck)
4) add the following to /etc/lilo.conf
other=/dev/hda
label=windows
5) `/sbin/lilo`
6) reboot
Alternatively, if you think you cannot do what I described,
`/sbin/lilo -u` will restore the MBR to the state it was before you made
the linux install.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lukas Mensinck)
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310-TX and linux
Date: 24 Nov 2000 07:07:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:15:34 GMT, Greg Tomalesky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Rajkumar wrote:
Hey Rajkumar!
>
>> hey all..
>>
>> I have a netgear fa310-tx ethernet adapter. Does it already have a linux
>> driver. When i run netconf I am not sure which kernel module to pick?
>> Does anyone have any idea ?
I use the same FA310-tx card on my Suse-Linux as well a on a W$ System.
For the Suse Linux i use the tulip driver and it works well.
I use 2.2.x kernel with DECtulip network card support
> I recently purchased the NetGear FB105 net starter kit. It contained two
>FA311-TX NICs. After installing these boards my RH61 boot-up did not
I do not know, if it will work with FA311-TX also.
Regards Lukas
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From: "Julian Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Static IP Nightmare
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 07:08:13 GMT
Have you tried IP address 14.181.137.185
Default Gateway 14.181.137.1
????
It just might do the trick.........maybe.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Overwriting Win harddisk boot partition w/ LILO
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:09:40 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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.
>
See if a /boot/boot.0301 exists. This is probably the old bootsector of
hda1, but make sure it is the windows one and not an old linux one.
(check the date it was created on first)
Eric
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From: Christopher Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: How should I install Linux and Win2K (dual boot)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:00:36 +1100
I set mine up as follows, I had already a dual boot NT/2000 system both
on NTFS, I also have a seperate ext2 partition.
Because it is my work Laptop, I didn't want to risk corrupting the NT
partition. So... I installed Mandrake 7.2 into a 1 gig partition
(after deselecting some unneeded packages), put the boot loader into
its partition /dev/hda6. I also told it to make a boot disk so it
would boot from floppy.
So to use Linux, I have to boot from floppy. or...
Run VMware, I have a demo, which is available from the web, and use the
existing partition as a virtual disk (requires some configuration,
particularly video and network).
Got that working fine.
Regards
Christopher Booth
PS I use Mandrake 7.0 at home with Lilo, which chooses between Linux and
Windows, when I choose windows, I then get the Win 2000 bootloader which
gives me the option to boot into Win 98 or Win 2000.
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From: "Phlip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: s3_VIRGE chipset vs XF86_S3V (RedHat on Digital PC 5000)
Date: 24 Nov 2000 07:12:23 GMT
Newsgroupies:
When I installed RedHat on my Digital PC 5000, the probers correctly
observed the VIRGE/DX graphic chips.
Then they insisted on linking X to XF86_SVGA.
This means the smarmy graphic install system then ran using lots of snow.
When XF86_SVGA probes the card it offends it somehow, and both character and
graphic modes get huge blitter artifacts.
So I install using Text-only mode, and then I link /etc/X11/X ->
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V. Then I put lines like these in XF86Config:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 31.5-57
VertRefresh 50-100
Modeline "1152x864" 89.90 1152 1216 1472 1680 864 868 876
892 -hsync -vsync
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
VideoRam 4096
Chipset "s3_VIRGE"
# Clockchip "25.17 28.32 25.17 25.17"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ViRGE/DX or /GX"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
VideoRam 4096
Chipset "s3_VIRGE"
# Clockchip "25.17 28.32 25.17 25.17"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "Accel"
Device "ViRGE/DX or /GX"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 8
BlankTime 0
SuspendTime 0
OffTime 0
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1152x864"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1152x864"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1152x864"
Virtual 1024 768
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection
Ooookay. Now 'startx' renders a beautiful Gnome desktop. However, the
viewport is all scrunched up (xvidtune can help a little), and the hardware
sprite where the mouse pointer should be is instead a blob of random bits.
What do I tweak next?
--
Phlip
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stuck at LI, How to uninstall LILO?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:13:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric wrote:
>
> laurieapril wrote:
> >
> > I cannot boot to windows or linux without a floppy.and I get LI when i
> > try. lilo is
> > on my hard drive and linux is in gigs 16 to 20. I can boot fine from a
> > floppy to linux. I must get rid of
> > lilo off my
> > hda. to get to windows again. I do not have a floppy to boot to
> > windows.How do I do it? I tried
> > uninstalling lilo as super user from the console. i do not know linux
> > command
> > line comands. (so I do not know how to save changes when I change files.
> > Any ideas? I do not want to reinstall windows because there is
> > information on my hard drive and I do not want to lose it.
> > Nobody told me linux had to be in the first few gigs before I installed
> > lilo. I tried to change the config lilo file but didn't know how to save
> > the changes. Can I configure it to nutralize the lilo boot loader if I
> > cannot remove it? Brian White
>
> try to adjust you're lilo.conf file, I'll explain it in steps:
>
> 1) become root
> 2) cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.bck
> 3) vi /etc/lilo.conf
> important vi commands : <esc> :q! ---> quit without saving
> <esc> :wq ---> save and quit
> <esc> i ---> enter interactive
> mode, now you can edit
> If you make a mistake, hit <esc> and then enter :q! and try again
> (if you really messed up, restore lilo.conf from the backup
> lilo.conf.bck)
>
> 4) add the following to /etc/lilo.conf
>
> other=/dev/hda
We all can make mistakes :-)
This should have been
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
Eric
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From: "Phlip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: "Dialup Configuration", netcfg
Date: 24 Nov 2000 07:22:44 GMT
Newsgroupies:
I have a Hayes-compatible modem, right on COM2 where the gods intended it to
be, inside a Digital PC 5000.
So I install RedHat 7, and run Gnome. Netscape comes up with a nice web
page, from a file, showing me all these tutorials I can hit at
www.redhat.com to help me learn how to use my new Linux. After I learn to
get the modem configured.
So, foolishly, I click the desktop icon that says "Dialup Configuration".
And I enter my ISP's account information.
The modem rings on correctly. And then of course I can't actually get
anywhere because my 8 years of experience with TCP/IP tell me the system
needs a DNS entry somewhere. And of course the "Dialup Configuration"
neither provides a field for this nor tells me I'l need it.
(How the hell do civilians run Linux? Don't answer that...)
So I finally (after many dool-boots to Windows NuT, of course) determine
that I should run 'netcfg' to enter the "nameserver".
After I do this, and finally dial up the ISP correctly, then whenever I ping
www.yahoo.com the system works. But when I tell Netscape, or even 'lynx', to
hit www.redhat.com, they lock up the whole UI. The video spot where my mouse
sprite should be still moves around, but no keystroke or mousestroke do
anything.
What is Linux doing wrong?
Oops - I'm sorry - I meant to say "What am _I_ doing wrong?"
Thanks.
--
Phlip
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.0+Win2K:Linux boot floppy doesn't
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:29:52 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> We have just tried two different dual boot setups
> of Win2k and Linux Redhat 7.0. Both have Win2k on
> hda and Linux on hdb, with a small /boot partition
> as hdb1. LILO was installed in hdb1.
>
> The first system used NTFS on the Win2k drive, and
> appears to have exactly the same problem as
> described by Murray Eisenberg; the boot floppy
> is ignored. The floppy drive was replaced, but
> no obvious hardware error was found.
>
> The second system used FAT32 on the Win2k drive,
> and here the Linux boot floppy is recognised.
> The Linux kernel image appears to be read from
> the floppy, but after some time the process
> is aborted and reports Error 0x10. After this
> the boot restarts (with the same result in an
> endless loop until power is turned off). No other
> messages appear in this loop.
>
This is silly.
It has nothing to do with winNT or Linux
The BIOS is responsible for booting an OS, first the bootcode at the
floppy is searched, if it is found it is loaded and executed. If it is
not found, the MBR is read/loaded/executed.
So make a working bootfloppy (use RH6.x to make one, just to be sure),
and make sure you're BIOS doesn't mess up (check the bootchain)
Error 0x10 indicates a geometry error IIRC, but check the documentation
that comes with LILO.
Eric
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