Linux-Setup Digest #110, Volume #20 Sun, 26 Nov 00 15:13:10 EST
Contents:
Stuck ("Sam Biebaut")
Re: Triple boot with NT in second drive (BO)
Re: ??Free ISP's for Linux users??? (Desperado)
Re: Getting Back To Linux ("Martin")
Re: Static IP Nightmare ("Mark Lane")
Re: Joystick problem (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Xsession error log (Richard Phillips)
Deeper Secrets Part 2 (philo)
Changed NIC, what do I do??? Plus a few other questions. ("Simple Simon")
Cicero 10/100 NIC based on Realtek81398 rocks! ("Simple Simon")
Icp-Vortex 6518RS Scsi Controller, SuSE 7.0 (Julie Dunlop)
Best OS for 486/33 SX w/ 32meg ram? (shadowlord)
Re: please help with kernel build!! (Adam Weeks)
any experience with a xircom 56k/10/100 combo card ?? (Ronald Haynes)
Newbie question on lilo ("Olaf Seegers")
Re: any experience with a xircom 56k/10/100 combo card ?? (Dragan Colak)
Re: Best OS for 486/33 SX w/ 32meg ram? (Dark Knight Radick)
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From: "Sam Biebaut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stuck
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:08:14 +0100
when Linux (redhat, oficial 6) is installed i reboot my comp like they ask.
but when i reboor my comp is sitting stuck well i'm a terrible newbee at
that sort of things. if someone could help me, my comp is and ''dell Xpi 133
mhz''(laptop)
everything is going perfect till i have to restart my computer
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From: BO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Triple boot with NT in second drive
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 15:30:05 -0000
Hi,
I created 3 primary partitions.
1 Linux
2 NTFS
3 Windows 98
4 extended
i installed 98 first, then NT, while installing NT, i set partition 2 as
active. But it did not detect 98. do i have to change the NT boot files?
if so what should i do? If i change partition 3 as boottable, windows 98
boots up. If i change partition 2 as bootable NT starts up. I installed
Linux. i could not install linux in 1st partition. something went wrong. i
will fix that later. right now linux is installed in a logical drive in
the extended partition. but if i make that drive bootable, linux does not
boot up. so i have to boot linux from a floppy. please suggest some
solution for NT and 98 to be booted from NT. i will fix linux later i
think.
thanks
BO
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> BO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi Rod,
> >
> > If i have to follow your suggestion of having 1 primary partitions for
> > each of the OS, how can i create primary parittions? should i use
fdisk?
> > please suggest. I have removed all the partitions and my HD is blank
now.
>
> Any decent disk partitioning software will let you create up to four
> primary partitions (the limit inherent in the data structures used on
> the disk). This rules out DOS's FDISK, but Linux's fdisk will do it, as
> will third-party programs like PartitionMagic. I'm 99% sure that
> WinNT/2K's partitioning software will do the trick, too.
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Desperado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ??Free ISP's for Linux users???
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 15:30:07 -0000
hoffmyster wrote:
>
> Beverly wrote:
>
> > Are there any free ISP's for US?. I need one.
> > Thanks
> > Beverly
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Well there you go. There is one out there! Now that I think about
> I have heard of one that only requires their home page. When using
> Windows, Netzero has this annoying banner. But, shhhhhh, I found a way
> to hide it.
>
> While I am using Linux I want a static IP address so free ISPs for me is
> out of the question, anyway.
>
> hoffy
> Hey people,
Keep an eye on dotnow!. Currently for Windows only but is working on a
version for Linux.
Desperado
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From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting Back To Linux
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 15:34:47 -0000
Jim, thanks for your message. I had already doen what you suggest; here's a
log
of the output. I've used > to indicate what I've typed, and < to indicate
the output.
> mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/new
< /dev/hda5: Success
< mount: you must specify the file system type
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mnt/new
< mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2
< or too many mounted filesystems (aren't you trying to mount an
< extended partition instead of some logical partition inside?)
>
> fdisk -l
< warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected
< by (w)rite
<
< Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3737 cylinders
< Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
<
< Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
< /dev/hda1 * 1 638 5124703+ b Win95 FAT32
< /dev/hda2 639 3737 24892717+ 85 Linux extended
One other thing, if X-CD-Roast had written to hda2, would I have been
able to continue working as normal during that login, as I did for
several hours after initially launching X-CD-Roast?
Martin
"Jim Broughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> [...] Or mount it from a rescue system after letting the rescue system
> come up and give you a login.
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From: "Mark Lane" <[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: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 08:57:03 -0800
Default gw should be set by dhcp.
Mark
"A transfinite number of monkeys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:21:21 GMT, Nate Fitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I am trying to configure my 3Com 3C905B-TX NIC card to connect to my
> : cable provider (@Home) I am about to pull my hair out because I've
tried
> : DHCP and static to no avail. It could be any number of things with
DHCP, so
> : I scrapped it and I'm trying to go static. I cannot for the life of me
> : figure out where I am going wrong. I have a Windows box (not surprsing)
and
> : I used winipfg to get the following values:
> :
> : Host name: CC661256-B.pinev1.home.com
> : DNS Servers: 24.8.119.17, 24.8.119.15
> : Node Type: Broadcast
> : IP Address: 24.181.137.185
> : Sub. Mask: 255.255.255.0
> : Default Gateway: 14.181.137.185
>
> Well, that's your problem right there. Set your default gateway properly.
> My $$ is on 24.181.137.1 for your gateway.
>
> --
> Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
> jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Subject: Re: Joystick problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 10:10:24 -0600
I had to put
modprobe joy-analog
in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local init script to get mine to load.
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 18:08:36 +0000,
chris vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've recently got into Linux and installes SuSe 7 with few problems. I
>have go the soundcard working (Genius32X) with OSS, but I cant use the
>Joystick.
>
>It appears that the driver does not load.
>
>Can anyone help please.
>
>Chris
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From: Richard Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xsession error log
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:20:00 +0000
I have recently installed Mandrake 7.1 - soon to upgrade to 7.2.
Hi,
Trawling through the system I came across the XSession error file. I was
wondering if anyone has any thoughts as to which if any of these error
messages need to be rectified and how - the system seems to work fine
for most things, except Netscape often freezes - and often won't work
properly even if it's killed and restarted - or even after a reboot.
BTW, the audio card, Sonic Vortex2 isn't supported but I hope to install
new drivers for the upgrade, so sound isn't an issue.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Richard.
===============================================================
imwheel process could not be verified: : No such file or directory
imwheel pid file could not be removed: : Operation not permitted
Couldn't write pid to pid file: Permission denied
maudio: Cannot open audio device.
PID could not get read.
stretchPixmap 8x17 to 128x17
stretchPixmap 8x17 to 128x17
stretchPixmap 18x8 to 18x128
stretchPixmap 17x8 to 17x128
PID could not get read.
KCharset: Wrong charset!
PID could not get read.
Max Entries = 30
PID could not get read.
PID could not get read.
PID could not get read.
PID could not get read.
PID could not get read.
PID could not get read.
PID could not get read.
kwmsound: Failed connecting the audio server.
Please check manually if you can start kaudioserver.
Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
An error occurred running /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator.
Converted to: , len: 0
Converted to: , len: 0
Converted to: , len: 0
Converted to: , len: 0
Select the window whose client you wish to kill with button 1....
/usr/bin/X11/xkill: killing creator of resource 0x300045c
popup state enabled
popup state enabled
popup state enabled
KCharset: Wrong charset!
KCharset: Wrong charset!
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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 12:39:59 -0600
From: philo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deeper Secrets Part 2
wow now i'm even more puzzled. (i'm dual booting win98 and mandrake 7)
i had been trying to set up either grub or the new lilo so i would now
have to rely on a boot
floppy.
i received an excellent suggestion to try loadlin
and it worked beautifully...even for a newcommer like me.
but here is the really odd thing:
when i boot to linux using loadlin...
my ppp dial-up *does not* work...it just hangs
but when i go back and boot to linux from the boot disk ...all workes
fine.
how can this be???
i tried both ways several times...
plus i did a uname -r first to make sure i did infact copy the correct
image onto my windows partition.
plus: i created a linux directory on my windows drive C: to put the
image file
i cannot see it in the gnome file manager (yes i know it's a bit buggy
and the directories
have to be shutdown ,then opened)
but it is there (as expected) in mc...
i'll tell you...this is sure one heck of an odd-ball learning experience
for me.
so who would like to help me solve this challenge..?.
*thank-you*
Philo
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From: "Simple Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Changed NIC, what do I do??? Plus a few other questions.
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:55:08 GMT
Hi!
I'm running RH7 on a Duron 600 PC. It's working fine, but, I was using a
Linksys LNE100TX v4 network card. I had no problems with it under Linux, but
it would reboot my PC under Windows 2000. I've pulled it out and installed a
cheapo Cicero 10/100 NIC based on a Realtek 81398 chip. This card was
beautiful to install in both Window 2000 and Linux. It just worked, no
questions asked.
What I need to know is... How do I make the new Realtek NIC ETH0 instead of
ETH1? It delays starting ETH1 and then fails during boot. The card works
fine if I can get it to pull an IP address, but it doesn't do this
automatically.
Also, if anyone has the time, there are a few other Linux projects I will be
working on in the near future. If anyone can point me in the right direction
for these, it would be appreciated! Any info at all is welcome. I'm eagerly
awaiting my copy of "Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed".
- Is there anything better than VNC to connect to a Linux box for
administration purposes? This would be from other Linux boxes or Windows
boxes or possibly a Macintosh!
- Connect my Linux box to the Windows 2000 Server peer to peer Netbeui file
shares I currently have.
- Print to the Epson Photo 700 printer on my Windows 2000 Server peer to
peer Netbeui share.
- Replace my Windows 2000 Server box with a Linux box for:
- File sharing
- Printer sharing
- Outgoing fax sharing (incoming too?)
- Voicemail
- Web hosting
- FTP Server
- POP & SMTP server
- Multimedia (streaming MP3) server
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From: "Simple Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Cicero 10/100 NIC based on Realtek81398 rocks!
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:00:40 GMT
Hey all!
Just an FYI to anyone looking for a decent LINUX compatible 10/100 PCI
network card.
I just dropped a Realtek 81398 based Cicero 10/100 PCI NIC into my Duron 600
PC and both Windows 2000 and Linux just absorbed it, no questions asked.
Considering I paid about $20 CDN for this, it ROCKS!
Forget LinkSys... How they can have the same model number for 4 (or more)
completely different network cards is beyond me. I was able to get my
LNE100TX v4 working under Linux, but it would reboot my PC in Windows 2000
on certain websites. Dropped an email to their support team? Not even an
acknowledgment came back.
Hope this saves a few folks some headaches!
SS
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From: Julie Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Icp-Vortex 6518RS Scsi Controller, SuSE 7.0
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:21:23 GMT
Hello.
I have a mess on my hands and I can't figure it out :(
I have an Asus P2B-F mb with PIII 800 mhz, 256Meg ram, IDE CDrom,
ICP-Vortex controller with a Raid 5 drive configured.
The system will *not* boot from the cdrom at all.
If I boot from the floppy, it finds the IDE cdrom just fine, I tell it
to load the module for the ICP-Vortex controller and it finds that
also. I then tell it to install the OS. It load the inital ram disk and
then stops end of story!!!
If I do the above proceedure without loading the ICP-Vocrtex controller
module, Yast runs but the install fails when it cannot find any hard
disks.
What is the controller doing to the system?
Thanks
lach
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (shadowlord)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Best OS for 486/33 SX w/ 32meg ram?
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:24:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to use an old 486/33 SX based computer with 32meg ram as
a web terminal in my home. I tried the QNX demo, but it doesn't work
with either of my two network cards. (Crystal 8920 and some generic
card ..)
What flavor of linux would be recommended for this type of machine?
Simple to setup and maintain would be BIG plusses!
Thanks,
Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: please help with kernel build!!
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:22:51 GMT
"Michael V. Ferranti" wrote:
> And Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
>
> >Any advice or knowledge would be greatly appreciated!!!
>
> Check-in at the RedHat website. I understand you have to install kgcc
> and go into the makefile somewhere and change the value of CC from "gcc" to
> "kgcc". For compiling RH6.2, I had to:
>
> 1) Edit the Makefile and change the value of EXTRAVERSION.
> # The above generates a completely separate kernel and modules, leaving
> # your old, safe kernel as-is.
> 2) make mrproper
> 3) make menuconfig (or however you prefer to setup the kernel)
> # Here I changed nothing, just to see if the kernel would even compile
> # at all. I still got plenty of warnings when I compiled, and a
> # dependency error when I ran the kernel.
> 4) make dep
> 5) make clean
> 6) make bzImage
> 7) Move/rename the new bzImage to the /boot directory with the others.
> # The new bzImage is: /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> 8) make modules
> 9) make modules_install
> # (Creates a new set of modules under /lib/modules/)
> 10) Edit /etc/lilo.conf and add in the new bzImage information.
> 11) Run /sbin/lilo to compile the new config.
> 12) Cross my fingers and reboot.
>
> G'luck...
>
> -- 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.
I tried most of this Friday, right before going on a short roadtrip - (bad idea if
you plan to enjoy a vacation) -- I changed the reference to kgcc from gcc like you
mentioned. I then did a mrproper, then a make dep; make clean, then make
bzImage. I was able to produce the bzImage!
So I renamed the /boot files to 2.2.16-22OLD, just adding old on the end. I
really wasn't sure exactly which files, so I renamed both vmlinux-2.2... and
vmlinuz-2.2, both copied to the same with OLD on the end.
I then copied the bzImage to vmlinuz-2.2.16-22NEW.
Then I edited the lilo.conf, and added the vmlinuz-2.2.16-22NEW, gave it the label
of linux (default), and rebooted. My thinking was worst case scenario, I should
get a choice on startup.
However, this pretty stable machine hung on LI - , and never even showed the
choice screen, then I left for the vacation :(
I was able to boot from the floppy when I got back, and not sure what I did wrong
still. lilo.conf looks logical to me, and I will paste it below if anyone sees
problems.
PS - I did run the /sbin/lilo to compile it, too
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22NEW
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda6
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22OLD
label=linuxold
read-only
root=/dev/hda6
All the image locations exist -- the OLD image is just a copy of the original
renamed, and the NEW image is the bzImage.
Won't boot, please help!
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From: Ronald Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: any experience with a xircom 56k/10/100 combo card ??
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 11:05:46 -0800
Hi, just purchased a laptop with this card,
wondering what linux distributions support
this card??
R Haynes
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From: "Olaf Seegers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie question on lilo
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 20:29:10 +0100
Hi,
I'm struggeling with my suse7.0 installation. I installed it on a 30GB Disk
in a partition that it completely
above the 1024 cylinder. I downloaded lilo21.6 and installed it. Now I like
to install lilo in the mbr but I
allways get the error message that I should use the lba32 keyword. How? I
read the manpages but I only found that this option exist but not how to use
it. At the moment I only can start linux with the installtion CD, what
is not what I want.
Anyone who can help me?
Thanks in advance,
Olaf
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From: Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: any experience with a xircom 56k/10/100 combo card ??
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:00:14 -0100
I have installed SuSE Linux 7.0 Pro (Kernel 2.2.16)
on a HP OmniBook 5700CTX with a Xircom CreditCard
Ethernet 10/100+ Modem 56.
Both, modem and nic, run perfectly. Didn't have any
problems until now.
Dragan
Ronald Haynes wrote:
> Hi, just purchased a laptop with this card,
> wondering what linux distributions support
> this card??
>
> R Haynes
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From: Dark Knight Radick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Best OS for 486/33 SX w/ 32meg ram?
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:06:27 -0600
shadowlord wrote:
> I would like to use an old 486/33 SX based computer with 32meg ram as
> a web terminal in my home. I tried the QNX demo, but it doesn't work
> with either of my two network cards. (Crystal 8920 and some generic
> card ..)
>
> What flavor of linux would be recommended for this type of machine?
> Simple to setup and maintain would be BIG plusses!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using RH6.2 and it comes with the Apache Websever, simple to set up,
easy to maintain.
When you say web terminal in your home, do you mean like a LAN server to
an ISP? Or do you mean like a web page server? It's been recommended
that I (with a 90MHz Pentium oc to 133MHz and 32MB RAM) do not try to
set up my own computer as web server 'cause it will KILL my computer,
literally, and I don't want that, at least not yet. ;)
Hope this helps,
Dark Knight Radick
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