Linux-Setup Digest #133, Volume #20 Wed, 29 Nov 00 22:13:11 EST
Contents:
Resizing my partition using fips & Windows Me. ("Kevin D")
Re: Linux on AMD (Hugh Gibson)
Broken server? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Has anyone gotten an ASUS V7100 to work with X? ("bigtiny")
Re: Slackware 7.1 (Hugh Gibson)
Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Need help understanding vocabulary (new to Java (and Linux)) ("Mark Johnson")
insmod driver.o failure ("Ray Lassiter")
Re: How come paths not working? (Colin Watson)
Re: root password changed, need help (Colin Watson)
LILO Question (Rand Simberg)
Re: How come paths not working? (Rand Simberg)
Re: HD off after boot - possible?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Intel EEPro, Setup under RH 6.2 ("Matt Seibert")
Re: LILO Question (Patrick Baer)
Re: HD off after boot - possible?? (Patrick Baer)
Users Desktop (Leo)
Re: Boot RH7 from /dev/hdc1 with lilo ? HELP PLEASE !!! (David Efflandt)
Re: Sound Card? (David Efflandt)
Re: multiple IDE-adapters (W Bauske)
Re: Broken server? ("Bryan Seigneur")
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Reply-To: "Kevin D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Kevin D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resizing my partition using fips & Windows Me.
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:36:32 -0000
Hi all
On my old shity computer I resized my win95 partition using fips so I will
have a dual boot system with RH linux Pro Server 7.
Now I want to do the same with my new Win Me partition on my new DELL
system.
Has anyone tried this using fips. How did you get on???
Let me know.
Kevin.
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From: Hugh Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: 29 Nov 2000 19:37:15 -0500
Noel Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does it run on AMD's ?
Running Slackware 7.1 with 2.2.16 kernel on 1GHz T/Bird..
installed without any problems and is mighty fast.
Shame you can't hear the soundcard well because of the fans though :(
Hugh
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Broken server?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 01:42:48 +0100
Hi
I have been running a server on a K6-2 300MHz with 64Mb SD-RAM (PC-100
running at 95MHz) and an IBM DTLA 30Gb disk on a ALI aladdin V chipset
(M1543 IDE controller). It is AT.
It has been running for two years as a workstation without problems and to
months as a server without any problems at all.
The RAM is PC-100. It gives sig11 when running at 100MHz, but was fine for
years at 95MHz.
Now some electician (or some other dork) jerked with the eletrics in the
server room.
After this, the server gives massive file system corruption.
As a last resort, we tried reinstalling RedHat 7. The installation always
ends in signal 7 (bus error) now (first install went fine without any such
trouble) in different places every time.
We tried changing the disk to a 425Mb Quantum disk. Same result. Install
ends in bus errors.
I believe that this as a hardware defect. My experience is that bus errors
mean unexplainable errors - which often are hardware defects.
But the problem is now: Where can I find the error? Is it the mainboard,
processor, RAM og power supply?
I believe the mainboard is the one, that got hit - but how do I make sure
this is correct? How can I be sure, if anything other is broken
(processor, power supply)?
It is possible for me to check the RAM in another machine - but the other
parts are not as easy to check...
Any other ideas?
Thx.
Rasmus B. Hansen
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From: "bigtiny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Has anyone gotten an ASUS V7100 to work with X?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:50:47 GMT
Hi all,
I have an ASUS v7100 video adapter which uses the nvidia geforce2 mx
chipset. I'm fairly new to linux so be gentle! =:-)
I've looked at the doc for xfree86 4.0.1 and in the directions for
installation, it says in one of the steps that "if you have a geforce two,
skip this step...".
I seem to remember seeing elsewhere that the geforce 2 is not supported,
only the geforce.
However, a guy at work who 'does linux' reported to me that people have
reported getting this card to work.
I'd love to get my card to work under linux/x.....can anyone get me on the
right path?
thanks in advance,
keith
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From: Hugh Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware 7.1
Date: 29 Nov 2000 19:55:56 -0500
ky_chiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All :
> I need to create a Slackware installation disk for installing
> Slackware 7.1.
Easy...
> In red-hat system, creating isntallation disk : dd if=/boot.img /dev/fd0
> bs=1440k
> or
> rawrite....
> but Slackware 7.1 ?
> rawrite ...? or need some parameters?........
from a DOS shell:
rawrite file.image a:
If you have RH going, make the Slackware floppy from RedHat with the dd
command.
Hope Slackware 7.1 installs as easily for you as it did to me.. best
install yet!
Hugh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem?
Date: 30 Nov 2000 01:10:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:32:28 GMT, ne... wrote:
>On Nov 29, 2000 at 13:44, Chet Vora eloquently wrote:
>
>>Mem 30M 29M .7M
>>Swap: 68M 3.5M 64M
>>Is a 68M swap size
>>right or will I be benefitted by increasing it ?
>/boot is when the kernel is stored. This is not the swap partition.
>
>>THis is a 32M RAM,180 MHz Pentium machine. Would also appreciate
>>feedback about how to resolve the "Virtual Mem exhaust" problem. I'm
>>trying to compile a protocol stack which in turn uses flex and yacc. Any
>>pointers will be welcome.
>Due to the amount of ram you have, it would seem you need more swap.
>The swap initially allocated would have been ok if you weren't
>compiling stuff. It more seems you need more hardware. If you have
>unformatted space on /dev/hda, I would format this for swap. Else, if
>you have a spare harddrive, this could be used for swap also.
Spare harddrive? Heck with that; if you have *any* spare space on the
root partition, you can get more swap space. Like so: (must be done as root,
natch.)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=64
sync
sync
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
Add /swapfile to /etc/fstab to enable the extra swap space at boot time.
HTH,
--
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help understanding vocabulary (new to Java (and Linux))
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:59:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oh. I just read the return address. You probably aren't MJ. Oh well, the
> info's still good.
>
I got it just the same... thanks for all your responses... I'll go try
some now...
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From: "Ray Lassiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: insmod driver.o failure
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:19:49 -0500
I have tried everything I know, and have read, to install this Linsys NIC -
LNE100TX. I have compiled the source driver, newly aquired from linksys site
and sycld site. I have recompiled as module and as kernal, numerous times.
Everytime I try to test drive using
insmod tulip.o
I get a message
unresolved symbol pci_drv_unregister
unresolved symbol pci_drv_register
Does anyone have any suggestions regarding this problem. I would like to get
this thing installed this century, before I resort to going out and
purchasing a new NIC. I am using SuSE 6.3 Kernel 2.2.13. Also, any
suggestions on a easier to install NIC?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: How come paths not working?
Date: 30 Nov 2000 01:46:14 GMT
Rand Simberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:54:08 GMT, in a place far, far away,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher) made the phosphor on my monitor
>glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>>How are trying to start programs: through the console, in an xterm, or
>>what?
>
>I think I figured the problem out. I was running as root from a
>user's (mine) xterm. When you "su" do you not launch root's bash
>profile?
Nope. When you 'su', you aren't starting a login shell, and so root's
.bashrc gets run. When you 'su -', you start a login shell and run
root's .bash_profile.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"*BEEP* Troll Detected. Killfile, Ignore, Flame?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: root password changed, need help
Date: 30 Nov 2000 01:49:08 GMT
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bulent Sarinc wrote:
>> somebody has changed root password and i cant get into my linux box on
>> i386
>> debian version
>
>at the lilo bootprompt try:
> linux 1
>if that fails:
> linux root=/bin/sh
That should be 'linux init=/bin/sh', I think. The root= parameter
specifies the root device.
>else use a boot/root flop and remove the newly created root password
>from the passwd file
Note that Debian usually uses /etc/shadow, so you'll need to change that
instead.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"But in your dreams, whatever they be / Dream a little dream of me."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: LILO Question
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 01:56:10 GMT
I've got several kernels available, but would like to make one of them
the default. I thought that this would be the first one. But when I
edit lilo.conf, and make the one that I want the first one, and run
lilo, at boot time it still insists on coming up with the one labeled
"linux" first rather than "linux-2.2.16" which is the one that I want.
What's the deal?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: How come paths not working?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 01:58:32 GMT
On 30 Nov 2000 01:46:14 GMT, in a place far, far away,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>>I think I figured the problem out. I was running as root from a
>>user's (mine) xterm. When you "su" do you not launch root's bash
>>profile?
>
>Nope. When you 'su', you aren't starting a login shell, and so root's
>.bashrc gets run. When you 'su -', you start a login shell and run
>root's .bash_profile.
Ahhh. Thank you. I'll try to remember that...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HD off after boot - possible??
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 01:55:39 GMT
In article <90415j$1pu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Juho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a cable connection which I share with a IP-masquerading linux
server.
> The server does nothing else, just forwards, masquerades and firewalls
the
> traffic between two ethernet adapters so it's really very simple and
compact
> setup. Hardware is P75/800HD/24MB.
>
> I need to make the machine as silent as possible. So I need to get rid
of
> the HD spinning all the time.
>
> Is it possible to somehow configure the machine so that once it has
booted
> and loaded all the needed stuff into memory, the HD is switched off
and it
> stays off no matter what? I have the bios HD sleep setting at 2
minutes, but
> after spinning down the HD it takes about 2 minutes max that Linux
wants to
> use the hd with no apparent reason and it spins up again.
>
> What causes this? Can it be avoided? Could the swap use a ram disk (I
could
> add memory)?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Juho
Why not remove the hard drive and use a floppy disk only linux distro?
There is a good one tuned for two ethernet interfaces here:
http://zelow.no/floppyfw/
HTH
Bluster
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From: "Matt Seibert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Intel EEPro, Setup under RH 6.2
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:30:35 -0600
I'm not sure whom this should go to, so I'll address it to the few groups
that I THINK are relevant.
We have some Dell PE2450 machines, with RH6.2 installed on them. They came
configured, and pre-installed, but it appears that the NIC is set at 10 MB
HDX. I would like to (for secret government reasons) get these
re-configured to 100MB FDX.
Can someone please refresh my memory as to how I go about setting media
speed and duplex on this card / system configuration?
THANKS!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Baer)
Subject: Re: LILO Question
Date: 30 Nov 2000 02:20:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 01:56:10 GMT, Rand Simberg wrote:
>I've got several kernels available, but would like to make one of them
>the default. I thought that this would be the first one. But when I
>edit lilo.conf, and make the one that I want the first one, and run
>lilo, at boot time it still insists on coming up with the one labeled
>"linux" first rather than "linux-2.2.16" which is the one that I want.
>What's the deal?
You might re-check your lilo.conf and find the term "default"
in your linux-section, right? :)
later
--
Patrick Baer
http://www.computer-forums.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Baer)
Subject: Re: HD off after boot - possible??
Date: 30 Nov 2000 02:23:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:52:49 +0200, Juho wrote:
>
>What causes this? Can it be avoided? Could the swap use a ram disk (I could
>add memory)?
>
IMHO is the best thing to run your linux off of a single floppy without
using a HDD at all. Look for Tom's Root and Boot or some other Mini-
Linuxdistros!
Regards
--
Patrick Baer
http://www.computer-forums.com
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From: Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Users Desktop
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:40:06 GMT
For some reasons, I need to add and delete some users on the computer of my
site from time to time. I will like them to have a same desktop (e.g. same
set of icons, links, wallpaper etc) as new users log in for the first time,
and be able to modify it later by themselves if they wish to. Any ideas
how? Any help will be appreciated!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Boot RH7 from /dev/hdc1 with lilo ? HELP PLEASE !!!
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 02:56:22 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:04:38 +0100, NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I have partitions:
>hda->win,
>hdb1->win
>hdb2->swap ,
>hdb3->RH6.1
>
>I boot Linux via Lilo which is installed on MBR (hda). OK, I can chooose
>win/linux for booting.
>
>Now I try install RH7 on hdc (3rd HDD IDE). I do
>hdc1 -> /boot (15Mb)
>hdc2 -> /
>
>Installation is OK, I can boot RH 7 without any problem from floppy.
>When I was asked for installation Lilo in RH7, I have igored. I tried
>add to /etc/lilo.conf (RH6)
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.....
> label=rh7
> root=/dev/hdc1
> read-only
You said above that hdc2 was /, now you are telling LILO that /hdc1 is /
(it is really /boot).
>Under RH6, when I try "/sbin/lilo -v", lilo can not found RH7 image on
>/dev/hdc1
Because it is looking in /boot of RH6 instead of /boot of RH7. You have
to mount your RH7 /boot somewhere on RH6 first. For example if you create
a dir on RH6 called /mnt/rh7boot and then 'mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rh7boot'
you would change the above to image=/mnt/rh7boot/vmlinuz-2..... or more
completely with corrected root:
#add to /etc/lilo.conf (RH6)
image=/mnt/rh7boot/vmlinuz-2.....
label=rh7
root=/dev/hdc2
read-only
>Another way, I try install lilo to /dev/hdc1. Lilo tell me "BIOS drive
>0x82 may be not accessible".
You can safely ignore that message if your BIOS sees all your drives.
That is only a fatal error with old (386?) BIOS that only sees first 2
drives on primary ide channel.
>I added :
>disk /dev/hdc
> bios=0x82
>And I hace not warning message.
>Within lilo.conf (RH6) I changed :
>
>other=/dev/hdc1
> label=rh7
I don't know about this section except that the last 2 lines above should
work with properly configured RH7 lilo.conf and LILO for it on hdc1. But
you might also need:
table=/dev/hdc
>Now lilo RH6 accepts install to MBR but I can not boot to RH7 !!!! Lilo
>stoped at "Kernel panic ..."
>
>My question : It's possible to boot from 3rd HDD in my case ?
>If yes, could you tell me how to do that please.
>If non, have you any idea for help me ?
Try my first suggestion first. Then play around with getting RH7 lilo
properly configured on /dev/hdc1 to make things easier in the future.
PS: I have been booting to RH6.1 on hdc for years despite complaints from
lilo, which I simply ignore. Now I also boot to Mandrake on hdb which has
its own lilo on its / partition and I simply point to that partition in my
other main lilo.conf as:
other=/dev/hdb1
label=drake
table=/dev/hdb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Sound Card?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:04:13 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I Installed mandrake linux 7.0, but It did'nt find my sound card
>I don't Know what to do because in the previos version that I have
>I had no problem with my sound card.
You forgot to mention 'which' soundcard. Are you saying that an earlier
sndconfig was able to find it, but your current sndconfig cannot?
Have you tried putting the same info for it in /etc/conf.modules (and
isapnp.conf if PnP) that worked before?
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From: W Bauske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: multiple IDE-adapters
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:06:00 GMT
Miguel De Buf wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am putting together a linux server with 6 disks. I plan installing
> two extra IDE-cards (PCI), so I would have 6 IDE controllers. I would
> attach one large disk to each controller (so I have 6 disks). Now I
> would use RAID1, so logically, I would see 3 disks at the software
> level.
>
> Does anybody know if it is possible to install 2 extra IDE-PCI cards
> onto the motherbord, so linux recognises them (and of course is able to
> use them) ? If so, are there limitations on this type of hardware ? Do
> I have to use a certain type/chipset ? If so, can someone point me to a
> location with more information about that ?
>
> That is a lot, any help would be greatly appreciated :-)
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> Miguel De Buf
Promise UATA66 cards and HPT370 based cards work.
I've got systems with two Promise cards and they
work fine. Only tried one HPT370 based card so I
don't know if more than one of them works. You do
have to have the IDE-DMA patches to make them work.
Wes
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From: "Bryan Seigneur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Broken server?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:06:02 +0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been running a server on a K6-2 300MHz with 64Mb SD-RAM (PC-100
> running at 95MHz) and an IBM DTLA 30Gb disk on a ALI aladdin V chipset
> (M1543 IDE controller). It is AT.
>
> It has been running for two years as a workstation without problems and
> to months as a server without any problems at all.
>
> The RAM is PC-100. It gives sig11 when running at 100MHz, but was fine
> for years at 95MHz.
Sig11: first try replacing ram.
> Now some electician (or some other dork) jerked with the eletrics in the
> server room.
>
> After this, the server gives massive file system corruption.
>
> As a last resort, we tried reinstalling RedHat 7. The installation
> always ends in signal 7 (bus error) now (first install went fine without
> any such trouble) in different places every time.
>
> We tried changing the disk to a 425Mb Quantum disk. Same result. Install
> ends in bus errors.
bad disks don't give bus errors. its not the disk. (of course
i speak in generalities, but pretty tested generalities.)
> I believe that this as a hardware defect. My experience is that bus
> errors mean unexplainable errors - which often are hardware defects.
>
> But the problem is now: Where can I find the error? Is it the mainboard,
> processor, RAM og power supply?
You start with the least expensive/easiest to replace component.
RAM. An administrator's virtue is laziness. If its the power supply,
the everything might be hosed. Be optimistic. Be lazy. Try the
ram first. Try the ram first.
> I believe the mainboard is the one, that got hit - but how do I make
> sure this is correct? How can I be sure, if anything other is broken
> (processor, power supply)?
>
> It is possible for me to check the RAM in another machine - but the
> other parts are not as easy to check...
I wouldn't even check the ram. Replace it, and see if your errors go
away. Then you know the first ram was indeed bad.
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thx.
>
> Rasmus B. Hansen
>
>
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