Linux-Setup Digest #137, Volume #20 Thu, 30 Nov 00 16:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: a NIC card that works with RH7? ("William C. Mount")
disk utilization (gkaplan)
newbie 1024 cylinder question (dwillhoft)
Re: Cicero 10/100 NIC based on Realtek81398 rocks! ("William C. Mount")
Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem? (Chet Vora)
Re: partition install help ("Kevin D")
i386 i586 i686 (Neil McFadyen)
Help: /dev/psm0 doesn't exist. How do I create this entry in /dev? (Dennis
McLaughlin)
Re: [Fwd: cannot connect to linux] (ekk)
Re: newbie 1024 cylinder question (Leo)
Re: Partition Table Screwed Up ("Eugenia Loli")
set-up DSL? (Dean Kwak)
Re: Parallel port zip drive (Gary)
Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem? ("Peter T. Breuer")
mounting hda5 read/write off a rescue disk (David Punsalan)
Re: Linux Installation (NagaSri)
SSH2 installation. Error message "Unable to get pty ." ("Oleg")
Upgrading Redhat6.2 on Ultra 1 Sparc (Jason Hong)
SiS 6326 (Steven John Romej)
Re: mounting hda5 read/write off a rescue disk ("Mathias Rodenstein")
Re: Has anyone gotten an ASUS V7100 to work with X? ("Arthur J. Yarwood")
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From: "William C. Mount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a NIC card that works with RH7?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:08:41 -0600
Peter Bismuti wrote:
> 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.
3com 905 BTX
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From: gkaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: disk utilization
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:05:48 -0800
I have a system with a thirty gb drive where there is a factory
installed linux system which consumes the entire drive.
cyl 0 - 392 3.1G /home /dev/hda1 1% used
cyl 393 - 395 24.7M /boot /dev/hda2 23% used
cyl 396 - 3649 auxiliary partition /dev/hda3
cyl 396 - 2548 17.3G /usr /dev/hda5 13% used
cyl 2548 - 3633 8.7G / /dev/hda6 2% used
cyl 3633 - 3649 136.5M swap /dev/hda7 - not relevant
This does not strike me as a optimal use of a system for any
conceivable user.
I would prefer at present not to reinstall. My questions are
1.) since the numbers seem to work out what are the "got you"s if i try
moving (tar) subtrees to hda1 and then fdisk delete /dev/hda5 and
/dev/hda6.
2.) book keeping ( and when should the book keeping take place ) to
maintain a working directory hierarchy
3.) if the bois setting is for lba address, do I have to be concerned
about the placement of /boot of lilo.conf .
4.) is the following statement correct for an eide/ata drive: win/dos
requires a primary partition, FreeBSD requires a primary partition,
linux will install in the auxiliary partition, BeOS will install in an
auxiliary partition.
4.1 add to the above list as you see fit.
Thank you , Gilbert. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: dwillhoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie 1024 cylinder question
Date: 30 Nov 2000 08:26:21 -0800
I am trying to install Caldera Linux on my Win98 machine with a 10GB HD. I
understand that Linux must install in the first 7 or 8 GB's because of the
cylinder limit, but I do not understand how to specify that I want the OS to
load in a particular spot on my hard drive.
Any suggestions or url's would be most appreciated.
dw
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From: "William C. Mount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Cicero 10/100 NIC based on Realtek81398 rocks!
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:14:17 -0600
Simple Simon wrote:
> 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
kristenmicro has a cheap $7 10/100 PCI card based on same chipset. They rock
too!!
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From: Chet Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:33:06 -0500
I decided to reinstall with a 100M swap partition. The compile still made
the system thrash when I ran it after starting Gnome. Compiliing from the
console did the trick however.
Thanks for all your tips,
Chet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chet Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I am having Virtual Memory problems while compiling a particular app.
> > I
> > keep getting "Virtual memory exhausted" error so I decided to do a
> > little investigation about the swap configuration on my RH6.2.
> <snip>
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Reply-To: "Kevin D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Kevin D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition install help
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:43:35 -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.
I did the above and it woked fine
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:905rba$4qc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm attempting to install Linux on a 5GB partition that is well beyond
> the 1024 cylinder on my hdd - I would prefer to have Linux to be the
> secondary OS and reside "behind" my 15GB Win98 Partition...I have
> checked the HOWTO's and FAQ's and still can't quite seem to get this
> right....This will be a dual boot system - is this possible with
> LILO/Loadlin? Corel or RedHad 6.2 can be used - any ideas would be
> appreciated. TIA
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Neil McFadyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i386 i586 i686
Date: 30 Nov 2000 18:01:07 GMT
Are there really any differences between i386 i586 i686 rpm packages?
thanks
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From: Dennis McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Help: /dev/psm0 doesn't exist. How do I create this entry in /dev?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:22:12 -0500
I setup XF86Config on my comp and my PS/2 Intellimouse doesn't work. I
look around and found out that I have to make it point to /dev/psm0. The
thing is, this device doesn't appear in my /dev directory.
According to Menuconfig, PS/2 support is compiled into the kernel. The
/dev/psm0 isn't a file or a directory. Any ideas on how I can get it
there?
Thanks.
Dennis
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [Fwd: cannot connect to linux]
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:20:48 -0500
Yes, thank you, I am able to ping the linux machines using this command. I
am still figuring out how to find out if Win is passing encrypted passwords.
Anyone know?
Further elaboration:
Here is the message I get when I double click a linux machine:
You must supply a password to make this connection:
Resource: \\HURRICANE\IPC$
Password: (blank)
When I enter the password it denies access.
Steve Martin wrote:
> ekk wrote:
>
> > 4. I am using TCP/IP. If I knew how to Ping from windows, I'm assuming
> > I would be able to Ping, because of my answer to #2.
>
> Open a command prompt window and type "ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" where the
> "xxx...xxx" is the IP address of the machine you're trying to ping.
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From: Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie 1024 cylinder question
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:44:51 GMT
dwillhoft wrote:
> I am trying to install Caldera Linux on my Win98 machine with a 10GB HD.
> I understand that Linux must install in the first 7 or 8 GB's because of
> the cylinder limit, but I do not understand how to specify that I want the
> OS to load in a particular spot on my hard drive.
>
> Any suggestions or url's would be most appreciated.
>
> dw
>
You must figure it out as you partition your hd. The newer version of LILO
can boot linux at any spot, without cylinder limit.
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From: "Eugenia Loli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Table Screwed Up
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:39:16 -0000
Thank you Eric.
Yes, this is exactly the issue, as you described it. A Be engineer told me
that this is the case indeed..
So, I will have to do some hacking with the partitions I suppose...
Thanks,
Eugenia
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Eugenia Loli wrote:
> >
> > Please find the partition table of the secondary master drive following.
> > As you can see, RHat have recreated hdc11 and hdc12 what it used to be
hdc5.
> > Was the problem because I made the / hdc11 as bootable (*)? If yes, can
I
> > fix that?
> >
> > Another thing is that when Redhat is booting it displays this:
> > PTBL (3737/255/63) Hdc1 hdc2[hdc5... hdc12]
> > while for the rest of my drives it does not display the word PTBL
neither
> > the heads, sectors and cylinders as it does for hdc.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Eugenia
> >
> > Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3737 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hdc1 * 1 522 4192933+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hdc2 523 3737 25824487+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/hdc5 1027 1409 3076416 b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hdc6 1410 2423 8144923+ b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hdc7 2424 2806 3076416 b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hdc8 2807 3125 2562336 b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hdc9 3126 3444 2562336 b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hdc10 3445 3737 2353491 b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hdc11 * 523 999 3831471 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdc12 1000 1026 216846 82 Linux swap
> >
> >Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> Don't make a logical partition bootable, and don't make two partitions
> bootable.
> Now for the rest, Is suppose BeOS has problems with the last line that
> fdisk returned.
> hdc11 and hdc12 ought to be called hdc5 and hdc6. Other OS's may or may
> not be able to deal with this.
> Linux doesn't care. IIRC the linux program sfdisk should be an easy tool
> to to reshuffle these partitions, but I don't no that tool very well. I
> would use cfdisk, and after I wrote down the exact partition boundaries
> on paper, I would delete them all, and recreate them in the correct
> order again. As long as you don't make any typos and enter the exact
> partition boundaries again, no data wil be lost. Beware that you must
> boot linux afterwards with the root=/dev/hdc5 option, 'cause the
> numbering changed.
>
> After changing this, BeOS will probably be able again to read the
> partition table.
>
> Eric
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From: Dean Kwak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: set-up DSL?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:38:33 -0800
hello,
i'm trying to set up my earthlink DSL to my linux box. is it even
possible to use DSL with my RED hat 6.2 linux box? i heard that it is
possible with @home cable but not sure if it'd be working with DSL. I'd
be appreciated if you could help me how to set-up if it's possible...
thanks
please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel port zip drive
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:52:24 -0500
Gary wrote:
>
> Using RH 6.2 kernel 2.2.14, I am trying to setup
> a Parallel port Zip drive. I use the following
> command to mount the drive:
>
> ./iw -m /dev/lp0
>
> iomegaware has no errors (I already created the
> /mnt/zip100.0
> default mount directory) but the access LED on the drive
> never goes on, and the directory in empty.
>
> According to the readme doc, this is all correct to use the
> default
> zip100.0 directory.
I got the following note, and it worked.
ANSWER
I have iomega zip drive 100 on SuSE 7.0, kernel 2.2.16.
Try this: modprobe ppa
look in /var/log/messages mount/dev/sda?
Response from modprobe is sda1, then type:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip
Where /mnt/zip is the directory I created earlier.
Regards,
Gary
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual mem exhaust problem?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:43:53 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
>>On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:03:01 +0100, Eric wrote:
>>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=64
>>>> sync
>>>> sync
>>>> mkswap /swapfile
>>>> swapon /swapfile
>>Tradition. The dd command creates a honking big file, so it doesn't get
>>written to disk immediately unless you force it.
> Which begs a couple of questions. First, does it make any
> difference at all? Second, if it makes a difference why would
It does make a difference. The file buffers don't get down to the disk
otherwise, and mkswap has to pick up the disk area, not the buffer
space.
> mkswap or swapon not do it?
I dunno. There is a lot of hackyness in the swap file mechanism.
Peter
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting hda5 read/write off a rescue disk
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:09:45 -0600
Hi,
I need some help. My linux root partition is full and it just won't
boot.
I've got a dual boot (Windows98 - hda1; RH6.1 - hda2 (hda5,6,7,8)) and I
am trying to use a rescue disk to move files from my root directory in my
linux partition (hda5,ext2) to my Windows partition (hda1, vfat).
However, I can only mount hda5 as read-only. Moreover, my rescue disk
aparently doesnt recognize the vfat filesystem (only ms-dos) on hda1.
So ... Can anyone point me to a rescue disk that will recognize the vfat
fs AND ALSO help me move files from my linux partition to my windows
partition so that linux will boot properly?
The rescue disk that I am using has kernal 2.0 (Slackware). As I
mentioned, I am runnning RH6.1 - but I don't have a rescue disk for it -
only the Installation Disk.
BTW - Lilo was removed from my MBR when I re-installed Win98.
Thanks,
David
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From: NagaSri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Installation
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:30:07 -0000
When I type startx at the $ prompt, it runs thro� a list of display
settings and comes up with a error � Fatal Server error - A Display
subsection is required in each screen section�. The Display adapter of my
Satellite pro is �Chips & Techonologies Accelerator (new)�. This adapter
was not in the list of Mandrake. So I selected �Unlisted� as suggested by
the manual. I also tried with Generic VGA settings and it does not work.
While booting up it runs thro� the system checks in GUI mode but after
booting it switches over to $ prompt.
Also is there a way of configuring this from Commond prompt? Just to save
the hassel of installing again.
Thanks again
Sridhar
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From: "Oleg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SSH2 installation. Error message "Unable to get pty ."
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:39:59 +0100
Hi,
I try to install openSSH on my own linux distribution. If I try to login, I
will be asked for password. After typing password, I get an error message
"unable to get pty ." (Where pty is not specified). I have already created
"pty**", "urandom" and "ptmx" devices. I must configure & compile the
sources
on another computer(SUSE), because there is no compiler on my target
computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Oleg Drewin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Upgrading Redhat6.2 on Ultra 1 Sparc
Date: 30 Nov 2000 20:54:37 GMT
I am running Redhat6.2 on my Ultra 1 sparc machine which has 143MHz cpu.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire)
fpu : UltraSparc I integrated FPU
promlib : Version 3 Revision 11
prom : 3.11.1
type : sun4u
ncpus probed : 1
ncpus active : 1
BogoMips : 285.08
MMU Type : Spitfire
As I looked at the update dirs from sunsite.unc.edu, it shows me
$ ls -l
total 12
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 4096 Nov 29 16:54 sparc/
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 4096 Nov 29 16:56 sparc64/
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 4096 Nov 29 16:58 sparcv9/
which one should I use to upgrade my machine?
Thank you,
Jason
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From: Steven John Romej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS 6326
Date: 30 Nov 2000 20:50:46 GMT
Anyone have troubles/successes with SiS 6326 video card and linux (specifically RedHat
6.2)? I'm about to install the beast, but would like to avoid the problems I had (text
spaces blacked out) with Corel awhile back.
thanks
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Steven John Romej
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mathias Rodenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting hda5 read/write off a rescue disk
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:51:13 +0100
go to the debian site, esp.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html
and look for rescue disks...but look carefully for everything you need
before you start
the best you can do is download the necessary files for install from windows
partition...start the setup program...there you have plenty of options. one
is to start a prompt or something like that...and you can mount partitions
as you like...look through it...you will find what you need
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From: "Arthur J. Yarwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten an ASUS V7100 to work with X?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:10:24 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bigtiny wrote:
> 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 got an Asus 6800 Deluxe card and it ain't too bad getting Nvidia
cards running.. You'll need to intall X 4.0.1, then skip along to the
nvidia website, and they have a bunch of linux drivers.
It comes in two parts, a GLX bit and a kernel module. Follow the blurb
that comes with them on the site, and you'll soon have it up and
running.
Note if you running kernel 2.4.0 you'll probably have to get the .tar.gz
versions and compile them youself. For the kernel bit anyways.
If you have the Asus deluxe version, with the fancy Video in and out,
I'm afraid you won't get them working. Right bummer.
Arthur.
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