Linux-Setup Digest #610, Volume #19 Tue, 12 Sep 00 18:13:12 EDT
Contents:
rh6.2:mountd and nfsd daemons do not start at boot (Silviu-Alin Bacanu)
Re: Helixcode and FREE space! ("ne...")
HELP, sawmill busted ("ascii_superstar")
Re: Kernel Panic starting up Redhat 6.2? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Promise Ultra66 w/ ide patches *hangs* (franks)
Re: booting from scsi ("Jim Harback")
Re: Can I bypass RedHat installation to recover...? (D G)
RAID 0 and RAID5 setup--Newbie Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can I bypass RedHat installation to recover...? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Promise Ultra66 w/ ide patches *hangs* ("Cymen Vig")
Re: eth0/1 delay initialization after upgrade kernel from 2.0.36 to 2.2.17
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
passing params to boot prompt with reboot command ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can't install LILO when Linux > 8 GB limit with PC with BIOS restriction (Pieter
Langendonck)
Unresolved Symbols (RH 6.2 on AMD T-bird on Abit KA-7 board) (Michael Hohensee)
Re: SB 16 ISA PnP: Alsa ok, Kernel not??? (Juergen Heinzl)
File system failure (Kouros Owzar)
RPMs vs source distributions ("MrTom")
Re: hard drive partition table messed up! (MCV Fenderson)
Re: xcdroast on redhat 6.2 doesn't work (exits itself) (Andy Kinsey)
Re: Printer problem......... Helppp!!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Silviu-Alin Bacanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rh6.2:mountd and nfsd daemons do not start at boot
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:12:10 -0400
Hi!
I reinstalled Redhat6.2 on a dual pentium machine and now the mountd
nfsd daemons
do not start at boot (but the portmapper starts at boot).
What I did is to put a last line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local with the command
/etc/rc.d/init.dnfs start to start the two remaining daemons.
I feel this is not the right way to start them because I have no control
on shutting them down.
Do you have any advice on where and how to start them?
Thanks!
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Helixcode and FREE space!
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:24:10 GMT
On Sep 12, 2000 at 13:51, ascii_superstar eloquently wrote:
>It doesnt give me the oppotunity to do anything like say where my apckages
>are. As soon as I run the installer:
>./installer-latest-intel or something
>It pops up with that error message.
In that case check your /tmp directory. Is it full
and do you have write permission to it??
[...]
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
3:23pm up 19:39, 8 users, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00
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Reply-To: "ascii_superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "ascii_superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: HELP, sawmill busted
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:48:46 +0100
I just insalled helix code on mandrake 7.1 and when I try to start it loads
up and informs me that I am using an incompatible window manager (window
maker).
I try to swicth to sawmill but it just goes straight back to window maker.
Also, if I try and go into sawmill alone, it freezes.
And another clue is that helix code loads, it pauses for a while on the
windows manager icon.
HELP
thank
segio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic starting up Redhat 6.2?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:47:09 GMT
Hi !
by default, the kernel used by redhat 6.2 seems to have cpu serial nr
detection enabled. this of course only applies to pentium processors.
to disable it, use the kernel parameter x86_serial_nr, as in:
<--- snip --->
lilo: linux x86_serial_nr=1
<--- snip --->
this should help.
yours
Stefan Marte
---
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8pk831$5rp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As you suggested, the boot disk didn't work out easily. I also tried
> what you mentioned, trying to tell LILO? the kernel? where the rest of
> the OS was, but that didn't work. Do you know who posted that info to
> you? Maybe they could give me some more info. Have you gotten a
> chance to try a re-install?
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From: franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 w/ ide patches *hangs*
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:01:23 -0600
Cymen Vig wrote:
>
> I've used the Ultra66 in a couple of linux machines here without any problem
> (all have intel 440bx chipsets). Now I have a Celeron 366
(deletia...)
> 3) got 2.2.16 and tried the ide patches on it
> 4) played with all the options in the BIOS
>
> Now I'm stuck... WTF is wrong with this thing!
>
> Thanks,
> Cymen Vig
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WTF is wrong is that the ATA66 support is not present in your 2.2.16
kernel. You need 2.3.18 or higher.
--
Ed Franks | Contracted to :
SysAdmin - Solaris/SunOS/Linux | CIO Office
UNISYS Federal Systems | Air Force Research Lab
Albuquerque, NM | Kirtland AFB
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From: "Jim Harback" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: booting from scsi
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:01:27 +0200
In article <8pl6ko$7hr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My current set up is Redhat booting from hda3 via floppy disk, this
> allows my good missus to boot up into windoze without the hassle of boot
> managers and the likes The problem I am having now is I have been given
> a scsi card and 1Gb HD. Yipee I thought, I then installed Linux Storm
> 2000 onto my scsi drive
> <sda1> (I believe) and everything went fine until I tried to boot from
> scsi. The message "no bootable devices found" (or something like that)
> came up and that was it. Q. How do I get the scsi HD to boot? Q.
> Alternatively, how do I go about creating a floppy to boot to the scsi
> drive (just like my trusty redhat floppy)
>
>
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Normally you need to access your scsi controllers BIOS and tell it that you
want to boot from your scsi device. You may also have to access your
motherboard BIOS to tell it the same. You normally access your SCSI controller
BIOS with a key combo during boot up (for instance Ctrl-D). To access your
motherboard BIOS see your computer manual.
--
Jim Harback
www.GlobalLinux.com
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I bypass RedHat installation to recover...?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:13:28 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am/was running RedHat 6.1 until I modified rc.local to try to start
> the font server but it fails and the boot process halts. I am looking
> for a way to edit the rc.local file but I do not have a boot diskette
> except for the RedHat installation CD/diskette. Is there a way I can
> bypass all the installation so that I just get a root login from which
> I hope to be able to mount the hard disk partition and edit the file?
> Alternatively, I do not suppose there is any utility which allows me to
> access a Linux partition from Windows (just a thought).
I was able to do this by starting the "upgrade" process and switching to
another console (alt-f2, I think).
Otherwise, you can check out tomsrtbt at http://www.toms.net/rb/. I've
used it successfully a few times now.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RAID 0 and RAID5 setup--Newbie Question
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:26:47 GMT
Hi, Linux Gurus!!
I am a Linux newbie. I am trying to learn the concept of
RAID system. Can someone tell me the step-by-step procedure
on setting up a RAID 0 and RAID 5 system, please.
Maybe, you can tell me the URL of the site or share what
you had learned on this message thread.
Thanks so much!
Aa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can I bypass RedHat installation to recover...?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:34:05 GMT
It is easy. Boot the Installation CD (with
expert or text parameters) until you are asked to
create the partitions, then press <alt> <f4> or
<f5> and you will see a bash prompt.
If you have an ide drive, you can do...
mkdir /disk
mount /dev/hda1 /disk <- or whatever your
partiion is
then cd /disk/etc/ and edit your file.
SCSI is similar.
You should enable the X font server by creating a
link in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d to the startup file
in /etc/rc.d/init.d, not by modifying rc.local
In article <8plooh$uoc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am/was running RedHat 6.1 until I modified
rc.local to try to start
> the font server but it fails and the boot
process halts. I am looking
> for a way to edit the rc.local file but I do
not have a boot diskette
> except for the RedHat installation CD/diskette.
Is there a way I can
> bypass all the installation so that I just get
a root login from which
> I hope to be able to mount the hard disk
partition and edit the file?
> Alternatively, I do not suppose there is any
utility which allows me to
> access a Linux partition from Windows (just a
thought).
>
> Could you please email a copy of your response
to me at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks very much,
> Phil
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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From: "Cymen Vig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 w/ ide patches *hangs*
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:49:01 -0500
"franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
<big snip>
>
> WTF is wrong is that the ATA66 support is not present in your 2.2.16
> kernel. You need 2.3.18 or higher.
The IDE patches (mentioned in the original post) provide support for
ATA66... See http://www.linux-ide.org. I've got it working just fine with
2.2.16 on another machine. It appears the actual problem is an
incompatibility with some Quantum drives (mine among them, Fireball Plus LM,
30gb) and the DMA mode driver for the Promise device.
Andre Hedrick (the guy who does the IDE patches) replied to a post on one of
the kernel mailing lists with the information about the
quantum/dma/promise...
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/35/2000/7/0/4058357/
(for 2.4 but most likely applies to the 2.2 patch series also)
Thanks for the suggestion though,
Cymen Vig
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: eth0/1 delay initialization after upgrade kernel from 2.0.36 to 2.2.17
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:41:33 GMT
turns out that you have to 'set them up' using netconfig tool.
look inside the very many menu options inside the tool.
You should have netconfig or linuxconf -- one of the two.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelvin Leung) wrote:
> It's strange, I have a working system (more than 1 year) with kernel
> 2.0.36 with two network cards installed. Network card modules are
> loaded at boot up by have them listed in /etc/conf.modules. It's been
> fine. Yesterday I upgrade the kernel to 2.2.17 (you can tell I
> haven't done any upgrade for a while), compile the modules and install
> them. I've checked the modules sit on /lib/modules/2.2.17, including
> the required network card modules which are ne.o and ne2k-pci.o.
>
> However, when I reboot the machine with new kernel, the following
> message come out :
>
> Delaying eth0 initialization
> Delaying eth1 initialization
>
> It's a RH system, no clue at all, next thing I'll try manually load
> the modules and activate the eth0/1.
>
> Any comment are welcome!
>
> Kelvin
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: passing params to boot prompt with reboot command
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:48:01 GMT
Please respond to my email as well [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My box is remotely located and I want to reboot and test with an
alternate kernel.
I have the kernel compiled and installed and an entry created in
lilo.conf. I have done this from the console many times before.
I want to reboot with the new kernel, without making it the default
kernel. ( I can remote power cycle the machine if the new kernel fails)
Does anyone know how to pass kernel boot parameter with the reboot
command?
Thx.
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From: Pieter Langendonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Can't install LILO when Linux > 8 GB limit with PC with BIOS restriction
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:04:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all,
I have a PC which has a BIOS restriction of maximal 8 GB.
I have bought a 20,4 GB Harddisk. I would like to install
Linux, Windows95 and Windows NT on this system.
I know I can use the full 20,4 GB for Windows 95 with
Maxblast software.
What I want is to use all GBs > 8 GB for Linux. Below 8
GB I want to use Windows95 and NT. This is not a problem.
Unfortunately I can't get LILO installed. The Red Hat 6.0 setup
program gives a strange error.
I tried to make a small Linux partition below 8 GB, but the
Red Hat setup program forces me to install everything below
8 GB or nothing. I don't want to fully install Linux below 8 GB,
because I would like to have as much GBs as possible for
Windows95 and NT.
I'm willing to install a small part of Linux below 8 GB...
But I have no clue how to do that with setup program
of Red Hat.
Any suggestions?
Or can anyone explain me what to do, why I have the
problem installing Lilo. Everything during the install till that
point is working fine....
Greetings,
Pieter Langendonck
P.S. It is not possible that I flash my BIOS. The BIOS does just not
support partitions > 8 GB.
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From: Michael Hohensee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Unresolved Symbols (RH 6.2 on AMD T-bird on Abit KA-7 board)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:04:27 -0400
I'm having problems properly compiling a kernel + modules for my RH 6.2
system, running on an AMD T-bird with an Abit KA-7 motherboard. Before
booting up for the first time, I had to recompile the kernel to prevent
it from attempting to turn off the nonexistant PIII identifier number
(which always resulted in a kernel panic). The only thing I changed in
the default kernel configuration was the Processor Type & Features menu
via 'make xconfig'. The machine now boots successfully, but is unable
to insmod any of the modules in /lib/modules. It first runs into a huge
sequence of depmod errors:
<Snip>
Sep 11 12:03:20 G22-71 rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in
read-write mode succeeded
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod:
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/autofs.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/coda.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/fat.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/hfs.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/hpfs.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/lockd.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/minix.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/ncpfs.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/nfs.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/nfsd.o
Sep 11 12:03:24 G22-71 depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/romfs.o
...
<Etc>
It does this for every module in /lib/modules. So naturally:
<Snip>
Sep 11 12:03:43 G22-71 autofs: autofs startup succeeded
Sep 11 12:03:43 G22-71 automount[382]: starting automounter version
3.1.4, path = /misc, maptype = file, mapname = /etc/auto.misc
Sep 11 12:03:43 G22-71 random: Initializing random number generator
succeeded
Sep 11 12:03:43 G22-71 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/autofs.o:
insmod autofs failed
Sep 11 12:03:43 G22-71 automount[382]: /misc: mount failed!
...
<Etc>
Interestingly enough, the system works fairly well, although anything
which requires the loading of a module (autofs, lockd, or sound) doesn't
work. Recompiling the modules doesn't appear to change anything, except
perhaps to generate more unusable modules.
Has anyone ever run into this problem before, or been able to
successfully install and test Linux on a system like mine? (AMD T-Bird
700MHz KA-7 board) If so, how was it corrected, or which distribution
did you use?
Thanks very much,
--
Michael Hohensee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SB 16 ISA PnP: Alsa ok, Kernel not???
Date: 12 Sep 2000 21:34:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank Steiner wrote:
>Dean Plude wrote:
>>
>> modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 mpu_io=0x330
>> note you must pass parm to this module to work
>
>Well, that should be done automatically by the entries
>in modules.conf, but even with the parameters directly
>passed to modprobe, it does not work... :-(
[-]
Lacking one more free PCI slot I'd some fun with that
card too. Mind I've not distribution, but here's what
I've got.
PnP support -- disabled in the kernel as well as in the
BIOS ( yup ). The upcoming 2.4 seems to have better support
but for now I cannot see any gain.
Used pnpdump to create /etc/isapnp.conf and edited it
and modules.conf looks like this ( irq 7 is being used
by my parallel port ) and isapnp is run in some startup
script of course.
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
My modules.dep ( only the sound related parts ) looks
like this ..
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/adlib_card.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/opl3.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/awe_wave.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/mpu401.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/opl3.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/uart401.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundlow.o \
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundcore.o:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/soundlow.o:
/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/uart401.o: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sound.o
So far no problems anymore.
Ta',
Juergen
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From: Kouros Owzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: File system failure
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:38:42 -0400
Hello:
My Linux box was shut off due to a power outage
the other day.
Now I am unable to run Linux (I am using Mandrake 7.0 on a
PII machine with one ATA66 IDE HD).
During bootup some problem is seemingly detected with sda5.
It suggests to run fsck manually and then starts up a shell.
As suggested, I ran fsck manually (with no flags) but it
did not seem to fix the problem.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments.
Thanks,
Kouros
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From: "MrTom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPMs vs source distributions
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:42:46 +0100
hi
i've recently been trying to get into linux from more than just a user side
of things but have found install and upgrading software to be a tad
confusing.
i like the idea of RPMs, especially with rpmDrake and other utilities but
have found that sometimes they don't always install very nicely. if i
install an rpm and then wish to take it off can i be sure that all of that
rpm's files and setups have been removed? also is it possible to change the
settings in an rpm, so i have the same power as with configure scripts? or
are the precompiled rpms just bloated applications with all features
compiled in whether needed or not? are there any differences between an
src.rpm and an rpm; does the src.rpm give me more control?
i also wish to install PHP4, the rpm for this didn't work properly with my
setup (it caused some errors in httpd.conf) so i am going to install it from
a source distribution (tar.gz). because i'm only starting out with this game
i'll probably want to come back later and recompile it with options i've
missed out this time round. if i do, how do i uninstall the current PHP? as
far as i can tell on installing software it's similar to setting off a bomb
on the hard drive as files get put in all sorts of places, on uninstalling
will i have to go through and find these files manually or is there a
script, or at least a log file, which can show me the installed files. i'm
not much of a fan of the dir structure in unix (i've probably upset someone
now ;-), i've never seen anything better than the dir structure from
AmigaDOS - *sigh*.
i'm sorry if there's a lot here but this topic isn't covered in many places.
and most tutorials for installing software just have "type this, with that,
and these parameters and it should all work nicely".
if there is a good link for this kind of stuff please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
Tom.
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From: MCV Fenderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: hard drive partition table messed up!
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:41:53 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Black Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: It sounds like your partition tables are screwed, read on. . .
: I had a similar thing happen to a 6.4GB WD drive in a NT box at work while
: installing an Iomega Zip drive not to long ago. After attempting to
: re-partition it with disk-administrator and format it in another NT box after
: attempting to re-install NT on the original machine with no luck, and then
: attempt to install NT on it twice only to have it not boot, twice, again, I
: gave up, brought it home, stuck it in my Linux box, ran fdisk on it, printed
: the partition table, and lo-and-behold, the three partitions ended in the
: middle of cylinders (supposed to end at the end of a cylinder) and were
: crossed (over lapped) to boot. In other words, the partition tables were
: fucked, and nothing I did with NT warned me about it, it just proceeded to
: waste my time. I also tried fdisk from a DOS 6.22 system floppy at work.
This sounds a bit like the problem I'm currently having. I'm not much
of a hero when it comes to installing, partitioning, formatting and
facts about different OSes and distributions, and similar things.
I'm just a user, basically, so don't shout if I don't know some
very simple basics.
I recently bought a new 20GB HD to replace my old 3.2GB one. My small
box can only hold one HD, so I had lots of trouble getting it in and
installing something on it, but finally succeeded. I started with
installing Windows 2000, as the Linuxes I had were really old, and
I wanted to start with a clean sheet and Mandrake 7.1. Turns out
W2k is far from compatible with W98/95 games, and since I only really
need Windows to play games (I prefer Unixen for more serious work),
I replaced it with W98. Lots of trouble getting my system purged of
everything related to NT.
Anyway, when I finally lay my hands on Mandrake 7.1, and started to
install, Mandrake said my partition table was corrupt, and assumed
it was empty. Since I didn't want to erase W98, I quit the installation
process (looks pretty awesome, btw). W98 couldn't detect any fault
with the partition table, dos fdisk said everything was fine, as
did scandisk and whatever else I could find (not much, though).
Now I wanted to ask you guys if anybody knew what could be going
on here, but now I'm getting the impression that NT (and W2k) has
the tendency to do stupid things with the partition table and W98
has no problems with that.
Is there any easy way to fix this? I don't have Linux installed, so
I don't have linux's fdisk, and I thought I couldn't use old bootdisks
for totally different computers (like the one for my old 486).
Do I have to repartition everything with Mandrakes setup program,
or is it possible to rescue my W98 stuff? It's not that much of
a problem if anything gets lost, but I've come to really hate
installing any kind of MS OS, after my earlier troubles with W2k
and W98.
mcv. <><
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From: Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xcdroast on redhat 6.2 doesn't work (exits itself)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:53:13 -0400
"f.g.a.m.wouters" wrote:
> Wolfgang Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > I installed xcdroast v0.96ex (rpm package from redhat server) on my
> redhat
> > Linux 6.2.
> > After I start xcdroast and do the setup, I select the button "Copy
> Data-CD".
> > Now the next screen appears for 1 seconds and xcdroast exists itself
> without
> > any message.
> > Also everytime I start xcdroast, it says, that something has changed on
> the
> > SCSI bus, but there wasn't something changed.
> >
> > Knows anyone where I can find some add. information about my problems
> with
> > xcdroast or knows anyone such problems?
> >
> > I use
> > TEAC CD-R56S CD-Writer
> > PLEXTOR PX-40TS CD-Drive
> > Adaptec AHA2940UW SCSI-Adapter
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for help
> > Wolfgang
> >
> I had the same problem with xcdroast .
> The problem with me was that I had the wrong mounting point for writing the
> image files.
> You can log in as root and change the setup (don't forget to save).
> If you have a SCSI harddisk you can cannot chose this as a mounting point,
> and there are several forbidden points.
> I hope this helps it did with me.
>
> Frans Wouters
I have the same problem. Unfortunately, I don't know which mount points or
which partitions CAN be used. Whenever I select the partition in setup.
XCDRoast just exits without warning. Any suggestions?
Andy
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Subject: Re: Printer problem......... Helppp!!!!
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 03:58:50 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Kimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've never had to do anything to get a printer to work with Linux
> (besides initial setup) before but I'm really stuck now. I've got a
> HP LJIII hooked up to my machine running RH 6.0. I ran the
> normal printer setup stuff from root. This is a dual boot box and
> I can print from windows without any problem so there's no
> hardware problem involved here. I get no error message and I
> can see the print job gets spooled but the printer is always
> shown to be not ready. I don't get it. Any suggestions... anyone,
> please........
Yeah. Go look on Redhat's support pages. They've had a fix there
since.......oh....around RH6.0 release.
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