Linux-Setup Digest #164, Volume #20 Tue, 5 Dec 00 06:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Crash While Setting Up Red Hat 6.2 on 486 ("Mark W. Stroberg")
test, ignore ("Allan Young")
test, ignore ("Allan Young")
Re: Eric?? (was Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?!) (Eric)
Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?! (Eric)
Re: test, ignore (Eric)
Re: why can't one boot from /dev/hdb? (Eric)
Re: Large disk support in RH6.2 (Eric)
Re: Browsing Redhat 7 from windws 2000 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Upgrade RH6.2 to RH7.0 ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
HELP PLEASE ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Building RPM packages: How to find which files to install from source?
(Frederic Faure)
Sound problem ("mu6sys")
POP3 DEAD :( (Jack Cheng)
Re: KDE2 (Dragan Colak)
Re: Multiple kernels on Separate partitions (Eric)
SuSE 7 - no access to CDROM after SCSI kernel module loaded (nospam)
RCS and Samba (Ignasi)
PPP-connection on demand (Jarmo Hurri)
Re: How to fix bad sectors on HD? (Keith)
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Reply-To: "Mark W. Stroberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Mark W. Stroberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Crash While Setting Up Red Hat 6.2 on 486
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 23:21:39 -0800
My Mistake. I never realized I had an IRQ conflict, because even though both
my 3c509b ethernet card and my TV500 card used IRQ 10, the conflict did not
show up in Windows for Workgroups because that operating system does not
make use of a 3c509b IRQ. I ran the DOS configuration program, reconfigured
my 3c509b to use IRQ 11, and the problem is solved. Sorry for consuming the
bandwidth.
Mark W. Stroberg
"Mark W. Stroberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I was trying to install Red Hat 6.2 on an old 486 33MHz I got for cheap.
> Unfortunately, after partitioning, selecting packages to install, and
> formatting the partitions, it crashed with the message: "Abnormal
> termination -- signal 11" or something like that. I have no idea what's
> wrong. The computer has 32 MB of RAM, an ancient IDE controller as the
> primary channel and a Promise EIDE Max II UDMA 33 controller as the
> secondary channel controller. hda is 1.2 GB, there is no hdb, hdc is 10
> GB, hdd is 50X CD-ROM drive. Secondary Master (hdc) is partitioned as
> follows: Extended partition spanning entire drive, hdc5, hdc6, and hdc7
> are FAT-16 of maximum size (2GB) as Windows 3.1 is also on this
> computer, hdc8 is 127M swap, hdc9 is 50M (/boot), hdc10 is 3.5G (/). Any
> help would be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Mark W. Stroberg
>
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From: "Allan Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test, ignore
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 07:28:19 GMT
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From: "Allan Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test, ignore
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 07:29:09 GMT
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Eric?? (was Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?!)
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:45:53 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gill wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Gill wrote:
>
> >
> > Eric,
> >
> > here are the results of fdisk -l /dev/hda
> >
> > (note that that machine is not connected to anything yet, so im basicly
> > looking at its screen and typing it in here - i hope for no typos):
> >
> > -=-
> >
> > disk /dev/hda: 255 heads 63 sectors 2498 cylinders
> > units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > device boot start end blocks id system
> >
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048224+ b win95 fat32
> > partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> > phys=(1023,15,63) should be (1023,254,63)
> >
> > /dev/hda2 255 638 3072384 83 linux
> > partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> > phys=(1023,15,63) should be (1023,254,63)
> >
> > /dev/hda3 638 703 524664 82 linux swap
> > partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> > phys=(1023,15,63) should be (1023,254,63)
> >
> > /dev/hda4 703 2499 14420448 5 extended
> > partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> > phys=(1023,15,63) should be (1023,254,63)
> >
> > /dev/hda5 703 1086 3072352+ 83 linux
> > /dev/hda6 1086 1596 4095976+ b win95 fat32
> > /dev/hda7 1596 2499 7252024+ b win95 fat32
> >
> > -=-
> >
> > comments:
> > a. its a quantum fireball plus lm 20.5GB atapi
> > b. hmm... is fat32 different then vfat?
> > (but then again hda1 is recognized)
> > c. and whats all the cylinder boundary stuff...
> >
I don't know why the partition boundary's are not cylinder aligned, but
maybe that's what svend-olaf mentioned. Windows doesn't like this very
much IIRC.
Anyway, change partitiontype of hda4 from 0x05 to 0x0F (As svend-olaf
already mentioned)
If you don't have any data in hda5/6/7 it can be done without danger,
otherwise, if you can,
backup the data and change the partition ID. Now run a filesystem check
on all the logical partitions.
(e2fsck for hda5 and scandisc?? for the windows partitions)
If you don't have any important data on this disc, you may consider to
reinstall entirely, and fix your partition table. Best would be to use
an external tool, like Partition Magic to create your partition table.
(although (c)fdisk would be just fine too)
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows VFAT partitions too fat?!
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:50:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >disk /dev/hda: 255 heads 63 sectors 2498 cylinders
> >units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> >device boot start end blocks id system
> >
> >/dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048224+ b win95 fat32
> >partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> >phys=(1023,15,63) should be (1023,254,63)
> >
>
> The type of this extended partition should be 0F, not 05. Also it
> seems as the partition tables are written using a wrong BIOS
> translation. The output from fdisk however cannot be used for
> evaluating that.
> --
> Svend Olaf
Hi svend-olaf,
Another question for you..... again :-)
How do you conclude that the translation was wrong?
Am I correct in assuming that you conclude this through the not cylinder
aligned partitions?
And I wonder, If someone would delete these partitions and recreate
them, but now cylinder aligned, would that do any damage to the FS on
that partition? I don't think it would, but I am not sure about this.
Perhaps one should resize the FS too afterwards, to match the new
partition size, or else tools like PM may get confused?
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: test, ignore
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:04:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are testgroups you can use for this purpose.
Don't abuse this NG for tesing purposes.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,gnu.utils.help
Subject: Re: why can't one boot from /dev/hdb?
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:13:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Why can't one boot from /dev/hdb? [grub, or lilo]
> My bios (01/22/98 Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG SiS-5598-<SP97_V>C-00)
> gives my choices of boot drives "A: C: D: E: F:, cdrom, zip" etc. (meaning fd0,
> hda, hdb...)
You can very well.
Damnit Dan, you keep on posting, but I hardly ever see a reply from you
telling us if it failed or worked.
(Appearantly it failed, but maybe you didn't try?)
You have a different problem, and I mentioned this before.
YOU HAVE A GEOMETRY PROBLEM!
boot from this floppy, and enter "linux hdb=C,H,S", where CHS are the
values used by the BIOS!
Now make the lilo.conf file on hdb look like this:
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=linux
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdb1
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append=" hdc=ide-scsi"
> read-only
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=windows
> table=/dev/hda
rerun /sbin/lilo and reboot.
Now set your BIOS to boot from the first HDD
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large disk support in RH6.2
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:18:16 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
E J wrote:
>
> 2.2.x is the current stable kernel (until 2.4.x comes out later this
> month)
Later this month?
Wher did you get this kind of info?
Eric
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Browsing Redhat 7 from windws 2000
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:10:26 +0100
"Montys Python (wink wink)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Redhat 7 on one system and win 2000 on another. I have Samba up
> and running and I have been having problems browsing the Redhat from
> win2k
> I am at a point where I can see the Redhat system in my workgroup but
> it's called localhost and when I try to connect to it I get
Change the name to something legal. "localhost" means "me".
Peter
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade RH6.2 to RH7.0
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:28:03 +0000
Graham Daniell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am currently using RH6.2 and am very happy with it at present. I have
> downloaded RH7.0 from a mirror site and have installed it on a spare PC,
> and it looks even better.
>
> I am wondering if I can upgrade RH6.2 to RH 7 without incurring any
> problems. Can anyone confirm if this is possible / likely to cause no
> major dramas? Anyone have experience with this?
>
> Thanks,
> Graham Daniell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Upgrading RedHat versions has worked for me in the past. My home system
has been versions 3.0.3 -> 4.2 -> 5.0 -> 6.0 -> 6.1 without any major
problems.
The only thing to watch for is the install.log file in /tmp. I recommend
browsing through that after booting the system to check if any
configuration files have been saved (they get renamed <name>.rpmsave).
If you have any of these you will need to merge in any settings you have
changed with the new file. Sometimes this can be a slightly different
syntax but usually there are example entries which you can use as
starting points.
As a matter of course - back up any important user data just in case ;-)
Regards
Phil Q
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP PLEASE
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:35:56 GMT
Hello,
I am trying to run the talk command but I get the message that
the connection is refused. I changed the disable = yes to no for the
talk file in the /etc/xinet.d/talk but still get the error. Am I
missing some other config file? I could not find any usefull
documention on the configuration of this. Any help would be much
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Re: Building RPM packages: How to find which files to install from source?
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:58:41 GMT
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 21:01:45 +0100, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The standard method is to do:
>
> touch /tmp/foo
> make install
> find / -cnewer /tmp/foo > /tmp/listOfFiles
>
>But of course, you could do the install to a subdir of your choosing
>instead, if the PREFIX variable is implemented in the makefile. The
>method above is merely the generic one.
Thx, but it only covers the files that are installed by the compiled
tarball. It doesn't deal with patches I have to create in case it
needs to add its own stuff in existing configuration files (eg. adding
itself to /etc/inetd.conf), and the specific dependencies it needs.
Thx
FF.
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From: "mu6sys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound problem
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:32:11 +0200
Hi!
How can I configure my soundblaster card for Linux Red Hat 6.2?
sndconfig doesn't help: during initialisation everything OK(I hear sounds
and music),but I can't play wav and mp2 files.
what can be the problem?
please mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alex
P.S.
Can anybody help me find video fullscreen packet that worlk from the command
line?
thanks.
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From: Jack Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: POP3 DEAD :(
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:36:01 GMT
Hi all,
I'm currently using the RH6.1, sendmail 8.11.0-1 and imap 4.5-4.
My pop3 suddenly dead, I check the /etc/inetd.conf there is a line like
below:
pop-3 stream tcp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
And the /etc/services have two lines like below:
pop-3 110/tcp # POP version 3
pop-3 110/udp
It seems to be fine for the pop3, is that right? But I dont know what's
going on, it die suddenly, I cannot receive pop mails any more. (I can
received the pop mail before I upgrade the sendmail from 8.9 to 8.11)
And I'd try to use telnet to connect it
telnet 192.168.16.1 110
Trying 192.168.16.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
Please help me to fix my problem.
Thanks a lot
Jack Cheng
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From: Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE2
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:56:37 -0100
Brian Hastings wrote:
> I am trying to install KDE 2 on a SUSE 6.3 system I have downloaded the
> correct RPM files but when I try to install them I get am error message
> saying I need to update my "libc" to a newer version. Can anyone tell
> what this is?, how to update it?, and where to get it from.
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
>
>
Hi Brian,
where have you got these RPMs from? www.suse.com and www.suse.de
have updates for SuSE Linux 6.4 and 7.0, only. I don't know if they
support KDE2 on SuSE Linux 6.3. But if you want to try it, you could try
to get a newer version of libc on ftp.suse.com. The easiest way to update
it is to run YaST / "Choose/Install Packages" / "Start Installation" and
type in the local path to the new *.rpm.
Hope this helps
Dragan
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple kernels on Separate partitions
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:57:39 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 790 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1 131 1052226 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hda2 132 132 329 1590435 5 Extended
> /dev/hda3 * 330 330 560 1855507+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda4 * 561 561 790 1847475 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda5 132 132 191 481918+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hda6 192 192 329 1108453+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
>
You should not have more than 1 active partition!
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 1 1 256 2056288+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hdb2 257 257 512 2056320 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb3 513 513 769 2064352+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hdb4 770 770 1027 2072385 83 Linux native
> Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(1026, 254, 63)
> /dev/hdb5 513 513 766 2040223+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hdb6 767 767 769 24066 82 Linux swap
>
> I have not noticed any problems from the Partition 4 mistake.
>
EEEKS!
What is wrong with this disc!
Does it even function?
Or did you make a c'n'p error
hdb5 and hdb6 are inside hdb3 instead of hdb2!
backup as much as you can from this disc, and reinstall.
I can hardly believe that you didn't get data corruption on this disc
already.
make the extended partition a type 85 (linux extended) as you don't have
any windows partitions in it anyway. It will remove the non-existing
drive letter from windows too.
Eric
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:57:00 +0100
From: nospam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 7 - no access to CDROM after SCSI kernel module loaded
While trying to install SuSE Linux 7.0 on a PC, I encounter the
following problem:
Although I boot from the supplied floppy disc and load a SCSI driver
module (NCR53C8XX) for my ASUS/Symbios SCSI adapter (with a Symbios
SC875 chip), the attached SCSI CD-ROM drive is not accessible. The
installation program claims that it cannot mount the CD-ROM drive, and
there are only EIDE drives listed in the corresponding dialog box (even
after loading the SCSI kernel module). Also, I get a message 'unable to
identify CD-ROM format' on the 2nd or 3rd console (viewed with
Alt-F2/Alt-F3).
There are 3 SCSI devices on the SCSI bus:
- A SyQuest removable hard disk,
- a HP4020 CD writer,
- and a Plextor 32x SCSI CD-ROM (which I would like to use)
What can I do to be able to access the CD-ROM?
BTW: I cannot boot from the SCSI-CDROM, and the problem described above
also occurs when I try to install SuSE Linux from a DOS prompt with
SETUP.EXE.
Thank you for any help
Pascal
(email: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Ignasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RCS and Samba
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 11:22:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the following network structure:
- A server using OS/2 Warp Server .
- Stations in Linux, OS/2 and WNT.
I have been developing several projects using RCS from OS/2 and WNT. I'd
like to use it now from Linux RH6.2. I have proper connections from
Linux computers to OS/2 warp Server using Samba, and I can use RCS
without problems using Root user name, but when I try to work from a
normal user enviroment, I have always access problems. That's related
to access configuration and not to RCS software, but I'm not able to
configure RCS files to a 777 using chmod, even from root. -rwxr-xr-x is
the best access words I'm getting.
I tried to include user in adm group using linuxconf but I got the same
situation
what am I going wrong ?
Could anyone help me ?
Thanks in advance, Ignasi Villagrasa.
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From: Jarmo Hurri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP-connection on demand
Date: 05 Dec 2000 12:20:50 +0200
Hi!
This may well be an FAQ, but I was unable to find the answer from
standard references...
So what do I have to do at boot time to make ppp connect on demand,
that is, if a program tries to connect to the network?
Thank you very much for your answers.
--
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M.Sc. (Eng.)
ICA Research Group
Laboratory of Computer and Information Sciences
Helsinki University of Technology
P.O.Box 5400
02015 HUT
Finland
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tel +358-9-451 5390
fax +358-9-451 3277
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith)
Subject: Re: How to fix bad sectors on HD?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 11:01:08 GMT
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 15:34:24 +0900, Jc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I currently have RH 6.2 installed and recently I have been getting some
> problems and these seem to be caused by bad sectors on my HD since I
> keep getting read errors poping up on my console ...
>
> How to I go about cchecking my HD for bad sectors, fixing them and then
> marking the sectors as bad?
>
Go ahead a buy another HD, once a HD starts having bad sectors it is
better to replace it then risking everything on it.
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