Linux-Setup Digest #169, Volume #20 Wed, 6 Dec 00 00:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux telnet windows (moonie;))
Re: another newbie, trouble getting started (E J)
Re: Getting Back To Linux (cfish)
Re: another newbie, trouble getting started (cfish)
Re: Dial-up problems (cfish)
Re: environment variables problem (Noble Pepper)
Re: Req help-----Caldera desktop2.4 freezes after a while ? Tried 3x reinstsalls.
(cfish)
Re: unstalling - unistalling packages (Noble Pepper)
re: remove lilo (Christopher Booth)
Re: environment variables problem (cfish)
Re: adding linux servers to a solaris network (cfish)
Re: Linux on two disk system (cfish)
Re: IRQ Problems (moonie;))
Re: Death by Redhat 6.2 Installation (cfish)
Re: HELP! LILO does NOT boot! (cfish)
Re: SuSE 7 - no access to CDROM after SCSI kernel module loaded (cfish)
Re: I'm screwed!!! Gnome menu fonts GONE! (cfish)
Re: another newbie, trouble getting started (Jim Broughton)
Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00 (David V Bowen)
Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: fuzzy cirrus logic ("Nigel Moore")
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux telnet windows
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:11:09 -0500
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>HI all,
>
>I'm very familiar with Unix, but new to Linux. I now have a
>new Linux desktop at work.
>
>I've always relied on the menus to cut and paste into telnet
>windows. But the mouse is causing me some mistakes now.
>
>Is there a telnet tools for Linux out there that has the
>standard Edit menu, with both the standard Cut and Paste
>commands?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
You don't need them, just highlight what you want to copy, put the cursor here
you want to paste it and middle click, works with telnet (I just tried it to
make sure, cool)
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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AIM mooniesdl3
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: another newbie, trouble getting started
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 03:16:09 GMT
Did you power up with the RH7.0 CD in place?
Did you go to the BIOS to turn on the CD boot?
If your computer cannot boot off the RH7.0, you can make a boot floppy.
Mark wrote:
> I downloaded the two RH7.0 iso images off of a redhat mirror. I burned the
> first one to CD using EasyCD creator 4.0... i was under the impression that
> it was a bootable. That .iso file is the only thing on the cd, however no
> system will boot off the CD. If I put my Win2K Pro CD in, those systems
> boot fine off the CD.
>
> What did I miss?
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting Back To Linux
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 03:43:15 GMT
you are right about that if the data on CD was gone, it shouldn't have
been able to run(the whole OS) for several hours after cd write.
... don't know what this could be but there are some things you can
try to shed some light on this:
I really can't see why the partition cannot be mounted. try use mount
with verbose(-v), and see if there's more info about that partition.
one thing is that, the disk seem rather big, so there is a chance that
the kernel image is out of lilo' bound. the latest lilo lets you set a
parameter to overcome the 1024 cylinder limit.. however, since you are
just using mount, not lilo, it shouldn't have been the cause...
when you boot from /dev/sda2, what is the kernel message that shows
your IDE hard disk? was it using the right device number?
as of the answer to your other post, i think you should've mounted
/dev/hda5 instead of /dev/hda2 because /dev/hda2 is only the extended
partition, not a logical partition. again, use -v when mounting. go
thru all the little partitions from hda5 to hda7 and try to mount
them with -v and try with -t ext2 or -t iso9660, see what comes up.
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 16:04:41 -0000, "Martin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>SYNOPSIS
> When I try to boot into Linux on hda2, a lot of messages are
> displayed, as normal, but the boot finishes with:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device 03:05
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
>
>MY CURRENT SYSTEM (WITH STATUS)
> This is going to be decomissioned and used for storage,
> but is still usable:
> sda 4.3 GB hard disk
> sda1 Windows 98
> sda2 <sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9> Linux-Mandrake 7.1
>
> This contains the Linux I can't access:
> hda 30 GB hard disk
> hda1 Windows Me
> hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8> Linux-Mandrake 7.1 where:
> hda5 /
> hda6 /usr
> hda7 /root
> hda8 swap
>
> Other hardware
> hdc CD ReWriter
> hdd LS-120 drive
> scd0 CD-ROM
>
>
>BACKGROUND NOTES
>The Linux distribution is from the downloaded Linux-Mandrake 7.1
>ISO images (two CDs: Installation Disc and Extension Disc).
>When I installed Linux-Mandrake from these, it gave an error
>message when I tried to create a boot floppy. The boot floppy
>it did partially create is useless.
>
>
>WHAT HAPPENED
>I've just installed a CD rewriter (hdc). This worked fine in both Windows
>Me and Linux, though X-CD-Roast was pretty frightening with its
>insistence on specifiying a partition for the ripped files. I may have
>made a mistake when choosing a partition.
>
>
>REMEDIAL ACTION I'VE ATTEMPTED
>Using the Linux-Mandrake installation I was about to decomission
>(on sda2), I tried to access my new Linux-Mandrake installation
>on hda2 with the command:
>
> mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/new
>
>but I get the message "/dev/hda6 is not a block device" (or similar).
>
>I tried each of the non-Windows LILO options (linux, failsafe,
>windows, windows2, floppy) but none worked.
>
>I do have a bootable disk from an old installation (1998, S.u.S.E.
>5.2) which I used on sda2 to recover LILO by selecting the option
>"boot from installed system" but if I type in hda2 it can't see
>it, and probably wouldn't be much point if I could, anyway, as
>I'd still get the same kernel panic.
>
>
>CALL FOR HELP
>Needless to say, I'd be extremely grateful for any assistance. I'm having
>to use Windows Me to send this :-( I'm sure there's a relatively easy
>way to ger around this - at least, I hope there is!
>
>I'm sure all my data are still on my Linux partitions on hda2, I just
>need to to find the door that will let me get to them.
>
>I blame X-CD-Roast for this.
>
>Martin
>
>
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: another newbie, trouble getting started
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 03:58:10 GMT
you are supposed to burn it raw, not burn the .iso file.
the difference is, you are burning it like "this is a file on a CD
format(iso9660)" instead of telling the burning program "this is the
raw data, don't worry about file format, just burn it bit by bit.
when using EZCD creator, choose something like,
under File menu, choose "create CD from CD image"
and choose filetype to be .iso image file. (not .cif) then you burn.
before you do that, tho, familiarize yourself with the documentation
system. you will find answers much faster than begging people for help
on newsgroups.
but i think it'd be easier if you just buy a CD from cheapbyte.com or
similar places.
another notion: I think you should avoid RedHat 7.0. it's known to be
problem prone. choose the last 6.x version instead, or choose another
distro.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:29:05 -0800, "Mark"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I downloaded the two RH7.0 iso images off of a redhat mirror. I burned the
>first one to CD using EasyCD creator 4.0... i was under the impression that
>it was a bootable. That .iso file is the only thing on the cd, however no
>system will boot off the CD. If I put my Win2K Pro CD in, those systems
>boot fine off the CD.
>
>What did I miss?
>
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dial-up problems
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:00:37 GMT
post this in slackware specific newsgroup because this script is
specific to slackware.
basically, you should first check if you can use the modem with
minicom. if you can, take a look at the ppp-go script and see what's
wrong with it. (i assume that you are talking about modems) for more
info you can check HOWTOs. (modem, PPP, ISP-hookup, NET...)
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:17:42 -0000, "Grim Reaper"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having some problems with my ppp setup, I am using zipslack. I have
>entered all the information (found out from my ISP) but when I give the
>ppp-go command it says 'Connect script failed'.
>I would be very gratefull to anyone who can tell me what could cause this
>error.
>Thanks
>
>Peter Roberts
>
>
>
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: environment variables problem
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:57:42 -0600
Robert Stia wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am evidently missing something here. I really hope that
> somebody can set me straight. I also hope that I am in the
> right newsgroup for this question.
>
> Attempting to intall qt-x11-2.2.1 over an older version
> of qt installed with RH 6.
> The environment variable $QTDIR is not set correctly. It is
> currently set to "", but it should be set to this directory,
> which is "/usr/local/qt".
>
> I then went back and edited .profile to exactly the same as the qt
> example. Got the same complaint.
>
> Can somebody please help me out here?
>
>
>
>
>
Did you restart bash? It only reads the .profile when it starts up.
You can set environment variables by hand with something like:
export QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
You can examine all your environment variables with:
set or set|more
You can look at one variable with:
$QTDIR
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Req help-----Caldera desktop2.4 freezes after a while ? Tried 3x
reinstsalls.
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:02:59 GMT
when it freezes, use Ctrl-Alt-f1 jump to a console. there, you can use
top command to figure out what is frozen and kill it. maybe you should
try another distro or update your desktop to latest version, depending
on what's the program that hangs.
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:12:16 GMT, Holdfaster
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unstalling - unistalling packages
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:04:08 -0600
Peter Tselios wrote:
> Hallo,
> I have tow strange(?) questions.
> a) How can I unistall a tar.gz package? For example, I have istalled
> apach 1.3.9 + mod_ssl and I want to upgrade it. The obvious solution is to
> install the new package in the same directory as the old one. But, I want
> to make a "clean" installation.
> b) I have download a few srpms and I want to compile them (and install
> them
> at the same time?). The use of rpm --rebuild xxx.srpm or rpm --recompile
> xxx.srpm does not work. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you,
> Peter Tselios
> "It's interesting to note that one of the main reasons for writing the
> first Unix kernel was to get better interactive performance from the
> computer to play a game called Space Travel."
>
>
>
>
If this is a package you compiled you can go to the original source
directory and do:
make uninstall
If you rm'ed the source or did make clean or make distclean all you can do
is remove the files by hand. Good luck finding them all!
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From: Christopher Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: re: remove lilo
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:10:27 +1100
Hi Daniel
How did you go ?
I have the same problem, I can't boot into my Windows partitions at all,
to format /mbr
The computer wont boot from the floppy at all
Regards
Christopher Booth
Please advise via email
Daniel wrote:
Ok,
but is it perhaps possible to remove LILO using the Linux
system? I tried the Linuxconf in RedHat 6 without results...
cheers,
Daniel
"DualIP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:59:12 +0100, Franz Brummer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Ups you are right :(...I am sorry! Hope my advice didn't make things
worse...
> >I don't know about win 2000 though.
>
> In NT4 you had to reinstall using the 3 boot floppies ,and choose the
> option repair...
> Can't be much different in w2k
>
> DualIP
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: environment variables problem
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:11:17 GMT
I don't get the part about autosaved file. you are supposed to edit
.profile in your home dir, that's /home/username or /root
if you just wanna ./configure it, just do this,
QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and after these commands, ./configure should run past that point.
then everytime you must run something that uses QT, you do this again.
and again, and again, until you are bothered enough to deal with your
.profile file.
now as your .profile, you are not clear as of which exact file you
have edited. i think you might need to make that clear to us.
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 20:42:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Stia)
wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am evidently missing something here. I really hope that
>somebody can set me straight. I also hope that I am in the
>right newsgroup for this question.
>
>Attempting to intall qt-x11-2.2.1 over an older version
>of qt installed with RH 6. Untarred and put it in /usr/local
>which created a /qt folder in /usr/local. qt install then says
>to check environment variables in the file .profile in the home
>directory, and if there was none, to create it, and that
>it should have the following lines:
>
> QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
> PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
> MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>Then went looking for.profile and found only the following;
>/root/autosave/#\!home\!.profile This is what was in that file
>for the environment variables:
>
> QTDIR=/usr/local/qt
> PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$/usr/local/qt
> MANPATH=$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> export QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>I made a copy of that and placed it in /home and rebooted.
>Now, when I try to do a ./configure, I get the following complaint:
>
> The environment variable $QTDIR is not set correctly. It is
> currently set to "", but it should be set to this directory,
> which is "/usr/local/qt".
>
>I then went back and edited .profile to exactly the same as the qt
>example. Got the same complaint.
>
>Can somebody please help me out here?
>
>
>
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding linux servers to a solaris network
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:12:15 GMT
linuxdoc.org should have all the help you need. it's pretty
straightforward.
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 19:34:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi
>I plan to intergrate some linux servers into a solaris network.
>where can I find information on doing this, from naming the servers
>to allowing access to user accounts.
>The main area I need help is NIS and NFS.
>Thanks
>Zar
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on two disk system
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:17:31 GMT
depends on the size of the disks. you can cut each disk into
partitions and mount them seperately. like,
/ on /dev/hda1
/usr /dev/hda2
/home /dev/hdb1
swap on /dev/hda3
...
you want the faster drive to be the storage of things that are
frequently used. for example, you definitely want your swap to be the
faster drive. in the above example, /dev/hda is a faster drive so it
has swap and binary files on them. /dev/hdb is slow so it stores data.
you have to make sure that they all have enough space allocated to
them, because you cannot repartition them(not normally). this is
really guesswork.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:18:49 +0100, "Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>which is the probably most "intelligent" way to install Linux on two
>harddisks one of which is slower than the other one?
>
>Ren�
>
>
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ Problems
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:19:01 -0500
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000, Matthew Alicton wrote:
>Hi there,
>I recently purchased a new linux compatible modem. Although I can get
>it to work under linux, there is one big problem, I always have to
>manually the irq. The modem is on com3 and the default irq for com3 is
>something other than what I have. So before I dial-up anywhere, I always
>
>have to 'setserial /dev/modem irq 5'. What I wonder about, is there any
>config file, or utility out there that will assign or set (as default)
>the irq for com3 as irq 5? Simple isn't it, but I simply cannot figure
>it out.
>If you could help me, I would be grateful!
>Thanks
Have you tried putting 'setserial /dev/modem irq 5' at the end of your
/etc/rc.d/rc.local script? This should set it at boot.
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Death by Redhat 6.2 Installation
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:21:24 GMT
are you sure you had enough room for that install. anyway it's dead it
doesn't matter anymore. might as well reinstall it.
if you read LILO documentation, it will explain to you what lilo knows
and what problem it encounters if you see "LI" or if you see "LIL" or
if you see "LILO" now i can't remember them off the bat so you have to
look it up.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:19:56 -0500, Roy Goodman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. I upgraded from 6.0 to 6.2 from a
>CD-Rom. After doing this, my computer started doing weird things. I
>usually don't power down, but I do close the cover to put it to sleep.
>The first time I reopened it, it crashed, and i was forced to reboot. It
>demanded i run fsck manually, and then found lots and lots of errors, and
>once I rebooted it I found it could no longer mount several devices, and
>the power management was screwy, so I copied my home directory onto the
>Windows partition and decided to reinstall from scratch.
>
>The reinstall got 99% of the way through the "Installing Packages" section
>of the graphical install, and then died. Now if I turn on the computer,
>I no longer get Linux Loader (actually, after the Dell Splash screen I get
>the letters LI and nothing else, which may be a remnant of linux loader).
>I assume I need to put the installation disk back in, and do "Linux
>Rescue" mode, but once I get there, I have no idea what to do, and can't
>access either the Windows or Linux sides.
>
>Thanks,
>Roy
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! LILO does NOT boot!
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:24:37 GMT
"it does not boot" will not help diagnose the problem. you need to
tell what's on your screen when it refuses to boot.
just write a boot floppy and boot from there, and read LILO docs when
you get tired of the floppy.
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 11:29:44 GMT, "emil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have been 'playing' with Linux (RH 6.x, and RH7) for some years now, but I
>am in a trouble now.
>
>This is happening to me for the first time:
>RH7! I want to install it on a 15G HDD. I map /boot to a partition ~15M
>(definitelly BELOW 1023 cyl!!), and then the rest.
>
>IT DOES NOT BOOT!!!
>
>But when I boot from windows/DOS using LoadLin then everything works fine.
>Win/DOS boot normally!
>
>Is it related to big HDD? So far I was using partitions <5G.
>
>Thanks
>
>emil
>
>
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From: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 7 - no access to CDROM after SCSI kernel module loaded
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:31:15 GMT
first, check kernel message to see if the SCSI device is detected
correctly. whether the devices shows up.
do you have an IDE CDROM? i suppose not. but if so, then
as root, do a lsmod to see which of the following modules are in the
kernel:
ide-scsi
ide-cd
if you are looking at ide-scsi, then your IDE device is percieved as a
SCSI device to the kernel, which is probably why the bus number is not
what you expected.
all of these should show up in the kernel message log, so check the
log.
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:57:00 +0100, nospam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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: cfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm screwed!!! Gnome menu fonts GONE!
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:36:37 GMT
try to use xfontsel and see if your font server is still alive.
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:08:37 -0700, Adam J Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>hi all,
>
>I desperately need some help. This morning when I booted X the gnome
>main menu was very skinny and only showed the icons but no fonts! Same
>thing with the menus when I right-click on the desktop, etc. Also, with
>the Control Center I am missing many fonts in that dialog as well. I've
>restarted, reinstalled helix-gnome, rebooted, etc. but to no avail.
>
>But note that all of my fonts in Netscape (I'm writing this from the
>same machine right now) and the gnome-terminal windows show up fine
>(except for the menu at the top of the gnome-terminal window).
>
>I am running the following:
>
>RH 6.2
>Helix Gnome (yes, I reinstalled the whole thing again today after I had
>this problem, but it didn't help!)
>256 MB memory
>PIII 733
>
>
>Has anyone seen or heard of this before? I have exhausted almost every
>possible option, but nothing seems to help.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>ajboyle
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: another newbie, trouble getting started
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:49:19 GMT
Mark wrote:
>
> I downloaded the two RH7.0 iso images off of a redhat mirror. I burned the
> first one to CD using EasyCD creator 4.0... i was under the impression that
> it was a bootable. That .iso file is the only thing on the cd, however no
> system will boot off the CD. If I put my Win2K Pro CD in, those systems
> boot fine off the CD.
>
> What did I miss?
You burn the iso file directly to the cd as a file?
It is an IMAGE file to EasyCD creator.
You may have to rename the iso file with an extension
easycd creator with not gack on. Then just tell it to
burn that IMAGE file to the cdr/rw.
--
Jim Broughton
(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
If Sense were common everyone would have it!
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From: David V Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.list
Subject: Repartioning: invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:49:28 -0500
I have a Gateway Solo laptop 9300XL running Windows 98 and Linux
RedHat 7.0 as a dual boot (using Bootmagic). I recently used
PartionMagic 6.0 to resize the partions slightly (by 500MB), and
everything seems to have gone fine except except when I boot into
Linux I get a whole slew of messages related to the start-up files all
of the form
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit ... invalid character 48 in exportstr for 0x00
This last part is always identical. The boot continues fine, however,
and once completed, there don't seem to be any problems. I get
identical errors on shutting down the machine too. So, three
questions:
- does anyone have any idea what this means?
- Is it serious?
- Should I/How do I cure the problem?
Thanks
Dave Bowen
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Copy of current /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults
1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro
0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner
0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
/dev/hda1 /c vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
/dev/hda6 /scr ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto 0 0
Current disk useage:
/dev/hda2 3.6G 2.7G 812M 78% /
/dev/hda1 2.4G 1.4G 1.1G 55% /c
/dev/hda6 10G 5.5G 4.3G 56% /scr
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:57:14 GMT
Allen Mcintosh wrote:
> The following worked for me (running kernel 2.2.17, but 2.2.16 should work
> fine):
>
> 1) Install XFree86 3.3.6
> 2) Obtain server and agpgart.c from the Intel website.
> 3) Install server and agpgart.o
>
> Is there a reason you are using XF86 4.0.1?
The documentation indicates that XF86 4.0.1 is supposed to come with a
driver "i810":
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status16.html#16
Check your "XF86Config" file for something like this:
# Device configured by xf86config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Rage IIC"
Driver "ati"
#VideoRam 4096
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
This is from my system. Yours should have:
Driver "i810"
So, XF86 4.01 should work. But, if not, using 3.x might fix the
problem.
JRT
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From: "Nigel Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fuzzy cirrus logic
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:02:30 +0900
> My apologies, I thought I effectively explained that you are probably
> not going to get that particular card to work with a graphical install.
Yes you did and I missed the implication, but it was just an upgrade so I
managed to do it through the fog.
> TEXT mode install than TEXT mode xf86config and then you with have a
> working XFConfig file that you can run X with at maybe a 640x480 or
> 800x600 8 bpp resolution.
Done, GD 543x running VGA but the screen is still corrupted. Could it be
something to do with the fact that the chip is a GD5434 J (for Japanese)
perhaps tweaked to handle double byte characters?
> You're money would have served you better being spent on upgrading
> equipment rather than operating systems.
Is it possible to upgrade without changing the motherboard? Can I put a
graphics card in a pci slot? I did feel a bit guilty about splurging on
a new OS but it was only ten bucks and I got the magazine as well.
Thanks for your help
Nigel
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