Linux-Setup Digest #195, Volume #20 Sun, 10 Dec 00 17:13:10 EST
Contents:
not kernel, but user panic, please help me (Masoud Pajoh)
Re: Help installing Redhat on a laptop with pcmcia cd rom (Tom Voltaggio)
Re: Init.d stops after a given number of started services (OldUncleMe)
Tecmar NS/20 Travan drive setup/use (Michael Perry)
RH7 Install Crashes (Phil)
mount points (ted metz)
Re: Help installing Redhat on a laptop with pcmcia cd rom (Bob Martin)
Re: mount points ("Peter T. Breuer")
On Modules/auto-clean concept ("C. L. Lewis")
Re: On Modules/auto-clean concept ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: *** F_U_C_K___C_H_R_I_S_T_M_A_S *** ................. SeZ7wq7g (Colin Watson)
help ("Louis Hajjar")
Re: Linux and NTFS ("Tim Prince")
dselect problem ("Tim Quinn")
Re: Which distribution for newbie? ("Craig Heitzman")
kde2 (Linux-Scene Webmaster)
Which distribution for newbie? ("Craig Heitzman")
Re: mount points (Cliff Sarginson)
Re: kde2 (Greg)
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From: Masoud Pajoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,alt.linux.redhat
Subject: not kernel, but user panic, please help me
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:44:02 GMT
Hi all;
Here is what I did. In an attempt to give Linux more space I resized
and moved some partitions on my machine using Partition Magic 4.1.
Here is the part that is related to Linux:
- after taking some space away from Windows NT, i.e. freeing it
- I moved linux boot partition to the beginning of this space, this
is (and was) /dev/hda8
- tried to move the linux swap partition, the option on PM was
grayed.
- In my great wisdom, I deleted the old swap and created one after
the boot partition, this is (and was) /dev/hda9.
- Moved the /dev/hda10( has all the linux system files on it) to the
beginning of the free space.
- Deleted /dev/hda11 (an ext2 file system).
- Expanded /dev/hda10 to include the free space.
- Exited PM.
- Booted to linux.
Now I cannot boot to Linux:
Here are the error messages I get:
- swapon failed.
- fsck.ext2: Could this be a zero length partition? Attempt to to
read block for the file system resulted in short read while trying to
open /dev/hda11.
Then I get:
- Give root password for maintenance (or type control-D for normal
startup)
At this point if I give it the root password I get:
- (Repair file system) 1 #:
The only answer it accepts is "yes/no." If I give it "yes", I get y's
on the first column on the screen, with no activities on the hard
drive. If I give it "no" I get:
- (Repair file system) 2 #: no
- (Repair file system) 3 #: no
- (Repair file system) 4 #: no
.
.
.
This continues forever. I have tried to "linux single" at LILO with
no difference.
I Have tried to use the installation CD in "recover" "maintenance" mode,
but I cannot figure out how to use this mode.
Is there anything to save me from reinstalling Linux.
Please help.
Any help is appreciated.
Sincerely;
Masoud Pajoh
BTW, I use RH7.1 (Guineas) on an stand alone x386 PC
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From: Tom Voltaggio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help installing Redhat on a laptop with pcmcia cd rom
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:55:21 GMT
I copied the Redhat Disk #1 to the hard drive and tried the
install. It seems to install fine until it starts to read
the
package information. I then get a message:
Exception occured
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real",
line 227, in ?
intf.run(todo, test = test)
File
"/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py",
line 1009 in run
rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
File
"/mnt/redhat/comps/install/6.1.1/i386/
misc/src/trees/hdimage/usr/lib/python1.5/
site-packages/textw/packages.py", line 10, in__call__
File
etc....blah blah..
Any ideas?
Bob Martin wrote:
>
> Tom Voltaggio wrote:
> >
> > I have a Toshiba Portege with a Port NW24XCD PCMCIA cdrom.
> > I want to install Redhat 6.1. I boot DOS and run rawrite
> > and copy the pcmcia.img to my boot disk. When I boot and
> > try to install, the pcmcia driver is loaded fine. However
> > when I get to screen where I must choose where the redhat
> > files are located for installation, it doesn't show the
> > cdrom drive; only the hard drives. Apparently, Linux can't
> > find the cd rom drive during the install. How can I tell
> > Linux the irq and other configuration items of the cd rom
> > before Linux is actually installed? The image file
> > apparently doesn't do it.
>
> It's not linux, it's the RH install. I have not had any of the RH 6.x
> distros to install on my laptop with an external pcmcia cdrom, RH 5.2
> installed on the same hardware with no problems. I got around it by
> creating a DOS partition big enough to hold the RH directory, copied the
> files from the cd. Then during the install selected to install from hard
> drive.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Subject: Re: Init.d stops after a given number of started services
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:04:11 GMT
It was: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:36:52 -0500 and with STARTLING insight,
"Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
posted "Re: Init.d stops after a given number of started services"
to "comp.os.linux.setup" :
-->"michael.fengler" wrote:
-->> ...
-->> That's true, smbclient works standalone. IIRC it *does* look into
-->> smb.conf, however.
-->
-->What does "IIRC" stand for?
-->
-->-Wayne Pollock
If I Recall Correctly. OTOH, it may have other meanings, perhaps one the
OP meant? Naah. /ts
tenox @ home dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Tecmar NS/20 Travan drive setup/use
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 08:14:55 -0800
I recently decided to replace my older Exabyte 8700 8mm tape drive which has
done a lot of great service with a newer NS/20 drive from Tecmar. I did
this based on the tape certification results with BRU on the tape drive
certification pages. I don't know if others have messed with this drive but
I have to say it just does not work for me. I spent a weekend using command
line bru, xbru, taper; and even considered buying additional commercial
backup software. This drive just fails at returning statuses against the
scsi bus (running an adaptec 2940u2w card), it will not mount correctly, it
will not even allow a tar file to be moved to it without i/o errors.
I simply cannot see how this drive could be certified against the Linux 2.2
kernel unless mine is somehow munged or my scsi bus is. But I have added
other devices and have had pretty good performance. I boot off of two IBM
17g drives.
Anybody played with this drive at all and bru, xbru, taper, whatever?
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Subject: RH7 Install Crashes
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:07:59 GMT
Every time I try to install RH7 from CD it crashes towards the end of
the install everytime. I have tried both graphic and text installs.
When it fails it displays a line indicating the install is
terminating. one of the log files, however displays this during the
formatting of the filesystem, which may be related:-
Formatting/filesystem
end_request: I/O error, dev03:01 (hda) Sector 7956576
<4>hda: read_intr:status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error}
<4>hda:read_write: error-0x40 {UncorrectTableError}, LBA sect=8342060
sector=8342311
I thought it may be a space problem and re-partitioned every which
way on the last occassion making both disks (8Gig) available to the
OS.
I previously had Suse 6.2 installed on one disk and Win98 on the other
and both OS's worked fine.
I have a system with an AMD6K333 processor, 2 x 4Gig drives and 88 Meg
RAM.
Any help would be appreciated.
cheers
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ted metz)
Subject: mount points
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:34:28 GMT
What are the advantages of have diffrent mount points IE: /home /usr
/tmp ect. Also other than the swap what are the best ones and sizes to
use for a 1.6 GIG hard drive or just have one mount point.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help installing Redhat on a laptop with pcmcia cd rom
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:51:54 -0600
Tom Voltaggio wrote:
>
> I copied the Redhat Disk #1 to the hard drive and tried the
> install. It seems to install fine until it starts to read
> the
> package information. I then get a message:
> Exception occured
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real",
> line 227, in ?
> intf.run(todo, test = test)
> File
> "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py",
> line 1009 in run
> rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
> File
> "/mnt/redhat/comps/install/6.1.1/i386/
> misc/src/trees/hdimage/usr/lib/python1.5/
> site-packages/textw/packages.py", line 10, in__call__
> File
> etc....blah blah..
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
see the RH 6.1 site....
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-4.html#ss4.15
--
Bob Martin
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount points
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:04:57 GMT
ted metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are the advantages of have diffrent mount points IE: /home /usr
Oh pleeeeeeze. This is a FAQ. Go read the FAQ, or at least the
partition-HOWTO.
> /tmp ect. Also other than the swap what are the best ones and sizes to
> use for a 1.6 GIG hard drive or just have one mount point.
Use your own noddle. Why isn't it obvious? Do you also put all the
furniture in your house in one room? Must be fun extracting the car
from the living room, and cooking in the garage!
Why do people's minds switch OFF when they meet a computer? All the
ordinary lessons of life also apply to a computer. You can make the
same arguments for and against having separate partitions as you can
make for or against having walls in your house.
Peter
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:09:18 -0600
From: "C. L. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: On Modules/auto-clean concept
I think that is where my problem is lying, but I ain't sure I understand
all I think I know about it.
I usually compile my kernels with module auto loading enabled and isapnp
and pnp enabled as modules also. Award bios set to pnp: yes, and auto
assign. /etc/isapnp.conf set for my pnp's that need to be initialized,
and My /etc/modules.conf containing only the options for the modules I
require for my system, ppp_generic, sound, bttv and other stuff, aliases
and options only, with no pre or post-install or modprobe commands.
When KDE loads up, it starts sound service and everything seems to work
fine, except with the sound in some ways which I ain't so sure of.
If I happen to open KwinTV first, RealPlayer7 gives me an indication
that it is unable to access the sound or doing it the other way around,
KwinTV opens, but no sound or channel change etc. Do a modprobe -r for
the sound and mixer devices, or, I think, maybe just restart X, but I'm
sure re-boot takes care of it and everything is back okay again.
How do I get modutils to auto auto-clean if that's what I'm needing
without pulling autoload out of the kernel?
I think that's the question I'm needing to know the answer to. :-)
Charles
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: On Modules/auto-clean concept
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:54:52 GMT
C. L. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When KDE loads up, it starts sound service and everything seems to work
> fine, except with the sound in some ways which I ain't so sure of.
> If I happen to open KwinTV first, RealPlayer7 gives me an indication
> that it is unable to access the sound or doing it the other way around,
> KwinTV opens, but no sound or channel change etc. Do a modprobe -r for
> the sound and mixer devices, or, I think, maybe just restart X, but I'm
> sure re-boot takes care of it and everything is back okay again.
> How do I get modutils to auto auto-clean if that's what I'm needing
> without pulling autoload out of the kernel?
> I think that's the question I'm needing to know the answer to. :-)
It isn't. You have too many uncontrolled variables to make sense of a
single datum like this. Just study the "good" modules loaded configuration
and make sure you set it up to be loaded for you like that at bootup. If
it differs from the one that is achieved for you at bootup now, you know
what to do.
Or you could perform a controlled experiment to determine the cause of
your problem, varying ONE thing at a time.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: *** F_U_C_K___C_H_R_I_S_T_M_A_S *** ................. SeZ7wq7g
Date: 10 Dec 2000 20:46:38 GMT
asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I hate Christmas!
[etc.]
>
>Can we get this removed?
No.
(Read the Cancel FAQ: http://www.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/faqs/cancel.html)
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Debian, you *peasant*." - http://www.userfriendly.org/
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From: "Louis Hajjar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:53:54 +0200
Reply-To: "Louis Hajjar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello to all,
I'm planing to change my server from windows server to Linux.
any one know where I can find a good material to read from the net for
starting a server, how to setup ftp , www, and to handle adding user's and
firewall and so on....
thanks for your time
Louis Hajjar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tim Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux and NTFS
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:57:52 -0800
Reply-To: "Tim Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The NTFS read-only driver is included in Caldera since 2.2. I have it
working in RH6.2 as well, without modifying the kernel, but I get the
unknown file system beep on reboot and must re-install the driver. I have
had no problem at all reading NTFS5, but I would expect serious trouble
writing to NTFS5 with an experimental driver meant for NTFS4. The default
permissions for linux ntfs driver are root read only; resetting the umask
gives everyone read permission.
"Rod Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:4kNY5.6965$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <90vicr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Can Linux read NTFS files on the same drive and or via Samba?
> > If so, how.
>
> Yes to both.
>
> If NTFS is on a partition on the Linux computer itself, then you need to
> mount the partition using the type code of ntfs, thus:
>
> mount -t ntfs /dev/hda7 /winnt
>
> (Change the mount point and device file as appropriate, of course.)
> There are assorted options you can use, as well. Many are the same as
> are used with FAT. The NTFS support isn't included with some
> distributions, though. I know that Red Hat lacks it, for instance. If
> your distribution is so afflicted, it'll respond that ntfs is an unknown
> filesystem type (or words to that effect). If that happens, you'll need
> to recompile your kernel, or at least the ntfs.o kernel module, to get
> the support.
>
> One caveat is that the Linux NTFS support is fairly good for read-only,
> but the read/write support is *VERY* experimental. It's a bad idea to
> use this with NTFS from a Windows NT 4.0 system, and it's an
> extraordinarily bad idea to use it with NTFS from a Windows 2000
> system.
>
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From: "Tim Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dselect problem
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:04:03 GMT
I have a problem while installing with dselect. I am using Debian 2.1.
Once I select packages and "install" I recieve this error message.
Scanning available packages...Cannot open
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/available: No such file or directory
installation script returned error exit status 1. Press return to
continue
that is the error. When I hit return I go back to the dselect menu. Any
help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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From: "Craig Heitzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which distribution for newbie?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:41:17 -0800
Hehe, forgot the text....
Im going to be building myself a Linux machine here pretty soon (either a
PII 333 or something newer- Thunderbird, Duron, PIII) and I was wondering
what distribution you guys whould suggest. I dont have any specific goals
at the moment other than to get it setup and running a Counter-Strike
(Half-Life) dedicated server for our 8-10 person LAN.
Eventually I would like to setup some server apps- POP mail, FTP, and the
like which wont really be used but I just want the experience.
PS: The 333 has some sort of ghetto on-board audio and sound for a low
volume manf. Should I think that Ill ever get these working?
"Craig Heitzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
>
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From: Linux-Scene Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kde2
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:55:45 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi friends
i have installed kde 2 with the following packeges but it doesn't run
qt 2.2.2 (als i386, devel, extention, man, static)
liblcms
libmng
kdelibs
kdesupport
kdebase (als i386, ksysguard, nsplugin)
if if enter startkde it stops at can't connect to x-server
what is wrong in my configuration?
cya cm
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From: "Craig Heitzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which distribution for newbie?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:35:44 -0800
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From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount points
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:01:53 +0100
Peter T. Breuer posited:
> ted metz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What are the advantages of have diffrent mount points IE: /home /usr
Forget all the drivel Peter T. Brauer writes below, he must have been mad
at somebody and decided to take it out on you.
There is not an easy answer to this question, it depends really
a huge amount on one what you will use the computer for.
However you can expect to redefine your partitions at least once
I would guess.
Firstly there is nothing wrong, especially if you are trying Linux out
for the first time to create a small "/boot" (see below) and a "/" with
everything else in it. Create "/boot" as the first file system physically
on your disk.
General guidelines for seperate file systems...
Create a small area called "/boot" at the front of the disk, about 16MB.
This is needed for the kernel and stuff. Strictly speaking if you have the
latest version of lilo (the whatnot that boots linux) and a modern BIOS in
your PC you don't need this anymore, but it does no harm.
Create a "/" (the root area) of around 250 - 300 MB. If you install KDE then
you might need more (this is goes in "/opt" which I have as a seperate
filesystem but that is for other reasons)
Create a "/var" of .. well this is a tricky one. This is where most of the
files go that grow, log files, mail files, news files etc.Start off with
250MB and see how it goes.
The file system"/usr" is where almost everything else goes, give this all
the rest of the space.
Under no circumstances create file systems for
/etc
/bin
/sbin
Otherwise you may make your system unbootable :(
You don't really need a seperate /tmp.
Good luck !
Cliff
> Oh pleeeeeeze. This is a FAQ. Go read the FAQ, or at least the
> partition-HOWTO.
>
> > /tmp ect. Also other than the swap what are the best ones and sizes to
> > use for a 1.6 GIG hard drive or just have one mount point.
>
> Use your own noddle. Why isn't it obvious? Do you also put all the
> furniture in your house in one room? Must be fun extracting the car
> from the living room, and cooking in the garage!
>
> Why do people's minds switch OFF when they meet a computer? All the
> ordinary lessons of life also apply to a computer. You can make the
> same arguments for and against having separate partitions as you can
> make for or against having walls in your house.
>
> Peter
--
no NAUGHTYSPAM if you email me :)
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From: Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kde2
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:00:21 GMT
try running gdm and see if you can select from there. Or just init 5 and
it will start the gdm and if its installed you can select it. I have
the same problem. its some display X thing that is not setup correctly.
Linux-Scene Webmaster wrote:
> hi friends
>
> i have installed kde 2 with the following packeges but it doesn't run
>
> qt 2.2.2 (als i386, devel, extention, man, static)
> liblcms
> libmng
> kdelibs
> kdesupport
> kdebase (als i386, ksysguard, nsplugin)
>
> if if enter startkde it stops at can't connect to x-server
>
> what is wrong in my configuration?
>
> cya cm
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