Linux-Setup Digest #207, Volume #20 Tue, 12 Dec 00 07:13:04 EST
Contents:
prova (Biagio De Maio)
Re: Mirror partitions with Suse Linux 6.4 (Eric)
Re: Kernel (Lew Pitcher)
Re: howto make boot floppy after install (Eric)
Re: Kernel 2.4.0 test 11 (Brien Sullivan)
Re: Linux and NTFS (Eric)
Re: Backup using KDat ("Gene Heskett")
Linux and win2k ("Jacob Hooysma")
Re: How to load linux if BIOS only boots HD? (steve mcclue)
Re: setserial /dev/ttyS2 IRQ11 - invalid flag? (steve mcclue)
Re: howto make boot floppy after install (philo)
Compile New Kernel (philo)
Re: Modem recommendation wanted (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Netscape 6 for linux (James Richard Tyrer)
ports (Patrick Chaumet)
RH6.2 and W2K (ZRajBun)
Re: Can I dual boot Red Hat Linux 6.2 and Windows 2000? (ZRajBun)
Re: Linux and win2k (Eric)
Re: How to load linux if BIOS only boots HD? (Chris Boyle)
Re: Linux and win2k ("Jacob Hooysma")
Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ??? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Mirror partitions with Suse Linux 6.4 (Michael)
Re: Mirror partitions with Suse Linux 6.4 (Michael)
SpeedStar Diamond A50/A70 video card ("Wouter Duyck")
Re: About Starting ONE kernel from WITHIN another? (Bruce Stephens)
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From: Biagio De Maio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: prova
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:14:58 +0100
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mirror partitions with Suse Linux 6.4
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:45:19 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> what do I need to mirror partitions with suse linux 6.4?
>
space to mirror them on?
(or be more specific)
Eric
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:55:40 -0500
Glitch wrote:
>
> and kernel 2.2.18 is how old now?
Linux Kernel 2.2 is the current production release of Linux, with 2.2.18
having just been released.
Linux Kernel 2.3 is the current development release, and there is a
Kernel 2.4 tree which is the current pre-production release.
> David wrote:
> >
> > For those interested kernel-2.2.18 is available from kernel.org
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: howto make boot floppy after install
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:42:34 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anthony Ewell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Red Hat 7.0. When it came time
> to make the special boot floppy, I only had
> "unformatted" floppies and had to bypass the
> event.
You had only unformatted floppies? So what?
The bootdisc creation process would reformat them anyway.
> Is there a way to make this floppy up without
> having to go through the install process again?
mkbootdisc <kernelversion>
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brien Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.0 test 11
Date: 12 Dec 2000 07:17:09 GMT
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:05:28 -0600, JoSe UrIbE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone having trouble with this one? I have downloaded it, but have not
>had a lot of luck in bzdisk ing it....curious if anyone else is having
>the same trouble?
No trouble here, not with bzImage anyway. BTW, test 12 is
up in the usual places.
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do it again tomorrow.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Linux and NTFS
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:59:11 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thoni Bernhard wrote:
>
> hi,
> linux r/w access to ntfs partition (win2000) works fine for me (suse 7.0);
> the only thing when booting win2000 the next time is:
> give the /F flag for filesystemcheck;
> i use kernel 2.2.16
<trimmed some NG's>
Well it's all up to you, but I sure hope you read the documentation
that comes with the ntfs module? ntfs r/w support is very experimental,
and
can destroy the ntfs FS thoroughly. I would seriously consider to make a
FAT FS
to share data between the both OS's.
Eric
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Date: 12 Dec 2000 2:22:1 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup using KDat
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Phil Gilmer;
PG> Go to Edit->Preferences and change the backup device to
PG> /dev/nst0. Kdat defaults to /dev/tape, and you may not have that
PG> link defined on your system--I don't (RedHat 6.0).
That never made any difference on my system.
PG> On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 15:41:12, "Daniel Ma"
PG> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am trying to use KDat to do the backup. But it said no tape.
>> However, I could backup using command "tar -cvf /dev/nst0 ...".
>>
>> I think I should change the device in backup tool, but don't know
>> which device under /dev is the tape drive. Is it nst0? But I could
>> not choose it. I am using HP LH4 with internal DLT tape drive.
>>
>>
PG> Phil Gilmer
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Jacob Hooysma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and win2k
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:46:38 +0100
I've got on my primary partition win2k with NTFS
and on another partition SuSe 7.0....how to make
a dual boot system...at the moment i'm using a
bootflop to boot linux
Grtx Jacob
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From: steve mcclue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to load linux if BIOS only boots HD?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:58:28 +0000
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:46:42 GMT, Chris Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Have you thought of using a different boot loader, such as Partition
Magic's PQ Boot? This would allow you to install Linux to a HD
partition, then you would save Lilo to that sector (not the MBR), and
boot from that sector using PQmagic.
Alternatively, you could use LoadLin, but I'm not sure whether this
works with NT. Why not look at this:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Linux+WinNT
and see if that helps.
Steve
>Hi,
>
>I have a laptop (a Fujitsu Lifebook B142) with NT 4 (ugh...) which I
>want to put Mandrake onto. The network card (PCMCIA) works fine in NT,
>so I can get files into NT, and once I'm in the install, I'll be able to
>install from another Linux box sharing the CD on NFS or FTP.
>
>However, neither NT nor the BIOS recognises my floppy drive or my CD
>drive (both external). The only sign of life from either of them is that
>the CD drive has power once NT starts loading. I can't run loadlin from
>within NT, it needs real DOS mode, which NT doesn't have.
>
>I've found a trick involving making a small DOS partition in the free
>space at the end of the drive (7 MB) and copying its boot sector to a
>file which I would then point the NT boot loader at, but this won't work
>for me as the NTFS partition is 4 GB, pushing the start of the DOS
>partition outside the 2 GB limit. I've seen plenty of tools to downsize
>partitions, but they all need DOS mode in the first place.
>
>It seems the only option left is to rip out the HD and install using
>another machine. I'm _really_ not keen to do this because I've never
>opened a laptop of any kind before and I've heard that smaller ones
>(this is a notebook, fairly small) aren't very user-serviceable on the
>inside.
>
>Someone _please_ tell me there's another way to do this... ?
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From: steve mcclue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setserial /dev/ttyS2 IRQ11 - invalid flag?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:00:41 +0000
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:49:12 -0600, Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>steve mcclue wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up my modem under Mandrake 7.2.
>>
>> If I run minicom, it doesn't respond to ATZ, and Kppp also says "modem
>> not responding".
>>
>> When I checked setserial /devttyS2, it says IRQ:4. Looking under
>> Windows, I see that my modem uses IRQ11.
>>
>> When I enter "setserial /dev/ttyS2 IRQ11", it says "IRQ11 - invalid
>> flag".
>>
>> What does this mean, and does anyone know how I can fix it? Do I need
>> to designate a new serial port at IRQ11?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Steve
>
>The form of the argument is wrong, should be irq 11, not
>IRQ11
Thanks Bob, that fixed it. Stupid of me not to have tried all the case
and space variations!
Steve
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:08:05 -0600
From: philo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: howto make boot floppy after install
the command is
mkbootdisk
Philo
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:12:31 -0600
From: philo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compile New Kernel
I recently upgraded my red hat 6
to mandrake 7.2
but now want to recompile my kernel
when i used red hat all i had to do was:
make menuconfig
or make xconfig
if i recall correctly
but when i try this with mandrake
all i get is the error message:
no rule to make target 'menuconfig'
i do have my kernel source installed...
so as someone who is still pretty new to linux...
what am i missing?
thus far i have not gotten an answer when i posted
on the mandrake news group...
so i'm trying here
thank you!
Philo
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem recommendation wanted
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:27:04 GMT
Richard Everhart wrote:
> I have a "winmodem" at the moment, and as many know, they are difficult
> if not (well, for me at least) impossible to make work with Linux. Of
> the modems that work well with Linux, which ones are the best to
> purchase?
>
> One note, the modem must work well under both Win98SE and Linux (2.2.14)
> since I dual boot.
>
> Thanks!
> Rich
I have a 3Com/USR model 3CP2976 (internal PCI) and it works fine. It came
with MS-Windows drivers and under Linux you just use the serial driver.
Use the "setserial" command to configure it.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 6 for linux
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:57:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> Does anybody has a clue, why after installation of netscape 6 with SuSe
> 7.0 I get the following error-message when I try to run it:
>
> uwe@uweslinuxpc:/opt/netscape > ./netscape
> ./run-mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin
> MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=.
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./Cool:.:/opt/kde/lib:/opt/kde2/lib
> LIBPATH=.:./Cool
> SHLIB_PATH=.:./Cool
> XPCS_HOME=./Cool
> MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
> MOZ_TOOLKIT=
> moz_debug=0
Well the stuff above is not an error message.
> moz_debugger=
> ./run-mozilla.sh: line 29: 2557 Speicherzugriffsfehler $prog ${1+"$@"}
The script failed. I don't know why.
I would try executing from your home directory with the full path. DH:
/opt/netscape/netscape
rather than changing to the directory. And, see if that helps.
JRT
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From: Patrick Chaumet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ports
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:43:40 +0100
Hi all,
I have seen with netstat that I have some ports open:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1036 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 742/gen_util_applet
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1035 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 740/gnomepager_appl
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1034 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 730/gmc
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1033 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 726/panel
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1032 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 725/
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1025 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 709/magicdev
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1024 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 656/gnome-session
I see that these ports are related to gnome, but I don't know how to
close them.
If somebody can say me what I must change in my configuration.
I work on red hat 6.2
thank in advance.
patrick
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From: ZRajBun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.2 and W2K
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:51:02 GMT
Hi,
I have a P3 with 256M with 20G HDD. I have 2 4G Fat32 partitions
and a
8G Fat32 partition. One of the 4G's hosts Win98 and Win2K RC2. I am
planning to use the remaining 4G(some 3.45G to be exact) for Linux.
Here
comes the problem. When I install RH6.2, I allocate 128M for Swap.
When I
try to assign / for the remaining 3+G with Linx-Native FS I get the
error as
"could not be allocated because the boot partition is too big". What
is the
problem here? How do I work around this.
Thanks in advance
zrb
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From: ZRajBun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I dual boot Red Hat Linux 6.2 and Windows 2000?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:53:18 GMT
Hi,
Where is that HOWTO?...
Regards
zrb
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Cerebrum wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> > I want to ask about the linux setup question.
> > My computer is now running Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS),
> > can I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 to my computer and dual boot with
> > Windows 2000 Professional?
> > Since my Windows 2000 is NTFS, not FAT32, so can I dual boot
> > by the LILO?
>
> Yes you can, there's a (mini?)HOWTO on this subject.
>
> Eric
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and win2k
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:31:57 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jacob Hooysma wrote:
>
> I've got on my primary partition win2k with NTFS
> and on another partition SuSe 7.0....how to make
> a dual boot system...at the moment i'm using a
> bootflop to boot linux
>
Ik had toch verwacht dat dit op het ict wel bekend was ;-)
You'd best read the NT+linux howto
You could use LILO too, to boot both, but it's up to you.
Using the NT loader is best documented.
You may have a problem if the linux /boot is located beyond cylinder
1024 on your disc.
Whether this is a problem, is a matter of your BIOS and teh version of
LILO you're using
Eric
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From: Chris Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to load linux if BIOS only boots HD?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:27:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
steve mcclue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you thought of using a different boot loader, such as Partition
> Magic's PQ Boot? This would allow you to install Linux to a HD
> partition, then you would save Lilo to that sector (not the MBR), and
> boot from that sector using PQmagic.
Nice idea, but would I be able to set it up from within NT, with no
floppy boots whatsoever? Would that then be able to load DOS even if it
doesn't start in the first 2 gigs? Or would it be able to downsize the
NT partition so I can put DOS starting within the first 2 gigs?
Once I've installed Linux I'm home and dry anyway. The problem is I
can't load linux to install in the first place, because...
> Alternatively, you could use LoadLin, but I'm not sure whether this
> works with NT.
...it doesn't. The aim of all these contortions to get DOS to work is
one loadlin command to start the install, which can then get rid of NT
and all the rest completely. I won't be sorry to see the back of it...
> Why not look at this:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Linux+WinNT
> and see if that helps.
It doesn't really, too much of it hinges on being able to boot from a
floppy. If that was possible I'd just use a DOS bootdisk with loadlin on
it. Thanks very much anyway...
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From: "Jacob Hooysma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and win2k
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:43:16 +0100
Win2k uses not the NTFS as NT does.....
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux.slackware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ???
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 07:36:00 GMT
[Note FollowUp-To: header]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos) writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Lodewijk Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Monday December 11 2000 at 09:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
>>wrote:
>>
[...]
>>> These is a grossly misleading statement. IRQ sharing works - if
>>> the drivers and the hardware both support it.
>How? I could never make two different PCI cards share a IRQ, they simply
>pick one
Actually, it's the BIOS that assigns the PCI interrupts.
But that's per se not a problem at all - as long as the driver(s)
for these PCI cards are properly written to support IRQ sharing.
>and end-up blocking IRQ's that I would like my ISA sound card to
>use...
OK, that's an entirely different story. You can't share IRQs amongst
ISA and/or ISA and PCI devices simultaneously. The ISA bus doesn't
support IRQ sharing. If you need a specific IRQ to be reserved
for ISA devices, reserve that IRQ line in the PNP/PCI setup screen
in your system's CMOS.
>I haven't seen in the BIOS any setting allowing me to force a PCI
>card to take a particular IRQ. Could anyonew explain how to do it?
[...]
Not all BIOS versions allow this. It's up to the manufacturer
of the motherboard to build that kind of feature into the BIOS -
some do, others don't .
Michael
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mirror partitions with Suse Linux 6.4
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:42:14 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > what do I need to mirror partitions with suse linux 6.4?
>
>
> space to mirror them on?
>
> (or be more specific)
>
I want to mirror the system-partition to have a basic backup of my
operating system.
Michael
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mirror partitions with Suse Linux 6.4
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:57:47 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > > what do I need to mirror partitions with suse linux 6.4?
> >
> >
> > space to mirror them on?
> >
> > (or be more specific)
> >
>
> I want to mirror the system-partition to have a basic backup of my
> operating system.
>
Which software do I need or do I need to have a raid-controller?
Michael
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From: "Wouter Duyck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SpeedStar Diamond A50/A70 video card
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:09:58 +0100
Does anybody know how to install a SpeedStar Diamond A50/A70 video card in
linux... Xconfigurator doesn't do the job...
Tanx.
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: About Starting ONE kernel from WITHIN another?
Date: 12 Dec 2000 11:52:07 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Igor) writes:
[...]
> That would not work, because what if the kernel that I specified as
> default in lilo.conf does not boot? Then I am hosed.
Yes. Those of us with consoles are OK, of course, but if you've got a
rack mounted PC or something, then you really want to have an
automatic fallback---with lilo -R provides, as someone else pointed
out.
<http://slashdot.org/> just recently had an announcement of a kernel
module which does what you originally asked for: it loads a kernel
image into memory, and boots from it. I haven't looked to see how
dangerous it might be.
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