Linux-Setup Digest #219, Volume #20 Thu, 14 Dec 00 00:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: LINUX MANDRAKE HELP (IPFW Student)
Help adding second hard drive ("michael thomas")
Kernal installation (azim)
Re: ATAPI Zip Drive (Clark L. Coleman)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot (Tom Szczesniak)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot (Tom Szczesniak)
Re: LINUX MANDRAKE HELP (Tom Szczesniak)
Re: problems with netscape under redhat (Bob Martin)
Re: Help adding second hard drive (Graham Wilson)
Re: java runtime engine (Graham Wilson)
Re: dial up modem on demand? (Graham Wilson)
Re: set-up DSL? (Rod Smith)
Re: Help adding second hard drive ("michael thomas")
Re: Need help installing old Sound Blaster 16 card ("Schuylar Marshall")
Re: ATAPI Zip Drive (ljb)
Re: ATAPI Zip Drive (Steve Martin)
Gnome without mouse. ("les andrzejewski")
Re: What is the command to . . . ? (Herb Stein)
Re: LINUX MANDRAKE HELP (Bit Twister)
Re: problems with netscape under redhat (jinp)
Re: Need Help with PASSWD! Urgent! ("Hong Xie")
Re: NEC Superscript 1400? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: java runtime engine (David)
postgresql 7.0.3-2 rpm installation question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: (IPFW Student)
Subject: Re: LINUX MANDRAKE HELP
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:10:32 GMT
For the best results save all your data
to another machine and just do a clean install of Mandrake...
Dorin
Daniel Bechard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm new at Linux
>
>I had install Corel Linux and I would like to remove it and install
>Linux Mandrake 7.2.
>
>How should I do this? Should I delete the Corel Partition and
>reformate the disk for Mandrake?
>
>Thank you in advance
>
>LINUX MANDRAKE HELP
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From: "michael thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,it.comp.linux.setup
Subject: Help adding second hard drive
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:24:25 GMT
Hi group. Would be real grateful for some advice from you more experienced
linux users.
The situation is that I have Redhat installed on its own hard drive, but the
hard drive is small and I have run out of space. I want to increase this
space by adding a new hard drive. The pc has a second hard drive with
Windows 98 on it. What I want to do is to either use part of the windows 98
hard drive for extra space or buy a new drive and use that. But I don't want
to mess with my existing linux installation. So basically, I want to format
the new drive or part of the Windows 98 drive and be able to access it from
the existing Linux hard drive. Is that possible?
Thanks everyone
Mike
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From: azim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernal installation
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:30:09 -0000
Hi there,
I am trying to install Slackware 7.0.
I have placed an additional second Hard drive to intall Linux on. I booted
my PC with the Installation CDROM, Followed all the steps. Everything was
fine. When i tried to configure my LILO i found out that there was no
Lilo.confg file in the /etc/ directory. Somebody told me that i have not
installed LINX Kernal. I went back to the setup and started from the step
where you select the programs to install. Indeed i had chosen for "K"
which means Kernal sources. I could not finde any option to install the
kernal
itself. I have read in a book that there should be an option "Q" which
stands for the Kernal. I could'nt find this option.
Could u please help me with that.
Azim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark L. Coleman)
Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip Drive
Date: 14 Dec 2000 00:28:29 GMT
In article <918vlh$jbv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vigil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Why?
>
>"Clark L. Coleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the audacity to claim:
>
>> /mnt/zip is a symbolic link to /dev/hdd with all access privileges on.
Why not? If there is something wrong, please let me know.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Szczesniak)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:21:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:03:59 +0100, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Go get GNU's parted from the web (www.gnu.org)
>It's a free repartitiong tool.
>You could also use FIPS, which is probably included with your distro.
>This can cut the existing partition in two, and so free up disc space.
>
>Anyway, resizing your partitions is potentially dangerous, no matter
>what tool you use.
>If you have very important data on this disc, back it up, before you
>continue.
Get GNU's what? Partitioning tool? Or OS? I was looking there and
didn't see anything called "Parted From The Web"? Remember, I have
never used Linux, just trying to get started...
I'd like to at least get this Mandrake 7.2 in and see what it does.
Is there a partitioning tool for fools to use? Or does using a
partioning tool imply the other? : )
Tom Szc....
at thomasz@jef(nospamminallowed)fnet.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Szczesniak)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:35:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Actually I just found it
GNU Parted.
But I only have Windows98 as a platform. This won't start from there.
I have a boot disk that came with Mandrake 7.2 that can get me to a
prompt. But I have no way to download the file. I go to ftp it and
things just lock up, I guess because it's trying to saving it to my
fat32.
Tom Szc....
at thomasz@jef(nospamminallowed)fnet.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Szczesniak)
Subject: Re: LINUX MANDRAKE HELP
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:38:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use a powerful, heavy magnet............no just kidding. I've got the
same package and trying to get it in myself. There's another thread
called:
Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot
That I'm dealing with. I'll keep watching your posts also.
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:06:31 -0500, Daniel Bechard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm new at Linux
>
>I had install Corel Linux and I would like to remove it and install
>Linux Mandrake 7.2.
>
>How should I do this? Should I delete the Corel Partition and
>reformate the disk for Mandrake?
>
>Thank you in advance
>
>LINUX MANDRAKE HELP
_______________________
Tom Szc....
at thomasz@jef(nospamminallowed)fnet.org
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with netscape under redhat
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:05:09 -0600
cuma wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> every time I visit a page with a java applet,
> my netscape aborts.
> Can anyone help me?
>
> thanx in advance.
>
> cuma
Try this...
http://customer.support.redhat.com/rhoaprod/plsql/xxrh_know_pkg.srch2?p_id=37
--
Bob Martin
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From: Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,it.comp.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help adding second hard drive
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:25:57 -0800
michael thomas wrote:
<chomp>
I want to format the new drive or part of the Windows 98 drive and be able to
access it fromthe existing Linux hard drive. Is that possible?
> Thanks everyone
> Mike
Yes. You can do either. With a new drive, all you have to do is partition
it and initialize the partitions. Then you mount the partitions onto your
filesystem.
The best way to partition the drive is to use cfdisk (although fdisk will
do it too, but it's a little less user-friendly -- that's the Linux fdisk, not
the windog version). Look at the man pages to find out how to use mount; there
are a few simple rules, depending on the name of your new drive (hdb, etc) and
where you want to mount it. Once the new partitions are mounted, no one will
know there are two disks.
The simplest method is to use a new drive, but if you have enough room on
the one with the other os on it, you can rob some space by dividing up the disk
into more partitions -- you will probably lose all the data though, unless you
know what you are doing.
Good luck. G.
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From: Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: java runtime engine
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:31:05 -0800
cuma wrote:
> Hi, where can i get the java runtime engine for red hat
>
> from red hat??
Try jikes (compiler) and kaffe (the rest) -- but I don't think kaffe is
completely compatible with the latest Sun version. I use jikes and the
Sun jre (with emacs and JDE for the development environment). Works
great.
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From: Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: dial up modem on demand?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:36:22 -0800
Darren Welson wrote:
> Can someone tell me where I can find info on setting up my dial up modem to
> dial my ISP when I have a client request to access the ISP?
Use pppconfig. Go to the `Advanced Options', select demand. You'll need to
`Add-user', too. Should work. Good luck. G
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: set-up DSL?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:44:18 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <9169pl$8d1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Here's a total newbie question for you:
>
> Where do you enter the information for IP, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway
> and DNS servers for Linux? I'm running RH 6.2 using Pacbell's DSL. My
> machine connects to the internet fine, because I entered the static IP
> when installing, but I'm just wondering where I make the other changes
> if need be,
In RH 6.2, the first three are most easily entered in linuxconf. Type
"linuxconf" as root to start this tool. The settings are somewhere in
the networking client configuration area, but I don't recall the exact
menu item offhand. I believe you can also enter DNS servers somewhere in
there, too. If not, you can enter them manually in the /etc/resolv.conf
file.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "michael thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,it.comp.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help adding second hard drive
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:51:44 GMT
Thanks Graham, appreciate the help
M
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From: "Schuylar Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Need help installing old Sound Blaster 16 card
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:44:00 -0700
Actually, there is a built in modules.conf or conf.modules hack listed in
that file. just don't edit the linked file, and know the pertinent info
first(i.e IRQs, DMA's, etc.)
Look in /etc/modules.conf -- its pretty self-explanitory-- its labeled and
sectioned as soundblaser.
Hope it helps. Sky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:918862$1g0q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Someone gave me an old SB16 sound card (really don't know that much more
> about it)
> I am running TurboLinux 6.0.7 and I have tried finding information on
installing
> this card at sites like linuxdocs.org and linuxnewbie.org but both sites
seem
> to deal with newer models of sound cards.
>
> Can someone point me to a source for setup and config info on the Net?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave (please remove the spam from my email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip Drive
Date: 14 Dec 2000 02:47:39 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>When I type:
>
>mount /mnt/zip
>
>I get the response:
>...
>VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 16:40
>mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>...
>From the /etc/fstab file:
>
>/dev/hdd /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0
Wrong device. Use /dev/hdd4 - pre-formatted ZIP disks have a partition
table, and the whole disk is formatted in partition 4.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip Drive
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 02:59:37 GMT
"Clark L. Coleman" wrote:
> >> /mnt/zip is a symbolic link to /dev/hdd with all access privileges on.
>
> Why not? If there is something wrong, please let me know.
There is something *very* wrong with this.
Mounting /dev/hdd under /mnt/zip causes /dev/hdd's filesystem to
"plug into" the global filesystem at the point "/mnt/zip".
If you have symbolically linked /mnt/zip to /dev/hdd, then when
you execute the mount command (you indicated it was "mount
/mnt/zip"), then you're mounting the device on itself, which
will create great confusion.
Remove the symbolic link, then create a directory called "/mnt/zip".
The mount command will not work as you have described your setup.
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From: "les andrzejewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome without mouse.
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:38:56 GMT
Can someone suggest some documentation (online) describing how to navigate
Gnome GUI using keyboard only.
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From: Herb Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:39:39 -0600
grep "STRING" *
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is the command to find the occurance of a string in a group of
> files in a directory?
>
> I vaguely remember it being find with a grep pipe I think.
>
> thanks
> charles
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: LINUX MANDRAKE HELP
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:06:00 GMT
Chose Custom or Expert install, pick your partitions
and format. That will erase corel and load Mandrake.
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:06:31 -0500, Daniel Bechard
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I had install Corel Linux and I would like to remove it and install
>Linux Mandrake 7.2.
>
>How should I do this? Should I delete the Corel Partition and
>reformate the disk for Mandrake?
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From: jinp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with netscape under redhat
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:33:13 -0500
It is cause lack of a font in the xfree setup, go to netscape site and
look for browser support, I do not remember exact where it is.
jinp
cuma wrote:
> Am Mit, 13 Dez 2000 hat Peter Szatmari geschrieben:
>
>> maybe because the Java Run Time Engine is not installed with your linux
>> distro?
>>
>> Peter
>> cuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>> every time I visit a page with a java applet,
>>> my netscape aborts.
>>> Can anyone help me?
>>>
>>> thanx in advance.
>>>
>>> cuma
>>
>
> Hi Peter,
> can you tell me how to install the java runtime engine?
> Or better get Netscape 6.0??
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From: "Hong Xie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Need Help with PASSWD! Urgent!
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:20:01 +0800
I have encountered the similar problem. I am using
RH6.2 with Win4Lin kernel. I found that I can only
telnet or rlogin to my account with the root password.
When using the individual password setup for each
account, the telnet said "login incorrect".
I have tested all other accounts I created, they
are behaving in the same way. This problem happens
no matter where you are telneting from, local host
or not.
However rlogin works if you specify the user name
on the command line, eg
rlogin hostname -l username
Otherwise the username and password combination will
not work.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Many thanks,
Hong
"JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:qrTW5.22$5e2.462@client...
> We are running Slackware kernel 2.0.38 (?). Lately, a lot of users having
> trouble logging to the server to extract email.
>
> For some user account, when I trying to telnet to the Linux box as usual,
> it keeps saying login incorrect even if the account has been deleted and
> re-created. I checked the password and shadow files and did not notice
any
> problems. Now more and more users are getting this problem.
>
> What should I do? Please give me some advice. Thanks.
>
> Joe
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NEC Superscript 1400?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:15:29 GMT
Got driver from Included in CD. works well!
In article <916icc$fgq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can NEC Superscript 1400 work on RH 6.2? If so, how to config?
> Thnx a lot!
>
> Sent via Deja.com
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>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: java runtime engine
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:44:25 GMT
Leo wrote:
>
> Leo wrote:
>
> > cuma wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi, where can i get the java runtime engine for red hat
> > >
> > > from red hat??
http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: postgresql 7.0.3-2 rpm installation question
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:45:49 GMT
Hi:
I have used linux before but never did any admin work on it. And I don't
have any experience on postgresql.
Today I just installed RedHat 7.0 with GNOME option on our DELL machine
(intel chip 500 mHZ, 128 meg of ram). After the RedHat installation I did
not find postgresql package.
Then, I used this box to download from ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/
binary/v7.0.3/RPMS/RedHat-7.0/
the files
postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-devel-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-server-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
I also created a new linux user called "postgres" and it's home directory
is /home/postgres. I can login as linux user "postgres" without any
problems.
Now I am ready to install "postgresql" and here are my questions:
1. I am assuming I should login as user "postgres" on linux to install
"Postgres" software, not login as root. Is this right?
2. Which above rpm file(s) should I install, all of them? or just
postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm (seems to be the largest in file size)
Do I just type
rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
and that would do it?
3. Should I install the Postgresql software at "/home/postgres" or "/usr/
bin"? I am assuming that if I use "root" to install, I would put it in /
usr/bin. Ohterwise it would be in /home/postgres?
I looked at various websites trying to find answers to my above
questions, but I could not find them. Hope I can get some quick help
here.
Thanks!
Guang
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