Linux-Setup Digest #241, Volume #20 Sun, 17 Dec 00 22:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Internal Zip Drive question (Dragan Colak)
Re: which LINUX to choose (Eeli Kaikkonen)
Re: screen freezes on "LI" when I try to start linux ("Alk")
Re: Internal Zip Drive question ("Alk")
Re: make xconfig error ("Alk")
Re: which LINUX to choose (Chiefy)
? Different between Mandrake 7.2 and other Linux ? (Vincent Phan)
Re: SuSE 6.4 on a Toshiba Portege 7020 CT (Vincent Phan)
Re: Distribution for an old PC (rdh)
Re: Can you install Corel 2 over Mandrake 7.2 ? ("Dan")
Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot (Tom Szczesniak)
Re: X - Window Client (exceed) - Linux ("Padala Ethiraj")
modem/rp3 driving me into tears (Gill)
install error with Redhat 7.0 ("Jonas Hansen")
Re: help ksh scripts on linux ("Ernst F. Graeler,Home,732-870-4059,732-223-1110")
Upgrading to RH 7 on a dual boot machine (Ivan Rojas)
Java core dumps in RedHat 7.0 (Ivan Rojas)
x configur not found ("sam")
Printing Problem (use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation) (Bruce Cota)
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From: Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal Zip Drive question
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:13:32 -0100
charlie wrote:
> I have Redhat Linux installed ... sound configured ... dial up
> connected properly, and have the zip drive configured and a zip disk
> formated for linux .... would someone point me in the right direction so
> that I don't have to be logged in as root to mount, cp files, and umount
> the drive please??
>
> thanks in advance
> Charlie S.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
set UserID for mount
if you don't know how read "man mount"
Dragan
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From: Eeli Kaikkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,at.linux,ger.pc.linux,linux.debian.qa,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: which LINUX to choose
Date: 17 Dec 2000 23:28:47 GMT
In linux.debian.user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a brand new 30GB desktop which came preinstalled with WinDoze ME.
>
For a brand new computer you should choose a recent distribution. With
older versions you are only begging for problems because all hardware
may not be supported and programs are old.
--
Eeli Kaikkonen
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From: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: screen freezes on "LI" when I try to start linux
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:11:27 +0200
Reply-To: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sometimes it is a sign that your disk requires other setting for linear
mode - eg linear or not while installing
AG
"MLegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I installed Corel/Debian linux on a hewlett-packard pavillion 4530. The
> installation
> program reported that the installation was a "success", but when I
re-booted
> to actually start Linux I got a frozen screen--it freezes on a "LI_"
prompt
> (not "LILO_", just "LI_"). I would greatly appreciate any help!
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From: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal Zip Drive question
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:12:15 +0200
Reply-To: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Check /etc/fstab on how cdrom is mounted
AG
"charlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have Redhat Linux installed ... sound configured ... dial up
> connected properly, and have the zip drive configured and a zip disk
> formated for linux .... would someone point me in the right direction so
> that I don't have to be logged in as root to mount, cp files, and umount
> the drive please??
>
> thanks in advance
> Charlie S.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make xconfig error
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:57:45 +0200
Reply-To: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Check if there is at least Makefile and maybe there are no sources at all
and get kernel sources from www.kernel.org if you need them
AG
"Phillip Franckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to configure my kernel, unfortunatly I only get the error
> below.
>
> I am in directory /usr/src/linux
> I then type make xconfig
>
> And I get
>
> make: *** No rule to make target `xconfig'. Stop.
>
> What does this mean?
>
> I have Mandrake 7.0 with kernel 2.2.14
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: which LINUX to choose
Date: 18 Dec 2000 00:12:57 GMT
17 Dec 2000 16:41 UTC, John Hasler did say to the dudes:
[snip]
>I suggest that Mr. Staber purchase a set of Debian 2.2r2 CD's from one
>of the many Web vendors. 2.0 is rather old.
Absolutely the best thing to do.
Putting Debian onto this pc was the best move I've made. Installed last
year and not a single problem since. Ideal for a newbie or pro.
Much easier to install than RedHat(6.0) IMO.
--
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Error #152 - Windows not found: (C)heer (P)arty (D)ance.
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From: Vincent Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ? Different between Mandrake 7.2 and other Linux ?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:34:46 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all,
As a newbie to Linux, I'm wondering that is there any different between
Mandrake Kinux 7.2 and other Linux OS in term of performance and ...
In my opinion, Mandrake 7.2 is so easy to setup, compared with other.
I've been trying to setup my laptop to run Dualboot with Win2K, I got
all kind of problems with other Linux, but when I switched it to
Mandrake 7.2, everything is up and running at the first time with all
driver: Sound, Graphic, Xircom Realport combo card ...
Please advice.
Thanks
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From: Vincent Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,z-netz.alt.linux,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.4 on a Toshiba Portege 7020 CT
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:39:44 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Timo Volkmer wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> has anyone experiences installing and running SuSE-Linux 6.4 on Toshiba
> Portege 7020CT Laptop Computer?
>
> I'll appreciate any comments, THANKS!
>
> -Timo
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No SuSE, but Mandrake 7.2 is really impressed me, everything is up and
ruuning at the first installation. Dualboot Win2K/Mandrake 7.2 on
OmniBook 900B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rdh)
Subject: Re: Distribution for an old PC
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:30:55 GMT
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 20:21:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Where can I find a distribution suitable for a 386SX 16 MHz, 5 MB RAM
>and 80 MB hard disk?
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/
or
http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/slackware/
You'll probably have better luck with distros <= 3.6, using the
lowmem.i bootdisk image. Even then, there are some important things
to remember:
You won't be able to fit a whole lot on that 80MB disk. If you can
scrape up a slightly larger disk, that will help a great deal. I ran
a fairly well-equipped Slackware 3.4 workstation in a 300MB partition
for about a year.
Additional memory will help you more than anything else. You can
probably get things installed and running, but the machine will be
slooooow -- especially since you have absolutely NO room for a swap
partition. Don't even think about running X with this setup. Command
line will be painful enough.
With a 386SX, you'll need to be sure your kernel has math coprocessor
emulation compiled in. Don't know if the lowmem.i image has it (I've
never had to use lowmem.i).
--Russell
============================================================
email (spam-disabled):
rdh *at* salug *dot* org
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From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can you install Corel 2 over Mandrake 7.2 ?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:59:44 +1100
You most certainly need to remove your old distro before adding a new one,
otherwise you'll have all sorts of problems with multiple config files, etc.
I have to question moving from Mandrake to Corel. I'd be suggesting moving
the other way, especially since Corel just bailed out of Linux.
Dan
"Don Hinds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Bs9%5.1116$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've installed MAndrake 7.2 but so far cannot get it to work with my AMD
K6
> 3D processor (shares video RAM with the system).
>
> If Mandrake doesn't have an anwers, can I install Corel over Mandrake or
do I
> have to remove Mandrake first? (assuming Corel supports my CPU).
>
> thanks
> Don
>
>
>
>
> --
> Don Hinds
> http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/eritrea/117/
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Szczesniak)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:44:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 08:44:35 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I got it installed by getting in touch with a local linux user's
group. They used Partition Magic and it recognized and re-partitioned
my drive. But I'm still interested in our discussion here.
>
>Take no notice of the install. Step aside to the prompt on another
>console. Ideally, run from a rescue disk or use the rescue option on
>the cd if there is one so that there can be no "install".
How do I step aside to another prompt? The cd gave me only the
options I explained 1)continue installation 2) what I believe was a
prompt which sat there until I entered something. There is a disk
with it, but this disk is for machines that won't boot from a cd. I
used it and it got to a point where it told me it couldn't find the
install cd and to put it in. Never got a 'terminal' type prompt. So
I don't know how I would enter this command if it wasn't at the first
prompt I saw.
>
>> prompt which I believe is a linux prompt - the root with a "#"
>> somewhere in it. At that root prompt I typed your command. It said
>> "could not find kernel" and then it immediately continued with it's
>
>No it didn't. You were clearly not at a prompt because if you had been
>it wouldn't have gone on in any way. You would have had control, not
>some other program.
That makes sense to me.
>
>And looking for a kernel is not the business of fdisk!
fdisk is dos, right? So should I have done this at a dos prompt?
>
>> normal installation from the cd (it looked at drives, keyboard, mouse
>> and brought me up to the partitioning section again).
>
>And you shoud have stepped aside to a command line prompt on another
>console again.
Anyway, I've got it installed and a tone of other questions like:
Getting my pci modem going (I found some of the areas to work in but
no luck so far)
Getting the Creative SB Live sound going.
Getting the HP9300 CD Writer going. One of the linux user group guys
said he got his going, but it took forever. Something about fooling
linux into thinking its a scuzzi or something.
My changes to add users don't show up at the log in screen
When I first log in now. I can log in as root, but not as the first
normal user I made for myself. I get an error message. It tells me
exactly what to do with this error (be sure such and such is running,
copy this notice, send it to so and so)
The guys at the user's group were impressed with Mandrake 7.2 and said
it did a good job of finding stuff, better than most.
For the moment I'll explore some of the software and games and feel it
out and then come back play with the system stuff again.
We got the printer going, though it kept dropping the last line of the
print page. I changed the setting from 60 to 62 lines per page, but
at that screen I wasn't at the same setup screen as before and
couldn't find the same "print test page". Don't know if that was the
way to go.
_______________________
Tom Szc....
at thomasz@jef(nospamminallowed)fnet.org
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From: "Padala Ethiraj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X - Window Client (exceed) - Linux
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 08:11:34 +0800
Thanks for the immediate reply ... I will try it ...
Thanks,
Cheers,
Ethiraj
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From: Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem/rp3 driving me into tears
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:05:44 +0200
Hi,
Ever since I've upgraded from RH62 to RH70 my modem has been acting up on me.
First i could not configure it to run at all.
Then i copied some stuff from the RH62 old hard disk.
that worked fine for a while until the other day after an hour or so of
good connection it suddenly dropped, and from then on every invocation
would get (quoting /var/log/pppd-log which i activated):
Dec 17 02:55:26 dod ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at 115200
Dec 17 02:55:26 dod pppd[899]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Dec 17 02:55:27 dod WvDial: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41
Dec 17 02:55:27 dod WvDial: Initializing modem.
Dec 17 02:55:27 dod WvDial: Sending: ATZ
Dec 17 02:55:27 dod WvDial: ATZ
Dec 17 02:55:27 dod WvDial: OK
Dec 17 02:55:27 dod WvDial: Sending: ATM1L1
Dec 17 02:55:27 dod WvDial: ATM1L1
Dec 17 02:55:28 dod WvDial: OK
Dec 17 02:55:28 dod WvDial: Modem initialized.
Dec 17 02:55:28 dod WvDial: Sending: ATDT *70,6210333
Dec 17 02:55:28 dod WvDial: Waiting for carrier.
Dec 17 02:55:28 dod WvDial: ATDT *70,6210333
Dec 17 02:55:52 dod WvDial: CONNECT 49333/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS
Dec 17 02:55:52 dod WvDial: Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
Dec 17 02:55:52 dod pppd[899]: Serial connection established.
Dec 17 02:55:52 dod pppd[899]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 17 02:55:52 dod pppd[899]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Dec 17 02:56:04 dod pppd[899]: local IP address 132.64.14.38
Dec 17 02:56:04 dod pppd[899]: remote IP address 132.64.14.250
Dec 17 02:56:04 dod pppd[899]: primary DNS address 128.139.4.3
Dec 17 02:56:04 dod pppd[899]: secondary DNS address 128.139.6.1
Dec 17 02:56:11 dod pppd[899]: Terminating on signal 15.
Dec 17 02:56:11 dod pppd[899]: Connection terminated.
Dec 17 02:56:11 dod pppd[899]: Connect time 0.4 minutes.
Dec 17 02:56:11 dod pppd[899]: Sent 463 bytes, received 1407 bytes.
Dec 17 02:56:12 dod pppd[899]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Dec 17 02:56:12 dod pppd[899]: Exit.
... id get this signal 15 every invocation, after less then 1 min online.
I then figured maybe the modem is badly configed. I pugged it out hoping for
kudzu to remove its installation. but kudzu said nothing. I plugged it back in
and ... my sound card stopped working!!!
This got back to normal after two more reboots, but the modem would still
terminate on signal 15 after <1 minute.
Finally i sat down, read wvdial man page, copied the old RH62 /etc/evdial.conf
file and ran 'wvdial HUJI1' from the root prompt - and the connection is now
on for some time!!! (not sure how im going to kill it cleanly though...)
Can someone please enlighten me?!
I'd be glad to post files up for inspection.
Thank you,
-Gill
PS the modem is a USR 56K int and it worked just fine with RH62.
a. the excerpt from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
-
class: OTHER
bus: SERIAL
detached: 0
device: ttyS1
driver: ignore
desc: "0US|R303"
pnpmfr: 0US
pnpmodel: R303
pnpcompat:
-
(same as in my RH62 config)
b. the /dev set up:
<209|0> ls -l /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 12 17:07 /dev/modem ->/dev/ttyS1
crw------- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Dec 18 01:52 /dev/ttyS1
c. rp3 version:
<210|0> rp3 --version
Gnome rp3 1.1.4
<211|0> rpm -q rp3
rp3-1.1.4-4
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From: "Jonas Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install error with Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:21:40 +0100
Im trying to install RedHat 7.0 on a laptop. I'm booting of the CD-ROM but
when Anaconda starts, it bails out with some syntax error in one of its
internal scripts. Can anyone help?
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From: "Ernst F. Graeler,Home,732-870-4059,732-223-1110" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help ksh scripts on linux
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:00:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do this instead...
#!/bin/ksh
print "hi mike" | while read mystr
do
print $mystr
done
michael thomas wrote:
> Hi everyone. Would be real grateful for some help getting 'read' to work
> within my k shell scripts. I am running Redhat 6.* on a pc and my login
> shell is ksh. I do a fair amount of scripting on other UNIX systems but for
> the life of me I can't get 'read' to work within a ksh script :-
>
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> print "hi mike" | read mystr
> print $mystr
>
> Would be very grateful for some help or advice on this.
>
> Thank you
>
> Mike Thomas
>
>
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From: Ivan Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Upgrading to RH 7 on a dual boot machine
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:15:07 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
this is happening to me in my Linux/NT box. I upgraded from RedHat 6.2
to 7.0 last friday with no custom options. I just let the instaler
(anaconda) to do its job.
Later after rebooting, the old kernel 2.2.14 keeps showing up instead of
2.2.16. I checked the file that the NT boot loader uses to kick off
Linux and is updated, I use this command to create that file:
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
copy bootsect.lnx to the root of "c drive" and add it to the boot.ini
file for the NT bootloader. All this procedure has been working fine
with RedHat 6.1 and 6.2 but seems to be broken in 7.0.
Now, if I boot from the floppy I created during the installation all
goes fine, so I copied boot.b, map and initrd.img to /boot to see if
that changes something but it didn't.
I need help here please. If someone has any ideas please post here or
e-mail me.
Thanks and merry christmas!
Ivan Rojas
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From: Ivan Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: mot.comp.os.linux
Subject: Java core dumps in RedHat 7.0
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:22:56 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
if you are upgrading to RedHat 7.0 and happen to start getting "core
dumps" when using any java tool (java, javac, jar, etc.) get the
following file from RedHat site or rpmfind.net : glibc-2.2-5.i686.rpm
Install it and all will be fine.
BTW, it happened with Sun's JDK ver 1.2.2. BlackDown's 1.2.2 JDK seems
not to be affected. I didn't test any other JDK.
Best regards,
Ivan Rojas
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From: "sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: x configur not found
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:56:42 +0800
1)For RH7, I type 'x configur' , it said no this command.
2)How to the change video mode from 1024x768 to 800x600 in xwindows
regards,
sam
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From: Bruce Cota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing Problem (use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:08:35 -0500
Hi, I'm having no luck setting up a printer (Epson stylus 777) to work
with my Linux
box. Tried setting it up with Printtool/ghostscript using Epson
drivers, tried a
ghostscript command I got from a howto, tried creating a postscript file
manually
and applying gs to it using device "stylus" and then catting to
/dev/lp0. There
is no activity at all on the printer. I can' t see any sign that lp
does anything,
except that the status and lock files get touched. lpq shows no jobs.
This is in dmesg:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven
operation.
parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 777
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>From the console, I also go the "parport0: detected ir17, use procs..."
message when I tried to print using lp.
So I'm guessing/hoping that I need to "use procfs to enable
interrupt-driven
operation". But ... how do I do that? :)
Any advice appreciated. Thanks,
-bruce ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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