Linux-Setup Digest #242, Volume #20 Mon, 18 Dec 00 00:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Kernel panic on bootup ("UsuLsuspct")
Question about KDE2 (David Liana)
Re: x configur not found (Alex)
Problem with StarOffice 5.2 installation (Bernie)
Re: Upgrading to RH 7 on a dual boot machine (E J)
Help!! Partitioning (srinivas_vanjari)
Re: Kernel panic on bootup (Dave Brown)
Re: help ksh scripts on linux (Dave Brown)
3ware nightmares ("Richard Ford")
Redhat 7 & ATA100 (Rogue2000)
Re: Question about KDE2 (Zerr)
Re: Can you install Corel 2 over Mandrake 7.2 ? (Dave Brown)
Suggestions for Linux Modems ("Lemuel Abarte")
SB AWE 32 / SuSE 7.0 ("Bob Hyam")
Re: what's in a linux boot disk? (Kenneth Harrington)
Re: Red Hat 7.0 and Windows 2000 ("McKernan")
Re: Dual boot WinME + Linux ("McKernan")
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From: "UsuLsuspct" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic on bootup
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:22:45 -0500
For awhile I was getting a similar problem while trying to upgrade my
kernel. After pulling out most of my hair, I found out it was a issue with
Linux, not supporting my hard drive controller.
I dont know I guess that' for the what it's worth....
"Ed Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:AP8%5.5787$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just installed Linux on the d: drive on a 486DX. I get the following
> message and cannot proced further.
>
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:45
>
>
> Does anyone know what the problem is? I would certainly appreciate
anyone's
> help.
>
> ed.
>
>
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From: David Liana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Question about KDE2
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:15:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just bought Red Hat 7.0 and would like to upgrade to KDE 2.0.1. I
downloaded all the files from their ftp server for it... Just have a
few questions:
1. It complains about dependencies.. how do i fix?
2. I force the install, and some of the menu icons are bigger than the
others. How do i fix it?
3. KDE is the default desktop on my system. How do i fix the login
screen because it looks messed up? (some of the graphics arent there)
Dave
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: x configur not found
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:26:09 -0500
sam wrote:
>
> 1)For RH7, I type 'x configur' , it said no this command.
I believe it shoold be "Xconfigurator" or you can use "XF86Setup" too.
Please note, caption does make a difference.
> 2)How to the change video mode from 1024x768 to 800x600 in xwindows
>
You can change the mode after you run the "Xconfigurator".
Hope this helps.
Alex.
> regards,
> sam
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From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with StarOffice 5.2 installation
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:56:11 GMT
When attempting to install StarOffice 5.2 under RedHat Linux 7.0,
I receive a message indicating that StarOffice is already installed,
even though I've done the following:
As root:
-so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin /net
As bernie:
-rm /home/bernie/.*rdb
-rm -r /home/bernie/office52
-/apps/office52/program/setup
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to RH 7 on a dual boot machine
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:58:21 GMT
Hello fellow Motorolan:
I had the same problem.
$ su -
password: <secret>
# cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.bak # just in case you screw up.
# vi /etc/lilo.conf # use your favorite editor to edit lilo.conf, vi
is not mine :)
# start of lilo.conf This is mine.
boot=/dev/hda3
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=dos
# EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINE TO CHANGE FROM LINUX KERNAL 2.2.14 to 2.2.16
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
root=/dev/hda4
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
#end of lilo.conf
# /sbin/lilo
# reboot
I hope it works for you.
I may look wired, but I actually wireless (GPRS)
Ed
Ivan Rojas wrote:
> 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: srinivas_vanjari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help!! Partitioning
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:54:20 GMT
Hi,
Recently I have bought a HP pavilon computer. It has a 20gb hard drive
with a single partition in it. Windows millenium edition was loaded in
that. I wanted to add linux also. I bought the standard red hat linux
os and i tried to install it. Since i had some experience with
partitioning earlier, i went ahead and chose to do partition using
fdisk. I made one partion of size 128mb for swap (/dev/hda1), one
partition for native linux (/dev/hda2) and one partition for windows.
There was plenty of space left over. When i finished installing it, i
was not able to boot any of the operating systems ( I made sure that i
had given the correct choice for installing lilo on master boot
record). I encountered a couple of problems -
1) The linux software supplied by redhat comes with a floppy and a cd.
When i tried to install from the cd, the size of the work station
installation was around 1400MB. Even though i had more than that space
on the linux native partition, there was an error message saying that
there was no enough disk space. I had to exit and once i rebooted, it
showed a message
"system disk failure, insert disk and then press enter when ready"..
not knowing what to do, i inserted the floppy that came along with the
package and inserted it into the drive. The boot image got loaded and
it asked where it can find the software..i gave the choice cdrom and it
started again. With the same partitions, i tried installing workstation
again, but this time, it showed that the total space required is around
840MB and installed it fully. Once i rebooted, the same message as
shown above appeared again, but i was able to boot with the boot floppy
i had prepared. Giving up again, this time, i created just one
partition os size 4gb of type win95 fat32 and then recovered my earlier
windows using the backup and then tried to install again. This time, i
left the partitioning job to the software ( automatically partition and
erase). It worked out fine and i am now able to boot both oses.
Qn: 1) Can somebody explain why all these happened ?
2) Right now i have only one partition for windows and the rest of
the space is occupied by linux. I want to add a few more partitions to
windows by taking away some space from linux. How should i go about
doing it ? (Later i want to mount these partitions also so that i can
access the windows data from linux).
3) I heard that if we use separate partitions for /home
and /usr/local, if we run into some trouble in the future, the software
can be updated/reinstalled without disturbing the /home and /usr/local
partitions. Is this true ? If so how should the partitioning be done ?
4) How many extended partitions can we have and can the extended
partitions be of two types (one linux and one windows).
Somebody please help me out.
Thanks a lot for your time,
--
regards,
srinivas_vanjari,
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From: Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel panic on bootup
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:44:25 GMT
Ed Collins wrote:
> I just installed Linux on the d: drive on a 486DX. I get the following
> message and cannot proced further.
>
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:45
>
> Does anyone know what the problem is? I would certainly appreciate anyone's
> help.
I'm not sure what you mean by "d: drive". That's a DOS thing, not
Linux.
(Unless you're using one of those kluge things that puts Linux in a DOS
file system.
The message you're getting basically says that the "root filesystem",
i.e.,
the linux installation is not located where the kernel thinks it is.
There
are several mistakes that could possibly cause this, but not knowing
exactly
how you installed, what distribution, etc., one could only make guesses.
Perhaps if you describe what kind of install you did, and how you
answered
some of the install questions... You probably ought to start over, and
keep
track of such things this time.
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From: Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help ksh scripts on linux
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:53:58 GMT
michael thomas wrote:
>...
> 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
>
Are you using a "real ksh"? The above does work on a genuine ksh.
Perhaps
you're actually using pdksh, and perhaps it doesn't have a "print"
command.
If this is the case, then perhaps you should download a genuine ksh for
Linux.
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From: "Richard Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: 3ware nightmares
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:15:55 +1100
G'Day
I am having an aweful time trying to get a 3ware 6200 working with RH
6.2 It is a MSI K7T pro 2 board with 2 segate atat 66 7200 baracuda 2
drives, the es 6200 and an Athlong thunderbird 800. 128 mb 133 FSB ram.
Now I follow all the instructions and the system will not boot off the
array. I curently have a ATAPI CD drive as master on channel 1 for
intalling the system (As NFS install was stuffing up) and I will remove
this cd drive once the OS is up.
I had similar problems with a compaq proliant and a smart 2 controller.
That is one, can install the OS and go through all the options, but come
the first boot post install, the kernel panics as it can't moutn the
root FS.
The root FS is obviously where the 3ware driver module is - so it can't
load the module, so can't access the root FS, so can't load the
module.... chicken and egg.
This was solved by hitting ALT F2 just before the final reboot (On the
compaq) and doing a kernel recompile and installing the new kernel.
I tried that with RH 6.2 and the escalade using a new frsh 2.2.18
download. As 2.2.15 was uspposed to have the 3ware driver included and
RH 6.2 uses 2.2.14.
I check that the driver was there in the source tree - it was. I did a
make menuconfig but I could not find the controller listed anywhere to
select an * and make it compiled into the kernel.
I tried to edit the makefile in the scsi dir - but as I know nothign
about make files (I assumed the optin to compile or not or a module or
into the kernel was set in there??) and the sane problem persists.
I downlaod the new manual off the 3ware site and still it says the smae
things. Just select expert... blah, blah, blah...... select drivers,
etc...
What did you do special? What am I missing? What can I try??? How
come I can't get this damm thing to work when I follow the instructions
to the tee? Must the driver be compiled in? Or is it OK as a loadable
module?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Richard.
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From: Rogue2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 7 & ATA100
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:25:06 GMT
Can I install RH7 on my computer where the hard drive is connected to
the onboard ATA100 Promise controller? (A7V) If not what is the best way
of
getting RH7 onto this disk.
Thx
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From: Zerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about KDE2
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:21:22 GMT
David Liana wrote:
> I just bought Red Hat 7.0 and would like to upgrade to KDE 2.0.1. I
> downloaded all the files from their ftp server for it... Just have a
> few questions:
>
> 1. It complains about dependencies.. how do i fix?
Find the dependencies that the program needs and install them. Most can be
found as RPM's on red hats site
> 2. I force the install, and some of the menu icons are bigger than the
> others. How do i fix it?
probably because of the missing dependencies, once you install the proper
programs that should fix it
> 3. KDE is the default desktop on my system. How do i fix the login
> screen because it looks messed up? (some of the graphics arent there)
again if you install the proper dependencies it should fix it
> Dave
P.S. Or you could just upgrade to the latest version of Red Hat or
mandrake, kde 2 is installed by default in each one.
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From: Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [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 04:02:53 GMT
Dan wrote:
>
> 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.
> "Don Hinds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > 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).
This doesn't sound like a "distribution dependent" problem... they all
basically
use the same kernel (although precooked configurations may vary).
In general, you don't have to "remove" an old distribution, because the
installer
of the new distribution will remake (read "reformat") the root
filesystem, thus
removing the old for you. (Some installers do have an option to skip
the formatting
operation... bad idea.)
On the other hand, I seem to recall that Corel did not want to install
into an
existing partition, but insisted on creating its own. And if you delete
a partition
and recreate it, you're liable to get new partition numbering if there's
something else on the disk. Which is why I never installed Corel.
PS: I have Linux running on a K6/2 3D machine. But my video card
doesn't use system
memory. The problem you may be having may be related to your video
card...
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From: "Lemuel Abarte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suggestions for Linux Modems
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:34:18 +0700
Reply-To: "Lemuel Abarte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have an Intel i810 chipset with an AMR (winmodem system). Any suggestions for
a good Linux modem, 36k or 56k? Old models are readily available in Thailand.
TIA,
Lemuel
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From: "Bob Hyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB AWE 32 / SuSE 7.0
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:53:29 GMT
Yast will not detect my sound card. I've tried manually entering some of the
port addresses and DMA info but it still refuses to see it. The card is a
Sound Blaster AWE 32 # 3910. It is NOT a PNP card. Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks {rh}
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From: Kenneth Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what's in a linux boot disk?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:56:40 -0700
I don't know if knowing what's in the boot disks would help, but you
could try looking at the bootdisk howto. I think the diskettes from the
major distributions are somewhat more complex than this, but it is
basically just a set of the minimum files needed to run something
intelligent.
As for you booting problem, it would help to know if the messages you
refer to are from the kernel, and if it is during kernel startup, or
startup of some of the system services.
I would recommend trying to start in single-user mode to see if the
problem is different. If you are using LILO, you can type "linux
single", or something similar to that. Then post more information about
the actual error messages, and when they appear.
Aaron wrote:
>
> what's in a linux boot disk?
>
> after making some changes in linuxconf and rebooting, my linux doesn't start
> up and kernel panics. Something about swapping & not being able to sync.
>
> But i can boot linux up with my boot disk.
>
> What's in my boot disk? Is there any way i can replace how linux boots from
> the hard disk with how it boots from my floppy?
>
> thanks!
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From: "McKernan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 and Windows 2000
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:58:57 +1100
I have the same problem.
I use the boot disk and it loads Red Hat fine. But LILO does not com up
with out it. Can't remember where I installed LILO though. D'oh.
Ideas anyone?
BTW: I am using Millenium, not Win2k as dual.
GreySoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Did you install LILO?
>
> If so, where did you install it?
>
>
> Also, did you create a boot disk for Red Hat?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:58:39 GMT, "Chris Kilian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> >I am wanting to boot between windows 2000 and Red Hat 7.0. There are
three
> >partitions one for each OS (other is Win 2000 Server) when I install Red
Hat
> >it goes ok but when I reboot I do not get a linux option it just goes
right
> >into the windows boot up options. Can anybody advise.
> >Regards
> >
>
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From: "McKernan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot WinME + Linux
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:03:36 +1100
How did u get LILO to come up when using ME? I can't get LILO up, it just
boots millenium.
Eric en Jolanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:aUG_5.33569$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Regarding LILO... how do you get it to load WinME by default and
> > Linux by choice (as it is the other way around on my system at the
> > moment, and I am not ready as yet to move over to Linux completely)? ?
> >
>
> take a look at the file /etc/lilo.conf
> I think you'll find it obvious on how to change this.
> (otherwise `man lilo`, `info lilo` and `man lilo.conf` can be of some
help)
>
> Remember to run /sbin/lilo after you made an changes to /etc/lilo.conf, or
> else the changes will not have effect.
>
> Eric
>
>
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