Linux-Setup Digest #251, Volume #20 Tue, 19 Dec 00 05:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Help!! Partitioning (srinivas_vanjari)
Re: another winmodem question (Graham Wilson)
problem configuring a dialup ppp connection ("Jesse McLaughlin")
Re: Resize NTFS without Administrator Privs to Install RedHat -- Please Help (Eric)
Re: What file sets the QTDIR environment variable? ("Schuylar Marshall")
Re: Problem with Linux/NT dual-boot (Eric)
Re: HELP -RedHat 6.0 install and Telnet ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
Re: Dual boot help needed. (Eric)
Re: Internet support on Linux? (Gordon Taylor)
Re: Bizarre kernel lockup with 2.2.18 ("Brian Morrison")
Re: Help!! Partitioning (Eric)
Re: Upgrading to RH 7 on a dual boot machine (Eric)
Re: Kernel Panic, Please Help...I am Panicking Too (Eric)
How to install patch? ("Frank")
kflushd/kupdate settings (Vincent Guirardel)
Re: That wasn't hard! ... but not ready for everybody... (Tor Slettnes)
Help! Redhat 6.1 installation (Viswanathan Raman)
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From: srinivas_vanjari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!! Partitioning
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:00:56 GMT
Hi,
> > Qn: 1) Can somebody explain why all these happened ?
>
> No, I can't from here, unless you provide numbers (fdisk -l /dev/hda,
> mount, df)
Hmmm.. I am scared to do anything with partitioning now..i almost
thought that i had done something damaging to the master boot record.
>Depends on the current partitioning scheme.
I want to try out partitioning once again. I have back up for
everything. So any suggestions will be really helpful.
> That's true. partioning requires a separate partition for /home and
> /usr/local obviously.
I don't understand.. when i was back home i had a computer which had
only two partitions for linux..one native and one swap..and it was
working fine.
> > 4) How many extended partitions can we have and can the extended
> > partitions be of two types (one linux and one windows).
>
> No, you can have only one.
> Don't try two different extended partitions. It's not safe
>
> One extended partition can however contain both windows AND linux
> logical partitions.
Can swap space remain on an extended partition ? Is it necessary to
have a primary partition for the swap space ?
Thanks a lot for the help,
--
regards,
srinivas_vanjari,
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From: Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: another winmodem question
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:03:36 -0800
Simon Harvey wrote:
>
> I have a "56K PCI Voice Modem SF-1156IV+ R9A" modem installed; manufactured
> by Conexant although I can find no ref to it on their website; anyone else
> using this modem with Linux or as a Winmodem is it definitely a no go for
> Linux? I tried the two sites suggested previously and got a bit bogged
> down...
> Any help gratefully received,
> Regards (oh and merry christmas)
> SH
I recently read a post where the writer said the Conexant modem was
useless (his words, as I recall, were a little more harsh).
Even if you find a way to make it work, you should know that it will
use CPU resources for its operation. This is a performance hit,
especially if you are trying to do something else while your modem is
busy. You'll be much more satisfied with a proper modem, IMHO. G.
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From: "Jesse McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem configuring a dialup ppp connection
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:11:48 +1300
Hi all,
I've just installed RH7.0 and I'm using a script to start pppd. Everything
is fine, it connects, but then immediately disconnects.
The tail of the /var/log/messages file ends up like:
...
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Peer is not authorized to use remote address 204.96.152.63
...
I've never seen this before. What do I need to fix?
Cheers,
Jesse.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Resize NTFS without Administrator Privs to Install RedHat -- Please Help
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:23:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John wrote:
>
> I used the DOS based (floppy) partition magic to get Linux installed. It's
> now running and happy.
>
> I just need a way to edit the boot.ini file so I can use the NT boot manager
> to start linux. Since I can't login I can't modify the file via NT.
>
> I can mount the ntfs (read-only). I'm scared to use the read/write ntfs
> because it might mess up the NT.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Is there a "dos" like floppy that I can boot from and then access the NTFS
> parition? I just need to edit a text file.
>
Or you can use LILO to boot the different OS's
Eric
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From: "Schuylar Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What file sets the QTDIR environment variable?
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:17:21 -0700
If it just a matter of setting the enviornmental strings for individual
users, use the /home/~/.profile file. For all users, use /etc/.profile, and
for environmental settings in a global or root load variables in the
/etc/boot.local
Hope this helps. Sky
"Chris Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:91l83q$n84$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Running SuSE 7.0 and want to upgrade the QT GUI to 2.2.2.
>
> When I try to do ./configure it tells me to set the QTDIR environment
> variable to the new location. The readme tells me that this should be in
> .profile or .login, but I can't find it there, even when I put it in "env"
> tells me that I still have the old setting.
>
> I have tried using "grep" to find it in all the likely places.
>
> The question is. How can I find out which file is setting an environment
> variable?
>
> And what file has the highest priority? As in my case something obviously
> has a higher priority than .profile
>
> Chris
>
> --
> Replace (at) with @ to reply by email
>
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with Linux/NT dual-boot
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:27:33 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
> I've just installed RedHat 7.0 on my computer, which has
> Windows NT on it. I followed very carefully the instructions
> in the Linux+NT-Loader miniHOWTO.
>
> I believe everything went OK, but when I try to launch
> Linux from the NT loader I immediately get the message
> "A disk read error occurred. Insert a system diskette and
> restart the system." If I restart the system and hit "return"
> directly into WinNT, it works fine, and if I boot Linux
> from the boot floppy, I get into Linux fine. Any suggestions?
> I'm pretty sure I got the partitions correct....
>
You copied a piece of bootcode over to the NT partition, right?
And you are using that to boot linux, right?
Are you sure this is the correct code?
Analyse that piece of bootcode with a hexviewer.
Eric
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP -RedHat 6.0 install and Telnet
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:16:40 +0000
why wrote:
>
> I can't figure out how or where to change the settings on my 2 linux boxes
> for telnet to both of them as root.
>
> I can ftp as root by changing the ftpusers file.
>
> Can someone help me out?.
Hi,
Glad you found the ftpusers file - took me a while to find it ;-)
What you need to do is look at the files in /etc/pam.d and comment out
(with '#') the lines which mention 'pam_securetty.so' these are files
login rexec & rlogin. When you have done that your telnet session should
work - as will rlogin & rsh.
You will of course have to live with the reduced security ;-)
Regards
Phil Q
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot help needed.
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:33:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Radocha wrote:
>
> Hi, me again,
> I think I may have found a somewhat easy solution to my problem by the
> means of Partition Commander 6.0 It is around 40 bucks and from the
> reviews I've gathered, it seems to work a little better than Partition
> Magic. I will still watch for an answer but will try this too and submit a
> reply soon.
>
PM works like a charm here. You must have a correct partitiontable
though.
Anyhow I don't get your original question. Do you want to know how to
free-up space to install linux in? Or do you want to know how to
partition
the free space you already have to install linux in?
1) use either PartitionMagic, PartitionCommander(I don't know this)
FIPS.EXE or parted
2) read the partitioning HOWTO
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Taylor)
Subject: Re: Internet support on Linux?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:36:52 GMT
On 18 Dec 2000 13:38:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rajmannar) wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I have a Linux installed PC at home. Is there any way to get it connected
>to the NET? I don't see any major ISP's supporting Linux installations
>for hooking onto the net.
>
When they say they do not support Linux, what they mean is that they
have not help gurus for Linux.
After all if you have a machine that talks ppp/TCP/IP it pretty hard
for the ISP's machine at the other end to know what platform your
machine is.
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From: "Brian Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bizarre kernel lockup with 2.2.18
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:36:45 +0100 (BST)
Reply-To: "Brian Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:04:30 +0500, RetroGrouch wrote:
>This error seems to hit when pppd is redialing, but why pppd should kill
>the 2.2.18 kernel and not the 2.2.14 kernel is a mystery.
ISTR reading that the ppp daemon uses rather intimate knowledge of the
kernel to work. Perhaps 2.2.18 has broken some of the things that it
needs, have you tried looking for an updated version of pppd?
--
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the sickle-sharp boar tusks he used for defacing Readers' Digest....
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!! Partitioning
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:39:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
srinivas_vanjari wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > > Qn: 1) Can somebody explain why all these happened ?
> >
> > No, I can't from here, unless you provide numbers (fdisk -l /dev/hda,
> > mount, df)
>
> Hmmm.. I am scared to do anything with partitioning now..i almost
> thought that i had done something damaging to the master boot record.
I don't ask you to do any further partitioning.
These commands just provide a listing of the current situation
> >Depends on the current partitioning scheme.
>
> I want to try out partitioning once again. I have back up for
> everything. So any suggestions will be really helpful.
I need more info before I would recommend anything
> > That's true. partioning requires a separate partition for /home and
> > /usr/local obviously.
>
> I don't understand.. when i was back home i had a computer which had
> only two partitions for linux..one native and one swap..and it was
> working fine.
True again, I doesn't matter how many partitions you use, (you need at
least one)
but if you reinstall, the /root partition will be overwritten. If /home
etc. is not
on it's own partition, it will be overwritten too. Only stuff that is
separated by
placing it on its own FS can be left untouched.
> > > 4) How many extended partitions can we have and can the extended
> > > partitions be of two types (one linux and one windows).
> >
> > No, you can have only one.
> > Don't try two different extended partitions. It's not safe
> >
> > One extended partition can however contain both windows AND linux
> > logical partitions.
>
> Can swap space remain on an extended partition ? Is it necessary to
> have a primary partition for the swap space ?
>
No reason for that. I doubt you would notice any speed improvement.
You don't even HAVE to have swap space (but it is recommended).
It can be a file too instead of a partition if you would prefer that.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to RH 7 on a dual boot machine
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:41:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ivan Rojas wrote:
>
> Thanks Ed,
>
> my lilo.conf looks pretty much like the one you suggested but still
> boots on 2.2.14, here is my lilo.conf if you wonder what I have :-)
>
>
> boot=/dev/hdb1
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> linear
> default=linux
> message=/boot/message
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
> label=linux
> read-only
> root=/dev/hdb1
> #initrd=/boot/initrd.img ## I added this to see if something
> changed
> ## Nothing changed though!
>
> other=/dev/hdb2
> label=dos
> #end of lilo.cong
>
> Any other ideas? I am starting to feel sorry for having upgraded, 6.2
> was working great!
>
run `/sbin/lilo` for the changes to take effect.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic, Please Help...I am Panicking Too
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:45:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beavis Christ wrote:
>
> Yeah Eric, but you're assuming he remembered to save his old kernel.
>
> In other words, if he can't get booted, how can he look at the man pages?
>
He claimed before that already tried rdev before, but that it failed.
So he's probably still able to boot the old kernel.
If not he should have told so.
Eric
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to install patch?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:22:44 +0800
Hi,
I have a ATA66 controller (HPT 366) build in my main board. To use that
controller in linux, I download a patch (if in Windows OS, it's called
'driver'). The name of the patch is
ide.2.2.16.20000630.patch.bz2
Since I am new to Linux, I just donot know how to install such patch.
could anyone teach me how to install it? I think the way install this patch
can also apply to install VGA card driver, sound driver, right?
Thanks.
Frank.
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From: Vincent Guirardel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kflushd/kupdate settings
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:35:15 +0100
I am running a (custom) kernel 2.2.12 -- distribution Mandrake 6.0 --
and I would like to know how to change
how often the kernel will flush buffer to the hard drive.
There is the update program, but it doesnot seem to have any effect:
see the results of update -d before and after a command update -f 3600
at the end of this email
Moreover, the man page says that update is supposed to be launched at
startup
but
- I have no such process running, but rather kupdate and kflushd as
kernel processes.
- /etc/inittab contains the two following commented lines
# Obsolete with 2.2.9 kernel.
# ud::once:/sbin/update
So is update obsolete ?
And if this is the case, how do you change the corresponding settings ?
Many thanks,
Vincent.
PS: results of update -d
ntbfabienne# update -d
bdflush version 1.4
0: 40 Max fraction of LRU list to examine for dirty blocks
1: 500 Max number of dirty blocks to write each time bdflush activated
2: 64 Num of clean buffers to be loaded onto free list by
refill_freelist
3: 256 Dirty block threshold for activating bdflush in refill_freelist
4: 500 Percentage of cache to scan for free clusters
5: 3000 Time for data buffers to age before flushing
6: 500 Time for non-data (dir, bitmap, etc) buffers to age before
flushing
7: 1884 Time buffer cache load average constant
8: 2 LAV ratio (used to determine threshold for buffer fratricide).
ntbfabienne# update -s 3600 -f 3600
ntbfabienne# update -d
bdflush version 1.4
0: 40 Max fraction of LRU list to examine for dirty blocks
1: 500 Max number of dirty blocks to write each time bdflush activated
2: 64 Num of clean buffers to be loaded onto free list by
refill_freelist
3: 256 Dirty block threshold for activating bdflush in refill_freelist
4: 500 Percentage of cache to scan for free clusters
5: 3000 Time for data buffers to age before flushing
6: 500 Time for non-data (dir, bitmap, etc) buffers to age before
flushing
7: 1884 Time buffer cache load average constant
8: 2 LAV ratio (used to determine threshold for buffer fratricide).
ntbfabienne#
--
________________________
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Universite Joseph Fourier BP74, 38402 St-Martin D'Heres
Tel 04.76.63.56.94 Fax:04.76.51.44.78
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: That wasn't hard! ... but not ready for everybody...
From: Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:46:20 GMT
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dan> I'm satisfied with the number of people using it at present,
Dan> and seriously, I don't WANT the masses using Linux at
Dan> present, because I'd have to put up with a lot of moronic
Dan> posts in newsgroups that I just don't want to deal with.
Not really. Usenet is an "opt-in" network. :-)
-tor
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From: Viswanathan Raman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Redhat 6.1 installation
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:49:47 GMT
Hi all,
I am trying to install Redhat 6.1 on my PC, which has a 20GB drive.The
drive has a primary partition of size 4GB and a extended partition that
contains many logical drives.I have Windows 98 installed in the primary
partition.Windows also has 8GB allocated under one of the logical
drives.I want to remove rest of the logical drives and install Linux in
that space.
The logical drives show up under Disk Druid.I deleted a 2GB partition
and tried to create the '/' partition.But i get a error message that
says,"Boot Partition too big". So i tried to create a "/boot" partition
of size 16MB (as mentioned in the Redhat installation guide).But i got
the same error message.However i am able to create partitions such as
"/home".I am able to create the swap partition also without any
problems.
So can someone please help me in this, so that i can proceed with my
Linux installation?
Thanks in advance,
Viswanathan Raman.
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