Linux-Setup Digest #257, Volume #20 Wed, 20 Dec 00 04:13:04 EST
Contents:
Buffalo SCSI-III PCMICA Card ("owl")
Re: dhcpcd setup (Walt)
Curses Installation & Kernel Installation(make menuconfig) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: bootable raid 1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and MCA (Lew Pitcher)
playing mp3 doesn't work under Linux SuSe 7.0 ("Pierre-Andre Rovelli")
Re: kernel panic (Eric)
Re: linux, NT & 98? (Eric)
shit, i cant install it ("IAmGod")
Re: Help!! Partitioning (Eric)
Re: Help!! Partitioning (Eric)
Re: shit, i cant install it (Eric)
Linmodem uses com5; Linux doesn't (nick smit)
Re: Please help with LILO mess in Mandrake 7.2 (Eric)
Re: Please help with LILO mess in Mandrake 7.2 (Eric)
Re: shit, i cant install it (olgnuby)
Re: shit, i cant install it (Dragan Colak)
Re: 486 Install (Eric)
Re: Linmodem uses com5; Linux doesn't (Colin Watson)
Re: Hello, I am currently running Corel linux (Colin Watson)
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From: "owl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Buffalo SCSI-III PCMICA Card
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:20:49 +0800
I has just bought a Buffalo SCSI-III PCMICA Card (Card Bus) and it is about
the half price of Adaptec-1480.
Do anybody know if there is Linux driver for it ?
--
Andy Won
Web Development Engineer
OnLine Service - beenz.com
Greater China
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From: Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dhcpcd setup
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:32:40 -0500
"ne..." wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2000 at 13:43, Timothy Washington eloquently wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to setup a dhcp client 'DHCPcd' for Linux. doing a make is
> >no problem. when i do a 'make install' it says:
> >
> >[twashing@frye dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl2]$ make install
> >make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/downloads/dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl2'
> >/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/sbin
> > /usr/bin/ginstall -c dhcpcd /usr/local/sbin/dhcpcd
> >/bin/sh: /usr/bin/ginstall: No such file or directory
> > /usr/bin/ginstall -c icmprequest /usr/local/sbin/icmprequest
> >/bin/sh: /usr/bin/ginstall: No such file or directory
> >make[1]: *** [install-sbinPROGRAMS] Error 127
> >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/downloads/dhcpcd-1.3.19-pl2'
> >make: *** [install-am] Error 2
> >
> > ... and I can see the 'configure' script installing 'ginstall' in the
> >'/usr/bin'
> >directory.
> > Problem 2 is that when I execute dhcpcd from the local directory
> >(dhcp eth0, for example), my ethernet card does not get an inet
> >address. Has anyone had a similar problem who could help me out.
> Two things:
>
> 1 - configure does not install anything. It checks to make
> sure stuff is installed.
> 2 - make install should be done as root. Normal users do
> not normally have permission to write to /usr.
> 3 - /bin/sh: /usr/bin/ginstall: No such file or directory means
> it never found the file.
I solved this problem by linking /usr/bin/install to /usr/bin/ginstall.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Curses Installation & Kernel Installation(make menuconfig)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:36:00 GMT
Hi,
I issued a 'make menuconfig' to compile a linux kernel after
installing the curses package. But I get the following(end of the mail)
error message. I have removed all the old include files from the
/usr/include directory. But still the same error message comes.
Can you please help me out in this regards?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
C.G.Senthilkumar.
--The error message that I got--
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts/lxdialog'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
Using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig
Preparing scripts: functions,
parsing....................................done.
There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is
built prior to running Menuconfig. Usually this is an indicator that
you
have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the
old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/include or /usr/include/ncurses.
It is VERY important that you have only one set of ncurses header files
and that those files are properly version matched to the ncurses
libraries
installed on your machine.
You may also need to rebuild lxdialog. This can be done by moving to
the /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog directory and issuing the
"make clean all" command.
--End of error message --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: bootable raid 1
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:18:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am pleased that I have
overcome this issue and here are my conclusions.
My previous raid configuration was set up using CHS method for
harddisk geometry. There was no reason for doing this other than it
was a part of the diagnostic procedure for a previous issues regarding
a western digital harddrive that identifies itself to the tyan bios as
being ata66 but really only operates reliably at ata33. The CHS really
had nothing to do with the timing issue, but I suspect that the
partition table arrangement did. The symptom of this timing issue was
not being able to reliably modify the harddrive's partition tables,
strangely enough. Mandrakeuser.org has the write up about certain
western digital harddrives that have this issue.
When using CHS, the block arrangement for the boot partitions on both
the drives is different that with LBA. LBA arranges partition sizes
equally. I am not 100% certain, but this is the only change that I
implemented that made the difference. It might explain why when both
drives were installed that the system booted, but when either was
removed, it would not boot.
Using LBA translation method in both the BIOS and with fdisk using
matching LBA geometries, I can now boot from either drive- the way
raid1 is meant to be . . .
Other Details:
I am using kernel 2.2.18 with all the patches and recommendations that
Godfrey Livingstone provided.
All is well with this and I will be doing benchmarks at 32k size
chunks shortly.
I am using lilo 21.5 and a single lilo.conf.
Here are my partition arrangements OLD and NEW:
OLD:
Disk /dev/hda: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 13328 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 63 68039 33988+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hda2 68040 12278384 6105172+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hda3 12278385 12594959 158287+ 82 Linux swap
Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16278 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 63 66527 33232+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdc2 66528 12275423 6104448 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdc3 12275424 12594959 159768 82 Linux swap
NEW
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 63 80324 40131 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hda2 80325 12289724 6104700 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hda3 12289725 12594959 152617+ 82 Linux swap
Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1021 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 63 80324 40131 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdc2 80325 12289724 6104700 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdc3 12289725 12594959 152617+ 82 Linux swap
Here is my /etc/lilo.conf:
#boot=/dev/hda
boot=/dev/md1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=vmlinuz
vga=normal
keytable=/boot/us.klt
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=vmlinux
# root=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/md0
append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide0=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=vmlinuz
# root=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/md0
append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide0=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
read-only
Thanks again for all of your help!
Charles Wilkins
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:50:51 -0500, Chas2K
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> t doesn't matter which drive i pull out, i get the same results
>>
>> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:55:19 -0500, Chas2K
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I am currently doing bootable raid 1 with all of the latest patches
>> >> for
>> >> 2.2.18 and then some.
>> >> When I try to boot the system with either drive removed, I get a bunch
>> >> of
>> >> 010101010's in an endless loop.
>> >> Yet, when both drives are in, the system comes up fine. What am I
>> >> doing
>> >> wrong?
>> >>
>> >> Using lilo 21.5
>> >>
>> >> lilo.conf.hda
>> >>
>> >> disk=/dev/md0
>> >> bios=0x80
>> >> sectors=63
>> >> heads=15
>> >> cylinders=13328
>> >> partition=/dev/md1
>> >> start=63
>> >> boot=/dev/hda
>> >> map=/boot/map
>> >> install=/boot/boot.b
>> >> vga=normal
>> >> default=vmlinux
>> >> keytable=/boot/us.klt
>> >> prompt
>> >> timeout=50
>> >> message=/boot/message
>> >> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
>> >> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>> >> label=vmlinuz
>> >> root=/dev/md0
>> >> append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide2=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
>> >> read-only
>> >> image=/boot/vmlinux
>> >> label=vmlinux
>> >> root=/dev/md0
>> >> append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide2=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
>> >> read-only
>> >>
>> >> lilo.conf.hdc
>> >>
>> >> disk=/dev/md0
>> >> bios=0x81
>> >> sectors=63
>> >> heads=16
>> >> cylinders=16278
>> >> partition=/dev/md1
>> >> start=63
>> >> boot=/dev/hdc
>> >> map=/boot/map
>> >> install=/boot/boot.b
>> >> vga=normal
>> >> default=vmlinux
>> >> keytable=/boot/us.klt
>> >> prompt
>> >> timeout=50
>> >> message=/boot/message
>> >> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
>> >> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>> >> label=vmlinuz
>> >> root=/dev/md0
>> >> append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide2=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
>> >> read-only
>> >> image=/boot/vmlinux
>> >> label=vmlinux
>> >> root=/dev/md0
>> >> append=" ide3=autotune ide1=autotune ide2=autotune hdh=ide-scsi"
>> >> read-only
>> >
>> >Looks like you're pulling out the drive with the boot sector on it. Is
>> >your configuration mirroring all of the drives together, or just the
>> >partitions with data?
>> >
>> >Chas2K
>
>I got this same stream of blits when I took drive 0 off line and thought
>I had made the 2nd drive active. Ok. I'm out of wisdom... anybody else?
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and MCA
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:51:32 -0500
Sean wrote:
>
> Anyone know of a disto that I can buy/download that I can install
> on a IBM machine with an MCA bus? I do not want to have to
> recompile or anything. Just out of the box...
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
Slackware (http://www.slackware.com/) includes an MCA boot/root
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576
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From: "Pierre-Andre Rovelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: playing mp3 doesn't work under Linux SuSe 7.0
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:48:18 +0000 (UTC)
I have installed SUSE 7.0 on a Compaq Deskpro 5120. The Soundcard is a
ESS688 audiodrive. I have installed it manually using YAST2 under ESS688
Audiodrive. I can play WAV and audio-cd files but mp3 doesn't work. Does
anybody know what's wrong ?
Thank you in advance for your help
Pierre-Andre Rovelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel panic
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:50:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> It is a single disk computer and I boot from a floppy. This system
> works fine on the HD I am now using. My problem is getting a file from
> the first HD which gives the kernel panic message.
>
Yes so you said.
But to get this file, you put the old disc back in, right.
Now you use a boot/root floppy combination to boot a linux?
Or are you booting from the new disc?
(If you put the old disc in, disable it in the BIOS)
Just copying a file gives no kernel panic. period.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux, NT & 98?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:52:45 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-rw wrote:
>
> This all sounds great -- except that I read somewhere (and I can't find
> the reference now, of course) that while the NT bootloader loaded
> linux, the Windows 2000 bootloader does not.
>
> And, of course, I completely misspoke in my original post and said that
> I had Windows NT and not Windows 2000.
>
> With that new information newly peeled from my warped brain, do you
> have other helpful information? :)
>
it'll work.
just read the NTloader HOWTO.
Eric
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From: "IAmGod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shit, i cant install it
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:04:02 -0800
i have downloaded Linux redhat (its 7.0 i think) i went threw the
installation steps.. then i got to the partioning thing.. that's where im
stuck.. my problem is that windows took all of my disk partioning and now
there isn't any more memory for Linux.. how do i fix that..
some other questions i hope you can help with
will i lose my files if i erase my win98 partion?
what is LILO?
well thanks.. i hope you can help..
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!! Partitioning
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:11:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
srinivas_vanjari wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for the help. I finally got everything up and running.
I'm glad for you
> Hopefully windows recognizes all the extended partitions.
There's only one extended partition, Windows will recognise it.
It will no, and it should not, recognise all teh logical partitions.
It can use the FAT partitions, but the linux ones are invisible.
> (I had a
> system earlier in which i partitioned using linux fdisk and i thought
> everything was ok when suddenly innumerable number of files started
> appearing those windows extended partitions.
Probably a bad table. The table I spelled out for you is correct.
It will not have such problems.
> Somebody told me that
> windows cannot recognize partitions made by fdisk...i hope this is not
> true).
This is not true. fdisk doesn't make partitions the way DOS FDISK does.
To use them they must still be formatted (DOS FDISK does this
immediatly).
The table I made as an example, can be made with any fdisk. And windows
will
be able to use the partitions that are designed for it.
Merry christmas to you too,
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!! Partitioning
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:10:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
srinivas_vanjari wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for the help. I finally got everything up and running.
I'm glad for you
> Hopefully windows recognizes all the extended partitions.
There's only one extended partition, Windows will recognise it.
It will no, and it should not, recognise all teh logical partitions.
It can use the FAT partitions, but the linux ones are invisible.
> (I had a
> system earlier in which i partitioned using linux fdisk and i thought
> everything was ok when suddenly innumerable number of files started
> appearing those windows extended partitions.
Probably a bad table. The table I spelled out for you is correct.
It will not have such problems.
> Somebody told me that
> windows cannot recognize partitions made by fdisk...i hope this is not
> true).
This is not true. fdisk doesn't make partitions the way DOS FDISK does.
To use them they must still be formatted (DOS FDISK does this
immediatly).
The table I made as an example, can be made with any fdisk. And windows
will
be able to use the partitions that are designed for it.
Merry christmas to you too,
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shit, i cant install it
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:23:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IAmGod wrote:
>
> i have downloaded Linux redhat (its 7.0 i think) i went threw the
> installation steps.. then i got to the partioning thing.. that's where im
> stuck.. my problem is that windows took all of my disk partioning and now
> there isn't any more memory for Linux.. how do i fix that..
repartition (preferably non-destructive)
use FIPS.EXE, PartitionMagic, GNU's parted, etc....
>
> some other questions i hope you can help with
>
> will i lose my files if i erase my win98 partion?
What do you think?
Yes, they will all be gone. Or actually not gone, but merely
inaccesible.
The effect is the same though.
If you repartition, backup all important data. This may not be needed,
but if you don't do it, you're probably gonna wish you did.
> what is LILO?
>
LInux LOader
PS. You're not God, you're a newbie.
Eric
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:15:24 +0100
From: nick smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linmodem uses com5; Linux doesn't
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To avoid problems with winmodems I bought a linmodem (E-tech with Topic
chip).
My BIOS connects it to COM5.
I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.2. Harddrake stops at COM4.
How do I tell Mandrake to make more serial ports?
Do I have to build a new kernel, or is there a easier way?
Thanks in advance.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help with LILO mess in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:27:38 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter S. wrote:
>
> For three straight linux installs (RedHat 6.1, 6.2, mandrake 7.1) I had no
> problem with LILO loading linux. I have BootMagic in the MBR dual booting
> Windows and linux. Now with Mandrake 7.2 something awful is happening to a
> lot of people not being able to load linux with neither grub nor lilo. I
> tried 7.2 installes in every conceivable mode (rec.,customize, expert) and
> the result is always the same: the lilo (or grub) dialog pops up prompting
> for an O.S. to load and when I select and <Enter> nothing happens. This
> behavior is different from previous versions. previously I selected linux in
> BootMagic and linus loaded, lilo having been in the first boot sector of
> linux partition. Now I dialog is again asking what to load instead of
> loading the blasted thing. Something is obviously different, changed and
> that difference was not communicated to people who designed the
> configuration and for sure not the users.
>
> I'm asking someone with deeper knowledge to hop over to
> alt.os.linux.mandrake and help us to sort out this mess with LM 7.2 that
> many of us have with LILO/GRUB.
>
please post the content of lilo.conf (I never used grub, so I cannot
help you there)
And post the output of `fdisk -l /dev/hda`
I don't have mandrake 7.2 here, so unless you supply this info, I cannot
help you further.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help with LILO mess in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:28:53 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter S. wrote:
>
> For three straight linux installs (RedHat 6.1, 6.2, mandrake 7.1) I had no
> problem with LILO loading linux. I have BootMagic in the MBR dual booting
> Windows and linux. Now with Mandrake 7.2 something awful is happening to a
> lot of people not being able to load linux with neither grub nor lilo. I
> tried 7.2 installes in every conceivable mode (rec.,customize, expert) and
> the result is always the same: the lilo (or grub) dialog pops up prompting
> for an O.S. to load and when I select and <Enter> nothing happens. This
> behavior is different from previous versions. previously I selected linux in
> BootMagic and linus loaded, lilo having been in the first boot sector of
> linux partition. Now I dialog is again asking what to load instead of
> loading the blasted thing. Something is obviously different, changed and
> that difference was not communicated to people who designed the
> configuration and for sure not the users.
>
> I'm asking someone with deeper knowledge to hop over to
> alt.os.linux.mandrake and help us to sort out this mess with LM 7.2 that
> many of us have with LILO/GRUB.
>
please post the content of lilo.conf (I never used grub, so I cannot
help you there)
And post the output of `fdisk -l /dev/hda`
I don't have mandrake 7.2 here, so unless you supply this info, I cannot
help you further.
Eric
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shit, i cant install it
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:29:49 GMT
Prolly not. Trying to do it by this medium would involve writing. A
skill which a person might ought to master basic reading techniques to
comprehend. Kind of sad.
I feel better now though knowing that even God had the same kind of
problems with Linux in the beginning that I had. ;-)
olgnuby
IAmGod wrote:
>
> well thanks.. i hope you can help..
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From: Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shit, i cant install it
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:34:04 +0100
IAmGod wrote:
> i have downloaded Linux redhat (its 7.0 i think) i went threw the
> installation steps.. then i got to the partioning thing.. that's where im
> stuck.. my problem is that windows took all of my disk partioning and now
> there isn't any more memory for Linux.. how do i fix that..
>
try PartitionMagic or something similar to repartition your drive
on a running system
[...]
> will i lose my files if i erase my win98 partion?
>
only if your files are on the same partition as win
I'd suggest you write your data to CD or via network to another
computer and just kick win of your system, make a fresh new
install of Linux and just feel good ;-)
> what is LILO?
>
simply said: it's a boot loader, but it can do far more than that
you normaly install it in the MBR of your first disk
assumed it is set up correctly you can choose between several
operating systems (as the basic functionality)
free your mind
free your computer
install Linux
Dragan
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486 Install
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:43:59 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Beauchamp wrote:
>
> All--
> I am trying to install RedHat 6.2 Linux on a 486. I think I have
> a couple of problems (with my install).
>
> I begin by creating the boot floppy then booting. If I have formatted
> my hard drive I get into the install (it begins to ask me questions).
> If the drive is not formatted, I get a stack dump and the install
> terminates. I would like to use the whole disk for Linux (no need for dual
> boot).
>
> If the install does begin to work, it cranks away for some time then
> terminates abnormally with little or no diagnostic information.
>
> This shouldn't be this hard. In the end, I would like to have just the
> command line Linux running -- no fancy stuff.
>
How much RAM do you have in this machine?
(Is it still good? run a memtest)
And the HDD? What size is it.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Linmodem uses com5; Linux doesn't
Date: 20 Dec 2000 08:51:44 GMT
nick smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To avoid problems with winmodems I bought a linmodem (E-tech with Topic
>chip).
>My BIOS connects it to COM5.
>I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.2. Harddrake stops at COM4.
>How do I tell Mandrake to make more serial ports?
>Do I have to build a new kernel, or is there a easier way?
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV ttyS4
... or, if that doesn't work:
# mknod -m660 /dev/ttyS4 c 4 68
# chown root.dialout /dev/ttyS4
The magic numbers are described in Documentation/devices.txt in the
kernel source.
[vcard snipped]
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Hello, I am currently running Corel linux
Date: 20 Dec 2000 08:57:25 GMT
Richard Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ivan Milos wrote:
>> I am currently running Corel linux and I am quite happy with it.
>> However, I have heard about how Corel may dump their distribution in the
>> near future. In addition, their progress has been slower than Debian.
>> What I like most about the Corel distribution is the package manager. I
>> really like how dependencies are handled automatically (through a nice
>> GUI interface). I tried Red Hat and Mandrake, but their package
>> managers didn't seem to do this (maybe I just gave up on them too
>> fast). In addition, they both locked up my system several times. Maybe
>> recompiling the kernel would have helped this. Anyway, I am thinking
>> about moving to Debian. However, I was wondering if it is much trouble
>> getting KDE2 running on Debian. If so, could somebody suggest another
>> distribution based on Debian.
>
>RPM handle dependency also--it's a non issue as far as package mgt.
>goes--they all do it.
That isn't true. The Debian package management system has much more
finely-grained control of dependencies, and I've never seen an RPM-based
distribution [1] remotely match 'apt-get install <packagename>' for ease
of use: it automatically downloads the package and all the packages it
depends on, and installs them all: no user intervention required except
for the odd configuration option. This is what Ivan meant by
"automatically".
[1] Well, I hear Connectiva have now ported apt to RPM. I don't know how
well it works.
>Do Mandrake with KDE 2.01 or Gnome/ICE. They're as good as Corel on the
>GUI and have more weight--more umpf--more pizaz........
Given the sheer number of packages in Debian, if they have more weight
I'll be impressed. :)
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