Linux-Setup Digest #260, Volume #20 Wed, 20 Dec 00 16:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Need help: Howto move linux system from one hdd to another. (Kalle Pettersson)
Re: Kernel compilation (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Need help: Mounting windows drives on linux (srinivas_vanjari)
Re: Need help: Howto move linux system from one hdd to another. (Keith)
Re: Environment variable (Keith)
Memory > 64MB ("Graham Freakes")
Re: which LINUX to choose (Henry_Barta)
Need help: X display always opens in 8 bpp mode (srinivas_vanjari)
Re: Upgrading Ghostscript's RPM (Kevin)
Re: Memory > 64MB (David)
Re: playing MP3's with linux (Dan Birchall)
Re: Need help: Mounting windows drives on linux (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: which LINUX to choose (Chiefy)
Re: help me!!!!! (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: Torvalds v Gates in next Superbowl Deathmatch? (well, actually an email conf
question) (Lutz Heermann)
Re: Forcing NIC to 100mbps (Michel Marcon)
Re: switching to LINUX mail server (Nehali Neogi)
path env var not properly set (Rafa Alcantara)
Re: Please help with LILO mess in Mandrake 7.2 ("Peter S.")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kalle Pettersson)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Need help: Howto move linux system from one hdd to another.
Date: 20 Dec 2000 17:01:53 GMT
Ok, this is what I did recently...
Mount your new hdd on for example /mnt.
Then copy everything on your / filesystem to /mnt by using cp -a.
Obviously you don't want to copy /mnt and /opt.
Change /etc/lilo.conf to point to your new hdd and run lilo with the new config.
You might need to change the entries in /etc/fstab
That's it I think.
Good luck!
/Kalle
In article <3a40ddbc$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Georgy Goshin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have RedHAT Linux 6.1 server installed and there is a lot of users
> created. Now I would like change the HDD on this server. Please avdive me a
> method how to move a system to another disk.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel compilation
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:55:55 +0100
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Djails wrote:
> Hi,
> I got a mandrake 7.0 v2 installed (kernel 2.2.14) and I uprgade to
> kernel 2.4. There were no problems during make bzImage nor during make
> modules.
> as to make modules_install, i had to upgrade to a new modutils.rpm
> version, because of an error saying : depmod -F : bad argument. When
Shouldn't that be 'depmod -F /path/to/new/System.map'?
> upgraded, no more errors appeared , but I had a big surprise after
> rebooting:
> modules didn't work anymore. During boot , I got an very long list
> saying for each module:
> xxxxx.O: can't locate module xxxxxx
>
> I tried a depmod -av as root, and i got the same list.
> some shells commands (as top) also said : /boot/System.map has an
> incorrect version
> I also noticed something strange, but I'm sure it has something to do
> with my problem:
> here 's the begining of /var/log/message after reboot:
>
> Dec 20 13:25:42 [...] syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> Dec 20 13:25:42 [...] syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> Dec 20 13:25:42 [...] kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
> Dec 20 13:25:42 [...] syslog: klogd startup succeeded
> Dec 20 13:25:42 [...] kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map
> Dec 20 13:25:42 [...] kernel: Symbol table has incorrect version number.
> Dec 20 13:25:42 [...] kernel: Cannot find map file.
> Dec 20 13:25:42 [...] kernel: No module symbols loaded.
>
> A new directory called 2.4.0-test10 has been created in /lib/module, but
> it's empty... although I chose to build some stuff as modules (in make
> menuconfig) . Well, I forgot one thing: i used make menuconfig instead
> of make xconfig coz xconfig reported some errors (Let's say it because
> kernel2.4.0 is a beta release) .
> So here 's my questions:
> What's that file System.map, what is it used for ?
It displays a list of all functions and variables in the kernel. That
makes depmod able to find out which unresolved symbols (function names /
variable names) is in the kernel - and which symbols are in another
module.
> How does the kernel know that is has to look for modules in that or that
> directory ?
/lib/modules/kernel-version/
> Lastly, what is there to do after make modules_install in order to make
> them work properly after reboot ?
Yep. You also have to install the kernel. Try to do a make bzdisk (with an
_emtpy_ floppy in the drive. If that goes ok, you could install it by
doing an 'installkernel' (perhaps this does not exist in Mandrake?).
Or you could copy System.map and arch/your-architecture/boot/bzImage to
/boot and add an entry in /etc/lilo.conf.
But are you really sure, you want to run an experimental and possibly
unstable kernel?
--
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: srinivas_vanjari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help: Mounting windows drives on linux
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:50:00 GMT
Hi,
I was trying to mount my windows logical drives on linux. I used
linuxconf. I specified the file system as fat32 (fdisk shows the
partition type as fat32..are filesystem type and partition type the
same?). When the machine boots i get an error message saying that the
mount has failed since the file system type is not recognized. But
after logging on as root and if i give mount /dev/hda6 (windows d
drive) on some directory, there is no problem. I am able to see all the
files. Can somebody help me rectify the problem while booting. (What is
the maximum number of partitions that can be mounted ? I looked in
Howtos but could not find one which shows how to do this. I am sure
linux 6.2 had one).
(I tried using vfat32 also)
Thanking you,
--
regards,
srinivas_vanjari,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Need help: Howto move linux system from one hdd to another.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:01:29 GMT
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:26:16 +0200, Georgy Goshin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have RedHAT Linux 6.1 server installed and there is a lot of users
> created. Now I would like change the HDD on this server. Please avdive me a
> method how to move a system to another disk.
>
See the Howto HD Upgrade.
--
Best Regards,
Keith (Use Reply-to for email)
Where do you discover free software for Windows? Strongsignals DOT COM is a
great place to start: http://Strongsignals.com "Where would Christianity be
if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?" NY
State Senator James Donovan, speaking in support of capital punishment.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith)
Subject: Re: Environment variable
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:01:29 GMT
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:32:12 GMT, Francesco Rossi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> How i can set environment variable when the users logging in ?
> Examples MAIL is /var/spool/mail, but for me must become ./Maildir
> How i can do this ?
> Thank
/etc/profile
/etc/bashrc
have your default settings.
--
Best Regards,
Keith (Use Reply-to for email)
Where do you discover free software for Windows? Strongsignals DOT COM is a
great place to start: http://Strongsignals.com "Where would Christianity be
if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?" NY
State Senator James Donovan, speaking in support of capital punishment.
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From: "Graham Freakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory > 64MB
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:15:02 -0000
Can anyone tell me where to add the mem=... line to enable Linux to use more
than 64MB of RAM. I am running Mandrake 7.2.
Thanks in advance
Graham Freakes
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From: Henry_Barta <[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: 20 Dec 2000 18:07:20 GMT
In linux.debian.user John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You probably did, though. It has a pretty horrible UI. Fortunately, there
> is some hope that it will go away soon.
Actually, when I recently installed Debian 2.2, it did not dump
me into dselect. It used some other tool that allowed be to
choose 'tasks' that I wanted to do, like C++ programming or
Perl developement. Then the first time I ran 'dselect', it
installed a bunch-o-packages that *it* thought I should have.
I've also found that if there is any sort of dependency 'issue',
it seems like 'dselect' will not complete the installation. It
indicates this by coming back to the 'install' menu item instead
of moving to the 'configure' menu item. Rerunning 'install'
often resolves the problem (as the message on the screen tells
me. :)
'dselect' to be replaced? Well... When it works, it works well.
But when I want to override it, it really becomes a pitched
battle. Perhaps there are features of which I'm not aware, but
when I have to wrestle to get the S/W to do what I want (even
though it thinks it knows better) then I start to want to move
on. It was 'dselect' that moved me away from Debian in the
first place.
--
Hank Barta White Oak Software Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Predictable Systems by Design.(tm)
Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois
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From: srinivas_vanjari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help: X display always opens in 8 bpp mode
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:55:37 GMT
Hi,
I have a redhat linux installed on my system. When ever I opened X
server using startx the letters and icons were very very small. I
thought that this was due to high resolution and used X configurator to
change the resolutions to 640 x 800 and 1024 X ..... I made sure that i
gave this in all the four bit lengths (8,16,32 and 24) and now whenever
I open the X server it always opens in 8 bits per pixel mode. I
checked this out using xdpyinfo (The only depth available was 8). Then
i tried to use startx -- -bpp 16. Even that did not work out.
Can somebody help me to get the 16 bpp mode running. I desperately need
it for some image displaying programs.
Is there anyway to change the resolution with out going to
xconfigurator ?
Thanks a lot,
--
regards,
srinivas_vanjari,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Subject: Re: Upgrading Ghostscript's RPM
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.rpm
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:15:22 GMT
Use the source rpm (src.rpm) and create a patch file for the
Makefile which you'd need to add to the spec file. Get it?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> to compile with gs5.x, simply add
> DEVICE_DEVS4=cdj850.dev cdj670.dev cdj890.dev cdj1600.dev
> to your makefile.
>
> Any suggestions on how to insert this functionality using an RPM? I've
> contacted the author & he is interested in posting it to the site if
> there is an answer out there.
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opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory > 64MB
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:19:19 -0600
Graham Freakes wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me where to add the mem=... line to enable Linux to use more
> than 64MB of RAM. I am running Mandrake 7.2.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Graham Freakes
Add it to /etc/lilo.conf and then run /sbin/lilo to update the MBR.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Birchall)
Subject: Re: playing MP3's with linux
Date: 20 Dec 2000 19:28:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R. Gerrits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I want to use a old computer to play my MP3's.
How old? :) If you think "old" means a Pentium MMX, you'll be
fine. If you think "old" means 386...
> What is the minimum requirement to play mp3's with linux,
I played MP3's successfully on my wife's NEC Versa 4080H
(1995-96 era, P-120), although it helped to not try playing
the really high-bandwidth ones. My Versa 2000 (1995 486-75)
lacks audio.
> and which (console)player is the best???
mp123 or whatever it's called, I'd guess.
-Dan
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help: Mounting windows drives on linux
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:41:57 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I think the filesystem should be named vfat as shown below. This is a part
of my /etc/fstab and it works fine.
/dev/hda2 /Windows vfat noauto,user 0 2
Hope it helps
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Auf der Donau 29
45139 Essen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: which LINUX to choose
Date: 20 Dec 2000 19:48:23 GMT
20 Dec 2000 18:07 UTC, Henry_Barta did say to the dudes:
[snip]
> Perl developement. Then the first time I ran 'dselect', it
> installed a bunch-o-packages that *it* thought I should have.
>
> I've also found that if there is any sort of dependency 'issue',
> it seems like 'dselect' will not complete the installation. It
Well, it seems that I've missed some fun!
I've installed Debian 2.1 and 2.2 on a number of occasions (as a newbie)
with dselect running the show, and things have always gone very well.
I hate to think what sort of system I'd have ended up with in the
absence of dselect. Having said that, apt-get is pretty cool.
--
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help me!!!!!
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:49:19 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kmh153 wrote:
> I want to install INN server. please send me a manual......
I won�t give such a fine donation to the Deutsche Bundespost....... But you
should have a look at http://www.isc.org/products/INN/.
Hope it helps
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Auf der Donau 29
45139 Essen
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From: Lutz Heermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Torvalds v Gates in next Superbowl Deathmatch? (well, actually an email
conf question)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:34:56 +0100
There's a nice script called install-sendmail which can setup
sendmail+fetchmail for you. It can be found on freshmeat.net. I Think
it should help you to solve the first problem.
Lutz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel Marcon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Forcing NIC to 100mbps
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:52:30 GMT
Hi.
Dunno for this king of NIC, but yes, you are close to the solution
now. You can find a lot of diag/set programs at http://www/scyld.com.
For 3COM I had success this way. After that, you have to mention the
right option when ytou load the module. Options depends of the NIC
type of course.
Good luck
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:32:36 GMT, rlyacht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have linksys LNE100TX NIC in my machine. I've been finding my
>network slower than I'd expected, and I note the following when I run
>tulip-diag:
>
>tulip-diag.c:v1.19 10/2/99 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>Index #1: Found a Lite-On PNIC-II adapter at 0xd400.
> Port selection is 10mpbs-serial, half-duplex.
>
>I guess I need to "force" the NIC to 100m. Can someone tell me how to
>do this? Is it done using arguments to the tulip driver at boot time,
>or using tulip-diag and the -w (for write) argument. An idiot-proof
>command line would be much appreciated! Also, should I be changing any
>other settings for better performance.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
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Sysadmin UNIX & Windows NT (I try)
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From: Nehali Neogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: switching to LINUX mail server
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:02:22 GMT
Ryan,
Assuming your choice of MTA is sendmail, I would recommend using Redhat.
It comes with default m4 macro configuration files that can get you
started. Generating configuration files (sendmail.cf) using m4 macro
processor is intended to be easier than creating one by hand.
Some books/howto that might help are (apart from the Orielly sendmail
(Bat) book)
Sendmail for linux by Richard Blum
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/RH-sendmail-HOWTO/c15.html
Hope this helps!
--nn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, I just got hired and one of my first tasks is to switch our
mail
> server from a 15 yr old Sparc box to a LINUX box and I need some
> recommendations.
>
> Which version of Linux should I go for ? caldera, red hat etc.?
>
> Can anyone recommend tutorials or books on this?
>
> How do I start?
>
> Thanks, any help would be appreciated.
>
> Ryan
>
> --
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>
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From: Rafa Alcantara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: path env var not properly set
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:53:47 +0100
Hi!
I've modified my bash startup file ($HOME/.bash_profile) to include the
path
to the JDK as follows:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin
I've modified the system startup file (/etc/profile) as well, to read:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin
When I reboot the system and type:
echo $PATH
or
which java
I can't see any changes (no sbin, no jdk1.3) and java is not found. None
of the
startup files are loaded. Why? Something is setting my $PATH the wrong
way (my
PATH shows some missing kde2 directories...).
I've tried renaming my .bash_profile to .profile, but no way.
However, if I type
. $HOME/.bash_profile
the new $PATH is loaded.
I wish to know the way to set the $PATH at startup without having to do
it by
hand. I want to know which of the thousands files in my hard disk is
responsible for the $PATH I have.
Thank you for reading this message.
--
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mailto:Rafa.at.Alcantara.com
http://Rafa.Alcantara.com
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From: "Peter S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help with LILO mess in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:57:05 GMT
Here is lilo.conf:
============================
boot=/dev/hda3
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=0x0f06
default=linux
keytable=/boot/qc-latin1.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda3
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda3
append=" failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
==========================
and here is the output of fdisk (between the lines):
==========================
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks
Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 771 619026
b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 799 1410 4915890
f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 772 798 216877+
83 Linux
/dev/hda5 799 952 1236973+
83 Linux
/dev/hda6 953 1081 1036161+
83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1082 1203 979933+
83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1204 1325 979933+
83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1326 1361 289138+
83 Linux
/dev/hda10 1362 1410 393661+
83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
=================================
My comments:
1) These are the Primary partitions (from PartitionMagic 5.0 but I use the
linux device designations here
for your convenience)
hda1, hda2, hda3 and the Unallocated space
2) Interesting that there is no hda4. That must be because logical
partitions must start with 5
3) I gave the boot device location of hda3 during the installation.
Maybe I shouldn't have been so specific with the 3? But that's where it is!
4) I looked again the partition table I had for Mandrake 7.1. The only
difference is that I had all linux partitions inside the Extended partition
and they were all logica. It worked for LILO.
Here I have hda3 as a separate primary partition. But that should not
matter, right? After all it is a boot partition and it cannot hurt to have
it as primary.
Yet it doesn't work. As I said when I enter any choice lilo just sits there
doing nothing. Clearly, it cannot find the boot device.
It's a mistery to me why the floppy booting works.
Thanks for your help,
Peter
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[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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