Linux-Setup Digest #270, Volume #20 Fri, 22 Dec 00 06:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Help! Redhat 6.1 installation (Viswanathan Raman)
Sun Solaris ("Avery")
Lost MandrakeUpdate (Carles)
Re: Reiserfs + lilo + booting issue (Srihari Vijayaraghavan)
Re: Sun Solaris ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: root fs not mounted ("michael.fengler")
Re: Login (Michael Heiming)
Re: Hard Disk and little faces! ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: partition magic ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Need help: Mounting windows drives on linux ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Help! Redhat 6.1 installation ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Help! Redhat 6.1 installation ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Lost MandrakeUpdate ("Peter T. Breuer")
No colour can see in Netscape 4.6... ("cmip")
Re: Dual Xeon hangs (James Rose)
NFS mount timeout (Alessandro Magni)
How to change Video-RAM size? (Marc Koschewski)
Re: SCSI ADAPTER 1505 (Ekkard Gerlach)
Re: How to change Video-RAM size? (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Using Linux as a Router ("Neil")
Re: How to change Video-RAM size? (Marc Koschewski)
Re: root fs not mounted (Anita Lewis)
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From: Viswanathan Raman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Redhat 6.1 installation
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:00:55 GMT
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the reply. But i am not sure i understand what you
have meant. Can you please provide me with a pointer the FAQ that
addresses this problem. I checked out the Redhat FAQ, but could not
find one.
Thanks for your help,
Viswanathan.R
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Viswanathan Raman wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> FAQ.
>
> /boot should be under cyl. 1024
>
> Eric
>
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From: "Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sun Solaris
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 20:15:02 +1300
Is there a linux version out of the box that is compatible with the Sun
Solaris system I just scored?
Thanks
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From: Carles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lost MandrakeUpdate
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:15:56 +0100
I broke Mandrake Update and I can't install it again because it asks for a
library called librpm.os or something like this... Anybody knows what can I
do?
Thanks in advance
Carles
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From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reiserfs + lilo + booting issue
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:38:33 +1100
Ralph Miguel Hansen wrote:
> Hi,
> I have had your problem too and found an idot-proof method (ideal for me).
> I changed my /boot back to ext2 and mounted it read-only. If you make a
> reset, there will be no fsck on ro-partitions.
>
> /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 ro 1 2
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Ralph Miguel Hansen
> Auf der Donau 29
> 45139 Essen
Hello,
My problem was because of LILO, I have upgraded from 21.5 to 21.6, and it
has fixed the problem. Infact the announcement says LILO 21.6 supports
Reiserfs.
Thank you for your support on this issue.
Hari.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sun Solaris
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:40:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a linux version out of the box that is compatible with the
Sun
> Solaris system I just scored?
>
> Thanks
>
>
try redhat
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From: "michael.fengler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general,redhat.config
Subject: Re: root fs not mounted
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:02:31 +0100
Reply-To: Michael Fengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mark wrote:
>I am unable to boot up my redhat 6.2 machine after little use. When I
>try to boot it, I get the
>following error message.
>
>request_module [block_major_3]: Root fs not mounted
>VFS: Cannot open root device 03:06
>kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:06
Looks like you have configured the device driver for your boot
partition as a module... Better make it part of the kernel.
- mike
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:58:07 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Login
Hello,
vi /etc/initab
look for lines with:
# getty-programs for the normal runlevels
# <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
# The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
# characters of the device (after "tty").
1:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1
2:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4l
Comment ttyn you don't want out, be sure that you start the right
runlevel (2), that you can login....
Read man inittab for more info....:-)
Zayin Krige wrote:
> is there anyway i van remove the login prompt from my tty's, but still
> retain all networking functionality?
>
> --
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Good luck
Michal Heiming
Sysadmin
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Disk and little faces!
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:26:43 +0100
> I have already write about my hard disk problem, bat the situation is
become
> very serius! When i try to mount the hard disk, appear a windows with a
> strange message and little faces... i think isn't a good thing!!!
do these faces have names? Are you looking at coredumped files?
Doesn't sound all that serious to me.
> I have
> followed the instruction in Config-how-to, and write on the file "fstab",
> but... nothing!
> Is it change anything with the new Kernel 2.4.0-test11 ?
>
> Thanks (sorry for my English)
Your english is not the problem. The lack of information you give is.
Mount the partition manually, run `mount` to see if it was mounted.
cd to the mountpoint and be happy. And get a book on the basics of a
*NIX system.
Eric
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition magic
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:29:43 +0100
> I am trying to install open linux 2.3 after giving up on trying to get
> mandrake to install
>
> I have a Ausu P5A MB a new maxtor ATA 100 7200 rpm hard drive with a ATA
> 100 card
>
> I use Partition Magic to make a Linux Partition it seem to work ok but
> linux won't install on the partition
>
> I open the file "partinfo" in partition magic it tell me That I have
>
> error #107 Partition begins after end of disk
> error #109 Partition end after end of disk
> error #110 Number of sector is incnsistent
> error #114 starting sector is incnsistent
>
> Should I use fdisk to make a new dos partition then use partition magic to
> make it a linux partition
>
> would this work ? or do I need to fdisk all the hard drive and reinstall
> window then make a new linux partition ? thanks
>
Sound like you had a bad table to start with. easiest is probably to backup
everything and reinstall. Make all partitions with PM and you will have no
problems in the future. If you don't want to reinstall, report back here,
and provide "fdisk -l /dev/hda" (or hde perhaps, I can't tell from here)
Eric
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help: Mounting windows drives on linux
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:32:25 +0100
>
> Thanks to both of you. vfat32 works.
>
?????
no vfat32 will not work.
vfat will.
> Merry Christmas!!
and to you too.
Eric
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Redhat 6.1 installation
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:35:27 +0100
> Thanks for the reply. But i am not sure i understand what you
> have meant. Can you please provide me with a pointer the FAQ that
> addresses this problem. I checked out the Redhat FAQ, but could not
> find one.
>
I don't know if RH provides it as a FAQ
I do though:
> > FAQ.
> >
> > /boot should be under cyl. 1024
> >
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this is the answer.
Eric
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Redhat 6.1 installation
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:44:41 GMT
Viswanathan Raman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. But i am not sure i understand what you
> have meant. Can you please provide me with a pointer the FAQ that
Virtually any linux newsgroup. "The" linux FAQ springs to mind! Go
to comp.answers and read, or look on your hard disk under /usr/doc/faq
/or wherever redhat put it.
> addresses this problem. I checked out the Redhat FAQ, but could not
> find one.
Then you didn't check it out ;-)
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lost MandrakeUpdate
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:44:42 GMT
Carles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I broke Mandrake Update and I can't install it again because it asks for a
> library called librpm.os or something like this... Anybody knows what can I
> do?
Install it. Boot with the rescue option from the CD, or get yourself a
proper rescue diskette from slackware (I don't much like tomsrtbt).
Peter
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From: "cmip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No colour can see in Netscape 4.6...
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 17:23:19 +0800
I'm the beginner of linux, after install the linux & connect the internet.
The Browser(Netscape 4.6) can't see colours.
The warning message & config as follow:
Config:
cpu: P400 x2
mb: Iwill DBD100
Video: S3 Trio3D/2X AGP2x 4M
Ram: Hit pc100-128M
Distrubration: Linux-Mandrake 6.0 Deluxe
modem: 3com US Robortics
Warning message:
Visual 0x23 is a 4 bit PseudoColor visual. This is not a support visual;
image will be display in monochorome.
Currently supported visuals are:
StaticGray, all depths
GrayScale, all depths
TrueColor, depth 8 or greater
StaticColor, depth 8 or greater
PseudoColor, depth 8 only.
If you have any of above visuals (see 'xdpyinfo') it is recommanded that
you start Netscape with the '-visual' command - line option to specify one.
More visuals may be directly supported in future; your feedback is welcome.
I had fonud S3 website is no driver can support for Linux.
The problem also occur when I install StarOffice 5.1 second screen. The
screen is halt & can't let me input the pin.
Please advice how can set it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Xeon hangs
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:12:26 GMT
>> I have a dual Xeon 550 machine that hangs often, somewhat randomly when
>> I'm doing some CPU intensive stuff. In the most recent crash, I was
>> heavily using only one CPU, It doesn't seem to be CPU temp related,
>> becuase just before it crashed, the temp was 45.5 deg. C. I'm running
>> RH 6.1, kernel 2.2.14 - configured pretty much the same way as another
>> dual 650 Pentium III which has no trouble. /var/log/messages contains
>> little helpful info. I am running all the same daemons as the 650.
>> Anyone know what's going on? In the meantime, I'm going to put 2.2.16
>> on there to see if that helps.
>> Ken
>
This sounds like a flakey hardware problem. I don't think that it is
Linux related and it may not even be the CPU's but rather a seperate
hardware issue.
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From: Alessandro Magni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS mount timeout
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:06:58 +0100
I set up NFS on a couple Linux machines, and I keep on receiving the
message:
mount: RPC: Timed out
If anyone could help me...
Thank you
Elena
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SERVER:
Linux Mandrake release 7.0 (Air)
Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk on an i586
# ps uax|grep rpc
root 413 0.0 1.1 1040 160 ? S 09:21 0:00 rpc.rquotad
root 423 0.0 1.4 1096 204 ? S 09:21 0:00 rpc.mountd --no-n
root 457 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 09:21 0:00 [rpciod]
root 467 0.0 3.5 1100 512 ? S 09:21 0:00 rpc.statd
root 657 1.0 2.8 1148 408 pts/0 S 09:32 0:00 grep rpc
# ps uax|grep portmap
bin 282 0.0 2.6 1152 384 ? S 09:21 0:00 portmap
# rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100011 1 udp 1014 rquotad
100011 2 udp 1014 rquotad
100005 1 udp 1023 mountd
100005 1 tcp 601 mountd
100005 2 udp 604 mountd
100005 2 tcp 606 mountd
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100021 1 udp 1024 nlockmgr
100021 3 udp 1024 nlockmgr
100021 1 tcp 1024 nlockmgr
100021 3 tcp 1024 nlockmgr
100024 1 udp 644 status
100024 1 tcp 646 status
# cat /proc/filesystems
ext2
nodev proc
iso9660
nodev devpts
vfat
nodev nfs
# cat /etc/exports
/home *.<domain>(rw)
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CLIENT:
RedHat 6.1
Linux 2.2.16 #1 Mon Oct 2 12:11:40 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
# cat /proc/filesystems
ext2
nodev proc
iso9660
nodev devpts
vfat
nodev nfs
# mount -o rsize=1024,wsize=1024 <clientname>:/home /mnt/net
mount: RPC: Timed out
after this, ON THE SERVER:
# tail -20 /var/log/messages
......
Dec 3 09:36:11 <clientname> mountd[423]: authenticated mount request
from lambda.ien.it:987 for /home (/home)
Dec 3 09:36:29 <clientname> last message repeated 6 times
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From: Marc Koschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to change Video-RAM size?
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:21:12 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all!
I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on a Toshiba 4080XCDT. While X configuration
a FAQ said I should choose 2 MB Video-RAM and change this later to the
correct value of 2.5 MB. The question is ... how to? Any input to this
problem is very welcome.
Thx, Marc
--
Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Marc Koschewski
Programmierung
Freund & Co. GmbH
Mollenkotten 195
D-42279 Wuppertal
Fon: +49 202 / 2 62 78 - 5
Fax: +49 202 / 2 62 78 - 70
WWW: http://www.freund-co.com/
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI ADAPTER 1505
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:27:37 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
simplemind wrote:
>
> I use a SCSI card only for my scaner. It's a Linux supported ADAPTEC
> AVA-1505 and Adaptec AHA-152x compatible. When I was trying to build a new
> kernel to make it work I read in one of the SCSI LOW LEVEL help items that I
> had to change IRQ and some other values.
> Does anybody know how to do this ?
> I would alos thank any other help about these card. I found nothing in
> LINUXDOC.
>
> THANKS.
Please give your complete Name, like others
if you want answers and further help from me!
You should give an exact subject e.g. "running SCSI Adaptec 1505 "
Your problem:
I have got the same SCSI-Card and an scanner attached, too.
Have you got a pnp-card (Plug&Play) or non-pnp ? - The
non-pnp-card you can switch IRQ and DMA by jumper, the
pnp-card you have to initialise by Kernel-options
at lilo-start. See linux-pnp-tool (attention: isapnp.conf
that is automatically generated is buggy! Delete "CHECK"!).
Which options did you enable in your Kernel? pnp?
SCSI-generic support? ..... What exactly have you
done?
Ekkard
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to change Video-RAM size?
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:36:09 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marc Koschewski wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on a Toshiba 4080XCDT. While X configuration
> a FAQ said I should choose 2 MB Video-RAM and change this later to the
> correct value of 2.5 MB. The question is ... how to? Any input to this
> problem is very welcome.
>
> Thx, Marc
Have a look at /etc/XF86Config, section Device, Videoram. The value set by
you should be 2048; change it to 2560.
Hope it helps
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Auf der Donau 29
45139 Essen
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From: "Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using Linux as a Router
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:51:27 -0000
We have a private network on the networks 10.1.0.0 with an subnet of
255.255.0.0 this is servered by an NT server with Exchange Server.. also we
have a multihomed linus server on the same network and alos on a public
netowork connected with a leased line. The proble being how can we use the
linux server to route internet traffice from the private subnetwork onto the
internet through the linus box. the private clients can see the public
address via ping but cannot see any other public address ie DNS. any help
would be appreciated.
Thanks
Neil Platts
Synthetic Dominion
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From: Marc Koschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to change Video-RAM size?
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:53:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ralph Miguel Hansen wrote:
> Marc Koschewski wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on a Toshiba 4080XCDT. While X
> > configuration a FAQ said I should choose 2 MB Video-RAM and change this
> > later to the correct value of 2.5 MB. The question is ... how to? Any
> > input to this problem is very welcome.
> >
> > Thx, Marc
>
> Have a look at /etc/XF86Config, section Device, Videoram. The value set by
> you should be 2048; change it to 2560.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Ralph Miguel Hansen
> Auf der Donau 29
> 45139 Essen
Thanks, Ralph! I don't know, if it works, but nothing went wrong after
rebooting the box. In my /etc/X11/XF86Config the line VideoRam was hashed
out ... what Video-RAM size did X assume then?
P. S. ~ Fr�hliche Weihnachten nach Essen!
--
Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Marc Koschewski
Programmierung
Freund & Co. GmbH
Mollenkotten 195
D-42279 Wuppertal
Fon: +49 202 / 2 62 78 - 5
Fax: +49 202 / 2 62 78 - 70
WWW: http://www.freund-co.com/
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general,redhat.config
Subject: Re: root fs not mounted
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:15:17 GMT
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:50:20 -0600, Mark wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I am unable to boot up my redhat 6.2 machine after little use. When I
>try to boot it, I get the
>following error message.
>
>request_module [block_major_3]: Root fs not mounted
>VFS: Cannot open root device 03:06
>kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:06
>
>In the short time that I have had the machine, I did not make any boot
>or rescue disks. So I
>learned that lesson pretty quick. I even tried to install redhat 7 on
>the machine, but the install
>process failed on the same root fs problem. I am new to linux and don't
>even know where to
>really began to try to resolve this problem. Could the hard drive have
>already died on me?
>Any help would be great.
>
You can run linux in RAM to do a fs check. Use your RH6.2 cd. At boot:
type rescue. This will put linux in RAM. If you know what partition / is
on, then do 'fsck /dev/hdxx' where xx is the drive letter and partition
number (ex: hda2). This will check the file system. Also check that /boot
or /, if there is no separate /boot is below 1023. It can happen that you
don't have a separate /boot and you have / reaching above 1023 and it will
boot for a while and then not. At least I have read that somewhere. You
will see the cylinders listed in that fdisk command. If you get an error
reading the partition table with fdisk, then come back. And if fsck doesn't
fix it, come back with the information. You may have an error in /etc/fstab
as well, if you edited that file.
Anita
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