Linux-Setup Digest #294, Volume #20 Wed, 27 Dec 00 22:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Help on ftp and telnet problem (Chan Chung Hang Christopher)
Re: safe way to install win98 on an existing linux machine? ("n.elliott")
Re: HD off after boot - possible?? ("n.elliott")
Re: Printing to an SMB Winprinter? (Mark)
Re: X11 can't load default font (Juergen Heinzl)
Hayes Accura PCI modem (borno)
Re: unable to install pcmcia-support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X11 can't load default font (Jeff de Ruyter)
What happened to Redhat 7.0 for Sparc platform (Jason Hong)
Printer device trouble after upgrade (Ron House)
Default Mdk 7.2 fstab file needed... (Guy Parry)
Re: What happened to Redhat 7.0 for Sparc platform (E J)
Re: Printing to an SMB Winprinter? (David Bell)
Re: PCI -> USB converter card (Chris Rankin)
Re: Default Mdk 7.2 fstab file needed... (mpulliam)
Software installation (Richard Johnson)
Re: newbie question..... sound card doesn't work (mpulliam)
Re: Uninstalling software in Linux (Robert Hill)
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From: Chan Chung Hang Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on ftp and telnet problem
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 08:11:01 +0800
Is 192.168.0.8 the Ip of the server or Windows 2000 machine?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Yes, my /etc/hosts looks like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> 192.168.0.8 gemini.xyz.com
>
> It still takes very long to get the telnet login prompt. FTP connection
> refused by RedHat.
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chan Chung Hang Christopher
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > have you set the hostname properly in the server's /etc/hosts file?
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I installed RedHat 7.0 workstation and installed xinetd, wu-ftpd and
> > > telnetd.
> > >
> > > I connect my Win2K PC on the same LAN and try to telnet and ftp to
> the
> > > RedHat server. It takes very long (over 2 minutes) to have a telnet
> > > login screen coming back from RedHat. For ftp, it does not ask me
> for
> > > and username/password and connected refused.
> > >
> > > I setup my hostname and doman name properly. The ftpaccess file is
> > > default.
> > >
> > > However, if I use the telnet and ftp clients on the RedHat, it works
> > > quick.
> > >
> > > Any clue?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Roger Luk
> > >
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> >
>
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From: "n.elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: safe way to install win98 on an existing linux machine?
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:20:57 +0000
"Jeremy S. Dillon" wrote:
> I am attempting to use VMware from both WIN2K and LINUX (Mandrake). Both
> are installed and working fine on my system (different physical drives) and
> I want VMware to run Outlook and maybe a few other win applications.
>
> MY PROBLEM: When I go to run VMware (from windows or linux) it wants to
> "install" the guest OS....I don't want to install, I want it to see that I
> have the os installed and run it as is.
>
> Is this possible?
I am not too sure exactly how you want to run this.
Read all of the following Before you dive in if it's the answer you want.
Assuming that you have VMware installed under Linux then you start it up.
Use the wizard by all means. When it says it wants to install the OS of your
choice
what it is saying ( a bit ambiguously ) is It wants you to say what you want to
access from
VMware. Pick the OS you have installed. ( the subject says Win98 but the text
says Win2K )
Then the next screen asks about whether you want a virtual disk or a partition.
It is at this point that you tell it a partition. Then you can tell it the
partition on which your win98
is installed. This will of course have to be mounted already and you will have
to have full
access to it.
If instead you say a virtual machine then it will expect to create a file. This
will be created by
' installing ' your OS from CD.. As far as the win98 setup CD is concerned it is
writing to a real disc
but VMware is fooling it and creating the file on one of your linux partitions.
Before you do any of this though boot your Win98 and then
right click My Computer then select properties
click the hardware profiles tab.
highlight the original configuration profile then click copy
Name the profile as you like, say VMware profile.
click OK to close the system properties dialog.
close down windows and boot into linux
Then start the bit above.
hth
norm
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From: "n.elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD off after boot - possible??
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:28:20 +0000
Juho wrote:
> I have a cable connection which I share with a IP-masquerading linux server.
> The server does nothing else, just forwards, masquerades and firewalls the
> traffic between two ethernet adapters so it's really very simple and compact
> setup. Hardware is P75/800HD/24MB.
>
> I need to make the machine as silent as possible. So I need to get rid of
> the HD spinning all the time.
>
> Is it possible to somehow configure the machine so that once it has booted
> and loaded all the needed stuff into memory, the HD is switched off and it
> stays off no matter what? I have the bios HD sleep setting at 2 minutes, but
> after spinning down the HD it takes about 2 minutes max that Linux wants to
> use the hd with no apparent reason and it spins up again.
>
> What causes this? Can it be avoided? Could the swap use a ram disk (I could
> add memory)?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Juho
I have a 486 which runs freesco ( try http://www.freesco.com ) It only needs
a floppy drive. Having read some of the other comments in this thread I wonder
if you can just use a floppy in your PC but access another PC's hard disc with
NFS ?
Just a thought.
best wishes
norm
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing to an SMB Winprinter?
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:28:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bell) wrote:
> Is it possible to print, over a network, to a Windoze98SE print
server without
> the proper printer drivers? The printer in question is a Xerox P8
(No e).
> It's not just Linux that needs a driver for this thing -- My W2K
machines can't
> use it either! It'd be nice if I could use the same solution for
both Linux
> and Windoze. I was thinking, maybe there's a program I could run on
the print
> server to recieve the raw data and convert it as if it were being
printed
> directly from the that machine... Does something like that exist, or
is there
> an easier solution? Thanks!
>
> -------------------------
> David Bell - Otherwise known as DB7654321
>
> Remember to remove nospam, notrash or anything odd looking from my
email
> address. :)
>
I went to www.xerox.com and clicked on Support, then Drivers, and went
right to a Docuprint P8 (no e) driver.
Have another look.
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: X11 can't load default font
Date: 28 Dec 2000 00:59:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Blake wrote:
>While playing around with a newly-installed Mandrake 7.2 system, I
>somehow managed to hose X; it complains that it cannot load the
>default font ("fixed") and then unceremoniously aborts.
>
>I'm assuming, since this isn't Windoze, that it should be possible
>to fix this without re-installing the OS. :-) Anyone happen to know
>the necessary mystical incantations? (Restoring a backup of the
>/etc/X11 directory heirarchy from before the failure didn't help.)
>
>Thanks for any help with this, I've worked with Unix systems from the
>shell prompt for decades but have little experience with X...
[-]
xset -q -- it's going to print some information of which this
is of interest to start with ...
Font Path:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,\
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,\
/opt/applix/axfonts/all_pcf
You should have all or some of them in your output and see
your /etc/XF86Config, the FontPath entries, too.
Next and with a standard installation you should have these
file ...
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir
... and fonts.alias ought to have an entry for "fixed" and
those files and that font had better exist to start with.
Ta',
Juergen
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From: borno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Hayes Accura PCI modem
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 19:05:57 -0600
Hi All,
Anyone out there try installing a Hayes Accura PCI modem under Linux?
If you got it to work, can you tell me how.
Thanks.
borno
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: unable to install pcmcia-support
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:57:57 GMT
thanks!
but thats the problem: i am not able to install the pcmcia-sources (see
errors)
regards,
horst
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > after updating to kernel 2.2.18 (SuSe 7.0) pcmcia
> > doesn't work any longer (sony vaio sr1k - cd-rom
> > only works with an pcmcia-card <grrr>).
> > in the pcmcia-how-to it is written that: rpm -bi
> > /usr/src/packages/SPECS/pcmcia.spec should be
> > executed.
> >
> > ... but this is not working:
>
> [snip]
>
> The 2.2.x kernels don't support pcmcia directly; you'll have to build
> the kernel with the pcmcia library from sourceforge. It will create a
> custom kernel that can deal with pcmcia devices along with the pcmcia
> daemons that startup at boot time.
>
> The 2.4.x kernels do support pcmcia directly, so this problem should
> go away in the very near future (cross your fingers).
>
> --
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From: Jeff de Ruyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X11 can't load default font
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:17:50 GMT
Roger Blake wrote:
> While playing around with a newly-installed Mandrake 7.2 system, I
> somehow managed to hose X; it complains that it cannot load the
> default font ("fixed") and then unceremoniously aborts.
>
> I'm assuming, since this isn't Windoze, that it should be possible
> to fix this without re-installing the OS. :-) Anyone happen to know
> the necessary mystical incantations? (Restoring a backup of the
> /etc/X11 directory heirarchy from before the failure didn't help.)
>
> Thanks for any help with this, I've worked with Unix systems from the
> shell prompt for decades but have little experience with X...
>
I've had this a few times. It seems to be due to lack of disk space - X
can't find enough free space to initialise. If you free up some disk space,
you should be fine. Of course when your hard drive fills up again, you'll
have the same problem:)
Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: What happened to Redhat 7.0 for Sparc platform
Date: 28 Dec 2000 01:17:17 GMT
Does anyone know what happen to Redhat7.0 for Sparc?
Is RedHat just skipping 7.0 for Sparc or they totally dropped to support
RedHat on Sparc?
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have an answer.
Thank you,
Jason
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From: Ron House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer device trouble after upgrade
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:04:49 +0000
Hi,
I have discovered another problem after my recent upgrade: the printer
doesn't.
My printcap file is exactly the same as it was before (did a diff to
make sure), so all devices etc. must be correct. No loose cables are
flopping around on the floor. However, investigating with printtool and
sending an ascii test directly to the port, I found that printtool
siezed up solid and the printer didn't show any sign of receiving data.
I am wondering if my old /dev/lp* entries need updating somehow?
ls -l says:
crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 1 May 6 1998 /dev/lp1
Any suggestions will be much appreciated.
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Default Mdk 7.2 fstab file needed...
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:10:53 +1100
Could someone do me a favour and post the default fstab file for
Mandrake 7.2? I played around with it a few times and I'd like to get
a couple of lines back to their original form. Yeah, I know - silly
me!
tia...
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What happened to Redhat 7.0 for Sparc platform
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:19:38 GMT
Yes, Redhat is dropping support for RH7.0 for Sparc.
They have left the RH7.0 to the linux community to perform the conversion to
Sparc.
Jason Hong wrote:
> Does anyone know what happen to Redhat7.0 for Sparc?
>
> Is RedHat just skipping 7.0 for Sparc or they totally dropped to support
> RedHat on Sparc?
>
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have an answer.
>
> Thank you,
> Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bell)
Date: 28 Dec 2000 02:24:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Printing to an SMB Winprinter?
>I went to www.xerox.com and clicked on Support, then Drivers, and went
>right to a Docuprint P8 (no e) driver.
>
>Have another look.
For WIndoze 9x, or NT, yes. For *NIX or W2K, nope. The NT driver wouldn't
work... Can you elaborate? Thanks!
=========================
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From: Chris Rankin <au.com.zipworld@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: PCI -> USB converter card
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:26:00 +0000
Alastair Foster wrote:
> I have an old Pentium 133, and I want to get a couple of USB ports
> installed on it. A PCI card with USB ports on it is quite appealing to
> me, but I'm just wondering if it will work with Linux.
I have just such a beast in an old P90, and it works just fine. All you
need is a free IRQ so that the BIOS can initialise the thing, and then
you compile in USB support and you're away. The only thing I can't tell
you is which one of the UHCI or the OHCI modules you will need, but then
you only have a choice of two! (Use the "alternative" UCHI module uhci.o
instead of usb-uhci.o.) Compile both and see which works.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: Default Mdk 7.2 fstab file needed...
Date: 28 Dec 2000 02:30:06 GMT
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:10:53 +1100,
Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could someone do me a favour and
post the default fstab file for
>Mandrake 7.2?
here's mine:
[mpulliam@localhost mpulliam]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
As far as being "default," I dunno. I somehow ended
up with a /dev/hda1 and a /dev/hda5 & 6 after some
partitioning adventures. Other people probably
have quite different partitions. At least the
general format above is as generated by Mdk 7.2
and you can go from there.
HTH,
Mary P.
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From: Richard Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Software installation
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:30:04 -0000
I am new to Linux and installed WordPerfect 8. Is it normal for it not to
show up in the application menu? Or can I make a shortcut on the desktop?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: newbie question..... sound card doesn't work
Date: 28 Dec 2000 02:40:26 GMT
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:32:23 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>i'm trying to get my ESS1868 based ISA
sound card to work.
>. . . when i type anything with "make" the console
>always says "command not found".
>. . . am i missing a package or something?
Yep. You have a couple alternatives, all easy.
You can go back to your install CD, reboot, and
ask it to update. Eventually you'll get to some
screen where you pick the packages to add. Find
"make" and tell it to install the "make" rpm.
Or go into your configuration menu and somewhere
in there find whatever tool Mandrake uses for
updating packages in your version. It'll tell you
to put in a CD and walk you through steps to
add whatever you left out in the
original install.
MP
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From: Robert Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Uninstalling software in Linux
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 20:56:26 -0600
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If you just rerun the setup program the first option you get is to "Repair" or
"Uninstall". Just select unistall.
Neil Guinto wrote:
> I recently installed StarOffice for Linux on my old P100 machine (32MB
> ram,4GB disk) and sadly the performance is too slow (it crawls!) for me. I
> want to uninstall it, how do I do that?
> BTW, if you have an alternative office suite for Linux, that will run a
> little faster on my machine let me know, thanks.
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If you just rerun the setup program the first option you get is to "Repair"
or "Uninstall". Just select unistall.
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<p>Neil Guinto wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I recently installed StarOffice for Linux on my old
P100 machine (32MB
<br>ram,4GB disk) and sadly the performance is too slow (it crawls!) for
me. I
<br>want to uninstall it, how do I do that?
<br>BTW, if you have an alternative office suite for Linux, that will run
a
<br>little faster on my machine let me know, thanks.</blockquote>
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