Linux-Setup Digest #303, Volume #20 Fri, 29 Dec 00 10:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: Slack 7.1 'install.iso' (GreySoul)
Re: install from a partition. (SivaramaKrishnan Nageswaran)
SoundBlaster 16 Not working under Debian ("Paul King")
Re: make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'... ("ne...")
Re: Slack 7.1 'install.iso' ("Bill")
DSL Availability In Your Area? .................... r8UndpdC
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: newbie question..... sound card doesn't work ("Paul King")
Re: win98 runs slow after reinstall of eDesktop 2.4 (Howard C Johnson)
[RH6.2] bad sectors in HD (eXistenZ)
NT boot loader, no boot.ini file ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to install linux using pcmcia cd-rom into notebook (Heesang)
VMWare = Swap space on Host Linux and paging space for Guest OS (Subba Rao)
Re: SoundBlaster 16 Not working under Debian (Juha Kervinen)
Re: 486, Linux and X-windows (John Peach)
Re: removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4 (Robert Redelmeier)
deleting linux partions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X Server Security (Mike Jenkins)
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From: GreySoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slack 7.1 'install.iso'
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 05:30:21 -0600
I downloaded it and had someone burn it with Adaptec Easy CD Creator.
Worked like a charm. Slackware installed fine on a third hard drive
in my machine; had no problems booting from the CD.
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 06:09:43 GMT, "Sean Tuttle"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yeah has anybody successfully downloaded and burned the install.iso file off
>of ftp.slackware.com and had it be bootable? I've tried twice using nero
>and it won't boot. I was wondering if anyone knows why. Any help would be
>appreciated. I don't think there should be anything difficult about it.
>thanks.
>
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From: SivaramaKrishnan Nageswaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install from a partition.
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:38:39 -0500
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I don't think that you can do such type of installations. You can try
either from the net by ftp or through CD.
Regards
Siva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am attempting to install Red Hat 7.2 from FAT partition on an NT box.
> The files were downloaded to the D:\RedHat directory. I want to
> actually overwrite the NT so there are no space problems.
>
> My problem is that when I boot with the Linux boot disk and type in the
> location of the RedHat directory, I get a message saying that the files
> can't be found. I've double-checked everything; could the fact that
> they are in a DOS partition be preventing the Linux boot disk from
> finding them? If not that, I'm stumped and the Red Hat installation
> guide has very little to say about partition-based installs.
>
> Please let me know,
> Mike Cooper
>
> Sent via Deja.com
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--
SivaramaKrishnan Nageswaran
Lucent Technologies
Bell Labs Innocations
Tel Dir:- (091)(080)5052490
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I don't think that you can do such type of installations. You can try either
from the net by ftp or through CD.
<p>Regards
<br>Siva
<br>
<p>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi,
<p>I am attempting to install Red Hat 7.2 from FAT partition on an NT box.
<br>The files were downloaded to the D:\RedHat directory. I want
to
<br>actually overwrite the NT so there are no space problems.
<p>My problem is that when I boot with the Linux boot disk and type in
the
<br>location of the RedHat directory, I get a message saying that the files
<br>can't be found. I've double-checked everything; could the fact
that
<br>they are in a DOS partition be preventing the Linux boot disk from
<br>finding them? If not that, I'm stumped and the Red Hat installation
<br>guide has very little to say about partition-based installs.
<p>Please let me know,
<br>Mike Cooper
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<pre>--
SivaramaKrishnan Nageswaran
Lucent Technologies
Bell Labs Innocations
Tel Dir:- (091)(080)5052490</pre>
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From: "Paul King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster 16 Not working under Debian
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:10:37 GMT
Hello:
I am using a Sound Blaster 16 ISA sound card under Debian 2.2 (Potato).
All the sound modules appear to load without error, including sb.o, IRQ
settings and all.
However, there simply isn't any sound. Simple as that.
The sound card works very well under Window$ 98.
Any hints as to what to check out would be appreciated.
Paul King
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'...
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:16:24 GMT
On Dec 29, 2000 at 15:47, Guy Parry eloquently wrote:
> I've been playing with Mandrake 7.2 for the past couple of weeks
>and would like to check the kernel to see if I've got the SCSI module
>installed, plus a few other things. But I can't get past Step 1.
>Same thing if I bypass mrproper and try 'make xconfig'.
> Am I missing a package? Yes, I'm root. Yes, I'm in
>/usr/src/linux.
Yep. The kernel sources.....
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test. -- Calvin
8:15am up 17 days, 11:13, 9 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
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From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slack 7.1 'install.iso'
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:23:39 GMT
I've burned alot of them, but not with Nero. I use
http://www.fireburner.com/ and never had a problem
"Sean Tuttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:HUV26.200560$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Yeah has anybody successfully downloaded and burned the install.iso file
off
> of ftp.slackware.com and had it be bootable? I've tried twice using nero
> and it won't boot. I was wondering if anyone knows why. Any help would
be
> appreciated. I don't think there should be anything difficult about it.
> thanks.
>
>
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:24:34 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DSL Availability In Your Area? .................... r8UndpdC
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From: "Paul King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie question..... sound card doesn't work
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:28:28 GMT
In article <92d938$if8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm trying to get my ESS1868 based ISA sound card to work. i read a few
> pages, and i saw that some people had success using isapnptools.
But, to back up a bit, are you sure ESS1868 is compiled into your kernel?
If not, you need it as a module. If it already exists in your basic
installation you are lucky. I am not up-to-date as to the latest
"popular" distros (I use Debian now), but when I was using my ESS1868, I
recall having to recompile my kernel to get it going.
Secondly, you need to know your settings. Isapnptools are only good for
plug-and-play equipment. Running isapnp still may work, but I recall I
needed to really message things to get it to go. From what I have seen
regarding sound support in the kernel, it seems that the kernel is now
bettter equipped to handle ESS1868 sound cards.
I would have thought that a better application to confgiure your sound
under Mandrake would be "sndconfig". It's all interactive, and if you
don't like your previous settings, you can just cycle through the text
interfaces over again until you get it right. since it is self-testing.
That means you need to be sure your speakers are hooked up and switched
on at the time. I would forget isapnptools until you give that
application a go. It was originally part of RedHat, but I can't see
Mandrake being a terribly different distro.
Paul King
> i tried
> this out, but after i did the "./configure" command and all this stuff
> ran down the console, the instructions said to type "make <blahblah>". i
> followed the instructions, when i type anything with "make" the console
> always says "command not found". i tried typing 'make' in the
> /usr/src/linux directory to seee if anything hapens, but it said the
> same thing. am i missing a package or something? is there an RPM that i
> should install that wasn't installed in the setup?
>
> i'm runing Linux Mandrake 7.0.... luckily i could atleast get the modem
> working soi can post this. hehe,... thanks!
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: Howard C Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: win98 runs slow after reinstall of eDesktop 2.4
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:41:52 GMT
If you look at "my_computer" >properties>performance you may see that you
are now using 16 bit compatibility on the hard disk. If so:
this seems a problem in the PCI controller -- Linux to work must set
Serialize IDE. AND windows to work with 32 bit drivers must NOT set
Serialize.
Look at regedit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\SERVICES\VXD\IOS
if there is a key called NOIDE -- its the problem. remove it, shut down,
Power OFF! WAIT then reboot windows. This is taken from a Microsoft
advisory.
Howard Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alfia wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> After reinstalling the eDesktop 2.4, everything on the win98 partition
> seems running very slowly. I wonder if the reinstallation of linux has
> somehow affected the way win98 retrieve data on the hard drive.
> The scenario of my hard drive is shown as follow:
> 3 OSs are on a 10.2GB hard drive. They are win98 (32-bit, 5GB), Corel
> linux (1.5GB), and Caldera eDesktop 2.4 (3.5 GB). Win98 is a primary
> partition. The two linuxs are in separate logical partitions within an
> extended partition.
>
> Could anyone explain to me why it happen? and how to solve the problem.
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Alfia
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From: eXistenZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [RH6.2] bad sectors in HD
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:58:58 GMT
When installing rh6.2 I am asked if I want the HD to be scanned for bad
sectors. If I answer yes, do the bad sector get "marked" and therefore I
am able to use the HD anyway?
I'm asking because I've got a 2 gigabyte HD with a total of ~100Kb of
bad sectors, and I was wondering if I could still use it or if it's time
to trash it.
Thank You
eXistenZ
--
After three days in the desert fun
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NT boot loader, no boot.ini file
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:59:20 GMT
There's a little twist to my dual booting problem. I am no stranger to
linux dual boot with the NT boot loader. In fact, my win2000/dos dual
boot system loader appears to be the same app as the boot loader on my
NT machine at work. My problem is that I can't find the boot.ini file
in my win2000 root directory. Actually, I searched the computer's
whole fat16/fat32 file system (including the dos 6.22 C: drive) and I
can't find boot.ini. But, when I boot the system, here comes the boot
system choice screen, just like my NT machine. Windows 2000 help is no
help at all. Maybe someone else has seen this? Where is boot.ini???
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From: Heesang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to install linux using pcmcia cd-rom into notebook
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:18:00 GMT
I am trying to install linusinto my notebook using pcmica cd-rom in vain.
First I boot with boot.img diskette, but that doesn't detect the pc card
cd-rom. To my knowledge, all of ATAPI pc cards are supported by linus. Am
I wrong? of course my pcmcia cd-rom works fine now(I installed with
Backpack external cd-rom before). I don't know why I can't make it
successful with the pc card cd-rom in installing. How can I figure out
this? Any idea?
The pcmcia cd-rom is Doshiba ATAPI 20.
Have a good one.
Heesang
.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Subba Rao)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: VMWare = Swap space on Host Linux and paging space for Guest OS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:28:48 GMT
Hello
I am planning to install VMWare on a Linux Host and have WindowXX as guest
systems. The question before the installation is, do the guest operating
systems use the host systems swap space? Do I need to create a swap partition
like /dev/hdxx, for each guest OS?
Any experiences and ideas appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Subba Rao
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
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From: Juha Kervinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 Not working under Debian
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:04:30 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> However, there simply isn't any sound. Simple as that.
>
> The sound card works very well under Window$ 98.
>
> Any hints as to what to check out would be appreciated.
If there are no errors loading modules and using player software and you
are sure that everything is properly configured, one thing that is worth
checking is that your mixer settings are ok. (the volume level could be set
to zero).
Load the sound module in conf.modules with the following options:
options sound dma_buffsize=65536 && /usr/bin/setmixer igain 0 ogain 0 vol
75
(this is from the sound-HOWTO:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.31 , check it out
before using..=)
I have the same card as you and every time the module was loaded, volume
was too silent. Worked fine for my redhat box having this problem.
Could help...
-Juha
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Peach)
Subject: Re: 486, Linux and X-windows
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:27:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
L. E. Leaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Bob Martin wrote:
|>>Ed Collins wrote:
|>>>
|>>> Hello, there:
|>>>
|>>> I'm in the process of installing Linux and X-windows on my 486 with 126K
|>of
|>>> cache and 8 MBytes of RAM.
|>>>
|>>> My question is, will Linux and X-windows work well? Should I get more
|>>> cache? More memory? Or should I purchase a MB from e-bay that will fit
|>>> inside a 486 case?
|>>>
|>>> I would certainly appreciate a discussion on this topic.
|>>>
|>>> ed collins
|>>
|>>Most of the current distros won't install with less than 16mb of ram.
|>>The main linux desktops, gnome and kde need 32mb. The box you have would
|>>be fine for a gateway/firewall box or a console based linux box.
|>>Upgrading is always a tradeoff, with a new motherboard you'll find you
|>>will need to replace just about everything else as well, a new case
|>>because the board is ATX form factor not AT, new memory because it needs
|>>DIMMs not SIMM, new cards because it PCI based not ISA, a new CPU etc,
|>>etc...
|>Just installed Slackware 7.1 on 486 DX2 66 8M. Fwm, Fvwm2 or Fvwm95
|>works OK. Gnome or KDE takes 15 min. to load... unusable.
|>Try it and have fun.
|>
My first Linux installation (0.9 something) was on an old (even then)
Compaq Desqpro 386-25 with 13 MB :-) I had that running X reasonably
happily using fvwm as the window manager. Replacing the CPU with the
Cyrix 486-50 upgrade chip made it seem to fly. Go for it - but don't
waste your time with KDE or Gnome - Micro$oft lookalike bloatware.
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:29:05 -0600
From: Robert Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4
Ralph A Freeman wrote:
>
> I agree that this most likely locks up the hardware.
>
> I have been trying to use a manual KVM switch that was supposedly designed
> for PS2 mouse and kybd. As you might expect, it locks up the the PC that
> has been unselected. Generally, the keyboard and dislpay still works, but
> the mouse is always locked up. The odd thing is that one of the PC's on the
> KVM is using a PS2 to Serial adaptor, and it locks up as often as the PC's
> witch are using the PS2 port.
I consider KVM's to be somewhat black-art. It's very odd that the kbd
still works, but the mouse does not. I had thought PS/2 kbds and mice
were simply wired in parallel across the PS/2 "bus". Perhaps either
the mouse or the kbd is funny. Have you tried different brands?
> It seems to me we should be able to emulate the mouse presence at the PC by
> adding a resistor or two. If I could get my hands on a schematic of the PS2
> ports, it would help. Certainly someone has circumvented this problem and
> could save us some strokes.
The best way to emulate a mouse is not to have one! Since I don't
use X/gpm much, I don't miss them. Each of my machines has it's own
kbd to avoid PS/2 hot plugging. But my single monitor has an extention
cable and I _do_ hot plug the monitor. AFAIK, this is acceptable
since the monitors take analog signals which shouldn't cause the
problems that digital signals cause.
-- Robert author `cpuburn` http://users.ev1.net/~redelm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: deleting linux partions
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:30:31 GMT
We're trying to delete one our linux setups. We've used fdisk /mbr to
remove lilo from the old boot partition. This partition has then been
formated to FAT. But we can't delete the old root partition using DOS
fdisk. So how do you delete linux root partitions without linux's
fdisk? I apologise for this not quite being a setup question.
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From: Mike Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X Server Security
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:10:26 +0000
Are there any special security precautions that need to be observed when
operating a Linux system, running X, connected to a cable modem? I have heard
some things about this issue.
Thanks
Mike Jenkins
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