Linux-Setup Digest #315, Volume #20 Sun, 31 Dec 00 04:13:06 EST
Contents:
make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'... (Guy Parry)
Re: make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'... (Guy Parry)
want to open file by double clicking mouse button (Steve Martindell)
New Mandrake installation hangs on booting ("Peter Lawrance")
Running mysql on Redhat 7.0 ("Patrick Mc Govern")
Suse 7.0 evaluation ("malawueng")
Re: /dev/hda this!!! (James Rose)
Re: Help!! RedHat 7 Install (James Rose)
Re: Printer device trouble after upgrade (Ron House)
Re: No LILO on bootup (James Rose)
Re: Easy question - Palm software and RH 7.0 (James Rose)
Re: question_on_Linux_and_Windows98 (moonie;))
Re: Video problems in RH 7.0 install (E J)
Re: I Can't heard nothing !!!! (James Rose)
Re: make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'... (Markus Kossmann)
Re: makeinfo - do I need it? (Phil Edwards)
Re: 3Com 3c905 cards: here's how (Phil Edwards)
IBM EduQuest Forty -- How install any Linux? (Pat Minnis)
X 4.0.2, kernel 2.4.0-test12: sound freezes machine ("Peter Tieleman")
Re: Apache Web Server Help (Michael Heiming)
Re: New Mandrake installation hangs on booting ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Suse 7.0 evaluation (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'...
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:09:01 +1100
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.
tia...
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'...
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:10:58 +1100
Okies, thought so :)
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:16:24 GMT, "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.....
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From: Steve Martindell <s-martindell@__/nospammm\\__ti.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: want to open file by double clicking mouse button
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:40:57 -0600
I woud like to be able to do an "ls" in a Csh/Tcsh and
then be able to double-click on a file name(which hi-lights
the file name)and also automatically open the file in an
editor such as nedit.
Does Xfree86 or KDE allow you to create custom mouse-button
definitions.
On the Sun Ultra workstation I use at work, there is a dtwmrc file
in the "$HOME/.dt" directory that allows you to redefine how the
mouse buttons and the function keys work. Is there anything like
this in Linux? I'm currently running Suse 7.0 w/ KDE.
-steve
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From: "Peter Lawrance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Mandrake installation hangs on booting
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:15:11 +1030
I am taking my first look at Linux. Using the CDs from The Linux Pocketbook
3rd Edition, but I have a problem booting it.
I installed Mandrake Linux 7.2 on top of my Win98 2nd Edition (FAT32). First
I ran Windows Defrag. I tried to split the partition using FIPS but it kept
telling me the last cylinder was not empty. I ran Defrag again, then FIPS,
with the same result.
I then used the Mandrake install CDs and opted to install Linux in a Windows
directory (have I understood correctly what it was doing?) because FIPS
couldn't split the Windows partition.
Now when I reboot the machine, I get the GRUB bootloader first. Selecting
Windows runs Win98 OK with no problems so far as I can see. However, if I
select Linux or Failsafe it hangs halfway through the system checks etc.
when screeds of console text fill the screen.
The last line displayed when it hangs is:
Code: f2 ae f7 d1 49 89 cb 39 f3 7c 21 89 f6 83 c4 fc 56 55 46 8b
The cursor is on the screen flashing under this line but everything is
locked up. The hdd light is not on and there is no response to mouse or
keyboard, not even Ctrl-Alt-Del. The only way out is the Reset button.
Other significant-looking lines on the screen when it hangs are:
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
and:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c4000000
Also, I seem to have lost my DOS prompt from Windows....
Any advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely
Peter Lawrance
POSability Software
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PO Box 3353 Mount Gambier SA 5290
Australia
Bite off more than you can chew - then chew like hell!
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From: "Patrick Mc Govern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Running mysql on Redhat 7.0
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:42:02 -0800
I have installed Redhat 7.0 on two computers with "everything" installed.
Both have PHP working without any configuration. I can't get mysql working
on either machine and I get the same errors.
I ran /usr/bin/mysql_install_db as root and created the initial tables.
When I ran /usr/bin/safe_mysqld & to start the tables I get this basic error
message in the mysql error file:
mysqld started
/usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)
mysqld ended
I'd like to know if anyone has started a mysql database in Redhat 7.0 with
mysql version 3.23.24-1 and how it was started. I think I am missing
something when I use /usr/bin/mysql_install_db.
Pat
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From: "malawueng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Suse 7.0 evaluation
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:50:55 +0800
hi,
i was thinking of downloading Suse 7.0 from the net but can only find a
evaluation. Does anybody knows the difference betweent this version and the
full version? Is it fully functional?
thanx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Subject: Re: /dev/hda this!!!
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 05:45:43 GMT
>> Without the contents of my /etc/fstab I cannot remember what drive has
>> which partitions and which number is which? Is there some tool I can
>> run (Windows or Linux). That will tell me what drives I have, what
>> partitions each of the drives has, and what is the format type of each
>> logical drive? Thanks.
>
>Mmm.
>It's called a printer I think.
>Hard copy is your best friend here :)
>
>Cliff
>
>--
>no NAUGHTYSPAM if you email me :)
You can use fdisk on each of the drives and simply have fdisk display
the partition table each time. You may be able to write a script to
run fdisk with a flag on the command line for each disk, so you only
need to run one command.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Subject: Re: Help!! RedHat 7 Install
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 05:48:14 GMT
>
>No, You have to burn the iso image to CD. When you mount the
>CD you should be able to naviagate and view it like an other data CD.
>
Make sure you create the cd with that disc image, instead of buring
the image file onto the cd. Without creating the disc from the image
you will not create a bootable cd.
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From: Ron House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer device trouble after upgrade
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 06:04:07 +0000
Bob Martin wrote:
>
> Ron House wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> You didn't mention what you upgraded.
Oops. I upgraded RedHat 6.0 to RedHat 6.2. I have checked the printer
from Windows and it all still physically goes and is identified as
lpt1:.
--
Ron House [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house
A rose grows in the Earth's good soil.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Subject: Re: No LILO on bootup
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 05:55:33 GMT
>What do you mean by making the linux boot partition active? Ill give a bit
>more info to make things a bit clearer. (I know this can be done I just cant
>do it).
run fdisk from whatever you can, windows should have it I think, and
find out what command to run under fdisk that says "set active
partition" or something like that. Choose the partition that has LILO
installed on it.
>I have Win98 installed onto a disk on the Motherboard IDE which boots fine.
>I installed RedHat onto a seperate disk, dedicated to Linux attached to the
>Promise Controller card. LILO was told to install onto the Linux disk only.
>The Win98 disk was never touched.
>
>I cannot even see the contents of the boot disks /etc/lilo.conf. as I cannot
>boot Linux at all. Event the RedHat install with Alt-F2 does not let me read
>the floppy drive. (unless I have not mounted something correct).
>
>With regard to making the Linux partition active, what do I have to do to it
>to make it active?
>
>The /boot partition is 16Mb, swap is 500Mb and about 5Gb for /.
>
>Thanks for the help
>
>Chris
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Subject: Re: Easy question - Palm software and RH 7.0
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 06:06:17 GMT
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 10:53:03 -0500, Jim Langston
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Trying to get kpilot working with rh 7.0. One- it didn't install with
>a workstation install (anyone know what else I can look forward to,
>xemacs didn't
>either). two - I installed it by hand .. rpm -i kpilot... , but
>/dev/pilot is
>not created and kpilot will not start correctly. None of the pilot-link
>software
>is installed, but it is not on the second CD where kpilot is ..
>
>Any ideas or suggestions ..
Next time select you packages individually so that you know exactly
what you installed...
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: question_on_Linux_and_Windows98
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 01:20:51 -0500
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, LadyHawke wrote:
>I wasn't the one who asked the original question, but I have a question
>about what you said in step 1. The main reason that I am having to ask
>instead of reading documention is that Amazon.com is taking a long time to
>ship my order, no local software sources outside of games.
>
>My hard drive isn't partitioned. I am assuming from #1 that there isn't any
>way of partitioning it outside of reformating? I hate to have to ask such a
>basic question, but I need to make certain before I install anything else on
>my computer. No point in doing it if I am going to have to reformat.....
>(will be using Partition Magic). I have hopes that the software will get to
>me before classes start back up in a week so that I actually have the time
>to work with it.
>
>LadyHawke
you can use a program called FIPS it will split a partition and not destroy
your windows (make sure you run defrag first to get all the info to the front
of the drive)
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video problems in RH 7.0 install
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 06:23:33 GMT
Your X is probably misconfigured.
$ su -
password: <secret>
# cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.bak # back your XF86Config
# Xconfigurator # configure your X correctly until it works correctly.
If it doesn't, consider downloading XFree86 4.02 from www.xfree86.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I tried to install RH 7.0 in my machine, described below, and when the
> X screen with the "red hat" appears the display is misconfigured
> without condition to continue. What's happenned?
>
> Machine
>
> - AMD Duron 700 MHz
> - 128 MB RAM
> - Motherboard ASUS A7V
> - HD Quantum Fireball Plus LM 15 GB (3 Gb for Linux) with Win2K
> installed in the first and second partition
> - video adapter Trident 3DImage 975 with 4 MB
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Subject: Re: I Can't heard nothing !!!!
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 06:24:50 GMT
>> The only thing don't work is my Sound Blaster 1024 Live!...
>>
>> How could I hear something ????? Help me !!!!!
>>
>> I have installed Linux Red Hat v.6.1 - kernel 2.2.12-20
>
>If you're running RedHat or Mandrake, then just run sndconfig as root.
This won't work. At all. The 2.2.12 kernel doesn't have support for
SB Live products. If you want to hear stuff on your SBLive whatever
version, you will need to DL 2.2.18 or later I think. I know that
2.4.0-test12 has it and it works wonderfully for my SBLive. Look for
the emu10k line in dmesg output. If it isn't there you don't have the
driver for the sound card loaded. Previous SB drivers won't work.
Nor will the other sound drivers.
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make: *** No rule to make target 'mrproper'...
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 07:02:18 +0100
Guy Parry 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.
Probabaly you did install only the "kernel includes" package and not the
full kernel sources .
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards)
Subject: Re: makeinfo - do I need it?
Date: 31 Dec 2000 02:06:33 -0500
Ed Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ Hi,
+ I just noticed that when I run ./configure, I get a message: checking for
+ makeinfo ... missing
'configure' scripts are specific to the package you're building...
+ Is this a problem, and if so - where do I get it.
...so whether it's a problem depends on what you're trying to build.
Did the rest of the package build and install okay? If so, then it's not
a problem. :-)
Many packages check for things which are then optionally used. Or in
your case, I suspect it was looking for the path to makeinfo so it could
rebuild the documentation /if/ the master documentation files had changed;
they hadn't, so makeinfo was never called.
makeinfo is part of http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/texinfo.html
Luck++;
Phil
--
pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com | pme at sources dot redhat dot com
devphil at several other less interesting addresses in various dot domains
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905 cards: here's how
Date: 31 Dec 2000 02:08:55 -0500
Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+
+ 905 apparently stopped having its own module and works on the 59x module.
That's the impression that I had received, too. All I can say is that
under 2.2.18, it /doesn't/ work on the 59x module. Apparently (by your
example) this is fixed in 2.4, which is very good.
Phil
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From: Pat Minnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM EduQuest Forty -- How install any Linux?
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 07:39:34 GMT
I'm getting rattled now after 3 long days trying to install Linux on a
IBM EduQuest Forty. The modern boot disks won't work. Small Linux
boots fine, but the mkfs.ext2 doesn't work -- then tried putting the
image on the hard disk, but can't get a filesystem resizer onto a
diskette, especially with the new libraries.
So then I put my main computer's cdrom in it, to try a cdrom install --
OK, found out I needed a boot disk -- none work (RedHat or Debian) --
boot failure.
Could this be a memory issue causing boot failure? It reports about 3M
+ 640k conventional when I enter bios setup and set to ROM-DOS boot.
Finally found a boot/root combination that might have worked but ran out
of memory for the ramdisk load of root.
Anyhow, can anyone give advice on the best route to take? Junk the PC
is a valid response :-<
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From: "Peter Tieleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X 4.0.2, kernel 2.4.0-test12: sound freezes machine
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 08:08:13 GMT
Hi,
I've installed kernel 2.4.0-test12 and XFree 4.0.2 on a redhat 7.0
installation.My soundcard is a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. It uses the 46xx
driver, and works fine under older kernels (2.2.16-22, with same X). I use
the same modules as with 2.2.16 but everytime sound is accessed the machine
hangs completely, even caps lock stops working. No useful messages in any of
the log files that I could see. Does anyone have an idea what the problem
might be?
Thanks.
Peter
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 09:20:45 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache Web Server Help
"B. Hearn" wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:39:58 +0800, daemonX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Currently from the linux server I only managed to get results when I
> >type http://localhost and it points to /home/httpd/html/indel.html file.
> >How do I create individual users so they/others can access..something
> >like when we type http://localhost/~joe it will point to joe's
> >home/joe/public_html/index.html and http://localhost/~mary it will point
> >to home/mary/public_html/index.html, etc.
>
> Pardon my butting in here but I too have a "somehow" related question.
> This is my first acquaintance with Apache. I found that a trailing
> slash is required to make individual users' directories visible in a
> browser. Additionally, not just the /public_html (per user) directory
> must be world accessible to Apache but the User's directory as well
> (how else could Apache get to the public_html ?). However the latter
> must(? [ie. the user dir] ) be true and then perhaps, its a matter of
> automatic inheritance - whatever.
>
> Here is my dilemma. If the user is now accessible, is this not a
> security problem? If so, how does one get around it? Would it not be
> better to set up a new partition (in the interests of preserving,
> backing up, etc) with all html's appropriately placed and classified
> (public docs, private sites, etc. So, how to tell Apache that a user's
> source html's are NOT in a users dir but rather, somewhere else. Am I
> being too finicky?
Hello,
you're not to finicky, I would also do it in some other directory and link
it from the users home dir.
But he asked for the home directory....
Allthough you have some control with:
UserDir disabled
UserDir enabled username1 username2 uesername3
If you don't want to do it with mod_userdir, you can do it with mod_rewrite
where ever you want:
RewriteRule ^/~([^/]+)/?(.*) /usr/htmldocs/$1/$2
inside a Directory directive, that should work too...:-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Mandrake installation hangs on booting
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 09:23:24 +0100
Peter Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am taking my first look at Linux. Using the CDs from The Linux Pocketbook
> 3rd Edition, but I have a problem booting it.
> I installed Mandrake Linux 7.2 on top of my Win98 2nd Edition (FAT32). First
> I ran Windows Defrag. I tried to split the partition using FIPS but it kept
> telling me the last cylinder was not empty. I ran Defrag again, then FIPS,
So empty it. Windows puts some hidden/system files there. Unhide/system
them and defrag properly.
Peter
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Suse 7.0 evaluation
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:14:35 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
malawueng wrote:
> hi,
>
> i was thinking of downloading Suse 7.0 from the net but can only find a
> evaluation. Does anybody knows the difference betweent this version and
> the full version? Is it fully functional?
>
> thanx
>
Did you try www.suse.com? And yes, the evaluation is fully functional,
doesn�t expire, no ads and so on. There are fewer programs, but more than
enough for starting -mail, kde, server etc. blabla.
Happy New Year
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Auf der Donau 29
45139 Essen
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