Linux-Setup Digest #332, Volume #20 Wed, 3 Jan 01 04:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Cable Internet Anyone? (moonie;))
Re: what is minimum components to install for console based (moonie;))
linux password to Sun Shadow. (fatwolf)
Re: Partitioning 20G disk for C:, D: and linux (Markus Kossmann)
Re: VMWare - Running Existing Win98? (Steve Withers)
Re: Cable Internet Anyone? (Steve Withers)
Re: Running Linux in RAM (Steve Withers)
public_html directory permissions (John Mitchell)
Re: Partitioning 20G disk for C:, D: and linux (Burnt Rubber)
Eth0 bootup problem (Bill Courtney)
Re: Eth0 bootup problem (David)
Re: public_html directory permissions (moonie;))
Re: what is minimum components to install for console based (Steve Withers)
Re: PANIC! Cannot see anything after install! (RH6.2) (Bo Berglund)
Re: Have a newbie question (Graham Wilson)
Re: ATA 100 problem with Linux RH 7. (gataway)
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Internet Anyone?
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 01:03:42 -0500
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, Edwin Johnson wrote:
>Is anyone using a cable internet access? We have available Road Runner which
>is contracted by Time Warner. It looks from their web site they are only
>supporting Win(ugg!) and Mac stuff. Thanks for any information on this.
>
>...Edwin
>
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RoadRunner is actually very easy to setup in Linux, set your nic for DHCP and I
think thats about it (if I remember correctly, used to have it, have SDSL now).
When they say they only support win, and mac that means they won't give you
any help with it, not that it won't work.
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is minimum components to install for console based
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 01:10:00 -0500
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, David wrote:
>Ralph A Freeman wrote:
>>
>> I need to setup a proxybox for my home/home-office LAN of up to 16
>> (currently 7) windoze and Linux PC's.
>>
>> Hardware is a P-133, 32M RAM, 1G HD.
>>
>> I have been using Winproxy under win98, but I want the reliability of Linux.
>>
>> Should I use Linux from scratch, or a distro? I already have RH 6.2 and a
>> recent ver. of Corel. I do not want a GUI, just a console (remote)
>> interface. It would be nice to tuck this box in a closet somewhere.
>>
>> Squid would seem to be overkill. I have considered Tinyproxy. Security is
>> a relatively minor issue, but I do want some sort of firewall.
>>
>> If anyone has setup up such a system, or could provide any input or
>> guidance, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
My router is almost identical to this (P133 48MB RAM and 2 6GB HD's) and I use
Mandrake 7.2 (no X, its there if I feel the need for it) I have more disk
space because I run Samba/FTP/Apache/PHP/MySQL on the box as well, it serves 6
virtual domains from Apache. I have installed Pmfirewall for firewalling and
for internet connection sharing of my LAN (6 PC's) through my SDSL connection.
I believe just about any of the distros will do what you want on this hardware,
I even had it running with NO HD off of Coyote Linux on a floppy until I
decided to expand its purpose.
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From: fatwolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux password to Sun Shadow.
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 06:15:01 GMT
Hi, I'm trying to import linux passwd into Solaris shadow, but I just
found out the encrypted password just not compatible, is there anyway
to do that? Thanks.
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning 20G disk for C:, D: and linux
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 06:19:35 +0100
Trebor wrote:
>
> [NOTE: I found a workaround to my problem, which is described at the end.
> But I thought I'd complete this post, since I already had it written up &
> ready to send. Thought I'd see if anybody could shed some insight on what
> might have been going on.]
>
> OK - I'm having problems setting up a 20GB disk for Win95 and linux. My goal
> is thus:
>
> Partition 1: linux boot partition (type 83) (size: 88M)
> Partition 2: Win95 drive C: (type 0Ch) (size: 7.6G)
> Partition 3: Win95 drive D: (type 0Ch) (size: 7.6G)
> Partition 4: Extended part'n (type 5) (size: remainder of drive)
>
> The extended partition would contain the following logical drives:
>
> Logical 1: linux swap (type 82) (size: 196M)
> Logical 2: linux /tmp (type 83) (size: 196M)
> Logical 3: linux /var (type 83) (size: 196M)
> Logical 4: linux /usr (type 83) (size: remainder of ext. part'n)
>
> I used RedHat 7.0's fdisk (not druid) to set up the partitioning as
> described above.
>
> Here's my problem: I just cannot get the Win95 D: drive to format correctly.
You second Windows partition must be a logical drive in an extended
partition unless you want to dual boot two independent Win95
installations.
Since you are crossing the 1024 cyl limit , the extended partition for
your windows should be type 0fh. This extented partition should also
contain your logical drives for linux , since Windows supports only the
existance of one extended partition.
PS: If you
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMWare - Running Existing Win98?
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 19:30:06 +1300
Steve Withers wrote:
> Eggert Ehmke wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 02:56:51 +1300, Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > >I have 5.5GB in Win98SE and 5.5 GB in RH 7.0....plus the swap partition.
> > ...
> > >I followed the install instructions for creating the virtual
> > >machine.....including a 2GB virtual disk within my /home/steve/VM
> > ...
> > What about the Win98SE native installation ? Can you boot that too from
> > within VMWare ?
>
> No. It looks like the Win95/98 system needs to be installed into VMware's
> Virtual Machine.
I have been thinking about this.
Because you can boot the VM from a DOS/Win?? floppy, you *could*, in theory, run a
restore of your existing system into the virtual disk from a CD-based backup.
You would want to remove every device-dependent driver you had before you did the
backup. Video would need to be set to VGA-16 colors. Remove any network config and
devices you had.
Once you had completed the restore, you could *try* to do a "sys c:" into the
VM....it might work. Then, once it booted, you owuld have to go through all the
usual "new hardware found" stuff.....
You *might* end up with a system very much like the one you already had been
running......without having to re-install everything.
But I haven't tried it.....and making it 'bottable" within the VM would be unknown
territory....though the VM seems to be true to the behaviour of a real PC......so I
think the chances of success would make it worth trying.
The only issue I would have is that each VM partition seems to be limited to 2GB
within an ext2 linux partition. Btu if you use a whole hard disk or empty partition
(available to linux) I think you can do what you like.
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Internet Anyone?
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 19:41:56 +1300
Edwin Johnson wrote:
> Is anyone using a cable internet access? We have available Road Runner which
> is contracted by Time Warner. It looks from their web site they are only
> supporting Win(ugg!) and Mac stuff. Thanks for any information on this.
>
> ...Edwin
I use cable. I have a static IP from my provider, so as far as Linux is
concerned, you;re just on a LAN....except tis LAN is the Internet.
If the IP is allocated some other way, then there are lots of FAQs around about
how to set this up. Linux can be a DHCP client no problem.
Next, you'll want to know how to share this connection. :-)
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Running Linux in RAM
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 19:48:06 +1300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a Linux machine in an industrial setting. The machine needs to
> be able to withstand any type of power interruption by rebooting itself
> without any user interaction.
>
> I checked out ReiserFS, but it seems that it still might require some
> intervention, and it's really not the right solution to my problem.
>
> I really want to run all of the kernel bits in RAM, and have the HDD
> mounted read only for all of the support software. The computer does
> not need to save any information permanently to the hard disk. It just
> needs to support multiuser mode.
Why boot from CD if you don't need a hard disk at all?
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From: John Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: public_html directory permissions
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:53:07 -0500
I am trying to set up apache to show user's html pages. Every time that
I try to go to localhost/~user I get a 403. I have set the permissions
of the directory and the fiels to 0755.
What else should I do to get it working.
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From: Hard@work (Burnt Rubber)
Crossposted-To: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
Subject: Re: Partitioning 20G disk for C:, D: and linux
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 06:51:31 GMT
Check out
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/lilo_dual.html
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From: Bill Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Eth0 bootup problem
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:53:51 -1000
Aloha kakou,
Upon trying to boot Red Hat, the process hangs at the
message "Bringing up interface Eth0". Can someone give me a hand here?
The card is a 3COM Etherlink XL (3C905B-TX). Windows 2000 sees no
problem with it. Please be patient, loving, and nurturing as I am
relatively new at Linux.
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mahalo
nui,
Bill
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Eth0 bootup problem
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 07:03:10 GMT
Bill Courtney wrote:
>
> Aloha kakou,
> Upon trying to boot Red Hat, the process hangs at the
> message "Bringing up interface Eth0". Can someone give me a hand here?
> The card is a 3COM Etherlink XL (3C905B-TX). Windows 2000 sees no
> problem with it. Please be patient, loving, and nurturing as I am
> relatively new at Linux.
Add this line to /etc/conf.modules or modules.conf depending which your
system uses.
alias eth0 3c59x
Then you need to configure the network. If you are running X you can
use "netcfg" without he quotes. Als0 configure /etc/hosts,
/etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny
Once that is done just just restart the network.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: public_html directory permissions
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:32:15 -0500
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, John Mitchell wrote:
>I am trying to set up apache to show user's html pages. Every time that
>I try to go to localhost/~user I get a 403. I have set the permissions
>of the directory and the fiels to 0755.
>What else should I do to get it working.
try localhost/~user/ With the trailing /.
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is minimum components to install for console based
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 20:52:01 +1300
Ralph A Freeman wrote:
> I need to setup a proxybox for my home/home-office LAN of up to 16
> (currently 7) windoze and Linux PC's.
>
> Hardware is a P-133, 32M RAM, 1G HD.
>
> I have been using Winproxy under win98, but I want the reliability of Linux.
>
> Should I use Linux from scratch, or a distro? I already have RH 6.2 and a
> recent ver. of Corel. I do not want a GUI, just a console (remote)
> interface. It would be nice to tuck this box in a closet somewhere.
>
> Squid would seem to be overkill. I have considered Tinyproxy. Security is
> a relatively minor issue, but I do want some sort of firewall.
>
> If anyone has setup up such a system, or could provide any input or
> guidance, it would be greatly appreciated.
I set up one of these on a P-166 with 64MB of RAM and a 1.2GB HD last year and
RedHat 6.1.
It had two NICs - one to my LAN hub with a 10.* addresssss and one to my cable
modem.
Many distros don't require you to install X windows.....but i did because it
makes life a lot easier than command-line and text editors......especially when
reconfiguring system options....
Once you have it configured, just put the rc.firewall into rc.local...and it
will start on boot-up...and you can't get a command prompt unless you interrupt
the boot and drop to single-user mode or boot from floppy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: PANIC! Cannot see anything after install! (RH6.2)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 08:30:43 GMT
The reason for my problem regarding the blank screen seems to be that
the wrong video mode was selected during RH6.2 setup. There are two
screens for this if you run a complete setup, the second one is for
resolution setup. But the second screen does not show up if you do an
upgrade and the monitor select erroneously says that my monitor can
handle vertical rates of 110 Hz....
I had to reinstall RH from scratch instead of upgrading to see both
screens. Then I manually edited the vertical sync radte for my monitor
to max out at 75Hz and selected 800x600 resolution on the following
screen. This also had a test button that actually displayed something
that I could click.
After this I no longer had these problems (but others popped up
instead....).
BTW: I now want to reset resolution to 1024x768 but there seems not to
be any function to do that. I have looked 'everywhere' in right click
menus and regular list of functions on all buttons I have seen but the
resolution thing is not shown. One would think that this could be
displayed in a properties or settings dialogue somewhere, but I have
yet to find it. It is not in the same place as in W95 at least.
Display properties on the right-click menu is very much like the W95
properties dialogue but lacks the resolution page.
Does anyone know where this is located or is this a one-time setting
during Linux installation?
/Bo
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 13:52:27 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
wrote:
>I am completely stumped by this:
>Installed RH6.2 on a PC that previously was running RH5.1, but with
>new disk, all other hardware the same. Video is a Trio S3 on teh
>motherboard.
>
>Used the graphic installation and specified KDE Workstation.
>
>After all was completed the system restarted and during that there was
>a brief show of a character based login. But before I was done typing
>in the login the screen disappeared completely into a black
>nothingness!
>Can't do anything here. Except I tried to login blindly by first
>typing root then TAB then the root password. This started some
>activity showing the system somehow is acting 'normally' except
>nothing is displayed!
>
>Tried to redo the installation as an 'Upgrade' (Why is there no
>'repair' option?) to preserve what I did before, but no good - still
>the black screen.
>
>Why does the screen disappear, there is a perfectly good graphics
>screen shown during the setup sequence???
>
>
>Bo Berglund
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From: Graham Wilson <graham01~[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Have a newbie question
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 00:48:51 -0800
Wil Hunting wrote:
<chomp>
> I have two systems which
> I will do my best to spec out below and am wondering what I can expect
> if I try to install one of these on one or both of these systems. Any
> opinions on which linux Distribution is best for a newbie would be
> greatfully appreciated as well. Thanks in advance from a newbie.
>
Go to the Linux Documentation Project and look at (download?) the
Hardware HOWTO. It's a little out of date, but then, so's your hardware
;). In the HOWTO, there are links to other sources of information on
hardware compatibility. The site is a goldmine of information; check
out the Installation HOWTO, also.
I can tell you that the winmodems are out, but you can probably get the
rest to work. Good luck. G.
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 16:01:01 +0800
From: gataway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA 100 problem with Linux RH 7.
So how do i know if i have patched Linux?
I have try to patch it by
downloading ide.2.2.16.20000630.patch to /usr/src/linux
then i type patch -p1 <ide.2.2.16.20000630.patch
But got this error halfway through " can't find file to patch at input line
565."
Does this mean i have problem with the patch file or did i type something
wrong?
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
> gataway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >I know i have saw this discussion before but the msg seems to be
> >erased.
> >
>
> Please visit http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml and search for
> ATA100 and Linux.
>
> >Anyone please let me know where is the link to download or help about
> >ATA 100
> >with RH 7.
>
> [...]
>
> You need to disconnect your drive from the ATA100 controller
> and plug it into the ATA33/66 IDE controller instead. The standard
> kernels don't support the Promise ATA100 chipset yet (which, by the
> way, is broken by design, as it doesn't allow for IRQ sharing at all).
> You may the patch the kernel with support for it after having
> installed Linux successfully (I wouldn't do it, though, as there's
> hardly any noticeable gain in using ATA100 at this time).
>
> Michael
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