Linux-Setup Digest #333, Volume #20 Wed, 3 Jan 01 08:13:04 EST
Contents:
Newbie on updating patch file on RH7 (gataway)
Re: Partitioning 20G disk for C:, D: and linux (Andy Collinson)
Re: Using more than one monitor (Roberto Inzerillo)
Re: Can I dual boot Red Hat Linux 6.2 and Windows 2000? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SBLive: No such device (Graham Wilson)
4 partitions for dualboot (HP Staber)
RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem! (Doug)
Re: 4 partitions for dualboot (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: StarOffice 5.2 & JRE 1.3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kk ("Si")
Re: problem with partitions (Steve Withers)
Step-by step to install Linux RH7 and Win98. (gataway)
Re: Mount FAT32 vol in read/write for non-root users? ("Lloyd Llewellyn")
Re: Have a newbie question (David Punsalan)
Re: Step-by step to install Linux RH7 and Win98. (Robert Kiesling)
Re: RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem! ("Polux")
Re: Partitioning 20G disk for C:, D: and linux ("Trebor")
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 16:09:40 +0800
From: gataway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie on updating patch file on RH7
I'm a newbie on Linux so what exactly are the step for me to update the
ATA 100 patch to linux RH7? Where do i place the patch file and patch to
where?
After patching is that all to make Linux support ATA 100 PCI card?
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From: Andy Collinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
Subject: Re: Partitioning 20G disk for C:, D: and linux
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:15:36 +0000
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.
> After partitioning, I booted a Win95 boot diskette to COMMAND LINE and used
> Win95's command line 'format' command. C: formated fine, including transfer
> of system files. But when I format D: it aborts after about 90% of the way
> through, complaining of a bad partition table.
>
> Also, I tried aefdisk to do the formatting (not the partitioning) using the
> '/formatfat' option. It bombed out as well.
>
> I kept the C: and D: sizes at 7.6G to insure that I kept well below the 8G
> limit. I had attempted 8G drives previously, but wasn't sure whether
> '+8000M' in linux fdisk meant something greater than 8G (eg, 8000M =
> 8000*1024*1024 > 8,000,000,000), so after a few attempts I played it safe by
> specifying '+7600M' in linux fdisk. I always deleted ALL partitions between
> attempts, but could something have been left over???
>
> .. LATER ...
>
> OK .. I found something that worked. I booted to the Win95 GUI, then opened
> an MSDOS command window and ran the format of D: from there. It worked under
> Win95 GUI, but not under Win95 booted to MSDOS mode via boot diskette.
>
> Any comments/insights on what I was trying to do are appreciated.
>
> => Bonus question! If I want FAT32 drives for C: and D:, should I select
> partition type '0Ch'? That is defined as "Windows 95 with 32-bit FAT (using
> LBA-mode INT 13 extensions)" NOTE: My AMI BIOS is dated 7/15/95, and
> 'supports' LBA (at least, it _mentions_ LBA in the BIOS setup screen, so I
> assume it can do LBA translation).
First thing that is wrong is that Windows ALWAYS wants your first partition!!
You
may end up wiping and using fdisk all over again. Your first partition, should
be type c (hex) that will give you FAT32 access for windows and DOS. Make sure
you make it primary and set it as active if you want to boot from it. You can
then use linux fips to create your other partitions. As you are using an older
BIOS you can only make partitions of up to 8.4G, also remember that you have a
limit of 4 primary partitions, so if you need more, make an extended partition
and then divide that up to meet your needs. I dont use Red Hat , I use SuSe
Linux 7 but if you are dual booting using Lilo then this needs to boot a
partition that is below the 1024th cylinder. However there is now a new version
of Lilo on the SuSe site (and possibly Red Hat site) that does not have the
1024th cylinder limit.
I would start again using 4 linux partitions of / , /boot, /swap and /home
Also check out NG alt.os.linux
Andy
http://www.mitedu.freeserve.co.uk
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From: Roberto Inzerillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using more than one monitor
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:05:15 GMT
Hi Stanley,
> Hi, I am looking for steps to set up Linux supporting more than one
> monitor(2 at the moment), either CLI/CLI, CLI/X or X/X.
I'm trying it too. The only documents I've found are the framebuffer-
howto and the Xinerama-howto, respectively about consolle and X
handling. The first deals with the framebuffered-console settings but
is somewhat incomplete and does not informs about the way to operate
with two text-mode virtual console. The second one explains how to
setup a dualhead X system.
I'm not interested, by now, in dual X systems, but just in dual (better
said: multi) monitor text virtual console support.
I please you to let me know some other document resource or simply
contact me in case you find some way to set it up.
bye,
Roberto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can I dual boot Red Hat Linux 6.2 and Windows 2000?
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:14:43 GMT
Hi,
your can find another type document in /usr/doc.
isignal.heha.net
In article <914sic$203$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ZRajBun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Where is that HOWTO?...
>
> Regards
>
> zrb
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Cerebrum wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello!
> > > I want to ask about the linux setup question.
> > > My computer is now running Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS),
> > > can I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 to my computer and dual boot with
> > > Windows 2000 Professional?
> > > Since my Windows 2000 is NTFS, not FAT32, so can I dual boot
> > > by the LILO?
> >
> > Yes you can, there's a (mini?)HOWTO on this subject.
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Graham Wilson <graham01~[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SBLive: No such device
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 01:27:43 -0800
I was delighted when the ALSA emu10k1 driver compiled just like it was
supposed to, especially since the previous day I had upgraded my kernel
to 2.2.18pre21 without incident (don't you love dselect?).
Now I'm sad because the little test program `play' doesn't make any
noise, but tells me "open: No such device". I know it's looking for
/dev/dsp, and I know why it can't find it - 'cause I've looked, too.
My guess is that my precompiled kernel does not satisfy one (or more)
of the requirements detailed in the README file. Does anyone know if
Debian binary kernels are compiled with the following options set:
CONFIG_MODULES = y (loadable modules support - yes!)
CONFIG_SOUND = y/m (soundcard support)
CONFIG_SOUND_* = n (no integrated soundcard drivers)
I'm guessing that the kernel thinks sound is already loaded so kmod
does not request the emu10k1 module and hence the rest doesn't happen.
Needless to say, I want to check before I try to compile a new kernel
from source.
I did switch off PnP support in the bios and it does not seem to affect
the other os (which kind of surprised me).
Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. G.
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From: HP Staber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 4 partitions for dualboot
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:34:47 +0100
I've created four partitions on my 30Gig drive for dualboot purposes:
C: 1 Gig FAT32 primary for WinME
E: 1 Gig FAT16 primary for DOS
F: 13 Gig FAT32 primary for Win and Linux later
I want to split this partition during installation of MDK 7.2
D: 15 Gig FAT32 extended for Win Software, data and backup
Question : will a split of F: into a Win and a Linux part create
problems since the MBR is only able to handle 4 primary partitions ?
HP Staber/Salzburg
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug)
Subject: RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem!
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:39:42 GMT
Hi!
With my previous installation of RH6.2 + Win2K, I was able to dual-boot via
Windows 2000 boot loader. However, loading RH7.0, it overwrote the MBR and I
can no longer access the Win2K partition.
I can't seem to find the place during the RH7.0 install where I can specify
where LILO is placed (either in the MBR or within one of the partitions)...
I know I use to be able to specify this in the previous RH versions.
How do I get both to cooperate?
Thanks
-Doug
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 partitions for dualboot
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 21:02:02 +1100
HP Staber wrote:
> Question : will a split of F: into a Win and a Linux part create
> problems since the MBR is only able to handle 4 primary partitions ?
>
> HP Staber/Salzburg
Hi winter dweller, from boiling summer!
Had the same problem, and after few re-installs, arrived at this
solution:
1 cylinder partition (primary) /boot type 83 (on my disk it is 8Mb)
primary partition fat32 for windows (1.5G as programms are installed on
drive D:)
extended partition for Linux type 85 and in it /(root), swap /usr /home
/opt (all logical partitions)
extended partition for Windows drives D: and E:
Till now no complains from both OS's.
HTH
Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.2 & JRE 1.3
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:55:45 GMT
aflinsch wrote:
>
> "J.W. Sargent" wrote:
> >
> > Good afternoon and Happy New Year. I recently installed StarOffice 5.2 that
> > came on a Storm 2000 disk. After that I downloaded JRE 1.3 (tar ball) from
> > Sun's site and following their instructions set it up in /usr/local. When I
> > go to the Java bookmark in 5.2 as a user and point the Java set-up to
> > /usr/local/jre1.3 I get a msg that there is no java runtime enviroment. I
> > think this is so to some configuration issue that I'm not aware of. Any
> > assistance that anyone may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
> >
>
> (cant respond to original followup, does not exist on this server,
> hope you find it anyway)
>
> check your ~/Office52/user/config/javarc file
> edit out the offending version in the exclude line
You have to use a different version of java. I don't think that the jre
will work. go to www.sun.com and log onto their Star Office newsgroups.
You'll find your answer there.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: "Si" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kk
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:19:58 -0000
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with partitions
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:16:51 +1300
Sean wrote:
> Hi, I am having problems with Redhat 6.1 and setting up
> some additional partitions using cfdisk. The space is there and
> the partition can be allocated but I cannot get it to the correct type
> "ext2"??? I simply get the error unable to set type to extended? Does
> anyone have an Idea how I can correct this??
>
> thanks
>
> ron
When you create the partition, you would call it Linux native......whereas
ext2 is the *format* of the partition internally. Like vfat is the format
of a Windows partition. or HPFS is the (best) format for an OS/2
partition.....or NTFS for an NT partition.....and so on.
You would format the partition as ext2 after you had re-booted following
the creation of the partitions. The install of Linux will usually do this.
RedHat does.....Slackware, Corel, Caldera, SuSe, .....every version I have
ever tried.
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered LINUX user # 24688
http://counter.li.org/
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 18:26:03 +0800
From: gataway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Step-by step to install Linux RH7 and Win98.
I'm going to setup a new system with two ATA 100 harddisk, one for win
98 the other for Linux RH7.I'm planning to have BootMAgic and Partition
Magic install .
So which OS do i install first? And what partition is needed for noth
win98SE and Linux? Can i have and exmaple of how much space for each
partition? I will
Install most of the application and games on win98SE ,as for linux i am
a newbie still
need to explore more about it.Kindly give me a senerio on what to do.
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From: "Lloyd Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mount FAT32 vol in read/write for non-root users?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:33:38 GMT
> /dev/hda1 /windows vfat user,exec,conv=binary,rw,umask=000 0 0
That did it, thanks!
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Have a newbie question
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 05:40:41 -0600
Hello,
> I can tell you that the winmodems are out, but you can probably get the
> rest to work. Good luck. G.
>
The "winmodems" are not *necessarily* out. Several "winmodem" modules
are available at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. I got my Zoom
modem (pctel) 56kbps working just fine on my RH6.1 box. Usually connects
at ~46 kbps.
Regards,
David
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Step-by step to install Linux RH7 and Win98.
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:48:58 GMT
gataway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm going to setup a new system with two ATA 100 harddisk, one for win
> 98 the other for Linux RH7.I'm planning to have BootMAgic and Partition
> Magic install .
> So which OS do i install first? And what partition is needed for noth
> win98SE and Linux? Can i have and exmaple of how much space for each
> partition? I will
> Install most of the application and games on win98SE ,as for linux i am
> a newbie still
> need to explore more about it.Kindly give me a senerio on what to do.
Refer to the HOWTO's at http://www.linuxdoc.org/. They provide basic
material that describes all permutations of MS and Linux dual-boot
computers.
--
Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Page : http://www.mainmatter.com/kiesling
Linux FAQ:
http://www.mainmatter.com/linux-faq/toc.html http://www.mainmatter.com/
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From: "Polux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem!
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:20:47 +0100
hello
there's maybe a solution to recover your MBR :
boot your computer with the W2K setup disk and start the Recovery Console.
at prompt try the command "fixmbr" like :
fixmbr [device_name] where device_name represents the drive on wich you want
to write the MBR (can be obtained by launching the command "map") :
example the hdd0 : fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0
note : if you only have one drive, you can forget the "device-name" and just
launch the command "fixmbr"
ps : don't forget to create a boot disk for RH7.0 otherwise you will lose in
that case the access of this partition
ps�: another way to recover your W2K partition is to re-install it ... hmmmm
... bad things ...
"Doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:yrC46.32267$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi!
> With my previous installation of RH6.2 + Win2K, I was able to dual-boot
via
> Windows 2000 boot loader. However, loading RH7.0, it overwrote the MBR
and I
> can no longer access the Win2K partition.
>
> I can't seem to find the place during the RH7.0 install where I can
specify
> where LILO is placed (either in the MBR or within one of the
partitions)...
> I know I use to be able to specify this in the previous RH versions.
>
> How do I get both to cooperate?
>
> Thanks
> -Doug
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Trebor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
Subject: Re: Partitioning 20G disk for C:, D: and linux
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 13:01:51 GMT
Markus,
Thanks for the clarification. By following your suggestions I was able to
fix the remaining issues (you see, even though I had claimed 'all was OK' ..
it later turned out that I still had various problems .. for example, W95
was seeing a 3rd 7.6GB drive on E: that really shouldn't have existed at
all - I had C:, D: and E: all claiming to be 7.6GB, but the drive itself is
only 20GB!)
Following your advice, I repartitioned with only two primary partitions (one
for linux /, the other for W95 C:), and then put *everything* else in a
large LBA VFAT Extended partition (type 0Fh), then all was truly OK.
Thanks for the tip!
-Bob
Andover, MA
"Markus Kossmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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
>
> --
> Markus Kossmann
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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