Linux-Setup Digest #355, Volume #20 Fri, 5 Jan 01 23:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: How to install patch? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Anyone used Partition Magic to increase size of Linux / Partition? (Erik de
Castro Lopo)
Re: LiLo messed up ("troost")
Re: Anyone used Partition Magic to increase size of Linux / Partition? ("Peter T.
Breuer")
Re: Setup problem with CD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem! ("Tom Lavier")
Linux & Windows installation ("Tarak Smaoui")
Re: Accessing Windoze Printer (H.Bruijn)
Re: Lin4Win Install (DTi4565459)
Re: User manager automatically installed??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: web based email ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Plea for help with booting. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Plea for help with booting. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help to install RH6.1 on old PC ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help to install RH6.1 on old PC (E J)
lynx with pics? (Michael V. Ferranti)
How do you make RedHat CD to install from ("Bill O'Brien")
Re: Terminal Emulator ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
syslog+kernel 2.4.0 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to install patch?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:04:06 GMT
Frank,
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366
Go to the above URL for the HOWTO briefing on what you're trying to
do. It also applies to the HPT370 controller. There's more to it than
just the patch. Good luck.
Jake
In article <91n5v2$8ci$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a ATA66 controller (HPT 366) build in my main board. To
use that
> controller in linux, I download a patch (if in Windows OS, it's called
> 'driver'). The name of the patch is
> ide.2.2.16.20000630.patch.bz2
> Since I am new to Linux, I just donot know how to install such
patch.
> could anyone teach me how to install it? I think the way install
this patch
> can also apply to install VGA card driver, sound driver, right?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Frank.
>
>
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Anyone used Partition Magic to increase size of Linux / Partition?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:28:07 GMT
Shane Baker wrote:
>
> Giddy
>
> I'm running out of space, my root partition is the last thing on the drive
> and I have heaps of unused space.
>
> I hear conflicting reports on PM and Linux.
>
> Anyone know for certain whether I can extend my root partition with PM 5.01
> without buggering everything up?
I don't know about Patition Magic but I have used GNU parted. Worked
just as advertised.
Erik
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"Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack
away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never
managed a software project." - Andy Tanenbaum in 1992 on comp.os.minix
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From: "troost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LiLo messed up
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:22:09 GMT
cherberos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
Tuj56.27207$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi, I've done someting stupid: I moved the startupfiles from LiLo to
another
> dir. when I was cleaning up my harddrive. When I started up, only two
> letters appear: LI_. Can't pass anything to the loader.
> Normaly, this wouldn't be such a problem, but in this case, it's a laptop,
> and it hasn't a diskdrive, and CDrom is not bootable.
> Anyone know some solution to bypass LiLo?
> TIA,
> Marcel
>
>
If its a laptop of yer company : ask for a drive
if not go to yer dealer and ask to lend you one fo couple of hours
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Anyone used Partition Magic to increase size of Linux / Partition?
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 00:12:46 +0100
In comp.os.linux.setup Shane Baker <sbakerATpcug.org.au> wrote:
> I'm running out of space, my root partition is the last thing on the drive
> and I have heaps of unused space.
> Anyone know for certain whether I can extend my root partition with PM 5.01
> without buggering everything up?
Don't. Partition properly. / /var /boot /usr /usr/local and /home
(also possibly /opt and /usr/share). Check out the Partition-HOWTO.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Setup problem with CD
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:30:52 GMT
In article <l1p56.89721$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"glenn anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a 486 running DOS/Windows 3.11 with a Sony CDU33A-1 CD (which
came
> with a Soundblaster) - everything works well (including the CD.
>
> Now I want to rplace DOS/Windows with Linux. But the Linux install
program
> does not list my CD (closest is Sony CDU31A), and autoprobe fails to
detect
> anything either.
>
> So, which driver from the install programs list should I try (I've
tried
> them all with autoprobe), and what are the manual settings I should
add (I
> know the address and Ive tried every IRQ).
>
> Or would it be much simpler to buy another CD drive? If so which kind?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> PS Im trying to load Mandrake 7.0 currently. I tried Red Hat about six
> months ago and gave up, since it also could not 'see' the CD.
Maybe this will laed you to your answer...
http://www.members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kerneldocs/cdrom/cdu31a
HTH
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From: "Tom Lavier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem!
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:10:44 -0500
Win2K and Redhat7 dual boot perfectly for me. I use LILO to boot Linux or
DOS (Win2K).
"Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:d0I46.8054$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > 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?
> >
>
> Use LILO ?
>
> put an entry in the lilo.conf, just like you would for any other windows
OS,
> and run `/sbin/lilo -v`
>
> Have fun,
>
> PS: you could ofcourse run `/sbin/lilo -u` to restore the NT loader, but
> that's far less fun.
>
> Eric
>
>
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From: "Tarak Smaoui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux & Windows installation
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 01:29:04 +0100
Hello everybody,
I want to install Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Linux on my PC . I need a
quite detailed recipe how to proceed.
Thanx in advance
Tarek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Accessing Windoze Printer
Date: 6 Jan 2001 00:50:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:34:34 -0500, Scott Stembaugh allegedly wrote:
>I would like to access my Windoze Printer (Canon BJC-250) from a Debian 2.2
>machine. How can I do this? Printer is connected to a Win98 machine which
>is also the gateway to the world. I am able to share the printer with other
>windoze boxes using NetBUEI (File/Print sharing only bound to NetBUEI).
>
>How do I do this? I don't mind RTFMing but I am not sure which FM to R.
You would need to use the SMB tools, specifically the smbspool IIRC.
apt-get install smbclient
man smbspool
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DTi4565459)
Date: 06 Jan 2001 01:08:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Lin4Win Install
Good question. I have been having
the same generic problems, esp
with a Win NT machine. I will
follow this thread in hopes of
helpful information, david
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: User manager automatically installed???
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 01:40:17 GMT
Linuxconf does the trick. If you are used to NT try getting your hands
on Reflection or Exceed, this will make the transition over to Linux
Easier. BTW those apps aren't freebies. I been trying to write some
stuff you can run off of your Windows Box, www.gui4linux.com, honestly,
I've abandoned the project.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Oliver T. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Running RH7, workstation install. Is there a GUI (or even text based)
> user manager system where I can change rights, add users, etc.?
Also, I
> of course have followed what I've read about not using root except for
> items that require it, but what group should I be in so as to have
> rights to most things, but not quite superuser rights? IOW, I don't
> want to have to su to root all the time to change every little thing,
> but I would also like a little protection from my constant fiddling
> blowing up my system.
>
> I have already learned about breaking X, and that was in my first week
> (got a message coming up about a mysterious murder, which made me
laugh
> until I really needed to get into X...).
>
> Thanx,
>
> OLIVER
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: web based email
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 01:47:34 GMT
I've been down your road, tried IMP using PHP4 on RH6.2, I got some
pretty good docs if you need help email me.
In article <UA146.1962$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mike Fissel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for info on web based email using redhat linux. Any info
would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Mike Fissel :{)>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Plea for help with booting.
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 02:19:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just watching the entire thread, under normal circumstances, the
booting
> from a Win98 boot disk, going to an a:\ prompt and using the command
> fdisk /mbr should have restored your master boot record and have
allowed
> you to reboot to Windows as if you nor Mandrake had never tampered
with
> the MBR.
>
> I just shit canned thirty five dollars worth of Mandrake 7.2 for what
> ever it may be worth, which for me is worthless.
>
> I found it to be about as amenable to allowing a user to take control
> and have a say so in the install process as Microsoft Windows. Even in
> Text mode, choosing the all install option to supposedly allow you to
> control all aspects of the install.
Ja. I dind't like the Mandrake installation procedure at all. It seems
that they're trying to make a Windoze lookalike in Linux, or something
like that.
The next Linux install I do will be Debian. :)
>
> I evaluated it in the beginning from the stand point of a first time
> user and found it to be okay, I guess for someone who wants a Linux
> installation without any fuss or bother that will come out of the can
> and
> plop down on the plate but past that point, I began to have problems.
PQ
> boot magic does not recognize it as a bootable entity for me, Once
> booted into mdk, one can change the boot sequence or reset the default
> boot and etc. by modifying the /etc/lilo.conf, but I had no luck
getting
> an older version of LILO, essentially same situation I had with PQ, to
> boot the mandrake when I set it from, say for example RH 6.1 or COL
2.3.
>
> If you have the same edition of MDK that I bought, practically
> everything on it is pre-release and will need to be upgraded from the
> Mandrake site to get the KDE 1.9something pre upgraded to 2.0 in
> addition to about four hours of other download on a 56K connection.
>
> I guess the thing that surprised me most is when I decided to install
RH
> 6.1 back over the partitions that mdk had set on the disk, RedHat told
> me I had no linux partitions on my machine, and I know damn good and
> well I didn't get it installed in Win as UMSDOS.
>
> Best wishes and good luck.
>
> Charles
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Recently I installed Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that previously ran
> > Win98 (and Slackware Linux 3.(x?),
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Plea for help with booting.
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 02:26:05 GMT
I chose Mandrake 7.2 over Red Hat 7.0 b/c it had a couple of programs I
wanted (like KDE 2.0). I now see that Red Hat would have been a better
choice. I can't really be bothered getting rid of it and replacing it
with RH, though, since what I really want is Debian (I just haven't
found anywhere I can get it except on the 'net yet). Still, now that the
installation is over, it's still fundamentally Linux, it just might take
a little more configuring to put it the way I want it rather than the
way the Mandrake people wanted it.
--lichen.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Zen Sorcerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree, Mandrake is totally useless. In Red Hat you have always been
given
> a CHOICE to boot from the MBR or a bootdisk during install. I don't
like
> Mandrakes install program because it tries to configure everything
> including your kitchen sink during install while at the same time
taking
> control away from the end-user. It confuses most first time
users...and is
> a waste of time, like WindowsNT...yikes. It takes half a day to
install
> WindowsNT and you still end up with drivers failing (like my Espson
printer
> driver), which works fine under Red Hat 7 but always fails under
WindowsNT
> even with the updated driver. In fact I didn't even have to install a
> driver in Red Hat 7, it just freakin' worked. And although some people
> gripe at Red Hat for every little thing they do, at least they put
together
> a distro that works and has a very simple and fast install process. I
also
> tried out Mandrake 7.2 but have now gone back to using trusty old Red
Hat
> which puts me in control and has never let me down. You would think
that
> Mandrake would have learned from M$ mistakes...I guess some people
never
> learn.
>
> Zen
>
> olgnuby wrote:
> >
> > I just shit canned thirty five dollars worth of Mandrake 7.2 for
what
> > ever it may be worth, which for me is worthless.
> >
> > I found it to be about as amenable to allowing a user to take
control
> > and have a say so in the install process as Microsoft Windows. Even
in
> > Text mode, choosing the all install option to supposedly allow you
to
> > control all aspects of the install.
> >
> > I evaluated it in the beginning from the stand point of a first time
> > user and found it to be okay, I guess for someone who wants a Linux
> > installation without any fuss or bother that will come out of the
can
> > and
> > plop down on the plate but past that point, I began to have
problems. PQ
> > boot magic does not recognize it as a bootable entity for me, Once
> > booted into mdk, one can change the boot sequence or reset the
default
> > boot and etc. by modifying the /etc/lilo.conf, but I had no luck
getting
> > an older version of LILO, essentially same situation I had with PQ,
to
> > boot the mandrake when I set it from, say for example RH 6.1 or COL
2.3.
> >
> > If you have the same edition of MDK that I bought, practically
> > everything on it is pre-release and will need to be upgraded from
the
> > Mandrake site to get the KDE 1.9something pre upgraded to 2.0 in
> > addition to about four hours of other download on a 56K connection.
> >
> > I guess the thing that surprised me most is when I decided to
install RH
> > 6.1 back over the partitions that mdk had set on the disk, RedHat
told
> > me I had no linux partitions on my machine, and I know damn good and
> > well I didn't get it installed in Win as UMSDOS.
> >
> > Best wishes and good luck.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Recently I installed Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that previously ran
> > > Win98 (and Slackware Linux 3.(x?),
>
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help to install RH6.1 on old PC
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 02:34:13 GMT
I got an old Gateway P5-90 server (Pentium 90 32MB 1.2GB) with 2x CDROM. I'd
like use it as a file server (RH6.1) for both PC and Mac. But I could not get
BIOS to boot from CDROM. Is there any other way I can install RH6.1on to it?
Please send your suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance.
Yijian
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help to install RH6.1 on old PC
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 02:48:30 GMT
Create a RH6.1 boot disk.
Boot in DOS or Windows,
d:
cd \dosutils
rawrite
..\images\boot.img
a:
After creating the RH6.1 boot disk, reboot with the RH6.1 boot floppy and
hopefully you can run with Redhat 6.1
CD.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I got an old Gateway P5-90 server (Pentium 90 32MB 1.2GB) with 2x CDROM. I'd
> like use it as a file server (RH6.1) for both PC and Mac. But I could not get
> BIOS to boot from CDROM. Is there any other way I can install RH6.1on to it?
> Please send your suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance.
> Yijian
>
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lynx with pics?
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 03:20:29 +0000
Any GNU lynx-like web browsers with picture/graphics support...besides
Nutscrape, that is. I want to look at the sourcecode.
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
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From: "Bill O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do you make RedHat CD to install from
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 20:53:12 -0600
Here is the question:
I downloaded RedHat 6.2 from a Red Hat mirror. I couldn't fit all the stuff
on CD, however, I did make the i386 containing all the RPMS and other
material. Made boot disk and got into the Red Hat install program. Then the
install program asked me where the system was to be installed from. I then
said, the CD Rom, (other choice I believe was hard drive, maybe NFS also,
but I don't think so). Anyway, the install disk said it couldn't find a Red
Hat CD in the CD Rom drive. There lies my problem. Probably need to have
proper directory structures. Also, CD made from Windoze machine and used ISO
9660 with Joliet extenstions. I know the CD's used to be with Rock Ridge
extenstions, however, you really can't find a program that supports those in
Windoze, at least I couldn't. Anyway, anyone have any suggestions on how to
make the CD Rom so it works?
Thanks, Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 03:50:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
jbrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Does anyone know how I may do the following?
> I currently us Hummingbird products to connect to a Unix platform.
Once
> there I run several gui based Oracle application and send the gui
output
> to a NT based pc.
>
> I want to now send the output to a Linux based pc.
> How can I do this?
1) On the linux PC: in X11 windows open an xterm window,
in the xterm type:
$ xhost + unixhostname
To allow the unix host to access linux X11 display
2) in the xterm window: telnet (or ssh) into the unix host
and start the oracle app.
The app. should display on the linux PC.
HTH
Bluster
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: syslog+kernel 2.4.0
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 05:03:24 +0100
Hi
I recently installed kernel 2.4.0 on my RedHat 7.0 system with all
available updates. Everything seemed fine until the initscripts came to
syslog.
Syslog just hangs for a minute or so before starting (from the 'Starting
syslogd' to '[ OK ]'). This is awfully long time (took about a second or
so on 2.2.18). If I start 2.2.18 it still goes fine - the problem is only
with 2.4 kernels (also with the 2.4.0-test* kernels I tried).
I tried recompiling the sysklogd package (although it was already
compiled against 2.4 headers), but it didn't help. I have tried upgrading
to 1.4 - didn't help either.
It starts ok - but I would like it to use less than half of the very long
boot-time...
Thx.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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