Linux-Setup Digest #364, Volume #20 Sun, 7 Jan 01 03:13:07 EST
Contents:
need help formatting w/ Partition Magic 5 Linux->FAT32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Bash Command not found (Burnt Rubber)
Re: need help formatting w/ Partition Magic 5 Linux->FAT32 (Burnt Rubber)
Re: Installing SCSI HA, Tape & HDD after Mandrake 7 installation (Burnt Rubber)
Re: Problem with the Qt libraries ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Executables can't execute (Pat Minnis)
Huh? "fatal RPM error" when "reading from database" (Phil Edwards)
Re: Install doesn't load... Reboots. (Spank the Monkey)
Re: Mail Client (Phil Edwards)
Re: Bash Command not found (Pat Minnis)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 Install on Secondary IDE (Spank the Monkey)
Re: Install RH 6.2 over FTP ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
Re: Ramdisk error! ("Eric en Jolanda")
exec tcsh,need help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where exactly on disk does EZ-BIOS (et al) reside? ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: I tried 2.4.0 -> Re: Compiling Kernels on RH 7.0? (A Guy Called Tyketto)
Re: PPPD and new 2.4 kernel (A Guy Called Tyketto)
Dummy in Linux -- Linux version from web (Tearintea)
test (Tearintea)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: need help formatting w/ Partition Magic 5 Linux->FAT32
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:08:04 GMT
I had someone set up my computer for dual boot w/
Windows and Redhat on a partitioned hard drive.
I would like to format the Linux side and use it
for storage of Windows files. I have Partition
Magic 5. Is this program ok for what I want to
do? By the way, I had to reset my BIOS, and no
longer have a LILO prompt, and can only go into
Windows. I don't know much about this subject at
all. Here's a view of Partition magic on my
computer:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dal3q/part/partiti
on.htm
The hard drive is 8GB, and the guys that set it
up said I "have 1.5GB for Linux and 6.5GB for
Windows." Does anyone out there know how to do
format this partition so I can use it for
Windows? I'd be greatful for any help. Thanks.
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From: Hard@work (Burnt Rubber)
Subject: Re: Bash Command not found
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:31:39 GMT
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 18:55:12 -0500, "Roger Hawley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am running Redhat 7 when I try sndconfig, xconfigurator, or linuxconf I
>get Bash Command not found. I am extremely new to this OS.
>
>
Are U using root?
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From: Hard@work (Burnt Rubber)
Subject: Re: need help formatting w/ Partition Magic 5 Linux->FAT32
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:43:12 GMT
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:08:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>I had someone set up my computer for dual boot w/
>Windows and Redhat on a partitioned hard drive.
>I would like to format the Linux side and use it
>for storage of Windows files. I have Partition
>Magic 5. Is this program ok for what I want to
>do? By the way, I had to reset my BIOS, and no
>longer have a LILO prompt, and can only go into
>Windows. I don't know much about this subject at
>all. Here's a view of Partition magic on my
>computer:
>http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dal3q/part/partiti
>on.htm
>
>The hard drive is 8GB, and the guys that set it
>up said I "have 1.5GB for Linux and 6.5GB for
>Windows." Does anyone out there know how to do
>format this partition so I can use it for
>Windows? I'd be greatful for any help. Thanks.
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com
>http://www.deja.com/
I take it you don't want linux anymore?
If you want to create a large single partition (I'm going from memory
here - not used pm for a while) right click on "Extended" and select
delete. Then right click on "C:NO NAME" and select resize.
Don't forget to select "Do process" or whatever it says at bottom -
otherwize it won't get done.
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From: Hard@work (Burnt Rubber)
Subject: Re: Installing SCSI HA, Tape & HDD after Mandrake 7 installation
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:50:04 GMT
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:00:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cole) wrote:
>I've already installed Mandrake 7 and have used it for awhile with no
>trouble. I chose the default installation, no intervention, etc. I'm
>using IDE disks.
>
>This is probably really simple for the experienced folks here, but
>I've not been through this before: I want to install an Adaptec
>154X-series host adapter to control a Conner DAT drive and an old
>Seagate ST-series SCSI disk. I may want to add a couple more SCSI
>devices later.
>
>The adapter POSTs, and I can "see" the three new devices (terminated,
>etc.) when using a small "troubleshooting" utility from a DOS floppy,
>but my OS doesn't appear to know they are there.
>
>I'm neglecting to do something first, but what is it? Do I need to now
>add SCSI support to the kernel, or to load a module? I've never done
>this, so where would I find the info I need?
>
>TIA,
>
>Cole
Check this out
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Programming-HOWTO.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem with the Qt libraries
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:36:10 GMT
In article <_qN56.119041$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <936sng$s29$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Costas Gavardinas"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I run the configure script in order to install programs such as
> > kvirc,knapster, etc. and I get the following errors: "can't find the Qt
> > directory, can't find the Qt headers". Can anyone tell me if there is a
> > package missing (which???) or is there something that I must set or
> > install?? Thank you for your help.
> >
> > Costas Gavardinas
> >
> >
>
> Most distributions comes with separate packages, one containing the
> libraries and the other containing the development files. look for
> qt-devel or libqt-dev.
>
> - Dan White
Yeah, and also, make sure your libpath evironment variable has the QT libs in
the path. Also, make sure the program you are trying to compile was written
for your version of QT. Version 1.x is not compatable with version 2.x. Let
me know if you have any other probs. C Pungent
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From: Pat Minnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Executables can't execute
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:57:05 GMT
Background of problem:
Have nice PC with RedHat 6.0 upgraded manually to 7.0. Recently came by
a 486 with 120 Mb HD and 4M memory. Thought it would be a fun challenge
to install small linux on it.
Well. In the process, I made changes to the small linux diskette by
using my main computer. So, stupid me deleted all non-essential
programs from /mnt/floppy/sbin. /mnt/floppy/sbin was a symbolic link to
/sbin!!!
OK! So I had a main computer that wouldn't boot. The rescue diskette
would allow me in but not to boot the main installed root on the HD. So
got it to a prompt with init=/bin/bash...
I didn't feel confident that I could get all the programs back as they
were without a full 7.0 installation on another computer as a reference.
So I went to the RedHat 7 directory and force installed all rpm's except
the rpmdb and unused kernel variations. This worked fine and got me
back up and running with few problems. I would expect some problems
related to downgrading things upgraded with Update Agent.
Anyway, I tried to run Update Agent to get the system back up to speed.
It wouldn't run. So I went to /usr/sbin and tried to run up2date --
nothing. Tried ./up2date, bash up2date, and even bash ./up2date. In
all cases it tells me up2date: no such file or directory. Did ls -l
up2date -- it had -rwxr-xr-x.
I know that pam is used to authenticate the programs that are failing.
But I'm running them from the location of the actual program, not the
symlink. And, yes, I'm running as root.
What on earth have I done???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.rpm,comp.os.linux.redhat,redhat.general
Subject: Huh? "fatal RPM error" when "reading from database"
Date: 7 Jan 2001 01:56:08 -0500
[note crossposts and followups]
I'm running RH 7. Installing new rpm's, querying rpm's, etc, all work fine.
But trying to use the up2date program bombs with this text:
[~]# up2date
Retrieving list of all available packages...
Removing installed packages from list of updates...
100.0%
Removing packages marked to skip from list...
100.0%
Getting headers for available packages...
100.0%
Removing packages with files marked to skip from list...
There was a fatal RPM error. The message was:
error reading from database
[~]#
So after scouring the man pages, I tried "rpm -v --rebuilddb". It sat
for a while and then exited, never printing a thing. (So much for -v.)
Still got the same error from up2date.
What is it talking about and how can I fix it? I am not an rpm expert...
Much thanks for any tips,
Phil
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From: Hard@work (Spank the Monkey)
Subject: Re: Install doesn't load... Reboots.
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 07:02:26 GMT
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 04:02:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have a CD of both Red Hat Linux 6.1 and of Linux-Mandrake 6.1. I've
>tried installing both, but both do the same thing. After I boot to the
>CD and hit "return" at the "boot:" prompt, I get:
>
> Loading initrd.img......
> Loading vmlinuz.....
> Uncompressing Linux OK Booting Kernal
>
>Then I get half a screen of text that flashes to fast for me to read
>and my computer reboots.
>
>I've tried booting from both CD's, a DOS disk, and a Linux boot disk;
>it always does the same thing.
>
>Any help, greatly appreciated.
>
>Wes
>
>AMDK6-233
>160MB Ram
>6.2 GIG IDE
>IDE CDROM
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com
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See if it has left an install log
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards)
Subject: Re: Mail Client
Date: 7 Jan 2001 02:02:26 -0500
Paul Lemelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ Can anyone recommend a mail client for Linux to access an Exchange
+ server? I do not need all of the features of Outlook, I just need
+ something that I can access my email.
Exchanges servers can have a flag set which says "only allow Outlook
clients to connect."
If your Exchange admins have set that flag, you're screwed.
If they have not, then any POP3 client will work just fine.
Phil
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From: Pat Minnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bash Command not found
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 07:16:01 GMT
Burnt Rubber wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 18:55:12 -0500, "Roger Hawley"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I am running Redhat 7 when I try sndconfig, xconfigurator, or linuxconf I
> >get Bash Command not found. I am extremely new to this OS.
> >
> >
> Are U using root?
These programs are case sensitive.
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From: Hard@work (Spank the Monkey)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 Install on Secondary IDE
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 07:21:15 GMT
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:41:08 -0500, "MagicDust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am a first-time *nix user. I've never used anything other than DOS and
>Win32 on a system i own. (Just thought I'd start the post with that.)
>
>#1) I have two hard drives. One 30gb (c:\) with WinME and a formatted 5 gig
>drive as secondary. I am downloading Mandrake 7.2(iso) right now and i plan
>to install it on the 5gig and use a dual boot setup. I want to keep my C:
>drive entirely windows based and have nothing on it that has to do with the
>other linux drive. Will Mandrake 7.2 give me the option of booting to linux
>ONLY when i have a boot disk in? I want my machine to go to windows when
>there is no disk. I looked through some of the other posts but none of the
>questions were exactly what i was looking for.
>
>#2) if i were to install mandrake7.2 on a system that had only a single hard
>drive that was blank (nothing on the system) how would i go abut setting up
>my system to recognize my CD Drive? Would I simply use the same drivers as i
>would if i were installing windows?
>
>Thanks Everyone!
>
>
You should end up with the linux LILO boot loader which gives the
option of what to boot
Check out
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/tripleb.html
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.general,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Install RH 6.2 over FTP
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 08:21:21 +0100
Thank you. I tried this with the same result. Any other options?
Huub
Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, H.A.J. van Niekerk wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install RH 6.2 via FTP-floppie on a pc currently running
> > RH 5.2. The pc is i386, no CDROM, 8MB RAM, nic= NE2000 ISA clone.Nic is
> > ok, because when I boot RH 5.2 I can connect to and ping everything on
> > the network. When I boot from FTP-floppie, and choose FTP it says 'ne.o:
> > device or resource busy'. What is happening here and why?
>
> You probably have to specify the io address and/or irq. Start the
> installation in expert mode and you will get this possibilty.
>
> Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ramdisk error!
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 08:24:08 +0100
> Hehehe, you don't know what I'm talking about? I figured you knew linux
fairly
> well :)... there are really
> only a couple of spots where it fails to mount during install. Here's
what I
> mean...
A couple of spots, but a million of reason
> I have a 10 gig hard drive that I'm installing RH7 on. Right after
selecting
> the installation
> source (i.e. CDROM or Hard Drive -- I'm installing off ot the hard drive),
I
> point it to /dev/hda1
> which is where the source files are, give it the proper path, it mounts
the
> drive and then it
> attempts to mount the RAM disk after which it returns saying, "Error
loading
> RAMdisk"
> followed by, "/dev/hda1 doesn't appear to contain in installation tree" --
which
> is incorrect.
Appearantly not so incorrect, as it fails on this
Sounds to me like it cannot find a root FS.
> Since the FAT16 partition (hda1) is 2 gigs and the redhat install files on
FAT16
> are less than
> 650 megs, there's plenty of space on the drive for the mount, but I don't
> install RH often
> enough to remember the workaround.
>
> The option to disable the RAMdisk usage feature during install is what I'm
> looking for, but I
> can't remember the syntax or where it is entered -- it's something
..._Ramdisk=0
> or ...load_Ramdisk=0 or something. Any chance either of you know it or
I'd say fix the problem. I don't know if you even can disable this, but I
wouldn't try. In this RAM disk, the root FS is to be mounted. Disable it and
you will have a very nice non-working system.
What *is* on hda1? Is it what the installer expects to find? Is the
installation tree present? Or did you put the iso image on hda1 and point to
that?
I'd check that out, instead of trying to disable the RAMdisk.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: exec tcsh,need help
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 07:16:14 GMT
Hi,
RH6.2 Q:
Can i activate tcsh from user's .bash_profile by typing:
if (! $?tcsh && $?prompt && -x /usr/um/bin/tcsh ) then
exec /usr/um/bin/tcsh
This should act like user with bash typed "tcsh" at the prompt when
logged in. right?.
Not sure about the tcsh's location. I have to "which tcsh".
J
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where exactly on disk does EZ-BIOS (et al) reside?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 08:34:38 +0100
> Where do programs like EZ-BIOS and MaxBlast reside on a hard disk? Is it
in
> the master boot record, as part of the master boot code? Or, does it
reside
> in the volume boot code of the active partition?
>
> Anybody know of a site that describes how these programs work (I've
already
> visited Maxtor's customer support web site, which gives some superficial
> info .. I'm curious how these things really work, beyond the basics)
>
> In particular, I'd like to understand how I can make an old drive that
uses
> EZ-BIOS as a secondary drive in linux. Am I faced with having to backup,
> re-partition, re-format and restore the disk? Or, can I get away with
> something simpler, like just replacing the MBR? (wishful thinking)
>
So I take it that you cannot access the disc as it is?
Or have you not yet tried?
Eric
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From: A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I tried 2.4.0 -> Re: Compiling Kernels on RH 7.0?
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 07:56:08 GMT
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Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I've tried to compile the prerelease 2.4 kernel ... everything is
>>> fine but when the LILO boots up. it says that its uncompressing and
>>> booting kernel but hangs there. I had followed the readme very
>>> carefully but it proved to be not effective
> This might be a symptom of too big a kernel, it happened to me on the
> first build, it seems 2.4.0 is going to be about 150-200k bigger. With
> the same options that build a 2.2.18 bzImage of 647k, it bult an 860+k
> bzImage. I modularized a bunch of stuff and got it down into the 730k
> area, at which point it boots. Badly crippled though, so I'm back to
> 2.2.18 where I have a working ppp and such.
Did you check out linux/Documentation/Changes, for the problem
with ppp? you will needto upgrade ppp, as well as iptables/ipchains to
get this working correctly (iptables/ipchains if you're using some
firewalling rules). But for ppp, you must use at least 2.4.0b1. there is
a full 2.4.0 out, which works fine. I jumped from 2.2.17 to 2.4.0 with
no problems.
BL.
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Unix Systems Administrator, | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPPD and new 2.4 kernel
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 07:58:37 GMT
egeekial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running Slackware7.1. I recently upgrade my kernel to 2.4 and PPPD to
> 2.4. When I try to dial with PPPD, i get this:
> " Serial connection established.
> Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument "
> This only happens in 2.4 and not 2.2.16. Does anyone have any ideas?
RTFM. /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes.
you must upgrade to ppp-2.4.0 for use with kernel 2.4. also,
modify /etc/modules.conf, if you have compiled it as a module.
BL.
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Unix Systems Administrator, | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tearintea)
Date: 07 Jan 2001 08:03:25 GMT
Subject: Dummy in Linux -- Linux version from web
Hi there,
I want to download Mandrak Linux 7.2 and I found there are that many many files
in its RPMS folder. Do I need to right-click every file to download them?
(Sure, there are also lots of other folders outside RPMS folder.) It's a lot of
work. Is there an easier way? I feel like a dummy in Linux. Do most of you buy
CD or get CD for free so you do not need to download that way?
Many thanks,
Ken Fisher
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tearintea)
Date: 07 Jan 2001 08:09:13 GMT
Subject: test
teest
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