Linux-Setup Digest #373, Volume #20 Mon, 8 Jan 01 05:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Debian, no cd (Michael Perry)
Re: Any Gotcha's Putting RedHat on a ThinkPad??? (Michael Perry)
Kernel 2.4 on RH7 (Jeff Moore)
Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem ("Terry Moore-Read")
Re: Debian, no cd ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Need Ethernet Help (Michael Mueller)
Re: Dual boot problem?? (Eric)
Re: W2K and Redhat 7.0 (Eric)
Re: GRUB Boot Order (Eric)
Re: How to recover partition (Eric)
Re: Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules? (Villy Kruse)
Re: fully qualified domainname ? (Villy Kruse)
ATI RADEON DOES *NOT* WORK WITH LINUX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel 2.4 on RH7 (NDQ)
New troubles with proftpd ("Billy")
Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem (Donald Becker)
Re: GRUB Boot Order (Manni Heumann)
fdisk/mkdosfs problems w new/big disks (Erik H.)
Re: Install RH 6.2 over FTP (Scott)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Debian, no cd
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 21:41:50 -0800
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 00:21:21 GMT, Cathy Gramze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just did my first Debian installation, followed by upgrading to XFree86
>4.0.2. Mostly works fine. However, I cannot access either my IDE atapi cdrom
>nor my SCSI cd burner. I tried to add them to fstab,
>and of course all I got for my efforts were "bad line" messages.
>The system honestly can't seem to find the cdrom,
>even to play a music cd.!
>It's a very generic 2 or 3 year old 40x, so it shouldn't
>require any special driver the Atapi ought to do it.
>
>And more: sound works as root, not as user. SBLive,
>using soundcore and EMU10K1. Lsmod shows the module as installed,
>but nothing using it. Debian doesn't seem to have sndconfig...
>
>No dream of printing. How do I set up printing in Debian???
>
>cathyy
Just a few questions... What is the makeup of hard disk drives in your
system? Could you print out the fstab file you have and copy it into a
followup post? How do you attempt to mount the cdrom? When you boot the
system, does the cdrom show up when the scsi bios executes? What kind of
scsi card? Did you install the modules when you installed for the scsi
card? Watch the boot sequence of debian and see if it finds a scsi card
detected. Also do an lsmod as root and see what shows up. I anticipate you
are using the default kernel that you got by installation?
As far as sound goes... I use the commercial OSS drivers because I'm a wimp
I guess. I install them, they work.
Printing is actually easy in debian. The best combination I have found is
magicfilter and lprng. Simply do an "apt-get install lprng magicfilter" and
answer a few questions about where your printer is located. If you get it
wrong, debian has a script you can run afterwards called magicfilterconfig.
Run it as the root user. If it complains about a printcap already being
there, simply move the printcap or add the "-force" switch on the end.
I think Debian must have a script for almost everything :) The sendmail and
exim scripts are particularly nice.
You can get scsi support pretty easily by recompiling a kernel and compiling
in support for your scsi adaptor if you did not include it when you
installed the system from floppy diskettes. I have very good luck with the
2.2.18 kernel.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Any Gotcha's Putting RedHat on a ThinkPad???
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 21:43:58 -0800
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:32:18 -0500, Andrew Carlisle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am going to put RedHat on my ThinkPad. Are there any known gotcha's? It
>has an Intel Celeron processor in it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Andy
>
>
You could check out the linux on laptops page and see if others have
reported gotchas.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Kernel 2.4 on RH7
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:17:17 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have not gotten the kernel to compile with RH7.
If I am going to download a kernel, I want the 2.4 version.
I assume I will also need a new compiler and libraries.
Which compiler and libraries should I get?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Jeff Moore
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From: "Terry Moore-Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:29:00 -0800
is it one of the new linksys cards that needs the new tulip driver ? mine
didn't work until I upgraded to 2.4.0 today.
"Bit Twister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 16:40:13 -0800, Stacy Slocum
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have just installed Redhat 7.0 and it will not recognize my Linksys
> >Ethernet card. lspci -v shows that it is there but I can't get insmod
> >to load tulip.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian, no cd
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 07:55:06 GMT
Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 00:21:21 GMT, Cathy Gramze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>It's a very generic 2 or 3 year old 40x, so it shouldn't
>>require any special driver the Atapi ought to do it.
Did you force the driver? hdb=cdrom is usual in cases where probes don't
locate it. What are your bootup messages concerning th edevice?
>>And more: sound works as root, not as user. SBLive,
That's just permissions. Make your user a member of the right group.
> Just a few questions... What is the makeup of hard disk drives in your
> system? Could you print out the fstab file you have and copy it into a
I.e., print the messages.
> followup post? How do you attempt to mount the cdrom? When you boot the
> system, does the cdrom show up when the scsi bios executes? What kind of
It's scsi? I thought she said it was ATAPI?
> scsi card? Did you install the modules when you installed for the scsi
> card? Watch the boot sequence of debian and see if it finds a scsi card
Correct. No controller, no controlleds.
> Printing is actually easy in debian. The best combination I have found is
> magicfilter and lprng. Simply do an "apt-get install lprng magicfilter" and
Err, I use lpd. I can't understand how one is supposed to configure
lprng, since it has a config file a mile long, full of incomprehensible
options. What's it for? lpd has worked perfectly for me for umpteen
years!
Peter
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From: Michael Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Need Ethernet Help
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:36:35 +0100
Hi Ali,
you wrote:
> eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 20 af 35 54 6f, IRQ
[...]
> Board assembly 668081-004, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Additionally to the general cabling problems already mentioned by others
have a look at above messages. You wont get the cards working together
if one of them (the 3COM) does use the BNC port (looks like the
connector for an antenna) while the other one uses the RJ45 port (looks
like an american phone connector).
You may have to modify the settings of the 3COM card using the DOS
utiltiy (3c5x9cfg) to use the RJ45 port (could be called "TP" there)
too.
Malware
Fup2 comp.os.linux.networking
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot problem??
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:56:24 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have LM 7.2 installed along with Win95. My windows does not recognize
> Linux partition and is reporting the C drive size wrong ( probably C: + hda7
> of linux?). Still everything was fine until something happened. I am not
> sure if it was due to the Defrag I ran on C drive.
>
> But when I started Linux it said /dev/hda7 not clean and forced a check.
> Check ran for a long time with report of wrong inode, size errors on Blocks
> etc.. etc. and finally Dropping me to shell. I ran 'e2fsck -b 8193 /hda7'
> and finally hda7 came clean.
>
> But now now when I start Linux it hangs while booting while stating
> "/etc/rc.d/xyz.. and /usr/xyz.. not a valid file....". Booting in safemode
> hangs stating "INIT: Id 'x' respawing too quickly, holding(?) for 5
> minutes".
>
> So in essence I am not able to get into the system at all. While
> reinstalling is not a big problem as I dont have any data in the system, I
> want to know why it happened and avoid it happenning again.
>
My guess: bad partition table.
Check it by booting from a linux boot/root floppy combination and run
`fdisk -l /dev/hda`
Post the output here.
Be carefull with any of the next steps you wish to take (like
reinstalling).
I've seen reports on the mandrake repartitiong tool that messed up
partition tables.
If you have used it, make sure to check the partitiontable before you
proceed.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: W2K and Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:57:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
>
> I've just purchased a new Dell 5000e and would like to have a dual boot
> system with Linux and WIndows2000. I've been running with Windows2000
> (suprising hapily) and have a partition for linux (redhat 7.0) ready to go.
> Where are the best instructions for installing a dual boot system with
> Windows2000 and linux?
>
The HOWTO's.
Search the web for linux+NT+loader+howto
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GRUB Boot Order
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:36:03 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> RTFM on http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html#faq
good advise
> 9. How to boot Windows (or DOS) from a non-first disk?
>
> Use the command map, to exchange BIOS drives virtually, like this:
>
> grub> map (hd0) (hd1)
> grub> map (hd1) (hd0)
Not sure if this is what the OP meant.
This appears to be equal to the "map-drive=;to=" that lilo uses
in LILO you'd want the "default=" option, I would expect GRUB to have an
equally obvious option.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to recover partition
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:40:55 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> A few days ago, I installed some new RAM. And suddenly I got a lot of
> segfaults and at last a kernel oops in kreiserfsd...
>
> When I rebooted, the kernel reported 'Unknown partition table'...
>
> Now I luckily had a backup of the most important data - but there is still
> stuff on the partition, which I wuld like to recover...
>
> The disk was filled with only that single partition, which was formatted
> with reiserfs.
>
> Is there any way to recover the partition table (I know this means making
> a new) and recover the old partition data?
>
> With normal ext2, I coul make the partition again and recover the old one
> from the backup-superblock - can anything like that be done with reiserfs?
>
> Thx in advance from a panicky user.
Remake the partition.
It will not destroy the FS inside the partition regardless of the type
of FS
You must however recreate the partition exactly as it was, or else the
FS will be destroyed.
But you have witten that info onto a piece of paper when you created the
original table, right?
Once you have recreated the partition table, you can try to boot again.
If you're lucky, the FS is still intact. If not, I cannot help you. I
don't know ReiserFS very well.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules?
Date: 8 Jan 2001 08:46:26 GMT
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:44:26 -0800, Graham Wilson <graham01~[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Andrew Carlisle wrote:
>>
>> When RedHat installs itself, does it recompile the kernel based on what it
>> detects for hardware in your system? Or, does it simply have a prebuild
>> kernel and just add the modules appropriate for your system? Does it leave
>> a log as to what it detected and such?
>
> Debian puts the kernel configuration file that make uses to build the
>kernel in the boot directory (/boot/config-2.2.18pre21 on my system).
>Maybe RH does something similar. G.
/usr/src/linux/configs/??? -- One config file for each of the shipped
pre-compiled kernel.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: fully qualified domainname ?
Date: 8 Jan 2001 08:49:25 GMT
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:17:43 GMT, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>James wrote:
>>
>> I'm using a rh7 machine which is temporarily connected to the internet and
>> I'm planning to set up a small LAN at my home, but I have no idea what to
>> take as my fully qualified domainname/hostname? Does anybody have an idea ?
>>
>> Thanks, James
>
>
>anything.youwant.com
>
>Check to see that whatever you choose isn't already registered.
>
>dig anything.youwant.com any
>
Better still. Don't use any .com name which you haven't registered,
to avoid conflicts with future registered names.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati
Subject: ATI RADEON DOES *NOT* WORK WITH LINUX
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:01:04 GMT
Please take note that ATI Radeon still doesn't work with the Linux OS. I
have tried the latest XFree86 and it still goes south after the install.
I am using Mandrake 7.2.
Interestingly, Mandrake's install doesn't ask about the video card. It
just silently sets it to something which works fine except for the
horrible flicker. Any attempt to, then, fix that is a recipe for a
crash. If you absolutely have to run Linux on a machine with Radeon
plugged in, my suggestion: just put up with the flicker. Atleast it
works and you can run your programs, etc.
Regards,
Mark.
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 on RH7
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 10:18:10 +0100
Reply-To: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jeff Moore wrote:
>
> I have not gotten the kernel to compile with RH7.
>
> If I am going to download a kernel, I want the 2.4 version.
>
> I assume I will also need a new compiler and libraries.
>
> Which compiler and libraries should I get?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jeff Moore
I just compiled 2.4 on RH7. Update firstly your packages (see
Documentation/Changes).
Use "kgcc" instead of "gcc" (see redhat.com).
HTH,
--
NGUYEN-DAI Quy
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From: "Billy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New troubles with proftpd
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:18:43 -0000
Hi,
I posted a similar message a few days back but didn't get a solution.
Slightly different problem this time.
I have Proftpd 1.2 running on RedHat 6.2 and am just using the default setup
from the proftpd.conf
When I try and ftp to the server I get the following log:
Connecting to server
compiled in modules
mod_core.c
mod_auth.c
mod_xfer.c
mod_site.c
mod_ls.c
mod_unixpw.c
mod_log.c
mod_pam.c
mod_ratio.c
mod_linuxprivs.c
mod_readme.c
mod_quota.c
The connection then fails, and attempts to connect again but with the same
result.
Can anyone tell me why this is failing or tell me where to find out.
Much thanks
Billy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Becker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:20:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stacy Slocum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just installed Redhat 7.0 and it will not recognize my Linksys
>Ethernet card. lspci -v shows that it is there but I can't get insmod
>to load tulip.
You'll need the updated tulip driver from
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
There is a pre-compiled x86 uniprocessor RPM for Red Hat 7.0
rpm -i ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/test/netdriver-2.1-2.i386.rpm
--
Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf Clusters / Linux Installations
Annapolis MD 21403
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Re: GRUB Boot Order
Date: 8 Jan 2001 09:46:51 GMT
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08 Jan 2001:
>> RTFM on http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html#faq
>
>good advise
>
>> 9. How to boot Windows (or DOS) from a non-first disk?
>>
>> Use the command map, to exchange BIOS drives virtually,
>> like this:
>>
>> grub> map (hd0) (hd1)
>> grub> map (hd1) (hd0)
>
>Not sure if this is what the OP meant.
>This appears to be equal to the "map-drive=;to=" that lilo
>uses
>
>in LILO you'd want the "default=" option, I would expect GRUB
>to have an equally obvious option.
>
>Eric
>
Exactly. I don't remember the exact name now. But it's obvious.
It can be found in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Manni
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From: Erik H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fdisk/mkdosfs problems w new/big disks
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:23:12 GMT
keywords: linux, fdisk, mkdosfs, new disks, big disks, vfat, fat16
Hello!
I installed two new disks (>38 GB) the last few
weeks and had some funny problems:
1. fdisk doesn't report the size of the disks correctly
(the disk is configured in the BIOS using LBA)
When I configure the whole disk (like reported by fdisk)
into partitions the total size is much to small.
Workaround: I Use Win95 to create a primary FAT16 partition
and afterwards I use Linux to create the next two. (Now
the C/H/S numbers are different (like described in the man page)
but they still usable to partition the whole disk).
Afterwards I use Win95 to configure an extended partition
and logical volumes for the rest of the disks.
2. I format hda1/hda2/hda3 (FAT16) using mkdosfs and afterwards
I mount those partitions and try to copy data from an old
FAT16/vfat partition to the mkdosfs formatted ones. This
doesn't work because everything is converted to lower case and
long filenames are cut.
Interesting fact:
when mounting without options the partitions created
with mkdosfs are mounted as umsdos, not vfat.
The FAT16 partition created with Win95 format is mounted as
vfat when I'm mounting it without options.
Workaround: See 1. I'm formatting the disks using the Win95 format
utility and not mkdosfs.
3. When using mkdosfs on a partition that was formatted (with mkdosfs)
before the old files are not deleted and mounting that partition
again the old stuff is still there.
Workaround: I used dd to overwrite the partition with a still unused
one.
Are those known and common problems.
I'm using an Linux distribution that is one year old know (Suse 6.3).
Thanx for any help/advice,
Erik.
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From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.general,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Install RH 6.2 over FTP
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:27:41 GMT
are you sure you have the correct format for the IO setting.
IO=0x0360
try a whole bunch of differnt IO addresses, during install you can
check some debug by using CTRL-ALT F1,F2,F3 etc.
Regards
Scott Farrell
www.icconsulting.com.au
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In article <8k066.133383$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jan Geertsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Douglas M. Pervine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have found that the 'NE-2000' compatible cards are very old and
don't
> have a
> > MAC assigned to them.. They mostly work on the broadcast
method.. Look
> for
> > a good 3COM card.. I've been using various 3COM cards for years
and love
> them
> > a lot.. Never a problem with Linux.. I started with RH5.2 and
now
> running
> > RH6.2. Good Luck!
>
> Well, or buy a new cheap ne2000 compatible clone, I've used both lots
of
> 3com and ne2k's and both need a little love and affection to get them
to
> work. but 3com's aren't available for $20 or less. Never seen a mac-
less
> ne2000,
> Jan
>
>
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