Linux-Setup Digest #377, Volume #20 Mon, 8 Jan 01 18:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: ATI RADEON DOES *NOT* WORK WITH LINUX (Linus Torvalds)
Booting SparcStation2 with cdrom (Jon)
Re: Acknowledgement please? (David)
Booting new kernel (2.4) question (Neil Watson)
Re: Install RH 6.2 over FTP ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
Re: help with compiling kernel 2.4 ("ne...")
script to bypass login? ("Bill James")
Re: How can I find which options are compiled into my kernel? (H.Bruijn)
Re: script to bypass login? (H.Bruijn)
Re: Acknowledgement please? (Dave Barnett)
newbie: install ("L4")
lilo for secondary IDE ("Hung P. Tran")
booting stops at the "starting sendmail" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X86Config needed for Matrox MGA card. (Craig Kelley)
Re: startx doesn't start X (Craig Kelley)
Re: Booting new kernel (2.4) question (Craig Kelley)
Re: Acknowledgement please? (David)
Re: HighPoint Technologies HPT370 RAID Setup in Linux (Tim Moore)
Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem (ron)
Re: lilo for secondary IDE (Paul Jackson)
����� Test ("B D Dib")
Re: Mouse problem in RedHat Linux 6.2 (ron)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati
Subject: Re: ATI RADEON DOES *NOT* WORK WITH LINUX
Date: 8 Jan 2001 12:26:37 -0800
In article <93bvkf$4fu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
It actually works fine, but you need to have XFree86-4.0.2.
Which is recent enough that no vendor has done a release with it yet.
Expect mandrake 7.3, RH 7.1 and SuSE 7.1 all to ship with it working
off-the-CD.
In the meantime I suspect that you need to install in text-mode and get
the 4.0.2 tree by hand. Inconenient, I agree.
Linus
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From: Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Booting SparcStation2 with cdrom
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:30:19 -0000
Hi,
I own an old SparcStation2, which only has 2 hard drives and a cdrom. It
has no floppy drive. I have 2 Debian 2.1 cds, but I can't seem to boot
off either them. I was wondering if there was an image that I could burn
to a cd to boot off of. When I try to boot off the Debian cds that I have
I get an error that says "Bad magic number is disk label", so I'm not sure
if that means the label on the cd isn't what it should be, or if the cd
isn't bootable.
Anyways, if someone has some suggestions on what I should do, let me know.
Thanks
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acknowledgement please?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 14:33:30 -0600
***[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** wrote:
>
> Aside from my linux woes, could someone reply to the fact that they read this
> post? I've posted several times to this group with never any response what so
> ever. I have no idea if this is getting posted. ? ?
>
> tia
It works.
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From: Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Booting new kernel (2.4) question
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:51:35 GMT
I've compiled my new 2.4 kernel in /home/nwatson/tmp/linux and copied
bzImage to /boot. I added an new entry to grub so that I can still boot my
old kernel (2.2.17).
When I attempt to boot the new kernel I get past grub and the kernel begins
to load until it's time to mount the drives. The message:
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock.
Then the kernel panics and fails to boot.
I can still boot kernel 2.2.17 no troubles and I can still boot to win2k.
Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong?
Thank you,
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Neil Watson
http://webhome.idirect.com/~neilw
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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: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:54:55 +0100
Hi Scott,
In addition to my 1st answer I've another question: it seems I must use an
additional driverdisk which contains netstg2.img. However, this .img has
the size of almost 2 diskettes! Can you tell me how I can make this
driverdisk using the dd-command?
Thanks,
Huub
Scott wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with compiling kernel 2.4
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:57:27 GMT
On Jan 8, 2001 at 18:42, Hung Ngoc Lai eloquently wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I am running RedHat Linux version 6.1 with kernel 2.2.18. I would like to
>upgrade the kernel to version 2.4. I download linux-2.4.0.tar.gz to /usr/src
>directory the following steps:
Sometimes it helps to read the README. It specifically states
NOT to use /usr/src! Did you also upgrade the packages mentioned
in Documentation/Changes?
>1) gunzip linux-2.4.0.tar.gz
>2) tar -xvpf linux-2.4.0.tar
>3) cd /usr/src/linux
>4) make mrproper
>5) make menuconfig (in this step, I uncheck the Cardbus support (pcmcia) because
> I am running linux on a destop [dell 300MHz])
Is anything else configured as a module?
>6) make dep
>7) make clean
>8) make bzImage
>9) make modules
>10)make modules_install
>
>in step 10, I get this error:
>
>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/lib'
>make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/lib'
>cd /lib/modules/2.4.0; \
>mkdir -p pcmcia; \
>find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
>if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.0; fi
>/sbin/depmod: invalid option -- F
<snip>
>make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1
Are you using the modutils-2.4.0 package/rpm?
>At this point, I copy the bzImage and System.map to /boot, modify the
>/etc/lilo.conf, and run the /sbin/lilo command and reboot the box. When
>the system is restarted, it hangs. I could not get passed the line
>"decompressing the linux kernel".
>
>Going back to the error message, it has to do with the pcmcia modules which
>I don't need. How do I get around this problem? When I recompile the box
>with kernel 2.2.18, I didn't see the pcmcia directory under
>/lib/modules/2.2.18; however, I do see the pcmcia directory
>/lib/modules/2.4.0/pcmcia under kernel 2.4. Can anyone help me with this
>problem? Right now, I am running kernel 2.2.18 but I really would like
>to use kernel 2.4. I am a newbie here so please gentle with me.
Make sure you read the READMEs thoroughly and the Changes
file in the Documentation directory. Then start again.
--
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Live from New York ... It's Saturday Night!
3:49pm up 1 day, 2:08, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Bill James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: script to bypass login?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:01:55 GMT
Hello, is it possible to have Linux boot all the way to the command line
without any user intervention?
I am creating a monitor-less server which I may need to re-boot from time to
time.
Thanks.
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: How can I find which options are compiled into my kernel?
Date: 8 Jan 2001 21:03:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:45:03 GMT, Victor S. Miller allegedly wrote:
>Is there a command (or shell script) that I can use to list all of the
>options that are compiled into my kernel? I'm running RH 7.0.
Not a single command AFAIK
What you should do is install the redhat package with the kernel
sources. Then read the /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/configs/kernel-2.2.16-i686.config
file. That will give you something like
# Processor type and features
#
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
# CONFIG_M486 is not set
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
# CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
CONFIG_M686=y
If you want to use that as a basis to compile your own kernel copy it to
/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/.config.
Then you can do something like make menuconfig and read which options
are set and whether or not they were set as build in or as modules.
--
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The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: script to bypass login?
Date: 8 Jan 2001 21:12:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:01:55 GMT, Bill James allegedly wrote:
>Hello, is it possible to have Linux boot all the way to the command line
>without any user intervention?
>
>I am creating a monitor-less server which I may need to re-boot from time to
>time.
Well since there will be no display it won't need to boot to the
commandline, just to the login prompt is sufficient. All servers are
started before the login prompt is reached anyway.
edit /etc/lilo.conf and remove the lines with " delay, prompt, timeout"
and set a line with the default kernel to boot fi "default=linux"
run /sbin/lilo -v to update the boot record and reboot to make sure
everyting went ok.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
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The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: Dave Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acknowledgement please?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:26:56 -0600
***[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** wrote:
>
> Aside from my linux woes, could someone reply to the fact that they read this
> post? I've posted several times to this group with never any response what so
> ever. I have no idea if this is getting posted. ? ?
>
> tia
Looks okay to me.
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From: "L4" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie: install
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:27:01 +0100
my first attempt to install linux.
nothing much heard before nor of the command, used winDOS over 8years for
now, but wnat to install a webserver and firewall with linux now
questions: which distribution
and what then??
the computer:
486dx2-66
8meg ram
270meg hdd
floppy
no cd-rom
ok, any hints?
many thanx
Markus
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From: "Hung P. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: lilo for secondary IDE
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:37:53 GMT
I am trying to make a boot hard drive to boot from a
secondary IDE. My lilo.conf is as followed:
#boot=/dev/fd0
boot=/dev/hdc
map=/mnt/floppy/map
install=/mnt/floppy/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/mnt/floppy/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
Note that the same lilo.conf works for a floppy (just by replacing
the boot line to /dev/fd0). However, when I mount my secondary
harddrive to the same place (to minimize lilo.conf change) using:
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/floppy
The same lilo.conf will not work. All I get is an "L" and then
a bunch of 01 dump onto the screen. I also try to use "linear"
to no avail. Any advice.
Thank you for any help,
hung
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: booting stops at the "starting sendmail"
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:56:07 GMT
I installed Red Hat 6.2.
My CPU is athlon.
So I always boot the linux part with "linux x86_serial_nr=1".
Recently I installed the window2000 again.
Problem is followings.
Kenel's hardware detecting procedure seems O.K.
After interacative checking, the problem occurs.
"starting system.
starting keytable
starting pcmci
starting INET services.
starting lpd
starting key tablbe
starting sendmail
....
"
My system stops at the "starting sendmail".
Could you give me any advice what's wrong and what i can do for this
problem?
Eventhoug I installed the linux again, the similiar problem occurs.
After "starting httpd", the system stops at that moment.
Thanks!
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X86Config needed for Matrox MGA card.
Date: 08 Jan 2001 15:14:56 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I installed the RedHat6.2 in the Compaq prolinea 5100. The video
> card is Matrox MGA with 2mb memory. This card can be detected but I
> could not configure it right for X windows.
>
> It will be greatly appreciated if you can send me the X86Config file.
Login as root and run Xconfigurator from the command prompt. It is a
menu that will help you setup X11 properly.
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: startx doesn't start X
Date: 08 Jan 2001 15:21:20 -0700
"Robert Lock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After months of relatively painless use of Mandrake 7.0, the following has
> occurred:
>
> type "startx" <cr>
>
> Screen blanks out for approx 20 sec and then returns this -
>
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect. Can't connect: errno = 111
> Failed to set default font path 'unix/:1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> This problem showed up today for no apparent reason since yesterday I spent
> quite a lot of time working in the X environment and shut the system down
> normally. No errors or warnings were generated on startup today except the
> above.
>
> I really have no idea where to start looking for the cause or the repair of
> this so
> any help is welcome.
Make sure xfs (X11 Font Server) is running:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status
xfs (pid 683) is running...
If it isn't, then start it up:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start
And then try to run X11. It could be that you erased the 'fixed' font
by accident, in which case re-installing X11 from your Mandrake CD
will work:
rpm --force -i /mnt/cdrom/blah/blah/XFree86-3.3.xxxxxx.rpm
(the 'fixed' font is included in the main XFree86 RPM file)
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting new kernel (2.4) question
Date: 08 Jan 2001 15:25:01 -0700
Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've compiled my new 2.4 kernel in /home/nwatson/tmp/linux and copied
> bzImage to /boot. I added an new entry to grub so that I can still boot my
> old kernel (2.2.17).
>
> When I attempt to boot the new kernel I get past grub and the kernel begins
> to load until it's time to mount the drives. The message:
>
> EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock.
>
> Then the kernel panics and fails to boot.
>
> I can still boot kernel 2.2.17 no troubles and I can still boot to win2k.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong?
I've never used 'grub', but it sounds like your new kernel doesn't
know which drive to boot from. A default linux kernel will try to
boot from /dev/sda1 (first SCSI disk), the last time I checked.
You can either:
o configure grub to tell the kernel image which partition contains
the root filesystem (ie, under lilo you'd include root=/dev/mydrive)
o use rdev to tell the kernel image what drive to boot from
rdev /boot/bzImage-2.4.0 /dev/mydrive
(substituting 'mydrive' for the proper one)
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acknowledgement please?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:35:14 -0600
Dave Barnett wrote:
>
> Looks okay to me.
Oh Damn! Their is another one of me out there.
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: HighPoint Technologies HPT370 RAID Setup in Linux
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 22:36:16 GMT
RAID functions are implimented in software drivers. For linux software
raid, see http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
> Does anybody have experience in setting up RAID in Linux using HPT370
> chipset produced by HighPoint Technologies?
> I can only find a Linux patch from its website
> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ , but it supports only non-RAID harddisk.
> Is there any solution to get RAID worked?
--
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bigfoot
com
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From: ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: LinkSys ethernet card problem
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:33:26 -0500
did you try tulip?
Stacy Slocum 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.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA,
>
> Stacy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jackson)
Subject: Re: lilo for secondary IDE
Date: 8 Jan 2001 22:41:37 GMT
[News groups trimmed to just comp.os.linux.setup - please
avoid cross posting.]
Hung wrote:
|> However, when I mount my secondary
|> harddrive to the same place (to minimize lilo.conf change) using:
|>
|> mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/floppy
|>
|> The same lilo.conf will not work. All I get is an "L" and then
|> a bunch of 01 dump onto the screen.
Don't forget you have to run the command 'lilo' after making
any changes to lilo.conf. This is because low level disk drive
device and offsets are stored in the resulting boot information.
Also, the mount of hdc1 to floppy might not help you much --
when you are rebooting, mounts done on the previous boot are
part of the forgotten past.
Better to leave the working, floppy boot, in place in your
lilo.conf, and then to add a _second_ "image=..." section
(setting a different label, and whatever else is different than
the defaults, such as root), then selecting that new label from
the "lilo:" prompt for testing.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Manager, Linux System Software
Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.650.933.1373
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From: "B D Dib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ����� Test
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:52:11 -0000
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From: ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse problem in RedHat Linux 6.2
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:42:23 -0500
i have had the same problems aswell. I would have to change it in mouseconfig
then startx....finally mucked around enough to get it to stay on com1....
JJ wrote:
> When I was installing RedHat Linux 6.2, my Microsoft serial mouse worked
> fine (I could use it during setup).
> Redhat probed it as generic serial mouse, and I reluctantly agreed. When I
> rebooted into Gnome, mouse did not work. I tried to reinstall choosing
> Microsoft serial mouse - the same result i.e. mouse doesn't work in Gnome.
>
> In terminal, when I ran mouseconfig (from /usr/sbin), my mouse began to
> work... Now, when I tried to run mouseconfig, mouse doesn't work (I guess I
> did something...). Can you help me?
>
> Also, would you please tell me how to exit from gnome? I tried
> CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE, but it only quits current session of Gnome.
>
> Thanks..
>
> P.S.
> I checked the mouse under Windows95, and it appears to work.
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