Linux-Setup Digest #401, Volume #20 Thu, 11 Jan 01 17:13:15 EST
Contents:
Re: Apache w/ PHP and SSL: w/ PHP OK - w/out PHP NOK (Frederic Faure)
Re: filesystem corruption (Graham Wilson)
Using ipfwadm to redirect external requests to an external address (Mark Saake)
Help with PCMCIA Ethernet driver SMC91c92 for Megahertz card (Krumholz)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 does not shut down properly ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: SCSI + IDE drives (Markus Kossmann)
Linux on HP Pavilion 8670C ("Kent R. Frazier")
Re: Mandrake 7.2 does not shut down properly (Robert Wiegand)
CDROM BOOT DISK (root)
Re: Help with modem (etc.) in SuSe 7.0 (please!) (Van der Ivor)
Re: print 2 pages in a single sheet (Michael Heiming)
Booting Linux with Win2000 bootloader (Tim Schulz)
Re: RPM/CD-ROM question (Me)
RH7.0 & Asus A7V motherboard problems ("Roy Park")
hwclock always set to UTC ("FEEB")
Re: Caldera versus Red Hat ("David B")
Re: print 2 pages in a single sheet ("Chip Piller")
Re: SCSI + IDE drives ("Robert Morelli")
swap formatting problem ("Nicolas Rinaudo")
Re: Don't use usr/src/linux w/2.4?? ("BrianDP")
Upgrade of Hardware and software ("Randy Johnson")
slow inet connection (Sven Heinecke)
modem in mandrake ("Hoo")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Re: Apache w/ PHP and SSL: w/ PHP OK - w/out PHP NOK
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:14:55 GMT
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 02:34:34 -0500, moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Looks like PHP4 isn't installed. (or mod_php)
Finally found what kept Apache from compiling. For those
interested, here's how to build Apache with SSL and PHP4:
Follow the "The Soothingly Seamless Setup of Apache, SSL, MySQL, and
PHP" at
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/SoothinglySeamless/print.html
Watch out: Whether using PHP4.0.2 or PHP4.0.4, there's no libphp4.a
library like it says in the documentation. Instead, just cp
libmodphp4.a libphp4.a.
Also, SSL_BASE=SYSTEM didn't work for me when configuring Apache.
Instead, I had to use SSL_BASE=../openssl.x.y.
Finally, even if OpenSSL is already through RPM (eg. because you need
it to access the host through SSH), you still need to compile the
source in eg. /tmp/openssl
HTH
FF.
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From: Graham Wilson <graham01~[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: filesystem corruption
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:15:14 -0800
Eric wrote:
>
> > > > Is this a gotcha I should be aware of (and defend against)
> > >
> > > Yes, partition tables are monsters
> > >
> > <chomp>
> > >
> > > You should post the *full* output of `fdisk -l /dev/hdc`
> > > I suspect that the problem is there, but as you stripped the important
> > > stuff, I can't tell yet.
> > >
> > > very likely, hda4 has the wrong partition ID
> > >
> > > Eric
> >
> > Thanks for your quick response, Eric. Here's the full output:
> >
> > Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38792 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hdc1 * 1 19 9544+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdc2 20 3894 1953000 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdc3 3895 7769 1953000 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdc4 7770 18449 5382720 5 Extended
> > /dev/hdc5 7770 8017 124960+ 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hdc6 8018 8265 124960+ 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hdc7 8266 12140 1952968+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdc8 12141 12636 249952+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdc9 12637 18449 2929720+ b Win95 FAT32
> >
> > Thanks for your help. G.
>
> As I expected. hda4 has the wrong ID.
> In your case it should be type 0x0F
> (And most likely this is causing the problems you expierience)
>
> BTW, this disc has really large values for the cylinders. This is due to
> the low number
> of heads defined (16 instead of 255). Probably this is setup wrong in
> the BIOS.
> If you ever plan to reinstall everything on this disc, it's a good idea
> to change the
> detection in the BIOS.
>
> Eric
Thanks, Eric! The next obvious question is: can I change it without
causing problems with the logical partitions? G.
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From: Mark Saake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Using ipfwadm to redirect external requests to an external address
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:12:32 GMT
I'm trying to figure out a way to redirect external web server requests,
via our firewall, to an external web server. I've tried using ipfwadm
with ipmasqadm/portfw, but haven't had any luck.
Here's the problem. Our web server, www.company.com is hosted by an
external provider. The machine company.com is our own internal machine.
What I would like to do is to redirect any requests on port 80 to
company.com from outside of the firewall to port 80 at www.company.com.
I know that if www.company.com were inside our firewall that this works,
but I can't seem to get ipmasqadm/portfw to forward the requests to an
address outside the firewall. Is this even possible? or is there another
way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
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From: Krumholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with PCMCIA Ethernet driver SMC91c92 for Megahertz card
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:12:00 GMT
I am setting up my Enthernet adapter using gnome-linuxconf (Config-
>Networking->Client tasks-> basic host information). I am
assigning the ethernet PCMCIA board to net device: eth0. The Kernel
Module field contains a drop down selection box of
ethenet drivers. I can not find my driver in the list. From research it
appears that my Megahertz XJBT or XJ10BC (the back of the card has both
numbers)uses a driver that is identified by SMC91c92 or SMC91c92_cs
(not sure what is the difference). Where can I find this
driver with instructions for setting it up on Red Hat Linux 7.0.
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 does not shut down properly
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:41:59 +0100
> On my system restart has always worked and shutdown has never worked.
> I restart into Win98 and shutdown from there.
:-)
What a good use you have found for windows.
And some swear it's a no good OS
Eric
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI + IDE drives
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:16:24 +0100
Robert Morelli wrote:
>
> I have a Red Hat 6.2 system that boots from a SCSI drive. I've recently
> installed a 15 gig IDE (Ultra ATA) drive in the computer. The IDE drive is
> connected to the primary IDE controller, at the master position on the
> cable, and with its switch set to master.
>
> 1. I want to keep the SCSI drive as the boot drive and I'd like it to be
> treated as drive 1.
>
> 2. Currently, I haven't let the BIOS setup program recognize the IDE
> drive. (My impression is that it will make it harder to keep the SCSI
> drive as drive 1 if I do so.)
>
> 3. I also have OS/2 installed on a partition on the SCSI drive, and I
> use the OS/2 boot manager to boot the machine.
>
> 4. At the moment Linux recognizes the IDE drive as /dev/hda and the
> SCSI as /dev/sda, but I can no longer boot off the linux partition. (I
> have been booting off a rescue floppy.) When the OS/2 boot manager
> transfers control to the linux partition, I just get a repeating pattern
> 01 01 01 01 01 ...
> continuing indefinitely. When I run lilo I get the warning message:
> Warning: /dev/sda8 is not on the first disk
Well, lilo allways assumes a IDE disk is coming first in BIOS if you
don't do the right entry in lilo.conf .
Try it with
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
in your lilo.conf
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Kent R. Frazier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Linux on HP Pavilion 8670C
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:25:21 -0600
Has anyone installed Linux on an HP Pavilion 8670C Desktop machine?
My Linux box has died, and I would like to make my Windows machine a
dual-boot until I can afford to replace / rebuild my Linux box.
I'm looking for a fairly easy install, as I currently don't have the time to
trouble shoot hardware right now.
Thanks,
Kent
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 does not shut down properly
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:31:13 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mawgrath wrote:
> On my system restart has always worked and shutdown has never worked.
> With 7.0 and 7.1 it used to give a core dump.
> With 7.2 it gives a screenful of error messages.
> I restart into Win98 and shutdown from there.
There is a shutdown problem with Mandrake on a machine with an AT
type power supply. Mandrake seems to be set up as a default to
assume an ATX type supply that can be turned off automatically.
I think I fixed this by editing /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt to remove the
power-off option (I be may be misremembering what I did).
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDROM BOOT DISK
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:58:10 -0500
I have been trying to find a way to get a portable Linux system, and
since Linux won't fit on a single flopy disk and have many programs on
it, I've decided to make a CD that acts as a portable Linux system. I
would use it on the computers at my school, so it can't install
anything. I would just put the basic things like /bin/*, /sbin/*,
etc... I hope to be able to use the network as well which isn't a
problem. I know how to do everything except making the CDROM bootable.
How would I make an ISO image, and make it bootable.
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From: Van der Ivor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with modem (etc.) in SuSe 7.0 (please!)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:11:21 +0000
Glitch wrote:
>
>> Also I have an internal ISA Modulartech(nologies) v90 modem and I cannot
>> get it to work. Yast2 will not pick it up. I followed these instructions
>> on the install for isa/pnp modems:
>>
>> pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf
>> isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
>>
>> then setserial /dev/modem irq 3 port 0x2F8
>
>
>is the modem PnP? if not why are u using pnpdump? What settings does
>the modem use in Windows (if u have windows on the same machine)?
>
Good question. The modem was bundled with the PC so it's guess work
basically. A similar modem is in the http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmode
m.html, but it says it is PnP but has no jumpers - but mine has so I'm
wondering if it isn't PnP. Also the chipset (rockwell) is a R6771-22
whereas mine is R6761-22. If that makes the slightest bit of difference,
I have no idea.
The modem is set up in Win98 on irq3 0x2F8.
Van der Ivor
--
'666 is no longer alone
He's getting out the marrow in the backbone
And the seven trumpets blowing sweet rock and roll
Gonna blow right down inside your soul'
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:05:49 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: print 2 pages in a single sheet
Massimo G Morin wrote:
> Hi
> I have installed RH 6.2.
> I configured a network printer and I would like to print 2 pages into
> a single sheet. Even if I set the option in the control panel (printer
> set up), this does not want to work. It always print one page in one
> page!!!!
>
> The printer is a HP Laserjet 4050N
> I select HP Laserjet 4/5/6, Postscript printer and HP Laserjet without
> success.
>
> Below the printcap (all of them are set to prin 2 in 1)
>
> So far I had no problem printing but I'm getting tired of wasting
> paper (after all, all of us love the Amazon forest ;) ).
> Anybody can help?
>
>
<SNIP>
Hello,
what you want can be done AFAIK with apsfilter.
Try:
locate apsfilter | less
should be somwhere on your disk?
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Tim Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Booting Linux with Win2000 bootloader
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:10:59 GMT
Hi,
I used a Linux installation at work together with NT and I must have the
M$ bootloader running.
Now the box was upgraded to "Win 2000 professional" and I can�t get the
boot.ini configured to boot Linux.
( The Linux-bootstring in the file is: c:\linux.sec )
Please help! Booting from floppy in not too cool!
Thank you!
Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me)
Subject: Re: RPM/CD-ROM question
Date: 11 Jan 2001 19:56:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>I successfully installed Mandrake 7.2 several days ago.....well nearly.
>
>When I try installing any package using the RPMdrake manager, I am
>prompted to
>load the appropriate disk in the tray, the tray automatically opens, and
>I am then
>invariably (with each and every different package attempt) that "sorry,
>it can't be loaded".
>
>What am I missing here?.The same CDROM device that allowed me to install
>Mandrake doesn't seem
>to be communicating. Yes, it's an IDE/ATAPI.
>
>
>Completely new to this-
>
>Anton Stayduhar
I have a similar problem. My system came pre-installed with RH6.2 adn I need
to load some RPMS from a CD. The system will now load the CD (which works fine
on another machine) and complains that it can't mount it because it is an
unrecognized fs type, too many devices are already mounted, or the CD has a bad
superblock. Note that it works fine on the other sytsem. My CD is actually a
CDRW.
Any thoughts world?
Thanks,
Mike
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From: "Roy Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7.0 & Asus A7V motherboard problems
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:00:01 GMT
My current setup is this:
Asus A7V motherboard with the Promise Ultra ATA 100 on board PCI Controller.
I have two hard disks, a Maxtor(Windows) on the primary slot on the Ultra
ATA 100 controller and a Fujitsu(Linux) on the secondary. I have my HP CDRW
on the ordinary PCI contoller on the secondary slot.
1) When I boot w/ LILO, it halts after LI is printed on screen. Any help?
2) I installed RH 7.0 on the second(Fujitsu) HD and after modifying the
lilo.conf file to recognize the Promise PCI controller, it still can't boot
unless I specifically type:
LILO BOOT: linux ide2=0x8400, 0x8402 ide3=0x7800, 0x8402.
after booting with the emergency boot disk. Any suggestions?
3) I have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN(model #: LNE 100TX) card installed
and RH7.0 can't detect it. I followed all the instructions and set it up on
the linuxconf and still I can't get it to detect it. Tulip is the module I'm
supposed to use. Any help?
Thanx
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From: "FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hwclock always set to UTC
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:02:26 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: "FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
If I do
'hwclock --debug'
on any of my 30 RedHat systems in both Canada and Europe,
I get the UTC epoch time, with the EDT or any other time stamp.
e.g.
'Thu Jan 11 21:03:07 EST 2001'
So, the stamp conforms to the local time (EST), but the time value is
always UDT, contrary to what the stamp says.
What should I do to change the time to actually be EST?
Thanks
Frank Bures, <grandial at softex.cz>
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From: "David B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Caldera versus Red Hat
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:18:24 -0700
I have purchased, installed and used almost all of the major distributions
(RH 6.2, 7.0, Mandrake 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, Debian, Slack, Storm, SuSE 6.4, 7.0,
and others). I have found good and bad points in all of the distributions,
Caldera included.
RH 6.2 probably has the broadest level of support with respect to finding
RPM's and software in general that support the distribution. It certainly
seems to have the most mindshare and I often see people who went to 7.0
moving back to 6.2. I have 6.2 on a seperate partition for testing purposes
and have a lot of good things to say about it. If you want to go with an
RPM based distro, I'd suggest RH 6.2 or (even better) eDesktop 2.4.
I have Gnome Helix installed on my Caldera system. I also have KDE1 and KDE
2.1 beta installed, XFree 4.02, ReiserFS, Kernel 2.18 (for USB), and Win4Lin
2.0 - along with a host of other goodies too numerous to mention. Setting
all of this up was very, very easy under eDesktop 2.4 because the compiler,
installation scripts, etc, all worked according to plan. The way Caldera
has written their boot scripts, etc, makes them very easy to read, debug,
change, etc. My experience with Mandrake was the exact opposite. When I
would have a problem in Mandrake, tracking down the problem with one of
their scripts often proved difficult if not outright strange. Anyway, I
digress...
Caldera is one of the smoothest and easy to customize distributions I have
ever used, with the possible exception of Slack - but Slack is a different
kind of animal so I'm not so sure a comparison would be accurate. If you go
with Caldera, you should have no problem installing Gnome / Helix, let alone
KDE 2.1, rolling a new kernel, installing ReiserFS, etc. The amount of
customization you can do is wonderful, which might be why a lot of VAR's
like
Caldera over some of the other distros.
Depending upon the application, RH and Mandrake RPM's tend to install on
Caldera without serious incident, and this may be important if you are less
inclined to roll your own stuff. However, excluding security updates,
Caldera
doesn't do a great job with providing updated packages, although they
did a great job (I think) with their KDE 2 update.
Keeping up with the latest compiler, libraries, etc, is a bit more difficult
with Caldera. You'll probably find youself over time rolling a lot of your
own stuff. But then again, isn't that part of the fun?
> 1. Of paramount importance is reliability. Of course, the usual
> propaganda is that Linux is a super-reliable system. I'm not
> interested in hearing that BS. The reality I've experienced with
> Red Hat and Mandrake is very different. Otherwise, I wouldn't
> have any need for Caldera. I want to know the reality of Caldera,
> whether it's just as bad, or perhaps not quite so.
Caldera has been a very, very reliable for me, but my system is highly
customized now, yet I remember the stock system (when I kept it stock)
worked without incident. Keep in mind that reliability will also depend
upon your hardware as well, not just the distro you use.
> 2. One big plus for me in Red Hat was that it primarily supports
> GNOME, on which I've settled. Unfortunately, Caldera seems
> to be strongly behind KDE. Will I face many woes trying to run
> GNOME on top of Caldera? Also, does Caldera plan to add
> more GNOME support in the future?
I installed Gnome Helix without incident on eDesktop 2.4. Official support
from Caldera is pretty sparse, but I haven't had any problems installing and
using Gnome.
>
> 3. Clearly, Red Hat is a much more popular distribution.
> What is the situation with rpm's and compatibility generally?
> If I go with Caldera will I end up wrestling with constant
> compatibility problems? (By the way, what's the word on
> the Linux Standards Base? Will we see it in our lifetime,
> and if so will it make a real difference?)
Yes and no. You are going to be much more on your own when it comes to
installing software, etc. More often than not, I've been able to use
Mandrake or RH RPM's on Caldera, but frankly... you'll probably find
yourself experimenting with other distro's RPM's or electing to compile your
own stuff.
> However, there may be some differences in support policies.
> Both Caldera and Red Hat seem to offer free installation
> support, but only very expensive continuing technical support.
> I'm interested in Red Hat's new Red Hat network idea. I
> don't know too much about what it's doing right now, but
> it seems to me it could potentially become an asset.
I have RH7 on a laptop of mine. I like the Red Hat network, but it doesn't
do a whole lot more than grab the latest RPM's and install them. It is
handy, although I'm not so sure it's worth the $9.95 per month price (once
the eval period has expired).
Just my $0.02
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From: "Chip Piller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: print 2 pages in a single sheet
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:25:48 -0500
Hi,
I made a backup of my /etc/printcap and then opened printtool and changed
my number of pages per output page from one to four. I then checked and saw
that the new /etc/printcap file had not changed. The printtool help button
mentions something about a fast printing option, I don't know if this will
help. It also mentions that it uses mpage to set the number of pages,
which does not seem to be working from within printtool. I also tried to
add mpage to the ghostscript options line but this did not work.
The mpage command does work on it's own however. For example, "man mpage |
mpage > /home/my_name/mpage.ps" will create a postscript file with default
four pages per output page. Then "gv /home/my_name/mpage.ps" will pop it up
in a display.
So you should be able to do what you want by doing something like "lpr <
mpage file_name"
Hope this helps,
Chip
"Massimo G Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi
I have installed RH 6.2.
I configured a network printer and I would like to print 2 pages into a
single sheet. Even if I set the option in the control panel (printer set
up), this does not want to work. It always print one page in one page!!!!
The printer is a HP Laserjet 4050N
I select HP Laserjet 4/5/6, Postscript printer and HP Laserjet without
success.
Below the printcap (all of them are set to prin 2 in 1)
So far I had no problem printing but I'm getting tired of wasting paper
(after all, all of us love the Amazon forest ;) ).
Anybody can help?
Max
========
# /etc/printcap
#
# Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
# Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
#
# This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE ljet4 300x300 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=pods.mit.edu:\
:rp=raw:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 300x300 letter {} PostScript Default {}
lp2:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp2:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=pods.mit.edu:\
:rp=raw:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp2/filter:
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE laserjet 300x300 letter {} LaserJet Default {}
lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
:mx#0:\
:rm=pods.mit.edu:\
:rp=raw:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter:
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/ ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(617) 512 0203
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From: "Robert Morelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI + IDE drives
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:28:26 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Markus Kossmann"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Morelli wrote:
<snip>
> Well, lilo allways assumes a IDE disk is coming first in BIOS if you
> don't do the right entry in lilo.conf . Try it with disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x80 in your lilo.conf
Thanks. That worked.
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From: "Nicolas Rinaudo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: swap formatting problem
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:30:31 +0100
Hey guys. I have a very annoying problem while installing my linux: the
kernel crashes in the middle of
swap formatting. I think it comes from the fact that I recently upgraded to
a more modern configuration:
AOpen k33 and Thunderbird 1Ghz. Do any of you guys have any experience with
running linux on that kind of
hardware? Am I doomed to being a Windows user?
Thanx!
Kueller
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From: "BrianDP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Don't use usr/src/linux w/2.4??
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:35:28 GMT
I hope I don't sound too dim here, but what exactly does this mean? I've
seen references in other posts where people are still using this directory.
In the past when using 2.2, every time I upgraded the kernel, I would unpack
the source from /usr/src and it would create a 2.2.xx directory. I would
then 'ln -s linux /usr/src/linux-2.2.17' to this new directory, and go about
my install. Is this totally bad practice? What should I do from now on?
I did as the instructions say, I untarred it into a different directory,
/root and the tar file created a /root/linux/.... directory with the
source. I tried to install it from /root/linux, but that didnt' work
either.
I've updated all the packages it asks for, e2fcs, PPP, modutils, binutils,
etc, and verified that the rest were of sufficent release.
What seems odd about this to me, is that I've been using a test version of
the kernel (2.4.0-test11) for almost a month without one little problem!
The install of that kernel went off without a hitch!
Thanks for help.
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From: "Randy Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Upgrade of Hardware and software
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:40:07 -0500
Folks,
I need some setup advice. I had previously been running RH 5.2
(kernel 2.0.36) on a machine with a 6 GB hd (hda) and a 1 gb
drive (hdb). For reasons that I'd like to forget, I cannot go
back to that setup. As I write this, I am installing RH 7.0, and
have removed the hdb drive and added a 20 gb hd (hdb).
I have partitioned hdb into one large partition and gave it the
mount point </workgroup>. I kept all of the existing partitions
on hda. I didn't modify the partition table on hda for fear that
I'd lose the data on </home>. I formatted both harddrives except
for the </home> partition on hda. The object of this exercise is
that I want to give my users access to more diskspace without
losing existing files on </home>. I want the members of one group
to be able to access the </workgroup> partition as if it were
their individual directories under </home>.
Is there a way that I can make a seamless link between the files
on /home and /workgroup? Could I have modified /home to make it
larger without losing the files already there?
TIA.
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From: Sven Heinecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: slow inet connection
Date: 11 Jan 2001 21:56:16 GMT
Hello,
I switched from SuSE to Mandrake. Since that my internet connection
seems to be slowed down (newsserver, Netsacpe, downloads). The only
difference seems to be that I used wwwoffle with SuSE. But can this
speed up the connection?? How can I check / change the bitrate of my
serial device?
thanx for help
Sven
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From: "Hoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem in mandrake
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:59:37 -0500
My internal modem is not recognized by harddrake.
It is an internal modem v.90 supra express 56K ISA at com1 3f8 irq4
I used isapnp to activate the device:
1. pppdump > isapnp.conf
2. vi isapnp.conf .... (ACT Y) etc.etc. OK
3. isapnp isapnp.conf ... OK
4. setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A ... OK
5. start ppp0 ... boom doesn't work. FAIL
no dail tone and no dailing.
menu open to kill the command etc. etc.
OS: Linux Mandrake 7.2
Please help..
Thanks,
Keng
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