Linux-Setup Digest #408, Volume #20 Fri, 12 Jan 01 17:13:15 EST
Contents:
Re: Help: LILO / Linux Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot problem ("Todd M. Lewis")
can't install SUSE 7.0 -> "found no usable partition" (David)
Help! Ran into problem while installing Linux! (hav0c)
Re: RPM/CD-ROM question (aflinsch)
Sequence of h/w detection (Ragnar =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Wisl=F8ff?=)
Re: slow inet connection (Sven Heinecke)
rh7 bootdisk ? ("pamela")
Kickstart + RH7.0 + cdrom == Jack S**t ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kickstart + RH7.0 + cdrom == Jack S**t ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH7 sees 1/2 memory on K7-600 system (Toby Haynes)
Re: hwclock always set to UTC (David)
Re: Linux on HP Pavilion 8670C (Jack Kelley)
Re: Riptide Audio (Jack Kelley)
Re: slow inet connection (David)
ADSL-Router (Suse 7.0) (Peter Grosse-Hering)
Re: rh 6.2 doesn't see multiple LUN's on external SCSI disk (David)
Making my ATAPI ZIP 100 work (Victor S. Miller)
Re: rh7 bootdisk ? (David)
Re: modem in mandrake ("Peter T. Breuer")
test (Sid Vicious)
Re: ATI RADEON DOES *NOT* WORK WITH LINUX (Matt Caskey)
Getting modem to be accepted by YAST2 config (Patricia Flickner)
getting modem to be... addendum (Patricia Flickner)
Re: Getting modem to be accepted by YAST2 config ("Dusty Dew")
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From: "Todd M. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: LILO / Linux Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot problem
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:09:28 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think you need lilo-21.4 or later which supports the "lba32" option.
This assumes that your bios is able to use things above the 1024th
cylinder.
If the problem really is your bios, you're stuck. You'll have to copy
your kernel into your C: drive, mark it system/read-only so nothing
(windows disk optimizers for example) will move it, hope it's all below
the 1024th cylinder, and rerun lilo.
Indiematt wrote:
>
> Hello all... I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 as dual boot on my Win98SE machine.
>I have two physical HD's, C (13 gig) and D (20 gig) in Windows. I placed Lilo in the
>boot sector of my primary HD (C) and installed Linux into a second partition created
>on D.
>
> Here is the problem: Lilo will successfully load up, and will allow me to boot into
>Windows from the HD. However, if I attempt to boot into Linux from Lilo, the computer
>reports something about my "BIOS not supporting the cylinder." I can, however,
>successfully boot into Linux using the bootdisk I created during setup. This method
>of booting, however, is pretty damn slow.
>
> So, is there any way to rectify this situation? Do I need a later version of Lilo,
>or is this a more complicated matter? I appreciate any and all help with this matter.
>Thanks in advance!
>
> ~ matt
>
> --
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't install SUSE 7.0 -> "found no usable partition"
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:26:39 GMT
I've downloaded the SUSE 7.0 eval (live-evaluation-i386-70.iso) from
tucows and have not been able to install it.
Setup:
20GB HD with w2kserver and w2kpro installed on it
10GB HD empty w/ 5M boot partition, 128M swap partition, remaining
space used by one large Linux partition.(this is the second drive)
PIII 700mhz
Instalation of suse begins fine until error message says "Can't find
S.u.S.E/var/lib/ldap" Later says "Found no usable partition. Can't
save to disk". Install then proceeds to a virtual drive run from the
cd. This "installation" works fine (with no Xserver), but is
obviously not what I wanted. I've tried installing to a formatted
drive, and to a drive with mandrake Linux already installed on it.
Can anyone tell me what's going on?
Thank you
David
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From: hav0c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Ran into problem while installing Linux!
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:43:04 +0000
I was trying to isntall RedHat 7.0 on a old system I have its
a Dell it has P166, 32MB EDO RAM, 1.6GB HD IDE, On board S3 video, 8X
CD-rom and a floppy. I have formatted the HD numerous times, i have
done fdisk /mbr several times. Here is the error I get.
"Partition Check:"
"Ramdisk: Compressed image found at block 0"
"crc errorVFS: Cannot open root device 08:21"
"Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:21"
I have updated my BIOS to the most recent release. I thought a bad HD
controller might have caused this so I put in a IDE controller card
and booted off of it and it gave me the same error. It gave me this
same error when I tried installing Mandrake and SuSe also.
Please help.
TIA
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM/CD-ROM question
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:36:52 -0600
anton stayduhar wrote:
>
> 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
A few suggestions -
Are you using supermount? If so, don't.
Try installing the rpm's by hand from the console, and see if it is a
rpmdrake problem.
Make sure that you are either root, or su'ed to root befor trying to
install a rpm.
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From: Ragnar =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Wisl=F8ff?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sequence of h/w detection
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:46:52 +0100
I'm having trouble with a system with one onboard (for internal disks) and
one PCI SCSI controller (for external disks). It runs RHL 6.2. Before a
kernel switch from 2.2.14 to 2.2.16 all was fine, the internal disks came
up as sdax and the external ones as sdbx. But now, running 2.2.16, the
order is swapped, and the kernel panics as it cannot mount the root file
system. It looks for sdaN, but it really is on sdbN the way the h/w is
detected.
I'm stuck with drivers a modules as they exist as binaries only (no naming
of the vendor here ...). Lilo loads an initrd image to get at the modules,
and I've tried to change the order of the module lines in
/etc/conf.modules. Also played with putting prepended numbers after the
scsi_hostadapater (like eth0, eth1 etc) before running mkinitrd. Now I'm
stuck. The thing insists on finding the external one before the internal
controller.
Is possible to force the kernel to detect the h/w (or load modules) in a
specific order?
If not, how does it decide in what order to do it?
Is there another way to solve my problem?
Thanks,
--
Ragnar Wisl�ff
==========
life is a reach. then you gybe.
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From: Sven Heinecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slow inet connection
Date: 12 Jan 2001 19:55:47 GMT
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sven Heinecke wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> If your using a modem connection it can be due to a wrong initialization
> string for the modem.
>
Hm, that's the same as with SuSE. Other possibilities ??
Sven
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From: "pamela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: rh7 bootdisk ?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:08:36 -0900
I installed RH7 from the "respin" cd's (downloaded and burned), and
installed on the last 3 gigs of my 30 gig hard drive.
Installed LILO to the mbr but LILO doesnt show up. So now how should I go
about making a bootdisk to get into my Linux system?
thanks in advance to any replies
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Kickstart + RH7.0 + cdrom == Jack S**t
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:06:06 GMT
Greetings,
I've been working with kickstart for a few weeks now and have used it
to install a number of laptops.
My latest project is installing RH7.0 on a dell latitude CPx.
This unit can only have a floppy or cdrom in it, so I took a page
from the "Redhat cdrom howto " and burned an RH7.0 disk 1 with my
kickstart ks.cfg on it.
The disk boots fine, and if I want to install RH by hand, it will work,
but I can't seem to get it to like my ks.cfg file.
I've gone so far as to reduce the file to 2 lines
lang en_US
keyboard "us"
Just to see if it would work, and it doesn't.
At the boot prompt:
linux ks=cdrom gives on virtual console #3:
"no install method specified for kickstart"
Then drops me to the language selection: My understanding was that
kickstart/anaconda processes it's directives in order, and if one is
missing, it will prompt the user. By that logic it should have selected
the language and keyboard and then prompted me for more info.
Any/all pointers at this juncture would be most appreciated. I've read
every faq and doc I can find, and this one has me stumped.
Cheers,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Kickstart + RH7.0 + cdrom == Jack S**t
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:13:55 GMT
An addendum to the origional information:
If I boot linux with the
linux ks=cdrom
Not only do I get the error message on VC#3, but if I then select
language->keyboard-> Installation method and select CDROM, The installer
pukes with :
"I could not find a Red Hat Linux CDROM in any of your CDROM drives.
Please insert the Red hat CD and press "OK" to retry"
ERRRGH!
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH7 sees 1/2 memory on K7-600 system
Date: 12 Jan 2001 15:33:33 -0500
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed RH7 on an IBM Aptiva model 2174-595.
> The system uses an AMD athlon 600 MHz K7 processor and has 128 MB of
> memory
>
> The bios see all 128 MB of mem, and if I boot WIN98, it sees all the
> memory.
>
> When I boot RH7 (kernel 2.2.0-12), it only sees 64 MB.
At the lilo prompt, type (assuming your linux image is called linux and not
linuxsafe or linuxv22 or whatever)
linux mem=128m
If this works (and it should), add an append clause to the lilo.conf and run
lilo on your box, then reboot. Just don't fsck up your editting or you'll need
a bootdisk handy...
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hwclock always set to UTC
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:56:47 GMT
FEEB wrote:
>
>
> That's the first thing I checked.
> My '/etc/sysconfig/clock' looks like this (in Toronto, ON):
>
> ZONE="US/Eastern"
> UTC=false
> ARC=false
>
> Yet, 'hwclock --debug' returns epoch time in UTC.
>
> What gives?
>
> Frank Bures, <grandial at softex.cz>
Is the BIOS on these systems set to use GMT time instead of local time?
Have you tried the "timeconfig" command to set the timezone to use?
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From: Jack Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on HP Pavilion 8670C
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:57:46 GMT
"Kent R. Frazier" wrote:
>
> 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
Kent,
I have a HP Pavilion 8660C
It works great with redhat 7.0 since the intel 810 video board is
supported however I had to replace that Conexant Chamelion peice of crap
because the drivers cost 30 bucks. At comp usa they sell a CMI (Muse
by Guillemot) based board that is fully supported. besides messing with
the scsi emulation stuff for the CDR is was pretty straight foward.
Good Luck,
Jack
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From: Jack Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Riptide Audio
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:00:58 GMT
Givememore wrote:
>
> Hi,
> has anyone had any luck getting the Rockwell modem/Riptide Audio card to
> work underlinux ?
>
> Please advice if so
>
> Thanks.
goto www.opensound.org they have a driver there for 30 bucks. The
Modem driver is free on www.linmodems.org I believe. I decided to
throw it away and buy a hardware based solution for 30 bucks intead
mainly because they are buggy betas/
Good luck
Jack
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slow inet connection
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:01:26 GMT
Sven Heinecke wrote:
>
>
> Hm, that's the same as with SuSE. Other possibilities ??
Possibly an IRQ conflict with a sound or ethernet card?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Grosse-Hering)
Subject: ADSL-Router (Suse 7.0)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:01:21 GMT
Hi,
I installed a Linux ADSL-Router with Masquerading and the
Suse-Firewall. It rather works fine, except two strange problems:
1.) I can access most websites, but there are a few I cannot access at
all, e. g. www.consors.de and I don�t understand what�s the difference
to "normal" websites? I can ping to the site, no problem. Netsace
won�t show the site at all. It searches to death!
2.) A normal traceroute to certain sites (e. g. www.consors.de) in the
internal net works fine. But on the router itself I get response for
about 5-7 hops an then timeout. I have no explanation for this. ping
works fine!
Has anyone an idea?
Thx,
Peter
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rh 6.2 doesn't see multiple LUN's on external SCSI disk
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:13:13 GMT
dan wrote:
>
> when i had rh 6.1 installed, the system would see multiple LUN's at a
> given SCSI id
> i have a large external disk that is mapped to a single scsi id (8) with
> 8 different LUN's (0-7)
> how do i get rh 6.2 to see all 8, it only sees the first one
>
> thanks for any help,
> dan
Is multi LUN support configurd in the kernel in the SCSI device section?
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN
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Subject: Making my ATAPI ZIP 100 work
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:14:49 GMT
I'm running RH 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16-20) on a Dell Pentium 166Mhz MMX. I
have an ATAPI ZIP 100 as the slave on my first ide bus. The kernel
doesn't have IDE-FLOPPY compiled in, but I did a mkinitrd with a
preload of ide-floppy and ide-scsi (I have a CDROM and CDRW on the
second ide bus). I put
append "hdb=ide-floppy hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
in my LILO. The CD's work fine, but somehow the hdb (my ZIP drive)
vanishes into limbo. When I do a cat /proc/ide/hdb/driver I get the
string (none). If I don't use ide-floppy (I also tried ide-scsi with
the same result), then Linux wants to treat it as a permanent hard
drive -- I can't boot Linux unless there's a ZIP disk in the drive
(otherwise I get an endless string of "hdb: lost interrupt"), and
can't shut Linux down if the drive happens to be unmounted, and I
certainly can't eject the disk.
What am I doing wrong?
Here's the output of dmesg:
Linux version 2.2.16-22 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Aug 22 16:16:55 EDT 2000
Detected 166196 kHz processor.
ide_setup: hdb=ide-floppy
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 331.78 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62508k/65536k available (1048k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1080k data, 6
4k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 04
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd871
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 51023H2, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100, ATA DISK drive
hdc: FX120T, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: SAF CD-RW4224A, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: Maxtor 51023H2, 9765MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1244/255/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 255.270 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 305.562 MB/sec
8regs : 182.499 MB/sec
32regs : 135.255 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (305.562 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 >
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CD-ROM FX120T !B Rev: b03
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: SAF Model: CD-RW4224A Rev: 1.40
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 12x/12x xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 72252k swap-space (priority -1)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.232 $ time 16:21:43 Aug 22 2000
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: Intel USB controller: setting latency timer to 0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff80, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.13 detected OK (240)
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
hdb: driver not present
hdb: driver not present
id: 0x64 io: 0x210 eth0: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA
at 0x210, 00:a0:c9:b4:39:90, IRQ 5, 10BaseT.
eth0: set Rx mode to 1 address.
eth0: set Rx mode to 1 address.
eth0: set Rx mode to 1 address.
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
hdb: driver not present
hdb: driver not present
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation.
parport_probe: failed
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: rh7 bootdisk ?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:24:11 GMT
pamela wrote:
>
> I installed RH7 from the "respin" cd's (downloaded and burned), and
> installed on the last 3 gigs of my 30 gig hard drive.
>
> Installed LILO to the mbr but LILO doesnt show up. So now how should I go
> about making a bootdisk to get into my Linux system?
>
> thanks in advance to any replies
Unless they have changed the install setup you can use the rescue choice
when you get to the boot prompt during the install and get back into the
system by entering:
rescue root=/dev/hdaX # hdaX being the root partition
Then use "mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 x.x.xx"
# where x.x.xx is the kernel version.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem in mandrake
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:11:38 +0100
hoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and they suck. I am not sure what they are, i think netconf, draknet,
> and something else. Everytime I restart, I have to isapnp isapnp.conf
> again, setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A again, then go thru' all the
> mandrake control panel to set up just one connection to the internet. I
Well, do it in a bootup script instead then!
Peter
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From: Sid Vicious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:50:56 +0100
Sorry
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From: Matt Caskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI RADEON DOES *NOT* WORK WITH LINUX
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:53:31 -0500
The thing to remember with ATI is that their drivers suck, there is NO
customer support, and they repeatedly phase out "old" video cards. What
they consider old is anything not the most recent. They offer no
support for linux. All drivers are 3rd party, and they don't get the
specs until after the card is released. From my NVidia has for the most
part actually shipped with linux drivers, and if not, they released the
specs early enought that drivers are ready by the realse date.
Dan Stephenson wrote:
>
> Yow. I'm getting a new PC next summer, I guess I had hoped to consider
> both the ATI (fan since the Mach64) as well as the NVidia. Do all the
> NVidias work well?
>
> --
> program signature
> write(6,*) 'Dan Stephenson'
> stop
> end
--
Matt Caskey
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| "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I
| buy something."
| - Unknown
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From: Patricia Flickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Getting modem to be accepted by YAST2 config
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:49:26 GMT
I've been having quite a problem getting my US Robotics internal modem
to be accepted and configured properly on Suse linux. I've followed
the directions online and in the manual (and interestingly enough, the
manual shows to use ttyS5, but in another part, it says the modem is
assigned to ttyS1, but then the "help" I receive says it's ttyS2, none
of which work). I get the commands to work just fine, but when I go
back to YAST2 to finish the installation, it says to turn on my modem,
which of course, I can't really do except that I did the command and
hit the ok button. No matter what I've tried, it doesn't detect a
modem, yet, when I installed the machine, it detected the hardware with
no difficulties whatsoever. The video card was another matter until I
bought a Voodoo 3x, then it went along just fine.
Does anyone know what's going on? I've had it with Suse's lack-of-tech
support and customer lack-of-service. They are the worst company I've
ever dealt with next to Microsoft. And a 90-day support policy just
means that they can take even longer to respond to your problems.
Regards,
Pat Flickner
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From: Patricia Flickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: getting modem to be... addendum
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:50:51 GMT
Forgot to add -- using Suse 7.0 Professional edition
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From: "Dusty Dew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Getting modem to be accepted by YAST2 config
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:11:12 -0600
Since it is U.S. Robotics I am assuming that it is a winmodem. Check
www.linmodems.org to see if a driver exists.Or read here
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html .
~Dusty
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