Linux-Setup Digest #411, Volume #20 Sat, 13 Jan 01 03:13:04 EST
Contents:
Still looking: (Steven Leuty)
Is 3 OSs possible? ("Ping - RequesTimedOut")
RAID0 on Slackware 7.1 (John Millington)
Re: Not enough disk space? (Scott Nolde)
Re: Debian, no cd..LONG (Cathy Gramze)
Re: Debian, no cd (Cathy Gramze)
Re: Redhat 6.1 Can nolonger login. (Srihari Vijayaraghavan)
Re: Is 3 OSs possible? (Rod Smith)
Re: APIC error on CPU:00(08) ? (Srihari Vijayaraghavan)
Re: CDROM BOOT DISK (Srihari Vijayaraghavan)
Re: Redhat 7.0 boot image not working on ThinkPad 1161-41M (Matthew Kwan)
Re: Problems Compiling Kernel 2.2.14: "No rule to make target" (Patrick Pritchard)
Re: Problems Compiling Kernel 2.2.14: "No rule to make target" (Patrick Pritchard)
Re: rh7 bootdisk ? (E J)
Mandrake dial-up problems? ("Ust")
Re: Problem with SiS630 (integrated) sound card (Raymond Li)
Re: LILO boots only linux (Peter Kelly)
Re: Help: suck; 400 file exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
(David. E. Goble)
Re: ATI RADEON DOES *NOT* WORK WITH LINUX
Re: mandrake linksys lne100tx
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From: Steven Leuty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Still looking:
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:30:49 -0600
I still haven't found the answer I'm looking for.
Again: I bought a U.S. Robotics PCI Fax Pro internal modem just so I
could install RH 7.0 since I've read that Linux supports the modem. My
computer came with a sinmodem which I quickly replaced with the above.
Any way the modem works well with win me but is located on com port 5.
My Linux doesn't read the modem what so ever. I've tried changing the
modem to a lower port but nothing seems to work.
again please help
thanks.
steverl
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From: "Ping - RequesTimedOut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is 3 OSs possible?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:38:28 +0800
Dual OS : Win98 and 2000 up and running pretty good on HD1
Intending to install RedHat Linux on HD2
Is this possible?
thanks,
Ping - Request Timed Out
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Millington)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: RAID0 on Slackware 7.1
Date: 13 Jan 2001 03:38:56 GMT
I have Slackware 7.1 (kernel 2.2.16) with no patches. Slackware apparently
comes with the raidtools (i.e. it has a mkraid command) but when I
try to mkraid a RAID0 (don't need redundancy; this is for a fast /tmp
among other things) mkraid says that RAID level 0 is not supported.
Is this normal (?!!) or do I need to get newer raidtools, or what?
Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
John Millington
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not enough disk space?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 04:35:44 GMT
Furlongv wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Reformatted a Win 98 hard drive in preparation
> for installing Red Hat Linux 6.0. Computer has
> 680MB HD.
>
> But after beginning the install I get a message
> saying "not enough disk space for installation".
> What gives?
>
> Vince (learning to set up a Linux web server)
The filesystem format you gave the hard drive is not used when you
install linux. Linux uses a different filesystem, primarily ext2.
Therefore you must resize or delete that partition altogether before you
install linux.
Read:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/LDP/Linux+Windows-GUIDE/index.html
- Scott
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
11:30pm up 1 day, 5:35, 1 user, load average: 1.22, 1.08, 1.02
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From: Cathy Gramze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian, no cd..LONG
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 04:58:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry) wrote:
> 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?
Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. I have a HD on IDE1. I have a cdrom and
tape on IDE2. I have a SCSI card with cd burner. Lines 10 and 11 of this fstab are
bad, but winD mounts so I can play my MP3s (Waste LINUX file space with those? Never!)
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user, 0 0
/dev/hdc0 mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,exec 0 0
/dev/hda2 /boot ext2 rw 0 2
/dev/hda7 /mnt/winD vfat rw, user, exec, conv=binary, umask=000 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 rw, user, exec 0 0
How do you attempt to mount the cdrom?
As su, mount /dev/hdc0 /mnt/cdrom or mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2
I created the directories within /mnt for them since Debian wanted it just /cdrom. for
the cdrom, it says the special device does not exist. For the scsi, it says it does
not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device. Neither cd appears at all in the mtab file.
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?
Mostly default. I added obvious stuff, like EMU10K1 support, serial and parallel port
support, etc. I also added the ide-scsi emulation module, as I have read that I need
this to copy cds from the IDE drive to the SCSI burner. From a good long look at dmesg
I suspect this is part of the problem, from the lines that say SCSI1: host adapter
emulation for IDE ATAPI devices SCSI: 2 hosts. I know that the cdrom is originally
found as hdc. The SCSI card is found, too, Adaptec AHA274X/, with 1 host originally.
An lsmod doesn't show anything of interest except the IDE-SCSI emulation module.
>
I have sound and printing working now. I think.
>
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From: Cathy Gramze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian, no cd
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 05:00:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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!
I'm with you. After a bad experience with CUPS in Mandrake 7.2 I went straight for lpd!
cathyy
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From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Can nolonger login.
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:22:01 +1100
ThndrDuk wrote:
> I have a Redhat 6.1 box and starting a few today I can't login. I can
> still
> ping the system, web works, firewall works and ftp works on it. I have
> tried giving the box the Death Grip (alt+ctrl+del) for a clean restart and
> I still can't telnet or login on the actual terminal for any user.
> error is
> "Login incorrect"
>
> Any ideas.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Jeff
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Hello,
After resolving your problem, consider using an Intrusion Detection System
like tripwire. (http://www.tripwire.org)
All the best,
Hari.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Is 3 OSs possible?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 05:23:12 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <93olu5$rr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ping - RequesTimedOut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dual OS : Win98 and 2000 up and running pretty good on HD1
> Intending to install RedHat Linux on HD2
> Is this possible?
Yes. I've got a system with DOS, WinMe, Win2K, two versions of Linux,
OS/2, and BeOS all installed on one computer. In fact, I've written a
book about such multi-OS configurations (_The Multi-Boot Configuration
Handbook_, http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/), although basic
installation certainly doesn't require reading a book-length document.
There are several Linux HOWTO documents on multi-booting with various
specific other OSs. (Check http://www.linuxdoc.org for these.)
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: APIC error on CPU:00(08) ?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:31:41 +1100
V.P. wrote:
> This message apears only when i use linux kernel-2.4 and not in 2.2.17.
>
> What is means ?
>
> Any Help is apreciated
>
> Final message in dmesg
>
> Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
> APIC error on CPU0: 00(08)
> APIC error on CPU1: 00(04)
> APIC error on CPU0: 08(02)
> APIC error on CPU0: 02(08)
> APIC error on CPU1: 04(04)
> APIC error on CPU1: 04(02)
> APIC error on CPU1: 02(04)
> APIC error on CPU0: 08(04)
> APIC error on CPU1: 04(08)
> APIC error on CPU0: 04(04)
> APIC error on CPU1: 08(08)
> APIC error on CPU1: 08(02)
>
>
>
>
>
>
Hello there,
Your computer seem to have multiple processors. (SMP)
Here is the help screen information from "make xconfig" for Linux-2.4.0
---Starts here---
APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is a scheme for
delivering hardware interrupt requests to the CPU. It is commonly
used on systems with several CPU's. If you have a single-CPU system
which uses APIC, you can say Y here to use it. If you say Y here
even though your machine doesn't have APIC, then the kernel will
still run with no slowdown at all.
If you have system with several CPU's, you do not need to say Y
here: APIC will be used automatically.
---Ends here---
Can you try compiling 2.4.0 without APIC and see what happens?
Hope this helps,
Hari.
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From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDROM BOOT DISK
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:38:50 +1100
root wrote:
> 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.
Hello,
Refer the following URL for CD-based distributions:
http://lwn.net/2001/0111/dists.php3
I guess few of them even offer ISO images which you can download from the
net.
Hope this helps.
Thank you,
Hari.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Kwan)
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 boot image not working on ThinkPad 1161-41M
Date: 13 Jan 2001 16:44:19 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Kwan) writes:
>I'm trying to get Redhat 7.0 installed on a ThinkPad i1200 1161-41M
>and it's refusing to boot from the CD.
>The helpful message is BOOT FAILED.
>Next attempt was to use RAWRITE to install boot.img on a floppy and use
>this to boot. Again, BOOT FAILED. I tried copying a few other images onto
>floppy (eg pcmcia.img and bootnet.img) but same result. The BOOT FAILED
>message appears in less than a second, so it's finding something it
>doesn't like fairly early on.
In case anyone runs into the same problem, I finally got around it
with the help of a friend and an application called Smart Boot Manager.
When we booted off an SBM floppy, and used that to boot the Redhat CD,
it worked fine.
mkwan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Pritchard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: Problems Compiling Kernel 2.2.14: "No rule to make target"
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:20:02 +0000 (UTC)
In article <0YM76.5585$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>make dep clean vmlinux modules modules_install
Don't know why, but this seemed to work. Hm.
>
>see http://linuxppc.org/hardware/blueg3/g3_kernel_howto.shtml
>
Interesting link, told me stuff I didn't know about! Thanks.
>--
>
>Bicycle Crash Test Dummy For Hire
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Pritchard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: Problems Compiling Kernel 2.2.14: "No rule to make target"
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:22:33 +0000 (UTC)
Followup:
For some reason, when I tried
make vmlinux
This time it worked. Of cousre, I hadn't tried "make vmlinux" with this 'new' set of
.config values, but in any case I finally got a Kernel working.
Now, if someone could help me with my second problem... :) (See next posting..)
-patrick
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: rh7 bootdisk ?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:04:59 GMT
During the RH7.0 installation, did you put a floppy in your computer when it
was creating lilo?
That is your linux bootdisk.
If you did not, put in your RH7.0 CD and perform an upgrade of something
small and existing (i.e. a game) don't perform a install when it creates lilo
get your floppy disk ready.
If lilo still does not install on your harddisk find out why using your linux
bootfloppy.
lilo: linux single
bash# lilo
I would suspect it is a 1024 cylinder problem, but RH7.0 has the latest lilo.
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
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From: "Ust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake dial-up problems?
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:48:12 +0800
hi anyone,
after installation of mandrake 7.2 and configuration of DNS and Kppp, i
tried to connect to the internet, it was fine that the kppp could connect
but after i opened the netscape and konqueor, it could not show anything on
the website by just saied "waiting for the response from the websit", could
any one tell me why?
1, i am using pppd 2.4;
2, after cofigured the dns and exited, it told me that could not sync with
root;
thanks for any hints
sam
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From: Raymond Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with SiS630 (integrated) sound card
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:27:30 +0800
I recompiled the kernel and hard coded irq 11 to card->irq in trident.c.
Then the sound card works. My notebook could now play sound. But it
generates strange repeating beeps in X-windows, if the event sound is
turned on. I am still troubleshooting it.. Anyway, now I got my notebook
run fairly good with 1024x768 X-windows, with network card and sound
card work as well. My friends are all surprised when they see my
notebook running Linux.
Yours,
Raymond
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From: Peter Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO boots only linux
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:56:01 GMT
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:23:31 +0100, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Doh, it works!!
>>
>> apparently i forgot to change
>> boot=/dev/hda5 (it was like that when i found it)
>> into
>> boot=/dev/hda
>
>And it was very important as you noticed :-)
As a test engineer who spends his life programming....
Nearly all super difficult problems boil down to one line of code.
The week it takes to identify this one line is the problem.
It's the 'almost done' assignment that takes all day. And then you
are done.
Or have to find the one line.
I work with a guy who spent a week tracking down a problem like
Subroutine ( ImportantVariable)
that should have been
Subroutine ( *ImportantVariable)
The moral is...
Find the line
>
>> Now everything works fine, so for helping me :
>>
>> :-o
>> "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
>> you make the lilo when he wont boot
>> you never know dear how much i boot now
>> oh please dont take your help away"
>> :-|)
>> :-|)
>
>Glad I could help you out.
>
>Eric
When responding by email, please change the no-spam to disco.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Spam really sucks.
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Help: suck; 400 file exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 07:30:59 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
On 11 Jan 2001 00:52:17 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Andrew) wrote:
>
>goble@gtech (David. E. Goble) writes:
>
>>On 8 Jan 2001 13:14:35 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Andrew) wrote:
>>>
>>>>I am running redhat 6.2. I have a problem with suck.
>>>>Reason: 400 File exists writing symlinking article file -- throttling
>
>>Hi Nick;
>>OK so the problem is with innd. Can you expand on this...
>
>As I said, the server is throttled. If you don't run the server, you
>need to find whoever does, and get them to fix it. If you do run
>the server, you should know what to do.
>
Well excuss me for trying to learn and get a server up and running.
I did not know we had to know everything.
Can a more enlighten person help me, thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: ATI RADEON DOES *NOT* WORK WITH LINUX
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:01:44 -0000
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:52:48 -0600, Dan Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ben Miles wrote:
>
>> Alternatively forget Linux because its crap. The reason Microsoft has a
>> monopoly is basically because windows is flexable and doesnt require a
>> degree to use, where as Linux is unforgiving, unsupported and hideous.
>>
>> Q. why buy a radeon?
>> A. To play games.
>> Q. How many good games run on Linux?
>> A. About 3
>
>Maybe some people use Microsoft "operating systems" because of the games,
>only. And they use Linux for work. So if they're getting a new game FOR
>GAMES, they also want to make sure it does X well also.
Since when does the "1 extra FPS" crowd give ATI any respect
anyways? If you want to do some gaming in Linux you can use
Geforce, 3DFX and Matrox cards.
[deletia]
OTOH, the video for linux page has an "no-ATI" logo on it.
--
Ease of use should be associated with things like "human engineering"
and "use the right tool for the right job". And of course,
"reliability", since stopping to fix a problem or starting over due
to lost work are the very antithesis of "ease of use".
Bobby Bryant - COLA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: mandrake linksys lne100tx
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:09:35 -0000
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:33:14 GMT, Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>mike wrote:
>>
>> I 'm trying to install linksys lne100tx nic on mandrake 7.2 linux system , I
>> tried out looking at instructions on linksys page but I was unsuccesful
>> compiling the tulip.c file. I would appriciate if anyone can send me
>> information or documentation on this matter.
>> mike
>
>you may need to insmod the pci-scan.o module before the tulip module is
>accepted.
Using "modprobe" to load your modules rather than "insmod"
should do this for you automagically...
[deletia]
There is documentation on linksys.com regarding how to build
tulip.c. Why they couldn't just deliver a working Makefile is
somewhat of a mystery.
--
Unless you've got the engineering process to match a DEC,
you won't produce a VMS.
You'll just end up with the likes of NT.
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