Linux-Setup Digest #426, Volume #20 Mon, 15 Jan 01 12:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: USB Keyboard, 3Com Network Card and the new 2.4.0 kernel.
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Safe way to upgrade glibc? (Frederic Faure)
Re: 2.4 Netfilter/iptables/IP masquerade howto help (Tim Molloy)
Re: Safe way to upgrade glibc? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
How do I correct the time on my system? (Don)
GUI Issues ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I correct the time on my system? (David)
Re: WebJetAdmin 6.2 ("Jerry Segers, Jr.")
Re: Kickstart + RH7.0 + cdrom == Jack S**t ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Newbie needs help: DOS partitions ("Geoffrey Schneider")
Re: Safe way to upgrade glibc? (Frederic Faure)
Server setup ?'s ("Ben")
Re: Newbie needs help: DOS partitions ("Martin Schmidt")
Re: Printing woes
Re: Safe way to upgrade glibc? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: moving subdirs ("Jerry Segers, Jr.")
Re: Newbie needs help: DOS partitions (DTi4565459)
Re: grub Qs (Peter Kadau)
AHA-1542c ("Bece13")
Fixed: FAT Partition write protected during boot ("Paul Kennedy")
Re: MBR Write Protected according to DOS fdisk ("Paul Kennedy")
Re: Problems with RedHat 7 and SiS530-chipset ("Bece13")
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Keyboard, 3Com Network Card and the new 2.4.0 kernel.
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:10:14 +0100
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, S. G. Student wrote:
> "Robert B. Gamble" wrote:
> >
> > "S. G. Student" wrote:
> > >
> > > "Robert B. Gamble" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to upgrade the kernel on my Redhat Linux 7.0 system. I am
> > > > having trouble getting it to work because I have not found a way to
> > > > simply upgrade it while keeping all the same settings currently setup
> > > > with 2.2.16-20.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to use the make config and have it default to all the
> > > > current setting of my running kernel? The two problems I am having are
> > > > with my USB keyboard and my 3Com network card.
> > > >
> > > > Both work fine with my current kernel, but when I compile the new
> > > > kernel, I cant seem to find the magic setting to keep them working.
> > > > Without either (USB Keyboard, or 3Com network card) I have no way of
> > > > shutting down aside from the power switch.
> > > >
> > > > Please provide instructions as to how to solve stated problems. Thank
> > > > you,
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Robert B. Gamble
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > if you saved your old .config copy it to the source tree and then do a
> > > make oldconfig. This will present you with only the new choices for the
> > > new kernel. The sourceforge site points to some pretty good usb
> > > documentation.
> >
> > I was trying to do that, however, the RedHat 7.0 install did not seem to
> > leave any trace of the .config file. Is that because the Kernel is pre
> > compiled with the RedHat 7.0 software?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Robert B. Gamble
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Don't know about RH but Debian puts a copy in /boot
They are in /usr/src/linux/configs/ IIRC.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Safe way to upgrade glibc?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:10:35 GMT
Hi,
It's the second time that I hose a test Linux host by updating glibc
through RPM. This time around, I switched to run-level 1 to minimize
the number of processes running, to no avail (ls = "File of path not
found", "/bin./ls = "File or path not found", although echo $PATH is
fine.) I reinstalled RH 6.2 from scratch since I didn't know where to
look.
=> Since we often have to update this all-important library, is there
a proved and safe way to do this, and why does upgrading glibc through
RPM kill hosts?
Thx
FF.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Molloy)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 2.4 Netfilter/iptables/IP masquerade howto help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:19:30 GMT
http://www.kurd.nu
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:47:10 GMT, "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>CAVEAT: I'm not Rusty. I know next to nothing about NAT/Masq/etc.
>
>
>On Jan 15, 2001 at 01:11, tonygroff eloquently wrote:
>
>>Basically, I am trying to understand how to setup IP masquerading in
>>2.4. I would like to know if there is a Netfilter/iptables IP Masq
>>howto? (There isn't one at LDP, that's for sure!).
>>
>>I was running 2.2.18 with ipchains no problem. I have compiled all (at
>>least what I THOUGHT were all of the related IP masq, iptable,
>>ipchains, netmasq, etc.). I am able to run ipchains successfully with
>>the 2.4 ipchains module. However I totally do not understand
>>Netfilter/iptables.
>>
>>I have read, read, and re-read all of the documentation at
>>http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/. That's all fine and good if the
>>kernel has been successfully compiled with the appropriate
>>requirements, but nowhere have I been able to find documentation that
>>explains what the hell needs to be compiled!?
>>
>>As I mentioned, I compiled practically every related IP masq type
>>option as a loadable module. I can load up ipchains and run just fine
>>with that. However, when I try to load any iptable related module, I
>>get the following error:
>>
>>----------------
>>
>>[root@zorak /root]# modprobe ip_tables
>>/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: init_module:
>>Device or resource busy
>>Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
>>including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>>/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod
>>/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed
>>/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod
>>ip_tables failed
>>
>>----------------
>>
>>Can anyone help?
>As you have already been to http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/, you
>know where to get the documentation. I think the apropiate HOWTOs
>for you are the NAT-HOWTO and the Packet-filtering-HOWTO. NAT-HOWTO
>section 4.1 deals with simple masquerading. From the docs, I gathered
>you can use pure netfilter or ipchains via netfilter,but not both.
>
>Hope this helps....
>
>--
>Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
>Beam me up, Scotty!
> 9:36am up 4 days, 12:34, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Safe way to upgrade glibc?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:27:14 +0100
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Frederic Faure wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's the second time that I hose a test Linux host by updating glibc
> through RPM. This time around, I switched to run-level 1 to minimize
> the number of processes running, to no avail (ls = "File of path not
> found", "/bin./ls = "File or path not found", although echo $PATH is
> fine.) I reinstalled RH 6.2 from scratch since I didn't know where to
> look.
I suppose the '.' is a typo; that you really mean /bin/ls ?
> => Since we often have to update this all-important library, is there
> a proved and safe way to do this, and why does upgrading glibc through
> RPM kill hosts?
Did you use --nodeps? --force?
When upgrading between patchlevels (e.g. from 2.2-9 to 2.2-12), it is
normally safe to do while it is running (it worked fine on a server, I
am running). Between major releases (upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2), there
could be binary incompatiblities. In this case you would have to upgrade
all dependent packages at the same time. So what versions did you
upgrade from and to?
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: How do I correct the time on my system?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:39:30 -0500
Hello,
Simple question I hope. Using RedHat 6.2
The time on my system reads 5 hours too slow yet the time in my BIOS is
correct. I'll assume that the system time is kept seperately from the
BIOS time. How do I correct it please?
Thanks,
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GUI Issues
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:25:39 GMT
I am running Redhat 7.0 and I upgraded to XFree86 4.0.2 and I am having
some GUI issues if you can help me please email me back at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Issues
1) How can I install True Type Fonts?
2) I setup my screen saver to turn off the monitor but the monitor does
not tunr off??
3) If I start the server in mode 5 (GUI) gnome does not start you from
my users, but if I start the server in mode 3 (text) and then login and
run startx gui will start!!
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: How do I correct the time on my system?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:07:19 -0600
Don wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Simple question I hope. Using RedHat 6.2
> The time on my system reads 5 hours too slow yet the time in my BIOS is
> correct. I'll assume that the system time is kept seperately from the
> BIOS time. How do I correct it please?
To check to see if this could be the problem:
cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
This will show you the clock file. If this could be causing the problem
it will probably look like the one shown.
ZONE="US/Central"
UTC=true
ARC=false
It should look similar to this with the correct country and timezone in
the first line. The second line tells Linux to assume the BIOS clock is
set to the UTC or GMT timezone. If this is what yours looks like then
you should change the UTC line to correct it as shown below.
vi /etc/sysconfig/clock
UTC=false
Be sure to save the change when done then reset the correct time.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.002% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "Jerry Segers, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WebJetAdmin 6.2
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:57:14 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "H.A.J. van Niekerk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 questions:
> 1) How do I setup a (remote) printer queue on my RH 6.2 server (printing
> on a 10mb NIC to a HP Jetdirect 170x)
<snip>
> Huub
Sounds like you've already set up the printer, yes? if so, you don't
need webjetadmin. simply run (as root) printtool
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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: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:58:16 GMT
Jon, thanks so much for the heads-up. This could turn out to be a
life-saver.
Quick question as I don't have my cd's handy. Do you know what volume
string RH uses for 7.0?
Thanks again!
In article <3a605cee$0$15484$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jon Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> one thing to check is that the volume label of the cd you burned is
the same
> as the original volume label- i think thats how RH identifies its CD
during
> the install process.
>
> Jon Baker
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From: "Geoffrey Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie needs help: DOS partitions
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:11:22 GMT
Hi.
I want to install Linux, but I have a couple of questions:
My disk is a 10Gb drive, divided up into five seperate 2Gb
drives all using the FAT16 file system (C:\, D:\, E:\, F:\,
G:\).
The primary DOS partition (and system disk) is the C:\ drive
(2Gb) and there is an extended DOS partition of 8Gb, inside
which are the four other 2Gb drives.
I hope you're understanding me.
When I install Linux, how do I specify for it to install on,
say, drive E:\ ?
Do I have any need of FIPS? It doesn't recognize any of the
drives in the extended DOS partition (where four of my 2Gb
drives are).
When I tried installing Linux it didn't tell me on which
drive it was installing - and now its supposedly installed,
how come I can't see it anywhere, or run it?
Should I wipe my whole hard drive, delete all the
partitions, and make one big new one with the FAT32 file
system? And then can I use FIPS to partition that?
What the *heck* do I do here?
From
Jefferrs
Totally lost.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Re: Safe way to upgrade glibc?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:12:40 GMT
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:27:14 +0100,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I suppose the '.' is a typo; that you really mean /bin/ls ?
Yes. None of the external commands work (ie. not included in
the shell.)
>Did you use --nodeps? --force?
I don't like doing this, but I had to because RPM displayed a
whole page of apps that supposedly require libdb.so.[2 | 3]. So much
for backward compatibility...
>When upgrading between patchlevels (e.g. from 2.2-9 to 2.2-12), it is
>normally safe to do while it is running (it worked fine on a server, I
>am running).
This is the second test Linux that I kill by running rpm -Uvh
--nodeps glibcX... Even switching to run-level 1 for safety made no
difference, which doesn't surprise me much.
>Between major releases (upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2), there
>could be binary incompatiblities. In this case you would have to upgrade
>all dependent packages at the same time. So what versions did you
>upgrade from and to?
You gotta be kidding :-( I had a standard RH 6.2, and I just
wanted to use a recent OpenSSH. Just installing this required updating
rpm + openssl + glibc... The final upgrade killed my Linux.
Wouldn't it be safer to build the binary glibc from source code, boot
from a stand-alone floppy like TomsRtBt, and upgrade with the system
out of the way?
Thx
FF.
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From: "Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Server setup ?'s
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:17:30 -0800
I'm in the somewhat unfortunate situation of both having to set up
a webserver from scratch AND of being a Linux newbie (installed
my very first RH system 5 weeks ago). I'm not utterly green: I know
my way around httpd.conf pretty well, and could already Telnet into
my virtual host, to create tar'd backups, etc. . . . but that was about it.
I have three questions:
1. I'd like to create a set of RH install disks with which includes all the
needed security updates. My hope is that I can keep a set of updated
install CD's that can be used, in the event of a crash or a hacked
system,
to restore the server, without having to then install all the patches
added since 7.0 release. Can I do this simply by putting a copy of
CD's 1 and 2 on a harddrive, and replacing all the original RPMs with
the updated ones, and then periodically burning CD copies of these two
file sets?
2. I've been walking through the server setup, deleted, disabling, or
otherwise
removing all unneeded services (finger, NIS, X, etc.), but I can't
figure out
how to get rid of USB. Is this something I even should care about? I
assume
that there is no associated security risk, but that there may be some
server
load as a result of loading USB support. Also, I gather that inetd is
unneeded,
but I must confess I don't yet really understand what it does, so I'm
reluctant
to blow it away.
3. I've successfully used Webmin 0.83 and SSH, run from a Win98 box against
my test machine, with good results. Webmin makes things awfully easy,
and
protects from typing mistakes, at least for someone like me who hasn't
used
a command line much since DOS 5, and who's not the greatest typist. And,
so
far, the feedback I've gotten suggests that Webmin has NOT created much
of
a security risk. If anyone knows otherwise, I'd be grateful for the
info.
Thanks,
Ben
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(PS: the email works, at least until it begins getting spammed and I blow it
away
and replace it. So far, it hasn't been targeted. Wonder why? ;->)
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From: "Martin Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help: DOS partitions
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:13:31 +0100
Geoffrey Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
KiF86.47402$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi.
>
> I want to install Linux, but I have a couple of questions:
>
> My disk is a 10Gb drive, divided up into five seperate 2Gb
> drives all using the FAT16 file system (C:\, D:\, E:\, F:\,
> G:\).
>
> The primary DOS partition (and system disk) is the C:\ drive
> (2Gb) and there is an extended DOS partition of 8Gb, inside
> which are the four other 2Gb drives.
>
> I hope you're understanding me.
>
> When I install Linux, how do I specify for it to install on,
> say, drive E:\ ?
>
> Do I have any need of FIPS? It doesn't recognize any of the
> drives in the extended DOS partition (where four of my 2Gb
> drives are).
>
> When I tried installing Linux it didn't tell me on which
> drive it was installing - and now its supposedly installed,
> how come I can't see it anywhere, or run it?
>
> Should I wipe my whole hard drive, delete all the
> partitions, and make one big new one with the FAT32 file
> system? And then can I use FIPS to partition that?
>
> What the *heck* do I do here?
You were not asked for the target partition ?
That seems pretty unusal to me , which distribution do
you use ?
You can check if linux is installed somewhere by looking
at your drives in dos / windows , if something misses
(cant see the drive letter) you can assume linux has been installed
there .
There are many possibilties for system startup .
- use a boot manager
- boot linux from diskette , cd-rom
- start linux from dos (not possible in every case)
To recommend something it would be very useful wich
distro you are using .
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing woes
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:30:06 -0000
Greg Gailer wrote:
>
>
> Greeting all
> Why do some distributions insist on allowing only one type of printing
> system in their linux version? I use Mandrake Linux for my workstation
> and RedHat Linux for my server. Mandrake uses the CUPS printing system
> which works fine for a locally connected printer and also works fine for
> a printer connected to a remote computer, but try as I might (for two
> months) it will not work with one of those small printer server boxes!!
> I tried to remove CUPS but Mandrake had dependancies in a whole host of
> other programs that relied on CUPS. I eventually removed all of them,
> downloaded the source code for all of them (as well as LPRNG printing
> software) compiled them all, setup LPRNG and tried it all out. LPRNG
> works perfectly on my system and now after about 2 1/2 months I can use
> my printer. CUPS would seem to be not quite complete as yet and until
> they have their network printing sorted out, I certainly won't be using
> it again (no matter how involved it is to do otherwise). My RedHat system
> comes with LPRNG although it installs LPD by default, so I had no
> problems with it at all.
> If anybody is also having problems with CUPS, try LPRNG it's great.
>
> Greg
How do I get LPRNG?
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Safe way to upgrade glibc?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:30:48 +0100
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Frederic Faure wrote:
> >Did you use --nodeps? --force?
> I don't like doing this, but I had to because RPM displayed a
> whole page of apps that supposedly require libdb.so.[2 | 3]. So much
> for backward compatibility...
Yikes. For a standard upgrade (ie. from the RedHat 6.2 updates)?
> >When upgrading between patchlevels (e.g. from 2.2-9 to 2.2-12), it is
> >normally safe to do while it is running (it worked fine on a server, I
> >am running).
> This is the second test Linux that I kill by running rpm -Uvh
> --nodeps glibcX... Even switching to run-level 1 for safety made no
> difference, which doesn't surprise me much.
You probably upgraded to a glibc, that does not have binary
compatibility. When making such upgrades, either upgrade all dependant
packages at the same time - or make an OS upgrade...
> >Between major releases (upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2), there
> >could be binary incompatiblities. In this case you would have to upgrade
> >all dependent packages at the same time. So what versions did you
> >upgrade from and to?
> You gotta be kidding :-( I had a standard RH 6.2, and I just
> wanted to use a recent OpenSSH. Just installing this required updating
> rpm + openssl + glibc... The final upgrade killed my Linux.
>
> Wouldn't it be safer to build the binary glibc from source code, boot
> from a stand-alone floppy like TomsRtBt, and upgrade with the system
> out of the way?
If it is for openssl and openssh only, i would get the source rpm's and
compile them myself. Better than crashing the whole system by upgrading
glibc.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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From: "Jerry Segers, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: moving subdirs
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:24:21 -0500
In article <3a623e92$2$qnivfs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I know this has been discussed before and must be something of a FAQ. It
> would suffice simply to send me to the relevant HOW-TO.
>
> I am planning to rearrange my linux setup to something a bit more
> rational. I'd like to put some subdirs like /usr and /home on another
> partition. I'm not sure what needs to be done to retain path sanity.
>
> I'll take a look at deja.com but I thought someone might have a quick
> (and useful) response here (or a ready reference).
>
> Thanks!
>
> F.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Felmon John Davis Union College / Schenectady, NY os/2 -
> ma kauft koi katz em sack
> -----------------------------------------------------------
su
<password>
mkdir /temporary_mount_point
mount <partition> /temporary_mount_point
cp <whatever> /temporary_mount_point/
mv <whatever> <whatever>~
mkdir <whatever>
vi /etc/fstab
<put in a new line for the partition>
umount /temporary_mount_point
mount <whatever>
<confirm that it worked>
rm -fR <whatever>~
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DTi4565459)
Date: 15 Jan 2001 16:34:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help: DOS partitions
>
>My disk is a 10Gb drive, divided up into five seperate 2Gb
>drives all using the FAT16 file system (C:\, D:\, E:\, F:\,
>G:\).
>
>The primary DOS partition (and system disk) is the C:\ drive
>(2Gb) and there is an extended DOS partition of 8Gb, inside
>which are the four other 2Gb drives.
>
>I hope you're understanding me.
>
>When I install Linux, how do I specify for it to install on,
>say, drive E:\ ?
>
>Do I have any need of FIPS? It doesn't recognize any of the
>drives in the extended DOS partition (where four of my 2Gb
>drives are).
>
>When I tried installing Linux it didn't tell me on which
>drive it was installing - and now its supposedly installed,
>how come I can't see it anywhere, or run it?
>
>Should I wipe my whole hard drive, delete all the
>partitions, and make one big new one with the FAT32 file
>system? And then can I use FIPS to partition that?
>
Dear Jefferrs:
I am a newbie who has gone through similar
problems. Could not solve problem from within
Linux, but using Partition Magic I reformatted
one of the drives on the extended partition as
ext2 (Linux's filesystem). Then, when I did a
Debian install, it initialized and installed Linux
on the ext2 partition. After that, LILO wouldn't
boot NT; the DOS solution to that problem was
System Commander. Good luck. PS: it
took me a long time of trial and error to
accomplish above, but I am now beginning
to enjoy it. Best wishes, dave
dave
http://www.columbia.edu/~mdt1/
(1 = one, not little L; and don't forget the trailing / )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Kadau)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: grub Qs
Date: 15 Jan 2001 16:33:02 GMT
Timothy Washington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: I installed the GNU GRand Unified Bootlader (GRUB), and there are
: some basic topics which I could not find in the documentation, like how
: to boot a linux kernel, or how to boot a windows kernel.
<SNIP>
did you check the info-pages on grub ?
'info grub'
<SNIP>
: but how would I pass in a windows
: kernel?
not at all, you'll do "chainloading".
<SNIP>
: First of all, theses are my partitions:
:
: Windows Partitions hda1 hda3
which one is the bootable ? i'll assume hda1.
: Linux Partitions hda5 hda6 hda7
which one is your root-partition ? i'll assume hda5.
furthermore, you need to know where your boot-image resides.
i'll assume as /boot/vmlinuz in hda5.
<SNIP>
:
: Tim
:
now, assuming these are the correct settings, just do the following to boot
windows:
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot
linux:
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
boot
note the different usages of the keyword 'root'.
if you managed to boot your linux this (or the other) way - you _have_
a boot-floppy, don't you ? - edit /boot/grub/menu.lst:
timeout 30 // lots of time to choose
default 1 // linux is default, isn't it ?
fallback 0
title windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title linux
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
#EOF menu.lst
no, you _don't_ have to rerun grub to "activate" the settings.
there's one tweak: if your linux-system uses initrd,
you may have to add this line to your linux-section:
initrd /boot/initrd.img
or whatever this file is called on your system.
a bit lengthy, that advice, but still
HTH
peter
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From: "Bece13" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AHA-1542c
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:37:02 -0500
Hi everybody,
I'm kind of new to Linux and I'm trying to install RedHat 7.0 from a SCSI
CD_ROM. (my old PC can't boot from CD).
After booting from a floppy drive the setup is asking for a diskette with
the driver for my AHA-1542C SCSI adapter (is not on the display list). I
have to specified that AHA-154x is not on the RedHat hardware list.
I would appreciate any suggestions from where I can get this driver and how
to install it.
bece13
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From: "Paul Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,microsoft.public.win98.setup
Subject: Fixed: FAT Partition write protected during boot
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:37:30 -0000
The problem was down to the bios, but I don't know what. Virus
protection was disabled and I tried various bios changes.
In the end I reset the bios to default and everything magically
sorted itself out.
Thanks to those who read and/or replied.
Paul Kennedy
Hexel (UK) Ltd
"Paul Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:93uip4$vdl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Fdisk /mbr replies with
> "write protect error writing fixed disk. The master boot code has NOT been
> updated"
> However, linux lilo can write to this mbr and partition. Win98 can not.
>
> "Nicolas Rinaudo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:93o0di$gb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Had the same problem. Fixed it with a fdisk -mbr or fdisk /mbr(make sure
> you
> > have a boot floppy!), but why do not ask me...
> > Nicolas Rinaudo
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Paul Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,microsoft.public.win98.setup
Subject: Re: MBR Write Protected according to DOS fdisk
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:37:52 -0000
The problem was down to the bios, but I don't know what. Virus
protection was disabled and I tried various bios changes.
In the end I reset the bios to default and everything magically
sorted itself out.
Thanks to those who read and/or replied.
Paul Kennedy
Hexel (UK) Ltd
"Paul Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:93k2nf$ona$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a linux/win98 dual boot system which has been experiencing
> write protect errors during win98 bootup. Now it is unrecoverable,
> and I can not clean install windows 98 or me.
>
> First symptom was write failures during bootup of 98, then updates
> would not work, now the whole system will not boot.
>
> I now cannot rewrite the MBR using 98 FDISK /MBR - it says
> that the fixed disk is write protected.
>
> I have checked the BIOS for MBR protection, but it is turned off.
> Also Linux lilo can write to the MBR (both -u and from lilo.conf
> setups), just 98 cannot write.
>
> Please help
>
> Paul Kennedy
> Hexel (UK) Ltd
>
>
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From: "Bece13" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with RedHat 7 and SiS530-chipset
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:50:26 -0500
I don't remember if I installed it on a pc with the SiS 530 chipset, but i
know I had problems with those things.
Try: "sndconfig" command. It fixed the soundcard for me.
About the network adapter if is a PCI pnp Adapter check out this site
http://www.scyld.com/. It has drivers and a utility pci-scan or something
like that.
About the modem I don't know.
bece13
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"J�rgen Simonsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all,
>
> has someone installed linux on a pc with the SiS 530 chipset,
> espacially RedHat 7, and can give me some information to
> bring the internal sound card, modem and lan-adapter to
> work?
>
>
> J�rgen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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