Linux-Setup Digest #441, Volume #20 Wed, 17 Jan 01 15:13:05 EST
Contents:
printing to portrate instead of landscape ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kernel 2.4 installation problem (Yu Di)
Re: 386 vs 686 rpms ("earthtirol")
Video Card problems ("Chris")
Re: moving subdirs (Nick Condon)
Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem ("mattd")
Re: error compiling the kernel (benoit mordelet)
DNS won't work correct ("Thorsten Schmidt")
samba ("jahu")
Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem ("Kurt R. Rahlfs")
Re: PPD for HP DeskJet 890c (atalk) (Donald Brady)
Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem (Yu Di)
Re: rpm database in db3 format? ("ne...")
Re: where to install kernel sources ("ne...")
ls command and .dir_colours (James)
Re: Netscape slow (John Foster)
Re: error compiling the kernel (Markus Kossmann)
Re: where to install kernel sources (James Rose)
KDE GNOME switch over (Gary)
Re: valid installation partition? ("Philo")
Re: Netscape bookmarks (Gary)
Re: installing slackware (mst)
Instal Linux RedHat 7 en AlphaServer 1200 ("Jose Alberto")
Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem (Yu Di)
Re: where to install kernel sources (Eggert Ehmke)
Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem (Eggert Ehmke)
Re: DiskImage of newly installed Linux-Box (mst)
Re: where to install kernel sources (olgnuby)
Re: KDE GNOME switch over (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: printing to portrate instead of landscape
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:03:41 GMT
Hello,
I have a network printer LJ 4+. Currently my print jobs come out
as landscape, but how do I print as portrait. Apart from changing the
orientation on the printer control.
RedHAt 6.1
regards,
Peter
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Yu Di <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel 2.4 installation problem
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:17:18 -0600
Hi, I tried to install Kernel 2.4 on my machine. I compiled it with gcc
2.95.2. The compilation was all right. But when I put the bzImage into
/boot and changed lilo entries, then started booting, the screen shows:
Uncompressing Kernel...
Ok, booting the kernel.
Then stopped there.
At first the kernel size was 850K, so I thought it was the size
problem. But when I made a lot of options into modules, the kernel is
downsized to 613K, but the problem persists.
Anybody knows what the problem is? Thanks a lot!
Di, Yu
1.17
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From: "earthtirol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 386 vs 686 rpms
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:29:25 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Im Artikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb "Jason Bond"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm somewhat of a moron. I've been installing rpms that end in 386
> instead of 686 all along and I have a P2 celeron 366 machine. Am I
> taking that big of a speed hit? Should I upgrade all rpms to their
the speed benefit depends on the application, ie mp3 encodic ist musch
webbrowser is nearly nothing.
but u should use i686 versions if u get.
> respective 686 versions? Thanks,
>
> Jason
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Card problems
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:59:32 +1100
Hi, I have a 3DLabs 32MB Oxygen VX1 video card
the problem is I can not get the window system to come
up at all. This is strange because durring the installation
the resolution and picture quality of the monitor was perfect.
Tell me if I'm wrong, but if the picture is that good on installation
does'nt that mean that the video card was using a suitable Driver.
How come I recieved no warnings or errors at all and when I reboot
there is no way I can get into KDE or any other windows.
Please Help!!!!
Using Mandrake 7.2
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Condon)
Subject: Re: moving subdirs
Date: 17 Jan 2001 16:59:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <3a6596a3$1$qnivfs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/17/01
> at 10:22 AM, Nick Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>>/dev/hda10 /usr ext2 auto,rw,exec 1 1
>
>>The new partition shouldn't contain a 'usr' directory, it should
>>have the contents of '/usr', i.e. ('lib', 'bin', 'sbin', etc).
>>If your new partition contains a usr directory it will get
>>mounted as '/usr/usr' (probably not what you want).
>
>This is where I'm stumbling.
>
>Essentially I'd be treating the whole partition as '/usr'?
Exactly.
>Can't '/usr' be one directory amongst others (on the same level)
>on this partition?
The only way you could do that would be to mount your new partition
somewhere else (e.g. /home/newdisk) and use a soft link to your new 'usr'
directory, say:
mv /usr /old_usr; ln -s /home/newdisk/usr /usr
Have a look at the man page for 'ln'. Solaris does things this way, '/bin'
and '/lib' are soft links to '/usr/bin' and '/usr/lib'
>I appreciate the advice; thanks.
No problem. :-)
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From: "mattd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:24:34 GMT
did you run /sbin/lilo after?
Matt
"Yu Di" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, I tried to install Kernel 2.4 on my machine. I compiled it with gcc
> 2.95.2. The compilation was all right. But when I put the bzImage into
> /boot and changed lilo entries, then started booting, the screen shows:
>
> Uncompressing Kernel...
> Ok, booting the kernel.
>
> Then stopped there.
>
> At first the kernel size was 850K, so I thought it was the size
> problem. But when I made a lot of options into modules, the kernel is
> downsized to 613K, but the problem persists.
>
> Anybody knows what the problem is? Thanks a lot!
>
> Di, Yu
> 1.17
>
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From: benoit mordelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: error compiling the kernel
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:25:37 +0100
Maxxe wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> I just installed RH7 on my pc and tryed to reconfigure my kernel. After
> menuconfiguring (i also tryed xconfig), make dep and make clean this is
> the last lines of the make zImage:
>
[errors]
>
> Any1 could figure out what this error stands for?
> I haven't touched the source files from kernel 2.2.16 that comes with
> the Red Hat 7 distribution.
> I have a Atloh Thunderbird K7 processor so i boot the sistem passing
> this arguments to lilo: x86_serial_nr=1
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
I got this kind of error a few weeks ago when compiling a RH kernel for
a friend. it seems that in some circumstances it cannot compile without
SMP support (symetric multi processing), even if you have only one
processor in your computer. I don't know what kind of modifications RH
did on the kernel however. try to enable SMP support.
ben
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From: "Thorsten Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: DNS won't work correct
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:34:29 +0100
Hi!
My Problem is the following:
while my M$ box is able to connect to any host i want, my linux-box seems
not to be able to connect to "alias" hosts, although they use the same
dns-server.
Iuse Suse 6.2.
(example: www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (real name prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de))
connection / ping with windows no problem, but linux can't resolve name :(
www.uni-magdeburg.de : no problem with both OS.
Thanks for your help
Toddy
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From: "jahu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:43:07 +0100
Does anybody know how to configure, starting from scratch, SAMBA daemon
(started with xinetd) so that:
a cathalog /VAR/SAMBA was accessible for reading and writting,
and for users 1 and 2 without the necessity of providing the password.
(so the others would need to provide the password)
thanks.
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From: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:50:30 -0600
Yu Di wrote:
> Hi, I tried to install Kernel 2.4 on my machine. I compiled it with gcc
> 2.95.2. The compilation was all right. But when I put the bzImage into
> /boot and changed lilo entries, then started booting, the screen shows:
>
> Uncompressing Kernel...
> Ok, booting the kernel.
>
> Then stopped there.
>
> At first the kernel size was 850K, so I thought it was the size
> problem. But when I made a lot of options into modules, the kernel is
> downsized to 613K, but the problem persists.
>
> Anybody knows what the problem is? Thanks a lot!
>
> Di, Yu
> 1.17
Did you copy System.map from the linux directory to /boot?
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Subject: Re: PPD for HP DeskJet 890c (atalk)
From: Donald Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:58:40 -0800
Right, that's correct. But in the control panel notice you can send a
Postscript test page to your printer. This works on the printer because the
os is doing something behind the scenes.
Basically my setup is this... I am running atalk (appletalk) and sharing the
printer to my G4 cube. When I print I get a postscript error. I did not get
this before I switched to RH7. In my atalk papd.conf file I was using this:
deskjet:\
:pr=lp:op=root:pd=/usr/local/ppd/HPLJ5P_1.PPD:
Notice the PPD file which somebody gave me. This allows the printer to
function as PS printer. Notice that it's for a HP LJ5 though. I am assuming
since I am getting a PS error that I should try and get a PPD file for the
890c to eliminate that in my trouble shooting.
Thanks for any info or corrections from anybody.
> From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 07:30:48 GMT
> Subject: Re: PPD for HP DeskJet 890c
>
> Donald Brady wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know where I can get a PPD for this printer? The HP site search
>> is useless!
>
> First, see:
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=226985
>
> A PPD (Postscript Printer Definition) file is only for PostScript Printers.
>
> This is not a PostScript printer.
>
> Do you have an application (such as WPO2000) that requires a PPD file?
>
> JRT
>
>
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From: Yu Di <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:33:54 -0600
Yes, I did.
Di, Yu
1.17
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, mattd wrote:
> did you run /sbin/lilo after?
>
> Matt
>
> "Yu Di" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi, I tried to install Kernel 2.4 on my machine. I compiled it with gcc
> > 2.95.2. The compilation was all right. But when I put the bzImage into
> > /boot and changed lilo entries, then started booting, the screen shows:
> >
> > Uncompressing Kernel...
> > Ok, booting the kernel.
> >
> > Then stopped there.
> >
> > At first the kernel size was 850K, so I thought it was the size
> > problem. But when I made a lot of options into modules, the kernel is
> > downsized to 613K, but the problem persists.
> >
> > Anybody knows what the problem is? Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Di, Yu
> > 1.17
> >
>
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm database in db3 format?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:14:32 GMT
On Jan 17, 2001 at 13:45, -ljl- eloquently wrote:
>In article <93niv0$nb8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) wrote:
>> I'm getting this message:
>>
>> cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13)
>>
>> --> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format.
>> If you have just upgraded the rpm package you need to convert
>> your database to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root.
>>
>> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>>
>> I have run "rpm --rebuilddb" and it does not solve the problem. Can
>anyone
>> explain what is going on and how to fix it??
>
>Well, rpm version 4 is out and it's not compatable with rpm 3 because
>it uses dbm3. Unfortunately people are creating RPMs with version 4
>and not telling anyone. Best of all the source for RPM 4 is packaged
>with RPM 4, which can _not_ be installed on a system using RPM 3.
>Go figure.
I guess you have never visited Rethat's errata page.
Well a quick visit will reveal that rpm 3.0.5 will
do what you need. I've even included the url below.
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2000-051-01.html
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
CONGRATULATIONS! Now should I make thinly veiled comments about
DIGNITY, self-esteem and finding TRUE FUN in your RIGHT VENTRICLE??
1:08pm up 6 days, 16:06, 9 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.18
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where to install kernel sources
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:16:15 GMT
On Jan 17, 2001 at 16:20, Hans Mielke eloquently wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I am upgrading my system from a 2.2.16 kernel to 2.4.0.
>
>Question: May I install the sources in /usr/src/linux or not?
No, you may not.
>
>This is what I have done up to now, and this is what is suggested in the
>kernel howto, for instance. (More exactly, I set a link from where ever
>the kernel is to /usr/src/linux.)
>
>BUT: I cite from the file linux-2.4.0/README:
>
>> - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a
>> directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and
>> unpack it:
>>
>> gzip -cd linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar xvf -
>>
>> Replace "XX" with the version number of the latest kernel.
>>
>> Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually
>> incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header
>> files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by
>> whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be.
>
>On the other hand, ppp-2.4.0 and cdrwtools 1.10 seem to expect the
>actual kernel sources under /usr/src/linux.
Change the Makefile to use the correct path.
[...]
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Mulder: how big can this thing get?
Scully: Mulder, I.. (smiles) sorry, for a second there it felt
like old times.
"The X-Files: The Host"
1:14pm up 6 days, 16:12, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.12
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From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ls command and .dir_colours
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:30:11 -0000
Hi,
I remember reading somewhere that you can set up the "ls" command to
always use the "--colour" option by default but I can't remember how to do
it.
I tried putting the .dir_colours file in my home /root directory but
that didn't work, and niether did giving the "ls --color=always" command.
Does anyone know what I have to do, I seem to remember it involving
editing a config file for bash or something like that.
Thanks for your help.
JL
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape slow
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:29:56 +0000
John Peach wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tore Haustveit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |>ajEyMzRmQGV4Y2l0ZS5jb20gd3JvdGU6DQoNCj4gSSBnaXZlIHVwLg0KPiBOZXRzY2FwZSB0
[ snip ]
> |>aWEgRGVqYS5jb20NCj4gaHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZWphLmNvbS8NCg==
>
> which doesn't make much sense :-)
> Usenet postings should be text....
Strange - it read as perfectly good text here...
John
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: error compiling the kernel
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:02:21 +0100
Maxxe wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> I just installed RH7 on my pc and tryed to reconfigure my kernel. After
> menuconfiguring (i also tryed xconfig), make dep and make clean this is
> the last lines of the make zImage:
>
> ----- cut -----
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
> scripts/split-include
>
Did you read
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/7.0/gotchas-7-6.html#ss6.1
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Subject: Re: where to install kernel sources
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:39:20 GMT
That is where I have been unopacking the files, and then moving them
and recreating the link. Everything has worked fine for me so far...
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:20:04 +0100, Hans Mielke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I am upgrading my system from a 2.2.16 kernel to 2.4.0.
>
>Question: May I install the sources in /usr/src/linux or not?
>
>This is what I have done up to now, and this is what is suggested in the
>kernel howto, for instance. (More exactly, I set a link from where ever
>the kernel is to /usr/src/linux.)
>
>BUT: I cite from the file linux-2.4.0/README:
>
>> - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a
>> directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and
>> unpack it:
>>
>> gzip -cd linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar xvf -
>>
>> Replace "XX" with the version number of the latest kernel.
>>
>> Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually
>> incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header
>> files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by
>> whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be.
>
>On the other hand, ppp-2.4.0 and cdrwtools 1.10 seem to expect the
>actual kernel sources under /usr/src/linux.
>
>Seems kind of contradictory to me.
>I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
>Hans
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From: Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE GNOME switch over
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:48:59 -0500
I installed RH 7.0 with both GNOME, and KDE. RH setup the
default
startx with gnome, and didn't ask me which I wanted. Does
anyone
know how to either start KDE when startx begins, or failing
that
start KDE without startx?
The next question is related to this, is there a way to
start
the system automatically in the GUI, an analogy would be
autoexec.bat
in DOS.
I'm doing performance testing on an IDE RAID-1 controller
and need to
pop into both GUI's to test software we're writing.
Regards,
Gary
ARCO Computer Products
RAID Test Lab.
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: valid installation partition?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:51:34 -0600
yes...it's ok to install linux
on a drive other than hda...
--
Philo
website: www.plazaearth.com/philo
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From: Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape bookmarks
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:03:27 -0500
Paul Pygeon wrote:
>
> Someone can tell me why Netscape (4.76) can't save his bookmarks.
> Everything I load Netscape, a message box tell me: error on saving
> bookmarks or something else.
I recently installed COREL Linux, and RH 7.0, both of the
fresh
installations had the same bug.
Regards,
Gary
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing slackware
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:14:12 -0500
the voigtstr wrote:
>
> Can slackware reside completely in a partion above 8 gig?
> or does it still have to have at least the kernel below the
> 2 gig limit?
>
As far as I know, you have to have the kernel below cylinder 1023
(that's 8.4GB LBA). There are new versions of LILO which overcome this
limitation, but I'm pretty sure none of the released versions of
Slackware include such. You can setup a small boot partition below 8.4GB
and put your kernel there, then put all of your other partitions above
the limit, but that's a pretty advanced setup, not for a beginner,
especially since it requires modifying Slackware's default file layout
(in Slack, the kernel resides in /, not in /boot as in many other
distros).
MST
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From: "Jose Alberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Instal Linux RedHat 7 en AlphaServer 1200
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:19:06 -0400
Hi,
Has somebody install Linux RedHat 7 on a AlphaServer 1200. I would
appreciate any help.
Thanks.
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From: Yu Di <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:28:05 -0600
Yes, I did.
Di, Yu
1.17
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Kurt R. Rahlfs wrote:
> Yu Di wrote:
>
> > Hi, I tried to install Kernel 2.4 on my machine. I compiled it with gcc
> > 2.95.2. The compilation was all right. But when I put the bzImage into
> > /boot and changed lilo entries, then started booting, the screen shows:
> >
> > Uncompressing Kernel...
> > Ok, booting the kernel.
> >
> > Then stopped there.
> >
> > At first the kernel size was 850K, so I thought it was the size
> > problem. But when I made a lot of options into modules, the kernel is
> > downsized to 613K, but the problem persists.
> >
> > Anybody knows what the problem is? Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Di, Yu
> > 1.17
>
> Did you copy System.map from the linux directory to /boot?
>
>
>
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From: Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where to install kernel sources
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:32:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:16:15 GMT, "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Jan 17, 2001 at 16:20, Hans Mielke eloquently wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>I am upgrading my system from a 2.2.16 kernel to 2.4.0.
>>
>>Question: May I install the sources in /usr/src/linux or not?
>No, you may not.
This seems to be a new advice in the 2.4.0 kernel. Do you know the reason ?
Is there as suitable other directory to use, beside my home directory ? BTW,
I already upgraded to 2.4.0 and ignored the new restriction. My kernel
source tree lives in /usr/src/linux-2.4.0 with a link to /usr/src/linux. So
far, it runs fine. Should I change the setup ?
Regards
Eggert
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 installation problem
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:40:24 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:17:18 -0600, Yu Di <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, I tried to install Kernel 2.4 on my machine. I compiled it with gcc
>2.95.2. The compilation was all right. But when I put the bzImage into
>/boot and changed lilo entries, then started booting, the screen shows:
>
> Uncompressing Kernel...
> Ok, booting the kernel.
>
>Then stopped there.
Did you configure the correct processor type ? This is from the kernel
README:
- compiling the kernel with "Processor type" set higher than 386
will result in a kernel that does NOT work on a 386. The
kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up.
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DiskImage of newly installed Linux-Box
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:35:40 -0500
media factory wrote:
>
> After installing a rpm based Linux System (Suse) and installation of some
> additional stuff from source tarballs, I'd like to conserve the system in an
> easy restorable kind of binary-snapshot.
>
> One way could be to start the system from the Suse-CD, mount the source
> harddrive with the already installed system ro and an formated but empty
> destination harddrive rw and create a tar archive on the destination.
>
> When setting up a new LinuxBox, I would again have to start from the
> Suse-CD, create a file system on the new hard drive and expand the tar
> archive from previously created backup-harddrive onto the new drive.
>
> Did anybody try this or a similar procedure so far?
>
> The ideal solution would be to have this archive located on the harddisk or
> DVD-Ram of a Laptop running Linux and to have a customized boot-disk or -CD
> on the new Linux-Box to be setup, which boots a minimal Linux-sytem into a
> RAM-disk and accesses the Laptop via Ethernet.
>
> Peter
You could try something along the lines of
dd if=/dev/hdxy bs=4096 | gzip -9c >filename.gz
Restoring would be a matter of just
cat filename.gz | gzip -dc | dd of=/dev/hdxy bs=4096
MST
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where to install kernel sources
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:40:55 GMT
"ne..." wrote:
>
> On Jan 17, 2001 at 16:20, Hans Mielke eloquently wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >
> >I am upgrading my system from a 2.2.16 kernel to 2.4.0.
> >
> >Question: May I install the sources in /usr/src/linux or not?
> No, you may not.
Sheesh.;-)
Isn't /usr/src/linux normally a symbolic link? I guess you could unzip
the god damned things into /var/log/mesages/urinal if you wanted to so
long as your /usr/src/linux is a link pointing to it and you have
permission to it, which if you're going to make a new kernel and install
it, probably might ought to be root or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
;-)
Getting serious though, I normally just remove the /usr/src/linux link
prior to unzipping a new kernel. Then using (in my case normally the KDE
archiver, just unpack to /usr/src/ and they will unpack to a new
/usr/src/linux directory. Change the name of the new directory once they
are unzipped to what ever the kernel is, (linux-2.4.0 etc.) cd to
/usr/src/ and do a (ln -s linux-2.4.0 linux) and you still have your old
kernel shit in it's own folder undisturbed and uncontaminated by shit
from the new kernel, and the new kernel is not mixed in with the old and
anything that needs to reference it is happy.
cd /usr/src/linux and do your make mrproper;make xconfig or what ever is
your favorite config method and go on from there.
Charlie
--
"Laughter is the best laxative there is for a constipated mind. Humor is
an ideal spoon to dose it."
--Chronocidal Charlie, 1995-2000, RIP.--
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE GNOME switch over
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:41:46 +0100
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Gary wrote:
> I installed RH 7.0 with both GNOME, and KDE. RH setup the
> default
> startx with gnome, and didn't ask me which I wanted. Does
> anyone
> know how to either start KDE when startx begins, or failing
> that
> start KDE without startx?
Put the line:
DESKTOP="KDE"
in /etc/sysconfig/desktop and the KDE login manager should start on
boot. It will give you the choice between different GUI's.
> The next question is related to this, is there a way to
> start
> the system automatically in the GUI, an analogy would be
> autoexec.bat
> in DOS.
Change the line:
id:3:initdefault:
to:
id:5:initdefault:
in /etc/inittab.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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