Linux-Setup Digest #462, Volume #20 Sat, 20 Jan 01 22:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Help installing KDE 2.0 (Matt Haley)
Re: LILO: Kernel too big ("Cameron Kerr")
Re: Kernel 2.4 ("Gene Heskett")
Re: RPM supports only package rev <= 3 (H.Bruijn)
Re: why can't modprobe find the module? (H.Bruijn)
Re: Kernel 2.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NT boot Loader and LILO ("T.K. Kim")
RH6.2 with 3 NICs on a Dell Dimension L800r ?? ("Thierry")
Re: Killed my CDROM - Help! (Mark R. Holbrook)
Root Mount problem (Bruceh)
Re: Help supported NIC cards don't work on Red Hat 7.0 (Carlos Moreno)
Re: Kernel 2.4 PPP Support (Steve Withers)
Re: RH 6.2 on 386 setup help (Yves Bellefeuille)
Re: RH6.2 with 3 NICs on a Dell Dimension L800r ?? (Steve Withers)
LIlo / Grub (Mandrake update problem) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LIlo / Grub (Mandrake update problem) (Earl Lewis)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help installing KDE 2.0
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:39:38 -0000
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:53:08 GMT,
Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just downloaded KDE 2.0 RPM's.
>It's approximately 26 files; all RPM's.
>I issued the following commands.
>rpm -Uvh qt*
>rpm -Uvh lib*
>rpm -Uvh htdig*
>So far so good.
>And then I tried issuing the following command.
>rpm -Uvh kde*
>I got tons of failed dependencies errors.
>Any help?
Install the required dependencies.
Note Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO: Kernel too big
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:38:36 +1300
When you (re)compile your kernel, you should only build in what you need
to boot, everything else would be better served as a module. This way you
can include heaps of stuff in your kernel, and still boot. Also, you may
prefer to use make menuconfig or make xconfig, these are much better to
use than make config.
HIH
--Cameron Kerr
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Date: 20 Jan 2001 19:1:31 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Frederic Vanneste;
FV> In article <94c74e$f78$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sri Panyam"
FV> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I copied the new boot image with along with the new System.map
>> files to
>> /bootnew/ (instead of / ) and in lilo.conf, i changed the image
>> from
>> /boot/bzImage.myker to /bootnew/bzImage.myker. However, I am still
>> having the same problem. Is there anything else i need to do?
I don't know what trying to boot out of a non '/boot' directory would
do, but I suspect it will fail. Probably because it can't find
System.map if its not in /boot. Besides the convention is to call the
bzImage file 'vmlinuz-2.4.0' when copying it to /boot from
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/boot.
The name doesn't really count because you can label=whatever in
lilo.conf. Thats the name you see at the lilo prompt.
Also, if you check the docs, there is a whole list of other stuff needs
to be brought up-to-date along with the new kernel, like ppp, modutils,
and 5 or 7 others I can't recall right now.
>>
>> Sri
>>
>> Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>> I'm no expert on this, having fiddled not much with kernel
>>> installation, but I believe you also have to copy System.map to
>>> the same directory from whence you boot, in this case the /boot
>>> directory. That will of course cause a problem because your old
>>> System.map file is currently in that directory, being used by your
>>> old kernel.
>>>
>>> I'd suggest moving your new kernel to /vmlinuz (the
>>> "make bzlilo" command does this anyway) and putting
>>> your System.map file there. Then put an entry in lilo.conf with
>>> "image=/vmlinuz".
>>>
>>> If your existing kernel is in /boot (as it usually is with default
>>> Red Hat installs, don't know about other distros), then just set
>>> up lilo.conf, then go to the kernel source and do "make bzlilo".
>>> It'll copy the kernel to /vmlinuz and the new System.map file to
>>> /System.map.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Sri Panyam wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> > I just compiled version 2.4 of the kernel and was able to
>>> > create a
>> boot
>>> > iamge successfully :- bzImage. I copied it to the /boot and
>>> > updated lilo.conf to the following (after copying bzImage to
>> /boot/bzImage.myker):
>>> >
>>> > **************
>>> > boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt
>>> > timeout=50 linear default=myker image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
>>> > label=linux read-only root=/dev/hda1
>>> > image=/boot/bzImage.myker
>>> > label=myker read-only root=/dev/hda1
>>> > *****************
>>> >
>>> > However, at the lilo prompt, when i select "myker" as the image,
>>> > it
>> prints
>>> > the following and hangs up:
>>> >
>>> > **************
>>> > loading myker..... Uncompressing linux ... Ok booting ...
>>> > **************
>>> >
>>> > Has any one else come up with this. How can i fix this:
>>> >
>>> > Thanks In Advance Sri
FV> You're not the onlyone with that problem.
FV> One of my linux boxes (a dell latitude cpi) has the same problem
FV> with the 2.4 kernel. And we are not the onlyone, I've seen
FV> threads on this problem in multiple newsgroups. Someone told me
FV> to use initrd to boot, but I didn't try it yet. I think it was on
FV> alt.os.linux, go to deja.com/usenet and search for 'kernel 2.4
FV> boot' if you want to find more on that one.
FV> Hope this helps,
FV> (and if you find the solution, will you post it here???)
FV> Thanks,
FV> Frederic
FV> --
FV> "The Future ain't What it used to be..."
FV> 'James D. Morrison'
FV> -------------------
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: RPM supports only package rev <= 3
Date: 21 Jan 2001 01:52:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:19:51 GMT, Swapnajit Mittra allegedly wrote:
> I have official RH6.1 installed on a pentium m/c. Now
> whenever I try to install a new version of an
> rpm, I get the following message:
>
>only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
>RPM
>
> This is not specific to just netscape installation.
> It has come up in almost all new installations,
> including a new version of rpm.
Most likely you don't get Redhat 6.1 packages but newer packages which
require the new version of the redhat package manager; version 4.
You should be able to download that package in rpm 3 format at your nearest
redhat mirror in the updates section, or somewhere like:
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/i386
or try
http://rpmfind.net
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If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: why can't modprobe find the module?
Date: 21 Jan 2001 01:54:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:15:06 GMT, Dave Brondsema allegedly wrote:
>
>I'm trying to install the tulip module on RH6.2. I have tulip.o and
>pci-scan.o in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net/.
>
>But if I do "modprobe tulip.o", it says that it cannot find module
>tulip.o
>
>This seems pretty simple, but I'm obviously doing something wrong. Can
>anyone help?
Drop the .o extension, simply use "depmod -a" followed by "modpobe tulip" ;-)
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The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:45:32 GMT
It is likely that you chose the wrong CPU when you configured. I have a
PII and accidentally left it as the default PIII and it did what you
describe. I foung a thread on deja.com with the solution, so I can't
take credit for figuring it out.
In article <94b1hv$rsb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Sri Panyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just compiled version 2.4 of the kernel and was able to create a boot
> iamge successfully :- bzImage. I copied it to the /boot and updated
> lilo.conf to the following (after copying bzImage to /boot/bzImage.myker):
>
> **************
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> linear
> default=myker
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=linux
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
> image=/boot/bzImage.myker
> label=myker
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
> *****************
>
> However, at the lilo prompt, when i select "myker" as the image, it prints
> the following and hangs up:
>
> **************
> loading myker.....
> Uncompressing linux ... Ok booting ...
> **************
>
> Has any one else come up with this. How can i fix this:
>
> Thanks In Advance
> Sri
>
>
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From: "T.K. Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NT boot Loader and LILO
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:13:45 GMT
I am getting a Kernel panic trying to boot into linux via NT boot loader in
a system with multi-OS.
Here is my system:
Pri. Master---> Win98 [hda1]
Sec. Master--->(0-20GB) Win2k [hdc1]
(20-30GB) Mandrake 7.2 [hdc5(root partition)]
I followed the steps in Linux+NT-Loader howto:
- setup lilo: /boot=hdc5, root=hdc5, and kernel image= /boot/vmlinuz, lba32,
and so on
- created bootsect.lnx by 'dd -if=/dev/hdc5 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1'
and cp it to hda1
- added 'c:\bootsect.lnx="linux"' to boot.ini file in hda1
Now reboot, choose linux from the NT OS loader and lilo menu comes up and
goes on a bit and then comes the kernel panic as follows:
Partition check: hda:hda1 hda2 <hda5>
hdc:[PTBL][1027/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 <hdc5 hdc6 hdc7
hdc8>
autodetecting RAID arays
autorun...
...autorun done
Invalid session number of type of track
Kernel Panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 16:05
Obvisouly, it fails to mount VFS but what does this mean in a whole scheme
of things, what's causing this, and most importantly how do I fix this?
I would really appreciate your help.
THanks in advance!
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From: "Thierry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat
Subject: RH6.2 with 3 NICs on a Dell Dimension L800r ??
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:19:00 -0800
Hi,
I'm trying to configure a firewall with RedHat 6.2 on a Dell Dimension L800r
with 3 NICs:
- 1 integrated (Intel Pro 10/100)
- 2 3Com 3C905C
I turned off the PNP in BIOS, disabled the integrated sound card and the
parallel port and let RedHat installs itself.
RH found my NICs correctly but a ping on the local IP address on both the
3Com takes +1 minute.
Then, I've found that the Intel and one of the 3Com are using the same IRQ
and there's no way to change this.
Is there a way to get 3 NICs to work on a Dell Dimension L800r running
RedHat 6.2 ?
Or should I go to RedHat 7.0 ?
Thanks,
Thierry.
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From: Mark R. Holbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Killed my CDROM - Help!
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:19:59 GMT
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:48:41 GMT, Steve Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Mark R. Holbrook" wrote:
>
>>
>> So I checked to see if /dev/cdrom was linked to the CD: ls -lga
>> /dev/cdrom:
>>
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 16 03:41 /dev/cdrom ->
>> hdc
>
>Nope. Remove this link and create a new one linking /dev/cdrom to
>/dev/scd0.
>Your IDE CD-ROM drive shows up as /dev/scd0 under SCSI emulation.
>
>When you recompiled your kernel, did you include SCSI CD-ROM support?
Steve,
Thanks. Ok I removed cdrom and linked /dev/scd0 to cdrom.
I have not recompiled the kernel. I can certainly try that however
some of the other descriptions of how to do CDRW mentioned nothing
about needing to re-compile.
Just for grins after I did the link above I tried to mount /dev/cdrom
and got:
/dev/cdrom has wrong major or minor number
Any ideas whats up with that?
Mark
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From: Bruceh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Root Mount problem
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:30:53 GMT
Though my Mandrake system was working fine, Partition Magic
indicated that the partition table was corrupted. I was told by
their support staff that I would have to reformat.
To make a long story short, I backed up my /boot and / partitions
with ghost (actually ghostpe), fixed the partitions, and reloaded
/boot and /, and recreated the swap partition with Partition Magic.
When booting Linux all seems fine until I get a kernal panic:
<it sees ide0 (hard disk) and ide1 (cd-rom)>
Partition check
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
autorun ...
... autorun DONE
Kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07
...<hang>...
<ctrl><alt><del>
stopping all md devices
I'm not sure what 03:07 indicates...
My disk is dual boot with Win98.
C: fat32, primary partition
Extended fat32, extended partition containing:
cyl,hd, sector
/boot 586, 1, 1
/ 594, 1, 1
<swap> 871, 1, 1
/home 941, 1, 1
D: 1172, 1, 1
Can anyone give assistance?
Thanks.
-bruceh-
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From: Carlos Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help supported NIC cards don't work on Red Hat 7.0
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:26:22 -0500
Hi David,
I'm not the OP, but you may have seen my other post, where I
was asking for help on this same problem.
I tried what you suggest, but it didn't work. I probably
missed one or several required steps? My card is a D-Link,
but it is compatible with a NE2K. So, I added:
alias eth0 ne2k-pci
And ran /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
It only printed "Brining up interface lo"
I tried then the command:
# ifconfig eth0 up
And it tells me:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable.
I tried rebooting, but it didn't change a thing.
Any ideas of what could be wrong?
Thanks,
Carlos
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 PPP Support
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:39:27 +1300
Steve Martin wrote:
>
> Costas Gavardinas wrote:
> >
> > I have installed and compiled the new 2.4 kernel. Although I selected ppp
> > support from the appropritate menus, I get an error: ppp support not
> > installed in kernel, or something similar. Is there something I am doing
> > wrong?? Thanks for any clues!
> > Costas
>
> Ran into the same problem here, almost drove me nuts. Turned out
> to be a bad case of RTFM.
>
> In /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes, it mentions that the new
> PPP works differently. You must (a) upgrade pppd to at least
> version 2.4.0b1, and (b) either be using devfs, or else you must
> manually create a device file /dev/ppp with the command
>
> mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
>
> as the superuser.
>
> Once I made the /dev/ppp special file, ppp miraculously began
> working like a charm.
I have two modules that do this: PPP and the IBM_TR token ring driver. I
choose it in the kernel config.....but it will neither compile into the
kernel, nor load as a module (module not found). When I do make
modules.....ain't nuthin' to make...there seem to be files missing.
Your post has likely solved my PPP problem.....but I now have some
insights into what to do to get token ring support working.
:-)
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Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Bellefeuille)
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 on 386 setup help
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:40:22 -0500
Reply-To: Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Chris and Susan Kordish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> i have tried a few download sites
> and each 6.2 RH boot.img that i put on a floppy
> still boots this way:
> --
> invalid compressed imageVFS: Cannot open root device 08:34
> Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 08:34
> --
> System: 386 DX 33 Baby Micronics Motherbboard (Gateway)
> BIOS: Latest Phoenix 4.03.6.11 ( M3GS20 )
> RAM: 8MB
I believe that Red Hat 6.2 requires 16 Mb of RAM. This isn't because
Linux itself requires 16 Mb of RAM to run, but because Red Hat's
installation programme requires 16 Mb. Try a different distribution,
such as Debian.
In any event, with a 386/33 and 8 Mb of RAM, I'd try to use the
"lightest" distribution possible; you can try one of the distributions
on CheapBytes's "TinyLinux" CD-ROM: http://www.cheapbytes.com/ .
Please don't post using MIME, use "ASCII" or "text" instead. And please
don't post a "VCard".
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RH6.2 with 3 NICs on a Dell Dimension L800r ??
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:42:33 +1300
Thierry wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to configure a firewall with RedHat 6.2 on a Dell Dimension L800r
> with 3 NICs:
> - 1 integrated (Intel Pro 10/100)
> - 2 3Com 3C905C
>
> I turned off the PNP in BIOS, disabled the integrated sound card and the
> parallel port and let RedHat installs itself.
> RH found my NICs correctly but a ping on the local IP address on both the
> 3Com takes +1 minute.
>
> Then, I've found that the Intel and one of the 3Com are using the same IRQ
> and there's no way to change this.
>
> Is there a way to get 3 NICs to work on a Dell Dimension L800r running
> RedHat 6.2 ?
> Or should I go to RedHat 7.0 ?
>
> Thanks,
> Thierry.
PCI Busmaster arbitration will often see many items using the same IRQ.
I have one system where no less than 4 devices are on IRQ 11....and they
all go just fine.
It may be that you have a routing issue. If it were me, I would have
installed those NICs one at a time. I don't trust software to react well
to a herd of NICs. I do it also because I tend to use the same NICs and
I need to tell them apart.....and 3 at once leaves me wondering which
one is which. :-)
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Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: LIlo / Grub (Mandrake update problem)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:42:23 GMT
I have a 20Gb drive which I partitioned and installed Mandrake 7.1
Last night i decided to do an upgrade to 7.2 and now I have run into a
problem.
In windows I had installed Go Back which I think writes something to
the Master Boot Record. (I also had lilo in the MBR)
The Mandrake installation installed GRUB in hda1 (MBR) and now I cant
boot into windows. In mandrake I also cant open the file manager, but
if I go into a command line I still see the hda partitions as they were.
1). when something is written to the MBR, is it possible to recover the
way it used to be?
2. If I can't restore the mbr, what are my alternatives?
Thanks for all your help, I am new to the Linux world, and I guess I
shouldn't be trying these kinds of things without imaging out the
partition first.
-Noel
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From: Earl Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: LIlo / Grub (Mandrake update problem)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:55:25 GMT
For the Windows problem you can boot up on a Windows Startup Diskette,
aka EBD, and do a fdisk/mbr. That oughta fix your Windows problem,
but, as for Linux, I'm just a newbie. If you're like me you've got
nothing worth worrying about on the Linux partition and I just
reinstall it every time I screw up. Maybe you're past that stage.
EArl
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:42:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>I have a 20Gb drive which I partitioned and installed Mandrake 7.1
>
>Last night i decided to do an upgrade to 7.2 and now I have run into a
>problem.
>
>In windows I had installed Go Back which I think writes something to
>the Master Boot Record. (I also had lilo in the MBR)
>
>The Mandrake installation installed GRUB in hda1 (MBR) and now I cant
>boot into windows. In mandrake I also cant open the file manager, but
>if I go into a command line I still see the hda partitions as they were.
>
>1). when something is written to the MBR, is it possible to recover the
>way it used to be?
>
>2. If I can't restore the mbr, what are my alternatives?
>
>Thanks for all your help, I am new to the Linux world, and I guess I
>shouldn't be trying these kinds of things without imaging out the
>partition first.
>
>
>-Noel
>
>-----------------------------------
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>-----------------------------------
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com
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