Linux-Setup Digest #463, Volume #20 Sun, 21 Jan 01 05:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: LIlo / Grub (Mandrake update problem) (Chris Jackson)
Re: Help supported NIC cards don't work on Red Hat 7.0 (David)
Can't find make ("SilverDragon")
Re: LIlo / Grub (Mandrake update problem) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't find make (David)
Re: pkgadd, pkginfo, ... (elaine chan)
Can't RE-install software RAID on Red Hat + Proliant 2500R after CPUs (Thomas
Cameron)
No IRQs for /proc/pci ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH7 not recognizing NIC (E J)
Re: RH 6.2 Setup on e250 ("eric")
Any good officesuite like Microsoft Office for Linux ("futurewei")
Help: HP Deskjet 722C Still NOT work ("Charlie Huang")
Re: Any good officesuite like Microsoft Office for Linux ("Cameron Kerr")
Re: DiskImage of newly installed Linux-Box ("Cameron Kerr")
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From: Chris Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: LIlo / Grub (Mandrake update problem)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:25:05 -0600
Simplest thing to do is make a boot disk for linux FIRST. What you will do
next will lose grub, lilo, whatever.
Boot from a windoze boot disk. Make sure it has FDISK on it. At the prompt
type fdisk /MBR. The caps are important. You'll hear the floppy spin a bit
then stop. At that point you *should* be able to reboot and have windoze
come up. Get rid of that goback crap when possible. Next boot from your
linux floppy after you're sure windoze is ok and type /sbin/lilo from a root
prompt. If it says it's not installed, mount your install cd and install
lilo. Use it instead, grub is a real bitch to make changes to.
[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
>
> -----------------------------------
> swap my-deja to yahoo for email
> -----------------------------------
>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help supported NIC cards don't work on Red Hat 7.0
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 03:41:26 GMT
Carlos Moreno wrote:
>
> 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
> --
I use 6.2 and due to previous experiences with x.0 versions 5.0 & 6.0
and all the bugs, I won't be downgrading to 7.0 since I don't want a
system that isn't as stable as what I have now. I don't know what they
have done to create all the problems with 7.0 that so many people are
having. My previous post works for 6.2 but I guess 7.0 is setup
different, not counting the bugs, so I will have to let someone else
that has 7.0 try to help.
A couple of things to check would be, that the network is configured
properly, to see that the module exists, to see if there is a
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 script that exists something
like this.
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
Or maybe like this:
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
USERCTL=no
If they included "netcfg" in 7.0 and you are running X it gives a GUI to
help. If not running X then "ifconfig" can be used if they included it
in 7.0.
Best of luck.
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From: "SilverDragon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't find make
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:27:19 GMT
OK this was probably asked here a lot of times... And before
someone says RTFM, i already did... I couldn't find anything.
Couldn't figure anything out for the whole day so I guess
it's time to ask for help now :)
When trying to run make, i get a command not found or a similar
error (i only installed linux yesterday, don't have the error messages
memorized just yet :P).. Oh, right, I installed Mandrake 7.0 lnx4win
(i don't want to partition yet, just trying it out..). I downloaded the
GNU make and once untarred, I have to run ./configure.. but when
I do, I get an error saying something about $PATH and cc (OK,
I know, I should of written down the error message). So, I'm guessing
that make isn't installed on my system and there's something wrong with
my $PATH.
I can't make anything without this. Please help me...
TIA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Max
SilverDragon and Lt_Paris
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From: [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 04:42:34 GMT
how can I create a linux boot floppy? I didnt do it during
installation bec I thought an older one I had worked, but it doesn't
thanks for the help so far.
--Noel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simplest thing to do is make a boot disk for linux FIRST. What you
will do
> next will lose grub, lilo, whatever.
>
> Boot from a windoze boot disk. Make sure it has FDISK on it. At the
prompt
> type fdisk /MBR. The caps are important. You'll hear the floppy spin
a bit
> then stop. At that point you *should* be able to reboot and have
windoze
> come up. Get rid of that goback crap when possible. Next boot from
your
> linux floppy after you're sure windoze is ok and type /sbin/lilo from
a root
> prompt. If it says it's not installed, mount your install cd and
install
> lilo. Use it instead, grub is a real bitch to make changes to.
>
> [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
> >
> > -----------------------------------
> > swap my-deja to yahoo for email
> > -----------------------------------
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com
> > http://www.deja.com/
>
>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't find make
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:51:46 GMT
SilverDragon wrote:
>
> OK this was probably asked here a lot of times... And before
> someone says RTFM, i already did... I couldn't find anything.
> Couldn't figure anything out for the whole day so I guess
> it's time to ask for help now :)
>
> When trying to run make, i get a command not found or a similar
> error (i only installed linux yesterday, don't have the error messages
> memorized just yet :P).. Oh, right, I installed Mandrake 7.0 lnx4win
> (i don't want to partition yet, just trying it out..). I downloaded the
> GNU make and once untarred, I have to run ./configure.. but when
> I do, I get an error saying something about $PATH and cc (OK,
> I know, I should of written down the error message). So, I'm guessing
> that make isn't installed on my system and there's something wrong with
> my $PATH.
>
> I can't make anything without this. Please help me...
Is it installed?
rpm -q make
If it is did you "cd" into the directory of what you are trying to make?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: pkgadd, pkginfo, ...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (elaine chan)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:56:01 GMT
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Diether De Praetere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>> --------------FBB1DDF8AE879CF746B40F1F
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've got a question realted to installing packages with pkgadd,
>> pkginfo, etc... (no (s)rpm's)
Maybe part of packagetools from Slackware
>>
>> We have here shell scripts to install some in-house software and
>> apparently they use pkgadd. But my Redhat doesn't have these commands
>> available... I did some searches on the web, but they seem to be hard to
>> find for linux.
http://www.linuxmafia.org,
http://www.slackware.com,
http://www.userlocal.com plus others
I think that packagetools can cooexist with rpm database. A list
of installed packages appears in /var/log/packages
........
>> Thx,
>> Diether
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From: Thomas Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq.servers,alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Can't RE-install software RAID on Red Hat + Proliant 2500R after CPUs
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 05:06:28 GMT
Howdy all -
I have a customer who had a Compaq Proliant 2500R with dual Pentium Pro
200's and 1GB Compaq RAM running Red Hat 6.2 set up with software level
RAID across seven 9GB drives in an external drive enclosure.
The CPU fan's grimed up and seized, and the server wound up corrupting
the entire RAID array. We blew the machine away, and started to
re-install Red Hat 6.2. The install failed (the RAID array came up at
the first boot missing a drive), and I figured maybe I'd cooked the
CPUs. So, I replaced the CPUs and resintalled. Same problem. After
several re-install attempts, I keep getting NCR SCSI controller errors
(error is similar to: "SIR 17, CCB done queue overflow"), from various
drives at various times.
I have run the latest Compaq diagnostics against the server twice, and
they come back fine. So does anyone have any idea why all of a sudden I
can't install Red Hat on this box? I am stretching here, but is it
possible that when the CPUs were overheated, they could have sent
instructions to the drives that actually damaged the drives? I can't
see how this would be possible, but the system itself (including the
SCSI controller) tests fine.
If convenient, please cc: me directly with any responses.
Thomas Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: No IRQs for /proc/pci
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:40:37 GMT
I've got an older pentium abit motherboard and I
got the bios flashed recently. And I'm wondering
if this isn't contributing to the following
problem:
Whenever I install RedHat 6.2, 7.0 or Linux
Mandrake 7.1 or 7.2 I get the following errors:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily unavailable
SIOCADDRT: Network is down
So far I've tried to install the following nics:
Linksys Fast Ethernet 10/100 NC100 vs. 2.1
Linksys Ethernet Fast 1/100 LNE100tx vs. 4.1
3Com 3c905b-tx
All with the same errors. I've checked
the /proc/pci and there are no irq's assigned
there which seems a bit odd because my other
pentium III does show irqs in it's /proc/pci.
I've also tried to adjust the settings in the
bios to force it to assign irqs, but to no avail.
I've also d/l the latest drivers and got them to
compile and I've moved into the proper locations.
My questions are:
A. Is this normal?
B. Is there a work around?
C. If there is a work around what is it?
Thanks In advance.
Trent
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 not recognizing NIC
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:39:13 GMT
If you have windows.
Start->Settings->Control Panel->System
Find the io and irq of your network card
(Click off auto configuration: because when windows reconfigure the NIC,
linux might not know the changes!!!
That happened to me!! It took me three days to figure it out.)
Add this line to your /etc/modules.conf
#-----start of my modules.conf for ne2k
alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x280 irq=9 # my io and irq maybe different than yours.
#-----end of my modules.conf
Carlos Moreno wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm upgrading from RH6.2 to RH7, and the NIC is not recognized
> by the RH7 installation program. Given that I know that the
> card is a NE2K clone (it was recognized by RH6.2 as a ne2k-pci),
> is there anything I can do to force the configuration to include
> a ne2k-pci network card? (BTW, the card is a D-Link DE-528CT)
>
> I tried with linuxconf, but it didn't work; I also tried with
> the insmod command, but I am clueless about how to use it, or if
> it is the right thing to do -- it only gives me error messages
> when I attempt it.
>
> Any help/ideas/pointers greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carlos
> --
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From: "eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 Setup on e250
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:25:36 GMT
Thanks for the answer. I figured some things wouldn't (specific to Sun)
work. I will have to do some more exploring to see if there is anything I
can do about it. :) I was happy to see that so many things did work
without much trouble, RAID array for instance and the nics couldn't have
been easier to setup.
Thanks again.
eric.
"Chris and Susan Kordish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> that e250 has a rsc feature - remote system console
> i wonder if there are a few bits in linux that
> aren't aware of this
>
> rsc uses an RTOS to implement that feature
>
> -hth
> chris
>
>
> eric wrote:
> >
> > Hey all. I have an Sun e250 for home that I want to setup RH 6.2 on.
So
> > far so good. But, I noticed that the maintenance light stays on solid
> > amber. Is there something that causes this? If I load Solaris on it,
the
> > light will not be on. Otherwise RH is running nicely.
> >
> > Machine:
> > UltraSparc e250
> > 2 x 400mhz processors
> > 1 gb Ram
> > 4 x 9gb drives
> > 1 onboard nic (hme0)
> > Quad Ethernet board
> >
> > Please make any suggestions. I have poked around in the logs but
haven't
> > noticed really anything that jumps out.
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From: "futurewei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any good officesuite like Microsoft Office for Linux
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:17:38 -0600
Hi,
Any suggestion for good application like Microsoft Office for Linux?
Thank you very much.
Lee
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From: "Charlie Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: HP Deskjet 722C Still NOT work
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:03:20 -0800
My HP printer still not work on my RH 7.0 system, could anyone help me? I
have used "printtool" to config the printer and test. Looks like it works
fine, because No error message shows. However, NOTHING print out. I am sure
my printer works and connects to the system.
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any good officesuite like Microsoft Office for Linux
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:33:56 +1300
In article <_nxa6.11706$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "futurewei"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any suggestion for good application like Microsoft Office for Linux?
Sun's StarOffice is supposedly very good
www.sun.com
also Applixware (look at freshmeat for a pointer)
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DiskImage of newly installed Linux-Box
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:48:58 +1300
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "media factory"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 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
>
> Thanks, nice idea.
>
>>
>> Will this work if restoring to a larger/smaller disk/partition?
>>
>> --Cameron
>
> It seemd it only works for identical partitions.
>
> Made a quick test with different partition sizes and the result was an
> unmountable destination partition after restore. Linux didn't recognize
> it as an ext2fs partition any more.
>
> The second thread "Why no real-support for ext2fs by DriveImage et al.
> ?" is also quite interesting although no perfect suggestion has been
> made so far.
>
> Peter
>
About the best you could do would be to create the master image, then
when you are done, shrink all partitions with Partition Magic, then do
your dd | gzip, then dump it to CD, which you might want to make
bootable.
To restore you would just have to zcat | dd, and then use Partition Magic
to resize the partitions. This is not too different from what you would
do with a winbox, except Drive Image does the last two steps as one,
which
is a good thing, since doing batched jobs with Partition Magic on large
partitions takes __**AGES**__
However, you might try parted (The GNU? Partition Editor) instead of
Partition Magic, or even ext2resize, although I would shy away from that
last one (you can't move partitions).
Typically, the Unix way would be to install it the same way you would
from tape drive (tar), then perhape a make install for the kernel, and
lilo, you're there, hopefully.
Hope This Helps
--Cameron Kerr
PS. I should be doing this in the not-so-distant future, so I'll let you
know of any updates (may even write a howto)
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