Linux-Setup Digest #499, Volume #20 Thu, 25 Jan 01 10:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0 (D Karels)
Linux version of my dos install disk? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Upgrade from RH5.2 to RH6.2 hangs (Clark L. Coleman)
Re: Somebody create a How-To on upgrading to Kernel 2.4, please ! (Steve Martin)
Re: >64M RAM chestnut - ? new twist ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: What am I doing wrong? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: kernel bloody 2.4!! (Steve Martin)
Re: Newbie question (Steve Martin)
ipcrm not working ... ("Eoin Verling")
ftape - zftape help ? someone ? (imbsysop)
Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0 (Eric)
Re: setting ulimit for non-interactive user (David)
Re: setting up linux for @home att network (Wesley)
Re: Linux version of my dos install disk? (David)
"~" with vim ?? ("Ed Bras")
Lilo exceeds 1024! (Washington Zhang)
Re: parport setup (Wesley)
Re: Upgrade from RH5.2 to RH6.2 hangs (David)
FTP SERVER not working in RH 7.0 (Eric Corndorf)
Re: Linux version of my dos install disk? (Lew Pitcher)
Newbee modem set-up question (Robert Petrillo)
New to Linux ("Kevin Swanson")
Re: "~" with vim ?? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Somebody create a How-To on upgrading to Kernel 2.4, please ! (Jan Schaumann)
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From: D Karels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:25:12 +0100
Eric,
don't get me wrong, I'm not offended in any way and am not trying to offend you
or anybody else. I like to learn more about this, that's why I'm on this
news-group. It's just that the messages I get from LINUX tend to indicate
something else then what I expect.
About the Linux Native Partition, I disagree (no offense!) that this is the same
as the root partition. For one can only have one root partition (right?), but
serveral Linux Native Patitions.
I'm very thankfull for the information you give me. It's just that it is a bit
confusing from time to time. I think I understand something, and suddenly it
appears that I'm all wrong (This is not bad, but confusing). For me it's guite a
challenge to get my system up and running with a multi-boot for Windows NT,
Windows 2000 and Linux. So I will not give up, unless somebody tells me this is
impossible and can explain why.
What my conclusion would be from the sentence: /boot should be entirely below
cyl. 1024, is that this should be physically at the beginning of the hard disk.
This would then mean that the first partition on the disk should be a linux
partition or is the area <1024 still the boot-sector of the disk (MBR)?. I have
my linux up and running now, but for now I still need to use a boot-floppydisk.
I don't like this, because it is very slow.
And about the thing you say about not touching /dev/hda1, but use /dev/hda (the
MBR) instead?? There much be some HOWTO doc about this. I think I'll try to find
this first and read it. Maybe I'll understand it better than.
Again thanks for you feedback.
Dennis.
Eric wrote:
D Karels wrote:
>
> Eric,
>
> I've read the information about the /boot should be entirely below cyl. 1024.
> But this was not my problem at that time. The problem was that DiskDruid
would
> not create the Linux Native partition.
Yes it was exactly your problem,
where do you think /boot is?
correct, in the / (root) partition. This is the one you keep calling
"the Linux Native partition"
> While fdisk does (problem solved).
fdisk doesn't *care*
entirely different issue
> I'm not all that familiour with lilo and stuff. But it seems that LILO
versions
very true, but DiskDruid is not aware of that!
> are available which can boot from cylinders 1024+. Otherwise I will try to
> substitute my windows 2000 multi boot by lilo, which should also be possible.
> i.e.: install LILO on /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hdb6.
Wouldn't do that. You can put in the MBR (/dev/hda) but don't touch
hda1.
The NT bootcode is there (I suspect, I'm no NT guru).
> As I said, I'm not an expert with this and the part about the NTFS partitions
is
> something I read somewhere. And as I have had problems installing LILO
before,
> which was also in combination with (maybe not caused by) NTFS partitions, it
> seemed reasonable to me that it had something to do with that. Okay, so I was
> wrong!!!
Don't be offended please.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux version of my dos install disk?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:22:12 GMT
I have a floppy disk for dos that I've used for the last 5 years
whenever I want to install a new system. It's a simple bootable dos
floppy disk with several utilitys on it (fdisk, pkzip, edit, etc...)
I've recently tried to find a linux equivelent to this. I'm unsure how
to get this working. What I'd like is to be able to go and install a
linux system by hand and I don't know where to start.
For now I'm primarly concerned about creating a bootable disk (or disk
set) with all the utils I'd need.
Any help is appreciated.
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark L. Coleman)
Subject: Re: Upgrade from RH5.2 to RH6.2 hangs
Date: 25 Jan 2001 12:27:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Clark L. Coleman" wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> "Error mounting hda8: Invalid argument".
>>
>> When I click the funny OK button with the arrow that goes down and
>> then to the left, the system just sits there forever with no new
>> messages displayed, and I have to hit the reset button to reboot.
>>
>> /dev/hda8 is my swap partition. The hda entries from /etc/fstab are:
>>
>> /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>> /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
>> /dev/hda10 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
>> /dev/hda8 /swap swap defaults 0 0
>> /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosC msdos defaults 1 2
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Why is the upgrade looking at the swap for the existing RH5.2 and
>> having a problem?
>
>The swap partition doesn't need the "/" in front of it.
>
>/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
That was a typo in my previous posting. There is no "/" in the
/etc/fstab entry for swap.
With that possibility behind us, does anyone have an idea why the
RH6.2 upgrade installer is looking at the swap device while searching
for packages to upgrade, and then dying as a result? What can be done
about it?
I would assume there are other people in the world who:
1) had RH5.2 with a separate device partitioned for swap.
2) Used the upgrade path to RH6.2 successfully.
Thanks for any help.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Somebody create a How-To on upgrading to Kernel 2.4, please !
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:05:47 GMT
Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > I've searched far and wide, but no avail. No one has created a web page
> > with detailed, step-by-step instructions on upgrading the kernel to
> > 2.4.
> 2.4.0 is in no way different with respect to the process of setting it up
> than any other version.
True, but there are quite a few caveats (admittely included in the
Changes)
file) which can trip one up, especially if one is coming from a Linux
release that is earlier than the latest (like RH6.2 for example).
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: >64M RAM chestnut - ? new twist
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:54:45 +0100
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, David wrote:
>I know this is an old question. No doubt I am making a simple mistake
You are .. try reading the instructions again.
>Basic situation same as for old postings - BIOS correctly reports 128M
>RAM, free reports only ~64M under the word "total". However,
> append="mem=128M"
>under the label=linux line with no effect.
>
>Have I mucked up the syntax?
Syntax fine, human wrong: forgot to run lilo.
[moonie wrote]
) http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/ramdetect.html
Seems like a lot of fuss about nothing. But useful place to point
people so they go away and don't come back!
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:56:46 +0100
Tina Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone.
This person, according to the Deja records, is a troll on the windows
newgroups, and on the alt.whitesupremacy-style newsgroups. "she" has
turned her attenton to the linux groups recently. Do not feed.
Peter
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel bloody 2.4!!
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:19:31 GMT
Adam Short wrote:
> I have posted this to other newsgroups to no effect. I've been told I need
> the kgcc package,
Nope, not necessary. I compiled 2.4 on my RH6.2 system with gcc 2.91.66
with no problems.
Take a look at the Changes file under the Documentation directory in the
kernel source. It lists all the prerequisites for compiling the kernel,
and where you can get upgrades if you need them.
> kernel compiled fine but wouldn't boot.
This might be a different issue, can't tell without more information.
I've also been told I need glibc2.2
Again, nope; not necessary.
> I've also been told I need the latest
> kernel utils,
Definitely. In particular, modutils must be upgraded, as 2.4 handles
modules
differently than did 2.2. Again, check the Changes file; it'll give you
the
straight poop.
thats all very well too, but I've no idea when I'm supposed to
> install them.
Go ahead and install them. They'll work just fine with 2.2.
By the way, out of curiosity, which distribution are you currently
running?
> I'm also trying to get 3d support going for my rage 128 video card. I've
> been told I need the latest DRI drivers and kernel 2.4 (hence the above).
I'm no expert, but I did successfully install XFree86 4.0.1 on my system
back when I had kernel 2.2, and it worked fine. I got the DRI source,
compiled
it, installed the kernel module (admittedly my system is a VooDoo rather
than
a Rage, but the same principles apply), and DRI came right up. BTW, you
can get the DRI tree from dri.sourceforge.net using CVS.
> also apparently need agpgart support and a number of other things compiled
> into my kernel.
Can't advise you there; my VooDoo is PCI, not AGP. Sorry.
I have no idea how to set these up (I know how to recompile
> the kernel, I've done it countless times, I just don't know the ins and outs
> of this particular bit).
Take a look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.DRIcomp. This is how I
found out
how to do it.
Once all of these have been done, theoretically I
> should have an up to date, 3d enabled system. Am I correct in thinking this,
> or am I once again missing a vital point?
Compiling and installing the kernel module and loading the proper
XFree86 modules
should get things going for you. Good luck.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie question
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:21:39 GMT
"H.Bruijn" wrote:
> >I'm installing Redhat 6 onto my machine, but I'm having trouble configuring
> >X. It does not seem to like my Graphics card or Monitor. My graphics card
> >is an ATI All-in-wonder 128 (Rage128 32MB) and my monitor is a Gateway2000
> >Vivitron1572.
One other possibility might be that your kernel does not include AGP
support (if the card is AGP). Could that be the case?
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From: "Eoin Verling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel
Subject: ipcrm not working ...
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:28:33 -0000
Hi,
I'm running 2.2.16, SuSE 6.3 ... I have an application that died and is
still using a shared mem segment, at least, when I try to restart the app it
complains that :-
shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52574803: shared memory already exists
When I do a "ipcs", I get
====== Shared Memory Segments ========
key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
0x52574803 2 root 666 389120 1 dest
====== Semaphore Arrays ========
key semid owner perms nsems status
====== Message Queues ========
key msqid owner perms used-bytes messages
.. so, when I try to clear that shared mem seg, with "ipcrm shm 2", it tells
me "resource deleted", but it isn't deleted!!! Is there any other way to
force the system to release the shared mem seg?? Without rebooting the
machine of course.
cheers
Eoin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (imbsysop)
Subject: ftape - zftape help ? someone ?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:54:02 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to get a Ditto 800 paralel tape drive operational. so far with no
success !
1) under RH 6.2 everything seems to compile ok but I get stuck with messages
like "/dev/qft0 : device not configured". how does on configure such device ?
I thought the install prog should take care of that ? what am I missing ?
AFAIK there is nothing in the howto nor in the manual unless proven wrong.
2) Under RH 7.0 the thing (ftape-4.04a) does not even want to compile properly
?? was something changed in gcc in between ?
Would be thankfull for any advice offered. I scanned the net in all directions
but was not able to log any useful hints :-(
TIA
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:04:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> don't get me wrong, I'm not offended in any way and am not trying to offend you
> or anybody else. I like to learn more about this, that's why I'm on this
> news-group. It's just that the messages I get from LINUX tend to indicate
> something else then what I expect.
They aren't always very clear, I agree
> About the Linux Native Partition, I disagree (no offense!) that this is the same
> as the root partition. For one can only have one root partition (right?), but
> serveral Linux Native Patitions.
That's right, but I doubt you were unable to make eg. a /usr partition
That has no restrictions whatsoever.
> I'm very thankfull for the information you give me. It's just that it is a bit
> confusing from time to time. I think I understand something, and suddenly it
> appears that I'm all wrong (This is not bad, but confusing). For me it's guite a
> challenge to get my system up and running with a multi-boot for Windows NT,
> Windows 2000 and Linux. So I will not give up, unless somebody tells me this is
> impossible and can explain why.
It's not impossible from the linux side. I wouldn't be able to tell you
if NT4/5
has any problems with this scenario.
> What my conclusion would be from the sentence: /boot should be entirely below
> cyl. 1024, is that this should be physically at the beginning of the hard disk.
> This would then mean that the first partition on the disk should be a linux
> partition or is the area <1024 still the boot-sector of the disk (MBR)?.
1024 cyl. means at least below 8G, but the limit be lower. This depends
on the
translation your BIOS uses to access the disc.
run `/fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]` to see where your partitions are.
(If you are usure about the results, post them here)
> I have
> my linux up and running now, but for now I still need to use a boot-floppydisk.
> I don't like this, because it is very slow.
Probably because /boot is above cyl. 1024
I forgot what distro you use, but if you have a LILO> v21.4.3 you can
boot from HDD too.
You can always upgrade LILO ofcourse.
> And about the thing you say about not touching /dev/hda1, but use /dev/hda (the
> MBR) instead?? There much be some HOWTO doc about this. I think I'll try to find
> this first and read it. Maybe I'll understand it better than.
>
There is a howto on using the NT loader to boot linux,
but not for LILO as the main bootloader.
LILO is very well documented though. The info is on your PC already.
Show me your fdisk listing, and your lilo.conf, and I will tell you what
to
change to use LILO as teh main bootloader.
Eric
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting ulimit for non-interactive user
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:07:48 GMT
"J. Ganjs" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> on a linux 2.2.16 system I want to limit the number of processes, a certain
> user can run. With an interactive user, I could achieve this by running
> "ulimit -u xxxx" in the users' .profile or .bashrc. But in this case, the user
> is non-interactive and the processes I want to limit are spawned by an apache
> webserver via suExec mechanism - no .profile / no .bashrc.
>
> How can this be solved?
Add the line below to the end of /etc/pam.d/login but above any
"session optional" lines.
session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so
Then edit /etc/security/limits.conf and use "nproc" to restrict
processes.
# - nproc - max number of processes
Hope this helps.
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From: Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up linux for @home att network
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:11:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> from what I understand , @home att cable requires a special name to be
> given to the computer - which allows it to contact @home's dhcp server
> and get the IP address
> On Linux, how
> a) do I configure the name for the machine
> b) how do I configure it to act as a dhcp client
> Thanks
>
> Sent via Deja.com
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a) edit the /etc/HOSTNAME file to be the desired name of your host.
b) you might try chapter seven of the <a
href="http://linux.com/howto/Net-HOWTO/index.html">Net-HOWTO</a>. Just
gloss over the parts that don't apply to your setup.
HTH
--
Wes Sheldahl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux version of my dos install disk?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:13:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a floppy disk for dos that I've used for the last 5 years
> whenever I want to install a new system. It's a simple bootable dos
> floppy disk with several utilitys on it (fdisk, pkzip, edit, etc...)
> I've recently tried to find a linux equivelent to this. I'm unsure how
> to get this working. What I'd like is to be able to go and install a
> linux system by hand and I don't know where to start.
> For now I'm primarly concerned about creating a bootable disk (or disk
> set) with all the utils I'd need.
> Any help is appreciated.
Take a look at slackware if you are wanting to install from floppy.
http://www.slackware.com/
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "~" with vim ??
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:15:03 +0100
Reply-To: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hellu,
Does someone know how to configure vim that it doesn't create a file with
the same name and the "~" character at the end, when you edit a file ?
(quite enjoying euhhhh)
Why is this by the way ??
Regards,
Ed Bras
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From: Washington Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo exceeds 1024!
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:16:21 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My linux is redhat7.0 , and i want to dual boot with win2k, i run #l
/sbin/lilo -v and got the following information:
Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc3
Mergin with /boot/boot.h
Waring: device 0x1603 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
Fatal:geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1269.1023).
So, how can i copy the boot file to dual boot with win2k?
Thanks!
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From: Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: parport setup
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:21:34 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bottom line is I still can't seem to get any data to my parallel port.
Pointers, anyone?
David Efflandt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:32:17 -0500, Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I'm trying to setup a printer, but can't seem to communicate with the
> >parallel port. For example:
> >
> ># cat "hello world" > /dev/lp0
> >
> >yields, nothing, no error message, no response from the printer. Doing
> >the same thing to /dev/lp1 gives me this message on the console: "su:
> >/dev/lp1: Device not configured". The Printing-HOWTO and related
> >documents all seem to assume that this will produce something, however
> >ugly. Can't find what to do when it doesn't.
>
> Do you have a file called 'hello' and another one called 'world'? I think
> you mean: echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0
Yes, I meant echo. I tried that, got a permissions error, so I went
root and did:
# chmod 662 /dev/lp0
to enable public write access to the port. Now echoing text to the port
fails silently, as before.
Other suggestions?
> However, that would only work for a real printer that can print ASCII
> text. When I saw the name Lexmark below, I cringed. Lexmark still has no
> Linux support for my 5700, but does list models for networking and Unix
> systems now.
>
> Hm, I wonder if that driver would work for my 5700 which is also 1200x1200
> dpi and uses the same 12A1990 Photo cartridge (black and color cartridges
> have different part#). I have downloaded the z32 driver and will let you
> know if I can get it to work on an obsolete printer that hopefully uses
> the same protocol.
I've seen some people post that the driver also supports the lexmark
z22, as those two are identical hardware. There's also a z52 driver
out. Hope one of them works for you.
> >I have printcap set up to print to a lexmarkz32 using lexmark's
> >proprietary driver. When I try to print a text file using lpr, it
> >sounds like the ink cartridge resets (so the printer heard SOMETHING),
> >but that's all. Repeated invocations of lpc status and checking teh
> >print queue's log indicate that the file goes in and out of the queue
> >with no errors, but again, nothing gets put on paper.
> >
> >Relevant lines from running lsmod read:
> >Module Size Used by
> >lp 5924 0
> >parport_pc 7396 1
> >parport 6952 1 [lp parport_pc]
> >
> >Contents of /proc/parport/0/hardware:
> >base: 0x378
> >irq: 7
> >dma: none
> >modes: SPP
> >
> >PnP is disabled in the bios, and the above base address and irq match
> >the bios setup.
>
> The irq is not normally used for Linux printing anyway. It uses polled
> mode unless you specify the port and irq as options for the lp module and
> use 'tunelp' to enable it.
>
> >I'm running Slackware 7.1, kernel 2.2.16.
> >
> >Specific suggestions or suggested reading both welcome. TIA,
> >
> >
> >--
> >Wes Sheldahl
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade from RH5.2 to RH6.2 hangs
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:24:05 GMT
"Clark L. Coleman" wrote:
>
>
> That was a typo in my previous posting. There is no "/" in the
> /etc/fstab entry for swap.
>
> With that possibility behind us, does anyone have an idea why the
> RH6.2 upgrade installer is looking at the swap device while searching
> for packages to upgrade, and then dying as a result? What can be done
> about it?
>
> I would assume there are other people in the world who:
> 1) had RH5.2 with a separate device partitioned for swap.
> 2) Used the upgrade path to RH6.2 successfully.
I kind of thought it was but thought I'd check.
What does fdisk show you?
fdisk /dev/hda
choice "p" to see the partition tableq.
The swap should be something like this though the numbers may be
different the "82" should be the same.
/dev/hda8 1022 1054 265041 82 Linux swap
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From: Eric Corndorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP SERVER not working in RH 7.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:30:04 -0000
Hey everybody. Just installed RH 7.0 and all is well for the most part.
The only thing that really didn't start working is the ftp server...I'm not
able to ftp into my machine. As I understand it, the name of the service
is tftp. When I type "service --status-all" I don't see the tftp service
on the list. I think thats it's not starting...but I'm not sure because I
cant compair my machine to a working RH 7.0 machine. Can someone who has
RH 7.0 running tell me if the above command shows the tftp service? If it
does, can SOMEBODY tell me why mine is NOT working? Thanks, please cc a
copy of your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thnaks
-Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Linux version of my dos install disk?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:31:53 GMT
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:22:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have a floppy disk for dos that I've used for the last 5 years
>whenever I want to install a new system. It's a simple bootable dos
>floppy disk with several utilitys on it (fdisk, pkzip, edit, etc...)
>I've recently tried to find a linux equivelent to this. I'm unsure how
>to get this working. What I'd like is to be able to go and install a
>linux system by hand and I don't know where to start.
>For now I'm primarly concerned about creating a bootable disk (or disk
>set) with all the utils I'd need.
>Any help is appreciated.
There are several single-floppy Linux distributions suitable (even designed) for
this use. Try LOAF ("Linux On A Floppy") at http://loaf.ecks.org/ or Toms
Root/Boot at http://www.toms.net/rb/.
Lew Pitcher
IT Consultant, Development Services
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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From: Robert Petrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbee modem set-up question
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:26:44 -0600
I have a Hayes external modem attached to com1. setserial shows that
ttyS0 is set to the correct interrupt and buffer address. minicom
however returns "I/O Error" when run. If I cat /dev/modem I also get
"I/O Error".
Does this indicate that I do not have a modem driver? If so where can I
get one and how do I install it? The disks that came with the modem only
contain win 95/98/2000 and NT things.
Thanks for any help.
bob petrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Kevin Swanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New to Linux
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:35:06 GMT
I have an Asus A7V and need help installing the Promise ATA100 IDE Driver.
How do you install it in Mandrake 7.2?
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "~" with vim ??
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:43:25 +0100
Ed Bras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does someone know how to configure vim that it doesn't create a file with
> the same name and the "~" character at the end, when you edit a file ?
> (quite enjoying euhhhh)
turn off backup? set nobackup? A wild guess.
> Why is this by the way ??
Backups? Surely every editor since time immemorial has done that.
But my vim certainly doesn't .. it puts its safe copy in /var somewhere.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Somebody create a How-To on upgrading to Kernel 2.4, please !
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:07:44 GMT
* Steve Martin wrote:
> Jan Schaumann wrote:
>
> > > I've searched far and wide, but no avail. No one has created a web page
> > > with detailed, step-by-step instructions on upgrading the kernel to
> > > 2.4.
>
> > 2.4.0 is in no way different with respect to the process of setting it up
> > than any other version.
>
> True, but there are quite a few caveats (admittely included in the
> Changes)
> file) which can trip one up, especially if one is coming from a Linux
> release that is earlier than the latest (like RH6.2 for example).
Not trying to be wise here, but out of pure interest:
Which ones? I just upgraded to 2.4.0 from whatever came as default kernel in
Debian 2.2 (I think it's 2.2.14, or was it 2.2.18?) and had zero problems
whatsoever - well, that is, at first I selected the wrong processor type for my
machine so the kernel didn't boot, but that was fixed easily and lead to a big
smacking *D'uh*. :)
I could not detect anything different or anything complicated and I did /not/
read through the Change-log (like I should have).
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found
on the bench.
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