Linux-Setup Digest #506, Volume #20 Fri, 26 Jan 01 06:13:10 EST
Contents:
Error message at boot time. ("David")
Re: Seagate ST8000 ("Markus Feldmann")
Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0 (D Karels)
2.4.0 & modules "not found" (Paul Lew)
Re: Uninstalling RH7 (H.Bruijn)
Re: 2.4.0 & modules "not found" (H.Bruijn)
Re: Trying to install dual boot WinNT + Linux (Eric)
Re: Installing mulinux on a different device (drumvudu)
Re: Question on LILO and recompiling your Kernel (Eric)
Storm bootdisk ("Nick")
Re: Peer not authorized ("Peter T. Breuer")
A linux newbie ("gameboy")
Seting up XDMCP on Rh7 ("Ph.Richelme")
Setting up XMDCP ("Ph.Richelme")
Linux on a Concerto with a Kingston PCMCIA card (Aaron)
Re: iptables & 2.4.0 ("michael.fengler")
Re: Uninstalling RH7 (Eric)
Napster can't connect (Jimbo)
Re: I need an advice for Zip USB, (Glitch)
Re: Installing mulinux on a different device (Eugene Kang)
Re: Removing KDE ("Les B. Labbauf")
Log rotating errors ("Mike")
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Error message at boot time.
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:16:03 +0800
Hi everyone!
I have RedHat 6.2 installed at my office computer which is also connected to
an ethernet network. At boot time, when starting the identd daemon, the
following error message appears:
Starting identd: eth0: link is unconnected, is down or incompatible. eth0 is
TP. [OK]
Can anyone pls tell me what this message means and how to remove it? And
does it has anything to do with the hostname on my RH machine? (I recently
set a new hostname for the machine. But it is not a FQDN (fully qualified
domain name.)
Another thing to mention is that there is certainly a ethernet connection up
and running. B'cos even though this message appears, I can still access the
Net and ping other machines in the network.
Yet another discovery I have made is that if I prevent identd daemon from
starting up at boot time by removing the identd startup script from
/etc/rc.d/init.d, the exact same error message now appears when the at
daemon is starting up.
Thanks.
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From: "Markus Feldmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seagate ST8000
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:03:54 +0100
"Mark Bratcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I�ve got a fresh installed RH 70, attached to the first IDE Port is a
> > Seagate ST8000 4/8GB Steamer (/dev/hda)
>
> Hmm. Do you really mean that it is the slave on the first IDE channel? Or
is it
> the master on the secondary IDE channel? It would be strange for it to be
the
> master on the first channel.
>
It�s attached as a master on the first ide channel, but I didn�t try
/dev/ht0 (because I didn�t know),
but I�m going to check on this today.
Thanx anyway.
Markus.
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From: D Karels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:19:59 +0100
Eureka!!
I finally managed to boot to Linux from the windows2000 boot menu. The problem
was solved when I downloaded a new version of LILO, installed it and run it.
RedHat 6.2 comes with version 21, which does not support a /boot partition above
sector 1024. I downloaded version 21-6.1 which does support it. I installed LILO
to my /dev/hdb6. It did say something about this not being my first drive, but
still continued. I copied the LILO boot sector (?) to a file (dd if=/dev/hdb6
bs=512 count=1 of=/linux.bin) and copied this file to my windows2000 partition,
booted it and it works!!
I'm so happy!!
Eric, thanks for all your advise.
Regards,
Dennis.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: 2.4.0 & modules "not found"
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:02:26 GMT
I was able to compile and get 2.4.0 "running" BUT it is unable to find
and load the modules like the tulip, vfat, fat, msdos and some other
modules. Now, I did notice that when I did "make modules", I did notice
some "nothing to do for modules" and the "make modules_install" did not
return errors.
Looking at the /lib/modules/ I only see the pcima and I think the usb
directories and a "build" directory as a link to the /usr/src/linux-2.4.0.
Something went wrong somewhere....
Any hints on how to get the modules made and installed? The kernel is
working but no etho, no network and no "dos, vfat filesystems"..no
nothing...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Uninstalling RH7
Date: 26 Jan 2001 07:05:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:51:36 +0300, NG_lurker allegedly wrote:
>How do i uninstall Linux RH7 from my HD? I cant see a thing in Gnome desktop
>as my display is corrupted. I dont know how to fix this and its no use
>playing around with it.
o.k. to fix things do:
boot linux
switch from Gnome desktop to the console with CTRL+ALT+F1
log in as root with the root password and username
reconfigure X with either one of:
Xconfigurator (graphical X configurationtool)
xf86config (text based X configurationtool)
when that's done switch back to the gnome desktop with
ALT+F7
and then restart the Xserver and Gnome by using the key combo
CTRL+ALT+Backspace
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: 2.4.0 & modules "not found"
Date: 26 Jan 2001 07:12:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:02:26 GMT, Paul Lew allegedly wrote:
>I was able to compile and get 2.4.0 "running" BUT it is unable to find
>and load the modules like the tulip, vfat, fat, msdos and some other
>modules. Now, I did notice that when I did "make modules", I did notice
>some "nothing to do for modules" and the "make modules_install" did not
>return errors.
>
>Looking at the /lib/modules/ I only see the pcima and I think the usb
>directories and a "build" directory as a link to the /usr/src/linux-2.4.0.
>Something went wrong somewhere....
>
>Any hints on how to get the modules made and installed? The kernel is
>working but no etho, no network and no "dos, vfat filesystems"..no
>nothing...
You did do the required upgrades as mentioned in
../src/linux-2.4.0/Changes file? Notably
o binutils 2.9.1.0.25 # ld -v
o util-linux 2.10o # fdformat --version
o modutils 2.4.0 # insmod -V
You did select stuff as modules, did you not? Simply do a
"grep \=m ../src/linux-2.4.0/.config" to make sure. And you selected
support for modules? CONFIG_MODULES=y?
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trying to install dual boot WinNT + Linux
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:17:11 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tyberghein Jorrit wrote:
>
> "> windows only recognise windows partition ID's, but you make this with
> linux
> > fdisk just fine too.
>
> How? That's the problem that I have now. I have a FAT partition which I
> created
> using fdisk but now I want NT to recognize that partition as well. How can I
> do that?
NT recognises FAT16 and NTFS partitions. All others might be
problematic.
But perhaps NT is smarter and doesn't look at the partition ID only,
like win9x.
show me your `fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]` listing. Then I might be able to
say more.
Eric
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From: drumvudu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing mulinux on a different device
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:27:12 GMT
Eugene, if you figure this out, please let me know, I want to be able to
boot to an internal zip drive.Thanx
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and
plain dealing"...Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few
stupid ideas"...George Santayana
Confucious say "If you play in root,
eventually you will kill tree"...anonymous
SuSE 7.0 2.2.16
Linux: t h e c h o i c e o f a
G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
On 24 Jan 2001, Eugene Kang wrote:
> How would I get mulinux to install on a device other than a floppy?
> I'd like to install it onto a 4MB flashcard..
>
> thanks!
>
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question on LILO and recompiling your Kernel
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:28:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> image = /boot/zipkern
> root = /dev/hda3
> label = LinTest
>
> After this I typed "lilo" at the command prompt and it said it added the new
> entry. Great. So I reboot, and when I get to the LILO prompt, it doesn't
> display my new image label, just the same old stuff as usual. I logged in as
Then your booting an old LILO.
when you run lilo, it rewrites the bootcode.
This bootcode can be on anyplace you like.
the boot= option describes where.
If you now boot from the MBR, and try to put the new bootcode in a
partition,
you wouldn't see the changes.
Either put it in the MBR again, or clear the MBR first.
Eric
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From: "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Storm bootdisk
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:49:17 -0800
This is so sad. I can make bootdisks with rawrite under SuSE and RH but I
can't seem to find what to use as the boot image for Storm Linux. If anyone
can tell me what the file is that I should point rawrite2 to, I would
greatly appreciate. Sorry for cluttering up the newsgroup with this message
but the documentation on the website doesn't cover it.
Thanks,
Nick
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Peer not authorized
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:15:39 GMT
Ed Champion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pete, thanks for the reply, but I do not see anything about peers. I
> just figured out how to copy the ppp-logfile. It is as follows:
Where did you look?
Look for "auth" and make it a "noauth".
> an 21 22:54:58 n2ayk pppd[1284]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
> Jan 21 22:54:58 n2ayk pppd[1284]: Using interface ppp0
> Jan 21 22:54:58 n2ayk pppd[1284]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
> Jan 21 22:55:02 n2ayk pppd[1284]: Peer is not authorized to use remote
> address 208.237.4.7
> Jan 21 22:55:02 n2ayk pppd[1284]: Connection terminated.
> Jan 21 22:55:02 n2ayk pppd[1284]: Connect time 0.1 minutes.
> Jan 21 22:55:02 n2ayk pppd[1284]: Sent 305 bytes, received 292 bytes.
> Jan 21 22:55:02 n2ayk pppd[1284]: Exit.
(man pppd)
noauth Do not require the peer to authenticate itself.
This option is privileged if the auth option is specified in
/etc/ppp/options.
Mind you, I'm not a pppd habitueee, so I'd need to SEE your config file
and commandline options before commenting definitively. Take the above
as a suggestion for further investigation.
Oh ... and you "forgot" to turn on debugging in pppd, so the log is
not too useful at present. But thanks! I appreciate it.
What did you have to "figure out", btw? Surely it's just a grab with the
mouse?
Peter
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From: "gameboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A linux newbie
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:20:12 +0700
Hi all:
I have a caldera edesktop 2.4 box, and I want to set it up as a client to a
win2000 domain.
Any idea/articles would be great.
Thanks,
gb
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From: "Ph.Richelme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Seting up XDMCP on Rh7
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:25:07 GMT
Hi,
I Configure my RedHat7 to accept XDMCP connection.
But the connection time, with any kind of Xclient, is always very long and
sometime i get time-out.
Can some-one help ?
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From: "Ph.Richelme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up XMDCP
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:25:35 GMT
Hi,
I Configure my RedHat7 to accept XDMCP connection.
But the connection time, with any kind of Xclient, is always very long and
sometime i get time-out.
Can some-one help ?
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From: Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on a Concerto with a Kingston PCMCIA card
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:45:24 GMT
Some relatives of mine were going to throw away an old Compaq Concerto
laptop. It has 20 megs of memory and a 250 meg HD. I ripped Windows
3.1 off of it and wanted to get Linux installed on it - hoping that
maybe I could use it as a remote telnet device. Anyways, I'm
attempting to install RedHat 6.1 on it (the 6.1 CDs happened to be
handy :) but so far I haven't had any luck. The main problem is that
it doesn't have a CD-ROM drive which means I would like to/need to
install via the net. Being a laptop it uses PCMCIA cards - so I booted
using the pcmcia.img boot image. The boot seems to go fine - when it
tries to configure the pcmcia cards the link light on the kingston's
dongle flickers and then stays on which leads me to believe that the
pcmcia system on the machine isn't totally foreign to linux. However,
when I plug it into my local lan and try to configure the net settings
via DHCP it doesn't work. I tried entering in values and it still
didn't work. The funny thing is, at no time during the installation
did it ask me to guess at a driver for the kingston (KNE PC2) card.
When I boot with bootnet.img it asks me for a driver to try - but this
time (using pcmcia.img) it didn't.
Does anybody have any ideas on what might be wrong or what I should try?
Thanks,
-Aaron
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From: "michael.fengler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iptables & 2.4.0
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:39:50 +0100
Reply-To: Michael Fengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Christopher C. Stump wrote:
-- snip --
>One interesting thing to note is that when I run the 'lsmod' command, I
>see no modules loaded that seem to relate to packet filtering. Are
>there modules that I need to manually install in order to get iptables
>to work? If so, what are they? The error message seems to indicate that
>some modules need to be loaded, but I thought the modules made for the
>kernel were "loaded on demand" and that I didn't need to do anything.
Loadable module support
[*] Enable loadable module support
[*] Set version information on all module symbols
[*] Kernel module loader
- mike
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Uninstalling RH7
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:49:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NG_lurker wrote:
>
> How do i uninstall Linux RH7 from my HD? I cant see a thing in Gnome desktop
> as my display is corrupted. I dont know how to fix this and its no use
> playing around with it.
This is what you get for multiposting. :-p
I did reply to you, in colm.
Read up on your postings.
Eric
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From: Jimbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Napster can't connect
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:02:06 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I've used Linux Napster client v1.4 for a week.
Everything worked well. But now...suddenly..without changing anything
to the settings, I can start the client but it doesn't seem to
connect.
After I've tried the "/reconnect" command, I got this the message
Getting best host...
Connecting...
Logging in...
The nr. of total songs & total Gb remains '0'. After waiting for about
10 mins and trying several search-actions without any result there
seems to be no reaction.
I've already tried to create a new user and reinstalled all the files
but the result remains the same.
I'm using the Napster client on Red Hat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.18) and it's
behind a firewall with the these portforwarding rules:
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 6699 -R $CLIENT 6699
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 4444 -R $CLIENT 4444
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 5555 -R $CLIENT 5555
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 6666 -R $CLIENT 6666
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 7777 -R $CLIENT 7777
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 8888 -R $CLIENT 8888
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 9999 -R $CLIENT 9999
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 8875 -R $CLIENT 8875
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 8175 -R $CLIENT 8175
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 61275 -R $CLIENT 61275
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $LOC_IP 61276 -R $CLIENT 61276
Some help please?
Koen Van Impe
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:30:58 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I need an advice for Zip USB,
ME wrote:
> Thanks for reading this,
>
> I am trying to mount (dev/sda4) a Zip 100 USB drive under Kernel 2.2.16
> (Suse 7.0). The modules usbcore, usb-ohci and usb-storage are loaded, but
> yet the system fails to communicate with the Zip drive. While booting up the
> system it finds the Zip drive. The error message is:
>
> sda: Read Capacity failed
> sda: status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
> sda: sense not available
> sda: block size assumed 512 bytes, disk size 1 GB
>
> sda: scsidisk I/O Error: dev08:00, sector 0
> unable to read partition table.
>
> My USB Sony CD/RW drive is also seen but can not be mounted. I think it is a
> SCSI issue, which I have tried to remedy with the insertation of module sg,
> but that did not help either. Perhaps somebody has an advice for me, any
> input is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
The error message is 'unable to read partition table'......maybe it
can't read one b/c there isn't one in the first place? (ie. there is no
disk in the drive)
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From: Eugene Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing mulinux on a different device
Date: 26 Jan 2001 10:47:19 GMT
drumvudu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eugene, if you figure this out, please let me know, I want to be able to
> boot to an internal zip drive.Thanx
What I did was to install it onto a hard disk and cloned it
to my flash disk. Still couldn't shrink it enough though.. looks like
I'd have to get a larger flash disk :(
>
> "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and
> plain dealing"...Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
> "It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few
> stupid ideas"...George Santayana
>
> Confucious say "If you play in root,
> eventually you will kill tree"...anonymous
>
> SuSE 7.0 2.2.16
> Linux: t h e c h o i c e o f a
> G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
>
>
> On 24 Jan 2001, Eugene Kang wrote:
>
>> How would I get mulinux to install on a device other than a floppy?
>> I'd like to install it onto a 4MB flashcard..
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>>
>
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From: "Les B. Labbauf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Removing KDE
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:07:19 GMT
In article <94nbv1$mu2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <JEqb6.734$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Les B. Labbauf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I would like to remove the KDE desktop from my setup, but can't find
> any
>> decent documentation/instructions on how I can accomplish this. I am
>> running Red Hat 7.0, and used the default installation to install both
>> GNOME, and KDE.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Les
>>
> Do you want to totally remove KDE or just make GNOME your default
> desktop?
> You can do that at the gdm or kdm login. If you want to switch to gdm
> login and GNOME desktop, edit the etc/sysconfig/desktop file and replace
> KDE with GNOME. At next reboot,if you have X set to start at boot
> (runlevel 5), as X starts you will now get the gdm login and you can
> select GNOME as your desktop, it should be now by default.
>
>
> Scott
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>
>
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Scott
I was thinking of totally removing KDE, to reclaim some diskspace. I
already am familiar with how to boot to either deskto, it is that I just
don't use KDE.
Les
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Log rotating errors
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:04:07 +0100
Hi,
I get this error daily:
errors occured while rotating /var/log/sudo.log
stat of /var/log/sudo.log failed: No such file or directory
Which program is doing it ?
TIA
Mike
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