Linux-Setup Digest #513, Volume #20 Sat, 27 Jan 01 03:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Hey! Dial Up Question! (David)
how do I mount my tape drive? ("Darren and Marla Welson")
Re: how do I mount my tape drive? (Srihari Vijayaraghavan)
Re: Win98 + Win2K + RedHat 7.0 boot problem (Thomas Hedden)
Proliant 2500R + Red Hat 6.2 - RAID5 suddenly loses drives (The Archimage)
Boot stall in MDK 7.1...added bonus: couple of other questions (NoClue)
Choice of e-mail list admin programs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Napster can't connect ("Ruediger Arp")
Re: Clock problem. (Bob Camp)
LILO saved boot file /boot/boot.0301 (Henry Yao)
Re: Proliant 2500R + Red Hat 6.2 - RAID5 suddenly loses drives (jwk)
Question about installation of Java jdk1.3 under RH7 ("Martin Z. Mao")
Re: Win98 + Win2K + RedHat 7.0 boot problem ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Error message at boot time. ("David")
Login Fail ("Mike")
Solved the problem! (WAS Re: Trying to install dual boot WinNT + Linux) ("Tyberghein
Jorrit")
Re: Trying to install dual boot WinNT + Linux ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Uninstalling RH7 ("Eric en Jolanda")
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.2600.hackerz,alt.hackers.groups,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Hey! Dial Up Question!
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:11:58 GMT
"HOLY SHIT!" wrote:
>
> Sorry to cross post on this very post, but oh well....
Better to cross post than multi post.
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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Completed more W/U's than 99.018% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "Darren and Marla Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: how do I mount my tape drive?
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:53:18 GMT
I am adding a tape drive to an existing AHA-1542 SCSI controller. I have
one HD already configured and working, but I cannot figure out how to access
my tape drive. I have tried:
mount -t ext2 -r /dev/sdb /mnt/tape
mount -t ext2 /dev/tape /mnt/tape
but no go. Is it possible I will need to recompile my kernel? I have added
the SCSI card since I installed RH6.2.
darren welson
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From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I mount my tape drive?
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:24:10 +1100
Darren and Marla Welson wrote:
> I am adding a tape drive to an existing AHA-1542 SCSI controller. I have
> one HD already configured and working, but I cannot figure out how to
> access
> my tape drive. I have tried:
> mount -t ext2 -r /dev/sdb /mnt/tape
> mount -t ext2 /dev/tape /mnt/tape
>
> but no go. Is it possible I will need to recompile my kernel? I have
> added the SCSI card since I installed RH6.2.
>
> darren welson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Hello,
I do not think you can mount a tape drive.
You might need to use tar, dd, cpio kind of utilities to perform backup.
"dmesg" command would provide useful information about both SCSI card and
tape drive if they were initialised by kernel.
Generally the device files for SCSI tape drives are /dev/st0, /dev/st1 and
so on.
Hari.
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:40:28 -0500
From: Thomas Hedden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win98 + Win2K + RedHat 7.0 boot problem
Hi Henry,
Don't panic (at least not yet). I think your data is safe.
(I have had similar experiences, and know how it feels.)
I recommend the following.
Try booting from a floppy disk (DOS boot diskette
or Windows 98 boot diskette). Make sure the fdisk
program is on it. If you can't do this for some
reason, try using the fdisk program in Linux.
Once you have booted, use fdisk to set your Windows
98 partition to active (the active partition is the
one that boots). Shut down normally, then reboot from
the hard disk. Your computer should then boot from
the Windows 98 partition.
Another thing you could try, which is even easier,
but I'm not sure it will work in your case, is, if
you have LILO installed, at the LILO prompt, instead
of hitting "Enter" or waiting for the timeout, type
"DOS" and then hit enter. It might just complain
that this boot option is not valid, but it might
be smart enough to boot your Windows 98 partition.
If it doesn't work I don't think it will harm
anything.
Good luck, and please let me know if this works.
Tom
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Huihai Yao wrote:
>
> I installed Win98, Win2K and RH7 on the same computer as:
> /hda1 FAT32 Win98 2GB
> /hda2 Linux / 1.3GB
> /hda5 Linux /home 0.5GB
> /hda6 L_Swap <SWAP> 0.2GB
> /hdb1 NTFS Win2K 8GB
>
> First of all, I fdisk'ed C: (Win98), D: (Win2K) and the rest for Linux. Then I
> installed W98 on C and Win2K on D and they are dual bootable.
>
> Last week, I got RH7 disk and installed it to the reserved space. At first, I
> installed LILO on /hda2 to keep Windows are intact and booted Linux from
> floppy successfully. At the same time, I could access Win98 and Win2K from
> Linux after mounting.
>
> Bad things happened last night, I changed the lilo configuration and tried to
> boot from /hda1 instead. After rebooting, I saw a GUI selection Windows or
> Linux. When I selected Windows, it flashed and came back to the selection
> Windows again. When I selected Linux, it booted from hard disk, obviously
> faster than from floppy. BUT I could not mount Win98 and Win2K. :-( All my
> data in windows are not accessible any more. I could change the boot sector to
> /hda2, and boot from Linux floppy, but still could not mount Win98 and Win2K.
>
> Now I worry about how I can boot to Windows 'cause I saved all important data
> there. I can even stand with boot linux from floppy, taking about 10 minutes,
> but bringing my Windows back.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Henry
> --------------------------------------------
> Henry Yao
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --------------------------------------------
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From: The Archimage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq.servers,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Proliant 2500R + Red Hat 6.2 - RAID5 suddenly loses drives
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 04:46:43 GMT
OK, here's the scenario:
I have a Compaq Proliant 2500R, dual PPro 200's, a gig of EDO ECC RAM,
and an external Compaq F1 Raid array with 9 identical Seagate 9.1 gig
SCSI drives. Several months ago (right when RH6.2 was released), I
installed RH6.2 in GUI mode, set up a 24 meg partition mounted on /boot,
and the rest of the array as /dev/md0, a RAID5 array, mounted on /.
The server was at a remote site, and I have to admit I didn't watch the
logs as closely as I should have. I ssh'd in on January 16th, and
noticed in /var/log/messages that a "disk failure" had occured on one of
the disks, and the array was continuing on 6 disks. I used
raidhotremove to remove the drive from the stripe set, and then
raidhotadd to add it back in and regenerate the stripe set. The server
crashed, showing a second drive "failed." I lost all the data on the
array.
Assuming I had a bad drive or drives, blew the machine away, formatted
the drives with an NT workstation install and format.com. The drives
formatted and scandisked fine, so I blew NT away and reinstalled RH6.2
with RAID5, checking for bad blocks, configured again as mentioned
above. The install didn't even finish before RAID errors were reported.
I figured maybe I had a bad CPU, so I replaced both just to be sure.
I called Compaq, and they told me to upgrade to the latest BIOS and
utilities, and then run the system erase utility. I did, then I ran the
compaq diagnostics. I ran two complete runs (took 66 hours), and the
machine, the CPUs, the memory, the SCSI controller, and the disks all
passed. I figured I had it licked, so I reinstalled RH6.2 again, with
RAID5. It installed beautifully, ran for a couple of hours fine, and
then I started running kernel compiles in six 10-cycle loops, one loop
on each console to stress test it.
Sure enough, a disk was marked bad and removed from the array.
I'm baffled. This setup ran fine for MONTHS. The machine tests fine
after ridiculously granular tests. But it can't keep striping going.
Any clues where to look next? I'm leaning towards bypassing the onboard
NCR SCSI card and putting an Adaptec 2940UW in a PCI slot and running
the array off of it.
Thanks
The Archimage
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NoClue)
Subject: Boot stall in MDK 7.1...added bonus: couple of other questions
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 05:27:43 GMT
Ok when I boot up Mandrake 7.1 it stalls for a few minutes when it
gets to: Starting system logger, then is continues after a few
minutes. Never did this....Also stalls when all the check are done
and the GUI for Login comes up...it goes to a blank screen and then
again after a couple of mins a finally comes up...what gives?
never did this before...
also
when I goto the dir where I'm supposed to type /network
restart..nothing is says file not found but I see the file...help.
also my NIC is set up on IRQ 5 (dont know why) but could that be a
problem for connection with @home?
THanks for any help..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Choice of e-mail list admin programs
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 05:18:34 GMT
Hi everyone,
I'm searching for a e-mail list management program for a professional
organization. I've looked at MajorDomo and Listserv, but am wondering if
someone has already used a list management program that is easy to
install, use, and powerful...and what their experience/thoughts were?
Would anyone care to share their thoughts...thanx in advance for your
input/help. -- Will
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Ruediger Arp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Napster can't connect
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 06:21:46 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jimbo"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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...
>
--snip--
get version 1.42 from http://jasta.gotlinux.org/gnapster.html.
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From: Bob Camp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clock problem.
Date: 27 Jan 2001 02:32:24 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry) writes:
> On 22 Jan 2001 02:28:05 -0000, Bob Camp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Bob Camp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >---- snip ----
> >>
> >> If I do a soft reboot after:
> >>
> >> /sbin/clock -u -w
> >>
> >> The hardware clock is reset to 1st Jan 1996 00:00:00
> >>
> >
> >---- snip ----
> >
> >
> >OK, got it sussed:
> >
> >Both /sbin/clock and /sbin/hwclock clobbered the clock somehow; so it
> >forgot its setting on rebot. Fortunately hwclock-2.10 fixes it, good.
> >
> >Now I just need to fix /dev/rtc which is apparently broken....
> >
> >
> >--
> >
> >Bob
>
> Did you recompile a kernel recently? There is realtime clock support
> available as a kernel compile option.
>
> --
> Michael Perry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ------------------
Thanks for the tip.
I just checked the sources for 2.0.30 (the kernel I am currently using) and
in 2.2.14; there is a kernel/time.c in both that deals with the hardware
clock. As I understand it; this builds /dev/rtc. I had thought this
device was built by /dev/MAKEDEV but apparently not.
The /dev/rtc I have has an earlier time stamp than the kernel so it was not
updated with the kernel. This device does not work hence the need to
change hwclock.
The hwclock tries to use /dev/rtc and then falls back to writing to the
CMOS clock directly. Presumably if /dev/rtc had worked then I would not
have seen the problem.
Anyway time.c seems to be the starting place to fix the problem.
--
Bob
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From: Henry Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO saved boot file /boot/boot.0301
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:38:55 -0600
I have a stupid question about /boot/boot.???? file. I am not sure if this is
correct or not. From the size of file /boot/boot.????, which is 512 byte, is
this the original MBR data before installing LILO.
If lilo -u|-U could not restore this file back, can I use 'debug' to load the
file into MBR to overwrite lilo created MBR? I know it is VERY dangerous
step. But, is there anyone used it in this way?
TIA,
Henry
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Henry Yao
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Crossposted-To:
alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq.servers,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Proliant 2500R + Red Hat 6.2 - RAID5 suddenly loses drives
Date: 27 Jan 2001 06:34:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 04:46:43 GMT, The Archimage
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK, here's the scenario:
>
>I have a Compaq Proliant 2500R, dual PPro 200's, a gig of EDO ECC RAM,
>and an external Compaq F1 Raid array with 9 identical Seagate 9.1 gig
>SCSI drives. Several months ago (right when RH6.2 was released), I
>installed RH6.2 in GUI mode, set up a 24 meg partition mounted on /boot,
>and the rest of the array as /dev/md0, a RAID5 array, mounted on /.
>
>The server was at a remote site, and I have to admit I didn't watch the
>logs as closely as I should have. I ssh'd in on January 16th, and
>noticed in /var/log/messages that a "disk failure" had occured on one of
>the disks, and the array was continuing on 6 disks. I used
>raidhotremove to remove the drive from the stripe set, and then
>raidhotadd to add it back in and regenerate the stripe set. The server
>crashed, showing a second drive "failed." I lost all the data on the
>array.
>
First of all, please trim down the list of newsgroups. Note the F'Up.
Second, are there any log-messages that might indicate WHY some drives
failed?
Jurriaan
--
BOFH excuse #125:
we just switched to Sprint.
GNU/Linux 2.2.19pre7 SMP 2x1402 bogomips load av: 0.08 0.09 0.08
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From: "Martin Z. Mao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Question about installation of Java jdk1.3 under RH7
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:57:59 -0500
I have used "root" to install it.
When I use root to login, it runs well.
But if I use some normal ID to login, when I tried to complier
the .java file and it always said "Permission denied" and exit,
These .java files should be OK. Probably I didn't set the permission of
jdk correctly, who can give me a hint? Thanks.
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win98 + Win2K + RedHat 7.0 boot problem
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:07:43 +0100
> Bad things happened last night, I changed the lilo configuration and tried
to
> boot from /hda1 instead. After rebooting, I saw a GUI selection Windows or
> Linux. When I selected Windows, it flashed and came back to the selection
> Windows again. When I selected Linux, it booted from hard disk, obviously
> faster than from floppy. BUT I could not mount Win98 and Win2K. :-( All my
> data in windows are not accessible any more. I could change the boot
sector to
> /hda2, and boot from Linux floppy, but still could not mount Win98 and
Win2K.
>
If you used LILO, there's a file, /boot/SOMETHING.0301
This file is exactly 512 bytes large.
Use dd to place it back at hda1. The old situation will be restored.
dd if=/PATH/TO/INPUTFILE of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1
Don't have hda1 mounted at the time! (But as you say you cannot mount it,
that should be no problem :-) )
After you've done this, verify that the partition table is correct.
It's not normal behaviour, that nothing is mountable after what you did,
so there's must be some bigger problem.
Eric
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error message at boot time.
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:43:02 +0800
Hi Scott,
Do you mind telling me how to move the netfs script startup to a later
position in the process? I thought all the scripts are started up in a
random order. Thanks.
David
> It sounds like the nic is slow to come up and when the system tries to
> mount network file systems it giving you this error. The message is
> just getting embedded in the other boot messages. You might try moving
> the netfs script startup to a later position in the process and see if
> that helps.
>
> Scott
> ---
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> www.linuxgruven.com
> 314-727-0918
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Login Fail
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:10:45 +0800
I had install Linux Mandrake to my Laptop, but It can't login; I had wrote
of the all record at the installation stage.
How to fix it?
Eric
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From: "Tyberghein Jorrit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Solved the problem! (WAS Re: Trying to install dual boot WinNT + Linux)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 07:16:38 GMT
Ok, I solved the problem. It appeared that Windows NT doesn't recognize
logical partitions. When I created the FAT16 partition as a primary partition
instead and put linux in another primary partition then it works fine.
So everything is ok now.
Greetings,
"Tyberghein Jorrit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:6VXb6.270364$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm trying to install Linux on a laptop that already has Windows NT on it.
> Since the laptop belongs to my work I am not allowed to mess with the NT
> installation and I am not able to reinstall it myself I need to find a way
> to set
> this up without having to reinstall NT. The current NT is installed on an
> NTFS
> partition which takes 2 Gigabytes. The total HD is 6 Giga. The size of the
> NT
> partition is ok so I don't want to touch that.
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trying to install dual boot WinNT + Linux
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:22:41 +0100
> Here is the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/hda':
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 730 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 262 730 3767242+ 85 Linux extended
> /dev/hda5 262 452 1534176 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda6 453 478 208813+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda7 479 730 2024158+ 83 Linux
>
>
>
> Note that I tried Partition Manager 6. Strangely enough it is only able
> to find the NTFS partition and doesn't recognize any of the other
> partitions. In fact, it just sees one 2GIG NTFS partition and then
> 3.6GIG unknown space.
>
No doubt.
NT doesn't know that 0x85 (linux extended) exists
Make hda2 of type 0x05 And NT will find hda5 too.
This is a very simple procedure, just start fdisk and change the ID.
when you've rebooted, NT will find it.
Eric
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Uninstalling RH7
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:17:31 +0100
> No help still the same corrupt display. I rebooted. Now i cant enter the
> Gnome GUI but only the login prompt. Pressing any combo keys above yields
no
> result. How can i return to GUI? Any new suggestion bout my corrupt
display?
try `startx`
Eric
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