Linux-Setup Digest #552, Volume #20 Thu, 1 Feb 01 20:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: weird screen after installation.... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Force mount fs search order ("ON")
Re: How do I uninstall package? ("ON")
Force mount filesystem search order ? ("ON")
Re: Install PCI modem in Redhat? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Another Lilo problem (Brian Goodyear)
Re: How do I uninstall package? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Huge problem installing RH6.2 (Scott Nolde)
Re: Using a swap partition and a swap file together? (Jens Schleusener)
Re: Linux on floppy disks? (H Dziardziel)
Bizarre problem on Samba (grooveman)
Re: Installation hangs at "uncompressing linux..." ("Natman")
serial input to LILO (Valerie Crump)
no boot at all: DVD? ("Shaun Troedson")
Moving boot (Chris Woodhouse)
Re: two partitions & one mount point (Terence Hoosen)
HELLLLPPP!!!! problem configuring gnome-libs ("dingdong")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: weird screen after installation....
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:58:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Paul McCosker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed mandrake.....did everything by the book....when the
screen
> comes up i get a window in the centre which seems to be fragments of about
> 20 similar windows. When i move the window from side to side it gets
better
> or worse until it disappears off the edge of the screen....then all
looks ok
> until i activate an icon at the bottom of the screen and up comes 20
> expanded little windows instead of one. Any help appreciated.
> I have erased mandrake and reinstalled with same problem.....
> my next idea is to erase mandrake and install red hat.....
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul McCosker.
>
>
Sounds like X did not configure properly during install. Try running
XF86Setup as root from the command line. This will help you to
reconfigure X.
Scott
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From: "ON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Force mount fs search order
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:12:47 +1000
Hmmm... I may try that..
The thing I am really after is whether you can alter the mount filesystem
search order - i.e. force it to try the udf BEFORE it tries the ISO9660
I may try to post under that topic actually.
Thanks.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:18:13 +1000, ON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Can anyone help with mount ?
> >
> >How can I configure mount to try TWO filesystems on the /dev/scd0 ?
>
> Howabout making a symlink in dev from scd0 to something like
> /dev/cdrw and making a corresponding entry in fstab?
>
> [deletia]
>
>
> --
>
> Also while the herd mentality is certainly there, I think the
> nature of software interfaces and how they tend to interfere
> with free choice is far more critical. It's not enough to merely
> have the "biggest fraternity", you also need a way to trap people
> in once they've made a bad initial decision.
> |||
> / | \
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From: "ON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I uninstall package?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:14:07 +1000
If it's an RPM, then use the -u option - (or is it -e now ? In Mandrake 7.2
it is -e)
"Charlie Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Could someone tell me how can I uninstall the package, for example, to
> uninstall Netscape.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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From: "ON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Force mount filesystem search order ?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:17:58 +1000
Hi there
I reformulate my question
Is there a way to force mount to search for a custom filesystem BEFORE the
ISO9660 ?
I have CDRWs that have both the CDR fs and the UDF and mount always mounts
them as CDRs. But I would not like to have two different mount commands idf
possible. The -t auto always tried the ISO9660 fs first.
My proc/filesystems contains NOTHING.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Install PCI modem in Redhat?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 22:12:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Eric Chow wrote:
> >
> > Would you please to teach me the steps of installing a PCI modem in
> > Redhat ?
> >
>
> Most likely:
>
> disconnect the hood from your PC.
> pull out that PCI modem.
> bring it back to the store.
> Tell them that it's NOT a modem.
> Buy a real modem.
>
> But, if you're "lucky" you can find something on www.linmodems.org
>
> Eric
>
It's winmodems that are a problem, a regular pci modem is a 'real'
modem. Is this Redhat 7 or 6.2. in RH7( I believe RH6.2 has it too), run
rp3-config at the command line as root. This will find and configure
your modem automatically.
Scott
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From: Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another Lilo problem
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:43:44 -0500
Eric wrote:
> Brian Goodyear wrote:
> >
> > Eric wrote:
> >
> > > > Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc1
> > > > Warning: /dev/hdc1 is not on the first disk
> > >
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > Here's the warning, That probably is the problem
> > >
> > > Is there any reason why you didn't connect it as /dev/hdb?
> > > Some BIOS'es can only boot discs from the first IDE controller.
> > > (ie. /dev/hda and /dev/hdb)
> >
> > No reason other than it has always been the CD drive and I'm the kind of
> > person who only changes what has to be changed. If I did that I guess I
> > would have to change my setups in OS/2, Windows, Suse and Caldera. It
> > feels like it could turn into a mini nightmare.
>
> Might not be so difficult, but you can have it your way.
>
> > Let me ask you this. I want to get this thing to boot directly from
> > BootManager rather than chaining through the Suse Lilo because I need to
> > install Win4Lin on the Caldera partition. I already have it on the
> > Suse partition but as you have probably determined I am migrating away
> > from that.
>
> Have you checked the thing svend-olaf mentioned.
> If it wasn't a typo, it probably is as simple as that.
>
> Eric
I'm going to try to change that to see what happens.
--
Thanks,
Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do I uninstall package?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 22:38:55 GMT
In article <zdle6.664$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"ON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If it's an RPM, then use the -u option - (or is it -e now ? In
Mandrake 7.2
> it is -e)
>
> "Charlie Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Could someone tell me how can I uninstall the package, for example, to
> > uninstall Netscape.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>
>
It's -e
If it was installed from a tar or tar.gz. You just have to locate the
directories and delete them. (unless the program in question has
included an uninstall script.
Scott
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Huge problem installing RH6.2
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 22:59:04 GMT
RedHat will not install on FAT16/32 partitions. You need separate
partitions for the install. And yes, you will have to format something.
Read everything on this page except for the kernel programming type
stuff:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/guides.html
- Scott
Wade Lindsey wrote:
>
> Hey there,
>
> I can't for the life of me to get RedHat 6.2 to install on my system. I
> have two HDs (8GB and 12GB) both with ample free space running Windows
> Millenium on Intel machines. When I go to install Linux, DiskDruid reports
> that both of my HDs are at 100% full (which they most certainly are not).
> Therefore, I can't partition either drive. What can I do??? I would prefer
> to not format my drive. Ugh..
>
> I also attempted the partitionless install and it seemed to go the setup,
> but hung (multiple times) on the actual install.
>
> Any thoughts??
>
> Thanks
> Wade
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Schleusener)
Subject: Re: Using a swap partition and a swap file together?
Date: 1 Feb 2001 22:23:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Feb 1, 2001 at 12:19, moonie and UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTERmoonieeloquently wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Jens Schleusener wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>unfortunately the swap partition of my linux machine is too small for
>>>some applications converting big images. Since it is impossible to
>>>increase the swap partition or to add a swap partition I have the
>>>question if it is possible to use a "hybrid" swap system by adding
>>>a swap file (may be with lower priority). The swapon man page doesn't
>>>give an answer for me.
>>
>>Why is it impossible to add a swap partition? I did, no problem.
>He could have run out of partitions. He probably can't
>repartition an existing partition......
Exactly. All disk space is in use :-(
Jens
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Subject: Re: Linux on floppy disks?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:35:38 GMT
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:19:32 -0000, "Andrew Wain"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><if you reply to this message using email, I'd prefer my mail sending to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Hi,
>
>Well, I have been into computers for as long as I can remember, and feel
>that Linux is the nex natural progression from Windows, as I can't stand it
>crashing, I'll mak it crash down the stairs one of these days! However,
>before I commit windows to the bonfire, I would like to give it a tryout on
>my laptop. Which I would need to install it on eventually anyway.
>
>My laptop doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, so I was wondering whether a PCMCIA
>drive would work or whether I would need to find some floppy disks.
>
>If floppy disks is a viable option, from where can they be obtained. I don't
>really want to spend a lot of money on it, ideally under �10 including
>shipping to UK.
>
>The laptop is a Compaq LTE500
> P75
> 800MB Hard Drive
> 16 MB RAM
> Floppy Drive
>
>No modem on laptop so a download is out of the question.
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>Andrew
>
>
Presumably files can be emailed to you as attachments? If so mulinux,
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], may be a solution. Even basic vga X, email,
news servers, tutorials on umsdos or real linux partitions or just
ram, all on several floppies. Amazing work. I'll be glad to email
you the several basic files just let me know the size limit if any.
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From: grooveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Bizarre problem on Samba
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:48:17 GMT
Hi,
I am running a RedHat 6.2 server, with samba 2.0.7. I have the NT 4.0
server doing the authentication. It seemed like it
was working really great -- until I ran into this strange problem.
I wanted to make a shared directory for one of our departments, that is
not browseable to others. I have a non-browseable share of the /home
directory. I made them a directory underneath this: /home/group1. I
planned to give them a shortcut on their desktop, to take them straight
to the shared directory (/home/group1) on the server.
Here is the problem -- whenever certain Windows NT users try to click on
the icon of the folder, or a short-cut to the folder, it says that the
directory was not found! -- BUT -- if I put in the UNC in the address
bar (i.e. //server/home/group1) it is accessable! It seems that it
only has problems if people CLICK to the directory.
(Beleive me on this -- our users need to click! They would be way to
confused if you actually tried to teach them to type in addresses.)
However, the same user logged into a Win2k machine does NOT have the
same problems! Only in NT! All NT boxes are on Service Pack 5.
Can someone please tell me how to fix this?
Thank you!
Here is the snippet of code in smb.conf:
[home]
path=/home
browseable =no
admin users = person1, person2
valid users = person1, person2,+homeshare
write list = person1,person2,+homeshare
read list = person1,person2,+homeshare
(I know that some of this may be redundant, but I have been trying
everything!)
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From: "Natman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Installation hangs at "uncompressing linux..."
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:53:32 GMT
I stand corrected on the compatibility of i386 and athalon. :) Although my
solution still stands.
Natman
"Natman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:MZXd6.50972$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Your install is built for the wrong processor type. You probably got an
> i386 linux when you need one made for your athalon. You have to download
> and install (or buy) the proper type. I'm not sure what all the processor
> types are, all I know is that you definatly have the wrong type of
install.
> You might try Alpha, SPARC, MIPS, etc. In case you don't know, you can
find
> other RH versions at http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html. Good luck.
>
> Natman
>
> "B. Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:954qco$f58$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hey there-
> >
> > I'm trying to install linux on a box I just built, and the installation
> > hangs at "Uncompressing Linux..."
> >
> > Hardware:
> > EPoX 7KXA Mobo
> > Athlon 800 mhz cpu
> > 256MB pc-133 ram
> > seagate 30gb udma hdd
> > cdrw
> > fdd
> > soundblaster pci
> > 3c509b isa nic
> >
> > O/S:
> > RH 7 (I've also tried 5.2)
> >
> > I've booted from floppy and cd, with the same results:
> > 1. Installation menu appears
> > 2. Choose option 1
> > 3. Installation script loads initrd.img
> > 4. Script loads vmlinuz.
> > 5. Script begins to uncompress linux, then hangs ofter about 3 seconds.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Brent
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Valerie Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: serial input to LILO
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:54:23 GMT
Hi,
I'm using serial in LILO and for the
console. Everything is working great
except interaction with LILO (and sysrq,
but I'll get to that another time).
When I send a break, LILO gets stuck and
I can't send anything else. The
behaviour is the same with kermit or
minicom, and with or without a prompt
statement in lilo.conf. The settings
are 9600n8, and these are the codes sent
by my keyboard:
shift= 2a aa
ctrl= 1d 9d
alt= 38 b8
sysrq= e0 2a e0 37 e0 b7 e0 aa
break= e1 1d 45 e1 9d c5
tab= 0f 8f
Thanks for any suggestions!
Valerie
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From: "Shaun Troedson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no boot at all: DVD?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:45:33 +1030
I'm trying to install Linux (Mandrake v7.2, Kernel v2.2.17). The initial
screen comes up OK and upon hitting return it loads the image and starts the
boot process, but this process freezes after printing out the following:
hda: ST320423A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: BDV 108A DVDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
As you can see I have a DVD drive. Does anyone know that this will cause a
problem? Is there a boot disk I can get hold of that handles DVD drives? I
know Linux can handle DVD drives, but maybe the boot disk can't.
Can anyone tell me at least what Linux is trying to do at this stage of the
boot process?
(BTW Windows 95 has no problems booting!)
Thanks
Shaun
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From: Chris Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Moving boot
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:41:41 GMT
I have redhat 6.0 installed on a pentium 90 with 4 hard drives. When I
installed it I had to use a floppy to boot because of the locations of
the partitions I was using for linux but now I have cleared some
partitions. In fact except for the first partition on the first hard
drive I could use any other partition to put /boot on so I tried to move
/boot and change my lilo conf to boot to the new drive but when I run
lilo -v it tells me that the hard drive has more than 1024 cylinders but
fdisk says it only has 524 it is a 500 meg disk. I'm not sure what to
do now. I copied the kernel to the new partition with the mkbootdisk
command I don't know if that even works for hard drive partitions but it
did copy files to the partition. I am including the output of all the
commands and the contents of lilo.conf on the floppy and the one on the
hd in /etc as well as the error I get when running lilo -v and I have
upgraded the bios on this computer so it will see disks up to 8 gig.
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 494 497920+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 * 495 524 30240 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 2100 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1029 2100 540288 5 Extended
/dev/hdb2 1 500 251968+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb5 1029 1288 131008+ 82 Linux swap
Disk /dev/hdc: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 13328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 1300 614218+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc2 2439 13328 5145525 5 Extended
/dev/hdc5 2439 6877 2097396 83 Linux
/dev/hdc6 6878 11316 2097396 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdd: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 620 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 254 1024096+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd2 255 620 1475712 5 Extended
/dev/hdd5 255 620 1475680+ 6 FAT16
cat /mnt/floppy/etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc5
initrd=/initrd.img
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=rescue
append="load_ramdisk=2 prompt_ramdisk=1"
root=/dev/fd0
initrd=/initrd.img
cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hdc5 / ext2 defaults
1 1
/dev/hdc6 /home ext2 defaults
1 2
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto
0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro
0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622
0 0
/dev/hdd5 /1.5gigfat msdos exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=binary,uid=500,gid=500
1 1
cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc5
initrd=/initrd.img
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=rescue
append="load_ramdisk=2 prompt_ramdisk=1"
root=/dev/fd0
initrd=/initrd.img
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
lilo -v
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: device 0x1605 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (2679 > 1023)
Chris Woodhouse
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From: Terence Hoosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: two partitions & one mount point
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:53:39 +0000
Anthony wrote:
> Is it possible to have the same mount point for two separate
> partitions on different drives?
I'm not an expert in this area or anything, but I just noticed your post
and remember briefly thinking about this problem as well. It occurs to
me this might be possible using software RAID. But then again, maybe not.
I think there are also some filing system extensions that allow multiple
storage devices to be considered as one amalgamated storage device, but
again, the details escape me.
I hope this somewhat limited reply might point you in the right
direction - please post any intersting results!!
-Tez
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From: "dingdong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: HELLLLPPP!!!! problem configuring gnome-libs
Date: 02 Feb 2001 01:08:35 GMT
Hi,
After I tried installing a few programs (enlightenment-conf, and some
other stuff) I got messages like -
"checking for gnome-config... no
checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib
configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated
by gnome-libs install
"
doing rpm -q gnome-libs I'd either find that I had a version of helix
gnome or (after mucking around with downgrades) a version of redhat's.
I went out and got the latest (I guess) version of gnome-libs (1.2.9 tar
file) I tried installing THAT and I got message
"checking for umode_t ... no
checking for dbopen... no
checking for dbopen in -ldb... no
checking for dbopen in -ldb1... no
checking for __db185_open in -ldb-3... no
configure: error: your db library is missing db 1.85 compatibility mode
"
Now for all the stuff that didn't work
1) marched over to sleepycat.org and picked up their db .. now that
installs just fine and yes I specified --enable-compat185 in the
configuration thing ie I typed ./configure --enable-compat185
so that installs in my usr/local/BerkeleyDBlahblah
and of course I get the same error messages for the previous programs
2) so I check out configure for gnome-libs and I see an option to -datadir
which I promptly set to /usr/local/BerkeleyDBlahblah
no cigar
3) get smart and download the rpm source for db3 - repeat step (1) (but
without the /usr/local/DB bit. )
4) get real desperate and try compiling the rpm source for rpmdb
5) run out of my house weeping like a woman till neighbors start throwing
shoes at me (ow!)
6) rip out my last remaining hairs
HELP HELP
HEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I need help :D )
anyway if you can email as well as post, I'd appreciate it, as I am very
desperate for a solution to this.
-dingdong
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