Linux-Setup Digest #554, Volume #20 Fri, 2 Feb 01 08:13:06 EST
Contents:
Radius server ("fail006")
Re: Fdisk problem (Eric)
Dynamic nameserver address ?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lilo boot over cyl 1024 (Manuel Stesycki)
Stupid question! (arse)
Re: Stupid question! (Alexander Roalter)
Re: Lilo boot over cyl 1024 (Alexander Roalter)
Re: Help needed : Cannot Boot to DOS (Alexander Roalter)
2400 baud modem install ("Marcel Rijnen")
Re: Newbie help (moonie;))
Re: Partitioning the hard disk for setup (moonie;))
Broken locales under Linux (Vincent Lefevre)
Re: KDE/Redhat 7 problems due (?) to upgrade from 1.1.3/6.2 (zoot) (Laurence John
Oliver)
radius server ("fail006")
Re: SuSE 7.0 (Esa Tiiliharju)
Re: Lilo boot over cyl 1024 (Stanislaw Flatto)
Screen Saver Fails To Work ("Les B. Labbauf")
Re: How should I deal with a drivers.img? (Redhat7) (Matthias Thalhamer)
Re: Stupid question! (Steve Martin)
Re: Stupid question! (arse)
Socket Listener (arse)
Re: Mouse pointer is a blank box (Malcolm Hudson)
Re: Running Linux in RAM (John Beardmore)
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From: "fail006" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Radius server
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:04:02 +1300
Hi,
Is there a radius server that runs on linux?
Do i need to purchase this?
Can anyone please advise me on this.
Thanks
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fdisk problem
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:17:06 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laurent Bloch wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've bought a new 20 Gb disk drive. My configuration is Debian
> 2.2, kernel 2.2.17, IDE, hdb: IBM-DTLA-305020, ATA DISK drive.
>
> The target (desired) configuration is:
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2501 cylinders
> Units = cylindres of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 230 1847443+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdb2 231 247 136552+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb3 * 248 260 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb4 261 2501 18105255 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 261 430 1365493+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb6 431 450 160618+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb7 451 470 160618+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb8 471 1470 8032468+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb9 1471 2501 8281476 83 Linux
>
> fisk accepts my commands (as do sfdisk and cfdisk, the
> later one at the price of a "-c 2501" option), but at
> the time to write the partition table, no way, under
> different pretexts (unable to write, and thereafter
> unable to read sector #X, X being usually the first
> sector of a (planned) partition.
>
> I've read the Linux Partition HOWTO, the Large Disk HOWTO,
> no idea of what is wrong.
>
> Any idea? Thanks.
Bad HDD? BIOS disallows writing to the MBR? (Not sure if that's even
possible)
You're not root when you try to write to disc?
/dev/hdb has a weird access mode? So many different things to check.
PS. make hdb4 of type 85. That way windows won't see a non existing
drive there.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dynamic nameserver address ??
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:04:21 GMT
I hope my question is not off topic.
I would like to get the IP-address from my providers nameservers
dynamically. I know that that's possible but don't know how to do it.
Cab someone help me with some insight informations ?
I'm running Suse6.4 with KISDN.
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From: Manuel Stesycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo boot over cyl 1024
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:18:32 +0100
Hi...
I am trying to install linux on my athlon-pc.I have several partition:
1 GB for Win98 + 6 GB for Win data (dont't blame me :-) )
6 GB for Linux( last on the drive)
The installation was successful (Suse 7.0) but lilo returns an
error-message that my root-partition(the Kernel) is located over the
1024 cylinder and not bootable.
So what can i do? buy an new HDD ?
Thanks,
Manuel
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From: arse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stupid question!
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:06:39 GMT
This is probably a stupid question, but i'll it ask anyway.
Most stuff for unix is open source right.
So are all these programs written in the same language, if so what
language.
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From: Alexander Roalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid question!
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:25:55 +0100
arse wrote:
>
> This is probably a stupid question, but i'll it ask anyway.
> Most stuff for unix is open source right.
> So are all these programs written in the same language, if so what
> language.
>
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mostly c or c++
(thats why gcc means GNU C Compiler)
Regards
Ro-ee
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From: Alexander Roalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo boot over cyl 1024
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:27:39 +0100
Manuel Stesycki wrote:
>
> Hi...
> I am trying to install linux on my athlon-pc.I have several partition:
> 1 GB for Win98 + 6 GB for Win data (dont't blame me :-) )
> 6 GB for Linux( last on the drive)
> The installation was successful (Suse 7.0) but lilo returns an
> error-message that my root-partition(the Kernel) is located over the
> 1024 cylinder and not bootable.
> So what can i do? buy an new HDD ?
>
> Thanks,
> Manuel
depends on your LILO version. Recent versions can boot over the
1024-Cylinder
mark, so you might have to install LILO on yourself if the installer of
suse is not aware of this fact.
Otherwise try grub. It's another full-featured Boot-manager and works
fine for me
Regards
Ro-ee
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From: Alexander Roalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed : Cannot Boot to DOS
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:29:32 +0100
Ricky Lem wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have down an automatic installation of RH 7.0 on a server and I have a
> problem to Boot back to DOS. Can anyone tell me how can I boot to DOS
> instead of LILO boot into Linux automatically.
>
> Thanks in advance.
depends if the DOS installation is available. If so, you could insert
a into /etc/lilo.conf a prompt instruction and some delay (RTM), so you
can choose which OS you wanna start.
Regards,
Ro-ee
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From: "Marcel Rijnen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2400 baud modem install
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:46:18 +0100
I've got a 2400 modem and i want to install it but with setserial i can't
get the com port lower then 9600.
How can i get the com port at 2400 ?
greetz.
Marcel
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie help
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 05:41:13 -0500
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, ice wrote:
>hi all
>i dont know if this is the right place to ask. but here goes. i started
>reading the new book rebel code ( all about the history of GNU and Linux )
>and i would look to get involved. I have being programming for about 10 yrs
>so have experience. A couple of question i have are as follows
>
>does linus still mantain the kernal code and release it.
>where can i get the version of linux that is from linus or do you have to
>get one from suse, redhat etc
>
>many thanks
>
>ice
><be cool and dont blow hot>
Yes Linus still maintains the kernel code (he just released 2.4.0 then 2.4.1)
but does have lots of help writing it. Linux is the kernel plus LOTS of GNU
utilities/programs. You can get just the kernel, but without all the GNU stuff
you can't do anything with it (all the compilers are GNU) you can roll your own
distro, and there are sites that tell you how. But you are better off getting
one of the distros. If you want easy, get Mandrake, or Red Hat. If you want
tough debian and others will satisfy your masochistic needs.
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Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning the hard disk for setup
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 05:45:42 -0500
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Eric wrote:
>Prof. Abimbola Olowofoyeku wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I am about to install Linux (Mandrake 7.1). I remember once
>> being advised to have a small (how small?) swap partition,
>> and separate ones for root, /usr, etc. Can someone please
>> give me a brief lowdown on optimal partition numbers and
>> sizes? My goal is to have the OS itself on a separate partition
>> from the data and applications, so that I can upgrade the OS
>> if necessary without doing anything to my data and application
>> partitions. Thanks.
>>
>
>Read the partitioning HOWTO
>
>Eric
This is what mine looks like (2 hard drives and RAID 0, total of 37GB):
/dev/md0 1.9G 683M 1.2G 36% /
/dev/hda1 7.3G 5.2G 2.2G 70% /windows
/dev/hdc2 700M 550M 151M 78% /mnt/dos
/dev/hda5 53M 6.0M 44M 12% /boot
/dev/hda8 243M 2.3M 228M 1% /tmp
/dev/hdc6 242M 53M 177M 23% /var
/dev/hdc9 9.5G 4.2G 4.8G 46% /extended
/dev/md1 7.3G 4.8G 2.1G 70% /home
/dev/md2 7.3G 4.4G 2.6G 63% /usr
the /dev/mdx are RAID 0 Striped arrays.
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KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Broken locales under Linux
Date: 2 Feb 2001 10:58:43 GMT
Here under Linux, with the ISO-8859-1 charset, the non-breakable
space is reported as non-printable (isprint(0xa0) is false), and
as a consequence, several programs display this space as <A0>
(less) or as a question mark (tin). Note that there is no problem
with the accented characters. What can I do to change that?
Information about the system:
greux:~> locale -kc charmap <13:27:01
LC_CTYPE
charmap="ISO-8859-1"
greux:~> locale <13:27:03
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
greux:~> uname -a <13:27:04
Linux greux.loria.fr 2.2.17 #13 SMP Tue Dec 12 15:26:51 MET 2000 i686 unknown
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Vincent Lef�vre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100%
validated HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des
Jeux Math�matiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc.
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 19:27:25 +0800
From: Laurence John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.portable,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: KDE/Redhat 7 problems due (?) to upgrade from 1.1.3/6.2 (zoot)
Hi all,
Have been racking my brains and searching the net for the answer to a
couple of KDE 2.0.1 problems and thought I'd ask you guys...
I finally managed to sort out most of my upgrade-related KDE problems -
got rid of 1.1.3 or whatever it was and upgraded to 2.0.1 successfully -
but THEN (a few days back) upgraded to Redhat 7 - after this KDE 2.0.1
wouldn't run - so I uninstalled it and installed it again - NOW it does
run - the
outstanding/weird problems I still have - and can't resolve are:
1. Every time I log into KDE (Gnome login screen) as root I get: "The
application KCMinit (kcminit) crashed and caused the signal 11
(SIGSEGV)" - CANNOT seem to track down the cause of the problem or any
useful information on the web at all... I *don't* get the same problem
logging in as a NON ROOT USER:-( ?
2. Kpackage no longer works properly - it WILL load an rpm and probably
let me install it/etc. - BUT it does *not* bring up the usual
window/tree structure of installed rpms:-( I get the error message:
"failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm" - the ONLY information even
remotely relevant on the web points to the fact that this is an issue to
do with permissions/not being logged in as root - but since I usually
log in as root that is not the answer:-( On the other hand, the GNOME
RPM GUI (GNORPM works perfectly and brings up the whole tree of
installed rpms:-(
3. REALLY weird problem - the upgrade to Redhat 7 has a new enhanced
version of 'lpd' - this hangs the system if I allow it to load from boot
- BUT works fine if loaded manually - BUT for some reason it does NOT
allow my fax software (fax2send 2.1) to work properly anymore:-( I know
this last question/problem is a little bit 'out there' - but I thought
I'd ask anyway:-))
4. No matter WHAT I do I can't seem to get the login screen for KDE to
come up automatically - all I seem to be able to get (since the Redhat 7
upgrade) is the GNOME login screen (yes this allows me to get into KDE -
but I'm also wondering if this is somehow (?) related to problem 1 -
which is why I'd like to NOT have GNOME/SAWFISH automatically
loading...:-)
Would really appreciate any help/ideas on these problems - very annoying
and hard to work out.
Thanks in advance,
John.
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From: "fail006" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: radius server
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 00:27:23 +1300
Hi,
Is there a radius server that runs on linux?
where can i get this?
Thanks
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From: Esa Tiiliharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0
Date: 02 Feb 2001 13:45:32 +0200
"Marvin (Georg Ortmanns)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On 29 Jan 2001 13:36:54 +0200, Esa Tiiliharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >I already have their iso-image on cd, but then I began to have
> > >doubts after windoosh explorer refused to show its contents...so if
> > >anyone could help I would appreaciate it!
> >
> > If I understand right, you have a SuSE CD but cannot boot from it. The disk
> > images cannot be displayed by the explorer, that's ok. Just follow the
> > instructions (there are README's) to create a boot floppy disk. Worked for me.
>
No, I do not have a SuSE CD. I mistook some "suse-live iso-image" to
be an installation cd. So my real question is: how can i get either
a) download installation cd's from www
b) do installion using ftp
pointers/help appreaciated!
Esa T.
> There is a directory /dosutils on the 1st CD. You can find a tool called rawwrite
> to create the boot disks. Follow the instructions found in README.DOS.
>
> The disk images are located at /disks. There is also a README.DOS
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Georg Ortmanns (Marvin) eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To get my PGP key send mail with subject "Send PGP key"
>
>
>
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Piiritekniikan Laboratorio/ Electronic Circuit Design Lab/
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu Helsinki University of Technology
PL 3000/TKK-02015 P.O.Box 3000/HUT-02015/Finland
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo boot over cyl 1024
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:26:27 +1100
Try this:
Reformat the last 6G as Windows partition and transfer contents of data
partition there.
Reinstall Linux in the 6G following your Win98 partition.
It involves some playing with FDISK.EXE plus FORMAT.COM and fdisk.
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
Manuel Stesycki wrote:
> Hi...
> I am trying to install linux on my athlon-pc.I have several partition:
> 1 GB for Win98 + 6 GB for Win data (dont't blame me :-) )
> 6 GB for Linux( last on the drive)
> The installation was successful (Suse 7.0) but lilo returns an
> error-message that my root-partition(the Kernel) is located over the
> 1024 cylinder and not bootable.
> So what can i do? buy an new HDD ?
>
> Thanks,
> Manuel
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From: "Les B. Labbauf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Screen Saver Fails To Work
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:37:04 GMT
I recently upgraded from Red Hat 6.2 to 7.0. Previously my screen saver
worked without any problem. But now it fails to start up, the screen
just goes blank, it is not powering down, it just goes black.. My computer is
configured as follows
Red Hat 7.0 (Default Kernel)
AMD K6-3
128 MB Main Memory
Matrox G200 w/16mb
Xfree86 4.0
KDE
GNOME(Default)
I have booted both under Gnome, and KDE and the screen saver does not
work.
Any help would be appreciated
Les
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From: Matthias Thalhamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How should I deal with a drivers.img? (Redhat7)
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:30:46 +0100
Hi
try the command:
dd if=./drivers.img of=/dev/fd0
Do not copy the file to the mounted floopy.
Nicky schrieb:
> Hello, please help me.
>
> I tried to transfer a drivers.img to a floppy disk
> to get drivers for a RedHat7 installation,
> but, the rawrite program writes nothing,
> Of course, I formatted the floppy disk in advance.
>
> A drivers.img simply copied to a floppy
> without the rawrite didn't work.
>
> How should I do?
> Thank you.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid question!
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:59:35 GMT
Alexander Roalter wrote:
> (thats why gcc means GNU C Compiler)
Just to be anal here, actually gcc stands for
"GNU Compiler Collection", since it now supports
other languages as well (per the GNU web site).
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From: arse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stupid question!
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:45:07 GMT
does that include linux itself. As in kernels and stuff (as u can tell
im no expert), are they written in c or c++
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From: arse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Socket Listener
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:51:02 GMT
i have suse 7. which installed pretty much ok. But when i run a Konsole
on kde, i get loads of errors about socketlisteners. Can anyone tell me
more about socketes / socket listeners. or point me in a helpfull
direction.
basic stuff i mean, like what they actually are and what they do.
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From: Malcolm Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse pointer is a blank box
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:01:42 +1100
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Malcolm Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Help! only a beginner... would be nice to see a pointer rather than a
> > white square blob...
>
> option sw_cursor.
>
> > A Linux Mandrake 7.0 installation with GA-6VXE mainboard and
> > standard(?)
>
> Video card? That's what we need to know. Which X server?
>
Video card:
from inspection of hardware:
"Global" (made in China)
from xstart &> xstartlog: (probed default vals **):
(**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: ""
(**) SVGA: Monitor ID: " Multi-frequency that can do 1280x1024 at 60 Hz"
from /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Identifier "Generic VGA"
XF 3.3.6
Thanks for those comments.
Malcolm Hudson
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Running Linux in RAM
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:43:33 +0000
In article <3a74f7a8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Westerman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>entrys in /etc/inittab (the first script that runs when kernal is finished
>loading.) take care of shutting down when a ups sends a signal to the com
>port on the pc.
>
>also a small distro like tomst (fits on a disk and loads everything to
>memory on load so you could remove the disk.) might be the way to go.
>
>mabey a network boot from a boot server.
>
>ther was instructions at some site to make your own eprom boot card (circut
>board diagram. and all) if your intrested in going that way i can find it
>for you.
I'd be interested !
Cheers, J/.
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