Linux-Setup Digest #571, Volume #20 Mon, 5 Feb 01 13:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: My Redhat 7.0 doesn't reboot (John)
Re: How do you setup PPP to dial on demand?
Re: Installing linux on VERY old computer
Re: install cd writer (Mandrake 7 User)
setup issue: boot partition size too big ("Jeremy Paiz")
Re: Make menuconfig ... Ncurser not found (Paul Kimoto)
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big (Wesley)
Re: Squid Proxy Server ? (Wesley)
Re: How should I deal with a drivers.img? (Redhat7) ("Nicky")
Re: Redhat 6.2 ethernet internet (John)
Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux ("Didier CLERC")
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big (Mike E.)
Grub, Win2k, and NTFS ("D. Wilburn")
loadlin and initrd failing ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How can I denying users to access ("avi")
Re: max length of append in lilo.conf ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
gdm murdered? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server
("Meron Lavie")
Mandrake 7.2 and Realtek-RTL-8139 ("Great Wazu")
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Redhat 7.0 doesn't reboot
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 14:56:05 GMT
In article <95lsu7$d2o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've just installed Redhat 7.0 on my PC box and I get weird
problem.
> When I try to do soft reboot it doesn't restart the computer
properly.
> Box goes down smoothly, but afterwards only one you can see
on the
> screen is message "No Computer Signal". Any ideas ???
>
> thanx a lot
> Qlos
>
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>
What command are you using? To re-boot the machine, try
shutdown -r now
This should re-boot the machine to Linux.
I can't tell exactly, but it sounds as if you're using the halt
command:
shutdown -h now
If so, the OS is shutting down your machine completely, and your
monitor is complaining because the PC isn't sending it anything.
HTH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: How do you setup PPP to dial on demand?
Date: 5 Feb 2001 09:16:35 -0600
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 07:46:30 -0700, Newsgroups <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Running RH 7.0 on an Intel platform. I have a local area network using
>samba. All is working well, except that I need to dial manually to get onto
>the Internet. I'd like to set it up so that if a client machine opens the
>browser or email client the the linux box automatically dials out. I'm
>pretty sure it's possible, just don't know how. Can you give me a shove in
>the right direction. Thanks.
diald, although I never got it working; nowadays I use a cable internet
connection.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Installing linux on VERY old computer
Date: 5 Feb 2001 09:17:13 -0600
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:46:59 GMT, MpWeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi James!
>I think your only chance is to install a single-floppy Linux...
or temporary installation of a CD drive.
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From: Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install cd writer
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 15:30:16 GMT
This is what I get (logged in as root):
#cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
1995-2000 J�rg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open
SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make
sure you are root.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try to get cdrecord working first. If you have the SCSI card work, you
> should get the following message.
>
> # cdrecord -scanbus # this is an example
> Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
> Linux sg driver version: 2.1.38
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM
> 0,1,0 1) *
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) *
> 0,7,0 7) *
>
> Mandrake 7 User wrote:
>
> > I have a HP SureStore 4020i CD-R and wonder how to install it under
> > Linux. I have an Adaptec SCSI card that came with it. I can't find any
> > specifics in the HOWTO. All I know is that I can type "insmod advansys"
> > and that causes the writer to make some noises, so it works. However,
> > all software (xcdroast, lothar) claims that there is no cd-writer and no
> > scsi card. How do I get this going?
> >
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>
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From: "Jeremy Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:46:55 -0500
i am trying to setup redhat linux 6.2 on a dual boot system which currently
is running windows on the first partition of size 33gb. in linux setup when
it comes time to partition i get an error complaining that the boot
partition size is too big, even with the minimum size of 1mb. i have
learned that the reason is because the boot partition must reside before the
1024 sector of the machine. my questions are, and keep in mind that this is
my first endeavor with linux:
1) how do i do this, and
2) will this affect windows on the first partition ?
i would like to avoid starting from scratch, i.e. re-installing windows,
because the computer is shared among several users, and information loss
would probably imminent. originally, there was a single partition running
windows. my steps up to this point were as follows:
a) defragment drive c: from windows
b) split the partition into 2 partitions using the fips utility
(existing one ~33gb running windows, and a new one ~5gb for linux)
c) in linux setup, delete the newly created partition
d) partition for linux
thanks in advance for any help.
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JEREMY M PAIZ
Software Engineer
Research & Development Division
Welding Technology Corporation
24775 Crestview Court
Farmington Hills MI 48335-1507
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.weldtechcorp.com
Phone: (248) 477-3900 x3362
Fax: (248) 477-8897
Mobile: (248) 568-1592
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Make menuconfig ... Ncurser not found
Date: 5 Feb 2001 10:59:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> Todd Monnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I get Ncurser Not found
> install it ("ncurses", that is).
... and the ncurses development package.
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From: Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:04:47 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What you want is to install Boot Manager, which comes with Partition
Magic, which is supplied with some Linux distributions. Boot Manager
gets a 1MB partition at the front of the disk and I think takes over the
Master Boot Record sector. It gives you a menu of installed operating
systems and lets you choose which one to boot; you can set it to default
to a particular OS after so many seconds. Works like a charm.
You might be able to get LILO or another tool to do this as well. The
concept is that you install a bit of a bootstrap within the first 1024
that chooses the OS, then points to that OS' main partition to do the
rest of the booting.
Jeremy Paiz wrote:
>
> i am trying to setup redhat linux 6.2 on a dual boot system which currently
> is running windows on the first partition of size 33gb. in linux setup when
> it comes time to partition i get an error complaining that the boot
> partition size is too big, even with the minimum size of 1mb. i have
> learned that the reason is because the boot partition must reside before the
> 1024 sector of the machine. my questions are, and keep in mind that this is
> my first endeavor with linux:
>
> 1) how do i do this, and
> 2) will this affect windows on the first partition ?
>
> i would like to avoid starting from scratch, i.e. re-installing windows,
> because the computer is shared among several users, and information loss
> would probably imminent. originally, there was a single partition running
> windows. my steps up to this point were as follows:
>
> a) defragment drive c: from windows
> b) split the partition into 2 partitions using the fips utility
> (existing one ~33gb running windows, and a new one ~5gb for linux)
> c) in linux setup, delete the newly created partition
> d) partition for linux
>
> thanks in advance for any help.
>
> --
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> JEREMY M PAIZ
> Software Engineer
> Research & Development Division
>
> Welding Technology Corporation
> 24775 Crestview Court
> Farmington Hills MI 48335-1507
>
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web: http://www.weldtechcorp.com
> Phone: (248) 477-3900 x3362
> Fax: (248) 477-8897
> Mobile: (248) 568-1592
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From: Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Squid Proxy Server ?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:07:55 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric Chow wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I use my Linux to dialup to ISP. And I setup a Squid proxy server in
> Linux, it can allow all other macahines in the LAN connect to the
> Internet(if set using the proxy in the browser).
>
> But, is it possible to allow those machines in the LAN using Telnet,
> FTP or other socket ?
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
>
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Yes, it's possible. Read the IP Masquerade HOWTO and follow those
instructions; I don't think Squid is designed to handle telnet and so
on, although it can allow ftp via browser.
--
Wes Sheldahl
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From: "Nicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How should I deal with a drivers.img? (Redhat7)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 01:21:49 +0900
Reply-To: "Nicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thank you for your help!
> Remember, when you get done, the disk is unreadable in
> DOS/Windows.
The disk(a drivers.img) written by the rawrite actually worked
as a driver disk.
When I checked if files were transfered in the disk,
Windows said, "There's no file. 1,457,664byte empty".
As for a pcmcia.img, I could see files in the disk.
So I believed nothing was there.
Thank you again!
But regrettably, the disk doesn' t contain the driver for
my card.(Corega Ether II PCC-T)
When I move to the next step to choose a medea,
only a Hard Drive is listed.
Red Hat Hardware detail information page says
> The Corega PCMCIA cards use the pcnet driver.
> Kernel Driver: pcnet_cs
Can I use this when installing a RH7 without unix system?
Nicky
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 ethernet internet
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:19:26 GMT
In article <95l498$moh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Wade Lindsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I set up RedHat6.2 to connect to the internet via
ethernet?
Did you install your ethernet adaptor prior to installing RH? If so, it
probably recognized your adaptor and you're good to go.
If not, there's an Ethernet HOWTO at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html.
HTH
BTW, you may want to bookmark the www.linuxdoc.org link. I did.
It'll save you a lot of trouble.
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From: "Didier CLERC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:37:49 +0100
"Jason Kircher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Xzqf6.20150$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The short is, can I use my existing RAID-0 setup that was configured
by the
> HPT370 BIOS under Linux? I've been doing some reading here and there,
and I
> read about Software RAID under Linux, but I don't know if this will
work
> since it's already been setup and works fine under Win98. (I've
played with
> Linux before, and I like Slackware. Don't ask why, but it works fine
for
> me, and I've been using Slack for some time, and I'm comfortable with
it.
> Those who go to war over different distributions should consider the
final
> point there...)
I have never try, but perhaps the "Abit Gentus" Linux distribution
supports the RAID functions of the motherboard.
With my best greetings
Didier CLERC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isuisse.com/didier-clerc
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From: Mike E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:26:47 GMT
In article <95mi0f$l0q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeremy Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i am trying to setup redhat linux 6.2 on a dual boot system which
currently
> is running windows on the first partition of size 33gb. in linux
setup when
> it comes time to partition i get an error complaining that the boot
> partition size is too big, even with the minimum size of 1mb. i have
> learned that the reason is because the boot partition must reside
before the
> 1024 sector of the machine. my questions are, and keep in mind that
this is
> my first endeavor with linux:
>
> 1) how do i do this, and
> 2) will this affect windows on the first partition ?
>
> i would like to avoid starting from scratch, i.e. re-installing
windows,
> because the computer is shared among several users, and information
loss
> would probably imminent. originally, there was a single partition
running
> windows. my steps up to this point were as follows:
>
> a) defragment drive c: from windows
> b) split the partition into 2 partitions using the fips utility
> (existing one ~33gb running windows, and a new one ~5gb for
linux)
> c) in linux setup, delete the newly created partition
> d) partition for linux
>
> thanks in advance for any help.
>
> --
>
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
> JEREMY M PAIZ
> Software Engineer
> Research & Development Division
>
> Welding Technology Corporation
> 24775 Crestview Court
> Farmington Hills MI 48335-1507
>
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web: http://www.weldtechcorp.com
> Phone: (248) 477-3900 x3362
> Fax: (248) 477-8897
> Mobile: (248) 568-1592
>
>
Your options are; resize and move your windows partition so that you can
create a small boot partition before it, boot linux from a floppy drive,
or use one of the Linux Loaders that is not limited by the 1024 sector
issue. (Choosing which one of those to use is almost as complicated and
involved as choosing which distribution you want to use.)
Mike
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From: "D. Wilburn" <wilburnd@#nortelnetworks#.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Grub, Win2k, and NTFS
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:42:34 GMT
I have a Win2k box up and running. But when I did the latest install, I
installed as NTFS as opposed to FAT32. Last night I did an install of Man.
7.2. The bootloader (grub?) did not give an option for booting to windows
as it had in the past. So now I cannot boot into Win2k (I still need it).
Is there a way I can edit grub to at Win2k NTFS support? Is there a similar
command for Win2k such as fdisk /mbr to clean this up if I cannot get
Mandrake working? I have read the grub mini how-to and performed searches
on dejanews, but nothing seems to address this particular situation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: loadlin and initrd failing
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:47:09 GMT
Hi everybody!
I have som real troubles to create an automatic setup for a compaq
Deskpro System ...
This PC has a small partition which it boots Win98 (only DOS, no
graphics mode). From that it should fire up Linux with loadlin using a
RAM disk as root fs, that one should get initialized through an initrd
file.
Sounds pretty straight forward, but does not work. Reason: when I fire
up loadlin using:
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd
loadlin loads the kernel and initrd and then it starts up the kernel to
fail with:
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
My initrd contains a minix file system stuffed with a lot of programs,
but obviously, it doesnt go as far as mounting it. the Kernel has minix
as file system directly compiled in, and RAM Disk Support is also
enabled (not as module, either).
I�m really desperate.
Has anybody any idea about that?
Hannes
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From: "avi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I denying users to access
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:09:42 +0200
How can I denying users to access to other files in my server.
I notice that when they use ftp, then they can go around any dir and file in
the server.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: max length of append in lilo.conf
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:06:38 GMT
In article <95m3c7$hpp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the max length of append in lilo.conf ?
>
> My line is like this
> append="smart2=0x4000 sim710=addr:0x8000,irq:15 mem=40M"
>
> But I am getting only 16MB.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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>
Your version of lilo has a maximum character limit of 40 characters.
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gdm murdered?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:14:45 GMT
Hello,
I've got a Redhat 6.2 system running the 2.2.14 kernel without problem.
I just installed the 2.4.1 kernel, and now, when I try to start X with
the gdm, the screen flickers a few times and then says that gdm was
"mysteriously murdered". Is there any way around this? Everything else
seems to work w/ the new kernel, just gdm is giving me trouble. When I
boot the 2.2.14 kernel gdm still works so it's not a crisis, but I'd
like to get it cleared up as soon as possible.
System info:
Redhat 6.2
Kernel 2.4.1
XFree86 4.01
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
-Andrew
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From: "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,cern.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,thenet.support.linux
Subject: Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:03:58 +0200
Yet another comment: Using the rpm line command (instead of doing it through
KDE or the pseudo-graphic linuxconf utility) succeeds. What's the story?
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"Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> After further investigation, I see that any attempt to add _any_ package
> gives me this error message.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> --
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>
> "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:95eis0$hq3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I installed RH7.0 on my PC as a workstation consfiguration (no other OS
on
> > it). I installed directly from the 1st CD (I was never prompted for the
> > second CD in the installation process).
> >
> > Now, when I want to add a Telnet server via linuxonf (using the
linuxconf
> > pseudo-graphic mode), I get an error mesage saying that:
> > "We can't installed [sic] the package(s) because they require resources
> from
> > un-available packages".
> >
> > The list includes:
> > rpmlib(CompressFileNames)
> > rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix)
> >
> > How can I tell which packages are missing? Where can I get them?
> >
> > TIA,
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From: "Great Wazu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 and Realtek-RTL-8139
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:52:50 GMT
I have Realtek-RTL-8139 network card connected throught a SMC Barricade
router to my cable modem. Internet was working fine in Mandrake 7.2 till one
day during the Aurora bootup sequence I starting getting two errors and
internet has not worked for me since:
*Brining up interface to eth0
*Bind to the NIS domain
Can someone explain to me how to fix this problem, the more detail the
better? I can not log into my router through a browser under linux either.
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