Linux-Setup Digest #573, Volume #20 Mon, 5 Feb 01 21:13:08 EST
Contents:
OXYGEN GVX1 Graphics Card SetUp Help ("a. j. greenwood")
Re: Star Office net install? (Alex Yung)
Re: ATAPI Zip drive freezes installation (Chris Privitere)
Re: Make menuconfig ... Ncurser not found ("Todd Monnich")
apt-get --> seg fault (james)
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Mounting a zip drive throw a network ("FilipeMaia")
Linux DHCP failed on eth0? (Six)
Re: Mounting a zip drive throw a network (Rod Smith)
kpackage: can't read packages.rpm ("ON")
NFS interruptions under 2.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installation Promise Fasttrak 100 (Starrwolf)
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big (Sven Heinecke)
Linux as a gateway ("George")
Re: gdm murdered? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Printer setup in Debian woody..... (Soonki Lee)
Re: apt-get --> seg fault ("Duane Healing")
printtool auto detect problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Star Office net install? (David)
Re: NFS interruptions under 2.4 ("Luke")
Re: Serious Partition Problems (HockeyChief1)
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From: "a. j. greenwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OXYGEN GVX1 Graphics Card SetUp Help
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:13:28 -0800
I am running RedHat 7.0 on a two processor Intel PIII 800 MHz PC with the
following hardware.
500 Mbytes memory
CDROM
CDR
3 1/2 floppy
9 GB SCSI Drive
18 GB SCSI Drive
Oxygen GVX1 graphics card
I am having no success in configuring the X window system.
Running Xconfigurator the PCI Probe found a:
PCI Entry: 3Dlabs|Glint R3
X Server: Xf86_3DLAB
Xfree4 driver: glint
I set up a custom monitor at 1280x1024 resolution @60Hz.
The Horizontal Sync was set to 30-69 KHz and the Vertical
Sync was set to 50-120 Hz as per the spec sheet.
Card memory was set to 32 Mb and the ClockChip setting
was set to no clockchip setting.
A 1280x1024 resolution @24 bit color was selected for the default display.
X was tested. On startup the screen flickered and failed with the message
problem with X configuration.
I am not sure how to proceed. Has anyone installed an Oxygen GVX1 graphics
card?
Anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed? Any help would be
appreciated.
Best regards,
Aaron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Re: Star Office net install?
Date: 5 Feb 2001 21:08:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You should download the Setup Guide. It is a pdf file. Chapter 7
has detail example on Network Installation then chapter 8 has detail
example on user installation. I did not have any problem on running
the multi-user setup on my Mandrake 7.2 and Solaris 2.6.
Ian McCall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello.
: How do I perform a network install of Star Office 5.2, using just the
: file downloaded from Sun?
: They have a README, which is only visible -after- the install, which
: says to start setup with a /net parameter whilst running as root. I've
: tried this, but all I get are the options to de-install, modify or
: repair. I can't run with a /net before the install as the /bin file
: automatically launches setup.
: Has anyone managed to get a multi-user install of Star Office going
: using just the download? I'm running Mandrake 7.2 if that's any help
: (doubt it).
: Cheers,
: Ian
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From: Chris Privitere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip drive freezes installation
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:30:12 -0000
Huw Lynes wrote:
> In article <907g83$hoo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In article
> > <UtET5.33$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Philip Zlotorynski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > My internal ATAPI Zip 100 drive appears to be
> > halting the installation of
> > > Mandrake Linux 7.2. It is the slave device on
> > the secondary IDE controller.
> > > It is recognized by the install routine as hdb,
> > and then an error appears
> > > that reads "hdb: lost interrupt" and it loops
> > that message over and over and
>
> An extremely ugly solution of this problem would be to pull out the zip
> drive. Install Mandrake. Then put the zip drive back in. If it really
> is the zip drive that is causing the problem this should fix it. If
> Install still fails then something else is going wrong. Once your
> system is up and running you'll have to configure the system to get the
> zip drive up and running. Read the ZIP-Drive-HOWTO at www.linuxdocs.org
> as this is not altogether a straight forward process.
>
> Huw Lynes
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Well the easy way through the installation is to just have a disk in the
drive while installing. But then everytime you boot into linux, you'll
have to have a disk in the zip drive...
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From: "Todd Monnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Make menuconfig ... Ncurser not found
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:21:24 GMT
Thanks for the responses.
Sorry for the spelling mistakes
I did manage to get the kernel configured... I had to install gcc .. Not
sure why but it worked.
Will take me some time to learn how linux works, but am sure it will be
worth the effort...
Thanks again...
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From: james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: apt-get --> seg fault
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:36:34 -0800
I'm using Corel (probably my first mistake) and within a few days
apt-get (0.3.11) has stopped working, throwing a segmentation fault
every time I try to install anything. The wonderful thing is that I
can't replace it from the CD or debian's site because it's distributed
in a .deb file (chicken/egg problem) And I can't convert it to a tgz
because I can't install Alien (it's a deb, too) I also tried grabbing
the sources for dpkg, but they require configure, which isn't installed
on my system (which I can't add from the CD for the same reason)
Or rather than reinstall apt, is the seg fault likely to be a relatively
simple thing to fix?
Any suggestions for my next step?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:57:37 -0500
In your case, I would suggest using a boot disk. The windows partition will
be the active one, and anyone who boots the computer without the floppy will
see windows.You on the other hand will have the floppy and can boot linux.
You can use partition magic 5.0 and up I think on large drives , >8.4 gig
.
Resize the widows partition so that the 5 gig is free. and put in an
Extended msdos partition. FDIsk in msdos usually does this when you try to
create more than one logical drive
Divide the 5 gig into sub partitions for the root partition, the /home ,
/var, /tmp etc.
Do not forget to specify some area as swap space .
This will not cause problems with windows ,so long as you stick to the win9x
line .
NT4 has a Disk Administrator that has sometimes trashed linux file systems.
NT 5 will see that new partitions have been added to the system.
Win98 will blissfully chug along.
Note that once in linux, you can mount any fat23 partitions as "vfat" and
see all the long file names. Do not use "msdos" with it.
WIndows , on the other hand, cannot access ext2 file systems just yet.
There is a tool Explore2fs or something that allows you to access it.
hth
Jeremy Paiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95mi0f$l0q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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
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>
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From: "FilipeMaia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mounting a zip drive throw a network
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 22:29:03 -0000
Reply-To: "FilipeMaia" <FilipeMaia*@portugalmail.com>
Is it possible to mount a zip drive so that it can be read/written by
everyone?
Or is there an easy way to mount it throw a graphic interface in a win box
connected to the linux box?
I have samba installed and i want to share the zip drive in r/w mode, but i
can't do it.
Can anyone help?
Thaks.
PS: Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux DHCP failed on eth0?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 22:46:13 GMT
I installed Mandrake 7.2 on my system the other day. It works fine
except the sound card(SB live) gets an error on boot and that DHCP
failed msg. I'm not worried about the sound card. But I notice that
I cannot get on the internet through my Linksys cable/dsl router. I
set it as a DHCP server, and it doesn't connect. I have a feeling no
matter what I do, nothing will work because of that DHCP error msg
when booting. The ethernet card is Macronix 98x15. It shows up in
Harddrake just fine.
I can set the card up with a manual address and ping it's own address
w/ it fine, but I can't ping anything else, including the router.
I've used this setup fine under windows, but I can't get it to work in
Linux. Help!
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Mounting a zip drive throw a network
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 22:52:12 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <95n9od$pdm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"FilipeMaia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it possible to mount a zip drive so that it can be read/written by
> everyone?
> Or is there an easy way to mount it throw a graphic interface in a win box
> connected to the linux box?
> I have samba installed and i want to share the zip drive in r/w mode, but i
> can't do it.
> Can anyone help?
You can just treat it like an ordinary share, and it should work WHEN
it's mounted. The main problem is getting it mounted. You could use an
auto-mounter or the Samba preexec and postexec options to get the server
to mount and un-mount the share when a client connects to it.
My hunch is that you're running into problems because of file
permissions on FAT. You can specify a user and/or permissive permissions
in the /etc/fstab file's options for the Zip drive. For instance:
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,uid=500,umask=0 0 0
This will cause the system to mount the disk with ownership assigned to
whoever has UID 500, and with a umask of 0 (which gives all files 777
permissions).
If this ISN'T the problem, please post a more complete description of
the symptoms. "I can't do it" is a bit on the vague side. Include
information like what sort of share definition you're using in smb.conf,
what your /etc/fstab entry is, whether you can access the drive as
various users in Linux, and precisely what failure symptoms you're
seeing in Windows.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "ON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kpackage: can't read packages.rpm
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:57:42 +1000
I have upgraded to rpm 3 in RH 5.2, kernel 2.2.18
Since I installe the rpm rpm package, I cannot use kpackage anymore - it
says it cannot access /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
I have tried several times to do a rpm --rebuilddb - no errors, but still
does not read any of the installed packages.
Any idea anyone ?
Thank you.
O.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: NFS interruptions under 2.4
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:06:56 GMT
Hey all,
I'm getting interruptions in my NFS server ever since I upgraded from
2.2.17 to 2.4.0.
I'm running the rh6.2 distro, and other than the occasional
interruptions my NFS works
fine. What I'm actually doing is playing MP3s off of an NFS-mounted
filesystem. The
problem started happening ever since I upgraded the NFS server from
2.2.17 to 2.4.0.
The MP3 (song) will silence for a few seconds, and then resume.
I notice these messages on one of my NFS clients:
nfs: server bach not responding, still trying
nfs: server bach OK
nfs: server bach not responding, still trying
nfs: server bach OK
...etc. (bach is the name of my NFS server)
I recently upgraded to the 2.4.1 kernel, and I have the same problem.
Also, I commented out the rpc.lockd lines of the nfsd script in my
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ dir.
I still have the same problem, and unfortunately newsgroup searches
yeild nothing of
my problem, but I don't see how this can be an uncommon problem. So
I'm posting...
Any suggestions? Please Cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charlton
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From: Starrwolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation Promise Fasttrak 100
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:30:09 -0000
I have a Promise ultra 100 card and in order to get it working to install
linux I have to pass params to the kernal at boot time (example
ide2=0xb400,0xb000). to get the params you need to do a pci scan for your
card. once you get it booted and linux installed just add the params to
lilo unless you boot from a floppy. if its a floppy then you have to enter
the params at every bootup. kernal 2.2.18 has experimental suport for the
promise cards, but I haven't tried them yet. Good luck and hope this helps.
Michael wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I bought a Promise Fasttrak 100 IDE raid controller and try to install
> linux on the two as a mirrorset configurated identical harddrives.
>
> DOS ist installed and boots properly. Wenn I boot with the SuSE 7.0 - CD
> and look after the PCI-devices I find the Promise controller but when I
> try to install linux it says, that there are no harddrives installed.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to fix this problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
>
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From: Sven Heinecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Date: 6 Feb 2001 00:09:25 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In your case, I would suggest using a boot disk. The windows partition will
> be the active one, and anyone who boots the computer without the floppy will
> see windows.You on the other hand will have the floppy and can boot linux.
>
I think the latest LILO version supports boot partitions outside of
sector 1024, but the floppy solution will work 100%.
so far
Sven
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From: "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux as a gateway
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:14:10 -0700
Please help me with specific directions to set my linux box running Redhat 7
( configured as eth0, lo, & ppp0 ) to act as the gateway for may windoz98
network (1 box as my main networking computer, 1 box as my weather server &
1 laptop ) to access the internet without using a proxy server setup. I'll
worry about firewalling after I get the gateway up and working well.
I know my ppp0 is working. I know that my windoz boxes see my gateway box
via telnet and ping'ng.
Ya ya ya ya - No I don't want to search my readme's and how to's. Don't
waste your time with flames.
thanks
george
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: gdm murdered?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 00:13:29 GMT
John,
I don't believe so, no. Of course, I haven't tried any of the 2.3
kernels, so I'm not real familiar with the devfs, but if there's
supposed to be a devfs daemon running to manage the devfs, then no, I'm
not running devfs. Thanks for the suggestion.
Any other ideas?
Cheers,
-Andrew
In article <95mrgr$538i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jasen) wrote:
> In article <95mn1o$3k9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Are you running devfs?
>
> If so, are you running devfsd?
>
> If so, did you upgrade util-linux?
>
> --
> -- John E. Jasen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> -- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Soonki Lee)
Subject: Printer setup in Debian woody.....
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:35:41 +0900 (KST)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As mentioned above, I'm using Debian's woody and printer doesn't
work properly.
I have loaded proper kernel modules(I think that there is no problem
in kernel level.) and used the 'printtool' for printer configuration.
Although the detection process was succesful, when I chose the input
filter as HP500(I have HP500 printer.) in printtool and tested it
it just produced a piece of blank paper.
I want to know how the debian users are configuring the printer system.
If using the printtool, what may be the problem in my case?
If not, what may be the best way to configure printer?
Regards,
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: apt-get --> seg fault
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:32:02 -0800
Try "strace apt-get" to see where the seg fault is coming from. That will
give a pointer to debugging the problem.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "james" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using Corel (probably my first mistake) and within a few days
> apt-get
> (0.3.11) has stopped working, throwing a segmentation fault every time I
> try to install anything. The wonderful thing is that I can't replace it
> from the CD or debian's site because it's distributed in a .deb file
> (chicken/egg problem) And I can't convert it to a tgz because I can't
> install Alien (it's a deb, too) I also tried grabbing the sources for
> dpkg, but they require configure, which isn't installed on my system
> (which I can't add from the CD for the same reason)
>
> Or rather than reinstall apt, is the seg fault likely to be a relatively
> simple thing to fix?
>
> Any suggestions for my next step?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: printtool auto detect problems
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 01:42:37 GMT
I'm trying to use printtool to setup my printer but it can't seem to
detect my printer. I'm sure that the parport module is installed and my
/etc/modules.conf DOES have the line:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
I've looked in the startup messages for anything to do with lp0 but I
don't see anything, so for some reason my parrallel port is not being
detected. If I
modprobe parport_pc
then my printer does it's little initialization thingy so it looks like
it detected something, however printtools still will not detect the
printer. Any ideas?
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office net install?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 01:51:39 GMT
Ian McCall wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> How do I perform a network install of Star Office 5.2, using just the
> file downloaded from Sun?
>
> They have a README, which is only visible -after- the install, which
> says to start setup with a /net parameter whilst running as root. I've
> tried this, but all I get are the options to de-install, modify or
> repair. I can't run with a /net before the install as the /bin file
> automatically launches setup.
>
> Has anyone managed to get a multi-user install of Star Office going
> using just the download? I'm running Mandrake 7.2 if that's any help
> (doubt it).
You will need to do the following as "root or "su" to root and install
it by following these steps.
chown 0.0 so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
# this makes it owned by root
chmod 755 so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin
# make it executable
"cd" into the directory where the file is and run:
./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin /net
Install it where ever you want it, I will use "/usr/local/office52" for
example purposes. Once you have it installed you may need to change the
path to where you installed it in the next step.
Make a symlink so normal users can use it.
ln -s /usr/local/office52/program/soffice /usr/bin/soffice
The only thing left is to login as a user and run.
soffice
For each user that runs "soffice" for the first time It will
automatically install the user files.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.042% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: NFS interruptions under 2.4
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:07:13 -0600
> ....etc. (bach is the name of my NFS server)
It also means 'stream' in German. Funny coincidence (server stream ok).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HockeyChief1)
Date: 06 Feb 2001 02:06:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Serious Partition Problems
I already tried that with Redhat installer and there was an error
message...something about no drive to partition (sounds bad)
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