Linux-Setup Digest #585, Volume #20 Wed, 7 Feb 01 19:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: UltraDMA 66 Hard drive not detected.. ("Peter T. Breuer")
help install tekram scsi adaptor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux Panic after install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
install on old comp or new? Yo help need Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help install tekram scsi adaptor ("Peter Tselios")
Re: PPPD + Kernel 2.4.1 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: network card setup question (Dan de Haan)
Re: install on old comp or new? Yo help need Linux (Dan de Haan)
/dev/cdrom: bread failed (Peter B. Steiger)
UDMA 66 issues ("D F")
Re: Creating Bootable Install CD for RH 7.0 (Alex Yung)
Re: monitor won't switch off after screensaver timeout ("Duane Healing")
Re: UltraDMA 66 Hard drive not detected.. ("Duane Healing")
Re: UDMA 66 issues (Mike Gratis)
Re: Glibc upgrade on Debian 2.2 Potato ("Duane Healing")
Re: RH7 Kernel Compiling Problem - Need KGCC ("Scott T")
Re: Help: ISA internal modem ("Duane Healing")
SMP boot from floppy? (Jong-chih Chien)
Re: SMP boot from floppy? (Michael Heiming)
Re: SMP boot from floppy? (Michael Heiming)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UltraDMA 66 Hard drive not detected..
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:08:24 +0100
Afonso Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While installing Redhat 6.2, It detects no availabe HD to install. The
> HD is configured as Ultra DMA 66 Hard disk on my system.
> Then, I tried to reconfigure the Hard disk as normal IDE drive(plug to
> normal IDE port). Everything goes fine, the HD is detected by the
> Redhat installation process. Does it mean that, UltraDMA 66 is not
> supported?
.. by the installation kernel? Yes, it means exactly that.
Next question?
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help install tekram scsi adaptor
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:22:06 GMT
Greets!
Got a Tekram DC-395U wanting to run a Yamaha CD-RW off of it on
Mandrake 7.2.
The scsi adaptor is recognized by the bootup scan but not by
linux. I've tried modprobe tmscsim.o but I get 'can't locate
module tmscsim.o'.
Just need a couple of tips here about installing the appropriate
driver.
Thanks!
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Panic after install
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:20:01 GMT
In The Name of GOD
Hi, I have been Installed Red Hat Linux 6.0 on my hard disk(6 GB)(on
partition hda6) but when linux boot i get the following error message
"Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:08"
and the system became unuseable.
Note: I have win98 and system commander 2.24 installed on my system
Any one can help me?
Many Thanks
S.Mostafa Kalantar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: install on old comp or new? Yo help need Linux
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:26:41 GMT
I have an old computer which is an NEC ready(actually about four years
old-computers age fast) with 233 mhz and only 32 megs of ram which I
want to install Linux on. Problem is this sucker has a winmodem on it
and is only 4 gigs hard. Now I dont really see myself shelling out 70
dollars to buy a new modem for an old computer. Besides I have some good
apps that came factory installed that I cant really do without-like
works, and money, and some others that I use all the time. So I would
have to partition the disk to have two os's on it.
Question 1: I can only spare about two gigs is that enough for Linux now
and in the future? Keep in mind I want to do some programming on the
Linux platform.
Question 2. Can I do without a modem?
Question 3. Can I get a used and or cheap modem anywhere that will work
with Linux?
The alternative is for me to try and install Linux on a newer computer
with an NVIDIA mother, and graphics board, as well as a CD_RW and DVD.
Problem with this is that I do not have a plain CD Rom with this newer
computer, is that going to lead to difficulties for me. All Want is a
simple installation to get my feet wet with C programming in Linux.
Question 4. Am I better off installing on the newer machine with the
bigger memory (128megs) and hard drive (20 gigs)? Can I install from a
cd_rw?
Listen thank you very much ahead of time.
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From: "Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help install tekram scsi adaptor
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 23:43:13 +0200
Hi,
first of all to note that I am writing this from my Windows machine, and
that I run Suse on my Linux box.
Now. I had a similar problem (since I had another adapter during the
installation). The only solution that worked for me was the recompilation of
the kernel. Since I did not wanted to change the default kernel, I made the
"classic" make xconfig, I selected the default values except of the SCSI
section. Then I made make dep, make modules make modules_install and that
was all!
Peter.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3a81bca7$1$qnivfs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Greets!
>
> Got a Tekram DC-395U wanting to run a Yamaha CD-RW off of it on
> Mandrake 7.2.
>
> The scsi adaptor is recognized by the bootup scan but not by
> linux. I've tried modprobe tmscsim.o but I get 'can't locate
> module tmscsim.o'.
>
> Just need a couple of tips here about installing the appropriate
> driver.
>
> Thanks!
>
> F.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Felmon John Davis
> Union College / Schenectady, NY
> os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPPD + Kernel 2.4.1
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:09:01 GMT
frits wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I like trying new (stable, since I am not an expert) kernels.
> The last-one I compiled was 2.2.18 in Slackware 7.1 without any problem.
> In my new compiled 2.4.1 kernel everything is working except for the
> PPPDeamon.
> What should I do to make it work in this Kernel? Any idea?
Install:
ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ppp-2.4.0-2.i386.rpm
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan de Haan)
Subject: Re: network card setup question
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:06:18 GMT
RedHat 6.1 comes with this driver. Just set if up from netconf, or
the network section of linuxconf. Tell it to use the rtl8139 module.
-Dan
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 20:49:12 GMT, Todd Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have installed Red Hat 6.1 on my PII 400 system. My NIC is a realtec
>RTL8139. I have some problems getting it to work. It came with a linux
>driver, but it needs to be compiled. Being completely new to linux, I
>am having problems accomplishing this. It comes with a makefile, but I
>am unsure how to compile using the makefile. If someone could tell me
>the syntax, that would be great. Also, on another note, I was looking
>at a book and it talked about doing a "make xconfig" to edit the
>kernel. I tried doing this in the directory suggested, but xconfig
>doesn't appear to be there (/usr/src/linux/), or anywhere as far as I
>can tell. You can probably tell form this message I am a total newbie
>to linux, so please be patient with me if these are stupid questions. I
>am very thankful for all your help.
>
>Todd
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan de Haan)
Subject: Re: install on old comp or new? Yo help need Linux
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:11:12 GMT
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:26:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have an old computer which is an NEC ready(actually about four years
>old-computers age fast) with 233 mhz and only 32 megs of ram which I
>want to install Linux on. Problem is this sucker has a winmodem on it
>and is only 4 gigs hard. Now I dont really see myself shelling out 70
>dollars to buy a new modem for an old computer. Besides I have some good
>apps that came factory installed that I cant really do without-like
>works, and money, and some others that I use all the time. So I would
>have to partition the disk to have two os's on it.
>Question 1: I can only spare about two gigs is that enough for Linux now
>and in the future? Keep in mind I want to do some programming on the
>Linux platform.
Should be. You may have to be a bit selevtive in what you install if
you use a newer distro, but that is more the enough room to get a
decent linux system going in.
>Question 2. Can I do without a modem?
Sure, unless you want to get on the internet while using linux, and
don't have a braodband connection.
>Question 3. Can I get a used and or cheap modem anywhere that will work
>with Linux?
Of course. Check out eBay. just look for an ISA modem, most of those
are not winmodems.
>The alternative is for me to try and install Linux on a newer computer
>with an NVIDIA mother, and graphics board, as well as a CD_RW and DVD.
>Problem with this is that I do not have a plain CD Rom with this newer
>computer, is that going to lead to difficulties for me. All Want is a
>simple installation to get my feet wet with C programming in Linux.
You can instal linux either off the CD/RW or the DVD.
>Question 4. Am I better off installing on the newer machine with the
>bigger memory (128megs) and hard drive (20 gigs)? Can I install from a
>cd_rw?
Depends on how fast you want it to be. IT will be quite usabel on the
old machine, and even faster on the new one. If you want to play 3D
games ect. then the newer would be best.
-Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter B. Steiger)
Subject: /dev/cdrom: bread failed
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:16:28 GMT
When I try to mount a CD in my IDE drive, I get:
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, yadda
yadda yadda
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf includes this for the CD ROM:
class: CDROM
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hdc
driver: ignore
desc: "ATAPI CDROM"
hdc is correct; it's the only drive on my secondary IDE controller.
The CD itself is good; it reads fine in my other system. The drive
is also good; I can read it when I boot to Winduhs.
/etc/fstab says this:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom /iso9660 user,ro,noauto,unhide
/mnt/cdrom does exist (with attributes drwxrwxr-x)
/dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdc (attributes br--r--r--)
lsmod shows vfat, fat, ide-cd, cdrom, and isofs as modules.
I have tried using just mount /dev/cdrom and manually
applying all the options:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Either way, I get the same error message. The kernel syslog
shows:
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum-16, block=32
FAT bread failed
last message repeated 2 times
last message repeated 2 times
last message repeated 2 times
...
What am I doing wrong???
Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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From: "D F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UDMA 66 issues
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:33:30 -0500
Friends,
After scouring Deja and the HOWTOs, I'm sort of left with a
bunch of questions regarding getting my new Maxtor 40 GB
drive operating (Model 94091U8, if memory serves). I've seen
all sorts of info about patching the 2.2.13 kernel I'm
running and setting DMA modes with Maxtor's 100UPDT.exe
utility, etc. Sadly, I've also come across some advice on
Deja that I know is wrong! What I'm looking for is a website
or page that covers the various issues in a straightforward,
explanatory manner. Can anyone recommend such a resource to
me?
--
Dave Fluri North Bay, Ontario Canada
(The opinions herein are mine. I do not speak for my
employer unless I expressly indicate otherwise.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Re: Creating Bootable Install CD for RH 7.0
Date: 7 Feb 2001 22:36:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You don't have to do any setting from the Easy CD Creator. Just select
[File]->[Create CD from CD Image] and pick your ISO image file then
start burning.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I am looking to put up my first Linux install. I downloaded the ISO
: disc images for RH 7.0 to my NT server. I would like to cut a set of
: bootable CDs for the install. Currently, all I have available is a
: Windows system with a CD burner and the Adaptec Easy CD Creator software
: (4.2). First, is it possible to create CDs that will work using this
: hardware and software? Second, does anyone have a doc which gives the
: proper settings for the Adaptec software? Is there something special I
: need to do to the ISO image first before I copy it?
: Any help would be appreciated.
: Thanks,
: Bill
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monitor won't switch off after screensaver timeout
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:48:45 -0800
what does "xset q" say about DPMS settings? Do a "man xset" to
get pointers to setting that right if necessary.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Nevin Wong"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've posted before on this topic. I am using GNOME, and I am setting my
> screensaver properties using its control center. My monitor won't power
> off after the screensaver timeout, what can I do?
>
> I have tried xset and also adding DPMS in Monitor section of
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but my monitor still won't power off.
>
> Yours, Nev
>
>
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UltraDMA 66 Hard drive not detected..
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:51:37 -0800
When you say "normal IDE port", what do you mean? Is it otherwise
connected to an offboard controller? If so, you'll likely need a driver
for that card.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Afonso Sam"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While installing Redhat 6.2, It detects no availabe HD to install. The
> HD is configured as Ultra DMA 66 Hard disk on my system. Then, I tried
> to reconfigure the Hard disk as normal IDE drive(plug to normal IDE
> port). Everything goes fine, the HD is detected by the Redhat
> installation process. Does it mean that, UltraDMA 66 is not supported?
>
> thanks
>
> Afonso Sam
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From: Mike Gratis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA 66 issues
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:03:25 -0500
D F wrote:
> Friends,
>
> After scouring Deja and the HOWTOs, I'm sort of left with a
> bunch of questions regarding getting my new Maxtor 40 GB
> drive operating (Model 94091U8, if memory serves). I've seen
Here's two sites that i found very helpful....
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html
--
Mike Gratis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Glibc upgrade on Debian 2.2 Potato
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 15:03:10 -0800
You'll want to upgrade the system from potato to woody.
Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to a Debian mirror with woody,
then do an "apt-get update" and an "apt-get dist-upgrade". Make a backup
of any critical files first in case of any problems. I just did this on
one of my systems and had no significant problems at all.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "jerome Moliere"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all Linux Gurus, I've got a web server hosted by an ISP, this linux
> box runs Debian 2.2 r0 Potato. This linux box must be a server for my
> Java/CORBA application, so I must upgrade the JDK from 1.1.8 to 1.2.2 or
> 1.3. Using debian packages (.deb) I would be obliged to upgrade my libc
> from glibc 2.1.13 to 2.2.1. I'm a little bit afraid !!!! So is it
> possible to install this library release keeping my old version
> ? Or have you done such process ? With which results ?
>
> Thanks for all tricks Take care Jerome
>
> PS: excuse me for my poor english written
>
>
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From: "Scott T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: RH7 Kernel Compiling Problem - Need KGCC
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 23:19:05 -0000
"SS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95rfn5$f6f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I know the new RH7 came with a *defective compiler, and the kernel need to
> use KGCC for build. Would like to know if someone here can point me to
the
> right webpage, where I can read more about this.
mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc_old
ln -s /usr/bin/kgcc /usr/bin/gcc
This means anything trying to build with gcc will actually use kgcc. It's
worked fine for me without updating things from RH's site.
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: ISA internal modem
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 15:16:02 -0800
It's a winmodem. Get a real modem. Or at least a winmodem based on
the LT chipset. There are drivers for that.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> I recently installed Redhat Linux 7 on my computer but I was unable to
> set up my ISA PnP internal modem(Wearnes MediaSurf 56K DSP, ESS chip).
>
> I tried pnpdump, isapnp, setserial and modemconf but none seemed to
> work. pnpdump -c>/etc/isapnp.cof; isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf generated a
> check error but I was able to let it pass if I delete the "(CHECK)"'s.
> Nevertheless I could not see that the designated irq and ports are
> utilized and setserial failed.
>
> I think my modem is not a winmodem so there should be a way to correctly
> set it up. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks a lot.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jong-chih Chien)
Subject: SMP boot from floppy?
Date: 7 Feb 2001 23:25:23 GMT
Hi,
Anyone knows how to create a bootable diskette for SMP on Redhat 7?
JC
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 00:33:31 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP boot from floppy?
Jong-chih Chien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone knows how to create a bootable diskette for SMP on Redhat 7?
>
> JC
Hello,
asuming only the path could be different on RH as this is how to create
a bootdisk with a SuSE pre compiled SMP kernel:
put in a floppy
fdformat /def/fd0u1440
put in 1. distro CD
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
cd /mnt/disks
dd if=<filename_from_README_of_SMP_image> of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
done...:-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 00:36:01 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP boot from floppy?
Jong-chih Chien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone knows how to create a bootable diskette for SMP on Redhat 7?
>
> JC
Hello,
asuming only the path could be different on RH, this is how to create
a bootdisk with a SuSE pre compiled SMP kernel:
put in a floppy
fdformat /dev/fd0u1440
put in distro CD 1
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
cd /mnt/disks
dd if=<filename_from_README_of_SMP_image> of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
done...:-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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