Linux-Setup Digest #612, Volume #20 Mon, 12 Feb 01 00:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem! ("count_zero")
Re: Booting Linux with Win2K's boot Manager? ("count_zero")
wvdial for users (Quick360)
Re: LiLo Question - How Boot > 1024 Cyl? (Lewis)
Re: help: setting up ips for dialing in (David Efflandt)
Entry-level newbie question--which distribution? (Scott Gardner)
Re: Setup Problem Mandrake 7.2 (Jeff Dunnett)
Re: How to install LICQ? I got many dependency error. ("sandy")
Re: Invisible ".filename" files in user ftp directories (David Efflandt)
Re: wuFTP, why so long to connect? (David Efflandt)
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From: "count_zero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH7.0 + Win2K dual boot problem!
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 03:47:16 GMT
Do a custom install of RH. That will give you the option of loading lilo
where you want, or not at all.
You can fix the mbr with a win98 boot disk. Just run fdisk /mbr.
"Ript" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lavier) wrote in
> <Mys56.4081$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >Win2K and Redhat7 dual boot perfectly for me. I use LILO to boot Linux
> >or DOS (Win2K).
> >
> >"Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:d0I46.8054$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> > With my previous installation of RH6.2 + Win2K, I was able to
> >dual-boot
> >> via
> >> > Windows 2000 boot loader. However, loading RH7.0, it overwrote the
> >> > MBR
> >> and I
> >> > can no longer access the Win2K partition.
> >> >
> >> > I can't seem to find the place during the RH7.0 install where I can
> >> specify
> >> > where LILO is placed (either in the MBR or within one of the
> >> partitions)...
> >> > I know I use to be able to specify this in the previous RH versions.
> >> >
> >> > How do I get both to cooperate?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Use LILO ?
> >>
> >> put an entry in the lilo.conf, just like you would for any other
> >> windows
> >OS,
> >> and run `/sbin/lilo -v`
> >>
> >> Have fun,
> >>
> >> PS: you could ofcourse run `/sbin/lilo -u` to restore the NT loader,
> >> but that's far less fun.
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>
> >>
> All the advice is great, but I use XOSL, its free, and its the BEST boot
> manager I'v seen do far.. Check it out http://www.xosl.org
>
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From: "count_zero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting Linux with Win2K's boot Manager?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 03:51:52 GMT
Piece of cake. Do the following:
To be able boot linux as one of the options you need to edit the boot.ini
file located in your Windows partition to point the way, as it were, to your
linux OS.
(I assume you created a boot disk for linux during linux installation) Boot
into linux with a boot disk created for the purpose.
In a terminal or console log in as root.
type in :
dd if=/dev/hdax of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
including spaces
Where hdax is your linux partition (from what you wrote about your
partitioning it will probably be hda3. This command will copy your boot
sector information from off you linux partition to a file located in the /
directory and name that file bootsect.lnx. Copy this file to a DOS
formatted floppy with
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
copy /bootsect.lnx /mnt
umount /mnt
Reboot your machine into Windows 2000 and copy the file bootsect.lnx from
the floppy to your C:\> root directory in Windows. Then find and edit
boot.ini in Windows 2000 usually also located in the root directory. This is
roughly how the file looks before editing:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version
4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version
4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
Your version will probably refer to Windows 2000 not NT 4. Add the
following line
c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux "
Save the file. When you reboot your machine, in addition to your normal
Windows 2000 boot options you will also have an option of Linux.
Thanks to Tadeusz Bogdan Babiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for putting these
instructions in such a concise format.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:961ma4$lbc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I installed Red Had 7.0 on a Dell 866 Mhz PC in the 3rd partition. The
> first partition has Win2000 Professional, the second Partition had
> Win2000 Advanced Server. The hard drive is a 20gig drive. When my PC
> boots, the Win2000 boot menu comes up with only the Server and
> Professional options. Can I change this to boot into Linux?
>
>
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> http://www.deja.com/
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From: Quick360 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wvdial for users
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 04:01:31 GMT
Can someone tell me how to setup Redhat 7.0 to allow user accounts to
dial with wvdial? Root can dial fine right now but users get
a /dev/ttyS1 device busy. I dont think they have access to use it. I
tried to chmod the device and ppp files to give them access, but that
didn't work. i have set it all back and await some help.
The reason for this is that I dont want the general user to have root
access to the system.
Thanks,
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lewis)
Subject: Re: LiLo Question - How Boot > 1024 Cyl?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 04:23:32 GMT
Thanks folks,
Got it to work. Just had to make a small partition near the front of
my drive (below 1024th cyl).
Again,
Thanks for the help.
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 03:54:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lewis)
wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I just installed RedHat 6.2 on a P3- 450 that I have. It had only
>just a 20GB HD(IDE) as master, with a primary C:\ and an extended and
>logical D:\ with Windows98.
>
>I recently bought and installed an additional 40GB drive(IDE),
>configured as slave. I put on it a an extended DOS partition, making
>the whole drive E:\.
>
>I then used PartitionMagic, and freed up some space at the end of the
>drive. I made a 8GB partition for the RedHat 6.2 and swap.
>
>I'm using Bootmagic 6.0 to switch between Windows98 (my wife uses this
>computer as well, and want to make it very easy for her to get into
>both, mainly Win98). I had RedHat install LiLo to the Linux
>partition, not the MBR. (I've used this configuration on a P166, i.e.
>using BootMagic 4.0, but now that I think about it, I used a whole
>hard drive (6GB) for Linux, not a part of it like I am talking about
>now, and therefore I was under 1024).
>
>RedHat seemed to install OK, but I can boot only from the diskette
>(when I use BootMagic, I get as far as the 1st two letters LI in
>LILO).
>
>Now after reading this newsgroup, I see that I need to have my /boot
>on a partition below the 1024th cylinder of this drive. Or do I???
>
>I saw on one post that with kernels > 2.2 (RedHat 6.2 has 2.2.14),
>that LiLo supports booting past the 1024th cylinder by using a
>parameter LBA32, substituting default for lba32.
>
>I took this to mean the line that says
>
>default = linux
>
>changed to
>
>lba32 = linux
>
>Is this correct? If not, what is?
>
>(I looked on the man pages for Lilo, but they are dated 1995.) I also
>took a quick glance at the Lilo mini-howto, but did not see anything
>about lba32, or booting past 1024th cylinder. Matter of fact, it said
>something to the effect that the kernel had to be under 1024.
>
>However, I could not get this to work (upon running lilo, it
>complained of a syntax error).
>
>If lilo doesn't support booting above 1024th cylinder, will this work?
>
>Make a /boot partition of about 100MB (is this big enough for a huge
>kernel??? Or way too big??? What is the average size of a HUGE
>kernel???) below the 1024th cylinder (probably at the start of the
>HD). Then, have my E:\ drive, then a partition for the rest (/, /usr,
>/home, etc.), and finally a swap partition.
>
>If I wanted to install multiple distributions of Linux. could I simply
>leave about 500MB free (5 100MB partitions, assuming that is what size
>I need for a kernel) at the first of the drive (assuming I was going
>to put 5 distributions on the HD, with 100MB for the kernel each), and
>then leave room for each distribution at the end of the drive? I
>would have to shrink my E:\ drive for that as I added a new Linux, but
>I bought this drive primarily for backups and Linux.
>
>Is this reasonable? Is there a better way?
>
>Thanks in advance for the input.
>
>RJ
>
>p.s.
>Here is some particulars:
>
>Pentium III-450 on a ASUS P2B-F motherboard with 128MB ram
>Hard drives connected to motherboard primary IDE channel
>Western Digital 20MB(master) = (Windows 98 with C:\ = 8GB, D: = 12GB)
>Western Digital 0GB(slave) = (Windows 98 E:\ = 32GB, RedHat = 8GB,
>Linux Swap = 128MB)
>Bootmagic 6.0
>RedHat 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.14)
>
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>The Lewis's
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux
Subject: Re: help: setting up ips for dialing in
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 04:26:55 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:15:35 GMT, David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>Hi all;
>
>Iam running RedHat 6.2 and trying to set it up as a server.
>
>Not sure how to setup the ip numbers. It will accept a call and allow
>login, but comes up with cant use ip.
>
>Here below are some of the files; hosts, options, options.srv,
>login.config, mgetty.config, resolv.conf, pap-secrets.
You are missing the 4th field in pap-secrets for the remote IP address
(see 'man pppd').
>############### pap-secrets ############
>user1 * ""
>user2 * ""
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Gardner)
Subject: Entry-level newbie question--which distribution?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 04:25:51 GMT
I'm contemplating installing Linux on my computer, and have some very
basic questions. I'll understand if no one wants to reply here, but
if you could at least point me to a very basic FAQ regarding Linux,
I'd be very appreciative.
Here's my system
Abit BE6-II motherboard with Pentium III/600MHz and 128Mb of RAM
Two IBM 75GXP 45Gb EIDE hard drives with a Promise Fastrak 100 RAID
controller.
Kenwood 72X CD-ROM drive
HP 9100i internal EIDE CD-RW drive
Diamond Viper II video card (Savage 2000 chipset)
Diamond Monster Sound MX 400 Sound card
Okdata Okipage 6e LED page printer
Epson Photo Stylus 875DCS color inkjet printer
Linksys LNE100TX Ethernet card
SupraMax PCI 56k modem
MS Intellimouse explorer (optical wheelmouse)
Pacific Image Electronics scanner with a proprietary ISA SCSI card.
Generic 17" monitor and speakers
The hard drives are currently partitioned as one 90Gb drive in a RAID
0 configuration on the Promise controller with Win ME as the operating
system. I know I'll probably have to slick the hard drives to install
Linux, especially if I do a dual-boot setup, and that's no problem.
Here are my questions:
1) Does any of my hardware look like it will cause a compatibility
problem with Linux? I'm looking for experiences people have had with
any of these parts, either positive or negative.
2) Is there a particular distribution of Linux that is better-suited
for me? I know that Promise has Linux drivers for RH 6.2/7.0. Does
that mean that I'm limited to one of these distributions if I want to
use my raid controller, or will those same drivers work with other
Linux distributions?
3) I currently have two computers on a home LAN, and changing the OS
on the other computer (wife's laptop) is out of the question. We also
use MS Internet Connection Sharing with my computer being the host.
I'm assuming that this means I'll have to do a dual-boot setup to keep
WinME on my system so she can connect to the internet through my
computer. Do any of the distributions come with a dual/multi-boot
program, or do I have to buy/download that separately?
Thanks so much for any help. My bachelor's degree is in computer
science & engineering, so I have a fair grasp of the *concept* of
Linux, but my only experience with Unix has been as a user, not as a
superuser. If there are two distributions that would suit my needs,
and one of them is a little more user-friendly, but possible not as
pwerful/secure, please suggest the more user-friendly one. Once I get
into the swing of things, I'll re-evaluate my situation and consider
switching. I'm wanting to install Linux mostly to play around with it
and see what software is out there.
Scott Gardner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jeff Dunnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup Problem Mandrake 7.2
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:32:51 -0500
Thanks. It worked like a charm.
Jeff
Bill Unruh wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jeff Dunnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]Hello,
>
> ]I am a very begginner user to Linux. I just installed Madrake Linux 7.2
> ]on my machine:
>
> ]Celeron 366
> ]32MB Ram
>
> ]The installation process went realitively smoothly except when I went to
> ]boot into it the first time. I got to a screen with a picture of a
> ]penquin on it saying
>
> ]host uoguelph.ca loginname:
>
> ]I am assuming this is asking for my login name for my network
> ]connection. The problem being is almost as soon as this come up before
> ]I have hit any keys my screen goes blank and I can't get it back. Does
> ]anyone know a easy way to fix this?
>
> I suspect that the system is trying to bring up xdm/kdm/gdm and failing.
>
> At the lilo propmpt do
> linux 1
> and when it boots to singel user mode, edit /etc/inittab and change the
> id:5:initdefault:
> to
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> Then reboot.
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From: "sandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: How to install LICQ? I got many dependency error.
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 04:32:11 GMT
I thought LICQ was on the distro CD?
"Mike Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 01:58:11 GMT, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I downloaded LICQ and attempt to install it on my Mandrake 7.2
> >I tried both method of compiling from the scource code and the rpm
package.
> >Both does not work for me. They said they need "libmng.so.0" and
> >"libstdc++-libc62-2.so.3".
> >BUt i have downloaded those and installed.
> >How come they said i don't have them installed?
> >
> >And also, do i have to search the net for hours for those dependency
files
> >everytime i want to install something? This is so annoying, i couldn't
waste
> >hours just to install a simple program.
> >
> >Thx for reading this
> >
> >
> Did you install the tarball versions of the libraries? If you install a
> tarball library and try to rpm a file in; sometimes, since that particular
> library is not contained in the rpm database, the rpm application
dutifully
> reports a missing dependency. Try locating where you installed these
files
> and when you do a tarball install of licq try telling it when running
> "configure" where the libraries are. The "configure" script takes a great
> many switches. Run "configure --help |more" to see what it can do.
>
> Is the rpm file for licq based on another distribution? There are slight
> differences between the rpm-based distributions (still) and I have had
> similar luck trying to do an install of a redhat rpm on a suse system.
>
> Best thing; try doing a tarball installation of the libraries, then
marking
> where they put things. Usually perhaps in /usr/local/lib. This may not
be
> in your /etc/ld.so.conf so the dynamic linker cannot find the libs. Try
> doing this if that's the case as root:
>
> more /etc/ld.so.conf
>
> See if there is a /usr/local/lib entry. This is a flat text file. If
not,
> open it in an editor and add /usr/local/lib. Now before trying to
> re-install the program, as root type "ldconfig". Now try again to install
> the program. If it still does not install, consult the mages :)
>
> On your last question, one could move to debian. That usually fixes the
> hours spent searching problem :) Sometimes wasting hours is okay. I
waste
> hours sometimes dreaming of what I am gonna do next. Best advice; relax,
> enjoy the searching and the finding. With Linux, the searching and
finding
> is paramount to the learning part.
>
>
> --
> Michael Perry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Invisible ".filename" files in user ftp directories
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 04:45:53 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 13:40:02 -0800, Dan Poynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This problem occurs on multiple platforms using multiple ftp clients so I
>know that it's not specific one ftp clients preference settings. It's
>definitely something I remember doing on the server for when users log in.
If you do not find anything in 'man ftpd' or 'man ftpaccess' then you are
probably mistaken about where you changed this setting.
>I'm not manually entering any commands in GUI ftp clients like 'ls -a' or
other.
Of course not, they usually have a checkbox for that. For example gftp
has a checkbox "show hidden files". The question is, does 'ls -a' work in
a text ftp client? And does enabling "show hidden files" in a gui client
work? So far, you have not even said if 'ls -a' in a text client works.
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:41:23 -0800, Dan Poynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I can't remember how I made .filename files invisible to users when they
>> >login via ftp. Somehow I thought I was being security conscious and
>> >avoiding questions from users who didn't really need to know they even
>> >existed. But now I need to see the .qmail files in my personal user
>> >directory at least when I ftp into the my server.
>> >
>> >After going over ftpaccess and other man pages I don't think I did this via
>> >a flag in the /etc/inetd.conf ftpd line or anything too obvious. If I
>> >telnet in and do "ls -la" in a directory the .filename files are definitely
>> >there.
>> >
>> >Now how'd I do that? (Using RH6.2 and wu-ftpd)
>>
>> Are you saying that when you do 'ls -a' or 'ls -al' in your ftp client,
>> the dot files do NOT show up (sometimes 'dir' is an alias for that too)?
>>
>> For GUI ftp clients it depends upon settings in the client program.
>>
>> --
>> David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
>> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
>> http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: wuFTP, why so long to connect?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 04:58:12 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:51:01 GMT, BD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We're using WU under RH7 and it takes about 30 secs or more once
>connected, to bring up the UN/PW prompt. Any idea why?
Usually because it is timing out trying to lookup a hostname for the
connecting IP. Is there a name for the client IP in DNS reverse lookup
zone or /etc/hosts of the server?
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