Linux-Setup Digest #639, Volume #20 Thu, 15 Feb 01 16:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Cross Mounting FAT partitions on Win98 and Linux ("Sanjay Agrawal")
Linux Newbie - RH 7 Password problem (Garry Brown)
Re: /dev/cdrom: bread failed (Peter B. Steiger)
Allowing access to certain IP's. ("Rob Burghdoff")
Re: Lilo problems with Suse 7.0 (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Partition Options ("Steve Ward")
Re: IRQ/Network problems with RedHat7 (David Cecere)
Re: LFS & lilo ("earthtirol")
Re: Update: Install hangs computer (David Cecere)
Re: alias ? ("Michel DOMINIQUE")
Helix-Gnome! (Jay & Michelle)
Booting Win2K and Caldera eDesktop ("Ken")
Can't get Matrox G400 Dual Monitor to work!! (fimafeng)
To Eric: Thanks for all the help so far, here are the infos U asked me to give you
so you could help me some more...: ("Bjarke Thor Iversen")
Re: Helix-Gnome! (Chris)
RH 6.2 keyboard setup (Willian Alencar)
Re: Helix-Gnome! (Jay & Michelle)
Boot record fun! (Mr Fu)
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From: "Sanjay Agrawal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cross Mounting FAT partitions on Win98 and Linux
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:14:53 -0500
Thanks Mark. I believe this should sort things at my end.
pardon my mixing of drives with partitions, but as you correctly interpreted
hda has a single FAT32 partition hda1
and
hdb has 4 partitions with one of them hdb3 being FAT32.
Again, no bad intentions for Linus - I love that guy - you know what I mean.
Thanks one again.
Sanjay
PS: Incidentally win98 detects hdb and names it D:
However on attempting to access this drive, I get
the error message "D: is not accessible". And inputs?
Thanks
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From: Garry Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Newbie - RH 7 Password problem
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:30:05 -0000
I just installed the Red Hat Linux 7 system on my Toshiba Satellite 430CDT
computer. After some struggling I got the system installed but now every
time I try to assign a new user a password I get the following error:
Authentication token manipulation error. I used the default password
authentication method on install (shadow, etc.). Any easy fixes?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter B. Steiger)
Subject: Re: /dev/cdrom: bread failed
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:35:00 GMT
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:02:03 GMT, Steve Martin sez:
>> > /etc/fstab says this:
>> > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom /iso9660 user,ro,noauto,unhide
>
>Pardon my $0.02, but I don't think there should be a slash in
>front of the iso9660 parameter... is this a typo, or does
>fstab really look like this?
That was a tyop, you wild and crazy guy :-). The actual contents of
fstab show all that WITHOUT the / in front of iso9660.
Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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From: "Rob Burghdoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Allowing access to certain IP's.
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:44:08 -0500
How would it be possible to setup http so that only 3 or 4 ips would get one
page and everyone else would get another? I looked through the access.conf
but get sort of lost. Any suggestions?
-Rob
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo problems with Suse 7.0
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:49:19 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric wrote:
>
>> Don't know the size of your harddisk. SuSE is not able to boot from
>> beyond the 1024th cylinder. Instaling a newer lilo helps. Have a look at
>> this
>> page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/
>>
>
> SuSE is very well able to boot from beyond cyl. 1024.
> (As well as any other linux distro)
> You BIOS on the other hand is not.
> Your BIOS can boot from there if it supports extended int13 calls (It
> probably does) Use a new LILO to make use of these calls.
>
> Eric
>
This is what I meant.
Cheers
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Using S.u.S.E. 5.3 and SuSE 7.0
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From: "Steve Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partition Options
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:48:09 -0600
I would like to know before starting my trek to Linux what kind of
partitioning will suffic, I would like to be able to continue using several
OSes to include a distribution of Linux as well as Win98 and Win2K.
Current configuration is :
3 HDs on system
Drive X, Y, and Z to simplify this explanation, these are not drive letters,
but 3 seperate drives.
X = IDE HD as Master on IDE 0 (40GIG) ATA100 WD
Y = IDE HD as Slave on IDE 0 (30 GIG) ATA66 WD
Z = IDE HD as Master on IDE 1 (20 GIG) ATA 66 Seagate
X is currently partitioned as follows :
C:\ drive is Primary DOS partition Fat16 and there is nothing loaded there
except for necessary files to dual (actually quad) boot. I use Win98 and
Win2K currently. One instance of Win98 and 3 of Win2K.
The rest of Drive X is an Extended DOS Partition with 6 Logical drives. They
are identified as D:\ , E:\ , F:\ , G:\ , H:\ and J:\ and contain :
D: Win98 (Fat32) needed every Blue Moon (2 GIG)
E: Win2K Pro (NTFS) Primary OS used daily (4 GIG)
F: Win2K Server (NTFS) Loaded for learning the OS (4 GIG)
G: Win2K Pro (NTFS) Backup Load in case of Emergency Crash (often used
-( (4 GIG)
H: (reserved for Linux) (Fat32) (unused) (4 GIG)
J: (Storage Drive) (Fat32) (unused) (22 GIG)
Y and Z are currently partitioned as follows :
All space in both drives are Extended Partitions with logicals in each. I
use these for storing files, and not much else. They get assigned drive
letters K thru T.
I know this has been very longwinded, so please accept my apology.
Question is.....will I be able to utilize my partitioning scheme as it is
currently configured ? in order to install Linux ? I am able to redo
whatever is necessary quite easily, so that is not a problem, if there is a
preferred or mandatory way that I must do things.
TIA
Steve
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From: David Cecere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ/Network problems with RedHat7
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:18:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jarmo,
I'm pretty familiar with Win network issues and PC hardware and your
resource list is a bit bizarre. I'm surprised that Win is able to use
the Ethernet adaptor. In general, you want to avoid having your NIC
sharing an IRQ is a SCSI host controller.
If I were in your situation I would try to change the IRQ if the NIC
to 5 and leave the SCSI at 3. I've nerver worked with a Realtek NIC
but I'm gussing that it came with a configuration disk. If so, use it
to reprogram the NIC to use IRQ 5. Win should accept that change with
no problems and Linux should then be able to find the NIC when kudzu
runs at boot time.
I believe that the RH7 prebuilt kernel has PnP BIOS support compiled
in, so you should turn PnP back on in your BIOS settings.
David
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:46:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarmo
Uusi-Maahi) wrote:
>Hello people,
>
>I have some network difficulties in RedHat 7.0.
>I'm using Windows ME and couple weeks ago I installed
>Linux RedHat 7.0 into the same computer.
>I've tried installation in text mode and in expert
>mode but the same error occur each time.
>When Linux boot, it says eth0 [failed].
>
>My system hardwarelist and IRQs:
>
>-Pentium III 600 MHz
>-ASUS P3B-F
>-AWARD BIOS ver 6.0
>-128 MB
>
>Resource Device Status
>IRQ 7 ECP Printer Port (LPT1) OK
>IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1)
>IRQ 6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller
>IRQ 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port
>IRQ 2 Programmable interrupt controller
>IRQ 0 System timer
>IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock
>IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
>IRQ 13 Numeric data processor
>IRQ 11 Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead
>IRQ 11 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
>IRQ 14 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
>IRQ 14 Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
>IRQ 15 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
>IRQ 15 Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
>IRQ 3 ACARD AEC-6710D PCI SCSI Controller
>IRQ 3 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
>IRQ 3 Realtek RTL8139(A) PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
>IRQ 10 Creative SB Live! Value
>IRQ 10 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
>
>There is NIC and SCSI -controller which are using the
>same IRQ. When I try to change SCSI adapters IRQ 3 to
>IRQ 5, Windows wount let me do that, it just says "This
>resource setting cannot be modified". (I/O and
>memory area settings can be change but not IRQ)
>
>'PnP OS' is also disabled in BIOS but no help...
>
>I also search if there is somekind dos -baseb utilities
>which can be used to turn off this damn PnP in NIC,
>but I didn't found any.
>
>If someone can help me resolve this problem you make
>me really happy man. Thank's already.
>
>Jarmo Uusi-Maahi
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From: "earthtirol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LFS & lilo
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:05:06 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a simple way would be to plug the hd in the 486
an boot with a floppy-linux
the use lilo with the lilo.conf from the hd
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From: David Cecere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Update: Install hangs computer
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had a similar problem installing RH7 on my Micron TREK 2 notebook. I
solved it by telling the Phoenix BIOS that my installed OS was "Other"
instead of "Windows" or "DOS".
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:32:22 -0500, Marc Ulrich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Nope, it isn't the PCI hardware causing the trouble. I've removed all
>PCI cards, and put the HDD on the Motherboard's IDE controller. The only
>expansion card in the system is a Matrox G400 AGP video card.
>
>Does anyone know what causes this?
>Marc
>
>Marc Ulrich wrote:
>>
>> I have a new computer that will not install linux RedHat 7.0. Here's the
>> deal:
>>
>> When the boot (from CDRom) reaches the spot: "PCI: probing PCI
>> hardware", the system freezes. Not even Crtl-Alt-Del to shutdown &
>> reboot will work. I tried using the expert mode because it said that
>> will bypass the PCI autoprobing. It does exactly the same thing.
>>
>> Here's what I think the problem is: The harddrive is using a Promise
>> Ultra100 harddrive controller (so that the HDD can use ATA100 instead of
>> ATA66 which is the max available via the motherboard). I would try just
>> attaching the harddrive to the motherboard controller, install linux &
>> then put it back on the Promise controller except that the PCI probing
>> is done everytime linux boots.
>>
>> Can anyone help me out?
>> Thanks,
>> Marc
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From: "Michel DOMINIQUE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alias ?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:29:58 GMT
Can somebody help me on this topic, please ?
"Michel DOMINIQUE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
kJai6.2202$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> When I enter the alias command at the shell prompt I can see somme denied
> aliases (vdir, dir, v,...) whatever the account I use to log in. But I
> cannot find where these aliases are defined. Not in the /etc/profile, and
no
> .bash_* script files defined; After some find ... -exec grep ...., nothing
> appears; is it magic or does somebody can give me the location of the file
> where those aliases are defined (I want add somme system-wide aliases for
> all users).
>
> Michel.
>
>
>
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From: Jay & Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Helix-Gnome!
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:38:31 GMT
I am using Gnome 1.2 in Mandrake 7.1.
I saved my desktop on exit. It had an applet fail so I chose wait a few
times, it still failed. Another one poped up and said failled, didn't
read it, said remove it, and now I don't have a Main menu panel.
Actually I have NO panel's now. How do I get it back?
Thanks in advance:
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From: "Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Booting Win2K and Caldera eDesktop
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:40:19 -0500
Hi everyone,
I want to dual boot Caldera eDesktop 2.4 and Windows 2000 Pro. I have two
hard disks. The first one /dev/hda has a single partition and Windows 2000
is installed on it. The second one has an ext2, FAT32 and a swap partition
on it and Linux is installed there. Caldera uses a boot loader called GRUB.
Right now I have to boot from the Caldera CD. I can boot Windows 2000 no
problem.
I tried making an image to boot Linux with like this
dd if=/dev/hdb1 bs=512 count=1 of=linux.img
and copied it to my Windows partition and added it to my boot.ini file. I
get the option when NTLoader runs to launch either Windows of Linux but when
I select Linux it just sits for a second and then my machine reboots. I
have tried making images of everything from one block to 9 blocks. None of
these image files work. I want to load Linux using NTLoader. What am I
doing wrong?
Thanks,
Ken.
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From: fimafeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Can't get Matrox G400 Dual Monitor to work!!
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:22:55 GMT
Hello:
First question....How do I check which version of X server I am running
? (And hwere can I get the right one if I'm wrong?)
I have done a custom install of RH 7.0 from scratch. I tell the install
I am running a MGA G400 with 32 MB of memory. I do not select any X
servers under the "X Hardware suppport" category.The only thing I selcet
from that category is X configurator4.4.3-1
Under the "X" folder under the "User interface" category I select
XFree86.4.0.1-1 Once the install has finished I go back and look at my
rpms that have been installed under GnomeRPM and I see under "X
Hardware Support" I have XFree86-SVGA 3.3.6-33 installed. Is the the X
server it is using??
I went to Matrox's site for the G400 MAX and and under latest drivers
they have listed as beta for linux 1.00.004 I download the driver
mga_drv.o and the README file. The readme file says the following (in
excerpts)
"This release is based on the previous XFree86 beta driver and also
includes support for the G400. Supported features include DualHead..etc"
"This driver can either be installed by adding the mga_drv.o module to a
working installation of XFree86 4.0.1 (what I tried to do) or by
compiling the module from source."
"A working install of XFree86 4.0.1 is required before the driver can be
installed. Recent Linux distributions such as RH 7.0 come with the
option if installing Xfree86 4.0.1 (Where is that option?) However
Unless specified during a custom install, the setup program may install
XFree86 3.3.6 as the default X server. If that is the case you can
easily switch to the version 4.0.1 by linking X to the proper binary:
cd /etc/X11
ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 ./X"
When I try this and rebppt my machine my machines crawls to a halt and X
runs to slow to use.
I see both config files in the /etc/X11
XF86Config and XF86Config-4
When I replace the mga_drv.o file nothing happens.
The last ting I have problems with is where they tell me to check the
BusID. (This needs to match in my XF86Config-4 file)
when I run the following command
startx >& Xoutput.log
I do not get any information about what BusID
example
PCI:*(2:0:0)
Can someone please help me check to make sure I am running X server
4.0.1 and how I can install it from default when I first build the
system..or upgrade to it afterward.
Thanks
Chris Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Bjarke Thor Iversen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: To Eric: Thanks for all the help so far, here are the infos U asked me to
give you so you could help me some more...:
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:30:25 -0000
Login:
Red Hat linux release 7.0 (Guinness)
Kerenel 2.2.16-22 on an i686
=================================================
/etc/lilo.conf looks like:
boot=/dev/hda/
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message/boot/message
lba32
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hdd6
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
==================================================
When /sbin/lilo -v is run, this is printed out:
LILO version 21.4-4, Copywright (c) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
'lba32' xtensions Copywright (c) 1999,2000 John Coffman
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Mapping message file /boot/message
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added linux *
Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b
Added dos
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
====================================================
fdisk -l /dev/hd[ab](and *[a], and *[b], and *a, and *b):
"bash: fdisk: command not found"
====================================================
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:96dmsu$a8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi, I have been having trouble dualbooting win 98 and LINUX. I have
Win98
> > up on my C drive(primary-master(hda)) and have now set LINUX up on my D
> > drive(secondary slave(hdd)). I have the following partitions(on LINUX
> > drive): boot(15,7MB) and then inside an Extended partition I have the
> Swap
> > partition and root. OK?
> > Now when I have finished setting up LINUX and reboot, LILO freezes up on
> the
> > "L". Now I have had help here on this group from Eric, and He told me
to:
> > edit: /etc/lilo.conf, finding a line witch says "Linear", I have and,
> > replaced it with Lba32 then I run /sbin/lilo -v
> >
> > Nothing changes! LILO still doesn't make it past the L!!!!!
> >
> > please HELP, all I have done already well exceeds my knowlidge of
> > computer(and LINUX) so I have NO IDEA what to do now!!!!..
>
> Hi Bjarke
>
> I forgot what distro you had, so I don't know if your LILO is new enough.
> Check the version. If it is 21.4.3 or higher, it should work, (unless your
> PC is really old)
>
> Did `/sbin/lilo -v` run without complaints?
> Where did it write to? (The boot= parameter in /etc/lilo.conf tells you
> this)
> Do you use LILO as the main bootloader?
>
> I can give you more specific help, if you post the output of the following
> commands:
>
> `fdisk -l /dev/hd[ab]`
> `cat /etc/lilo.conf`
>
> Eric
>
>
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Helix-Gnome!
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:50:30 -0500
I think if you right click anywhere on the desktop, the menu that pops
up has an option to add a panel. And then onto the panel you add, you
can add a system menu, favorites menu, clock, etc...
I hope this helps, although I may be incorrect,
Chris
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> I am using Gnome 1.2 in Mandrake 7.1.
> I saved my desktop on exit. It had an applet fail so I chose wait a few
> times, it still failed. Another one poped up and said failled, didn't
> read it, said remove it, and now I don't have a Main menu panel.
> Actually I have NO panel's now. How do I get it back?
>
> Thanks in advance:
>
>
>
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From: Willian Alencar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.2 keyboard setup
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:58:28 -0200
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Hi people,
<p>I have installed Red Hat 6.2 on a Dell Latitude CSx notebook.
<p>Everything is working except that I need to configurate keyboard to
Brazilian Portuguese.
<p>I already tried Xconfigurator but didn't work.
<p>Could someone help me ?
<p>Thanks in advance, <i>William</i></html>
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From: Jay & Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Helix-Gnome!
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:57:43 GMT
Thanks anyway. I've been using Gnome for about 3 months, kinda got the hang
of it, but this one isn't listed anywhere in the docs.
Chris wrote:
> I think if you right click anywhere on the desktop, the menu that pops
> up has an option to add a panel. And then onto the panel you add, you
> can add a system menu, favorites menu, clock, etc...
>
> I hope this helps, although I may be incorrect,
> Chris
>
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From: Mr Fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.help,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Boot record fun!
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:54:33 +0000
First - is there any way to restore the dos or NT MBR without having
made a backup, or having either of these OS's installed and bootable?
Second - Is there any way of getting linux to boot off the secondary
IDE master?
Third - no actual third, but any help is gratefully received. Cheers!
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