Linux-Setup Digest #705, Volume #20 Sun, 25 Feb 01 17:13:12 EST
Contents:
problems after boot - video screwy (AI Nut)
Re: kernel 4.1 upgrade - fail to boot again (Michael Heiming)
Linux partitioning question ("Gregg Black")
Re: XWindows setup problem (Alex Heney)
Re: Problem with Mandrake 7.2 and Sound [lack thereof] ("David")
Check Out a web based forum of this group at : ("TeKno")
How to setup SNMP on linux to count network traffic ? ("oli")
Partition Scheme for Storm/Debian Linux (Lacky)
Re: Question (Monte Milanuk)
Re: A $PATH for all to see... (Jeremy A. Gray)
Re: Linux partitioning question (Seve)
Re: linux donot start (Elliott)
Re: kernel 4.1 upgrade - fail to boot again (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
UMask and KDE 2 (Wolfgang Jeltsch)
Floppy disk probs... pleas help me (Elliott)
Re: RAID-1 under 2.2.18 or 2.4.2? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: gnome screensaver won't start (Elliott)
Re: Question (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Linux partitioning question (Doug Lutterloh)
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From: AI Nut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems after boot - video screwy
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:16:22 -0600
This one is really strange. I loaded Suse 6.2 on top of an old
Slackware installation. Worked fine, lasted long time. Loaded Suse
6.3, everything ok. Loaded 6.4 and now, boot proceeds correctly, even
down to "MachineName login:". Then, within about a second, the screen
goes from legible text to completely illegible with dots and dashes in
stairstep effect at the top and bottom 1/4's of the screen and nothing I
do shows up correctly. So then I load Suse 7.0 on top of that, hoping
it will fix everything, but noooooo, the same procedure occurs. Boot
proceeds ok, down to login, then that same strange video quirk.
1st mobo: asus k7m w/ tnt2 ultra video card
2nd mobo: (for suse 7.0) asus a7v w/geforce 2 mx video card.
How do I get my system back?
Is there some magic incantation that I can pass during linux boot params
that will get the system sane again? I have only tried "linux vga" so
far.
Thanks,
AI Nut
Please email replies, too, as my newsreader crashes the system often
(separate problem.)
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:05:28 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: kernel 4.1 upgrade - fail to boot again
bart wrote:
> Hello linus lovers,
>
> I recently upgraded my 2.2.14 kernel to 2.4.1 ... everything worked all
> right but when I try to boot with the new
> kernel it complains that it can't mount the root filesystem ... !
> Compiled using make zBimage
> I just copied the lilo entry for the 2.2.14 kernel ... where the root
> should be exactly the same as before, activated this
> by invoking lilo ... but it doesn't work. Linux boots but fails with a
> panic since it can't mount the root filesystem.
> Did I forget something ?
Perhaps, did you read Documentation/Changes, I remember there were among
others, some filesystem
tools you have to update?
Michael Heiming
>
>
> lilo.conf
> -------
> boot=/dev/hda5
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> linear
> default=2.14
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=2.14
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda5
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.1
> label=2.4.1
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda5
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From: "Gregg Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Linux partitioning question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:32:56 -0800
I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup
separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would
like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little bit
confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is how
I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one
partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover my
separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second partition
and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I set as mount
point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.
At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root,
then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home but
I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home partition.
Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would be
appreciated!
I'm running Mandrake 7.2
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From: Alex Heney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XWindows setup problem
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:22:11 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:01:58 -0500, "Manny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm having trouble setting up X Windows on my system.
>I am running the Red Hat 7.0 Distribution, and it is running
>on a Dell Pentium 100mhz with 40mb of RAM using an
>S3 Trio 64 card with 2MB of RAM.Linux has an existing server
>for it XF86_S3, but no driver.I'm using a Dell Ultrascan 15
>Triniton.
>
>
>I have run XF86Config, and everything goes smoothly, but when I run
>startx or X I get error messages saying that certain sections
>are not recognized. If I comment out that particular section,
>it will just say the same thing about another section.
>see the following error message:
>
>Section "InputDevice" not a recognized section name
>(errno 111)
>
For some crazy reason, although XFree 4.0.1 ships with RH 7.0, and if
you run RPM -q XFree86, that is the only one shown as installed, what
actually gets *run* as default is XFree86 version 3.3 - which does not
recognise those sections.
I hit exactly the same problem last week, and haven't yet fixed it.
--
Alex Heney, global villager
I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy
Please remove NO and SPAM from above
address if replying by email.
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Problem with Mandrake 7.2 and Sound [lack thereof]
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:22:09 GMT
Oh, forgot you might want to make the alias also in there:
alias sound-slot-0 sb
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From: "TeKno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.perl.misc,alt.html,comp.lang.perl.misc,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup,comp.lang.perl.modules
Subject: Check Out a web based forum of this group at :
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:50:53 GMT
http://www.supportinfo.com look in the forums, enjoy the rest of the pages
too!
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From: "oli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: How to setup SNMP on linux to count network traffic ?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:49:16 GMT
Hello !
I am trying to setup SNMP on my linuxbox, so that I can see the number of
bytes going in&out on each adapter. So I started snmpd, and ran a "snmpwalk
localhost public". But this doesn't give any information about the
adapters...
Where should I make some changes to see these particular statistics ??
Thanks a LOT !!! :-)))
Oli
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lacky)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Partition Scheme for Storm/Debian Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:00:56 GMT
I have settled on Storm/Debian as my distro of choice and will be
building my new development box on Monday AM. What I need to figure
out is a proper partioning scheme for this new box. Obvioulsy I will
want a swap file, /, and /home. What about /usr, /usr/local, /var,
/tmp? Do these need their ownpartitions? Are there other directories
that need their own paritions?
What about size? How much should I allocate for swap, /, /home, etc.
The box being built is a Duron 650 with 384MB of RAM, 15GB HD, CD-ROM,
SCSI CD-RW and ZIP. I was thinking the following:
Swap: 400mb
/: 400mb
/home: 3GB
I will be using other sections of the HD for storage.
Thanks!
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:17:13 -0700
Good god, man, do a search thru Google or something. This has been
beaten to _death_. Try which one you can get your hands on. Spend time
_reading_ to learn the system. And don't do what I did (do as I say,
not as I do) and play hop-skotch jumping around from distro to distro
looking for an 'easy' one. Pick one, and stay with it til you can make
it do whatever you want. Then try another one, and do the same, if you
really want to broaden your abilities. SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake are all
good to start with. Debian and Slackware if you are ready to really
work on your system for a while to get it whipped into shape. But you
can do the same basic things w/ any distro. So pick one, and stay with
it.
Monte
Bo wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I want to learn linux. Can you tell me which one to start with?
> Red Hat or SuSE?
> Some book for free?
>
> Thanks in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy A. Gray)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: A $PATH for all to see...
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:12:18 -0600
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 00:44:19 -0500, Mark Semsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I've been fortunate enough to be able to successfully download and install
>Java 2 version 1.3 beta on my LinuxPPC2000 machine - and the demos even run
>correctly. I'd like to update the PATH environment variable on my system so
>all the Java programmers who log in to my box (actually me, using a
>different ID than root) will be able to compile and run their Java apps
>using the "javac" and "java" tools found in my java install's /bin
>directory.
>
>I'm not quite sure which initialization script this should go in - I'm only
>72-hours down the Linux admin learning path.
>
Depends on which shell you use.
For sh/bash/ksh, add something like
export PATH=${PATH}:${java_root}/bin
to /etc/profile, where ${java_root} is the root of your java
installation (probably something like /opt/java or whatever). This
command can also be used a prompt or in a ~/.profile, ~/.kshrc,
~/.bash_profile, etc.
If you use one of those c-shells (csh, tcsh), add a line similar to the
one above to /etc/login or whatever they use.
If ever in doubt about what file the shell reads for initialization,
read the man pages.
--
Jeremy A. Gray
Physical Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Seve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:23:51 -0800
Gregg Black wrote:
> I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup
> separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would
> like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little
> bit
> confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is
> how
> I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one
> partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover
> my
> separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second
> partition and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I
> set as mount
> point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.
>
> At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root,
> then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home
> but I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home
> partition.
> Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would
> be appreciated!
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.2
>
>
Well, sometimes one can argue on how to approach this partitioning. I'll
just show you how I do it. From your posting, your drive must be 1GB in
size. It's a bit small for a full install of LM-7.2
Let's just say you had a HD of sufficient size: I'll break it up into the
following partitions. Also I tend to do it in this order with hda5 being
"/boot" and Swap being hda13:
/boot - 0.1GB
/usr - 3GB (2.6gig minimum for full LM-7.2 install)
/usr/local - 0.5GB (dependant on quantity of non-LM installs)
/usr/src - 0.2GB (higher if U like playing w/ the Kernel)
/var - 0.5GB
/tmp - 0.5GB (should be more if Taper b/u huge files)
/ - 0.2GB (only for /root & SuperUser)
/home - Whatever remains of your HD
+swap - 0.5GB (higher for heavy Gimp usage & low RAM)
But since you have a 1GB drive, at least have one of the partitions being
/home because that's where your personal settings will reside. And as long
as you don't format the /home partition on a subsequent install, you keep
your settings.
Seve
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From: Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux donot start
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:35:52 GMT
Um, yeah, thats a hard disk error. You might want to check your ide or
scsi cables inside your box. Do your hard drives both show up in your
bios? If they do, you may need to enable LBA mode in your bios.
I'm probably wrong. whatever
good luck with that
joe wrote:
> hi
>
> i have a problem with my linux installation.
>
> while the suse 7 setup reboot, after the bios massage
> my computer show only "01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01..." all over the
> screen.
>
> my computer:
> atlhon1000, 256mb ram, hd1: maxtor 80gb, hd2: maxtor 13gb (linux).
>
> thanks
>
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: kernel 4.1 upgrade - fail to boot again
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:36:00 +0100
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, bart wrote:
> Hello linus lovers,
>
> I recently upgraded my 2.2.14 kernel to 2.4.1 ... everything worked all
> right but when I try to boot with the new
> kernel it complains that it can't mount the root filesystem ... !
> Compiled using make zBimage
> I just copied the lilo entry for the 2.2.14 kernel ... where the root
> should be exactly the same as before, activated this
> by invoking lilo ... but it doesn't work. Linux boots but fails with a
> panic since it can't mount the root filesystem.
> Did I forget something ?
Did you compile in support for ext2 filesystem (or what you use for root
fs)? That is, in the kernel - ot as a module...
Rasmus
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From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UMask and KDE 2
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:35:29 +0100
Hello,
I have SuSE Linux 7.0 with a downloaded no more beta version of KDE 2 for
SuSE Linux 7.0. I think it is very strange that the SuSE Linux setup programs
set an umask default of 022 so that every user can read my personal data if I
do not change this. That is why I have put an "umask 027" into my .bashrc.
Now there is the problem that some KDE programs (especially Konqueror when
copying files) create files without any rights for the group. On the other
side when creating files via the "Create new" menu in Konqueror files become
mostly read access for everyone. How can I make every program create files
and directories with rights rw-r----- (or rwxr-x---) except that there are
good reasons to set other rights?
Wolfgang
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From: Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Floppy disk probs... pleas help me
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:29:31 GMT
I rebooted my computer the other day for a dumb reason, and, now I can't
get the floppy drive to work.
typing "mount /dev/fd0" yields: "mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or
/mnt/floppy busy"
and, typing "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t ext2" yields:
"floppy0: Unable to grab IRQ6 for the floppy driver
mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy"
I'm a bit puzzled. I'm running kernel 2.2.12-20 (yeah, I know its old. I
was going to upgrade it, but I couldn't check a boot disk to see if I
could use a boot disk if I really messed up on the upgrade). typing df
doesn't show /dev/fd0 mounted or anything mounted at /mnt/floppy
and, unmounting /dev/fd0 yields "umount: /dev/fd0: not found"
Any ideas? Thanks
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: RAID-1 under 2.2.18 or 2.4.2?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:47:26 +0100
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> > With 2.2.18, you have to download a raidpatch if your distro does not
>
> No you don't. RAID1 has been part of the standard kernel forever. Since
> 1.2 days at least.
Ouch, yes you are right. It is only the raid-autodetect part, that is
not...
Rasmus
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From: Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gnome screensaver won't start
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:49:41 GMT
I think that the 'try' button doesn't preview the screensaver, it just
makes all the settings you have set (screensaver to use, delay,
priority, etc) activate. Alot of times, it your loged in as root,
screensavers don't like running. You can try a command like "xhost +" to
allow root to run screensavers. Or, maby your not running as root, and I
don't know what I'm talking about.
Corey Wirun wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I came across the screensaver 'sonar' that I can't seem to get to work. I'm
> able to see the preview, but when I press the 'Try' button nothing happens.
> Also when I set the timeout to 1 minute it doesn't work either.
>
> GNOME itself works fine on my RH6.2. Is there something else that I can
> check?
>
> Thanks in Advance!
> Corey.
>
>
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:42:36 +0100
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Bo wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to learn linux. Can you tell me which one to start with?
> Red Hat or SuSE?
> Some book for free?
www.linuxdoc.org is one place to start. There is a bunch of howto's.
Also RedHat or SuSe have a reputation to be easy to set up for newbies.
But if you have any friends using linux, try the same distro as them.
They will probably be able to give you the most valuable help.
But still, read a lot of documentation; man pages and HOWTO's - they
will probably help you a lot on the way.
Rasmus
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From: Doug Lutterloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:56:59 GMT
I have never agreed with the suggested partitioning scheme in most
install docs for Linux, at least not for the home user. I usually set up
with 3 partitions on my machine. One for windoze because I dual
boot, one for Linux swap, and one for Linux. Why confuse the issue?!!?
Why do I want to guess how much I will need for /home and /usr when
I can just lump them together in one big partition and use all my
space as efficiently as possible.
You might hear some nonsense about the system running faster with
the ten-gillion partition setup because it checks over the file system at
bootup and a few other reasons. My experience has been that having
one big partition doesn't hurt anything. I've also heard that multiple
partitions make updating easier. I don't know about that for sure. Usually
when I update I format the whole drive and start over anyway, or get a new
machine, or whatever. Even so, I'm guessing Linux is smart enough to
do a proper update when you don't use the traditional partition setup.
Well, that's my 2 cents. If I weren't dual booting with windoze (and I'm
starting
to wonder why I even bother) my machine would only have 2 partitions.
One for Linux swap and one for Linux.
Doug
Gregg Black wrote:
> I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup
> separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would
> like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little bit
> confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is how
> I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one
> partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover my
> separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second partition
> and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I set as mount
> point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.
>
> At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root,
> then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home but
> I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home partition.
> Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated!
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.2
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