Linux-Setup Digest #720, Volume #20 Tue, 27 Feb 01 18:13:20 EST
Contents:
Re: Login via serial port (John Todd)
Re: gligc upgrade on RH 6.2? ("ne...")
crc errors at boot (Greg Walrath)
Re: crc errors at boot (Greg Walrath)
3com 3c515 request for help (lucas)
Xfree 4.0.1, matrox g400, dri, xf86config (Henrik Farre)
Re: setting up a PNP modem (J Phillips)
Help with (re)installation (Linmaniac)
Re: boot error, linux command trouble (J Phillips)
Re: crc errors at boot (Donald)
Booting Raid 1 or 5 ("julius")
Re: RH 7.0: is it stable and easy to install? (Mike Perry)
Re: ssh on Debian, not connecting to OpenBSD 2.7 ["Disconnecting: Bad packet length
1349676916"] (J Phillips)
URL and port of an MP3 station ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: replacing freebsd with linux (Rod Smith)
Embarrassingly simple newbie question.... (Scott Gardner)
Re: Embarrassingly simple newbie question.... (Randy Streator)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: Login via serial port
Date: 27 Feb 2001 19:49:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On my RH6.0 machine, I did this:
In /etc/inittab, in the section labelled
#Run gettys in standard runlevels I added the following line:
7:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -t60 ttyS1 DT9600 vt100
and to access this, I run Kermit in DOS, with flow control set
to none. Works for me.
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:22:18 GMT, Paul R. Woods
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Russ Housley wrote:
>>
>>
>> The serial port on the firewall machine is ttyS1. How do I configure
>> it to allow output the banner and permit login? I thik that the
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|<de in RH6.0
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gligc upgrade on RH 6.2?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:07:54 GMT
On Feb 27, 2001 at 19:33, Divya A Sundaram {QDIVYA1} eloquently wrote:
>Well,
>
>I wanted to upgrade my RH 6.2 system to the latest kernel
>and that requires the newer GLIBC.
If by newer GLIBC you mean glibc-2.2, no it doesn't.
>I don't want RH 7 because ClearCase v4.1 runs only on RH6.2.
>
>So, is there any documentation that a relative newbie to
>LINUX can follow to upgrade their RH 6.2 to the latest
>kernels, and bring GLIBC along with it?
Untar the source and read /path-to-linux/Documentation/Changes.
[...]
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
4:01pm up 22 days, 18:35, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: Greg Walrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: crc errors at boot
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:41:25 -0800
I'm having problems getting Linux to run on my Dell XPS T600r. It loads
and initially runs fine the first time, but I can't get it to do that
consistently afterwards.
When I boot in to the system on subsequent loads, I get the following:
Running linux............
Unpacking Linux...
crc error
=====System Halted
This happens with Red Hat 7.0; about 1 time out of 10 it will load
properly; the other times I get that error. I also tried this with
TurboLinux 6.0.20SE, and got the same result, though I was _never_ able
to boot in to that OS at all - I always got this CRC error.
I have a dual-boot system with Win98 and (my attempts at) Linux. When I
boot in to Windows and run various disk-checking software, it turns up
no errors.
Anyone else seen this, and been able to resolve it?
--
Greg Walrath
Dont' include the no.spam. in replies!
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From: Greg Walrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: crc errors at boot
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:21:24 -0800
Small error in my listing below. The screen actually looks like this:
Loading RedHat............
Uncompressing Linux...
crc error
-- System halted
I've also found that it will always boot consistently off of the RedHat
boot disk that I created when I installed RedHat to the hard drive.
Is there something I need to recover off of this disk that is keeping it
from booting off of the hard drive?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg Walrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having problems getting Linux to run on my Dell XPS T600r. It loads
> and initially runs fine the first time, but I can't get it to do that
> consistently afterwards.
>
> When I boot in to the system on subsequent loads, I get the following:
>
> Running linux............
> Unpacking Linux...
>
> crc error
>
> -----System Halted
>
> This happens with Red Hat 7.0; about 1 time out of 10 it will load
> properly; the other times I get that error. I also tried this with
> TurboLinux 6.0.20SE, and got the same result, though I was _never_ able
> to boot in to that OS at all - I always got this CRC error.
>
> I have a dual-boot system with Win98 and (my attempts at) Linux. When I
> boot in to Windows and run various disk-checking software, it turns up
> no errors.
>
> Anyone else seen this, and been able to resolve it?
--
Greg Walrath
Dont' include the no.spam. in replies!
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:43:07 -0500
From: lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3com 3c515 request for help
hello sir,
i humbly request a little help and guidance. i have a pure isa 486 with a true
3com 3c515 isa 100base ethernet. i installed a new version of redhat linux 6.2,
kernel version 2.2.14-5.0. i have been trying for three days to get linux to
recognize the 3c515 card, but it will not. i have set the eeprom settings using
a dos bootable disk and the 3com 3c515cfg utility. i have tried many
configurations, and the current is set at ioaddr=0x280, irq=12, and dma=5. the
3c515cfg utility passes the testing. so i know the board works and the settings
are coded in the eeprom.
i have conf.modules containing "alias eth0 3c515" and "options 3c515 debug=1
io=0x280 irq=12". with the eth0 adapter loading on bootup. but it always
fails, no matter the hardware settings. in fact, bootup returns that "Delaying
eth0 initialization."...a message from ifup via ifconfig.
i have also tried "insmod 3c515.o" and that always returns "0 3c515 cards
found" and "3c515.0. init_module: Device or resource busy"
so i can not seem to find the problem and debug it out. can you please pass
along some suggestions. thank you in advance and have a nice day.
lucas
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From: Henrik Farre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xfree 4.0.1, matrox g400, dri, xf86config
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:44:03 GMT
Yello
I have installed RH7.0, and got som problems with X:
I have the all X .rpms installed (I think so) v. 4.0.1 , the SVGA server
v. 3.3.6 (Is there a newer one?, I can not find it), a 2.4.2 kernel with
Matrox surport and DRI suport, and finaly the Matrox drivers, and
installed them as stated in the Readme.
Now on to my real problem:
My XF86Config:
...[cut]
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
...[cut]
My Xserver log:
XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: January 8 2000
...[cut]
XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
glx: Unknown error loading module
dri: Unknown error loading module
...[cut]
Xlib: extension "XINERAMA" missing on display ":0.0".
...[cut]
I hope the "XFree86 Version 3.3.6 /" is the SVGA version?
And why don't the modules load?
And the last bit: If I use the XF86Config.eg (the one from 4.0.1) and
modify it, X don't open.
--
Mvh. / Kind regards
Henrik Farre
Webpage: http://Welcome.to/Webbench
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From: J Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up a PNP modem
Date: 27 Feb 2001 21:41:37 GMT
Ed Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, there
> Several weeks ago I installed Linux on 486, and presently I'm setting up an
> ISA PnP modem on the same box. Apparently, Red Hat created a link from
> /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS1. I did not create it. Yet, everyone agrees the
> modem should be set up on ttyS2 or ttyS3.
They are probably assuming this would conflict with the second serial
port (com2) built into most PC's. If it is disabled, it shouldn't pose
a problem.
> My question is, Why is it recommended the modem be installed on ttyS2 or
> ttyS3? What's wrong with a modem being instlled on ttyS1? The mouse is
> already installed on ttyS0. In DOS it's acceptable to install a mouse on
> com 1 and the modem on com 2.
If it's working, don't mess with it :)
PS I would be weary of com3 (ttyS2) becuse it traditionaly shares an IRQ
with com1 (ttyS0). It works until you try to move the mouse.
> I would certainly appreciate anyone's comments.
> ed collins
> PS If I sound like a newbie, I am. Please forgive me.
--
James Phillips
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however, include "ID" in the subject line if
you want your response "rescued".
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From: Linmaniac
Subject: Help with (re)installation
Date: 27 Feb 2001 20:52:29 GMT
Hi, recently i had some problems with my pc and i decided to uninstall Linux and
reinstall it. I deleted all Linux partitions, (/, /boot, swap) with the windows FDISK
(i also use win98 and i do dual boot), and i uninstalled Lilo from the MBR with "fdisk
/mbr".
Now i install Linux with the same programs, partitions etc as before, i install Lilo
at the MBR, but after installation i reboot my pc and i don't see Lilo. It loads
automatically Windows. I booted to Linux with a boot disk and gave the command "lilo"
but nothing again. Then i found that lilo.conf had disappeared. I don't know a lot
about Linux so please can you explain me why this is happening and how to fix it? I
thought to make a new lilo.conf but i don't know if it will help and how exactly to
make it so is there another way to fix it?
Thank you.
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From: J Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot error, linux command trouble
Date: 27 Feb 2001 21:52:50 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> so these are my questions (background is below... thanks so much for any help
> at all!):
> - is there any way other than "linux rescue" that i can temporarily get into
> my linux os so that i can change lilo.conf or copy vmlinuz to windows?
looplinux is small enough to download, and should be able to read ext2
partitions (although I have tried this).
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux
> - why would "cp" and other commands not work in linux rescue?
Because there is only room for so many utilities on the rescue floppy
> - do you know any more about what my installation ("device... too big...") and
> boot errors ("0x04") could mean?
> - why did lilo not take over my boot sector?
something may be having trouble with the large hardrive:
lilo? BIOS? EIDE controller?
> background: <snipped>
--
James Phillips
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however, include "ID" in the subject line if
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From: Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crc errors at boot
Date: 27 Feb 2001 17:01:07 -0500
In comp.os.linux.setup Greg Walrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Small error in my listing below. The screen actually looks like this:
: Loading RedHat............
: Uncompressing Linux...
: crc error
: -- System halted
: I've also found that it will always boot consistently off of the RedHat
: boot disk that I created when I installed RedHat to the hard drive.
: Is there something I need to recover off of this disk that is keeping it
: from booting off of the hard drive?
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Greg Walrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> I'm having problems getting Linux to run on my Dell XPS T600r. It loads
:> and initially runs fine the first time, but I can't get it to do that
:> consistently afterwards.
:>
:> When I boot in to the system on subsequent loads, I get the following:
:>
:> Running linux............
:> Unpacking Linux...
:>
:> crc error
:>
:> -----System Halted
:>
:> This happens with Red Hat 7.0; about 1 time out of 10 it will load
:> properly; the other times I get that error. I also tried this with
:> TurboLinux 6.0.20SE, and got the same result, though I was _never_ able
:> to boot in to that OS at all - I always got this CRC error.
:>
:> I have a dual-boot system with Win98 and (my attempts at) Linux. When I
:> boot in to Windows and run various disk-checking software, it turns up
:> no errors.
:>
:> Anyone else seen this, and been able to resolve it?
: --
: Greg Walrath
: Dont' include the no.spam. in replies!
Well I don't have a solution but I may be able to suggest
a problem. A crc error occurs (obviously enough) when the
crc check on the uncompressed kernel fails. I think this
might be an indication of a defective disk drive. The
data on the drive is correct but errors occur when an attempt
is made to read it. This would explain why it happens sometimes
and not others.
I have an old system that does this too. (though not nearly as
often as yours does) I know that my system is messed up somewhere
though because windows would not even install on it. (every time
I tried to install windows it could not boot into anything but
safe mode) My system fails about one out of three or five times
with the same error that you mentioned. I'm running Slackware on
this system. I have not found a way to fix this but since I
can usually get mine to boot and I don't use it much anyway its
not a big deal.
In my case I believe this is a hardware issue so I don't think
there is anything I can do about it except replace hardware.
(I have another computer anyway)
-Donald
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From: "julius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Booting Raid 1 or 5
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:14:38 -0000
Hi,
On a system with hardware RAID level 5, booting Linux on RAID devices, if
one drive fails, does the system boot, before replacing the drive? (not
hotswap)
And if instead of RAID level 5 we have a level 1 (mirroring)? Does the
system boot if one drive fails, before replacing the drive?
Does the rebuild, after replacing a drive, allows booting the system w/o
problems? In both levels?
Thank you for your time!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Perry)
Subject: Re: RH 7.0: is it stable and easy to install?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:18:49 -0000
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:57:18 GMT, H Dziardziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 07:48:29 GMT, "Peter Cheung"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I have RH6.1 installed on a P133 with 64mb and it's running fine, but I am
>>wondering
>>if I should attempt the RH7.0 install. Can anyone give some
>>advantages/disadvantages
>>of going RH7.0? I have heard that there are many problems with it. Are there
>>any
>>gotchas that one should be aware of before attempting? I am relatively new
>>to Linux,
>>so I am no expert by any means.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Peter Cheung
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>No problems on my install on a laptop which is always a good test.
>Just read the readme/install files first just in case something
>applies to your system. Be careful about the intitial choice as the
>normal will wipe out the entire disk and obtusely it insists on a swap
>partition even tho you may not want one (plenty of ram).
I think even with "plenty of ram" its always a good choice to have a swap
partition. Some programs from what I have read look for such allocations
and make use of them. I don't use gnome or kde these days, but do both of
these or their apps make use of swap partitions?
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: J Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.ssh,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: ssh on Debian, not connecting to OpenBSD 2.7 ["Disconnecting: Bad packet
length 1349676916"]
Date: 27 Feb 2001 22:14:21 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Richard E. Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Disconnecting: Bad packet length 1349676916
================================^
> 1349676916 decimal = 50726F74 hex = "Prot" ASCII
> Looks suspiciously like some sort of text message, perhaps beginning
> "Protocol" or "Protection"? What do the syslog messages on the server
> say? How about if you try the connection with the server in debug mode?
> --
> Richard Silverman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think it disconected because if assumes a 1.3GB packet is some sort
of attack.
To answer the original poster's question, make shure both are using
the same version of SSH. (apparently the 2.0 protocol isn't
completely backwards compatible)
--
James Phillips
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however, include "ID" in the subject line if
you want your response "rescued".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: URL and port of an MP3 station
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:24:29 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I am setting up my linux box to play music. In MP3-HOWTO
(http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/MP3-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.2), it says
playing streaming MP3 needs the URL and port of a station:
mpg123 http://localhost:8000 or
freeamp http://megajukebox:2711
My question is how to find them. Can anybody suggest?
Thanks a lot!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: replacing freebsd with linux
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:41:11 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <3a9bc4aa$1@heresy>,
"Chad Whitten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have two machines, both running freebsd that I want to change over to
> linux. Problem is, I cannot get rid of the freebsd partitions. linux fdisk
> seg-faults every time I try to remove them or change them. dos fdisk will
> tell me it gets rid of them but then I boot back up with a linux or *bsd
> boot disk and do fdisk and they are still there. I can even install windows
> on the machine, run it for a few days, reboot with the linux disk, do fdisk
> and it shows the four bsd partitions? any ideas on how to get by this.
If the disk contains no data you want to keep, the following command (in
Linux, assuming it's /dev/hdb) should do the trick:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1
This will completely wipe out the MBR on /dev/hdb. The next time you use
Linux's fdisk, it should be able to write a completely "clean" partition
table.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Gardner)
Subject: Embarrassingly simple newbie question....
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:54:43 GMT
What is the best way from the command line to find out where a
particular file resides on my hard drive? I've noticed that "ls"
seems to have some fundamental differences from the DOS "dir" command.
In DOS, If I wanted to find a file called "foo.txt", and I had no idea
where on the drive it was, I would go to the root directory of the
hard drive and type "dir foo.txt /s", and it would recursively search
the entire directory tree and return any files named "foo.txt".
I've tried to find the switches to perform the same thing
using "ls", but haven't figured it out yet. "Whereis" only seems to
work with certain files, and "find" seems to look *inside* the files,
rather than just at filenames.
Also, why is that if I type "ls" in a directory, it just
returns the file and subdirectory names in that directory, but If I
type "ls a*", and there is a subdirectory under the current directory
that starts with "a", it lists all of the files inside that
subdirectory? It seems that sometimes, "ls" recurses by itself, but I
can't figure out how to make it search recursively when I want it
to...
And help greatly appreciated,
Scott
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From: Randy Streator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Embarrassingly simple newbie question....
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:02:36 -0500
Scott Gardner wrote:
> What is the best way from the command line to find out where a
> particular file resides on my hard drive? I've noticed that "ls"
> seems to have some fundamental differences from the DOS "dir" command.
> In DOS, If I wanted to find a file called "foo.txt", and I had no idea
> where on the drive it was, I would go to the root directory of the
> hard drive and type "dir foo.txt /s", and it would recursively search
> the entire directory tree and return any files named "foo.txt".
> I've tried to find the switches to perform the same thing
> using "ls", but haven't figured it out yet. "Whereis" only seems to
> work with certain files, and "find" seems to look *inside* the files,
> rather than just at filenames.
> Also, why is that if I type "ls" in a directory, it just
> returns the file and subdirectory names in that directory, but If I
> type "ls a*", and there is a subdirectory under the current directory
> that starts with "a", it lists all of the files inside that
> subdirectory? It seems that sometimes, "ls" recurses by itself, but I
> can't figure out how to make it search recursively when I want it
> to...
>
> And help greatly appreciated,
> Scott
Starting from the root directory try 'find . -name <filename>'
You can do a man on "find" for more info.
Randy
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