Linux-Setup Digest #726, Volume #20 Wed, 28 Feb 01 19:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: rewriting the MRB (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Linux And AMD ("Scot Mc Pherson")
Serial and Parallel Port Sharing on Windows Network (Joseph Gilmour)
Re: Kernel 2.4.2 and 'all blowed up' on e2fsck check of /dev/hda1 (Patrick F Harris)
Re: Help with LILO and ATA 100 on dual (John in SD)
Re: where to put setserial for bootup?? ? ? (Omar Stoltzfus)
Re: Can I install Linux only using iso image? (Omar Stoltzfus)
free ISP for linux (HYLU)
Problem mounting ZIP 250 USB drive ("Cedric Chausson")
Re: where to put setserial for bootup?? ? ? (John Todd)
Hard Drive problem (RH6.0 and SuSE 6.4) (HYLU)
Installing Linux 6.1 Red Hat ("Studeski")
latex2html (Harvey Greenberg)
Can't change permissions on vfat partitions ! ("Cedric Chausson")
Re: Linux partitioning question ("Greg H.")
Re: free ISP for linux (andrew)
Wierd IDE disk problem (Simon Brooke)
RH 5.2 Kernel Compile Problems (Frank Siler)
RH7 Installation Boot Disk Fails (P)
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: rewriting the MRB
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:24:40 +1100
Jeff Milton wrote:
> can anyone tell me how to reinstall/rewrite the MRB for dual boot?
>
> I inslatted win98, then linux, and everything worked fine.
>From this I gather that LILO was booting both OS's. Fine.
When installing Linux you created booting diskette, of course;^))
Boot into Linux, log-in as root and issue this command:
/sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf
This should write the booting configuration into mbr.
On the other hand if something happened to your partitioning
configuration this won't help.
There is a virus around that removes from disk the partition table.
> Does 'lilo' alone do this? I don't think so, as I have had little
> success in the past with lili and the MRB.
>
> thanks
Have fun
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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From: "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux And AMD
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:18:10 GMT
It can work, but there are some issues that you need to be aware of...>Check
the compatibility tables on the redhat website.
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Scot Mc Pherson
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"Nick Dohr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The redhat.com website always talks about intel processors int thie
> installation guide, say i have a 1.2Ghz Athlon Tbird and i want red hat on
> there, am i out of luck or will it work properly?
>
> --
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From: Joseph Gilmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Serial and Parallel Port Sharing on Windows Network
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:28:09 GMT
Is there a way to share these ports so that I can map them in windows? A
printer can setup an LPT port for dos programs but what about sending a
short string directly to a serial port on a linux machine. I have cash
registers that connect through the serial port and they only need a
short string sent to open and I'd like to share one register for several
POS terminals. Oh, and get rid of NT. Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance,
Joe Gilmour
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From: Patrick F Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.2 and 'all blowed up' on e2fsck check of /dev/hda1
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:07:12 -0600
All
I had the same supper block problem on a drive when I first switched to
7.1 beta and rebuilt the kernel. I had what seemed like some hardware
stability issues. (A tiny bit over clocked). But received the drive
and all data by using fdisk to to rewrite the partition table.
I just look at the partitions they look OK wrote them back on the drive
and next time I booted all was well. I don't know if the problem was
caused by hardware or software but rewriting the partition table fixed
it.
Patrick
"Rake@Q3" wrote:
> Hi Pavan,
> While I'm compiling and things on 2.95, can you send or post your
> /usr/src/linux/.config file. I sure would appreciate it.
> Thanks,
> Dylan sends
>
> "Pavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:97in71$gs8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > I found it was the broken version of gcc on
> > RedHat 7.0 - run a decent
> > > > stable one (gcc 2.95.2) - it solved the
> > problem for me.
> > >
> > > Eh, forgot to mention, that you should recompile
> > e2fsprogs - and the
> > > kernel too, I recommend.
> > >
> >
> > I managed to compile the 2.4.2 kernel without
> > problems & its running smoothly ( on a RH7 with
> > all the updates ). I did not have to recompile
> > e2fsprogs.
> >
> > Pavan
> >
> >
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with LILO and ATA 100 on dual
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:13:06 GMT
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:41:25 +0100, Luigi Cavallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I just installed RH 7.0 on a Dual PIII with ATA 100 HDs on the ATA100
>ide2.
>However, when I try to reboot from the HD the box hangs before arriving
>at the lilo prompt. Actually, it hangs with the first two uppercase
>charcaters of lilo, as
>
>LI
This means the LILO first stage loader finished successfully, but was unable
to chain to the second stage loader. This problem most often occurs when the
LILO boot installer (/sbin/lilo) guesses the device code of the files in /boot
incorrectly.
You will probabably have to determine the device codes yourself and add lines
such as:
disk=/dev/hdX
bios=0x80
You will have to fill in the X, and the correct device code.
--John
>
>If I boot from the floppy made during installation, and by feeding linux
>ide2=...
>it boots properly.
>
>I tried to install lilo both in the MBR as well as on /dev/hde, but the
>box behaves the same.
>
>Any suggestions ?
>
>HW
>MicroStar 694D MB
>2 PIII CPU
>2 30 GB Quantum Fireball lct20 ATA 100 HDs on ide2 and ide3
>
>TIA
>
>luigi
LILO version 21.7 (24-Feb-2001) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
patches at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo
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From: Omar Stoltzfus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where to put setserial for bootup?? ? ?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:34:22 GMT
lucas wrote:
> hello one and all,
>
> i have an internal isa modem set at ttyS3 under redhat 6.2, kernel version
> 2.2.14-5.0. the modem works great after i do "setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 5". i
> want to put this in a configuration file so that it properly initializes ttyS3
> at bootup. please offer your opinions. thank you in advance and have a nice
> day.
>
> lucas
As the last line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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From: Omar Stoltzfus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I install Linux only using iso image?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:42:35 GMT
Try more wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Many distribution suppy iso image on their ftp server.
> I'm not have a CD Writer. Well, is there a way to install some distribution
> using iso image?
>
> I just tried mounting the iso image. It worked fine.
>
> Thanks,
Copy the boot.img file - from the mounted iso image -to a floppy
dd of=/dev/fd0 if=boot.img
Reboot from the floppy and select the install from hard drive option. Enter
the partition that contains the iso image.
I have had problems with this if the iso was not in the topmost directory. If
it is in the topmost dir, you don't need to enter the dir name, just the
partition (/dev/hda8).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HYLU)
Date: 28 Feb 2001 22:45:23 GMT
Subject: free ISP for linux
I want to get free ISP for my SuSE linux 6.4. Any idea?
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From: "Cedric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED](halteauspam)>
Subject: Problem mounting ZIP 250 USB drive
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:47:57 +0100
Hello all,
When I try to mount my ZIP USB drive (mount -t vfat /dev/sda
/mnt/usbzip) with a PC formated disk (empty or full), I get the following error :
mount : type fs incorrect, incorrect option, incorrect superblock on /dev/sda,
or too many filesystems mounted.
The drive light flashes and I hear the drive starts to spin but it just
gives out that error message. Anybody have an idea ?
Note :
_ I have all necessary USB options enabled in kernel (no modules)
_ I have the USB device filesystem mounted ok (entry in fstab), i can
see the entry in /proc/bus/usb
_ I have set the necessary options for scsi. I can see information on my
device in proc/scsi/scsi.
_ I have created a usbzip directory in /mnt.
_
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: where to put setserial for bootup?? ? ?
Date: 28 Feb 2001 22:05:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:57:59 -0500, lucas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hello one and all,
>
>i have an internal isa modem set at ttyS3 under redhat 6.2, kernel version
>2.2.14-5.0. the modem works great after i do "setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 5". i
>want to put this in a configuration file so that it properly initializes ttyS3
>at bootup. please offer your opinions. thank you in advance and have a nice
>day.
>
>lucas
>
--
_____________________
The lap of Linuxury
|<de in RH6.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HYLU)
Date: 28 Feb 2001 22:57:30 GMT
Subject: Hard Drive problem (RH6.0 and SuSE 6.4)
I installed a double booting system with RH6.0 (2GB) and Windows NT4.0 ( 10GB),
it worked fine. Trouble started after I uninstalled NT. The 10 GB of where NT
was is gone. My computer now can only recongnize 2GB.
1. How can I get the missing 10GB back?
2. Is there a way like command 'fdisk' of RH in SuSE so I can format my HD as
a whole brand new?
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From: "Studeski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux 6.1 Red Hat
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:03:45 -0600
I really don't have a clue of how Linux works but would like to learn. I am
trying to load Linux (Gnome) on a W98 machine but when I partition I never
get the 'Next' button so I can continue. I've had this almost a year and
have tried 6 times. This is frustrating. I understand you cannot load
'server' with another OS in place, is that true?
Thanks in advance.
--
Happy Motoring!
Studeski
Claude Chmielewski
Fillmore, Wisconsin
http://www.geocities.com/studeski_hawk
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From: Harvey Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: latex2html
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:52:48 -0700
Hi. I latex2html (which I got from ctan) under Redhat 7. The
installation seemed to go well (no error messages), but when I tried it, I
got the error message:
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line
2, near "/usr/bin"
(Missing operator before bin?)
syntax error at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line 2, near "/usr/bin"
"use" not allowed in expression at /usr/local/bin/latex2html line 55, at
end of line
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/bin/latex2html line 60.
Can anyone tell me what I need to do?
Thanks,
Harvey J. Greenberg
Mathematics Dept -- Campus box 170
University of Colorado at Denver
PO Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
phone: 303-556-8464 fax: 303-556-8550
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/
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From: "Cedric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED](halteauspam)>
Subject: Can't change permissions on vfat partitions !
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:06:07 +0100
Hello all,
I noticed I was unable to write files on vfat partitions under user
accounts while I was able to do it under root. I checked fstab and made
sure I had set the option rw for those partitions. Then I checked the
file permissions on those partitions :
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 151 avr 20 2000 liprefs.js
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 32768 f�v 3 13:12 mIRC
The write permission is missing. So I tried to change those using chmod
under root but it had no effect !
Anybody have an idea ?
thanks in advance,
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From: "Greg H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:24:44 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1.) Linux and UNIX are multi-user systems, so it is not a totally
> different story in this newsgroup.
I didn't say for this newsgroup; I said for the thread. If you look
back, I said "home/newbie user" countless times.
> 2.) I have a CD-ROM with, roughly, my current distro on it. I have a
I have no arguments with what you said. The problem is that this is not
the concentration of the thread.
Please reread my posts so I can stop repeating myself.
Greg
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From: andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: free ISP for linux
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:30:03 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, HYLU
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I want to get free ISP for my SuSE linux 6.4. Any idea?
It would help if we knew where you were!! US? UK? Elsewhere?
Andrew
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From: Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wierd IDE disk problem
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:32:43 GMT
OK, we've got ourselves a new box which we're setting up as an outside
Web server for experimental services. We specified it with two
identical disks because we want to RAID 1 mirror it. The disks are
Quantum FireballP AS 20.5 of 20548 Mb capacity; they appear to be
identical. They have been supplied by the box-builder as IDE primary
master (/dev/hda) and IDE secondary slave (/dev/hdd). The box has no
IDE secondary master... I confess I'm a SCSI person and don't really
know much about IDE, but that's one of the things that's worrying me.
The machine has Award BIOS version 6.00P. Both disks are configured in
the BIOS to have 'Auto' access mode.
As the machine starts up and reports what it's got it gives:
Pri. Master Disk : LBA, ATA66, 20548Mb
Pri. Slave Disk : None
Sec. Master Disk : None
Sec. Slave Disk : CHS, ATA66, 20548Mb
The box-builder has, as ordered, installed Debian stable for us;
they've installed it in a single partition on /dev/hda2.
fdisk reports the geometry of /dev/hda as 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2490
cylinders; it has been partitioned by the suppliers as
Device Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 31 248976 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 32 2498 19816177+ 93 Linux
fdisk reports the geometry of /dev/hdd as 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39813
cylinders...
At this point I'm stuck.
* Why is the second disk the secondary *slave*, not the secondary
master? Is there a good reason for this?
* Why are two apparently identical drives with the same configuration
handles so differently by the BIOS, and why do they report such
different geometry?
I have partitioned the disk so that it's partitions rougly mirror in
size those of /dev/hda, but I'm now faced with the problem of how I get
RAID up on the box (yes, I've patched a kernel and done all those good
things).
One possibility is to set up /dev/hdd1 as a temporary bootable
partition, get started from there, and keep the existing partition
layout; but I'm not happy with this partly because I'd like in the long
term to have a separate root and usr partition, and partly because I'm
unhappy with the fact that the drives aren't behaving the identically.
So, what thoughts? How do I sort the two drives out so that they have
the same layout? Do I make the second drive secondary master (bugger of
a job, seeing it's now bolted in our comms rack, but...)? Can I
reasonably raid the machine without reinstalling?
Cheers
Simon
--
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to err is human, to lisp divine
;; attributed to Kim Philby, oddly enough.
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From: Frank Siler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 5.2 Kernel Compile Problems
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:44:35 GMT
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
I can't seem to get the kernel on RH 5.2 to compile. 2.0.36
failed with error 2 in the same directory every time, so thinking it was
a bug in the makefiles I downloaded 2.0.39 off kernel.org. This also
failed to compile with the same messages. I have had builds fail
on other source packages and some of them also fail with error 2, which
leads me to believe that it is a problem with the compiler and associated
software. Unfortunately, I cannot locate my RH install disc to verify
the development packages. I am not a programmer and know very little
about these automake things, so please help.
<p>Thanks.</html>
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From: P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7 Installation Boot Disk Fails
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:58:10 -0600
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When I try to install Red Hat Linux 7 from my hard drive using a boot
diskette, the install program tells me the boot disk has failed.
I created two boot diskettes, both with boot.img and the rawrite
utility. I booted the computer using one of the diskettes, and the
installation program appeared. I pressed Enter to start the
installation, and, after a "loading" message and a few moments, a
message appeared saying that the boot disk failed and asking me to use
another disk. I switched to the other boot diskette, and the same thing
happened.
Both diskettes were new and unused, one of the diskettes was
preformatted, and the other I formatted before running rawrite. These
were Memorex diskettes; if that matters.
Also, I notice the "How to Download Red Hat Linux" page on
www.redhat.com says to use boot.img for the boot disk, while the
installation FAQ says to run rawrite twice, first using boot.img and
again using a file called supp.img (not found on any FTP site I
checked). I used the former method.
If you have an answer, please e-mail me a copy of your response at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P
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When I try to install Red Hat Linux 7 from my hard drive using a boot diskette,
the install program tells me the boot disk has failed.
<p>I created two boot diskettes, both with boot.img and the rawrite utility.
I booted the computer using one of the diskettes, and the installation
program appeared. I pressed Enter to start the installation, and,
after a "loading" message and a few moments, a message appeared saying
that the boot disk failed and asking me to use another disk. I switched
to the other boot diskette, and the same thing happened.
<p>Both diskettes were new and unused, one of the diskettes was preformatted,
and the other I formatted before running rawrite. These were Memorex
diskettes; if that matters.
<p>Also, I notice the "How to Download Red Hat Linux" page on www.redhat.com
says to use boot.img for the boot disk, while the installation FAQ says
to run rawrite twice, first using boot.img and again using a file called
supp.img (not found on any FTP site I checked). I used the former
method.
<p>If you have an answer, please e-mail me a copy of your response at <a
href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>.
<p>P</html>
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