Linux-Setup Digest #736, Volume #20 Fri, 2 Mar 01 08:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Something to chew on.. (A. van Werven)
Re: Something to chew on.. (Matt Haley)
Making a initrd bootdisk for full HD install (B'ichela)
Re: Drivers for SB PCI128 (M.Rumianek)
iomega zip strange problem (Olivier Ravard)
how to enable ReiserFS? ("tin")
Re: Can't add to PATH (benoit mordelet)
Re: how to enable ReiserFS? (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: USB graphic tablet (WarpKat)
Re: Help! hde lilo bios=0x80 and hang at "LI" (Gregg Morris)
rhost and trusted user (Matthias Studer)
+++++help++++ ("siukeung")
Re: Making a initrd bootdisk for full HD install (B'ichela)
Re: rhost and trusted user (Joris Roefs)
Re: rhost and trusted user (Julian Midgley)
Re: dual boot using PartionMagic (John Thompson)
Re: Connecting Mandrake 7.2 up to local network (Brian O'Halloran)
Re: Connecting Mandrake 7.2 up to local network (Brian O'Halloran)
Where can I download linux? ("Paa")
Kernel Build (Carl Parsons)
Re: Something to chew on.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. van Werven)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.security,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,linux.debian.publicity,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Something to chew on..
Date: 2 Mar 2001 08:33:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Luke Vogel:
> Uptime for linux:
> 4:34pm up 82 days, 6:04, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not a hell of a lot is going on on that box...
Alphons
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A. van Werven http://www.liacs.nl/~avwerven
Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands
It's safe to remove /etc/passwd entirely.
-- J. Wunsch in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.security,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,linux.debian.publicity,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Something to chew on..
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 01:43:52 -0700
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:35:02 -0500,
Masha Ku'Inanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So, I rebooted.
>
>Uptime for Win2k Pro -- three hours.
My experience with Windows Me in ten steps:
1) Install
2) BSOD
3) Reboot
4) BSOD
5) BSOD
6) BSOD
7) Reboot
8) BSOD
9) Reboot
10) fsck
Uptime: < 2 Hours
I kid you not, SIX blue screens in less that two hours!! I would like to blame
faulty harware, however, all the OS's listed in my sig below run just fine.
--
Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mandrake 7.2 / RedHat 6.1 / Windows 98 SE / FreeBSD 4.2 / Windows NT 4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Making a initrd bootdisk for full HD install
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 02:29:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got a 486sx connected to my LAN. the 1.44 drive is acting
flakey. I wanted to get Linux to boot up using rootdisk image from
/dev/hda1/linux/color.gz (dev /HDA1 is a Dr=dos 7.03 drive
I compiled /dev/ram and initrd into the kernal as well as the
support for the Msdos/umsdos as well as the ext and ext2 file systems
in addition to the etherexpress 16 driver. If I follow ramdisks.txt in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation I can make a boot floppy which uses a
seperage rootdisk image (in another floppy). This works (this crappy
computer only has 8mb of ram.
I wanted to make it possible to use the initrd config so I can modify
color.gz to use the ramdisk after booting the kernal and image from
the /dev/hda drdos directory.
the floppy system works great but.. I want to skip the disks
as my hard drives seem to act up using 1.44 media.
using the loadlin system from dr-dos I get this far
up to trying to access block device major 0 minor 1 and then it stop
DEAD! The kernal complains that It cannot access this device! its in
the kernal! initrd is configured but it won't work. Using it as a
floppy boot works though.
What gives? this is the loadlin line
(lets assume we are in the /loadlin directory (although its in root
actually)
loadlin c:\loadlin\net.i root=/dev/ram rw initrd=c:\loadlin\color.gz
I added the initrd stuff to the color.gz imge but it fails!
Even if I DO get it to work how do I install Slackware 3.9
using NFS from the big file server I tried
mount 192.168.10.10:/mnt /mnt -t nfs
and it complains about rpcd not being running! Ifconfig was confiured
right.
Because this system only has 8mb of ram. I rather use the
rootdisk as the file system or better the MSDOS color.gz image on the
HD. How do I do that?
--
B'ichela
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From: M.Rumianek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drivers for SB PCI128
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:02:20 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Am 02.03.2001, 08:44:52, schrieb Karthik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Them=
a=20
Drivers for SB PCI128:
> Hi All,
> 1. i have installed a new Sound Blaster PCI 128, and i am now in the
> lookout for the drivers for the same. i run a RH 7.0 P166 machine.
Run the setup tool and choos ensonic 1371. Then load opl3
michael
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From: Olivier Ravard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: iomega zip strange problem
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:10:54 +0000
I want to have a dual boot server with NT and Linux.
The PC have a DD, DVD ROM, and an iomega zip on ide.
I installed NT and all works fine.
I installed Linux RedHat 6.2 and all works fine.
Reboot on NT and blue screen...
Re-install NT and all works fine.
Re-install Linux deconnecting the zip. All works fine.
Reboot on NT reconnecting the zip and all works fine.
Reboot on Linux (reconnecting the zip) and the DD is not recognized...
Is someone have an idea ?
O. Ravard
University Rennes France
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From: "tin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux.best,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: how to enable ReiserFS?
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:08:32 +0800
after i compile my kernel support ReiserFS
how to convect my existing EXT2 to ReiserFS?
thx
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From: benoit mordelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't add to PATH
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 10:30:35 +0100
Brett Sheeran wrote:
>
> Help, I can't permanently add java to my path. I have Red Hat 7.0, using
> bash and I am logged on as root.
>
> I have tried editing the following files:
> /root/.bash_profile
> /root/.profile
> /etc/profile
>
> To each of these files I added something that looks like
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jdk1.3/bin
>
> I have rebooted, but java does *not* get added to my path. If anyone out
> there has any clues as to why this might be happening please, please let me
> know.
>
> Regards Brett Sheeran
try adding this line in /root/.bashrc
ben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux.best,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: how to enable ReiserFS?
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:53:09 GMT
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:08:32 +0800, tin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|after i compile my kernel support ReiserFS
|how to convect my existing EXT2 to ReiserFS?
I did this a few weeks ago.
First, some questions. Do you have a seperate /boot partition?
Did you make reiserfs a module, or is it compiled into the kernel?
My situation is: /boot is a seperate partition and reiserfs is *not*
a module.
Saying that, here's how I did it.
I turned a spare partition into a second root partition, including
all software I needed to boot and run.
Make a second lilo.conf entry listing the new partiton ar root.
Boot from new partition.
Mount all yoru partitons under some place like /mnt/hda1 /mnt/hda2 etc...
For each partiton you want to convert, backup the contents somewhere,
unmount the partition, reformat with mkresierfs, remount and restore
the backup.
*MUST DO*
Before you reboot edit the /etc/fstab on your old root partition
(ie /mnt/hda1/etc/fstab) to list all the changes partitons as reiserfs
instead of ext2, and make the 'fsck pass' field entry a '0' for
these partitions as well.
This took most of one evening. Now /boot is my onlt non-resiser
partition. I gather that the most recent lilo can even boot from
a reiser /boot but I havn't bothered.
--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Universal Life Church http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-
xenaphobia: The fear of being beaten to a pulp by
a leather-clad, New Zealand woman.
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From: WarpKat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB graphic tablet
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:35:22 GMT
Davide wrote:
> Hi to all,
> anyone knows how to setup a USB Wacom Graphic Tablet on a linux mandrake 7.2
> system? Is it possible in any way?
> Thanks!
> Davide
I don't know what kernel version you are using, but from what I just saw in
compiling 2.2.18, you can configure it as a module to load at boot time after
recompiling it.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help! hde lilo bios=0x80 and hang at "LI"
From: Gregg Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 Mar 2001 03:55:01 -0600
"Mathias Rodenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> go for the old ide0 variation. i think lilo doesn't like not to be on hda
> (mbr)...at least that is what i experienced (would appreciate some comments
> about this)...it can boot any partition and system from there
>
> regards, M
>
I think you are right about this.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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From: Matthias Studer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rhost and trusted user
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:46:22 +0100
Hi all!
I'm working with SuSE Linux 7.0 and would like to set some users as
trusted users so they can 'su root' without root password. Under IRIX
6.5 (SGI) one can create a 'rhost' file and put the usernames in it.
That's all.
Under SuSE I did the same, but withour success. I still need the root
password for 'su root'.
TIA
Matthew
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From: "siukeung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: +++++help++++
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:16:25 +0800
Hi, everyone,
I have setup the >>RedHat 6.2+CLE 0.9 p1<< on my computer, but
something I can't slove, it is I can't use the sound card and other divice
on my computer, so I want to compile a new kernel into the computer. What
should I do???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Making a initrd bootdisk for full HD install
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 04:47:47 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 02:29:38 -0500, B'ichela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got a 486sx connected to my LAN. the 1.44 drive is acting
>flakey. I wanted to get Linux to boot up using rootdisk image from
>/dev/hda1/linux/color.gz (dev /HDA1 is a Dr=dos 7.03 drive
Due to my frustration I might as well be typing in greek!. I
shall rephrase the question.
I want to store both the bzimage file AND the rootdisk image
on the IDE hard drive and AVOID the floppy altogether! Following the
ramdisks.txt and initrd.txt file from the Linux kernal is NOT a help.
This computer ONLY has 8mb of ram. I am attempting to install
Slackware 3.9 on this. This system will get its packages via NFS.
My images are in the c:\ (root) directory. typing the following
loadlin line does NOT work correctly
loadlin c:\bzimage root=/dev/ram rw initrd=c:\color.gz
the kernal has initrd AND ramdisk support compiled in. When the kernal
loads it tries to load c:\color.gz . This does NOT work! the system
states somthing like Unable to load Block device 0:1. This seems to
mean looking at devices.txt the RAMDISK!
Setting up the proper rdev -r bzImage 49152 line and then
copying it to a floppy makes a good bootdisk. However, my 3 1/2" drive
is unreliable as a linux formated disk cannnot be REUSED! Next time
Msdos tries to use a floppy I get a track-0 bad! (all of my computers
exhibit this problem). This means I need to get it right the first
time or ELSE!
This brings a question up though. How do a fully wipe these
disks so I CAN REFORMAT them! Would sticking them on top of a 8A
120VAC transformer work! (I don't have a bulk eraser).
--
B'ichela
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From: Joris Roefs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rhost and trusted user
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:05:19 +0100
Matthias Studer wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm working with SuSE Linux 7.0 and would like to set some users as
> trusted users so they can 'su root' without root password. Under IRIX
> 6.5 (SGI) one can create a 'rhost' file and put the usernames in it.
> That's all.
>
> Under SuSE I did the same, but withour success. I still need the root
> password for 'su root'.
Try using 'sudo'...
You can configure it in such a way that you don't need a password for su.
- Joris
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Subject: Re: rhost and trusted user
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Midgley)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 11:05:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthias Studer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I'm working with SuSE Linux 7.0 and would like to set some users as
>trusted users so they can 'su root' without root password. Under IRIX
>6.5 (SGI) one can create a 'rhost' file and put the usernames in it.
>That's all.
>
>Under SuSE I did the same, but withour success. I still need the root
>password for 'su root'.
The rhosts file is used for an entirely different purpose - it allows
remote logins (using 'rsh') from the hostnames specified in the file.
Use of rsh is generally deprecated these days (except inside trusted
environments), in favour of more secure tools for remote login, such
as OpenSSH.
To allow people root access without giving them the root password, you
should install the 'sudo' utility. You then specify which users to
provide root access to in the /etc/sudoers file, and they use the sudo
command in front of any commands they wish to access as root.
An example /etc/sudoers file is given below:
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
julian ALL=(ALL) ALL
fred ALL=(ALL) ALL
This provides root acccess to the users 'julian' and 'fred'.
If fred wishes to edit a root owned file, he would run:
$ sudo vi /etc/passwd
He will then be prompted for /his own/ password. Assuming this is
entered correctly, vi will be run, and he can edit the password file.
Each time he wants to execute a command as root, he must prepend the
sudo command to the command line. Once you've run sudo once, you can
issue further sudo commands without having to re-enter your
password for a while (typically five minutes), before you'll will be
prompted for it again.
sudo provides a number of more advanced features (instead of providing
access to all commands as root, you can provide a user with access to
a restricted subset of available commands, for example). See the sudo
man page for details.
Hope this is useful.
All the best,
Julian Midgley
--
Julian Midgley
Principal Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zeus Technology Ltd http://www.zeus.com
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual boot using PartionMagic
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:20:44 -0600
Javier wrote:
> Has anybody ever used PartionMagic? If so, is it any good?
Partition Magic is very nice and works well with linux ext2
filesystems. If you don't have Windows, you can make bootable
diskettes from images on the CD and run the DOS version of
Partition Magic from there. About the only thing missing when
compared to the Windows version is the lack of "Wizards" to hold
your hand during the operations.
> Would it be better to use BootMagic or Linux's LILO for a dual
> boot into WIN98 or Redhat7?
That's your choice. You'll want to use LILO anyway if you build
your own kernels, but you can have Boot Magic on the MBR point to
LILO on the linux partition's boot record if you like. About the
only advantage of Boot Magic is the GUI interface and pretty
icons.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Brian O'Halloran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Connecting Mandrake 7.2 up to local network
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:12:16 +0000
Yeah, I've done all that - even the previous sysadmin for our little
network saw what I did and thought that everything was fine.....
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From: Brian O'Halloran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Connecting Mandrake 7.2 up to local network
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:12:43 +0000
Cheers Dean, will give it a try!!!
Brian
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From: "Paa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where can I download linux?
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 19:35:45 +0700
I want to find linux on net
who can tell my webside or ftp that can download linux please
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From: Carl Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel Build
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:45:40 +0000
I have just made a stupid mistake
I did dd of=bzImage if=/dev/hdc5
instead of dd of=bzImage if=/dev/fd0
to create a boot floppy.
now I can not boot my Linux Partition is there an
easy way out of this.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.security,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,linux.debian.publicity,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Something to chew on..
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:50:25 GMT
Masha Ku'Inanna wrote:
>
> Went to start Musicmatch Jukebox, and things started to act odd..so, i
> closed MM. Things were still acting odd. CTRL-ALT-DELETE, brought up the
> "taskmanager" and found t he PID for Windows Explorer was using 95-100% CPU
> time.
I fired up my Windows box tonight to see if I could find a password to a
site. The last time I knew the password was in a file that I could read
with IE. Went to quit IE, it crashed, it's still crashed I can see it
from here. What a piece of junk.
>
>
>
> At least with UNIX, there never is a question to whether or not your
> computer will flat out refuse to do something that you tell it, as root. It
> can question, but it will not refuse, to the best of my knowledge. It does
> not assume to know more about what you need to do than you know. If you tell
> it to do something boneheaded, by gosh, it will do exactly that.
>
I recently installed Mandrake on a computer. I copied a program called
type1inst from my Slackware box to the Mandrake box using ftp. Type1inst
is just a simple perl script. I chmoded the type1inst file to executable
and Mandrake will not let me execute it! Tried retransfering the file
making sure that I used binary mode, still no dice. This is the first
time I have not been able to make a file executable as root in Linux.
Guess that's why I kind of equate Mandrake with Windows (I think about
the same of Redhat).
>
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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