Linux-Setup Digest #754, Volume #20 Mon, 5 Mar 01 03:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Internet connection sharing problems ("Andrew Carson")
Re: newbie questions (omitted)
Re: External Access to QPopper (H.Bruijn)
Re: newbie questions ("Alex Zaslavsky")
Re: SuSE 7.1 kernel compile docs incomplete? (Paul Kimoto)
A7V, LNE100TX, SuSE 7.1 resolution (Mike McCann)
Re: multiboot help ("Graeme Cooper")
Re: Linux partitioning question (Daniel J. Peng)
Re: HELP bttv BT849A (Krzys Majewski)
Re: Linux partitioning question (Daniel J. Peng)
Re: multiboot help ("Alex Zaslavsky")
Re: Which Linux for a 486/4MB (John Sage)
Gurus: How to configure Monitor? -- Newbie ("Jawahir Koul")
Re: Linux partitioning question (Eric P. McCoy)
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From: "Andrew Carson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Internet connection sharing problems
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:33:49 +0800
If I understand correctly, your Win98 box is connected to the ISP via modem
(or something) and you
want to be able to access the net from your linux box. I dont think you'll
be able to do this unless you
get some sort of internet connection sharing software for Windows.. Windows
is not able to forward packets.
If you have 98SE, you may be able to do it through connection sharing that
comes along with it.. but not
sure if you can do it with linux or not.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (omitted)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: newbie questions
Date: 5 Mar 2001 05:08:20 GMT
>a) when booting from the cd-rom it shows that it is capable of seeing the
>fdd, it hangs for a second then boots the hdd. The Bios is set to boot off
>cdrom (the cd rom is a Sony 928e CD WRITER)
have you been able to boot from other cdroms? perhaps your cdrom (or scsi
card) does not support this?
>b) when booting from dos and using autorun I get a read error from the linux
>cd (tried the cd on another system worked without any problems).
without the specific error, it's near impossible for anyone to fix this.
>2. When Installing mandrake 7.2 it will not mount the cd rom when running
>install or when using linux.
what exact command are you trying, and what are the errors encountered?
is it scsi/ide? if scsi do you know the channel/id/lun? if ide then
do you know which controller it's on, and if it's master or slave?
try to be more specific...
m.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: External Access to QPopper
Date: 5 Mar 2001 05:19:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:12:55 +0930, Greg Hains allegedly wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have several mailboxes setup on my Linux box that I am trying to access
>externall (outside the LAN), but am refused access - I dont have error codes
>handy here sorry. They work from within the LAN OK, but outside they do not.
>I know the accounts and passwords are fine.
>
>Is this a default setting of QPopper? What sort of things can I look for?
>How do I even configure Qpopper?
>
>Any help out there?...
"man in.qpopper"
"man popper"
Normally no config file is used, possile options are included in the
/etc/inetd.conf entry for qpopper.
Take a look at possible access restrictions in /etc/hosts.{allow|deny}
look at "man hosts.access" for the syntax explanation.
Inquire at your ISP, some actively block certain servers and or
portnumbers, mail (25 110 143) http (80) ftp (21) and others. A lot of
firewalls obviously try and do the same. Check possible firewall rules
at the linux machine.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
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Herman Bruijn mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: "Alex Zaslavsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: newbie questions
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:30:22 GMT
sorry
i forgot to mention
it is a ide cd writer set to slave on the primary controler and the HDD is a
20gb seagate
"omitted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >a) when booting from the cd-rom it shows that it is capable of seeing the
> >fdd, it hangs for a second then boots the hdd. The Bios is set to boot
off
> >cdrom (the cd rom is a Sony 928e CD WRITER)
>
> have you been able to boot from other cdroms? perhaps your cdrom (or scsi
> card) does not support this?
>
> >b) when booting from dos and using autorun I get a read error from the
linux
> >cd (tried the cd on another system worked without any problems).
>
> without the specific error, it's near impossible for anyone to fix this.
>
> >2. When Installing mandrake 7.2 it will not mount the cd rom when running
> >install or when using linux.
>
> what exact command are you trying, and what are the errors encountered?
> is it scsi/ide? if scsi do you know the channel/id/lun? if ide then
> do you know which controller it's on, and if it's master or slave?
>
> try to be more specific...
>
> m.
> --
> ._ ._ ._ ._
> _.-._)`\_.-._)`\_.-._)`\_.-._)`\_.-._
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.1 kernel compile docs incomplete?
Date: 5 Mar 2001 00:51:21 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Efflandt wrote:
> I picked up SuSE 7.1 since it was on sale for $20 at Best Buy and I wanted
> to see what additional support kernel 2.4 had for my laptop (ACPI, DVD,
> USB, IEEE 1394, etc.). The installation was very easy, but compiling a
> new kernel was not.
>
> Instead of using pcmcia and sound included with kernel 2.4, SuSE
> apparently uses the earlier pcmcia-cs-3.1.22 and separate alsa sound
> modules (probably to maintain compatiblility with the other 2.2.18
> kernel). But the pcmcia-cs-3.1.22 and alsa sources are not included with
> kernel 2.4 sources (nowhere on the system, but are on the CD).
(Do any distributions integrate pcmcia-cs module source into the kernel
source?)
The Hinds pcmcia-cs drivers are not (yet) obsoleted by the 2.4 kernel
support; see http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/README-2.4 .
Why do you think that the distribution is forcing you to use the pcmcia-cs
drivers rather than the 2.4 kernel drivers? I run Debian with both 2.2.*
(pcmcia-cs drivers) and 2.4.* (kernel drivers).
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: Mike McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: A7V, LNE100TX, SuSE 7.1 resolution
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:55:05 GMT
Hi folks
I'm happy to say that I've finally got the A7V network system working.
I'm taking some time to write this to share what worked for me and
hopefully this will help some other Linux venturers.
I'm not quite done with this installation andif there is anyone whom can
help
me I would appreciate your help.
My system
A7V motherboard
1GHz Thunderbird Athlon
384MBRam
Radeon all-in-wonder
guillemot maxi-sound Fortissimo
Cottin-picken Linksys LNE100TX (actually it wasn't the problem)
Suse 7.1 2.2.18
40G Maxtor 7200rpm (currently sitting on the ata66 ide port
dvd/cd-rom toshiba
cd-r/w ricoh
The symptoms were the nic card and sound card were not configurable. On
further investigation I saw that the VIA bridge controllers and such
were not
properly discovered. After I had successfully loaded RH7 on a dos
partition
using information from http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html, I
had
decided to install Suse just released 7.1. I had no luck installing
kernel
2.4, so then I tried to install 2.2.18. I then could not get any other
device
to work. I tried Ashley's method for the nic card,
www.suse.com/~ashley,
however it didn't work. I followed Linksys methods, it didn't work.
(mostly,
because it didn't seem to have lx_suse package.
So, as often when one puts together thier own torture machine, computer,
I
went and checked the drivers and bios. Asus still has the same version
as
they did in January. But if you haven't done that, go to the site, look
up the A7V motherboard, from there the driver hot-links are available.
I did find a great little site called http://www.amdmb.com, it has the
latest AMD bios update.
I did notice that there were four devices loaded on IRQ # 5. Using KDE
System Control -- Device Manager one can easily view what's not properly
configured. One question on that, I have the nic card running however
the Device Manager still says that some of the motherboard controllers
are unresolved. If someone can confirm whether this is acceptable and a
short coming of the software, I would appreciate it.
After reading the manual on A7V, I found that the bios assigns the IRQ
by the slot position. So, I moved the card to the slot 3 instead of slot
5. And found that in Windows 98 that all the IRQs redistribute, and
this time more evenly.
So a couple of you helpfuls out there suggested using the Suse 7.0 eide
boot
disk. I down loaded it, wrote it to a floppy and re-installed 7.1. It
didn't work for kernel 2.4. It sorted of worked for 2.2.18. Sort
of --- what does sort of mean??????????
Well, as-is, it didn't let me add the nic card. So I checked dmesg and
/var/messages. I found that everything was looking in
/lib/modules/2.2.16/.... . Well, since I was loading 2.2.18 and I used
a promise eide boot disk from Suse 7.0, something in it's little brain
processes due to the boot disk was trying to point everything to the
/lib/modules/2.2.16/.... directories. So I took a simple gamble,
created a /lib/modules/2.2.16 directory and copied the
/lib/modules/2.2.18 subdirectories to the 2.2.16 directory. It worked.
So what was the actual problem here. I bet Suse 7.1 set needs to have a
promise/eide boot disk.
Now if someone can help me upgrade to 2.4.X kernel I would appreciate
it. I tried that and the boot process said edba too big or something
like that.
resources
http://comp.os.linux.hardware
http://comp.os.linux.networking
http://alt.linux.suse
http://www.amdmb.com (great site for AMD and motherboard talk)
http://www.suse.com/~ashley
http://www.scyld.com/diag
http://www.suse.com (use thier support knowledge database)
http://www.asus.com products - motherboards - slot A - a7v
http://www.promise.com
http://www.linksys.com
So, I'll keep plugging away. Hope this helps
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Graeme Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
aus.computers.linux,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup
Subject: Re: multiboot help
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:21:32 +1100
There are two boot managers that can cope with this -- OS/2 boot manager
(max 4 operating systems) and partition magic boot manager -- I don't know
the limit. These have the smarts to trick each OS into thinking its on its
own.
Coops
Alex Zaslavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:j9Fo6.62662$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> For college I have been given a simple assignment to set up a multi boot
> system running. MS-dos 6.22, windows 98, windows NT server 4.0 and any
> version of linux (i have redhat 5.2 , 7.0 and mandrake 7.2).
>
> I have tried several attempts at getting the boot to work, so far I have
had
> little luck as red hat 7.0 and mandrake 7.2 will not install on my
computer.
>
> When installing Red hat 5.2 as the last OS my computer fails to boot NT
and
> gives a error NTKRNL.EXE missing or corrupted. and when installing NT last
> it can not overcome the lilo boot from the MBR.
>
> when I partition my HDD
> HDA1 is dos partition
> HDA2 is linux root
> HDA3 is linux swap
> HDA5 is NTFS
>
> i have also found some instructions on the internet and have found that
they
> do not work with Red hat 7.0. The instructions are;
>
> Partition the HDD correctly. Install dos, win9x, nt. once nt is
successfully
> installed, install linux and make a linux boot disk.
>
> boot linux and mount a floppy. Assume /mnt/floppy is mount point.
>
> using dd if=/dev/had2 of=/mnt/floppy/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
>
> (if is the actual device name for the root file system)
>
> shutdown linux and boot dos/nt
>
> copy bootsect.lnx to c:
>
> edit c:\boot.ini ( in section OPERATING SYSTEMS add line
> C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="LINUX") this position of this line, relative to the
others
> in this section, determines the position on the boot menu.
>
> Save file and exit, restart and now your computer should have linux in
boot
> menu.
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
>
> Alex Zaslavsky
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J. Peng)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 06:30:31 GMT
On 26 Feb 2001 01:24:30 GMT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Never had a sudden power failure that caused one of your filesystems to
>get completely scribbled? (NOTE: The first time I typed this sentence,
Odd, I've only seen that happen with Linux, and I've been using Linux for
a third the time I've been using DOS. Is there some characteristic of
ext2 that makes it more easily corruptible?
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: HELP bttv BT849A
Date: 04 Mar 2001 22:56:34 -0800
Find the webpage for the bttv driver.
Download the source for the latest version of the modules.
Compile the modules. You may need to compile the i2c modules as well.
Insert the modules, for example "modprobe bttv".
-chris
GM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please help me to configure the BT849AKPF (HAPPAUGE XTREME) with 7.2
> mandrake.
>
> Thanks.
> Peppe Minniti
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J. Peng)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 06:54:47 GMT
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:42:48 GMT, Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> created automatically when I do the install?? (Im a newbie)
Well, this is just /tmp, right? Nothing is guaranteed to stay in there.
Why not...
init 1
rm -Rf /tmp
rm -Rf /var/tmp
rm -Rf /usr/tmp
mkdir /var/tmp
ln -s /var/tmp /tmp
ln -s /var/tmp /usr/tmp
init 6
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From: "Alex Zaslavsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
aus.computers.linux,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup
Subject: Re: multiboot help
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 07:08:47 GMT
Thanks
But is it possible to do it through NT boot manager or LILO??
"Graeme Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3aa33078$0$25509$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> There are two boot managers that can cope with this -- OS/2 boot manager
> (max 4 operating systems) and partition magic boot manager -- I don't know
> the limit. These have the smarts to trick each OS into thinking its on its
> own.
>
> Coops
>
> Alex Zaslavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:j9Fo6.62662$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > For college I have been given a simple assignment to set up a multi boot
> > system running. MS-dos 6.22, windows 98, windows NT server 4.0 and any
> > version of linux (i have redhat 5.2 , 7.0 and mandrake 7.2).
> >
> > I have tried several attempts at getting the boot to work, so far I have
> had
> > little luck as red hat 7.0 and mandrake 7.2 will not install on my
> computer.
> >
> > When installing Red hat 5.2 as the last OS my computer fails to boot NT
> and
> > gives a error NTKRNL.EXE missing or corrupted. and when installing NT
last
> > it can not overcome the lilo boot from the MBR.
> >
> > when I partition my HDD
> > HDA1 is dos partition
> > HDA2 is linux root
> > HDA3 is linux swap
> > HDA5 is NTFS
> >
> > i have also found some instructions on the internet and have found that
> they
> > do not work with Red hat 7.0. The instructions are;
> >
> > Partition the HDD correctly. Install dos, win9x, nt. once nt is
> successfully
> > installed, install linux and make a linux boot disk.
> >
> > boot linux and mount a floppy. Assume /mnt/floppy is mount point.
> >
> > using dd if=/dev/had2 of=/mnt/floppy/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> >
> > (if is the actual device name for the root file system)
> >
> > shutdown linux and boot dos/nt
> >
> > copy bootsect.lnx to c:
> >
> > edit c:\boot.ini ( in section OPERATING SYSTEMS add line
> > C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="LINUX") this position of this line, relative to the
> others
> > in this section, determines the position on the boot menu.
> >
> > Save file and exit, restart and now your computer should have linux in
> boot
> > menu.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance
> >
> >
> > Alex Zaslavsky
> >
> >
>
>
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Linux for a 486/4MB
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 07:02:41 GMT
Mitch:
I have Red Hat 5.2 running on an 80386-20 with 8mb ram and a 320mb hdd
It is slow, but it certainly works; you are going to forego X entirely
and go with a command-line interface, but then, that's *real*
Linux anyway, isn't it ;-)
With a hdd that small I needed to watch what I installed pretty closely.
That can be (hdd size..) the main limitation of these old boxes.
I put an ISA IDE card in it some time ago, so I've got the hdd and
an oldish Toshiba CD-ROM in it.
This box of mine is networked out to my firewall.
I surf using lynx, and it works just fine!
- John
--
John Sage
FinchHaven, Vashon Island, WA, USA
http://www.finchhaven.com/
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And remember: it's spelled l-i-n-u-x, but it's pronounced "Linux"
Mitch Crane wrote:
> I've got an old 386-40 a friend bought for $5 and gave to me. I'd like to
> install Linux on it, but I don't know which distribution to get. This
> machine has no CD-ROM drive, but I do have an ISA Ethernet card I can throw
> in there if I can do some sort of FTP install.
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From: "Jawahir Koul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gurus: How to configure Monitor? -- Newbie
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 01:11:24 -0800
How to configure monitor?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 05 Mar 2001 02:01:09 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J. Peng) writes:
> >Never had a sudden power failure that caused one of your filesystems to
> >get completely scribbled? (NOTE: The first time I typed this sentence,
> Odd, I've only seen that happen with Linux, and I've been using Linux for
> a third the time I've been using DOS. Is there some characteristic of
> ext2 that makes it more easily corruptible?
There are a lot of factors. The cache is more flexible in Linux than
SmartDrive ever was, and there's almost always at least one file open
for writing on any Linux (or other multitasking OS) box.
This is a big-time case of apples and oranges. OS/2 and HPFS might be
a better one, but unfortunately I know nothing about HPFS.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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