Linux-Setup Digest #761, Volume #20 Mon, 5 Mar 01 21:13:11 EST
Contents:
Network Boot possible on LINUX clusters? (Mark Easter)
Princeton Flat Panel Monitor w/ ATI Xpert 128 (ekk)
KT7A raid et linux (Guy Vivier)
Re: Network Boot possible on LINUX clusters? (Angry Bob)
Re: fips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: file colours (harry weston)
Re: Help: Connecting to a W2K network. (James Rose)
Wireless Lan Driver problem ("X. E. Rox")
Re: Princeton Flat Panel Monitor w/ ATI Xpert 128 (Joshua Baker-LePain)
True Type Fonts (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aki?= Quesada)
Re: True Type Fonts (Angry Bob)
Re: Wireless Lan Driver problem (Angry Bob)
Re: newbie questions (omitted)
Ip masq slower with Mandrake secured kernel ? ("Ninja IX")
Re: help:Could not determine local IP address (David Efflandt)
nixware 8150 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SuSE 7.1 kernel compile docs incomplete? (David Efflandt)
Re: help:Could not determine local IP address (Dave Brown)
Re: Installing Linux 6.1 Red Hat
Re: vfat-Filesystem and UC/LC-conversion (David Efflandt)
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:13:47 -0700
From: Mark Easter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network Boot possible on LINUX clusters?
Hi-
I'm researching the ins and outs of high-performance linux clusters for
our laboratory. The system architectures that I've seen in various
white papers about Beowulf and other clustered systems all seem to call
for each computing node to have a separate hard drive for the OS and
scratch space.
Seems like it would be more reliable and cheaper if one could build a
cluster where each node boots off of the hard drive at the host.
Assuming one is using gigabit technology at the NIC and switch and a
high-performance RAID at the host, wouldn't this be pretty efficient?
I guess the main question is this: Does LINUX support booting off of a
network using a boot ROM on a NIC? Does anybody have any idea?
--
Mark
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Mark Easter
Research Associate
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499
Phone: (970) 491-7662
Fax: (970) 491-1965
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Room: B252 NESB
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Princeton Flat Panel Monitor w/ ATI Xpert 128
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 16:32:57 -0500
Hello,
I have a Princeton LCD 17" monitor I want to hook up to a box with an
ATI Xpert 128 graphics card. I am trying to get the Mach64 server to
work with a resolution of 1280x1024. Actually, I would feel better if
I could get it to work at any resolution. I'm not extremely comfortable
with the Modelines in the XF86Config file, although I went through the
XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO, and I still couldn't get X to work. So, my
question is: Has anyone had any experience getting a flat panel monitor
to work with this specific card? If not, can you suggest an alternative
card?
Thanks,
Ken
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From: Guy Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KT7A raid et linux
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 22:54:39 +0100
J'ai fais l'acquisition d'une carte KT7A raid , j'ai pluger mon disk dur
Western digital
sur IDE3 pour b�n�ficier de ATA100. Lors de l'installation de la
mandrake 7.1
ainsi que pour la redhat 7.0, j'ai le message suivant:
An error has occured. no valid devices were found
on which to create new filesystems.
please check your hardware for the cause of this probl�me.
Pouvez-vous me d�panner sur ce probl�me.
Merci d'avance
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Boot possible on LINUX clusters?
Date: 5 Mar 2001 22:07:58 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a Mark Easter scroll! it says:
> I guess the main question is this: Does LINUX support booting off of a
> network using a boot ROM on a NIC? Does anybody have any idea?
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.4
--
AngryBob
Somebody set up us the bomb!
-- Operator
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fips
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:03:20 +0000
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:11:03 +0100, "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> does anyone know what this means.
>> i was trying to partition using fips ..when checking root sector i get
>> ..."partition table inconsistency" then i get "file errors.txt not found
>no
>> verbose messages available" then i get "partition table adapted" then
>> finally i get "last cylinder is not free"...
>>
>
>Sounds like a bad partition table to me,
>but unless you show it to me, I can't help you with it.
>
As the instructions for using fips say, you must clear the disk entirely
between the sector where you want the new partition to start, and the end of
the disk. If there is any data there at all, fips won't play ball. The
trouble is that various flavours of Windows had (have?) a habit of hiding
image files near the end of the disk that defrag doesn't shift (though some
commercial disk cleaners will do so). You have to be able to find the files,
check that they are not necessary, and delete them to get fips to work.
Chris Ward.
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From: harry weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: file colours
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:09:58 +0000
In article <3aa3668b$0$256$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joris Roefs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>harry weston wrote:
>
>> RTFM but can't find. Please can someone tell me the significance of the
>> file and sub.dir colours in red hat 7. using console. Thank you.
>
>Don't really understand your question, but I'll give it a shot.
>
>The significance of using colours in the dirlistings, is that it's easier
>to see the difference between the filetypes (dirs, links, binaries, etc).
>There is no other point in using coloured dirlistings, as far as I know.
>You can achieve those listings by using 'ls --color=tty' or something like
>that (i.e. color=always also works).
>
>Hope this answers (part of) your question..
>
>Regards,
>- Joris.
Hello Joris. I was wondering which colour indicated which type of file but I
should be able to inspect each file and find out that way Many thanks ,
Harry..
--
harry weston
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Subject: Re: Help: Connecting to a W2K network.
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 22:06:44 GMT
>I have a small peer-to-peer LAN with all the machines running Win 2000
>Professional. There is a shared ADSL internet connection on one of these.
How is the ADSL Connection shared? Hub, Switch, etc., or are you using a W2K
service to set up a private network?
There could be a huge number of problems that would cause you not to be able to
access the Internet. Can you ping these other Windows boxes? Is your eth0
interface up? What is it's configuration?
>
>I am keen to try out Linux but any time I try it I have been unable to link
>to the other PCs far less to access the internet connection. Is this
>possible and how can I do it? So far I have been unable to locate an
>appropriate Howto.
Give me more info on the specific problems you are seeing, and I might be able
to help you..
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From: "X. E. Rox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wireless Lan Driver problem
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:27:27 -0000
Hi,
I am very new to Linux so please be gentle.
I am trying to install a Cisco 340 Aeronet card into my Linux server.
I have anaged to install the aeronet source, the pcmcia source and even
managed to do a make config successfully.
But now I am trying to do a make all and I get the following error,
Can someone tell me what is missing? (I also had to manually copy this so
sorry for the mistakes if any, If someone could also tell me how to do a
copy from a terminal window to clipboard I would bethankful too)
make all
make [1]: Entering directory '/root/airo/pcmcia-cs-3.1.24/modules'
cc -MD -02 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -I../include
-I/usr/src/linux/include -D__Kernal__ -DMODULE -c cs.c
cc: installation problem, cannot exec 'as': No uch file or directory
make[1]: *** [cs.o] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/airo/pcmcia-cs-3.1.24/modules'
make: *** [all] Error2
Cheers
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Princeton Flat Panel Monitor w/ ATI Xpert 128
Date: 5 Mar 2001 22:34:38 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Princeton LCD 17" monitor I want to hook up to a box with an
> ATI Xpert 128 graphics card. I am trying to get the Mach64 server to
> work with a resolution of 1280x1024. Actually, I would feel better if
> I could get it to work at any resolution. I'm not extremely comfortable
> with the Modelines in the XF86Config file, although I went through the
> XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO, and I still couldn't get X to work. So, my
> question is: Has anyone had any experience getting a flat panel monitor
> to work with this specific card? If not, can you suggest an alternative
> card?
I haven't used that specific card. However, in my experience, flat
panels work much better with XFree86 4.0.x than with 3.3.x. They seem
to be *very* particular about their modelines. And, since XFree 4 detects
them from the monitor itself, they get their preferred modelines.
FWIW, I've got an IBM T84H hooked up to a VooDoo3 3000. It worked in
XFree3, but the pictures wasn't all that sharp. It looks great in XF4.
I also had it hooked up to an Elsa Synergy Force (Dell OEM GeForce 256
based board), working with the nv driver. There, it only worked in
analog mode, not digital (it has dual inputs).
Good luck.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aki?= Quesada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: True Type Fonts
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:56:54 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
Somebody knows how can I use a true type font in Star Office 5.1? Where
have I to place it?
thanx
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: True Type Fonts
Date: 5 Mar 2001 23:15:22 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a I�aki Quesada scroll! it says:
> Somebody knows how can I use a true type font in Star Office 5.1? Where
> have I to place it?
http://www.google.com/search?q=staroffice+true+type+fonts
--
AngryBob
"I gave speeches while president on topics like climate change
until I was blue in the face, but they were not deemed
newsworthy by you." -- Bill Clinton addressing the press
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wireless Lan Driver problem
Date: 5 Mar 2001 23:18:12 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a X. E. Rox scroll! it says:
> Can someone tell me what is missing? (I also had to manually copy this so
> sorry for the mistakes if any, If someone could also tell me how to do a
> copy from a terminal window to clipboard I would bethankful too)
I'm not sure what your problem is, but cutting and pasting is easy:
highlight with button 1
paste with button 2
if you only have a 2 button mouse you paste by hitting button 1 and 2 at
the same time.
--
AngryBob
I am no longer being silly!
-Josh Litherland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (omitted)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: newbie questions
Date: 5 Mar 2001 23:29:47 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
what about the other questions? :)
m.
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From: "Ninja IX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ip masq slower with Mandrake secured kernel ?
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 23:50:07 GMT
Hi.
First, I was using the RedHat 6.2 with ipMasq in order to play my games
(counterstrike, starcraft, etc...) on the net.
Now, I have installed the Mandrake 7.2, with ipmasq.
BUT : Games are unplayable with Mandrake 7.2, has if the kernel or anything
else was verifying each routed packet or if I was connected via a 28.8k old
modem !
What can I do ??
Thx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux
Subject: Re: help:Could not determine local IP address
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:29:20 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 11:38:14 GMT, David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>
>This is pissing me off! I can dialin and login, but the connection
>disconnects almost straight away. The log file informs me that;
>
>"Could not determine local IP address"
>
>############ hosts #########
>127.0.0.1 gtech localhost.localdomain localhost
>192.168.0.25 rgtech
>
>############ options.srv #######
>auth
>-detach
>login
>asyncmap 0
>:192.168.0.25
>debug
>modem
>crtscts
>proxyarp
>
>############### pap-secrets ############
>user1 * "" *
>user2 * "" *
If this is for a dialin to your box (mgetty or whatever) you do not
specify a local IP for the dialin server anywhere. So what IP do you
expect the remote to connect to? Certainly not 127.0.0.1 (which loops any
box back to itself).
If rgtech is your LAN IP you could use that for your local IP on the
server, but you still need to give the remote a different IP or at least
use ipcp-accept-remote option on the server. If you do not have a LAN,
then the proxyarp option is meaningless. But you may have problems if
either IP does not have a name, so it is best to specify IPs for both ends
of the connection and have names listed for them in /etc/hosts or DNS.
--
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Subject: nixware 8150
Date: 06 Mar 2001 01:08:13 GMT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.1 kernel compile docs incomplete?
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:20:35 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5 Mar 2001 10:52:28 -0500, Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Perry wrote:
>> As a matter of interest. How do you do this? I have never been able to get
>> pcmcia-cs to compile from sources if it finds kernel pcmcia drivers.
>> Admittedly, I have only tried the 2.4.0 release. I had to go through and
>> "scrub" the kernel pcmcia sources before pcmcia-cs (Hinds stuff) would
>> complete.
>
>I'm not sure what you're asking, but (1) I never rebuild the userland
>pcmcia-cs tools (cardctl, cardmgr, etc.), and (2) I never try to build the
>pcmcia-cs (Hinds) drivers for a 2.4 kernel (because I set CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
>and use the kernel drivers).
Simply using the pcmcia in the kernel 2.4.0 does not work for me. When I
insert my nic, cardmgr is looks for sram_mtd.o and memory_cs.o and gave up
after not finding either. And when I installed pcmcia source rpm and did
'rpm -bi /usr/src/packages/SPECS/pcmcia.spec', it did a whole bunch of
things, but did not create the necessary modules. So I will try scrubbing
all pcmcia options from the kernel and see if pcmcia builds then.
BTW attempting to build the alsa modules the same way bombed when it could
not find gtk.h and gdk.h. There are no docs for oss ymfpci included with
the kernel. I could 'play' .wav files with ymfpci loaded manually, but
'cat /dev/sndstat' gave an error like "no such file or dir", even though
that device exists. opl3 should work, but not sure how to handle midi.
-- David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux
Subject: Re: help:Could not determine local IP address
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Mar 2001 18:21:00 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Martin wrote:
>Dean Thompson wrote:
>
>> Can I ask a silly question. I noticed that in your options.srv file you
>> specify a IP address of 192.168.0.25. Is this the address you wish to
>> allocate to your own local machine, because if you are dialing a ISP, then
>> surely it would be giving you the IP address rather than you specifiying it.
>>
>> If you were specifying it, I would have though that it would have been a
>> number not in the class C range.
>
>...and, in any case, no ISP will allocate an IP address in the
>192.168.0 subnet, as that falls in the range of addresses
>reserved for networks not connected to the Internet.
I've seen something like this before, and assumed that the ISP was
doing IP masquerading.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux 6.1 Red Hat
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 01:30:10 -0000
I just loaded RedHat Linux 6.1 on a 120 pentium with 32 MB RAM. I couldn't get it to
load at first because I had a LiteOn CD in the machine. LiteOn brand is not
supported. I switched CDs with a HP I have with a GoldStar CD and everything went
fine. Check the CD brand.
Rich Torti wrote:
>
> I have successfully loaded the Red Hat v.6.2 linux version as server on a dual
> boot system with win95, so it is possible. Which version of linux are you
> using and what software are you using to partition?
>
> Rich Torti
>
> Studeski wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: vfat-Filesystem and UC/LC-conversion
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:34:01 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 05 Mar 2001, Rainer Menzner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>if I copy files from a ext2-partition to a mounted vfat-partition the
>filenames are perfectly preserved under Linux. The problem is that
>filenames which (by chance) adhere to the 8.3 naming convention appear
>in uppercase only under Windows. The leads to problems because after
>burning a CD from such data under Windows these filename remain
>uppercase even if the CD is mounted under Linux.
>
>I'm not sure about the actual problem. Is it Windows that converts the
>filenames, or does this happen on Linux while copying to the
>vfat-partition? I tend to believe to the first alternative because the
>filenames appear OK after copying under Linux.
>
>Does anyone know a solution?
One problem you will have if you burn any CD in WinME is that it uses all
upper case for any filenames that adheres to the 8.3 naming convention and
you cannot do anything about it. This is contrary to Win95/98 which by
default displayed DOS files with the first letter capitalized and the rest
small, or honored the case of any filename set in Windows. This is not a
problem for Windows which ignores case, but can mess up any case sensitive
app or os.
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