Linux-Setup Digest #770, Volume #20 Tue, 6 Mar 01 19:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: impossible to compile new kernel (H.Bruijn)
Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what? (H Dziardziel)
Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what? ("James D Parker Jr.")
Re: Problems installing PHP & MYSQL (Adrian)
Re: Problems installing PHP & MYSQL (Adrian)
CD Not recognised by kernel (David Mitchell)
Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what? ("James D Parker Jr.")
Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what? ("James D Parker Jr.")
Re: Newbie RH 6.1 install problems (David Mitchell)
Re: Mail Advice (Peter Nunn)
Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what? (Michael Heiming)
Re: pop3 setup with RedHat 7 (Dean Thompson)
net browsing problem (Jimbob)
Re: how to switch to OS when i start my computer ("Masha Ku'Inanna")
Re: Which Linux for a 486/4MB (Mitch Crane)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: impossible to compile new kernel
Date: 6 Mar 2001 22:26:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:23:38 +0100, Stephan M. Ott allegedly wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I have massive problems with compiling a new kernel.
>Okay, I start with make menuconfig, choose the options I need. Then make dep
>clean. Works all fine. But when doinf make bzImage, I get after a while the
>following error:
>
>gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
>
>and then the compilation stops.
Often this is an indication of faulty memory. Have that checked out.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 22:29:18 GMT
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:13:35 -0500, "George Adams"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have (well, had) a dual-boot PC running Win95 and RH Linux 6.2. In the
>process of upgrading my Win95 partition to Win98, my boot sector and LILO
>got overwritten. Now the PC boots straights into Win98. The Linux
>partition is still there, but with no LILO it's pretty much inaccessible.
>
>I don't have a Linux boot disk (though I can probably get one if it will
>help.) Is there any way to get back into my Linux partition so I can
>reinstall LILO? Or is that partition pretty much gone now? :-(
>
>Thanks to anyone who can help.
>
>
Loadlin to the rescue. The linux partition data is still all there
unless ms fdisk touched it? Use lilo only on linux partitions not the
mbr in multi boot systems.
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From: "James D Parker Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 17:32:55 -0500
Michael Heiming wrote:
> George Adams wrote:
>
> > I have (well, had) a dual-boot PC running Win95 and RH Linux 6.2. In the
> > process of upgrading my Win95 partition to Win98, my boot sector and LILO
> > got overwritten. Now the PC boots straights into Win98. The Linux
> > partition is still there, but with no LILO it's pretty much inaccessible.
> >
> > I don't have a Linux boot disk (though I can probably get one if it will
> > help.) Is there any way to get back into my Linux partition so I can
> > reinstall LILO?
>
> If Win98 didn't canibalize more than your MBR, which it normaly doesn't, it
> should be no problem.
>
> Get a boot/rescue CD/disk,boot and mount your / to /mnt, asuming your
> /etc/lilo.conf was OK:
>
> lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
>
> Should be all you need to do
>
> Good luck
>
> Michael Heiming
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From: Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problems installing PHP & MYSQL
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 06:31:41 +0800
I am using http://phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ which works on a friends
MDK7.2 box and not my own code (yet)
Glitch wrote:
> Adrian wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem installing PHP & MYSQL together. I have verified that
> > each works indepenently but when using a PHP script with a call to
> > mysql, I get the following error returned to the browser :
> >
> > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in lib.inc.php3
> > on line 255
> >
> > Does anybody know what the cause of this is???
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Adrian
>
> why don't you post a few lines of your code so we can see what you are
> doing wrong?????
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From: Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problems installing PHP & MYSQL
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 06:32:14 +0800
I just checked this and it was already uncommented.
mrbjorn wrote:
> The problem for me was that PHP was not loading the MYSQL extension when I
> upgraded PHP. Apache have no MYSQL routines
>
> Look into /etc/php.ini and remove ";" as believe
>
> ;extension=gd.so
> extension=mysql.so
> ;extension=pgsql.so
>
> Good luck.
> ;
> "Adrian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem installing PHP & MYSQL together. I have verified that
> > each works indepenently but when using a PHP script with a call to
> > mysql, I get the following error returned to the browser :
> >
> > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in lib.inc.php3
> > on line 255
> >
> > Does anybody know what the cause of this is???
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Adrian
> >
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From: David Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD Not recognised by kernel
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:29:43 +1300
I'm in the process of trying to build up a linux system on my old 486,
and I'm doing it from scratch because the box only has a small hard disk
and most distros take it all up (seriously, the disk is only 170mb).
Anyway, after much heartache I have managed to get it to boot, run some
scripts, enter runlevel 2 and let me logon. Now this is all I can do at
this stage since any software I care to install is on my cd (library of
rpms). Which would normally be fine but when I do this:
[root ~]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
I get this:
Kernel does not recognise /dev/hdc as a block device.
Since this is an old box, the cdrom is plugged into the sound card. I
have compiled the kernel with sound support and made sure cdrom support
is in too. In the block devices section of xconfig I can't find any
options that seem to be an obvious fix.
Does anyone have a solution to my problem? This machine is standalone,
networking is simply not an option. If you can help, please do.
Thanks
David
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From: "James D Parker Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 17:41:18 -0500
Michael Heiming wrote:
> George Adams wrote:
>
> > I have (well, had) a dual-boot PC running Win95 and RH Linux 6.2. In the
> > process of upgrading my Win95 partition to Win98, my boot sector and LILO
> > got overwritten. Now the PC boots straights into Win98. The Linux
> > partition is still there, but with no LILO it's pretty much inaccessible.
> >
> > I don't have a Linux boot disk (though I can probably get one if it will
> > help.) Is there any way to get back into my Linux partition so I can
> > reinstall LILO?
>
> If Win98 didn't canibalize more than your MBR, which it normaly doesn't, it
> should be no problem.
>
> Get a boot/rescue CD/disk,boot and mount your / to /mnt, asuming your
> /etc/lilo.conf was OK:
>
> lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
>
> Should be all you need to do
>
> Good luck
>
> Michael Heiming
Oops, I pressed the wrong button.
You will probably have to point to where lilo is: e.g.,
/mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
Jim
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From: "James D Parker Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 17:45:42 -0500
H Dziardziel wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:13:35 -0500, "George Adams"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have (well, had) a dual-boot PC running Win95 and RH Linux 6.2. In the
> >process of upgrading my Win95 partition to Win98, my boot sector and LILO
> >got overwritten. Now the PC boots straights into Win98. The Linux
> >partition is still there, but with no LILO it's pretty much inaccessible.
> >
> >I don't have a Linux boot disk (though I can probably get one if it will
> >help.) Is there any way to get back into my Linux partition so I can
> >reinstall LILO? Or is that partition pretty much gone now? :-(
> >
> >Thanks to anyone who can help.
> >
> >
> Loadlin to the rescue. The linux partition data is still all there
> unless ms fdisk touched it? Use lilo only on linux partitions not the
> mbr in multi boot systems.
Why not use lilo for mbr in multi-boot systems? I don't personally do that but
is there some reason why not?
Thanks
Jim
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From: David Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie RH 6.1 install problems
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:39:18 +1300
If you are trying to boot off hda1 then the BIOS won't recognise it
unless you have a newer BIOS and a loader which supports it, since the
old way of doing things (WINNT still does it this way, Win98+ does it
the new way, don't know about win95) meant the boot partition could be
8.2Gb max (the maths of which I won't go int). But basically this means
you need a smaller boot partition. Normally, a big linux box will have
a small boot partition and then have a larger partition mounted on /usr
(eg you might have a 540mb boot disk, and then mount your shiny new 60gb
disk on /usr)
Hope this helps
David
Eric Lambi wrote:
>
> I am trying to install Linux Red Hat 6.1. I made a new partition with fips.
> l run the installer in text mode and get to the current partitions page. it
> says:
>
> Mount Point Device Requested Actual Type
> hda1 15363 15363 Win95fat32
> hda2 4104 4104 Win95fat32
>
> I delete hda2 and try to add a Linux Native partition but no matter what
> size partition I try to make it gives me the message: There are currently
> unallocated partition(s) present in the list of requested partitions. The
> unallocated partition(s) are shown below, along with the reason they were
> not allocated.
>
> / Boot partition too big
>
> Thanks for any help!
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From: Peter Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail Advice
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:55:23 +1100
Thanks again Herman.
One more question. If I want to use IMAP, I assume I need to activate
the demon in inetd, but do I disable the pop one again or just leave
both running?
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn) wrote:
>On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 22:45:47 +1100, Peter Nunn allegedly wrote:
>>Hi herman,
>>
>>thanks for the input.
>>
>>can you tell me more about the difference between imap and pop.
>
>IMAP keeps mail on the server, in multiple files. So when you keep fi a
>copy of all outgoing messages, those will be stored on the mail server,
>in your home directory. A proper explanation can be found at
>http://imap.org/papers/docs/rfc2060.html
>
>POP3 is used to check if new mail is received, if so then that message is
>downloaded to the client, and more often then not deleted from the mail
>server. All further processing is done by the client, at the location of
>the client.
>
>>I like the idea of leaving the mail on the server, but how do I set,
>>say, M$ outlook to use imap rather than pop (I now, may not know, but
>>its worth an ask).
>
>Frankly I haven't used windows for years, but I assume that you simply
>create a new mailbox, and then access it with IMAP, which is a standard
>question.
>
>>Also, if I do use IMAP and delete the message on my client, does it
>>get deleted on the server (I get lots of mail messages every day and
>>so don't want to keep the majority of them).
>
>IIRC most modern IMAP clients do not delete directly, but move the
>message to a "deleted messages" folder, where they are stored for
>limited amount of time and then purged. That "deleted messages" folder
>will also be on the server.
>
>What most people do is use a procmail filter on their linux machine
>first, which checks your incoming mail, filters them on a set of rules
>and then dumps them in different files in your ~/mail directory.
>Mail from the mailings list UULUG goes to the folder UULUG, mail from my
>Mother ends up in the folder Mom, known spammer get automagically
>deleted etc. etc.
>
>When such a new message has arrived, your IMAP client should notify you
>"You've got mail!" and highlight the folder the new mail message has
>arrived in (preferably with th enumber of new massges in that folder).
Peter Nunn
DownUnder
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 00:01:25 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what?
"James D Parker Jr." wrote:
> Michael Heiming wrote:
>
> > George Adams wrote:
> >
> > > I have (well, had) a dual-boot PC running Win95 and RH Linux 6.2. In the
> > > process of upgrading my Win95 partition to Win98, my boot sector and LILO
> > > got overwritten. Now the PC boots straights into Win98. The Linux
> > > partition is still there, but with no LILO it's pretty much inaccessible.
> > >
> > > I don't have a Linux boot disk (though I can probably get one if it will
> > > help.) Is there any way to get back into my Linux partition so I can
> > > reinstall LILO?
> >
> > If Win98 didn't canibalize more than your MBR, which it normaly doesn't, it
> > should be no problem.
> >
> > Get a boot/rescue CD/disk,boot and mount your / to /mnt, asuming your
> > /etc/lilo.conf was OK:
> >
> > lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
> >
> > Should be all you need to do
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Michael Heiming
>
> Oops, I pressed the wrong button.
Doesn't matter, that's what this Cancel message option NS-Crashicator is
about...
>
>
> You will probably have to point to where lilo is: e.g.,
>
> /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
>
Without being picky, asuming you use the rescue CD/disk that belongs to your
distro, you
should have the right lilo version on this rescue system, which will be in your
PATH.
If the OP had updated his lilo, he wouldn't have asked this question...
Michael Heiming
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux
Subject: Re: pop3 setup with RedHat 7
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:05:34 +1100
Hi Jeff,
> In RH7 inetd.conf has been replaced with xinetd.conf, and there is no
> pop3 reference in the file. Can I simply put it in?
>
> I want to have the pop server running so I can access linux mail from
> Win machines. When I enter "telnet localhost 110" the machine responds with
> "Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"
To me it sounds like you haven't even got the daemon installed. These days
with the rpm distributions when the pop server is installed it should make a
corresponding entry in the /etc/xinetd.d directory structure.
Have a shot at downloading the pop daemon again and re-installing/installing
it on your system. This should create the file needed as well as starting the
daemon up for you.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: Jimbob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: net browsing problem
Date: 7 Mar 2001 10:16:35 +1100
I have a successful internet connection set up and I wanted to enable users (I am the
only user
on my box) to be able to dial in rather than reverting to root all the time. I
succeeded in allowing
the user to dial the isp but when the connection is made I cant browse. Does this have
anything to
with perhaps a kernel firewall or some default gateway that may be set up on my
system? Because
when i dial in as root i can browse as a normal user.
Jimbob
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From: "Masha Ku'Inanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to switch to OS when i start my computer
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:24:32 -0500
Reply-To: "Masha Ku'Inanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You need a bootloader. You can install a bootloader from windows or
> from FreeBSD. A bootloader is a program in the boot record that gives
> you a prompt or menu and asks you which disk to boot from.
>
> Since you can get into FreeBSD, look for a FreeBSD one. A google
> search should find it.
>
FreeBSD usually installs booteasy by as an installation option, as you go
through the disklabel/partitioning sequence.
It is also available in the FTP sites for FreeBSD or OpenBSD (I forget the
exact path, but it is something like .<root folders>/tools/booteasy or
something similar.
Forgive my jumbled response. Nyquil is of the gods! :>
> --Rob
>
> P.S. If you had asked this question on a FreeBSD newsgroup I'm sure
> that they would have been able to tell you exactly what to do.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mitch Crane)
Subject: Re: Which Linux for a 486/4MB
Date: 6 Mar 2001 23:24:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung) wrote in
<983fut$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Mitch Crane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
>: <kV6p6.234372 $[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>: >Any linux distribution should work, you should be able to do a "net"
>: >install...
>
>If your machine only has 4MB of ram, your choice of distributions are
>limited. I know Debian would work. You can forget about RedHat or
>Mandrake. They need more ram.
Are there a couple of disk images I can DL and then install the rest via a
network install or CD?
>: I found a SCSI card in a drawer last night, so I threw CD-ROM drive
>: into an external case I had lying around and plugged that into the
>: SCSI card. It works in DOS, but so far I haven't found a boot disk
>: which detects the card (Adaptec 1510 or 1520).
>
>Adaptec 1505 - 1522 do not have onboard BIOS. It would not be
>auto-detected. Depending on your distribution, some need you to pass
>a parameter at boot time. Some don't. With Debian, you need to pass
>the parameter of "aha152x=IOaddr,IRQ,SCSIid" such as
>"aha152x=0x340,11,7" with my 1505 card.
Ok, thanks, that'll help.
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