Linux-Setup Digest #773, Volume #20 Wed, 7 Mar 01 00:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what? (Bill Unruh)
Re: install problem (bullwinkle)
Re: Thirteen Months - Linux still not working (Bill Unruh)
Re: Linux & HP "windows" Printer (E J)
Re: Which Linux Distro (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: HELP ME!: How can I enable ALSA MIDI synth sound? (for SB AWE64 & (CYBERYOGI
=CO= Windler)
over 65535 users on Linux (SolarisCert)
Proftpd monitor in X-window? ("ady")
First time Linux user ("GELand")
Connecting Server through to DSL. in SUSE 7.1 ("Sivagurunathan U.")
Re: help:Could not determine local IP address (Vincent Zweije)
Re: help:Could not determine local IP address (Vincent Zweije)
Re: Problem running streamer & ftp ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Which Linux for a 486/4MB ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Mount partition formated by NTFS of Win2000. (Craig Van Tassle)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what?
Date: 7 Mar 2001 02:22:12 GMT
In <983ju2$anr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "George Adams"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]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? :-(
The partition is fine. It is lilo that is gone.
a) You may be able to reboot from the cdrom. Use the Rescue option
(On Mandrake, you hit F1 at the very beginning and then type in rescue.
NOt sure how redhat does it.) You can then mount the drive containing the
linux /etc directory, (say
mkdir /disk
mount /dev/hda5 /disk
lilo -r /disk
Or lilo -C /disk/etc/lilo.conf
)
b) Next time make a disk copy of your lilo booter
lilo -b /dev/fd0
Then you can always stick in your floppy and boot to linux and then just
rerun lilo.
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From: bullwinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install problem
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 02:30:08 -0000
Carl Pole wrote:
>
> i had 6.4 running on my old amptron 8600c/amd k6-333/maxtor 5.1 gig
> setup but after i moved to a FIC va-503a motherboard and a western
> digital 20 gig drive the install crashes after these 2 lines:
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, Bios settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, Bios settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
>
> i have the 20 gig drive as the primary master and a philips 8x4x32 as
> secondary slave. the primary has 2 fat 32 partitions, at the beginning
> and the end with about 4 gigs devoted to linux in the middle. i'm pretty
> sure the free space is all under cylinder 1024 if it matters but it
> seems that i'm not getting far enough for that to be a concern.
> any ideas?
> this is attempting a suse 6.4 install
> carl
>
Gretings from Bullwinkle:
>> Unless you have another device set as "master" on the ide1 bus, I think
>> your problem may be that the drive on ide1 is set to "slave", but there
>> is no master device on ide1. Ide0 and ide1 are seperate busses, and
>> each needs one device set as "master" if any devices are cabled to it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Thirteen Months - Linux still not working
Date: 7 Mar 2001 02:35:45 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I_like_2B@home (HateLinux) writes:
]On 6 Mar 2001 07:34:57 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
]>]On Sun, 04 Mar 2001 21:42:19 GMT, I_like_2B@home (HateLinux) wrote:
]>
]>]Thanks for the suggestions, although most were of the type: read man
]>]pages. I am trying to avoid that to the maximum, and evaluate the
]>]viability of linux as a desktop OS. 90% of common users certainly
]>]would NOT read the man pages.
]>
]>Is this like "I am trying to see how my computer works if I do not plug
]>it in since most users would now plug theirs in?" How about you figuring
]>out how it works first and then worrying about your users. Most users
]>using Windows get it already installed will all of the drivers installed
]>and working. If users had to install Windows themselves, most would get
]We are both wrong there. I, for thinking that most windows users build
]their PCs and install the software they need, and you, for thinking
]that most linux users are administrators. No, most linux users are
I certainly do not think most linux users are sysadmins. I am just saying
that installing any OS can be a real pain in the but, and hardware
incompatibilities can make any OS a mess. I talked to my local computer
store when Win 98 first came out, and they were going completely crazy.
]brew, you just have to make it easier to use. I have a fairly high IQ
](150), am post graduated in a fairly difficult area, but I gave up on
]the "man resolve", because it just makes no sense at all. Either I am
]a victim of some precocious dementia, or man writers are all crazy.
No, some man pages make great sense. And they always give on a jumping off
point to start experimenting.
]>Uh, this means that you have entered values for hor and vert sync which
]>are not valid.
] Yes, but I got the values from the setup programs. My video
]card and monitor are both listed, and monitor values check out with
]the manual ones. I eventually got xwindows to work in VGA, but I cant
]use it very well, as all the buttons of most programs are off-screen.
]There is just no way to get it working with 800x600 . It should not be
]necessary to spend 6 hours reading stuff, and trying things out, and
]still only get a VGA screen...
Hmm, yes, I would also be frustrated. What are the hor and vert synch
rates that are listed in the /etc/X11/XF86config file?
]....CUT......
]>]--> Starting pppd at Mon Mar 5 22:30:54 2001
]>]Caught signal #2! Attempting to exit gracefully...
]>]--> Disconnecting at Mon Mar 5 22:36:46 2001
] I CTRL-C'd it , it would have gone on for ever.
]>
]>What is the problem? You were connected for 6 min. What were you trying
]>during that time?
] Since I run few programs , I alt-F2 to a new screen instead of
]shoving wvdial into the background. I then run lynx or my mail
]programs from there. I AM an amateur, after all...
So ppp works fine. ppp is not the problem. do not worry about it.
]>]cat /etc/resolv.conf
]>
]>]domain mine.com (false name)
]>]nameserver 200.192.55.100 (this is my real DNS server according
]>]to my provider)
]>
]>Why do you give us a false address? It is hard to help when we are given
]>false information.
] OK , its Brazil. English is not my native tongue, but I
]probably speak it better than some flamers here :)
] ig.com.br
ig.com.br lists its DNS addresses as
200.225.157.104
200.225.157.105
neither of which are what you listed. So they may well have given you the
wrong addresses.
]>
]> The address is some group in Brazil the DNS addresses I get are
]>143.108.23.2 200.255.253.234 200.19.119.99
]Mar 6 13:59:17 localhost pppd[1587]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid
]0
]Mar 6 13:59:17 localhost pppd[1587]: Using interface ppp3
]Mar 6 13:59:17 localhost pppd[1587]: Connect: ppp3 <--> /dev/ttyS3
]Mar 6 13:59:18 localhost pppd[1587]: Peer is not authorized to use
]remote address 200.225.159.112
]Mar 6 13:59:18 localhost pppd[1587]: Connection terminated.
]Mar 6 13:59:18 localhost pppd[1587]: Connect time 0.1 minutes.
]Mar 6 13:59:18 localhost pppd[1587]: Sent 222 bytes, received 266
]bytes.
]Mar 6 13:59:18 localhost pppd[1587]: Exit.
] I got this after I put your dns numbers in my resolve.conf
You must have changed something else as well, since what is in resolv.conf
has nothing to do with the ppp negotiation. The above looks like you have
an ethernet attached to your system as well. befor you run pppd, as root
do
route del default.
Also in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets or pap-secrets put in a fouth entry as a *
name * password *
]If it helps, if I take your numbers out, I can ping any internet
]address. I ping 143.108.23.2 , and after about a minute interval, in
]comes a flood of responses with 0 packets lost.
Yes, that means that your DNS is not working. Where did you put that
number? It belongs in /etc/resolv.conf, not any of the ppp files.
]>I get no response from 200.192.55.100 .
]>So your problem is NOT with your modem, NOT with ppp, but possibly with
]>your DNS server.
] Apparently it still is....
]Comments ????
Hope they help.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux & HP "windows" Printer
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 02:31:31 GMT
Check www.linuxprinting.org for your HP printer.
and check out www.hp.com for linux drivers. HP promised linux support
for the ink jet printer
as their commitment to linux.
"N.Heckman" wrote:
> I have installed RedHat Linux 6.2 and finally have it
> working OK. My problem is that I have a HP
> inkjet printer for Windows,Mod 820Cxi,which
> works fine in windows. It will not work in Linux
> which is what the books I have indicate.
> To be sure I have no problems with my Linux
> setup I borrowed a regular HP printer,Mod 970,
> and it works fine, which tells me the books are
> correct.
> My question is, has some one found a work aroung
> for a windows HP printer using Linux short of buying
> a new printer?
> Thanks,
> Nelson
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Linux Distro
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:59:57 +1100
Angry Bob wrote:
> I usually suggest Mandrake for first-timers.... granted, I'm biased, but
> it does come with the easiest installation program as well as many
> many bells and whistles.
>
The man wanted a working computer not a juke-box.
Please consider.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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From: CYBERYOGI =CO= Windler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.sound,linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.music.midi
Subject: Re: HELP ME!: How can I enable ALSA MIDI synth sound? (for SB AWE64 &
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 04:21:17 +0100
"J. H. Brown" schrieb:
>
> I don't know about ALSA or the Gravis, but it should be no problem
> getting the AWE64 to work. You need to double check your interrupts and
> dma settings. Login as root and run sndconfig and reboot. If you can
> use the KDE or gnome midi players, then you might try installing ALSA.
>
In ALSA there is nothing like a "sndconfig".There is only a very buggy(though unusable)
"alsaconf" untility though I had to write my config file by hand.I already wrote my
own isapnp.conf entry though I know exactly which IRQs etc. the card takes.
MAY THE SOFTWARE BE WITH YOU!
*============================================================================*
I CYBERYOGI Christian Oliver(=CO=) Windler I
I (teachmaster of LOGOLOGIE - the first cyberage-religion!) I
I ! I
*=============================ABANDON=THE=BRUTALITY==========================*
{http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/e_index.html}
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From: SolarisCert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: over 65535 users on Linux
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:34:25 +0800
How to configure Linux so that
it can have more than 65535 users?
Thanks.
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From: "ady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Proftpd monitor in X-window?
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:45:23 GMT
I�m new in Linux, I have have installed Proftpd server on my computer -
please, does exist some graphical monitoring tool for this server in Xwindow
(I have KDE2.1) - I want to monitor Download speed, who is on my FTP....
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From: "GELand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: First time Linux user
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 03:43:04 GMT
I have two hard drives on my computer (667MHZ Celeron).
Drive C is 15 GB and has Windows 2000 Pro (NTFS)
Drive D is 20 GB.
For all practical purposes, the only thing I do know about Linux is that it
is an operating system.
I would like to install Linux on drive D (dual boot with Windows 2000).
Can anyone recommend which Linux I should use (Redhat, Mandrake, etc.)
Also, can anyone recommend the best way to set it up.
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From: "Sivagurunathan U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Connecting Server through to DSL. in SUSE 7.1
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 03:46:36 GMT
Hi!
I am new to Linux.
I'm trying to connect My server [an IBM netfinity] through a dLink
hub to DSL modem. Earlier I used SUSE 6.4 and other utilities [like ppoe
and things] to connect, all were fine. Now I upgraded to SUSE 7.1. All
hell! I couldn't connect to my DSL modem, though it says SUSE has built
DSL features into 7.1.
Whenever I try, the system says default gateway not found!!
I'm using dynamic address DSL line from bell. But unfortunately bell do
not support LINUX.
ifconfig says eth0 and lo are up and running.
Can somebody help me to get up & run pls.
Since 7.1 is running much faster I'm not going to go back to 6.4.
If any specific details are needed I can give. Like ifconfig details and
others.
Regards
Siva.
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From: Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux
Subject: Re: help:Could not determine local IP address
Date: 6 Mar 2001 11:24:43 +0100
* Followups to comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.setup, and
alt.linux. If it's something else, it's not .misc.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Perhaps surprisingly, this is totally irrelevant.
When you dial in to your ISP, the link has to have a remote address.
However, you never really (have to) use it. Your default route can
send everything over the PPP link without having to specify the gateway.
Therefore, the remote address can be anything you (or rather, your ISP)
likes.
For instance, my ISP *always* provides address 194.109.6.1, no matter
which modem bank I happen to get connected to. Granted, it's routable,
but it's a fake address. If I do a traceroute over the PPP link, the
first hop is never 194.109.6.1.
Ciao. Vincent.
--
Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "If you're flamed in a group you
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?"
[Xhost should be taken out and shot] | -- Paul Tomblin on a.s.r.
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From: Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux
Subject: Re: help:Could not determine local IP address
Date: 6 Mar 2001 11:43:42 +0100
* Followups to comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.setup, and
alt.linux. If it's something else, it's not .misc.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David. E. Goble
<goble@gtech> wrote:
|| This is pissing me off! I can dialin and login,
Does that mean dialin from outside into your own computer, or dialin
using your own computer into your ISP? I'll assume the former.
|| but the connection
|| disconnects almost straight away. The log file informs me that;
||
|| "Could not determine local IP address"
You should specify your local IP address in your configuration file.
|| ############ hosts #########
|| 127.0.0.1 gtech localhost.localdomain localhost
|| 192.168.0.25 rgtech
You want to call the host that's dialing in "rgtech"? That's okay.
However, there's no hostname for your local PPP address, only for your
loopback address. Maybe you should have just this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.1 gtech
192.168.0.25 rgtech
|| ############ options.srv #######
|| auth
|| -detach
|| login
|| asyncmap 0
|| :192.168.0.25
|| debug
|| modem
|| crtscts
|| proxyarp
You have specified the remote IP address for the PPP link as
"192.168.0.25". Put the local IP address before ":", for instance
"192.168.0.1:192.168.0.25".
|| ############ /var/log/ppp ##############
|| Feb 24 14:50:27 gtech pppd[773]: Using interface ppp0
|| Feb 24 14:50:27 gtech pppd[773]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
|| Feb 24 14:50:27 gtech pppd[773]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth
|pap> <magic 0x59fa483e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
|| Feb 24 14:50:27 gtech pppd[773]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth
|pap> <magic 0x59fa483e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
|| Feb 24 14:50:29 gtech pppd[773]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5 <asyncmap 0xa0000>
|<magic 0xe3b07> <pcomp> <accomp>]
|| Feb 24 14:50:29 gtech pppd[773]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x5 <asyncmap 0xa0000>
|<magic 0xe3b07> <pcomp> <accomp>]
|| Feb 24 14:50:29 gtech pppd[773]: rcvd [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="user1"
|password=<hidden>]
|| Feb 24 14:50:30 gtech pppd[773]: user user1 logged in
[Reformatted. Please do not word wrap your logs.]
What happens in these 3 seconds? Where is your IPCP negotiation?
|| Feb 24 14:50:33 gtech pppd[773]: Could not determine local IP address
|| Feb 24 14:50:33 gtech pppd[773]: Connection terminated.
|| Feb 24 14:50:33 gtech pppd[773]: Connect time 0.1 minutes.
|| Feb 24 14:50:33 gtech pppd[773]: Sent 454 bytes, received 415 bytes.
|| Feb 24 14:50:33 gtech pppd[773]: Exit.
Good luck. Vincent.
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Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "If you're flamed in a group you
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?"
[Xhost should be taken out and shot] | -- Paul Tomblin on a.s.r.
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Date: 6 Mar 2001 22:43:4 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem running streamer & ftp
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Joerg Ettrich;
JE> Dear all,
JE> my Linux server crashes (he realy stops running) if I'm perorming
JE> a backup on scsi dat streamer and having a ftp connection. This
JE> problem is not everytime reproduceable and I got no messages in
JE> log files. Does anyone have an idea????
That *sounds* like a shared IRQ that needs to be re-arranged to get rid
of the conflict.
Cheers, Gene
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
<http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto>
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is � 2001 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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Date: 6 Mar 2001 22:47:5 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Linux for a 486/4MB
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Mitch Crane;
[...]
MC> I found a SCSI card in a drawer last night, so I threw CD-ROM
MC> drive into an external case I had lying around and plugged that
MC> into the SCSI card. It works in DOS, but so far I haven't found
MC> a boot disk which detects the card
MC> (Adaptec 1510 or 1520).
I don't think those econo cards have a bios on them to detect! But I've
previously used the aha1520 driver to run most of those, albeit slowly,
they are NOT speed demons, maybe 3.5megs/second max.
[...]
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 500mhz
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
#Amiga based X10 home automation program EZHome, see at:#
<http://www.thirdwave.net/~jimlucia/amigahomeauto>
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material,
is � 2001 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: Craig Van Tassle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mount partition formated by NTFS of Win2000.
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 22:49:46 -0800
actually if you configure it in to the kernel you can mount NTFS as readonly.
I am running 2.2.16
Craig
Scot Mc Pherson wrote:
> Nope...You can't mount NTFS...
>
> I have "heard" you can sometimes mount NTFS in a readonly mode by mounting
> it as an HPFS partition...but I have never tried it....If you do try it I
> would strongly suggest you ensure it is mounted readonly, you don't want to
> end up trashing your drive.
>
> --
> Scot Mc Pherson
> N27� 19' 56"
> W82� 30' 39"
>
> "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:982qcd$1oto$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I could not mount the partition formated with NTFS by Win2k in Linux 6.2.
> > It says the type (MSDOS) is not correct.
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
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