Linux-Setup Digest #774, Volume #20 Wed, 7 Mar 01 03:13:10 EST
Contents:
assistange with RH7 install (Craig Van Tassle)
Re: Missing bzImage PROBLEM FIXED ("David")
Tulip.o and Linksys NetworkEverywhere NIC. ("David")
Re: CD Not recognised by kernel ("Duane Healing")
Document for Installing Linux on ATA/100 Drive ("Todd Osborne")
Re: First time Linux user ("Todd Osborne")
VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] .. RH7 HELP! ("Charles
Sutherland")
help with linux clustering (BEOWULF) (Hung Ngoc Lai)
help with linux clustering (BEOWULF) (Hung Ngoc Lai)
Re: Which Linux for a 486/4MB
Re: Redhat7 did not find my ethernet card 3com ISA
partioning for a webserver (Michael Chiu)
Re: multiboot help ("Graeme Cooper")
Re: multiboot help ("Eric")
Re: [HELP] lucent winmodem (Nader)
Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what? ("Eric")
Re: First time Linux user ("Linux Newbie")
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From: Craig Van Tassle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: assistange with RH7 install
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 22:57:48 -0800
I am trying to install RH7, and the pre-compiled kernel is too big of a
mess and is causing some problems (mostly with RAID), I was wondering if
anyone has any ideas on how compile a kernel while installing RH7.
THanks,
Criag
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Missing bzImage PROBLEM FIXED
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 05:17:26 GMT
You guys are great. I took a few things from each of you and fixed it. I
guess the make clean does do what you said and made the bzImage vanish.
I did:
make dep && make clean && make bzImage
make modules && make modules_install
cp /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.old
found bzImage right where you said it would be this time and finished it up.
Still, it didn't do what I wanted and that is recognize my NIC.
If you guys are as good as you were on this please help me in a further down
post that I am putting in about my Linksys NetworkEverywhere NIC and the
tulip driver.
Thanks again.
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tulip.o and Linksys NetworkEverywhere NIC.
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 05:17:26 GMT
Need help on this bad. Works great in Windows. Cannot seem to get either the
tulip.o driver inserted or,..... Using Mandrake 7.2, comes with the tulip
driver that Linksys says works with this card.
1) According to KDE Control the NIC is recognized with no conflicts at:
Irq=10 I/O F400 - ???? Mem FEDFE800 - ???????????
2) According to /proc/interrupts Irq=10 is free.
3) /proc/ioports there is 03C8-03FF: serial (auto)
and F800-F8FF :ltmodem
There is more, but that is what is right around the address F400, so it
looks free.
4) But if I do a: modprobe tulip io=0xf400 irq=10
I get : invalid parameter parm_io then shows insmod failed.
5) I have tried it as a module and installed in the kernel.
6) /usr/bin/lspcidrake found:
vendor=0x1317 Device=0x0985 (NETWORK_ETHERNET unknown) SubVendor=0x1317
SubDevice=0x0570
Not sure what most of this means or how to use it though.
7) Went to /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net did a : modprobe -t tulip.o *
Says can't locate module z85230.o . It is right there though. Tried
insmod z85232.o and that says:
unresolved symbol sppp_reopen-R27o0e632
8) Tried modprobe -t * and says can't locate z85230.o, did updatedb and no
matter what filename.o
I tried to do it says the same thing.
9) Tried depmod -a
the only errors that shows are: unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/iph5526.o
and /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/skfp.o
10) manually put the information in modules.conf
alias eth0 tulip
options tulip options=0 debug=6 irq=10 io=0xf400
Still can't seem to get it to see the darn thing.
Any help would be appreciated greatly. Maybe the guys that helped with the
misprint in the Linux book I have could figure this one out also.
I need to restate that the card works great in Windows, Linksys says the
card uses the tulip driver, tulip.o is installed in the kernel-source that
comes with Mandrake-Linux 7.2.
Thanks, Dave
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Not recognised by kernel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 21:17:38 -0800
It's not in the block devices section. Look in the "Old CD-ROM Drivers"
section.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Mitchell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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: "Todd Osborne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Document for Installing Linux on ATA/100 Drive
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 05:42:05 GMT
Hey Folks,
I finally wrote my low-BS document about installing Linux on ATA/100 drives.
This information exists (sort of) on the net, but I created this document as
a one stop shop for how to do it when you don't really care why things are
the way they are and just want it to work. Visit my web site at
http://www.toddtown.com/family/todd/linux/index.html for all the gory (not
really) details.
Todd
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From: "Todd Osborne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: First time Linux user
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 05:50:07 GMT
Just my opinion, but I think the best distro these days is Mandrake. Good
for first timers and well as experiences penguins. Since you probably want
to keep your Win2K in tact, I assume by saying that drive D is 20GB you mean
that drive is free to hold Linux. Good so far.
Having Win2K installed first is good, at least as far as Linux is concerned.
Linux uses a bootloader called LILO (some people like grub, I like lilo).
LILO will happily boot Windows 2000 for you, and since it is already
installed, Mandrake will offer this to you during install.
Windows can boot Linux too, but we can save that for another day.
At any rate, I assume drive D is a physical hard drive, not a partition, and
I also assume that it is IDE. If this is true, allow Mandrake to do a
default installation on /dev/hdb1. You see, the hd part identifies the drive
as IDE, b means the 2nd hard disk, and 1 means the first partition. Mandrake
may suggest dividing the drive up into multiple partitions, and this is
fine. Just keep in mind that /dev/hdb is drive D in the Windows world.
During install, you should have the option to pick which operating system is
the default. Go ahead and leave this as Win2K for now. Once you get more
familiar with Linux you can kill Win2K and use that drive for MP3's or
something important. Good luck, and welcome.
Todd
"GELand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:c7ip6.5692$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Charles Sutherland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] .. RH7 HELP!
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 01:02:33 +0500
I have a new install of RH7. I have the above card integrated onto my
motherboard (I had hoped that it would work, but...)
here's some backgound.
the install created this /etc/modules.conf
blah blah
alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx
options sb support=1
dmesg shows me this
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
via_audio: Initialized AC97 mixer
via_audio: legacy MIDI: 0x330, SB: 0x220 / 5 IRQ / 1 DMA
SB 3.02 detected OK (220)
This sound card may not be fully Sound Blaster Pro compatible.
In many cases there is another way to configure OSS so that
it works properly with OSS (for example in 16 bit mode).
Please ignore this message if you _really_ have a SB Pro.
via_audio: VIA 82Cxxx Audio driver 1.1.2.1 loaded
via_audio: Chip rev H. Features: SBPro compat, MPU-401 MIDI, AC97 mixer
I tried running xmms to play some wavs... The system told me that my
sound card was not installed.
sndconfig locks the system HARD.
I did some research and found that I
needed ALSA. I tried to install it from the redhat supported-hardware
page but their link was busted so I got the latest alsa-driver i386 rpm
and installed it. I did what it said, but probably messed up the
/etc/modules.conf file.
Anyway, I got ALSA installed and went back to XMMS to try to play some
wavs. Well, XMMS *thinks* it's playing it...with the level meters
dancing all over kingdom come, but no sound. I can change the volume
with the mixer and hear the level of static go up and down, but...no
"sound". I tried sndconfig again... HARD lock.
2 questions. 1) is there something simple I can do to fix this? 2) can
I just take all references to this card out of /etc/modules.conf and
install my ancient ISA sb16 card and put all its info in
/etc/modules.conf and have it work?
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with linux clustering (BEOWULF)
Date: 7 Mar 2001 02:15:20 GMT
Hi Everyone,
I would like to thank everyone for helping me with setting the new
netfilter script for my linux box (Redhat 7 with kernel 2.4.2). The box
is running very smooth without a glitch.
Now I know more about linux and its capability, I am even more
interested in learning more about it especially the linux clustering
capability. Let me describe what I would like to achieve and ask
for everyone advice whether it is feasible.
At the moment, I am running RedHat Linux 7 with kernel 2.4.2 as
a gateway (firewall and NAT) on a Pentium 233Mhz/64MB RAM
for my home network which connects to the Internet via a DSL
connection with a static IP address. I have 3 windows machines
sitting behind the firewall that connectto the Internet via NAT
from the Linux box. I am also running ssh server, sendmail, NTP
server and webmin on the gateway. My brother just gives me his
old PC (200Mhz/64MB RAM) and I would like to use this
opportunity to learn linux clustering and apply this to the gateway
for redudancy and hopefully many more.
I would like to be able to cluster the 200Mhz/64mb RAM machine
with my current 233Mhz machine. I am willing to reinstall the whole
thing from scractch in order to learn BEOWULF technology. The
way I understand about BEOWULF is that it is similar to
parallel computing. Therefore, am I correct in assuming that if one
of the box in a cluster dies, my gateway is still functioning. Does
it mean that I will have redudancy in the gateway (with the
exception of the DSL connection). I would like to learn more about
the hand-on with linux cluster. Could someone please point me
to the right direction?
Many Thanks....
David
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with linux clustering (BEOWULF)
Date: 7 Mar 2001 02:22:12 GMT
Hi Everyone,
I would like to thank everyone for helping me with setting the new
netfilter script for my linux box (Redhat 7 with kernel 2.4.2). The box
is running very smooth without a glitch.
Now I know more about linux and its capability, I am even more
interested in learning more about it especially the linux clustering
capability. Let me describe what I would like to achieve and ask
for everyone advice whether it is feasible.
At the moment, I am running RedHat Linux 7 with kernel 2.4.2 as
a gateway (firewall and NAT) on a Pentium 233Mhz/64MB RAM
for my home network which connects to the Internet via a DSL
connection with a static IP address. I have 3 windows machines
sitting behind the firewall that connectto the Internet via NAT
from the Linux box. I am also running ssh server, sendmail, NTP
server and webmin on the gateway. My brother just gives me his
old PC (200Mhz/64MB RAM) and I would like to use this
opportunity to learn linux clustering and apply this to the gateway
for redudancy and hopefully many more.
I would like to be able to cluster the 200Mhz/64mb RAM machine
with my current 233Mhz machine. I am willing to reinstall the whole
thing from scractch in order to learn BEOWULF technology. The
way I understand about BEOWULF is that it is similar to
parallel computing. Therefore, am I correct in assuming that if one
of the box in a cluster dies, my gateway is still functioning. Does
it mean that I will have redudancy in the gateway (with the
exception of the DSL connection). I would like to learn more about
the hand-on with linux cluster. Could someone please point me
to the right direction? Where can I get the software for doing this
on my first initial 2 computers?
Many Thanks....
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Linux for a 486/4MB
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 06:27:50 GMT
Then again, if all you want is a router type of setup for sharing a net
connection, why not look at some of the single floppy setups, eg. FreeSCO,
LRP etc. These will work as a nice net sharing setup, and I think some of
them will even allow a firewall...
I had been thinking of setting one up here, but have not gotten around to
it yet... The nice thing about them is that they do not really need
any HW resources, and boot and run off of a single floppy...
Kris
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat7 did not find my ethernet card 3com ISA
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 06:30:03 -0000
ady wrote:
>
>
> Where can I add it manually?
>
>
I have the same problem with the driver for my network card on redhat 7 in
the readme file for the floppy disk, it says
A. Compiler command:
"gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c dmfe.c"
OR
"gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c dmfe.c"
but i typed that in and it bashes me! anyone know how the hell i can get
my network card going!
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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Subject: partioning for a webserver
From: Michael Chiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 00:54:15 -0600
I've got 2 SCSI drives. One has the OS, and the other (4G) will be
dedicated to the Linux partitions. The server's primary and possibly
sole purpose is to be a Apache webserver with Perl, PHP,
Jakarta/Tomcat, and MySQL. It will house one main domain but via name
based virtual hosting, it will house xyz.domain.com where xyz is
whatever name I feel like at the time. So, it might have 50+ related
sites under the domain. The machine currently only has 96M.
How should I partition the drive? I'm a programmer, so I would rather
spend time writing code than coming up with the absolute best partition
scheme. With this in mind, how bad off would I be if I just had
/swap, /home, / ? How much space should I dedicate to each?
Thanks!
Mike Chiu
[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: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:07:34 +1100
Not that I know of.
Coops
Alex Zaslavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3YGo6.62963$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup
Subject: Re: multiboot help
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 08:33:49 +0100
<<trimmed ridiculous crossposts>>
> > But is it possible to do it through NT boot manager or LILO??
>
> Not that I know of.
Well, you can't know it all ;-)
Both options are very well possible.
Eric
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HELP] lucent winmodem
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 23:29:21 -0800
You may try the latest serial driver from
http://serial.sourceforge.net/: 5.05. Also, the serial settings may need
to be modified. Here's what my part of my dmesg looks like with kernel
2.2.16 and serial 5.05:
--
Serial driver version 5.05 (2000-09-14) with MANY_PORTS
SHARE_IRQ DETECT_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
---
Also, what are your setserial settings (setserial -ag /dev/ttyS*)?
Jerry wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I think the Lucent winmodem in my Compaq presario 1926 notebook
> is just one step away from working.
>
> I'm using RH7 with kernel 2.4 and this is my modem:
> ##############################################################
> 00:09.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k
> (rev 01)
> Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Presario 56k V.90 DFi Modem
> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
> Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> I/O ports at 10e0 [size=8]
> I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
> Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2
> ##############################################################
>
> It seems that the 00:0a.0 (btw, what is it?) as assumed by Lucent
> is being used by my esssolo sound card, so my system hangs every time
> when I tried to load the lucent driver. btw, my BIOS doesn't support IRQ
>
> customerization.
> --
> Regards,
> Jerry
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lost my Linux partition - now what?
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 08:54:08 +0100
> Why not use lilo for mbr in multi-boot systems? I don't personally do that
but
> is there some reason why not?
>
The only reason is what happened to the OP
And since most people don't make bootdisk, it's advised against.
I use it as my main bootloader in the MBR al the time, an like it.
Eric
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From: "Linux Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: First time Linux user
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 07:59:02 -0000
http://delaware.linux.tucows.com/conhtml/sys_distributions.html
There is a summation of the more popular versions and where they can be
downloaded from - bear in mind that they are usually 100's of MB, thus will
take a day or more with a regular 56K modem. If you have broadband then
they will still take hours.
"GELand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:c7ip6.5692$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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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