Linux-Setup Digest #789, Volume #20 Fri, 9 Mar 01 06:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: GOOD Linux email client ("Jacob =?iso-8859-1?b?SWxz+A==?= Christensen")
Help for sound in KDE2.1? (OrangeDino)
sb 64 pci and timidity (Khandha5)
mounting a FreeBSD Partition? ("Martin Collins")
Re: install Windows 2000 or SuSE 7.1 first? ("Nicolas Keller")
Re: GOOD Linux email client (Michael Heiming)
Accidentally killed fonts for printing/GIMP ("Adam Short")
Re: Linux on HP hardware. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Looking for the program 'activate' (Eric)
How can I install UNIX ? ("SS Robert")
Re: GOOD Linux email client (Joris Roefs)
kernel panic : VFS : can not mount root fs (ingo korndoerfer)
Re: howto enlarge linux partition ("Eric")
IPCHAINS - (Joe Bloggs)
Re: Defrag problems with repartioning FAT32 drive for linux ("Eric")
Compilation problem ("Cedric Chausson")
Re: kernel panic : VFS : can not mount root fs ("Eric")
Re: LILl02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02l ("Eric")
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From: "Jacob =?iso-8859-1?b?SWxz+A==?= Christensen"
<firelake@(removethis)mail1.stofanet.dk>
Subject: Re: GOOD Linux email client
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:29:20 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Paul Folbrecht"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not crazy about either Netscape or Mozilla. What else is there? I
> sure wish Eudora had a Linux version.
You can try balsa. It's a gtk email client. Read more about it here:
http://www.balsa.net/main.html
Best regards,
Jacob Ils�
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From: OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help for sound in KDE2.1?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:44:28 +0800
I upgrade my KDE from 2.0.1 to 2.1. But the art sound server cannot use
my sound card anymore. In 2.0.1, everything is fine but in 2.1,
whenever KDE startup artsd said that it cannot find any 'OSS' type audio
I/O. Even I install the commercial OSS, it said that it cannot find any
audio I/O. Actually other Linux sound application can produce sound
normally. I am using ES1371 with the 2.2.x kernel module as driver,
which should be OSS/Free driver.
Can anyone tell me how to make artsd to find my audion I/O?
Thank you very much!
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From: Khandha5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sb 64 pci and timidity
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:59:03 +0000
hi,
can anybody help me with setting up my sb 64 pci?
i want it to play midi, and since i has no built-in synth i have to use
something like timidity. can anybody tell me how i have to set up timidity
to work as a synth for my midi progs?
thx for any help
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From: "Martin Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting a FreeBSD Partition?
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:56:20 +0100
Hi,
I have a FreeBSD partition on the disk which I'd like to see under Linux.
It is reported by mount as being /dev/hda2 mounted on /mnt/hda2 type ufs ro.
However when I try to see anything under /mnt/hda2 - there's nothing there.
The partition is ok - I can boot FreeBSD no problem.
Thanks for any hints,
Martin.
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From: "Nicolas Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: install Windows 2000 or SuSE 7.1 first?
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:32:44 +0100
I've got exactly the same configuration - so this is, how I handled it:
Install Win2k on the first hd.
Install Linux on the second hd.
Install Lilo at /dev/hdb1 # not hda1 !!!
(It works also with /dev/hdb)
Configure the bootmanager chos
Install chos at hda
Boot from hda1 -> Win2k
Boot from hdb1 -> Lilo = Linux
Install chos
Now Chos boots at first, you can either choos Win2K or Lilo.
It's not the only possibility, but it works for me :-) If you want to see my
config-file for chos send me a mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings,
Nicolas
"Uh Huh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:_RRp6.2246$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have two IDE hard drives, 3 and 8 G respectively. I'd like Windows 2000
> Server on the first (3 G) drive and SuSE 7.1 Professional on the second
> drive. Both will be clean installations. Does it matter whether I
install
> Windows or Linux first? I've seen postings from people who are installing
> both systems on the same disk (which is also the scenario described in the
> SuSE 7.1 handbook) but since my situation is a bit different, I thought
I'd
> ask. I'd appreciate any pointers to other places where this kind of
> question has been asked and answered.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:18:35 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GOOD Linux email client
Paul Folbrecht wrote:
>
> I'm not crazy about either Netscape or Mozilla. What else is there? I
> sure wish Eudora had a Linux version.
Hello,
you could try XFmail, it may not have a sophisticated GUI,
but very much features..:-)
http://burka.netvision.net.il/xfmail/xfmail.html
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accidentally killed fonts for printing/GIMP
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:29:24 -0000
I have somehow managed to get rid of my original font setup for printing
(and one or two seem to have gone missing from the GIMPs point of view too).
I installed X 4.02 to get hardware acceleration working properly with my
video card. Everything seemed to go fine but when I tried to print all I get
is a piece of paper with an error message printed on it. It says something
to the effect of "Helvetica could not be found". There is a lot of fluff I
don't understand in with that, but the gist is that it couldn't find the
right font. Same happens with the GIMP if I try to use Helvetica, Lucida or
a couple of other fonts. Looking closely at them, the ones that are
problematic appear to be Type 1 fonts, but the Type 1 font directory is in
the path from XF86Config-4. I assume that it is the printer font settings
which are screwed. How do I fix them?
Thanks
Adam
--
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go
flying by. - Douglas Adams
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on HP hardware.
Date: 9 Mar 2001 09:41:45 GMT
Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> Is it possible to run Linux on HP/UX hardware?
I'm currently running RedHat 6.2 (upgraded kernel) on two HP Vectra
and on one ex-HP/UX machine, so IMHO the answer is yes...
Of course, you have to look for the hardware you have handy...
specifically the CPU(s) and HD controller...
Davide
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for the program 'activate'
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:46:05 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rick Smith wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I'm looking for a simple way to change the active partion and hide/unhide them
> so that I can easily switch between Linux and DOS and Windoze on the same
> machine. pqboot will do the job for DOS and Windoze and its real easy to operate
> (customer requirement); just specify the partition number on the command line. I
What is easier than plain choosing on boot?
Setup lilo.conf correctly, and all the customer needs to do is choose the OS to
boot.
>
> was hoping the 'activate' program was similar.
LILO can do this for you, activate is just a tool to make a partition active, that
other programs may refuse to activate (extended partitions eg.)
>
> My reference to the hidden bit is the low bit in the high nibble of the
> partition type byte. I'll look into using fdisk.
I expected this, but it's for windows only, linux really doesn't care
about the partition ID it is installed on.
Eric
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From: "SS Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.questions,microsoft.public.servicesforunix.general
Subject: How can I install UNIX ?
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:23:55 +0530
I have 4.3 GB Hard disk with C:, D: and E: drive (about 1.5 GB each). On C:
drive I have installed windows 98. Now tell me how can I install UNIX in my
system without deleting any of the old contents, so that windows 98 will not
be affected and I can run UNIX or Windows at my will.
I want to install UNIX (or Linux) in such a way that it takes least amount
of disk space, i.e. I want to install only important part of UNIX for
practice purpose. Please tell me what is the indispensable files of UNIX
(like command.com, msdos.sys & io.sys of MSDOS...)
Please advice me how can I make it and where from the Internet I can
"download" UNIX ?
Greetings
Sanjoy
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From: Joris Roefs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GOOD Linux email client
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:19:24 +0100
Paul Folbrecht [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] uttered:
> I'm not crazy about either Netscape or Mozilla. What else is there? I
> sure wish Eudora had a Linux version.
>
Maybe a little too simple for your taste, but since KDE 2 I'm using kmail.
Easy to configure, filtering possibilities, able to pop more then 1 popbox,
etc...
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From: ingo korndoerfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel panic : VFS : can not mount root fs
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:08:02 +0100
hi everybody,
i am utterly at loss with my laptop :
- prehistory : installed some new softare on my windows partition.
(yeah, yeah .. i don't want to hear about it,
but the linux version of the program
gave me a segmentation fault)
maybe the disk got a little too full there. not sure.
abandonned this, logged out.
- problem : can't get into my linux partition now anymore :
partition check hda1 hda2 <>
VFS : Cannot open root device 03:05
Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
what could be the problem ?
- all the device drivers should be there since i have been working
with this laptop
under linux for some three months now.
- the mbr should be ok, since the boot process starts but gets hung
later.
- partition table ? i figured out how to get into rescue mode.
here is the output of gpart -vvd /dev/hda1
doesn't that look unsuspicious ? i have no clue.
dev(/dev/hda1) mss(512) chs(202/240/63)(LBA) #s(3054240) size(1491mb)
Primary partition(1)
type: 104(0x68)(UNKNOWN)
size: 904228mb #s(1851859059) s(1936028272-3787887330)
chs: (116/100/32)-(288/101/46)d (128044/47/32)-(250521/155/46)r
hex: 6E 64 20 74 68 65 6E 20 70 72 65 73 73 20 61 6E
Primary partition(2)
type: 121(0x79)(UNKNOWN)
size: 263172mb #s(538976288) s(1330184192-1869160479)
chs: (357/32/43)-(0/13/10)d (87975/34/51)-(123621/173/61)r
hex: 79 20 6B 65 79 0D 0A 00 00 00 49 4F 20 20 20 20
Primary partition(3)
type: 083(0x53)(UNKNOWN)
size: 682794mb #s(1398362912) s(538989391-1937352302)
chs: (345/32/19)-(324/77/19)d (35647/107/11)-(128131/183/54)r
hex: 20 20 53 59 53 4D 53 44 4F 53 20 20 20 53 59 53
Primary partition(4)
type: 073(0x49)(UNKNOWN)
size: 10mb #s(21337) s(1394627663-1394648999)
chs: (87/1/0)-(335/78/2)d (92237/67/3)-(92238/165/45)r
hex: 7E 01 00 57 49 4E 42 4F 4F 54 20 53 59 53 00 00
the output of the same for /dev/hda is more suspicious :
** Error: invalid extended ptbl found at sector(3069360).
dev(/dev/hda) mss(512) chs(776/240/63)(LBA) #s(11733120) size(5729mb)
Primary partition(1)
type: 011(0x0B)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) (BOOT)
size: 1498mb #s(3069297) s(63-3069359)
chs: (0/1/1)-(202/239/63)d (0/1/1)-(202/239/63)r
hex: 80 01 01 00 0B EF 3F CA 3F 00 00 00 71 D5 2E 00
Primary partition(2)
type: 133(0x85)(Extended Linux)
size: 4230mb #s(8663760) s(3069360-11733119)
chs: (203/0/1)-(775/239/63)d (203/0/1)-(775/239/63)r
hex: 00 00 01 CB 85 EF FF 07 B0 D5 2E 00 D0 32 84 00
Logical partition
type: 036(0x24)(NEC MS-DOS 3.x)
size: 953967mb #s(1953724755) s(945901090-2899625844)
chs: (370/83/52)-(370/113/49)d (62559/143/2)-(191774/47/4)r
hex: 68 53 74 72 24 71 71 72 72 78 32 38 53 79 73 74
Primary partition(3)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
hex: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Primary partition(4)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
hex: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
do i have hopes set to high, when i think everyhing should be still
there ?
how can i mount my linux partitioon again ? how can i fix this ?
i'd really like to rescue my data.
i have seen suggestions that a few things can be fixed with fdisk.
would that apply to me ?
in rescue mode, i have tried to mount /dev/hda1 through /dev/hda5
with no succes. did i do something wrong ? what kind of filesystem
would i have to give ? ext2 ?
1000 thanks in advance for all hints !
ingo
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: howto enlarge linux partition
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:42:43 +0100
> A few days ago I also use Pqmagic4.0 to resize my partitions. I
installed two
> operation system two,one is win98 and the other is linux.But after using
pqmagic
> to enlarge my linux partition,I can't boot into linux.It seems that
pqmagic
> damage the linux partition.So I have to insert the RH CD and choose update
to
> reinstall my linux.Then my linux works,and all the settings and files are
still
> there.
Duh.
Messed with / (or /boot)?
The bootfiles have physically moved, that's all.
Just boot with a bootfloppy and rerun /sbin/lilo would have solved this.
> My linux version is RH 6.2
> So be careful with pqmagic.It's powerful,and dangerous too.
All partitioning tools are potentially dangerous, as errors may damage your
data.
PQ PartitionMagic is fairly good and safe though.
Eric
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From: Joe Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: IPCHAINS -
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:38:26 +0100
Morgen,
OK. Linux Mand 6. Ipchains... I put in my first line...
ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p tsp -s 10.0.0.1 ftp -j ACCEPT
Wonderful! She loves it and swallows. I do ipchains -L and there it is!
Excellent I'm cooking now! I ftp to my baby and she takes me...
I then go...
ipchains -P input DENY
I hit enter and this is also is swallowed without complain...
I then do my ipchains -L and she stops dead... well she at least
displays a single line then stops without displaying any of my policy.
I control-C and type ipchains-save.... I get a lovely message that
reassures me everything was saved as it was supposed to.. but she
lies...
Questions - Anybody know what the feck is going on here? Can I manually
enter these lines into a file somewhere? Can I debug? Can I examine this
part of my kernel and make sure ipchains is correclty inserted? How? Am
I entering my policy correctly? Can I use ipfw instead? Is it more
robust? Will she drop them after only the second date? (sorry, wrong
newsgroup)
Many thanks in advance,
Lots of love,
JoB
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Defrag problems with repartioning FAT32 drive for linux
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:54:06 +0100
> > You have to defrag that FS first.
> > Of that I know too little, ask a windows NG.
> > Then you can use any of the partition splitting tools you mentioned.
> What do you mean by "defragging the FS"
??
Defragmentate the filesystem,
Actually you need more than just defragmentating:
all files must be moved to the beginning of the filesystem.
But as I said before, I know little of this, ask in a windows
related newsgroup.
Al I can tell you is what you tried:
shut down virtual memory, and run your defrag tool.
Could be that some system files reside somewhere near the
filesystem end. They can have flags, that prevent them from
being moved IIRC. Which files? I don't know
Eric
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From: "Cedric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED](halteauspam)>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Compilation problem
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:58:35 +0100
Hello all,
I have the following compilation problem with sane-backends 1.0.4
sanei_wire.c: In function `sanei_w_space':
sanei_wire.c:74: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
sanei_wire.c:74: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
sanei_wire.c:74: for each function it appears in.)
sanei_wire.c: In function `sanei_w_void':
sanei_wire.c:117: warning: unused parameter `w'
make[1]: *** [sanei_wire.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Cedric/Installation/sane-backends-1.0.4/sanei'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Looking in the sanei_wire.c file, I see :
#include <asm/errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sane/sane.h>
#include <sane/sanei_wire.h>
Note : #include <asm/errno.h> was not the original value. I put asm cause
there was another compilation error which was the same as another one I
had had but which had been solved when i puit asm/ in front of errno.h.
The problem is that there is still a problem compiling although it is not
the same error.
Anyone have an idea ?
Thanks in advance.
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel panic : VFS : can not mount root fs
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:00:27 +0100
> - prehistory : installed some new softare on my windows partition.
> (yeah, yeah .. i don't want to hear about it,
> but the linux version of the program
> gave me a segmentation fault)
> maybe the disk got a little too full there. not sure.
> abandonned this, logged out.
>
> - problem : can't get into my linux partition now anymore :
>
> partition check hda1 hda2 <>
> VFS : Cannot open root device 03:05
> Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
> what could be the problem ?
Your partitiontable got toasted
And I guess you never wrote the table down on a piece of paper?
Then start sweating
<trimmed gpart messages>
> do i have hopes set to high, when i think everyhing should be still
> there ?
I would guess the same
> how can i mount my linux partitioon again ? how can i fix this ?
> i'd really like to rescue my data.
recreate the partitiontable
> i have seen suggestions that a few things can be fixed with fdisk.
> would that apply to me ?
As before, recreate the partitiontable
> in rescue mode, i have tried to mount /dev/hda1 through /dev/hda5
> with no succes. did i do something wrong ? what kind of filesystem
> would i have to give ? ext2 ?
>
The filesystem that's on there ofcourse
get findpart.exe and run that.
Then post the output back here, the author tends to look here often
and may be able to help you
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILl02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02ll02l
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:09:21 +0100
> You should have got it by now. This is what I get
> when I install lilo on my /dev/hda6
> partition(RH7). This partition is from cylinder
> 850 - 1250.
>
> I know that this is outside the 1024 limit, but
> isn't RH7's lilo supposed to support this?
>
> lilo does not install with default lilo.conf(no
> linear or lba32). It does not install with linear
> either. It installs when I specify lba32 without
> any errors or warnings.
>
Any warnings when you run lilo with more verbose options
/sbin/lilo -v -v -v
Eric
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