Linux-Setup Digest #799, Volume #20 Sat, 10 Mar 01 22:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install (shaughn b)
Re: best rh 6.0 -> 7.0 ? ("" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Linux and Windoze GDI printers?? (andrew)
Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install (John Sage)
Swap space (Brian)
Re: Help- screwed up Gnome panel! (Paul Folbrecht)
uncompressing linux... crc error! (Paul Folbrecht)
Procmail problems still (Peter Nunn)
Re: DIsk Partition ("*harmonix*")
Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install (E J)
Re: DIsk Partition ("Sri Panyam")
Re: howto enlarge linux partition (John Thompson)
Re: Swap space ("*harmonix*")
Re: Swap space ("*harmonix*")
Re: Newbie Display Q ("*harmonix*")
Re: uncompressing linux... crc error! ("*harmonix*")
Re: DNS questions... (David Efflandt)
Re: How to find what's in my Kernel ? ("*harmonix*")
Re: Need PAP dialup help pretty damn soon (Charles Packer)
dialing from command line....please help ("fail006")
Re: Need help with LILO, I think. (John Sage)
Re: LILO + software RAID (John in SD)
Re: Swap space (John Sage)
Re: Enabliing "LF->CR/LF". (David Efflandt)
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From: shaughn b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:15:31 -0600
See embedded question...
John Sage wrote:
>
> Shaughn:
>
> Linux is linux is..
>
> ..but what compiler do you have on?
>
> shaughn b wrote:
>
> > Hi... I'm trying to install/upgrade to Realplayer 8 from 5.0 which came
> > with the SuSe 7.0 distro. I am using a Toshiba 500CDT laptop with
> > 120MHz P1, 48M RAM. I have downloaded the rpm from the Real site, but
> > no matter what install options I use, --install --upgrade --nodeps
> > --force, etc, I get the message as follows...
> >
> > prompt > rpm -i rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm
>
> Do you have ^^^^^ glibc2 (a.k.a. libc6)
This is what I get with rpm -q...
prompt> rpm -q libc
libc-2.1.3-141
Does this mean I'm out of ruck?
sb
>
> > package RealPlayer-8.0-1 is for a different architecture
> > prompt >
> >
> > I don't get it. The website says it's for Linux.
> >
> > Anybody know what's up?
>
> - John
>
> --
> John Sage
> FinchHaven, Vashon Island, WA, USA
> http://www.finchhaven.com/
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> And remember: it's spelled l-i-n-u-x, but it's pronounced "Linux"
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From: "<toor>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best rh 6.0 -> 7.0 ?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:18:54 -0500
are you people talking about Kernel upgrading or the entire OS upgrading?
Karthik wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Avery Andrews wrote:
>>
>> What would be the best way to upgrade a Red Had 6.0 installation to 7.0?
>> An upgrade installation? I've heard that there are sometimes problems
>> with these (5->6 for example); does 6->7 work well?
>>
>> Avery Andrews
>
>Hi,
>
>i had upgraded some months ago. It was hassel free. Atleast from 6.1 to
>7.0
>it was smooth.
>
>Bye..
>-- Karthik
>
>--
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
> Save the Royal Bengal Tiger.... ELSE
> dictionaries would be the best place to find them....
>
> SAY 'NO' TO TIGER BASED PRODUCTS.......
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From: andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and Windoze GDI printers??
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:08:28 +0000
Hi all,
Linux newbie alert with a printing problem :-(
I have a Canon LBP-800 laser printer that is listed as non-compatible
with Linux because Canon in their wisdom will not release drivers for
it, or release the protocol used so others can write drivers.
Unfortunately I got it before I started playing with Linux, otherwise I
would never have bought it. When are Canon going to wake up and see
that people want to use other OSs than M$ Windoze......
So, I've been thinking about how to make this work and I'm wondering if
the idea I have come up with is even feasible. Basically, the idea is
to connect the printer to a second computer (a Windoze based laptop) and
print over the network to it. I'm guessing to do that I will still need
a Linux driver, but is it possible to somehow send the print job to the
Windoze print spool (maybe in PCL format, though I'm assuming the
printer can deal with PCL) and utilize the Windoze driver for printing
from the Windoze machine? Is this even possible to do? The laptop is
running Win98SE and the desktop has Mandrake 7.2 with the 2.4 kernel
installed and, I think, CUPS 1.1.4.
If all else fails I will have to connect my old Canon BJC-200 inkjet
back up, but obviously I'd prefer to use the laser...... Canon, are you
listening?????
Andrew
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:40:43 GMT
shaughn b wrote:
> See embedded question...
See embedded answer ;-)
> John Sage wrote:
>
>> Shaughn:
>>
>> Linux is linux is..
>>
>> ..but what compiler do you have on?
>>
>> shaughn b wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi... I'm trying to install/upgrade to Realplayer 8 from 5.0 which came
>>> with the SuSe 7.0 distro. I am using a Toshiba 500CDT laptop with
>>> 120MHz P1, 48M RAM. I have downloaded the rpm from the Real site, but
>>> no matter what install options I use, --install --upgrade --nodeps
>>> --force, etc, I get the message as follows...
>>>
>>> prompt > rpm -i rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm
>>
>> Do you have ^^^^^ glibc2 (a.k.a. libc6)
>
>
> This is what I get with rpm -q...
>
> prompt> rpm -q libc
> libc-2.1.3-141
Well, to use your exact method, I get libc-5.3.12-31 on my RHL 6.2 box,
and I'm running RealPlayer 7.0.3.338 which says "linux-2.0-libc6-i386-gcc2.95"
at Help|About RealPlayer.
gcc --version returns "egcs-2.91.66" FWTW...
This has been patched with something I got from a site I listen to a lot:
groovetech.com, so I think it's really rp8..
> Does this mean I'm out of ruck?
> sb
- John
--
John Sage
FinchHaven, Vashon Island, WA, USA
http://www.finchhaven.com/
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And remember: it's spelled l-i-n-u-x, but it's pronounced "Linux"
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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:41:29 +0000
From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Swap space
With RAM getting cheaper, I now have more RAM than I had in hard drive
space
two years ago. The old formula, as I recall is 2X RAM in Swap space, no
swap
partition larger than 128M.
Does that still hold true? Have 512 M RAM now, do I need 4 x 128M swap
files? Seems a
bit much.
I think its related to use, and I mostly do web surfing and word
processing. Some
game playing, but not that much.
Your comments please.
Brian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help- screwed up Gnome panel!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:54:09 GMT
David wrote:
> Paul Folbrecht wrote:
>
>> Ok, here's a good newbie f-up. I have no idea what I did, but
>> suddenly I don't get icons for running applications in my Gnome panel
>> (RH7). Thus, when I minimize an app, there's no way to restore it!
>> (There must be some keyboard command to iterate through running apps,
>> like alt-tab in Windows, but I don't know it.)
>>
>> What did I do and how can I undo it??
>
>
>
> right click on panel and choose applets/utility/tasklist
>
Thanks. That did it. Sure don't know how I got rid of the applet in
the first place, though (if I did).
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From: Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: uncompressing linux... crc error!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:57:15 GMT
Ok, I finally need to (try to) do something about this.
Ever since I installed RH 7.0 on my Dell Dimension XPS (800 Mhz P3),
when I boot linux, I sometimes get this fatal error:
Uncompressing linux..
crc error!
terminating system.
And of course it hangs there. It used to be half the time or so, but
today I had eight unsuccessful boot attempts in a row!
I'm sure people are going to tell me I have a hardware problem- a CRC
error would indicate a bad disk. But, I did a full format of all
partitions when installing, including checking for bad blocks, and this
machine has worked flawlessly with Win2K and ME for nearly a year.
Any ideas, besides replacing hardware? I'm just afraid that the day
will come when I can't boot at all.
-Paul
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From: Peter Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Procmail problems still
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:58:15 +1100
Hi folks.
Sorry, but I'm still having problems with procmail/sendmail and am
looking for some more help.
I have got as far as having the following in my .procmailrc file and
have shifted it to /etc/procmailrc instead of .procmailrc in my home
directory.
# Environment variables for procmail
# setup from www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/spamfoil.html
VERBOSE=yes
LOGABSTRACT=all
MAILDIR=${HOME}/Mail
LOGFILE=var/log/procmail.log
:0
* ^TO_gnunn@pncomputing\.com
! gnunn
#Lets all other mail in my mailbox
:0:
${DEFAULT}
however, I still can't get the mail for user gnunn split off from the
rest. It now doesn't got to the default user (me) but it now ends up
in the dead.letter box (as I have just found).
The procmail log looks like
procmail: Match on
"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)gnunn@pncomputing\.com"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/sbin/sendmail"
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 11 11:54:07 2001
Subject: Trail again and again and again
Folder: /usr/sbin/sendmail
1670
procmail: Notified comsat: "pnunn@:/usr/sbin/sendmail"
procmail: Executing "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
procmail: Match on
"(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)gnunn@pncomputing\.com"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/sbin/sendmail"
and I have discovered that the line about Notified comsat: becomes
Notified comsat: "pnunn@557:/var/spool/mail/pnunn" if it works.
Mail between the two accounts works fine internally, its just external
mail that I can't get working.
Can anyone give me something else to try?
Ta
Peter
Peter Nunn
DownUnder
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From: "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org>
Subject: Re: DIsk Partition
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:06:01 -0000
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> I have a 6 gig disk which has ONLY linux on it. Of couse its has2
> >>> partitions. One for the actual linux and other for the swap space.
> >>
> > What I
> >
> >>> would like to do is to partition the non-swap partition into 2
> >>
> > partitions.
> >
> >>> Can I do this without loosing the information on the disk.
> >>>
> >>> Sri
> >>
>
i reckon you will be okay just doing it..(partitioning it point
blank).......cos of the fact that he e2fs is fragmentation resistant...
therefore all the data storage / usage of a partition will be bunched up at
the beginning...and stuff.
make a backup just in case though..mail me if you do this and it works..!
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 8 refuses to install
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:55:52 GMT
I have the same problem with RealPlayer 8 installing from rpm files on
RH7.0. It will never work.
Stop banging your head into the brick wall and abandon the rpm installation
and use the binary installer of Real Player 8.
Works great for me.
shaughn b wrote:
> Hi... I'm trying to install/upgrade to Realplayer 8 from 5.0 which came
> with the SuSe 7.0 distro. I am using a Toshiba 500CDT laptop with
> 120MHz P1, 48M RAM. I have downloaded the rpm from the Real site, but
> no matter what install options I use, --install --upgrade --nodeps
> --force, etc, I get the message as follows...
>
> prompt > rpm -i rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs1.rpm
> package RealPlayer-8.0-1 is for a different architecture
> prompt >
>
> I don't get it. The website says it's for Linux.
>
> Anybody know what's up?
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From: "Sri Panyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DIsk Partition
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:09:31 GMT
Hi
Acutally I dont have partition magik either. Which is why i am looking
for some free non-destructive disk partitioning tools .
Sri
*harmonix* <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org> wrote in message
news:q0Bq6.12102$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> > >>> Hi
> > >>>
> > >>> I have a 6 gig disk which has ONLY linux on it. Of couse its
has2
> > >>> partitions. One for the actual linux and other for the swap space.
> > >>
> > > What I
> > >
> > >>> would like to do is to partition the non-swap partition into 2
> > >>
> > > partitions.
> > >
> > >>> Can I do this without loosing the information on the disk.
> > >>>
> > >>> Sri
> > >>
> >
>
> i reckon you will be okay just doing it..(partitioning it point
> blank).......cos of the fact that he e2fs is fragmentation resistant...
> therefore all the data storage / usage of a partition will be bunched up
at
> the beginning...and stuff.
>
> make a backup just in case though..mail me if you do this and it works..!
>
>
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: howto enlarge linux partition
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:01:52 -0600
H Dziardziel wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:30:41 +0100, Joris Roefs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Maybe you should switch to a newer version, let's say 6?
> >I also enlarged my Ext2-partition and it worked for me...
> Hi, are you saying it was able to increase the ext2 partition
> without having to recreate the file system by moving the data out
> first? Thanks for any info on this.
Yes. Partition Magic has been able to do this with ext2
filesystems since v4; it is now at v6. I've used it to resize and
move ext2 partitions without any serious problems, but YMMV of
course.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org>
Subject: Re: Swap space
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:22:15 -0000
Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> With RAM getting cheaper, I now have more RAM than I had in hard drive
> space
> two years ago. The old formula, as I recall is 2X RAM in Swap space, no
> swap
> partition larger than 128M.
>
> Does that still hold true? Have 512 M RAM now, do I need 4 x 128M swap
> files? Seems a
> bit much.
>
> I think its related to use, and I mostly do web surfing and word
> processing. Some
> game playing, but not that much.
>
> Your comments please.
>
> Brian
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think you will be fine without any swap whatso ever!
with that much RAM your linux box should be singing...! ...you are of course
correct -- in that swap space allocated is on the whole arbitrary -- but
should be and heavily dependant on what kinda use the box is being put
through..
To test how much swap you need:
make a swap file, equal to the amount of RAM that you have... you know:
#dd if/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=512
#mkswap /swap
#swapon /swap
then I think that you should run linux through an average session (web
surfin' and word processing -- open loads of terms and browers and whatever
you typically do)
now and then ---use either of the following to guage whether ANY of the swap
space is being used....
$> free -m
or
$> top
this should be a good way to decide .... you dont want to be needlessly
giving up space that has no hope of ever being used...
good luck.
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From: "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org>
Subject: Re: Swap space
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:24:07 -0000
*harmonix* <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org> wrote in message
news:FfBq6.12107$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > With RAM getting cheaper, I now have more RAM than I had in hard drive
> > space
> > two years ago. The old formula, as I recall is 2X RAM in Swap space, no
> > swap
> > partition larger than 128M.
> >
> > Does that still hold true? Have 512 M RAM now, do I need 4 x 128M swap
> > files? Seems a
> > bit much.
> >
> > I think its related to use, and I mostly do web surfing and word
> > processing. Some
> > game playing, but not that much.
> >
> > Your comments please.
> >
> > Brian
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> I think you will be fine without any swap whatso ever!
>
> with that much RAM your linux box should be singing...! ...you are of
course
> correct -- in that swap space allocated is on the whole arbitrary -- but
> should be and heavily dependant on what kinda use the box is being put
> through..
>
> To test how much swap you need:
>
> make a swap file, equal to the amount of RAM that you have... you know:
>
> #dd if/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=512
>
> #mkswap /swap
>
> #swapon /swap
>
>
> then I think that you should run linux through an average session (web
> surfin' and word processing -- open loads of terms and browers and
whatever
> you typically do)
>
> now and then ---use either of the following to guage whether ANY of the
swap
> space is being used....
>
> $> free -m
>
> or
>
> $> top
>
> this should be a good way to decide .... you dont want to be needlessly
> giving up space that has no hope of ever being used...
>
> good luck.
>
>
>
>
>
whoops.....of course make x4 of the 128 MB swap partitions.......or just one
should suffice for this test.......
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From: "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org>
Subject: Re: Newbie Display Q
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:28:04 -0000
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Pom ;
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have just installed Red Hat 7.0 onto a lap top. Everything is
> > going well except I can't find how to change the screen resolution.
> > At the moment everything is far too large and most application
> > windows will not fit on the screen. Can someone please tell me how
> > to change my screen resolution.
type: Xconfigurator...into terminal...you can then chose through a GUI
(works for desktop pc's anyway)
cycle through yur cosen resolutions with (as suggested) ctrl+alt and the +
and - keys..
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From: "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org>
Subject: Re: uncompressing linux... crc error!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:29:33 -0000
Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ok, I finally need to (try to) do something about this.
>
> Ever since I installed RH 7.0 on my Dell Dimension XPS (800 Mhz P3),
> when I boot linux, I sometimes get this fatal error:
>
> Uncompressing linux..
> crc error!
> terminating system.
>
> And of course it hangs there. It used to be half the time or so, but
> today I had eight unsuccessful boot attempts in a row!
>
> I'm sure people are going to tell me I have a hardware problem- a CRC
> error would indicate a bad disk. But, I did a full format of all
> partitions when installing, including checking for bad blocks, and this
> machine has worked flawlessly with Win2K and ME for nearly a year.
>
> Any ideas, besides replacing hardware? I'm just afraid that the day
> will come when I can't boot at all.
>
> -Paul
>
what media are you booting from ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: DNS questions...
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:28:21 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:56:03 -0800, Kam Bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I've got RH7.0 loaded and have a domain registered and am providing a name
>server for that domain. That all seems to work (I think...)
>
>My problem is that I cannot resolve my actualy domain name, here is an example:
>
>lets say my registered domain is "kamb.com"
>
>Within that domain name server (ns.kamb.com), I have a few other machines that
>can be resolved (i.e. ftp.kamb.com).
>
>I can ping the "ftp.kamb.com" and it will resolve it, but I cannot seem to
>resolve just the plain old vanilla "kamb.com". Does that make sense?
A domain name does not necessarily resolve to an IP, but if you want it to
you can. For example if you wanted kamb.com to point to your main box,
you just need an entry in your zone "kamb.com", but instead of a
hostname use "kamb.com." with a dot at the end like:
localhost A 127.0.0.1
kamb.com. A 192.168.1.1
mainpc A 192.168.1.1
reverse lookup in this example (if you have any control over that) would
still point to its full name mainpc.kamb.com. (ending with a dot).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org>
Subject: Re: How to find what's in my Kernel ?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:33:33 -0000
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm trying to get an ISDN card working on an alpha box. I'm not having
> a whole lot of joy so I guess my first need is to check that the driver
> is compiled into the kernel.
>
> Is there any way to interrogate the running kernel to find out what's
> been compiled into it ? Or any log kept of what was compiled into it ?
>
>
> Cheers, J/.
> --
> John Beardmore
would grepping the /proc pseudo filesystem help ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Packer)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: Need PAP dialup help pretty damn soon
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:36:58 GMT
In article <98dccf$bap$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Noble Pepper wrote:
>try www.linuxdoc.org, the ppp howto should let you understand the internals
>if you just want somebody to do it for you try alt.os.linux.dial-up they
>are more inclined in that area.
How about if I crosspost this followup to it?...Thanks, and
also to two voluminous e-mails that I'll be studying. In the
meantime, it occurred to me to look at /var/log/messages
after my existing script got bounced out of Verio's new
number, and it shows this:
Mar 10 20:41:47 localhost pppd[292]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 10 20:41:47 localhost pppd[292]: Connect: ppp0 <-->
/dev/modem
Mar 10 20:42:17 localhost pppd[292]: LCP: timeout sending
Config-Requests
Mar 10 20:42:17 localhost pppd[292]: Connection terminated.
Mar 10 20:42:17 localhost pppd[292]: Receive serial link is
not 8-bit clean:
Mar 10 20:42:17 localhost pppd[292]: Problem: all had bit 7
set to 0
Mar 10 20:42:18 localhost pppd[292]: Exit.
Is the business about "Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean"
just for my information or is that the reason I got bounced?
And if the latter, what is the fix? Parameter to chat or pppd?
Something added to the modem string?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Packer)
http://www.clark.net/~whatnews
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From: "fail006" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dialing from command line....please help
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:34:31 +1300
Hi,
I am ruunning redhat 7, i would like to know how could connect to my isp
from the command line.
I have tried wvdial, but how do i tellit to use chap and not pap?
I have used diald, same problem?
Is there a easier way?
Thanks
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with LILO, I think.
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:38:30 GMT
cedric wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Sage"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for replying John.
> I live in Amboy, WA, south of you I think.
Amboy *WA*?
I know Amboy CA, and there's an Amboy IL and an Amboy MN in the index
for my National Geographic Atlas of the world, but I digress..
>> What were you doing when all this started?
>
> I added a 40g HD and wanted it as /dev/hda.
> Moved other HD's to do this while keeping their data
> intact.
OK: I just put in a 30gb hdd in one box, but I let it be /dev/hdb1 ;-)
> Installed RH6.2 on /dev/hda and it all started at first boot up.
OK: so you were able to bring it up once? And get RHL on?
So it never came up again, after you got RHL on?
>> Are you able to get it booted at all, then? In single-user
>> mode, or what?
>
> I can boot off a boot floppy as single user.
<snip 1024 stuff..>
> Here is my /etc/lilo.conf:
> boot = /dev/hda
This is the boot device - the new 40g'er - it got fdisk'ed and e2fs'ed,
huh? hmm.. It must have..
Did you partition it at all? Do you have /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2
and all that?
> compact
man lilo.conf says "..using compact is especially recommended when booting
from a floppy.." Why are you using this?
Now, I've got "linear" which --what?-- has something to do with large drives,
and/or LBA.. I fergit..
> delay = 5
I have no "delay = " but I do have a "timeout = 50"
> vga = normal
> root = current
"root = current" means that the root device is set to the device on which the
root file system is currently mounted.
So /root is on /dev/hda? /dev/hda-what?
Under my "image = " section I have "root=/dev/hda1"
-- which identifies which partition we're talking about, on /dev/hda...
And where's "map=/boot/map"? Is your boot map at /boot/map?
(*whew* say that three times, fast..)
When I look at /etc/lilo.conf on two RHL-only boxes, and on a dual-boot
box, all of them have "map=/boot/map's"
And I have an "install=/boot/boot.b" on all of them...
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
And that's there?
> label = linux
- John
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John Sage
FinchHaven, Vashon Island, WA, USA
http://www.finchhaven.com/
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And remember: it's spelled l-i-n-u-x, but it's pronounced "Linux"
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO + software RAID
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:41:43 GMT
Suggest you upgrade to a newer version of LILO -- one that can boot above the
1024 cylinder limit.
--John
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:46:10 GMT, Emilio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi everybody I'm facing the following problem: my PC has two HDs that
>work in software-RAID under linux (patched 2.2.16 kernel), on the other
>partition (actually there are two other partitions because in order to
>use RAID under linux I had two make two partitions for each HD) I've
>installed Windows 98 but I'd like to upgrade to Windows 2000 as soon as
>possible; but I'm prevented from doing this because the boot manager I'm
>currently using (LOADLIN) can't work with Win2k.
>LILO could be the solution but I wasn't able to install it because it
>keeps complaining that the HDs have too many cyliners; this is the
>'fdisk' output for the two HD (My system language is Italian I hope you
>understand it anyways):
>
>Disco /dev/hda: 16 testine, 63 settori, 19906 cilindri
>Unit� = cilindri di 1008 * 512 byte
>
>Dispositivo Avvio Inizio Fine Blocchi Id Sistema
>/dev/hda1 1 9953 5016280+ fd Autorilevamento raid
>di Linux
>/dev/hda2 9954 10214 131544 83 Linux
>/dev/hda3 * 10215 19906 4884768 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
>Disco /dev/hdc: 16 testine, 63 settori, 19906 cilindri
>Unit� = cilindri di 1008 * 512 byte
>
>Dispositivo Avvio Inizio Fine Blocchi Id Sistema
>/dev/hdc1 1 9953 5016280+ fd Autorilevamento raid
>di Linux
>/dev/hdc2 9954 19906 5016312 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>Thanks in advance for your help!
>--
>Emilio Federici
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>ICQ:27013758
LILO version 21.7 (24-Feb-2001) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
patches at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo
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From: John Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap space
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:42:04 GMT
Brian:
With 512mb of ram, I bet you could get by without any swap space ;-)
(Just kidding...)
With that much ram, though, I wouldn't worry about it..
- John
--
John Sage
FinchHaven, Vashon Island, WA, USA
http://www.finchhaven.com/
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And remember: it's spelled l-i-n-u-x, but it's pronounced "Linux"
Brian wrote:
> With RAM getting cheaper, I now have more RAM than I had in hard drive
> space two years ago. The old formula, as I recall is 2X RAM in Swap space, no
> swap partition larger than 128M.
>
> Does that still hold true? Have 512 M RAM now, do I need 4 x 128M swap
> files? Seems a bit much.
>
> I think its related to use, and I mostly do web surfing and word
> processing. Some game playing, but not that much.
>
> Your comments please.
>
> Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Enabliing "LF->CR/LF".
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:42:14 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:53:05 -0500, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an old HP LaserJet Series II attached with Redhat Linux 6.2.
>I tested the printer and got a print out with the only line saying
> "It this is all you see, try enabling 'LF->CR/LF' translation in printtool
>... line".
>While, I could not find where to add it. It is not available in the
>PrintTool box of printer, ControlPanel.
>Could you tell me where and how to do it?
In the printtool, when you "Select" a filter for HP LaserJet, there should
be a checkbox for "fix stair-stepping text?". That is the option you are
looking for.
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