Linux-Setup Digest #802, Volume #20 Sun, 11 Mar 01 06:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE! (Jay & Shell)
phone rings, linux answers!? (shaughn b)
Ultra 100 Boot problems from Linux 2.4.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need PAP dialup help pretty damn soon (Bill Unruh)
sendmail error - unsafe map file (shaughn b)
Re: Newbie needs help to install SuSE Linux 7.1 on SCSI hard drive. ("Dave Stanton")
Re: uncompressing linux... crc error! (Yves Bellefeuille)
Best Partitioning Practice ? ("Steve Ward")
Re: Ultra 100 Boot problems from Linux 2.4.2 (keith)
ATAPI CD-R won't write (Jeffrey Newmiller)
Re: how to enable ReiserFS? (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: How to find what's in my Kernel ? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Can't install Linux! ("Robert Zrinski")
Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE! (Steve Withers)
Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE! (Steve Withers)
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From: Jay & Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 06:28:48 GMT
I use 4.76 myself and installed Sun's JRE Java plugin, helped out alot for
me anyway.
Steve Withers wrote:
> If anything is going to drive me back to Windowss it is *&%^$ Netscape.
>
> I have both V6.0 and v4.75 installed on my RH Linux 7.0 system (kernel
> 2.4.1) and they are both....in a word...SHIT.
>
> I have "kill-9" permanently in my command line buffer.....Netscape craps
> out usually within 10-15 minutes of active use. What happens MOST often
> with Netscape 6.0 is that links cease to be active. Nothing reacts to a
> mouse click. It may aswell have crashed....and when I do a PS-A...I see
> about 20 Java VMs all stacked up. Eh?
>
> I need Java support.......so do I have any options? Opera? Konqueror?
> Haven't tried either recently....tried Opera like 3 years ago.....
>
> MS Explorer is starting to look good to me..... :-(
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Steve Withers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Registered Linux user #24688
> http://counter.li.org
>
> "First, they ignore you. Then they
> laugh at you. Then they fight you.
> Then you win." Mahatma Ghandi
--
Registered Linux user #192969
MS-Windows - A Colorful Clown Suit For Dos !
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From: shaughn b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: phone rings, linux answers!?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:56:03 -0600
Hi,
Newbie and new installation of SuSe 7.0 on Toshiba 500CDT laptop. When
the phone rings, and the PC is powered, it answers on the first ring and
WAILS! I assume it's acting like a fax machine --- but I'm not sure. I
didn't purposely set it up to do this. Any ideas how to stop this,
where to look?
shaughn B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Ultra 100 Boot problems from Linux 2.4.2
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 06:26:37 GMT
Hi,
I'm currenlty using an ASUS A7V133, Athlon 1Gig TB, with Promise Ultra
100 Controller and a single IMB DTLA-307030 HDD on hde with a CDROM on
hdc. I have compiled a 2.4.2 kernel, ran lilo OK.
I've got to the stage where I can boot from the floppy (using old 2.2.16
-22 boot disk) using the following parameters:
x86_serial_nr=1 ide2=0xa000, 0x9802 ide3=0x9400, 0x9002
No worries.
Now, with the new 2.4.2 kernel, make dep, clean, bzImage, modules,
module_install OK. Copies bzImage to /boot and amend lilo.conf accordingly.
I have included stuff like CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX,
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI,
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ, and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI.
Add the append line to lilo.conf containing the parameters above (except
X86_serial_nr=1 since I have not included CONFIG_X86_CPUID). When I
reboot, I get to the line "Partion Check: hde" and it freezes halts
stops etc.
Conversely, here is the successful output from dmesg when I boot from
the floppy:
"Partition check:
hde: [PTBL] [3737/255/63] hde1 hde2 < hde5 hde6 hde7 >"
Funny thing is, if I include the append line in the floppy boot disk,
it doesn't boot beyond Partition check as above. It only works if I
enter it at the prompt.
I've been trawling the newsgroups for ever now and can't find a
resolution.
BTW I have a large 30gig drive that booted OK using 2.2.16-22. When
using fdisk, the following warning is given:
"The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3737.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)"
I'm not seasoned enough to know if this is the cause, or just a red
herring.
I'm not even seasoned enough to know how to create a small boot
partition at this late stage without trashing the lot (hideous thought!).
Is there anyone out there who has a resolution?
Thanks so far to all the mini Howto's that got me this far.
--
Sent by david.bowie from diskcovery piece of com included in au
This is a spam protected message. Please answer with reference header.
Posted via http://www.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/content/new
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: Need PAP dialup help pretty damn soon
Date: 11 Mar 2001 07:21:02 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Packer) writes:
]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
This means that the remote side is sending you ascii while you are
trying to negotiate ppp.
You are probably trying to log in. don't. End the chat script with
CONNECT '\c'
For more details try
www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
]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?
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From: shaughn b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sendmail error - unsafe map file
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 01:25:30 -0600
Hi,
For a week now, I've been getting these messages every half hour in the
xconsole and the /var/log/warn file. I'm clueless. Any ideas??
shaughn b
Mar 11 01:10:31 kuta sendmail[5956]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot
create database for alias file /etc/aliases
Mar 11 01:12:45 kuta sendmail[6011]: f2B6CiB04753: SYSERR(root): hash
map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: World writable directory
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help to install SuSE Linux 7.1 on SCSI hard drive.
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 07:33:20 -0000
"Alasdair Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am a total newbie when it comes to Linux. Any help will most
> gratefully appreciated.
>
> I am trying to install SUSE Linux 7.1 on to a SCSI hard drive
> controlled by an AdvanSys ABP5140 adapter. Unfortunately, the
> installation program YaST2 doesn't recognise the SCSI hard drive
> although it sees the IDE ones.
I had to remove the ide drives, just disconnected the data cables, when I
installed SUSE 7.0 Pro on my scsi system. I also deleted them from the bios,
Linux does not need the bios settings to find IDE. This forces Linux to use
the scsi, HOWEVER my scsi disk is the primary one ie my machine attempts to
boot to Linux first, you may not want to do this.
Cheers
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Bellefeuille)
Subject: Re: uncompressing linux... crc error!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:33:23 -0500
Reply-To: Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
I had this problem when I copied the boot image from Red Hat 7.0 from a
CD-ROM to a floppy on my 486 with an old BIOS. This is the kind of BIOS
that can't boot from a CD-ROM, so I had to install MSCDEX and so on. For
some reason, even then, the kernel on the boot disquette was somehow
defective.
I solved the problem my using another system to create a boot disquette.
I don't know how relevant this is to your problem, but there it is...
--
Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ottawa, Canada
Francais / English / Esperanto
Esperanto FAQ: http://www.esperanto.net/veb/faq.html
Rec.travel.europe FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/travel/europe/faq
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From: "Steve Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best Partitioning Practice ?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 02:35:01 -0600
Could someone tell me the best way to format a new PC with a 30 GIG HD to be
able to run Win 98 and Linux in a dual boot system ?
I tried to install Linux into an Extended partition and it didn't like it.
Thanks a bunch
Steve
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From: keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Ultra 100 Boot problems from Linux 2.4.2
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:35:09 GMT
<snip>
>
> x86_serial_nr=1 ide2=0xa000, 0x9802 ide3=0x9400, 0x9002
>
You don't want spaces between the "," and the numbers;
"ide2=0xa000,0x9802 ide3=0x9400,0x9002"
^-----------------------only space
<snip>
> BTW I have a large 30gig drive that booted OK using 2.2.16-22. When
> using fdisk, the following warning is given:
>
> "The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3737.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)"
>
> I'm not seasoned enough to know if this is the cause, or just a red
> herring.
>
This is not the problem (a line with "lba32" should be in
/etc/lilo.conf).
<snip>
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From: Jeffrey Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATAPI CD-R won't write
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:08:32 GMT
I am getting frustrated with this problem. I had this drive working with
SuSE 6.2 eval, but it won't write anymore since I installed SuSE 6.4 eval.
I had problems with the distribution kernel 2.2.14(?) locking up in X
windows, so I grabbed 2.2.18 and compiled it instead. That fixed the
lockups, and I can read the CD just fine... I just can't seem to write to
it. I have tried several blank CD-Rs, and the results below are typical.
I have found a hint on the web that not all is well with ide-scsi and
newer versions of cdrecord:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=cdrecord+ide-scsi+dummy&num=30\
&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=10&seld=930816565&ic=1
but nether earlier nor later versions of cdrecord seem to work for
me. Can anyone suggest direction to investigate further?
*****
root@mirimichi:~ > cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J rg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' 'D.06' Removable Disk
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX100E ' '1.0m' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
# the behaviour is similar without -dummy... I just don't want any
# coasters.
# the cd spins up, the countdown finishes, and then the cd stops
# spinning and the light goes out, and about 10 seconds later it spits
# out the error.
root@mirimichi:~ > cdrecord -dummy speed=2 dev=1,0,0 -data /opt/x
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J rg Schilling
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'SONY '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRX100E '
Revision : '1.0m'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds.
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 10.383s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
root@mirimichi:~ > uname -a
Linux mirimichi 2.2.18 #7 Fri Mar 9 12:31:54 PST 2001 i586 unknown
root@mirimichi:~ > lsmod
Module Size Used by
sg 15800 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 15804 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 7496 0
cdrom 27452 0 [sr_mod]
rtl8139 11872 1 (autoclean)
aha1542 11024 0
root@mirimichi:~ > grep -i ^[^#].*scsi /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG=m
CONFIG_I2O_SCSI=m
#note that I have eliminated ide-cd entirely from the kernel...
root@mirimichi:~ > grep -i ^[^#].*ide /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_JOY_SIDEWINDER=m
CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT=m
root@mirimichi:~ > head -54 /etc/modules.conf | grep ^[^#]
path=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
path[misc]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra
alias eth0 rtl8139
alias tr0 off
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias sda1 aha1542
alias sda4 aha1542
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias fb0 off
alias block-major-48 off
alias block-major-49 off
alias block-major-72 off
alias block-major-73 off
alias block-major-56 off
alias block-major-57 off
alias char-major-10 off
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
options w83781d ignore=0,0x2d
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod
--
===========================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux.best,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: how to enable ReiserFS?
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:53:16 GMT
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:55:59 +0900, G. Hugh Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Paul Colquhoun wrote:
|>
|> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:08:32 +0800, tin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> |after i compile my kernel support ReiserFS
|> |how to convect my existing EXT2 to ReiserFS?
|>
|> I did this a few weeks ago.
|>
|> First, some questions. Do you have a seperate /boot partition?
|> Did you make reiserfs a module, or is it compiled into the kernel?
|>
|> My situation is: /boot is a seperate partition and reiserfs is *not*
|> a module.
|>
|> Saying that, here's how I did it.
|>
|> I turned a spare partition into a second root partition, including
|> all software I needed to boot and run.
|>
|> Make a second lilo.conf entry listing the new partiton ar root.
|>
|> Boot from new partition.
|>
|> Mount all yoru partitons under some place like /mnt/hda1 /mnt/hda2 etc...
|>
|> For each partiton you want to convert, backup the contents somewhere,
|> unmount the partition, reformat with mkresierfs, remount and restore
|> the backup.
|>
|> *MUST DO*
|> Before you reboot edit the /etc/fstab on your old root partition
|> (ie /mnt/hda1/etc/fstab) to list all the changes partitons as reiserfs
|> instead of ext2, and make the 'fsck pass' field entry a '0' for
|> these partitions as well.
|>
|> This took most of one evening. Now /boot is my onlt non-resiser
|> partition. I gather that the most recent lilo can even boot from
|> a reiser /boot but I havn't bothered.
|I did exactly what you wrote. However, when I boot the thing, the
|machine tries to do file system checking even though the fifth and
|sixth fields are both zero in /etc/fstab. The machine then stops
|and asks me to do something in a single-user mode on a read-only
|file system of / (the root partition). It appears that the SuSE-7.0
|configuration somehow assumes that / is formated as ext2.
|
|Are you using redhat?
Yes, I am using RedHat. I don't know why SuSE is doing this. fsck should
know better by itself.
Do your get any error messages? Can you post the messages you do get?
--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Universal Life Church http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-
xenaphobia: The fear of being beaten to a pulp by
a leather-clad, New Zealand woman.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to find what's in my Kernel ?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:06:52 GMT
Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "*harmonix*" <# rm -fr / *@ death is defeat.org> writes:
>> would grepping the /proc pseudo filesystem help ?
> Actually I was just thinking about it: Is it hard to implement something
> like a /proc/sys/config which would have the relevant lines from .config?
NO. It's been done many times, by many people. Alan Cox has always
refused to let it near the released kernel on grounds of code bloat.
You can find my version on freshmeat.net under "proconfig", as I
recall.
Peter
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From: "Robert Zrinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't install Linux!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:09:45 +0100
Hi!
I tried to install Red Hat Linux 6.1, but it didn't work. These are some of
the messages I got:
None of the configured devices were detected.
Fatal server error: no screen found.
RunTimeError: cannot open display.
I am new to Linux and I have no idea what could be wrong. Should I change
some settings in BIOS?
If somebody knows how to help me, please drop me an e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks!
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:51:59 +1300
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Withers wrote:
>
> >If anything is going to drive me back to Windowss it is *&%^$ Netscape.
> [...]
>
> I gave up on Netscape and tried Opera 5 a couple months ago. I liked it so
> much I bought two copies (though the free versions with the ads was
> perfectly usable).
I didn't think Opera 5 for Linux was out yet....I'll have a look.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
"First, they ignore you. Then they
laugh at you. Then they fight you.
Then you win." Mahatma Ghandi
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: A Better Web Browser...PLEASE!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:56:54 +1300
Jay & Shell wrote:
>
> I use 4.76 myself and installed Sun's JRE Java plugin, helped out alot for
> me anyway.
Thanks!
> --
> Registered Linux user #192969
>
> MS-Windows - A Colorful Clown Suit For Dos !
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
"First, they ignore you. Then they
laugh at you. Then they fight you.
Then you win." Mahatma Ghandi
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