Linux-Setup Digest #821, Volume #20 Tue, 13 Mar 01 23:13:08 EST
Contents:
Installing kernel (Byron Young)
Linux w/ tv-out ? ("Christopher H")
Re: win2000 drives -read only for root ("John Butler")
unable to get openmotif 2.1 installed? (steve burkett)
Mandrake 7.2 monitor config ("ross.goeres")
LILO question (Chris wolcott)
Why do we bother again?? ("Dale Curran")
Mandrake 7.2/kudzu/PCMCIA modem problem (Robert Watkins)
Re: How to fine tune RH Firewall Config after setup? ("Ian Ho")
Re: Dreamweaver for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dreamweaver for Linux (Texstar)
Re: LILO question (David)
Re: newbie question: LILO (E J)
Re: Need help with LILO, I think. (steve taylor)
Re: USB mouse recognition when installing RH linux 7 (E J)
Kernel 2.4.2 problems - Modules / Debian ("Michael Young")
Re: Linux/Win98/Win2k triple boot (steve taylor)
Re: 2.4.2: VFS Cannot open root device 08:01 (Markus Kossmann)
How to reformat HDD with RH 6 installed on it ! ("Paul Wong")
ISA PNP Ethernet card setup ("Blinky_x")
NIC card problems with MDK 7.2 ("Trent Engler")
Problem with Frontpage Extensions ("Brian Glensky")
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:20:39 -0800
From: Byron Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing kernel
Arch = i386
Bootloader = lilo
Dist = RedHat 5.2 (original)
make method = make bzImage
Most kernel install docs advise to copy arch/i386/boot/bzImage into
/boot/vmlinuz-xx.yy.zz, and copy System.map into
/boot/System.map-xx.yy.zz. For the past few kernel upgrades, plus a few
glib updates, this has worked well. However, some files in the /boot
directory are beginning to look really old, and maybe they need
updating. To be specific:
boot.0300
boot.b
chain.b
module-info-2.0.36-0.7
map (not to be confused with System.map)
For each of these files, what is the source, and where is the updated
version?
Thanks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Christopher H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Linux w/ tv-out ?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:45:03 GMT
Hi everyone,
I have a Creative decoder card (DXR2) and I can play DVDs/VCDs/MPGs on my TV
through Win2k with no problem. But now I want to take out the card and put
it in my P166 box (which is closer to my bigger TV).
Would it be possible to have the decoder card working along with the tv-out
capability ? What software would be needed (if possible a console soft.)
Thanks,
Christopher H
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From: "John Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: win2000 drives -read only for root
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:05:32 -0000
Thanks ...I'll try that.
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98kmet$piu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Does anyone know of a way to access a Win2000 drive without root
> > permissions? I can mount the drives fine, albeit ro, but only root has
> > access, and nothing I do seems to make a difference.
> >
>
> mount them with a umask option.
>
> mount -t ntfs -o umask=0xxx /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k
>
> Where xxx should be the mask you want to use
> (0222 for ro access for everyone)
>
> Eric
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve burkett)
Subject: unable to get openmotif 2.1 installed?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:23:24 GMT
newbie question #2.
on my newly installed RH 6.2 system (i'm trying to get ddd installed),
i'm trying to get openmotif installed.
rpm -ivh openmotif-2.1.30-1_ICS.i386.rpm (from ftp.redhat.com)
failed dependencies:
/bin/sh
ld-linux.so.2
libICE.so.6
libSM.so.6
libX11.so.6
libXext.so.6
libXp.so.6
libXt.so.6
libc.so.6
libm.so.6
what packages am i missing that gives all this?
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From: "ross.goeres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 monitor config
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:57:06 GMT
I've got a Saturn GL2 card to drive a fixed frequency SGI monitor. It
installed and worked fine under an older version of Red Hat. Now that
I've installed Mandrake 7.2, I cannot seem to get the configuration
program to wait long enough for me to complete all the settings before
it adopts the partial settings and produces an unreadable screen. How
can I do this from a terminal window (or delay it long enough to finish
the settings)?
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From: Chris wolcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.redhat.setup
Subject: LILO question
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:01:34 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm a complete neophyte to Linux, so please be gentle. . .
I have RedHat 7.0 SMP Build 16-22. Using UP2DATE I got build 17-14. I
edited the LILO.CONF to have it boot to the 17-14 build. I noticed
there is space for a RAMDISK entry that ends in .IMG. I can not find a
17-14 .IMG file though. Can I build my own? How? (Detailed, please. .
. )
VMLINUX-2.2.17-14SMP
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From: "Dale Curran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why do we bother again??
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:16:58 +1100
My friends,
some of you sit there in ultimate judgement upon the Gates product as if you
were an all knowing computer god.....
what you fail to recognise is what windows does it does better the Linux
......... AT THE MOMENT.
I am a newbie to the worlds most awe inspiring O/S and many years ago I was
a newbie to windows .... which one was easier to set up and even more
importantly KEEP going .... windows that's what it is designed for .... sure
it crashes like a bitch but when you reboot your computer in the morning at
least you know everything is (90% of the time ) gonna be there
HAVING said that, I want the Linux community to show me the error of my
ways.... show me and all the newbies out there that Linux IS better will GET
better and will utterly decimate the crap that is MSWindows !!
Let me give you a chance .... I have just installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 to a
partition of my HD. It seemed to set up fine .... SEEMED ... when I rebooted
and entered for the first time I perplexed to find that I (as any user on
the system) have NO ACCESS RIGHTS to ANY removable media (floppy and 2
CDROM's) even though they were mounted. I investigated only to find that I
couldn't change any access rights for a few reasons ...
One very big one is I cannot in any way open a terminal in KDE2 as every
single time I try the machine turns into your so hated Windows machine and
god forbid locks up...completely.
So I try's the GUI setup interface .... nothing ! It won't let me change a
thing....
aghhhhhhhh ... I love the idea of Linux and when it is working it really
does live up to its name AND MORE.
So please help this newbie see the light
Thanks
--
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If stuck up yuppies in English speaking countries say "Ciao" .....
do stuck up yuppies in Italy say "See ya digger" ??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Watkins)
Subject: Mandrake 7.2/kudzu/PCMCIA modem problem
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:27:09 GMT
I've just installed Mandrake 7.2, and almost everything is right (although it
took an age and a great deal of fiddling to get the soundcard to work!), but I
still can't get the modem to work. (And I found no relevant articles after
scanning the messages already posted.)
Modem: PCMCIA Xircom (3COM) CreditCard CM56
cardctl ident gives the right answer, and cardmgr seems to be doing its bit,
so I think the problem is with kudzu.
There is an entry in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf showing a generic serial modem on
ttyS2, which is also correct, but every time I boot kudzu tells me that it has
been removed, at which point I tell kudzu to "do nothing". I made a backup of
this hwconf and removed the modem entry, hoping that a reboot would allow
kudzu to recognize and set up the modem, but this didn't work either.
Also, there is no /dev/modem symlink to /dev/ttyS2.
I have spent a fair amount of time scouring the net and howtos to try and find
out how to get the modem to be recognized by kudzu and eventually to work, but
alas I have not found the answer. As such, I appeal to the more knowlegable
readers of this group for help.
Thank you!
-- Robert
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From: "Ian Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How to fine tune RH Firewall Config after setup?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:27:24 +0800
For ipchains, you can "ipchains -L" to show what your firewall is blocking
and allowing. You should take a look on the Linux-IPCHAINS HowTo so you can
further customize your firewall. You will always want some minimal incoming
connection.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I recently installed RedHat fisher (7.0.90) During the install
> there's an all purpose "firewall configuration" which gives you a
> choice of settings: High (blocks all incoming) Medium (some) and None.
>
> What exactly are these settings? (Where can I get some more detail
> of what's being blocked?) But most importantly, what is the name of
> the tool to undo/change these settings later on? Thanks.
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dreamweaver for Linux
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:37:14 GMT
In
<1Osr6.11185$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 03/13/01
at 05:29 PM, "Krath Ulic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Of for crying out loud, just use vi .
Damn, that is just hard core. :)
>"Ninja IX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Does
>anyone know an equivalent (or superior :) to dreamweaver
>(windows) > that could allow me to finally and definitively
>abort M$ ?? >
>> thx (for the human race)
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From: Texstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dreamweaver for Linux
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:28:19 GMT
Ninja IX wrote:
> Does anyone know an equivalent (or superior :) to dreamweaver (windows)
> that could allow me to finally and definitively abort M$ ??
>
> thx (for the human race)
>
I know what you are looking for and no there is not a true native wysiwyg
html editor for Linux. Webshere from IBM is about the closest thing I have
found. The only windows application I use is Netobjects Fusion. I use
win4lin to boot to windows within linux and run the html editor from there.
One thing though win4lin did not run Dreamweaver when I tried it.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.redhat.setup
Subject: Re: LILO question
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 02:19:40 GMT
Chris wolcott wrote:
>
> I'm a complete neophyte to Linux, so please be gentle. . .
>
> I have RedHat 7.0 SMP Build 16-22. Using UP2DATE I got build 17-14. I
> edited the LILO.CONF to have it boot to the 17-14 build. I noticed
> there is space for a RAMDISK entry that ends in .IMG. I can not find a
> 17-14 .IMG file though. Can I build my own? How? (Detailed, please. .
> . )
>
> VMLINUX-2.2.17-14SMP
If you are wanting to build an initrd image you should be able to do it
with mkinitrd something like this.
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.17-4.img 2.2.17-4
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie question: LILO
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 02:17:17 GMT
# vi /etc/lilo.conf # edit the lilo.conf using a edit
# /sbin/lilo # execute lilo
Ed Healy wrote:
> I installed RH7 and opted to boot from the floppy. Is there a way that I can
> change the system to boot from the MBR without re-installing Linux? I
> thought I might be able to edit a file but I don't want to mess things up
> since I have win98 on the primary partition. Thanks in advance....
>
> Ed
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From: steve taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with LILO, I think.
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 02:25:20 GMT
cedric wrote:
> Found out about 'linear' and 'compact' in 'man lilo.conf.'
> Removed both from current /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> /sbin/lilo -v gives me the following:
>
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1
> merging with /boot/boot.b
> geo-comp-addr: cylinder number is too big (6251 > 1023)
>
> Also, learned I had to log on as 'root' to get fdisk to
> work. I was trying to get it to work from a terminal window
> inside KDE.
>
> fdisk says that large HD's may cause problems with LILO
> because of the 1024 thing. When I installed, I used
> whatever RH provides in its installation program which did
> not say anything about large HD's and the LILO problem.
>
> The question now is:
> How do I solve the problem?
> I read something about creating a /boot partition of a few
> megabytes at the very beginning of /dev/hda. Is this possible
> now that /dev/hda1 starts at 1?
>
> cedric
Oh dear... Here I go again....
I have trashed my linux system so many times by using LILO that I gave
up and settlrd for LOADLIN....
OK. To answer the question about the boot partition first. The actual
boot partition location may be anywhere on the HD. ( mine was hda6 out
of the maximum possible 8 partitions per HD ).
However if I may I would like to offer an alternative.
I now use a small DOS6.22 partition and loadlin.exe to boot linux.
my Partition map looks like this:
/dev/hda1 A MSDOS
/dev/hda2 Extended
/dev/hda5 Linux Swap
/dev/hda6 EXT 2
Using Partition Magic (version 4 upwards) it is possible to resize EXT2
partitions without losing data and make room for additional partitions..
There are various reasons why I use LOADLIN, but the main two are, I
never worry about LILO getting cloberred by Microsoft in multi-os
scenarios, and running re-compiled kernels becomes a simple drop-in and
go task (if it don't work just rename the old kernel and start again...
I hope that this helps in some way
Steve Taylor
aka ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] '
Linux user # 208472 http://counter.li.org
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB mouse recognition when installing RH linux 7
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 02:18:40 GMT
$ su -
password: <secret>
# mouseconfig # configure your USB mouse
Tao Zhao wrote:
> when I was installing RH linux 7, it couldn't recognize the USB mouse,
> though RH linux 6.2 could. is there anyway to fix it?
> thanks.
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From: "Michael Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel 2.4.2 problems - Modules / Debian
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:30:10 -0600
Hi all,
Can someone walk me through updating my modutils package on my Debian
system?
I've upgraded my kernel as I needed to rebuild it to support my soundcard.
It looks like the directory structure of /lib/modules/ differs from what my
old kernel was and old modutils is expecting to see.
I can't find anything new with dselect & will need some help working with
the files I found at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4/ being new at
this.
Let me know what other info. you need & thanks in advance.
Michael
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From: steve taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux/Win98/Win2k triple boot
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 02:32:35 GMT
Chris Divine wrote:
> "John Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:98jkd7$2apg7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > "Chris Divine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:98jfbu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> > >
> > > I have WIN98 on the first partition (10 GB) of a 40GB IDE drive and
> WIN2K
> > on
> > > the second partiton (30GB) of that drive. I installed a second IDE drive
> > (10
> > > GB) and installed RedHat 7 there. Now the first thing that pops up is
> > LILO.
> > > It has selections for kernel 2.2.16 and kernel 2.4.2, and a selection
> for
> > > Windows. If I select Windows, it jumps to NTLDR and boot.ini on my C:
> > drive
> > > where I can select between WIN98 and WIN2K. No problems.
> > >
> >
> > So you put LILO over the windows MBR with no problems? I have one huge
> 75GB
> > drive with a lot of partitions. I didn't want to risk having to reinstall
> > everything if the partition tables get screwed up & fdisk /mbr won't fix
> it.
> > If I can work up the nerve I may try it.
>
> It "should" work. You'd need to add/edit a section in lilo.conf for the
> Windows boot partition, but before I did that I'd see about getting hold of
> a copy of Ghost or one of the other disk replication utilities and
> "ghosting" your entire disk to another disk, then if LILO makes it puke, you
> can ghost it back. Like I say, it "should" work, but if your data is
> mission-critical then don't "experiment" with it. Also, FDISK /MBR "should"
> be able to restore things if LILO hoses it, but again YMMV.
Just a brief point... Why not consider using loadlin to boot linux. It has
the advantage of not using the MBR and won't screw up and leave the computer in
an unusable state...
Putting LILO on the MBR after installing Microsoft OS is usually safe...
However MS is notorious for messing around with MBR's and I have an emergency
dos floppy with fdisk and dos PQMAGIC on for emergencies...
Steve Taylor
aka '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
linux user # 208472 http://counter.li.org
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.2: VFS Cannot open root device 08:01
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:19:28 +0100
"Oo.et.oO" wrote:
[...]
> oh: this is a P166 DECxldp
> (in single proc mode)
> i have an NCR 53c810 scsi adapter and i'm using the
> 53c7xx driver (works fine in 2.2.16)
Well, in 2.2.16 you are using the 53c7,8xx driver. The 53c7xx driver in
2.4 ist a different thing ( read the README.ncr53c7xx in
linux/scsi/drivers) . The 53c7,8xx driver was replaced by the ncr53c8xx
driver in 2.4.
--
Markus Kossmann
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From: "Paul Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to reformat HDD with RH 6 installed on it !
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:44:46 +0800
hi Linux experts,
i'm quite new to Linux, i installed Red Hat Linux on my hard disk yesterday,
and it runs fine. Now i just want to uninstall and repartition & reformat my
HDD and install Windows98 back. so, how to partition using DOS Fdisk and
format the drive ? Actually, i partition my HDD using DOS Fdisk and reformat
it, but when i want to install Windows98 setup, there is problem saying that
my HDD is currently have an OS installed, and that my drive has disk
compression on the HDD. what's happening, is my hdd damaged ? Someone, pls
help me...
thanks.
paul......
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From: "Blinky_x" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA PNP Ethernet card setup
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 03:40:55 GMT
Can anyone point in the right direction on how to setup a D-Link 220 ISA
PnP. I am currently running eDesktop 2.4
and would like to share my cable connection.
TIA
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From: "Trent Engler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIC card problems with MDK 7.2
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 03:51:47 GMT
I am a Linux Newbie and am about to pull my hair out trying to install a
network card.
I have tried both a Linksys Etherfast 10/100 card and a D-Link DFE530TX+
card. Neither one are automatically recognized on install. With respect to
the D-Link card, I've read that the TX+ model uses the Realtek 8139 driver
(and not the Via Rhine driver used by the TX model) however during install
both of the Realtek modules (8129 & 8139) failed.
Either one of the cards works fine in Windows but I cannot even get Linux to
recognize the card on bootup. Additionally, ifconfig does not see eth0.
I'm currently trying to get the D-Link to work but have the Linksys card
available as well if installing it would be preferable / easier. I've
scoured the net for a how-to concerning the D-Link and MDK 7.2 but it
appears that most everyone is reporting that it is automatically recognized
on install.
Can anyone provide the steps I need to take to get MDK 7.2 to see one of
these cards. I am at wits end.
Much thanks and appreciation in advance.
Trent
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From: "Brian Glensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Problem with Frontpage Extensions
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 03:57:24 GMT
Okay, I installed FP2K extensions, setup went fairly smooth, but when I try
to publish to the root web I get an "Can not open file: structure.cnf for
reading" anyone know what causes this. Incidentally someone mentioned
admin through webmin, I installed this and now I can't even access the
default website created by apache during installation. Thank You
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