Linux-Setup Digest #850, Volume #20 Sun, 18 Mar 01 02:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Goin Shoppin (Michael Perry)
Re: Lilo Floppy Question (Carl Wick)
font path entry deleted (J)
Newbie pb to install SB PCI128 on Debian/Potato (kis boyoma)
Monitor ("Aaron Oberholzer")
Printing problems - 2.4.2 (Ron)
Re: Shut off & power down? (Phantom Lord)
Re: Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 Support?? (Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma)
Re: Lilo Floppy Question (Tim Cuthbertson)
Re: Installing linux WITHOUT a distribution. ("Netfuge Info")
Re: Lilo Floppy Question (E J)
need help installing red hat 7.0 ("Andrew Diaczyk")
ftape latest RPMs (Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma)
ftape latest RPMs (Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma)
Sending EMail from Crontab scripts IN HTML!!! (Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma)
Re: Sending EMail from Crontab scripts IN HTML!!!
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Re: Sending EMail from Crontab scripts IN HTML!!! (Hal Burgiss)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Goin Shoppin
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 02:19:11 -0000
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 08:36:44 EST,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A few good sites for you to check out:
>
> www.anandtech.com
> www.tomshardware.com
>
>
Here are a few sites I use to buy hardware that seems to work very well.
This is lifted from a Linux Journal magazine some time ago:
General hardware including decent cases:
www.aberdeeninc.com
Pretty good prices on motherboard, cpu, cases, and other:
www.computersupersale.com
Another decent site for memory:
www.solutions4sure.com
I have used aberdeeninc.com for a lot of cases, motherboards, etc. They are
pretty good and they get the stuff to you quick. I tend to build self-built
systems these days and since I live in the SF bay area, there are no lack of
local shops. But I also buy some of it online. My most recent system is
one of the $800 "killer" systems as shown in the November 2000 LJ magazine.
Its not a duron or athlon but it runs Linux like a champ:
AMD K6II chip
256mb of memory
Matrox Millenium G400 or Diamond Viper 770d with the new X4.0.2; nvidia drivers
2 30g or so maxtor ide drives (these are really cheap these days!)
Mid-case (did not order the usual fullsized for some reason).
Then I slap debian 2.2r2, do a minimalistic install and take it up to
testing. With X4.0.2, I get the nvidia drivers for the viper. I would
probably change the video card a bit now with some of the hot new cards out
there. My systems seem to work quite well and very reliably though. I am
usually very happy with the Matrox cards. One older system still has one of
the PCI matrox millenium cards in it. Solid performer even back then. That
system runs redhat 5.2 I think.
This system tends to stay up and run quite well for the uses I have for it.
Primarily desktop stuff. My needs for servers go way down the food chain to
ebay auctions :)
--
Michael Perry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Wick)
Subject: Re: Lilo Floppy Question
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 02:17:21 GMT
The issue is..I'm not sure what the lilo.conf should look like...
thanks for the help....welll.....thanks for the feedback.
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:18:15 GMT, E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>$ man lilo # RTFM on lilo :)
>
>This is the option you want
> -C config-file
> lilo reads its instructions about what files to map from
>its config
> file, by default /etc/lilo.conf. This option can be used
>to specify
> a non-default config file.
>
># mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # mount that linux boot floppy
># lilo -C /mnt/floppy/etc/lilo.conf # update lilo on the boot floppy
># umount /mnt/floppy # unmount that linux boot floppy
>
>Carl Wick wrote:
>
>> Signature didn't work on this post...please remove the numbers to
>> email me directly...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:18:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Wick)
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I run mkbootdisk and it creates a floopy boot disk using Lilo and it
>> >works fine. I would like to be able boot Lilo off the floppy, but
>> >have the kernel load off of the hard disk instead of the floppy. I
>> >had done it that way several years ago with a Slackware
>> >distribution...
>> >
>> >Can someone help? I am pretty sure it is doable, but am struggling
>> >with Lilo. I read the mini HOWTO on Lilo but still struggling.
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance...
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Remove the numbers in the email address...
>>
>> Carl
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J)
Subject: font path entry deleted
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 02:34:56 GMT
I have done a couple installs on a Compaq prosignia 300 and have had
problems with x-windows crashing after a few days usage..I'm not sure
what's causing it.
I'm getting:
Entry deleted from font path
_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: "Can't connect: errno=111
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font ' fixed'
failed to set default font path.
I'd prefer not to do another whole install can anyone suggest a
specific rpm to install or tab to modify
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From: kis boyoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie pb to install SB PCI128 on Debian/Potato
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:46:57 +0100
I made successfully a squeezed ~120MB Potato/TWM installation.
Everything works fine except the sound card (SB PCI 128) which remains
silent! It is seen by the system on booting. IRQ is given correctly so
are the ioports. It seems the problem is that of the module es1371.o
which fails to load. I installed then all the alsa related packages in
the distribution, run alsaconf but it still can't play. Please help is
needed.
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From: "Aaron Oberholzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitor
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:06:15 +0800
Hi,
I have just linux working, when I was installing it, it needed my monitor
and video card details. The video card was right but my monitor was set to a
generic setting. I changed it to my real monitor (ViewSonic 4E) but it came
up with a error thing so I went back to the monitor list and the generic
setting came up ok. Now that linux is set up when I log into linux colours
are ok but I get like colour marks and it is hard to read is there anyway
from within linux I can change my monitor? (I am running Mandrake 7.2).
-Aaron :D
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing problems - 2.4.2
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:24:26 +0000
Hi folks:
I'm sure you all have heard this one before, but I can't seem to find the
answer (and yes, I did RTFM)...
Simply put, I can't get the kernel (2.4.2pre3) to find/use my printing
port. My old kernel (2.2.16) did just fine with using the printer port and
Win98 still uses it just fine to this day.
I tried with all the printer stuff compiled into the kernel and as modules,
no difference. Here is what the kernel reports...
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=97 devrev=74 oldid=ff
Winbond chip type 83977ATF
Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=02
Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3
Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0
Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=ECP
SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
As near as I can tell, the kernel is finding the hardware and see's the
correct configure information. Somehow, the kernel is not creating the
proper links down to /dev/lp0.
Here is the contents of /proc/sys/dev/parport
default/
Clearly, not finding the hardware.
HELP!!!
Ron Gage - Saginaw, MI
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From: Phantom Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shut off & power down?
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,alt.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:21:40 GMT
Bruce Pennypacker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of testing a new server for my company that is based on
> an Intel L440GX+ motherboard. It came installed with Windows 2000, and
> when
> we tell Windows to shut down it would power down the server. When I
> installed RedHat Linux 6.2 & the 2.4.1 kernel and tried to use either
> /sbin/poweroff or /sbin/shutdown -p it would shut down linux but it never
> powers down the server. I've gone through all the BIOS settings I can
> think
> of and ensured that APM is compiled into the kernel. What am I missing?
> What do I need to do to get linux to power the machine down on shutdown?
> We need this because we have a few dozen linux systems in our server room
> and need to have them power down automatically in the event of a power
> failure so our UPS can keep critical systems up as long as possible.
>
> Two people I work with who run linux at home say they had no problem
> getting linux to power their machines down and can't think of why it's not
> working for our company servers...
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Bruce
>
>
I'm not sure what "shutdown -p" does, but I use "shutdown -h" to powerdown
my machines and that works fine.
- Phantom Lord
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From: Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 Support??
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:29:11 GMT
The Mandrake Install should do that automatically (thru kudzu).
I am running a RayLink based PCMCIA wireless card on my linux machine.
Bob Wickline wrote:
> Subject says it all. I have an IBM ThinkPad 600e with a Sierra
> Wireless AirCard 300 in it. (running Mandrake 7.2) Are there any
> drivers for this network adapter?
>
> replace "NOSPAM" with "f350" when replying.
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From: Tim Cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo Floppy Question
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:30:08 -0600
Carl Wick wrote:
>
> The issue is..I'm not sure what the lilo.conf should look like...
>
> thanks for the help....welll.....thanks for the feedback.
>
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:18:15 GMT, E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >$ man lilo # RTFM on lilo :)
> >
> >This is the option you want
> > -C config-file
> > lilo reads its instructions about what files to map from
> >its config
> > file, by default /etc/lilo.conf. This option can be used
> >to specify
> > a non-default config file.
> >
> ># mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # mount that linux boot floppy
> ># lilo -C /mnt/floppy/etc/lilo.conf # update lilo on the boot floppy
> ># umount /mnt/floppy # unmount that linux boot floppy
> >
> >Carl Wick wrote:
Basically, it should say:
boot=/dev/fd0
install=/dev/fd0/boot.b
map=/dev/fd0/map
message=/dev/fd0/message
prompt
timeout=50
vga=normal
image=/dev/fd0/linuz
root=/dev/Your root partition
label=linux
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From: "Netfuge Info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing linux WITHOUT a distribution.
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:35:22 -0700
OK but how do I even make the first step to get a blank hard drive ready. I
see some distributions install some dos utilities... am I to start with a
partitioning program that will format (and btw what type of format does
linux create). and does x free86 need to be installed prior to anything
else? thanks
"Bit Twister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Well, you have the kernel source. Open it with your editor
> ,................................................................
> '->and start reading what it wants first. Create that directory. |
> Every time it calls a module, open it with your editor.............'
>
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:49:22 -0700, Netfuge Info
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi All-
> >I am wanting to intall Linux from scratch (meaning from the point of
having
> >a clean hard drive no OS installed). But here is the kicker, I am tired
of
> >distributions. I want to do this the hard way. If anyone has
information
> >(sites that offer documentation is the best) on how I can learn to
install
> >linux this way or a book to recommend I would be most appreciative.
> >As I said, I am able to successfully install linux from distribution CDs
and
> >can compile new kernals, but what I want to do is recreate what an
> >installation CD would do (tweaking it of course HEHEHE).
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo Floppy Question
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:26:34 GMT
$ man lilo.conf # RTFM on lilo.conf also :)
$ # this is what my lilo.conf for my floppy looks like. Yours would be
different from mine. Adjust your lilo.conf
$ # accordingly
$ cat /mnt/floppy/etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
root=/dev/hda4
initrd=/initrd.img
Carl Wick wrote:
> The issue is..I'm not sure what the lilo.conf should look like...
>
> thanks for the help....welll.....thanks for the feedback.
>
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:18:15 GMT, E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >$ man lilo # RTFM on lilo :)
> >
> >This is the option you want
> > -C config-file
> > lilo reads its instructions about what files to map from
> >its config
> > file, by default /etc/lilo.conf. This option can be used
> >to specify
> > a non-default config file.
> >
> ># mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # mount that linux boot floppy
> ># lilo -C /mnt/floppy/etc/lilo.conf # update lilo on the boot floppy
> ># umount /mnt/floppy # unmount that linux boot floppy
> >
> >Carl Wick wrote:
> >
> >> Signature didn't work on this post...please remove the numbers to
> >> email me directly...
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:18:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Wick)
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >I run mkbootdisk and it creates a floopy boot disk using Lilo and it
> >> >works fine. I would like to be able boot Lilo off the floppy, but
> >> >have the kernel load off of the hard disk instead of the floppy. I
> >> >had done it that way several years ago with a Slackware
> >> >distribution...
> >> >
> >> >Can someone help? I am pretty sure it is doable, but am struggling
> >> >with Lilo. I read the mini HOWTO on Lilo but still struggling.
> >> >
> >> >Thanks in advance...
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Remove the numbers in the email address...
> >>
> >> Carl
> >
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From: "Andrew Diaczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: need help installing red hat 7.0
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:40:59 GMT
I just built a pc amd k6-2 400 48 meg of ram have not got red hat 7.0 to
install it crashes somewhere in the process this is a cd made from an image
I downloaded. Are there some setup bugs or whats going on I even loaded
redhat 5.2 and tried to upgrade to 7.0 but no good.
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From: Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: ftape latest RPMs
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:04:11 GMT
Hi
Searching Mandrake and Redhat's sites didn't come up with
ANY RPMs for the latest 4.x series of FTAPE modules.
Is that supposed to mean something?
Red hat's site mentioned something about a 3.04 version dated 3 yrs ago!
I am forced to compile the module.
For that I first had to do a 'make config' under /usr/src/linux and
answer
the default to all the questions (hoping that the answers matched the
way
the default-installed-kernel was built...
I have a Travan T1000 Colorado tape drive (that hooks up to the FDC).
Thanks for any comments or tips...
Sarma
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From: Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: ftape latest RPMs
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:18:39 GMT
Hi
Searching Mandrake and Redhat's sites didn't come up with
ANY RPMs for the latest 4.x series of FTAPE modules.
Is that supposed to mean something?
Red hat's site mentioned something about a 3.04 version dated 3 yrs ago!
I am forced to compile the module.
For that I first had to do a 'make config' under /usr/src/linux and
answer
the default to all the questions (hoping that the answers matched the
way
the default-installed-kernel was built...
I have a Travan T1000 Colorado tape drive (that hooks up to the FDC).
Thanks for any comments or tips...
Sarma
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From: Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Sending EMail from Crontab scripts IN HTML!!!
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:20:03 GMT
Hi,
Turns out that Netscape Mail Reader expects the following
as PART OF the email-header, else it will treat the msg as plain text.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0A9FF.718881A0"
Any ideas on how to send email with custom headers -- or more
complex, are there any other email programs that are better in this SPECIFIC
respect
when compared to '/bin/Mail'?
Remember. this email program will run within a script by CRON.
No DISPLAY variable, and no HOME variable set, etc...
[end]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sending EMail from Crontab scripts IN HTML!!!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:24:28 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Turns out that Netscape Mail Reader expects the following
> as PART OF the email-header, else it will treat the msg as plain text.
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0A9FF.718881A0"
Why, pray tell, do you want the status reports in HTML????
I thought most people were happily fighting to ban HTML mail altogether...
Irregardless, I don't see the reason, since regular text is a subset
of HTML....
Not saying that your reasoning is wrong, but....
Kris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Sending EMail from Crontab scripts IN HTML!!!
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Mar 2001 01:26:47 -0500
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 05:20:03 GMT, Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Turns out that Netscape Mail Reader expects the following
>as PART OF the email-header, else it will treat the msg as plain text.
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0A9FF.718881A0"
>
>Any ideas on how to send email with custom headers -- or more complex,
>are there any other email programs that are better in this SPECIFIC
>respect when compared to '/bin/Mail'?
>
>Remember. this email program will run within a script by CRON.
>No DISPLAY variable, and no HOME variable set, etc...
Why not?
If it were me, I would use mutt, and have a special muttrc that dumped
whatever headers I want.
my_hdr MIME-Version: 1.0
my_hdr Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
my_hdr boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0A9FF.718881A0"
--
Hal B
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