Linux-Setup Digest #852, Volume #20 Sun, 18 Mar 01 10:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: floppy basedrouter ("James Boyd")
Re: Mandrake 7.2 monitor config ("ross.goeres")
Re: Installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP ("TheMartian")
Problem: progeny kernel panic on reboot. (#banjo)
Mailshot software (John Beardmore)
Re: Installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP ("Chau Chee Yang")
Re: .bash_profile not execute at login (Sven Mascheck)
Re: Windows size (The_saint)
Re: Dual booting (The_saint)
Re: Setting up X on IBM Thinkpad 1420 (The_saint)
Linux sound fleble. (The_saint)
Re: Dual booting (The_saint)
Re: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers? ("Aaron Schneider")
Re: Dual booting (Rod Smith)
Problems with Mandrake install throug proxy (Henrik Farre)
Re: RH7 kernel upgrade to 2.4.0 (Ian Northeast)
Re: Lilo Floppy Question (Carl Wick)
Re: Lilo Floppy Question (Carl Wick)
Cannot run LILO ("Po")
Re: Dual booting ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Shut off & power down? (Wallace Judd)
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From: "James Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: floppy basedrouter
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:19:26 +0100
You might try with muLinux (http://mulinux.nevalabs.org)
James
"Thomas Sandl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:98tpv0$udm$05$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi i want
> to setup a router on my old 486 ( without harddrive)
> can you tell my what routers on disk are available ?
>
> thanks
>
>
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From: "ross.goeres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 monitor config
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:18:00 GMT
Thanks! However, now I need to know which programs to run and which files to
edit. Is there a HOW-TO/FAQ that doesn't assume the GUI version works
perfectly; if so, where would I find such guidance? (The ones I've found so
far are all variants of how to use the GUI version)
--rpg
E J wrote:
> If you are using grub, try to get into single user mode. (I don't know, I
> am RH7.0 user)
> If you are using lilo, try to get into single user mode at the lilo prompt
>
> lilo: linux single
>
> Or else hit
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get you into text mode.
>
> You will have all the time in the world to fix your video configuration
>
> "ross.goeres" wrote:
>
> > 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: "TheMartian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:25:52 GMT
Mandrake 7.2 does that also. I tried RH7 and Mandrake 7.2, then gave up
and went back to RH6.2 which worked first time.
How about using a NFS install?
David
Sydney, Australia.
In article <9925qm$jr4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chau Chee Yang"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a RedHat 7 installed on a PC "A". Currently I need to setup
> another RedHat PC "B" via FTP. I copy all files in RedHat CD files into
> PC "A". And then I make a bootnet.img to floppy disk, and use this disk
> to book up in PC "B". I then choose FTP to installation method. The
> installation is running fine and it can retrieve a file
> "base/netstg1.img" from PC "A" 's FTP server. After receiving this file,
> the screen prompt "Loading /mnt/runtime ramdisk..." and the installation
> process stuck there. What's wrong with the FTP installation? I have
> tried HTTP method as well and I got the same situation.
> Please help. Thank you.
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chau Chee Yang
>
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From: #banjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Problem: progeny kernel panic on reboot.
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:25:27 +1000
Using Progeny Debian, I am trying to set-up a dual boot system with the
mount points on a
second hard drive:
hdb1 Pri /boot
hdb2 (swap)
hdb5 Log /
hdb6 Log /var
hdb7 Log /home
hdb4 Pri /newfs
Initial reboot using the CD, or floppy finally delivers the message:
"Kernel panic: Unable to boot" or such, and asks for an *init*
statement.
I have tried to reboot from the CD, and boot floppy with no luck,
even with the command: linux noinitrd root=/dev/hdb1 init=xxx
where xxx is /dev/hdb1, /dev/sh, or others similar.
I have tied to set-up PQBootmagic to hit the hdb1 partition. Also Grub
to load at instalation, or as a rescue attempt.
As you can see as a newbie i don't have too many more clues.
Any help appreciated.
Jules.
PS. truely amazed with the instalation so far after major problems in
the past with several other distributions not finding usb, mouse, video
etc.
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mailshot software
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:23:03 +0000
I'm chair of a voluntary group with a mailing list of 280 people.
At the moment we spend a lot of our members money posting paper to them,
and we'd like to move towards 'paperless' operation by sending
electronic messages to those of members that have email addresses.
Is there any Linux software out there that can take an ASCII message to
send in one file, and a list of email addresses in another, and send out
the mailshot as a single message which has the recipient addresses in
the bcc field ?
All suggestions welcome !
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "Chau Chee Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing RedHat 7.0 via FTP
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:47:28 +0800
Reply-To: "Chau Chee Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I haven't try NFS yet. Will try for it but I think I will face the same
problem.
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From: Sven Mascheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: .bash_profile not execute at login
Date: 18 Mar 2001 14:58:48 +0100
Chris Pelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> echo "using bash_profile"
> in the .bash_profile, and
> echo "using bashrc"
> in the .bashrc file
If you want to keep this in the scripts, you should surround it with
case $- in *i*) [...] ;; esac
so that you get those messages only for an interactive shell
and not for a short shell invocation (running a certain command)
from another program.
":r!date" in vi and alike.
The portable way would be
if [ -t 0 ] && [ -t 1 ]; then [...] fi
Sven
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From: The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows size
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:17:31 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> If you have the xf86config program installed it will give you the option of
> setting the virtual screen and this will cure the problem.
>
Can you gimme the line, in the script, where I should modify?
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From: The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual booting
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:17:42 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Ther are many howtos/docs about setting up dual booting online
>
My point is that I haven't yet configured the connection (by linux) and
perhaps those files are .tar giz or .z, which I still don't know how to
get uncompressed.
Furthermore what the Newsgroups are for ? :-))
Anyhow sorry for the bothering matter, but I'm a very beginner on linux.
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From: The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up X on IBM Thinkpad 1420
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:17:47 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> For most laptops, at least for thinkpads, choose "Generic LCD" as
> monitor type, with the appropriate resolution
>
In the first shot I did as you mention, but I was wrong because my laptop
has a TFT display. So I found that IBM ***** TFT display is working well.
This has happened with MDK 7.0 distro.
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From: The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux sound fleble.
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:17:50 +0800
Hi Ng,
I've used sndconfig for my Yamaha OPL3, but compared with M$ counterpart
of my laptop PC, Linux seems to be less louder, even I set the volume to
the maximum.
Is there any explanation?
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From: The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual booting
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:18:02 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I recommend LOADLIN, I know that a lot of people will recommend LILO (
> hi eric :-))...
> But I use loadlin for booting linux mainly because a lot (all) of M$ OS
> installation will stomp on the MBR of the HD leaving you with a hard
> time booting either linux or M$.
>
I stand with you in this point. Also because I'm planning to get the linux
into a portable HD. Then I'll be able to us it at home like when I'm using
it on my laptop.
Actually I've the problem that linux found that HD as hde, but I couldn't
yet be able to mount it, even autofs deamon it's up and mount the other
partition on hda.
PS I had tried, but winME doesn't allow any config.sys menu. It's going
straight away into GUI.
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From: "Aaron Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:26:43 GMT
If I remember correctly the RAID adapter in that thing is an AMI Megaraid or
something like that.
I worked with the sysadmin at my old company to get this going a litte while
ago, search Dell's website for the new Megaraid driver. Once you have the
driver on a floppy start your install and select the "expert" type. I'm not
really familiar with SuSE but I belive at some point it will ask you if you
have any additional drivers you wish to use, say yes and use the raid driver
from the floppy. You now should be able to create / edit partitions on the
volume set and continue with the install.
If this still doesn't work you may have to update the BIOS on the RAID
adapter. There should be a disk set on Dell's website to do this as well.
Sorry I couldn't be more specific, good luck.
"Ola Theander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98vutf$3t9bd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear subscribers.
>
> My company has a Dell PowerEdge 1550 equipped with a RAID disk set. I
would
> like to have SuSE installed on this server, but the problem is that the
SuSE
> setup program doesn't find the harddisk, i.e. doesn't recognize the RAID
> controller.
>
> I would like to know if it's possible to install SuSE 7.1 on this server.
I
> have SuSE 7.0 too, if that would help.
>
> Dell currently supports RedHat on their servers, but I reckon that it
means
> that it should be possible to use SuSE too.
>
> Kind regards, Ola Theander
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Dual booting
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:30:42 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Ther are many howtos/docs about setting up dual booting online
>>
> My point is that I haven't yet configured the connection (by linux) and
> perhaps those files are .tar giz or .z, which I still don't know how to
> get uncompressed.
Check http://www.linuxdoc.org. They've got various HOWTOs on
multi-booting in ordinary HTML format, readable on-line in any OS that
supports a Web browser.
(Incidentally, many Windows compression utilities know how to handle
.tgz and .tar.gz files.)
> Furthermore what the Newsgroups are for ? :-))
Answering short questions. Whether you know it or not, your question
was vague enough that a complete answer would be too large for a
reasonable post. Because it's answered elsewhere, pointing you
elsewhere is perfectly reasonable.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Henrik Farre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Mandrake install throug proxy
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:35:38 +0100
Yello
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.2 via FTP, but where can I set the
proxy to use (I'm on a LAN behind a firewall)
--
Mvh. / Kind regards
Henrik Farre
Webpage: http://Welcome.to/Webbench
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 kernel upgrade to 2.4.0
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:34:35 +0000
Steve Martin wrote:
>
> Since you're using RH7, here's a major caveat. The version
> of gcc (the compiler) shipped with Red Hat 7.0 is *not
> suitable* for compiling the kernel. Don't use it! It'll
> cause problems. To avoid this, you'll need to have installed
> the kernel-suitable compiler shipped with Red Hat; it's
> called "kgcc". (It's actually egcs version 2.91.66.)
There's a patched gcc available from Red Hat now. I compiled 2.4.1 with
it. But the kernel people do recommend using 2.91.66 if you have
problems.
Ian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Wick)
Subject: Re: Lilo Floppy Question
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:27:08 GMT
Thanks...
That is basically what my lilo.conf looks like on the floppy. But it
does not load the kernel off of the hard disk...it loads the kernel,
vmlinuz-2.2.16-22 off of the floppy....
I am trying to have lilo running on the floppy but load the kernel off
of the hard disk.../dev/hda2
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 04:26:34 GMT, E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>$ 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Wick)
Subject: Re: Lilo Floppy Question
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:29:52 GMT
Can I direct it to read the kernel off of my root instead of off the
floppy? I still want lilo to load off of the floppy and not my hard
disks MBR, but then I want the kernel loaded off of the hard disk and
not the floppy.
It takes so blasted long reading it off of the floppy.
Thanks...
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:30:08 -0600, Tim Cuthbertson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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: "Po" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot run LILO
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:53:39 +0800
Reply-To: "Po" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have 6G hard disk and divide to 2 of 3G partition.
The primary partition had installed Chinese Windows98 SE edition and Ext.
partition is non-DOS partition.
After the installation of TurboLinux had completed and restart, it show "non
bootable disk".
I don't konw why the LILO seem not work properly.
Anybody can teach me ?
Thank you very much !
Po
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual booting
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:48:28 +0100
The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Ther are many howtos/docs about setting up dual booting online
> My point is that I haven't yet configured the connection (by linux) and
> perhaps those files are .tar giz or .z, which I still don't know how to
There is no perhaps about it. The documentation is on your disk, in all
the formats you may like to imagine, and on the cdrom, and on the net,
also in all those formats. I suggest you go to the LDP's web pages and
read some of the more relevant ones. But if you have linux running,
then just click on some of the docs on your disk.
> get uncompressed.
> Furthermore what the Newsgroups are for ? :-))
In case you don't know, I suggest you go look it up! They are
discussion groups, not free helpdesks (in case you get the concepts
mixed up). People are willing to help you, if you make an effort of
your own FIRST.
Peter
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From: Wallace Judd <[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 15:08:31 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
>
>
>
>
>
You might try init 0 instead of shutdown to see if that works. Also make
sure whatever user you are logged in as has rights to power down the
machine.
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