Linux-Setup Digest #924, Volume #20 Tue, 27 Mar 01 10:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: fips and Windows2000 w/ FAT32 ("Pascal MiQUET")
Re: Win2k, partitioning, and LILO on Sony Z600TEK ("Eric")
Re: Lilo won't boot on Maxtor 54098H8 (40GB) ("Eric")
NIS Problems ("Gerschwin")
Re: NIS Problems ("Gerschwin")
Re: NIS Home Areas ("Gerschwin")
NIS Home Areas ("Gerschwin")
Re: Lilo won't boot on Maxtor 54098H8 (40GB) ("Dirk Kissing")
Re: Setting up my own News Server ("Rodger Dusatko")
How do I add more packages after first install? (Ivory Bones)
kppp troubles ("Matthew N. Pierce")
Opera shorcut on Gnome desktop..How? (Ivory Bones)
Re: Authenticate in ONE machine for some 30+ workstations? (H.Bruijn)
Re: Adaptec 29160N card (John Ouellette)
Re: kernel 2.4.* and pppd-2.4.0* (Armond Perretta)
Re: Copying /etc/passwd from one machine to another (bob)
Re: mem and swap problem (Gabor Takacs)
Cannot change passwords after upgrade to 7.0 ("Greg Merideth")
Re: fips and Windows2000 w/ FAT32 ("Eric")
Adding disk to raid0 w/reiserfs ("Hi.T.")
Re: Lilo won't boot on Maxtor 54098H8 (40GB) (Jeffrey Overman)
Re: How do I add more packages after first install? ("Davide Bianchi")
How to install RH7.0 ��SCO Unix5.0.4 and Win98 on one large disk(30G)?
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From: "Pascal MiQUET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fips and Windows2000 w/ FAT32
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:55:03 +0200
Hi,
I've got an HP Omnibook 6000. It came with W2K.
As there were no other way to resize my W2K partition, I've done it with
fips, available on my RedHat 7.0 distribution. I was able to resize it, and
then install LiNUX.
What seems strange, is that into W2K I've got a D: disk which is the /boot
partition. This partition is unavaible, because W2K does not understand this
file system.
In few days, I hope, I'll install SuSE 7.1 Pro.
Best
"Damien Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> I've gotten an oem with Win2K pre-installed. The hd is not currently
> partitioned. I'm considering attempting to use fips to repartition my
> hd to install RedHat.
>
> Does anyone know whether this will/will not work? I know that there are
> claims that it will work with Windows95 FAT32 but I've heard that the
> FAT32 which Win2K uses is different!
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this? Are there any gotchas I can look out
> for?
>
> thanks,
> Damien
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2k, partitioning, and LILO on Sony Z600TEK
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:27:48 +0200
> I've got to wonder about all this.
> Caveat - I've been doing Linux (*nix) for less than 2 weeks !! ;-)
> I have a Toshiba 4600; 20-ish Gig, 4 Gig NTFS (Win2000), 2 Gig VFAT
shared,
> rest Linux.
> Using the 2000 loader, I CANNOT get Linux to boot. And yes I've done the
DD
> of the boot sector. Screen just goes blank after selecting Linux from the
> boot.ini menu.
sorry, I don't use the NTloader to boot linux.
My main loader is LILO. That chains to the NT loader.
I do't know if/how that may interfere with LILO
> Boot from floppy is fine.
> This is RH 7 (plus patches). Other posts have mentioned the "boot code
> within 1024" issue. Supposed to have gone away, but I have to wonder ...
Stop wondering, it's true (although it also depends on your BIOS)
you must use the lba32 keyword, instead of linear and then rerun /sbin/lilo
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,nl.comp.os.linux.overig
Subject: Re: Lilo won't boot on Maxtor 54098H8 (40GB)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:33:06 +0200
> Ben ik het wel mee eens ja.. 100 mb is zonde...
>
> > > you may partiton the rest of the disk as you want. Maybe just one big
> > > partiton with mountpoint /
> >
> > There are some discussions on this topic going on right now.
> > Beware what you advise on this topic, or get flamed.
>
> Gaat niet zitten zeiken over kleine dingetjes joh.. met je flamed.. rot
> lekker op als je zo graag wilt flamen...
never said, I'd be flaming.
> En als jij het allemaal zo goed
> weet.... ten eerste is dit een NEDERLANDSE nieuwsgroep, en ten tweede is
het
> ZIJN advies wat hij geeft... Niet de absolute standaard...
> Laat mensen alsjeblieft gewoon antwoorden en advies geven... ook al zeggen
> ze het naar jouw mening niet perfect.. anderen zijn er wel mee geholpen...
> dat moet je niet ontmoedigen.. mafkaas..
> Ik treed hierover verder niet met je in discussie..
<dutch comment>
fantastisch jongen.
leef je lekker uit.
lucht je hart maar eens.
<end dutch comment>
the col groups are not dutch, but international groups.
The preferred language is english.
I know that this is crossposted to ncol groups, if you mind english,
don't read it.
Eric
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From: "Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIS Problems
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:52:01 +0100
Reply-To: "Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi I've installed a NIS server(Caldera 2.4 - both server and client) which
seems to be running ok and supplying a client with users and passwords BUT
when I login it appears to accept the login and password and the screen
clears as if to boot into KDE but it then returns to the login. A failed
login never gets by the box so I assume it recognises the user/passwd ok.
Oh and Root login is ok on the local box but other users aren't.
Any ideas what the problem might be?
--
:�) Gerschwin
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From: "Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: NIS Problems
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:05:19 +0100
Reply-To: "Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Looking at the logs I see that it has trouble mapping home areas!
How do I get around this as the home areas don't exist on the client, and I
would prefer them not to!
Maybe a default for them all?
Thanks
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:�) Gerschwin
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"Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99pv4e$1e5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi I've installed a NIS server(Caldera 2.4 - both server and client) which
> seems to be running ok and supplying a client with users and passwords BUT
> when I login it appears to accept the login and password and the screen
> clears as if to boot into KDE but it then returns to the login. A failed
> login never gets by the box so I assume it recognises the user/passwd ok.
> Oh and Root login is ok on the local box but other users aren't.
>
> Any ideas what the problem might be?
>
>
> --
> :�) Gerschwin
> --
>
>
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From: "Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NIS Home Areas
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:12:55 +0100
Reply-To: "Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Looking at the logs I see that it has trouble mapping home areas!
How do I get around this as the home areas don't exist on the client, and I
would prefer them not to!
Maybe a default for them all?
Thanks
--
:�) Gerschwin
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"Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99q043$287$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi I've installed a NIS server(Caldera 2.4 - both server and client) which
> seems to be running ok and supplying a client with users and passwords BUT
> when I login it appears to accept the login and password and the screen
> clears as if to boot into KDE but it then returns to the login. A failed
> login never gets by the box so I assume it recognises the user/passwd ok.
> Oh and Root login is ok on the local box but other users aren't.
>
> Any ideas what the problem might be?
>
> --
> :�) Gerschwin
> --
>
>
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From: "Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIS Home Areas
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:11:28 +0100
Reply-To: "Gerschwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi I've installed a NIS server(Caldera 2.4 - both server and client) which
seems to be running ok and supplying a client with users and passwords BUT
when I login it appears to accept the login and password and the screen
clears as if to boot into KDE but it then returns to the login. A failed
login never gets by the box so I assume it recognises the user/passwd ok.
Oh and Root login is ok on the local box but other users aren't.
Any ideas what the problem might be?
--
:�) Gerschwin
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From: "Dirk Kissing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Subject: Re: Lilo won't boot on Maxtor 54098H8 (40GB)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:13:38 +0200
Eric,
> it's a verbose flag, it'll give more info on what happens and why
> it might fail. Run it again, with the verbose flags.
Wasn't that.
I made the hdd the master (was the cd-writer) and reinstalled Linux and it
worked..weird.
tnx,
Dirk
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From: "Rodger Dusatko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Setting up my own News Server
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:10:47 +0200
> PS:Please, try not to crosspost so much...
All further discussions are in comp.os.linux.misc
Rodger Dusatko
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Subject: How do I add more packages after first install?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivory Bones)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:19:01 GMT
I installed RedHat 7.0 on an older machine with less than 1Gb of disk
space. I had to settle on one GUI (Gnome) and omit many of the packages.
Now I find I have about 200 Mb of free space after the install. How do I go
back and install more packages?
Don
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From: "Matthew N. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kppp troubles
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:08:15 -0500
Hello,
I'm a newbie to Linux, so please be gentle. :)
I'm running LinuxPPC 1999 Q3 on my original beige
G3 Mac. The operating system is 2.2.6-15apmac
and pppd is version 2.3.7. I can get connected to my
ISP, but can't get pppd to start properly--all I get is
the long strings of characters that trail along until it
disconnects (due to timeout, I would imagine). The
arguments I'm supplying to pppd through the kppp
interface are "-detach /dev/modem 57600 crtscts
defaultroute debug".
I've looked on the web for instructions on how to fix
this, but, of course, there are many different suggestions,
most of which I've tried with no success. Since I can
connect to the ISP and execute some simple commands
that they allow, I know my modem works and that I'm
truly connected. I just can't get the ppp stuff running so
I can actually surf.
Any suggestions would be appreciated,
TIA,
Matt
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Subject: Opera shorcut on Gnome desktop..How?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivory Bones)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:23:51 GMT
I installed and can get Opera to run by opening a terminal window, going to
the directory and typing ./runme.sh. Now how do I create a desktop shortcut
to do this?
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Authenticate in ONE machine for some 30+ workstations?
Date: 27 Mar 2001 13:28:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:13:28 GMT, Tony allegedly wrote:
>We have 30+ linux networked workstations and would like a way around having to
>create individual accounts in each of those workstations, and having
>to do the same whenever a user switched to another workstation.
>
>Is to a way for the system to authenticate from a server, then let
>the user proceed to have control of his individual work station?
>
>Is there any sense in doing that? I mean if an account has to be
>created at each individual workstation so that the proper /home/user
>directories are created then I guess there wouldn't be much of an
>advantage.
>The idea is to be able to control all the accounts from a server but
>give users the freedom to roam about the lab and use different
>workstations without having an administrator create a separate account
>at every workstation the user goes to.
Install NIS ( Network Information System aka yellow-pages) which allows
you to have a central database from which passwords and usernames are
distributed accross the network. Even when users update their passwords,
the updated password is distributed to all other machines.
Second have all home directories on a single file-server. Then allow NFS
(Network File System) to export that filesystem to all workstations in
your network. Then on whatever machine your users log in to to, they
will have their own files and directories, and you will have only a
single machine to regularly make back-ups off, only the fileserver.
Because NFS create not a trivial amount of network traffic, it may be
advisable to have a large /data parttition on all systems. There users
can temporarily store large amounts of data which need processing, cd's
they are burning etc., as to decraese the amount of network traffic, and
to allow quicker access.
Their should be enough HOWTO's to help you. Second read up on
tcp-wrappers (/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny) to secure the NFS
server from unauthorized access (man hosts_access, man hosts_options).
Good luck
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: John Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 29160N card
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:39:07 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The aic7xxx scsi module works fine with that card.
Ah Chung wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Do you know where can I find the driver for this SCSI card? So that I can
> install RH6.2 to my DELL Precision 330.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Ray Cheung
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From: Armond Perretta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.ppp,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.* and pppd-2.4.0*
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:35:18 -0500
Nader wrote:
>> ...I recommend that you choose PPP to be part of the
> > kernel, rather than as a module.
Not only recommended, but in my case required. I was unable to get
PPP to run when I configured it as a module in 2.4.2. Only by
building it into a 2.4.2 kernel did I get it to go.
Why?
--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.tripod.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bob)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Copying /etc/passwd from one machine to another
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:47:53 +0200
Whilst the general format of the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow remains the
same, its never a good idea to:
a) copy these things
b) attempt to use the same encrypted password
Suggestion, either move only the user part across and clear the passwords
and make them re-enter them thats wot we did... locked all the accounts,
and department by department unlocked them while we were standing there.
Or
Crack the passwords and change them yourself.
either way it aint fun.
brett
> How do you folks move over users from one machine to another. Okay I'm
> assuming you are not using NIS. I've to setup a new server and after
> installing OS, I'll have to either recreate users (keeping the same UID's
> and GID's or the file permissions will be screwed) or transfer the old user
> account and data files to the new machine. The easiest way I can think of
> is:
>
> Copy only user entries from old /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow
> files and add them to the corresponding files on the new machine.
> Copy old /home directory to the new machine
>
> On a sidenote, how do you find out whether the encrypted passwords will work
> on different versions of the same OS and on different flavours of UNIX? That
> is, if I copy the user accounts from Solaris 7 to a Redhat Linux 7 box, will
> that work?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Gabor Takacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.misc,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.support.commercial,redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: mem and swap problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:47:25 -0500
Instead of trying to set it to 256M try for a few hundres k less.
Sharkster wrote:
> Im running RH 7 on a PII 300 with 256 meg ram. The system is only
> recognizing 64 meg and has already adjusted the swap accordingly.
> I have already edited the lilo.conf with the " append="mem=256M". Ive run
> the LILO and rebooted. The system is still only recognizing 64 meg.
> Did I miss something in there and what was it. How can I adjust my swap to
> match the 256m.
>
> Sharkster
> 61517946
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From: "Greg Merideth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot change passwords after upgrade to 7.0
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:08:26 GMT
I upgraded my linux 5.02 configuration to the new linux 7 config
straight from the cdrom doing a typical workstation installation and now
I have this "slight" little problem.
I cannot change any passwords.
This is what I get when I try to change my password.
==============
[root@trigger /root]# passwd
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
[root@trigger /root]#
Any idea what this means?
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fips and Windows2000 w/ FAT32
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:15:58 +0200
> I've got an HP Omnibook 6000. It came with W2K.
> As there were no other way to resize my W2K partition, I've done it with
> fips, available on my RedHat 7.0 distribution. I was able to resize it,
and
> then install LiNUX.
> What seems strange, is that into W2K I've got a D: disk which is the /boot
> partition. This partition is unavaible, because W2K does not understand
this
> file system.
Not strange, your partitiontable is probably just indicating a D: disc
there.
If you want it solved, post the partitiontable here (`/sbin/fdisk -l
/dev/hd[a-z]`)
Eric
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From: "Hi.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Adding disk to raid0 w/reiserfs
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:25:00 GMT
I've been all over google and redhat.com in search of the answer, but I
can't find one.
Basically, I have a RAID0 md0 device on my system now with 2 disks. I want
to add a 3rd disk to it and probably a 4th, 5th and 6th later on down the
road. I can't figure out how to get Linux to add the disk without
destroying the data that's currently in the MD0. Also, I'm using reiserfs,
not ext2.
The problem I'm running into now is I've partitioned the new drive and added
it to /etc/raidtab. When the system boots, it's telling me that there is an
invalid suberblock for the new disk, obviously because I haven't run mkraid
on it as I fear the destruction of the current md0.
Incase anyone asks, no, it's not possible for me to move the data from the
md0 elsewhere while I nuke and recreate the md0 :)
I'm running Kernel 2.4.2 with all the latest patches and raid tools.
Any help would be appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey Overman)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,nl.comp.os.linux.overig
Subject: Re: Lilo won't boot on Maxtor 54098H8 (40GB)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:34:21 GMT
Reply-To: jeffreyo_at_nl_dot_demon_dot_net
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:14:10 +0200, Dirk Kissing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All i see when booting is LI
I had the same problem with my Maxtor recently :-(
> Linux is installed on /dev/hdb. (within 1024 boundery)
> It uses the whole disk and Lilo is written to the MBR.
> I tried using the Cylinders, Heads, Sectors params of Lilo, but nothing
> works :-((
>
> BIOS says CSH: 4982,63,255. Linux also sees this, but not working.......
What does your /etc/lilo.conf look like? I had to change 'linear' to 'lba32'
in my lilo.conf before I could boot from my harddisk.
HTH,
--
Jeffrey Overman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I add more packages after first install?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:34:47 -0800
"Ivory Bones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9r0w6.850$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Now I find I have about 200 Mb of free space after the install. How do I
go
> back and install more packages?
using rpm. rpm -i nameofrpmfile.rpm will install the name rpm package.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to install RH7.0 ��SCO Unix5.0.4 and Win98 on one large disk(30G)?
Date: 27 Mar 2001 14:09:47 GMT
How to install RH7.0 ��SCO Unix5.0.4 and Win98 on one large disk(30G)?
And then boot with LILO?
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From: Ahmad Al-rasheedan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Proxy for Linux
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:38:22 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Debian box connected to the internet via PPP. My son has a Mac and
connects to my Debian via back-to-back ethernet between Mac & Debian.
What software I have to install on my Debian to enable my son to use
Hotmail, IRC, etc. At the moment, I have squid installed on my Debian to
let him use my box for browsing, but I want to give him full fledge internet
access hence my question.
Regards,
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