Linux-Setup Digest #927, Volume #20 Tue, 27 Mar 01 16:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Adding disk to raid0 w/reiserfs (bill davidsen)
boot failure ("Ren� Scheibe")
Newbie: Mandrake 7.2 and ISDN ("Ifan A Jones")
Re: iptables under 2.4.2 (bill davidsen)
Re: Problems with parallelport cd-writer (Cindy Mottershead)
Re: GUI Xconfigurator? ("Taavi Hein")
RDRAM + Suse 6.4 + HP XU800 (Intel 840) ? (Philip Barnes)
Need easiest way to upgrade kernel on RH7 (Paul Knopp)
Re: Need easiest way to upgrade kernel on RH7 ("Davide Bianchi")
What does "eth0 <defunct>" mean? (Henrik Farre)
Re: What does "eth0 <defunct>" mean? ("Davide Bianchi")
Re: What does "eth0 <defunct>" mean? (Henrik Farre)
Re: Win2k, partitioning, and LILO on Sony Z600TEK ("Shane Ginnane")
A7V and onboard Sound with RedHat 7 ("Larry Snyder")
A7V RedHat w Audio/RAID0 ("Larry Snyder")
A7V / RedHat7 / RAID / on board Audio ("Larry Snyder")
Re: kppp troubles (Dustin)
Re: 01010101 on bootup ("John Pfaff")
Re: update...up2date ("KW")
Re: Proxy for Linux ("KW")
Re: Problem installing RedHat 7.0 on AMD 400Mhz Machine. ("KW")
Re: RH7 install on 30GB drive ("KW")
Re: Strange problem with LILO (screen full of 01's) ("KW")
Re: Installing XFree86 version 4.0.2 ("Shane Ginnane")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Adding disk to raid0 w/reiserfs
Date: 27 Mar 2001 19:16:58 GMT
In article <0p1w6.16678$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hi.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| 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.
Reading the documentation you will see that you can not add the extra
drives without destroying the data. The docs clearly, unambiguously and
explicitly say this in several places.
| 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 :)
If you are running RAID-0 and not making backups you are going to lose
all your data eventually, might as well do it now. Then each time you
add a drive you can start over. If you don't like this idea, start
thinking about backup now, RAID-0 is for performance, not reliability,
and you most definitely are going to have a drive fail sometime.
| I'm running Kernel 2.4.2 with all the latest patches and raid tools.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
Add four drives now. Configure three as RAID-0 (md1) and copy your
data there. Now make the last new drive and the two old drives RAID-0
(redefine md0). Now make md0 and md1 a RAID-1 (mirrored md2) device, and
poof you have more space and some reliability as well.
You can look at LVM, it will tell you how to add drives on the fly,
but you have to start over, they aren't RAID, I believe you have to use
ext2, and it tells you to back up your data before playing.
The first thing you do when you're in a hole is stop digging. Once you
solve the backup problem all other problems become easy. I suspect
you're not going to believe me or any of the other people who posted
much the same thing...
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
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From: "Ren� Scheibe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot failure
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:25:04 +0200
...my linux systems stops booting at the point
where INIT should start. (The system is a
board with Ali M1487/89 Chips)
When I take the harddisk into another everything
boots fine.
So can yout tell me how to fix this?
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From: "Ifan A Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie: Mandrake 7.2 and ISDN
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:21:25 +0100
Hi all
I've got all my hardware setup and working just fine - except for my dial up
ISDN connection - Using DrakConf sets up the card no problems, then connects
(well it tells me it has) but I have nothing in any browser or mail client -
should I be doing something else??
Also when I click 'done' after connecting it asks me which network interface
to use - I can randomly pickl any network card from the list and it says
it's found one - even though there are none in my box.......
My laptop's running fine with a modem though............
Cheers
Ifan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: iptables under 2.4.2
Date: 27 Mar 2001 19:29:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nick Traxler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Does anyone know a simple one or two command sequence to
| iptables to turn on forwarding for everything?
| Under 2.2.16, I just did:
|
| ipchains -A forward -s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
| -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -i eth0 -j MASQ
|
| and everything magically forwarded. ICQ file send worked
| through the masquerade, and I was happy. But I can't figure
| out iptables, and I don't really have time right now to pore
| over the manpage or try to customize someone's long
| rc.firewall script.
|
| Does anyone know this one?
First, MASQ 'is only valid in the nat table in the POSTROUTING chain."
In other words it has zero to do with forwarding. To do what you want
you just set the policy to ACCEPT (which I think is the default).
iptables -P FORWARD -j ACCEPT
This is not good protection, I suggest a more complex and safer setup,
I'm just answering your question!
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
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From: Cindy Mottershead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with parallelport cd-writer
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:31:44 GMT
I have almost the same configuration and ran into the same problem. (I have 2.4
kernel, hp7200e parallel port CDwriter) Your printout looks exactly like mine,
until I upgraded the cdrtools, replacing cdrecord with a later version. I
forgot where I got this, but upgraded to cdrtools-1.10a17. Everything works
now.
Cindy
Frank Enser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got some problem mit my parallelport cd-writer and using cdrecord 1.9.
> (It is a HP 7200 CD-Writer connected to the parallel port). By the way, I'm
> using SuSE Linux 7.1 with the 2.4.2 kernel.
>
> I've loaded all necessary modules:
>
> > lsmod
> ide-scsi 7792 0
> pg 6096 0 (autoclean)
> epat 6208 1
> paride 3808 1 (autoclean) [pg epat]
> sg 21056 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> scsi_mod 83104 2 (autoclean) [ide-scsi sg]
> parport_pc 13280 2 (autoclean)
> lp 5072 1 (autoclean)
> parport 24320 2 (autoclean) [paride parport_pc lp]
> usb-uhci 21728 0 (unused)
> 3c59x 22848 1 (autoclean)
>
> In the kernel messages entries like
>
> kernel: paride: version 1.05 installed
> kernel: paride: epat registered as protocol 0
> kernel: pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
> kernel: pg0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378
> kernel: pg0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 2 (8-bit), delay
> 1
> kernel: pg0: HP CD-Writer 7200, slave
>
> appear, so I think the device is properly installed and recognized.
>
> Then I try to find the device by rescanning the SCSI bus, nothing is found.
> > rescan-scsi-bus.sh
> Host adapter 0 (ide-scsi) found.
> 0 new device(s) found.
> 0 device(s) removed.
>
> And when I try to start cdrecord, I get a nice message like:
>
> > cdrecord -scanbus -debug
>
> dev: (NULL POINTER) speed: -1 fs: -1
> Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> PP Bus: -2
> Bus: 0 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> file (0,0,0): 3
> Bus: 1 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 2 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 3 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 4 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 5 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 6 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 7 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 8 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 9 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 10 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 11 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 12 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 13 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 14 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Bus: 15 cookie: FFFFFFFF
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> SCSI buffer size: 32768
> scsi_getbuf: 32768 bytes
> scsibus0:
> ioctl ret: -1
> cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl
>
> So can anyone help me. (I hope someone can....)
>
> Frank
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From: "Taavi Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GUI Xconfigurator?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:40:54 +0300
: But in that case, unless it also keeps an archival copy of the last
: confirmed working config file, that it reinstates if you don't confirm the
: new one, or something. Then if you mess up your config files by letting a
: gui make changes that you cant see yet, then if your video card won't work
: with the new settings, won't it be difficult to use that gui to fix it???
IIRC when 'Xconfigurator' overwrites your config file, it saves the original
(read:existing) file as a backup, if things go wrong, you can use a terminal
screen (or 'linux 3' at lilo prompt), to rename the backup file (or run the
program again). Either way, you'd have to restart X to see the changes,
what's the difference between startx or simply logging out and in again in
runlevel 5. I've been down that road - my X is configured whilst running it,
nothing of any particular interest happened, not concidering running it
(Xconfigurator) 3 or so times, to get the most pleasant
resolution/refresh-rate combination.
--
Taavi Hein
Registered Linux user #209546
Registered Linux machine #97395
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Philip Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RDRAM + Suse 6.4 + HP XU800 (Intel 840) ?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:40:40 -0600
After installing Suse 6.4 (kernel 2.2.14) on my HP Kayak XU 800, I
noticed the machine was swapping extensively. After poking around, I
realized that the OS was trying to make do with only 64 MB of memory
whereas the box has 256 MB.
Looking into the details of the box, it appears to be using the Intel
840 chipset and RDRAM. I spent a bit of time trawling the news groups
and did not pick up any signals that others have had this problem.
Does anyone have any insight into this? I am more than willing to go out
and buy some fresh bits (Suse or other) or patch / update kernels if
that is what it takes, but I'd kind of like to know I am following a
reasonably well blazed trail.
Thanks in advance if you've got some insight into this. (And please post
your response directly to my e-mail since I might miss it in the heavy
traffic on this news group.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Knopp)
Subject: Need easiest way to upgrade kernel on RH7
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:03:37 GMT
I am currently running RedHat 7 using kernel version 2.2.16-22. All
is running well now that I finally got VMWare installed with much help
from this group. My current issue is that VMWare machines see the
host cdrom as an audio cd with version 2.2.16-22 of the kernel. They
recommend upgrading (or downgrading). I would like to upgrade to
version 2.2.17-x
I am very fearful of doing a kernel upgrade. Are there rpm's
available to allow me to do this easily? What would be all of the
packages needed to do this successfully?
Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give me with this
issue,
Paul
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From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need easiest way to upgrade kernel on RH7
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:10:48 -0800
"Paul Knopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am very fearful of doing a kernel upgrade.
Why?
> Are there rpm's available to allow me to do this easily?
What's "easily"?
> What would be all of the packages needed to do this successfully?
If you want to install a new kernel (2.4) you need the new modutils
(if those are not already installed, check the installed version), then
you have to install the kernel sources, compile them and install
the new kernel. Keep the old kernel around if something goes
wrong (misconfiguration). Read the kernel-howto.
Note that in RH 7 you nedd to update or patch something in the
compiler to compile the kernel. See in the RedHat website.
Davide
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From: Henrik Farre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What does "eth0 <defunct>" mean?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:19:38 +0200
Yello
I notices this, while running top
248 root 9 0 0 0 0 Z 0,0 0,0 0:00 eth0
<defunct>
249 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 eth0
What does it mean?
--
Mvh. / Kind regards
Henrik Farre
Webpage: http://Welcome.to/Webbench
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From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What does "eth0 <defunct>" mean?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:21:36 -0800
"Henrik Farre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I notices this, while running top
>
> 248 root 9 0 0 0 0 Z 0,0 0,0 0:00 eth0
> <defunct>
> 249 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 eth0
>
> What does it mean?
The process 248 is dead but is still listed as a Zombie (Z).
Basically it's no more... you can ignore it.
Davide
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From: Henrik Farre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What does "eth0 <defunct>" mean?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:30:45 +0200
Yello
Davide Bianchi wrote:
> The process 248 is dead but is still listed as a Zombie (Z).
> Basically it's no more... you can ignore it.
Ok. but why is it there _every_ time I boot?
--
Mvh. / Kind regards
Henrik Farre
Webpage: http://Welcome.to/Webbench
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From: "Shane Ginnane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2k, partitioning, and LILO on Sony Z600TEK
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:29:25 +1000
Looks like all this is true for lilo. Unfortunately NT loader needs to be in
the MBR. Just tried all your suggestions (again), and recut the boot sector
across, but to no avail.
Fancy that, Micro$oft making life difficult .......
Thanks for the suggestions anyway - just as aside note, how do I cut new
copies of the boot floppy. Hate just having the one.
Cheers .. Shane
>
> > 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: "Larry Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: A7V and onboard Sound with RedHat 7
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:21:05 -0500
I am having one heck of a time getting my Asus A7V133 to support onboard
audio using the onboard audio chip set. Can anyone provide any pointers in
this area?
Also, I'm able to boot with the onboard Promise FASTRACK RAIO0 controller
using the stock RedHat 7.0 kernel (using the ft.o driver supplied by
Promise) but not with any other kernel. (Wolverine, Fisher, 2.4.2, etc.).
Any ideas or suggestions in this area?
Cheers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Larry Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A7V RedHat w Audio/RAID0
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:21:47 -0500
I am having one heck of a time getting my Asus A7V133 to support onboard
audio using the onboard audio chip set. Can anyone provide any pointers in
this area?
Also, I'm able to boot with the onboard Promise FASTRACK RAIO0 controller
using the stock RedHat 7.0 kernel (using the ft.o driver supplied by
Promise) but not with any other kernel. (Wolverine, Fisher, 2.4.2, etc.).
Any ideas or suggestions in this area?
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From: "Larry Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A7V / RedHat7 / RAID / on board Audio
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:29:38 -0500
I am having one heck of a time getting my Asus A7V133 to support onboard
audio using the onboard audio chip set. Can anyone provide any pointers in
this area?
Also, I'm able to boot with the onboard Promise FASTRACK RAIO0 controller
using the stock RedHat 7.0 kernel (using the ft.o driver supplied by
Promise) but not with any other kernel. (Wolverine, Fisher, 2.4.2, etc.).
Any ideas or suggestions in this area?
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From: Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kppp troubles
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:36:15 -0600
I also had problem getting connected using kppp. I do not have
any parameters passing to pppd. I could connect using the modem
on my Win95 PC but always got timeouts on Linux. The only
solution that I could get to work was to lower the connection
speed to 38400. That doesn't bother me because I never connect
faster than 31200 anyway.
Hope this helps,
Dustin
"Matthew N. Pierce" wrote:
>
> 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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From: "John Pfaff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 01010101 on bootup
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:42:24 -0500
I had this problem. I have a dual-boot W98/Linux box and use a boot disk to
get to Linux (my wife just doesn't get it :) ). I discovered that if I did
a cold boot (turn on power), I would get the 101010101.... but if I did
'restart' from Windoze it would boot fine. I don't remember exactly, but I
think if I even did Ctrl-Alt-Delete at the Lilo: prompt it would work also.
With my luck this has nothing to do with your situation.
- John Pfaff
"earthlink news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:CDFs6.4072$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Well I finally got Rh 6.1 to install, (after many attempts). After
> configuring my resolution and monitor type and testing out X, I rebooted
my
> computer to enjoy the fruits of my labors, and all I get on the screen is
a
> seemingly endless supply of 101010101010101010110,.......etc.
> My guess is that this is a common result of doing something wrong. Can
> somene please let me know what I screwed up and how I might be able to fix
> it?
> Loads of thanks in advance
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: update...up2date
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:56:31 -0600
Unless you're paying you might as well scrap UP2DATE. You may get the
free trial but redhat is starting to charge for that service. I
recommend getting Ximian Gnome going and getting the red carpet updater.
Get ximian by opening an xterm and
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com | sh
follow the instructions...
Once Ximian is on you can use the helix gnome updater and select the red
carpet beta site. once red carpet is on you'll be able to select the
"red hat" channel..
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2001 at 15:49, JP eloquently wrote:
>
>>I currently have a RH7.0 install and am trying to use up2date as a way
>>of keeping the system up2date (!!) with the latest packages but the
>>up2date manager is not particularly intuitive and I can't find any man
>>pages. The documentation of Redhats web site just covers some basic use
>>but this relates to the latest version.
>>
>>Updating up2date is causing some problems with dependencies (something
>>which I was hoping to avoid). I retrieve the up2date packages and try to
>>apply them but get an error about dependencies for pygnome-libglade.
>>
>>Removing the up2date packages works but the I can't install
>>up2date-gnome for the graphical manager. (see below).
>>
>>[root@homer RPMS]# rpm -Uvh up2date-gnome-2.1.7-1.i386.rpm error: failed
>>dependencies:
>> pygnome-libglade is needed by up2date-gnome-2.1.7-1
>>[root@homer RPMS]#
>>
>>I can't seem to find pygnome-libglade on the RH download site, the link
>>can't find the right file and looking at ftp.redhat.com is of no help
>>either.
>>
>>Does anyone have experience of using up2date? I imagine I'm doing
>>something in the wrong order but just can't get to grips with it.
> Go to rpmfind.net and look for libglade. It's there.
>
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Proxy for Linux
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:57:00 -0600
You'll want to read the How-To's on IPMasquerading-Firewalling. If your
kernel is 2.4.x you may need to read up on IPTables as well...
--
KW
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem installing RedHat 7.0 on AMD 400Mhz Machine.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:04:50 -0600
Hmm... I've got RH7 running on 3 AMD k6 II's and my Thunderbird without
much problem. On the thunderbird I did specify at the initial boot
prompt
x86_serial_nr=1 to make sure it didn't have the CPUID problem. After I
recompiled and put 2.4 on I made sure to leave out the cpuid feature and
that is no longer an issue.
I did have problems with my k6-3 400 when I was trying to put linux on
it, but that was related to partition allocation. (microshaft doesn't
like sharing with linux on same drive , at least not on this particular
drive) But now that I've ditched the 400 and got the GHz going I've had
no problems.
You might turning off Plug -n- play option in the bios as well. Your not
overclocking by any chance are you?
if all else fails and you can get to a prompt, get a hold of the boot
messages and post some of that..
--
KW
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "James"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a solution to the above. I had faced some problem
> installing
> RedHat 7.0 on my AMD K6 III 400 Mhz Machine. I am using a Gigabyte
> GA-5AA
> Socket 7 Motherboard using a 10GB Hard-disk, with a 4M Trident video
> card.
>
> There was a error message, a signal 11 was received after select the
> drive which
> linux is installing from. It always hangs at the spot where the OS is
> unmounting the filesystem at the message /dev/pts without any further
> response.
> Initially I had a similar problem, at the message /proc/bus/usb, which
> was
> resolved when I disabled the USB feature. At this point, I do not know
> of any
> resolution to the above problem, but to ask for help, does anyone have a
> similar
> installation problem like me or is there a tweak I need to perform prior
> to
> installation. Another questions, anyone tried installing Oracle 8i
> Enterprise Edition
> for Linux on RedHat 7.0, any luck ? any advice is appreciate and thank
> you...
>
>
> regards
> James
>
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 install on 30GB drive
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:17:18 -0600
While you're in fdisk you may want to delete the partitions and save the
changes, then see if disk druid works. If it still doesn't, there is
probably a hardware problem.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dustin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Need some help here. I added a 30GB drive to an old P166. The bios
> does not properly detect the drive and shows it as being 8.4GB. I
> installed Mandrake 7.0 without any problems. I used fdisk to partition
> the drive.
>
> No, I want to install RH7 on this same drive, replacing Mandrake. I can
> boot from the CD fine, start the install process, and get thru the first
> few steps. When Disk Druid tries to read the drive it says that the
> partition table is corrupt and skips the drive. When I go back and use
> fdisk instead, fdisk shows the drive with all the partitions as
> previously configured. fdisk gives a warning about the drive having
> more than 1023 cyl. indicating that some versions of LILO have a problem
> w/ this. I am assuming that I will not have this problem because
> Mandrake booted fine and the boot part. is within the 1024 limit.
>
> When I continue, after using fdisk, the install returns me to the Disk
> Druid program which, once again, says that the drive has a corrupt part.
> table. How do I force Disk Druid to use this drive, bypass the use of
> Disk Druid, or apply some workaround? I sent an email to RH support and
> have not received any response.
>
> Dustin
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange problem with LILO (screen full of 01's)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:14:36 -0600
If you can get to the lilo.conf on the bootdisk, look for a line that
says
linear
remove it.
Do the same on the HDD if you can get access to it.
This is a known problem with the linear option, which is only needed
for SCSI drivers.
--
KW
In article <1yRv6.158189$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Byers"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Suse7.1, and the system works fine except that the
> only way I can boot it is from the install CD. If I try to install LILO
> either on the MBR or on a boot disk, when I try to boot, I just get a
> screen full of looping 01 01 01 01 01 01's... I've never seen this
> before, and it has me totally clueless. My system is a Duron 950 on an
> MSI K7T-Pro2A with a WD 40GB HD. Any clues as to what the heck this
> problem is and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated!!
>
>
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From: "Shane Ginnane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 version 4.0.2
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:59:15 +1000
Can only concur.
New to Linux also, but had no problems installing 4.0.2 (and 4.0.3). XFree
has a GOOD readme - use it.
If you run the check it tells you what to down load. I had other issues, but
that was because my card is not yet supported
Shane ...
"Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:39:59 -0500, Abdur-Rahman Morgan
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm, having difficulty installing XFree86 version 4.0.2. I've downloaded
> >all the necessary files that are listed on the site, but everytime I
> >install the RPMS, my system fails to restart in GNOME forcing me no
where.
> >
>
>
> YOu will need to do a bit of troubleshooting I believe. One thing, make
> sure you regenerate your XF86Config file for X4 and not what you had
before.
> There is a difference in how this file is laid out.
>
> I don't use rpms though
> to do this kind of upgrade. I always just get the Xinstall.sh and all the
> binaries and have at it.
>
> Best thing... Reboot to console mode and poke around a bit.
>
> --
> Michael Perry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -------------------
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