Linux-Setup Digest #952, Volume #20 Fri, 30 Mar 01 13:13:12 EST
Contents:
RH7 and HPT370 running in RAID mode 0 (Howard Gardner)
Re: jetdirect and linux. (Grant Edwards)
Re: Swap: how big? (Carbon)
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? ("Powerlifter")
RE: Financial program for Linux (Will Renkel)
Netscape error ("W. Hodgins")
Re: Question about file system ("Anthony")
Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective ("Pantalacci Christophe")
Re: RedHat7.0 w/ Iomega Zip ("ne...")
System hang on login ("Daeton.com")
RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Pillonel)
Re: hosts.lpd use for print server (Bill Grzanich)
Re: SCSI emulation on SuSE 7.0 (Matthias Kordell)
install suse 7.1 via ftp server? (mungus)
Re: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Netscape 4.76 mail probs (Chris Boner)
Re: Really Dummy Question ("Chris Coyle")
Re: Windows games on LINUX?
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From: Howard Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7 and HPT370 running in RAID mode 0
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:13:55 GMT
I've got an ABIT KT7A-RAID board. There are cd-rom drives on IDE1 and
IDE2; the four hard drives are attached to IDE3 and IDE4 (an HPT370 RAID
controller) and configured as a mode 0 (striped) RAID.
redhat 7 installation doesn't see the HPT370. I've seen that many other
people have this problem, and apparently the solution is to use a
different kernel. Fine.
Before I spend a day figuring that out, though, I'd like to know a
couple of things.
Is there a "standard" kernel version around that will support that
configuration? Some of the stuff that I've read indicates that I can
find a kernel that will use the HPT370 as a plain old ATA/100
controller, but not as a RAID controller. I'm multi-booting with evil
OS's, and I'm not willing to give up the performance boost that the RAID
gives them.
Assuming that I can get a kernel somewhere (rather than building my
own), can I get the redhat 7 installer to use that kernel instead of its
own kernel? The problem here is that I'm fresh out of hard drives. Can I
copy redhat's install floppy then overwrite their kernel, for instance?
If there is another distro out there that would just, you know, work,
then I'd be delighted to hear about it!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: jetdirect and linux.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:21:31 GMT
In article <mq1x6.4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenny@BUI wrote:
>have any of you worked with hp jetdirect printers being shared
>through linux or samba?
Maybe -- I'm not sure what that last phrase means. I've
printed to HP jetdirect printers from Linux, if that's what
you're asking.
>is it similar to setting up a remote smb printer attached to a
>win98 client. does the jetdirect use netbios names? are the
>jetdirect printers independant of the winNT or win98 computer
>running the jetdirect software?
JetDirect printers impliment the standard BSD lpd interface.
The printer appears to be another Unix system to Linux. The
only trick is you have to find out what "queue name" to be used
as the remote printer name in your printcap file.
I think you can find out the queue names using SNMP, but it's
been a while since I've done it. Once you find out the queue
name (it's usually "raw" if you're sending Postscript to a
Postscript printer), you do something like this in your
printcap file:
tech_hp_raw:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/tech_hp_raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=tech_hp:\
:rp=raw:
Where "tech_hp" is the hostname mapped to the printer's IP
address. The queue name in this example is "raw".
Most distributions have a printer setup utility. Tell that
program that you want to set up a printer that's on another
unix system the "host" is the printer, (hostname tech_hp in my
example). The remote printer name is the queue name ("raw" in
my example.)
Most configuration utilities will set up a "magic filter" to
convert whatever you give it into Postscript (and then use
GhostScript to convert it into something else if you're not
using a Postscript printer).
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I HIJACKED a 747 to
at get here!! I hope those
visi.com fabulous CONEHEADS are
at HOME!!
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From: Carbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap: how big?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:22:54 -0500
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:23:24 +0200, Tomaz Cedilnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just remembered - when I bought a 128 MB RAM and installed Linux, I
>tried to make a swap partition bigger but it didn't let me. The
>explaination was that the first block is used for addressing others and
>therefore the limit is something like that if the blocks are 1k. Is it
>just that the old kernel and mkswap that don't support bigger swap? I've
>got Red Hat 6.0 (didn't like 6.1 with KDE, GNOME and user-unfriendly
>installation).
This used to be true for older kernels, but it hasn't mattered in a
while. The last time I installed 6.2 I set up had 128 ram, 256 swap.
This is a bit of a waste for a server that doesn't even run X, but
disk space is cheap and it doesn't hurt anything.
As for sticking with 6.0: Imho 6.2 is the nicest of the bunch and
definitely worth the effort. On my personal machine, I did a custom
install and de-selected all the stuff I didn't want, downloaded and
installed all the security and errata updates, and went to ximian.com
and downloaded their desktop. It's real purty. Then I went to
firestarter.sourceforge.net and downloaded their neato gui firewall
tool. Then I read the FDU mini-howto so I could use truetype fonts,
and then I found an .Xresources file on google that got my mouse wheel
working in netscape. And on the seventh day I rested ;-).
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From: "Powerlifter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat???
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:32:22 -0500
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've used RH now for a while, and I can only comment on it.
While it does some things nice, you don't really want to do ANY
installations without an RPM package. Not all the things you wanna
install will come with RPMs, so be prepared for a bit of an issue at
times.
I personally will look to make a transition either to a later version of
RH or to Debian when
1 -- Gnome 1.4 is released
2 -- Kernel 2.4 is included IN the distro, not as a separate item
3 -- glibc 2.2 is supported by Oracle
--
. . . powerlifter
lift 'til your eyez bleed
365 bench - 505 deadlift - 515 squat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Renkel)
Subject: RE: Financial program for Linux
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:51:40 +0000 (UTC)
how about cbb - check book balancer?
E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>How about gnucash?
>
>Paul Folbrecht wrote:
>
>> My switch from Windoze to Linux is virtually complete (except for
>> games). The only thing I need know is a decent financial management
>> app, similar to Quicken. Although, I really don't need anything that
>> sophisticated- just a simple check register would do.
>>
>> Would like to hear input from others here. Thanks.
>
--
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Will Renkel
Wheaton, Ill.
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they transcend such trivial matters!"
"da little BIG DOG!"
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From: "W. Hodgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape error
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:52:01 -0500
Hello
With RedHat 6.2 and Netscape Navigator 4.72 (home page set to blank) when I
select a local .htm file to view, the Netscape Error box appears and the
waitcursor stays on. After about 3 minutes, the error box displays "could
not fdopen() the new stderr, Invalid Access".
After that, Netscape displays the file just fine. I can link to
URL's etc no problem.
What is causing the initial long delay?
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From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Question about file system
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:11:04 GMT
Thanks :)
"Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:PPMw6.124015$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm new to linux, and I don't fully understand the structure of the
> file system. Where should I mount a network storage drive in the
file
> system?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anthony
>
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From: "Pantalacci Christophe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:23:59 +0200
Hi,
I've got this kind of problem :
Linux only sees 64M of RAM. When I modify lilo.conf by adding
append="mem=384M" and executing lilo, my whole system crashes at reboot with
segmentation faults everywhere, and i must reinstall.
I've tried several distributions, like RedHat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.2, but
nothing changes.
I guess it's a hardware issue, maybe due to the VIA chipset.
The config is the following :
PIII 733 Mhz
3x128Mo RAM (100Mhz)
Chipset VIA Apollo Pro
Thanks for the help
Christophe
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat7.0 w/ Iomega Zip
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:48:03 GMT
On Mar 29, 2001 at 15:34, Davide Bianchi eloquently wrote:
>"Robert Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Ahhh. Thanks for all the info in the last few days. Do you have any
>> idea why on "valis" I have to mount the zip disk as /dev/sdc, and on
>> "ubic" I have mount the *same* disk as /dev/sdc4?!? Id this due to a
>> hardware setting? Bios setting? A boot-configuration file? ??????
>> Thanks for any info you can provide!
>
><bip>searching for possible answer...<bip><sbonk!>
><bip>hit the bottom of the brain...<bip>
>
>The only thing I can imagine is that in one machine /dev/sdc have the
>major/minor number that correspond to the /dev/sdc4 of the other
>machine or it is a link to /dev/sdc4. As you know the major/minor
>number in the file is a "pointer" to the correspondig kernel module
>that "drive" the device...
Or on valis the zip drive is internal and on ubic it is
external.......
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Hindsight is always 20:20.
-- Billy Wilder
11:43am up 13 days, 12:43, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Daeton.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.linux
Subject: System hang on login
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:00:31 GMT
I have Caldera Open Linux from the "Linux for Dummies" release set.
When logging in as my user kde begins to load but after about an hour I
finally get a message and it says....
nfs: RPC call returned error 111
RPC: task of released request still queued!
RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
Does anyone have any ideas what I could do?
Carlton
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Pillonel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:06:26 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have installed RedHat 7.0 and then I wanted to upgrade my system with
the Linux 7.0 Errata.
With 7.0, the kernel 2.2.16-22 is installed. With GnoRPM, I've made an
upgrade of my kernel with the package "kernel-2.2.17-14.rpm".
Then I've re-runned lilo and I've rebooted.
When rebooting, the kernel couldn't load the aic7xxx module because of
unresolved symbols and then couldn't mount the partitions (something
about VFS ?!) and was hanging at this point.
What did I wrong ? Should I upgrade others packages too ? Or should I
run a special command after upgrading my kernel ?
Another question: when upgrading my kernel, the old one has been
deleted. I would like to keep the old one and the new one and then to be
able to choose which one to boot with lilo. Which files should I backup
before upgrading the kernel ?
thank you very much!!
C�dric Pillonel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Grzanich)
Subject: Re: hosts.lpd use for print server
Date: 30 Mar 2001 17:11:01 GMT
<snip>
>> >What would the format of the entries in /etc/hosts.lpd be?
>> >
>> >Lew Pitcher
>>
>> Hi, Lew.
>>
>> I had the same confusion recently when trying to print from a SuSE box
>> to the printer attached to a Red Hat 6.0 machine. It turns out that
>> the hosts.lpd file must contain (at least in my case) ONLY the host
>> NAME of the remote client machine. In my example, the Red Hat machine
>> with the printer attached is called "cyrix" and the SuSE machine
>> trying to print was called "testbed". So, in the /etc/hosts.lpd file
>> on cyrix I entered:
>>
>> testbed
>>
>> That's it. Printing worked. Go figure.
>** so you would rather that everybody can print on cyrix? Without you
>authorizing it by putting in your host.lpd file?
I'm not clear on the point of your question. Obviously, I was trying to
allow clients to print to the host printer --- it's the only printer on my
little home network. So, I guess the answer is "yes, I want everybody to
print on cyrix". Now I don't mind having to tell the server which machines
are allowed to print... I DO mind not being able to easily identify the
necessary syntax for hosts.lpd.
-Bill
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From: Matthias Kordell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: SCSI emulation on SuSE 7.0
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:11:02 +0200
Keith Marjerison wrote:
> Hello Again;
> I have an IDE burner ( HP CDWriter+ ) and would like to use it in
> Linux. I have gone through the directions in the SuSE Linux 7.0 Personal
> edition 'Configuration' manual on page 122, and adjusted the item 'Append
> line for hardware parameter' in 'LILO' and altered the file
> '/etc/modules.conf'/ , but the emulation does not work. All I have done is
> removed my CD burner as a CDRom.
> My CD Burner is on ide1 slave with a CDRom as master.
> I added 'hdd=ide-scsi' to 'Apend line for hardware parameter' and
> saved my changes and exited 'YaST'.
> I changed the line 'alias scsi_hostadapter off' to 'alias
> scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi' in the file/etc/modules.conf'.
> Thats all the manual says to do, but when I try to 'Configure'
> 'X-CD-Roast' it does not see the 'ide-scsi' drive emulation.
> What have I missed?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> />Keith Marjerison
> />[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
I had the same problem with SuSE 7.1 and a HP 8100i.
I configurated LILO and /etc/modules.conf a few times, and after a few days
it worked. MAybe you must just run LILO to install the new configuration.
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From: mungus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install suse 7.1 via ftp server?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:30:08 -0000
so far i manage to logon to suse ftp server(s)(i tried couple of mirror
sites)but when it ask me for suse directory (eg. /systems/linux/suse)it
can't initialize the setup (it can't find setup files for some reason). I
also tried all subdirectories but it didn't work. I don't have problems
accessing(copying) those directories trough a windows based ftp program.
I guess you been ask this question 1000x before but...
what am i doing wrong?
truly (and pissed off at himself),
mungus
PS: now i thought of something (but i'm not near by my computer so i can't
test it). maybe i was using the wrong 'slash' -> / \ f@ck!!!!
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !?
Date: 30 Mar 2001 17:37:14 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Cedric Pillonel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What did I wrong ? Should I upgrade others packages too ? Or should I
> run a special command after upgrading my kernel ?
> Another question: when upgrading my kernel, the old one has been
> deleted. I would like to keep the old one and the new one and then to be
> able to choose which one to boot with lilo. Which files should I backup
> before upgrading the kernel ?
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Chris Boner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape 4.76 mail probs
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:41:28 -0500
Has anyone else had problems with Netscape Messenger in version 4.76?
My address book refuses to allow me to insert or import any addresses.
It also continually changes my "Sent Mail" folder (using IMAP) to a
folder that does not exist ("Sent%2 Mail" rather than just "Sent Mail")
regardless of how many times I change it back in the Preferences. I
have version 4.72 at home and it works swimmingly. Here at work I am
networked with a server. The other person on the network who uses
Netscape mail has the same problem.
My questions are:
(1) How do I uninstall 4.76 and install 4.72? I tried, as superuser,
rpm -e netscape-common
and
rpm -e netscape-communicator
but I am told either that I can't remove one because it depends on the
other or that the one I am trying to remove doesn't exist, seeming
contradictory error messages.
(2) Is this likely to solve my problem anyway?
(3) Is there a better mail option that would allow me IMAP access with
an addressbook, preferably one that can be imported.
Thanks in advance! -Chris
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From: "Chris Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Really Dummy Question
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:57:46 -0500
"NGZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:3ac3fbbc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, All,
>
> This is really a very newbie-type question. I normally telnet into the
> Linux box and do my stuff, like doing "man ls", the question is how I should
> stop (or get out of the "man ls" thing) when it's at its end. What I would
> normally do is "Ctrl + z", but that leaves a lot of "stopped jobs" in there.
>
> I tried other ways, like ESC, Ctrl + c, but it doesn't work, is there
> another way of exiting things like "man ls" and I am doing something
> fundamentally wrong. Thanx for any input !!!
>
> Nik
>
>
Traditionally, man sends its output through a program called "more".
Now most Linux systems use an enhanced version called "less".
If you don't like the default, you can control which one
is used by setting an environment variable called "PAGER".
So, what you're really asking is "how do I use less (or more)".
Try this:
man less
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Windows games on LINUX?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:07:30 GMT
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 05:30:08 -0000, Lance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking at installing Linux, but I want to know if there is a program
>that will allow Linux to run all the games designed for Wondows 9X/ME. Is
>there something that can do this?
see the "system emulators" page @ linux.davecentral.com
Sound will be limited and don't expect 3d accelerated graphics.
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