Linux-Setup Digest #955, Volume #20 Sat, 31 Mar 01 00:13:15 EST
Contents:
Re: jetdirect and linux. ("kenny@bui")
Re: tetex, pdftex (Someone)
Re: tetex, pdftex (Tomaz Cedilnik)
Re: Recovering from a boot RAID failure
Why won't RH7 boot with L1/L2 cache enabled? (Jim Reynolds)
Re: Recovering from a boot RAID failure ("Bruce Pennypacker")
Dual boot win2000/linux - 1024 matters ("Shane Ginnane")
Re: ADSL (from a tech in DSL support) ("rat grendel")
undelete testing (SolarisCert)
Re: Financial program for Linux ("Glitch")
Re: Really Dummy Question ("Glitch")
TIGERMAN ("Ron Nicholls")
ReiserFS for / (Blue System)
Re: suse 7.1 network installation (Shreyas)
BASH error: invalid character 47 in exportstr for /usr (Matthew David Pickard)
X windows and Remote display problem ("Reboot")
Re: Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0 (Mike Vore)
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From: "kenny@bui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: jetdirect and linux.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:23:22 -0500
Reply-To: "kenny@bui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
thanks for the replies.
"Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:eIMw6.3151$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello guys,
> have any of you worked with hp jetdirect printers being shared through
linux
> or samba?
> 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?
>
> thank you,
> kenny.
>
>
>
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From: Someone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tetex, pdftex
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:57:28 +0200
"H.Bruijn" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:50:08 +0200, Tomaz Cedilnik allegedly wrote:
>
> I would suggest posting this in comp.text.tex
Thanks, I wondered about NGs about TeX.
> The error is font not found.
> Have you installed all fonts? Additional fonts for fi debian are in the
> packages tetex-extra and tetex-nonfree.
I have Red Hat 6.0 and I installed all tetex stuff.
> If you have the font, was it installed correctly? I don't know how to
> verify that they are, ut can you find bbm10 with the locate command?
I can find it using tex and xdvi.
> Second if your source file is in latex, you should use pdflatex instead
> of pdftex, which assumes source in plain tex.
I know, but I hardly ever use LaTeX.
Tom
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From: Tomaz Cedilnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tetex, pdftex
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 02:43:10 +0200
"H.Bruijn" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:50:08 +0200, Tomaz Cedilnik allegedly wrote:
>
> I would suggest posting this in comp.text.tex
Thanks, I wondered about NGs about TeX.
> The error is font not found.
> Have you installed all fonts? Additional fonts for fi debian are in the
> packages tetex-extra and tetex-nonfree.
I have Red Hat 6.0 and I installed all tetex stuff.
> If you have the font, was it installed correctly? I don't know how to
> verify that they are, ut can you find bbm10 with the locate command?
I can find it using tex and xdvi.
> Second if your source file is in latex, you should use pdflatex instead
> of pdftex, which assumes source in plain tex.
I know, but I hardly ever use LaTeX.
Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Recovering from a boot RAID failure
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:11:01 -0000
In article <t38x6.7035$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bruce Pennypacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a system running RedHat 7.0. It's set up with boot RAID (RAID 1 for
>/boot and /). My disk 0 just died and I'm trying to figure out how to
>recover from it. I've installed a new disk and booted with the RedHat CD
>and entered rescue mode, however I'm unable to locate any hard drives. /dev
>doesn't show any drives whatsoever. The system has an Adaptec controller
>and it looked like the AICxxx driver loaded when linux was booting up.
>Unfortunately I never created my own rescue disk either.... What do I need
>to do to recover from this mini disaster? Any help would be greatly
>appreciated!
Is disk 0 still plugged in? If so, it could be making the rest of the
scsi devices not be found. You can look in /proc to see what devices
were found on the scsi bus.
--
http://www.spinics.net/linux
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Subject: Why won't RH7 boot with L1/L2 cache enabled?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Reynolds)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:22:15 GMT
I just installed Redhat 7.0 on my old P-166 but it hangs in the very early
stages of booting (loading linux or uncompressing kernal).
I discovered that disabling the internal and external caches in the BIOS
solves this problem, but I'm not sure why. Obviously I'd like to have
caching enabled and I haven't found any other workarounds.
I suspect it's a problem with lilo's configuration or some other
initialization not happening, but that's just a guess. Can someone shed
some light here? FWIW, Mandrake 7.2 worked fine on the same partitions
(but it wasn't using lilo).
Thanks.
Jim.
System specifics: P-166/32MB. HDD1 for win98 and HDD2 for linux.
/dev/hda - Windoze 98
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 784 6297448+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 1 63 505984+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 64 94 248976 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb7 95 380 2297263+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb8 381 634 2040223+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb9 635 784 1204843+ 83 Linux
/etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
#linear (tried w/ and w/o linear mode, and yes I did run /sbin/lilo)
default=redhat7
verbose=5
vga=normal
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=redhat7
read-only
root=/dev/hdb5
other=/dev/hda1
label=win98
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From: "Bruce Pennypacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Recovering from a boot RAID failure
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:34:33 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <t38x6.7035$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Bruce Pennypacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have a system running RedHat 7.0. It's set up with boot RAID (RAID 1
for
> >/boot and /). My disk 0 just died and I'm trying to figure out how to
> >recover from it. I've installed a new disk and booted with the RedHat CD
> >and entered rescue mode, however I'm unable to locate any hard drives.
/dev
> >doesn't show any drives whatsoever. The system has an Adaptec controller
> >and it looked like the AICxxx driver loaded when linux was booting up.
> >Unfortunately I never created my own rescue disk either.... What do I
need
> >to do to recover from this mini disaster? Any help would be greatly
> >appreciated!
>
> Is disk 0 still plugged in? If so, it could be making the rest of the
> scsi devices not be found. You can look in /proc to see what devices
> were found on the scsi bus.
I took disk 0 out, leaving just disk 1 attached (the second of the two
mirrored drives). When I tried to boot it I just got about 1 1/2 lines of
garbage on the screen.... So I can't even access /proc or anything else.
-Bruce
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From: "Shane Ginnane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual boot win2000/linux - 1024 matters
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 12:17:33 +1000
Some thoughts from the trenches.
Newbie, so I had some problems - thanks are due to all and any that helped,
especially Eric on this issue.
My contribution on all this - SIZE DOES COUNT.
Configuration:
Toshiba 4600 laptop, came as 4Gig Win200, rest of 20Gig (well 18.5 actually)
unformatted. Added a 2 Gig VFAT shared drive, and the rest to Linux except
for 512Meg Linux swap.
RH 7 (plus patches), so LILO is supposed not to have an issue with drives
bigger than 1024 - however, debate continues to rage.
With this config I was unable to get Linux to boot using the Win2000 loader.
Boot from floppy is fine, but isn't what I brought the machine for. Don't
know the layout of the disk (sectors, tracks), but decided that I must be
having an issue with the Linux partition being beyond the 1024 cylinder
limit.
Using partition commander (latest version knows all the formats, and is half
the price of Partition magic here in Aus), I reduced the shared partition by
a gig, and moved the Linux partition down.
Just for interest tried a boot of Linux from the hard disk. Got "LI " and
nothing else. Starting to look promising.
Ran a /sbin/lilo again and DD the boot sector across again.
Lo and behold, it all came up as desired.
I have seen a recommendation that your Linux boot shouldn't be any further
than 8 Gig from the start of the disk. With bigger disks and different
formats coming all the time, this will need some more thought. 6 Gig was too
big for me, but 5 was o.k.
Shane ...
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From: "rat grendel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: ADSL (from a tech in DSL support)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:32:10 -0500
there are a few variables you need to take into effect here:
1) what kind of modem do you have?
2) do you use pppoe, pppoa, or static routing?
3) what version of rp-pppoe do you run?
here's a bit more detail, and how i've gotten several people running, even
though we don't technically support linux at all
1) modem: you need to know your dsl modem's internal IP, if it has one at
all. this is important if you run a pier-to-pier network(well, it was for
myself at home, and for a few others i've spoken to, but not everyone, you
know, YMMV)
2) is you are using pppoe, then read on. if not, i can't help you, cause
that's all i know how to do
3) if you are using rp-pppoe, then read on. first and foremost, make sure
you installed the pppoe daemon. next, if you are using the version that
came installed with 7.2, then stop. run: rpm -e rp-pppoe .get rid of that
shitty version. then, go to www.roaringpenguin.com and get the most recent
version of the rpm, but DO NOT install it yet. now, run netconf, and get
rid of the IP and all the info for your nic, but don't worry, we'll put it
back in a minute. run "ifconfig eth0 down" and then "ifconfig etho up" and
then "ifconfig". if your IP is still shown, you might just wanna go ahead
and reboot. anyway, make sure you have no active network connections. then
install the new rp-pppoe rpm. run adsl-setup, and then try to connect.
after that, put your IP back in and it should work. anyway, this is not
guaranteed, but i've gotten a LOT of people up with this, myself included.
.me.
"News Mail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:6uDw6.2219$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Help!!!
>
> We just got this ADSL and set up Linux Mandrake 7.2 but we can't get it
> connected. I did the "adsl-setup". Then "adsl-start" and get a "time-out"
> message. We are not sure but we may have an IRQ problem. What command can
we
> use to see the list of IRQs?
>
>
> meesh32
>
>
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From: SolarisCert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: undelete testing
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:43:19 +0800
I am implementing undelete testing according to ext2 undelete howto.
But it seems that the testing fails, here are the steps I took:
1) echo > "testing" > /boot/testing
2) rm /boot/testing
3) umount /boot (do it immediately after removing file)
4) debugfs /dev/hda7
debug: lsdel
1 deleted inodes found.
Inode Owner Mode Size Blocks Time deleted
25 0 100644 5 1/ 1 Fri Mar 30 19:37:53 2001
debug: dump <25> /root/testing.dump
But finally I find that the content of the file testing.dump does not
contain any "testing"
This situation continues after I tried again many times.
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Financial program for Linux
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:48:00 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Paul Folbrecht"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
>
>
The best 2 are Moneydance and Gnucash. I'm not familiar with the
individual features so u will need to do some research. I believe
Here is the homepage for gnucash:
http://www.gnucash.org/
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Really Dummy Question
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:49:29 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steve Martin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> NGZ wrote:
>
>> 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 !!!
>
you do the same thing as if you are exiting the vi editor; type :q
(that's a colon and then the letter 'q')
> What I do on my RH6.2 system is just push the "Q" key. This ends the man
> program and throws me back to a shell prompt. YMMV.
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TIGERMAN
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 13:52:25 +1000
Font front bulletin
In - Section "Module"-
of XF86Config-4 add - Load "xtt" -
then run xset and stuff
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Regards
RonN
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From: Blue System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: ReiserFS for /
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 04:04:39 GMT
Hi,
I'm planning to install Linux and have all partitions as type Reiser.
However, I'm not sure if making / as ReiserFS is good decision. Any
input will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Val
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From: Shreyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suse 7.1 network installation
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 04:30:05 -0000
Is your card detected automatically or do you have to insert it? When i go
to "insert module" and "network card" it asks for a Modules Disk, assuming
that none are present on the boot disk. I tried the boot again, but the
tulip driver is seen only by 6.4 bootdisk. Would i be able to use the 6.4
disk to do a 7.1 installation?
Appreciate your help
SHreyas
Kevin Croxen wrote:
>
>
> Odd. I just did an FTP install from SuSE's ftp site, and made a
> YAST bootdisk from the image on their site for this purpose. The
> tulip driver was included right on the bootdisk. Didn't need the
> modules disks at all.
>
> --Kevin
>
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shreyas wrote:
> >ok, i've witnessed many kudos for suse 7.1, however i can't seem to
> >install it. I wish to do a network installation using my LNE100TX
> >(linksys) card that works with the tulip.o driver. However, both the
boot
> >disk and the module2 disk (the disk with the network modules) do not
> >contain the tulip.o driver. However it IS included in the suse 6.4
> >installation disk. What's up with that? Also, are there any SUSE 7.1
isos
> >for i386 out there?
> >
> >--
> >Posted via CNET Help.com
> >http://www.help.com/
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Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Matthew David Pickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BASH error: invalid character 47 in exportstr for /usr
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:26:50 -0700
Whenever I become superuser I get this error. It also appears when I run
./configure and make. Does anybody have any idea what could cause this?
Matt
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From: "Reboot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X windows and Remote display problem
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:52:44 -0500
I have two linux boxes, one has a very cruddy trident video and the other
one has a good card. I want to send my x displlay from the shitty display
to the one with the better display but i get connection refused by server.
Here is the exact error:
Xlib: connection to "kwesi:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
Error: Can't open display: kwesi:0
Is there a config somewhere I need to set???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Vore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Adding a Disk to a Striped RAID0
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:59:54 -0500
I haven't worked with Raid on Linux, but have on Solaris so my view
may be a bit off, but...
If the Raid-0 is striped, and one disk goes bad you will loose
1/<number of disks> 'pieces' of data (the size of the piece depends on
the stripe width. In other words every 1/n chunks will be missing.
In a text file you may be able to fill in the missing words, but in
anything else ???! If the Raid-0 is a concatenated raid (yes also
known as raid-0 with Veritas Volume Manager, if a disk goes bad then
from that 'cylinder' of the virtual disk to the first 'cylinder' that
is on the next disk will be missing - lots of clusters.
A bad disk on a striped set would be likened to a radial scratch on a
disk. A bad disk on a concatenated set is more like a few (many)
cylinders (tracks) missing on a disk.
mike
On 30 Mar 2001 22:48:04 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc KW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've only used raid 1 and 5 software on my linux stuff and the howto I've
>> got only goes into recovering the 1 or 5 failure. Is it safe for me to
>> assume that since the raid0 is dependent on all drives (Striped with no
>> parity)that using raidhotadd won't work with the raid0 config?
>
>AFAIK, if *any* of the disks in a raid0 dies, the entire array (as an
>entity) is gone. It *may* be possible, via some low-level tools, to
>get data off of the surviving drives. But there'll be no recovery
>of the array itself.
>
>--
>Joshua Baker-LePain
>Department of Biomedical Engineering
>Duke University
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