Linux-Setup Digest #966, Volume #20 Mon, 2 Apr 01 04:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: ISO image install problem... (Rod Smith)
Help with configuring squid (aka proxy server) in transparent caching mode (Hung
Ngoc Lai)
problems w/ Mandrake install ("Thomas McNamara")
Re: How do you stop Linux from trying to start sendmail on startup?? (Rod Smith)
fdisk problem ("sam")
Anybody tried various 2.4 kernel based distributions? Opinions? ("Warren Postma")
Re: RPM Update (Luke Vogel)
Re: fdisk problem (CHNg)
Re: fdisk problem (E J)
Re: Novice admin trying to secure a server (Luke Vogel)
Installing KDE 2. on RH 7.0 (Guy Parry)
Mouse not working in Gnome - Help! (anyone)
Re: Soundcard play *.au and *.wav files, but not from CD rom (E J)
Re: Linux Newbie Installation questions (Query_String)
Considering Linux implementation instead of HPUX -- Advice needed ("Greg Francis")
Re: Installing KDE 2. on RH 7.0 ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
Re: Kernel Panic: In swapper task - not syncing (RH7 & SuSE 7.1) ("Eric")
Re: Downloaded RH7 image won't work...help ("Tom")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: ISO image install problem...
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 04:11:46 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve) writes:
>>|
>>| You should have the ISO image back on the hard disk of the burner machine
>>| and make a new CD with 'Make CD from image' option in the burner program.
>
> What I usually do is mount the image then burn to cd. Works everytime.
That can easily lose information, particularly when dealing with
cross-OS burning. For instance, it's not clear if the original poster
burned from within Linux. If the original poster was using Windows,
then mounting the image is iffy (Windows itself doesn't support it, but
I believe there are third-party utilities that do). Assuming the image
is mounted in Windows, you'd lose stuff like Rock Ridge owner and
permissions information, some of which may be important for a Linux
installation CD. When doing this in Linux, you might lose the bootable
nature of the original, unless you take special measures to preserve
it. Likewise, if the CD image supported both ISO-9660 and HFS, you'd
lose the HFS side (unless you mounted it as HFS, in which case you might
lose Rock Ridge information).
All in all, if you download a CD image file, it's best to burn it as an
image file, not mount it and try to re-parse it. Doing the latter just
introduces possibilities for error, both subtle and not-so-subtle.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with configuring squid (aka proxy server) in transparent caching mode
Date: 2 Apr 2001 02:45:14 GMT
I am running RedHat Linux 7.0 with kernel version 2.4.2. This linux box has 2
interfaces.
The external (public) interface [eth1] has an IP of 199.0.216.222 and the internal
interface [eth0]
(private) has an IP address of 172.16.1.254. I am running iptables (aka netfilter) on
this
box so that other clients (microsoft Windows 98/NT/2k) on the private network can
access the Internet. Everything is working smoothly and I am quite happy with it.
Now I would like to implement squid (aka proxy server) on another linux box in my
private
network (this linux box has an IP address of 172.16.1.253) so that I can improve
Internet
access performance for internal clients. After installing and configuring squid, I
run the
following command to make sure that squid is running properly:
/usr/local/squid/bin/client -h 172.16.1.253 -p 3128 http://www.washingtonpost.com
I look at the /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log file and see that squid if functioning
properly.
To make sure that squid is also functioning properly, I configure the Netscape browser
on one of the clients (IP 172.16.1.100) to point to the squid server (in netscape,
edit, Preferences, Advanced, proxies and specify the IP address and the port 3128).
In summary, squid works.
Now, what I would like to accomplish is to configure squid server to run in transparent
caching mode. I do NOT want to go to every-clients and reconfigure the browser to
point
to the squid server. Because I am running ipmasquarade (NAT) on the main linux box, so
I put the following lines in the rc.firewall script:
#Accept port 3128 for squid
$IPT -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 3128 -j ACCEPT
$IPT -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to 172.16.1.253:3128
$IPT -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to 172.16.1.253:3128
$IPT -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 172.16.1.253:3128
what this accomplished is to redirect any traffic (80 or 443) that hits the internal
interface of
linux box (ip 172.16.1.254) to the squid server and see if the information is already
in the
cache. Only go to the Internet if necessary.
Well, it does NOT work. Because I am not a linux expert, I am stuck at this point. I
don't know
how to prceed from here. If anyone in the group has done this or something similar to
this, please
show me how.
Sorry for a very long mumbo-jumbo question.
Regards,
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From: "Thomas McNamara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems w/ Mandrake install
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:20:58 -0700
I've got WindowsME installed on a 20.4 Gig Maxtor, and want
to dual boot Mandrake 7.2. Upon installation, when I get to the point where
"The DrakX Partitioning wizard found the following solutions:"
I click on "Use Existing Partition" and get this error:
---The FAT resizer is unable to handle your partition, the following
error occured: Can't locate object method "new" via package
"resize_fat::main" at /usr/bin/perl-install_interactive.pm
line 108, <> line 5---
Now, I'm a newbie, so I'm stumped. I haven't had any problems with
lnx4win, but that method makes for a sluggish OS. TIA
Note: I can bypass this error by going into Expert Mode, but the I get
another
error when Mandrake attempts to install/configure the bootloader.
I want to run Linux--I'm actually really excited about it--but I still need
Windows for some things, and don't want to settle for lnx4win.
--Tom McNamara
PS:
FWIW, here are the rest of my system specs:
Duron 700 Mhz
Abit KT7 (KT133 chipset)
128 megs generic SDRAM
Visiontek GeForce MX
Soundblaster Live! Value
Pioneer 16x DVD
Realtek PCI 10/100 NIC
Creative Labs PCI Modem Blaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: How do you stop Linux from trying to start sendmail on startup??
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 04:19:51 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I keep looking through all of the init files I can find, but I can't
> find where the system is being told to start sendmail. Every time I
> boot up, it tries, and fails, but it takes an extra minute or two to
> boot up because it keeps trying. Since I don't need it, I would just
> assume it did not try, but I can't find where it is being told to try
> to start it.
The usual reason for the problem of sendmail pausing during startup is
that your hostname is set incorrectly. Check your /etc/hosts file, and
be sure it has entries for two IP addresses: 127.0.0.1 and your real
network IP address (assuming you've got an Ethernet, Token Ring, or
similar network hardware). For instance:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.45 rhubarb.example.com rhubarb
If you're really positive that you don't need sendmail running, you can
usually disable it via a startup script in the /etc/rc.d/rc?.d or
/etc/rc?.d directory set. Scripts that begin with "S" start things, and
those that begin with "K" stop them. Change the sendmail script from an
"S" to a "K" filename in your default runlevel (probably 2, 3, or 5).
There are tools that'll do this automatically in some distributions,
like ntsysv and tksysv. In SuSE, you'd use /etc/rc.config to control
what starts up.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fdisk problem
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:32:15 +0800
Why I can not delete the partition with win98 and liunx when I run "fdisk"
command?
sam
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From: "Warren Postma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anybody tried various 2.4 kernel based distributions? Opinions?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 04:53:16 GMT
I installed Traktopels (Mandrake 8.0 beta 2). Way too unstable. The
Installer kept crashing and there were lots of error messages from the newly
upgrade RPM 4.0 package manager, and the KDE and GNOME installation failed,
leaving me in a Circa-1983 version of X, with an xterm, and xclock, and
nothing else. Nice.
I'm going to have a spin around the block with the new RedHat "Wolverine"
beta, which apparently supercedes the previous "Fisher" beta, If I've
understood the dates/times on the ISO files correctly. <grin>
Also, it appears that SuSE has a 2.4 based distribution out there, but
there's NO way to evaluate it without first buying it. If I tried it, and
it was stable, I would certainly pay $29 or $49 or whatever, but I'm not
going to Buy Before Try, how bass-ackwards is that, in the Open Source
world.
Any other opinions? Is there a Debian or Slackware beta in the works with
2.4 kernel support built in?
Warren Postma
London Ontario Canada
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From: Luke Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM Update
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 14:56:05 +1000
Chris Coyle wrote:
> Luke,
> I am also using a RH6.2 system, and have recently upgraded my rpm rpms
> to version 4.0.2. I have been trying to stay reasonably up-to-date with
> redhat's security advisories etc which you can see posted at
> www.redhat.com/support/errata/index.html
> I have always found the instructions given there to be clear enough
> that the installation was very easy (except for new kernels, but thats
> another story). You may not be able to DL the rpms directly from redhat
> (I can't), but if you rummage around on their web site, you will find
> a list of mirror sites whence you can get them by ftp. There's even
> a few listed for Australia!
> Cheers.
> Chris.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply ... In your message above, you refer to upgrading
to version 4.0.2, but the redhat link you also mentioned leads me to
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2000-051.html which talks
about an upgrade to 3.0.5-9.5x.
Whats the go with the version numbering, and is the upgrade now as
seamless as it should be?
Please advise, cause I'm getting sick of these "major version <= 3.0"
errors.
Thanks,
--
Regards
Luke
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From: CHNg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk problem
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 13:03:15 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
by right u should be able to do that. i pressumed u save/write to the
partition table before quitting fdisk prog. one thing tho, if u create a
linux parition using linux fdisk, u have to use back the linux fdisk to remove
it. if i am right, i dont think the win/dos fdisk can remove linux partitions.
sam wrote:
> Why I can not delete the partition with win98 and liunx when I run "fdisk"
> command?
>
> sam
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk problem
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 04:55:20 GMT
You can change the partition id to linux if you want, then run mkfs to format
to linux.
sam wrote:
> Why I can not delete the partition with win98 and liunx when I run "fdisk"
> command?
>
> sam
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From: Luke Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Novice admin trying to secure a server
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:04:13 +1000
David White wrote:
Your questions would be better answered in comp.os.linux.security
> So I guess the questions are:
>
> 1) What are the absolute *critical* things that an admin (particually an
> admin of a RH Linux 6.2) box should know about? For instance, what kind of
> things should I be monitoring on a day-to-day basis? What's the usual
> process for keeping up with newly discovered software flaws or backdoors,
> and keeping a system up-to-date?
Keep a regular look on your log files. Minimal is best, so
shutdown/remove ALL unnecessary services AND install a firewall. I
recommend http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com
To keep up to date on vulnerabilities, subscribe to both CERT and
BUGTRAQ mailing lists. These will usually recommend the upgrades as
they become available.
> 2) What's the easiest way for someone with a limited amount of time to get
> up to speed on sysadmin'ing? Again, I know that it's a big job, so for now
> I'm wanting to get the most critical tools in my toolchest first, and worry
> about optimizing, running backups, etc. after that. Are there any good
> books/websites that can take me from "newbie admin" to at least "moderately
> skilled admin" ?
Get your firewall in place first. Then start worrying about the "tools"
to monitor whats going on in your system.
The site I recommended above has many many useful links to security
related sites etc.
> 3) Is it possible to go straight from one version of RH (6.2) to another
> (7.0) without simply erasing the hard drive and reinstalling a fresh copy of
> 7.0 ?
Yes, the redhat installation system does give you the option to upgrade
rather than do a fresh install, but I'd wait until at least version 7.2
before upgrading ... I hate version x.0 of any software.
> Thanks to all who can help me get started.
You are welcome. :)
--
Regards
Luke
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing KDE 2. on RH 7.0
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:09:11 +1000
Could someone who has installed KDE 2 on a RH 7.0 distro please
give me a little help? I've gotten all the required rpm's on my HDD
without any hassles, but I've since found 3 differing posts on how to
do the rest.
Should I put /opt/kde/bin to my path? One also says to edit
.xinitrc, but of course, RH 7 uses .Xclients instead. I would like to
do it so I can change from Gnome to KDE using good ol' Switchdesk...
tia...
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From: anyone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse not working in Gnome - Help!
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 00:26:31 -0600
My serial mouse does not work in Gnome. It works *fine* on the same
machine running Windows 95 on the standard com1, IRQ 4, I/O 3F8
configuration. Tell Linux that it's on com1, IRQ 4, I/O 3F8, and the
*network* card dies. The network card is using IRQ 11 according to the
boot up messages (it's a PCI Linksys). Fix the network card (by manually
restarting eth0), and the mouse dies again!?!?!
Anyone have a clue what's going on here? Thanks in advance.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundcard play *.au and *.wav files, but not from CD rom
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 06:22:39 GMT
Does your CD-ROM has an audio cable connected to the sound card? (On
windows can you play CDs
on the older windows CD-Player that uses the audio cable, Windows Media
plays CDs without the audio cable)
If you have an audio cable, check your mixer settings and see if the
volume for the CDs
are on and set (gmix for Gnome, kmix for KDE)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been trying to get my system to work with sound for a while, now.
> I finally compiled 2.2.19 with sound support for SB Live! Value card
> (emu10k1). I did not think it was working, for a while, but it gives
> no error messages, now, and dmesg says it is loading ok. I tried
> playing an au file, and, much to my surprise, it worked. So, then I
> tried playing a wav file, and that worked, too. But, if I put an audio
> cdrom into the cdrom drive, and try to play it, I get nothing from the
> speakers. (If I put earphones into the earphone jack on the cdrom
> drive, everything is fine, so I know the cdrom is working.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?
>
> TIA,
> Ed
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From: Query_String <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Newbie Installation questions
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 07:14:35 GMT
Carl Bevil wrote:
>
> Hello all. I'm looking into buying a new PC (Pentium 4), and want to get
> Linux installed on it. I also want to have Windows, so I'd like a dual-boot
> system. I've done a little research on the web, but was hoping I could get
> some direct answers from this newsgroup. Here are my questions:
>
> 1) I'd much rather have Windows 2000 than Windows 9x. Are there any issues
> with Linux on Win2000? What about NTFS?
Regardless of which windows you prefer, Lilo (the Linux booter)
can boot them all from the mbr or from a floppy. Do you really
want to dual-boot or would you be happy with booting any one
of any number of systems from the MBR?
You can, just as one example, have
Disk-1
MBR: Lilo booter (backed up on floppy)
- c: 500 mb primary FAT with PC_DOS, win-31 + dualbooted os2
- C: 1 gb primary VFAT w98
- C: 4 gb primary NTFS w2000
hda5: 5 gb logical Linux-1 ext2
hda7: 256 mb swap
hda8: 50 gb logical reiserfs data + backups of disk-4
Disk-2
Whatever you like, including another disk of logicals.
Disk-3
DVD/CDR/CDRW
Disk-4
hdb5: 5 gb logical reiserfs Linux-2
hdb6: 256 mb swap
hdb7: 50 gb logical reiserfs data + backups of Disk-1
I've been using different variations on this scheme; sometimes
disk4 is in position2. Regardless, it is normally unplugged and
serves mainly when doing backups/restores/maintenance. I use
mobile disk trays for disks and am working on a homemade tray
to treat even CD drives like floppies!
You can even have Lilo boot Linux-2 regardless of whether it's
in position 2 or 4 with separate menu items i.e.
Linux-2 on ribbon 2
Linux-2 on ribbon 4
and with alternate kernels i.e.
Linux-2 on ribbon 2 native kernel
Linux-2 on ribbon 2 Lin-1 kernel
Linux-2 on ribbon 4 native kernel
Linux-2 on ribbon 4 Lin-1 kernel
... and ad infinitum.
I CERTAINLY do N__O__T suggest that you get in this deep
initially, but just wanted to show that things have come a
long way in the last 2 years |:-)))
The main thing is to maintain control and that's best done with
os2 and/or Linux (i dropped os2 last week).
> 2) Is there any problem installing Linux on large hard drives (say 40GB
> plus)?
None, but your BIOS must be recent (a p4 system should imply this)
get about 256 ram.
> 3) It's my understanding that if I want to have a dual-boot with Windows,
> the best thing to do is install Windows first, then install Linux. Should I
> use Windows to partition my drive before installing Linux, or is it better
> to let Linux to do this during its install?
I never use Mikrow$uck anything to partition anything
but usually install the GigaViru$ (98) first because
it has the manner$ of a garbage can and used to knock
my ibm Boot Manager off on install. That's not a
concern for me anymore, but it's still a safe habit.
I first cut a partition with Linux for windows but leave
the rest freespace; then I install windows, and then cut
the other partitions and install Linux and finally Lilo
to boot them all. Then I make a floppy booter to do exactly
the same thing and a couple of copies of it.
> 4) Is it possible to get Linux working with a DSL modem? Currently I am
> using Earthlink's DSL service, which uses a dynamic IP address. Anyone have
> any tips for this (or maybe an URL or two)?
My only Linux modem experience is with a usr56 and kppp
(part of the KDE window system bundled with most distributions).
I have never seen a dialer easier to set up, and I've used
windows and os2 dialers a lot. My ISP also assigns dynamic
IP's.
> ... and the bonus question is:
>
> 5) Probably the main reason I want to install Linux is for learning. I
> learned some Unix in college on a Sparc station (I think it was BSD Unix)
> and want to get back into it. Of all the flavors of Linux out there, it
The one thing that is not optional with Linux is learning.
You'll never get Alzheimer's running it 'cause both your
drives and your brain will almost continuously be spooled up.
> seemed like Slackware Linux would be the best for my purposes. Red Hat,
> Mandrake, etc. seemed like they automated a lot of stuff, and I wouldn't as
> motivated to learn from those OS's. What are people's opinions on this?
I started out with Slackware; it used to be a simple install
with floppy sized downloadables but I haven't tinkered with it
for a long time now.
SuSE is an offshoot of Slackware and I'm VERY satisfied with
it in terms of reliability and ease of installs at level 7.0.
You can learn more of the 'fun' things (like the above) when
some of the basics are easily set up with 'not all that much
automation'. Modem, printer, video and soundcard configs ain't
my idea of either fun or of useful knowhow.
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Carl
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Greg Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Considering Linux implementation instead of HPUX -- Advice needed
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:08:50 -0700
Hello,
I'm considering migrating an HPUX server to a Linux implementation and would
like some advice concerning the feasibility of this. The server provides
mail, web storage space, and document storage (via Samba and FTP) for around
4000 students and faculty. There are some applications such as SAS, SPSS,
and compilers also run on this server. Mail access is via Pine and IMAP/POP3
with the bulk being POP3/IMAP. I have been very pleased with HPUX but the
support costs are getting very high on this five year old server (4-way K220
with 1.75GB RAM and 120GB of disk) so I'm looking at alternatives.
What I'm considering doing is replacing the one large HPUX server with a
smaller HPUX server for telnet/Pine access and application support and a
Linux server for the POP3/IMAP and web support. The Linux server would house
all of the user storage space (around 300GB) with the HPUX box accessing it
with NFS. The Linux box would also run Samba to give the Windows NT/2000
workstations in the computer labs access. Ideally, the accounts would be
authenticated using Kerberos through Active Directory with NIS or LDAP being
alternatives in the event Active Directory isn't feasible for us by then.
I currently run a combination of HPUX, Linux, and Windows NT servers. Linux
has been a very good solution us for smaller tasks like mail hubs, Usenet,
and small scale file servers. This is the first time that I've considered
Linux for a large scale server (large for us at least). While I think that
Linux is probably up to the task, I need to confirm that what I'm
considering is feasible before I commit to the project.
What I'm considering for the Linux box (probably running Red Hat 6.2 or 7.0)
is a Dell PowerEdge 6450 2x700MHz Xeon, 2GB RAM, and 4x18GB disks. It would
connect to a Dell PowerVault 201S with 8x36GB disks using one of Dell's RAID
controllers with the possibility of a second PowerVault 201S if needed. The
reason I'm thinking Dell is that I currently have HP, Micron and Dell
servers in my computer center and I would prefer to limit the number of
hardware vendors that I have to deal with. I'm open to alternatives though
as long as I get a high level of support, good performance, and high
reliability.
A couple of questions about using Linux for what I'm doing:
1) How well does Linux do multiple processors?
2) How well does Linux handle RAID? How about the Dell RAID controllers
(Quad PERC 2)?
3) How well does Linux handle hundreds of Samba connections?
4) How is Dell's commitment to Linux? How about their driver support?
5) How is Linux's reliability and performance under high loads?
6) I've seen info on LVM for Linux. Is it viable at this time?
7) What are the limitations on the size of mount points or hard disks under
Linux?
8) What are some gotchas that might be blatently obvious to others but not
me?
Any advice, warnigs, lessons learned, etc. would be greatly appreciated. I
don't even care if vendors call or e-mail me to tell me how great their
solution is over what I'm considering.
Thanks,
Greg
--
Greg Francis
Unix System Administrator
Gonzaga University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
509-323-6896
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing KDE 2. on RH 7.0
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 08:29:22 +0100
Guy Parry wrote:
>
> Could someone who has installed KDE 2 on a RH 7.0 distro please
> give me a little help? I've gotten all the required rpm's on my HDD
> without any hassles, but I've since found 3 differing posts on how to
> do the rest.
> Should I put /opt/kde/bin to my path? One also says to edit
> .xinitrc, but of course, RH 7 uses .Xclients instead. I would like to
> do it so I can change from Gnome to KDE using good ol' Switchdesk...
> tia...
Hi,
I upgraded RH7.0 with KDE 2.0 using the RPMS built especially for this
RH distribution (from the kde site - or rather a local mirror).
You shouldn't need to put anything in your PATH as the environment
variable KDEDIR is used instead (set to /usr as RH moved the package).
I have had KDE 2.1 on RH6.2 for a couple of weeks now and have also
found the following problems...with fixes ;-)
1/ CDROM icon on desktop does not mount CDROM & start konq to browse it.
Right click on it & set default filesystem to ISO9660 - it should work
now.
2/ Screensaver or 'lockscreen' password entry fails (resort to
ctrl-ALT-Backspace to kill the X-Server). This is a known problem - and
has been on the buglist since Sept 2000!. In directory /etc/pam.d rename
kscreensaver to some other filename. Copy xscreensaver to kscreensaver.
This fixes it but you don't get any '*' chars when you enter the
password.
3/ KDE applets that use audio don't work - or at least there is no
sound. This problem is caused by the arts (analog real-time synthesizer)
package. The RH binary package was built on a machine that had either no
audio or a missing package that arts uses at compile time to change the
way it is built. Basically the package is incorrectly built and the
resulting server daemon won't run - check that artsd is running with 'ps
ax'. If not try running it manually by typing 'artsd' - if it fails then
you have this problem. To fix this - get the source package & build it
on your local machine ('rpm --rebuild arts<version>.src.rpm'). When
installing the resulting binary package (which is under
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/), you will need to use 'rpm --force' otherwise it
will complain that the package is already installed.
I have a hacked up $HOME/.Xclients (taken from the
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients original) which I can edit to start either KDE
or Gnome via 'startx' - I prefer runlevel 3 ;-)
Regards
Phil Q
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: In swapper task - not syncing (RH7 & SuSE 7.1)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:54:04 +0200
> I have installed SuSE 7.1 (pro) on a Tyan TomCat s1563 MBd (P-II
> 200Mhz ISA/PCI, w/128MB Ram).
>
> The problem is that the Kernel thinks there should be two (or more)
> processors and there is only one. I get a kernel panic error and the
> system locks. This happens on both the RedHat 7 and the SuSE 7.1 pro
> distributions.
<snip>
> What's next??
boot the linux-up kernel.
RH at least used to install both.
Eric
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Reply-To: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Downloaded RH7 image won't work...help
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 08:01:43 GMT
If you burned Iso's there is no need for a floppy. Just boot from CD rom
"Hiawatha Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9a5kb0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I burned the ISO images onto CDs using Easy CD Creator. The separate
files
> all appear to be there. But when I run the install program from a floppy
> boot disk, and tell it to install from CD, everything just stops cold.
What
> could I be doing wrong? Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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