Linux-Setup Digest #990, Volume #20 Thu, 5 Apr 01 08:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Red Hat 7.0 & Lilo (Markku Tikkanen)
Kernel size and modules (Alberto Arribas)
setup opennap server (maher)
Re: Magic partition on linux? ("Pavan")
Re: Changing SHMMAX for redhat 6.1 (Marc Ledauphin)
how to dis-partition? ("ekkis")
Re: Printtool don't detect printer in kernel 2.4.2 (Marc Ledauphin)
Re: Apache newbie question (Marc Ledauphin)
Re: how to dis-partition? ("You, Jin-Ho")
Re: more info: eth0 initialization fail (Jan Just Keijser)
Re: Magic partition on linux? ("Peter T. Breuer")
WEBMIN modules, add in (Jakob Strebel)
Re: boot floppy error ("Eric")
Re: Magic partition on linux? ("Pavan")
Re: problem with Xconfigurator ("ne...")
Re: rpm & kpackage ("ne...")
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From: Markku Tikkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 & Lilo
Date: 5 Apr 2001 07:51:06 GMT
Elem103 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Can Win 2k boot loader run after lilo has taken in? I had the idea that 2k
>> acts like NT and doesn't boot if it doesn't 'own' the MBR? Am I wrong?
> I'm running my system with NT and Linux and Linux owns MBR. Also have a
> system with Win2K and linux and it works fine too.
OK. I'm just making sure that this is possible, because Red Hat guides
state that: "To create a dual-boot environment on a system that currently
has NT, you must install LILO on the first sector of the root partition,
not the MBR."
I have also assumed, that NT or 2k won't boot if it doesn't
own the MBR. Glad that you made it. How did you install the OS's? First
the M$ stuff and then Linux, writing the MBR over?
>> Anyway, if you have lilo in MBR and you're able to boot 2k, please let me
>> know your configuration.
> Err.. everyone has different lilo config.
> Generally the important parts are:
Yes, I assume that I know what rows in lilo.conf mean. I just asked that
also to know if there was something special.
Just asked both due to scepticism on 2k booting without 'owning' the MBR.
Didn't want to experiment, you know?
Anyway this prob below was odd, I thought that newer lilo's could load
with that lba32 setting the OS being quite far from beginning of drive. Or
is that the problem I'm having?
>> Yes, I have similiar problem, I have first 3 Fat32 partitions
>> (hde1,hde5,hd6) 8 Gigs each and then linux / and swap. Tried to do that
>> MINI-HOWTO-procedure for NT-bootloader, but lilo says then only 'LI' and
>> repeats it over and over again... Like this:
>> LI
>> LI
>> LI
>> LI ...and so on.
>>
>> (I've RH 7.0)
>>
>> Even tried both 'linear' and 'lba32'. Would grub work better?
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From: Alberto Arribas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Kernel size and modules
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:51:36 +0200
Hello!
Thanks a lot for your e-mails the last week. I have been able to reduce
my kernel from 1800 Kb to 925 Kb, but, unfortunately, it is not small
enough. I know that less than 810 Kb would be OK, because my old kernel
has this size. Following your recomendation I run make mrproper, make
xconfig, make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules and make
modules_install. Then I rename properly the kernel and run lilo.
Everytime I get "Kernel is too big". xconfig is a great tool, but I have
removed or changed to module all the components except the really
needed.
Can I reduce the size of the kernel in other way?
Can I increase the allowed size of the kernel?
Thanks,
Al
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From: maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setup opennap server
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 17:05:26 +0500
Hi tehere,
I would like to know, is there anybody who are successful of
configure/install/using opennap as server?Any guides or HOWTO?
thanks in advance,
maher
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From: "Pavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Magic partition on linux?
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:11:54 +0530
"E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Try "parted" from www.gnu.org
>
Careful about this. First it says it wants the size in blocks when
actually it wants in bytes. Then after resizing, the partition table
is not updated and hence you need to use fdisk to delete & recreate
the partition to reflect the new size in the partition table(scary).
Better to use partition magic.
-Pavan
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From: Marc Ledauphin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing SHMMAX for redhat 6.1
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 08:58:21 GMT
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A suggestion : Linux is not SCO, so It's not usefull to change SHMMAX
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Changing SHMMAX for redhat 6.1:
> Hello,
> Is there a document that tells how to change the SHMMAX setting for
> linux. I understand that I ill have to relink the kernel. Can anybody
> please tell me the steps. I am using redhat 6.1. I also noticed that I=
> dont have the source files under /usr/src/linux. Is it at a different
> place for redhat? Any help greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> --
> ****************************************************
> Abhijit Bhattacharya
> Advisory Systems Engineering Specialist
> Oracle Support Services
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> phone: 952-857-4309
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<PRE>I suggest you to take a look at <A HREF=3D"http://www.oracle.com/">=
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procedure to install oracle on a linux box.
A suggestion : Linux is not SCO, so It's not usefull to change SHMMAX
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Changing SHMMAX for redhat 6.1:
> Hello,
> Is there a document that tells how to change the SHMMAX setting for=
> linux. I understand that I ill have to relink the kernel. Can anybo=
dy
> please tell me the steps. I am using redhat 6.1. I also noticed tha=
t
I
> dont have the source files under /usr/src/linux. Is it at a differe=
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> place for redhat? Any help greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> --
> ****************************************************
> Abhijit Bhattacharya
> Advisory Systems Engineering Specialist
> Oracle Support Services
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> phone: 952-857-4309
> ****************************************************</PRE>
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From: "ekkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: how to dis-partition?
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:52:28 -0700
RH7 like to create a bunch of partitions by default that look sort of like
this:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8 256667 256667 0 100% /
/dev/hda1 23302 4993 17106 23% /boot
/dev/hda6 9005272 7984916 562908 94% /home
/dev/hda5 9005272 3278716 5269108 39% /usr
/dev/hda7 256667 256667 0 100% /var
none 256667 256667 0 100% /proc/bus/usb
so I have the problem that I have too much space on some and not enough on
others... it's difficult and inconvenient to have to figure out how much
space I need so I'd like to mae all these just one: /.
since a dump/repartition/restore would be difficult for me because I don't
have an easy way to dump, can anyone suggest a way to join all these
partitions into one?
1,000 TIA - e
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From: Marc Ledauphin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printtool don't detect printer in kernel 2.4.2
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:03:39 GMT
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Try on a shell :
cat anyfile >/dev/lpx
anyfile is a text file and lpx with x varying from 0 to 3
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=E9crit sur le sujet suivant Printtool don't detect printer in kernel 2.=
4.2:
> Have installed kernel 2.4.2 Everything except the printer work. printt=
ool
> don't detect any printer on /dev/lp0 dev/lp1 or dev/lp2
> Printer works fine in my old kernel 2.2.16. I belive I have compiled
> correctly, have added support for parallel port and PC style parallell=
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port.
> How can I check that Linux detects the parallellport?
> Bj=F8rn Ove S=E6tre
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<PRE>Try on a shell :
cat anyfile >/dev/lpx
anyfile is a text file and lpx with x varying from 0 to 3
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2.4.2:
> Have installed kernel 2.4.2 Everything except the printer work.
printtool
> don't detect any printer on /dev/lp0 dev/lp1 or dev/lp2
> Printer works fine in my old kernel 2.2.16. I belive I have compile=
d
> correctly, have added support for parallel port and PC style
parallell port.
> How can I check that Linux detects the parallellport?
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From: Marc Ledauphin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache newbie question
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:04:44 GMT
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Linuxconf will help you
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> Where can I go to learn how to set-up and run Apache on Red Hat 7? I
> already have Red Hat installed and I did a custom installation and=20
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> Web server to be installed so is everything I need already there?
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From: "You, Jin-Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: how to dis-partition?
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 19:06:48 +0900
ekkis wrote:
>
> RH7 like to create a bunch of partitions by default that look sort of like
> this:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8 256667 256667 0 100% /
> /dev/hda1 23302 4993 17106 23% /boot
> /dev/hda6 9005272 7984916 562908 94% /home
> /dev/hda5 9005272 3278716 5269108 39% /usr
> /dev/hda7 256667 256667 0 100% /var
> none 256667 256667 0 100% /proc/bus/usb
>
> so I have the problem that I have too much space on some and not enough on
> others... it's difficult and inconvenient to have to figure out how much
> space I need so I'd like to mae all these just one: /.
>
> since a dump/repartition/restore would be difficult for me because I don't
> have an easy way to dump, can anyone suggest a way to join all these
> partitions into one?
>
> 1,000 TIA - e
parted will help you.
Jin Ho You
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Just Keijser)
Subject: Re: more info: eth0 initialization fail
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:25:59 GMT
verify that you have some similar to
alias eth0 eepro100
alias eth1 3c59x
in your /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf file and then send the output
of
rmmod eepro100
rmmod 3c59x
insmod eepro100
insmod 3c59x
ifconfig -a
ifup eth0
ifup eth1
and we'll see...
HTH,
JJK
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am using the 3c59x module. I have two ethernet interfaces in the computer.
> The
>3c59x and the eepro100. I'm trying even to get just the eepro100 working. Both
>would be even better.
>
>Another note, the dmesg below shows eepro100 using "Intel Corporation 82557",
> but
>the EtherExpress Pro that I have uses a 82559 chip. Could this also produce
>issues?
>
>Marc
>
>Craig Kelley wrote:
>
>> "Marc Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > I returned to linux to get the dmesg & see what info I could get. Here it
>> > is:
>> > ...
>> > eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
>> > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
>> > eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin
>> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others
>> > eth0: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:D0:B7:E2:C6:CF, IRQ
> 19.
>> > Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
>> > Board assembly 540775-040, Physical connectors present: RJ45
>> > Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
>> > General self-test: passed.
>> > Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
>> > Internal registers self-test: passed.
>> > ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
>> > Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
>> > ...
>> >
>> > Perhaps that will shed light on something, but I'm rather clueless about
>> > this problem.
>> > eth1, which should be the 3com card, is not detected at all. It is a PCI
>> > card, so that is bad -- right?
>>
>> A 3C905b is not even made by Intel, and it isn't an Ethernet Pro 100
>> at all.
>>
>> The module you're looking for is 3c59x
>>
>> --
>> It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
>> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
>
===========================
JJK / Jan Just Keijser
Unix/Linux Systems Engineer
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Magic partition on linux?
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat,redhat.config
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:59:37 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Pavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Try "parted" from www.gnu.org
> Careful about this. First it says it wants the size in blocks when
> actually it wants in bytes. Then after resizing, the partition table
mmm .. I use it often. As far as I recall it wants it in blocks (or Megas).
resize MINOR START END resize filesystem on partition MINOR
Or perhaps it's cylinders? Anyway, it's whatever it shows with the print
command. As I recall it's MB.
> is not updated and hence you need to use fdisk to delete & recreate
It certainly is updated!
> the partition to reflect the new size in the partition table(scary).
> Better to use partition magic.
I use parted all the time. Works wonderfully. Pure magic.
Peter
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From: Jakob Strebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WEBMIN modules, add in
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 13:19:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear list Readers,
I started to use WEBMIN. To extend the functionality I did download
the LPADMIN module: "lpadmin.wbm" and tried to install it.
I am using webmin 0.85 and downloaded the lpadmin from the WEBMIN home
page.
I get a Error message which does not
Failed to install module from /etc/webmin/lpadmin/lpadmin.wbm :
Not a valid module file :
lpadmin/ lpadmin/lpadmin-lib.pl tar:
Skipping to next header tar:
Skipping to next header tar:
Skipping to next header tar:
Error exit delayed from previous errors
Any hints how to trace the problem?
Thanks for your help
jakob strebel
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot floppy error
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:28:53 +0200
> > > Okay, I blew it. I admit it. I extended the root partition via
partition
> > > magic software, and somehow, I can't any longer boot the Linux 6.0 OS
> > >from the floppy boot disk. Normally, if I modify or copy the
partition, the
> >
> > Booot a rescue system and examine what damage you did.
>
> I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean?
>
He meant exactly what he said:
boot a rescue system.
You're question probably is, how to do that.
(PS. there is no linux 6.0, so I suppose you mean RedHat 6.0)
Put the CD in the drive, reboot and at the liloprompt, enter "linux rescue"
Now examine what is wrong with your system.
(I suppose you know what to do from here?)
Eric
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From: "Pavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Magic partition on linux?
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:28:53 +0530
> I use parted all the time. Works wonderfully. Pure magic.
I used version 1.5(if I'm not wrong) just a month ago. It did not
update the partition table. I was really surprised. Had to do it
through ranish partman.
Also I'm very sure it did not take size in blocks or cylinder. I had
to give a huge number which was bytes if I'm not wrong.
Which version are you using? I think I'll try once again.
-Pavan
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with Xconfigurator
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 12:05:19 GMT
On Apr 5, 2001 at 04:18, John Jamieson eloquently wrote:
>Because my video card is not supported by XFree86, I have to resort to using
>'generic vga'. But when I select a higher resolution than 640x480, I get
>640x480 anyway. Is there anything I can do to get higher resolution using
>generic VGA?
>
>BTW, I am using RedHat 7.0, with a matrox g450 card.
The G450 is supported by XFree86, you just don't have
the right version.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
No one can put you down without your full cooperation.
8:00am up 19 days, 8:00, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.15, 0.25
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm & kpackage
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 12:07:03 GMT
On Apr 5, 2001 at 05:07, Jay & Shell eloquently wrote:
>How do I resolve this:
>
>kpackage: Symbol 'rmpTagTable' has different size in shared object,
>consider re-linking
>
>I'm using Gnome 1.2
>Mandrake 7.1 kernel 2.2.16
You see where it says 'consider re-linking', you might
want to try doing that.
--
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