Linux-Setup Digest #11, Volume #21 Sun, 8 Apr 01 11:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Loadlin is unable to set network adapter's IRQ when booting from Win98SE! (Mark
Burger)
Re: Win2K, WIn98 and Linux on the same disk ("Matthias Hartung")
Re: Help with Dual Boot Win98 and Mandrake 8.0b3 on A7V (mookie)
Re: Looking for "drivers.img", where can I find it ? (Dean Thompson)
Re: Looking for "drivers.img", where can I find it ? (Dean Thompson)
Re: Looking for "drivers.img", where can I find it ? (Dean Thompson)
Re: Sharing Files. (Dean Thompson)
Re: Compiler not working (Paul Kimoto)
partition size question ("lj")
Re: What's with mksmbpasswd? (Chris)
Re: Where is smbpasswd? (Chris)
Re: How to install 3 OSes? (Query_String)
Re: long file names in DOS (John Thompson)
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From: Mark Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Loadlin is unable to set network adapter's IRQ when booting from Win98SE!
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 14:29:25 +0200
I installed Win and Linux (Suse 7.0) on my secondary machine. Lilo is in
MBR but aditionally I wanna be able to start Linux from Winblows. To do
this I installed Loadlin and the Linux Kernel I usually boot with Lilo on
my Winblows partition.
Now when I shutdown windows and select 'Start in MS-Dos mode' (I do not
use a DOS-box!) the 'dosstart.bat' calls up my 'loadlin.bat' and Linux
boots up. However, I get the message:
SIOCSIFFLAGGS
SIOCSIFFLAGGS
resource temporarily not available
and realize that my network adapter (Accton Cheetah, Realtek chipset)
does not get installed. After login I used 'dmesg' to read the boot
messages and that's what I get:
rtl8139.c:v1.08 6/25/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
The PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at 0/72! Updating PCI command
0001->0005.
rtl8139.c:v1.08 6/25/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0x5800, IRQ 0,
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.
So it looks as if IRQ 10 that the card used flawlessly in Windows just
before shutdown, somehow does not seem to be available anymore.
After a 'real' reboot I can use the card on this IRQ without any problems
both in Linux and Windows.
To me it seems that Windows does not 'release' that IRQ so that it's not
available to Linux afterwards. Is that possible?
For a test I disabled 'PNP OS INSTALLED' in my BIOS and I also assigned
IRQ to the PCI slot the network adapter resides in. But I still do not
get this IRQ for the network adapter. I even used loadlin to hand over
some initialization parameters to the kernel like
loadlin vmlinuz ether=10,x0d000,eth0 root=/dev/hda6
but still no succes. Any ideas? TIA!
--
"Alright, here is the plan - ..."
"Ugh uuuugh ... ugh ugh ugh"
"What kind of moronic plan is that?"
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From: "Matthias Hartung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2K, WIn98 and Linux on the same disk
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 14:28:24 +0200
Hello,
the Linux installer should detect the not partitioned part of the disk.
RedHat for instance provides 2 tools during the installation: Disk Druid and
FDisk, I prefer DiskDruid. There you'll see ALL your partitions, and you can
add the desired Linux partitions.
For accessing DOS-/Win-partitions from Linux, there are the mtools for
example (mentioned as DOS connectivity during installation).
I hope this was a little help.
Matthias
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From: mookie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with Dual Boot Win98 and Mandrake 8.0b3 on A7V
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 15:15:54 +0200
[This followup was posted to comp.os.linux.setup and a copy was sent to
the cited author.]
In article <OOUz6.58668$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > > > I've been fighting the whole Promise controller bit on the A7V for the
> > > > longest time and when Mandrake 8.0b3 was released, I'd hoped it would
> > > > solve everything.
> > > >
> > > > The install program hung at the end (after the diaglog box that says
> it
> > > > would reboot into Mandrake) and when I reset the computer, all I got
> was
> > > > the "LI" error on boot.
> > >
> > > that's a fairly common problem.
> > > The files required to boot couldn't be found.
> >
> > I tried reinstalling again (3 times tonight), oddly enough it was on the
> > third try that the installation even bothered to create my bootdisk
> > (despite requesting on all occasions). However, it still hung right at
> > the end and when I rebooted the "LI" black screen of death was there
> > again.
>
> It also hung from the bootdisk? then get another floppy. This one has
> probably gone bad.
>
> You don't really need to reinstall everything, just to create a bootfloppy.
> Use the installation CD instead.
> Put the CD in, and at the lilo prompt, enter `linux rescue root=/dev/hdg5`
> That should boot.
>
> >
> > Here's the output from those commands.
>
> Where did you get this from, if your bootdisk hung?
>
> >
> > /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-z]
> >
> > Disk /dev/hdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> cdrom I suppose?
>
> > Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3737 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hde1 * 1 637 5116671 b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hde2 638 3736 24892717+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/hde5 638 2535 15245653+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> > /dev/hde6 2536 3736 9647001 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
> okay, this looks good.
> Did windows boot, before you installed linux?
> Disk /dev/hdg: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3737 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdg1 * 1 3737 30017421 85 Linux extended
> /dev/hdg5 1 62 497952 83 Linux
> /dev/hdg6 63 105 345366 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdg7 106 487 3068383+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdg8 488 1933 11614963+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdg9 1934 3737 14490598+ 83 Linux
and hdg5 is your / (=root) not your /boot ?
> cat /etc/lilo.conf
>
> boot=/dev/hde
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=linux
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> lba32
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message-graphic
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdg5
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=failsafe
> root=/dev/hdg5
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append=" failsafe"
> read-only
> other=/dev/hde1
> label=windows
> table=/dev/hde
> other=/dev/fd0
> label=floppy
> unsafe
There's nothing wrong anywhere.
There are just a few things:
In your BIOS you've setup that you boot from hde?
You got these results from booting through the bootfloppy?
If so, run `/sbin/lilo -v` again.
Eric
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>
yah the bootdisk does work now. Windows did boot before I installed
Linux, although I had to redo the fdisk /mbr in order to get it to boot
again.
hdg5 is my root (/) partition. Should it be /boot instead? I didn't
think so, though I think I did try that on one occasion since writing the
bootloader to the mbr didn't seem to work. Hmm.. i've been leaving the
bios to boot to IDE drive (which only occured to me now to be wrong since
no drive is actually connected to the UDMA66 ports so I'm probably not
specifying anything and it just defaults to channel 1 on the Promise) I
know this because when i've previously installed the 2 OSes separately
it'll boot windows on channel 1 rather than the linux.
Those were from the bootfloppy. I'll go try that now.
Thanks for the tips!
Shaoen
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for "drivers.img", where can I find it ?
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 23:24:57 +1000
Hi!,
> I want to install linux via NFS but my Ethernet card does not appear on
> the list proposed. I have been told I need a drivers disk with a file
> names drives.img on it. But I cant find it anywhere.
Check to make sure that your driver doesn't exist in the expert mode (although
this is normally more SCSI devices rather than network devices). Here is the
drivers.img file for Redhat 7.0:
ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/en/images/drivers.img
See ya
Dean Thompson
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| Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180 |
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| School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) |
| MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 |
| Melbourne, Australia | |
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for "drivers.img", where can I find it ?
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 23:25:36 +1000
Hi!,
> I want to install linux via NFS but my Ethernet card does not appear on
> the list proposed. I have been told I need a drivers disk with a file
> names drives.img on it. But I cant find it anywhere.
Check to make sure that your driver doesn't exist in the expert mode when
installing (although this is normally more SCSI devices rather than network
devices). Here is the drivers.img file for Redhat 7.0:
ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/en/images/drivers.img
See ya
Dean Thompson
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| Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180 |
| PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus> |
| School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) |
| MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 |
| Melbourne, Australia | |
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for "drivers.img", where can I find it ?
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 23:25:48 +1000
Hi!,
> I want to install linux via NFS but my Ethernet card does not appear on
> the list proposed. I have been told I need a drivers disk with a file
> names drives.img on it. But I cant find it anywhere.
Check to make sure that your driver doesn't exist in the expert mode when
installing (although this is normally more SCSI devices rather than network
devices). Here is the drivers.img file for Redhat 7.0:
ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/en/images/drivers.img
See ya
Dean Thompson
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| Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180 |
| PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus> |
| School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) |
| MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 |
| Melbourne, Australia | |
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing Files.
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 23:26:36 +1000
Hi!,
> I would like to share files with my Windows 98 and Redhat Linux 7.0
> computer. How would I do this?
You might like to take a look at the program called "SAMBA". You can find out
more information by reading the HOWTO's at http://www.linuxdoc.org or by going
to their home site at http://www.samba.org.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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| Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180 |
| PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus> |
| School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) |
| MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 |
| Melbourne, Australia | |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Compiler not working
Date: 8 Apr 2001 09:55:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Walker wrote:
> I'm trying to get plib to install so I can then get FlightGear going but
> when I do ./configure it fails. The message I get is GCC failure but in the
> text before that, it actually says that GCC is O.K. when it tests for its
> presence.
Mere presence of gcc is not adequate. You also need to have installed
packages like binutils, libc development, etc.
> I'm using Mandrake7.2 without any upgrades and would like to know if anyone
> has had the same problem. Is it something missing on this distribution
> because I used the option install everything when I originally installed
> Mandrake and I've yet to successfully compile anything at all that works!
More detailed error information should be at (the end of) config.log.
Please post the relevant part, if you want more advice.
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Paul Kimoto
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From: "lj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: partition size question
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 07:39:32 -0400
I'm installing rh 6.2 and I'm looking for advice on partition size. The
machine is going to be used as a server with a database, web server
(apache), and sendmail. I expect most applications will be installed on
/usr. I've got two disks a 3gb and 30gb and 128mb ram. How much disk space
should i devote to:
/
/boot
/usr
/home
/var
/opt
/tmp
<swap>
Thanks,
LJ
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's with mksmbpasswd?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc,linux.samba
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 14:28:51 GMT
Linux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have you tryed:-
> smbpasswd -a username
>
> This is how I add new users ;-)
> I still have not worked out how to delete them once they leave ;-(
>
smbpasswd -d should disable the user
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is smbpasswd?
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.samba
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 14:33:03 GMT
Hiawatha Bray wrote:
> Good call. Now I have the server RPM installed. But it still won't let
> me
> run mksmbpasswd. I don't get it....
>
> I do have smbpasswd, though. I just can't get it to accept a new
> password.
> Is there some other way to achieve this? Thanks.
>
>
> "Richard A. Bilonick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > There are two parts to samba - the server and the client. By default,
> > only
> the
> > client is installed. Do an upgrade and find the samba server package (or
> > download an rpm).
> >
> > Hiawatha Bray wrote:
> >
> > > I need it to set up encrypted passwords in Samba, but when I installed
> RH 7,
> > > smbpaswd did NOT get installed, and I have no idea where it is. Help!
> >
> > --
> > Rick Bilonick - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>
just type:
smbpasswd -a username
the first time you do this you might get an error(because the password file
doesnt exist yet) Just run it again and you should have no problem
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From: Query_String <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install 3 OSes?
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 14:53:56 GMT
John Thompson wrote:
>
> machinm wrote:
>
> > Horward wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a 20G harddisk drive, which has win98 and win2000 professional
> > > installed. Now I want to use 10G disk space to install Red Hat Linux, but
> > > for some reasons, I can not give up the win98 and win2000 combination. So
> > > far, how can I configure in order to archive 3 OS coexists in the same
> > > system? Besides, I would like to know does Linux support 20G harddisk drive,
> > > as I've encountered some problems during installation.
>
> > Try partion magic, has the tools for Boot magic included.
> >
> > LILO may also do it, but not sure how it handles multiple boots.
>
> Lilo works fine for multiple boots. That's what it's designed
> for. It doesn't have the graphic pointy-clicky interface like
Ah, but it DOES boys and girls! A very nice one too
since about 21.5 (get the latest 21.7!).
It will boot anything (except os2 on a logical)
anywhere on any size disk and, once and for all
" ...the cylinder-1024 limit is toast..."
The only catch is that most install utis still don't
splice the prerequisite 'lba32' switch into the config
so this has to be done by editing the lilo.conf file
and running lilo again from an installed Linux parti
unless you can modify the install floppy.
Another little FREE booter rising from skunkenvorken
somewhere in Germany (I think) is 'vpart' available
on 'hobbes'. Mainly of interest to os2-Warp users, it
happens to also offer a creation executable that runs
under either dos or doze (I forget which) to do the
required floppy (or mbr) choreography. Try it on a
floppy first of course. It hands over to the root
sector of wherever, so in the case of Linux you
would still need Lilo ready to catch it in the /.
If installed on a floppy, it gives you what most
Linux install floppies worth a dime would, the
ability to boot an installed Linux parti. But it
will also boot any other installed OS which few Limux
install floppies are bothering with.
> Boot Magic, but then again, lilo doesn't need 3MB of space on a
> FAT partition, either...
A lot of people swear by Partition Magic and that
must say a lot; anyone with a canned-install of
Windows into a single C: and no CD has little
choice really. HOWEVER, when it comes to basic
system issues like booting (Boot Magic) I prefer
staying as close to the fire as possible so Lilo
gets my vote.
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: long file names in DOS
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 07:37:26 -0500
John Jamieson wrote:
> When I mount a FAT partition as msdos type, file names longer than 8.3 are
> truncated. How do I disable this truncation?
Mount the filesystem as "vfat" instead of msdos.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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