Linux-Setup Digest #43, Volume #21 Sat, 14 Apr 01 02:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: p133 cd-rom-less install ("J Smith")
Re: kernel panic w/ kernel 2.4.2-1 -> VFS:Unable to mounth root fs on 03:44 (Svend
Olaf Mikkelsen)
kernel compile ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
setup of kdm (Chris Sutcliffe)
mini CLI (command line interphase) (Tony)
Redhat 6.2 with Asus cuv4x-e + Ati xpert 98 + 3com 3c905b ("Zhefu Fan")
red hat 7.0......mouse problems ("silver")
gnome-terminal bails (rim vilgalys)
Re: [2.4.3]: Problems with new aic7xxx driver (Konstantinos Agouros)
Re: [2.4.3]: Problems with new aic7xxx driver (Marc D Bumble)
Re: MRU/MTU for 56k modem (David Efflandt)
problems with binfmt module on kernel 2.4.3 (Marc D Bumble)
Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat??? (Robert Wise)
Re: Hard Drive Corruption????? ("Sri Panyam")
Re: MRU/MTU for 56k modem ("Wayne Osborn")
what is the difference between the evaluation SuSe and the regular ("themethod")
Re: Linux & Win2K ("Bbitzer")
Re: [2.4.3]: Problems with new aic7xxx driver (J Hayward)
Re: [2.4.3]: Problems with new aic7xxx driver (J Hayward)
Re: address in use for setserial command (Nader)
Re: my linux story (Nader)
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From: "J Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: p133 cd-rom-less install
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:21:01 -0700
OK, where did you get this thing for $40?
Can we all get one for $40?
"Michael J. Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> I'm a newbie. Got an old Ibm p133 for $40. Want to install a linux distro,
> no cd-rom, has an ethernet card. Can someone point me to a good floppy/NFS
> install Faq, Redhat preferred.
>
> tia,
> Mike
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: kernel panic w/ kernel 2.4.2-1 -> VFS:Unable to mounth root fs on 03:44
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:24:28 GMT
"AS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have double checked the lilo.conf and it has:
>boot=/dev/hdb4
>root=/dev/hdb4
>install=/boot/boot.b
>map=/boot/map
>vga=normal
>delay=20
>
>image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21
> label=2.2.18
> read-only
I would expect the root= entry to belong to a stanza.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kernel compile
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:22:41 GMT
I have .o files for a driver (without documentation). How do I make them a part of the
kernel
Am a newbie to linux - this this (elementary) question
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From: Chris Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setup of kdm
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:41:33 GMT
Hi All,
I've done a compile and install of KDE 2.1.1. I can't figure out how to
get kdm to work properly. To do the compile, I had to set the path as well
as some enviroment variables. XDM is of course unaware of these. Is there
to set it up?
Thanx!
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony)
Subject: mini CLI (command line interphase)
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:43:40 GMT
With KDE alt-f2 pops up a single command line input prompt similar to
M$-Windows "run" - it's called minicli. Does anybody know of anything
else like it but which doesn't require kde?.
Thanks,
-Tony
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From: "Zhefu Fan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 with Asus cuv4x-e + Ati xpert 98 + 3com 3c905b
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:12:12 -0400
Redhat 6.2 with Asus cuv4x-e + Ati xpert 98 + 3com 3c905b
after system copy packeges, computer no respond .
Zhefu Fan
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From: "silver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: red hat 7.0......mouse problems
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:33:30 -0300
I am trying to install RH 7.0 and it is picking my mouse up as a three
button mouse , when it is a M$ 2 button mouse. When i get to the area where
i can change the mouse settings, I need a mouse to change the settings and
because it picked the wrong one on the boot, I am unable to use the mouse.
What can be done to get this OS to pick up the right mouse on the boot up?
Any help is welcomed.....
thanks
silver
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From: rim vilgalys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gnome-terminal bails
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:16:42 -0400
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After upgrading from gnome 1.0.55 to 1.4.0.1, gnome-terminal will no
longer work. It gives the error message "Error: unable to fork:
Interrupted system call" and then Gdk telling me the connection to X was
broken.
Eterm, rxvt, kterm, etc. all still work. Recompiling seems to do
nothing. There is one odd thing: I get a warning about unloadable
modules in libpixmap.so. But this has been going on a little bit before
gnome-terminal stopped.
And I have made sure gnome-terminal is version 1.4.0.1
Anyone know how to fix this?
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After upgrading from gnome 1.0.55 to 1.4.0.1, gnome-terminal will no longer
work. It gives the error message "Error: unable to fork: Interrupted system
call" and then Gdk telling me the connection to X was broken.
<p>Eterm, rxvt, kterm, etc. all still work. Recompiling seems to do nothing.
There is one odd thing: I get a warning about unloadable modules in libpixmap.so.
But this has been going on a little bit before gnome-terminal stopped.
<p>And I have made sure gnome-terminal is version 1.4.0.1
<p>Anyone know how to fix this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros)
Subject: Re: [2.4.3]: Problems with new aic7xxx driver
Date: 14 Apr 2001 00:54:14 +0200
In <s8yB6.226$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Hello,
>The old aic7xxx driver is still available with 2.4.3 if you are having
>problems with the new one. When you configure your kernel with "make
>menuconfig" or "make xconfig" just select the old driver instead of the new
>one. The new driver is enabled by default.
I only see one driver called aic7xxx and in 2.4.3 (the vanilla one) or am I
using something wrong?
Konstantin
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Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: [2.4.3]: Problems with new aic7xxx driver
From: Marc D Bumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 Apr 2001 22:52:37 -0400
I encountered what seems to be an actual compilation bug with kernel
2.4.3 and requested help from the kernel maintainers. Justin wrote
me back and suggested using a patch from:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux
Once I applied this patch, the SCSI part of the kernel seemed to now
work.
marc
>> "Sangohn" == Sangohn Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello! In 2.4.3 there is a new driver for the aic7xxx Adaptec
> scsi chips. While upgrading from 2.4.2, this new driver was used
> automatically (just copied the old .config). But with it, my scsi
> cdrom drive is not recognized. With 2.4.2 and prior it is. Is the
> driver still buggy or have I missed something?
> TIA
> P.S. Please mail me a copy of your answer. I can�t read news at
> home for now.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: MRU/MTU for 56k modem
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 02:53:37 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:53:38 +0800, Wayne Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone suggest optimal MRU/MTU settings for PPP over a 56k
> modem?
Use the defaults unless your ISP tells you otherwise. PPP will
autonegotiate to match up both sides. Smaller numbers used to be
recommended if you were ftp transferring many tiny files from an ancient
site, but now days you are not likely to notice any difference. If you
pick a number too small, the packets have to be broken up (fragmented) and
reassembled.
For example I am using slrn via ssh across a V.90 modem, and I really do
not notice any difference from typing along to a networked box in the same
room.
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Subject: problems with binfmt module on kernel 2.4.3
From: Marc D Bumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 Apr 2001 22:55:11 -0400
I am trying to compile linux kernel 2.4.3 from ftp.us.kernel.org on a
RedHat 7.0 box with the following configuration:
uname -a
Linux cadence.glidepath.org 2.2.16-22smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 16:39:21 EDT 2000 i686
unknown
The compilation works, but when I try to boot with the kernel, I get
the following error message:
failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c errno = 8
Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this error? I did
try "alias binfmt-464c off" in /etc/modules.conf, but this did not
help.
thanks in advance,
marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wise)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 7.2 or Redhat???
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 02:58:18 GMT
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:17:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] �crivait/wrote:
>
>As for the Murdock name that sounds familiar, it could be Rupert
>Murdock, the press tycoon. I believe he is dead. Disappeared on his
>boat or something like that.
>
>Zhero Man
>
Murdoch is, I believe, still with us. Robert Maxwell, on the other
hand, did fall [with or without help?] off his boat somewhere [IIRC]
in the Med.
Robert Wise
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From: "Sri Panyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Corruption?????
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 03:10:22 GMT
Hi
I have been having problems with the IDE controller. What happened was
on both my motherboards (i had to get a new motherboard after the IDE
controller on the first one failed), the IDE controller had failed. So that
is what is resulting in the random crashes. The IDE controller failed both
times because of a power failure at my house. But I thought the IDE
controllers were supposed to be resilient to power failures. Is there some
kind of BIOS setting that would actually reset the controller settings???
I know the H Drive isnt at fault because, I physically put the hard
drive at another machine and it worked fine...
Sri
DeAnn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 03:03:58 +1000, "Sri Panyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> > This is my scenario:::
> >
> >Linux was randomly giving page faults and so I had to physically shut off
> >the machine. Now what is happening is that when I start the machine, it
> >wants to me to run e2fsck.
> >
> >When I do it tells me that it cant find the /dev/hda5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or
9.
> >Does any body know how I can get back my hard drive or is it basically
> >lost??
> >
> >Sriram
> >
> >
> It could be that your partition table has gotten
> corrupted. If this is the case AND if you recreate the table
> correctly (with fdisk, for example) AND if the drive is still
> readable/usable, you may be able to recover all or most of your data.
>
> If the page faults were because the whole drive is
> going south, you may not be able to recover anything. (Time to haul
> out those backups you religiously made.)
>
> So long as you do not save any changes, it is safe to
> look at your drive's partition table with fdisk. Barring additional
> hardware failure, "looking" at the partition table will not make
> things worse. Before you try any changes, write down what the
> partition table thinks it is now, so that you can recreate what you
> have now.
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MRU/MTU for 56k modem
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:09:12 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Efflandt"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:53:38 +0800, Wayne Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest optimal MRU/MTU settings for PPP over a 56k modem?
>
> Use the defaults unless your ISP tells you otherwise. PPP will
> autonegotiate to match up both sides. Smaller numbers used to be
> recommended if you were ftp transferring many tiny files from an ancient
> site, but now days you are not likely to notice any difference. If you
> pick a number too small, the packets have to be broken up (fragmented)
> and reassembled.
>
> For example I am using slrn via ssh across a V.90 modem, and I really do
> not notice any difference from typing along to a networked box in the
> same room.
>
Thankyou.
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From: "themethod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what is the difference between the evaluation SuSe and the regular
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 03:38:43 GMT
Someone gave me an address for the ISO of SuSe Linux 7.1 but it is the ISO
of the evaluation versian. how long would I be able to use it and what
functions would it lack.
secondly the regular ftp versian of SuSe 7.1 is over a gigabyte and I
need to transfer it via cd to another computer How do I sepperate the files
to both cd's and then how do I install it
Please help me this is for my school computer lab and to help me learn
linux.
thanks
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From: "Bbitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux & Win2K
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 23:50:39 -0400
Thank you all for you suggestions. I will be working on it. I did manage to
remove the drive letter and windows now can access the other disks easier.
However, It is still booting up slower than normal and takes a while (as
compared to when I had the system set up like this before). Also, I did a
/sbin/lilo -U twice and still get lilo befor going to the dual boot for
windows. Is it possible to have multiple copies if lilo in the MBR?
"Dominique Schuppli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Rod Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > A third possibility springs to mind: A bug in Win2K. If your disk has
> > only Linux partitions, then it's not the most common configuration
> > around. It's conceivable that Win2K has a bug that causes it to try too
> > hard to find a FAT or NTFS partition on a disk, and thus is choking on
> > this disk. This is sheer speculation, though; I don't know of such a bug
>
> Okay, besides Linux I am running Windows 95. Now Win2K is not the same as
> Win95, but still... it might still work similar. Win95 DOES try VERY hard
at
> finding FAT partitions, even when there are none. It once created a very
> interesting file called \SUHDLOG.DAT which showed how it reads every boot
> sector on the second HD (where I installed Linux). (At the end of the file
> it even *writes* to the MBR!)
>
> > in Win2K, but it is conceivable. If it's the cause, you might try
> > creating a small FAT partition on the disk just to satisfy Windows.
>
> I do have a FAT partition on the second HD, still Windows tries to find
even
> more. If Win2K still works the same way I'm not too sure that this will
> help.
>
> dom
>
>
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [2.4.3]: Problems with new aic7xxx driver
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:29:04 -0700
Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
> I only see one driver called aic7xxx and in 2.4.3 (the vanilla one) or am
> I using something wrong?
if you "make xconfig" look in scsi support/scsi low-level drivers it will
list both the new and the old aic7xxx driver.
Regards,
Jim H
>
> Konstantin
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [2.4.3]: Problems with new aic7xxx driver
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:33:16 -0700
Marc D Bumble wrote:
>
> I encountered what seems to be an actual compilation bug with kernel
> 2.4.3 and requested help from the kernel maintainers. Justin wrote
> me back and suggested using a patch from:
Interesting I didn't have any compilation problems with the 2.4.3 kernel.
The new driver works fine for me. What distribution and version of linux
are you using? Apparently there are people having problems with the new
driver, probably why the left in the option to use the old driver.
Regards,
Jim H
>
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux
>
> Once I applied this patch, the SCSI part of the kernel seemed to now
> work.
>
> marc
>
>>> "Sangohn" == Sangohn Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> writes:
>
> > Hello! In 2.4.3 there is a new driver for the aic7xxx Adaptec
> > scsi chips. While upgrading from 2.4.2, this new driver was used
> > automatically (just copied the old .config). But with it, my scsi
> > cdrom drive is not recognized. With 2.4.2 and prior it is. Is the
> > driver still buggy or have I missed something?
>
> > TIA
>
> > P.S. Please mail me a copy of your answer. I can�t read news at
> > home for now.
>
>
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: address in use for setserial command
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:46:23 -0700
Is the new kernel already setting the serial port for you? When I upgraded
from 2.2.16 to 2.4.2 I removed my setserial command because 2.4.2 took care of
it already.
Do a "setserial -ag /dev/ttyS*" after removing your setserial command in rc3.d.
What does your /proc/pci look like?
RM wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded my kernel from 2.2.16 to 2.4.3 on my RedHat 7.0 system. The
> modem use to work. It is a 3com pci non-winmodem. I have a script in rc3.d
> that does this -- setserial UART 16550 port 0xefe0 irq 3 but now it reports
> "address already in use" -- no crap its my modem. I have double checked
> under Information - PCI. It worked under 2.2.16. Is there something I
> compiled in the kernel that would cause this. Thanks in advance.
>
> rob
>
> PS If it makes a difference here is a list of the rest of my system
>
> Supermicro P6DBE 440BX motherboard
> Dual Pentium III 7000 Mhz systems -- Yes SMP is tunred on
> 1 GB of registered ram
> 3com 3c905c NIC
> Acer 16x DVD
> Mitsumi 4804 CDRW
> SoundBlaster Live!
> Asus 7700 GTS/2
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: my linux story
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:52:04 -0700
The kernel is independent of the distribution, although the distribution usually has
customized the configuration settings.
Use http://linux.nf/stepbystep.htm and the Kernel Upgrade section to download the
latest stable kernel (2.4.2). Read about the kernel configuration so you can be sure
to set your kernel properly prior to compilation.
mfh wrote:
> Nader,
>
> thanks for your help, I have another question regarding the kernel:
>
> I have SuSE linux installed on a Compaq machine, and I need to upgrade so I can
> use KDE2 which requires the 2.4 Kernel, do I have to use a SuSE kernel to do that
> ?
> Is there any generic kernel that I can use instead like a download from
> ftp.kernel.org or something, in other words is there any non distribution specific
> kernel that I can use?
>
> I'm sorry to
>
> Nader wrote:
>
> > Visit http://linux.nf/stepbystep.htm
> >
> > "squashstud (w2k)" wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Guys
> > >
> > > I installed SuSE 6.4 on a Gateway 133Mhz machine a while ago, now I want to
> > > upgrade my KDE 1.1 to 2.1.1, I found that to do that I need to have the
> > > Kernel version 2.4, so I decided to upgrade my kernel 2.2.14 to 2.4 ! It
> > > seems not simple at all!
> > >
> > > I had to download the new kernel but in the Changes file I found another
> > > list of libraries and other components that needs to be upgraded, I checked
> > > the versions of my existing libraries and found that many of them needs
> > > upgrade, then I started downloading them one by one from the ftp locations
> > > mentioned in the kernel Changes file.
> > >
> > > Now that I have every thing up-to-date from the gcc compiler to the XFree86
> > > on CD's, how and where do I install all of them before compiling my new
> > > kernel, is there a step by step simple way of doing this somewhere?
> > >
> > > please help
> > >
> > > thanks
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