Linux-Setup Digest #93, Volume #21 Sun, 22 Apr 01 23:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: HP DeskJet 990Cxi on USB-port (E J)
Re: How to setup Proxim Symphony PnP ISA Wireless NIC under RedHat 7.1? (Bob Hauck)
installing Red Hat 7.1 ("Luc Richard")
Visor and Linux ("Amaury Jacquot")
Re: need driver for ADI Microscan 4v monitor ("Robert Moses")
Re: xinetd/samba & 2000/GNOME stability? (Dean Thompson)
Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?) (Rand Simberg)
Re: lynx mouse support (Thomas Dickey)
Which UK based ADSL co best for use with Linux (David Pye)
Re: Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?) (Rand Simberg)
Serial ports... (Adam Balgach)
Re: Re: Gateway Setup (144.187.40.221 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]])
Re: RedHat 7.1 install hangs after selecting installation type (Bone Head)
Boot Image ("Sriram Panyam")
Boot Image ("Sriram Panyam")
Re: Partition questions... (Bone Head)
Re: --MARK-- ("Ray")
Re: Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?) (J Hayward)
Re: Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?) (Rand Simberg)
Re: Should I still be running xfs? (John Scudder)
LC 2000 network problem. Please help ("blongk")
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 990Cxi on USB-port
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:23:33 GMT
Get kernel 2.4.x or get Redhat 7.1. Redhat 7.0 with its standard 2.2.16-22
kernel have very mimimal support
for USB device. Kernel 2.4 has full support for USB.
Then get the latest printer driver for your HP Deskjet from
http://www.hp.com/products1/linux/printers_and_linux.html and adapt it to
your USB driver.
"Jan W.M. van Kessel" wrote:
> Dear Readers,
>
> do you know if there are drivers for (Redhat) Linux 7.0 for a HP DeskJet
> 990Cxi connected to the USB port? If so where I can find information to
> get it working.
>
> Thanks,
> Jan W.M. van Kessel
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to setup Proxim Symphony PnP ISA Wireless NIC under RedHat 7.1?
Reply-To: bobh = haucks dot org
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:43:55 GMT
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:37:45 -0400, Peter Mahnke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know how, can someone give me set by set help?
Start by getting the driver from one of these sites:
http://www.komacke.com/
or if that is unreachable, try my site (see below). Look in the
downloads area. After unpacking, follow the directions in the
./docs/README directory. Then if you can't figure something out, ask
again.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: "Luc Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing Red Hat 7.1
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:00:22 GMT
Hi
I already have Red Hat 7.0 installed on a second hard drive on my pc. What's
the best way to install 7.1? Should I simply format my drive and to a fresh
install? This is not a problem for me because I am simply trying to learn
linux.
Or is there a way to do an upgrade?
Thank you in advance
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From: "Amaury Jacquot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Visor and Linux
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:02:44 +0200
Hi,
I have a Debian sid setup with all USB drivers loaded.
I am trying to connect my visor to it, but I only have the sync _cable_
available here (there is no button).
Anybody did this (or can point me to a hack on how to add a button to the
damn cable ?
Sincerely
Amaury
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From: "Robert Moses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need driver for ADI Microscan 4v monitor
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:33:38 -0500
True. Only problem is that the CRTs manual is awol,
also ADIs website doesn't list the 4v for some reason. It is always
somthing.
Thanks for the tip
"E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> RTFM (F=fine). Get out your CRT manual, or go to the ADI website and
> find the refresh rate.
> You can also fiddle with the controls to change your refresh rate of
> your monitor after RTFM.
>
> Robert Moses wrote:
>
> > Does any one know where to find a driver for and ADI Microscan 4v?
> > or else how to determine the CRTs refresh rate for a custom X setup.
> >
> > --
> > Robert Moses
>
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: xinetd/samba & 2000/GNOME stability?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:53:36 +1000
Hi Jeff,
> I can ping machines and telnet in, but I'm stuck and I don;t have alot of
> confidence in the system. My questions are:
>
> 1) where's some doc for xinetd and can I get rid of it and use inetd like
> the rest of the world?
You might actually like to stick with xinetd because it is more efficient than
the inetd daemon. Additionally, it is alot more secure that inetd as well
(from all reports). The rest of the world is also slowly moving to xinetd.
Xinetd's home page is: http://www.xinetd.org. Don't get too excited as there
isn't too much documentation on the site. You are better off doing a "man
xinetd" and reading the online documentation. It should be reasonably
straight forward.
> 2) is GNOME flakey or is it an artifact of something else and the window
> manager is suffering some problem of the OS?
GNOME is a nice interface but I try not to push it too hard at the moment
otherwise I start to see things crash. This is just my opinion. There are
other window managers out there which do a better job.
> 3) After some digging, is it true that you can't use win2k with samba 2.0.7?
Nope, Win2K will work with Samba 2.0.7 without any problems. You just have to
either read the bit on the SAMBA site, SAMBA distribution about encrypted
passwords or apply the registry key which comes with the samba distribution
which fixes your Win2K box to use plaintext passwords when talking with
SAMBA. The problem may come in later if you want SAMBA to act as a Primary
Domain Controller for Win2K.
> 4) how can I turn the linux box (kind of a newbie here) into a domain
> server so I can allow network spaces for win2k clients and allow users to
> use the modem on the linux box?
The term domain server is probably incorrect here. SAMBA allows the sharing
of shares (printers and disks) between the various computers. It doesn't
provide support for modem sharing, you will have to look at
IP-CHAINS,IP-Masq'ing HOWTO's which are located at http://www.linuxdoc.org to
do that. You just need to take a look through the smb.conf file and define
shares on your Linux box for areas that you want to share out. You can then
use commands like "smbmnt" or "smbmount" to mount partitions from your Windows
side onto the Linux side if you want to.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:58:46 GMT
I've been trying to build a Linux system for a couple of days, and am
pulling hair. My latest attempt is with a Pentium MMX 200 system,
with a 1.2G Maxtor drive. I've attempted several installs of RH6.2,
and RH7.0, but it continually hangs in the process of copying
packages. I finally managed to get successfully through an install by
running a minimum 6.2 installation in text-only mode.
When I rebooted, it started to give me messages like the following:
irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy}
ide0: reset: success
It will sometimes do this many times, and sometimes only a couple of
times, between starting up various processes. The first time it did
this, it did it so many times that I thought it was stuck in a loop,
so I did a hard reboot. Of course, that thrashed the drive enough
that I had to do a manual fsck. I finally had enough patience to let
it get all the way through the process, and it eventually booted after
several minutes, amidst many occurrences of the above message. Once I
booted, it seemed stable, and I didn't see the message any more.
A separate, but possibly related issue: I don't seem to have either
'awk' or 'cat', which causes more squawks during boot. I can
understand that in my attempt to minimize the installation, I might
have left out 'awk' (though I thought that I requested the full
develoopment package), but I thought that 'cat' was intrinsic to the
shell, and was surprised to be running a bash without it.
So, do I have a hard drive problem? And how do I get 'cat' back?
--
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interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org
"Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..."
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lynx mouse support
Date: 22 Apr 2001 20:51:20 GMT
Michael Young <michael&[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Anyone know where I can download a debian Lynx package for with libgpm
> built in or walk me through comiling from source with gpm support?
lynx would use gpm automatically if gpm is configured into ncurses.
(otherwise it would only be able to use the mouse with xterm protocol)
I don't recall that Debian packages ncurses that way - the default
options for gpm's configure script link in wgetch which is both
unnecessary and introduces needless interdependencies.
--
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http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: David Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which UK based ADSL co best for use with Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 01:53:47 -0400
Hi there..
I am considering subscribing to an ADSL service soon, and I want to use one
of my Linux boxes as a router/firewall to share the connection with my LAN.
However, most of the UK ADSL suppliers seem to be pushing USB ADSL modems,
and I wanted to know if anyone has any experience setting these up under
Linux e.g. BT, or NTL models..
Or if anybody has any recommendations about which ISP gives the
easiest-to-setup modems...
TIA,
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 01:04:52 GMT
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:58:46 GMT, in a place far, far away,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
> Once I
>booted, it seemed stable, and I didn't see the message any more.
Spoke too soon. When I was rpm'ing gawk and mawk, it did it again a
few times.
--
simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole)
interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org
"Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..."
Replace first . with @ and throw out the "@trash." to email me.
Here's my email address for autospammers: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Adam Balgach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Serial ports...
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:28:00 -0500
With the installation of my 2.4.3 kernel i have not added the devices
for my standard COM1 and COM2 serial ports... how exaclty do i go about
adding these devices? ive read through the HOWTO and i have no idea how
to do it. i dont really know what motherboard my computer is... Its a
gateway P550 so i would assume its some kind of standard motherboard.
plus i really only need the hardwired COM1 and COM2. any thoughts on how
to add these devices ? thanks.
adam.
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Subject: Re: Re: Gateway Setup
From: 144.187.40.221 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 01:38:09 GMT
> 210.177.149.33 wrote:
> > workstation, the gateway can automatically dial up through the analog
> > modem and make a PPP connection successfully, but the page cannot be
> > received by the local workstation.
> > To check for the connection, I "ping" a machine on the internet from
> > my gateway and found it success.
>
> I think that you have to configure your 'clients' to send their
> request to the gateway, and allow the gateway to forward the
> packets to the clients (activate forwarding).
>
> Davide
Thanks, Davide.
I can sure that my LAN workstations can send requests to the gateway as this starts up
the automatic dial-up function of it. However, it seems impossible for my gateway to
forward packets to the workstation.
Would you mind telling me more detailly in how to set for the activate forwarding?
Thanks a lot.
Best wishes,
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From: Bone Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.1 install hangs after selecting installation type
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:38:15 +1000
My understanding is that immediately after selecting the install type,
the install process goes to HDD partitioning. This may tie in with
Steve's suggestion re: hardware problem, albeit a minor one.
I suggest double checking all your HDD jumper settings, data cable
connections (eg: master/slave positions, etc.).
I personally have not yet tried a 7.1 install so all this might not be
valid.
Peter Forsberg wrote:
>
> Hi jtnews, thanks for replying.
>
> > Do you get a list of all the packages
> > to install after selecting Custom
> > and pressing Next?
>
> Nope. It hangs just milliseconds after I press Next, the screen does not
> change a bit (except that it freezes of course).
>
> I have also followed your instructions and found no errors in the rpm
> checksums, all were reported OK. I ran the command against all rpm files
> found on CD1.
>
> Any other ideas anyone...?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
> jtnews wrote:
> >
> > Do you get a list of all the packages
> > to install after selecting Custom
> > and pressing Next?
> >
> > I used graphical mode and it worked fine.
> >
> > One problem I had was that some ftp
> > sites have corrupted rpm's. So that
> > the installation process would abort
> > unexpectedly a short while after beginning
> > to install packages.
> >
> > You can use
> >
> > gpg --import RPM-GPG-KEY
> > rpm --checksig *.rpm
> >
> > to check all your rpms.
> >
> > Peter Forsberg wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm trying to install 7.1 (final, not beta) by booting from CD1.
> > > Everything moves along just fine until after I have selected
> > > installation type (Custom) and pressed Next. At this point the CD light
> > > goes on and everything else seems to hang, the machine freezes. Even
> > > the mouse pointer does not move.
> > >
> > > I have tried different alternatives: graphical, non-graphical and expert
> > > modes. I have also tried both Custom and Upgrade installation types, all
> > > with the same result.
> > >
> > > I tried to disconnect my USB hub and all USB devices, but it made no
> > > difference.
> > >
> > > I have previously installed several Redhat versions (5.0, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1
> > > and 7.0) on the same machine without any problems.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen the same behavior, and hopefully resolved the
> > > problem?
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what the install process does right after selecting
> > > installation type? Maybe it could give a hint to what goes wrong.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help!
> > >
> > > (this was also posted to the seawolf mail list at Redhat, see
> > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list )
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Peter Forsberg
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From: "Sriram Panyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot Image
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:05:10 +1000
Hi
I have compiled the kernel 2.4 and created the file "bzImage". I copy
this image onto a disk by using
dd if=bzImage of=/mnt/floppy
And i can also boot using htis floppy. However, what I am tyring to do is
to unhook my hard drive so I can use this floppy (along with other modules)
to act as a router for my home network. The troubel is that after I copy
the image onto a disk, it overwrites the existing filesystem on the disk.
How can I preserve the file system on the disk as well? I know I can copy
the precompiled kernel from linuxrouter.org. However, the image doesnt
leave enough free space on the disk. However the Kernel that i compiled is
only around 700 K..
Thanks
Sriram
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From: "Sriram Panyam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot Image
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:08:53 +1000
Hi
I have compiled the kernel 2.4 and created the file "bzImage". I copy
this image onto a disk by using
dd if=bzImage of=/mnt/floppy
And i can also boot using htis floppy. However, what I am tyring to do is
to unhook my hard drive so I can use this floppy (along with other modules)
to act as a router for my home network. The troubel is that after I copy
the image onto a disk, it overwrites the existing filesystem on the disk.
How can I preserve the file system on the disk as well? I know I can copy
the precompiled kernel from linuxrouter.org. However, the image doesnt
leave enough free space on the disk. However the Kernel that i compiled is
only around 700 K..
Thanks
Sriram
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From: Bone Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition questions...
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:13:16 +1000
dmayo wrote:
>
> Halloo!
>
> I recently installed Red Hat Linux 7.0 on my laptop(233 MMX, 3GBHDD,
> 64MBRAM). It's up and running, and apart from the backspace and delete keys
> which I cannae figure how to fix... the rest is fine. However, I've started
> reading the Linux System Administration Guide (thanx to all of you who
> recommended me good books to read!!). I am a newbie, of course! I was
> reading on Partitions where it says that you could have more than one
> Primary Partition on your HDD. Is this really possible?
Yes. You can have up to four (4) primary partitions. Of course
Windows98/MSDOS does not understand this, but NT does.
As a matter of course I use the Linux version of fdisk to setup the
partition table on any machine I'm building as multi OS regardless of
the OSs. I find it far easier to control and work with than any other
fdisk version or partitioning tool I've tried.
> I used MSDOS fdisk for making my partitions (expecting to get Partition
> Magic this week). I have the following
> Primary 35% (1GB)-where Windows 98 is sitting
> Extended 65% of which
> Logical 1 (d:) 50% (1GB) - used for data
> Logical 2 (e:) 50% - this one is now with Linux native (1GB)- no longer
> called e:
>
> The question is:
> Could I reduce (using Partition Magic, or fdisk) the size of logical 1 to
> say, half it's actual size in order to increase the space given to Linux? I
> have intentions of extending it's use. Gonnae get StarOffice soon too....
> basically, I want to transform gradually my Microsoft PC into a Red Hat
> Linux machine. I am still learning at this stage.
>
> Ta very much!
>
> PD: If someone could help me with the backspace and delete keys... strongly
> appreaciated!!
>
> Dave Mayo
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From: "Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: --MARK--
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:25:47 +0800
extract from
man syslogd
-m interval
The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default
interval between two
-- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This can be changed with this
option. Set�
ting the interval to zero turns it off entirely.
So, the answer to your question is......
evoke syslogd with a -m 0 option if that is what you desire.
to find where syslogd is started,
cd /etc/rc.d
then grep syslogd *
then edit the appropriate file......
"Mark Swope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ae0fad1$0$35848$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Juergen and Lew,
> Thank you for your replies - in the brief first instant that I saw these
> notes in my /var/log/messages files, I thought that something was up with
my
> non-root account (which I named after myself) :-)
>
> I'm a little curious about when this became "default" behavior - perhaps
> it's just a
> Slackware peculiarity, but I've used Slackware for several years including
> v4.0 (version just before 7.0) and never saw this.
>
> Since this box is just something for a "client" box to talk to, there's
not
> much else going on (I'm actually testing the client, not the server) and
> this message does tend to fill up the messages log.
>
> mas
> "Juergen Pfann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Mark Swope wrote:
> > >
> > > I just installed Slackware 7.0 on a PC (named "Alpha") -
> > > I've noticed in /var/log/messages
> > > that entries appear every 20 minutes that look like:
> > > <snip>
> > > Apr 29 09:12:00 Alpha -- MARK --
> > > Apr 29 09:32:00 Alpha -- MARK --
> > > Apr 29 09:52:00 Alpha -- MARK --
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me what's causing these entries or where else to look?
> > > (this is really causing my messages log to fill up...)
> > >
> >
> > If there's no more entries in your logfile than these, you might
> > as well turn off your box ;-)).
> > SCNR - but seriously : these are only timestamps to indicate
> > that at least syslogd is alive, and to keep the logfile's
> > continuity. 20 min. is the default interval for this facility.
> >
> > Juergen
>
>
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?)
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:33:08 -0700
Hello Rand,
Are you sure your hard drive isn't bad? It sure sounds like a hardware
failure. Try running badblocks on the drive and see what it shows.
badblocks -sv /dev/hdxx
just change /dev/hdxx to match the partition you want to check.
Example: /dev/hda3 for the 3rd partition on ide0
You might also try replacing the ide cable to the drive with a known good
one.
Regards,
Jim H
Rand Simberg wrote:
> I've been trying to build a Linux system for a couple of days, and am
> pulling hair. My latest attempt is with a Pentium MMX 200 system,
> with a 1.2G Maxtor drive. I've attempted several installs of RH6.2,
> and RH7.0, but it continually hangs in the process of copying
> packages. I finally managed to get successfully through an install by
> running a minimum 6.2 installation in text-only mode.
>
> When I rebooted, it started to give me messages like the following:
>
> irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy}
> ide0: reset: success
>
> It will sometimes do this many times, and sometimes only a couple of
> times, between starting up various processes. The first time it did
> this, it did it so many times that I thought it was stuck in a loop,
> so I did a hard reboot. Of course, that thrashed the drive enough
> that I had to do a manual fsck. I finally had enough patience to let
> it get all the way through the process, and it eventually booted after
> several minutes, amidst many occurrences of the above message. Once I
> booted, it seemed stable, and I didn't see the message any more.
>
> A separate, but possibly related issue: I don't seem to have either
> 'awk' or 'cat', which causes more squawks during boot. I can
> understand that in my attempt to minimize the installation, I might
> have left out 'awk' (though I thought that I requested the full
> develoopment package), but I thought that 'cat' was intrinsic to the
> shell, and was surprised to be running a bash without it.
>
> So, do I have a hard drive problem? And how do I get 'cat' back?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: Installation Frustration (H/W Problem?)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:38:39 GMT
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:33:08 -0700, in a place far, far away, J
Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>Hello Rand,
>
>Are you sure your hard drive isn't bad?
No, I have no idea that it isn't bad. I suspect it is...
>It sounds like a hardware
>failure.
That's what it looked like to me, too. That would explain why I've
been having fits loading Slackware, RH, etc. on it...
>Try running badblocks on the drive and see what it shows.
>
>badblocks -sv /dev/hdxx
>
>just change /dev/hdxx to match the partition you want to check.
>Example: /dev/hda3 for the 3rd partition on ide0
>
>You might also try replacing the ide cable to the drive with a known good
>one.
Thanks, I'll try all that.
--
simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole)
interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org
"Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..."
Replace first . with @ and throw out the "@trash." to email me.
Here's my email address for autospammers: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I still be running xfs?
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 22:47:16 -0400
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
John
Steve Martin wrote:
>
> John Scudder wrote:
> >
> > With the original install of Linux Mandrake 7.2, xfs is run at boot.
> > Now that I have upgraded to XFree86 4.0.3 I am supposed to load the
> > module "Freetype". The docs say freetype and xtt can't run at the same
> > time, how about freetype and xfs? Do I need to turn off the automatic
> > loading of xfs at boot?
> >
> > When I turned off xfs, X would not start up.
>
> Leave xfs running, won't hurt and (apparently) it's essential
> to your X setup. I'm surprised that X wouldn't start, though..
> do you have any other fonts listed in the FontPath section
> other than the reference to the font server? If not, and you've
> killed the font server, then X will have no fonts at all to work
> with, and yes, it'll die.
>
> If you don't want to run the font server, then you need some
> FontPath entries. I'm not knowledgeable enough about the font
> server to know why it's preferable to just hard-coding the
> FontPath entries, maybe someone else can enlighten?
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From: "blongk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LC 2000 network problem. Please help
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:00:42 +0800
Hi
I have tried to install Linux Redhat 6.2 on HP NetServer LC 2000. The
installation was fine. I filled all necessary stuff for networking like IP
address, netmask and all other things. After the installation was completed
the server rebooted and it went ok and I logon as root. The problem is the
network is not ok. I can not access the internet or even the LAN. I can not
ping to any server and vice versa. I have tried so many things to resolve
this problem but the network is still down. These are things that I have
tried:
1. Installed Windows 2000 on the same server and the network was good. I
could acces the internet.
2. Changed the network cable to the cable that worked with other server but
it did not work with the LC 2000.
3. Installed Redhat 7.0 but the network still did not work
4. Upgraded the BIOS but the network still did not work
5. Used cross over cable have a peer to peer network but the network is
still not ok
I have checked the network configuration using netconf and always found out
that the default gateway box was not checked (but the gateway ip is there).
After I checked the box, the routing table would not be displayed if I used
command route. I also have an LH 3000 server but Redhat 6.2 is ok with it
and no network problem and the network cards are the same type. I don't know
what else to do. Please help.
Any suggestion is very much appreciated.
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