Linux-Setup Digest #97, Volume #21 Mon, 23 Apr 01 15:13:21 EDT
Contents:
Re: I'm Impressed! (Rand Simberg)
Re: LILO problem ("KW")
?partition problem???? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Ensonique sound card troubles... (Adam Balgach)
PS2 Mouse On Old ISA System? (Rand Simberg)
Re: Ensonique sound card troubles... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: ?partition problem???? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: ?partition problem???? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ?partition problem???? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Installing Redhat 7.0 ("GELand")
fetchmail sender domain must resolve error??? ("Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III")
problems with dependency when trying to install
perl-ParallelUserAgent-2.43-6.i386.rpm ("Randy")
Re: Setting up a Syslog Server. (Michael Heiming)
multiple distros? ("Troy Jesse")
Re: Installing Redhat 7.0 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: PS2 Mouse On Old ISA System? (Alex Yung)
Re: RH 7.1 and Adaptec PCI 29160N ("Matthias Haase")
Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!) (Ronald Cole)
Re: PS2 Mouse On Old ISA System? (Rand Simberg)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: I'm Impressed!
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:53:59 GMT
On 23 Apr 2001 14:31:51 GMT, in a place far, far away,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>>But back to my question--is an 8MHz 486 fast enough to not be a
>>firewall bottleneck on a DSL connection?
>
>In most cases it will be fast enough to completely saturate your uplink
>without breaking a sweat. I doubt you'll be able to get the system load
>above .20 with just firewalling. At least that's on the machine's I have
>seen.
>Apparently there's an impact with each additional firewall rule, but by
>how much I don't know. None of the machines I have seen with friends,
>had more then about 75...
It's fairly extensive, but probably not more than a few dozen, as you
say.
>Running additional daemon's, like squid, on the firewall 486 can be a
>bit demanding. Most will have older disks and little free space, so a
>caching proxy can easily become a major bottle-neck.
Not running proxy, but it wouldn't be a problem from a HD point of
view--it's over a gigabyte, with several hundred meg free, and for a
home network--there will never be more than two or three users. It
will do nothing but packet inspection and forwarding--I'm setting up
another machine (350 MHz K6-2) as a file and print server.
Though, now, I'm toying with the idea of downgrading the firewall
drive to another 340M that I have lying around... :-)
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO problem
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:02:46 -0500
After you boot via flopp you should check /etc/lilo.conf and look for
these lines
/boot=/dev/hda
and then under the image=/boot/???????.img for the kernel there should be
something like
/root=/dev/hda6
if you look at the boot floppy, it will have an etc folder on it that has
most of the info being the same... minus any references to /dev/fd0 the
/etc/lilo.conf on your HDD should be similar.
With that 6 gig win partition in front of linux you "should" be within the
1024 cylinder limit for lilo. I'm running an almost identicle setup on my
laptop with a 6GB win partition in front of my 6 GB Lin partition with a
small swap following....
In article <9buic3$6kl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Marek Kulbacki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I've W2K and RH 7.0 and problem with booting it's on HDD 40 GB and
> partitioned like this 6GB for W2K - primary and active partition 4GB for
> Linux native - also primary
> 200MB for Linux Swap
> and rest of disk space for rest partiions
>
> when I did
> dd if=/dev/hda2 of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1 (as a root naturally)
> and placed in the boot.ini : c:\linux.bin
>
> is problem with lilo booting (doesn't starting)
>
> when I change active partition on linux native partition there is an
> error of : missing opreating system
>
> I can load liux only from lilo disk (fdd)
>
> do anyone knows any method what to do ?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ?partition problem????
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:49:51 GMT
ve been trying to install RH 6.1, and install goes fine until it
comes to the partitioning. It won't automatically partition it, so I
have to do it manually.
The computer has got 2 hard disks, a new 20GB and an old 1.4G.
The 20 GB is split into 2 partitions, an 8GB and a 6GB(all pri. dos,
FAT32), leavibg 6GB unpartitioned at the end of the disk for Linux.
The second 1.4G is just one partition with the network archive etc on
it.
Whenever I try to create a /boot partition (the help on the left
suggests 16MB, so I tried that), it said there wasn't enough space
left on the disk, even though there was 2GB of unpartitioned space on
it and I could create a 64Mb swap partition and a /root (or /)
partition to fill the rest of the disk.
Why can I not create a 16MB /boot partition?
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From: Adam Balgach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Ensonique sound card troubles...
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:19:22 -0500
So i tried to install the alsa drivers for my soundcard (ensonique 128)
and it worked for a while, and then i did a kernel recompile to get scsi
elim working, and now im having a terribly hard time with the drivers.
basically ive stripped down my kernel so right now just the es1370.o is
the only sound driver, and its loaded as a module... however when i try
and do a
modprobe es1370 i get these errors:
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: init_module: No such
device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: insmod es1370 failed
any idea as to why? all i want is my sound to work :-( what can i do!?!
thanks.
adam balgach.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: PS2 Mouse On Old ISA System?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:22:15 GMT
Not a Linux question per se, but I'm putting Linux on the machine.
:-)
Does anyone know if it's possible to get any kind of hardware that
will allow the use of a PS2 mouse on an old 486 MB that was designed
for serial only?
--
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interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensonique sound card troubles...
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:40:00 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Adam Balgach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So i tried to install the alsa drivers for my soundcard (ensonique 128)
> and it worked for a while, and then i did a kernel recompile to get scsi
> elim working, and now im having a terribly hard time with the drivers.
> basically ive stripped down my kernel so right now just the es1370.o is
> the only sound driver, and its loaded as a module... however when i try
> and do a
> modprobe es1370 i get these errors:
> /lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: init_module: No such
> device
You don't have an es1370.
> /lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o: insmod es1370 failed
> any idea as to why? all i want is my sound to work :-( what can i do!?!
Put in the right driver. Perhaps you have an es1371 or 1373? Doesn't
alsa have drivers for this?
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ?partition problem????
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:42:23 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ve been trying to install RH 6.1, and install goes fine until it
> comes to the partitioning. It won't automatically partition it, so I
> have to do it manually.
> The computer has got 2 hard disks, a new 20GB and an old 1.4G.
> The 20 GB is split into 2 partitions, an 8GB and a 6GB(all pri. dos,
> FAT32), leavibg 6GB unpartitioned at the end of the disk for Linux.
> The second 1.4G is just one partition with the network archive etc on
> it.
> Whenever I try to create a /boot partition (the help on the left
> suggests 16MB, so I tried that), it said there wasn't enough space
> left on the disk, even though there was 2GB of unpartitioned space on
> it and I could create a 64Mb swap partition and a /root (or /)
> partition to fill the rest of the disk.
> Why can I not create a 16MB /boot partition?
Because it's not in the first 1024 cylinders? Probably so, but we can't
absolutely tell without you QUOTING the error message. Nevertheless,
I'd bet on it.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ?partition problem????
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:52:13 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ve been trying to install RH 6.1, and install goes fine until it
> comes to the partitioning. It won't automatically partition it, so I
> have to do it manually.
>
> The computer has got 2 hard disks, a new 20GB and an old 1.4G.
> The 20 GB is split into 2 partitions, an 8GB and a 6GB(all pri. dos,
> FAT32), leavibg 6GB unpartitioned at the end of the disk for Linux.
> The second 1.4G is just one partition with the network archive etc on
> it.
>
> Whenever I try to create a /boot partition (the help on the left
> suggests 16MB, so I tried that), it said there wasn't enough space
> left on the disk, even though there was 2GB of unpartitioned space on
> it and I could create a 64Mb swap partition and a /root (or /)
> partition to fill the rest of the disk.
> Why can I not create a 16MB /boot partition?
you have a problem with lilo 1024 cyl. limit. I think redhat 7.1's
version of lilo fixed that problem.(not completely sure) Other than this
info I cant help you(I skip version 6.1), I know I had a problem with
6.2 installing past the 1024 cyl. Try redhat 7.1!
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ?partition problem????
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:29:33 GMT
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> ve been trying to install RH 6.1, and install goes fine until it
>> comes to the partitioning. It won't automatically partition it, so I
>> have to do it manually.
>> The computer has got 2 hard disks, a new 20GB and an old 1.4G.
>> The 20 GB is split into 2 partitions, an 8GB and a 6GB(all pri. dos,
>> FAT32), leavibg 6GB unpartitioned at the end of the disk for Linux.
>> The second 1.4G is just one partition with the network archive etc on
>> it.
>> Whenever I try to create a /boot partition (the help on the left
>> suggests 16MB, so I tried that), it said there wasn't enough space
>> left on the disk, even though there was 2GB of unpartitioned space on
>> it and I could create a 64Mb swap partition and a /root (or /)
>> partition to fill the rest of the disk.
>> Why can I not create a 16MB /boot partition?
> Because it's not in the first 1024 cylinders? Probably so, but we can't
> absolutely tell without you QUOTING the error message. Nevertheless,
> I'd bet on it.
Or .. on the other hand, are you aware that you can only create FOUR
primary partitions per disk? Ehen do you try making /boot? after or
before you defined swap and / and /usr and /var?
Now you see how helpful that error message would be to us?
Peter
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From: "GELand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:43:22 GMT
Disregard that last reply, I found out what UMSDOS is.
The 16 GB partition is FAT32 and is currently empty. It will be used for
the Linux install. I plan to allow Linux to use whatever filesystem it
needs.
"KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:FeXE6.6962$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> for Lilo to work (default linux bootloader) the /boot partition has to be
> below the 1024th cylinder of the drive it is installed to... I do not
> know how well UMSDOS works for running linux, but if you install to "D:\"
> this partition will be erased by linux and replaced by an ext2 file
> system... you may want to read up on the install FAQ's about how much to
> give each linux partition if you decide to whack the FAT32 and go with
> ext3fs. Otherwise I am not familiar with how linux runs off the other
> format...
>
> I usually setup all my partitions as
>
> /boot 20 MB
> Swap <= available amount of RAM, the less RAM the more Swap I allocate.
> / = rest of drive (root partition)
>
> You should be aware that if you make any other partitions that certain
> utilities use each of the paths differently...
> /var has may log files in it that may accumulate and run out of room VERY
> quickly if not careful
>
> /tmp may also act similarly to /var under some circumstances with certain
> utilities using /tmp as a dumping ground for files it may processs, these
> files get very large sometimes...
>
> Hope this helps....
>
>
>
> In article <qLOE6.32405$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "GELand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I know nothing about Linux, but plan to change that situation. I have
> > System Commander 2000 and Redhat Linux 7.0.
> >
> > My computer has two hard drives.
> >
> > The first HDD has a 15 GB NTFS (C:\) and Windows 2000 Pro.
> >
> > The second HDD is 20 GB and has 2 partition. The first partition is 16
> > GB FAT32 (D:\). The second partition is 4 GB FAT32 (E:\).
> >
> > System Commander created a small partition (128 MB) on the first HDD.
> >
> > I plan to install Redhat Linux 7.0 on D:\.
> >
> > Question: What possible Linux installation problems do I need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> >
> >
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From: "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fetchmail sender domain must resolve error???
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:41:49 -0400
Reply-To: mvjap3 at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, At home I've been using a linux box to get my e-mail from a pop3
server for a while now... every now and then something gets into my
mailbox that causes the fetchmail run to complain about the senders domain
and stop execution. Then since the offending mail is still on the server,
I wind up getting my mail with a dos program that doesn't care if the
senders domain is bogus...
I've also had a similar problem that doesn't stop execution but that will
if I invoked fetchmail with the flush option, be deleted from the server
but never get to my inbox. I expect that it's usually some junkmail I'm
going to delete anyway, But I want to decide that myself.
To combat this I wind up running fetchmail twice. The 1st time without the
flush option so that if I get such an error, I can still retrieve the mail
with the old dos program <Nettamer> Which never seams to have a problem
fetching the offending message BEFORE it successfully deletes it from the
pop3 server... But double messages aside, this is a time consuming waste.
And aggravating when message 3 of 10 is the kind that stops fetchmail from
getting the other 7 messages into my linux inbox so that I have to forward
them to myself from the dos program after the offending message is
deleted from the server.
Can anyone tell me what I'd need to do to get the linux based fetchmail to
deliver the message to my mailbox in spite of problems with the sender
domain that were not so severe as to cause my isp's server to choke on it.
If it matters, I'm using an older Slackware distro <3.5> ...
{ thanking you in advance }
? ?
-=- -=-
<?> <?>
^ <Hunh?> Guess I just don't know.
--- Joe A Philbrook III
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
? ?
PS: I do not have or want X on _THIS_ linux box. So hopefuly you won't tell
me I need to use something that requires it... <sigh>
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From: "Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with dependency when trying to install
perl-ParallelUserAgent-2.43-6.i386.rpm
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:05:16 -0700
Hi,
I am using RH 7.
I am trying to install perl-ParallelUserAgent-2.43-6.i386.rpm but I am
getting
error: failed dependencies:
perl >= 5.00503 is needed by perl-ParallelUserAgent-2.43-6
If I do rpm -qa|grep perl I get:
perl-5.6.0-9
groff-perl-1.16-7
mod_perl-1.24-4
openssl-perl-0.9.5a-14
So what does this all mean and how do I deal with it? It looks to me like
it wants and old version of Perl.
Maybe there is another way to add the perl module I need. I am trying to
get it so that I can use:
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
Thanks in advance for any help.
Randy
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:23:53 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up a Syslog Server.
Christian Celecia wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to set-up a single server that will consolidate all of my
> system logs on three servers and a router 'cisco'. I know that it can be
> down although I can find enough or good solid information on it. I have
> reached a point where I cannot log anything remotely on the syslog's yet
> on the local server itself their is no problem.
>
> Any suggestions or pointers.
Please rtfm (read the fine manual) "man syslogd".
It's well explained, what you need to do.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Troy Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multiple distros?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:26:57 -0500
Hi All,
As a newbie, I am still experimenting with different distros to see which
suits my needs best. I would like to install say, RH 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0,
and maybe a third. I have lots of hard drive space, so partitioning is no
problem. Right now, I have /boot, /, /pub and swap spaces mounted. Any
tips on how to dual-boot linux?
TIA
Troy
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:13:23 +0200
GELand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Disregard that last reply, I found out what UMSDOS is.
> The 16 GB partition is FAT32 and is currently empty. It will be used for
> the Linux install. I plan to allow Linux to use whatever filesystem it
> needs.
Better remove it then! (You need several partitions to support linux,
so the first thing you will do is remove the one big one you have
sitting there and replace it with free space).
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Re: PS2 Mouse On Old ISA System?
Date: 23 Apr 2001 18:28:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you try the PS/2 to 9-pin serial adaptor? My mouse comes with
such adaptor. If you own Microsoft PS/2 mouse, there is a post
card which can request such adaptor free.
Rand Simberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Not a Linux question per se, but I'm putting Linux on the machine.
: :-)
: Does anyone know if it's possible to get any kind of hardware that
: will allow the use of a PS2 mouse on an old 486 MB that was designed
: for serial only?
: --
: simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole)
: interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org
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From: "Matthias Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 and Adaptec PCI 29160N
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:40:14 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Im Artikel <9buue4$bda$03$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb "Matthias Haase"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
> have solved the problem cleanly now by myself.
Sorry,
but I have found this error today:
The iomega jaz SCSI-Device doesn't work perfectly with this new aic7xxx
module from RH 7.1.
--
regards
Matthias
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!)
Date: 23 Apr 2001 11:43:34 -0700
Mark_Harju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Many thanks to all who gave tips!
>
> Interesting note: My Win95 laptop logs in to Samba without a problem, so
> I'm guessing this issue is due to a Win98 password encryption feature
> which must be disabled in the registry. A PhD from Oz tipped me off to
> this. No worries, mate!
>
> Thanks again to all who replied!
Why didn't you tell us that you didn't care if your password was sent
over the network in plaintext where Joe Hacker and his brother can
sniff it? Well, that's a horse of a different color!
--
Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Re: PS2 Mouse On Old ISA System?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:49:24 GMT
On 23 Apr 2001 18:28:56 GMT, in a place far, far away,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:
>Did you try the PS/2 to 9-pin serial adaptor? My mouse comes with
>such adaptor. If you own Microsoft PS/2 mouse, there is a post
>card which can request such adaptor free.
No, I didn't know if it was that straightforward. I thought it might
need to use a different port, or that the mouse hardware was somehow
incompatible with a standard serial interface.
--
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interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org
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Replace first . with @ and throw out the "@trash." to email me.
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