Linux-Setup Digest #100, Volume #21 Tue, 24 Apr 01 02:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Boot Image (Mathieu Brabant)
Re: When I configured linux security box, how to test it. (Dave Sneddon)
pls Help Newbie mount CD-ROM (Angus)
problem installing linux - adaptec aha1542b scsi ("Joel Nylund")
Re: DNS, nslookup troubles (David Efflandt)
How to take better advantage of the video hardware I have? ("Len Philpot")
Re: fetchmail sender domain must resolve error??? (David Efflandt)
Re: RH Linux 7.1 on a Pentium box with 16MB ram.
installing icons on desktop ("kg4bia")
aftersometime, its not opening Konsole on task bar? ("v.naga srinivas")
Re: Building from the bottom up... (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Kernel 2.4.3 questions... ("A.C. 'Static' Stadt")
Re: Patching the kernel (Stuart Williams)
Re: pls Help Newbie mount CD-ROM (Dave Uhring)
Gateway S650 (Myriam Abramson)
Dell Inspiron 5000 (Myriam Abramson)
Re: Partitioning for large HDD ("Peet Grobler")
why i am getting smbrun !! ("v.naga srinivas")
Re: Help -- Made ext2 into free space accidentially ("Pavan")
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From: Mathieu Brabant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot Image
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:30:03 -0000
I got this info from the Bootdisk-HOWTO.
Copy kernel:
dd if=kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k
Copy root filesystem:
dd if=rootfs.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k seek=KERNEL_BLOCKS
Set kernel...
root device: rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0
root flags: rdev -R /dev/fd0 0 (mount root r/w)
ramdisk word: rdev -r /dev/fd0 [ramdisk word, read rtm!]
You can also use a second floppy as your root disk if you need more space
and don't mind switching disk after the kernel is loaded...
That's it, have fun!
M@
====================
Sriram Panyam wrote:
>
>
> 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: Dave Sneddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: When I configured linux security box, how to test it.
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:51:21 GMT
BongShin Choi wrote:
> Hi, dear
>
>
> When I configured linux security box, how to test it.
>
> Any others gave a good idea, or any processing list?
>
> How can I make it's trusty?
>
>
> Thanks for your reply....
>
>
>
Try http://www.insecure.org . They have a good tool called nmap.
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From: Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pls Help Newbie mount CD-ROM
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:17:00 GMT
I wonder if anyone can help a newbie simply mount a CD-ROM. I've browsed all the
FAQs/How To/Newsgroups I can find.
I downloaded ISO images of RedHat 7.0 and did a WWW server install.
I can mount the floppy & see files OK, but not the CD-ROM which is the slave on
IDE1 and works in 'winduhs'. I've tried explicit instructions (as root) such as:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
Result: bread failed, bad fs type etc. etc.
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom
Result: /dev/hdb1 wrong major or minor number
I'm out of ideas now, other than replace the CD-ROM drive (which I installed
Linux from!). I also tried different CD-ROM disks.
I'd appreciate if anyone point a Linux Newbie in the right direction?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Joel Nylund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem installing linux - adaptec aha1542b scsi
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:25:01 GMT
I have an old adaptec card, Im having trouble installing redhat 5.2 (yeah I
know its old). Question is, will getting a newer version help?
I tried autoprobe, tried entering ahah1542=0x130 (133,230,234,330,334) but
none of them work.
Windows95 runs fine and auto detects it.
any ideas are appreciated.
thanks
Joel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: DNS, nslookup troubles
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:48:56 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I have configured a DNS on my local lan
> according to the DNS How-To
>
> When I try 'dig' from the clients I get the expected results.
> When I try 'nslookup' from the clients I get:
>
> *** Can't find name server for address 131.120.6.129: Non-existant host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
Do you get this same response on the nameserver box itself (using
127.0.0.1 for nameserver)? If so, then check /var/log/messages for any
errors when named started. It is possible that your reverse lookup zone
for your IP range "6.120.131.in-addr.arpa" or whatever is incorrect or
missing.
If it works on the DNS server and nowhere else, you should still check
/var/log/messages and your firewall settings.
> My /etc/resolv.conf contains:
> domain net3.cs.nps.navy.mil
> nameserver 131.120.6.129
>
> My /etc/hosts file contains:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 131.120.6.129 spruance spruance.net3.cs.nps.navy.mil
> 131.120.6.130 halsey.net3.cs.nps.navy.mil halsey
What is more important is the part of your named.conf that spells out your
forward and reverse zone files and what those zone files contain. I
suspect that your reverse lookup zone for your IP range is broken or
missing. Recheck 5.3 of the DNS-HOWTO for your 6.120.131.in-addr.arpa
zone.
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From: "Len Philpot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: How to take better advantage of the video hardware I have?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:57:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've delving here into an area of which I know little --
I have a PIII / 800mHz with a Matrox Millenium adapter (32MB on the card)
and have yet to upgrade from the basic SVGA X server the installation
configured. My video performance, while good enough, is certainly nowhere
near what my hardware should achieve (indeed, it's _far_ faster when
booted into Windows on the same hardware). For example, dragging a
(roughly) 600x400 pixel window in opaque mode causes noticable jaggies as
it's repainted. This doesn't even happen on my 500mHz PC at work (NT4).
Some screensavers run VERY slowly.
I've looked at the various HOWTOs, but really don't know where to start to
fix things. I've even tried forcing various modelines to be used by
commenting others out in my xf86config, but I seem to recall that XF86 4
doesn't even use the modelines any more.
Here's where I am now:
Red Hat 7
XF86 4.0.1-1 and the XF86-SVGA 3.3.6-33 server
1024x768@24bpp, 72Hz refresh
ViewSonic E70 (17")
I'm perfectly content with the resolution and color depth I get, but I'd
like to up the refresh rate and perk up the performance as much as
possible. I can see flicker on lightly-colored windows now. If this can be
done without changing X servers, so much the better. I'm all ears.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: fetchmail sender domain must resolve error???
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 03:01:43 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
Since fetchmail hands it off to your local mail system, that is what is
complaining about the invalid from addresses. So you need to configure
your local smtp server to not reject mail with a bogus From.
I think my system tries to bounce it, but cannot with an invalid address,
so it sends a MAILER-DAEMON msg to root, which is aliased to me anyway.
Although, I don't get the whole message, it is usually enought to confirm
that it is spam. Even if you got it, you would not be able to reply to it
anyway with a bogus address.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH Linux 7.1 on a Pentium box with 16MB ram.
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:10:55 +0800
Yes, it is ok to install even with 16MB ram. Can run X server too. However
be ready to take coffee break when you use X windows, it is very very slow
(swapping between mem and hdd). Make sure you have swap partition.
klan
vnux.net
"Brian Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is it possible? Anyone who installed RedHat Linux 7.1 (not the
> beta version) on a Intel machine with small(16MB) ram?
>
> I've a compaq computer and there is no CMOS setup screen on the
> computer. I want to use 8GB HDD on it. How can I make the
> computer detect the big HDD?
>
> Any replies will be very helpful for me. Sorry for short English.
>
> - Brian,.
>
> --
> replace ``nospam'' to ``com'' in my email address to
> reply to me.
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From: "kg4bia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing icons on desktop
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 03:02:18 GMT
Hi All,
I am a Linux newbie trying to work through some problems. This one has me
beat. How do you install icons on the desktop such as, an icon that
represents my hard drive so that I can "click" on it to display the contents
of the hard drive? Thanks in advance.
--
Mark Goods, MCP A+
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.nc.rr.com/kg4bia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: aftersometime, its not opening Konsole on task bar?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 03:51:43 +0000 (UTC)
Hi,
I am using SuSe 6.3 linux, with KDE 1.1.2.
I am working with two netscape windows opened and Mail client.
When i am trying to click on Konsole icon, its not at all
responding, i went to open task manager application,its also
not coming up.
Then i come out from X, i saw the following lines........
BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so : dynamic-link.h: 57: elf_get_dynamic_info:
Assertion
`! "bad dynamic tag" failed!.
and also the line
Saving font in /tmp/runx.1436/fontdata.
and again when i am trying run x ( startx / runx) not starting the x,
I rebooted the machine and started................
Now its running the x...
what could be the problem................
thanks,
srinivas.
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YVL Software Consultancy,
B4,Q1,6th floor,CyberTowers,
Madhapur,Hi-Tec City,
Hyderabad-500033
Andhra Pradesh State,
INDIA.
Phone : 091-040-3110200 ( off)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Building from the bottom up...
Date: 24 Apr 2001 04:01:51 GMT
Michael Pye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ So, I want to really get to know Linux and I can't think of a better way
[ than to try and build a working system from the kernel up until it is
[ suitable for use as a local web server with apache, mySQL, PHP and co.
[ I'm looking for a little information before I start. Firstly, where to I
[ begin. I will have a system with an empty hard disk. I will also have a
[ machine connected to the net with floppies and a CD burner for transferring
[ larger files to the new machine so there is not a problem there, but what do
[ I start with?
thisis almost like the way I started. kept RH 5.1 floppies until somebody
(the Spanish guy named Manual) told me that I had to install my cdrom
driver (an old SB compatible) using the supplemental diskette created by
the install process
but it IS the fun way to get started, especially now that the new things
(USB, DVD, CD-RW, graphics accels) can be detected at install. For a
geek unfamiliar with UNIX or Linux, the login prompt after the whole process
was the goal ;-)
ciao
--
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Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: "A.C. 'Static' Stadt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.3 questions...
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 04:44:02 GMT
Helmut Steinwender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Id4F6.49978$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am not sure, but would modprobe know where your vfat is? Shouldn't you
> give the full path?
>
[snip]
Adam,
I really think I need to make up a canned response to this module question.
First, as two other people have mentioned, you need v2.4 or better of
modutils.
Basically RTFM, if you'd take a quick glance even at Documentation\Changes,
you'd find a list in the first few pages of what else you need to upgrade,
preferrably before you compile your new kernel, obviously some of these may
not apply, but you must check the ones that do apply in your case.
Helmut,
The reason that you must update modutils before you install the new kernel
is that
that various mod utilities are *supposed* to know the structure of the
/lib/modules/(kernel ver) tree. The structure of this tree was modified
with the
2.4.0 kernels IIRC, someone please correct me if it happened earlier.
Regarless,
where certain modules appear in /lib/modules/2.2.14/... are not the same as
where they appear in /lib/modules/2.4.3
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From: Stuart Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Patching the kernel
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:54:13 -0400
Steve Martin wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to patch the file /boot/kernel243 to the newest ac12
> > patch.
>
> Um... patches are meant to be applied to the *source* file, not the
> compiled binary. You should be patching the kernel source and rebuilding
> the kernel after the patch has been applied.
>
> Check
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-6.html
>
> and the man page for "patch" for more info.
Thanks!
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pls Help Newbie mount CD-ROM
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:05:55 -0500
Angus wrote:
> I wonder if anyone can help a newbie simply mount a CD-ROM. I've browsed
> all the FAQs/How To/Newsgroups I can find.
>
> I downloaded ISO images of RedHat 7.0 and did a WWW server install.
>
> I can mount the floppy & see files OK, but not the CD-ROM which is the
> slave on IDE1 and works in 'winduhs'. I've tried explicit instructions (as
> root) such as:
>
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
> Result: bread failed, bad fs type etc. etc.
>
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom
> Result: /dev/hdb1 wrong major or minor number
>
> I'm out of ideas now, other than replace the CD-ROM drive (which I
> installed Linux from!). I also tried different CD-ROM disks.
>
> I'd appreciate if anyone point a Linux Newbie in the right direction?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
Maybe it is already mounted. What is the output of
# mount
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From: Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gateway S650
Date: 23 Apr 2001 22:32:46 -0400
Hi!
I would like to know if this computer is hardware compatible with
Redhat 7.1.
Thanks.
--
myriam
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From: Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell Inspiron 5000
Date: 23 Apr 2001 22:33:54 -0400
Hi!
I would like to know if this laptop is hardware compatible with Redhat
7.1.
Thanks.
--
myriam
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning for large HDD
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:24:17 +0200
The disk goes slow because of the following:
The disk has to allocate a large amount of space to indicate where on the
disk a certain file is. If you're attempting to access this file, it has a
lot more information to search for. Repartitioning the drive is a good idea,
since you will split this information in ? parts. Which makes file access
faster, since it has a smaller amount of information to search through for
that particular file.
It's a bit rough, but the idea is there. I don't want to go into too much
detail, it'll be a large post.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>"P. U. Psilanimous" wrote:
>
>> I am planning to install RH 7.1 on a 30GB hard drive. I have done
>> this with RH 7.0 but I found that it operates very slowly. I had
>> partitioned the disc as 64MB linux swap and the rest as linux native.
>>
>> Would it speed up the operation if I divide the disc into smaller
>> partitions; e.g; 10GB at /, 10GB at /usr and remainder at some other
>> point like /var ?
>>
>> I am planning to replace the 7.0 since I was not very happy with it so
>> I will be partitioning from scratch.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Darrell
>
>I would do it a little differently
>
>/home 2 GB
>/boot 500 MB
>/usr 10 GB
>/var 10 GB
>/ 5 GB
>/stuff 2 GB
>swap 500 MB
>
>this way if you upgrade your system from say 7.1 to 8.0 but want to
>format the hdd
>you can format / /usr /var /boot but your /home and /stuff will
>still have your data.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("v.naga srinivas")
Subject: why i am getting smbrun !!
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 05:31:42 +0000 (UTC)
Hi,
I have downloaded and built samba-2.0.8.tar.gz
I could't get the executable smbrun...........
How to get it.................
thanks,
srinivas.
--
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YVL Software Consultancy,
B4,Q1,6th floor,CyberTowers,
Madhapur,Hi-Tec City,
Hyderabad-500033
Andhra Pradesh State,
INDIA.
Phone : 091-040-3110200 ( off)
visitme: http://www.geocities.com/cheluvi
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From: "Pavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help -- Made ext2 into free space accidentially
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:09:13 +0530
"Jess Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Uk4F6.27587$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there a way to tell the system to convert this "free space" back
to ext2
> WITHOUT doing any writing/ formatting that might wipe out the data
that
> appears to still be in this "free space?" It appears that Partition
Magic
> did not do anything to the data, just changed some flag marking the
type
> partition it was. I have done *NOTHING* else to the file system
awaiting
> some expert help,
>
If it is the only freespace on your disk(i.e you have deleted only one
partition), you can create a new partition in its place using "fdisk
in linux". Linux's fdisk only creates the partition entries in the
table and does nothing to the data. I'm sure you will be able to
retreive the data unless of course PM4 has done something to the data.
warning : create the partition in linux and *reboot* for the table
update to be known by the kernel.
-Pavan
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