Linux-Setup Digest #200, Volume #21 Thu, 10 May 01 08:13:06 EDT
Contents:
no init found ("sam")
Re: Moonlighter needed - Orange County California ("Brian Wildasinn")
Flickering problem......... (Sooraj Vijayan)
Re: LILO no boot .. says "LIL-" then just hangs there (Matthew Gardiner)
newbie query - saving install messages to a file ("Andy Elvey")
dual disk, won't boot to windows ("professor bikey bike")
Re: LILO no boot .. says "LIL-" then just hangs there (GreyCloud)
Re: how to allow shutdown for a user ?? :) ("Brian Wildasinn")
sTunnel: How to save self-signed certifs? (Frederic Faure)
System Clock (Alexander Hachmann)
HELP: Mandrake 8.0 kills my Windows ("Andreas Berger")
Re: help with dual boot, dual drive setup? (Stanislaw Flatto)
frequent crashes and boot problems (Bernard DEBREIL)
can not boot linux after repartioning ("P. Descouvemont")
Connect script timed out (210.177.149.33 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]])
Re: System Clock ("Peet Grobler")
Re: Mandrake 8.0 kills my Windows ("Eric")
Re: frequent crashes and boot problems ("Eric")
Partitioning and other advice for Linux server running Domino (Tory Deron)
Suse 7.0 problems with lpd (Stephan)
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From: "sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no init found
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:15:59 +0800
There are some message appeared when boot RH7.0.
Kernel panic : No init found.
Try passing init = option to kernel
then stop !
sam
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From: "Brian Wildasinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moonlighter needed - Orange County California
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:47:10 -0700
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Why not just run dosemu and run those batch files as-is?
Hope that helps.
Brian
By the way, DOS batch files huh? Batch scripts only get more terse and
complicated on unix systems. An even then you won't be able to tell the boss
you can't work today because "...the system is down"!
===== Original Message =====
From: "Dan Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:41 PM
Subject: Moonlighter needed - Orange County California
> We are looking for a Linux moonlighter in the Orange County area to help
> us transfer a DOS batch file based industrial system to a Linux based
"Dan Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> We are looking for a Linux moonlighter in the Orange County area to help
> us transfer a DOS batch file based industrial system to a Linux based
> system. This is NOT a regular position and is not suitable for someone
> who needs something to pay the rent. Payment will be in the form of very
> low priced stock options in a public company that will be profitable by
> August . Estimated time required to do the job is 50 hours depending on
> your experience. Can lead to more contract work in future.
> I don't care about qualifications or how old you are. Students and
> "hackers" welcome. If you know lot about setting up Linux machines,
> specially script based units and can write the Linux equivalent of DOS
> batch files, I can use your help. Experience with Linmodem software
> (using a Winmodem under Linux) and getting PCI sound cards to work under
> Linux will be helpful. We will supply dedicated machines for you to use.
> We prefer to deal with someone who lives in Orange County, California or
> nearby (LA or RIverside county) as there will be times personal contact
> will be needed.
> Call Dan at 714-420-7535 or after 5:30 in the evening at 714-637-5366.
> --
> Dan Fraser
>
> From the City of Orange in sunny California
> 714-637-5966 Cell 714-420-7535
>
> Check out my electronic schematics site at: http://nav.to/techman10
> If you are into cars check out www.roadsters.com
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From: Sooraj Vijayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Flickering problem.........
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:30:07 -0000
I have installed Redhat Linux 7.0, in my system with the configuration,
PIII 850 Mhz, Intel 810 E mother board,128 MB SD Ram,20GB Seagate IDE
Harddisk,52x LG CD-Rom Drive,15" LG Colour Monitor( Model No:Studioworks
552V ). The installation went all nicely, but after the installation when
i boot the system in linux with my boot disk created at the time of
installation the screen if flicker a lot after the prompt comes. Iam not
able to type any commands, i could do so only if i type it before the
screen goes blank the next time. If any one know how to figure this
problem out,please help me...
Regards,
Sooraj Vijayan.
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From: Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: dc.org.linux-users,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: LILO no boot .. says "LIL-" then just hangs there
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:32:26 +1200
pip wrote:
>
> Counts wrote:
> >
> > I installed everything successfully (Slackware 4.1), recompiled a kernel,
> > rebooted, everything worked as expected. Then, not long afterwards on
> > another reboot, LILO just hangs. I have to boot using a floppy now. Any
> > suggestions on how to fix this?
> >
> > Should I uninstall LILO and then re-install?
>
> No, LILO prints LILO on the screen to indicate each stage of startup,
> therefore LIL actually gives you the error message that you should be
> able to find in the LILO documentation.
>
> As the other poster suggests it could be a BIOS problem - so maybe you
> could locate /boot in your first primary partition.
>
> Also I have heard good things about the GRUB bootloader.
btw, if it is one of the latest kernels you need lilo >19
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From: "Andy Elvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie query - saving install messages to a file
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:23:03 +1200
Hi all. Just a quick query here -
I've had an unsuccessful attempt at installing Linux (both RH7.1 , then
Mandrake 8.0 ) . I found (via the weekly Linux Journal "mailout" ) that
when you *already* have Linux installed, (and are trying to upgrade) , you
can print a copy of /var/log/dmesg to help if you have any problems.
My query is - " If I do **not** yet have Linux installed (and I'm in the
process of *trying to do so* ) , **is it possible** for me to zing the
messages that apppear to a file ? "
What I mean by this is , when I go to the dos prompt and fire off
"autoboot" to install Linux ( I can't boot from CD on my system) , you get
the usual pile of stuff as the installer chugs away. I want to be able to
save those messages by sending them to a file.
It would seem that a dos pipe command might do this , but I don't know if
it's possible . (And given that Linux *ain't yet installed* , a Linux
command probably ain't possible either .... :-))
Many thanks in advance for any help received !
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From: "professor bikey bike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dual disk, won't boot to windows
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 00:40:00 -0700
I just added a second hard drive to my linux system that contains win95 on
it. From linux I can mount the disk, and I have reconfigured Lilo.conf so
that it should boot either. But when I choose to boot windows, it tells me
there is a nonsystem disk, and to remove it and hit a key to continue(no I
don't have a floppy in). I have gathered that I may need to move the windows
disk so that it is the number one disk, then install Lilo on it. Is this my
problem? If so, how do I go about installing Lilo in the right place on the
Windows hard drive? Thanks much.
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: dc.org.linux-users,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: LILO no boot .. says "LIL-" then just hangs there
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:03:17 -0700
Counts wrote:
>
> I installed everything successfully (Slackware 4.1), recompiled a kernel,
> rebooted, everything worked as expected. Then, not long afterwards on
> another reboot, LILO just hangs. I have to boot using a floppy now. Any
> suggestions on how to fix this?
>
> Should I uninstall LILO and then re-install?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Bob
LIL- ... If that is indeed the error, means the descriptor table is
corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving
/boot/map without running lilo.
Boot again with your floppy and log in.... type in lilo -l
then type exit
and again exit
This will reboot your system properly.
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V
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From: "Brian Wildasinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to allow shutdown for a user ?? :)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 00:39:36 -0700
Su to root ( `su root`) and type `linuxconf` and set the user's privileges
as such: linuxconf>User accounts>Normal>User
accounts>Name>Privileges>General system control>May shutdown>Granted.
Don't have linuxconf? try `rpmfind linuxconf` or download from a known site.
Here's the specification and binary rpm:
http://www.sopac.org.fj/linux/RPM/mandrake/7.1/Mandrake/RPMS/linuxconf-1.18-
2mdk.i586.html
"Yves Leung-Tack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
>
> I used Linux Mandrake 7.2 at HOME.
> And I login as a normal user. But to shutdown I have to be root
> I wonder how can I allow user to shutdown ???
> It is "really" painful to type sum, pwd, and finally shutdown !
>
> I found nothing in man page ...except about a file shutdown.allow
> But as user I cannot even use the command shutdown :((
>
> Thanks a lot !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: sTunnel: How to save self-signed certifs?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 08:54:42 GMT
Hi,
I got sTunnel up and running to allow for secure POP access, but since
I'm using a self-signed CA, Outlook 2K and Outlook Express 5 prompt
users each time whether they do want to use it. I read the online help
about "digital IDs" and the sTunnel FAQ, but I couldn't find infos on
how to add CAs to O/OE. Any idea?
Thx
FF.
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From: Alexander Hachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System Clock
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:01:32 GMT
Hello,
My server is that old, that I have a Y2K bug.
Is it possible to use the Linux System clock independent from the CMOS=20
one?
Thanks,
Alexander
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From: "Andreas Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: Mandrake 8.0 kills my Windows
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:38:19 +0200
Hi,
/*
~3GB C:
~200 swap
~3GB linux
~22GB D: with Windows main directoy (98SE)
*/
i have installed Mandrake 8.0. Its mounts my Win/DOS C-Partition correctly
as /mnt/win_c and my drive D: as /mnt/win_d.
After reboot into Windows my partition D: was lost! he founds only partition
C:. DOS-fdisk doesn't know the type of this D: partition anymore.
Rebooting into linux mount my part D: correctly to /mnt/win_d.
linux-fdisk shows this partition as "hidden Win95" (1c). I changed this to
(c). After reboot it was again (1c), so i assume that lilo makes somthing
wrong.
changing again to type (c), booting with a floppy and voala: i see my
partition D: now. With a (DOS-)fdisk /MBR i have now again a bootable
Windows harddisk.
I tried a second fresh install and Mandrake misconfigured again my partiton
D: to "hidden".
How can i avoid Mandrake to destroy my partitiontable?
regards, Andreas
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with dual boot, dual drive setup?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:00:19 +1000
Kuenley Chiu wrote:
> Hi, can anyone offer some advice about this problem:
Yes.
>
>
> I just installed a second hard drive, with linux on it. My first hard drive
> was windows 98, and they're both IDE. I set the linux drive to be primary and
> the windows drive to be slave.
>
> I was hoping to set up lilo so that I could choose either one to boot from
> -- but now, when I do "df" in linux, I only see the linux drive. The windows
> boot can only see its drive also (actually it sees a new hard drive, but can't
> open it).
>
> Any advice or comments on what I need to do?
>
> Thanks!
Read man lilo and man lilo.conf paying attention to re-mapping of hard drives.
What it means is: the asignment of the drive is such that the OS sitting on it
thinks it is on primary master (C:\ in DOS parlance).
Usualy on modern BIOSEs you can do it from BIOS setup and boot from drives that
are not primary masters.
HTH
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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From: Bernard DEBREIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: frequent crashes and boot problems
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:13:41 +0200
Hi there,
I am no specialist, but have been using Linux for about 2 years at home
: RedHat 6.0 on an old Fujitsu (Cyrix P200+ ; 32 mb RAM. I never had
any serious problem that I could remember of. On this system, I have
implemented fvwm2 as X server ; StarOffice 5.1, licq, Xcdroast, The GIMP
and plenty other nice things.
So, lately, I've tried to install the same Linux on my PC at work : an
old Compaq Deskpro 4000 with about 200 Mhz pentium processor, and 64 mb
of RAM. Should have worked at least as good as on my home PC.
Installation went OK, but I got frequent crashes. More and more frequent
unexpected crashes. I came to think that it must come from the APM
daemon: so, I recompiled a kernel without APM. I am not too sure that I
have left all other settings same as before : must have modified
something in network config, since one NFS daemon does not boot up all
right. This usually does not prevent the system to boot, and I am able
to connect to local intranet and internet all right. Besides this, the
new system does crash about as often as the one before. I have tried
compiling a third kernel, but, this time, I got more problems : the
compiler crashed before achievement of its job ! I tried several
times, and it crashed each time at different points with various error
messages. The third or fourth time, I finally got the kernel compiled
all right... but, once launched, it does not behave any differently than
the two others : frequent crashes... maybe twice a week, and,
sometimes, several times in a single day... while, on my home system, it
NEVER happened that I had a crash that I could not recover in just
quitting XWindow. By the way, I don't think that a poor configuration of
my XWindow would explain my troubles, since, while having compiler
problems, my trials to perform compiling outside of X lead to as many
crashes as before.
Could someone tell me what check I could run, or give any useful advice
?
Thanks in advance
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From: "P. Descouvemont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can not boot linux after repartioning
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:13:39 +0200
Hello,
I recently repartioned my HD with partition magic (2 dos partiotion, and 1
linux partition).
After rebooting, lilo has disappeared, and I can not run linux anymore.
The problem is that I did not make a rescue disk... I used the rescue disk
from an other machine but this does not work.
Any idea?
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Pierre Descouvemont Telephone : +32-(0)2-6505545
Physique Nucleaire Theorique Fax : +32-(0)2-6505045
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, CP229 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
B1050 Brussels ICQ: 9996528
BELGIUM
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From: 210.177.149.33 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Subject: Connect script timed out
Date: 10 May 2001 09:38:17 GMT
Dear all,
While I am trying to dial-up using "diald", it fails. By checking the
log message, an error message is given:
diald: Connect script timed out. Killing script.
Would anybody tell me what's the problem and how I can solve it?
Thanks for your help.
Best wishes,
Page
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System Clock
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:34:03 +0200
A reply to a similar question a while ago stated how to correct this with a
simple script. I have a 486 with the same problem, boots in 1980. I do not
have the script with me, but I'll be sure to bring it along tomorrow, if you
haven't gotten a reply yet.
Alexander Hachmann wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
Hello,
My server is that old, that I have a Y2K bug.
Is it possible to use the Linux System clock independent from the CMOS
one?
Thanks,
Alexander
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 kills my Windows
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:24:28 +0200
> /*
> ~3GB C:
> ~200 swap
> ~3GB linux
> ~22GB D: with Windows main directoy (98SE)
> */
>
> i have installed Mandrake 8.0. Its mounts my Win/DOS C-Partition correctly
> as /mnt/win_c and my drive D: as /mnt/win_d.
> After reboot into Windows my partition D: was lost! he founds only
partition
> C:. DOS-fdisk doesn't know the type of this D: partition anymore.
> Rebooting into linux mount my part D: correctly to /mnt/win_d.
> linux-fdisk shows this partition as "hidden Win95" (1c). I changed this to
> (c). After reboot it was again (1c), so i assume that lilo makes somthing
> wrong.
> changing again to type (c), booting with a floppy and voala: i see my
> partition D: now. With a (DOS-)fdisk /MBR i have now again a bootable
> Windows harddisk.
> I tried a second fresh install and Mandrake misconfigured again my
partiton
> D: to "hidden".
>
> How can i avoid Mandrake to destroy my partitiontable?
show it.
`/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]`
and show
`cat /etc/lilo.conf`
Without sufficient info, I cannot help you.
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: frequent crashes and boot problems
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:34:35 +0200
> Installation went OK, but I got frequent crashes. More and more frequent
> unexpected crashes. I came to think that it must come from the APM
<snip>
> to connect to local intranet and internet all right. Besides this, the
> new system does crash about as often as the one before. I have tried
> compiling a third kernel, but, this time, I got more problems : the
> compiler crashed before achievement of its job ! I tried several
> times, and it crashed each time at different points with various error
> messages. The third or fourth time, I finally got the kernel compiled
> all right... but, once launched, it does not behave any differently than
> the two others : frequent crashes... maybe twice a week, and,
> sometimes, several times in a single day... while, on my home system, it
> NEVER happened that I had a crash that I could not recover in just
you have bad RAM.
check it (eg. with memtest86 (?)) if you want to be sure.
But all signs point in this direction.
Eric
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From: Tory Deron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.groupware.lotus-notes.admin
Subject: Partitioning and other advice for Linux server running Domino
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:36:48 -0400
Well, I've done it. I have finally talked my company into serious
consideration of Linux solutions over our current MS setup.
The first thing I get to do is find an alternative to MS Exchange.
Because we still need groupware capabilities, I am looking at Lotus
Domino. I have obtained a demo copy of the software and I am going to
set up a server on Linux for a couple of weeks for testing purposes.
Here is(are) my question(s). . .
The system I am going to be using is a Dell 4400 dual processor 733
MHz system with 1 gig of RAM with an 80gig RAID array.
Does anyone have any suggestions for partitioning? I want something
simple, but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot either. How much
space do I give to /opt? /home? Where does Domino store the
databases?
(Also, as a side question, will Domino run okay on RedHat 7? All the
documentation I find recommends 6.2, however, none of it is terribly
current, and I don't see anything that specifically says 7.0 is bad.)
Alternatively, if someone can point me toward some decent
documentation for a Linux install of Domino, that would be great,
also. My searches haven't turned up anything useful, even on Lotus'
site.
I would greatly appreciate any advice.
Tory Deron
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Atlanta, GA USA
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From: Stephan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Suse 7.0 problems with lpd
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:09:34 +0200
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Hi,
I've got a problem with Suse 7.0 and the lpd, when I try to print a
document via lpr, I've got these messages:
>Mai 10 11:31:27 pc lpd: apsfilter: unable to print job
>May 10 11:31:27 pc lpd[696]: lp: job could not be printed (cfA006pc)
>May 10 11:31:27 pc modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10
module net-pf-10 is a alias for ipv6, but I installed, compiled it in
kernel nor use it. There aren't any ipv6 adresses configured. Why does lpd
try to load the ipv6 module and how can I fix it ?
Thanx very much,
Stephan
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