Linux-Setup Digest #203, Volume #21 Thu, 10 May 01 18:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: modprobe message (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Red Hat 7.0, kickstart, NFS, and text mode install (Mark Brader)
Re: anyone have solution install RH7.1 on 16M RAM (Markku Kolkka)
Re: gcc compiling problems (John Thompson)
FAT16 Drive file modified times read wrong: RH 6.2 (Clark L. Coleman)
partition type 0x54 (Linux SuSE 7.1) (Josef Oswald)
Re: DHCP and etc/hosts (John DeRyckere)
Problems with SCSI tape drive (J. Robert Buchanan)
Re: partition type 0x54 (Linux SuSE 7.1) (DeAnn)
Re: Mail and news client ("John Pfaff")
Re: How to download and make bootable Red Hat 7.1 disks? ("John Pfaff")
Re: Problems with SCSI tape drive (Michael Heiming)
Re: One more who needs help! (robert)
XF86config for SONY VAIO PCG-FX140 Laptop ("Yuan Gao")
Re: dual disk, won't boot to windows ("professor bikey bike")
Re: Wrong video mode, how can I get back into my system? (Leon Stringer)
Re: fetchmail cron job is echoing on Slackware (Dave Uhring)
Re: installing tar.gz packages on mandrake 8.0 (Kwan Lowe)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: modprobe message
Date: 10 May 2001 14:27:23 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Lott wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2001 17:27:28 +0200, "Martin Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.2/modules.dep
> depmod {enter}
Not "depmod -a"?
> reboot
Why?!
--
Paul Kimoto
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and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Brader)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0, kickstart, NFS, and text mode install
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:29:15 +0000 (UTC)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote:
> We are trying to use Kickstart to install Red Hat Linux 7.0 over NFS,
> with the install process running in text mode only. We can't make
> it work.
In case anyone was wondering, what we eventually decided was that the
minimal Linux system existing on the machine at the time Kickstart runs
was probably unable to access the network card on the machine, even
though the fully installed 7.0 could do so. This is only a guess, but
it fitted the observed behavior as far as we coudl tell. We then decided
not to use Kickstart for the installs in question.
--
Mark Brader "You can stop laughing now.
Toronto Well, maybe you *can't*, but you *may*."
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rick Burger
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: anyone have solution install RH7.1 on 16M RAM
Date: 10 May 2001 21:16:49 +0300
"tin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> not the swap partitions problem
> is redhat will popup "not enought RAM to install "
> before install process
Move the hard disc to another machine with more RAM, do the
installation there and put the disc back into your low-memory machine.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc compiling problems
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:09:08 -0500
Unknown wrote:
> I have recently installed Linux but i can't get a simple "hello
> world" program to work. I can get it to run under Microsoft
> Vis C++ but not in linux. I get these errors:
> "undefined reference to cout"
> "undefined reference to 'ostream::operator << (char const*)"
> Can anybody help me? Thanks
>
> this is my test.cc
>
> #include "iostream.h"
> int main(int argc, char * argv[])
> {
> cout << "hello world";
> return 0;
> }
>
> this is my make file
> doStuff: test.o
> gcc -g test.o
> test.o: test.cc
> gcc -c test.cc
First, "test" is not a good name for a program as there is
already an important system program names "test." Having another
"test" program tends to confuse things.
I copied your code into "hey.cc"...
Try using "g++" instead to specify the c++ features of the
compiler:
[john@starfleet john]$ g++ -o hey hey.cc
[john@starfleet john]$ ls -l hey*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 john john 355702 May 10 11:59 hey
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 99 May 10 11:53 hey.cc
[john@starfleet john]$ ./hey
hello world[john@starfleet john]$
Seems to work now, but it sure looks bloated!
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark L. Coleman)
Subject: FAT16 Drive file modified times read wrong: RH 6.2
Date: 10 May 2001 18:39:53 GMT
I have RH 6.2 with 2.2.17 kernel. AFter daylight savings time
occurred, all is fine except my FAT16 partition. I have a multiboot
system with DOS, NT 4.0, Win95, and Linux. I edit files sometimes in
NT that are later compiled in Linux. The Linux make complains of clock
skew being detected and files having modified times in the future; it
is an hour off in its calculations. The Linux "date" command shows the
correct time; it adjusted for daylight savings time and is not an hour
off.
Any ideas? Searching the support database at Red Hat was fruitless.
Clark Coleman
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From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: partition type 0x54 (Linux SuSE 7.1)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:16:38 GMT
Hi :-)
The problem that drives me nuts is the following,
I installed Linux Suse 7.1 on a third HDD in my system, set as Master
on controller 2 ( /dev/hdc) The problem is that this HDD was once
used under WinXX and at that time I had to use a IBM Disk manger,
because I could not use more then 8 Gig.
I was able to install a couple of Linux distributions ( for testing)
on it, and used mostly a floppy to start.
Now I would like to keep it for SuSE.7.1, but I have a very hard
time getting Grub or XOSL ( which boots fine a caldera version :-))
to boot that partition, every time I installed I used the option
to let the install routine format the disk, but some thing is still
not working.
Even LILO will not boot it, when I create a boot disk I get the error
that the swap!! partition is unreachable.... :-(
When I wanted to use XSOL, it did not boot that partition, instead it
told me that this problem could be caused by a virus..... I am not
sure since I use this HDD a long time for experiments with Linux..
The other problem is that my other Linux installation was screwed too
and I have need access to it from a working Linux from my third HDD
drive.
Now I only can use WinXX :-(
any hints are greatly appreciated
Josef Oswald
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From: John DeRyckere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP and etc/hosts
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:19:15 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill,
since your address changes the name of your machine to the outside
world changes with it as well (assuming you don't subscribe to a
service like dyndns.org offers)
You can make a static name for local reference though by just adding
an entry pointing at 127.0.0.1. For instance:
127.0.0.1 cephalopod
John
bill g wrote:
> How do I put my address in the etc/hosts file if I have a DHCP address?
> Back when I had a static address I knew the format, but now ??
>
> thanks,
> bill g
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Robert Buchanan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Problems with SCSI tape drive
Date: 10 May 2001 15:59:21 -0400
Hello,
I installed an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card in my PC running RH7.0. I also
installed an internal Seagate Travan SCSI tape drive (10/20GB
capacity). I have SCSI support compiled as modules. I am able to
"modprobe st" and get the following modules loaded:
Module Size Used by
aic7xxx 137072 0 (autoclean) (unused)
st 25344 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 59344 2 [aic7xxx st]
I am able to use the "mt" command to retension the tape (using
/dev/st0 as the tape device). When I go to write to the tape using
tar, the operation proceeds fine for a while but usually quits before
completion with the following error message:
root@banach /]# tar cpf /dev/st0 home/buchanan/
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device or address
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Does anyone have an idea as to what the problem is? What can I do to
make sure that my SCSI installation is working properly? Thanks in
advance for any advice.
Bob Buchanan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Phone: 717-872-3659, FAX: 717-871-2320, http://www.millersville.edu/~jbuchana
Mathematics Dept. Millersville University
P.O. Box 1002, Millersville, PA 17551-0302
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn)
Subject: Re: partition type 0x54 (Linux SuSE 7.1)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:26:57 GMT
On Thu, 10 May 2001 19:16:38 GMT, Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi :-)
>
>The problem that drives me nuts is the following,
>I installed Linux Suse 7.1 on a third HDD in my system, set as Master
>on controller 2 ( /dev/hdc) The problem is that this HDD was once
>used under WinXX and at that time I had to use a IBM Disk manger,
>because I could not use more then 8 Gig.
>
>I was able to install a couple of Linux distributions ( for testing)
>on it, and used mostly a floppy to start.
>
>Now I would like to keep it for SuSE.7.1, but I have a very hard
>time getting Grub or XOSL ( which boots fine a caldera version :-))
>to boot that partition, every time I installed I used the option
>to let the install routine format the disk, but some thing is still
>not working.
>
>Even LILO will not boot it, when I create a boot disk I get the error
>that the swap!! partition is unreachable.... :-(
>
>When I wanted to use XSOL, it did not boot that partition, instead it
>told me that this problem could be caused by a virus..... I am not
>sure since I use this HDD a long time for experiments with Linux..
>
>The other problem is that my other Linux installation was screwed too
>and I have need access to it from a working Linux from my third HDD
>drive.
>
>Now I only can use WinXX :-(
>
>any hints are greatly appreciated
>
>Josef Oswald
It sounds like the problem may be the unusual disk format is
being kept around. (If there is any data you want to keep on the
disk, move it elsewhere before trying this. )Try booting a floppy
version of linux--such a rescue disk image made by one of your linux
distributions. Then delete all partitions from the afflicted HDD
(using linux fdisk). then run the install program, and let it
repartition and format the disk as desired.
Sometimes you can only boot from the first twoIDE drives (as a
bios limitation, I think). But if ;you have ever booted any
distribution from HDD, that could not be your problem here. If you
think that might be the problem, then you can physically switch the
drives so that D is A or B (put what is now the D drive on the first
IDE controller).
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From: "John Pfaff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail and news client
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:36:04 -0400
I thought Pine stood for Pine Is Not Elm :)
--
John Pfaff - KA3RVE
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered with the Linux Counter.
http://counter.li.org
ID # 39256
"Simon Lemieux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Pine will read news as well. Just set it up in configuration...
>
> Indeed, from the man page on pine " pine - a Program for Internet News and
> Email"
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Simon
>
> --
> +--------------------------------+---------------------------+
> | Simon Lemieux | http://666Mhz.myip.org/ |
> | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Povray and OpenGL Gallery |
> +--------------------------------+---------------------------+
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From: "John Pfaff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to download and make bootable Red Hat 7.1 disks?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:40:24 -0400
See the "Burning a RedHat CD HOWTO" at
http://imsb.au.dk/~mok/linux/doc/RedHat-CD.html
--
John Pfaff - KA3RVE
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered with the Linux Counter.
http://counter.li.org
ID # 39256
"Dino Hsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to download Red Had 7.1 and make bootable disks from it.
>
> Firstly, the download part, I have tried the ftp.redhat.com and some
> mirror sites, with either IE5.5 or Cuteftp 4.0. I cannot succeed yet.
> The download is difficult, because it is not downloaded as a single
> compressed file, but a lot of directories and files under
> /pub/redhat/redhat-7.1-en (ftp.redhat.com). Is there a way to download
> the whole thing as a single compressed file as I do with Oracle? On
> the other hand, how do we know the overall size of the download, when
> it is a lot of direcotries and files?
>
> Secondly, the bootable part, what is the correct procedure and file
> layout when I make disks from what I download?
>
> I know many people get Linux from Internet rather than from a software
> store, can anyone show me how? Thanks in advance.
>
> Dino
>
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:48:02 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI tape drive
[removed a non existing newsgroup]
"J. Robert Buchanan" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I installed an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card in my PC running RH7.0. I also
> installed an internal Seagate Travan SCSI tape drive (10/20GB
> capacity). I have SCSI support compiled as modules. I am able to
> "modprobe st" and get the following modules loaded:
>
> Module Size Used by
> aic7xxx 137072 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> st 25344 0 (unused)
> scsi_mod 59344 2 [aic7xxx st]
>
> I am able to use the "mt" command to retension the tape (using
> /dev/st0 as the tape device). When I go to write to the tape using
> tar, the operation proceeds fine for a while but usually quits before
> completion with the following error message:
>
> root@banach /]# tar cpf /dev/st0 home/buchanan/
> tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device or address
Just tells you what it says, you don't have /dev/st0.
mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 b 9 0
Would recreate it on my SuSE box, case I would "loose" it.
"info mknod" for more info.
Michael Heiming
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From: robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: One more who needs help!
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:58:06 -0500
John Pfaff wrote:
> Most (read all) external SERIAL modems work, many external USB modems are
> Winmodems. I have a Winmodem with a Lucent chipset that does work. There
> is a Linux kernel driver for it, I think I got it at the Lucent site.
>
<snip>
Be warned that software modems (i.e. all winmodems) are much more
sensetive to line noise than real modems. This means slower connection
speeds and more frequent disconnects (in addition to sucking some CPU
cycles).
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From: "Yuan Gao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: XF86config for SONY VAIO PCG-FX140 Laptop
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:26:38 -0400
Hello!
Can any body tell me what parameters and configuration that I should use for
my SONY VAIO PCG-FX140 laptop?
Thanks
Yuan
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From: "professor bikey bike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual disk, won't boot to windows
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:44:04 -0700
Okay, that seems like a plan to me. As far as the lilo.conf file, in mine,
all I have is
other=/dev/hdc1
label=dos
where do I find out what sort of 'alias', 'map-drive', 'table', and 'to'
numbers to insert? Or can I just use the same ones you have? Thanks.
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From: Leon Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wrong video mode, how can I get back into my system?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:50:28 +0100
Thanks guys! Your help has got me back into my system. X is really broke
(display and mouse settings) but I can work through those problems now I
can actually get in.
Thanks again...
Leon Stringer wrote:
> I plugged another monitor into my system. It detected the change and
> unsuccessfully changed settings. Now I've got a system which just shows
> a flickering image (as if the scan rate is out). The problem is I can't
> find out how to recover from this. My system loads X by default
> (runlevel 5?) and once this has loaded I can't access any consoles (i.e.
> Ctrl+Alt+F1-6 does nothing). When the system is loading it displays
> correctly but I can't interrupt this (Interactive Startup seems to be no
> help). So all I can do with my system is bring it up and press
> Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring it down. It's not networked so I can't telnet to
> it.
>
> My system is RedHat 6.1 and I've tried re-running the upgrade to no
> avail. Presumably a reinstall will kill everything?
>
> I haven't got a rescue disk. Is there any hope for me? I'm just asking
> for a way to get a console/text session so I can reconfigure X.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail cron job is echoing on Slackware
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:02:58 -0500
Blackberry wrote:
> I've got two Linux boxes up; one is running SuSE 6.4, and one is running
> Slackware 7.1.
>
> Fetchmail is set up on both boxes (transferring server functions from
> SuSEBox to
> SlackBox). Each user that has mail gets a .fetchmailrc and a cron job.
>
> On the SuSEBox, I have this cron job set up for each user that gets mail:
> */1 * * * * fetchmail >/dev/null
>
> That works fine. I keep pine open and email pops in regularly as it
> should. However, on the SlackBox, when I'm logged in, fetchmail echoes
> everything it processes into the console, so the text of incoming messages
> obliterates pine or anything else.
>
> When I run fetchmail >/dev/null at command line on the SlackBox, and I
> know there is mail waiting to be received, it doesn't echo it.
>
> Is there something funny with Slackware that doesn't allow >/dev/null in a
> crontab? Or am I just doing something wrong? Please advise.
>
> --------------------
> "It's enough to make you wonder sometimes if you're on the right planet."
> -- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
> Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- remove "NOSPAM"
>
>
fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing tar.gz packages on mandrake 8.0
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:31:32 GMT
herwig verbeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to install a tar.gz package (kuickshow-0.8).
> During ./configure I got several error messages which I managed to solve one
> by one by installing additional packages (XFree86-devel, zlib1 and
> zlib1-devel, libjpeg62-devel, libqt2-devel).
> However I finally got stopped by following error message:
> giflib30 required - install the kdesupport package
> The problem is that kdesupport-2.1.1-3mdk is installed, but it does not
> include giflib30.
There's a package called giflib (search on rpmfind) that might have what you
need. The current version is 3.0 -- which is probably the giflib30 it's looking
for.
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