Linux-Setup Digest #219, Volume #21 Mon, 14 May 01 01:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: RedHat7.1 & Win2k dual boot problem (Steve Martin)
Re: SAMBA (Gobbo)
Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes (Dean Thompson)
Can I spread Linux across 2 hard drives? (Adam)
Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install ("Norm")
Help, need Plugin for Netscape for Linux! (Lamar Thomas)
Re: Can I spread Linux across 2 hard drives? ("Norm")
Re: how to change the resolution of the command prompt when startinf Linux ? (Lucius
Chiaraviglio)
Re: what keeps changing permissions of /dev/audio//dsp//midi etc. (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Can I spread Linux across 2 hard drives? (Kevin)
Re: valid boot signature (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Moving/Resizing Linux (ext2) partitions with Partition Magic: It works! (Kenny
McCormack)
Re: .Xdefault and rgb.txt (Angry Bob)
Re: mounting floppy drive (Angry Bob)
Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes ("grendel")
Re: Cannot FTP with root to Redhat 7.1. (Angry Bob)
Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes (Dean Thompson)
Re: No sound; Something wrong with mixer. Help ("grendel")
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RedHat7.1 & Win2k dual boot problem
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:10:47 -0400
Jens Persson wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Before:
> win98 on C: and win2000 on D: on the same hard drive.
> Now:
> RedHat on what used to be C: and win2000 still on D:
> Using this boot disk is now the only way i can start win2000.
> I've tried to modify the lilo.conf file, but when i choose win2000 when
> booting with lilo i get
> loading win2000
I'd guess that you probably have to do the same thing to boot Win2k
that you have to do to boot Win9x off the second drive. It takes a
special parameter in your lilo.conf file. Here's a snippet of mine,
showing how it's done:
other=/dev/hdb1
label=Win95
alias=w
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
table=/dev/hdb
Note the "map-drive" and "to" parameters. This "fakes" the system
into letting Windows think it's booting off the primary drive.
Hope this helps.
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From: Gobbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SAMBA
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 04:08:23 +0200
sang wrote:
> HI,
>
> I am new to LINUX.
>
> Now i want to install Samba to share file&printer with WINDOWS NT.
>
> After i install&setup, i can see LINUX Server in NT Workstation, but
> i cannot access LINUX Server.
>
>
> What wrong ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
Try /etc/smb.conf
For example I used
[global]
security = share
and for the directories I used
[example]
browseable = yes
read only = no
path = /example
public = yes
For me it's the easiest way to give ANY windows-client FULL access to the
directory /example on my linux-machine...
--
powered by SuSE Linux
http://www.gobbo.de
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:49:57 +1000
Hi!,
> SuSE 7.0 (2.2.16)
>
> At home I run Linux connected to my ISP getting an IP from them via DHCP.
> Sometimes it works great and when I look in the resolv.conf there is my DNS
> server, search and domain all gotten via DHCP (not in rc.config). However
> sometimes when I've booted I'll start X or something and go to browse and I
> can't get anywhere. I can ping an IP address but no name resolution. When I
> look in resolv.conf there is nothing but the domain that I put in rc.config
> at install. Therefore the ISP info wasn't written for some reason. Any
> ideas? Thanks in advance.
Sounds like something like the DHCP server is linked to start at RunLevel 3
but may not be executed when the system is booting into run level 5 which is X
windows. Check the links which are executed at the various run levels and
make sure that you are starting your dhcp server/client at runlevel 5 as well.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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Subject: Can I spread Linux across 2 hard drives?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 03:20:48 GMT
Hi there.
I have an old 486 DX2-66 with 24M and 2 hard drives. One is 164 M and the
other is 325M. What I would really like to do is install Linux using both
hard drives so I can maximize what little space I have. So, the question
is can this be done and if so how?
Thanks.
Adam.
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From: "Norm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Catch-22 on Red Hat 7.0+update rpms install
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 20:24:19 -0700
I am faced with the problem of installing Red hat 7.0 plus the
updates from the Red Hat update site. Attempting, logically,
to install the fixes in date order, I am faced with the
following problem:
When Red Hat updates a module for bug fixes or security more
than once, they go back to the older problem(s) for which
the module had to be updated for, and change the rpm involved
to the newest rpm for the module. This makes sense in that
you would not have to update the module twice. However, it
also results in dependency problems after many fixes have
occurred.
Example: The 2nd and 23rd problems required updating rpm
"larry". When you try to install larry-*.rpm and the other
rpms needed to fix problem #2, you find that larry-*.rpm
requires the new version of the "moe" rpm that was updated
for problem #17. When you try to add moe-*.rpm into the rpm
command, you find that moe fails because "shemp" isn't
installed. Try to install "shemp" and you find out it
multiply defines the routine "__eyepokeclient" along with the
installed version of the curly rpm. Curly was updated along
with to fix problem #12 (at which point larry and moe could
be installed without curly but now required shemp). And so
on...
Of course,the Red Hat Network will solve this problem for
you with up2date if you buy a subscription from them, but I
feel it should be possible to create a fully updated system
in some sort of systematic manner. Has anyone come up with
one that works without a payment or subscription service?
--
Norm (This message does not constitute an endorsement of the
news service which inserted the advertisement below).
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From: Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Help, need Plugin for Netscape for Linux!
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 03:57:03 GMT
I am running RH Linux 7.1 and Netscape 4.76. I find that I can not view
video clips (i.e. on ESPN's website). When I click on the video clips I
am told that I need to download a plugin. However, when it takes me to
Netscapes' website there is no plugin for Linux.
1. Anyone know where I can get video plugins for Linux?
2. What about Apple Quick Time for Linux?
Thanks for any help.
Lamar
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From: "Norm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I spread Linux across 2 hard drives?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:04:48 -0700
"Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there.
>
> I have an old 486 DX2-66 with 24M and 2 hard drives. One is 164 M and the
> other is 325M. What I would really like to do is install Linux using both
> hard drives so I can maximize what little space I have. So, the question
> is can this be done and if so how?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Adam.
That's two questions. The answers are "Yes" and "don't install Red Hat". :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Subject: Re: how to change the resolution of the command prompt when startinf Linux ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 04:20:23 GMT
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You could also select some other vga resolution. I have a nice 132x50
>chars vga mode (it's mode 9 with my video card). Try to boot linux with
>'linux vga=ask' at the lilo prompt.
>
>When you have found a good resolution, put 'vga=xx' (where xx is the
>number, you chose) in lilo.conf and rerun lilo.
I have done this and it works great. But in addition to this, some
means exists of changing the resolution on the fly. The command was something
like SetVGATextMode, but not exactly that, because if I type that, it doesn't
work. To save me, I can't remember what the command was, and things like
"apropos VGA" don't bring up anything helpful. Does anyone remember the right
name of this command?
--
Lucius Chiaraviglio
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: what keeps changing permissions of /dev/audio//dsp//midi etc.
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 04:28:27 GMT
martin rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> every time I boot (or perhaps more often than that...) something changes
> the permissions
> of /dev/audio* /dev/midi* /dev/sequencer* /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer* to
> 600.
/etc/security/console.perms
Vilmos
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From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I spread Linux across 2 hard drives?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 00:30:02 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I have an old 486 DX2-66 with 24M and 2 hard drives. One is 164 M and the
> other is 325M. What I would really like to do is install Linux using both
> hard drives so I can maximize what little space I have. So, the question
> is can this be done and if so how?
Yes, definitely. The file system is very flexible. I would probably
divide the 164MB drive into a small (~16MB) partition for /boot, use the
rest for /, and put swap and /usr on the other drive. I'm not 100% sure
you can fit / less /usr into 150MB, but I think you should have no
problem. No idea how big X is though. (It goes under /usr.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Subject: Re: valid boot signature
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 04:32:43 GMT
"Barry Hee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hope someone can help. I am trying to install lilo and I get a error
>message,
>'First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature', how can I
>fix this?
>I have tried the dos fdisk /mbr but doesn't help.
I ran into this not too long ago after restoring a tarball of a system
onto another disk that was partitioned slightly differently (it did not have
the Windows NT/2000 partition at the beginning that the original disk had).
It turned out that I had forgotten to remove the "other=/dev/hda1" stanza out
of my /etc/lilo.conf -- this section ran off the bottom of the screen (due to
having 3 stanzas above it, all with extra stuff in them), and so I didn't
notice it, and the error message wasn't explanatory enough for me to figure it
out, since /dev/hda1 was now /boot. Dain bramage . . . Anyway, check your
/etc/lilo.conf and see if you have any left over extra or wrong sections in
there -- if so, get rid of them, rerun lilo, and see if it works.
"Fdisk /mbr" won't fix this -- it just rewrites the master boot record
(in the beginning of /dev/hda), but does nothing to fix /dev/hda1 (or any
other partition's boot sector). If you have a DOS/Windows installation on
/dev/hda1, it should already have a valid boot sector. If you have made space
for a DOS/Windows installation but haven't put it on yet, you might have to
comment out the corresponding lines in /etc/lilo.conf until you put it on,
unless you are willing to do surgery on the boot sector of the DOS/Windows
partition. Get ready to fix Lilo again (booting off a Linux rescue disk)
after installing DOS/Windows in case it fries the Lilo code in the master boot
record (although so far, a normal Windows NT/2000 installation hasn't messed
anything up).
--
Lucius Chiaraviglio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
Subject: Moving/Resizing Linux (ext2) partitions with Partition Magic: It works!
Date: 13 May 2001 23:34:37 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a success story - I didn't think it would work, but it did. I did a
fairly complex set of operations (shrinking the FAT partition, moving the
extended partition, deleting one swap partition - resizing another one, and
moving/resizing the ext2 [Linux boot] partition), all in one Pmagic session,
and it worked just fine.
And here's the thing that's amazing: I did not have to re-run LILO - the
thing just booted up fine. This totally amazed me, except for the fact that
this was a "LILO in the partition - booted by some other boot manager in the
MBR", rather than a "LILO in the MBR" setup. So, it appears, Pmagic is
actually smart enough to fix the LILO setup if it is in the partition that
is being resized/moved.
Have I got this all right? BTW, I've sort of lost my Pmagic documentation;
though in fact, I never really read it anyway - since this is the kind of
program that really should be self-documenting - which I've always found it
to be (translation: I haven't screwed up yet).
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: .Xdefault and rgb.txt
Date: 14 May 2001 04:52:37 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a Josef Owald scroll! it says:
> Why are you _Angry_ BOB hm?????
I am about as angry as I am bob....
--
AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting floppy drive
Date: 14 May 2001 04:59:38 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a Me scroll! it says:
> I want normal users to be able to mount floppys so they can read them from my
> RedHat 6.2. But mount replies that "only root can do that."
man mformat
man mcopy
--
AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
I want to know God's thoughts.... the rest are details.
-Albert Einstein
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From: "grendel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 04:48:15 GMT
I'm a DHCP client not server. I always boot to runlevel 2. Anyway it's
inconsistent. I always will get an IP address so that part of the DHCP
request works perfect. However the other info doesn't always get returned.
"Dean Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi!,
>
> > SuSE 7.0 (2.2.16)
> >
> > At home I run Linux connected to my ISP getting an IP from them via
DHCP.
> > Sometimes it works great and when I look in the resolv.conf there is my
DNS
> > server, search and domain all gotten via DHCP (not in rc.config).
However
> > sometimes when I've booted I'll start X or something and go to browse
and I
> > can't get anywhere. I can ping an IP address but no name resolution.
When I
> > look in resolv.conf there is nothing but the domain that I put in
rc.config
> > at install. Therefore the ISP info wasn't written for some reason. Any
> > ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
> Sounds like something like the DHCP server is linked to start at RunLevel
3
> but may not be executed when the system is booting into run level 5 which
is X
> windows. Check the links which are executed at the various run levels and
> make sure that you are starting your dhcp server/client at runlevel 5 as
well.
>
> See ya
>
> Dean Thompson
>
> --
>
+____________________________+____________________________________________+
> | Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
> | Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180
|
> | PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus>
|
> | School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office)
|
> | MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077
|
> | Melbourne, Australia |
|
>
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot FTP with root to Redhat 7.1.
Date: 14 May 2001 05:03:02 GMT
What would you like to read? [[EMAIL PROTECTED] or ?*]
this is a Huy Vu scroll! it says:
> Are I still missing something?
It is not a good idea to use either telnet or ftp with root's
account.... since the login is sent in plain-text, someone can quite
easily sniff your password and take control of your box.
--
AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: No DNS with DHCP sometimes
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:06:14 +1000
Hi!,
> I'm a DHCP client not server. I always boot to runlevel 2. Anyway it's
> inconsistent. I always will get an IP address so that part of the DHCP
> request works perfect. However the other info doesn't always get returned.
Hmm, well that is strange. You might like to check to see whether or not
there is a later version of your dhcp client program. It seems strange that
you get the data some of the time and not at other times.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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+____________________________+____________________________________________+
| Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180 |
| PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus> |
| School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) |
| MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 |
| Melbourne, Australia | |
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From: "grendel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,creative.products.sound_blaster.live
Subject: Re: No sound; Something wrong with mixer. Help
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 04:52:21 GMT
I tryed this and for the mixer anda couple other things it said NO CONFIG
or something like that. The card however showed fine. Anyway I went into X
and moved the volume up for everything with one of the other mixers and
sound is fine. However access to the mixer by amixer is unsuccessful. I will
always get this message no matter what I do with utils like amixer,
alsamixer or even alsactl when I try to use the alsactl -store option. I
need this ro create an asound.conf which does not exist on my system because
alsaconf cannot create it.
"Dave Uhring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> grendel wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a soundblaster live value and have followed the directions in the
> > article in the SuSE sdb called "ALSA update for SuSE SuSE 6.4/7.0/7.1
and
> > do not have sound. After the alsa update my card was recognized by
> > alsaconfig. However when it trys to adjust the volumes and change the
> > mixer it fails. No asound.conf is created. Here are the error messages.
I
> > have verified that the sound drivers are loaded. They even say this
using
> > "alsasound status".
> >
> > "Could not initialize..."
> >
> > "No mixer config in the /etc/asounf.conf. You have to unmute your card.
> > Mixer 0/0 'open error."
> >
> >
> >
> > I've even tryed manually unmuting the mixer and even accessing it via
> > amixer but I always get the message about the "Mixer 0/0 ' open error.
> > Even when I try different device names this happens. Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
>
> # cat /proc/asound/sndstat
> # lsmod
>
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