Linux-Setup Digest #261, Volume #21 Sat, 19 May 01 01:13:09 EDT
Contents:
How to setup secure port (proxy) for Konqueror of Redhat 7.1? ("Huy Vu")
HowTo: Install Linux on Laptop (dieLars)
Re: Suspend-to-RAM on Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: I need help. RH7.1 wont configure my ATI Xpert 128 AGP 32 RAM. Log attached
("Gene Heskett")
Re: HowTo: Install Linux on Laptop ("Uncle Junior")
Re: Xconfigurator hangs ("Uncle Junior")
FIPS with NTFS ("brock")
iBCS in kernel 2.4 ("Dennis Allen")
Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS (djswift)
Earthlink and Debian (Steve Morningthunder)
Newbie question, where does lilo/grub reside? (Caroline)
Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS ("Kyle Risse")
Re: Default mail box location (J Sloan)
Re: unmounting (J Sloan)
Re: Cd Writing Problem w/XCdroast ("Wayne Osborn")
Getting mp3s and realplayer to work! (Shefali Joshi)
Re: Linux now/Beowulf later ("Dave Mann")
Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS (Dave Uhring)
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From: "Huy Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: How to setup secure port (proxy) for Konqueror of Redhat 7.1?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:11:53 GMT
Hi all,
I found the place to setup proxy for Konqueror on my PC Redhat 7.1 but it
doesn't have the setting for secure port as IE/Netscape Commucator.
So I have to stop to use Konqueror and use Netscape Communicator for
browsing internet instead of.
My PC Redhat is under proxy and firewall stuffs.
Thanks in advance for any advise.
DH.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dieLars)
Subject: HowTo: Install Linux on Laptop
Date: 18 May 2001 19:24:09 -0700
I'm trying to install Linux on a laptop: 486, 8mB, 200MB with only a
floppydrive (and a parallel port or serial port).
1) Make boot floppy and root floppy
2) boot from floppy's
3) make root: fdisk, msfs: make harddisk partitions and filesystems
3) Howto copy root-filesystem (?) from other Linux system using
parallel or serial port ??
4) ??
Thanks,
Lars.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Suspend-to-RAM on Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 May 2001 02:27:40 GMT
On Fri, 18 May 2001 04:19:42 +0000 (UTC), Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah
staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Tue, 15 May 2001 13:31:40 +0000 (UTC), Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah
>>>Is Suspend-to-RAM (STR) supported on Linux? If it is would appreciate
>>>pointers to the docs.
>>I think the suspend function on most laptops is dependent on the
>>hardware. For me, a large assortment of kernels, all compiled with
>>APM support, worked with a Thinkpad 380D and a Thinkpad 600X. The
>>command is "apm -s", but most laptops automagically invoke
>>suspend-to-RAM when the lid is closed.
>I'm using a desktop computer using a motherboard from Microstar model
>number MS-6178 which has suspend-to-ram support. Does anyone have any
>experience with this board with suspend-to-ram ?
You must have APM support compiled into the kernel, and you must execute
the apm -s command as root. When I try this on my desktop (Abit KT7
board), the machine appears to go dead, but the power-supply, CPU, and
hard drive fans keep spinning. You can use hdparm to turn the IDE
drives off, but the power supply and CPU fans may be a little trickier.
What did you try, and what error messages did you get/what happened?
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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Date: 18 May 2001 21:41:25 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need help. RH7.1 wont configure my ATI Xpert 128 AGP 32 RAM. Log
attached
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to (REMOVE the;
tE> Hi Gene,
tE> I like this fast card since I a dual booting and using Win2k, I did
tE> take
tE> the ATI rage 128 AGP card out and put in my 10 year old (slow)Matrox MGA
tE> 4 meg PCI card and it freaking worked. I don't understand why this 1 year
tE> < card wont work. What do you recommend? give up on this card? is there
tE> something I can do to get this card to work?
tE> Thanks
tE> Rich
Well, given the lifetime of a card in terms of market share might be 6
months, and ATI seems to be thumbing their noses at anything but
winderz, there will no doubt be another, even greater, card that fits
this market niche by the time the driver coders can coax enough info out
of ATI to write a bare bones driver. But look at the utah leg on
sourceforge, they, or on Xig.com, either might have a working driver
before XFree86 gets around 'tuit'. Neither XFree86, nor Xig have
anything that works ATM.
I note with a certain amount of glee/trepidation, that Nvidia just
released new linux drivers for most of their current crop of cards, its
on freshmeat in today's listing.
I can't judge the Nvidia drivers as there are no local cards available,
and after my experience in doing email ordering 2 years ago, I druther
buy locally, where when they ask if I "want the warranty too", I can
reply that I'd always figured my bill of sale and my 357 were warranty
enough for me. :)
It may well be a fast card for the money, but for me, without any
windoze to run it with, its 4 oz of weight I could lose in favor of a
refund. That was cheerfully given, but I'm not sure I quite understand
Staples return policy. Instead of running it back thru the heat sealer
and selling it to the next windoze user, it was marked out, bad, and
will be smashed and disposed of, "to prevent some dumpster diver from
bringing it back in for a refund". For a windoze user, I have serious
doubts thre was anything wrong with that card as long as it was being
driven by their (ATI's) winderz driver.
[...]
Cheers, Gene
--
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From: "Uncle Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HowTo: Install Linux on Laptop
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:41:13 GMT
I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
You are very low on resources like memory and disk space.
Linux will run on a 486, but you need more RAM and more disk space.
Try to work on getting more memory first.
With Linux you will need to create a Primary Linux and a Swap Partition on
the disk to
run it decently. 200 MB won't cut it.
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From: "Uncle Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xconfigurator hangs
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:50:26 GMT
Yeah....
This has happened to me. I have had to power the machine down for a minute,
then restart the machine and login in text mode.
Once logged in as root I would run XF86Setup. Choose options
carefully and it should work.
Unless you have a "Fuhgazzy" video card..!!
"bidalah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:o%jN6.208$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble with Xconfigurator. The first time I ran this it
worked
> fine. For unrelated reasons however, I had to reinstall Linux. I loaded
X
> windows and Ximian Gnome just fine, but my video settings were off. When
I
> went to run Xconfigurator to fix these, it hanged at the monitor section.
By
> "hanged" I mean right after it correctly identified my video card,
XConfigurator
> went to a blank blue screen instead of giving me a choice of monitors. It
> freezes there, and the only thing that resolves this is a hard reboot (its
> almost an NT behavior!!). I have attempted this 3 times with the same
results.
> Can anyone tell me why this would happen, and/or what to try from here?
>
> Thank you,
> bidalah
>
>
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From: "brock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FIPS with NTFS
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:50:11 -0700
anyone gotten FIPS to work on an NTFS partition?
i've got a single NTFS W2K partition and would like to split up and install
linux, preferably without buying partition magic or reformatting my machine.
couldn't get FIPS to work, anyone have any ideas? thanks.
-paul
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From: "Dennis Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: iBCS in kernel 2.4
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 23:11:42 -0400
Reply-To: "Dennis Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi. On my web site I show how to patch the iBCS module, allowing Foxpro for
Unix to run on Linux.
Question. I've heard there is no iBCS module in the 2.4 kernel. Is this
true? If so, what took over and where do I find the equivalent code?
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From: djswift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 23:20:34 -0400
Don Hinds wrote:
> I basically quit even trying to get Mandrake 7 to work properly.
You should maybe try a newer distrobution. Newer distro's = easier
installation. At least Mandrake 7.2 or as with your USB modem problem a
distro with the 2.4 kernel (SuSE, Redhat 7, Mandrake 8)
> If I can't acutally USE Linux, it doesn't matter a whole lot if it doesn't
> crash. Windows 95/98/ME may crash a lot, but between times IT WORKS!
To me, its not even about sability. Its about technological curiosity and
not being under Microsofts yearly hundred dollar upgrade schedule and
having to upgrade my hardware everytime too!
--
DJ Swift... djswift (at) nfx.net
AOL Instant Messanger... DJSwift14
Registered Linux User #203855
"I can't deny its killing me, no one loses on TV."
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From: Steve Morningthunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Earthlink and Debian
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:38:03 -0700
Has anybody managed to setup Debian GNU/LINUX (stable) so that it can
access mindspring.com, one of the subsidiaries of Earthlink, probably
being the same?
If so I'd sure like some help with such as a chat script and options
file.
Thanks to anybody who might have the time to make the effort
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From: Caroline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie question, where does lilo/grub reside?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 07:37:40 +0400
I have installed LM8.0 double boot with my W2K. First partition is w2k
and second is linux. During the installation, when it asked me where I
want the lilo/grub to be written, I selected /dev/hda. I bought
recently another drive which I am thinking of installing linux and leave
my other drive for windows (only 3.8GB). I deleted the linux partition
(using partition magic 6.01) and resized my windows partition and reboot
my pc, I still get the graphical lilo/grub. I tried using the partition
magic rescue disk (fdisk utility) by typing fdisk /mbr but it didn't
help. I deleted, formatted the whole drive, installed w2k twice already
but I still get the same graphical lilo/grub thing. Any professional
advise how to remove it permanently and where does this lilo/grub
reside?
Thanks, Caroline
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From: "Kyle Risse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 03:38:12 GMT
I don't think that Linux really cares if you use it or not. Linux is there
for the people who use Linux, not for everybody that wants to switch over
from Windows to become a ha><or. We'll miss you, hehe.
"Don Hinds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3VeN6.1045$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I basically quit even trying to get Mandrake 7 to work properly.
>
> 1) I can boot GUI, but in non-gui, even in FAILSAFE it locks up with a
Kernel
> Panic.
>
> 2) There is no option to use a modem (Linux USB supported modem) on USB
> port, or perhaps I should say there is no option to use USB for the modem.
> There are 4 (as I recall) port options for modem including serial, but USB
is
> not on the list.
>
> 3) Corel WP will not install. Not the one on the Mandrake 6.5 CD, nor the
one
> on Corel website. I get a load of directories or path not found errors.
>
> 4) Corel PhotoPaint installs but gives a FontTastic (missing) error when I
try
> to run it. I tried the Corel website and UK Linux User CD versions.
>
> I've posted all these problems in more detail in the past, but no one has
any
> workable answers. ;-(
>
> If I can't acutally USE Linux, it doesn't matter a whole lot if it doesn't
> crash. Windows 95/98/ME may crash a lot, but between times IT WORKS!
>
> Don
>
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.linux.isp,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Default mail box location
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 03:46:08 GMT
"David E. Smith" wrote:
> In our last shocking episode of comp.os.linux.admin,
> Mladen Gogala revealed a dark secret:
>
> >> What can I do so that all incoming mail can be saved to another
> >> directory or file, but still accessable or readable by POP3 clients
> >> (such as Outlook Express).
>
> > Outlook express???? Did you say "Outlook"? On Linux? Outlook works on
> > Linux!??? Can you give mi some more info, please, please, please!
>
> Uh, no.
>
> Outlook still only runs on Windows and its brethren; it's a POP client,
> which talks to a Linux-based POP *server*.
Actually there is hope - the gnome folks are
working on their messaging client called
"evolution", so you won't have to be stuck
with windows to use outlook-like features.
IIRC the kde krew is working on something
similar as well.
cu
jjs
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: unmounting
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 03:59:14 GMT
Matt George wrote:
> I just got a Dell Poweredge that already had Linux 7.0 installed. There are two
> scsi disks in the computer. Dell set it up so that the first disk has all the
> main partitions and the filesystem. Disk2 is just a mounted part of the system.
> I am planning on installing software RAID and I don't want disk2 to be mounted
> anymore. How do I make is so that disk2 is not mounted automatically at reboot.
That's a long story, and the answer depends
on exactly what you have in mind for disk 2 -
Also, on whether any current data must be
preserved or whether you can go ahead and
do a fresh install.
cu
jjs
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cd Writing Problem w/XCdroast
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:59:55 +0800
In article <DjiN6.2329$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "don keith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wayne Osborn wrote:
>
>> In article <kl1N6.2303$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "don keith"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I have configured my system and files exactly as shown in the Suse
>> > Application manual for Xcdroast and still can't burn a CD....
>
> ....I can create a cd.image
>> > file or create a master directory to write to cd, but when either
>> > program "writes" to the cd nothing is ever put on the cd. What is
>> > really puzzling is that while the cd is "writing" the red light comes
>> > on and I keep getting progress messages from the software that every
>> > thing is OK(?)
>>
>> You will see the "red" light blink even when do a test-burn. Maybe
>> that's is all thats actually happening.
>>
>> What output do you get from xcdroast, using the full debug output mode?
>>
>> <rest snipped>
>>
> I ran xcdroast in "debug" mode, and the only problems I saw were
> initially there was a message about ownership and permission for xcdrgtk
> which I corrected exactly per the suggested method.
>
> The only other problem I ran across were a couple errors for file
> access:
>
> couldnt' open: /root/.xcdroast/isoopt.cfg couldn't open:
> /root/.xcdroast/isoheader.cfg
>
> I checked and these files were non-existent. (I checked with view hidden
> files turned on) After a thorough search of the hard drive, with no
> luck in finding them. I manually created each of the files with no
> contents. Afterward, xcdroast would run without the same errors, but
> after a cdwrite command I still had no data written onto the cd???
>
> I tried to write an .img file to the cd directly using the command:
> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,.0 filename.img and it looked just fine as far
> as no error messages etc.....but still nothing on the cd..
>
> what should be the contents of isoopt.cfg and isoheader.cfg ? How/
> where do I create these files if they are the problem?
>
> tnx
>
>
Ok, I had a look at my system:
/home/wayne/.xcdroast/isoopt.cfg - created by the initial xcdroast setup (root).
osiheader.cfg - I don't have one of them!
Did you follow the xcdroast installation to the tee???
You must run xcdroast as root for the first time and go through all the
setup options, followed by save. This creates isoopt.cfg in the .xcdroast
directory (off your home).
1. Open terminal.
2. make yourself superuser.
3. xcdroast
4. go through all setup options on setup page
5. save setup & exit.
6. run xcdroast as a normal user.
Give it a go!
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
11:50am up 9:11, 3 users, load average: 3.05, 3.09, 3.33
...A modem is a baudy house.
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From: Shefali Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting mp3s and realplayer to work!
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 04:09:11 GMT
Hi!
Actually the problem is that My sound card plays my CDs fine! So my
sound card HAS been detected.
But, mp3 files and Realplayer don't work! I keep getting the
message,"Cannot open audio device!"
Any suggestions? :)
thanks in advance!
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From: "Dave Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux now/Beowulf later
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 04:12:41 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've just pick up 3 old IBM boxes (one P75 and two 110DX4's with
> monitor, keyboard and cables for $40, who could resist?)
>
> I want to partition the P75 and install Linux very soon.
>
> However, being a newbie, I want to make sure that I can add the other
> two boxes with Beowulf later.
>
> Do I need to be aware of anything or do anything special during the
> initial Linux setup in preparation for a later Beowulf addition?
> Or, do I just install Linux in its own right intially and simply add
> Beowulf later?
>
> Also, taking recommendations for the best Web sites to guide a newbie
> through his first Linux installation.
>
> Regards
>
>
This is exactly what I want to do with a bunch of used but operating P100
machines. They have everything including NIC's and I want to put them
together and plug them into the Internet to do something useful such as SETI
or AIDS research.
Please, some of the experts out there, could you spell this project out in
detail, step by step for those of us who are trying to "do the right thing"
but don't have your experience?
TIA
Dave
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7, I gave up trying - Windows actually WORKS
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 00:05:08 -0500
Don Hinds wrote:
> I basically quit even trying to get Mandrake 7 to work properly.
>
> 1) I can boot GUI, but in non-gui, even in FAILSAFE it locks up with a
> Kernel Panic.
>
> 2) There is no option to use a modem (Linux USB supported modem) on USB
> port, or perhaps I should say there is no option to use USB for the modem.
> There are 4 (as I recall) port options for modem including serial, but USB
> is not on the list.
>
> 3) Corel WP will not install. Not the one on the Mandrake 6.5 CD, nor the
> one on Corel website. I get a load of directories or path not found
> errors.
>
> 4) Corel PhotoPaint installs but gives a FontTastic (missing) error when I
> try
> to run it. I tried the Corel website and UK Linux User CD versions.
>
> I've posted all these problems in more detail in the past, but no one has
> any
> workable answers. ;-(
>
> If I can't acutally USE Linux, it doesn't matter a whole lot if it doesn't
> crash. Windows 95/98/ME may crash a lot, but between times IT WORKS!
>
> Don
>
>
This thing is obviously a troll. Please don't feed the troll.
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