Linux-Setup Digest #281, Volume #21 Tue, 22 May 01 05:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: NTFS to FAT32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: US robotics 56K Internal modem help !! (s)
mandrake & win98 on one computer ("Jared Manning")
Re: Lilo on MBR with Windows 98? (Lew Pitcher)
apache refuse ("sang")
Re: Who to install a .gz.tar file? (Michael Heiming)
recompiling glibc under slackware (George Shapovalov)
ALSA sound for Via 686a again ! ("goolias")
Re: rh 7.1 install (Joel Comeaux)
Re: rh 7.1 install ("David Dorward")
Re: LILO and FAT32 ("Eric")
Re: mandrake & win98 on one computer ("Eric")
Need a little hand holding here...please? (Joel Comeaux)
Re: ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 8MB, Princeton Graphics Ultra 75 - flickering (Joel
Comeaux)
Re: apache refuse ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dual boot installation ("Eric")
Re: USB ISDN modem, help! ("Joe LaCour")
Re: apache refuse ("sang")
Re: apache refuse ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
incrementing the size of the root partition ? ("Ed Bras")
Re: Shared Memory PHP (root@localho$t)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NTFS to FAT32
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 05:01:04 GMT
Eric wrote:
> > been working on my first install, want to dual boot with win2k on NTFS
> > partition. i've read that this won't work, and it didn't. i'd like to
>
> It will work. You made another mistake.
> converting to FAT32 will therefor not solve it.
>
> Tell us what failed and how it failed (and what you tried), then we
> may be able to help you out.
>
> Eric
Second that, I have a dual boot system that booots into nt from an ntfs
partition just fine.
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From: s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: US robotics 56K Internal modem help !!
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 00:04:47 -0500
Not all us robotics are winmodems. Mine is a 5610 and got it to work in
7.2 with setserial. In 8.0 it was automagic. What version you using
running? You could try setserial. Look in kde system control and find the
ioport and irq, and then run the setserial command and see if it'll
connect. You may have to try other com ports and if it is using com5,
you'll have to make a symlink from /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS4. If it don't
work, then go to www.linmodems.org .
-s
Sarkie wrote:
> I have a winmodem I guess by US robotics. In win2k its under Com3 IRQ11
> how do I get this to work under Mandrake 8.0, When I try to use it says
> its ready but when I try to dial its busy or not responding. Please help
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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From: "Jared Manning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mandrake & win98 on one computer
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 05:16:32 GMT
hi, i'd like to put mandrake 7.2 and win98 on my computer.
i have one 16 gig hard drive in my computer.
i'd like to partition into two equal halves and put mandrake on one half and
win98 on the other.
this can be done without having a lot of problems right?
if so, is there any place i could get a good GUI partitioner? freeware or
shareware?
thanks for any help
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo on MBR with Windows 98?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 05:46:37 GMT
Myriam Abramson wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Can I install Lilo on the MBR with windows 98? I've read about not
> doing that with Windows NT but is it Okay with Windows 98?
Certainly. That's what I do
Here's an excerpt from my lilo.conf
boot = /dev/hda
delay = 50
vga = normal
# End LILO global section
#----------------------------------------
# MSWin98 bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = win98
table = /dev/hda
# MSWin98 bootable partition config ends
#---------------------------------------
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hdb2
label = linux
read-only
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576
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From: "sang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: apache refuse
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:12:30 +0900
When i access linux server from another computer on one LAN , the error
message :
http://192.100.1.2
Netscape's network connection was refused by the server 192.100.1.2
The server maynot be accepting connections or may be busy.
Try connecting again later.
Thanks in advance.
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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:14:35 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Who to install a .gz.tar file?
James Knott wrote:
>
> Edward Rosten wrote:
> >
> > > Mladen Gogala wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Voila! Mkisofs is installed into /usr/local/bin. Make sure that you do
> > >> not burn copyrighted music to your CDs as it is bad for your soul and
> > >> for the recording industry profits.
> > >
> > > FWIW, Canadians can now legally copy copyrighted music, for their own
> > > use.
> > > The copyright owners get reimbersed through a levy the government
> > > slapped
> > > on blank CDs, audio cassettes etc.
> >
> > That's appauling. People should not have to pay a levy for backups and
> > people should not pay a levy on data CDs.
>
> I agree. And since I'm not the type to copy copyright material, I get
> charged for someone else's copying.
>
> That's government for you, though I understand it's far worse over in
> Germany, with taxes on things like photo copiers, fax machines,
> computers that can do multimedia etc.
True, they just take out of our pockets, what they can get, you have to
pay for every cd writer you buy too!
I suppose, they just need the money to pay some crazy idea and or feed
those people who are to dump/lazy to work, but have a vote in the next
election...:-(
Have to go to work now, just to pay all those taxes....
Regards
Michael Heiming
[SNIP]
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From: George Shapovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: recompiling glibc under slackware
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 23:12:45 -0700
I am trying to upgrade the glibc under slackware-based distribution. It
looks like Slack has a problem using crypt library.
Steps:
tar xzf .../glibc-2.2.3.tar.gz; cd glibc; tar xzf
.../glibc-linuxthreads.tar.gz
export CFLAGS='-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -malign-jumps=2 -malign-loops=2
-march=i686'
cd build #separate dir for build as described in install instructions
LIBS=-lcrypt ../glibc/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-omit-fp
--enable-shared --disable-profile --with-headers=/usr/src/linux/include
--enable-kernel=2.4.0 --enable-add-ons
make
make check
it compiles Ok (it actually complains on the configure step about
msgfmt, even though I have 0.10.35 which seems to be latest released
(stable), but anyway this is auxiliary).
Then during make check it bombs out in testgrp
with 'cannot read user identity for uid 1000 (my uid)'
Short look at testgrp.c shows, that it tries to get password for uid
1000, then compares it to NULL at which point emits an Error and exits
(instead of reading user identity).
If I nontheless install glibc (on a test platform of course) it
boots up fine to the prompt but then I am unable to login. I am geting
'you don't exist, go away' for any user (including root).
(well, it also complained about linking with libnss, but as I can see
this is separate issue which is taken care of by patch for glibc-2.2.3.
Then may be I should wait until glibc-2.2.4 or use 2.2.2?).
I know Slackware has an issue with linking to crypt library. I was
installing sshd on this distro before and I needed to specify
LIBS=-lcrypt before ./configure. Otherwise sshd wouldn't authentificate
any user. Seems to be related to glibc issue, but just adding
LIBS=-lcrypt didn't help this time.
So how can I upgrade glibc on Slack? Any suggestions?
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From: "goolias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: jaring.os.linux
Subject: ALSA sound for Via 686a again !
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:08:41 +0800
HI,
It's the same old problem.
It still doesn't produce sound, with xmms still the message like:
device not found...
I checked proc/asound/sndstat, show:
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.0beta3 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux venus 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
VIA 82C686A/B at 0xdc00, irq 5
Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Obviously that audio devices, and synth devices didn't enabled, I have no
ideas where
to enabled them.
Any ideas ?
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From: Joel Comeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rh 7.1 install
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 01:40:52 -0500
Mike Flys wrote:
> I've been trying to install redhat 7.1 but i always have trouble with the
> second disc. (the install cd's were burned from the ISO's at redhat's ftp)
> None of the RPM's from the second cd will install. I've tried checking
> them out with the package manager utility and it says somthing like
> they're invalid rpm's. Has anyone else had any problems like this? am i
> doing something terribly wrong? :-)
>
> -Mike
>
Hmmm...sounds like you may just need to reburn the disk. Weird.
I downloaded them and the install went off without a hitch....
Joel
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From: "David Dorward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rh 7.1 install
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:44:09 +0100
It seems that on Tue, 22 May 2001 03:21:40 +0100, someone claiming to be
"Mike Flys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed this:
> I've been trying to install redhat 7.1 but i always have trouble with
> the second disc. (the install cd's were burned from the ISO's at
> redhat's ftp) None of the RPM's from the second cd will install. I've
> tried checking them out with the package manager utility and it says
> somthing like they're invalid rpm's. Has anyone else had any problems
> like this? am i doing something terribly wrong? :-)
Sounds like a damaged CD. Get a replacement copy.
--
David Dorward http://www.dorward.co.uk/
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink
what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. -- Mark Twain
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and FAT32
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:38:59 +0200
> > it can boot fat16 just fine, as well as fat32.
> >
> > Where is ur LILO installed? Its possible you overwrote ntldr with LILO
> > in that case the "ntldr missing' error is appropriate.
> >
> > NTLDR is put into the MBR of ur booting drive and if u put LILO there
> > then NTLDR is no longer there.
>
> as far as i remember, i've put it into the MBR of the SCSI drive.
> If I switch to "Boot from HDD-0" (the IDE drive) in the BIOS, the Win2k
boot
> menu appears; if I select "Boot from SCSI" LILO comes up...
> ...What can I do to make LILO boot Win2k??
put this in your lilo.conf:
disk=/dev/hda
bios=0x80
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x81
and rerun /sbin/lilo
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mandrake & win98 on one computer
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:37:21 +0200
> hi, i'd like to put mandrake 7.2 and win98 on my computer.
> i have one 16 gig hard drive in my computer.
That's over 1024 cylinders, so beware.
> i'd like to partition into two equal halves and put mandrake on one half
and
> win98 on the other.
I'd make a small /boot partition at the start, the a big part win98, then
the
rest of mandrake, to avoid (BIOS)problems with booting
> this can be done without having a lot of problems right?
Most people are free of problems.
The problems people have, usually originate from some misunderstanding
of the way things work. If you know what you're doing, and why, you will
most likely not have any problems.
> if so, is there any place i could get a good GUI partitioner? freeware or
> shareware?
What about the partitioner mandrake provides? (DiskDrake IIRC)
Anyway the linux [c|s]fdisk is just as good as anything else, and it won't
do anything strange under the hood.
Eric
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From: Joel Comeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need a little hand holding here...please?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 02:53:39 -0500
Hi everybody,
Well, I've been testing distros and finally settled on one. I'd been
dual booting between SuSE 7.1 and RH 7.1. If I want to get rid of SuSE
7.1, and make a duplicate of the RH 7.1 in it's place....
mount -t auto /dev/hda2 /mnt/suse
rm -r -f /mnt/suse/*
cp -r /* /mnt/suse/.
Surely...can't be that easy? Normally, I'd just RTFM....and I definitely
have in this case (put a lot of work into this install of RH), but I guess
I just need the "warm and fuzzy" feeling.
Also, I plan to keep it this way, to make backups. Using the fastest
partition to work with and making backups to the second. Is that a sound
plan? It's been really great having a seperate partition to fall back
on....as I'm not really a newbie, but have alot to learn, I've kindof
"messed up" a time or two, but been able to recover nicely with the
additional distro to boot into. Heh.....dual booting is so much nicer,
when there are no windoze partitions to deal with.
Thanks.
Joel
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From: Joel Comeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 8MB, Princeton Graphics Ultra 75 - flickering
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 02:59:00 -0500
> Arun Shastry wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just installed RH v7 on my dual PII box. Everything's working fine
> except
>> the flickering and hazy characters on the monitor issue. When the
>> resolution is set to 800 X 600 (16 bits and 32 bits both work), it works
>> fine; but at 1024 X 768 onwards the flickering and haziness starts
You know, I've got the ATI Xpert 2000, the Rage 128 plain vanilla. I had
this weird "flashy black" thing going on with the stock X install.
Especially prevelant when I used a scroll bar to quickly scroll up and down
a document page. Don't know if your problem is the same....mine was
repaired by installing the new cvs release from dri.sourceforge.net.
Joel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: apache refuse
Date: 22 May 2001 07:47:00 GMT
sang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://192.100.1.2
> Netscape's network connection was refused by the server 192.100.1.2
> The server maynot be accepting connections or may be busy.
The ip address is correct? and the web server is working on that
server? the /etc/host.allow and /etc/host.deny of that machine
are Ok?
Davide
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot installation
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:48:44 +0200
> I have a dual processor machine with SCSI harddrive running Windows 2000
> (there is no data presently on the machine that needs saving). I need to
> make the machine dual boot so that I can run either linux or Windows.
>
> I reinstalled windows 2000, and partitioned the disk in two. On the first
> partition, it is formatted NTFS and I have installed windows. The other
> partition was left unformatted and I planned to install linux 6.2 onto it
(I
> need to use 6.2 for my application).
>
> Anyway, the mini howto for dual installation of windows and linux has left
> me clueless.
Why, what was so hard in it?
(I have never read it, but setting up a dual boot is just not so difficult)
> Can anyone give me guidance or point me in a direction on how I can
install
> linux on the other partition so that I will be able to dual boot? From
what
> I understand, I can't just do a normal install of linux because I will not
> be able to install LILO in the normal way.
Sure you can, and sure you will.
Just give it a go. Just don't install lilo on sda1, that's the one thing to
keep
in mind. Lilo can go both in the MBR or in a linux partition. Where you want
to put it, depends on how you'd like to boot. Anyway, make sure to create a
bootfloppy when you install linux, so whatever problems you may run into,
you
will always be able to boot linux. From there you can correct any problems
that you may encounter.
Eric
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From: "Joe LaCour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB ISDN modem, help!
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:49:32 +0200
> See if you can get the source rpm and re-compile.... otherwise, you have
> just run into the problem with proprietary hardware drivers....
Do you mean re-compile the source rpm of the module? Or recompile the Linux
kernel?
What about "forcing" the module to load? I've heard that can be done with
insmod and modprobe...
Sorry, as you can see I'm a bit of a newbie...
TIA Joe
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From: "sang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: apache refuse
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 17:25:05 +0900
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ed5hk$266f8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> sang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://192.100.1.2
> > Netscape's network connection was refused by the server 192.100.1.2
> > The server maynot be accepting connections or may be busy.
>
> The ip address is correct? and the web server is working on that
> server? the /etc/host.allow and /etc/host.deny of that machine
> are Ok?
>
> Davide
The web server is working OK on linux apache server.
i have changed nothing to /etc/hosts.allow .
Is it problem?
Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: apache refuse
Date: 22 May 2001 08:44:51 GMT
sang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The web server is working OK on linux apache server.
> i have changed nothing to /etc/hosts.allow .
> Is it problem?
Check it and check also the /etc/hosts.deny, if both are
empty your machine should accept any connection from any
other machine.
On the server try to use telnet to connect to port 80, if
it's working that means that the connection get refused
by Apache or that you have some sort of firewall installed.
See also the Apache's configuration file, you could have
some restriction that allow only the local machine to
connect ("Allow" in the httpd.conf file).
Davide
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: incrementing the size of the root partition ?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:51:14 +0200
Reply-To: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Can someone please tell me how I should increase the size of the root
partition and how to decrement another one ??
Eddie
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From: root@localho$t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shared Memory PHP
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:54:43 GMT
Brian Crouch wrote:
> Doing anything specific you should compile it yourself... but I think all
> you need is apache-php.rpm
Unhopefully, apache-php needs apache >= 1.3.19, so Glibc 2.2
>
> got to http://rpm.org and search for php you'll find it.
So.... I'll try to recompile it :)
Thx
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