Linux-Setup Digest #294, Volume #21 Thu, 24 May 01 04:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Compaq CD-ROM drive for Redhat 7.0 ("Doug Holtz")
Re: Compaq CD-ROM drive for Redhat 7.0 (Dean Thompson)
Re: Compaq CD-ROM drive for Redhat 7.0 (Dean Thompson)
Re: Compaq CD-ROM drive for Redhat 7.0 (Dean Thompson)
Q: kernel compile question (Farrell Farahbod)
Re: linux on large hard drive ("mike")
autoloader ("Patrick Chan")
Re: ssh client under linux (David Efflandt)
Re: Another log rotating problem... (Lew Pitcher)
Partion problems.... ("Christopher Fairbairn")
Mounting New Filesystem (Richard Bowman)
Strange Question.. ("Kevin from Hamilton")
USB ISDN modem help ("Joe LaCour")
Re: ssh client under linux (Michael Heiming)
setserial woes (Hugh Gibson)
samba ERRDOS ("sang")
Re: Is GDM an XDM server? ("Guillaume RAMELET")
help: Undefined reference to '...' (David. E. Goble)
HELP! Can't install RH7.1 (Anaconda bombed) (kalimuthu pothi)
Re: news reader ("Bobby D. Bryant")
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From: "Doug Holtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Compaq CD-ROM drive for Redhat 7.0
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 03:19:04 GMT
Q T;
When the machine boots up, go into the SCSI setup (control A keys) and set
the cd rom's SCSI ID to be the bootable device (4 or 5, depending on your
setup). Once you do this, the Red Hat 7 CD will boot as if it's the A:
drive. Red Hat 7 will load the correct SCSI Controller driver and continue.
Doug
Quansong Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am a newbie. I am trying to install Redhat 7.0 on my
> Compaq Deskpro XL 5100. But the CD-ROM can not be detected
> by the booting process.
>
> I have not HD space for HD installation.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to get Compaq CD-ROM drive for Linux?
> or tell me how to detour this? It uses SCSI.
>
> Thanks!
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Compaq CD-ROM drive for Redhat 7.0
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:23:07 +1000
Hi!,
> I am a newbie. I am trying to install Redhat 7.0 on my
> Compaq Deskpro XL 5100. But the CD-ROM can not be detected
> by the booting process.
>
> I have not HD space for HD installation.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to get Compaq CD-ROM drive for Linux?
> or tell me how to detour this? It uses SCSI.
The first challenge will be working out whether or not your SCSI adapter is
supported by Linux. If it is, then you might have to boot the installation
from a floppy disk and enter the text method of installing redhat. You will
then need to enter the advanced method of installing Linux (it is one of the
options from the install script from memory). From there you should be able
to specify which adapter you want to load. I know that I had to get my SCSI
controller identified through this approach, it didn't just happen
automatically.
You might like to check out the HARDWARE-HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org and
see whether the hardware is supported.
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: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Compaq CD-ROM drive for Redhat 7.0
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:23:12 +1000
Hi!,
> I am a newbie. I am trying to install Redhat 7.0 on my
> Compaq Deskpro XL 5100. But the CD-ROM can not be detected
> by the booting process.
>
> I have not HD space for HD installation.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to get Compaq CD-ROM drive for Linux?
> or tell me how to detour this? It uses SCSI.
The first challenge will be working out whether or not your SCSI adapter is
supported by Linux. If it is, then you might have to boot the installation
from a floppy disk and enter the text method of installing redhat. You will
then need to enter the advanced method of installing Linux (it is one of the
options from the install script from memory). From there you should be able
to specify which adapter you want to load. I know that I had to get my SCSI
controller identified through this approach, it didn't just happen
automatically.
You might like to check out the HARDWARE-HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org and
see whether the hardware is supported.
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: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Compaq CD-ROM drive for Redhat 7.0
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:23:44 +1000
Hi!,
> I am a newbie. I am trying to install Redhat 7.0 on my
> Compaq Deskpro XL 5100. But the CD-ROM can not be detected
> by the booting process.
>
> I have not HD space for HD installation.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to get Compaq CD-ROM drive for Linux?
> or tell me how to detour this? It uses SCSI.
The first challenge will be working out whether or not your SCSI adapter is
supported by Linux. If it is, then you might have to boot the installation
from a floppy disk and enter the text method of installing redhat. You will
then need to enter the advanced method of installing Linux (it is one of the
options from the install script from memory). From there you should be able
to specify which adapter you want to load. I know that I had to get my SCSI
controller identified through this approach, it didn't just happen
automatically.
You might like to check out the HARDWARE-HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org and
see whether the hardware is supported.
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: Farrell Farahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Q: kernel compile question
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 21:14:57 -0700
i set out the email i am pasteing below, but i have yet to get a
responce, and i am hopeing that one of you could help.
thank you,
farrell farahbod
the email..............
=============================================
when im at xconfig during the compiling process, what catagory is it in,
and
will this work with kernel v2.4.4?
thank you,
farrell farahbod
Peet Grobler wrote:
> re-compile your kernel, enable the setting "[ ] Set version
information for
> all modules"
>
> This'll fix it, iirc.
>
> Farrell Farahbod wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >i am VERY new to linux and im having troubble installing the linux
> >driver for my winmodem. i use rh7.1 wich has a kernel version
2.4.2-2.
> >the driver i had is for kernel version 2.4.0-0.26. the instructions
on
> >how i am supposed to install it are pasted below. at step3, i get the
> >following error message:
> >
> >pctel.o kernel-module version mismatch
> > pctel.o was compiled kernel version 2.4.0-0.26
> >
> >and it said that my kernel was 2.4.2-2. so how do i fix this problem?
> >any help would be much appriciated.
> >
> >thank you,
> >
> >farrell farahbod
> >
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From: "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux on large hard drive
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:58:16 -0700
I am having the same problem... Where can i get the latest version of
LiLo???
"Henrik Farre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Yello
>
> I artikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, skrev "Eugene Lee"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I am trying to install rh linux 6.2 on a p4 1.7GHz, 512mb ram, 60GB hd.
> > Are there any issues with linux on a large hd? Or is it an issue of the
> > second windows partition? Any ideas?
>
> You need the newest version of lilo, to boot a kernel above the 1024
> cylinder. And I think you need a 2.4.4 kernel to boot on a P4.
>
> --
> Mvh. / Kind regards
> Henrik Farre ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> Webpage: http://Welcome.to/Webbench
> -If I where God, I would recompile the penguin with --enable-flying.
>
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From: "Patrick Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: autoloader
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:23:10 +0800
I have Compaq ML530 and a Compaq SCSI 20/40 GB autoloader.
How can I use the autoloader?
Do I need to use the driver for the autoloader?
The CD accompanied with the autoloader does not contain driver for Linux.
I also can't find the driver over the Internet.
Or I can use it without a driver?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: ssh client under linux
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 05:22:49 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 23 May 2001 20:28:22 -0400, MING JIANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I just install my first linux. Everything seems to be fine,
> but I can't connect to remote host using ssh. It says:
>
> The authenticity of host '......'(128.163.215.188) can't be
> established. DSA fingerprint is ......
>
> I haven't found any clue in HOWTO. What should I do further?
> Thanks a lot.
That looks like an ssh2 message (DSA). If that is the host you are trying
to connect to, and it asks you if you want to add it to your authorized
hosts, say 'yes' (you have to spell it out, just 'y' will not work).
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another log rotating problem...
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 05:45:13 GMT
Thomas wrote:
>
> Unlike the recent posting my logs are being rotated but the message log
> remains zero bytes big every time this happens. I have to restart
> syslogd to get it to log propperly again.
That's right; you have to SIGHUP syslogd to get it to close the old log
(it's still writing to it, even if you've deleted/renamed the directory
entry), and open the new log.
> I am running a suse 6.3. I have entered /sbin/init.d/syslog on the end
> of the /var/log/messages line in /etc/logfiles hoping this would restart
> sysslogd automatically but that doesen't change a thing....
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576
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From: "Christopher Fairbairn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partion problems....
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:31:44 +1200
Hi,
I turned my PC on today and can't seem to get it to boot into Linux........
I have two harddrives, what is usually /dev/hda has Windows and what is
usually /dev/hdb has Linux related stuff.
The problem is as I said, today I can't boot into Linux. I'm using the
Redhat 7.1 distro and it gets up to the stage where it about to go through
the interactive init process (i.e. not far into the boot process).
However instead of getting anything "normal" I get a whole lot of messages
saying "dup2: bad file descriptor"....
I then get a prompt saying to enter the root password to recover the
system.......
Well, I can't seem to find much wrong..... and in fact my Windows
installation can still access/copy the Linux drive 100% fine (using
explore2fs of course).
The only strange thing I can find is the following (appoligies for the ugly
table that follows). This is the output of fdisk on /dev/hdb......
Device Boot Start End Type
/dev/hdb1 * 1 3 83
/dev/hdb2 4 4865 5
/dev/hdb5 4 4720 83
/dev/hdb6 4721 4753 82
/dev/hdb7 4754 4865 7
In my configuration
/dev/hdb1 is mounted as /boot
/dev/hdb5 is mounted as /
/dev/hdb6 is my Linux Swap drive
/dev/hdb7 is a NTFS formatted partion.
This is a 40Gb harddrive.
The "strange thing is /dev/hdb2" - I don't recall placing a FAT32 partion on
this drive, and if my knowledege is correct this output is indicating that
it occupies the same space as /dev/hdb5...........
Am I interpreting this correctly? If so any ideas on how I can go about to
fix it, or am I on a totally incorrect path????
As I said the data integrety seems to be ok, since entering rescue mode
means I can navigate the filesystem and cat files etc like I normally would,
and explore2fs under Windows is able to copy the contents of the filesystem
onto another drive, without problems.... All the files still seem to have
the proper contents etc....
Any ideas on how I could go about attempting to fix this one?
Is it normal for two partitions to have the same starting block address? If
not can I safely remove the entry for /dev/hdb2, and if so how?
Thanks,
Christopher Fairbairn.
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From: Richard Bowman <rijr2 @ vt.edu>
Subject: Mounting New Filesystem
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 06:45:02 GMT
Alright, I created a new partition using PartitionMagic. I then went back
into Linux and formatted it with mkfs to be a reiserfs like my main
partition. I then mounted it. Non-root users get read only access, no
matter what mount settings I try. Root can write to it fine. I can't seem
to find this problem ever addressed. Does anyone know what mount settings
to use or what else I am doing wrong?
Thanks
Richard Bowman
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From: "Kevin from Hamilton" <ac.ocitapmys@kytrehod>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.debian.user,muc.lists.debian.user
Subject: Strange Question..
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 02:43:29 -0400
I was just wondering, if anyone can help me.
I have a PAS-16 Sound Card with the SCSI connector and I want to add a 9.1GB
SCSI Hard Drive.
My question is simple, can I do it? Is it possible or should I forget it
before I even make the purchase. And the other follow up question is does
anyone know if I can add a SCSI-2 or a SCSI-Fast drive? And finally how
could I find out what 50 Pin SCSI devices or MAX hard drive size or SCSI
types could I get for it. I don't have the book anymore and I can't find
anything that can help me on the net.
I turned to this newsgroup because I will be using it on a linux machine.
(Debian stable)
Well in any case... I hope someone can get back to me with some information.
Thanks in advance.
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From: "Joe LaCour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB ISDN modem help
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:08:34 +0200
I have a version of a Draytek miniVigor128 USB ISDN "modem." The Draytek
site has a driver for it in the form of an rpm. I got the rpm to install,
but when I try to load the driver (lib/modules/draytek/m128) using
insmod -f,
I get a message that it was compiled for kernel 2.4.0 and I am running
2.4.3-20mdksmp (which is right). Yet the driver shows up in
proc/bus/usb/drivers, with the name "miniVigor," and the modem is listed in
proc/bus/usb/devices, though with "driver=(none)" next to it.
When I follow Draytek's instructions, which say to create a symbolic link
from dev/ttyUSB0 to dev/modem, the K dialer can't query the modem (message:
"Sorry, can't open modem").
Any ideas? Could something be in the wrong place?
I've also tried loading the ACM driver and accessing the modem through
ttyACM0, but that won't work either.
My system is running dual PII 400s, with Mandrake8, kernel
2.4.3-20mdksmp.
Thanks wholeheartedly for any help!
Joe
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:14:28 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ssh client under linux
David Efflandt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2001 20:28:22 -0400, MING JIANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi, I just install my first linux. Everything seems to be fine,
> > but I can't connect to remote host using ssh. It says:
> >
> > The authenticity of host '......'(128.163.215.188) can't be
> > established. DSA fingerprint is ......
> >
> > I haven't found any clue in HOWTO. What should I do further?
> > Thanks a lot.
>
> That looks like an ssh2 message (DSA). If that is the host you are trying
> to connect to, and it asks you if you want to add it to your authorized
> hosts, say 'yes' (you have to spell it out, just 'y' will not work).
If you say 'yes', it will be added to your ~/.ssh/known_hosts, this way
you will
get a warning case the remote host key changes, which indicates, that
there is something going on/wrong.
authorized_keys is used for RSA based authentication.
"man ssh" for more info.
Michael Heiming
> --
> David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Hugh Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setserial woes
Date: 23 May 2001 10:01:16 -0500
Hi,
I have a strange problem with setserial..
I have an internal modem card on COM4, which is NOT identified by
setserial (I've never had this problem before)
SO, to get around this, in my rc.local file, I've placed
/sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550a port 0x02e8 irq 3
However, this doesn't seem to work either!!
The only way to get it to function is to manually issue this
setserial line from the root command line, then all is OK..
How can it NOT work in rc.local ?????
Hugh Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "sang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: samba ERRDOS
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:32:38 +0900
Hi,all
I have installed samba in my LINUX SERVER at same LAN
with NT.
I can see LINUX_SERVER in my network neighbour.
When i use smbclient, there is ERRDOS error.
#smbclient -L nt_host1
...
Password: [enter]
ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
Thanks in advance.
sang
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From: "Guillaume RAMELET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is GDM an XDM server?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:40:15 +0200
yes but i think that XDMCP has been broken in gnome 1.4
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/2001-January/msg00116.html
"Ralph Mack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, all,
Now that my Linux server is up and running, I've started trying
to get fancy - silly me - and talk to it from my other systems
in various and sundry ways.
Since I bought my Linux server really cheap, I'm going for a really
cheap X Server (MicroImages), which appears to support XDM protocol.
I've edited my /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess but to no avail. Just to cover
my bases - Does GDM use the XDM protocol? (I hope the answer is yes.)
As I was referring to my system files when writing this message, I
noticed that the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file has an [xdmcp] section
with the item "enable=0". Am I getting warm?
Ralph
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From: goble@gtech (David. E. Goble)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: help: Undefined reference to '...'
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:52:32 GMT
Reply-To: goble@gtech
Hi All;
I have redHat 6.2 (server install)
I am trying to do some programming.
Tried these two;
gcc testlibpq.c -I/usr/include/pgsql/ -L/usr/lib/
and
gcc cube.cpp -I/usr/X11R6/include/ -L/usr/X11R6/lib/
both produce a list of;
.... Undefined reference to '...'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I understand this has something to do with linking...
What am I doing wrong or not doing. Please I need step by step
instruction, thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kalimuthu pothi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: HELP! Can't install RH7.1 (Anaconda bombed)
Date: 24 May 2001 00:48:11 -0700
Benjamin Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I'm trying a fresh install on my new Compaq Presario 5000 series PC
>
> AMD 1GHz
> 384MB PC100 RAM
> Voodoo 5 AGP graphics card
> Intel eepro 10/100 ethernet
> 30GB UDMA hard drive
>
> I booted my RH7.1 CD and no matter what option I chose (graphical, text,
> expert install) they all bombed at Anaconda. The error message looks like
> this:
>
> --- error msg ---
> Runnin anaconda - please wait...
> install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
> sending termination signals...done
> sending kill signals...done
> disabling swap...
> unmounting filesystems...
> /proc/bus/usb
> /mnt/runtime
> /mnt/source umount failed ()
> /dev/pts
> /proc
> You may safely reboot your system
> --- error msg ---
>
> I've successfully installed W2k on this machine (plus the Windows ME
> coming with the box), so hardware problems should've been ruled out.
>
> Any suggestions on what to do next? Any 'alternative' install method that
> doesn't require running Anaconda? (I read from RH support website RH7.0
> used to have various anaconda problems - but it's RH7.1 I'm trying to
> install)
>
> Thank you SO MUCH!
>
> Ben
Please try your question again in Redhat website.
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: news reader
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 02:01:13 +0600
In article <9efdj9$n1m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dave Stanton"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try Pan, www.rebelbase.com
Thanks for the tip. I've been fiddling with it for a bit, and it looks
pretty good.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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