Linux-Setup Digest #303, Volume #21 Fri, 25 May 01 16:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Kernel panic while trying to install RH Linux 6.0 ("Rick")
Re: rh 7.1 driving me nuts ("Maximus Idius")
Re: Problem with Modular Technology external modem (�-Geoff NorwestUK-�)
Samba with Windows 2000 Professional (Artur Undebarrena)
Re: rh 7.1 driving me nuts (Vilmos Soti)
Re: howto move the errors from gcc to a file? (Jim Cochrane)
setup ISP using Linux (Randy Cheema)
Mandrake 8.0 (kernel 2.4.3) Software RAID 5 locks up machine (Paul Wehr)
Re: Samba with Windows 2000 Professional ("Panasonic")
Re: Linux consultancy/sysadmin fees 'survey' ("Coles")
Re: @Home setup SO SLOW ("Coles")
Re: setup ISP using Linux ("Coles")
/etc/shadow password encrypted and not (LRW)
How to configure HUGE swap? (Milica Medved)
Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why? ("ne...")
Re: @Home setup SO SLOW ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
installing qlogic scsi adaptor (Husam)
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From: "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic while trying to install RH Linux 6.0
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:11:26 -0400
Hello I had the same problem with the same error message. I am running an
older Red Hat version and a AMD K6II 300. What I did was to go through the
installation process until I got to Disk Druid and on the partition that is
Linux native I checked Grow to fill Disk option. For some reason that
worked. Before it seems as if Linux did not see the whole Hard Drive. I
rebooted and my login prompt came up. Hope that helps.
Rick
"dasp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have built a 486 box from old components (mb, ram, hard disk etc.)
> and it seems that it works now. The hard disk is an old Seagate 210MB
> disk, I have 16MB of RAM, and the hard disk is connected to a VLB
> controller. I have installed DOS without problem on this disk, and it
> works.
>
> However when I try to install red hat linux 5.2 (or 6.0) the installer
> loads the boot.img from the diskette and it halts with the following
> message:
>
> CRC Error
> Cannot open root device 08:22
> kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:22
>
> I first thought that the diskette with the boot.img is corrupted, so I
> tried with different diskettes, but the result is same. Same thing
> happens with red hat linux 5.2 and red hat linux 6.0, ie the message
> is same. Red hat linux 6.2 doesn't wanna install, it asks for some
> driver disk in the beginning of the installation, and then halts if
> you don't provide one.
>
> What seems to be the problem? As I said, the hard disk works fine with
> ms-dos put on it (it boots, reads/writes etc.), so I don't believe
> that this is a hardware problem. And what device 08:22 is?
>
> TIA,
> dasp
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From: "Maximus Idius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rh 7.1 driving me nuts
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 02:17:47 +0900
"alik blochin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9eh7v7$guk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i am going just crazy... guys :
>
> i am trying to install rh 7.1 for god knows what time
> and still without success :
>
> the installation gets stacked at the point of :
> "transferring install image to harddrive"
>
> and it gives the error
> "it was an error, maybe you haven't got enough free space"
> or something like that but that's not true:
>
> i have a 14 GB allocated just for linux
> 512MB swap
> / 7GB
> /usr all the rest
>
>
> i tried all the option available :
> disk druid
> fdisk
> with all options with those tools
>
> nothing just helps
> the system hangs on the point of
> "transferring install image to harddrive"
>
> it's driving me nuts....
> what the hell i am suppose to do to get it work !!!!?????????
>
> I know that if i turn to Red Hat
> god knows when i'll get an answer....
>
> if somebody knows something please help..
> i need to install it...
>
> and i don't want to mess with mandrake
> mandrake just freezes on my machine...
>
> Configuration:
>
> 900mHZ AMD
> Chaintech motherboard 7AJA
> 20GB WD +
> 30GB Quantum : 14GB for linux
>
not sure if you need one partition of /boot ?
I do not try this option yet, so I do not know.
At least, when I have 4 partition, /boot; /, swap and /usr, then the
installation is smooth.
Not sure if this may help.
Good luck
SN
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From: �-Geoff NorwestUK-� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: Problem with Modular Technology external modem
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:39:39 +0100
On Sun, 20 May 2001 15:54:24 +0100, "Phil Latio"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is probably me doing something wrong but I cannot get my Modem to do
>anything other than light one LED "DTR" when I try and dial out.
>
>It's an external modem made by Modular Technology 56K V90. Model 560 DTV and
>anyone who is interested can see the specs on modem at:
>http://www.modulartech.com/dtvprod1.htm
>
>Is anyone else using this model succesfully under Redhat 6.0?
>
>Cheers
>
>Phil
>
I did have one of these modems (about two months ago)but found it
would not work with either my SuSE distro or Windoze. I returned it as
faulty & bought an ELSA Microlink 56k instead. That works very well.
--
Regards,Geoff F.
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From: Artur Undebarrena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Samba with Windows 2000 Professional
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:41:18 +0200
Hello all.
I only want to configure my Suse linux 7.0 machine and Windows 2000
Professional to access from Win2000 to Linux. Not the printers. The
printers are not important for me.From Win2000 I want to see the
contents of the directory tree in linux machine. From windows 2000 I
only see the Icon but when I double-click the icon a dialog box appears
to tell me that I haven't permission to access to this machine. I login
into linux as root and into Windows 2000 as Administrator.
I don't know what happen because I think I setup all resourcess as
public, browseable and writable. More public impossible, I think. The
way to connect is as workgroup, not as domain.
Thank you very much.
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Subject: Re: rh 7.1 driving me nuts
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 17:50:24 GMT
> i am going just crazy... guys :
>
> i am trying to install rh 7.1 for god knows what time
> and still without success :
>
> the installation gets stacked at the point of :
> "transferring install image to harddrive"
>
> and it gives the error
> "it was an error, maybe you haven't got enough free space"
> or something like that but that's not true:
Do you do an ftp or cdrom install?
Vilmos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Cochrane)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: howto move the errors from gcc to a file?
Date: 25 May 2001 11:59:04 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>Hi all;
>
>I am just beginning to try programming in linux (redhat).
>
>My problem is when I use gcc ...etc it produces a scolling list of
>errors. How can I move or pipe the errors to a file. ie something like
>
> gcc -o hello.c > error.txt?
^^^^^^^
[You might realize this, but this will overwrite hello.c as the executable.
You need "gcc -o hello hello.c".]
To expand a bit on what others posted, you can direct just stderr to a
file (stdout will still go to the console):
gcc -o hello hello.c 2>/tmp/errors # put in /tmp so you don't need to cleanup
Send stdout and stderr to separate files:
gcc -o hello hello.c >/tmp/gccout 2>/tmp/errors
Send stdout and stderr to the same file:
gcc -o hello hello.c >/tmp/errors 2>&1
[You might want to check out
http://sunsite.dk/linux-newbie/FAQ2.htm#io_redirection
for a short tutorial on output redirection.]
This is all with bash (or sh or ksh), of course - with csh-based shells the
syntax is different.
--
Jim Cochrane
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Cheema)
Subject: setup ISP using Linux
Date: 25 May 2001 11:22:34 -0700
Hello (newbie to Linux envirnoment)
I want to setup ISP using Linux. What servers would need to setup?
FTP, Web Server, Mail, etc. Any assistance would be helpful......
Thanks in advance
Randy
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From: Paul Wehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Mandrake 8.0 (kernel 2.4.3) Software RAID 5 locks up machine
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:40:11 GMT
Has anyone had any success getting software RAID5 to work with 2.4.3? I
am trying to tie 4 identical 60Gb IDE drives together on two Promise
ATA/100 controllers (one on-board, one on a PCI adaptor). Everything
seems to go swell until I "mkraid", then the machine locks up but
good (capslock key works, but nothing else has any effect, including
ctl-alt-del). Note that Raid level 0 and linear seem to work fine on
this configuration.
Attached are some relevant files. Any ideas on how to determine if this
is an interrupt, hardware, or kernel problem would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-paul
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dmesg
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Linux version 2.4.3-20mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.0))
#1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001
::::::::::::::
/proc/ide/hdi/cache
::::::::::::::
512
::::::::::::::
/proc/ide/hdi/capacity
::::::::::::::
117231408
::::::::::::::
/proc/ide/hdi/driver
::::::::::::::
ide-disk version 1.10
::::::::::::::
/proc/ide/hdi/geometry
::::::::::::::
physical 116301/16/63
logical 116301/16/63
::::::::::::::
/proc/ide/hdi/model
::::::::::::::
Maxtor 36147H8
::::::::::::::
/proc/ide/hdi/settings
::::::::::::::
name value min max
mode
---- ----- --- ---
----
bios_cyl 116301 0 65535
rw
bios_head 16 0 255
rw
bios_sect 63 0 63
rw
breada_readahead 4 0 127
rw
bswap 0 0 1
r
current_speed 0 0 69
rw
file_readahead 0 0 2097151
rw
ide_scsi 0 0 1
rw
init_speed 0 0 69
rw
io_32bit 0 0 3
rw
keepsettings 0 0 1
rw
lun 0 0 7
rw
max_kb_per_request 127 1 127
rw
multcount 0 0 8
rw
nice1 1 0 1
rw
nowerr 0 0 1
rw
number 0 0 3
rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255
w
slow 0 0 1
rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1
rw
using_dma 1 0 1
rw
::::::::::::::
lsmod
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Module Size Used by
raid5 17664 0 (unused)
xor 6608 0 [raid5]
nls_cp437 4352 0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2848 0 (autoclean)
smbfs 31872 0 (autoclean)
8139too 11696 1 (autoclean)
usb-uhci 20672 0 (unused)
usbcore 47248 1 [usb-uhci]
supermount 32496 4 (autoclean)
reiserfs 165760 1
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pci
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PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev
2).
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe7ffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
(rev 0).
Bus 0, device 4, function 0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
(rev 34).
Bus 0, device 4, function 1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 16).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd80f].
Bus 0, device 4, function 2:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16).
IRQ 3.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f].
Bus 0, device 4, function 3:
USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 16).
IRQ 3.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd01f].
Bus 0, device 4, function 4:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 48).
IRQ 9.
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W
[Millennium] (rev 1).
IRQ 3.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2800000 [0xe2803fff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe3800000 [0xe3ffffff].
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev
16).
IRQ 4.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xa400 [0xa4ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2000000 [0xe20000ff].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev
2).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xa000 [0xa007].
I/O at 0x9800 [0x9803].
I/O at 0x9400 [0x9407].
I/O at 0x9000 [0x9003].
I/O at 0x8800 [0x883f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1800000 [0xe181ffff].
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265 (rev
2).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0x8400 [0x8407].
I/O at 0x8000 [0x8003].
I/O at 0x7800 [0x7807].
I/O at 0x7400 [0x7403].
I/O at 0x7000 [0x703f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe101ffff].
::::::::::::::
raidtab
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raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 5
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
nr-raid-disks 4
device /dev/hde5
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdg5
raid-disk 1
device /dev/hdi5
raid-disk 2
device /dev/hdk5
raid-disk 3
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From: "Panasonic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba with Windows 2000 Professional
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 02:48:20 +0800
http://redhat.com/apps/support/
"Artur Undebarrena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ?????
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all.
>
> I only want to configure my Suse linux 7.0 machine and Windows 2000
> Professional to access from Win2000 to Linux. Not the printers. The
> printers are not important for me.From Win2000 I want to see the
> contents of the directory tree in linux machine. From windows 2000 I
> only see the Icon but when I double-click the icon a dialog box appears
> to tell me that I haven't permission to access to this machine. I login
> into linux as root and into Windows 2000 as Administrator.
> I don't know what happen because I think I setup all resourcess as
> public, browseable and writable. More public impossible, I think. The
> way to connect is as workgroup, not as domain.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
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From: "Coles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux consultancy/sysadmin fees 'survey'
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:14:46 GMT
In article <9eg2q3$ed9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "vrw"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a smoothwall-based firewall or similar solution I don't really know how
> many hours this will take me to do, and I haven't done any service like
> this commercially before, so I was wondering if anybody could give some
> 'going rates' these days for either a complete 'package deal' (i.e.
If this is your first time, you should give them a large discount for
allowing you to use them as a guinea pig.
> to XXX, sth. like that), since I really don't know what to charge, and I
> wanna make sure that both the company and I get a fair deal.
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From: "Coles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: @Home setup SO SLOW
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:14:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "LRW"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can get connected to the @Home service, and can even ping out and
> resolve addresses, etc, but my x-fer rate is no more than about 2kbps!
> And stalls out constantly.
I had the same problems, maybe even worse. I started off with static ip
configuration. They changed their routers. Turned out, the new routers
are setup to drop packets if you didn't get your address via dhcp. They
said it was a 'security measure' BS more like it. I now use dhcpcd from
ISC's dhcp package. I believe the command is something like:
dhcpcd -B -h cg12345-a
The -B means broadcast and was necessary in my area.
<shameless rant>
@Home has no clue when it comes to anything besides Windows. That icludes
security.
</shameless rant>
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From: "Coles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setup ISP using Linux
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:14:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Randy
Cheema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello (newbie to Linux envirnoment)
>
> I want to setup ISP using Linux. What servers would need to setup? FTP,
> Web Server, Mail, etc. Any assistance would be helpful......
Not to dissuade you, but if you're serious about starting an ISP, you
should already know what services are required. I would start by checking
out amazing.com They had a 'linux-isp-howto' at one time.
bluelip
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From: LRW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: /etc/shadow password encrypted and not
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:31:01 -0500
Can someone give me a reason why when using RedHat's User Manager, new
accounts have the password encrypted in /etc/shadow, but users created
with useradd at the command line have clear text passwords in ..shadow?
Is there a way to set a password at the command line that comes over as
encrypted in shadow?
Thanks!
Liam
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Milica Medved)
Subject: How to configure HUGE swap?
Date: 25 May 2001 12:31:59 -0700
Hi all,
I am putting together an AMD 1.3GHz machine with 1.5Gb RAM,
for processing 64Mb+ data sets. It will run Red Hat 7.1.
With a 75Gb hard drive, I have plenty of space to spare BUT, I am
worried about performance, since the memory/swap size is so huge.
QUESTIONS:
1) Will a 1.5Gb swap partition work fine, or would it be too large?
I am worried about seek times or other things I can't even imagine yet.
Would three 512Mb partitions work faster?
2) Will creating multiple partitions (e.g. 3x1.5Gb) work faster/slower
then a single partition of a) 1.5Gb; b) 4.5Gb?
I know that splitting swap partitions accross multiple physical drives
improves performance, but I will only have one, so that's not an issue.
Basically, I'd go for, say, 3 or 4 1.5Gb swap partitions, but I am afraid
of ruining the performance by an overkill, or simply of not optimizing it
out of pure ignorance. I am NOT worried about waisting hard drive capacity.
If you can help with advice, thanks.
Millie
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:32:43 GMT
On May 25, 2001 at 16:58, J�rgen Diez eloquently wrote:
>>>don't know, where there should be my mistake
>>Did you install freetype2 _before_ X???
>
>yes, I did
And can I safely assume that you made the necessary to
the X config file so that X links to freetype2?
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Delay is preferable to error.
-- Thomas Jefferson
3:31pm up 22:07, 8 users, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: @Home setup SO SLOW
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:44:22 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Coles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "LRW"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I can get connected to the @Home service, and can even ping out and
>> resolve addresses, etc, but my x-fer rate is no more than about 2kbps!
>> And stalls out constantly.
> I had the same problems, maybe even worse. I started off with static ip
> configuration. They changed their routers. Turned out, the new routers
> are setup to drop packets if you didn't get your address via dhcp. They
> said it was a 'security measure' BS more like it. I now use dhcpcd from
> ISC's dhcp package. I believe the command is something like:
> dhcpcd -B -h cg12345-a
> The -B means broadcast and was necessary in my area.
> <shameless rant>
> @Home has no clue when it comes to anything besides Windows. That icludes
> security.
> </shameless rant>
That's interesting... I also use Comcast @Home and haven't noticed that,
though I have had my fair share of problems (outages, lousy service)...
Did your upload speed recently drop, too?
Adam
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From: Husam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing qlogic scsi adaptor
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:48:17 +0200
need help with installing qlogic scsi adaptor. I replaced a Adaptec card
with qlogic. I did modprobe qlogicisp, but it did not help. the driver
becomes listed in the loaded drivers, but i still can not mount the
cdrom attached to the scsi card. when you reboot the machine, the kernel
still tries to load the former driver (aic7xxx) and it does not try to
initialize the driver of the new card. so my question is:
-how can i remove the aic7xxx driver from the boot process?
-how can i let the kernel initialize the qlogic driver?
i'm running redhat 7.0 on intel based machine with PII processor, and
128mb ram.
thanks for any suggestion.
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