Linux-Setup Digest #440, Volume #21 Thu, 14 Jun 01 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Creating Raw Devices (Robert Davies)
Re: linux ftp, ncftp etc (Robert Davies)
Re: Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such device) (Robert Davies)
Re: New HD Install ("Jeff S")
Re: How to tell current Kernel configuration ("IByte")
Re: install linux on one harddrive and windows on another? ("Jeff S")
migrazione ("Dave")
Re: Netscape's network connection was refused by the server ("Bob Bourne")
Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card ("Duncan Coutts")
Re: install linux on one harddrive and windows on another? ("Taavi Hein")
Re: How to tell current Kernel configuration (Chiefy)
Re: How to tell current Kernel configuration (Paul Kimoto)
Debian on Libretto 50ct ("Greg Tada")
Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card (Allen Crider)
The pppd daemon died unexpectedly ("Michael Pye")
Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card (Jesper Petersen)
Re: ipchains ("Steve Weiss")
Re: Connection Problems with RH7.1 ("Steve Weiss")
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From: Robert Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creating Raw Devices
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:28:12 +0100
Jaishni Govender wrote:
> The reason for raw devices with this installation is because Oracle
> Parallel
> Server needs the datafiles to be available to all nodes in the cluster.
> All the nodes redolog files must also be accessible by the other nodes
> incase of a recovery is required.
>
> I managed to link the raw devices to the block devices ok using mknod. I
> am having problems with the number of raw devices that I can create. I
> have logical partitions hda1 to hda17...but the hda17 block device is not
> created in /dev. I can see it when I use fdisk but not in the /dev
> directory. So when I type in the following:
>
> $ mknod /dev/redo2_2.log c 162 13
>
> $ raw /dev/redo2_2.log /dev/hda17
>
> I get that the file hda17 does not exist.
>
> In fact anything above hda16 created in fdisk is not created in /dev.
This os because /dev/hda17 does not exist.
t disk 3, 10 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 11 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 12 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 13 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 14 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 15 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 16 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda16
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 17 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda17
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 18 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda18
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 19 Jan 19 08:35 /dev/hda19
So do the mknod thing again, and use the numbers 17, 18, 19, for the next
block devices. You have a limit of 64 with IDE, 16 with SCSI, these limits
are imposed by the enoding of the minor dev numbers in the IDE and SCSI
drivers.
Theres a script called MAKEDEV which may be installed which will make extra
devices for you, but you have to read the source to understand how to use
it usually.
No where else, contrary to what many think, who stick to 8 partitions only.
You need to add ide block devices beyond the 16 your distro created.
BTW I cannot believe you use IDE disk for such an application, they tend to
lie about when cache contents are written to disk, to improve benchmark
resultsw
Rob
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From: Robert Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux ftp, ncftp etc
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:29:36 +0100
David Efflandt wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Riyaz Mansoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> David Efflandt wrote:
>>
>
> You have not said what proxy/firewall (if you know), what you have to
> set to access it with your web browser, or whether you can access
> anonymous ftp sites with it from your browser. Until you answer those
> questions anybody would be guessing.
You're so right! Hopefully he'll take our hints on this, either he
guesses, we do, or he goes get some information :)
Rob
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From: Robert Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such device)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:45:19 +0100
Sean Marshall wrote:
> I grabbed the latest source off of kernel.org. I've tripple checked the
> config and haven't missed anything. It runs beautifully for everything
> but sanergy, which manipulates raw devices where my problem lies, their
> support isn't much help either unfortuneately.
>>
>> RedHat patch their sources heavily, did you download a source RPM from
>> them, or an rpm binary? If you built from source, perhaps you forgot a
>> configuration option you need, for raw I/O.
>>
>> I think you would be wiser to stick with distribution source or binary
>> kernels, rather than download 'Linux' standard, as they have added
>> support for distribution features, things like Large Files (>2GB), LVM,
>> and improved NFS, long before they make it into Linus standard.
So I was right, now go and get a RH 2.2.19 kernel rather than a Linus one.
Unless sanargy needs patches applied that come with the software (unlikely)
then it should work.
If you previously used a RH binary generic kernel, stick to it, you'll not
get much from compiling your own kernel, and it'll save you lots of time.
5 minute upgrade to new version, with rpm, and running lilo.
Rob
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From: "Jeff S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New HD Install
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:17:08 -0600
In article <fySV6.4988$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Cameron
Loranger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running a Win98 box right now, and to rid myself of this os, I've
> bought a new 40gb hard drive to put linux on. I have also purchased Red
> Hat Linux 7.1 Deluxe, so I have cd's. There is no way linux will need
> that much space, so, I'd like to partition this new drive for both fat32
> (10gb) and leave the linux partition 30gb. I'm wondering how I should go
> about partitioning this new hard drive. Should I format the fat32 first
> and then the linux partition, or install linux first? I'd really like to
> do this, but if the difficulty really negates the reason, feel free to
> let me know. thanks
I think I'd do something like this:
Partition the drive using Disk Druid as follows:
hda1 /boot ext2 32 megabytes
hda2 swap 500 megabytes
(Read the RH docs for your best setting)
hda5 / ext2 29 gibabytes
hda6 ? vfat 10 gigabytes
I have designated hda1 as /boot in order to keep it below cylinder 1024.
The BIOS in my motherboard supports LBA32 and boots okay if it's placed
above that, but the Red Hat installer has LBA32 support switched off by
default, so I had to boot back into Linux with a floppy and do a
/sbin/lilo -L before Lilo would work properly.
I'd then do the Windows install and finally, the RH7.1 install. Main
reason is that if you install Windows last, it's installer will overwrite
Lilo with Microsoft's own boot loader, and to get Lilo back, you'll have
to boot back into Linux via floppy disk and rewrite the boot sectors-not
hard, but it's an added hassle.
By the way, I was initially having real disk corruption problems with
RH7.1 and repeatedly tried software updates, reformatting the hard drive
and even updating the BIOS. Finally, I skipped the "expert" installation
option (I use the boot floppy for installation) and used Disk Druid for
partitioning instead of fdisk and THAT seemed to make a big difference.
Why, I'm not sure as I've never had problems with that combo before and
none of the hardware had changed since the last install. gmc and rp3 used
to behave erratically but now seem pretty solid.
Jeff S
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From: "IByte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to tell current Kernel configuration
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:29:03 +0200
Try 'make menuconfig'
Regards,
IByte
Rene Torrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9gam4d$qb3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am wondering how to find out what the current kernel configuration is.
>
> Thanks in advance for any information.
>
>
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From: "Jeff S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install linux on one harddrive and windows on another?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:29:52 -0600
In article <anSV6.1280$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Erick Woertz Jr."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got ME on one harddrive right now, and I just came across a free
> harddrive at work, and want to put linux on that one, keep windows on
> the one in my computer now, and set up a dual boot that way. is it
> possible at all? can anyone help?
>
Yes, that's pretty routine, but unless you want to reinstall your Windows
apps, don't relocate the existing storage devices. Someone correct me if
I'm wrong, but I don't think the new Linux disk has to be an IDE master in
order to boot into Linux; I think only Lilo has to be there for this to
work.
Jeff S
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From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: migrazione
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:37:50 +0200
salve a tutti.
devo "clonare" una macchina celeron dove attualmente girano i servizi dns,
pop3 ed smtp della mia azienda, su di un hp netserver pentium III, per
upgrade hardware. la vecchia macchina celerona andra' dismessa.
volevo chiedere se qualcuno ha suggerimenti su come eseguire una sorte di
diskimage, e i problemi che si avrebbero con il nuovo hardware.
grazie, ciao.
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From: "Bob Bourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape's network connection was refused by the server
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:36:42 +1000
Netscape won't accept proxy.sale.vic.australis.com.au --
ping proxy.sale.vic.australis.com.au returns 210.10.81.196 -- and Netscape
accepts that!
It had to be simple...
BB.
"Dave Uhring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Bob Bourne wrote:
>
> > Three examples:
> > Netscape's network connection was refused by the server
> > home.netscape.com
> > etc.
> > Netscape's network connection was refused by the server
> > www.debian.org
> > etc.
> > Netscape's network connection was refused by the server
> > packages.debian.org
> > etc.
> > She's asking for Configuration location (URL)
> > and SOCKS Host:
> > Lynx connects and downloads, OK.
> > [Communicator 4.77]
> > [dist: debian 2.2 R3 i386, 3cdrom set]
> > [$ export http_proxy="http://proxy.sale.vic.australis.com.au:80/"; - has
> > [been
> > set.]
> > Any ideas greatly appreciated.
> > PM - replies to me fine.
> > Bob Bourne.
>
> Configure your proxy server in Netscape. Edit, Preferences, Advanced,
> Proxies.
>
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From: "Duncan Coutts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:22:58 +0000
I'm happy to report that this advice worked for me too. I can finally
upgrade to 4.0.3. Horay! I'm running a low-end desktop machine with the
SiS 530 card. Shouldn't someone report this to the XFree86 people for
inclusion in a FAQ or just to bug fix the sis driver? Who do we contact?
BTW still can't get XVideo working properly. xvinfo reports:
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present
Does it just not work with the sis 530?
Duncan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris
Nappin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the various suggestions, I've managed to fix the problem now.
>
> For the future benefit of anyone else with similar hardware, I'll detail
> the solution below. I'm using an IBM Aptiva 2170 26G, which has an SiS
> 530 graphics card (uses 8MB of system RAM) and IBM C51 monitor. The
> solution was to set the following combination of device options within
> the "sis" device section of my XF86Config-4:
>
> Option "NoAccel"
> Option "FastVram"
>
> (This is wierd, because the card doesn't have any on-board Video RAM,
> but there you go...)
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From: "Taavi Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install linux on one harddrive and windows on another?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:44:55 +0300
: Install Mandrake and very carefully read the install questions especially
: at the time of configuring lilo. Put the Windoze disk as the primary
slave
: (/dev/hdb) and make the Linux disk the primary master (/dev/hda).
: Mandrake's installer will configure a proper lilo.conf for you and you
will
: be able to boot either Linux or Windoze.
I had a bit of a problem there. You should first try if this setup described
above works or not.
But my problem was that my windows (W98SE) ONLY boots, when on a PRIMARY
MASTER (/dev/hda). I then installed linux on secondary master (/dev/hdc),
because that's the best arrangement for IDE cables in my box (cdrom is
primary slave (/dev/hdb)). And I use loadlin.exe to boot into what I have
installed (at the moment Caldera LTP, SuSE 7.1 and Windows 98SE).
BTW, if your BIOS lets you boot from a disk other than primary master
(referred as C: in bios), install linux on that drive and use that to boot,
should work just fine.
--
Taavi Hein - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #209546
Registered Linux machine #97395
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: How to tell current Kernel configuration
Date: 14 Jun 2001 17:24:52 GMT
14 Jun 2001 16:47 UTC, Rene Torrado typed:
> I am wondering how to find out what the current kernel configuration is.
On this box (Deb22r3), the current kernel config options are contained
in /boot/config-kernel.version
--
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: How to tell current Kernel configuration
Date: 14 Jun 2001 13:04:11 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <9gam4d$qb3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rene Torrado wrote:
> I am wondering how to find out what the current kernel configuration is.
You have to obtain the .config file from whoever gave you your current
kernel.
--
Paul Kimoto
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and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: "Greg Tada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian on Libretto 50ct
Date: 14 Jun 2001 17:47:03 GMT
I'd love to try out Debian on my Libretto. Problem is, it has a funky floppy
drive and no CD-ROM. I can't do a floppy based install, because the BIOS
won't see any floppies past the first one. I do have a Windows partition,
and I'd like to see if I could copy the contents of a Debian install CD and
install from the Windows partition. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Greg
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From: Allen Crider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:43:29 -0700
Duncan Coutts wrote:
> I'm happy to report that this advice worked for me too. I can finally
> upgrade to 4.0.3. Horay! I'm running a low-end desktop machine with the
> SiS 530 card. Shouldn't someone report this to the XFree86 people for
> inclusion in a FAQ or just to bug fix the sis driver? Who do we contact?
After looking around, I can't find anybody who is working on the SiS
drivers. I wonder how much C skill it requires to work on the current
drivers.
>
> BTW still can't get XVideo working properly. xvinfo reports:
> X-Video Extension version 2.2
> screen #0
> no adaptors present
>
> Does it just not work with the sis 530?
>
> Duncan
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris
> Nappin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the various suggestions, I've managed to fix the problem now.
> >
> > For the future benefit of anyone else with similar hardware, I'll detail
> > the solution below. I'm using an IBM Aptiva 2170 26G, which has an SiS
> > 530 graphics card (uses 8MB of system RAM) and IBM C51 monitor. The
> > solution was to set the following combination of device options within
> > the "sis" device section of my XF86Config-4:
> >
> > Option "NoAccel"
> > Option "FastVram"
> >
> > (This is wierd, because the card doesn't have any on-board Video RAM,
> > but there you go...)
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From: "Michael Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: The pppd daemon died unexpectedly
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:40:21 +0100
I have got slackware working to a reasonable level now, and the rest of what
I want to do involves the internet.
However, I can't seem to get connected. I am trying to use the Gnome PPP
dialler utility supplied and every time I try to connect it simply informs
me that the pppd daemon died unexpectedly. Same applies when trying to pull
the ppp interface up through other utilities (namely the ppp status applet
for the panel). Calling /usr/sbin/pppd as root gets me the normal garbage
printed to stdout.
I was wondering what could be wrong. I tried to use wvdial, but I can't find
it installed...
TIA
MP
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From: Jesper Petersen <jesperp**Delete**@nork.auc.dk>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problems using RH 7.1 with SiS 530 Graphics Card
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:49:43 +0200
>I'm happy to report that this advice worked for me too. I can finally
>upgrade to 4.0.3.
How does this affect whether you can upgrade to 4.0.3 or not?
I'm asking because I have a SiS 630 card which someone else managed to make
work for me by recompiling the kernel in Mandrake 8.0. Now I've installed Red
Hat 7.1 using the kernel he comiled for me. I also try to use my XF86Config-4
file but when I startx it uses XFree86 version 3.3.6a and it wont work.
When I write XFree86 -version it says version 4.0.3.
Do you have any suggestions how I solve this problem.
Thanks in advance
Jesper
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From: "Steve Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipchains
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:55:13 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeff Moore"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have RH 7.1 and it has ipchains installed by default. I was using
> ipchains with RH 7.0 and it works very good. I upgraded to RH 7.1 and
> the firewall modules I was using are not part of the 2.4 kernel.
> My firewall does not support ftp, realaudio, or any other masq ports
> that were supported in the old config script with modules. I have not
> found any proper documentation on how to do this with the new ipchains,
> but I do have a copy of the old firewall script. I need to determine the
> old port numbers for the new script. Is there any good howto on the
> ipchains for replacing the lost modules or to set up new firewall rules
> for the ports of ftp, realaudio, and others that were supported by the
> previous modules with the 2.2 kernel? Any assistance will be greatly
> appreciated. Jeff Moore
>
I was having similar problems, but found that I could add my
rules to /etc/sysconfig/ipchains, and it worked. I have both
ipchains and iptables installed on RH7.1.
-Steve
--
"If you watch TV news, you know less about the world than if
you just drank gin straight from the bottle." - Garrison Keillor
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From: "Steve Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connection Problems with RH7.1
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:49:33 -0400
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Luke
Harms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently installed Redhat 7.1 in hopes of setting up a IMAP server.
> Install went fine, but afterwards I am unable to remotely connect to any
> services. While I can ping the machine, I am unable to establish a ftp,
> telnet, imap, or any other connection. I've checked both hosts.allow
> and .deny with no luck. My xinetd is all in sound shape. I've run out
> of options here. I had a 7.0 mail server that ran great. Is there
> something in 7.1 that I need to change? I've never seen this problem
> before with linux.
> Thanks,
> Luke Harms
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
You'll need to change a few things. Individual services are now
configured by files in /etc/xinetd.d. For each service that you want to
provide, edit the corresponding config file and change "disable=yes" to
"disable=no". Then restart xinetd: /etc/rc.d/init/xinetd restart". You
will also need to make a change to the sendmail configuration, by default
it only allows connections from 127.0.0.1. Edit the file
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc and comment out the following line:
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
Then restart sendmail, and you should be ok.
-Steve
--
"If you watch TV news, you know less about the world than if
you just drank gin straight from the bottle." - Garrison Keillor
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