Linux-Hardware Digest #65, Volume #9 Wed, 30 Dec 98 20:13:35 EST
Contents:
PLEASE HELP !!! PLEASE HELP !!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CPUs and XWindoes ("cili_ra/bit")
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NETGEAR FA310TX on RH 5.2 (Rod Roark)
Re: Another Zip drive question ("R.A. Wilson")
DEC21443 and Tulip ("MalcolmX")
Re: Tape drive technology recommendation? (Danny Willis)
DCF77 Radio-Clock (Olaf Jansen-Olliges)
Re: NETGEAR FA310TX on RH 5.2 (Danny Willis)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! ("Karl W.
Gaston")
Re: Iomega Zip drive (Mike Werner)
Re: Tapestore 8000 (Randy Cooper)
Re: PLEASE HELP !!! PLEASE HELP !!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Drg ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: PLEASE HELP !!! PLEASE HELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:36:11 GMT
Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
you all will be able to figure out the sticky problem I'm stuck with
and may even know how to help me out of it. I currently am running
Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
that's what I have been told and eventually found out. Besides, sure I
can download 500 MB in 2 hrs without any trouble via my cable modem,
but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
install). I'm not sure if Linux will do it off my zip disks if I copy
linux to 6 zip discs. In any case, these wonderful people keep on
changing the versions of RH Linux. Therefore having got fed up with
it, I looked in the book which talked about RH Linux and how to
install. Well, I had versions 3 and 4 of RH but since some of my
crucial hardware at that time could not be recognized I abandoned RH
until I finally found out that if I had a direct connection with
Cox@home just like corporations and universities that have a direct
connection with their T1, T3, OC-3, etc... server, then you don't even
have to download RH linux. All you really have to download are the
boot.img and supp.img files and transfer them to two blank but
formatted 3.5" high density disks. So I did just that and booted up my
machine and when I got to the installation method option, I chose ftp
method. When I got to the ethernet card question, I 3c509 driver. By
the way, I still have the 3c509b PnP 16-bit Ethernet adaptor which I
obtained when I used to attend another university. Rather than sell
it, I kept it for something like a cable modem. In fact that same
ethernet card I had was part of the requirements for my cable modem
installation. Anyway, RH Linux never in the past had any trouble
recognizing my ethernet card. The only trouble was recognizing my
video cards,my parallel port zip drive, and my higher capacity hard
drive. here, in 5.2 that was not the problem. however, when I got to
the options of DHCP, BOOTP, and Static Address, I chose the Static
option and filled in my fields correctly. However, I got an error
message saying unable to connect to host. I fully verified the ftp
site address and typed it correctly. So I then went back and tried the
other two options only to get the "no response" error message from
bootp and dhcp. So the question still remains, isn't it possible to
install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
are to be made during installation?
P.S:
PLEASE DO NO TELL ME TO USE ANOTHER VERSION OF UNIX SINCE I KINDA AM
USED TO RH LINUX. ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME HOW TO PARTITION MY HARD
DRIVE SINCE MY 75. GB HARD DRIVE IS NEARLY FILLED UP. I PLAN TO
INSTALL REDHAT LINUX 5.2 TO MY OLDER 730 MB HARD DRIVE SO PLEASE DO
NOT BRING IN 7.5 GB INTO THE PICTURE UNLESS YOU ARE GONNA GIVE ME A
FREE CD-RW DRIVE FIRST !!! ALL I AM ASKING IS THAT YOU GIVE ME A
SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM I GOT. DO NOT GIVE ME IRRELEVANT BULLSH**
SUCH AS TELLING ME TO PARTITION MY OTHER HARD DRIVE. I WILL CONTINUE
TO POST THIS MESSAGE UNTIL SOMEONE HELPS ME FIX THIS PROBLEM !!!
Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
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Reply-To: "cili_ra/bit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "cili_ra/bit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPUs and XWindoes
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:38:13 -0500
go with the K6 man. Definitely. I assume they're probably about the same
price, eh ;-)
Dan
Martin Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>Given a choice between a Pentium P75 and an AMD K6-266, what do you
>recommend for running Red Hat Linux 5.2 X Windows apps?
>
>and what about the upcoming RHAD desktop?
>
>Marty
>
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From: Drg ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but
am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:42:42 GMT
Why don't ya' make me !!!
On 30 Dec 1998 21:37:17 GMT, Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.setup THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote (to somebody else):
>: HEY MAN !!! I AIN'T PAYING SH** FOR LINUX !!! AND I WILL CONTINUE
>: POSTING FOR HELP UNTIL IT'S DONE !!! SO EITHER YOU HELP OR GET LOST
>: AND STUFF A PIE IN YOUR FACE, FARTFACE !!!
>
>Die. Now.
>Papa Darwin needs your help.
>
>--
>Cheers, The cynics among us might say: "We laugh,
>Rick Moen monkeyboys -- Linux IS the mainstream UNIX now!
>rick (at) linuxmafia.com MuaHaHaHa!" but that would be rude. -- Jim Dennis
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NETGEAR FA310TX on RH 5.2
Date: 30 Dec 1998 21:32:42 GMT
David Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Will the NETGEAR FA310TX work with RH 5.2, and which driver do I use?
Yup. Tulip.
-- Rod
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From: "R.A. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another Zip drive question
Date: 30 Dec 1998 10:52:27 PST
ummm... Pardon me if this is too simplistic, but did
you actually make a mount point?
mkdir /mnt/zip
And did you run fdisk /dev/hdc ??
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On 30 Dec 1998, John Slimick wrote:
> I recently upgraded a system with RH 5.1 and
> an ATAPI Zip drive. Things aren't working yet:
>
> The zip drive should be at /dev/hdc4
>
> At boot I get the message (among many others):
>
> hdc IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy Drive
>
> I made the following entry in /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip ext2 noauto 0 0
>
> I was able to format a cartridge with:
>
> /sbin/mke2fs -m 0 /dev/hdc4
>
> But when I tried to mount the zip drive I got
> the message
>
> mount point /mnt/zip does not exist
>
> Obviously something simple.
> Can anyone set me straight?
>
> john slimick
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "MalcolmX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: DEC21443 and Tulip
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:55:54 -0000
It not possible for me as for many other people to use
this card under linux suse 6.0.
MII Tranceiver not found !!!
is the message we receive...
Is there any help on this ???????
thnx a lot
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Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Tape drive technology recommendation?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Willis)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:37:22 GMT
"Khalid M. Baheyeldin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Yes, it works and it is fast. Definitely faster than Tape.
>However, there are two issues that anyone trying to do this should
>be aware of:
>1. This is not a removable medium, and there fore cannot be an off-site
> backup solution. If the machine caught fire, or some buggy driver
> scrambles the disks, you lost your original data AND the backup!
You can get removable drive racks for $30 or less each.
>2. You cannot have "generations" of backups (e.g. last week, the week
> before, last month, end-of-year, ...etc.), unless you really have
> a large disk.
With removable drive racks, you can keep several around.
>3. Cost per Megabyte for tape is cheaper.
Yes, if you're continuously moving additonal material to backup, and
you keep it forever. For people who just want to recover from a crash,
it's not so significant.
>4. You cannot use a hard disk for convenient data transfer between
> machines.
Well, even with swappable hard drives, it's not easy, I have to admit.
Then again, it's not *real* easy with tape either.
>Of course, all life is a list of tradeoffs. As long as you know the
>limitation(s) of what you are doing, you're OK.
>A Jaz drive would be better than a hard disk, but it has a high cost per
>megabyte, and "only" 1 or 2 GB.
>Bill Pitz wrote:
>>
>> In general SCSI tapes work OK with linux. Although I did try a new idea not
>> too long ago for backups. I purchased a 10GB IDE hard drive and popped it
>> into the machine. Once a day, I have that drive spin itself up, copy over all
>> of the data (would also work fine with compression). It works, it's just as
>> reliable as tapes, and it's faster. :)
>>
--
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http://www2.shore.net/~dannyw
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olaf Jansen-Olliges)
Subject: DCF77 Radio-Clock
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:04:08 +0100
Hi (I'm a newbie in news)
I bought a Radio-Clock with serial port to setup a time-server. I thought
it was supported by xntpd but ...
The clock is sold by Conrad-Electronic and is cheap. It is called
"Funkuhr-Einbaumodul mit serieller Schnittstelle"
I tested the clock with
# Generic DCF77 clock on serial port (Conrad DCF77)
#
server 127.127.8.0 mode 5 prefer
in my /etc/ntp.conf without success.
Is there anybody out there who has expiriences with this clock or with
writing drivers for something like this ???
thanx a lot
Ciao Olaf
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: NETGEAR FA310TX on RH 5.2
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Willis)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:45:38 GMT
Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>David Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Will the NETGEAR FA310TX work with RH 5.2, and which driver do I use?
>Yup. Tulip.
Be aware that there are at least two different varieties of 310TX boards
being sold: one with the original DEC chip, and the other with some
other chip. My local COMPUSA used to have mostly DEC, now mostly the other.
You may well find you need to download a newer version of the tulip.c
than the one in your distribution, if you buy a board with the non-DEC
chip.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www2.shore.net/~dannyw
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:42:02 -0500
From: "Karl W. Gaston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but
am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM wrote:
> Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
<snip> blah blah blah <snip>
> P.S:
<snip> blah blah blah <snip>
> SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM I GOT. DO NOT GIVE ME IRRELEVANT BULLSH**
> SUCH AS TELLING ME TO PARTITION MY OTHER HARD DRIVE. I WILL CONTINUE
> TO POST THIS MESSAGE UNTIL SOMEONE HELPS ME FIX THIS PROBLEM !!!
>
> Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
> past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Whateveryournameis,
I can't imagine why someone would pick you to slam with e-mails.
You might have wanted to include the following information in your previous note.
If it was there I didn't see it due to the lack of white space (some people call em
paragraphs), plus the whining in UPPER case was a nice touch.
Do you want access to the Win98 32 bit partition from Linux?
Or are you planning on just running Linux on the 700M drive?
Since your note says you are familiar with RH Linux, spend $50-60 and get a CD from
RH, then you will have no need to download, ftp, or backup any of your stuff, just
format the drive and go. Or you can DOS format a partition on the 700M drive,
enough to hold the Linux distribution, copy all of the distribution to it (via your
internet connection), then use the boot disks to fdisk, format and install the
unallocated space of the 700M drive under Linux (like using the DOS as a bootstrap,
instead of purchasing a CD, or Jaz, or CD RW).
Good luck & stop whining
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega Zip drive
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:54:12 -0500
IDE or SCSI? What kernel version do you have?
If it is SCSI, it'll be /dev/sdx4 where x is a letter corresponding to
which device on the SCSI chain the drive is. If IDE, it'll be /dev/hdx4,
where the x is again corresponding to where you've got it plugged into:
/dev/hda - IDE0, master
/dev/hdb - IDE master, slave
/dev/hdc - IDE secondary, master
/dev/hdd - IDE secondary, slave
The 4 is the partition number. For some reason, Zip disks come with the
partition that way. Also, if you are running the IDE version, you will
need kernel 2.0.31 or newer. Compile with the IDE ATAPI Floppy option
enabled.
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From: Randy Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tapestore 8000
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:39:26 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the SCSI version of the TapeStor 8000. There are no special drivers
required use it. The drive works fine with a cheap SCSI controller like
the Adaptec AVA-1505 I have.
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mail checked week nights and weekends).
On 30 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do I need a special driver for a Tapestore 8000 and if so, where can I find it?
>
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From: Drg ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP !!! PLEASE HELP !!!
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:37:41 GMT
SORRY, DOUGY BOY BUT I AIN'T GONNA PAY. Besides, I still have to make
sure my ethernet card works. As for posting, I CAN POST ALL I WANT
UNTIL I FIND A DECENT SOLUTION !!!
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:05:51 -0500, Doug Bryant
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
>>>are to be made during installation?
>Yes but do not know how.
>
>
>http://www.cheapbytes.com << $1.99 Redhat 5.2 as well as many other Linux
>and Frebsd partitions
>Don't Post to so many newsgroups again
>
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>
>> Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
>> you all will be able to figure out the sticky problem I'm stuck with
>> and may even know how to help me out of it. I currently am running
>> Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
>> 32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
>> that's what I have been told and eventually found out. Besides, sure I
>> can download 500 MB in 2 hrs without any trouble via my cable modem,
>> but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
>> and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
>> to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
>> install). I'm not sure if Linux will do it off my zip disks if I copy
>> linux to 6 zip discs. In any case, these wonderful people keep on
>> changing the versions of RH Linux. Therefore having got fed up with
>> it, I looked in the book which talked about RH Linux and how to
>> install. Well, I had versions 3 and 4 of RH but since some of my
>> crucial hardware at that time could not be recognized I abandoned RH
>> until I finally found out that if I had a direct connection with
>> Cox@home just like corporations and universities that have a direct
>> connection with their T1, T3, OC-3, etc... server, then you don't even
>> have to download RH linux. All you really have to download are the
>> boot.img and supp.img files and transfer them to two blank but
>> formatted 3.5" high density disks. So I did just that and booted up my
>> machine and when I got to the installation method option, I chose ftp
>> method. When I got to the ethernet card question, I 3c509 driver. By
>> the way, I still have the 3c509b PnP 16-bit Ethernet adaptor which I
>> obtained when I used to attend another university. Rather than sell
>> it, I kept it for something like a cable modem. In fact that same
>> ethernet card I had was part of the requirements for my cable modem
>> installation. Anyway, RH Linux never in the past had any trouble
>> recognizing my ethernet card. The only trouble was recognizing my
>> video cards,my parallel port zip drive, and my higher capacity hard
>> drive. here, in 5.2 that was not the problem. however, when I got to
>> the options of DHCP, BOOTP, and Static Address, I chose the Static
>> option and filled in my fields correctly. However, I got an error
>> message saying unable to connect to host. I fully verified the ftp
>> site address and typed it correctly. So I then went back and tried the
>> other two options only to get the "no response" error message from
>> bootp and dhcp. So the question still remains, isn't it possible to
>> install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
>> are to be made during installation?
>>
>> P.S:
>> PLEASE DO NO TELL ME TO USE ANOTHER VERSION OF UNIX SINCE I KINDA AM
>> USED TO RH LINUX. ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME HOW TO PARTITION MY HARD
>> DRIVE SINCE MY 75. GB HARD DRIVE IS NEARLY FILLED UP. I PLAN TO
>> INSTALL REDHAT LINUX 5.2 TO MY OLDER 730 MB HARD DRIVE SO PLEASE DO
>> NOT BRING IN 7.5 GB INTO THE PICTURE UNLESS YOU ARE GONNA GIVE ME A
>> FREE CD-RW DRIVE FIRST !!! ALL I AM ASKING IS THAT YOU GIVE ME A
>> SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM I GOT. DO NOT GIVE ME IRRELEVANT BULLSH**
>> SUCH AS TELLING ME TO PARTITION MY OTHER HARD DRIVE. I WILL CONTINUE
>> TO POST THIS MESSAGE UNTIL SOMEONE HELPS ME FIX THIS PROBLEM !!!
>>
>> Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
>> past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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