Linux-Setup Digest #64, Volume #20 Sat, 18 Nov 00 18:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: fdisk and IDE-drives with more than 30 GB capacity? ("Michael Schnick")
Re: NT/LINUX dual help! (Simple Simon)
Bootloader withMandrake 7.2 (root)
BootLoader with Mandrake 7.2 (root)
Re: Soniq soundcard does not work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems setting up TV-Card (C. L. Lewis)
Re: "uninstall" Linux ("Philo")
Re: Can't run wvdial as non-root user (Cristian)
ppp & modem connection problem?? ("Luke Richards")
Re: Kernel Compile problem RH7.0 (Paul Kimoto)
Re: staroffice installation (Scott Brim)
Printer & Spool File (Tom Adams)
diald help ("Sumatran USA")
fax server on linux for windows clients ("Darren and Marla Welson")
Re: re-partiton to get rid of windows (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Printer & Spool File (Tom Adams)
Re: staroffice installation ("James")
Re: SSH from WIN32 (root)
Re: Linux boot from floppy SLOW (anson ho)
Re: Can't run wvdial as non-root user (Chilly Willy)
Setting eth0 host & domain name by hand on RH 6.1 (Jean-Louis Leroy)
!! PLEASE HELP THIS NEWBEE ("Circles")
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From: "Michael Schnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk and IDE-drives with more than 30 GB capacity?
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:17:31 +0100
Once, I wrote:
> Can you tell me where to find documentation on that problem?
Many thanks to all of you!
You helped me quite a lot.
Keep up that good work...
--
CU,
Michael
ICQ# : 14657968
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From: Simple Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT/LINUX dual help!
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:39:25 GMT
>
>
> Hi!
>
> run "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1" inside linux. Copy the
> resulting bootsect.lnx file to a floppy using "mcopy /bootsect.lnx a:". Now
> restart in Windows (or a DOS boot disk) and copy that "bootsect.lnx" file to
> the C:\ drive. Lastly, add "LINUX=C:\bootsect.lnx" to the BOOT.INI file and
> you should be good to go.
>
> SS
That all assumes that your LINUX drive is hda2. Replace HDA2 with your drive
you mounted LILO on.
SS
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bootloader withMandrake 7.2
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:01:26 -0600
Hi,group
I have installed a Mandrake 7.2on my system.
The istallation finished successfuky, bu the system can't boot
from HDD: it writes 'stage1 stage2 ' and then reboots
When booting from floppy, thesystem works OK.
How can I configure thesystem to boot from HDD?
45GB HDD partitioned as follows: 38GB-W2k(NTFS) 6.8GB linux native,
200MB swap
Any help appriciated
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BootLoader with Mandrake 7.2
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:02:45 -0600
Hi,group
I have installed a Mandrake 7.2on my system.
The istallation finished successfuky, bu the system can't boot
from HDD: it writes 'stage1 stage2 ' and then reboots
When booting from floppy, thesystem works OK.
How can I configure the system to boot from HDD?
45GB HDD partitioned as follows: 38GB-W2k(NTFS) 6.8GB linux native,
200MB swap
Any help appriciated
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Soniq soundcard does not work
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:53:07 GMT
In article <8v5kpq$r4e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'v got an Ensoniq sound card but when I try to install it. He gives an
> Error.
>
> First:
>
> A PCI soundcard was found in your system. The details are:
> Model Ensoniq | ES1371 [audio PCI -97]
>
> After I clikked on Enter:
>
> The Ensoniq | ES1371 [audio PCI -97]
> Is not currently supported.
>
> How can I make my soundcard work?
I have yesterday installed my soundcard (es1371) on a debian system and
it works perfect.I've also tested on other distris like rh,mandrake and
slakware and it was good...
The only thing that i will give you is..
Recompile the kernel with soundsupport and ess1371 loaded as module and
it works fine.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: C. L. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems setting up TV-Card
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:55:38 GMT
Good Morning,
Some days I'm not so sure a TV on my computer screen is a good idea.
Previously when I had to leave the computer to go to the other room and
turn on the TV, I could resist getting embroiled in all the seeming
garbage going on in the world, and now that it is simply point and click
madness, I'm kind of yearning for the good old days. ;-)
Just food for thought. ;-)
Irq 5 was a major problem for me in Linux from the beginning, because I
have an opl3sa2 Yamaha sound card that all the manuals and Windows
material told me I could only run it on irq 5. Through a lot of trial
and error, I learned to set my Award bios PNP selections to "PNP OS
INSTALLED' and "AUTO" let it "auto" assign the comm ports which lets my
non plug and play modem run on ttyS1, and just leave the settings there
for both my Win98 and Linux. Fiddled with the /etc/isapnp.conf and got
the opl3sa2 to initialize on irq 7 which leaves
irq 5 up for grabs for the video or whatever.
I believe there are several examples in the video4linux documentation or
the kwintv stuff on how to set the /etc/modules.conf file.
Feel free to bring it to e-mail if need be. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jan Oliver Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> several PCI devices (among them the TV-card) on int 5. This shouldn't
--
Laughter is the best laxative there is for a constipated mind. Humor is
an ideal spoon to dose it.
--Chronocidal Charlie, 1995-2000, RIP--
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "uninstall" Linux
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:05:52 -0600
correct on the fdisk/mbr
to remove your linux partitions dos fdisk will not work, so you will have to
fdisk from linux itself.
otherwise you can go back to your linux install and delete the partitions
from there
one more alternative is to use the dos utility aefdisk.exe which can remove
dos, linux and NT
partitions. it's available free from www.bootdisk.com (abt 3/4ths of the
page down)
--
Philo
website: www.plazaearth.com/philo
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From: Cristian <c{ristian}h{umberto}[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't run wvdial as non-root user
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:55:27 GMT
Chilly Willy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I keep getting the error:
> --> Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied
...
> What should the correct ownership and permissions be?
...
wvdial is messy with permissions. The following are the permissions
and ownership from SuSE (although I no longer use SuSE):
dev/ttyS? root.uucp 0664
pppd root.dialout 6754
wvdial root.root 0755
The real problem though, is that wvdial tries to create lock & pid files
in /var/lock and /var/run but normal users don't have permission to write
there. There are some solutions, but they are all less than optimal:
1. set wvdial as pppd with permissions 6755. But then wvdial runs as root
and you might not want that. Also, if you do wvdial& you will not be able
to kill the process later. Annoying.
2. change the ownership of /var/lock & /var/run to root.uucp so that normal
users in uucp can write (through wvdial) to them. this is what SuSE does.
But it is a patch solution; this directories shouldn't belong to uucp group!
Anyway, choose one. I gave up wvdial and wrote my ppp-scripts!
C.
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From: "Luke Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp & modem connection problem??
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:33:24 -0000
Hi all,
Can anyone please help. I am tryng to setup RH6.2 with an external 33.6
modem connected to ttyS0. I have completed the PPP Howto up until the point
where the modem is connected to the ISP and lots of rubbish is displayed to
the screen. The problem is displaying rubbish on the screen. The modem
connects to the ISP no problems, I sign in with login and password. I have
typed out the display from minicom below.
Login: xxxxxxxxx
Password: xxxxxxxx
Entering PPP Session
IP Address is : etc etc
MTU is 1524
In the Howto it describes pressing enter and a number of other posible
responses to get the PPP server to respond. I have tried to this with no
success. However after a short while I get 'NO CARRIER' returned and the
modem disconnects.
If anyone can help I would be really grateful.
Luke Richards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Kernel Compile problem RH7.0
Date: 18 Nov 2000 14:33:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pic wrote:
> Paul Kimoto wrote:
>> Red Hat 7.0 ships with the so-called, never-released "gcc-2.96".
>> You cannot build kernels with this compiler. The preferred compiler,
>> egcs-1.1.2, comes in the "kgcc" package.
> I have the same problem.
> How do I practicaly solve this situation, what do I have to install/deinstall?
<RH flame>
Uninstall Red Hat 7, and install a better-behaved distribution, like
Debian, or even Red Hat 6.*.
</RH flame>
Something like:
(1) Install the "kgcc" package.
(2a) Then you need to run "make" with the appropriate argument so
that "kgcc" is invoked instead of "cc" or "gcc".
(2b) Or use the most recent 2.2.18-pre* kernels
(ftp.ca.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2.18pre), which
look for "kgcc" automatically.
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Scott Brim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: staroffice installation
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:39:46 -0500
James wrote:
>
> sun's internet site tells me to run the
> so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-de-000.bin file, but when I try to do so I get the
> message "cannot execute binary file".
Try chmod 755 so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-de-000.bin. I think that's in the
installation instructions (it's been a while).
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From: Tom Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Printer & Spool File
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:51:20 GMT
I am having difficulty setting up a printer for the
first time. I'm using printtool.
After setting up a simple Epson 24 pin printer,
I use printtool's test functions. I can print directly
to the printer port, but when I try the regular
print test (apparently using the spooler), the
printer prints the error message
"no spool file found."
I don't see anything that looks like a spool file
in /var/spool/lpd/lp and printcap looks OK, but
of course, I'm using a novice's eyes.
Any suggestions?
Tom Adams
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From: "Sumatran USA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: diald help
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:10:14 -0600
I have RH6.2 installed no xwindows because I want it that way. I want this
box just for my firewall and dialup to my isp. So, I have been trying to run
diald-0.99 to run on this box with no luck. The server didn't answer when
client try to go to Internet. I have ipchains + IP masq setup on the this
firewall box. I also have forward_IPV4= yes on the /etc/sysconfig/network
I am so frustrated with this program. My question is do I need pppd and chat
programs? I found chat and pppd when I type "whereis pppd". I am so
confused. Please help me.
newbie
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From: "Darren and Marla Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.samba
Subject: fax server on linux for windows clients
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:25:16 GMT
I need a fax server package that I can run on my Linux firewall/server that
allows windows clients to access faxes and send faxes. I looked at HylaFAX,
but it is a Linux server and requires an additional package for windows
clients to interact with it. What has anyone used in the past to accomplish
this, or is this a nightmare?
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: re-partiton to get rid of windows
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 07:43:45 +1100
Hi Peter!
Simple as can be.
You have fdisk that is on your distro.
t- lets you to change the assignment from dos to 83 (linux native) and
then initialise it to use ext2fs.
(In DOS we would say "just reformat")
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
Peter Nunn wrote:
> Hi folks...
>
> I have a server system that is currently dual boot, but am now using
> it as a Linux server.
>
> I have run out of space on both / and /usr and want to add some more
> space by getting rid of the dos partitions and re-assigning them to
> linux.
>
> The output from fdisk -l is as follows.
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 620 1249888+ 6 FAT16
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1583 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 14 1583 12611025 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 14 460 3590496 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb6 461 779 2562336 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb7 780 971 1542208+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb8 972 1099 1028128+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb9 1100 1583 3887698+ 6 FAT16
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdc1 * 1 255 2048256 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdc2 256 527 2184840 5 Extended
> /dev/hdc5 256 511 2056288+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hdc6 512 527 128488+ 82 Linux swap
>
> As you can see most of hdc is dos as is hda.
>
> Now, how do I do this without killing the current linux stuff? How do
> I move my linux stuff to make more room too?
>
> The output from df is
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1 101089 91150 4720 95% /
> /dev/hdb6 2522048 73816 2320116 3% /home
> /dev/hdb8 1011928 104 960420 0% /tmp
> /dev/hdb7 1517920 1192248 248564 83% /usr
> /dev/hdb5 3534096 373620 2980952 11% /usr/local
>
> Thanks.
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Nunn
> DownUnder
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From: Tom Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Printer & Spool File
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:50:37 GMT
I wanted to also mention that under lpc status,
printing and queuing are enabled,
but no daemon is present (even after restarting).
Tom Adams
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From: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: staroffice installation
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:09:23 +0100
I already changed the permissions of all .bin files to 777 (chmod 777
*.bin), but thanks anyway.
"Scott Brim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> James wrote:
> >
> > sun's internet site tells me to run the
> > so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-de-000.bin file, but when I try to do so I get the
> > message "cannot execute binary file".
>
> Try chmod 755 so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-de-000.bin. I think that's in the
> installation instructions (it's been a while).
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SSH from WIN32
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:14:19 -0700
Well, we have been using another open source tool for ssh on win32, which has a
nice gui. You might try
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
Cheers,
iksrazal
Steve wrote:
> I am trying to run the WIN32 version of SSH to my RH7 box. I get the error
> below, but it still let's me connect and the traffic is encrypted. The .ssh
> directory exists in my home directory and I ran ssh-keygen to create the
> keys. Any ideas on why I am getting the errors??
>
> Thanks in adavance,
>
> Steve
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
> setsockopt IPTOS_LOWDELAY: Invalid argument
> Could not create directory '/home/jdoe/.ssh'.
> Host key not found from the list of known hosts.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no
> Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/
> Creating random seed file ~/.ssh/random_seed. This
> execv /bin/sh failed: No such file or directory
> execv /bin/sh failed: No such file or directory
> execv /bin/sh failed: No such file or directory
> execv /bin/sh failed: No such file or directory
> execv /bin/sh failed: No such file or directory
> execv /bin/sh failed: No such file or directory
> execv /bin/sh failed: No such file or directory
> jdoe's password:
> Received signal 1.
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From: anson ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Linux boot from floppy SLOW
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 01:28:30 +0800
Try the following commands
1) su
2) /sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r`
Anson
Jeff Stevens wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. With loadlin Linux boots in less that 2 minutes.
>
> I am beginning to suspect there is a media problem with my original boot
> floppy. Is there a command to create a new one?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Something is definitely wrong. It should only take 30 seconds or so.
> > You might consider using loadlin. Very simple solution for your
> > situation.
> >
> > -- Gene Wiggins
> > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Jeff Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I installed Red Hat Linux 7 last week in the last 4 GB or a 20 GB disk,
> > > so I am booting to Linux from a floppy. It works OK, but is very slow -
> > > taking about 10 minutes to get past all the periods. Can anyone tell me
> > > if this is normal, and if there is a way to speed this up?
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jeff Stevens
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From: Chilly Willy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't run wvdial as non-root user
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 15:39:30 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I Just had to reply to this message from Cristian
<c{ristian}h{umberto}[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who tried to throw this idea RTF over
my head:
>Chilly Willy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I keep getting the error:
>> --> Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied
>...
>> What should the correct ownership and permissions be?
>...
>
>
>wvdial is messy with permissions. The following are the permissions
>and ownership from SuSE (although I no longer use SuSE):
>
>dev/ttyS? root.uucp 0664
>pppd root.dialout 6754
>wvdial root.root 0755
>
>The real problem though, is that wvdial tries to create lock & pid files
>in /var/lock and /var/run but normal users don't have permission to write
>there. There are some solutions, but they are all less than optimal:
>
>1. set wvdial as pppd with permissions 6755. But then wvdial runs as root
>and you might not want that. Also, if you do wvdial& you will not be able
>to kill the process later. Annoying.
>
>2. change the ownership of /var/lock & /var/run to root.uucp so that normal
>users in uucp can write (through wvdial) to them. this is what SuSE does.
>But it is a patch solution; this directories shouldn't belong to uucp group!
>
>Anyway, choose one. I gave up wvdial and wrote my ppp-scripts!
>
>C.
Jeeeeeeze! Yeah, I think I'll just do that instead. Thanks.
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From: Jean-Louis Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Setting eth0 host & domain name by hand on RH 6.1
Date: 19 Nov 2000 04:35:53 +0100
In order to set up my ADSL connection, my ISP wants me to set the
hostname.domainname to some value for my eth0 interface. When I try to
do that with linuxconf, it seems to work, but when I revisit the
'Adaptor' tab, the setting's gone. And ADSL doesn't work.
For some reason linuxconf is misfunctionning.
What files do I need modify and how? TIA.
--
Jean-Louis Leroy
http://users.skynet.be/jll
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Reply-To: "Circles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Circles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.os.linux.suse,casema.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.admin.isp,linux.help,linux.misc
Subject: !! PLEASE HELP THIS NEWBEE
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:07:39 +0100
Hi,
Can anyone tell me how i can login to a linux box as root
by a telnet client ?
Thanx
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