Linux-Setup Digest #21, Volume #21 Tue, 10 Apr 01 02:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output (John Thompson)
Re: Kernel Compile errors (Warren Parker)
Re: A little confused about services (a few more questions) (The Happy Drunk)
Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output ("Johnny A. Solbu")
I am dumb!! Please Help (Stuart)
Re: Mail Suggestions? (Chiefy)
Re: removing Linux presence from MBR (Chiefy)
Getting DHCP and DNS to work together ("Stuart Langley")
sndconfig - soundcard conf file example ("Talen")
Re: Clock Drift (None)
X -> Virtual Terminal; Alt-Ctrl-Fn does not work? ("Bob Bulloch")
Re: LILO Placement ("Azalezaem")
Newbie: kernel version, modprobe, depmod (zubrus)
Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output (Joe Pfeiffer)
mandrake 7.2 install problems (fdellamorte)
Help! Cannot boot up! gdm killed mysteriously? ("Crystal Luo")
Re: Firestarter firewall experiences? ("H. van Niekerk")
nic card ("Norman Zhang")
Why Lilo can not boot? (ega)
Re: Getting DHCP and DNS to work together (Craig Kelley)
Re: cdrom does not mount. (Nader)
Re: nic card (Craig Kelley)
Re: cdrom does not mount. ("Eric")
Re: Why Lilo can not boot? ("Eric")
Re: Create ext2 Partition from Windows ("Eric")
Re: how do I change the $HOME variable? (Gregory Davis)
multi boot with linux/winme/win2k ("Daren Clarke")
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:45:31 -0500
Paul Haley wrote:
> I'm running Redhat 6.2 and would like to suppress the output on bootup, such
> as "Loading cron..... [OK]", etc. All I want is to have lilo say "loading
> linux" and then give me a login prompt, though of course I still want all
> the programs/processes to run, I just don't want them to output to the
> screen. I checked out the init scripts and nothing jumped out at me.
Why would you want to do this? The only reason you need to
reboot is when you change hardware or your kernel, and then you
want to see those messages to make sure things are working as
expected.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Warren Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Compile errors
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:40:32 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks very much. That solved that problem.
Craig Kelley wrote:
> Warren Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > When I try to compile the kernel, for RedHat 7.0, using the command
> >
> > make bzImage
> >
> > I recieve the error
> >
> > as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
> > make[1]: as86: Command not found
> >
> > Where can I find as86.
>
> You need to install the 'dev86' package.
>
> --
> It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: The Happy Drunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A little confused about services (a few more questions)
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 23:44:57 +1000
On 9 Apr 2001 16:03:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
wrote:
<snip>
>netstat -alp | less
>
>See the man page for explanations regarding those options.
>The pipe to less is to allow you to scroll up and down the pages with
>the output by using the up- and down-arrows on your keyboard.
>
>Port 6000 is the result from running xdm. Running xdm allows X to start
>during the boot process, instead of booting to console, where, when users
>would want to use X, they would have to log in first and then issue the
>startx command to start X.
>The reason that xdm is listening to the network is that you can also
>connect to the GUI from over the network. Install a X-server on your
>windows machine fi from http://www.tucows.com/xwinserver95.html
>Configure to use a remote desktop, and select an xdmcp query to the
>linux/unix machine running xdm, and you can have access to your linux
>GUI from within windows.
Excellent. The other two ports were for gnome name server and gnome
session. Thanks for all your help
--
Cheers
The Happy Drunk
The voices in my head have had a vote.
Apparently I'm evicted.
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From: "Johnny A. Solbu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:49:01 +0200
> The only reason you need to reboot is when you change hardware or your =
kernel
Why does "every" Linux user assume that the hole
world leaves their computers powered on at all times???
A significant number of Linux users do NOT leave their=20
computers powered ON when they are done computing.
Also a significant number of Linux users does not run a server
or have a 24/7 connection. They don't even have a LAN.
So shutting down their boxes is as natural as eating every day.
--=20
Solbu - http://move.to/johnny.solbu
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From: Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I am dumb!! Please Help
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:56:14 -0400
I cant get my system to read the CDRW drive has scdo is actually hdd
***modules.conf***
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scd0 ide-scsi
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
options ide-cd ignore=hdd
***lilo.conf***
boot = /dev/hda
timeout = 100
linear
prompt
message = /boot/message
default = linux
vga = normal
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/kernel242ac27
label = linux242
root = /dev/hda2
image = /boot/kernel243
label = linux
root = /dev/hda2
append = "hdd = ide-scsi"
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-14
label = RHstable
root = /dev/hda2
other = /dev/hda1
label = dos
**rc.local** i left all the other crap out.
load ide-scsi module
insmod ide-scsi
What the heck did i do wrong??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: Mail Suggestions?
Date: 10 Apr 2001 02:06:29 GMT
09 Apr 2001 20:49 UTC, Chris Boner did say to the dudes:
[snip]
> Can anyone recommend a good email system to use instead (or provide a
> solution to my Netscape Mail problem)? I would prefer to use IMAP so I
> can access the same mail account from many different computers. Thanks
> in advance.
UW Pine is very cool. IMAP support. PGP/GPG support.
An excellent piece of work, which you'll have trouble beating.
--
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Error in operator: Add beer. Lots of beer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: removing Linux presence from MBR
Date: 10 Apr 2001 02:14:52 GMT
09 Apr 2001 17:04 UTC, David Miller did say to the dudes:
> I recently tried to turn a win NT server into a linux server. I installed
> Debian linux which modified the MBR. I now need to install Win NT again and
> I want to remove the linux boot from the MBR. Can someone give me the
> command? Do I execute it from within Linux or DOS?
>From Linux 'lilo -u' or 'lilo -U /dev/hda' (replace hda with your mbr)
>From DOS, as the other guys have said 'fdisk /MBR'. The DOS command
doesn't remove any additional Linux partition you may have on the disk.
--
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ICMP: The protocol that goes PING!
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From: "Stuart Langley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting DHCP and DNS to work together
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:00:56 +1000
Hi All,
Apologies if this is in a FAQ, I have looked but I can not seem to find it.
We're running a linux mail server (RedHat 6.2 with various upgrades), that
windows machines on our local network are connecting to using pop3 to
retrieve mail. When qpopper accepts a connection it attempts to do a DNS
lookup to get the hostname of the connection, but it fails because the
machines have DHCP assigned ip addresses that naturally do not exist in the
real world.
Is there some way that I can get DNS to also look up the names of the local
windows boxes properly.
Thanks,
Stuart
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From: "Talen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sndconfig - soundcard conf file example
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:34:49 -0400
Hello.
I am attempting to enable sound support under VMWARE. I am using Win2k as
host, and Mandrake v6 Linux as guest. When I run sndconfig, it never drops
the configuration file because OPL resource is always busy. I think I can
fake it out if I had the contents of a successfully configured "soundcard"
file for a
SoundBlaster from "/etc/sysconfig/soundcard".
I am new to Linux, so I may be wrong, but I would appreciate someone posting
a reply with the contents of their soundcard file.
Also, has anyone attempted to use a Linksys BEFSR41 router/switch to serve
up Internet access via cable modem with Linux? I have tried to configure
Linux like I would my Windows box to get net access, but no luck so far.
Thanks...
Shane
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (None)
Subject: Re: Clock Drift
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:43:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Huw Lynes) wrote:
> In article <s92A6.4281$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, None wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm trying to correct the clock drift in my system.
>>It drifts 32.5 seconds a day. I run ntpdate once
>>a day to correct this. I also edited the /etc/adjtime
>>file to set the drift correction to 32.5. This didn't
>>seem to have any affect... Is there something I need
>>to restart ? The clock faq infers that the kernel will
>>use this value to adjust the for the drift.
>>
>
> As long as hwclock --adjust gets run it should take account
> of the drift setting in /etc/adjtime.
>
So after I do ntpupdate should I run 'hwclock --adjust' ?
I think I tried this but it doesn't seem to see that ntpupdate
move time ahead or atleast I still off by 30sec a day still...
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From: "Bob Bulloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X -> Virtual Terminal; Alt-Ctrl-Fn does not work?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:52:31 GMT
I recently changed from Redhat 6.2 to Redhat 7. When I had 6.2 I was
able to switch from X to a virtual terminal with Alt-Ctrl-F2 etc, but since
switching to Redhat 7,( and installing KDE 2.1.1) when a try to go to a
virtual terminal, I am faced with a black screen. The only response to the
keyboard is Alt-Ctrl-Del to shut down & reboot. I've tried ALT-Fn,
Alt-Ctrl-Fn including trying to go back to X on terminal 7 - no response.
I've also tried to enter commands at the blank screen, ex: start emacs &
check for drive activity, but there is none.
I looked through deja & I have seen a couple of references to this
problem, once last fall, and again in Jan, but no solution seems to have
been posted. At that time the queries seemed to focus on certain hardware
issues (ex NVidia) but I have the same hardware that worked with 6.2. Only
the version has changed, and if it were the cause, I figure the newsgroups
would be screaming about it.
If anyone has some ideas, I would sure appreciate it (never thought I
would miss my vt so much).
Bob
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From: "Azalezaem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO Placement
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 23:11:34 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bill Courtney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Aloha kakou,
>
> I am trying to install Linux on a 20gb drive. I want it to co-exist
> (tri-boot) with NT Server and 2000 Server. For whatever reason, when I
> do my install, I am not given the option of installing LILO where I
> choose (MBR or Linux partion). It automatically goes to the MBR. The two
> other Linux intalls I have under my belt gave me that option. What's
> going on here??? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Mahalo no,
> Bill
>
>
Instead of using LILO, perhaps you should try setting up GRUB
(http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html ). It's seems pretty much
superior to LILO in every way. It even boots Windows 2000 decently from
partitions other than (hd0,0)!
Wyatt
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From: zubrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Newbie: kernel version, modprobe, depmod
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 04:10:17 GMT
Hi,
I'm using RH 7.0 (partitionless install). I upgraded kernel from
2.2.16-22 to 2.2.17-14 using GnoRPM.
Then I replaced the version entry 2.2.16-22 by the entry 2.2.17-14 in
the file: /etc/lilo.conf on the bootdisk.
Still, linux loads as 2.2.16-22 ( that's what I get with: uname -a ) and
also modprobe and depmod point to modules.dep in the 2.2.16-22 directory
which no longer exists.
I had no dependencies message when upgrading the kernel.
For modprobe and depmod, I think I have to change the path:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/modules.dep to:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/modules.dep .
Question 1: But in which files?
And:
Question 2: Do I have to create a new zImage?
Thanks in advance,
z.
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From: Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output
Date: 09 Apr 2001 21:52:48 -0600
"Johnny A. Solbu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> A significant number of Linux users do NOT leave their=20
> computers powered ON when they are done computing.
> Also a significant number of Linux users does not run a server
> or have a 24/7 connection. They don't even have a LAN.
>
> So shutting down their boxes is as natural as eating every day.
Dunno... it seems to me that the population of users who are running
systems that go up/down as you describe, but who don't have machines
that do APM, should be getting fairly small by now. The only machine
I've got that gets ``powered down'' on a regular basis is my laptop,
and it justs gets suspended/restored (except for upgrades and failures
to watch the batery level once in a while!). Not many reboots...
And even if we accept that a machine goes down at night and comes up
in the morning, I'm pretty much at a loss to understand somebody not
wanting to see the messages. The general concept of not wanting
information escapes me...
As an aside, the one thing I really miss from RedHat (I switched to
Debian a while ago) is the bootup procedure. I prefer having the
rcX.d scripts linked to subdirectories of /etc/init.d, and the green
[OK] was really reassuring. That's a pretty minor loss, compared to
the ease in upgrades, though. Yes, I've read about RPM upgrade systems
that have come out recently that are described as being as nice as
dselect. Last fall, dselect and the difficulty of keeping the various
RPM variants provided me with a compelling reason to switch to
Debian. RPM will have to improve to the point that there is a
compelling reason to change before I switch back. Maybe kernel
configs?
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
SWNMRSEF: http://www.nmsu.edu/~scifair
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From: fdellamorte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mandrake 7.2 install problems
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 04:30:06 -0000
when trying to install mandrake linux 7.2 i first get a '' errorloading
ramdisc'' message then i get a ''segmentation fault:seems memory is
missing as install
fails'' what can i do ??
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "Crystal Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Cannot boot up! gdm killed mysteriously?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:28:23 +0800
Dear all,
This is urgent! I can boot Linux Redhat 7.0 up to the level that I can see
"MyComputerName: login. But then the gnome desktop won't be shown, and I get
flickering screen and the message:
According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (xxxxpid), but seems
to have been murdered mysteriously.
Possible to fix it?
I urgently need to do something on this platform. Please help me. Thank you
very much.
Crystal
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From: "H. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Firestarter firewall experiences?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 06:39:15 +0200
Thank you
Carbon wrote:
> I've used firestarter http://firestarter.sourceforge.net before as
> well. It's really useful if you just want to get a basic firewall up
> quickly, like after installing the os and before going online, or if
> you want a firewall but don't feel like doing a lot of work. For
> those who want something a little more intricate, there's
>
> the online firewall configurator at
> http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html
>
> and
>
> mason http://dhp.com/~whisper/mason/, a very cool interactive firewall
> builder.
>
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From: "Norman Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: nic card
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 04:45:28 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to setup NIC (3Com 3C905C) with Linux Mandrake 7.2. Everything
runs smoothly. Except after system boot, I cannot start the NIC. I tried
"ifconfig eth0 up" and I get the following error message,
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy.
I have installed Linux Mandrake on some systems with 3C905C before, and
never ran into this problem. Does anyone know what gives? I am using ASUS
P3V133 motherboard with VIA Apollo Pro133 chipset. The kernel that comes
with Linux Mandrake 7.2 is 2.2.17pre... Greatly appreciated if someone can
give me some pointers. TIA
Regards,
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ega)
Subject: Why Lilo can not boot?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:18:33 +0800
I installed the REDHAT 6, but boot the lilo, it only print a lot of 01 01 01...., on
and on and on.
I'd tried a lot of other distributions, but all the same.
My computer:
Via 686B
Duron 700
Seagate 20g
128M
Thanks
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting DHCP and DNS to work together
Date: 09 Apr 2001 23:18:50 -0600
"Stuart Langley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi All,
>
> Apologies if this is in a FAQ, I have looked but I can not seem to find it.
>
> We're running a linux mail server (RedHat 6.2 with various upgrades), that
> windows machines on our local network are connecting to using pop3 to
> retrieve mail. When qpopper accepts a connection it attempts to do a DNS
> lookup to get the hostname of the connection, but it fails because the
> machines have DHCP assigned ip addresses that naturally do not exist in the
> real world.
>
> Is there some way that I can get DNS to also look up the names of the local
> windows boxes properly.
Why not just tell your POP server to not do the lookup?
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: cdrom does not mount.
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 22:19:40 -0700
What kernel version are you using? This happened to me when I upgraded
to 2.4.2 but did not upgrade to the corresponding binutils...
"Kenny@BUI" wrote:
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
>
> > Now, given the entry from /etc/fstab you've indicated, mount
> > will try to hang the thing at /mnt/cdrom so check to make
> > sure that mountpoint exists by doing a
> >
> > ls -la /mnt
>
> it does .
>
> > As well, you need to make sure that the /dev/cdrom, which is
> > a symlink to the appropriate drive, exists and is pointing
> > to the right spot, so do
> > ls -la /dev/cdrom
>
> it does.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: nic card
Date: 09 Apr 2001 23:22:30 -0600
"Norman Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to setup NIC (3Com 3C905C) with Linux Mandrake 7.2. Everything
> runs smoothly. Except after system boot, I cannot start the NIC. I tried
> "ifconfig eth0 up" and I get the following error message,
>
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy.
>
> I have installed Linux Mandrake on some systems with 3C905C before, and
> never ran into this problem. Does anyone know what gives? I am using ASUS
> P3V133 motherboard with VIA Apollo Pro133 chipset. The kernel that comes
> with Linux Mandrake 7.2 is 2.2.17pre... Greatly appreciated if someone can
> give me some pointers. TIA
The modules you want is '3c59x'
Does `lsmod` show the modules loaded?
What happens if you manually load it `insmod 3c59x`?
If it works, then just edit /etc/conf.modules (or modules.conf,
depending on your distribution) and be sure that this line is in
there:
alias eth0 3c59x
Then, ifconfig will be able to run without any problems.
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: cdrom does not mount.
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:38:28 +0200
> >thank you for responding.
> >this is what i got.
> >
> >hda: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM 36X, ATAPI CDROM drive
> >ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> >hda: ATAPI 16X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> >Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> >Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> >FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> >
>
> Okay, so it's saying that your cdrom drive is the primary
> master. What sort of a setup is this? Do you not have an IDE
> hard drive in the machine? Are you currently running another
> operating system on it? What does the BIOS say? It's sort of
> hard to believe that your cdrom is the primary master. I've
> never seen a config like this, unless your hard drive is
> SCSI. I'm sort of out of my element, here, as I've no
> experience at SCSI-hd based systems, although the principles
> should be the same.
>
> In any event, what output do you get from
>
> ls -la /dev/hda
There's no reason why it can't be hda.
so mount it as hda. (I suppose /dev/cdrom isn't pointing to hda?)
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom
It should work now.
You can also change the symlink of /dev/cdrom to point to hda,
and the old way of mounting will work again. If you used to have
a HDD connected to hda, then you should be worried.
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Lilo can not boot?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:40:38 +0200
> I installed the REDHAT 6, but boot the lilo, it only print a lot of 01 01
01...., on
> and on and on.
> I'd tried a lot of other distributions, but all the same.
> My computer:
> Via 686B
> Duron 700
> Seagate 20g
> 128M
Let's first locate the problem.
can you boot from floppy?
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Create ext2 Partition from Windows
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:49:37 +0200
> I am getting ready to run Linux on my handheld, but I have one issue. I
> need to create an ext2 partition on a CF card. I do not have a CF card
> reader for any of my Linux machines. I can read them from my laptop
> through the PCMCIA slot. However, I run Linux on my laptop through
> VMware (it is my work's laptop, they run Win2K), which does not support
> direct access to PCMCIA. So, here is my problem:
>
> How do I create an ext2 partition from Windows 2000? I have found
> projects that allow me to read and write ext2 partitions (ext2fsnt, for
> example), but none that allow me to create partitions.
>
I can think of one way:
create an imagefile in linux, and use rawrite.exe to write it to the CF
card.
Eric
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From: Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I change the $HOME variable?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:58:06 -0400
Gregory Davis wrote:
> That's pretty much it. I want to put my /root/ directory in /home/ to
> make
> /home/root/ and have all my home directories one separate partition. It
> follows then that I change the value for root's home directory. But I do
> not know where to do this. My guess is somewhere in /etc/ there is a
> user-data file that sets the home for each user there. Would be nice if
> it had an obvious name like that.
>
> Greg
>
All this stuff is true, although I have been running /root/ (not /) from a
separate partition for some time now. I have had to reboot and do fsck
after a poweroutage, and this setup worked fine; I needed only log in as a
single user with root priveleges with the root password (stored on the /
partition). I do a lot of maintanence using X (and things like konqueror)
for finding updates or browsing the tree for expired temp or cache files.
I keep a lot of packages and sources on /root/ and my logic is that the
system (/) stays isolated on a separate partition. This way, in the event
of a system breakage, I still have my user data AND the system upgrade
packages I have acquired. Then I may reinstall a fresh OS incorporating my
previous user datas. This has saved my butt several times already due to
my mad scientist experimentations.
Also, for me to burn a cd, I have to be root EVEN IF I set the cdr device
to read/write for all users. There are still some buffers somewhere that
require root privelege. So to do a command line "cdrecord," one needs root
privelege and using "su" would violate the principle of least privelege.
That's something to think about.
Thanks,
Greg
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From: "Daren Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multi boot with linux/winme/win2k
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:07:57 +0800
Anyone out there have any ideas on how to configure a linux box (perhaps
mandrake) so using x-windows I can also run a choice of either windows me or
windows 2000
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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