Linux-Setup Digest #31, Volume #21 Wed, 11 Apr 01 18:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Mandrake 7.2 and Nvidia - A little bit closer (mrsmith)
LILO and boot.b ("Rafe Thayer")
Screen flicker on install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
xconfig question (Tim J)
Re: recognizing SCSI tape *after* boot (Michael Heiming)
upgrading to glibc2.1 (machinm)
rpm -- 'corrupt header' ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hawking network print server setup (Michael L Lockhart)
Re: LILO and boot.b (Mladen Gavrilovic)
Someone help a novice installing SuSE v3.0 from a DOS Partition ("Matthew Clubb")
Re: Compiler not working (David E. Fox)
Re: [HELP] mount cdrom ("Kenny@BUI")
Re: dLink DE220 ("Arturo Castro V.")
Re: Want to dual boot with win 2000. ("Kenny@BUI")
MDK installing problem strange kernel panic (Denis)
Re: How to config the X-Server?? ("Kenny@BUI")
Re: Partitioning strategy for multiple Linux distributions? (Michael L Lockhart)
Re: Can't print (drivers?) (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: removing Linux presence from MBR (Michael L Lockhart)
error 500 in ftp (Tai-Lin)
Re: Create ext2 Partition from Windows (John Sheehan)
Re: how use map command in vim?? (Michael L Lockhart)
Re: General setup guide lines (Craig Kelley)
Re: Xconfigurator help. (Craig Kelley)
Re: Mandrake 7.2 and Nvidia - A little bit closer (Craig Kelley)
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From: mrsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 and Nvidia - A little bit closer
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:17:34 -0500
Seeming to have nothing else to do, I again attempted an install of
the Nvidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2. Here is the procdedure I used on
this attempt:
Installed Mandrake 7.2
Upgraded using initial ManFreq for XFree86 4.0.2 and KDE 2.1
Rebooted to run level 1
Installed XFree86 4.0.3 update using .tar.gz files and Xinstall.sh
Installed Nvidia kernel and GLX, including making symbolic link from
new X to old X, per various instructions.
Configured XF86Config-4 per instructions.
Executed nv_check.sh and followed reccommendations.
Set run level back to 5 and rebooted.
System goes through normal start-up and comes to auto logon portion.
At this point X acts as if it will start but then falls back to run
level 3. I check the X log in /var/log/ and it appears everything went
well except for two problems. It gives "error loading module bitmap"
and says it was not found. It does the same for module "pcidata".
On previous excursions into the "modules" directory, I have seen both
of these modules. But, now they are not there. Here are my questions:
1. Where might they have went based on my installation?
2. Can they be replaced out of a particular package?
3. Perhaps, are these modules that are created after the fact by
executing something like Xconfigurator, etc?
Thank to all for there patience...
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From: "Rafe Thayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO and boot.b
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:33:00 GMT
I just installed linux, and I've run into two quasi-problems (one of which
I'll save for another time). LILO seems to be working fine..When the
computer boots, it lets me choose which OS to use just like it should.
However, I changed the lilo.conf file to set the default OS to my windows
partition instead of linux, and when I ran lilo afterwards to install the
new configuration, I get an error that says /boot/boot.b doesn't exist.
(There's a line in lilo.conf that says install=/boot/boot.b). So lilo quits
with that error message, and doesn't install the new configuration. It's
true, I haven't been able to find a file called boot.b anywhere on my
system. Is there anything I can do to fix the problem? Thanks for your
help.
Rafe Thayer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Screen flicker on install
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:57:09 GMT
Hi: When I try to install Redhat 7 using the boot.img from a floppy my
monitor (21" hitachi) flickers and reads 'invalid sycn freq.'. Any
thoughts.
TIA,
Atticus
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From: Tim J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xconfig question
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:49:07 GMT
I am trying to configure and compile kernel 2.4.2 on rh7.0 so my Promise
ultra ata/100 PCI card will get recognized.
My question is where and what do I do in xconfig to enable this device?
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:11:37 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recognizing SCSI tape *after* boot
Juergen Pfann wrote:
>
> Michal Szymanski wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > (tape drive not detected when powered off during boot)
> > Is there a way to "rescan" SCSI bus and get access to such a tape drive
> > on Linux when the system is already up and running?
> >
>
> Yes - if you know it, it's quite simple - like always ;-)
> This is the command to "enable" my scanner after powering
> it on (being at SCSI 0, bus 0, ID 5, LUN 0) :
> ---snip
> echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 5 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
> ---snip
> That's all about it ! Adjust that to the appropriate ID
> of your tape drive (and, of course, with more than 1 HA,
> to the resp. HA and bus #s).
> If tape support is compiled into the kernel, you should
> be able to use your (backup/whatever) SW with the tape
> drive. Otherwise, the "st" module will be inserted on
> demand - or do "insmod st" manually, just as you please.
> To confirm this, you can do a "cat /proc/scsi/scsi",
> and watch /var/log/messages for the appropriate syslog
> messages.
> "Disabling" the device before power-off, if you like to,
> is achieved by - you guessed it -
> 'echo "scsi remove-single-device X X X X" >/proc/scsi/scsi'
> (again, insert SCSI#, bus#, ID, LUN here).
> If I needed this often, I'd write a 1- or 2-liner shell
> script with that command, and possibly the "insmod st"
> afterwards, and call that "tape-on" or something...
> I think you got the idea...
In addition, the feature works, with my scanner quiet well, however
I read somewhere that it's not really recommended to use, you may
want to check the info on this, may be someone knows more?
However you should not use insmod, use modprobe instead, there is
a file "modules.txt" that comes with every kernel and explains why.
Michael Heiming
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From: machinm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: upgrading to glibc2.1
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:11:03 GMT
I am about ready to give up. I keep having the make bomb out when I try
to compile. I am following the instructions in Install and the Howto
directions. I get though the configure step with no apparent errors and
then it bombs out on the make step. I get the following output:
.
.
/root/glibc/glibc-2.1.1/compile/sysd-versionsT
no versions defined for ld
/root/glibc/glibc-2.1.1/compile/libBrokenLocale.map is unchanged
/root/glibc/glibc-2.1.1/compile/libc.map is unchanged
/root/glibc/glibc-2.1.1/compile/libcrypt.map is unchanged
/root/glibc/glibc-2.1.1/compile/libdb.map is unchanged
/root/glibc/glibc-2.1.1/compile/libdb1.map is unchanged
/root/glibc/glibc-2.1.1/compile/libm.map is unchanged
make[1]: *** [/root/glibc/glibc-2.1.1/compile/sysd-versions] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/glibc/glibc-2.1.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Can anyone give me some idea of whats wrong here? Any suggestions would
be useful.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rpm -- 'corrupt header'
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:14:26 GMT
Hello!
Any recovery from this?
Big file downloaded over metered telephone connection, for naught. Wonder
if there's some way to repair or reconstruct this kind of corruption, some
tool for maintaining rpm's?
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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From: Michael L Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Hawking network print server setup
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:14:04 -0600
Hi,
I am trying to set up a network print server. It is a Hawking and according to
setup instructions I should just create a remote printer queue and give it the
IP address/name and it should work. Unfortunately it doesn't. Hawking has
dropped Linux support, so I can't get anything out of them.
The server has its own IP address and I can ping it, so I know it's not
communications. Has anyone out there dealt with this problem?
BTW I am running SuSE 7.1 with the 2.4 kernel.
--
Mike Lockhart
http://www.moonsociety.org/
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From: Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and boot.b
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:41:07 GMT
Rafe Thayer wrote:
> new configuration, I get an error that says /boot/boot.b doesn't exist.
> (There's a line in lilo.conf that says install=/boot/boot.b). So lilo quits
> with that error message, and doesn't install the new configuration. It's
> true, I haven't been able to find a file called boot.b anywhere on my
> system. Is there anything I can do to fix the problem? Thanks for your
> help.
Backup your lilo.conf somewhere (not sure if it will get hosed) and
reinstall LILO. This may not be necessary if you can obtain just that
file somewhere, but it I'm not sure if it would work unless it came from
the same version of LILO. Also, if boot.b got deleted somehow, who
knows what else did as well, so I'd just reinstall the whole thing.
Regards,
Mladen
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From: "Matthew Clubb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Someone help a novice installing SuSE v3.0 from a DOS Partition
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:51:17 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to install SuSE 6.3 from my hard drive because I can't get the CD
drive to work. I am using the manual section 2.4.1: Installation from a DOS
Partition. I have done exactly what the manual says but one of the files
that it asks you to copy is not there, this is "inst-img". See page 46,
instruction 7: "Copy file \suse\setup\inst-img to \emil\suse\setup. This
file is relatively big, but it is only needed while doing the first
installation. When the base system is up and running, you will be able to
install additional packages from a DOS partition. Then the file inst-img can
be removed."
I have been unable to locate the file inst-img on any of the six disks.
Please can anyone tell me what to do or where I might find this file.....
Thanks very much
Matt Clubb
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From: David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Compiler not working
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:12:10 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andy Walker wrote:
> I'm trying to get plib to install so I can then get FlightGear going but
> when I do ./configure it fails. The message I get is GCC failure but in
If you can email me the configure output (or the last portion of it) I might
be able to figure out what is wrong.
I just built FlightGear yesterday. It runs, but I don't think the
accelerated 3D is working (I am using a Matrox G450, with X 4.0.2, on a
Athlon (1ghz) based system (Asus A7V133 mb). But that's a side issue,
albeit a somewhat important one.
The docs don't seem to be quite clear in that you have to compile and
install the SimGear library before you start on the plib library.
--
========================================================================
David E. Fox Thanks for letting me
[EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk.
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From: "Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [HELP] mount cdrom
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:29:07 -0400
hey thanks man.
is ln command the link command?
once again thanks for all your input.
kenny.
> It doesn't only appear so, it is so.
> All you have wrong is a bad symlink.
>
> rm /dev/cdrom
> ln -s /dev/hda /dev/cdrom
>
> And now you're ok.
>
> Eric
>
>
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From: "Arturo Castro V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dLink DE220
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:24:09 -0400
Hi, here is the response from DLink. I have not tried it yet, but it sounds
fine.
D-Link Reference ID: TSE10411-104141
(This is NOT an RMA number. It is for e-mail response tracking
purposes only.)
Dear Valued Customer,
First, you need to disable the Plug and Play feature on this card.
Boot up in DOS and run the SETUP and CONFIGURATION program located on
the driver disk. (A:\setup\setup.exe).
Using the keyboard, disable the PnP, assign a valid IRQ and I/O and also
choose the media type (BNC or UTP/RJ45).
Lastly, load up the card in Linux as a Novell Athem NE-2000 compatible.
Thank you for your technical question and feedback. If you are
continuing to have problems please contact our live support at
949-790-5290.or resubmit the problem at http://www.dlink.com/tech/contact/.
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From: "Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Want to dual boot with win 2000.
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:31:50 -0400
i would repartition the extended partition and let linux find it.
"blkthorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:c31B6.43989$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I installed Win2000 and want to dual boot with Mandrake 7.1. Here what I
> got so far.I fdisk my drives with fdisk and format both drives one is c:\
> and other is d:\ thought Win2000, now should i go back in fdisk and get
rid
> of d:\ drive and let Mandrake do the partition or do I just install
> Mandrake and it will istall it's self on drive d:\.
> thanks for your help: blkthorn
>
>
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From: Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MDK installing problem strange kernel panic
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:30:34 +0200
Hi,
I have an installatin problem on my new PC
I have changed my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7ZX-B)
I have one 128Mb SDRAM 133Mhz on it
and one AMD athlon 850 Mhz
I have the same Hard disk, same IDE CDROM...and so on
and I had Linux installed before reformatting the whole hard disk
on my old motherboard+CPU+RAM
when i try to install Linux via normal sequence (on a mandrake 7.2)
It fails when I choose the language at the begining !
I get an "error opening file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/Security Policy"
"Glib warning, Perl warning..." and finaly a Segmentation fault
with a message such "seems like memory is missing as the install crashes"
then I tried to install by hitting F1 at the boot prompt of the install CD
and I tried with the following command line : text expert
then I can reach the formatting stage and after that I get a dump on the screen
with the error "killing interrupt handler"
"Kernel panic : Attempted to kill the idle task"
"in Interrupt handler - not syncing"
then i tried this one again, by desactivating the BIOS feature i don't need
(USB, serail, AC97, parallel and of course the PNP OS feature !)
then i tried text expert again...without much success
then i tried to add some arguments.. like mem=128M idebus=33 ide0=noautotune
..no more success !!
another curious thing with my PC....may be a hint for some experts here...
I tried to load the tombsrt linux (on a floppy) it was ok
I tried then to format the whole hard disk, it was ok too
but when i tried to do the badblock check i get a similar dump with a kernel
panic on my screen !!
so i thought my hard disk may be damaged...i checked it with windows and
scandisk (a minutious one) and it reports no error on the disk !
I even tried after that to install linux on another disk (I just have one at a
time in the PC !)
so ...welll....it's crazy !!!!
I can't understand !!
if someone here does, please let me know !!! I'd really like to have your
comment on this problem !!
..I think I'm not the one earning a GA-7ZX and a 850MHZ AMD CPU !
pleaaaaaase, help !
Denis.
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From: "Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to config the X-Server??
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:45:38 -0400
where do we change the resolution? after starting startx.
"Lai Shu King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Choose more resolution and change resolution dynamically by ctrl+alt+[plus
or
> minus number key] to select the appropriate resolution. Good Luck
>
> Mike wrote:
>
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From: Michael L Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Partitioning strategy for multiple Linux distributions?
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:55:44 -0600
Richard Scott wrote:
> I have a 30G IDE hard drive and I'd like to install up to
> four Linux versions for comparison.
>
> What is the best partitioning strategy to do this?
>
> I'd like to install LILO in the MBR.
>
> Richard
I would create a /boot partition, a swap partition, a partition for each
distribution and one for your /home. With all of these partitions, you'll be
using logical partitions for most of them. The swap and /home partitions would
mount under each distribution, while you could mount the other distributions as
/ under each boot regimen. You'll need to configure lilo so it boots the proper
distribution from the proper partition. You may want to also have a /common
partition to hold applications that you want to run under all distributions if
you have any interest in such things.
--
Mike Lockhart
http://www.moonsociety.org/
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Can't print (drivers?)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:13:23 GMT
Taavi Hein wrote:
> : Absolutely none. You don't "get drivers" like you do with M$ Windows.
> : Tell PrintTool that it is an HP DeskJet 550.
> : You could have found this information at:
> : http://www.linuxprinting.org/
>
> Are you telling me, Linux doesn't use drivers (or anything of a similar
> concept)? You make me wonder, if there's a reason for not keeping up with
> the hardware progress... Of course there are drivers for Linux (for some
> hardware).
No, what I meant was that you don't "get drivers". Linux uses true hardware
device drivers (a "printer driver" would not be one, only the printer port
driver would be one). These are part of the Kernel. In most cases these come
with the Kernel, in some cases they are distributed as a patch for the Kernel
source code, and in a very few cases they are distributed as installable kernel
modules.
In most cases to install these actual device drivers, you need to rebuild the
Kernel from source, or upgrade your Kernel
Clearly this is not what users used to Windows mean when they "get drivers"
> Well, I don't really care, if PrintTool uses 'drivers' or 'filters' or
> whatever. It doesn't make any difference to me as an end user (what does
> HPDJ550 use?
> -- drivers?), I could call them 'XkpJ4V' for all I care, except
> that no-one could understand, what it means, so I used the word 'drivers'.
External peripherals do not use drivers like Windows. They do use software
packages. There are several available for printing. Red Hat uses either LPR
or LPRng. For printing, these are called "print filters" and "print
spoolers". Most of these use GhostScript as the RIP (Raster Image Processor).
GhostScript uses various add-ons to support different printers and other
functions (such as ps2pdf conversion).
> By 'appropriate drivers' I meant 'drivers that allow me to print with my
> printer' not 'Xerox DP6 drivers'. If I can use something that's allready in
> the PrintTool -- all the better.
PrintTool is actually only the setup widget for the print filter and print
spooler.
GhostScript uses different types of add-ons which are called "devices".
However, you cannot simply get more of these. You need to have them built into
GhostScript. So, if you want additional devices in GhostScript, you would have
to build it from source. Again, this is not simply getting drivers. There are
exceptions to this. The GhostScript "Uniprint" device uses configuration files
and people have written additional ones of these. If Linux Printing
recommended one of these for your printer then you could install it by simply
downloading it to the proper directory.
So, with printers, you don't "get drivers". You either use something that is
already in GhostScript (unless you have a PostScript printer), you upgrade
GhostScript either by installing a new binary, or building if from source, or
you download a Uniprint file (if available).
So, for printers the question is, How do you set up GhostScript and/or the
print filter to print to your printer.
> As you could see from the other issue,
> there's just a little problem with surfin' the net for answers ;)
>
> : Best advice, buy a hardware modem.
>
> Not the best (from my point of view), but the easyest one ;) If I had the
> money, I'd already have a real modem, instead of searching for help.
If you have the actual brand and model number or the FCC number for your modem,
you can look it up at:
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/20010302a.html
And it is listed! It says that it uses the Lucent "LinModem" driver.
This is the driver:
http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ltmodem-5.78d.tar.gz
OR check here for more info:
http://www.lectron.com.tw/DOWNLOAD/PCI%20MODEM.htm
For help go to:
http://www.linmodems.org/
They have a mailing list. Subscribe and ask questions there for best answers.
Good Luck
But, you will probably wish that you spent $60.00 for a first quality internal
PCI HARDWARE mode.
JRT
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From: Michael L Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: removing Linux presence from MBR
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:14:58 -0600
emdag wrote:
> boot up from dos
>
> fsck /mbr
>
> "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9asqpl$rf0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I recently tried to turn a win NT server into a linux server. I installed
> > Debian linux which modified the MBR. I now need to install Win NT again
> and
> > I want to remove the linux boot from the MBR. Can someone give me the
> > command? Do I execute it from within Linux or DOS?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
> >
I beleive the correct command (from DOS) is:
C:\> fdisk /mbr
fsck is a Unix program.
--
Mike Lockhart
http://www.moonsociety.org/
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From: Tai-Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: error 500 in ftp
Date: 11 Apr 2001 21:11:33 GMT
I got a "500 'PASS': command not understood" message after
I enter my login name when I used ftp. The program
told me login failed immediately and didn't prompt me to
enter password. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
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From: John Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Create ext2 Partition from Windows
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:21:31 GMT
I created an image file, but all of the implementations of rawrite I've
found so far do not allow me to write to anything but floppies. I have
been thinking about researching GNU Parted to see if it would work. Do
you know of any rawrite or similar utilities that will write to disks
other than floppies?
I really appreciate this help. I want to get linux running on my sub-
notebook so I don't have to lug my big Windows laptop around everywhere.
In article <9b0tu9$bhl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > That is a great idea. Thanks. Do you know what the best way is to
> > create an imagefile? Thanks again.
> >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
>
> You will need linux for this, obviously
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=./just_an_imagefile bs=1k count=100
> This will create an 100K file, change the bs and/or count arguments
> if you want another size (Make it match the size of the CF card)
>
> Now you can do `mke2fs ./just_an_imagefile`
>
> That's it. :-)
>
> Now that I read this again, you could also use PartitionMagic.
> It can make ext2 partitions, but I don't know if it can handle your
> hardware.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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From: Michael L Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how use map command in vim??
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:24:45 -0600
hushui wrote:
> Can somebody give me a example?
> :map ^i include
> Is it ???
> But it does not run.
> I means define a shortcut key of mine in vim so that I can input my program
> quickly.
If you have the misfortune to be using a brain-dead editor like vim (OK, it IS
better than vi) instead of something more usable like emacs, then the usage of
map is equally brain-dead.
map takes 2 arguments, the key squence that triggers it, and the key sequence
it will spit out. Each argument is literal, i.e. EXACTLY what you will type and
EXACTLY what vim will spit out, separated by a space. So for your example above
you would use:
:map ^i :i
This way, when you type ^i you get the equivalent of typing :i, a real
keystroke saver.
--
Mike Lockhart
http://www.moonsociety.org/
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: General setup guide lines
Date: 11 Apr 2001 15:45:43 -0600
Mohamed Sentissi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello
>
> I have to write a guide line for some people who gonna be making linux
> client boxes using RH7.
> I have to make a guide line on what the packages they should select to
> install and what not. I know a little bit on what I should advise but
> please can smbdy tell more if they have a suggestion ?
> please ?
> like what not to install because it's a security hole since those linux
> clients gonna be on a campus network ?
What you really need to hammer home is not to install uneeded
*servers*. If they don't need anonymous FTP, then don't install it;
if they don't need an NFS server, then don't install it.
On another note: No matter which version you install, it will never
be secure "out of the box"; you need to update the packages to the
latest versions. MSU has high-speed bandwidth, no? What we do here
is setup a central location for Linux distributions (and FreeBSD, BTW)
and do network installs and updates. It's very easy with Debian
Linux, but I would avoid it unless the user knows a lot about UNIX.
We currently reccomend RedHat Wolverine (7.0.91) -- it really is a
killer distribution; it even comes with a handy firewall tool that
lets you specifically allow only certain incomming traffic to your
machine.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Xconfigurator help.
Date: 11 Apr 2001 15:46:38 -0600
"Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello,
> we just upgraded to from 6.2 to 7.0.
> the thing would not display properly. we are trying to use Xconfigurator to
> fix the problem. it appears that the monitor is being detected but when we
> type startx the
> screen does not refresh properly. the icons are there but you have to put
> the mouse over them for them to appear. there are also lines all over the
> screen. looks like the tile effect in win98.
7.0 uses XFree86 4.0.2, while 6.2 uses XFree86-3.x -- you may want to
downgrade your X11 server to the older one so that it works again.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 and Nvidia - A little bit closer
Date: 11 Apr 2001 15:50:35 -0600
mrsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Seeming to have nothing else to do, I again attempted an install of
> the Nvidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2. Here is the procdedure I used on
> this attempt:
> Installed Mandrake 7.2
> Upgraded using initial ManFreq for XFree86 4.0.2 and KDE 2.1
> Rebooted to run level 1
> Installed XFree86 4.0.3 update using .tar.gz files and Xinstall.sh
> Installed Nvidia kernel and GLX, including making symbolic link from
> new X to old X, per various instructions.
> Configured XF86Config-4 per instructions.
> Executed nv_check.sh and followed reccommendations.
> Set run level back to 5 and rebooted.
>
> System goes through normal start-up and comes to auto logon portion.
> At this point X acts as if it will start but then falls back to run
> level 3. I check the X log in /var/log/ and it appears everything went
> well except for two problems. It gives "error loading module bitmap"
> and says it was not found. It does the same for module "pcidata".
>
> On previous excursions into the "modules" directory, I have seen both
> of these modules. But, now they are not there. Here are my questions:
>
> 1. Where might they have went based on my installation?
> 2. Can they be replaced out of a particular package?
> 3. Perhaps, are these modules that are created after the fact by
> executing something like Xconfigurator, etc?
>
> Thank to all for there patience...
You don't really need to do all that. Just take a stock install, and
follow the directions listed here:
http://www.nvidia.com/Products/OpenLinuxDwn.nsf/09769readmefaq
In a short sequence:
1) Setup XFree86 4.0.x to run your nvidia card (no 3D accel yet)
2) rpm --rebuild NVIDIA-kernel-blahblahblah.src.rpm
3) rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA-kernel.blah.rpm
4) rpm --force --nodeps -i NVIDIA-GLX.blahblahblah.i386.rpm
5) Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config
a) change "nv" to "nvidia" everywhere you find it
b) uncomment the GLX module
That's it.
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