Re: [expert] atapi zip drive
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, D HOPP wrote: Mandrake 6.1 should mount a zip drive fine. I have an atapi zip and it works great. This is what I do to make it work (probably not be the best way). Without the kernel recompiling? Login as root cd /etc pico fstab In the fstab file type this line in /dev/hdd /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 This 'auto' is a good choice. Then save the file. Note: /mnt/zip must exist, Linux won't create it for you. Hope this helps, and anybody that knows a bit more about this please correct me if I'm wrong. That's it. I prefer my own kernel so I didn't even try the out-of-box kernel (as I wrote in a mail before). God work, Mandrake Crew! -- v Davor Cengija [EMAIL PROTECTED] === "Please allow 30 days for delivery"
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, ibi wrote: Axalon, Please tell me Linux does not literally "burst into flames". Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course I over exagerated, you get lots of wierd things like sig 7/11 's (pun intended :) and other nice usefull error messages, all though I'm sure theres people here that could give us just cause as to how one could burst into flames. ;-) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon Such as an amd p75 o'clocked to 160, for some weird reason. I suppose they had to do that to get win98 to load ;-) I might have to dump this 486, as I downloaded the debian 2.1 base, and during the hard drive format I got lots of errors on the kernel logs, and it nearly stopped. One dead drive, i suspect ;-) -- *===* | Andrew Mitchell | | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Home Page http://members.tripod.com/Ajmitchell/ | | ICQ 11392490 (ajmitch)| *===* 9:13pm up 3 days, 3:03, 1 user, load average: 1.44, 1.57, 1.45
Re: [expert] DrakConf Security Level 2nd Post
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Jerald A DeLong Jr wrote: Hello All in List, I was wondering if any one could tell me what processes that take place between the different levels of security with " DrakConf Security Level " or direct me to information explaining it. Dose it just turn off services ? Thanks Jerry DeLong No it does not just turn off services. Full docs are likely on the website, or you can find them on an installed system under /usr/doc/msec-*/, which i think is also in the cooker cvs. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
That's a relief! I was sure you were kidding, but it's nice to see it reinforced in print. Thanks!!! Pj Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, ibi wrote: Axalon, Please tell me Linux does not literally "burst into flames". Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course I over exagerated, you get lots of wierd things like sig 7/11 's (pun intended :) and other nice usefull error messages, all though I'm sure theres people here that could give us just cause as to how one could burst into flames. ;-) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
At 02:55 12/01/00 -0600, you wrote: That's a relief! I was sure you were kidding, but it's nice to see it reinforced in print. Thanks!!! Ahem "http://wso.williams.edu/~aramos/upsfire/" :-) nick@nexnix Pj Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, ibi wrote: Axalon, Please tell me Linux does not literally "burst into flames". Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course I over exagerated, you get lots of wierd things like sig 7/11 's (pun intended :) and other nice usefull error messages, all though I'm sure theres people here that could give us just cause as to how one could burst into flames. ;-) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[expert] USB and idiot-camera
I have idiot-internet camera that have USB connection to PC. The producer (Logitech) provides only WIN drivers. Did anyone try to force such DEVICE running within linux environment? regards, Edward P.
[expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
Hi! Just a question: Why does appear the pre-formated disks (also the windows-formatted disks) as /dev/hdd4??? - Claudio J. Tessone E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Fisica- Fac. de Cs. Exactas Calle 47 y 115. 1900- La Plata. Bs. As. Argentina - On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Kevinif youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify as hdd4 (partition 4). Alan Kevin Boylan wrote: Hi, As my system boots I can see that it recognizes my IDE Atapi internal zip drive as hdd. But once booted, I can't find any hdd anywhere. I've looked at the zip drive how-to, but I can't seem to get anything mounted. Does Madrake 6.1 already have what is necessary for me to mount the zip drive? -- Best regards, Kevin
Re: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
Kevinif youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify as hdd4 (partition 4). I read in a how-to that it is not known why hdd4 was chosen. But I'm curious. By factory formatted media, do you (Alan) mean dos/Windows or linux formatted? The disks I would have in my zip drive would be dos formatted. On boot up the system definitely recognizes that there is an ATAPI zip drive and it says it is hdd (just hdd with no number). But if I add /dev/hdd /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 to fstab, I don't get any errors, but I can't seem to see anything on the drive. Do I just create the /mnt/zip directory as a regular directory or does it have to be created in any special way? Thanks, Kevin
RE: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
I didn't know about IDE ZIP. But with parallel port ZIP (ie a kind of SCSI zip), a new zip disk has to be mounted from /dev/sdx4 too! I don't know why either. Mathieu -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 January 2000 11:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4 Hi! Just a question: Why does appear the pre-formated disks (also the windows-formatted disks) as /dev/hdd4??? - Claudio J. Tessone E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Fisica- Fac. de Cs. Exactas Calle 47 y 115. 1900- La Plata. Bs. As. Argentina - On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Kevinif youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify as hdd4 (partition 4). Alan Kevin Boylan wrote: Hi, As my system boots I can see that it recognizes my IDE Atapi internal zip drive as hdd. But once booted, I can't find any hdd anywhere. I've looked at the zip drive how-to, but I can't seem to get anything mounted. Does Madrake 6.1 already have what is necessary for me to mount the zip drive? -- Best regards, Kevin
Re: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
Kevin Boylan wrote: Kevinif youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify as hdd4 (partition 4). I read in a how-to that it is not known why hdd4 was chosen. It has always been that way with all ZIP and JAZ media, as sold they always use the 4th primary partition only (hdx4 or sdx4). Why ? Better ask Iomega. On the other hand, you can perfectly well use normal partitioning (e.g. with Linux or Dos fdisk), you can also put ext2 (or other) partitions on it, and the drive will not complain, the media will be perfectly usable. Possibly some Iomega tools (for Windows) would complain, but I don't even think so, and anyway we don't care under Linux ... -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
Re: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
Kevinthe only way I know to get Linux file system (ext2) formatted zip discs is to format them yourself with the linux command mkfs or mke2fs. When you buy zip discs in the store they are factory formatted and that file system is vfat (dos/windows). These factory formatted (or ones you've formatted with the iomega zip disc formatting program in windows) discs are partitioned as primary partition 4 so linux calls the device hda4 (or hdb4 or hdc4 or hdd4 or sca4 or scb4etc). Your fstab entry is wrong, it needs to look like this (no matter what the system says at bootup): /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 the /mnt/zip directory is just what it says, a subdirectory named /zip located in the /mnt subdirectory. At the command line in a console environment type mount /mnt/zip and then type ls /mnt/zip there will appear a directory listing of whatever is on the disc that is inserted in the drive atb the time you typed the command. Alan KevinBoylan wrote: Kevinif youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify as hdd4 (partition 4). I read in a how-to that it is not known why hdd4 was chosen. But I'm curious. By factory formatted media, do you (Alan) mean dos/Windows or linux formatted? The disks I would have in my zip drive would be dos formatted. On boot up the system definitely recognizes that there is an ATAPI zip drive and it says it is hdd (just hdd with no number). But if I add /dev/hdd /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 to fstab, I don't get any errors, but I can't seem to see anything on the drive. Do I just create the /mnt/zip directory as a regular directory or does it have to be created in any special way? Thanks, Kevin
Re: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
Claudioyou'd have to ask someone at the iomega company that question. My only answer would have to be, because that's the way iomega formats them. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Just a question: Why does appear the pre-formated disks (also the windows-formatted disks) as /dev/hdd4??? - Claudio J. Tessone E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Fisica- Fac. de Cs. Exactas Calle 47 y 115. 1900- La Plata. Bs. As. Argentina - On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Kevinif youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify as hdd4 (partition 4). Alan Kevin Boylan wrote: Hi, As my system boots I can see that it recognizes my IDE Atapi internal zip drive as hdd. But once booted, I can't find any hdd anywhere. I've looked at the zip drive how-to, but I can't seem to get anything mounted. Does Madrake 6.1 already have what is necessary for me to mount the zip drive? -- Best regards, Kevin
[expert] [exper] Troubles with smart2 and kernel 2.2.14
I am trying to upgrade my mandrake 6.5 linux box to kernel 2.2.14. It's a compaq 5000 with a EISA Smart2/E array controller. Everything installed fine with the 2.2.13 kernel, however I would like to upgrade to the newest kernel. Everything compiles fine, I select support for the smart2 and the ncr53xx. When it comes time to boot I get a kernel panic because it does not seem to even try to load the ncr driver, which is where my boot device is. There is also an internal scsi controller sym something or other, and that doesn't load on boot either, It complains that it is not supported. Has anyone had trouble with this before? Thanks Jen Peterson
Re: [expert] Strange X-server behavior after dialing out
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, you wrote: I've seen as well. I think the DISPLAY variable gets changed after dialing out. I am interested in a solution to this as well. In your KPPP setup, there's a place to configure your IP address. On that page is a checkbox for "autoconfigure hostname from this IP." Uncheck that box and your troubles should go away. John
[expert] Mandrake on laptop
Greetings, all. I'm attempting to install Mandrake on my laptop, and have run into a few snags. Let me start off by saying that yes, I have read the Laptop howto. Here's what I have. Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg, 4.3 gig drive, cd, Neomagic video chipset with 2.5 meg, builtin 56k winmodem, ESS SOLO-1 sound integrated. The install procedure goes pretty smoothly, aside from X wanting to only work in 640x480 256 color. But when I reboot the system, I get a GPF when it tried to load the APM stuff. I remembered someone mentioning that, and created a boot disk on my desktop (that doesn't have APM in the kernel) and booted from it. When I reboot, I get a screen full of stuff like this: 03:05: rw=0, want=16, limit=0 dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=15 sector=30 size=1024 count=1 attempt to access beyond end of device Then I get a Reading super block failed Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 This is a dual boot with win98, and I've been able to install Caldera 2.3 and SuSe 6.2 on this same partition. (Didn't like the way they behaved and installed over them) Any suggestions? Thanks, Wayne
Re: [expert] Strange X-server behavior after dialing out
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, you wrote: If you're using kppp to dial out, there's an option somewhere in the kppp setup which tells it to set your machine's hostname upon connection. Make sure that this box is unchecked and you should be okay. It's under the "ip" in the config. John
Re: [expert] Mail, ADSL, CD-RW, long post
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: cd rom is linked too /dev/hdd Ok. Try making your statement for the CDROM in /etc/fstab look like this: /dev/hdd /mnt/cdromiso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 This basically tells Linux not to try mounting the CDROM at bootup, that it's a CDROM format of media, that any user should be able to mount/unmount the cdrom, and (I think) to never check for bad blocks, etc on that drive (that's the "0 0" part.) that's copied straight out of my /etc/fstab and the only changes I made were deleting some "whitespace" so it would fit on one line and changing from hdc to hdd for your setup. :-) John
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: Of course I over exagerated, you get lots of wierd things like sig 7/11 's (pun intended :) and other nice usefull error messages, all though I'm sure theres people here that could give us just cause as to how one could burst into flames. ;-) Put the CD in the microwave long enough... ;-) John
Re: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
On Jan 12, Kevin Boylan wrote: Kevinif youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify as hdd4 (partition 4). I read in a how-to that it is not known why hdd4 was chosen. But I'm curious. By factory formatted media, do you (Alan) mean dos/Windows or linux formatted? The disks I would have in my zip drive would be dos formatted. On boot up the system definitely recognizes that there is an ATAPI zip drive and it says it is hdd (just hdd with no number). But if I add /dev/hdd /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 to fstab, I don't get any errors, but I can't seem to see anything on the drive. Do I just create the /mnt/zip directory as a regular directory or does it have to be created in any special way? You need to specify the partition. If it's factory formatted, try /dev/hdd4: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 -Michael -- No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. -- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
Re: [expert] USB and idiot-camera
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have idiot-internet camera that have USB connection to PC. The producer (Logitech) provides only WIN drivers. Did anyone try to force such DEVICE running within linux environment? USB support under Linux is VERY primitive at best. For ANY such device. John
Re: [expert] USB and idiot-camera
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have idiot-internet camera that have USB connection to PC. The producer (Logitech) provides only WIN drivers. Did anyone try to force such DEVICE running within linux environment? USB support under Linux is VERY primitive at best. For ANY such device. John Support for USB is supposed to be in kernel 2.4 . HOWEVER, look for LOTS of WINDevices on the USB. I have already seen external USB Winmodems. And in a year or so USB's day will have come and gone, with Bluetooth taking its place and eliminating the very annoying tangle of cables from what users can no longer plug into the non-existent slots in their not-boxes. The computer, it seems, suffers not from the rigor mortis of the auto industry. "The PC is dead, short live its USB-connected successor." But with the continuing erosion of quality devices by cheap, processor-driven substitutes which don't work well, will the computer take its place alongside a college education as one of the things people are willing to pay for and NOT get? Civileme -- ship.nwarctic.yi.org--a workstation running LM 6.0 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8:01am up 6 days, 23:46, 1 user, load average: 7.15, 7.03, 6.98
Re: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
Michael George wrote: On Jan 12, Kevin Boylan wrote: Kevinif youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify as hdd4 (partition 4). I read in a how-to that it is not known why hdd4 was chosen. But I'm curious. By factory formatted media, do you (Alan) mean dos/Windows or linux formatted? The disks I would have in my zip drive would be dos formatted. On boot up the system definitely recognizes that there is an ATAPI zip drive and it says it is hdd (just hdd with no number). But if I add /dev/hdd /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 to fstab, I don't get any errors, but I can't seem to see anything on the drive. Do I just create the /mnt/zip directory as a regular directory or does it have to be created in any special way? You need to specify the partition. If it's factory formatted, try /dev/hdd4: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 -Michael Well, you can put BOTH in fstab and specify manual mount of the appropriate one. I have /mnt/zip, /mnt/zipm and /mnt/zip4 for that purpose. I also have Three (3) icons for mounting/unmounting. Factory formatted dos is /mnt/zip4, MAC is /mntt/zipm, and locally formatted dos is /mnt/zip I format my own with mkfs -t msdos /dev/hdd and mkfs -t hpfs /dev/hdd I do not care much for the factory formatted nonsense of /dev/hdd4, and I have it in fstab only for compatibility with the few who use it. Since I have my own backup system for the network and set it up for users to back up their data to nfs mounts which eventually end up on CD-Rs and interim end up on a removable IDE, we don't use zips much except to translate MAC Zips to PC Zips and vice versa for other people. Other PCs seem to have no trouble with my DOS-formatted disks. Civileme
Re: [expert] [exper] Troubles with smart2 and kernel 2.2.14
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Peterson, Jennifer SRA wrote: I am trying to upgrade my mandrake 6.5 linux box to kernel 2.2.14. It's a compaq 5000 with a EISA Smart2/E array controller. Everything installed fine with the 2.2.13 kernel, however I would like to upgrade to the newest kernel. Everything compiles fine, I select support for the smart2 and the ncr53xx. When it comes time to boot I get a kernel panic because it does not seem to even try to load the ncr driver, which is where my boot device is. There is also an internal scsi controller sym something or other, and that doesn't load on boot either, It complains that it is not supported. Has anyone had trouble with this before? Thanks Jen Peterson Did you update your initrd? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
Hi Wayne, I'm running a dual boot too. Happily I can say that my worst day with Linux is a 100x better than my best day with Windoze. :-) Pj ** Stout, Wayne wrote: Greetings, all. I'm attempting to install Mandrake on my laptop, and have run into a few snags. Let me start off by saying that yes, I have read the Laptop howto. Here's what I have. Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg, 4.3 gig drive, cd, Neomagic video chipset with 2.5 meg, builtin 56k winmodem, ESS SOLO-1 sound integrated. The install procedure goes pretty smoothly, aside from X wanting to only work in 640x480 256 color. But when I reboot the system, I get a GPF when it tried to load the APM stuff. I remembered someone mentioning that, and created a boot disk on my desktop (that doesn't have APM in the kernel) and booted from it. When I reboot, I get a screen full of stuff like this: 03:05: rw=0, want=16, limit=0 dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=15 sector=30 size=1024 count=1 attempt to access beyond end of device Then I get a Reading super block failed Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 This is a dual boot with win98, and I've been able to install Caldera 2.3 and SuSe 6.2 on this same partition. (Didn't like the way they behaved and installed over them) Any suggestions? Thanks, Wayne
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: ROTFL.. Thanks but no thanks, John. That CD is my lifeline to sanity. Heh. Yeah...you'd be surprised at the sparks a CD gives off after about 5-10 seconds in a microwave oven. ;-) (Try it with an AOL CD G) John
[expert] FP Ext Apache rpms?
Howdy Where are the apache frontpage extensions rpm's for mandrake? I can't find them anywhere, if I recall corretly there should exists such packages? Also wasn't there a searchable archive of this mailing list somewhere? Thanks, / Rickard.
RE: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
: Hi! :Just a question: Why does appear the pre-formated disks (also the : windows-formatted disks) as /dev/hdd4??? Because someone loves number 4. If you prefere them on 1, you will have to do it yourself. I use some ext2-formated zips, where ext2 partition is the first partition, and it works just as well. cu Denis
Re: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: You *don't*, *ever*, put something like "/dev/hdd" (the *device*) in your fstab !!! Instead, you must put "/dev/hddn" (a *partition*) where the n is the partition number. So, for media factory-formatted, put "/dev/hdd4". Well, the only exception I can think of is when you want to address your cdrom by the DEVICE name instead of /dev/cdrom, you might do /dev/hdc (that's what MY /dev/cdrom is linked to.) John
RE: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
*grin* Normally, I would agree, except the laptop won't boot into Linux. I would say that brings my productivity levels down to about par with Windows. :) -Original Message- From: ibi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop Hi Wayne, I'm running a dual boot too. Happily I can say that my worst day with Linux is a 100x better than my best day with Windoze. :-) Pj **
Re: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: On boot up the system definitely recognizes that there is an ATAPI zip drive and it says it is hdd (just hdd with no number). But if I add /dev/hdd /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 to fstab, I don't get any errors, but I can't seem to see anything on the drive. Do I just create the /mnt/zip directory as a regular directory or does it have to be created in any special way? Yep. Try making it hdd4 as previously suggested and everything will likely work quite well. John
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
: Please tell me Linux does not literally "burst into flames". : : Pj : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :Of course I over exagerated, you get lots of wierd things like sig 7/11 's :(pun intended :) and other nice usefull error messages, all though I'm :sure theres people here that could give us just cause as to how one could :burst into flames. ;-) You could get yout lp1 on flame - i used to get a lot of those .-) Other than that, Linux is not so easily flammable. However, I once bursted into flames when my computer denied my existance: "You do not exist, go away!" cu Denis.
Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: Greetings, all. I'm attempting to install Mandrake on my laptop, and have run into a few snags. Let me start off by saying that yes, I have read the Laptop howto. Here's what I have. Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg, 4.3 gig drive, cd, Neomagic video chipset with 2.5 meg, builtin 56k winmodem, ESS SOLO-1 sound integrated. The install procedure goes pretty smoothly, aside from X wanting to only work in 640x480 256 color. But when I reboot the system, I get a GPF when it tried to load the APM stuff. I remembered someone mentioning that, and created a boot disk on my desktop (that doesn't have APM in the kernel) and booted from it. Yeah. You need to either boot from a "rescue" disk you made at install or from a RedHat (or other) "generic" rescue disk. The disk you made on your desktop machine has settings specific for your desktop machine. Try getting either a Tom's Root/Boot disk or a RedHat 6.0 Boot Rescue disk combo. Then, once booted from a rescue disk, mount your laptop's hard drive and chroot to /mnt (or wherever you've mounted the laptop's hard drive) and type "setup" and turn OFF APM. Then, type "sync" and then shut down the system and reboot on the laptop hard drive and that SHOULD (hopefully) fix it. John
Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
ibi wrote: Hi Wayne, I'm running a dual boot too. Happily I can say that my worst day with Linux is a 100x better than my best day with Windoze. :-) Pj ** Stout, Wayne wrote: Greetings, all. I'm attempting to install Mandrake on my laptop, and have run into a few snags. Let me start off by saying that yes, I have read the Laptop howto. Here's what I have. Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg, 4.3 gig drive, cd, Neomagic video chipset with 2.5 meg, builtin 56k winmodem, ESS SOLO-1 sound integrated. The install procedure goes pretty smoothly, aside from X wanting to only work in 640x480 256 color. But when I reboot the system, I get a GPF when it tried to load the APM stuff. I remembered someone mentioning that, and created a boot disk on my desktop (that doesn't have APM in the kernel) and booted from it. When I reboot, I get a screen full of stuff like this: 03:05: rw=0, want=16, limit=0 dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=15 sector=30 size=1024 count=1 attempt to access beyond end of device Then I get a Reading super block failed Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 This is a dual boot with win98, and I've been able to install Caldera 2.3 and SuSe 6.2 on this same partition. (Didn't like the way they behaved and installed over them) Any suggestions? Thanks, Wayne Wayne, was the extended partition created by a win98 fdisk? OR by PartitionMagic? I see something here that would match behavior induced by the new extended partition Microsoft invented, even though win98 is compatible with the one everyone has been using for years. Try a reinstall using linux fdisk to delete all but your windows partition, and then create the extended partition where you will put your linux partitions and create them as well with old, reliable fdisk. Name them with disk druid. If you still have the error, I will be very interested in trying to duplicate it. Civileme
RE: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
I had a problem last week when I upgraded from LM 6.0 to LM 6.1 on my laptop. The problem I had was with the pcmcia support. The solution I came with is to boot from a floppy, remove the /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S??pcmcia file and upgraded the kernel to 2.2.13-22 and initscripts RPMS from an updates directory in a Madrake mirror site. Also, during the installation of X, the configuration does not allow me to select other resolution different to 640x480. To fix this I have the following in my XF86Config (note the DefaultColorDepth and Modes entries): --- cut here --- Section "Screen" Driver "svga" # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256 #Device "Generic VGA" Device "My Video Card" Monitor "LCD Panel 800x600" DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 # Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device Modes "800x600" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection --- cut here --- -Original Message- From: ibi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop Hi Wayne, I'm running a dual boot too. Happily I can say that my worst day with Linux is a 100x better than my best day with Windoze. :-) Pj ** Stout, Wayne wrote: Greetings, all. I'm attempting to install Mandrake on my laptop, and have run into a few snags. Let me start off by saying that yes, I have read the Laptop howto. Here's what I have. Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg, 4.3 gig drive, cd, Neomagic video chipset with 2.5 meg, builtin 56k winmodem, ESS SOLO-1 sound integrated. The install procedure goes pretty smoothly, aside from X wanting to only work in 640x480 256 color. But when I reboot the system, I get a GPF when it tried to load the APM stuff. I remembered someone mentioning that, and created a boot disk on my desktop (that doesn't have APM in the kernel) and booted from it. When I reboot, I get a screen full of stuff like this: 03:05: rw=0, want=16, limit=0 dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=15 sector=30 size=1024 count=1 attempt to access beyond end of device Then I get a Reading super block failed Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 This is a dual boot with win98, and I've been able to install Caldera 2.3 and SuSe 6.2 on this same partition. (Didn't like the way they behaved and installed over them) Any suggestions? Thanks, Wayne
[expert] Kernel 2.2.13-22 packages won't compile
Hi all, I updated my kernel packages, as suggested by MandrakeUpdate: [root@paul linux]# rpm -qa|grep kernel kernel-2.2.13-7mdk kernel-BOOT-2.2.13-7mdk kernelcfg-0.5-6mdk kernel-2.2.13-22mdk kernel-doc-2.2.13-22mdk kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-22mdk Now when I try to compile the kernel, I get these errors: [root@paul linux]# make zImage gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -DUTS_MACHINE='"i386"' -c -o init/version.o init/version.c make -C kernel make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/kernel' make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/kernel' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ksyms.c In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h:42, from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:19, from ksyms.c:14: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:62: warning: `cpu_data' redefined /usr/src/linux/include/asm/processor.h:165: warning: this is the location of the previous definition /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:72: warning: `smp_num_cpus' redefined /usr/src/linux/include/linux/smp.h:77: warning: this is the location of the previous definition /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:98: warning: `smp_call_function' redefined /usr/src/linux/include/linux/smp.h:83: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:51, from ksyms.c:21: /usr/src/linux/include/asm/hardirq.h:23: warning: `synchronize_irq' redefined /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:78: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:52, from ksyms.c:21: /usr/src/linux/include/asm/softirq.h:72: warning: `synchronize_bh' redefined /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:80: warning: this is the location of the previous definition /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h: In function `kstat_irqs': In file included from ksyms.c:17: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:44: `smp_num_cpus' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:44: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:44: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [ksyms.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/kernel' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/kernel' make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2 [root@paul linux]# Enclosed is my .config file. Thanks for any help! Paul # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # # Language for Kernel Configuration # CONFIG_CONFIGLANG_ENGLISH=y # CONFIG_CONFIGLANG_GERMAN is not set # # If you change this option, help texts are changed immediately. # # # The tool itself must be restarted to show the new language. # # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Processor type and features # # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set CONFIG_M686=y # CONFIG_M686FX is not set CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_PN_OFF=y CONFIG_X86_FX=y CONFIG_X86_CPU_OPTIMIZATIONS=y # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_MTRR=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_1GB=y # CONFIG_2GB is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y # # General setup # CONFIG_BIGMEM=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y # CONFIG_MCA is not set # CONFIG_VISWS is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=m CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set # CONFIG_APM is not set # # Plug and Play support #
Re: [expert] VNC
Hi Werner, I had a lot of problems with the VNC RPM on the Mandrake 6.1 disk. I was VNCing from work (latest version, 3.3.3 R2) to the VNC server at home. It had a lot of problems, and I finally just downloaded the binaries from the source and it works like a champ. Paul "Werner E. Niebel" wrote: Hello all, Im stumped and hoped someone could help me. Im trying to use VNC in Mandrake 6.1. Ive used the RPMs and also done a native compile of the VNC software from the source code obtained at the VNC site. When I try to use certain software from Mentor graphics the server and client crashes... It works fine in X and dont know if anyone has seen this problem as well This has worked fine in previous versions of Redhat... Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Werner E Niebel
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
Id' rather use Windoze. I have a vivid imagination. :-) Pj John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: ROTFL.. Thanks but no thanks, John. That CD is my lifeline to sanity. Heh. Yeah...you'd be surprised at the sparks a CD gives off after about 5-10 seconds in a microwave oven. ;-) (Try it with an AOL CD G) John
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
Linux denies my existence everytime I open it. I just consider it a love note: "PJ, I'd love it if you would learn what you are doing." Pj Denis Havlik wrote: : Please tell me Linux does not literally "burst into flames". : : Pj : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :Of course I over exagerated, you get lots of wierd things like sig 7/11 's :(pun intended :) and other nice usefull error messages, all though I'm :sure theres people here that could give us just cause as to how one could :burst into flames. ;-) You could get yout lp1 on flame - i used to get a lot of those .-) Other than that, Linux is not so easily flammable. However, I once bursted into flames when my computer denied my existance: "You do not exist, go away!" cu Denis.
Re: [expert] Strange X-server behavior after dialing out
- Original Message - From: "Stephen K Clingerman" I did, and it isn't. Now what? Sorry, that's all I know to do. I had similar probs with kppp, but they went away after a fresh install (of whole OS). You might want to try "eznet" from linuxberg.com (do a search there). It's a command line script for setting up your modem ppp, but it's *very* easy to configure use. Warren.
Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: Wayne, I can't boot into Linux either without help. I use the floppy I made when I first installed it. It's still a better OS than Gates ever *borrowed* or will ever dream up, imho. Can you boot off the install CD? If so, do a "clean" install, nuking all the non-windows partitions and start from scratch. John
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
Then imagine this: Blue Scream of Death! On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 03:57:56PM -0600, ibi wrote: - Id' rather use Windoze. I have a vivid imagination. :-) - - Pj - - John Aldrich wrote: - - On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: - ROTFL.. Thanks but no thanks, John. That CD is my lifeline to sanity. - - Heh. Yeah...you'd be surprised at the sparks a CD gives off - after about 5-10 seconds in a microwave oven. ;-) (Try it - with an AOL CD G) - John -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] VNC
Paul, Thanks for the help... I tried downloading the binaries and did have the same result... for some reason I can perform all X operations as I would expect, no crashes. I guess Ill try a native compile once again and see what happens... also Ill try and list the symbol table for both and see if anything looks strange...Im still at a loss as to why Thanks for the help Werner Paul Waldo wrote: Hi Werner, I had a lot of problems with the VNC RPM on the Mandrake 6.1 disk. I was VNCing from work (latest version, 3.3.3 R2) to the VNC server at home. It had a lot of problems, and I finally just downloaded the binaries from the source and it works like a champ. Paul "Werner E. Niebel" wrote: Hello all, Im stumped and hoped someone could help me. Im trying to use VNC in Mandrake 6.1. Ive used the RPMs and also done a native compile of the VNC software from the source code obtained at the VNC site. When I try to use certain software from Mentor graphics the server and client crashes... It works fine in X and dont know if anyone has seen this problem as well This has worked fine in previous versions of Redhat... Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Werner E Niebel
Re: [expert] Kernel 2.2.13-22 packages won't compile
Paul Waldo wrote: Hi all, I updated my kernel packages, as suggested by MandrakeUpdate: Short and unhelpful answer, I had the same problem with the mdk packages. In fact, I couldn't get to the NIC since I didn't have a good module to load. So I installed the kernel from an RH5.1 CD, downloaded the source for 2.2.13-29 from the web and compiled it, then did rpm -e --force kernel*. Now MandrakeUpdate always wants to install the kernel packages, but that's the only problem I have. Try that with Windows :-) Jack -- Last reboot caused by: WINE 121299. 5:14pm up 1 day, 22:16, 3 users, load average: 1.26, 1.16, 1.14
Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Of course I over exagerated, you get lots of wierd things like sig 7/11 's (pun intended :) and other nice usefull error messages, all though I'm sure theres people here that could give us just cause as to how one could burst into flames. ;-) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon Perhaps when the user gets so frustrated he whips out the charcoal lighter and makes a PC-BBQ? :-) That's excessive of course, I usually satisfy myself with giving the monitor a good slap upside the head :-) Jack -- Last reboot caused by: WINE 121299. 5:01pm up 1 day, 22:03, 3 users, load average: 1.02, 1.12, 1.19
Re: [expert] ppp for everyone?
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:41:31AM -0500, Kevin Boylan wrote: Hi, Is there one place that I can enter ppp information so that a dial-in account will show up in everyone's kppp list? -- Best regards, Kevin Putting a kppprc file in /usr/share/config will probably do the trick. This should work for everyone with an account on that machine. Try it and tell us how/if it works. Something else: dumping everything in /usr like RedHat (and therefore Mandrake) have done is not a nice idea, it makes for more clutter. For example the /usr/share/config directory mentionned above is a KDE-specific directory, it makes more sense to have all of these in /opt/kde/ like the KDE developers intended, or at least /usr/kde. Same goes for /usr/share/applnk and others as well. Salim
Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
Wayne, No, the CD won't run in Linux without the files on the floppy. LILO won't boot either. I think it has to do with the position of the Lxt2 on the drive which is at the end of a 8.4gb. I wrote about my experiences with the Linux-Mandrake install at http://www.linuxgazette.com , Jan. 2000 issue: "The Penguin and Me." I really am struggling to learn this new OS. It wasn't the easiest install and the story will explain the how, what and why I did. I may ultimately have to do a new install. I keep trying to convince myself if I know just a little more about I can do it *right*. It's also possible the CD is corrupt. It's a real challenge because I don't know how to determine whether or not the CD is complete? My hardware is all recognized in the boot process, but none of it works except the modem. For what it's worth, the story has generated a lot of words from non-Mandrake users who don't agree, but other newbies have agreed with my experiences. In any case this isn't meant to start a thread on story writing. I really want to learn. The sooner I get away from Windoze the better! Pj John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: Wayne, I can't boot into Linux either without help. I use the floppy I made when I first installed it. It's still a better OS than Gates ever *borrowed* or will ever dream up, imho. Can you boot off the install CD? If so, do a "clean" install, nuking all the non-windows partitions and start from scratch. John
Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop
Yea I have one, give me the laptop. No seriously I have a old P2 266 laptop but it runs I had the same problem, I reinstalled Linux only the second time I unselected the apmd service, since then, no problem. I don't care much about power management, but if you do, sorry I can't help.
RE: [expert] Upgraded to XFree86 3.3.6 - now xfs won't start
-Original Message- From: Chmouel Boudjnah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 10:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Upgraded to XFree86 3.3.6 - now xfs won't start "Vanco, Donald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all - My L-M 6.1 system got an upgrade of XFree86 from 3.3.5 to 3.3.6. X seemed to be working fine (far better than 3.3.5) - until I rebooted, now I can't get xfs to start. I did install the latest fonts and font server. I have not tried going back to my old install of XFree (yet). If I try to kick it off manually (xfs start) I see that PAM opens an su session for user xfs - but then the system just sits until I kill the process. The same thing happens if I re-run Xconfigurator - when I run through my config and go to exit it tries to restart the font server and it just hangs with the PAM su. I've looked at perms and all looks OK (root own xfs). If I look at the fs-errors log it has one line: "xfs notice: terminating". What am I overlooking? what version of freetype ? I have not done anything with freetype - so I assume if there's a version it's whatever was on the system to begin with. I have not explicitly installed freetype - does it come, by default, with something else like XFree? I can't find any reference anywhere on my system... Don
Re[2]: [expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4
Hello Alan, Thanks for the information!!! I'll give this a try. Kevin Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 10:39:01 AM, you wrote: AS Kevinthe only way I know to get Linux file system (ext2) AS formatted zip discs is to format them yourself with the linux AS command mkfs or mke2fs. When you buy zip discs in the store AS they are factory formatted and that file system is vfat AS (dos/windows). These factory formatted (or ones you've AS formatted with the iomega zip disc formatting program in AS windows) discs are partitioned as primary partition 4 so linux AS calls the device hda4 (or hdb4 or hdc4 or hdd4 or sca4 or AS scb4etc). AS Your fstab entry is wrong, it needs to look like this (no matter AS what the system says at bootup): AS /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 AS the /mnt/zip directory is just what it says, a subdirectory AS named /zip located in the /mnt subdirectory. AS At the command line in a console environment type mount /mnt/zip AS and then type ls /mnt/zip AS there will appear a directory listing of whatever is on the disc AS that is inserted in the drive atb the time you typed the AS command. AS Alan AS KevinBoylan wrote: Kevinif youy're using factory formatted media then it will identify as hdd4 (partition 4). I read in a how-to that it is not known why hdd4 was chosen. But I'm curious. By factory formatted media, do you (Alan) mean dos/Windows or linux formatted? The disks I would have in my zip drive would be dos formatted. On boot up the system definitely recognizes that there is an ATAPI zip drive and it says it is hdd (just hdd with no number). But if I add /dev/hdd /mnt/zipautodefaults0 0 to fstab, I don't get any errors, but I can't seem to see anything on the drive. Do I just create the /mnt/zip directory as a regular directory or does it have to be created in any special way? Thanks, Kevin
