Re: [expert] Making dos bootable cds under linux
Jack Malone wrote: > all win98 cd;s are bootible you have to have a cmos that supports it but > they all are bootible an will boot an start the install process for you. No, they aren't. My BIOS supports bootable CDs just fine, and will boot (by way of example) NT4, RedHat, Mandrake, and Caldera CDs without any issues. The three Win98 CDs I've tried are not bootable, period. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] Making dos bootable cds under linux
From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > factory). Your win98 CD is bootable. Win95 no such luck. Not so--at least, none of the Win98 CDs I've tried have been bootable. NT yes, 98 and 95 no. > But why would you want to do this? I can see making a backup, but not a > bootable recovery CD when a floppy is all that is needed. Easier to keep track of one piece of media than two...
Re: [expert] mounting FAT partition
From: David van Balen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /dev/hda3 /mnt/mp3autouser,umask=0222 0 > 0 Two things. First, try changing the type to vfat; this may cause it to recognize the filesystem correctly. Second, I'd be very surprised if this partition were actually /dev/hda3--generally, the third partition would be a logical drive within an extended partition, and Linux starts numbering those at hda5. I'd suspect this partition is actually /dev/hda6. I think you can cat /proc/partitions for more info (or run dmesg > output.txt and check the results of the partition check). Good luck!
Re: [expert] dhcpcd weirdness
From: Corbett J. Klempay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks, I will check. A related question...I went into linuxconf and told > it to set my network device (it is named lo in this case, not > eth0...anyone able to explain when it's lo and when it's eth0? I'm lo and eth0 are completely different devices. lo should always be set to 127.0.0.1, and would be unable to get an address via dhcp, since there isn't a dhcp server attached to it.
Re: [expert] mysql
From: Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is one better than the other? Should I use mysql instead of postgresql or Well, postgresql is open source, and MySQL (with the exception of one older version) isn't. That makes a big difference to some people.
Re: [expert] ISO burning
From: Jack Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm interesting in downloading the iso of mandrake 6.1 an how to go about > burning it to a cd. You use your cd-rom burning software, tell it to burn from an image, and give it the filename of the .iso file you download. To give any more detail, we'd have to know what OS/software you're using. > where is the list of mirrors that has the iso file. Check out www.linux-mandrake.com.
Re: [expert] Apache with SSL and certifcate
From: Lee Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've looked for a HOW-To on this, or any documentation, really, but can't seem > to find any, so bear with me if I'm asking a stupid question, please. Go to http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/; he's got a rudimentary guide up on this issue. I'm working on the same issue myself. > server was compiled with the SSL hooks already there. I have a vague idea that > I need to add more packages, but don't know which ones (I'm assuming the openssl From what I see there, you'd need to download the openssl and mod_ssl packages, and install them. That _should_ do it. > package from the same dir, but are there any others?). I know I also need to > get a certificate from thawte or verisign, but do not know the steps for doing > so and getting the certificate integrated into the Apache server. Can anyone on Actually, you don't need a cert from them; it's perfectly legitimate to make your own cert. The URL above has some info on doing that; there's more info in the FAQ at http://www.modssl.org. Of course, if you sign your own cert, site visitors will get a warning screen in their browsers until they accept your signature. BTW, it seems that Thawte is _much_ cheaper than verisign.
Re: [expert] web based mail
From: David Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mandrake needs a web based mail package in the next distro Why does it need to be in the mandrake distro? It's already available--install MySQL, PHP, imap, horde, and imp. Follow the directions at http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/ to set it all up.
Re: [expert] mysql
From: Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is there a simple tutorial somewhere on how to setup mysql so I can > interface with it with php? I've got midgard_php installed with Helios http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/, check out the Web Database guide. I don't yet have the mod_ssl working with everything else, but following the Web Database guide, I got MySQL and PHP up and running on the first try.
Re: [expert] WinModem question
John Aldrich wrote: > Right...that's 2.2.4, According to my read, it was kernel > 2.4.x (at least that's how *I* understood it!) 2.3.18 > might be released, I'm guessing, around Christmas or My bad, the freeze currently in effect is for 2.4. 2.2.4 was released a long time ago, and 2.3.18 was released sometime in the last week. No winmodems in 2.4. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
Re: [expert] WinModem question
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, I just did a quick browse-through of the mail archive for the > "newbie" group and it appears that there is rumors of SOME > rudimentary support in kernel 2.4 (considering we're on 2.2.x right > now, that's going to be awhile!) Other than that, the only references Linus has said that 2.2.4 "should" be released by late Fall '99. There's currently a feature freeze in effect from 2.3.18, which, as far as I can tell, includes no support for Winmodems. It's got some USB support, but no Winmodem support.
Re: [expert] Upgrading to a new Kernel
From: Felipe Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I downloaded a new kernel but I don't know how to compile it. What do I > need to do? Could someone please tell me, step-by-step if possible, how First, there are howtos and the like, which will have _much_ more detail than what I'm about to say. That said, here's the basic idea: 1.su to (or log in as) root 2.cd /usr/src 3.rm linux 4.tar zxfv linux-2.2.13.tar.gz 5.mv linux linux-2.2.13 6.ln -s linux linux-2.2.13 7.cd linux 8.make config (or make menuconfig, or make xconfig--I use the latter) 9.Select all the options you want compiled. 10.make clean 11.make dep 12.make bzImage 13.make modules 14.make modules_install 15.cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13 NB I may have the path wrong here, but I think it's right. 16.cd /boot In /boot, I like to have a symlink from "vmlinuz" to the latest kernel (vmlinuz-2.2.13 in this case), and another symlink from "vmlinuz-old" to the next most recent (and presumably known-good) kernel. This way, I don't need to edit /etc/lilo.conf every time I upgrade my kernel; I just re-run /sbin/lilo. 17.pico /etc/lilo.conf If you followed my recommendation in the last step, you need to make sure here that you have two entries--one called "linux" and the other called "linux-old", and pointing to /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/vmlinuz-old, respectively. You can use whatever editor you like; I like to use pico. 18./sbin/lilo 19.reboot.
Re: [expert] Telnet from Win95 Client
Sridhar G wrote: > I am trying to telnet to my Linux box as root, but it reponds with the > message "Login incorrect". Can anyone let me know what's happenning? Typically, Linux boxes (and *nix boxes in general) disallow remote root logins. Telnet in as a normal user and then su to root. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] kppp can't find a few things
From: Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > AT&T Worldnet uses chap. It seems to have caught on with them. And according to Win98's Dial-Up Networking, Earthlink also uses CHAP (or at least that's what Win98 uses with Earthlink). PAP also works, but I set up kppp with CHAP and it connects just fine with Earthlink.
Re: [expert] Work Project
alann wrote: > 2 network cards residing in a machine. These are ISA cards BTW, so I > cannot set IRQ like PCI's. Actually, you've got it backwards. Typically, ISA cards need particular IRQs set, not PCI cards. I'm not 100% sure about the EtherExpress, but my EtherExpress Pro 10 came with a setup disk. That disk contains driver software, as well as a setup utility that allows me to change the I/O and IRQ settings (of course, it has to be run under DOS). What I'd do in this case is boot from a DOS boot floppy, then run the setup program and see what the existing NIC is set to. Then remove that NIC (so the setup program doesn't get confused), install the other one, and set it to something else. Then install both NICs and hope Linux will deal with them OK. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] I need to move my server to a larger hard drive
Oden Eriksson wrote: > Why not try Partitioning Magic v4.x ? AFAIK, partition magic won't copy partitions. It does a great job creating and resizing them, but I haven't found a way to copy them. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] I need to move my server to a larger hard drive
John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: > > I'am sure there is an open source solution. Anybody could got a simple way > > to proceed ? > > (like cat /dev/hda1 >> /dev/hdb1) > > > What about dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 ??? (or sda1, or > whatever...)??? That would probably work, but it's almost as easy to do this within the bounds of a normal filesystem: cp -a /bin /usr [and any other directories on /dev/hda1] /mnt/hdb1 -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] Switching Back to 5.3 festen
"James J. Capone" wrote: > That would be kind of Hard. I am not sure how to capture the screen. make zImage > output.txt | tail 30 > last30.txt (just guessing about the "tail 30" stuff, but the first part should certainly work...) -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] .h Files
From: James Capone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Didn't get Anything Below which, you quoted, in its entirety, the file which you said you didn't get. It wasn't an attachment; it was just included as plain text.
Re: [expert] How can I modify the routing from the command line!!
Duncan Hall wrote: > I need to know where in the file system I can find the file that > contains the routing information for the gateway? I'm not sure where it is in the filesystem (or even if it's there at all), but /sbin/route should do the job, shouldn't it? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] crashing problems still
Axalon wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, syntholik wrote: > > > like I said I have no idea what to di with isapnp. I looked at the man page, > > but not sure what you want me to do with it. > > Run pnpdump, and answer whoever asked you whatever with the info it > outputs Or, better yet, run pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf and take a look at the output, and see if you (syntholik) can figure out what it does. It's actually not that tricky--for each PnP device in your system, pnpdump lists all possible resource settings. Uncomment the lines for settings which do not conflict with other devices in your system (the settings used by Windoze would probably be a good start). Here's some snips from my isapnp.conf (as generated by pnpdump) for my modem: (CONFIGURE SUP2480/22988 (LD 0 # Compatible device id SUP2080 # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x02e8 # Maximum IO base address 0x02e8 # IO base alignment 8 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 8 (IO 0 (BASE 0x02e8)) # IRQ 5. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E))) [NOTE: there were several sections like this; I uncommented this one only] [note that this sets the modem to i/o 2e8, irq 5] # End dependent functions (ACT Y) )) # End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK) # Returns all cards to the "Wait for Key" state (WAITFORKEY) -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] Sym Link
"James J. Capone" wrote: > It is for 5.3 (Venus) It's still better to link to /dev/ttyS1, for if/when you upgrade to kernel 2.2.x, but either way, it's quite possible (and the norm, in fact). Running modemtool will also do this. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] modem 56k for dial in
Arthur wrote: > ISP's terminate a telco CT1 (channelized T1) or ISDN PRI directly into > a Portmaster, Ascend, or other terminal server with integrated digital > modems. That is the *only* way to get 56k, and even then it's only in Just being picky, but it's also possible to get 56k by dialing into an ISDN BRI terminal adapter with an integrated analog modem, like the USR Courier I-Modem. That's not the case here, of course, but it is another way of doing it... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] maximum file size
Lang Zhi wrote: > What is the maximum size of a single file that Linux can handle ? AFAIK, Linux as such doesn't have a limitation, but the ext2 filesystem doesn't allow files larger than 2GB. I have no idea how feasible it would be to modify ext2 to remove this limitation, but if anybody codes XFS drivers for Linux, that would do the trick, I think... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] Netscape question
Mubashir Cheema wrote: > I noticed that Netscape under M6 doesn't recognize > the shortcut keys like Alt+Left, Alt+Right, Alt-o, > Alt+p. I'm not using M6, but under M5.3, only the left Alt key is recognized by Netscape as an Alt key (I suppose the right one is mapped to something else, but I haven't yet bothered to check). Might this be your problem? -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] Cable Modem
Al Smith wrote: >Does anyone know if there is a howto available to install a cable modem? http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] Failing to install 6.0pre: non SMP capable motherboard
Steven J Mackenzie wrote: > I had thought that upping bus speed from 66 to 75 was trivial, but the HDD > doesn't seem to like it; Windows never had any problem, which I think was > because I wasn't using DMA, but Linux does. In my case, bumping the bus to 75 MHz stopped Mandrake (and RedHat 5.1) from being able to scan my SCSI bus. Funny how that works... -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] excellent news: vmware for *all* non-commercial users at 99$!
Roberto Angelo wrote: > What is the wmware ?? For lots more information, and to download the current beta at no charge, check out www.vmware.com. In short, it lets you run virtual machines inside your linux machine. Thus, you could (for example) have Win95, Win95, and WinNT all running concurrently in separate windows on your X desktop. It also allows non-Windows OSs, including Linux, FreeBSD (2.x, not 3.x), Solaris, etc. Reports vary on BeOS. In any case, a clean, unmodified copy of the OS installs on the virtual machine. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] Something worth checking out...
Jorge Carminati wrote: > > Sounds interesting, ...can you run every win32 application ? VMWare runs Windows, you pick the version. AFAIK, it will run any software that doesn't require particular hardware (such as dongles, or 3D accelerators, etc.). So, if you install Win98, it will run any Win98 software. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [expert] follow-up: NT on Linux - first results (new vmware-beta)
"James J. Capone" wrote: > I tried to use VMware with very poor results. My system ran twice as slow, > mouse wouldn't work in Linux if it was in full screen mode. Would only > accept 16 color format for Video. And more problems arose as I went along. In addition to your lack of memory (VMware recommends at least 64MB; I'm happier at 192), it also sounds like you didn't install the vmware-tools in NT/95/98. The difference those made in display speed was amazing on my system. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
