Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:31:48 + From: T i m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this Hi Clarence, I'm not sure if this is too late but if not it might be of some use? http://www.uk.research.att.com/~qsf/libretto/ http://www.infotop.co.uk/technotes/Redhat_6_libretto_100ct.html Could you tell me if the docking stations / batteries for the 50-70CD will fit the 100-110CT's please? All the best .. T i m Clarence wrote: > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:34:05 -0500 > From: "Clarence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this > > >Of course, now my next problem is I can't for the life of me get > this blasted PCMCIA card services thing working under Linux!!! > Anyone got any ideas or any pointers? (yes I know of pcmcia- > cs.sourceforge.net, I was wondering if someone knew where the > ready made RPM's were as I'm not too crash-hot compiling this > sorta stuff myself). > > > > the pcmcia cardservices takes its config info from the kernel that > you are currently running. Even if you install the rpm, you still > have to compile the source. > > ./configure > make all > make install > > at this point I rebooted to test if cardmgr started. > > in the usr/src/linux/pcmcia*/debug directory there is a set of > utils. test_config and test_network., these help immensly. > > after compiling, you get the cardctl utility, whick lets you poll > the identity and functionality of the cards you have installed. > > -Clarence > > > > > Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.com > > > > > ** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives > http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ > ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:47:48 -0800 From: Skip Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:34:57AM -0800, Raymond wrote: > > Of course, now my next problem is I can't for the life of me get this > > blasted PCMCIA card services thing working under Linux!!! Anyone got > > any ideas or any pointers? (yes I know of pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net, > > I was wondering if someone knew where the ready made RPM's were as > > I'm not too crash-hot compiling this sorta stuff myself). I found PCMCIA to work best when compiled for your kernel. Its a pretty straightforward process, I've never had any problems with it. Also the HOWTO for PCMCIA is full of useful hints on dealing with the types of problems that can come up. What is going wrong with your setup ? -- Dr. Everett (Skip) Carter Phone: 831-641-0645 FAX: 831-641-0647 Taygeta Scientific Inc.INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1340 Munras Ave., Suite 314WWW: http://www.taygeta.com Monterey, CA. 93940 ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:17:02 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this At 04:14 PM 10/02/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:09:26 +0800 >From: Adrian Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this > >On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:44:57PM -0800, Clarence wrote: >> the pcmcia cardservices takes its config info from the kernel that >> you are currently running. Even if you install the rpm, you still >> have to compile the source. > >That's only if you're using a pcmcia-cs RPM that's not specifically for >your distro, or you're no longer using the kernel that was packaged with >your distro. Otherwise, something's seriously wrong. Hmm ... something ELSE is seriously wrong ... looks like my mail server's dropped messages ... I never got Clarence's email! How many messages were there between my initial post 'Experiences trying to ' and Adrian's post (including messages not in this thread)? All I got are 2 messages I posted (including the original one) and one by Neil regarding partitions ... - Raymond --- /~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?"| | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net| | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 00:13:50 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this >Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:30:21 +0800 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this > @!#@#$@#$@#$# thing! > >At 02:44 AM 10/02/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:41:09 > >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this >@!#@#$@#$@#$# thing! > > > > > > > > > >One question Ray: > > > >How much space are you using for MS partitions? If it's less than 8G in >total, you're probably better off *without* ezdrive, just keep everything >in the first 8G. > > > >Perhaps you could post your partition table? > >Here it is, this is from memory so the figures might not add up exactly ... > >/dev/hda1 2 gig FAT16 for Win95 >/dev/hda2 2 gig EXT2 for Linux >/dev/hda3 100 meg Linux Swap >/dev/hda4 extended partition for rest of disk > /dev/hda5 1.8 gig FAT16 for WinNT (I'll convert to NTFS later) > /dev/hda6 1.8 gig FAT16 for backup images (accessible in the event >EZ-Bios dies) > > /dev/hda7 6.6 gig FAT32 general data area for Win95 > /dev/hda8 2 gig FAT16 common data partition for both NT and 95 > /dev/hda9 2 gig FAT16 common data partition for both NT and 95 Ah ok, my linux partitions are more chopped up so I can rebuild without losing stuff, and all my windows stuff is in a single partition below 8G. Which I think is why scandisk tells me I have a boot sector glitch - it probably doesn't like partitions higher than the bios limit. But being MS, of course, it doesn't tell you what the fsult is! > > > >Of course, now my next problem is I can't for the life of me get this >blasted PCMCIA card services thing working under Linux!!! Anyone got any >ideas or any pointers? (yes I know of pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net, I was >wondering if someone knew where the ready made RPM's were as I'm not too >crash-hot compiling this sorta stuff myself). It's a doddle - make sure it's installed - there should be an RPM in the distribution. Then look for a file (I think) /etc/pcmcia.conf (it's buried in the readme) and it will have the single line pcmcia=off which you change to pcmcia=on and then add another line pcic=I82536 (i hope that's the right number - note capital I) and reboot (or just start pcmcia) and you're off. Every network card and modem I've put in has been recognised no probs, anything else, you're on your own! _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:09:26 +0800 From: Adrian Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:44:57PM -0800, Clarence wrote: > the pcmcia cardservices takes its config info from the kernel that > you are currently running. Even if you install the rpm, you still > have to compile the source. That's only if you're using a pcmcia-cs RPM that's not specifically for your distro, or you're no longer using the kernel that was packaged with your distro. Otherwise, something's seriously wrong. - Adrian ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:34:05 -0500 From: "Clarence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this >Of course, now my next problem is I can't for the life of me get this blasted PCMCIA card services thing working under Linux!!! Anyone got any ideas or any pointers? (yes I know of pcmcia- cs.sourceforge.net, I was wondering if someone knew where the ready made RPM's were as I'm not too crash-hot compiling this sorta stuff myself). > the pcmcia cardservices takes its config info from the kernel that you are currently running. Even if you install the rpm, you still have to compile the source. ./configure make all make install at this point I rebooted to test if cardmgr started. in the usr/src/linux/pcmcia*/debug directory there is a set of utils. test_config and test_network., these help immensly. after compiling, you get the cardctl utility, whick lets you poll the identity and functionality of the cards you have installed. -Clarence Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:34:35 +0800 From: Adrian Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:34:57AM -0800, Raymond wrote: > Of course, now my next problem is I can't for the life of me get this > blasted PCMCIA card services thing working under Linux!!! Anyone got > any ideas or any pointers? (yes I know of pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net, > I was wondering if someone knew where the ready made RPM's were as > I'm not too crash-hot compiling this sorta stuff myself). Search google for "pcmcia-cs redhat 6.2". The first page alone has pointers to three sites (MIT, elug.org and a SunSITE) to the necessary. Come to think of it, it should've been on your Red Hat CD (the kernel-pcmcia-cs RPM). - Adrian ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:30:21 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this @!#@#$@#$@#$# thing! At 02:44 AM 10/02/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:41:09 >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this @!#@#$@#$@#$# thing! > > > > >One question Ray: > >How much space are you using for MS partitions? If it's less than 8G in total, you're >probably better off *without* ezdrive, just keep everything in the first 8G. > >Perhaps you could post your partition table? Here it is, this is from memory so the figures might not add up exactly ... /dev/hda1 2 gig FAT16 for Win95 /dev/hda2 2 gig EXT2 for Linux /dev/hda3 100 meg Linux Swap /dev/hda4 extended partition for rest of disk /dev/hda5 1.8 gig FAT16 for WinNT (I'll convert to NTFS later) /dev/hda6 1.8 gig FAT16 for backup images (accessible in the event EZ-Bios dies) /dev/hda7 6.6 gig FAT32 general data area for Win95 /dev/hda8 2 gig FAT16 common data partition for both NT and 95 /dev/hda9 2 gig FAT16 common data partition for both NT and 95 Of course, now my next problem is I can't for the life of me get this blasted PCMCIA card services thing working under Linux!!! Anyone got any ideas or any pointers? (yes I know of pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net, I was wondering if someone knew where the ready made RPM's were as I'm not too crash-hot compiling this sorta stuff myself). - Raymond --- /~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?"| | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net| | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this @!#@#$@#$@#$# thing!
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:41:09 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this @!#@#$@#$@#$# thing! One question Ray: How much space are you using for MS partitions? If it's less than 8G in total, you're probably better off *without* ezdrive, just keep everything in the first 8G. Perhaps you could post your partition table? Neil _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] Experiences trying to get Linux onto this @!#@#$@#$@#$# thing!
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:55:22 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Experiences trying to get Linux onto this @!#@#$@#$@#$# thing! Hi all! OK again for your amusement and bemusement here are some things I noticed whilst trying to get Red Hat Linux 6.2 working on my L50 with a 20 gig hard drive. If anyone wants to comment, correct or shed additional light on any of these, please do! (oh and ya I know there are other linux distros, I chose RH6.2 for compatibility with work so THAT argument is no longer valid ;-). 1: Forget what anyone else says, go get yourself a HDD converter and put the hard drive into a big computer. If anything it'll mean Linux installs in 10 minutes and not 2 hours. Make sure KUDZU loads when you first reboot after the hard drive is put into the libby and make sure you enable the SVGA X server. 2: Install EZ-Bios (I'm using 9.09W) and whatever you do DO NOT LET YOUR COMPUTER BOOT OFF THE FLOPPY DISKETTE! If you spend half the time booting off floppy diskette (ie. EZ-Bios doesn't load) and half the time booting off the hard drive (so EZ-Bios loads) you end up with 1.5 copies of the partition table (as in you end up with some programs such as Partition Magic seeing one version of your partition table, programs such as Linux FDISK seeing a totally different version and some programs such as NT Disk Admin or Norton Ghost not being able to make their minds up and deciding the entire thing is corrupt). Of course, if you need to boot off the floppy diskette, hold down CTRL so EZ-Bios still loads then tell it to use A: to get the boot stuff. 3: Watch PowerQuest Partition Magic 6 (and PowerQuest DriveImage for that matter) like a hawk and preferrably stick to DOS and Linux FDISK ... for some silly reason, when I created 3 primaries (a FAT16, an EXT2 and a Linux Swap in that order), Linux reconed the FAT16 was HDA1, the Linux Swap was HDA2 and the EXT2 was HDA3! ... when I removed everything and did the same thing under Linux FDISK, Partition Magic saw no difference but the partition scheme according to Linux was now the right way round. Plus Partition Magic seems to contribute to problem 2 above anyway. 4: On the subject of partitioning, if you have EZ-Bios, WHATEVER YOU DO, let EZ-Bios create all those FAT16 partitions for you. Then, when you next boot, let EZ-Bios load then press CTRL and boot off a DOS floppy with FDISK. Delete all the partitions EXCEPT THE FIRST. NEVER DELETE THE FIRST, for some reason EZ-Bios puts some special stuff there. You can ghost over it, you can install Windows or Linux over it but don't delete it. Also, for some reason if you remove it then use Linux FDISK, EZ-Bios gets all confused. The advice that the fdisk MAN page gives is perhaps wise ... use DOS FDISK to create the DOS FAT16 and FAT32 partitions and use Linux fdisk (or cfdisk once you're installed) to do the Linux partitions. I ended up doing things in this order. i. Installed EZ-Bios (after nuking the drive, FDISKING it as a full drive, doing a full format then nuking it again). Chose to create a million and one FAT16 partitions. ii. Rebooted, went back into EZ-Bios setup and enabled EZ-Bios. For some reason, if you install EZ-Bios and it detects that your computer can handle the large hard drive, it doesn't fully install (remember, I have the hard drive in my desktop to do this) but we want EZ-Bios loaded because the HDD will move to the laptop and if you start partitioning without EZ-Bios loaded things screw up. iii. Rebooted, held down CTRL, put in a DOS boot disk with FDISK and Ghost, pressed A to boot off the FDD then used FDISK to remove all partitions (including the extended partition) except for the first primary partition. iv. Rebooted same way but this time loaded Ghost to restore Win95 to the first primary partition (WITHOUT deleting it first). v. Rebooted same way but this time with a Linux Install boot disk. Started the Linux install process and put the RH6.2 CD in. vi. Did a custom install and chose to use FDISK because Disk Druid doesn't let you say what you want as primary and what you want as extended. Created a 2 gig primary for / and a 100 meg primary for swap. Didn't create any extended partitions. vii. Finished the install as normal but told the install to write Lilo to /dev/hda2 and not the MBR. Created a boot diskette so I could actually boot Linux before I did the NTLDR thing (see below). Rebooted with the ctrl thing then put that boot diskette in just to make sure the install was fine. Especially I looked to make sure the Linux boot process could see that I was using EZ-Bios (just after it detects the hard drives it does a partition check, if it detects EZ-Bios it'll show "hda: [EZD] [remap 0->1] [2432/255/63] hda1 hda2 ") viii. Shut down, rebooted, did the CTRL thing, booted with the DOS boot disk again then used FDISK to create the extended partition then all the virtual drives. I left sp
