Linux-Setup Digest #19
Linux-Setup Digest #19, Volume #21Mon, 9 Apr 01 18:13:09 EDT Contents: Re: Any RPM OS checking when install or upgrade package on Red Hat ("ne...") Re: what are the diff of 3 labels in lilo.conf of red hat linux 7 (H.Bruijn) Executable vmlinux in /boot (Mladen Gavrilovic) Re: Linux Mandrake 6.0 problem ("Peter T. Breuer") yppasswd problem (cuma) Re: cdrom does not mount. ("Kenny@BUI") Re: installing rh7.0, can't get beyond "/sbin/loader"? ("brian") Re: cdrom does not mount. ("Kenny@BUI") Mail Suggestions? (Chris Boner) Re: Executable vmlinux in /boot ("Duane Healing") Where is Auto Detect Raid option in kernel 2.4? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Virtual hosting questions (Ian Northeast) Re: How to config the X-Server?? ("Barry Hatfield") Re: Executable vmlinux in /boot (Mladen Gavrilovic) how do I change the $HOME variable? (Gregory Davis) Re: Trouble with X...Redhat 7.0 (Mladen Gavrilovic) Re: Where is Auto Detect Raid option in kernel 2.4? ("Peter T. Breuer") Re: Please help me with dual boot system. (Mladen Gavrilovic) Re: cdrom does not mount. ("D F") Re: Where is Auto Detect Raid option in kernel 2.4? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Executable vmlinux in /boot ("Peter T. Breuer") Re: how do I change the $HOME variable? ("Peter T. Breuer") From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Any RPM OS checking when install or upgrade package on Red Hat Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:19:50 GMT On Apr 10, 2001 at 02:59, XIP eloquently wrote: >Hi, > >I have installed Red Hat 7 >and have downloaded a lot of RPMs from the red hat sites. >Do anyone know if I install or upgrade the RPMs, >will the RPM be automatically checked if it is specified >for the Red Hat 7, not the othe OS like Red Hat 6.2? I don't think rpm checks for distribution per se. I do know it checks for libc versions tho. If you installed the compat rpms, you should be able to install RH6.x rpms which I think you do not want. Therefore when downloading from RH, make sure you download rpms for RH7.x. -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain. 3:13pm up 23 days, 15:12, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn) Subject: Re: what are the diff of 3 labels in lilo.conf of red hat linux 7 Date: 9 Apr 2001 19:22:35 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 02:35:19 +0800, XIP allegedly wrote: >Hi, > >I saw that in the /etc/lilo.conf, there are 3 labels: >linux >linux-smp >linux-up > >Could anyone please let me know what are the main differences of selecting >each of them? >Thanks. They point to different kernels, linux most likely selects /boot/vmlinuz which is nothing more then a symbolic link to one of the others, used as the default. linux-smp is a stock kernel built for Symetric Multi Processor Machines, fi dual-pentium, quad-xeon etc. linux-up is a stock kernel built for Uni Processor Machines, all machines with a single processor. AFAIK there's no harm in selecting the "wrong one" when you have a smp architecture, but you'll only be able to use ONE CPU. -- If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation? Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com The Netherlands -- From: Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Executable vmlinux in /boot Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:46:19 GMT Hi all, I've recently upgraded to the 2.4.3 kernel from the 2.2.17-14 kernel from Red Hat's updates site. Everything works fine, but I'm wondering what the purpose of the /boot/vmlinux-2.2.17-14 executable file is. It's much bigger than the compressed kernel image, and I have a new one that 2.4.3 compiled in /usr/src/linux. Do I copy the new one to /boot as well? Everything seems to be working perfectly without it. Thanks, Mladen -- From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake 6.0 problem Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:45:18 +0200 Marie Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have tried everything we know in order to reconfigure the display > settings but have been unsuccessful. What's wrong with the setting you have? What is it? Plese describe. > Can someone please guide us through this process with step by step > instructions? We are new to Linux. I presume that if you're running Mandrake, you just rerun the configurator. Is it called HardDrake? Drakconf? Peter ---
Linux-Setup Digest #19
Linux-Setup Digest #19, Volume #20 Sat, 11 Nov 00 21:13:09 EST Contents: Re: cleaning up old kernel files (Scott Nolde) Re: Unable to run Sawfish config as non-root (Colin Watson) Re: CD-ROM problems when Installing Linux Mandrake (MaryP) rlogin problem (Bob Feng) Re: Lilo boot option not working (Carl Waring) Re: Windows/Linux : Disk size issue (Colin Watson) Re: KDE 2.0 - error msg (Colin Watson) e2fsck can't fix filesystem (Jason L. Maron) Re: Setup Newbie! ("Philo") Re: DSL help (S Varadarajan) Re: KDE 2.0 - error msg (Vilmos Soti) Re: Help! Linux router between two NT networks. (Sean) Re: help! Mandrake 7.2 setup hang ("Jeepster") Installation/running Problem (Ruth Gomes) Re: Setup Newbie! ("Chris L.") Re: Help installing KDE 2.0 ("G Man") From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: cleaning up old kernel files Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 00:09:28 GMT inon21 wrote: > > It's a RH 6.1 distribution, and recently I compiled & installed kernel > 2.2.16. Now, the old one (2.2.12-20) files/modules and all still sitting on > the disk. > > How can I clean up this and make room? Seems like this kernel was installed > thru kernel-2.2.12-20.*.rpm from RH. > > Please help. Thank you Usually, you can do a 'rm -fr /usr/src/linux-2.2.12' and that will delete the source tree. The modules you'd erase are in /lib/modules/2.2.12. - Scott -- Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED] glaze! | 7:05pm up 19:21, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Unable to run Sawfish config as non-root Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:20:53 GMT [I mailed this by mistake, sorry - I'm posting it now as well.] legend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Under Mandrake 7.2 (and I believe it was the case for 7.1), as a user >you cannot run 'sawfish-ui' (the app that is run under control panel) >when you want to configure Sawfish. >If you run sawfish-ui you get: > >error--> (error "can't call sawfish-client")et: > >or 'sawfish-client' you get: > >can't connect to display: Looks like your $DISPLAY environment variable isn't set. Normally, in X, this is set to the address of the X server (e.g. ':0.0'); perhaps your user's shell startup scripts are unsetting it for some reason? Of course, then you wouldn't be able to run any other X programs from an X terminal either. I'm using sawfish right now on Debian unstable, and it works fine - well, sawfish-ui still dies, but that's due to database library brokenness during the glibc upgrade and I kind of expect these sorts of things from unstable. :) sawfish-ui has certainly worked in the past. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "And after the fire there came a still small voice ..." -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MaryP) Subject: Re: CD-ROM problems when Installing Linux Mandrake Date: 12 Nov 2000 00:24:04 GMT In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric McGill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7 on a old 75 mhz machine. I want to > goof around with it before I put it on my a newer machine. > > The problem I am having with the installation is this: It pops up after it > reads the floppy, I hit enter to begin the loading. Once we are inside the > installation, it automatically begins trying to initialize the CD-ROM drive > but fails. Then it shuts everything down and says that it is now safe to > reboot my machine. I have some older hardware here and I have similarly had no luck putting Mandrake on it. Red Hat 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1 work fine however. Unless you are bent on making Mandrake run no matter what, try a different distro and see if your problems don't vanish. You can still borrow software packages from the Mandrake disk if you install Red Hat as a base. MP -- From: Bob Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: redhat.general,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: rlogin problem Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:32:09 -0800 Hi, all Linux grus, Can anyone help me to make the "rlogin" works behind a firwall? I mean I have a redhat Linux 7.0 box sits behind another redhat 6.0 Linux box which does all the IP-Masquerading work to outside world. The redhat 6.0 box can do everything of course including the rlogin as well. The redhat 7.0 box can do "telnet
Linux-Setup Digest #19
Linux-Setup Digest #19, Volume #19 Wed, 28 Jun 00 10:13:34 EDT Contents: MP3 player makes a lot of noise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Dial up window equivalent? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Can't install gdk-pixbuf in redhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Configuration of sound card yamaha724 (linux6.0) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) How to turn on remote root login? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux and Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SoundMAX supported? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Enabling swap partition? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is there a port to windows media player? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) RH - Win98 connectivity ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Newbie: installing applications ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Partitioning of large IDE-Disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Can't install gdk-pixbuf in redhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 61GB Maxtor HD problem, please help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mandrake 7.1 Install Problem "could not mount a CD" using 1542cf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cannot ping localhost; just hangs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Setting up Personal LAN through TCP/IP on Internet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) About PPPoE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Remote X login to linux server ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Modem connects, problems with Netscape, telnet, etc,(Where is my mi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ok, i'm fucking pissed. dual boot winnt and linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) How to turn on remote root login? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) serial mouse with laptop? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) How to turn on remote root login? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MP3 player makes a lot of noise Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:47:15 GMT From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Buchan Milne wrote: > > Just because your cd-rom plays CDs fine through your soundcard does not > mean your sound card is set up, since remember, you attached an audio cable > from your CD-ROM to your sound card ! > > Run sndconfig (Redhat) or lothar (mandrake 7.0 or later) or your distros > sound/hardware set up tool > > Jan Moons wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have problems playing MP3's. > > My soundblaster works fine, at least I can play normal audio CD's. > > But when I want to play MP3 files with X11amp of freeamp I get a lot of > > noise, my speakers are about to explode And I can't seem to hear > > any music through the noise. Actually, it "sounds" like he is trying to send dsp type sound through an audio type interface. Jan, is /dev/dsp support compiled into your kernel? If not, do so. I had *all* kinds of trouble with my sound card (cs4610 based) until I loaded the dsp type modules for my card. Fortunately, I just got /dev/dsp device not found. I know that they are *very* diferent formats for sound (one is analog the other is digital, I think) I tried recording a sound file with one and sending it to the other once and got symptoms just like what you describe. Good Luck -- Sanjay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer. Press any key to reboot. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dial up window equivalent? Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:47:15 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (raymond) Under Windows 95/98, I can set up a new dial up connection to bring up a window when the connection is made which allows me to enter a SecureID that changes every minute. Does anyone know of a way to do this under Linux? Perhaps a script you are aware of? Thanks for any help you can give me. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't install gdk-pixbuf in redhat Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:47:15 GMT From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tan Chee Sin wrote: > > Hello, > > I 've downloaded the rpm from > http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/gdk-pixbuf-0.5.0-1.i386_dl.html > then I install with "rpm -ivh gdk-pixbuf-0.5.0-1.src.rpm". I seems to > install. But when I do a "rpm -qi gdk-pixbuf-0.5.0.1.src.rpm", it > reported "package gdk-pixbuf-0.5.0-1.src.rpm is not installed". So try rpm -qi gdk-pixbuf skip all the trailing version numbers when you perform a query for a package Eric > what's wrong? > > Chee Sin -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Configuration of sound card yamaha724 (linux6.0) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:47:15 GMT From: C Sanjayan Rosenmund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Buchan Milne wrote: > > Options (any linux distro): > 1)Get a new sound card > 2)There are commercial binary drivers available from OSS (sorry, I don't have a > url), which work for something like 2 hours if you don't buy them, and cost > more than your soundcard if you wan