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.
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3:13pm up 23 days, 15:12, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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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.
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If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
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The Netherlands
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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
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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
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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
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7:05pm up 19:21, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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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 ..."
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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
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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
