Re: [newbie] Networking question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, you'll need to be able to compile the kernel so you need all of the You do -NOT- need to mess with the kernel to set up IP-Masq on a stock mandrake box. Read the IP-Masq how-to and follow the directions, but don't worry about the kernel. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] This is a directory and not a file:.....
J McCaffrey wrote: Everytime I send mail I get the msg: "I/O Error This is a directory and not a file: /home/." I'm trying to retrace my steps to when I setup Kmail. Funny thing is that I can still send and receive mail, so I wouldn't think this is a really bad message. It's kind of saying "HELLO, This is a *DIRECTORY*, and *NOT* a *FILE*" My question is *what* is a directory and *not* a file? My /home/user directory where my mail folder is? How do I point Kmail (or Netscape) to my mail folder? IOW, what is Kmail looking for me to put into the settings? Again, doesn't *seem* to be any danger, it's just kinda annoying. Thank You All... -Josh You get a message like this if the sig file option is set to auto append to every message, and it's not actually pointing to a file (just a directory the file could be in). -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] /swap file - 128 or 256
Linux will not use a swap partition over 128. if you need more swap space, make two swap partitions. Benjamin wrote: Dear friends: Last question: I have an AMD K6-2 400 Mhrtz with 128 megs of real RAM. Should I go for a 128 swap file or a 256 swap file? Any special advantage to having a 256 swap file? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] 900 MB too small partition?
Do you intend to run a news group or YP server? How about objective C
development? My point here is "You don't need to install everything".
Your not going to use most of it so don't waist the space. The error
message your getting is totally logical, and I don't see what your
unsure of. You want to put 1400 megs of stuff on a 900 meg partition.
The install program sees this and tells you about it. The avg. install
of an X workstation, with a web,dns,mail server setup (for fun and
games, not production), comes in around 500-600 megs. Go through the
install selecting each package. If your not sure what the package is hit
the f1 key for a description.
By the way good luck on the solaris install, and prepare for a very,
very, very long boot off the floppy. Oh and if you screw up during the
install, you'll need to start all over again with that great boot floppy
(no backup choice during the install).
drx wrote:
It can't be correct that the root partition has to be at least 1426
megabytes, can it? That's right -- one thousand four hundred and
twenty-six megabytes?
The reason I ask is that this is what I am told during installation.
I'll take it from the beginning:
I have an EIDE disk, 4.3 GB, onto which I would like to install
Mandrake. On the disk I have created three partitions, using fdisk which I
ran from a DOS floppy disk. The three partitions are 902 MB, 1953 MB, and
1200-something, respectively. I had intended to use the 902-megabyte
partition for Mandrake's root partition, and the 1953-megabyte partition
for the /home partition. On the final 1200-something partition I had
intended to install Solaris 7 for Intel machines.
When I came to the Disk Druid part of the installation, I finally
figured out that I had to delete these partitions and then add them again.
Once I had done this, they became "Linux Native" and I could allocate them
to the purposes I wanted. When the time came to choose which packages I
wanted to install, I chose "everything," in the belief that I would have
space enough for this. A little after this, installation failed however.
The error message I was given read like this:
"You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages
you've selected. You need more space on the following filesystems:
mount point space needed
/ 524 M "
Since I already have 902 MB for the root filesystem, and Mandrake
wants an additional 524 MB, it seems that it wants at least 1426 MB. I was
asked if I wanted to go ahead and install anyway, but it seemed to me that
I something had to be wrong, and I tried the other options instead -- "try
again," and "menu." In the end I had to abort installation altogether and
try to do it again from the beginning, but it always fails at this same
point and for the same reason.
When I come to the Disk Druid part, everything looks OK:
requestedactual
/ hda1 902902
/home hda61953 1953
Despite this, it seems that Mandrake must have changed its mind at the
last minute, and tried to use some other partition for the root
installation -- a partition too small for it to fit.
How do I fix this?
DRX
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Brett Jones
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Re: [newbie] /swap file - 128 or 256
When did this change? What kernel version? Steve Philp wrote: Brett Jones wrote: Linux will not use a swap partition over 128. if you need more swap space, make two swap partitions. That hasn't been true for quite awhile now... Benjamin wrote: Dear friends: Last question: I have an AMD K6-2 400 Mhrtz with 128 megs of real RAM. Should I go for a 128 swap file or a 256 swap file? Any special advantage to having a 256 swap file? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] UN-Upgrading Mandrake
DNS, is it running? are the settings correct? is there a named.conf.rpmsave sitting in /etc with the original settings in it. Upgrades blow, in the future you should back up the important config files to a floppy or separate /home partition and do a fresh install. Remember you don't need to format and zap the files in the /home during the install. This is a great way to do an upgrade without losing files. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I couldn't leave well enough alone. I listened to the voices and upgraded from 6.0 to 6.1 the other night. Everything seems fine except for my "Web Server" Before the upgrade, anybody browsing to kband.net saw the contents of /home/httpd/html. Apparently the Apache upgrade points somewhere else? Anyone know where it points to now? I tried changing the ServerRoot line in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf BACK to /home/httpd/html to no avail. Browse to www.kband.net and you will get "The Requested URL / Was Not Found On This Server". Also, the OOS (Other Operating Systems) using my Linux box for a proxy now cannot browse the 'net. They resolve the address, but are unable to pull up the site. Perhaps ipcahins is screwed up now? Obvioulsy some files were changed during the upgrade as I see files now such at httpd.conf.rpmsave and rc.local.rpmsave. Is it possible to "back out", or should I plow ahead with my site down until I am miracled the solution? (Or one of you Gurus slaps me silly and points me in the right direction?) Forgive the rambling, but its Monday morning, and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet. Thanks, Bryan
Re: [newbie] Not Mandrake...but Linux
Mark Ramsey wrote: I have just setup my 3rd Linux box, one on Redhat 6.1, another on Mandrake 6.1 and the new one is Suse 6.0. (Trying to learn all in the ins and outs to Samba and such) Anyway.the main partition on the Suse box is 100% full.I tried mv'ing directories like /usr and /tmp to the second partition and going to link to them there, but when I try I get the error "cannot move "filename" across filesystems: Not a regular file" Am I doing something wrong or will it really not let me move these files? Thanks in advance Mark You need to copy the files to the new partition. Then rm the original files. Why don't you just copy all the files to the new partition then change fstab to mount the new partition as /usr, you can then remount the old partition as /what-ever and use it for what ever(/tmp, /var, etc). A lot cleaner than using links. If you do this you will need to rm -R the /usr dir from your first partition, if you don't you will not recover the space used by the files in the old /usr. If your not clear on this, do this for an example. make a file in your /mnt/cdrom dir without having the cdrom mounted. Now mount a cd and look back in the /mnt/cdrom dir, you will see the contents of the mounted cd. The file you created is still there, under the newly mounted cdrom, taking up as much space on the drive as it did before the cd was mounted. I just played this game on a file server with a full /, moving /usr will free up a lot of space. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Unable to telnet into Mandrake box
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First is that r u using DHCP or Static IP the edit the etc/hosts be sure that the entry is like this etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 server save then reboot the system Lapu_Lapu #mindanao Come one people, lets not forget this is not winblows. You do not need to reboot after this very minor change in the config. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Setting up sn ISP
Don't forget DNS "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: John Buswell wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Rlongo wrote: information on how to setup an ISP. I have been reading all the How-Tos that came with my distro but I'm getting really frustrated at how they all say goto this How-To or this How-to while your in the middle of reading one How-To. Is there any site or really good book out there that can help me out. Any Ideas? Well an ISP is a fairly costly and complex thing to setup. What did you intend on using Linux-Mandrake for (mail, web or everything?). If you intend on using Linux for your core components (ie. you have a few cisco routers for internet access and some terminal servers (like a PM3)), then you should probably look at having a single NFS server with some kind of software or hardware RAID (depending on your budget), a radius server, mail server, web and ftp server (scalable depending on your immediate needs). You may also want to look at a proxy server (use Squid). If you plan on using Linux for everything (if you plan on being a succesful mid-sized ISP I'd recommend you get yourself some Lucent PM3s and a Cisco 7508 and probably a cisco catalyst 2900 (min)). If you have money to burn look at www.alteon.com or www.foundry.net and try deploying a multiple-server multi-purpose load balanced environment, such that each server may run web, ftp and mail and be load balanced in case one server falls. To go back to basics :) The minimum you will need is a web server, ftp server, mail server, radius server and a box to provide network monitoring features (ie. monitor you routers, terminal servers and linux boxes and page/email/notify the administrator if one breaks) :) You should also be aware that while you can get WAN interface cards that will work under Linux a lot of the major backbone providers (such as UUnet/Alternet) require you to have a cisco router, I think for a T3 they require a 7000 series router (if i remember right) :) Hope that helps. oh if you are looking for a good set of books, look at O'Reilly, probably Linux administrator, Linux Network Administrator, NFS and NIS, Sendmail, Learning Perl and learn how to use ipchains :) You may also want to look at securityfocus.org on a regular basis. You should also be pretty familar with IP, especially TCP/UDP, maybe Cisco IOS would be a good thing to learn :), and maybe you should look at some of the books from Cisco press, there is a good one of Advanced Network Design (IP) if you are planning on building a large ISP (now or in the future), it will help you design a fairly decent scalable network. Regards John I.Buswell Development Engineer MandrakeSoft Nice write-up John. I too was looking for such information but wasn't in the market yet, thanks. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
Your ifconfig shows no loop back device (an "lo" entry should show up in a ifconfig), is this the case, or did you leave out? Alex V Flinsch wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows to see what each thinks it's IP is. Yes that was a typo, the corrected numbers are Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.2 /etc/hosts 192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1 192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs 192.168.1.2 linux1 basement That first line should read: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I fixed that else you'll find that some things break. Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? Here it is: [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400 [root@localhost alex]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely off base? -- Alex -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] RPM
Did you download it with a M$ system? It really doesn't matter anyway, ipchains is part of the mandrake system. It'll be on the cd you did your install from, if you just want it installed on your system and you don't need to build it from source, use the one on the cd. If you need to build it from source, use the SRPM from mandrake instead of the redhat one, there may be some diffs. On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am trying to add ipchains package to my mandrake 6.1 system .. but when i d/l the file (from the srpm dir of redhat) it wont install it .. and when i click on the individual files in rpm .. its says file malformed .. any ideas?? Thanks Todd White -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Missing - Garbled Pixmap
kdelibs does not fully install, most of it makes it in, but it does not register with the rpm batabase and some files don't make it. Uninstall the kcmclock rpm, then run rpm -Uvh on the kdelibs package. If you want to use the kcmclock package, install with rpm -Uvh --force. On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_I just did a fresh install ( 6.1 , cheapbytes GPL ) and have garbled / missing icons in kfm and kpackage. After searching the archives, I did find a similiar thread, but no resolution for the problem. The reply article mentioned that the installation media might be the culprit. Attached is the output from "rpm -V $(rpm -qa | grep kde)" Any help would be much apreciated, Ben "The TV business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." Hunter S. Thompson Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Rpm.out" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -------- -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] More PHP woes
James Stewart wrote: This is mSQL, rather than MySQL. I can't find any scripts that seem appropriate. You could read through one of the scripts in the init.d dir and build your own. I'm sure one has made at some time. Look for a msql src.rpm in the contrib directory of one of the redhat mirrors. If you can dig one, it should be super easy changing the script to work for you setup. Are all scripts placed in /etc/rc.d/init.d automatically run on start-up? No the script it self stays in this dir. It is linked into the run level dirs as needed. If you were to link rc.d/init.d/msql to rc3.d it would start the service when booted into run level 3 (the default command line boot config). ntsysv is a curses based util that does this for you, it also gives it it's boot order.
Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot
Rename the link httpd. Make sure the lines you added are correct, there should be a # sign infront of each line (sorry if i forgot to tell you this). The lines added to apachectl should look just like this. Here is the how to I got this info from. The guy who wrote it has a number of other good tutorials. http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote: Okay, I'e worked a bit with the contributions I got from the list but it seems that there wasn't a satisfactory answer, as most of the solutions do not work. Okay, here's the situation. I got the SOURCE code from Apache.org, instead of the RPM from Mandrake, and built it like that. I guess I wasn't clear enough in my first message. Mr. Bloodstone's solution to run ntsysv doesn't seem to have "httpd" in its nice graphical menu, so that was an "out". Mr. Jones stated to add a shortcut link and edit the script, but when I try to run the /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd, it returns the error, "service httpd does not support chkconfig". Right now, I have a symbolic link to the "apachectl" command lying in the init.d directory. How would I pass the command line "start" (as the command to start httpd is "$ apachectl start" so it enables itself on boot? Thanks. -- /-|rcana - - * - - Pern - Araby Weyr: http://members.tripod.com/~Araby/ FF7 - Tales of Midgar: http://members.tripod.com/~ArcanaTxM/ Xenogears - DeM: http://members.tripod.com/~project_xat/ Xenogears - Guardian Angels: http://guardian.zenogias.com/ -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1
Did you install it with the /net switch? Belzebub wrote: I downloaded and installed Star Offie 5.1 on my Mandrake 6.0 distribuition. I made an updated CD just before 6.1 came out, so I have a custom CD with all the last updates before 6.1. My kernel is 2.2.13. After the installation finished, I am able to run the application as root or superuser, but as a regular user. Any suggestions?
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
Lilo needs to be below the 1024 cyl, but this is not due to lilo, it's due to the bios. Just make the first partition on the drive /boot, 10-15 megs is plenty. On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: I'm planning to replace my current 8 gig Windows HD with a 20 or 27 gig drive. I know that LILO has a problem with drives that have more than 1023 cylinders. How should I partition this drive so that I can still use LILO? I will install Linux to the 8 gig drive all by it's lonesome. Thanks, Mike "If Budweiser can have a frog to sell beer, why ask about the penguin?" --Linus Torvald -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] More PHP woes
Was the devel rpm the same version as the apache rpm your running. If not, upgrade the apache rpm to the same version as the apache-devel rpm. On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote: I finally got PHP to compile properly. It seems I had two versions of apache-devel installed. I uninstalled them both, then reinstalled the later version and that did the trick. I've run through the make process and edited the relevant lines in httpd.conf but now I can't start the httpd daemon. I get the error: Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 67 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp3.so into server: /usr/lib/apache/libphp3.so: undefined symbol: ap_regexec And it stops. Have I not included some relevant option in the ./configure line? or is the problem elsewhere? cheers. James. -- James Stewart | Britlinks | The Phantom Tollbooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.britlinks.co.uk | http://www.tollbooth.org Sixpence None The Richer UK -- http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/ -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot
If this is a build from a tar.gz source file do this. ln -s /path/to/apache/bin/apachectl /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd this puts a sym link in the init.d directory. add these lines to the apachectl file: chkconfig: 2345 10 90 description: starts stops apache do this just below the #!/bin/sh line. run: /sbin/chkconfig --del httpd /sbin/chkconfig --add httpd Now apache (httpd) will start at boot. You can start and stop apache while your messing around with it by going to /etc/rc.d/init.d and running: ./httpd stop|start|restart If this is a RPM install, all the files are in the correct places and you just need to set it up to start at boot. A good tool for this is ntsysv. Run it as root, it's simple to figure out. On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote: How do I do that? It's httpd, the one that is built wiht Apache 1.3.9. I have it configured to standalone in ../../apache/conf/httpd.conf right now, but I don't know how to start it automatically. It says in the docs something about rc3.d, but I don't know what file to edit inside the directory. Hmmgood point. I'd say put the httpd command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and let it go from there. AFAIK, that *should* be the equivalent of putting it in MSDOS's "autoexec.bat" where it'll start automagically at boot. 'Course, this is only a guess, as I'm not running httpd here... John -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Apache, PHP and mSQL
One of the ftp mirrors should have the SRPM tree. Try them all until you find the one that has it. Look for a dir named SRPM. As for the missing httpd.h file, you must not have the apache-devel package install. Run "rpm -q apache-devel" it'll tell you if it's there or not. If not install it. James Stewart wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Brett Jones wrote: Use the php3 src.rpm from mandrake and then read the php docs about the ./configure switch needed. It's probably "--with-msql". Make the needed change to the spec file and then run "rpm -ba specfile.spec". Whereabouts is the src.rpm? I tried the uk sunsite ftp site, but it wasn't in the SRPMS directory. I have downloaded the source from php.net but can't get it to compile as it can't find httpd.h Can anyone point me to either of these things? James. -- James Stewart | Britlinks | The Phantom Tollbooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.britlinks.co.uk | http://www.tollbooth.org Sixpence None The Richer UK -- http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/ -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Apache, PHP and mSQL
Try linking the file into /usr/include On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Brett Jones wrote: One of the ftp mirrors should have the SRPM tree. Try them all until you find the one that has it. Look for a dir named SRPM. As for the missing httpd.h file, you must not have the apache-devel package install. Run "rpm -q apache-devel" it'll tell you if it's there or not. If not install it. I've just now installed the apache-devel package and tried to install, saying --with-apache=/usr/include/apache but with or without a trailing / it throws up the same error. Very strange, given that the file _is_ there. James. -- James Stewart | Britlinks | The Phantom Tollbooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.britlinks.co.uk | http://www.tollbooth.org Sixpence None The Richer UK -- http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/ -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar
tar.gz is a tared gzipped file as is tgz. the command to uncompress and extract the files is: tar xzvf some-tar-gzipfile.tar.gz tar: it is the basic command x: tells it to extract the files z: tells it the file is gzipped and it needs to gunzip it v: tells it to be verbose f: tells it to use the file you give it To tar and gzip a file using the tar command do this: tar czvf some-tar-gzipfile.tar.gz source c: tells it to create On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: "Eric L. Damron" wrote: Thanks for the info Brett. And BTW I am a newbie to Linux and I have been RTFM almost constantly and I'm getting F*king tired of RTFM so if I can get a little information without RTFM, I certainly will. So, If anyone out there can tell me how to install a "tar.gz" file so that I don't have to RTFM I would appreciate it! I'm a newbie also, and like you, I get real tired of RTFM. Unfotunately it's the best source of information. I installed a .tgz file with tar [options] myfile.tgz I don't remember the [options] part so, sad as it is, man tar is how you find out which ones you'll need. Bob J. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar
Look in the httpd.conf file and see if the php3 modules have been added to the loadmodule list. Make sure all the needed changes (as per the how-to) have been made to this file. Some examples: AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps The above lines should be added (or uncommented if there). And these should also be appended to the DirectoryIndex section: index.phtml index.php3 On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: From: Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the error message from php? It isn't giving one--it just isn't running PHP. It appears to configure, compile, and install without errors, but when I try to view a simple test page (? echo "Hello World"; ?), netscape and lynx both try to save the file, rather than viewing "Hello World" as intended. If I just go through his web-database guide (not installing openssl/mod_ssl), PHP works fine. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] the programming language
The kernel or the avg distribution? If dist. c, c++, perl, various shells, python, assembly, and I'm sure many others I've never heard of. On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: Sorry for the overly simple question... but can anyone tell me what language Linux was written in? Thanks in advance and don't laugh too long and hard! Joe :) -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user
nslookup gives www.megabitwest.net an IP of 207.87.8.117, not 209.54.142.164. What's up with that? On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: %_i've reinstalled linux again 7th time and it still does not work. this time i get a timeout to login although it connects tolocal linux machine using ip address it will not complete a ftp session. I think its got something to do with the domain.. I have set Domain Name: megabitwest.net Host name: http://www.megabitwest.net * * by the way this is my URL , i hope to host my own domain with Linux!!! when i configured the lan ethernet card i chose ip # 209.54.142.164 (card in linux mach.) gateway ip # 209.54.142.161 (cisco dsl router) DNS server ip #209.54.122.2 (my isp dns server) my /etc/inetd.conf has the line of: ftpstream tcpnowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd-l -a this is what the installation came up with! THIS IS BEYOND ME... HELP IF YOU CAN TERRY my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---- -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] iso
It's an iso image, iso9660 is the cd iso std. I.E. you use your cdr to burn the iso image onto the cd. On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between an iso distro and a "regular" one? I'm assuming it has to do with what kind of hardware you've got but beyond that I haven't a clue. David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 5054 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clinton, MS 39058 http://www.mc.edu/~vanbalen -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Apache, PHP and mSQL
Use the php3 src.rpm from mandrake and then read the php docs about the ./configure switch needed. It's probably "--with-msql". Make the needed change to the spec file and then run "rpm -ba specfile.spec". On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Brett Jones wrote: php was not built with support for msql. It should have mysql and postgresql from Mandrake. If you need to use msql and you don't want to use mysql, recompile php with support for msql. Do I just download the source and compile as if it were a new package, or do I need to make any changes to apache? cheers. James. -- James Stewart | Britlinks | The Phantom Tollbooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.britlinks.co.uk | http://www.tollbooth.org Sixpence None The Richer UK -- http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/ -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] X and kde
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote: terry wrote: I've installed Linux-Mandrake about 6 times now and every time I do X windows just comes up blank regardless 6 times, ouch. Try running Xconfigureator from now on. It's a lot less work. of the resolution of screen. The mouse works ok, it boots up without problems. When I execute KDE I get error messages "can't find X server" What am I doing wrong...? Frustraed...TERRY -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar
Downloaded it with winblows? It should be php-3.0.9.tar.gz. You should go download the newest tar file "3.0.12" from php.net, and while your there RTFM. Note: It may be installed on your sys already. Run "rpm -q php" In the future go to a real software database site (freshmeat.net), that has the current tar files for any given software package. On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote: I need to install PHP. I picked up PHP-3_0_9_tar.tar from http://www.downloadsafari.com How do I know that this file will work with Mandrake 6.0 (RedHat 6.0) How do I install it? Thanks -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Apache and NameVirtualHost
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1 VirtualHost mworks.britlinks.co.uk ServerName mworks.britlinks.co.uk DocumentRoot /home/httpd/marketingworks.co.uk blah blah blah /VirtualHost use the name of the server, not the ip number. On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote: I'm trying to set up apache 1.3.6 to handle name-based virtual servers. My servers are running locally for testing, I'm not trying to set up a public-access web server. My hosts file contains: "127.0.0.1britlinks.co.uk mworks.britlinks.co.uk www.britlinks.co.uk britlinks localhost" (a bit crowded, but all on one line in the actual file) and my httpd.conf file contains (among other things): "NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1 VirtualHost 127.0.0.1 ServerName mworks.britlinks.co.uk DocumentRoot /home/httpd/marketingworks.co.uk /VirtualHost VirtualHost 127.0.0.1 ServerName britlinks.co.uk DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html ServerAlias www.britlinks.co.uk /VirtualHost" but whether I type in mworks.britlinks.co.uk or www.britlinks.co.uk or britlinks.co.uk, I always get the same page... /home/httpd/html/index.html Where have I gone wrong? cheers. James. -- James Stewart | Britlinks | The Phantom Tollbooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.britlinks.co.uk | http://www.tollbooth.org Sixpence None The Richer UK -- http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/ -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Services
PLEASE drop the HTML posting. It's not required here (matter of fact, it's frowned upon.) Pretty much everyone here can handle plain text posts. :-) Ditto. Second, as root, get to a console prompt and type "setup" then select "system services" and DESELECT whichever services you don't want to start at bootup. John Or just go strait to ntsysv, it's where you end up. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?
Anyone want to pool some cash and get this man a UPS? There should be 10 guy on this list willing to kick in $10 to cover the UPS and shipping. On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:30:37AM -0400, John Aldrich said: Get a UPS! I don't know why they would be SO much more expensive there in Indonesia. A UPS is the ONLY thing that will save you, even in Windows 95/98! I don't know if flushing the buffers more frequently (continuously?) would make any difference, but you really can't expect ANY O/S to *like* being shut down improperly, even Windows! Here in the US, you can purchase an APC 200 VA UPS for $66. I can't imagine it would be more than $100 for a similar piece of equipment there in Indonesia, even accounting for exchange rates, shipping, etc! You really need a UPS! PERIOD! John, US $66 is sooo expensive in here indonesia. mostly for student like me. thats why we choose linux for works. with $66 you can make a living for a month in Indonesia -- Rib -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?
For those to slow to figure this out, the Kernel is the same in every dist (SUSE, Mandrake, RedHat, Debian, etc, etc), the only thing that changes is the version number and compile options. And the version number is just based on the development cycle of that particular dist (I.E. Debian doesn't jump on the latest kernel and push it out the door, they test it very well before they ship a new version. They ship 2.1r2 with 2.0.36). My point is most dists all build from the same core code base, they only differ in the details of their setup, install, and option. And.. If your system still boots but fails to startx what makes your think it's the kernel? That's your X server crapping out, not the kernel. On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 04:25:11PM +0800, Luqman Hakim said: My friend has SuSE, and he have tested his SuSE by pushing the power button before shutdown (many times), like i do(1x) in my 3rd install, to test that the distro can pass the power failure. His SuSE always run smootly without any problem. yup... i guess that mandrake's kernel is fragile. then the "mount/unmount [failed]" problem become an eternal problem in Mandrake until i reinstall it. And it's still be a problem after i upgrading the kernel and initscripts. :-( make sure to edit your lilo.conf after you upgrade the kernel. #pico /etc/lilo.conf change the kernel line to .27mdk save #lilo -- Rib -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Just loaded Mandrake 6.0 on new computer
All Mandrake packages are compiled using pgcc (optimized for pentiums), I see 15% or so increase in speed over RedHat 6 on my 266mmx laptop. This is a big plus on older pentium hardware. It's a pain for those running 486 chips though, but progress will kill of some perfectly good hardware. Then again LRP and a good 486 were made for each other. On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: I had to say that this was the easiest install I have ever done. I do now truly love linux. I have what seems to be a super computer when compared to a Windoze machine. Has anyone noticed a big increase in speed when running Mandrake? My new machine is only a 350AMD yet it out runs my friends 500 pentiums, Or at least seems too. I am biased :) Well thanks for letting me vent Hugh -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?
The umount failure that was fixed with kernel 2.2.9-27 (as far as I know), would not umount / on shut down. The failures you have below are failed NFS mounts/umounts. I would try to mount these by hand after the sys come up and see what error messages you get. Read the docs on NFS and If you don't need NFS on boot give it the noauto tag in /etc/fstab. On Sun, 05 Sep 1999, you wrote: And.. If your system still boots but fails to startx what makes your think it's the kernel? That's your X server crapping out, not the kernel. mountd /var/lib/nfs/xtab[Failed] and when shutdown .. Shutting down NFS mountd: [Failed] Shutting down NFS daemon: nfsd: erminating on signal 9 nfsd: last server exiting[Failed] Many people told me in various linux mailing list that i have to upgrade the kernel initscripts make sure to edit your lilo.conf after you upgrade the kernel. #pico /etc/lilo.conf change the kernel line to .27mdk save yes, i have. Then run /sbin/lilo , right ? #lilo -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Electrical Power Dead, then Linux (X) is dead too ?
Too bad the cost of a UPS is to high. They really are the best/only solution for a power power system. Windows will suffer the same problems Linux does with a power drop. On Sat, 04 Sep 1999, you wrote: Wow. A power failure is a bad thing regardless of OS, Linux is not going to fix this. If you live in a place with a bad power system buy a smart ups. UPS ? oh its very expensive! in my province the power failure recently happen specially when it's (hard) rain, windy, even in a normal situation. Linux is being promoted here, and i also want to introduce it to all my friend that is still windows maniac. but i have to solve this problem first. in my place there's no one wants to buy UPS, except for the Office needs. windows has no problem with this, even i didn't install the NDD. As for the umount trouble, did you upgrade the kernel? If not, this is the cause of that. Now with the other trouble I've no idea. Try setting the default run level to 3 (boot into single user like before to make the change). I, personally think it's lame to boot into kdm, xdm, etc. Boot into the command line (run level 3) and if something bad happens and your X dies you don't have these problems. Yes, i have now. I reinstall Mandrake, then upgrade kernel, booting 2 times. run some X application then close it. then i push the power button (no application run, i also make sure that the hd is idle) Alternatively reinstall your OS. A newbie should do this 4-5 times any way, play with partitions, different packages, etc. This is the third times. i hope that i'll successfull for the forth. Luqman -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] True quality!
I WAS. On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, you wrote: BE NICE! - Original Message - From: Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 12:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] True quality! Quit bitchin, go to the mandrake site, download all the updates, and install them all. After that, if you still have troubles post it to the list. By the way the kppp and umount trouble are know issues that have been fixed (the updates), I don't know about the update tool (a tool for the true newbie, someone who has no clue how to find something out for them selves). On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: How is this possible? I just installed Venus paid for the real edition. My KPPP has problems. The Mandrake update doesn't work, my file system is corrupting itself by not unmounting cleanly everytime I shutdown. There are just the problems I found in the first few days. Jeanette - Original Message - From: JK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] True quality! Steve Philp wrote: Just caught this tidbit in the Linux Today press releases and thought it should be brought to everyone's attention. Mandrake seems to have "won" the quality award with their 6.0 release. LSL's upcoming "Linux Update" CD contains all the released updates for the major distributions. Their release shows Mandrake having the FEWEST UPDATES! Congrats to the Mandrake team! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes congrats, indeed. I started using linux 4 months ago, and well I was using red hat, and I was not pleased at all. I switched to Mandrake 6.0, and well, since then. I feel like support has been better (with this mailing list), updates are known once they come out, with their detailed updates web page, and overall performance is excellent:) Keep up the good work Mandrake team -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] True quality!
Quit bitchin, go to the mandrake site, download all the updates, and install them all. After that, if you still have troubles post it to the list. By the way the kppp and umount trouble are know issues that have been fixed (the updates), I don't know about the update tool (a tool for the true newbie, someone who has no clue how to find something out for them selves). On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: How is this possible? I just installed Venus paid for the real edition. My KPPP has problems. The Mandrake update doesn't work, my file system is corrupting itself by not unmounting cleanly everytime I shutdown. There are just the problems I found in the first few days. Jeanette - Original Message - From: JK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] True quality! Steve Philp wrote: Just caught this tidbit in the Linux Today press releases and thought it should be brought to everyone's attention. Mandrake seems to have "won" the quality award with their 6.0 release. LSL's upcoming "Linux Update" CD contains all the released updates for the major distributions. Their release shows Mandrake having the FEWEST UPDATES! Congrats to the Mandrake team! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes congrats, indeed. I started using linux 4 months ago, and well I was using red hat, and I was not pleased at all. I switched to Mandrake 6.0, and well, since then. I feel like support has been better (with this mailing list), updates are known once they come out, with their detailed updates web page, and overall performance is excellent:) Keep up the good work Mandrake team -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: I can't believe I have to install a kernel in my brand new install to fix this. I have no idea how to do this. I just Mandrake Soft should have fixed this in the boxed versions. This problem has been out for a long time and now I wasted $39 time and effort on Mandrake 6.0. How could this possibly be the most bug free version on Linux when you have to replace the kernal right after you install it. Jeanette Jeanette: It's NOT as hard as you think it is. Good God. It's not at all hard. RTFM, and if you can't find the manual (or don't know how to read a man page) ask. Please please please, don't bitch and moan and complain when you buy software that has a bug in it that gets fixed in a mater of days, for free. The windows 98 se has a update cd out for it fixing many more problems than the few in mandrake. Plus it cost me $25 with shipping. Lets see win98 se costs me $90 wholesale and the update cost $25 Yet the piece of shit still blows up daily, and my LM6.0 box is up and running for 28 days now (since I ran the rpm -Uvh to upgrade it). The mandrake cd only cost me 29.99. One other thing, many of the updates are security updates that make your system as secure as possible. One other thing again, mandrake is not the developer of most of the packages (update tool not included), so blaming them with a bug in the kernel is not at all cool. If you don't want to learn how to use Linux to it's fullest, maybe the Mac Os would be a better choice? -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Colorado 250 help!!!
ls -al ftape gives me ftape - rt0 (I think it was rt). I've not yet had the time to figure out if this is the correct device it should be pointing to though. On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote: ftape is a driver package, It's part of the LM6.0 dist. I have a colorado jumbo 350 at home and I'm also having trouble getting it to work (clams /dev/ftape is not a device in the /dev, but it is). I've not taken any time to figure it out though. I'll look into this tonight and see what I can come up with. My *guess* is that /dev/ftape didn't get hardlinked to /dev/fd1 or whatever. That's the sort of conflicting error message you'll get in a situation like that I had a similar problem when my CD Rom was set up in Red Hat 6. It was on /dev/hdc, but it didn't appear to be linked to /dev/cdrom. John -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] DNS
Post you db. files so we can take a look. On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote: Both. My domain is michaellara.com. I can ping this by name but am having trouble adding aliases so I could ping it by www.michaellara.com and so forth. I come from the NT world and can use the DNS server in NT with no problems. I just need a little guidance. Michael Lara [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brett Jones Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 5:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DNS Caching only, or full on zone? On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote: I am having trouble with setting the DNS server? Does anyone have a good how to? -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Colorado 250 help!!!
ftape is a driver package, It's part of the LM6.0 dist. I have a colorado jumbo 350 at home and I'm also having trouble getting it to work (clams /dev/ftape is not a device in the /dev, but it is). I've not taken any time to figure it out though. I'll look into this tonight and see what I can come up with. On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote: Hello to everyone! Some time ago i posted a letter for help here, but so far no one has responded, so I try once more. I need very much help to acces my tapedrive, which is a Colorado 250 floppyconnected tapedrive. I'm using Mandrake 6.0 with kernel 2.2.11. What should i do to acces that drive. There are a number of programs listed on FreshMeat's website (www.freshmeat.net) and at least one (ftape) is for floppy-based tape drives like yours. There is also a file there ftape-tools which is a collection of tools for use with ftape. Good luck! -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] DNS
Er... the files you made that have the info regarding your domain. The file that maps names to numbers, and the file that maps numbers to names. Sorry I've named mine db.mydomain and db.192.168.1 One pointer, make sure you have the trailing period at the end of your domain names. On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote: Where would I find these files? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brett Jones Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] DNS Post you db. files so we can take a look. On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote: Both. My domain is michaellara.com. I can ping this by name but am having trouble adding aliases so I could ping it by www.michaellara.com and so forth. I come from the NT world and can use the DNS server in NT with no problems. I just need a little guidance. Michael Lara [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brett Jones Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 5:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] DNS Caching only, or full on zone? On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, you wrote: I am having trouble with setting the DNS server? Does anyone have a good how to? -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] X Windows / KDE Problems
It's Xconfigurator. Upper case X, lower case c. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: What is the file called for XConfigurator? I can't seem to locate it.. At 06:15 PM 8/23/1999 -0400, you wrote: Why did you run XF86Config? if you just ran a rpm -Uvh on the kde rpms, you didn't need to reconfigure X. Try running Xconfigurator instead of XF86Config. On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, you wrote: I upgraded my system with the KDE.RPM's from the ftp.linux-mandrake.com site.. Ran XF86Config and set up everything as it was.. Ran startx and now get an error about not being able to find Font Server.. Everything was perfect before upgrading.. Any ideas? -Rick -- Brett jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6
I've got a 266mmx 32 meg mem laptop that runs Madrake 6 with KDE just fine. It does swap a fair amount when I have Netscape going, but it's a great machine as is. On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, you wrote: No Linux will run just fine in 32 megs. I've got 32 mb on my machine at work. It's a bit sluggish sometimes, but it works pretty well. Having played around with my new (new to me...used parts machine G) dual-PPro 200 with 198 MB RAM, I can tell THAT machine is going to SCREAM! :-) RAM *does* help, but you can run an X-client is 32 mb or less of ram, it'll just be SLOOW!!! John -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote: What's the sence to set up different mount points for / , /usr , /home , /anything_else if all of them are located on a single harddrive. I can understand this steps for /boot 'cause it must be located in first 1023 cyls, but what about / , /usr do you really need the separate diskspaces? Backup /restore is a lot easier. If you need to do a fresh install you can do it without killing your /home dirs if you have them on their own partition. Run a backup for each partition on it's own tape and when you need to restore a file is takes alot less time. -- Brett jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Flamebait
"I'm to lame to make it work therefore it sucks and Windows is better." The same kind of people think the MacOS sucks because they can't find the start button anywhere on the desktop. Feed a small mind enough shit and after a while he'll claim shit is the best thing on earth. On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote: Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but this just looks like flamebait to me. I give up on this stupid fucking so-called operating system! It's totally FUCKING USELESS Windows is FAR superior and you bunch of sad losers are just wasting your lives. Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Brett jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] PIII performance
MSI adaptors on a Slot 1 motherboard (not socket 7). I'm running a supermicro board, 2 MSI adaptor and a pair of celery 300a's over clocked to 450. That and the 256 megs of ram, a Tekram u2w scsi card and a 4.5 gig ibm u2w drive, makes it run rather speedy. On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote: Can the new PPGA Celerons do SMP??? I thought that they needed some special adaptor or something like that. On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote: Thing that a fellow in our LUG did which I thought was a great buy was... get a duel socket 7 board thats out there now for about $125 BUy two celeron 333 at about $90 each.. $128meg at about $150 and you have a $500 KICK ASS MACHINE the new 2.2 kernel has dual processor support .. and his (bargin) system is now flying.. running his own Web server. If I was a little more knowledgable in LINUX than I am now .. I would go for it.. but as it is my AMDK62350 will do just fine. I am going to get another 64meg ram to bring me up to 128 though. James -- Regards, Gavin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ENTER.NET - "The Road to the Internet Starts Here!" (tm) (610) 437-2221 * http://www.enter.net/ * email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] **** -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, you wrote:
I *think* that Linux will ignore the BIOS once it starts up. However, you're
still dependant on BIOS until it boots. What I would suggest is making a
"/boot" partition about 500 megs in size
A 500 meg /boot partition. NO WAY.
Just how big do your kernels compile. 500 megs wow, how about 15. The key is to
make sure your boot partition is below the 1023 cyl on your drive. Make your
first partition on your HDD about 15 megs in size and mount it as /boot. Do not
use EZ drive or other drive tool, it's not needed with Linux if you
keep it all below 1023.
As far a partitioning goes a good setup for most people on say a 4.3 gig drive
is
/boot 15 megs
/ 1000 megs
/home bal
swap128
Extrapolate this for the size drive you have. A quick note on swap space: Any
swap space above 128 megs is a waste. Linux will not use more than 128 megs per
mounted swap partition. If you need more swap space, make 2 swap partitions at
128 megs.
and then make another partition for
"/" that takes up a large chunk (if not all) of the rest of the drive space.
That should allow the system to boot with a hard drive larger than the
system recognizes...
John
--
Brett Jones
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Re: [newbie] KDE won't load at all!
have you been messing with network settings? On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: KDE won't load it says "Error: Can't connect With X server" and it repeats other error messages that are similar to that X server error. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: Would the same parameters hold true for a server? Vic I've got a server with 1 4.5 gig SCSI drive, and 1 8.4 gig IDE drive. This is what it's tables looks like. 4.5 /boot 20 m / 850 m /var400 m /home 600 m /home/httpd 1500 m /home/ftp bal. 8.4 /home/httpd/vhost bal. This box is going to host web sites for myself, and hopefully many others. This partition table is what made sense to me, I'm sure others have there own ideas. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Install to 2 Hard disks
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: Thanks for the info. I just started the reinstall. Had to put in a new CD drive the old one shot craps. I used Disk Druid to format and all seems fine. I made partitions like: 1. /swap 80MB I like to put the swap at the end of the drive. It makes sure the /boot partition in inside 1023 2. /boot 20MB 3. / 800MB 4. /usr 200MB You'll find that /usr is going to have more in it than / you may want to change this around. A good command to run to get disk usage is du. cd into /usr and run du -h and it will give you the size of all files below /usr 5. /home 500MB or roughly that amount. It's doing the install right now so I can't check. I did find the install notes from my LUG meeting last month. The minimum they gave said to have /, /boot, /swap, /home, and /usr . The sweet sounds of the CD spinning are filling my ears now. Excuse me while I bask in the glow of the monitor and read more e-mail. Brian -Original Message- From: Brian Leas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, here is my suggestion: 1. Boot up from a WIN95 startup disk. Format your Windows drive(I'm assuming it is the first one) 2. After formatting, run dos fdisk and delete the current dos partitions. 3. Reboot your machine with a Linux boot disk and run Linux fdisk. 4. Setup your partitons something like so: /boot 20MB / /swap /home (for program files) You could put the boot , swap , and /home partitions on the first drive and the /home on the second or whatever floats your boat. Hope this helps :) I have a PC w/ Mandrake 5.3 currently on it. I want to totally drop windows on this box and think I am ready to do so. When I installed Linux to this machine I used a separate hard drive for Linux and left the original to Windows 95. It's a Pent. 60 with a 540MB and a 810MB hard drive. When I do a reinstall I want to create more than just the / (root) and /swap partitions I did last time. Can I put /, /boot, /whatever else on dev/hda and other partitions on the second HD which would be /dev/hdb? I'm sure this should work, but which partitions should go on which drive? And what sizes should I make them? I know /boot should be around 20MB, but not sure on the rest. Ideas / recommendations welcome. This PC will be networked to one or two other home PCs and will mainly be for net access, office applications and general experimentation. Brian "My God, it's full of penguins!" Finally true. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Tape Backup
Try BRU for backups, it's a nice utility with a gui if you need it. Not open source, but they've supported linux since the early days. On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: What is a good tape backup solution for Linux? I'm looking for something cheap that can backup 10-20 GB at a time. I would like to use the backup software that comes with Linux too. Thanks for your input. Jason Peterson -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Tape Backup
Tekram 390u2w is a nice card with good support. I'm running it along with a IBM u2w 4.5 gig drive and a Seagate 4/8 travan tape. The card costs around $200, the drive $210, and the tape unit $275 with one tape. On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote: A nice DAT drive (4mm or 8mm) would do quite well. Finding one at a reasonable price is another question. Also, it'll require that you have a SCSI card of some sort. Right now, the leader in SCSI cards as far as Linux is concerned is Advansys. However, I've heard some problems with their cards (SCSI bus resets, etc.) so I'd consider paying more for an Adaptec, especially since Adaptec is starting to support Linux now. Just my 2ยข worth! :-) John - Original Message - From: Petey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 5:23 PM Subject: [newbie] Tape Backup What is a good tape backup solution for Linux? I'm looking for something cheap that can backup 10-20 GB at a time. I would like to use the backup software that comes with Linux too. Thanks for your input. Jason Peterson -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] anonftp on system startup
More info on your setup would be nice. class c range of your dial up acct usernames and passwords root password open ports etc. etc. ;-0 just kidding. More info is needed though. On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, you wrote: could someone tell me why anonftp is not working when the system starts up and how to "turn it on". Thanks. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] New Guy here. Where do I start?
I remember seeing something about linux not using swap space above about 120 megs, even if the partition has more. If you need more swap than that you need to make two swap partitions. On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: The swap partition is for virtual memory. How much memory do you have? I've heard that it's a good idea to make it 250% of how much physical RAM you have. Guys? Ack! I've already got 128MB of RAM ... don't need a 300MB swap partition too, IMO. I have a 128MB swap partition, I figure that'll be plenty for use as a workstation. Of course, if you're setting up a server then by all means, set up a larger swap partition if you really think you'll need it. Just my $0.02 worth... --- Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 506679 -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mount CD Floppy
telnet mount On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, you wrote: Anyone has any idea how to mount a CD or a floppy from a remote host via NFS ?? regards michael lim -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Lost PCMCIA
I've the same trouble, but playing with the pcmcia/config.opts didn't do it for me. If you get it working please post the solution. Thanks. On Wed, 04 Aug 1999, you wrote: Theo Brinkman wrote: ARRRGGGH! I just updated my kernel with kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm along with the kernel-pcmcia-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm, and my laptop no longer recognizes EITHER of my pcmcia cards. They are: --- 3Com Megahertz 10Mbps Model 3CXE589ET 3Com Noteworthy 56K Modem PC Card Model 3CXM056-BNW --- I get the following response when I try to start pcmcia services: --- Starting PCMCIA services: modules cardmgr. cs: unable to map card memory! cs: unable to map card memory! memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use cs: unable to map card memory! cs: unable to map card memory! memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use --- My /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.conf file looks like this: --- PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 PCIC_OPTS= CORE_OPTS= --- Somebody PLEASE clue me in as to what I screwed up. - Theo Theo, PCMCIA options are in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts There is a line: include memory 0xc-0xf, memory 0xa000-0xa0ff Maybe the new pcmcia needs to have these adjusted? They look suspicious. video ROM is 0xc-0xc7fff(32KB) and system ROM is 0xf-0xf. The large memory region is for cardbus(pci). Insert the card with an Xterm open running tail -f /var/log/messages and see if you can tell what memory region is being tried. You could try changing the low mem region to 0xd-0xe which should be free unless your video bios 32KB or you have card with an option ROM(SCSI, etc.). I'm just guessing. Don't have a laptop at home, just at work. scottw -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installing Version 5.3 on laptop
I'm running 6.0 on a Toshiba 2515. Installed great and everything works (sound, pcmcia modem and ethernet card, etc). Pick up a 6.0 version it includes some kde utils for apm (dockable battery monitor, suspend util) plus the cool theme manager. Running the MacOS theme on the laptop looks good. Another big plus on the 6.0 version is the pgcc compilation. My sys is a P266MMX 32m ram, and with RH6.0 is was a bit slow. With the LM 6.0 installed I saw at least a 15%-20% bump in speed. My only prob is with the kernel upgrade. Upgrading to the official 2.2.9 or the cooker 2.2.10 packages kills pcmcia. I've not had the time to poke around and find a fix. With the orig kernel I get the damn umount failure on halt. But I need the ethernet card so I'm living with it until I get around to finding a fix, or the next mandrake version comes out. On Mon, 02 Aug 1999, you wrote: Specifically, I'm thinking of installing Linux-Mandrake 5.3 on a Toshiba 2540CDS with 96 of RAM. I'm curious if anyone has tried this and ifthere is anything special that I need to know about this. Thanks. -- bgf [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
the correct command is: mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt/floppy this assumes it's a windows formated floppy ( vfat ), and the you want to mount it on /mnt/floppy (the default on LM and RH). This command also works like this: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy the /dev/fd0 is the first floppy device. if you had two floppies and you wanted to mount the second, it would be /dev/fd1 Some file sys types commonly used: vfat (windows) msdos ext2 (linux) hfs (mac, though I could be wrong) if you look into /lib/modules/kernel-version-on-your-box/fs you will see all the file system modules available to you system (the default ones from the stock kernel). Read the kernel doc to find out which ones are read/write and read only. As for the error from the icon on the desktop, it has to due with the stock config from mandrake in the /etc/fstab file. The file sys is set to auto and has never worked for me. I just set the file sys to the type of floppy I mount the most, then just mount any other file sys by hand. The line of text below is from my fstab file for the floppy. /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2user,noauto 0 0 device to mount /dev/fd0 where to mount /mnt/floppy file sys type ext2 (could be vfat if you mount windows disks often) allow any user to mount umount, and don't mount on boot user,noauto I've no idea what this is for 0 0 Hope this helps. could not mount error log: mount you must specify the filesystem type Can anyone help me with this?? mount -f filesystem-type /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Re:
I would suspect it's a permissions related thing. The ftp dir is set up to be it's own world (for anon ftp at least) that people can't get out of, and into your sys. Here is a URL to a great samba howto: http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/samba/toc.html Follow it to a tee and it will work like a charm. Note: Never send in an MCSE to do the work of a penguin ;-) It's hard to stop thinking winblows and clear your head. stephan schutter wrote: Is there any one there that knows how to use linuxconf to set up windows connectivity -- I have seen 3 MCSE people try for 2 hours! It should not, can not be that impossible! All I want to do is share a couple of folders to everyone and access my user folder in the nt box. I have Linux Mandrake 6.0 and I have run the update so everything should be the latest supported version. In nt the values are: Domain: ASG computer name: mandrake wins: 209.240.84.14 Share : /home/ftp I added this to the obvious places in linuxconf, and now it appears in the brows list in the domain. However, when ever I double click on the icon in the network neighbourhood i get the error: network path can not be found It is there i can see it, ican ping it... I can log on from other windows machines... help! stephan ___ Stephan Schutter[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] PCMCIA problems
Is this the latest update from Mandrake? If so, when did it come out? If not, where did you dig it up? On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote: Have you tried the 2.2.10-32mdk kernel? That's what I'm running - but I don't have pcmcia. Ty C. Mixon ICQ: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
