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Re: [Wlug] Linux on a Dell laptop dual-boot W2K
by Wesley Allen June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Simoncini, Matthew" <simoncim(a)bsci.com> Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:23:29 -0400 >Hey all, > >I was wondering if anyone has had any "good" experiences installing Linux >and W2K on the same machine? I currently have the following hardware setup: > >Dell Inspiron 8000 Laptop >Pentium III 700mhz w/256MB RAM >Toshiba DVD-ROM >Integrated Actiontec 10/100MB NIC \ 56K Modem >Intel® 815e AGPSet Chipset with 4X AGP >10GB HD - currently 1 partition NTFS file system > >My thoughts were to install Caldera e-Desktop 2.4 which I have had some >success with. What I'm not sure about is re-partitioning the HD to >accommodate 2 Operating Systems. Caldera comes with a slim version of >Partition Magic, but I haven't had the opportunity to use it on NTFS, so >that is where any suggestions would help. > I've got a Dell Inspiron 3800 that I dual boot between windows ME (don't laugh, I've kept it for DVD playback) and Mandrake. It works fine, though the modem doesn't work... Another response sugguested reformatting the disk, if you haven't customized it much, follow this advice, it saves a lot of grief later. I also believe that NTFS support is still labeled "experimental" and "read only" in the kernel setup, so you may want to use FAT32 anyway (too bad win2k doesn't run off of ResierFS, huh?). For partitioning, I use Mandrake, so I've got diskdrake; but since you've got Caldera you may want to download something called GNUPartD, it's another graphical partitioning tool, under GPL, that is a replacement of disk druid. I've not used it, but Suse uses it as it's partitioning tool and I've not read one complaint about it. Hope this helps. Wes >Thanks for the time. > >Matthew > > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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Double Dial Out
by Bob Brown June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

I was wondering if anyone knows the fix to the double dial problem? Whenever I dial out from my RH 6.1 Linux box (using Linuxconf) the system dials, connects, hangs-up and display "The Command /sbin/ifup ppp0 is taking longer than expected to complete. Please take action" Then it automatically re-dials and successfully connects. I found this reported in several Usenet groups and archives since 1999 but I have not seen a resolution. Thanks, Bob Brown

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MegaMeeting
by Andy Stewart June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

HI gang, USDataCenters is holding a meeting in Marlboro, MA on Wednesday, June 6, 2001 for a number of Boston area computer user groups. Most of these groups are Windows related, but not all. I have signed up to represent WLUG. GNHLUG, BLU, and (I think) MWBLUG will also be in attendance. If you want more information, or perhaps you'd like to attend as well, check out this website: http://www.BostonUserGroups.com/MegaMeeting/Default.htm Preregistration is required so please sign up if you plan to attend. I tried to get a table just for WLUG, but they have run out of tables. The Boston Linux and Unix User Group was kind enough to allow us to share some space with them (many thanks to Jerry Feldman). I'll be seeking out the local Kinkos for printing up some flyers this weekend. If anybody does plan to go, please drop me an e-mail just to let me know. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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SCSI Tape Drive Question
by Marc Hughes May 31, 2001

May 31, 2001

We have a kicking VA Linux 4450 server with a VXA-V17 tape drive in it. Unfortunatly the tape drive isn't seen by linux. It shows up in the scsi bios utilities. There is no mention of a tape drive in dmesg or /var/log/messages after bootup, and it doesn't work when you try something like "mt -f /dev/st0 status". The drive is on scsi channel B, does that make a difference? Is there some way to scan the scsi bus manually? I checked /proc/config.gz and tape drive support is built in. Any ideas, suggestions? -Marc

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Samba question
by Thomas Carey May 30, 2001

May 30, 2001

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Win2k
by Michael P. Gorse May 28, 2001

May 28, 2001

Hi all, I am getting a notebook with Win2k preinstalled, and I would like to repartition the drive and set aside a few hundred megs for a GNU/Linux installation. So I was wondering if Lilo would be able to boot Win2k? Also, how well is NTFS supported in the Linux kernel? Thanks in advance for any help! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |DO what you think is right, not what society expects of you.| | --Michael Gorse / WPI cs '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ --

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"Couldn't find ext2 superblock..."
by Dan Crooks May 28, 2001

May 28, 2001

Using Darkstar Resque Disk to boot and look around a RH 6.2 installation. e2fsck -n /dev/hda1 results in Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda1 Here are the questions: Can I fix the superblock? Or is it re-install time? Duplicate blocks are reported in hda12 (/) when I boot RH 6.2. Is it possible to fix that? RH6.2 boot in rescue mode from CD says fdisk unable to open hda but it is recognized by Darkstar Resque Disk. Unfortunately Darkstar only has partitions defined to hda9 and does not recognize hda12. Is it possible to rename a partition (hda12) to another name (hda5) from outside? I have a second system, Windows based, which allows me access to the internet for downloads, email, etc. Is there a way to download utilities on the Win machine and then execute them from a floppy on the Linux machine either booted into rescue mode from RH or from Darkstar floppy? Thank you in advance for any assistance, guidance or direction. Dan Crooks

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***NEW*** WLUG website
by Andy Stewart May 27, 2001

May 27, 2001

HI everybody, I am hoping that the transition to the new WLUG website was completely painless for you users. You will know that you are seeing the proper site if ***NEW*** appears near the top of the page. The DNS updates should have propagated around the Internet by now, so everybody should be seeing this. If somehow you are seeing the ***OLD*** site, please let me know and copy Chuck Anderson (cra(a)wpi.edu) also. Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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XEmacs question - gnuserv/gnuclient
by Andy Stewart May 24, 2001

May 24, 2001

HI gang, I'm running XEmacs 21.1.8 and am playing with gnuserv/gnuclient. Within XEmacs, I do M-x gnuserv-start (which seems OK). In a terminal window on the same machine, I type gnuclient and another XEmacs window pops up quite quickly (as I expect). However, I can't get this to work from another machine on my home network. I played with the xauth stuff and also tried setting the GNU_SECURE environment variable to no avail. Clearly I've done something wrong but I don't know what. Can somebody walk me through the steps? I'm expecting that if I run gnuserv on machine 'tux' that I can set the security so that I can access that gnuserv process from machine 'andypc' by typing the correct incantation of the gnuclient command on 'andypc'. Thanks in advance, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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Hostname
by Michael Long May 22, 2001

May 22, 2001

Thanks for the help with realaudio. Now it is working fine. My next question concerns how the hostname is published. When I look at the DHCP clients table provided by my router software the windoze boxes have published their hostname correctly but my linux box has published an incorrrect name. When I look at /etc/HOSTNAME the name is 'zeus' however then name that shows up in the clients table is '80'. What am I missing? thx, --mike

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Question about employment opportunities
by Pierce C. Barnard May 22, 2001

May 22, 2001

Hi, I recently re-subscribed to the WLUG users newsletter. I would like to address the following question to all of the network administrators who are members of the WLUG: 1.) What is the best way to become a system administrator? 2.) What exact skills does an employer look for in a perspective client to be a system administrator? 3.) What advice and experience can you share with me? Thank you for your time.

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Re: Wlug digest, Vol 1 #64 - 2 msgs
by Jim Stith May 21, 2001

May 21, 2001

compaq deskpro - the sequel; i have a viewsonic e771 monitor connected to the deskpro. i checked viewsonic's specs and found horizontal range 30-70khz vertical range 50-120hz both are what rh 70 installs and it does find the 771 although it is called e771-2 by rh. video card is a matrox mellinnium g200(generic) which is correct. i am using 16 bit 800x600. the pop sound is more like the monitor shutting off than any sort of safety device. the reason i want to install graphics is that i want to use webmin for configuration of samba apache etc. i am assuming that graphics has to be installed to use webmin. any other suggestions based on the info. above would be appreciated. thanks jim s. wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org wrote: > > Message: 1 > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: Re: [Wlug] compaq deskpro > From: Josh Huber <huber(a)alum.wpi.edu> > Date: 17 May 2001 15:00:50 -0400 > Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > Jim Stith <stith2(a)earthlink.net> writes: > > [snip] > > In addition to what other people are saying, I have to ask -- why > would you want to install X on a server? > > Save disk space, save memory, and keep things simple. If the console > works, just use it. :) > > -- > Josh Huber > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:30:32 -0400 > From: doug waud <douglas.waud(a)umassmed.edu> > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: Re: [Wlug] compaq deskpro > Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > Hi > > > everything loads fine but when the system tries to go into x and give me > > a login screen, the monitor makes a poping sound and the screen goes > > blank. > > As several responses have indicated already, you are probably driving > the monitor at the wrong frequency. This can be very dangerous (you > can cook a monitor this way) but perhaps not in your case since that > "popping sound" is probably the monitor being new enough to cut itself > off when mistreated. > > In any case, what you have to do is find out the allowable hsync and > vsync > frequencies of the monitor. Since the computer is second hand (I assume) > you may not have the manual. In that case, look on the monitor for some > sort of manufacturer/model number and feed that into google. With luck > and a bit of poking around you should be able to find a spec sheet or > table and get the hsync and vsync frequencies (I found Compaq was not > too shabby when faced with the same issue with my daughter's computer > and a Linux install). Once you have those values, you can tell the > install program what to use (I don't use Red Hat, so I can't give you > chapter and verse here; XF86Config is more generic but a tad cryptic. > If you have to go the latter route, feel free to touch base with me > (probably directly to save traffic to the whole group) and we can, > if necessary, walk through the various steps in XF86Config. > > Incidentally, I vaguely remember that my daughter's Compaq (a Presario) > had a bastard video chip which confused SuSE 6.3 but which 7.0 was > able to deal with. I suspect your box is old enough that this will > not be a problem. > > Finally, Compaq is good about providing manuals. I went into google > and entered compaq deskpro and got to the Compaq site > > which, in turn, had a link to a downloadable pdf manual. > > I suspect you may have to be a bit more specific as to model of > compaq deskpro but you should be able to get the equivalent for > your particular box. Ditto for monitor. This way you can give > the install program hints as to both the video chip and the > sync frequencies. > > Hope this helps a little. > > > i have been going through the faq's and the only thing i have found out > > is that compaq did some strange things around the mbr. > > I don't think this is anywhere near the mbr. > > doug > > PS I agree with John Huber's point that X is unnecessary (and perhaps > even in the way) on a server. However, I can also understand why you > might > want to get X going simply because, like Mount Everest, it's there :-) > > -- > Douglas R Waud > 17 Lantern Lane, Shrewsbury, MA, 01545-2006 > http://www.ummed.edu/pub/d/drw/ >

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New WLUG website
by Andy Stewart May 20, 2001

May 20, 2001

HI everybody, The WLUG website has been moved to a new location. I'd like to thank Rob Bellville for hosting the WLUG website for us for the last 3.5 years! Unfortunately, the ISP that Rob was using is "going away" so the site needed a new home. Chuck Anderson has volunteered to host the WLUG website on his machine - thanks, Chuck! I will still maintain my role to keep the site up to date with meeting announcements and such. The change should be totally transparent to all of you. You will continue to access the site via: http://www.wlug.org You will know if you are seeing the new site since it says "**NEW**" near the top. As the DNS change is propagated around the Internet, eventually you'll all see the new site. Don't freak out if you don't catch the new site immediately...they both have identical content. I won't remove the files from the old site just yet until we're sure that the transition has been completed successfully. If you have problems accessing the site, please let me know. Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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Partition
by colin＠localhost.localdomain May 19, 2001

May 19, 2001

Thanks for the feedback. Resized the WinFAT32 partition successfully (lost no data). Linux partitions expanded (required reformatting that did wipe data.) System appears to remain stable. Colin

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RealPlayer and Linksys
by Michael Long May 19, 2001

May 19, 2001

I have configured several boxes at home behind a Linksys router #BEFSR81. Both my windoze and linux boxes are able to connect through the router however Realaudio only connects through the router successfully on my windoze box. On the linux box I have installed it successfully but cannot get get it to connect through the router. What should I be looking at in order to solve this? I tried looking at preferences and tried Auto-Configure to no avail. Unfortunately I do not know what RTSP or PNA is or how to use it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. thx, mike

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Shifting partitions?
by gwlt＠ma.ultranet.com May 19, 2001

May 19, 2001

A fast question: Anyone have experience with the stability of and general wisdom of shifting the Linux partition on a hard drive on a dual boot machine? I am trying to upgrade to a newer kernel and am presented with not enough memory on the Linux side of the drive. Encountered error message: <<An error occurred. Tour system has not enough space left for installation or upgrade (366821583>188726600)>> If the endeavor is too risky I can sacrifice the current Linux install, wipe the partition and install from scratch. (That does undermine the whole benefit of purchasing the proprietary upgrade package though.) Thanks. Colin

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compaq deskpro
by Jim Stith May 18, 2001

May 18, 2001

well here goes... i got an old compaq deskpro (yes, a stupid mistake... but it was cheap) and wanted to load red hat 7.0 on it and possibly use the deskpro as a intranet server so that i could learn how to set a server up. everything loads fine but when the system tries to go into x and give me a login screen, the monitor makes a poping sound and the screen goes blank. same thing with mandrake and caldera. the screen stays blank. i have gone into the bios and disabled pnp and energy saver but that does not help. i have been going through the faq's and the only thing i have found out is that compaq did some strange things around the mbr. i have no other options open to me and would appreciate any help anyone can give concerning this. thanks jim s.

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newbie seeks help with kernel upgrade
by Dan Crooks May 17, 2001

May 17, 2001

Hi, and thank you in advance for your patience. This deals with upgrading kernel In attempting to install vmware 2.0 in Red Hat 6.2, I was notified that I needed an upgrade to RH6.2 kernel. While trying to install the kernel upgrade with rpm I received error messages: 1) failed dependencies: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0.1 is needed by kernel-2.2.19-6.2.1 2) mount < 2.10r conflicts with kernel-2.2... 3) nfs-utils < 0.3.1 conflicts with kernel-2.2... I understand that I can ignore the conflicts (2,3) by specifying --replacefiles in the rpm command. I decided to upgrade rpm assuming that rpmlib would be included. Using gnorpm I downloaded rpm 4.0-4 and received another error: only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this release of rpm. Presumably this message is issued by the currently version of rpm 3.0.4-0.48. This may be a red herring and not important as I continued. I used ncftp to download by specifying "mget rpm-*.rpm" and received four files rpm-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm, also -build-, -devel-, -python- from RH site. When I tried to install rpm-4.0.2-6x I received an error: failed dependency libdb-3.1.so. Where can I find libdb? How could I determine that for myself if I run into another dependency? Do you have any suggestions/recommendations regarding updating kernel? I am using instructions retrieved from RH titled "Upgrading the Linus Kernel on Red Hat Linux systems" by Red Hat Support last updated 2000 May 17 -- Thank you, Dan Crooks

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sorry about that
by Dan Crooks May 17, 2001

May 17, 2001

I put it on the WLUG WWWBoard, where it obviously belongs. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Thank you, Dan Crooks

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REMINDER: Meeting Wednesday, May 16th, 7:00 PM
by Andy Stewart May 14, 2001

May 14, 2001

Hi everybody, This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting, to be held in Kinnicutt Hall (a.k.a the usual place) at WPI at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, May 16h. The topic for discussion will be the practical use of IPCHAINS. What does that mean? This meeting, Doug Waud and I will present to you ways to use IPCHAINS to implement a firewall. This is not theory, this is practice...what to type, what it does, and why. This talk will build on the more detailed information presented by Bob Ziegler at our last meeting. Doug will start with a presentation of the simpler case of getting a firewall up which supports masquerading (that is, getting multiple machines on your home network to share one IP address, as you would for cable modem, for example), e-mail, and browsing. I will follow up with more detailed examples of IPCHAINS code from my own firewall script for allowing certain services through the firewall to the home network. Although firewalling is a complex topic, we're hoping to distill out of that complexity enough information so that a person can get started toward implementing a secure firewall. I'm looking forward to a good turnout at this meeting. Come on down! Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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RE: [Wlug] charter.net & ssh
by Keller, Tim May 10, 2001

May 10, 2001

Bill, Try doing a traceroute on port 22 to your machine and see where along the line it get stopped. It's probably a default security thing they have setup, you could probably call up tech support and have them remove the blocks for specific ports... Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Mills-Curran [mailto:bcurran@clariion.com] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:30 AM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: [Wlug] charter.net & ssh I got my new Charter cable modem and Linksys router set up recently, but I find that Charter seems to be blocking inbound access. I've the the sshd running, and I set the router to pass port 22 to my linux box. I can even connect if I ssh outbound to the router DHCP address, so it looks like my end of the configuration is correct. Anybody experience anything like this? Do you think that Charter will allow incoming requests to my system? TIA, Bill _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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RE: [Wlug] charter.net & ssh
by Keller, Tim May 10, 2001

May 10, 2001

Bill, I make it to the same point. Looks like the 10.254.1.2 is the gateway onto that segment of Ethernet, this would indicate that they do blocking at the router (at least to me and i'm not a network expert...) Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Mills-Curran [mailto:bcurran@clariion.com] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:09 PM To: 'wlug(a)mail.wlug.org' Subject: RE: [Wlug] charter.net & ssh Tim, It never makes it. BTW, if you're looking to try this yourself, I've turned off the forwarding on my router. I probably should have left it on so that I could work with the Charter people. Bill traceroute to 24.240.184.215 (24.240.184.215), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 clar45sec (128.221.45.11) 0.870 ms 0.892 ms 0.829 ms 2 sobo-clariion-gw.us.dg.com (128.221.35.65) 1.238 ms 0.740 ms 0.829 ms 3 webo-atm-oc3.us.dg.com (128.221.35.61) 1.851 ms 1.232 ms 1.286 ms 4 128.221.22.60 (128.221.22.60) 1.408 ms 1.063 ms 1.791 ms 5 128.221.4.66 (128.221.4.66) 1.141 ms 1.629 ms 1.113 ms 6 128.221.23.23 (128.221.23.23) 1.917 ms 1.076 ms 1.113 ms 7 us-customs2.us.dg.com (128.221.131.14) 1.580 ms 1.613 ms 2.193 ms 8 uunet-gw.us.dg.com (128.221.122.1) 3.197 ms 2.035 ms 1.939 ms 9 500.Serial4-1-0.GW3.BOS1.ALTER.NET (157.130.222.33) 3.365 ms 3.313 ms 3.132 ms 10 196.ATM2-0.XR1.BOS1.ALTER.NET (152.63.25.122) 3.839 ms 3.410 ms 3.814 ms 11 191.ATM7-0.GW3.BOS1.ALTER.NET (146.188.177.209) 3.342 ms 3.221 ms 3.449 ms 12 hsa-noxford-t3.customer.alter.net (157.130.220.226) 5.158 ms 5.753 ms 5.425 ms 13 24-216-218-3.hsacorp.net (24.216.218.3) 5.489 ms 5.842 ms 6.198 ms 14 10.254.1.2 (10.254.1.2) 6.192 ms 9.664 ms 6.756 ms 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * 22 * * * 23 * * * 24 * * * 25 * * * 26 * * * 27 * * * 28 * * * 29 * * * 30 * * * On Thu, 10 May 2001, Keller, Tim wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:30:26 -0400 > From: "Keller, Tim" <Tim.Keller(a)stratus.com> > Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > To: "'wlug(a)mail.wlug.org'" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Subject: RE: [Wlug] charter.net & ssh > > Bill, > > Try doing a traceroute on port 22 to your machine and see where along the > line it get stopped. > > It's probably a default security thing they have setup, you could probably > call up tech support and have them remove the blocks for specific ports... > > Tim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Mills-Curran [mailto:bcurran@clariion.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:30 AM > To: Worcester Linux Users Group > Subject: [Wlug] charter.net & ssh > > > I got my new Charter cable modem and Linksys router set up recently, > but I find that Charter seems to be blocking inbound access. I've the > the sshd running, and I set the router to pass port 22 to my linux > box. I can even connect if I ssh outbound to the router DHCP address, > so it looks like my end of the configuration is correct. > > Anybody experience anything like this? Do you think that Charter will > allow incoming requests to my system? > > TIA, > Bill > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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charter.net & ssh
by Bill Mills-Curran May 10, 2001

May 10, 2001

I got my new Charter cable modem and Linksys router set up recently, but I find that Charter seems to be blocking inbound access. I've the the sshd running, and I set the router to pass port 22 to my linux box. I can even connect if I ssh outbound to the router DHCP address, so it looks like my end of the configuration is correct. Anybody experience anything like this? Do you think that Charter will allow incoming requests to my system? TIA, Bill

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remote backup...
by Marc Hughes May 10, 2001

May 10, 2001

Hey Guys, I have a dedicated web server that I need to backup (entirely). Unfortunately there's not enough room for me to make a tar archive on the machine, and there's no tape drive either in the machine or at that facility that we can efficiently use. We get charged for bandwidth usage, so I would like to compress the backup before it comes over the wire. Also, this is a one time deal, so I can't go spending massive amounts of cash on some commercial backup software. Any Suggestions? -Marc

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CDMA compatible phone and Linux...
by Keller, Tim May 10, 2001

May 10, 2001

Hey Everybody, Has anybody ever had any luck getting a CDMA phone (Motorola StarTAC) to work with Linux? I went looking and found software that would let you alter the phone-book on the phone, but didn't do anything about dialing. I'm figuring its either a) shows up like a Hayes device (which would be wonderful) or b) it uses some totally undocumented proprietary protocol I'll be forced to reverse engineer... Tim.

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