From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Mon, 25 Oct 93 14:22:30 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #125 Linux-Admin Digest #125, Volume #1 Mon, 25 Oct 93 14:22:30 EDT Contents: Re: Sysinstall don't work (root@scrum.greenie.muc.de) Re: [Q] Great! passwd file corrupt!! what now? (Vince Skahan) Re: How Do I make a boot disk? (Jack Coyote) How do I install via Internet??? (Jeff Stern) Re: Sysinstall don't work (STEVEN J. KANGAS) Re: NEC SCSI CDR-84 CD-ROM no (Chris Ulrich) Re: HELP! ext2 filesystem partly corrupted - e2fsck useless (Micaela Pantke) Re: Linux with 2 Ethernet Cards (Hakkarainen Kimmo) Re: Where can I find the binary code of xmosaic 1.2 for linux? Re: How do I install via Internet??? (Jim Howard) Re: Q: Parking an SCSI Disk under Linux (ZYNGIER Marc) Login time restrictions (Holger Muenx) SCSI conflicts with PAS16? (John Ngai) How to use a secondary IDE interface. (John Ngai) Chatting programs without net (Holger Muenx) Re: Linux with 2 Ethernet Cards (Justin Botelle) Re: Linux with 2 Ethernet Cards (Justin Botelle) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: root@scrum.greenie.muc.de Subject: Re: Sysinstall don't work Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1993 14:36:45 GMT joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico) writes: >Hi, >If i type : >sysinstall -disk >or >sysinstall -instdev /dev/fd0H1440 -series >i get: >Insert disk oi1 into the floppy drive then hit enter, or q to quit >but when i hit enter, nothing happens-- the drive light at no point goes >on! Anyone have any ideas what i'm doing wrong? I'm trying to install >parcplace's OI development series. Has anyone successfully installed >this? > This command seems to be severly broken in all the SLS packages . Forget about it . Best way to install any additional packages within SLS is via the menu / Installation / Adding additional Software Greetings Michael -- ---- Michael Buchenrieder * mibu@scrum.greenie.muc.de Siegesstr. 11 , 80802 Munich , Bavaria , FRG Tel.:0049-89-394196 * FAX: 0049-89-398986 ------------------------------ From: vince@victrola.wa.com (Vince Skahan) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: [Q] Great! passwd file corrupt!! what now? Date: 24 Oct 1993 15:52:23 -0700 hawks@seq.uncwil.edu (David Hawks) writes: >Looks like the passwd file is corrupt and who knows what else? What should >I do now? Reinstall? How do I prevent this corruption? How did it happen? >It happened less than a week after I installed linux. I need some advice, >if someone would be so kind to offer it? I can't run linux if it gets >corrupted files that easy and fast. I can only login as root through the >original boot disk but what do I do to restore the passwd file? How do >I check for other corrupt files? this is yet-another-non-linux-question that should not be in the c.o.l.* areas...sigh..... to restore the file, boot off the spare boot disk and: - stash the existing /etc/passwd and /etc/group and /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow if you have shadow passwords so you can look at them - copy known good ones from the boot disk to get booted off the hard disk. -- ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.wa.com ------------- Fregosi's law - Phillies relievers don't Fregosi about the Wild Thing - "He doesn't get ulcers - he's a carrier" Mitch Williams' new pickup line - "Are those fries for here or to go?" ------------------------------ From: uphrrmk@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Jack Coyote) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: How Do I make a boot disk? Date: 25 Oct 1993 00:22:49 GMT Reply-To: uphrrmk@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Jack Coyote) In comp.os.linux.admin, marcb@netcom.com (Marc Bernstein) writes: [redirected to c.o.l.help] > >Don Van Drei (dvandrei@gadfly.lerc.nasa.gov) wrote: >: I've corrupted my floppy boot disk and need to make a new one, >: what is the command? I've installed a, b, and c, but don't know where >: the command makebootdisk is. Also it states that to created a boot on >: my harddrive I can 'play with /usr/src/lilo', well that doesn't exist >: either. Assuming you still have your installation disk, boot with it. Login as root. # mount -t ext2 [linux root partition] /root # cd root # ls You will see the file 'zImage'. This is your boot floppy file. Insert a low level formatted floppy in drive a. # dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 This does a block copy (in 1K blocks) of zImage to your floppy. That's it. (More generally, you use the source code and 'make zdisk', but you have to have installed the kernel source code, and this is only needed if you want to change the kernel) Jack Coyote PS. Make TWO and keep one safe. Write protect them both. -- It's hard to get a refund when the salesman is sniffing your crotch and baying at the moon. -- Cerebus ------------------------------ From: jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) Subject: How do I install via Internet??? Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Date: 25 Oct 93 00:43:51 GMT I realize this may be a faq, but I have looked all over sunsite and tsx-11 for the answer and can find no help. I want to install Linux via the network/NFS option of doinstall. It asks me for the site and /.install/ directory and I give it tsx-11's Internet address and the /pub/linux/packages/SLS directory, but it is not able to mount it. I can't even do it via mount -t nfs.. for some reason. Now I know the mount -t nfs command is working because I have been able to mount muarchive's /archive directory from Linux in this state, so I know the network is not the problem. It appears the aforementioned tsx-11 directory is not mountable. Is this an option which has been abandoned practically, but the script 'doinstall' still has it by mistake? If not, what site address and directory should I give it: for SLS? for Slackware? Just for future reference, where is there any help on this? My reason for asking the last question is that if there isn't help available, I'd like to write a little FAQ for it so no one else has to go through the same frustration.. If there is help, however, I'd be interested in how the file organization of tsx-11 and sunsite prevented me, blind as I am, from being able to find it easily... Loading from the Internet would be much preferable to making the floppies, since I do have Internet access, luckily. Thanks for any help. =============================================================================== Jeff Stern "Timex Sinclair UNIX.. coming soon to a dealer near you." =============================================================================== -- =============================================================================== Jeff Stern "Timex Sinclair UNIX.. coming soon to a dealer near you." =============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: sjkangas@major.cs.mtu.edu (STEVEN J. KANGAS) Subject: Re: Sysinstall don't work Date: 25 Oct 1993 05:57:36 GMT Joe Panico (joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu) wrote: : Hi, : sysinstall -disk : or : sysinstall -instdev /dev/fd0H1440 -series Log in as root, go to /usr/bin, vi sysinstall, and change the INSTDEV to /dev/fd1. It worked for me. For some reason, I could never get the sysinstall script to use the -instdev command. There are a few other commands it refuses to take but I can't remember them at the moment. My solution is the easy way out but it worked. : parcplace's OI development series. Has anyone successfully installed : this? Yup. Works fine. An extremely impressive package, although it runs a bit slow since it's pretty big. I have 486DX50 and the lack of speed is pretty noticeable on mine. With anything less, I'd expect the speed to be annoying, to say the least. -- Steve Kangas sjkangas@major.cs.mtu.edu ------------------------------ From: insom@galaxy.ucr.edu (Chris Ulrich) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: NEC SCSI CDR-84 CD-ROM no Date: 24 Oct 1993 22:51:08 -0700 I had a similar problem with an nec cdr 72 running under OS/2. I solved the problem by disabling sync negotiation on my 1542a card. After I did that, it worked fine for playing audio cds. Prior to that, it would read data cd's with errors, and not recognize audio cds at all. Now it works fine. The cdr72 is just the earlier version of the 74. hope this helps chris insom@ac.ucr.edu Ecstatic peace insom@ucrvms Savage conquest ------------------------------ From: hz225wu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Micaela Pantke) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: HELP! ext2 filesystem partly corrupted - e2fsck useless Date: 25 Oct 1993 08:40:59 +0100 In mark@macs.ee.mcgill.ca (Mark Kassab) writes: >I don't know where to start. My system had been up but idle for several >hours when the power went out. >First, I trusted fsck and ran it with the "-a" option. Next thing I knew, my >/tmp and everything in it were gone, my /etc/fstab contained garbage, and who >knows what other files were corrupted. >Note that I'm running SLS 1.03 with 0.99pl12. I got bitten by the same kind of bug, loosing about 40 Mb of files (all of my user-area... which I luckily backed up just before it happened). After reinstalling, installing bootutils-0.1.tar.gz directly at the beginning, my setup ran more stable than before. The next thing I saw was, that after adding another partition, this new partition was almost always checked, even if I did a correct shutdown (Hey: I'm using UN*X for about five years :-)). I tracked this down to some directory inodes being marked as being accessed. I thought: OK this is a hackers OS, so get hacking. I spent the better part of last weekend debugging, only to find out: - There are two bugs in the quota patches included in SLS 1.03 0.99pl12. - Quota can smoehow not be configured out of the kernel. So my advice is: get a real 0.99pl13 kernel and maybe your problem won't happen again. Of course then you don't have the quota-patches included, but who cares... at the moment. I will of course mail the person doing the quota stuff of my findings. BTW: The safest way to do a fsck on a root partition is always using a bootdisk, (like the one included in the SLS-Distribution) and running fsck from that on your root-Partition. Of course you would need the newest e2fsck from the archives on that disk... Karl Guenter Wuensch hz225wu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de ------------------------------ From: h108373@mustarastas.cs.tut.fi (Hakkarainen Kimmo) Subject: Re: Linux with 2 Ethernet Cards Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 10:14:42 GMT aliu@phakt.usc.edu (Alex Liu) writes: > botelle@jrb3.xrt.upenn.edu (Justin Botelle) writes: > > Will it route > >between the two nets the cards are attached to? > > I am trying to do this and unfortunately with no luck. What if you try using routed(8)? -- Kimmo -- God is real, unless declared integer ------------------------------ From: engels@groucho.uni-duesseldorf.de () Subject: Re: Where can I find the binary code of xmosaic 1.2 for linux? Date: 25 Oct 1993 13:53:23 GMT Yi-Tsun Chang (ytchang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote: : Dear Linuxer, : Where can I find the binary code of xmosaic 1.2 for linux? All I can get are : the source files from ncsa ftp server. Since I don't have motif, I cannot do : anything about it. I was able to get the binary code of xmosaic 1.1 by using : archie though. : Thanks in advance. I got it from sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/system/Network/info-systems as xmosaic-1.2.tar.z. Bye engelsg@uni-duesseldorf.de ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: jahoward@iastate.edu (Jim Howard) Subject: Re: How do I install via Internet??? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 13:48:32 GMT In <2CCB2147.27917@news.service.uci.edu> jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) writes: >It appears the aforementioned tsx-11 >directory is not mountable. BINGO. That directory is most likely not exported. I have set up a world exported directory that you may use at your own risk for just the purpose you ask... al.me.iastate.edu is exporting /SLS to anyone who would like to install via NFS. >Is this an option which has been abandoned practically, but the script >'doinstall' still has it by mistake? No, Many people have done it this way. >If not, what site address and directory should I give it: >for SLS? >for Slackware? see above. >=============================================================================== >Jeff Stern >"Timex Sinclair UNIX.. coming soon to a dealer near you." >=============================================================================== Jim jahoward@iastate.edu -- *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* jahoward@iastate.edu SGI adm. ISU EE/IEEE =-=-=-= LINUX -- Have you administered a real OS today? =-=-=-= =============== IPRT/ICEMT--Black Engineering 95E--Ames Lab ================== ------------------------------ From: zyngier@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (ZYNGIER Marc) Subject: Re: Q: Parking an SCSI Disk under Linux Date: 25 Oct 1993 14:49:05 GMT To all those who answered that an SCSI-hd couldn't and/or shouldn't be parked: 1- this is a 20mb Miniscribe (1988) which is *NOT* self-park, 2- it used to be parked on my old Atari-ST without *ANY* problem, 3- Who told you that parking a SCSI disk could damage it ??? & I'm still looking for the magic program... -- =============================================================================== Some people think you've got to live your life one way, | Marc ZYNGIER I disagree. | (Captain Cavern) I'm not gonna pay attention to them anyway, | It's got nothing, nothing to do with me. |zyngier@amertume Life is so short, we got no time to waste at all. | .ufr-info-p7 I only wanna ride. | .ibp.fr Get on my bike and ride. | J. S. | Email's welcome =============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: muenx@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Holger Muenx) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Login time restrictions Date: 25 Oct 1993 15:57:45 GMT Guten Tag! Users can access my machines via a dial-in port, using getty 2.0.7b and the shadow login suite. I want to enforcer maximal login times for users dialing in. That means: not only periods of time during the day when they are allowed to log on but the maximal time they are allowed to be logged on should be limited. Unfortunately, browsing through the documentations of the above mentioned package gave me no insight how to reach this. Any idea? Any information will be appreciated. Thank you for your help! Holger Muenx (muenx@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) ------------------------------ From: ngai@nova.bellcore.com (John Ngai) Subject: SCSI conflicts with PAS16? Reply-To: ngai@apostle.bellcore.com Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 16:12:19 GMT Hi, I just read the Hardware.HOWTO which indicates that the Adaptec 1542 conflicts with PAS16 because both are bus mastering cards. I have a PAS16 installed on my system, and am thinking about getting a VLB SCSI card like the BusLogic 445S or Ultrastor 34F. Would these cards also conflict with the PAS16 sound card I have?? My other choice is to get IDE drives, but that is another post. Please advice. Thanks. -- John ------------------------------ From: ngai@nova.bellcore.com (John Ngai) Subject: How to use a secondary IDE interface. Reply-To: ngai@apostle.bellcore.com Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 16:20:04 GMT Hi, I have the Gateway 2000 DX2-66V which comes with 2 IDE controllers built-in on the motherboard. The standard Linux harddisk driver allows me to use the primary IDE controller to hook upto 2 IDE drives, with the PC standard IRQ=14. I looked up the GW manual, which stated that the secondary IDE controller uses a different I/O port base (can't remember off hand), and a different IRQ (15 as I remember). I also looked up the Linux harddisk driver file, which seems to limit the number of IDE drives to 2. My question is how can I enable this secondary IDE controller so that I can hookup the 3rd and the 4th IDE drive in my system under Linux? Is there a modified driver that will allow me to do that, and where can I get it?? Please advice. Thanks -- John ------------------------------ From: muenx@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Holger Muenx) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Chatting programs without net Date: 25 Oct 1993 16:18:57 GMT Guten Tag! The users on my machine want to have a chatting mechanism, eg. for getting help from the sysadmin without the time consuming mail/write cycles. There is the BSD talk. Unfortunately, it needs UDP to run and IP is not activated on my machine. So: Is there any chat program which does not need a working IP? Has anybody patched the talk package to run without IP? Any information will be appreciated. Thank you for your help! Holger Muenx (muenx@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) ------------------------------ From: botelle@jrb3.xrt.upenn.edu (Justin Botelle) Subject: Re: Linux with 2 Ethernet Cards Date: 25 Oct 93 16:36:09 GMT In article <1993Oct24.180518.4395@Armstrong.EDU> jon@Armstrong.EDU (Jon Wright) writes: >From: jon@Armstrong.EDU (Jon Wright) >Subject: Re: Linux with 2 Ethernet Cards >Date: 24 Oct 93 18:05:18 GMT > Well, I was looking into doing this. There is a reference to it in either the >Ethernet or Net-2 Howto( Don't remember which off of the top of my head, sorry). >What I had to do to get my machine to recognize both cards, Elite 16 Combos, >was to boot from lilo w/ the following arguments : Thanks for the help. I'll give it a whirl. I may just snatch your boot statement verbatim, since I also have 2 SMC Elite 16 combo cards. Justin (I don't necessarily need them to route... or even want them to route for that matter, but I do want people from our network to be able to do nice things like post, etc) Justin Botelle botelle@jrb3.xrt.upenn.edu standard disclaimers apply __ ------------------------------ From: botelle@jrb3.xrt.upenn.edu (Justin Botelle) Subject: Re: Linux with 2 Ethernet Cards Date: 25 Oct 93 16:43:51 GMT In article <2a9deb$s01@phakt.usc.edu> aliu@phakt.usc.edu (Alex Liu) writes: >From: aliu@phakt.usc.edu (Alex Liu) >Subject: Re: Linux with 2 Ethernet Cards >Date: 22 Oct 93 19:48:27 GMT >botelle@jrb3.xrt.upenn.edu (Justin Botelle) writes: >>Will Linux support 2 Ethernet Cards in the same machine? >Yes, this is possible (I have done it) You must first make sure that the >network cards don't conflict in any IRQ, I/O or memory address. Once you Thanks for the help Justin Justin Botelle botelle@jrb3.xrt.upenn.edu standard disclaimers apply __ ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Admin-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.admin) via: Internet: Linux-Admin@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Admin Digest ******************************