date:20030705

Michael wrote:

ok, I've accomplished something hereI figured out how to actually see and access all the info on all the partitions I have created in windows (they're all FAT32 partitions).

Good.

my cd-rw drive isn't mounted.  i can't figure out what's wrong either, because everything installed off the install CDs, but when I put a CD into my drive and try to access it, linux locks up completely.  

Well , that is drastic.

Mike
 

The  3 most important files/directories controlling all the access to 
the drives are ,
/etc/lilo.conf
/etc/fstab
/mnt/cdrom

depending whether you want supermount, automount, and scsi-emulation.

Standard install off the Mandrake discs attempts to install 
supermount.This doesn't always work.Automount is a fallback position, 
and scsi-emulation is only desirable if you have a writer as well,so 
that the writer can read from the dvd/cdrom. However, I have never yet 
got a fully working supermount on my machine.

Probably, the best thing you can do here is post /etc/fstab here to see 
what has happened.Then someone with more knowledge than I , can walk you 
through supermount.

John





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Re: [newbie] checkinstall/urpme/sylpheed

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 04:54, Derek Jennings wrote:
 On Thursday 03 Jul 2003 10:39 am, C T wrote:
  I installed sylpheed using a tarball and checkinstall but now urpme
  won't remove it.
  Obviously I missed something (?) ...what do I need to do to remove the
  program?
  Curt
 
 urpme sylpheed
 should uninstall it. Assuming of course that you are in a root terminal and 
 the package is in fact called sylpheed
 rpm -q sylpheed
 will confirm that it is installed.
 
 
 If you still have trouble post us the error mesages.
 
 derek

Thanks Derek,
I guess I did miss something I know it was installed because I
issued 'sylpheed' and there it was - but 'urpme sylpheed' returned
unknown package sylpheed at one point either 'locate' or 'find'
sylpheed returned a bunch of files in /.sylpheed (I think)
Right now 'locate sylpheed' returns only /faq/, /manual/ and /themes/ in
/usr/share/sylpheed
I think I expected some dialog with urpme that I didn't see (not sure)
but in any case it's gone.
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[newbie] fat32

2003-07-05 Thread Tsyko

more info on my fat32 problem...

here is the lines out of my fstab file


i changed the ro to rw and i can now write to these disks but I am nervous of 
stuffing up the integrety.

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_e msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/win_f msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdi1 /mnt/win_g msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdj1 /mnt/win_h msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0

I would like to know if this looks right and can I continue without any 
problems?

Thanks

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Re: [newbie] fat32

2003-07-05 Thread Paul

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 12:44, Tsyko wrote:
 I converted my ntfs partitions to fat32 thinking i could write to them.
 
 I also changed my fstab settings from ntfs to msdos.
 
 have i done something wrong as i can´t write to the ft32 partitions?

You need to add some RW parameter to the lines in fstab. If I am right,
you can find the info you need at www.mandrakeuser.org.

Good luck,
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[newbie] Looking for some advice

I'm experiencing a number of strange behaviors with 9.1

These things happened in this order:

The first thing I noticed was the icons for CD/DVD and CD/R-W 
disappeared from the desktop - this was  maybe the 3rd or 4th time
rebooting a new installation - they flashed on the screen for a fraction
of a second and were gone.

A few days later;
I'm running a tone generator program under WINE - a Windoze program that
*does* work in Linux. It worked fine for a while - then suddenly WINE
would exit, failing... but if I hit 'debug' it would start and run
normally - for a day or two.
Now it detects an 'internal error' and gives the error to send to the
bugs@ address. But the program freezes and none of the options work, eg
'save as file', 'send via internet', 'cancel', 'exit program' and 
clicking on the program window to close doesn't work and top shows
wine.bin using 88% of the CPU and I must kill the process.

About the same time:

Opera (v 7.11) started acting weird. First instead of a clicked link
opening another tab in the window it started opening new windows
(settings in preferences didn't make any difference) and also it would
only save it's state from the last instance once in a while - this has
been discussed as a possible Opera problem on the Opera forums and
likely has nothing to do with my perceived Linux problem - haven't seen
the first problem mentioned there.

Next:
Although plugins are enabled and applied to XMMS, on occasion it fails
to open a stream that I listen to regularly and gives a message that the
correct plugin may not be chosen. I go to preferences and find that the
enable plugins box (for IO) has become unchecked - choosing the correct
plugin, enabling and hitting 'apply' puts things back in order and the
stream plays. This will happen after a reboot or sometimes just when
restarting the stream - when even the player hasn't been shut down.

A while later:

Using MCC I tried to install the Development packages (which I thought
I'd chosen at install time) but MCC wouldn't even allow me to check the
boxes, except for the documentation.

These are the main things although there may be something else I'm
forgetting to mention.

I'm wondering if these behaviors could be caused by a related error
somewhere affecting everything - with the possible exception of the
Opera stuff?

I've considered attempting to repair the installation using the install
disk, choosing 'upgrade' and no packages, formatting only the /
partition in hopes of correcting what *might* be the problem.
Would this be unwise?


 As a last resort, I could figure out how to back up my email and
bookmarks and start over fresh - which seems like a good idea.(I know
Windoze thinking... I'm workin' on it :)

What options are available at this point?
Where do  you begin troubleshooting problems like these?
 
I'm only beginning to get a grip on the Linux file system and so, don't
have the greatest confidence in manually editing files.

Any and all thoughts/ideas/guesses welcome.
Curt


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Backup Applications WAS - Re: [newbie] Backups

2003-07-05 Thread Chris

On Saturday 05 July 2003 03:31 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] var]$ gzip -l --name --verbose
 backup_incr_user_chris_20030630_171205.tar.gz
 method  crc date  time  compressed  uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
 defla 2cda29fa Jun 30 17:12 -1976868556 -1739046912   0.0%
 backup_incr_user_chris_20030630_171205.tar


 Not likely if tar has a usable limit of 2GB.

So it appears from the replies I've gotten so far that drakbackup is useless 
when backing up a /home partition that is anything other than very small.  Is 
this a correct assumption?  If so, has anyone any suggestions for a backup 
app that will work and work well with Mandrake?

Thanks

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Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow -up

2003-07-05 Thread The Other

07/05/03

Dark Lord,

Thank you so much for giving this website.

I was playing Infocom first on the Atari 1200XL, then on a 
Tandy/Radio Shack 8086.   You realize you just blew all my free 
time for this summer, and fall, and .  :)

Would you be so kind as to give me the directions on how to play 
the .z5 file format?

Send the directions to me offline, if you like.  And since I'm 
still waiting for the return of my hard drive to reinstall 
Bamboo, would you also have directions for a Windows machine to 
read a .z5 file format?

All the thanks,
The Other
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Saturday 05 July 2003 12:55 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote:


If you've got it - then I need it. Much rather have it under linux than
DOS; what what'll it take to get it?


You can use either the Z-interpreter or Xinfocom. I use Xinfocom, works fine 
here. Go to this page and grab whatever game data files you need (there are a 
lot of oldies and goodies here!):

http://www.latz.org/games/list.shtml

I'll send you the Xinfocom file offlist.

PS Actually, you can probably use the data files from the PC version you've 
got - I think it was the same across several platforms (Atari, Amiga, Mac, 
PC)





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Re: [newbie] fat32

Tsyko wrote:

more info on my fat32 problem...

here is the lines out of my fstab file

i changed the ro to rw and i can now write to these disks but I am nervous of 
stuffing up the integrety.

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_e msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/win_f msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdi1 /mnt/win_g msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdj1 /mnt/win_h msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
I would like to know if this looks right and can I continue without any 
problems?

Thanks
 

I think maybe like this,

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdi1 /mnt/win_g vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdj1 /mnt/win_h vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
John

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Re: [newbie] fat32

2003-07-05 Thread Greg Meyer

On Saturday 05 July 2003 07:35 am, Tsyko wrote:
 more info on my fat32 problem...

 here is the lines out of my fstab file


 i changed the ro to rw and i can now write to these disks but I am nervous
 of stuffing up the integrety.

 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,ro,umask=0 0 0
 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
 /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_e msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
 /dev/hde5 /mnt/win_f msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
 /dev/hdi1 /mnt/win_g msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0
 /dev/hdj1 /mnt/win_h msdos iocharset=iso8859-15,rw,umask=0 0 0

 I would like to know if this looks right and can I continue without any
 problems?

If your partition are fat32, then change msdos to vfat.
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Re: [newbie] fat32

2003-07-05 Thread Greg Meyer

On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:44 am, Tsyko wrote:
 I converted my ntfs partitions to fat32 thinking i could write to them.

 I also changed my fstab settings from ntfs to msdos.

the partition type for fat32 is vfat not msdos.

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Re: Backup Applications WAS - Re: [newbie] Backups

Chris wrote:

On Saturday 05 July 2003 03:31 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] var]$ gzip -l --name --verbose
backup_incr_user_chris_20030630_171205.tar.gz
method  crc date  time  compressed  uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
defla 2cda29fa Jun 30 17:12 -1976868556 -1739046912   0.0%
backup_incr_user_chris_20030630_171205.tar
 

 

Not likely if tar has a usable limit of 2GB.
   

So it appears from the replies I've gotten so far that drakbackup is useless 
when backing up a /home partition that is anything other than very small.  Is 
this a correct assumption?  If so, has anyone any suggestions for a backup 
app that will work and work well with Mandrake?

Thanks

 

Use partimage.
Get it on the gentoo disc that you can download from their website.
You will need a spare partition to create the image file in and if you 
want you can
write that image to CD in a writer.

John

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Re: [newbie] Looking for some advice

2003-07-05 Thread Aron Smith

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 04:10, C T wrote:
 I'm experiencing a number of strange behaviors with 9.1
 
 These things happened in this order:
 
 The first thing I noticed was the icons for CD/DVD and CD/R-W 
 disappeared from the desktop - this was  maybe the 3rd or 4th time
 rebooting a new installation - they flashed on the screen for a fraction
 of a second and were gone.
 
 A few days later;
 I'm running a tone generator program under WINE - a Windoze program that
 *does* work in Linux. It worked fine for a while - then suddenly WINE
 would exit, failing... but if I hit 'debug' it would start and run
 normally - for a day or two.
 Now it detects an 'internal error' and gives the error to send to the
 bugs@ address. But the program freezes and none of the options work, eg
 'save as file', 'send via internet', 'cancel', 'exit program' and 
 clicking on the program window to close doesn't work and top shows
 wine.bin using 88% of the CPU and I must kill the process.
 
 About the same time:
 
 Opera (v 7.11) started acting weird. First instead of a clicked link
 opening another tab in the window it started opening new windows
 (settings in preferences didn't make any difference) and also it would
 only save it's state from the last instance once in a while - this has
 been discussed as a possible Opera problem on the Opera forums and
 likely has nothing to do with my perceived Linux problem - haven't seen
 the first problem mentioned there.
 
 Next:
 Although plugins are enabled and applied to XMMS, on occasion it fails
 to open a stream that I listen to regularly and gives a message that the
 correct plugin may not be chosen. I go to preferences and find that the
 enable plugins box (for IO) has become unchecked - choosing the correct
 plugin, enabling and hitting 'apply' puts things back in order and the
 stream plays. This will happen after a reboot or sometimes just when
 restarting the stream - when even the player hasn't been shut down.
 
 A while later:
 
 Using MCC I tried to install the Development packages (which I thought
 I'd chosen at install time) but MCC wouldn't even allow me to check the
 boxes, except for the documentation.
 
 These are the main things although there may be something else I'm
 forgetting to mention.
 
 I'm wondering if these behaviors could be caused by a related error
 somewhere affecting everything - with the possible exception of the
 Opera stuff?
 
 I've considered attempting to repair the installation using the install
 disk, choosing 'upgrade' and no packages, formatting only the /
 partition in hopes of correcting what *might* be the problem.
 Would this be unwise?
 
 
  As a last resort, I could figure out how to back up my email and
 bookmarks and start over fresh - which seems like a good idea.(I know
 Windoze thinking... I'm workin' on it :)
 
 What options are available at this point?
 Where do  you begin troubleshooting problems like these?
  
 I'm only beginning to get a grip on the Linux file system and so, don't
 have the greatest confidence in manually editing files.
 
 Any and all thoughts/ideas/guesses welcome.
 Curt
Just a thought but how old is the CMOS battery in you box?
after about three years you would start getting strange results in most
any O/S.
(of course I get strange results all the time anyway)
 
 
 
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Re: [newbie] New hard drive

2003-07-05 Thread Greg Meyer

On Friday 04 July 2003 09:18 pm, Jon wrote:
 HI,

 One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing
 with a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and
 windows partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive
 (which is bigger) how do you do it? Also what's the correct sequence in
 formatting the hard drive? If this is covered in a FAQ somewhere then
 please just point me in the appropriate direction. Thanks.

Here your reference Jon.  This should work for fat32 partitions too.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html
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Re: [newbie] Sound problem Dell 4600 fixed

2003-07-05 Thread Paul

Hi all,

I reboot and disable onboard sound.
I put in the SB64 soundcard.
I run sndconfig. It finds the card. The Linus wav plays.
Linux. One of lifes' simple things.

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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

 my cd-rw drive isn't mounted.  i can't figure out what's wrong either, because 
 everything installed off the install CDs, but when i put a CD into my drive 
 and try to access it, linux locks up completely.  when i say locks up 
 completely, i mean i actually have to hit the restart button on the comp 
 case.  

I had a similar situation with my samsung drive:

drive worked in XP.  Couldn't install from it, and after installation (from other 
drive) linux would lock up when i put a cd in and tried to mount it.

The solution for me was to upgrade the firmware.

I'm not saying that will work for you, but you might check it.

If i run dmesg at the cli, the section for the cdrw is

scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: SAMSUNG   Model: CD-R/RW SW-408B   Rev: M300

which does tell me the firmware revision.  (this worked even before i updated it)

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Re: [newbie] Looking for some advice

C T wrote:

1) The first thing I noticed was the icons for CD/DVD and CD/R-W disappeared from the desktop -

2) A few days later, I'm running a tone generator program under WINE - a Windoze program that *does* work in Linux. It worked fine for a while - then suddenly WINE would exit, failing... but if I hit 'debug' it would start and run normally

3) About the same time: Opera (v 7.11) started acting weird. First instead of a clicked link opening another tab in the window it started opening new windows

4) Next: XMMS on occasion fails to open a stream that I listen to regularly and gives a message that the correct plugin may not be chosen. I go to preferences and find that the enable plugins box (for IO) has become unchecked - choosing the correct plugin, enabling and hitting 'apply' puts things back in order and the stream plays.

5) A while later: Using MCC I tried to install the Development packages (which I thought I'd chosen at install time) but MCC wouldn't even allow me to check the boxes, except for the documentation.

Curt

I do not know the answer to all your problems, but it would seem to me that 1 to 3 may be videocard/driver, and, or, settings related. In that you can also include monitor settings.
At least I would want to check that all is stable there before moving on.

All of that is done in MCC, unless you have 3rd party drivers to install.

Then I would post a thread for each problem you list, and I marked as 1-5.

If installing your OS went satisfactory, reinstalling it is unlikely to improve things all that much, except that each individual user improves their knowledge of how to do it, so that if you are new to Mandrake then the experience is worthwhile.

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Re: [newbie] Looking for some advice

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 08:43, Aron Smith wrote:

  
  Any and all thoughts/ideas/guesses welcome.
  Curt
 Just a thought but how old is the CMOS battery in you box?
 after about three years you would start getting strange results in most
 any O/S.
 (of course I get strange results all the time anyway)


Now there's an idea that hadn't occurred to me. It's getting close to
two years old. It would be cheap/easy enough to give it a shot before I
do anything drastic.
Also, I just found that the tone generator does the same thing under 9.0
- which is on another hard disk in the same box, when it didn't when I
last ran it there - that would seem to exclude a problem with WINE, no?
Thanks for the idea Aron.


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[newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit

2003-07-05 Thread Rob van Dam

I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900 only
works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit.

Does anyone know how to do this?



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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

On Saturday 05 July 2003 05:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote:


 Probably, the best thing you can do here is post /etc/fstab here to see
 what has happened.Then someone with more knowledge than I , can walk you
 through supermount.

 John

i went into mandrake control center and copied this info

Bus: SCSI
Location on the bus: 0:0:0
Drive capacity: burner 
Channel: 00
New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd
Old device file: /dev/scd0
Floppy format: IDE-CD R/RW 8x4x32
Media class: cdrom

if i right click on the cd-rom icon on the desktop, it lists location as 

/ (devices)

i have all EIDE connections, no SCSI connections, although what i was told 
before was that linux sees most of this stuff as SCSI even if it is EIDE.  

If i go into mount points in the mandrake control center, when i click on 
the cd/dvd, it gives me this info

Mount point: /mnt/cdrom
Device: scd0
Type: auto
Options: supermount,ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0

now, here's another thing..when i was installing md9.1 on this machine, it 
got to where it started reading off the cd (had to use boot floppy to get 
install done), then it'd tell me it couldn't access a cd in my drive.  i'd 
let it try a few times, then i told it to use another method to access the 
cd.  i think it was ide.cd, i'm not sure, either that or it was 
iso.something.  i figure i might've made a mistake with it there.  

anyway, it's a cd-rw drive, and isn't working properly.  i havn't tested my 
floppy drive to see if it gives me the same problems, pretty much because i 
never use the floppy drive, and reason 2 being i don't want to hard crash the 
system again.  hard crash bad, hard crash bad

This is what's in the lilo under the Expert tab

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet
vga=788
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda

other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe

i hope i've given enough info to get started on this problem.  if i need to 
get info from elsewhere, can i have a step by step instruction please?  
wishing that learn mandrake in 24 hours book had shown up alreadysure 
could use it right now!  also need to go back out and find 2 other books, 
Running Linux 3rd edition and Linux in a Nutshell 3rd edition.  I think i saw 
them in a local bookstore.  anyway, thanks to anyone that can help!

Mike

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Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit

2003-07-05 Thread Derek Jennings

On Saturday 05 Jul 2003 2:36 pm, Rob van Dam wrote:
 I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900 only
 works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit.

 Does anyone know how to do this?

Two ways
1/ Install net-tools RPM then use mii-tool .
See man mii-tool.
You will need to insert the command somewhere in your boot up (e.g. 
/etc/rc.local )

2/ Set a module option in /etc/modules.conf
For advice see http://www.scyld.com/network/

HTH

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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

  Probably, the best thing you can do here is post /etc/fstab here to see
  what has happened.Then someone with more knowledge than I , can walk you
  through supermount.

At the command line (xterm or some other terminal) type  cat /etc/fstab and send the 
results.

 wishing that learn mandrake in 24 hours book had shown up already

I just googled for similar, and the first 2 i saw were for mandrake 6.x.  If you end 
up with one that old, not sure how much it will help.

 Running Linux 3rd edition and Linux in a Nutshell 3rd edition.  I think i saw 
 them in a local bookstore.  anyway, thanks to anyone that can help!

People say great things about those 2.

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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

Michael wrote:

On Saturday 05 July 2003 05:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote:

Probably, the best thing you can do here is post /etc/fstab here to see
what has happened.Then someone with more knowledge than I , can walk you
through supermount.
John

Go, Home directory , back to / , click on etc icon to /etc directory
, skip past the blue directories to a file called fstab. There right
mouse click fstab, and it opens in konqueror.
then copy and paste to an open composer window

i have all EIDE connections, no SCSI connections, although what i was told
before was that linux sees most of this stuff as SCSI even if it is EIDE.

Do you have the writer/rom on ide1 or ide 2 and is it master or slave,
or Cable select(jumpers on the back determin)

anyway, it's a cd-rw drive, and isn't working properly. i havn't tested my floppy drive to see if it gives me the same problems, pretty much because i never use the floppy drive, and reason 2 being i don't want to hard crash the system again.

This is what's in the lilo under the Expert tab

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet
This is saying that you have chosen scsi-emulation for your writer/rom,
that is what hdc=ide-scsi says. That is OK, if you want it.

Running Linux 3rd edition and Linux in a Nutshell 3rd edition.

They are all you need really.

Mike

Please post your fstab here.

John

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[newbie] Dual Booting two M9.1 on the same computer.

I now have,

/dev/hda6 of 4.89gigs
with M9.0 already in full use for some time,
and backed up to partimage image file M91.000
/dev/hda7 of4.89gigs
with M9.1 sufficiently configured to be of some real use,
and backed up to image file M91005.000,
and written to disc for recovery purposes.
The partimage image files are done with --nombr flag so will NOT rewrite 
the mbr.

I wonder ,

Instead of using M9.1 installation CD's to reformat /dev/hda6 and 
reinstalling everything again on /dev/hda6 so that I have two identicle 
M9.1's on the same harddrive,
Why not  simply use my partimage M91005.000 image file to create a 
second M9.1 on /dev/hda6 .
I can then boot M9.1 on /dev/hda7 and get to dektop and rewrite the 
/etc/lilo.con to boot the second M9.1 on /dev/hda6 . It would save much 
time and post install configuration.

Would anyone like to venture an opinion as to whether it will work.

John

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RE: [newbie] Looking for some advice

2003-07-05 Thread Pipkin

Hi there

Am running dual boot (Mandrake 9.0/WinME)

However, had similar experience in Windows approx 5 days ago.  However,
noticed that although system folders' files (eg first Control Panel; then on
reboot primary hard drive, etc...) showed blank pages, the task bar showed
appropriate number of files.

Suspect virus.  Reinstalled ME operating system files (an time-consuming
reconfiguring of applications) but problem has not recurred and, touch wood,
not in 9.0

Regards

Marion


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Subject: Re: [newbie] Looking for some advice

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 04:10, C T wrote:
 I'm experiencing a number of strange behaviors with 9.1

 These things happened in this order:

 The first thing I noticed was the icons for CD/DVD and CD/R-W
 disappeared from the desktop - this was  maybe the 3rd or 4th time
 rebooting a new installation - they flashed on the screen for a fraction
 of a second and were gone.

 A few days later;
 I'm running a tone generator program under WINE - a Windoze program that
 *does* work in Linux. It worked fine for a while - then suddenly WINE
 would exit, failing... but if I hit 'debug' it would start and run
 normally - for a day or two.
 Now it detects an 'internal error' and gives the error to send to the
 bugs@ address. But the program freezes and none of the options work, eg
 'save as file', 'send via internet', 'cancel', 'exit program' and
 clicking on the program window to close doesn't work and top shows
 wine.bin using 88% of the CPU and I must kill the process.

 About the same time:

 Opera (v 7.11) started acting weird. First instead of a clicked link
 opening another tab in the window it started opening new windows
 (settings in preferences didn't make any difference) and also it would
 only save it's state from the last instance once in a while - this has
 been discussed as a possible Opera problem on the Opera forums and
 likely has nothing to do with my perceived Linux problem - haven't seen
 the first problem mentioned there.

 Next:
 Although plugins are enabled and applied to XMMS, on occasion it fails
 to open a stream that I listen to regularly and gives a message that the
 correct plugin may not be chosen. I go to preferences and find that the
 enable plugins box (for IO) has become unchecked - choosing the correct
 plugin, enabling and hitting 'apply' puts things back in order and the
 stream plays. This will happen after a reboot or sometimes just when
 restarting the stream - when even the player hasn't been shut down.

 A while later:

 Using MCC I tried to install the Development packages (which I thought
 I'd chosen at install time) but MCC wouldn't even allow me to check the
 boxes, except for the documentation.

 These are the main things although there may be something else I'm
 forgetting to mention.

 I'm wondering if these behaviors could be caused by a related error
 somewhere affecting everything - with the possible exception of the
 Opera stuff?

 I've considered attempting to repair the installation using the install
 disk, choosing 'upgrade' and no packages, formatting only the /
 partition in hopes of correcting what *might* be the problem.
 Would this be unwise?


  As a last resort, I could figure out how to back up my email and
 bookmarks and start over fresh - which seems like a good idea.(I know
 Windoze thinking... I'm workin' on it :)

 What options are available at this point?
 Where do  you begin troubleshooting problems like these?

 I'm only beginning to get a grip on the Linux file system and so, don't
 have the greatest confidence in manually editing files.

 Any and all thoughts/ideas/guesses welcome.
 Curt
Just a thought but how old is the CMOS battery in you box?
after about three years you would start getting strange results in most
any O/S.
(of course I get strange results all the time anyway)



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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

On Saturday 05 July 2003 12:50 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:

 Go, Home directory , back to  /  , click on etc icon  to /etc directory
 , skip past the blue directories to a file called fstab.  There right
 mouse click  fstab, and it opens in konqueror.
 then copy and paste to an open composer window

/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount 
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb8 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb9 swap swap defaults 0 0

i think i followed directions.that's what's in the fstab file.


 i have all EIDE connections, no SCSI connections, although what i was told
 before was that linux sees most of this stuff as SCSI even if it is EIDE.

 Do you have the writer/rom on ide1 or ide 2 and is it master or slave,
 or Cable select(jumpers on the back determin)


both of my hard drives are on the primary ide channel, my 20gb drive is 
master, 100gb is slave.  my cdrw drive is on the secondary channel and is the 
master, nothing else on that channel.



 This is saying that you have chosen scsi-emulation for your writer/rom,
 that is what hdc=ide-scsi says. That is OK, if you want it.


Is there any difference in how it'll run?  i just want what anyone else 
wants...their hardware to work to it's full potential.  


 Running Linux 3rd edition and Linux in a Nutshell 3rd edition.

 They are all you need really.


i want to get both of those, and the teach yourself mandrake book is 
recommended by the basiclinux.net course, so i ordered it.  

Thanks!

Mike

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[newbie] Samba Print problem

2003-07-05 Thread Chuck Stuettgen

Anyone know how to increase the maximum number of print jobs under
LPRNG and Samba to something above 1000?

We need to be able to spool 6000 print jobs to a queue that is in a
HOLDALL status.  When the spool gets to 1000 it starts discarding the
printjobs.

I have increased both the Max Print Jobs and Total Print Jobs
parameters in the smb.conf to ridiculously high numbers and restarted
samba and the testparm command shows the new settings, but the jobs
are still being discarded...



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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

Michael wrote:

On Saturday 05 July 2003 12:50 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

this is your writer/cdrom under supermount, and ought to work fine.
But your previous post said you have hdc=ide-scsi.
none /mnt/floppy supermount 
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

Your floppy is supermount as well.

Do you have the writer/rom on ide1 or ide 2 and is it master or slave,
or Cable select(jumpers on the back determin)
   

both of my hard drives are on the primary ide channel, my 20gb drive is 
master, 100gb is slave.  my cdrw drive is on the secondary channel and is the 
master, nothing else on that channel.

so that means your writer/rom is /dev/hdc

Do you know how to use a text editor ?

John

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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
big snip

 Do you know how to use a text editor ?



how hard is it?  if it's simply deleting some text and entering new text in 
it's place, i'm sure i can handle it, if i'm told where to do it, what i need 
to change and what it needs to be replaced with, i don't see a problem with 
me doing it.  just go slow and step by step  :)

thanks!

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[newbie] unable to mount multiCD-backup-CD

2003-07-05 Thread Bart Van Audenhove

Hi everybody, 

can anyone tell me how to mount a CD burned with the backup-utility
multiCD? 
I tried mount -r -t ext2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom as explained in the FAQ
on the multicd-homepage, but I get an error message mount: No medium
found. 
Multicd didn't give any error messages and did burn 2 CD-RW's (empty new
ones), but when I try to open them it's like if they're empty. 

Thanks.

Tbar
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RE: [newbie] Looking for some advice

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 21:27, Pipkin wrote:
 Hi there
 
 Am running dual boot (Mandrake 9.0/WinME)
 
 However, had similar experience in Windows approx 5 days ago.  However,
 noticed that although system folders' files (eg first Control Panel; then on
 reboot primary hard drive, etc...) showed blank pages, the task bar showed
 appropriate number of files.
 
 Suspect virus.  Reinstalled ME operating system files (an time-consuming
 reconfiguring of applications) but problem has not recurred and, touch wood,
 not in 9.0
 
 Regards
 
 Marion

There seems to be no problems with windows - everything operates the
same as before.
?
Thanks for the reply
Curt


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Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:31:31 -0500
Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Friday 04 July 2003 10:28 am, Todd Slater wrote:
  Do you want a broader stats analysis tool? For example, I use
  webalizer.(There's another one on the CD's but I can't remember its
  name--search for http|apache log analysis or analyzer).
 
  You can see sample output of mine at
  http://clevername.homeip.net/stats/
 
  Todd
 Tried to install webalizer on my 9.0 server and all I get is a
 segmentation fault error. Which version are you running of webalizer
 and Mandrake?-- 
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Dennis,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ webalizer -version
Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk) English

on Mandrake 9.1. 

Be sure you configure it by modifying /etc/webalizer.conf.

Todd

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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

 /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
 none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
 dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
 
 this is your writer/cdrom under supermount, and ought to work fine.


 But your previous post said you have hdc=ide-scsi.

I am not as familiar with this as you, john, but i don't *think* that's a 
contradiction.

For comparison (from my files),

lilo.conf:
append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off

fstab
none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0


 both of my hard drives are on the primary ide channel, my 20gb drive is 
 master, 100gb is slave.  my cdrw drive is on the secondary channel and is the 
 master, nothing else on that channel.
 
 so that means your writer/rom is /dev/hdc

Michael, I think John will get you to your answer way better than me, 
but another thing is to make sure the jumper is set to master on the cd writer.

It might be helpful if you run dmesg in a terminal and copy all the sections that 
refer to your cd rw and hdc and post back.

eric

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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

  Do you know how to use a text editor ?
 
 how hard is it?  if it's simply deleting some text and entering new text in 

It as easy as using notepad or word (w/o the puking).

You could try kate (it's pretty much like any other editor or word processor you may 
have used):

If you are in KDE, go to the K menu (way bottom left) then Applications -- Editors 
-- kate.
Or, at the command line interface (cli), just type kate then the enter key.

You can also get a terminal running in kate:  settings -- tool views -- show 
terminal.

Here is where you could run dmesg, then copy and paste it into the editor window, 
which would let you search for errors, the word cd, etc.

eric

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Re: [newbie] New hard drive

2003-07-05 Thread Bob Read

Hi Jon,

If you just want to copy and expand the contents of the old drive to
the larger new drive,  Drive Copy  does an excellant job.
Bob

Jon wrote:

One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing with 
a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and windows 
partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive (which is 
bigger) how do you do it? Also what's the correct sequence in formatting the 
hard drive? If this is covered in a FAQ somewhere then please just point me
in the appropriate direction. Thanks.

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[newbie] startup help

2003-07-05 Thread T C

I had an unexpected problem occur today. When attempting to bootup the
boot process will make it to Starting system logger and stops, it
does not progress beyond this point. I'm pretty new at this and looking
at the boot logs hasn't revealed anything to my inexperienced eye.
What's going on here? What should I be looking at or for to help me
solve this problem?
Thank you for your assistance.

Terry

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Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit

2003-07-05 Thread Joeb

Is your hub 10mb or 100mb?

Joeb


On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:36:55 +0200
Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900 only
 works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit.
 
 Does anyone know how to do this?
 
 
 
 



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RE: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit

2003-07-05 Thread Rob van Dam

I have the computer connected to a ethernet-adsl modem (thomson 510). It
has an integrated 100/10 switch.

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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit

Is your hub 10mb or 100mb?

Joeb

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:36:55 +0200
Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900
only
 works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit.

 Does anyone know how to do this?

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[newbie] OT: Recommended laser printer parts vendor

2003-07-05 Thread Warren Post

Can anyone recommend a reliable online vendor of laser printer parts? My
Brother MFC 4500ML multifunction laser needs a new fuser controller
board. Sure, I could Google, but my interest is not so much finding the
lowest price as finding a reliable vendor.

TIA,
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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

Michael wrote:

On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
big snip
 

Do you know how to use a text editor ?

   



how hard is it?  if it's simply deleting some text and entering new text in 
it's place, i'm sure i can handle it, if i'm told where to do it, what i need 
to change and what it needs to be replaced with, i don't see a problem with 
me doing it.  just go slow and step by step  :)

thanks!

Mike  
 

Sure that is all it is, I didn't mean to say you were incapable, just 
that you sounded a little unsure.

Essentially , if you want the nice easy gui way, just navigate to the 
file in question,via home to / and click on the desired directories to 
the file in question, then right mouse click the icon for that file , 
then open with, and choose a text editor from the list, say kwrite , 
or whatever one takes your fancy. When your done, just save and exit.

so we already have hdc=ide-scsi in the append= line of /etc/lilo.conf, fine.

in /etc/fstab , check every char is identicle including spaces, to,
none /mnt/cdrom supermount 
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

note, all one line, that is essential.
note I changed ro to rw means read/write.
save and exit.
Are you quite sure the jumpers on the back of your writer/rom are set to 
master, and your device is on ide2 line.

If all this is done correctly then it ought to work.

I hope so, because if not I don't know what to do to make supermount work.
After that we can try automount if you wish.
On my own machine supermount does not work well, in spite of being able 
to mount the device on the command line, all the apps that need to use 
it either don't work at all, or work exceedingly slow, and there is no 
possibility of a desktop Icon access to read discs. Your machine may be 
a more extreme example of mine for all that I know.

John

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hitch hikers guide... WAS: Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow -up

2003-07-05 Thread bascule

and for those who never played:
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

bascule

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  (where's my towel???)

 You always need to know where your towel is...

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Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 23:36, Rob van Dam wrote:
 I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900 only
 works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit.
 
 Does anyone know how to do this?

You should be able to do it with using the utility ethtool - or by
changing the options for the card's module in the /etc/modules.conf

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[newbie] teste

2003-07-05 Thread Josenildo Marques

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Re: [newbie] Samba Print problem

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 04:10, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
 Anyone know how to increase the maximum number of print jobs under
 LPRNG and Samba to something above 1000?
 
 We need to be able to spool 6000 print jobs to a queue that is in a
 HOLDALL status.  When the spool gets to 1000 it starts discarding the
 printjobs.
 
 I have increased both the Max Print Jobs and Total Print Jobs
 parameters in the smb.conf to ridiculously high numbers and restarted
 samba and the testparm command shows the new settings, but the jobs
 are still being discarded...

Any print job is going to be temporarily held in the /var directory -
first, how much space is on /var ?

Another thing to think about is what backend is it using - CUPS?
LPRNG? - you might need to address the backend driver for that.

So, between the actual printer memory, space on /var and the backend
driver, you should be able to get the printer to spool as much as you
want...

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The world is all created, said God, but you have overlooked
something -- the mortality of the optimist.
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Re: [newbie] teste

2003-07-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich

On Saturday 05 July 2003 10:54 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote:
 Steven Spielberg is using Linux.

So am I.

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Re: [newbie] startup help

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 06:15, T C wrote:
 I had an unexpected problem occur today. When attempting to bootup the
 boot process will make it to Starting system logger and stops, it
 does not progress beyond this point. I'm pretty new at this and looking
 at the boot logs hasn't revealed anything to my inexperienced eye.
 What's going on here? What should I be looking at or for to help me
 solve this problem?
 Thank you for your assistance.
 
 Terry

What happens if you let it sit there for a while - does it start up
then? Meanwhile, if all else, you can boot off the install CD, hit F1
and then try a linux rescue - not necessarily to do any repairs, but
to see if you can properly mount the root filesystem - and if so, then
reboot and see what happens again during a normal bootup.

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Re: [newbie] teste

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 08:54, Josenildo Marques wrote:

 Steven Spielberg is using Linux.

...but what's he run on his laptop?

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Re: hitch hikers guide... WAS: Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow-up

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 08:15, bascule wrote:
 and for those who never played:
 http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html
 
 bascule

This kinda stuff is going to begin a time wasting revolution; goodbye to
3D accelerated games and FPS's - we're digressing to simpler, more
intelligent times...(or one would hope).

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Humorix Holiday Gift Idea #3

iTux Penguin Computer
Price: $999.95 for base model
Producer: Orange Computer, Co.; 1-800-GET-ITUX

Based on the Slashdot comments, response to the Apple iMac from the Linux
community was lukewarm at best.  Orange Computer, Co., has picked up where
Apple left behind and produced the iTux computer specifically for Linux users
who want to Think a lot different.

The self-contained iTux computer system is built in the shape of Tux the
Penguin.  Its 15 inch monitor (17 inch available next year) is located at
Tux's large belly.  The penguin's two feet make up the split ergonomic
keyboard (without those annoying Windows keys, of course).  A 36X CD-ROM
drive fits into Tux's mouth.  Tux's left eye is actually the reboot button
(can be reconfigured for other purposes since it is rarely used) and his
right eye is the power button.  The iTux case opens up from the back,
allowing easy access for screwdriver-wielding nerds into Tux's guts.

The US$995.95 model contains an Alpha CPU and all the usual stuff found in a
Linux-class machine.  More expensive models, to be debuted next year, will
feature dual or quad Alpha CPUs and a larger size.

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Re: [newbie] teste

2003-07-05 Thread Aron Smith

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 16:11, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 08:54, Josenildo Marques wrote:
 
  Steven Spielberg is using Linux.
 
 ...but what's he run on his laptop?
A Drunken Irishman and now for a wee drop.


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Re: Backup Applications WAS - Re: [newbie] Backups

2003-07-05 Thread Chris

On Saturday 05 July 2003 09:35 am, John Richard Smith wrote:

 Use partimage.
 Get it on the gentoo disc that you can download from their website.
 You will need a spare partition to create the image file in and if you
 want you can
 write that image to CD in a writer.

 John

John, I urpmi'd and installed partimage, however, looking at it I can't see 
anyway to specify which directories in /home/chris I want to backup.  There 
are some such as my mp3 dir that I don't need backed up.  I did find another 
app called Backerupper that does let you specify which directories and files 
to backup and which to ignore.  It seems to work pretty well, uses zip for 
compression and is fast.  I just have to work out the problem with my cron 
event not making the archive correctly.  Manually it works great.

Thanks for the suggestion
Chris

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[newbie] dummies books

2003-07-05 Thread walt

I am not a big fan of the dummies books, but I was in a book store at the
local mall today and saw redhat Linux 9.0 for dummies and it included 2
cd's. I didn't see one for mandrake. I own an old copy of Linux for dummies
and found it a little helpful way back when. (of course I didn't have this
list to depend on either LOL)

Walt



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Re: [newbie] dummies books

2003-07-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich

On Sunday 06 July 2003 12:47 am, walt wrote:
 I am not a big fan of the dummies books, but I was in a book
 store at the local mall today and saw redhat Linux 9.0 for
 dummies and it included 2 cd's. I didn't see one for mandrake.
 I own an old copy of Linux for dummies and found it a little
 helpful way back when. (of course I didn't have this list to
 depend on either LOL)

 Walt

OK, Walt - what's your point ?

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Re: [newbie] Samba Print problem

2003-07-05 Thread Chuck Stuettgen

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:57, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 04:10, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
  Anyone know how to increase the maximum number of print jobs under
  LPRNG and Samba to something above 1000?
  
  We need to be able to spool 6000 print jobs to a queue that is in a
  HOLDALL status.  When the spool gets to 1000 it starts discarding the
  printjobs.
  
  I have increased both the Max Print Jobs and Total Print Jobs
  parameters in the smb.conf to ridiculously high numbers and restarted
  samba and the testparm command shows the new settings, but the jobs
  are still being discarded...
 
 Any print job is going to be temporarily held in the /var directory -
 first, how much space is on /var ?

The system was built specifically to be a print server to service one
HP9000 printer.  It has a 20GB hard drive with three partitions

/boot = 100MB
/swap = 768MB
/ = rest of drive

The spool directory is /var/spool/lpd/hp9000

Each print job varies between 800k and 1 MB.  Assuming all jobs were 1MB
then total space needed is only about 6GB so there should be more than
enough space for the 6000 print jobs.

 Another thing to think about is what backend is it using - CUPS?
 LPRNG? - you might need to address the backend driver for that.
 
The back end is LPRng. CUPS does not support Hold queues.  

 So, between the actual printer memory, space on /var and the backend
 driver, you should be able to get the printer to spool as much as you
 want...

Printer memory is not an a factor.  The print queue is set with a
HOLDALL status.  This means the jobs go to queue and stay there until
they are manually released by an operator. 


Samba has a default setting of a maximum 1000 print jobs per queue. 
You can see this by running the following command:

testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf.  


You can override default setting by adding Max Print Jobs = xx to your smb.conf 
file which I have done but the queue still will not hold more than 1000 print jobs.



Until I can figure out how to get the queue to hold more than 1000 print jobs, I have 
created 5 additional hold queues all servicing the same printer and we have
modified the script that creates the print jobs to the spread the jobs among all the 
queues.


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Re: [newbie] teste

2003-07-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby

On Saturday 05 July 2003 08:23 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
 On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 16:11, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
  On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 08:54, Josenildo Marques wrote:
   Steven Spielberg is using Linux.
 
  ...but what's he run on his laptop?

 A Drunken Irishman and now for a wee drop.

Isn't the expression drunken Irishman redundant?
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Re: [newbie] teste

2003-07-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich

On Sunday 06 July 2003 01:00 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
 On Saturday 05 July 2003 08:23 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
  On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 16:11, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
   On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 08:54, Josenildo Marques wrote:
Steven Spielberg is using Linux.
  
   ...but what's he run on his laptop?
 
  A Drunken Irishman and now for a wee drop.

 Isn't the expression drunken Irishman redundant?
 -- cmg

Yop !

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Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:40 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
 On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:31:31 -0500

 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Friday 04 July 2003 10:28 am, Todd Slater wrote:
   Do you want a broader stats analysis tool? For example, I use
   webalizer.(There's another one on the CD's but I can't remember its
   name--search for http|apache log analysis or analyzer).
  
   You can see sample output of mine at
   http://clevername.homeip.net/stats/
  
   Todd
 
  Tried to install webalizer on my 9.0 server and all I get is a
  segmentation fault error. Which version are you running of webalizer
  and Mandrake?--
  Dennis M. linux user #180842

 Dennis,

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ webalizer -version
 Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk) English

 on Mandrake 9.1.

 Be sure you configure it by modifying /etc/webalizer.conf.

 Todd
Ya know, I used to think I was fairly intelegent. Now I'm not so sure, I can 
not get webalizer to run nor can I login to the pages for stats-counter the 
other script I was shown by Frankie.  I modify the /etc/webalizer.conf file 
and then try to access the webalizer and all I get is webalizer: command not 
found. Something not configured correctly or not using the right command.  
I'd take up knitting but not sure I have the manual dexterity for that.  
Somebody give me a hint here?
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Re: [newbie] New hard drive

2003-07-05 Thread Jon

Hi Stephen and others,

Thanks for the reply. It sounds promising.

 what, just /home
 directories? And how do you plan on laying out the data on the disk in
 the first place?

The disk itself consists of several mount points. One of the mount points is 
/home, others include /web (for web stuff), /warehouse and a mount point for 
windows crap (i.e. the games - what else would you use windows for :-)). Oh, 
a small partition for swap as well. Nothing particularly significant - just a 
pain if I had to re-install from scratch. 

Since I have a new, larger disk I'm at least planning on tarring up all the 
Linux mount points and placing it on a my initial disk (not the one being 
replaced). I'll then replace the dodgy disk with the good one. I am presuming 
I will need to reformat the disk and since it is a much larger disk I will 
look at repartitioning (to devote more space to /home, the games partition, 
etc). I have never really done this (I usually only touch this when I am 
upgrading the O/S and then I leave it up to Mandrake to work this out)
but I have a vague understanding of how this will be done and was seeking 
something more concrete. Although I am comfortable with the Linux side of this 
(because it's such a wonderful thing) I'm not so sure about the windows side 
and was hoping there may be a set of instructions that shows how you can do 
all of this from the Linux side (i.e. don't have to switch back and forth 
from Linux to Windows).

Hope that makes sense.

Jon.


On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:16 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 11:18, Jon wrote:
  HI,
 
  One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing
  with a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and
  windows partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard
  drive (which is bigger) how do you do it? Also what's the correct
  sequence in formatting the hard drive? If this is covered in a FAQ
  somewhere then please just point me in the appropriate direction. Thanks.
 
  Jon.

 There are several strategies that you can follow - but I'd need to
 clarify what you mean by copy the data over - what, just /home
 directories? And how do you plan on laying out the data on the disk in
 the first place?

 Just checking mate.


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Re: [newbie] dummies books

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:47:27 -0400
walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I am not a big fan of the dummies books, but I was in a book store
 at the local mall today and saw redhat Linux 9.0 for dummies and it
 included 2 cd's. I didn't see one for mandrake. I own an old copy of
 Linux for dummies and found it a little helpful way back when. (of
 course I didn't have this list to depend on either LOL)
 
 Walt

I'll go farther than saying I'm not a big fan--I despise them.

But, also try local public/university libraries. While they frequently
have the dummies books, they might also have books from better
publishers. And it's free! (for now, anyway)

Todd


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Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

2003-07-05 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons





Dennis Myers wrote:

  On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:40 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
  
  
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:31:31 -0500

Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  On Friday 04 July 2003 10:28 am, Todd Slater wrote:
  
  
Do you want a broader stats analysis tool? For example, I use
webalizer.(There's another one on the CD's but I can't remember its
name--search for http|apache log analysis or analyzer).

You can see sample output of mine at
http://clevername.homeip.net/stats/

Todd

  
  Tried to install webalizer on my 9.0 server and all I get is a
segmentation fault error. Which version are you running of webalizer
and Mandrake?--
Dennis M. linux user #180842
  

Dennis,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ webalizer -version
Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk) English

on Mandrake 9.1.

Be sure you configure it by modifying /etc/webalizer.conf.

Todd

  
  Ya know, I used to think I was fairly intelegent. Now I'm not so sure, I can 
not get webalizer to run nor can I login to the pages for "stats-counter" the 
other script I was shown by Frankie.  I modify the /etc/webalizer.conf file 
and then try to access the webalizer and all I get is "webalizer: command not 
found. Something not configured correctly or not using the right command.  
I'd take up knitting but not sure I have the manual dexterity for that.  
Somebody give me a hint here?
  

Have you checked out the program designer's web page for info.?

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Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:14:19 -0500
Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Tried to install webalizer on my 9.0 server and all I get is a
   segmentation fault error. Which version are you running of
   webalizer and Mandrake?--
   Dennis M. linux user #180842
 
  Dennis,
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ webalizer -version
  Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk) English
 
  on Mandrake 9.1.
 
  Be sure you configure it by modifying /etc/webalizer.conf.
 
  Todd
 Ya know, I used to think I was fairly intelegent. Now I'm not so sure,
 I can not get webalizer to run nor can I login to the pages for
 stats-counter the other script I was shown by Frankie.  I modify the
 /etc/webalizer.conf file and then try to access the webalizer and all
 I get is webalizer: command not found. Something not configured
 correctly or not using the right command.  I'd take up knitting but
 not sure I have the manual dexterity for that.  Somebody give me a
 hint here?-- 
 Dennis M. linux user #180842

You probably have to be root to run it since it accesses the log files.
Also, you might have to create the folder where you tell it to put the
stats files. I used /var/www/html/stats; and probably make it owner
apache.apache.

Todd

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Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

On Saturday 05 July 2003 08:14 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
 On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:40 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
  On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:31:31 -0500
 
  Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On Friday 04 July 2003 10:28 am, Todd Slater wrote:
Do you want a broader stats analysis tool? For example, I use
webalizer.(There's another one on the CD's but I can't remember its
name--search for http|apache log analysis or analyzer).
   
You can see sample output of mine at
http://clevername.homeip.net/stats/
   
Todd
  
   Tried to install webalizer on my 9.0 server and all I get is a
   segmentation fault error. Which version are you running of webalizer
   and Mandrake?--
   Dennis M. linux user #180842
 
  Dennis,
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ webalizer -version
  Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk) English
 
  on Mandrake 9.1.
 
  Be sure you configure it by modifying /etc/webalizer.conf.
 
  Todd
  inteligent : )
 Ya know, I used to think I was fairly intelegent. Now I'm not so sure, I
 can not get webalizer to run nor can I login to the pages for
 stats-counter the other script I was shown by Frankie.  I modify the
 /etc/webalizer.conf file and then try to access the webalizer and all I get
 is webalizer: command not found. Something not configured correctly or not
 using the right command. I'd take up knitting but not sure I have the
 manual dexterity for that. Somebody give me a hint here?

-- 
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Re: hitch hikers guide... WAS: Re: [newbie] Window$ free -follow-up

2003-07-05 Thread The Other

07/05/03

Hello Stephen,

I don't know.  When I get the drive back so I can reinstall 
Bamboo, I'll be looking for the Linux version of Hack, or NetHack 
if it was officially called that.

Do you think playing Hack was ever intelligent?  Addictive yes, 
but intelligent?  ;)

The Other

Stephen Kuhn wrote:
This kinda stuff is going to begin a time wasting revolution; goodbye to
3D accelerated games and FPS's - we're digressing to simpler, more
intelligent times...(or one would hope).


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Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

On Saturday 05 July 2003 08:23 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
 On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:14:19 -0500

 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tried to install webalizer on my 9.0 server and all I get is a
segmentation fault error. Which version are you running of
webalizer and Mandrake?--
Dennis M. linux user #180842
  
   Dennis,
  
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ webalizer -version
   Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk) English
  
   on Mandrake 9.1.
  
   Be sure you configure it by modifying /etc/webalizer.conf.
  
   Todd
 
  Ya know, I used to think I was fairly intelegent. Now I'm not so sure,
  I can not get webalizer to run nor can I login to the pages for
  stats-counter the other script I was shown by Frankie.  I modify the
  /etc/webalizer.conf file and then try to access the webalizer and all
  I get is webalizer: command not found. Something not configured
  correctly or not using the right command.  I'd take up knitting but
  not sure I have the manual dexterity for that.  Somebody give me a
  hint here?--
  Dennis M. linux user #180842

 You probably have to be root to run it since it accesses the log files.
 Also, you might have to create the folder where you tell it to put the
 stats files. I used /var/www/html/stats; and probably make it owner
 apache.apache.

 Todd
Did that and still can't get access to a file. Nothing in stats and no login 
comes up with the url access. I am doing something wrong on a basic level and 
not smart enough to figure it out. When you said make it owner apache.apache, 
what did you mean, like user=apache and group=apache? or a cli command? 
Struggling but stubborn.
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Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit

2003-07-05 Thread Joeb

The reason I ask, is that I have a MB with a Sis900 ethernet that wouldn't work 
correctly with my 10mb hub.  It turns out, though, that in my CMOS, it was set to 
100mb.  I changed it there and things have worked like a charm ever since.  If it's 
not a CMOS thing for you, I know we've had problems at work with other ethernet 
adapters where duplexing was a problem.  Evidently, we had cards trying to connect to 
switches in the wrong duplex mode, I believe it was a problem with the switches, 
although I don't remember all of the details.  Finally, we've also had some marginal 
network cables that worked fine at 10mb or 100mb, but never auto-detect.  Once 
replaced, things worked fine.

Just some thoughts, although the simplest thing would be to not auto-detect and 
manually set it.

Joeb

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 22:53:43 +0200
Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have the computer connected to a ethernet-adsl modem (thomson 510). It
 has an integrated 100/10 switch.
 
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joeb
 Sent: zaterdag 5 juli 2003 22:44
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [newbie] fix sis900 networkcard to 10 mbit
 
 Is your hub 10mb or 100mb?
 
 Joeb
 
 
 On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:36:55 +0200
 Rob van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I have a network over a 10 mbit network cable (4 wires). My sis900
 only
  works when I switch of autodetect and fix the card to 10 mbit.
  
  Does anyone know how to do this?
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 



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Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 21:48:04 -0500
Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Saturday 05 July 2003 08:23 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
  On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:14:19 -0500
 
  Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Tried to install webalizer on my 9.0 server and all I get is a
 segmentation fault error. Which version are you running of
 webalizer and Mandrake?--
 Dennis M. linux user #180842
   
Dennis,
   
[EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ webalizer -version
Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk) English
   
on Mandrake 9.1.
   
Be sure you configure it by modifying /etc/webalizer.conf.
   
Todd
  
   Ya know, I used to think I was fairly intelegent. Now I'm not so
   sure, I can not get webalizer to run nor can I login to the pages
   forstats-counter the other script I was shown by Frankie.  I
   modify the/etc/webalizer.conf file and then try to access the
   webalizer and all I get is webalizer: command not found.
   Something not configured correctly or not using the right command.
I'd take up knitting but
   not sure I have the manual dexterity for that.  Somebody give me a
   hint here?--
   Dennis M. linux user #180842
 
  You probably have to be root to run it since it accesses the log
  files. Also, you might have to create the folder where you tell it
  to put the stats files. I used /var/www/html/stats; and probably
  make it owner apache.apache.
 
  Todd
 Did that and still can't get access to a file. Nothing in stats and no
 login comes up with the url access. I am doing something wrong on a
 basic level and not smart enough to figure it out. When you said make
 it owner apache.apache, what did you mean, like user=apache and
 group=apache? or a cli command? Struggling but stubborn.

Yes, chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html/stats (or whatever you decide
to call it).

What is the output you get when you run webalizer from the command line
as root?

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Re: [newbie] teste

2003-07-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall

On Saturday 05 July 2003 07:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:

   But are YOU, Kaj, going to make a movie with it?
 
  If I could Stephen, it would be the old, classical western with
  the good guys (white hats) against the bad guys (M$-hats) and
  the final shoot-out  at the GPL-Corall.
 
  Kaj Haulrich.

 Gosh - that just brought a tear to my eye(sniff)

What? No Samuri? lol

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Re: [newbie] Hit counter for a web page.

On Saturday 05 July 2003 10:37 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
 On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 21:48:04 -0500

 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Saturday 05 July 2003 08:23 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
   On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:14:19 -0500
  
   Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Tried to install webalizer on my 9.0 server and all I get is a
  segmentation fault error. Which version are you running of
  webalizer and Mandrake?--
  Dennis M. linux user #180842

 Dennis,

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ webalizer -version
 Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk) English

 on Mandrake 9.1.

 Be sure you configure it by modifying /etc/webalizer.conf.

 Todd
   
Ya know, I used to think I was fairly intelegent. Now I'm not so
sure, I can not get webalizer to run nor can I login to the pages
forstats-counter the other script I was shown by Frankie.  I
modify the/etc/webalizer.conf file and then try to access the
webalizer and all I get is webalizer: command not found.
Something not configured correctly or not using the right command.
 I'd take up knitting but
not sure I have the manual dexterity for that.  Somebody give me a
hint here?--
Dennis M. linux user #180842
  
   You probably have to be root to run it since it accesses the log
   files. Also, you might have to create the folder where you tell it
   to put the stats files. I used /var/www/html/stats; and probably
   make it owner apache.apache.
  
   Todd
 
  Did that and still can't get access to a file. Nothing in stats and no
  login comes up with the url access. I am doing something wrong on a
  basic level and not smart enough to figure it out. When you said make
  it owner apache.apache, what did you mean, like user=apache and
  group=apache? or a cli command? Struggling but stubborn.

 Yes, chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html/stats (or whatever you decide
 to call it).

 What is the output you get when you run webalizer from the command line
 as root?
command not found  however, I loaded the files on the web server from inside 
the webserver, since it sits next to me, and made the config edits using 
kedit. Could this be the problem? The files may not be in ASCII? I don't know 
how kedit works but there is no choice to save in ASCII. Thanks for the 
feedback, I know you probably have better things to do. 
-- 
Dennis M. linux user #180842

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Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:

 Essentially , if you want the nice easy gui way, just navigate to the
 file in question,via home to / and click on the desired directories to
 the file in question, then right mouse click the icon for that file ,
 then open with, and choose a text editor from the list, say kwrite ,
 or whatever one takes your fancy. When your done, just save and exit.


 so we already have hdc=ide-scsi in the append= line of /etc/lilo.conf,
 fine.

 in /etc/fstab , check every char is identicle including spaces, to,
 none /mnt/cdrom supermount
 dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0


Ok, i did that, BUTi tried to save, and it told me i didn't have write 
permission.  wondering now what i did wrong.  i only use one login and if i'm 
not mistaken, i gave myself all admin privelidges.  of course, to save 
myself, anytime i start hunting in an area that requires that, i have to 
enter my password.  there something i'm missing?



 Are you quite sure the jumpers on the back of your writer/rom are set to
 master, and your device is on ide2 line.


Absolutely 100% positive.  just put a second hard drive in last week.  the 
origonal set up had the CDRW drive and origonal hard drive on the secondary 
IDE channel, CDRW as master, hard drive as slave.  i put both hard drives on 
the primary IDE channel and set them to master and slave as needed.  well, 
that's actually not 100% true...ASUS tech support told me to make them both 
CS to get the system to boot up.  and it worked.  then they both got switched 
back in order for win98 to work while installing the 2nd hard drive, and then 
i did the install of md9.1.  i know i'm going way too much into more detail 
than necessary (and have a habit of doing so), but hey, it's better than me 
saying uhhh, yeah, uhhh, i think so.  


while we're on the subject of editing the fstab file, i've got something else 
that needs done along the same lines.  when i finally went and installed 
md9.1, i had my 20gb hard drive partitioned 2 ways, 5g and 15g (md9.1 is on 
the 15g partition), and had my 100g hard drive partitioned 5 ways.  well, i 
didn't have one of the partitions on the 100g hard drive set up fully before 
installing md9.1, so i had to go about that later.  i got every other hard 
drive partition to show and be fully accessable from linux except that last 
one.  here's the hard drive listings in fstab

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb8 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

as you notice, /dev/hdb8/mntwindows is the one i'm having problems with.  so 
once i figure out how to get write permission for the fstab file, would i 
change that last one to

/dev/hdb8/mnt/win_g vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,unmask=0 0 0

i'm not worried about a possible loss of data on that drive partition as 
there's nothing on it right now anyway.  i've tried getting the thing to 
mount in diskdrake, but it just won't do it right.  

you may ask, why partition the 20gb and 100gb hard drives so many ways? 

win_c has mswin98 OS on it, has about 5gb of space
the other 15gb on it is all linux
win_c2 is my personal drive
win_d is all music
win_e is all reserved for video
win_f is my wife's personal drive
and if that last drive will mount properly, it's for shared stuff between me 
and the wife, pics of the kids, family stuff, you get the idea.  was the best 
way to break up the drives for my use of the computer.  plus it'll make it 
quicker to format out sections of the drive and scan disc them when 
necessary.  mswin locked up when trying to scan disc the entire 100gb hard 
drive at once.  it had over 3million clusters to go through on a fresh clean 
drive and it locked up in the 1million area, and that was after it ran for 3 
hours to get that far!  once i split it up, i was able to the through scan 
disc of each partition w/out mswin locking up on me.  

thanks for the help...just a little further to go to get this done.

Mike



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