Re: [newbie] OT: breaking news in USA
I've joined my prayers to yours. This reads like a bad Tom Clancy novel ( Executive Orders) Eunice Paul wrote: In reply to Dave's words, written 11 Sep 2001 09:14:32 -0500 I am praying for the people who died, got hurt, and lost family... This is horrible Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center, twin towers, in Manhattan, New York. Another airplane has apparently crashed into the Pentagon. These have been attributed to terrorist attacks. -- You don't need eyes to see, you need vision. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can 't install on ASUS A7V133
If anyone is interested in how to make this work visit: http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001201075945 Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Dan, Kindly advise : Use the standard IDE interfaces for now. Apparently there is a way to make it work on 7.2 but even so it's still "buggy". Is it using IDE cable for ATA33/ATA66 to connect the ATA100 hard disc first before installation ? Try installing your O/S using the stabdard interface, and then switching to the ata100 interface afterwards. Is it after installing Mandrake 7.2 then changing the IDE (ATA33/ATA66) cable to ATA100 cable ? Can Linux ran properly afterwards Thanks in advance. Stephen michael wrote: With primary ata100 cable connected to both hd's 7.2 won't install, and 8.0 only gets half way thru the second disk. Does anyone have any experience with this board? -- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Nero Wolfe --- Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Text login vs. graphical login
Keith use a text editor (vi or pico) and edit the /etc/inittab file. Look for a line that reads: 'Default Run level' ( at the beginning) a few lines down there is a line that is not commented out (#) yours is probably : 'id:5:initdefault' change the 5 to a 3 and save the changes. oh yeah you must be root. when you boot again you'll go right to a text login prompt Eunice Keith Christian wrote: Running Mandrake 7.2 - how do I set the machine to give a plain text login page instead of the graphical login? I didn't get an option with 7.2 to choose what I wanted. Thanks! Keith _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Nero Wolfe --- Eunice Thompson
[newbie] TFTP and MDK 7.2
I`m trying to backup the running configuration of a Cisco router to my Linux box using TFTP. I`ve edited the inetd.conf files, created the appropriate directory (tftpboot, according to all literature that I've read) and file, touched the file, edited the hosts.allow and .deny files, changed permissions, restarted inetd and I`m still unable to execute this seemingly simple task. I keep getting error messages from the router of either: Error code 1-- file not found, or Error Code 2-- Access violation. Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong or leaving undone? Thanks Eunice -- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Nero Wolfe --- Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Troubles
Jim what type of card are you using? is it supported by linux? are you dual booting on this laptop? if so does the card work in windows? Do you have pcmcia, and the network enabled at startup? when linux is booting up and after it enters the Interactive mode, it will start loading a bunch of modules- look and see if pcmcia is started. Eunice Jim Atkins wrote: I have installed Mandrake 7.1 on my Dell Latitude Laptop but no matter what I put in my PCMCIA slot, the os says that it's 'empty'. Obviously this is a problem since I can't get the laptop on the network without the network card being seen. Any suggestions? Jim Atkins President/CEO The NetShoppe Inc. 252-745-7175 252-745-3058 FAX === fishing with a different kind of 'net === http://www.netshoppe.net http://www.pamlico-online.com -- Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux User Group http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Troubles
Hey Jim,
it's painless.
download the pcmcia sources, read the readme, follow the installation
instructions and it's a cinch
good luck
Eunice
"Jim Atkins (Hostmaster)" wrote:
It's a Wavelan Wireless Nic, it is supposed to be supported but as I have
learned I must compile and install the pcmcia_cs pagage for extended support
(this ought to be fun)
Thanks!
Jim
- Original Message -----
From: Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Troubles
Jim
what type of card are you using?
is it supported by linux?
are you dual booting on this laptop?
if so does the card work in windows?
Do you have pcmcia, and the network enabled at startup?
when linux is booting up and after it enters the Interactive mode,
it will start loading a bunch of modules- look and see if pcmcia is
started.
Eunice
Jim Atkins wrote:
I have installed Mandrake 7.1 on my Dell Latitude Laptop but no matter
what
I put in my PCMCIA slot, the os says that it's 'empty'. Obviously this
is a
problem since I can't get the laptop on the network without the network
card
being seen.
Any suggestions?
Jim Atkins
President/CEO
The NetShoppe Inc.
252-745-7175
252-745-3058 FAX
===
fishing with a different kind of 'net
===
http://www.netshoppe.net
http://www.pamlico-online.com
--
Eunice Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Treasurer/Community Relations
Cerritos Linux User Group
http://www.cerritoslug.org
--
Eunice Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Treasurer/Community Relations
Cerritos Linux User Group
http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB
why not? start your own little list. I really couldn't care less what Windows is written in. I personally think you guys should find another topic (that concerns Linux) to discuss here. There aren't that many of you who are carrying on this discussion; why don't you do it privately? Mark Weaver wrote: no -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 Eunice Thompson had this to say! Couldn't you folks who want to discuss or vent about Windows find a Windows mailing list or better yet, --start one. Can we just do Linux here? Thanks Eunice Mark Weaver wrote: it is...but often you'll find that all this venting is good theropy. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 Abraham Pinzur had this to say! Technically, WinME is Win98 without any trace of DOS under the covers. You won't find autoexec.bat. config.sys, or any of those files on a system with WinME preinstalled. *Technically*, best I can tell, WinME's relationship to DOS is no different from Win95 or Win98. Take it from a guy who's wasted a lot more time exploring those relationships than I want to think about... Basically Win9x's autoexec.bat/config.sys only affected DOS programs anyway. MS chose to leave them out in the newest iteration, assuming (fairly reasonably, actually) that nobody buying a new WinME computer would ever even think of running a DOS program. However, the dirty little secret is that if you ever have to boot off of WinME's rescue floppy, you're right back at the DOS prompt! BTW, I subscribed to this list under the impression that it was devoted to an alternative OS... =) - Av - -- Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux User Group http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] Reinstall
Yes it will. You shouldn't have any problems doing a fresh install. You can probably get back into your wife's good graces, if you do not format the /home partiiton ( it will leave all of her settings intact.) Just make sure er user name is the same. Good Luck Eunice P.S. Are you sure you really have to do a new installation? Can you boot into Linux with your floppy boot disk? Riker wrote: Hello, again! I really screwed something up on my wife's Linux box (yes, she loves Linux and now she hates me!) and need to reinstall. It's a duel boot system with Win ME. If I do a fresh install of Linux, will it still see WinME? And if not, how do I go about keeping ME recognized on boot up? Thanks a million, Riker -- Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux User Group http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] Need xf86config help
Hi I've got a Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDX (P166mmx, 80 mb ram) i've attached my XF86 file. My display is at 800x600. hope this helps Eunice From: Spoonman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Need xf86config help Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:22:16 -0500 (EST) Hi all, I just upgraded from MK 6.1 to MK 7.2. I wasn't paying attention during the install/upgrade portion and did a fresh install, which wasn't so bad except... I'm running on a laptop. TOshiba Tecra 730XCDT which I had previously wrestled into 1024x768x16bpp. Now I can't seem to get the monitor to a higher resolution than 640x480x8bpp. Anyone out there have any advice, or maybe a xf86config I can take a look at? Wishdiak +Ferris Saves+ www.wishdiak.com _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com -- Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux User Group http://www.cerritoslug.org # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection # ** # Server flags section. # ** Section "ServerFlags" # Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is # received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may # provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging #NoTrapSignals # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltBS server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. #DontZap # Uncomment this to disable the CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- mode switching # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. #DontZoom # This allows the server to start up even if the # mouse device can't be opened/initialised. AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection # ** # Input devices # ** # ** # Keyboard section # ** Section "Keyboard" Protocol"Standard" # when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the # following line #Protocol "Xqueue" AutoRepeat 250 30 # Let the server do the NumLock processing. This should only be # required when using pre-R6 clients #ServerNumLock # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) #Xleds "1 2 3" #To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift, #RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock: LeftAltMeta RightAlt Meta ScrollLock Compose RightCtl Control # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. #XkbDisable # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: #XkbModel"pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: #XkbModel"microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: #XkbLayout "de" # or: #XkbLayout "de" #XkbVariant "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: #XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps" # These are the default XKB settings for XFree86 #XkbRules"xfree86" #XkbModel"pc101" #XkbLayout "us" #XkbVariant "" #XkbOptions "" XkbKeycodes "xfree86" XkbTypes"default" XkbCompat "default" XkbSymbols "us(pc105)" XkbGeometry "pc" XkbRules"xfree86" XkbModel"pc105" XkbLayout "us" EndSection # ** # Pointer section # ***
Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB
Couldn't you folks who want to discuss or vent about Windows find a Windows mailing list or better yet, --start one. Can we just do Linux here? Thanks Eunice Mark Weaver wrote: it is...but often you'll find that all this venting is good theropy. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 Abraham Pinzur had this to say! Technically, WinME is Win98 without any trace of DOS under the covers. You won't find autoexec.bat. config.sys, or any of those files on a system with WinME preinstalled. *Technically*, best I can tell, WinME's relationship to DOS is no different from Win95 or Win98. Take it from a guy who's wasted a lot more time exploring those relationships than I want to think about... Basically Win9x's autoexec.bat/config.sys only affected DOS programs anyway. MS chose to leave them out in the newest iteration, assuming (fairly reasonably, actually) that nobody buying a new WinME computer would ever even think of running a DOS program. However, the dirty little secret is that if you ever have to boot off of WinME's rescue floppy, you're right back at the DOS prompt! BTW, I subscribed to this list under the impression that it was devoted to an alternative OS... =) - Av - -- Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux User Group http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] Mandrake is losing it
Kit, Share your insights and opinions; Please. Eunice KompuKit wrote: Vic...turn on your ICQ...this is kit. don't upgrade to 7.2...I'll explain why Vic wrote: Uh oh, since it is that, I have 7.0-2 How can I keep from losing my /home/users directories? I don't have enuf disks to put it all on. I have to keep my /home/users directory I cannot reformat or erase it in any way. On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Did you upgrade from 7.x to 7.2 (which is a BAD idea)? Did you attempt to retain old 7.x home directories, which can be problematic? -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit= -- Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux User Group http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 X problems
Hello, does anyone have a clue as to could be causing this problem ? I am able to get to the other window managers from a graphical login, but I prefer to use init 3, and I still have the problem of X crahing when I hit the CTRL-ALT-F2 sequence. Thanks again Eunice Thompson wrote: Hi all. I've installed Mandrake 7.2 on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro, P166MHz;80MB Ram; 6 GB hard drive). I'm having a few 'minor' problems ( Which did not occur with 7.1, on the same system). 1. The only window managers that I'm able to start are KDE2.o and XFCE. The others (Ice, Blackbox, Gnome...) are installed, but when I type startgnome, startice, startfvvm, ... etc., I get an error messae stating " Unable to open display ...". 2. When in X, if I want to switch to a console , I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 (-F6) and it switches to the text based login prompt, and then X crashes with a message of " X server aboterd, code 11). If I'm not in X, then I 'm able to switch between the virtual consoles without any problem using, Alt-F2 (-F6). I did not have this problem when using XFree 3.3.6in LM7.1. I'm currently using X-4.01. Does anyone have any clues or hints? Thanks -- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Nero Wolfe --- Eunice Thompson -- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Nero Wolfe --- Eunice Thompson
[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 X problems
Hi all. I've installed Mandrake 7.2 on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro, P166MHz;80MB Ram; 6 GB hard drive). I'm having a few 'minor' problems ( Which did not occur with 7.1, on the same system). 1. The only window managers that I'm able to start are KDE2.o and XFCE. The others (Ice, Blackbox, Gnome...) are installed, but when I type startgnome, startice, startfvvm, ... etc., I get an error messae stating " Unable to open display ...". 2. When in X, if I want to switch to a console , I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 (-F6) and it switches to the text based login prompt, and then X crashes with a message of " X server aboterd, code 11). If I'm not in X, then I 'm able to switch between the virtual consoles without any problem using, Alt-F2 (-F6). I did not have this problem when using XFree 3.3.6in LM7.1. I'm currently using X-4.01. Does anyone have any clues or hints? Thanks -- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. -- Nero Wolfe --- Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem
get out of X and as root type: netconf this should take you to the text mode of network configuration. you'll have to enter everything in manually, but this should work. Roger Sherman wrote: On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:20:13 -0400, you wrote: try as superuser ifup ethx where x is 0, 1, 2, etc OK, when I type in the above (exactly as written) this is what I get: usage" ifup device name or go into DrakConf and do a network config you might have to pick out your module try 3com 59x or something like that I went into that, but I didnt see anyplace to pick a module! Mark Weaver gave me some info, Im going to try that and see what happens. Also, Im reading reading reading. Im sure Ill get somewhere eventually, but a lot of the stuff Im seeing is either not quite what I need, or its written from the assumption of some technical knowledge on my part which doesnt yet exist... On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, you wrote: OK, I've finally gone broadband! Life is good. Except for one thing - I'm still a completely ignorant newbie. I thought I had increased my own learning curve over the last month, but apparently not :-/ Oh well...;-) So, anywho, I have a 3com Etherlink Nic card, (model 3C900B-TPO), along with the 3com HomeConnect cable modem. When I booted into linux after physically installing it, kudzu came up, and said it installed it, but Linux doesnt seem to see it. So, the long and short of this is, how do I configure this thing? Starting from installation, through configuring the network...if someone could just point me to a place where I could read about it, hopefully that was written for complete, total newbies to linux, that would be great. Thanks! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com -- We cannot do everything at once but we can do SOMETHING at once Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Start X at boot
as root at the command prompt, type: Xconfigurator go throught he settings and test X, after you're done it will ask you if you want X to start automatically. or you can edit your '/etc/inittab' file and change the default run level from 3 to 5 Eunice On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: I just upgraded X and forgot what I need to do in order for it to be started at boot. Suggestions? Victor -- Eunice Thompson - Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta
What kind of doc are you? Romanator wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta markOpoleO wrote: damnit man, stop yelling at everyone, the is is for newbies if you wanna make everyone seem dumb at linux go should in a windoze mailing list. Damnit Jim...I'm a doctor...not a brick layer. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 What am I a moon shuttle conductor or doctor? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -- We cannot do everything at once but we can do SOMETHING at once Eunice Thompson
[newbie] Website
What's going on with Mandrake's website? It takes forever for the page to load, if at all. Eunice -- We cannot do everything at once but we can do SOMETHING at once Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Plextor Model Recommendation for CD Burning
Roman, I have a Plexwriter- 8x4x32. It's an IDE drive. It works great. In Mdk 7.0, I had to recompile the kernel for it to work, but with 7.1, it worked right out the box. I think that they were recommending SCSi drives. Romanator wrote: Hi, I think I asked this some time ago but I wiped my drive and it got lost. What is a recommended brand of CD burner from Plextor supported by MDK7.1? Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -- We cannot do everything at once but we can do SOMETHING at once Eunice Thompson
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] How to delete an ext2 partition under DOS
Thanks Roman. yes I have a Plexwriter 8x4x32. It's sweet. I wish I had the 12x. I was finally able to stop booting into Windows just to burn CD's It's a relief. Eunice On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you wrote: Hey Eunice, put the installation disk in and do an expert install, when you get to the disk partitioning, just delete the linux partition, click done then exit the install Thanks for the advice. I hear you have a PlexWriter 8/4/32? So do I... (LOL, lame, I know... ;-) If you reply to this mail, please also send me a copy to my private email address [EMAIL PROTECTED], since I am going to unsub. from the list soon. Roman -- Eunice Thompson - Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] How to delete an ext2 partition under DOS
put the installation disk in and do an expert install, when you get to the disk partitioning, just delete the linux partition, click done then exit the install Eunice Roman Korcek wrote: Hi guys, I'd need some help. I have a 20GB disk, c: (/dev/hda1) is windows, 2GB, FAT32; d: (/dev/hda5) is windows stuff, 16GB, FAT32; /dev/hda6 is Linux /, 1.72GB, Ext2, /dev/hda7 is Linux swap, 128MB (the rest). Now my question is - how can I delete that /dev/hda6 partition? I need it for windows at the moment and DOS fdisk doesn't see it. Not even as NON-DOS partition, which would give me an option to delete it. What can I do apart from Partition Magic which I don't have the money for? Thanx in advance Roman
Re: [newbie] PlexWriter 12x10x32
I have the Plexwriter 8x4x32, and it works fine. I don't think you will have any problems using the 12x- go for it Eunice On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, you wrote: I've sent an e-mail which did get replied to but there was an error in the reply. My question was whether Plextor's 12x10x32 CD-RW P/N: PX-W1210TA/SW is supported on Linux Mandrake 7.1 (Helium)? Will the driver "cdrecord" work for this device? I cannot find it in any of the Linux hardware compatibility lists. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Eunice Thompson - Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] Re Cable Modem install
try using 2 different NICs, (i.e,different model number or manufacturer) Eunice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very quick question I hope someone can help me on. I just resently came back to linux-mandrake from another flavor. I had my cable modem working great on it and it had two nic in it so I could ip chain to a samba network. The problem I am having is that when I have both my nic cards in (the same machine same cards), they won't work at all. As soon as I take one out the other will work. I can install either the internal network or the cable network not both. The nics are not conflicting. Help I'm at a dead end. My system is a Cyrix 150+ 120 Mhz 64 megs ram ati mach 32 video card 3.2 gig hdd 4.3 gig hdd 24X cd-rom 3com 3c509tp nic 10 mb (cable) 3com 3c905 nic 10/100 mb (Internal network) - Get Family Friendly Free Email at www.popmail.com -- We cannot do everything at once but we can do SOMETHING at once Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] how to restart
try failsafe Eunice Ed Tharp wrote: I was playing around with trying to get ipmasq and ip chains running, and screwed up so badly now I can not restart linux. anyone got any ideas? not even with linux 1 will it boot. I get a set of errors about ipforwarding errors and then it freezes. anyway to get mandrake 7.0 (air) to start so that I could just not start those services until I can straighten out my config files? (with lilo) Help!!!
Re: [newbie] I REALLY NEED MY MONITOR TO WORK!!
At the login prompt type linux 3 hopefully you are using LiLO for the bootloader, if you're using grub then select failsafe and it will take you to a text login from here you can type Xconfigurator and strt experimenting with monitors, graphic cards, resolutions,etc. Make sure that you answer 'NO" to the question about a graphical login, until you get this thing resolved Eunice On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote: Try taking the refresh rate down - Original Message - From: Chris Courtade To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:50 AM Subject: [newbie] I REALLY NEED MY MONITOR TO WORK!! Hey, how's it going. So I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.1 on my AMD Athlon K-7, FIC SD11 mother board, running with 192MB of RAM. My problem is that at the end of the installation when asking to pick my monitor, no matter what monitor I pick, the screen flickers and is all chopped up, I can't even see the sign on box enough to sign in. I have an ATI Rage Fury 128 bit 32MB video card on a NEC MultiSync XV15+. Even though I know that Mandrake supports the video card and the monitor is even listed in the database, it still continues to flicker and be chopped up. Please help me resolve this problem as I am anxious to start using it. -Chris Courtade Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -------- -- Eunice Thompson - Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] Boot failure
Try a 'Custom' upgrade with the installation CD then you can choose LiLO or Grub On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote: Trying to get this sent, but it keeps bouncing back. I am subscribed. Could you post it for me? Installed mandrake linux 7.1 perfectly using Automode install, the X-Windows interface during the instal worked fine, it recognized all my hardware, but during the reboot progress it failed. I got something like, "Start1 Start2" then it hung. I forget the actual words, but it hangs on boot up and does nothing. Tried booting from floppy so I could run and check the lilo.conf, but I could not get the floppy boot to recognmize the CD-ROm during 'Recovery' mode. So I never got a prompt. I used to use RH 5.1, but I am NOT an expert user. My hardware: E-Machines Pentium II 333mhz 32 mb memory 2Gig HD Partition does include /temp /usr and swap drives CD-ROM IDE NEC Monitor Question: Do I need to re-run LILO or look at my LILO.conf? In auto install mode, I did not specify MBR or 1st drive as my boot method, does it matter which I use? I usually use my 1st drive. I also tried to install an old version of Redhat Linux, but it also hung on re-boot. The system works fine with Win98 and Win2000, which is how I polled the hardware to set up linux. I am NOT doing dual boot. Thanks, Michael Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine University of Washington Medical Center Medical Director, Inpatient and Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs Puget Sound Veterans Administration Health Care System [EMAIL PROTECTED] (206) 277-1792 (206) 764-2263 Fax On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: Test, ignore -- Eunice Thompson - Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] laptops
Marcia, try to have at least 64 MB of memory, Windows will appreciate it. I saw a post of yours asking about an Emachine laptop; i won't say anything abot that brand, but stay away from CELERON processors; go with an AMD or a good ol' Pentium. I myself use a Toshiba. They are one of 'THE NAMES' to go for as far as laptops-- good support, warranties and no problems with Linux. I've installed Mandrake on numerous laptops, as it's my distro of choice and find that it installs just as well as on the desktop. If you can get a larger hard drive now, you won't have to worry about upgrading soon. You really don't need to use Partition Magic- just install Windows first,then put the Mandrake installation CD in and do a 'Custom' install. When you get to the partitioning of the drive you'll find that the whole drive is one big FAT partition. If you click on it there's an option to resize and it will also show just exactly how much space Windows is taking up. After you resize you can either manually create the partitions or click on 'Auto-allocate' and then 'Done' Hope this helps On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, you wrote: From some of your responses it sounds like there are more than a few good laptops out there for running Linux. Are 6.0 gigs of harddrive and 32 megs of memory enough for running Linux Mandrake and Windows easily? Would I be better off getting at least 64 megs of memory and 10 or more gigs of harddrive? Will Mandrake 7.0 or 7.1 be easier to install and use on a laptop? I am looking for a laptop that installs Mandrake without a problem, detects everything, and everything else works fine, too. I need a dual boot system with Windows, too. Is Partition Magic in 7.1? That worked well for me in 7.0 on my desktop. Thank you for your help. Marcia -- Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer/Community Relations Cerritos LUG http://www.cerritoslug.org
Fwd: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] network
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] network Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 05:01:47 +0100 From: System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] network Sent:Sat, 19 Aug 2000 03:26:26 +0100 did not reach the following recipient(s): [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 19 Aug 2000 05:01:30 +0100 The recipient name is not recognized The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=US;a= ;p=NTDOMAIN1;l=NTSERVER10008190401QXLLCM4C MSEXCH:IMS:NTDOMAIN1:NTSERVER1:NTSERVER1 0 (000C05A6) Unknown Recipient --- did you ENABLE networking, is the proper config mode checked (manual, in your case), correct netmask, and also the correct module for the Network interface card (net device = eth0)? You also have to put in thMhï+fault gateway. go to: http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci to find the correct driver for your nic. Eunice On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote: I need help getting linux to connect to the network, I entered in all the info under linuxconf (i'm running mandrake 7.0). I have static ip and i entered all the dns info but i still can't connect to the network, or internet. I'm running a dual boot and I copied the info from my win configuration so i'm sure the info was right. I have a real tek 8139 NIC and the harware seems to be configured properly, I'm new at this so any help would be appreciated. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] network
did you ENABLE networking, is the proper config mode checked (manual, in your case), correct netmask, and also the correct module for the Network interface card (net device = eth0)? You also have to put in the default gateway. go to: http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci to find the correct driver for your nic. Eunice On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote: I need help getting linux to connect to the network, I entered in all the info under linuxconf (i'm running mandrake 7.0). I have static ip and i entered all the dns info but i still can't connect to the network, or internet. I'm running a dual boot and I copied the info from my win configuration so i'm sure the info was right. I have a real tek 8139 NIC and the harware seems to be configured properly, I'm new at this so any help would be appreciated. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] RedHat 6.2 GUI Login Problem
Hmmm First I must really emphasize that this is a MANDRAKE list. Now that that's out of the way, are you in X when you do the ctrl,alt,F7? If so then that's the problem. When in X, if you want to switch to a text console, then you do ctrl,alt F'n', where 'n' = a number 1 -6. By default X is on tty7, so if you do the "ctrl,alt,F7" thingy while in X , I believe you've caused confusion in your system. To get out of X and back to any login prompt, whether, it's a text mode login or the GUI try: CTRL-ALT-Backspace. One Final WORD... This is a Mandrake list, so why not give it a try? Eunice Edmund Cham wrote: Hi, I'm installing RedHat 6.2 and every thing work find. I can start x window but i can't get GUI Login screen when i press CRTL + ALT + F7. What i get is a black screen with a square mouse cursor. Can anyone please tell me what's wrong? Thank You. -- -- Edmund Cham [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If at first you don't succeed, it's a BETA test ******* Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 MDK 7.1
Hey Fab go to this site: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ They don't have your specific model listed, but if you try the 4300: http://www.jmop.de/linux/linux.html It the same video card- I'm sure you can get it to work Eunice fabrizio ravazzini wrote: Hello All, I have a problem configuring XFree86 on the Notebook TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 with MANDRAKE 7.1 because the MONITOR (lcd) and the Video Card S3 SAVAGE /IX w/Mv they are not supported. Can Someone help me? Many thanks . __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it -- Eunice Thompson - Treasurer Cerritos Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cerritoslug.org
Re: [newbie] Cable modems
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: I'm sure that this has been asked many a time but, I am very new at this. Linux supports the use of a cable modem, correct? I am running Mandrake 7.1. Thanks in advance!! yes, without a doubt Eunice Thompson
[Fwd: [newbie] Sound Card Problem]
worldly linux wrote: I am still in need of assistance, please Is there a command that will tell me what type of card I have ? I really have no idea. The laptop was given to me awhile back. I remember that the sound worked under RedHat so I know it has some sort of card.. Dell Latitude LM Laptop Mandrake 7.0 (MaximumLinux CD) Usually 'dmeg more' will list all the hardware tht was detected when you boot your machine. You can also go to this site: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ to see what components you have. After that you can use either sounddrake in 'X' or sndconfig at the command prompt to configure your card. Good Luck Eunice THompson __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Lost root password
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Somehow I lost root password. Is thre any way to login as root again? Thanks a lot. Eduardo At the LILO boot prompt, type : linux 1 the system will startup in single user mode, no need to login- you will already be root. You will have to make a new password for root, so just type: passwd and follow the prompts. Then just reboot (shutdown -r now) Good Luck Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Netscape/password
Darryl Gibson wrote: Hello list, When I select "Get Messages" in Netscape I'm prompted for a password. My user's password doesn't work, but Root's password does. Root isn't even logged onto the machine. Why is this, and how can I permit users to get their mail, without using Root's password? TIA -- Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm) RLU # 182668 This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE THis is the password that you have with the ISP Eunice
Re: [newbie] Network Trouble
toyswins wrote: Fighting similar battles. Am very interested in the answers also so please everyone, answer in public forum if nothing else. Thanks to the group - - - I'm afraid I did understand the question...shudder at the thoughtI'm turning into a geek. See ya' Jim Dwyer wrote: Another HUGE problem Mandrake has detected my NIC and i'm having trouble setting up the parameters so i can get internet access. Here's my problem, I have a cable modem which runs into a Linksys 4 port router. From there an RJ-45 runs to a hub and then out of the hub and Rj-45 runs into my computer. I can't seem to get access to the internet. Both my ISP and Router use DHCP and i'm clueless as to what to put. When i go to configure i select eth0 for my NIC and the right driver is also selected. What do i put for PrimaryName.domain, IP (this is tricky cause my router uses DHCP) and Netmask. Do i just leave them blank. Also, do i need to set a gateway and if so, do i put down the IP address for my router or the gateway my router uses from my ISP. Anyone else confused? Oh well ANY help at all would be greatly appreciated. Maybe if i get this fixed i'll be able to get my sound card workin too. Jim In Linux - you can leave the IP and netmask address blank; you must enter the router's IP for the gateway.you can leave the primaryname.domain as localhost.localdomain. I also have a Linksys router attached to a cable modem and although my ISP uses dhcp I was unable to get the router to work when using DHCP from ISP in the router setup; I finally got it to work by letting the router assume that I had a static IP and entering all the necessary items during the router setup( you can get all this info, i.e., host name, domain name ip address, gateway, dns ip if you're also using Windows by using 'winipcfg'for Win98 or 'ipconfig' for WinNT at a DOS prompt ) Then i have my router as a DHCP server. As I sit here thinking about it maybe it would work if , in the router setup you indicated the ISP as DHCP and then assign each PC an IP address and netmask using the router's IP as a gateway (of course). I've never tried it that way though. Good Luck Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Ethernet problems.
A J Benamu wrote: Roman, No luck there.. I think I will give up on Linux and the Internet.. It is definitely easier with Windows... MUCH EASIER! AJ -Original Message- From: Romanator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 6:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: A J Benamu Subject: Re: [newbie] Ethernet problems. Hi AJ, I have attached a link to a url that will get you up and running. I'm an @Home cable user and I had one heck of a time getting logged on. After reading this, everything was working okay. http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html Good Luck! Roman A J Benamu wrote: HI Ralph, I finally got my HP Ethernet card configured.. but I still don't have internet.. Does anybody know how to configure the @Home service (Cable Modem). Thanks, AJ -Original Message- From: Ralph Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ethernet problems. OK, then we are going to need more information. What exactly does "can't configure" mean? What have you tried so far? If you have a working Win98 install, how is the card configured there? Any messages about the adapter in the log? This card works fine for me and is supported using the RTL8139 driver. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "A J Benamu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 11:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Ethernet problems. I did what you said and still no ethernet card working.. Any ideas? Thanks, AJ -Original Message- From: Ralph Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 11:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ethernet problems. On my HP with the same NIC card LM recognized the card but I couldn't get it to work. I had to go into the BIOS setup and change the OS from Windows to Other (the same as PNP OS no in other BIOS) to solve the problem. The problem was that the IRQ for the card wasn't getting automacally assigned by the BIOS and LM wasn't configuring the card either. Changing the setting makes the BIOS assign an IRQ. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "A J Benamu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 7:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Ethernet problems. Hi, I hope I can get my message across... I installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 in my Athlon 700 machine.. Also using Win 98. I can't seem to configure my ethernet card. I use cable modem to access the internet. The ethernet card is HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter. Can anybody help me? Why can't I configure my HP M90 with Mandrake? Thanks, AJ AJ , it may seem that Windows is easier, but once you get it connected,LINUX is so Powerful for networking. please give it another shot and maybe visit The Mail Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com just type in Cable Modems and you'll get pages of posts and solutions, or.. post again and let's try and get this thing working. first thing -- do you know which module your NIC uses for LINUX? that might be a hangup. Eunice
Re: [newbie]Printing
Your printer uses the Canon BJC 600 printer driver, I have the same one myself Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation
Marcia, Have you looked at the documentation on your installation CD? I'm sure you have if you've made a boot floppy. Have you tested your BiOS and tried to change the boot order to see if the 'Technician' really knew what he was taalking about? You just might be able to boot from the CD. you can try changing it to CDROM, A,C, or A, CDROM, C orjas most machines are setup - A, C, ... From here the installation should start up and you can specify text install after the installation has initialized. Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] No Penguins on login screen.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.1 Somehow I did something to my linux box and now I don't have the penguins on the login screen. I am reffering to the penguins that represent each user. I used to have a root penguin and my username penguin on this screen. I can still login just fine the only difference is that the penguins are gone. Can someone tell me how to get the penguins back? Thanks in advance; -mike In X as root, navigate to kdedesktopapplications.login manager then you can show the users and actually change the iconsfor each user. Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Modem-card recommendation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can any one (not) recommend a PCMCIA modem card to use with Mandrake (or Linux in general). I know about WinModems so I want to know what PCMCIA modems have caused problems and what modems have worked fine. Thanks, L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power! Laurent go to the following site: http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS It has all the info you need Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] X-server crash
If you automatically boot into X at startup and subsequently X fails, do not ssume that you have to do a reinstall. if you are using LILO then at the boot prompt just type in linux 3 and it will boot to a command prompt, from there you can login and as root run Xconfigurator to fix or just to reset (?) the Xserver. A lot of people that I've talked to don't boot into X for this very reason. Also if X is crahing a lot maybe you should play around with the settings in Xconfigurator until you get one that seems stable.
Re: [newbie] Trying to install Linux-Mandrake 7.0
Marcia Go to this web site: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ and do a search on "LILO Boot Magic". I'm sure you'll find the solution there, if no one from this list is able to help. I wish I could; I do know that you would probably be better off uninstalling Boot Magic, putting your Win95 boot disk in then at the A:\ prompt , type in fdisk /mbr, ... then put the Mandrake installation CD in, do an upgrade, and then when it comes time to install the boot loader- LILO or grub it should install. The default OS will be LiNUX. I think you should check out that site first and see the other suggestions to solve this, because i've never used Boot Magic. Good Luck Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] No go on notebook
i just installed Mandrake on a friend's laptop- he's got a Sony Vaio PCG-F250 (or something like that), when it came time to configure X I just took the defaults for the monitor, which was a generic high frequency that can do 1024x768. Everything worked fine except that freakin USB mouse, so he has to use the touchpad. Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Question
If it's already working take a look at the /etc/modules.conf file to see what alias it's using. I have the same pcmcia card and in when I configured networking I had to add it manually; it's the 'pcnet_cs' module. good luck Eunice
Re: [newbie] cable modem blues no more
Mark, It was my pleasure, I'm glad everything worked out. When I first installed Mandrake I could't get my printer to work either- it is a parallel port Canon 4400 which every piece of documentatiion says should work in Linux. It worked fine in windows so I was stumped. One day as I was waiting for the LILO prompt after POST, I noticed that my parallel port was set to disable ( this is the screen immediately after the memeory check and hardware detection when you first turn your computer on and it lists everything- irq's, port settings, etc-)I went into my bios , enabled the parallel port and turned the printer on, booted into Mandrake and during the boot sequence i heard the printer initialize--IT WORKED!! I don't know if your solution to your printer problem will be as simple as this, but it is something to check as you run down the list of possible causes. Good Luck Eunice
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Blues
if you still have Windows installed , make sure the modem is connected and then boot into Windows. ( I'm assuming that the modem has already been installed and configured for use) if you're using Win98 then go to StartRun, type in winipcfg and select OK (in WinNT do the same except the command is ipconfig). A window should come up, select the Nic card and then 'more info'. Write down all the IP numbers, DNS, gateway, etc. And then just use them when you boot back into Linux. In Linux as root at the command prompt type netconf and select "Basic Host Info"; DNS; Gateways and enter the appropriate IP numbers. In X go to Drakconf and the select Network Configuration It would be a lot easier if you don't have a static IP from the cable company. You then can use DHCP. Just make sure you have dhcp installed and dhcpxd. Then just go to netconf and select DHCP , enter the appropriate gateway and everything should work ( you can use dhcpxd to acquire an IP address and the gateway) Good Luck Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(
You can check out your XF86config file under the section of pointers. there is a line here that tells you to uncomment it if your cursor appears as a white box (to uncomment you have to delete the '#' and then save the resulting file) You can do this in X as root using Kedit or from a command prompt (as root) using ' pico' or 'vi' Eunice Thompson
[newbie] Mirrors
The user group that I belong to (www.cerritoslug.org) would like to set up a mirror for Mandrake. Does anyone know how? I know that I need to use rsync, and although I've requested info from Mandrake about this I haven't heard anything from them (I've sent numerous requests for info on different subjects to different people at Mandrake and I haven't gotten a response to any of them!!). Any help or clues would be appreciated Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] another modem
Chandu, How did you get it to work? I have a Zoom2819 modem with jumpers. eunice thompson
Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail
Glyn Millington wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:56:07PM -0400, thus spake Charles A Edwards: I received nearly 30 of the following messages this afternoon. The attachment were all replys that I had sent and all did post to the list so why I getting undelivered notices now. Is this happening to anyone else. Charles This is the Postfix program at host webserver. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program Same here! -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* ** Me too Eunice Yhompson
Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz
Roman Bysh wrote: Hi Alan, Thank for pointing this out. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: flupke wrote: You uncompress the archive : Romanif that's the adobe acrobat reader, why don't you install the one on disc 5 of your powerpack, it's in an rpm and is easy as pie to install? Alan Romanator wrote: Hi, I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install linux-ar-405.tar.gz I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful? I must be missing a command. Can any one help? Thanks, Roman Is there a site to download this RPM? Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz
I've installed it but I don't think I've integrated into Netscape yet. in a terminal: 1) tar xvzf progam,tar,gz if you're not already root 2)su; then ls to find a directory called ILINUX 3)cd to that directory- (there is a Readme.txt file, that younshould have a look at) type ./INSTALL and it will ask you some questions. I had to make a directory- /usr/local/Acrobat4 because that is where it installs to. I basicaly just stopped after I got it installed, leaving the browser integration for another day. Hope this helps Eunice Thompson - Original Message - From: "flupke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 3:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz You uncompress the archive : tar zxf linux-ar-405.tar.gz then you go into the newly created directoy, su to root, and execute the installation script : ./INSTALL (or is it ./SETUP???) Then, the rest should be self prompting. HTH Flupke On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi, I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install linux-ar-405.tar.gz I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful? I must be missing a command. Can any one help? Thanks, Roman -- There's no place like ~ !
[newbie] [Fwd: Extra Cds for 7.1]
Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or the other CD. Thanks Eunice
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO IMAGE
I had this problem only when installing on my laptop-couldn't get the darn drive to open!! When I upgraded to 7.1 final from the beta versions I basically just walked away after indicating which additional packages i wanted, because it took so long for the package installatiion to initialize. I was surprised when I came back to it that it had asked for the 2nd CD and the drive was already open, just waiting. Maybe we have to let the 'install' open the drive? No intervention on our part, just wait and see if the drive pops out. That's what happened to me. Eunice
[newbie] Extra Cds for 7.1
Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or the other CD. Thanks Eunice
Re: [newbie] default boot os
Peter Vandecasteele wrote: hello, does somebody knows how to change the default os ? after changing it activating the changes, nothing happens. delault my pc boots in linux, and i want it to boot by default in windows, without typing the word "windows" everytime i boot. thanks Kind Regards, Peter Vandecasteele. Peter, If you go into 'Drakconf', select 'DrakBoot'. it will have a list of options, choose 'configur grub/lilo'. Whichever one you want to be the default, there is a radio button that you can select/deselect. That should do it. When you see the list again, the default OS will have a '*' next to it. Good Luck Eunice
Re: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list?
Steve Weltman wrote: SHUT UP ALREADY!!! bascule wrote: regarding 'run-on sentences' and the implicit assumption of courtesy, the minor flame fest that briefly sputtered upon my publicly thanking a contributor to this list surprised me, true, i did not quote any of the pleasing previous answer since no quote was necessary, it was a thankyou after all. as for courtesy being implied, well that's a nice idea but (and here i digress but i'm sure that readers will be tolerant) the reason i teach my child politeness is not -and i have explained this to her- because the individual rules or words involved are particularly meaningful, but rather, that the effort to follow them ensures thought takes place concerning ones actions and speech, i hardly need point out what can happen in the world when actions and speech are not preceded by thought (though of course mere thoughtfulness is not always enough), to return, perhaps i have thoughtlessly broached some rule of the list that i am unaware of, if so then i humbly apologise, as a newbie in general terms as well as linux in particular i would welcome any polite instruction on the matter. however, surely if every message posted were to fully quote the previous than any thread of great length becomes a serious download for plain old 56k users like me. clearly most people choose what to quote and how much, this is presumably done on the need for clear communication and can sometimes take into account the intended recipient. as i attempted to point out in the other thread on this list, not all conversations are intelligible if one enters in the middle, i for one delete messages that i can not respond to and do not hold info i need, therefore i often read missives that hold little meaning for me, this has yet to annoy me. the (relatively) anonymous mailing list has strong psychological differences to a conversation 'in the flesh', anger is more quickly aroused and more quickly returned, i strive to avoid this and, i like to hope, usually succeed. of course, no-one is perfect and perhaps this post is evidence of that, it's certainly not very linux related, but linux is a part of life and i like my life happy and wish the same for all, (almost a non sequitur but not quite). for readers who wonder what this post is about, i apologise again, the truth is, i feel slighted by a previous post(s) and i'm not exactly sure why, this epistle is the result. feel free to burn effigies of me if you have been annoyed by this, i am 5'8 in old money, chubby, a tad plain and i have long hair if that helps. bascule Umm bascule, could you please expound on the term "old money"? Eunice
Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo Linux Mandrake 7.0
Roman, I've got a Plextor IDE, and it works great. the scsi's also work great- so I recommend a Plextor. Go with the 12X SCSI if money is no object ( it's the latest model) Eunice Thompson - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 10:58 PM Subject: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo Linux Mandrake 7.0 Hi, I'm looking for a CD writer. What would be a good brand that runs well under Linux? My computer is a Dell Dimensions XPSB 733. OS is Linux Mandrake 7.0 PP and WinNT4. Any help recommendations would be considered. Roman
[newbie] 7.1 CD's
where are the CD's #3and #4? are they available for download ? Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Problem !
Exchange it if you can for a D-Link or 3COM. I purchased an Ambicomm 10/100 PCMCIA card for my laptop and followed all of the included instructions and couldn't get it to work. The reason why I bought the darn thing is because on the package it 'claimed' that it work in LINUX. it didn't work for me so if I were you I would stop wasting my time with the sucker and get one that works. check out: http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/ Eunice Thompson - Original Message - From: "Thorsten Brenner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 11:38 PM Subject: [newbie] PCMCIA Problem ! Hi everybody, i have a short question on PCMCIA. I am using the PCMCIA-Version wich was shipped with LM 7.0. It is the Version 3.1.9. I bought a AboCom PCMCIA CardBus Networtcard. On installation i left the Card in the CardBusSlot of my Notebook. LM 7.0 detects it but "insmod tulip" failed, without any showen error. After installation i went to "netconf" and set the network up. Here are my settings. IP:192.168.1.3 NM:255.255.255.0 Interface eth0 Modul tulip In lothar the card is recognized too, and in the KDE-Controlpanel the Card is showen as as LinkSys 10/100 Fast Ethernet-Card. The "ifconfig" shows that the interface is up and running using the IRQ 9. It can ping to itself but not to the other computers. On startup PCMCIA is started and the LED´s of the PCMCIA-connector are on. That shows me that the card is connectet to the 100Mbit swith in full duplex. But then came the message up "Tx hung 13. vs. 0". I have tried everythig. I also postet the message-files to the AboCom-Support. They say that everything is alright and they can´t understand why this card wont work. Has someone outthere any suggestion how to solve this probleme? Thanks Thorsten PS.On the basis of my bad english i hope you will understand what probleme defenatly i have !!!
Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0
Marc wrote: I want to uninstall Mandrake7.0 since I now have more experiance installing it and configuring it. I did alot of things I did not wanna do during the install. If someone could please advise me on this I would thank them alot. I could not find any papers on this process. I am guessing it to be easy. Thanks alot to the person who answers this in advance! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html you can use the installation CD to format the partitions: -expert mode -any class but server format the partitions, click done, then exit the install. OR if you have a DOS disk then type fdisk, delete the partitions (non dos) and then exit fdisk. The problem with using DOS is that although it sees the linux partitions (non-dos) it is rarely able to delete the partitions , that 's why I suggested the first option. OR if you have Partition Magic then you can just delete and format the partitions.
Re: [newbie] can't install x-windows....rest of computer is f(*ed up!
try typing: startx if that doesn't take you into a GUI then as root type: Xconfigurator this will take you into the x setup. After you get everything configured and tested there will be an option to allow you to startx automatically Eunice Thompson - Original Message - From: "Paul John Kiener" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 5:25 AM Subject: [newbie] can't install x-windowsrest of computer is f(*ed up! hello, can anyone help me with this problem. 1st, i tried to install linux. i had the opportunity to have linux take over my whole computer, since i ended up formatting everything. so i had autoallocate allocate and create the partitions in the linux setup. then, i installed it. after installing the packages, i reached the part where it said it was going to install x-windows. so i waited. then the screen turned black for like 2 seconds, then it went to a screen full of gray x's. i shutdown the comp. rebooted, and it started in the mandrake dos type thing where it asks for my localhost login. after that, all i get is this prompt... [paul@localhost paul]$ and from there i don't know what to do. i tried to re-install linux over again to setup x-windowsbut no avail either. help please! God bless! peace! Paul John "Stiff-man" Kiener [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installation woes
When the installation first initialises there is a prompt 'boot:'. If you type 'expert' it should take you into the text mode installation. You can also press F1 at this point for help. Eunice Thompson - Original Message - From: "Peter Taylor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Installation woes I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a Windows 95 machine with two HD's and a Cyrix 233 chip. It boots OK and gets to initialising the CD Rom but always falls over at in second stage install -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect : Can't connect : errno = 111 -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect : Can't connect : errno = 111 (Date and time) Gtk WARNING ** cannnot open display = :0 at /usr/bin/perl - install / my-gtk.pm line 139 install exited abnormally I've found one other posting with the same error message and the only bit of kit we have in common is the CPU (his was a 150Mhz) The only reply he got was to try a text install. How? As you can see I haven't got past the first hurdle yet so assume I know nothing. Thanks in advance Pete Taylor.
Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1
Anthony Huereca wrote: P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of Linux instead of buying a documented package is truly nuts, and is asking for big problems, but this has nothing to do with the particular disto or version as it applies to them all. Heh, then I guess I'm certifiably nuts : ) I debated between gettting the packaged version or just a plain CD, and I went with the plain CD. I just got through by reading a whole whole lot (most of the manual is online, and I bought a small Linux book along with the CD), and reinstalling a whole lot after I'd screw up. But I did eventually get it right, and I've been running this same "version" for about 5 months now. It was definitly a learning experiance, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd probally still pick the CD since I've probally learned a lot more than I would have if I stuck with the packaged version. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. I have to say that I'm in the same boat with Anthony. I was introduced to Linux in February of this year (2000) in a networking class I took at the local Community College. The instructor gave a demo of a Red Hat install; some how I convinced him to let me make copies (at home of course -:)). I proceeded to install Red Hat 6.1 that night on my computer at home. BOY was I frustrated, couldn't even get my modem to work, so I rebooted into Win98, searched the web for anything and everything to do with Linux; I came across Linux Care or one of those sites that had links to all the distributions, and I just went through each and everyone until I came to Mandrake's page. I was so impressed with the demos of the installer that I started downloading the iso of 7.0 immediately. At the time I had a 56K modem and it took me about 44 hours to download the complete image. Then things really started getting interesting! I must have installed that thing about 15 times before I got everything working-- one night I installed, reformatted, reinstalled about 5 times (basically , I couldn't get my IDE cd-burner to work when everything else worked or vice versa). I know, I know all I had to do was recompile the kernel after about the second install and then everything would have been fine, but just those words 'compile the kernel' scared the beejeezus out of me. Needless to say that in the end, I recompiled the kernel got everything working and not only am I extremely satisfied with Mandrake , I've basically installed the beta versions of the upcoming release, not only on my desktop but also on an older laptop that I came across.I confess that if it wasn't for my stubbornness (make that tenacity) I would still be using Windows. Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Help!!
Edison Gica wrote: I need help guys! I installed LM 7.0 in my 2nd HD under the 'Recommended' The first thing that came up in setup filesystems was: "I can't read your partition table, it's too corrupted for me. I'll try to go on blanking bad partitions bad magic numbers" Note that I installed the new 2nd HD neither partitioned nor formatted by either Windows or Linux. I clicked 'Cancel' and it went immediately to the setting up of partitions so I selected 'hdb'and 'auto allocate'. I also selected to create a boot disk. And...Charles LM installed LILO on my Windows disk! There was no option after the create boot disk it jumped directly to Configure X! Boy..I did not want that to happen! After installing, it rebooted the computer and LILO came up :( so I entered to go to Linux. The Console mode login session came up but the screen would go on and off, what's wrong? I also tried to boot using the created 'boot disk' and an error came, error 0X10. Would sincerely appreciate any help guys. Is it possible to remove the LILO from my Windows disk and setup Linux to just boot from the 'boot disk'? edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com As to your last question: if you havs a dos ( or windows) boot disk then you can remove LILO by typing : fdisk /mbr at the 'A:\' prompt. Eunice Thompson
[newbie] Sound config (MDK7.1)
Hi, I 've just finished installing the 7.1 beta (first version) on my laptop-Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDX It basically went without a hitch (except I had to change the order of startup for the pcmcia card), but I don't have sound. I used Harddrake, it detected the sound card but when i hit the configure tab I received an error message that it didn't have the configuration tools. I tried to use soundconfig, but it's not loaded, it's not even on the CD's. How can I configure the sound? Is there a new command? Thanks for your help Eunice Thompson
[newbie] Netscape6 desktop shortcut revisited
Hi all , I was having a really hard time adding the shortcut to Netscape6 to the Desktop. Normally to start it up I would open a console change directory to /home/mydir/netscape6/package and then type './netscape' (without the qoutes) and it would start no problem. .the problem of adding the shortcut by right clicking the desktop and adding this path is that it wouldn't do the './netscape thingy'. I was stumped. I asked one of the local Linux 'gurus' and he basically just wrote a liitle script with pico or one of the text editors, probably 'kedit' that looks like this cd /home/mydir/netscape6/package ./netscape saved it as 'runnetscape' and then used that path for the shortcut's executable i.e /home/mydir/runnetscape and it worked! thought I would share that with everyone Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions
OK!
I downloaded a new theme from kde.themes ('daPhoton') installed it and now
the mouse wheel works fine without any intervention.
I would ask why but since it's working now I won't ;that is until I get
tired of that theme.
Thanks DAD -:)
Eunice Thompson
- Original Message -
From: "Denis HAVLIK" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Pixel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote:
:~Denis Are you the daddy? -)
Sure I am - look here:
http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik/Album/20FirstDays/index.shtml
A bit dated, but he is still among us..
:~ I have an MS intellimouse ,ps/2.
:~I would like to have imwheel start automatically, or even be able to
start
:~it as a regular user (It worked fine in v.7.02). The only way I seem to
get
:~the wheel working is to change to 'su' in a terminal ,and type
imwheel -k
:~and then it starts. I've tried changing the permissions but still no
luck as
:~anyone other than the superuser starting this process.
:~ **I have asked this question before, but didn't get a response."
Well, this is certainly NOT the way it is supposed to be. Actually it is
supposed to work withouth any interventions from your side AFAIK.
Pixel? Has this been fixed? If yes, in which 7.1beta version?
cu
Denis
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Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my
desktop in Mandrake 7.1??
Eunice
Anthony Huereca wrote:
So are you talking about the Windows or Linux versions? And why did you have to
reboot? I personally think N6/Mozilla is A LOT more stablier than N4.7x is, but
I guess it might just depend on the machine and how it's configured.
Sure is. I think it is a little too early for Netscape 6. Just a week
or too ago it was labeled Beta. I tried Netscape 6 and didn't like it.
The program is unstable, and needs to be tweaked. I was getting many
Netscape.exe crashes.
I downloaded Netscape 4.73. Then, I used the following steps to remove
Netscape 6:
1. Uninstalled Netscape 6
2. Deleted the Netscape 6 folder
3. Rebooted and installed Netscape 4.73.
Netscape 4.7 is quite stable. I have Netscape 4.73, and seems to work
quite well.
Roman
(The penquin laughs when I run an installation)
Eunice Thompson wrote:
Roman ?
is there a problem with Netscape 6?
Eunice Thompson
- Original Message -
From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
Uninstall Netscape 6, reboot your OS and install Netscape 4.72
Roman
Eunice Thompson wrote:
How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6;
Should I uninstall Netscape 4.72?
Thanks
Eunice Thompson
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Anthony Huereca
http://m3000.1wh.com
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions
Denis Are you the daddy? -) then maybe you can solve this small problem that I've asked on the 'cooker'list "Hi, I'm using MDK 7.1 beta I have an MS intellimouse ,ps/2. I would like to have imwheel start automatically, or even be able to start it as a regular user (It worked fine in v.7.02). The only way I seem to get the wheel working is to change to 'su' in a terminal ,and type imwheel -k and then it starts. I've tried changing the permissions but still no luck as anyone other than the superuser starting this process. **I have asked this question before, but didn't get a response." Eunice Thompson - Original Message - From: "Denis HAVLIK" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "quaylar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions :~hi.ive the same problem...but adding user to my fstab doesnt help...i still :~cant mount fs as non-root user..any ideas ? Oh, come on, sure it does. Something like: /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev 0 0 will do just fine, trust the daddy. ,-) cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
[newbie] Netscape 6
How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6; Should I uninstall Netscape 4.72? Thanks Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Mouseconfig - MS Intellimouse (PS/2)
Thanks Aaron for posting this. I am using the beta of MDK 7.1 and I also had the same problem with my MS Intellimouse . The only way that I could use the wheel mouse was to open a console as root and type 'imwheel' and then the process would start. If I closed the window then the wheel would stop. I'm subscribing to the Cooker lists and read that " 'imwheel' starts automatically with X ." when I asked for a possible workaround for the problem I was pleasantly ignored or overlooked. I tried your workaround and it works great --THANKS! Eunice - Original Message - From: "Aaron Zuercher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 2:07 PM Subject: [newbie] Mouseconfig - MS Intellimouse (PS/2) Why is it that when I select MS Intellimouse (PS/2) from the list in Mouseconfig it will not work correctly in X? My mouse is a PS/2 Intellimouse. The symptoms are the pointer will automatically move to the upper-right corner of the screen and the button-press events (menus) will fire randomly. My workaround is to use the generic 3 button PS/2 mouse settings. I'm really curious as to why this happens. Do others have the problem? And are there really any differences between selecting Intellimouse or generic mouse? Thanks, Aaron
[newbie] Hyperterminal
Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch Eunice
Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]
Thanks Jag, you are correct. A number of us were using HyperTerminal in our Networking Lab to configure the Cisco routers, I wanted to do it from my Linux box, unfortunately either I didn't have minicom installed or I just was unable to locate it. I am able to telnet into the router from Linux , it's just basically a different interface and initial setup. So where did you say 'minicom' was located? Eunice - Original Message - From: "Jaguar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal] Hyperterm is not a Telnet exactly...it is a small dialer to dial into say a BBS, or other small dial-up service. And yes I think Minicom is the answer Jaguar flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch 'hyperterminal' is a telnet application under windows, am I right? What are the features present in 'hyperterminal' that you can't have in a normal terminal emulation like kterm, xterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt, ...? Flupke Eunice The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Maximal Mount Count
I don't know how many times I booted into mandrake. I have a dual boot system with win98. if you look in the /var/log/bootlog directory, you will see each and every time that you or someone booted and/or logged into your machine - Original Message - From: "Anthony Huereca" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Maximal Mount Count On this subject, does anyone know how many reboots it takes to hit the "Maximal Mount Count" or the file that I can look at to see for myself? I'm just sorta curious about how many reboots I get per "period". I booted into mandrake and got an error message that: "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count, checked forced ." I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries. In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy? Thanks Eunice AFAIK this is normal behavior, every so many boots the system decides to check partitions/disks somewhat like old Micro$oft's Scandisk. It can take some time, but is all in all a good idea. If it finds errors in the file system it also fixes them. Do you wan't to disable this?, or just delete logs, or what? Rgds: Mike Perry. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Maximal Mount Count
Any ideas? - Original Message - From: Eunice Thompson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 7:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Maximal Mount Count Original Message - From: Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:25 AM Subject: Maximal Mount Count I booted into mandrake and got an error message that: "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count, checked forced ." I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries. In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy? Thanks Eunice
Re: [newbie] Maximal Mount Count
Didn't realize this was normal behavior. "It's not broke, why fix it?" What happens when the file gets really big? Does it automatically 'tar' itself and start over? - Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 7:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Maximal Mount Count Eunice Thompson wrote: Any ideas? - Original Message - From: Eunice Thompson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 7:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Maximal Mount Count Original Message - From: Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:25 AM Subject: Maximal Mount Count I booted into mandrake and got an error message that: "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count, checked forced ." I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries. In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy? Thanks Eunice AFAIK this is normal behavior, every so many boots the system decides to check partitions/disks somewhat like old Micro$oft's Scandisk. It can take some time, but is all in all a good idea. If it finds errors in the file system it also fixes them. Do you wan't to disable this?, or just delete logs, or what? Rgds: Mike Perry.
[newbie] [Fwd: Maximal Mount Count]
I booted into mandrake and got an error message that: "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count, checked forced ." I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries. In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy? Thanks Eunice
[newbie] Fw: Maximal Mount Count
sorry about the attachment in the original message - Original Message - From: Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:25 AM Subject: Maximal Mount Count I booted into mandrake and got an error message that: "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count, checked forced ." I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries. In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy? Thanks Eunice
[newbie] Maximal Mount Count
sorry about the attachment in the original message- Original Message - From: Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:25 AMSubject: Maximal Mount Count I booted into mandrake and got an error message that: "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count, checked forced ." I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries. In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy? Thanks Eunice
[newbie] Copy Files
I saved a /var/log/*file on a floppy. In order for me to view it in Linux, I have to type 'pico filename' , and I can view the file as it's written. When I look at the same file in Windows it looks like one big paragraph, instead of the 200 + lines of entries of the original file. Is there a way to save the file in Linux so that it can be viewed in it's original format in Windows? in Linux the file looks like this: 1 adffsgh 2 dfgtg=hjeeur . . . 200 ftryu =iop;p; in Windows the same file looks like this: 1adffsgh2 dfgtg=hjeeur200 ftryu =iop;p; Thanks Eunice
[newbie] Copy Files
Thanks for the info
[newbie] TCI FreeWWWeb 4 Linux
check out the service for free internet http://www.teledyn.com/products/FreeWWW/#features TCI FreeWWWeb 4 Linux.url
[newbie] Browser
Thanks for posting the easy update for Netscape. I downloaded the packages from the Mandrake cooker site, used kpackage and tada! Netscape 4.72 is now installed. Thanks again
Re: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X
my pleasure - Original Message - From: "Roger Bird" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X Thank you very much, Eunice. That worked perfectly! Everything runs like a dream! Roger PS. Mandrake rocks! Eunice Thompson wrote: Roger, When you install in expert mode, you have to make sure that you install all the Window Managers (I think that's the term),when it gives you that list of packages you want to install. This happened to me also. The easiest way I found to correct this, was to pop the CD back in, go through the installation process again and do an Upgrade,instead of an install (make sure that you've still selected the expert mode and either normal or development for the type of install). It won't change any of your partitions, but it will allow you to add more packages. When you get to that stage, just uncheck each (+) to see what's there, and select which packages you want/need. I think it's called "xwindow manager" or something like that. Hope this helps - Original Message - From: "Roger Bird" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 7:35 AM Subject: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X I performed a new install of MD 7.0-2 last night on my AMD K6-2 350 w/ ATI xpert@play, 5.1gb, 96mb. I did an "Expert" install. It detected my nic and I correctly configured @home. (cool!) But the DrakX (i think that is what the install program is called) completely skipped over the "configure X" portion of the install. I did instruct the install to install all X-Windows programs. Xconfigurator, xconf, startx, ... none of this works (yes I ran them as root) So now I have just regular text mode. I need to get X working. What is the easiest way to do this? I want to use KDE. On a previous install, x worked fine and installed all the great icons in KDE. The only problem was my nic was not being detected, so I did a re-install. Not the nic is fine, @home is fine, but X does not work. Please help. Thank you. Roger -- Roger Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] Toronto, Ontario
Re: [newbie] linux ref book
me too. do I need a How-To on how to use this 'winrar' ?! - Original Message - From: "Scala, Lino" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:51 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] linux ref book I tried to use winrar but got an error message, I'm using winrar 2.60 is anybody else having trouble? use winrar *rofl* you can't mean this -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 22. März 2000 14:28 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: RE: [newbie] linux ref book I guess it would help if I told you where to get it, sorry :) www.geocities.com/linuxref/ -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 9:53 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] linux ref book I have posted a linux book in pdf format. The book is "linux complete command reference", its not quite newbie material, but an excellent reference book. The book is in pdf format (when it is uncompressed and reassembled) and is over 1500 pages. hope you find it useful. Merle Pittman xwave solutions 709-724-7598 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] linux ref book
Merle, Thanks - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:30 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] linux ref book I have posted these instructions on the same page. Sorry for all the confusion, if I had somewhere better to upload the files it would take care of all this fooling around. -Original Message- From: David J. Siu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] linux ref book If any of you guys are having trouble getting the linux reference to winrar correctly, notice that after you unzip the six files that they are named... linuxref-book1.rar linuxref-book2.r00 linuxref-book3.r01 linuxref-book4.r02 linuxref-book5.r03 linuxref-book6.r04 try renaming them to: linuxref-book1.rar linuxref-book1.r00 linuxref-book1.r01 linuxref-book1.r02 linuxref-book1.r03 linuxref-book1.r04 This worked for me! --- At 04:08 PM 3/22/00 -0330, you wrote: its on the same page -Original Message- From: Eunice Thompson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] linux ref book me too. do I need a How-To on how to use this 'winrar' ?! - Original Message - From: "Scala, Lino" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:51 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] linux ref book I tried to use winrar but got an error message, I'm using winrar 2.60 is anybody else having trouble? use winrar *rofl* you can't mean this -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 22. März 2000 14:28 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: RE: [newbie] linux ref book I guess it would help if I told you where to get it, sorry :) www.geocities.com/linuxref/ -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 9:53 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] linux ref book I have posted a linux book in pdf format. The book is "linux complete command reference", its not quite newbie material, but an excellent reference book. The book is in pdf format (when it is uncompressed and reassembled) and is over 1500 pages. hope you find it useful. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Merle Pittman xwave solutions 709-724-7598 [EMAIL PROTECTED] """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Re: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X
Roger, When you install in expert mode, you have to make sure that you install all the Window Managers (I think that's the term),when it gives you that list of packages you want to install. This happened to me also. The easiest way I found to correct this, was to pop the CD back in, go through the installation process again and do an Upgrade,instead of an install (make sure that you've still selected the expert mode and either normal or development for the type of install). It won't change any of your partitions, but it will allow you to add more packages. When you get to that stage, just uncheck each (+) to see what's there, and select which packages you want/need. I think it's called "xwindow manager" or something like that. Hope this helps - Original Message - From: "Roger Bird" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 7:35 AM Subject: [newbie] Odd install problem --- did not set up X I performed a new install of MD 7.0-2 last night on my AMD K6-2 350 w/ ATI xpert@play, 5.1gb, 96mb. I did an "Expert" install. It detected my nic and I correctly configured @home. (cool!) But the DrakX (i think that is what the install program is called) completely skipped over the "configure X" portion of the install. I did instruct the install to install all X-Windows programs. Xconfigurator, xconf, startx, ... none of this works (yes I ran them as root) So now I have just regular text mode. I need to get X working. What is the easiest way to do this? I want to use KDE. On a previous install, x worked fine and installed all the great icons in KDE. The only problem was my nic was not being detected, so I did a re-install. Not the nic is fine, @home is fine, but X does not work. Please help. Thank you. Roger -- Roger Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] Toronto, Ontario
Re: [newbie] start imwheel automatically
Here's an excerpt from a post dated 3/6/00 from the 'alt.os.mandrake' newsgroup, that I used to get mine working ...Now you need to create a link in your KDE Autostart folder which is on your desktop to 'imwheel'. Do this by opening the Autostart folder, right click in the window and select 'new' and 'application'. Change the name from 'program' to 'imwheel.kdelnk' and click 'OK'. Then click on 'Execute' and then browse to /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel and then click 'OK' and then click 'OK' again, close Autostart and you're done! Reboot and you should have your wheel mouse working in netscape. Good luck! - Original Message - From: "Claus Atzenbeck" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Listing" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 10:45 PM Subject: [newbie] start imwheel automatically Hello, what can I do in order to avoid typing "imwheel -k" after every reboot? I want it to be started regardless which user is loggin in. It seems that there is no appropriate startup service for this. Thanks for your help! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Remember, in 2039, MOUSSE PASTA will be available ONLY by prescription!!
Re: [newbie] Explain this if you can
Oliver, you don't have any xwindow managers installed (I think that's the term). If you put the installation CD in and selectexpertserver, then you'll be able to add and specify more components. you might be able to do this by just doing an upgrade. - Original Message - From: "Oliver Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 8:23 AM Subject: [newbie] Explain this if you can I installed Mandrake using the recommended option, and basically went with the defaults.It all worked ok, but i couldnt telnet into the unix box from anywhere on the network. A client of mine told me to try re-installing it as a SERVER option, and that this would help. Now that i have done this, I dont get X up when I boot. Rather than the login window with a penguin, i get a plain white box with username and password. If i log on, I get two console windows come up. Thats it, no icons, taskbar, menus, clock, just two console windows. I cant use CTL ESC to change tasks. Any Ideas ? I thought I told it to reboot into X when it loads, and have indeed tried to reinstall it once more with the same results. Olly
[newbie] Sorry to see you go
Steve, Hi, I was catching up on my mail and I saw your post, stating that it would be your last. I hope this will reach you. I don't know about the rest of the newbies, but I for one will miss your posts. You were extremely helpful, always well informed, and yes even pretty patient. You've helped me to make the transition from Windows to Linux without too much hair-pulling. Although I haven't thrown Windows out the window, I'm able to experiment with Linux and actually relax and enjoy myself. Enjoy your time off Thanks again, you've been a big help. Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Printer working; no sound modules
UPDATE I (sigh) reinstalled MDK again (10th time?) but I finally got everything working ( so far). It took some tweaking, but I think it was worth it. My problems with the sound stemmed from the fact that the sound driver emu10k1,was written for the 2.2.14-15mdk kernel version and at the time of yesterday's post I was running the 2.2.14-1mdklinus version. It seems that depending on the type and class of installation that I initially selected, determined which kernel version was the default. I never performed the 'recommended' install, because I wanted to have control over using LILO (I don't use it, I use a floppy disk to boot up MDK) So I've used the custom, normal installation and version 2.2.14-15mdk was the default. here, my CD/cdwriter needed tweaking (i.e. change IDE to SCSI emulation) but I kept getting error messages I had no rule to *make* when I tried to run xconfig, or menuconfig, just config (following the instructions on the linuxgurus site) So I reinstalled , chose, expert-normal, and just blindly selected everything. here it seems that the default kernel was 2.2.14-1mdklinus. I could make kernel compilations, get my CD drives working, but no sound ( this is where I was yesterday).So I downloaded the tarball driver, followed the instructions, and at the end, got a load of error messages, the prime one being that "the emu10xxx, driver used is for kernel v.2.2.14-15mdk, and you're using 2.2.14-1mdklinus". I must admit that I tried searching for the appropriate driver, and even read a mini how-to, to correct these error messages, but it began to get extremely complicated, and yes frustration set in, so... I reformatted the partition and yes, reinstalled MDK. This time I chose the expert-development route and paid extremely close attention to what was being installed (I'm sure I included stuff that I probably won't use), especially if it had to do with the kernel. SO I rebooted and watched the scrolling messages fly by, the only error message that I got had to do with the CD drives having bad blocks. I had version 2.2.14-15mdk again,with sound and no access to the CD drives. This time though I was able to "make xconfig" and recompile the kernel and . WHEW, everything so far is working Music , printer , internet. I know that the reason why I chose to reformat/install so many times is because I didn't really have anything to lose , just time and internet configurations. But everything appears to be working... so far. Original Message - From: "rose" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Cerritos LUG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:34 AM Subject: [newbie] Printer working; no sound modules Hey , I finally got my printer working!! It didn't take a degree in rocket science either! I noticed that as i was booting up, during POST, the Parallel Port was listed as 'disabled'. I thought that was really strange because the printer works fine in Windows, but I couldn't get it to work in MDK ( didn't even detect it). I went into the CMOS, changed the setting for the Parallel Port (to the 'Setup Default') booted into MDK and saw messages that the parport0 was detected. After logging in, starting X, I started 'DrakConf"went to printer setup and everything fell into place, WHEW. Now to the problem at hand. Also ,as MDK was loading , I saw an error message stating that it couldn't find the sound module. when I run "sndconfig" i get a message " The modules used for your card (SBLive), emu10k1.o, is not currently in your module search path. Please verify that your kernel modules are currently installed. O.K. so now what do i do (after i download the emu10k1 tar driver from Creative)
[newbie] Printer working, no sound
From: "rose" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Cerritos LUG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:34 AM Subject: [newbie] Printer working; no sound modules Hey , I finally got my printer working!! It didn't take a degree in rocket science either! I noticed that as i was booting up, during POST, the Parallel Port was listed as 'disabled'. I thought that was really strange because the printer works fine in Windows, but I couldn't get it to work in MDK ( didn't even detect it). I went into the CMOS, changed the setting for the Parallel Port (to the 'Setup Default') booted into MDK and saw messages that the parport0 was detected. After logging in, starting X, I started 'DrakConf"went to printer setup and everything fell into place, WHEW. Now to the problem at hand. Also ,as MDK was loading , I saw an error message stating that it couldn't find the sound module. when I run "sndconfig" i get a message " The modules used for your card (SBLive), emu10k1.o, is not currently in your module search path. Please verify that your kernel modules are currently installed. O.K. so now what do i do (after i download the emu10k1 tar driver from Creative UPDATE I (sigh) reinstalled MDK again (10th time?) but I finally got everything working ( so far). It took some tweaking, but I think it was worth it. My problems with the sound stemmed from the fact that the sound driver emu10k1,was written for the 2.2.14-15mdk kernel version and at the time of yesterday's post I was running the 2.2.14-1mdklinus version. It seems that depending on the type and class of installation that I initially selected, determined which kernel version was the default. I never performed the 'recommended' install, because I wanted to have control over using LILO (I don't use it, I use a floppy disk to boot up MDK) So I've used the custom, normal installation and version 2.2.14-15mdk was the default. here, my CD/cdwriter needed tweaking (i.e. change IDE to SCSI emulation) but I kept getting error messages I had no rule to *make* when I tried to run xconfig, or menuconfig, just config (following the instructions on the linuxgurus site) So I reinstalled , chose, expert-normal, and just blindly selected everything. here it seems that the default kernel was 2.2.14-1mdklinus. I could make kernel compilations, get my CD drives working, but no sound ( this is where I was yesterday).So I downloaded the tarball driver, followed the instructions, and at the end, got a load of error messages, the prime one being that "the emu10xxx, driver used is for kernel v.2.2.14-15mdk, and you're using 2.2.14-1mdklinus". I must admit that I tried searching for the appropriate driver, and even read a mini how-to, to correct these error messages, but it began to get extremely complicated, and yes frustration set in, so... I reformatted the partition and yes, reinstalled MDK. This time I chose the expert-development route and paid extremely close attention to what was being installed (I'm sure I included stuff that I probably won't use), especially if it had to do with the kernel. SO I rebooted and watched the scrolling messages fly by, the only error message that I got had to do with the CD drives having bad blocks. I had version 2.2.14-15mdk again,with sound and no access to the CD drives. This time though I was able to "make xconfig" and recompile the kernel and . WHEW, everything so far is working Music , printer , internet. I know that the reason why I chose to reformat/install so many times is because I didn't really have anything to lose , just time and internet configurations. But everything appears to be working... so far.
Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse
thanks Alan - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse Eunicehere's how I do it: 1. Start Kedit (pencil pad on the Panel) 2. Type in Kedit: #! /bin/sh 3. Press Enter 4. Type in Kedit: /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k 5. Press Enter 6. Save file in Autostart directory exit Kedit 7. Right click your new file in Autostart 8. Choose Properties then Permissions 9. Check User Exec 10. Restart the x-session Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: I'd like to have my wheel mouse start when I startx. Usually I've been opening a terminal window and typing 'imwheel -k' and then everything works OK. I noticed the 'Autostart' folder and tried to put a link in there for the imwheel, but when I restarted X , I received an error message stating there was no executable for the program---where did I go wrong? Thanks for your help
Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error
Sam, Can you get a copy of DOS on a floppy? If so then boot the floppy and at the A:/ prompt, type in 'fdisk' . When you get into this program you are presented with a number of options... 1,2,3,4, choose option 4 and look at what partitions you have on your hard drive (Win98 is considered a non-Dos partition).You can usually figure out which partition is Win 98 by the size or it should just be on the C: drive. see if it's active, if not go back to the first screen listing options. From here you can set the active partitions and also delete any partitions you don't want. - Original Message - From: "Sam Junge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 1998 4:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error I never backed up my hd, so i have like 350 mp3's and a bunch of other irreplaceable stuf. . - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 5:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error Sam,I'm surprised you have't said, 'the hell with it!" and just reformat your hard drive. Start out with a clean slate, install Win 98, make a boot floppy for Partition Magic (BTW, don't use BOOT MAGIC); make another primary partition for Linux and install Linux. You may want to boot to Linux using a boot floppy (you can make one of these during the installation, just before you configure LILO). Also you don't have to install LILO, when asked if you want to use LILO just say NO. Then you'll be able to boot Win98 by default and if you want Linux ,just boot with the floppy. GOOD LUCK - Original Message - From: Sam Junge To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 10:06 AM Subject: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error As I've mentioned before, I've been having problems with PartitionMagic. I installed PartitionMagic, then mandrake linux 7, then decided to delete the linux partition. No longer does my computer load lilo, or list linux as a partition, but PartitionMagic still loads as a dos program when the computer starts up and tells me "That linux partition could not be deleted. The operating system partition being deleted was not found." The only option it gives me is to click ok, which shuts down the computer and repeats the process. I tried going to my other computer and doing a sys a:, and also putting fdisk from my other computer onto the disk. I then put this disk in the computer that wouldn't load windows, and it gave me an a prompt. I tried typing fdisk /mbr, but it didn't make a difference for the next time i booted the computer. What can I do? Please give me a detailed enough anwser because I've tried to solve this problem numerous ways.
Re: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error
Sam,I'm surprised you have't said, 'the hell with it!" and just reformat your hard drive. Start out with a clean slate, install Win 98, make a boot floppy for Partition Magic (BTW, don't use BOOT MAGIC); make another primary partition for Linux and install Linux. You may want to boot to Linux using a boot floppy (you can make one of these during the installation, just before you configure LILO). Also you don't have to install LILO, when asked if you want to use LILO just say NO. Then you'll be able to boot Win98 by default and if you want Linux ,just boot with the floppy. GOOD LUCK - Original Message - From: Sam Junge To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 10:06 AM Subject: [newbie] HELP PLEASE - PartitionMagic error As I've mentioned before, I've been having problems with PartitionMagic. I installed PartitionMagic, then mandrake linux 7, then decided to delete the linux partition. No longer does my computer load lilo, or list linux as a partition, but PartitionMagic still loads as a dos program when the computer starts up and tells me "That linux partition could not be deleted. The operating system partition being deleted was not found." The only option it gives me is to click ok, which shuts down the computer and repeats the process. I tried going to my other computer and doing a sys a:, and also putting fdisk from my other computer onto the disk. I then put this disk in the computer that wouldn't load windows, and it gave me an a prompt. I tried typing fdisk /mbr, but it didn't make a difference for the next time i booted the computer. What can I do? Please give me a detailed enough anwser because I've tried to solve this problem numerous ways.
Re: [newbie] Audio CD's
Can everyone but me listen to audio CD's?? - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 7:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Audio CD's I don't seem to be able to use the cdplayer to play audio CD's. I reinstalled the os for the 6th,7th,or 8th? time everything seems to work fine without any kernel intervention/recompilation. (supermount works fine). I still cannot play audio CD's Thanks for any help or insight
[newbie] [Fwd: Audio CD]
I'm listening to Kenny G. as I write. How satisfying! It seems that the cdplayer KSCD was configured to play dev/cdrom; I am using dev/cdrom2 to play cd's.so i added a 2 and VOILA! THANKS Everyone. Now I too can listen to CD's
[newbie] [Fwd: Audio CD]
I'm listening to Kenny G. as I write. How satisfying! It seems that the cdplayer KSCD was configured to play dev/cdrom; I am using dev/cdrom2 to play cd's.so i added a 2 and VOILA! THANKS Everyone. Now I too can listen to CD's
[newbie] AUDIO CD's
now that i can mount a CD drive, how can I listen to some music?
