[expert] I can´t mount floppy drive?

2002-05-13 Thread Kicho
Heya! I have problems around here with floppy drive I can´t mount it the mesg is just: [root@lods kicho]# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device I´ll try it with all this devices: [root@lods kicho]# ls /dev/fd fdfd0u1120 fd0u1680 fd0u1760 fd0u360 fd0u820 fd0

[expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-13 Thread Petar V.
Ive posted this msg alredy but no1 noticed me it seems... Anyone had this problem or I the only one? Please if anyone has an idea what going on with this...? I have Mandrake 8.2 and KDE3. The problem is some kind of conflict (I think, might be wrong) between Opera (6 beta 2) and Netscape

Re: [expert] The simplest possible email server

2002-05-13 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 05:26, Randy Kramer wrote: Brian Parish wrote: I'll check out those pages. No need to handle outgoing mail, so the approach you suggest would seem appropriate. I'll keep you posted on progress. Great! Now that I think about it, maybe one reason I've

[expert] XcdRoast config problems..

2002-05-13 Thread db
I installed the CDRW, the lilo.conf settings appear to be correct. I launched xcdroast (ver 0.98alpha9) the first time as superuser and made the initial configs (or thought I did...). When I tried to run it as normal user from the command line, I got these command line warnings: Installation

Re: [expert] XcdRoast config problems..

2002-05-13 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 17:19, db wrote: I installed the CDRW, the lilo.conf settings appear to be correct. I launched xcdroast (ver 0.98alpha9) the first time as superuser and made the initial configs (or thought I did...). When I tried to run it as normal user from the command line, I got

[expert] /dev/usbmouse don't exist

2002-05-13 Thread Hoyt
Aside from the poor grammar, this error message appeared after a re-boot and my usb mouse did not work. It appears to be a problem with devfs as there exists no link named /dev/usbmouse -- it juts disappeared. I was able to fix his by changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount in /etc/lilo.conf,

Re: [expert] /dev/usbmouse don't exist

2002-05-13 Thread Udo Rader
hi hoyt, if you've got a VIA based motherboard, there might be a problem with usb keyboard and mouse detection/integration. for a solution on LM8.2 check http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=88#usb udo Am Mon, 2002-05-13 um 09.33 schrieb Hoyt: Aside from the poor grammar, this error message

Re: [expert] The simplest possible email server

2002-05-13 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: OK, following James' recommendation for MailScanner (I liked it when he said he just installed the RPM and it worked), I installed that and the Sophos virus scanner. Seems like it all just worked, but now I have a problem - nobody sends me any viruses!

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-13 Thread James
Peter, I don't have Opera on my box so I can't say for sure, but you might be better off trying Mozilla 1.0rc2 instead of Netscape 6.2. 6.2 was created from an earlier Mozilla release (9.6 or 9.8) and is a lot buggyier than Mozilla. James On 13 May 2002 08:56:59 +0200 Petar V. [EMAIL

Re: [expert] The simplest possible email server

2002-05-13 Thread James
I keep a copy of annakorni whatever her name is around in my yoohooo acount want me to send her to you? James On 13 May 2002 17:07:22 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 05:26, Randy Kramer wrote: Brian Parish wrote: I'll check out those pages. No need

Re: [expert] How to stop a laptop going into standby when i closethe lid?

2002-05-13 Thread J. Grant
The only way I stopped my monitor from doing the same my comp too, was to put APM: OFF I think is the line or something similar in my XFConfig-86. there was another setting in there called Powersaver. I commented it out I believe or set it to OFF as well. Works fine

Re: [expert] The simplest possible email server

2002-05-13 Thread Brian Parish
Please do! Thanks James On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 18:02, James wrote: I keep a copy of annakorni whatever her name is around in my yoohooo acount want me to send her to you? James On 13 May 2002 17:07:22 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 05:26,

[expert] video conferencing

2002-05-13 Thread Oscar
Hi all, I must to do a budget for a server (up to 12.000 EUR), but it must allow video conferencing. Evidently, I would like to run Linux as OS. Can you please give me some orientation on following points?: - Possibility of using the server for video conferencing. - Adjusting to the

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Mark Belanger
2 gig is a linux filesystem limitation - not a tar limitation. You might compress that backup i.e. tar cvfZ -Mark On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 18:44, David wrote: I am trying to backup /home with the following simple script: #!/bin/sh backup=home-$(date +%m-%d-%y) tar -cvMf

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-13 Thread Dave Sherman
For what it's worth, I am running Mandrake 8.1, and both Opera 6 and Mozilla (any version) work fine together. However, to help you solve your problem, I would guess that you installed the dynamically-linked Opera, which uses the standard shared libraries on your Linux system. It is possible

RE: [expert] video conferencing

2002-05-13 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
All I have really heard of is gnomemeeting for this area. I would love to find a way to get my Polycom ViaVideo, or even my Picturetel 550, or intel 500 to work under linux though. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Oscar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Browne
On 13 May 2002 06:57:22 -0500, you wrote: For what it's worth, I am running Mandrake 8.1, and both Opera 6 and Mozilla (any version) work fine together. However, to help you solve your problem, I would guess that you installed the dynamically-linked Opera, which uses the standard shared

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On 13 May 2002, Mark Belanger wrote: 2 gig is a linux filesystem limitation - not a tar limitation. You might compress that backup i.e. tar cvfZ -Mark On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 18:44, David wrote: I am trying to backup /home with the following simple script: #!/bin/sh

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Chaffey, Jason
Wasn't that limitation removed in the 2.4 kernels? What I have found is that there is still the 2 gig limit when using the tcsh shell, but there doesn't seem to be the limit when using the bash shell. I have not yet been able to figure out why that is, though. Jason On 13/05/2002 Mark

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
»Ashley Reynolds« sagte am 2002-05-13 um 20:45:03 +0800 : I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2 file system? Does ext3 have this same issue? Which file systems can handle file sizes upwards of 2Gb? No, it's not a limitation of ext2. A properly patched kernel and

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 13 May 2002 07:45 am, Ashley Reynolds wrote: I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2 file system? Does ext3 have this same issue? Which file systems can handle file sizes upwards of 2Gb? Ashley You got me curious so I did a little Google

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Bill Davidson
On Sun, 12 May 2002 18:44:45 -0400 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to backup /home with the following simple script: #!/bin/sh backup=home-$(date +%m-%d-%y) tar -cvMf /mnt/TRASH-BOX/backups/$backup.tar home/ When the tar file reaches 2GB, I get the following output:

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-13 Thread Tim Holmes
To start out with, Opera 6.x is not production software. It is beta. Keep that in mind. It's put out there to be tested. If you're having a problem, report the problem to Opera in great detail and install a lesser version to use. Whether it's a different version of the beta, or the production

Re: [expert] video conferencing

2002-05-13 Thread Bill Davidson
On 13 May 2002 12:12:11 +0200 Oscar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I must to do a budget for a server (up to 12.000 EUR), but it must allow video conferencing. Evidently, I would like to run Linux as OS. Can you please give me some orientation on following points?: - Possibility of

Re: [expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-13 Thread Brad Felmey
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 10:58, Praedor Tempus wrote: I do not know offhand the copy command arguments needed - you want to make sure you copy files AND symlinks but NOT the /proc directory (I think that's the one - if you try to copy that one you will get into recursion hell) Assuming all

[expert] Xine error message

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Browne
I'm trying to get xine working in 8.2. I'm not sure it is finding the DVD drive though I have created the appropriate sym links. Xine gives me the following error message: xine engine error There is no available input plugin available to handle 'xine-ui version 0.9.8'. Since I've installed

RE: [expert] video conferencing

2002-05-13 Thread Yu-Hsin Chen
Take a look at software.linux.com. On the Software Menu on the left hand side click on Conferencing then pick the I'-Video category, several software are listed there. GnomeMeeting has a very informative web site, so is VIC; Collaborative Virtual Workspace looks more like a server

RE: [expert] Xine error message

2002-05-13 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
get decss. Xine will not by default read dvd's without. Perhaps xine-dvdnav will be good enough. I like ogle myself. Anyhow on the bottom of http://xine.sourceforge.net are links to sites that have the progs you need for reading encrypted dvd's Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original

[expert] Xine error message

2002-05-13 Thread falcaraz
Stephen, Are you trying to run an encripted dvd? The plugin for those dvd are not supported by Mandrake, due to the possibitity of legal problems in some countries (e. USA), you can find the appropriates rpms for 8.2 in http://plf.zarb.org/ Also you could find there the rpms for the 0.9.9 xine

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Brad Felmey
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 07:59, Chaffey, Jason wrote: Wasn't that limitation removed in the 2.4 kernels? Yes. Some of the common userland apps in Mdk have been changed to deal with 32bit file sizes, but not all. -- Brad Felmey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] 3dwm windows manager, how?

2002-05-13 Thread Tim Holmes
I stumbled across this a few weeks ago, but never installed and/or toyed with it. Didn't see the reason. So I then moved over to installing e17. But I ~think~ you should be able to start 3dwm from xinit or startx. Edit your ~/.xinitrc to include the 3dwm option. Your ~/.xinitrc should look

Re: [expert] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-13 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 May 2002 10:55 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Over all I've learned that it's almost always the first place to look when Mandrake is not performing the way its expected to work. The first time I tried to setup 8.2 on this machine it was a

Re: [expert] test message

2002-05-13 Thread Ken Hawkins
Since I'm tired of the FRIDGE art, and the neighbor's cat has been crapping in my garden, I couldn't resist. As for the HDD, I run Linux, so I'm not worried about some M$ crap script being run Ciao daRcmaTTeR wrote: please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase all

Re: [expert] test message

2002-05-13 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 18:49 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase all refrigerator art from the front of your frig and kill your neigbor's cat. 1. Don't have a hard drive. Got a biological cube of 26 Zillion brain cells for mass

Re: [expert] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-13 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 8 May 2002, James wrote: On Wed, 08 May 2002 22:22:22 -0500 David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... I've got a fresh set of Odyssey CD's... Their value is climbing faster than Cisco stock. Any bidders...? Again, just an observation, Praedor doesn't

Re: [expert] Xine error message

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Browne
On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:16:37 +0200, you wrote: Stephen, Are you trying to run an encripted dvd? The plugin for those dvd are not supported by Mandrake, due to the possibitity of legal problems in some countries (e. USA), you can find the appropriates rpms for 8.2 in http://plf.zarb.org/ Also

Re: [expert] test message

2002-05-13 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 19:42 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 18:49 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase all refrigerator art from the front of your frig and kill

[expert] DVD RAM/RW experience?

2002-05-13 Thread Nick Baker
Hi folks-- Anyone successfully set up a DVD RAM/RW drive on mdk 8.2? If so, which drive and what software? And, are you using it for backup? And what software for that? Tia, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Xine error message

2002-05-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 13 May 2002 13:22:36 -0600 Steve Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:16:37 +0200, you wrote: Stephen, Are you trying to run an encripted dvd? The plugin for those dvd are not supported by Mandrake, due to the possibitity of legal problems in some countries

[expert] test message

2002-05-13 Thread daRcmaTTeR
please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase all refrigerator art from the front of your frig and kill your neigbor's cat. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Xine error message

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Browne
On Mon, 13 May 2002 16:12:17 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 13:22:36 -0600 Steve Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:16:37 +0200, you wrote: Stephen, Are you trying to run an encripted dvd? The plugin for those dvd are not supported by Mandrake, due to the

[expert] Re: Wholesale Distributer

2002-05-13 Thread Daniel Anderson
Is there any other companies to order wholsale computers and parts from other than Tiger Direct that carries a wide variety of products? If so please let me know! Dan -- 5:52pm up 5 days, 1:33, 1 user, load

Re: [expert] Re: Wholesale Distributer

2002-05-13 Thread David
try overstock.com Daniel Anderson said onto me: -- |Is there any other companies to order wholsale computers and parts from other |than Tiger Direct that carries a wide variety of products? If so please let |me know!

Re: [expert] test message

2002-05-13 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 18:49 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase all refrigerator art from the front of your frig and kill your neigbor's cat. 1. Don't have a hard drive. Got a

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Michael Viron
The tar option '-j' will work if you are running Mandrake 8.0 or higher, it won't work for 7.2 and earlier, which require '-I'. Michael Viron Core Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux You could compress the archive: tar cvMfj. j runs it through bzip2. Or tar cvMfz to run it through

Re: [expert] Re: Wholesale Distributer

2002-05-13 Thread Charlie
On May 13, 2002 03:54 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: Is there any other companies to order wholsale computers and parts from other than Tiger Direct that carries a wide variety of products? If so please let me know! Dan

[expert] MDK 8.1 HP lj 1000 USB

2002-05-13 Thread Cesar Santos
Hello I am trying to use a HP lj 1000 USB with my Mandrake 8.1 without success. This printer was recognized at /dev/usb/lp0 but couldn't even have a printed test. My printer remains in a stand-by status and nothing is printed out. I have configured MDK to use PDQ instead of CUPS.

Re: [expert] test message

2002-05-13 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 19:42 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 18:49 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase all

[expert] Using Linux as a M$ Exchange replacement.. I may have the solution.

2002-05-13 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Everyone, I am quoting to setup a customer who wants to use Windows workstations, and wants full features out of M$ Outlook on the workstations.. So far I have quoted to setup the whole lot to use MS XP server, with M$ Exchange.. Well I am not that keen on this MS Exchange setup, anyway, I

[expert] Need help setting up nfs...

2002-05-13 Thread Neal Lippman
I am using MDK 8.1 with kernel 2.4.17 on an nfs server, and RH 7.2 on a client system. I have tried setting up the nfs server. During the initial install, I included nfs support, and have built the kernel with support for both nfs server and client. I am starting up nfs with '/etc/init.d/nfs

[expert] Attachment [was: test message]

2002-05-13 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:23 -0400, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: What's this attachment of your mail? Looks like ist went through a StarOffice or Outlook wringer, look at the '^M' signs at the end of the first 2 lines. I don't know...I haven't

Re: [expert] /dev/usbmouse don't exist

2002-05-13 Thread Hoyt
On Monday 13 May 2002 03:50 am, Udo Rader wrote: Am Mon, 2002-05-13 um 09.33 schrieb Hoyt: Aside from the poor grammar, this error message appeared after a re-boot and my usb mouse did not work. It appears to be a problem with devfs as there exists no link named /dev/usbmouse -- it juts

Re: [expert] Computer Market (Was VIA disaster)

2002-05-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 04:22, civileme wrote: Ummm, I would never be one to single out VIA. There have been real bugs in _ALL_ the chipsets around. How much of those you see depends on where in the arms race you pick out a kernel, in most cases. The VIA 686B southbridge had a problem

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread dfox
I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2 file system? Does ext3 have this same issue? Which file systems can handle I could be wrong, but I think you'd run up against a 2gb limit regardless of filesystem, because the library calls for lseek() which are used to

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 13 May 2002 21:05:29 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2 file system? Does ext3 have this same issue? Which file systems can handle I could be wrong, but I think you'd run up against a 2gb limit regardless

[expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Guys, if you're in the market for some new technology for under your hood, I strongly suggest that you check out the 18 mainboard lineup that just came out as of May 9th on Toms: http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q2/020509/index.html These boards are using the new VIA Apollo KT333

Re: [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread KevinO
Damian G wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 21:05:29 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2 file system? Does ext3 have this same issue? I have a few boxes with LFS (large filesystem support.) One is a Mandrake 8.0 and

Let's clear this up....WAS [expert] tar file size limit???

2002-05-13 Thread David
For the record, the 2GB limit I was hitting was from the FAT32 Samba share. Dave dfox said onto me: -- | I assume this 2Gb file size limit is a limitation within the ext2 file | system? Does ext3 have this same issue?

[expert] How to install a telnet server on LM 8.2

2002-05-13 Thread Yves Crespin
I want to install a telnet server on LM8.2, but I find on client! How can I do? Thanks, Yves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com