Hmmm..another question about this whole fiasco. I dled the rpm ...transfered it
to teh server, and from a ssh sesion I was not able to install the rpm.
Is this because of security and installs like that can not be made remotly?
(and is this somethign I would be responsible for ?)
Or is it
Craig R Bathurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I installed mandrake 6.0 and I forgot my user name password.
Is there a way to find the above or do I have to reinstall the OS?
Craig
"Those who do not learn from History,
are doomed to repeat it".
Author unknown
On 2/05/00, at 18:52, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Did you write a /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file?
The format is:
login name * password
The * designates the server you are logging into, if you only have 1 ISP,
the * will do.
Nope, this doesn't work either
Why should this be a problem? The
James McLaughlin wrote:
Hmmm..another question about this whole fiasco. I dled the rpm ...transfered it
to teh server, and from a ssh sesion I was not able to install the rpm.
Is this because of security and installs like that can not be made remotly?
(and is this somethign I would be
MC_Vai wrote:
I hope you don't mind to answer this question. I know it has been
answered a billion times but It's just I used to have a Cable-Modem
connection, but now I have to configure my internet con. with kppp.
The whole thing goes just find (the modem answers to a query) until I
Bob wrote:
Evening will mIRC run on linux.
Bob,
Under the K list, find Gnome and X apps, then Internet, then X-Chat.
X-Chat is a graphical IRC program that comes with the Mandrake 7.0
distro. I was a mIRC user for years, and LOVE X-Chat for it's power,
ease of use, and looks.
Good
On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote:
Bobso what worked? All the putzing around, or a
re-inatall?
The help I had straightening out the LILO file, using the win98 startup
disk and running a:/ /mbr, installing the suggested lilo, buying a new modem,
and and not least running
I have a problem. I have installed the 7.0 distro on my machine, and
absolutely love it! The only thing I haven't been able to do is to get
either Star Office or Word Perfect to install on the machine correctly.
Star Office did install, but even after making sure I selected the
English (US)
Thank you for the IRC advice, will be chatting soon. :)
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
Bob wrote:
Evening will mIRC run on linux.
Bob,
Under the K list, find Gnome and X apps, then Internet, then X-Chat.
X-Chat is a graphical IRC program that comes with the Mandrake 7.0
I'm afraid not, but if you are looking for
an irc client that will, test out
http://www.kvirc.org
(I think thats the correct URL)
On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote:
Evening will mIRC run on linux.
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No matter what I try, I am still getting this error message:
May 3 14:22:52 localhost pppd[917]: The remote system is required to
authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret (password) which would
let it use an IP address.
Can someone explain what this means?
Kirk
hey everyone my Norton antivirus caught a "Unix penguin" virus during
download, I think it was from Albert Ho subject "newbie needs help- passwd
file null contents"
has anyone else gotten this?
Seth Hollen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I've finally taken the plunge into the linux world
and I'm really psyched. But I'm having this problem installing Linux Mandrake
7.0:
When the installation routine is loading the second
stage ramdisk (right after it detects my hardware), my PC reboots all by itself!
I have no idea
Bill Smith wrote:
I have a problem. I have installed the 7.0 distro on my machine, and
absolutely love it! The only thing I haven't been able to do is to get
either Star Office or Word Perfect to install on the machine correctly.
Star Office did install, but even after making sure I
On 3/05/00, at 8:14, Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
localhost pppd[]: The remote system is required to authenticate
itself but I
localhost pppd[]: couldn't find any secret (password) which would
let it use an IP address.
What am I doing wrong? Could you please answer to
Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer?
And where can i get Linux Games like Quake on the net?
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El mar, 02 may 2000, escribiste:
Anyone know how to resolve this, when i enter in a chat with java, this stop.
I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC
TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but
since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments
about S3 cards in general not being "Linux Friendly" - Does
El mar, 02 may 2000, escribiste:
When I open too many windows of Netscape , I mean 6,7 or more,
Linux is dead. Why is hapend and what I can do.
I have Pentium II, 233 mhz with 96 mb.
And I use the Mandrake 7.0
Thanks
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"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
MC_Vai wrote:
The whole thing goes just find (the modem answers to a query) until I
tried to connect... then the following message appears:
localhost pppd[]: The remote system is required to authenticate
itself but I
localhost pppd[]: couldn't
I loaded my very first version of Linux last week and I've been having fun
poking around in it when I have time. I'm curious about something I've
read about called a boot menu. This supposibly gives you a menu to choose
which OS you want to use at start up. When I loaded my Mandrake Linux
No one answered my original query. Thought I would try again.
- Original Message -
From: Michael E. Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.
I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete installed on the following
Ok,
in console (not in X) type 'X /var/log/x.out 21' w/c.
Normally you can't see what it is doing and nothing will be happen
(system halted)
so press CTRL-C.
Now start X (startx).
Read the created file '/var/log/x.out' with your tex-editor.
Is there a message:
The
hi everyone
I can telnet to my box but it wont let me login. can anyone help me fix
this?
thanks
the power pack has all 6 cd's also i think the difference may be in the
documentation.
there are 2 gold packs the normal one and the not so normal one, the image
of the box on mandrake.com looks a bit bigger with the not so normal
one(about a book bigger).
i think the gold pack is just the
I am going to grab all of the files that are dependant of the gcc rpm and do
an install today. HOPEFULLY this will work, and I will not have to go
through the whole messy upgrade process. I would not have so much trouble
with this if I would have known sooner, but we already rebuilt the server
On Tue, 2 May 2000, gerald green wrote:
the cd player on linux will not play
Can you access the CDRom in linux? If that does not work, then playing
music won't work either.
Paul
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Seen it all, done it all,
can't remember most of it.
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On Tue, 2 May 2000, KompuKit wrote:
is thereor is there not...a application/program
in mandrake...for creating/copying CD's using a
CD-R or CD-RW ROM DRIVE?
If so, what's it called...and where is it on the CD?
On the distro there are files called CDRECORD... and MKISOFS...
You need to
"man find" giveves you the answer...
Mogens Jæger wrote:
Hello
Does anyone know how to tell Kfind, to searche all
partitions, but not my CD-rom drive - it's pretty anoying to
have your musik cut-off, just because you have to find a
file
Regards
Mogens Jæger
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Evan Holt wrote:
Hi there,
I've been using Sun's StarOffice for a while and am quite pleased with it
(also happy about the upcomming revision that will be comming out late
summer) but then I also saw Applixware in it's shiny new box and was
wondering if anyone has tried it
On Wed, 3 May 2000, duncan wrote:
Paul
Tried login as root and xscanimage got an error of command not found.
Then tried scanimage got segmentation fault (core dumped).
Then tried under normal user scanimage and got scanimage: no SANE
devices found.
Guess this means it isn't installed?
Sounds
Hi All,
I am still without a connection to the internet. I am starting to wonder if
I perhaps should consider re-installing? Everything seems to be working
just beautifully. I still am lost as to what I am missing to get my modem
to work (no it is not a winmodem). I have a Creative labs Modem
Look also at your resolv.conf AFTER (while) the connection with your
KWvDial.
He must be changed by your dialer.
See what happen.
Eric
Michael Scottaline wrote:
"Jeffrey Buckley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I finally got my computer to dial out connect to an ISP. I used KWvDial.
Then once I
Hi everyone,
me again. Sometimes you teach, sometimes you learn.
For installing an antivirus package called "antivir" I need to install
"libz.rpm" for an installation, this has libgz.so.1 in it. Alas,
zlib...rpm is already installed. libz.rpm contains libz.so.1, which is
already installed
I've used SO for over a year - it does seem bloated, not used applixware, but
have you tried Gnumeric (included with Mandrake 7) and Abiword - free as a
download from Abisource, it's still a work in progress but feels similar to Word
and most features work.
On Sun, 08 Jun 2036, you wrote:
Evan
most external modems will work equally as well - a lot of internal modems are
"winmodems" which rely on windows to drive them and will NOT work under linux,
tell us more about your cd player problem
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
could anyone tell me the brand of modem is best
to use with
If it came as a cover CD I will be surprised if it is i486 - suggest you go to
Mandrake's website and download the version you need
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you
wrote: Andy, thanks for your help, but the CD I have came with a magazine.
It's called MDK 7.02, but how can I verify if it is i486iso?
Try going to Corel's website and dowloading the tar package - think it's called
guilg00.gz
then do this :-
mkdir $Home/tmp
cd to the directory you downloaded it to and,
cp guil00.gz $HOME/tmp
gunzip guilg00.gz
tar -xvf guilg00
then run the installer ./Runme and follow the prompts.
when asked for
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Bob wrote:
On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote:
I would like to find a commericial CAD program. Does anyone have
suggestions.
Hi Bob,
go to www.linuxberg.com and find the KDE/CAD sections there (or Gnome/CAD,
or X11/Cad). I am sure there's something there for you.
Paul
On Wed, 3 May 2000, John McCrudden wrote:
Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer?
Yup.
Log in as Root. cd to /mnt.
mkdir a directory called c
umount DOS_hda1
mount /dev/hda1 c
and you can access /dev/hda1 through /mnt/c
Update your /etc/fstab by
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote:
Anyone know how to resolve this, when i enter in a chat with java, this stop.
Sounds familiar. When it happens (always does), I 'xkill' netscape and
load it again. After that it works. As if the java module causes some
initial problem and after
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Gustavo Halperin wrote:
When I open too many windows of Netscape , I mean 6,7 or more,
Linux is dead. Why is hapend and what I can do.
I have Pentium II, 233 mhz with 96 mb.
And I use the Mandrake 7.0
Thanks
Netscape is a horrible memory mess-up program. Only
The only decent PCI video cards on the market are the 3DFX VooDoo cards but
even with those I don't think you can get video out on anything but there
AGP cards not on their PCI cards. The Viper 550 and all the ATI cards are
AGP.
Sorry
Charles
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL
Joseph,
Not a stupid question at all. I used RPMDrake to both install and
uninstall SO.
Bill
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
Bill Smith wrote:
I have a problem. I have installed the 7.0 distro on my machine, and
absolutely love it! The only thing I haven't been able to do is to get
I just installed about 6 rpms on my server, it says these files are going to
be installed here and therewhen I go to that directory to look at those
files...they are not there. also when I run
#rpm -q rpmappname of the ones I just installed..
it says they are not installed..
This is all
linuxgames.com
-Original Message-
From: John McCrudden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[newbie] Disk drives
Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer?
And where can i get
Hi,
Hopefully someone can help me.
I've used Linux for a while, but am new to Mandrake...I know the usual advice
with Packard Bell monitors is to get another monitorin this situation I
cannot.
I've only been able to get a *very* minimal installation/configuration of X
going...can anyone
hi john,
i recognise DOS_hda1 as being the name of both the kdelnk file on your
kde desktop as a shortcut to this drive and also the name of the mount
point where this drive is mounted.
right click on the desktop icon for DOS_hda1 and choose 'properties',
you should get a box with three tabs,
I m trying to boot my linux mandrake 6.1 and it sends me an error like
this: unable to mount root on .. or something like that and then stop the
loading what can be the problem??? and how i can boot if i havent any
recovery disk
Hope you all enjoy this as much as I did.
Jeff
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On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
On Tue, 2 May 2000, gerald green wrote:
the cd player on linux will not play
Neither does mine. My cdrom works fine and the cd player interface appears and
starts to play even recognises how many tracks there are and their time
lengths. Everything is fine
YOU CAN USE THE CD-TOASTER PROGRAMS BUT YOU HAVE TO SET YOUR CD -R LIKE A
SCSI DISK SO LINUX CAN MAKE THE CD COPIES BECAUSE LINUX RECOGNIZE THE CD-R
LIKE A SCSI DEVICE NOT AN IDE ONE SO YOU HAVE TO RECOMPILE YOUR KERNEL TO
MAKE THAT SET.
-Original Message-
From: Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL
Don't have a burner...I'd like to just copy the mandrake directory to a
partition of the hardrive and install through DOS.
Is this possible? What are the overall steps?
I've gotten all the way to the packages menu (in drake) but it always gives
an error saying I don't have enough room regardless
OF COURSE YOU CAN.. THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO MOUNT YOUR CD-ROM
IN SOME FILE... ALMOST ALWAYS CALLED CDROM... AND IF YOU HAVE A CD WRITER
YOU HAVE TO MOUNT IT MANUALLY IN ANOTHER FILE... THAT YOU MUST CREATE.
MKDIR filename
then
/mount /dev/cd-writer /filename
then you have to put
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer?
And where can i get Linux Games like Quake on the net?
Yes:
1 (easiest) just keep it like this, but make a symbolic link to it :
ln -s/mnt/DOS_hda1 /win
for instance.
2
I hope someone can help me on these Mandrake installation problems.
First, I'm trying to install 7.0 on a second hard drive with windows 98 on
the first one. Someone told me in order for Lilo to work I have to reformat
hda and answer yes for large disk support and no for no for using the whole
Well, actually the gcc was installed before. As for query it, not sure
specifically what you mean. I went and check the RPM database and it showed
as installed. I could go to the console and type the gcc command and it
would come up and will of the options. I believe the problem is in the
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC
TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but
since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments
about S3 cards in general
Hi Kirk,
I think your system is requesting the remote system to authenticate. This is
unnecessary. Your system only needs answer the authentication request from the
remote system. This feature allows both peers to mutually authenticate for
added security.
You need to add the keyword "noauth"
On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
No one answered my original query. Thought I would try again.
- Original Message -
From: Michael E. Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: [newbie] Problems with boot disk.
I have Linux
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