Re: [newbie] Printer access

2000-05-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Daniel.in a console as root type drakxconf and choose the printer tool (printerdrake) to install a network printer. Alan Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, How do I allow printer access to other Linux machines on my network? My Windoze machine has access through Samba, but I can't access

Re: [newbie] subscribing to this list

2000-05-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bob (Dacia and AzureRose too)make that sympa, not syma! :-) Alan Bob wrote: Dacia and AzureRose wrote: Howdy folks. I've tried to subscribe to this list with this email address about 7 times in the last four days. I get the "we'll send you an email shortly to confirm your

Re: [newbie] New email/ unable to resubscribe to newbie

2000-05-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobit appears to me that you've been successful in your attempt at resubscribing. :-) Alan Bob wrote: Having changed my ISP, I have attempted to re subscribe to the newbie list with no success. Thank you. Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] How do you access console mode from within X to changelilo.conf

2000-05-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
little penguin icons in KDE have different hats or hair styles depending on the different users added by root? Okay, I'm getting a little goofy. Time for a break and java. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romandon't sweat it! :-) In fact, I'd better tell you how to get back to your gui

Re: [newbie] How do you access console mode from within X to changelilo.conf

2000-05-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romangreat! Alan Romanator wrote: Alan, Sorry. How's that. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romannope, I've never even looked for any kind of adjustment concerning the sounds getting truncated. I believe that the assignment of the icons for different users is random

Re: [newbie] reaching maximal mount count

2000-05-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Wadeyou have booted your system the pre-set amount of times that triggers the check. It is normal. Alan Wade wrote: Hi List, During boot up this morning I saw a new message that said; /dev/hda5 has reached maximal mount count mount count check forced ??? What have I done to

Re: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie] Purcahsing a copy of Linux-Mandrakeversion 7.0 in Australia.

2000-05-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
marcoNorth American sites on the web: http://www.cheapbytes.com/ http://www.elinux.com/ http://www.linuxcentral.com/ http://www.LinuxMall.com/ http://www.LLand.com/ http://www.lsl.com/ http://www.thelinuxstore.com/ But, probably of more use to you is this page of MandrakeSoft's web site

Re: [newbie] The Day That KDE Died

2000-05-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Charlesjust to be sure, you do know that disc 2 contains the source rpms of the binary rpms contained on disc 1, right? Really, the only reason you should need the source rpm is to modify the the source code and recompile the rpm. Alan Charles A Edwards wrote: Alex The only RPM I

Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions no KDE and sector errors

2000-05-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanso, something was wrong with x-windows and needed fixing. In a case like that there are key-combinations to try (for instance ctl-alt-f2,f3,f4,f5 or f6 could have gotten you to a console where you could login and re-run Xconfigurator to fix

Re: [newbie] How do you access console mode from within X to changelilo.conf

2000-05-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
was not received by me until a few moments after I had sent the question. I get tons and tons of email as I also do technical support for simulators. Sorry. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: RomanI quote myself: "Romanso, something was wrong with x-windows and needed fixing. In a case

[newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions incomplete

2000-05-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romandelete hda5 and then push the Auto Allocate button. Alan Romanator wrote: Hi Alan, I had draw and write this out as there is no print screen. The auto allocation only works if my disk has not been partitioned yet or is empty. I have tried as best as possible with ASCII to

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanas I believe I said before, run partinfo.exe. I believe you have errors in your partition table that can be identified by partinfo.exe and fixed with ptedit.exe (both are part of PM). Concerning the lost interrupt errors, they are usually associated with hard drives and cdroms.

Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7

2000-05-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Garyso do you really need Star Office? I ask because whatever anomaly is causing this is getting you down and maybe a compromise is the best way out. Wasn't recofiguring X enough to fix things. Did you look for damage to the /etc/X11/XF86Config file? Possibly backing this file up before

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
be a patch for Autoboot.bat. It appears that original was wrong. I have another computer running WinNT4 with 2 FAT partitions (C and D)and the third partition E is NTFS. This is a Pentium III 733 MHz. I will clear everything out on the D partition, and try to install on it. How about it? Rom

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2000-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Boboops! I forgot about choosing your icon using the icon picture button while you're in the Execute tab page, sorry! Alan Alan Shoemaker wrote: Bobinstead of dragging the netscape shell script icon onto the desktop and choosing link do this: 1) right-click the desktop. 2

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2000-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobinstead of dragging the netscape shell script icon onto the desktop and choosing link do this: 1) right-click the desktop. 2) choose New 3) choose Application 4) name it what you want , but leave the kdelnk part after the dot alone. 5) choose the Execute tab 6) put /usr/bin/netscape in

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2000-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul/Euniceyou really don't want to go to the binary for this link. The launching of netscape is done by a shell script and that is what you should be linking the desktop icon to. It's located at: /usr/bin/netscape Alan Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote:

[newbie] The demise of the expert list

2000-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
DenisI'm located in Southern California and have noticed a problem with the expert list again. Here are the totals of messages arriving at my location, listed by the day, for this week: Monday56 Tuesday 24 Wednesday 26 Thursday 21 Friday 1 Saturday 4 Sunday 0 (so far, 7

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanyou're not stupid, so I won't call you that. :-) The problem is that the MandrakeSoft Powerpack (and MacMillan's 7.0 Deluxe) does not include PQ Partition Magic. MacMillan's 7.0 Complete is the package that includes it. Alan Romanator wrote: Call me stupid but I have checked all

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2000-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
BobI don't understand, how can you have changed the ownership of a file on bob's desktop that never got copied to bob's Desktop? What does "No Joy/???" mean? If you do an 'su -' you should end up in /root. If you are in root and there is an icon made the way I instructed on root's Desktop

Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7

2000-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Garywhat does "reload Linux" mean exactly? Install of what, gave an '"install failed" at about 80% complete'? Also, why is it so important to have Wordperfect in addition to Star Office (or visa versa)? Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've registered my copy of Word Perfect, and

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2000-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
BobI've heard of that happening before, though I don't know why, but there is a workaround. Let's say that the new icon on root's Desktop is named Program.kdelnk and that you're logged in as bob and are in the KDE gui. Open Konsole (on the Panel) and su - (don't forget the 'space dash'

Re: [newbie] Any way back in?

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michaelwhen you boot the computer and the lilo Boot: prompt comes up type: linux 3 You'll come up in console mode where you can sign in as root and fix your /etc/X11/XF86Config file with your favorite console based editor. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a change to my

Re: [newbie] Cookies

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Eunice/home/user/.netscape/cookies Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: Does anyone know where cookies are stored in Netscape 4.72? I'd like to delete them Thanks Eunice

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Lnx4Win

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romantry deleting your signature file, it appears to be full of random characters. Alan Romanator wrote: I have just opened the Power Pack box, and I am dying to install. It appears that I have two options for installation: A) Running Lnx4Win or B) Repartitioning and running DrakX

Re: [newbie] multiple xsessions

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
, 12 May 2000 09:29:50 -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote: quayyou left out a space between the second dash and the colon. startx -- :1 ^ ^ i was told this by someone else too...but i get the mentioned error message although typing it correctly.. startx -- :1 it still doesnt work

Re: [newbie] ZIp drive problem

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kirkmy guess would be that you have supermount enabled and supermount desktop icons don't have this option. Alan Kirk McElhearn wrote: I had to reinstall my Mandrake system. Before, I could unmount my Zip drive by right-clicking and selecting Unmount. This option is no longer there.

Re: [newbie] Cookies

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
=- -Original Message- From: Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alan Shoemaker; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cookies Alan can /home/user/.netscape/cookies be set to READ ONLY? On Fri, 12 May 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote

Re: [newbie] shutdown

2000-05-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Garyyou need to read man shutdown. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I read here that to manually shutdown you entered "shutdown now" at the command line. Doing this, my system then shut down to single user mode. Next logon my system complained that it had not been shut

Re: [newbie] Can't telnet

2000-05-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jameschances are that the telnet-server rpm hasn't been installed. If not, it'll be on the installation CD: /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/telnet-server-0.14-2mdk.i586.rpm Alan "James L. Brady" wrote: Why is it that I can not telnet into my Linux box? I can ping the linux box from any

Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

2000-05-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Waynein /etc/lilo.conf's first line, add the partition number that you want lilo to install on, to the end of the device specified (say it says boot=/dev/hda then change it to boot=/dev/sda1 or whatever the actual partition number is). Save the file, and as root, type /sbin/lilo and you're

Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

2000-05-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
asy to use. You can change the option there to boot from floppy, MBR or root partition. I did this, installed my boot manager software and voila, worked like a charm. Thanks again, Wayne - Original Message ----- From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Wayne

Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

2000-05-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Wayneyes you're correct, you need lilo installed in the booting partition's boot record when you use another boot manager in the mbr. Alan Wayne said: If I do this will BootMagic still boot Linux OK? I thought LILO was the program required to actually boot linux and if I do this won't it

Re: [newbie] LiLo woes

2000-05-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Andrewyou need to boot up with the windows rescue disc (the floppy made during windows installation). It wiil eventually leave you at a dos prompt. At that dos prompt type: fdisk /mbr Then reboot the system (ctl-alt-del) and you should come up in windows. To boot linux use the boot

Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7

2000-05-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
GaryI certainly can't say what it is that caused your problems, but I have both SO and WP running on my mdk 7.0 system and have experienced no problems. Mine were installed from disc 5 of the MandrakeSoft Powerpack 7.0. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on getting WP and SO

Re: [newbie] off topic (but not really)

2000-05-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
for getting back to me bascule p.s. i complained direct to txu blah blah and guess what? they complained about the complaint! Alan Shoemaker wrote: basculeyou can't write to a mail server, so where do you think the info as to what your last downloaded email was, is stored

Re: [newbie] Netscape update for mdk 7.02

2000-05-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michaelwhen you click on the link that produces the garbage, hold down the shift key as you click. Alan Michael wrote: David (Mr. Smartypants from France) wrote: Michael écrivit : Well, I may have been a bit hasty with the adulation(see my previous post). RPMfind says I have

Re: [newbie] Got X started, now how to start Gnome?

2000-05-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Anthonywhen you enter kde type alt-f2, enter the command switchdesk, and press enter. After you accept the gnome choice and close the switchdesk window you'll be prompted to shutdown x and restart. So, log out and do the startx -- :1 again and you'll come up in gnome. Alan Anthony

Re: [newbie] Installed SuSE yesterday

2000-05-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kathleenpoint taken :-) Sorry, I got irritated because she wouldn't shut up about SuSE and didn't seem to want any help with Mandrake. After all helping folks to get Mandrake working properly is why we're here. Alan "Kathleen Russell, fone.net tech support" wrote: Alan, I don't

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP!

2000-05-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Petermore than likely the dos choice lilo gave you will boot your windows 2000 server. Give it a try. :-) Alan "Chen, PeterX" wrote: Hey all, I just got my Mandrake PowerPack and just completed the installation process. I installed linux onto a system that was running Windows 2000

Re: [newbie] Installed SuSE yesterday

2000-05-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Carolyou haven't given us (the folks who try to help here) a chance to assist you in fixing your problem. You just dashed in here and announced that you were switching to SuSE, because Mandrake doesn't support your video card (which is totally untrue). How about a better (more detailed)

Re: [newbie] Configuration

2000-05-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Glennthe DrakConf icon on the desktop. Alan Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Installing Mandrake 7 there is a option to setup a dialup connection or a LAN. I want both. How do I get back into a 'setup' program to install the LAN support? Glenn...

Re: [newbie] Configuration

2000-05-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
that previous versions of Linux were easier in this area. Glenn... Alan Shoemaker wrote: Glennthe DrakConf icon on the desktop. Alan Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Installing Mandrake 7 there is a option to setup a dialup connection or a LAN. I want both. How do I get back

Re: [newbie] Configuration

2000-05-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Glennwhoops! I meant netconf. Sorry. Alan Alan Shoemaker wrote: Glenn Johnson wrote: Glennuse drakxconf, as root on the command line. Alan Yeah. I knew that was there, and have toyed with it, but it seems too complex in that I don't know what the variables would

Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.0

2000-05-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
joeyorder a GPL CD from one of these places, they charge between $.99 and $6.99 plus shipping. http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart http://www.linuxcentral.com/ http://www.LLand.com/ http://www.LinuxMall.com/ http://www.lsl.com/ Alan joey wrote: anyone here want to send me a copy of

Re: [newbie] Installed SuSE yesterday

2000-05-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Caroldo you purposely state things in a obfuscatory manner. In your original post you talked about fiddling around instead of telling us what it was you actually attempted to do. In both posts you've never said what /size/brand/model of monitor you have or what you see (black screen, fuzzy

Re: [newbie] Color QuickCam

2000-05-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Billwow, thanks! I was totally unaware of any support for it because mine's a usb and there's been no Linux USB support (unless you want to mess around with a development kernal) till very recently and nothing yet for anything other than mice and keyboards. So I never really looked. Alan

[newbie] Re: [expert] Changing bootable partition

2000-05-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kenthe asterisk in the boot column of the p option of fdisk really has no importance in Linux. The first line of the /etc/lilo.conf file controls where lilo gets installed (the below example shows lilo installed on the mbr): boot=/dev/hda if a number follows the a, like below:

Re: [newbie] Linux Does not see all my memory.

2000-05-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jonathanyou can only have one append line per boot image. The line is placed where it should be by default and if there is nothing to append than it looks like this: append = "" you can then add, in between the ""'s, any appends needed for your setup, multiple appends are seperated by a

Re: [newbie] I give up...for now

2000-05-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Carolthe 3D Rage Pro uses the xfree86-mach64 xserver which has been included in all mandrake distro's since the first one. I know because I'm typing this on that xserver in mandrake 7.0 right now. Alan WolfRyder wrote: ATI 3D Rage Pro There's a 3D Rage Pro in the Mandrake, but it's

Re: [newbie] Color QuickCam

2000-05-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Billwhat makes you think that it's supported under Linux? I have a Color Quickcam too and I've never gotten any inkling (I've been running various Linux distributions since January, 1999) that it has any support under Linux. First off, mine's a usb and until Mandrake 7.0 was released there

Re: [newbie] monitor and LILO woes

2000-05-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
vickyit's probably an illusion since you're more than likely used to windows method of echoing an asterisk for each keystroke at a password prompt. Unlike windows, Linux echos nothing, so it may appear to you that it is not accepting your keystrokes, but it is. Just type your password and

Re: [newbie] Lilo Problem

2000-05-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jasonthe mbr of your primary master is not hda1, it is hda. If you've installed lilo on hdd1 and hda1 like you said then that's why Linux won't boot. Lilo needs to overwrite the dos/windows boot loader on /dev/hda then Linux should boot and windows should be a secondary choice (press tab to

Re: [newbie] CD Rom not accessible

2000-05-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jimit sounds like /dev/cdrom is a softlink pointing to /dev/fd0. It should be a softlink pointing to /dev/hdd instead. Alan Jim Brown wrote: Thanks for all of your help and quick responses!!! The /dev/hdd doesn't work at all for any type of disk. I've tried music cd, linux-mandrake

[newbie] Re: Netscape 128 bit download problem

2000-05-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michaelhold down a shift key when you click on the file. Alan Michael wrote: Alan, You wrote: download the MandrakeSoft rpm version from one of the Mandrake mirror sites listed on the below web page (these are the 128 bit encryption version):

Re: [newbie] Asking questions

2000-05-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Glennsince this list is archived and the search routine looks in the subjects for the search strings, I'd have to say that seperate messages with well thought out subjects is the best way to go for the usability of the archive. But there are a lot of folks using the list who don't even think

Re: [newbie] Over my head(Netscape install)

2000-05-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Robertdon't install it, instead download the MandrakeSoft rpm version from one of the Mandrake mirror sites listed on the below web page (these are the 128 bit encryption version): http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fcrypto.php3 There are three files (these are the 128 bit encryption version)

Re: [newbie] Connecting to the Internet - why is it so difficult?

2000-05-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kirk/Mikeif I'm reading this correctly you guys are both trying to connect to other computers in a private lan and also to connect to the internet via a wide-band connection such as cable or dsl with a single nic card? If that is the case with you, then the problem is that you need a

Re: [newbie] GCC...where are you???

2000-05-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
BillMDK 7.0 is operating from my Seagate 9.1 gig scsi drive right now. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Went through last night and reinstalled Linux using different hard drive set just to see if it would clear up the gcc problem. Does anybody know if MDK 7.0 supports Seagate hard

Re: [newbie] modem/internet/connection/cdrom2

2000-05-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Wadewhen you decided that your modem was on com2 and therefore changed the configuration to ttys1, did you disable the motherboard com2 in the system bios? Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am still without a connection to the internet. I am starting to wonder if I perhaps

Re: [newbie] Installation problems

2000-05-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Rodrigodownload the 486 version of the 7.0-2 iso image and install it instead. Alan wrote: Hi people! I'm new here, and, unhappily, I'm in need of some help... I tried to install Mandrake 7.02 in my 486 (yeah, believe, a 486... they still exist...) through different ways. Both

Re: [newbie] Installation problems

2000-05-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Rodrigoit is not the i486 iso image. The i486 iso image is only available for download from Mandrake mirror sites. Nobody has commercially burned the i486 iso image onto a CD. The way you can tell if it's 486 is that is that all of the rpms will have 486 as part of their file name. for

Re: [newbie] CD-player kscd versus Kfind

2000-05-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mogensjust a guess here. The problem you describe sounds like an artifact of supermount. Try disabling it. Alan 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

Re: [newbie] Could not excute program Netscape

2000-05-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobso what worked? All the putzing around, or a re-inatall? Alan Bob wrote: Thanks to all, I now have a viable LILO and Netscape up and running as browser. I run Opera, as perfered browser in Windows, and am wondering how it functions under Linux. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Lilo Config

2000-05-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobare you sure there's no initrd.img file in the /boot directory or on your boot floppy (mine in /boot is called initrd-2.2.14-15mdk.img). The other two files are trivial. Anyway I'll attach them to this message (the one sent direct to you). Alan Bob wrote: Seem to have Lilo

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobyou say that windows is on a seperate drive, yet your /etc/lilo.conf file indicates (is that really /etc/lilo.conf, or is it a hand typed copy with typos and omissions in it?) it's on the same drive (both on hda, where,from your description, I'd think that there'd be a hdb involved) as

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
BobI believe that the below /etc/lilo.conf is correct for your machine, but you should check that each file specified in it is actually where it is said to be and named correctly in the /etc/lilo.conf file. Is there a file /boot/map? Is there a file /boot/boot.b? Is there a file

Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjamin MikeI'm currently using the 4.72 (128 bit) version from a Mandrake crypto mirror site. The few times I've had problems, I've renamed the ~/.netscape directory and then launched netscape and let it recreate that directory and all the files in it. I still had the files in the

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobthen that's been the real problem all along. Is there any file resembling /boot/us.klt? You might find a usuable one on your boot floppy and copy it to the /boot/ dirctory. Change the entry in /etc/lilo.conf to match a different name or if you can'find it at all then remove the line

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobnope, /etc/lilo.conf is telling lilo that certain files are in a certain place and if they are not there then a successful bootup will not occur. See my last message for some solutions. Alan Bob wrote: Alan, Entered, checked for errors, and rebooted system, no change in

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mikego to this page of Mandrake's web site: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fcrypto.php3 and download the following three files from any of the crypto mirror sites listed: netscape-128-common-4.72-2mdk.i586.rpm netscape-128-communicator-4.72-2mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode

2000-04-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
!); this is the first mailing list i've bothered to get involved in so i don't know if there is an etiquette to this sort of thing? Alan Shoemaker wrote: basculethe image of your /etc/lilo.conf is fine. Sure I can tell you what the p command is, print the partition table, but the m command (help

Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode

2000-04-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
basculeyou haven't yet tried the linear boot mode? I thought you'd done that days ago and I just assumed it hadn't worked. Let me know. Alan bascule wrote: thankyou, your point is well made, true a sizable proportion of 'my stuff' comprises stuff hoarded over the years that i could

Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode

2000-04-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
basculeok, now please see if all of the needed boot files are actually there in the boot directory and if they're actual files. /boot/map /boot/boot.b /boot/uk.klt /boot/message /boot/vmlinuz /boot/initrd.img But I still think the best chance is to dual boot drom the IDE drive. Alan

Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode

2000-04-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
basculethe image of your /etc/lilo.conf is fine. Sure I can tell you what the p command is, print the partition table, but the m command (help) will tell you the same thing as well as all the other available commands. Don't worry about executing fdisk because it doesn't change anything till

Re: [newbie] LILO installation help .....

2000-04-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mungalformat it as a linux native primary partition. You would need to copy the /boot directory and add a new entry to your /etc/fstab file. You'd need to create a /etc/lilo.conf file (and delete the contents of your current /boot dierctory) and then execute /sbin/lilo. Instead, I'd

Re: [newbie] Hate Netscape! ... or is it me?...

2000-04-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Manuals/LinuxMan/ncsa/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html Paul wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Somehow, for some unknown to me reason, Netscape randomly closes /all/ its windows. For example, when I close one of six open windows (+Messenger),

Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode

2000-04-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
basculethe 1024 cylinder limit translates to 8 gig, so 393 cylinders for 3.2 gig seems reasonable. No, you need not worry about the 1024 cylinder limit, the problem only arises with drives over 8 gig. I have a scsi system but have never experienced the problem you describe nor have I had to

Re: [newbie] partition 'numbering' oddity

2000-04-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
basculeif, as you said in your previous message, mandrake won't boot, then how is mandrake giving you partition info? If you can get mandrake running then please post the output of fdisk /dev/hda using the p command and fdisk /dev/sda using the p command. Also post the contents of your

Re: [newbie] partition 'numbering' oddity

2000-04-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
all linux. i will do as you suggest but it will take time as i have to continually shift between booting win98 and linux as my modem doesn't seem to like linux even though it isn't a softmodem- a whole other topic that i'm leaving alone for the time being! thanks for getiing back to me b

Re: [newbie] Network settings

2000-04-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Billversion 7 has a new configuration program with access via desktop icon. It's called DrakConf, give it a try, there's a networking tool inside. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, just got 7.0 totally up and running however my network settings didn't take. Does anybody know how I

Re: [newbie] {newbie} Unable to mount CDRW

2000-04-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
LonnieI have a Smart Friendly CDR that I installed after I initially installed 7.0. Below is my fstab entry for both cd's (the one called cdrom is a CD and was automatically set up during 7.0's installation, cdrom1 is the CDR) on my system. All I did was create a softlink (/dev/cdrom2)

Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems

2000-04-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
philomenaas of version 7, setup is no longer installed by default. I believe it's still on the installation cd, but I don't remember which package it's in. Alan philomena wrote: Paul, what/where is "setup" ? I tried executing the command from the console and its not found. I

Re: [newbie] Boot disks?

2000-04-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Davidread the readme file in the images directory on your cd. Alan meijin wrote: I recently got a copy of Mandrake with the latest issue of "Maximum Linux". I installed it on a test machine and was pretty impressed as it was one of the easiest installs I have done. I want to load

Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems

2000-04-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
, Alan Shoemaker wrote: philomenaas of version 7, setup is no longer installed by default. I believe it's still on the installation cd, but I don't remember which package it's in. Alan philomena wrote: Paul, what/where is "setup" ? I tried executing the co

Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems

2000-04-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
philomenagotta' update my previous replyphilomena wrote: Paul, what/where is "setup" ? I tried executing the command from the console and its not found. I searched all drives and didn't find anything. I reinstalled and made sure to leave supermount on - so, my fstab entries are

Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems

2000-04-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
philomenagotta' update my previous reply...oops! Sorry, that one got away from me :-) Anyway, there is no setup any more (it probably is an artifact on some people's systems from a previous version after they've done an upgrade install to 7.0), it's now called drakxconf and can be launched

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting to WIN95/Linux with Boot Magic V5/LILO

2000-04-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michaelthe reason your Linux installation won't boot from the hard drve, but will boot from the floppy is as follows. The linux kernal must reside on a partition that ends before the 1024th cylinder of the drive it's located on. The boot floppy has the kernel on it, so it boots your

Re: [newbie] DrakConf

2000-04-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
AndersI did that once and the problem cleared itself when I rebooted the system. Alan Anders Linden wrote: I started DrakConf under my own user, and checked the "save password" box. Unfortenately I entered the wrong password, so now I can't start DrakConf at all under my own user. I

Re: [newbie] Write permissions for other filesystems

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
ChrisOff the top of my head I remember that when the name of the directory that served as the mount point for windows partitions contained uppercase letters and you used kfm to try and access these directories (if you accessed them in a console, this didn't happen) that the system would lock

Re: [newbie] 2 Questions about install....

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Stevewhoops! Also make sure you have both the 2 floppy recovery disc set for Partiton Magic and the BootMagic recovery floppy made up and standing by in case you screw up. Alan Alan Shoemaker wrote: Stevebe real careful. With a windows partition on the same drive, this solution

Re: [newbie] 2 Questions about install....

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
) partition that ends before the 1024 cylinder limit, else it will refuse to install. Alan Civileme wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Stevewhat is it you don't understand about the error messages you've received from the BootMagic installation? As a guess I'd probably go with #1 as the reason

Re: [newbie] 2 Questions about install (possible soln)

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Steveif you want to use BootMagic as your multi-os boot manager then you will have to deal with the 1024 cylinder limit as long as your primary master hard drive is larger than 8 gig. Of course you can elect to use lilo (part of Linux) as your multi-os boot manager instaed of BootMagic and

Re: [newbie] 2 Questions about install....

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Steveyou tell me, you know what the differences are between that machine and this one, I do not. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question...why was this so painless on the last system I installed Linux on? (also the first) I thought it got easier? In a message dated 04/24/2000

Re: [newbie] X PID

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
yoppythat only happens to user accounts created during installation with the 7.0 iso image (not however when using the 7.0-2 iso image). You need to change the ownership of the ~/.kedrc file from root.root to [user].[user]. Alan yoppy wrote: Hi again, I'm trying to install my

Re: [newbie] Virtual Machine Software

2000-04-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
joehttp://www.freemware.org/ Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sick of dealing with VMware support (or lack thereof) - I have heard mention of a Linux product that provides a virtual machine to run other OS's in (Win95, etc.) Anyone know what it's called, and where I can get it?

Re: [newbie] mandrake is a terd

2000-04-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Rogersince that office won't open till 8am or so on Monday morning, whay not explain your problem here. Maybe someone on this list can help you before business hours on Monday :-) Alan P.S. by the way it's spelled turd, not terd ;-)

Re: [newbie] Write permissions for other filesystems

2000-04-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
CivilemeI thought that there was a problem when the mount point contained uppercase characters? At least this is what I remember when we were discussing the prevention of lockups when accessing vfat partitions a couple of months ago. Alan Civileme wrote: Manuel Castelao wrote: Is

Re: [newbie] 2 Questions about install....

2000-04-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Stevewhat is it you don't understand about the error messages you've received from the BootMagic installation? As a guess I'd probably go with #1 as the reason. Which is that your windows partition (the one that you're trying to install BootMagic on) is larger than 8 meg (8 meg on today's

Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues

2000-04-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
KathleenI'm suspicious of something here. If your primary drive needs to be disabled to allow Linux to boot then I suspect that you probably installed Linux with the primary drive disabled as well, right? If that's so, then it'll probably be easier to reinstall Linux under normal conditions

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