[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] Booting into Graphic Menu]
"Michael A. Kellogg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks! Well, I don't quite know how I did it, but when I reboot the computer, I'm only given a command prompt (login name, password) rather than the nice graphic screen I was accustom. It's not a big deal, I type startx and get things going but I would like to reset my initial boot in to a graphic format. Any ideas? All I can recall is doing a ctrl/alt/backspace during an KDE session and that is when it started. Thanks!Mike = Check your /etc/inittab make certain there's a line id:5:initdefault If the 5 is a 3, change it back to 5 HTH, Another Mike ;o) "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] telnet problem:-(
how can i access my linux even if im in other pc using telnet?.do need to configure anything on my linux?
Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)
This seems weird... :-( What does it say when you try "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"? If that doesn't give any error, then you must be able to "echo 1 /proc/.../ip_forward" as root. If it does give an error, Check that the file exists (ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward) and that the kernel has everything he needs. Maybe you have to build a new kernel, but I doubt that this is the case. There must be another problem. I don't know which one. :-( If the ip_forward file doesn't exist, build a new kernel (following what they say in the HOWTO). If it does exist, I'm out of ideas. Post your question on the expert list, or another mailing list about ipchains. HTH Flupke On Mon, 15 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read the HOWTO some more and with your help modprobed the nessesary modules and this is what happens afterwards. echo /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission Denied echo whoami echo root any ideas Mike Here is the list : ip_masq_vdolive ip_masq_user ip_masq_raudio ip_masq_quake ip_masq_portfw ip_masq_mfw ip_masq_irc ip_masq_ftp ip_masq_cuseeme ip_masq_autofw HTH Flupke On Mon, 15 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry trying to understand the HOWTO and it's not straight forward. Which modules are suppose to be modprobed. It lists several but all I want to do is share a internet connection(for now:). If you just want to share your connection, you just have to go through some easy steps : First modprobe the necessary modules. They are listed in the ipchains-HOWTO, and should already built with mandrake. The kernel should also already be properly configured. Then enable the forwarding : echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward. If that doesn't work, that means that I was wrong and that you have to make a new kernel. Then you tell the kernel to masq the packages that come from your intranet: ipchains -A forward -s a.b.c.d/e -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ where a.b.c.d is the address of your local network and e is the number of bit set to 1 in your netmasq (255.0.0.0 - 8, 255.255.0.0 - 16, 255.255.255.0 - 24) Then you set the gateway of your router to be the one of your ISP For your intranet computers, the gateway is your router. That should do it. Of course, there are a lot of other possibilities with ipchains. Thats why you should read the ipchains-HOWTO step by step. Maybe I forgot some steps, but these are the main ones. If you have problems, tell exactly what is going wrong and post the output of the ipchains -L command. HTH Flupke On Thu, 11 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been setting up a samba server with adsl connected to several win98 boxes. I was told that to share the dsl connection all I had to do was set up IP chains. I then downloaded the current ip chains howto and am now completely lost. I read the first 4 chapters right up to where you set up the win98 boxes. Do I have to recompile the Kernel (I have never done this before); I am running mandrake 7.02. I was assuming that the IP chains was already built in. Is there a easy way to set it up. I don't mind recompiling but could use any suggestions or help that anyone could put forward. Thanx in advance Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
These are problems that I've had on in the development kernels, not the 2.2 series.
Loosing the inturupt means you have a timming problem. ARE YOU OVER-CLOCKING. Some
MB's and Hard-drives can get the timmng right some can't. What type of hardware are
you running. If Slackware also caused problems with your harddrive you may just have
buggy hardware.I noticed that your dealing with hda5 is this your / partition? Is
your /boot below the 1024 cylinder.
Also if you do "one last re-install" don't select specific packages. Let Xdrake
install what it wants. But choose the "Developer" install or you'll have to add a
bunch of -devel packages later to compile anything.
John
-- Original Message --
From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:49:50 -0400
Hi folks,
My install keeps booting to text install and then does not recognize my
partition table.
Sample message:
hdb: drive not ready for command
hdb: status error: status = 0x00 {}
unable to read partition table
hdd:hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: lost interrupt
The line: 'hdd: lost interrupt' keeps repeating and repeating until I have to
do a CNTRL+ALT+DELETE.
How do you get into graphical mode? I have the Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack.
Roman
Registered User
Eduardo Arauz wrote:
i haved the same problem a month ago.. try first to run :
fsck/dev/hda5.. once you ve got into root.. and see if that solve the
problem... i am about to quit mandrake too but because other problems
finally i reinstalled all ... and upgraded my PC but it still doesnt work
100% i cant mount either a cd rom or a diskette )
-Original Message-
From: X Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 3:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[newbie] No more Mandrake.
I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So
I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop
icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would
normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time
to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up
and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually
rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been
every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the
boot process slightly. But then something different popped up:
"/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5:
inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then:
"/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p
options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred
during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will
reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or
ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said,
"BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or
6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version
1.14...".
I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the
ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I
saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it
scrolled too fast to make out the whole message.
It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to
finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously
experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics
setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring
reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better.
Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed
with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime
you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and
crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1
AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel
different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm
thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or
something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's
definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems
like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in
Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may
still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The
worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time
in Linux. I
RE: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu
As root edit the file /etc/inittab and on the line that says 'id:3:initdefault:' change the 3 to a 5. Also make sure you have a file named 'desktop' in /etc/sysconfig with one word in it "KDE" in upper case with no quotes. That should do it. John -- Original Message -- From: Paulus Hendarwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:28:10 +0700 You can set the initial window type in LinuxConf. At the prompt, just type : #linuxconf. Select Boot something I forgot. And in there you can configure to start with X-Windows system (KDE) May it helps. Best Regards, Paulus Hendarwan -Original Message- From:Michael A. Kellogg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu Hi Folks! Well, I don't quite know how I did it, but when I reboot the computer, I'm only given a command prompt (login name, password) rather than the nice graphic screen I was accustom. It's not a big deal, I type startx and get things going but I would like to reset my initial boot in to a graphic format. Any ideas? All I can recall is doing a ctrl/alt/backspace during an KDE session and that is when it started. Thanks!Mike
Re: [newbie] UDMA-66 in Mandrake 7.1
UDMA-66 is an after thought for the version of the kernel that comes with Mandrake 7.0 even when it asked you had to boot from a floppy. To get it right, you need to upgrade to 2.3.99-pre9-2. 9-1 crashed my ABIT BP6 hard. 9-2 appears fairly stable. It also solved some problems with my sound card. As I said above I have a BP6, some things I learned from the Kernel Mailing list is that the BP6 implementation of th HPT366 controller leaves a lot to be desired. I can say pretty assuradly that many Maxtor hard-drives have problems with it. Also I have had a few problems with my Maxtor when I over-clock so be carefull with that. The 2.3.99-pre9.2 is a nice kernel either way and would upgrade to it if I were you. It will detect your HPT366 controller on bootup. I currently don't have a UDMA66 drive so I don't know how good it works. If you want to upgrade let me know and I can walk you through the steps. It isn't as scary as people make it out to be. John -- Original Message -- From: "Garron Moore" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:32:35 -0700 I was under the impression that Mandrake 7.1 beta was supposed to support UDMA-66. My Abit BP6 motherboard w/ onboard HPT-366 doesnt even show up during the install. At least in mandrake 7.0 it told me that i would have to make a boot disk to install on a udma-66 drive. Can someone help me?
Re: [newbie] I need help to install KDE 2.0 and how to install a als100 sound card
Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote: Please anyone know how to install kde 2.0 when i try to install, that eliminate the kde. and what i have to do whith the als 100 sound card when i run sndconfig it mark one error and i have to put manually instalation. KDE installs on /opt. Go throug the web of kde.org for info. Eric
RE: [newbie] Unsubscription feature doesn't work?
Sorry about this - for some reason, our web-page subscription/unsubscription just refuses to work. I hope this will be fixed soon, and in the meantime: send e-mail containing unsubscribe newbie to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsubscribe. If nessesary, add the e-mail address with which you subscribed to the list after "newbie". cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
RE: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu
you also can go to the /etc/initab.conf file and edit it, so the default number in wich the linux will star will be 5, that is X mode there is a way from drake conf too when you can set to start from X11 -Original Message- From: Michael Holt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 8:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu "Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! Well, I don't quite know how I did it, but when I reboot the computer, I'm only given a command prompt (login name, password) rather than the nice graphic screen I was accustom. It's not a big deal, I type startx and get things going but I would like to reset my initial boot in to a graphic format. Any ideas? All I can recall is doing a ctrl/alt/backspace during an KDE session and that is when it started. Thanks!Mike Go to the Drakconf icon on your desktop and select X configurator. From there, after you select your screen resolution, you are given the option to boot directly into X There are other ways to do this, but this is pretty easy to remember. Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [newbie] attn Michael
Paul, Thanks for the heads up. I only venture forth into Bill's world when forced. So you use Pine, eh? I am comfortable with NS' mail program; guess if comfort was my criterion I wouldn't be on this list, though, so where would you point me to in terms of help files, to be able to get it (Pine)up and running? -- -michael brower- "Dancing with Penguins" Registered Linux User #175480
[newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS
How can I remove LILO from the Master Boot Sector?. Regards. Erick Dennis C.R. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] kernel upgrade
is the 2.3.xx kernel a beta or stable release and will it effect the operation of mandrake if I upgrade my kernel? Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] telnet problem:-(
:~how can i access my linux even if im in other pc using telnet?.do :~need to configure anything on my linux? You need telnet-daemon. However, I would suggest you to use "ssh" instead of telnet. yours Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS
Boot to a Windows boot disk and type fdisk /mbr. -Chris On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote: How can I remove LILO from the Master Boot Sector?. Regards. Erick Dennis C.R. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)
On Tue, 16 May 2000, flupke wrote: This seems weird... :-( What does it say when you try "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"? If that doesn't give any error, then you must be able to "echo 1 /proc/.../ip_forward" as root. If it does give an error, Check that the file exists (ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward) and that the kernel has everything he needs. Maybe you have to build a new kernel, but I doubt that this is the case. There must be another problem. I don't know which one. :-( I think I already replied to this but from the HOWTO: #CRITICAL: Enable IP forwarding since it is disabled by default since # # Redhat Users: you may try changing the options in /etc/sysconfig/network from: # # FORWARD_IPV4=false # to # FORWARD_IPV4=true # echo "1" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
RE: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS
lilo -U Notice the Capital U -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Erick Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS How can I remove LILO from the Master Boot Sector?. Regards. Erick Dennis C.R. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS
Oops, you may not have linux anymore :) fdisk /mbr -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Erick Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Removing LILO from the MBS How can I remove LILO from the Master Boot Sector?. Regards. Erick Dennis C.R. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] kernel upgrade
2.3.xx is beta. All odd numbers are beta: 2.2.14 z.y.xx xx == Release version, it just increments, get the highest one. yy == Major version, get the even numbers, right now it's 2. Hopefully soon we'll see 2.4.xx. (If you've got an older computer, you may want to go with 2.0.xx) z == Really Major version :) Wow it's been a long time since this number changed just get 2 :) -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] kernel upgrade is the 2.3.xx kernel a beta or stable release and will it effect the operation of mandrake if I upgrade my kernel? Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] Shockwave for Linux
I did and it just had stupid flash, I have flash already I want shockwave On Mon, 15 May 2000, you wrote: If you are trying to use Shockwave in Netscape..might want to try going to the help section on the left top and choose About Plugins. Bambi Vic wrote: I have tryed (f*ck the spelling i'm not in the mood to deal with this piece of crap keyboard) I tryed to get shockwave for Linux and I can't find it, I can't even e mail shockwave to tell them this. Maybe I should reverse-compile thier windows shockwave so I will be able to use it, I already have "flash player" but that does not substitute for shoccklwave and I don't know if there is anyone alive at Shoclwave or not. -- Signature: Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 842C
James Little wrote: Use a generic postscript driver or a laserjet 4/5/6. They'll all work, I've tried each. Hi, Has anyone managed to get one of these working under 2.2.x? I run Mandrake 7.0 and none of the available filters there will work Thanks for any advice James, thanks for the reply, I do appreciate it, and they do work, mostly, but not in colouranyone else found the *real* thing? Thanks. Steve -- Steve Edmunds Work:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:650.933.8560 ISDN:408.863.7033
Re: [newbie] DrakX is working but installation instructions are poor
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 show my page setting: I can see in the DrakX installation: The Setup file systems Filesystem types: Ext2 Swap FAT Other Empty - | hda | - | --- -- | | | | | | | | | C | | D | | E | | | | | | | | | -- | --- | |Choose action| | Details | ---| | Device: hda5 | |Mount point | | DOS drive letter: D (just a guess) | ---| | Type: DOS FAT16 | | Resize | | Size: 2047 MB (10%) | ---| | | | Delete | | | ---| | ___ __ | Clear all | | Auto allocate | | Undo | - ___ | Done | Note: hda is the entire drive hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D 1. In the comments section, the following was copied (I could not find any other way of copying the instructions) Two common partition are: the root partition ( / ), which is the starting point of the file system's directory hierarchy, and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the operating system when the computer is first turned on. Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I selected the 2nd button. *** This is were the confusion sets in: 2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this is a factory install from Dell. 2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button. Another window pops up asking: Where do you want to mount device hda5? Next to the Mount point field appears: / I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5 2c) If I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace ( / ) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot. A drop down arrow shows the following selection. / /boot /home /mnt/dos /mnt/iso /tmp /usr /va 3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the delete button, it will indicate that the partition D or hda5 is empty. 3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message appears: partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (614938 MB are overlapping! at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ... propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm line 47 3c) I clicked on the OK button and all of the Ext2, Swap were all there. Sounds confusing? Sorry about the long email. I cannot reformat the entire drive - just about 1/2 of D. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanif you used the auto allocation, you'd have a small (64 meg - 128 meg) "green button" for swap. Alan Romanator wrote: > > Charles, > > After many, many hours DrakX is now running. I was trying to install the > i586 on the wrong machine. The hard drives and ZIP drives were old. I > think the i486 will work with the 10 Gig PII 200 MHz machine. > > My first stumbling block in DrakX, is the fact that when I selected hda5 > (D partition), I clicked on mount, and the / appeared. Next, I clicked > on mount button again, and typed in /boot. However, it prompted me for a > swap file. This is where I stopped. As it was prompting me to redo the > entire partition, I thought I should check with every one. > > Roman
[newbie] Michael-Pine
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Michael wrote: Paul, Thanks for the heads up. I only venture forth into Bill's world when forced. So you use Pine, eh? I am comfortable with NS' mail program; guess if comfort was my criterion I wouldn't be on this list, though, so where would you point me to in terms of help files, to be able to get it (Pine)up and running? Hi Michael, First off: Pine is not graphical. It is all text-based although in a konsole-window it reacts to mouse clicks (reall neat). I picked pine because I don't want colored backgrounds and music and jumping images in my mail. I am colorblind, and most of the colored background stuff makes it impossible for me to read the actual mail. Pine is a Mail User Agent. That means you use it to type mail and tell it to dump it somewhere. Then a Mail Transport Agent picks up the mail and sends it out. NS Mail does this all for you, it directly connects to SMTP and POP servers. For MTA you have several choices: Sendmail (standard in the package, but see the "Sendmail in a nutshell" and be scared) -used ver much, terrible (for me) to configure Qmail (www.qmail.org) -Easier to install (although that gave me some extra grey hairs too) and apparently more safe than Sendmail. ALthough for 1 person, that is not a big deal I guess. To pull mail from a server you can either use FETCHMAIL (standard in the package) or Getmail (which I use) Now you know this, decide if you want to venture into Pine or Mutt (also text based) and let the world know... Paul )0(---)0( Law of Life's Highway: If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: but I would like to reset my initial boot in to a graphic format. Any ideas? Go to the Drakconf icon on your desktop and select X configurator. From there, after you select your screen resolution, you are given the option to boot directly into X There are other ways to do this, but this is pretty easy to remember. For me the easiest way is to edit /etc/inittab and set the initdefault to 5... (as root). Paul )0(---)0( Law of Life's Highway: If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7
On Mon, 15 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, why is it so important to have Wordperfect in addition to Star Office (or visa versa)? I'm used to Word Perfect (and have a book about half-done with it) and I like it. I would also like to have a spread-sheet program under Linux. I'm Of course there is Gnumeric. It does not have all the toots and bells that Excel has, like graphs, but for the greater part it is real good, I like it. Paul )0(---)0( Law of Life's Highway: If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Gnome menus
Is there a good way to re-autogen the Gnome menus? -=Ron=-
[newbie] [lnewbie] INSERT FLOPPY TO LOAD INTO RAMDISK??
What floppy? a blank floppy ? In the past I inserted a blank floppy and it said ramdisk failed. Is this an important step? Kenny _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] DMA 33 stuff
Hi I installed a Quantum Fireball dma66 (maximum speed) 10 Gb hard drive, and I was wondering, since linux supports dma33 pretty much and the motherboard is dma33 capable, how can I know its running at this speed? It does run faster than the old regular ide drive that I had in there, but I just wish to know of some indication that its actually running at dma33 speed. Thanks Vic
[newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions incomplete
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 show my page setting: I can see in the DrakX installation: The Setup file systems File system types: Ext2SwapFATOtherEmpty - | hda | - |--- -- |||| ||| || C ||D| | E | |||| ||| | -- |--- ||Choose action||Details |---| |Device: hda5 ||Mount point | |DOS drive letter: D (just a guess) |---| |Type: DOS FAT16 || Resize | |Size: 2047 MB (10%) |---|| || Delete || |---|| ___ __ |Clear all | |Auto allocate|| Undo | - ___ | Done | Note: hda is the entire drive hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D 1. In the comments section, the following was copied(I could not find any other way of copying the instructions) Two common partition are:the root partition ( / ), which is the starting point of the file system's directory hierarchy, and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the operating system when the computer is first turned on. Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I selected the 2nd button - which is hda5 *** This is were the confusion sets in: 2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this is a factory install from Dell. 2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button. Another window pops up asking: Where do you want to mount device hda5? Next to the Mount point field appears: / I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5 2c) If I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace ( / ) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot. A drop down arrow shows the following selection. / /boot /home /mnt/dos /mnt/iso /tmp /usr /va 3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the delete button, it will indicate that the partition D or hda5 is empty. 3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message appears: partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (614938 MB are overlapping! at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ... propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm line 47 3c) I clicked on the OK button and all of the Ext2, Swap were all there. Sounds confusing? Sorry about the long email, and I hope you understand what I am getting at. I cannot reformat the entire drive - just about 1/2 of D. Roman
Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructionsincomplete
Okay. I'll give it a go. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: 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 show my page setting: I can see in the DrakX installation: The Setup file systems File system types: Ext2SwapFATOtherEmpty - | hda | - |--- -- |||| ||| || C ||D| | E | |||| ||| | -- |--- ||Choose action||Details |---| |Device: hda5 ||Mount point | |DOS drive letter: D (just a guess) |---| |Type: DOS FAT16 || Resize | |Size: 2047 MB (10%) |---|| || Delete || |---|| ___ __ |Clear all | |Auto allocate|| Undo | - ___ | Done | Note: hda is the entire drive hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D 1. In the comments section, the following was copied(I could not find any other way of copying the instructions) Two common partition are:the root partition ( / ), which is the starting point of the file system's directory hierarchy, and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the operating system when the computer is first turned on. Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I selected the 2nd button - which is hda5 *** This is were the confusion sets in: 2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this is a factory install from Dell. 2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button. Another window pops up asking: Where do you want to mount device hda5? Next to the Mount point field appears: / I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5 2c) If I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace ( / ) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot. A drop down arrow shows the following selection. / /boot /home /mnt/dos /mnt/iso /tmp /usr /va 3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the delete button, it will indicate that the partition D or hda5 is empty. 3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message appears: partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (614938 MB are overlapping! at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ... propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm line 47 3c) I clicked on the OK button and all of the Ext2, Swap were all there. Sounds confusing? Sorry about the long email, and I hope you understand what I am getting at. I cannot reformat the entire drive - just about 1/2 of D. Roman
Re: [newbie] [lnewbie] INSERT FLOPPY TO LOAD INTO RAMDISK??
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Kenny wrote: What floppy? a blank floppy ? In the past I inserted a blank floppy and it said ramdisk failed. Is this an important step? Kenny It would help if you also mention at what time this appears... Paul )0(---)0( Law of Life's Highway: If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] DMA 33 stuff
Vic wrote: Hi I installed a Quantum Fireball dma66 (maximum speed) 10 Gb hard drive, and I was wondering, since linux supports dma33 pretty much and the motherboard is dma33 capable, how can I know its running at this speed? It does run faster than the old regular ide drive that I had in there, but I just wish to know of some indication that its actually running at dma33 speed. Thanks Vic usehdparm /dev/hda1(or whatever your drive is) to display current usage. man hdparm will fill you in. Gene
[newbie] second hdd
i'm looking to put in a second hdd on my computer. i want it to run with linux. currently, i'm running a dual boot system with windoze 98, and mandrake 7.0. how do i go about doing this? jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Saving what appears in console
Is there a simple way to save to a file what a command like 'dmesg' gives me on the screen? Michael Coady
RE: [newbie] second hdd
Run *WITH* Linux, or Run *AS* linux? Meaning, do you just want linux to access it, keeping everything the same, or do you just want more space in linux? -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: J D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 3:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] second hdd i'm looking to put in a second hdd on my computer. i want it to run with linux. currently, i'm running a dual boot system with windoze 98, and mandrake 7.0. how do i go about doing this? jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
AW: [newbie] once again: ISDN setup
Dear Paul, thank you for your e-mail. What is ISDN4Net ? Is it a software ? A configuration tool? Or an URL in the WWW ? With kind regards Christian My problem is that I can't find these files.There is no directory /isdn/profile on my PC. Find the ISDN4Net setup on the net. If you want, mail me privately and I can send it to you. I am sure I still have it somewhere. :) Paul )0(---)0( Law of Life's Highway: If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Re: [lnewbie] INSERT FLOPPY TO LOAD INTO RAMDISK??
It occurs right after it asks which directory the rpms are in On Tue, 16 May 2000, Kenny wrote: What floppy? a blank floppy ? In the past I inserted a blank floppy and it said ramdisk failed. Is this an important step? Kenny It would help if you also mention at what time this appears... Paul )0(---)0( Law of Life's Highway: If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions
Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a larger black border on the left side rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto configured, except for the monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is lopsided the left border is a lot larger than the right border. My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I have to resize. E shifted to D. I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space. Thank you for your help. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: 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 show my page setting: I can see in the DrakX installation: The Setup file systems File system types: Ext2SwapFATOtherEmpty - | hda | - |--- -- |||| ||| || C ||D| | E | |||| ||| | -- |--- ||Choose action||Details |---| |Device: hda5 ||Mount point | |DOS drive letter: D (just a guess) |---| |Type: DOS FAT16 || Resize | |Size: 2047 MB (10%) |---|| || Delete || |---|| ___ __ |Clear all | |Auto allocate|| Undo | - ___ | Done | Note: hda is the entire drive hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D 1. In the comments section, the following was copied(I could not find any other way of copying the instructions) Two common partition are:the root partition ( / ), which is the starting point of the file system's directory hierarchy, and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the operating system when the computer is first turned on. Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I selected the 2nd button - which is hda5 *** This is were the confusion sets in: 2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this is a factory install from Dell. 2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button. Another window pops up asking: Where do you want to mount device hda5? Next to the Mount point field appears: / I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5 2c) If I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace ( / ) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot. A drop down arrow shows the following selection. / /boot /home /mnt/dos /mnt/iso /tmp /usr /va 3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the delete button, it will indicate that the partition D or hda5 is empty. 3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message appears: partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (614938 MB are overlapping! at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ... propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm line 47 3c) I clicked on the OK button and all of the Ext2, Swap were all there. Sounds confusing? Sorry about the long email, and I hope you understand what I am getting at. I cannot reformat the entire drive - just about 1/2 of D. Roman
[newbie] kfm running realy slow.
Hi. Not only is kfm not running when I am connected (see last e-mail) now it is running really really slow. I know I don't have a big fancy processor - Cirrus MII but it was definately running faster than this a few days back and no I haven't downloaded anything from the internet nor have I installed anything from disc. It has just started to slow down?? -- Andrew Blackburn England -- In the pursuit of learning, Everyday something is aquired -- (Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching)
Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions
Hi Alan, The monitor works fine in Windows NT4. The shift happens in as soon as I get in to KDE. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanadjust your monitor (buttons on front, directions in monitor owner's manual). Alan Romanator wrote: Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a larger black border on the left side rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto configured, except for the monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is lopsided the left border is a lot larger than the right border. My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I have to resize. E shifted to D. I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space. Thank you for your help. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: 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 show my page setting: I can see in the DrakX installation: The Setup file systems File system types: Ext2SwapFATOtherEmpty - | hda | - |--- -- |||| ||| || C ||D| | E | |||| ||| | -- |--- ||Choose action||Details |---| |Device: hda5 ||Mount point | |DOS drive letter: D (just a guess) |---| |Type: DOS FAT16 || Resize | |Size: 2047 MB (10%) |---|| || Delete || |---|| ___ __ |Clear all | |Auto allocate|| Undo | - ___ | Done | Note: hda is the entire drive hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D 1. In the comments section, the following was copied(I could not find any other way of copying the instructions) Two common partition are:the root partition ( / ), which is the starting point of the file system's directory hierarchy, and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the operating system when the computer is first turned on. Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I selected the 2nd button - which is hda5 *** This is were the confusion sets in: 2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this is a factory install from Dell. 2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button. Another window pops up asking: Where do you want to mount device hda5? Next to the Mount point field appears: / I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5 2c) If I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace ( / ) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot. A drop down arrow shows the following selection. / /boot /home /mnt/dos /mnt/iso /tmp /usr /va 3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the delete button, it will indicate that the partition D or hda5 is empty. 3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message appears: partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (614938 MB are overlapping! at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ... propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm line 47 3c) I
[newbie] Help with Printer, please!
Dear friends: May I please ask for your help with what I am sure is a very minor configuration error which makes it impossible for me to print using ghostscript. As is often the case, I did something I shouldn't do, but I am sure I corrected it. Still, whatever I did messed up my printer configuration. I thought I needed the latest ghostscript in order to install Hylafax. I really didn't. Well, to make a long story short, I downloaded the latest 5.50mdk ghostscript files. The main file installed fine, but the rest refused to install because of a conflict with the 5.10 version. So, I went ahead and deleted ghostscript (rpm -e --nodeps ghostscript), then reinstalled the original 5.10. Everything seems all right: [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -qa | grep ghostscript ghostscript-5.10-17mdk ghostscript-fonts-5.10-6mdk ghostscript-X-5.10-17mdk [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ whereis ghostscript ghostscript: /usr/share/ghostscript /usr/man/man1/ghostscript.1.bz2 [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q ghostscript ghostscript-5.10-17mdk [sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ Well, even though everything seems to be in order, I quickly found out that I can only print text files and nothing else. I went into printtool, deleted my printer, added a new printer and found that the filter list of printers includes only: text printer Postscript printer In other words, the long list of printers that use ghostscript is gone. I was told right off that "ghostscript is not installed on your system", therefore your printing choices will be severely limited." You can say that again. When I tried to run the printtool tests, it printed the text sample but when I tried to print out the Postscript sample, it told me that it can not do this. And yet, as you can see, ghostscript IS installed on my system. How do I configure my printer so that I can see the list of printers, select the HP Laser Jet 4 for my OkiPage 10e and print again, just as I have been doing without fail until I made this stupid mistake? Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
