Re: [expert] SCSI-Boot fom CD = no

2000-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Audrey Beck wrote: > > Does it still boot from the CD-RW? > > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > Despite all that it doesn't boot from cd but goes on to lilo on > > /dev/hda. > > > > Before I bought the SCSI cdrom I had an atapi cdrom. I could boot from > > this atapi *and* when switching in BIOS t

RE: [expert] Oracle Mandrake

2000-03-03 Thread Ken Wilson
I don't believe there is a jre in Java anymore. It is now part of the jdk since 1.2 was released. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex V Flinsch Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 7:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert Binkley Subject: Re: [expe

RE: [expert] Changing case or extensions

2000-03-03 Thread Gary Bunker
I found it on rpmfind.net which is where I find almost everything not WindowMaker-related. :-) On 3 Mar, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > I don't have mmv on my system or anywhere on the Mandrake 7.0 install > disk. > > Do you know where I can it? Sounds cool . . . > --- Nil Car

Re: [expert] IRC Client

2000-03-03 Thread Guillermo Belli
El Fri, 03 Mar 2000, escribiste: > What is a good IRC client to use with Mandrake 7? I'm looking for a good > console one and a X one. I know I have BitchX installed, but cannot find > the documentation for it anywhere. In fact, this would be my first foray > into IRC ever... For X you can try

Re: [expert] Blocking Banner ads

2000-03-03 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
Assuming this is on topic since squid is shipped with mandrake :) How about blocking most banner ads from most web sites. Here is how to do it. setup squid with the access controls that you are comfortable with. Then look on freshmeat for squidredirect it is a simple little script. download it a

Re: [expert] IRC Client

2000-03-03 Thread Nitin Raja Bhatia
Hi, Popular X irc clients are: X-chat (www.xchat.org): uses gtk libs , fits in well with gnome/e/sawmill Kvirc (www.kvirc.org?): uses qt libs, fits in nicely with kde www.linuxnewbie.org has bitchx help. For the man page for BitchX, simply do man BitchX. Cheers, Raja iTOOL wrote: > > What is

[expert] ghostscript erros

2000-03-03 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, I'm having a problem with ghostscript opening some postscript files. I get the error: unknown device x11alpha Anyone know what this means and how to fix it? Thanks. Sheldon. -- == "Definitions involving chicken h

RE: [expert] Changing case or extensions

2000-03-03 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Oh, yeah. And the traditional solution is something like (in csh) foreach fn (*.BMP) mv $fn $fn:r.bmp end On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: | I don't have mmv on my system or anywhere on the Mandrake 7.0 install | disk. | | Do you know where I can it? Sounds cool . . . | | | On Fri, 03 Ma

Re: [expert] Need help fixing my cdrom access, after upgrade to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-03 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
[As I recently wrote on the "newbie" and "cooker" lists . . .] Yes, the CD-RW issue is quickly becoming a FAQ on the expert list (thanks for at least picking the other two lists instead!) Mankrake 7.0 has a bug (evidently not fixed in in 7.0v2) whereby for a CD-RW it correctly sets up the LILO

Re: [expert] keyboard mapping and login problems.

2000-03-03 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, you could hit the num-lock key for now . . . On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: | > Well that is the paranoia level. Only root should be permitted to authorize | > users at any time. | | --- Did you mean only root can login at any time? How to allow the other user | to login? | |That i

RE: [expert] Changing case or extensions

2000-03-03 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I don't have mmv on my system or anywhere on the Mandrake 7.0 install disk. Do you know where I can it? Sounds cool . . . On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: | man mmv | | (multiple move) | | Will allow you to do something like mmv *.BMP *.bmp | | Mathieu | | > -Original Message- | >

Re: [expert] Oracle Mandrake

2000-03-03 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Robert Binkley wrote: > Any one every install Oracle on Mandrake, If so would you mind supplying > any input I installed 8i onto a Mandrake 6.0 box, it was somewhat of a nightmare, so get and read the following docs/web pages, and take the advice given in the next few lines,

Re: [expert] IRC Client

2000-03-03 Thread alann
iTOOL wrote: > > What is a good IRC client to use with Mandrake 7? I'm looking for a good > console one and a X one. I know I have BitchX installed, but cannot find > the documentation for it anywhere. In fact, this would be my first foray > into IRC ever... > X-chat.. You need the GTK tool

[expert] Blocking Banner ads

2000-03-03 Thread Sridhar G
Hi all, Is there a way to block the banner ads from a website. Cheers Sridhar

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Eric wrote: > > > I don't believe my win-modem is actually Linux usable, but was unable to > > test, as the Kernels didn't match (apparently the binary I got works on > > Red-Hat 6.1 only). > > > > No "winmodem" works with linux. They are ve

Re: [expert] Floppy install???

2000-03-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Johndid you actually mount an ext2 file system while booted on tomsrtbt? I have a 7895 built into my motherboard and when booted on tomsrtbt I can mount dos & windows filesystems but my ext2 filesystems error out saying: EXT2-FS: 08:07: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features

Re: [expert] Need help fixing my cdrom access, after upgrade to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-03 Thread Audrey Beck
You have the cdrom set as rw. Should be ro. Kurt Landrus wrote: > > I just upgraded my system from 6.1 powerpack to the new 7.0 version, and > now I can't access my cdrom. When trying to mount it I get a > "/dev/cdrom: Input/output error". > > here is the recent output of dmesg... > > Linux v

Re: [expert] SCSI-Boot fom CD = no

2000-03-03 Thread Audrey Beck
Does it still boot from the CD-RW? Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Hi, > > My system: > > EIDE: > hd on IDE 0: IBM hd with lilo in mbr and root partition on /hda2 > > SCSI: > Dawicontrol host > Plextor SCSI cdrom > Plextor SCSI cd-writer > > The host is recognized at bootup. It has a BIOS. I ca

[expert] IRC Client

2000-03-03 Thread iTOOL
What is a good IRC client to use with Mandrake 7? I'm looking for a good console one and a X one. I know I have BitchX installed, but cannot find the documentation for it anywhere. In fact, this would be my first foray into IRC ever... Joseph E. Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm http://www

Re: [expert] keyboard mapping and login problems.

2000-03-03 Thread Chunnuan Chen
> Well that is the paranoia level. Only root should be permitted to authorize > users at any time. --- Did you mean only root can login at any time? How to allow the other user to login? That is a numlock for a laptop bet u is 4 i is 5 etc Set up to start with numlock off. --- How t

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-03 Thread Civileme
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: > BTW, for anyone needing an updated SCSI card, > www.compgeeks.com has Adaptec Model > AHA-3944UWD/AHA-3944AUWD on sale for $99.00 (US). > > The current web address for this item is > http://www.compgeeks.com/cgi-bin/details.asp?cat=&sku=205-7394. > I have bought

Re: [expert] Need help fixing my cdrom access, after upgrade to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kurtare you sure that the fstab entries were "messed up" They may have just been automount entries which are different, but not necessarily "messed up". Automount handles two floppies (1.44 & 1.2), a scsi zip drive and a scsi cdrom just fine on my installation of mdk 7.0. Alan Kurt Landru

Re: [expert] Changing case or extensions

2000-03-03 Thread Gary Bunker
No, that most definitely does NOT work. That was what I tried first, then a horrible attempt at a while loop. I like mmv but now I'm trying to remember how I did it under AIX/Xenix years ago... On 3 Mar, Robert Binkley wrote: > > mv *.BMP *.bmp -- --- Nil Carborundum Illegitimi htt

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-03 Thread Frank Arnold
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Eric wrote: > I don't believe my win-modem is actually Linux usable, but was unable to > test, as the Kernels didn't match (apparently the binary I got works on > Red-Hat 6.1 only). > No "winmodem" works with linux. They are very small cards that require windows software t

Re: [expert] #Linux-Mandrake IRC Channel

2000-03-03 Thread Nitin Raja Bhatia
Hi Thomas, I think it is better to remain as part of the openprojects irc net. That way #Linux-Mandrake users can be in #Linux-Mandrake and in say, #kde or whatever other open software channel. If you are interested in setting up a box for openprojects, let me know and I can talk to the guys at

Re: [expert] keyboard mapping and login problems.

2000-03-03 Thread Civileme
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I installed LM 7.02 with the highest security in my Dell Latitude > laptop. Now I have two problems: > 1. When run at leve 5, only the root account can login even though I > can su to other regular users after I login as root. > 2. When run at level 3, some key

[expert] Oracle Mandrake

2000-03-03 Thread Robert Binkley
Any one every install Oracle on Mandrake, If so would you mind supplying any input

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a "Freeze-system line"

2000-03-03 Thread Eric
Thanx all, I was able to use the Floppy-disk Linux to edit the file : http://www.toms.net/rb I don't believe my win-modem is actually Linux usable, but was unable to test, as the Kernels didn't match (apparently the binary I got works on Red-Hat 6.1 only). But, sometimes you get lucky, so I was

[expert] Question concerning a PC-Card Modem/Ethernet Card

2000-03-03 Thread Joseph Bahr
I'm needing some help with a problem I am having right now. I was running Helios and decided to install over the top of it Air. Now I am not able to use my modem. I am using a Compaq Presiaro 1672 Laptop (350 AMD K6-2, 64 MB, ATI Rage LT Pro 8 MB, 4.3 GB HD w/ 1.5 GB for Linux) and to connec

Re: [expert] Floppy install???

2000-03-03 Thread John D. Kim
My computer has an adaptec 2940u2w and Tom's dist worked fine. Check the website. I do remember seeing the list of devices supported on the website somewhere. On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > Try the following URL: > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > >

Re: [expert] Need help fixing my cdrom access, after upgrade to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-03 Thread Sang Y. Yum
That happened to me when I chose "High" security level during installation. You might want to lower it to medium (or 3) with the security tool that comes with LM 7.0 (I can't remember the name of it but you should be able to find a reference to it User's Guide) Sang --- Kurt Landrus <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [expert] Changing case or extensions

2000-03-03 Thread Robert Binkley
Gary Bunker wrote: > I used to know how to do this, but now my brain is full. > > How can I change the case, or extension of a lot of files at once. For > example, I have a directory of BMPs that a friend sent from his digital > camera (yeah, I know, bad format, but it's not me). I want to make

Re: [expert] Changing case or extensions

2000-03-03 Thread Robert Binkley
Gary Bunker wrote: > I used to know how to do this, but now my brain is full. > > How can I change the case, or extension of a lot of files at once. For > example, I have a directory of BMPs that a friend sent from his digital > camera (yeah, I know, bad format, but it's not me). I want to make

Re: [expert] LAN/Internet

2000-03-03 Thread Civileme
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Hello all ... > > I have a problem getting my box to send packets OUT of the NIC (Network > Interface Card). > I can ping 127.0.0.1 (localhost) but not any other IP's on the network, nor > default gateway. > I can't reach the box from another box on the lan eith

[expert] Need help fixing my cdrom access, after upgrade to Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-03 Thread Kurt Landrus
I just upgraded my system from 6.1 powerpack to the new 7.0 version, and now I can't access my cdrom. When trying to mount it I get a "/dev/cdrom: Input/output error". here is the recent output of dmesg... Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1

[expert] keyboard mapping and login problems.

2000-03-03 Thread Chunnuan Chen
I installed LM 7.02 with the highest security in my Dell Latitude laptop. Now I have two problems: 1. When run at leve 5, only the root account can login even though I can su to other regular users after I login as root. 2. When run at level 3, some keys in the right half of my keybord are mess

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-03 Thread John Aldrich
BTW, for anyone needing an updated SCSI card, www.compgeeks.com has Adaptec Model AHA-3944UWD/AHA-3944AUWD on sale for $99.00 (US). The current web address for this item is http://www.compgeeks.com/cgi-bin/details.asp?cat=&sku=205-7394. I have bought merchandise from them in the past (just got a

RE: [expert] Changing case or extensions

2000-03-03 Thread Bois, Mathieu
man mmv (multiple move) Will allow you to do something like mmv *.BMP *.bmp Mathieu > -Original Message- > From: Gary Bunker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 03 March 2000 18:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Changing case or extensions > > > I used to know how to do t

Re: [expert] Floppy install???

2000-03-03 Thread John D. Kim
This is an excellent distribution. When I accidentally screwed up the ld.so.conf file and couldn't even boot, this fixed it. For now, this is my "rescue disk" of choice until I get my hands on the new version of LinuxCare credit card rescue CD... I got the first one from a friend but it broke i

Re: [expert] VIA Technologies VT82C686_5 Sound Card Problems

2000-03-03 Thread M Thompson
Alsa hasn't developed a driver yet, so you're probably best to spend $20 on a OSS driver. Matt >From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [expert] VIA Technologies VT82C686_5 Sound Card Problems >Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:48:36 -0500 > >Has

Re: [expert] Using X-Win32 to get KDE on Windows

2000-03-03 Thread M Thompson
Checkout the following URL: http://users.nf/linux/win9x.htm I don't have a LAN, but I would love to try the above URL. Enjoy, Matt >From: "Matt Fuerst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [expert] Using X-Win32 to get KDE on Windows >Date: Thu, 2

Re: [expert] install freeze problem

2000-03-03 Thread M Thompson
Just a thought...you could try the following procedure that I used for my Promise Ultra66 card. The following procedure may allow MDK to see your PCI fasttrak device and allow the installatiion to proceed. I can't make any guarantees. I'm using MDK 7.0-2 and a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller

[expert] Changing case or extensions

2000-03-03 Thread Gary Bunker
I used to know how to do this, but now my brain is full. How can I change the case, or extension of a lot of files at once. For example, I have a directory of BMPs that a friend sent from his digital camera (yeah, I know, bad format, but it's not me). I want to make them all bmp instead of BMP

RE: [expert] gcc not working properly

2000-03-03 Thread Andrew Vick
It was my experience that there are a lot of C files not installed by default, namely all the standard header files. This surprised me. If you install the kernel source, they will be installed. This has been my experience. -Andrew Vick >= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = >C

[expert] SCSI-Boot fom CD = no

2000-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi, My system: EIDE: hd on IDE 0: IBM hd with lilo in mbr and root partition on /hda2 SCSI: Dawicontrol host Plextor SCSI cdrom Plextor SCSI cd-writer The host is recognized at bootup. It has a BIOS. I can get into setup with DEL and there I activated: Bootable, Boot-Device has SCSI ID 3 (wh

Re: [expert] LAN/Internet

2000-03-03 Thread ron peake
Hi Check your netmask first the 255.255.255.0 type number. Ron Forness Johan Håkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello all ... > > I have a problem getting my box to send packets OUT of the NIC (Network > Interface Card). > I can ping 127.0.0.1 (localhost) but not any other IP's on the network

Re: [expert] Using X-Win32 to get KDE on Windows

2000-03-03 Thread Marcos Dione
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Matt Fuerst wrote: > namely MI/X) but I cannot figure how to run KDE itself. Any luck? I am > looking for what options to set in X-Win32 and what to type in Linux. maybe calling the "startkde" script... -- Inprise/Borland CEO Dale Fuller was even more generous: "Mi

Re: [expert] VIA Technologies VT82C686_5 Sound Card Problems

2000-03-03 Thread Kenneth G. Kay
I've had the same problem. OSS has a driver that works for this card for about $20. Ken On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Hoyt wrote: > Has anyone gotten the VIA Technologies VT82C686_5 sound card working in Linux (mine >works fine in MS Windows)? > > Sndconfig detects it as a VIA but tri

RE: [expert] LAN/Internet

2000-03-03 Thread Thomas . Lofstedt
Sorry about this, better check where I'm sending mail in the future... cheers /Thomas -Original Message- From: Thomas Løfstedt Sent: 3. mars 2000 12:51 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] LAN/Internet hehe, denna fikk jeg i to eksemplarer... et ble kopiert til johan folder

RE: [expert] LAN/Internet

2000-03-03 Thread Thomas . Lofstedt
hehe, denna fikk jeg i to eksemplarer... et ble kopiert til johan folderen min, og et ble lagt i mandrake expert... ;) -Original Message- From: Forness Johan Håkan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 3. mars 2000 10:12 To: 'Mandrake expert' Subject: [expert] LAN/Internet Hello all ... I h

RE: Re[2]: [expert] #Linux-Mandrake IRC Channel

2000-03-03 Thread Thomas . Lofstedt
Hi, depends if you want to run it as a single server on a independent ircnet, or if you want to run it as a server connected to a larger net, like undernet. If independent, you might not need more than ISDN. If you want to connect to ie Undernet, then you need at least T3 You should run it as a

[expert] LAN/Internet

2000-03-03 Thread Forness Johan Håkan
Hello all ... I have a problem getting my box to send packets OUT of the NIC (Network Interface Card). I can ping 127.0.0.1 (localhost) but not any other IP's on the network, nor default gateway. I can't reach the box from another box on the lan either. Thanks for any help /one

Re: [expert] Network printing question.

2000-03-03 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:28:13PM -0500, Nyarlathotep wrote: > Any ideas? Try increasing the debug level setting on the printer server and see if you get any useful error messages in the logfile. - rick -- Richard Kilgore | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Developer

RE: [expert] Using X-Win32 to get KDE on Windows

2000-03-03 Thread erskine, michael
>-Original Message- >From: Matt Fuerst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 03 March 2000 01:28 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [expert] Using X-Win32 to get KDE on Windows > > >Hi all, > >I am trying to connect to my Linux box from my Win98 machine. >Basically, I >have a fresh install of L