[expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
Has anyone had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on a machine with semi-low memory? I've got a Toshiba 435 CDS with 48M (the max) and Mandrake complains that that is not enough to create its install ramdisk. That seems a little odd to me since 48M for an install should be plenty. Also, RedHat 7.1 installs fine on the same machine. Finally, I just installed Mandrake 8 on another laptop with 48M and it worked fine. Is there any way to tell Mandrake in the install to simply go ahead and let me take my chances? What would be different between the two laptops with the same amount of memory? TIA David
RE: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
No, the FTP install didn't want to work either. I'm trying a standard CDROM install David -Original Message- From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine Are you trying to do an FTP install? David Joham wrote: Has anyone had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on a machine with semi-low memory? I've got a Toshiba 435 CDS with 48M (the max) and Mandrake complains that that is not enough to create its install ramdisk. That seems a little odd to me since 48M for an install should be plenty. Also, RedHat 7.1 installs fine on the same machine. Finally, I just installed Mandrake 8 on another laptop with 48M and it worked fine. Is there any way to tell Mandrake in the install to simply go ahead and let me take my chances? What would be different between the two laptops with the same amount of memory? TIA David
Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
Interesting. I ran into the RAM problem only attempting to do an FTP install. At work, I've set up a 32MB box to act as a newsletter server. While it's running 7.2 now due to 8.0's lack of the Sympa package (nobody say anything about the Contribs package, I already tried that), I did install 8.0 on it originally from a CD-ROM without any problems. The only thing it asked was that I let it format and begin using the swap partition immediately instead of after the install was done. David Joham wrote: No, the FTP install didn't want to work either. I'm trying a standard CDROM install David -Original Message- From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine Are you trying to do an FTP install? David Joham wrote: Has anyone had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on a machine with semi-low memory? I've got a Toshiba 435 CDS with 48M (the max) and Mandrake complains that that is not enough to create its install ramdisk. That seems a little odd to me since 48M for an install should be plenty. Also, RedHat 7.1 installs fine on the same machine. Finally, I just installed Mandrake 8 on another laptop with 48M and it worked fine. Is there any way to tell Mandrake in the install to simply go ahead and let me take my chances? What would be different between the two laptops with the same amount of memory? TIA David
RE: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
Did you do anything special to have it ask you to format immediately? I have to use the boot disk and then choose F1 and then expert or text. It loads the kernel, finds the CDROM and then goes into second stage install At that point it dies. Going to tty4 (I think) to see the install log shows that it found 48 Meg (correct) and that it isn't enough for the ramdisk. It then shuts down with nothing else I can do. Thanks for your help... David -Original Message- From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:14 PM To: David Joham Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine Interesting. I ran into the RAM problem only attempting to do an FTP install. At work, I've set up a 32MB box to act as a newsletter server. While it's running 7.2 now due to 8.0's lack of the Sympa package (nobody say anything about the Contribs package, I already tried that), I did install 8.0 on it originally from a CD-ROM without any problems. The only thing it asked was that I let it format and begin using the swap partition immediately instead of after the install was done. David Joham wrote: No, the FTP install didn't want to work either. I'm trying a standard CDROM install David -Original Message- From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine Are you trying to do an FTP install? David Joham wrote: Has anyone had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on a machine with semi-low memory? I've got a Toshiba 435 CDS with 48M (the max) and Mandrake complains that that is not enough to create its install ramdisk. That seems a little odd to me since 48M for an install should be plenty. Also, RedHat 7.1 installs fine on the same machine. Finally, I just installed Mandrake 8 on another laptop with 48M and it worked fine. Is there any way to tell Mandrake in the install to simply go ahead and let me take my chances? What would be different between the two laptops with the same amount of memory? TIA David
Re: [expert] Show status of adsl connect
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:56:18AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Got adsl yesterday and managed the setup. though not using draknet. I tried draknet first but it did not work. Then I ran adsl-setup and added a defaultroute in adsl-start. Now it works like a charm. Problem is, 11 (my provider) cuts the link after 15 minutes of inactivity and after 14 hours of continous running. 1. I put up a cronjob which sends 1 ping tom my own domain every 14 minutes. I'm using rp-pppoe 3.1 (and even with 3.0), and my connexion is automatically restarted when rp-pppoe detect that it's not online (the french provider cuts the line everey 23h50, I think). 2. It's no prob for me to restart every 24 hours. It would be nice, if this happened automagically but 3. My actual Q: Is there a little icon or sign to put on the KDE panel which shows the status of the connection? Today I saw Linux on a PPC and there was this small connection symbol which got unconnected when the internet connection broke. Is there such a thing? wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html -- Laurent CREPET -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://megrapet.free.fr/
Fwd: Re: [expert] FONTS im getting tired of this
El Sáb 07 Jul 2001 18:27, escribiste: On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:49:22 +0200 Maxim Heijndijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you should just comment out the lines containing Type1 fonts. It worked for Netscape, which also had unreadable fonts. I tried that. And I did restart X and xfs. I don't have any abisuite lines in /etc/X11/fs/config. It has made no difference - Abiword is still almost unreadable. Netscape fonts have always looked OK on my system. I guess I'll have to dump Abiword and try something else. Thanks, Bob If you need Abiword, try downloading and installing abiword from www.abisource.com Salu2, Oscar. ---
Re: [expert] Strange problem with CD-RW...
* Stardate: 2001-07-04 21:22 * Incoming subspace signal from Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Can someone help me with a strange problem with reading CD's in my CDRW? My system is MDK 7.2 with kernel upgraded to 2.4.4. I have a DVD reader which is /dev/hdc and an HP CD writer as /dev/hdd (eg slave device on the second IDE interface). Because it is a CD writer, I have configured SCSI emulation for it, and on my command line when booting I use the option hdd=ide-scsi for that purpose. I have an appropriate scsi device called /dev/scd0, and also have a link /dev/cdrom2 - /dev/scd0. On my system it is /dev/cdrom2 - /dev/sr1 -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
Re: [expert] disk activity renders machine unusable, forces manual reboot
FWIW, I have tentatively fingered ntpd as the culprit. At least, since turning off ntpd I have not seen a recurrence of this problem. Doc Evans - On 4 Jul 01, at 18:40, D. R. Evans wrote: Running LM 7.2 on a stock 700 MHz Athlon. Everything was working fine until sometime in the past day or two something got changed such that I now see the following behaviour: Sometimes when the clock ticks across an hour boundary, the disk light comes on and stays on. The machine is so busy that the only thing I can do is to power it down. This happened yesterday at 2300Z and today at 2400Z. Is there anything I can do that will let me log what process might be causing this, so that after the enforced manual reboot I can figure out which process is the culprit? I have made a lot of changes to user programs in the past day or so, although I would like to think that Linux would ensure that if the problem was a regular user program, I would still be able to get enough time to log in and run a ps to look to see what's happening. I also added ntpd (the 4.0 latest release from ntp.org), which seems very suspicious to me -- but it's pretty hard to believe that anything problem this major could be lurking in such well-tested code; especially since I'm not doing anything fancy in the config file. Doc Evans -- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax:+1 781 240 0527 -- -- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax:+1 781 240 0527 --
Re: [expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2.
On Sunday 08 July 2001 13:17, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: I used to be able to mount my ext2 partitions from Windows. The past half year I tried reiserfs, which gave me problems, so I'm back to ext2 again. However, I cannot mount my ext2 partitions from Windoze anymore. This is the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda : Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 196 1574338+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 197 784 4723110 85 Linux extended /dev/hda5 197 392 1574338+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 393 405104391 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 406 758 2835441 83 Linux /dev/hda8 759 784208813+ 83 Linux It seems that the Mandrake-8.0 Installer (diskdrake) created an extended partition on hda2. Shouldnt that be hda5 ? I thought hda1-4 could only be primary partitions. Is there a way to change this without losing my data ? Whoa! Here is how it works The first sector on the disk has some OS pointers and then at byte 446 starts the partition table. There are 4 16-byte entries and then two signature bytes at 510 and 511. If there are to be any extended partitions, one of those entries has to point to the first sector of the extended partition.--this is like hda2. Now in the first sector of partition 2, there are two entries. One points to the beginning of hda5(physical data), and the other to the next extended partition, (hda6), where the process is repeated int the first sector of that partition and so on... One of the flaws of 7.2 is that if you make an extended partition with no physical partitions inside, diskdrake will say your partition table is invalid and offer you a blank one--that's because the first sector of the extended partition contains formatting characters or random data. We have closed that hole in 8.0 Diskdrake now complains but then recovers the table. explore2fs or similar programs should be able to see your linux partitions, if you have the latest versions that support sparse superblocks. Civileme
[expert] strange network/firewall problem
I have Mandrake 8.0 installed. I set up a firewall with InteractiveBastille and have been using this setup for several weeks without problem. Last weekend, my cable Internet provider had problems with their DHCP server. Since they got their system back up and running I have been having a strange problem with my Mandrake system. It is a home machine so I power it down at night. When I start the machine the first time of the day however I can not get out on the Internet. I checked to make sure that the Ethernet interfaces are up and that the external interface has an IP address via DHCP from the cable service provider. The 'Activity' light on the cable modem lights up and it looks like something is happening but no services can be reached. Now, if I execute 'service bastille-firewall stop' followed by 'service bastille-firewall start', everything will start working. I have not made any changes to my firewall setup and this behavior did not start until after the cable company had their DHCP failure. What is really strange though is that if I power off the machine and then power it back on a few minutes later, everything works fine. I do not have to stop and start the firewall. I am thinking there is probably something funny going on with the DHCP lease from one day to the next but I am not sure how to pinpoint this. If this is the problem then is there a way to fix it on my end or what do I need to tell the cable company so that they can get things working back the way it used to. Thanks in advance. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Sound problems haunt me
I have upgraded to KDE 2.2 beta on my Mandrake 8.0 system. Of course, to do this required that I upgrade a number of other things to meet dependencies. Somewhere in all this I have lost sound. I have an AOpen AK72 mobo with an Athlon 700 and builtin AC97 via686a sound. It has worked fine in the past with Mandrake 7.1 - 8.0. It was working recently as well when I was running KDE 2.2 alpha. Now, since upgrading to KDE beta, it no longer works. Incidently, I also have a laptop (IBM Thinkpad) running Mandrake 8.0 (plus KDE 2.2 beta). It has a builtin Ess Solo1 soundsystem which has worked find in the past too - until upgrading to KDE beta. Both these systems show the same error message on starting KDE: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) Huh? Has something changed drastically recently from the way sound is handled in KDE 2.2 alpha and KDE 2.2 beta? My kernel and its drivers appear not to matter at all - upgrading to KDE beta (and perhaps its attendent rpm dependencies - all billion of them) screws up sound. Has anyone else run into this? If so, have you fixed it? There still is a /dev/dsp on my system, it hasn't changed.
Re: [expert] Grub
On Sunday 08 July 2001 02:11 pm, Ozz methodically organized electrons to state: Hi Guys. How do I add another kernel boot option to grub? Edit /boor/grub/menu.lst and add a new stanza for the kernel you want to boot. Hoyt
Re: [expert] Grub
On Sunday 08 July 2001 14:47, Hoyt wrote: Edit /boor/grub/menu.lst and add a new stanza for the kernel you want to boot. I finally found it - for some reason, /boot is NOT the true boot partition here. I manually mounted /dev/hda5 as /mnt/boot, and there, finally, was menu.lst. Here is my drive layout (from fdisk): == Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 220143640 84 OS/2 hidden C: drive /dev/hda221 839 6191640 85 Linux extended /dev/hda52122 15088+ 83 Linux /dev/hda62349204088+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda750 839 5972368+ 83 Linux == hda1 is the suspend partition on the laptop. hda5 is mounted as /boot hda7 is mounted as / However, whilst I have a kernel and initrd.img for 2.2.17, I lonly have a kernel for 2.4.3 - no initrd.img. Will it hurt to use the 2.2.17 initrd.img when I boot the 2.4.3 kernel? Regards, Ozz.
Re: [expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2.
An extended partition _is_ a primary partition. The partition numbers from 5 and up refer to partitions _within_ the extended partition. There can be only four primary partitions -- all or none of which may be extended partitions. Non-extended primary patrons can have no partitions within them, so if there are four non-extended primary partitions, then there can be no more than four partitions total. Unlike Micro$oft OSs, Linux can boot from an extended partition, so all primary partitions could be extended partitions if you had no need for a Micro$oft OS. All that said, there are two kinds of extended patrons recognized by Linux fdisk and friends -- DOS extended (type 5), and Linux extended (type 85). Micro$oft OSs do not recognize type 85 (nor do Partition Magic and Boot Magic), so that explains why Windoze cannot see your ext2 partitions. If you change the type 85 partition to type 5, both Micro$oft OSs and Linux will be able to see the ext2 partitions within the extended partition. - Original Message - From: Maxim Heijndijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 08, 2001 8:17 AM Subject: [expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2. I used to be able to mount my ext2 partitions from Windows. The past half year I tried reiserfs, which gave me problems, so I'm back to ext2 again. However, I cannot mount my ext2 partitions from Windoze anymore. This is the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda : Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 196 1574338+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 197 784 4723110 85 Linux extended /dev/hda5 197 392 1574338+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 393 405104391 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 406 758 2835441 83 Linux /dev/hda8 759 784208813+ 83 Linux It seems that the Mandrake-8.0 Installer (diskdrake) created an extended partition on hda2. Shouldnt that be hda5 ? I thought hda1-4 could only be primary partitions. Is there a way to change this without losing my data ? -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
Re: [expert] Grub
So sprach Ozz am Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 03:31:47PM -0400: kernel for 2.4.3 - no initrd.img. Will it hurt to use the 2.2.17 initrd.img when I boot the 2.4.3 kernel? Yep, it will. Use mkinitrd Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 2 days 3 hours 31 minutes
Re: [expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2.
David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: An extended partition _is_ a primary partition. The partition numbers from 5 and up refer to partitions _within_ the extended partition. the being a keyword . . . There can be only four primary partitions -- all or none of which may be extended partitions. Non-extended primary patrons can have no partitions within them, so if there are four non-extended primary partitions, then there can be no more than four partitions total. Unlike Micro$oft OSs, Linux can boot from an extended True, as can others besides Linux. partition, so all primary partitions could be extended partitions if you had no need for a Micro$oft OS. I don't think this is true. I'm pretty sure that any extended partitions beyond the first will be ignored, assuming you could find a standard partitioning tool to let you create more than one in the first place. FDISK for windoze, Partition Magic, and FDISK for OS/2 certainly won't. I think to get multiple extendeds you'd have to create those beyond #1 with a sector editor or other non-standard partitioning tool, either of which would create a useless space allocation. All that said, there are two kinds of extended patrons recognized by Linux fdisk and friends -- DOS extended (type 5), and Linux extended (type 85). These are only two of three I know of. Micro$oft OSs do not recognize type 85 (nor do Partition Magic and Boot Magic), so that explains why Windoze cannot see your ext2 partitions. It shouldn't explain invisibility of a primary EXT2. His description seemed to indicate that he possibly did once have one. If you change the type 85 partition to type 5, both Micro$oft OSs and Linux will be able to see the ext2 partitions within the extended partition. This depends on windoze version and HD size. If the HD size is 8 Gb and the windoze version is FAT32 capable and at least one non-primary windoze partition is FAT32, then the extended type will probably need to be 0Fh instead of 05h in order for windoze to properly access non-primary partitions. When multiple logical partitions exist on a 8 Gb HD, usually windoze SCANDISK will not run properly to completion, and windoze may assign a phantom drive a letter and misassign a letter to an existing partition. Enabling large drive support in windoze causes windoze FDISK to assign type 0Fh to the extended partition. -- For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.Ecclesiates 2:8 NIV Team OS/2 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
Re: [expert] Show status of adsl connect
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 03:40 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Wolfgang Bornath am Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:56:18AM +0200: internet connection broke. Is there such a thing? Forgot a thing: In the new pppoe package in Cooker (and on the roaring penguin site), there's a rp-pppoe-gui TK program. With this, you can see if your online and also stop/start connections Nice idea, thank you. D'led rp-pppoe-3.1-2mdk.586.rpm and rp-pppoe-gui-3.1-2mdk.586.rpm Installed them without error message. Started tkpppoe as root and filled in the appropriate data (took them from the backed up files of the before running version. Started the connection... The 2 small led fields are supposed to change to red, don't they? Well, they stayed grey and after timeout I got: Error starting connection. Child process exited abnormally. Which child process? It doesn't tell. In /var/log/messages I get: pppd[2674]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0 pppd[2674]: Couldn't attach to PPP unit 0:Invalid argument pppd[2674]: Exit. adsl-connect: ADSL connection lost; attempting re-connection. I looked at the script in /usr/bin but did not find any fault. I restarted adsl with the old adsl-start script and it worked ok. Nice gui but not working wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
[expert] Any mutt users?
Hi, I know, in times of kmail et al it is hard to find any old fashioned geeks with text based MUAs ;-) (Met some at LinuxTag in Stuttgart/Germany though). My Q: I set up mutt on a standalone box. So I just compiled it with pop option to gather my mail from my pop account by pressing 'G'. Now that my box is running permanently with ADSL I wanted to change Muttrc so that mutt gathers mail every 13 minutes. Option in Muttrc should be 'set mail_check=15' but it doesn't work. Can anyone point me into the right direction and push? wobo (This mail option is another means to keep up the connection, better than an unproductive ping.) -- Since I know where RMS scratches himself during speeches I'll never shake hands with him again. (Jonas M. Luster, LinuxTag 2001) For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
[expert] Alsa sound and /etc/modules.conf
Could some kind soul who is using alsa sound post the appropriate section of their /etc/modules.conf file? I am trying to get alsasound working on my system but am at a loss as to what to enter into the conf file...right now it is setup for oss (and doesn't work). I realize your actual soundcard will likely differ from mine but I need a template to guide off of. praedor
Re: [expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2.
Thank you, Felix. I stand corrected -- I was going by my (obviously faulty) memory, instead of referring to the primary sources. The key point, though is that Windoze does not recognize the logical partitions within a type 85 partition. I do notice that fdisk version 2.10s does not show a type 1f using the l command. Finally, the admonition from Ecclesiastes is most appropriate, and I'll add one of my own from the same book: And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Ecclesiastes 12:12 KJV - Original Message - From: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David C. Hoos, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 08, 2001 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2. David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: An extended partition _is_ a primary partition. The partition numbers from 5 and up refer to partitions _within_ the extended partition. the being a keyword . . . There can be only four primary partitions -- all or none of which may be extended partitions. Non-extended primary patrons can have no partitions within them, so if there are four non-extended primary partitions, then there can be no more than four partitions total. Unlike Micro$oft OSs, Linux can boot from an extended True, as can others besides Linux. partition, so all primary partitions could be extended partitions if you had no need for a Micro$oft OS. I don't think this is true. I'm pretty sure that any extended partitions beyond the first will be ignored, assuming you could find a standard partitioning tool to let you create more than one in the first place. FDISK for windoze, Partition Magic, and FDISK for OS/2 certainly won't. I think to get multiple extendeds you'd have to create those beyond #1 with a sector editor or other non-standard partitioning tool, either of which would create a useless space allocation. All that said, there are two kinds of extended patrons recognized by Linux fdisk and friends -- DOS extended (type 5), and Linux extended (type 85). These are only two of three I know of. Micro$oft OSs do not recognize type 85 (nor do Partition Magic and Boot Magic), so that explains why Windoze cannot see your ext2 partitions. It shouldn't explain invisibility of a primary EXT2. His description seemed to indicate that he possibly did once have one. If you change the type 85 partition to type 5, both Micro$oft OSs and Linux will be able to see the ext2 partitions within the extended partition. This depends on windoze version and HD size. If the HD size is 8 Gb and the windoze version is FAT32 capable and at least one non-primary windoze partition is FAT32, then the extended type will probably need to be 0Fh instead of 05h in order for windoze to properly access non-primary partitions. When multiple logical partitions exist on a 8 Gb HD, usually windoze SCANDISK will not run properly to completion, and windoze may assign a phantom drive a letter and misassign a letter to an existing partition. Enabling large drive support in windoze causes windoze FDISK to assign type 0Fh to the extended partition. -- For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.Ecclesiates 2:8 NIV Team OS/2 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
[expert] usb mouse
I have three systems on my desk; one running Windows 2000, one running Mandrake 7.2 and the third is upgraded to 8.0 from 7.2. These systems share a single monitor, Microsoft usb Natural Keyboard Pro, and Microsoft usb intellimouse explorer; using a 4-port IOGear MiniView usb KVM. The Mandrake 8.0 system is based on an MSI i815 motherboard. Here is the problem, before upgrading to 8.0 this was all one big happy family. Now when I use the kvm to switch to one of the other two boxes, and I am in X, the mouse freezes, however if I am in the console (even Ctl-Alt-F1) when I switch back to teh 8.0 system I get 2 messages usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1306 (the frame number varies), I hit enter, and the mouse is back when I Ctl-Alt-F7 back to X. This is plainly a pain, and it worked properly in 7.2. I built a new kernel, compiling in the usb mouse (this is what worked in Mandrake 7.2, which would not use the mouse at all as a module), but to no effect. Does naybody have any ideas? thanks, mg
[expert] Lack of standards
Ya see, this is why it ain't philosophy. MDK 8.0 ships without AKTION!, XMMS-avi and MPlayer, the RPMs available on the web refuse to install for a dozen reason, the packages the require eventually get back to the .configure checking to make sure you are not running gcc 2.96. The tarballs also won't compile using gcc 2.96. Either MDK becomes a black box for the computer illiterate, or starts complying with some standards. Either would work (not for me, I can run Windoze if I want to check my brain at the door), provide the packages, or an environment where thay can be built without an entire weekend devoted to downloading stuff and two more fixing the stuff it broke (and still being without the applications). I chose Linux for control, I feel we are losing it. mg
Re: [expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2.
David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: All that said, there are two kinds of extended patrons recognized by Linux fdisk and friends -- DOS extended (type 5), and Linux extended (type 85). Micro$oft OSs do not recognize type 85 (nor do Partition Magic and Boot Magic), so that explains why Windoze cannot see your ext2 partitions. Not true! Windows happily recognises type 85 - it has to because 85 supports large disks whereas 5 does not. Windows does not recognise Ext2 partitions because of the file system type code for that partition - it has nothing to do with whether the partition is primary or logical. If you change the type 85 partition to type 5, both Micro$oft OSs and Linux will be able to see the ext2 partitions within the extended partition. In general, nonsense for large disks. -- Ron. [au]
Re: [expert] Any mutt users?
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: :)Hi, :) :)I know, in times of kmail et al it is hard to find any old fashioned :)geeks with text based MUAs ;-) (Met some at LinuxTag in Stuttgart/Germany :)though). :) :)My Q: I set up mutt on a standalone box. So I just compiled it with pop :)option to gather my mail from my pop account by pressing 'G'. :)Now that my box is running permanently with ADSL I wanted to change :)Muttrc so that mutt gathers mail every 13 minutes. :)Option in Muttrc should be 'set mail_check=15' but it doesn't work. :)Can anyone point me into the right direction and push? :) :)wobo :)(This mail option is another means to keep up the connection, better than :)an unproductive ping.) :) I use pine. Very versatile. Why not use fetchmail to get your mail? fetchmail --daemon seconds or fetchmail -s seconds will start up the process as a background daemon and check for your mail every time period that you specify. You can also run as nohup fetchmail -d secs -- -=[cwa]=- Linux-Mandrake 8.0
Re: [expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2.
Ron Stodden wrote: Windows happily recognises type 85 - it has to because 85 supports large disks whereas 5 does not. News to me. Before today I never knew Linux used 85 as an extended partition type. PTEDIT.EXE knows nothing of a type 85h. I changed one of mine from 05h to 85h and all FAT16 and FAT32 partitions disappeared from windoze. To windoze 9x, only 05h and 0Fh are valid extended partition types. Windows does not recognise Ext2 partitions because of the file system type code for that partition - it has nothing to do with whether the partition is primary or logical. Not exactly. You can have a perfectly valid windoze partition within a type 85h extended, and the only reason windoze won't see it is because of the wrong extended type. -- For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.Ecclesiates 2:8 NIV Team OS/2 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
[expert] Internal time
I am running MDK 8.0 and every since this upgrade my computer will not keep time. It loses about 3 hrs per day. Not sure if the CMOS battery is running down or what. How can I get my system to automatically keep time with a clock standard on the Internet? TIA Bruce
Re: [expert] Any mutt users?
I also use mutt (not right now obviously) in concert with fetchmail and procmail. Works beautifully. -Charlie - Original Message - From: Christopher W. Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Experts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Any mutt users? On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: :)Hi, :) :)I know, in times of kmail et al it is hard to find any old fashioned :)geeks with text based MUAs ;-) (Met some at LinuxTag in Stuttgart/Germany :)though). :) :)My Q: I set up mutt on a standalone box. So I just compiled it with pop :)option to gather my mail from my pop account by pressing 'G'. :)Now that my box is running permanently with ADSL I wanted to change :)Muttrc so that mutt gathers mail every 13 minutes. :)Option in Muttrc should be 'set mail_check=15' but it doesn't work. :)Can anyone point me into the right direction and push? :) :)wobo :)(This mail option is another means to keep up the connection, better than :)an unproductive ping.) :) I use pine. Very versatile. Why not use fetchmail to get your mail? fetchmail --daemon seconds or fetchmail -s seconds will start up the process as a background daemon and check for your mail every time period that you specify. You can also run as nohup fetchmail -d secs -- -=[cwa]=- Linux-Mandrake 8.0
Re: [expert] Alsa sound and /etc/modules.conf
# ALSA configuration alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias sound snd-card-0 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sbawe alias snd-synth-midi snd-seq-midi options snd-card-sbawe snd_index=0 snd_port=0x220 snd_mpu_port=0x330 snd_irq=5 snd_dma8=1 snd_dma16=5 snd_mic_agc=0 post-install snd-card-sbawe /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 # OSS/Free emulation alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss On Sunday 08 July 2001 04:47 pm, so spoke Praedor Tempus: Could some kind soul who is using alsa sound post the appropriate section of their /etc/modules.conf file? I am trying to get alsasound working on my system but am at a loss as to what to enter into the conf file...right now it is setup for oss (and doesn't work). I realize your actual soundcard will likely differ from mine but I need a template to guide off of. praedor
[expert] Mandrake Freq: Aurora Prevents Boot
I just completed an upgrade from 7.2 to the first release of Mandrake Freq (LMF1? LM8+?) - since 8.0 would never burn right or install correctly here - and I ran into a couple of problems that I thought I would post here. Granted, these items should be (and may already have been) taken to the dev list, but alas I am no developer nor am I up to the amount of mail I traditionally receive on the cooker list. Anyhow, here they are: * After completing the install, my machine hung at the Aurora screen trying to start several services such as anacron and nmb. After trying several possible solutions (disable anacron, boot in non-fb mode, etc.) I started up DrakConf from the machine (displayed on another) and disabled Aurora. The next boot everything went perfectly. * This was true in 7.2 and 8.0 as well, but apparently I'm the only one that has had a problem with it. The install interface prompts the user to enter a hostname in the form host.domain.ext. However, if one does this and is using dhcp the address reported to the dhcp server is host.domain.ext.domain.ext. To fix, one must edit /etc/sysconfig/network and change the hostname and dhcphostname params. The install dialog should be made more clear or this process of parsing the fqd should be reworked. Of course, if I am missing something obvious please someone let me know. thanks! John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
Re: [expert] Sound problems haunt me
Hello, Unfortunately, I cannot even get arts to start, let alone deactivate it. Arts starting is what produces, I believe, the error message about /dev/dsp not being initialized. I have tried building and installing the alsa source included with the 2.4.6 kernel but sound is still toast. I haven't had to manually create a modules.conf for so long but it appears that this is what is going to be required to get it loading - the system keeps trying to install non-functional oss modules. I have never run into the before. On Sunday 08 July 2001 04:11 pm, you wrote: Try deactivating the aRts sound server in KDE Control Center - Sound - Sound Server. Salu2, óscar. El Dom 08 Jul 2001 19:16, escribiste: I have upgraded to KDE 2.2 beta on my Mandrake 8.0 system. Of course, to do this required that I upgrade a number of other things to meet dependencies. Somewhere in all this I have lost sound. I have an AOpen AK72 mobo with an Athlon 700 and builtin AC97 via686a sound. It has worked fine in the past with Mandrake 7.1 - 8.0. It was working recently as well when I was running KDE 2.2 alpha. Now, since upgrading to KDE beta, it no longer works. Incidently, I also have a laptop (IBM Thinkpad) running Mandrake 8.0 (plus KDE 2.2 beta). It has a builtin Ess Solo1 soundsystem which has worked find in the past too - until upgrading to KDE beta. Both these systems show the same error message on starting KDE: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: /dev/dsp can't be opened (Invalid argument) Huh? Has something changed drastically recently from the way sound is handled in KDE 2.2 alpha and KDE 2.2 beta? My kernel and its drivers appear not to matter at all - upgrading to KDE beta (and perhaps its attendent rpm dependencies - all billion of them) screws up sound. Has anyone else run into this? If so, have you fixed it? There still is a /dev/dsp on my system, it hasn't changed.
[expert] Is PHP compiled with MySQL support?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings all, I have been playing with php and apache, got them up and running on my test box at home. But I've run into one problem: I can't seem to access a MySQL database from php. When I run phpinfo(), I see nothing listed in the Additional Modules section, and I also see in the Configure Command section '--without-mysql'. So it appears that MySQL support is not compiled into the Mandrake 7.2 php package. Can anyone confirm or deny this, before I compile my own php module from source? I don't mind doing it, but if I don't need to, then why bother? Dave - -- ...[W]e preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Cor 1:23-24) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7SSYf6s7ySS1XETQRAlo1AKCshygTPaQKb+dfQ61AOaJVMY2jgACgnkcM xwIfgsKv9iF8cJQY2GSo6qc= =oZ2A -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[expert] Multiple problems with kde2.2-beta1 (and kernel-2.4.6-1mdk)
Just to give warning, KDE2.2-alpha is more robust than the latest beta. It would appear to be a good idea to stick with alpha and NOT upgrade to the current beta. Problems: 1. Sound is broken. Installing kde 2.2 beta and the concurrent arts and libarts breaks sound in kde. It dorks something up with initializing /dev/dsp. This is true for me upon installing kde2.2 beta on two different machines with different sound systems. 2. Several personal settings do not take. I have found that every time I log in, I have to reactivate antialiasing of fonts in kcontrol and I must reset my mouse acceleration. As for kernel-2.4.6, it doesn't appear to support supermount. I am not offered the option of activating supermount support in xconfig, menu, or menuconfig when compiling it. Also, building and installing the alsa drivers fails to properly setup you modules.conf (I never had this problem before building and installing 2.4.6-1mdk). This may or may not be related to the arts problem and /dev/dsp. praedor
[expert] re: multiple problems with kde 2.2 beta 1
hi i have installed kde 2.2 beta 1, its rock solid on my other mandrake 8.0, i have no problems at all, sound is really working well, and noatun and arts seem to work pertty well, except for the bloat for ths beta release for kdebase to squash all the buggies thats why kdebase almost 39 mb, i would recommend that we try kde 2.2 beta 1 and report all the problems throught http://bugs.kde.org or the bug reporter from each of the application would be of great help :-) i have installed it about 2-3 times on different machines not a single problem other than the slow startup after login, hope that is fixed by the linker stuff :-) for the final release and kde base will be smaller than 39 mb for the final release check your .kde/share/apps/kcontrol check your mouse and antialiasing settings there i guess super mount doesnt work :-( even thought supermount is enabled in kde 2.2 beta 1, worked well with kde 2.2 alpha2, i had tried copying some files to /mnt/floppy and found that it didnt copy to the floppy instead it copied to /mnt/floppy directory :-(, i am using the default kernel on makdeake 8.0 i installed my kde 2.2 beta 1 on top of kde 2.2alpha2 release other than the slow startup and launching applications looks pertty good to me :-) ohh and the new kpersonalizer is kool :-) my 2cents worth syed irfan snip Just to give warning, KDE2.2-alpha is more robust than the latest beta. It would appear to be a good idea to stick with alpha and NOT upgrade to the current beta. Problems: 1. Sound is broken. Installing kde 2.2 beta and the concurrent arts and libarts breaks sound in kde. It dorks something up with initializing /dev/dsp. This is true for me upon installing kde2.2 beta on two different machines with different sound systems. 2. Several personal settings do not take. I have found that every time I log in, I have to reactivate antialiasing of fonts in kcontrol and I must reset my mouse acceleration. As for kernel-2.4.6, it doesn't appear to support supermount. I am not offered the option of activating supermount support in xconfig, menu, or menuconfig when compiling it. Also, building and installing the alsa drivers fails to properly setup you modules.conf (I never had this problem before building and installing 2.4.6-1mdk). This may or may not be related to the arts problem and /dev/dsp. praedor _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2.
Felix Miata wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: Windows happily recognises type 85 - it has to because 85 supports large disks whereas 5 does not. News to me. Before today I never knew Linux used 85 as an extended partition type. PTEDIT.EXE knows nothing of a type 85h. I changed one of mine from 05h to 85h and all FAT16 and FAT32 partitions disappeared from windoze. To windoze 9x, only 05h and 0Fh are valid extended partition types. My apologies. I was referring to the code for 'Extd (LBA)' which is 0F, not 85. -- Ron. [au]
Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
Are you trying to do an FTP install? David Joham wrote: Has anyone had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on a machine with semi-low memory? I've got a Toshiba 435 CDS with 48M (the max) and Mandrake complains that that is not enough to create its install ramdisk. That seems a little odd to me since 48M for an install should be plenty. Also, RedHat 7.1 installs fine on the same machine. Finally, I just installed Mandrake 8 on another laptop with 48M and it worked fine. Is there any way to tell Mandrake in the install to simply go ahead and let me take my chances? What would be different between the two laptops with the same amount of memory? TIA David
[expert] making shell script excutable.........
well i finally wrote my first shell script ... now i want to make it excutable ... i dont want to run it as ./filename i tried to make it excutable with the following command chmod a+x ./filename is it ok ? if yes then why is it not working thanks Faisal __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[expert] LDAP
Hello Everyone, I'm starting to work with LDAP (2.07Mdk RPM w/ 8.0). When ever I try and add the the contents on my ldif to the database, I get the following error: ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: No such attribute Has anyone come across the problem? If so, how did you resolve it? Thanks in advance, Cecil
Re: [expert] making shell script excutable.........
On Monday 09 July 2001 00:45, faisal gillani wrote: well i finally wrote my first shell script ... now i want to make it excutable ... i dont want to run it as ./filename i tried to make it excutable with the following command chmod a+x ./filename This would make it executable, is it readable by the group who will be executing it? is it ok ? if yes then why is it not working I guess you mean it is working when you execute it from the directory where it resides. That you currently have to enter the dot slash. That is because the system variable $PATH does not have the parent directory in it, either explicitly declared or as a relative '.' (a dot = current working directory CWD) The system does not know where to look for the executable, it tries to find it in the paths, but to no avail. Typing ./program tells the system where it is relative to the CWD. Dave. thanks Faisal __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
No. I just used the floppy image cdrom.img. Sorry for the double response (yet again), but the reply-to still doesn't get set on the Mandrake Expert list. (Apparently not all experts are as lazy or inattentive to their addressees as I am.) David Joham wrote: Did you do anything special to have it ask you to format immediately? I have to use the boot disk and then choose F1 and then expert or text. It loads the kernel, finds the CDROM and then goes into second stage install At that point it dies. Going to tty4 (I think) to see the install log shows that it found 48 Meg (correct) and that it isn't enough for the ramdisk. It then shuts down with nothing else I can do. Thanks for your help... David -Original Message- From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:14 PM To: David Joham Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine Interesting. I ran into the RAM problem only attempting to do an FTP install. At work, I've set up a 32MB box to act as a newsletter server. While it's running 7.2 now due to 8.0's lack of the Sympa package (nobody say anything about the Contribs package, I already tried that), I did install 8.0 on it originally from a CD-ROM without any problems. The only thing it asked was that I let it format and begin using the swap partition immediately instead of after the install was done. David Joham wrote: No, the FTP install didn't want to work either. I'm trying a standard CDROM install David -Original Message- From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine Are you trying to do an FTP install? David Joham wrote: Has anyone had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on a machine with semi-low memory? I've got a Toshiba 435 CDS with 48M (the max) and Mandrake complains that that is not enough to create its install ramdisk. That seems a little odd to me since 48M for an install should be plenty. Also, RedHat 7.1 installs fine on the same machine. Finally, I just installed Mandrake 8 on another laptop with 48M and it worked fine. Is there any way to tell Mandrake in the install to simply go ahead and let me take my chances? What would be different between the two laptops with the same amount of memory? TIA David
[expert] Installer creates extended partition on hda2.
I used to be able to mount my ext2 partitions from Windows. The past half year I tried reiserfs, which gave me problems, so I'm back to ext2 again. However, I cannot mount my ext2 partitions from Windoze anymore. This is the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda : Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 196 1574338+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 197 784 4723110 85 Linux extended /dev/hda5 197 392 1574338+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 393 405104391 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 406 758 2835441 83 Linux /dev/hda8 759 784208813+ 83 Linux It seems that the Mandrake-8.0 Installer (diskdrake) created an extended partition on hda2. Shouldnt that be hda5 ? I thought hda1-4 could only be primary partitions. Is there a way to change this without losing my data ? -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
