Re: [expert] Ultra 66 support
Download version 7.1. It works great with my Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card. Enjoy, Matt From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Ultra 66 support Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 12:50:17 -0500 Just a quick question about Ultra 66 support with the new version.I have 7.0 what exacly do I need to download to get the Ultra 66 support. Is it just header files or do I need to download the new kernel? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [expert] Creating PDF Dcouments
I not aware of one, but I've been following a Windows Freeware application that does the job... http://over.to/freepdf/ From: "Sridhar G" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Expert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Creating PDF Dcouments Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 00:02:11 -0700 Hi, How to create PDF documents in Linux. Are there any PDF document creation utilities? Cheers Sridhar Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Multiple Distros on One Harddrive
Seve, I agree with Henrik about the root and home partitions. I also have a small /boot partition for each distro. The older version of LILO couldn't boot above the 1024th cylinder, so it was necessary for me to install LILO into a small (20Mb) /boot partition that resided below the 1024th cylinder. I had a small /boot partitions for each of my varios Linux distros. I then setup a boot manager to give me the option to boot any of the installed OSes when the PC was booting. The current versions of LILO and GRUB support booting above the 1024th cylinder, so you will no longer need to create a /boot partition that resides below the 1024th cylinder. I suggest using one of the following boot managers so that you can chose from among the various installed OSes: a) LILO - text based and FREE b) GRUB - text based and FREE c) XOSL - graphical and FREE (www.xosl.org) --it's very nice-- d) BootMagic - graphical but costs money (www.powerquest.com) Hope that helps, Matt My installed OSes include: 1) Windows NT4 w/ SP6a 2) Windows 95 OSR2 3) Caldera eDesktop 2.4 4) Linux Mandrake 7.1 5) RedHat 6.1 From: Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Distros on One Harddrive Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 01:12:14 +0200 (CEST) On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I would like to be able to 'try' a distro while not affecting my original. For those of you that are running a system that has at least two Linuxes on one drive... What's your method for achieving this? Have one / (root) partition for every distribution. Have one /home (home) partition that all distributions share. -- Henrik Edlund http://www.edlund.org/ "Nothing happens in contradiciton to nature, only in contradiction to what we know of it." -- Special Agent Dana Katherine Scully, "The X-Files" Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Promise66
Unikh, Did you not receive an invitation to the wedding. On June 1, 2000, Promise and Mandrake tied the knot... All kidding aside, Mandrake 7.1 supports the Promise Ultra66 card straight out of the box. I am running the PCI Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card, and it was a piece of cake to install Mandrake 7.1 onto a hard drive connected to the Promise Ultra66 controller. Hope that helps, Matt From: Unikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Unikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Promise66 Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 05:44:00 + Hi All, Does anybody run Promise66 card (ATA-66) with mandrake 7.1? If so, did you have to push it or it worked out of the box? I managed to install Caldera's eDesktop 2.4 with it, but it took me a while. TIA -- Best regards, Unikh __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: information about iso..
Vincent, What troubles? What problems? If you tell a doctor that you are sick, he *CANNOT* cure you. If you tell a doctor that you have a weezy cough, a very scratchy sore throat, and a temperature of 101 degrees, he *CAN* then write a prescription. You have told us that "your friend has trouble downloading and installing Mandrake," but we need to know the symptoms before we can make any recommendations! Matt From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Fwd: information about iso.. Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:04:29 -0600 A friend of mine who usually uses SuSE had some troubles with downloading an ISO and trying to install 7.1. By the date of the ISO, I would guess he got a beta ISO? Anyone have some wisdom I can send to him to get him to get it to install properly? I haven't run into this problem myself so I'm kinda useless at the moment. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org Current Linux uptime: 3 days 6 hrs and 06 mins. message3.txt Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] UDMA66 Mandrake 7.1. . .
If your system has a UDMA66 controller, MDK 7.1 will automatically install the necessary drivers to access the devices attached to the UDMA66 controller. It is more about support of the controller than about support of the hard drives. HTH, Matt From: Norvell Spearman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] UDMA66 Mandrake 7.1. . . Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 21:02:46 -0500 Linux-Mandrake 7.1 has UDMA66 support ``out of the box,'' right? Is there a way to disable it or make 7.1 use only UDMA33 for all IDE devices? I'm pretty sure I have no UDMA66 drives. Thanks for any help with this. . . ---Norvell Spearman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] adding user groups
Are you using LinuxConf to make these changes? Matt From: "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] adding user groups Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:13:24 -0400 Currently running latest version of Mandrake and am trying to add groups to selected users so that I can then give seleted users access to restricted directories. As root using KDE's user function (add, edit, delete) I select a user, tag the group tab and add the desired group. when I exit it prompts me to save changes, I agree but no go. users groups will remain the same. Anyone got any clues.? TIA Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] adding user groups
Try using LinuxConf and let me know what happens. Hope that works, Matt From: "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] adding user groups Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:47:28 -0400 M Thompson wrote: Are you using LinuxConf to make these changes? Matt From: "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently running latest version of Mandrake and am trying to add groups to selected users so that I can then give seleted users access to restricted directories. As root using KDE's user function (add, edit, delete) I select a user, tag the group tab and add the desired group. when I exit it prompts me to save changes, I agree but no go. users groups will remain the same. Anyone got any clues.? TIA Joseph S. Gardner Matt, Nope, (don't think so) using the graphical that is available under the "K"="configure"="other"=user admin" (I think) -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Promise ATA-66
I started installing MDK 7.1 last night and *YES* it does support the PCI Promise Ultra66 PCI controller card!! In case you can't tell, I'm very excited that I didn't have to feed the I/O numbers to the kernel in order to make it see the Ultra66 card. ...After getting to 98% completion, I decided to say yes to the XFree86 4.0, then my PC locked up. Matt From: "Cecil Watson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Promise ATA-66 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:35:45 +0100 Is the Promise ATA-66 supported in 7.1? Thanks in advance, Cecil Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] $5.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version)
I couldn't agree more. The people on this list have been absolutely *wonderful* to me through my growing pains since MDK 6.1 (and my PCI Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card)! I'm simply trying to repay the favor. Cheers, Matt From: Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] $5.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:52:19 +0200 (CEST) Well, you are free to do it - and do not worry about getting rich this way: cheapbytes do it too, so you will never really be able to sell many of these... chears Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] $5.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version)
As a convenience to this list, I will burn MDK 7.1 onto two CD's at a cost of $5.50 for my time, my CD-R media, and shipping costs. If interested, just send me an E-mail requesting my mailing address. I'm not trying to make a fortune or get rich. It seems like a waste to download the iso images and just burn the 2-CD set for myself. I hope this will save someone some time and expense, Matt Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?
I suggest downloading the two iso image files and then burning them to the CD-R's. You will then have two CD's and you will be able to supply CD2 when you are prompted to do so. Just a thought, Matt From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Helios-Exp [EMAIL PROTECTED], newbie@linux-mandrake Subject: [expert] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How? Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 01:24:48 -0500 Dear friends: Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there is a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me (and probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of the categories (except for the extra "Documentation" category) for a total of 2.2 Gig or 764 packages. Each time (once from rpmfind a few days ago and today from metalab.unc.edu), I got precisely the same results: the download pauses on the file "kpppload", with nearly exactly half of the packages still waiting to be downloaded, and suddenly moves on to the next stage of install, namely, "Installing packages," "select your time zone,", "configure your printer," etc. etc. until you get the ironic message : Mandrake 7.1 successfully installed (which it most certainly is NOT, as you find out if you try to use it). Earlier tonight, a kind list member explained this mystery to us: the first CD stops precisely here at "kpppload" and asks you to insert the second CD. Well, that's fine and dandy if you have the CD's (I am still waiting for mine from LinuxLand). But what do you do if you are trying to download and install MDK 7.1 by FTP? I tried to download a minimal version (700 megs). Same problem. I then tried to download an even more minimal version without KDE, hoping to then return and upgrade and install KDE last. Again, same problem. In fact, it refused to let me install at all without installing KDE (where it once again stopped at precisely kpppload). In desperation, I decided to download Mandrake with KDE ONLY (300 Megs) and then build on that. No dice! Once again, with 3:20 to go and many packages left, it once again stopped at kpppload and proceeded to "finish" the rest of the installation process as if nothing had happened! So, how do the rest of you do it? What' the secret formula, folks? Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Question about the Mandrake 7.1 ISO
There should be two iso image files. One should be the typical size of 650Mb. The other is 351Mb. The names are mandrake71-inst.iso and mandrake71-ext.iso respectively. Hope that helps, Matt From: Rafael Becerra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Question about the Mandrake 7.1 ISO Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 19:16:55 -0500 Why the size of the Mandrake 7.1 ISO image is more small than the size of version 7.0? Thanks Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] ext2 under windows
1) You could use explore2fs to read/write to your linux partition OR 2) Put your downloads on a partition that is accessible to Windoze (FAT16, FAT32, etc.) HTH, Matt From: "Wayne Petherick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] ext2 under windows Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:28:39 +1000 I have not yet been able to shake windows for a few tasks and I was wondering whether you can get any software to read ext2 filesystems under windows. I often DL stuff under Linux, boot into windows and then forget to xfer the stuff over which means a reboot blah blah blah. Any software to handle this task? Thanks, Wayne Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] ATA/66 HPT366 with 7.1
The Mandrake kernel doesn't ship with the IDE patch included. Suse developed the patch but it is still somewhat buggy. The other distros still hesitate to use it. Check out this link: http://linux.nf/stepbystep.htm click on the Ultra66 link. Those links will explain how to install Linux onto a drive that's connected to an ATA66 controller. Hope that helps, Matt From: "Dan Bélisle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ATA/66 HPT366 with 7.1 Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 05:37:27 PDT Hi ! My drive is a Quantum Fireball KX 13.6gig 7200Rpm. My motherboard is a Soyo 6BA +IV with the onboard HPT366 controller. And i say again, he work very well with SUSE 6.4 ! what's wrong ? Thanks again !! Danny. From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ATA/66 HPT366 with 7.1 Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 18:16:59 -0800 "Dan Bélisle" wrote: Hi ! I have downloaded the brand new 7.1 and unfortunately like it predecessor my ATA/66 (HPT366) disk doesn't work !! At the IDE detection at the begining of the installation, the installation is stoped (stone) at this point. So, i have try too the SUSE 6.4 and he work very well !! Why is the problem ? Isn't my first e-mail on that. Thanks everyone ! Danny. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Pentium code tightens timing requirements on the drives themselves and on the chipsets on the motherboards as well. 386 code allows much greater variance from specifications. If your drive is Western Digital or your motherboard is one of several chipsets made to accommodate the WD drive and its weird timing and the fact that it blows off the CRC, then you have a problem with hardware and will be bound by it to distros who use 386 code. That is the difference--Mandrake is pushing the envelope in the direction of rather exact conformance to specifications on the part of the hardware, while compiling to maximize processor performance, and a lot of sloppy hardware has been built assuming the laxity of the 386 code which is used in the dominant desktop system. Now those same folks are saying things like "we don't support linux" when they get tech calls. The "We don't support linux," answer is easy to give, apparently a lot easier than the redesign to build the drive or motherboard right the first time. Civileme Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Partition Table
I was under the impression that you can change a primary partition to an extended partition in order to create voluminous logical partitions within that extended partition. I use PM5, and it looks like this is what PM5 does. Is this correct? I don't claim to be an expert on partitioning, Matt From: Charles Curley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Partition Table Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:34:39 -0600 Since I have inadvertently caused a bit of a flap and some consternation, let's see if I can document how partitioning works on PCs. If anyone can fill in my question marks, or correct me, please do. Any one hard drive on a PC can have up to 63 partitions on it, not all of which can hold file systems. These come in three flavors: primary, extended and logical. This is Microsoft's terminology, so don't expect it to make sense. This scheme grew up, one could say, metastasized, over the years. The culprits include Microsoft, Digital Research and others. As I have just shown, it is confusing even to those who think they know what they are doing. At most one partition with a file system on it may be marked bootable. BIOS, boot loader (e.g. lilo, System Commander) and operating system limitations may prevent a marked partition from booting, however. Primary partitions are numbered from one to four only. Each may hold one and only one file system, of any type. There must be at least one primary partition on a hard drive. Due to limitations of Mess-DOS and Windows 9x, these operating systems are often placed on the first primary partition. Extended partitions may also be numbered from one to four. (I have never seen partition one made an extended partition, and have not done any experiments on the point, so I could be wrong about that.) Extended partitions are containers for logical partitions. As such they do not contain file systems themselves. The sum of primary and extended partitions may not be greater than four. Logical partitions are contained within extended partitions. I conjecture that you can have up to 16 (64 total possible partitions divided by 4 possible extended partitions) logical partitions to an extended partition, but have never tested this. Logical partitions may not overlap with other logical partitions Similarly, extended partitions may not overlap each other, nor may primary partitions overlap each other. Primary and extended partitions may not overlap each other. A logical partition must be wholly contained within one and only one extended partition. So the way to verify a partition table is: * Identify the primary and extended partitions, one through four. Check for overlaps between them. * Identify the logical partitions, 5 through 63 inclusive. Check for overlaps between them. Check that each partition is wholly contained within its extended partition. * Check that one and only one partition is bootable. Check that the boot loader will support that partition. That done, and with the high probability of corrections to come, let's see Laurent's original partition table looks like. Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1299 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 277 2094088+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 278 556 21092405 Extended /dev/hda3 * 557 563 52920 83 Linux /dev/hda4 564 1268 5329800 83 Linux /dev/hda5 278 556 2109208+ 7 HPFS/NTFS hda1 Primary.No overlaps. hda2 Extended. Does not overlap with any primary or extended partitions. hda3 Primary.No overlaps. hda4 Primary.No overlaps. hda5 Logical.Contained entirely within, and fills up entirely HDA2, and does not overlap any other partitions. OK, now that I have done all that, I see the mistake I made earlier. I incorrectly identified hda3 and hda4 as extended partitions when they are in fact primary partitions. My apologies to Laurent, and my thanks -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Partition Table
Norm, I agree. Using PM makes the hard work obsolete. If you don't use a nice partitioning program like PM, then you will have to use Linux fdisk and apply all the rationale previously mentioned in Laurent's E-mail. By all means, use PM if you have it. I haven't seen a more wonderful program. You can even copy the necessary files from the CD on to a diskette. This will save you from installing the files onto a Windows/DOS partition on your HD...it will save you from installing Windows/DOS at all (if you want to avoid the MS OS's). Just my $.02, Matt From: Norman Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Norman Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Partition Table Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:36:14 -0500 (CDT) Laurent: Well, I don't know about others but it sure was enlightening to me. Now I have to make a decision: Fiddle with the partition tables using partition magic to try and set things straight or reinstall the whole thing. I think I'll be going with option B. My swap space is too large and there are some other issues to contend with also. Oh well, that's what this whole thing is about. At least I'm not reinstalling for a stoopid reason. I don't know what your "other issues" are, but if you have access to PM, fixing your problem will require 5min of your time. Just queue up the 4-5 actions you need done and walk away from your machine for a while. Trivial to do. Also, you don't need to devote all of the currently unused space to swap, once you expand the extended partition you can create a swap partition and another linux partition that you can mount and use for some part of your file system. Or you can even expand your fat partition instead. Unless there is something seriously wrong with your linux install, I see no point in spending vastly more time to fix a rather simple problem. Of course, it is your time to do with as you please. However, let me again say that fixing your problem with PM is extremely trivial to do. Norm Carver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] Help-I'm NOT receiving list messages!!!!
I'm not receiving messaging from the Mandrake Expert list. I signed up again yesterday but I'm still not receiving anything. What do I need to do in order to start receiving messages again? Please respond to my personal E-mail account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Matt Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Having USR56K answer in V.90 with mgetty
I'm not trying to sound cynical...but Have you read the manual that came with your modem? My 3COM/USR 56K Courier modem let's me talk to the modem via AT commands using a terminal. I haven't adjusted my modem, so I can't be certain whether there is an option to answer in V.90 by default. HTH, Matt From: "Christopher Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Having USR56K answer in V.90 with mgetty Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:49:45 -0400 Presently I am using a 3com USR56K modem and would like it do answer in V.90. It does answer, but always negotiates a much slower mode ( I never hear the bongs ). Are there some changes I should be making in mgetty's configuration? Thanks! Christopher Cox 3com: What Operating system are you using? Me:Linux 3com: We only support Windows Me:I am not asking you to support the Operating system, just the modem. 3com: We only support Windows Me:So you know nothing about modems or AT commands, just Windows? 3com: I am sorry, we only support our products attached to the Windows operating system. Me:Here I just attached the modem to a Windows machine, why is the modem not answering V.90? 3com: I do not know, maybe its the phone line? Me:Both of these modems connect to each others ISP's V.90 with no problem, sort of rules out the phone lines! HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE WINNING!?!?!?! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Installation Problem
I would lower /home to 3GB and increase / to 2 GB. Just a suggestion, Matt From: Brian Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Installation Problem Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:33:56 +0930 Yes, that's what the message sounded like to me, but it didn't seem likely. I have set it up (on 2 disks) with: 128M / 32Mswap 1.8G /var 5G /home 256M swap 256M /tmp 3.5G /usr That seems to me to allow plenty of space. And it should leave much more than 843k available! Brian. Larry Sword wrote: Brian Schroeder wrote: I have downloaded the Mandrake 7 iso image and copied it onto a CD. I am trying to load it onto a Digital Prioris 2 x 166MHz, but continually get the following error during the install phase: An error occured installation of rpms failed: Installing package needs 843kb on the /mnt filesystem. OK Some packages seem to go in. There is a reasonable amount of disk activity between occurrences of this error (and the "843kb" bit is different each time). What does it mean? And what should I do about it? The install is taking a LONG time. It's an indication of the amount of space on the disk partition that is needed to load the number of programs you have selected. Normally if it need 843kb and you have less then you can de-select some files or packages. Larry PS I had no problem with Mandrake 6.1. Brian. -- -- --- Brian Schroeder | ,-_|\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / \ Origin Energy Resources Ltd |Anyone can hate, \_,-*_/ Adelaide Australia | but it costs to love. v GPO Box 2576 Adelaide 5001 | PH +61 8 8217 5782 | --- __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Floppy Install???
I would suggest borrowing a friend's external CD-ROM. It would be a feat to fit 650Mb onto multiple floppy disks. Matt From: "Sean Armstrong" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mandrake Floppy Install??? Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:14:26 CDT Does anyone know how to do a floppy install with Mandrake 7.0-7.02?? I don't have a cdrom drive on an old notebook that I've been running Debian on. I would like to install Mandrake 7.0-7.02 on it instead using floppies. Is this possible? Thanx, SA __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Kirk, I have my PC setup according to Tom's recommendations and it works great. I created around six of these 16Mb partitions at the beginning of the disk...this way I can always add more Linux distros in the future. Matt From: Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk? Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 08:17:38 -0700 Yes. However, I would recommend only using 4 linux installations of less than 5 gb each. By the time you get done partitioning and formatting, you will not have 20gb, more like 19gb. To take care of the lilo limitation of having all the boot files in the first 1000 cylinders of the disk, make your swap partition first, then one large extended partition with the rest of the disk. Inside the extended partition you can create 4 16mb partitions for /boot which will keep all your boot files at the front of the disk. Then you can divide up whats left into four partitions for the rest of your system (/ files which is everything but /boot) You could do a lot of other variations with partitions, one of which is to create one partition for /home but that means that your login config files will always be the same for each flavor of linux. This is good for some, but if you want to play with different window managers and other stuff like different X servers (accelerated X), then do not try to keep a common /home partition. Also what are the models of each of the disks that you have. Both ide? Tom Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] UMDA66, HPT366
Use a linux boot floppy and type "cat /proc/pci" on a command line. Tell me what resources are being displayed for your UDMA66 controller. Matt From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] UMDA66, HPT366 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:31:37 -0800 1. Can't get to IDE2 or IDE3 System: OS: Mandrake-Linux 7.02 AIR smp Abit BP6 with BIOS QQ Matrox G400 AGP SoundBlaster Lice in PCI-2 PCI -3 is open , I left this open because it shares IRQ with the HPT366 controller. So there could not be any conflicts. PCI-4 NIC PCI -5 NIC I decided to install a new UDMA66 drive on the HPT366 controller at ide2. Okay what am I missing or doing wrong here. From my lilo: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=ext default=linux append="ide2=0xd400,0xd802 ide3=0xe999,0xe402 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" From my message file: Mar 27 08:46:12 sword kernel: ide_setup: ide2=0xd400,0xd802 Mar 27 08:46:12 sword kernel: Mar 27 08:46:12 sword kernel: ide_setup: ide3=0xe999,0xe402 Mar 27 08:46:12 sword kernel: Mar 27 08:46:12 sword kernel: ide_setup: hdc=ide-scs --snip-- Mar 27 08:46:13 sword kernel: hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6502B, ATAPI CDROM drive Mar 27 08:46:13 sword kernel: hdd: CD-R/RW RW7060A, ATAPI CDROM drive Mar 27 08:46:13 sword kernel: hde: Maxtor 54098U8, ATA DISK drive Mar 27 08:46:13 sword kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Mar 27 08:46:13 sword kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Mar 27 08:46:13 sword kernel: ide2: Disabled unable to get IRQ -11. --^ So the big question is, why cant't the kernel get the IRQ -11 and use the drive. *** The HPT366 controllers are liste as IRQ 18 in my /proc/interrupts after booting into Linux. TIA Larry __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Modem ALMOST connects -- SOLUTION!!
Just so newbies don't get overly paranoid about internal modem... I use a 3COM/USR 56K Courier V.Everything internal modem. The modem uses jumpers to override the PnP features. I have never had any problem getting on the internet with Linux Mandrake 6.1 or 7.0. In KPPP --I made sure to chose "PAP" authentication, the proper device (ex: /dev/ttyS1), dropped in the phone number of my ISP and their DNS server IP address. I was on the net. Just my $.02, Matt From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Air-Exp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Modem ALMOST connects -- SOLUTION!! Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 06:12:42 -0600 I use the U. S. Robotics 56k external modem, which, according to our resident gurus, is probably the best modem to use with Linux (at any rate, it must be an external modem. Internal modems cause too many IRQ problems). __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] UDMA 66
Check out the following URL: http://users.nf/linux/ultra66.htm BE sure to check out the "addenda" also. The addenda outlines the specific steps I used to install Linux onto a drive connected to my PCI Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card. I don't have dual processors and I don't know if that complicates matters any. I wish I could be help on that issue. HTH, Matt From: Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] UDMA 66 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:43:26 -0800 I just installed an ibm model 34gxp 20GB hard drive on my dual celeron box using the HPT366 udma 66 controller on my abit bp6 motherboard. After checking the hpt366 setup, I made a stab at installing mandrake 7.0 on it. During the install, man70 says that the udma66 is not completely compatible with linux and would I like to make a boot floppy to install with it. I did that, rebooted with the new install floppy but it was a no joy - system locked during install. The stock 7.0 install would not recognize the presence of the new drive either. Then I booted to the 2.3.51 smp kernel that I have working and it recognized the drive and allowed me to partition and format it. When I attempted to run hdparm on the drive I got the following error: with the -i option I got a dump of the drive data followed by this message: could not allocate sharedmem buf: invalid argument with the -tT options I got the same error message twice. Tried the same thing with my redhat development system booting to a 2.3.99-pre1 kernel and got exactly the same results. Any insights? Tom PS Have to go celebrate the life of my aunt who past away this week. She was over a hundred when she tossed the towel. I'll be back after we've done her justice. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] OT List evolving
PJ, Well Spoken! Best, Matt From: "John Connell"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Pj" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] OT List evolving Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:47:45 +500 I've been on this list long enough to watch the use level of users as well as replies change in the last few months. It is to this issue I want to comment. The reason this list is so very successful is simple: Respect. Most of the old Linux heads.like Civileme and Ramon and Chamouel have been at this for a number of years. They have real jobs and a real life. They have nothing to prove and do not need, or have, to respond to questions they've answered fifty times previously, yet they do and graciously every day since I've been on the list. You say you are frustrated: Answers don't come fast enough; bugs aren't fixed instantly; Java causes Netscape to crash; the install doesn't go well and devices don't work. I wish I had your problems. I'm a newbie too and I am just as determined to escape winblows as anyone else on this list, but my problem is just a little different. An illness left me with a memory loss that is less than enviable. So while some of you are unhappy with the answers you get I'm delighted when I can remember what linuxconf does. When I am actually able to get into root and perform a simple function I am so happy I want to tell the world. Respect is the reason I've gotten this far. The folks who have helped me were just as considerate to me as they have been to you. They took the time to write careful explanations that I could grasp and put into action; and for that I will always be greatful. I urge all of us to temper our frustrations with kindness to each other, for if we do not we will have just one more list that no one can learn from and the old heads will not come to our rescue. You may not need me but I need you. Linux is not easy to learn under optimum condtions without a strong computing background. Let's be patient with our shortcomings and with each other. To those who disagree I ask you to flame me privately. Mandrake rocks and so does this list. I'm willing to work to keep it this way. Please join me. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] PJ, Right On You GO girl!!! John -- http://www.provide.net __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] system commander
You need to create a 20Mb partition that resides below the 1024th cylinder. When installing Linux, mount this small partition as /boot. HTH, Matt From: Lorne Schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] system commander Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:56:11 -0500 text1.html __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] enabling sound
First try running the following at a console: "sndconfig" If that doesn't work, then proceed to try Lothar. There should be a shortcut on your desktop. HTH, Matt From: Lorne Schachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] enabling sound Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:41:26 -0500 text1.html __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] UDMA 4 and Linux-Mandrake 7.0
Checkout the following URL: http://users.nf/linux/ultra66.htm Be sure to click on "Addenda" It describes the exact steps I took to install Linux Mandrake (6.1 and 7.0). I have an ATA66 drive connected to the PCI Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card. E-mail me if you need additional help. HTH, Matt From: "R.A." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] UDMA 4 and Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:09:09 -0500 Yes udma/66. Promise controller. The other versions of linux I have can't even be loaded because the don't see the hard drive. They were talking about supporting it, but when you go to linux-mandrake site they don't talk about IDE controllers in there supported hardware. R.A. John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: Does this version natively support UDMA 4 IDE? Is that the same thing as UDMA/66? If so, it has support for SOME UDMA/66 controllers. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Civilme
Jeanette, You write as if someone is leaving the list...Is someone leaving the list? I hope neither you nor Civelme leave the list. Kind regards, Matt From: "Jeanette Russo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Civilme Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 06:30:18 -0600 Thanks for the time you have spent on the list. I have seen how you have taken a lot of time and energy to help others. Good Luck Jeanette __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Need help getting KDE 2 up and running.
The address may have been changed slightly... 1) go to "http://users.nf/linux/" 2) click the link labeled "step by step" 3) click the link labeled "KDE" 4) finally, click the link labelled "KDE2 Alpha" Let me know how you like KDE2! Take care, Matt From: "Ralph F. De Witt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Need help getting KDE 2 up and running. Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:10:33 -0800 Matt I am unable to connect to your address, could you please double check it. Ralph On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote: Checkout the following URL: http://users.nf/linux/koffice.htm HTH, Matt From: "Ralph F. De Witt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Need help getting KDE 2 up and running. Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:09:14 -0800 I am running Mandrake 7.0 and am new to linux. I thought I followed the readme for installation of the kdealpha of 02282000, which is the full install of kde2 alpha. I have a qt-copy in /usr/src/kde/qt-copy and kde2 files are in /opt/kde2 the install was done from / as root, the the files were installed from the 02282000 rpm using the --install --force --nodeps options as indicated by the readme. The readme indicates nothing else needs to be done. How ever when I try to start kword I come up with a error dialouge that stats dcopserver needs to be running. I start dcopserver and then try to start kword and small amount of hard drive activity then nothing. Would like to get kde2 running, particularly koffice suite. Can any help me get it working. Thanks in advance. Ralph PS. Have tried the usual KDE sites for FAQ's to no avail. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Need help getting KDE 2 up and running.
Checkout the following URL: http://users.nf/linux/koffice.htm HTH, Matt From: "Ralph F. De Witt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Need help getting KDE 2 up and running. Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:09:14 -0800 I am running Mandrake 7.0 and am new to linux. I thought I followed the readme for installation of the kdealpha of 02282000, which is the full install of kde2 alpha. I have a qt-copy in /usr/src/kde/qt-copy and kde2 files are in /opt/kde2 the install was done from / as root, the the files were installed from the 02282000 rpm using the --install --force --nodeps options as indicated by the readme. The readme indicates nothing else needs to be done. How ever when I try to start kword I come up with a error dialouge that stats dcopserver needs to be running. I start dcopserver and then try to start kword and small amount of hard drive activity then nothing. Would like to get kde2 running, particularly koffice suite. Can any help me get it working. Thanks in advance. Ralph PS. Have tried the usual KDE sites for FAQ's to no avail. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] 7.0 PowerPack iso downloads?
Joseph,
I should have been more clear in my response. I was responding to a
question about where to get tons of programs at a decent price. Cheapbytes
sells those two software bundles for a very "cheap" price ("Archive set" and
"Packages galore")
Matt
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Subject: Re: [expert] 7.0 PowerPack iso downloads?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:01:16 -0500
M Thompson wrote:
Have you checked "http://www.cheapbytes.com"
Checkout the the following two deals:
1) Archive set
2) Packages Galore
snip
Cheapbytes isn't shipping 7.02 yet only 7.0
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No windows, no gates.
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Re: [expert] 7.0 PowerPack iso downloads?
Have you checked "http://www.cheapbytes.com" Checkout the the following two deals: 1) Archive set 2) Packages Galore From: Linda Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 7.0 PowerPack iso downloads? Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:58:15 -0800 Nitin Raja Bhatia wrote: Basicly the advantage of getting a PowerPack is owning a physical manual (paper... reallly!) and getting technical support. You also get a few extra cds one is the basic disc, one is filled with source, the others are samples of mostly commericial applications. I do not know the full details but the linux-mandrake.com site will fill you in. --- I was a bit confused on this, then. My understanding is that this contained a disk of freeware/opensource apps as well a commercial apps for demo. I don't need a base distrib -- got that. Don't need a manual, got that. What I'd like are the other freeware apps Precompiled for Mandrake in the -march=pentium manner. SuSE's releases do something similar in their base distrib as Mandrake does in it's powerpack. They have 3 CD's that contain the base distrib freeware apps (so it's like 1 base CD and 2 app CD's, 'cept that they are all mixed together into 3). Then they have a 4th CD that has "pay-ware" stuff on it -- demo versions of various products that you need to pay to get fully-operating versions, then a CD with documentation, and a 6th CD with source. All for about $60 Retail -- including a big fat manual that I think I looked at once while the install was running cuz I was bored. (I have more than one system counting work systems). So what I'm looking for are those "2-CD's worth" of extra apps/freeware. I also recently installed Corel in a VMware machine -- they really have a tiny/toy distrib. Probably best word processor available for Linux, but the distrib was so 'toy'. Really meant to be a WIN98 replacement -- with about as much flexibility and security -- probably great for my parents. -- Linda A Walsh| Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (650) 933-5338 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Still got my CD burner woes, help please
Trevor, Checkout the following link: http://www.cdmediaworld.com (click on the link labeled 'CD Media World #1 to enter the website.) Once at the website, you can take the link labeled "CD-Writer Firmwares" In my experience, this is the best CD Writing Website I've found. If anyone knows of other great websites, please let me know. Hope that helps, Matt From: Trevor Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake - expert list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Still got my CD burner woes, help please Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 21:29:24 +1100 OK, I'm the one who started the remove supermount thread (and I'm not proud of it, but I needed to know...) so I could see if supermount was causing my CD burning to fail. Having executed the now famous supermount disable command, I can state that it made not one iota of difference! My CD burner still don't burn. I've been to the cdrecord website, followed every relevant link I could find, read how-to's and FAQ's and the only things burning are my eyes g so PLEASE, can anyone out there tell me what the following means: [root@treble /dev]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,0,0 0) 'LG ' 'CD-RW CED-8042B ' '1.05' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * [root@treble /dev]# The only relevant explanation I have found is that it might be a firmware bug (if so, how do I fix???) The LG branded CD-RW is, I believe, a rebadged matsumi (at least, the box was a matsumi one with an LG sticker on it!) and it is a recent model, so it should be compatible according to all the hardware lists I've seen. Also, thanks Alan for your word, which I shall repeat since I can't think of any better: Axalonthere's a significant thread here that I guess you missed, try the archives. A group of us has been discussing supermount problems for over a week now and you've not been contributing at all (nor has anyone else from MandrakeSoft). Brian is rightfully upset when you accuse him directly of not careing to learn as should be all of us who have been involved in this thread. You talk about disc 3 to a bunch of folks who either downloaded an iso or bought a GPL? Probably no one here has a powerpack that, by the way was only announced as available on February 28th which was less than a week and a half ago. I think you owe Brian and all the rest of us involved in the supermount thread a big apology! We've been trying very hard, with no help from any mandrakeSoft personel, to work out the problems that people have been having with supermount. Alan Thanks to all those who did reply with help on the supermount issue. Trevor. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Problem Mounting Floppy Disk
If Brian's suggestion works for you, I suggest adding an icon to the desktop to save yourself from manually mounting the floppy each time. HTH, Matt From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Problem Mounting Floppy Disk Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 00:10:05 -0500 On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Ramon, | Thankyou for your concise and thoughtful reply. I have saved it for future | reference. I have tried the entries you suggested for my fstab file and | it just isn't working. I am including a copy of my fstab file in hopes | someone can point out what I'm doing wrong here. I am able to mount vfat | floppies, just can't get the ext2 working. I've tried all the | obvious.. Here's the fstab file, the way it came configured in Mandrake | 7.0: | | /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 | /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 | /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 | /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 | /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 The "fs=vfat" says: I want this to work for vfat. if you want to mount ext2 floppies, you can at a minimum just change that to "fs=ext2" Though there's something terrily wrong if /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 doesn't do it for you. Of course if you use this above you do have to "mount" it before you can use it. This is the Unix Classic approach. I've had very little luck with supermount myself, and use this approach. That is, to use it, you do mount /mnt/floppy ls /mnt/floppy and when done (this is important!) before removing it do umount /mnt/floppy If that doesn't work, please copy-and-paste the precise error messages you are getting. | none /proc proc defaults 0 0 | none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 | /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 | | | thanks again | | | --dale | | "my mind is scheduled to clear tomorrow, then not again for another 400 years." -- I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger). I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I support http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org . I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html . __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Need help fixing my cdrom access, after upgrade to Mandrake 7.0
No. Just follow Brian's advice and all will work fine. I installed MDK 7.0-2 with high security, followed Brian's suggestion and all worked, Bye, Matt From: "Sang Y. Yum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Need help fixing my cdrom access, after upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:35:12 -0800 (PST) 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 PROTECTED] 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 version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 Detected 448970839 Hz processor. ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 447.28 BogoMIPS Memory: 127848k/131008k available (1092k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1588k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd993 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10c0-0x10c7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10c8-0x10cf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: Maxtor 91360U4, ATA DISK drive hdc: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 91360U4, 12982MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1655/255/63 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 987.933 MB/sec p5_mmx: 1034.034 MB/sec 8regs : 802.005 MB/sec 32regs: 422.529 MB/sec using fastest function: p5_mmx (1034.034 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1) hdd:3ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0 unable to read partition table scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IOMEGAModel: ZIP 100 Rev: 23.D Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: HPModel: CD-Writer+ 7200 Rev: 3.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB] sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda4 supermount: Unrecognized mount option uid 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x1000, 00:50:04:05:02:1d, IRQ 11 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. MII transceiver
Re: [expert] install freeze problem
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 card. If you want to do a fresh install of Linux onto a drive that's connected to a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card, follow these steps: 1) Use a Linux boot disk to boot your system (if you don't have one yet, you can get one from http://www.toms.net/rb/) 2) At the Linux console prompt, type "cat /proc/pci" without the quotes. 3) This will spit out five I/O numbers for you (the ones that are not in brackets) 4) Label those I/O numbers a, b, c, d, e (the first is "a"; the second is "b"; etc.) 5) Now, restart your system and boot from the Linux installation CD 6) At the boot prompt, type "linux ide2=a,b+2 ide3=c,d+2" without the quotes. Be sure to substitute the actual I/O numbers for the "letters" shown above. The above worked for Linux Mandrake 7.0-2 (and 6.1). From: "Scott Bessler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] install freeze problem Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:54:15 -0600 ok i have a problem, i have the following hd's and controllers a promise fasttrak66 w/ 2 seagate barracuda ata66 drives on it. (and win2k) an adaptec 2940 with a seagate barracuda 50 (scsi) that i want to put linux on. however, when i boot from the mandrake iso cd (7.0-2) it freezes at the very beginning of the boot process after displaying a bit of info on "ide0" (which is the fasttrak66, which i know isnt supported in linux), now i dont need to access this from linux so i would just assume i could skip this detection and be ok. i tried using the boot paramter ide0=noprobe like this from the boot: prompt linux ide0=noprobe but it didnt do anything.. any help would be appreciated thanks. scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Using X-Win32 to get KDE on Windows
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 Mar 2000 20:28:27 -0500 Hi all, I am trying to connect to my Linux box from my Win98 machine. Basically, I have a fresh install of Linux on my box, got it all networked up. I can successfully display single windows, such as running xterm or kfm on my Windows machine (using a different X Window system on my Win machine - 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. Thanks Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] VIA Technologies VT82C686_5 Sound Card Problems
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 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 tries to load sb.o and I get a "device or resource busy" even after I unloaded all the modlues with rmmod and have evn tried to compile support in the kernel - same error message except on boot. I tried forcing it to be a soundlblaster - there was no error, but no sound plays. Any suggestions? Hoyt __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] cdrecord problem with Mdk 7.0
From: Trevor Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] cdrecord problem with Mdk 7.0 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:50:55 +1100 [snip] page file size being wrong. xcdroast identifies the cd-rw as a scsi device. Is this necessary, or can the cd burning software write directly to an IDE device? Should I remove the IDE-SCSI translation let the system address the cd-rw directly?? [snip] ATAPI drives use the SCSI interface for access. Don't remove the IDE-SCSI translation. cdrecord can only write to the SCSI interface. If you remove the IDE-SCSI translation, you will no longer be able to burn CD's in Linux. (If you also run NT4, you will see that NT also identifies the drive as a SCSI drive. Go to control panel and click on the SCSI icon. You will see the ATAPI device driver and your CD-RW drive listed below it.) HTH, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Looking for more detailed information on installing Linux Mandrakewith Promise Ultra 66 card.
Please check out the following URL: It is a SxS that I wrote. Axalon, when will Mandrake incorporate the Andre Hedrick patch into the default MDK kernel and the default MDK kernel source? http://users.nf/linux/addenda6.htm Some other good links are: http://users.nf/linux/addenda21.htm http://www.moisty.org/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA.html http://users.nf/linux/ultra66.htm HTH, Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Looking for more detailed information on installing Linux Mandrake with Promise Ultra 66 card. Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:21:19 -0500 (EST) I don't have linux previously installed, and all I have is a Linux Mandrake 7 CD, what parameters can I use or what boot disk will work with it, to get it to see the Ultra66 card? Thanks.. Peter ++ Peter DeSimone Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address: Http://www.bigfoot.com/~desimonp ICQ: 20177836 AOL Instant Messenger: Peterdesi1 ++ --- Get free personalized email at http://www.iname.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Kernel configuration to support audio (mic and speaker)
Are your sound problems limited to Netscape? Are you able to play and ordinary wav file? Are you able to play a midi file? If you answer no to the previous two questions, I suggest running "sndconfig" from a console. HTH, Matt From: BillVirginia Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Kernel configuration to support audio (mic and speaker) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:27:33 + I wish to make Netscape on Mandrake 6.1 support sound to do voice over IP. My kernel was built with all the sound options selected. My hardware has a Gateway 2000 sound card with IRQ 5 DMA 1 port 220h to be Sound Blaster Comparible -(circa 1995). There is a CODEC pluggable connection on the sound board for which the manual claims is defaulted to IRQ 10, I have not verified this setting. I made devs for /dev/dsp crw---1 hodges audio 14, 3 Apr 17 1999 /dev/dsp crw---1 hodges audio 14, 19 Apr 17 1999 /dev/dsp1 -- There is no mention in my startup "dmesg" However cat /proc/devices produces: [hodges@hodges /etc]$ more /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 14 sound 67 coda_psdev 128 ptm 136 pts Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 23 mcd [hodges@hodges /etc]$ --- /proc/modules is an empty file and /proc/modules does not mention IRQ 5 or 10. I just installed Plugger 3.2 and reloaded Netscape and it recognizes many of the file extensions using the Plugger test URL. I enjoyed the Lion King clip but it complains that "Can't open /dev/dsp device" and I hear nothing. Is there some kernel options that "make xconfig" doesn't present? Do I need a plugin driver? Is my board not configured correctly? Thanks ahead of time, Bill __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Sound Blaster 64 AWE Problems
Just a thought... Possibly your /etc/isapnp.conf file is corrupt. You could rename your /etc/isapnp.conf file to /etc/isapnp.conf-backup. You could then reboot your PC (Linux shouldn't detect your PNP soundcard). You could then run sndconfig again. The sndconfig proggie will rebuild your /etc/isapnp.conf file. I'm known for extremes, Matt From: RRPotratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Sound Blaster 64 AWE Problems Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:42:41 -0600 Hello, I've upgraded my motherboard and CPU and now can not get my SB64AWE to work correctly. As the modules are loaded as it boots the card starts to buzz and does not stop. The only way to get it to stop is to edit anything having to do with sound out of /etc/conf.modules and reboot. After rebooting, I run sndconfig and the buzzing appears again as soon as the card is initalized. The card seems to be using the correct parameters according to the info panel in KDE (i.e. irq 5, dma low 1, dma high 5, mem at 220 and midi at 330.) Any Ideas? Thanks, Randy __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] OT Great CD burning tips!!! (check out this URL)
Here is a link to tips and information on CD burning... It is a wonderful all-inclusive website that covers tips on CD media, CD-Writers, CD burning process, CD copy software, reasons some CD's cannot be copied "exactly," etc. http://www.cdmediaworld.com/ After following the above URL, choose one of the two mirrors in order to access the site. Enjoy, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] Hard drive optimisation for only 1 of my 2 HD's?
Hi everyone, I went to the List Archives, but keep getting the message that it is temporarily offline... I just installed Mandrake 7.0-2 yesterday...I was using 6.1 until then. (BTW - The graphical installer is the best I've seen yet...I've installed RH6.1, COL2.3, SuSE6.3, MDK7.0-2) While installing Mdk7, I told it to enable the "Hard drive optimisation." I have two hard drives connected to my PCI Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card. How do I enable the optimisations for only one hard drive (/dev/hde)? I believe I need to edit rc.sysinit, but I'm not sure what modifications need made. Thanks everyone, Matt Additional Info: /dev/hde = Quantum 18 GB hard drive (works great with optimisation) /dev/hdg = Western Digital 1.5 GB drive (very flaky - I need to disable optimisation for this drive because Linux can't even access the drive with the optimisations enabled) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [expert] burning CDs
John, An alternative program is KisoCD. The write up was great but I haven't taken the time to download it yet. The link to it is on the KDE website. Just a thought, Matt From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] burning CDs Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:00:41 -0500 On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote: don't use Xcdroast on data cdroms, this program is broken somehow (at least it has never worked for me without hitches since some error messages are suppressed and several options are not correct) we use plain mkisofs/cdrecord here and it has been working just great for *years* now I've only used XCDRoast for 2 years now, both with a 4x and an 8x burner. Data and audio CDs both come out fine at full speed. The version of XCDRoast in the distro LM6.1 and LM7.0beta(Oxygen) have a display bug where status box doesn't get updated until the burn is complete. Grab a different version from the maker of XCDRoast and that problem goes away. That seems to be a problem with LM 6.0 as well. I may go ahead and do as you suggest. What's the URL for the XCDRoast page? John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Greetings
I great place to start is: http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html or http://www.mandrakeuser.org HTH, Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Greetings Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:07:50 EST [snip] I would really like to talk to some Linux users in real time. If this is possible for any of you guys to help me out with the type of questions that I would feel stupid asking in this list, I would really appreciate it. Also, perhaps I could have a few reference sites to find out more of these general things I will have to get used to in moving from Windows and DOS to Linux? I have no problem reading things (preferably online materials, as I have no money), I just don't know where to look. Thanks! Dan Rasmussen Instant Messenger: Spiffy1two ICQ: 4689648 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Couple of questions...
I had the same problem when I tried to apply a patch to the Mandrake 2.2.13pre?? kernel source. Mandrake ships a non-standard kernel source with their distribution, but the patches are expecting the standard kernel source that can be found on ftp.kernel.org To solve the problem, I: 1) broke the symbolic link "/usr/src/linux" 2) downloaded and installed the latest kernel source from ftp.kernel.org to a directory called "/usr/src/linux-2.2.??" 3) created a symbolic link "/usr/src/linux" that points to "/usr/src/linux-2.2.??" HTH, Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Couple of questions... Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:12:30 + [snip] 2. At home I`m using Mandrake 6.1, with the original kernel it come, 2.2.13-pre??, ... I tryied to patch it to the latest available 2.2.14 but I get a lot of .rej, ...I`d followed the standar procedures as described under /usr/src/linux/README, ...any idea ?. [snip] Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Jorge Carminati. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
