[newbie] Xterm Colors
Does anyone know how to change configure font and directory colors in Xterm. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] strange bug on system login
Im pretty sure it checks 8 characters only. Gene -Original Message- From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 12:29 AM Subject: [newbie] strange bug on system login i noticed today that when i login through mingetty, when i give my password, if i type extra letters after my password, then it still lets me in. is this supposed to happen? for instance, if my pass is 'asdfqwer' and i type 'asdfqwertyuiop', then it still lets me in. the first part has to be the right password but after that it doesnt matter. :P
Re: [newbie] smp questions
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: Seth Gibson wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: two processors need to be the same speed? also, is there a better place to compare prices than cnet.com? I would give pricewatch.com a shot. They have smp boards for as low as 69 but that might not necessarily be your best bet. If you're looking for a certain board i'd check pricewatch for it tho. Good Luck! Yes SMP processors must be the same speed. Jeanette Not so with the abit BP6
Re: [newbie] make xconfig error
I think I found it. It is in the: usr/src/linux/arch/i386 I was just able to re-build my kernel. thanks for the support J On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: There is one other Makefile in one of the subdirectories. I can't remember where it is right now. Do some looking around, it is in one of the directories that is one level below /usr/src/linux - Original Message - From: Siu Fai Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] "make xconfig" error I experienced the exact problem, any files should I modify other than Makefile? SF Earl Karch wrote: OK. I edited Makefile and removed "preferred-stack-boundary=2". I ran make xconfig. I ran make dep. But when I tried to run make zImage got the same "preferred-stack-boundary=2" error. Which file should I edit this time? Steve Philp wrote: It means Mandrake never tested their packages before they shipped them. The kernel will not rebuild as they distributed it unless you edit the Makefile. Change to the /usr/src/linux directory and use your favorite editor to edit Makefile. Search for 'preferred-stack-boundary=2' and remove it. Save the Makefile. Now do your kernel compile and all will be well. It's been a month, where's the fix Mandrake?? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fom it-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ex ceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentium -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium -ffast-ma th -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functio ns=2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -DCPU=386 -c -o init/main.o init/main.c cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2' make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
Re: [newbie] Blacked out Text
There might be something in the mailing list archives about this, If not, you may have to edit XF86Config, see: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/SiS.html http://rampages.onramp.net/~slywolf/xf86main.html A search for SiS @ www.redhat.com might help too. Please tell us how it went, as questions about SiS chips come up regularly, I would like to be sure I am giving the right answers (I have a SiS 620, but I try to help everyone that is cursed with the damn things). -Warren. - Original Message - From: Robert N. Van Dyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 2:26 PM Subject: [newbie] Blacked out Text I have installed version 6.1, however when Xwindows starts, all of the text is blacked out. The display worked fine with Redhat 6.0, but doesn't work now. I have an SiS 6326 video adapter and a CTX VL700 monitor. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Robert N. Van Dyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #19815274 -
Re: [newbie] DOS ?
There are serveral dos networking stacks, my best suggestion is to look into OpenDOS (think caldera still owns this) it is freely available and comes with a complete array of networking utils On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Simon Norris wrote: Just a positive word here, yes it is possible to do it. But no, I don't know how. My Kingston ethernet cards came with a DOS based program designed to make DOS networking work, but I haven't felt the need to try it yet. It looks similar to a 'drive mapping' kind of idea, but not quite, if you know what I mean. Let me know offline (home email in cc) if you don't get what you need, and I'll give it a go, and tell you what happens. Good luck! - Original Message - From: jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 4:42 PM Subject: [newbie] DOS ? Hello all. Well I'm back at setting up more things for the network. My next question and or adventure is. Can I use Dos to get into the network? I have a few dos programs we would like to be file served on the network. Any suggestions ? Jeff
Re: [newbie] Install problem: it won't see my partitions
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Warren Taylor wrote: I want to be a Linux newbie, but I don't qualify yet because I can't even install it. I just bought a new computer with a Quantum Fireball 20.4 GB hard drive. The included special version of Partition Magic in the 6.5 version of the Mandrake-Linux seems to work fine; it builds a Linux partition and swap partition on the tail end of my hard drive. They are primary partitions and the main Linux partition is 3 GB in size. I intend to keep most of the drive dedicated to the Microsux OS until I get a better idea of whether Linux will meet my needs. Your going to need a small (10 meg or so) partition at the front of the drive for your /boot partition, just to let you know now When the install program starts up, it gets to the part where it has me choose Disk Drake or fdisk. When I choose either, it comes back with an error saying it can't find any valid partitions on which to install Linux. You mean Disk druid, Diskdrake didn't ship in 6.1 integrated into the installer. Someone told me it was because my hard drive was too big and that the Linux partition (or a boot partition for Linux) needs to be below some address. I don't really want to split up my Windows partition into two separate small paritions with a Linux partition in the middle, and in any case, I see no way to make Partition Magic put it somewhere other than the default place it chose (the end of the disk). Use the move function to nudge the windows partition backwards on the drive (as i said 10megs is enough) it's just going to store the kernel, a backup of the boot sector and a couple other tiny files. Now, the reason it says there are no drives available is because your useing an ata66 drive on an ata66 controller which isn't going to work as we didn't ship the kernel with the IDE patchs as they were buggy. You can try specifying its address at the boot prompt (hdX=0x, if its a proper ata66 implementation) this should get it working in standard IDE mode. The address above isnot useable you'll have to do a little research as to where it is located (hint: device manager) Any help would be appreciated so that I can join the proud ranks of Linux newbies. Warren __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Sendmail
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Eric L. Damron wrote: I was told that if I remove the -bd flag from the script that starts sendmail, it would no longer listen to port 25. This is exactly what I want but I don't know what script I need to edit. (Mandrake 6.0) Does anyone know what script / file I need to edit? Thanks /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail should do the trick.
