Re: [newbie] dosemu
teckman wrote: Steve Philp wrote: teckman wrote: Ok im missing something while reading the docs i guess... but where am i when im in the emu dos? I type dos and the emulator comes up no prob... looks like dos. but i cant get to my dos files then. So i was going to put them where ever i end up when i type dos . ie: i want to run a dos draw pgm called thedraw where on my hd can i copy the pgm so that i can access it when i enter dos(emu) By default, DOSemu uses a hard drive image in /var/lib/dosemu as it's "C: drive". It's just a big file that they've created so you can play around. If you're comfortable with the idea, you could edit /etc/dosemu.conf and tell it the name of your real DOS drive and it'll use that instead. Edit the line that starts "$_hdimage =". There are good comments next to that line, so you should be using your real DOS drive in no time! h close.. i changed it to $_hdimage = "/dev/hda1" this is my first drive called /win95 it starts to load but hangs at the c promptnot c:\ just c with the curser 2 lines under it and locked! i have to log in and kill the process to get the session back. It does look as if its reading my c:\config.sys file tho?? where am i going wrong? the /dev/hda1 is vfat in fstab should it be msdos? I can't say that I've ever played with dosemu before, but I just fiddled with it for a little bit to get it working. I modified /etc/dosemu.conf and changed the $_hdimage line to the windows partition. I modified /etc/dosemu.users and added my username to the bottom of the file. Fired up dosemu and was greeted by a sideways Windows boot logo, then the "It's now safe to shutdown your computer". And that was it! Hehehe. Linux can even kill Windows faster than Windows can! So, I remounted the Windows partition and modified msdos.sys. It's a text file, so just fire up your editor. You need to change the line that says "BootGUI=1" to read "BootGUI=0" so that it won't try to start Windows right off the bat. Then I unmounted the Windows partition and tried xdos again. Worked great this time. A little pausing every once in a while, but that's probably because Netscape pulls mail every couple of minutes. Give the msdos.sys file modification a try and see if it helps. (I just tried it at the console also and it seems to work fine there also). All of my playing was with my Win98 partition, but I'd imagine that the instructions would work just as well with 95. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Pine ????
I am trying to get Pine to Work. Everytime I try to run it and Send a Email, I get the following Error "x.gte.net" Unable to locate server via DNS. And then I try it again and it says something different.. I there a place I need to set the DNS for my Email server I have all the info for it, Heck I can't even get Sendmail to work, I am just falling apart at all ends. Thanks for help James J. Capone Webmaster http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/Linux Stable Version v 1.01 Webmaster http://linuxchoice.freeservers.com -Unstable but it Will load V2.01b "Even Common People Can Attain Uncommon Results!"
Re: [newbie] Pine ????
"James J. Capone" wrote: I am trying to get Pine to Work. Everytime I try to run it and Send a Email, I get the following Error "x.gte.net" Unable to locate server via DNS. And then I try it again and it says something different.. I there a place I need to set the DNS for my Email server I have all the info for it, Heck I can't even get Sendmail to work, I am just falling apart at all ends. Thanks for help Does browsing the web work correctly as that user? Does telnet work with both hostnames and IP numbers? Is the "x" part of the message your side of your dialup connection or the remote end? You shouldn't need to have anything more than /etc/resolv.conf setup in order to resolve hostnames to IP numbers. Check the permissions on /etc/resolv.conf if you're able to resolve as root, but not as a normal user. I'd imagine that the error is probably caused by sendmail not working correctly. What problems are you having there? -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Burn Mandrakre53-2.iso
Andy Social wrote: I burned an ISO of Mandrake using Easy CD Creator 3.5b and an IDE Ricoh CDR. Just loaded up EZCD, told it I was creating a CD from Image, and pointed it at the image. Make sure you tell it to look for an ISO file type, not a CIF file (the default). Also, let it use long filenames, don't restrict to 8.3. It shouldn't need that setting even mentioned, actually. The CD even autoboots, on systems that support it. Pretty slick. I don't know about any "Rock Ridge" format, though. It should be just a standard ISO type. Hope this helps. At 11:53 AM 1999-03-16 -0600, you wrote: I have some problem burning the iso image. My HP 7200 is on a Windogs computer and I only have Easy CD Creator 3.01 which doesn't burn in Rock Ridge format. I download the Nero Burning Rom but it doesn't have any option about Rock Ridge. Can anyone send me a description on how to do this? --- Nil Carborundum Illegitami http://www.bigfoot.com/~andysocial Hi, I'm not sure about EZCD but if you have ToGo! (which is by the same company) you can also do it. The trick is to choose "track image" on startup. The iso file is an image of a Mandrake CD so you need to specify it as a whole track. In ToGo!, you just drag the iso file onto the track icon at the bottom. Hope this helps -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
[newbie] Installation weirdness
Hello all, I think there's something wrong with the Mandrake install program. (or it could have been carried over from RedHat's, I don't know) Here's what happened: I had to install on a 2.1 GB HDD. I partitioned it thus: 100MB - / 800MB - /usr* 800MB - /home* 100MB - /tmp 32MB - swap the * partitions were growable so they took up the slack leftover from the swap allocation. I chose only about 416MB worth of apps and utils. Thing is...somewhere around the middle of the rpm installation (you know, the one with the progress bars) it stopped and gave me some weird error about no space for database or something...I continued anyway and it gave me the same error for each package. At some point later on, it says no more space or something. What gives? Does / partition need more than 100MB? Cheers, -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
Re: [newbie] Video Cards
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Internet Service Jeremy wrote: I am looking to get a 12 or 16 meg video card. Does anyone know where there is a got unix/linux hardware compatibility site. I am looking for a 12 or 16 meg 2d/3d card, so anyone recommend me get a certain one. Thanks in advance www.xfree86.org -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ing49.unife.it/keyser Ferrara Linux User Grouphttp://flug.unife.it
[newbie] How to update kde libs
I downloaded the newer than mine kdelibs-1.1-4rh5x.i386.rpm update (my current is 1.1-1). I have installed other updates with no big problems, Xconfigurator, wine and a few others. This one tells me it can not install. I tried to do it at the prompt with the same results. Could someone clue me into the correct way to do this. Thanks. -- Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5788323
Re: [newbie] Installation weirdness
Kuraiken wrote: Hello all, I think there's something wrong with the Mandrake install program. No problems for my installation of Mandrake. Went quite smoothly, actually. (or it could have been carried over from RedHat's, I don't know) Nothing wrong with Red Hat either. (Prior to Mandrake 5.3, I was using Red Hat 5.2) Sounds like the problem(s) are caused by something/someone else. During my installation(s), I only made two partitions: Linux Native and Linux Swap.
[newbie] RE:
I use a Matrox G200 16meg. Great card, but there are better 2D/3D combo cards.. -Matt Olivera Sr. Systems Administrator / Solution Developer Arrowhead Group 402 West Broadway #1600 San Diego, California 92101 -Original Message- From: Internet Service Jeremy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 5:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I am looking to get a 12 or 16 meg video card. Does anyone know where there is a got unix/linux hardware compatibility site. I am looking for a 12 or 16 meg 2d/3d card, also if you can anyone recommend me one that would be great. Thanks in Advance
Re: [newbie] Video Cards
I am looking to get a 12 or 16 meg video card. Does anyone know where there is a got unix/linux hardware compatibility site. I am looking for a 12 or 16 meg 2d/3d card, so anyone recommend me get a certain one. Thanks in advance It depends on what you want to use it for. I'd imagine X? If so, go to the XFree86 site and go look up their driver lists. http://www.xfree86.org/ I'd recommend a RivaTNT based card, myself but it all depends on your budget and application needs. -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster -- Discussions heartily welcomed; Flames generally ignored. --
[newbie] RPM Database failure?
OS: Mandrake 5.3, from CheapBytes GPL CD Machine: HP Vectra VL 5/75 Series 3, Adaptec SCSI 1542CF with Micropolis 4341NS drive attached. CDROM is an IDE, Sanyo CRD-820P. System has 72M RAM. The video is Cirrus GD5430, and the NIC is 3Com 3C509-TP. Issue: System boots to MS-DOS 6.22 fine. The CDROM is using a generic CDROM.SYS for a driver, but this is also working fine, from DOS. During installation of Mandrake, the components are located (with the exception of the NIC, but that's due to this issue) and the drive can be partitioned fine. Formatting of the disk space proceeds normally, and the selection of the packages is also fine. However, when the system attempts to locate the RPMs for installation, it fails, with the error: Failed to access RPM database. Then the installation aborts, and I get a message saying its safe to reboot. At first, I thought it was the CD, but when I use an older Mandrake CD I have (5.1), one that I HAVE had successful installs from, it also fails with the same message. Any ideas? -- Bob James | http://www.orielinc.com IS Manager | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oriel, Inc.| 608-238-8134 x223
Re: [newbie] RPM Database failure?
Bob James wrote: OS: Mandrake 5.3, from CheapBytes GPL CD Machine: HP Vectra VL 5/75 Series 3, Adaptec SCSI 1542CF with Micropolis 4341NS drive attached. CDROM is an IDE, Sanyo CRD-820P. System has 72M RAM. The video is Cirrus GD5430, and the NIC is 3Com 3C509-TP. Issue: System boots to MS-DOS 6.22 fine. The CDROM is using a generic CDROM.SYS for a driver, but this is also working fine, from DOS. During installation of Mandrake, the components are located (with the exception of the NIC, but that's due to this issue) and the drive can be partitioned fine. Formatting of the disk space proceeds normally, and the selection of the packages is also fine. However, when the system attempts to locate the RPMs for installation, it fails, with the error: Failed to access RPM database. Then the installation aborts, and I get a message saying its safe to reboot. At first, I thought it was the CD, but when I use an older Mandrake CD I have (5.1), one that I HAVE had successful installs from, it also fails with the same message. Any ideas? After the failure message, switch consoles using Alt-F3 and then Alt-F4. There are debug messages printed to each of these terminals that might provide a few more clues as to why it is failing. If they don't seem to provide any clues for you, post 'em and we'll all take a look. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installation weirdness
Kuraiken wrote: Hello all, I think there's something wrong with the Mandrake install program. (or it could have been carried over from RedHat's, I don't know) Here's what happened: I had to install on a 2.1 GB HDD. I partitioned it thus: 100MB - / 800MB - /usr* 800MB - /home* 100MB - /tmp 32MB - swap the * partitions were growable so they took up the slack leftover from the swap allocation. I chose only about 416MB worth of apps and utils. Thing is...somewhere around the middle of the rpm installation (you know, the one with the progress bars) it stopped and gave me some weird error about no space for database or something...I continued anyway and it gave me the same error for each package. At some point later on, it says no more space or something. What gives? Does / partition need more than 100MB? It sure looks like it. Here's what I ended up with for my normal home installation: [root@tippy /root]# du -shx / 986M/ [root@tippy /root]# du -shx /usr 553M/usr [root@tippy /root]# [root@tippy /root]# du -shx /home 15M /home [root@tippy /root]# du -shx /tmp 7.0K/tmp So, / here takes up around 400M. You've got to remember that you're holding /var in your root partition and that takes up quite a bit of room (and grows larger). KDE (in /opt, which is also part of your root) fills around 65M also. This installation is probably quite a bit larger in / than yours is, since I've also got WordPerfect and Applixware installed (both in /opt and thus counting towards your root figure). -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installation weirdness
I had to install on a 2.1 GB HDD. I partitioned it thus: 100MB - / 800MB - /usr* 800MB - /home* 100MB - /tmp 32MB - swap Does / partition need more than 100MB? It sure looks like it. Here's what I ended up with for my normal home installation: [root@tippy /root]# du -shx / 986M/ [root@tippy /root]# du -shx /usr 553M/usr [root@tippy /root]# [root@tippy /root]# du -shx /home 15M /home [root@tippy /root]# du -shx /tmp 7.0K/tmp So, / here takes up around 400M. You've got to remember that you're holding /var in your root partition and that takes up quite a bit of room (and grows larger). KDE (in /opt, which is also part of your root) fills around 65M also. This installation is probably quite a bit larger in / than yours is, since I've also got WordPerfect and Applixware installed (both in /opt and thus counting towards your root figure). -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah! Thanks, Steve. I forgot that / also means /* for disk space and partitions - except if you mount another partition at /var etc. I've got to change my frame of mind to be more UNIXy...another reason to avoind MS bloatware...it corrupts you mind (not just memory and fs) :-) Having said that. I have been able to get away with 120MB for / Still, I'll bump it up to 200MB maybe to be safe. Thanks again! -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
Re: [newbie] D/L with KFM as a WWW Browser
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, you wrote: Brian Berard wrote: So (taking a deep breath here) where does KFM by default place D/L files from an FTP transfer? Can I change this in the KFM setup? If Im doing something wrong, please tell me-- It looks like it downloads them to ~/.kde/share/apps/kfm/tmp. It doesn't look like those files stick around after you close kfm. At least I don't THINK so. Check in that directory to see if your download is still there. Might have been a wasted download, I guess. I didn't see anything in the preferences settings of KFM to set where it downloads to. It seems to be hardcoded into the app. The way I normally us it: Just 'drag 'n drop' the file you wat to fetch somewere... i normally use the desktop... Gives you a reson to clean up evey now en then .. ;-)) ..Bob -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux Mandrake release 5.3 (Festen) kernel 2.2.3 Online as bob on my i686 which was to ^#!^% Expensive ;-) , 11:42pm up 0 min, 0 users, load average: 0.29, 0.08, 0.02 And doing NOTHING as You can see!
[newbie] Linux programming
Someone know where i can find good docs about linux programming? [---] HaM [alias Hami Monsarrat-Chanon] [---]
Re: [newbie] Telnet or terminal daemond
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Re: [newbie] Printer HELP!
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[newbie] zImage and Loadlin.exe
Hello, I am running Mandrake 5.3, and I just downloaded the 2.2.2 kernel and complied it. I copied the zImage file that was created to my FAT16 file system and provided loadlin.exe with the proper command to use the zImage file as my kernel, but it refuses to reconize it. What do I need to do to use the zImage file with loadlin.exe? Thank You, Nicholas Barnard
Re: [newbie] D/L with KFM as a WWW Browser
Brian Berard wrote: So (taking a deep breath here) where does KFM by default place D/L files from an FTP transfer? Can I change this in the KFM setup? If Im doing something wrong, please tell me-- It looks like it downloads them to ~/.kde/share/apps/kfm/tmp. It doesn't look like those files stick around after you close kfm. At least I don't THINK so. Check in that directory to see if your download is still there. Might have been a wasted download, I guess. I didn't see anything in the preferences settings of KFM to set where it downloads to. It seems to be hardcoded into the app. The way I normally us it: Just 'drag 'n drop' the file you wat to fetch somewere... i normally use the desktop... Gives you a reson to clean up evey now en then .. ;-)) ..Bob Bob, I have tried that and then the D/L starts all over again ending up in a core dump icon on my desk top. Something must not be right here. Thanks for your input though. I also tried what steve above reccamended and he was correct as to where the file would be. That is the location from where I tried to drag the Icon of the file to my desk top. Next thing I know it starts D/L the file again. I think Im in the dense mode on this one-- Anyone else have any other ideas? Im open!--)) Thanks for all input. Brian
Re: [newbie] Installation weirdness
This is just on my install . i just made two swap partitons, and a 3rd as just / it placed everything right as far as i can tell but it's working fine and the total disk spae from the workstation install options was under 500 megs Steven On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I think there's something wrong with the Mandrake install program. (or it could have been carried over from RedHat's, I don't know) Here's what happened: I had to install on a 2.1 GB HDD. I partitioned it thus: 100MB - / 800MB - /usr* 800MB - /home* 100MB - /tmp 32MB - swap the * partitions were growable so they took up the slack leftover from the swap allocation. I chose only about 416MB worth of apps and utils. Thing is...somewhere around the middle of the rpm installation (you know, the one with the progress bars) it stopped and gave me some weird error about no space for database or something...I continued anyway and it gave me the same error for each package. At some point later on, it says no more space or something. What gives? Does / partition need more than 100MB? Cheers, -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
[newbie] Licq
Hey everybody, I have been using linux for awhile and I really enjoy being able to use ICQ on my Linux box. What I am wondering is if my Licq is up to date. Basicly, if there is an "official" Licq webpage I could check out for updates/quirks and stuff that I might need. Any links or info would be greatly appreciated, BTW, I'm using the default Licq that comes with madrake 5.3. Thanks in advance, - Signed, Bob 'Reveral' Bonifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fraggin' in the Heartland http://lan.quakecity.net/
Re: [newbie] Licq
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, you wrote: Hey everybody, I have been using linux for awhile and I really enjoy being able to use ICQ on my Linux box. What I am wondering is if my Licq is up to date. Basicly, if there is an "official" Licq webpage I could check out for updates/quirks and stuff that I might need. Any links or info would be greatly appreciated, BTW, I'm using the default Licq that comes with madrake 5.3. Thanks in advance, - G'Day Try http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~savardch/ -- Michael Doyle Adelaide, South Australia ICQ #2635762 http://landofoz.apana.org.au
