Re: [newbie] Formatting problems
At 09:45 12/04/99 -0400, you wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake 5.3 on a Pentium II 200 with two 4 gig SCSI hard drives connected to an Adaptec 2940. I would like to install linux on the second hard drive (sdb). However, during a Custom install, after I select the partioning I want (600mb root, 128mb swap, the rest as /usr), and the packages I want installed, linux hangs with the following message: Making ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1... Can anyone please help me format my drive and install linux. kevin Before you try something that might be harmfull to your current installed system (windows), can you tell us how long you have waited for the drive to format ? You must know that formating a big drive under linux can take a very long time (more than one hour), and so maybe your linux doesn't hang, but it's simply making the file system. (I've asked the approximate time it should take on another list, but I have to wait for the answer) Stay tuned, - Rémi -
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? I stupdily forgot all about my Linux setup and was just thinking about HalfLife when i bought it !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] I want to use Linux...Can someone help?
About ICQ: It could possibly work with WINE. Or you could get VMware (http://www.vmware.com) and run ICQ under Windows and have Linux running on your computer simultaneously! Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] But then again, if KICQ and LICQ exist, and theyre good... why fiddle with widows? --- "Free your mind... and your ass will follow" Bono, U2 Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://personal.lycos.com
RE: [newbie] For all spanish speaking users
El 12 Apr 1999 11:18:58 el Ing. Carlos Mayorga V. tradujo sus pensamientos a electrones: Hola, ya era hora de que asome alguien de hanbla hispana en esta lista de gringos; pero en fin solo para agradecer este mensaje En efecto... por cierto, ?alguien sabe quiin me podrma instalar Mandrake en mi maquina? Vivo en Mixico D.F. y realmente no tengo la menor idea del Linux... Pero estoy hasta la madre (perdonen mi francis) de Redmond y sus programas chafas... Sin embargo aprecio el poder encender mi computadora y entrar automaticamente a una interfaz grafica que me habla en un idioma que puedo entender (mas o menos). Total, todas las aplicaciones que necesito tienen una contraparte en Linux (pensi que ICQ era la excepcisn, pero acabo de descubrir que estaba equivocado) y si el KDE me permite utilizarlas sin tener que andar tecleando comandos manualmente pues creo que es hora de saltar de este barco. ^_^ En fin, quiero dar el brinco, pero me quisiera evitar el trabajo sucio... ?Alguien de ustedes vive en Mixico o conoce a alguien que viva en Mixico y me pueda ayudar con la instalacisn? --- "Free your mind... and your ass will follow" Bono, U2 Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://personal.lycos.com
RE: [newbie] For all spanish speaking users
Vivo en Ecuador Y tengo el mismo problema, quiero salirme de la movida Windows pero veo que por el momento no es posible (soy muy aficionado a los juegos), se que es posible instalar linux en un disco particionado y si se tiene 2 discos es posible instalarlo en uno de ellos y elegir con que sistema operativo se bootea la máquina. Ya eche a perder los datos de "mis documentos" por instalar linux sin muchas precauciones, alguien me podría decir como hacerlo para tener a la vez ambos sistemas operativos funcionando en mi CPU y no perder los datos Windows? Pdta.Tengo un disco completamente limpio para realizar la instalación. - Mensaje original - De: Jose Alberto Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado: Martes, 13 de Abril de 1999 09:07 a.m. Asunto: RE: [newbie] For all spanish speaking users El 12 Apr 1999 11:18:58 el Ing. Carlos Mayorga V. tradujo sus pensamientos a electrones: Hola, ya era hora de que asome alguien de hanbla hispana en esta lista de gringos; pero en fin solo para agradecer este mensaje En efecto... por cierto, ?alguien sabe quiin me podrma instalar Mandrake en mi maquina? Vivo en Mixico D.F. y realmente no tengo la menor idea del Linux... Pero estoy hasta la madre (perdonen mi francis) de Redmond y sus programas chafas... Sin embargo aprecio el poder encender mi computadora y entrar automaticamente a una interfaz grafica que me habla en un idioma que puedo entender (mas o menos). Total, todas las aplicaciones que necesito tienen una contraparte en Linux (pensi que ICQ era la excepcisn, pero acabo de descubrir que estaba equivocado) y si el KDE me permite utilizarlas sin tener que andar tecleando comandos manualmente pues creo que es hora de saltar de este barco. ^_^ En fin, quiero dar el brinco, pero me quisiera evitar el trabajo sucio... ?Alguien de ustedes vive en Mixico o conoce a alguien que viva en Mixico y me pueda ayudar con la instalacisn? --- "Free your mind... and your ass will follow" Bono, U2 Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://personal.lycos.com
[newbie] My own Linux Distribution
I was wondering if anyone knew of a place online where someone could learn how to "create" their own linux distribution? I've got a few ideas and would just like to see how it is accomplished. Thanks!! :) Arnol ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
Martin White wrote: Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? I stupdily forgot all about my Linux setup and was just thinking about HalfLife when i bought it !! Martin. There was some news about a Linux driver for SBLive. Creative hired a linux hacker to do it but so far no working driver yet. Not even beta. So I guess we'll have to wait. I'm in the same boat in this regard. However, if you have the other SB cards (The PCI, Ensoniq chip, AWE32/64, 16 etc) they should all work with no problems. The only part that seems to have problems is MIDI. Regards, -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster -- Discussions heartily welcomed; Flames generally ignored. --
Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives
[SNIP] Ahh I need. I didn't relieze you had to supply this info... Okay, i'm off home shortly, i'll look it up and send it on in the morning... [SNIP]
RE: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives
Andre Baron [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: I'm trying to get my Adaptec AHA 1542b scsi card to work with my linux system I have gotten it working under Windblows but linux doesn't seem to like it No problem with my Adaptec 1542b SCSI card and Mandrake 5.3.I installed Mandrake from a NEC 6X CD-ROM drive connected to that card in fact. Ensure that the IRQ and DMA resources for the 1542b card are reserved in the motherboard BIOS setup. My BIOS is set to "Plug and Play OS". I do have the BIOS on the 1542b card disabled, as I am not trying to boot from a SCSI drive.I did try to boot the Mandrake CD, without success (tried both CD-ROM and SCSI options in the motherboard BIOS). But it is very easy to make a boot floppy from the CD. I have the floppy controller on the 1542b card disabled, as my motherboard does that. My SCSI CD-ROM works perfectly within KDE, using the 1542b. Click on the icon to mount a CD. Try setting the card jumpers to default, as given here: http://theref.c3d.rl.af.mil/controllers/layouts/cs_aha-154xb.html Contact me if you continue to have problems, I'll check my card settings. Regards, Richard
[newbie] mounting FAT partitions
can anyone tell me the complete command to mount a FAT partition under linux to access the file system? If you have ICQ you can message me. My ICQ#:7196518 I am presently: If you don't have ICQ you can page me through: http://wwp.icq.com/7196518 (go there and try it!) Or You can send me a regular e-mail to my EmailExpress address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to be added to my Contact List click Add Me Download ICQ at http://www.icq.com/ Manny Styles online.dll?icq=7196518=2
[newbie]no estoy solo!!!!!!!!
Hola Carlos y Alberto Me da gusto saber que no soy el unico que habla espanol aqui! Ya estaba preocupado, pues desde que mande ese mensaje anunciando la pagina de noticias de Linux en nuestro idioma, nadie respondia. jeje pero veo estas ustedes tambien. Bueno, primero les digo que la instalacion de Mandrake no es muy dificil, hasta pueden optar popr una instalacion en espanol! Por desgracia no estoy nada cerca de ustedes (yo estoy en Nicaragua), pues de lo contrario con mucho gusto les ayudaria. Pero no se preocupen, e intentenlo por ustedes mismos. Es una nueva experiencia y algo nuevo que aprenden. Les voy a dar una guia para que mas o menos se orienten (Linux-Mandrake 5.3 festen): -Lo primero que deben hacer es recoger la informacion del hardware que tiene su pc. Aunque al momento de la instalacion casi todo es autodetectado, hay algunas cositas que van a tener que hacerlas manualmente. Busquen en el pseudo sistema operativo llamado Windows en el icono mi pc, propiedades, sistema, y anoten el nombre de su trjeta de video y de sonido, y los irq y dma que la tarjeta usa (la de sonido). Tambien vean en que puerto esta conectado su modem y la impresora. Tambien anoten datos de otras cosas que tengan (como tarjetas de red, etc. ) -Luego procedan a instalar Mandrake. Desde dos (salganse de windows), cambien al directorio x:\dosutils\ (x es la unidad de cdrom) y escriban autoboot y dan enter. La instalacion dara comienzo. -Les aparecera un menu preguntando por el idioma. Seleccionen es (de espanol), o si prefieren otro idioma, pues cualquier otro. -Ahora van a necesitar una particion donde instalar Linux y otra particion para el swap. Les va salir la opcion de usar fdisk o disk druid. Realmente no se como se le cambia el tamano a una particion, pero crear una nueva (como es el caso de Alberto en un disco nuevo), se puede hacer facil con fdisk. Al presionas p sale una lista de las particiones del (o los) disco. con h sale un menu con los comandos. Para hacer la nueva particion, presionen n (creo que es n, asegurense viendo el menu con h) y les va a preguntar que tipo de particion quieren hacer. Con l sale una lista de los tipos de particiones. Primero hagan una particion swap de aprox .100 mb dependiendo de cuanto ram tengan. Pero como sea 100 mb es mas que suficiente. Luego repitan el procedimiento y creen una particion ext2 (Linux Native) de unos 500mb o del tamano que gusten. En mi disco de 2.5 gb tengo 1gb para linux, 2 particiones de approx 700mb ext2 para linux (tengo 2 distribuciones :P) y una de aprox 110 mb de swap. Despues de crear o cambiar la tabala de particion del disco, escriban w para salir y graabr los cambios. Van a tener que reiniciar la pc para que los cambios tomen efecto. -Reinicien la configuracion .Cuando vuelvan al punto en que estaban, selecionen disk druid y creen el directorio raiz (root o \) en la nueva particion ext2 que hicieron. -Luego viene el tipo de instalacion. Sale server, workstation y custom. Pueden seleccionar work station (unos 500 mb) o mejor aun custom, para una instalacion personalizada y sin pprogramas innecesarios ( a mi me ocupo aprox 260 mb). Es relativamante facil, solo decir que clase de pprogramas quieren instalar, como manipulacion de graficos, internet, servidor grafico, juegos, etc. -El siguiente paso es la instalacion de los paquetes. Esto se hace automaticamente. Despues viene la deteccion del hardware y la instalacion de los drivers necesarios. Les hara preguntas como que clase de impresora tiene, o a que pouerto esta conectada, si tiene modem, etc. Para esto les serviran los apuntes del paso 1. -Les va a salir donde van a instalar el lilo (Linux Loader) que les va a permitir cargar windows o Linux al iniciar. Tambien les va salir hacer un disco de inicio. Se los recomiendo por si meten la pata jeje. -Lo ultimo es escoger una contasena para el usuario raiz (root). Despues el sistema reinicia y ya estaran en Linux!! ahora escriban startx y les saldra KDE. Bueno espero que esto les ayude en algo. No tengan miedo, pero es preferible que hagan un backup de su disco por si acaso. En realidad parece muy complicado, pero no es asi. Hace un ano cuando me harte de windows me consegui un disco de Caldera 1.2 y lo instale si conocimiento alguno de linux o unix, con el unico fin de librarme de MS. Ahora aqui me quede y solo guardo Windoze para mis juegos que no los puedo dejar :). Si necesitan ayudamas detallada con mucho gusto les ayudare. Me pueden encontrar en IRC, en DalNet canal #nicaragua, en la noche, como a eso de las 8pm hora de aqui (creo que en mex es la misma hora). Guillermo PS: Se me olvidaba. Una forma mas facil de reparticionar el disco es con PQ Partiton Magic. Les puedo mandar una version que alcanza en un disquette. Si es asi contactenme en IRC. Adios.
[newbie] Sound
i have a Intel Atlantis 440 LX Mother board that has a yamaha sound card built on it its supposed to be sound blaster compatiblehow do i get i to work? John
[newbie] Re: Real Player
Hi Jeanette, I'm having nearly the same problem with Real Player (and Adobe Acrobat). I've added the path in the Netscape application area, Real Audio and Adobe Acrobat launch but neither will do what they are suppose to do. I can access a file locally on my hard drive and everything works great. Hope someone out there has a solution, especially for Adobe. Bob GIlley Jeanette Russo wrote: Sounds good to me Mike now if I can only get Real Player to work, Has anyone got this to work I installed it with the RPM for RH and it runs but does nothing. Won't play any files and when I try to click on a RV link it just wants to download it instead of playing it? Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Re: Real Player
also you need to add the path to the .profile file. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Robert Gilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 7:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: Real Player Hi Jeanette, I'm having nearly the same problem with Real Player (and Adobe Acrobat). I've added the path in the Netscape application area, Real Audio and Adobe Acrobat launch but neither will do what they are suppose to do. I can access a file locally on my hard drive and everything works great. Hope someone out there has a solution, especially for Adobe. Bob GIlley Jeanette Russo wrote: Sounds good to me Mike now if I can only get Real Player to work, Has anyone got this to work I installed it with the RPM for RH and it runs but does nothing. Won't play any files and when I try to click on a RV link it just wants to download it instead of playing it? Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Re: Real Player
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/rvplayer5.0 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH=$PATH":$HOME/rvplayer5.0:" - Original Message - From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Real Player also you need to add the path to the .profile file. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Robert Gilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 7:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: Real Player Hi Jeanette, I'm having nearly the same problem with Real Player (and Adobe Acrobat). I've added the path in the Netscape application area, Real Audio and Adobe Acrobat launch but neither will do what they are suppose to do. I can access a file locally on my hard drive and everything works great. Hope someone out there has a solution, especially for Adobe. Bob GIlley Jeanette Russo wrote: Sounds good to me Mike now if I can only get Real Player to work, Has anyone got this to work I installed it with the RPM for RH and it runs but does nothing. Won't play any files and when I try to click on a RV link it just wants to download it instead of playing it? Jeanette
Re: [newbie] mounting FAT partitions
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 03:40:35PM -0400, Manny Styles wrote: can anyone tell me the complete command to mount a FAT partition under linux to access the file system? mount -tvfat /dev/partition /mnt/mountpoint partition is the FAT partition (hda1, hdb3, etc), mountpoint is the directory onto which you'd like to mount it. How about trimming that signature down a bit? 9 lines is a little ridiculous when you're only posting 2 lines of actual message. Actually, 9 lines is ridiculous even if you're posting 3 pages of content! -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] VMWARE????
Is it worth it. Does it work. I want to know before I D/L it and install it on my system. If you have any experience with it Please Let me know. Thanks James J. Capone Webmaster http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/Linux Asst. Webmaster http://www.ptm.com "Even Common People Can Attain Uncommon Results!"
Re: [newbie] VMWARE????
From: James J. Capone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it worth it. Does it work. I want to know before I D/L it and install it on my system. If you have any experience with it Please Let me know. Thanks Is it worth it? Well, now "it" is free (until it's out of beta), so it sure is. Is it worth $300? Much more difficult choice. Does it work? Yesterday afternoon, I installed it on my Linux box, and I had WinNT 4.0 Workstation running within about 90 minutes or so. It works great! The display is a bit slower than stock NT (but I'm running it in a window, not full-screen). It would be nice if it supported raw SCSI partitions (only IDE will be supported in v1.0). It would also be nice if it supported BeOS. I haven't yet installed Win98 and WfG to try to network them with the virtual NT machine, but I will soon, I think. Anybody have a "Samba for Dummies" doc? I'm sure I'm missing something pretty basic here, but all the documentation I've seen for Samba is at a higher level that I know what to do with.
Re: [newbie] VMWARE????
"James J. Capone" wrote: Is it worth it. Does it work. I want to know before I D/L it and install it on my system. If you have any experience with it Please Let me know. Thanks I played with it for a few days right after the first beta was announced. It seemed to work very well overall. I was able to do most everything I normally do under Windows (I didn't try any DirectX or 3D stuff with it, however). As for being worth it, the beta's free, so there's no doubt it's worth the download time. For the final product, I remember seeing that they were asking something like $300 for it. At that price point, I begin to wonder if rebooting into Windows is REALLY that much of a hassle on this home computer. I'll probably skip the retail version until there is better pricing available. The one thing that VMware seems to do that really makes it non-optimal for more than a couple users, is that it (by default) requires you to install Windows for each and every user. So, if you want to install for you and your wife, you're looking at a couple gig down the drain. VMware will, with a little tweaking, use your Windows partition. But, with Windows being as flakey as it is about detecting hardware/booting/etc, is it really worth the risk? All in all, it's an interesting product, and if it takes off, it will confirm Linus' idea that Windows emulation is useful for Linux. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installalling dizzaster!!!
Don Bonomini wrote: Hey everyone! Someone... HELP! I luved linux so much, i recommened it to a friend, and i went to install it for him. ok, so we defragmented, and ran fips to "safely" partition the drive. He has a 12 gig hard drive, and i set up the partitions as 10 gig for windows, and 1.1 gig for linux. Ok... partitioned fine. I ran the Linux install. Then Disk Druid. I delete the 1.1 gig partition we jus made to free up the space for the Linux partitions, and for some reason, when i try and create the root, /, partiton, it gives me the error, The bootable partition doesnt have enuff free space. It lets me creat any other partition i want, like /usr, or the swap partiton, but jus not the / partition. Ive read somewhere that the first (bootable) partition, which wuld be windoze of course, has to be within the first 1024 cylenders of the drive? Is this true? If it is... is there anyway to install and run a dual-boot system giving 10 gigs to win and 1.1 to linux? Please help! I dont wannt my friend to sue me for messin his computer up!!! (No offense dave, if ur readin this :-) Well, thanks in advance! See yall later! The 1024 cylinder advice is still true, and will continue to be true until the x86 platform joins the 20th century. This is NOT a Linux limitation, it is an architectural problem that will affect any operating system on x86. I'm wondering a couple things though. One, if you could use loadlin to get around the 1024 cylinder restriction. Since the kernel would be contained in the Windows filesystem, there wouldn't be any need to revert to the BIOS to deal with booting. That's a possibility, but it won't help you during installation. What you might want to consider is creating just a very small (say 5 or 10M) partition that falls beneath the 1024 cylinder limit and use that as the /boot partition. Then create a normal / partition that could then be placed at the far end of the drive without causing any problems whatsoever. Give the second one a try and see what happens. It should work. The first one was meant more as a "Hmm???" to people on this list that know much more than I about the particulars of Linux booting. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
