Re: [newbie] giving up
You never said how much RAM you have. If you have just 32MB of memory, in my humble opinion, that is too little for KDE/Netscape. Jimmy Garcia wrote: I've spent a week, unsuccessfully, trying to get Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to work properly. After getting through the install procedure, which went by with no real difficulty, I started Linux and was amazed at how slow it was. It kept accessing my hard drive for almost every little thing I did. I gave it a 3 Gig ext2 partition and a 200MB swap file partition from my 10Gig IBM 7200RPM ide hard drive. All my hardware is supposed to be compatible with it (except for my SB Live). It took like 3 minutes for Netscape to load, it took 3 minutes for a desktop theme to apply, and there was obviously something wrong with it. I tried to shut it down, but then it hung while "preparing a new session." When I rebooted, there were errors on my hard drive and I had to 'run fsck manually'. I did, and when I started it again, some programs wouldn't work like, Netcfg. Some Icons turned black in KDE and I couldn't even click on them. I had the same shutdown problem and decided to re-install it.The same things happened to me. I was told that I have to upgrade some kernal or something. But, I can't even load Linux without having to go through that lengthy fsck procedure at startup. I guess I just stick to windows :( For those Linux experts out there, someone should come up with a site or book that'll help people migrate from Windows to Linux.Just a suggestion. Thanks everyone! James Garcia
[newbie] 6.0 looks good works bad
I did a complete reformat and install of M6 and must say, what works looks good. Problem is no sound (SBAWE 64), no scsi card (sym53c416). Both of these worked fine in M5.3. I have upgraed the init scripts and kernel which has changed nothing. -- Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5788323 AIM RobertLS
Re: [newbie] giving up
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Jimmy Garcia wrote: I guess I should try, could you let me know how do to do that? I'm someone who's worked with windows since I started with computers and I can't even mount a MSDOS drive, so please take it easy with all those linux/unix terms :) Ok, so I'm assuming you haven't set up net access in Linux either. Download the updated initscripts package, and put it to C:\. Now boot Linux. Assuming your DOS/Windoze C:\ partition is /dev/hda1 (=first partition of the primary master IDE drive), mkdir /mnt/tmp mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/tmp rpm -U --force /mnt/tmp/initscripts* Yes, there is a GUI way to do this too, but I know this way better. ;) LLaP bero
[newbie] Making your own bootable CD
I would like to make my own bootable CD of M6,
including the latest release fixes. Files will have to be d/ld via FTP to
a Win NT box, then copied to a Win 98 box, which is where the CD will be
burned.
Can someone point me to some explicit ('cause I'm a
newbie!) instructions on how to do this?
Thanks,
Greg
[newbie] Screenshots in KDE?
Does anybody know of a utility that will do screenshots in KDE (or X generally?) I ran across a trick using xv, but I could only get that to capture the xv window, which isn't what I'm trying to do. Any help is appreciated! -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
[newbie] Screenshots...
Never mind... a little more digging on freshmeat, and I found that ksnapshot is part of the package. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
[newbie] Laptop Install
Hi, I am trying to install Mandrake 6.0 on a Mitac 5026 laptop but installation halts at the mouse probing stage. It says 'probing found some type of PS/2 on port ps aux' then hangs and can only be hard reset. This laptop has had Redhat 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 previously installed with no problems. Any help would be appreciated. Iain
Re: [newbie] establishing a ppp connection
"Birchall, Richard" wrote: s3x [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: i seemed to have my modem (isdn bri t/a external) configured properly under kppp and the account info is correct but it never finishes logging in. when i watch the log window all i get is garbage characters. i've tried every setting i saw ( CHAP, PAP, Script and Terminal) to no avail. i've filled in expected arguements and all. does anyone have a clue where i should start to fix this. Your first step is probably to delete the kppprc file and start fresh. $ (HOMEDIR)/.kde/share/config/kppprc Each user (including root) has a separate home directory. The .kde directory is hidden, so you have to enable "view hidden files" in the KDE file browser. Garbage characters usually means you are already in PPP mode, and do not use a text-based login. So that means use PAP or CHAP (not Script or Terminal). It sounds like you are using kppp, so you should just enter your username password in the very first screen, and kppp will pass that info to pppd. To view the debugging messages: Edit /etc/syslog.conf. Change where it says: *.info to: *.debug (Don't forget to switch this back after you get your ppp connection working!) Then stop restart the syslogd daemon. killall -HUP syslogd syslogd Add the following line to /etc/ppp/options: debug While you are trying your ppp connection, open another console window, then type: tail -f /var/log/messages You can include those last few lines of ppp debug info, in future messages... Richard
[newbie] sometimes it works...L-M 6.0 upgrade
This will be a long post, so be warned. Reason? Because it feels so good to have something work the way it should, and I have to tell you about what happened. I sampled linux about a month ago. Bought a new hard drive w/8gig's and decided to dedicate the old one (3.9) to a trial of linux. Installed L-M 5.3 with little problem. Got the sound to work. Got the printer to work. Had a lot of trouble with getting on the internet with my ibm.net ISP, but finally worked my way on with control-panel, network configuration and interface ppp0 using activate/inactivate. Got Netscape 4.5 to work OK. I llke the linux system and the philosophy and am learning as I go. I agree we could sure use a little more help on the way the system works and how the file systems are set up, but we'll eventually learn all this. So, along comes L-M 6.0, and of course everyone has to have the latest version, right? Right, ... and when it came in the mail I took a long look at the configuration of my current system and decided it would be worth a try to upgrade from 5.3. First try. Made the boot floppy in linux from the CD. Added several programs to the default load on the CD and away we went. About an hour into the installation, the CD is thrashing around and nothing much is going on. The timer said another 8 hours. Time to dump the upgrade, so we got out. Next, we decide to abandon the current configuration and do a complete new install. Started the process and about 4 pages in, it quit and told me it was unable to continue. OK, one last try. Back to the upgrade path once more. Did the upgrade with NO changes to the default programs and the installation went tickety-boo. Saved all my old configuration files and even upgraded the kernel to 2.2.9-19 and netscape to 4.6. Needless to say, I am ecstatic. Everything works great and is very fast now that I told lilo.conf "append = mem=128" We are not totally problem free... the modem will not hang up out of the interface ppp0, but we will eventually get KPPP (or something else) to work and solve that problem. The sound still works, the printer still works and I can still get on the net, which is how you are learning more than you really care about this project. My apologies. It just feels good when something works right for a change. I think Linux-Mandrake has done a hell of a good job on the change to 6.0. I would hope everyone else has as good an experience. Thanks, Guys and Gals.
[newbie] Re: library upgrades
Hi, Bernhard, Thanks! That did it. Hidong Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I just upgraded my glibc from the stock Mandrake 5.3 glibc-2.0.7-29 to glibc-2.1.1-6. Updating from glibc 2.0.x to 2.1.x is always a big problem because there were a lot of internal changes. They're not 100% binary compatible. If you need glibc 2.1.x for something, you should get a distribution that is built for it, like Mandrake 6.0. I did the upgrade by downloading glibc-2.1.1-6.i386.rpm from a mirror Bad choice, by the way - glibc-2.1.1-6.i386.rpm is Red Hat's idea of a glibc RPM - it's actually a CVS snapshot of the glibc 2.1.1 development tree that's dated somewhere between the pre1 and the pre2 release. My question is, how do I revert back to glibc-2.0.7-29? Is it just a simple matter of 'rpm -ivh --replacefiles glibc-2.0.7-29.i386.rpm'? My choice would be 'rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.0.7-29.i386.rpm', because this would also delete glibc 2.1.1 specific files. Don't forget to do the same to any other related packages (glibc-devel etc). LLaP bero
[newbie] not giving up!
Thanks for the replies everyone! I'm going to try a fresh install and installing those updated 'initscripts' Bernhard Rosenkraenzer told me about. I'll let you guys know how it goes. By the way, I've got 128MB of ram. I'm hoping that I can post my next message using Linux already! Jimmy
Re: [newbie] SAMBA
Perhaps you could send your smb.conf -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04 Juni 1999 9:46 Subject: Re: [newbie] SAMBA Thanks for using NetForward! http://www.netforward.com v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:32:46AM +, Philip C. Hewitt II wrote: thanks I works for every Windows95 machine I've tested it on but now I find that it will not work on Windows98 PCs...it just keeps asking for the password for IPC$...and no matter what I put in there I get rejected and an incorrect password...HELP...I'm trying to convince my boss's boss to go with linux and I need to get this working!1 Check the SAMBA documentation. Microsoft changed the password techniques between 95 and 98 and so there's some extra configuration to do. It's covered in the docs, though. Tigani B wrote: Have you define samba users using command "smbadduser"? If you use this command to add new samba users, it'll ask you the "smbpasswd" as well. In smb.conf, have you enabled "encrypted password = Yes"? Thanks for using NetForward! http://www.netforward.com v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v After I upgraded my Mandrake5.3 to use the 2.2.7 kernels SAMBA daemon stopped loading...I read all the man pages and all the howtos...I even tried manually starting it and it just doesn't start...I recompiled the kernel with smbfs support just to make sure and still when I try and connect from Windows it prompts me for the password for IPC$...my user name and passwords are all sync'ed...help -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] LM 6.0 Install Issues...
Hey everybody. I have been using 5.3 for awhile now and have had no serious problems. Now that the time to upgrade versions has come around, I decided I might as well jump on the bandwagon. But first I have a few questions so I don't fubar later on in the process of this install. Mainly what I am wondering is if there is a way I can simply upgrade to the new version without having to do a brand spanking new install. If there is a way, how? I have checked around in the DOCs on the CD but have had no luck on finding info on how to do this. Secondly, if you can't upgrade, how would I go about formating my HD with linux while still leaving my LILO configuration intact. Thx for the help everybody, I really appreciate the helpful and gracious responses people always seem to share when others ask questions on this list. Thx again, Bye. Bob Bonifield Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://lan.quakecity.net/ Bob Bonifield Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://lan.quakecity.net/
[newbie] Swap partition size
Hi, I am going to be reinstalling again, but since our last install, we updated our system with a new motherboard, chipset to 450/100MHZ, and doubled our RAM from 128 to 256. Can we make one swap partition size of 256 or do we have to make 2 partitions of 128MG each? Linda At 09:02 PM 6/5/99 +0200, you wrote: On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: I'm pretty sure the maximum allowable single swap partition size is 128 mb. No longer. It used to be until some 2.1 kernel (2.1.25, I think). LLaP bero
