[newbie] accessing vfat partition causing Mandrake 6.0 to crash.
When using Mandrake 5.2, I had no problem accessing my windows98 vfat partition and copying files over to Linux. I was thrilled with the improvements to Mandrake 6.0, until I tried to transfer files from win98. I mounted the vfat directory as follows: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win When I move the files over, Mandrake will lock up. When I restart the computer, key files fail to load, and I have to reinstall mandrake 6.0. Using "control-alt-backspace" unlocks kde, but all the desktop icons disappear, and none of the controls will work, except for shutdown. My computer is an Emachine 333c, with 32 megs ram. It works fine with Mandrake 5.2, and it works fine with RedHat 6.0. I really prefer Mandrake 6.0, but I can't use it if it continues to behave this way. What can I do to solve this problem? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
Re: [newbie] accessing vfat partition causing Mandrake 6.0 to crash.
when you transfer a file ext2 -- vfat don't do any other thing but only WAIT!! --- Joubert's [EMAIL PROTECTED] scritto: When using Mandrake 5.2, I had no problem accessing my windows98 vfat partition and copying files over to Linux. I was thrilled with the improvements to Mandrake 6.0, until I tried to transfer files from win98. I mounted the vfat directory as follows: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win When I move the files over, Mandrake will lock up. When I restart the computer, key files fail to load, and I have to reinstall mandrake 6.0. Using "control-alt-backspace" unlocks kde, but all the desktop icons disappear, and none of the controls will work, except for shutdown. My computer is an Emachine 333c, with 32 megs ram. It works fine with Mandrake 5.2, and it works fine with RedHat 6.0. I really prefer Mandrake 6.0, but I can't use it if it continues to behave this way. What can I do to solve this problem? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you. __ DO YOU YAHOO!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
[newbie] Re: XWindows Interface Other than KDE
I have the power pack edition and having used the KDE for a while I would like to just use Xwindows instead as I would like to compare that with the KDE. Is it possible to disable the kde and use just a more conventional xwindows interface? It sure is. Try running "desktopcfg" fromthe command-line. Choose your window manager, and restart X. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Cannot mount ATAPI CDR when using SCSI emulation - jrt
My install of Mandrake 6.0 (on an AMD350, 96M RAM with 2 IDE HDs, 1 MITSUMI CR-2801TE CD-R 1 MITSUMI FX240S CD-ROM) failed to configure the IDE CD-R correctly with SCSI emulation, but I was able to manually mount both as IDE CDs. The file: /usr/doc/xcdroast-0.96e/README.ATAPIgives directions for re-compiling the kernel to: 4) In "Floppy, IDE and other block devices", disable "IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM support" and enable instead "scsi emulation" 5) in "SCSI support" enable "SCSI support", "SCSI CD-ROM support" and "SCSI generic support", everything directly in the kernel. make boot returned an error that the image was too big, and something to the effect of making more modules I went back into make xconfig, and aggressively converted kernel build ins to modules, and managed to compile a kernel that fit (now I managed to break a number of other things, but that is a subject of a different post). Now the CD-R and CD-ROM are configured a SCSI devices. From the boot sequence: hdc: CR-2801TE, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: FX240S, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 90680D4, 6485MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=826/255/63 hdb: Maxtor 82160D2, 2060MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=523/128/63 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-2801TE Rev: 1.07 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CD-ROM FX240S Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms total. sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x writer xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray where MITSUMI Model: CR-2801TE is the CD-R and MITSUMI Model: CD-ROM FX240S is the CD-ROM . . . good cdrecord -scanbus reports: Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsibus0: 0) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-2801TE ' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM 1) 'MITSUMI ' 'CD-ROM FX240S !B' 'j01 ' Removable CD-ROM 2) * so the CDs are configured and xcdroast finds the drives as both SCSI IDE in the section SCSI/IDE-Info but, if I try to mount either drive manually, I get: [root@extralin /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/disk mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems [root@extralin /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/disk mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd, or too many mounted file systems [root@extralin /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sda /mnt/disk mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) [root@extralin /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdb /mnt/disk mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sdb as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) [root@extralin /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdc /mnt/disk mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sdc as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) [root@extralin /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdd /mnt/disk mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sdd as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) [root@extralin /root]# Now the SCSI emulation has been compiles into the kernel, but no harm in looking at the modules. . . [root@extralin /root]# lsmod Module Size Used by nfsd 150648 1 (autoclean) lockd 30888 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 52644 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] ne2k-pci3812 1 (autoclean) 83906244 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci] vfat 11356 0 (unused) fat25664 0 [vfat] awe_wave 158028 0 (unused) sb 33076 0 uart401 5904 0 [sb] sound 57272 0 [awe_wave sb uart401] soundlow 300 0 [sound] soundcore 2372 6 [sb sound] The pertanent bits of /etc/fstab look like: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrauto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 Well I am at a loss. Sorry for the length of this post, but I hope that I have provided enough info so stat somebody can point me in the right directiom. Thank you in advance. . .jrt
Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?
Steve Winston wrote: I'm a Linux Mandrake user who received a Fry's gift certificate for his birthday. I want a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend particular brands? I am looking for an ATX, 3 DIMM slots, Slot 7, something compatible with the Pentium 233 mmx chip I have now but that will accept a more powerful AMD chip later when I have the $$ for a new cpu. thanks for your help in advance, steve w. I'm using an ASUS P2B 440 BX and it's working very well with Linux-Mandrake (if that's your particular concern). As for Slot 7, I think you either meant Socket 7 or Slot I or II.
Re: [newbie] Cannot mount ATAPI CDR when using SCSI emulation - jrt
You need to change your FSTAB entries to point to the new scsi emulated CD's, ie - something along the lines of: /dev/sr0/mnt/cdwriter etc. etc. /dev/sr1/mnt/cdreaderetc. etc. Also if you use graphical mounting via icons under KDE or Gnome, you will need to do the same there. As far as the kernel size is concerned when you recompiled, did you do a 'make zImage' or a 'make bzImage'. Since kernel 2.2.x i have not been able to get a kernel small enough without doing the bzImage, but i've not yet had problems where i've had to sacrifice stuff to module status. You don't have to do anything else different apart from the make command above. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?
P2Bs are just about as good as they get. -hevnsnt On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Pankil Richards wrote: Steve Winston wrote: I'm a Linux Mandrake user who received a Fry's gift certificate for his birthday. I want a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend particular brands? I am looking for an ATX, 3 DIMM slots, Slot 7, something compatible with the Pentium 233 mmx chip I have now but that will accept a more powerful AMD chip later when I have the $$ for a new cpu. thanks for your help in advance, steve w. I'm using an ASUS P2B 440 BX and it's working very well with Linux-Mandrake (if that's your particular concern). As for Slot 7, I think you either meant Socket 7 or Slot I or II.
RE: [newbie] Which motherboards?
I use a Tyan Trinity 100 AT with a AMD K6-2 350, it has three DIMMs and a couple of SIMMs but I think you will need to use PC100 DIMMs if you are planing to use the board at 100MHz. If the Bogomips rating is an indication of speed, this board (with the 350 and 32MB RAM) rates 699. I assume that is what it means.. The Pentium 100 I use at work only rates 39 bogomips... At any rate - here is a web site with the specs on the board if this is something you are interested in: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/s1590s.html Beach -Original Message- From: Pankil Richards [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards? Steve Winston wrote: I'm a Linux Mandrake user who received a Fry's gift certificate for his birthday. I want a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend particular brands? I am looking for an ATX, 3 DIMM slots, Slot 7, something compatible with the Pentium 233 mmx chip I have now but that will accept a more powerful AMD chip later when I have the $$ for a new cpu. thanks for your help in advance, steve w. I'm using an ASUS P2B 440 BX and it's working very well with Linux-Mandrake (if that's your particular concern). As for Slot 7, I think you either meant Socket 7 or Slot I or II.
Re: [newbie] X Login On Startup
Yup, that happened to me before too. My recomendation is: delete your old kdebase (rpm -e kdebase) reinstall kdebase from the RPMs in the Mandrake distribution The only problem is that after you run KDE again, you might have to reconfigure some minor details (I had to reinstall my theme. YMMV.) On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Richard M Davis wrote: Can someone, por favor, point me at the settings files that dictate the Mandrake 6 login screen. My machine crashed while trying to start Another Level instead of KDE (I think that's what happened, I've only got patchy details from the guy that perpetrated this evil deed!) I ran fsck on my /home partition, and everything's almost back to normal EXCEPT the Login Dialog is now just a default KDE, offering only KDE and failsafe, instead of the nice top hat and all the other lovely WM choices which was the default after installation. I could easily reinstall, but I'd like to understand how this bit of the system setup works, if anyone can help. Cheers! Richard
Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?
Hi, We have two machines running Mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.2.9 with asus p2b-ds (dual PII) motherboards. The machines work great. However, there is a problem with modems on this motherboard and smp kernels. After upgrading to 2.2.x kernels, the modem, usr #5687 isa, is not accessible using any of the dial up programs like usernet, ezppp, or kppp. It is accessible by minicom. The modem is accessible by these dial up programs when running a up 2.2.x kernel. Also, the modems were working fine under smp and up 2.0.x kernels. I've posted this problem on other lists, and people say that there's probably an irq conflict under 2.2.x kernels, but I haven't solved the problem. Fortunately, we're using another machine as a gateway, so we don't need modems on our smp machines. Has anyone else had problems using modems with this motherboard and smp 2.2.x kernels? Thanks, Hidong Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: - Original Message - From: Pankil Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards? Steve Winston wrote: I'm a Linux Mandrake user who received a Fry's gift certificate for his birthday. I want a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend particular brands? I am looking for an ATX, 3 DIMM slots, Slot 7, something compatible with the Pentium 233 mmx chip I have now but that will accept a more powerful AMD chip later when I have the $$ for a new cpu. thanks for your help in advance, steve w. I'm using an ASUS P2B 440 BX and it's working very well with Linux-Mandrake (if that's your particular concern). As for Slot 7, I think you either meant Socket 7 or Slot I or II. I have the same mb, the ASUS P2B and it works great, period, but especially with Linux. Jonathan Dlouhy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. -- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the 20th anniversary celebration of the moon landing, 7/20/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
[newbie] Theme problem
Hello all: After installing and configuring Mandrake 5.3 more or less decently, I decided I was ready for taking it to the next step. I borrowed and installed Corel Wordperfect without any problems, then decided to download some themes and some mp3's. Went to themes.org and downloaded a couple of KDE themes and one of the installers (i believe these are bash scripts), called ktinstaller.tar.gz Ran the thing and installed without problems (i then believed), I now had a couple of nice green bars and a leafy background. But when I tried to open a window KDE crashed and shut me down! now I cant use my regular account, at least not in KDE mode (im writing this from my root account), and since I am pretty inept at the command line, I was wondering if any of you could help me uninstall this theme to reclaim my desktop. -- = Jose Alberto Abreu Executive Editor Plan B Mystical Enterprises = "Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come" -Victor Hugo = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Get Your Own Free Pop or Web Based Email and a 10MB Web Site for FREE at: http://www.nettaxi.com! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: [newbie] X Login On Startup
Hi, I think the config file is /usr/share/config/kdmrc. You might edit by hand the appropriate fields and spare yourself a full package reinstall. If you get it going, make an oddly named (so it doesn't get easily overwritten) backup copy for future cases. Don't use kdmrc.bak or kdmrc~, those are commonly used by many editors. Hope this helps, Fernando. On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Eric Popelka wrote: Yup, that happened to me before too. My recomendation is: delete your old kdebase (rpm -e kdebase) reinstall kdebase from the RPMs in the Mandrake distribution The only problem is that after you run KDE again, you might have to reconfigure some minor details (I had to reinstall my theme. YMMV.) On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Richard M Davis wrote: Can someone, por favor, point me at the settings files that dictate the Mandrake 6 login screen. My machine crashed while trying to start Another Level instead of KDE (I think that's what happened, I've only got patchy details from the guy that perpetrated this evil deed!) I ran fsck on my /home partition, and everything's almost back to normal EXCEPT the Login Dialog is now just a default KDE, offering only KDE and failsafe, instead of the nice top hat and all the other lovely WM choices which was the default after installation. I could easily reinstall, but I'd like to understand how this bit of the system setup works, if anyone can help. Cheers! Richard
[newbie] wine
how do i get wine to work this is what happens. i have mandrake 6 root@localhost /root]# wine Could not stat MANDRAKE_FLOPPY, ignoring drive A: Could not stat MANDRAKE_PARTC, ignoring drive C: Could not stat MANDRAKE_CDPATH, ignoring drive D: Invalid path'MANDRAKE_WINDIR\' for windows directory Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file. This is either /etc/wine.conf or $HOME/.winerc or it is determined by the-config option or from the WINE_INI environment variable. Wine has used /etc/wine.conf as configuration file.
[newbie] Thanks to respondents on motherboards
Thanks to all the people who replied to my query about motherboards. i always appreciate the help I get on this list. adios, Steve Winston _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] wine
Caught me out too only the other night ! When i saw the MANDRAKE_PARTC etc, i assumed i had to set environment variables of these names pointing to where i really wanted them to be, but still no luck. Turns out substituting the text for the real paths (as root) in '/etc/wine.conf' or '~/.winerc' (make a copy of /etc/wine.conf called that) if you want per user configuration. Typical paths might be : For 'MANDRAKE_FLOPPY' substitute '/dev/fd0' For 'MANDRAKE_PARTC' i used '/win' (as that's where my windows dir is mounted). Follow this through to the end of the file (there's a couple more in there somewhere) and you should get things working. This _MAY_ not be how it's meant to be, but it certainly worked for me. Martin. PS: Again, i may be wrong, but i think you _MUST_ specify a program to run. Try 'wine notepad' as a starting point as that one's worked for eons. - Original Message - From: John Mandeville [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 8:17 PM Subject: [newbie] wine how do i get wine to work this is what happens. i have mandrake 6 root@localhost /root]# wine Could not stat MANDRAKE_FLOPPY, ignoring drive A: Could not stat MANDRAKE_PARTC, ignoring drive C: Could not stat MANDRAKE_CDPATH, ignoring drive D: Invalid path'MANDRAKE_WINDIR\' for windows directory Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file. This is either /etc/wine.conf or $HOME/.winerc or it is determined by the-config option or from the WINE_INI environment variable. Wine has used /etc/wine.conf as configuration file.
[newbie] broken (?) desktop link
Hi all, The Netscape link on my KDE desktop has suddenly decided to stop working. I have to log in as root and poke around in /usr/bin for the Netscape executable to get it to run, but when I am not logged in as root I can't get NS to run, no way, no how. (It worked fine for a while...) I know this is probably an easy fix but I can't find it in the KDE online help or my newbie books - what's the story? TIA John Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 5.3
Re: [newbie] broken (?) desktop link
What is the Netscape link set to execute? To find this, right click on the link, go to Properties, then tab Execute, and look at the field under Execute. On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, you wrote: Hi all, The Netscape link on my KDE desktop has suddenly decided to stop working. I have to log in as root and poke around in /usr/bin for the Netscape executable to get it to run, but when I am not logged in as root I can't get NS to run, no way, no how. (It worked fine for a while...) I know this is probably an easy fix but I can't find it in the KDE online help or my newbie books - what's the story? TIA John Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 5.3
[newbie] samba
Anyone remember the webpage for that very help samba walkthru?
