Re: [newbie] Can't uninstall LILO (part 2)
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 5:33 PM Subject: [newbie] Can't uninstall LILO (part 2) > Ok...type "fdisk /mbr", I got that. But just to make sure, will it do > anything to my Windows 98? Linux was on the same hard drive as Win98. Just > checking before I do fdisk /mbr. > > Matt > no problems at all, I have used it a few times Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Buy one for the price of two and get another one free! NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Can't uninstall LILO (part 2)
Shouldn't affect win98 any. :-) All it will do is make Win98 your ONLY boot option. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 5:33 PM Subject: [newbie] Can't uninstall LILO (part 2) > Ok...type "fdisk /mbr", I got that. But just to make sure, will it do > anything to my Windows 98? Linux was on the same hard drive as Win98. Just > checking before I do fdisk /mbr. > > Matt >
Re: [newbie] Lilo
Paul Gu wrote: > It is hard to say. I have two 10G hard drives. One is Maxtor UDMA-2 as > slave on one computer with Intel Triton Chip(Master hard drive Maxtor > 6.4G), the other is Western Digital UDMA-4 Hard drive as Master and > SamSung 4.3 GB UDMA-2 as slave with SIS 5513 IDE Chipset. In first > scenerio I was able to install Mandrake 6.0, and on sceond scenrio it > always hung-up when I tried to FDISK, but I was able to install Redhat > 6.0 to it. > > However, LILO use some BIOS calls and it is absolutely limited to first > 1024 cylinder. So you have to make sure you create a small partition > within first 1024 cylinder and mount it as /boot. I only use one > cylinder (8MB) for this purpose. Besides, In FDISK, you have to use "a" > (no quote) to make it bootable. > > John Aldrich wrote: > > > > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > > > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive ( with more than > > > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install on my system . > > > > > Well, I've never done it before, but I'm told that RedHat 6.0 will install on a > > large drive (13 gig IDE) without having to use a boot floppy, and since > > Mandrake is based heavily on RedHat, it should work for you. > > > > -- > > John Aldrich > > COL Tech Support > > === > > Chattanooga Online Internet > > 423-267-8867 Ok I created a small partition 20MB at the front of the disk . I set it as active . But I don't understand mount it as /boot ? Thanks jsm
Re: [newbie] just for the record...
Hy, I started the "Install horrors.." set of messages. In reality, all 6.0 install problems I had stemmed from my own errors. Once I took care of those, installation went swiftly and easily, like it always has since I first installed rh5.1 last summer on an old Compaq 486. And 6.0 automatically configured lilo so that I can boot to either the Linux harddrive or the win95 hard drive on my Micron pentium. adios, steve winston --- John Knopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:59 AM 6/18/99 -0700, Don Kelley wrote: > > >I read so much about venus not working or being > buggy just for the record > >I've had no problems with it at all other than a cd > I burned myself becoming > >corrupted rather quickly - > > I'm glad to hear someone saying this. I've got a > copy of Venus here in my > office and so far I haven't had the gonads to try to > install the thing > since my Festen box is working so well. Maybe I'll > give it a shot > > >fixed all of the real problems - only stuff left is > just linux's lack of user > >friendliness regarding ports and the /dev folder > (for a newbie this makes > >absolutely no sense, especially when trying to > mount or connect to a > particular > >port or filesystem and I type in exactly what > various linux books tell me to > >and I get error messages). > > I'm also very encouraged to hear someone else saying > this - it is horribly > exasperating to pore over newbie books (I have three > tomes that I refer to > often) for hours only to be confronted with another > inane error message > when following the written advice. > > >Don > > John Knopp > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mandrake 5.3 > _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Can't uninstall LILO (part 2)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok...type "fdisk /mbr", I got that. But just to make sure, will it do > anything to my Windows 98? Linux was on the same hard drive as Win98. Just > checking before I do fdisk /mbr. > > Matt It will just restore you mbr to the way it was before . your system will just load windows after reboot . jsm
Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load
- Original Message - From: Bob Springett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 11:54 AM Subject: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load I wrote recently about a problem with the load failure of Venus 6.0 on a PR200 Cyrix chipped PC . You answered part of the query but not why I couldn't load it. I have since read that others with the same chips have similar problems. Since one of the features of Venus 6.0 is to accomodate the Pentium, Cyrix and Win??? can you tell me if anything has been done to address this problem? I've tried about 8 times to load, upgrade and it always 'bombs out' with error or sig 11. I believe you said that the kernel updates do much to alleviate certain problems but how do I update a system that I cannot load initially; I do not have CDROM writable facilities.Please tell me. Or alternatively is there a new disk available which includes all the upgrades? Festen remains on my machine working well. Kindest regards Bob Springett - As far as using the updates, your best bet may be to just download them and copy the other RPMs and installation files from your CD-ROM to a partition on your harddisk that will not be used during installation. It has to be better than waiting for an update CD-ROM to be released (and spending the money on it). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's always darkest before...Daylight Savings Time. NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] Can't uninstall LILO (part 2)
Ok...type "fdisk /mbr", I got that. But just to make sure, will it do anything to my Windows 98? Linux was on the same hard drive as Win98. Just checking before I do fdisk /mbr. Matt
Re: [newbie] Lilo
I would suggest making multiple boot floppies. :-) Just in case. :-) Read up on mkbootdisk command. John - Original Message - From: Don Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 3:05 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Lilo > so I may or may not be screwed when it comes to installing mandrake seamlessly > on my machine with a 13 gig drive then. I may end up with a boot floppy > (floppies always piss me off - they're so amazingly unreliable) > > ok, fair enough. I guess time will tell. > Don
Re: [newbie] just for the record...
At 07:59 AM 6/18/99 -0700, Don Kelley wrote: >I read so much about venus not working or being buggy just for the record >I've had no problems with it at all other than a cd I burned myself becoming >corrupted rather quickly - I'm glad to hear someone saying this. I've got a copy of Venus here in my office and so far I haven't had the gonads to try to install the thing since my Festen box is working so well. Maybe I'll give it a shot >fixed all of the real problems - only stuff left is just linux's lack of user >friendliness regarding ports and the /dev folder (for a newbie this makes >absolutely no sense, especially when trying to mount or connect to a particular >port or filesystem and I type in exactly what various linux books tell me to >and I get error messages). I'm also very encouraged to hear someone else saying this - it is horribly exasperating to pore over newbie books (I have three tomes that I refer to often) for hours only to be confronted with another inane error message when following the written advice. >Don John Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 5.3
Re: [newbie] lynx
All you need to fix that problem is a tmp directory in your home directory, so just type 'mkdir ~/tmp' (without the quotes) and then Lynx will work. On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Don Kelley wrote: > yep, same problem. I never use it so can't say that I've configured it or > anything, just as it is out of the mandrake 6 cd. I wonder if they goofed > on the install from the mandrake 6 cd somehow? > > I rarely use netscape, just when I have to ftp or view a shockwave file (my > business), and normally use the k browser for my web stuff - I always liked > the way internet explorer integrates into windows, and I'm glad someone took > the GOOD parts of that idea and worked it into k. But Lynx? just not my > thing. > > Don > - > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > > On Venus, I tried to run lynx last night, > and had an error regarding a tmp > file. > (I don't remember the exact message right now. > I'll post it later if > no one has any ideas.) > Any thoughts? > > Thanks. > Bill -Tom
Re: [newbie] Lilo
It is hard to say. I have two 10G hard drives. One is Maxtor UDMA-2 as slave on one computer with Intel Triton Chip(Master hard drive Maxtor 6.4G), the other is Western Digital UDMA-4 Hard drive as Master and SamSung 4.3 GB UDMA-2 as slave with SIS 5513 IDE Chipset. In first scenerio I was able to install Mandrake 6.0, and on sceond scenrio it always hung-up when I tried to FDISK, but I was able to install Redhat 6.0 to it. However, LILO use some BIOS calls and it is absolutely limited to first 1024 cylinder. So you have to make sure you create a small partition within first 1024 cylinder and mount it as /boot. I only use one cylinder (8MB) for this purpose. Besides, In FDISK, you have to use "a" (no quote) to make it bootable. John Aldrich wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive ( with more than > > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install on my system . > > > Well, I've never done it before, but I'm told that RedHat 6.0 will install on a > large drive (13 gig IDE) without having to use a boot floppy, and since > Mandrake is based heavily on RedHat, it should work for you. > > -- > John Aldrich > COL Tech Support > === > Chattanooga Online Internet > 423-267-8867
RE: [newbie] lynx
Thanks Matt! -Original Message- From: Matt Stegman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] lynx - Original Message - From: Bill Moshier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 1:15 PM Subject: [newbie] lynx > On Venus, I tried to run lynx last night, > and had an error regarding a tmp file. To fix it, "mkdir ~/tmp" For some reason, Lynx likes to use a temporary directory in your home directory, instead of the system-wide one (at /var./tmp). -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [newbie] Can't unistall LILO
boot with dos or windows 95 boot diskette, then at A prompt, type fdisk /mbr that will overwrite MBR for you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, I've deleted Venus and all partitions, but LILO still wants to dual > boot. It's supposed to be in the master boot record, but I dont' know how to > find it or get rid of it. Help please! :) > > Matt
Re: [newbie] lynx
- Original Message - From: Bill Moshier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 1:15 PM Subject: [newbie] lynx > On Venus, I tried to run lynx last night, > and had an error regarding a tmp file. To fix it, "mkdir ~/tmp" For some reason, Lynx likes to use a temporary directory in your home directory, instead of the system-wide one (at /var./tmp). -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [newbie] Lilo
didn't it give you the choice of installing it in the first partition, the master boot record? Mine installed nicely and it configured lilo automatically to let me easily boot either to win95 or linux. I have the world's more horrible computer in Windows but it works wonderfully in Linux. adios, steve --- jsm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive > ( with more than > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install > on my system . > > Thanks > jsm > > _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Can't unistall LILO
Use a windows boot floppy, type: fdisk /mbr that will remove the lilo from the master boot record. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I've deleted Venus and all partitions, but LILO still wants to dual > boot. It's supposed to be in the master boot record, but I dont' know how to > find it or get rid of it. Help please! :) > > Matt
Re: [newbie] Can't unistall LILO
>From a dos command line type "fdisk /mbr" without the quotes. That will restore your windows master boot record. Lyndon Lininger Sr. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 1:23 PM Subject: [newbie] Can't unistall LILO > Well, I've deleted Venus and all partitions, but LILO still wants to dual > boot. It's supposed to be in the master boot record, but I dont' know how to > find it or get rid of it. Help please! :) > > Matt
RE: [newbie] Lilo
Don - as long as you have a small boot partition located towards the beginning of the disk, you would have no problems. (something in the range of 25-50 Meg where the kernel can reside.) Bill -Original Message- From: Don Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Lilo so I may or may not be screwed when it comes to installing mandrake seamlessly on my machine with a 13 gig drive then. I may end up with a boot floppy (floppies always piss me off - they're so amazingly unreliable) ok, fair enough. I guess time will tell. Don - On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Hi > Typically, most bios's now do a type of mapping - > and they may map 256 sectors, 32 heads per cylinder. > That says that you would need to exceed 4 GBytes+ > before you would run into the 1024 cylinder limit. > > Bill > > -Original Message- > From: Don Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 11:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo > > > I don't understand. I'm using venus, I have a 2 gig drive there, I'm using > 1 > big partition for all my linux stuff and the only other partition is a small > swap partition (I know, I know, but I didn't want to partition my drive like > crazy as I tend to download lots of stuff and figured I'd run out of space - > anyway this install is just to learn linux well, I'll do it properly on my > 13 > gig machine later). Anyway, lilo is installed perfectly, no prob, no floppy > boot needed, and my drive is more than 1024 cyl. right? > > Don > - > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you > wrote: > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive ( with more > than > > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install on my system . > > > Thanks > > jsm
Re: [newbie] lynx
yep, same problem. I never use it so can't say that I've configured it or anything, just as it is out of the mandrake 6 cd. I wonder if they goofed on the install from the mandrake 6 cd somehow? I rarely use netscape, just when I have to ftp or view a shockwave file (my business), and normally use the k browser for my web stuff - I always liked the way internet explorer integrates into windows, and I'm glad someone took the GOOD parts of that idea and worked it into k. But Lynx? just not my thing. Don - On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > On Venus, I tried to run lynx last night, > and had an error regarding a tmp file. > (I don't remember the exact message right now. > I'll post it later if no one has any ideas.) > Any thoughts? > > Thanks. > Bill
Re: [newbie] Can't unistall LILO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I've deleted Venus and all partitions, but LILO still wants to dual > boot. It's supposed to be in the master boot record, but I dont' know how to > find it or get rid of it. Help please! :) > > Matt If your using win on the same disk you can run : fdisk /mbr That will restore your Master Boot Record . jsm
RE: [newbie] Lilo
so I may or may not be screwed when it comes to installing mandrake seamlessly on my machine with a 13 gig drive then. I may end up with a boot floppy (floppies always piss me off - they're so amazingly unreliable) ok, fair enough. I guess time will tell. Don - On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Hi > Typically, most bios's now do a type of mapping - > and they may map 256 sectors, 32 heads per cylinder. > That says that you would need to exceed 4 GBytes+ > before you would run into the 1024 cylinder limit. > > Bill > > -Original Message- > From: Don Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 11:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Lilo > > > I don't understand. I'm using venus, I have a 2 gig drive there, I'm using > 1 > big partition for all my linux stuff and the only other partition is a small > swap partition (I know, I know, but I didn't want to partition my drive like > crazy as I tend to download lots of stuff and figured I'd run out of space - > anyway this install is just to learn linux well, I'll do it properly on my > 13 > gig machine later). Anyway, lilo is installed perfectly, no prob, no floppy > boot needed, and my drive is more than 1024 cyl. right? > > Don > - > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you > wrote: > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive ( with more > than > > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install on my system . > > > Thanks > > jsm
Re: [newbie] Lilo
Don Kelley wrote: > I don't understand. I'm using venus, I have a 2 gig drive there, I'm using 1 > big partition for all my linux stuff and the only other partition is a small > swap partition (I know, I know, but I didn't want to partition my drive like > crazy as I tend to download lots of stuff and figured I'd run out of space - > anyway this install is just to learn linux well, I'll do it properly on my 13 > gig machine later). Anyway, lilo is installed perfectly, no prob, no floppy > boot needed, and my drive is more than 1024 cyl. right? > > Don > - > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you > wrote: > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive ( with more than > > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install on my system . > > Thanks > > jsm I,m not sure why your's is working . When I try to insall lilo i get an error message : " device 0x0305 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit " " Cylinder number is too big " Do you have a SCSI ? Mine is a IDE . jsm
[newbie] Real Player G2
I have managed to get the player installed and spawning from Netscape but no sound. Has anyone managed to get the sound to work (using E and gnome)? -- Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5788323 AIM RobertLS
Re: [newbie] CD-R question
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Manny Styles wrote: > I am looking into buying a CD-R and I would like some recommendations as to > what will be a good one that will also work well with linux (preferably > under $200...closer to $150). One additional question, do PCI video cards > work with linux? Here are a couple URL's to help you choose a CDR drive (I wish I had this info when I bought mine): http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdwriters-1.8.html http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq05.html The first URL has a list of CDR drives known to work with cdrecord, which you will definitely be using if you want to burn CD's in Linux. The second URL contains a large wealth of info comparing different CDR drives. And yes, PCI video cards work fine with Linux. > Thanks in advance, > Manny Styles > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Tom
Re: [newbie] Lilo
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Is there a way to get LILO to install on a big drive ( with more than > 1024 cyl . ) I believe that's why it won't install on my system . > Well, I've never done it before, but I'm told that RedHat 6.0 will install on a large drive (13 gig IDE) without having to use a boot floppy, and since Mandrake is based heavily on RedHat, it should work for you. -- John Aldrich COL Tech Support === Chattanooga Online Internet 423-267-8867
RE: [newbie] install horrors and weeping and wailing and arggg
Hi. You should be able to click on the KDE menu, and select logout (Gnome also). That should take you back to the command line, or the graphical login. From the graphical login, the button on the right allows you to select shutdown, restart, etc. >From the command line, the easiest way to shutdown/restart is the ctrl-alt-delete key sequence. Bill -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] install horrors and weeping and wailing and arggg On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > and another thing..how come it's damn near impossible to escape KDE > now...I don't have the options I had on 5.3 (ie: restart and shutdown) and > even cntl-alt-del won't kill it...arrrgh! I'll keep digging around for > answers, but if anyone would care to walk me thru one of these glitches in > the meantime, my brain would hurt a lot less! Thanx > I believe that I've read that to escape X (including KDE) you have to do a "CTL+ALT+BACKSPACE." That should shut down x and then you can either shut down from the command line or ctl+alt+del to reboot. -- John Aldrich COL Tech Support === Chattanooga Online Internet 423-267-8867
[newbie] Can't unistall LILO
Well, I've deleted Venus and all partitions, but LILO still wants to dual boot. It's supposed to be in the master boot record, but I dont' know how to find it or get rid of it. Help please! :) Matt
Re: [newbie] XF86Setup, weird quirks??? L-M 5.3
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Don Kelley wrote: > PS. I mean that I can only get up to 800x600 on my 14" monitor, hence the wish > that I could get up to 1024x768. I don't mean that I can get 1600x1200 on my > 14!! Just thought I'd clarify upon re-reading my last email... Oh, well, now THAT makes a bit more sense. :) Perhaps your monitor simply is not meant to handle a resolution that high, at least not at whatever color depth you chose (keep in mind a monitor/video card might be able to handle a certain resolution at 256 colors or 16-bit, but not 24-bit, etc.)? If you have the instructions for both, I'd suggest checking both of them to see their best resolutions/color-depths. Also, if you've been using Windoze, keep in mind that what Windoze lets you do isn't necessarily an indication of what your hardware is supposed to be able to do. In my experience Windoze doesn't do as good a job of figuring out the limitations of your hardware. For example, up until recently I had an old 14" monitor that wasn't meant to do any resolution above 640x480, but Win95 let me use it at 800x600 with a 24-bit color depth; the display wasn't completely clear, but useable. However, in Linux, X would not let me use any resolution above 640x480 since it knew that was the best my monitor was supposed to be able to do. -Tom P.S. KDE in a 640x480 resolution really, really, really sucked. ;) I love my new 17"er.
Re: [newbie] Formatting ZIP disks...
Venus has worked superbly for me. Even Netscape works reasonably well. The only problems I have had to deal with have had to do with my inexperience in Linux. It seems odd, since I built my PC from the ground up using the cheapest components I could find. Overall, I'm very impressed with the stability of Linux. Although, I wouldn't recommend Linux to a first time user - it is far too daunting. Now..I have read the FAQ's for ZIP drives, however whenever I format under Linux, I only get around 88 megs of space. Is there any way to recover that extra space, or does it have something to do with the ext2 filesystem? -Scott - Home Page: http://130.111.137.201
[newbie] Treating Devices as Files
I've a question about the /dev directory, or more accurately, the representation of hardware as files on Unix-style operating systems. In the README file on the Mandrake CD under /images, one way to write the boot disk images to a floppy is to use the "dd" command, which, to my understanding, does little more than copy a file. Am I correct when I say that what you're doing is copying the .img file to the file representing the floppy? If so, then my question is, to what extent are devices treated like files? More specifically, can I check a CD I burned using the md5sum output provided in the /ISO directory of my local mirror? If I change the filename (in the md5sum file) to /dev/cdrom, can I then run md5sum with that file [md5sum, not /dev/cdrom] as input and have it check the CD (instead of the image)? Thank you all, who take the time to read and answer this. -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: [newbie] XF86Setup, weird quirks??? L-M 5.3
PS. I mean that I can only get up to 800x600 on my 14" monitor, hence the wish that I could get up to 1024x768. I don't mean that I can get 1600x1200 on my 14!! Just thought I'd clarify upon re-reading my last email... Don On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > god, I wish I could get 1024x768 on MY 14 inch monitor! I can't handle less > res than that, and on my other pc with a 17 inch monitor I'm running > 1600x1200. if only you and I could trade our graphics displays, we'd both be > happy! :-) > > Don > --- > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > I have a few questions > about Xfree86 with my hardware, first the only res > setting that I can get to > work for my graphics card (hercules terminator > 3d/dx) is 1024 by 768 and it > works flawlessly, but, I have a 14 in monitor > and as we all know that > resolution is fine on a 19 in. monitor but not a > small one. I want to run it > in 800 by 600 but it refuses to let me do it. > also I get all the settings set > up perfectly (except the graphics card res.) > and when I go back into the > setup to modify the resolution (making sure that > I use existing settings) the > mouse go's Crazy!!! after I save and reboot. I > check to make sure that none > of the settings have changed before I save it, > but it still changes the mouse > brand, it changes it from IMPS2 to PS2 > intellimouse, now I have a ps2 > intellimouse but that setting does not work > but IMps2 does?? why does it do > that, why does it change AND why does it not > work with intellimouse in the > first place??? > also I ordered L-M 6.0 and was wondering if it has > intellimouse wheel > support? > > sorry about my erratic sentence structure, I > just got up and am writing this > before I go to work. > > > > Lance DiBitetto > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] install horrors and weeping and wailing and arggg
Try using Alt+F1 to get the menu to escape/exit out of KDE. Tom Mason wrote: > :0 the horror! hehehe did a clean install of 6.0 mandrake and it IS > prettier, I'll grant that, but buggy. My modem woes continue as well as > Printer port probs now, too. > Question is, how do I find out what is causing the lp0 port to not be > recognized? I have a parallel zip drive on that line, but even taking that > off does'nt rectify the situation. How do I find what is causing the > conflict with the modem? it's a pretty garden variety USR 28.8 ISA currently > set up as pnp and working fine on win. I could set the jumpers, but that > screws up the win set up. > and another thing..how come it's damn near impossible to escape KDE > now...I don't have the options I had on 5.3 (ie: restart and shutdown) and > even cntl-alt-del won't kill it...arrrgh! I'll keep digging around for > answers, but if anyone would care to walk me thru one of these glitches in > the meantime, my brain would hurt a lot less! Thanx
Re: [newbie] Partitioning problems
At 15:31 18/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >>At 12:39 18/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >>>With DiskDruid I cancelled partition 'D' and created Linux partitions >>instead, >>>but I got the error message that /root must be on a linux native partition! >>>Well /root IS on a linux native partition, but it doesn't help. >>> >>>'fdisk' lists my partitions as: >>>/tmp/hda1 Win95 FAT32 >>>/tmp/hda2 Extended >>>/tmp/hda5 Linux (native) >>>/tmp/hda6 Linux (native) >>>/tmp/hda7 Linux (native) >>>/tmp/hda8 Linux swap >> >>I would have done: >>/dev/hda1 Win95 >>/dev/hda2 Linux native (root) >>/dev/hda3 Extended >>/dev/hda5 Linux native >>/dev/hda6 Linux native >>/dev/hda7 Linux native >>/dev/hda8 Linux swap > >Done. But I still have the same problem. I think the problem is that my >partitions appear >to be on "/tmp" instead of on "/dev". Do you know how can I change this? You're running fdisk during the install - fdisk will report the partitions with /tmp instead of the usual /dev. This is normal - I've just checked one of my machines. I'm betting that your root partition is not within 1024 cylinders or that your lilo.conf has "root=/dev/hda1" instead of "root=/dev/hda2" - did you allow the installation to make a dual-boot machine? > >Thanks > >Pasquale > >
Re: [newbie] NNTPSERVER variable, where do I put it?
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, you wrote: > I'm using slrnpull. So at the prompt I have to direct it to my newsserver and > to its config file each time I want to grab news. It's troublesome!! > > Greg > > Quoting from SLRN Man Page: "If no server is specified on the command line using the -h option, the server specified by the NNTPSERVER environment variable will be used." I suspect that may be the answer. :-) -- John Aldrich COL Tech Support === Chattanooga Online Internet 423-267-8867
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Some problems server Intel + SCSI + Mylex D960PG Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on30:05 in hard drive 1110 celinders Help please lilo install fine
[newbie] just for the record...
I read so much about venus not working or being buggy just for the record I've had no problems with it at all other than a cd I burned myself becoming corrupted rather quickly - reburning the cd cured my install woes. It is possible that this may be affecting other people similarly but seems very highly unlikely. In case it does help someone though...my symptoms were: Installing from cd (after booting from floppy) starts fine then dies periodically, seemingly randomly, at differently parts of the installation. I don't recall the error messages, but once or twice it was supposed to be an inability to "write" to my hard drive - fact is, it actually couldn't READ from my cd-rom (I guess it didn't know the difference as they're both ide media). Otherwise had numerous problems getting it to run properly reburning the cd-rom from the huge 600 meg file I downloaded of mandrake 6.0 fixed all of the real problems - only stuff left is just linux's lack of user friendliness regarding ports and the /dev folder (for a newbie this makes absolutely no sense, especially when trying to mount or connect to a particular port or filesystem and I type in exactly what various linux books tell me to and I get error messages). However I'm quite in love with Venus. I used to mess with slackware and kept trying out caldera (my work used to be affiliated with them) but mandrake is the only one for me! Don - On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Some problems > server Intel + SCSI + Mylex D960PG > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on30:05 > in hard drive 1110 celinders > Help please > lilo install fine
Re: [newbie] XF86Setup, weird quirks??? L-M 5.3
god, I wish I could get 1024x768 on MY 14 inch monitor! I can't handle less res than that, and on my other pc with a 17 inch monitor I'm running 1600x1200. if only you and I could trade our graphics displays, we'd both be happy! :-) Don --- On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, you wrote: > I have a few questions about Xfree86 with my hardware, first the only res > setting that I can get to work for my graphics card (hercules terminator > 3d/dx) is 1024 by 768 and it works flawlessly, but, I have a 14 in monitor > and as we all know that resolution is fine on a 19 in. monitor but not a > small one. I want to run it in 800 by 600 but it refuses to let me do it. > also I get all the settings set up perfectly (except the graphics card res.) > and when I go back into the setup to modify the resolution (making sure that > I use existing settings) the mouse go's Crazy!!! after I save and reboot. I > check to make sure that none of the settings have changed before I save it, > but it still changes the mouse brand, it changes it from IMPS2 to PS2 > intellimouse, now I have a ps2 intellimouse but that setting does not work > but IMps2 does?? why does it do that, why does it change AND why does it not > work with intellimouse in the first place??? > also I ordered L-M 6.0 and was wondering if it has intellimouse wheel > support? > > sorry about my erratic sentence structure, I just got up and am writing this > before I go to work. > > Lance DiBitetto > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Partitioning problems
>At 12:39 18/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >>With DiskDruid I cancelled partition 'D' and created Linux partitions >instead, >>but I got the error message that /root must be on a linux native partition! >>Well /root IS on a linux native partition, but it doesn't help. >> >>'fdisk' lists my partitions as: >>/tmp/hda1 Win95 FAT32 >>/tmp/hda2 Extended >>/tmp/hda5 Linux (native) >>/tmp/hda6 Linux (native) >>/tmp/hda7 Linux (native) >>/tmp/hda8 Linux swap > >I would have done: >/dev/hda1 Win95 >/dev/hda2 Linux native (root) >/dev/hda3 Extended >/dev/hda5 Linux native >/dev/hda6 Linux native >/dev/hda7 Linux native >/dev/hda8 Linux swap Done. But I still have the same problem. I think the problem is that my partitions appear to be on "/tmp" instead of on "/dev". Do you know how can I change this? Thanks Pasquale
Re: [newbie] install horrors and weeping and wailing and arggg
:0 the horror! hehehe did a clean install of 6.0 mandrake and it IS prettier, I'll grant that, but buggy. My modem woes continue as well as Printer port probs now, too. Question is, how do I find out what is causing the lp0 port to not be recognized? I have a parallel zip drive on that line, but even taking that off does'nt rectify the situation. How do I find what is causing the conflict with the modem? it's a pretty garden variety USR 28.8 ISA currently set up as pnp and working fine on win. I could set the jumpers, but that screws up the win set up. and another thing..how come it's damn near impossible to escape KDE now...I don't have the options I had on 5.3 (ie: restart and shutdown) and even cntl-alt-del won't kill it...arrrgh! I'll keep digging around for answers, but if anyone would care to walk me thru one of these glitches in the meantime, my brain would hurt a lot less! Thanx
Re: [newbie] still have Venus boot problems...:-(]
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:24:45 -0500, you wrote: Sounds like he could be having memory problems. Suggest he get his memory checked...he could have a bad simm...whatever he has for RAM. The problem he is having sounds too suspiciously like that. Where he is able to get a boot up sometimes and sometimes not. Sounding more like hardware than a software problem. I have noticed that this latest build is more hardware sensitive than earlier. Leastways...thats how it seems. Now..if his ram checks out ok, than he should do a re-install of 5.3 and see if that works since he says he had no problems with it. If it works ...than make sure he formats all partitions including the swap and than do an install of 6.0. >I'm not sure what's wrong, and it would probably help if we knew the exact >error messages, but I can suggest a couple things. > >Next time you reboot, try typing "linux 1" at the Lilo prompt. This should >boot the "linux" image to boot level 1 (single user mode). It won't go >though rc.local (and maybe some other init scripts that I don't know about) >and then you can take a look around your system and see if you can find >what's gone wrong. I think it would be a good idea to look at >/etc/rc.d/rc.local, /etc/fstab, and /etc/X11/XF86Config (based on what you >said). However, why it can't execute mkdir, I have no idea. Could the CD >be damaged, perhaps? > >Hope this helps some. >-Matt Stegman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >- Original Message - >From: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 6:26 AM >Subject: [newbie] still have Venus boot problems...:-(] > > >> Lloyd wrote: >> > >> > Ok, last night I did a fresh workstation install of Venus on >> > a clean hard disk. I started with an updated boot.img >> > install floppy which I got from the "updates"directory from >> > a Mandrake mirror. The I started my my CD-ROM install. Ok, >> > so far, so good. Near the end of the install, it asks to >> > configure X. I set it up exactly the same way I set it up >> > under Festen (where it worked perfectly) It says it doesn't >> > like my X configuration and will use a default configuration >> > instead. OK, I figure I'll just re-run Xconfigurator later. >> > It then asks to make a custom bootdisk. Did that. It then >> > says to remove the diskette and press return. OK, I do that. >> > It starts rebooting. It goes along fine and then the >> > weirdness begins. A message comes up saying something like >> > (I don't remember it 100% precisely) "cannot execute >> > /sbin/mgetty-respawning too fast" (could possibly be >> > mingetty). Then it dies. It says "INIT-no more processes >> > left." I turned it off and on. When it reboots, the getty >> > messages don't appear. Instead I get a new one. It gets to >> > "creating /mnt/disk-OK", then it says >> > "/bin/mkdir: /bin/mkdir: cannot execute binary file-FAILED". >> > And that's where it dies every time. >> > >> > I actually did get it to boot from the boot floppy I made, >> > but it only worked ONCE. >> > >> > Does anybody have ANY ideas? Under Festen this all worked >> > just fine. >> > I realize it's pretty long, but details are sometimes >> > necessary...:-) >> > -- >> > Lloyd Osten >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: [newbie] Terminal woes
I think it's a problem with the way Xterms display certain characters... that's always sitting at the end of the file in vi (did you try typing stuff in vi?), but if you cat the file, it doesn't show up. It also doesn't show up in nxterm or kvt or konsole or any of the other terminal emulators. So my guess is that vi puts a special character in to mark the end of the file, which the xterm displays in that odd way. It causes no problems; it just looks a little funny. On my computer, at least, it happens to every user, not just root. -Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Original Message - From: Carl Flippin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 1:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Terminal woes > I'm having a bit of trouble with vi. If I start vi as root, it works > flawlessly, as a normal user, however, I get "[91m~" as the first > line. Does anyone know where this comes from? It seems to affect every > xwindows type terminal.
Re: [newbie] Ide-scsi.o
Sorry for the delay in replying, just changed PC's. Not sure that my 'hd?=ide-scsi' statements are preventing the kernel from loading the cd drives up as ide. It happily accepts the statements, but when it comes to the scsi bit, it says 0 hosts (when it gets to the modules section it changes it's mind and finds my adaptec card, but that's different). Consequently, later i do a 'modprode ide-scsi'. This seems to work okay, but a 'mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom' comes back telling me that /dev/sr0 is not a valid block device (or does it say /dev/sr0 doesn't exist - can't remember). Presumably this is because the emulated adapter wasn't found in the first place. Any suggestions ? Haven't had much time lately, but i will try and find the time to go off and checkout the link you supplied. Martin. - Original Message - From: Thomas J. Hamman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ide-scsi.o > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Martin White wrote: > > Can someone shed some light on scsi emulation for me please ? > > > > I offered to put together a howto-type web page on recompiling the kernel to > > allow scsi emulation for stuff like cdroast. Before i did that i upgraded my > > kernel to the latest 2.2.9-27mdk. I noticed there was a module called > > 'ide-scsi.o' in the scsi subdirectory of the modules. > > There is actually already plenty of documentation on the subject, which you can > find by going to cdrecord's homepage at: > > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/ cdrecord.html > > and following the various help links. > [SNIP]
Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load
What is your disk/cdr setup ? IE, is your hard disk primary master and the cd primary slave ?? Again, with my old machine i used to have to put my CD onto the same bus as the destination's hard disk (and when i bought a second disk, make sure it was unplugged during install) in order to get Linux to install, then change it back afterwards. Pretty sure this was a flakey hardware combination (not faulty, just things not working too well together!). In the end i ditched the system. Obviously when doing this you'll need to change some of the system manually (ie links to cd drive etc.) after successful post-install boot. If you change the location of your root drive from primary to secondry or vice versa, you will have have fun & games getting lilo to boot the new config. I got there in the end, but can't remember how off the top of my head. Maybe this'll help, Martin. - Original Message - From: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load > Bob Springett wrote: > > > > I wrote recently about a problem with the load failure of Venus 6.0 on a > > PR200 Cyrix chipped PC . You answered part of the query but not why I > > couldn't load it. I have since read that others with the same chips have > > similar problems. Since one of the features of Venus 6.0 is to accomodate > > the Pentium, Cyrix and Win??? can you tell me if anything has been done to > > address this problem? I've tried about 8 times to load, upgrade and it > > always 'bombs out' with error or sig 11. > > I believe you said that the kernel updates do much to alleviate certain > > problems but how do I update a system that I cannot load initially; I do not > > have CDROM writable facilities.Please tell me. Or alternatively is there a > > new disk available which includes all the upgrades? > > Festen remains on my machine working well. > > Kindest regards > > Bob Springett > > I have the same problems. I've tried to load Mandrake at > least 10 times. I could get it to boot, but not > consistently. > PS. I have a genuine (old) Pentium cpu. > -- > Lloyd Osten > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: [newbie] install horrors and weeping and wailing and arggg
Hy, I ended up losing all the stuff in my home directory, but that was due to an error on my part. Every problem I encountered installing Mandrake 6.0 was traceable to my own errors and my impatient reaction to them. Something I had forgotten to do with /usr kept halting the installation --something so minor that I can't remember what it is now-- and I screwed up and let it partition /home. Oh well, I had put most of the stuff on a zip disk, anyway. But I hate the idea of reinstalling Staroffice. adios, STeve --- Kuraiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Winston wrote: > > > > Hy, I always make a home directory to stuff in > things like Staroffice > > and my schoolwork. In other words, stuff I am > adding to the system > > which i don't want to lose but I did this time, > arggg > _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] STILL won't boot
OK, I did yet ANOTHER fresh workstation install. (this makes about a dozen installs) Eveything goes along fine until I get to the part about X configuration. I set up my X configuration EXACTLY the way I had it set up under Festen (which, btw, ran just fine). The setup program then tells me my X configuration is not valid (why? it worked fine before on exactly the same hardware). It then says to make a custom bootdisk. Ok, I do that, and then it's time to restart the machine. That goes along fine, but then a message comes up sayoing something like cannot start "/sbin/mingetty-respawning too fast-disabling for 5 minutes" That happens 6 times-one for every virtual console.So there's no login. ARGHHH! Wait, there's more :-( So I do a hard reboot. It goes fine until it gets to "creating /mnt/disk" Then an error comes up saying "/bin/mkdir: /bin/mkdir-cannot execute binary file" whereupon the thing dies, even though the hard disk activity light is still continuously on. One of the few times I DID get it to boot I noticed there were a couple of unusual entries in the install.log file. One said "cannot load shared library "libz.so.1". I couldn't even find that file on the CDROM! I think it said it couldn't execute the script. I have all my hardware set to as slow as I can make it. It's hardly a blazing fast computer with a 90 Mhz Pentium, 24 MB of RAM and a WD 1.2g hard drive. Does ANYBODY have ANY ideas at all? I'm starting to get really annoyed...:-( -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] modem horrors
Hy thanks for the tips. I got the (serial port) problem solved. adios, steve w. --- Kuraiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Winston wrote: > > > > I am configuring kppp dialer on mandrake 6.0. It > tells me the modem is > > busy now matter what. Any ideas? I know the modem > ain't busy cause I > > just switched over to win95 and started using it. > Anyone know what I > > might do? thanks in advance. Hey, it boots between > Linux and Windoze > > right snappy, and I didn't even have to mess with > lilo. Wow! > > adios, Steve > > Are you using an internal modem or external? If it's > external, you might try > turning off and on again. But a better way might be > to see if anything is using > the serial port/irq. Sometimes when it reports modem > busy, it's not the modem > that's busy...(don't ask :-)) > > As for not messing with LILO...hmm...I'm quite sure > you must have - you might > just not know it (eg. at install time?) :-) > > -- > -- > Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster > -- > _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] modem horrors
Howdy, James, thanks for your reply. Well, I solved the problem immediately after I shrieked for help. New problem is that the connection won't go through. Most amazing is is how 6.0 set up Lilo without my help. I have Linux on one hard drive and Win95 on another. Linux configured lilo automatically such that I can boot from one to the other with no problem. I had tried this before, but windoze always insisted on seeing a nonexistent floppy in the a drive and would then stall the boot process. stevew --- "James J. Capone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you Type PS in a console screen to make sure > there is no other program > trying to access the modem? > > Type > #/bin/bash>PS > > Then if there is a ID trying to call the modem Kill > it, Type > > #/bin/bash>Kill Which is the Id that is > calling to it Like Kill 145 etc.. > > That is a far as I can go. Have not run into this > problem YET. > > James J. Capone > > > -Original Message- > From: Steve Winston [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 2:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] modem horrors > > I am configuring kppp dialer on mandrake 6.0. It > tells me the modem is > busy now matter what. Any ideas? I know the modem > ain't busy cause I > just switched over to win95 and started using it. > Anyone know what I > might do? thanks in advance. Hey, it boots between > Linux and Windoze > right snappy, and I didn't even have to mess with > lilo. Wow! > adios, Steve > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load
Bob Springett wrote: > > I wrote recently about a problem with the load failure of Venus 6.0 on a > PR200 Cyrix chipped PC . You answered part of the query but not why I > couldn't load it. I have since read that others with the same chips have > similar problems. Since one of the features of Venus 6.0 is to accomodate > the Pentium, Cyrix and Win??? can you tell me if anything has been done to > address this problem? I've tried about 8 times to load, upgrade and it > always 'bombs out' with error or sig 11. > I believe you said that the kernel updates do much to alleviate certain > problems but how do I update a system that I cannot load initially; I do not > have CDROM writable facilities.Please tell me. Or alternatively is there a > new disk available which includes all the upgrades? > Festen remains on my machine working well. > Kindest regards > Bob Springett I have the same problems. I've tried to load Mandrake at least 10 times. I could get it to boot, but not consistently. PS. I have a genuine (old) Pentium cpu. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load
Many thanks Martin Regards Bob -Original Message- From: Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: vendredi 18 juin 1999 03:58 Subject: Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load >Hi, > >Don't know exactly if this will solve your problem or not (i now run a >PIII), but i used to run a Cyrix166. When i installed it, there was >conflictng settings with regard to bus speed and multipliers etc. > >Can't remember exactly which way round it was, but there was one lot of >settings printed on the chip itself and one lot in the 'recommend settings' >section of my motherboard manual. One set of settings gave me a higher >bogomips figure on bootup (about 200 if i remember rightly). > >When i ran like this i got no end of sig11 problems if ever i tried to >compile anything. Advise told me that it was because the chip was >overclocked too much (a difficult one to beleive as i hadn't intentionally >done any overclocking). > >I changed the settings to the other set (again, can't remember which way >round this was - although it probably involved decreasing the bus speed and >increasing the multiplier), and although i lost a tiny (read unnoticable) >decrease in speed to approx 180 bogomips, all my problems went away for >ever. > >Look into things along this line - especially if your have either sound or >video on the motherboard as this will work the bus even harder. > >Good luck - Martin. > >- Original Message - >From: Bob Springett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 4:54 PM >Subject: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load > > >> I wrote recently about a problem with the load failure of Venus 6.0 on a >> PR200 Cyrix chipped PC . You answered part of the query but not why I >> couldn't load it. I have since read that others with the same chips have >> similar problems. Since one of the features of Venus 6.0 is to accomodate >> the Pentium, Cyrix and Win??? can you tell me if anything has been done to >> address this problem? I've tried about 8 times to load, upgrade and it >> always 'bombs out' with error or sig 11. >> I believe you said that the kernel updates do much to alleviate certain >> problems but how do I update a system that I cannot load initially; I do >not >> have CDROM writable facilities.Please tell me. Or alternatively is there a >> new disk available which includes all the upgrades? >> Festen remains on my machine working well. >> Kindest regards >> Bob Springett >> > >
RE: [newbie] modem horrors
Steve, I had the same problem. I tried to use the modem with minicom from console first, and it worked fine (not under X). When I used kppp it told me the modem was busy. I eventually fixed the problem by configuring ppp dialing from console using the ppp HOW-TO first. Then i went to X and kppp worked fine as well. I still don't know what exactly the problem was, but this might work for you as well. Laurens Binken. > -Original Message- > From: Steve Winston [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: vrijdag 18 juni 1999 8:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] modem horrors > > --- Virus checked / Op virussen gecontroleerd --- > I am configuring kppp dialer on mandrake 6.0. It tells me the modem is > busy now matter what. Any ideas? I know the modem ain't busy cause I > just switched over to win95 and started using it. Anyone know what I > might do? thanks in advance. Hey, it boots between Linux and Windoze > right snappy, and I didn't even have to mess with lilo. Wow! > adios, Steve > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **
Re: [newbie] Partitioning problems
At 12:39 18/06/99 +0200, you wrote: >With DiskDruid I cancelled partition 'D' and created Linux partitions instead, >but I got the error message that /root must be on a linux native partition! >Well /root IS on a linux native partition, but it doesn't help. > >'fdisk' lists my partitions as: >/tmp/hda1 Win95 FAT32 >/tmp/hda2 Extended >/tmp/hda5 Linux (native) >/tmp/hda6 Linux (native) >/tmp/hda7 Linux (native) >/tmp/hda8 Linux swap I would have done: /dev/hda1 Win95 /dev/hda2 Linux native (root) /dev/hda3 Extended /dev/hda5 Linux native /dev/hda6 Linux native /dev/hda7 Linux native /dev/hda8 Linux swap hih nick@nexnix
Re: [newbie] install horrors and weeping and wailing and arggg
Steve Winston wrote: > > Hy, I always make a home directory to stuff in things like Staroffice > and my schoolwork. In other words, stuff I am adding to the system > which i don't want to lose but I did this time, arggg > Also, I am setting up kppp dialer. It tells me the modem is busy and > that's all I get. Do you have any idea why? > adios, Steve W > --- "James J. Capone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why are you making a /home directory??? > > Steve, good to see you've finally got Venus installed. It would be a good thing if you have some notes about what you did previously and what you did different this time. And send it off to the Mandrake guys. (well, here might be good too since others might learn from your experience..."pass on what you have learned.") As for the /home partition. It's a good thing to do if you want to keep your "own stuff" separate. This way if you later upgrade or even switch distros, you can simply mount that partition as home and you'd have your stuff there. Usually, the stuff that's important to you (and other users of your machine) are stored in /home. And that's the most important really. But why are you installing apps in /home? These should go somewhere in /opt or /usr, I think... Just some random comments...:-) -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
Re: [newbie] modem horrors
Steve Winston wrote: > > I am configuring kppp dialer on mandrake 6.0. It tells me the modem is > busy now matter what. Any ideas? I know the modem ain't busy cause I > just switched over to win95 and started using it. Anyone know what I > might do? thanks in advance. Hey, it boots between Linux and Windoze > right snappy, and I didn't even have to mess with lilo. Wow! > adios, Steve Are you using an internal modem or external? If it's external, you might try turning off and on again. But a better way might be to see if anything is using the serial port/irq. Sometimes when it reports modem busy, it's not the modem that's busy...(don't ask :-)) As for not messing with LILO...hmm...I'm quite sure you must have - you might just not know it (eg. at install time?) :-) -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster --
[newbie] Partitioning problems
Hallo, I have enjoyed some months Mandrake 5.3 on a 3.2Gb disk partitioned as follows: 2,1Gb windows part. 'C' 400Mb windows part. 'D' 700Mb Linux partitions Now I got Mandrake 6.0 and I tried to partion my hard disk this way: 2.1Gb windows part. 'C' 1.1Gb Linux partitions With DiskDruid I cancelled partition 'D' and created Linux partitions instead, but I got the error message that /root must be on a linux native partition! Well /root IS on a linux native partition, but it doesn't help. 'fdisk' lists my partitions as: /tmp/hda1 Win95 FAT32 /tmp/hda2 Extended /tmp/hda5 Linux (native) /tmp/hda6 Linux (native) /tmp/hda7 Linux (native) /tmp/hda8 Linux swap I think they should be: /dev/hda1 etc. ^^^ Can anyone help me to solve the problem? Thank you very much! Pasquale Zapelli
[newbie] XF86Setup, weird quirks??? L-M 5.3
I have a few questions about Xfree86 with my hardware, first the only res setting that I can get to work for my graphics card (hercules terminator 3d/dx) is 1024 by 768 and it works flawlessly, but, I have a 14 in monitor and as we all know that resolution is fine on a 19 in. monitor but not a small one. I want to run it in 800 by 600 but it refuses to let me do it. also I get all the settings set up perfectly (except the graphics card res.) and when I go back into the setup to modify the resolution (making sure that I use existing settings) the mouse go's Crazy!!! after I save and reboot. I check to make sure that none of the settings have changed before I save it, but it still changes the mouse brand, it changes it from IMPS2 to PS2 intellimouse, now I have a ps2 intellimouse but that setting does not work but IMps2 does?? why does it do that, why does it change AND why does it not work with intellimouse in the first place??? also I ordered L-M 6.0 and was wondering if it has intellimouse wheel support? sorry about my erratic sentence structure, I just got up and am writing this before I go to work. Lance DiBitetto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load
Hi, Don't know exactly if this will solve your problem or not (i now run a PIII), but i used to run a Cyrix166. When i installed it, there was conflictng settings with regard to bus speed and multipliers etc. Can't remember exactly which way round it was, but there was one lot of settings printed on the chip itself and one lot in the 'recommend settings' section of my motherboard manual. One set of settings gave me a higher bogomips figure on bootup (about 200 if i remember rightly). When i ran like this i got no end of sig11 problems if ever i tried to compile anything. Advise told me that it was because the chip was overclocked too much (a difficult one to beleive as i hadn't intentionally done any overclocking). I changed the settings to the other set (again, can't remember which way round this was - although it probably involved decreasing the bus speed and increasing the multiplier), and although i lost a tiny (read unnoticable) decrease in speed to approx 180 bogomips, all my problems went away for ever. Look into things along this line - especially if your have either sound or video on the motherboard as this will work the bus even harder. Good luck - Martin. - Original Message - From: Bob Springett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 4:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load > I wrote recently about a problem with the load failure of Venus 6.0 on a > PR200 Cyrix chipped PC . You answered part of the query but not why I > couldn't load it. I have since read that others with the same chips have > similar problems. Since one of the features of Venus 6.0 is to accomodate > the Pentium, Cyrix and Win??? can you tell me if anything has been done to > address this problem? I've tried about 8 times to load, upgrade and it > always 'bombs out' with error or sig 11. > I believe you said that the kernel updates do much to alleviate certain > problems but how do I update a system that I cannot load initially; I do not > have CDROM writable facilities.Please tell me. Or alternatively is there a > new disk available which includes all the upgrades? > Festen remains on my machine working well. > Kindest regards > Bob Springett >
