Re: [newbie] Which is the best distribution? aka holy wars
So go ahead, try several distros (there are packages with 4-5 distros for 50US bucks, i believe)... Find out which one is the best _for_you_... Linux Systems Labs ( http://www.lsl.com ) has a good deal on distros. I got Redhat 5.1, SuSe 5.2, Debian 2.0.2, and Slackware 3.5 plus the entire Sunsite Linux archives ( 4 cds! ) for like $14, which included shipping. It's a great deal, I suggest you go there to get you started. Owen Owen aka 01 aka electr01 01² Studios - low cost solutions for the web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://i.am/electr01/ http://www.mp3.com/electr01/ ICQ#: 2613090 #1 ambient single on mp3.com for three straight weeks.
[newbie] Video Problem
I have an ATI RAGE IIC AGP video card and when I start X the screen haslots of lines on it (dont know how to describe it..but something is messed up) ive tried lots of different refresh rates and things like that but i still have the same problem. Does anyone know what could be wrong or how i could fix it?
Re: [newbie] cable modems NY /Woodbury
I have Road Runner. WHat I had to do was: a) Make sure I had the latest DHCP modules, etc. b) Download and install the special login software unique to Road Runner for Linux c) Put in my DNS address for my provider. Bingo ! Frank Imbroto wrote: Does anybody have a cable modem connection that works. I am having trouble setting it up and don't even know where to start. Does anybody have advice on how to hook up the modem.
Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
hi everybody, thank you so much for your advice. I have solved my problem by putting all empty space in my harddisk into a dos partitition. before this I had about 200MB free space at the beginning of my extended partition. I suspect the installation problem tried to mount the / path into this free space even though I choose the 1004MB ext2 logical partition as my / mount point in disk druid. the installation problem does not follow this instruction. there may be some bugs in the installation program. however, since those situations with 200MB free space at the beginning of the extended partition such as mine may be rare, people may not need to fix it. best, cw
[newbie] ircd.problems
I am trying to run an irc server on my system but every time i try to start it i get an error: "unlimit core size failed" (i think thats it). What could be the problem?¿ Do any of u ppl run an IRC server? If you do what version are u using?
RE: [newbie] i hope this is my last problem....
Hit the reboot button did we? Enter your root password and type man fsck at the root prompt . It'll give you the manual for the fsck command. I believe you'll need to run fsck -r to repair the disk segments at which point you'll be able to exit the root login (type "logout") and the computer should shutdown and reboot. application/ms-tnef
[newbie] kmail
This probably isn't really a Mandrake-specific problem, but here goes I'm having a terrible time using Kmail.It works fine as long as I am logged in as "root". If I'mlogged in as any other (unprivileged) user, I can't send mail (although I can still receive it) I've tried every setting I can think of (even to the point of deleting the kmailrc file and starting over) I always get the exact same error message: SMTP failed-user unknown Command:RCPT Return code 550 My settings should be ok; they work fine with Netscape but it is INCREDIBLY slow on this machine. Thanks in advance! Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this message (unfortunately) sent as root[ :-( ]
RE: [newbie] i hope this is my last problem....
when that happened to me i needed to type in the root password, and then type e2fsck /dev/hda1 Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 8:29 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] i hope this is my last problem Hit the reboot button did we? Enter your root password and type man fsck at the root prompt . It'll give you the manual for the fsck command. I believe you'll need to run fsck -r to repair the disk segments at which point you'll be able to exit the root login (type "logout") and the computer should shutdown and reboot.
Re: [newbie] Run X, not using user root
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote: Is there a way i can run X (startx) even i'm not using the root account. Yes "startx" from the command line. :-) Unless your system is really wacky it should work. -- John Aldrich COL Tech Support === Chattanooga Online Internet 423-267-8867
Re: [newbie] Change default KDE install directory?
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote: I have to disagree about only SuSE using /opt/kde. My Redhat 6.0 CD (from cheapbytes.com) automatically put KDE in /opt/kde. Also, if you download a binary RPM for an app from the KDE ftp site, it will install itself in /opt/kde... (at least the ones I've downloaded). Maybe this standard has recently changed and not all KDE developers are yet following it? That's interesting... I installed RedHat (6.0) via FTP and KDE is most definately NOT in /opt. Matter of fact, I don't even HAVE a directory "/opt." What you have is NOT an official RedHat 6.0 distribution if it's putting KDE in /opt. -- John Aldrich COL Tech Support === Chattanooga Online Internet 423-267-8867
Re: [[newbie] speaking of passwords]
Why is someone who has an aol account using Linux? Michael Scottaline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just installed linux and i forgot my password. i know my username, but i was talking on the phone and must have typed in something and now i forgot what it is. what do i do? thanks, jerrud === If you've only just installed, why not simply reinstall? This time, I assure you, you won't forget your passwd! Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] i hope this is my last problem....
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote: ok all is fine and well, but when i boot i have to use a floppy linux sys disk to use lilo and thats kinda annoying. what can i do so i just see lilo w/ no disk. also in lilo i dont see my win98 hard drive. not good at all. please help on that one. also after i get through that, when linux loads i get the error message " hda2 file system w/ errors, check forced" then it just goes south from there and tells me i have to give my root pwd for admin use. i just want linux! (but these problems dont detur me from getting things to work) hope this is my last really stupid newbie Q. thanks At this point, to fix your file system problems, get/make a "rescue" disk and type "rescue" at the LILO prompt. Then, when it's finished booting from the rescue disk type "e2fsck hda2" I would recommend reading the "man" page for e2fsck. There are a lot of options you might want to consider using. -- John Aldrich COL Tech Support === Chattanooga Online Internet 423-267-8867
RE: [newbie] shut down properly
it sounds like you are using xdm, which starts X automatically at boot time. it provides a graphical login. to get out of this, you will have to edit your inittab file. try the following: login as root open a terminal cd to /etc/ vi inittab read through the comments and there is a line related to the runlevel that needs to have the number "5" changed to "3" press i for "insert" change the 5 to a 3 type ":wq" without the quotes reboot the system and you should see a command line login login as root and type "shutdown -h now" without the quotes hope this helps michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 11:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] shut down properly how do i shut down properly when i see Tux right when i boot? thanks j
Re: [newbie] kmail
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote: This probably isn't really a Mandrake-specific problem, but here goes I'm having a terrible time using Kmail.It works fine as long as I am logged in as "root". If I'mlogged in as any other (unprivileged) user, I can't send mail (although I can still receive it) I've tried every setting I can think of (even to the point of deleting the kmailrc file and starting over) I always get the exact same error message: SMTP failed-user unknown Command:RCPT Return code 550 My settings should be ok; they work fine with Netscape but it is INCREDIBLY slow on this machine. I would suggest you create a new user named "lloyd" and use THAT account for everything except installing programs, etc. It's much safer that way. :-) MUCH harder for any "trojan horses" to be activated. :-) -- John Aldrich COL Tech Support === Chattanooga Online Internet 423-267-8867
Re: [[newbie] speaking of passwords]
Oh no, here we go. -Bill On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Why is someone who has an aol account using Linux? Michael Scottaline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just installed linux and i forgot my password. i know my username, but i was talking on the phone and must have typed in something and now i forgot what it is. what do i do? thanks, jerrud === If you've only just installed, why not simply reinstall? This time, I assure you, you won't forget your passwd! Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] speaking of passwords]
don't worry, i was just flipping you shit. :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am getting DSL in a week so realy all i have to use aol for is getting mail till the dsl install guys come. j
RE: [newbie] now what- super newbie question....
The ampersand runs X as a background process, this allows other processes you may want to run have some room to run in. If you logout of X but don't shut it down you can run some console stuff and just use the 'fg' command to bring X back up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kuraiken Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] now what- super newbie question Ken Wilson wrote: for Xwindows type 'startx ' Excuse me but... (showing glaringly my newbie status :-)) What's the ampersand for? I normally just type "startx" and hey presto! It starts. -- - Kuraiken - Python fanatic. - Python. Try it. It'll swallow you whole! -
Re: [newbie] kmail
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote: Did you even read his message? His trying to use an "unpriviledged user", but can't do mail without it being root because something is set wrong. I wonder what he's got set that it doesn't work. Hey, Lloyd...how about posting your KMail settings, specifically your "network" settings under Kmail -- What's different between your "root" settings and your "user" settings? Do you have your SMTP settings EXACTLY the same on both root and user? Are you sure one of them isn't using SMTP and the other using sendmail? Just some ideas... Other than that, I haven't a clue! :-(
[newbie] Forgot ROOT password
I recently purchased Linux Mandrake 6.0. Apparently, the client we built the linux box for, changed and forgot their root password. Is their anyway to find out what the password is, utility disk, etc.. Oh, my original install boot disk has been corrupted too. Is it possible to download the files to make another Install Floppy disk? Thanks. Patrick Hermanto Savvy Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] now what- super newbie question....
The ampersnad tells bash to start the process in the background, so you can do other things without having to start another shell. I don't, however, think that you should start X in the background- there's no reason (I can see) to do so. It dumps tons of info to the console, so your prompt gets scrolled away very fast, and after X has started, you can open all the Xterms you want. To demonstrate, you might try "yes /dev/null " It will start yes, return a PID and status for "yes" to the console, and then give you another prompt. You can go do something else, while "yes" is running in the background. Run "ps" to see it. If you've ever run yes before, you'll know why I redirected the output. If not... try running "yes" without the redirect, and you'll see. To bring "yes" back to the foreground, type "fg" at the prompt. This will bring to the foreground the most recent command sent to background. Now you may type ^C (Control-C) to stop it. Another way to send a process to the background is to suspend it (^Z) and then type "bg" at the following prompt. I hope that explains things well. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Kuraiken wrote: for Xwindows type 'startx ' Excuse me but... (showing glaringly my newbie status :-)) What's the ampersand for? I normally just type "startx" and hey presto! It starts.
[newbie] No network connection
I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network set up with the linux machine, and two windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes, but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise, when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: [newbie] Forgot ROOT password
You should be able to boot into single-user mode (type "linux 1" at the
"LILO boot:" prompt) and when you get to the shell prompt ("bash-2.03$")
type "passwd root" and change the password. You can then reboot or type
"init 3" at the prompt to get into full multi-user mode. If you're going
to an X-login, try "init 5".
Floppy images are on the /images directory of the CD, or available on your
local mirror ("updates/6.0/images" under the mandrake directory).
-Matt Stegman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently purchased Linux Mandrake 6.0. Apparently, the client we built
the linux box for, changed and forgot their root password. Is their anyway
to find out what the password is, utility disk, etc.. Oh, my original
install boot disk has been corrupted too. Is it possible to download the
files to make another Install Floppy disk? Thanks.
Patrick Hermanto
Savvy Networks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] now what- super newbie question....
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote: Ken Wilson wrote: for Xwindows type 'startx ' Excuse me but... (showing glaringly my newbie status :-)) What's the ampersand for? I normally just type "startx" and hey presto! It starts. The "" means run it in "background mode." Why you'd do that with X, I don't know (mine always works fine the standard way... if I need to do something else, I just hit CTRL+ALT+F1. Typically I log in as "root" on VC1 and log in as my "user account" on VC2, running X from VC2. Then, if I HAVE to do something in console mode, it's easy enough to change around w/o having to log in again, plus if it's something that requires "root" priveleges, I am already logged in as "root." :-)
Re: [newbie] now what- super newbie question....
If you give a command with a after it. It is started in the background, meaning that you get your command prompt back. So if you do CTRL-ALT-F1 you will see a prompt and not a bunch of messages of the X-server. Jo Kuraiken wrote: Ken Wilson wrote: for Xwindows type 'startx ' Excuse me but... (showing glaringly my newbie status :-)) What's the ampersand for? I normally just type "startx" and hey presto! It starts. -- - Kuraiken - Python fanatic. - Python. Try it. It'll swallow you whole! -
[newbie] No network connection
I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network set up with the linux machine, and two windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes, but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise, when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: [newbie] speaking of passwords
I guess I'm too new at this ! But I keep seeing references to " boot to single user mode " . What is it ? How and why would you want to ? Thanks jsm Jackal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 login as root and change the password for the user (unless it is the root password that u forgot). If it IS the root password that u forgot then u have to rebbot into single mode and change the root passwd from there... On 14-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just installed linux and i forgot my password. i know my username, but i was talking on the phone and must have typed in something and now i forgot what it is. what do i do? thanks, jerrud - - PGP Public Key : http://jackal.dhis.org/jackal.txt http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks-commands.html ICQ # : 38756924 Who are you? - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBN40vn9/tgTsNXrtmEQLfCgCfVVAwC0qOoLItEo3Bjrpwj6v5Sk4AoJAx VGpwKDfE2m+ISbkliCMhVhHN =VzoP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] Partionting
I am using a 2.43Gig Harddrive. I want to use 900MB for windows and the rest for Linux. What dir would i make the Swap And the Linux partion and how big. Thanks alot!
RE: [newbie] speaking of passwords
You might want to do this if you have some maintenance issues to deal with and don't want all your daemons loading and complicating the work to be done. Also, you have the machine all to yourself so you can be assured no 'outside processes' will be influencing the results you are seeing from anything you may be testing. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jsm Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] speaking of passwords I guess I'm too new at this ! But I keep seeing references to " boot to single user mode " . What is it ? How and why would you want to ? Thanks jsm Jackal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 login as root and change the password for the user (unless it is the root password that u forgot). If it IS the root password that u forgot then u have to rebbot into single mode and change the root passwd from there... On 14-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just installed linux and i forgot my password. i know my username, but i was talking on the phone and must have typed in something and now i forgot what it is. what do i do? thanks, jerrud - - PGP Public Key : http://jackal.dhis.org/jackal.txt http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks-commands.html ICQ # : 38756924 Who are you? - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBN40vn9/tgTsNXrtmEQLfCgCfVVAwC0qOoLItEo3Bjrpwj6v5Sk4AoJAx VGpwKDfE2m+ISbkliCMhVhHN =VzoP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] No network connection
Hoo boy--- Several things could be going on What are the IP addresses, first? On the windows machines right-click network neighborhood and check their properties for protocols. Is WINS on or off? NetBIOS? Is there a gateway defined? Is DNS enabled or disabled? What are the IP addresses assigned? Much more important, what are the netmasks? I had a similar problem where a client had set up several Windows boxes with IP addresses in the range 192.168.1.x, and then set up the linux box at 192.168.2.3... With the netmasks set at 255.255.255.0, the machines believed they were on different networks and would not talk to each other, because the netmask told them differences in the first 24 bits were significant. ICMP ping should work in such a circumstance even so, though. I would assume these were either daisy-chained with RG58U coax or plugged into a hub. If it is a hub, could one of them be plugged into "Uplink"? Is it possible than any of the cables are either a) crossover type, for tying hubs together or b)just plain defective? Also, try removing and reinserting the cables from the linux box--it could be a poor connection (I have seen THAT cause more problems than all other flaws combined) Civileme FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN wrote: I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network set up with the linux machine, and two windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes, but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise, when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: [[newbie] speaking of passwords]
i am ditching aol all together! i am using aol rightn now on my wintel machine. for linux i am going to use my dsl. and when my dsl comes aol goes. thats how it is planned out j
RE: [newbie] one more time!
runx? you mean startx? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] one more time! when i type in "runx" at the promt, a messages says no command found or something to that nature. what gives? man i realy suck at this linux bit. j
Re: [newbie] speaking of passwords
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote: I guess I'm too new at this ! But I keep seeing references to " boot to single user mode " . What is it ? How and why would you want to ? Single user mode is good for when you've forgotten your password as "root" among other things. Basically it's just like booting into an MS-DOS machine -- you can only log in ONCE... no multiple virtual terminals or anything like that. I'm not sure what else it's good for, but that's mainly what it's good for.
Re: [newbie] Partionting
Ummm, is your disk now partitioned with windows on it? If it is, you would need to follow one of the following methods 1) Get Partition Magic, install it on windows, and make the windows partition 900M 2) Double-click "My Computer" Right-Click "C: Drive" and select "Properties" Click "Tools" on the top tab of that window and then run Check Disk and after that, Defragment. Take your Linux Distribution disk, open it, click on the folder "Dosutils" and Drag it to your C drive. Reboot in DOS mode Now DOS will give you the command line C:\WINDOWS_ waiting for your input type cd \dosutils and when C:\DOSUTILS_ appears, then type fips and size the drive to your specifications according to the instructions Now that your windows is the right size, forget the rest of the drive. Put in your Linux-Mandrake disk and restart. When it says "Hit DEL to Run SETUP" at the bottom of the screen, hit the "Delete" key. If it never says that, you likely have a COMPAQ which will boot from the CD anyway. Once Setup comes up, choose the second line on the left and hit "Enter" One of the first 10 lines on the left of the screen will say "Boot Sequence" Put your cursor there and keep pressing "+" on your numeric keypad till it says "CDROM,C,A" Hit the "ESC" Key and fo to the line that says "SAVE AND EXIT" Press "Enter" The rest should be rather automatic. When you get to choice of installation, choose "Workstation" and let Linux figure the allocation of the rest of the disk for you. As you use it, you will discover more about tuning. The most important thing is to get a working copy where learning may take place. Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using a 2.43Gig Harddrive. I want to use 900MB for windows and the rest for Linux. What dir would i make the Swap And the Linux partion and how big. Thanks alot!
Re: [newbie] one more time!- dont i feel dumb- argh!
when i type in startx :) my monitor goes blank just after the screen scrolls with some stuff. then nothing. ay! el diablo tene mi computadora! j
Re: [newbie] Partionting
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote: I am using a 2.43Gig Harddrive. I want to use 900MB for windows and the rest for Linux. What dir would i make the Swap And the Linux partion and how big. Thanks alot! Using DOS FDISK, create a partition for Windows (900 megs is kind of small these days for Windows 9x G)) and then create two more partitions, one somewhere between 50 100 megs (depending on how much RAM you have -- the more ram, the less swap needed) and then a third partition filling the rest of the drive. I would select "custom" install and "select all, select individual packages" for the installation of Linux (That's what I did and I kept my Windows partition.) If you install Linux first, Windows won't know anything about it and you it will overwrite the LILO and the only way to boot Linux will be with the boot disk you made for your Linux box when you installed it (you DO need to make a boot disk... TRUST ME! G) I have recently read that if you select "workstation" the install will overwrite your ENTIRE partition and set things up however it wants. If you install using the "server" settings, it'll wipe the drive (including the Windows partition) and set itself up how it wants. To have the most control over your installation you should choose "custom."
Re: [newbie] No network connection
The IP addresses are 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.13 for the win machines, and 192.168.0.6 for the Linux. WINS is off. I think NetBIOS is on (i'm not currently where the LAN is set up) There is a gateway defined at 192.168.0.1, which is the machine i use to dial into the internet. My netmasks are all set at 255.255.255.0 I use a hub, and all the connections are tight. The status lights on the HUB indicate the the pings are being transmitted, but there's just no response. On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote: Hoo boy--- Several things could be going on What are the IP addresses, first? On the windows machines right-click network neighborhood and check their properties for protocols. Is WINS on or off? NetBIOS? Is there a gateway defined? Is DNS enabled or disabled? What are the IP addresses assigned? Much more important, what are the netmasks? I had a similar problem where a client had set up several Windows boxes with IP addresses in the range 192.168.1.x, and then set up the linux box at 192.168.2.3... With the netmasks set at 255.255.255.0, the machines believed they were on different networks and would not talk to each other, because the netmask told them differences in the first 24 bits were significant. ICMP ping should work in such a circumstance even so, though. I would assume these were either daisy-chained with RG58U coax or plugged into a hub. If it is a hub, could one of them be plugged into "Uplink"? Is it possible than any of the cables are either a) crossover type, for tying hubs together or b)just plain defective? Also, try removing and reinserting the cables from the linux box--it could be a poor connection (I have seen THAT cause more problems than all other flaws combined) Civileme FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN wrote: I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network set up with the linux machine, and two windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes, but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise, when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: [newbie] one more time!
try startx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i type in "runx" at the promt, a messages says no command found or something to that nature. what gives? man i realy suck at this linux bit. j
Re: [newbie] No network connection
OK, what does your smb.conf file in /etc say? Civileme FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN wrote: The IP addresses are 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.13 for the win machines, and 192.168.0.6 for the Linux. WINS is off. I think NetBIOS is on (i'm not currently where the LAN is set up) There is a gateway defined at 192.168.0.1, which is the machine i use to dial into the internet. My netmasks are all set at 255.255.255.0 I use a hub, and all the connections are tight. The status lights on the HUB indicate the the pings are being transmitted, but there's just no response. On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote: Hoo boy--- Several things could be going on What are the IP addresses, first? On the windows machines right-click network neighborhood and check their properties for protocols. Is WINS on or off? NetBIOS? Is there a gateway defined? Is DNS enabled or disabled? What are the IP addresses assigned? Much more important, what are the netmasks? I had a similar problem where a client had set up several Windows boxes with IP addresses in the range 192.168.1.x, and then set up the linux box at 192.168.2.3... With the netmasks set at 255.255.255.0, the machines believed they were on different networks and would not talk to each other, because the netmask told them differences in the first 24 bits were significant. ICMP ping should work in such a circumstance even so, though. I would assume these were either daisy-chained with RG58U coax or plugged into a hub. If it is a hub, could one of them be plugged into "Uplink"? Is it possible than any of the cables are either a) crossover type, for tying hubs together or b)just plain defective? Also, try removing and reinserting the cables from the linux box--it could be a poor connection (I have seen THAT cause more problems than all other flaws combined) Civileme FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN wrote: I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network set up with the linux machine, and two windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes, but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise, when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: [newbie] Partionting
I have 32MB EDO ram
Re: [newbie] one more time!
The command is "startx" not "runx" :-) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 4:25 PM Subject: [newbie] one more time! when i type in "runx" at the promt, a messages says no command found or something to that nature. what gives? man i realy suck at this linux bit. j
[newbie] how does one.......
how does one change the x window system? i was told that i should change my res and color depth to help with the screen turning black. how do i go about doing this in the command promt. i am trying hard to find a site that can anwser my questions so i wont be such a nuscance :) j
[newbie] Fwd: VIA and UDMA in Linux
Hi: Some days ago, I saw a post about enabling UDMA in Linux. I used "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda", and I got an error message saying "resource busy" or something like that. Then, I downloaded kernel 2.2.10 and compiled it (my fisrt time compiling a kernel), and said y to "VIA ide controller" and "enable DMA by default".. the results were amazing. Here are the timings: before: /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) I/O support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 1025/255/63, sectors = 16481808, start = 0 /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.34 seconds =38.32 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 9.87 seconds = 6.48 MB/sec after: /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) I/O support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 1025/255/63, sectors = 16481808, start = 0 /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.36 seconds =38.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.20 seconds =12.31 MB/sec I didn't know compiling the kernel was so easy, and it allows me to create a custom kernel according to my hardware, resulting in a performance increase. My system is: K6-2 350 running @400Mhz S7 motherboard with VIA MVP3 controller 96mb PC100 RAM Diamond Stealth II G460 (i740) Creative Ensoniq PCI (ES1371) generic 36X cdrom
Re: [newbie] Adding Mandrake to NT Boot loader
There's a program called bootpart, download from www.fileworld.com enjoy Guillermo On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, you wrote: How do I add an entry to the NT boot loader so that I can boot Linux straight from it instead of from my boot floppy? Seems like there is a DC or some sort of command to grab the boot sector and write it to a file, but i'm not sure exactly how to do it. Anyone know how? Michael Rich http://alphax86dev.cjb.net
Fwd: RE: [newbie] virus?
There's a beta of Antiviral Toolkit Pro for linux, and works fine. Go to www.avp.com. Guillermo On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote: On the same note - what about virus checking programs? I haven't noticed any, and I'm currently reading thru the RHPowerPack 6.0 list. Ty C. Mixon ICQ: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don Whitman Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 8:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] virus? Does linux have any viruses to worry about? What about the future. There are some really wack people out there!!! Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Fwd: Re: [newbie] Change default KDE install directory?
I found an easy way to install non Mandrake (or RH) 6 RPMs just make a symbolic link in /opt as follows... cd /opt ln -s /usr KDE that's it! at least it works for me :) Guillermo On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Tim King wrote: I assume "kde package for mandrake/redhat" means a binary RPM, which is how I prefer to install things (yes, I know about the advantages of compiling it yourself). However, the latest binary RPM for "kmysql" installed itself in /opt/kde... rather than in /usr and thus was not displayed in the menus. I would prefer to have KDE and all the apps separated in /opt/kde if there is any way to install this way. There is - download the source RPMs, change /usr to /opt/kde in the .spec file, rpm -ba the spec file, and install the resulting RPM. There's no other way because the path names are hardcoded into the binaries. It's not a very good idea though IMO - since Mandrake 6.0 and Red Hat 6.0 put KDE in /usr, that's where future packages will put them. The only distribution still putting KDE in /opt/kde by default is SuSE, and their RPMs are incompatible with all other distributions anyways (older glibc). LLaP bero
Re: [newbie] Partionting
You would be well advised to DOUBLE that amount as a minimum. However, Linux WILL run quite well with only 32 megs (I know...my machine at work only has 32 mb! G) You'll get less hard drive "thrashing," faster response to commands, and less chance of the machine locking up due to running out of memory if you have at least 64MB! John - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partionting I have 32MB EDO ram
Re: [newbie] one more time!
the command is startx. Don't worry you'll get there Jo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i type in "runx" at the promt, a messages says no command found or something to that nature. what gives? man i realy suck at this linux bit. j
Re: [newbie] one more time!
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 4:25 PM Subject: [newbie] one more time! when i type in "runx" at the promt, a messages says no command found or something to that nature. what gives? man i realy suck at this linux bit. j try "startx" Jonathan Dlouhy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I used to work in a muffler factory, until I got exhausted.
RE: [newbie] how does one.......
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 run "Xconfigurator" and choose 8bpp and 640*480 as one of hte choices of reslution and screen depth when it comes to that stage... u might need to find out information like your monitor's refresh rates etc though...(should find that info in the manual that comes with your monitor... On 16-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how does one change the x window system? i was told that i should change my res and color depth to help with the screen turning black. how do i go about doing this in the command promt. i am trying hard to find a site that can anwser my questions so i wont be such a nuscance :) j - - PGP Public Key : http://jackal.dhis.org/jackal.txt http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks-commands.html ICQ # : 38756924 Desist from enumerating your fowl prior to their emergence from the shell. - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBN46MNN/tgTsNXrtmEQK5CQCgwwg57ATSLHaRPjb4TdomU7+qSIYAn3Xs aG9EZk35TH43SXifch0dxvtJ =hMEe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] Cable modem setup
Can somebody help me to translate following settings into the network settings in linux? I was trying to use netconf with different configurations to no avail. Settings from cable company: --- Primary DNS: 111.111.111.111 Secondary DNS: 111.111.111.111 Subdomain address: aaa.nj.home.com IP address: 111.111.111.111 Login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNS Name: a-a (of course values are sample) The way I needed to set it up in Win9x and Win2000: --- Computer name: a-a Workgroup: @home Obtain IP address automatically: checked Obtain DNS server address automatically: checked DHCP enabled: checked Please help! TIA Sean Brzozowski
RE: [newbie] speaking of passwords
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Mike Ortiz wrote: Hi, This is not the case with most other linux distros, just redhat and mandrake (that I've seen). In SuSE or Caldera, when you drop into singler user mode, you have to enter the root password. On the same note, how do I get mandrake 6.0 to do the same? Thanks! Mike Spawn a getty in runlvl 1, (this still isn't any more secure but) aproxamately line 48 of /etc/inittab tell that first mingetty run also run in runlevel 1 -1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 +1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Aaron W. wrote: I am not saying you are wrong because I cetainly do not know but How can it be this easy to change the root password?! Seems that would be *very* insecure. Anyone that can get to the keyboard can now get into and mess anything up. Aaron Winters, Electronic Imaging Manager Garner Printing. http://camalott.com/~garner --- Mike Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interrim Systems Administrator La Plaza Telecommunity 224 Cruz Alta Rd. Suite F Taos, NM 87571 (505)758-1836 ---
Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
-- From: Chun-wah Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:48 PM hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path / ) and 70MB swap: 1) by partition magic under win 98; and 2) by disk druid from empty space during installation. however, in either case, I got the following error msgs: First of all, Mandrake is optimized for INTEL chips. So it may crash or not work properly with AMD chips. (after choosing packages) error msg: You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages you've selected. you need more space on the following filesystems: Mount point space needed / 290M Try and make these partitions. / /usr /home If you ever have to reinstall again, your /home directory will be fine and won't be reformatted. Jeremy
[newbie] Real Audio
Does anyone know how to setup Real Audio in mandrake? I am getting the error "the codec for this video was not found on your system, please upgrade." then when I hit ok it gives me "File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio decoder" ughhh.. -Bill
Re: [newbie] No network connection
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote: OK, what does your smb.conf file in /etc say? Civileme Whats smb.conf have todo with a routeing problem? FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN wrote: The IP addresses are 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.13 for the win machines, and 192.168.0.6 for the Linux. WINS is off. I think NetBIOS is on (i'm not currently where the LAN is set up) There is a gateway defined at 192.168.0.1, which is the machine i use to dial into the internet. My netmasks are all set at 255.255.255.0 I use a hub, and all the connections are tight. The status lights on the HUB indicate the the pings are being transmitted, but there's just no response. Verify your ip addresses netmasks and gateways, you mentioned 192.168.0.1 twice (typeo? windows couldn't route it's self out of a wet paper towel, most people would put linux as the gateway) what does your linux routeing table look like (route -n), check 'ifconfig eth0' TX/RX errors? droped packets anything like that? As mentioned below cabling could be the problem, try useing a cable from one of the pc's that does function. On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote: Hoo boy--- Several things could be going on What are the IP addresses, first? On the windows machines right-click network neighborhood and check their properties for protocols. Is WINS on or off? NetBIOS? Is there a gateway defined? Is DNS enabled or disabled? What are the IP addresses assigned? Much more important, what are the netmasks? I had a similar problem where a client had set up several Windows boxes with IP addresses in the range 192.168.1.x, and then set up the linux box at 192.168.2.3... With the netmasks set at 255.255.255.0, the machines believed they were on different networks and would not talk to each other, because the netmask told them differences in the first 24 bits were significant. ICMP ping should work in such a circumstance even so, though. I would assume these were either daisy-chained with RG58U coax or plugged into a hub. If it is a hub, could one of them be plugged into "Uplink"? Is it possible than any of the cables are either a) crossover type, for tying hubs together or b)just plain defective? Also, try removing and reinserting the cables from the linux box--it could be a poor connection (I have seen THAT cause more problems than all other flaws combined) Civileme FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN wrote: I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network set up with the linux machine, and two windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes, but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise, when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help? ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Sean Brzozowski wrote: Can somebody help me to translate following settings into the network settings in linux? I was trying to use netconf with different configurations to no avail. Settings from cable company: --- Primary DNS: 111.111.111.111 Secondary DNS: 111.111.111.111 These are the nameservers, add them to /etc/resolve.conf if your not running your own cacheing dns server. Subdomain address: aaa.nj.home.com This is the domainname addedd to the end of your hostname customer-pc.city.state.home.com IP address: 111.111.111.111 you static ip address for the network card Login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ ignore this it's not needed 'cept on the @home site DNS Name: a-a This is your computers name(hostname), breaks down as customer-[abc] (of course values are sample) The way I needed to set it up in Win9x and Win2000: --- Computer name: a-a Workgroup: @home Obtain IP address automatically: checked Obtain DNS server address automatically: checked DHCP enabled: checked Please help! TIA Sean Brzozowski create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 -- DEVICE=eth0 IPADDR=24.x.x.x NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=24.x.x.0 BROADCAST=24.x.x.255 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none USERCTL=no -- or use one of the gui setup tools, netcfg or linuxconf
Re: [newbie] No network connection
-- From: FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No network connection Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:54 PM I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network set up with the linux machine, and two windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes, but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise, when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help? From personal experience, it sounds like your ethernet card isn't support with Linux. Even though it detects and works, I had to same problem with an NE2000 card (which is way common by the way). If I ran TCPDUMP and pinged from a windows or another linux machine I could see it coming in just fine. I changed cables and nothing, then I swapped the card for another ethernet card (a 3com 3c509) and it finally worked. Jeremy
Re: [newbie] virus?
Yikes... he beat me to the answer! :^) On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Civileme translated thoughts to electrons: YES Linux needs virus scanners. To protect other systems it firewalls for on LANs, for example. Essentially the linux implementation is "virus-proof". Theoretically, a virus could enter and wait in memory for a "make" to be issued and perhaps get some source compiled into one of your programs, but that would be a virus worthy of genius-level effort. Worms and trojans are unlikely to do more than harm your own user space, leaving the system and its protected files quite intact, and since they are generally written to be as destructive as possible, they exit with error after the first attempt to do something unpermitted. What we pay for this protection is learning to live with privileged and unprivileged user spaces, file permissions, and the like. I think the price is cheap, having once lost six years worth of writing to a delayed MAC virus (yes, it was all over the backup tapes as well). Civileme Paul Benjamin wrote: If you have Mandrake 6.0 PowerPack edition you can look on the Applications CD (demo commercial) you will find AVP. It is a Russian anti-virus scanner. My understanding it is mostly used to scan email for windows users attached via Samba. If you don't have the Power Pack you can get it at www.avp.ch There is a virus (or trojan horse) called Bliss that will attack Linux. I don't know anything more about it. I found a link about it at: http://LinuxStart.Com/ but I didn't follow it. If you don't spend much time as root or equivalent and keep your file permissions locked down it would be hard for a virus to spread. The thing to look out for is a trojan horse or worm. If you keep up with one or two of the Linux news sites you should be ok. Just follow up on the security alerts to see if they affect what you are doing. PBen On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:40:39 -0600, "Ty C. Mixon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the same note - what about virus checking programs? I haven't noticed any, and I'm currently reading thru the RHPowerPack 6.0 list. Ty C. Mixon ICQ: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don Whitman Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 8:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] virus? Does linux have any viruses to worry about? What about the future. There are some really wack people out there!!! Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. * Win an 850 Gourmet Gas Grill. REGISTER NOW!! Link to http://www.energy.com/about/benefits.asp * -- ___ Jose Alberto Abreu Executive Editor Plan B Mystical Enterprises ___ * Win an 850 Gourmet Gas Grill. REGISTER NOW!! Link to http://www.energy.com/about/benefits.asp *
Re: [newbie] Real Audio
Then you can try the unknown trick. Install the RedHat rpm and the Linux elf.tar file both. The problem with one fix the others Also there is a new g2 player for linux at http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html Hope this helps Jeantte - Original Message -
Re: [newbie] No network connection
Well we need to refer to the Linux Ethernet HOWTO and the Allied 1500 is indeed a supported card based on the old AMD LANCE Chip (Not to be confused with the newer PCnet-ISA 79C760) The driver needs to have implemented low memory bounce-buffers to make all communication come from the bottom 16M of memory in DMAs, but is otherwise pretty straightforward. I think what Axalon wrote about routing should be checked first. Also, what sort of gateway software is running? Is there some crossover possible there? I have never used anything but transproxy, ipchains, and ipfwadm, so I have no knowledge of what a wingate or bay networks driver might do Civileme J Mann wrote: -- From: FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No network connection Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:54 PM I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network set up with the linux machine, and two windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes, but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise, when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help? From personal experience, it sounds like your ethernet card isn't support with Linux. Even though it detects and works, I had to same problem with an NE2000 card (which is way common by the way). If I ran TCPDUMP and pinged from a windows or another linux machine I could see it coming in just fine. I changed cables and nothing, then I swapped the card for another ethernet card (a 3com 3c509) and it finally worked. Jeremy
Re: [newbie] Real Audio
Thanks, worked perfectly when I d/l the G2 one.. thanks for your help. -Bill On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: Then you can try the unknown trick. Install the RedHat rpm and the Linux elf.tar file both. The problem with one fix the others Also there is a new g2 player for linux at http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html Hope this helps Jeantte - Original Message -
[newbie] Hostname woes..
Sorry I have been asking so many q's lately, but I finally took windows off my puter. hehe.. Ok here is the deal, I am a dial up user, and no matter what I set my hostname to (well for all I know) when I boot up the http demeon fails because of hostname, and I would like to have a lame webserver while I am online. (just for play, I know I can just use the ip, and I also know that the hostname will not resolve just go with it) Also, back in 5.3 I set my hostname to blah.blah.com and in pine when I sent email it would say that. Now in pine it says hostname must... and will not send. Somebody help me so I can play with more stuff and ask more questions. =) -Bill
[newbie] zip drive help
how can i use my zip drive in linux? i need to download things in win98 to the disk and then bring them over to linux. any suggestions? jerrud
[newbie] a sad kmail story
I notice that messages I am sending via kde mailer are piling up in the /var/whatever/ mailbox. I get signals to this effect when I sign out of Xwindows or when I have just booted up. Any ideas why, anyone? why shouldn't i be able to send mail or reply to mail? (this on yahoo, a different accoutn) Steve W _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname woes..
i THINK that your host name needs to be just "Localhost" no " of course
Re: [newbie] zip drive help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] how can i use my zip drive in linux? i need to download things in win98 to the disk and then bring them over to linux. any suggestions? What kind of zip drive? SCSI, IDE, parallel? If it's SCSI, you'll need to mount /dev/sdx4 (where x is the appropriate device designator) to an appropriate mount point. If IDE, mount /dev/hdx4 as above. You shouldn't need anything special to use either of these. For parallel port, I haven't used that, so I couldn't help you.
[newbie] zip drive help i use a parallel
yeah i use a parallel zip drive. if anyone knows how to make this work in linux share the knowladge! thanks jerrud
