Re: [newbie] sndconfig utility has misleading information
Only genuine mandrake-linux distro will have the rego number.Others like Macmillan press distro which is a distro derrived from the genuine Mandrake-Linux do not, but are marketed as Mandrake-linux. regards Steve - Original Message - From: Theo Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 9:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] sndconfig utility has misleading information Joe Patton wrote: One other question for Mandrake: Where do I find my registration number? I tried to fill out the online registration form, but I cannot find any information in the documentation that came with the software to tell my what my registration number is. Can't help with the first part, but when I got my boxed Mandrake 5.3, it came with a couple pieces of loose paper, one of which had the registration number on it. (I don't know if it's the same for 6.0 or not.) - Theo
Re: [newbie] hardware
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'm gonna be upgrading a large amount of my hardware and need to make sure I buy linux compatible hardware. Most notable I'm gonna be getting a new modem, vid card, NIC, and something else I seem to be missing. Is there a website I can go to and check if all the hardware I'm looking into getting is supported? Wise move. You'll want to memorize this URL, or build a link to it on your web page: http://www.metalab.unc.edu/linux/ The specific document you want is, Plain text: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO ...or, HTML: http://www.metalab.unc.edu/linux/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html There are also a few special-purpose hardware compat web sites, I'm away from my list right now but maybe someone else can help out here. best wishes, richard myers
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: I've spent long sleepless nights before fixing the system.ini file after moving programs from C:\Program Files to D:\Prog. Luckily, I had a utility to rename most references that went to my CD-ROM drive after it changed letters. In Linux, such a thing isn't necessary since drives are referred to by their real names, not by arbitrary letters. I think that the problem is not the "arbitrary letters", but the fact that these letter designations get "bumped" when new hardware is added. rant There is a user interface analysis website (ask me for the link, if interested) that strongly suggests Microsoft has used graphic designers to create their interfaces so that they look pretty, even when this renders them semi- or non-functional. Shouldn't be any surprise. If your CDROM could just stay as your D: drive, and your next hard drive could become E:, the upgrade problems would be fewer. Of course then installation software would have to query each storage device, "are you a hard drive or CDROM?" I think this identification process is common sense now, but when the drive scheme was set up, Microsoft's simplification of the Windows installation procedure was probably more important to them than any provision for upgrading. "What, have a CDROM in between non-consecutive hard drive letters? That's not pretty enough for our customers!" /rant best wishes, richard myers
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: Probably for the same reason DOS can only use 640kB RAM. I can hear it now... "Nobody will ever have a drive larger than 2GB!" Correction: Nobody will ever BE ABLE TO have a drive larger than 2GB! That is, with DOS. I like learning about the internals of my computer. I try to learn all I can about everything I use. What is Linux's answer to the FAT? Linux's answer to the FAT is: Trim it :) John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9
For the time being pick up the modules from Creative's site, copy them to '/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc' (or whereever) and do an 'insmod -f sblive' to get it going. You will also need to have put the pre/post install lines into your conf.modules as instructed by their readme. I do have a better way of doing it than this, but can't remember off the top of my head. I'll post my conf.modules to my webpage and then post the URL tonight. Martin. - Original Message - From: Carlos Mayorga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 2:29 AM Subject: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9 Have any one working SBlive with with mandrake 6.0 kernel 2.2.9 if so please help to make it work please. Thanks in advance... Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: Probably for the same reason DOS can only use 640kB RAM. I can hear it now... "Nobody will ever have a drive larger than 2GB!" Correction: Nobody will ever BE ABLE TO have a drive larger than 2GB! That is, with DOS. I like learning about the internals of my computer. I try to learn all I can about everything I use. What is Linux's answer to the FAT? as far as I know, it's EXT2, which is far superior to FAT. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: I broke my disk up in 3 partitions. 2 Gig or so for "/root", 64M for "swap", and the balance (6Gig) for "/home". This allows me to reinstall (reformat :-0 ) the /root and swap and not touch any home (user) files What about /usr and all those other directories I am forgetting? So, what if I install some great package and then have to reformat and reinstall the OS? How can I salvage that great package? just copy the package to a partition you aren't going to format. You can copy it back later. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installing
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: Mine is 1994.LBA is Logical (or Linear) Block Addressing. All new IDE HDs support it. My 1995 WD does. It's just a different way of numbering the heads, sectors and tracks. I'm pretty sure it does translation, too. Maybe there's a BIOS update for your motherboard-assuming it has a flash rom on it (but from that era, I kinda doubt it. My dad would like to get a new processor for the computer. I read some instructions on upgrades in the pamplets that came with our computer, and it showed me where I could set the clock speed. The choices: 25MHz and 33MHz. If I want to upgrade, I'll have to get a new motherboard in the process. I think it would be kinda cool to have a patchwork computer made out of parts from many different times, but if it doesn't work, then there's no point. I wonder if AST still supports an old Adventure! computer... By the way, I got it for $1500. grin shakes head Modern hardware is much nicer and faster. Much cheaper, too. When I bought my Pentium motherboard in '95, the cpu (90 Mhz) was nearly $1000 Cdn. The board was about $800. And 16 Mb of RAM was $900. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installing
An extended partition can contain multiple partitions (logical drives) inside it. For a more detailed explanation see http://www.harris-lp.k12.ia.us/hlp/~jws/~jws/comp/PCInfo/Boot/DEFAULT.HTM (click on the "Partitions and Volumes" link first). I was looking for a better page, but couldn't find one. Still, this one's not bad. I'll read it. The disk is formatted with the Ontrack Proprietary Format... Which means that if you ever want to access it without their special driver, you'll have to reformat it- WITHOUT USING THEIR FORMAT. I have the option of doing a BIOS format. The DDO will still work, but then I can access the drive without it and risk cylinder wrap. I read that 1024 cylinders is around 528MB or so. Hmm. That's pretty limiting. If your BIOS has the option of doing a format, DON'T DO IT!!! Apparently, this was only meant for non IDE/SCSI drives, and can actually make things worse. Even though you should never have to low-level format an IDE drive, if you really have to, you must get the utility from the drive manufacturer. Apparently, all drives have slightly different controllers, so there is no generic low-level format program. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] ponderings
If I had a machine running linux mandrake with an ISA diamond modem, connected via a hub to 2 machines, one running win98, the other running win95, how easy would it be set up that the 2 windoze boxed could dial up via the linux machine to an isp. (btw, me = complete linux newbie) k Kelly Dorset HTML programmer for Insight UK http://www.insight.com/uk --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: [newbie] kernel recompilation
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote: Dan Brown wrote: From: Periklis Christodoulou [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if I can get help with recompiling my kernel in order to support ntfs file system. When I tried "make xconf" it failed saying there are no rules to make target. It's make xconfig. Make sure you're in /usr/src/linux when you do this. I am sorry indeed it is make xconfig. And I was in the directory /usr/src/linux. To make sure I have repeated the exercise and the following again: make xconfig make: *** No rule to make target `xconfig'. Stop. One more info, I am running the Mandrake 6.0 Thanks Did you install the kernel headers AND sources? -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: Have any one working SBlive with with mandrake 6.0 kernel 2.2.9 if so please help to make it work please. Have you downloaded the Linux drivers for the SBLive from Creative Labs? If not, you might want to try that... John
Re: [newbie] kernel recompilation
rpm -q kernel-source kernel-headers, On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Periklis Chrisotodoulou wrote: Dan Brown wrote: From: Periklis Christodoulou [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if I can get help with recompiling my kernel in order to support ntfs file system. When I tried "make xconf" it failed saying there are no rules to make target. It's make xconfig. Make sure you're in /usr/src/linux when you do this. I am sorry indeed it is make xconfig. And I was in the directory /usr/src/linux. To make sure I have repeated the exercise and the following again: make xconfig make: *** No rule to make target `xconfig'. Stop. One more info, I am running the Mandrake 6.0 Thanks
Re: [newbie] Kppp question
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote: OK, the IP addresses are for the INTERFACES, not for the systems. What I understand is that you have two computers connected by ethernet. One has a ppp connection to an ISP for internet connectivity. You need several simple things: 1. Your local static IPs had best be class A, B, or C addresses reserved for local networks (Class As are 10.x.y.z Class Cs are 192.168.x.y (256 networks back to back) and I don't recall the Bs since I never use them) Of course, the host with the gateway could be 10.0.0.1 and the other could use DHCP if you are set up to run it. 2. Go to K menu Choose Personal Choose Linux-Mandrake Choose Network on the machine with the PPP interface Names should show your hostname your domain and the DNS addresses Hosts should show only 127.0.0.1 (loopback) and the static IP for your host Interfaces should show 127.0.0.1 as lo Your static IP as eth0 and ppp0 without any IP To set up ppp, click on ppp0 and choose Edit Routing is likely where your problem is. Default gateway SHOULD be blank gateway device should be ppp0 No other entries should be present Save and Quit--should work. Might try ticking the Ipv4 packet forwarding in routing as well. Don't do this unless you are sure you need it it is off by default for a reason. You need it if your a router, or building a masqurade router which i guess is covered under the first reason. For a service to connect both nodes to the internet, look at the doc for ipchains or get PaNTs via www.Freshmeat.net Civileme Bill Moshier wrote: I wanted fixed-ip addresses for the local network. But I need dynamic IP for the isp. -Original Message- From: Lloyd Osten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kppp question On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: I've a small 2-node network, with fixed IP addresses. When I start Kppp, it connects and authenticate correctly, but will not connect to any sites. The details screen shows that it is using the fixed IP address for the system. Yet in the Kppp setup, I have Dynamic IP checked, auto-configure host name is NOT checked, the domain and dns address lists are correct (xxx.net, and two xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ip addresses). The gateway default is checked, assign default route to this gateway is checked. What's the next stage necessary to get the system to use the dynamic IP address assigned from the isp? (or what have I mis-configured?) Thanks for the assistance. Bill If you really do have fixed IP addresses, why do you have dynamic IP checked? -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Civileme Say: "One who buys dual scan display soon gains Optometrist for best friend."
Re: [newbie] Login Background
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: In the sense that it is an ansi drawing program yes, I'd say all similarity ends there. It has a much larger working area, allowing for all those awesome pics you'll find linked there also. As always, your Framebuffer console advocate, I recommend viewing these via console running in atleast 1280x1024x24 for maximum plesure :) Uhhh... no can do! I have 1MB video ram, and my monitor can display 800x600, or 1024x768 interlaced. Ahhh well, upgrade ;) You can get a better display with vga=ask at lilo, but it was just a suggestion.
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: Probably for the same reason DOS can only use 640kB RAM. I can hear it now... "Nobody will ever have a drive larger than 2GB!" I'm sure somebodys got that one on tape too ;) Correction: Nobody will ever BE ABLE TO have a drive larger than 2GB! That is, with DOS. I like learning about the internals of my computer. I try to learn all I can about everything I use. What is Linux's answer to the FAT? Erase it
Re: [newbie] lilo netscape
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: 1- is there a way to get Lilo to give me a choice about booting w98 or linux? I have it set to allow me to type Dos in at the boot prompt, But I would like it to wait for me to respond. Did you not set that up at install? On my system (Win98/RedHat 6.0) it works beautifully. LILO saw the two partitions and it asked what label I wanted for which operating system and which I wanted to use as my default O/S. Granted, it doesn't delay very long, but it's plenty of time for me to type "dos" and start Win98 or just hit "enter" for Linux. :-)
[newbie] another round of the old-messages number
I just got a passle of messages from 7/8. "Curiouser, and curiouser," said Alice.
[newbie] Mailer is possessed
Did anyone else just get 5 posts from 7-8-99?
Re: [newbie] Installing
Lloyd Osten wrote: An extended partition can contain multiple partitions (logical drives) inside it. For a more detailed explanation see http://www.harris-lp.k12.ia.us/hlp/~jws/~jws/comp/PCInfo/Boot/DEFAULT.HTM (click on the "Partitions and Volumes" link first). I was looking for a better page, but couldn't find one. Still, this one's not bad. I'll read it. The disk is formatted with the Ontrack Proprietary Format... Which means that if you ever want to access it without their special driver, you'll have to reformat it- WITHOUT USING THEIR FORMAT. I have the option of doing a BIOS format. The DDO will still work, but then I can access the drive without it and risk cylinder wrap. I read that 1024 cylinders is around 528MB or so. Hmm. That's pretty limiting. If your BIOS has the option of doing a format, DON'T DO IT!!! Apparently, this was only meant for non IDE/SCSI drives, and can actually make things worse. Even though you should never have to low-level format an IDE drive, if you really have to, you must get the utility from the drive manufacturer. Apparently, all drives have slightly different controllers, so there is no generic low-level format program. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actualy I've heard that the low-level in most bios' is actualy functional ONLY for mfm/rll style drives,and shouldn't be used on a modern ide style,it was in a couple of the mb manuals I've had. merc.
RE: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: I broke my disk up in 3 partitions. 2 Gig or so for "/root", 64M for "swap", and the balance (6Gig) for "/home". This allows me to reinstall (reformat :-0 ) the /root and swap and not touch any home (user) files What about /usr and all those other directories I am forgetting? So, what if I install some great package and then have to reformat and reinstall the OS? How can I salvage that great package? just copy the package to a partition you aren't going to format. You can copy it back later. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] I added a /apps partition that doesn't get reformatted. I haven't installed any apps to it yet so I don't know if I'll loose any settings, etc. Joe Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] application/ms-tnef
RE: [newbie] Keyboard and Xman Problem
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lloyd Osten Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Keyboard and Xman Problem On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: Hello, i have bought Linux Mandrake 6.0 in germany. There are a few problems : 1. The Home and End keys doesn't work correct in KDE konsole. It only beeps when i press Home or End. When i start the Midnight Commander out of the KDE konsole and edit a file and press Home a 'H' appears, pressing End show a 'F' . 2. XMan doesn't show the man-pages. Only garbage... Bye... Andre I think the default key bindings can be changed. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] What must i change ?? My console keytable is set to de-latin1-nodeadkeys. The keyboard-section of my XF86Config file : Section "Keyboard" Protocol "Standard" XkbRules "xfree86" XkbModel "pc104" XkbLayout "de" XkbVariant"nodeadkeys" EndSection The same settings works with the German SuSE Linux Distribution. Andre
RE: [newbie] Kppp question
Thanks, both to Civilme, and Axalon - I'll digest this, and see what happens. Bill -Original Message- From: Axalon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kppp question On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote: OK, the IP addresses are for the INTERFACES, not for the systems. What I understand is that you have two computers connected by ethernet. One has a ppp connection to an ISP for internet connectivity. You need several simple things: 1. Your local static IPs had best be class A, B, or C addresses reserved for local networks (Class As are 10.x.y.z Class Cs are 192.168.x.y (256 networks back to back) and I don't recall the Bs since I never use them) Of course, the host with the gateway could be 10.0.0.1 and the other could use DHCP if you are set up to run it. 2. Go to K menu Choose Personal Choose Linux-Mandrake Choose Network on the machine with the PPP interface Names should show your hostname your domain and the DNS addresses Hosts should show only 127.0.0.1 (loopback) and the static IP for your host Interfaces should show 127.0.0.1 as lo Your static IP as eth0 and ppp0 without any IP To set up ppp, click on ppp0 and choose Edit Routing is likely where your problem is. Default gateway SHOULD be blank gateway device should be ppp0 No other entries should be present Save and Quit--should work. Might try ticking the Ipv4 packet forwarding in routing as well. Don't do this unless you are sure you need it it is off by default for a reason. You need it if your a router, or building a masqurade router which i guess is covered under the first reason. For a service to connect both nodes to the internet, look at the doc for ipchains or get PaNTs via www.Freshmeat.net Civileme Bill Moshier wrote: I wanted fixed-ip addresses for the local network. But I need dynamic IP for the isp. -Original Message- From: Lloyd Osten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kppp question On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: I've a small 2-node network, with fixed IP addresses. When I start Kppp, it connects and authenticate correctly, but will not connect to any sites. The details screen shows that it is using the fixed IP address for the system. Yet in the Kppp setup, I have Dynamic IP checked, auto-configure host name is NOT checked, the domain and dns address lists are correct (xxx.net, and two xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ip addresses). The gateway default is checked, assign default route to this gateway is checked. What's the next stage necessary to get the system to use the dynamic IP address assigned from the isp? (or what have I mis-configured?) Thanks for the assistance. Bill If you really do have fixed IP addresses, why do you have dynamic IP checked? -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Civileme Say: "One who buys dual scan display soon gains Optometrist for best friend."
Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9]
I really thanks Martin ans sorry about my little english, I need some help with this becuse I downloaded the files from Cretive labs page: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ and the files are: README mod_conf install_emu10k1 emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15 emu10k1.o-2.2.10 emu10k1.o-2.0.36 My firs problem after read the "README" file was "install_emu10k1" did't work and I tried manual installation. Please tell me if my steps have mistakes: 1. Determine your kernel sound modules installation location (usually /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc) I did it the driversare in "/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc" 2. Copy the appropriate driver to that location as emu10k1.o (eg. /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc/emu10k1.o) I tried it butwhat is the right file? for my kernel version? 3. Unload all existing soundcard drivers, including soundcore May be here is the problem, how must I do it? 4. Remove all old soundcard references from /etc/conf.modules In my "conf.modules" file are not sound drivers is a file with 3 lines 5. Add a new reference to the driver in /etc/conf.modules: (eg. "alias sound emu10k1" or "alias char-major-14 emu10k1") I use "alias sound emu10k1" and the other but doesn't work 6. If your kernel is compiled with version information, add the following lines to /etc/conf.modules after the previous statement: pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore How can I verify if "my kernel is compiled with version information"? 7. Load the driver: "modprobe emu10k1" PLEASE HELP!! I spent US$200 in this card and it doesnt work!! help again. - Original Message - "Martin White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the time being pick up the modules from Creative's site, copy them to '/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc' (or whereever) and do an 'insmod -f sblive' to get it going. You will also need to have put the pre/post install lines into your conf.modules as instructed by their readme. I do have a better way of doing it than this, but can't remember off the top of my head. I'll post my conf.modules to my webpage and then post the URL tonight. Martin. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
RE: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?
I've had the same problem, and the fdisk /mbr wouldnt work for some reason. in winNT magazine i found an article that actually gave you assembly code to type in debug that wiped your mbr it was pretty cool :) jason -Original Message- From: Lyndon Lininger Sr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR? Ty Mixon wrote: I'm trying to re-install WinNT on hda, but every time I try to boot, Lilo jumps in and asks what I want to boot. I need to get rid of that temporarily. How do I do it? I've tried Linuxconf from KDE, but it doesn't stop it. Thanks, Ty From a dos or windows bootup at the command line type fdisk /mbr Lyndon Lininger Sr.
Re: [newbie] another round of the old-messages number
Strange, thats my birthday.. =) Maybe somebody forgot to tell me happy birthday and thats how they decided to do it.. hmm.. -Bill On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Sebastien DRUON wrote: Me too. 5 messages to France today and dated 7/8 Maybe a time break ??? Bert Bullough a écrit: I think demonic possession is a definite possibility... Break out the crucifixes. Theo Brinkman wrote: I thought I recognized a few of them, too. Wonder what's up? pauljw wrote: I just got a passle of messages from 7/8. "Curiouser, and curiouser," said Alice.
Re: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?
try booting of a win95/98 startup disk and run fdisk /mbr this will restore the mbr to 'normal' and let you reinstall NT or whathever os without lilo popping up all the time BUT: to regain acces to your linux partitions, you will need a linux startup disk and rerun lilo to reinstall it. Patrick - Original Message - From: Ty Mixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 9:15 PM Subject: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR? I'm trying to re-install WinNT on hda, but every time I try to boot, Lilo jumps in and asks what I want to boot. I need to get rid of that temporarily. How do I do it? I've tried Linuxconf from KDE, but it doesn't stop it. Thanks, Ty
Re: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?
Try using a winblows boot disk... that'll skip it without having to uninstall... ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ty Mixon wrote: I'm trying to re-install WinNT on hda, but every time I try to boot, Lilo jumps in and asks what I want to boot. I need to get rid of that temporarily. How do I do it? I've tried Linuxconf from KDE, but it doesn't stop it. Thanks, Ty
[newbie] Colors in VIM
Hello. Does anybody know how to enable colors in VIM? I just moved from Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, and I liked this feature... I've seen a .vimrc file in my home directory, but I couldn't find any section relative to colors ??? Dominique
Re: [newbie] Installing
The Ontrack program--DDO--is there to make sure that the whole drive can be accessed without cylinder wrap. The proprietary format is there to make sure that the drive cannot be read without DDO. Guess what. Linux read it with no trouble (and with no DDO loaded). This means you use a floppy to boot Linux, right? DOS, on the other hand... I'll have to load DDO for Mr. Bill's sake. I don't want to lose my data if the system is booted into DOS with a floppy that doesn't load the DDO, so I guess I'm best off leaving the proprietary format on there. In that case, I could use the floppy but not the big hard disk (only the smaller one). I can boot from floppy *and* use the DDO if it let it boot from disk, press space at the right time, and insert a floppy (thanks to a feature of the DDO). Another thing you could do is make a copy of the MBR that loads DDO and then put that MBR on a floppy. It may not work, but then again, it may. You could then put LILO in the MBR of hda (since LILO can read your drive without the aid of DDO) and use the floppy to boot DOS. I think it depends on what you want to use as your primary operating system. I have the option of doing a BIOS format. The DDO will still work, but then I can access the drive without it and risk cylinder wrap. I read that 1024 cylinders is around 528MB or so. Hmm. That's pretty limiting. Well, I don't know how your BIOS addresses the disk, but the way I understand it is that by CHS (Cylinders Heads Sectors) the BIOS can handle 1024 Cylinders, 256 heads, and 64 sectors per track. As each sector is 512 bytes, this allows up to (1024*64*256*512)=8589934592 bytes, or 8192MB, or 8.0GB. LBA simply addresses each sector sequentially, and I believe the upper limit there would depend on how many bits you use for addressing the disk. If today we use 32-bit processors, then you can address (512*2^32)=219902322 bytes, or 2.0TB- I know the G is close to the T, but this isn't a typo either. T is an abbreviation for "Tera" or 10^12. This is, of course, assuming my logic is correct. I talked to somebody about this, and things are a little clearer now. It sounds like your old BIOS can't handle drives larger than 512MB. The Ontrack program gets around this. Don't reformat until you get newer BIOS. Until then, continue to use the Ontrack program. What you might do (if you're currently using floppies to boot Linux) is just let your computer boot to DOS, and use loadlin to load a copy of the Linux kernel off the 125MB DOS partition. I don't know too much about passing options to loadlin, but I think the program's on the Mandrake CD and I know there's documentation on the web (try http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95.html). I get it, except for cfdisk. I only heard of fdisk. Is that a typo? I know the C key is really close to the F key... No typo. cfdisk is a "Curses-based fdisk," hence the "c." It's a little prettier than fdisk, and I'd think easier for a newbie. Curses refers to the libraries used to generate the text-mode menus. -Matt
[newbie] Tar options
Hello again. Is there an option of tar, to include hidden files (the one beginning with a dot) when creating an archive. I've lost all my netscape bookmarks when moving from Caldera to Mandrake (they are stored in the .netscape hidden directory...). Since I try a distro every 2 or 3 weeks (I like that, and I want to find the best one ;-), I'd like to restore all my settings Thanks Dominique
Re: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?
Can't you boot off the NT CD? If not, you should boot to DOS from a floppy, and run the NT setup program to make the NT boot floppies. Then boot from those. -Matt On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ty Mixon wrote: I'm trying to re-install WinNT on hda, but every time I try to boot, Lilo jumps in and asks what I want to boot. I need to get rid of that temporarily. How do I do it? I've tried Linuxconf from KDE, but it doesn't stop it. Thanks, Ty
Re: [newbie] Installing
- Original Message - From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Now, if you want to share your Computer between Windows and Linux, you will have to get advice elsewhere. But I would strongly suggest a second hard drive by itself for Linux; it works best. In RedHat mailing list it was unearthed that in a significant number of cases Windows 98 (but not 95) gets annoyed sometimes at sharing the drive with Linux and corrupts it or wipes it out. 98 never bothers a second drive. Hehehe. I'm glad I don't have to put up with 98! My question. On my PC, I have two hard disks installed. The first one is--get this--125 MB or so. Long ago I had to DoubleSpace it so that I could actually do things with it. That was just fine. I accepted the fact that it was no undoable. Then I got Windows 95, which promised that it would be able to undo it (guess what--it can't even reboot into the special mode for exorcising DoubleSpace). I made do for a while, but I eventually got a big disk (3 gigabytes or so, I think) and installed it as well. Since I don't have documentation to tell me how to change which drive is the first one, I'm stuck with booting from that little disk. snip Just to address this part, check out your pc manufacturer's web site. I had a similar problem recently (except my drives are 428MB and 4.3GB). My manufacturer (Packard Bell) has a tech support page which gives you info on your pc when you give them the serial number, plus message boards where you can get help from other users and techs. Not even to mention the possible update drivers and BIOS updates that you may be able to find. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 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] Installing
- Original Message - From: Rich McCabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 3:36 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing All that is great info and right on track except it doesnt matter where the hard drive goes on the cable. On a dual floppy setup, you must put the A Drive on the end because of a cut and twist in the ribbon cable, but not on an IDE. The wires are all in a parallel manner and the drive doesn't care. Plug it in in whichever manner fits best.. Rich Exactly my thoughts. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 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] Printer
- Original Message - From: Morpheus The Sinful Weeper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 7:08 PM Subject: [newbie] Printer Ok I have a simple question..how do i configure a lexmark 1100 printer if it isnt on the list of printtool ? I have the exact same printer. We both know that it uses it's own program to print in Windows. I am not even sure if it will work correctly in linux. I would also appreciate any assistance if anyone knows how it can be used in linux. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 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] kernel recompilation
I'm guessing you did a custom install and neglected to install the development libraries. Ben - Original Message - From: Periklis Chrisotodoulou [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 1:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] kernel recompilation Dan Brown wrote: From: Periklis Christodoulou [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if I can get help with recompiling my kernel in order to support ntfs file system. When I tried "make xconf" it failed saying there are no rules to make target. It's make xconfig. Make sure you're in /usr/src/linux when you do this. I am sorry indeed it is make xconfig. And I was in the directory /usr/src/linux. To make sure I have repeated the exercise and the following again: make xconfig make: *** No rule to make target `xconfig'. Stop. One more info, I am running the Mandrake 6.0 Thanks
RE: [newbie] Colors in VIM
Try adding a 'syntax on' line in your .vimrc. Bill -Original Message- From: Dominique Deleris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Colors in VIM Hello. Does anybody know how to enable colors in VIM? I just moved from Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, and I liked this feature... I've seen a .vimrc file in my home directory, but I couldn't find any section relative to colors ??? Dominique
Re: [newbie] Tar options
Dominique Deleris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello again. Is there an option of tar, to include hidden files (the one beginning with a dot) when creating an archive. I've lost all my netscape bookmarks when moving from Caldera to Mandrake (they are stored in the .netscape hidden directory...). well tar include dot files by default. But you should not do: cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz * but cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz .
Re: [newbie] Colors in VIM
Dominique Deleris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. Does anybody know how to enable colors in VIM? I just moved from Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, and I liked this feature... I've seen a .vimrc file in my home directory, but I couldn't find any section relative to colors ??? syntax on does the trick
Re: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote: I'm trying to re-install WinNT on hda, but every time I try to boot, Lilo jumps in and asks what I want to boot. I need to get rid of that temporarily. How do I do it? I've tried Linuxconf from KDE, but it doesn't stop it. Boot to a Dos/Windows floppy (but make a Linux boot floppy first -- otherwise you won't be able to access your Linux! If you don't know how, read the man page on mkbootdisk.) Run "fdisk /mbr" and it will give you a clean Dos/Windows boot sector.
Re: [newbie] Tar options
? does so by default try tar cvfz /some/where/something.tar.gz /home/you On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Dominique Deleris wrote: Hello again. Is there an option of tar, to include hidden files (the one beginning with a dot) when creating an archive. I've lost all my netscape bookmarks when moving from Caldera to Mandrake (they are stored in the .netscape hidden directory...). Since I try a distro every 2 or 3 weeks (I like that, and I want to find the best one ;-), I'd like to restore all my settings Thanks Dominique
Re: [newbie] Colors in VIM
Hi, I use Caldera 2.2 from home, and I can send you my .vimrc file if you want. (i am @ work now.) Let me know. Thanks, mike On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Dominique Deleris wrote: Hello. Does anybody know how to enable colors in VIM? I just moved from Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, and I liked this feature... I've seen a .vimrc file in my home directory, but I couldn't find any section relative to colors ??? Dominique --- Mike Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interrim Systems Administrator La Plaza Telecommunity 224 Cruz Alta Rd. Suite F Taos, NM 87571 (505)758-1836 ---
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Lloyd Osten wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: I've spent long sleepless nights before fixing the system.ini file after moving programs from C:\Program Files to D:\Prog. Luckily, I had a utility to rename most references that went to my CD-ROM drive after it changed letters. In Linux, such a thing isn't necessary since drives are referred to by their real names, not by arbitrary letters. I think that the problem is not the "arbitrary letters", but the fact that these letter designations get "bumped" when new hardware is added. rant There is a user interface analysis website (ask me for the link, if interested) that strongly suggests Microsoft has used graphic designers to create their interfaces so that they look pretty, even when this renders them semi- or non-functional. Shouldn't be any surprise. If your CDROM could just stay as your D: drive, and your next hard drive could become E:, the upgrade problems would be fewer. Of course then installation software would have to query each storage device, "are you a hard drive or CDROM?" I think this identification process is common sense now, but when the drive scheme was set up, Microsoft's simplification of the Windows installation procedure was probably more important to them than any provision for upgrading. "What, have a CDROM in between non-consecutive hard drive letters? That's not pretty enough for our customers!" /rant best wishes, richard myers I think in win95/98 you can select which drive letter you want the cdrom to be. It will always be after your hard drive, though -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep, you can assign a drive letter to it on a permanent basis, in fact that way you could still put a hard drive on afterwards and have the cd/rom before it. At least in Win 95, not sure about Win 98. I think the place to do that is in My Computer, I don't have Windoze on my machine anymore so I can't verrify that right now, but I know I did do that once. I had it at E: for a long time, even after putting on another drive behind it that was assigned F: as it's drive letter. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] disk druid
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: Try using fdisk, it's command line and a litte more terse. "Definitely" read the man page before starting though as it is very powerful and you can cause all sorts of destruction if you're not careful. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] disk druid what's the command to run disk druid from a terminal? If fdisk is a bit confusing for you, try using cfdisk, it is in /sbin I believe. It is a bit easier to use for someone new to linux. Text based graphics and you can manuver around with the cursor keys and tabkey. Anyone who ever installed SlackWare will know it right away. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Lilo BootLoader is Gone..
For some reason When I start my Computer now I have no Lilo it just boots into Win98... How can I get it back. Thanks, James J. Capone
Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9]
Hi, Checked out the new driver - not much luck if i used the one for kernel 2.2.10 - not all that surprising really as 2.2.9-19 is LOWER than that one !! (The CD player stuff works fine, but as soon as i play an MP3 which will use the wave table support (??) it breaks and needs a reboot - an unclean one at that). If, however you use the one called 'emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15' everything seems to work fine. Is it just my over keen imagination or does the SBLive start to sound better out of 4 speakers now than with the previous driver - starting to sound as good as it does under windows now - anyone else comment on this ?? Okay - do the following (exactly everything Creative recommend you _DONT_ do, so i take no responsibilty for this ;-) it works fine for me tho!) DO IT ALL AS ROOT (su -) Untar/zip the file from creative. 'cp emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15 /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc/emu10k1.o' Remove any existing sound lines from conf.modules Add the following... 'alias sound emu10k1' 'options emu10k1 -f' 'pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore' 'post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore' Save the file reboot. Instead of rebooting you could come out of X and then do... 'rmmod soundcore' 'rmmod sblive' (or whatever your old module was called) 'insmod -f emu10k1' For reference my conf.modules can be found at www.whitem.demon.co.uk/my_conf_modules.htm Check out the whole site if you like www.whitem.demon.co.uk you might find something else of interest there !! Good luck, Martin. PS: I can still send the old version if you really want, but you shouldn't need it the new one seems to work handsomly. - Original Message - From: Carlos Mayorga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9] I really thanks Martin ans sorry about my little english, I need some help with this becuse I downloaded the files from Cretive labs page: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ and the files are: README mod_conf install_emu10k1 emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15 emu10k1.o-2.2.10 emu10k1.o-2.0.36 My firs problem after read the "README" file was "install_emu10k1" did't work and I tried manual installation. Please tell me if my steps have mistakes: 1. Determine your kernel sound modules installation location (usually /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc) I did it the driversare in "/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc" 2. Copy the appropriate driver to that location as emu10k1.o (eg. /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc/emu10k1.o) I tried it butwhat is the right file? for my kernel version? 3. Unload all existing soundcard drivers, including soundcore May be here is the problem, how must I do it? 4. Remove all old soundcard references from /etc/conf.modules In my "conf.modules" file are not sound drivers is a file with 3 lines 5. Add a new reference to the driver in /etc/conf.modules: (eg. "alias sound emu10k1" or "alias char-major-14 emu10k1") I use "alias sound emu10k1" and the other but doesn't work 6. If your kernel is compiled with version information, add the following lines to /etc/conf.modules after the previous statement: pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore How can I verify if "my kernel is compiled with version information"? 7. Load the driver: "modprobe emu10k1" PLEASE HELP!! I spent US$200 in this card and it doesnt work!! help again. - Original Message - "Martin White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the time being pick up the modules from Creative's site, copy them to '/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc' (or whereever) and do an 'insmod -f sblive' to get it going. You will also need to have put the pre/post install lines into your conf.modules as instructed by their readme. I do have a better way of doing it than this, but can't remember off the top of my head. I'll post my conf.modules to my webpage and then post the URL tonight. Martin. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9]
See my post re the 2.2.10 version - didn't work with 2.2.9-19 for me i went down to the 2.2.5-15 version - that worked just fine !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Patrick Putteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9] oki, just copy the file emu10k1.o-2.2.10 to /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk rename it to emu10k1.o That's it, that's all the installation it takes to load the module, type modprobe soundcore insmod -f emu10k1 then try whathever sound app, it should work You WILL get a warning after insmod -f saying that you have the wrong kernel version, but you can ignore that. Good luck Patrick - Original Message - From: Carlos Mayorga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] SBlive in Mandrake 2.2.9] I really thanks Martin ans sorry about my little english, I need some help with this becuse I downloaded the files from Cretive labs page: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ and the files are: README mod_conf install_emu10k1 emu10k1.o-2.2.5-15 emu10k1.o-2.2.10 emu10k1.o-2.0.36 My firs problem after read the "README" file was "install_emu10k1" did't work and I tried manual installation. Please tell me if my steps have mistakes: 1. Determine your kernel sound modules installation location (usually /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc) I did it the driversare in "/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc" 2. Copy the appropriate driver to that location as emu10k1.o (eg. /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc/emu10k1.o) I tried it butwhat is the right file? for my kernel version? 3. Unload all existing soundcard drivers, including soundcore May be here is the problem, how must I do it? 4. Remove all old soundcard references from /etc/conf.modules In my "conf.modules" file are not sound drivers is a file with 3 lines 5. Add a new reference to the driver in /etc/conf.modules: (eg. "alias sound emu10k1" or "alias char-major-14 emu10k1") I use "alias sound emu10k1" and the other but doesn't work 6. If your kernel is compiled with version information, add the following lines to /etc/conf.modules after the previous statement: pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore How can I verify if "my kernel is compiled with version information"? 7. Load the driver: "modprobe emu10k1" PLEASE HELP!! I spent US$200 in this card and it doesnt work!! help again. - Original Message - "Martin White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the time being pick up the modules from Creative's site, copy them to '/lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc' (or whereever) and do an 'insmod -f sblive' to get it going. You will also need to have put the pre/post install lines into your conf.modules as instructed by their readme. I do have a better way of doing it than this, but can't remember off the top of my head. I'll post my conf.modules to my webpage and then post the URL tonight. Martin. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Setting locale
Hi all,
how can I change my locale setting, for example to ISO-8859-1? I had set
the LC_ALL environment variable, but my Perl gave me warning,
--- quoted ---
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = "ISO-8859-1",
LANG = (unset)
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
--- end quote ---
Also, I am curious if it is true when my
/usr/share/locale/iso-8859-1/
contains nothing?
Thanks a lot.
--
@mal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Setiap hal yang keluar dari rahmat menjadi laknat,
keluar dari kemaslahatan menjadi perusak,
dan keluar dari kemanfaatan menjadi sesuatu yang tidak berarti apa-apa,
bukanlah syariat, sekalipun diberi tafsiran-tafsiran.
-- Ibnu Qayyim
Re: [newbie] Mailer is possessed
you should have done the world a big favor and shot his dumb ass. darkknight wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Did anyone else just get 5 posts from 7-8-99? I thought I saw a strange little dwarfy-looking guy messing around over by the mail server. He had light sandy brown hair and glasses, weird looking guy. I chased him away though, I said, go away Bill. grin John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mailer is possessed
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote: Did anyone else just get 5 posts from 7-8-99? A couple of days ago, I got some from 9 days earlier... -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] lilo netscape
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote: 1- is there a way to get Lilo to give me a choice about booting w98 or linux? I have it set to allow me to type Dos in at the boot prompt, But I would like it to wait for me to respond. Did you not set that up at install? On my system (Win98/RedHat 6.0) it works beautifully. LILO saw the two partitions and it asked what label I wanted for which operating system and which I wanted to use as my default O/S. Granted, it doesn't delay very long, but it's plenty of time for me to type "dos" and start Win98 or just hit "enter" for Linux. :-) the timeout can be changed to. I thing the default is 50 1/10 of a second. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?
In 95 and 98 fdisk /mbr resets the master boot recorddon't know if this works for NTIt gets rid of the lilo boot which sounds like what you want... Ray - Original Message - From: Ty Mixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 2:15 PM Subject: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR? I'm trying to re-install WinNT on hda, but every time I try to boot, Lilo jumps in and asks what I want to boot. I need to get rid of that temporarily. How do I do it? I've tried Linuxconf from KDE, but it doesn't stop it. Thanks, Ty
RE: [newbie] Lilo BootLoader is Gone..
On 23-Jul-99 James Capone wrote: For some reason When I start my Computer now I have no Lilo it just boots into Win98... How can I get it back. Thanks, James J. Capone If you made a boot disk during installation, you can boot from that and then run lilo (check /etc/lilo.conf to make sure the settings are okay) to put it back in the MBR. If you didn't make a boot disk, I guess you could either use loadlin.exe to boot directly into Linux from Windows, or make a boot rescue disk (should be one in the /images/rescue directory on the CD) and boot from that to run Lilo. -Tom
RE: [newbie] disk druid
On 23-Jul-99 darkknight wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: Try using fdisk, it's command line and a litte more terse. "Definitely" read the man page before starting though as it is very powerful and you can cause all sorts of destruction if you're not careful. what's the command to run disk druid from a terminal? If fdisk is a bit confusing for you, try using cfdisk, it is in /sbin I believe. It is a bit easier to use for someone new to linux. Text based graphics and you can manuver around with the cursor keys and tabkey. Anyone who ever installed SlackWare will know it right away. John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the subject of cfdisk and fdisk, does anyone know why cfdisk would give me this message: FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: Press any key to exit cfdisk and refuse to work, while fdisk and disk druid work just fine with no such errors? hda6 (I assume that's what's referred to by 'logical partition 6') is my swap partition, and I don't know what would be wrong with it. I first got that message when I was playing around with installing Slackware (at least that forced me into acquainting myself with fdisk), so I thought it might have just been Slackware, but cfdisk gives me the same thing in Mandrake. -Tom
[newbie] How to set up simple home network?
Hi I am new to this but list have been using Mandrake Linux since 5.3. I just updated to 6.0. The update has been working very well. My 2 systems are home built. One is a Cyrix 233 running Mandrake Linux and KDE. The other is an AMD 200 running Windows NT. I use the NT machine primarily for my job and for doing CAD and other graphics work. I use the Linux machine for everything else and most of the time. It is more fun to me. I would especially like to share files with both machines and share the use of the internal Zip Drive on the Linux machine. Is this hard to do? I have a generic Digital chip network card in the Linux machine. The NT machine has a Netgear network card and hub that I have been using with several Windows machines. Is there a short faq or updated how to review for networking? Can I do this within KDE without reloading Mandrake 6.0? Also, how do I mount my internal Atapi zip drive? Many thanks in advance! Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Need Help Using isapnp, pnpdump, and isapnp.conf to configure my PNP internal modem
Hi, I am trying to get a Boca Tidal Wave 56k Internal ISA PNP modem to work under Mandrake Linux. Has anyone out there successfully configured an internal plug-and-play modem using the isapnp utility? I used the pnpdump program to generate a isapnp.conf configuration file and ran isapnp using that configuration file. No matter what configuration options I set in the configuration file, the isapnp program fails because of a conflicting base I\O address. Can someone tell me if there is a program in Linux that can show me system info such as IRQ and I/O address usage? I think that the values in my isapnp.conf file conflict with my serial ports, but I don't know how to disable a serial port in Linux so that my modem can use the resources. Joe Patton
[newbie] Syquest Drivers???
Can anyone tell me if there are syquest drivers out there for Linux? I have a syquest drive, and I despratelly want to use it, but I don't think the drivers I have will work. Any help is greatly appreciated!!! Nighthawk
Re: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?
- Original Message - From: Ty Mixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 3:15 PM Subject: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR? I'm trying to re-install WinNT on hda, but every time I try to boot, Lilo jumps in and asks what I want to boot. I need to get rid of that temporarily. How do I do it? I've tried Linuxconf from KDE, but it doesn't stop it. Thanks, Ty Use your WinNT boot disk and type "fdisk /mbr", without quotes at the a: prompt. Peace, Jonathan Dlouhy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." -- Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
Re: [newbie] Syquest Drivers???
The Syquest Sparc, if internal, will be supported as an ATAPI device, I think. If it is a parallel device, I don't know how or if it will be supported. William Meyer - Original Message - From: Joe Brault To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 5:26 PM Subject: [newbie] Syquest Drivers??? Can anyone tell me if there are syquest drivers out there for Linux? I have a syquest drive, and I despratelly want to use it, but I don't think the drivers I have will work. Any help is greatly appreciated!!! Nighthawk
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
Linux's answer to the FAT is: Trim it :) Are you just joking, or do you mean that the file allocation table (I think it's called an I-Node table... correct me) grows as necessary?
[newbie] dos emulation??
I read sowhere that is was possible to emulate a dos session in linux, but I can't find out how, is this possible? and if so, how do you do it?? Thanks! Nighthawk
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
You could use Partition Magic (the $70 is worth it if you can't find "other" means of aquiring it). It comes with an additional program called Magic Mover which can place a complete program and all of it's folder contents in a new directory, even on another drive. And there will be no problem running it because it corrects system and .dll files to point to the new directory. I use it often and never have had a problem with it. I think it's time for a complete reinstallation of Windows 95. Isn't that the usual method of fixing problems with it?
Re: [newbie] Installing
If your BIOS has the option of doing a format, DON'T DO IT!!! I don't mean "Use BIOS to format it" but "Use Ontrack to format it using the BIOS format." Apparently, this was only meant for non IDE/SCSI drives, and can actually make things worse. Even though you should never have to low-level format an IDE drive, if you really have to, you must get the utility from the drive manufacturer. Apparently, all drives have slightly different controllers, so there is no generic low-level format program. The utility can either format it with the Ontrack Proprietary Format or the BIOS format. Note who is doing the formatting.
Re: [newbie] Installing
The Ontrack program--DDO--is there to make sure that the whole drive can be accessed without cylinder wrap. The proprietary format is there to make sure that the drive cannot be read without DDO. Guess what. Linux read it with no trouble (and with no DDO loaded). This means you use a floppy to boot Linux, right? Currently I have to. DOS, on the other hand... I'll have to load DDO for Mr. Bill's sake. I don't want to lose my data if the system is booted into DOS with a floppy that doesn't load the DDO, so I guess I'm best off leaving the proprietary format on there. In that case, I could use the floppy but not the big hard disk (only the smaller one). I can boot from floppy *and* use the DDO if it let it boot from disk, press space at the right time, and insert a floppy (thanks to a feature of the DDO). Another thing you could do is make a copy of the MBR that loads DDO and then put that MBR on a floppy. It may not work, but then again, it may. You could then put LILO in the MBR of hda (since LILO can read your drive without the aid of DDO) and use the floppy to boot DOS. I think it depends on what you want to use as your primary operating system. I need DOS to be default (for safety). I don't want any accidental boots into Linux since _some_ people don't know how to shut down Linux properly! Namely, my family. I have the option of doing a BIOS format. The DDO will still work, but then I can access the drive without it and risk cylinder wrap. I read that 1024 cylinders is around 528MB or so. Hmm. That's pretty limiting. Well, I don't know how your BIOS addresses the disk, but the way I understand it is that by CHS (Cylinders Heads Sectors) the BIOS can handle 1024 Cylinders, 256 heads, and 64 sectors per track. Yes, my BIOS states those are the maximums. My big disk is autodetected to be exactly that size, but I suspect that it's unlikely to be that exact (i.e. BIOS is limiting the values to acceptible range). As each sector is 512 bytes, this allows up to (1024*64*256*512)=8589934592 bytes, or 8192MB, or 8.0GB. LBA simply addresses each sector sequentially, and I believe the upper limit there would depend on how many bits you use for addressing the disk. If today we use 32-bit processors, then you can address (512*2^32)=219902322 bytes, or 2.0TB- I know the G is close to the T, but this isn't a typo either. T is an abbreviation for "Tera" or 10^12. This is, of course, assuming my logic is correct. Yeah. I know about terabytes. Trillion? I talked to somebody about this, and things are a little clearer now. It sounds like your old BIOS can't handle drives larger than 512MB. The More like 528MB, but that's close enough. Ontrack program gets around this. Don't reformat until you get newer BIOS. Until then, continue to use the Ontrack program. Ontrack has two parts for this. One is the DDO which somehow takes over disk accesses to overcome BIOS's limitations. The other part keeps BIOS from accessing the disk (only DDO can touch it)--it's a special proprietary format. What you might do (if you're currently using floppies to boot Linux) is just let your computer boot to DOS, and use loadlin to load a copy of the Linux kernel off the 125MB DOS partition. I don't know too much about passing options to loadlin, but I think the program's on the Mandrake CD and I know there's documentation on the web (try http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95.html). Loadlin? Hmm. I think I should tweak Windows to skip the splash screen and boot to DOS by default. Then I could make a startup menu that offers to go to DOS (default), Windows, or Linux (via loadlin). The Linux option would only work if a password were entered correctly. This would prevent accidental boots for sure. What do you think? I think I'm handy enough with batch files and C/C++ to write such a menu program. Hey. I could even make it the first thing that's run in config.sys! That way no time would be wasted loading drivers and crap if Linux mode is used. I get it, except for cfdisk. I only heard of fdisk. Is that a typo? I know the C key is really close to the F key... No typo. cfdisk is a "Curses-based fdisk," hence the "c." It's a little prettier than fdisk, and I'd think easier for a newbie. Curses refers to the libraries used to generate the text-mode menus. Speaking of text mode menus, how do I draw high-bit characters in Linux text mode?
Re: [newbie] Login Background
Ahhh well, upgrade ;) You can get a better display with vga=ask at lilo, but it was just a suggestion. On the computer running Mandrake (pray I get it back unharmed!), "lilo" wouldn't run since it complained that the kernel didn't support VGA mode presetting. I couldn't configure LILO until I simply removed the vga=___ line from lilo.conf. This was with Mandrake 6.0.
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote: You could use Partition Magic (the $70 is worth it if you can't find "other" means of aquiring it). It comes with an additional program called Magic Mover which can place a complete program and all of it's folder contents in a new directory, even on another drive. And there will be no problem running it because it corrects system and .dll files to point to the new directory. I use it often and never have had a problem with it. I think it's time for a complete reinstallation of Windows 95. Isn't that the usual method of fixing problems with it? the BEST method is just to delete it permanently...:-) -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] another round of the old-messages number
I think demonic possession is a definite possibility... Break out the crucifixes. Maybe Bill Gates's underworld (and I *do* mean underworld) cronies are giving a little unholy assistance in his quest for World Domination. I'd almost like to see what happens when Microsoft attains World Domination and it's time for Bill to pay his "friends" for their "services."
[newbie] mounting a floppy??
I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in the drive and click on the icon, it says: could not mount error log: mount you must specify the filesystem type Can anyone help me with this?? Thanks in advance! Nighthawk
Re: [newbie] Tar options
well tar include dot files by default. But you should not do: cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz * but cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz . I'm pretty sure this wildcard string will expand to be *all* files--dot or otherwise. [.]* "." alone... it looks like it would only match a file called simply "."
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote: You could use Partition Magic (the $70 is worth it if you can't find "other" means of acquiring it). Search around the net for a copy of partition magic 3.0. It will work with win98 and create you partitions. For linux users the only real difference I see is that the boot loader won't work. Partition magic 4.0 does have an excellent boot loader. By the way before spending $70 bucks I'd buy caldera's 2.2 for $30 send in the $10 rebate and install that. Caldera comes with a stripped down version of partition magic. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea" JB
Re: [newbie] Login Background
On 24-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote: Ahhh well, upgrade ;) You can get a better display with vga=ask at lilo, but it was just a suggestion. On the computer running Mandrake (pray I get it back unharmed!), "lilo" wouldn't run since it complained that the kernel didn't support VGA mode presetting. I couldn't configure LILO until I simply removed the vga=___ line from lilo.conf. This was with Mandrake 6.0. Do you have the newest updated lilo package? I think I saw something on the list about the updated lilo package fixing that. -Tom
RE: [newbie] dos emulation??
On 24-Jul-99 Joe Brault wrote: I read sowhere that is was possible to emulate a dos session in linux, but I can't find out how, is this possible? and if so, how do you do it?? Thanks! Nighthawk Yes, there is a program which emulates DOS, and is appropriately called dosemu. A dosemu package comes with Mandrake; install it if you don't already have it installed, and read the documentation in /usr/doc/dosemu-version (should be /usr/doc/dosemu-0.99.10/ if you're using Mandrake 6.0) to learn how to set it up. -Tom
Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
mount /dev/fd0 cd /mnt/floppy ls Joe Brault wrote: I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in the drive and click on the icon, it says:could not mounterror log:mount you must specify the filesystem typeCan anyone help me with this??Thanks in advance!Nighthawk
Re: [newbie] Tar options
On 24-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote: well tar include dot files by default. But you should not do: cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz * but cd ~ ; tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz . I'm pretty sure this wildcard string will expand to be *all* files--dot or otherwise. [.]* "." alone... it looks like it would only match a file called simply "." That's exactly the intention, because there sort of IS a file (or, more accruately, a directory) called simply ".". If you type "ls -a" from any directory in Linux, the first two things you'll see are "./" and "../". ./ always refers to the current directory, and ../ always refers to the directory directly above the current directory. It works the same way in DOS I believe. So if you type "tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz ." from /home/username, it's actually the same as typing "tar cfz /tmp/backup.tgz /home/username" just more concise. Tarring the directory itself also has the convenient effect of tarring -everything- within the directory, hidden or unhidden, without having to use wildcards. -Tom
[newbie] Floppy?
I have some floppy questions. I am able to mount a floppy disk if it is a DOS disk. I even was able to pull up some JPG images off a DOS disk. I reformated a 1.44 disk using Kfloppy to the ext2 file system. When I try to mount this floppy I get an error messages stating; could not mount floppy, file system unknown, to many mounted devices etc. What exactly am I doing wrong? ALso how would I save stuff to the floppy from the web or other applications. I have looked for documentation but have not found anything useful. Thanks Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Netscape Misbehaves
Netscape 4.6 sometimes unexpectedly quits when I close one navigator window. Is this a problem that is fixed in 4.61? Where can I download 4.61?
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
On 24-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote: Search around the net for a copy of partition magic 3.0. It will work with win98 and create you partitions. I don't have (or want) Windows 98. What's wrong with (c)fdisk? What more do I need? Remember. I'm reinstalling Windows, so I don't need to update any links. Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on them) and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for it. :) -Tom
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
Some products are worth paying for, but sometimes I don't really need them that badly. That PartitionMagic thing... I don't even know why I need it. And then I don't see a point to use it more than once. If it was free, then I would just download it. Since it isn't, ... you know. I'll have to make do. To each his own. I have to deal with Windows, and with multiple boots. Partition Magic is a trusted tool which I use fairly often. In its full-blown version, it can resize ext2 partitions, too. The 3.0 release had a text mode only version which was handier in some ways, as it ran from a DOS boot.
Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
mount -f filesystem-type /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I think that's mount -t, isn't it? Yes.
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on them) and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for it. :) It also does a good job of cleaning up after other people's messes. It is usually available for $50 or less, especially in bundles with other tools. If I had only one machine, I probably would not have it. With 5 machines, and with a variety of unpluggable drives in support of various environments, I find it to be a lifesaver when it is needed at all.
Re: [newbie] INTERNET ACCESS
check these sites. http://www.linuxhardware.net/ http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html http://www.kc.net/%7Egromitkc/winmodem.html - Original Message - From: Mark Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 12:36 AM Subject: [newbie] INTERNET ACCESS I have a Gateway Essentials 366 which has a 366MHZ AMD K6-2 processor. The current modem installed is a Lucent Technologies 56K Fax-Modem installed in a PCI slot. My research says that this is a form of "winmodem". Is this true? Are all modems that plug into a PCI slot a form of "winmodem"? If so, can you recommend some external serial modems that would enable me to get internet connectivity? Thank you for your assistance. Mark Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
The 3.0 version is the one that I am familiar with. It works great. I bought mine for $15 with a $15 rebate. I also have calder'a 2.2 but I can't get partition magic's bootloader to see my mandrake partitions. 3.0 was great, but didn't know from ext2 William Meyer
Re: [newbie] mounting a floppy??
the correct command is: mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /mnt/floppy this assumes it's a windows formated floppy ( vfat ), and the you want to mount it on /mnt/floppy (the default on LM and RH). This command also works like this: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy the /dev/fd0 is the first floppy device. if you had two floppies and you wanted to mount the second, it would be /dev/fd1 Some file sys types commonly used: vfat (windows) msdos ext2 (linux) hfs (mac, though I could be wrong) if you look into /lib/modules/kernel-version-on-your-box/fs you will see all the file system modules available to you system (the default ones from the stock kernel). Read the kernel doc to find out which ones are read/write and read only. As for the error from the icon on the desktop, it has to due with the stock config from mandrake in the /etc/fstab file. The file sys is set to auto and has never worked for me. I just set the file sys to the type of floppy I mount the most, then just mount any other file sys by hand. The line of text below is from my fstab file for the floppy. /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2user,noauto 0 0 device to mount /dev/fd0 where to mount /mnt/floppy file sys type ext2 (could be vfat if you mount windows disks often) allow any user to mount umount, and don't mount on boot user,noauto I've no idea what this is for 0 0 Hope this helps. could not mount error log: mount you must specify the filesystem type Can anyone help me with this?? mount -f filesystem-type /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] INTERNET ACCESS
I use a best data 33.6 for linux, its a serial external Mark Drake wrote: I have a Gateway Essentials 366 which has a 366MHZ AMD K6-2 processor. The current modem installed is a Lucent Technologies 56K Fax-Modem installed in a PCI slot. My research says that this is a form of "winmodem". Is this true? Are all modems that plug into a PCI slot a form of "winmodem"? If so, can you recommend some external serial modems that would enable me to get internet connectivity? Thank you for your assistance. Mark Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Floppy?
Don Whitman wrote: I have some floppy questions. I am able to mount a floppy disk if it is a DOS disk. I even was able to pull up some JPG images off a DOS disk. I reformated a 1.44 disk using Kfloppy to the ext2 file system. When I try to mount this floppy I get an error messages stating; could not mount floppy, file system unknown, to many mounted devices etc. What exactly am I doing wrong? ALso how would I save stuff to the floppy from the web or other applications. I have looked for documentation but have not found anything useful. Thanks Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. Hi, Don, Put this line in your /etc/fstab (assuming that your floppy drive is /dev/fd0): /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide0 0 Then, as root user, do 'mount -a' (or reboot). Put a formatted floppy disk into the floppy drive. Then as any user, issue the command: mount /dev/fd0 This should mount your floppy drive /dev/fd0 to the directory /mnt/floppy. The filesystem of the floppy disk will be auto detected. Good luck, Hidong
Re: [newbie] Netscape Misbehaves
Netscape 4.6 sometimes unexpectedly quits when I close one navigator window. Is this a problem that is fixed in 4.61? Where can I download 4.61? I find that Netscape quits totally when the last of its windows is closed. Sometimes--rarely--it stays alive--but once again, that's rare. Occasionally I'll accidentally click the close button multiple times. It'll lag, and then I find that it killed several (maybe all) of its windows. Another thing you'll have to be careful of is the File menu. If you select Close, it'll stay alive but kill off a window. If you select Exit, Netscape dies. This is from Windows experience. I see no reason for Netscape to be different in Linux. I'd know better if I could *connect* to the Internet in Linux, but... modem manufacturers seem to think that Winmodems are popular.
Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah
Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on them) and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for it. :) So it's a nondestructive partition resizer? That doesn't sound exceedingly hard to write. I mean, shouldn't fdisk be able to do this? I understand that it's still *much* easier to reformat everything, but moving data... The snag is that it'll take direct writes. It shouldn't be too hard to grab one block of data and move it over some on disk. If they overlap, start from the other direction. Use memory, too, when the overlapping gets to be too much. What more is there?
