Re: [newbie] Saving Window Positions
Have your heard about the new partion utility from Mandrake called "DiskDrake" ? Take a look at it at this location: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake Traci Collins wrote: Kenton Riley wrote: Hi! I am new to Mandrake, and only slightly more experienced with gnome. The single most irritating feature of graphical environments under Linux is that apps don't seem to remember their screen position the next time they are opened. Is there a way to configure gnome under mandrake so that my apps will remember where I put them? I know I can save a workspace but I don't think that is what I want. I don't want these apps to begin execution when I login to my account, which is what I think would happen if I saved the workspace when I logged off the account. All I want them to do is remember where I put them and always open to that location no matter when I launch them. Is that possible? If so, can you point me toward a faq where I can learn how to do it? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
RE: [newbie] RPMs (?)
Not to beat a dead a horse, but http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html , which is their English-Language Linux Distributions page, also clearly states: "It [Mandrake] actually runs on all Intel and compatibles [sic] architectures (486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium MMX, Pentium II and all clones)." Perhaps someone from Mandrake should take the initiative to correct the folks over at linux.org?? -Sean Noonan SPAWAR Business Applications Team (619) 537-0343 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ian W Douglas Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 9:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] RPMs (?) "Optimized for Pentium-class computers--run Linux faster with your Pentium..." IMHO the later suggests that users of Pentium-class CPUs will realize great performance gains, it does not [strongly enough] convey that a 486-100 won't cut the mustard. Pentiums are based on a different internal architecture than the 486. Instructions compiled for the new architecture have a hard time running on anything less, if it even runs at all. In addition, with such ambiguity, I noticed the bullet point on the box that read: "Complete compatibility with Red Hat 6.0--based on the Red Had distribution". Guess you missed the part of the box that says it works on Pentium-class processors then. ;-) No biggie. Glad you got everything sorted out. So, please know that I at least tried to do my homework before asking naive, stupid questions. This was particulary aimed at the guy who 'normally keeps quiet' ;-) Heheh. I believe you. I'm the same way... gotta check into everything before asking questions otherwise there's always someone that makes you feel like a big goof. I was on an HTML-developers mailing list and there was one guy on it who was always EXTREMELY helpful but his 'tone' was always very strong ... everyone harassed him big time 'cause he'd point out very obvious things that the question-asker didn't know, etc. Anyhow, I digress. So far I'm pretty impressed with Mandrake 6.0... not many hiccups on the system (yet). Cheers, --- Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 506679
Re: [newbie] Lost PCMCIA
No dice on changing the memory addresses. Your suggestion didn't work, and I'm not familiar enough with hardware on that level to be willing to just start plugging in different values. Any other ideas anybody? - Theo scottW wrote: Theo Brinkman wrote: ARRRGGGH! I just updated my kernel with kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm along with the kernel-pcmcia-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm, and my laptop no longer recognizes EITHER of my pcmcia cards. They are: --- 3Com Megahertz 10Mbps Model 3CXE589ET 3Com Noteworthy 56K Modem PC Card Model 3CXM056-BNW --- I get the following response when I try to start pcmcia services: --- Starting PCMCIA services: modules cardmgr. cs: unable to map card memory! cs: unable to map card memory! memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use cs: unable to map card memory! cs: unable to map card memory! memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use --- My /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.conf file looks like this: --- PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 PCIC_OPTS= CORE_OPTS= --- Somebody PLEASE clue me in as to what I screwed up. - Theo Theo, PCMCIA options are in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts There is a line: include memory 0xc-0xf, memory 0xa000-0xa0ff Maybe the new pcmcia needs to have these adjusted? They look suspicious. video ROM is 0xc-0xc7fff(32KB) and system ROM is 0xf-0xf. The large memory region is for cardbus(pci). Insert the card with an Xterm open running tail -f /var/log/messages and see if you can tell what memory region is being tried. You could try changing the low mem region to 0xd-0xe which should be free unless your video bios 32KB or you have card with an option ROM(SCSI, etc.). I'm just guessing. Don't have a laptop at home, just at work. scottw
Re: [newbie] Lost PCMCIA
OOPS. Just realized I'd changed the wrong memory range. Unfortunately the results are no different. I got the following response: Kernel: cs: unable to map card memory! kernel: cs: unable to map card memory! cardmgr[482]: initializing socket 1 cardmgr[482]: socket 1: Anonymous Memory kernel: memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use cardmgr[482]: get dev info on socket 1 failed: Resource temporarily unavailable --- Can't tell what memory it's going after. Anybody have any other ideas? - Theo scottW wrote: Theo Brinkman wrote: ARRRGGGH! I just updated my kernel with kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm along with the kernel-pcmcia-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm, and my laptop no longer recognizes EITHER of my pcmcia cards. They are: --- 3Com Megahertz 10Mbps Model 3CXE589ET 3Com Noteworthy 56K Modem PC Card Model 3CXM056-BNW --- I get the following response when I try to start pcmcia services: --- Starting PCMCIA services: modules cardmgr. cs: unable to map card memory! cs: unable to map card memory! memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use cs: unable to map card memory! cs: unable to map card memory! memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use --- My /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.conf file looks like this: --- PCMCIA=yes PCIC=i82365 PCIC_OPTS= CORE_OPTS= --- Somebody PLEASE clue me in as to what I screwed up. - Theo Theo, PCMCIA options are in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts There is a line: include memory 0xc-0xf, memory 0xa000-0xa0ff Maybe the new pcmcia needs to have these adjusted? They look suspicious. video ROM is 0xc-0xc7fff(32KB) and system ROM is 0xf-0xf. The large memory region is for cardbus(pci). Insert the card with an Xterm open running tail -f /var/log/messages and see if you can tell what memory region is being tried. You could try changing the low mem region to 0xd-0xe which should be free unless your video bios 32KB or you have card with an option ROM(SCSI, etc.). I'm just guessing. Don't have a laptop at home, just at work. scottw
Re: [newbie] RPMs (?)
"Noonan, Mr Sean P." wrote: Not to beat a dead a horse, but http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html , which is their English-Language Linux Distributions page, also clearly states: "It [Mandrake] actually runs on all Intel and compatibles [sic] architectures (486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium MMX, Pentium II and all clones)." I believe Mandrake itself runs on a 486, but the updates don't. Weird. :)
Re: [newbie] RPMs (?)
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Pedro Timoteo wrote: I believe Mandrake itself runs on a 486, but the updates don't. Weird. :) Why don't you listen to what we say? - It is compiled with pgcc using -march=pentium. This allows pgcc to use pentium specific assembler instructions. It usually won't do it because we used the safe optimization flags (-O2 as opposed to -O6) because having a stable distribution is more important than having an ultimately fast one. But it doesn't say it NEVER does. - The kernel is compiled with CONFIG_M586 and without CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION. It might actually boot on a 486 (unlikely though), but all sorts of weird stuff can AND WILL happen. Wait for the 486 version, or it's your own fault. LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] RPMs (?)
Not to put a dead horse out of it's misery, but that page hasn't been updated since Mandrake 5.2 or 5.3 was current. Look at what it says it provides (Netscape 4.05). Yes, it could have been made more clear that it was compiled for Pentium processors. However, now that it has been clarified, arguing about it doesn't solve anything. - Theo Pedro Timoteo wrote: "Noonan, Mr Sean P." wrote: Not to beat a dead a horse, but http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html , which is their English-Language Linux Distributions page, also clearly states: "It [Mandrake] actually runs on all Intel and compatibles [sic] architectures (486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium MMX, Pentium II and all clones)." I believe Mandrake itself runs on a 486, but the updates don't. Weird. :)
[newbie] Weird problem
Hi All I just had a strange problem where my computer couldn't find my operating system. After an attempt to use the emergency boot disk ( with no success I might add ) It suddenly started like normal with the LILO prompt coming up as normal Can anyone shed any light on what might have happened? Well thanks Hugh -- Quantum Mechanics is God's version of "Trust me."
Re: [newbie] fstab
- Original Message - From: Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 12:17 PM Subject: [newbie] fstab Can someone give me an example of their fstab entry ( preferably one with an entry for mounting a windows partition) so that i can see what i am doing wrong. Thanks.
Re: [newbie] fstab
fstab: (assuming your Windows 95 partition is /dev/hda2:) /dev/hda2 /mnt/win95 vfatdefaults0 0 I'm pretty sure that's what I have set up on my Linux box. I'm booted into Windows right now or I'd double check. Essentially, all you need to do is replace 'vfat' with the filesystem you want it to use (vfat, umsdos, msdos, etc)exist as an empty directory and is where your Win95 partition will be mounted. Good luck. --- Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 506679
RE: [newbie] fstab
1st, create a directory to mount to - I use /mnt/dos1. Then create and entry like : /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos1 default msdos default 0 0 Then when rebooting the partition at hda1 will be mounted and available at /mnt/dos1. You could also test it by entering "mount /dev/hda1" (or whatever the device is). It should map it using the info from fstab. If running fat32 you may need to use vfat as a type instead of msdos. A SCSI drive would be prefixed as SD, i.e. /dev/sda1. Note: The third letter of a device is the drive location, the number is the partition number. A=1st drive, 1=1st partition. -Original Message- From: Bert Bullough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] fstab Can someone give me an example of their fstab entry ( preferably one with an entry for mounting a windows partition) so that i can see what i am doing wrong. Thanks.
[newbie] ATAPI ZIP
Please help me! I *need* to copy a whole bunch of downloaded files, rpm's etc to my ATAPI Zip drive, before my system crashes completely. It would save me a lot of time that I don't have to download them all again. Please reply before I have to do a reinstall! I *do not* know how to do this procedure, I need some one to walk me through it, please treat me as a "Linux retard" as if you were telling someone who knew absolutely nothing about Linux. I do know some things, but for the life of me cannot figure this out. I have done the following, which allows me to mount and unmount it as a vfat filesystem. Have also put an icon on my desktop which allows me to mount and unmount like the cd and floppy. Thanks, John Connell #cd /mnt/ # mkdir /zip Also added the following line to my /etc/fstab file-- /dev/hdd4 /zipvfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0
Re: [newbie] fstab
Mine looks likes this. Win95 was installed on the first partition of hda and linux on the second partion (hda5) Hope it helps: /dev/hda5 /ext2defaults1 1 /dev/hda6 /homeext2defaults1 2 /dev/hda7 /usr ext2defaults1 2 /dev/hda8 swap swapdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 /win95 vfatdefaults0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 none/procprocdefaults0 0 none/dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0 ___ Sign up today for your Free E-mail at http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
Re: [newbie] shell scripts example how to find out dynamically assigned IP address?
Well, I'm trying to find out my dynamically assigned IP address. I got this far: ifconfig ifc grep --context=1 eth1 ifc ifc1 grep "inet addr:" ifc1 ifc2 Now I have to get the IP address from that line I isolated into a variable. Anybody? Many thanks, Jo Axalon wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Yants wrote: how do i write shell scripts..? can someone please show me an example... -=-=- useless bash script v1.0 #!/bin/bash sleep 10 -=-=-
Re: [newbie] Lost PCMCIA
OK, I've gone back to the old kernel kernel-pcmcia rpms, which I tried upgrading hoping to solve a problem I was having with getting assigned an IP with DHCP in the first place. Here's the log info I have involving the ethernet adapter: ifup: Determining IP information for eth0... pumpd[1629]: starting at Fri Aug 6 13:38:03 1999 kernel: etho0: autodetected 10baseT ifup: failed. ifup: Operation failed. 10 second time gap while I pulled ethernet card here kernel: alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c0150c75 cardmgr[450]: shutting down socket 1 cardmgr[450]: executing: './network stop eth0' cardmgr[450]: + Operation failed. cardmgr[450]: + etho0: unknown interface: No such device cardmgr[450]:executing: 'rmmod 3c589_cs' 12 second time gap while I re-inserted the card here cardmgr[450]: initializing socket 1 kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c589, port 0x300, irq 9, Auto port, hw_addr 00:00:86:35:95:EA cardmgr[450]: socket 1: 3Com 3CXE589E Ethernet cardmgr[450]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o' cardmgr[450]: executing: './network start eth0' kernel: eth0: autodetected 10baseT cardmgr[450]: + Determining IP information for eth0... Operation failed. cardmgr[450]: + failed. cardmgr[450]: start cmd exited with status 1 Some Notes: The PCMCIA ethernet card in question is a 3Com model 3CXE589ET (I believe the same as the other 3CXE589Ex series but with the X-Jack connector instead of the dongle). It seems to detect my 3Com 56K modem just fine, though I haven't gotten around to playing with it yet. (Maybe I should.) - Theo
Re: [newbie] Partition Problems
The difference is that when it boots up I end up at the penguin screen, asking for the login...not the KDE asking for the login. If I logon an type KDE to start it...I now get the following errors; kcontrol: cannot connect to X server kaudioserver: cannot connect to X server maudio: cannot open audio device krootwm: cannot connect to server ...etc... My first install had it going to the KDE... What have I done wrong regarding the X server and the KDE not coming up as default?? You have to type "startx" not "kde" to start X with KDE. Howver, (unless Mandrake is doing it differently than RedHat) you'll have to change desktop managers once you've started X as it defaults to Gnome.
Re: [newbie] Reverse DNS?
On 3 Aug 99, at 18:11, Steve Philp wrote: Check the manpage for fetchmail. I believe there's an option you can add to ~/.fetchmailrc to disable the domain checking when it pulls in messages. It's been years since I've used fetchmail, but I do recall fighting that particular problem once upon a time. There's a keywork 'no dns' listed in the manpage but I'm not sure how to use multi-word keywords. Do I need to put it in speech marks or something? Also, how do I specify an SMTP server for outgoing mail? Finally, can anyone point me to an explanation of how to set up masquerading? I want my machine's host name to be britlinks.co.uk but when I tried to change it, httpd kept failing on me, and I need httpd. James.
Re: [newbie] Partition Problems
John Aldrich wrote: The difference is that when it boots up I end up at the penguin screen, asking for the login...not the KDE asking for the login. If I logon an type KDE to start it...I now get the following errors; kcontrol: cannot connect to X server kaudioserver: cannot connect to X server maudio: cannot open audio device krootwm: cannot connect to server ...etc... My first install had it going to the KDE... What have I done wrong regarding the X server and the KDE not coming up as default?? You have to type "startx" not "kde" to start X with KDE. Howver, (unless Mandrake is doing it differently than RedHat) you'll have to change desktop managers once you've started X as it defaults to Gnome. Mandrake defaults to KDE. - Theo
Re: [newbie] fstab
- Original Message - From: Ian W Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] fstab fstab: (assuming your Windows 95 partition is /dev/hda2:) /dev/hda2 /mnt/win95 vfat defaults 0 0 snip What does 'defaults 0 0' do? I have always seen it as 'defaults 1 2', and that is what I use. 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] ATAPI ZIP
- Original Message - From: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:38 PM Subject: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP Please help me! I *need* to copy a whole bunch of downloaded files, rpm's etc to my ATAPI Zip drive, before my system crashes completely. It would save me a lot of time that I don't have to download them all again. Please reply before I have to do a reinstall! I *do not* know how to do this procedure, I need some one to walk me through it, please treat me as a "Linux retard" as if you were telling someone who knew absolutely nothing about Linux. I do know some things, but for the life of me cannot figure this out. I have done the following, which allows me to mount and unmount it as a vfat filesystem. Have also put an icon on my desktop which allows me to mount and unmount like the cd and floppy. Thanks, John Connell #cd /mnt/ # mkdir /zip Also added the following line to my /etc/fstab file-- /dev/hdd4 /zip vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0 Unless you made a typo, you should have "/mnt/zip" (no quotes), not just "/zip" in that line. I have a parallel port zip drive, not ATAPI, but I believe that everything else in your line is correct (mine uses /dev/sda4). You can check the archives of this list; I believe someone just addressed this same issue last week. If you only use the drive for linux, you can set it as "ext2fs" instead of "vfat", or "auto" if you have some zip disks formatted for Windows, and others for 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
[newbie] Install Error
I have looked through the FAQ's and cannot seem to find my problem -- but it must be common. An error occurs during the step "install bootloader". This is on a Gateway P5-133 with 1.2 GByte IDE Hard Drive and 64 MByte of Memory -- no unusual hardware attached. I have tried it with no printer and no network card (it usually has a generic NE2000 compatible). I assumed the problem was with the partitioning -- but I have tried a number of approaches and nothing helps. No windows partition on the machine. Thanks Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] fstab
On Fri, 06 Aug 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Can someone give me an example of their fstab entry ( preferably one with an entry for mounting a windows partition) so that i can see what i am doing wrong. Thanks. Here you go. /dev/hda5 / ext2defaults1 1 /dev/hda6 swap swapdefaults0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy autonoauto,user,nosuid 0 0 /dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosvfatdefaults0 0 /dev/hdb5/disk2 ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/d vfat defaults 0 0 none/proc proc defaults0 0 none /dev/ptsdevpts mode=0622 0 0
Re: [newbie] Partition Problems
On Fri, 06 Aug 1999, you wrote: You have to type "startx" not "kde" to start X with KDE. Howver, (unless Mandrake is doing it differently than RedHat) you'll have to change desktop managers once you've started X as it defaults to Gnome. Mandrake defaults to KDE. Ah. Didn't know that. I'm using RH 6 here (it came out first and that's what I had available to me on a local machine, so I did an FTP install G) I'll probably be getting a Mandrake CD for my dual-Pentium Pro machine that's about 90% complete. :-) John
Re: Re: [newbie] fstab
This is a snippet taken from the fstab man page. I believe it should answer your question: "The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) pro- gram to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be speci- fied with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not pre- sent or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked." ___ Sign up today for your Free E-mail at http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
Re: Re: [newbie] fstab
Sorry! That last reply was only about the two numbers after "defaults". I'm not sure exactly what the defaults are but I know that you can specify how you want the device to be mounted. For example the line for my floppy drive is this: /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 Notice instead of "defaults" it says, "sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev, unhide". You can read the "mount" man page for information on what these mean. Hope this helps. ___ Sign up today for your Free E-mail at http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
[newbie] why o why ?
hi guys... I am cuting my teeth on this one... I am an MCP and I can't do this. LINUX wants more market share, and the market is Microshaft, so why is it not evident to me, then, how to integrate LINUX in to my network here at All Systems Go? I will not even mention printers... Any way here is my smb.conf file: the result of this config is that the Linux machine appears in the network but no matter what I do, I can not connect to any of the resources on the linux machine. ___ Smb.conf __ [global] workgroup = asg server string = Samba Server encrypt passwords = yes password level = 0 null passwords = yes os level = 0 preferred master = no domain master = no wins support = no dead time = 0 debug level = 0 load printers = yes netbios name = brain netbios aliases = brain remote announce = 209.240.84.226/asg wins server = 209.240.84.14 default service = /home [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes writable = yes public = yes writable = yes printable = yes user = smbusers only user = no # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in # the "staff" group [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/samba public = yes writable = yes printable = no browseable = yes guest only = no only user = no [/home] comment = home directories browseable = yes copy = /home public = yes guest only = no writable = yes only user = no -- Regards: Stephan Schutter
[newbie] LS-120 SuperDisk Help please
I need help mounting my atapi ls-120 drive in linux. it is on hdc, and i made the dir /mnt/super. when i try to mount -t msdos /dev/hdc /mnt/super ,, it says "not a valid block device" i have also tried different filesystems like vfat, and different partitions on hdc. i get the same message no matter what i try. I also checked the modules, and it seems that the ide-floppy.o module is loaded. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Also, I could use some tips on adding it to my fstab. thanks, Joe
Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP
Manny Styles wrote: - Original Message - From: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:38 PM Subject: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP Please help me! I *need* to copy a whole bunch of downloaded files, rpm's etc to my ATAPI Zip drive, before my system crashes completely. It would save me a lot of time that I don't have to download them all again. Please reply before I have to do a reinstall! I *do not* know how to do this procedure, I need some one to walk me through it, please treat me as a "Linux retard" as if you were telling someone who knew absolutely nothing about Linux. I do know some things, but for the life of me cannot figure this out. I have done the following, which allows me to mount and unmount it as a vfat filesystem. Have also put an icon on my desktop which allows me to mount and unmount like the cd and floppy. Thanks, John Connell #cd /mnt/ # mkdir /zip Also added the following line to my /etc/fstab file-- /dev/hdd4 /zip vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0 Unless you made a typo, you should have "/mnt/zip" (no quotes), not just "/zip" in that line. I have a parallel port zip drive, not ATAPI, but I believe that everything else in your line is correct (mine uses /dev/sda4). You can check the archives of this list; I believe someone just addressed this same issue last week. If you only use the drive for linux, you can set it as "ext2fs" instead of "vfat", or "auto" if you have some zip disks formatted for Windows, and others for 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 Manny, Actually this is what my fstab looks like exactly. My problem is I can mount and unmount, but do not know how to *physically* put the file onto the actual disk. When I try to move them they just go into the /mnt/zip *directory.* I checked the free space on the zip disk prior to moving and *after* moving--with *no* change to its size! Maybe I am doing something wrong, wish I could figure it out. /dev/hdd4/mnt/zip ext2 user,noauto,rw 00 John
[newbie] LILO question
Can LILO be used to boot MS-DOS from an extended partition? Probably. Will MS-DOS have any problems with that?
Re: [newbie] Reverse DNS?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Aug 99, at 18:11, Steve Philp wrote: Check the manpage for fetchmail. I believe there's an option you can add to ~/.fetchmailrc to disable the domain checking when it pulls in messages. It's been years since I've used fetchmail, but I do recall fighting that particular problem once upon a time. There's a keywork 'no dns' listed in the manpage but I'm not sure how to use multi-word keywords. Do I need to put it in speech marks or something? Nope, you should be able to put it in bare. Also, how do I specify an SMTP server for outgoing mail? Depends on the mail app and whether it can talk to an SMTP server. Finally, can anyone point me to an explanation of how to set up masquerading? I want my machine's host name to be britlinks.co.uk but when I tried to change it, httpd kept failing on me, and I need httpd. For your mail? or the machine in general? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LS-120 SuperDisk Help please
Joe wrote: I need help mounting my atapi ls-120 drive in linux. it is on hdc, and i made the dir /mnt/super. when i try to mount -t msdos /dev/hdc /mnt/super ,, it says "not a valid block device" i have also tried different filesystems like vfat, and different partitions on hdc. i get the same message no matter what i try. I also checked the modules, and it seems that the ide-floppy.o module is loaded. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Also, I could use some tips on adding it to my fstab. thanks, Joe Try: mount -tmsdos /dev/hdc1 /mnt/super Those disks have partitions on them! Here's what I use for my Zip drive in /etc/fstab: /dev/hdc1 /mnt/zipautouser,noauto 0 0 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Weird problem
Hugh wrote: Hi All I just had a strange problem where my computer couldn't find my operating system. After an attempt to use the emergency boot disk ( with no success I might add ) It suddenly started like normal with the LILO prompt coming up as normal Can anyone shed any light on what might have happened? Well thanks Lunar flares? Infrared radiation? Need to upgrade your VESA local bus to a MasterCard local bus? Just a few ideas tossed out by the BOFH app on my Palm.. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Weird problem
I'd keep a very close eye on the drive. Bill -Original Message- From: Steve Philp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Weird problem Hugh wrote: Hi All I just had a strange problem where my computer couldn't find my operating system. After an attempt to use the emergency boot disk ( with no success I might add ) It suddenly started like normal with the LILO prompt coming up as normal Can anyone shed any light on what might have happened? Well thanks Lunar flares? Infrared radiation? Need to upgrade your VESA local bus to a MasterCard local bus? Just a few ideas tossed out by the BOFH app on my Palm.. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LILO question
Yes you can load MS Dos from LILO in an extended partition. Dos shouldn't have any problems with it. Jerome [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:45819944
RE: [newbie] LS-120 SuperDisk Help please
Add the partition number of the disk it resides on, i.e. not /dev/hdc but /dev/hdcx x being the partion number In addition, have your done a mkdir of super in the /mnt directory? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] LS-120 SuperDisk Help please I need help mounting my atapi ls-120 drive in linux. it is on hdc, and i made the dir /mnt/super. when i try to mount -t msdos /dev/hdc /mnt/super ,, it says "not a valid block device" i have also tried different filesystems like vfat, and different partitions on hdc. i get the same message no matter what i try. I also checked the modules, and it seems that the ide-floppy.o module is loaded. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Also, I could use some tips on adding it to my fstab. thanks, Joe
Re: [newbie] shell scripts example how to find out dynamically assigned IP address?
Jo wrote: Well, I'm trying to find out my dynamically assigned IP address. I got this far: ifconfig ifc grep --context=1 eth1 ifc ifc1 grep "inet addr:" ifc1 ifc2 Now I have to get the IP address from that line I isolated into a variable. Axalon wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Yants wrote: how do i write shell scripts..? can someone please show me an example... -=-=- useless bash script v1.0 #!/bin/bash sleep 10 -=-=- How 'bout this one-liner: IFADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig eth1 | grep "inet addr:" | cut -f2 -d: | cut -f1 -d" "` IFADDR gets the output of the command pipeline inside the `s. Get the output of /sbin/ifconfig for the specific interface, grab just the address line, grab from the colon to the next colon, then trim off the end of the IP address. Anyone got anything shorter?? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] shell scripts example how to find out dynamically assigned IP address?
Great! Many thanks, For anything shorter, I will need a lot more practice first... Jo Steve Philp wrote: Jo wrote: Well, I'm trying to find out my dynamically assigned IP address. I got this far: ifconfig ifc grep --context=1 eth1 ifc ifc1 grep "inet addr:" ifc1 ifc2 Now I have to get the IP address from that line I isolated into a variable. Axalon wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Yants wrote: how do i write shell scripts..? can someone please show me an example... -=-=- useless bash script v1.0 #!/bin/bash sleep 10 -=-=- How 'bout this one-liner: IFADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig eth1 | grep "inet addr:" | cut -f2 -d: | cut -f1 -d" "` IFADDR gets the output of the command pipeline inside the `s. Get the output of /sbin/ifconfig for the specific interface, grab just the address line, grab from the colon to the next colon, then trim off the end of the IP address. Anyone got anything shorter?? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] scripting problems
Hi, Can somebody tell me why this doesn't work? [root@host jd]# pwd /home/jd [root@host jd]# ls -al rc_fi -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root30090 Aug 7 02:47 rc_fi [root@host jd]# rc_fi bash: rc_fi: command not found [root@host jd]# /home/jd/rc_fi bash: /home/jd/rc_fi: No such file or directory I hope it is enough information. If not please tell me what more you need to know. Thanks, Jo
Re: [newbie] scripting problems
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Jo wrote: [root@host jd]# ls -al rc_fi -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root30090 Aug 7 02:47 rc_fi [root@host jd]# rc_fi bash: rc_fi: command not found The current directory is by default not in the PATH. Either do ./rc_fi, or do export PATH=$PATH:. before running rc_fi. LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] Saving Window Positions
Uhh, maybe read that one more time ;) , what does diskdrake have todo with the windowmanager? If you use gnome with enlightenment for the windowmanager, you'll find a save settings option (towards the bottom) when you alt-right_button on an application. This is the only windowmanager i know that does this, it's generaly left upto the application to save it's own size and shape, and the window manager for positioning. On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Gerry Doyon wrote: Have your heard about the new partion utility from Mandrake called "DiskDrake" ? Take a look at it at this location: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake Traci Collins wrote: Kenton Riley wrote: Hi! I am new to Mandrake, and only slightly more experienced with gnome. The single most irritating feature of graphical environments under Linux is that apps don't seem to remember their screen position the next time they are opened. Is there a way to configure gnome under mandrake so that my apps will remember where I put them? I know I can save a workspace but I don't think that is what I want. I don't want these apps to begin execution when I login to my account, which is what I think would happen if I saved the workspace when I logged off the account. All I want them to do is remember where I put them and always open to that location no matter when I launch them. Is that possible? If so, can you point me toward a faq where I can learn how to do it? Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
Re: [newbie] fstab
On Fri, 06 Aug 1999, you wrote: Can someone give me an example of their fstab entry ( preferably one with an entry for mounting a windows partition) so that i can see what i am doing wrong. Thanks. /dev/hda8 /mnt/data vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 The line above mounts a partition on my first drive. I have Windows NT/98 on hda and Mandrake on hdb. Gator
Re: [newbie] why o why ?
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Stephan Schutter wrote: hi guys... I am cuting my teeth on this one... I am an MCP and I can't do this. LINUX wants more market share, and the market is Microshaft, so why is it not evident to me, then, how to integrate LINUX in to my network here at All Systems Go? I will not even mention printers... Any way here is my smb.conf file: the result of this config is that the Linux machine appears in the network but no matter what I do, I can not connect to any of the resources on the linux machine. ___ Smb.conf __ [global] workgroup = asg server string = Samba Server encrypt passwords = yes Let me guess, the problem machines are M$. have a look at /usr/doc/samba(tab key)/doc password level = 0 null passwords = yes os level = 0 preferred master = no domain master = no wins support = no dead time = 0 debug level = 0 load printers = yes netbios name = brain netbios aliases = brain remote announce = 209.240.84.226/asg wins server = 209.240.84.14 default service = /home [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes writable = yes public = yes writable = yes printable = yes user = smbusers only user = no # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in # the "staff" group [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/samba public = yes writable = yes printable = no browseable = yes guest only = no only user = no [/home] comment = home directories browseable = yes copy = /home public = yes guest only = no writable = yes only user = no -- Regards: Stephan Schutter
Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP
Open a konsole, type mount /mnt/zip, type cp /bin/bash /mnt/zip, type ls -l /mnt/zip, do you see i file called bash? if so you can drag and drop between two kfm, if not it's most likely a permissions problem sense you wipeing the system just copy them as root it's not worth setting it all up for user access if your just going to format. On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, John Connell wrote: Manny Styles wrote: - Original Message - From: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:38 PM Subject: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP Please help me! I *need* to copy a whole bunch of downloaded files, rpm's etc to my ATAPI Zip drive, before my system crashes completely. It would save me a lot of time that I don't have to download them all again. Please reply before I have to do a reinstall! I *do not* know how to do this procedure, I need some one to walk me through it, please treat me as a "Linux retard" as if you were telling someone who knew absolutely nothing about Linux. I do know some things, but for the life of me cannot figure this out. I have done the following, which allows me to mount and unmount it as a vfat filesystem. Have also put an icon on my desktop which allows me to mount and unmount like the cd and floppy. Thanks, John Connell #cd /mnt/ # mkdir /zip Also added the following line to my /etc/fstab file-- /dev/hdd4 /zip vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0 Unless you made a typo, you should have "/mnt/zip" (no quotes), not just "/zip" in that line. I have a parallel port zip drive, not ATAPI, but I believe that everything else in your line is correct (mine uses /dev/sda4). You can check the archives of this list; I believe someone just addressed this same issue last week. If you only use the drive for linux, you can set it as "ext2fs" instead of "vfat", or "auto" if you have some zip disks formatted for Windows, and others for 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 Manny, Actually this is what my fstab looks like exactly. My problem is I can mount and unmount, but do not know how to *physically* put the file onto the actual disk. When I try to move them they just go into the /mnt/zip *directory.* I checked the free space on the zip disk prior to moving and *after* moving--with *no* change to its size! Maybe I am doing something wrong, wish I could figure it out. /dev/hdd4/mnt/zip ext2 user,noauto,rw 00 John
[newbie] wrong charset?
Why do I keep getting "kcharset: wrong charset" messages when I boot up, or run certain apps? What does this mean, and can I fix it?
Re: [newbie] LILO question
Yes you can load MS Dos from LILO in an extended partition. Dos shouldn't have any problems with it. Okay. Cool. I was asking since I have a very fun game that has incredibly strict memory requirements. It needs tons of conventional memory--maybe 600k--and requires that no memory managers be loaded. With Windows 95 around, it cannot possibly run. I was thinking about making a tiny partition with it and just MSDOS 6. Does anyone have any other ideas?
Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP
Manny, Actually this is what my fstab looks like exactly. My problem is I can mount and unmount, but do not know how to *physically* put the file onto the actual disk. When I try to move them they just go into the /mnt/zip *directory.* I checked the free space on the zip disk prior to moving and *after* moving--with *no* change to its size! Maybe I am doing something wrong, wish I could figure it out. /dev/hdd4/mnt/zip ext2 user,noauto,rw 00 Hmmdid you format the Zip disk? If not, it won't work. Try running "mke2fs /dev/hdd4" and see if that doesn't fix it. John
Re: [newbie] fstab
Bert Bullough wrote: Can someone give me an example of their fstab entry ( preferably one with an entry for mounting a windows partition) so that i can see what i am doing wrong. Thanks. Bert, These work for me: /dev/hda2 /mnt/dosc vfat rw,gid=100,umask=2 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/dosd vfat rw,gid=100,umask=2 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/dosf vfat rw,gid=100,umask=2 0 0 where hda is for the first hard drive and hdb is for the second. RW is for read/write, gid=100 is for ability to use from the group ID of 100 of which I added my user id. To know for sure what the hdxx numbers are you can run fdisk and see them. /sbin/cfdisk /dev/hda or /sbin/cfdisk /dev/hdb etc. All of the above needs to be done as su or root. Then you should add with the mkdir command a folder for dosc, dosd, etc. Here's how: mkdir /mnt/dosc mkdir /mnt/dosd Brian
Re: [newbie] not neccessarily a SMB question
Assuming, for the moment, that you have a mount point created and described in FSTAB, I'll take a stab at how to tell Linux to mount the drive for a particular person. You'll probably need to specify "user, noauto" in your entry in FSTAB to permit ANY user to mount/unmount that drive and to prevent it from being mounted whenver Linux starts. As for HOW to tell Linux to do it when a particular person logs in, I'd have to *guess* that it would be in their home shell script, typically .bashrc, or perhaps .bash_profile for RedHat (you don't specify which version of Linux you have, so I'm going by what I know.) I'm really still somewhat "wet behind the ears" when it comes to Linux, so I'm somewhat guessing here. :-) John - Original Message - From: Stephan Schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 12:27 PM Subject: [newbie] not neccessarily a SMB question New thing: where do I tell LINUX to mount a certain drive and log in as a certain user when that particular user logs in to LINUX? IE: smbmount file://asgnt4/users /home/asg -U stephans Password: Regards: Stephan Schutter
