Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, you wrote: I *think* that Linux will ignore the BIOS once it starts up. However, you're still dependant on BIOS until it boots. What I would suggest is making a "/boot" partition about 500 megs in size A 500 meg /boot partition. NO WAY. Just how big do your kernels compile. 500 megs wow, how about 15. The key is to make sure your boot partition is below the 1023 cyl on your drive. Make your first partition on your HDD about 15 megs in size and mount it as /boot. Do not use EZ drive or other drive tool, it's not needed with Linux if you keep it all below 1023. As far a partitioning goes a good setup for most people on say a 4.3 gig drive is /boot 15 megs / 1000 megs /home bal swap128 Extrapolate this for the size drive you have. A quick note on swap space: Any swap space above 128 megs is a waste. Linux will not use more than 128 megs per mounted swap partition. If you need more swap space, make 2 swap partitions at 128 megs. and then make another partition for "/" that takes up a large chunk (if not all) of the rest of the drive space. That should allow the system to boot with a hard drive larger than the system recognizes... John -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] KDE won't load at all!
have you been messing with network settings? On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: KDE won't load it says "Error: Can't connect With X server" and it repeats other error messages that are similar to that X server error. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Re: Help with truetype fonts...
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: So I got my copy of 6.0, got my copy of Wordperfect 8 from an Spanish Computer mag (for the spanish dictionaries and stuff), installed without troubles, added some TT fonts we normally use at the office and updated the fonts.dir file without much trouble. But now the problem is that Wordperfect only sees a bunch of awful printer fonts that dont let me share documents with my collegues. I can see the TT fonts in all aps except Wordperfect. This is a WordPerfect problem - its font support doesn't use the normal X library calls, so it doesn't support all the fonts installed in the system. It doesn't support TrueType fonts at all. You have basically two options: - Use a different word processor, such as Star Office 5.1 (http://www.stardivision.com/) It has more features (including better font support), but is somewhat slower, especially on low-memory machines. - Convert the fonts you want to use to Type1 fonts and install them in the WordPerfect font directories. Have a look at http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/wpfonts.html for more information on this. LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] KDE won't load at all!
That's the same thing I get when I try to modify the X86 config file trying to put in the correct frequencies for my monitor so I can get better graphics. Unless I can get at least 1024x768 in 24 bit color, FreeBSD is looking pretty good right now. Oh well, another $80 bucks. Original Message Follows KDE won't load it says "Error: Can't connect With X server" and it repeats other error messages that are similar to that X server error. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] KDE won't load at all!
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Rick Fry wrote: That's the same thing I get when I try to modify the X86 config file trying to put in the correct frequencies for my monitor so I can get better graphics. Unless I can get at least 1024x768 in 24 bit color, FreeBSD is looking pretty good right now. Oh well, another $80 bucks. It probably won't help much - FreeBSD and Linux use the same implementation of X (XFree86 3.3.something). LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] Boot hang
I just set my partitions up witht he swap and the / linux native and Mandrake did the rest. Get it installed first and then decide what other goodies you want to add. That's one of the many bugs in RedHat's install program. Mine kept wanting to toss a double slash in the path to one of the segments it was installing. When I went for the / native and the swap, all installed just fine. Original Message Follows I have a P100, 48 megs, 6.4 gig system that I did the standard server install from Mandrake 6.0 after partitioning the drive using fdisk. After getting an initial disk error "1790", it recognized my disk properly as a Maxtor 90648D3 6.4 gig and I was allowed to create "hda1" of 128 megs for SWAP, "hda2" 4 gigs for "/" linux native and activated, and "hda3" for "/home". I then was sent into Disk Druid and renamed hda2 as "/" and saved. The installation went perfect(supposedly) but when I reboot I still get the the 1790 Disk Error and the the system hangs after printing "LI_". I tried to use the emergency disk created during the install and the same thing happens. Any suggestions? Victor ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [newbie] KDE won't load at all!
I haven't even configured my network yet and still get that error. It's talking about the X server. Not the network server. We're just trying to get Linux [RedHat OR Mandrake] to give us more than 800x600 with 256 colors. Original Message Follows have you been messing with network settings? On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: KDE won't load it says "Error: Can't connect With X server" and it repeats other error messages that are similar to that X server error. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
Re: [[newbie] Trashed Linux installation]
Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saturday I meticulously installed Mandrake 6.0 (from the Cheap*Bytes CD). I examined each package and decided whether or not I needed it. I went back and forth through the list in order to come up with an installation that had everything I needed but nothing I didn't want. It took three hours. Then, I ran it. Perfect! It was just sooo awesome--I had it just right. Guess what... my brother wrecked it. I was playing Iagno and AisleRiot in some restaurant (while waiting for our car to be fixed), and I stopped since I knew that battery power was low. I shut down successfully. Then my brother wanted to play, so I gave him the spare battery. I told him that he could play for a while but would have to shut down soon since the battery wouldn't last long. I then went over to work on the car. When I came back, I found that he had played xkobo until it died on him. At home, I tried starting Linux. It came across some nasty-looking filesystem errors and locked up. I couldn't boot it! I tried everything I could, but all that was left was a reinstallation. Three more hours... argh. My question: What can I do to repair filesystem errors so bad that booting is impossible? Are you sure your system was locked up on reboot. When Linux is rudely shutdown, the next boot requires a forced "check". This could take quite some time depending on your sytem. Mike
Re: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here goes. After I installed Win98 B, (i had to do it, it was for work) I lost LILO. Now, i am forced to Windoze. And get this: in 15 min of use, i crashed 3 times! One time was just because i maxemized a window! At any rate, how do i get LILO back so i can enjoy my computer once more? thanks jerrud ICQ# 13978481 = Windows loves to totally trash the old mbr when it installs. That's why it is always recommended to install windows first. For now, boot with a boot or rescue disk. When you get into linux, rerun lilo from a command line. That should fix things, I believe. :-) Mike
Re: [newbie] Modem problems. - Motorola Voice Sufer?
Dan Brown wrote: From: Joseph Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting, I thought I was using 2.2.?? (linux-mandrake 6.0(venus)) and it gives me the choice of cuaX and ttySX from the kppp dialer. Interesting... Linus's release notes for the 2.2.x kernel say that it's stopped supporting the cua devices. Does mandrake make links instead? I thought the cua's were just there for backward compatibility cases, and they were going to be removed completely in 2.4.x or some such. - Theo
[newbie] Re:
At the LILO boot prompt, type 'linux 3' (without the quotes). - Theo Kalju Rüütli wrote: Hi there! After little mistake in xconfigurator conf. file I can not start X server. Unfortunately I did reboot computer and since my computer is booting into KDE all I can see is flicking display... How I can start coputer into konsole mode? Kalju
[newbie] Sound Card
Hi, I FINALLY got the new x-server for my Banshee card set up, so I can have any res I like now, but after setting up my SB16, the samples are played, and Audio CD's can be played, but how to I set Linux up for sound events, like start up and shut down? Also, is it posible to configure Linux to show images when it is booting? Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] KDE won't load at all!
What kind of error msg's are you getting? Somewhere in those msg's lies the answer to what is not starting (my biggest offender has been the mouse). Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 12:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:[newbie] KDE won't load at all! KDE won't load it says "Error: Can't connect With X server" and it repeats other error messages that are similar to that X server error. application/ms-tnef
RE: [newbie] Trashed Linux installation
What kind of errors are you getting? Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH 44102 -Original Message- From: Andy Goth [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 12:15 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject:[newbie] Trashed Linux installation Saturday I meticulously installed Mandrake 6.0 (from the Cheap*Bytes CD). I examined each package and decided whether or not I needed it. I went back and forth through the list in order to come up with an installation that had everything I needed but nothing I didn't want. It took three hours. Then, I ran it. Perfect! It was just sooo awesome--I had it just right. Guess what... my brother wrecked it. I was playing Iagno and AisleRiot in some restaurant (while waiting for our car to be fixed), and I stopped since I knew that battery power was low. I shut down successfully. Then my brother wanted to play, so I gave him the spare battery. I told him that he could play for a while but would have to shut down soon since the battery wouldn't last long. I then went over to work on the car. When I came back, I found that he had played xkobo until it died on him. At home, I tried starting Linux. It came across some nasty-looking filesystem errors and locked up. I couldn't boot it! I tried everything I could, but all that was left was a reinstallation. Three more hours... argh. My question: What can I do to repair filesystem errors so bad that booting is impossible? Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ: 35256413 ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell application/ms-tnef
RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]
What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me 8-)) Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 6:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here goes. After I installed Win98 B, (i had to do it, it was for work) I lost LILO. Now, i am forced to Windoze. And get this: in 15 min of use, i crashed 3 times! One time was just because i maxemized a window! At any rate, how do i get LILO back so i can enjoy my computer once more? thanks jerrud ICQ# 13978481 = Windows loves to totally trash the old mbr when it installs. That's why it is always recommended to install windows first. For now, boot with a boot or rescue disk. When you get into linux, rerun lilo from a command line. That should fix things, I believe. :-) Mike application/ms-tnef
Re: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]
Joseph, From a terminal type "/etc/lilo.conf" and press enter. John - Original Message - From: Joseph Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:14 AM Subject: RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q] What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me 8-)) Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 6:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here goes. After I installed Win98 B, (i had to do it, it was for work) I lost LILO. Now, i am forced to Windoze. And get this: in 15 min of use, i crashed 3 times! One time was just because i maxemized a window! At any rate, how do i get LILO back so i can enjoy my computer once more? thanks jerrud ICQ# 13978481 = Windows loves to totally trash the old mbr when it installs. That's why it is always recommended to install windows first. For now, boot with a boot or rescue disk. When you get into linux, rerun lilo from a command line. That should fix things, I believe. :-) Mike
[newbie] Download error
Hi everyone, I really screwed up this time! I was downloading Klicq from Freshmeat and as usual I held the shift key down before the download began..BUTsomehow I didn't do it at the right time and it downloaded all the text (source code?) instead of the tar.gz file into my directory-the one that opens up when you first open up KFM. Now I cannot even open up my FM,it shuts everything down and I have to reboot. DANG! I *just* got everything (except) icq just the way I wanted it. Is there a way to fix this or must I again reinstall the whole OS? (Gettin' pretty good at it!) TIA. John
[newbie] Linux4Win
Don't know if anyone can help, but if i try and install Linux4Win on my Dell Lattitude CPt333, i get past the formating stage, into the install, and shortly after being asked which packages i want, everything bombs out with the following (written down and typed so please excuse any possible typos!): " install exited abnormally -- received signal 7 sending termination signals ... done sending kill signals ... done unmounting filesystems... umount failed /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop7 /tmp/rhimage/dev/loop7: No such file or directory TabAlt-Tab Between elements | Space selects | f12 next screen /mnt/proc /proc /mnt /dos umount failed You may safely reboot your system. " Does anyone have any ideas please ? I don't really want to properly partition my machine at this stage as i may need to reclaim the space temporarily from time to time, and it will be handy to be able to just copy the Mandrake directory to the network for safe keeping. I have done MANY Mandrake installs before and can normally sort other peoples problems, but this one seems to be a non-starter !! Martin.
Re: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]
On 17-Aug-99 John Connell wrote: Joseph, From a terminal type "/etc/lilo.conf" and press enter. John - Original Message - From: Joseph Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:14 AM Subject: RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q] What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me 8-)) Regards, Joseph Gardner It means just type "lilo" at a command prompt. --- Jonathan Dlouhy Principal Oboe, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - If only Dionysus were alive! Where would he eat? -- Woody Allen
Re: [newbie] lnx4win
I'm afraid that Linux cannot reside on a DOS partition without some special means to protect the parts of the filesystem that Linux relies on. Certain security features in Linux/UNIX- file ownership the permission modes- are features inherent in the filesystem, not the OS. FAT filesystems do not have these features, and so any program that makes use of them simply cannot run off a FAT partition. UMSDOS is a way of "protecting" Linux from the problems (well, some of them anyway) of FAT. Using loadlin, the "root=" part should always point to the root partition. The kernel image (which is usually present in /boot) should reside on the DOS partition with the loadlin executable. This is because loadlin cannot read ext2 filesystems. The kernel is loaded from DOS via loadlin, DOS gets pushed out of memory, and Linux takes over. The Linux kernel can read ext2 (unlike DOS) and then gets the root partition- from the loadlin parameter- and mounts it at /. I suppose- although I'm not sure how this could be implemented- that it would be possible to have an ext2 filesystem contained in a file on a FAT partition. I don't know if the kernel would accept a DOS path\filename for the root partition (probably not), but if you can round up a team of hackers, you might be able to use this to use Linux from a FAT partition without usinng UMSDOS. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Sean Armstrong wrote: I have installed the new Mandrake 6.0. However I can not seem to get loadlin running. I set it to my new kernel and directed it towards the root partition. I think the second part is my problem. Should I have directed it towards my boot partition? Anyways, it begins to load linux and then panics and stops. Also I had the same problems when I tried to use Mandrake's lnx4win software to load linux on to a dos partition. The readme for this is vague at best and I was wondering if anyone knows of a better source to direct me how to load linux onto a dos partition without the use of umsdos. thanx, SA
[newbie] Onboard Sound Chip configuration
My turn for sound questions, I have a PC100 MB with a AMD k6-2. It has an onboard sound chip labeled : Sound Pro HT1869V+ HRTF 3D Audio EBK43 PCI 9052 I ran the sound configuration and it came back with as recognizing a CMI-8330 chip. Regardless of what settings I use the best I get is a very garbled sound check and when it tries to test the MIDI setup it either complains about the settings or locks the session. It even went as far as to wipe out my KDE login screen (leaving me with only KDE and safe mode.) Documentation is non-existent as the distributor I bought the MB from is now out of business (go figure) Any help would be grateful. Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH
Re: [newbie] num lock
- Original Message - From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 9:29 PM Subject: [newbie] num lock i know this is minor, but does anyone know how to make the num lock activate automatically when i boot kde? You would think this is trivial, but no one seems able to accomplish it, at least that I have found. I used to use a small utility in the old DOS 1.x days to do this until DOS allowed the bios to control this setting and Windows keeps the same state when it started. Why can't Linux/KDE do this? The setleds command was used (in Mandrake 5.3) to turn on numlock for the bash shell, but starting kde would turn it back off. It is in Mandrake 6.0 also. It may need to be uncommented, I'm not certain. It is similar to what is in the Linux FAQ. From Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0 /etc/rc.d/rc.system: # Linux Mandrake : this little script switch on the LEDs # in console mode INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8] for tty in $INITTY; do setleds -D +num $tty done There is an interesting section in /etc/XF86Config: # Let the server do the NumLock processing. This should only be # required when using pre-R6 clients #ServerNumLock # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) #Xleds 1 2 3 But as you can see, it is commented out. http://amelia.db.erau.edu/ldp/HOWTO/Config-HOWTO-3.html contains the following advice: "We have seen above how to make a few special keys work. The sample file .Xmodmap works well if you want to use Xjed, but it makes the keypad unusable. You'll then need another config file, which we'll call .Xmodmap.num: ! Definitions can be found in X11/keysymdef.h keycode 77 = Num_Lock keycode 112 = KP_Divide keycode 63 = KP_Multiply keycode 82 = KP_Subtract keycode 86 = KP_Add keycode 79 = KP_7 keycode 80 = KP_8 keycode 81 = KP_9 keycode 83 = KP_4 keycode 84 = KP_5 keycode 85 = KP_6 keycode 87 = KP_1 keycode 88 = KP_2 keycode 89 = KP_3 keycode 90 = KP_0 keycode 91 = KP_Decimal Make sure that your /etc/X11/XF86Config does not contain these three lines: ServerNumLock Xleds XkbDisable and in case, comment them out. To re-enable the keypad, you'll issue the command xmodmap .Xmodmap.num." This explains why it is comment out, but does not tell us how to do what we want. From http://www.xfree86.org/man/XF86Conf.html : "XLeds led ... makes led available for clients instead of using the traditional function (Scroll Lock, Caps Lock Num Lock). led is a list of numbers in the range 1 to 3." And from http://www.itlibrary.com/reference/library/0672308509/lsg05.htm : "In theory, you can use the Xleds setting to permit programming of the LED buttons on most keyboards (for Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock). Leave it commented as the LEDs are not used for much user feedback. " This site _might_ have something, but I am at a language disadvantage: http://dione.ids.pl/~pborys/xfaq/xfaq.html This may be of some help: http://amelia.db.erau.edu/ldp/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-10.html , but probably not, and finally, from http://amelia.db.erau.edu/ldp/FAQ/Linux-FAQ-7.html "7.10 How do I get NUM LOCK to default to on? Use the setleds program, for example (in /etc/rc.local or one of the /etc/rc.d/* files): for t in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 do setleds +num /dev/tty$t /dev/null done Setleds is part of the kbd package (`` How do I remap my keyboard to UK, French, etc.? ''). Alternatively, patch your kernel. You need to arrange for KBD_DEFLEDS to be defined to (1 VC_NUMLOCK) when compiling drivers/char/keyboard.c. " I assume that the latter accomplishes in th ekernel the same thing the shell script does, but I haven't tried it to see if 1) it works and 2) the "numlock on" state survives starting kde. So, in conclusion, it _is_ trivial to turn on numlock for the terminal windows, but not to keep the numlock state or set it automatically when starting KDE. So with all that Linux can accomplish, why not this? What have I missed? Hoyt
RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]
As root run the command /sbin/lilo. This causes lilo to re-write the lilo configuration to the mbr. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joseph Gardner Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 6:14 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q] What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me 8-)) Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 6:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here goes. After I installed Win98 B, (i had to do it, it was for work) I lost LILO. Now, i am forced to Windoze. And get this: in 15 min of use, i crashed 3 times! One time was just because i maxemized a window! At any rate, how do i get LILO back so i can enjoy my computer once more? thanks jerrud ICQ# 13978481 = Windows loves to totally trash the old mbr when it installs. That's why it is always recommended to install windows first. For now, boot with a boot or rescue disk. When you get into linux, rerun lilo from a command line. That should fix things, I believe. :-) Mike winmail.dat
Re: [newbie] num lock - A solution to turn numlock on in KDE
I can't believe I did all that looking anmd found the answer on my own hard drive in my personal "knowledge base": "From: Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to set Numlock Off at logon Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 11:05 PM "Dave C." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's funny. I'd like to know how to turn it ON as default, whether KDE is running or not. -Dave As I posted to Val: To turn ON numlock at boottime you may use the setleds command. To make it permanent you may put it in a startup file. Mandrake does so by default. In /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit you may write: INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8] for tty in $INITTY; do setleds -D +num $tty done Now you have numlock in textmode on tty 1-8. In KDE it's a totally different story. I haven't found a solution to do this with a simple command yet. My solution is to map the keys of the num-pad to the single digits they shall provide. I do this in ~/.Xmodmap, the file for keymapping for the user. Looks like: ! redefines numeric keypad to be used without NumLock keycode 79 = 7 keycode 80 = 8 keycode 81 = 9 keycode 83 = 4 keycode 84 = 5 keycode 85 = 6 keycode 87 = 1 keycode 88 = 2 keycode 89 = 3 keycode 90 = 0 keycode 91 = comma keycode 86 = plus ! deactivates NumLock key keycode 77 = - Now I've numlock ON when typing on a tty and numlock OFF but the mapped keys when typing in KDE (or any other wm you may choose). Works for me so I never really cared for a more simple solution. Wolfgang" So I did overlook the answer in the info I gathered before. Perhaps the question is Why doesn't Mandrake do this for us since they do so much else that makes the distribution special? Hoyt
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
Would the same parameters hold true for a server? Vic Brett Jones wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, you wrote: I *think* that Linux will ignore the BIOS once it starts up. However, you're still dependant on BIOS until it boots. What I would suggest is making a "/boot" partition about 500 megs in size A 500 meg /boot partition. NO WAY. Just how big do your kernels compile. 500 megs wow, how about 15. The key is to make sure your boot partition is below the 1023 cyl on your drive. Make your first partition on your HDD about 15 megs in size and mount it as /boot. Do not use EZ drive or other drive tool, it's not needed with Linux if you keep it all below 1023. As far a partitioning goes a good setup for most people on say a 4.3 gig drive is /boot 15 megs / 1000 megs /home bal swap128 Extrapolate this for the size drive you have. A quick note on swap space: Any swap space above 128 megs is a waste. Linux will not use more than 128 megs per mounted swap partition. If you need more swap space, make 2 swap partitions at 128 megs. and then make another partition for "/" that takes up a large chunk (if not all) of the rest of the drive space. That should allow the system to boot with a hard drive larger than the system recognizes... John -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Can I install Linux like this?
Okay, I have a computer onto which I've downloaded al of Mandrake 6.0 (both the distribution and the CD-ready ISO version). I have another computer onto which I'd like to load Linux. Right now the computers are not networked, but that's the plan. I don't have a Linux CD-ROM (or a burner to make my own), and out of stubborness I am refusing to get one -I have all the files, I oughta be able to do this. What I'd like to do, is 1) Make a boot floppy from my downloaded Mandrake files (which I'm sure is simple but I don't know how) 2) Boot the other computer up with Linux, using the floppy 3) Put network support on the other computer via floppies (I imagine the network shouldn't take more than a floppy, and I assume whatever kernel I boot with ill have network support). 4) Do a network install I don't really know how to do any of these, but I think that 2, 3, and 4 are covered in the Mandrake docs so I'm not too worried. Mostly it's 1 that's driving me nuts - I can't find anything explicitly telling me how to make the boot floppy! I'm sure that's my fault, but where oh where? The other option would be to network the computers together, and do an FTP install. However, I have yet to see an FTP install explained (though I have seen it mentioned, both on this list and in the docs). Can anyone help? Thanks, Chris
[newbie] About other unices
Hi all. Being sometime here and reading about which distribution of Linux is best, and talking about if Linux is for the average user, I want to talk of what do you think about other flavors of unix. What do you think about FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org/internet.html ). They have linux apps compability. Do you think is better to switch (Mandrake has many problems with the hardware). Just to make conversation, not flames! Lorenzo
Re: [newbie] Linux for home consumers?
At www.thelinuxstore.com they are now taking orders for the PIA a Personal Internet Appliance. It comes preconfigured w/ Red Hat, and is fully functional as a linux box. All for only $199. Brian -Original Message- From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder. Are there any home users on this list? I'm a home user. I'm also a tech support rep for a major ISP. There's no way I'd recommend Linux to the majority of the people with whom I deal daily. For the most part, it's not a matter of intelligence or competence, it's a matter of mindset. To use Linux effectively, you have to think as a sysadmin at least part of the time, and you have to care about knowing how the computer and OS works. Windoze and (especially) MacOS tend to discourage this--their mindset seems to be that you don't need or want to know what's going on. With Linux, you do need to know, whether you want to or not. If we were shipping out preconfigured Internet-only boxes, I wouldn't have a problem with Linux as the OS--we'd set up all the hardware, software, etc., and it'd be ready to go, out of the box. However, we don't do that.
[newbie] install as server
I did a install as server and find that when it says all data will be destroyed it means on ALL drives. Even my win95 drive and a dos drive as well as the linux drive. Is this right or did I do something wrong? Dave Reinhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.WoodsideDelSer.com
[newbie] Linux or Mandrake
Can someone tell me what is the difference between Mandrake Linux and Red Hat Linux ? Advantages and/or disadvantages? Dave Reinhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.WoodsideDelSer.com
Re: [newbie] Onboard Sound Chip configuration
I have the exact same motherboard and processor. I'll throw in here that sound works just fine in win95 and windoze 3.1x. According to the documentation the soundchip is compatable with SoundBlaster Pro. Joe, fyi, I have the cd that came with the motherboard and if you need any of the drivers for anything other than linux I can email them to you. :) I can scan the manual in and email it to you if you are interested. It's rather dry reading though. This is a problem I've been fighting with since day one. I'm also interested in any suggestions. Beo '2 pitons in the learning cliff... zillions to go' On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Joseph Gardner wrote: My turn for sound questions, I have a PC100 MB with a AMD k6-2. It has an onboard sound chip labeled : Sound Pro HT1869V+ HRTF 3D Audio EBK43 PCI 9052 I ran the sound configuration and it came back with as recognizing a CMI-8330 chip. Regardless of what settings I use the best I get is a very garbled sound check and when it tries to test the MIDI setup it either complains about the settings or locks the session. It even went as far as to wipe out my KDE login screen (leaving me with only KDE and safe mode.) Documentation is non-existent as the distributor I bought the MB from is now out of business (go figure) Any help would be grateful. Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH ---Beo d'Wulfie 'We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.'
Re: [newbie] Can I install Linux like this?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have a computer onto which I've downloaded al of Mandrake 6.0 (both the distribution and the CD-ready ISO version). I have another computer onto which I'd like to load Linux. Right now the computers are not networked, but that's the plan. I don't have a Linux CD-ROM (or a burner to make my own), and out of stubborness I am refusing to get one -I have all the files, I oughta be able to do this. What I'd like to do, is 1) Make a boot floppy from my downloaded Mandrake files (which I'm sure is simple but I don't know how) 2) Boot the other computer up with Linux, using the floppy 3) Put network support on the other computer via floppies (I imagine the network shouldn't take more than a floppy, and I assume whatever kernel I boot with ill have network support). 4) Do a network install I don't really know how to do any of these, but I think that 2, 3, and 4 are covered in the Mandrake docs so I'm not too worried. Mostly it's 1 that's driving me nuts - I can't find anything explicitly telling me how to make the boot floppy! I'm sure that's my fault, but where oh where? The other option would be to network the computers together, and do an FTP install. However, I have yet to see an FTP install explained (though I have seen it mentioned, both on this list and in the docs). Can anyone help? Thanks, Chris Regarding your 1) above: in your Mandrake download you will find two directories, one is called "images" it holds the disk images for the boot floppies. If you wish to make a network install I suppose you will need then "bootnet.img". The other dir is called "dosutils" there you´ll find a program called "rawrite" (it is a dos prog) and its win-brother called "rawwritewin" with each of them you can write a disk-image file to a floppy. Hope that gets you started.. Willy
[newbie] Where to get the latest isapnptools?
Where can I download the latest version of isapnptools for Linux Mandrake 6.0? I didn't find any links for it on their home page. Is there an "isipnptools central" out there? Postman --- This Message was Powered by Xcel Communications Sign up for your FREE EMAIL account today at http://www.mailroom.com Give your FAX machine an email address http://www.faxroom.com
Re: [newbie] AWE64 problems
On 17-Aug-99 pete moss wrote: can someone with a AWE64 gold and mandrake 6.0 send me a copy of their /etc/conf.modules? i will have to change mine by hand, but i need to see one that works. :P Well, I'm using an AWE64 Value, but the only difference should be that the Gold comes with more Windows software and more memory for soundfonts. Here is my /etc/conf.modules: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias sound sb pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 options opl3 io=0x388 alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 It looks like every line except the first two is for the sound card. Good luck, I hope you get yours working. -Tom
Re: [[newbie] Linux for home consumers?]
On 16-Aug-99 Rick Fry wrote: It's not the card. It's the monitor. The card is a Diamond A50. The monitor is a Pixie 770 which is a 17" monitor that both of my Windows run at 1280x1024 with 24 bit color. According to the monitor specs, it uses scan frequencies between 30-86Hz Horizontal and 47-150Hz on the vertical side. It does 640x480@85hz, 800x600@75hz, 1024x768@85hz and 1280x1024@65hz. You can stretch to get 1600x1200@65hz. I told Xconfig that it was a monitor that would do 1280x1024@65hz and it said, "No it won't" and went back to the "There's a problem" screen. I was told that neither RedHat or Mandrake adequately support the Diamond card for some silly reason. That 'silly reason' is that like most manufacturers Diamond does not bother making Linux drivers for its products. You're throwing your blame in the wrong direction. -Tom
Re: [newbie] lnx4win
The purpose of Lnx4win in Mandrake 6.0 IS to install linux on a dos partition. Linux is then used through a loopback device without the need to have to partition your hardrive. This seems to be becoming popular. Phatlinux 3.0 also does this. Both do this without using umsdos. I don't understand the specifics of this and would like more info. Thanx for the loadlin help. SA From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] lnx4win Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:46:36 -0500 (CDT) I'm afraid that Linux cannot reside on a DOS partition without some special means to protect the parts of the filesystem that Linux relies on. Certain security features in Linux/UNIX- file ownership the permission modes- are features inherent in the filesystem, not the OS. FAT filesystems do not have these features, and so any program that makes use of them simply cannot run off a FAT partition. UMSDOS is a way of "protecting" Linux from the problems (well, some of them anyway) of FAT. Using loadlin, the "root=" part should always point to the root partition. The kernel image (which is usually present in /boot) should reside on the DOS partition with the loadlin executable. This is because loadlin cannot read ext2 filesystems. The kernel is loaded from DOS via loadlin, DOS gets pushed out of memory, and Linux takes over. The Linux kernel can read ext2 (unlike DOS) and then gets the root partition- from the loadlin parameter- and mounts it at /. I suppose- although I'm not sure how this could be implemented- that it would be possible to have an ext2 filesystem contained in a file on a FAT partition. I don't know if the kernel would accept a DOS path\filename for the root partition (probably not), but if you can round up a team of hackers, you might be able to use this to use Linux from a FAT partition without usinng UMSDOS. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Sean Armstrong wrote: I have installed the new Mandrake 6.0. However I can not seem to get loadlin running. I set it to my new kernel and directed it towards the root partition. I think the second part is my problem. Should I have directed it towards my boot partition? Anyways, it begins to load linux and then panics and stops. Also I had the same problems when I tried to use Mandrake's lnx4win software to load linux on to a dos partition. The readme for this is vague at best and I was wondering if anyone knows of a better source to direct me how to load linux onto a dos partition without the use of umsdos. thanx, SA ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
RE: [newbie] install as server
On 17-Aug-99 Dave Reinhardt wrote: I did a install as server and find that when it says all data will be destroyed it means on ALL drives. Even my win95 drive and a dos drive as well as the linux drive. Is this right or did I do something wrong? Yes, that's right. It's assumed that if your computer is going to be used as a server, you're probably not going to be rebooting to switch to another OS.. I'd strongly recommend using a Custom install instead of Server or Workstation under almost any condition. -Tom
Re: [newbie] About other unices
I hate to say this. FreeBSD has even worse hardware support. On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Lorenzo Jimenez wrote: Hi all. Being sometime here and reading about which distribution of Linux is best, and talking about if Linux is for the average user, I want to talk of what do you think about other flavors of unix. What do you think about FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org/internet.html ). They have linux apps compability. Do you think is better to switch (Mandrake has many problems with the hardware). Just to make conversation, not flames! Lorenzo
Re: [newbie] Install to 2 Hard disks
Thanks for the info. I just started the reinstall. Had to put in a new CD drive the old one shot craps. I used Disk Druid to format and all seems fine. I made partitions like: 1. /swap 80MB 2. /boot 20MB 3. / 800MB 4. /usr 200MB 5. /home 500MB or roughly that amount. It's doing the install right now so I can't check. I did find the install notes from my LUG meeting last month. The minimum they gave said to have /, /boot, /swap, /home, and /usr . The sweet sounds of the CD spinning are filling my ears now. Excuse me while I bask in the glow of the monitor and read more e-mail. Brian -Original Message- From: Brian Leas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, here is my suggestion: 1. Boot up from a WIN95 startup disk. Format your Windows drive(I'm assuming it is the first one) 2. After formatting, run dos fdisk and delete the current dos partitions. 3. Reboot your machine with a Linux boot disk and run Linux fdisk. 4. Setup your partitons something like so: /boot 20MB / /swap /home (for program files) You could put the boot , swap , and /home partitions on the first drive and the /home on the second or whatever floats your boat. Hope this helps :) I have a PC w/ Mandrake 5.3 currently on it. I want to totally drop windows on this box and think I am ready to do so. When I installed Linux to this machine I used a separate hard drive for Linux and left the original to Windows 95. It's a Pent. 60 with a 540MB and a 810MB hard drive. When I do a reinstall I want to create more than just the / (root) and /swap partitions I did last time. Can I put /, /boot, /whatever else on dev/hda and other partitions on the second HD which would be /dev/hdb? I'm sure this should work, but which partitions should go on which drive? And what sizes should I make them? I know /boot should be around 20MB, but not sure on the rest. Ideas / recommendations welcome. This PC will be networked to one or two other home PCs and will mainly be for net access, office applications and general experimentation. Brian "My God, it's full of penguins!" Finally true.
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
ok, so I want to install Mandrake on this computer. As it stands now I am having a very hard time getting support from NEC because the machine is so old. They did come out with a bios that would autoconfig a drive and also could do LBA mode. But I have had no luck flashing this machine with it. They say it might not work because its for European machines. But I own another slower laptop that HAS been upgraded to this bios. HO HUM.. ANyway.. what your saying is.. let the bios dectect it as whatever it wants.. then when I boot from the /boot partition which will be inside that "fake" drive it will then see the true size of the drive?? I am not sure on this.. as I have had problems with it finding incompatable drive sizes before (posted about a week ago) H /boot 15 megs / 1000 megs /home bal swap128 Extrapolate this for the size drive you have. A quick note on swap space: Any swap space above 128 megs is a waste. Linux will not use more than 128 megs per mounted swap partition. If you need more swap space, make 2 swap partitions at 128 megs. and then make another partition for "/" that takes up a large chunk (if not all) of the rest of the drive space. That should allow the system to boot with a hard drive larger than the system recognizes... John -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Can I install Linux like this?
Okay, I have a computer onto which I've downloaded al of Mandrake 6.0 (both the distribution and the CD-ready ISO version). I have another computer onto which I'd like to load Linux. Right now the computers are not networked, but that's the plan. I don't have a Linux CD-ROM (or a burner to make my own), and out of stubborness I am refusing to get one -I have all the files, I oughta be able to do this. Well, as soon as they're networked, you'll be ready to go. I assume the files are downloaded onto a Windows machine? What I'd like to do, is 1) Make a boot floppy from my downloaded Mandrake files (which I'm sure is simple but I don't know how) Pretty simple- in the /dosutils directory is a program called RAWRITE.EXE. Copy this to C:\. Now, copy /images/bootnet.img to C:\. Now, from a DOS prompt, run C:\rawrite -f bootnet.img -d a Be _sure_ you have a cleanly formatted floppy with no bad sectors on it in the floppy drive. This will produce your boot floppy. Actually, you may want to use the updated boot image: /updates/6.0/images/bootnet.img from a Mandrake mirror. 2) Boot the other computer up with Linux, using the floppy Hmmm... put the floppy in the drive, and boot... I guess you should make sure that the floppy is first in the boot sequence. 3) Put network support on the other computer via floppies (I imagine the network shouldn't take more than a floppy, and I assume whatever kernel I boot with ill have network support). Well, you do have to have a network card in there, too. The floppy image contains a multitude of drivers, I'm sure the list is in some READMEs somewhere. 4) Do a network install Follow the directions on the screen. It's not that hard. My first install with 5.3 was an FTP install, so I know even a moron like me can get through it okay. I don't really know how to do any of these, but I think that 2, 3, and 4 are covered in the Mandrake docs so I'm not too worried. Mostly it's 1 that's driving me nuts - I can't find anything explicitly telling me how to make the boot floppy! I'm sure that's my fault, but where oh where? The other option would be to network the computers together, and do an FTP install. However, I have yet to see an FTP install explained (though I have seen it mentioned, both on this list and in the docs). It's as much of a no-brainer as any other network install. Can anyone help? I hope I did. Thanks, Chris You're welcome, Chris. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Re:
I had the same "LI" problem and fixed it by removing the Lilo install from my C drives master boot record. Do this by using your DOS?Windows boot disk to get to a c: prompt. Then type in "fdisk /mbr" without the quotes. This will remove LILO. Works like a charm and windows will boot up as it used to. Toby Paul Hendrick wrote: Hi, After installing Mandrake the screen res was set at 300x200. I've been told that I should wipe my hard disk reinstall windows, and then install Linux. But after deleting the Linux partitions on my disk and installing MS DOS, my system stalls when booting. It says nothing except "LI". How do I stop this from happening? Also, how do I edit files from the prompt when logged in as root? Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]]
Joseph Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me 8-)) Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH From a command line just type: lilo
Re: [newbie] About other unices
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Lorenzo Jimenez wrote: What do you think about FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org/internet.html ). They have linux apps compability. Do you think is better to switch (Mandrake has many problems with the hardware). I like FreeBSD, and I'm using it on one of my computers. But at least right now, I have to say Linux is better for most things. It supports more hardware and is usually a bit faster. On the other hand, FreeBSD's USB support is currently somewhat better than the one in current stable Linux kernels; if you need USB stuff, you might want to check it out. LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: Would the same parameters hold true for a server? Vic I've got a server with 1 4.5 gig SCSI drive, and 1 8.4 gig IDE drive. This is what it's tables looks like. 4.5 /boot 20 m / 850 m /var400 m /home 600 m /home/httpd 1500 m /home/ftp bal. 8.4 /home/httpd/vhost bal. This box is going to host web sites for myself, and hopefully many others. This partition table is what made sense to me, I'm sure others have there own ideas. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Acer FX-3D Sound Card Help
I have not had any reply with help getting my sound card to work. Any chance anyone has experience with getting this card to work? (I will resend details if anyone can suggest the correct way to configure it -- it is AD1816 based -- every combination I have tried, when sndconfig tests, it comes back resource busy or not available). Thanks -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Install to 2 Hard disks
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: Thanks for the info. I just started the reinstall. Had to put in a new CD drive the old one shot craps. I used Disk Druid to format and all seems fine. I made partitions like: 1. /swap 80MB I like to put the swap at the end of the drive. It makes sure the /boot partition in inside 1023 2. /boot 20MB 3. / 800MB 4. /usr 200MB You'll find that /usr is going to have more in it than / you may want to change this around. A good command to run to get disk usage is du. cd into /usr and run du -h and it will give you the size of all files below /usr 5. /home 500MB or roughly that amount. It's doing the install right now so I can't check. I did find the install notes from my LUG meeting last month. The minimum they gave said to have /, /boot, /swap, /home, and /usr . The sweet sounds of the CD spinning are filling my ears now. Excuse me while I bask in the glow of the monitor and read more e-mail. Brian -Original Message- From: Brian Leas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, here is my suggestion: 1. Boot up from a WIN95 startup disk. Format your Windows drive(I'm assuming it is the first one) 2. After formatting, run dos fdisk and delete the current dos partitions. 3. Reboot your machine with a Linux boot disk and run Linux fdisk. 4. Setup your partitons something like so: /boot 20MB / /swap /home (for program files) You could put the boot , swap , and /home partitions on the first drive and the /home on the second or whatever floats your boat. Hope this helps :) I have a PC w/ Mandrake 5.3 currently on it. I want to totally drop windows on this box and think I am ready to do so. When I installed Linux to this machine I used a separate hard drive for Linux and left the original to Windows 95. It's a Pent. 60 with a 540MB and a 810MB hard drive. When I do a reinstall I want to create more than just the / (root) and /swap partitions I did last time. Can I put /, /boot, /whatever else on dev/hda and other partitions on the second HD which would be /dev/hdb? I'm sure this should work, but which partitions should go on which drive? And what sizes should I make them? I know /boot should be around 20MB, but not sure on the rest. Ideas / recommendations welcome. This PC will be networked to one or two other home PCs and will mainly be for net access, office applications and general experimentation. Brian "My God, it's full of penguins!" Finally true. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] xcdroast
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hey! I have a problem... what else ;-) Using xcdroast with mandrake i get the following message: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1: Function not implemented. shmget failed Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM when i try do write the image. Can anybody help me? cu helmut - -- Helmut Halfmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-PublicKey on request -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN7m6mVxY3y2WKocZAQFOoAP7Blij47LIZGie0ThmmJOLPjbLNuFyXipP m1p/McCphuoEkbvh/YtGoP36uf1erzp0Rnstmu24TDe/rpx/biqNBxaB+betpYsI jv68eiNK3n9mu9u4otc7XWcgIGhioKgMnr0dukAxS3avoFm0S2MaXz/q0lvEiLfy iw4yh/Yqd8Y= =xQyH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] DVD
Is there any support for DVD kits with MPEG-2 cards within Linux? If so, what brands are Linux compatible? If not, will there be any support in the near future, say in the 2.4 kernel? Thanks for the help. Jason Peterson
RE: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]]
Ok, ok I get the point. It's the linux equivalent of DOS's config.sys and autoexec.bat, right. Regards, Joe -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]] Joseph Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me 8-)) Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH From a command line just type: lilo application/ms-tnef
[newbie] Color Menu
I installed Mandrake on my toshiba laptop, and the first thing that I noticed was the great color menus from the command line. For a whole bunch of reasons I am changing to REDHAT 6.0 and I want to have these same color menus, can anyone tell me how off the top of your head? Thanks Chris -- __ Christopher Jacob Systems Analyst / ACD Admin. TEKsystems Toll Free 888.242.4835 7312 Parkway Drive Local 410.579.4112 Hanover, MD 21076 Pager 410.806.4233 ___
[newbie] Kppp problems
I'm having some problems with getting a dial-up connection to my ISP (Netcom/Mindspring) to work. My modem dials, and the dial-in server picks up, but I don't get anything past that as far as I can tell. Kppp's debug function gives an output file like this (add pppd[616] to the front of each line): pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0 Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0: ^F local IP address 207.93.134.127 remote IP address 165.236.195.72 Terminating on signal 15 Connection terminated Connect time 0.5 minutes. Sent 561 bytes, received 551 bytes. Exit. Kppp gives a 'hint' something like "You are recieving a response of '^F'. Maybe that will help.", in the connection debugger. I haven't had a chance to try the 'novj' option yet, so if that's it, let me know. - Theo
RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: %_What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me 8-)) from the command line (AFTER changing your lilo.conf file) type "lilo" and hit "enter." John
Re: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]]
Not exactly LILO is the LInux LOader and offers you a prompt at system startup where you can choose wich OS to boot. I'd rather say that the rc files and initscripts are the very far away cousins of autoexec.bat and config.sys. Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net 7 (Member of the Advalvas Group) www.net7.be - Original Message - From: Joseph Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 12:44 PM Subject: RE: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]] Ok, ok I get the point. It's the linux equivalent of DOS's config.sys and autoexec.bat, right. Regards, Joe -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]] Joseph Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me 8-)) Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH From a command line just type: lilo
Re: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]]
Um, actually, neither. COMMAND.COM is the DOS shell- i.e. bash equivalent. COMMAND.COM is, however, much more limited. The equivalent to autoexec.bat config.sys would be startup scripts- the /etc/rc.d directory tree. LILO is a boot manager- there's no real equivalent to it for DOS, because DOS is, well, lame. LILO chooses which of the kernels you have on your system to boot. You can't have, much less boot, multiple kernels in DOS. LILO also has the ability to load boot sectors from any partition off any hard drive. DOS's MBR loads only the boot sector off the active partition; it cannot handle multiple PRIMARY partitions, much less multiple bootable (active) partitions. LILO, on the other hand, can even boot from logical drives inside extended partitions. That, as little and incorrect as it may be, is my two cents... -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: Actually it's closer to the linux equivalent of DOS's 'COMMAND.COM'. - Theo Joseph Gardner wrote: Ok, ok I get the point. It's the linux equivalent of DOS's config.sys and autoexec.bat, right. Regards, Joe -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]] Joseph Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM, but I don't have my books with me 8-)) Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH From a command line just type: lilo Part 1.2Type: application/ms-tnef Encoding: base64
[newbie] Booting
I have a laptop that I want to get Linux on. I d/l'ed the boot*.img files on a W95 machine and need to get them to a floppy but they are too large to copy. How can I get one to the diskette so I can boot? Leonard W. Miller Microsoft Certified Professional A+ Certified Technical Support
[newbie] Huge Linux crash
Hi there, Earlier on today I was cycling through some desktop themes when Mandrake had a Win98 style crash. The whole system locked up so I had to press the reset button. When Linux tried to reboot, I got the usual 'drive wasn't cleanly unmounted' or something. Then after that, about 70% of the boot operations failed. I tried to reboot again and again, and even tried using the recovery disk, but nothing worked. I've re-installed now, but can anyone tell me why such a thing happened and how to avoid it in future? Very rare for Linux to do this :-/ Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] DVD
Petey wrote: Is there any support for DVD kits with MPEG-2 cards within Linux? If so, what brands are Linux compatible? If not, will there be any support in the near future, say in the 2.4 kernel? Thanks for the help. The DVD drives are supported as regular CD-ROMs. There is no support planned for the DVD portion in the near future from what I can see. There _are_ some people working on creating drivers for the MPEG cards and for viewing movies from the drives, but it is going to be a long, hard road trying to get them up and running. For the most part, the problem is that DVD manufacturer's will not release programming information without a $15,000 payment and a signature on a Non-Disclosure Agreement. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Cooker updates broke my kde menus
I just went and grabbed loads of cooker updates (playing around, hoping I don't have to reinstall, but hey - that's half the fun). Anyway, my kde menus no longer work. All the choices are still there, but if I click them nothing happens. If I go into my $HOME/.kde and manually click each lnk file that will start the applications. I have to go back and get some more things to update my kdebase files (doing it now) but if anyone has an idea how to fix this (short of going in and manually editing ALL those files) I'd love to hear it. One other problem - I took over some space on my Windows HD and now I can't mount the last partition. I used cfdisk to partion it into 3 (fat16/Linux/Linux). I then used WinNT to format the fat16 and mkfs to make the file system on the two Linux partitions. I mounted the fat16 and the one of the new partitions just fine. But the other tells me bad superblock or too many partitions mounted. I used efsck to check it, and it's good. I have 7 hard drive partitions mounted, plus the floppy and CD-ROM on auto and /dev/pts. Is there a limit to the number of partitions? And if so, how do I get around it? TIA, -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
Re: [newbie] big mistake
All you need to do is open an xterm while in Xwindow an give the
command switchdesk.
The rest should be self explanatory
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I would like to know
What I was fencing in
And what I was fencing out.
-- Robert Frost
Re: [newbie] Booting
You need to download rawrite to create a floppy from the boot.img file. It is in the utilities directory on a mirror site. Directions are there also. Dave - Original Message - From: Leonard W. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 5:37 PM Subject: [newbie] Booting I have a laptop that I want to get Linux on. I d/l'ed the boot*.img files on a W95 machine and need to get them to a floppy but they are too large to copy. How can I get one to the diskette so I can boot? Leonard W. Miller Microsoft Certified Professional A+ Certified Technical Support
RE: [newbie] Setup success but Netscape Not loading Pages
Thanks a bundle!! The argument 'novj' seems to have worked, at least under KDE. Unfortunately, same problem is still happening under my shell, but at least I can connect up using KDE now! I would be interested in learning the meaning of 'novj', or where that even came from? There is absolutely nothing in any of the manuals I received which mention this argument. Thanks Again Kurt At 11:14 PM 8/16/99 -0400, you wrote: On 17-Aug-99 Kurt wrote: Hoorah! I got Mandrake installed successfully, and everything seems to work except for one BIG problem. For some reason, my Netscape, FTP and IRC connections all come up and tell me that connections to the servers have been established. However, it then just sits there and seems like nothing is getting into my machine! BIG SNIP Geez, looks like this problem is getting common. Okay, my gf had the same exact problem and this is what fixed it for her: Go into kppp's settings, and in the screen where you put the phone number for your ISP in, there is a button labeled 'Arguments' for passing arguments to pppd. Click on that, then put in 'novj' as a pppd argument. I hope that works for you. -Tom *** *** The RULES have CHANGED! You can now get PAID to surf the Web! FREE *** *** signup, get paid fifty cents per hour, up to forty hours a month!! *** *** Nothing to lose - Signup today! *** ***-*** *** http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=DDV630 *** ***
[newbie] 10/100 Ethernet?
Hi Folks, When I first fired up the machine, Linux detected the Ethernet card and used it fine. The card was sold to me as a 10/100BT, but Linux is only using it as a 10. Is there some setting I should fiddle with, or was I misled? Thanks in advance for any info! Sean
Re: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared!
It is just Microsofts way of saying that WINDOWS is the ONLY OS to have. Tom Ken Wilson wrote: Windows will not recognize your Linux partitions. Also, your drive designation in Windows is not arbitrary. If you remove a drive it once had by partitioning it for another file system it will just redesignate the drives that are left, keeping them in alphabetic sequence. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of brandon Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 6:17 PM To: mandrake-linux support Subject: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared! I am running Linux and Windows 98 on the same computer but on different hard drives. After setting aside a 2.1 Gb drive ( drive D:\ ) for the Linux OS, I installed Linux successfully. But when I go into windows, it seems to not recognize the drive where I am storing the Linux OS. What was drive E now becomes drive D. And now, when I open My Computer, both the E: drive and F: drives have the cd-rom icon. Originally, my F: drive is my CD-ROM drive. How do I make Windows recognize the Linux drive? Or is there another way to solve this problem?? thanks, Brandon
[newbie] httpd server
The httpd server (apache) gives me this error upon its startup on boot... httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. it fails on startup and shutdown. Can anyone give me a hand with this servername problem? Thank you R Reed
[newbie] Kernel update on a laptop
I've been getting by without the kernel update by typing 'halt' to shutdown my laptop, and 'reboot' to reboot it. I do that, because when I type 'shutdown -h now' or 'shutdown -r now', my partitions don't cleanly unmount, and the system doesn't cleanly reboot (I loose the keyboard). I've been trying to get by without the kernel update, because the last time I tried it, I installed the kernel update, and the kernel-pcmcia update, and it couldn't detect my pcmcia cards (no DHCP for eththernet was bad enough, but no modem? eek!). Am I running the risk of breaking anything by typing 'halt' and 'reboot' instead of 'shutdown...'? Did I just screw up installing the kernel and kernel-pcmcia update rpms when I tried? What rpms do I need to download from Mandrake's site to update the kernel and still keep my pcmcia modem working? - Theo
RE: [newbie] Setup success but Netscape Not loading Pages
On 17-Aug-99 Kurt wrote: Thanks a bundle!! The argument 'novj' seems to have worked, at least under KDE. Unfortunately, same problem is still happening under my shell, but at least I can connect up using KDE now! Try putting the novj in the /etc/ppp/options file, then it will pass the novj option to pppd even if you're not using kppp. I would be interested in learning the meaning of 'novj', or where that even came from? There is absolutely nothing in any of the manuals I received which mention this argument. It is mentioned in the man page for pppd: novj Disable Van Jacobson style TCP/IP header compres- sion in both the transmit and the receive direc- tion. I don't know exactly what Van Jacobsen Compression is for and don't feel like looking it up, but I think basically it's enabled by default, and most ISP's have it enabled, but some don't, and in those cases you have to disable it with the novj option. At 11:14 PM 8/16/99 -0400, you wrote: On 17-Aug-99 Kurt wrote: Hoorah! I got Mandrake installed successfully, and everything seems to work except for one BIG problem. For some reason, my Netscape, FTP and IRC connections all come up and tell me that connections to the servers have been established. However, it then just sits there and seems like nothing is getting into my machine! BIG SNIP Geez, looks like this problem is getting common. Okay, my gf had the same exact problem and this is what fixed it for her: Go into kppp's settings, and in the screen where you put the phone number for your ISP in, there is a button labeled 'Arguments' for passing arguments to pppd. Click on that, then put in 'novj' as a pppd argument. I hope that works for you. -Tom
[newbie] Re-installed Win98 - Lost LILO -- How to re-install????
Yes, I did re-install Win98 --- use it for games ;-) I am using Mandrake 6.0 on a Celeron 300 I guess when you install Win98 is automatically overwrites the MBR (sure would be nice if it would at least ask permission). I would like to get LILO back so I can get back to my Linux install. Here is my configuration: I have two drives: The first is a 1.6 gig (house win 98), and second 6.4 gig drive which is partitioned into two drives. Linux is installed on the first 2 gigs on the second drive. I really don't want to have to re-install to get back to Unix... I do that enough with Windows ;-) Thanks for your help! Talon
Re: [newbie] Re-installed Win98 - Lost LILO -- How to re-install????
Did you make a custom boot disk during the installation? If so, boot from it, and once you're logged in as 'root', type 'lilo' at the prompt. That should get lilo back into the mbr. If not, try using rawwrite (it's on the install CD) to make a rescue disk with rescue.img (in the images directory), and you should be able to do the same thing. I've never used the rescue disk, so there may be additional steps that I dont' know about. - Theo "Michael P. Wheat" wrote: Yes, I did re-install Win98 --- use it for games ;-) I am using Mandrake 6.0 on a Celeron 300 I guess when you install Win98 is automatically overwrites the MBR (sure would be nice if it would at least ask permission). I would like to get LILO back so I can get back to my Linux install. Here is my configuration: I have two drives: The first is a 1.6 gig (house win 98), and second 6.4 gig drive which is partitioned into two drives. Linux is installed on the first 2 gigs on the second drive. I really don't want to have to re-install to get back to Unix... I do that enough with Windows ;-) Thanks for your help! Talon
RE: [newbie] AWE64 problems
I have SB AWE64 ISA PnP card. Here's conf.modules and isapnp.conf /etc/conf.modules: alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc #pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias sound sb pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 options opl3 io=0x388 alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 alias char-major-107 3dfx /etc/isapnp.conf: # $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.18 1999/02/14 22:47:18 fox Exp $ # This is free software, see the sources for details. # This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK # # For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5) # # For latest information and FAQ on isapnp and pnpdump see: # http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ # # Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DNEEDSETSCHEDULER -DABORT_ONRESERR # # Trying port address 0203 # Trying port address 020b # Board 1 has serial identifier a6 1d ec 85 d6 e4 00 8c 0e # (DEBUG) (READPORT 0x020b) (ISOLATE PRESERVE) (IDENTIFY *) (VERBOSITY 2) (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING # Card 1: (serial identifier a6 1d ec 85 d6 e4 00 8c 0e) # Vendor Id CTL00e4, Serial Number 502040022, checksum 0xA6. # Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0 # ANSI string --Creative SB AWE64 PnP-- # Vendor defined tag: 73 02 45 20 # # Logical device id CTL0045 # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x39 # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3b # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3c # # Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required. # Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed if required # Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/502040022 (LD 0 # ANSI string --Audio-- # Multiple choice time, choose one only ! # Start dependent functions: priority preferred # IRQ 5. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E))) # First DMA channel 1. # 8 bit DMA only # Logical device is not a bus master # DMA may execute in count by byte mode # DMA may not execute in count by word mode # DMA channel speed in compatible mode (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1)) # Next DMA channel 5. # 16 bit DMA only # Logical device is not a bus master # DMA may not execute in count by byte mode # DMA may execute in count by word mode # DMA channel speed in compatible mode (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0220 # Maximum IO base address 0x0220 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 16 (IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0330 # Maximum IO base address 0x0330 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 2 (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0388 # Maximum IO base address 0x0388 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 4 (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388)) # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable # IRQ 5, 7, 9 or 10. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) # (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E))) # First DMA channel 0, 1 or 3. # 8 bit DMA only # Logical device is not a bus master # DMA may execute in count by byte mode # DMA may not execute in count by word mode # DMA channel speed in compatible mode # (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0)) # Next DMA channel 5, 6 or 7. # 16 bit DMA only # Logical device is not a bus master # DMA may not execute in count by byte mode # DMA may execute in count by word mode # DMA channel speed in compatible mode # (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0220 # Maximum IO base address 0x0280 # IO base alignment 32 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 16 # (IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0300 # Maximum IO base address 0x0330 # IO base alignment 48 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 2 # (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0300)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0388 # Maximum IO base address 0x0388 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 4 # (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388)) # Start dependent functions:
Re: [newbie] Re-installed Win98 - Lost LILO -- How to re-install????
Take your original install disk (or make one from the CD if you installed directly off the CD) and create a "rescue" disk as well. Boot from the floppy and when prompted to hit a key, type "rescue" and it'll prompt you for the "rescue" disk. Once it's done booting the rescue disk, mount your Linux setup as follows: "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt" (minus quotes.) Then, go to /mnt/sbin/ and type "lilo" and then exit back to the floppy and unmount your file system and reboot. At that point, you SHOULD get a LILO prompt. John - Original Message - From: Michael P. Wheat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 8:08 PM Subject: [newbie] Re-installed Win98 - Lost LILO -- How to re-install Yes, I did re-install Win98 --- use it for games ;-) I am using Mandrake 6.0 on a Celeron 300 I guess when you install Win98 is automatically overwrites the MBR (sure would be nice if it would at least ask permission). I would like to get LILO back so I can get back to my Linux install. Here is my configuration: I have two drives: The first is a 1.6 gig (house win 98), and second 6.4 gig drive which is partitioned into two drives. Linux is installed on the first 2 gigs on the second drive. I really don't want to have to re-install to get back to Unix... I do that enough with Windows ;-) Thanks for your help! Talon
RE: [newbie] KDE Messed up
I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
RE: [newbie] Re-installed Win98 - Lost LILO -- How to re-install????
If you made a boot disk for Linux per the installation instructions use it to boot Linux and then run lilo to reinstall your loader on the mbr. If you didn't make a boot disk then I'm afraid you'll have to re-install, unless someone is aware of some other way of getting around this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael P. Wheat Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re-installed Win98 - Lost LILO -- How to re-install Yes, I did re-install Win98 --- use it for games ;-) I guess when you install Win98 is automatically overwrites the MBR (sure would be nice if it would at least ask permission). I would like to get LILO back so I can get back to my Linux install. ... I really don't want to have to re-install to get back to Unix... I do that enough with Windows ;-)
Re: [newbie] 10/100 Ethernet?
Well, what is the rest of the network running at? Is the hub capable of 100? What about the other machines? Which card is it? Many have autoswitching capability but not all. Civileme Sean McMains wrote: Hi Folks, When I first fired up the machine, Linux detected the Ethernet card and used it fine. The card was sold to me as a 10/100BT, but Linux is only using it as a 10. Is there some setting I should fiddle with, or was I misled? Thanks in advance for any info! Sean -- Rejoice, the wait for Windows 2000 is over! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
[newbie] newbie questions :)
Hi there, 1. I'm using the KDE environment, and whenever I type e-mail addresses, the @ key isn't where it should be on a UK keyboard. I now have to pressshift '2', instead of shift '. Running setup and changing to a UK setup doesnt make any different...anyone with any ideas? 2. When I installed Staroffice, I used to corrent commands(i think), but I can't activate the program. What do I do? I installed it and it went into the usr/local directory. Thanks a lot for any help. Best regards, Paul Hendrick
Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up
Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
FW: [newbie] KDE Messed up
-Original Message- From: Aaron deRozario Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:25 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE Messed up Not a problem - I'll have a look next time I'm in front of Linux. For the moment I'll have another go at giving you a very bad description of what to look for. The programme can be launched from the panel. The launch button has an icon that is a computer monitor with a green thing over it. When launched it has a series of expandable/collapseable icons down the left hand side. Some of these expandable/collapseable icons includes Desktop (which expands to show Background etc), Themes etc. The one you are looking for is the very first of these collapseable/expandable icons. It expands to show a Login Manager (or similar), an option for configuring the File Manager and an option for configuring the Web Browser. It is the first of these that you need to select. Now I know this description is as vague as my last one, but maybe someone on the mailing list will read this and go "Yeah I know what he's going on about the name of teh programme is and what you do is " In the mean time I'll check the Linux box tonight and write it all down for you. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Aaron deRozario Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 --
Re: [newbie] newbie questions :)
I have no idea about the keyboard. but the StarOffice executable is located in usr/local/Office51/bin/ and it's called soffice. El mar, 17 ago 1999, escribiste: Hi there, 1. I'm using the KDE environment, and whenever I type e-mail addresses, the @ key isn't where it should be on a UK keyboard. I now have to pressshift '2', instead of shift '. Running setup and changing to a UK setup doesnt make any different...anyone with any ideas? 2. When I installed Staroffice, I used to corrent commands(i think), but I can't activate the program. What do I do? I installed it and it went into the usr/local directory. Thanks a lot for any help. Best regards, Paul Hendrick
RE: [newbie] KDE Messed up
Just had a quick look at the screenshots on the KDE home page. The programme I am talking about is the KDE Control Centre. It can be launched from the panel or from the "K" button. Once it is started you should be able to find teh section I was telling you about (Login Manager). THe name might not be the same but it is self-explanatory. Unless you are logged in as root, it will not give you access. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Aaron deRozario Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Cooker updates broke my kde menus
As for your main problem i am unsure... but i noticed in a config i was playing with earlier that you can have up to 15 partitions or /dev/hda1 through /dev/hda15 was in there.. i am unsure if it is limited to scsi or ide or both.. Ty Mixon wrote: I just went and grabbed loads of cooker updates (playing around, hoping I don't have to reinstall, but hey - that's half the fun). Anyway, my kde menus no longer work. All the choices are still there, but if I click them nothing happens. If I go into my $HOME/.kde and manually click each lnk file that will start the applications. I have to go back and get some more things to update my kdebase files (doing it now) but if anyone has an idea how to fix this (short of going in and manually editing ALL those files) I'd love to hear it. One other problem - I took over some space on my Windows HD and now I can't mount the last partition. I used cfdisk to partion it into 3 (fat16/Linux/Linux). I then used WinNT to format the fat16 and mkfs to make the file system on the two Linux partitions. I mounted the fat16 and the one of the new partitions just fine. But the other tells me bad superblock or too many partitions mounted. I used efsck to check it, and it's good. I have 7 hard drive partitions mounted, plus the floppy and CD-ROM on auto and /dev/pts. Is there a limit to the number of partitions? And if so, how do I get around it? TIA, -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713
Re: [newbie] Trashed Linux installation
What kind of errors are you getting? I got a bunch of I-node table errors. Since I've been working on it (reinstallations), I don't have them anymore. I guess what I'm looking for is a way to boot from a floppy without depending on a wrecked installation. All I need to do is fix the disk. Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ: 35256413 ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell
[newbie] Need path help with NFS (or FTP) install
First of all, major thanks to Wilhlem and Matt for the help they gave me making a boot floppy. Telling me about rawrite changed everything - mucho appreciated. Now, I have 2 machines networked (one of which has an ADSL to the Net), and I have Mandrake 6.0 downloaded to one (a pure Win98 machine - no Linux), and I want to install Mandrake on the other machine. The obvious choice is an NFS install, so I boot up the machine I want Linux on with bootnet.img, and take it from there. I's dead easy - kudos Mandrake! The only problem is, when I specify the IP and directory where Mandrake is, it doesn't work. I get a very general error back saying it couldn't mount that directory on that server. I thought the problem might be that I was saying C:\ instead of hda/, so I tried the latter, as well as /hda/ and other variants (I don' tknow Unix so at that point I was flailing). Stuck, I figured rather than limp about for hours I'd suck it up and do an FTP install instead - since I have ADSL I figured it'd be doable. but I got the same problem - it didn't like the IP/path combo. The FTP path was quite a bit of guesswork - it's unclear to me precisely what path is expected. I tried several combos but to no avail. Is there anyone who has experience with doing an NFS install from Windows, or an FTP isntall, who can tell me what my problem is? Also, a suggestion for Mandrake - I like the install, but I could really benefit from some more detailed error info. I'd like to know whether the problem is my path, or I'm not reaching the Itnernet, or something else. Thanks! Chris
Re: [newbie] About other unices
I have tried Solaris for Intel and Sco Unix and neither is very good for a desktop OS. Haven't tried FreeBsd but have heard good things about it. Sco and Solaris are both more difficult fo configure than Linux and the hardware support is much more limited. You have not had fun until you try to setup Solaris to dial into the internet and try to download a compiler since Sun doesn't give you one and you can't install any software to use it without it. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Lorenzo Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:10 AM Subject: [newbie] About other unices Hi all. Being sometime here and reading about which distribution of Linux is best, and talking about if Linux is for the average user, I want to talk of what do you think about other flavors of unix. What do you think about FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org/internet.html ). They have linux apps compability. Do you think is better to switch (Mandrake has many problems with the hardware). Just to make conversation, not flames! Lorenzo
Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up
Press your.. ahem.. non-start key.. the geared K one at lower left go to KDE control centerapplications...login manager..sessions..then i believe you want to choose console only R Reed Murray Strome wrote: Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] Re-installed Win98 - Lost LILO -- How to re-install????
An easy solution is to put your linux cdrom in, re-boot and then run an upgrade instead of install. You can then re-configure your lilo boot at the appropriate prompt. This is fast and simple Rick "mulerider" Murphy
Re: [newbie] Need path help with NFS (or FTP) install
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I want to install Mandrake on the other machine. The obvious choice is an NFS install, so I boot up the machine I want Linux on with bootnet.img, The problem with an NFS install is that the machine with the files must be configured as an NFS server. This is possible with 95/98, but it requires extra software (like Omni NFS Enterprise, available from tucows). Same problem for an FTP install. You can download free FTP server software for 95/98, and install it. Once it's installed, make the directory with Mandrake accessible, and use that as the directory for the installation. Of course, you could do an FTP install from one of the ftp sites, but you'd need its IP address first.
[newbie] Mandrake v. Red Hat - How close is close?
I just told a Unix guy I know I was going to try and use Mandrake for doing some Web serving. He told me that he doesn't know that much about Linux, but that he'd heard Red Hat was the way to go for serving, because their socket layers were better. I imagine this is a debatable claim, but that's neither here nor there. I'm writing, because my understanding is that mandrake is just Red Hat with a better install program and some other stuff, but that the underlying code is identical. My friend's comment, though, made me want to question this. So is the only difference between REd Hat and Mandrake 'packaging', or am I wrong? Thanks, Chris
Re: [newbie] Trashed Linux installation
On 17 Aug, Andy Goth wrote: What kind of errors are you getting? I got a bunch of I-node table errors. Since I've been working on it (reinstallations), I don't have them anymore. I guess what I'm looking for is a way to boot from a floppy without depending on a wrecked installation. All I need to do is fix the disk. Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ: 35256413 ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Success is a disease; it can make smart people think they can't lose." -- Bill Gates, on why IBM is going down (as seen in Pirates of Silicon Valley) ,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,__,.-"``"-.,_ "Down with big brother!" -- George Orwell Look at Tom's root boot disk: http://toms.net/rb/ -- -Matt Stegman
Re: [newbie] Need path help with NFS (or FTP) install
Whoops on my part- I thought the "bootnet" image would have an option to do an SMB install... that's the protocol Windows uses to share directories, not NFS or FTP. Windows does not inherently support either of those protocols; you'll need to download a third-party server. If you have PWS (Personal Web Server) installed on Windows 98, you can use the HTTP protocol to install Mandrake. If you right-click on the directory, there should be an option called "Web Sharing" (assuming PWS is installed). You can then share the directory as, say, "mandrake". Then boot the other computer off the floppy, choose "HTTP" when asked, and when asked for the server, type the Windows machine's hostname (the name that appears in "Network Neighborhood" and /mandrake is the path. If you don't have PWS installed, it is on your Windows 98 CD, under /add-ons/pws. -- -Matt Stegman On 17 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, major thanks to Wilhlem and Matt for the help they gave me making a boot floppy. Telling me about rawrite changed everything - mucho appreciated. Now, I have 2 machines networked (one of which has an ADSL to the Net), and I have Mandrake 6.0 downloaded to one (a pure Win98 machine - no Linux), and I want to install Mandrake on the other machine. The obvious choice is an NFS install, so I boot up the machine I want Linux on with bootnet.img, and take it from there. I's dead easy - kudos Mandrake! The only problem is, when I specify the IP and directory where Mandrake is, it doesn't work. I get a very general error back saying it couldn't mount that directory on that server. I thought the problem might be that I was saying C:\ instead of hda/, so I tried the latter, as well as /hda/ and other variants (I don' tknow Unix so at that point I was flailing). Stuck, I figured rather than limp about for hours I'd suck it up and do an FTP install instead - since I have ADSL I figured it'd be doable. but I got the same problem - it didn't like the IP/path combo. The FTP path was quite a bit of guesswork - it's unclear to me precisely what path is expected. I tried several combos but to no avail. Is there anyone who has experience with doing an NFS install from Windows, or an FTP isntall, who can tell me what my problem is? Also, a suggestion for Mandrake - I like the install, but I could really benefit from some more detailed error info. I'd like to know whether the problem is my path, or I'm not reaching the Itnernet, or something else. Thanks! Chris
Re: [newbie] Linux drive disappeared!
Caymen wrote: It is just Microsofts way of saying that WINDOWS is the ONLY OS to have. Tom Ken Wilson wrote: Windows will not recognize your Linux partitions. Also, your drive designation in Windows is not arbitrary. If you remove a drive it once had by partitioning it for another file system it will just redesignate the drives that are left, keeping them in alphabetic sequence. I think it's a good thing. My linux system works. I don't want MS messing with somethings not broke. If I could access my Linux partitions with MS, I bet it would brake them. I recently installed Be, and Be sees the linux partitions, haven't tried to access them yet.. BeOS seems to me to be some sort of 'nix. === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Re-installed Win98 - Lost LILO -- How to re-install????
Rick Murphy wrote: An easy solution is to put your linux cdrom in, re-boot and then run an upgrade instead of install. You can then re-configure your lilo boot at the appropriate prompt. This is fast and simple Rick "mulerider" Murphy Yea, I did this with RH 5.2. Worked fine. -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
RE: [newbie] Mandrake v. Red Hat - How close is close?
My understanding is that the main difference is packageing. Having said that Red Hat 6.0 uses a different kernel (2.2.5 I think). Mandrake uses 2.2.9 which has a few security problems in it. On the Mandrake updates page it says that you need to upgrade the kernel in order to prevent a potential network security flaw. IF you are not going to be using a GUI (KDE integration is teh most noticeable difference between the two diatributions) it probably doesn't matter which one you use. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 12:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake v. Red Hat - How close is close? I just told a Unix guy I know I was going to try and use Mandrake for doing some Web serving. He told me that he doesn't know that much about Linux, but that he'd heard Red Hat was the way to go for serving, because their socket layers were better. I imagine this is a debatable claim, but that's neither here nor there. I'm writing, because my understanding is that mandrake is just Red Hat with a better install program and some other stuff, but that the underlying code is identical. My friend's comment, though, made me want to question this. So is the only difference between REd Hat and Mandrake 'packaging', or am I wrong? Thanks, Chris
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
Thanks for the info, I've beating my head against a wall for a week now. I won't be hosting websites, but it will be doing file/printer/email/internet routing. I'll just adjust the files accordingly. Did you mount "/usr" , "usr/src",and "/usr/local" within the "/" partition? How about a "/tmp"? Vic Brett Jones wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, you wrote: Would the same parameters hold true for a server? Vic I've got a server with 1 4.5 gig SCSI drive, and 1 8.4 gig IDE drive. This is what it's tables looks like. 4.5 /boot 20 m / 850 m /var400 m /home 600 m /home/httpd 1500 m /home/ftp bal. 8.4 /home/httpd/vhost bal. This box is going to host web sites for myself, and hopefully many others. This partition table is what made sense to me, I'm sure others have there own ideas. -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[newbie] Ethernet Question (was 10/100 Ethernet)
I have a simple three user ethernet at home, and all is well. I just have on question concerning speed. I have 10/100 baseT NIC`s and a 10baseT hub. I know that the speed will only go as fast as the hub, but is seems realy slow. For instance, it takes around 8 minutes to transfer 425 megs. And the thing is, these computers are in my room, at the max only 15 feet apart. In a week they have to be more than 200 feet apart. Whats the hold up ? They are all good computers too. (PII`s) thanks jerrud
[newbie] Taking the plunge..
OK folks: I now have Linux working except for my sound card or SCSI stuff but the main part of the system is at least stable enough for me to poke around. I don't really know what to do with it all except for play some of the new fangled games. Anyway, there's a huge class coming to town teaching Unix and Linux. It's $1000 for 2 8 hour classes with tons of hands-on labs. Now, I can get around DOS and consider myself a quick learner, especially with computers, so I'm not really concerned with sensory overload in a long class like this. Does anyone have an opinion on whether the price is reasonable or should I look elsewhere for some really in-depth quick training? They are also offering another 2 day course right after the first one for the same price. Their web page for the course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=640 and the Level II course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=670 Any opinions would be appreciated. Toby PS: If anyone remembers about a week ago a gentleman offered to mail me his external modem for free since I had a winmodem that would not run under Linux. Well, I got it yesterday. I didn't save his email so I don't know who it was but THANK YOU! ...and I *will* pass it on to someone else for free once I have purchased a new USR 56K. Petey wrote: Is there any support for DVD kits with MPEG-2 cards within Linux? If so, what brands are Linux compatible? If not, will there be any support in the near future, say in the 2.4 kernel? Thanks for the help. Jason Peterson
[newbie] Taking the plunge..
OK folks: I now have Linux working except for my sound card or SCSI stuff but the main part of the system is at least stable enough for me to poke around. I don't really know what to do with it all except for play some of the new fangled games. Anyway, there's a huge class coming to town teaching Unix and Linux. It's $1000 for 2 8 hour classes with tons of hands-on labs. Now, I can get around DOS and consider myself a quick learner, especially with computers, so I'm not really concerned with sensory overload in a long class like this. Does anyone have an opinion on whether the price is reasonable or should I look elsewhere for some really in-depth quick training? They are also offering another 2 day course right after the first one for the same price. Their web page for the course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=640 and the Level II course is at http://db.globalknowledge.com/catalog/course.asp?course=670 Any opinions would be appreciated. Toby PS: If anyone remembers about a week ago a gentleman offered to mail me his external modem for free since I had a winmodem that would not run under Linux. Well, I got it yesterday. I didn't save his email so I don't know who it was but THANK YOU! ...and I *will* pass it on to someone else for free once I have purchased a new USR 56K.
[newbie] Viruses?
I was just wondering: Is Linux susceptible to the same virii that Windoze is? T
Re: [newbie] Need path help with NFS (or FTP) install
Thanks for the NFS tip Dan - i didn't realize that. I downloaded Omni, but I couldn't get it to help me. I ended upo resorting to an FTP install from a remote site. Not the fastest thing in the world, but it seems to be working. Actually, as it turns out, I just needed the FTP host name - not the IP address. Thanks for the help! Chris At 08:28 PM 8/17/99 -0700, you wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I want to install Mandrake on the other machine. The obvious choice is an NFS install, so I boot up the machine I want Linux on with bootnet.img, The problem with an NFS install is that the machine with the files must be configured as an NFS server. This is possible with 95/98, but it requires extra software (like Omni NFS Enterprise, available from tucows). Same problem for an FTP install. You can download free FTP server software for 95/98, and install it. Once it's installed, make the directory with Mandrake accessible, and use that as the directory for the installation. Of course, you could do an FTP install from one of the ftp sites, but you'd need its IP address first.
