[newbie] CD Installation
Hi, Managed to successfully loose the contents of all my HD's the other night, and whilst i re-installed everything in the end i have a couple of questions. I have a 2x4x CDRW as my Secondry master (hdc) and a 5x32x DVD as my secondry slave (hdd). Obviously i wanted to install usinmg the DVD drive as it's way quicker, but try as i might i couldn't get the Mandrake install to find it. Is this because it's a DVD or is it just default that when a CD isn't found in HDC it doesn't bother looking at HDD. Could my install think it's a hard disk as on bootup i get 'starting hard disk optimizations' for hda, hdb AND hdd !! If either of my ussumptions are correct, can this behaviour be overridden with any options in LILO ? Thanks again !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files
Alan Schussman wrote: Ken and John- Thanks for the feedback. You may be right, John; regardless of how I try to set the mount, it won't let anybody but root write to it. I certainly understand the logic of not corrupting the DOS file system, but such a hard-and-fast prevention seems to short-circuit any benefit of being able to access the partition at all. It's pretty inconvenient to have to su in order to copy shared files to my windows partition, but if that's what I have to do, well I guess that's what I have to do. What you want to use is the 'umask=' option on the /etc/fstab line. Check the manpage for information on what it does. I'd include the full line for you, but I don't have any fat/vfat partitions to try it out on. Hopefully someone on the list can take a look at the option and let you know what the value should be. On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote: mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/dos (replace hdax with the device where your DOS partition is.) It works fine for me, with one exception: the directory to which I mount my windows partition is only writeable by root, even if I chmod it after I mount the partition. Has anybody experienced that? Umm...yeah that's for a good reason. :-) If you aren't careful you can corrupt your DOS file system, at least that's what I suspect is the reason for disallowing anyone but "root" to write to the dos partition. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] netscape defaults
pete moss wrote: is there a default prefs file for netscape? i have configured mine to open to messenger, and to bring up a blank page in navigator. however, everytime i open netscape, i get navigator opening to the mandrake help page. anyone know how to get rid of this? i have looked at preferences.js in ~/.netscape and the settings are correct there, they just arent loading up. :P Edit /usr/bin/netscape and remove the part where it talks about HOMEPAGE. That should do it. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Wine Documentation
- Original Message - From: Doug Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 6:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Wine Documentation Does anyone know where I can find documentation on Wine? At the WINE web site. At the Linux Documentation Project. man wine on your system There is a WINE usenet group also. Serach DejaNews for a specific problem. Hoyt
Re: [newbie] linux 6.0 instalation question
- Original Message - From: Jan Herbert To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 6:18 PM Subject: [newbie] linux 6.0 instalation question Hello, I just picked up linux 6.0, and I want to know if I can install linux on a 4 gig partition that I already created on an 8.4 gig drive?Windows is also installed on the other partition of that drive. Yes and No. You shoudl install Linux on a partition formatted with the ext2 filesystem, not the fat filesystem that DOS/WIndows uses. During the install, use DiskDruid to delete the fat-formatted 4 gig partition, then create a 128 MB Linux swap partition and then create a partiton named / for the remaining disk space. Hoyt
[newbie] MS Linux?
Check this out. Kinda scarey. Johnhttp://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/coverstory19990830.html
Re: [newbie] Boot probs.
- Original Message - From: Tom Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 4:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Boot probs. In the wee hours this morning I snuck Linux on my wife's Win 95 machine. I used System Commander to keep things safe, got Linux up and running, but now I can't boot linux. Win95 is still fine and bootable so my life is spared for now. However, all I get when I select Linux from system commander's menu is LIL. I know this is for diagnostic purposes, so what does it mean, and where should I go from here? Please help or my next email will be from tom@doghouse! Many thanks, Tom Use your Linux boot floppy to boot Linux. Then at the command prompt, give the command "lilo" without the quotes. Remove the floppy and run whatever youneed to to set up System Commander. Didn't make a boot floppy? Boot from the linux install floppy and choose Upgrade. When you get to the prompt about a boot floppy, make it and then later choose to put lilo on the Linux partition, not the MBR. This latter step can also fix your problem. Hoyt
[newbie] Mounting Ext Partition
Can anyone tell me how to mount my D drive (vfat) it is an extended patition in Windows. My C is hda1 and can I mount it without problems. Am not sure what to "name" D in fstab. TIA! John Connell
Re: [newbie] netscape defaults
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, pete moss wrote: is there a default prefs file for netscape? i have configured mine to open to messenger, and to bring up a blank page in navigator. however, everytime i open netscape, i get navigator opening to the mandrake help page. anyone know how to get rid of this? i have looked at preferences.js in ~/.netscape and the settings are correct there, they just arent loading up. :P --Well, I'm sure to suffer a flaming death for this statement, but what I found to work best is to uninstall Netscape, and go about your life! I had nothing but crashes and multiple other problems with it in any and all the distros I've tried. (I'm currently using Mandrake 6 and absolutely love it). The KDE mail, news, and browser all work great and I found no real need for Netscape anyway. It was slow and problematic for me when it _did_ work at all and on several occasions even caused me to have to reinstall Linux (although, a more experienced user could probably have repaired the situation). Anyway, just my two cents worth...Please be merciful. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand. -- Benny Hill**
Re: [newbie] netscape defaults
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, pete moss wrote: is there a default prefs file for netscape? i have configured mine to open to messenger, and to bring up a blank page in navigator. however, everytime i open netscape, i get navigator opening to the mandrake help page. anyone know how to get rid of this? i have looked at preferences.js in ~/.netscape and the settings are correct there, they just arent loading up. :P --Well, I'm sure to suffer a flaming death for this statement, but what I found to work best is to uninstall Netscape, and go about your life! I had nothing but crashes and multiple other problems with it in any and all the distros I've tried. (I'm currently using Mandrake 6 and absolutely love it). The KDE mail, news, and browser all work great and I found no real need for Netscape anyway. It was slow and problematic for me when it _did_ work at all and on several occasions even caused me to have to reinstall Linux (although, a more experienced user could probably have repaired the situation). Anyway, just my two cents worth...Please be merciful. David P. Greenberg David, Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with netscape ended when I went to 4.61. I think you will find that not all web sites will open with KDE's broswer. I look forward to seeing the browser improved with the next reincarnation of mandrake. Rick "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
[newbie] Linux and modems
I am having a hard time figuring out how to set up multiple modems on a linux box. Does anyone know how I can install 2 modems on one linux box?
Re: [newbie] MS Linux?
That is somewhat scary. It reminds me what Gates said few weeks ago. The secret of MS success, is the stupidity of other company's, and that he would destroy MS if he would take over another company very fast. But to takeover Linux movement, it's a long shot at best, I think. Like linux doesn't belong to Red Hat, it will be hard to belong to any company. Al the best, George
[newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake 5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake updates does not work. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this keeping in mind I am a newbie who is trying but is becoming very discouraged. If someone could guide me through the steps to fix this I think I can do it. PLEASE. TIA, Jeanette
Re: [newbie] netscape defaults
Rick Murphy wrote: Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with netscape ended when I went to 4.61. I think you will find that not all web sites will open with KDE's broswer. I look forward to seeing the browser improved with the next reincarnation of mandrake. It's true that Netscape sucks - can't wait for Opera (www.operasoftware.com) to release their Linux version. Anyway, you don't need all 3 parts - you need netscape-common and then either netscape-navigator or netscape-communicator, not both of these. The difference between these two is that Communicator has the mail/news client, while Navigator does not.
Re: [newbie] netscape defaults
- Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 8:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] netscape defaults On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, pete moss wrote: is there a default prefs file for netscape? i have configured mine to open to messenger, and to bring up a blank page in navigator. however, everytime i open netscape, i get navigator opening to the mandrake help page. anyone know how to get rid of this? i have looked at preferences.js in ~/.netscape and the settings are correct there, they just arent loading up. :P --Well, I'm sure to suffer a flaming death for this statement, but what I found to work best is to uninstall Netscape, and go about your life! I had nothing but crashes and multiple other problems with it in any and all the distros I've tried. (I'm currently using Mandrake 6 and absolutely love it). The KDE mail, news, and browser all work great and I found no real need for Netscape anyway. It was slow and problematic for me when it _did_ work at all and on several occasions even caused me to have to reinstall Linux (although, a more experienced user could probably have repaired the situation). Anyway, just my two cents worth...Please be merciful. David P. Greenberg David, Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with netscape ended when I went to 4.61. I think you will find that not all web sites will open with KDE's broswer. I look forward to seeing the browser improved with the next reincarnation of mandrake. Rick "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB Rick hit it on the nose. I'm assuming that David was using former versions of Netscape which were still buggy. Netscape 4.61 is stable. One thing though, you don't need all three Netscape rpms. You definitely need netscape-common, but besides that, you only need netscape-navigator if you just want the browser, or netscape-communicator if you want the full suite (browser, mail/news reader, and Composer). So if you do get it from updates, it's just two files. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] TrueType Fonts
This didnt work. I am using an X server that i got from glide.xxedgexx.com for my voodoo3 card.. will this affect the TrueType font support at all? Other than that nothing is really different from a typical mandrake 6 installation Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Justin Fisher wrote: Excuse the post as i know that there already was a post of the same topic a few days ago.. however i deleted my mail folder.. and i dont have any of threads left. My question is: How do i go about getting TrueType fonts to work in mandrake 6? First, create a directory for the fonts: mkdir /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF Copy the TTF fonts you want to use into that directory: cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/. Create the fonts.scale file needed for xfs: cd /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF /usr/sbin/ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale ln -s fonts.scale fonts.dir Tell the X font server to use the new fonts: chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF Restart the X font server: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart The fonts are now available! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Wine configuration?
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote: Laurie wrote: you can run windows programs under linux? I know I sound stupid but I miss photoshop badly. WINE is rather limited in what it can run and run successfully. A better (though more expensive option) might be VMWare (http://www.vmware.com). It allows you to run Windows within Linux at a usable speed. Photoshop should work wonderfully with it. Wondering if I can run Agent32 under WINE? I've got a fully-registered, legitimate copy of Agent32 and I'd like to run it under Linux. :-) Thanks... John
[newbie] Re:Mounting Extended vfat Partition
The question I posted earlier in regards to mounting my ext vfat partition in Win.nevermind, I figured it out. Just changed my hdax to hda5 and mounted, no problem. Thanks anyway! John Connell
RE: [newbie] What's wrong with this???
I don't think I can help with the stray "0:", however, I can help you with the slocate file. Clean it up and it may fix your "0:", seeing as the two processes seem to run one behind the other. The message "line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file" is generated by a stray eof character (0A hex)near the end of /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron. Use a hex editor and go to what should be line 6, you will see two eof characters in very close proximity. Replace the second last one with a space character (20 hex). Get rid of your cron script wakeup.cron and start over. Cron entries are not meant to be installed or edited directly. Read the man page for crontab, that's what you should be using to add anything you want done on a scheduled basis. If you do need to edit use 'crontab -e'. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 4:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] What's wrong with this??? snip /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file /etc/cron.daily/wakeup.cron: 0: command not found /etc/cron.daily/wakeup.cron~: 0: command not found Below is the cron job itself: # Cron script to (hopefully) play an MP3 file to wake me up in the mornings # at 6:00 AM Monday through Friday # 0 6 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/mpg123 "/home/john/taco-puttin_on_the_ritz.mp3" Ok...my question is as follows: What the heck is the problem? I do NOT have the "0:" in there (I *used* to, but I removed it yesterday.) Where did the system get that "0:"??? Do I need to reboot in order to get changes to "take"??? Thanks...
[newbie] Fatal Error after Startx command
Hi, I'm using the linux-mandrake luinx 6.0 operating system, and installed it yesterday. I'm new to linux and think that I installed the KDM gui interface. At my user $prompt I entered startx and get this error message: Fatal Server Error: Cannot establish any listining sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running. Please let me know if there is something I need to add. Thanks for your help
Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake 5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake updates does not work. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this keeping in mind I am a newbie who is trying but is becoming very discouraged. If someone could guide me through the steps to fix this I think I can do it. download the new kernel RPMs (I think it's up to 2.2.9-27) and the initscripts RPMs. Install these and it SHOULD take care of the problem for you. You will need to add the new kernel to your /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo to update it and then reboot. John
Re: [newbie] Wine Documentation
Steve Philp wrote: Doug Reid wrote: Does anyone know where I can find documentation on Wine? www.winehq.com If you have 6.0 installed and the mans also, just do man wine and will get detailed info on what it is, how to install etc...
Re: [newbie] True quality!
Steve Philp wrote: Just caught this tidbit in the Linux Today press releases and thought it should be brought to everyone's attention. Mandrake seems to have "won" the quality award with their 6.0 release. LSL's upcoming "Linux Update" CD contains all the released updates for the major distributions. Their release shows Mandrake having the FEWEST UPDATES! Congrats to the Mandrake team! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes congrats, indeed. I started using linux 4 months ago, and well I was using red hat, and I was not pleased at all. I switched to Mandrake 6.0, and well, since then. I feel like support has been better (with this mailing list), updates are known once they come out, with their detailed updates web page, and overall performance is excellent:) Keep up the good work Mandrake team
Re: [newbie] PPP/InterNet Connectivity - What fixed it, but I don't know why or how...
Steve Philp wrote: That "gentleman" was me. In your original message, you had written that you were trying to get a 6.0 SPARC system up and running. Does Mandrake ship a SPARC version now? As for my "useless comments", I'm pretty sure you just ended up on the bad side of the average. I'm generally helpful when people post questions that actually apply to the list at hand. Congratulations on getting your system up and running. And for why it probably didn't work the first install: you probably chose 'default route' for the Ethernet configuration which conflicts with bringing up PPP. When PPP starts, it attempts to set it's interface for the default route, rightfully so. If you've already got a default route, the attempt fails and you get what you got -- a working connection, but nothing working. No amount of resolv.conf tuning is going to help that. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Mandrake 6.0 does not ship sparc from what I can remember. They have more info of that on their home page, if I am not mistaken they are planning on a release, but I do not know if it will be 6.0 and or in the near future.
[newbie] Updating Linux
I'm using Mandrake 6.0 and have been having trouble updating Netscape 4.6 to 4.61. I've tried to update using the update icon in KDE and everytime the same error message appears after it has downloaded approx. 5.12 megs. I selected the 2 necessary files (common and communicator) and while downloading the status window shows nothing is happening and yet when I go to the kppp dialer status it clearly shows that it is downloading. The error message says the following...An error occured while fetching file netscape-common-4.61 stable-1mdk.i586.rpm...Of which I can click on a skip button. I've searched the archives and have not found this problem so any help would be greatly appreciated. Lawrence -- Experience the Outdoors Naturally!
Re: [newbie] Networkd Card Probs.
Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: TJ McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 2:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Networkd Card Probs. I have a Linksys16 nic much like your card with support for rj45 and bnc. In order to use coax I had to boot to dos and run a setup program to set the card to bnc. You might have to do the same. For linksys network cards, the set your network card to tulip compatible. Unless linksys finaly came out with drivers
Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
Jeanette Russo wrote: After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake 5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake updates does not work. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this keeping in mind I am a newbie who is trying but is becoming very discouraged. If someone could guide me through the steps to fix this I think I can do it. PLEASE. TIA, Jeanette Jeanette, I had many of the same problems you are experiencing with file systems and PPP connections dying until I installed all of the Mandrake 6.0 updates. The problem was that I could not get my PPP connection working until the updates were installed, so I could not download the updates from Linux using the Mandrake Update utility, a catch 22. What I ended up doing was downloading the updates from Windows, then mounting the Windows partition from Linux and copying the update RPMs across to Linux and then installing them. After that I was able to configure everything and it all worked! Hope this helps. I'm a Linux newbie too ( been running Mandrake 6.0 for about 3 weeks ) so maybe some others have more specific solutions for you. I was frustrated getting 6.0 installed too, but it's really great once you get everything working, so don't give up! -- Scott Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Running Linux Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
Scott Miller wrote: Jeanette Russo wrote: After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake 5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake updates does not work. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this keeping in mind I am a newbie who is trying but is becoming very discouraged. If someone could guide me through the steps to fix this I think I can do it. PLEASE. TIA, Jeanette Jeanette, I had many of the same problems you are experiencing with file systems and PPP connections dying until I installed all of the Mandrake 6.0 updates. The problem was that I could not get my PPP connection working until the updates were installed, so I could not download the updates from Linux using the Mandrake Update utility, a catch 22. What I ended up doing was downloading the updates from Windows, then mounting the Windows partition from Linux and copying the update RPMs across to Linux and then installing them. After that I was able to configure everything and it all worked! Hope this helps. I'm a Linux newbie too ( been running Mandrake 6.0 for about 3 weeks ) so maybe some others have more specific solutions for you. I was frustrated getting 6.0 installed too, but it's really great once you get everything working, so don't give up! -- Scott Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Running Linux Mandrake 6.0 Jeanettenot long ago a contributer to one of these mdk support lists wrote that the KPPP supplied with 6.0 initializes the config file with a null for speed (even though the window in the GUI setup says 57600) and that this causes the connection to time out without anything happening. He said that to fix this just change the speed setting, save it, then if 57600 was what you wanted, go back and change it back to 57600. This made sense to me because I experienced the same symptoms and changed my setting to 115200 and that fixed my PPP connect problem (I've never changed mine back). I'll bet that it will fix yours too. Alan
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote: # mount -t umsdos /dev/[whatever-drive-and-partition-for-dos] /mnt/[whatever-directory-you-want-the-dos-partition-mounted-at] (all on one line). Negative, umsdos requires utilitys and preperation beyond just a mount command. groupadd vfat edit the fstab everyline that has vfat in it replace "defaults" with "defaults,g=vfat,umask=002" -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon OK - I tried the responses that I received to my question about mounting the fat partition. In the console, as root, I typed groupadd vfat. Then I went to my /etc/fstab file to edit the vfat lines in it except there was no mention of vfat anywhere in the file. I believe that my fat partition is hda1, but I'm not sure. That's the way it's setup in the partition tables anyway. So now my question is 1. How do I determine what the partition table looks like in Linux, I assume that my fat partition is hda1, but I'm not entirely certain. I should be able to make it work with this information. I tried several different variations on the mount command and not one of them worked, so I must be specifying the wrong partition. Thanks, Ken
Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
---Reply to mail from Jeanette Russo about [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake 5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake updates does not work. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this keeping in mind I am a newbie who is trying but is becoming very discouraged. If someone could guide me through the steps to fix this I think I can do it. PLEASE. TIA, Jeanette You need to go to the Mandrake web site and get the latest kernel and initscripts update. That will fix your problem. ---End reply -- Jonathan Dlouhy Tuesday, August 31, 1999 Microsoft - We put the "backwards" into backwards compatibility.
RE: [newbie] Im listening on some wierd tcp ports..
In some client/server relationships where they only run on one specific machine the server opens a port internally for the client to connect to. This does not necessarily mean these ports are accessible from outside I don't think. One has to remember that the client/server relationship is not exclusive to programs that use networks or the internet to communicate. Maybe someone else has another spin on this or, if Gnome is the *cuplprit*, there may be something in the Gnome documentation. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Justin Fisher Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Im listening on some wierd tcp ports.. Okay, wierd, they are in use by GNOME's panel and other panel applets... why do they listen on a port that accepts connections from anything? and why do they need to listen at all.. hmm i guess its like remotely configureable or something maybe. Somebody know? Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: lsof -i On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Justin Fisher wrote: a piece of `netstat -a` tcp0 0 *:3446 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:3384 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:3380 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:3379 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:3378 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:3377 *:* LISTEN Whats on those??? Justin Fisher: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 5.0 for LINUX
There is nothing called "realplay" anywhere in my system, nor anything that looks close! Murray John Connell wrote: Should be in /usr/bin/realplay John - Original Message - From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LINUX Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 2:00 AM Subject: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 5.0 for LINUX I should have been paying more attention to previous listings, but I couldn't get my sound card working at all till today. I have I am using Mandrake 6.0. Of the versions of RealPlayer that were listed, it looked to me as if the Red Hat 5.2 version was the most likely to be the proper one. As instructed, I changed the name from rv50_redhat5xi386_rpm to rv50_redhat5xi386.rpm then typed rpm -i rv50_redhat5xi386.rpm (logged in as root) I got no error messages (nor any other messages), so I assume it installed somewhere. However, I don't know where it is, nor what it is called. So how do I get it to work now, or have I done something wrong? Thanks for your help. 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] TrueType Fonts
Justin Fisher wrote: This didnt work. I am using an X server that i got from glide.xxedgexx.com for my voodoo3 card.. will this affect the TrueType font support at all? Other than that nothing is really different from a typical mandrake 6 installation It's possible, I don't know how much hacking Red Hat / Mandrake have done on the .rpm's for X. Here's what you can try... You'll need to use some information from /etc/X11/fs/config, so: cp /etc/X11/fs/config ~/xfsstuff Then edit ~/xfsstuff to delete out everything but the set of lines that starts with catalogue=: catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo Delete the catalogue= part leaving just: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo Then prepend "FontPath " to the front of all those lines and put "'s around the paths: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled", FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled", FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled", FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc", FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1", FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" Now edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and replace the existing FontPath with the stuff that you created in ~/xfsstuff (how to do that will depend on your editor). Finally, you can go ahead and turn off the xfs server: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs stop chkconfig xfs off Give X another try! On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Justin Fisher wrote: Excuse the post as i know that there already was a post of the same topic a few days ago.. however i deleted my mail folder.. and i dont have any of threads left. My question is: How do i go about getting TrueType fonts to work in mandrake 6? First, create a directory for the fonts: mkdir /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF Copy the TTF fonts you want to use into that directory: cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/. Create the fonts.scale file needed for xfs: cd /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF /usr/sbin/ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale ln -s fonts.scale fonts.dir Tell the X font server to use the new fonts: chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF Restart the X font server: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart The fonts are now available! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting
Westbrook wrote: Hi All, I just purchased a nice computer with a large HD. I also purchased System Commander for the purpose of dual booting between Win 98 and Linux. I have Caldera 2.2, RedHat 6.0, and Mandrake 6. I have not had very good luck setting any of them up in a dual boot environment. I have managed to set them all up but they destroy my Win98 setup in the process (4 different times). Actually the Partitions are still there but they have been converted to "non-dos" partitions. Sounds like you installed Linux into the Windows partitions. Does the advice "Don't do that!" go without saying? :) Is there anyone out there who could take the time and help me figure out what I am doing wrong? Again, I can set Linux up to run properly (or at least it appears to run properly), I have done the basic setup several times. My question is "how can I do it and keep my Windows?" Just make sure to use a portion of your drive that doesn't belong to Linux. During installation, do NOT choose Server or Workstation. Opt for Custom instead so you can tell it where you want it installed. Also, System commander says something about using root super block and not the MBR. It also says this is chosen during setup, but I've missed it each time somewhere. Near the end of the installation, it will ask whether you want LILO installed on hda or hda1. Sounds like System Commander wants you to use hda1. Why use System Commander? LILO will allow you to dual-boot right out of the box. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] netscape defaults
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Pedro Timoteo wrote: Rick Murphy wrote: Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with netscape ended when I went to 4.61. I think you will find that not all web sites will open with KDE's broswer. I look forward to seeing the browser improved with the next reincarnation of mandrake. It's true that Netscape sucks - can't wait for Opera (www.operasoftware.com) to release their Linux version. Anyway, you don't need all 3 parts - you need netscape-common and then either netscape-navigator or netscape-communicator, not both of these. The difference between these two is that Communicator has the mail/news client, while Navigator does not. The reason I recommend downloading all three parts when using the mandrake update is that when I tried to download using only two of the netscape parts the installation came back with an error. When I clicked on all three there was no problem. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: [clip] I should be able to make it work with this information. I tried several different variations on the mount command and not one of them worked, so I must be specifying the wrong partition. Thanks, Ken Try the following: First, go to /mnt and create a directory "vfat" or "dos" or "windows" or some such identifier for that partition. Second, type the following EXACTLY: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/directory you just made This SHOULD work, assuming you're correct in your belief that your Dos/Windows partition is /dev/hda1. If this fails, try /dev/hda2 then /dev/hda3 and so on until it successfully mounts. The only REAL way to be sure that it's mounted is to change to the /mnt/directory and browse around after issuing the mount command. Oh, yeah...you'll need to be "root" to try this out. Once you've determined which /dev/hdxx it is, you can plug that info into fstab. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: Hi All, I just purchased a nice computer with a large HD. I also purchased System Commander for the purpose of dual booting between Win 98 and Linux. I have Caldera 2.2, RedHat 6.0, and Mandrake 6. I have not had very good luck setting any of them up in a dual boot environment. I have managed to set them all up but they destroy my Win98 setup in the process (4 different times). Actually the Partitions are still there but they have been converted to "non-dos" partitions. What kind of install did you select? Since you have System Commander (and Mandrake 6) you may also have Partition Magic. If so, use that to "squeeze" down your Windows partition, then create two more partitions (at least): 1 partition of around 50-100 megs for "swap" space, and the rest for Linux. Once you've done the re-partitioning, choose "custom" install. For custom, installing "everything" except the foreign-language "how-to" files, I found the drivespace requirements to be right at 1 GB. If you choose to install less, of course, you will use less space. Also, you should choose something OTHER than the primary Windows partition for your Linux install. Choose the other large partition for Linux (again, at least a GIG of drivespace would be highly adviseable.) You may also want to squeeze a partition in BEFORE Windows of about 10-25 megs for "/boot" (more about that later.) My experience has been with RedHat and Mandrake (which is essentially RedHat with some "extras") so I can only give you advice on those two versions of Linux. Now, if you want to use LILO, your /boot directory MUST be within the first 1025 cylinders, which is why I suggest a small partition at the head of your hard drive for the "/boot" directory. The rest of the install can go AFTER Windows. I would also strongly advise a full system backup BEFORE you do any of this...just in case. :-) Also, System commander says something about using root super block and not the MBR. It also says this is chosen during setup, but I've missed it each time somewhere. Hm.not sure what this is about unless it's about having the /boot within the first 1024 cylinders... Good luck! John
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 5.0 for LINUX
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote: There is nothing called "realplay" anywhere in my system, nor anything that looks close! Try finding a file called "rvplay" (I think the filename is.) This would indicate that you've got version 5 of RealPlayer, NOT G2. John
[newbie] Just a few questions
Hi, I've got WinE to work and I'm experimanting with what will work and what wont. But is it posible to create a shortcut on the desktop to launch an application through WinE without having to use a console? Also, when I open a window, the size isn;t right. When I resize it so I can see all of it's contents It's fine, but if I have to close it again, then re-open it, the size goes back to the default. The last thing is when I drag windows around the desktop, is there any way of disabling the function that takes it to the nearest object? I.e when I'm moving the CD player, it will be pulled toward any open windows, or the edge of the screen. Is there any way of stopping those problems? Thanks for any information. -- Best Regards, Paul Hendrick http://www.btinternet.com/~engprin1/linux.htm
Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting ~~sorry for it being solong
I use Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, and I think I might be able to help you out with that. When you first look in the manual, the tell you all about booting from the cd. This is the way I did it, and plus i didnt have to go into widows and load my hd full of crap! Ok, when the cd runs and the install starts, it will ask you if you want to do a full install on the hard drive or if you would like to make your own partitions first. choose this option. next re size your hard drive the way you lke it. make sure that you leave a small partition forr your /boot. LILO is picky about where it is. Next just choose the partitions that you would like to install to, and it will ask you if you are realy sure. make sure you are realy sure :) it does sjow you what partitions were made for linux when you did this earlier. sometimes LILO is mega picky (i mean its harsh :), and OpenLinux will boot right into windows. now this isnt about your first question, but here is how to fix it, if it does come up. boot from the yellow boot disk, and when the kernel is about to boot, hit tab. this should be done right when the caldera screen splashes up. now do this:: linux -3. now, when thats done, type in boot -lisa. this will bring you to a nice gui to to show LILO who is boss, and force it to install where you want it, and what partitions you want it to be able to boot up. just mirror the win98 partition, and that should be it realy. also install it on your MBR. its a lot easier than it sounds. sorry for this being so long jerrud
RE: [newbie] Opening Windows Files
Run the linux fdisk command on each of your harddrives, i.e. 'fdisk /dev/hda', 'fdisk /dev/hdb', etc. Don't use a partition number with the command. You will get a menu asking what you want to do next. Use the 'l' menu item to get a list of each partition and it's type on each of the disks. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote: # mount -t umsdos /dev/[whatever-drive-and-partition-for-dos] /mnt/[whatever-directory-you-want-the-dos-partition-mounted-at] (all on one line). Negative, umsdos requires utilitys and preperation beyond just a mount command. groupadd vfat edit the fstab everyline that has vfat in it replace "defaults" with "defaults,g=vfat,umask=002" -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon OK - I tried the responses that I received to my question about mounting the fat partition. In the console, as root, I typed groupadd vfat. Then I went to my /etc/fstab file to edit the vfat lines in it except there was no mention of vfat anywhere in the file. I believe that my fat partition is hda1, but I'm not sure. That's the way it's setup in the partition tables anyway. So now my question is 1. How do I determine what the partition table looks like in Linux, I assume that my fat partition is hda1, but I'm not entirely certain. I should be able to make it work with this information. I tried several different variations on the mount command and not one of them worked, so I must be specifying the wrong partition. Thanks, Ken
Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
I gave it a try and it does seem to work now, thanks Alan, Jeanette - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced Scott Miller wrote: Jeanette Russo wrote: After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake 5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake updates does not work. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this keeping in mind I am a newbie who is trying but is becoming very discouraged. If someone could guide me through the steps to fix this I think I can do it. PLEASE. TIA, Jeanette Jeanette, I had many of the same problems you are experiencing with file systems and PPP connections dying until I installed all of the Mandrake 6.0 updates. The problem was that I could not get my PPP connection working until the updates were installed, so I could not download the updates from Linux using the Mandrake Update utility, a catch 22. What I ended up doing was downloading the updates from Windows, then mounting the Windows partition from Linux and copying the update RPMs across to Linux and then installing them. After that I was able to configure everything and it all worked! Hope this helps. I'm a Linux newbie too ( been running Mandrake 6.0 for about 3 weeks ) so maybe some others have more specific solutions for you. I was frustrated getting 6.0 installed too, but it's really great once you get everything working, so don't give up! -- Scott Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Running Linux Mandrake 6.0 Jeanettenot long ago a contributer to one of these mdk support lists wrote that the KPPP supplied with 6.0 initializes the config file with a null for speed (even though the window in the GUI setup says 57600) and that this causes the connection to time out without anything happening. He said that to fix this just change the speed setting, save it, then if 57600 was what you wanted, go back and change it back to 57600. This made sense to me because I experienced the same symptoms and changed my setting to 115200 and that fixed my PPP connect problem (I've never changed mine back). I'll bet that it will fix yours too. Alan
[newbie] Kpackage install in RH 6
I have RH 6 on my laptop. It does not have Kpackage anywhere. I tried using Kpackage from Mandrake 6 but it wants libstdc++2.9mdk which I can't get to install. I forced mandrakes Kpackage in but it doesn't work. I just hate Gnome.rpm and miss kpackage. Has anyone have RH 6 with a working K package? If so how did you do it? I have tried six diff. rpms of Kpackage even SuSE and Caldera but no go even RH 5.2 and Mandrake 5.3 version. Jeanette
Re: [newbie] Wine configuration?
I got wine to run Free Agent fine, problem is thats all it did was run, didn't go get any news. They told me to update to a newer version os WINE but I never did, just gave it up. Using SLRN in Linux, now its pretty good. Jeanette - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wine configuration? On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote: Laurie wrote: you can run windows programs under linux? I know I sound stupid but I miss photoshop badly. WINE is rather limited in what it can run and run successfully. A better (though more expensive option) might be VMWare (http://www.vmware.com). It allows you to run Windows within Linux at a usable speed. Photoshop should work wonderfully with it. Wondering if I can run Agent32 under WINE? I've got a fully-registered, legitimate copy of Agent32 and I'd like to run it under Linux. :-) Thanks... John
Re: KPPP was RE: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
Aaron deRozario wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 1999 5:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced snip Jeanettenot long ago a contributer to one of these mdk support lists wrote that the KPPP supplied with 6.0 initializes the config file with a null for speed (even though the window in the GUI setup says 57600) and that this causes the connection to time out without anything happening. He said that to fix this just change the speed setting, save it, then if 57600 was what you wanted, go back and change it back to 57600. This made sense to me because I experienced the same symptoms and changed my setting to 115200 and that fixed my PPP connect problem (I've never changed mine back). I'll bet that it will fix yours too. Alan I have had a similar problem with Kppp timing out on me. Could you tell me which config file we are dealing with here? Is this config file for all dial-up connections, or is there a separate config file for each dialup account you create in Kppp? Also would 57600 be a sutiable speed for a 28.8k modem, or can I go faster? I think I used to use this speed under RH5.2 with Ezppp. Thanking you in advance Aaron Aaronactually, no I haven't a clue as to the name of the config file or how many of them there might be. My modem is a 28,800 and I have successfully used 38,400, 57,600 and 115,200 settings with both windows and Linux. Sorry I didn't have more complete answers. (-: Alan
Re: [newbie] True quality!
How is this possible? I just installed Venus paid for the real edition. My KPPP has problems. The Mandrake update doesn't work, my file system is corrupting itself by not unmounting cleanly everytime I shutdown. There are just the problems I found in the first few days. Jeanette - Original Message - From: JK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] True quality! Steve Philp wrote: Just caught this tidbit in the Linux Today press releases and thought it should be brought to everyone's attention. Mandrake seems to have "won" the quality award with their 6.0 release. LSL's upcoming "Linux Update" CD contains all the released updates for the major distributions. Their release shows Mandrake having the FEWEST UPDATES! Congrats to the Mandrake team! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes congrats, indeed. I started using linux 4 months ago, and well I was using red hat, and I was not pleased at all. I switched to Mandrake 6.0, and well, since then. I feel like support has been better (with this mailing list), updates are known once they come out, with their detailed updates web page, and overall performance is excellent:) Keep up the good work Mandrake team
Re: [newbie] Wine configuration?
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: I got wine to run Free Agent fine, problem is thats all it did was run, didn't go get any news. They told me to update to a newer version os WINE but I never did, just gave it up. Using SLRN in Linux, now its pretty good. Jeanette Hmm..thanks for the input. I just HATE to see a perfectly good version of Agent (full version) go to waste... Oh, well... maybe I'll transfer the license to my sister or something... :-) John
Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
I can't believe I have to install a kernel in my brand new install to fix this. I have no idea how to do this. I just Mandrake Soft should have fixed this in the boxed versions. This problem has been out for a long time and now I wasted $39 time and effort on Mandrake 6.0. How could this possibly be the most bug free version on Linux when you have to replace the kernal right after you install it. Jeanette - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I made the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling Mandrake 5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6 does not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake updates does not work. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this keeping in mind I am a newbie who is trying but is becoming very discouraged. If someone could guide me through the steps to fix this I think I can do it. download the new kernel RPMs (I think it's up to 2.2.9-27) and the initscripts RPMs. Install these and it SHOULD take care of the problem for you. You will need to add the new kernel to your /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo to update it and then reboot. John
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote: Can someone please explain how to mount the fat partition from Linux so that I can access all of those office files while running Linux. Or do I just need to copy them to disk and open them in SO? Thanks mount -t vfat /dev/hdax /mnt/dos (replace hdax with the device where your DOS partition is.) That SHOULD work. John Mandrake just announced that the new version will have a windows icon on the desktop. Does anyone have any idea how this will work or what it will do? Rick "mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie] True quality!
Jeanette Russo wrote: How is this possible? I just installed Venus paid for the real edition. My KPPP has problems. The Mandrake update doesn't work, my file system is corrupting itself by not unmounting cleanly everytime I shutdown. There are just the problems I found in the first few days. All known problems already dealt with in updates. 6.1 should have 'em fixed and it looks like it'll be available in a few days. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Kpackage install in RH 6
Jeanette Russo wrote: I have RH 6 on my laptop. It does not have Kpackage anywhere. I tried using Kpackage from Mandrake 6 but it wants libstdc++2.9mdk which I can't get to install. I forced mandrakes Kpackage in but it doesn't work. I just hate Gnome.rpm and miss kpackage. Has anyone have RH 6 with a working K package? If so how did you do it? I have tried six diff. rpms of Kpackage even SuSE and Caldera but no go even RH 5.2 and Mandrake 5.3 version. Jeanette Jeanettethe mdk rpm for kpackage (kpackage-1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm) is on your installation CD in the /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ directory. If it doesn't install properly with a console install, then I'd bet your original installation of mdk 6.0 had problems. I'd re-do the install if it were me. Maybe you should sit in front of the computer as it installs (have a beverage ready) and see if there are any install errors that show up. Good luck (-: Alan
Re: [newbie] netscape defaults
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Pedro Timoteo wrote: Rick Murphy wrote: Don't give up on netscape. If your using mandrake, click on the updates icons and download all three parts of netscape 4.61 at the same time. It will automatically install itself. I found that most of my problems with netscape ended when I went to 4.61. I think you will find that not all web sites will open with KDE's broswer. I look forward to seeing the browser improved with the next reincarnation of mandrake. It's true that Netscape sucks - can't wait for Opera (www.operasoftware.com) to release their Linux version. Anyway, you don't need all 3 parts - you need netscape-common and then either netscape-navigator or netscape-communicator, not both of these. The difference between these two is that Communicator has the mail/news client, while Navigator does not. --Yes I agree that Navigator alone works better than Communicator. Any way I'm in the process of following ricks advice (please exscuse me if I got the wrong poster). I reinstalled Netscape (Nav. only+common files only) and am downloading the upgrade now as we speak. We'll see. P.S. I just wanted to say that I've spent a lot of time on the NG's looking for help in learning Linux, and so far I think this list is absolutely awesome! It's really refreshing to have a forum to go to as a newbie where people are helpful without being condescending. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand. -- Benny Hill**
Re[2]: [newbie] True quality!
I've got the same problem too. For a newbie like me, it is very distressing. I have not switch on the system for a few days now as I am too busy to look into it. __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: [newbie] True quality! Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET-GATEWAY Date:8/31/99 8:19 PM How is this possible? I just installed Venus paid for the real edition. My KPPP has problems. The Mandrake update doesn't work, my file system is corrupting itself by not unmounting cleanly everytime I shutdown. There are just the problems I found in the first few days. Jeanette - Original Message - From: JK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] True quality! Steve Philp wrote: Just caught this tidbit in the Linux Today press releases and thought it should be brought to everyone's attention. Mandrake seems to have "won" the quality award with their 6.0 release. LSL's upcoming "Linux Update" CD contains all the released updates for the major distributions. Their release shows Mandrake having the FEWEST UPDATES! Congrats to the Mandrake team! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes congrats, indeed. I started using linux 4 months ago, and well I was using red hat, and I was not pleased at all. I switched to Mandrake 6.0, and well, since then. I feel like support has been better (with this mailing list), updates are known once they come out, with their detailed updates web page, and overall performance is excellent:) Keep up the good work Mandrake team
Re: [newbie] Opening Windows Files
Ken Wilson wrote: Run the linux fdisk command on each of your harddrives, i.e. 'fdisk /dev/hda', 'fdisk /dev/hdb', etc. Don't use a partition number with the command. You will get a menu asking what you want to do next. Use the 'l' menu item to get a list of each partition and it's type on each of the disks. Uhh, I think you mean 'p' rather than 'l'. 'l' gives a list of partition types. Command action a toggle a bootable flag b edit bsd disklabel c toggle the dos compatibility flag d delete a partition l list known partition types m print this menu n add a new partition o create a new empty DOS partition table p print the partition table q quit without saving changes s create a new empty Sun disklabel t change a partition's system id u change display/entry units v verify the partition table w write table to disk and exit x extra functionality (experts only)
[newbie] pine installation (related to: netscape defaults)
--Yes I agree that Navigator alone works better than Communicator. Any way I'm in the process of following ricks advice (please exscuse me if I got the wrong poster). I reinstalled Netscape (Nav. only+common files only) and am downloading the upgrade now as we speak. We'll see. i too want to just have netscape running. i have been using it for mail, but i think i want to switch to pine. i have a few questions first. does pine do message filtering? can pine read my existing netscape mail files (i have ALOT of saved mail)? what exactly do i need to install to support pine? sendmail, fetchmail, what? not sure what i need. does anyone know of a better program than pine for email that has similar features to netscape mail? P.S. I just wanted to say that I've spent a lot of time on the NG's looking for help in learning Linux, and so far I think this list is absolutely awesome! It's really refreshing to have a forum to go to as a newbie where people are helpful without being condescending. agreed. i was on another linux newbie list before that was just a bunch of newbies and one genius. on this list there are alot of semi-genius types, which makes it much easier to get problems solved. :P
[newbie] netscape: error
Scenario: When attempting to browse using netscape the following error window comes up: Netscape: error Netscape's network connection was refused by the server. The server may not be accepting connections or may be busy. Try connecting again later. Ping, FTP and mail all work fine. However if i connect using root i do not have this problem... Pointers pls. Thanks, Paul.
[newbie] Modem Troubles!
Hey everyone! Im having some terrible modem problems! My modem recently got fried by lightning... and the new one i got to replace it, turned out to be a plug-n-play modem. Well, i got the latest version (1.8) of ISAPNP. Linux sees my modem (i think). IM using KPPP to dial up my ISP, but when it initializes the modem withthe string ATZ, it waits for the response OK... it never gets it. I can go edit the modem commands, and take out the "OK" response. Now it passes the initialization, and starts to dial out. After it finishes dialing and connection, it stops at "waiting for response: CONNECT" PLEASE HELP! Whats the problem? Are the responses set wrong? Or is it something else? Thanks for your time!
RE: [newbie] Problems with dosemu
Has anybody tried to make a boot image for dosemu? I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and when I tried to create the image using 'mkdexe' (sorry I don't remember exactly the command right now, but it's in the README) the process failed. Also, the script setup-hdimage fails because it doesn't find some files/directories, so I guess the rpm included in the distribution isn't complete. Is that right? What isn't it finding? Do you have the mtools package installed? Ok, here's the output of both commands I've been talking about (sorry, some error messages are in spanish, but I think is understandable, if it is not, just let me know): COMMAND1: mkdexe myhdimage -b /dev/hda1 -o noapp OUTPUT1: 1+0 registros leídos 1+0 registros escritos /usr/bin/mkdexe: cd: /usr/commands: No existe el fichero o el directorio cp: mh: se omite el directorio cp: X11: se omite el directorio /usr/bin/mkdexe: /usr/src/tools/periph/mkfatimage16: No existe el fichero o el directorio Can't open /var/lib/dosemu/myhdimage: No existe el fichero o el directorio Cannot initialize 'W:' Can't open /var/lib/dosemu/myhdimage: No existe el fichero o el directorio Cannot initialize 'W:' Bad target W:// COMMAND2: setup-hdimage OUTPUT2: /usr/bin/setup-hdimage: /usr/bin/dexe/check-mtools: No existe el fichero o el directorio Regards, Toshiro. Ok, seems it's not being called with the correct make install command. In the mean time, heres the quick fix.. perl -p -i -e 's/\"ISBINRELEASE\"/\"1\"/' /usr/bin/mkdexe I did what you say but it didn't work :( Here's the output of both commands now (notice that the output of mkdexe is different, but the output of setup-hdimage is the same): OUTPUT1: /usr/bin/mkdexe: cd: /var/lib/dosemu/dexe: No existe el fichero o el directorio /usr/bin/mkdexe: /var/lib/dosemu/dexe/extract-dos: No existe el fichero o el dir strings: /root/.dosemu/tmp/mkdexe.680/sys/boot.bin: No existe el fichero o el directorio /usr/bin/mkdexe: cd: /var/lib/dosemu/commands: No existe el fichero o el directorio cp: mh: se omite el directorio cp: X11: se omite el directorio /root/.dosemu/tmp/mkdexe.680/sys/io.sys: No existe el fichero o el directorio /root/.dosemu/tmp/mkdexe.680/sys/msdos.sys: No existe el fichero o el directorio/root/.dosemu/tmp/mkdexe.680/sys/command.com: No existe el fichero o el directorio /root/.dosemu/tmp/mkdexe.680/sys/boot.bin: No existe el fichero o el directorio taking builtin boot sector /usr/bin/mkdexe: /var/lib/dosemu/dexe/do_mtools: No existe el fichero o el directorio error during mcopy may be you choose the size of the hdimage too small Use the -s option to give more space on the hdimage OUTPUT2: /usr/bin/setup-hdimage: /var/lib/dosemu/dexe/check-mtools: No existe el fichero o el directorio Regards, Toshiro.
Re: [newbie] True quality!
Quit bitchin, go to the mandrake site, download all the updates, and install them all. After that, if you still have troubles post it to the list. By the way the kppp and umount trouble are know issues that have been fixed (the updates), I don't know about the update tool (a tool for the true newbie, someone who has no clue how to find something out for them selves). On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: How is this possible? I just installed Venus paid for the real edition. My KPPP has problems. The Mandrake update doesn't work, my file system is corrupting itself by not unmounting cleanly everytime I shutdown. There are just the problems I found in the first few days. Jeanette - Original Message - From: JK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] True quality! Steve Philp wrote: Just caught this tidbit in the Linux Today press releases and thought it should be brought to everyone's attention. Mandrake seems to have "won" the quality award with their 6.0 release. LSL's upcoming "Linux Update" CD contains all the released updates for the major distributions. Their release shows Mandrake having the FEWEST UPDATES! Congrats to the Mandrake team! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes congrats, indeed. I started using linux 4 months ago, and well I was using red hat, and I was not pleased at all. I switched to Mandrake 6.0, and well, since then. I feel like support has been better (with this mailing list), updates are known once they come out, with their detailed updates web page, and overall performance is excellent:) Keep up the good work Mandrake team -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote: I can't believe I have to install a kernel in my brand new install to fix this. I have no idea how to do this. I just Mandrake Soft should have fixed this in the boxed versions. This problem has been out for a long time and now I wasted $39 time and effort on Mandrake 6.0. How could this possibly be the most bug free version on Linux when you have to replace the kernal right after you install it. Jeanette Jeanette: It's NOT as hard as you think it is. Good God. It's not at all hard. RTFM, and if you can't find the manual (or don't know how to read a man page) ask. Please please please, don't bitch and moan and complain when you buy software that has a bug in it that gets fixed in a mater of days, for free. The windows 98 se has a update cd out for it fixing many more problems than the few in mandrake. Plus it cost me $25 with shipping. Lets see win98 se costs me $90 wholesale and the update cost $25 Yet the piece of shit still blows up daily, and my LM6.0 box is up and running for 28 days now (since I ran the rpm -Uvh to upgrade it). The mandrake cd only cost me 29.99. One other thing, many of the updates are security updates that make your system as secure as possible. One other thing again, mandrake is not the developer of most of the packages (update tool not included), so blaming them with a bug in the kernel is not at all cool. If you don't want to learn how to use Linux to it's fullest, maybe the Mac Os would be a better choice? -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
I have had similar problems. For a whole day, every time I booted, I got the Eth0 [FAILED] message. However, the next day, no problems at all. I have no idea what is going on, other than something weird with the Cable Company Server (I did call them, and they said that they had not changed anything). Good luck. Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am unable to get my cable modem going in Mandrake. Every time it gets to the eth0 it fails. I have succesfuly installed the cable modem under RedHat 6 and had no trouble getting it going, tried the same configuration in Mandrake and it fails on the eth0 on start up. I re-installed RedHat, got it going then upgraded RH to Mandrake, didn`t work. Any suggestions? Sorry if I`m being vague but this is my first experiance with Linux! Gary -- Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2
OK I downloaded the Alpha G2. However, I have not yet uninstalled the old rvplayer (as I really don't know the correct procedure to delete it cleanly -- can you help?) Until I have deleted the old version, I will hold off on installing G2. Murray pete moss wrote: uninstall what you have and go to the website listed below to get what you want. dont go to any other page! then follow the setup directions given below and it should work right. you dont currently have the same version everyone else is talking about. :P Murray Strome wrote: I originally installed RealPlayer 5 using rpm -i package nothing seemed to happen I tried again to install it using rpm -Uvh It said that "rvplayer 5.03 is already installed" (rvplayer is in /usr/bin and is executable). I set up the preferences as you suggested. In Netscape, I get an error box: Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '" sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file OK I had earlier tried to set the application to /usr/bin/rvplayer I did not get any error message or anything, but nothing happened (at least no sound and no RealPlayer console like you get in Windows). Any suggestions? Thanks Rick Murphy wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: JK wrote: WHERE did you get G2 for Linux? The only thing I could find from Real.com was RealPlayer 5. :-( John Thats the web page you should go for the linux version of G2 http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html I can confirm that the package works well. 1) Download the package. 2) 'su' to root 3) rpm -Uvh package 4) Exit from root 5) Open Netscape 6) Click Edit, Preferences, Navigator, Applications 7) Find RealAudio and highlight it, click Edit 8) In the suffixes box, make sure it reads 'ra,ram,rm' 9) Click the Application radio button and enter 'realplay %s' 10) Click OK to close the window 11) Click OK to close the Preferences window 12) Close Netscape 13) Reopen Netscape Waa laa! RealPlayer baby! \ Was indeed, real audio is one of my favorite programs. Rick "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB -- 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: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Evil Empire]]
Is it worth it? Do we really want to pay $35 for something we already get for free? Do we want closed source when there's a big pile of Netscape code sitting there for the taking? I just don't know... Actually, I think it is worth it. And from my understanding, after reading the posts on opera's site, they are still discussing releasing the source to the public. Besides, many Mandrake users had no problems using kde before troll tech made qt free. As for netscape, I would be tickled to death to use their browser, but that code has been sitting around for quite some time, and there is still no sign of ( that I have seen ) a 5.0 release. I do agree that releasing the port as closed source would be a poor choice, but until someone releases a better alternative, then I'll shell out the 35$.
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2
use something like kpackage to uninstall it. or better yet, learn how to do it from the command line. 'man rpm' then install the new version. :P Murray Strome wrote: OK I downloaded the Alpha G2. However, I have not yet uninstalled the old rvplayer (as I really don't know the correct procedure to delete it cleanly -- can you help?) Until I have deleted the old version, I will hold off on installing G2. Murray pete moss wrote: uninstall what you have and go to the website listed below to get what you want. dont go to any other page! then follow the setup directions given below and it should work right. you dont currently have the same version everyone else is talking about. :P Murray Strome wrote: I originally installed RealPlayer 5 using rpm -i package nothing seemed to happen I tried again to install it using rpm -Uvh It said that "rvplayer 5.03 is already installed" (rvplayer is in /usr/bin and is executable). I set up the preferences as you suggested. In Netscape, I get an error box: Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '" sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file OK I had earlier tried to set the application to /usr/bin/rvplayer I did not get any error message or anything, but nothing happened (at least no sound and no RealPlayer console like you get in Windows). Any suggestions? Thanks Rick Murphy wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Steve Philp wrote: JK wrote: WHERE did you get G2 for Linux? The only thing I could find from Real.com was RealPlayer 5. :-( John Thats the web page you should go for the linux version of G2 http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html I can confirm that the package works well. 1) Download the package. 2) 'su' to root 3) rpm -Uvh package 4) Exit from root 5) Open Netscape 6) Click Edit, Preferences, Navigator, Applications 7) Find RealAudio and highlight it, click Edit 8) In the suffixes box, make sure it reads 'ra,ram,rm' 9) Click the Application radio button and enter 'realplay %s' 10) Click OK to close the window 11) Click OK to close the Preferences window 12) Close Netscape 13) Reopen Netscape Waa laa! RealPlayer baby! \ Was indeed, real audio is one of my favorite programs. Rick "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB -- 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] Modem Troubles!
Sounds like the IRQ is set incorrectly. I have no experience with ISAPNP but i know ifI don't use setserial to change it to look for my modem on IRQ 5 instead of 4 where it thinks the modem is,I get the same problems you said. Check where setserial is looking and compare it to whatever the modem is set for. Hope this helps, let me know if you need any more info, Mark - Original Message - From: Donny To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 9:38 PM Subject: [newbie] Modem Troubles! Hey everyone! Im having some terrible modem problems! My modem recently got fried by lightning... and the new one i got to replace it, turned out to be a plug-n-play modem. Well, i got the latest version (1.8) of ISAPNP. Linux sees my modem (i think). IM using KPPP to dial up my ISP, but when it initializes the modem withthe string ATZ, it waits for the response OK... it never gets it. I can go edit the modem commands, and take out the "OK" response. Now it passes the initialization, and starts to dial out. After it finishes dialing and connection, it stops at "waiting for response: CONNECT" PLEASE HELP! Whats the problem? Are the responses set wrong? Or is it something else? Thanks for your time!
[newbie] What's wrong with this???
From root Tue Aug 31 04:02:08 1999 Return-Path: root Below is a system message I got saying that there was a problem with my cron job "wakeup.cron": Received: (from root@localhost) by slave1.chattanooga.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA09914 for root; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 04:02:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 04:02:03 -0400 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@slave1 run-parts /etc/cron.daily X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/bash X-Cron-Env: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin X-Cron-Env: MAILTO=root X-Cron-Env: HOME=/ X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=root /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file /etc/cron.daily/wakeup.cron: 0: command not found /etc/cron.daily/wakeup.cron~: 0: command not found Below is the cron job itself: # Cron script to (hopefully) play an MP3 file to wake me up in the mornings # at 6:00 AM Monday through Friday # 0 6 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/mpg123 "/home/john/taco-puttin_on_the_ritz.mp3" Ok...my question is as follows: What the heck is the problem? I do NOT have the "0:" in there (I *used* to, but I removed it yesterday.) Where did the system get that "0:"??? Do I need to reboot in order to get changes to "take"??? Thanks...
