Re: [newbie] how to dual boot
Whoops- I lied. The command for step 4 should be: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/root/BOOTSECT.LIN bs=512 count=1 Of course, you still replace hda1 with your Linux partition. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to dual boot Here's what I know (I haven't tested this, but I think it will work okay): 1: Boot into Linux. 2: Edit /etc/lilo.conf such that the line "boot=" is set to "boot=/dev/hda1" (change hda1 to your linux partition). 3: Run /sbin/lilo. 4: Run the command dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/root/BOOTSECT.LIN Where you substitute your linux partition for hda1. 5: Put BOOTSECT.LIN somewhere where NT can see it- on a FAT16 partition or a floppy disk. 6: Boot to NT. 7: Copy the BOOTSECT.LIN file to C:\. 8: Edit C:\BOOT.INI (you'll have to `attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini` first.) 9: Add a section like so: C:\BOOTSECT.LIN="Linux Mandrake 6.0" 10: Save Exit. Run `attrib +s +r +h c:\boot.ini` You should be done. If things don't work out, you can "rescue" your NT install using the rescue disk set (run rdisk if you haven't got one). -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, peterwt wrote: i install both winnt4 and mandrake 6.0 on my computer. i want to use nt'boot loader to boot mandrake. how to do that? now i use a floppy disk to boot mandrake. i have tried to do so as how-tos , unfortunately it does not work. thanks in advance.
Re: [newbie]Install disk (was re: Doc)
Aaron deRozario wrote: On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over? Aaron snip Yes, I think you could use the RH 5.2 disk. All the boot disk does is provide a limited kernel which allows you to access the CD-ROM. I have never used this method, but will try it the next time I do an install. You can also boot with a DOS system disk containing the CD-ROM drivers then switch to the CD-ROM and complete the install. I have used this on several installations, and it works fine. James Mellema
Re: [newbie] How daunting is a kernel upgrade?
I would say that as long as you have a good boot disk and/or have a copy of the old kernel on the hard disk that you should go ahead and crank yourself a new kernel. I was also a little intimidated my first couple tries. After all I thought to myself, I don't want to have to re-install the whole dang operating system if I can' boot anymore ! The "toughest" part of the whole thing was running configure to set up what options you want rolled in to the kernel. And, is it better to make it part of the kernel itself or make it a loadable module? Practice makes perfect. Or, in my case, competent I think. On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi all- There's been lots of discussion here about kernel upgrades, and it seems to be a pretty daunting task to me, as a relatively new linux user but a pretty confident and competent computer user in general. My case is that I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and would like to upgrade the kernel to get rid of some of those mount/unmount errors that have been described here already. Is the best upgrade for me the one at cooker (kernel-2.2.11-2mdk.src.rpm), as opposed to the multitude of files I find at kernel.org? Is it preferable for me to stick to a Mandrake release of any given kernel? I guess what I'm looking for is a slightly more hands-on howto (I have read the kernel howtos, and what keeps me from simply following the directions is that, knowing how crucial the kernel is, I just don't want to botch it), and at this point, there seem to be an awful lot of starting places (cooker, kernel.org, the new cassini test, and so on). Those of you who are familiar with this, can you offer a little guidance? I don't need hand-holding so much as just an indication that if I, for example, start with the cooker kernel, I'll be on the right track. Thanks much- - alan / note my new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
Re: [newbie] 32 Bit Video Cards
Thanks to all! The card is now working. Paul Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/02/99 02:05:48 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] 32 Bit Video Cards -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I checked at www.iomagic.com and the 3d/ep does use a Permedia 2 chip set. I had a Diamond Fire Pro 1000 in my last PC that also used a Permedia 2. SuSE and Elisa developed the XFree86 driver for that chip set. You might need to get the RPM off of your install CD but if you have Mandrake 5.3 or 6.0 it will be there. I am on my windows notebook so I can't look up the RPM name, email me if you need it. Just select a Diamond Fire 1000 and it should work for you. - From looking at the manual for the card on the web site they are just using the referance driver as shipped by 3DLabs for Windows so they aren't doing anything tricky with the hardware. You should also check www.3dlabs.com to be sure that you have the current referance driver for Windows. I/O Magic doesn't put a lot of effort in on their hardware. They sell on price not added value. PBen At 11:28 AM 9/2/99 -0400, you wrote: As for the I/O Magic video card, any idea what chipset it uses? It uses the PERMEDIA 2 chipset. I tried a couple of pre-defined cards with PERMEDIA 2, but was unsure which accellerated x server to run. Even tried to manually configure the card. Regardless, after typing startx, KDE would come up at approx. 300 x (some small #) resolution whereas just the "Taskbar" would take up half the screen, or worse nothing would come up and I would have to re-boot. Might be able to get it to work by using a different X-server, or using the Frame Buffer device instead, from what one of the guys at Mandrakesoft says... :-) Don't recall seeing anything about Frame Buffer Device. What is it? Thanks, Bryan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.0 iQA/AwUBN868e/TjuG8p6IWbEQKhsACeMvyg6VLLTJptyWTSgFYLmc8oEowAoI5l ttWQ7AAp8h/6lDQJS7NP6/7k =vgkq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available
I think this may be an opportunity of Mandrake Soft to make its own name. Call it Mandrake-Linux. Tell people its based on the most well known and largest selling Linux Distribution. Mandrake has been growing steadily away from Red Hat anyway. A lot of people who are angry with the business practices of Red Hat are going to look at Mandrake. Also the Mandrake name is becoming well known since it is being sold in Retail Stores now. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Ken Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available If I am not mistaken, the GPL requires distributors to make their SOFTWARE available free of charge, not their NAME. NAME is what gives value to a software product. It just looks like you as a reseller are going to have to quit riding on their coattails and earn a little respect for your own name. Frankly, I'm surprised to took this long for the major distros to come to this decision. On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Red Hat GPL No Longer Available Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:21:27 -0400 From: "Robb Sands" [EMAIL PROTECTED] HELP!! I just got off the phone with Amazon.com and Red Hat.com Legal departments and guess what the hot-breaking-heart-breaking news is? You can no longer refer to Red Hat Linux GPL distribution using the words Red Hat. Now it has to be called "I wanna be Microsoft" or "anonymous linux 6.0" or something similar, since the Red Hat name can no longer appear on ANY GPL PRODUCTS or ads. That's right, the GPL distribution of Red Hat Linux can no longer be called Red Hat Linux, it now MUST have a new name. No more Red Hat GPL CD's, advertisements, support groups, netnews, nothing... I know this sounds incredibly unbelievable, but the Red Hat GPL distribution can no longer be advertised or labelled Red Hat, only the official boxed set. As a linux seller on Amazon.com, I (along with 100 other people) sell a GPL version of the distribution formerly known as Red Hat Linux GPL. We now will be required to say we are selling 'blah' Linux 6.0 and will have to remove any labelling on products referring to the GPL Linux Distribution. How will people know they are getting Red Hat Linux GPL if it can't carry the name? You guess, because I haven't a clue... Of course the legal counsel rep, and only person in the entire Red Hat organization who can respond, David Shumannfang, is currently on vacation and won't be available for a week (9-7-99). Basically we are all screwed and no one at Red Hat knows anything until his return, just lovely. This email is a plea for you to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and voice your displeasure over Red Hat's new copyright policy requiring their GPL distribution to be called something other than Red Hat Linux GPL. I know this is off topic, so flame away, but it is an issue that AFFECTS ALL RED HAT LINUX USERS and POTENTIAL USERS. Robb Sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com http://archive.redhat.com To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail
[newbie] Display problems and LILO question
Hello. I am a real Linux newbie, and this appears to be the place I'm allowed to ask real newbie questions. I am running Mandrake 6.0 (with KDE) on a Dell Optiplex GX1 (with an ATITechnologies 3D PRO TURBO graphics card) with Windows NT 4.0. I have LILO installed on the 14gig C drive. I have Windows on the first partition, and Linux on the last 3. My questions are: 1 How do I change the screen resolution within Linux? It is too high and everything is hard to read. 2 When I run Gimp, my screen colors change--they become so dark I can not read the buttons on the title bar of Gimp itself. When I activate any other window, the colors return to normal again. What's the problem? 3 I tried to change the default system of LILO from somewhere inside the linuxconf, but when I activated the changes, it generated an error. I think I saw somewhere that LILO does not run so well with Windows NT. Is this true? Even if it is true, is there a way to change the default system? (I am expecting to get another hard drive in a few months, but in the meantime, I only have one) Thank you very much,Hershel Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] slocate
HeyI had an error with a built-in cron job a few days ago and
someone told me I had an extra carriage-return in there, so I nuked
it. Now it tells me "unexpected end of file." (below is the EXACT
quote...):
From root Thu Sep 2 04:02:07 1999
Return-Path: root
Received: (from root@localhost)
by slave1.chattanooga.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA11373
for root; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 04:02:03 -0400
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 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/slocate.cron~: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file
From root Fri Sep 3 04:02:08 1999
Return-Path: root
Received: (from root@localhost)
by slave1.chattanooga.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA12039
for root; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 04:02:04 -0400
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 04:02:04 -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/slocate.cron~: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file
==
Here's the cron job:
#!/bin/sh
[ -e /usr/bin/updatedb ] { sh /usr/bin/updatedb } || {
/usr/bin/slocate -u -e /tmp -e "/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net,/proc"
}
What's the problem with this??? Why does it say unexpected end of
file?
Thanks...
John
Re: [newbie] slocate
My lot in life is working with Unix and DOS based systems at the same time,
and this sort of problem is extremely common. Some text editors are noticed
for their ability to tag on control characters, my particularly nasty one is
^M for carriage returns. If you hit one of these control characters before
the finish, it can send the system into fits, I believe ^X is the EOF flag,
but someone will correct me.
My common method of fixing it is to erase the file if it's small, and use VI
to recreate it. It's the only one I can be absolutely sure of fixing it.
Editing it doesn't usually work.
Oh, and FTP'ing using ASCII rather than binary can do the same job,
especially if you're crossing platforms.
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:40 PM
Subject: [newbie] slocate
HeyI had an error with a built-in cron job a few days ago and
someone told me I had an extra carriage-return in there, so I nuked
it. Now it tells me "unexpected end of file." (below is the EXACT
quote...):
From root Thu Sep 2 04:02:07 1999
Return-Path: root
Received: (from root@localhost)
by slave1.chattanooga.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA11373
for root; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 04:02:03 -0400
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 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/slocate.cron~: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file
From root Fri Sep 3 04:02:08 1999
Return-Path: root
Received: (from root@localhost)
by slave1.chattanooga.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA12039
for root; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 04:02:04 -0400
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 04:02:04 -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/slocate.cron~: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file
==
Here's the cron job:
#!/bin/sh
[ -e /usr/bin/updatedb ] { sh /usr/bin/updatedb } || {
/usr/bin/slocate -u -e /tmp -e "/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net,/proc"
}
What's the problem with this??? Why does it say unexpected end of
file?
Thanks...
John
Re: [newbie] Problem configuring sound card
"Schmarr, Grant" wrote: Hi all, I have a problem configuring the sound card on my system. System is a PIII 450 on an Intel SR440BX Motherboard (integrated video and sound card). Sndconfig detects the card as a Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371 (ES1371). A dialog appears stating that a sound sample will be played. No sound results. An error message is displayed: Unable to Play Audio The following error occurred playing the sample: sox: Sun/neXT/DEC header doesn't start with magic word Try the '.ul' file type with '-t ul -r 8000 filename' It then offers to set up the card manually but with the same result. I've done most of the recommended updates (including kernel-2_2_9-27mdk_i586(1).rpm and the sox rpm update) Has anyone encountered anything similar? I'm trying to determine if it's a hardware issue or a bug. Thanx in advance Grant Schmarr It has been my experience to simply disable the onboard sound in BIOS and just install a real sound card. I got a SB PCI-512 ($70) and am using the SB Live drivers from Creative Labs. Good Luck Joe
Re: [newbie] Display problems and LILO question
Hershel S Robinson wrote: Hello. I am a real Linux newbie, and this appears to be the place I'm allowed to ask real newbie questions. I am running Mandrake 6.0 (with KDE) on a Dell Optiplex GX1 (with an ATI Technologies 3D PRO TURBO graphics card) with Windows NT 4.0. I have LILO installed on the 14gig C drive. I have Windows on the first partition, and Linux on the last 3. My questions are: 1 How do I change the screen resolution within Linux? It is too high and everything is hard to read. 2 When I run Gimp, my screen colors change--they become so dark I can not read the buttons on the title bar of Gimp itself. When I activate any other window, the colors return to normal again. What's the problem? 3 I tried to change the default system of LILO from somewhere inside the linuxconf, but when I activated the changes, it generated an error. I think I saw somewhere that LILO does not run so well with Windows NT. Is this true? Even if it is true, is there a way to change the default system? (I am expecting to get another hard drive in a few months, but in the meantime, I only have one) Thank you very much, Hershel Robinson --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rather than reduce the screen resolution try changing the default font size from 75 dpi to 100 dpi, it makes a HUGE difference and still gives great screen resolution. don't recall the exact place I found the instructions but I found them on the net (believe it was a universities instruction on how to hook up to their "net"), I'll look shortly and post them if I can find them again.. Joe
[newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs
Hi I tried to load a couple programs last night for MP3 players and extracted the files into another folder before installation. They were supposed to install with the ./configure command and then 'make' and then 'make install'. I saw some action on the screen as if things were proceeding fine under the ./configure and then it got to a point where there was an error about my C++ compiler. Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Display problems and LILO question
Hershel S Robinson wrote: Hello. I am a real Linux newbie, and this appears to be the place I'm allowed to ask real newbie questions. I am running Mandrake 6.0 (with KDE) on a Dell Optiplex GX1 (with an ATI Technologies 3D PRO TURBO graphics card) with Windows NT 4.0. I have LILO installed on the 14gig C drive. I have Windows on the first partition, and Linux on the last 3. My questions are: 1 How do I change the screen resolution within Linux? It is too high and everything is hard to read. 2 When I run Gimp, my screen colors change--they become so dark I can not read the buttons on the title bar of Gimp itself. When I activate any other window, the colors return to normal again. What's the problem? 3 I tried to change the default system of LILO from somewhere inside the linuxconf, but when I activated the changes, it generated an error. I think I saw somewhere that LILO does not run so well with Windows NT. Is this true? Even if it is true, is there a way to change the default system? (I am expecting to get another hard drive in a few months, but in the meantime, I only have one) Thank you very much, Hershel Robinson --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Found a place giving good instructions on how to change your default font size to 100 dpi. http://www.stonix.demon.co.uk/linux/100dpi.html give it a look and try it out. Joe
Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi John, May I please ask how you did it? If the disk was one big partition, how did you partition it without destroying the data, then how did you get Linux to install with out destroying the DOS partitions. To be honest, I don't recall now I think I must have used Linux FDISK to split the hard drive However, since you've got Partition Magic, it shouldn't be a problem for you to repartition. just manually repartition using Partition Magic (or freeware util on the Linux CDROM under the /dosutils directory called "fips.") John
Re: [newbie] Doc
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over? It's very unlikely, but why would you want to anyway? Just make a Mandrake 6.0 boot disk from the image file on the Mandrake CD using rawrite. Then boot from that floppy and install as usual. Hmm...I didn't catch that part about using a RedHat boot floppy to install Mandrake, but OTOH, since they're "highly compatible" it might work... John
[newbie] NFS Problem
I recently asked how to access my Win98 partition and was told to edit /etc/fstab. and add something similar to toe following: /dev/hda1/mnt/dosvfatdefaults I did this and after rebooting I could access my Win98 files but when Linux boots I get a msg saying share/config/kdmrc file can't be read or no such file.. and /var/nfs/xtab failed. On shutdown I get a msg saying that NFS mountd Failed. Everything seems to be working OK, I can still access my files in a read only mode and I can't see any other problems. Should I ignore these msg's or correct them? If I correct them how do I go about doing so? Bob
RE: [newbie] Doc
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over? Most definitely. :-) That's what I did here before I figured out how to make the CDROM bootable (SCSI CDROM -- SCSI is NOT on-board.) John Having re-read this original post in someone else's response, let me step away from my original response -- it MAY work, since RedHat and Mandrake are highly compatible, but I don't know if it will or not... John
Re: [newbie] cdr software
XCDRoast If you did an 'install everything', you have it. If you need help with setting up scsi emulation for ide cdr's see www.whitem.demon.co.uk Martin. - Original Message - From: Ralph |byte-runner | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:37 PM Subject: [newbie] cdr software hey, can someone give me an idea what cdr software to use to write cd's in linux i need to write data as well as audio cd's. you know something with a nice frontend that's easy to use . thanks -- Alway's go forward don't look back or go back where ya been it's a sad thing to go back through the same shit we already went through once!!
Re: [RE: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available]
Umm, is this flameage really appropriate? Let's stick to my computer is better than yours and I've got a newer kernel, okay. Don't make this maillist a crappy place to visit please. Brian -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephan Schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: brMandrake is French, and the French do not care about silly little Americanbrrules! OK! Mandrake will do as they please... ;=)brbr == And we all know when the French DO care about Americans. and might when it's time to bail them out again ;o) Mike PS: Don't you just love their arrogance???
[newbie] Done it!(use to be Doc)
It took me 1 hour to install Mandrake 6.0 - create boot disk from a DOS window in W95 - I didn't know that is possible - install the package and I also took a tour. Very impresing - I think I'll like this Mandrake. Next? Printer, scanner, email,Netscape,sound, StarOffice ... THanks to all for help, Julian
[newbie] BOOT Problems.
I recompiled my kernel in the following manner: make xconfig ...checked the stuff I needed make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install make install Everything was placed in the correct areas but when my computer boots the new kernel, it hangs at Finding Modules and does nothing. Now I can't even boot the old Kernel. It hangs at the same place in the boot order. What did I do wrong to cause this catastrophe and how can I correct it? Thanx, SA __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Display problems and LILO question
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Hershel S Robinson wrote: 1 How do I change the screen resolution within Linux? It is too high and everything is hard to read. If your XF86Config file has multiple resolutions defined in it, you can switch by pressing Ctrl-Alt-plus or Ctrl-Alt-minus (use the + and - keys on your numpad, not beside the backspace). You can change the default by editing /etc/X11/XF86Config. Look for a section like this: Section "Screen" Driver "svga" Device "My Video Card" Monitor "My Monitor" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection See where it says "1024x768"? Change that to whatever resolution you like- as long as there's a modeline for it above this section. Which shouldn't be a problem. If changing this doesn't help, change the section that begins with the line Driver "accel" This is the accelerated X server, and your card may use that instead. 2 When I run Gimp, my screen colors change--they become so dark I can not read the buttons on the title bar of Gimp itself. When I activate any other window, the colors return to normal again. What's the problem? Don't know about this- I suppose it might be a problem with your video? What color depth are you running in? Try changing to a different color depth (GIMP requires at least 16-bit). 3 I tried to change the default system of LILO from somewhere inside the linuxconf, but when I activated the changes, it generated an error. I think I saw somewhere that LILO does not run so well with Windows NT. Is this true? Even if it is true, is there a way to change the default system? (I am expecting to get another hard drive in a few months, but in the meantime, I only have one) I've never used LILO with Windows NT, so I can't say. What I did use was a rather awesome boot manager called OS-BS (see http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html). The beta version is free, and works perfectly well. You could also get he new one, with gads of features, for some cash (don't remember how much). I can say from experience that this will let Windows NT Linux Windows 95 co-exist very well. If you do decide to use this other boot manager, keep in mind that LILO will still have to be installed- installed on the Linux partition, instead of the MBR. OS-BS should go in the MBR. And as always, read README's first. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] slocate
I told you you had an extra carriage return in there. I also said to
hex edit the file and replace the second to last '0A' (LF) with a '20'
(space). I didn't say nuke it. And that was for the slocate.cron only.
If you open the file in the hex editor the offending character is just
to the left of the last brace (right hand curly bracket).
When you're done you should have only one /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron
file and the slocate.cron~ one should not exist.
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: Friday, September 03, 1999 4:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] slocate
HeyI had an error with a built-in cron job a few days ago and
someone told me I had an extra carriage-return in there, so I nuked
it. Now it tells me "unexpected end of file." (below is the EXACT
quote...):
From root Thu Sep 2 04:02:07 1999
Return-Path: root
Received: (from root@localhost)
by slave1.chattanooga.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA11373
for root; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 04:02:03 -0400
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 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/slocate.cron~: line 6: syntax error:
unexpected end of file
From root Fri Sep 3 04:02:08 1999
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 04:02:04 -0400
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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/slocate.cron~: line 6: syntax error:
unexpected end of file
==
Here's the cron job:
#!/bin/sh
[ -e /usr/bin/updatedb ] { sh /usr/bin/updatedb } || {
/usr/bin/slocate -u -e /tmp -e
"/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net,/proc"
}
What's the problem with this??? Why does it say unexpected end of
file?
Thanks...
John
RE: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs
What were the error messages? It might be easier to decipher your problem if we knew them. Also, were you aware that there are two mp3 players that come with the Mandrake distribution. One is x11amp (or something to that effect), which is a WinAmp clone, and another one I can't remember. If you check under the multimedia portion of the tool bar you should find them. That is, if you installed them when you installed Mandrake. :) 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 Jim Snyder Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 6:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs Hi I tried to load a couple programs last night for MP3 players and extracted the files into another folder before installation. They were supposed to install with the ./configure command and then 'make' and then 'make install'. I saw some action on the screen as if things were proceeding fine under the ./configure and then it got to a point where there was an error about my C++ compiler. Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] cdr software
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: Thanks Martin I give it a look over Ralph XCDRoast If you did an 'install everything', you have it. If you need help with setting up scsi emulation for ide cdr's see www.whitem.demon.co.uk Martin.
Re: [newbie] threads
- Original Message - From: Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 4:10 PM Subject: [newbie] threads "Manny" == Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order? I am now seeing replies before I see the original message. This have never happened to me with this list before, but it has started within the last two days. What is your mailer? Your X headers indicate you're using one of BG's products. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 How does your mail reader thread (by Message-ID?)? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 2 St Stephen of Hungary "There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 7/18/08] Because my ISP does not work with linux, I am relegated to Windows to get online; therfore, I use OE 5.0 to read e-mail. The messages are threaded by subject, and then sorted by the time received (my time), which is N.American Eastern Time. I'm not sure if that is due to Outlook Express or my mail server, as I see that not everyone gets their mail that way. No matter what time zone the sender is in, I see the messages as being sent in "my time". That is still the case, but now they are no longer in order. It looks like something I'll just have to deal with, and I apologize for taking us away from the main focus of the mailing list (even though it was somewhat relevant for a moment). Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. 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] Install cannot find filesystems
- Original Message - From: Richards, Donald D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 4:53 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Install cannot find filesystems You're using a rather large disk, like I am, and the installation documentation refers to the need to have the starting starting cylinder of the root partition under a certain number (I think it was either 1024 or 2048, but it's in the documentation). This could be your problem, given the size of your first partition... Don Richards -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 02:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install cannot find filesystems On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hello all, My "filesystems" cannot be found by the Macmillan Linux-Mandrake 6.0 installation, right after choosing either "Disk druid" or "Fdisk". I don't choose the SCSI option since my hard drive is an EIDE Western Digital UDMA/66 (9.1GB, 7200rpm). I have Windows 98 working well on my primary DOS 4GB partition and I have two more logical empty partitions defined (2GB, 3GB) in my extended DOS partition. I install by booting from the floppy and installing from the CDROM. Any hint that could help me solve my problem? Hmm...which install did you try? If you tried the "upgrade" that's probably why it failed. You'll need to choose new install, and probably should choose "custom." John You don't actually need root under 1024 cylinders, you can get away with just /boot in that area. There's a good use for Partition Magic (or some shareware/freeware that does something similar). 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] Problem configuring sound card
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: It has been my experience to simply disable the onboard sound in BIOS and just install a real sound card. I got a SB PCI-512 ($70) and am using the SB Live drivers from Creative Labs. InterestingI've got 16-bit sound on-board my dual-PPro 200 (SB16 clone) and it works just fine :-) No wavetable, but I can just buy a plug-in card for that (SB, Turtle Beach, etc) and use that if I want :-) (Or, I suppose, I *could* pull my AWE64 out of my Windows box and disable on-board sound... G) John
Re: [RE: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available]
I totally agree that childish comments are out of place on any mail group. On a recent holiday in France I found that there is a lot of support for Linux there. At least one French chap responded to my recent request for info about Star Office. As the mail is in French we've found it easier to correspond direct. This group is supposed top be above national boundaries. Falls off his soapbox. - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [RE: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available] Umm, is this flameage really appropriate? Let's stick to my computer is better than yours and I've got a newer kernel, okay. Don't make this maillist a crappy place to visit please. Brian -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephan Schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: brMandrake is French, and the French do not care about silly little Americanbrrules! OK! Mandrake will do as they please... ;=)brbr == And we all know when the French DO care about Americans. and might when it's time to bail them out again ;o) Mike PS: Don't you just love their arrogance???
[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 - 6.1
Hi, Does anyone know of the differences between Linux Mandrake 6.0 and 6.1? I'm getting a pre release version of 6.1, and I would like to know it it's worth installing it over my present installation? -- Best Regards, Paul Hendrick http://www.btinternet.com/~engprin1/linux.htm
Re: [newbie] NFS Problem
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: On shutdown I get a msg saying that NFS mountd Failed. Everything seems to be working OK, I can still access my files in a read only mode and I can't see any other problems. Should I ignore these msg's or correct them? If I correct them how do I go about doing so? from a console prompt, as root, type "setup enter" Choose system services and DESELECT NFS, then exit out and it shouldn't give you that error after you reboot the next time. John
RE: [newbie] NFS Problem
I was one of the one's suggesting to edit your fstab file. I'm not sure if this will answer your problem but I'll list my entries in fstab as they pertain to my dos partions. That might give you some ideas for your own. /dev/hda1 /mnt/drive-cvfat exec,dev,nosuid,rw,conv=auto 1 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/drive-evfat exec,dev,nosuid,rw,conv=auto 1 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/drive-fvfat exec,dev,nosuid,rw,conv=auto 1 0 /dev/hda8 /mnt/drive-gvfat exec,dev,nosuid,rw,conv=auto 1 0 /dev/hda9 /mnt/drive-hvfat exec,dev,nosuid,rw,conv=auto 1 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/drive-dvfat exec,dev,nosuid,rw,conv=auto 1 0 The first 3 columns are self explanatory at this point I think. I will explain my rationale for what I've entered in the options column and the last two. exec = acknowledges executables (can get you into trouble if the file you are trying to execute is not a Linux executable, using 'noexec' here avoids any problems) dev = allows access to device nodes (can get you into trouble, probably better to have 'nodev' as the option here nosuid= disallows the setting of the set userID and set groupID file mode bits rw= partition is read/write conv=auto = automatic conversion of DOS CR/LF to UNIX LF and vice-versa when transfering text files from one file system to the other. Note: Using 'defaults' in the options sets the following options: rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async To find out more about what options are available to you and what they mean read the man page for mount. Anything you can use with the -o switch in mount can be used here. In regards to your problem with NFS, if you're not sharing the files on this computer with another computer, or sharing files from another computer uninstall NFS. You don't need it to access DOS files that already are contained in other partitions on your machine. It is for sharing files over the network. 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 Bob Hoeller Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 7:11 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] NFS Problem I recently asked how to access my Win98 partition and was told to edit /etc/fstab. and add something similar to toe following: /dev/hda1/mnt/dosvfatdefaults I did this and after rebooting I could access my Win98 files but when Linux boots I get a msg saying share/config/kdmrc file can't be read or no such file.. and /var/nfs/xtab failed. On shutdown I get a msg saying that NFS mountd Failed. Everything seems to be working OK, I can still access my files in a read only mode and I can't see any other problems. Should I ignore these msg's or correct them? If I correct them how do I go about doing so? Bob
Re: [newbie] Problem configuring sound card
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: It has been my experience to simply disable the onboard sound in BIOS and just install a real sound card. I got a SB PCI-512 ($70) and am using the SB Live drivers from Creative Labs. InterestingI've got 16-bit sound on-board my dual-PPro 200 (SB16 clone) and it works just fine :-) No wavetable, but I can just buy a plug-in card for that (SB, Turtle Beach, etc) and use that if I want :-) (Or, I suppose, I *could* pull my AWE64 out of my Windows box and disable on-board sound... G) John Yeah, I didn't like the thought of giving up another slot for something already built in but I tried EVERY combination of card / settings I could (all the way to "wiping" the /etc/config.modules file and rebooting between attempts) and the best I got was a distorted and unintelligible sound file. BTW how does one restart / reset the configs short of rebooting? Joe
[newbie] New Video Card
I presently have a Viper 770 AGP 16M card in my computer. I am looking to sell it to a friend and purchase a Voodoo3 3000 AGP card. Is it going to be a hassle to change my settings. What do I have to do? First, uninstall my present X-server and then install the 3dfx server. Do I need to do more than this? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Chris Moyer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] slocate
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: I told you you had an extra carriage return in there. I also said to hex edit the file and replace the second to last '0A' (LF) with a '20' (space). I didn't say nuke it. And that was for the slocate.cron only. If you open the file in the hex editor the offending character is just to the left of the last brace (right hand curly bracket). When you're done you should have only one /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron file and the slocate.cron~ one should not exist. HmmOk. I'll give that a shot. I just remembered that there's a hex editor built into KDE I'll export your instructions to a file and try it tonight! :-) Thanks again for helping a dufus like me! :-) John
Re: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:16 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: Also, were you aware that there are two mp3 players that come with the Mandrake distribution. One is x11amp (or something to that effect), which is a WinAmp clone, and another one I can't remember. If you check under the multimedia portion of the tool bar you should find them. That is, if you installed them when you installed Mandrake. :) You must have a different Mandrake distro than I do. I have the McMillan version which only came with XMP3 (or something like that) and mpg123 (a console-based player.) The one you're thinking of is xmms (www.xmms.org) which is the WinAmp clone. :-) John There IS an MP3 player that comes with KDE. It isn't nessecarily a win amp clone, but by selecting it in the options, it can use a winamp skin and therefore LOOK identical to winamp. Martin.
[newbie] Upgrading the Kernel
Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0. I have two hard drives. hda has one partition - a dos/win95 partition. hdb has 3 partitions: hdb1 = /boot, hdb2 = swap, hdb3 = / When using linux, I boot from a floppy (the floppy I created during the mandrake install). Here's my problem: I was running into the "busy partition" message at shutdown time, which is documented on the Linux-Mandrake updates page. The fix is listed as follows: Solution: upgrade to initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm and to kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm. An updated initscripts package is also available: rpm -Uvh initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm Note: if you run in level 5, don't forget to set it again in /etc/inittab [just replace id:3:initdefault: by id:5:initdefault:] after initscripts upgrading! So, I downloaded the 2 rpms from the ftp site (actually I downloaded initscripts-4.16-31mdk.i586.rpm, but that shouldn't make any difference, I'm assuming, since it was the only initscripts rpm there). I entered in the two rpm command lines exactly as above. I modified my /etc/lilo.conf file to reflect the new kernel name. I modified /etc/inittab as suggested above. I then rebooted. But, to my shock and horror, when I rebooted, the kernel was still listed as version 2.2.9-19mdk. It hadn't upgraded! Then I thought that I probably had only changed the copy of the kernel on my hard drive, and since I boot off a floppy that I should just copy the new kernel to the floppy and change the lilo.conf file on the floppy. I did that and rebooted...but the kernel STILL hadn't changed. What am I doing wrong? How can I upgrade my kernel, and make a bootdisk to boot the kernel properly? Thanks in advance! Dan `` Dan Voeks DoIT Help Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``
Re: [newbie] Problem configuring sound card
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: Yeah, I didn't like the thought of giving up another slot for something already built in but I tried EVERY combination of card / settings I could (all the way to "wiping" the /etc/config.modules file and rebooting between attempts) and the best I got was a distorted and unintelligible sound file. BTW how does one restart / reset the configs short of rebooting? Well, you can do a "killall -HUP service" but other than that, I'm not sure... John
Re: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs
It was still called X11Amp in the Mandrake 5.3 release. Brian -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote: Also, were you aware that there are two mp3 players that come with the Mandrake distribution. One is x11amp (or something to that effect), which is a WinAmp clone, and another one I can't remember. If you check under the multimedia portion of the tool bar you should find them. That is, if you installed them when you installed Mandrake. :) You must have a different Mandrake distro than I do. I have the McMillan version which only came with XMP3 (or something like that) and mpg123 (a console-based player.) The one you're thinking of is xmms (www.xmms.org) which is the WinAmp clone. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Problem configuring sound card
I have a Creative Ensoniq PC! 1371 and had no problems configuring it. sndconfig autodetected it and configured it automatically. It's working fine. El jue, 02 sep 1999, escribiste: Hi all, I have a problem configuring the sound card on my system. System is a PIII 450 on an Intel SR440BX Motherboard (integrated video and sound card). Sndconfig detects the card as a Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371 (ES1371). A dialog appears stating that a sound sample will be played. No sound results. An error message is displayed: Unable to Play Audio The following error occurred playing the sample: sox: Sun/neXT/DEC header doesn't start with magic word Try the '.ul' file type with '-t ul -r 8000 filename' It then offers to set up the card manually but with the same result. I've done most of the recommended updates (including kernel-2_2_9-27mdk_i586(1).rpm and the sox rpm update) Has anyone encountered anything similar? I'm trying to determine if it's a hardware issue or a bug. Thanx in advance Grant Schmarr
Re: [newbie] Upgrading the Kernel
Dan Voeks wrote: Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0. I have two hard drives. hda has one partition - a dos/win95 partition. hdb has 3 partitions: hdb1 = /boot, hdb2 = swap, hdb3 = / When using linux, I boot from a floppy (the floppy I created during the mandrake install). Here's my problem: I was running into the "busy partition" message at shutdown time, which is documented on the Linux-Mandrake updates page. The fix is listed as follows: Solution: upgrade to initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm and to kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm. An updated initscripts package is also available: rpm -Uvh initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm Note: if you run in level 5, don't forget to set it again in /etc/inittab [just replace id:3:initdefault: by id:5:initdefault:] after initscripts upgrading! So, I downloaded the 2 rpms from the ftp site (actually I downloaded initscripts-4.16-31mdk.i586.rpm, but that shouldn't make any difference, I'm assuming, since it was the only initscripts rpm there). I entered in the two rpm command lines exactly as above. I modified my /etc/lilo.conf file to reflect the new kernel name. I modified /etc/inittab as suggested above. I then rebooted. But, to my shock and horror, when I rebooted, the kernel was still listed as version 2.2.9-19mdk. It hadn't upgraded! Then I thought that I probably had only changed the copy of the kernel on my hard drive, and since I boot off a floppy that I should just copy the new kernel to the floppy and change the lilo.conf file on the floppy. I did that and rebooted...but the kernel STILL hadn't changed. What am I doing wrong? How can I upgrade my kernel, and make a bootdisk to boot the kernel properly? Thanks in advance! Dan `` Dan Voeks DoIT Help Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` Dan, After changing lilo.conf ,you need to re-run /sbin/lilo. That should tell it about new kernel. DKunz
Re: [newbie] Upgrading the Kernel
Dan Voeks wrote: Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0. I have two hard drives. hda has one partition - a dos/win95 partition. hdb has 3 partitions: hdb1 = /boot, hdb2 = swap, hdb3 = / When using linux, I boot from a floppy (the floppy I created during the mandrake install). Here's my problem: I was running into the "busy partition" message at shutdown time, which is documented on the Linux-Mandrake updates page. The fix is listed as follows: Solution: upgrade to initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm and to kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm. An updated initscripts package is also available: rpm -Uvh initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm Note: if you run in level 5, don't forget to set it again in /etc/inittab [just replace id:3:initdefault: by id:5:initdefault:] after initscripts upgrading! So, I downloaded the 2 rpms from the ftp site (actually I downloaded initscripts-4.16-31mdk.i586.rpm, but that shouldn't make any difference, I'm assuming, since it was the only initscripts rpm there). I entered in the two rpm command lines exactly as above. I modified my /etc/lilo.conf file to reflect the new kernel name. I modified /etc/inittab as suggested above. I then rebooted. But, to my shock and horror, when I rebooted, the kernel was still listed as version 2.2.9-19mdk. It hadn't upgraded! Then I thought that I probably had only changed the copy of the kernel on my hard drive, and since I boot off a floppy that I should just copy the new kernel to the floppy and change the lilo.conf file on the floppy. I did that and rebooted...but the kernel STILL hadn't changed. What am I doing wrong? How can I upgrade my kernel, and make a bootdisk to boot the kernel properly? Thanks in advance! Dan `` Dan Voeks DoIT Help Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` Run /sbin/lilo from a terminal. John
Re: [newbie] grep and replace
Maybe this would do it (as a shell script): #! /bin/sh for $i in `find .`; do cp $i $i.old cat $i.old | sed -e "s/MarketingWorks\/Collard Associates/MarketingWorks" $i next; I am NOT a shell script guru- you can tell because my for loop syntax is wrong, and I'm not sure what the proper way to write it is. I hope I get my idea across, though. You might run it as `script 2 /dev/null` because it will generate an error message for every directory under ./ as I couldn't figure out a way to get `find` to list only files, or `ls -R` to not print out directory names. With this pseudo-script, you also get backups of your HTML files (with a .old extension) in case it screws up. If it works, then you can rm `find . |grep .old` to recusively remove all old files. I think. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, James Stewart wrote: Been investigating the problem I posted yesterday a bit more, and have a slightly better way of expressing it now ;) What I want to do is like issuing: grep -r MarketingWorks\/Collard Associates /home/httpd/marketingworks.co.uk but instead of listing the results I want to replace it with simply MarketingWorks Another way of looking at it is issuing perl's s/MarketingWorks\/Collard Associates/MarketingWorks/; but recursively through the directory structure. Can anyone suggest how to do this? James. -- James Stewart | Britlinks | The Phantom Tollbooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.britlinks.co.uk | http://www.tollbooth.org Sixpence None The Richer UK -- http://www.britlinks.co.uk/sixpence/
Re: [newbie] Re: Star Office
Stuart, Sun just bought StarOffice/StarDivision and now when you go to the StarDivision site you end up at the Sun site. It is still free from Sun. ( and well worth the price) g BTW, just signed up for cable modem and tried the download from Sun and it took under three (3) minutes. I was pleasantly surprised as my original download from SD took like you say over four hours. Brian in Fremont Stuart Burbridge wrote: Hi guys, It was the February 1999 cover disc of PC Plus which gave away StarOffice 5.0. I have tried several times to install it both into Caldera 1.3 and into Mandrake 6. but with no success. It either complains that I don't have the correct library files (although Mandrake has) or it then can't connect to the Xserver. In the end I downloaded version 5.1 (it's 70 megs and took about four hours but it's still free software). That installed perfectly into Mandrake first time with no problems. I cant say I've done much with it yet. But I have played a little with the Windows version to be sufficiently impressed to go for the big download. Stuart
[newbie] kernel compile
Hello, I have tried numerous times to recompile my kernel. I run make dep after the changes and then make clean. Before I make bzImage. I then do make modules and then make modules_install . My problem is when I go to reboot it can never find the modules and stops there during the boot. I ran 5.3 before and never had a problem, Any Idea's Hell It's like it can't find them? Ralph
[newbie] What is an hdlist
When using fmirror why am i excluding the hdlist file? What is is and why do have to rebuild it, if I was to mirror another distro, say Red Hat, whould i have to do the same thing?
Re: [newbie] hdd problem
- Original Message - From: Paul Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 9:09 PM Subject: [newbie] hdd problem After several attempts to load and run Linux-Mandrake 6.0 I have the following problem. Program hangs-up at line "Starting Hard Drive optimizations for hdh" And it just sits there. Edit the file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit or /etc/rc.d/rc.local (I forget which one it is in - the first, I think) and comment out the section that relates to the hdparm command. You can then experiment with it on each individual drive and put the specific commands back into the script file if you desire. The "universal" optimisation script is getting confused about your CD-ROM drive. Help it out. Hoyt
[newbie] Need help after crash
I recently had a system crash. I was able to put the filesystem back together with fsck, but now I have the problem of not being able to start the xserver for any of my users except root. I get the following error message each time I try to start x. Authentication failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to Xserver xinit: no such process (errno 3): Server error I even get this error if I try to make a new user and run X. I would appreciate any and all help with this problem TIA Lyndon Lininger Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] First install problems, need a clue
Long, sad story: I downloaded Mandrake distro...6.1(Cassinini) evidently is the only one available on all the mirrors I tried...for my first ever attempt at Linux. Installed it in a partition on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 (5166/2500), 80 megs RAM, along with Win 95. Did the default Workstation setup. (1) First time discovered whole bunches of packages weren't there (never tried to FTP that much stuff at once before, now have a better FTP client that tells me what didn't make it) Go back, get everything, try again (2-?) Everything seems to work fine except when configuring X, made all the choices that seemed logical, gets to test and says "There is a problem with your configuration, blah, blah" Go read stuff, learn how to use console mode/vi to read stuff, learn how to run xf86config, chase thru websites and newsgroups (still haven't figured out where HOWTO's are hiding), etc., best I can get is that when I run startx something that looks like it is supposed to be KDE comes up...but it is a mangled wreck of a thing, with disconnected blocks of screen elements semi-randomly grouped about the screen, looking like a GUI Picasso might have designed. Start to believe what everything says about needing to know details about video and monitor. So... Video is CL 5436, 1mb RAM, according to docs. Monitor is CTX VL700 (1765), with horiz range of 30-70 Hz vert range of 50-160 Hz according to docs. So, go back in and run xf86config and do everything custom that isn't clearly listed, no guessing. Run startx, best results so far, clearly real screen elements (mailbox, what looks like a performance monitor graphing) but way to big and the mouse cursor is uncontrollable...and won't cycle thru screen resolutions with ctrl-alt-+/-. I'm giving it one more chance. Machine in question is at work and I am at home for the long weekend. Anybody still reading this list, I would appreciate any suggestions on things to do, FAQs to read, files to download, etc. If I can't get it done Tuesday on such a generic off-the-shelf platform, I'll have to flush it and recommend sticking with Win95/98/NT. But I really *want* this to succeed!
Re: [newbie] Re: Star Office [beware]
Thanks for the info Stuart. One of my friends is trying the download this weekend. He had CD writer and is also with BT Internet. We are both seeing if the 0800 number is worth paying for. I got my copy of Mandrake from French magazine on holiday. Where have you found to be useful in UK? I'm having intermittent problems connecting to BT with Linux. I also have a Virgin account. Would be interested in your settings. John the Nadger www.goon.freeuk.com.
[newbie] Mandrake installation fails on mount
(1) I actually got the Internet to work in Linux! Yay! I tried IRC chat a little bit, but no one cool was on... and no, I was not logged in as root at the time. (2) To fix a poor partition structure (/boot, [swap], and one huge /) and a few other things (odd... shutting down sendmail fails every time), I decided to do a reinstallation. Plus that would give me the chance to trim out some fat (such as KDE which I don't use now that I found WindowMaker--beautiful...). Well, I'm ditching this nice-and-neat numbered list block style! Ahh, that's better... So I give it a partition structure: /mnt/c FAT32 1551 /boot ext2 16 /usrext2771 /root ext2 35 [swap] swap 66 /home ext2322 / ext2330 (disk size: 3102 MB) (Any suggestions for improvement? I have Partition Magic and can move/shrink /mnt/c...) Then I pick out the packages I want (take a long time since I pick out each individually) and have it format the partitions. After all the partition formatting is done, it fails. A dialog box pops up with the message "mount fialed: Invalid argument" and I am stopped. I switched over to the other virtual consoles to see what was the matter. Console 3: running mke2fs /tmp/hda7 -c ... stuff ... mounting hda11 on /mnt/ as type ext2 calling mount(/tmp/hda11, /mnt/, ext2, -1058209792, (nil)) (I guess that last line was what failed) Console 4: 4 EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock And also something about attempting to access byeond end of device... So, guys, what's up? I want my Mandrake back! p.s. I'll be getting a nice 4-CD Red Hat 6 set tomorrow (or soon). Cheap*Bytes had a great deal on it! It was, uhm, $7 US. ¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ ICQ: 35256413 ¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨¯¯¨¹·-.,¸__¸,.-·¹¨
[newbie] newbie [re : Star Office]
Stuart, Sun just bought StarOffice/StarDivision and now when you go to the StarDivision site you end up at the Sun site. It is still free from Sun. and well worth the price) g BTW, just signed up for cable modem and tried the download from Sun and it took under three (3) minutes. I was pleasantly surprised as my original download from SD took like you say over four hours. Brian in Fremont You've just upset us all as we are waiting to get such luxuries, in general, over here. With all the will in the world we still have to wait for the stagecoach :-) John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] BOOT Problems.
I had the same problem. First I booted with my thrusty floppy ( You made a boot floppy whe you first installed right??). After booting my machine I deleted /lib/modules/2.2.9mdk-27 Then do make modules_install again Sean Armstrong wrote: I recompiled my kernel in the following manner: make xconfig ...checked the stuff I needed make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install make install Everything was placed in the correct areas but when my computer boots the new kernel, it hangs at Finding Modules and does nothing. Now I can't even boot the old Kernel. It hangs at the same place in the boot order. What did I do wrong to cause this catastrophe and how can I correct it? Thanx, SA __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
