Re: [newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jaybird X wrote: My HP 722C won't even flinch on any of the HP prfiles in printtool. They cover the 5xx, 6xx, and 8xx series machines though. Is there a reason this model isn't supported? Yes, the HP 722C is a GDI printer (AKA Windoze printer)... LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] 6.1 ftp isntall via pcmcia net card]
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Chris Herrnberger wrote: That's what I thought. Guess the images are buggy. So what's the mechanism on this list to report bugs to get the images updated. We're reading the list - where did you get the images? two sources; ftp.linuxberg.com and ftp.tux.org All images are dated Sept 8. Problem is that my Linksys card is not being recognized properly for some reason and yet it has worked fine for SuSE, and Caldera. Second stage image install fails. Interestingly enough when I turn up the volume on the laptop and listen for the distinvtive two beeps I only get one high and one low, after loading modules. Error message is that cannot write to disc, read only file system. Consol three is more descriptive. When the /tmp file is attempted to be written it fails, and cardmanager aborts. Problem is repeatable some 8 times now. regards Chris
Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help
- Original Message - From: Murray Strome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Staroffice install help Now that you mention it, I believe that the free license I received was for single user -- I only have it installed in one user account. I believe that you can still go to the site and get another license for an additional user without having to dowload the program again. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] CDROM on ide3 controller?
A friend has an IDE CDROM drive on the fourth (ide3) controller. (Two controllers on motherboard, two more provided by soundblaster card.) During installation we specified: linux ide3=base,ctr,irq (using number in place of base, ctr, and irq - I just don't have the numbers in front of me). The kernel starts loading but we eventually get an "unrecognized kernel option" message and then it displays the ide3= line above. Does the installation kernel on the floppy have support built-in for the third (ide2) and fourth (ide3) controllers? (That would be drives hde-hdh.) I used this option when installing an older version of RedHat and it worked like a charm. (We worked around the problem by moving the CDROM drive to ide1,b ut it is an office machine and the PC support people don't like us opening up the boxes.) Thanks Tony
Re: [newbie] init=?
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to put this. I've buggered something up and am now quite confused.. :) I'm using kernel 2.2.12 on Mandrake 6.0. The kernal is also placed and configured in lilo in / as I am a slackware convert. :) Normaly the first script which is read by the boot procsess tells the kernel which init level to boot into, the file is /etc/inittab and its normaly the first line, ie. id:3:initdefault: If that fails then type on the lilo boot prompt imgae 3 Jim -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] init=?]
Jim Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to put this. I've buggered something up and am now quite confused.. :) I'm using kernel 2.2.12 on Mandrake 6.0. The kernal is also placed and configured in lilo in / as I am a slackware convert. :) Jim === Hi Jim, Can't say for sure this will work, but try typing linux 3 at the lilo prompt. Hopefully this will boot you into a multi-user console mode. Then edit /etc/initab/ HTH, Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)
And to further your pursuit, check out www.98lite.net . They offer a utility that trims win98 to realistic, even Linux proportions. - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A) Just a quick note for you. A bare Windows 95 machine, with Office 97 but without all the sounds, assistants, etc, can fit in a 200Meg drive with room left over. I should know, I have a dodgy laptop with a 200 meg hard drive, and they fit!! That leaves 400Meg for your documents. Win98 will add another 50Meg for the same config, 98SE will add another 100Meg. (Good old Microsoft eh?!!) If you do run out of space, you would do better having the documents on the other machine, rather than having Office on the other machine. - Original Message - From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 9:56 AM Subject: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A) Greetings all Over the last couple of days I have been reading plenty of HOW-TO's, and a few mini-HOWTO's on networking with Linux. In fact I've encountered more weird acronyms and strange buxx words in the last 2 days than in the rest of my life put together. However I am learning a bucketload and realising that there is A LOT of good docs in the how-to's! Don't think is going to stop me from posting lots of trivial and basic questions though! At the moment I am considering logistical problems - hardware setups and the like (messing up software is free - messing up hardware costs $$$). Here is one of the many plans I am considering (Plan A) I currently have a box with a 1gig hda with Windows and a 6.4gig hdb with Linux. I am thinking of ripping out the 1 gig drive and putting into a 486 (actually an AMD-133 in a 486 board). I would like to split this drive giving about 600meg to Windows, and the rest to Linux. The 6.4 will stay with its current machine and become the server. In Linux mode I want to use this machine basically to learn about Unix/Linux networking (NFS, telnet, remote X-terminals) etc. In Windows mode I want to learn about Samba, and use Windows when I have to. I was thinking of connecting the two machines using 10Mbit cards and a hub (a third machine will be added later if these two work out okay). Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS Word filters on some Linux wordprocessors however when you are dealing with very long documents, that include charts etc, small discrepencies when importing/exporting the file leads to some serious headaches. I will need to continue to have MS Office 97 (sorry). If I go ahead and do something that makes it impossible to run Office the gf WILL HAVE MY BOLLOCKS. She will live if it runs slowly - she will kill me if it doesn't run at all. Here is the question then (finally) 600meg is not going to hold Win95 plus Office. So I want to install Office onto a network drive on the Linux server. Will a 10Mbit network be quick enough for the Windows machine to run Office from the networked drive? Yes I know Office is slow anyway, even slower on a 486, but will a 10Mbit allow Office to actually work? Thanking you in advance Aaron
Re: [newbie] iso
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Dan Brown wrote: Doesn't have to be that fast, i used to download the isos with my X2. 120megs every 8 hours, it does take awhile mind you, and it really sucks when it goes wrong, but when it works it'll make you beam :) Thats what I did.. Took just about 36 hours to get completed. But, it burned perfectly fine. -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
Re: [newbie] FTP Server
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does a Linux-Mandrake 6.0 server installation automatically set up an FTP server? I have tried to FTP connect to Linux, from my WinNT box, using MS IE as my FTP client. It won't work. I have tried both anonymous and real account details. (sorry, haven't got the exact error msg here). Where would I look for the FTP server software on my system? Firstly make sure ftp is defined in /etc/inetd ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a then check and make sure the binary is in place. I have a book that pointed me to a file that maps requests for different TCPIP ports to different software servers. Port 21 is mapped to TCPD which I understand to be an access monitoring system - how might I check that the requests are being properly forwarded from TCPD to FTP? Port 21 is for ftp connections port 20 is for ftp-data, check those in /etc/services Check also what your system logs are saying when you try to ftp to that machine, possably in /var/log*, check /etc/syslog.conf to see just where and which file is used, i presume mandrake uses that same files as Redhat which are the ones i have quoted. Regards Mark __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)
How about installing StarOffice? Its got filters for major wordprocessors. www.stardivision.com You'll like it. -Original Message- From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 6:09 PM Subject: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A) Greetings all Over the last couple of days I have been reading plenty of HOW-TO's, and a few mini-HOWTO's on networking with Linux. In fact I've encountered more weird acronyms and strange buxx words in the last 2 days than in the rest of my life put together. However I am learning a bucketload and realising that there is A LOT of good docs in the how-to's! Don't think is going to stop me from posting lots of trivial and basic questions though! At the moment I am considering logistical problems - hardware setups and the like (messing up software is free - messing up hardware costs $$$). Here is one of the many plans I am considering (Plan A) I currently have a box with a 1gig hda with Windows and a 6.4gig hdb with Linux. I am thinking of ripping out the 1 gig drive and putting into a 486 (actually an AMD-133 in a 486 board). I would like to split this drive giving about 600meg to Windows, and the rest to Linux. The 6.4 will stay with its current machine and become the server. In Linux mode I want to use this machine basically to learn about Unix/Linux networking (NFS, telnet, remote X-terminals) etc. In Windows mode I want to learn about Samba, and use Windows when I have to. I was thinking of connecting the two machines using 10Mbit cards and a hub (a third machine will be added later if these two work out okay). Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS Word filters on some Linux wordprocessors however when you are dealing with very long documents, that include charts etc, small discrepencies when importing/exporting the file leads to some serious headaches. I will need to continue to have MS Office 97 (sorry). If I go ahead and do something that makes it impossible to run Office the gf WILL HAVE MY BOLLOCKS. She will live if it runs slowly - she will kill me if it doesn't run at all. Here is the question then (finally) 600meg is not going to hold Win95 plus Office. So I want to install Office onto a network drive on the Linux server. Will a 10Mbit network be quick enough for the Windows machine to run Office from the networked drive? Yes I know Office is slow anyway, even slower on a 486, but will a 10Mbit allow Office to actually work? Thanking you in advance Aaron
Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)
600 MB is plenty of room for Win 95 and Office 97 full install. It takes about 200-300 MB, but it will fit. If you don't need Access or Pwrpoint, don't install them and save space.You probably won't have room for IE 5 either. Use an older version of any browser. Either work on docs from disk or don't save tons of docs on the PC to conserve room. Yes, it will be slower to boot and start programs on a 486, but it will work. After you do your install you might want to do a defrag to clean things up a bit. I would not want to work every day on a 486, but they are still useful. Make sure you have plenty of RAM. 16 MB or more at least. Brian -Original Message- From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings all snip Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS Word filters on some Linux wordprocessors however when you are dealing with very long documents, that include charts etc, small discrepencies when importing/exporting the file leads to some serious headaches. I will need to continue to have MS Office 97 (sorry). If I go ahead and do something that makes it impossible to run Office the gf WILL HAVE MY BOLLOCKS. She will live if it runs slowly - she will kill me if it doesn't run at all. Here is the question then (finally) 600meg is not going to hold Win95 plus Office. So I want to install Office onto a network drive on the Linux server. Will a 10Mbit network be quick enough for the Windows machine to run Office from the networked drive? Yes I know Office is slow anyway, even slower on a 486, but will a 10Mbit allow Office to actually work? Thanking you in advance Aaron
[newbie] HP 712C Printer....
I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?"
Re: [newbie] Id mo
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." snip grep 'mo' /etc/inittab Thanks Axalon. Out of curiosity, where can I read/learn about this "mo"? Could not find info in the man pages or the list archives.
Re: [newbie] HP 712C Printer....
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matt G. Ellis wrote: I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?" Yes, but AFAIK there is currently some project going to get winprinters to work on Linux. Maybe someone else knows more about this... LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] How do I quit X when it starts automatically?
Ty Mixon wrote: What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want to work in a console use CTRL+ALT+F123456 to get to a console. Best of both worlds that way. Ty, What do you do to go back to X/KDE? Brian in Fremont
Re: [newbie] HP 712C Printer....
Yes, the entire 700 series. Brian -Original Message- From: Matt G. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?"
[newbie] problem with floppy access
I got star office and wp8 to install fine, but when I try to get them to save to my floppy drive I get a permission denied message and have to save to hdd first and then transfer it to my floppy. does anyone know how to fix this? David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] How do I quit X when it starts automatically?
By hitting ALT+F7 you should get back to X. This is assuming that tty7 isn't being used by another app. Ie. I redirect all output from Seti@Home to tty7 so I would hit ALT-F8 to get to X when X is running. Jim Ty Mixon wrote: What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want to work in a console use CTRL+ALT+F123456 to get to a console. Best of both worlds that way. Ty, What do you do to go back to X/KDE? Brian in Fremont
Re: [newbie] the programming language
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: Sorry for the overly simple question... but can anyone tell me what language Linux was written in? Thanks in advance and don't laugh too long and hard! Mostly in GNU C, C++, AFAIK, with some Perl and QT and such thrown in for good measure. John
[newbie] Thanx for tha help!
Hey, i forget who it was, but thanks for the awesum idea of using windowz TT fonts to make netscape look awesum. THANKS ALOT! Now i can actually show off KDE as looking BETTER than WIN98.
Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: %_i've reinstalled linux again 7th time and it still does not work. this time i get a timeout to login although it connects tolocal linux machine using ip address it will not complete a ftp session. I think its got something to do with the domain.. I have set Domain Name: megabitwest.net Host name: http://www.megabitwest.net * * by the way this is my URL , i hope to host my own domain with Linux!!! when i configured the lan ethernet card i chose ip # 209.54.142.164 (card in linux mach.) gateway ip # 209.54.142.161 (cisco dsl router) DNS server ip #209.54.122.2 (my isp dns server) my /etc/inetd.conf has the line of: ftpstream tcpnowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd-l -a this is what the installation came up with! THIS IS BEYOND ME... HELP IF YOU CAN TERRY my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: PLEASE ditch the HTML and post in plain, US-ASCII font. Second, until your ISP (in this case, csolutions.net) is providing the pointer to your domain, this won't work. Did Csolutions.net give you a "machine name" to configure your DSL router with? If so, replace "megabitwest.net" with that information. Then you should be fine. Second thing you need to do is work things out with csolutions.net to provide hostname lookup services for your domain and make sure you have a *STATIC* IP address for your machine and reconfigure your information with Internic (good luck! Trying to get them to stop hosting a domain is like trying to find chicken's teeth!) John Aldrich
Re: [newbie] iso
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote: Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between an iso distro and a "regular" one? I'm assuming it has to do with what kind of hardware you've got but beyond that I haven't a clue. ISO distro is a CDROM "image" file that can be burned onto a CDROM.
[newbie] Internet Explorer
Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? Thanks!
Re: [newbie] Thanx for tha help! TT Fonts
Donny wrote: Hey, i forget who it was, but thanks for the awesum idea of using windowz TT fonts to make netscape look awesum. THANKS ALOT! Now i can actually show off KDE as looking BETTER than WIN98. Glad it worked for you. When Linux supports TT Font printing, it will really be great! Does anyone know the status of being able to print TT Fonts? -- Scott Miller Using Linux Mandrake Operating System Take a look at http://www.linux-mandrake.com
[newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working
After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how to get this working, let me know. I can send you the modified files. This newbie is appreciative of all that I have learned from others on this list and wish to give back something. Also, someone asked me to let them know if I got this working, but I don't remember who it was. Regards, -- Scott Miller Using Linux Mandrake Operating System Take a look at http://www.linux-mandrake.com
[newbie] Netscape
After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Thanks, micron
RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer
ok, thanx... wenz the version of IE for linux gonna be availible? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bernhard Rosenkraenzer Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Donny wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? No, and there won't ever be one. Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? No, because they're for SPARC processors and we can't emulate them. Any attempt to emulate them would be painfully slow (because they're superior to x86). LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]
Jaybird X [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My HP 722C won't even flinch on any of the HP prfiles in printtool. They cover the 5xx, 6xx, and 8xx series machines though. Is there a reason this model isn't supported? === Winprinter. I'm not sure there's a workaround yet. Perhaps one of the gurus on this list can suggest a fix. Mike Jay Deacon -- Be the first one on your block to put a Penguin in your box. ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Re-Install Problems
Were you using a compressed drive? Did the drive require some sort of
overlay software like E-Z Drive? Probably not if it was only 500MB. But
you might be using overlay software with the large HD.
Brian
-Original Message-
From: Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I was trying to install Mandrake Linux 6.0 on my system. I currently have
a 500m IDE harddrive as C: with Windows98 installed and a second 10gig
drive with a 6gig
partition as D:. I was attemtping to install Linux on the second
harddrive
into the unsed
space. I was able to get Linux all the way into Disk Druid and actually
setup the free space
into various partitions and swap. I told Disk Druid to exit and save the
information when
Disk Druid took and error writting the partition information and told me
to
re-boot to continue.
The re-boot got all the way to asking which CD-ROM drive to use (just like
the first time) but now
the install just spins the CD-ROM and then terminates. I never get the
Disk
Druid or fdisk option again.
I think something is still on the second harddrive fooling Linux into
thinking the drive is ready.
I lost the partition containing Windows98 and had to re-install Windows98
and all my application
during the process.
I had the same problem ona machine at work the we were playing with the
install on. I removed the
harddrive in the work machine after the install failed and put in another
one and was able to install.
After the box in the center of the screen that says "Initializing
CD-ROM..." goes away I get the
following error at the bottom of the screen. Anyone know how to clean up
the drive so I can install
without losing the D: drive?
install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
/tmp/rhimage
/proc
you may safetly reboot
ALT-F3 DISPLAY
--
* using device hdc
* mounting hdc on /tmp/rhimage as type ISO9660
* creating directory /tmp/rhimage rc=0
* calling mount(/tmp/hdc, /tmp/rhimage, ISO9660, -105820979, (nil))
* removing device file /tmp/hdc
* done here
* method selection completed
* state saved to /tmp
ALT-F4 DISPLAY
--
4scsi: 0 hosts
4scsi: detectd total
4partition check
4 hda : hda1
4 hdb : hdb1
5RAMDISK : Compressed image found at block 0
4VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
4hdb: lost interrupt
4hdb: drive_comp : ststua=0x58 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest
Error}
4hdb: status error : ststua=0x58 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest
Error}
4hdb: drive not ready for command
4hdc: drive_comp : ststua=0x51 {DriveReady, SeekComplete Error}
4hdb: status error : ststus=0x04 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest
Error}
4hdb: drive not ready for command
4hdc: drive_comp : ststua=0x51 {DriveReady, SeekComplete Error}
4hdb: status error : ststus=0x04 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest
Error}
6install uses obsolete /proc/pci interface
7ISO9660 extensions RRIP_1991A
__
Thanks, Bob
HoP 4 Life
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/9239/
ICQ: 5760810
AOLIM: bobifmd
Re: [[newbie] HP 712C Printer....]
"Matt G. Ellis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?" == I believe the entire 7xx series falls into that category :o( Mike ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] How do I quit X when it starts automatically?]
Brian Erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ty Mixon wrote: What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want to work in a console use CTRL+ALT+F123456 to get to a console. Best of both worlds that way. Ty, What do you do to go back to X/KDE? Brian in Fremont = CTRL+ALT+F7 :o) ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] Internet Explorer]
Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? Thanks! == No such animal AFAIK. Too bad. It's one of the better M$ products :o( Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]
Try checking out : http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ It's only black and white printing, last I looked. Bill -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.] Jaybird X [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My HP 722C won't even flinch on any of the HP prfiles in printtool. They cover the 5xx, 6xx, and 8xx series machines though. Is there a reason this model isn't supported? === Winprinter. I'm not sure there's a workaround yet. Perhaps one of the gurus on this list can suggest a fix. Mike Jay Deacon -- Be the first one on your block to put a Penguin in your box. ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network
I finally started working on networking my machines. I have one here at work I started setting up during lunch. This PC will be a dual boot Windows 95 and Mu Linux, the other two machines are a 100% Mandrake box and a Windows 95 box that may later be dual boot or 100% Linux. I'm following some instructions for the Windows portion I found online, but have this question. If this box will be in the mix with Linux, do I need to set up NetBEUI at all or as the default file and printer sharing? Is this what Samba replaces? Should I completely remove NetBEUI or would it be used to communicate with the other Windows box? This is completely an experimental set up. I am going through a second education as I didn't have these cool toys when I first went to college. How do you turn a former manager into a Sys Admin? Give him Linux. I just want to play with some stuff and see how to set up networking. Brian
[newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?
I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They won't even answer their phones. Seve
Re: [newbie] Netscape
micron wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Thanks, micron Hi, Micron, If you have actually established a connection to your isp, and you're getting these errors, you may not have your dns server specified correctly. You need the file /etc/resolv.conf which contains information about the dns server. Mine looks like this: search nwrain.com nameserver 205.134.220.38 nameserver 205.134.220.37 nwrain.com is my isp, and the ip addresses are the primary and secondary dns servers. Your isp can give you the appropriate information. Good luck, Hidong
Re: [[newbie] Netscape]
"micron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Thanks, micron == Have you edited /etc/resolv.conf ? Add the lines: search your ISP nameserver dns # provided by your ISP nameserver dns # provided by your ISP [they'll usually give you two] save your changes and that SHOULD do it 8^) Mike ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS Word filters on some Linux wordprocessors however when you are dealing with very long documents, that include charts etc, small discrepencies when importing/exporting the file leads to some serious headaches. I will need to continue to have MS Office 97 (sorry). If I go ahead and do something that makes it impossible to run Office the gf WILL HAVE MY BOLLOCKS. She will live if it runs slowly - she will kill me if it doesn't run at all. Try StarOffice first. Trust me on this... my boss downloaded some MS DOC files off the 'Net and opened 'em in Star Office just fine! At least give it a shot. :-) StarOffice will crunch most of Office 97 Documents. I say 99% of them, but I do have problems with occational documents that it displays and prints improperly and sometimes those will lead to problems. My advice: Try StarOFfice if not then try WOrdPerfect 8.0 and if not, sorry :( Here is the question then (finally) 600meg is not going to hold Win95 plus Office. So I want to install Office onto a network drive on the Linux server. Will a 10Mbit network be quick enough for the Windows machine to run Office from the networked drive? Yes I know Office is slow anyway, even slower on a 486, but will a 10Mbit allow Office to actually work? Suprisly 600MB will indeed install MS Office and Windows 95. A bare mininium install of WIndows 95 OSR 2.0 fully stripped down takes ~130. A Full OFfice 97 Install takes ~230MB [Office 97 Professional]. Now, if you want to take off some of the less useful parts like Access/PowerPoint if you don't use them, then it goes down. Logically, it should not be that large. At home, for my parents I have setup a Windows 95/Office 97/Netscape 4.08/Q-Modem Pro Partition and it only takes 500ish. [not minium install of WIn95 and FAT32]. Otherwise the network install is a good idea If you can get SAMBA up and running, I don't see why it wouldn't work, so long as MS Office doesn't mind doing a "Network Install" or at least installing to a Network hard drive.
Re: [newbie] problem with floppy access
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Richard Adams wrote: I'll try this when I get home. However, I thought that LM6.1 was supposed to let regular users mount drives. I also know that the floppy is mounted since I can access it from kde's file browser with no trouble. I'm using /mnt/floppy as the path to my floppy drive is this correct? On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I got star office and wp8 to install fine, but when I try to get them to save to my floppy drive I get a permission denied message and have to save to hdd first and then transfer it to my floppy. does anyone know how to fix this? Sounds like your using wp as a normal user and your floppy is only useable by root, to change the flopy, edit /etc/fstab to look something like; /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,noauto 0 0 Its the user, that alllows a normal user to mount and unmount the floppy. and msdos would possably be fat or vfat. Or it could just be that you get permission denied because the floppy is not mounted at all. David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 5054[EMAIL PROTECTED] Clinton, MS 39058 http://www.mc.edu/~vanbalen
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
Why don't you send email to Microsoft and ask them. I'm sure they will laugh and laugh and laugh. Just try Netscape or Lynx and soon we will have Opera and Mozilla. Other than that, don't hold your breath. Brian -Original Message- From: Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED] ok, thanx... wenz the version of IE for linux gonna be availible?
RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Moshier Sent: 20 September 1999 22:07 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.] Try checking out : http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ It's only black and white printing, last I looked. Yup, looks like it. For reference, someone posted this site a while back too (not me incidentally, so it's not a shameless plug!!). Has a complete database of loads of printers and their status under Linux. Gives some setup details too. I found it very useful... http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi Martin.
[newbie] FTP - Install SUCCESS !!!
Greetinz NEWBEEZ, FTP install working just fine - 25% Complete after 40 minutes. Here's a tip: 1. Select an FTP site that has the distro only. Too many people fighting for connections to download the iso. 2. Pick a ftp site located in a highly populated area of the world where most people would be sleeping. 3. Be patient and wait one more week for the server traffic to slow down, the 6.1 release is still only a couple days old. Regards, Sean sj.Pritchard Technical Services Vanderhoof, BC Canada http://www.sjptech.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
Wait a minute Fellow Newbies! I thought that one reason we started converting to Linux was to break away from MS systems and Apps? If we start putting in requests for MS Apps, MS will bungle up the beauty of this OS and it's community. I am not a purist, but in look at it this way. If I own a Dodge Ram, I don't want Ford redesigning and building accessories for my truck, nor do I want them to do any maintenance on it. But, third party mechanics can take a look, and do service on it if they are qualified and respect my property. They'll have warrantee liscensing to be qualified, to ensure the customer satisfaction and protection. MS was to OS's and computers as Henry Ford was to cars. Big Bad Bill setup the mass production and implementation but Ford does not have the most dependable vehicles, nor were they the inventors - BENZ has a product that is fast and decades durable and dependable and the engineering is out reach for Ford to impliment in there vehicles. There were hybrid vehicle corporations out there that died - AMC=Ford+GMC, they couldn't even take the best of both to do it. So CHRYSLER had a mind to buy it up and revamp it. They had the brains for marketing and technology to do it. DOes Linux have the edge to do something like this to MS?, we'll only see in the decade ahead. Sorry for the deep philosophy... Regards, Sean David van Balen wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Donny wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? I believe the only versions of Unix supported by IE are HP-UX and Solaris. I very much doubt that MS has any plans to port their product to Linux for obvious reasons... then again, I may be wrong :) Neither of the above versions should work with Linux as far as I know. Thanks! David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] init=?
the file is called /etc/inittab... there should be a line like: id:5:initdefault you can change the 5 to a 3 for multiuser - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] init=? On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to put this. I've buggered something up and am now quite confused.. :) I'm using kernel 2.2.12 on Mandrake 6.0. The kernal is also placed and configured in lilo in / as I am a slackware convert. :) What is the EXACT error you're getting???
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Did you set up DNS? Try typing in a IP address like: http://209.15.9.72/ It's just one I found that works. Brian -Original Message- From: micron [EMAIL PROTECTED] After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Thanks, micron
RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean Pritchard Sent: 20 September 1999 23:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer Wait a minute Fellow Newbies! I thought that one reason we started converting to Linux was to break away from MS systems and Apps? [BIG SNIP !!] Do we have to have this discussion YET AGAIN !! (sorry long, BAD day). People switch to Linux for their own reasons, personally, i like to use the best of both worlds (yes there are some damn good programs under Windows). Each to his own. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
Donny wrote: ok, thanx... wenz the version of IE for linux gonna be availible? Ummm... never?? Seriously, what advantage would Microsoft gain by porting their browser to an operating system that runs on the same platform their "operating system" uses? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bernhard Rosenkraenzer Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Donny wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? No, and there won't ever be one. Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? No, because they're for SPARC processors and we can't emulate them. Any attempt to emulate them would be painfully slow (because they're superior to x86). LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/ -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer
In reply to sean's resopnse: Hay man, Although linux is great, it still wont take down MS for many years to come. I dont think one OS os better than the other. I use each for different things... Linux is great to compete with MS, and give people a choice. But were still gonna have to live with both OS's and co-exist for a LONG LONG time. I dont think linux will or shuld take over the OS market. People must have choices. If they like Windowz, fine... linux, Be, whatever. I jus think the OS's shuld co-exist, so the user of one OS wont loose out on the features another one provides. Theres my feeling on the matter :-) Sean Pritchard wrote: Wait a minute Fellow Newbies! I thought that one reason we started converting to Linux was to break away from MS systems and Apps? If we start putting in requests for MS Apps, MS will bungle up the beauty of this OS and it's community. I am not a purist, but in look at it this way. If I own a Dodge Ram, I don't want Ford redesigning and building accessories for my truck, nor do I want them to do any maintenance on it. But, third party mechanics can take a look, and do service on it if they are qualified and respect my property. They'll have warrantee liscensing to be qualified, to ensure the customer satisfaction and protection. MS was to OS's and computers as Henry Ford was to cars. Big Bad Bill setup the mass production and implementation but Ford does not have the most dependable vehicles, nor were they the inventors - BENZ has a product that is fast and decades durable and dependable and the engineering is out reach for Ford to impliment in there vehicles. There were hybrid vehicle corporations out there that died - AMC=Ford+GMC, they couldn't even take the best of both to do it. So CHRYSLER had a mind to buy it up and revamp it. They had the brains for marketing and technology to do it. DOes Linux have the edge to do something like this to MS?, we'll only see in the decade ahead. Sorry for the deep philosophy... Regards, Sean David van Balen wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Donny wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? I believe the only versions of Unix supported by IE are HP-UX and Solaris. I very much doubt that MS has any plans to port their product to Linux for obvious reasons... then again, I may be wrong :) Neither of the above versions should work with Linux as far as I know. Thanks! David van Balen mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Re-Install Problems
Bob wrote:
Hello,
4VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
4hdb: lost interrupt
4hdb: drive_comp : ststua=0x58 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest Error}
4hdb: status error : ststua=0x58 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest
Error}
4hdb: drive not ready for command
4hdc: drive_comp : ststua=0x51 {DriveReady, SeekComplete Error}
4hdb: status error : ststus=0x04 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest
Error}
4hdb: drive not ready for command
4hdc: drive_comp : ststua=0x51 {DriveReady, SeekComplete Error}
4hdb: status error : ststus=0x04 {DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest
Error}
6install uses obsolete /proc/pci interface
7ISO9660 extensions RRIP_1991A
It looks like that machine has problems. A missed interrupt and hard
drive errors across the board.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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Re: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They won't even answer their phones. Not alot of help, but the pages seem to work fine from here. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network
Ripcrd6 wrote: I finally started working on networking my machines. I have one here at work I started setting up during lunch. This PC will be a dual boot Windows 95 and Mu Linux, the other two machines are a 100% Mandrake box and a Windows 95 box that may later be dual boot or 100% Linux. I'm following some instructions for the Windows portion I found online, but have this question. If this box will be in the mix with Linux, do I need to set up NetBEUI at all or as the default file and printer sharing? Is this what Samba replaces? Should I completely remove NetBEUI or would it be used to communicate with the other Windows box? You'll probably need NetBEUI on the clients if you're going to be running Samba on the Linux server. If you're not interested in Samba, you could stick with straight TCP/IP for all machines. This is completely an experimental set up. I am going through a second education as I didn't have these cool toys when I first went to college. How do you turn a former manager into a Sys Admin? Give him Linux. I just want to play with some stuff and see how to set up networking. Brian Quite fun, isn't it? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] init]
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Michael Scottaline wrote:
Jim Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its
telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be
3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to
put this. I've buggered something up and am now quite confused.. :)
I'm using kernel 2.2.12 on Mandrake 6.0. The kernal is also placed and
configured in lilo in / as I am a slackware convert. :)
Jim
===
Hi Jim,
Can't say for sure this will work, but try typing linux 3 at the lilo
prompt. Hopefully this will boot you into a multi-user console mode. Then
edit /etc/initab/
HTH,
Mike
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Helo Michael and newbie-list,
I just read this mail and it reminded Michael to let you know I resolved the
problem with LIL- when I was attempting to boot from the hard drive. My
problem was that in the lilo.conf file in /etc the boot was defined as
boot=/dev/hda1 rather than boot=/devhda
I just wanted to pass that along and quite honestly have no idea as to how
boot got defined in that manner. When I did my install of 6.1 I told LILO to
install to MBR not any other partition but correcting that and re-running
/sbin/lilo -v corrected the problem.
Thank you for your response,
Dave
Distribution: Red Hat Linux
Operating System: Linux
Distribution Version: Linux Mandrake release 6.1 (Helios)
Operating System Version: #1 Wed Sep 15 18:02:18 CEST 1999
Operating System Release: 2.2.13-7mdk
Processor Type:i586
Host Name: slip.n3meq.ampr.org
User Name: n3meq
X Display Name::0
System Status: 10:17pm up 4:51, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.02,
0.00
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Re: [newbie] Video Config in Linux *Help!*
At 24 bpp I had problems only with netscape, now I'm with 16 bpp ,it's faster and netscape looks as it should look. El dom, 19 sep 1999, escribiste: Thanks! That got it! But my graphics still don't look as good as I expected. I selected 24bit color and 800x600 and graphics still have speckled color. I thought 24bit was supposed to be "True Color"! Jeremy -Original Message- From: Guillermo Belli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 3:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Config in Linux *Help!* You are still at 640x480 8bpp because you are probably using the vga16 server, not the XBF_i740 server. To solve this, go to /usr/X11R6/bin and make a symbolic link to the XBF_i740 file as follows: cd /usr/X11R6/bin ln -s XBF_i740 XF86_SVGA Then run Xconfigurator and select unlisted card, select SVGA server, select the proper settings for your monitor, and answer "don't probe" when it appears. Then you'll be asked for the video ram, my Stealth II G460 has 8mb, you specify what's right for your card. After that select "No clockchip", "skip" probe, and finally select your desired resolution and color depth. It's recommended that you select only the resolution you want to work with, and not the lower ones. After that just say "ok" and you're done! El 18 sep 1999, escribiste: OK, now that I have installed the i740 xserver and rerun xf86config, what good is it? My system is still loading the generic VGA dirver at 640x480. I've managed to figure out how to comment out the annoying virtual desktop settings in the config file, but I need to know how I can force the system to load up the accellerated driver in something other than 640x480 screen resolution and (hopefully) something a bit sharper looking than level 8 color depth. I've tried the ControlAlt+ and ControlAlt- thing mentioned in the xfree86 FAQ, and nothing happens. Any suggestions are appreciated. Jeremy -Original Message- From: Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Config in Linux *Help!* I use the one supplied on the Mandrake 6.0 Cd and it works fine. There is a readme file in the same directory that tells you exactly how to set this up, just make sure you use the instructions for redhat systems 5.0 and above, not the 4.0 instructions. Also note that the created XF86config file will placed under /etc/ not /etc/X11. Have Fun, Ben
Re: [newbie] Modem Config
I have a USR Courier internal. It would not work under Linux if jumpered for PnP. To have it properly installed, I: 1) logged in Windows, checked under "System Settings" which COM and IRQ Win98 was using through PnP; 2) jumpered the modem for the proper COM and IRQ, disabling PnP. 3) under linux, I used setserial and modemtool to properly finish my setup. Hope it helps, /Gustavo. On dom, 19 set 1999, you wrote: Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: OK, I am now down to one piece of hardware to configure. It's a USRobotics Sportster internal modem. It is PnP with jumpers, although I currently have it jumpered for PnP. I have isapnp running at startup, but I must need to do something else. By the way, I have read the Modem HOW-TO and the isapnptools documentation and both are highly technical and unclear. Both explain very thoroughly what is happening, but neither explain how to make the modem work! It appears that isapnp has it configured as ttys3 with a IO of 03f8-03ff. But when I select /dev/modem in the setup for kppp, I get the message "Sorry, can't open modem." So I select /dev/ttyS3 and get the message "Sorry, modem is busy." That might be true. But have you ran "setserial"? Linux seems to be defaulted to com 1, com 2. If this is indeed ttyS3 ( com 4 ) you need to run setserial. At a terminal type " man setserial " and read it. Then fix it. :) ALan === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They won't even answer their phones. Seve PS...it should be reachable via www.4front-tech.com as they are owned by 4front technologies.
Re: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how to get this working, let me know. I can send you the modified files. This newbie is appreciative of all that I have learned from others on this list and wish to give back something. Also, someone asked me to let them know if I got this working, but I don't remember who it was. Hmm..how much does one of those puppies cost? I need a UPS that'll shut my system down automagically. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Netscape
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Do you have your ISP's name servers in your resolv.conf? If so, I'm at a loss. I'm not using a "dial-up" connection, per se. I'm using an ISDN router, but there's nowhere in the router to put the DNS info, so I have to put it in my resolv.conf and it works beautifully. John
Re: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They won't even answer their phones. Seve Dunno. It works for me here... Either run a "traceroute" to them and find out if there are any broken links between you and them or ask your ISP to do so. John
[newbie] Telnet Broken After Update!?!?
Simple and to the point here. After initial install of Linux-Mandrake, Telnet worked fine. However, after updating it via Mandrake-Updates, it appears broken and won't provide a user login and password screen... only tells me that the escape character is ^] Why would I need an escape character when the updated telnet doesn't provide me something to escape from? (Forgive me for humor... but it's a good way of maintaining your sanity!) Anyone got a clue as to what got changed, which causes Telnet to do something like this? What am I missing??? Thanks in Advance Kurt
Re: [Re: [newbie] How do I quit X when it starts automatically?]
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Brian Erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ty Mixon wrote: What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want to work in a console use CTRL+ALT+F123456 to get to a console. Best of both worlds that way. Ty, What do you do to go back to X/KDE? Brian in Fremont = CTRL+ALT+F7 :o) Make that ALT+F7. No need to use CTRL in this situation. John
Re: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding?
I don't know its working now Jeanette - Original Message - From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Does anyone know why www.opensound.com is not responding? I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They won't even answer their phones. Seve
Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] You'll probably need NetBEUI on the clients if you're going to be running Samba on the Linux server. If you're not interested in Samba, you could stick with straight TCP/IP for all machines. How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT server. The SMB protocol works just fine over tcp/ip. Admittedly, I haven't done a _lot_ of work with it, but I'm able to share files and printers between my Linux, Win98, and WinNT boxes, using Samba over tcp/ip, without any trouble. The only value I see in NetBEUI is that you don't have to assign addresses, but that's not a big deal in a small LAN.
[newbie] need to increase my /root
I think I made /root too small and /home too big. Can I use PM 4 to resize ext2 partitions without messing things up I really don't want to reinstall all this software. I have a small /boot that I am not going to resize and a small /dos partition also plus swap of course. TIA Jeanette
Re: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working
I would like to give it a shot I have a cyberpower also. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Scott Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:30 PM Subject: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how to get this working, let me know. I can send you the modified files. This newbie is appreciative of all that I have learned from others on this list and wish to give back something. Also, someone asked me to let them know if I got this working, but I don't remember who it was. Regards, -- Scott Miller Using Linux Mandrake Operating System Take a look at http://www.linux-mandrake.com
Re: [newbie] Compiling Kernel under 6.1
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi all, im not sure if this is the proper place for this question but i hope someone can help me out. I recently installed Mandrake 6.1 (no not the beta) on my computer. and it works fine except for one thing. I recompiled my kernel and when i tried to install it using linuxconf it complains that /dev/sda1 isnt a valid partition or isnt a linux partiton. That is the partition it is installed on so im not sure what to do. I tried to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file to add the new kernel, but I do not know where to find all the information i need. Specifically the line for "initrd =". I dont know if this is enough information but any help anyone can provide would be appreciated, im desperate for an answer. I cant install vmware until i recompile because the vmware install script complains about the version of kernel headers in the /usr/src/linux/include directory being for 2.2.13-7mdk when my kernel is 2.2.13-7mdksmp. im very frustrated. can someone please help??? Silly question, I know, but when you recompiled your kernel, did you build-in support for your SCSI card? If not, that's the problem If so, I'd double-check that it's not trying to load SCSI support as a module anyway. From my (very) limited experience compiling new kernels, you have the option of compiling SCSI support directly into the kernel or making it a module. If you did the latter, it won't work, as you need SCSI support to complete the boot process, BEFORE you load modules. John
Re: [newbie] Telnet Broken After Update!?!?
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Simple and to the point here. After initial install of Linux-Mandrake, Telnet worked fine. However, after updating it via Mandrake-Updates, it appears broken and won't provide a user login and password screen... only tells me that the escape character is ^] Why would I need an escape character when the updated telnet doesn't provide me something to escape from? (Forgive me for humor... but it's a good way of maintaining your sanity!) Anyone got a clue as to what got changed, which causes Telnet to do something like this? What am I missing??? Check the archives. This is a known problem. You only downloaded the telnet CLIENT. Now, you have to go get the telnet SERVER. John
Re: [newbie] Netscape
G'day, Try this, As root edit /etc/ppp/options and remove lock. On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Thanks, micron -- Michael Doyle Adelaide, South Australia ICQ #2635762 http://landofoz.apana.org.au
RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.]
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Martin White wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Moshier Sent: 20 September 1999 22:07 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [[newbie] HP 722C printer no fly.] Try checking out : http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ It's only black and white printing, last I looked. Yup, looks like it. For reference, someone posted this site a while back too (not me incidentally, so it's not a shameless plug!!). Has a complete database of loads of printers and their status under Linux. Gives some setup details too. I found it very useful... http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi Martin. :) and i found a couple drivers we don't already provide. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Telnet Broken After Update!?!?
Kurt wrote: Simple and to the point here. After initial install of Linux-Mandrake, Telnet worked fine. However, after updating it via Mandrake-Updates, it appears broken and won't provide a user login and password screen... only tells me that the escape character is ^] Why would I need an escape character when the updated telnet doesn't provide me something to escape from? (Forgive me for humor... but it's a good way of maintaining your sanity!) Anyone got a clue as to what got changed, which causes Telnet to do something like this? What am I missing??? Thanks in Advance Simple and to the point: telnet client and server got split into two packages in the update. Grab the telnet-server package from your favorite mirror and you're back online. Oh, and the archives probably have extensive coverage of this topic. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how to get this working, let me know. I can send you the modified files. This newbie is appreciative of all that I have learned from others on this list and wish to give back something. Also, someone asked me to let them know if I got this working, but I don't remember who it was. Hmm..how much does one of those puppies cost? I need a UPS that'll shut my system down automagically. :-) I've been using a PK Electronics BlackoutBuster that I got for $50 (on rebate). It's not the fanciest, but using upsd with it allows a controlled shutdown in the event of a power loss. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] init
Sorry, I wasn't in front of the machine in question at the time of the message. It is "Kernel Panic: no init found" My inittab has the proper entry and to my lilo config is fine i'm assuming. (attached) Any ideas? On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to put this. I've buggered something up and am now quite confused.. :) I'm using kernel 2.2.12 on Mandrake 6.0. The kernal is also placed and configured in lilo in / as I am a slackware convert. :) What is the EXACT error you're getting??? # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) id:3:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 # Things to run in every runlevel. ud::once:/sbin/update # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your # UPS connected and working correctly. pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled" # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 # Run xdm in runlevel 5 # xdm is now a separate service x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon boot = /dev/hda timeout = 50 prompt vga = normal read-only map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b image = /vmlinuz label = linux root = /dev/hda1 other = /dev/hdb1 label = dos table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to =0x81 map-drive=0x81 to =0x80
Re: [newbie] need to increase my /root
From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I made /root too small and /home too big. Can I use PM 4 to resize ext2 partitions without messing things up I really don't want to reinstall Yes, this should work fine--at least, it's worked for me several times. Be sure to re-run lilo.
Re: [[newbie] HP 712C Printer....]
On 20 Sep 1999, Michael Scottaline wrote: "Matt G. Ellis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?" == I believe the entire 7xx series falls into that category :o( Mike ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. Opps send to soon, forgot. ppa is available for the 720's in cooker. I'll be redoing the rpm so that all three drivers get packaged. right now only the 720 is not the 800 or 1000 -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] HP 712C Printer....
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matt G. Ellis wrote: I've had the same problems as the the guy with the 722C printer, is the 712 also a "WinPrinter?" Yes, but AFAIK there is currently some project going to get winprinters to work on Linux. Maybe someone else knows more about this... LLaP bero pbm2ppa project, i've got a nasty hack going over here for the printer i picked up yesterday. It's an apollo p1200, that so far i've been unable to find the right driver for. It's starting to look like a winprinter, but i've hacked around that, because my windows box has no parallel port. I installed the driver on the win box directed it's port to a file, this file then gets uploaded to the linuxbox with the printer attached then my crontab/spooler cat's them direct to /dev/lp0. It's a nasty hack but my mom can print now so maybe i get some work done soon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer
Donny, If you've been paying attention, the IE for Linux will be available about the 32nd of Never. At least that is the general concensus. 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 Donny Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer ok, thanx... wenz the version of IE for linux gonna be availible?
RE: [[newbie] Internet Explorer]
Except that it won't support server push technology, or at least still didn't last time I looked. Netscape does support server push. 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 Michael Scottaline Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Internet Explorer] Donny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? Thanks! == No such animal AFAIK. Too bad. It's one of the better M$ products :o( Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Id mo
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." snip grep 'mo' /etc/inittab Thanks Axalon. Out of curiosity, where can I read/learn about this "mo"? Could not find info in the man pages or the list archives. it's a tag in inittab, the first portion of the uncommented lines are tags/labels so it can keep track of what and when. We don't put anything labeled mo: in inittab so i couldn't tell you the slightes bit about it. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Compiling Kernel under 6.1
Silly question, I know, but when you recompiled your kernel, did you build-in support for your SCSI card? If not, that's the problem If so, I'd double-check that it's not trying to load SCSI support as a module anyway. From my (very) limited experience compiling new kernels, you have the option of compiling SCSI support directly into the kernel or making it a module. If you did the latter, it won't work, as you need SCSI support to complete the boot process, BEFORE you load modules. John Yes the kernel i compiled has SCSI support built into the kernel not modular, however i dont know about the stock kernel mandrake ships with. It might not, but that one boots so im going to assume that it does. have support.
Re: [newbie] Netscape
well since everyone is talking about netscape i have a question for you. Does anyone know why my button icons, and the little netscape comet thing all appear in black and white? its netscape 4.61 and im running in 24bit color mode. thanks Ethan
Re: [newbie] was: Thanx for tha help! now: TT Fonts - jrt
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, John Turbvull wrote: Scott Miller wrote: Donny wrote: Hey, i forget who it was, but thanks for the awesum idea of using windowz TT fonts to make netscape look awesum. snip Glad it worked for you. When Linux supports TT Font printing, it will really be great! Does anyone know the status of being able to print TT Fonts? -- Scott Miller Using Linux Mandrake Operating System Take a look at http://www.linux-mandrake.com On a related note: Do the menu selections, Increase Font Alt+] and Decrease Font Alt+[ under View in both Netscape Navigator or Netscape Messenger do anything in the Linux versions of Netscape? They are always grayed out under Linux. Not for me, you must have to be a netscape developer to get those working, as i've never seen them work. I have read the site http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html, but the information there is not applicable to Mandrake 6.1, as the font path is no-longer handled in /etc/X11/XF86Config. It is given as Font Path "unix/:-1" there. This is rather meaningless to me. . . Apply the theory to /etc/X11/fs/config, it should be pretty apparent now that you know the config file for xfs, if not say so. I have my Variable Width Font set to Utopia Adobe Size 18 and the Fixed Width Font set to Courier Adobe Size 14. I do not see any True Type Fonts listed, just Monotype, Urw, Bitstream, Microsoft, Adobe and Wp Altsys. If I select Bitstream, I seem to be restricted to size 0 or 12 only. I haven't seen much of an improvement in the Netscape display, but it is now large enough to be readable. If anybody sees some weirdness in the ramblings above, please comment. Thanx. John Personaly i switch the font sizes to 18 and select "always use my fonts" in the netscape dialog, and all is peachy.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Steve, Well I am Irish, you know :-)) On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: G'day, Try this, As root edit /etc/ppp/options and remove lock. On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote: After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help! Michael, Right answer, wrong question. Think /etc/resolv.conf. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael Doyle Adelaide, South Australia ICQ #2635762 http://landofoz.apana.org.au
Re: [newbie] System shutdown using CyberPower UPS is working
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how to get this working, let me know. I can send you the modified files. John Aldrich wrote: Hmm..how much does one of those puppies cost? I need a UPS that'll shut my system down automagically. :-) John John, I got mine on sale at Best Buy for $49.95 for the 325VA model. I think they also have one that's approx 500VA that costs a bit more. -- Scott Miller Using Linux Mandrake Operating System Take a look at http://www.linux-mandrake.com
[newbie] Is It Possible That Redhat/Mandrake does not contain a driver or workaround for my soundcard?
I've tried every setting combination with several different ESS and Soundblaster drivers to no avail. Is it possible that Redhat/Mandrake does not contain the driver or workaround for my ESS1888 soundcard? Does anyone have a Compaq 4700series with the ESS1888 soundcard that's using Linux? And has anyone had success with the soundcard? I just want to be sure before I leap to buy the OSS driver. Seve
Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows mixed network
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT server. The You mean require? Either, actually--it almost sounded like you were saying that Samba was netbeui, or some such thing. My apologies. I've been dealing with NetBEUI/TCP/IP problems for the past two weeks at work. Eventually, you just don't care WHICH one you use as long as one works... :) "If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid." I'm not sure I knew that Linux supported NetBEUI, although I guess that shouldn't surprise me (heck, it supports almost everything else).
[newbie] LICQ and Madrake 6.0 HELP!
Okay, i downloaded and unpacked the Source for LICQ .7 I can compile the program itself fine, my problem is getting the required qt-gui to compile. It said i needed QT2.00 and I only have QT1.44, i downloaded the 2.00 rpms from rpmfind.net and installed them but that didn't help. If anyone has gotten LICQ to work with madrake 6.0 please tell me what steps you took! I wanna get this to work!
Re: [newbie] Netscape
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Ethan Daugherty wrote: well since everyone is talking about netscape i have a question for you. Does anyone know why my button icons, and the little netscape comet thing all appear in black and white? its netscape 4.61 and im running in 24bit color mode. thanks Ethan You obviously either A) just got here B) haven't really been readying all these netscape posts In either case your solution is in the archive and quite easily found with the search button ;)
Re: [newbie] Is It Possible That Redhat/Mandrake does not contain a driver or workaround for my soundcard?
have u ried the ALSA sound system? they might have ur the drivers u need... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) on 09/21/99 11:43:32 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Hamka B Hj Suleiman/SKO/PCSB/Petronas) Subject: [newbie] Is It Possible That Redhat/Mandrake does not contain a driver or workaround for my soundcard? I've tried every setting combination with several different ESS and Soundblaster drivers to no avail. Is it possible that Redhat/Mandrake does not contain the driver or workaround for my ESS1888 soundcard? Does anyone have a Compaq 4700series with the ESS1888 soundcard that's using Linux? And has anyone had success with the soundcard? I just want to be sure before I leap to buy the OSS driver. Seve
Re: [newbie] Telnet Broken After Update!?!?
Thanks a bundle Philip! :o) I'll grab the server portion of things... as long as it serves beer ** burp ** 'Chuse Me! I adhere to the RTFM rule, but "Using Linux, Third Edition" by Tackett and Gunter didn't seem to help on this particular issue. Thanks Again!! Kurt Steve Philp wrote: Kurt wrote: Simple and to the point here. After initial install of Linux-Mandrake, Telnet worked fine. However, after updating it via Mandrake-Updates, it appears broken and won't provide a user login and password screen... only tells me that the escape character is ^] Why would I need an escape character when the updated telnet doesn't provide me something to escape from? (Forgive me for humor... but it's a good way of maintaining your sanity!) Anyone got a clue as to what got changed, which causes Telnet to do something like this? What am I missing??? Thanks in Advance Simple and to the point: telnet client and server got split into two packages in the update. Grab the telnet-server package from your favorite mirror and you're back online. Oh, and the archives probably have extensive coverage of this topic. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] FRONTPAGE 2000 with V 6.1
Hi ! I wanted to install the FP2000 extensions on my newly installed Helios. Everything went fine, except that I don´t know if it is a good idea to run the file "change_server.sh" that is provided by MS. On the infopage after installation there is this sentence: "...Also included are special patches to enable FrontPage 2000 support, however you need to install the optional package to enable it." It stands in the upper half next to the NetRevolution logo. Now, does anyone now where to get this ?? (If you don´t find what I mean look at http://195.127.110.2 ) Thanks, Alexander Walden [EMAIL PROTECTED] == AWIC AG Eschborner Landstrasse 41-51D-60489 Frankfurt a.M. Postfach 940181 D-60459 Frankfurt a.M. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet www.awic.de Telefon+49 69 753001 0 Telefax+49 69 753001 99 ==
Re: [newbie] LICQ and Madrake 6.0 HELP!
Hi Matt! I have LICQ working on my mandrake 6.0 system, and it works wonderfully! I believe I have installed the version before version 7. I would suggest that, with ICQ clients, you ALWAYS allow yourself to lag behind one version and always install the next older version than the current one. The reason for this, is that the newest version nearly always has multitudes of bugs in them. NOTE: Always download the most current version that says "STABLE" and everything will be peachy. Also, for your further information, I am having lots of problems manually compiling programs, as everything seems to tell me "recursive... quitting" and also tells me that the Make files cannot find the .h headers on my system. Since I am trying to figure that out, I've been opting to install things using RPM for the time being until I can get these "wires" uncrossed here. Anything further, lemme know. Kurt --- "Matt G. Ellis" wrote: Okay, i downloaded and unpacked the Source for LICQ .7 I can compile the program itself fine, my problem is getting the required qt-gui to compile. It said i needed QT2.00 and I only have QT1.44, i downloaded the 2.00 rpms from rpmfind.net and installed them but that didn't help. If anyone has gotten LICQ to work with madrake 6.0 please tell me what steps you took! I wanna get this to work!
Re: [Re: [newbie] How do I install php-3_0_9_tar.tar]
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: Richard Adams wrote: The above is correct, however just tellig someone to untar the file without telling him or even warn him what he is doing is going a little to far. tar files can will and have done damage to my system when i was a green newbie many moons ago. I _still_ do the following before i untar any file other than a linux kernel source tree. zless file.tar,gz all i want to see is what is in the top left hand corner, which will tell me if the tar file creates its own directory or just deposites all its files in the presant working directory, and yes there still are still idiots who create archives like that, so be warned. The best advice here is; mkdir /tmp/newfile cp file.tar.gz /tmp/newfile tar xzf file.tar.gz Thanks Richard, I hadn't been bit by this one. Now maybe I can sidestep one of the pit traps. :-) What i explaned was extream curcumstancies, normaly a tar file can be placed say into your ftp directory, thats what i do when downloading via ftp or via netscape. I gave the example of /tmp/newfile to make it very clear what i meant, now considering you read and took that advice here's a beter way. and a more detailed explanation of howto use tar archives. As i said my files go into /home/ftp/pub/incoming, now when the download is complete i do, zless file.tar.gz as explained before, as soon as i see that a new directory is created, an example would be; zless cwkeyer-0.1.tgz cwkeyer-0.1/^@^@^@^@ that shows me the archive will create its own dir, i then do; cd /usr/local/src tar xzf /home/ftp/pub/incoming/cwkeyer-0.1.tgz which will create; /usr/local/src/cwkeyer-0.1 cd cwkeyer-0.1 Read the README's and INSTALL files which are "normaly" included in a decent archive, then follow what is written, normaly someting like the following would be applicable, ./configure make make install That should then place the newly made binary(s) in thier proper resting place. If for instance you have an archive which will deposite binary's striat into places like /bin /sbin etc, i firstly make sure i have the old origanal tar archive or copy the old program binary as prog.OLD, these sorts of archives would show in the top lefthand corner with zless something like; bin/@ so you would do; cd / tar xzf /home/ftp/pub/incoming/file.tar.gz That will install the binarys strait to the correct place. One thing to remember is that a system which uses RPM's can uninstall an rpm if it proves to cause problems and will replace the old binarys, using tar archives you need to take precausions yourself. I use Redhat-6.0 but still get tar.gz archives from the net to install on my system, i was a slackware user for many years (and indeed still am on a couple of my machines) and just got used to doing it that way. Its always beter to be cautouis and happy, than jumping in like a bull in a china shop and having to pay the price. Bob J. -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Modem
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: As a hack, you can add the command you want to run to the end of the rc.local file, located at /etc/rc.d/rc.local. This is where I load some modules in since the modules don't want to load in the correct order... (it attempts to load sound.o before uart.o, which sound requires, so I just load them again in the right order here...) The reason for that problem is possably because you have not setup you /etc/conf.modules propelry. As to the setserial question, i would add a small if statement to rc.local, why an if statement, well if setserial does sometihng wrong it will possably lockup the machine, in an if statement there is a small chance the problem will recover, albeit small. if [ -f /etc/rc.d/rc.setserial3 ]; then /etc/rcd./rc.setserial3 fi chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.setserial3 first, otherwise it wont work. O yes, i would also advise putting anything extra in rc.local before the if statement about if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then R=$(cat /etc/redhat-release) There are of course many ways. Hope that fixes your difficulty... David "Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law." On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Sam Munns wrote: How can I set it up where when I restart my machine it runs the command /etc/setserial /dev/ttyS3 UART 16550A automatically? -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: %_i've reinstalled linux again 7th time and it still does not work. this time i get a timeout to login although it connects tolocal linux machine using ip address it will not complete a ftp session. I think its got something to do with the domain.. I have set Domain Name: megabitwest.net Host name: http://www.megabitwest.net * * by the way this is my URL , i hope to host my own domain with Linux!!! when i configured the lan ethernet card i chose ip # 209.54.142.164 (card in linux mach.) and you defined www.megabitwest.net as your hostname which has 207.87.8.117 assiged to it. Now theres a hint for you. gateway ip # 209.54.142.161 (cisco dsl router) DNS server ip #209.54.122.2 (my isp dns server) my /etc/inetd.conf has the line of: ftpstream tcpnowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd-l -a this is what the installation came up with! THIS IS BEYOND ME... HELP IF YOU CAN TERRY my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)
Greetings all Over the last couple of days I have been reading plenty of HOW-TO's, and a few mini-HOWTO's on networking with Linux. In fact I've encountered more weird acronyms and strange buxx words in the last 2 days than in the rest of my life put together. However I am learning a bucketload and realising that there is A LOT of good docs in the how-to's! Don't think is going to stop me from posting lots of trivial and basic questions though! At the moment I am considering logistical problems - hardware setups and the like (messing up software is free - messing up hardware costs $$$). Here is one of the many plans I am considering (Plan A) I currently have a box with a 1gig hda with Windows and a 6.4gig hdb with Linux. I am thinking of ripping out the 1 gig drive and putting into a 486 (actually an AMD-133 in a 486 board). I would like to split this drive giving about 600meg to Windows, and the rest to Linux. The 6.4 will stay with its current machine and become the server. In Linux mode I want to use this machine basically to learn about Unix/Linux networking (NFS, telnet, remote X-terminals) etc. In Windows mode I want to learn about Samba, and use Windows when I have to. I was thinking of connecting the two machines using 10Mbit cards and a hub (a third machine will be added later if these two work out okay). Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS Word filters on some Linux wordprocessors however when you are dealing with very long documents, that include charts etc, small discrepencies when importing/exporting the file leads to some serious headaches. I will need to continue to have MS Office 97 (sorry). If I go ahead and do something that makes it impossible to run Office the gf WILL HAVE MY BOLLOCKS. She will live if it runs slowly - she will kill me if it doesn't run at all. Here is the question then (finally) 600meg is not going to hold Win95 plus Office. So I want to install Office onto a network drive on the Linux server. Will a 10Mbit network be quick enough for the Windows machine to run Office from the networked drive? Yes I know Office is slow anyway, even slower on a 486, but will a 10Mbit allow Office to actually work? Thanking you in advance Aaron
[newbie] RPM and KDE
Hi, I tried to install an RPM package, using the graphical RPM tool inside the KDE desktop. The package seemed to install ( it was the Linux HOWTO package), but when I look for the files in the expected directory, they were not there. I then dropped back down to a command line and did an RPM -i filename, just to be told that the package was already installed. So then I RPM -i --force filename, and then the package installed and the files were where I expected them to be. Did I miss an option somewhere in the graphical RPM tool? Regards Mark __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [Fwd: [newbie] 6.1 ftp isntall via pcmcia net card]
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Chris Herrnberger wrote: That's what I thought. Guess the images are buggy. So what's the mechanism on this list to report bugs to get the images updated. We're reading the list - where did you get the images? LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
[newbie] ISDN TA
Hi, Has anyone sucessfully managed to get an Internet connection set up using a Hayes Accura ISDN TA? Are there any particular problems to look out for with an ISDN connection? Looking for any pointers, before I (foolishly) rush in. Regards Mark __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] FTP anonymous or user
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, terry wrote: i've reinstalled linux again 7th time and it still does not work. this time i get a timeout to login although it connects tolocal linux machine using ip address it will not complete a ftp session. ftp does reverse lookups... Make sure the IP of the clients you are using can be resolved to some name. Host name: http://www.megabitwest.net * I hope that's a typo? You can't put "http://" into a host name... http:// is a resource specifier, telling a client program to use port 80 and the http protocol as described in the RFCs, it is not part of the host name. when i configured the lan ethernet card i chose ip # 209.54.142.164 (card in linux mach.) You seem to be on a DSL line... Many ISPs block out ftp and http access to DSL customers. Are you sure that's not the case with your ISP? LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] iso
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, David van Balen wrote: Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between an iso distro and a "regular" one? With the ISO version, you just do cdrecord dev=wherever,your,drive,is speed=x Mandrake61.iso to put it on CD. With the regular version, you download all the individual files and have to use mkisofs to create a CD. The content is exactly the same in both versions. LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
[newbie] FTP Server
Does a Linux-Mandrake 6.0 server installation automatically set up an FTP server? I have tried to FTP connect to Linux, from my WinNT box, using MS IE as my FTP client. It won't work. I have tried both anonymous and real account details. (sorry, haven't got the exact error msg here). Where would I look for the FTP server software on my system? I have a book that pointed me to a file that maps requests for different TCPIP ports to different software servers. Port 21 is mapped to TCPD which I understand to be an access monitoring system - how might I check that the requests are being properly forwarded from TCPD to FTP? Regards Mark __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
