Re: [newbie] Any KDE applicaiton work like PKZIP for multi-floppy disks zipping
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote: I would like to backup some *.rpm, but the file size is over 1 floppy capacity. Any command line or references would be helpful. Why not use tar and the -M option -M multi archive. Thanks Dominic -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Signal 11
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote: This is only my suggestion, as AFAIK there are several possible causes of this. I also was running happily for months when all of a sudden it started happening - about a year ago now so nothing to do with 6.0/6.1. I was running a Cyrix chip which i had setup according to my motherboards recommendations. On further inspection the chip had different settings printed on the chip itself. I changed the settings on my m/b to those printed on the chip. The change effectively used a higher multiplier with a slower bus speed - hey presto my problems went away and never came back. I think the Cyrix chips may already be overclocked, so it pays to set them up slightly on the slower side - you REALLY won't notice the difference! May i say you used the wrong word, you REALLY will notice that sig 11 will dissapier. I hope i'm not going to start a cyrix users flame session, but if we look thro' different list archives 90% of machines which have sig11 probs have cyrix processors. Just a suggestion, perhaps worth checking out. A very good suggestion if i may say so. -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
The command you will need is: tar -xzpvf [filename] where [filename] is the name of the file you want to extract. In a consloe screen (or window), run the above command, and it will extract the file into the current folder. I suggest that you create a folder under your personal folder ( the one you are in when you log on as a normal user) using the command: "mkdir [directory name]", then move the gzip file to it using the command: "mv [current path/filename.ext] [destination path/filename.ext]" where current path/filename.ext is the path to the current location of the file to be moved, as in /root/downloads/filename.ext, and destination path/filename.ext is the location to which you wish to move the file, as in /home/installer/filename.ext. Note: replace the above paths and filenames with the real ones. then extract the contents using the tar command discribed at the top. After you do all this, read the README file or the INSTALL file for instructions on installing the software you have just extracted, and follow the provided instructions. I hope this helps. You can learn about the switches for the tar command in the man page. Read it using "man tar". You can also read about the mv command with "man mv". and mkdir with "man mkdir". To learn about the man command run "man man". There is a wealth of great info in the man pages. Thaat is where I have found 99% of what I need to know. They are not easy to understand all the time, but once you get used to them it is not so bad. Ernie bay56 wrote: I would love to try this myself, but I am only a couple of days into linux, and I can not find out how to deal with the compression format this driver came in. It seems that in it's default form Mandrake has no knowledge of what seems to be some kind of gzip/tar combination. What do I need to deal with that file as downloaded from creative? it's called sblive-0.2b.tar.gz I have to use my winbox to grab files at present (while I get Linux pulled together enough to do it) I then transfer to LS120 disk - and in the first couple of days I have managed to get linux to see this drive and even copy the files to the linux partition (where I am keeping these kind of support files). I can't be far off the right method, because I have managed (somehow) to install star office this way - but this has me a bit stumped. I have no clue where to look to find out how to de-compress the file to even attempt what you outlined - but want to try it. I am using Mandrake 6.0 Venus - and hopefully 6.1 Helios in next few days when I can lay hands on it. Can you suggest an approach please? Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work Try the command "sndconfig" without the quotes from a console window. Then follow the on screen instructions. One thing I have noticed on my system is that the sound card output volume is very low, and so you must listen carefully when the util plays the test sounds. Even if you only think you hear something from your speakers, answer yes to the test question "Did you hear the Sound?" or something like that. Also, if the speakers are amplified, turn up the volume before running sndconfig. This may help. You can read up on the util with "man sndconfig". To get out of the man util press "q". I hope this helps. Ernie Thomas Peter wrote: I am a total newbie. I've had a computer for 1 1/2 years. I never worked with Dos. I got sick of Win 98 always crashing. I have everything running except my sound card. I am running Mandrake 6.0 and my sound card is a Sound Blaster Live. I went to their download site and downloaded the driver. It has two ways to execute it, automatic and manuel. When I try to use its self install. I get the error "can only run executibles on local disks only". I thought that was what my hard drive was. I even tried to install it the manul way but had no luck at that either. Creative is not offering any help for linux at this time. Do you have any suggestions. Thomas
Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]
I'm still too new at Linux to help with the repair job, but I can explain why you need to do the installer. When you are running an installed Linux system, the files you want to replace in a version upgrade are being used by the system, and cannot be replaced. That is why you need a boot disk, so the files wil;l not be in use. If you watch the install screens, you will see one that gives you a choice of "Install" or "Update". When you get there, choose "Update". (could be "Upgrade"). This will not wipe out your existing stuff, and will still replace the existing version with the newer one. Hope all this makes sence, Ernie Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: Ok, but I don't understand why I can't just grab the rpms, and then upgrade what I have installed, using kpackage or rpm. Which is why I didn't read the readme or install files - didn't think I had to do an install. That's what I get for thunking . . . Anyhow I wrote down the error messages, and did some tracking: INIT: version 2.76 booting sh: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory INIT: Entering runlevel: 5 bash: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory INIT cannot execute "/etc/X11/prefdm" (it then goes into a respawning loop and eventually quits trying.) Now, using a Debian CD I have lying around I went in and mounted /usr/lib and I found libreadline.so.4.0. I even cp'd it to / hoping that this would put it unmistakably in the path. Guess not. So which file can I edit to make it explicitly point to libreadline? I THINK (and that hurts!) it will fix my problem. Thanks so much for the help!! Ty "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To do the upgrade, you will need to download the entire contents of the /Mandrake folder. You will need to make a boot disk to run the instalation program. From DOS or Windoz, you can do this with the boot.img file from the Images folder on the FTP site, and rawrite (not sure of the spelling of names) from the DOSUTILS folder. Run rawrite while loged into the directory which contains the rawrite utility, and folow the on screen prompts. With a floppy in drive A: , rawrite will produce a boot disk for Linux. Boot from the boot disk you just made, then when the install program runs, select the "update" option, not the "install" one. This will update your current instalation, and hopefully fix any errors you may now be encountering. Also note that the people at Mandrake are kind enough to provide "readme" files. I make it a practice to always read these things, as they usually keep me out of trouble, or at least reduce the depth of trouble I get myself into. There is a Readme file and a INSTALL file. Read 'em both. They may help. Good luck, Ernie Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: Ok, I downloaded all the packages from 6.1. I then went thru and tried to install them all using kpackage. Some, no matter what I did, would always give me unsatisfied depends - even tho I JUST installed those depends! So I reboot, thinking that will wake up kpackage - Instead I get "Can't start something" It was lookingin X11R6/.../predfm(?). I know, I know, I don't have the whole error msg. This happened to me when I tried to use autorpm too. Same msg's. I'm using my web based email account from a Windoze machine so I don't have access to the errors. If anyone can tell me: A) What went wrong, and B) How to prevent it, and C) How to reinstall w/o losing anything, I'd Really Really love it!! Thanks, Ty Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [newbie] Install nightmare
Try restarting, then wait to see if the system starts in X-windows. Sounds like you are set up for automatic GUI. You will see a console log in screen, then, after a short pause, X loads, and you should get the graphical log in screen. Hopefully, the problem is not in the software, but in your eagerness to use the system. If that isn't it, I don't know enough to be of help as yet. Ernie Valheru wrote: Hello, I just installed Linux on my system. I d/l'ed all the files from the Mandrake-Linux FTP site, and set them up in a folder called "Mandrake" I didn't notice the "Lnx4win" subfolder until later, so I just ran "autoboot.bat" from the "dosutils" folder and went on with the install. Minus losing 1 or 2 partions in the process, all went well. But, when LILO runs, it delays in two places: Starting system loggers and starting sendmail. After the delays it gets all the way to the Login prompt, pauses a few seconds, and in the middle of me typing, the screen starts to scroll down and fills with messages (too fast for me to read) and the monitor resets itself, but stays in power-on mode (green light), and it's pretty much dead after that. Any one have ideas? Sorry to ramble, I'll post hardware list later if needed. Thanks in advance, Frank
[newbie] 6.0 hangs on boot :(
Greets all, my newly installed hangs (completely ctrl-c and the three finger salute don't work) on "Starting optimisation for hda" and "Starting optimsation on hdc" upon boot. a reinstall hasn't done any good and from the boot disk i'm can't figure out how to pass it -s (or is it -S?) for a single user boot ... any ideas on why it hangs ?? Cheers Mike
[newbie] New install on second hd -- advice please.
Hello, I am trying to install MDK 6.0 on second hard drive. It is a Western Digital 6.4 Gig hd. The first hard drive is a Maxtor 4.2 Gig. Does part of MDK 6.0 have to be on first drive? I have Partion Magic 4.01 so moving partions around is easy enough, it also comes with BootMagic. I could use BootMagic or LILO as OS loader. Currently have 1st drive partioned c: and d: with Win98. I have second drive as one partion as yet I will make at least these partions / , /home , and /swap. Any others I should make? Which partion set as active? Primary or logical? If there is a How to could someone point me the way? Any advice greatly appreciated. TIA dkunz
Re: [newbie] Networking Multi-users
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: OK, onward and upward. I am about to begin the networking side of my linux install and am wondering if I need anything special to manage all users / log ins from a single station ( Please tell me I do not need to install and create each user on each machine they might be using). This is a network environment for the wife and kiddies and not a dial in ( home toy only at this point ). I'd be glad to RTFM if I had any idea where to start. Thanks, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH NIS howto, and a six pack -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon I'm a pretty big guy I don't think a six pack would do. 8-) Got any suggestions for a good howto? Joe -- ÐÏࡱá
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]]
That mostly makes sense, but I kinda thought that one of the great things about Linux was the 'no need to reboot on upgrades' part. Guess not system upgrades, just end user software? Ty "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still too new at Linux to help with the repair job, but I can explain why you need to do the installer. When you are running an installed Linux system, the files you want to replace in a version upgrade are being used by the system, and cannot be replaced. That is why you need a boot disk, so the files wil;l not be in use. If you watch the install screens, you will see one that gives you a choice of "Install" or "Update". When you get there, choose "Update". (could be "Upgrade"). This will not wipe out your existing stuff, and will still replace the existing version with the newer one. Hope all this makes sence, Ernie Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: Ok, but I don't understand why I can't just grab the rpms, and then upgrade what I have installed, using kpackage or rpm. Which is why I didn't read the readme or install files - didn't think I had to do an install. That's what I get for thunking . . . Anyhow I wrote down the error messages, and did some tracking: INIT: version 2.76 booting sh: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory INIT: Entering runlevel: 5 bash: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory INIT cannot execute "/etc/X11/prefdm" (it then goes into a respawning loop and eventually quits trying.) Now, using a Debian CD I have lying around I went in and mounted /usr/lib and I found libreadline.so.4.0. I even cp'd it to / hoping that this would put it unmistakably in the path. Guess not. So which file can I edit to make it explicitly point to libreadline? I THINK (and that hurts!) it will fix my problem. Thanks so much for the help!! Ty "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To do the upgrade, you will need to download the entire contents of the /Mandrake folder. You will need to make a boot disk to run the instalation program. From DOS or Windoz, you can do this with the boot.img file from the Images folder on the FTP site, and rawrite (not sure of the spelling of names) from the DOSUTILS folder. Run rawrite while loged into the directory which contains the rawrite utility, and folow the on screen prompts. With a floppy in drive A: , rawrite will produce a boot disk for Linux. Boot from the boot disk you just made, then when the install program runs, select the "update" option, not the "install" one. This will update your current instalation, and hopefully fix any errors you may now be encountering. Also note that the people at Mandrake are kind enough to provide "readme" files. I make it a practice to always read these things, as they usually keep me out of trouble, or at least reduce the depth of trouble I get myself into. There is a Readme file and a INSTALL file. Read 'em both. They may help. Good luck, Ernie Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: Ok, I downloaded all the packages from 6.1. I then went thru and tried to install them all using kpackage. Some, no matter what I did, would always give me unsatisfied depends - even tho I JUST installed those depends! So I reboot, thinking that will wake up kpackage - Instead I get "Can't start something" It was lookingin X11R6/.../predfm(?). I know, I know, I don't have the whole error msg. This happened to me when I tried to use autorpm too. Same msg's. I'm using my web based email account from a Windoze machine so I don't have access to the errors. If anyone can tell me: A) What went wrong, and B) How to prevent it, and C) How to reinstall w/o losing anything, I'd Really Really love it!! Thanks, Ty Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [newbie] 6.0 hangs on boot :(
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Mike Armour wrote: Greets all, my newly installed hangs (completely ctrl-c and the three finger salute don't work) on "Starting optimisation for hda" and "Starting optimsation on hdc" upon boot. a reinstall hasn't done any good and from the boot disk i'm can't figure out how to pass it -s (or is it -S?) for a single user boot ... any ideas on why it hangs ?? Cheers Mike it's looseing it's interupt they do generaly recover, but use 'linux single' or if it's really being difficult 'linux single init=/bin/bash', if you use the latter you'll ave to remount the driver read/write. Then edit/comment out the hdparm lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] Ears don't work
This stuff is in the archives as it's been covered _MANY_ times before, but i'm feeling generous (if a little lazy) so http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/oldsite/sblive.htm Martin.
Archives Complaint: WAS: Re: [RE: [newbie] Ears don't work]
I've tried searching the Archives before, and, well, it ain't to user friendly. If what you want isn't in the subject line, you're lost. Is there a better method out there? I dunno myself, never looked. Ty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This stuff is in the archives as it's been covered _MANY_ times before, but i'm feeling generous (if a little lazy) so http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/oldsite/sblive.htm Martin. Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
RE: Archives Complaint: WAS: Re: [RE: [newbie] Ears don't work]
Okay, Fair enough - i just looked through the archives myself and have to admit to the same thing. Couldn't find what i wanted - that said, turned out that what i wanted was in the newsgroup 'alt.os.linux.mandrake', not the newbie lists after all !! The link i gave you should help you setup the SBLive! if you are on Mandrake 6.0 or below. I'm just about to post another request to the list, and hope to have a solution for 6.1 up at that link sometime over the next day or so. Bear with me ;o) Martin. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tymanthius Rune Speak Sent: 27 September 1999 13:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Archives Complaint: WAS: Re: [RE: [newbie] Ears don't work] I've tried searching the Archives before, and, well, it ain't to user friendly. If what you want isn't in the subject line, you're lost. Is there a better method out there? I dunno myself, never looked. Ty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This stuff is in the archives as it's been covered _MANY_ times before, but i'm feeling generous (if a little lazy) so http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/oldsite/sblive.htm Martin. Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [newbie] Savage 4 Server
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if XFree86 3.3.5 (I think that's the most recent version) has the appropriate x server for video cards with the Savage 4 chipset? According to www.xfree86.org/cardslist.html, it would appear that it does not. On the other hand, there IS a new "generic" S3 driver. Check out the following link for more info: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/S39.html#9 John
Re: [newbie] DHCP install for Linux-Mandrake and other problems...
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: I know it's a known problem, and I've seen it on their website, but how big is the file? If it fits on a diskette, I can download it from Windows then switch HD and install it from the diskette. How simple is it to install something in Linux from a DOS formatted diskette? Not so simple, I tried (I'm a newbie, remember?) Well, it's about 3 megs for the kernel upgrade, so I'd say it's not something you can upgrade from a floppy. With my Cable account, I also have 5 hours per month of dialup time, which have already been used, so until someone tells me they have a definite fix for Linux-Mandrake DHCP, I'll scrap it and try RedHat one more time.But if RedHat tells me that I can't access the CD-Rom unless I'm root, I'll add another HD to my Windows system. Sorry guys... The solution to the accessing the CDROM only as root is to go edit your /etc/fstab file and change it to look like the following: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 The "important" part as far as you're concerned is the "user" part. That tells Linux to allow anyone to read the CD. John
Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1
Did you install it with the /net switch? Belzebub wrote: I downloaded and installed Star Offie 5.1 on my Mandrake 6.0 distribuition. I made an updated CD just before 6.1 came out, so I have a custom CD with all the last updates before 6.1. My kernel is 2.2.13. After the installation finished, I am able to run the application as root or superuser, but as a regular user. Any suggestions?
Re: [newbie] New install on second hd -- advice please.
I dedicated Mandrake to the second hard disk all to itself, and partitioned that same dedicated hard drive into 2 parts, for Linux and swap respectively. Use the DiskDruid software that's available during the installation and it works perfectly. Well, did for me anyway! LILO puts its info in the boot record of your choice (1st or second HD) Darcy. - Original Message - From: DKunz To: newbie Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 7:46 AM Subject: [newbie] New install on second hd -- advice please. Hello, I am trying to install MDK 6.0 on second hard drive. It is a Western Digital 6.4 Gig hd. The first hard drive is a Maxtor 4.2 Gig. Does part of MDK 6.0 have to be on first drive? I have Partion Magic 4.01 so moving partions around is easy enough, it also comes with BootMagic. I could use BootMagic or LILO as OS loader. Currently have 1st drive partioned c: and d: with Win98. I have second drive as one partion as yet I will make at least these partions / , /home , and /swap. Any others I should make? Which partion set as active? Primary or logical? If there is a How to could someone point me the way? Any advice greatly appreciated. TIA dkunz
Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1
--On Monday, September 27, 1999, 4:09 PM + Belzebub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded and installed Star Offie 5.1 on my Mandrake 6.0 distribuition. After the installation finished, I am able to run the application as root or superuser, but as a regular user. Any suggestions? You've checked permissions, right? /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (voice) (706)542-0059 (fax)
[newbie] A recent mail
Guys, If a mail comes through from me with the attachment 'PrettyPark.exe' PLEASE JUST BIN IT. It is a virus - i really didn't know i had it, and unfortunately the address of this list is in my name and address book, so it went out. Hopefully the list server has anti-virus software to detect it, but just in case: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/prettypark.worm.html gives instructions for cleaning it up. Of course if you're running Linux you should be okay anyway ;-) Again sorry (in advance), Martin.
Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot
On 26 Sep, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Sep, John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote: How do I do that? It's httpd, the one that is built wiht Apache 1.3.9. I have it configured to standalone in ../../apache/conf/httpd.conf right now, but I don't know how to start it automatically. It says in the docs something about rc3.d, but I don't know what file to edit inside the directory. Hmmgood point. I'd say put the httpd command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and let it go from there. AFAIK, that *should* be the equivalent of putting it in MSDOS's "autoexec.bat" where it'll start automagically at boot. 'Course, this is only a guess, as I'm not running httpd here... Actually, I believe the better way to do this would be to put the httpd executable in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ (which, I believe, should be the default for Mandrake). Did you not install Mandrake's Apache RPM? Try `ls /etc/rc.d/init.d/` Do you see httpd anywhere in there? If not, copy (or link) httpd to this directory. That should start it on a boot to runlevel 3 or 5. the httpd file in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is a shell script So it is. It seems everything in init.d is a shell script. Sure are a lot of those around... So then, since it seems he did not install Mandrake's Apache RPM, I guess it would be better to put the startup command in rc.local. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
Just you so far - and thanks for it! ;-) 'tar -xvzf fname' The z incorporates an unzip where tar is a console command (which should already be included in mandrake?), -xvzf are switches, and fname is my file to decompress? I'll give it a try, and see if you post any twists to beware of later! ;-) I may know some about Windoze - and rather more about Amigas, but zero about linux! ;-) Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 11:50 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Ears don't work I'm doing a bit of catchup on the list right now, so i'm sure someone will have already answered, but just in case... 'tar -xvzf fname' The z incorporates an unzip. Martin. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bay56 Sent: 26 September 1999 22:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work I would love to try this myself, but I am only a couple of days into linux, and I can not find out how to deal with the compression format this driver came in. It seems that in it's default form Mandrake has no knowledge of what seems to be some kind of gzip/tar combination. What do I need to deal with that file as downloaded from creative? it's called sblive-0.2b.tar.gz I have to use my winbox to grab files at present (while I get Linux pulled together enough to do it) I then transfer to LS120 disk - and in the first couple of days I have managed to get linux to see this drive and even copy the files to the linux partition (where I am keeping these kind of support files). I can't be far off the right method, because I have managed (somehow) to install star office this way - but this has me a bit stumped. I have no clue where to look to find out how to de-compress the file to even attempt what you outlined - but want to try it. I am using Mandrake 6.0 Venus - and hopefully 6.1 Helios in next few days when I can lay hands on it. Can you suggest an approach please? Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work Try the command "sndconfig" without the quotes from a console window. Then follow the on screen instructions. One thing I have noticed on my system is that the sound card output volume is very low, and so you must listen carefully when the util plays the test sounds. Even if you only think you hear something from your speakers, answer yes to the test question "Did you hear the Sound?" or something like that. Also, if the speakers are amplified, turn up the volume before running sndconfig. This may help. You can read up on the util with "man sndconfig". To get out of the man util press "q". I hope this helps. Ernie Thomas Peter wrote: I am a total newbie. I've had a computer for 1 1/2 years. I never worked with Dos. I got sick of Win 98 always crashing. I have everything running except my sound card. I am running Mandrake 6.0 and my sound card is a Sound Blaster Live. I went to their download site and downloaded the driver. It has two ways to execute it, automatic and manuel. When I try to use its self install. I get the error "can only run executibles on local disks only". I thought that was what my hard drive was. I even tried to install it the manul way but had no luck at that either. Creative is not offering any help for linux at this time. Do you have any suggestions. Thomas
[newbie] Email Setup
I'm having trouble getting mail working with Mandrake 6.1. I have the MX record set up in DNS. If I send mail from the shell I can receive the mail either using Pine or using my Windoze email client at work. However, I can't seem to send mail from the mail client. When I try this at home (with a windows client on the same network as the Linux box) it appears to be succesfull, but the mail disappears never to be seen again. What seems odd is when I go back into the shell it tells me I have mail but when I go in with Pine, none is there. If I try to send mail from my office, setting my server as the SMTP host, I get the error message: The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'mail.solberg.com', Server: 'mail.solberg.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E Any idea what I'm doing wronghere? Thanks in advance, Eric Solberg
Re: [newbie] Starting httpd on boot
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Sep, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Sep, John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote: How do I do that? It's httpd, the one that is built wiht Apache 1.3.9. I have it configured to standalone in ../../apache/conf/httpd.conf right now, but I don't know how to start it automatically. It says in the docs something about rc3.d, but I don't know what file to edit inside the directory. Hmmgood point. I'd say put the httpd command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and let it go from there. AFAIK, that *should* be the equivalent of putting it in MSDOS's "autoexec.bat" where it'll start automagically at boot. 'Course, this is only a guess, as I'm not running httpd here... Actually, I believe the better way to do this would be to put the httpd executable in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ (which, I believe, should be the default for Mandrake). Did you not install Mandrake's Apache RPM? Try `ls /etc/rc.d/init.d/` Do you see httpd anywhere in there? If not, copy (or link) httpd to this directory. That should start it on a boot to runlevel 3 or 5. the httpd file in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is a shell script So it is. It seems everything in init.d is a shell script. Sure are a lot of those around... So then, since it seems he did not install Mandrake's Apache RPM, I guess it would be better to put the startup command in rc.local. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mmm, should be a couple flavors of init scripts floating around in the apache src then. But of course its your machine ;) put it where ever you want. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] 6.0 hangs on boot :(
Mike Armour wrote: Greets all, my newly installed hangs (completely ctrl-c and the three finger salute don't work) on "Starting optimisation for hda" and "Starting optimsation on hdc" upon boot. a reinstall hasn't done any good and from the boot disk i'm can't figure out how to pass it -s (or is it -S?) for a single user boot ... any ideas on why it hangs ?? Cheers Mike Mike, Is your computer a non Pentium systemsuch as an old 486? If so I just went through this and will be glad to help. Bill
Re: [newbie] Email Setup
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: I'm having trouble getting mail working with Mandrake 6.1. I have the MX record set up in DNS. If I send mail from the shell I can receive the mail either using Pine or using my Windoze email client at work. However, I can't seem to send mail from the mail client. When I try this at home (with a windows client on the same network as the Linux box) it appears to be succesfull, but the mail disappears never to be seen again. What seems odd is when I go back into the shell it tells me I have mail but when I go in with Pine, none is there. If I try to send mail from my office, setting my server as the SMTP host, I get the error message: The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'mail.solberg.com', Server: 'mail.solberg.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks in advance, Eric Solberg Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- I would make sure sendmail is running is daemon mode. Thats the only way it will accept connections on port 25. Also are you trying to use your box as the relay or another mail server. If you are trying to use your box you may need to allow the other domain to relay. Again these are only things I would be able to tell if you give some more info. Regards, Gavin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ENTER.NET - "The Road to the Internet Starts Here!" (tm) (610) 437-2221 * http://www.enter.net/ * email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Where can I find kdoc
I installed the K-Development IDE onto my Mandrake distribution of Linux but it need a few more files/packages to completely setup. One of them is kdoc. I have searched the Mandrake site but I don't find it. Can anyone tell me where I might locate this package. I also need the following: sgml2html glimpse glimpseindex a2ps Thanks
Re: [newbie] Email Setup
The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'mail.solberg.com', Server: 'mail.solberg.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E Maybe your server doesn't support SSL email? Mine doesn't so I had to make sure to turn that option off. Darcy.
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
I may know some about Windoze - and rather more about Amigas, but zero about linux! ;-) Yeah, I'm not so diligent with the command line tar myself either. And I've got an A1200 not getting as much attention heh. If you got KDE running, it's got an 'archiver' program that almost works like Dopus Magellan on the Amiga. A nice mouse driven archiver for tar. It's the only one I use for Linux compression work. Darcy.
Re: [newbie] Savage 4 Server
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if XFree86 3.3.5 (I think that's the most recent version) has the appropriate x server for video cards with the Savage 4 chipset? According to www.xfree86.org/cardslist.html, it would appear that it does not. On the other hand, there IS a new "generic" S3 driver. Check out the following link for more info: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/S39.html#9 John I believe that creative has linux drivers for their s4, check some of the savage internet sites. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]
I'm still too new at Linux to help with the repair job, but I can explain why you need to do the installer. When you are running an installed Linux system, the files you want to replace in a version upgrade are being used by the system, and cannot be replaced. That is Can't say I've ever seen THAT happen. And I know I've installed new versions of glibc while running multiple application/daemon/etc. It may be true under a Microsoft world, but I don't believe it's true in Linux. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation
Re: [newbie] Email Setup
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Darcy Emily Baston wrote: The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'mail.solberg.com', Server: 'mail.solberg.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E Maybe your server doesn't support SSL email? Mine doesn't so I had to make sure to turn that option off. Darcy. It's a socket error, make sure the mail daemon started and stayed running. and that you don't have both postfix and sendmail installed. then try to 'telnet 0 25' once that works the other should -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1
After doing some research i found out about the /net switch. Thank you all for your help Belzebub wrote: I downloaded and installed Star Offie 5.1 on my Mandrake 6.0 distribuition. I made an updated CD just before 6.1 came out, so I have a custom CD with all the last updates before 6.1. My kernel is 2.2.13. After the installation finished, I am able to run the application as root or superuser, but as a regular user. Any suggestions?
Re: [newbie] 6.0 hangs on boot :(
If you are talking about your newly installed kernel, here is whta I did: 1. Booted Mandrake with a floppy or a rescue disk. 2. Deleted the directory where I had my kernel modules (in my case /lib/modules/2.2.9mdk 3. Go to /usr/src/linux 4. make modules make modules_install 5. Check your lilo.conf and make sure you are booting your new kernel 6.Reboot and cross your fingers. Mike Armour wrote: Greets all, my newly installed hangs (completely ctrl-c and the three finger salute don't work) on "Starting optimisation for hda" and "Starting optimsation on hdc" upon boot. a reinstall hasn't done any good and from the boot disk i'm can't figure out how to pass it -s (or is it -S?) for a single user boot ... any ideas on why it hangs ?? Cheers Mike
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
- Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 1:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work Ianclick on your home directory icon on the deskyop or in the Panel area at the bottom of the desktop. Navigate to where you put the file (if you'd downloaded it with Netscape in Linux it would already be in the directory where the icon opened the window). Now right click on the Many thanks - I suspect this is under KDE (since it looks like something I don't readily understand - I'm using gnome mostly) I will try this under KDE though - it's going to come in handy some time or other, and sooner rather than later I'd guess! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
[newbie] display properties
Is there a way to access a line by line shell w/o starting X windows during boot? I configured my monitor (or video card) wrong and I see all funny pixels and my mouser cursor only. I can't tell where my terminal spawning icon is... Thanx. __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
bay56 wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 1:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work Ianclick on your home directory icon on the deskyop or in the Panel area at the bottom of the desktop. Navigate to where you put the file (if you'd downloaded it with Netscape in Linux it would already be in the directory where the icon opened the window). Now right click on the Many thanks - I suspect this is under KDE (since it looks like something I don't readily understand - I'm using gnome mostly) I will try this under KDE though - it's going to come in handy some time or other, and sooner rather than later I'd guess! Regards, Ian Ianwhoops! Yes, it is referring to KDE. Sorry, I assumed you were using the Mandrake/KDE default. Sorry. Alan
Re: [newbie] Problems with 6.1 install
Pedro Timoteo wrote: Chris Smallhorne wrote: I have recently upgraded to v6.1. Since that time, I am no longer able to run anything when I su from a terminal. For example, if I try to run control-panel, i get the following: "Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server That is supposed to happen. The X session is "yours", not root's, therefore when you "su" you don't have the DISPLAY environment variable set. A simple "export DISPLAY=0:0" solves it, though. Next question - where and when do I do this? Do I ave to do it every time, or is it a setting I can put into a config file? Thanks, Chris.
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
Lilo needs to be below the 1024 cyl, but this is not due to lilo, it's due to the bios. Just make the first partition on the drive /boot, 10-15 megs is plenty. On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: I'm planning to replace my current 8 gig Windows HD with a 20 or 27 gig drive. I know that LILO has a problem with drives that have more than 1023 cylinders. How should I partition this drive so that I can still use LILO? I will install Linux to the 8 gig drive all by it's lonesome. Thanks, Mike "If Budweiser can have a frog to sell beer, why ask about the penguin?" --Linus Torvald -- Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Email Setup
Thanks so much for the helpful info - it is not being run in daemon mode. I remember seeing the config file where this is set and can change that. If I'm sending mail from work, but setting up my mail client to use my server (which is at home), do I need to add my company's domain in relay-domains? I'm using this as a stand-alone pop/smtp server without any relay or smarter host. Thanks, Eric Solberg I would make sure sendmail is running is daemon mode. Thats the only way it will accept connections on port 25. Also are you trying to use your box as the relay or another mail server. If you are trying to use your box you may need to allow the other domain to relay. Again these are only things I would be able to tell if you give some more info. Regards, Gavin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ENTER.NET - "The Road to the Internet Starts Here!" (tm) (610) 437-2221 * http://www.enter.net/ * email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Email Setup
Hmmm, I just looked at /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and it has the entry DAEMONIZE=yes. However, when I execute /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status it says: sendmail doesn't daemonize with postfix Do I just need to disable postfix? (I hope I can figure out how to do that!) What do I gain/lose by this? Thanks again Eric I would make sure sendmail is running is daemon mode. Thats the only way it will accept connections on port 25. Also are you trying to use your box as the relay or another mail server. If you are trying to use your box you may need to allow the other domain to relay. Again these are only things I would be able to tell if you give some more info. Regards, Gavin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ENTER.NET - "The Road to the Internet Starts Here!" (tm) (610) 437-2221 * http://www.enter.net/ * email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
- Original Message - From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work I hope this helps. You can learn about the switches for the tar command in the man page. Read it using "man tar". You can also read about the mv command with "man mv". and mkdir with "man mkdir". To learn about the man command run "man man". There is a wealth of great info in the man pages. Thaat is where I have found 99% of what I need to know. They are not easy to understand all the time, but once you get used to them it is not so bad. Thanks, I have since discovered that my system may have another problem - this tar command (generically) appears to do nothing, there is a long wait while nothing actually happens! On the plus side it does not actually crash ;-) and ctrl C gets me the cursor back. I noticed that the system has also now generated a core file, and I get the impression that this is not such good news! For now I have simply deleted it - because I have no idea how to use it usefully, and suspect that a reinstall is on the cards quite soon. It has not always done this, so I am fairly hopeful I can install it without the tendency to eject the warp core! Deleteing at least allows me to see how often it does this. - so far just once. I have noticed also that when I issue "shutdown -h now" that it claims the sytem is halted - but after a brief pause it then says it can't acknowledge a page request of some kind, and after much meaningless (to me at least) output finishes off suggesting there's a segmentation error. Now this as far as I know it has always done, but I have not seen the core dump go into action before. Since it's already claimed that system has been halted, does the seg error actually matter anymore? After all it shows up after everyone else has gone home for the day! (ie after halted) Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] Email Setup
I'm hoping this isn't the problem since I don't see that configurable anywhere in my mail client (outlook express). Eric Solberg - Original Message - From: Darcy Emily Baston To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Email Setup The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'mail.solberg.com', Server: 'mail.solberg.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E Maybe your server doesn't support SSL email? Mine doesn't so I had to make sure to turn that option off. Darcy.
Re: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1
I agree with you. Im Just starting and realy dont want to have to deal with a sound card. I want to learn How To use it first. i have installed my 6.0 10 times following all the diffrent instructions. Can someone please tell us what card will work on install with little setup needed. I want to learn how to install and uninstall software get my cdwriter working. But till I get sound I don't know if it is working right. bay56 wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:13 AM Subject: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1 PS: I really think that if Creative refuse to release details of the card for programmers to support, the least they could do is have the courtesy to keep up with the two most popular distros in the world. Yeah, agreed - anyone know of a soundcard which does fall into either category (released info or supported properly) - if Creative are not supporting me with this I plan to dump them in the same manner. I'd prefer a PCI card. I know I can read all the databases on this in the world, but they said the SiS 6326 video card was supported, and those of us with one of them know that's just plain wrong for a lot of cases. So if you have working sound in Mandrake 6 6.1 using a PCI card, what make and model of card are you using? Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] display properties
Is there a way to access a line by line shell w/o starting X windows during boot? I configured my monitor (or video card) wrong and I see all funny pixels and my mouser cursor only. I can't tell where my terminal spawning icon is... Hit ctrl-alt-f1(2,3,4,5,6) to get to a terminal screen. From there kill X and then rerun setup to get your term set right. Then run startx to test it out. If it fails, then redo above until it does.. :) - Jim Howarth - Resident Geek "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever" - Tennyson
[newbie] undefined reference to xmalloc, xfree
I'm trying to compile and everything needed to get K-Develop IDE fully functional. This is very difficult for me because it requires so many packages (Not all of which are RPMs). I believe that I'm making good progress but when I try to compile glimpse I get the error message: Undefined reference to xmalloc Undefined reference to xfree Am I missing some libraries or what? Thanks
[newbie] Procmail Woes
I am presently attempting to setup procmail and its not sending my messages to the appropriate place...I have followed the instructions in the FAQ by the letter and yet it isn't processing the mail properly. I'm pretty sure that the problem is in the .forward file. Attached are both my .forward file and .procmailrc file. Any help would be appreciated! .forward "|exec /usr/bin/procmail" .procmailrc VERBOSE=off MAILDIR=$HOME/mail PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.testing INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists rc.testing - :0: * ^Subject:.*test IN.testing - Jim Howarth - Resident Geek "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever" - Tennyson
Re: [newbie] Email Setup
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, you wrote: Thanks so much for the helpful info - it is not being run in daemon mode. I remember seeing the config file where this is set and can change that. If I'm sending mail from work, but setting up my mail client to use my server (which is at home), do I need to add my company's domain in Only if you have smtp set to your machine. If its set to your works smtp server you don't need to worry about setting up relays. Gavin relay-domains? I'm using this as a stand-alone pop/smtp server without any relay or smarter host. Thanks, Eric Solberg I would make sure sendmail is running is daemon mode. Thats the only way it will accept connections on port 25. Also are you trying to use your box as the relay or another mail server. If you are trying to use your box you may need to allow the other domain to relay. Again these are only things I would be able to tell if you give some more info. Regards, Gavin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ENTER.NET - "The Road to the Internet Starts Here!" (tm) (610) 437-2221 * http://www.enter.net/ * email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] KDE Libraries... Where?
Can someone tell me where Mandrake 6.0 puts the KDE libraries? The K-Develop IDE is asking for them but I can't seem to find them anywhere! Thanks
Re: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1
I use SB 16 ISA cards they seem to set up in seconds on Redhat or Mandrake Jeanette - Original Message - From: Thomas Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1 I agree with you. Im Just starting and realy dont want to have to deal with a sound card. I want to learn How To use it first. i have installed my 6.0 10 times following all the diffrent instructions. Can someone please tell us what card will work on install with little setup needed. I want to learn how to install and uninstall software get my cdwriter working. But till I get sound I don't know if it is working right. bay56 wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:13 AM Subject: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1 PS: I really think that if Creative refuse to release details of the card for programmers to support, the least they could do is have the courtesy to keep up with the two most popular distros in the world. Yeah, agreed - anyone know of a soundcard which does fall into either category (released info or supported properly) - if Creative are not supporting me with this I plan to dump them in the same manner. I'd prefer a PCI card. I know I can read all the databases on this in the world, but they said the SiS 6326 video card was supported, and those of us with one of them know that's just plain wrong for a lot of cases. So if you have working sound in Mandrake 6 6.1 using a PCI card, what make and model of card are you using? Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
RE: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1
-Original Message- From: Thomas Peter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1 I agree with you. Im Just starting and realy dont want to have to deal with a sound card. I want to learn How To use it first. i have installed my 6.0 10 times following all the diffrent instructions. Can someone please tell us what card will work on install with little setup needed. I want to learn how to install and uninstall software get my cdwriter working. But till I get sound I don't know if it is working right. If having a PCI card is not a necessity then I reckon you should go for a SoundBlaster AWE 64. Cheap as chips, well proven record. I've used mine with RH 5.2 and Mandrake 6.0. The most I ever needed to do to get it running is to run sndconfig twice. I don't know if all the bells and whistles of SB Live work under Linux. IF they don't I wouldn't imagine there to be a huge performance difference between the flashy PCI cards and the AWE 64. Of course I might be wrong on the last bit (anyone know any different?) I can't remember if sound is configured during installation. If it isn't just run setup from the console, or an xterm window, and choose sound. IF you don't have a good old fashioned ISA sound card, what are you going to do with those three empty, never going to be used for anything else, ISA slots? Aaron
Re: [newbie] Kernel recompile
- Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel recompile On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to recompile my kernel so as to allow support for the SBLive under 6.1 (apparently this is possible), This doesn't have anything to do with recompiling the kernel. You'll no doubt be thrilled to hear that some kind soul out there on the web is telling us newbies a different version of events - I've read it too - recently, damned if I can remember where now though! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
[newbie] CDWR and Zip
Ok I give . I am tryiong to find my CDw and IM Zip. I can see on boot up that they are being loaded. I even find them listed under block devices. But I cannot find the command string to access them. I want to set up a link to mount them on my desk top as I have for my 3.5 and CDrom. I have plenty of documentation on making the links for the floppy and Cd but nothing on how to locate the extras. My regular CD is as slave to my HD on my Primary IDE ATAPI slot of my Mother Board. My CDWR and Zip are master and slave in said order on my Secondary IDE ATAPI slot. Please give me some feed back on how to locate them. Thanks Thomas
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:07:30 -0500, "Michael Seltenright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm planning to replace my current 8 gig Windows HD with a 20 or 27 gig drive. I know that LILO has a problem with drives that have more than 1023 cylinders. How should I partition this drive so that I can still use LILO? I will install Linux to the 8 gig drive all by it's lonesome. If Windows is all by it lonesome on the 27G drive and Linux is on the 8G you don't have any problems. LILO only has a problem if the Linux /boot partition is beyond the 8G mark on it's physical hard drive. It shouldn't have any problem with the Windows drive. If you don't use a boot manger put LILO on the hda (Windows C:) drive. If you are going to use a third party boot manager or boot off a floppy put LILO in the Linux partition. If you are going to mix Windows and another OS on the 27G drive be sure to install Windows first. After all Windows thinks it is the center of the universe and will screw up any other OS on the drive if you give it half a chance. PBen
Re: [newbie] display properties
Should "kill X" work under the terminal? HOw do I enter setup? DO I need the installation bootup disk? Thanx --- Jim Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to access a line by line shell w/o starting X windows during boot? I configured my monitor (or video card) wrong and I see all funny pixels and my mouser cursor only. I can't tell where my terminal spawning icon is... Hit ctrl-alt-f1(2,3,4,5,6) to get to a terminal screen. From there kill X and then rerun setup to get your term set right. Then run startx to test it out. If it fails, then redo above until it does.. :) - Jim Howarth - Resident Geek "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever" - Tennyson __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Libraries... Where?
I was told that the Qt Lib is in the /usr/lib and the headers are in the /usr/include/qt. This will cause all kinds of headaches for KDE development since it is not the standard place that Qt and SuSE expects. I haven't even written hello world yet in Linux but I have compiled a few source tar balls for KDE apps. It is a pain for that. PBen On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:54:24 -0700, "Eric L. Damron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me where Mandrake 6.0 puts the KDE libraries? The K-Develop IDE is asking for them but I can't seem to find them anywhere! Thanks
[newbie] what are these daemons?
i just got mandrake 6.1 installed and running great. i am trying to customize my system performance a bit. i have been removing unnecessary system daemons from the startup. i cant find docs on these: inet keytable linuxconf netfs can anyone shed any light on whether these are ok to disable and what their function is? :P
[newbie] gnome terminal lockup!
i just got 6.1 installed and it runs great. one small problem though. i run gnome and whenever i start the terminal, my whole computer locks up. i have to hit the reset button to get out of it. any tips on how to take care of situations like this? shure would be nice to use a terminal in gnome. :P
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
- Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work Ianwhoops! Yes, it is referring to KDE. Sorry, I assumed you were using the Mandrake/KDE default. Sorry. Thank god I guessed right - it took a lot to come up with even one guess! ;-) Mind you I am no further forward with the actual file content thanks to Creative - see sblive posts elsewhere! ;-) Thanks for the tip! Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
- Original Message - From: Darcy Emily Baston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work I may know some about Windoze - and rather more about Amigas, but zero about linux! ;-) Yeah, I'm not so diligent with the command line tar myself either. Not exactly fun is it! ;-) And I've got an A1200 not getting as much attention heh. Hmmm. I have a plan for mine - it's going onto the serial as another terminal! Loads of linux bsd stuff for amigas - I am SO glad I kept her when nearly everyone I know sold theirs - I got my A1200 towered too - this is going to be just fine in this happy set of circumstances! Not sure about X client yet, but that might be do-able too! We shall see... If you got KDE running, it's got an 'archiver' program that almost works like Dopus Magellan on the Amiga. A nice mouse driven archiver for tar. It's the only one I use for Linux compression work. Yup, found it now - I wish I'd known it had to be KDE in the first place! ;-) Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1
- Original Message - From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 3:12 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] SBLive under 6.1 If you don't have a good old fashioned ISA sound card, what are you going to do with those three empty, never going to be used for anything else, ISA slots? Well sorry to be a pooper, but I only got two, and one of them is a shared - the other is filled with Yamaha SW60XG Midi board. If I didn't own that, I would have gone for 6 PCI Mobo in the first place, instead of this rather tragic 1-5-2 compromise. I may yet fill isa 2 with modem card, since there does not appear to be anyway to get my V90 flashed USR courier VEverything to use V90 under linux (unless you know different, in which case I'd appreciate some idiot proof info!) I figure if it's going to be only 33.6 then it may as well be inside the box and out of my way! ;-) Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1
Just for future reference on yet another install - what's that all about, and where does one get the choice? Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/ - Original Message - From: Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1 Did you install it with the /net switch? Belzebub wrote: I downloaded and installed Star Offie 5.1 on my Mandrake 6.0 distribuition. I made an updated CD just before 6.1 came out, so I have a custom CD with all the last updates before 6.1. My kernel is 2.2.13. After the installation finished, I am able to run the application as root or superuser, but as a regular user. Any suggestions?
Re: [newbie] 6.0 hangs on boot :(
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Mike Armour wrote: Greets all, my newly installed hangs (completely ctrl-c and the three finger salute don't work) on "Starting optimisation for hda" and "Starting optimsation on hdc" upon boot. a reinstall hasn't done any good and from the boot disk i'm can't figure out how to pass it -s (or is it -S?) for a single user boot ... any ideas on why it hangs ?? Cheers Mike it's looseing it's interupt they do generaly recover, but use 'linux single' or if it's really being difficult 'linux single init=/bin/bash', if you use the latter you'll ave to remount the driver read/write. Then edit/comment out the hdparm lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon yup , that fixed it thanks (i actually figured it out a few hours after i posted the msg... you can't ctrl-c the hdparm bit but you can dump out at rebuilding rpm database). My HD's are a few years old (3 or so) and that was a bit much for them and hanging the system (after 5 hours or so a ctrl -c still wasn't possible)
[newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?
what do i need to do to get imwheel to startup whenever i startx? :P
[newbie] seeing above the screen?
i used to run slackware and there was a method of viewing previous text on one of the consoles. it was something like shift+pageup or ctrl+pageup. i cant find a method that works in mandrake. anyone know how to do this? :P
Re: [newbie] KDE Libraries... Where?
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: I was told that the Qt Lib is in the /usr/lib and the headers are in the /usr/include/qt. This will cause all kinds of headaches for KDE development since it is not the standard place that Qt and SuSE expects. I haven't even written hello world yet in Linux but I have compiled a few source tar balls for KDE apps. It is a pain for that. Under normal curcumstancies its not so important as to where the libs are situated, its a question of the system knowing where they are, there are several ways of doing this,. For example in the systems /etc/profile or bash_profile depending on what distro is in use you can define lib paths in those files, another way would be to change paths in the Makefiles for programs needing those libs, putting the directory path in /etc/ld.do.conf and rerunning ldconfig, there are many ways. Its not what you do but HOW you do it. Realy the best way is to read the documentation in the to be made program first and understanding what the program expects to find and where it wants to look. You may have noticed that many programs say "ajust the Makefile accordingly" to point it to the correct lib paths. PBen On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:54:24 -0700, "Eric L. Damron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me where Mandrake 6.0 puts the KDE libraries? The K-Develop IDE is asking for them but I can't seem to find them anywhere! Thanks -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
