[newbie] IP Aliasing
Mandrake 6.1 I've added an IP alias using linuxconf-Networking-Server Tasks-IP aliases for virtual hosts. I see that it has added the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 and this script contains the option ONBOOT=yes along with the ip address, netmask, etc. Also, I have made sure that IP aliasing is compiled into my kernel. The address isn't getting configured in the boot (I can't ping it). However, if I manually ifconfig eth0:0 n.n.n.n it works fine. Arent the sysconfig scripts supposed to do this for me? Do I need to configure this in rc.local? Do I need to set up any static routes for the aliases? In the IP Aliasing mini-Howto it shows setting up static routes but the syntax shown is incorrect. Thanks to this list for all the help you've been giving me... Eric Solberg
[newbie] MVP3 chipset
I'm using a new TMC Socket 7 board with the above chipset. I was trying to follow a string and saw a reference to BIOS problems with this chipset. Could someone please point me at site where I can find further info Thanks John the Nadger www.nadger.co.uk
Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyour own risk)
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Eosnet Team wrote: http://www.netscape.com/download/selectlanguage_1_702_411.html Here is a link to the latest version of netscape. (maybe more stable?) I wouldn't recommend it, it's just as broken as the 4.61. (everybody remebers the segfault on link insertion right?) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon --Axalon EXCUSE ME!! That statement really puts me off! 4.61 is what is in Mandrake's updates for 6.0!!?? It was recommended in this forum as an acceptable fix for the problems associated with 4.5. Now you say this new (4.7) version is just as bad as the fix we had for the Mandrake 6.0 distribution (which I still am using). Well, what's that mean, EXACTLY!!?? If 4.7 is just as bad as 4.61 then upgrading to it shouldn't be any more of a problem than continuing to use 4.61, or should it??!! Sheeesh Alan Your excused, I do not thing you've been following the netscape saga closely enough. They link the glibc version against 2.0, we supply 2.0.1 and 2.1.1, both of wich are incompatable with the binarys. The version of netscape we currently ship is the libc5 with a really fancy loader. I've installed both the glibc and libc5 versions here, libc5 fails to even load because it doeesn't use the loader (exactly what one would expect), the glibc (still linked against old glibc) acts just like the orignal 4.61 that was released, java works when it wants, you have to make sure to click "ok" and not just hit enter on a passowrd dialog, inserting a link in composer still causes an instant segfault. So yes, my expectations of netscape held true, and i stand by my original analysis of netscape. Axalonthat's probably so. And I'm confused. Is the glibc version I ordered on CD not going to work (I mean work like the 4.61 version from updates that I'm using now)? From what you said above, the answer is no. Ok, so is any version not massaged and customized by Mandrake going to work (especially one with 128 bit encryption) like the update's 4.61? I believe that the answer is no also (from your comments above). Is there any way I can get a working copy usable with Mandrake 6.0/6.1 that includes 128 bit encryption (my on-line bank requires it). Thanks, and I'm sorry for the overly-emphatic message (I wrote it in during the wrong moment in time). (-: Alan I seem to recall seeing a utility that will patch your existing Netscape to support 128bit encryption. I don't recall the name (Fortify comes to mind, but I think that's an SSL util). Searching Google or Freshmeat for "netscape encryption" may turn something up, though. -- Steve Philp Steveyep, '"netscape encryption" fortify' on google found it. I'm downloading now. Thanks. Alan Alan where did you find the fortify for the Linux version of Netscape I only see the Windows and NT versions? Can you send me a link for the Linux one? Thanks Jeanette
Re: [newbie] IP Masquerading...?
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Arcana wrote: OKAY, it works again. I typed in the command to "turn on IP forwarding" (like, echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding or something) and everything runs like magic again. So, the million buck question is... ... how do I keep the option turned "on"? Sorry for the big snip at the top, but since you're really just looking for how to automatically set this at bootup at this point, I left that part in. You'll want to add the 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding' command to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. It'll be run each time you boot. Or. change /etc/sysconfig/network, FORWARD_IPV4=false to FORWARD_IPV4=true -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Man I HATE this.
The Mandrake kernel is "optimized" to run on a pentium computer, but it isn't required. The install still took a bit of work since all the hardware is 5 to 10 years old. Maybe the only reason it worked is because of my ignorance of Linux. This was my first attempt at installing Linux on anything. --Phil --- Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Phil" == Phil Thornley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Phil Yep! And it even runs KDE. You installed Mandrake on a 486? Well, am I then mistaken in my understanding that Mandrake requires a 586 / Pentium or higher to run / install? If I am not mistaken, how did you get it installed and running on a 486? -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Man I HATE this.
I'm running Mandrake 6.0 --Phil --- Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Fieschko wrote: Well, am I then mistaken in my understanding that Mandrake requires a 586 / Pentium or higher to run / install? Mandrake 5.3 doesn't... g -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
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Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeat your own risk)
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: bay56 wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeat your own risk) I wouldn't recommend it, it's just as broken as the 4.61. (everybody remebers the segfault on link insertion right?) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon --Axalon EXCUSE ME!! That statement really puts me off! 4.61 is what is in Mandrake's updates for 6.0!!?? It was recommended in this forum as an acceptable fix for the problems associated with 4.5. Now you say this new (4.7) version is just as bad as the fix we had for the Mandrake 6.0 distribution (which I still am using). Well, what's that mean, EXACTLY!!?? If 4.7 is just as bad as 4.61 then upgrading to it shouldn't be any more of a problem than continuing to use 4.61, or should it??!! Sheeesh Would this be the same software that Mandrake hangs the entire readability of the docs on? ;-) Remember that docs are more than anything else read by newbies (excuse the obvious [they don't read docs] remarks about newbies for a moment!) Sheeesh!!! is about right! Regards, Ian Iantake it easy. No, the default for the help files is a form of KFM not Netscape. Axalon, although habitually a bit terse is usually a big help to just about everyone. (-: Alan --So perhaps all this would explain why the Mandrake update doesn't work for Netscape! David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyour own risk)
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Eosnet Team wrote: http://www.netscape.com/download/selectlanguage_1_702_411.html Here is a link to the latest version of netscape. (maybe more stable?) I wouldn't recommend it, it's just as broken as the 4.61. (everybody remebers the segfault on link insertion right?) snip-o-mainia --Just as an aside, I've found that Navigator alone, without getting the whole Communicator seems to work OK. I've had no freeze ups with it, and I actually am using it quite a bit. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyour own risk)
Alan where did you find the fortify for the Linux version of Netscape I only see the Windows and NT versions? Can you send me a link for the Linux one? Thanks Jeanette please post to our board Rick "Mulerider" Murphy -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie] Stopping auto-boot to KDE?
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, Valheru wrote: Hello all, I am getting a font error when booting into KDE which is set for auto-load. How can I stop this? All my monitor does is reset itself. Is there a command once I'm at the login: screen to stop the auto-load? I have about 3 seconds before KDE begins to load. BTW, Yes I've searched HOW-TO's on this with no luck. :( Thanks, Valheru --OOH! OOH! One _I_ can answer. At lilo boot type linux 3. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
RE: [newbie] Re:
David ... :) Cheers! On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, PaulHoy wrote: we are all "genious" in our own way :)... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David P. Greenberg Sent: October 1, 1999 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: --Hi paul. Just noticed that little fox pass m'damn self. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
Re: [newbie] Default lilo boot
Eric Solberg wrote: Here's another dumb one.. ugh I've compiled a new kernel and want it to boot by default. I entered this as the first entry in /etc/lilo.conf (the name is linux2), but it still boots the one named 'linux' by default. I even went in through linuxconf and made sure this one was set to the default kernel and it is. If I type linux2 at the lilo prompt my kernel boots, but I can't get it to boot by default. Did you rerun /sbin/lilo after changing /etc/lilo.conf? Sounds like that's all that's missing. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Armed Linux
Has anyone heard of this version of linux before? If anyone has used it... what do ya think? I'm interesed in trying it out on my laptop, but i'm not sure if I want to risk it or not... Joe :) [DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://www.download.com/pc/software/0,332,0-49715-g,1000.html?st.dl.cat355.hl.g49715 [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.download.com/pc/software/0,332,0-49715-g,1000.html?st.dl.cat355.hl.g49715 Modified=400799E8FF0CBF0193
[newbie] Star Office
I see many people writing the listserve about star office and I was wondering if any of you got it work for a user other than root. I am have problems doing so. If you could please tell me what you did to get this working. Sean
[newbie] diskdruid
I have 2 hard drive: one for window and a blank one for linux. The blank one is in slave mode and is empty. I want to load linux on this slave drive. I have made a bootable disquette and when i try to partition my disk i cannot do anything. It always try to create partition on my window disk. On the display i get: mount pointdevice request actual type hda1 2437 2437 win98 fat32 hdb1 3079 3079 win98 fat32 drive summaryc/h/stotal used free hda 620/128/63 2441 2437 4m hdb 782/128/63 3079 3079 0m I've try to add/edit the partition on my hdb drive to no avail. it always create it on hda1.What i'm i doing wrong?Can you help? Thanks for your time.
Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyourown risk)
Hi. Ax (love that name!) I believe so. It's the one that came with my Mandrake 6.0, hot off the press in may of this year. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" **The falcon has heard the falconer** -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyourown risk)snip You are useing which version exactly? (the one in the topic i assume?)
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: Quit ragging on AMD/Cyrix, it this does happen on intel systems, the very first report as a matter of fact It's just most of those boards died in the initial mass of celeron overclockings. And the rest are mainly "screaming gamer rigs". The key point is the bios, and how it's implements the atx shutdown. it's not like it's the first time oems have tweaked hardware.. T'wasn't "ragging on AMD/Cyrix." I was "ragging on" the person/persons responsible for the *apparently* buggy atx APM drivers. :-) The implication *I* got from you, Axalon, was that it was a driver problem, not that it was a BIOS problem. Are you now stating that it's a BIOS problem and not an APM driver problem??? I can understand why it would happen to O/C'ed systems, but other than *intentionally* destabilized (overclocked) systems, have there been any reports of this happening on an Intel chipset or processor? Just wondering why it appears to be affecting PRIMARILY non-Intel chpsets and processors? (NOTE: I *prefer* non-intel processors!!!) John
RE: [newbie] Re:
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, PaulHoy wrote: we are all "genious" in our own way :)... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David P. Greenberg Sent: October 1, 1999 6:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: --Hi paul. Just noticed that little fox pass m'damn self. Or did you intentionally mis-spell it to poke fun at yourself?? :-) John
Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: Now feeling officially discouraged! Starting to wonder if I ought to come back later when it's all a bit more "machine that I can afford" friendly? I dunno - I really don't shrug OK, it's not linux flaw per se, but it's starting to stack it all up a bit! My suggestion: Try an Intel chipset motherboard. It's *MY* *PERSONAL* * BELIEF* that this can be tracked down to a "prejudice" towards Intel-based systems, whether that's due to a concious decision or an unconscious preference, or simply lack of information on non-intel chipsets/processors I don't know. There are some fairly inexpensive Intel-based systems (PII can be had for under $150 for motherboard and processor, if you know where to look!) so it's not significantly more expensive for an Intel-only system. Take a look at www.hitechcafe.com for inexpensive second-tier hardware (second-tier meaning PII, etc.) John
Re: [newbie] diskdruid
I had the same problem ! Disk Druid absolutely want to install the / partition on the primary HD :( The only way to make the / partition is to use fdisk instead of disk druid during the installation processus. Le Sat, 02 Oct 1999, vous avez écrit : I have 2 hard drive: one for window and a blank one for linux. The blank one is in slave mode and is empty. I want to load linux on this slave drive. I have made a bootable disquette and when i try to partition my disk i cannot do anything. It always try to create partition on my window disk. On the display i get: mount pointdevice request actual type hda1 2437 2437 win98 fat32 hdb1 3079 3079 win98 fat32 drive summaryc/h/stotal used free hda 620/128/63 2441 2437 4m hdb 782/128/63 3079 3079 0m I've try to add/edit the partition on my hdb drive to no avail. it always create it on hda1.What i'm i doing wrong?Can you help? Thanks for your time. -- -- Frederic PLE email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [newbie] MVP3 chipset
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: I'm using a new TMC Socket 7 board with the above chipset. I was trying to follow a string and saw a reference to BIOS problems with this chipset. Could someone please point me at site where I can find further info The problem is the Auto-shutdown script which ships with Mandrake (and RedHat.) It gives you a GPF at shutdown instead of powering down. There's a simple fix to this. Just go to the Mandrake website (www.linux-mandrake.com) and go to the 'Mailing lists' link, and from there to the Mailing LIst archives and search for GPF. It's nothing major, just that it won't auto-power down for you. John
Re: [newbie] VoodooII Banshee
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_hello, i am new to Mandrake, and i was wondering if anyone knew where i could get drivers for the voodooII banshee. thanks, chris cook Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, please disable HTML posting in your Outlook Express 5.0. It's not appreciated here on this list. Second, go to http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ and download the drivers from there. John
Re: [newbie] Staroffice Install... again
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: I know this topic was recently covered here, and I have read all of the posts, but I am still baffled by this instalation process... I have the Staroffice tar archive in my /home/joe directory (my user directory) and do not know how to untar it and continue on... do IHave to use tar x k /home/joe/Staroffice Or is there another command used to untar this... After I untar it, I understand that I should use thesetup file to activate the setup process. Is there any special way I should do this? or is this as simple as putting in the filename. Thanks in advance for your help! Well, it should work as you list. If you don't currently have a Star Office distro, I'm not sure why you'd want to use the "k" option. You'll probably need to use the "f" option to tell it you're wanting to untar a file. The "v" (verbose) option is also kinda nice. So, the syntax would be "tar xvf /home/john/so51a_lnx_01.tar" and then go into the "so51inst" directory that it creates (actually, probably better to run the "tar" process from a "junk" directory you can wipe out afterwards...) and type "./setup" and go through the install process telling it where you want to install to, etc. John
Re: [newbie] Default lilo boot
That did it. Thanks for all the tips. Hope to return the favor some day. Eric Solberg Here's another dumb one.. ugh I've compiled a new kernel and want it to boot by default. I entered this as the first entry in /etc/lilo.conf (the name is linux2), but it still boots the one named 'linux' by default. I even went in through linuxconf and made sure this one was set to the default kernel and it is. If I type linux2 at the lilo prompt my kernel boots, but I can't get it to boot by default. Did you rerun /sbin/lilo after changing /etc/lilo.conf? Sounds like that's all that's missing. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: Quit ragging on AMD/Cyrix, it this does happen on intel systems, the very first report as a matter of fact It's just most of those boards died in the initial mass of celeron overclockings. And the rest are mainly "screaming gamer rigs". The key point is the bios, and how it's implements the atx shutdown. it's not like it's the first time oems have tweaked hardware.. T'wasn't "ragging on AMD/Cyrix." I was "ragging on" the person/persons responsible for the *apparently* buggy atx APM drivers. :-) The implication *I* got from you, Axalon, was that it was a driver problem, not that it was a BIOS problem. Are you now stating that it's a BIOS problem and not an APM driver problem??? Bios apm implementation, and what the driver expects. (my board in particular doesn't function correctly in windows either) I can understand why it would happen to O/C'ed systems, but other than *intentionally* destabilized (overclocked) systems, have there been any reports of this happening on an Intel chipset or processor? Just wondering why it appears to be affecting PRIMARILY non-Intel chpsets and processors? (NOTE: I *prefer* non-intel processors!!!) John I didn't say the board as overclocked, i said most of those systems died Yes it was a slot 1 celeron or p2 i forget which, i'm sure it was a slot 1 with award bios though -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset
To get UDMA working you need to patch the kernel. I've been running the patches on an ASUS board for over 6 months with no problems. The patches should be folded into 2.4 hopefully. Get them at your local kernel.org mirror under kernel/people/hedrick Grab those specific for your kernel that you are running. Here they work fine. bay56 wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset Ianoh come on! There's no reason to get this morose over a problem that has a simple workaround. It was just the removal of a -p option from one init file that disabled auto-shutdown that solved the problem being discussed, wasn't it? That seems a paltry item to be so upset over. As I said before -- sheesh!!! Well if that were the way of it I would agree, but this is not how it happened - I tried the fix (by the letter) and it caused it to fail to get that far. So no, it did not solve it as such. It may be paltry in your view, but it is significant enough to prevent the overall machine from working in it's intended manner. I have learned that if you have a TMC TI5VG+ motherboard with it's MVP3, with an AMD K6-2 CPU then you may expect to have some difficulties which would prevent linux from running properly. Not many can afford to go out and replace motherboard, cpu, videocard, soundcard, and modem, maybe the mouse, and possibly the keyboard and monitor too, purely to run linux - especially when all of those are average modern day contemporary components - it adds a hidden cost to linux, and tends to head it towards eliteist. There is nothing particularly wrong in that, but it may not have the kind of wider appeal the OS may really deserve. It may be quite able, and it may require quite a bit of effort, but it's not reasonable to then suggest an owner might like to start by trashing an entire system. (A system which lets face it can work if the correct functions are within the cabability of a given OS.) This is something which could do with pointing up more strongly that it currently is. So, as a practical approach I will come back to linux either when it can support the hardware I have, or when I can afford to build (and want to own) the kind of all intel machine it seems linux would be happier with. But that's just a practical approach for a given set of circumstances. I can see no other ways forward - that is just practical - do you really see it as morose? Disappointed perhaps. Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
[newbie] lilo.conf
What purpose does the command 'compact' serve in 'lilo.conf'? Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
Re: [newbie] Star Office
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote: I see many people writing the listserve about star office and I was wondering if any of you got it work for a user other than root. I am have problems doing so. If you could please tell me what you did to get this working. Star office 5.1 works fine for me .. to get it working as a user you just install it as that user. Seeya, Lindsay
Re: [newbie] I found a link to 4.7 for linux 2.0 (glibc) (upgradeatyour own risk)
A Alan where did you find the fortify for the Linux version of Netscape I only see the Windows and NT versions? Can you send me a link for the Linux one? Thanks Jeanette JeanetteI downloaded from this site: http://www.fortify.net/ the following version (I've not yet had the time to try it): Unix v1.4.4 (Browsers up to v4.61) Thanks Alan I am going to give it a try because I have to boot to Windows to access my Online Bank. Jeanette click here Alan
Re: [newbie] Stopping auto-boot to KDE?
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello all, I am getting a font error when booting into KDE which is set for auto-load. How can I stop this? All my monitor does is reset itself. Is there a command once I'm at the login: screen to stop the auto-load? I have about 3 seconds before KDE begins to load. BTW, Yes I've searched HOW-TO's on this with no luck. :( Thanks, Valheru At the LILO prompt, type "linux 3" and that should do it. NOTE: This *MUST* be done at the LILO prompt, NOT at the boot-up screen! This will put you in console mode, rather than in X-windows, and hopefully, you can figure out what needs to be fixed while in console mode! That works for a single time. For a more permanant fix edit the line in /etc/inittab from id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: or run linuxconf click the boot click the mode tab click "default boot mode" button click "text mode network" click accept and quit then activate the changes when you exit linuxconf (personally I think that it is easier to just edit the /etc/inittab file) -- Alex
Re: [newbie] MVP3 chipset
Thanks John. I've had a good read. As I'm running that board in an AT case it really isn't a problem at this time. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MVP3 chipset On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: I'm using a new TMC Socket 7 board with the above chipset. I was trying to follow a string and saw a reference to BIOS problems with this chipset. Could someone please point me at site where I can find further info The problem is the Auto-shutdown script which ships with Mandrake (and RedHat.) It gives you a GPF at shutdown instead of powering down. There's a simple fix to this. Just go to the Mandrake website (www.linux-mandrake.com) and go to the 'Mailing lists' link, and from there to the Mailing LIst archives and search for GPF. It's nothing major, just that it won't auto-power down for you. John
[newbie] Guil-config
Hi... I have recently downloaded the gIDE tarball, and I can't get it to "./configure" correctly, because it cannot find guile-config to check out the guile version. I do have the Guile rpm installed (ver 1.3.??), but it doesn't detect it. I also tried to "find -name *guile-config*" in the whole /usr dir, in case it wasn't in my PATH, but it looks like I don't have guile-config... Shall I install guile-devel?? Thank you! Rheda.
Re: [newbie] lilo.conf
Ken Wilson wrote: What purpose does the command 'compact' serve in 'lilo.conf'? man lilo.conf gives: compact Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors into a single read request. This drastically reduces load time and keeps the map smaller. Using `compact' is especially recommended when booting from a floppy disk. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset
tommiy wrote: To get UDMA working you need to patch the kernel. I've been running the patches on an ASUS board for over 6 months with no problems. The patches should be folded into 2.4 hopefully. Get them at your local kernel.org mirror under kernel/people/hedrick Thank for the advice! In the Linux Mandrake 6.0 distribution I also got the UDMA to work fine on my ASUS board. With the new MAndrake 6.1 distribution this particular kernel module is no longer available in the kernel source and the kernel 2.2.13 is apperently not a standard version so I haven't succeed in finding a pathc yet. Grab those specific for your kernel that you are running. Here they work fine. bay56 wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] UDMA don't work in 6.1 with Ali Chipset Ianoh come on! There's no reason to get this morose over a problem that has a simple workaround. It was just the removal of a -p option from one init file that disabled auto-shutdown that solved the problem being discussed, wasn't it? That seems a paltry item to be so upset over. As I said before -- sheesh!!! Well if that were the way of it I would agree, but this is not how it happened - I tried the fix (by the letter) and it caused it to fail to get that far. So no, it did not solve it as such. It may be paltry in your view, but it is significant enough to prevent the overall machine from working in it's intended manner. I have learned that if you have a TMC TI5VG+ motherboard with it's MVP3, with an AMD K6-2 CPU then you may expect to have some difficulties which would prevent linux from running properly. Not many can afford to go out and replace motherboard, cpu, videocard, soundcard, and modem, maybe the mouse, and possibly the keyboard and monitor too, purely to run linux - especially when all of those are average modern day contemporary components - it adds a hidden cost to linux, and tends to head it towards eliteist. There is nothing particularly wrong in that, but it may not have the kind of wider appeal the OS may really deserve. It may be quite able, and it may require quite a bit of effort, but it's not reasonable to then suggest an owner might like to start by trashing an entire system. (A system which lets face it can work if the correct functions are within the cabability of a given OS.) This is something which could do with pointing up more strongly that it currently is. So, as a practical approach I will come back to linux either when it can support the hardware I have, or when I can afford to build (and want to own) the kind of all intel machine it seems linux would be happier with. But that's just a practical approach for a given set of circumstances. I can see no other ways forward - that is just practical - do you really see it as morose? Disappointed perhaps. Regards, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zap.to/atelier Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
[newbie] fdisk
i have an empty disk drive that i want to partition so i can load unix. What are the fdisk command i should use to create the needed directory? Which directory (partition) should i create? Thanks for your time.
Re: [newbie] Guil-config
Rheda Barretina wrote: Hi... I have recently downloaded the gIDE tarball, and I can't get it to "./configure" correctly, because it cannot find guile-config to check out the guile version. I do have the Guile rpm installed (ver 1.3.??), but it doesn't detect it. I also tried to "find -name *guile-config*" in the whole /usr dir, in case it wasn't in my PATH, but it looks like I don't have guile-config... Shall I install guile-devel?? Yup, guile-config is in the guile-devel package (you can check using rpm -qpl guile-devel). -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] fdisk
Ida or Roly wrote: i have an empty disk drive that i want to partition so i can load unix. What are the fdisk command i should use to create the needed directory? Which directory (partition) should i create? Thanks for your time. It sounds like you're wanting to create the partitions with the DOS fdisk. It's not recommended to do that. Instead use the partitioning tools provided by the installation routine for Mandrake. At a minimum, you'll want to create two partitions. First, a swap partition. The size of that partition will depend on the amount of RAM you have in your computer and the kinds of programs you'll typically run on the system. Overall, I'd recommend 128M as a good compromise -- hard drive space is pretty cheap these days. Second, you'll need a root partition that you'll install Linux into. Make this as large as the hard drive allows. If you have a large hard drive, you may want to create another small partition that you'll mount as /boot. This partition holds you kernel and boot information. You'll want to limit this partition to around 10 or 15M, it's not likely you'll need more space than that. This partition is created because BIOSes have a problem pointing any further than 1024 cylinders into a hard drive. By creating this partition at the beginning of the drive, you guarantee that you won't have problems getting your Linux system to boot properly. Hope this information helps. -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Armed Linux
Joe, This 'Armed Linux' seems to be similiar to WinLinux 2000 in that it installs in Microsoft Windows. I've read the website documents and I would give it a try myself but I don't have the disk space to do it. Why not give it a whirl yourself and tell us what happens. Have you read the install docs? They tell you that you have to have Windows running in 'safe mode' to use Armed Linux properly. Give it a shot and see what happens. Richard At 02:07 PM 10/2/99 -0500, Joe Brault wrote: Has anyone heard of this version of linux before? If anyone has used it... what do ya think? I'm interesed in trying it out on my laptop, but i'm not sure if I want to risk it or not... Joe :) Attachment Converted: "c:\eudoralgt2\attach\0,332,0-49715-g,1000.htmlst.dl.cat355.hl.g49715.url"
Re: [newbie] Guil-config
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi... I have recently downloaded the gIDE tarball, and I can't get it to "./configure" correctly, because it cannot find guile-config to check out the guile version. I do have the Guile rpm installed (ver 1.3.??), but it doesn't detect it. I also tried to "find -name *guile-config*" in the whole /usr dir, in case it wasn't in my PATH, but it looks like I don't have guile-config... Shall I install guile-devel?? Definitely. Any time you want to compile any programs and there's an RPM with a "-devel" for the program you want to compile, you will almost surely need to have that "devel" RPM. :-) John
Re: [newbie] diskdruid
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: I had the same problem ! Disk Druid absolutely want to install the / partition on the primary HD :( The only way to make the / partition is to use fdisk instead of disk druid during the installation processus. It also doesn't help that they're trying to install on a Windows partition. :-) They'll need to change the type, or just wipe the secondary hard drive completely, removing ALL partitions.
Re: [newbie] Stopping auto-boot to KDE?
On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: That works for a single time. For a more permanant fix edit the line in /etc/inittab from id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: Of course. :-) I was assuming (yeah... I know G) that they would fix the problem and then go back to their X-windows auto-start. :-) John
Re: [newbie] newbie-remove
Thomas Peter wrote: Bob Jackson wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Larry Corrales wrote: newbie-remove Wrong address. Check the MandrakeSoft website for the correct address. Isn't it about time we put a footer on the bottom of list messages that includes removal instructions? It won't help. I get the KDE lists. The put the unsubscribe info in the footer on each message. The 'remove' traffic is about the same there as here. These people don't read the f*** manual or the list welcome message. They won't read the footer either. I've been trying to think of something that might help and have had no success. Bob J. Maybe they're just stupid. :-( Maybe they ,like myself, lost it from having to reinstall several times trying to make things work. Maybe you forget what it was like when you got started. I'm not any better at saving things or remembering things than anybody else. However, after sending several messages saying 'remove' to a mailing list and not getting removed I'm smart enough to realize that approach won't work. The I ask myself,"Hmmm, how did I get on this list in the first place?" Ahhha, I went to linux-mandrake and subscribed. I go back to linux-mandrake -- lo and behold! Unsubscribe instructions (for those who can read) right in front of me. Easy as pie. These jerks are to lazy to do anything except annoy others into doing their legwork. Bob J.
OT Re: [newbie] newbie-remove
Jaybird X wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, you wrote: Maybe they're just stupid. :-( Maybe they ,like myself, lost it from having to reinstall several times trying to make things work. Maybe you forget what it was like when you got started. Geeever think maybe they're just too damn lazy to go visit the site where they first got the info on how to subscribe Or maybe they just panicked, you know, not thinkin' straight, like if you fell into a pool of sharks and just wanted to get out! It's not that mean around here. We might take the occasional arm or leg, but it's very rare that you see anyone complely devoured. ;-) Bob J.
Re: [newbie] newbie-remove
Ripcrd6 wrote: -Original Message- From: Bob Jackson Steve Philp wrote: Larry Corrales wrote: newbie-remove Wrong address. Check the MandrakeSoft website for the correct address. Isn't it about time we put a footer on the bottom of list messages that includes removal instructions? It won't help. I get the KDE lists. The put the unsubscribe info in the footer on each message. The 'remove' traffic is about the same there as here. These people don't read the f*** manual or the list welcome message. They won't read the footer either. I've been trying to think of something that might help and have had no success. Maybe they're just stupid. :-( I've just started sending them all REAL simple unsub instructions. Hope they understand those. Let's hope it works. I'm thinking os a 10 page FAQ that everybody could send to them. evil grin Bob J.
