[newbie] EZ-drive
On sáb, 09 out 1999, Manny Styles wrote: Big Snip The Maxtor drive came with EZ-Drive, but that doesn't affect linux in any way since it can see large drives with no BIOS changes. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to have a drive with EZ-Drive with *both* Windows and Linux? Windows needs EZ-Drive, and the EZ-Drive documentation said Linux (or Unix) could not run over it. Any way I can enable EZ-Drive for Windows and disable it for Linux? (*Perhaps* a more adequate phrasing for this question would be: Does LiLo load before EZ-Drive and can it make EZ-Drive run only for Windows?) Thanks, /Gustavo.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.5
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Hugh wrote: Hi all, I just found out Comp USA is selling Mandrake 6.5. I thought Mandrake was up to 6.1? What is the difference between the two? Interesting... There is no such thing. They must have renamed their own version. :/ LLaP bero
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
As an educated guess, I would say not, for the following reasons. LILO can be installed in the MBR, or the Linux root partition. When it is the MBR, it is your 'root installer', for want of better words. So it is loaded first. If you then select another OS, it goes off and does that. If you have another boot loader, for example boot magic, you put LILO in the root partition, bootmagic into the MBR, then bootmagic boots first, then boots LILO when you select it. Unfortunately, it is a pretty good bet that EZ-drive can only install itself into the MBR, thereby preventing any other boot programs from going first. If EZ-drive is installable on the partition, rather than the MBR, then it should work. But bear in mind EZ-drive is a Microsoft based program, chances are it's not that flexible. Is there some alternative to EZ-drive that doesn't need a boot type execution, perhaps a little applet that runs inside Windows? Just a suggestion. - Original Message - From: Gustavo Viola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 4:29 PM Subject: [newbie] EZ-drive On sáb, 09 out 1999, Manny Styles wrote: Big Snip The Maxtor drive came with EZ-Drive, but that doesn't affect linux in any way since it can see large drives with no BIOS changes. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to have a drive with EZ-Drive with *both* Windows and Linux? Windows needs EZ-Drive, and the EZ-Drive documentation said Linux (or Unix) could not run over it. Any way I can enable EZ-Drive for Windows and disable it for Linux? (*Perhaps* a more adequate phrasing for this question would be: Does LiLo load before EZ-Drive and can it make EZ-Drive run only for Windows?) Thanks, /Gustavo.
Re: [newbie] Iomega zip plus (insmod imm unresolved symbol ?)
I had the same thing happen to me just the other day. Try: modprobe ppa Then mount -a (assuming you have mount -t /dev/. in fstab) Bryan P.S. I have to rereun modprobe ppa on subsequent bootups. Don't know of a way to make it "stick". "Maurizio Bonavita" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/13/99 02:38:43 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] Iomega zip plus (insmod imm unresolved symbol ?) Hello everybody, I have a problem with my Zip plus. I have just installed Mandrake 6.0 with the previous version 5.3 I simply run the following command: insmod imm.o mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip where /zip is the mount point I created but now when i type insmod imm i get the following error message: /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_Rcdfb4d19 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_unregister_deviceR528dbb47 /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_register_device_R2c1b91b /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol. I have know idea what that means hope somebody could help me thanks in advance maurizio __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] WOW! Archives really are useful! (UPDATE/REPOST)
Seeing the posts about Zip drives prompted me to resume trying to mount my parallel port zip drive. I searched the archives and... Viola!! I found the appropriate information.. modprobe ppa mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdrive -t vfat Question is... After adding mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdrive -t vfat to etc/fstab, do I need to tell modprobe ppa to run on every bootup, or is it a one time deal? If I need to run it every time, what is the "autoexec" for Linux? Thanks, Bryan Had to reboot my machine last night. On bootup, (when fstab was "mounting"), I got an error that basically says I will need to run modprobe pp _before_ the zip drive can be mounted. Is there any way to either tell modprope ppa to execute before fstab OR set something where modprobe ppa will not need to be run again? Thanks Again, Bryan
Re: [newbie] error when try to mount zip
OOPS! ... You're right, I got it switched around. He needs to create the folder on his Linux partition as you indicated. I must have been more sleepy than I realized. Sorry for the mistake. Ernie - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] error when try to mount zip On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: There must be a folder on the DOS partition (/dev/hda4) named in this case "zip" since that is what you put in your fstab file, as that will be the entry point for the partition, if I remember the post correctly. Err...actually, Ernie, I believe you have it backwards. He's trying to mount /dev/hda4 as /mnt/zip. :-) He just needs to make the directory /mnt/zip. :-)
Re: [newbie] running linux
Jan, Most of the IDE HD's I've worked with have a jumper on the back of the case which can be set to tell the Disk what it is (Master, Slave, or ... I forget the third one-)), however the labeling is usually fairly self explanatory, or there is a diagram on the case of the HD which you can use to configure the thing. You must set this to the required position, as well as in the BIOS set up. Hope this helps, Ernie - Original Message - From: Jan Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux I set the BIOS disk type to LBA,Normal,and Large and the 10's still came up. Also for some reason I can't set the drive to primary master I can only set it to primary slave. I don't know if that would have an effect on it. - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux I think someone else has already mentioned the solution. It refers to the BIOS disk types being set to large or normal, when it should be LBA. I saw the same problem, and the solution worked for me. And for the other chap who said that they are LO's not 10's, they looked suspicously like 10's to me, AND I hadn't installed LILO!! - Original Message - From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux First question is: did you elect to start the x-server automatically, and if so, are you sure that you installed the correct video driver for X? A little information about your box, and the way you configured Linux would help to limit the possibilities as well. Maybe someone else has seen this behavior, but I haven't. Sorry I can't be of any more help, Ernie - Original Message - From: Jan Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 10:11 AM Subject: [newbie] running linux Hello, I am having trouble running Linux. Instalation went fine but when my computer loads up, it looks like linux is going to load up but a bunch of number 10's go scrolling across my screen and I can't do anything else but shut the computer down. Any help is aprieciated. thanks in advance, Ian Herbert
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.5
Steve Philp wrote: Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Hugh wrote: Hi all, I just found out Comp USA is selling Mandrake 6.5. I thought Mandrake was up to 6.1? What is the difference between the two? That would be Macmillan's version 6.5 NOT Mandrake. Macmillan redistributes Mandrake under their own version and the version numbers don't always follow. Sounds like they've got an extremely odd numbering system going on there. As far as I'm concerned, it should be v2.0 -- they didn't ship Mandrake 6.0, it was Red Hat. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry Steve I beg to differ. Their (Macmillan) last version was Mandrake 6.0 - that's where I got mine -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Finding Device Names
Hi Folks! Question: I have an internal Colorado T1000 tape drive on my box. It is spliced into the floppy controller cable. How do I fnd the device name that this will go to so that I can mount it. (Assume /dev/fdxX ? ) Is there somewhere that list the "default" device names for particular devices? Also, has anyone had any luck with this type of tape drive? Thanks, Bryan
Re: [newbie] URGENT: Printer won't stop! -- revised
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: You can see how distraught I am! I did in fact lprm 7, and not lprm, but for some reason, when I performed the operation in order to copy and paste it into my letter, I forgot and typed lprm. I have done this a hundred times in RH. I have no idea why it doesn/t work in Mandrake. For the record, here is the operation as it should be but with the same results: [sher@adsl-77-232-94 sher]$ su - Password: [root@adsl-77-232-94 /root]# cd / [root@adsl-77-232-94 /]# lpq lp is ready and printing Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active sher 7/tmp/_pp_000786_1 342086 bytes 1stsher 8(standard input) 10002 bytes [root@adsl-77-232-94 /]# lprm 7 [root@adsl-77-232-94 /]# lprm 8 [root@adsl-77-232-94 /]# lpq lp is ready and printing Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active sher 7/tmp/_pp_000786_1 342086 bytes 1stsher 8(standard input) 10002 bytes [root@adsl-77-232-94 /]# That's why I am going batty. Thank you all so very much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net For the time being how about just letting the #%@! thing run. Not pretty but if your in a jam and need to use the printer well... -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs
First, and please do not take this offensively, but Linux-Mandrake is not RedHat Linux. They are two entirely individual distributions, with no connection to each other. As for changing your video driver, you can run Xconfigurator to accomplish that. Also, I think there an other configuration tool for the X-windows system as well, but I can't remember the name at this point. Hope this is useful, Ernie - Original Message - From: Tony Zocolillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs Hello, Thanks for the reply. I found some Q/A on the internet stating that SiS chips don't run with Linux. I'll probably just get another video card that does work. I see 2Mb ATI PCI cards on eBay for $10. How do I re-run the setup to install a new video driver? (or anything else...I still need to load my sound card module) I don't have a bood for Red Hat...I do have SuSE but I couldn't get past partitioning with it so I put Mandrake on instead. The books I have on SuSE and Caldera describing the setup utility don't seem to work with Mandrake RedHat. regards, Tony Z. - Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems Tony I got the same problem. And have been working on it for about 2 weeks now with nothing to show. I thought that it might have been my Network Card since I had problems with it when I ran Windows 98 and the N-Card in that they were trying to use the same IRQ. well i uninstalled the card and I still have the same problems. Glad to see I am not the only one though! If ya come up with any thing let me know and I will do the same for you... This is a message I recieved the other day... as for what it means I have no idea. I have yet to figure out where to get to these settings. I have used the Linux install disk and SETUP to change my settings and XE86conf and none of these help anything out. Jess
Re: [newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't
You misunderstood me, I meant that if possible, you should set the Modem card up as a non-PnP device. On my modem card, there are a set of jumpers allowing me to either choose PnP, or the serial port the modem will run on. For my configuration, I used the second serial port, since I have a serial trac-ball on the first port. In addition, you will need to look in your BIOS set up, and disable the COM (serial) port the modem will use. This should turn off the serial port built into your mother board, preventing any conflict with the serial port on your modem card. Then, depending on the mother board you have, there may also be a jumper to en/disable the serial port as well. This is not common in recent years, but there may still be some mother boards out there using jumpers for this. So, if possible, set your modem to use the serial port of your choice, disable that serial port in your BIOS set up, and check your mother board documentation, or search the web for your mother board to learn if it needs the serial port to be disabled with a jumper as well. Note: If your mother board is a "jumperless" board, this step will not be necessary. I only included this information because I do not know what board you are using, or how new it is. Sorry I didn't make myself clear the last time, I hope this is better, Ernie - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't Thank you to everybody who replied to my call for help. So far, I haven't had much success. Jeremy wrote that he had the same trouble as me, and all the advice he received didn't help him. That's about the shape I'm in. Jeremy also told me that if my modem has jumpers, he might be able to help me. As it turns out, my modem has two sets of jumpers. One set of jumpers is clearly marked IRQ with jumper settings for "2", "3", "4", "5", and "7". The jumper was not set to anything, so I set the jumper to IRQ 3. The other block is not labeled and has settings for "0", "1", and "SEL". Does anybody know what this means? What should I choose? Ernie suggested that I turn off PnP in the BIOS. My BIOS does not give me that option. Ernie asked if I have a serial mouse. I don't. It's a standard PS2 mouse. Sam suggested that I go to http://www.o2.net/~gromtitkc/11007a.html and see if my modem was really a Winmodem. I was unable to connect to that web site. Civileme suggested that I switch the motherboard BIOS to turn off PnP. I cannot do that. Civileme also suggested that I disable COM1. How do I do that? I don't see it in the BIOS setup parameters. Finally, Civileme suggested that I use the jumpers on the modem. See my response to Jeremy above. I need help setting the jumpers marked 0, 1, and SEL. Richard asked if I did pnpdump followed by isapnp. Yes, I did follow the steps he outlined in his email. I had no luck. I did do a setserial command and I did manage to dump a UART number. I forget the exact number. Once again, I'm hoping someone can help me get my modem working. Thanks again, Mike Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: snip (*Perhaps* a more adequate phrasing for this question would be: Does LiLo load before EZ-Drive and can it make EZ-Drive run only for Windows?) Thanks, /Gustavo. --Hi Gustavo. You have answered many questions for me, and I wish I could answer this one for you. What I can tell you is that EZ-drive puts a small _non-dos_ partition on the first sector of the drive it controls. This partition can be read by dos, but appears as errors to scandisk and defrag. I believe that it's the first command to load during boot up. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Dogs wonder why each week we take our best stuff outside and let people in big trucks steal it**
Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs
Please excuse me if I'm wrong, but isn't Linux-Mandrake=Red Hat Linux + KDE+Pentium enhancements?? I thought that was the biggest selling point of Mandrake? - Original Message - From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs First, and please do not take this offensively, but Linux-Mandrake is not RedHat Linux. They are two entirely individual distributions, with no connection to each other. As for changing your video driver, you can run Xconfigurator to accomplish that. Also, I think there an other configuration tool for the X-windows system as well, but I can't remember the name at this point. Hope this is useful, Ernie - Original Message - From: Tony Zocolillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs Hello, Thanks for the reply. I found some Q/A on the internet stating that SiS chips don't run with Linux. I'll probably just get another video card that does work. I see 2Mb ATI PCI cards on eBay for $10. How do I re-run the setup to install a new video driver? (or anything else...I still need to load my sound card module) I don't have a bood for Red Hat...I do have SuSE but I couldn't get past partitioning with it so I put Mandrake on instead. The books I have on SuSE and Caldera describing the setup utility don't seem to work with Mandrake RedHat. regards, Tony Z. - Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems Tony I got the same problem. And have been working on it for about 2 weeks now with nothing to show. I thought that it might have been my Network Card since I had problems with it when I ran Windows 98 and the N-Card in that they were trying to use the same IRQ. well i uninstalled the card and I still have the same problems. Glad to see I am not the only one though! If ya come up with any thing let me know and I will do the same for you... This is a message I recieved the other day... as for what it means I have no idea. I have yet to figure out where to get to these settings. I have used the Linux install disk and SETUP to change my settings and XE86conf and none of these help anything out. Jess
[newbie] X server and Accelerated X
I have one of those NeoMagic graphics cards with 2.5Mb RAM running on a notebook(KDE1.1.1 Mandrake6.0). I have tried to use the XFCom servers available from Redhat's site. Only thing it has done for me is disable my backspace and delete keys. Have tried stty erase to no avail. The only solution was to use ^H, so I went back to the XFree SVGA as I could not see any difference. Then I tried using the demo version of Accelerated X. Again, no difference, so I got out of my KDE session and tried to startx again. THe X server refuses to start with a message like "Authentication Failed". The only solution was to uninstall Accel X. My two questions are: What improvements do I expect to see over a generic (SVGA) server? Has anobody got any ideas on the problem I encountered with the Accel X ? If there is a real performance boost(presuming I can get it working) , I would like to get the Accel X package. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Upgrading to KDE 1.1.2?
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: I can, at least, confirm that the 1.1.2 packages from Cooker work extremely well. I've molded them into my machine and haven't had any problem with them. Kewl. Thanks... I'll grab 'em tonight, most likely. :-) John
Re: [newbie] running linux
(Ernie,FYI the third option is usually labelled CSEL, it's a supposedly semi-automatic setting that I've never seen working!!!) Jan, I didn't really want to mention this step that I had to do because I wasn't sure that it made any difference in the end. But here goes. What I had was a machine that had LBA set up, and I couldn't get Linux to work. It would install, but I had a kernel problem of some kind. I then saw a post where someone mentioned that LBA is incompatible with Linux. (Hey, I was young, I didn't know better.) The only problem was, the automatic detect on my BIOS would not allow me to use normal. So I low level formatted the drive to normal. (Don't ask!). I could then set everything to normal, install Linux, I was away. Of course, then I got introduced to number 10 and his cohorts. Going back to the postings, I saw the chap who had mentioned LBA had been put straight in no uncertain terms, so I had the wonderful process of getting everything back to LBA. Which included an LBA low level format. BTW, I have no idea what a low level format using the wrong disc layout can do to the disc, so please don't try it unless you don't really care. So, after weeks of toing and froing, I got back to an LBA system, with a working Linux. Or rather, I got back to the same place, where my other problems appeared, but the 10's didn't. What I am trying to say is, it may not be enough that your BIOS is LBA, you may need an LBA drive. I don't know how big your drives are, but if they're less than 528Mb (I think), it is possible that you have a 'normal' drive. Go to your drives website, take a look at support, and see what they say about it. Because I go for branded HD's, the support is always first rate, with all info available. This included a comment that the particular drives I was working with could be formatted normal or LBA, which convinced me it was alright to do a wrong format low level format. You may also be able to get the info off your drive. Alternatively, if you want to post your machine specs, I'm sure we can do the digging for you. It does sound like that you have a prebuilt PC, alot of prebuilt ones have fixed HD jumpers, along with fixed everything else, which means that you may not be able to make it master. That shouldn't make any difference though, although I would recommend you don't put a CD-ROM on the master. The speed drop is ridiculous!! Simon - Original Message - From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux Jan, Most of the IDE HD's I've worked with have a jumper on the back of the case which can be set to tell the Disk what it is (Master, Slave, or ... I forget the third one-)), however the labeling is usually fairly self explanatory, or there is a diagram on the case of the HD which you can use to configure the thing. You must set this to the required position, as well as in the BIOS set up. Hope this helps, Ernie - Original Message - From: Jan Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux I set the BIOS disk type to LBA,Normal,and Large and the 10's still came up. Also for some reason I can't set the drive to primary master I can only set it to primary slave. I don't know if that would have an effect on it. - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux I think someone else has already mentioned the solution. It refers to the BIOS disk types being set to large or normal, when it should be LBA. I saw the same problem, and the solution worked for me. And for the other chap who said that they are LO's not 10's, they looked suspicously like 10's to me, AND I hadn't installed LILO!! - Original Message - From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux First question is: did you elect to start the x-server automatically, and if so, are you sure that you installed the correct video driver for X? A little information about your box, and the way you configured Linux would help to limit the possibilities as well. Maybe someone else has seen this behavior, but I haven't. Sorry I can't be of any more help, Ernie - Original Message - From: Jan Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 10:11 AM Subject: [newbie] running linux Hello, I am having trouble running Linux. Instalation went fine but when my computer loads up, it looks like linux is going to load up but a bunch of number 10's go scrolling across my screen and I can't do anything else but shut the computer down. Any help is aprieciated. thanks in advance, Ian Herbert
Re: [newbie] Finding Device Names
Not sure if this is what you're after, but here goes. Devices on a floppy drive connector are numbered 0 and 1 (or a and b for windows) by their physical connection to the lead. If you can see the ribbon cable, it has a twist in it. Devices mounted after this twist are device 0, devices mounted before it are device 1. Depending on where the tape drive is, will depend on the number. That is of course, if the convention /dev/fdX actually applies to this situation, perhaps someone else can advise on that? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:15 PM Subject: [newbie] Finding Device Names Hi Folks! Question: I have an internal Colorado T1000 tape drive on my box. It is spliced into the floppy controller cable. How do I fnd the device name that this will go to so that I can mount it. (Assume /dev/fdxX ? ) Is there somewhere that list the "default" device names for particular devices? Also, has anyone had any luck with this type of tape drive? Thanks, Bryan
Re: [newbie] Resizing long dialog boxes while in Gnome
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: Ideas, anyone, on how these boxes can be resized to permit config changes in them? Be easier to resize your desktop to something like 800x600, instead of 640x480. OTOH, you can also edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the viewport from something other than "0 0" The "0 0" tells X not to make your desktop larger than the screen. Once you've changed that (I'm not sure what you'd set it to) you should be able to hit (I think) alt and move your mouse to move the desktop around. John
Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape for Linux 2.0
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello, Mike, Another question: How does one unpack and install an *rpm program? I think I asked this question before but I lost that message and so would appreciate a refresher answer. You don't unpack it. You either use the KPackage or (my preference) run rpm -ivh filename (or rpm -Uvh if upgrading)
RE: [newbie] 6.1
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: Too late now; I've got another CD with 6.1 - no WP this time. WHere do you get the rewritable CDROM so cheap? I should tell my friend about it. Thanks, Julian Well, Smart and Friendly has their (slow) SCSI CDRW drives on sale for $100. :-) John
Re: [newbie] pcmcia card modem
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: I have just installed linux-mandrake 6.0 on my system. However. I was unable to configure pcmcia card Hayes-Option (COM 3 IRQ 10 in windows) by Kppp. Does anyone know how can I configure it? Thanks in advance, Oder. Please take a look at the documentation you received with your PCMCIA modem and see if it *requires* Windows 95 or 98. If so, you will almost surely *never* be able to configure it to work under Linux. OTOH, you might try reading "man setserial" and "man pnpdump" as well as "man isapnp." John
RE: [newbie] 6.1
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: I can see the CDROM ( I mean the content). I would like to try install WP, see if it works. The problem is: how exactly do I install something from the CDROM? Any clue will be appeciate. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom (assuming cdrom is in FSTAB, you shouldn't have to specify filesystem type, etc.) Then, you should be able to cd to the directory you want to have as your "unpacking" directory and if it's a *.tar.gz file, type "tar xzvf /mnt/cdrom/filename.tar.gz" If it's an RPM, just type rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/filename.rpm It's no different from installing from a file on your hard drive that you downloaded. Alternatively, you can just copy the word perfect to a local directory, and install it as normal from there. :-) John
Re: [newbie] placement of .pid files
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi all- My ppp0.pid file is placed in /etc/ppp -- instead of in /var/run with the others. Is this a normal thing for Mandrake? or for Redhat? If not, what may cause this placement on my system? (My ISP is starting up some linux support, and I tested some scripts they put together to automatically setup ppp dialing; dialup works great, but when I run the unmodified ppp-off script, it can't fine ppp0.pid in /var/run, so it's unable to disconnect. This hasn't been a problem for me, as I run kppp which handles it fine for some reason, but it just popped up experimenting with the script from my ISP.) I think that's normal for RedHat-compatible releases such as Mandrake. Your ppp stuff goes in two places: /etc/ppp and /bin. John
Re: [newbie] slow telnet respond time
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi, When i telnet to a RedHat 5.2 box, i have to wait around 30secs before it give me the login prompt. Why is it so slow ? Anything wrong with my network config ? Try putting the ip address of the machine you're telnetting from into your "hosts.allow" file. The problem is likely that the RedHat box is trying to do a lookup on your machine and is timing out. John
Re: [newbie] Keyboard and mouse freezing on loading
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: I have an Intel P3-450 on a Asus P3B-F with 128 Mb of Ram. The video card is a Diamond V770, the hard drive a Matrox 20 Gb. The problem is probably the mouse which is a Mouseman+ PS/2... Hmmshould work, AFAIK. *shrug* John
[newbie] Windoze partition
Help me Wr. Wizard . . . . I still can't write to my Windoze partition from anything but the root account. Where do I have to go and what do I have to do to enable this for my user account. I've gone everywhere I can think of as the root user, and as a super user, changed permissions whever I could find them, and still can't write to the windoze partition unless I'm using the root account. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sam
[newbie] The difference between Mandrake 6.5 and 6.1
Hi Everybody, Here is the difference you've been wondering about: Mandrake 6.1- The current version number for Mandrake as released by Linux Mandrake. Mandrake 6.5- A marketing gimmick by Macmillan Publishing- after all, Red hat is at 6.1 and Suse is at 6.2 ;-) According to what I saw on the box in the store, the 6.5 package is Mandrake 6.1 with more additional software and electronic manuals than the previous 6.0 release. Linux Mandrake ought to tell MacMillan to make it obvious that their number does not correspond to the Mandrake release number. Sam
Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs
That's what I though...I reading "Red Hat" in text at one point during install too. TZ - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs Please excuse me if I'm wrong, but isn't Linux-Mandrake=Red Hat Linux + KDE+Pentium enhancements?? I thought that was the biggest selling point of Mandrake? - Original Message - From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs First, and please do not take this offensively, but Linux-Mandrake is not RedHat Linux. They are two entirely individual distributions, with no connection to each other. As for changing your video driver, you can run Xconfigurator to accomplish that. Also, I think there an other configuration tool for the X-windows system as well, but I can't remember the name at this point. Hope this is useful, Ernie - Original Message - From: Tony Zocolillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs Hello, Thanks for the reply. I found some Q/A on the internet stating that SiS chips don't run with Linux. I'll probably just get another video card that does work. I see 2Mb ATI PCI cards on eBay for $10. How do I re-run the setup to install a new video driver? (or anything else...I still need to load my sound card module) I don't have a bood for Red Hat...I do have SuSE but I couldn't get past partitioning with it so I put Mandrake on instead. The books I have on SuSE and Caldera describing the setup utility don't seem to work with Mandrake RedHat. regards, Tony Z. - Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems Tony I got the same problem. And have been working on it for about 2 weeks now with nothing to show. I thought that it might have been my Network Card since I had problems with it when I ran Windows 98 and the N-Card in that they were trying to use the same IRQ. well i uninstalled the card and I still have the same problems. Glad to see I am not the only one though! If ya come up with any thing let me know and I will do the same for you... This is a message I recieved the other day... as for what it means I have no idea. I have yet to figure out where to get to these settings. I have used the Linux install disk and SETUP to change my settings and XE86conf and none of these help anything out. Jess
[newbie] Netscape Tinytype
The type on Netscape is SOOO tiny, I canbarely read it. The Font size increase/decrease menu items are greyed out. How can I make the Netscape font size readable? I have heard that I can turn off HTML, but after racking my brains out, I can't figure out how to do it. Is there a secret? Thank you!!!
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
it's posible to have ez-bios and linux, but hardly worth the effort. Boot from a floppy or try loadlin On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: snip (*Perhaps* a more adequate phrasing for this question would be: Does LiLo load before EZ-Drive and can it make EZ-Drive run only for Windows?) Thanks, /Gustavo. --Hi Gustavo. You have answered many questions for me, and I wish I could answer this one for you. What I can tell you is that EZ-drive puts a small _non-dos_ partition on the first sector of the drive it controls. This partition can be read by dos, but appears as errors to scandisk and defrag. I believe that it's the first command to load during boot up. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Dogs wonder why each week we take our best stuff outside and let people in big trucks steal it** -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
-Original Message- From: Manny Styles Because I have such an old computer, I can't upgrade the CPU without upgrading the whole motherboar (I asked someone in Comp USA about my particular system a while ago), plus my power source is not compatible with newer boards (verifying some of what you stated). I have a Genuine Intel Pentium 60 MHz processor. I contacted PB support a while ago about my system (which is past waranty), and I was told that it can be upgraded to a Pentium 120/133 MHz processor. I have upgraded my modem, which is connected to the same riser card as the soundcard, and even moved both of them to better slots for me to access; they are the only two things connected there. The original CD-ROM drive was connected to the soundcard, but I attached the new one directly to the IDE controller. I have not upgraded my video card, but the current one is built into the motherboard. As far as the soundcard, I did a ROM upgrade to make it full-duplex. It's an Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16, which is practically a SoundBlaster 16. All that to basically say that there has been no need (yet) for me to upgrade that. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manny, I guess I have the same old PBell. Where did you get the upgrade for the sound card? I never could get my sound card recognized under Linux, I wondered if that upgrade helped or how you did it. I replaced the card w/ a real SB 16 I got used. I do still have it and would like to use it. As for the CPU upgrade, I occasionally see the right chips on eBay, but they are something like $120-175.A bit too much for that old PC. If you are interested it is the Intel Pentium Overdrive processor #PODP5v133 . That will take yours to 120 MHz. Later, Brian Kelsay Y2K Flunky
Re: [newbie] support for ATI Xpert 2000 graphics card
The next XFree86 will include the rage128 driver. On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Civileme wrote: There is an rpm on the Mandrake 6.1 Installation disk. Look through the folders. It isn't in packages. Civileme Tom Coleman wrote: For information on the card, check out: http://www.atitech.com/ca_us/products/pc/xpert2000/index.html See not on atitech.ca at all :) You're right, it does use the "Rage 128" chipset. However, the Mandrake-Linux installation program is unable to detect it. I was unable to configure it manually, either. Also, I checked the Xfree86 web page and it wasn't listed there. Any more suggestions, anyone? Thanks in advance, Tom - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 4:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] support for ATI Xpert 2000 graphics card On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Tom Coleman wrote: Hi, I have just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on my system. However, I was unable to configure my graphics card and therefore cannot run X. I have an ATI Xpert 2000 card and an ADI 5P+ monitor. Does anyone know if this card is supported? If it is isn't, are there plans to add support for it any time soon? If it is, what should I do in order to get things working? Any help would be much appreciated... Thanks, Tom I'm guessing it's an oem card, from gateway(?) as it's not listed at all on atitech.ca. It is however useing one of two chipsets, the "Rage pro" or "Rage 128" both of which are supported. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs
The program you are thinking of is xvidtune to be run while x is running. Brian Y2K Flunky From: Ernie First, and please do not take this offensively, but Linux-Mandrake is not RedHat Linux. They are two entirely individual distributions, with no connection to each other. As for changing your video driver, you can run Xconfigurator to accomplish that. Also, I think there an other configuration tool for the X-windows system as well, but I can't remember the name at this point. Hope this is useful, Ernie From: Tony Zocolillo Hello, Thanks for the reply. I found some Q/A on the internet stating that SiS chips don't run with Linux. I'll probably just get another video card that does work. I see 2Mb ATI PCI cards on eBay for $10. How do I re-run the setup to install a new video driver? (or anything else...I still need to load my sound card module) I don't have a bood for Red Hat...I do have SuSE but I couldn't get past partitioning with it so I put Mandrake on instead. The books I have on SuSE and Caldera describing the setup utility don't seem to work with Mandrake RedHat. regards, Tony Z. - Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems Tony I got the same problem. And have been working on it for about 2 weeks now with nothing to show. I thought that it might have been my Network Card since I had problems with it when I ran Windows 98 and the N-Card in that they were trying to use the same IRQ. well i uninstalled the card and I still have the same problems. Glad to see I am not the only one though! If ya come up with any thing let me know and I will do the same for you... This is a message I recieved the other day... as for what it means I have no idea. I have yet to figure out where to get to these settings. I have used the Linux install disk and SETUP to change my settings and XE86conf and none of these help anything out. Jess
[newbie] Stream Works Player
I downloaded the stream woks player from thir website. They say that the linux version is no longer supported. When I try to run the program I get the following message: ./swplayer: can't load library 'libg++so.26' This application was built using libc5. I searched My HD for such library and found a lib called libg++.so.27.1.4 so i made a link to it, but it did not worked. I searched older distros for the file but anything comes. Any help will be appreciated.
[newbie] Resizing the program windows
I've had to do a reinstall and I'm having difficulty with resizing Netscape so I can see the whole program, top to bottom. Problem is, the top is in screen (monitor) view but the bottom remains hidden below the screen. I'm using GNOME as the desktop and am using Enlightenment to attempt to resize Netscape's bottom so I can see it. Also with Netscape, the same problem exists with the 'Preferences' menu when I try to change the tfont size. I can't see the bottom of that dialog screen. WHat adjustments do I make so I can see everything that takes place and not have something hiding below monitor view so I can't see it. Same again, can be said for the 'Settings' screen on Kmail when I try to increase font size there. The bottom of the screen is well below the bottom of the monitor so I can't see what, if any, controls it has. Could somebody please tell me how to make these screens more viewer accessible? Thanks for any ideas. Richard
Re: [newbie] setserial/modem detection
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_I want to have my modem detected when i run Linux. Under Window it is connected to com3 with an irq 10. According to setserial man page com3=ttys2. I try to see the content of /dev/ttys2 by typing: login as root setserial -a /dev/ttys2 and i get input/output error. How can i read this file without getting this error? How do i modify this file without getting this error? Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Please don't post to linux lists in HTML. It's not pretty when a text-only mail reader gets ahold of it. :-) Second, what kind of modem do you have? If it's an internal PCI modem, chances are it's non-functional in Linux. All but about two PCI modems are known to be "windows-only modems" which use software to emulate some hardware intentionally left off to save money. John
Re: [newbie] Windoze partition
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: Help me Wr. Wizard . . . . I still can't write to my Windoze partition from anything but the root account. Where do I have to go and what do I have to do to enable this for my user account. I've gone everywhere I can think of as the root user, and as a super user, changed permissions whever I could find them, and still can't write to the windoze partition unless I'm using the root account. Any help would be greatly appreciated. /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosvfat defaults, user 0 0 (all on one line) should allow you to write to the "Windoze" partition. BE CAREFUL! You can seriously damage your Windows partition by doing this if you aren't careful! Instead try "mcopy" to copy files to your dos partition. John
Re: [newbie] Iomega zip plus (insmod imm unresolved symbol ?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. I have to rereun modprobe ppa on subsequent bootups. Don't know of a way to make it "stick". put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local at the bottom. this is a good place to put anything that needs to be loaded every time that you dont want to type. :P
Re: [newbie] Resizing the program windows
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Richard Salts wrote: I've had to do a reinstall and I'm having difficulty with resizing Netscape so I can see the whole program, top to bottom. Problem is, the top is in screen (monitor) view but the bottom remains hidden below the screen. I'm using GNOME as the desktop and am using Enlightenment to attempt to resize Netscape's bottom so I can see it. Also with Netscape, the same problem exists with the 'Preferences' menu when I try to change the tfont size. I can't see the bottom of that dialog screen. WHat adjustments do I make so I can see everything that takes place and not have something hiding below monitor view so I can't see it. Same again, can be said for the 'Settings' screen on Kmail when I try to increase font size there. The bottom of the screen is well below the bottom of the monitor so I can't see what, if any, controls it has. Could somebody please tell me how to make these screens more viewer accessible? Make the screen bigger than 640x480? ;) no serious this needs to be on a FAQ, most window managers let you alt-click to drag a window. alt-click the middle of the window and drag the top off the screen till the bottom comes on, then shrink the lil bugger. Basicly your looking for A) alt-click and drag, or B) a real video card/monitor Thanks for any ideas. Richard -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] support for ATI Xpert 2000 graphics card
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: For information on the card, check out: http://www.atitech.com/ca_us/products/pc/xpert2000/index.html You're right, it does use the "Rage 128" chipset. However, the Mandrake-Linux installation program is unable to detect it. I was unable to configure it manually, either. Also, I checked the Xfree86 web page and it wasn't listed there. Any more suggestions, anyone? Try "XF86_Mach64" as your X server. John I wouldn't expect that to work... -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] 6.1
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John - I really appreciate your help.
I'll give it a try this weekend and I'll promis I'll stick with M6.1
for a long, long time (maybe 6 month).
I started playng with Linux a few month ago and I installed
Caldera1.1- 1.3 Redhat6.0 but Mandrake6.0 got me!
Julian
No problem. Hope you enjoy it. :-) One of these days I'm
gonna get me a burner and try out 6.1 myself... ('course by
then, it may be up to 6.5 G)
John
Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous cooker packages?
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: Where can I go to download these famous "cooker" packages? I've seen other postings that refer to the cooker packages. What are they? Where can I get them? Go view the Mandrake page at www.linux-mandrake.com. There's links there to "cooker." John
Re: [newbie] support for ATI Xpert 2000 graphics card
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: I wouldn't expect that to work... Hmm...Ok. John
[newbie] svc: unknown version (3)
I am using Mandrake 6.1 as a NFS sever and the client is a machine with Solaris 2.5. From time to time the nfs service get down. When I review the /var/log/message I found the following: svc: unknown version (3). Is this a Mandrake's bug or the problem come from the Solaris system? Thanks in advance. Miguel Rodriguez (Venezuela).
[newbie] 6.1 problems
Hello. I have two problems since I have upgraded to Mandrake 6.1 : - I don't see colors anymore in my xterm windows, when I list a directory, though ls --colors is the default. - When I delete icons in the KDE desktop, they are recreated the next time I log on. Any ideas ? Thanks
RE: [newbie] 6.1
I loves it,man! My 13 years old daughter loves it , too!
I didn't give up the W95 - i don't have enough knowledge
( about LInux ) to do that.
thanks again,
Julian
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] 6.1
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John - I really appreciate your help.
I'll give it a try this weekend and I'll promis I'll stick with M6.1
for a long, long time (maybe 6 month).
I started playng with Linux a few month ago and I installed
Caldera1.1- 1.3 Redhat6.0 but Mandrake6.0 got me!
Julian
No problem. Hope you enjoy it. :-) One of these days I'm
gonna get me a burner and try out 6.1 myself... ('course by
then, it may be up to 6.5 G)
John
Re: [newbie] Atlanta Linux Showcase
From: Ronald A. Yacketta I had plans on going , but recenly have been relocated to upstate NY :( "Payne Stanifer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/13/99 02:09:03 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] Atlanta Linux Showcase Hey everyone, who all is going to the ALS? Bythe way, I am building a web page and I have a section on Linux, and I was wondering what you all thought would be good to put on the page. Here is a link: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hardware/9568/ Email me any ideas. payne AIM=ironpayne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Uninstall Linux
how do i uninstall linux? i messed around with the windows manager and now i can't load KDE... some other windows manager always loads and i want to reinstall it... so how do i uninstall it???
Re: [newbie] dual boot setup
John, Thanks for the reply. This is what I did except I set the partion size for Linux using th lnx4win.exe utility in Windows 98. I started with a bare un-fdisked 6.4Gb drivemade a 3.75 Gb DOS primary partition...formatted /s/v...installed Windows 98.then set my Linux partition to 100Mb swap and 2Gb user (figuring I had about 2.5Gb left and playing it safe...)...then the system reboots...goes into Mandrake setup, booting from the CDROM...answer the initial questions prior to partitioning...and hard crash shutdown. So...your saying to not use the lnx4win.exe and boot to the Mandrake CDROM and create the partition from there... I'll give it a try tonight. I may have to start from scratch as any corruption of the partition from using lnx4win can't be fixed, as Mandrake crashes before I get to that step. thanks, Tony Z. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot setup Ok...here's what worked best for me... wipe the drive (completely) and then partition out what you want for Windows. Install Windows. Next, boot to the floppy boot disk and select "install from CDROM." Assuming you don't have a wierd cdrom (say running off your third IDE channel on a sound card or something) it should work fine from here. Just make sure you have the area you want Linux on UN-FORMATTED, AND UN-PARTITIONED! Just leave it "empty." Linux can partition and format it for you. From there it should be a matter of just following the prompts! John
Re: [newbie] 6.1 problems
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Dominique Deleris wrote: Hello. I have two problems since I have upgraded to Mandrake 6.1 : - I don't see colors anymore in my xterm windows, when I list a directory, though ls --colors is the default. try ls --color, what says "aliases"? which term prog (xterm?) - When I delete icons in the KDE desktop, they are recreated the next time I log on. Any ideas ? Thanks -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] ip masquerade
Bonjour, J'ai donc linux mandrake 5.3, avec une connection a internet par modem qui fonctionne. Je voudrais partager cette derniere avec un autre PC; J'ai un reseau local qui fonctionne aussi. Avec l'aide d' un bouquin de micro application, j'ai voulu installer ip masquerade : mais je n'ai pas les memes commandes que eux ??? make xconfig ne marche pas, a cause de xconfig qu'il ne trouve pas, et moi non plus :-). donc je ne peux pas reconfigurer le noyau comme eux. qu'est je oublie ? Merci de votre aide -- Cécile PRESSECQ - ICQ : 51591370 VTT dans l'Aude :http://www.multimania.com/atacvtt Defense de la nature : http://www.i-france.com/terre-nature/index.htm __ Message envoye depuis iFrance http://www.ifrance.com Gratuit Hebergement (50 Mo)/Vos emails (POPHTML,20 Mo) Votre agenda online gratuit http://agenda.ifrance.com NOUVEAU : Faxez gratuitement ! http://fax.ifrance.com
Re: [newbie] dual boot setup
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: So...your saying to not use the lnx4win.exe and boot to the Mandrake CDROM and create the partition from there... I'll give it a try tonight. I may have to start from scratch as any corruption of the partition from using lnx4win can't be fixed, as Mandrake crashes before I get to that step. That's what I'd do. I'd use a plain, bootable DOS floppy with "fdisk" on it and type "fdisk /mbr" and then "fdisk" and wipe the drive clean and start over from scratch. First thing to install will be Windows, as otherwise, Windows will reset the MBR and you won't be able to get to Linux. Then, after Windows is installed, shut down Windows all the way (power down) and boot to the boot floppy that came with Linux. If it won't boot off that one, boot back to Windows and install the "rawrite" util off the CDROM onto your hard drive and use that to make a new boot disk from the CDROM (from your CDROM drive in the /images directory, type "rawrite boot.img" and have a blank floppy ready to go -- preferably a brand new floppy!) John
Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: how do i uninstall linux? i messed around with the windows manager and now i can't load KDE... some other windows manager always loads and i want to reinstall it... so how do i uninstall it??? That's a pretty drastic step Try this before you reinstall Linux. Assuming you're running RedHat (or one of the other highly-compatible distros) see if you have .Xclients in your home directory. If you do, see if it looks (basically) like this: #!/bin/bash if [ -e "$HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY" ]; then exec $HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY else exec $HOME/.Xclients-default fi If not, copy the above into your favorite text editor and then save it as .Xclients in your home directory. Also, you may want to have a .Xclients-default file which would look like this for KDE: # Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher exec startkde Just create that file above and it should put you back in KDE. John
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.5
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: Sounds like they've got an extremely odd numbering system going on there. As far as I'm concerned, it should be v2.0 -- they didn't ship Mandrake 6.0, it was Red Hat. Steve...I don't know what you got, but when I purchased the "Complete Linux Operating System 6.0" I got Mandrake 6.0. Granted, it uses the same installer as RedHat, but it's DEFINITELY a different distro!!! Hehehe :) Yep, you've caught me showing my age... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.5
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Hugh wrote: Hi all, I just found out Comp USA is selling Mandrake 6.5. I thought Mandrake was up to 6.1? What is the difference between the two? That would be Macmillan's version 6.5 NOT Mandrake. Macmillan redistributes Mandrake under their own version and the version numbers don't always follow. Sounds like they've got an extremely odd numbering system going on there. As far as I'm concerned, it should be v2.0 -- they didn't ship Mandrake 6.0, it was Red Hat. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry Steve I beg to differ. Their (Macmillan) last version was Mandrake 6.0 - that's where I got mine Oops! You're right, of course! Was it RH 5.2 they shipped? Too long ago, I'm afraid! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] c/c++ compilers
Hello I'm very new to Linux but how do you use the c/c++ compilers that come with Linux? I'm trying to open them up in KDE but nothing happens. Also are their any IDE's that come with the compilers like the DJGPP IDE? Thanks in Advance, Ian Herbert
Re: [newbie] Resizing the program windows
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Richard Salts wrote: I've had to do a reinstall and I'm having difficulty with resizing Netscape so I can see the whole program, top to bottom. Problem is, the top is in screen (monitor) view but the bottom remains hidden below the screen. I'm using GNOME as the desktop and am using Enlightenment to attempt to resize Netscape's bottom so I can see it. Also with Netscape, the same problem exists with the 'Preferences' menu when I try to change the tfont size. I can't see the bottom of that dialog screen. WHat adjustments do I make so I can see everything that takes place and not have something hiding below monitor view so I can't see it. Same again, can be said for the 'Settings' screen on Kmail when I try to increase font size there. The bottom of the screen is well below the bottom of the monitor so I can't see what, if any, controls it has. Could somebody please tell me how to make these screens more viewer accessible? Make the screen bigger than 640x480? ;) no serious this needs to be on a FAQ, most window managers let you alt-click to drag a window. You mean the 'ALT' key on the keyboard and 'click' with one of the mouse buttons? If so, which mouse button do I use to click with? Richard alt-click the middle of the window and drag the top off the screen till the bottom comes on, then shrink the lil bugger. Basicly your looking for A) alt-click and drag, or B) a real video card/monitor Thanks for any ideas. Richard -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] panoramix must change its name
- Original Message - From: Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] panoramix must change its name YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done... so answer fast :) the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only GPL ;-) so i'm making a poll here to know which name it will change to! some ideas: - pearl (perl+a, maybe too generic) Marguerita - derived from the Spanish word for pearl I am told. Hoyt Sorry, but the spanish translation of pearl is 'perla'. Margarita is a flower, I think the english name of that flower is 'daisy' Saludos :) Toshiro.
Re: [newbie] URGENT: Printer won't stop!
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I am having an urgent problem with my printer. For some reason, I can't seem to stop, that is, to dequeue the print job. NO mattter what I do, it won't dequeue: [root@adsl-77-232-94 sher]# lpq lp is ready and printing Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active sher 7/tmp/_pp_000786_1 342086 bytes [root@adsl-77-232-94 sher]# lprm Try 'lprm 7', I think you have to give lprm a job number. I turned off my printer (Epson Stylus Color 600). Then did a cold reboot, disconnected my computer from the wall, removed the cable from my printer, replaced the cable, rebooted and still the print job won't disappear from the queue. It's a 75 page print job. I have only one Of course it won't come out of the print queue, it hasn't been printed! Now my problem is more urgent. The problem is not with the printer but with Linux. I can't remove the print job itself from the queue. See the lprm command above. One odd thing: I have rebooted several times and noticed that each time I reboot, the printer would start printing from PAGE ONE, from the title page, all over again, that is, even if it has already printed several pages before I shut the printer down and rebooted. When I return, after a cold reboot (as explained above), the printer will start reprinting FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE MANUSCRIPT, from poge 1. Isn't that odd? Not really. What if there really WAS a printer problem -- a jam-up or something... you had to kill 10 pages to get it to come out of the printer. You really don't want a split report. The whole job reprints. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] URGENT: Printer won't stop! -- revised
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: You can see how distraught I am! I did in fact lprm 7, and not lprm, but for some reason, when I performed the operation in order to copy and paste it into my letter, I forgot and typed lprm. I have done this a hundred times in RH. I have no idea why it doesn/t work in Mandrake. As a nasty, hacky fix you could always remove the jobs out of the /var/spool/lpd/lp directory. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] running linux SimonErnie
Simon Ernie, We really appreciate all the help we recieved from all of you. Actually, its my son's box (he's 14)witch he built from componants he bought from the local computer show,Azus mb running a petium 233 chip. the drive was given to him,WD Caviar 1gig. We tried setting it up as primary master but could'nt,Bios would only reconize it as a primary slave. Thought something was wrong but didn't really investigate it. He installed Linux several times and always ended up with the scrolling 10's. We started posting querries! Thats when you guys made us start looking more closely at the drive setup, we took the jumper off (single drive setup) reconnected the data cable and checked the Bios, AHa, showed up as primary master,my son reinstalled Linux and there she Blows! By the way ,the Bios setup is on Auto on all drives. - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux (Ernie,FYI the third option is usually labelled CSEL, it's a supposedly semi-automatic setting that I've never seen working!!!) Jan, I didn't really want to mention this step that I had to do because I wasn't sure that it made any difference in the end. But here goes. What I had was a machine that had LBA set up, and I couldn't get Linux to work. It would install, but I had a kernel problem of some kind. I then saw a post where someone mentioned that LBA is incompatible with Linux. (Hey, I was young, I didn't know better.) The only problem was, the automatic detect on my BIOS would not allow me to use normal. So I low level formatted the drive to normal. (Don't ask!). I could then set everything to normal, install Linux, I was away. Of course, then I got introduced to number 10 and his cohorts. Going back to the postings, I saw the chap who had mentioned LBA had been put straight in no uncertain terms, so I had the wonderful process of getting everything back to LBA. Which included an LBA low level format. BTW, I have no idea what a low level format using the wrong disc layout can do to the disc, so please don't try it unless you don't really care. So, after weeks of toing and froing, I got back to an LBA system, with a working Linux. Or rather, I got back to the same place, where my other problems appeared, but the 10's didn't. What I am trying to say is, it may not be enough that your BIOS is LBA, you may need an LBA drive. I don't know how big your drives are, but if they're less than 528Mb (I think), it is possible that you have a 'normal' drive. Go to your drives website, take a look at support, and see what they say about it. Because I go for branded HD's, the support is always first rate, with all info available. This included a comment that the particular drives I was working with could be formatted normal or LBA, which convinced me it was alright to do a wrong format low level format. You may also be able to get the info off your drive. Alternatively, if you want to post your machine specs, I'm sure we can do the digging for you. It does sound like that you have a prebuilt PC, alot of prebuilt ones have fixed HD jumpers, along with fixed everything else, which means that you may not be able to make it master. That shouldn't make any difference though, although I would recommend you don't put a CD-ROM on the master. The speed drop is ridiculous!! Simon - Original Message - From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux Jan, Most of the IDE HD's I've worked with have a jumper on the back of the case which can be set to tell the Disk what it is (Master, Slave, or ... I forget the third one-)), however the labeling is usually fairly self explanatory, or there is a diagram on the case of the HD which you can use to configure the thing. You must set this to the required position, as well as in the BIOS set up. Hope this helps, Ernie - Original Message - From: Jan Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux I set the BIOS disk type to LBA,Normal,and Large and the 10's still came up. Also for some reason I can't set the drive to primary master I can only set it to primary slave. I don't know if that would have an effect on it. - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] running linux I think someone else has already mentioned the solution. It refers to the BIOS disk types being set to large or normal, when it should be LBA. I saw the same problem, and the solution worked for me. And for the other chap who said that they are LO's not 10's, they looked suspicously like 10's to me, AND I hadn't installed LILO!!
[newbie] internal DSL modem config
hey i just got set up with DSL from us west. I have a cisco 605 internal pci dsl modem, and i'm trying to get it configured in linux. i'm also having trouble with a pci soundcard. if anyone could help me out with any of this stuff, or recommend a good resource (book , webpage) it would be much appreciated. thanks matt skinner
Re: [newbie] c/c++ compilers
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello I'm very new to Linux but how do you use the c/c++ compilers that come with Linux? I'm trying to open them up in KDE but nothing happens. Also you should be able to just run gcc from the console. . . are their any IDE's that come with the compilers like the DJGPP IDE? i use emacs. . . -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) To paraphrase my friend stephen: "life can be like ifs. . .random garbare goes in and beautiful things come out."
Re: [newbie] panoramix must change its name
How about FreeX that has a nice ring to it. Jeanette Pixel wrote: YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done... so answer fast :) the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only GPL ;-) so i'm making a poll here to know which name it will change to! some ideas: - pearl (perl+a, maybe too generic) - cameleon (camel=perl, alas SuSE) - koala - mangoose (snake killer) - WizDrake - MagicDrake - pixdrake - MagiX - DragonFly - Houdini - Sandbox - Isix - Easix - easX - easyX - isX Please tell me the one(s) you prefer or give marks. If you have a truly cool name not listed here, you can give it.
[newbie] Problems installing make (or the RPM already installed/not installed paradox)
Greetings Last night I decided I wanted to compile some software. I quickly discovered that I have not installed the necessary pgcc, make etc etc. I began my installation process by trying to install make. I used the kpackage to do the installation. As it was installing it came up with a "Script Failed" type error message. I have heard that kpackage does have a few bugs (not installing documentation if I remember rightly - my observations seem to confirm that) so I tried using rpm from the command line. I typed rpm -i file name for make, which I can't remember right now but checked that it and the path were correct It responded that make was already installed. So I rpm -e correct package name, which I can't remember but checked to make sure it was correct It responded that the package was not installed. I once encoutered a similar problem using RH5.2 and Glint. In that case I solved the problem by having the installed packages window and the available packages window open simultaneously. However I am not using Glint in this case (it doesn't deem to have been included) so I don't know how to solve this problem? Does anyone have any ideas? Aaron
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
On qua, 13 out 1999, Art wrote: %_The type on Netscape is SOOO tiny, I can barely read it. The Font size increase/decrease menu items are greyed out. How can I make the Netscape font size readable? Hi Art, Take a look at www.mandrakeuser.org in its X-Windows fonts section. It is pretty informative and has been updated recently. Regards, /Gustavo
[newbie] Linux on Acer notebook
Does anyone have experience to install Linux on Acer Travelmate notebook? Success or not? Thanks in advance. Ken ___ Get your hongkong.com freemail at http://www.hongkong.com Free newsletters center at http://post4u.hongkong.com
[newbie] Log file questions.
Below is an example from my messages log. I think someone it trying to crack my box but I'm too green to know what he's doing. Are there books or doc files that I can read so that I can understand these files without constantly asking for help? How ever while I learn. HELP! What is this guy doing? Thanks! I think Mr/Ms "powertech" is trying to crack my Linux box. What do you think? (I'm a newbe and need to find doc files so I can understand this stuff. Please let me know what this guy is up to! Thanks!) My messages log shows the following: Oct 10 03:26:18 C287853-A identd[14840]: Connection from powertech.no.eu.dal.net Oct 10 03:26:18 C287853-A identd[14840]: from: 195.159.0.91 powertech.no.eu.dal.net ) for: 64860, Oct 10 03:26:18 C287853-A identd[14840]: Returned: 64860 , : NO-USER Oct 10 03:26:33 C287853-A identd[14843]: Connection from powertech.no.eu.dal.net Oct 10 03:26:33 C287853-A identd[14842]: Connection from powertech.no.eu.dal.net Oct 10 03:26:34 C287853-A identd[14843]: from: 195.159.0.91 powertech.no.eu.dal.net ) for: 64866, Oct 10 03:26:34 C287853-A identd[14842]: from: 195.159.0.91 powertech.no.eu.dal.net ) for: 64867, Oct 10 03:26:34 C287853-A identd[14842]: Returned: 64867 , : NO-USER Oct 10 03:26:34 C287853-A identd[14843]: Returned: 64866 , : NO-USER Oct 10 03:26:44 C287853-A identd[14845]: Connection from powertech.no.eu.dal.net Oct 10 03:26:44 C287853-A identd[14846]: Connection from powertech.no.eu.dal.net Oct 10 03:26:44 C287853-A identd[14845]: from: 195.159.0.91 powertech.no.eu.dal.net ) for: 64870, Oct 10 03:26:45 C287853-A identd[14845]: Returned: 64870 , : NO-USER Oct 10 03:26:45 C287853-A identd[14846]: from: 195.159.0.91 powertech.no.eu.dal.net ) for: 64871, Oct 10 03:26:45 C287853-A identd[14846]: Returned: 64871 , : NO-USER Oct 10 03:27:13 C287853-A telnetd[14841]: ttloop: peer died: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character Oct 10 03:27:21 C287853-A telnetd[14844]: ttloop: peer died: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character Oct 10 03:27:32 C287853-A telnetd[14847]: ttloop: peer died: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Re: [newbie] panoramix must change its name
how about piXel On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:22:27 -0500, Jeanette Russo wrote: How about FreeX that has a nice ring to it. Jeanette Pixel wrote: YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done... so answer fast :) the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only GPL ;-) so i'm making a poll here to know which name it will change to! some ideas: - pearl (perl+a, maybe too generic) - cameleon (camel=perl, alas SuSE) - koala - mangoose (snake killer) - WizDrake - MagicDrake - pixdrake - MagiX - DragonFly - Houdini - Sandbox - Isix - Easix - easX - easyX - isX Please tell me the one(s) you prefer or give marks. If you have a truly cool name not listed here, you can give it.
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
- Original Message - From: Gustavo Viola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 11:29 AM Subject: [newbie] EZ-drive Is it possible to have a drive with EZ-Drive with *both* Windows and Linux? Windows needs EZ-Drive, and the EZ-Drive documentation said Linux (or Unix) could not run over it. Any way I can enable EZ-Drive for Windows and disable it for Linux? (*Perhaps* a more adequate phrasing for this question would be: Does LiLo load before EZ-Drive and can it make EZ-Drive run only for Windows?) Thanks, /Gustavo. - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Gustavo Viola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] EZ-drive it's posible to have ez-bios and linux, but hardly worth the effort. Boot from a floppy or try loadlin -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon Axalon hit it on the nose (mostly). Ez-BIOS loads itself in the MBR of each drive on your system. I tried to put LILO on my system and went through hell to get EZ-Drive to reinstall for the sake of Windows. Don't even try all of that, just use a bootdisk. All you have to do when the system boots is wait for the EZ-Drive dialog to appear before Windows loads, and press CTRL, then it will tell you to either press A to boot from the floppy drive, or C to boot from the harddrive; that is when you can insert your bootdisk, then press A, and linux will boot from there. It is possible to boot directly from the bootdisk and skip all of that (I presume), but it is better to be safe, right? Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computers aren't smart, they only think they are. __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
- Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware -Original Message- From: Manny Styles Because I have such an old computer, I can't upgrade the CPU without upgrading the whole motherboar (I asked someone in Comp USA about my particular system a while ago), plus my power source is not compatible with newer boards (verifying some of what you stated). I have a Genuine Intel Pentium 60 MHz processor. I contacted PB support a while ago about my system (which is past waranty), and I was told that it can be upgraded to a Pentium 120/133 MHz processor. I have upgraded my modem, which is connected to the same riser card as the soundcard, and even moved both of them to better slots for me to access; they are the only two things connected there. The original CD-ROM drive was connected to the soundcard, but I attached the new one directly to the IDE controller. I have not upgraded my video card, but the current one is built into the motherboard. As far as the soundcard, I did a ROM upgrade to make it full-duplex. It's an Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16, which is practically a SoundBlaster 16. All that to basically say that there has been no need (yet) for me to upgrade that. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manny, I guess I have the same old PBell. Where did you get the upgrade for the sound card? I never could get my sound card recognized under Linux, I wondered if that upgrade helped or how you did it. I replaced the card w/ a real SB 16 I got used. I do still have it and would like to use it. As for the CPU upgrade, I occasionally see the right chips on eBay, but they are something like $120-175.A bit too much for that old PC. If you are interested it is the Intel Pentium Overdrive processor #PODP5v133 . That will take yours to 120 MHz. Later, Brian Kelsay Y2K Flunky I found the Aztech website, and from there found the upgrade (after much searching) in their support area (of course it's a Windows executable). I could send you the file directly if I still have it. I believe it also gives you sound tools to do wav. recording and such. If I ever find over $100 lying around and can sneak it out of the house (hehe), I might consider that processor upgrade. There is much to be said for some extra RAM though, even my little 40MB worth. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] Panoramix redux
Whizzer(yeah, I know) Manzard (Too Caldera) EasyMan ProMan Tophat Abracadabra (Too long) Presto!(yea, Baby!) Illusion (Not bad!) Gosh, are 24 hours up already? Oops, sorry! ;-)
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Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
EZ Drive is a Formatting tool that is available on WD (western didital) website. Allows older Bios too see large drives. I think larger than 6 or 8 GIGs. Hope this helps janh - Original Message - From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] EZ-drive Boy.. I am going to ask a stupid question and hopefully someone can enlighten me sarcastically if it is really stupid... What is EZ-drive? I have a drive that my bios does not see and I have to run EZ-bios (I think that is what it is) or its EZ something.. will have to reboot to see what it is.. but it allows me to have more than 8 gigs of drive space. ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
[newbie] Maintenance programs?
Are there any maintenance programs in Linux that 'root' can operate to clean up, optimize the system, etc., like MS-Windows 95/98 has? If so what are they and how does 'root' operate them? Thanks for any pointers Richard
[newbie] All Tell Permedia
Hi All I downloaded the Mandrake 6.1 ISO file, and have gotten Mandrake to install on my PC. I'm having problems with getting X 3.3.3.1 to work right. If I use the XF86_SVGA driver, with my AllTell Permedia 3000 Card, or the XF86_3DLabs driver, I get a blank screen, and am forced to reboot my computer to get the screen back on :( Help!!! TIA, Brant Wells ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Using Xwindows after install
I installed Linux Mandrake for the first time a few weeks ago. I had it autoload X windows. When it loaded, the screen res was so low, I couldn't even use it. I reinstalled it again, but now I don't have it autoload Xwindows, and I can't even figure out how to load it. Soo...two questions. 1) How do you load Xwindows from the text part of Linux. 2) How do you set the screen res in X windows (It was so big that I couldn't even read the whole menu when I right clicked, must of been like 320x480 or so.
Re: [newbie] changing Staroffice location
--- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: I lLost my StarOffice when I lost some user "chown -R username.groupname office51_directory" Change out the username, etc for the correct info and it should work. BTW, you'll have to do this as root. Hy John, thanks for the tip. Now why didn't I just think of that? Damn! adios, and thanks again, STeve = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
[newbie] also, what is a magic file in kde?
What is the magic file in ~/.kde/share/apps/kfm and what does the number represent in it? -- = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] panoramix must change its name
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: how about piXel On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:22:27 -0500, Jeanette Russo wrote: How about FreeX that has a nice ring to it. Jeanette Pixel wrote: YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done... so answer fast :) the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only GPL ;-) so i'm making a poll here to know which name it will change to! some ideas: - pearl (perl+a, maybe too generic) - cameleon (camel=perl, alas SuSE) - koala - mangoose (snake killer) - WizDrake - MagicDrake - pixdrake - MagiX - DragonFly - Houdini - Sandbox - Isix - Easix - easX - easyX - isX Please tell me the one(s) you prefer or give marks. If you have a truly cool name not listed here, you can give it.
[newbie] Atlanta Linux Showcase
Hey everyone, who all is going to the ALS? Bythe way, I am building a web page and I have a section on Linux, and I was wondering what you all thought would be good to put on the page. Here is a link: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hardware/9568/ Email me any ideas. payne AIM=ironpayne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
