Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
I have a Western Digital 8-Gig HD, and use EZ-Drive with it because my BIOS does not support large HD's ( I have an old 486-style main board ). When I start my system, the video BIOS runs, then the main (AMI) BIOS, then EZ-Drive, then LILO. I can run either Win95 or Linux from the LILO prompt with no problems. I am using Linux-Mandrake v6.0 with the LILO update, although the original version seemed to work flawlessly as well. As I understand it, the EZ-Drive disk manager allows my system to access the entire 8-Gig HD, which would not be possible otherwise, since my BIOS does not support HD's of this size. If my BIOS supported HD's of this size, I would be able to partition the disk with partitions of a size that the OS's could access, and I would not need EZ-Drive, but for me this is not the case. If you need EZ-Drive to use your HD with your system, ( the system just stops booting before the operating system loads without EZ-Drive ), then you will need it no mater what OS you use. I am not certain of this, but this is what I understand from the documentation I have read. Also, EZ-Drive is not a Win9x specific utility, and the EZ-Drive installer disk does not load a version of DOS for it to boot, at least this is my impression from using it. I hope this is of help, Ernie - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 5:27 AM Subject: 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] Changing Graphics and setup programs
As I understand the situation, Mandrake has its roots in RedHat, but is in no way affiliated with or has anything to do with RedHat, at least since v6.0. Because Mandrake has its roots in RedHat, there are some inevitable similarities, but that is as far as it goes. If Mandrake was simply an enhanced copy of RedHat, then the Mandrake team would not be free to build the superb OS we have come to admire so. Ernie - 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
Re: [newbie] Windoze partition
Log in as your regular user, then su to mount the Win9x partition, then su back to your regular user to use the partition. I think this is how I do it (not in Linux right now). You just have to be the super-user to mount or umount the DOS partition, although I could be wrong. I know I can not move or delete files from the DOS partition as a regular user, but I can create and copy them. Hope this is useful, Ernie - Original Message - From: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 9:59 AM Subject: [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
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've turned off the HTML as you suggested, but the type in the browser window is still SOOO tiny. I might have to buy a 26 inch montor!!! Try this... open up a Konsole (or console) window and go to your /etc/X11/ directory. Edit your XF86Config file and swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts. This should give you 100dpi fonts which will be larger. Good luck! Joh
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: 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? It's a software solution for a hardware problem -- it allows "stupid" BIOSes to see large hard drives. If you're only going to put Linux on it, it should work OK w/o EZ Drive. John
Re: [newbie] dual boot setup
I will tell you how I did the deed, if this will help. My system was partitioned into four partitions for Windoze. I used Partition Magic to resize these to provide room on the disk for Linux. I then made room before the secondary partition for the main (root) Linux partition. I also created space in the secondary partition for a Linux partition to be used as the /home folder ( I wanted to be able to re-install without the need for re-downloading stuff I get off the Internet, I am bound to mess things up while learning Linux). Next, I re-started from the Linux boot disk, and created the two partitions I wanted using the Linux partition tool provided (not f-disk for Linux) setting the entry points as / on hda3 and /home on hda5 ( these were the partition designations for my system, yours may be different ) while following the screen prompts. and reading everything quite carefully. The installation went without problems, so if something like this does not work for you, I can not be of much help. It is likely that if there was not any free space on your HD for a Linux partition, this may have been the culprit that stopped everything cold. I did not want to mess around with Linux for DOS or anything like that, as I wanted my Linux installation to be as simple and straight forward as possible. I do a dual-boot with the LILO loader, and all works for me without problems. I must confess however, that I do like my IE5 and the OutLook Express e-mail reader in Windoze better than the Netscape Communicator provided with Linux. This is a personal preference, and in no way should be construed as any kind of an endorsement for the former. If they (the guys in Redmond) would produce a version of IE5 for Linux, I most likely would not use Win for anything, and remove it from my system. I hope that this is helpful, Ernie - Original Message - From: Tony Zocolillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 11:03 AM Subject: [newbie] dual boot setup Hello, I apologise for asking this as I know it was just discussed (but i wasn't paying attention), but I need help setting up a dual boot for Linux and Windows. Is there a place I can search the archives of this list? If so, I'll read that first. If not, here's what has been happening when I try I first created a DOS partion for my entire hard drive, install Windows 98, then attempted to install Mandrake through the lnx4win.exe program...it started the install, but crashed hard right before the partition step. (So, I though I may have to create a DOS partion that is smaller, leaving room for the Linux partition on the same hard drive). I then restarted, formated a DOS partiton of 3.5 Gb, leaving about 2.9 Gb for Linux. I formatted, installed Windows 98, then tried to reinstall Mandrake and I crashed again at the same point. I set the swap partition to 100 and user partition to 2000 (as to not exceed what was left). I also tried starting Mandrake from the boot disk and install on the Linux partition but it still keeps crashing. If someone can point me to list archives or point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks, Tony Zoccolillo
Re: [newbie] Resizing the program windows
I use the KDE Desktop with Linux-Mandrake 6.0, and it works well. Some of the display windows are larger than the screen, and do not have the full-screen button in the top-right corner. To access the hidden parts of the display, I hold the ALT key, and move the window with the left (primary) mouse button. For any windows which have the full-screen button (the one with a box in the button), I use this, and the entire window usually then fits the screen. If not, I use the ALT key-left mouse button combo to move the window to show the bottom etc. Hope this is useful, Ernie - Original Message - From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 2:21 PM Subject: [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] Using Xwindows after install
Virtual screen size means although your monitor is set to - let's say - 800x600 the desktop looks like 1024x768. It scrolls on its own accord as soon as the mouse reaches the edge of the real screen.You can set this up via /etc/X11/XF86Config, Screen Sections, Section "Screen", Subsection "Display", Virtual, or by adding the resolution to the 'modes' line in the same section. If you want to get rid of it, comment or remove these settings. If your XF86Config supplies different resolution settings, X will always start with the first value. Within X you can switch resolutions by pressing CTRL-ALT-- or CTRL-ALT-+. (quoted from www.mandrakeuser.org) Matt From: Ty Mixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Using Xwindows after install Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 06:55:23 GMT startx is the command to issue at the command line. I have no idea how to go about changing the resolution. Speaking of which . . . I just installed 6.1, and had a few problems which I'll detail in another e-mail, but what I'd like to know now is how do I get it so that my desktop fits my screen (it's too big) and how do I get my backspace key to work like a backspace key?! Right now it acts like a delete key. THAT bugs me more than anything else right now. Sigh . . . Hope I helped, and TIA to others! -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 26147713 Original Message dated 10/13/99, 9:59:45 PM Author: "JR Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [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. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous cooker packages?
Would I be right in understanding that "the cooker" in a beta of the Linux Mandrake release? Thanks, Matt From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous "cooker" packages? Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:34:25 -0400 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 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] running linux SimonErnie
Glad to be of help, and I hope your son knows how lucky he is to be young at this particular time. This is going to be an interesting half century or so to be alive! Good luck with the "new" system, and tell him that I too built my box. I wouldn't have a store-bought system, ya' never know what's inside. When ya' build 'em yourself, ya' get an idea what's goin' on. That's the best way to learn. That's also what I'm liking about Linux. Ya' gotta' get your hands a little dirty to make things work right. And at the same time, ya' learn things ya' never would have known existed with the Win9x system. Win9x is great for users that don't want to know anything but point shoot, and when I want to do e-mail or other web related work, I use it for the IE5 browser and OutLook Express, but any more, I spend 99% of my time in Linux. Good Luck, Ernie - Original Message - From: Jan Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 8:36 PM Subject: 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
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
EZ-Drive is a software tool loaded into a hidden partition on your HD. It adds the needed BIOS code to allow your system to access your HD. When your system boots, the BIOS is loaded into memory, and it provides primitive code for the system to use to connect to the hardware. If your BIOS does not support the size of HD you have installed, and you cannot get an update flasher for your BIOS (not an uncommon thing, at least with older machines), then EZ-Drive is the next best alternative. I use it with a dual-booting installation of Windoze 95 and Linux-Mandrake 6.0, and have no problems. Oh, and BTW, the only "stupid" question would be the one you did not ask. Ernie - 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] color_ls.sh file
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: 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 Axalon, OK, I've seen that when I log in console mode (not X), my aliases are : alias cp='cp -i' alias d='ls' alias df='df -h' alias du='du -h' alias ls='ls --color' alias mv='mv -i' alias p='cd -' alias rm='rm -i' alias s='cd ..' alias which='type -path' When I am under X, alias tells me the same, EXCEPT for alias ls='ls --color'. This line is contained in /etc/profile.d/color_ls.sh, and this file is run by /etc/profile. This file should be executed when launching a terminal window (xterm, rxvt, konsole)... What do you think ??? Thanks...
Re: [newbie] Using Xwindows after install
First, please turn off the HTML in your e-mail. It is not a problem for me, but it is for those who use a text only e-mail reader. TIA Next, you can reset the res with Xconfigurator, and to start from the command line, use the "startx" command. Ernie - Original Message - From: JR Thompson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:59 AM Subject: [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.
[newbie] C++ compiler broken?
Greetings to all: I have a "Workstation" default install of Mandrake 6.1, and loving it! However, I have attempted to compile a few games and have run into a problem: when I run "./configure" the process runs for a while and then returns an error with my C++ compiler. The process checks to see if the C++ compiler is there, says "OK" but when it tests the compiler to see if it's working, it responds "no." The process ends with the messages that my C++ compiler "can't create" I have reached this same error with two different gamesI was attempting the compile each as "root." I have NO idea how to troubleshoot something like this. I was thinking of uninstalling and reinstalling the appropriate RPM, but I am unsure which exact package to mess with. If someone could suggest some things I can try, I would appreciate it. Thanks and Regards, Gerry M Austin, TX, USA
Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous cooker packages?
M Thompson wrote: Would I be right in understanding that "the cooker" in a beta of the Linux Mandrake release? Thanks, Matt From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous "cooker" packages? Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:34:25 -0400 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 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Absolutely my friend. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] xfree86-devel and xpm-devel
They should me in the RPMS folder on your Linux Install CD. Oh, and please turn off the HTML if you can, it's hard on the users who use a text only email reader. Ernie - Original Message - From: Rafael Papa To: Newbie - Linux Mandrake Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 11:21 AM Subject: [newbie] xfree86-devel and xpm-devel Hi! Where can I find xfree86-devel and xpm-devel packages that are required to use wine? Thanks
Re: [newbie] xfree86-devel and xpm-devel
Hi Friends! After looked for the packages for a long time, I have found the packages in the following address: ftp://ftp.Linuxberg.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/6.1/Mandrake/RPMS/ Perhaps these packages are either in the Mandrake 6.1 CD. I don't have it now to confirm. Thanks anyway!! - Original Message - From: Rafael Papa To: Newbie - Linux Mandrake Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:21 PM Subject: [newbie] xfree86-devel and xpm-devel Hi! Where can I find xfree86-devel and xpm-devel packages that are required to use wine? Thanks
Re: [newbie] Using Xwindows after install
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: startx is the command to issue at the command line. I have no idea how to go about changing the resolution. startx -- -bpp xx (where xx is the resolution depth you want from 8, 16, 24 or 36.) John
Re: [newbie] changing Staroffice location
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hy John, thanks for the tip. Now why didn't I just think of that? Damn! adios, and thanks again, STeve Heh. Well, if you had seen someone else asking that, you probably would've thought of it. :-) John
Re: [newbie] dual boot setup
Ernie, Thanks. I'm doing everyting the same as you did. I set LILO loader from linuxconfig program in KDE, but I'm not going into Linux when I choose Linux from the menu during boot. I think the problem may be that lnx4Win.exe (which was installed in Windows98) is in the autoexec.bat and still trying to install Mandrake (even though it's already installed...thus, your right, not partition space left and I crash). I'm going to try unistalling lnx4Win.exe in Win98 and clear the line from the autoexec.bat and see if that helps. I think my mistake was installing lnx4win.exe and not having enough partition space available for the parameter I set at the start of lnx4Win.exe...now, lnx4Win.exe is still trying to do that load, but can't because I already have the partitions full. Since lnx4Win.exe never finished it operation...the start is still in the bat file trying to finishI think? Thanks again, Tony Zoccolillo - Original Message - From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot setup I did not want to mess around with Linux for DOS or anything like that, as I wanted my Linux installation to be as simple and straight forward as possible. I do a dual-boot with the LILO loader, and all works for me without problems.
[newbie] Can't login after updating PAM
I tried to upgrade to October Gnome but needed to update PAM also. I installed pam-o.68-8.i386.rpm but now I get an error "su: module not found" and can't login. How to fix? I originally had Mandrake 6 on the box, but upgraded most stuff as it came out. -Brent
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: [snipd] --Sorry for the no snip. You can disable EZ-drive from your slave drives during the install. You go ahead and install it, and it does go onto all the drives. After you get it in you can run an options dialog that will allow you to remove it from all but your windows drive, if that's what you want. In my dealings with the old Pac-Bells, I found that the really best thing to do is replace the mother board. A side note: The bios upgrades (flash) available at the PB website are absolutely worthless. I think thats the ez-bios/ez-drive answer your looking for, but i still say floppy is less headache :)
Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype
John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've turned off the HTML as you suggested, but the type in the browser window is still SOOO tiny. I might have to buy a 26 inch montor!!! Try this... open up a Konsole (or console) window and go to your /etc/X11/ directory. Edit your XF86Config file and swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts. This should give you 100dpi fonts which will be larger. Good luck! Joh
[newbie] Adding 100dpi fonts...
Hello... I have been following a thread where someone had commented about how small the fonts were in Netscape and wanted to know how to change this. I went to a link that explained how to setup my fonts as 100dpi instead of 75dpi. After making the necessary changes in the /etc/X11/fs/config file, I saved the changes, restarted the X Font Server and then restarted X. My fonts are still showing up the same way - very small at times. Anyhow, one of the things I was suppose to do was run the following command rpm -qa | grep 100 to see if I had a 100dpi fonts package installed. I typed this command in as root but did not get any messages as to what it did. I jut got back an empty prompt. I went to my fonts directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ and noticed several directories for different font types - 75dpi, ttf, etc. However, I did not see a directory for 100dpi. It looks as if I need to install the 100dpi fonts package. Would someone be able to tell me if I am correct in thinking this, and if so, point me in a direction where I can find the 100dpi fonts and documentation on how to install them. Thanks -Bill
RE: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous cooker packages?
It is the ongoing beta of new stuff - leading edge. Sam Gentile Principle Software Engineer/Team Leader - Viridien Team -Original Message- From: M Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous "cooker" packages? Would I be right in understanding that "the cooker" in a beta of the Linux Mandrake release? Thanks, Matt From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous "cooker" packages? Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:34:25 -0400 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 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous cookerpackages?
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: M Thompson wrote: Would I be right in understanding that "the cooker" in a beta of the Linux Mandrake release? Dunno did you read the website? :) cooker is a forever on going development project Thanks, Matt From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous "cooker" packages? Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:34:25 -0400 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 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Absolutely my friend. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
Jan: Thanks for the info.. that is what I thought it was. Funny thing though.. I have no problem with it. I installed a 20gig and the let bios see 8 gig drive. loaded the WD driver so that it would see a full 20. partitioned it in 5 gig parts (since windows 98 will not let me scandisk/defrag more than 6 or 8 gigs and then create its own errors and ruin a perfectly good hard drive.). Installed windows 98 with a 4 gig as a slave. Then some silly person talked my into Linux (which I am still working on). Installed Lilo dual boot thingy. and Linux on the spare 4 gig. when my system boots it loads the EZ thingy where I can press C or A to boot from which I let it do its thing. then Lilo takes over and does it thing booting randomly windows 98 or Linux. hehe.. jking. but it all works for me somehow. with no problems. the only problem I had was I was getting a Lilo prompt and didn't know where to go from there until I reloaded windows a few times and linux a few times and I got a message one time telling me to hit tab to get a menu. Jess On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:56:02 -0400 "Jan Herbert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 ___ 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.
Re: [newbie] color_ls.sh file
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Dominique Deleris wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: 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 Axalon, OK, I've seen that when I log in console mode (not X), my aliases are : alias cp='cp -i' alias d='ls' alias df='df -h' alias du='du -h' alias ls='ls --color' alias mv='mv -i' alias p='cd -' alias rm='rm -i' alias s='cd ..' alias which='type -path' ... Wheres is the output from under X? i assume your shell is bash also? When I am under X, alias tells me the same, EXCEPT for alias ls='ls --color'. This line is contained in /etc/profile.d/color_ls.sh, and this file is run by /etc/profile. This file should be executed when launching a terminal window (xterm, rxvt, konsole)... What do you think ??? Thinking is bad. j/k sorry it early still :) Thanks... I'll look -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Anyone get qcam working?
This is a QuickCamVC color I have Mandrake 6.1 with the qcam stuff compiled in as well as the video4linux Reading howtos,faqs,web-sites, mans etc. It just doesnt sink in. xcam under SANE doesnt recognize it either. Any suggestions? WH Bouterse
Re: [newbie] C++ compiler broken?
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: Greetings to all: I have a "Workstation" default install of Mandrake 6.1, and loving it! However, I have attempted to compile a few games and have run into a problem: when I run "./configure" the process runs for a while and then returns an error with my C++ compiler. rpm -qa | grep c++ Tell us what the results are. Also, what are the makefiles looking for? Mandrake uses "egcs" not g++. John
Re: [newbie] dual boot setup
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, Thanks for the help. What does the fdisk/mbr (I working from memory here...rec'd that email home and now at work) do? Gives you a "clean" master boot record, which is where LILO resides. What I did was, using fdisk, clear all Linux partitions but left the DOS partition. I then rebooted to the Mandrake CDROM and went through the setup with no probelms. Everything installed and when I rebooted, I went into Linux. Every time I rebooted I go into Linux with no boot menu allowing me into Windows. I used the linuxcong program in KDE to set the boot config to give me the menu and then rebooted. HUH???What boot menu??? I just use LILO here. Here's my lilo.conf for a dual-boot system (RedHat/Win98 here at work.) begin lilo.conf= boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 label=linux root=/dev/hda5 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda ===end lilo.conf=== I now get the menu, but when I pick Lunix the lnx4Win.exe program starts and tries to do another install...then fails and shuts down. In the autoexec.bat there is a command related to lnx4Win.exe that has parameters on it. I'm guessing this is the boot menu/install program. Can I edit this command line to not start install, but rather just load Linux? or... Does lnx4win.exe install Linux on the same filesystem or does it partition the hard drive? IIRC, you partitioned it. Go to your Linux CD to the /dosutils directory. Get the program "rawrite.exe" and copy it to your hard drive somewhere. Then, take a blank floppy (preferably new/fresh from the box) stick it into your floppy drive and go back to your Mandrake CD to the /images directory and type "rawrite resuce.img" and hit enter. Then, shut down windows and reboot from the install disk. When prompted, type "rescue" and wait. A minute or so later, it will prompt you to put in the next disk. This will be the disk you made. Then, when it's done booting, check out your /dev/hda5/etc/lilo.conf to make sure it looks something like the one I posted here. If it doesn't, you'll need to edit it to make it look like that. Then, run /dev/hda5/sbin/lilo and then reboot. After that, you can type "linux" or hit your tab button to bring up a list of boot images. The "label" is what you'll see listed. I use "linux" or "dos" YMMV. Good luck! John
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
Linux does NOT depend on BIOS for seeing large drives. It does NOT have the same failing as DOS/Windows. John
Re: [Re: [newbie] EZ-drive]
First off...this is NOT sent in HTML as the check box to SEND in html is NOT checked. EZ-Drive, Max-Blast, and a utility in Disk Manager ( which supports many drive manufacturers ) can all accomplish about the same thing. When required (read as HD not directly supported by the BIOS) a utility can be loaded in the Boot sector of the HD, that is in essence a Translation Table that fakes the BIOS into thinking it supports the HD. It is loaded before anything else in terms of OS's, but the drawback is...when not needed any longer ie: new mother board, the HD must now be reformatted with a clean /MBR for the mother board to directly support the HD, it is not required to continue using the HD, ONLY if you want is supported properly by the BIOS. Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: [snipd] --Sorry for the no snip. You can disable EZ-drive from your slave drives during the install. You go ahead and install it, and it does go onto all the drives. After you get it in you can run an options dialog that will allow you to remove it from all but your windows drive, if that's what you want. In my dealings with the old Pac-Bells, I found that the really best thing to do is replace the mother board. A side note: The bios upgrades (flash) available at the PB website are absolutely worthless. I think thats the ez-bios/ez-drive answer your looking for, but i still say floppy is less headache :) Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Using Xwindows after install
1) How do you load Xwindows from the text part of Linux. startx 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. try startx -- bpp 8 or 16 or 24 or 32 X will start in whatever color depth you pick and let you cycle through whatever modes you selected during the X setup for the given depth. . .to switch modes press Ctl Alt + or -. . . if you need to reconfigure, you can use xf86config or there is another tool which is a bit nicer that comes to us from our good friend red hat called Xconfigurator. . .i would recommend that over xf86config. . . -- 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] Netscape Tinytype
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard Read the instructions at www.mandrakeuser.org They tell how to use the 100 dpi fonts. -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
[newbie] network adapter
I'm quite new to Linux and I just installed Mandrake 6.0. During the install process I bypassed things such as setting up the video card, as I was under the impression that it could be done later. Is there another information such us this can be added without going through the entire setup process. *If* I have to go through the entire setup process again what network pieces should I select? I'm running a Novell/Anthem Ne2000 card set at 5/320 under 802.2 on an NDS tree (4.12).
[newbie] My FTP server stopped working.
My FTP server suddenly stopped working. I find this in my /var/log/messages file: Oct 14 15:22:35 C287853-A ftpd[25111]: FTP server (BeroFTPD 1.3.4(1) Wed Aug 25 18:35:09 CEST 1999) ready. Oct 14 15:22:35 C287853-A ftpd[25111]: Cannot bind socket: Address already in use Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] changing Staroffice location
right on! --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hy John, thanks for the tip. Now why didn't I just think of that? Damn! adios, and thanks again, STeve Heh. Well, if you had seen someone else asking that, you probably would've thought of it. :-) John = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] dual boot setup
John, The boot program is lnx4Win.exe. This is where all (or at least this one) my problems stem. I'm beginning to see that I don't need this program at all. Just install Mandrake on the free partitons and use LILO to set up a boot menu (There should be a screen with a menu like... 1. Linux 2.Windows). What's screwing me up must be lnx4Win.exe (which is on the Mandrake 6.1 disk). I'm restarting and going into KDE, then use linuxconfig to set up LILO Thanks, Tony Z. - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot setup On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: HUH???What boot menu??? I just use LILO here. Here's my lilo.conf for a dual-boot system (RedHat/Win98 here at work.) begin lilo.conf= boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 label=linux root=/dev/hda5 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda ===end lilo.conf===
[newbie] Installing from a 2nd CDRom drive
Hello all, I'm trying to install 6.1 from a CD I burned of it. Sadly, my main CDRom drive seems to hate burned CDs 9/10ths of the time. Is there any way I can force the install to look at my secondary CDRom instead of my primary for the install? Thanks, Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] network adapter
Chuck Hartford wrote: I'm quite new to Linux and I just installed Mandrake 6.0. First things first, turn off HTML posting. During the install process I bypassed things such as setting up the video card, as I was under the impression that it could be done later. Is there another information such us this can be added without going through the entire setup process. Sure, run XConfigurator, or XF86Setup, or xf86config. *If* I have to go through the entire setup process again what network pieces should I select? I'm running a Novell/Anthem Ne2000 card set at 5/320 under 802.2 on an NDS tree (4.12). To do this, login as root, start X (after the above setup), then run netcfg. It will allow you to add the NE2000 card. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Upgrade to Octuber Gnome.
Somebody knows how to upgrade to Octuber Gnome from the Gnome version coming with Mandrake 6.1? Can I do that with RedHat Packages or I must wait for Mandrake's updates? Thanks in advance. Miguel Rodriguez (Venezuela)
Re: [Re: [newbie] dual boot setup]
"Ernie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must confess however, that I do like my IE5 and the OutLook Express e-mail reader in Windoze better than the Netscape Communicator provided with Linux. This is a personal preference, and in no way should be construed as any kind of an endorsement for the former. If they (the guys in Redmond) would produce a version of IE5 for Linux, I most likely would not use Win for anything, and remove it from my system. === I also liked IE5 and Outlook Express better. I've learned to adjust to k-mail (quite good actually) though I can't get it to read html. IE5 (IMHO) is superior to Netscape4.x..., but not enough to persuade me to boot into Windoze. I sincerely doubt you'll be seeing a M$ producted ported to Linux anytime soon. Mike ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 Install Problems
Ty. I have the same problem with the SiS Video. I have talked to several people and I am told that your XF86 thingy is outa date and needs to be upgraded. 3.3.5 is the newest and they say it works with that video card. So, I am working on it to see if it holds true or not..will let you know the outcome. On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:55:22 GMT Ty Mixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First the hardware: An HP Pavilion 6350 with an AMDK6-2 333Mhz (no overclocking - it doesn't like it). Onboard SiS 5598 Video Onboard Cystal Sound (haven't re-run sndconfig yet) Internal NetGear Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter FA-310TX (Tulip Driver is supplied with it, and works just fine with the Tulip drive in Mandrake) So here's the problems: When I tried to run just upgrade the 6.1 started to complain about packages not being there, but they were. So, drawing my experience with 'breaking' my installation I ran it in install mode and only reformated /. The new Xserver gave black blocks where it should have shown text. I forced an upgrade to the older Xserver and that got me back my text. However, I now have a desktop that is bigger than my screen. I'd like to fix this. When I tried to tell 6.1 that I had a DEC Tulip card it told me it couldn't detect it on the system and wouldn't let me do anything with LAN stuff. LinuxConf let me designate eth0 as a connection tho, and tell it which driver to use. However, I now can't get my eth0 connection to obtain DHCP info when the machine boots up. It works fine if I issue the command 'ifup eth0' after boot up. This is annoying b/c I use yi.org and had it automated so that I didn't have to run the script everytime I rebooted. And last (I think), but certainly not least - how can I get my backspace key to work like a backspace again? As always, TIA!! Ty -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 26147713 ___ 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.
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
thanks ernie... I was just cheking since someone said they were having problems and I just wanted to make sure that it was the same program I use for my drive. Since I didn't have those problems yet... ___ 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.
Re: [newbie] EZ-drive
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Jesse Royall wrote: Jan: Thanks for the info.. that is what I thought it was. Funny thing though.. I have no problem with it. I installed a 20gig and the let bios see 8 gig drive. loaded the WD driver so that it would see a full 20. partitioned it in 5 gig parts (since windows 98 will not let me scandisk/defrag more than 6 or 8 gigs and then create its own errors and ruin a perfectly good hard drive.). Installed windows 98 with a 4 gig as a slave. Then some silly person talked my into Linux (which I am still working on). Installed Lilo dual boot thingy. and Linux on the spare 4 gig. when my system boots it loads the EZ thingy where I can press C or A to boot from which I let it do its thing. then Lilo takes over and does it thing booting randomly windows 98 or Linux. hehe.. jking. but it all works for me somehow. with no problems. the only problem I had was I was getting a Lilo prompt and didn't know where to go from there until I reloaded windows a few times and linux a few times and I got a message one time telling me to hit tab to get a menu. Jess From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt " - to use LILO with EZ, install LILO on the linux partition rather than on the master boot record, and then mark the linux partition as "bootable" or "active" using fdisk. (courtesy of Juha Laiho [EMAIL PROTECTED]). " Which explains why Jess has no problems, On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:56:02 -0400 "Jan Herbert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 ___ 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. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Bootnet.img -- the right one?
Dear friends: I am reinstalling Mandrake 6.1 by FTP. I installed it originally from ftp.rpmfind.net using a bootnet.img. I am unable to do so now nor to any of a half dozen sites, even though they are clearly not full (One had only 5 out of 110 connections used). I want to be sure that I have the right bootnet.img. It clearly says: Mandrake 6.1 and I got from rpmfind.net's linux/Mandrale/images directory. I keep getting an error message at the second stage : File not found on server and on Alt+3, I see "ftp connecting to fd". It should at this point open up an "inode" but it doesn't. Do I have the right bootnet.img and is there any explanation for this. I am using ADSL. I had no problem a few days ago. Thank you. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] Fw: mandrake 6.1 and xf86 bugged?
- Original Message - From: Ken Davis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:50 AM Subject: mandrake 6.1 and xf86 bugged? Hi, I have a problem getting my #9 Imagine 128 series 2 4mb video card to work with Mandrake 6.1. I am also using a Hitachi superscan elite 751 (hitachi cm751 choice in setup). The problem is that during setup, the screen flashes several times, and it comes back saying it cannot set any display modes. I have used this setup in rh5.2, rh6.0 and mandrake 5.2 previously with no problems. If I goto the command prompt and run Xconfigurator I get the same type of errors during setup. During setup probe, it does detect my #9 pci card correctly. If I run startx, I get the error, "a configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved". It is also running the I128 server which is the correct server for the card. I checked the xf86 faq and it says this card is completly compatible and does not require any settings, ie ramdac and clock settings. SuperProbe also seems to correctly identify the video card. I have also deleted and re-installed several times and removed all other cards from the system except for a pci network card (which also does not work, but thats another thread), and an sb awe32. Also, during the startx screen, it shows several lines of deleting "needs hsync freq .xxx deleted" for various resolutions, it shows a line (--) I128:I128-II revision (0) (--)I128: card type: pci (**)I128: vidram: 4096k I128: ibm526 ramdac not found Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks
[newbie] Re: Configuring video? ......was(dual boot setup)
Thanks for the help getting a dual boot workingI somehow expected a menu prompting me to choose Linux or DosI type dos or linux at the LILO prompt and that's it...it works. Next problem I got the updated SiS video driver from SuSE and I unarchived it. It had paths already so I un-archived to those paths. Then I ran Xconfigurator (as a super-user) and chose SiS 5597. Nothing happens when I reboot. So...my questions How do change video drivers? Am I running a configuration program or editing text files (like XF86Config)? Do I need to do anything to XF86Config? Thanks, Tony Zoccolillo coming soon .sound .internet
[newbie] Moving files
I need to get some files from windows to Linux. the only way I have of updating anything in mandrake is to download it under windows and move it over to the linux drive.. now I need to know how to do that I used the /mnt/windows to get files I needed from linux to windows so that I could send a file or 2. that worked with no problem.. but when I try to go from windows back to Linux I got kinda lost. Now, do I need to do the /mnt command again like I did before? becuase I have a /mnt/windows directory and when I went there I didn't see the files I moved to there from linux but under windows I see them now. Jess ___ 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.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 Install Problems
Problem is, it was 3.3.5 that messed things up, and the Mandrake 6.0 provide one (don't know which version offhand) that works. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 10/14/99, 5:59:24 PM, Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 Install Problems: Ty. I have the same problem with the SiS Video. I have talked to several people and I am told that your XF86 thingy is outa date and needs to be upgraded. 3.3.5 is the newest and they say it works with that video card. So, I am working on it to see if it holds true or not..will let you know the outcome. On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:55:22 GMT Ty Mixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First the hardware: An HP Pavilion 6350 with an AMDK6-2 333Mhz (no overclocking - it doesn't like it). Onboard SiS 5598 Video Onboard Cystal Sound (haven't re-run sndconfig yet) Internal NetGear Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter FA-310TX (Tulip Driver is supplied with it, and works just fine with the Tulip drive in Mandrake) So here's the problems: When I tried to run just upgrade the 6.1 started to complain about packages not being there, but they were. So, drawing my experience with 'breaking' my installation I ran it in install mode and only reformated /. The new Xserver gave black blocks where it should have shown text. I forced an upgrade to the older Xserver and that got me back my text. However, I now have a desktop that is bigger than my screen. I'd like to fix this. When I tried to tell 6.1 that I had a DEC Tulip card it told me it couldn't detect it on the system and wouldn't let me do anything with LAN stuff. LinuxConf let me designate eth0 as a connection tho, and tell it which driver to use. However, I now can't get my eth0 connection to obtain DHCP info when the machine boots up. It works fine if I issue the command 'ifup eth0' after boot up. This is annoying b/c I use yi.org and had it automated so that I didn't have to run the script everytime I rebooted. And last (I think), but certainly not least - how can I get my backspace key to work like a backspace again? As always, TIA!! Ty -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 ___ 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.
Re: [newbie] Installing from a 2nd CDRom drive
A hacky no-brainer solution is to open the case and disconnect the primary CDROM. This means linux is likely to treat your secondary as the primary thereafter. Civileme Paul Stansel wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install 6.1 from a CD I burned of it. Sadly, my main CDRom drive seems to hate burned CDs 9/10ths of the time. Is there any way I can force the install to look at my secondary CDRom instead of my primary for the install? Thanks, Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrade to Octuber Gnome.
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody knows how to upgrade to Octuber Gnome from the Gnome version coming with Mandrake 6.1? Can I do that with RedHat Packages or I must wait for Mandrake's updates? For what I can say, my experience with upgrading to October Gnome from Mandrake 6 with the Red Hat packages was not pleasent. One of the packages I needed to update was pam. After installing all the packages that were a part of gnome and the requires dependencies, I could no longer su, or log in. Not sure if this is a problem trying to use the Red Hat packages. I woulnd't think so. It might not have been a problem if I had 6.1. It's probably more of a problem that I goofed with th dependencies, especially updating pam. Brent Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.twistedpair.net/bmetzler ICQ #:2454084 AIM: bmetzl1999
Re: [newbie] Installing from a 2nd CDRom drive
Paul Stansel wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install 6.1 from a CD I burned of it. Sadly, my main CDRom drive seems to hate burned CDs 9/10ths of the time. Is there any way I can force the install to look at my secondary CDRom instead of my primary for the install? How about pulling the plugs on the main one for the install? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Moving files
I see others besides Steve answering, so I'll answer in some detail. If you have a windows drive C: and a Drive F: and presumably some drives of some sort in between, either logical or physical, you can mount them automatically for Linux For Mandrake 6.0 or 6.1 start the program linuxconf as root Choose filesystems Local Add then /dev/hda1 is C: and its mount point is /mnt/windows and type is vfat What F: is depends on where what other partitions etc It might be, for example /dev/hdb5 (if it is the first extended partition on the second IDE drive) mount point is whatever directory you specify. It is nice if that directory is existing and empty when you set it as mount point /mnt/wondows_f is a possibility type is vfat You can leave options alone unless you want to be able to read and write to that windows drive as some user other than root. For specific examples on making windows partitions writable for other users, check the mail archives. There was good discussion on it in the past few days. Civileme P. S. It is also possible to do this by directly editing /etc/fstab, but it is definitely not something I would recommend until you understand filesystems a lot better. Even then, linuxconf is much safer, because it will prompt you about oddities it can analyze. Jesse Royall wrote: Steve. So I need to do the /mnt/windows everytime I restart Linux to have access to my windows drive then. Correct? Also, how do I navigate through dos? my files I need are on F: drive (under dos) and when I did that /mnt/windows it wrote everything to C: . This is not a problem however, it i have multiple files this could become a problem remembering what files I need to move over to Linux. Another thing. what about my zip drive. would it be easier to move my Linux files that I donwload to the zip dirve and mnt it and access the zip drive under linux or will that throw everything out since those disks a Vfat or whatever for windows? Appreciate the help Jess ___ 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.
