Re: [newbie] /home install -- Success!
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999,Benjamin Sher wrote: | Dear friends: | | First, my thanks to everyone who went out of their way to help me with | all the little questions having to do with installing a /home partition, | including questions about swap partitions, etc. Everything went fine as | you can see below: | [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ df | Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on | /dev/hda1 2.6G 1.4G 1.1G 56% / | /dev/hda3 1.2G 330M 793M 29% /home | /dev/hdb1 2.9G 422M 2.3G 15% /bs | [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ | | One question: I updated my Mandrake 6.1 CD using MandrakeUpdate. | Everything went more or less smoothly (you need to add "kdesu -c" to the | Properties. Execute of MandrakeUpdate to make it work as root, thus | "kdesu -c MandrakeUpdate" without the quotes). This included updating my | kernel (all 8 files along with "initscripts" (I think that's the name of | the file). Well, as you can see below, my new kernel is indeed | 2.2.13-22mkd, and I made a bootdisk with that new number after | installation (and updated my /etc/lilo and /sbin/lilo) and everything | works fine. But the first entry for the kernel includes BOTH kernel | numbers, the original one and the updated one. | | Can anyone explain this? | | Thanks again to everyone. | | Benjamin | | [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel | kernel-2.2.13-7mdk | kernel-2.2.13-22mdk | [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-headers | kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk | [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-source | kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk | [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ | | | Recommendations to Mandrake: | | DURING INSTALL: | | 1) Explain to users what SMP means. By the way, the autodetect insisted | that I had an SMP, when I only have one AMD k6-2 400 Mhrtz processor. | | 2) Explain to users what all those acronyms in "Which processes or | programs do you want Linux to automatically start?" (such as amd, httpd, | innd, etc. etc.). A newbie is likely to feel that he has just landed on | the moon when seeing these cryptic acronyms without any explanation | and/or advice on whether he/she needs it or not. I do however, | appreciate the tremendous advance over the old RH 5.2 and 6.0, I think, | where none were checked off at all. At least here you can accept the | defaults. You can press the F1 key here for an axplanation when the cursor is on the item you do not understand. | | 3) Suggest that the user add ALL : ALL to /etc/hosts.deny and ALL: LOCAL | to /etc/hosts.allow or add that tot he final stage of installation to | give the user some basic online security right off. | | 4) It's about time that sound configuration was included along with | video and printer and everything else. I've reinstalled RH and Mandrake | several times, yet, believe it or not, it took me a while to figure out | after installing RealPlayer and getting no sound that I had clean forgot | to do my sndconfig sound configuration. | | 5) When updating, you need to choose an FTP site. Fine, I chose | rpmfind.net. But the next time I opened Update, it returned, unless I am | mistaken, right back to the first site on the list, someplace in | Belgium. | | 6) Why not spare us the Utilities agony (all the more so because it is | such a minor inconvenience) of having to figure out how to view all the | Utilities (by creating an extra Utilities subfolder, then copy and | paste). | | 7) What do you do if you DON'T want or need to accept certain updates, | e.g. Netscape or the new and defective lpr? How do you keep it from | appearing every time you open Update? | | Otherwise, I am very pleased with Mandrake 6.1. Just thought that these | suggestions may help to make Mandrake even more user-friendly. | | Thanks so much. | | Benjamin | | | | -- | Benjamin and Anna Sher | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sher's Russian Web | http://www.websher.net -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor ...
[newbie] glibc installation troubles
Upon selecting the packages I wished to install with Mandrake 6.1 from CD, setting up the partitions and all that jazz, I get Mandrake installing, and when it reaches glibc, it just sits there and *hangs*. Now, this is rather frustrating, as I somewhat need this library (who here doesn't?). I have the installer check for bad sectors and all, nothing found. I'm installing onto a clean 2.5G drive. Anyone else have similar problems and/or know what to do, besides try and get everything else installed first? Thanks. --Charles
RE: Re: [newbie] modem configuration problem
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999,ben bradley wrote: | i believe, and this just might be me... but i don't think that you can use winmodems with linux hence the name winmodem i think they will only run with windows i know they won't run under dos anyone know if this is true? || ben | | | | | | I Got My Free E-mail Account, Get Yours! - http://www.AntiOnline.com | AntiOnline - The Internet's Information Security Super Center! Yes it is. Winmodems use software emulation for some hardware, and the code is not on the modem, so the "drivers" are required. As a result I am told they are SLOW! Best to get a "real" modem - meaning one with all the hardware in hardware form. MTC, -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor ...
Re: [newbie] Modem settings.
Even easier if your 'puter is in a place where you don't have to disconnect everything to pull it out. I run my 'puter w/o a cover and vaccum it every so often. Kindred spirit. Can't even remember where the cover for my 'puter is !! Unfortunately, don't do the vaccuming. I thought the dust is supposed to help hold it all together. I don't have much cooling problems too. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Macmillan Mandrake Books (was Mouse Driver screwup in KDE)
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999,Charles Raymond wrote: | Anyone happen to know if these are available online somewhere | for my poor self to access? :) I've been using my work's T1 after | hours to get additional resources (ie, aside from purchasing | Mandrake, I downloaded it), so size isn't much of an issue. Thanks. | | --Charles | | Sams Teach Yourself KDE 1.1 in 24 Hours | Sams Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours | Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Second Edition | QUE Special Edition Using WordPerfect 8 for Linux | QUE Special Edition Using StarOffice 5.0 | QUE Special Edition Using Linux | Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed You could try a search for macmillan on the 'net. They may have e-books for your parusal, not sure of it though. Jusat an idea. -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor ...
Re: [newbie] Using multiple WM's
Try a search on Freshmeat for "guichooser". With guichooser, you begin with startx and then you have a choice of the wm's you have installed. "Ty C. Mixon" wrote: Looking over this older e-mail, I see how I could manually switch my default WM, but how can I set it so that I can start any WM I want by entering the right command. I'm thinking of something like this - startx for 'default' (kde in Mandrake) AS for AfterStep black for blackbox etc, ad nausem. TIA :) And happy T-Day to the Americans. :) Ty Original Message On 11/17/99, 7:32:28 AM, "Sean Armstrong" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Blackbox: Hello Blackbox Users, I was impressed by the supporting comments for blackbox, so I installed it with KDE enabled. Here is the dumb question. I read the install and run notes but nothing tells me how to actually start it ie get it on my desktop. Has the install not worked or am I missing something obvious? Please be kind. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first. I just changed my Xclients file to read: #!/bin/bash kpanel kfm -d /usr/local/bin/blackbox Of course you don't have to add the lines kpanel and kfm -d , I added these so that the desktop icon for kde and the kpanel would appear. These are my own tastes. The blackbox binary was located in my /usr/local/bin file. Make sure that you place the bsetroot bin somewhere where the OS can access it ie. /bin . Then just save this to your Xclients file, remember to back up the original Xclients file in case something goes wrong. Then just run startx from the command line prompt and you will be on you way. left/right clicking the desktop will pull up the blackbox menu, which probably needs to be edited to work properly with your system (..very easy to do), or the iconify menu. Have fun, and spread the word. Blackbox is the fastest and easiest to modify GUI out there. SA
[newbie] FWD: (none)
= Original Message From Chris Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hi Steve My name is Chris Harvey and I have just loaded Linux for the first time. The installation went OK, I had a bit of trouble configuring my video and monitor but that seems to be now resolved, the problem is that that is will not boot from the HDD and I have to boot initially from the floppy after which the hard drive takes over. It is then OK to the login screen, the problems really start when I try to access STARTX after which the whole thing slows down dramatically and eventually locks up. Any thoughts please Chris
Re: [newbie] Macmillan Mandrake Books (was Mouse Driver screwup in KDE)
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, you wrote: You could try a search for macmillan on the 'net. They may have e-books for your parusal, not sure of it though. Jusat an idea. They used to have a site at http://www.mcp.com but all of the ebooks have moved to http://www.informit.com -- Alex
[newbie] Printer problems (easy)
Hey guys, I have a Brother HL-720 printer and I remembered seeing on one of the printer how to documents that it is supported under a ghostscript program or something like that. I have no idea what is ghostscript nor do I know how to get my printer working. Be gentle, I have no experience with printers under Linux. I only JUST managed to get my zip disk to work using a tip that was recently posted. Thanks in advance. Lionel a.k.a Salty1
[newbie] please remove
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TID Re: [newbie] desktop vs CPU/memory?
Does anyone know if KDE 2.0 is also a memory hog? Matt From: "Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] desktop vs CPU/memory? Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:13:48 -0500 (EST) snip I have 48MB as well, though, so I feel obligated to mention that though KDE ran adequately for me, it DOES use more RAM than most other window managers (except Gnome, which is just as bad). I get much better performance from XFCE and Window Maker which are also simple, graphically configurable, and easy to get comfortable with IMO. -Tom __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Re: []
Chris Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve My name is Chris Harvey and I have just loaded Linux for the first time. The installation went OK, I had a bit of trouble configuring my video and monitor but that seems to be now resolved, the problem is that that is will not boot from the HDD and I have to boot initially from the floppy after which the hard drive takes over. === Once you've booted in with the floppy, try running /sbin/lilo from a command line. This should enable you to boot from the HDD next time. If not, you may have to edit /etc/lilo.conf to make sure that your boot is for hda rather than hdax (where x is some number). === It is then OK to the login screen, the problems really start when I try to access STARTX after which the whole thing slows down dramatically and eventually locks up. Any thoughts please Chris == Some info on your set up might be helpful. How much RAM? How big a swap partition? CPU? etc.. Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Printer problems (easy)
If you selected your printer during the Mandrake installation, then just type the following at a command line: #printtool Be sure to run the included tests to see if it prints under the various methods. HTH, Matt From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Printer problems (easy) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:34:20 -0400 Hey guys, I have a Brother HL-720 printer and I remembered seeing on one of the printer how to documents that it is supported under a ghostscript program or something like that. I have no idea what is ghostscript nor do I know how to get my printer working. Be gentle, I have no experience with printers under Linux. I only JUST managed to get my zip disk to work using a tip that was recently posted. Thanks in advance. Lionel a.k.a Salty1 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] screenshots
I use ksnapshot. Just save it as a "jpg" or "png" if you want true color snapshots. HTH, Matt From: Seth Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] screenshots Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:38:54 -0800 Could anyone tell me if there is a way to take a screen shot of the desktop or what software would be useful for doing such? -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the few truly beautiful things left in the world. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
A place for LinModems? [Long-OT] (was: Re: [newbie] modem configuration problem)
Of course, some company had to go and break that rule... That's right, there are now LinModems as well. Do yourself a favor and avoid them. There are better things for a CPU to be doing than the work of a $.50 part on a modem. I'm not so sure this a good long term strategy. I agree that using a $200 CPU to replace a .50 chip is pretty stupid, but some of the DSP based software modems are very robust at call management in the MS windows environment. At the risk of flames, let's think about the discussion that was raging through here a few weeks ago about browsers. I made a strong point that the browser and email client were crucial for maintaining a desktop presence. I'll be willing to stick my neck on the line and make a similar statement that the same is true for telephony applications. And there are surly others I haven't thought through yet, all of which will be "crucial" to the long term success of Mandrake as a desktop. But how can they all be "the one crucial app" you ask. Well, they're not all the "single" crucial application (but I think the browser is probably most important user application). The crucial application is the whole system. If we think about an automobile for a minute I'll explain. In an automobile the user expects to be able to use the "entire" package upon delivery. But no individual piece of the package is suitable to the drivers purpose, only the entire package. No automobile salesperson would think of trying to get me to settle for only an engine or only a transmission or only tires. None of those individual components is sufficient to meet my transportation needs. Likewise, no salesperson is going to try to convince me to accept a vehicle without an engine or without a transmission or without tires. Each of those components is necessary for the package to function as intended. These are the analogous parts for the browser and email client. Like it or not, most of the millions of PCs which will be sold this holiday season are for people to surf the net and exchange email. Neither is sufficient; both are necessary. Period. That's life. Get over it. Now, lets go back to the automobile. As I'm standing on the lot looking at the various items for sale, I notice that some of them have cute little map lights and rear window defrosters. I decide I like those touches, and I'm swayed by emotion rather than logic. The truth is I almost never need the cute little map light and the rear window defroster, but I buy then anyway. (OK they're crucial for some drivers, but not most.) The call management functions of a WinModem will be available to about 90% of those PCs sold this year, and almost nobody will ever use them. I've personally bought 5-6 computers/modems with all that stuff in the past few years and never turned any of it on. But I would guess that 10% of the people who buy the stuff try to use the call management functions, and perhaps 5% of the people who try it actually continue to use it. So, in the long run, lets assume that 0.5% of the users actually find the call management function useful, and everybody else abandons it. So, do we say, "Well, nobody uses it in the long run, so we'll leave it out." Or do we acknowledge that, "Despite that fact almost nobody is going to use this, it's a major selling point on the front end. So we need it, or we'll be shut out." Now, let's finally consider one more totally unnecessary option available on modern automobiles. Back in the 1920's Cadillac developed an "electric starter" for their vehicles. At that time it was an extreme luxury. These days, however, you cannot buy a production automobile without an electric starter. And if we started the "Mandrake Automobile Company" making cars without electric starters we'd go out of business fast. Even if we made astonishingly beautiful vehicles with map lights and rear window defrosters, ordinary people will still flock to the "inferior competitors" who have those convenient electric starters instead of a crank. Well, the electric starter is the installer routines. And, while it's true that Mandrake may be a far technically superior and elegant choice to many of the other Linux distributions, and to that "other" OS, it's a bitch for Grandpa to get set up compared to taking an HP Brio with Win98 preinstalled out of the box from Wal-Mart. If anyone wants to help with that aspect, I'd suggest that it's probably the most crucial hurdle to overcome. (There is a group named SEUL - Simple End User Linux, www.seul.org, but I don't much about them.) So, I've ranted enough. More OT comments? MB
Re: [newbie] Modem settings.
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999,Josh McCaffrey wrote: | On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, you wrote: | On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, coin fingered: | I had that and it turned out to be a win modem | I had to take it out and look at it | I do not know if yours is or not | | The Prolink has been nothing but trouble since it's first iteration. I | remember one ISP practically giving it away with a paid subscribtion. | I don't know if things have changed much now, but I found out that it | could not be used with NT. SOme knowledgable vendors will warn you | away from them. Get a real modem - like a 3Com :-) | | My ZOOM 2919 dualmode (V90/56k flex) has been a great modem. Was a little | tricky getting to get running under Linux, but once I figured out that the | plug n play wouldn't work, setting the jumpers was a breeze. Even easier if | your 'puter is in a place where you don't have to disconnect everything to pull | it out. I run my 'puter w/o a cover and vaccum it every so often. Just a note from "back in the day". This may no longer be true, but it was in the past. It is not a good idea to run the system with the cover off for long periods of time as the air flow past heat producing components is not being controled by the system cooling fan and the enclosure as there is no enclosure. As a result the previously mentioned components may/could overheat, and become undependable or fail completely. This may still be true for the newer ATX system configurations as the larger manufacturers do not need to include a CPU cooling fan - the heat sink is designed for the case (box), and the proximity to the main cooling fan is such that no additional cooling is required. This is something I read in one of my "Fix your own Computer" books a while back. I am not any kind of a "technician", just an "older guy" trying to learn about this box I use, and am only passing this along as friendly information. If your system has worked OK for a significant period of time, my info may be off target in your specific situation, and your box is after all your box. I do not want to tell anyone how to use their own stuff, but the idea of running a system with no cover does not sound like good practice to me. Hope this is not as offensive as I am afraid it is comming out, as again that is not my intention. | | | | | | CAn anyone recommend any good simple documentation on connecting to the | singapore isp | using Mandrake 6.0 ??? | | You could try kppp. Most ISP's setup shouldn't differ that much. | Can't say specifically for Cyberway, but I know of friends who have | been able to connect to Singnet and Pacific, with Linux, though I've | read that there was some problem with Magix. All you need would be the | DNS and dialup numbers which should be available from your Wndoxe setup. | | Good luck. | | | Luff(x3) | coin | -- | Ronald Yeo | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor ...
Re: [newbie] MSIE when?
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: stable manner. But you have to admitt that they have done a great job with the installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now if they'd just stop trying to Actually I think I WON'T "admit" that. :) If you want to completely reinstall Windows 95 (I assume it's similar for Win98), first you have to make a DOS boot disk and put your DOS CD-ROM drivers on it (how many newbies know how to do that? and how easy is it to do that if you don't already have a working system?), then boot with that and run the install from the CD. The actual installation program is simple, yeah--the only options you're being given are which programs install, so it would have required a lot of creativity to make it NOT user-friendly. And then here's a common experience I had after installation: You boot Windows for the first time, and it starts trying to install some other stuff, from the CD, BEFORE IT BOTHERS LOADING YOUR CD-ROM DRIVERS, so it's trying to install extra stuff from the CD before it bothers getting the CD-ROM drive working, and thus it can't. There are two ways around this (installing DOS CD-ROM drivers for the first boot, or copying the whole CD to the HD and installing it from there) and I don't think either is readily apparent to a newbie. A newbie will just sit there and wonder why the hell it's not working like it's supposed to. On the other hand, if you're installing Mandrake you just boot from the CD and bam you're in a very simple, straight-forward, user-friendly installation program that explains itself pretty well. RedHat's and Mandrake's installation programs are very easy. The very first time I ever touched Linux, I installed RedHat 5.2 without reading any instructions or anything and the installation was a breeze. And I've read plenty of reviews saying Caldera's installation is even easier. -Tom
[newbie] Resumeable download of file referred to by cgi?
Here's my little dilemma: I want to download a file that is over 30MB; I need to be able to resume because I have a modem connection and occasionally get dropped by my ISP. The author of the web page has set up the files to be referred to by cgi scripts so they can only be downloaded from his webpage, to keep other people from linking directly to the files on his site. I thus can only download the file from directly inside Netscape. If I try copying the URL and downloading it with wget or any other downloading program, all I get is a little text file saying which URL I should try retrieving the file from. I've already tried manipulating the URL to refer to only the file and not the cgi script but that doesn't work. How can I retrieve under this situation, and be able to resume it? On this subject, I'd really, really like to know why Netscape never bothered including a feature as widespread, and specifically browser related, as resuming downloads. (And no, that stupid "SmartDownload" thing that's ONLY FOR WINDOWS doesn't count. Really, there are enough shareware and open source resumeable download programs that you'd think Netscape could have seemlessly integrated the feature into their browser a LONG time ago.) -Tom
[newbie] Push mail
Hi, I running an internal mailserver and only connect to my ISP to get my mail. My connection time to my ISP is usually quite short. What is the best way to "push'" out my mail when online. Running sendmail 8.9.3 -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Finger
Whenever I try to use "finger" I get an error msg: finger: connect: no route to host The only place with success is my ISP, eg: finger @pacific.net.ph All other services seem to work OK. When I try to traceroute to where I previously cannot finger, it works OK as well. I have tried this from my IP Masqed machine and also the internal machines. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. TIA. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Push mail
I running an internal mailserver and only connect to my ISP to get my mail. My connection time to my ISP is usually quite short. What is the best way to "push'" out my mail when online. Running sendmail 8.9.3 sendmail -q Mindaugas
Re: [newbie] Modem settings.
You should get a US Robotics Sportster "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 1999,Josh McCaffrey wrote: | On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, you wrote: | On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, coin fingered: | I had that and it turned out to be a win modem | I had to take it out and look at it | I do not know if yours is or not | | The Prolink has been nothing but trouble since it's first iteration. I | remember one ISP practically giving it away with a paid subscribtion. | I don't know if things have changed much now, but I found out that it | could not be used with NT. SOme knowledgable vendors will warn you | away from them. Get a real modem - like a 3Com :-) | | My ZOOM 2919 dualmode (V90/56k flex) has been a great modem. Was a little | tricky getting to get running under Linux, but once I figured out that the | plug n play wouldn't work, setting the jumpers was a breeze. Even easier if | your 'puter is in a place where you don't have to disconnect everything to pull | it out. I run my 'puter w/o a cover and vaccum it every so often. Just a note from "back in the day". This may no longer be true, but it was in the past. It is not a good idea to run the system with the cover off for long periods of time as the air flow past heat producing components is not being controled by the system cooling fan and the enclosure as there is no enclosure. As a result the previously mentioned components may/could overheat, and become undependable or fail completely. This may still be true for the newer ATX system configurations as the larger manufacturers do not need to include a CPU cooling fan - the heat sink is designed for the case (box), and the proximity to the main cooling fan is such that no additional cooling is required. This is something I read in one of my "Fix your own Computer" books a while back. I am not any kind of a "technician", just an "older guy" trying to learn about this box I use, and am only passing this along as friendly information. If your system has worked OK for a significant period of time, my info may be off target in your specific situation, and your box is after all your box. I do not want to tell anyone how to use their own stuff, but the idea of running a system with no cover does not sound like good practice to me. Hope this is not as offensive as I am afraid it is comming out, as again that is not my intention. | | | | | | CAn anyone recommend any good simple documentation on connecting to the | singapore isp | using Mandrake 6.0 ??? | | You could try kppp. Most ISP's setup shouldn't differ that much. | Can't say specifically for Cyberway, but I know of friends who have | been able to connect to Singnet and Pacific, with Linux, though I've | read that there was some problem with Magix. All you need would be the | DNS and dialup numbers which should be available from your Wndoxe setup. | | Good luck. | | | Luff(x3) | coin | -- | Ronald Yeo | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The measure of a man is in his honor ...
[newbie] Thanx and couple more questions.
Thank you to all who have helped me in the past days. Nice to have some place to get the help! Anyways, had a couple of more questions hope someone can help. 1:) My time in KDE seems to change. I log on, and set it, to the correct time, it runs fine. Then if i boot to Winblows, and then come back the time has changed?! Any ideas why this might be happening?? 2:) I have setup kppp, and it found my modem fine, dials out, connected, everything seems to work fine. Says i am connected to my ISP, but when i goto load Netscape, it says connecting to name server, and never connects to get the address. So i am not able to go anywere on the net. I have checked, and double checked my DNS #'s and even went to far as to set my gateway address. Nothing seems to help. Any idea what i am doing wrong?! Thanx in advance to any and all ideas. Ken
[newbie] 2.2.13-7 AND 2.2.13-22 kernels
Dear friends: I just installed Mandrake 6.1 from my CD and then updated my kernel (all 8 files, which were automatically included with "initscripts" using MandrakeUpdate). Everything went fine. Well, as you can see below, my new kernel is indeed 2.2.13-22mkd, and I made a bootdisk with that new number after installation (and updated my /etc/lilo and /sbin/lilo) and everything works fine. But the first entry for the kernel includes BOTH kernel numbers, the original one and the updated one. Can anyone explain this? Thanks so very much. Benjamin [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.2.13-7mdk kernel-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-headers kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-source kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
[newbie] Unzip
How do I use unzip to unzip a program to install?
Re: [Re: [newbie] OFF TOPIC !]
Steve That makes a ton of sense. Anything to help a newbie get better aquainted with a new OS. As a side point, you mention SuSE, and Caldera... I have L-M 6.0 installed and I have some old distro's of those and a few other's. Now L-M supports RPM's and other _package_ installs. Is it worth while to browse these other distro's for MORE software ( given the fact that LIBS and stuff get indtalled also)?? TIA Jaguar Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip For the current extremes, you'd have to look at something like Mandrake which ships a "normal" distribution. For the most part, it's no more or less like any of the other big distributions (save one, but I'll get to that). Take a look at the package list and you'll find the same packages in Mandrake that you'll likely find in Caldera. Contrast that with SuSE and you'll find that Mandrake is rather conservative in the things they include. SuSE ships with applications and utilities that I haven't seen in 6 years of Linux use! Sure, it's nice to have all the choices, but the installation must seem extremely daunting to a new user. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] Macmillan Mandrake Books (was Mouse Driver screwup in KDE)]
Would it be against the GPL or something for someone to offer THESE files for d/l...ie: a personal FTP site or something??? Jaguar "Charles Raymond" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone happen to know if these are available online somewhere for my poor self to access? :) I've been using my work's T1 after hours to get additional resources (ie, aside from purchasing Mandrake, I downloaded it), so size isn't much of an issue. Thanks. --Charles Sams Teach Yourself KDE 1.1 in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Second Edition QUE Special Edition Using WordPerfect 8 for Linux QUE Special Edition Using StarOffice 5.0 QUE Special Edition Using Linux Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Resizing the K desktop
Hi, When I have my resolution set at a somewhat readable setting, the K desktop is too big to fit on one screen. What can II do to change the pixel dimensions of K? Also, there is a wide margin on the left of my monitor and almost none on the right. How can I address this? Thanks! Gregg
Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]
"Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: stable manner. But you have to admitt that they have done a great job with the installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now if they'd just stop trying to Gee I hate to knock you off your soap box, but just about ALL new mother boards support the self-same boot of CD Rom to install Linux AND Win9X. Risking more Flames here...Win98 is MORE user friendly after first install, all most all components ARE installed WITH their driver's. Now untill I learn the method to Linux's madness for installing programs and WHERE the heck they are after that, I will continue using Win98 as my primary OS. But to be fair Linux has many points in it's favor, the foremost one is that it is a free OS, and more important...very stable. IMO Jaguar Actually I think I WON'T "admit" that. :) If you want to completely reinstall Windows 95 (I assume it's similar for Win98), first you have to make a DOS boot disk and put your DOS CD-ROM drivers on it (how many newbies know how to do that? and how easy is it to do that if you don't already have a working system?), then boot with that and run the install from the CD. The actual installation program is simple, yeah--the only options you're being given are which programs install, so it would have required a lot of creativity to make it NOT user-friendly. And then here's a common experience I had after installation: You boot Windows for the first time, and it starts trying to install some other stuff, from the CD, BEFORE IT BOTHERS LOADING YOUR CD-ROM DRIVERS, so it's trying to install extra stuff from the CD before it bothers getting the CD-ROM drive working, and thus it can't. There are two ways around this (installing DOS CD-ROM drivers for the first boot, or copying the whole CD to the HD and installing it from there) and I don't think either is readily apparent to a newbie. A newbie will just sit there and wonder why the hell it's not working like it's supposed to. On the other hand, if you're installing Mandrake you just boot from the CD and bam you're in a very simple, straight-forward, user-friendly installation program that explains itself pretty well. RedHat's and Mandrake's installation programs are very easy. The very first time I ever touched Linux, I installed RedHat 5.2 without reading any instructions or anything and the installation was a breeze. And I've read plenty of reviews saying Caldera's installation is even easier. -Tom Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] video card Intel 740 server
http://ring.asahi-net.or.jp/archives/linux/RedHat/XBF/ it's also available on the mandrake 6.0 cd under /apps you need to grab the xf86config.tar as well. it's available at the above address as well. instructions are included in the readme file. I have so far downloaded the sources from ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/current/ sources (?). Tonight, left docs downloading. Sure would like to find a nice RPM file - with good instructions on installation, however. Antonio CT Rocha Brasil __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Netscape displays tiny fonts
Hi, The display of some web pages in Netscape in Linux is entirely different from what is displayed under Windows. The fonts are small to the point of unreadability. I have changed the View-- character encoding but they all sort of suck and are very small. Do I need to configure some file to expand my font options. I am runnng L-M 6.1. Thanks! Gregg
Re: [[newbie] Macmillan Mandrake Books (was Mouse Driver screwup in KDE)]
Yes it would be against the copyright laws to copy to your personal FTP site. Please read the license, they are copyrighted by McMillain Digital Publishing, NOT GPL. So be sure that your lawyers are much better than theirs! If you had bought the Mandrake 6.5 (sic) in the retail channel in the USA the CD is in separate envelope with a lot of fine print on it about not giving it away. PBen On 26 Nov 99 14:29:57 EST, Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be against the GPL or something for someone to offer THESE files for d/l...ie: a personal FTP site or something??? Jaguar "Charles Raymond" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone happen to know if these are available online somewhere for my poor self to access? :) I've been using my work's T1 after hours to get additional resources (ie, aside from purchasing Mandrake, I downloaded it), so size isn't much of an issue. Thanks. --Charles Sams Teach Yourself KDE 1.1 in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Second Edition QUE Special Edition Using WordPerfect 8 for Linux QUE Special Edition Using StarOffice 5.0 QUE Special Edition Using Linux Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Thanx and couple more questions.
Kentry appending an uppercase P before the first character of your login name. For instance, if your login is firefox, then change it to Pfirefox. That's what I have to do with my ISP. Alan Ken wrote: Thank you to all who have helped me in the past days. Nice to have some place to get the help! Anyways, had a couple of more questions hope someone can help. 1:) My time in KDE seems to change. I log on, and set it, to the correct time, it runs fine. Then if i boot to Winblows, and then come back the time has changed?! Any ideas why this might be happening?? 2:) I have setup kppp, and it found my modem fine, dials out, connected, everything seems to work fine. Says i am connected to my ISP, but when i goto load Netscape, it says connecting to name server, and never connects to get the address. So i am not able to go anywere on the net. I have checked, and double checked my DNS #'s and even went to far as to set my gateway address. Nothing seems to help. Any idea what i am doing wrong?! Thanx in advance to any and all ideas. Ken
Re: [newbie] Netscape displays tiny fonts
Greggthis website will help a lot. http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html Alan Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi, The display of some web pages in Netscape in Linux is entirely different from what is displayed under Windows. The fonts are small to the point of unreadability. I have changed the View-- character encoding but they all sort of suck and are very small. Do I need to configure some file to expand my font options. I am runnng L-M 6.1. Thanks! Gregg
RE: TID Re: [newbie] desktop vs CPU/memory?
According to KDE Interview at /. it is still a memmory HOG abit somehwat slightly less -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of M Thompson Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TID Re: [newbie] desktop vs CPU/memory? Does anyone know if KDE 2.0 is also a memory hog? Matt From: "Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] desktop vs CPU/memory? Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:13:48 -0500 (EST) snip I have 48MB as well, though, so I feel obligated to mention that though KDE ran adequately for me, it DOES use more RAM than most other window managers (except Gnome, which is just as bad). I get much better performance from XFCE and Window Maker which are also simple, graphically configurable, and easy to get comfortable with IMO. -Tom __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Need help with installation
HELP!! I am attempting to install Mandrake 6.1 from CD onto a Gateway laptop computer that does not have a CD drive. Is there a way that I can use my Kingston parallel port CD-ROM? If not, what are my alternatives? Thanks WRY
Re: [[newbie] Thanx and couple more questions.]
Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you to all who have helped me in the past days. Nice to have some place to get the help! Anyways, had a couple of more questions hope someone can help. 1:) My time in KDE seems to change. I log on, and set it, to the correct time, it runs fine. Then if i boot to Winblows, and then come back the time has changed?! Any ideas why this might be happening?? 2:) I have setup kppp, and it found my modem fine, dials out, connected, everything seems to work fine. Says i am connected to my ISP, but when i goto load Netscape, it says connecting to name server, and never connects to get the address. So i am not able to go anywere on the net. I have checked, and double checked my DNS #'s and even went to far as to set my gateway address. Nothing seems to help. Any idea what i am doing wrong?! Thanx in advance to any and all ideas. Ken Did you edit /etc/resolv.conf ? search isp nameserver dns# nameserver dns# Might help Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Anybody got this modem working?
On 26 Nov 99, at 12:12, R_Yeo wrote: Recommend this site: http://dellportables.thot.net Hmmm got a "no DNS entry" for that URL. I did manage to get into http://www.thot.net but didn't find any sign of anything Dell- related. Suggestions? Joey M. Jackson "Look, I'm a Knight, I'm supposed to face as much peril as I can." Michael Palin as Sir Galahad
[newbie] a couple of question
hello, I have two questions. 1) I am having trouble mounting the cdrom and the floppy. When i click on the floppy icon it goes to mount then it says "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems" i used kfloppy to format the disk. When i click on the cdrom icon it says "you must specify the file system type". 2) How do you change the depth and the resolution of the screen? I am operating on mandrake version 6.1 Thanks in advance, Ian Herbert
Fwd: Fw: [newbie] Netscape displays tiny fonts
Greggthis website will help a lot. http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html It sure did. Very informative. I followed the instructions regarding xfs which seems to be the font server that came with L-M 6.1. Problem is, nothing really looks different at all and if I ctl-alt-tab to the console view when I start X, it prints over and over: KCharset: Wrong Charset! Did I do something wrong? Where should I look for my error? Also, is it really true that I should comment out all FontPath lines in XF86Config other than: FontPath " unix/:-1" ? Or did I misunderstand? Thanks for your help! Gregg
[newbie] Mouse problems!
Well, I finally got it installed (Linux-Mandrake 6.0). I had some trouble getting the X Server up and running, but I finally made it over that hurdle. I'm using the KDE environment with the Mach64 accel. server, and the first time I went in the mouse worked fine. I had to run the xf86config program again to fix a problem. Since I did that I cannot get the mouse to work in KDE. I've tried running mouseconfig several times, but I just can't get the mouse to function. I know that it is on /dev/ttyS0 and that is what I choose when I run mouseconfig. Is there an easy way to troubleshoot this problem. I'm excited to start using this thing, but I just need to get the mouse working. Thanks in advance for your help. Bennett __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: Fwd: Fw: [newbie] Netscape displays tiny fonts
GreggI suppose it depends on which instructions you're following, the ones from section 2.x or the ones from 4.2. If you're having a problem you might try section 2.x. Also you might email the author, Doug Holland outlining your problem. Alan Gregg Carrier wrote: Greggthis website will help a lot. http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html It sure did. Very informative. I followed the instructions regarding xfs which seems to be the font server that came with L-M 6.1. Problem is, nothing really looks different at all and if I ctl-alt-tab to the console view when I start X, it prints over and over: KCharset: Wrong Charset! Did I do something wrong? Where should I look for my error? Also, is it really true that I should comment out all FontPath lines in XF86Config other than: FontPath " unix/:-1" ? Or did I misunderstand? Thanks for your help! Gregg
Re: [newbie] 2.2.13-7 AND 2.2.13-22 kernels
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I just installed Mandrake 6.1 from my CD and then updated my kernel (all 8 files, which were automatically included with "initscripts" using MandrakeUpdate). Everything went fine. Well, as you can see below, my new kernel is indeed 2.2.13-22mkd, and I made a bootdisk with that new number after installation (and updated my /etc/lilo and /sbin/lilo) and everything works fine. But the first entry for the kernel includes BOTH kernel numbers, the original one and the updated one. Can anyone explain this? You don't really want us to remove the working kernel do you? It's left there for a backup incase there are any problems with the new kernel or initrd. Thanks so very much. Benjamin [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.2.13-7mdk kernel-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-headers kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-source kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] cdrw
hi i just bought a hp8250i cdrw and was wondering how to set it up in linux help would be appreciated
Re: [newbie] a couple of question
Janoddly enough the default screen icon for the floppy device mounts dos formatted floppys, not ext2fs formatted ones. Below is the last section of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file. The Depth line contains the default color depth in bits and the Modes line contains the resolutions available via the ctl-alt - or + keys (the default is listed first). # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64 # I128, and S3V) Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "My Video Card" Monitor "ViewSonic PS790" Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Alan Jan Herbert wrote: hello, I have two questions. 1) I am having trouble mounting the cdrom and the floppy. When i click on the floppy icon it goes to mount then it says "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems" i used kfloppy to format the disk. When i click on the cdrom icon it says "you must specify the file system type". 2) How do you change the depth and the resolution of the screen? I am operating on mandrake version 6.1 Thanks in advance, Ian Herbert
Re: [Re: [newbie] OFF TOPIC !]
Jaguar wrote: Steve That makes a ton of sense. Anything to help a newbie get better aquainted with a new OS. As a side point, you mention SuSE, and Caldera... I have L-M 6.0 installed and I have some old distro's of those and a few other's. Now L-M supports RPM's and other _package_ installs. Is it worth while to browse these other distro's for MORE software ( given the fact that LIBS and stuff get indtalled also)?? Both of the other distributions that you mention (SuSE and Caldera) package their distribution using RPM as well. This makes it a little easier to "cut and paste" between the two because you have a .src.rpm available on the other distribution. A quick rebuild of the binary package from the source would ensure that it's using the updated libraries available on your new system. The one thing I _would_ do is check for updated packages. Alot of times there are updates since the other distribution shipped. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] DNS problems.
Hi again all. Okay got my KPPP to dial out nice. It connects awsome, i can manually enter in IP numbers and it goes there. But i still cant access my DNS server. I have even edited my /etc/resolv.conf it looks like this search connected.bc.ca nameserver 207.23.253.201 nameserver 207.23.253.202 I really am getting frustated as to what i have done wrong. Any idea?? maybe i missed something in config? Thanx for your time and for letting me pick your brains. =0 Ken
Re: [newbie] Netscape displays tiny fonts
William Winslow wrote: I found that by changing a few values in my font config file made a formidable difference. Below is my settings. The file exist at /etc/X11/fs/config. Note that I changed the line under catalogue to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts to '125dpi' and the line below it to '100dpi'. I then changed the # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75 section to read 'default-resolutions = 125,125,100,100' ...bill catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/125dpi:unscaled, Do you _really_ have a 125dpi directory filled with fonts? If not, this line is being silently ignored. # in 12 points, decipoints default-point-size = 125 # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75 default-resolutions = 125,125,100,100 THIS is the line that's causing the difference that you're seeing. It's causing the font server to realize that the display is not 75dpi but is instead 125dpi, which is probably closer to reality. You may also want to try using 'startx -- -dpi 125' from the command line. That will inform the X server that you don't want 75 dpi also. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] DNS problems.
Ken wrote: Hi again all. Okay got my KPPP to dial out nice. It connects awsome, i can manually enter in IP numbers and it goes there. But i still cant access my DNS server. I have even edited my /etc/resolv.conf it looks like this search connected.bc.ca nameserver 207.23.253.201 nameserver 207.23.253.202 I really am getting frustated as to what i have done wrong. Any idea?? maybe i missed something in config? Thanx for your time and for letting me pick your brains. =0 Can you use names as root? If yes, check permissions on /etc/resolv.conf. Does /etc/resolv.conf still show correct information when you're online? KPPP has an annoying checkbox that will allow you to override the information in /etc/resolv.conf. From the sounds of it, routing is okay, since IP pings get responses. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Cannot save or backup in SO
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: 1) Can't SAVE: "Error while saving document Untitled 1: Object not accessible The object cannot be accessed due to insufficient user rights." 2) Can't BACKUP: "Could not create backup copy" Check to make sure that it's trying to save it in your home directory. If you were in another directory when you started StarOffice, it's possibly trying to save it there. Don't laugh, it happens to me in Netscape all the time. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Problems with DNS fixed. =)
Thank to all who have helped me with my DNS problems and stuff. I finally got it fixed. Dont know how it happened, but the DNS #'s my ISP gave me to use, were not the right ones, i got the right ones, off a fellow on IRC and it works. Thanx. =) Ken
Re: [newbie] modems for Linux
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi, Can anybody send me a complete lists of current brands and models of modems for Linux? I have tempted to go ahead and buy from a vendor but I know the vendor will tell the wrong things about the modems that are supported by Linux. Can anybody help me? Hmmm, a complete list? My ZOOM 2919 dualmode works fine (contrary to Bynari's claim that it wasn't a supported device), but the plug n play feature I think was only for windoze. Just know which IRQ and COM port you need to use, set the jumpers (they're labled), put it in an empty slot, plug in your phone lines, open kppp, under the modem tab, set it for the corresponding port (COM1=ttys0, 2=1, etc.), enter your dial-up settings, click ok, click connect, and all should be well. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Mouse problems!
Subject: [newbie] Mouse problems! Well, I finally got it installed (Linux-Mandrake 6.0). I had some trouble getting the X Server up and running, but I finally made it over that hurdle. I'm using the KDE environment with the Mach64 accel. server, and the first time I went in the mouse worked fine. I had to run the xf86config program again to fix a problem. What problem you fixed?, maybe the fix had some side-effects Why don't you try using Xconfigurator instead?
RE: [newbie] install bug?
Subject: [newbie] install bug? i am installing mandrake 6.5. all goes well until i specify monitor resolution. at testing x configuration, i get the "do you see this message" "yes or no" screen, but i just can't read the question. if i enter yes anyway, when i reboot, my screens overlap, meaning kde, gnome and such. i've tried all possible resolutions and most of the time i get a white line at the top of my screen. i know my res' settings are right. i just don't get the go ahead. my friend installed this same copy on his system and it worked fine. i also used Xconfigurator manually, and that didn't help, with Control- Alt-+ not solving anything. Any suggestions? The first suspect to me is the monitor, are you sure you chose the right model? If your monitor model is not listed you may try to manually enter the parameters. Most manuals give all the information that Xconfigurator needs. If you have the right monitor then most probably its the video card, more details about your machine's hardware will be helpful. regards Ramiro
