AW: [newbie] Some Help - New to MDK
I have an ESS Solo1 too. But it doesn't work with 6.1. How did you get it work?? I tried it with ALSA-driver but there was no chance. Thanks for reply Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: george jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 3. Februar 2000 22:56 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [newbie] Some Help - New to MDK I had a similar problem with my ESS Solo1 when I installed 6.1, I have since installed 7.0 and have not had any problems with it. - Original Message - From: "Jim Bruno Goldberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 4:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Some Help - New to MDK Hi, people. I install the MDK 6.1 here and cant solve some things, please, if someone can help me or point some reference, thank you: - I sucessfully (???) configurate a CMI 8338 Sound Board on the Linux, but the sound suddently hangs. If I reset the system and start the X11AMP, when I play the MP3 file, this plays 1 or 2 seconds and hangs the sound board. - I install the Star Office 5.1 on network copnfiguration fine, but when I try to install a profile running the setup again, this hangs on the end of the procedure. What this can be? -- Jim Bruno Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus Consultoria Empresarial Ltda. http://www.focusit.com.br "See inside, there's nothing to hide, turn and face the light!" Where do you want from me? Wright/Gilmour
[newbie] Urgent !
Hi folks: I have installed win95/dos along with Linux-Mandrake 6.1 on my computer. I was able to run linux fine until I did this; Using cat /proc/meminfo, it showed me the swap space as 0 and used 0. Thus I edited the file /etc/lilo.conf and added the line append="mem=80M" before the first image statement. Then I saved the file and ran lilo. Then instead of using shutdown command I went for the soft boot accidently (ctl + alt + del). When I booted the computer again, lilo started loading linux and gave me the following errors; Kernal Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task In swapper talk- not syncing. Your help will be appreciated. -Vishal. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Considering purchase of this distribution...
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Re: [newbie] isdn - german-
Hi ! Habe zwar keine ISDN Karte, aber wenn mich nicht alles taeuscht, giebt es eine sehr gut aufgebaute und strukturierte ISDN HOTWO. Z.B. unter http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/dlhp/ in Deutsch (http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/dlhp/HOWTO/DE-ISDN-HOWTO.html) Gruss, marc hi all habe gerade linux-mandrake 7.0 installiert ich habhe kein modem sondern isdn ( frittzcard) was muss ich machen damit ich üver freenet ( 0101901920) online gehen kann? bitte um antwort danke divby0
Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]
At 04:54 AM 2/3/00 EST, you wrote: I don't think this modem is supported in linux. HCF, I believe, is a type of software or "winmodem". I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not, try an external. You'll be glad you did. Can you get 56K's cheap on the net, that have good data quality and stability? -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
[newbie] On my Mandrake 6.0 box...
...I can make a "template" file read-only to myself (to discourage accidental edits or deletions of the template), and then rename it without doing the rename as root! Is this normal? :-) I get EACCES or exceptions trying to actually modify it, of course, as should be... -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
[newbie] Four oddball events with KDE
Firstly, on two occasions I had the X server "stop seeing" the keyboard, forcing me to save stuff and log off (using the mouse only -- tedious!) and "restart X server". Eventually I tracked it down to being caused when I attempt, in my normal user account, to obtain a KFE with root privileges using kdesu. Strange. Secondly, I was unexpectedly dumped to the KDM logic dialogue once, without warning or apparent cause; fortunately, either I had no unsaved data or the normal session close procedure occurred despite the obviously abnormal nature of the login termination. No, I don't *think* I had done anything unusual in the root console just beforehand to my other userid... Thirdly, the k icon editor actually locked up the X server, forcing a cold boot and causing some data loss (neither ctrl-alt-bksp nor ctrl-alt-del worked). It started to spawn little dialogue boxes about some sort of assert in an infinite loop. As a testament to the stability of the underlying systems, the errant app had to spawn in the vicinity of 500 or 600 of the things before the X server bought it -- and it never swapped once. I actually saw something similar happen in Windows once -- an errant app decided what I meant when I tried to open a single file was to sequentially open the ~40 or 50 files in the same directory with it. Windows died in a very atrocious way at about the twentieth window open... Fourthly -- how the heck do I configure 24bpp again? I had it at 24bpp originally, but it spontaneously dropped to 8 one day and I can't find anything that configures it -- I thought maybe something called "xconfigurator" I'd seen mentioned somewhere, but no dice, it's absent on my system. I figured maybe the KDE control panel replaces that, but it has no settings for video resolution and other such boot options, unless maybe they're in that root-only panel that I *think* is merely for configuring the KDE login prompt... -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [newbie] how to delete Linux partition
At 03:21 PM 2/3/00 +0100, you wrote: Here is how I would do : type fdisk /mbr at a DOS prompt to delete lilo and make your computer automaticaly load windows, then boot with a linux CD (I usualy use the slackware70 CD to do this, but you can use any CD that has a live system on it) and, once in linux, use fdisk to turn your ext2 partition into a vfat partition. Then use windows to format the partition you just freed. And why the hell would anyone want to do this? ;-) -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
[newbie] A Day in the Life... 1
Today. I got my sound card working in linux, compiled a sample C++ program to verify the compiler worked, and later compiled a more elaborate, though still small (1 source file and no OO stuff except iostreams) tool to manage some Web related stuff for me. Experimented somemore with GIMP and made a cool "made with Kwrite" button for putting on Web pages -- check out http://members.xoom.com/derbyshire16/ sometime after an hour from now. Also installed a bunch of useful stuff -- in order of importance starting with the most -- xfractint, Amaya, and a Java runtime. Say, any clue why a "hello, world" console app in C++ that works perfectly in gdb produces no visible output in the console, but exits normally there too? If I send the message to cerr, it behaves just as strangely. All it is is a main wrapper for "cout "Hello, World!" endl;" -- I added a flush in there in case the endl isn't enough to flush the stream (nor the app exit) on this system, but that had no effect. Meanwhile, a more complex utility program I wrote (about 100-200 LOC, with iostreams and some filesystem and system calls, notably a bunch of cp's and touches and mkdirs) works perfectly, including the standard output and standard error. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: AW: [newbie] Some Help - New to MDK
"Friedrichs, Martin /122" wrote: I have an ESS Solo1 too. But it doesn't work with 6.1. How did you get it work?? I tried it with ALSA-driver but there was no chance. Thanks for reply Martin Do a "modprobe esssolo1.o" before you start X you should be able to open the mixer in kde. make sure you check "enable system sounds" in KDE. If it doesn't work, restart X. ALSA *does* work with 6.1 - hard to set up though. Try reading the "Alsa sound HOWTO" again. Module is called es1938.o, not esssolo1.o like he says. -WBD
[newbie] Xwin problems (Video Card?)
Hi everyone, Thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to read this. I've exhausted my minimal linux support and haven't been able to make headway at all with this problem. First let me give you a little background about my relevant system info. I'm running an AGP ATI XPert 128 16meg video card, and have a generic monitor(no brand name ANYWHERE) that will only do 640x480 res, but is SVGA. I'm running(actually I've only gotten up to the installation at this point) Mandrake 7.0. When I start up xwindows, my resolution appears to be 640x480, as it should be, but it appears to have about an inch on the top and bottom of my screen that I cant see..namely the taskbar/menubar functions in KDE..which make Xwin very unusable I've chopped up my config file so that it doesnt use virtual resolution and ONLY has the modes in there that are 640x480..nothing less and nothing higher, and yet it still does this. I noticed that mandrake 7.0 is the first version to support my particular video card. Could this be the reason? Or is it my horrid monitor? Or just my newbieness? If you've ever had an experience like this please share your findings with me, I'd greatly appreciate it.
[newbie] Hi
How do I boot from a cd ?
Re: [newbie] Some Help - New to MDK
Thanks. I will try it. george jones wrote: I had a similar problem with my ESS Solo1 when I installed 6.1, I have since installed 7.0 and have not had any problems with it. - Original Message - Hi, people. I install the MDK 6.1 here and cant solve some things, please, if someone can help me or point some reference, thank you: - I sucessfully (???) configurate a CMI 8338 Sound Board on the Linux, but the sound suddently hangs. If I reset the system and start the X11AMP, when I play the MP3 file, this plays 1 or 2 seconds and hangs the sound board. - I install the Star Office 5.1 on network copnfiguration fine, but when I try to install a profile running the setup again, this hangs on the end of the procedure. What this can be? -- Jim Bruno Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus Consultoria Empresarial Ltda. http://www.focusit.com.br "See inside, there's nothing to hide, turn and face the light!" Where do you want from me? Wright/Gilmour -- Jim Bruno Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus Consultoria Empresarial Ltda. http://www.focusit.com.br "See inside, there's nothing to hide, turn and face the light!" Where do you want from me? Wright/Gilmour
Re: [[newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7]
Alan Snider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow!!! Mandrake 7 is the nicest linux package I have had experience with (though the others have been only Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 5.9 and Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0 so I am no expert by any means). One big problem: I have a Toshiba Equium 6200M with built-in Crystal sound card. Mandrake 7 did a good job of configuring everything except the soundcard. So now I am in the position where I would like to add the sound card but do not know how(?) As root, run sndconfig. That should do it. If not, browse over to opensound and download the latest version of OSS and give that a try. If you like it, buy it. HTH, Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]]
Paul Derbyshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:54 AM 2/3/00 EST, you wrote: I don't think this modem is supported in linux. HCF, I believe, is a type of software or "winmodem". I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not, try an external. You'll be glad you did. Can you get 56K's cheap on the net, that have good data quality and stability? Sure, try CNET or Price watch to do some comparison shopping. You can probably get a decent external for about US$100. Possibly a bit less. Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Hi
Reboot your PC and run Setup. In Setup, select BIOS Setup? change the boot sequence from "floppy, C..." to CDROM,C... if that choice is available. Hope this helps, Bryan "Christopher Sinclair" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/04/2000 06:52:37 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] Hi How do I boot from a cd ? How do I boot from a cd ?
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[newbie] The saga continues...update:
Hey all, Well after a couple weeks, I still can't get the ethernet card working. Here's my update: Running: win98se and Mandrake 7.0 3com 3c905B-TX (3C90x family) Suggestion from subscriber: the module for a 905b is 3c59x (insmod 3c59x) Result: ./3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Suggestion from subscriber: insmod 3c90x Result: ./3c90x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy (I'm fairly sure there wasn't a 3c905b or 3c905 module...but if there was, I tried it and recieved the same result.) Suggestion from subscriber: ifconfig Result: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inetaddr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 Suggestion from subscriber: ps -ef | grep dhcp do you see an entry like: root 283 1 0 17:41 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/dhcpcd eth0 -h localhost.localdomain Result: no Suggestion from subscriber: check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 does it contain an entry like: BOOTPROTO=dhcp Result: yes Suggestion: cat /proc/pci Result: *snip* Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 100). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc01]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea00 [0xea00]. *snip* (no other devices on 11) Suggestion: cat /proc/interrupts Result: CPU0 0: 36348 XT-PIC timer 1:991 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 0 XT-PIC emu10k1 11: 98184 XT-PIC ide0 12: 6340 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 5 XT-PIC ide2 NMI: 0 Suggestion: cat /proc/ioports Result: -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : ide2 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide2 c400-c41f : emu10k1 c800-c807 : emu10k1 joystick cc00-cc7f : eth0 d000-d007 : ide0 d802-d802 : ide0 f000-f007 : ide2 f008-f00f : ide3 Questions: How can I tell if it's PnP?(whatever that is.) Can you copy/paste text from a term window? It seems like there is no conflict...so what is this Device or resource busy stuff? What's emu10k1? (under interrupts?) Thanks all...sorry for the spam, but I just want to get this inet connection up (on the plus side, each day I'm saving more and more emails from the list I wanna try out once the connection IS up=)) -Dave
Re: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7
the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. -dave
Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update:
from the looks of that, your IDE0 and ETH0 are both on IRQ 11. Tom On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hey all, Well after a couple weeks, I still can't get the ethernet card working. Here's my update: Running: win98se and Mandrake 7.0 3com 3c905B-TX (3C90x family) Suggestion from subscriber: the module for a 905b is 3c59x (insmod 3c59x) Result: ./3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Suggestion from subscriber: insmod 3c90x Result: ./3c90x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy (I'm fairly sure there wasn't a 3c905b or 3c905 module...but if there was, I tried it and recieved the same result.) Suggestion from subscriber: ifconfig Result: loLink encap:Local Loopback inetaddr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 Suggestion from subscriber: ps -ef | grep dhcp do you see an entry like: root 283 1 0 17:41 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/dhcpcd eth0 -h localhost.localdomain Result: no Suggestion from subscriber: check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 does it contain an entry like: BOOTPROTO=dhcp Result: yes Suggestion: cat /proc/pci Result: *snip* Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 100). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc01]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea00 [0xea00]. *snip* (no other devices on 11) Suggestion: cat /proc/interrupts Result: CPU0 0: 36348 XT-PIC timer 1:991 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 0 XT-PIC emu10k1 11: 98184 XT-PIC ide0 12: 6340 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 5 XT-PIC ide2 NMI: 0 Suggestion: cat /proc/ioports Result: -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : ide2 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide2 c400-c41f : emu10k1 c800-c807 : emu10k1 joystick cc00-cc7f : eth0 d000-d007 : ide0 d802-d802 : ide0 f000-f007 : ide2 f008-f00f : ide3 Questions: How can I tell if it's PnP?(whatever that is.) Can you copy/paste text from a term window? It seems like there is no conflict...so what is this Device or resource busy stuff? What's emu10k1? (under interrupts?) Thanks all...sorry for the spam, but I just want to get this inet connection up (on the plus side, each day I'm saving more and more emails from the list I wanna try out once the connection IS up=)) -Dave
Re: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7
sndconfig is the exact command :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. -dave
RE: [newbie] The saga continues...update:
I tried changing (in the BIOS), the eth0 to IRQ 3...and when I went back to linux, ide0 had changed with it...is there some other way to change IRQs then? thx -Dave -Original Message- From: surge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update: from the looks of that, your IDE0 and ETH0 are both on IRQ 11. Tom On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hey all, Well after a couple weeks, I still can't get the ethernet card working. Here's my update: Running: win98se and Mandrake 7.0 3com 3c905B-TX (3C90x family) Suggestion from subscriber: the module for a 905b is 3c59x (insmod 3c59x) Result: ./3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Suggestion from subscriber: insmod 3c90x Result: ./3c90x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy (I'm fairly sure there wasn't a 3c905b or 3c905 module...but if there was, I tried it and recieved the same result.) Suggestion from subscriber: ifconfig Result: loLink encap:Local Loopback inetaddr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 Suggestion from subscriber: ps -ef | grep dhcp do you see an entry like: root 283 1 0 17:41 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/dhcpcd eth0 -h localhost.localdomain Result: no Suggestion from subscriber: check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 does it contain an entry like: BOOTPROTO=dhcp Result: yes Suggestion: cat /proc/pci Result: *snip* Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 100). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc01]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea00 [0xea00]. *snip* (no other devices on 11) Suggestion: cat /proc/interrupts Result: CPU0 0: 36348 XT-PIC timer 1:991 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 0 XT-PIC emu10k1 11: 98184 XT-PIC ide0 12: 6340 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 5 XT-PIC ide2 NMI: 0 Suggestion: cat /proc/ioports Result: -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : ide2 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide2 c400-c41f : emu10k1 c800-c807 : emu10k1 joystick cc00-cc7f : eth0 d000-d007 : ide0 d802-d802 : ide0 f000-f007 : ide2 f008-f00f : ide3 Questions: How can I tell if it's PnP?(whatever that is.) Can you copy/paste text from a term window? It seems like there is no conflict...so what is this Device or resource busy stuff? What's emu10k1? (under interrupts?) Thanks all...sorry for the spam, but I just want to get this inet connection up (on the plus side, each day I'm saving more and more emails from the list I wanna try out once the connection IS up=)) -Dave
[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 and Apache
I am moving from a Slackware 4.0 distribution to Mandrake 7.0. In Slackware the apache was pre configured to pass out home pages based on the "/home/user" model. I never had to deal with it. Now That I am using mandrake I only get 403(forbidden) errors. I can get the root pages but not any of the user pages. I checked the httpd.conf file and it looks ok to me. I have read but surely not comprehended all of the included apache docs Any suggestions Thank you in advance Just Confused
[newbie] LiLo and Boot disks
I have Mandrake 7 running in my desktop along with Win98. My setup is based around a new controller card that is booted first, and runs Win98 unless I put in my linux boot disk to stop it. I have no problem with this, but what I want to know is, the bootdisk takes FOREVER to load the kernal, and I want to know if there is a way to have the disk stop my bootsequence to my Fat32 drive, and just redirect everything to load off Hda1 (where my linux partition is). Lilo is installed on my linux drive, and I don't have to worry about conflicting MBRs with Win98. To make matters worse, I was trying things by editing my lilo.conf file on the floppy, but it never actually shows the changes I make. I don't know where the info is coming from, but lilo.conf makes no difference to it... and suggestions? thanks all -Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] IDE harddrive detection in 7.0 fails
I have Partition Magic installed, and have created a linux swap and ext2 partition. Does the location of these partitions matter whether or not the Mandrake installation program will be able to find them? I am not sure if this is a problem with the install not being able to detect the drive or being able to see the partition on which to install. Jared On 4 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi (1)Linux often has problems with partition sizes greater than 8 gigabytes. It is also fussy about where the LILO is placed (the 1024 cylinders thing). (2) Mandrake Software has admitted that DiskDrake does not yet work as it should. To solve a similar problem I used Partition Magic 4.01, which allowed me to graphically, non-destructively, shrink Windows partitions and create Linux native partitions in the resulting free space. This is a commercial product and there may be free alternatives available but I have no personal experience of them. Regards, Ron Quoting Jared Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just tried installing Mandrake 7.0 for the first time last night. I have one 27GB partioned all in one FAT32 for 98. The new graphical setup worked very nicely until it said it couldn't find any valid devices to create filesystems on. Any help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance! Jared -n-i-c-.-f-i Internet -ilman kuluja! Liity heti (http://www.nic.fi/)
RE: [newbie] Hi
Good morning Christopher; You have to change the boot sequence of your PC's bios Ingo -Original Message- From: Christopher Sinclair [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Hi How do I boot from a cd ? File: ATT00015.html application/ms-tnef
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Hi {sorry but me English is
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for boot from CD you must chenged BIOS.Start
your computer and press delet and now is start BIOS setup and chenged boot
...floop tu boot from Cd {used - /+} and press Esc and go tu saveand
pressY and enter computer make restart and now is make boot from CD
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How do I boot from a cd
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Re: [newbie] Hi
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: How do I boot from a cd ? Just get into your bios (usualy hit delete whilst the computer is checking ram, or else its "ctrl alt shift" or "ctrl alt esc") there you should find an option, often in advanced or something , to set the boot sequence. select the CDROM option as the 1st boot device. Save the setup and it should reboot on the CDROM. Good luck: Mike
Re: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. -dave Its sndconfig Hacktually :-) if you dont want to use Lothar that is. Cheers: Mike
RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7
Ken Sahr babbled sndconfig is the exact command :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. hehe, you are both right I think! soundconfig will run the Lothar sound config program while sndconfig will run the RedHat version. Choices, choices Steve Wright
RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7
now all we need is the aureal drivers to come out so that my Turtle Beach Montego II A3D card will work! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- George Nussbaum 444 Washington Street Network/System Engineer Suite 210 Exodus Communications Inc Woburn, MA 01801 V-(617) 616-4348www.exodus.net F-(617) 616-4201[EMAIL PROTECTED] P-(800) 581-8672 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -Original Message- From: Steve Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 10:31 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7 Ken Sahr babbled sndconfig is the exact command :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. hehe, you are both right I think! soundconfig will run the Lothar sound config program while sndconfig will run the RedHat version. Choices, choices Steve Wright
RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7
There are Aureal drivers for your TB Montego II... try http://linux.aureal.com I have a TB Montego A3DXstream.. and the drivers work fine for me :) Tom On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: now all we need is the aureal drivers to come out so that my Turtle Beach Montego II A3D card will work! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- George Nussbaum 444 Washington Street Network/System Engineer Suite 210 Exodus Communications Inc Woburn, MA 01801 V-(617) 616-4348 www.exodus.net F-(617) 616-4201 [EMAIL PROTECTED] P-(800) 581-8672 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -Original Message- From: Steve Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 10:31 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7 Ken Sahr babbled sndconfig is the exact command :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. hehe, you are both right I think! soundconfig will run the Lothar sound config program while sndconfig will run the RedHat version. Choices, choices Steve Wright
RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7
Thanks for the info!!! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- George Nussbaum 444 Washington Street Network/System Engineer Suite 210 Exodus Communications Inc Woburn, MA 01801 V-(617) 616-4348www.exodus.net F-(617) 616-4201[EMAIL PROTECTED] P-(800) 581-8672 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -Original Message- From: surge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7 There are Aureal drivers for your TB Montego II... try http://linux.aureal.com I have a TB Montego A3DXstream.. and the drivers work fine for me :) Tom On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: now all we need is the aureal drivers to come out so that my Turtle Beach Montego II A3D card will work! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- George Nussbaum 444 Washington Street Network/System Engineer Suite 210 Exodus Communications Inc Woburn, MA 01801 V-(617) 616-4348 www.exodus.net F-(617) 616-4201 [EMAIL PROTECTED] P-(800) 581-8672 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -Original Message- From: Steve Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 10:31 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7 Ken Sahr babbled sndconfig is the exact command :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the proper command i believe is soundconfig or something to that effect. hehe, you are both right I think! soundconfig will run the Lothar sound config program while sndconfig will run the RedHat version. Choices, choices Steve Wright
Re: [newbie] IDE harddrive detection in 7.0 fails
Also... If your HD is connected to an Ultra33 or Ultra66 IDE controller, you will need to use a little magic to enable Linux to see the drive attached to this controller. Checkout the following URL if this applies to you: http://users.nf/linux/addenda6.htm HTH, Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IDE harddrive detection in 7.0 fails Date: 4 Feb 2000 08:34:15 +0200 Hi (1)Linux often has problems with partition sizes greater than 8 gigabytes. It is also fussy about where the LILO is placed (the 1024 cylinders thing). (2) Mandrake Software has admitted that DiskDrake does not yet work as it should. To solve a similar problem I used Partition Magic 4.01, which allowed me to graphically, non-destructively, shrink Windows partitions and create Linux native partitions in the resulting free space. This is a commercial product and there may be free alternatives available but I have no personal experience of them. Regards, Ron Quoting Jared Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just tried installing Mandrake 7.0 for the first time last night. I have one 27GB partioned all in one FAT32 for 98. The new graphical setup worked very nicely until it said it couldn't find any valid devices to create filesystems on. Any help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance! Jared -n-i-c-.-f-i Internet -ilman kuluja! Liity heti (http://www.nic.fi/) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update:
Go into BIOS and give it IRQ 5, then insmod 3c59x and ifup eth0, that should do it. Sean surge wrote: from the looks of that, your IDE0 and ETH0 are both on IRQ 11. Tom On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hey all, Well after a couple weeks, I still can't get the ethernet card working. Here's my update: Running: win98se and Mandrake 7.0 3com 3c905B-TX (3C90x family) Suggestion from subscriber: the module for a 905b is 3c59x (insmod 3c59x) Result: ./3c59x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Suggestion from subscriber: insmod 3c90x Result: ./3c90x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy (I'm fairly sure there wasn't a 3c905b or 3c905 module...but if there was, I tried it and recieved the same result.) Suggestion from subscriber: ifconfig Result: loLink encap:Local Loopback inetaddr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 Suggestion from subscriber: ps -ef | grep dhcp do you see an entry like: root 283 1 0 17:41 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/dhcpcd eth0 -h localhost.localdomain Result: no Suggestion from subscriber: check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 does it contain an entry like: BOOTPROTO=dhcp Result: yes Suggestion: cat /proc/pci Result: *snip* Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 100). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc01]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea00 [0xea00]. *snip* (no other devices on 11) Suggestion: cat /proc/interrupts Result: CPU0 0: 36348 XT-PIC timer 1:991 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 0 XT-PIC emu10k1 11: 98184 XT-PIC ide0 12: 6340 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 5 XT-PIC ide2 NMI: 0 Suggestion: cat /proc/ioports Result: -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : ide2 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide2 c400-c41f : emu10k1 c800-c807 : emu10k1 joystick cc00-cc7f : eth0 d000-d007 : ide0 d802-d802 : ide0 f000-f007 : ide2 f008-f00f : ide3 Questions: How can I tell if it's PnP?(whatever that is.) Can you copy/paste text from a term window? It seems like there is no conflict...so what is this Device or resource busy stuff? What's emu10k1? (under interrupts?) Thanks all...sorry for the spam, but I just want to get this inet connection up (on the plus side, each day I'm saving more and more emails from the list I wanna try out once the connection IS up=)) -Dave __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] LiLo and Boot disks
checkout the following URL: http://users.nf/linux/addenda6.htm Once you successfully boot your system using the above technique, you can "append" this information to the lilo.conf (on the HD) file so you don't have to enter this info every time you boot Linux. HTH, Matt From: "Benjamin Buley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] LiLo and Boot disks Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:25:37 -0500 I have Mandrake 7 running in my desktop along with Win98. My setup is based around a new controller card that is booted first, and runs Win98 unless I put in my linux boot disk to stop it. I have no problem with this, but what I want to know is, the bootdisk takes FOREVER to load the kernal, and I want to know if there is a way to have the disk stop my bootsequence to my Fat32 drive, and just redirect everything to load off Hda1 (where my linux partition is). Lilo is installed on my linux drive, and I don't have to worry about conflicting MBRs with Win98. To make matters worse, I was trying things by editing my lilo.conf file on the floppy, but it never actually shows the changes I make. I don't know where the info is coming from, but lilo.conf makes no difference to it... and suggestions? thanks all -Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Dial-up networking !
How do you set up a dial-up networking connection in linux? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Four oddball events with KDE
Pauli doubt that "xconfigurator" is absent, just mssspelled by you. Try it spelled this way (note the upper case X): Xconfigurator Alan On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: Firstly, on two occasions I had the X server "stop seeing" the keyboard, forcing me to save stuff and log off (using the mouse only -- tedious!) and "restart X server". Eventually I tracked it down to being caused when I attempt, in my normal user account, to obtain a KFE with root privileges using kdesu. Strange. Secondly, I was unexpectedly dumped to the KDM logic dialogue once, without warning or apparent cause; fortunately, either I had no unsaved data or the normal session close procedure occurred despite the obviously abnormal nature of the login termination. No, I don't *think* I had done anything unusual in the root console just beforehand to my other userid... Thirdly, the k icon editor actually locked up the X server, forcing a cold boot and causing some data loss (neither ctrl-alt-bksp nor ctrl-alt-del worked). It started to spawn little dialogue boxes about some sort of assert in an infinite loop. As a testament to the stability of the underlying systems, the errant app had to spawn in the vicinity of 500 or 600 of the things before the X server bought it -- and it never swapped once. I actually saw something similar happen in Windows once -- an errant app decided what I meant when I tried to open a single file was to sequentially open the ~40 or 50 files in the same directory with it. Windows died in a very atrocious way at about the twentieth window open... Fourthly -- how the heck do I configure 24bpp again? I had it at 24bpp originally, but it spontaneously dropped to 8 one day and I can't find anything that configures it -- I thought maybe something called "xconfigurator" I'd seen mentioned somewhere, but no dice, it's absent on my system. I figured maybe the KDE control panel replaces that, but it has no settings for video resolution and other such boot options, unless maybe they're in that root-only panel that I *think* is merely for configuring the KDE login prompt... -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
[newbie] kppp and modem wait state
Hi, I have an irritating problem: During peak hours I have a lot of difficulty dialing up to my ISP, so I want kppp to dial continuously. But, after 3 BUSY replies, my kppp login script debug window shows that it is waiting, for I don't know what. It actually communicates with the modem as I can see the lights flashing on the 3Com USR 56K Faxmodem, but it just seems to bring up the modem and the window shows that it is waiting. After a few minutes, it decides to redial again. I have hunted high and low within kppp for any particular fields but to no avail. Has anyone any idea whether it's something with kppp or some AT command settings? TIA -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Remote Telnet; Remote FTP server (they don't work)
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Emerald Arcana wrote: Do what you did to turn 'em off. :-) Also, you can re-run "setup" from a console prompt as root and select "system services." Here's where you configure what starts up automagically. Tried that, it didn't work. When I turned them off, I edited the inetd.conf file and commented them out, but now that I want them again, they won't run. Does anyone know what the programs are called? How about trying to restart inet manually, after configuring: /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart -- Ronald
[newbie] Some Problems with Diamond SpeedStar A50! Help me!
Hello! I'm trying to install Linux-Mandrake on my computer... During installation, I've passed over all tasks, how create partitions, file copy etc... But.. my videocard isn't working... I have a Diamond SpeedStar A50 videocard with 8 Mb memory... and my monitor is an LG Studioworks 17'' 775n It doesn't work! And I don't know why! When occurs the testing of my video card.. with my monitor.. using the horizontal and vertical refresh rate selected.. I don't belive! Appears only a screen, with a window at the center of the screen... but.. the fonts, the text blocks.. appears likeblack blocks... very, very strange... Entering the KDE interface enviroment.. the icons, and the bars appears, but the texts no... they look like black blocks... I'm sure that the problem is with my videocard I don't know what to do! Heeelp me! What do I have to do to set this video card properly with my monitor ? See ya later! Alvaro Beckerig Brazil [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webbeck.hypermart.net/
Re: [newbie] can't login as root
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Randall Randall wrote: Okay, got another issue, now. :) I'm trying to install a system without X, and have to go through and delete packages manually, in "expert" mode. It claims to be installing all the dependencies (including things I don't really want (like X libraries) but apparently MUST have. Every time I give it a root password, and finish the installation, I can't login. No matter how carefully I type, it says: Login Incorrect. Here's the weird part: I can login fine as another user, and use "su" to login as root, and it WORKS. I just can't login initially as root. IIRC, that is a security feature, that you cannot login directly as root. -- Ronald
[newbie] Which package does kmail belong to
Hi, I've tried looking for the package with: rpm -aq | grep kmail and also using 'find package' and 'find file' in kpackage. No joy Anyone can help? TIA -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Alan Snider wrote: Wow!!! Mandrake 7 is the nicest linux package I have had experience with (though the others have been only Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 5.9 and Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0 so I am no expert by any means). One big problem: I have a Toshiba Equium 6200M with built-in Crystal sound card. Mandrake 7 did a good job of configuring everything except the soundcard. So now I am in the position where I would like to add the sound card but do not know how(?) Please help me so I can listen to sounds, thanks. Try "sndconfig" w/o quotes as root? -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] FTP Question
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, TRUB wrote: Thanks, that helped a bit, but I still get my computer name in the script at the very top. I have created a new /welcome.msg that is working but I did not include my computer name in the description? How can I kill that unincluded part? Still in /etc/ftpaccess, put a line line greeting brief or greeting terse. Greetin terse just says "FTP Server ready" Can't recall offhand the output of 'greeting brief'. man /etc/ftpaccess ? -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Hi
Christopheryou need to set your system bios to boot from your cd. Some older bioses do not support cd booting. Alan On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: How do I boot from a cd ?
[newbie] Great IP Masq. Utilities
I have really got my IP Masq. working well and some utilities that are fairly easy to install and maintain are as follows; LogCheck and portsentry both downloadable from - http://www.psionic.com/, Logcheck parses your Logs and sends mail to you with any attacks or alerts and portsentry is a firewall utility that you can deploy in a few different modes. GKrellM, is a great GTK GUI x-based monitoring device, even has skins to match whatever window manager you use, very neat. - http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html easyfw is a simple IP Masq configurator that will write your rc.firewall from a x-based GUI, simple simple simple - http://www.linux-kheops.com/pub/easyfw/easyfwGB.html Give them a try they are doing a great job for me and I thought that I would pass this along. Sean __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] Problems with ppp (Mandrake7)
I am having problems starting ppp in Mandrake 7. My modem and did not have any problems when I was using Mandrake 6.1 but after the upgrade I cannot use ppp anymore I checked the /var/log/messages and saw a message complaining about module char-major-108 but i have kind of fixed that ... but it is still having problems with a line chat[975]: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error any gurus out there know what i can do to fix this ... is it a kernel problem? == E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ No.: 38756924 Public GPG Key : http://germany.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xA5D29407 ...One thing is that, unlike any other Western democracy that I know of, this country has operated since its beginnings with a basic distrust of government. We are constituted not for efficient operation of government, but for minimizing the possibility of abuse of power. It took the events of the Roosevelt era -- a catastrophic economic collapse and a world war -- to introduce the strong central government that we now know. But in most parts of the country today, the reluctance to have government is still strong. I think, barring a series of catastrophic events, that we can look to at least another decade during which many of the big problems around this country will have to be addressed by institutions other than federal government. - Bobby R. Inman, Admiral, USN, Retired, former director of Naval Intelligence, vice director of the DIA, former director of the NSA, deputy directory of Central Intelligence, former chairman and CEO of MCC. [the statist opinions expressed herein are not those of the cookie editor -ed.] ===
Re: [newbie] kxicq
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: kxicq-01112000-1.i386.rpm works fine for me in MDK 6.0 w/kernel 2.2.13. It should also work in MDK 6.1, you can find it in www.kxicq.org That's the excact version I have installed here except that I am useing MDK 6.1 I also downloaded kxicq from kxicq.org :-( Due to various probs I have re-installed MDK6.1 about 4 times and every time I have the same probs with kxicq, same workstation install and same problems :-( Did you try to start kxicq from a terminal and look at the errors, and also try to acces the help files and plugins in kxicq? Do they work? Just interested to see if it is just me or if it is a bug/problem... Best regards: Mike.
[newbie] changing from large to normal icons w/kcontrol panel
Hello all, Problem, after installing 7.0 v2 I am unable to change the size of the desktop or window icons from large to normal as a user from kcontrol. I had this trouble with the betas also, but finally got it to work. Of course I forgot what the solution was. Any Ideas? Thanks. Harry Miktarian Resnet Manager San Francisco State University Housing Residential Services (415)338-6979
[newbie] Free ISP's and Linux
Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux?
[newbie] Which release?
I've heard lots of bellyaching on this list about problems with Mandrake 7.0, they seem to be mostly due to Mandrake-specific enhancements that are a little buggy and not kernel related. Is this an accurate representation? I have a new laptop coming (for work) and I am wondering if I should give 7.0 or 6.1 a try. My chipsets for sound and video both require recent releases to work, but that's just X... Is there any reason to avoid Air for a while longer? I have spent lots of time at 'Linux on Laptops' and there is a howto for my machine. The author basically says to get the newest stuff I can because RH 6.1 barely works. Thoughts? Pax.
Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux
Absolutely. freewwweb.com lets you log on for free as long as you keep your home page set to their page. Go to their website and find the section for "Already have a Browser" The address is www.freewwweb.com I think they are in conjunction with Juno. Chris --- George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux
The software is all proprietary, and for Windows only. :( I do wish the FreeDSL ppl would make a version for Linux! :) Original Message On 2/4/00, 12:15:29 PM, George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux: Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux?
[newbie] Installation
I'm coming across a problem when trying to install, maybe someone has an idea? Here it is: When I run the installation from a boot disk, i get as far as the kernel loading and then it gives me a segmentation fault and says it can't connect to something (it went by too fast, I didn't write it down). Anyone have any clue what I'm talking about and/or how to get past it??? Carrie
Re: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state
Yeo modem US Robotic 56K is winmodem and winmodem no work with LINUX :-))) - Original Message - From: R_Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 9:49 AM Subject: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state Hi, I have an irritating problem: During peak hours I have a lot of difficulty dialing up to my ISP, so I want kppp to dial continuously. But, after 3 BUSY replies, my kppp login script debug window shows that it is waiting, for I don't know what. It actually communicates with the modem as I can see the lights flashing on the 3Com USR 56K Faxmodem, but it just seems to bring up the modem and the window shows that it is waiting. After a few minutes, it decides to redial again. I have hunted high and low within kppp for any particular fields but to no avail. Has anyone any idea whether it's something with kppp or some AT command settings? TIA -- Ronald
[newbie] Set the time in Mandrake?
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time set in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. How do I set the correct time permanently? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Set the time in Mandrake?
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time set in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. How do I set the correct time permanently? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] chmod/chown problems
Is there some special trick to chmoding and chowning in Linux-Mandrake? The reason I ask is that I can't get either to work. One partition of my hard disk, named "/common," is dedicated to files I would like all users to be able to share. Unfortunately, its permissions are drwxr-xr-x. I would prefer them to be drwxrwxrwx. You'd think that "chmod 777 common" would take care of that. When I use the chmod command, though, exactly nothing happens. I also have some files which I don't think it's necessary to be root to write to. As it is, they belong to root, and since I can't chmod them, I have to be root to work with them. Normally, I'd solve this with the chown command, but that doesn't work either. When I try the chown command at least something happens however: I get an error message saying "Operation not permitted." Apparently either chmod and chown are used differently in Linux than in Unix, or there is something wrong with my system. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Floppy problems
I have a floppy which I use daily in a Solaris 7 environment. When I try to use it in Linux-Mandrake it is usually mounted as "read-only," forcing me to copy the files to the hard disk before I can work with them. Then I have to copy them to another floppy, and copy them back to the original floppy using Solaris. Occasionally the floppy mounts as read/write however, for no reason I can discern. If I then make any changes to a file, instead of getting a changed file, I get a new file with the same name -- only in capital letters and with a tilde after the name. Why does Linux-Mandrake create a new file with a tilde after the name. Why does it change the name to capital letters. Is there some way to get it to stop doing this? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Too much lsd?
In Solaris I like to keep a little script containing merely the string "ls -Fa" in the /bin directory, enabling me to give this command merely by invoking the name of the script: lsd. In Linux-Mandrake the command lsd already seems to exist. It does not differ from the command "ls," without any options, in any way I can discern however. Nor am I able to find any lsd in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. Would it still be possible for me to put my little script in /usr/bin, or would that f**k up the system, since the command already exists? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] chmod/chown problems
I have an FTP dir that I do the same with and here is the commands I use, as root: chown -R nobody.users /FTP (or /common for you) That makes it so that no one owns it and is thus usable by everyone. Then: chmod -R a+rwX just to be sure that everyone has read write and execute status for everything. The capital X means that if it's already +x for anyone make it +x for all and if it's not +x for anyone don't add +x. Keeps plain text files, or anything else, from suddenly becoming 'executable.' Hope it helps Ty -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 Original Message On 2/4/00, 1:56:50 PM, "Lothar Mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] chmod/chown problems: Is there some special trick to chmoding and chowning in Linux-Mandrake? The reason I ask is that I can't get either to work. One partition of my hard disk, named "/common," is dedicated to files I would like all users to be able to share. Unfortunately, its permissions are drwxr-xr-x. I would prefer them to be drwxrwxrwx. You'd think that "chmod 777 common" would take care of that. When I use the chmod command, though, exactly nothing happens. I also have some files which I don't think it's necessary to be root to write to. As it is, they belong to root, and since I can't chmod them, I have to be root to work with them. Normally, I'd solve this with the chown command, but that doesn't work either. When I try the chown command at least something happens however: I get an error message saying "Operation not permitted." Apparently either chmod and chown are used differently in Linux than in Unix, or there is something wrong with my system. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?
lsd appears to be an alias and not a file since "find" turned up nil when I ran a search for it. You can probably put your script in the bindir without screwing up the system but you may not be able to invoke it except through with the full path if aliases have precedence over executables on your path... I'm not sure if they do or not. DvB On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Lothar Mandrake wrote: In Solaris I like to keep a little script containing merely the string "ls -Fa" in the /bin directory, enabling me to give this command merely by invoking the name of the script: lsd. In Linux-Mandrake the command lsd already seems to exist. It does not differ from the command "ls," without any options, in any way I can discern however. Nor am I able to find any lsd in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. Would it still be possible for me to put my little script in /usr/bin, or would that f**k up the system, since the command already exists? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [Re: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state]
"Maria Viskovska" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeo modem US Robotic 56K is winmodem and winmodem no work with LINUX :-))) = No Maria, not his USR. It's an EXTERNAL and the model is a "faxmodem". Most definitely NOT a winmodem. How do I know? I've been using one for the last six months w/Linux flawlessly. In fact, I highly recommend it. But there are some USR winmodems, i fact I think they have a trademark on the name. But those are internals (PCI, I believe). Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?
In your .bash_profile file, or whatever shell you use, add the following: alias ls='ls -Fa' then whenever you type ls, it will actually do an ls -Fa. Dan
Re: [[newbie] sound card w/mandrake 7]
Or go to www.alsa-project.org and get a great driver for FREE¡ Michael Scottaline wrote: Alan Snider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow!!! Mandrake 7 is the nicest linux package I have had experience with (though the others have been only Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 5.9 and Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0 so I am no expert by any means). One big problem: I have a Toshiba Equium 6200M with built-in Crystal sound card. Mandrake 7 did a good job of configuring everything except the soundcard. So now I am in the position where I would like to add the sound card but do not know how(?) As root, run sndconfig. That should do it. If not, browse over to opensound and download the latest version of OSS and give that a try. If you like it, buy it. HTH, Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]
Check in the mail archives (beginning to mid January 2000) and try searching on Phoebe. Ramon Gandia wrote up a nice tech page on modems in the expert mailing list. There were some good discussions and recommendations on modems. I don't remember if they were all in expert or in both expert and newbie. Paul Derbyshire wrote: At 04:54 AM 2/3/00 EST, you wrote: I don't think this modem is supported in linux. HCF, I believe, is a type of software or "winmodem". I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not, try an external. You'll be glad you did. Can you get 56K's cheap on the net, that have good data quality and stability? -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [newbie] modem woes
Have you tried using setserial to setup the modem first? Dave Gunter wrote: I am having problems with my modem as well, the jumpers are set correctly and I ran the query in kppp it worked once then I do it again I get a error message "Sorry the modem is not responding" I've tried changing ports and same result. It worked with Winlinux it works with 98, it is also on the list of modems that work. I even reinstalled Linux no luck. Thanks Dave
Re: [newbie] Backup Image.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to make a backup image of the root drive for recovery
on tape.
I don't know if you can use dd to write an image to tape. I'm using tar
for backups.
At the end of this message is my program for backup to dat. The mybck
variable can be set to whatever you want it to be (I use the backup
date; 02012000). The "-n" part is just a numbering scheme. It writes
the log file to /root as whatever mybck is set to .log. 02012000-1.log
You will want to exclude things that are correct for your system (I'm
excluding /c and /d since they are win partitions). Any system created
directory (such as /proc -- you don't have to recreate anything under
/proc, but you might have to for other dirs) that is excluded must be
recreated after a restore and before you reboot, if you are restoring to
a freshly formatted partition. I backup all the "junk" in /var that you
normally wouldn't want because X writes things it needs out there. It's
easier to just back it all up since I have the room on the dat.
There are probably better ways. There are backup programs for Linux.
None of them quite did what I wanted. You can use dump and restore
which will give you incremental backups etc. It's also better to do a
complete backup under single user mode so things don't get changed, but
I don't bother since I know to stay off when I'm doing backups.
If you restore to a freshly formatted partition (booting with boot disk
and modified rescue) with this backup, you need to recreate /proc
directory and lilo. Do a chroot to where your new partition is mounted,
such as chroot /mnt/hda2. This changes you to have that device as "/".
Do the restore, then enter lilo at the prompt to write that out. If you
need to make a swap file partition also, check out the man page for
mkswap and write down what you need.
Restore would look something like:
(xx is the label name of the backup. It's the "b${mybck}" between
the "-V" and "--same-owner" on the first line of tar in the backup
sample below. I have multiple partitions and this restore would format
and restore them all, except swap. I'm typing this from memory, so there
may be mistakes here.)
mke2fs -c /dev/hda2
mkdir /mnt/hda2
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
chroot /mnt/hda2
cd /
mke2fs -c /dev/sda5
mke2fs -c /dev/sda6
mkdir /mnt/sda5
mkdir /usr
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda6 /usr
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
mt -f /dev/st0 compression 1
mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0
tar --totals -R -V xx --same-owner -b 64 -xvpf /dev/st0 /
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
mt -f /dev/st0 offline
mkdir /proc
mkdir /c
mkdir /d
lilo
reboot
backup program:
cut here-
#!/bin/bash
if [ $mybck = "" ]; then
echo "no mybck set... remember to set it with";
echo " declare -x mybck=whatever-n in quotes... ";
exit;
else
echo "mybck is ${mybck}"
fi
# Do the backup.
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
mt -f /dev/st0 compression 1
mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0
echo "backup started..." /root/b${mybck}.log
echo `date` /root/b${mybck}.log
tar --totals -R -V b${mybck} --same-owner -b 64 -cvpf /dev/st0 / \
--exclude "/proc/*" --exclude "*lost+found/*" \
--exclude "/root/b${mybck}.log" --exclude "/c/*" \
--exclude "/d/*" /root/b${mybck}.log
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
mt -f /dev/st0 offline
echo "backup ended..." /root/b${mybck}.log
echo `date` /root/b${mybck}.log
exit
cut here
Re: [newbie] Books and stuff.
Also, check out mandrakeuser.org and linuxnewbie.org. They both have lots of information and walkthroughs to help you. Lance Borden wrote: Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Firstly thanks to all for your help and does anyone know of any good books on linux and the KDE. The ones I've got don't seem to cover much and theres no user group in my area. Secondly I can't seem to download anything (icq) from the net, or rather I can but I keep getting asked what I want to open it with. I type in home (just a guess) and it downloads to: home/andrew/kde/share/kfm/tmp/..whatever.. but then what. I don't want to sound like a windoze freak but isn't there any install wizards for linux? As I am totally new to all of this, all these .rpm and .tar.gz files, not to mention the home/andrew/kdeetc,etc, are doing my head in (hence the need for a good book). I am running Mandrake 6.1 Andrew Hey, I 've been there! I was just where you are about 3 weeks ago, but hang in there! It all starts to make sense pretty quickly. I've had trouble finding a "one book gives the whole picture" solution, but the latest one I've looked at does a really good job: Linux: Installation, Configuration, Use, 2nd Ed. by Michael Kofler, Addison-Wesley publisher. Regarding install wizards, those .rpm files are pretty much exactly that! Use kpackage, which will install, update and uninstall all the .rpm packages for you. Open kpackage, have it search for .rpm packages (in the options menu, you can define which directories to search for packages). It will give you a list of all the packages (you can view all the installed ones, all the not-installed ones, or both from the options menu). Find the one you want to install, highlight it, and hit install. Coming from Windoze, you'll be amazed at how fast they install (I sure was!). The .tar and .tar.gz files are ones you have to compile yourself (manually install). It's a little more of a pain. I'm not real good at these, but I'll see if my memory serves me right. The others will correct me if I miss it! If you have a .tar.gz, it is zipped, and you have to unzip it. I tend to use the graphical kfm (file manager) to browse the directory. By right clicking on the file, I get the "archiver" option. I choose it, which opens the ark program and I select extract, which unzips the file. (I think you can use the console and enter the command gunzip foo (foo represents the file name). In either case, you end up with a .tar file (which itself is a kind of compressed bundle of files). Use the console and cd into the directory where your .tar file is. Then enter tar -xvf foo This will unpack your .tar file into many files and even directories. Now you are ready to install. I think the commands are as follows: First, do ./configure from the directory which was just created by unpacking .tar Then, do make Finally... make install Then your program should be installed. As you can see, I'm only a step or two ahead of you. Hope this makes some sense! Lance
Re: [newbie] Hi
Make sure your BIOS supports booting with the CDrom, then go into your cmos setup and tell it to boot in a certain order, such as CDROM,C: A: and the like On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote: How do I boot from a cd ? Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Linux Cat
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RE: Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux
I have an account with WorldSpy.net which is the only free net provider I know of that does not inflict us with a bar on the desktop. And they inform me that they hope to have software available for Linux in the spring of 2000. Other than that, I would like to find a free ISP which serves the Linux community now. By the way the homepage for WorldSpy is www.worldspy.net and phone number is 877 SPY-DIAL. If enough of us contact them, maybe they will get the software out sooner. --Original Message-- From: "Ty C.Mixon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 4, 2000 7:58:24 PM GMT Subject: Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux The software is all proprietary, and for Windows only. :( I do wish the FreeDSL ppl would make a version for Linux! :) Original Message On 2/4/00, 12:15:29 PM, George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux: Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux? --- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com
[newbie] Which directory does the kerenl lie?
I want to run "make xconfig" to enable my sound, but there is no /usr/src/linux...where can I go to run this command?
[newbie] diamond speedstar a50 - finally is it compatible or not???
DiamondSpeedStar a50, is it supported by Linux Mandrake or not ??? I tried all possible configurations, and it doesn't worked! What do I do now ??? Can anyone indicates me a really good video card ??? 'Cause SpeedStar is really a big, big shit! I'm tired! Anyone here has configured Linux with this "Someday-I'll-be-a-videocard" ??? I know that the chipset is SiS 6326... is this *#(%* supported ? I'll be very pleasedif anybody indicates a really cool videocard... I'll buy it tomorrow! I need help urgent! The problem: the text appears likeblack blocksI have the some problem with FreeBSD and the same card text appears like black blocks too... very, very strange... obs: different machines, different configurations... I'm seeing that my videocard is going to be flushed out... Need help... Thank you! Alvaro Beckerig Brazil http://webbeck.hypermart.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Virtual
[newbie] netscape .. slow startup
When I first start up netscape after logging in to my account, it seems to take a while for it to fully initialize. It almost seems like it is going to hang, but, it finally starts up. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated =)
[newbie] cdrw and fstab
I beleive that someone had posted a solution to fixing the problem with a cd-rw not being reconginzed by a file manager. Could someone please re-post that message .. I would really appreciate it =) thanks
[newbie] mouse and the resolution setting
I am trying to speed up my mouse. I have read that the Resolution setting can be added to the XF86Config file under the pointer section. I have also read that this only works with some of the OSs .. is Linux one of them?? Also, does anyone know what the allowable ranges for the Resolution settings are?
Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux
It says Windows 95, Windows 98 and Mac on the site? Jeanette - Original Message - From: Chris and Jennifer Reeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux Absolutely. freewwweb.com lets you log on for free as long as you keep your home page set to their page. Go to their website and find the section for "Already have a Browser" The address is www.freewwweb.com I think they are in conjunction with Juno. Chris --- George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Which package does kmail belong to
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, R_Yeo wrote: I've tried looking for the package with: rpm -aq | grep kmail and also using 'find package' and 'find file' in kpackage. No joy Anyone can help? TIA KDE-Network -- Rib Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb
[newbie] kxicq setup
Keep getting error message when trying to install kxicq on MDK 6.1. "no user rba" or something like that. Antone help??? Andy
Re: [newbie] Dial-up networking !
vishal bansal wrote: How do you set up a dial-up networking connection in linux? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com If you are using KDE, just start kppp, choose setup, supply the needed info (phone number, name, device, DNS, etc.) and you're ready to go! Lance
[newbie] Retrieving Lost Root Password
I changed my root password and I must have typed it into the system incorrectly because Linux no longer accepts it. So, what can I do to retrieve the password for root? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Retrieving Lost Root Password
boot into single user mode at the lilo: type linux S On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Emerald Arcana wrote: I changed my root password and I must have typed it into the system incorrectly because Linux no longer accepts it. So, what can I do to retrieve the password for root? Thanks.
Re: [Re: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state]
OK I thing USR is US Robotic :- - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] kppp and modem wait state] "Maria Viskovska" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeo modem US Robotic 56K is winmodem and winmodem no work with LINUX :-))) = No Maria, not his USR. It's an EXTERNAL and the model is a "faxmodem". Most definitely NOT a winmodem. How do I know? I've been using one for the last six months w/Linux flawlessly. In fact, I highly recommend it. But there are some USR winmodems, i fact I think they have a trademark on the name. But those are internals (PCI, I believe). Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] diamond speedstar a50 - finally is it compatible or not???]
Chech the mail archives and search for SIS...I know poeple have had some luck with that chipset. Your other problem I believe is a known BUG, you have to uninstall KMCLOCK RPM ---I believe that is right...someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Also listed in the archives... HTH Jaguar "Alvaro Beckerig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Diamond SpeedStar a50, is it supported by Linux Mandrake or not ??? I tried all possible configurations, and it doesn't worked! What do I do now ??? Can anyone indicates me a really good video card ??? 'Cause SpeedStar is really a big, big shit! I'm tired! Anyone here has configured Linux with this "Someday-I'll-be-a-videocard" ??? I know that the chipset is SiS 6326... is this *#(%* supported ? I'll be very pleased if anybody indicates a really cool videocard... I'll buy it tomorrow! I need help urgent! The problem: the text appears like black blocks I have the some problem with FreeBSD and the same card text appears like black blocks too... very, very strange... obs: different machines, different configurations... I'm seeing that my videocard is going to be flushed out... Need help... Thank you! Alvaro Beckerig Brazil http://webbeck.hypermart.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Virtual Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Printing Over a network
Could some one tell me how to configure linux to print to a printer over a Windows NT network? I tried using printtool but I am not sure exactly what to do? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update:
Dave wrote: I tried changing (in the BIOS), the eth0 to IRQ 3...and when I went back to linux, ide0 had changed with it...is there some other way to change IRQs then? thx -Dave I have the same type of thing. I thought it was just me and understanding a new system. My ethernet card and video card want to share the same IRQ no matter what. I disabled the IRQ for the video card and they just both changed to a different IRQ, but both the same one (per windows and linux only shows the ethernet card, so no X for me). The video is onboard and ethernet card is PCI (I tried switching PCI slots too). This is on an IBM 300GL system and Red Hat 6.1. I haven't tried Mandrake on the IBM system because I am waiting for my 7.x cd. I'll try Mandrake 6.1 and see what it does with it and report back. Your IDE is onboard and the ethernet is PCI. What system are you running this on? Someone else on the list was reporting a problem with video on an IBM 300PL. Maybe it's the same as my problem?
Re: [newbie] IDE harddrive detection in 7.0 fails
Yes it does. The boot partition has to be below 8 gig. To solve this, just make a 16 meg partition before the Win partition with partition magic. Set this up as /boot when you install. Then set up your / (root) partition to be the other ext2 partition you made. The install will put everything it needs into /boot and the rest into your other partition. If you are using boot magic to select your OS, then tell lilo to install on the 16 meg partition, not the MBR. Tell boot magic to boot the 16 meg partition for linux. You can remove the entry for win/dos in lilo, since you don't need it with boot magic. Jared Mahoney wrote: I have Partition Magic installed, and have created a linux swap and ext2 partition. Does the location of these partitions matter whether or not the Mandrake installation program will be able to find them? I am not sure if this is a problem with the install not being able to detect the drive or being able to see the partition on which to install. Jared On 4 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi (1)Linux often has problems with partition sizes greater than 8 gigabytes. It is also fussy about where the LILO is placed (the 1024 cylinders thing). (2) Mandrake Software has admitted that DiskDrake does not yet work as it should. To solve a similar problem I used Partition Magic 4.01, which allowed me to graphically, non-destructively, shrink Windows partitions and create Linux native partitions in the resulting free space. This is a commercial product and there may be free alternatives available but I have no personal experience of them. Regards, Ron Quoting Jared Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just tried installing Mandrake 7.0 for the first time last night. I have one 27GB partioned all in one FAT32 for 98. The new graphical setup worked very nicely until it said it couldn't find any valid devices to create filesystems on. Any help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance! Jared -n-i-c-.-f-i Internet -ilman kuluja! Liity heti (http://www.nic.fi/)
Re: [newbie] looking for software
Try looking for one at www.freshmeat.net Guillermo Belli wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works under Lunux. Is there such a thing? If I could find a program like that, it would help me a lot. Any help appreciated. Thanks. -- Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340 ICQ #38321312 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
Re: [newbie] Free ISP's and Linux
WorldSpy is supposed to have a linux version "real soon now" and I'm waiting. George Jones wrote: Anyone out there figure out how to access one of those free-isp's like NetZero or AltaVista using Linux?
[newbie] Black Box help. (simple)
Well all is fine and dandy, I just need to know where the "menu file" in BlackBox is placed when MDK 7 installs it. Does anyone know where i can get this "menu file".? snip from help file on themes.org A useful way to start configuring your own menu is to copy the default menu to a location in your home directory... snip
[newbie] looking for software
Hi all: I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works under Lunux. Is there such a thing? If I could find a program like that, it would help me a lot. Any help appreciated. Thanks. -- Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340 ICQ #38321312 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
[newbie] Re: [expert] looking for software
Try the Scientific Applications for Linux page at: http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/index.shtml Frank === On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Guillermo Belli wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works under Lunux. Is there such a thing? If I could find a program like that, it would help me a lot. Any help appreciated. Thanks. -- Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340 ICQ #38321312 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
[newbie] Re: [expert] looking for software
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Guillermo Belli wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for a circuit simulation program like "Electronic Workbech for Windows" that works under Lunux. Is there such a thing? If I could find a program like that, it would help me a lot. Any help appreciated. Thanks. I just searched "electronic circuit" on freshmeat.org and found about 58 matches. Try it, I'm certain you'll find something to help. -- Rich Clark Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
