Re: [newbie] Install new programs with files with TAR extensions
Le mer, 09 fév 2000, vous avez écrit : I'm a sys admin for NT in a company but I'm just getting around to the Linux (mandrake)6.5. I would like to know how to install those programs with that extensions I have the chance to download a lot of stuff in the net but having trouble trying to unzipped and install... Thank you for any help giving. Pager 213-240-9972 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go to http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM, and you can get the rpm package ! @+ -- Christian Fais ce que veux [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] proxyserver, how?
Hello, I am using Mandrake 7 now for while, and I like it. But how do you enter a proxyserver to browse through? In the installation program, there is a possibility to enter your proxyserver. When I installed MD, there was no need to enter a proxyserver, but now there is. Can somebody help me? thanks, Sander
RE: [newbie] Email programs?
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: Can you have mulitple pop collections with Netscape? Nope, unfortunately. It only supports multiple IMAP accounts. Try using fetchmail and such if you want to use multiple accounts; and then use Netscape to pull it off your mailbox -- Ronald
Re: [newbie]
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: I have been trying to access my hda1/windows drives from a simple user, not root, when I saw someone suggest logging on to linux as a single user system, linux -s, will this give me access to the hda1/windows drives? You don't have to go down to init 1 to access your hda1/windows drives. Try putting something like the following in your /etc/fstab file: /dev/hda1 /dosc vfatrw,uid=501,gid=501,perm=660 1 2 (change accordingly to suit your own installation) This then gets mounted everytime you bootup -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Log file question
On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, sean F wrote: Well, i added the IP to my list of "input DENY" files, Could that have gotten through? None of my WinXX boxes went down, and if it did get though would the WinXX box blue screen or just crash apps.? TIA Somehow, I don't agree that it is a winnuke attempt. The fingerprint doesn't match. As for winnuke, I think, it is not effective against any Win 95 boxes patched to SP1 or 2. I have tested it against some internal Win boxes and only one box actually bluescreened, but hitting any key apparently brings the box back to life. It's more of an irritant than anything. If it is winnuke, look for Nukenabber, then you know you've got the loser. -- Ronald
Re: [[newbie] proxyserver, how?]
sander balkenende [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using Mandrake 7 now for while, and I like it. But how do you enter a proxyserver to browse through? In the installation program, there is a possibility to enter your proxyserver. When I installed MD, there was no need to enter a proxyserver, but now there is. Can somebody help me? thanks, Sander === Using nutscrape?? Go to edit - Preferences - Advanced - Proxies HTH, Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] proxyserver, how?]
I know, but there is a general proxy configuration, according to the installationsettings. Do you know how to set that? Sander Michael Scottaline wrote: sander balkenende [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using Mandrake 7 now for while, and I like it. But how do you enter a proxyserver to browse through? In the installation program, there is a possibility to enter your proxyserver. When I installed MD, there was no need to enter a proxyserver, but now there is. Can somebody help me? thanks, Sander === Using nutscrape?? Go to edit - Preferences - Advanced - Proxies HTH, Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Install new programs with files with TAR extensions
I would like to know how to install those programs with that extensions I if it is a '.tar' file, you type tar xf file.tar. If it is a '.tgz' file, you type tar zxf file.tar Or even better : you type 'man tar' ! :-)
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[newbie] Re: your mail
You need to edit /etc/fstab to make this possible On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: I have been trying to access my hda1/windows drives from a simple user, not root, when I saw someone suggest logging on to linux as a single user system, linux -s, will this give me access to the hda1/windows drives? Dr Andrew Hill BSc, FRCA Department of Anaesthesia Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton BN2 5BE 01273 696955 -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ -- 020 8387 1482 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [newbie] new to the list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/8/00 4:28:36 PM Central Standard Time, SpartanTJedi6746 writes: hi, i'm new to the list and Linux and I have a AMD K62 350 and I have two hardrives and i'm running windows 98 and Linux. I want to mount my other harddrive so linux can read it how do you do it? I'm having trouble setting up my sound blaster 16 sound card, one more thing how do you set up the modem. it's a zoom 33.6. -andrew ps. can someone help me setup my harddrive. how do you mount it? Look at your /etc/fstab file (cat /etc/fstab) and see if your other partition is included. If so, then you would mount it with something like: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 (if this is a fat32 partition) The SB16 is supported, so you might have some type of conflict. In windows, go into the control panel - system - sound - SB16 and click on properties. Check the resource tab to find out the addresses for io and the IRQ being used. Then set the card up in linux with the same parameters. Use "sndconfig" or "soundconfig" depending on the version of Mandrake you have. You need to know what irq your modem is assigned to, and that it's not conflicting with another com port. At the console, try using minicom and configuring it to use the com port your modem is on. See if it can talk to the modem.
Re: [newbie] Install new programs with files with TAR extensions
Alex wrote: I'm a sys admin for NT in a company but I'm just getting around to the Linux (mandrake)6.5. I would like to know how to install those programs with that extensions I have the chance to download a lot of stuff in the net but having trouble trying to unzipped and install... Thank you for any help giving. Pager 213-240-9972 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Put the tar file into a directory you want to work in. Then enter tar -xvf tarfile.tar It should untar it into directories for you. There should be installation instructions included. If it's a .gz file, use: tar -xzvf tarfile.gz
Re: [newbie] Lilo, Mandrake 7, and Windows 2k? - DVD
Rodney Fulk wrote: Heh heh. I had an old DVD drive (creative encore) I threw into my linux machine to load linux on the machine.. Maybe I shouldnt pull it out just yet.. ;) did you know that creative has open source drivers for its DVD drives now...
[newbie] HELP fstab
I need a little help! I wanted to gain access to my windows drives, hda1 and hda5/6, as a normal user. I asked for advice and received some which suggested adding a new user group and allowing this group access to the hda1/5/6. I did this using linuxconf, this resulted in adding the new group and adding the permissions to access the drives. That worked, however, when I rebooted I am told that the fstab file is invalid or non-functional. But it worked after the first change. I am new to Linux, therefore as an old windows user I backed up the fstab file to fstab2, in the same directory, /etc. Can I re-invoke this fstab2 file, edit the fstab new or what ? Suggestions. Dr Andrew J Hill Department of Anaesthesia Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton BN2 5BE 01273 609060
[newbie] Printer problem
The other night while printing out a large file My niece shut down my printer. When I turned it back on I started getting sheets with one line printed on it. Looks like a self test. Problem is it wont stop It's an HP ! Does anyone know what I can do to stop this? Thanks Hugh -- QOTD: I'm not a nerd -- I'm "socially challenged".
[newbie] Resolution problem
hey, ive just installed mandrake 6.5, and altho i set the resolution to 1280x 960 ( i think).. i now have what seems to be 4 'screens' which i have to scroll through... but its at what seems to be a paultry 640x480.. or mayb even worse can any1 tell me how to change the resolution so i have 'one screen' at 2180x 960 or whatever it is or higher? pls help me.. im a windows oldie desperate to breakout by becoming a linux newbie :) thanx zeke
[newbie]
how can I check to see if my ethernet card is running in full duplex or not?
Re: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE
Since msgs are apparently being reposted (again)... Is make installed on your machine? How about ncurses-devel, glibc-devel, and binutils-rpm? Not sure, but you might also need bin86 and sh-utils, also. I didn't get menuconfig to work on the first few tries, but instead of getting frustrated and blaming Mandrake for what would be a HUGE oversight, I went to mandrakeuser.org and did some research. How can you say so DEFINITIVELY that "it is BROKEN, ie DEFECTIVE, ie NON-Functional", when many people have had little trouble? Just do some RESEARCH b4 you blame others. Vic wrote: Just to announce, Mandrake 6.1 has a bug, you cannot, no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, there is NO make menuconfig in Mandrake 6.1, they screwed up, you install the kernel headers and the sources, and still will not make menuconfig or xconfig, it is BROKEN, ie DEFECTIVE, ie NON-Functional. It cannot be done. -- Linux Cat
[newbie] Samba Version Location
Can anyone tell me the correct version of Samba to download for version 7.0 of Linux Mandrake? When I looked on the samba site I didn't notice a version for Mandrake. Also, if you know of the url where it can be downloaded would you please include it. Thanks... Robert
Re: [newbie] UDMA Card promise 66 controller Problem
Please check out the following URL's in the following order. They are listed in the order of their relevance to the "PCI Promise Ultra66 IDE controller card" http://users.nf/linux/addenda6.htm http://www.moisty.org/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA.html http://users.nf/linux/ultra66.htm HTH, Matt From: Jaouad El Bahroui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] UDMA Card promise 66 controller Problem Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:23:41 -0500 (EST) I am a beginner for linux system, I want to install Mandrak 7.0 but I did get a problem to declare my UDMA Card 66 controller and access my hard disk Western Digital, any help? I have a PIII 500Mhz-100 FSB with ASUS P3B-F-6PCI UDMA Card Promise 66 Controller Hard Drive Wetern Digital 18 GB with win98 thank you for your help __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?]
Jaguar wrote: So what your saying is anyone who praises M$ is a M$ spy (climbs up soap box) nope. that's not what i claim. however, from my experience and EVERYONE ELSE i know who regularly uses M$, it is highly improbable that any M$ installation could ever be called 'stable', 'reliable' or 'dependable'. Sorry to burst your bubble...but M$ still does alot of things better than any 'nix does. sure. like stock manipulation, industry-wide strong-arm negotiating tactics, code bastardization, lying under oath and milking your wallet dry. Consider the uses of D3D, DVD, USB and many other devices that M$ directly supports NOW...it is mostly in ALPHA or BETA right now for ALL 'nix's. considering that a norwegian teenager wrote code for the best DVD hack out there as opposed to a legion of M$ employees working on provided driver source to develop their M$ apps, yeah, i guess i agree that 'doze takes the prize. but we both know this situation won't last long. the MPAA and its affiliates can't stay away from the linux market for too long. but first, they have to devise a way to take your money. then you'll see tons of supported software. why would they bother for an open-source community? and if a 16yo kid can hack into a player and write the decryption software just months after the encryption comes out on the market, i think that's just amazing. i'll take the kid over bill's army any day. Linux is catching up...probably about another year or so of development, and Linux can/will rival M$ for a larger market share of OS's. But until then, I notice ALOT of people sending to this list that want/need DUAL boot to an M$ version, or people saying they are not at their Linux box. So if M$ is SOO bad...why do people that swear by Linux, and swear AT M$ continue using it for things like browsing, DVD, USB, printing graphics, any game that requires Direct X ( which is ALOT of the popular titles), many high end programs that have no equivalent in any 'nix language. see above. these games are written expressly for 'doze (or MAC) because: 1. the money is in the 'doze market 2. the money is not in the linux market 3. see number 1. as far as i'm concerned, i've invested too much time in the things i did on M$ prior to installing linux. i haven't gotten around to converting all my animations, documents, etcetcetc. once i have the time though, it's byebye bill. that's my explanation. Now before everyone gets out their flame throwers...I praise Linux to alot of people that want something different...Mandrake in particular for it's install, and XWindow/KDE GUI. But I also work in a computer store and see/talk too many people everyday that have problems with M$ ( _all_ versions). I know M$ has been lagging with NEW code, but I guess Uncle Bill just wants the almighty $$. precisely. and this is why, despite the software that they have produced which works, i cannot stand by M$. their motives are transparent, their ethics are compromised and their time is up. that's my $.02 ~p I am not now, nor ever have been an M$ employee. (ducks the flaming M$ coaster, and falls off his soap box:)) my $0.02 worth...:) Jaguar Phil Cziao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saaa yours and mark sheppard's responses wouldn't have anything to do with 'road runner' (that rr.com email address) being a business affiliate of microsoft, would it? i mean, you do realize if that is why then this constitutes as spam? and you do realize what it says about spamming on this list? you can check it out here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 in the meantime, give us a break. everyone knows that if the boys from redmond would open up their kernel source, everyone's programs would work a lot better. you can't blame NS. ~p Anthony Huereca wrote: IE may crash every once in a while, but it's a whole whole lot stabilier than Linux's Netscape. That thing crashes about once a hour, whereas IE might crash once a day at most. Sure, it doesn't bring down the whole system when Netscape crashes, but it is an annoyance and sometimes after it crashes, I get repeated errors about bookmarks being reloaded or something like that, which is also really annoying. I'd take IE over Netscape anyday with it's better features and stability. You must have been charmed or blessed then, or had a priest bestow special blessings on your copy of IE5 when you played a role playing game, or something. After all, I can think of no *rational* explanation for your experiences, given the frequency of IE5 crashing or otherwise misbehaving on most installations. Mine, for example. True, it *does* crash less than IE4 did -- even the IE5 *beta* crashed less. But it is still crash prone like any M$ software. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
[newbie] Postfix problem
I've been a long time RH user, and was surprised upon installing Air and discovering the default use of Postfix over sendmail. I've heard good things about Postfix, so I'm not exactly apposed to this, but currently none of my mail retrieved with fetchmail is being delivered. Can someone tell me what I need to kick start to get my mail flowing? TIA, jdk __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Need some modem help
James Luongo wrote: Anyway, I am using kPPP to set it up but I have no idea which driver to use. /dev/modem looked nice but neither of them worked. 1.) How can I find out all these options on my modem? 2.) Is there a better program to do this? (ie Lothar or DrakConf, which I don't have because I have LM 6.1) Try /dev/ttys0 (this would correspond to com1 in 'doze), /dev/ttys1 (com2)... Also, I had to change the default flow control to xon/xoff Works perfectly! Lance
[newbie] dosemu - vfat
Hi I have got a problem. How can I dosemu bring it about that I can use my vfat partition? cu Patric
[newbie] Scanners
I need to get a new scanner, one that will work with my Linux. Any of y'all have an HP 3200 up and running with Linux. It wasn't listed on the Sane site, but it's the right price and easily available for me. Or, any recommendations from someone using a scanner under $200? THANKS! Lance
RE: [newbie]
That's a great question and I am glad that you asked it as I would like to know as well :-) Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Tom [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 09 February 2000 15:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] how can I check to see if my ethernet card is running in full duplex or not?
[newbie] Re: RE: your mail
The best program I find is pico.. at the prompt / pico edit/fstab The bottom line displays the major function keys etc.. Cheers Paul On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:50:38 - "Hill, Andrew" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I edit the fstab without access to the xwindows system? which program? -Original Message- From: Roger Whittaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 10:52 AM To: Hill, Andrew Cc: 'Newbie Linux'; 'Mailbase Linux Uk Help' Subject:Re: your mail You need to edit /etc/fstab to make this possible On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: I have been trying to access my hda1/windows drives from a simple user, not root, when I saw someone suggest logging on to linux as a single user system, linux -s, will this give me access to the hda1/windows drives? Dr Andrew Hill BSc, FRCA Department of Anaesthesia Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton BN2 5BE 01273 696955 -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ -- 020 8387 1482 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Paul Hooper Anglia Polytechnic University Library IT Services Tel: ++ 44 1223 363271 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __
Re: [newbie] RE: your mail
your favorite text editor /etc/fstab (e.g. emacs fstab or vi fstab). fstab is just a text file which mount reads when you give it a command and which, I presume, the kernel reads on bootup and issues mount commands for your main partitions. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: How do I edit the fstab without access to the xwindows system? which program? -Original Message- From: Roger Whittaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 10:52 AM To: Hill, Andrew Cc: 'Newbie Linux'; 'Mailbase Linux Uk Help' Subject:Re: your mail You need to edit /etc/fstab to make this possible On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Hill, Andrew wrote: I have been trying to access my hda1/windows drives from a simple user, not root, when I saw someone suggest logging on to linux as a single user system, linux -s, will this give me access to the hda1/windows drives? Dr Andrew Hill BSc, FRCA Department of Anaesthesia Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton BN2 5BE 01273 696955 -- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ -- 020 8387 1482 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [newbie] Problems while logged in as root
well, I run mandrake 7.0 and while as a regular user in mine and in X, I use the eterm to do other stuff... while using eterm, I just type su and then it ask for password and I enter it... when your done using su , you can type exit and it brings you back as a regular user where you started from... so you might want to try that... Harold -- Michelle Schneider wrote: Whenever I log in as root to do anything, after about 10 minutes (more or less) everything locks up and the only thing I can do is ctrl-alt-backspace. It happens regardless of which window manager I'm using. Although, it happens sooner in KDE. This doesn't happen if a log in as a normal user and use superuser mode, but that gets tedious. Any suggestions? Michelle -- "Just because kittens are born in the hearth oven, that doesn't make them muffins." Kahlan Amnell in _Temple of the Winds_ by Terry Goodkind
Re: [newbie] HELP fstab
Hello Andrew, I just went thru the same for my NT drive (hda1) Added to the /etc/fstab the following line: /dev/hda1 /nt40 ntfsdefaults 0 0 didn't work! til I made a directory under / called /nt40 duh ... o well live and learn. God Bless, Sam http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr/linuxindex.html NOT an IE friendly site. "Hill, Andrew" wrote: I need a little help! I wanted to gain access to my windows drives, hda1 and hda5/6, as a normal user. I asked for advice and received some which suggested adding a new user group and allowing this group access to the hda1/5/6. I did this using linuxconf, this resulted in adding the new group and adding the permissions to access the drives. That worked, however, when I rebooted I am told that the fstab file is invalid or non-functional. But it worked after the first change. I am new to Linux, therefore as an old windows user I backed up the fstab file to fstab2, in the same directory, /etc. Can I re-invoke this fstab2 file, edit the fstab new or what ? Suggestions. Dr Andrew J Hill Department of Anaesthesia Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton BN2 5BE 01273 609060
Re: [newbie] Printer problem
hugh wrote: The other night while printing out a large file My niece shut down my printer. When I turned it back on I started getting sheets with one line printed on it. Looks like a self test. Problem is it wont stop It's an HP ! Does anyone know what I can do to stop this? Thanks Hugh -- QOTD: I'm not a nerd -- I'm "socially challenged". try man lpd there you find: see also: lpc(8), pac(1), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), syslog(3), printcap(5) I think lpc is what you are after I found out the hard way .. if you shut printer off ... it wont come up nest time .. til you restart it ... Sorry no more precise than this .. but it's what you need to read. Now if I could just remember what I read. G God Bless, Sam http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr/linuxindex.html NOT an IE friendly site!
Re: [newbie] Samba Version Location
If not installed look on your installation disk. Bet it's there. GB, Sam http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr/linuxindex.html NOT an IE friendly site! David van Balen wrote: There is no _correct_ version for any distro. As far as I know, the _newest_ version is 2.0.6 which is bundled with Mandrake 7.0. If, for some reason, you didn't install samba when you installed Mandrake, you need to get it from www.samba.org (sorry can't be any more specific) and install it. I guess I'd suggest the newest version. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Robert Ayers wrote: Can anyone tell me the correct version of Samba to download for version 7.0 of Linux Mandrake? When I looked on the samba site I didn't notice a version for Mandrake. Also, if you know of the url where it can be downloaded would you please include it. Thanks... Robert
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
It does?!?!?!?!?? I have not ever seen nutscrape do that, it just exits and my unix box sits there like---uhh ok. On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Paul Derbyshire mewed: At 03:50 PM 2/8/00 -0600, you wrote: I think what would really rock is if when an app crashed it would run a small app triggered by the main app's segfault that would take up a bugreport and send it automatically via either e mail or remote ftp per the user's request, making bug reports eaiser Netscrap does this actually. Nothing from M$ does, though, because if it did, the mail server at www.microsoft.com would stop functioning within a day due to the load. -- .*. "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| -- Linux Cat
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
Is Konqueror stable and in rpm form yet? On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Dan Ferris mewed: Lets see, I use Netscape 99% of the time, even on Windows. The Netscape for Linux is bloated and not terribly stable, but it has more featurs than anything else out there. I also use KFM/Konqueror, and Amaya. Unfortunatly, I admit to some use of Internet Explorer. What a piece of crap that is. Dan -- You can have a dog as a friend. You can have whiskey as a friend. But, if you have a woman as your friend you're going to wind up drunk and kissing your dog. -- Linux Cat
Re: [Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?]
Hi Marku nejsi ty z Czech Republic ?? Vypada to podle jmena ze jo :-))) Jirka - Original Message - From: Mark Potochnik To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?] So what your saying is anyone who praises M$ is a M$ spy(climbs up soap box)Sorry to burst your bubble...but M$ still does alot of things better than any'nix does. Consider the uses of D3D, DVD, USB and many other devices that M$directly supports NOW.. You are basically right. BUT... The support for the new Itanium Chip is ready NOW for Linux. And there are things that Linux does that Win can't... .it is mostly in ALPHA or BETA right now for ALL'nix's. Linux is catching up...probably about another year or so ofdevelopment, and Linux can/will rival M$ for a larger market share of OS's. But until then, I notice ALOT of people sending to this list that want/needDUAL boot to an M$ version, or people saying they are not at their Linux box. When WP office for Linux comes out that will be the big switch from playing with Linux to USING it So if M$ is SOO bad...why do people that swear by Linux, and swear ATM$ continue using it for things like browsing, DVD, USB, printing graphics,any game that requires Direct X ( which is ALOT of the popular titles), manyhigh end programs that have no equivalent in any 'nix language. A couple of months until Corel Draw comes out MarkP
Re: repost: [Fwd: [newbie] fsck prob]
Ok what was your first ques tion? On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Funboy mewed: go for it, i'm listening Vic wrote: I just caught your message, I myself am a newbie so I will probably need to help you step by step, I might be a tad slow, but I will try my best On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Phil Cziao mewed: my apologies to all who have to read this again, but i posted this and haven't received a response. i don't know whether this is because my mail server snafu'd or what, but i'm reposting it because i REALLY need help with this. as additional info, i'll add that my filesystem's ext2, i have mandrake 6.1, bash works fine when i get to the maintenance shell, dmesg shows that all my IDE dev's were recognized and running the install cds again with the 'update' option does not help. i'm worried that choosing 'install' will overwrite my previous config. (something i do not want to happen at any cost.) will someone be a pal and lend a hand? :) Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com [216.71.84.35]) by pop.snet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SNET-pop-1.3/D-1.5.1.2/O-1.5) with ESMTP id AAA12395 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:55:33 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sympa@localhost) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA29719 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:45:39 -0600 Received: from smtp.snet.net (smtp.snet.net [204.60.6.55]) by mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA27933 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:34:51 -0600 Received: from snet.net (hrfr-sh2-port221.snet.net [204.60.8.221]) by smtp.snet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SNET-bmx-1.3/D-1.7/O-1.6) with ESMTP id AAA13074 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:44:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:35:14 -0500 From: Funboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pl,de-DE,fr-FR,cs Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sequence: 345 Precedence: list Subject: [newbie] fsck prob X-Mozilla-Status2: hello. big problem. i had to disconnect my system components for maintenance and when i reconnected them (with a new cpu), everything went haywire on the bootup. since then, i managed to get to the "unmounting old kernel" bit. then, it says that my linux partition (hda3) was not cleanly unmounted last time, check forced. fsck goes to work, then exits at a consistent 4.6% with error code 11. i then have the option to go in for maintenance, but my filesystem's now read-only, so i can't do a thing. please let me know what fsck is finding wrong and/or how to mount the filesystem to read-write. i can't change any config files without that, and i have a new cpu and mainboard on, so a recompile is in order. also, fyi, i replaced an isa sound card with a pci sound card and removed a hard drive (slave, not master) help, please... must run. my windows went nutty too and i only have a limited time left before it magically reboots itself. ~phil -- Linux Cat -- Linux Cat
Re: [newbie] HELP fstab
"Hill, Andrew" wrote: I need a little help! I wanted to gain access to my windows drives, hda1 and hda5/6, as a normal user. I asked for advice and received some which suggested adding a new user group and allowing this group access to the hda1/5/6. I did this using linuxconf, this resulted in adding the new group and adding the permissions to access the drives. That worked, however, when I rebooted I am told that the fstab file is invalid or non-functional. But it worked after the first change. I am new to Linux, therefore as an old windows user I backed up the fstab file to fstab2, in the same directory, /etc. Can I re-invoke this fstab2 file, edit the fstab new or what ? Suggestions. Dr Andrew J Hill Department of Anaesthesia Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton BN2 5BE 01273 609060 add this (you have to be root): /dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsautouser,noauto,rw Make sure you load the vfat file system support into the kernel as well (you have to be root for this as well). modprobe -a vfat.o you can also use insmod, but I always just used modprobe. To make it add support for vfat at bootup, cd to /etc/rc.d. Then add the modprobe -a vfat.o line to the end of the rc.local file. If you do a man on fstab, modprobe, and insmod, you will get a list of options for the commands and an explanation of the fields for the files. Remember to make backups of all system configuration files before you mess with them. Dan
Re: [Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?]
Just my 2 cents also. The main reason I went from M$ to Linux is that I was getting tired of throwing a tantrum and screaming when my winbloze crashed and froze the machine, I have zero tolerance for such malfunctions, and can get very loud, and I admit it, so I ditched winbloze and had to sacrifice soem features for stability. I just personally choose not to buy or use M$ products if I can avoid using. On Mon, 17 Mar 2036, Jaguar mewed: So what your saying is anyone who praises M$ is a M$ spy (climbs up soap box) Sorry to burst your bubble...but M$ still does alot of things better than any 'nix does. Consider the uses of D3D, DVD, USB and many other devices that M$ directly supports NOW...it is mostly in ALPHA or BETA right now for ALL 'nix's. Linux is catching up...probably about another year or so of development, and Linux can/will rival M$ for a larger market share of OS's. But until then, I notice ALOT of people sending to this list that want/need DUAL boot to an M$ version, or people saying they are not at their Linux box. So if M$ is SOO bad...why do people that swear by Linux, and swear AT M$ continue using it for things like browsing, DVD, USB, printing graphics, any game that requires Direct X ( which is ALOT of the popular titles), many high end programs that have no equivalent in any 'nix language. Now before everyone gets out their flame throwers...I praise Linux to alot of people that want something different...Mandrake in particular for it's install, and XWindow/KDE GUI. But I also work in a computer store and see/talk too many people everyday that have problems with M$ ( _all_ versions). I know M$ has been lagging with NEW code, but I guess Uncle Bill just wants the almighty $$. I am not now, nor ever have been an M$ employee. (ducks the flaming M$ coaster, and falls off his soap box:)) my $0.02 worth...:) Jaguar Phil Cziao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saaa yours and mark sheppard's responses wouldn't have anything to do with 'road runner' (that rr.com email address) being a business affiliate of microsoft, would it? i mean, you do realize if that is why then this constitutes as spam? and you do realize what it says about spamming on this list? you can check it out here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 in the meantime, give us a break. everyone knows that if the boys from redmond would open up their kernel source, everyone's programs would work a lot better. you can't blame NS. ~p Anthony Huereca wrote: IE may crash every once in a while, but it's a whole whole lot stabilier than Linux's Netscape. That thing crashes about once a hour, whereas IE might crash once a day at most. Sure, it doesn't bring down the whole system when Netscape crashes, but it is an annoyance and sometimes after it crashes, I get repeated errors about bookmarks being reloaded or something like that, which is also really annoying. I'd take IE over Netscape anyday with it's better features and stability. You must have been charmed or blessed then, or had a priest bestow special blessings on your copy of IE5 when you played a role playing game, or something. After all, I can think of no *rational* explanation for your experiences, given the frequency of IE5 crashing or otherwise misbehaving on most installations. Mine, for example. True, it *does* crash less than IE4 did -- even the IE5 *beta* crashed less. But it is still crash prone like any M$ software. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- Linux Cat
[newbie] Wondering
As I have been playing around, getting to know linux. I have discovered allot of neat things. But as I have been playing I have discovered in my bios that I can set it to boot from the LAN. What I am wondering is, what do I have to do on the LAN in order to do this? I have tried it and the system just sits there waiting on something. Does anyone here have any experience with doing this ? Jeff
[newbie] compiler trouble - help!
I was having the same problem everyone seems to have had where the C++ compiler could not generate an executable. I read config.log and discovered that it couldn't find lstdc++ I did some more reading in the archives and loaded every rpm that was ever mentioned in connection with this problem: egcs, egcs-cpp, egcs-c++, gcc-cpp, gcc-2.95.2, egcs-1.1, libstdc++-devel, glibc-devel and probably a couple of others. It still won't compile but now the error is c++: installation problem, cannot exec 'cpp': No such file or directory congifure: failed program was: #line 1473 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" Please help!!! Am I close? What should I do? Please cc. me because I'm only subscribed to the digest. Thanks, Ted
Re: [newbie] Lilo, Mandrake 7, and Windows 2k? - DVD
Cool whats the url? On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Harold Hartley mewed: Rodney Fulk wrote: Heh heh. I had an old DVD drive (creative encore) I threw into my linux machine to load linux on the machine.. Maybe I shouldnt pull it out just yet.. ;) did you know that creative has open source drivers for its DVD drives now... -- Linux Cat
Re: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE
I DID research it I TRIED AND TRIED AND TRIED AND THD godam thing would NOT work and it pissed me off I'm sick of things not working, I'm sorry but I get upset when things do not work and I have been busting my butt. I wish people would realise that I do try ahrd I really do, and they just don't understand. I have everything installed and unless someone proves me wrong (I wish they would) I can't figure things out. I can't help feeling what I feel. On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Josh McCaffrey mewed: Since msgs are apparently being reposted (again)... Is make installed on your machine? How about ncurses-devel, glibc-devel, and binutils-rpm? Not sure, but you might also need bin86 and sh-utils, also. I didn't get menuconfig to work on the first few tries, but instead of getting frustrated and blaming Mandrake for what would be a HUGE oversight, I went to mandrakeuser.org and did some research. How can you say so DEFINITIVELY that "it is BROKEN, ie DEFECTIVE, ie NON-Functional", when many people have had little trouble? Just do some RESEARCH b4 you blame others. Vic wrote: Just to announce, Mandrake 6.1 has a bug, you cannot, no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, there is NO make menuconfig in Mandrake 6.1, they screwed up, you install the kernel headers and the sources, and still will not make menuconfig or xconfig, it is BROKEN, ie DEFECTIVE, ie NON-Functional. It cannot be done. -- Linux Cat -- Linux Cat
[newbie] vmware-networking
Hi, Under a Mandrake 6.1 O/S, I have VMware 1.1.2 running with samba installed. The virtual disk I have created within VMware is Win98 SE and the configurationat both ends is set to Host-Only Networking, due to no network card. In the virtual machines networking everything is running well as it can see itself. On the other end, following the ISP addresses configured into VMware, smb.conf does not seem to be registering to VMware or the virtual machine. Restart of smb.conf comes out OK, shutdown and reboot of 6.1, samba is OK, although in system information in KDE Samba Status there is a blank screen. Does anyone have any information, assistance or even the whole smb.conf configuration process for Host-Only Networking under Vmware 1.1.2 for Win98. Thankyou, Simon.
[newbie] mandrake 7.0 install problems
Hi, me again, the one with the ATI rage fury card problem with 6.1 I just received my new mandrake 7.0 CD, tried to install it (by booting from the CDRom) and no-luck...it creates the ramdrive (slowly) then tries to setup the cdrom... the blue line on the bottom of the screen goes away and a blinking cursor appears at the bottom left corner...the computer isn't locked up...you can type anything on the screen but it doesn't do anything HELP!!! I hate Windows98Microsoft I want to use LINUX! C-Ya Flip
Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!
I suggest an AMD 475 MHz. with may be a 133 MHz bus to the AGP Ram, something like an Asus P5B without on board anything. The AMD 475s are a good buy at least in my area. I've got an MSI 5184 board with 1 Meg cache AMD 350 MHz. and 8 Meg AGP 3D Rage Pro and it runs just fine, easiest install of anything i've ever installed. Mitsumi Burner gives me an I/O error though. It's a Mitsumi CR-4802TE. Good Luck! Flyers Fan From: Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow! Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 18:31:33 + snip KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each That's damned odd. I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. Oh, that explains everything. P133/16MB RAM ^ ^ | | | `-- You intend to run a GUI with this?! Stick to the command prompt until | you've got at least 32. :-) `-- Ouch. That places your machine squarely in the "desktop calculator" bracket in the CPU pecking order. Try something with a bit more zip to it. 350MHz is probably a good starting place. Take your spending cash for the month, but 48 megs of simms with it, and blow the rest on the fastest AMD chip you can. Anyone have the dirt on the Evergreen AMD K6-2 upgrade? I'm running a P133 also, and have seen the 333-400mhz AMD upgrades for $100-200US w/ BIOS upgrade. And then there's SO MANY motherboards around, I'm having a difficult time choosing one. With all the graphics cards moving from PCI to AGP, and ISA being phased out, what should I do? Testimonials would be great! i.e: The best MB you've used and Linux compatibility. As much info as I can get b4 I buy. Thanks! -Josh __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Question on compiling the kernel
Hi, I have a question on compiling the kernel. I think I did it right. I got a file called vmlinuz in the right place. But where do I put it? Where is my current vmlinuz? Maybe in the /boot directory? which is the only place that I've found it so far. James __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] USB keyboard support?
Hello all. My legacy keyboard is dying, and I have a USB keyboard lying around. I remember hearing that Mandrake 7.0 would support USB keyboards, but it isn't quite working right. I can type away okay, but the moment I go to hit capslock or numlock, the shell comes back with the "Keyboard: Too many NACKs" message. The lights on the keyboard don't change, but it seems to take effect. Is there something I'm supposed to run to make the USB keyboard work? Tried looking in Lothar, but it only mentioned mouse. Thanks in advance, Eric Large'
Re: [newbie] Log file question
Whats "Nukenabber"? I already e-mailed the ISP's techs at fuse.net and cut/paste the log file for them, shouldnt that do it? SEan R_Yeo wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, sean F wrote: Well, i added the IP to my list of "input DENY" files, Could that have gotten through? None of my WinXX boxes went down, and if it did get though would the WinXX box blue screen or just crash apps.? TIA Somehow, I don't agree that it is a winnuke attempt. The fingerprint doesn't match. As for winnuke, I think, it is not effective against any Win 95 boxes patched to SP1 or 2. I have tested it against some internal Win boxes and only one box actually bluescreened, but hitting any key apparently brings the box back to life. It's more of an irritant than anything. If it is winnuke, look for Nukenabber, then you know you've got the loser. -- Ronald __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] changing boot method
Uninstall lilo from the mbr and install it into the partition you want to boot. (Not too sure if this will work, but it should) Actually, try just uninstalling lilo. Make sure that you configure bootmagic to boot the partition -Original Message- From: Kevin Sexton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 February 2000 5:37pm To: newbie mandrake list Subject: [newbie] changing boot method I have linux installed with lilo in the mbr, and now have added bootmagic, how do I get linux to boot properly? I added the root partition to bootmagic, but it doesn't boot. I can boot linux using a floppy.
RE: [newbie] Dispay completely broken
try running Xtest to make sure the server can still run -Original Message- From: Gene Zesch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2000 4:55am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Dispay completely broken After a power failure, and the fsck on reboot, I no longer have any display. The screen flashes a few lines of snow every few seconds. It doesn't respond to ctrl+alt+backspace and will not switch terminals. Its not hardware because the display is fine up to the point where X starts. Other than that it seems to be functioning well. I still have network connection to my windows machine, shared modem with forwarding, can telnet into it, etc. Can anyone point me in the direction of a fix? This is Mandrake 6.0. Thanks, Gene
Re: [newbie] libg++272
Harold Hartley wrote: anyone know where I can find or get the libg++272 so the rvplayer plugin for linux will work on my mandrake 7.0... I have the realplayer for linux installed on it , but the plugin needs the libg++272 in order to install.. thanks Harold Try http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/index.html That's where I normally look for stuff,and usually find it. lance
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
Netscape for Windows does it. I haven't seen NS for Linux do it though and don't think it does... DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Vic wrote: It does?!?!?!?!?? I have not ever seen nutscrape do that, it just exits and my unix box sits there like---uhh ok. On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Paul Derbyshire mewed: At 03:50 PM 2/8/00 -0600, you wrote: I think what would really rock is if when an app crashed it would run a small app triggered by the main app's segfault that would take up a bugreport and send it automatically via either e mail or remote ftp per the user's request, making bug reports eaiser Netscrap does this actually. Nothing from M$ does, though, because if it did, the mail server at www.microsoft.com would stop functioning within a day due to the load. -- .*. "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| -- Linux Cat
Re: [newbie] vmware-networking
I think I read somewhere (VMWare faq?) that vmware can't participate on a samba network when in host-only mode. I believe that included the host OS too... DvB On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Simon Robertson wrote: Hi, Under a Mandrake 6.1 O/S, I have VMware 1.1.2 running with samba installed. The virtual disk I have created within VMware is Win98 SE and the configuration at both ends is set to Host-Only Networking, due to no network card. In the virtual machines networking everything is running well as it can see itself. On the other end, following the ISP addresses configured into VMware, smb.conf does not seem to be registering to VMware or the virtual machine. Restart of smb.conf comes out OK, shutdown and reboot of 6.1, samba is OK, although in system information in KDE Samba Status there is a blank screen. Does anyone have any information, assistance or even the whole smb.conf configuration process for Host-Only Networking under Vmware 1.1.2 for Win98. Thankyou, Simon.
Re: [newbie] Lilo, Mandrake 7, and Windows 2k? - DVD
the URL is http://opensource.creative.com I hope I remembered it anyway... Harold - Vic wrote: Cool whats the url? On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Harold Hartley mewed: Rodney Fulk wrote: Heh heh. I had an old DVD drive (creative encore) I threw into my linux machine to load linux on the machine.. Maybe I shouldnt pull it out just yet.. ;) did you know that creative has open source drivers for its DVD drives now... -- Linux Cat
Re: [newbie] Postfix problem
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Adahma wrote: I've been a long time RH user, and was surprised upon installing Air and discovering the default use of Postfix over sendmail. I've heard good things about Postfix, so I'm not exactly apposed to this, but currently none of my mail retrieved with fetchmail is being delivered. Can someone tell me what I need to kick start to get my mail flowing? The postfix package in Mandrake 7 seems to have some problems after installation, but the problems tend to clear up if you uninstall and reinstall the RPM (don't ask me why, but that seems to work). So you would want to do something like... rpm -e --nodeps postfix rpm -ivh postfix-19991231-3mdk.rpm /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix restart The second command should be done from the RPMS directory of your Mandrake 7.0 CD (or directory tree on your HD if you did an HD install). -Tom
Re: [newbie] Log file question
At 08:26 PM 2/8/00 -0800, you wrote: Well, i added the IP to my list of "input DENY" files, Could that have gotten through? None of my WinXX boxes went down, and if it did get though would the WinXX box blue screen or just crash apps.? TIA ICMP attacks can do a lot of things, including simply tricking dial-up networking (in 'doze) into disconnecting. -- .*. "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] Question on compiling the kernel
Yes, in the /boot dir. Should be a sym link to a vmlinuz-kernel-version. I'd reccomend that you name your new kernel in the same way and redirect the sym link to this new file, then add an entry in your lilo.conf so it can boot from the old kernel in case something went wrong. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, James Luongo wrote: Hi, I have a question on compiling the kernel. I think I did it right. I got a file called vmlinuz in the right place. But where do I put it? Where is my current vmlinuz? Maybe in the /boot directory? which is the only place that I've found it so far. James __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] FAT Bread failed???
any idea what "FAT Bread failed" message means. The system seems to work fine (mandrake 7.0 ) but this message just won't go away. There are no fat partitions used and the filesystem is ok. thanx -- Lenny Shovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM LANWatch ICQ 608990258
Re: [newbie] Dispay completely broken
you must have disabled the font server xfs or smth. Cameron Kerr wrote: try running Xtest to make sure the server can still run -Original Message- From: Gene Zesch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2000 4:55am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Dispay completely broken After a power failure, and the fsck on reboot, I no longer have any display. The screen flashes a few lines of snow every few seconds. It doesn't respond to ctrl+alt+backspace and will not switch terminals. Its not hardware because the display is fine up to the point where X starts. Other than that it seems to be functioning well. I still have network connection to my windows machine, shared modem with forwarding, can telnet into it, etc. Can anyone point me in the direction of a fix? This is Mandrake 6.0. Thanks, Gene -- Lenny Shovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM LANWatch ICQ 608990258
[newbie] USB to Serial Mouse
Dear All I have installed Mandrake 7.0 with a manually applied 7.02 patch. Unfortunately I called for a USB mouse which doesn't appear to work. How on earth do I change it back so a serial mouse without using a mouse? I need command line option for this but don't know them. Regards Julian
[newbie] Color printing
For some reason, I cannot print in color. I'm using an HP DeskJet 672C, I choose "HP DeskJet 550C/560C/6xxC series" in printtool, and everything I've read suggests I should be printing color just fine, but I don't. Can somebody please explain why I'm having this problem and what I can do about it? My gf is having the same problem with her printer in Linux, it's also an HP DeskJet but a newer model (can't remember the exact number). -Tom
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.0 install problems
It seems that Mandrakes graphical installer has its share of problems handling different video cards and /or monitors. You will probably have to do the same as I did, use the Text Install. to do that, you boot from the CD, and when the text screen comes up with the different colors of text and has 4 or 5 lines of instructions about pressing enter, typing expert and etc. just type "linux text" without the quotes and press enter. You will be able to set the parameters for your video card monitor later and test them to get them right. Ray On 9 Feb 00, at 13:31, Kyle Filipski wrote: Hi, me again, the one with the ATI rage fury card problem with 6.1 I just received my new mandrake 7.0 CD, tried to install it (by booting from the CDRom) and no-luck...it creates the ramdrive (slowly) then tries to setup the cdrom... the blue line on the bottom of the screen goes away and a blinking cursor appears at the bottom left corner...the computer isn't locked up...you can type anything on the screen but it doesn't do anything HELP!!! I hate Windows98Microsoft I want to use LINUX! C-Ya Flip
[newbie] broken programs
Has anyone had any problems with "broken Programs" in Mandrake 7.0?? Specifically when I click on the menu item for the kde file manager, the hardrive goes chunka chunka, and nothing happens. There are some other programs that do the same thing but nothing of as much consequence as File Manager. Thanks Ray
Re: [newbie] Log file question
Well what ipchains rule concerning ICMP can I implement to thwart such attacks? Seam Paul Derbyshire wrote: At 08:26 PM 2/8/00 -0800, you wrote: Well, i added the IP to my list of "input DENY" files, Could that have gotten through? None of my WinXX boxes went down, and if it did get though would the WinXX box blue screen or just crash apps.? TIA ICMP attacks can do a lot of things, including simply tricking dial-up networking (in 'doze) into disconnecting. -- .*. "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| __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] HELP fstab
I guess Andrew is asking how to have the windows partition not owned by root and therefor mountable and writeable maybe by an ordinary user. We don't know what version of linux you are using. However, in RedHat5.2 for instance you can achieve this by using the option "user" in /etc/fstab. In later linuces, this becomes "owner" instead, which works in RH6.1. A line like the second line here below will do it (a file called /etc/fstab2 is simply ignored - for a recent linux, use owner instead of user): /dev/hda1/dosmsdos defaults,rw,user0 0 The directory and its contents are owned by the user who mounts it, and they can write to it provided it is mounted rw, the default. This is the mechanism used for users to mount floppy drives and cdroms and zips too. Beware though - it means *any* user can mount and maybe change or delete your windows partition. You can be a bit less elegant, but safer, by specifying options more closely. On my RedHat 5.2 box, I have the line: /dev/hda1/msdos vfatuid=500,gid=500,auto,rw,suid,dev,exec,async 0 0 for my Windows 95 partition. This means that it will be mounted with user id 500 (thats me), and group id 500 (again, me), which gets round *any* user mounting it and being able to write to it... I can't remember the details of the other options - read the manual pages. Cheers Colin -- Colin Brough [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?]
At 09:20 AM 2/9/00 -0500, you wrote: nope. that's not what i claim. however, from my experience and EVERYONE ELSE i know who regularly uses M$, it is highly improbable that any M$ installation could ever be called 'stable', 'reliable' or 'dependable'. [much deletia] I agree with you so far! until... and this is why, despite the software that they have produced which works, i cannot stand by M$. ??? Non-sequitur! Imperfection...destroy! Destroy! :-) Seriously: WHAT "software that they have produced which works"? I have never seen any... [Much quoted material deleted] -- .*. "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] what web browser do you all use?
At 11:25 AM 2/9/00 -0600, you wrote: It does?!?!?!?!?? I have not ever seen nutscrape do that, it just exits and my unix box sits there like---uhh ok. 4.5+ does, at least on 'doze. -- .*. "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] FAT Bread failed???
I get the same error, except about isofs. I don't know what it is and my system works find also. I asked about it a while back and no one seemed to know. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Lenny Shovsky wrote: any idea what "FAT Bread failed" message means. The system seems to work fine (mandrake 7.0 ) but this message just won't go away. There are no fat partitions used and the filesystem is ok. thanx -- Lenny Shovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM LANWatch ICQ 608990258
Re: [newbie] USB to Serial Mouse
I guess you'll either have to edit the config file or run XF86Config (my spelling and/or capitalization may be off) which has a command line interface, as oposed to Xconfigurator which is graphical. DvB On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Julian Debby Warren wrote: Dear All I have installed Mandrake 7.0 with a manually applied 7.02 patch. Unfortunately I called for a USB mouse which doesn't appear to work. How on earth do I change it back so a serial mouse without using a mouse? I need command line option for this but don't know them. Regards Julian
[newbie] star office???
Does anyone know where i can find an rpm for the new version of staroffice?
[newbie] Traffic Shaper or equivalent Documentation
I'm masquerading a LAN to share my modem. I need to put some limits to the transfer rate of my LAN mates or they'll take all my bandwith. I found out that can be achieved with Traffic Shaper, so I recompild with it included as a module, but I cannot use it because I don't know anything bout it. Some docs/ideeas/directions would be cool. Thanks Alek
[newbie] Apropos not working! I'm lost in my learning without it ;)
Hello, Whatever I try (apropos vi = vi: nothing appropiate Help! Thanks, Alek
Re: [newbie] FAT Bread failed???
2 questions, does it happen when you try to ftp to that machine ? do you have uata controller or/and harddrive in your system? - Original Message - From: "David van Balen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] FAT Bread failed??? I get the same error, except about isofs. I don't know what it is and my system works find also. I asked about it a while back and no one seemed to know. DvB On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Lenny Shovsky wrote: any idea what "FAT Bread failed" message means. The system seems to work fine (mandrake 7.0 ) but this message just won't go away. There are no fat partitions used and the filesystem is ok. thanx -- Lenny Shovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM LANWatch ICQ 608990258
Re: [newbie] HELP fstab
does default (recommended) mdk 7 installation support ntfs mounts? - Original Message - From: "Colin Brough" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Catherine Wattebot" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "David van Balen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "'Newbie Linux'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "'Mailbase Linux Uk Help'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP fstab I guess Andrew is asking how to have the windows partition not owned by root and therefor mountable and writeable maybe by an ordinary user. We don't know what version of linux you are using. However, in RedHat5.2 for instance you can achieve this by using the option "user" in /etc/fstab. In later linuces, this becomes "owner" instead, which works in RH6.1. A line like the second line here below will do it (a file called /etc/fstab2 is simply ignored - for a recent linux, use owner instead of user): /dev/hda1/dosmsdos defaults,rw,user 0 0 The directory and its contents are owned by the user who mounts it, and they can write to it provided it is mounted rw, the default. This is the mechanism used for users to mount floppy drives and cdroms and zips too. Beware though - it means *any* user can mount and maybe change or delete your windows partition. You can be a bit less elegant, but safer, by specifying options more closely. On my RedHat 5.2 box, I have the line: /dev/hda1/msdos vfatuid=500,gid=500,auto,rw,suid,dev,exec,async 0 0 for my Windows 95 partition. This means that it will be mounted with user id 500 (thats me), and group id 500 (again, me), which gets round *any* user mounting it and being able to write to it... I can't remember the details of the other options - read the manual pages. Cheers Colin -- Colin Brough [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Dispay completely broken
he can't type man, font server is not started i really don't know the configuration files for font serve, try website documentation or if you were lucky and enabled remote linux conf then you cna get it to start up again with the web browser. - Original Message - From: "Lenny Shovsky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dispay completely broken you must have disabled the font server xfs or smth. Cameron Kerr wrote: try running Xtest to make sure the server can still run -Original Message- From: Gene Zesch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2000 4:55am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Dispay completely broken After a power failure, and the fsck on reboot, I no longer have any display. The screen flashes a few lines of snow every few seconds. It doesn't respond to ctrl+alt+backspace and will not switch terminals. Its not hardware because the display is fine up to the point where X starts. Other than that it seems to be functioning well. I still have network connection to my windows machine, shared modem with forwarding, can telnet into it, etc. Can anyone point me in the direction of a fix? This is Mandrake 6.0. Thanks, Gene -- Lenny Shovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM LANWatch ICQ 608990258
[newbie] Modem Response Problem
I have a CPI Viva 56k LC-SM and am trying to get it to work, I have all the init commands etc but cannot get it to work. I can query it and get a response, the ATI's have no information...and the ATZ string doesn't work, i tried another init string called ATI and that did not work either.. It is set to the right port and everything it just doesn't respond...any clue on this one? I have heard that CPI is more software driven so maybe this cpi modem is winmodem-ish Any clues? Dave
[newbie] dotty desktop images
I have got my graphics card setup now and Im using 1024x768. I thought that the theme images would be nice a sharp. Even one I like myself on my windows desktop thats nice a sharp I tried. But they are all dotty. I went into the KDE control center and in there saw that even though I am using 1024x768 is also says 75x75dpi. Is this why the pictures are so dotty and if so is it possible to change that dpi setting? Ive hunted around and cant find anything on it. Its not the images themselves and th one I used on windows is very sharp and clear on the same screen res. regards Gina
[newbie] getting rid of x
hey...i want my linux not to use x normaly...i just want the old fasioned way...but be able to open it if i wanthow do i get it like that? i have mandrake 6.1...its already installed...do i need to reinstal?
[newbie] epson 700 report - anyone get (windoze) photo quality out of an HP 880?
Well - the Epson 700 that arrived today will be shipped back tomorrow. It did indeed print in linux without any hassle, although I couldn't get the same photo quality as in 'doze with the built-in printtool options. Problem was that the darned thing would grab multiple sheets of paper (good paper), tearing some, and seemed to splash ink in blotches across the page. It's also about the slowest thing I've used in ages. Now I know why it was only $99.95 refurbished. Maybe mine will go for $49.95 when the shop gets it back! It's really sad that pretty nice printers like the HP 722 are such a hassle to get to work in linux. All I really would like is to see my 722 or even better my HP 880C print in linux with the photo quality the have in 'doze. I know it's cuz of the close ppa standards. It's no less aggravating, though. And yes, I _have_ written HP to let them know this really torques me off and that they will lose my business, etc ... in the meantime I have several HP printers that just don't cut in in linux. I end up copying files across the lan to my 'doze box and printing from there, or doing the triple-boot thing. If anyone's had outstanding results with photos with HP printers, I surely would love to hear exactly how they did it. For those who don't know about it, check out http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ for info on getting HP printers at least WORKING in linux. Does using post/ghostscript help any? I've not tried messing with that yet and wonder if it would help any. dave w
Re: [newbie] star office???
www.sun.com sean Bobby Welch wrote: Does anyone know where i can find an rpm for the new version of staroffice? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Scanners
Harold Hartley wrote: I would never use "root" for a regular user setup and using the internet constantly as it could pose trouble for you if you continue... root is used to install and uninstall software and to do other changes on linux... I think you should use a regular user account on your linux to be running on the internet and stuff for good reason's as I'm sure others would agree with me... Oh, I agree, but if you insist on browsing/emailing as 'root`, at least change the identity under "mail and newsgroups" in Nutscrape preferences or similar in whatever email client you're using, so it won't make it SO obvious. Harold - root wrote: Try going to the SANE site, they have a comprehensive list. Fran -- From: Lance Borden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Scanners Date: 09 February 2000 14:38 I need to get a new scanner, one that will work with my Linux. Any of y'all have an HP 3200 up and running with Linux. It wasn't listed on the Sane site, but it's the right price and easily available for me. Or, any recommendations from someone using a scanner under $200? THANKS! Lance
[newbie] Uninstalling Linux
Can someone please give me all the steps to uninstall linu? Thanks! P.S. I am running Mandrake 6.1 / Win98 (LILO boot) I made my Linux partitions in "Disk Drake" ^^ Jim Garner [EMAIL PROTECTED] (running mandrake 6.1/win 98) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Traffic Shaper or equivalent Documentation
Frank Fallon wrote: Sorry Alex, Newbie myself. Cannot assist. However, with Win 98 the best software is "Internetshare". Has one tiny bug. Can give you advice. You could try Ray Pulbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can give you advice on running twin HD`s on Abit BE6 motherboard running Linux on one Win 98 on the other by bios switching. I am sure linux will do what you want but I just got Samba functioning and am attempting to solve the password denial problem. Regards, Frank. - Original Message - From: Alek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie LINUX List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:19 AM Subject: [newbie] Traffic Shaper or equivalent Documentation I have everything configured under Win 98 for modem sharing, but now having a new toy, Linux, I don't wanna use Win98 with the internet ;) I got the passwd problem myself. I was unable to solve it so I asked a linux guru friend to login and solve it. It was something about passwd encryption and some script for converting passwd. I really don't know what was really happening ;)
[newbie] colors for ls
I'm using a transparent shell in Window Maker and I would like to know if it is possible to specify the colors to use. I can do some basic setup with the command line arguments passed to rxvt but there is one color that is particularly hard to read. Is it possible to configure the colors that are displayed for directories and different file types? If so, how? TIA Richard
Re: [newbie] Apropos not working! I'm lost in my learning withoutit ;)
Jaime Batiz wrote: try re-building the whatis database with: /usr/sbin/makewhatis Jaime Thanks! That worked!! Finally I can Apropos! I received these errors while makewhatis-ing: bzcat: ./rdist.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file, skipping. bzcat: ./efence.3.bz2 is not a bzip2 file, skipping. bzcat: ./rdist.8.bz2 is not a bzip2 file, skipping. Alek
[newbie] Anyone Successfully install on a be6-II
I have made several attempts to install on my be6-2, i have removed everything from my system and disabled ata66, so there is only a 27 gig maxtor drive an an ide cdrom in the machine, yet whenever i boot from the cdrom it gets to the initializing cdrom, it will eventually just say error code 7 and its safe to reboot or something similar. I know its not the cd or the cdrom because i can use them both to install on another machine, infact i plugged the maxtor hard drive along with the cdrom and same cd into another motherboard and the install worked, so why won't it work on my be6-2? Dave
Re: [newbie] dotty desktop images
Ginawhat you need is the "XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO" which can be found at the below url: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html Alan Gina wrote: I have got my graphics card setup now and Im using 1024x768. I thought that the theme images would be nice a sharp. Even one I like myself on my windows desktop thats nice a sharp I tried. But they are all dotty. I went into the KDE control center and in there saw that even though I am using 1024x768 is also says 75x75dpi. Is this why the pictures are so dotty and if so is it possible to change that dpi setting? Ive hunted around and cant find anything on it. Its not the images themselves and th one I used on windows is very sharp and clear on the same screen res. regards Gina
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[newbie] 6.1 SMP kernal problem
Hi, I am running Mandrake 6.1 with the 2.2.13-7mdk SMP kernal.The only reason I have the SMP kernal installed is I let the installer probe to determine whrther not to install one. Even though I have only a single processor machine, it installed the SMP kernal anyway. Oh well. Now I can't install/run VMWare, which I need, without going to all the hassle of unpacking the kernal sources and compiling the proper VMWare module. Can anyone tell me how to pull a non-SMP kernal off of the CD and install it on my machine without wiping out all the configurations/data/other programs? Any help is appreciated. Regards, Jim Du Vall
[newbie] LiLo set up
I tried setting up Lilo by using QuickInst. I have win98 and Mandrake 7.0 both installed on separate partitions. I setup Lilo on /dev/hda and then told it that the other OS was on /dev/hda1 (which I thought was the way you were supposed to do it) since the FAT32 partition is known as /dev/hda1 to the linux OS (at least I think so). When I tried rebooting the system it jumped directly into Linux however and did not give me an opportunity to choose the operating system I want to start up. I would appreciate any help. Thank you very much. Elvis Dieguez
[newbie] Sound card/Modem/CDROM installation
I am a complete novice on Linux and I am still trying to work my way around things. I have a Mwave DSP card that contains both a Soundblaster-compatible sound card and a 28.8 kbs modem. Linux fails to recognize it. I also have a 56 kbs Lucent Tech. Modem that is also not recognized. Finally, I have a HP CD-RW drive that is not correctly installed (at least I do not think it is installed correctly). It shows up on the desktop and it seems to be listed as /dev/cdrom2 but when I try to mount it (by popping in a CD -- it is supermounted) it fails to mount. Any help at all would be appreciated. Elvis Dieguez
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[newbie] KDE startup
I downloaded the linux-mandrake...how do I start the kde desktop? Chris
[newbie] Supermount for MDK 7.0-2 ... How Do You Get It To Work?
The Supermount for Mandrake 7.0-2 has never worked for me. How do you get it to work? Seve
Re: [newbie] LiLo set up
Try running KLilo and adjust it there. K System KLilo Seve -Original Message-From: Elvis Dieguez [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 8:53 PMSubject: [newbie] LiLo set up I tried setting up Lilo by using QuickInst. I have win98 and Mandrake 7.0 both installed on separate partitions. I setup Lilo on /dev/hda and then told it that the other OS was on /dev/hda1 (which I thought was the way you were supposed to do it) since the FAT32 partition is known as /dev/hda1 to the linux OS (at least I think so). When I tried rebooting the system it jumped directly into Linux however and did not give me an opportunity to choose the operating system I want to start up. I would appreciate any help. Thank you very much. Elvis Dieguez
[newbie] newbie asking for help!
first I want to thank these who answer my first question, I did found a usefull information about UDMA ULTRA/66, I did found the patch to use in the FAQ, I did create a floppy boot disk and use the patch when I have the boot command, and when I continue the instalation I was able to pass the part asking fot the PCI controller but just after that it's give me an error after the part asking for a scsi controller saying that I have an error in my system, no idea how to solve that or what that mean that to be a newbie :0) so any help please, and try to go with small detail with me I have win98 Hard Drive Western Digital partioned to three drives 7.4GB each all are formated FAT32 Controller UDMA card Promise 66 ZIP Drive Iomega I have ASUS P3B-F bios version 1004 Intel PIII 500Mhz-100 FSB thanks folks
[newbie] 70-2.iso
Icreated a install cd from the iso 70-2. It boots i choose any install then any choice (recommend custom expert, and/or server/develop./whatever). while it is installing the pkgs it say it does not know how to handle an error. dumpkeys faild at /usr/bin/perl - install/keyboard.pm line217 please help. is it my cd or the computer thanks robert
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[newbie] How best to turn on dhclient? (rc.d question)
Greetings, I just installed Mandrake 7.0, and find it terrific, everything just works out of the box. I'm somewhat new to Linux, and have a question regarding the "correct" way to start issue the dhclient command. I need to use dhcp with the @home service. I've done some digging, and found that dhclient with a customized dhclient.conf works as I need it to. I removed the dhcpcd package, as it seemed redundant. My question: How do I get dhclient to run when I go into init level 3? I could toss the command into rc.local, but that doesn't seem to be correct. should it be a start up script in rc3.d? It's not really a script however, but a simple command... I've looked at the stuff on the RH site about init scripts, and while interesting, doesn't tell me how to treat this.. any suggestions appreciated. thanks in advance. Regards, Francis Bruening
