Re: [newbie] Swap

[Vic]

No prob dude

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, NightStalker mewed:
> Could someone post their mtab and fstab entries for their swap
> partitions and/or any information that might help me get mine working in
> 7.0?
> 
> I've tried mounting that partition in a directory I created and got "fs
> type swap not supported by kernal".  Am I missing a kernal module?
> 
> I tried to post a message here earlier but I don't think it posted, here
> is the body again and excuse me if its a duplicate:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,  I just installed Mandrake 7.0 and am having trouble with my
> swapfile.  I know I specified it in the install, but now it's not set
> up.
> 
> If I try to manually mount /dev/hda7, mount returns "mount point swap
> does not exist".  Should I creat a directory /swap for this to mount
> in?  If not, where?  Why wasn't this automatically done by the DrakX?
> 
> Also, my hard drive performance has diminished since installing 7.0. 
> hdparm reports buffered disk reads <4 MB/s.  In 6.0 I think it was ~19
> MB/s.  I have an WD 1366AA which is Ultra66.  I don't recall doing any
> tweaking when I installed 6.0.
> 
> 
> results from swapon -s:
> 
> FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority
> /dev/hda7   partition   265032  0   -1
> 
> 
> my fstab:
> 
> dev/hda7   swapswap 0 0
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> I'm sure this is something simple but I'm feeling stupid.  All other
> distros I've installed set up the swap correctly so I never had to do
> anything until now.
> 
> Thanks
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/dev/hdc1 /data vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip250 auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
/dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0

Re: [newbie] Reconfigure Mandrake 7.0 kernel

[Sevatio Octavio]

Go into your console and ...
 
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig
 
Seve

-Original Message-From: 
Sharon Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: 
Tuesday, March 14, 2000 7:46 PMSubject: [newbie] Reconfigure 
Mandrake 7.0 kernel
Hi all!
 
Can someone please tell what tools/program I 
can use to reconfigure the kernel.
 
Thanks
Sharon 
Pfeiffer

[newbie] Reconfigure Mandrake 7.0 kernel

[Sharon Pfeiffer]

Hi all!
 
Can someone please tell what tools/program I can 
use to reconfigure the kernel.
 
Thanks
Sharon Pfeiffer

[newbie] NIC card AWOL

[Peter Smith]

Hello peoples...

Last night I installed Mandrake via FTP. It went really well! I've installed
Red Hat a few times in the past and this was much easier.

But today, my network card isn't being 'seen.' (a 3COM Etherlink III
35C09b). Lothar, at least, doesn't see it. DHCP lookup (I'm on a cable
modem) doesn't see it. LinuxConf says its set up...

The only thing I can think is, I yanked an Aural PCI card out and stuck in
an old SB AWE32 ISA card. Maybe I hit an IRQ or address conflict? But I'm
unsure how to check that in Linux... the soundcard works fine...

Thanks for any advice!

[newbie] Video Card

[gesteve]

I'm just considering installing Mandrake 7.0 and have never used Linux.  One of
the required items for installing is a VESA 2.0 compliant graphics card.  I have
a Matrox Mystique card.  Can someone tell me if that meets the requirement?  The
following is from the documentation for the card:

"The MGA Windows 95 driver supports monitor profiles from either the Windows 95
monitor list or Matrox's own monitor list. It also supports Plug-and-Play
monitors at the VESA DDC-2b level."

Thanks,

Garland

Re: [newbie] Swap

[NightStalker]

Ok, maybe it is working... But I'm confused

KPM (Process management in KDE) says no swap, and I had my memory pretty
full earlier but swapon -s didn't show any usage.  In 6.0, I pretty much
always had some swap usage.  I just went in to DrakConf/Hardware Config
(didn't know this even existed until a minute ago) and it said I had
swap and some was used (I didnt set anything, just looked).  I checked
swapon and low and behold it now says some was used too.  But why
doesn't KPM see it?  xosview didn't see the swap until now either. 
Maybe DrakConf triggered something.  I do know it just made my computer
slow as shit switching windows in X so I think I'm going to restart X
now...

Any thoughts on this or the HD performance?

Re: [newbie] SB Live Configuration

[Rial Juan]

Got mine running, but with a few probs too. The soundcard worked out of the box,
but broke down after a kernel recompile. In the kernel-source tree
(/usr/src/linux) I noticed a subdir called "emu10k1". Tried to recompile that
and reinstall, no go.

So I just downloaded a standard kernel from kernel.org, and compiled that one
(read the kernel-HOWTO if that sounds like chinese to you), and then compiled
and installed the creative labs driver I downloaded from the web. It now works
like a charm.

Broke automount though, since automount needs a patch applied to the kernel, and
I never bothered to look for it on the net. I'm used to mount my stuff manually
for more than a year with redhat, so automount is not really much of an issue to
me. Perhaps more stuff is broken, but my system works without problems, so
whatever...


On Mar 14 Brian Sieradzki wrote:

> I just installed Mandrake 7.02.  After a lot of
> effort, everything works except my sound card.  When I
> boot up it says "Can not locate module sound."  When I
> run /usr/sbin/sndconfig it detects my SB Live but then
> says "Module used for your sound card emu10k1.0 is not
> in your module search path.  Please verify that your
> kernel modules are configured correctly."  I've tried
> using the RPM that Dell has, but that failed.  I then
> tried downloading the driver from Creative Labs.  That
> didn't work either.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian Sieradzki
> __
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> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> http://im.yahoo.com
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Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Getting MIC to work in LM7.02]]

[Jaguar]

one of those LONG stick looking MIC's...that are about $4.00
I do have a few other's here to try for better Gain tho...

Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm, just curious what kind of mic are you using?
> 
> I hope you get better gain in the future.
> 
> Glad to help a fellow linuxer when I can,
> I do however tend to specialise in audio hehe.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, Jaguar mewed:
> > Solved...thx Vic.
> > I guess I didn't adjust the slides high enuff bfore.:)
> > Although the MIC response is still low at FULL Gain, it is usable.
> > 
> > 
> > Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Just to let you know your not ignored here :)
> > > 
> > > Have you tested the mic with anything else and had it work?
> > > 
> > > If not, then bad mic.
> > > 
> > > If so, then I will tell you about the mixer, the last 3 on kmixer
> > > are "Mix" IGAIN, OGain, be sure that the Mix slider 3rd slider
> > > from right is in the middle, the last 2 you can slide like 3/4 way
> > > up or to your liking.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 19 Apr 2036, Jaguar mewed:
> > > > Since most of my requests for help have thus far been ignored...a few
> > have
> > > > replied and I thank them for their input. ( I wonder if most people
have
> > > > consigned me to their email bitbucket???)
> > > > 
> > > > In NONE of the distro's that I have installed (RH5.0, Slackware, MDK
> > 6.0/7.02)
> > > > has the MIC worked.  I know the sound card works as I get the correct
> > sounds
> > > > during/after SNDCONFIG.  The MIC remains "red" in the Sound mixer. 
Is
> > there a
> > > > box I click to enable, or something in the sound setup?  My sound card
is
> > > > integrated (Cyrix 233 kit board) but recognised as SB compatible.  I
know
> > > > Linux doesn't like the DialPad.COM  web site, as I guess Linux
Nutscrape
> > is
> > > > not supported there.  As a side note...has anyone tried and was
> > successful
> > > > getting PHONEFREE.COM to work on MDK 7.02?
> > > > 
> > > > I have other problems also...but that can wait till I get this one
fixed.
> > > > 
> > > > TIA
> > > > Jaguar
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
> > http://webmail.netscape.com.
> > > -- 
> > > My new linux web server with Apache
> > > 
> > > http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
http://webmail.netscape.com.
> -- 
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> 
> http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com



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[newbie] Swap

[NightStalker]

Could someone post their mtab and fstab entries for their swap
partitions and/or any information that might help me get mine working in
7.0?

I've tried mounting that partition in a directory I created and got "fs
type swap not supported by kernal".  Am I missing a kernal module?

I tried to post a message here earlier but I don't think it posted, here
is the body again and excuse me if its a duplicate:



Hi,  I just installed Mandrake 7.0 and am having trouble with my
swapfile.  I know I specified it in the install, but now it's not set
up.

If I try to manually mount /dev/hda7, mount returns "mount point swap
does not exist".  Should I creat a directory /swap for this to mount
in?  If not, where?  Why wasn't this automatically done by the DrakX?

Also, my hard drive performance has diminished since installing 7.0. 
hdparm reports buffered disk reads <4 MB/s.  In 6.0 I think it was ~19
MB/s.  I have an WD 1366AA which is Ultra66.  I don't recall doing any
tweaking when I installed 6.0.


results from swapon -s:

FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority
/dev/hda7   partition   265032  0   -1


my fstab:

dev/hda7   swapswap 0 0


---

I'm sure this is something simple but I'm feeling stupid.  All other
distros I've installed set up the swap correctly so I never had to do
anything until now.

Thanks

[newbie] SB Live Configuration

[Brian Sieradzki]

I just installed Mandrake 7.02.  After a lot of
effort, everything works except my sound card.  When I
boot up it says "Can not locate module sound."  When I
run /usr/sbin/sndconfig it detects my SB Live but then
says "Module used for your sound card emu10k1.0 is not
in your module search path.  Please verify that your
kernel modules are configured correctly."  I've tried
using the RPM that Dell has, but that failed.  I then
tried downloading the driver from Creative Labs.  That
didn't work either.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brian Sieradzki
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Re: [newbie] Fatal Server Error

[NightStalker]

James wrote:
> 
> I am using Mandrake 6.1 and when I try to use "startx" it tries to start
> the X windows.. but crashes and gives me the message:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open mouse (no such device)
> 
> I have been using Xwindows just fine for the last few days.. suddenly it
> can't see the mouse?  What might be wrong?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> james


Have you looked in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, at the Pointer section
- It should look something like this:

Section "Pointer"
   Protocol"MouseManPlusPS/2"
   Device  "/dev/psaux"
   BaudRate1200
   ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection

Are your values still valid for your hardware?  (ZAxisMapping only if
wheel btw) Is your device still in the /dev directory?  Do you have a
mouse in console mode?

Running XF86Setup (as root) might help restore this file if you don't
want to do it manually.  Maybe make a backup (cp XF86Config
XF86Config.backup) too before doing anything.

[newbie] Where to buy a good scanner?

[hugh]

Hey does anyone have an opinion about where to buy a good scanner?
I just started looking and haven't seen much in the way of SCSI scanners

Any ideas would be welcome

Thanks

Hugh

Re: [Re: [newbie] Getting MIC to work in LM7.02]

[Vic]

Hmmm, just curious what kind of mic are you using?

I hope you get better gain in the future.

Glad to help a fellow linuxer when I can,
I do however tend to specialise in audio hehe.


On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, Jaguar mewed:
> Solved...thx Vic.
> I guess I didn't adjust the slides high enuff bfore.:)
> Although the MIC response is still low at FULL Gain, it is usable.
> 
> 
> Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just to let you know your not ignored here :)
> > 
> > Have you tested the mic with anything else and had it work?
> > 
> > If not, then bad mic.
> > 
> > If so, then I will tell you about the mixer, the last 3 on kmixer
> > are "Mix" IGAIN, OGain, be sure that the Mix slider 3rd slider
> > from right is in the middle, the last 2 you can slide like 3/4 way
> > up or to your liking.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 19 Apr 2036, Jaguar mewed:
> > > Since most of my requests for help have thus far been ignored...a few
> have
> > > replied and I thank them for their input. ( I wonder if most people have
> > > consigned me to their email bitbucket???)
> > > 
> > > In NONE of the distro's that I have installed (RH5.0, Slackware, MDK
> 6.0/7.02)
> > > has the MIC worked.  I know the sound card works as I get the correct
> sounds
> > > during/after SNDCONFIG.  The MIC remains "red" in the Sound mixer.  Is
> there a
> > > box I click to enable, or something in the sound setup?  My sound card is
> > > integrated (Cyrix 233 kit board) but recognised as SB compatible.  I know
> > > Linux doesn't like the DialPad.COM  web site, as I guess Linux Nutscrape
> is
> > > not supported there.  As a side note...has anyone tried and was
> successful
> > > getting PHONEFREE.COM to work on MDK 7.02?
> > > 
> > > I have other problems also...but that can wait till I get this one fixed.
> > > 
> > > TIA
> > > Jaguar
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
> http://webmail.netscape.com.
> > -- 
> > My new linux web server with Apache
> > 
> > http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com
> 
> 
> 
> Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at 
>http://webmail.netscape.com.
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[newbie] Fatal Server Error

[James]

I am using Mandrake 6.1 and when I try to use "startx" it tries to start
the X windows.. but crashes and gives me the message:

Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (no such device)

I have been using Xwindows just fine for the last few days.. suddenly it
can't see the mouse?  What might be wrong?

Thanks.

james

[newbie] where's the apache logo

[KompuKit]

anyone know where the apache logo...is,
and why it doesn't show up...when 
viewing, say, a persons' download index...etc..
like I see it...on most sites?

also, how can I chmod a dir...while in 
user mode...not root.
and have it chmod the dir recursivly
I want to make it viewable..some files aren't,
as they are owned by root...for some reason...
I think it's because...I changed a few things...while in
root...
then went back...as user...
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Re: RE : LICQ on Mandrake v7.0 CD ... was Re: [newbie] umm qt 2.0.2

[Vic]

many thanx

oops, I think I did that backwards


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Enterprise2001 mewed:
> You're welcome
> 
> "Knowledge is Power"
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Note: remove "NOSPAM" to email me.
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:59 AM
> Subject: Re: RE : LICQ on Mandrake v7.0 CD ... was Re: [newbie] umm qt 2.0.2
> 
> 
> > Yep I just got setup with them and I'm gonna mail them a check
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Enterprise2001 mewed:
> > > http://www.names4ever.com allows you to send them a check via snail
> mail.
> > >
> > > "Knowledge is Power"
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Note: remove "NOSPAM" to email me.
> > >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 7:09 AM
> > > Subject: Re: RE : LICQ on Mandrake v7.0 CD ... was Re: [newbie] umm qt
> 2.0.2
> > >
> > >
> > > > We are in the same boat.
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking for a way to setup Apache because as soon as I find
> > > > a domain name register thingy that is not narrow minded as
> > > > register.com the bastards only take credit cards how the hell
> > > > can someone like me who don't use stupid credit cards get his
> > > > domain name registered?
> > > >
> > > > Then I can start with Apache, and maybe get someting done
> > > > and l can elp yo with what I know
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, KompuKit mewed:
> > > > > your welcome...now I wish SOMEONE would be just as quick
> > > > > in helping me setup apache...
> > > > >
> > > > > bosco wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I just installed it and it ran like a charm.. Thanks..
> > > > > >
> > > > > > constantly improvingly yours,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > bosco().
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > KompuKit wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > yeah...it's on the CD...I just checked...I have 7.0 also...
> > > > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > 
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >
> > > > > ICQ# 7110071
> > > > >
> > > > > HomePage:
> > > > > http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg
> > > > >
> > > > > Personal WebServer:
> > > > > http://kompukit.myip.org
> > > > >
> > > > > (does not run 24/7)
> > > > > 
> > >
> > >
> > > __
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> > > http://im.yahoo.com
> 
> 
> __
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> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
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Re: [newbie] XF86Setup and my mouse

[Vic]

Might want to check the file permissions of 
the config files, if you have not done so already?

Just my guess so far, other's input on this?



On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, bosco mewed:
> Greetings all,
> 
> I have this rather annoying problem.. When I start KDE or XF86Setup for
> that matter my mouse doesn't work. But, when I switch it to Intellimouse
> and hit apply ( rather hit "a" ) it starts working.. So then I exit and
> save the configuration.. Then when I run KDE or X86Setup again it isn't
> working.. So what I've been doing is starting KDE and then running
> XF86Setup in a konsole to get the mouse working for that session.
> 
> I've done this as root and as a user and no luck in getting the
> configuration to "stick"!
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> bosco().
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[newbie] Dual boot with Windows 2000

[Ron Burns]

How can this be done? I have tried Linux as the 
first installed OS and then tried Win 2k
and then I tried the reverse. I cannot get 
Lilo to function (install). This was not a problem 
with '98 and worked well. Any help would be 
appreciated. BTW...my drive is formated
fat 32 at this point. Previously, it was fat32 and 
I allowed Mandrake to do the rest.
 
Thanks Ron

Re: [newbie] Mandrake CRASH!!

[nodyak0]

Thank you very much ALAN for at least reading my posts.  I know about the
upper and lower case on that, did it to show I was on the Windows side
from Linux.  I have an 'Icon' on my desktop for accessing the DOS side
that was setup by Linux, if I remember correctly.  

Phewy, I have never had to read sooo many messages on any of these NEWBY
sites before, the first time I down loaded 74 messages and when I had
answered some and read all and did the reposting, I downloaded 51
messages, now how many am I to receive now?   Yes that is a long
sentence, wanted to make the point that there are a large number of
people answering these messages.  This is really GREAT, maybe I will
learn something from all of this.  

Again Al thanks,

don

I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:33:43 -0800 Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> donI believe that if you change the mount point directory
> (/mnt/DOS_hda1) to one without uppercase characters in it
> (/mnt/dos_hda1) then the hang will no longer occur.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > Was in as 'root' attempting to setup my 'wheel mouse' as had been
> > explained earlier.  Well my window to 'DOS_hda1' stopped 
> responding and
> > when I attempted to 'xkill', NOTHING, NO response from the KYBD 
> nor when
> > I clicked on the 'Icon' for 'xkill'.  So I did the 'X' to close 
> down and
> > then it completely froze.  Had to use the CPU tower RESET, in 
> Windows now
> > so I could send this out to you.
> > 
> > Will go back in as 'root' later, have to work on supper at this 
> time.
> > 
> > I am not looking for any assistance at this time, just letting 
> people
> > know that Linux/Mandrake Complete 7.0 will HANG as well for no 
> apparent
> > reason.
> > 
> > 'C' ya' later,
> > 
> > don
> > 
> > I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
> > But now I know that what I thought I knew
> > Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
> > 
> > 
> > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET!
> > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access!
> > Try it today - there's no risk!  For your FREE software, visit:
> > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
> 


YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET!
Juno now offers FREE Internet Access!
Try it today - there's no risk!  For your FREE software, visit:
http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

[newbie] A BIG THANKS.......

[nodyak0]

I would like to forward to all that are concerned about assisting others
and have the patients to do the same..A BIG THANKS... and would
do more than that but not enough time to do it up the way I would like.  

So this will have to do for now...A BIG THANKS...

don

I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.


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Juno now offers FREE Internet Access!
Try it today - there's no risk!  For your FREE software, visit:
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Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)

[Wayne Petherick]

If you are using nortons it will dump your infrequently used
files at the end which will give your partioning software the impression
your drive is full.  Try either telling it to place all files at the
beginning (or alternatively, none at the end) or remove it and then run
normal defrag which is a little more time consuming.  It thinks it
is doing you a favour by doing this but it is a pain in the ass.

Wayne

At 09:02 PM 3/14/00 -0400, you wrote: 
1) are you using Norton
2000, dumps stuff at far end of drive
2)run defragment and try again?
 
"Weave a circle round him thrice,
  And close your eyes with holy dread,
  For he on honeydew hath fed,
  And drunk the milk of paradise."  (The linux
user)

- Original Message - 
From:
Enterprise2001 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)


You probably have all of your drive partitioned already. (This is always the default if you don't do the partitioning yourself)  Get a non destructive reparation tool (Partition Magic) and try that.
 
"Knowledge is Power"
 
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Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 8:16 PM
Subject: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)


Hey Everyone,
    I keep trying to partition my hard drive so I can use Linux, but when I do so, it says that the last cylinder of my drive is full. So it thinks my entire drive is filled up, which it isn't. I have a 27.3 GB Hard Drive which I've maybe used 5 GB of. It's definitely not full! I need help!!! PLEASE!
 
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Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)

[nodyak0]

Linux/Mandrake 7.0 comes with Power Quest Partition Magic and Power Quest
Boot Magic as well.  I cannot say enough good things about Partition
Magic, it performed flawlessly but I had some trouble with Boot Magic. 
That could be my problem.  DO RECOMEND the Partition Magic though for
repartitioning for a DUAL boot system with WINDOWS 98 as the other
system.  I did several different installs to see which one would work the
best for what I wanted.  Lnx4Win, LiLo, BTMagic, etcetera and found
'lilo' to install and run faster than the others and was easier to setup
and use. 

Thank You for reading my ramblings,

don

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But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:58:03 -0500 "Enterprise2001"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You probably have all of your drive partitioned already. (This is 
> always the default if you don't do the partitioning yourself)  Get a 
> non destructive reparation tool (Partition Magic) and try that.
> 
> "Knowledge is Power"
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 
>   - Original Message - 
>   From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn 
>   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>   Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 8:16 PM
>   Subject: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)
> 
> 
>   Hey Everyone,
>   I keep trying to partition my hard drive so I can use Linux, 
> but when I do so, it says that the last cylinder of my drive is 
> full. So it thinks my entire drive is filled up, which it isn't. I 
> have a 27.3 GB Hard Drive which I've maybe used 5 GB of. It's 
> definitely not full! I need help!!! PLEASE!
> 
>   -Kyle "Orange" Spahn
>   Freespace 2 Coordinator
>   Lead Reviewer
>   Descent Chronicles - http://descent.gamestats.com
> 
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[newbie] Xscreensaver & Root

[Lane Lester]

I want to run Xscreensaver when I'm logged on as root, and it refuses to do
so. It works OK when I'm logged on as a user. According to the man page,
there's a way around this, but the assumption is that I'm running xdm. That
made me realize that I don't know which ?dm is running, x, g, or k! I did a
just-about-everything install of Mandrake 7.0.2 with an automatic startup
of X. Can you tell me which ?dm I'm running?
-- 
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Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] TCP/IP with PPP using a serial connection.

[nodyak0]

I am not sure about the software, but about the cable, insure you are
using a NULL modem cable.  That is where the output of one system is
connected to the input of the other system.

don

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But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:48:01 -0500 "Phil Lamey"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>   
>   I think in order to get help I need to better explain what 
> I'm
> trying to do.
>   
>   I am trying to establish a PPP between two linux boxes using 
> a the
> parallel ports of the boxes and a simple cable connection.
>   I have to PPP-Howto.
>   After this is done how do I set TCP/IP as the protocol.
> 
> Can anyone please help me with this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil Lamey
> 


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Re: [newbie] installation problems- Adaptec SCSI card

[nodyak0]

Linux/Mandrake 7.0 said to 'DISABLE' PNP in the CMOS before installing
the system.

don

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Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:18:20 -0500 "Michael Wagg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 using a SCSI CD-ROM drive 
> with an
> Adaptec AHA-1520b host adapter (Ali Aladdin V chipset), but I'm 
> unable to
> have the installer recognize my SCSI card.  I realize that such ISA 
> Plug 'N
> Play cards can be problematic, but am having no luck in disabling 
> the cards
> Plug 'N Play settings or modifying my CMOS setup.  I know this 
> family of
> cards is supported by the software, but how can I get it to 
> recognize my
> adapter?
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Re: [Re: [newbie] Getting MIC to work in LM7.02]

[Jaguar]

Solved...thx Vic.
I guess I didn't adjust the slides high enuff bfore.:)
Although the MIC response is still low at FULL Gain, it is usable.


Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to let you know your not ignored here :)
> 
> Have you tested the mic with anything else and had it work?
> 
> If not, then bad mic.
> 
> If so, then I will tell you about the mixer, the last 3 on kmixer
> are "Mix" IGAIN, OGain, be sure that the Mix slider 3rd slider
> from right is in the middle, the last 2 you can slide like 3/4 way
> up or to your liking.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2036, Jaguar mewed:
> > Since most of my requests for help have thus far been ignored...a few
have
> > replied and I thank them for their input. ( I wonder if most people have
> > consigned me to their email bitbucket???)
> > 
> > In NONE of the distro's that I have installed (RH5.0, Slackware, MDK
6.0/7.02)
> > has the MIC worked.  I know the sound card works as I get the correct
sounds
> > during/after SNDCONFIG.  The MIC remains "red" in the Sound mixer.  Is
there a
> > box I click to enable, or something in the sound setup?  My sound card is
> > integrated (Cyrix 233 kit board) but recognised as SB compatible.  I know
> > Linux doesn't like the DialPad.COM  web site, as I guess Linux Nutscrape
is
> > not supported there.  As a side note...has anyone tried and was
successful
> > getting PHONEFREE.COM to work on MDK 7.02?
> > 
> > I have other problems also...but that can wait till I get this one fixed.
> > 
> > TIA
> > Jaguar
> > 
> > 
> > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
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Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)

[Tony]

1) are you using Norton 2000, dumps stuff at far end of 
drive
2)run defragment and try again?
 
"Weave a circle round him thrice,  And close your eyes with holy 
dread,  For he on honeydew hath fed,  And drunk the milk of 
paradise."  (The linux user)

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Enterprise2001 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 5:58 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? 
  (please respond this time)
  
  You probably have all of your drive partitioned 
  already. (This is always the default if you don't do the partitioning 
  yourself)  Get a non destructive reparation tool (Partition Magic) and 
  try that.
   
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 8:16 
PM
Subject: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please 
respond this time)

Hey Everyone,
    I keep trying to partition 
my hard drive so I can use Linux, but when I do so, it says that the last 
cylinder of my drive is full. So it thinks my entire drive is filled up, 
which it isn't. I have a 27.3 GB Hard Drive which I've maybe used 5 GB of. 
It's definitely not full! I need help!!! PLEASE!
 
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Re: [newbie] LDAP

[Dan Ferris]

Joel West wrote:
> 
> PLease pardon my ignorance but :
> 
> What is LDAP?
> 
> Why would I use LDAP?
> 
> How do I use LDAP?

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.  

As I recall...I think its to help integrate UNIX stuff with a
Netware 4.1+ directory tree.  But I could be wrong...look it up
on the pcwebopedia.  http://www.pcwebopedia.com

Dan
-- 
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free variable."

Re: [newbie] Mandrake CRASH!!

[Alan Shoemaker]

donI believe that if you change the mount point directory
(/mnt/DOS_hda1) to one without uppercase characters in it
(/mnt/dos_hda1) then the hang will no longer occur.

Alan


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Was in as 'root' attempting to setup my 'wheel mouse' as had been
> explained earlier.  Well my window to 'DOS_hda1' stopped responding and
> when I attempted to 'xkill', NOTHING, NO response from the KYBD nor when
> I clicked on the 'Icon' for 'xkill'.  So I did the 'X' to close down and
> then it completely froze.  Had to use the CPU tower RESET, in Windows now
> so I could send this out to you.
> 
> Will go back in as 'root' later, have to work on supper at this time.
> 
> I am not looking for any assistance at this time, just letting people
> know that Linux/Mandrake Complete 7.0 will HANG as well for no apparent
> reason.
> 
> 'C' ya' later,
> 
> don
> 
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> But now I know that what I thought I knew
> Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
> 
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Re: [newbie] Install hangs in "second stage install"

[Alan Shoemaker]

Chrisif your bios supports scsi booting it'll have an entry
in the part of the cmos set-up where you set what device to boot
the system.  But your scsi card has to have a bios that allows
for booting too.

Alan


"J. Hartzelbuck" wrote:
> 
> David Novick wrote:
> 
> > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > >
> > > Chrisit sounds like a problem I had with one machine i was
> > > trying to install mdk 7.0 on.  I swapped out the cdrom drive in
> > > that computer with another drive and that solved the problem.
> > >
> >
> > similar problem with similar solution.
> 
> Thanks very much. I was afraid of something like that!
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to boot from a SCSI CD-ROM? I have a
> SCSI burner that might work better, but I'm not sure how to get it to be
> 
> recognized by the BIOS.
> >
> > If you check the different screens when installing, you
> > can get some more information (ctrl-alt-F3 and ctrl-alt-F4)
> > and see what's going on.
> >
> Upon clicking ctrl-alt F3 I get:
>  * not found
> 
>  * Databook TCIC-2 probe:
>  * not found
> then on line 19 I get:
>  * symlink /tmp/stage2 failed
> 
> Upon clicking ctrl-alt F4 I get:
> on line 18:
>  <4> ATAPI device hdd:
>  <4> Error:unit Attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
>  <4>Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred -- (asc=0x29,
> ascq=0x00)
> 
> Does this help anyone figure out if there is any way short of a new
> drive?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Chris

[newbie] 3com NIC install and then xDSL setup

[Zachariah Heyer]

Hello,

Any help on this would be greatly apprecitated (I will gladly return help 
on micro$ucks OSes - or if anyone wants some curtis mayfield mp3s - that 
could be aranged).

I have want to set up internet access to my linux PC.  I would like a walk 
through from start to finish and I will provide many details.  Hopefully 
there is someone you guys know who has set up a PC with this NIC on USWest 
DSL through a Cisco675.  If not maybe I can piece this all together.

I have a 3Com Etherlink 10 PCI TPO NIC (3C900B-TPO) and have Mandrake 7.0 
installed.  I downloaded the 3Com driver from 3com at 
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linuxdownloading.htm
and read all about the installation in the readme and install files, and at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
but,
I get to where I think I know what to do , but then can't find "gcc" in 
order to compile the driver into my kernel (hope fully that makes sense).

So - since I have gotten to an impass, I would like some one to maybe start 
at the beginning with me and make sure I've done everything fine.

Feel free to email me - or - if you have a nice step by step, then for sure 
you should post it here for all the nice folks

-Zachariah

[newbie] Re: need counter...for apache

[James]

Try this page:

http://www.analog.cx/
Analog

or

http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
Webalizer

james

[newbie] Mandrake CRASH!!

[nodyak0]

Was in as 'root' attempting to setup my 'wheel mouse' as had been
explained earlier.  Well my window to 'DOS_hda1' stopped responding and
when I attempted to 'xkill', NOTHING, NO response from the KYBD nor when
I clicked on the 'Icon' for 'xkill'.  So I did the 'X' to close down and
then it completely froze.  Had to use the CPU tower RESET, in Windows now
so I could send this out to you.

Will go back in as 'root' later, have to work on supper at this time.

I am not looking for any assistance at this time, just letting people
know that Linux/Mandrake Complete 7.0 will HANG as well for no apparent
reason.

'C' ya' later,

don

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[newbie] need counter...for apache

[KompuKit]

anyone know what I can do for a counter...
for Apache...I need one for my site?
one that can be used inside apache...for my site,
and whoever else I may host...
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Re: [newbie] Install hangs in "second stage install"

[J. Hartzelbuck]

David Novick wrote:

> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > Chrisit sounds like a problem I had with one machine i was
> > trying to install mdk 7.0 on.  I swapped out the cdrom drive in
> > that computer with another drive and that solved the problem.
> >
>
> similar problem with similar solution.

Thanks very much. I was afraid of something like that!

Does anyone know if it is possible to boot from a SCSI CD-ROM? I have a
SCSI burner that might work better, but I'm not sure how to get it to be

recognized by the BIOS.
>
> If you check the different screens when installing, you
> can get some more information (ctrl-alt-F3 and ctrl-alt-F4)
> and see what's going on.
>
Upon clicking ctrl-alt F3 I get:
 * not found

 * Databook TCIC-2 probe:
 * not found
then on line 19 I get:
 * symlink /tmp/stage2 failed

Upon clicking ctrl-alt F4 I get:
on line 18:
 <4> ATAPI device hdd:
 <4> Error:unit Attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
 <4>Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred -- (asc=0x29,
ascq=0x00)

Does this help anyone figure out if there is any way short of a new
drive?

Thanks!

-- Chris

Re: [newbie] Error on rpm -e

[flupke]

Wayne wrote:

> All,
> When I try to uninstall any RPM packages I have on my machine I get a "XXX
> package not installed".  Is this typical?  DO you have to run the uninstall
> from the directory where the package is installed?

It must be because you don't provide the right package name to rpm :
If you install xmms, you'll type : rpm -Uvh xmms-0.9.5.1-7mdk.rpm, but this is
the name of the FILE containing the package. The package name itself is :
xmms-0.9.5.1-7mdk.

If you want to uninstall this package, just typing 'rpm -ev xmms' is enough.
(But you can also type xmms-0.9.5.1 or xmms-0.9.5.1-7mdk) But anyway, the
".rpm" is NOT part of the package name.

For further details, take a look at "maximum rpm" available at
http://www.rpm.org

HTH
Flupke


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Re: [newbie] Error on rpm -e

[Alex V Flinsch]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> All,
> When I try to uninstall any RPM packages I have on my machine I get a "XXX
> package not installed".  Is this typical?  DO you have to run the uninstall
> from the directory where the package is installed?

You do not have to uninstall from the same directory, but you do have to do it
as root.

Did you install the packages from a binary rpm?

What kind of messages does "rpm -qa"  return, it should list all of the
packages that you have installed.

Is it possible that you clobbered some of the files in  /var/lib/rpm/  ?
 

> Wayne
> 
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Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]

[Enterprise2001]

the append=mem=XXX has to be under the configuration for the Linux kernel
image.
and don't forget to run

lilo -v

after altering lilo.conf

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From: Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]


> When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram.
When
> I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append
section),
> it only boots with 65M.  Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a
way
> aroudn this/
>
> Wayne
>
> PS:  it worked first time last time!
>
>
>
>  On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote:
> > Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > All,
> > > after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had
to
> > > reinstall Mdk 7.  I have forgotten the command you add to append
section of
> > > your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM.
ANy
> > help?
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > ==
> > If it's necessary, add
> > append="mem=128M"
> >
> > You might want to try booting first with
> > linux mem=128
> > to be certain that it will work with that number.
> > HTH, Mike
> >
> > "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
> > -Benjamin Frankilin
> >
> > 
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[newbie] Error on rpm -e

[Wayne]

All,
When I try to uninstall any RPM packages I have on my machine I get a "XXX
package not installed".  Is this typical?  DO you have to run the uninstall
from the directory where the package is installed?

Wayne

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[newbie] pc solutions-mounting CDRW device

[mikepolniak]

In order to get supermount to open my CDRW I had to
edit the fstab file so the
line for this device ends with dev=/dev/scd0. Because
lilo.conf appends
"hdc=ide-scsi" the CDRW has to be accessed as a scsi
device.







On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I am having the same problem with the cd roms. Exept
that I have one CDRW 
> and a regular cd rom. I installed from the CDRW. The
kicker is that when I 
> try to access either one of them, the system
complaints that it cannot list 
> the drive's contents. If I however install the OS
with a single CD drive 
> configuration, I don't have that problem. But I want
both. How can I get 
> this to work? Help Please??
> 
> Send your reply to:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Ramon E. Tristani
> 
> >From: Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Problems
> >Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:58:05 +1100
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >   I just installed Mandrake 7.0 a
few hours ago by using
> >my cdrom to boot the
> >   installation up.
> >
> >   When I try to access any of my
cds in the /mnt/cdrom,
> >it says it can't read the
> >   disk.
> >   I set the thing up properly & in
the control panel it
> >says it's there, but won't
> >   read any of the disks, not even
the cd I installed
> >Mandrake from!
> >   My floppy drive isn't working
either.
> >
> >   Please help, I love this O/S so
far.
> >
> >   Best Regards,
> >   Jack
> >
> 
>
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Re: [newbie] (OT) I wonder ...

[Enterprise2001]

Actually, It says

www.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000


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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 12:26 PM
Subject: [newbie] (OT) I wonder ...


> ... which OS runs Microsoft's servers:
>
>
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.microsoft.com&Examine=Wait..
>
> Sorry, couldn't determine what the server was for host
> www.microsoft.com on port 80.
>
> Tried some other big sites - nobody hides the OS they're running. Just MS.
> Makes you think...
>
> Nevermind
>
> tom
>
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Re: [newbie] Compiling the Kernel

[Enterprise2001]

did you do

lilo -v

?

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Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 12:29 AM
Subject: [newbie] Compiling the Kernel


> Hey there, I'm having trouble compiling the kernel and I'm wondering if
> anybody can give me some input. Ok, here what I've done let me start by
> saying I'm running mandrake 6.1, and I'm trying to install linux kernel
> 2.2.14.
>
> I've managed to compile the kernel correctly (make mrproper;make
> menuconfig make bzImage;make dep;make modules;make modules_installs), then
> I managed to copy bzImage to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.14 and linked vmlinuz
 soft
> link ), then I updated lilo by adding a "test" addition to lilo with my
new
> kernel.
>
> I did all that but when I rebooted I get messages like System.map has
> incorrect kernel version, and Modules-info.map incorrect kernel version.
So
> I think I have to update System.map and Modueles-info.map, but I have no
> idea how to do that the HOWTO's don't have anything about that in their,
> any ideas's.
>


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[newbie] modem problems under 6.1

[dubydawg none]

I am using a newcom 33.6ifxc modem, I set up the ppp connection and when I 
try to connect says modem is busy. Is my modem just not compatible under 
this software or do I need to edit a configuration file?
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Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)

[Enterprise2001]

You probably have all of your drive partitioned 
already. (This is always the default if you don't do the partitioning 
yourself)  Get a non destructive reparation tool (Partition Magic) and try 
that.
 
"Knowledge is Power"
 
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  From: 
  Kyle "Orange" 
  Spahn 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 8:16 
PM
  Subject: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please 
  respond this time)
  
  Hey Everyone,
      I keep trying to partition my 
  hard drive so I can use Linux, but when I do so, it says that the last 
  cylinder of my drive is full. So it thinks my entire drive is filled up, which 
  it isn't. I have a 27.3 GB Hard Drive which I've maybe used 5 GB of. It's 
  definitely not full! I need help!!! PLEASE!
   
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Re: [newbie] LILO and timeout/delay

[Enterprise2001]

Yeah, that should do it.

"Knowledge is Power"

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- Original Message -
From: bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO and timeout/delay


>
> So just put "prompt" like on the line before delay?
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> bosco().
>
>
>
>
> Enterprise2001 wrote:
>
> > You have to put
> >
> > prompt
> >
> > in the lilo.conf file as well or the delay will be ignored
> >
> > "Knowledge is Power"
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Note: remove "NOSPAM" to email me.
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 8:41 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] LILO and timeout/delay
> >
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > Here's an interesting one for you.. I needed to try that mem= b/c
I
> > > was running with only 65 when really i have 192.. So here's the deal..
> > > I run Linux on my second hard drive and consequently have LILO on that
> > > drive..
> > >
> > > Well I use Bootmagic to choose between Linux and Windows.. When I boot
> > > to Linux it then boots LILO and goes straight to kernel loading.. I
had
> > > once before been able to add the command to make it wait but was
unable
> > > to recently..
> > >
> > > I read in the Lilo manual it was delay=... then I saw in someone
> > > else's lilo.conf they had timeout=xxx... either way neither one of
them
> > > worked.. But, I added mem=192M to the append line ( after I had tested
> > > it of course ) and that gets recognized?!?! Any ideas? Is LILO being
> > > selective in what it accepts from me.. LOL..
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > bosco().
> > >
> > >
> > > ( at any rate all is well and working like I wanted, but I was
> > > nonetlheless still curious.. )
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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[newbie] Atalk with Mandrake 7

[David O]

I would very much appreciate help getting netatalk to work with Mandrake 7.  I have 
intalled from the ISO CD image.  Unfortunately, that CD does not contain a version of 
netatalk.  I therefore downloaded and installed the RPM package listed in the Mandrake 
WWW site.  

The package appears to install and run correctly.  In fact, one can see the Mandrake 
machine as an AppleShare server from my Macintosh's Chooser.  Unfortunately, I cannot 
succeed in logging into it, no matter what username and password I try.  (I *can* 
successfully connect as Guest if I enable a guest directory.)

It seems as though the problem must be a disconnect between the way Mandrake and 
netatalk are treating passwords, probably to do with the "shadow" password system.  I 
would very much appreciate help curing this problem.

Best wishes,
David
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[newbie] Netware in Mandrake 7

[Lane Lester]

I want to hook my Mandrake box to the Netware server at work. Someone
directed me to Caldera for Netware stuff, and I found some instructions at
mandrakeuser.org. But it's for 6.1, and I'm hoping that Mandrake has
advanced beyond needing to rely on Caldera for support.

Is anyone using Mandrake 7 on a Netware LAN? If I got the two systems
connected, how would I know it? What do you put in fstab for a network
drive? Etc. etc.?
-- 
Lane

Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
 
Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] First...apologies

[Vic]

For 128 Megs of ram, for example


image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="mem=128M"
read-only


..







On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Wayne mewed:
> All,
> after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had to
> reinstall Mdk 7.  I have forgotten the command you add to append section of
> your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM.  ANy help?
> 
> Wayne
>  
> ***
> ***
> Wayne Petherick
> Criminology Department
> Humanities and Social Sciences
> Bond University
> Gold Coast, Australia
> ***
> ***
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Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

[Vidyut Luther]

in other words.. two wrongs don't make a right.
- Original Message -
From: "Tony Alfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???


> Sir, the issue is one of tact.  One thing that it took me many years to
learn
> is that, no matter how correct I might be, no one will "hear" me while I
am
> on a rage.  An insult does not teach or instruct, it not only turns off
> your intended audience, it turns off potential allies.  A useful technique
might be
> to imagine yourself in the position of your intended audience, and read
your
> e-mail as if you were the recipient.  There are effective and ineffective
ways
> to tell someone about the use of manuals or the use of a subject line.
May I
> suggest that the negative response you've received from others on the list
> could be used as an indicator that your effectiveness could be improved.
>
>
>
> --
> Tony Alfrey
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "I'd rather be sailing"
>

Re: [newbie] startup scripts

[Dan Ferris]

Ed Negari wrote:
> 
> Which login script displays the /etc/motd and says "You have mail"? I
> checked the /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc (and the rest of the /etc
> directory) but can't seem to find it.
> 
> -Ed

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

It rewrites motd every time you reboot.  

Dan

[newbie] Linux Routing

[Phil Lamey]

Title: Linux Routing





Hi all,
    
    Can anyone please tell me if Linux supports tcp/ip routing?


Thanks,


Phil Lamey

Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

[nodyak0]

ENOUGH, please use your good sense of HELP for us NEWBIES and just ignore
these that think they have to FLAME others or be FLAMED themselves.  Our
analysis of them is irrelevant and unnecessary.  Pass over their FLAMES
and go on with your lives and ours.  I know it is a little difficult at
times, to ignore, but give us, as NEWBIES, a big BREAK.  We can over look
this type and find what we are looking for to go on.

I would like to thank ALL that are here to assist us with our learning
problems and our attempts to get a leg up on Linux/, what ever
the type of OS you are working with.  I do think that Mandrake is the
most forgiving and the easiest to learn and use for US Newbies.  I am so
new I have NEWBY, NEWBY, NEWBY in front of my access.  

Now I have a question, what is required to correct the problem with the
nfslock FAILURE when booting up/w an error code of 101 showing as well? 
I had a problem the other day that my system locked up and would not
recognize my KBD nor would the mouse assist in any way.  The only
solution was to use the RESET button on the front of the TOWER.  Now I
have this prob/w the nfslock and even linuxconf --status and linuxconf
--update will not correct nor even assist in HOW to correct this PROB.

Any ideas?

don

I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 06:29:58 -0500 "Joseph S. Gardner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rial Juan wrote:
> 
> > Kiddo,
> >
> > before you even start THINKING about running linux, you must be 
> well aware that
> > it's a pretty hard OS to master for those with absolutely no 
> technical
> > background. Linux is an operating system that tries to hide 
> nothing for the
> > user, unlike MS Windows. If you have no basic understanding of how 
> a computer
> > works, and I don't mean knowing your way around in WordPerfect or 
> something like
> > that, I mean: how a computer works internally, well, if you don't 
> have a basic
> > understanding about that, then linux is not for you. Also, what's 
> that stupid
> > remark about "too much technical jargon" anyway? This is a 
> hacker's OS, what did
> > you expect? If it's too technical for you, well... Nobody forces 
> you to run it.
> >
> > What pisses me off the most is people who don't even know how to 
> upgrade their
> > graphics card, insist on running linux because they heard some 
> hype about it,
> > and then get all frustrated when it's not as easy as baking an 
> egg.
> >
> > Also, nobody cares to read manuals anymore. Everybody on this list 
> claims to
> > have read all the apropriate manuals/docs, but found nothing, so 
> they ask here.
> > And then they expect us "guru's" to solve their problems. 
> Meanwhile the thing
> > they're asking is usually explained in detail somewhere between 
> the second and
> > seventh paragraph in the man-page of the program that's causing 
> them trouble.
> > But that means they have to type in "man rpm" or something, and 
> that's too
> > hard. I wonder what the heck makes people decide to run linux 
> anyway, if reading
> > some documentation is too hard, or too much to ask?
> >
> > I for one don't even bother answering questions to which the 
> answers are
> > trivial, or easy to look up. I have enough work looking up the 
> solutions to my
> > own problems.
> >
> > Kit: "noone wants to help..." Now let's say you sell your car. 
> Someone comes
> > over and buys it. Then a week later he's at your door again. "How 
> do I shift up
> > or down?" --> "Manual page 15 and where the heck did you get your 
> driver's
> > license?" Then 3 days later he comes back "And how about reverse, 
> does my car
> > have one?" --> "Still manual page 15, and of course it has one, 
> you moron!" Then
> > 4 days later he comes back "How do I turn on the radio?" --> 
> "Explained on page
> > 4 in the radio manual. Never seen an on/off swicth before?" Then a 
> few days
> > later "I heard rumours that you can slide the seat to the front or 
> back so you
> > can reach the pedals better. Is that true? Is it worth the effort? 
> Won't it
> > degrade the lateral tire-pressure? My feet won't get stuck in the 
> engine, will
> > they?"
> >
> > I think you'd grabbed a big gun by the third time the dude comes 
> over, shot the
> > bastard trough the head, hid the body, and sold the car again. 
> This time to
> > someone with an IQ higher than that of a carrot.
> >
> > On Mar 13 Kit wrote:
> >
> > > BOY, I agree...with you BIGTIME...noone wants to help...they 
> just
> > > want to
> > > tell you to go somewhere and read...well, thats what I've been
> > > doing...and doing
> > > and doing...but it still does no good...most all tutorials are
> > > very poorly written.
> > > they use too much technical jargon...they don't remember that
> > > HELP means you must
> > > help them on the persons level of understanding...if they had
> > > technical knowlegdge,
> > > they wouldn'

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer7 Beta with plugins is here!!!

[mike]

 I could not get RealPlayer G2 streaming untill I added the %s to the executable
/realplay %s. There is a good explanation of the suffixes to be added at
Linuxnewbie.org, click on RealPlayerG2. Mike.


>.On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Dear
friends:
> The new RealPlayer7 Beta is here with all the plugins is here.
> 
> Warning: There are two versions, an rpm for RedHat ALONE (it WON'T work
> on Mandrake 7) and one for the rest of us. It looks great.
> 
> The address for us Mandrake folks is:
> 
> http://proforma.real.com/real/player/linuxplayer.html
> 
> Read the installation instructions on the download page (at the bottom
> of the page) and for "Directory" during installation choose your
> /home/user directory. I guessed wrong, but it doesn't matter.
> RealPlayer7 automatically creates a "RealPlayer7" subfolder on
> /home/user. You play RealPlayer7 by cd to the subfolder "RealPlayer7"
> and then typing ./realplay. You can also, of course, create a link on
> your Desktop with precisely this command for the executable.
> 
> 1) MY BIG QUESTION:  How do you configure the new RealPlayer7 in
> Netscape under Applications to play RealPlayer. I typed
> "home/sher/RealPlayer7/./realplayer" or the same without the ./  
> 
> In either case, when clicking on a RealPlayer site, it launched
> Realplayer7 but played nothing except its usual little jingle. By the
> way, I did completely delete (rpm -e) the old RealPlayer G2 Alpha.
> 
> 2) Second big question: For the suffixes in Netscape should you add ram
> AND rpm to the RealAudio entry? So should the suffixes read:
> ra,ram,rm,rpm? And perhaps some other suffixes for other plugins? 
> 
> Please advise. We are all waiting with baited breath.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Benjamin
> -- 
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net

Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

[Vidyut Luther]

it's not what you said, it's how you said it.


- Original Message -
From: "Rial Juan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???


>
> Just 2 things:
>
> a) The only point I'm trying to get accross is to try and help yourself
before
>asking others to solve your problems for you. That means: read the
>manual. It's written on purpose, you know?
>
> b) Read the original post on which mine was a reply. If he calls us dumb
because
>we didn't answer his questions, is it then so bad when I say he makes a
>pretty stupid remark by saying noone wants to help?
>
> For some reason whenever I open my mouth to correct someone, everybody
starts
> flaming me. What the heck is wrong with telling people to try and solve
their
> own problems before they ask for help? What the heck is wrong with stating
that
> administrating linux is _NOT_ for people with no technical background
> whatsoever?
>
> But then again, for some reason my opinion is not the most popular in
> teletubbie-land, so I get all the flames and insults. When I help somebody
out
> on the list or in private, nobody seems to notice, but when I tell someone
to
> read the manual before asking for help, or to use to-the-point subject
lines
> instead of "HELP", or to stop flooding the list with complete offtopic BS,
I'm
> the great nazi-enemy. Well, good. I'll be your nazi-enemy for you to step
on.
> Hope it makes you all feel so much wiser and tougher.
>
>
> On Mar 14 bluebottle wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > > Mr. Rial Juan,
> > >
> > > I can only say that thank God I entered the world of linux before you
started
> > > spewing forth your rhetoric otherwise I would never have become as
excited about the
> > > challenges of learning linux.  It's a shame that you have forgotten
the help and
> > > assistance you no doubt received when you first started.
> > >
> > > To the original poster, please accept our appologies as this is in no
way an example
> > > of the fine help you'll usually find here.  If you're unwilling to
post again
> > > please, feel free to contact me privately and I'll do the best I can
(I'm no expert
> > > but I manage).
> > >
> > > Mr. Rial Juan, welcome to my trash filter.
> >
> > > Joseph S. Gardner
> >
> > Well said, Joseph. If linux is going to reach the wider market we don't
need
> > people like him pontificating to someone who is just starting. Some of
us, me
> > included, will never be experts but we can still achieve a lot with the
system.
> > It's also very nice to repay the help received when we first started.
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> Rial Juan
> e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533
> ulyssis system admininstrator   
>
> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly.
> That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee...
>
> 
>
> Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html
> Help bring us more Linux Drivers
>
>
>
>

[newbie] LDAP

[Joel West]

PLease pardon my ignorance but :

What is LDAP?

Why would I use LDAP?

How do I use LDAP?

[newbie] Getting MIC to work in LM7.02

[Jaguar]

Since most of my requests for help have thus far been ignored...a few have
replied and I thank them for their input. ( I wonder if most people have
consigned me to their email bitbucket???)

In NONE of the distro's that I have installed (RH5.0, Slackware, MDK 6.0/7.02)
has the MIC worked.  I know the sound card works as I get the correct sounds
during/after SNDCONFIG.  The MIC remains "red" in the Sound mixer.  Is there a
box I click to enable, or something in the sound setup?  My sound card is
integrated (Cyrix 233 kit board) but recognised as SB compatible.  I know
Linux doesn't like the DialPad.COM  web site, as I guess Linux Nutscrape is
not supported there.  As a side note...has anyone tried and was successful
getting PHONEFREE.COM to work on MDK 7.02?

I have other problems also...but that can wait till I get this one fixed.

TIA
Jaguar


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[newbie] Install hangs in "second stage install"

[J. Hartzelbuck]

Friends,

I appreciate the help offered here.

I have been trying to install Mandrake 7.0 without success. I have tried
booting from CD; booting DOS, then switching to CD and using
autoboot.bat; I've tried a boot disk made with cdrom.img. In all cases,
things go OK till the message:

 "CDROM ---  Initializing CDROM
  -- in second stage install -- "

 (CD lights briefly, then no more; cursor just flashes and
 stalls.)

I have downloaded the new autoboot.bat from the "FAQ, last minute
changes" web page. Not sure I handled this right, the instructions were
not clear to me, but I renamed the file as patch.pl, saved it to the
boot disk, then when the boot prompt came up, instead of pressing
, I typed  "Linux patch." This worked differently: I got an eror
message at the point things usually stall, saying that some characters
were in the wrong place and some things that were expected were not
found.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
-- Chris Joyner

Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

[Tony Alfrey]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Rial Juan wrote:
> Just 2 things:
> 
> a) The only point I'm trying to get accross is to try and help yourself before
>asking others to solve your problems for you. That means: read the
>manual. It's written on purpose, you know?
> 
> b) Read the original post on which mine was a reply. If he calls us dumb because
>we didn't answer his questions, is it then so bad when I say he makes a
>pretty stupid remark by saying noone wants to help?
> 
> For some reason whenever I open my mouth to correct someone, everybody starts
> flaming me. What the heck is wrong with telling people to try and solve their
> own problems before they ask for help? What the heck is wrong with stating that
> administrating linux is _NOT_ for people with no technical background
> whatsoever?
> 
> But then again, for some reason my opinion is not the most popular in
> teletubbie-land, so I get all the flames and insults. When I help somebody out
> on the list or in private, nobody seems to notice, but when I tell someone to
> read the manual before asking for help, or to use to-the-point subject lines
> instead of "HELP", or to stop flooding the list with complete offtopic BS, I'm
> the great nazi-enemy. Well, good. I'll be your nazi-enemy for you to step on.
> Hope it makes you all feel so much wiser and tougher.
> 
> 

Sir, the issue is one of tact.  One thing that it took me many years to learn
is that, no matter how correct I might be, no one will "hear" me while I am
on a rage.  An insult does not teach or instruct, it not only turns off
your intended audience, it turns off potential allies.  A useful technique might be
to imagine yourself in the position of your intended audience, and read your
e-mail as if you were the recipient.  There are effective and ineffective ways
to tell someone about the use of manuals or the use of a subject line.  May I 
suggest that the negative response you've received from others on the list
could be used as an indicator that your effectiveness could be improved. 



-- 
Tony Alfrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I'd rather be sailing"

[newbie] More ethernet/sound problems

[tymanthius]

Ok, I made a mistake - I booted to Windows 2k.  Now sound is out again.
Windows uses irq 9 for my ethenet card (tulip driver).

According to /proc/pci irq 9 belongs to my eth card.  But I can find no way to 
pass that info to tulip.

If I try insmod tulip irq=9 it tells me that is not a valid paramater.

I'm wondering if I can force Winders to use irq 5 . . . . 

Ty C. Mixon
F.T.C. Enterprises
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ 26147713

[newbie] some minor help

[bill kinsey]

I'd first like to thank all the gurus and helpful people who helped me get this
far. I'm writing my first email on my freshly set up mandrake box and I have to
say that i'm on my way to telling winblowz to kiss my a$$. I have a couple of
minor bugs to work out though. The first question is: Is linux capable of
running multiple mice. I use a ps/2 trackball and a touchpad on seriel port 1.
Right now i'm only able to work one at a time. The second is: Does linux have
any features that resemble the micro$oft accessability tools like sticky keys
or toggle sounds? I'm asking because my next task is to intigrate linux on a
schoo intranet and there are students that require these devices to
successfully type.. The third question is how can I change my login from the
standard type to the graphical interface. I know it involves changing something
from 3 to 5 but i'm not sure what. Thanks in Advance

Bill Kinsey

[newbie] missing lib files.

[Lovister Lausin Jeffery]

Hi there,
    I just 
downloaded some program to plot mathematical functions. 
    The name of the program is 
ksciplot-0-3-2-2_i386.rpm.
    But when I try to RPM it, it 
complained about a bunch of missing files.
    Namely: 
libkhtmw.so.0
 
libkdeui.so.0
 
libkdecore.so.0
 
libscript.so.0
 
libjpeg.so.0
    I also tried another program 
called kplot-0_2-33_i386.rpm but this one 
    only complained one missing 
file, libjpeg.so.6
    I am currently doing some 
work and this programs can help me alot.
    But where do I find those 
missing files?
 
Thanks in advance. 
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Re: [newbie] ata66 Please help me.

[Denis Havlik]

AFAIK: Avoid "promise" controllers. hpt366 is a bit better, the rest
should be OK.

Denis

On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Emanuele La Rosa wrote:

:~>Please My girlfriend is going to buy a new computer that support the Ultra-ata
:~>66. She wants to put Linux in her computer but I don't know how it works with
:~>U-66. The problem is: The system works without this protocol o it doesn't boot
:~>at all? If the problem is only due to a non used protocol, maybe using the U-33
:~>I think that the system will work pretty good too.  in fact, maybe I'm wrong,
:~>if a good hard-disk has a band-witht of 12MByte using a U-33, or U-66 shouldn't
:~>be a problem because the bottleneck is in the speed of Hard-disk and not in
:~>the controller.
:~>Please help.
:~>

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RE: [newbie] ata66

[Denis Havlik]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Albert wrote:

:~>And hopefully Mandrake would be interested in help us too :-)
:~>
:~>hint hint

I know you cannot read my lips, but you could try reading my .sig 
Sure I am going to help, but it is STILL EXPERIMENTAL, so do not blame me
if things do not work out the way you wanted it.

Denis
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[newbie] installing linux and windows

[Benito Noriega]

Hello

I have been trying to install linux mandrake and windows 2000 on an athlon
PC with a 20GB Hard Disk and 128MB of memory. I am only getting constant
errors on the size of the partitions or that it cannot place the LILO on
the MBR. Could some one indicate me the right way of partitioning the hard
disk to accomodate both linux mandrake and windows 2000. 

Thank you very much.

J. Rafael Noriega

Re: [newbie] cannot mount ZIP

[Denis Havlik]

:~>random try this:
:~>insmod parport
:~>insmod ppa
:~>mount -t filesystemtypehere /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip

it is sda4, i am afraid.

Denis

Re: [newbie] How to get SCSI card detected/working??

[Ronald J. Yacketta]

1) what type of card?
2) what is the chip name on the card?

when I install linux I have to manual select the scsi driver and pass it
parameters for linux to see/use it

Ron


Paul Apking wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone. How can i get my SCSI card to be detected/working?   For some
> reason my card cant be  detected by the autoprobe method and i dont know what
> else to do
> 
> any help would be greatlly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul

RE: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

[Phil Lamey]

Title: RE: [newbie] Where is the so called help???





Maybe he should have joined the developer list instead of the newbie list.  What does he expect.  If we are newbie we have dumb questions. That can't be helped.

My two cents,


Phil Lamey


-Original Message-
From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 10:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???



Josephvery well said.  This guy doesn't seem to get it, that
this is a place to help and/or get help but not a place to rant
or vent.  As I remember his very first post was as inappropriate
as this last one.  At least I hope that it's his last one.


Alan



"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
> 
> Rial Juan wrote:
[snip]
<-nothing of note or substance->
[snip]


> Mr. Rial Juan,
> 
> I can only say that thank God I entered the world of linux before you started
> spewing forth your rhetoric otherwise I would never have become as excited about the
> challenges of learning linux.  It's a shame that you have forgotten the help and
> assistance you no doubt received when you first started.
> 
> To the original poster, please accept our appologies as this is in no way an example
> of the fine help you'll usually find here.  If you're unwilling to post again
> please, feel free to contact me privately and I'll do the best I can (I'm no expert
> but I manage).
> 
> Mr. Rial Juan, welcome to my trash filter.
> 
> --
> Joseph S. Gardner
> Senior Designer / Technical Support
> Kirby Co.,  Cleveland, OH
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Linux is like a wigwam...
> No windows, no gates.
> Apache inside

Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

[Rial Juan]

Just 2 things:

a) The only point I'm trying to get accross is to try and help yourself before
   asking others to solve your problems for you. That means: read the
   manual. It's written on purpose, you know?

b) Read the original post on which mine was a reply. If he calls us dumb because
   we didn't answer his questions, is it then so bad when I say he makes a
   pretty stupid remark by saying noone wants to help?

For some reason whenever I open my mouth to correct someone, everybody starts
flaming me. What the heck is wrong with telling people to try and solve their
own problems before they ask for help? What the heck is wrong with stating that
administrating linux is _NOT_ for people with no technical background
whatsoever?

But then again, for some reason my opinion is not the most popular in
teletubbie-land, so I get all the flames and insults. When I help somebody out
on the list or in private, nobody seems to notice, but when I tell someone to
read the manual before asking for help, or to use to-the-point subject lines
instead of "HELP", or to stop flooding the list with complete offtopic BS, I'm
the great nazi-enemy. Well, good. I'll be your nazi-enemy for you to step on.
Hope it makes you all feel so much wiser and tougher.


On Mar 14 bluebottle wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> 
> > Mr. Rial Juan,
> > 
> > I can only say that thank God I entered the world of linux before you started
> > spewing forth your rhetoric otherwise I would never have become as excited about 
>the
> > challenges of learning linux.  It's a shame that you have forgotten the help and
> > assistance you no doubt received when you first started.
> > 
> > To the original poster, please accept our appologies as this is in no way an 
>example
> > of the fine help you'll usually find here.  If you're unwilling to post again
> > please, feel free to contact me privately and I'll do the best I can (I'm no expert
> > but I manage).
> > 
> > Mr. Rial Juan, welcome to my trash filter.
> 
> > Joseph S. Gardner
> 
> Well said, Joseph. If linux is going to reach the wider market we don't need
> people like him pontificating to someone who is just starting. Some of us, me
> included, will never be experts but we can still achieve a lot with the system.
> It's also very nice to repay the help received when we first started.
> 
> 

-- 

Rial Juan
e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533
ulyssis system admininstrator   

The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly.
That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee...



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Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

[Alan Shoemaker]

Josephvery well said.  This guy doesn't seem to get it, that
this is a place to help and/or get help but not a place to rant
or vent.  As I remember his very first post was as inappropriate
as this last one.  At least I hope that it's his last one.

Alan


"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
> 
> Rial Juan wrote:
[snip]
<-nothing of note or substance->
[snip]

> Mr. Rial Juan,
> 
> I can only say that thank God I entered the world of linux before you started
> spewing forth your rhetoric otherwise I would never have become as excited about the
> challenges of learning linux.  It's a shame that you have forgotten the help and
> assistance you no doubt received when you first started.
> 
> To the original poster, please accept our appologies as this is in no way an example
> of the fine help you'll usually find here.  If you're unwilling to post again
> please, feel free to contact me privately and I'll do the best I can (I'm no expert
> but I manage).
> 
> Mr. Rial Juan, welcome to my trash filter.
> 
> --
> Joseph S. Gardner
> Senior Designer / Technical Support
> Kirby Co.,  Cleveland, OH
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Linux is like a wigwam...
> No windows, no gates.
> Apache inside

RE: [newbie] Re: where is the so called help

[Art Richardson]

No Tony  I got to keep the penguin *grin*

-Original Message-
From:   Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Monday, March 13, 2000 9:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [newbie] Re: where is the so called help

Cannot resist asking if the133, Slackware and the Penguin were listed in the
divorce petition (sorry about that one )
"Weave a circle round him thrice,
  And close your eyes with holy dread,
  For he on honeydew hath fed,
  And drunk the milk of paradise."  (The linux user)

- Original Message -
From: "Art Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:52 PM
Subject: [newbie] Re: where is the so called help


> To everyone on the list
>
> First, I would like to thank everyone who replied to my post. You help was
> very much appreciated and I was able to solve two of my problems so far.
> Secondly, when I wrote that post I was frustrated about my inability to
> solve my problems. I like to consider myself somewhat technically
proficient
> and can usually solve the problems that I have come across. However, this
> was in Windows and I guess that it's so dumbed down anyone can figure it
> out. Linux is not like that, as you all know. Several years ago I had a
133
> running Slackware. I never could get any form of x running but further
> experimentation was put on hold due to a divorce. I had read several
> articles complimentary to the Mandrake distribution. I went out and bought
> the 6.5 version and got everything going except the nic card. I was amazed
> that it went so well! But as hard as I tried, I could not get the
blankety -
> blank nic card running. I checked 3Com and their documentation was
oriented
> toward the PCI version and not the ISA version which I have. I tried the
Don
> Becker page and really didn't understand it to well except it seemed to
> imply that I needed to add a driver and recompile the kernel.
> Not wanting to do that I thought that I would just upgrade to 7.0 and
maybe
> that would cure my nic card problem. I have a cable connection and I
> downloaded the distribution from a Mandrake FTP mirror. After several
tries
> to install it, I got it to install. Once again the install could not find
> the nic card. It was listed in the install configuration setup but no joy.
> This is when I went off the deep end and wrote my now infamous post. I got
a
> lot of great information. To solve the logging out problem and the
Draxconf
> not installed, I just reinstalled the distribution again and this time I
> used the expert mode. I set x not to start at login and Draxconf installed
> ok.
> You all know what is coming next. That's right, no nic card. So after
> visiting several newsgroups and re-reading the posts to this list I edited
> the /etc/conf.modules file. I added the line  Options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=9
> I got the parameters from windows and again no joy. I am at the point
where
> I am going to disable the PnP setting on the card. If this does not work I
> am going to check the supported cards at the Redhat site and get another
> card.
> Again, thanks for not flaming me too much. I'll let everyone know how it
> went
>
> Art
>
>
>

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 on Compaq Presario 1610 Laptop

[hello]

How right you are. i have a 1230 laptop, first and last compaq product

-Original Message-
From: Pittman, Merle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 6:53 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7 on Compaq Presario 1610 Laptop


>I am sorry but I have to tell you that COMPAQ SUCKS!!
>
>They are the Microsoft of the hardware world.  They make their hardware
>proprietary and most of the time incompatible with everyone else.
>

Re: [newbie] Lilo Problems - doesn't see /dev/sda1

[tWiTcH]

Ty, a couple of questions:

1) When you did the reinstall, what SCSI driver did you choose?  I know,
silly question, but it's good to double-check.

2) When you boot off the boot disk, can you mount partitions that exist on
the SCSI drive?

3) At what point during the boot process do you receive the kernel panic?

4) Since you didn't reinstall LiLo, is it possible it's not pointing to
the correct partitions (since your partition scheme may have changed)?

I may not be on the right track, but these are the first things I thought
of.  I'm sure someone else may have something else to look at...

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

A new one for me - After my Format/Reload this weekend Lilo won't boot linux on 
/dev/sda1.  Instead I get kernel panic because it can't see the scsi drive.  In 
reinstalling I did not rewrite lilo (too many problems when I do - more when I 
don't I guess).  But my emergency boot disk (learned THAT lesson already!!) 
works fine.  So how do I get lilo to see my scsi hd?

Ty C. Mixon
F.T.C. Enterprises
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ 26147713

[newbie] How to get SCSI card detected/working??

[Paul Apking]

Hi everyone. How can i get my SCSI card to be detected/working?   For some
reason my card cant be  detected by the autoprobe method and i dont know what
else to do

any help would be greatlly appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

Re: [Re: [Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]]]

[Michael Scottaline]

Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael,
> Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the life
of
> me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file.
> If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from
> lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M.
> It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install will
not.
> I am really confused at this point why this happens.
> Cheers
> Wayne

Was the edit done as root?  Did you then run /sbin/lilo?  If you don't run
/sbin/lilo from a command line, the changes will be ignored.
Mike

~~~
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
--Tom Waits ~~~


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RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7 on Compaq Presario 1610 Laptop

[Pittman, Merle]

I am sorry but I have to tell you that COMPAQ SUCKS!!

They are the Microsoft of the hardware world.  They make their hardware
proprietary and most of the time incompatible with everyone else.

> -Original Message-
> From: Trevor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 6:51 AM
> To:   Mandrake Mailing List
> Subject:  [newbie] Mandrake 7 on Compaq Presario 1610 Laptop
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I'm brand new to Linux, and I just installed Mandrake 7 on my Compaq
> Presario 1610 laptop.  I'm having some issues(to say the least!) and need
> some assistance.  Here's what's up:
> 
> 1)I have X running with an extended SVGA monitor setting which works just
> fine, except something weird keeps happening.  If I leave my machine
> unattended for a brief period of time, instead of the screensaver kicking
> in, the screen funks out.  Two horizontal lines appear on a black screen.
> They don't disappear completely!  Have I set something wrong and f$&!*ed
> up
> my LCD display permanently?!?!?!?
> 
> 2)I have a D-Link 10/100 DFE-660TX PCMCIA ethernet card installed.  It is
> supposedly supported by Linux as it was on the list at RH, Caldera, etc.
> It
> detects it, and gives the following message under LOTHAR:  DEC chipset
> DC-21142(43) I/O 220 IRQ 5.  But during installation it said the "tulip"
> driver failed to intialize(?)  How do I get this working.  This leads to
> number 3
> 
> 3)I have a sound card which gets detected as a generic soundblaster16 card
> under LOTHAR, but it has the same I/0 and IRQ as my ethernet card.  When I
> test it, it gives the following message,  "modprobe 821 parse error in
> dependency file."  What does that mean, and how to I fix it.
> 
> 4)Finally, when I first run LOTHAR, I get this message concerning the
> mouse:
> "The mouse configuration file is corrupt, you should use LOTHAR to create
> a
> new file"  When I select mouse, it doesn't offer that option to correct
> it.
> So, what do I do here?
> 
> I appreciate all the help on this.  Thanks:)
> 
> Trevor J. Mahan

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Problems

[Pittman, Merle]

Are you logged in as root?  I am pretty sure only root can access mountable
drives.

> -Original Message-
> From: Jack [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 4:28 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  [newbie] Mandrake Problems
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I just installed Mandrake 7.0 a few hours ago by using
> my cdrom to boot the
>   installation up.
> 
>   When I try to access any of my cds in the /mnt/cdrom,
> it says it can't read the
>   disk.
>   I set the thing up properly & in the control panel it
> says it's there, but won't
>   read any of the disks, not even the cd I installed
> Mandrake from!
>   My floppy drive isn't working either.
> 
>   Please help, I love this O/S so far.
> 
>   Best Regards,
>   Jack

Re: [Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]]

[Mark Irving]

Make sure that there is only one append line in lilo.conf. I couldn't get it
to work in mine because it already had an append line. Here is how I got it
to work. Lilo.conf had an append line of: append="ide=scsi" (for CD burner).
I edited the line to read: "append="ide=scsi mem=128" , ran lilo, rebooted
and all is well.

---Mark Irving---

- Original Message -
From: Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]]


> Michael,
> Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the
life of
> me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file.
> If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from
> lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M.
> It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install
will not.
> I am really confused at this point why this happens.
> Cheers
> Wayne
>
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote:
> > Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of
ram.
> > When
> > > I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append
> > section),
> > > it only boots with 65M.  Any reasons why this would be so, and is
there a
> > way
> > > aroudn this/
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
> > > PS:  it worked first time last time!
> > ===
> > Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"?
> > append="mem=128M"
> > Mike
> >
> > "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol
> > than alcohol has taken out of me."
> > --Winston Churchill
> >
> > 
> > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
http://webmail.netscape.com.
> --
> ***
> ***
> Wayne Petherick
> Criminology Department
> Humanities and Social Sciences
> Bond University
> Gold Coast, Australia
> ***
> ***
>
>

Re: [Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]]

[Joseph S. Gardner]

Wayne wrote:

> Michael,
> Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the life of
> me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file.
> If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from
> lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M.
> It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install will not.
> I am really confused at this point why this happens.
> Cheers
> Wayne
>
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote:
> > Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram.
> > When
> > > I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append
> > section),
> > > it only boots with 65M.  Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a
> > way
> > > aroudn this/
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
> > > PS:  it worked first time last time!
> > ===
> > Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"?
> > append="mem=128M"
> > Mike
> >
> > "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol
> > than alcohol has taken out of me."
> >   --Winston Churchill
> >
> > 
> > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at 
>http://webmail.netscape.com.
> --
> ***
> ***
> Wayne Petherick
> Criminology Department
> Humanities and Social Sciences
> Bond University
> Gold Coast, Australia
> ***
> ***

Do you have any other items that you're "append"ing?  Seems to me I recall you needed 
to keep
the appends on the same line  ie  append="mem=128M","something_else","more_stuff"  
although I
don't recall the exact format.  You can check the archives though as it was discussed 
SEVERAL
weeks back.


--
Joseph S. Gardner
Senior Designer / Technical Support
Kirby Co.,  Cleveland, OH
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux is like a wigwam...
No windows, no gates.
Apache inside

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Problems

[Tony Alfrey]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Jack wrote:

>   I set the thing up properly & in the control panel it
> says it's there, but won't
>   read any of the disks, not even the cd I installed
> Mandrake from!
>   My floppy drive isn't working either.
> 

Check your /etc/fstab file to make sure your drives have assignments there. 
They probably look like

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

The cd rom assignment will depend somewhat on your particular disk numbering
(hdb, hdc, ---)

-- 
Tony Alfrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I'd rather be sailing"

RE: [newbie] ata66

[Denis Havlik]

:~>Mandrake installs with UDMA disabled - it must be enabled by hdparm. 
:~>However, this will only support Ultra-DMA Mode 2 with the current Kernel. 
:~>To get Ultra-DMA/66 you must patch the Kernel.  This patch is in testing and
:~>should ONLY be used on test machines.

Or try our u66-enabled kernel from cooker/contrib. It is experimental
kernel, nevertheless. 

:~>We've written this article that includes instructions for hdparm. 
:~>
:~>http://www.linuxtests.org/articles/harddrives/udma/index.htm

cute.

cu
Denis
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Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

[bluebottle]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote:

> Mr. Rial Juan,
> 
> I can only say that thank God I entered the world of linux before you started
> spewing forth your rhetoric otherwise I would never have become as excited about the
> challenges of learning linux.  It's a shame that you have forgotten the help and
> assistance you no doubt received when you first started.
> 
> To the original poster, please accept our appologies as this is in no way an example
> of the fine help you'll usually find here.  If you're unwilling to post again
> please, feel free to contact me privately and I'll do the best I can (I'm no expert
> but I manage).
> 
> Mr. Rial Juan, welcome to my trash filter.

> Joseph S. Gardner

Well said, Joseph. If linux is going to reach the wider market we don't need
people like him pontificating to someone who is just starting. Some of us, me
included, will never be experts but we can still achieve a lot with the system.
It's also very nice to repay the help received when we first started.

-- 
Regards

John the Nadger

http://mklinux.cjb.net

http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
 

Re: [Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]]

[Wayne]

Michael,
Yes, the quotation marks are around the 128M and i can't think for the life of
me why it doesn't boot with the lilo.conf file.
If i do it manually, it will boot, if it try to boot automatically from
lilo.conf it will not work with my 128M.
It did this previously with 128M but for some reason with this install will not.
I am really confused at this point why this happens.
Cheers
Wayne

On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote:
> Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram. 
> When
> > I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append
> section),
> > it only boots with 65M.  Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a
> way
> > aroudn this/
> > 
> > Wayne
> > 
> > PS:  it worked first time last time!
> ===
> Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"?
> append="mem=128M"
> Mike
> 
> "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol
> than alcohol has taken out of me."
>   --Winston Churchill
> 
> 
> Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at 
>http://webmail.netscape.com.
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***
***
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Criminology Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Bond University
Gold Coast, Australia
***
***

Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]

[steve harris]

Did you run "lilo" after modifying lilo.conf?
The changes do not take effect until you run lilo.
Just a thought.

Original Message Follows
From: Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:44:09 +1000

When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram.  
When
I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append 
section),
it only boots with 65M.  Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a 
way
aroudn this/

Wayne

PS:  it worked first time last time!



  On Sun, 20 Apr 2036, you wrote:
 > Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > > All,
 > > after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had 
to
 > > reinstall Mdk 7.  I have forgotten the command you add to append 
section of
 > > your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM.  ANy
 > help?
 > >
 > > Wayne
 > ==
 > If it's necessary, add
 > append="mem=128M"
 >
 > You might want to try booting first with
 > linux mem=128
 > to be certain that it will work with that number.
 > HTH, Mike
 >
 > "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
 >  -Benjamin Frankilin
 >
 > 
 > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at 
http://webmail.netscape.com.
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Re: [newbie] RealPlayer7 Beta with plugins is here!!!

[Harold Hartley]

Go to the RealPlayer7 dir and read the README file and pretty much tells
you what you need to do...

Harold

-

Benjamin Sher wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
> The new RealPlayer7 Beta is here with all the plugins is here.
>
> Warning: There are two versions, an rpm for RedHat ALONE (it WON'T work
> on Mandrake 7) and one for the rest of us. It looks great.
>
> The address for us Mandrake folks is:
>
> http://proforma.real.com/real/player/linuxplayer.html
>
> Read the installation instructions on the download page (at the bottom
> of the page) and for "Directory" during installation choose your
> /home/user directory. I guessed wrong, but it doesn't matter.
> RealPlayer7 automatically creates a "RealPlayer7" subfolder on
> /home/user. You play RealPlayer7 by cd to the subfolder "RealPlayer7"
> and then typing ./realplay. You can also, of course, create a link on
> your Desktop with precisely this command for the executable.
>
> 1) MY BIG QUESTION:  How do you configure the new RealPlayer7 in
> Netscape under Applications to play RealPlayer. I typed
> "home/sher/RealPlayer7/./realplayer" or the same without the ./
>
> In either case, when clicking on a RealPlayer site, it launched
> Realplayer7 but played nothing except its usual little jingle. By the
> way, I did completely delete (rpm -e) the old RealPlayer G2 Alpha.
>
> 2) Second big question: For the suffixes in Netscape should you add ram
> AND rpm to the RealAudio entry? So should the suffixes read:
> ra,ram,rm,rpm? And perhaps some other suffixes for other plugins?
>
> Please advise. We are all waiting with baited breath.
>
> Yours,
>
> Benjamin
> --
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net

[newbie] getting pcmcia linksys card working

[hello]

Hi All
I have a compaq presario 1230 laptop with a dual boot of window98 and
Linux mandrake 7.0 (my goal is have nothing to do with microsoft but I have
to use it for my cassiopeia e100 which is windows ce) and I'm trying to get
my linksys combo ec2t pcmcia ethernet card working. I did find it is
supported.

Also with linux do you have to stop a pcmcia card before ejecting it like
you do with a windows os.

Re: [newbie] First...apologies

[Denis Havlik]

:~>All,
:~>after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had to
:~>reinstall Mdk 7.  I have forgotten the command you add to append section of
:~>your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM.  ANy help?

I would like to find out more about the "bad crash" and "had to reinstall
LM".

I am not avare of any problems which would bring LM 7 in such a messy
state that you need to reinstall.

thx
Denis 


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Re: [newbie] User name length

[Denis Havlik]

:~>Do all Linux user names have a maximum Length of eight characters?  My
:~>server is complaining about user names not matching the names of the
:~>home directories.  Apparently it took the user names and truncated them
:~>to eight characters!

No.

useradd thisisverylongname

worked nicely here. More-or-less a LM 7.02 machine.

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RE: [newbie] Mandrake Problems

[Robert Revet]

are your cd-roms scsi ??
if not check your lilo.conf might see that lilo is configured for a scsi
while it is not !
if zo delete it and rerun lilo...
if the at rebooting it asks tells you something is removed choose for option
keep current conf

Robert

Re: [newbie] Re: where is the so called help

[Tony]

Cannot resist asking if the133, Slackware and the Penguin were listed in the
divorce petition (sorry about that one )
"Weave a circle round him thrice,
  And close your eyes with holy dread,
  For he on honeydew hath fed,
  And drunk the milk of paradise."  (The linux user)

- Original Message -
From: "Art Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:52 PM
Subject: [newbie] Re: where is the so called help


> To everyone on the list
>
> First, I would like to thank everyone who replied to my post. You help was
> very much appreciated and I was able to solve two of my problems so far.
> Secondly, when I wrote that post I was frustrated about my inability to
> solve my problems. I like to consider myself somewhat technically
proficient
> and can usually solve the problems that I have come across. However, this
> was in Windows and I guess that it's so dumbed down anyone can figure it
> out. Linux is not like that, as you all know. Several years ago I had a
133
> running Slackware. I never could get any form of x running but further
> experimentation was put on hold due to a divorce. I had read several
> articles complimentary to the Mandrake distribution. I went out and bought
> the 6.5 version and got everything going except the nic card. I was amazed
> that it went so well! But as hard as I tried, I could not get the
blankety -
> blank nic card running. I checked 3Com and their documentation was
oriented
> toward the PCI version and not the ISA version which I have. I tried the
Don
> Becker page and really didn't understand it to well except it seemed to
> imply that I needed to add a driver and recompile the kernel.
> Not wanting to do that I thought that I would just upgrade to 7.0 and
maybe
> that would cure my nic card problem. I have a cable connection and I
> downloaded the distribution from a Mandrake FTP mirror. After several
tries
> to install it, I got it to install. Once again the install could not find
> the nic card. It was listed in the install configuration setup but no joy.
> This is when I went off the deep end and wrote my now infamous post. I got
a
> lot of great information. To solve the logging out problem and the
Draxconf
> not installed, I just reinstalled the distribution again and this time I
> used the expert mode. I set x not to start at login and Draxconf installed
> ok.
> You all know what is coming next. That's right, no nic card. So after
> visiting several newsgroups and re-reading the posts to this list I edited
> the /etc/conf.modules file. I added the line  Options 3c509 io=0x210 irq=9
> I got the parameters from windows and again no joy. I am at the point
where
> I am going to disable the PnP setting on the card. If this does not work I
> am going to check the supported cards at the Redhat site and get another
> card.
> Again, thanks for not flaming me too much. I'll let everyone know how it
> went
>
> Art
>
>
>

[newbie] RealPlayer7 Beta with plugins is here!!!

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

The new RealPlayer7 Beta is here with all the plugins is here.

Warning: There are two versions, an rpm for RedHat ALONE (it WON'T work
on Mandrake 7) and one for the rest of us. It looks great.

The address for us Mandrake folks is:

http://proforma.real.com/real/player/linuxplayer.html

Read the installation instructions on the download page (at the bottom
of the page) and for "Directory" during installation choose your
/home/user directory. I guessed wrong, but it doesn't matter.
RealPlayer7 automatically creates a "RealPlayer7" subfolder on
/home/user. You play RealPlayer7 by cd to the subfolder "RealPlayer7"
and then typing ./realplay. You can also, of course, create a link on
your Desktop with precisely this command for the executable.

1) MY BIG QUESTION:  How do you configure the new RealPlayer7 in
Netscape under Applications to play RealPlayer. I typed
"home/sher/RealPlayer7/./realplayer" or the same without the ./  

In either case, when clicking on a RealPlayer site, it launched
Realplayer7 but played nothing except its usual little jingle. By the
way, I did completely delete (rpm -e) the old RealPlayer G2 Alpha.

2) Second big question: For the suffixes in Netscape should you add ram
AND rpm to the RealAudio entry? So should the suffixes read:
ra,ram,rm,rpm? And perhaps some other suffixes for other plugins? 

Please advise. We are all waiting with baited breath.

Yours,

Benjamin
-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net

[newbie] Fritz!PCI Card, Logi Mouseman+ with Wheel et al...

[John D. Herron]

Hello, people.

I'm a Swiss Linux Newbie altogether (installed M7 only just about a week
ago), running a stand-alone PII-450 ASUS P2B dual-boot (under LILO) Win98 /
Mandrake 7 machine with 256 MB ram, a Sony GDM 17SE2T monitor set to a
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB board, two 10G+ HDD (hda for Win, hdc for M7),
2 Iomega Zip-Drives as back-up and storage system (a parallel 250 MB + an
USB 100 MB, neither installed under Linux yet), an internal Fritz!PCI ISDN
card and a USRobotics 56k Message Modem (no problems connecting to my ISP
in M7 with the latter). 
Among other things, I've been playing around with Bash a bit and enjoying
the versatility of it. 
But I do have questions on a few items. 
How can I (if at all)
1) use the navigation keys (PgUp, PgDn, Ins, Del...) on the numerical
keypad (not essential, but a matter of habit acquired over many years...) ;
2) use either (or both) of the two Zip drives in Mandrake (if I understand
correctly, Linux seems not to support USB);
3) possibly get the (passive) Fritz ISDN card to work under M7 (Lothar says
that M7 recognizes it as an (active) Fritz A1 card, and allows no
reconfiguration option); AVM offers no Linux drivers for that one;
4) if possible, switch between display resolutions from the M7 Desktop (by
the way: M7 recognizes only 16 MB on my video board).
5) get the wheel on the (PS/2) Logi-Mouse to work in M7 - if I read the
literature correctly, the wheel feature seems to work only for Microsoft mice.

Any help from anyone out there, please ? Thanks !

John 

RE: [newbie] errors

[Pittman, Merle]

It works,  the images not showing are due to incorrect path probably in your
html files

> -Original Message-
> From: Kit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 5:16 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Re: [newbie] errors
> 
> okay, this is what I did...I went into httpd.conf
> 
> and changed the servername to 216.41.122.89 (current ip),
> then commented out namevirtualserver
> 
> then in inetd.conf ...instead of standalone...I inserted "inetd"
> I then brought up a console...and gave the command " httpd"
> then inserted my ip address into browser location bar
> and walah...my site finally came up...
> does that mean it's fixed...?  only thing the images don't show
> 
> "Pittman, Merle" wrote:
> > 
> > your full ip, localhost, or 127.0.0.1 , any should work.
> > 
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Kit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 4:40 PM
> > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject:  Re: [newbie] errors
> > >
> > > actually, I inserted my ip address...like this...
> > > 122.214.41.*
> > > the first three numbers stay the same...so I just inserted a wildcard,
> > > for the 4th
> > > should I insert the whole ip address...or insert my localhost
> > > (127.0.0.1) addy?
> > >
> > > Kit wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Do you have ICQ...it would so much easier nad quicker...
> > > > my uin# 7110071
> > > >
> > > > I edited them manually then rebooted...still get the same error...
> > > > actaully commented those lines out...
> > > > I'm using a dialup connectionwith external 33.6 modem
> > > >
> > > > "Pittman, Merle" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Edit the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file manually would be
> quickest.
> > > Just
> > > > > make the changes I mentioned.
> > > > >
> > > > > Are you using dial up, cable, dsl, etc for access?  If you are
> using
> > > cable
> > > > > or dsl, then eventhough these are often dynamic IP addessing (mine
> is)
> > > your
> > > > > IP address very rarely changes.  I've had the same one for months.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you are using dialup, it is a little harder.  This can change
> on
> > > every
> > > > > connection.  I am not sure what you can do here.
> > > > >
> > > > > there are some utils you can download that monitors your IP
> address
> > > and
> > > > > tells you when it changes, you might find that useful.
> > > > >
> > > > > Keep the questions coming, I'll help if I can.
> > > > >
> > > > > > -Original Message-
> > > > > > From: KompuKit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 3:16 PM
> > > > > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > > Subject:  Re: [newbie] errors
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The trouble with that is this...I need to have myip.org
> > > updated...with
> > > > > > my dynamic
> > > > > > ip...each time...how can I do this...? and do I do what you
> > > suggested
> > > > > > inside linuxconf,
> > > > > > or inside drakeconf/networking/servers/webservers...or do I just
> > > edit
> > > > > > the httpd.conf file manually...if manually, will this
> automatically
> > > > > > correct what I setup in drakeconf...overide it persay...?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Pittman, Merle" wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > If you are josting the webserver on your own linux box and
> just
> > > using
> > > > > > > myip.org to use a DNS, do the following.
> > > > > > > Remove "namevirtualhost" from your httpd.conf.  Also set
> server
> > > name to
> > > > > > your
> > > > > > > IP address.  Restart the httpd deamon (httpd) and it should be
> > > fine.
> > > > > > The
> > > > > > > ww.myip.com account that you setup takes care of the name
> > > resolution you
> > > > > > > cannot put that in your own server.  If you could you would
> not
> > > need to
> > > > > > be
> > > > > > > using a myip.com redirection.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > hope this helps.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > -Original Message-
> > > > > > > > From: KompuKit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > > > > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 2:45 PM
> > > > > > > > To:   Mandrake Linux
> > > > > > > > Subject:  [newbie] errors
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Here are my configs and error logs...
> > > > > > > > can someone please tell me...whats wrong?
> > > > > > > > trying to setup apache
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > ICQ# 7110071
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > HomePage:
> > > > > > > > http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Personal WebServer:
> > > > > > > > http://kompukit.myip.org
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > (does not run 24/7)
> > > > > > > >  << File: error_log >>  << File:
> > > httpd.conf
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ICQ# 7110071
> > > > > >
> > > > > > HomePage:
> > > > > > http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg
> > > > > >
> > 

[newbie] Mounting Netware Drives

[Lane Lester]

When I installed Mandrake 7.0.2, it seemed to recognize my NIC, and I said
yes to Netware capability to get onto the office LAN. I'm on the Internet
OK, which I think is on a Win NT server, so the NIC is working OK in that
regard. But I don't know how to get access to the Netware server. I've
edited fstab for just about every other kind of drive, but I don't know
about Netware and LAN devices.

If it's too involved to put in a reply, please point me to the docs.
-- 
Lane
 
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [Re: [[newbie] First...apologies]]

[Michael Scottaline]

Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I start Linux with linux mem=128M it boots and reports 128M of ram. 
When
> I boot from the lilo.conf file (which has the mem=128M in the append
section),
> it only boots with 65M.  Any reasons why this would be so, and is there a
way
> aroudn this/
> 
> Wayne
> 
> PS:  it worked first time last time!
===
Did you remember to use the quotation marks around "mem=128M"?
append="mem=128M"
Mike

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Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

[Joseph S. Gardner]

Rial Juan wrote:

> Kiddo,
>
> before you even start THINKING about running linux, you must be well aware that
> it's a pretty hard OS to master for those with absolutely no technical
> background. Linux is an operating system that tries to hide nothing for the
> user, unlike MS Windows. If you have no basic understanding of how a computer
> works, and I don't mean knowing your way around in WordPerfect or something like
> that, I mean: how a computer works internally, well, if you don't have a basic
> understanding about that, then linux is not for you. Also, what's that stupid
> remark about "too much technical jargon" anyway? This is a hacker's OS, what did
> you expect? If it's too technical for you, well... Nobody forces you to run it.
>
> What pisses me off the most is people who don't even know how to upgrade their
> graphics card, insist on running linux because they heard some hype about it,
> and then get all frustrated when it's not as easy as baking an egg.
>
> Also, nobody cares to read manuals anymore. Everybody on this list claims to
> have read all the apropriate manuals/docs, but found nothing, so they ask here.
> And then they expect us "guru's" to solve their problems. Meanwhile the thing
> they're asking is usually explained in detail somewhere between the second and
> seventh paragraph in the man-page of the program that's causing them trouble.
> But that means they have to type in "man rpm" or something, and that's too
> hard. I wonder what the heck makes people decide to run linux anyway, if reading
> some documentation is too hard, or too much to ask?
>
> I for one don't even bother answering questions to which the answers are
> trivial, or easy to look up. I have enough work looking up the solutions to my
> own problems.
>
> Kit: "noone wants to help..." Now let's say you sell your car. Someone comes
> over and buys it. Then a week later he's at your door again. "How do I shift up
> or down?" --> "Manual page 15 and where the heck did you get your driver's
> license?" Then 3 days later he comes back "And how about reverse, does my car
> have one?" --> "Still manual page 15, and of course it has one, you moron!" Then
> 4 days later he comes back "How do I turn on the radio?" --> "Explained on page
> 4 in the radio manual. Never seen an on/off swicth before?" Then a few days
> later "I heard rumours that you can slide the seat to the front or back so you
> can reach the pedals better. Is that true? Is it worth the effort? Won't it
> degrade the lateral tire-pressure? My feet won't get stuck in the engine, will
> they?"
>
> I think you'd grabbed a big gun by the third time the dude comes over, shot the
> bastard trough the head, hid the body, and sold the car again. This time to
> someone with an IQ higher than that of a carrot.
>
> On Mar 13 Kit wrote:
>
> > BOY, I agree...with you BIGTIME...noone wants to help...they just
> > want to
> > tell you to go somewhere and read...well, thats what I've been
> > doing...and doing
> > and doing...but it still does no good...most all tutorials are
> > very poorly written.
> > they use too much technical jargon...they don't remember that
> > HELP means you must
> > help them on the persons level of understanding...if they had
> > technical knowlegdge,
> > they wouldn't be asking questions...they would of fix their own
> > problem...man, what
> > a bunch of dum people...for knowing so much as they do...
> >
>
> --
>
> Rial Juan
> e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533
> ulyssis system admininstrator   
>
> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly.
> That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee...
>
> 
>
> Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html
> Help bring us more Linux Drivers

Mr. Rial Juan,

I can only say that thank God I entered the world of linux before you started
spewing forth your rhetoric otherwise I would never have become as excited about the
challenges of learning linux.  It's a shame that you have forgotten the help and
assistance you no doubt received when you first started.

To the original poster, please accept our appologies as this is in no way an example
of the fine help you'll usually find here.  If you're unwilling to post again
please, feel free to contact me privately and I'll do the best I can (I'm no expert
but I manage).

Mr. Rial Juan, welcome to my trash filter.


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Senior Designer / Technical Support
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No windows, no gates.
Apache inside

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 on Compaq Presario 1610 Laptop

[flupke]

Trevor wrote:

> 2)I have a D-Link 10/100 DFE-660TX PCMCIA ethernet card installed.  It is
> supposedly supported by Linux as it was on the list at RH, Caldera, etc.  It
> detects it, and gives the following message under LOTHAR:  DEC chipset
> DC-21142(43) I/O 220 IRQ 5.  But during installation it said the "tulip"
> driver failed to intialize(?)  How do I get this working.

I have a DFE530-TX, but I don't use the tulip module.
Instead, the via-rhine module works fine for me. But I don't know if it will be
the case for you as it is not exactly the same chip.
To try the via-rhine module, log in as root and type 'modprobe via-rhine' in a
command line.
If it works (ie : you have no error message), edit your /etc/conf.modules file,
and change the line
alias eth0 tulip
by
alias eth0 via-rhine

And that should be ok.

HTH
Flupke

Re: [newbie] 2 questions for you

[Audrey Beck]

Cory Hirano wrote:
> 
> Hello there]
> 
> I have two questions 1st How do I uninstall a desktop replacements? because
> I want to upgrade to the latest version of IceWM but it conflicts with the
> "light" version already installed.  2nd how do I install the isapnp file
> needed to install Lothar so I can upgrade to the latest version?
> 
> Cory

rpm -e IceWM

Might get rid of it.  You might want to use --replacefiles or
--replacepkgs on an update or install instead.

I think isapnp stuff is installed by default.  You just need to make the
file.  Check for it:

whereis isapnp
whereis isadump

I don't know the name of the rpm, but it should be somewhere on the cd
under the RPMS directory.

rpm -ivh whateverthenameis

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Problems

[Audrey Beck]

Jack wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I just installed Mandrake 7.0 a few hours ago by using
> my cdrom to boot the
>   installation up.
> 
>   When I try to access any of my cds in the /mnt/cdrom,
> it says it can't read the
>   disk.
>   I set the thing up properly & in the control panel it
> says it's there, but won't
>   read any of the disks, not even the cd I installed
> Mandrake from!
>   My floppy drive isn't working either.
> 
>   Please help, I love this O/S so far.
> 
>   Best Regards,
>   Jack

It's probably a supermount problem.  Supermount doesn't seem to work for
some systems.  Check out www.mandrakeuser.org. I believe they have a
section on supermount.

Re: [newbie] start imwheel automatically

[Claus Atzenbeck]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:

> Clausin KDE there's an Autostart directory on your Desktop
> that is analogous to the Windows Startup directory (works pretty
> much the same).

Thanks for your help (also to Eunice)! I didn't think that
"imwheel -k" kills already running imwheels. Therefore putting it into
the Autostart folder should not be much of a problem.

Best regards,
Claus.

-- 
Atzenbeck. Data structures & design
http://www.atzenbeck.de

But has any little atom,
While a-sittin' and a-splittin',
Ever stopped to think or CARE
That E = m c**2 ?

[newbie] First...apologies

[Wayne]

All,
after a bad crash this morning after trying to install my new HD I had to
reinstall Mdk 7.  I have forgotten the command you add to append section of
your lilo.conf file to get it to recognise more than 65 MB of RAM.  ANy help?

Wayne
 
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