Re: [newbie] Re: Netscape 128
Wasn't that export restriction removed like a month ago? Or at least it wasn't illegal anymore, as long as the ppl who wrote the soft registered it with the NSA or something. Well, I don't know the details, so I might be completely off-track here, but at least something happened to that export restriction that made the world cheer in joy. Of course, I wouldn't trust the NSA for one single bit with my crypto-software (should I have written any); too many scandals about them abusing their power and inside knowledge about these algorithms not only to help national security, but also national economy by performing industrial espionage, and some other stuff that's not quite kosjer. But that's politics, and doesn't really belong on this list. On Mar 29 Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello, Sorry it took so long, I'm in the Windows partition and it does EVERYTHING slower grrr! Here's the address for Netscape 4.72 128 bit browser: ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-crypto/RPMS/ You'll need both the 'common' and the 'communicator' files (navigator is built into communicator), and remember that if you're in the United States it is illegal (last I heard) to export 128 bit encryption If you're not in the US, make sure it's o.k. for you to have this wherever you happen to be. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org 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] apache and asp
What is the program to run asp on an apache web server? -Original Message- From: Ron Balch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 5:24 PM To: Newbie Linux List Subject: [newbie] Samba I notice that in SWAT under the advanced configuration settings, there are alot of options for Domain Logon's. I have played around with them, and have come up with this question: Can you configure Samba as a PDC? I hope this isn't a stupid question, but cant seem to figure this out so that I can have Samba process domain logon's. Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] question re installing applications
I have two users on my Linux box - root and kirk. (I am the only one using the computer.) Under root, I installed StarOffice, and then, later, under kirk, I wanted to use it, and I had to install it again. Is there any way that applications can be installed once for all users? Does this have something to do with permissions and groups? I guess I should not have installed it under root, right? What do I do now to uninstall it? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [newbie] question re installing applications
As root you should install staroffice with the /net option. Then, as user, go into the /path/to/staroffice/bin dir, and run the setup located there. Then you can install some personal files (I beliefe it's about 5MB) into your personal homedir. The README file, or whatever docs that came with SO, covers this type of install. See there for more info. On Mar 30 Kirk McElhearn wrote: I have two users on my Linux box - root and kirk. (I am the only one using the computer.) Under root, I installed StarOffice, and then, later, under kirk, I wanted to use it, and I had to install it again. Is there any way that applications can be installed once for all users? Does this have something to do with permissions and groups? I guess I should not have installed it under root, right? What do I do now to uninstall it? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org 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] upgrading RedHat 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0
Hello Folks, if this is covered in a FAQ, just point me the way :) Is it possible to upgrade a running RedHat 6.1 installation to Mandrake 7.0. Will it keep my system-configuration, or will it break anything? Is there an option for this in the install-util on the CD? I want to have a clear picture on this before trying anything fancy :) thanks in advance Frank - | Frank Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]_ ___| | Schleestr. 21IRC: Foppel/ __// /_ | | 72766 Reutlingen / _/ // | | Tel: 07121-492051 /_/ //| -- http://www.tue.bawue.de/menschen/frank/ --
[newbie] I cant access CDROM and Floppy
I have a problem with the supermount i cant access my floppy sor CD it say is bad mounted or not have any disk., I re-install the system but still the same, any help __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Loadlin
-Original Message- From: Eric MC DECLERCK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 10:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Loadlin STARTING LINUX WITH LOADLIN. Step by step installation: - make a dir in windoz (ex: loadlin) - copy loadlin.exe to your dir. Modif of 'MSDOS.SYS' : -click on this file and disable 'readonly' -open with an editer the file and set BootGUI=0 ( in section [Options](this don't start the logo of windoz. - in the same section set Logo=0 Modif of CONFIG.SYS : -open with a texteditor this file. -insert at top : [menu] menuitem=WIN, Windows 98 menuitem=LINUX, linux menudefault=WIN, 10 #or LINUX as you like ! [WIN] -insert at bottom : [LINUX] # -- sorry I forgot this line !! shell=C:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\loadlin\vmlinuz root=/dev/hd (here I suppose your HD = C, replace hd with your root partition in linux) Now go boot-up linux. mount your dos partition and copy 'vmlinuz-2.2x' to the dir 'loadlin' as 'vmlinuz'. That's all. Good luck Eric -Original Message- From: FREMAIN ANDUJAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Loadlin I am using Windows 2000 and windows 98 ok ,i ahve also linux mnadrake 7.02 install in the same HD y a partition dev/hda3/. ok i notice there is a boot.ini file in windows 2000, that have the menu option for windows make some arrange to the file now i see that linux is in the menu , when windows prompt the menu for choosing OS in DOS , but i cant get to linux from there ok i try loadlin , no luck does anyone hace idea how to make work __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] display problem with X
hello, I succesfully installed linux mandrake 7.0 on my system last week. But now I have a problem with X; the screen goes blank when X starts and runs (and it's not a screensaver). I tried cltrl-alt-fkey to switch to a text console, but whitout succes. What's going wrong here? bye, sven.
Re: [newbie] kppp Problems
finally got mandrake 7 installed. also had kppp problems. at 'linuxnewbies.org', there was an installation recipe especially for kppp. i followed it and it worked. hope this helps,larry - Original Message - From: Pittman, Merle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:33 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] kppp Problems DHCP depends on your ISP, whether they require you to use it or not. And since you are using dialup (Kppp) , I would say that you do need it. -Original Message- From: Troy Sherman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] kppp Problems In Mandrake 6.1, everything worked fine. Now that i have 7.0, The internet and the network won't work. In Kppp, i put in the phone #, DNS servers, username and pass. I couldn't get it to connect, so i added noauth to /etc/ppp/options. Now it will connect, but i can't go anywhere in netscape. As for the network, if i don't turn on DHCP, it won't be able to ping the other windows compuers, but when i turn it on, it gets an ip from one of the windows computers, then everything works. Is DHCP now Required or what?? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] upgrading RedHat 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0
frank, RedHat 6.2 will be out April 10. MacMillan Mandrake 7 died on my system, and I was trying to upgrade MacMillan Mandrake 6.0 to 7.0 You should only upgrade if you need added hardware support or something else new you NEED. There are current security updates for your RH 6.1 My comment would be "don't upgrade just to upgrade. If you upgrade any system be prepared to tweak a few things. (no real good answer for you I know, just experience) fwiw steve Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] upgrading RedHat 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:36:19 +0200 (MEST) On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, larry wrote: i just installed mandrake. i didn't see the word "redhat" anywhere in the installation. unless you know a hell of lot more than i do, i'd just do a new mandrake install. no, I asked if it is possible to upgrade RedHat 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0 (the homepage states that Mandrake is RedHat-compatible, so I assume that I can upgrade my RedHat 6.1 installation to Mandrake 7.0 without jeopardizing my whole configuration and setup... and I don't want to 'just' install mandrake over my existing system, because it'll take me additional two weeks to recreate my whole enviorment... larry bye Frank __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] new hard disk...
I totally depends on what you have on your Linux system that you might want to save. Generally the only things I save are my /home directory and any programs that I've downloaded that I want to reload after setup. It's a quick thing, usually, to just let the installer do it's job. You can assign all the partitions you want, then format as needed and have all the default files and folders, etc. go right where they're supposed to. If you didn't have any problems installing the first time around, this is what I would recommend. Just save your bookmarks from your /home/user/.netscape and whatever other .config files you want to save. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirk McElhearn wrote: I'm planning to add a second HD to my computer. The current one is 4.3 gigs, and I am getting a new 20 gig. Currently, I have the 4.3 in two partitions, one for Windows, the other for Linux. I want to leave the entire 4.3 for Windows, and use the 20 gig partly for Linux, and partly for BeOS. So, the question is, can I simply copy my Linux files onto the new HD, or do I have to do a complete install? If so, which folders and files do I need to copy from the current disk to maintain my config? Thanks for any help. Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
[newbie] Modem Blaster
I have a Creative Modem Blaster (PCI), and Mandrake 7 doesn't recognize it. I have tried Lothar and Kppp, but to no avail. Anybody know if this will work, or will I have to change hardware? bryan __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Sounblaster AWE64 PNP
did you disable plug 'n play in your bios ???
RE: [[newbie] Mandrake and large hard Drive on 486]
There is a floppy-based networking distro of Linux called Linux Router Project http://www.linuxrouter.org -Original Message- From: Jaguar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Mandrake and large hard Drive on 486] Mandrake 6.0 and up is optimised for Pentium based machines...it may install on your 486...but it will be very slow. Yes I have seen a floppy based install for Networking...not sure what it's called though. HTH Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks in Advance, I have Mandrake 6.1. I'm wanting to put it on my IBM ValuePoint 486 DX66. I have a 1.2Gig hard drive that I want to use for the system. The bios doesn't support High capacity Hard Drives. I've read somewhere (which was full of bad links) that you don't need Overlay software to make the bios recognize the hard drive if you use Linux. My cd-rom on the 486 is not bootable. I also have a k-6 350 with cd-rom, which will boot, except that I get corruption when I try to dual boot with it(another long story). Can anyone tell me if there's a way to install Linux on a 127MB disk then install Mandrake onto the large drive? Another question that might help, is there a small distrabution that has network card support and will communicate with a WIN98 machine over a network? Maybe this is a better way of putting it: PC 1 Aptiva with CD-ROM and CD-RW running win98FE, ethernet card 10/100 PC2 Valuepoint 486 with 127 mb hard drive *recognized*, 20mb hardcard *recognized* 1.2GB hard drive *not recognized* currently running WIN3.1 CD-ROM or eithernet card can be added. But CD-ROM isn't a boot device. I'm quite confused on how I should install Linux on the 486. James Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Problem starting up: fsck command not found
Title: Glacier Hello, Just installed my Mandrake 6.1 from a magazine cover cd. After installing, I get an error when trying to boot into Linux. (dual-boot system with win98) The following happens: Loading default keymap OK Activating swap partitions OK Setting hostname localhost.localdomin OK Checking root filesystem /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: fsck: command not found FAILED Then I am asked to give root password for maintenance... Anybody have a clue to what I am gonna do? Per Holje IT developer P4 Radio Hele Norge ASA Brainbench Certified Professional
Re: [newbie]Window Drives under Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I detect my Window's drivers under Mandrake? 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html You don't. You have to use the drivers written for your hardware that are specific to Linux. For example, if you want to use your video card and monitor under Linux, you generally have to have XFree86 and an Xserver loaded on your machine. These are drivers written for the Linux enviroment by the open source community. If you look at your video card's manufacturer website, you'll notice that they generally say they only support Windows or maybe Macintosh computers. Hope that helps, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] CD copying to HD
Hi, here at work we would like to copy CD contents to a local hard drive and make it available over the network, is there such an utility in Linux that would allow us to do that? Thanks
RE: [newbie] how do you make a boot disk for linux manually with kde, gnome or aNY OTHRER window manager?
Open a terminal window (if you are running KDE or someother window manager) and at the command line, type "mkbootdisk". This will show you how to use this utility. do a "man mkbootdisk" to find out the options. -Original Message- From: Ken Olliffe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how do you make a boot disk for linux manually with kde,gnome or aNY OTHRER window manager? At 02:46 PM 28/03/00 -0500, you wrote: how do you make a boot disk for linux manually with kde, gnome or aNY OTHRER window manager I saw a possible answer to your question in a FAQ last night but I cannot remember where. The suggestion was to lo0ok up man pages at man mkbootdisk. Good luck.Ken.
Re: [newbie] Proxy server and cable setup.
I use RR in Rocheste, NY just set the protocol for you nic to DHCP (under linuxconf) and linux will setup the rest based on the info it receives from the DHCP server "Pittman, Merle" wrote: contact your ISP and get all the info (DNS, IP, gateway, etc.) and then you can proceed. -Original Message- From: George Jones IV [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Proxy server and cable setup. I just built up a new machine to serve as my proxy server using Mandrake7. The problem is that I have no idea how to set it up as one! I also cannot get my RoadRunner setup under Linux. I'm using a 3com Cable Modem cmx going into a Linksys 10 base T PCI card. M7 has detected the nic and set it up when I installed the OS. How do I set this up?
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Vic said: I wonder who I can e mail to tell them that Netscape sucks? The only problem is that it sucks less than any other X browser. g -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB
I assume your device is a 100 MB Parallel Zip Drive. If so, it utilizes a built-in SCSI adapter. Hence, Linux should recognize it not as hda (which would normally be the primary (boot) IDE harddisk), but more likely as something like /sdX (where X = its natural position in the SCSI chain after your SCSI harddisks and CD-ROM). So you might perhaps try mounting it with mount -t vfat /dev/sdX /mnt/zip If it's a 100 MB USB Zip Drive, though, Linux may not recognize it at all because of difficulties in handling USB ports (maybe in some future release ?). Good luck ! - john - At 09:08 28-03-00 +0200, Thorsten wrote: >. >I have a SCSI-System runnig. (hard-disks and cd are working super) On >my first IDE I have a100MB Zip Drive. The System recognizes it as hda. >Now I want to mount it by using: > >mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/zip (The directory /mnt/zip exists) > >The following error occures. > >wrong fs, bad superblock or too many filesystems mounted.
Re: [newbie] Kmail
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: Go to Settings, Network, highlight the account, select Modify, and check enable Interval Mail checking. Ed Evening all, finaly got around to trying some of the OTHER features and ran into Kmail. Does any one know how to get this thing to automagically go out and check for new mail every 10 - 15 minutes. I have'nt found any thing in the Settings YET but I'll keep looking. TIA -- Joe Gardner Handi Krafts www.handi-krafts.com Linux is like a wigwam, No windows, no gates, and Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ # 68118000
RE: [newbie] Sounblaster AWE64 PNP
In the bios, I enabled plug n play before the upgrade, i.e., all pnp devices are initialized by the bios. I checked, and the bios now says that it has initialized my sound card. Idris
Re: [newbie] upgrading RedHat 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, steve harris wrote: Hi Steve and others... RedHat 6.2 will be out April 10. thanks, thats not the problem, the iso image for rh62 is allready on my machine ;) MacMillan Mandrake 7 died on my system, and I was trying to upgrade MacMillan Mandrake 6.0 to 7.0 well thats at least a statement which tells me that upgrading with Mandrake does probably not work... My comment would be "don't upgrade just to upgrade. Thats certainly true in most cases and the reason why I'm asking this question in this forum. I just would like to see the speedups everybody is speaking about. If you upgrade any system be prepared to tweak a few things. (no real good answer for you I know, just experience) Well, I wouldn't expect that a action like that runs 'out of the box', I just want to know if somebody achieved it without spoiling the system. There's a slight difference between tweaking a few things and reinstalling the whole system+configuration+me nerves... ;) (I've done such stupid things ages ago, and I remember the nights repairing such systems... ;) fwiw steve thanks for your answers and hints Frank Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] upgrading RedHat 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:36:19 +0200 (MEST) On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, larry wrote: i just installed mandrake. i didn't see the word "redhat" anywhere in the installation. unless you know a hell of lot more than i do, i'd just do a new mandrake install. no, I asked if it is possible to upgrade RedHat 6.1 to Mandrake 7.0 (the homepage states that Mandrake is RedHat-compatible, so I assume that I can upgrade my RedHat 6.1 installation to Mandrake 7.0 without jeopardizing my whole configuration and setup... and I don't want to 'just' install mandrake over my existing system, because it'll take me additional two weeks to recreate my whole enviorment... larry bye Frank
Re: [newbie] Modem Blaster
Hi: I set mine up as a generic hayse compatible, it works well, And stays on line days on end (until my ISP burps), then auto dial brings it back on line in less than a minute. Herman On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: I have a Creative Modem Blaster (PCI), and Mandrake 7 doesn't recognize it. I have tried Lothar and Kppp, but to no avail. Anybody know if this will work, or will I have to change hardware? bryan __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] fixed it]]
You type "linux 3" at the LILO prompt, it's NOT an image, but an init level. Then login as ROOT and does as I suggested KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't do this...because I don't have a image called linux 3... someone else suggested this kind of thing...but using linux 2 instead... but when I tried to login using lnux 2...it said no such image... also tried linux 3...with same replywhat else can be done? Jaguar wrote: Reset the monitor to GENERIC before changing monitor's, and login using the LINUX 3 then ROOT to check the setup (with setup, xconfigurator, XF86Setup, xf86configyour choice) and adjust as needed. HTH Jaguar KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure you understand... I need a safe default setting...BEFORE I changeover to the new monitor...so that when I do changeover...I'll still be able to view the login screen...etc...and then be able to bringup drakeconf... to change the xconfigurator...etc...to the new settings for the new monitor...not go back to the prior settings... Bruce Hilliker wrote: KompuKit wrote: okay, somehow...I was just about able to see more clearly... on subsequent reboots...and was then able to click and open drakeconf...to change the monitor settings...and res now I'm back in Linux...thank God ! What I want to know is this... I haven't changed over to the new monitor yet...but did changover to a Acerview 34T 14" for the time being... until I go get the new one tommorow... the new one is a Hitachi 17" about a year old. don't know the model number yet. anyway, how can I set the settings...BEFORE rebooting to the new monitor,once it's installed...and not let this happen again...where I couldn't see to change the configs. what is a safe setting to use...like perhaps a default...when switching over to the new one...? -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit=== When you run into that problem with resolution, monitor, vid card and you lose the screen - all black or the such; try using the "ctrl-alt-backspace" (without the quotes) combination - usually this will bring you back to your prior settings. Bruce :-) -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit=== Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit=== Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] Mandrake and large hard Drive on 486]
If you goto http://www.linux-mandrake.com they have a version that was made for the 486.
Re: [newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB
FYI, IDE Zip drives exist. I have one, so I should know. Zip drives come in more flavours than just the parallel/USB ones. Anyway, can't help you with your problem though; mine gets recognised OK, but it's acting weird, so I believe a click-of-death is pretty imminent :-( On Mar 28 John D. Herron wrote: I assume your device is a 100 MB Parallel Zip Drive. If so, it utilizes a built-in SCSI adapter. Hence, Linux should recognize it not as hda (which would normally be the primary (boot) IDE harddisk), but more likely as something like /sdX (where X = its natural position in the SCSI chain after your SCSI harddisks and CD-ROM). So you might perhaps try mounting it with mount -t vfat /dev/sdX /mnt/zip If it's a 100 MB boldUSB/bold Zip Drive, though, Linux may not recognize it at all because of difficulties in handling USB ports (maybe in some future release ?). Good luck ! - john - At 09:08 28-03-00 +0200, Thorsten wrote: . I have a SCSI-System runnig. (hard-disks and cd are working super) On my first IDE I have a100MB Zip Drive. The System recognizes it as hda. Now I want to mount it by using: mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/zip (The directory /mnt/zip exists) The following error occures. wrong fs, bad superblock or too many filesystems mounted. -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org 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
Re: [newbie] CD copying to HD
What do you want to share over the network? The files (contents of CD)? -- just copy them to wherever you want. The iso-image? -- just copy /dev/cdrom (yes, /DEV/cdrom; not /MNT/cdrom) to a file; like this: cp /dev/cdrom /home/httpd/html/iso-images/mandrake_7.0-2.iso these .iso files can be mounted in linux as well, FYI, with the options -t iso9660 -o loop, so you can still access their contents. You can write these isos back to CD as well; cdrecord is the program you need to do this, I believe. If your cdrom is not on /dev/cdrom because for some reason the symbolic link is not set, use /dev/hdb or whatever the device is instead. On Mar 30 Scala, Lino wrote: Hi, here at work we would like to copy CD contents to a local hard drive and make it available over the network, is there such an utility in Linux that would allow us to do that? Thanks -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org 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
Re: [[newbie] Mandrake and large hard Drive on 486]
Thanks for the Information, I'll try both Distros when I get home. James Flanagan
Re: [newbie] Sounblaster AWE64 PNP
I had the same problem and solved it thus: From the command line (not from x or an x-console) run sndconfig - it will find the card and configure things - you will then hear Torvalds pronouncing LINUX, and a small MIDI file, and you're home! (You may have to do this a couple of times, but it will eventually take.) Idris S Hamid wrote: I just upgraded to version 7.0 (from 5.3) last night. Much to my dismay, the sound still does not work (I was hoping that all I needed was a new kernel). Upon running sndconfig, here is what I get: The following error occurred running the isapnp program: Don't know what to do with DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0)) on or around line 65 /etc/isapnp.conf:65 -- Fatal - Error occurred parsing config file --- no action taken This message also occurs upon booting linux; it appears to be the same message I got when I had 5.3 installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated Idris
[newbie] re: X Won't Start Helppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i went to the addy u mentioned ftp://ftp.rpmfind.com/linux/mandrake/cooker/contrib/rpms and got the xf86 4 rpms but the Xaw3d and xinitrc dob't seem to be there - Original Message - From: John Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! Try this. Go to ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/ once there go to the contrib directory and download the XFree86-4.0 RPMS. You will also need to install Xaw3d-devel and the xinitrc rpm from that directory. Don't worry about the Xconfigurator it won't work. You have to use xf86setup. Anyway install all that. Make a sym-link in /etc/X11 like this 'ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X'. You can also stop running xfs (if you currently run it) as it is built into XFree86 4.0. This is what I did and it works fine. The last time I downloaded the binaries from XFree86.org I had many problems also. Waiting for RPMS is the best answer. Luckily they are out. -- Original Message -- From: "magick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:45:18 -0500 no i didn't do an rpm install i downloaded the files from xfree86.org - Original Message - From: Mike Tracy Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! I haven't had much luck either with 4.0, if you did an rpm install, you can just go back, uninstall and reinstall 3.3.6 from the disk. (At least that would save an entire system reinstallation.) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. sorry I can't tell you how to fix the problem :-o - Original Message - From: magick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! YES i have tried startx obviously if i can sy that it gives me the error explicit use of the kill command or sever shutdown i have trie dto startx using the startx command - Original Message - From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate it have you tried "xstart" or "startx" ? w/o quotes? that should start it once more. try again and reply once more. To The Future Of Linux Together Let's Crush MicroSoft And Take Back Our Desktops
[newbie] fstab for CD writer?
Hi! I'm runnig Mandrake 7 and I have just bought a HP CD writer from a friend. How does the fstab entry have to look like for a CD writer? Thanks in advantage, -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
Re: [newbie] Netscape
Sheah---as if, On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Lane Lester mewed: Vic said: I wonder who I can e mail to tell them that Netscape sucks? The only problem is that it sucks less than any other X browser. g -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
[newbie] Installing apps from source code
I'm brand new to Linux - used Unix a long time ago, but don't remember much - I've downloaded a file manager in the form of source code, and need to do a "make" to compile it - typing "make" at the shell prompt tells me that there is no "make" in my searchpath, and I tried to do a File Find, and there doesn't seem to be an executable called "make" - I have tried to upgrade in Expert mode and select as many C++ related libraries, etc. as I could find, but still don't seem to have the elusive "make" command - anyone know specifically which package(s) I need to install? I don't have room for ALL of the developement packages in the Mandrake install.
Re: [newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB
I think you can call Iomega and let them hear that click of death, and they *should* replace it, I heard. On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Rial Juan mewed: FYI, IDE Zip drives exist. I have one, so I should know. Zip drives come in more flavours than just the parallel/USB ones. Anyway, can't help you with your problem though; mine gets recognised OK, but it's acting weird, so I believe a click-of-death is pretty imminent :-( On Mar 28 John D. Herron wrote: I assume your device is a 100 MB Parallel Zip Drive. If so, it utilizes a built-in SCSI adapter. Hence, Linux should recognize it not as hda (which would normally be the primary (boot) IDE harddisk), but more likely as something like /sdX (where X = its natural position in the SCSI chain after your SCSI harddisks and CD-ROM). So you might perhaps try mounting it with mount -t vfat /dev/sdX /mnt/zip If it's a 100 MB boldUSB/bold Zip Drive, though, Linux may not recognize it at all because of difficulties in handling USB ports (maybe in some future release ?). Good luck ! - john - At 09:08 28-03-00 +0200, Thorsten wrote: . I have a SCSI-System runnig. (hard-disks and cd are working super) On my first IDE I have a100MB Zip Drive. The System recognizes it as hda. Now I want to mount it by using: mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/zip (The directory /mnt/zip exists) The following error occures. wrong fs, bad superblock or too many filesystems mounted. -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org 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 -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] attn: Kirk McElhearn
I find that its best to let the unix box be the main server and all other single-user systems be the workstations. Just my 2 pennies On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Michael Holt mewed: Hello Kirk, I read your apple isdn question (internet sharing). I don't know the answer to your question, but I wanted to ask you one and didn't want to clutter up your original message. Anyway, I'm considering buying an iMac sometime this summer but have never used Apple products (just in it for learning), are you using an iMac? I would like to network it in with my current Linux / Windows PC's, have you had any real problems with that? Also, have you tried MKlinux? (That's the version built on the mac microkernel). Any thoughts would be appreciated, whenever you get the chance. Thanks, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. Just a thought, can you connect the Linux box to the internet and use the apple ethernet to share connection? -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB
Indeed; one of the big fish at Iomega stated on American national television that Iomega replaces all COD-drives, even after the warranty has expired. Or so I read. But since the drive isn't clicking yet; just acting weird, I need to verify what the problem is first. But I believe it might be a sign that the drive is about to go dead anytime soon now. On Mar 30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you can call Iomega and let them hear that click of death, and they *should* replace it, I heard. -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org 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
RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code
did you do "configure" before attempting "make"? Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing apps from source code I'm brand new to Linux - used Unix a long time ago, but don't remember much - I've downloaded a file manager in the form of source code, and need to do a "make" to compile it - typing "make" at the shell prompt tells me that there is no "make" in my searchpath, and I tried to do a File Find, and there doesn't seem to be an executable called "make" - I have tried to upgrade in Expert mode and select as many C++ related libraries, etc. as I could find, but still don't seem to have the elusive "make" command - anyone know specifically which package(s) I need to install? I don't have room for ALL of the developement packages in the Mandrake install.
[newbie] Memory Problems
I have an Intergraph TD-4 dual CPU Pentium 90 I've installed Mandrake 7.0 on. The BIOS reports that the system has 96MB of RAM, however Mandrake only reports 65MB... Help Chris
[newbie] FW: FYI.....
I know this is not the subject for this Group, just a little hint to be careful so we still have all here to communicate with each other... Word to the wise and not too careful.. - Forwarded message -- tell them to clean the tops of the tonic cans they get out of the machine...this is awful WELL WORTH PAYING ATTENTION TO... TRUE STORY. HAPPENED IN JULY 1999 A stock clerk was sent to clean up a storeroom at their Maui, Hawaii location. When he got back, he was complaining that the storeroom was really filthy, and that he had noticed dried mouse or rat droppings in some areas. A couple of days later, he started feeling like he was coming down with stomach flu, achy joints, headache, and he started throwing up. He went to bed and never really got up. Within two days he was so ill and weak. His blood sugar count was down to 66 and his face and eyeballs were yellow. He was rushed to the emergency at Pali Momi, where they said he was suffering from massive organ failure! He died shortly before midnight. None of us would have ever made the connection between his job and his death, but the doctors specifically asked if he had been in a warehouse or exposed to dried rat or mouse droppings at any time. They said there is a virus (much like Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat and mouse droppings. Once dried, these droppings are like dust, and can easily be ingested if a person is not careful to wash their hands and face thoroughly, or wear protective gear. An autopsy was conducted to verify the doctors' suspicions. This is why it is extremely important to ALWAYS carefully rinse off the tops of any canned sodas or foods, and wipe off pasta packaging,cereal boxes, etc. Almost everything you buy in a supermarket was stored in a warehouse at one time or another, and stores themselves often have rodents. Most of us remember to wash vegetables and fruit but never think of boxes and cans. The ugly truth is... even the most modern, upper-class, super store has rats and mice. And their Warehouse most assuredly does! Whenever you buy any canned soft drink, please make sure that you wash the top with running water and soap, or if not available, drink with a straw. A brief investigation by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta of soda cans discovered that the top of soda cans can be encrusted with dried rat's urine which is toxic and lethal! Canned drinks and other foodstuffs are stored in warehouses and containers that are usually infested with rodents and then get transported to the retail outlets without being properly cleaned. Please forward this message to the people you care about. 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] Memory size problem
For some reason linux is not using all of my system's memory. My system has 256Meg, but linux is only using 64Meg. The BIOS sees all 256 Meg so I know it is there. I am using Mandrake 7.0. Does anyone have any idea what could be happening? Thank you, Jeff
Re: [newbie]Window Drives under Linux
In a message dated 03/30/2000 9:42:46 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I detect my Window's drivers under Mandrake? 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html You don't. You have to use the drivers written for your hardware that are specific to Linux. For example, if you want to use your video card and monitor under Linux, you generally have to have XFree86 and an Xserver loaded on your machine. These are drivers written for the Linux enviroment by the open source community. If you look at your video card's manufacturer website, you'll notice that they generally say they only support Windows or maybe Macintosh computers. Hope that helps, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess what I meant was how much space does do I have-like the 'My Computer' icon for Windows. What I want to do is download a Linux friendly ISP, but I have to use Windows/AOL to do it and then transfer the file over to Linux and run it from there... How can I do this? 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html
Re: [newbie] Memory Problems
"Congdon, Christopher" wrote: I have an Intergraph TD-4 dual CPU Pentium 90 I've installed Mandrake 7.0 on. The BIOS reports that the system has 96MB of RAM, however Mandrake only reports 65MB... Help Chris Richard wrote: No, I have 128 memory and It all works fine on mandrke although I had some trouble on slackware debian...well to tell ya it should support your memory, but Im wondering if you typed down 96 memory when during the setup? well because U should enter it manually...sorry of my grammer
RE: [newbie] Sounblaster AWE64 PNP
hello !!! I said disable your plug 'n play ! because it conflicts with the linux detectionn.. but don't believe me read more about it on mandrake page ! but anyway you must disable you plug 'n play (which is a windows thingy anyway) I have a awe64 as well .. and disabling plug and play did it for me
Re: [Re: [newbie] fixed it]
KompuKit wrote: I can't do this...because I don't have a image called linux 3... someone else suggested this kind of thing...but using linux 2 instead... but when I tried to login using lnux 2...it said no such image... also tried linux 3...with same replywhat else can be done? I'm assuming we're talking about the LILO prompt. Try this: linux init 3 -Stephen-
RE: [newbie] Memory Problems
I entered all 256 manually during the install and it didn't work... I had to go in to the lilo.conf file and add append="mem=256M", I'm in windows right now so I don't really where it goes since I'm not in Linuuux, I believe it goes close to the bottom. You also need to run lilo -v from the command line after editing the file Later, Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of root Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 3:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Memory Problems "Congdon, Christopher" wrote: I have an Intergraph TD-4 dual CPU Pentium 90 I've installed Mandrake 7.0 on. The BIOS reports that the system has 96MB of RAM, however Mandrake only reports 65MB... Help Chris Richard wrote: No, I have 128 memory and It all works fine on mandrke although I had some trouble on slackware debian...well to tell ya it should support your memory, but Im wondering if you typed down 96 memory when during the setup? well because U should enter it manually...sorry of my grammer
RE: [newbie] Sounblaster AWE64 PNP
I thought you meant disable OS initialization of plug 'n play and enable bios initialization (this is in the install guide). Anyway, I got things working. I reinstalled with a fresh install instead of an upgrade, then ran sndconfig from an xterm instead of from Konsole (bios initialization of pnp is still on). Everything now works fine. Thanks to all for your help. Now onto the next problem... Idris On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Robert Revet wrote: hello !!! I said disable your plug 'n play ! because it conflicts with the linux detectionn.. but don't believe me read more about it on mandrake page ! but anyway you must disable you plug 'n play (which is a windows thingy anyway) I have a awe64 as well .. and disabling plug and play did it for me
Re: [newbie] Memory Problems
"Congdon, Christopher" wrote: I have an Intergraph TD-4 dual CPU Pentium 90 I've installed Mandrake 7.0 on. The BIOS reports that the system has 96MB of RAM, however Mandrake only reports 65MB... Help This is still a memory addressing issue -- someone has posted a solution to this problem but at the moment it escapes me. Is there a setting in your BIOS marked " OS/2 RAM 64 Mb" -- if so, try enabling that... there is, however, a more elegant solution -- I think it involves specifying the exact RAM amount at boot time (you can add this to your lilo.conf). -Stephen-
Re: [newbie]Window Drives under Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 03/30/2000 9:42:46 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I detect my Window's drivers under Mandrake? 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html You don't. You have to use the drivers written for your hardware that are specific to Linux. For example, if you want to use your video card and monitor under Linux, you generally have to have XFree86 and an Xserver loaded on your machine. These are drivers written for the Linux enviroment by the open source community. If you look at your video card's manufacturer website, you'll notice that they generally say they only support Windows or maybe Macintosh computers. Hope that helps, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess what I meant was how much space does do I have-like the 'My Computer' icon for Windows. What I want to do is download a Linux friendly ISP, but I have to use Windows/AOL to do it and then transfer the file over to Linux and run it from there... How can I do this? Use the 'mount' command in Linux. $ man mount will give you a good manual for using mount. You have to know the Unix name of the partitions you want to mount. An example would be (as root) mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/win You have to create the directory "win" first. -Stephen-
RE: [newbie] what and where
Try VNC (Virtual Network Computing) It has several ports, including NT, 95/98, and Linux... http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ -Original Message- From: Chadley Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 12:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] what and where Hi all what is that program called that allows you to have acces to another pcs desktop and where do I download it for debian. I have the pakage already but it is on my mdk7.02 disk is there away of using any of the pakages in Corel linux thanks in adv chadley wilson 012 333 2276 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] Kmail]
On Mon, 05 May 2036, you wrote: Joseph S Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evening all, finaly got around to trying some of the OTHER features and ran into Kmail. Does any one know how to get this thing to automagically go out and check for new mail every 10 - 15 minutes. I have'nt found any thing in the Settings YET but I'll keep looking. TIA -- Joe Gardner === Hi Joe, Under settings, choose network, select your account and click on modify. Put a check in the box to enable "interval mail checking". I use 1.0.17. There's no way to adjust the interval in my version. I also find the popup box annoying. What I do is I leave the interval checking box blank and I use kbiff to poll for mail on all three of my pop accounts. It checks every three minutes (adjustable) and I have it signal me (audio NOT visual) if mail is on my server. I then click on the inbox icon and it automagically launches kmail to retrieve the mail. (I use a "gong" from StarOffice's sound gallery). Works really well for me. HTH, Mike Thanks all, I found it. Interesting method of checking BTW after I've gotten along further I'll have to give it a bash -- Joe Gardner Handi Krafts www.handi-krafts.com Linux is like a wigwam, No windows, no gates, and Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ # 68118000
RE: [newbie] Memory Problems
I vaguely remember having seen this option in BIOS before, so I looked for it. This particular system does not have this option... Where do I find lilo.conf and what do I put in it? -Original Message- From: Stephen F. Bosch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 2:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Memory Problems "Congdon, Christopher" wrote: I have an Intergraph TD-4 dual CPU Pentium 90 I've installed Mandrake 7.0 on. The BIOS reports that the system has 96MB of RAM, however Mandrake only reports 65MB... Help This is still a memory addressing issue -- someone has posted a solution to this problem but at the moment it escapes me. Is there a setting in your BIOS marked " OS/2 RAM 64 Mb" -- if so, try enabling that... there is, however, a more elegant solution -- I think it involves specifying the exact RAM amount at boot time (you can add this to your lilo.conf). -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] Memory Problems
Boot Linux and goto your /etc directory edit lilo.conf you'll see and append= line change it to append = "mem=256M" Also, you can try linux mem=256m at the lilo prompt, just to make sure you don't mess anything up. after you edit lilo.conf, run: lilo -v and reboot. --- "Stephen F. Bosch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Congdon, Christopher" wrote: I have an Intergraph TD-4 dual CPU Pentium 90 I've installed Mandrake 7.0 on. The BIOS reports that the system has 96MB of RAM, however Mandrake only reports 65MB... Help This is still a memory addressing issue -- someone has posted a solution to this problem but at the moment it escapes me. Is there a setting in your BIOS marked " OS/2 RAM 64 Mb" -- if so, try enabling that... there is, however, a more elegant solution -- I think it involves specifying the exact RAM amount at boot time (you can add this to your lilo.conf). -Stephen- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Hangs.......
I've had certain programs hang in X too. One thing you can try is ctrl-alt-backspace, and that will usually kick you back out to a command prompt. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had the problem of my GUI login just went away a few days ago and had to use the TEXT login then type in 'startx'. Then about 2 days ago my 'GUI' login came back unexpectedly, any thoughts? Another thingy is when running some programs like Konsole or xterm in different windows and then running Mandrake User's Guide through Netscape and then the HD light starts to glow very RED. After about 45 minutes of trying to get my mouse to the xkill or any other method of stopping the programs I just did the 'OFF' thingy. I worked for over a 1/2 hour trying to use xkill alone and never came any where near that Icon. Any ideas on what could be making this system go 'ballistic' like that? I am using AMD K6-II 3D Processor/w 32 meg of RAM and 64 meg of swap space, setup by Mandrake. My HD is a Maxtor 8.4 gig and CD-ROM is a 52x and is seen as only 44x by Linux. I also have a Parallel Port Zip drive @100 meg discs that IS NOT recognized by Linux. Still attempting to setup, any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated. I have tried both 'insmod' and 'modprobe' for 'ppa' and 'parport' no luck either way. 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. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code
Don't know if this helps, but I'll put in my two cents worth. I used to have a lot of problem install programs as source code. What works for me is: copy to package to /usr/local (rather than your home directory. When you I run configure, I have to do it like this to get it to work: ./configure then make make install That usually works for me. --- forstfed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you do "configure" before attempting "make"? Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing apps from source code I'm brand new to Linux - used Unix a long time ago, but don't remember much - I've downloaded a file manager in the form of source code, and need to do a "make" to compile it - typing "make" at the shell prompt tells me that there is no "make" in my searchpath, and I tried to do a File Find, and there doesn't seem to be an executable called "make" - I have tried to upgrade in Expert mode and select as many C++ related libraries, etc. as I could find, but still don't seem to have the elusive "make" command - anyone know specifically which package(s) I need to install? I don't have room for ALL of the developement packages in the Mandrake install. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] zip drive problem
I am having trouble getting the zip drive recognized in Mandrake 7.0. Here is what I get: # modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdksecure/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busyparport: Device or resource busy modprobe imm gives the same message (though I have a 100M drive so modpobe ppa should be correct). I added the following line to /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd /mnt/zipdiskvfatuser,noauto,rw 0 0 Please advise, thanks a lot! Best wishes Idris
RE: [newbie] Memory Problems
lilo.conf is in /etc the line starts: append= and should look like append="mem=128m" (assuming you have 128m ram) and run lilo -v. --- "Congdon, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I vaguely remember having seen this option in BIOS before, so I looked for it. This particular system does not have this option... Where do I find lilo.conf and what do I put in it? -Original Message- From: Stephen F. Bosch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 2:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Memory Problems "Congdon, Christopher" wrote: I have an Intergraph TD-4 dual CPU Pentium 90 I've installed Mandrake 7.0 on. The BIOS reports that the system has 96MB of RAM, however Mandrake only reports 65MB... Help This is still a memory addressing issue -- someone has posted a solution to this problem but at the moment it escapes me. Is there a setting in your BIOS marked " OS/2 RAM 64 Mb" -- if so, try enabling that... there is, however, a more elegant solution -- I think it involves specifying the exact RAM amount at boot time (you can add this to your lilo.conf). -Stephen- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie]Window Drives under Linux
Mount the harddrive using something like this: "mount /dev/the_harddrive_partition /mnt/disk" as root. Then go to /mnt/disk, and copy whatever file you need. Use "umount /mnt/disk" to umount the harddrive after your done. What I want to do is download a Linux friendly ISP, but I have to use Windows/AOL to do it and then transfer the file over to Linux and run it from there... How can I do this? 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code
Tried - the "config" command is not found, either. "forstfed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/30/2000 11:43:56 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joe Reynolds/ISSC/Texas Utilities) Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code did you do "configure" before attempting "make"? Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing apps from source code I'm brand new to Linux - used Unix a long time ago, but don't remember much - I've downloaded a file manager in the form of source code, and need to do a "make" to compile it - typing "make" at the shell prompt tells me that there is no "make" in my searchpath, and I tried to do a File Find, and there doesn't seem to be an executable called "make" - I have tried to upgrade in Expert mode and select as many C++ related libraries, etc. as I could find, but still don't seem to have the elusive "make" command - anyone know specifically which package(s) I need to install? I don't have room for ALL of the developement packages in the Mandrake install.
RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code
No luck - Neither "configure" nor "make" exist anywhere on my hard drive... Brent Pathakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/30/2000 02:04:14 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joe Reynolds/ISSC/Texas Utilities) Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code Don't know if this helps, but I'll put in my two cents worth. I used to have a lot of problem install programs as source code. What works for me is: copy to package to /usr/local (rather than your home directory. When you I run configure, I have to do it like this to get it to work: ./configure then make make install That usually works for me. --- forstfed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you do "configure" before attempting "make"? Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing apps from source code I'm brand new to Linux - used Unix a long time ago, but don't remember much - I've downloaded a file manager in the form of source code, and need to do a "make" to compile it - typing "make" at the shell prompt tells me that there is no "make" in my searchpath, and I tried to do a File Find, and there doesn't seem to be an executable called "make" - I have tried to upgrade in Expert mode and select as many C++ related libraries, etc. as I could find, but still don't seem to have the elusive "make" command - anyone know specifically which package(s) I need to install? I don't have room for ALL of the developement packages in the Mandrake install. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Re: Netscape 128
Thanks for the information. I am in Canada, where I am allowed to use the 128 bit encription. Murray -Original Message- From: Mike Tracy Holt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 2000, March, 29 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Re: Netscape 128 Hello, Sorry it took so long, I'm in the Windows partition and it does EVERYTHING slower grrr! Here's the address for Netscape 4.72 128 bit browser: ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-crypto/RPMS/ You'll need both the 'common' and the 'communicator' files (navigator is built into communicator), and remember that if you're in the United States it is illegal (last I heard) to export 128 bit encryption If you're not in the US, make sure it's o.k. for you to have this wherever you happen to be. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code
it should be: ./configure then: ./make then: ./make install then: ./make clean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code Tried - the "config" command is not found, either. "forstfed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/30/2000 11:43:56 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joe Reynolds/ISSC/Texas Utilities) Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code did you do "configure" before attempting "make"? Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing apps from source code I'm brand new to Linux - used Unix a long time ago, but don't remember much - I've downloaded a file manager in the form of source code, and need to do a "make" to compile it - typing "make" at the shell prompt tells me that there is no "make" in my searchpath, and I tried to do a File Find, and there doesn't seem to be an executable called "make" - I have tried to upgrade in Expert mode and select as many C++ related libraries, etc. as I could find, but still don't seem to have the elusive "make" command - anyone know specifically which package(s) I need to install? I don't have room for ALL of the developement packages in the Mandrake install.
[newbie] [resend] SoundBlaster PCI128
I have a SOUNDBLASTER PCI128 and I cant get it to load it says: --- /lib/modules/2.2.14-1/misc/es1370.o: init_module: Device or resource busy soundcore: Device or resource busy --- does anyone know how to fix it?
[newbie] Dell inspiron 6500 mandrake 6.5 q?
I have recently installed Mandrake 6.5 on my Dell Inspiron 7500 I get to the Login screen where the penguin is on the top left hand corner and then the login prompt, then the screen just blanks and I can't do anything. Please help. thanks! ADAM
[newbie] Dell Inspiron 7500 Mandrake 6.5 question
I have recently installed Mandrake 6.5 on my Dell Inspiron 7500 I get to the Login screen where the penguin is on the top left hand corner and then the login prompt, then the screen just blanks and I can't do anything. Please help. thanks! Adam
[newbie] Word Perfect Office 2000 for Linux....
I just got WP office 2000 for Linux. It installs easy and offers GREAT apps!! I've now owned Quattro Pro/WP under all O/Ses. DOS WIN Linux. I feel like have a computer now MarkP
[newbie] Can't Connect to the Internet
Hello all, I am running Mandrake 7.0 and I cannot get on the internet with Netscape. I have a PCMCIA card and usually connect through a cable modem or DSL line. I have received some suggestions and followed them: I went to /etc/resolv.conf and entered nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx. but this didn't work. Here is the error message I received when trying to connect: "warning the following hosts are unknown home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? If your site must use a non-root nameserver, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server. blah blah blah" I am very frustrated and would appreciate some help. thanks, Andrew
[newbie] Lack of download speed/completion
I have my computer connected to the Internet with a NE2000 PCI 10mhz card by way of a small home LAN. The connections are made by a 56K modem on good phone lines. If I have OS/2 Warp running I can d/l the file, IBMJava-SDK-1_1_8-2_0_i386.RPM, in about 39 minutes with 4.5 k/sec using Netscape Communicator v4.61 for OS/2. If I have Win98 running, on the same machine, same connection setup, I can d/l the same file in about 41 minutes with a similar 4.5 k/sec with Netscape Communicator v7.2 for Windows. With Linux-Mandrake 7.0, or L-M 6.0, Readhat 5.2, or RH 6.0 I give up after several hours with a completion of about 5% with Netscape Communicator v7.0 or v7.2. I get tired of looking at (stalled) in the netscape download window. Same site, same time of day, same day of the week. This happens with ALL downloads, any site, any time, any day. Netscape displays web pages quickly. E-Mail downloads quickly. Any suggestions or information would be greatly appreciated. BTW.. incase it was not obvious, I am a Newbie a Linux, smile, but not to computing. -- --- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
[newbie] rpmdrake
I am trying to add an ftp site into rpmdrake, and don't understand what hdlist means. Here is the steps you take to get to this item: 1. Open rpmdrake 2. Click on Configuration.Add location of packages.FTP The third box says "For FTP and HTTP, you need to give the location for hdist. It must be relative to the URL above." What does that mean? I can find no documentation for rpmdrake, so can't go there for my sources. I'm trying to add rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/RPMS and can't find a hdlist relative to that URL. Also, are there any other good RPM locations that I can add to my rpmdrake? Thanks!! Greg
[newbie] Linux Windows Network
When I installed linux it recognized my nic fine. Now that I am in it I don't know where to look to configure it, and other basic things such as actually connecting to a windows machine. Can you recommend links on setting up your nic as in what all the options mean an what you need to set up and what you don't inorder to connect to a win2000 machine via a home LAN. Thanks, Charles Ulwelling
Re: [newbie] attn: Kirk McElhearn
That makes sense, thanks M.Holt - Original Message - From: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] attn: Kirk McElhearn I find that its best to let the unix box be the main server and all other single-user systems be the workstations. Just my 2 pennies On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Michael Holt mewed: Hello Kirk, I read your apple isdn question (internet sharing). I don't know the answer to your question, but I wanted to ask you one and didn't want to clutter up your original message. Anyway, I'm considering buying an iMac sometime this summer but have never used Apple products (just in it for learning), are you using an iMac? I would like to network it in with my current Linux / Windows PC's, have you had any real problems with that? Also, have you tried MKlinux? (That's the version built on the mac microkernel). Any thoughts would be appreciated, whenever you get the chance. Thanks, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. Just a thought, can you connect the Linux box to the internet and use the apple ethernet to share connection? -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] re: X Won't Start Helppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are two spots at that address you need to check for updated rpms: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/mandrake/RPMS and ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/RPMS Check both of these sites to get the packages you're looking for - yes, they are there. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: magick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:00 AM Subject: [newbie] re: X Won't Start Helppp! i went to the addy u mentioned ftp://ftp.rpmfind.com/linux/mandrake/cooker/contrib/rpms and got the xf86 4 rpms but the Xaw3d and xinitrc dob't seem to be there - Original Message - From: John Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! Try this. Go to ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/ once there go to the contrib directory and download the XFree86-4.0 RPMS. You will also need to install Xaw3d-devel and the xinitrc rpm from that directory. Don't worry about the Xconfigurator it won't work. You have to use xf86setup. Anyway install all that. Make a sym-link in /etc/X11 like this 'ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X'. You can also stop running xfs (if you currently run it) as it is built into XFree86 4.0. This is what I did and it works fine. The last time I downloaded the binaries from XFree86.org I had many problems also. Waiting for RPMS is the best answer. Luckily they are out. -- Original Message -- From: "magick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:45:18 -0500 no i didn't do an rpm install i downloaded the files from xfree86.org - Original Message - From: Mike Tracy Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! I haven't had much luck either with 4.0, if you did an rpm install, you can just go back, uninstall and reinstall 3.3.6 from the disk. (At least that would save an entire system reinstallation.) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. sorry I can't tell you how to fix the problem :-o - Original Message - From: magick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! YES i have tried startx obviously if i can sy that it gives me the error explicit use of the kill command or sever shutdown i have trie dto startx using the startx command - Original Message - From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate it have you tried "xstart" or "startx" ? w/o quotes? that should start it once more. try again and reply once more. To The Future Of Linux Together Let's Crush MicroSoft And Take Back Our Desktops
[newbie] ZIP on hold..
Have not had much luck with the ZIP drive so checking out some of the info on the WHEEL mouse, mostly for Microsoft. I do recomend reading the 'man' pages on 'gpm' and 'imwheel' before you install them in the 'AutoInstall' file for 'KDE' if nothing else but to learn a little about commands and how they work. I have not had any luck in making anything work execpt the sound. Everything else is giving me trouble, NOT giving up though. I attribute most of this trouble to the fact I am NOT a Programmer nor even a Hacker, just a Keyboard Jockey with training wheels and they are 4 each and very BIG. I need them. 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.
[newbie] Startup Level Not Working
I installed M7 to automatically start X, and now I want to change that to stop at the console logon. I changed inittab to read: id:3:initdefault: ..but X still starts automatically. What needs to be done? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
[newbie] Can't Connect to the Internet
I sent this message once before but received a sending-mail error message. I don't know if it went out the first time so if you've already seen it, I apologize for the re-send. Hello all, I am running Mandrake 7.0 and I cannot get on the internet with Netscape. I have a PCMCIA card and usually connect through a cable modem or DSL line. I have received some suggestions and followed them: I went to /etc/resolv.conf and entered nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx. but this didn't work. Here is the error message I received when trying to connect: "warning the following hosts are unknown home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? If your site must use a non-root nameserver, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server. blah blah blah" I am very frustrated and would appreciate some help. thanks, Andrew
Re: [newbie] what and where
"Congdon, Christopher" wrote: Try VNC (Virtual Network Computing) It has several ports, including NT, 95/98, and Linux... http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ Wow! This thing is cool! Thanks for the tip =) -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] Memory Problems
"Congdon, Christopher" wrote: I vaguely remember having seen this option in BIOS before, so I looked for it. This particular system does not have this option... Where do I find lilo.conf and what do I put in it? Okay, lilo.conf is in /etc $ emacs /etc/lilo.conf Give me a second to figure out what command line arg you need to give it =) -Stephen- PS: Not very helpful, I know -- but I'm working on it.
RE: [newbie] Can't Connect to the Internet
Go into Drakconf, select Network Configuration. If you have anything set in primary gateway, or the incorrect DNS addies entered for your card, it may prevent correct dns resolution. I had the samething happening when I was attempting to set up internet sharing with another computer and forgot to remove that ip addie and dns address from in there. Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't Connect to the Internet I sent this message once before but received a sending-mail error message. I don't know if it went out the first time so if you've already seen it, I apologize for the re-send. Hello all, I am running Mandrake 7.0 and I cannot get on the internet with Netscape. I have a PCMCIA card and usually connect through a cable modem or DSL line. I have received some suggestions and followed them: I went to /etc/resolv.conf and entered nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx. but this didn't work. Here is the error message I received when trying to connect: "warning the following hosts are unknown home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? If your site must use a non-root nameserver, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server. blah blah blah" I am very frustrated and would appreciate some help. thanks, Andrew
Re: [newbie] Memory Problems
Brent Pathakis wrote: Boot Linux and goto your /etc directory edit lilo.conf you'll see and append= line change it to append = "mem=256M" Also, you can try linux mem=256m at the lilo prompt, just to make sure you don't mess anything up. after you edit lilo.conf, run: lilo -v and reboot. Er... what he said. Hooray, Brent =) -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] Can't Connect to the Internet
i had the same problem. Just get the DNS number from your ISP, and put it in the DNS tab of your setup. it worked for me. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't Connect to the Internet Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:59:40 EST Hello all, I am running Mandrake 7.0 and I cannot get on the internet with Netscape. I have a PCMCIA card and usually connect through a cable modem or DSL line. I have received some suggestions and followed them: I went to /etc/resolv.conf and entered nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx. but this didn't work. Here is the error message I received when trying to connect: "warning the following hosts are unknown home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net Perhaps there is a problem with your name server? If your site must use a non-root nameserver, you will need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to point at the appropriate name server. blah blah blah" I am very frustrated and would appreciate some help. thanks, Andrew __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Installing apps from source code
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't have room for ALL of the developement packages in the Mandrake install. Unless you're very knowledgeable about what every package does, my newbie conclusion is that the only path to Linux happiness is an "everything" install. The only thing I left out was the server stuff for my standalone machine. It's wonderful to be able to compile just about anything. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [newbie] Problem starting up: fsck command not found
Per Holje wrote: The fsck file is not present in the /sbin directory. I suspect that more files are also missing, because the startup script did not find /sbin/clock either. I could install all over again, but is there some other way? Perhaps getting the missing file(s) directly from the CD (or from the net) ? I suppose that depends on how crippled your installation is. Do you have network services running? Normally maintenance mode means your ethernet adapter is not up, so I suspect that looking around for files is not going to help you very much (Do you even have ftp installed?). If the stuff is on CD, it should have been installed properly. No, the more compelling question is why your install failed -- have you considered the possibility of a hardware issue that's preventing you from completing an install? Do you "hand-hold" your install? I think it would be a good idea to try it again and make a point of observing it from start to finish. I'll bet my underwear it encounters errors. -Stephen- PS: Det holder ikke å si "fy veldig".
Re: [newbie] Kmail
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: Evening all, finaly got around to trying some of the OTHER features and ran into Kmail. Does any one know how to get this thing to automagically go out and check for new mail every 10 - 15 minutes. I have'nt found any thing in the Settings YET but I'll keep looking. Personally I have fetchmail run as a cron job every 10 minutes, then just fire off kmail and check the local mail spool. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
[newbie] IP MASQ (internet works on clients, not on linux server)
I recently set up IP MASQ on my linux machine. When i connect to the net on the linux box, i can ping the DNS server of my ISP. Also if i type in something like ping www.nintendo.com it says pinging www.nintendo.com (208.135.64.101) (not those numbers, though). That means, its looking up the name, and can resolve the ip of the site, but the ping doesn't work. I can't go anywhere in netscape, and it says "No route to host". On my windows computer, i can open IE, and it will go to any site, just fine, through the linux MASQ server, so it must be working. There must be something wrong with the linux setup, but i can't figure out what to do. Thanks for any help. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code]
First you "cd" to the install DIR...the type "./configure" --that is DOT then slash, this tells the configure command to run IN the DIR your in. HTH Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried - the "config" command is not found, either. "forstfed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/30/2000 11:43:56 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joe Reynolds/ISSC/Texas Utilities) Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing apps from source code did you do "configure" before attempting "make"? Ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installing apps from source code I'm brand new to Linux - used Unix a long time ago, but don't remember much - I've downloaded a file manager in the form of source code, and need to do a "make" to compile it - typing "make" at the shell prompt tells me that there is no "make" in my searchpath, and I tried to do a File Find, and there doesn't seem to be an executable called "make" - I have tried to upgrade in Expert mode and select as many C++ related libraries, etc. as I could find, but still don't seem to have the elusive "make" command - anyone know specifically which package(s) I need to install? I don't have room for ALL of the developement packages in the Mandrake install. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] zip drive problem
I have not gotten my External Parallel Port ZIP Drive to work yet either. Will advise you though in your addition to 'fstab' file: /dev/hdd /mnt/zipdiskvfatuser,noauto,rw 0 0 ^ error /dev/hdb if your ZIP is an internal external I am not too sure. The "hdd" is telling your system it is the 3rd Hard Drive or in Windows 'D' drive. In Linux your floppy drive is not in the same category as the HD's, in Linux it is Identified as 'fpx' (x=1,2,3,4 a digit). Your first HD is 'a', second HD is 'b', third HD is 'c', etcetera. Most newer systems can handle up to 4 HD's with out having to use an additional Controller. I am sure most of you are aware of this, I just want to show I do know somthing, even though it may not be of much help. 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 Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:04:39 -0500 (EST) Idris S Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having trouble getting the zip drive recognized in Mandrake 7.0. Here is what I get: # modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdksecure/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busyparport: Device or resource busy modprobe imm gives the same message (though I have a 100M drive so modpobe ppa should be correct). I added the following line to /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd /mnt/zipdiskvfatuser,noauto,rw 0 0 Please advise, thanks a lot! Best wishes Idris 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] great
oh man, what a wonderful difference a 17" monitor makes...over a 15" I love my new monitor -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
Re: [newbie] fixed it
Yup! I must have. If your upgrading your monitor to a newer one, I would imagine that it would be able to handle your current resolution. Then, once you got into KDE you could run drakconf adjust to your new monitor and different resolution. If the monitor or resolution you selected wasn't right, you could use the "ctrl-alt-backspace" to return to KDE and try again. I learnt the hard way. When I tried to change my monitor and/or resolution to something else and either my monitor and/or video card didn't like it; my screen would go completely black and sometimes my monitor would just go to sleep. Before I found out about using "ctrl-alt-backspace", I would restart my computer because I thought at that point that I had too. But, linux does have some nice safe guards. Bruce :-) KompuKit wrote: I'm not sure you understand... I need a safe default setting...BEFORE I changeover to the new monitor...so that when I do changeover...I'll still be able to view the login screen...etc...and then be able to bringup drakeconf... to change the xconfigurator...etc...to the new settings for the new monitor...not go back to the prior settings... Bruce Hilliker wrote: KompuKit wrote: okay, somehow...I was just about able to see more clearly... on subsequent reboots...and was then able to click and open drakeconf...to change the monitor settings...and res now I'm back in Linux...thank God ! What I want to know is this... I haven't changed over to the new monitor yet...but did changover to a Acerview 34T 14" for the time being... until I go get the new one tommorow... the new one is a Hitachi 17" about a year old. don't know the model number yet. anyway, how can I set the settings...BEFORE rebooting to the new monitor,once it's installed...and not let this happen again...where I couldn't see to change the configs. what is a safe setting to use...like perhaps a default...when switching over to the new one...? -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit=== When you run into that problem with resolution, monitor, vid card and you lose the screen - all black or the such; try using the "ctrl-alt-backspace" (without the quotes) combination - usually this will bring you back to your prior settings. Bruce :-) -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
Re: RE: [newbie] Can't Connect to the Internet
Ed I don't understand this part of your message: incorrect DNS addies entered for your card Does my card itself have an address associated with it? The only address info I have is : adapter address, IP, subnet mask, and default gateway. Is the DNS address different from the IP? -Andrew
Re: [newbie] Can't Connect to the Internet
where do I find the DNS tab of my setup? Is there a setup file or are you talking about resolv.conf? Andrew
[newbie] Mandrake 7.1
Leo Laporte was mantioning somthing about Mandrake 7.1 coming out.. It was in a discussion about WinModems becoming LinModems.. MarkP
[newbie] HP 8100 CD-RW problems
I have an HP CDWriter+ 8100 and I can't seem to get it to work with the supermount. I can unmount and mount it manually using /dev/scd0 and it works but then I have to remount it every time I put in a new CD like in old Linux. I have Mandrake 7.0. Is there a way that I can get the drive to work with supermount so that I don't have to remount it manually everytime. If not, how can I make a script, and an icon on my desktop to run it, that umounts and mounts the drive. Thanks in advance. Justin
[newbie] problems starting x
Hi, I'm having problems starting x and was wondering if anyone else has this problem. When I log in as root, do startx, it works fine. If I login under my user account, (under which I setup my internet account using kppp), and try startx, nothing happens up unless I hit ctrl - c twice, then I get the message: hostname lookup failure And x starts a works fine. Anyone else had this happen? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1
I believe Leo was sayin that in Drake 7.0, it has the drivers for winmodems already. At 08:45 PM 3/30/00 -0600, you wrote: Leo Laporte was mantioning somthing about Mandrake 7.1 coming out.. It was in a discussion about WinModems becoming LinModems.. MarkP
[newbie] 3c509 problem!!
Hey everyone. In all the previous version of linux I've used, i have been able to set up my network perfectly fine. Well in drake 7.0, i set it up in Linuxconf, and i get no network. The NIC comes on, and is initialized, but i cant ping, or be pinged. What would cause this? I know the NIC and connection is fine, becuz windows works fine with it, on the same computer. Thanks alot in advance!! I've been workin on this since drake 7 came out, and i STILL havent solved it!!
Re: [newbie] HP 8100 CD-RW problems
i have the same problem but i can get burning programs to work
[newbie] Can't connect to the internet
Someone informed me that I do not have to mess with kapp if I'm not using a dial up connection. Should I still configure it? andrew
Re: [newbie] Can't connect to the internet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone informed me that I do not have to mess with kapp if I'm not using a dial up connection. Should I still configure it? kapp? Do you maybe mean kppp? No, if you're not on a dial-up, don't bother. -Stephen-
