Re: [newbie-it] Netscape Navigator
Cosma Scaramella wrote: Salve. Ho un piccolo problema con il browser Netscape: quando clicco su alcuni collegamenti nelle pagine web, semplicemente Netscape si chiude. Anche rilanciato il risultato è sempre lo stesso. Non è un grosso problema, ma mi piacerebbe porvi rimedio. Netscape ha diversi problemi. Che versione hai? Prova ad aggiornarla. La versione piu' recente la trovi a ftp://galileo.fis.uniroma2.it/pub/mandrake/devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ Un'altra buona idea e' di installare solo il Navigator e non il Comunicator. La differenza e' l'editor html e un po' di bachi aggiuntivi. ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
I would say; boot windows and use partition magic to resize, but it doesn't look like that's an option. The only thing I can think of, would be to boot your computer with your windows rescue disk and run fdisk from the prompt to delete your non-dos partitions and re-slice your drive to fit your needs. Then start over. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: [newbie] corrupt partition? Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my existing Win98 OS. Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)? I appear to have 2 Linux partitions one that is 1.5 GB and another at 7.1 GB. Booting using a Win98 system disk and running fdisk indicates that I have a 14MB partition that is FAT32. How can I resize my Linux partitions so that I can allocate enough HD space to re-install Win98. TIA Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
AW: [newbie] Xserver Problem with Trident 3DImage985
Hello there, I had a similar problem. My graphics card was a TRIDENT CyberBlade i7 3D AGP, my Monitor is a LG Studioworks 78FT (17" Flatron, 1600 x 1200). Due to my experience I shall never again buy any card or any Motherboard that has a Trident chip on it. Trident just sucks. What I did to make it work: Chose my Trident CyberBlade i7 and selected a generic "1024 x 768 60Hz LCD" ( !!! ) as my Monitor, as all other settings would not work with this card (my LG Monitor works OK when used with other cards such as ATI or NVIDIA). The result was that I got a 1024 x 768 16-Bit color screen at 60Hz. B U T : The performance really really sucks and is way behind even my slow old Pentium 90. I had to turn off almost all "special effects" such as "show contents when moving window" etc. Altough I made it work, I found my Linux experience with my Trident card was so frustrating that I shut it down and now instead use a RIVA TNT2 based card. DJ. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: arash momeni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Freitag, 31. März 2000 18:41 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [newbie] Xserver Problem with Trident 3DImage985 Hi I'm having problem with my Trident 3DImage985 AGP Videocard, when starting Xserver on Mandrake 6.1. The device is in the Driver list of this version of mandrake.I select the device from the list. Also my Monitor is in the list of monitors. It probes the setting Ok but X server has some problems with this device. Also when I select 800X600 in 8 bit mode, the X server can't perform a proper appearance. If anybody has the remedy, please inform me. Regards A. Momeni __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux
go to VMware Inc. www.vmware.com -Ursprngliche Nachricht-Von: Andrew Doe (Web master) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Gesendet am: Freitag, 31. Mrz 2000 23:19An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Betreff: [newbie] windows apps under linux how can it be done i know it can as i have seen write ups in mags but cannot find anything to do it andrew doe webmaster www.linuxfaqs.org.uk
[newbie] Still No Internet Connection
Hello All, Okay, I still cannot get on the internet but I have received some good leads, here's what I've done so far: went into Drakconf entered the two DNS numbers of my ISP (connection still didn't work) I think I may need to know the code or whatever it is for my "net device". That is one of the fields I have to fill in, "net device". There are about 20 options like "eth0, eth1, s10, tr0, tr1, etc. I have a PCMCIA card in the COM 1 slot (Joe, you mentioned that COM 1 = ttyso but that was not on the list. Is it o or 0 by the way?) It also required for me to enter something in the "kernel module" field. What the? I needed to specify "which order the various name services must be probed" (e.g. DNS, host or host,DNS are amont about 20 options). I have a cable modem DHCP connection, does that help anyone? Also, how do I know if my "machine is allowed to route IP packets". Finally, I have my hard drive partitioned into a windows and linux section. When booting up, LILO says I have both a "linux" and "linux_old" operating system. How do I get rid of the linux_old crap? all help is appreciated, Andrew
RE: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help
So far I have tried the CD only. When using the PCPLUS cd-rom i cannot create a boot disk, I get the message LoadLibrary16 failed! I have tried to set the bios to boot from CD, but my bios doesnt handle that. It can only boot from disk or hd. Make sure that the cd is in the drive and then go to the MSDOS command prompt, and type d:\dosutils\rawrite.exe, where d: is your cd drive. You should be able to create a bootdisk this way.
Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: I would say; boot windows and use partition magic to resize, but it doesn't look like that's an option. The only thing I can think of, would be to boot your computer with your windows rescue disk and run fdisk from the prompt to delete your non-dos partitions and re-slice your drive to fit your needs. Then start over. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: [newbie] corrupt partition? Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my existing Win98 OS. Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)? I appear to have 2 Linux partitions one that is 1.5 GB and another at 7.1 GB. Booting using a Win98 system disk and running fdisk indicates that I have a 14MB partition that is FAT32. How can I resize my Linux partitions so that I can allocate enough HD space to re-install Win98. TIA Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com If he had access to partition magic he would also have access to the dos based pqmagict.exe which is charecter based version of program. All he would need then would be a systems diskette. I perfer this over the pqmagic program because I have seen Windoze crash too many times... Version 4 or better does resize of ext2 and linux swap partitions. There are other programs out there.
RE: [newbie] Performance differences
I think it in the way that X handles video.. there's a generic video library called XsvgaLib, which is generic but slow. direct video is one of the features of XFree86 4, so things should be getting a lot quiker soon. -Original Message- From: Mani Abreu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 05:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance differences Oh, and while I'm at it. Truth be told, I've only read messages that seemed pertinent, and dumped all the rest. So another question: Why does Mandrake 7.0 (Linux in general?) seem to run slower than Windows95 when running the same application? That is, why does a video file run some much slower when using an application that has been compiled for Windows95 *and* Linux? Why does the "Flight of the Bumblebee" seem to be the "Flight of the Stumblebee" ? Mani Nope. Just tried that, here's the result: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading the drivers for the line printer first, before parport/ppa driver. How do I change the order around? Mani forstfed wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote: Well, try just doing the mount now. See if that does anything. Well, I tried that. Here's what I got after typing "insmod ppa": /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Any ideas? I really want to get this thing resolved. Mani forstfed wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: This is what worked for me: As su in a terminal window: mkdir /mnt/zip insmod parport insmod ppa mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip make sure there is a disk in. You have to umount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip to eject the disk, then mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip again when you insert another disk. Ed
[newbie] Upgrading Packages.
I've been having a hell of a time upgrading packages, I only have a slow, metered phone line at home so I download updates from work. I downloaded the new version of wine, and glx-mesa as rpm's. went to install it them, from rpmdrake and was told there were conflicts, so i went to uninstall wine-debug and mesa (why it didn't upgrade i don't know), wine-debug uninstalled fine, mesa told me there were dependant's. after a lot of searching for something different, and trying rpm from the command line, I then found KPackager and managed to uninstall mesa without dependants , and glx-mesa installed fine, and opengl is now about 4X faster. (except it does get lost if I change the screen res) is there an easier way to do this without spending several hours/days on the phone, which would probably cost me far more than getting a boxed copy of m$ 2000 enterprise. (not that i'd want to mind).
Re: [newbie] Killing X
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote: Anthony Huereca wrote: As we all know, X crashes every once in a while, causing us to have to kill it. However, I was wondering if there was a way to kill X without being root. The reason is that my brother had X crash on him, and you can't kill it while being a user, it says "Operation not premitted", and I don't want to give him the root password. So is there a way to kill X as a regular user? Or if there isn't, then what exactly would someone do to get back to a working GUI? use sudo. have your brother's userid in sudoers pointing to a script which contains a single line "killall X". Set the execution to nopasswd. this way, your brother will have root privs to execute one script, which has the ability to kill X. Ummm... I take it this means that Cntrl-Alt-BackSpace didn't work? Usually it would, but what if X decided to crash and take out your keyboard on the way. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
[newbie] Trying to load a second nic module
I'm using the linksys Ether16 10BaseT card and thier website says it uses the ne driver. That's all well and good, but if I try 'insmod ne io=0x340' I get the following unresolved symbols: (I also get the error if I leave out the io= part) ei_open ethdev_init ei_interrupt NS8390_init ei_close I'm wondering if this is a problem that I'm causing, a problem with the driver, or what. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713
[newbie] FTP Sites
Began downloading Mandrake 7.02, from Tucows, last evening around six. The total download was 3.9 percent this morning at 5:00. Pop3, Go Zillia, Gateway 500, nothing running in the background, that I know of. Are there other FTP site(s). Thank You. Bob Brand Newbie
Re: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux
Drazenko Djuricic said: go to VMware Inc. www.vmware.com I have had only limited success getting the programs I care about to run in WINE. Is VMware any better at running modern 32-bit Windows programs? I have two in mind: Corel Ventura for work and Kyodai for play. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
RE: [newbie] FTP Sites
Better to order a $1.99 CD from Cheapbytes. I live in Israel and even so the total cost including postage/transport was only $10 and it arrived in 1 week. It would cost me more to download it and probably take the same time :-( They are selling the 7.02 version now. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Bob Root [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon 03 April 2000 13:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] FTP Sites Began downloading Mandrake 7.02, from Tucows, last evening around six. The total download was 3.9 percent this morning at 5:00. Pop3, Go Zillia, Gateway 500, nothing running in the background, that I know of. Are there other FTP site(s). Thank You. Bob Brand Newbie
RE: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux
so far as i am aware VMware runs both os's at once, and you have to switch between the two. if you are thinking about VMware, don't forget to have a look to the free opensource attempt: http://www.plex86.org/ plex86, former FreeMWare. -Original Message- From: Lane Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 11:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux Drazenko Djuricic said: go to VMware Inc. www.vmware.com I have had only limited success getting the programs I care about to run in WINE. Is VMware any better at running modern 32-bit Windows programs? I have two in mind: Corel Ventura for work and Kyodai for play. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
RE: [newbie] Still No Internet Connection
to get rid of the linux_old you may need to edit lilo.conf. this is in either /boot or /etc or maby /etc/lilo ,i'm not sure where mandrake put's it. you can open this up in vi(for the bold) or the kde editor. there will be a line with linux_old in there which you can just remove or comment out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 09:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Still No Internet Connection Hello All, Okay, I still cannot get on the internet but I have received some good leads, here's what I've done so far: went into Drakconf entered the two DNS numbers of my ISP (connection still didn't work) I think I may need to know the code or whatever it is for my "net device". That is one of the fields I have to fill in, "net device". There are about 20 options like "eth0, eth1, s10, tr0, tr1, etc. I have a PCMCIA card in the COM 1 slot (Joe, you mentioned that COM 1 = ttyso but that was not on the list. Is it o or 0 by the way?) It also required for me to enter something in the "kernel module" field. What the? I needed to specify "which order the various name services must be probed" (e.g. DNS, host or host,DNS are amont about 20 options). I have a cable modem DHCP connection, does that help anyone? Also, how do I know if my "machine is allowed to route IP packets". Finally, I have my hard drive partitioned into a windows and linux section. When booting up, LILO says I have both a "linux" and "linux_old" operating system. How do I get rid of the linux_old crap? all help is appreciated, Andrew
[newbie] ALIASES
Hi all! In which file are the aliases saved that I enter via "alias="? And how can I enter an alias for ALL Users on my system? Ciao Gunther ** Hebein, Gunther Cyrill Cand. Pharm. Innsbruck - Austria ** begin:vcard n:Hebein;Gunther fn:Gunther C. Hebein tel;pager:secret! tel;cell:(43)-0699-10615108 tel;home:(43)-0512-292574 tel;work:(43)-0699-10615108 adr:;;St. Nicolausgasse 1 / II / Top 6;Innsbruck;Tyrol;6020;Austria version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Cand. Pharm. end:vcard
Re: RE: [newbie] FTP Sites
Or, if you know a friend with a high speed connection (cable/DSL) and a burner, do that. But dwnlding yourself over a 56k connection will take forever. In an secondary note: If you let Gateway know that you installed Linux, all your free phone support is gone. Trust me . . . O}:) Better to order a $1.99 CD from Cheapbytes. I live in Israel and even so the total cost including postage/transport was only $10 and it arrived in 1 week. It would cost me more to download it and probably take the same time :-( They are selling the 7.02 version now. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Bob Root [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Mon 03 April 2000 13:00 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] FTP Sites Began downloading Mandrake 7.02, from Tucows, last evening around six. The total download was 3.9 percent this morning at 5:00. Pop3, Go Zillia, Gateway 500, nothing running in the background, that I know of. Are there other FTP site(s). Thank You. Bob Brand Newbie Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713
Re: [newbie] FTP Sites
Thank you, Michael, going to take your advice. Let me apologize to all,for the receipt requested, have disabled that feature. - Original Message - Better to order a $1.99 CD from Cheapbytes. I live in Israel and even so the total cost including postage/transport was only $10 and it arrived in 1 week. It would cost me more to download it and probably take the same time :-( They are selling the 7.02 version now. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Bob Root [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon 03 April 2000 13:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] FTP Sites Began downloading Mandrake 7.02, from Tucows, last evening around six. The total download was 3.9 percent this morning at 5:00. Pop3, Go Zillia, Gateway 500, nothing running in the background, that I know of. Are there other FTP site(s). Thank You. Bob Brand Newbie
Re: [newbie] Trying to load a second nic module
I thought I had tried everything at this point, but I was wrong (nothing unusual in that). I went into conf.modules and added this line: options ne irq=3 io=0x340 And, viola!, it works. Now to see if the winders machines will work . . . The ultimate bad software title: Microsoft Works. I'm using the linksys Ether16 10BaseT card and thier website says it uses the ne driver. That's all well and good, but if I try 'insmod ne io=0x340' I get the following unresolved symbols: (I also get the error if I leave out the io= part) ei_open ethdev_init ei_interrupt NS8390_init ei_close I'm wondering if this is a problem that I'm causing, a problem with the driver, or what. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713 Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713
RE: RE: [newbie] FTP Sites
I have never noticed any great advantages in phone support. If it is software problems you should be able to fix em your self. Hardware problems that are under warranty, well I just call the computershop to let them know I am coming, and what hardware to have availible for me to replace. I do it on the spot, save them time and effort and save me the problems incured after some 14y/o pokes around the intimates of my computer.. Rant mode off I should cut back on coffee I think.. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon 03 April 2000 12:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: [newbie] FTP Sites Or, if you know a friend with a high speed connection (cable/DSL) and a burner, do that. But dwnlding yourself over a 56k connection will take forever. In an secondary note: If you let Gateway know that you installed Linux, all your free phone support is gone. Trust me . . . O}:) Better to order a $1.99 CD from Cheapbytes. I live in Israel and even so the total cost including postage/transport was only $10 and it arrived in 1 week. It would cost me more to download it and probably take the same time :-( They are selling the 7.02 version now. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Bob Root [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Mon 03 April 2000 13:00 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] FTP Sites Began downloading Mandrake 7.02, from Tucows, last evening around six. The total download was 3.9 percent this morning at 5:00. Pop3, Go Zillia, Gateway 500, nothing running in the background, that I know of. Are there other FTP site(s). Thank You. Bob Brand Newbie Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713
Re: RE: [newbie] FTP Sites
I will certainly keep this advice in mind. thanks :) Subject: Re: RE: [newbie] FTP Sites In an secondary note: If you let Gateway know that you installed Linux, all your free phone support is gone. Trust me . . . O}:)
Re: [newbie] windows apps under linux
"Andrew Doe (Web master)" wrote: how can it be done i know it can as i have seen write ups in mags but cannot find anything to do it andrew doewebmasterwww.linuxfaqs.org.uk You'll need to find your self a copy of VMware. try www.vmware.com -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227
RE: [newbie] mouse misconfigured patch
use version 7.02 and the mouse problem goes away. I would recommend downloading the 7.02 ISO from one of the sites listed on Mandrake's site. -Original Message- From: john [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mouse misconfigured patch I was unable to install an acceptable Mandrake 7.0 system due to the misconfiguring of a serial mouse as a ps/2 one when booting direct from the CD-Rom. Using the patch provided under 'Last minute fixes' from the official web-site, I tried re-installing with boot disks containing either cdrom.img plus patch or txt_boot.img plus patch. In neither case was the patch accepted - an error message 'unknown command patch' resulted. There is nothing unusual about this box - all other distros I've tried (except Corel, which is a real 'pig's ear'!) have installed without difficulty. I have now installed what I want using text and cfdisk, so am ready to try things out. I would, however, like to know if anyone else has had the same or a similar experience, and if so was an explanation found? I'm relatively inexperienced but know I used the patch in accordance with Mandrake's instructions. Regards, John. P.S. It's the download version I have on CD.
RE: [newbie] QuakeII mouse problem
Yes, I do apologize I didn't mean it to sound so smart a$$.. but after the fact it did come off as that. but I do appreciate the suggestions.. I my system is currently down and will try new suggestions next week when I get my new processor. Thanks once again. - No, I am sorry to say that because I read 100-300 emails a day I have a problem remembering what everyone said every time. This makes me a bad person in some peoples eyes. Unfortunately this list does not keep threads like a news server would so if you don't quote old messages I only have what info is in the present message. I may not be the only person out there with this problem... I haven't much else to say on your problem except perhaps you could install zgv (a console based graphics viewer) to test your mouse configuration. If your mouse works correctly under this one then you know to look elsewhere for an answer, Maybe something in quake. /etc/vga/libvga.config is used for both.
Re: RE: [newbie] FTP Sites
It doesn't take forever, actually about 30 hours. I did it from tucows using a program called getright for windows (very nicely written program!), and I believe that gFTP under Linux could accomplish the same task. It's not the downloading part that's the problem, it's the disconnecting to use the phone, then reconnecting and picking up where you left off - that's where getright comes in handy. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 3:34 AM Subject: Re: RE: [newbie] FTP Sites Or, if you know a friend with a high speed connection (cable/DSL) and a burner, do that. But dwnlding yourself over a 56k connection will take forever. In an secondary note: If you let Gateway know that you installed Linux, all your free phone support is gone. Trust me . . . O}:) Better to order a $1.99 CD from Cheapbytes. I live in Israel and even so the total cost including postage/transport was only $10 and it arrived in 1 week. It would cost me more to download it and probably take the same time :-( They are selling the 7.02 version now. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Bob Root [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Mon 03 April 2000 13:00 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] FTP Sites Began downloading Mandrake 7.02, from Tucows, last evening around six. The total download was 3.9 percent this morning at 5:00. Pop3, Go Zillia, Gateway 500, nothing running in the background, that I know of. Are there other FTP site(s). Thank You. Bob Brand Newbie Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713
[newbie] Red Hat 6.1 installation gone bad and then gone worse...Please he lp
I was trying to install Red hat 6.1 on a AMD 366 with 64 megs of ram over the weekend. Everything went well until the installation was finished then the machine forze up while "Updating Configuration". When I re-booted the machine I went straight to windows98 and never saw any Linux boot up at all. I then realized I am a moron and forgot to set a boot partition. I had used partition magic to set the partition so then I went back in using patition magic tofree up space for a re-install. Problem is now that when I go through the install steps, when I get to the part where the install should start, I flash to a DOS window...see some security warning...and then a re-boot occurs. Can anyone please help me with this problem? Thanks, Phil Lamey
Re: [newbie] URGENT HELP NEEDED
John, I know it isnt much help, but what I did was load 6.0 back on my machine and get a refund. :o) No, really, there are some problems for some people (like me) on the new 7.0 MacMillan Mandrake. My install was 2:40 using the new or old install methods. I didnt have time to waste, so MacMillan quickly and promptly refunded my purchase price. Original Message Follows From: John N [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] URGENT HELP NEEDED Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 21:10:58 -0700 I installed, from scratch, Mandrake 7. It took 2.75 HOURS - usually takes 35 minutes. The system is now glacially s-l-o-w with far too much hard drive activity. It is also reporting a 2.2GB hard drive as about 5GB !! Have I activated any compression system, like the DOS DoubleDisk, by mistake? I have to have sendmail configured and running by morning so please H-E-L-P !!! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
I tried that, fdisk will not delete the partition that linux resides in as it says there are logical drives in the extended partition and therefore cannot delete it. When I use the fdisk option to delete logical drives in the extended partition it says that there are none. Jeff Original Message Follows From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupt partition? Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:07:03 -0700 I would say; boot windows and use partition magic to resize, but it doesn't look like that's an option. The only thing I can think of, would be to boot your computer with your windows rescue disk and run fdisk from the prompt to delete your non-dos partitions and re-slice your drive to fit your needs. Then start over. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: [newbie] corrupt partition? Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my existing Win98 OS. Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)? I appear to have 2 Linux partitions one that is 1.5 GB and another at 7.1 GB. Booting using a Win98 system disk and running fdisk indicates that I have a 14MB partition that is FAT32. How can I resize my Linux partitions so that I can allocate enough HD space to re-install Win98. TIA Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
I tried that, fdisk will not delete the partition that linux resides in as it says there are logical drives in the extended partition and therefore cannot delete it. When I use the fdisk option to delete logical drives in the extended partition it says that there are none. Jeff Original Message Follows From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupt partition? Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:07:03 -0700 I would say; boot windows and use partition magic to resize, but it doesn't look like that's an option. The only thing I can think of, would be to boot your computer with your windows rescue disk and run fdisk from the prompt to delete your non-dos partitions and re-slice your drive to fit your needs. Then start over. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: [newbie] corrupt partition? Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my existing Win98 OS. Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)? I appear to have 2 Linux partitions one that is 1.5 GB and another at 7.1 GB. Booting using a Win98 system disk and running fdisk indicates that I have a 14MB partition that is FAT32. How can I resize my Linux partitions so that I can allocate enough HD space to re-install Win98. TIA Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Prob1-KDE desktop
Hi again people, I was tinkering (logged on as user Paul) in KDE and the result is this..when I rightclick on the desktop and select the New option, I only have the Folder icon...ive lost the device, application etc icons.This only happens when logged on in my name..Logged on as root or other users gives me the full list of options under the New submenu. What do I have to do to get those options back? Thanks to all in advance. Paul
[newbie] Prob2- Netscape
Hi again, 3 quickies: 1 - Netscape just shuts itself down sometimes without warning...is this a Netscape oddity or a Mandrake Linux problem? 2 - is Netscape so meant to look so dull and lacking in colour? (compared to the win version it IS a bit boring to look at) 3 - Netscape is noticibly slower connecting and loading pages off the Webis this normal? Oh, I'm using ver 4.7 that came with MDK7.0 Thanks again in advance for everyones patience. Paul Ps...I think a couple of these questions were previously aired in this forum, but I had a little accident and wiped out a whole bunch of stuff :o(
[newbie] Daylight Savings SUCKS
Is there a way for my clock on the Kpanel to adjust to the time? My machine is still behind and I use xntpd for pitties sake. -- 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] where is wine
where can i get a copy of wine and if i can how big is the download regards andrew doe webmaster _ www.linuxfaqs.org.uk go here for frequently asked linux questions
Re: [newbie] Prob5- PS Viewer
I hear you brother, the ps viewer in here just stinks and does not work thats all. On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Marriott Man mewed: Hi again folks, Opening pdffiles in PS Viewer just gives me blank pages.What am I doing wrong? TIA (again) Paul -- 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] where is wine
It comes with the Mandrake distribution. Maybe you just didn't install it. Find the wine rpm on the CD and install it. -Original Message- From: Andrew Doe (Web master) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] where is wine where can i get a copy of wine and if i can how big is the download regards andrew doe webmaster _ www.linuxfaqs.org.uk go here for frequently asked linux questions
[newbie] linux site being updated at 8:00pm
your favorite site www.linuxfaqs.org.uk will be updated agian tonight at 8:00 pm check back there then, thanks for the tremendous response you are all trly great people regards andrew doe wevmaster www.linuxfaqs.org.uk
Re: [newbie] Prob5- PS Viewer
Vic wrote: I hear you brother, the ps viewer in here just stinks and does not work thats all. Not true. It works fine -- the reason you can't read those PDFs is that they are made with a more recent version of Acrobat Distiller and are not 100% true PostScript. For PostScript files PS Viewer works just fine. If you need to read PDFs, go and get Acrobat Reader from Adobe. -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] Prob4- Acrobat4
Marriott Man wrote: Hello again to all, I've managed to install Acrobat4 from a tar file (installing from RPMs are much simpler for the novice like me) but, alas, its giving a couple of problems. The program opens OK but on opening the reader.pdf file, which is preinstalled, A)the text appears to be jumbled up. Obviously something is wrong =) On clicking to page 2 of the doc an error message appears: B) "There was an error processing a page. Segmentation Violation Caught" Hmn... I think I want to know more about your configuration. I do not have this problem. Tell me, when you installed Mandrake, did you encounter errors? Any ideas? Anyone else suffered this problem? Um, no... not me at least. -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] More About Modems..
andy wrote: My modem is a hardware pci internal modem ( I believe it has a Rockwell chipset). It runs NT4/Win2k whereas the old winmodem I had wouldn't. The place I bought it from said it was ok with Linux (Hence me buying it), but it isn't being recognised...All my other stuff has been..video card, sound card, etc..Any ideas?? PCI modems = trouble. -Stephen-
[newbie] Problems with linux mandrake 7.0
Please see the attached document. Registration number LMPP70-2606-NIF-Y0EO-KFLN My computer is a HP Vectra VL6 · Pentium II · Two hard disk (hda 4Gb ; hdb 10 Gb ) · CDROM (hdc ) · CD-Writer ( hdd ) · Floppy · IDE/ATAPI device All device correctly checked by Linux On partition hda1 I have Windows 98 Partitions hda5 , hda6 : DOS formatted On partition hdb1 I have Windows NT Partitions hdb2 , hdb9 with NTFS filesystem On partition hdb8 I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 On partition hdb7 Linux Swap File /etc/fstab is : /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb8 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 Under Windows all is OK Under Linux two BIG Problem First It's impossible read CD_Writer ( CDROM2 ) Message Error of Kfm Is: " Could not list directory contents " From terminal Emulation the message is : " Input/output error " The click on the icon"CDROM2" seems activing also the floppy ! ( but the floppy is ok , and run correctly ) Second Lothar does not find my sound bluster . In sound_config I have this message " An ISA PnP card has been found but hasn't been identified. The identifier was : AZT1008 " ( my souncard is: Pro 16V A PnP ) If I choose a soundcard from the menu and try to test it a message says "System is busy " What can I do ? Thanks Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank forfast reply Augusto
Re: [newbie] Prob3- SlowSlowSlow
Marriott Man wrote: Greetings again, Ive installed Star Office in MDK7 and I notice that everything seems to go much slower in Linux than in Windoze. Slower opening up Star Office, slower opening files, slower printing etc.Can I do anything to speed things up? I think there are some more serious problems with your setup, but I need more information... =( -Stephen-
[newbie] Makin' Room
I've managed to stuff my 1.3 gig partition full, and I need to make room. I created another 1 gig partition and assigned it to /opt. I've moved some stuff over there, but more needs to go. One problem is that I don't know where all the fat is. Is there a utility that will show how much space is being used by different directories? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help
Hazel Norman Teferle wrote: So far I have tried the CD only. When using the PCPLUS cd-rom i cannot create a boot disk, I get the message LoadLibrary16 failed! I have tried to set the bios to boot from CD, but my bios doesnt handle I had exactly the same prob. with the PCPlus CD, I managed to install ok on one PC with CDROM - boot enabled in BIOS, however this did'nt work for an older PC that did'nt properly support CDROM Booting, I tried the rawwrite (win32) prog. to create a boot disk, and got the same LoadLibrary error message mentioned above, My solution was to run the rawrite (NOT rawwrite) command-line util to create the boot-disc and all worked fine.. I suggest you try it from a ms-dos box.. Alan
RE: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux
I have had good luck running Linux under VMWare on an NT box - haven't tried it the other way around... What VMWare does is to boot a "virtual machine" that runs whatever OS you load in it - it will switch between a windowed or full-screen session, and though it's a little slow, Linux seems to work quite well this way - I'm planning in the near future to load VMWare on a Linux system and try running NT or 95 in it - I'll post the results when I get a chance... Oliver Stieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/03/2000 06:22:45 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joe Reynolds/ISSC/Texas Utilities) Subject: RE: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux so far as i am aware VMware runs both os's at once, and you have to switch between the two. if you are thinking about VMware, don't forget to have a look to the free opensource attempt: http://www.plex86.org/ plex86, former FreeMWare. -Original Message- From: Lane Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 11:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux Drazenko Djuricic said: go to VMware Inc. www.vmware.com I have had only limited success getting the programs I care about to run in WINE. Is VMware any better at running modern 32-bit Windows programs? I have two in mind: Corel Ventura for work and Kyodai for play. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [[newbie] Daylight Savings SUCKS]
Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way for my clock on the Kpanel to adjust to the time? My machine is still behind and I use xntpd for pitties sake. Kmenu - Settings - Date and time HTH,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.
[newbie] pcmcia-modem
I'm running a notebook Toshiba Satellite 315CDS (chipset ToPIC97 Card Bus) and under Mandrake 6.1 the modem worked fine. But now I've just installed Mandrake 7.02 and in kppp I received only "sorry, the modem is busy". In ls /dev/mo* modem not founded. does anyone have any idea about this problem? Thanks in advance, Oder.
[newbie] Linuxconf question
I'm running Linux-Mandrake 7.02 and I want to give a few other users in my department the ability to create and modify user accounts, but I don't want them logging in as root. I've tried giving them access to Linuxconf I their user accounts, but they still get 'permission denied' errors when they try to run it. I experimented with giving one of them super-user access, but no luck. I'm using the User Accounts module in Linuxconf to modify their permissions. I even tried using chmod to give them access to the Linuxconf files, but all that managed to do was change the error message to 'segmentation fault.' I used DrakConf to set the security settings to high when I installed the OS, but I tried switching to medium and low settings with the same results. Is there some other setting I need to modify? (Sorry if this has been covered here before, I'm pretty new to Linux and this list). Thanks, -Jim
Re: [newbie] installing a program
i have got a simple question which however could take a little long to answer.this general question is :'how do i install a program or application whatsoever in linux?'i have noticed that when i download a program or application for linux,it comes in the .tar.gz format,is that the source code of the program?and then how do i install the program which this file contains?usually i am told to untar ,but how do i do that and then how will the installation proceed,and after the installation how do i run the program?i would really appreciate it if anyone of you could answer in detail these questions.thank you in advance. I'm really new at this too but I have discovered a couple things. the .tar and .tar.gz files are compressed archives. You can either use the KDE Explorer under the Utlilies menu to go to that gz file and double-click to unzip it OR if that doesn't work go to the console and type tar -xvf filename (X for expand V for verbose and F for the filemname). I think that works best with the straight .TAR files. The explorer worked great on some of the other compressed files. Once they are unzipped you're kinda on your own, I'm still feeling my way around there. Right click on some of the files and Edit to read them (or open and TXT files). One will generally tell you which file you must modify to install. I've had a bear of a time trying to install the Java ICQ and it STILL doesn't work... tho I did get it installed by typing /.install. The "/." seems to be the secret of installing/running programs from the command line. shrug
Re: [newbie] Prob2- Netscape
" 3 - Netscape is noticibly slower connecting and loading pages off the Webis this normal? Noticeably slower than what? slower than 4.7 in Windoze. Thanx 4 the other suggestions Paul
Re: [newbie] Prob4- Acrobat4
Hmn... I think I want to know more about your configuration. I do not have this problem. Tell me, when you installed Mandrake, did you encounter errors? No problems encountered installing MDKwent sweet as pie... Paul
Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
Oliver Stieber wrote: last time that happened to me, i use notron disk edit (de) and edited the partition table myself. evrything has been fine since -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Grimes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 14:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupt partition? I tried that, fdisk will not delete the partition that linux resides in as it says there are logical drives in the extended partition and therefore cannot delete it. When I use the fdisk option to delete logical drives in the extended partition it says that there are none. Jeff Original Message Follows From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] corrupt partition? Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:07:03 -0700 I would say; boot windows and use partition magic to resize, but it doesn't look like that's an option. The only thing I can think of, would be to boot your computer with your windows rescue disk and run fdisk from the prompt to delete your non-dos partitions and re-slice your drive to fit your needs. Then start over. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 9:31 PM Subject: [newbie] corrupt partition? Let me qualify this post by saying I am a total Linux newbie...3 days experience (mostly bad). When installing Mandrake 7.0 I neglected to read the brightly colored insert titled "IMPORTANT" and installed Linux over my existing Win98 OS. Simple question...how do I get it back (Win98)? I appear to have 2 Linux partitions one that is 1.5 GB and another at 7.1 GB. Booting using a Win98 system disk and running fdisk indicates that I have a 14MB partition that is FAT32. How can I resize my Linux partitions so that I can allocate enough HD space to re-install Win98. TIA Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com The FDISK that comes with M$ anything can't deal with the thought that you might have a non M$ logical partition. Use the fdisk in linux.
RE: [newbie] Problems with linux mandrake 7.0
from console run sndconfig, to get your sound card up change your cdrom to /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/sc0 0 0 or /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/sc0 0 0 go into dark config, look at your settings and find out which cdrom drive has been mounted as scsi , every thing should then work fine. -Original Message-From: Augusto Madaschi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 02 April 2000 14:31To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Problems with linux mandrake 7.0 Please see the attached document. Registration number LMPP70-2606-NIF-Y0EO-KFLN My computer is a HP Vectra VL6 Pentium II Two hard disk (hda 4Gb ; hdb 10 Gb ) CDROM (hdc ) CD-Writer ( hdd ) Floppy IDE/ATAPI device All device correctly checked by Linux On partition hda1 I have Windows 98 Partitions hda5 , hda6 : DOS formatted On partition hdb1 I have Windows NT Partitions hdb2 , hdb9 with NTFS filesystem On partition hdb8 I have Linux Mandrake 7.0 On partition hdb7 Linux Swap File /etc/fstab is : /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb8 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 Under Windows all is OK Under Linux two BIG Problem First It's impossible read CD_Writer ( CDROM2 ) Message Error of Kfm Is: Could not list directory contents From terminal Emulation the message is : Input/output error The click on the iconCDROM2 seems activing also the floppy ! ( but the floppy is ok , and run correctly ) Second Lothar does not find my sound bluster . In sound_config I have this message An ISA PnP card has been found but hasn't been identified. The identifier was : AZT1008 ( my souncard is: Pro 16V A PnP ) If I choose a soundcard from the menu and try to test it a message says System is busy What can I do ? Thanks Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank forfast reply Augusto
Re: [newbie] Prob5- PS Viewer
Stephen, Thanks for all your input. All of us Newbies appreciate it. People have to understand that Linux is still very new and in its infancy but look how far its come and watch it grow! Mark --- "Stephen F. Bosch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vic wrote: I hear you brother, the ps viewer in here just stinks and does not work thats all. Not true. It works fine -- the reason you can't read those PDFs is that they are made with a more recent version of Acrobat Distiller and are not 100% true PostScript. For PostScript files PS Viewer works just fine. If you need to read PDFs, go and get Acrobat Reader from Adobe. -Stephen- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Trying to load a second nic module
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the linksys Ether16 10BaseT card and thier website says it uses the ne driver. That's all well and good, but if I try 'insmod ne io=0x340' I get the following unresolved symbols: (I also get the error if I leave out the io= part) ei_open ethdev_init ei_interrupt NS8390_init ei_close I'm wondering if this is a problem that I'm causing, a problem with the driver, or what. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713 It is because it needs to load 2 modules. Use modprobe ne instead
Re: [newbie] Makin' Room
Lane Lester wrote: I've managed to stuff my 1.3 gig partition full, and I need to make room. I created another 1 gig partition and assigned it to /opt. I've moved some stuff over there, but more needs to go. One problem is that I don't know where all the fat is. Is there a utility that will show how much space is being used by different directories? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... the two commands that I know of are df to see how much free space is left in the partitions du to see file sizes in current directory recursively man df man du
Re: [newbie] Prob2- Netscape
1 - Netscape just shuts itself down sometimes without warning...is this a Netscape oddity or a Mandrake Linux problem? It's just because Netscape sucks. 2 - is Netscape so meant to look so dull and lacking in colour? (compared to the win version it IS a bit boring to look at) Again, it's because Netscape sucks 3 - Netscape is noticibly slower connecting and loading pages off the Webis this normal? I've noticed no difference. Well, maybe I have. Does it take longer because it seems to be downloading something (like a picture), but it can't seem to finish it? I could be wrong, but seems like Netscape must finish downloading whatever it's currently doing before it'll move on to anything else. Quite annoying, and yet another reason why Netscape sucks. Oh, I'm using ver 4.7 that came with MDK7.0 Thanks again in advance for everyones patience. Paul Ps...I think a couple of these questions were previously aired in this forum, but I had a little accident and wiped out a whole bunch of stuff :o( -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
[newbie] PCI Bios, Mouse...
I'm trying to install Mandrake, having installed both COL and Redhat before 'sans problems' but I'm getting two error messages: First, it says 'Can't handle 64bit PCI SCSI address'. That doesn't seem to worry it, and it finds my SCSI drives, but then the moust config fails... My IO card isn't PCI, is that a problem? Peter Sergeant __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Linux on a Compaq
Hi Folks Using a Compaq 4550, when I try to install Mandrake 7, the system starts the kernel, then goes to sleep. I had this with RH 5.2 as well... there's an expert mode fix, but I can't remember it. It's caused by the AMD K6 chip... HELP? Paul Cummins
Re: [newbie] ALIASES
"Gunther C. Hebein" wrote: Hi all! In which file are the aliases saved that I enter via "alias="? And how can I enter an alias for ALL Users on my system? Ciao Gunther ** Hebein, Gunther Cyrill Cand. Pharm. Innsbruck - Austria ** You must put them in manually. Use kfind to find them all, they are spread around the system a little. /etc/profile /etc/bashrc /etc/profile.d several files Users can make their own alias by putting them in their home directory as .bashrc .profile .login
Re: [newbie] corrupt partition?
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: If he had access to partition magic he would also have access to the dos based pqmagict.exe which is charecter based version of program. All he would need then would be a systems diskette. I perfer this over the pqmagic program because I have seen Windoze crash too many times... Version 4 or better does resize of ext2 and linux swap partitions. There are other programs out there. Would you agree that fdisk would probably be the best idea at this point though? A lot less time than looking for a solution to preserve space that would probably be better off re-formatted anyway. M. Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, but he will need to use the fdisk in linux as the dos one won't do the job of removing any logical ext2 partitions.
[newbie] automount
Hey, When I installed Mandrake 7.0 I selected an option somewhere to automount my cdrom and floppy devices. How do I stop this from happening? Regards, cyberclay --- cclay at fastlane dot net I think, therefore I am dangerous http://www.abednego.com
[newbie] Wordperfect 8, and WINE
I have Wordperfect 8, but am stumped as to how I am supposed to install it. It's on a cd, and apparently comes in two files, guil00.gz and guil01.gz (I think - can't quite remember). I can browse into each of these files with the KDE file explorer, but each one contains a lot of meaningless gubbins (meaningless to me at least). Can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do? Also, is there a list of software that works with WINE?
Re: [newbie] XFree86 version 4 and the SIS 6326 chip
I am working with a Speed Star A50 AGP SiS6326 chipset if I can to help you send me a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bye, Lic. Gabriel Spahn Platón 2940 Córdoba (Cba) CP 5000 Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] === From: Dennis Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] XFree86 version 4 and the SIS 6326 chip Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:44:52 +1000 Hello List, Has anyone managed to get the SiS 6326 chip to work with version 4 of XFree86? I installed v4 without drama but, no matter what I do, I cannot get a normal mouse pointer; rather, I have the big white square that has featured prominently on the newbie list. I have read the archives and tried (I think correctly) the Options "sw_cursor", "noaccel" and "no_bitblt" as appropriate. I have tried to configure a serial IntelliMouse and a conventional 3-button mouse with the same unhappy result. I have reverted to the previous XFree86(3.3.6?) that ships with LM7.0 without problems and have the normal pointer back. Does this suggest a fault in the "sis" driver in v4 rather than a fault in the SiS chip? Then again, some people are having problems with the earlier XFree86, but it seems strange that it will work in my setup but not with v4. I have an Aopen PA50 AGP card (not flash, I know, and I wish I hadn't bought it). Has anyone any ideas to help me run v4 other than "buy a better card"? Thanks. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Configuring mouse
How do I change the mouse type in Mandrake 7.0? I went into DrakConf under Hardware Configuration, and I can see the currently defined mouse, but can't see any way to modify it - am I missing something?
Re: [newbie] Xserver Problem with Trident 3DImage985
Sorry, because I am late I am working with RH 6.1 and this video card and I have no problem if I can help to you send your request to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Lic. Gabriel Spahn Platón 2940 Córdoba CP 5000 Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] == From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xserver Problem with Trident 3DImage985 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 19:03:48 +0200 arash momeni wrote: Hi I'm having problem with my Trident 3DImage985 AGP Videocard, when starting Xserver on Mandrake 6.1. The device is in the Driver list of this version of mandrake.I select the device from the list. Also my Monitor is in the list of monitors. It probes the setting Ok but X server has some problems with this device. Also when I select 800X600 in 8 bit mode, the X server can't perform a proper appearance. If anybody has the remedy, please inform me. Regards A. Momeni __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Does it make the same problem in 16bit mode? Why would you want to run in 8 bit mode, its horrible! Have you tried a generic 800*600 monitor, or if it is multisync, a generic 800*600 multisync monitor? Also 60hz is a frequency that most if not all monitors can run at. It may not be the easiest on the eye, but it almost always works and also prolongs the life of your monitor too :-) I have seen people set their monitors at ridiculously high frequency just because people say that it is better, well it IS better, especially for the manufacturers of Monitors, they get to sell new ones after yours carks it :-(.. Rant mode off :-) Try as I suggested, and if it works, let all of us know, it may help others.. Cheers: Mike. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Prob5- PS Viewer
Ok, Ill give it a test-out and see how it works On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch mewed: Vic wrote: I hear you brother, the ps viewer in here just stinks and does not work thats all. Not true. It works fine -- the reason you can't read those PDFs is that they are made with a more recent version of Acrobat Distiller and are not 100% true PostScript. For PostScript files PS Viewer works just fine. If you need to read PDFs, go and get Acrobat Reader from Adobe. -Stephen- -- 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] Daylight Savings SUCKS]
Many thankx On Fri, 09 May 2036, Michael Scottaline mewed: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way for my clock on the Kpanel to adjust to the time? My machine is still behind and I use xntpd for pitties sake. Kmenu - Settings - Date and time HTH,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. -- 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: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux
How fast of a machine does one need to run vmware so it does not slow down too terribly? On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mewed: I have had good luck running Linux under VMWare on an NT box - haven't tried it the other way around... What VMWare does is to boot a "virtual machine" that runs whatever OS you load in it - it will switch between a windowed or full-screen session, and though it's a little slow, Linux seems to work quite well this way - I'm planning in the near future to load VMWare on a Linux system and try running NT or 95 in it - I'll post the results when I get a chance... Oliver Stieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/03/2000 06:22:45 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joe Reynolds/ISSC/Texas Utilities) Subject: RE: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux so far as i am aware VMware runs both os's at once, and you have to switch between the two. if you are thinking about VMware, don't forget to have a look to the free opensource attempt: http://www.plex86.org/ plex86, former FreeMWare. -Original Message- From: Lane Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 April 2000 11:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux Drazenko Djuricic said: go to VMware Inc. www.vmware.com I have had only limited success getting the programs I care about to run in WINE. Is VMware any better at running modern 32-bit Windows programs? I have two in mind: Corel Ventura for work and Kyodai for play. -- 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
RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems.
The sound card is a ESS 1868 I've copied down the IRQ and DMA settings that windows uses and still can't get it to work with Linux. Later... Roy Smith ICQ UIN #265622 -Original Message- From: Seth Hollen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 10:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. Classification: UNCLASSIFIED what's your sound card? have you tried LOTHAR on the command "soundconfig"? -Original Message- From: Roy Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 8:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound Card Problems. Hi! I just got Mandrake Linux installed on my PC and am having problems figuring out how to get my sound card to work on the new OS. Any suggestions? Later... Roy Smith ICQ UIN #265622
Re: [newbie] zip drive problem
Jon wrote: Mani Abreu wrote: Nope. Just tried that, here's the result: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading the drivers for the line printer first, before parport/ppa driver. How do I change the order around? Mani forstfed wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote: Well, try just doing the mount now. See if that does anything. Well, I tried that. Here's what I got after typing "insmod ppa": /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Any ideas? I really want to get this thing resolved. Mani forstfed wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: This is what worked for me: As su in a terminal window: mkdir /mnt/zip insmod parport insmod ppa mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip make sure there is a disk in. You have to umount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip to eject the disk, then mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip again when you insert another disk. Ed Geez, You guys made me dig my old zip drive out of the closet to test this problem and you know, it didn't work either. Tried it on a RedHat 6.1 and a Mandrake 7.0-2 machine. Hardware works as I made a DOS boot disk with guest.exe on it. Worked fine with Redhat 5.2 and Slackware 3.6 some time ago with the commands listed above. I also looked at modules loaded and tried it without any modules and in init 1 hand loading modules. Since the kernel for Mandrake 7.0 came from Redhat 6.1 (Recompiled) I wonder if perhaps lp (or another parallel port using service) support was built into the kernel instead of as a mod. Question! Does anyone out there have a parallel port ZIP working on Mandrake 7.0-2 or RedHat 6.1? If so, can you please tell us how you did it? Give out with the port setting in the BIOS, Kernel you used and anything else you think might help. I am going to try recompiling a kernel to see if I can get it working. I don't really know if this will help; but check out the attached "text" file. I come from the Linux Gazette. Bruce :-) Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO Kyle Dansie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v2.4, 10 January 1999 This Document provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux. __ Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Home of this document 2. Quick Start 3. Configuring a kernel for the ZIP drive 3.1 SCSI version 4. The ZIP drive 4.1 Parallel port version Zip100 4.2 SCSI external version 4.2.1 The ZIP ZOOM host adapter 4.3 The SCSI Internal version 4.4 The ZIP Plus - IMM driver 4.5 ATAPI version 4.6 IDE version 4.7 USB version 4.8 ZIP250 version 5. Using the ZIP drive 5.1 Fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc. 5.2 An existing DOS formatted disk 5.3 Re-format as a native Linux disk 5.4 fstab entries 5.5 The ZIP Tools disk 6. Performance 7. Frequently asked questions 7.1 Can I plug a printer into the parallel ZIP drive ? 7.2 Do you plan to support EPP/ECP ports in PPA ? 7.3 Can I run Linux from a ZIP drive ? 7.4 Can I boot from the ZIP drive ? 7.5 Why does Iomega use partition number 4 ? 7.6 How can I have the disk mounted at boot time ? 7.7 What happens if there is no disk inserted when I boot ? 7.8 Can I use the parallel drive as a real SCSI disk ? 7.9 Can PPA be used with Iomega's parallel port tape drives ? 7.10 Will PPA work with the parallel port SyQuest EZ135 ? 8. Getting more current information __ 1. Introduction The Iomega ZIP drive is a popular, removable media disk drive. It is avaliable in several versions. · Parallel Port · SCSI · IDE - ATAPI · Plus The most popular seems to be the Parallel port version. It has been around a long time and it is low cost. The SCSI version has also been around for a while but it needs a scsi card that many people do not have already, so it it not quite as popular. The ATAPI version now seems to be more available. The Plus is the newer version of the ZIP drive. It has the capability to detect what port its plugged into, scsi or parallel. This document will focus on the Parallel port version, but also offer some tips for other versions. This document incorporates information collected and published by others, in particular: · Grant Guenther, [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Scot Wilcoxon, [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Joe Mack, [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Byron Jeff, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thank them for their important contributions, and accept responsibility for
Re: [newbie] pcmcia-modem
Oder Santos wrote: I'm running a notebook Toshiba Satellite 315CDS (chipset ToPIC97 Card Bus) and under Mandrake 6.1 the modem worked fine. But now I've just installed Mandrake 7.02 and in kppp I received only "sorry, the modem is busy". In ls /dev/mo* modem not founded. does anyone have any idea about this problem? Thanks in advance, Oder. I have one of those, do dmesg dmesg.txt and post it. Maybe we can help xircom modem right?
Re: [newbie] Prob5- PS Viewer
mark willenbring wrote: Stephen, Thanks for all your input. All of us Newbies appreciate it. People have to understand that Linux is still very new and in its infancy but look how far You're welcome -- I should note also that Acrobat is NOT open source =) and this means that someone will have to deconstruct the later PDF formats in order to make PS Viewer able to read them... so it really *isn't* Linux' fault... -Stephen-
[newbie] mandrake 7.0 and sshd question
Hi all, I pulled down the ssl and ssh packages from the mandrake crypto link. The configure, compile and install happens withour complaint but starting sshd always gives me this error. error: Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key: Success 1: Since the daemon didn't start what does "Success" mean? 2: ssh_host_key does exist in that directory. I generated it using ssh-keygen -f ssh_host_key, I also set the permissions to 600. I'm guessing that I generated the key improperly, but this is my first time trying to use ssh so I'm not sure how to approach the problem. The online ssh.org etc.. seems to just assume that sshd will start :-) not much help in the faq ot troubleshooting areas. Thanks chuck -- "'Tis some script kidd3z," I muttered, "tapping at my server port-Only this, and nothing more."
Re: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help
Thanks to Paul and Alan. I have managed to create a boot disk with rawrite. I can now also boot from the cdrom and get into the DrakX installation program were I encounter my next dilemma. What to do in the Setup Filesystems menu? Do I say OK when DrakX needs to resize my Windows partition? or do I cancel. I want to install lnx4win and thought that I don't need a new partition. Further, do I also have to select mount points in the following menu point? Could someone help me please?. Thanks a lot paul haine wrote: So far I have tried the CD only. When using the PCPLUS cd-rom i cannot create a boot disk, I get the message LoadLibrary16 failed! I have tried to set the bios to boot from CD, but my bios doesnt handle that. It can only boot from disk or hd. Make sure that the cd is in the drive and then go to the MSDOS command prompt, and type d:\dosutils\rawrite.exe, where d: is your cd drive. You should be able to create a bootdisk this way.
