RE: [newbie] Hey..IT WORKS...
Install the Mozzilla fonts in your Netscape. Worked for me. Here is the info from www.mandrakeuser.org Larger, Less Ugly Fonts For Netscape If you are somewhat shortsighted and too lazy to wear glasses (like me ;-)), you have every reason to curse at Netscape. The fonts are small. Of course, you can set a bigger font size via 'Edit' - 'Preferences' - 'Appearance' - 'Fonts'. Which will leave you with bigger but quite ugly fonts (Netscape doesn't scale fonts right). Solution? Get the mozilla-fonts package http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/, unpack the archive, read the included README. Create a new directory (like mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/moz). Edit the included Makefile to include this directory. Run make pcf and then make install (as root). Edit '/etc/X11/fs/conf' and add the new directory to the font paths. Run xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/moz/. Restart the browser. Go to the font choosing menu, select the Mozilla fonts and be amazed (these fonts are very large, you might want to reduce their size to 12 or even 9). No more problems with small fonts, I promise! ;-). Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: andy barnes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 12 April 2000 23:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hey..IT WORKS... Stephen Bosch..Thank you VERY MUCH :-))) As I'm posting this from a Linux session, I am one step closer!! The mistake I was making was where I was putting the DNS settings (DOH!!!). I'll get onto the X problem soon... But while I'm here.. The fonts in Netscape are AWFUL, and it only gives you about half a dozen choices. In Windows, I use Arial, but I've tried them all and they suck!! Can you add fonts there? (Can't ya tell I'm a Billy G boy, through and through!!) Thanks again..I feel more confident already!! Cheers Andy
RE: [newbie] pcmcia modem problem
It is definatly a pcmcia modem. I have manged to get KPPP to see something but it is not my modem as when I try and connect it sits there trying to initialise the modem. In /etc/pcmcia I tried to serial start Modem and it comes back saying /dev/modem doesn't exist and removes the link. Any suggestions ? -Original Message- From: Stephen F. Bosch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 April 2000 14:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] pcmcia modem problem "Austwick, Mark" wrote: Installed Mandrake 7.0, no problems, sound, network, etc works fine. The only problem I have is that my modem is not recognised, Lothar cannot see it, neither can the PCMCIA set up in KDE, which can see the network card. Can anyone suggest how to get it working ? It's a 3ccm156b in a Dell lattitude cpi. Is that *actually* a PCMCIA modem, or is it simply an internal laptop modem? If it's the built-in, it's likely a Winmodem (they take up less space =) ) in which case, you might try and see if you can collect the drivers at www.linmodems.org. Keep your expectations low, though, that way you won't be disappointed. -Stephen-
RE: [newbie] take off your mailing list
Take your what off my mailing list? -Original Message- From: jose rechany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 April 2000 01:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] take off your mailing list please take my off your mailing list thanks
Re: [newbie] libjpeg.so.6 HELP!
Mike Corbeil wrote: Mike Corbeil wrote: That's --nopgp instead of --nopgpg. Added the extra g unintentionally. Try without --nopgpg, first. If it reports that no pgp key file is available, then try with --nopgpg. ALSO, read the available documentation on rpm related to pgp encryption, first, before installing anything with rpm. Sorry about that. After saying it's not --nopgpg, I go and type it, again, twice. Must've been sleepy eyed, or typing too quickly and not reading; however, I thought to have checked. Fizzing out, maybe. mike
Re: [newbie] Problems
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: The culprit is the linux.ld.so file. It somehow either leaks memory, or mismanages the resources. Is there a fix?
Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!!
check the speeds of your memory if you have more than one mem chip - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!! Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of the hardware in the machine that your using. It might or might not be the problem that your experiencing, but this was the problem the last 2 times this happened to me. I usually recomend an AMD processor to windows users, but I'm biased in favour of AMD, but a Pentium does run nicely when its running linux instead of windows in my experiences. Anyone else have some input? On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, paul haine mewed: OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough PC savvy to get through this.. Linux is driving me crazy!! snip I want to make it work..but it is becoming a pain in the ass!! Sorry, I just had to shout at someone!! I understand completely...I've been trying to get various flavours of Linux to run on my machine for about half a year now - Redhat 5.2, 6.1, Suse 6.something, and Mandrake 7 is the first that's actually managed to make it to the end of the installation. And still, I get freezes, crashes - at least with Windows you sometimes get a chance to recover, but with Linux it just stops working, kaput. With this plus all the hassle having to configure every little detail yourself, I think Linux for me is just going to remain a toy OS for the forseeable future... -- 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] How to see my Linux PC in a lan.
I have installed a mandrake 7.0 with a net card and i know that it works well because I can ping the rest of the computers (all of them are built in win NT and win 9X.). But I don´t know how to see them and their shared folders. I try to open the netscape but it shows me a message that I don´t understand well. By the other hand when I try to see the linux computer in a windows one only sometimes I find it making a "find PC" but when I go to open it I´m asked for a name and password but I´m never recogniced nor root nor nobody. I know that all those tthings are made by samba but I can´t find samba in my Linux... I dont´t know if I have to install it ( in that case plase tell me how to do) or where find it. I only know that if I type samba in a terminal I can start the services but I don´t know any more. Please help me to set up my Linux in a lan to share folders and to see my domain. Thanks a lot. Luis. Hi, the configuration file for samba is "/etc/smb.conf". You may edit this by hand or use "swat", it´s a config-tool you access through your webbrowser. Do "man swat" for information about this. To restart the samba services after changes to configuration, do "/etc/rc.d/ init.d/smb restart" as root. There is a section about samba in the printed manual of the Mandrake powerpack. The "SMB-HOWTO" is also very very helpful. You´ll find everything explained there. Have a closer look at chapter 6 where the use of passwords is explained. Cheers, Ove
[newbie] coverdisc PCPlusMandrake 7
Disc failed to boot under MSDos - maybe some error with my Win98 system. Is it safe to install from DOS - referred to in install instrs. on disc - or is this too, subj. to poss. corrupting bugs? I would like to try out Linux on my old 486 machine(8mb) Win95 before further risk. Can you suggest a suitable inexpensive Linux system, and where can I get it from? My home address is UK Peterborough PE14OAU
Re: [newbie] Hey..IT WORKS...
- Original Message - From: Stephen F. Bosch Savage, indeed. It looks like your X server is booting correctly, though... you were saying that it would work the first three or four times, but on the next start the screen would flash? When it does this, can you see glimpses of the above text between flashes? No , just a completely black, blank screen. What did all that stuff tell you, Stephen? It hasn't done it since Saturday.. I've just wanged a new 20 gb hard drive drive in and I'm going sit Linux in a 5 gb partition on that. If I do that, even though they will be on seperate drives, lilo will still work won't it? 5gb should be big enough for just about anything I can throw at it as far as Linux is concerned, shouldn't it? Cheers Andy
[newbie] HOW DO i Set LS-120 as floppy?
Can anyone help me? I have a LS-120 drive (120M Disks) and can't set it up as the floppy drive. (Reads 1.44M aswell). It's detected during startup as hdd, and works fine under DOS/Win95. Editing fstab to /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount user,exec,...,dev=/dev/hdd just causes KDE/GNOME/... to lock up completely if I try and access the drive, but manually mounting it as floppy works perfectly ok. I've read every manual I can find. Does anyone know how to solve the problem? Is it a problem with supermount? The CDROM works perfectly with supermount. My system is AMD K6-2 450, Voodoo3, Linux/Win95 dual boot. LS-120, 24x CDROM. Thanks Gary Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
Re: [newbie] STUPID QUESTION....
When you did your install did you happen to mount the HDD's
in Read mode only?
Mike
Robin wrote:
Brand new first time install. I was diong some HTML in Kedit...it won't let me
save. Does not seem to matter where. It says "a document with this name
already exists" no matter what the name. Then it says " an error occured".
What is up? This happens in any text editor I have. They will let me open an
existing file and modify it?? Any ideas??? Robin.
T'does not seem like a stupid question to me.
H. Interesting problem, but don't know the answer.
Happens in any text editor, eh?
Which text editors have you tried?
Did you try gvim, vim, vi, emacs? These typically wouldn't be used for creating
html files, however they could be used and emacs does support html links, if I
remember some recent reading, correctly. Nonetheless, if you haven't tried these
text editors, then give these a try, to see if the problem repeats itself with
these.
It doesn't sound like a permissions problem; however, check your directory
permissions anyway. It would be goofy if this was the problem, but it doesn't
hurt to verify the permissions for writing or creating new files.
The error message(s) you're getting, though, would be screwed up or wrong, if it's
a directory file write or create permissions problem. If this is the case, then
the editors are buggy, for reporting erroneous or invalid error messages.
I'm not 100% certain, however I think that it may be possible to modify files
without being able to create new files, but I don't presently have the time to
verify this.
If gvim, vim, or emacs work, then use one of these editors, instead of kedit, for
writing. Being accustomed to vi, I much prefer gvim and vim for writing, because
it's easier to move around, as well as easier for basically any editing task. The
kedit I have (from a download a couple of months ago) doesn't have nice keystrokes
for moving around, copy+pasting, etcetera, which means needing to use the mouse
much more, which in turn is a pain in the neck, requiring constant or frequent
switching between kb and mouse.
If you don't know vi or vim, then the control keys can be a little deterrance from
learning these editors, but it's a worthwhile learning curve. vim may seem
primitive, but it's a powerful text editor, and learning the control keys doesn't
take long. emacs is more powerful and requires a slightly (?) longer learning
curve, if you want to get into deep emacs modifications, which is not necessary;
however, the power and or flexibility makes it a very worthwhile editing tool.
So far, I only use kedit for viewing the contents of files, and new (tools) aren't
always better than older (ones).
If the problem doesn't occur with these text editors, then try Netscape Composer,
if you have Netscape Communicator installed, that is, if you haven't already tried
with this tool. I don't know how it ranks among html editors, but it worked for
the trivial html changes I needed to make to some html files.
Also, try using a different user account.
If none of this works and you want to create a new html file, or any new file,
then try the following.
a) Bring up the little KDE command dialogue box and specify kedit along with the
name for the file you want to create, add some text and then try to save, that is,
assuming you still want to use kedit.
b) If 'a' doesn't work, or you choose to leave kedit only for viewing purposes,
then create the file using echo and then edit this file. Because this file would
already exist, and you say making changes to existing files works, then this
approach should work.
In a terminal window do
% echo "" {filename}.html
Then, use kedit, if that's the tool you wish to use to edit the file, to
edit the file; or
gvim, or vim (vi), or emacs, or netscape composer to edit the file.
However, this would only get you around the problem, instead of solving it, which
you would still need to do. Until the problem is solved, though, you'ld have a
work-around.
mike
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[newbie] drive access
/mnt/hda1 fat 32 windows 98 /mnt/hda2 fat 32 windows 98 /mnt/hdb* linux problem only root can write to hda* all users can read, i had it set once so the users could writeto them but it didnt survive a reboot. how do i set this so all users can write to it and make it perminent? thank you ktk
[newbie] Off Topic but good
THE HAGGADAH - IN COMPUTER COMMAND LANGUAGE === Release ISRAEL ISRAEL running in slave mode, cannot release Set ISRAEL;mode=master Pharaoh already running in master mode, cannot change ISRAEL Set Pharaoh;mode=slave Command ignored Load Moses Done Deactivate Pharaoh Pharaoh account hard locked;cannot be deactivated For i=1 to 10 do plagues Are you sure? Y Done Release ISRAEL error: ISRAEL uninitialized Set ISRAEL = 600,000 Done Release ISRAEL ISRAEL released Declare Matza;array(width ,length ,height=0) Done Move ISRAEL to Sinai OPERATOR WARNING! SYSTEM ABOUT TO CRASH! PHARAOH AND RED SEA HAVE LIMITED YOUR MEMORY SPACE! SAVE YOUR WORK! Save ISRAEL Specify save device Save ISRAEL with miracle Done Move ISRAEL to Sinai Done For I=1 to 10 do commandments Allocation conflict:Commandments cannot be operated with active golden calf routine Destroy calf Done For I=1 to 10 do commandments Done; commandments stored on hard rock device Move ISRAEL to desert Warning! Command could lead to infinite loop Move ISRAEL to desert;limit@years(40) Done Move ISRAEL to ISRAEL Warning: operand terms must be unique Move ISRAEL to CANAAN Overload: cannot move all of ISRAEL to CANAAN set ISRAEL = ISRAEL - (SPIES * 10) Done Move ISRAEL to CANAAN Done Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack
[newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
[newbie] Fine tuning my PPP?
Hello All! On modifying my options on the PPP service to work with my raggedy old 24K intermittent phone lines. I've set my MTU, and MRU to 296 to minimize the packet fragmentation. (I hope) I ran across the "noipx" command an wondered what "IPX" stood for, do I need it? And why should I care?? Every single packet is precious and I need every clock cycle I can latch on to! Thanks for any help! Vern
[newbie] My floppy went away!
This is spooky! I no longer have the ability to read my floppy. It worked for almost 2 days after installing Mdk 7.0-2. I tried to mount the /dev/fd0 and got the reading not found in my fstab or mtab (see attached) looks like they are there to me. Any ideas? I've also tried supermount enable and disable no change. Thanks for reading this! Vern PS. The IDE CDROM works after I told it that it was a scis (scuzzy)! :-) -- Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna race? My penguin can do 466.94 BogoMIPS /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,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 /dev/hda2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=binary 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
I found that typing windows at the LILO loader also failed. Try typing DOS instead. It worked for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
[newbie] Changing resolution from 640x480 to 1024x768
Hi all, I just installed Linux on my Asus notebook which has a silicon motion graphics card. All works fine but the resolution can't be set to 1024x768 (tried to change the vga=785 to vga=791 or 792 in lilo.conf but no result) TIA jack
Re: [newbie] Fine tuning my PPP?
You don't need IPX when you just connect to LINUX, Windows NT or Internet sites, IPX is a protocol used by Novell and unless you need to connect to a Novell server, you don't need it. Jack (new-bie since .5 hour)
[newbie] dhcp server
I already have a tcp network with fixed Ip's using samba to network my linux server with 3 windows boxes. I was going to redo my box from scratch and put mandrake 7.0-2 on. When I do I want to set it up to be a dhcp server this time. What is the easist way to do this. Keep in mind that I am very new to this so would appreciate a simplistic walk threw or maybe a "Idiot proof" howto. MF Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
Why can't you boot in Windows??? Is the option not there at the lilo prompt? Are you even getting the Lilo prompt?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
[newbie] No system sounds
I have just setup mandrake 7.0 and have a SBLive sound card installed. After reading some different webpages I got the SB Live to play sounds using the media player (playing wav files) but can't get the system sounds to play. What would cause this? I have enabled the system sound but it won't play any sound when testing.
RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
you should be able to hit TAB at the prompt and get a list of OS to load. At 03:16 PM 4/13/00 +0100, you wrote: I found that typing windows at the LILO loader also failed. Try typing DOS instead. It worked for me. -Original Message- From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
Re: [newbie] No system sounds
I have just setup mandrake 7.0 and have a SBLive sound card installed. After reading some different webpages I got the SB Live to play sounds using the media player (playing wav files) but can't get the system sounds to play. What would cause this? I have enabled the system sound but it won't play any sound when testing. My AWE 64 plays the test sounds but the events don't trigger the systems sounds either. I don't know why this is happening. If you find out, let me know!
[newbie] KDE Problem
Hello to all, I've setup differnt users on my mandrake 7.0. In one user when I right click the mouse I can only create a new folder. With the other users I've the full menu, I can create a new desktop link etc. How can I fix this situation ??? Thanks in advance Fabio
[newbie] Ftp Problem
Hello to all, I've made a simple home network between my Linux system and a laptop running win95. On the laptop I run the chamaleont ftp server. When I ftp the laptop using the gFTP or IglooFTP I'm not able to see the files that are on the laptop disk. If I run ftp the laptop from the xterm I can see all the files on the disk. Somebody out there has an explanation. Thanks in advance Fabio
Re: [newbie] Changing resolution from 640x480 to 1024x768
hi jack, My name is steven. how r u doing ? i wonder ur linux boot up to GUI SCREEN I have just finish install linux ,i try to config my video card and try to get it to boot up to GUI SCREEN. i do have a problem to do so. could possible advice me. thank you. :-)) - Original Message - From: Jack Lamers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:24 AM Subject: [newbie] Changing resolution from 640x480 to 1024x768 Hi all, I just installed Linux on my Asus notebook which has a silicon motion graphics card. All works fine but the resolution can't be set to 1024x768 (tried to change the vga=785 to vga=791 or 792 in lilo.conf but no result) TIA jack
RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
The only options I get are: linux floppy Regards. M you should be able to hit TAB at the prompt and get a list of OS to load. At 03:16 PM 4/13/00 +0100, you wrote: I found that typing windows at the LILO loader also failed. Try typing DOS instead. It worked for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:03 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
try pressing tab quickley when lilo loads it will give you a list of boot otrions, and typr in windows,dos or the most apropriate thing from the list is windows,dos etc.. arn't on the list you can configure lilo(darkconfig is probably the easiest place to do this) otherwise try /boot/lolo.conf ? (maby /etc/lilo.conf) -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 April 2000 15:31 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install Why can't you boot in Windows??? Is the option not there at the lilo prompt? Are you even getting the Lilo prompt?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
ok It seems that you will not boot windows Please, check where your windows patitions is (hda,hdb hdc, etc) then read the lilo-HOWTO and follow the intructions on hot to add an image ( it's easy) run lilo and the screen displays something like Added linux* added flopy added your_image_name (could be win, windows win9x, or whatelse) Angel Claudio Alvarez -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Jueves 13 de Abril de 2000 13:01 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install The only options I get are: linux floppy Regards. M you should be able to hit TAB at the prompt and get a list of OS to load. At 03:16 PM 4/13/00 +0100, you wrote: I found that typing windows at the LILO loader also failed. Try typing DOS instead. It worked for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:03 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
[newbie] [Fwd: Maximal Mount Count]
I booted into mandrake and got an error message that: "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count, checked forced ." I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries. In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy? Thanks Eunice
[newbie] Executing a command in AUTOSTART
U... I'm very young in Linux World (2 or 3 days old) and I'm just trying to learn a lot on few days, I think. - Now I know the right syntaxis of a command (smbmount command to mount a NT sharing) I'd like it to execute whe I begin a new session in my Linux... I think using the AUTOSTART program is a good idea ... but ... really don't know. How can I do it ?? Thanks -- Josep Molero i Puig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departament d'Informàtica - Domingo Pascual Carbó, S.A. -
RE: [newbie] take off your mailing list
Only if you take it off my mailing list, will I allow you to take it on the mailing list, whether you go to the mailing list or not! Oh Yeah! Let's see you say that in Perl!! Is it true that real programers write their email in octal?? Vern (still on the mailing list) :-) On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: Take your what off my mailing list? -Original Message- From: jose rechany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 April 2000 01:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] take off your mailing list please take my off your mailing list thanks -- Vernon Stilwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna race? My penguin can do 466.94 BogoMIPS
Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!!
Sad to hear you're getting sucked into the MS vortex. Yes, learning to configure Linux is painful. I'm at that stage and the learning curve seems to be vertical but I did manage to get a basic configuration of Mandrake 6 running and it is solid as a rock. I initially had it running on 16mb or ram. Try doing that with a MS product. Although the curve is steep I like the idea of having a choice on how I configure my box and what get's loaded and what doesn't. A windoze box without alteration, stuck onto the internet is not a verysecure device. From what I can see, if I don't load the ftpd,telnetd or other server daemons, Linux is a fairly secure desktop. ks ~~~ Kevin Stewart Technical Analyst School District No. 57 check the speeds of your memory if you have more than one mem chip - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!! Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of the hardware in the machine that your using. It might or might not be the problem that your experiencing, but this was the problem the last 2 times this happened to me. I usually recomend an AMD processor to windows users, but I'm biased in favour of AMD, but a Pentium does run nicely when its running linux instead of windows in my experiences. Anyone else have some input? On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, paul haine mewed: OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough PC savvy to get through this.. Linux is driving me crazy!! snip I want to make it work..but it is becoming a pain in the ass!! Sorry, I just had to shout at someone!! I understand completely...I've been trying to get various flavours of Linux to run on my machine for about half a year now - Redhat 5.2, 6.1, Suse 6.something, and Mandrake 7 is the first that's actually managed to make it to the end of the installation. And still, I get freezes, crashes - at least with Windows you sometimes get a chance to recover, but with Linux it just stops working, kaput. With this plus all the hassle having to configure every little detail yourself, I think Linux for me is just going to remain a toy OS for the forseeable future... -- 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] Help with Mandrake install ....
when in linux, login in as root at the prompt type lilo, and it should automatically detect windows, and leave that as an option, thats what happened to me )( Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.net/jaroca ICQ: 35152653 )( - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 12:00 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install The only options I get are: linux floppy Regards. M you should be able to hit TAB at the prompt and get a list of OS to load. At 03:16 PM 4/13/00 +0100, you wrote: I found that typing windows at the LILO loader also failed. Try typing DOS instead. It worked for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal.
[newbie] Archiving using tar to floppy
In retrieving directories and their files back from the floppy, the tar method creates parallel directories to their originals. So that what was once /home/mrc/c becomes /home.mrc/home/mrc/c Is there some way one can archive to floppy so that the retrieval places the files back in their original directories? Thanks for any help. Michael Coady
Re: [newbie] Hey..IT WORKS...
andy wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen F. Bosch Savage, indeed. When it does this, can you see glimpses of the above text between flashes? No , just a completely black, blank screen. What did all that stuff tell you, Stephen? It *looks* like X is starting normally, so yes, I'm a bit perplexed. It hasn't done it since Saturday.. I've just wanged a new 20 gb hard drive drive in and I'm going sit Linux in a 5 gb partition on that. If I do that, even though they will be on seperate drives, lilo will still work won't it? Intermittent problems are always a bitch to diagnose. Lilo doesn't really care about where the kernel is, but the kernel does, sometimes. It depends on your hardware. Kernels like to be within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk, so you might want to make a /boot partition that's at the beginning or near the beginning of the disk -- the other partitions can be anywhere you'd like them to be. 5gb should be big enough for just about anything I can throw at it as far as Linux is concerned, shouldn't it? Sure - I'm surviving just fine on 4 Gb. -Stephen-
[newbie] Fw: Maximal Mount Count
sorry about the attachment in the original message - Original Message - From: Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:25 AM Subject: Maximal Mount Count I booted into mandrake and got an error message that: "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count, checked forced ." I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries. In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy? Thanks Eunice
[newbie] Num Lock
Hi all how can i have the NumLock enable as soon as i log in.
[newbie] Upgrade to 7.0 problems
Hello all, I have just upgraded from Mandrake 6.1 to 7.0, and almost everything still works (some things better than before). Unfortunately, when I try to run acrobat reader, or corel wordperfect I get the following error message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' I don't get this message when I run staroffice, netscape etc. I checked for the above library and it seems to have been installed in the right places on my hard drive. I am mystified. Please help. Daniel
Re: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
Try pressing the TAB key to see exactly how it should be typed in and use that. 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, 13 Apr 2000 15:16:30 +0100 Stephen Slack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found that typing windows at the LILO loader also failed. Try typing DOS instead. It worked for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Help with Mandrake install I'm newcomer to Linux/PC. I tried to install Mandrake Linux V7.0 on my PC. I used the latest cdrom.img file from the web as the one on the CD-ROM is thought to be faulty. I used the recommended settings. Although linux is installed correctly, I can't boot in Windows. Can anyone help. Regards. Mungal. 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.
RE: [newbie] Off Topic but good
Title: RE: [newbie] Off Topic but good Cheers Group, Someone sent me this question and it has me clueless. Cna anyone provide any insight on a solution that would work for both Linux and Winblows? Thanks, Phil Lamey Hey Phil. I've got a Perl question for you. Do you know how to send an email, preferably with an attachment in perl. Without having to send an HTTP request to some isp? Thanks. Mike.
[newbie] Strange memory problem!
Hello from Russia! :) Guys i am new to the linux but i am gonna learn it as much as i can.I alredy have two Mandrake 7 comps and have solved any troubles that happend to me.But on another one Celeron 450 128 meg ECC SDRAM (one chip) Creative Infra 48X i do have some strange things.First Mandrake setup is going in the text mode all the way till the end and i am getting 16MB of ram! Is there any config files or i have to recompile the kernel? With best wishes,Vegas.
Re: [newbie] Problems
"J.Carson" wrote: this will happen, it is not very well written(netscape) however when the new version comes out it wont happen. If you have a cpu monitor applet on your task bar, youll see that when you load netscape it rapes your cpu usage, if you have a slow processor then this probably just conributes to you problem )( Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.net/jaroca ICQ: 35152653 )( - Original Message - From: "Valjean" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 10:46 AM Subject: [newbie] Problems I have a "freshly" installed system, so no extra software has been installed except the Mandrake 7.0 install. When I use Netscape in xwin, it will work, then suddenly will stop. I mean the page will stay on the screen but when you click on a link, nothing happens. It just stays there. Shut Netscape down, and then try to bring it back up, and nothing happens, it merely "shrugs off" the attempt. Now, if I bring up a virtual terminal and look in the .netscape directory, there is a blinking file called lock. Delete this and netscape loads fine...for a while.. Ideas, thoughts on how to clear this up? and why does X freeze all the time? it will work fine for a while, then I'll leave for work, with no apps running, 8 hours later I'll come back home and low and behold x will have frozen, pressing keys on the keyboard don't work, the mouse won't move the pointer, nothing. I have to restart the computer. Valjean Don't know if this will apply or help,but my windows (X) were freezing up on me in the same manner ,in netscape ,in kfm,and while playing games,I have since replaced my old graphics blaster cirrus logic card with a ATI XPERT 98 AND HAVE NOT SEN A FREEZE SINCE.Been two months now and I'm on all the time after work., Bill
[newbie] shutdown problem
Hi there...having a bit of a problem with shutting down 7.0. When I issue the "shutdown now" command, everything seems fine and dandy until it switches into "single-user" mode. If I try ctl-ald-del at the single-user prompt, I get the message "no authorized users logged in." If I try shutdown again, it spins for a bit and goes right back to single-user mode. At that point, I couldn't do anything but cringe and power it off.. Anybody have any ideas? -evan-
Re: [newbie] shutdown problem
shutdown -h now --- evan light [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there...having a bit of a problem with shutting down 7.0. When I issue the "shutdown now" command, everything seems fine and dandy until it switches into "single-user" mode. If I try ctl-ald-del at the single-user prompt, I get the message "no authorized users logged in." If I try shutdown again, it spins for a bit and goes right back to single-user mode. At that point, I couldn't do anything but cringe and power it off.. Anybody have any ideas? -evan- __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Problems
The problem is with Netscape as opposed to Xwindows. Somehow netscape stalls on a page and the file called linux.ld.so (check it out in top) takes up all the system resources, and Netscape effectively crashes, pretty hard. The only way to recover is to go into a terminal and issue the command kill -9 PID# That kills Netscape and the errant linux.ld.so file. At 04:02 AM 4/13/00 -0400, you wrote: "J.Carson" wrote: this will happen, it is not very well written(netscape) however when the new version comes out it wont happen. If you have a cpu monitor applet on your task bar, youll see that when you load netscape it rapes your cpu usage, if you have a slow processor then this probably just conributes to you problem )( Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.net/jaroca ICQ: 35152653 )( - Original Message - From: "Valjean" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 10:46 AM Subject: [newbie] Problems I have a "freshly" installed system, so no extra software has been installed except the Mandrake 7.0 install. When I use Netscape in xwin, it will work, then suddenly will stop. I mean the page will stay on the screen but when you click on a link, nothing happens. It just stays there. Shut Netscape down, and then try to bring it back up, and nothing happens, it merely "shrugs off" the attempt. Now, if I bring up a virtual terminal and look in the .netscape directory, there is a blinking file called lock. Delete this and netscape loads fine...for a while.. Ideas, thoughts on how to clear this up? and why does X freeze all the time? it will work fine for a while, then I'll leave for work, with no apps running, 8 hours later I'll come back home and low and behold x will have frozen, pressing keys on the keyboard don't work, the mouse won't move the pointer, nothing. I have to restart the computer. Valjean Don't know if this will apply or help,but my windows (X) were freezing up on me in the same manner ,in netscape ,in kfm,and while playing games,I have since replaced my old graphics blaster cirrus logic card with a ATI XPERT 98 AND HAVE NOT SEN A FREEZE SINCE.Been two months now and I'm on all the time after work., Bill Zulfiqar Naushad [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6001618 http://www.exacomp.com http://members.home.net/zna
Re: [newbie] shutdown problem
shutdown -h now --- evan light [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there...having a bit of a problem with shutting down 7.0. When I issue the "shutdown now" command, everything seems fine and dandy until it switches into "single-user" mode. If I try ctl-ald-del at the single-user prompt, I get the message "no authorized users logged in." If I try shutdown again, it spins for a bit and goes right back to single-user mode. At that point, I couldn't do anything but cringe and power it off.. Anybody have any ideas? -evan- __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
[newbie] Mainframe Emulation Program
Does anyone know of a mainframe (3270) emulator for Linux? Nothing special, just tcp/ip connectivity...
Re: [newbie] shutdown problem
evan light wrote: Hi there...having a bit of a problem with shutting down 7.0. When I issue the "shutdown now" command, everything seems fine and dandy until it switches into "single-user" mode. That doesn't at all fine and dandy to me. It shouldn't be going into single user mode, it should be halting. Are you getting error messages during the shutdown procedure? -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] Mainframe Emulation Program
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone know of a mainframe (3270) emulator for Linux? Nothing special, j ust tcp/ip connectivity... x3270 is around, but I do not know if it has been ported to linux. There is a web page at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/ where you can get an email address to ask that author. -- Jim McMaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Ftp Problem
Martin Solms wrote: On your Win95 system, are you listing the files in Dos mode or Unix style (you can check this under the administration of the Personal Web server - if you are running the pws). That's my guess Fabio wrote: Hello to all, I've made a simple home network between my Linux system and a laptop running win95. On the laptop I run the chamaleont ftp server. When I ftp the laptop using the gFTP or IglooFTP I'm not able to see the files that are on the laptop disk. If I run ftp the laptop from the xterm I can see all the files on the disk. Somebody out there has an explanation. Thanks in advance Fabio Hello, thanks for the quick answer, but I'm not running the pws. I know that is something related to the file listing. At the beginning I had the same problem using win98 to ftp the laptop, and I solved it when I setup the ftp program on my PC to use the same protocol (chamaleont) as the ftp server running on the laptop. The problem is that I do not know how to do it under Linux, since both gui ftp program I've used do not support it ( I mean I didn't find it in the preference setup ). Right now I'm using the always working xterm :-) Ciao Fabio
[newbie] kppp and modem busy message
Hello, This is a repost of a message to the list that went unreplied to, so please excuse any faux pauxs that I may have commited. I have a problem which I hope somebody else has encountered and remedied. I am presently using Mandrake 6.0 with kernel 2.2.13. My modem is a U.S. Robotics 56k Sportser FAXModem. I get an error message that my kernel doesn't have ppp support built and to contact the system administrator. I click the ok button and the "CONNECT" window comes up. Only when I click connect, I get a "looking form modem" -- "Sorry modem is busy" messages from Kppp. I discovered a temporary work around using minicom to reset the modem and then I am able to use Kppp to dial-in to my isp and send this mail message. I compiled the kernel myself and I am not sure if a module was left out or a service is not started during boot up that kppp needs to reset the modem. If more information is needed please let me know. I would like to solve this annoying little problem once an for all. Thanks In Advance, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mainframe Emulation Program
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: Does anyone know of a mainframe (3270) emulator for Linux? Nothing special, just tcp/ip connectivity... x3270 is a fairly good terminal emulator. It should be on your Mandrake install disk. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] No system sounds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just setup mandrake 7.0 and have a SBLive sound card installed. After reading some different webpages I got the SB Live to play sounds using the media player (playing wav files) but can't get the system sounds to play. What would cause this? I have enabled the system sound but it won't play any sound when testing. I think I have the same problem, however I think I appreciate the silence! :-) I get sound only when I want it! :-) MarkP
Re: [newbie] Problems
Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: The problem is with Netscape as opposed to Xwindows. Somehow netscape stalls on a page and the file called linux.ld.so (check it out in top) takes up all the system resources, and Netscape effectively crashes, pretty hard. The only way to recover is to go into a terminal and issue the command kill -9 PID# That kills Netscape and the errant linux.ld.so file. At 04:02 AM 4/13/00 -0400, you wrote: "J.Carson" wrote: this will happen, it is not very well written(netscape) however when the new version comes out it wont happen. If you have a cpu monitor applet on your task bar, youll see that when you load netscape it rapes your cpu usage, if you have a slow processor then this probably just conributes to you problem )( Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.net/jaroca ICQ: 35152653 )( - Original Message - From: "Valjean" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 10:46 AM Subject: [newbie] Problems I have a "freshly" installed system, so no extra software has been installed except the Mandrake 7.0 install. When I use Netscape in xwin, it will work, then suddenly will stop. I mean the page will stay on the screen but when you click on a link, nothing happens. It just stays there. Shut Netscape down, and then try to bring it back up, and nothing happens, it merely "shrugs off" the attempt. Now, if I bring up a virtual terminal and look in the .netscape directory, there is a blinking file called lock. Delete this and netscape loads fine...for a while.. Ideas, thoughts on how to clear this up? and why does X freeze all the time? it will work fine for a while, then I'll leave for work, with no apps running, 8 hours later I'll come back home and low and behold x will have frozen, pressing keys on the keyboard don't work, the mouse won't move the pointer, nothing. I have to restart the computer. Valjean Don't know if this will apply or help,but my windows (X) were freezing up on me in the same manner ,in netscape ,in kfm,and while playing games,I have since replaced my old graphics blaster cirrus logic card with a ATI XPERT 98 AND HAVE NOT SEN A FREEZE SINCE.Been two months now and I'm on all the time after work., Bill Zulfiqar Naushad [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6001618 http://www.exacomp.com http://members.home.net/zna Hello all , Question,.Why would all my Netscape 6 downloads,completely download,only to completely disappear once the download is done,they flash the 'save as dialog box too quickly to read and then their gone.Does anyone know why this might be happening ,I don't have any problrems loading anyother downloads. Waitting for answer or final releaseBill
Re: [newbie] linux 7.0
well if i must then nahh but thanks anyway - Original Message - From: "root" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 10:10 AM Subject: [newbie] linux 7.0 all newbie must get a new e-mail fromhttp://www .freelinuxmail.com GET THE BEST FREE INTERNET ACCESS * Free Email * Free Support * Software* * No Credit Check * Privacy Guaranteed* GOTO http://www.HomeFreeWeb.com
[newbie] other free isp's
are there any other free isp's for linux i know any that you don't software for but everyone i have found needs software except for freewwweb which doesn't work in my area
[newbie] How do I do this ???
Hi everyone, I'd like to know, if there are any, ways to convert my linux-partitioned hdd(ext2) into fat32 ??? Please, help medanke sehr.
[newbie] display problems
i used linux once before and loved it. i just installed mandrake 7.0 and went through the process rather smoothly until i reached configure x. i selected the defaults the first time then when that failed i tried several of the other options for resolution and monitor. wheather i accept the change or reject it, my screen becomes a kalidascope of colorful little retangles. nice look but unreadable. i have a pentiun 233mmx, 64mb ram, 8.4gb hd, diamond stealth 220turbo video card, monitor is an nec multisync 2. the equipment is not the newest but i think it will work with some more attention. thank you i would appreciate any help. gene __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] problems with RPM
Hey Gang, I'm having a problem getting anythin to install on my system...even using the RPM comman I keep getting file not found or can not open file errors. The syntax I am using (inside the desired installation directory where I have copied the file) is: rpm -ivh filenamehere No such luck...any ideas? Thanks, F
Re: [newbie] 7.0-2 version
Gregonce installed, the 7.0-2 iso image will also give you a 7.0 (Air) version. Once installed on a computer the 7.0 iso image and the 7.0-2 iso image are the same. The few bugs fixed in the 7.0-2 iso image have only to do with the installation process itself and these bugs are avoidable by downloading a floppy.img file and booting for the install with it rather than with the cd containing the 7.0 iso image. All of what I've just told you is freely available on the Mandrake's web site. You shouldn't jump to conclusions without doing some research into the subject. Alan Greg Martz wrote: I have been hearing about the above version, but saw nothing about it on the linux-mandrake.com web site. I then checked rpmfind.net and checking the VERSION file in both current and 7.0 I see that it is indeed marked as 7.0-2 (Air) When I do a Ctrl-Alt-F1, my mandrake install says 7.0 (Air). Are these the same versions? I have looked at the time/date stamps of all the files in the base folder for both my copy and the copy on rpmfind.net and they are the same. Is there a way I can check to see if I have 7.02 (Air) before downloading the whole package again? Thanks! Greg
[newbie] Problems
I have one 8.5 gig hd and one cdrom. I want to hook up two more hard drives, copy some data from them, and then remove them from the system. How do I get Linux to recognize them so I can copy, then remove them from the system as easily? Valjean
[newbie] Problems
Some networking problems: I am hooked to my campus ethernet network. While running windows, I get tremendous throughput loading pages, doing ftp, etc..now in netscape in linux, I am getting throughput no higher than 3.5k/sec and then it starts dropping, and stalls out..goes back up to 3.5/3.6 and drops slowly to 3.0, 2.9,2.8..etc then stalls out.. any ideas? I am using an AMD K6-II 350 overclocked to 400, 128 megs SDRAM, an SMC EtherEZ 8416 NIC, mandrake 7.0 . Also, I had the same problem as I thought the others did...I try to telnet to my machine from somewhere else, and it says connected...I wait for the login prompt, it hesitates and then the connection is dropped. I know I should edit my /etc/inetd file..what should I make sure it has to be able to telnet in? I just want to be able to telnet and ftp into my machine, s'all. Thanks Valjean
[newbie]
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[newbie] qt 2.1.0
Any advice on installing/compiling qt.2.1.0 or qt.2.0.2...any advice or links would be appriciated...John __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Mainframe Emulation Program
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: Does anyone know of a mainframe (3270) emulator for Linux? Nothing special, just tcp/ip connectivity... Try X3270 - the home page is: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/
Re: [[newbie] shutdown problem]
evan light [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there...having a bit of a problem with shutting down 7.0. When I issue the "shutdown now" command, everything seems fine and dandy until it switches into "single-user" mode. If I try ctl-ald-del at the single-user prompt, I get the message "no authorized users logged in." If I try shutdown again, it spins for a bit and goes right back to single-user mode. At that point, I couldn't do anything but cringe and power it off.. Anybody have any ideas? -evan- = Try "shutdown -h now" w/o quotes. If that doesn't work, try the same command after su-ing to root. Mike "What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" --W. C. Fields Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] mdk 6.0 boot disc question
I neglected to take out my boot disc when I was making a floppy, and overwrote it. I am dual booting, and use a boot disc to get to linux. I need to make a new bootdisc and am unsure how to. Here's what I tried: I loaded tomsrtbt into my box, and mounted my linux partition, and gave the command "mkbootdisc", which I thought was all I had to do. This didn't work. I then tried looking around for my boot image to copy, but I'm not sure where it is, or if that's all I would need. In /boot there are two vmlinuz images, but i'm not sure how to copy them and if they are what I need. I tried to, just to experiment but it didn't work. Heres what I did: dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0. I know this is real newbie stuff, but any help will be much appreciated. tia russell
Re: [newbie] Problems
Valjean wrote:
I have one 8.5 gig hd and one cdrom. I want to hook up two more hard
drives, copy some data from them, and then remove them from the system.
How do I get Linux to recognize them so I can copy, then remove them from
the system as easily?
Valjean
What type of HDDs do you have, IDE or SCSI? This is a piece of information
you could have included.
Assuming IDE, max two internal HDDs and not having a means of connecting the
two HDDs externally, the following is one way to do what you want to do.
From this you should be able to infer what to do under difference
circumstances.
- Install one of the HDDs as the second HDD, which will be seen by Linux as
/dev/hdb (for IDE)
NOTE: Refer to your PC system manual for how to install and change
HDDs for
electrical protection and proper jumper settings.
- Boot up your Linux configuration.
- Mount the hdb filesystem you'll be copying the data from (mount command,
if doing this from the command line).
- Copy the data from the hdb fs to where ever you want it on your hda Linux
configuration.
- Unmount hdb (umount command, if doing this from the command line).
- Shutdown your Linux configuration and power off the PC.
- Remove hdd
NOTE: Follow your PC manual for electrical safety, and reset
jumper settings to
the original settings.
- Repeat for the second HDD you want to copy data from.
This is a grosso-modo guideline. Make sure to follow your PC manual for
installing and removing HDDs. You want to follow this manual to also know
how to install the HDDs as secondary drives.
One way to mount hdb is as follows:
- Create the directory hdb in /mnt, that is, /mnt/hdb.
- Run the mount command to mount the filesystem on hdb.
How to run the mount command:
% mount -vt {fs-type} /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb
This will allow you to access the fs on hdb. However, this is also assuming
that hdb has one, single, filesystem on it, or that the filesystem on hdb
you wish to access is hdb1.
If hdb1 is not correct, then you'll need to determine which /dev/hdb{n}
block device file to use, and this can be done using fdisk, running fdisk
with /dev/hdb as an argument:
% fdisk /dev/hdb
Once in fdisk, type p and press Enter. This will display the filesystems on
hdb, which shows the associated /dev/hdb{n} files the filesystems are mapped
to.
{fs-type} for the mount command's -t option depends on the type of
filesystem you'll be copying the data from. If it's a Linux filesystem,
then the value for -t is likely
ext2
If the filesystem is a MSDOS filesystem, then the -t argument is likely
vfat
You may want to specify another mount option, to mount read-only; however,
if memory is accurate, then this is the default, that is, filesystems being
mounted read-only (not whether or not my accurate memory should be
read-only, definitely doesn't sound like a good idea, unless born with all
of the knowledge one will ever need - lousy option for teachers).
You may need to be root to mount the hdb filesystem, depending on the
privileges assigned to the user account you'ld otherwise be using. If
you're doing this as a user other than root and the mount fails because the
user doesn't have the permissions to mount hdb, then simply switch (su) to
root and then run the mount command.
If you're using SCSI HDDs, instead of IDE, then the /dev file to use is not
/dev/hdb{n}, but instead /dev/sdb{n}. This should also be shown by fdisk,
and when you'ld run fdisk, the argument for fdisk would be /dev/sdb, instead
of /dev/hdb.
For more information, you can check the man pages for mount and fdisk.
% man mount
% man fdisk
Also, if you're running as root and using kde, then I believe that there's a
kde tool or utility for working with filesystems (mounting, unmounting,
adding, removing); however, I'm not sure which tool this is. I use mount
and umount.
In kde, you can create a destop icon for filesystem device and define it for
mounting and unmounting filesystems. However, this only mounts and
unmounts; although, might automatically bring up the tool for viewing, etc.
I'm not promoting kde over gnome. Haven't been using gnome, but definitely
plan to add it and begin using it soon, at least to check out both
environments. Until, then, though, I'll probably often refer to kde.
The command line umount command works as follows:
% umount /mnt/hdb
If you wish to take the time to modify the /etc/fstab file, then you could
add the mount information for hdb or sdb, depending on the type of hdd
you're using. This would permit running mount without needing to specify
the -vt option and argument as well as /dev/[hs]db{n}, as follows:
for IDE
% mount /mnt/hdb
for SCSI
% mount /mnt/sdb
This would then be all you'ld need to type when ever wanting to mount an hdb
or sdb (depending on whether you're using ide or scsi) filesystem mapped to
the same
Re: [newbie] No system sounds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just setup mandrake 7.0 and have a SBLive sound card installed. After reading some different webpages I got the SB Live to play sounds using the media player (playing wav files) but can't get the system sounds to play. What would cause this? I have enabled the system sound but it won't play any sound when testing. I had the same thing. I installed and tested my SB AWE32 with sndconfig All worked well but no system sounds. I checked the setup several times and didn't notice that it had been save as SB. I had no wave sounds. I did the setup with sndconfig again and made sure it saved the setting as sb awe32/64 and now the wave files work.
[newbie] Maximal Mount Count
sorry about the attachment in the original message- Original Message - From: Eunice Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:25 AMSubject: Maximal Mount Count I booted into mandrake and got an error message that: "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count, checked forced ." I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries. In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy? Thanks Eunice
Re: [newbie] Hey..IT WORKS...
Mike Perry wrote: Install the Mozzilla fonts in your Netscape. YES!! Thanks for pointing that out. Easy to install, and the fonts are really nice. Dan
[newbie] Linksys/Network Everywhere NC100 NIC w/tulip driver
Hi all, In case anyone else has the same problem I was having, I wanted to post how I got it to work. My problem: After installing this NIC, mandrake 6.1 didn't recognize it - during linux install, the tulip driver and other suggested drivers would not initialize the card. I tried several suggestions I found in the mail archives and from other lists but nothing worked. Even tried another distribution - same problem. I read books, man pages, how-tos, you name it. Solution: I finally went back to the obvious - the driver diskette that came with the card. Lo and behold it had a linux subdir with a readme. Readme said to download latest tulip.c and a supporting header file from: FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/tulip.c and FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/kern_compat.h The readme's compile instruction didn't work, but the tulip file had a compile instruction commented in the bottom of the file. That compile command was successful. Next step was a "depmod -a" . Then check options in conf.modules and set accordingly. I tried a "modprobe tulip" (after copying new tulip.o file to proper directory - also spelled out in readme) and it worked !! I had to tweak one or 2 things in the network setup from what I originally had and then all was fine. Also, I did make sure from first Mandrake install that PnP was turned off in the BIOS. I noticed also that in the Mandrake update section of their webpage there is some type of update for the tulip driver, so possibly that will take care of this as well. This is a very inexpensive card ($15 !) and now works like a charm - fine for simple home networking. So there you have it.. Cheers, philomena
Re: [newbie] Problems
Thanks for the info..I know all about removing and reinstalled hdds,
they're ide sorry. I know about the hard drive stuff, I just needed to
know how to setup Linux to recognize and mount them.
The two extra drives are actually at the moment in another machine, which
does have a NIC and runs Windows 95. I do have some crossover cable..how
could I software-wise set up the linux and windows machine to interface
and be able to share files?
Val
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Mike Corbeil wrote:
Valjean wrote:
I have one 8.5 gig hd and one cdrom. I want to hook up two more hard
drives, copy some data from them, and then remove them from the system.
How do I get Linux to recognize them so I can copy, then remove them from
the system as easily?
Valjean
What type of HDDs do you have, IDE or SCSI? This is a piece of information
you could have included.
Assuming IDE, max two internal HDDs and not having a means of connecting the
two HDDs externally, the following is one way to do what you want to do.
From this you should be able to infer what to do under difference
circumstances.
- Install one of the HDDs as the second HDD, which will be seen by Linux as
/dev/hdb (for IDE)
NOTE: Refer to your PC system manual for how to install and change
HDDs for
electrical protection and proper jumper settings.
- Boot up your Linux configuration.
- Mount the hdb filesystem you'll be copying the data from (mount command,
if doing this from the command line).
- Copy the data from the hdb fs to where ever you want it on your hda Linux
configuration.
- Unmount hdb (umount command, if doing this from the command line).
- Shutdown your Linux configuration and power off the PC.
- Remove hdd
NOTE: Follow your PC manual for electrical safety, and reset
jumper settings to
the original settings.
- Repeat for the second HDD you want to copy data from.
This is a grosso-modo guideline. Make sure to follow your PC manual for
installing and removing HDDs. You want to follow this manual to also know
how to install the HDDs as secondary drives.
One way to mount hdb is as follows:
- Create the directory hdb in /mnt, that is, /mnt/hdb.
- Run the mount command to mount the filesystem on hdb.
How to run the mount command:
% mount -vt {fs-type} /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb
This will allow you to access the fs on hdb. However, this is also assuming
that hdb has one, single, filesystem on it, or that the filesystem on hdb
you wish to access is hdb1.
If hdb1 is not correct, then you'll need to determine which /dev/hdb{n}
block device file to use, and this can be done using fdisk, running fdisk
with /dev/hdb as an argument:
% fdisk /dev/hdb
Once in fdisk, type p and press Enter. This will display the filesystems on
hdb, which shows the associated /dev/hdb{n} files the filesystems are mapped
to.
{fs-type} for the mount command's -t option depends on the type of
filesystem you'll be copying the data from. If it's a Linux filesystem,
then the value for -t is likely
ext2
If the filesystem is a MSDOS filesystem, then the -t argument is likely
vfat
You may want to specify another mount option, to mount read-only; however,
if memory is accurate, then this is the default, that is, filesystems being
mounted read-only (not whether or not my accurate memory should be
read-only, definitely doesn't sound like a good idea, unless born with all
of the knowledge one will ever need - lousy option for teachers).
You may need to be root to mount the hdb filesystem, depending on the
privileges assigned to the user account you'ld otherwise be using. If
you're doing this as a user other than root and the mount fails because the
user doesn't have the permissions to mount hdb, then simply switch (su) to
root and then run the mount command.
If you're using SCSI HDDs, instead of IDE, then the /dev file to use is not
/dev/hdb{n}, but instead /dev/sdb{n}. This should also be shown by fdisk,
and when you'ld run fdisk, the argument for fdisk would be /dev/sdb, instead
of /dev/hdb.
For more information, you can check the man pages for mount and fdisk.
% man mount
% man fdisk
Also, if you're running as root and using kde, then I believe that there's a
kde tool or utility for working with filesystems (mounting, unmounting,
adding, removing); however, I'm not sure which tool this is. I use mount
and umount.
In kde, you can create a destop icon for filesystem device and define it for
mounting and unmounting filesystems. However, this only mounts and
unmounts; although, might automatically bring up the tool for viewing, etc.
I'm not promoting kde over gnome. Haven't been using gnome, but definitely
plan to add it and begin using it soon, at least to check out both
environments. Until, then, though, I'll probably often
Re: [newbie] shutdown problem
For problems of this sort, try reading the man page for the program or utility you're trying to use and don't seem to be able to get to work as you want. E.g., % man shutdown -h now is correct, but it's also important for newbies to be aware of the man pages and knowing this can sometimes provide quicker answers than asking in a mailing list. Reading the man page on shutdown would have given you the answer as quickly as it took for the initial question to be written, let alone waiting for the reply. mike mark willenbring wrote: shutdown -h now --- evan light [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there...having a bit of a problem with shutting down 7.0. When I issue the "shutdown now" command, everything seems fine and dandy until it switches into "single-user" mode. If I try ctl-ald-del at the single-user prompt, I get the message "no authorized users logged in." If I try shutdown again, it spins for a bit and goes right back to single-user mode. At that point, I couldn't do anything but cringe and power it off.. Anybody have any ideas? -evan- __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] How do I do this ???
Muhammad Hanif Bay wrote:
Hi
everyone,I'd like
to know, if there are any, ways to convert my linux-partitioned hdd(ext2)
into fat32 ???Please, help
medanke sehr.
Sure there's a way, and a few ways to boot.
Do you want to reformat the entire hdd, which hdd do you wish to format
(hda, hdb?), and if not the entire hdd, then what's the /dev/hd[ab]{n}
device file?
Also, do you have partition magic? Nifty tool for partition work
and certainly a worthwhile purchase, if you plan on needing to do this
kind of work a fair number of times over the next year or two or
three or more. I haven't regretted purchasing PM 3.x (3.0 I
think), and it's up to 5.x or higher now. One very nice feature of
this tool is that it allows you to resize partitions without destroying
the contents (I don't know of any other tool which has this capability).
You might find it sold at various prices; therefore, a little shopping
around might help to save as much as $20US.
mike
Re: [newbie] 7.0-2 version
Try % uname -a If this doesn't work, then check the versions of the kernel images and other boot files in the /boot directory. If neither of these work, then I'm not sure how else to check this. There may be a configuration file somewhere, which might contain this information; however, if neither of the above methods provides the information you want, then they should and you might want to report this in the Mandrake bug reports. mike Greg Martz wrote: I have been hearing about the above version, but saw nothing about it on the linux-mandrake.com web site. I then checked rpmfind.net and checking the VERSION file in both current and 7.0 I see that it is indeed marked as 7.0-2 (Air) When I do a Ctrl-Alt-F1, my mandrake install says 7.0 (Air). Are these the same versions? I have looked at the time/date stamps of all the files in the base folder for both my copy and the copy on rpmfind.net and they are the same. Is there a way I can check to see if I have 7.02 (Air) before downloading the whole package again? Thanks! Greg
Re: [newbie] help
Steven Cheong wrote: Hi there ! i hope someones can help me. I just finished install linux 6.0 to my pc and I attempt to install my video card driver which is sis 6215, but it doesn't be appeared in the database, so which driver should I use. thanxssteven Check with the video card vendor to see what other cards it's compatible with. If you have a manual for your video card, then you might find this information in the manual, which you should check before contacting the vendor. Perhaps someone here will know the answer to your question, however you might find better luck asking in the expert mailing list, because this isn't really a newbie kind of knowledge you're looking for. Subscribe to both lists, if you haven't. mike
[newbie] installation problem
Hi, I am a complete Linux newbie and not a whole lot farther along w/ computers as a whole. I have repartitioned my hd using partition magic and tried to install a copy of mandrake 6.1(helios). Both disk druid and fdisk off the mandrake cd fail to see the swap and ext2 files that I see in windows and msdos fdisk. How can i get around this problem and get linux to load? thanks __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrade to 7.0 problems
Daniel Knapp wrote: Hello all, I have just upgraded from Mandrake 6.1 to 7.0, and almost everything still works (some things better than before). Unfortunately, when I try to run acrobat reader, or corel wordperfect I get the following error message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' I don't get this message when I run staroffice, netscape etc. I checked for the above library and it seems to have been installed in the right places on my hard drive. I am mystified. Please help. Daniel If you don't get an answer, here, then check Corel's web site. I've never run into this kind of problem and therefore don't know the solution. Meanwhile, if you need to view .pdf files and you don't know of another tool, then try ghostview. I don't know how the display compares to adobe acrobat, but ghostview can be used to display, and I believe create, .pdf files. mike
Re: [newbie] Office
Huelskamp, VT wrote:
During installation I noticed that one of the packages was "office" is this star
office? how do you access the program? or do I need to download star office?
VT Huelskamp
USDA
Could even be office for kde, which I think is called koffice or k office with a space.
To see what this is (might want to start with the last method mentioned and then begin
at the top, here):
a) If office is installed and it's installed from an rpm, then run
rpm -qi office
You may need to give more information, depending on the name of this package.
b) If office is an rpm package and it's not installed, then go to the directory where
the
rpm file is located and install the package by running
rpm -vv -ivh --test {package-name}.rpm
{package-name} can be just office*, but use the fullest unique portion of the
name
if there are other, completely different packages beginning with office.
If this test works, then rerun the command without the --test option.
Then, run
rpm -qi {package-name}
This will tell you what the package is.
Afterwards, if you just installed the package to query what it is, then remove
it if
you don't want it installed, using
rpm -e {package-name}
c) If it's installed and not from a rpm package, or not one by the same name, then
you'll want to do an rpm query to find out if it belongs to a package and which
one. See the rpm
man page for the various query options (I believe there's one for this). If you don't
know how to display man pages, then it's
man {command}
For rpm {command would be replaced with} "rpm".
d) If all of the above fail, or you just want a shortcut to your answer, and office is
installed, then simply run it. If it installed from the Mandrake cdrom,
then there should no danger in running this application. If it did not come with the
Mandrake cdrom, which means you downloaded the application, then start with
step 'a', but run rpm to check the
signature and validity of the rpm package, first, that is, if it's not installed yet.
This is done by running rpm with the -K option, and if this reports an
error, then run rpm with the -K and --nopgp options, before trying to install.
Check the rpm man page to learn how rpm can be used. Very important read.
mike
Re: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
J.Carson wrote: when in linux, login in as root at the prompt type lilo, and it should automatically detect windows, and leave that as an option, thats what happened to me If that fails, then login the same way again and this time run linuxconf. This is a fairly straigtforward gui tool for various configuration purposes, lilo being one of them. mike
Re: [newbie] Executing a command in AUTOSTART
You might want to ask the question in the expert mailing list, or get a good book on running Linux. O'Reilly's Running Linux is supposedly a very good book. mike Josep Molero i Puig wrote: U... I'm very young in Linux World (2 or 3 days old) and I'm just trying to learn a lot on few days, I think. - Now I know the right syntaxis of a command (smbmount command to mount a NT sharing) I'd like it to execute whe I begin a new session in my Linux... I think using the AUTOSTART program is a good idea ... but ... really don't know. How can I do it ?? Thanks -- Josep Molero i Puig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departament d'Informàtica - Domingo Pascual Carbó, S.A. -
Re: [newbie] Help with Mandrake install ....
This is redundant of me, however linuxconf, a configuration tool a la gui, will make your life easy. mike Alvarez, Angel wrote: ok It seems that you will not boot windows Please, check where your windows patitions is (hda,hdb hdc, etc) then read the lilo-HOWTO and follow the intructions on hot to add an image ( it's easy) run lilo and the screen displays something like Added linux* added flopy added your_image_name (could be win, windows win9x, or whatelse) Angel Claudio Alvarez
[newbie] X server Issue
HI all I've started to get problems with Xserver. When I use the scroll bars on Netscape, Xterm, etc the image 'moves diagonally across thge screen with vertical lines piling up at the side of the window. I have to refresh the desktop to read anything. I have changed the screen resolution and color depth but to no avail. Any suggestions Thank you in advance Kevin
Re: [newbie] Off Topic but good
Try the Perl mailing lists and newsgroups, if you don't find an answer here. One location which supports several mailing lists is at http://www.activestate.com That isn't Perl for Unix or Linux, and instead for win32, but you might get an answer there. Otherwise, you'll need to search the internet for mailing lists or newsgroups. mike Phil Lamey wrote: Cheers Group, Someone sent me this question and it has me clueless. Cna anyone provide any insight on a solution that would work for both Linux and Winblows? Thanks, Phil Lamey Hey Phil. I've got a Perl question for you. Do you know how to send an email, preferably with an attachment in perl. Without having to send an HTTP request to some isp? Thanks. Mike.
Re: [newbie] Problems
I'ld suggest two things to start with:
1) check out samba and maybe (?) smb; and
2) you should ask this question in the expert mailing list, perhaps after step 1.
You will probably need to install samba to get the documentation, or you could
look through the LDP on the web. That's the Linux Documentation Project and
Mandrake should have a link to it through the documentation page. If not, then
you can find the link through Red Hat's web site, through their documentation
links.
Through the LDP you'ld find documentation on networking and samba may be
incorporated or separate.
I thought you planned on installing the other hard drives in your Linux machine.
Seemed like something someone might possibly want or need to do. This'll teach
me to ask the questions, first, before going on at length.
mike
Valjean wrote:
Thanks for the info..I know all about removing and reinstalled hdds,
they're ide sorry. I know about the hard drive stuff, I just needed to
know how to setup Linux to recognize and mount them.
The two extra drives are actually at the moment in another machine, which
does have a NIC and runs Windows 95. I do have some crossover cable..how
could I software-wise set up the linux and windows machine to interface
and be able to share files?
Val
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Mike Corbeil wrote:
Valjean wrote:
I have one 8.5 gig hd and one cdrom. I want to hook up two more hard
drives, copy some data from them, and then remove them from the system.
How do I get Linux to recognize them so I can copy, then remove them from
the system as easily?
Valjean
What type of HDDs do you have, IDE or SCSI? This is a piece of information
you could have included.
Assuming IDE, max two internal HDDs and not having a means of connecting the
two HDDs externally, the following is one way to do what you want to do.
From this you should be able to infer what to do under difference
circumstances.
- Install one of the HDDs as the second HDD, which will be seen by Linux as
/dev/hdb (for IDE)
NOTE: Refer to your PC system manual for how to install and change
HDDs for
electrical protection and proper jumper settings.
- Boot up your Linux configuration.
- Mount the hdb filesystem you'll be copying the data from (mount command,
if doing this from the command line).
- Copy the data from the hdb fs to where ever you want it on your hda Linux
configuration.
- Unmount hdb (umount command, if doing this from the command line).
- Shutdown your Linux configuration and power off the PC.
- Remove hdd
NOTE: Follow your PC manual for electrical safety, and reset
jumper settings to
the original settings.
- Repeat for the second HDD you want to copy data from.
This is a grosso-modo guideline. Make sure to follow your PC manual for
installing and removing HDDs. You want to follow this manual to also know
how to install the HDDs as secondary drives.
One way to mount hdb is as follows:
- Create the directory hdb in /mnt, that is, /mnt/hdb.
- Run the mount command to mount the filesystem on hdb.
How to run the mount command:
% mount -vt {fs-type} /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb
This will allow you to access the fs on hdb. However, this is also assuming
that hdb has one, single, filesystem on it, or that the filesystem on hdb
you wish to access is hdb1.
If hdb1 is not correct, then you'll need to determine which /dev/hdb{n}
block device file to use, and this can be done using fdisk, running fdisk
with /dev/hdb as an argument:
% fdisk /dev/hdb
Once in fdisk, type p and press Enter. This will display the filesystems on
hdb, which shows the associated /dev/hdb{n} files the filesystems are mapped
to.
{fs-type} for the mount command's -t option depends on the type of
filesystem you'll be copying the data from. If it's a Linux filesystem,
then the value for -t is likely
ext2
If the filesystem is a MSDOS filesystem, then the -t argument is likely
vfat
You may want to specify another mount option, to mount read-only; however,
if memory is accurate, then this is the default, that is, filesystems being
mounted read-only (not whether or not my accurate memory should be
read-only, definitely doesn't sound like a good idea, unless born with all
of the knowledge one will ever need - lousy option for teachers).
You may need to be root to mount the hdb filesystem, depending on the
privileges assigned to the user account you'ld otherwise be using. If
you're doing this as a user other than root and the mount fails because the
user doesn't have the permissions to mount hdb, then simply switch (su) to
root and then run the mount command.
If you're using SCSI HDDs, instead of IDE, then the /dev file to use is not
/dev/hdb{n}, but instead /dev/sdb{n}. This should also be
[newbie] Promise Ultra 66 Card
Hi all, I'm new to linux, but I've been studying it for awhile. I had redhat 6.1 and 6.2 installed for a short time, but nothing has installed and run as well as Mandrake 7 so far; Ive got everything detected except my Promise card and the ide zip and third hard drive attached to it. (I love the way it instantly detected my new balless usb intellimouse.) I tried applying the patch for redhat 6.1 from the promise website, but it said it was compiled for a less recent kernel and would not install (I have never had a successfully tarball installed tho, only used rpm packages). I read somewhere that the kernel in mandrake 7 has native support for the card, but I can't find anywhere how to activate it (shudder I hope I dont have to mess with the kernel configuration or something). I have made a sincere attempt to locate info on this, but cant find anything recent enough to be of use. Anybody seen this problem or know how I can get the card up? thanks, dan
