[newbie] FTP to FTP
Is there an FTP program for X that will allow you to transfer files from one FTP server to another without having to d/l them first? Thanks Drew Jackman[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 20177604
Re: [Re: [newbie] Install-Networking] (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:11:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Valjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Install-Networking] Ok, in my little network here..(from an earlier post) [Ethernet][Computer A] [switching] [hookup] [Mandrake-Linux 7] [hub][Computer B] [to campus] [Acting as gateway]| [Windows 95] | | [Computer C] [some other os] I assigned Computer A at eth0 an "internal" IP of 192.168.0.1 and eth1 is using the the campus DHCP server to lease its IP address. And it works..in the boot sequence, they all read as OK. In the Computer B, running Windows 95, I changed the TCP/IP properties so that it is using 192.168.0.1 as a gateway, I set it to "specify an IP address" of 192.168.0.2, and the DNS config is as follows: "Host"- anyname, used mackenzie..."Domain"- myschool'sdomain.edu..."DNS Search Order"- IP address of primary and secondary DNS servers..."Suffix Search Order"(something like that)- my school's domain name.edu. Sound ok? Computer C is (gasp) a Mac..an old mac. I know, but it was free and it's part of the challenge. I haven't setup the Mac yet (it's running MacOS 7.1 with MacTCP). Then I turned to the IPCHAINS and IP Masquerading HOWTOs at www.linuxdoc.org.more than a bit confusing...but I did setup /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall, with my information. (As a bonus the IP Masquerding HOWTO has setups for Mac). Is there anything I am missing? Valjean
[newbie] Re: [expert] Stop using kdm
Then how do I switch window managers midstream? I boot to a command prompt and when I hit startx, it loads Gnome. I want to use Window Maker. How do I switch to that? Valjean On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Mike Corbeil wrote: Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Matt Stegman wrote: No, startx does not start kdm. startx will start X, and load kde by default, or another window manager - you can use any of several tools to change this. Qué? In Mandrake, startx gives you kdm. No, it doesn't. I think that what the person means is that Mandrake configured kde as the default window manager and desktop. This may have been through a user choice made during the installation process, or the default the Mandrake distribution which was installed. To an unknowing user, this could cause startx to look like it gives kdm or kde as the default. Only by reading documentation on this does a person realize that startx only gives or brings up what it's instructed to do so, through configuration files, e.g. ~/.Xclients. Without reading the documentation on this process, many newbies to X and the wm's can easily think that startx is to "blame". startx is a "front-end" and depends on configuration files, to know what to do. To learn about startx and configuring which wm's to use or have a choice of, people need to read the documentation on this, or wait until someone repeats it. True, startx doesn't decide what wm is to be used, but it can seem like it does for people who don't know what's actually going on. mike
Re: [newbie] Chat
Yes, it's called 'gaim'. Once you have your internet connection established, open a terminal window and type gaim. Mike - Original Message - From: "Sami A. Kutbi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 10:18 AM Subject: FW: [newbie] Chat Is there an AIM for Linux ? -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 10:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Chat I don't use ICQ, AIM, or any of the stuff like that, but if you need "instant" help, you can use #linuxhelp on irc.linux.com using XChat. Or if you have no idea what IRC is or how to use it, then just use the Java chat client here: http://linux.com/chat/ to connect. Is there any possibility that anyone is willing to chat? At this point of time, it seems that everyone has immediate responses, but the mail servers are slowing us down. I have ICQ (my # is below). If anyone wished to join me in a chatroom, please make yourself known. Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 20177604 Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] GNU, what does GNU stands for ?
GNU is a 'recursive acronym' which stands for 'GNU is Not Unix'. Mike - Original Message - From: "Mike Corbeil" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 4:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] GNU, what does GNU stands for ? Josep Molero i Puig wrote: Hi everybody ... I'm very new in Linux world (just a week) and this weekend I have bought a book about LINUX. I have been reading it with interest... There is a word that appears very often. GNU General Public License. GPL for short. I think I know the sense of this General Public Sense... And I have read that GNU stands for : Gnu is Not Unix But in this case, GNU appears again ... So what does GNU stands for ?? It's a recursive standing for ?? You will be able to learn all you want to know at http://www.gnu.org mike
[newbie] HELP!!
You all are going to laugh at me for doing this or asking this but, I need some kind of software to COMPLETELY erase all my partition info. Some how i manged to screw it up, My hdd is 3.2gb's and i meant to give half to linux and the other half to windows. Well some how i manged to give only 900megs to windows and the rest to linux, so i downloaded a programed to resize it. But somehow it screwed my whole hdd up and now i only have a 900meg hdd! Ive tried Fdisk and it doesnt even show anything! If anyone could help me i would be more than grateful to you! Sorry for such along message. Thanks
[newbie] TV Cards
I have just picked up a Studio PCTV Rave card which is based on the BT848 chipset. I have installed this in myt machine and cannot get it to work. I know this is a bit OT, but if anyone here has a card like this, if they could contact me off list to help me out I would really appreciate it. I bought it to ditch windows, but the only way I can get the card to work is through windows!!! I would really appreciate any help anyone can give. Thanksm Wayne
Re: [newbie] other free isp's
andy wrote: It's probably best putting your location (ie-your country) on postings like this. From my-admittedly short-knowledge of folks on this list, we come from a very wide variety of countries. In the UK we are over-run with free ISP's..heres one I'm using a bit http://www.uklinux.net/ Cheers Andy Hi Andy When setting up Mandrake for the UKLinux ISP, did you modify your Pap-secrets file? Or did you just use the standard Kppp to logon. I can logon to my company's RAS system using CHAP - I did have to modify the chap-secrets file. Thanks Martin
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Hello, if you want to make a partition in dos I recommend you use the FDISK included in windows98 or 95 even 2000 boot disk. Start FDISK and make the proper partition.
RE: [newbie] HELP!!
To do this, there are several steps as follows: 1. set hidden and read-only files attibutes to 'archive' == attrib -r -s -h *.* You can also output the results to a file: 'attrib -r -s -h foo.txt' for later review. Do this for ALL the dir's. Take care of user.dat user.da0 system.dat and system.da0. Windz reset this files, so don't open windows. Do it in dos. Check some files when click on it and select 'properties'. 2. Defrag your HD with FULL screen, so you can see if files stayed at the end.(Takes several hours) 3. In dos run 'FIPS' (comes with your linux cd !) Now look what space is available. If there is not enough space, repeat all above and SEE IF THERE ARE FILES STAYED AT THE END OF YOUR HD. If so, you forget (or windows does) to set the attibute. Try it. There is no danger with FIPS as long as you don't save anything! And READ the doc of FIPS. The max space to install ALL about MDK linux is about 1.3G. Eric -Original Message- From: Jamey Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 5:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HELP!! You all are going to laugh at me for doing this or asking this but, I need some kind of software to COMPLETELY erase all my partition info. Some how i manged to screw it up, My hdd is 3.2gb's and i meant to give half to linux and the other half to windows. Well some how i manged to give only 900megs to windows and the rest to linux, so i downloaded a programed to resize it. But somehow it screwed my whole hdd up and now i only have a 900meg hdd! Ive tried Fdisk and it doesnt even show anything! If anyone could help me i would be more than grateful to you! Sorry for such along message. Thanks
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Re: [newbie] GNU, what does GNU stands for ?
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: GNU is a 'recursive acronym' which stands for 'GNU is Not Unix'. Mike That's the superficial way of looking at the world. If you really want to know what something means, then you've got to dig a little deeper. http://www.gnu.org tells the interested all about it. E.g. You go up to someone and ask them, where's town and the person says "it's over there". You look at the general direction their nose is pointing in, or their finger. Do you find that helpful? Maybe, but certainly not much, especially if you don't see the sign to the entrance of the town from where you're standing. "GNU is Not Unix" can simply refer to the fact that the products aren't developed strictly for Unix, but instead ported to many platforms. Still, that doesn't do much justice to the meaning of GNU and all that's gone into it. GNU is a relatively major story in, or part of, the history of computer sciences. Read all about it at the above url. mike - Original Message - From: "Mike Corbeil" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 4:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] GNU, what does GNU stands for ? Josep Molero i Puig wrote: Hi everybody ... I'm very new in Linux world (just a week) and this weekend I have bought a book about LINUX. I have been reading it with interest... There is a word that appears very often. GNU General Public License. GPL for short. I think I know the sense of this General Public Sense... And I have read that GNU stands for : Gnu is Not Unix But in this case, GNU appears again ... So what does GNU stands for ?? It's a recursive standing for ?? You will be able to learn all you want to know at http://www.gnu.org mike
[newbie]
Hi, I've just installed Mandrake v 7.0 on an old pc (minus monitor) and have taken an instant liking to the funky window managers running on top of X. What would be the best way to get this running on my windoze PC? I've installed MIX which works ok but twm is hardly the same flashyness as KDE. This machine must be run remotely as more than one of us is sharing it. Does anyone know of either a groovy (free/very cheap) Win95 X-server with some neat window managers. A way of upgrading MIX's window manager. Cheers Chris
Re: [newbie] running windows in linux
I saw something in a magazine this month (PC World (UK version), I think) for something called Exceed from a company called Hummingbird. The trick here was someone had both Windows AND Linux running simultaneously, Linux was on a 'Dumb Box', and the Exceed software allowed the user to have both a Windows desktop and a Linux one. The software is about £20 and you can get an 'Evaluation Disc' from www2.hcl.com (No, that ISN'T a typo, that is the address!!). I'm not yet experienced enough with Linux to go for this yet, but certainly in a couple of months, it sounds just the thing I could use..anyone seen this or had any experience with it? Cheers Andy
[newbie] login
I've installed Mandrake 7 and cannot log in in console mode.Login to the gui works fine.I get a login incorrect message when I try to login to a console either as root or as a user.Any ideas? Thanks Dan
RE: [newbie] running windows in linux
I am running Exceed right now. It is great, but it only a Xwindows client, it doesn't allow you do have run both operating systems as such. You are right, if you have linux(UNIX) running on another box you can connect through Exceed and run Linux applications directly on a Win98/NT box. It connects through a telnet session same as any other telnet session. The difference is it creates an Xsession for you so that display can be exported and stuff like that. With that said, it is a terrific product, but I am not sure if its exactly what you may think it is? -Original Message- From: andy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] running windows in linux I saw something in a magazine this month (PC World (UK version), I think) for something called Exceed from a company called Hummingbird. The trick here was someone had both Windows AND Linux running simultaneously, Linux was on a 'Dumb Box', and the Exceed software allowed the user to have both a Windows desktop and a Linux one. The software is about £20 and you can get an 'Evaluation Disc' from www2.hcl.com (No, that ISN'T a typo, that is the address!!). I'm not yet experienced enough with Linux to go for this yet, but certainly in a couple of months, it sounds just the thing I could use..anyone seen this or had any experience with it? Cheers Andy
Re: [newbie] bootloaders
KirkBootMagic, it's included with Partition Magic. Alan Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am having so much trouble with lilo, trying to boot more than one linux distribution, that I was wondering if anyone knows of another bootloader that might work? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [newbie] HELP!!
Jamey Patrick wrote: You all are going to laugh at me for doing this or asking this but, I need some kind of software to COMPLETELY erase all my partition info. Some how i manged to screw it up, My hdd is 3.2gb's and i meant to give half to linux and the other half to windows. Well some how i manged to give only 900megs to windows and the rest to linux, so i downloaded a programed to resize it. But somehow it screwed my whole hdd up and now i only have a 900meg hdd! Ive tried Fdisk and it doesnt even show anything! If anyone could help me i would be more than grateful to you! Sorry for such along message. Thanks What did you use to run fdisk when it didn't show anything? Were you able to login on your Win partition and that's where you ran fdisk? If yes, and I think that this is what you did, then I believe dos fdisk still doesn't see Linux partitions. If you can see your first dos partition of 900MB, with dos fdisk, then you could run that fdisk again, and create another dos partition for the remainder of that half of the hdd, or split that portion into two additional dos/win partitions (logical drives). Create the second and possibly third dos drive(s) and format. Then, do your Linux install, which will provide you with an interface at some early point to create Linux partitions, and complete the install on the second half of the hdd. If you want one single partition for dos/win, then delete the 900MB one and recreate with the size you want. I don't know why you'ld want one single partition for dos, though. You can create additional logical drives, which will provide long term flexibility. Also, I don't know which OS you plan to work with the most, but you might want to consider allocating more space for Linux, maybe 1GB for dos/win and the rest for Linux; or even less for dos/win, but 2GB for Linux is a nice size for someone starting out. If you only have one hdd and don't plan on purchasing another to add a second hdd, then you might find it worthwhile to get a reliable disk partitioning tool which supports resizing partitions without losing the data on targeted partitions (as well as others of course). Otherwise, you might or would eventually find it preferable to not have created one single dos partition taking up half the disk. If you used half the hdd for dos/win and created two or three different dos partitions, or logical drives, and you ever find yourself needing more space for Linux, then you'll have an easier time of getting that space. If you use one partition for dos/win and use half the disk, then you won't have this capability, not without a partitioning tool which supports resizing without losing data (e.g., Partition Magic), or creating backups and recreating your dos/win partition in a more tedious manner, requring use of fdisk and reinstalling your dos/win configuration from the backup(s). How many HDDs do you have on your machine? Do you foresee adding another one within the next year? How many applications and what applications do you plan to use on your dos/win partition? Do you plan on developing on one and porting to the other, such that you'ld need about equal space for both systems? What are your plans? If you only plan to use dos/win for MS Office, for example, then you don't need to create a large dos/win partition for this. 300MB would likely be more than ample for total dos/win configuration. You could consider something like the following scheme or schema (total 3.2GB): 2GB - main Linux configuration 1GB - all dos/win partitions (or dos/win configuration) .2GB - a "rescue" Linux configuration, very base/minimal install If the above 300MB condition would suit your needs on the dos/win partition, then you could add this to Linux, and instead of creating a .2GB rescue Linux configuration, create a 900MB to 1GB one for testing new packages and software builds, before installing on your primary Linux configuration. It's not a bad idea to have a second Linux configuration for testing new installs or upgrades and software builds, before making the changes to the primary Linux configuration. This way, if such a test ends up screwing up the system, then you can always boot into the primary partition to work on recovering the test/build configuration, for example. Adding another hdd of similar or larger capacity would also be useful, eventually anyway. Just some ideas. mike
Re: [newbie] running windows in linux
Exceed is quite a mature product. It turns the windows based PC into X Terminal. The window manager you use depends on your X server. I have used Exceed on a PC (Pentium 133) and the X server was on Sun. Hence, Exceed does not require a high spec PC. M.
Re: [newbie] login
Daniel Anderson wrote: I've installed Mandrake 7 and cannot log in in console mode.Login to the gui works fine.I get a login incorrect message when I try to login to a console either as root or as a user.Any ideas? Thanks Dan During the install, did you at some point specify that you wanted to login starting with X and a window manager by default? I don't know how your problem could be occuring, because I've never run into this kind of problem. However, login with the gui mode and examine your .bashrc and .bash_profile files. Check if there's a command startx, which would probably be near the bottom of the file. If you see this command, then comment it out, by placing a # in front of the command. ACTUALLY, before doing this, go into gui mode and then choose to exit the gui environment. What does this do? Does it cause the system to return you to the login prompt, or to reboot, or does it leave you in a shell at a command line prompt? Do that ACTUALLY part and report the results, here, before doing anything else. Also note and report any error messages you see during boot. If you don't remember these, then run dmesg junk 21 Include the output of dmesg in your reply. The problem could be a non-problem or could be due to some configuration file, based on how you did the install. The file, in this case, might be correct, based on how you did the install, the options you chose. One possible example is if you chose an option to allow only login environments only in gui or X (not sure if this option exists, but believe to recall seeing something kind of like this). Wrt the latter, I just let it install for normal login and if at some point decide that I always want to start immediately with a gui, then I simply add the startx command to one of the startup scripts. If at some point I don't want this, then I merely re-edit the login script to comment out the startx line. I haven't heard of any bugs the other way, but this leaves me in the driver's seat. mike
[newbie] Major Problem----still
okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie]
Chris Angus wrote: Hi, I've just installed Mandrake v 7.0 on an old pc (minus monitor) and have taken an instant liking to the funky window managers running on top of X. What would be the best way to get this running on my windoze PC? I've installed MIX which works ok but twm is hardly the same flashyness as KDE. This machine must be run remotely as more than one of us is sharing it. Does anyone know of either a groovy (free/very cheap) Win95 X-server with some neat window managers. A way of upgrading MIX's window manager. Try the following web sites. http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman/ http://www.x11.org/ http://www.xfree86.org/ http://www.gnu.org mike
Re: RE: [newbie] running windows in linux
This sounds like a pcanywhere type interface threw telnet between Linux and windows98. Is that right? If so I could really use this type of interface. If it's not, is there another piece of software like this? Is there a site to read more or download and try? I tried the hummingbird site but did not get much specifications or info just hype. Thanx in advanced Mike I am running Exceed right now. It is great, but it only a Xwindows clien= t, it doesn't allow you do have run both operating systems as such. You are right, if you have linux(UNIX) running on another box you can connect through Exceed and run Linux applications directly on a Win98/NT box. It connects through a telnet session same as any other telnet session. The difference is it creates an Xsession for you so that display can be expor= ted and stuff like that. =20 With that said, it is a terrific product, but I am not sure if its exactl= y what you may think it is? -Original Message- From: andy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] running windows in linux =20 I saw something in a magazine this month (PC World (UK version), I thin= k) for something called Exceed from a company called Hummingbird. =20 The trick here was someone had both Windows AND Linux running simultaneously, Linux was on a 'Dumb Box', and the Exceed software allo= wed the user to have both a Windows desktop and a Linux one. The software i= s about =A320 and you can get an 'Evaluation Disc' from www2.hcl.com (N= o, that ISN'T a typo, that is the address!!). =20 I'm not yet experienced enough with Linux to go for this yet, but certainly in a couple of months, it sounds just the thing I could use..anyone see= n this or had any experience with it? =20 Cheers =20 Andy Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???
Good morning everyone... Thanks a lot for ur reply... :) hi seve... well... i wasn't running any special services when i experienced these crashes!! have a look for urself! :) KDE: I was opening 2 windows of Netscape. And suddenly, the whole system freezed! I just could move the mouse! but i can't do anything! I had to press ctrl+alt+backspace to log out! and it worked! I was just running Netscape! KDE: I pressed Log Out, the screen turned black, and i couldn't Do any thing! i had to press "Reset" Nothing special! just the terminal, i think! Xfce3: It was my first time to even see it! i just used it for 15 seconds!! :) i pressed the button with the penguin, and the whole system freezed!! I had to press "reset" Nothing was running at all!! I had just logged in! :) Gnome: I was just moving around... It suddenly made a GPF, and told me that this may be due to a bug, and they gave some email to report at! (this is not really serious, as it didn't really crash the system!) Guess i was playing some KDE games!! :) Hmmm.. about my version... i dunno its precise number! but it is the version that came with PC PLUS this month! :) Thank u for ur help... Have a nice day... Urs forever.. Mohamed Saad __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Bobyou also need to include umask=0 on that line in /etc/fstab. Alan Cox Family wrote: another stumper for me? I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it includes user, group and others for both read and write. OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions, and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to write or what ever Again, what am I missing here? Bob
Re: [newbie] running windows in linux
take me off the mailing list - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] running windows in linux Exceed is quite a mature product. It turns the windows based PC into X Terminal. The window manager you use depends on your X server. I have used Exceed on a PC (Pentium 133) and the X server was on Sun. Hence, Exceed does not require a high spec PC. M.
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Bobyou also need to include umask=0 on that line in /etc/fstab. Alan Cox Family wrote: another stumper for me? I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it includes user, group and others for both read and write. OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions, and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to write or what ever Again, what am I missing here? Bob
Re: [newbie] Installing Boot Magic the Magic is GONE???
b/webyour windows partition is incorrectly set as hidden, it needs to be set as active. If bootmagic is indeed already installed, once you've set the windows partition as active bootmagic will show up, if it is not already installed you'll be allowed to install it. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I bought Mandrake 7.0 and began to install it but am having a problem installing Boot Magic. I was able to install Partition Magic and repartition my hard drive and then it asked me to insert the Mandrake CD instead of the Boot Magic CD which the installation manual calls for. When I do attempt to install Boot Magic I get an error message that says; Cannot install Boot Magic because 1) There are no visible FAT16 or FAT32 primary partitions that are completely below cylinder 1024 on the first hard disk or 2) Boot Magic is already installed to a hidden partition Which is not possible as I have deleted the new Linux partitions I made, and then uninstalled Partition Magic and then I tried to install Boot Magic First, but I got the same error message. Any helpful thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Much thanks, b/web PS My system is FAT32 so I do not understand how it can not see that unless it does not look at the WINDOWS Partition???
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sorry about my little outburst.. It's just that one of my pet peeves is when someone demands to be taken off of a mailing list that they subscribed to How hard is it to remember where you subscribed at and go back and take themselves off the list. Rich Foreman
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Bobyou also need to include umask=0 on that line in /etc/fstab. Alan Cox Family wrote: another stumper for me? I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it includes user, group and others for both read and write. OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions, and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to write or what ever Again, what am I missing here? Bob
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Bobyou also need to include umask=0 on that line in /etc/fstab. Alan Cox Family wrote: another stumper for me? I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it includes user, group and others for both read and write. OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions, and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to write or what ever Again, what am I missing here? Bob
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Bobyou also need to include umask=0 on that line in /etc/fstab. Alan Cox Family wrote: another stumper for me? I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it includes user, group and others for both read and write. OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions, and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to write or what ever Again, what am I missing here? Bob
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[newbie] Installation/Cylinder 1024/and/Boot Magic
Hi, I am now on my sixth day since I went out and purchased the brand new Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete OS, and I still do not have it installed on my system, I only have four days left before I run out of time at the Software store to return it for a full refund. I am going through install h*ll with the Cylinder 1024 /boot directory thing or obstacle, which I now know to be infamous. I also now understand that Linux requires this Cylinder location for a /boot directory to be inserted(crazy man)? I also understand that the included boot program for the Linux Mandrake OS called 'Boot Magic' will not install and set up on my system because it says I do not have a Primary Partition below the 1024th Cylinder. I was able to install Partition Magic and repartition my hard drive, only to crash into 'Boot Magic's' refusal to install after already having repartitioned my hd. So, I departitioned my hard drive back to its original partition and then I uninstalled Partition Magic as I thought perhaps I could install Boot Magic first, but all to no avail. I am wondering how I go about clearing this 1024th cylinder so that Boot Magic can install itself there? Do I have to lose all of my current information on my hd? My current Window/dos disk usage is over 3GB, do I have to delete all of my current web servers, data bases, and a varitey of over 100 various applications in order to free up the space at the 1024th cylinder? I am totally lost as to how to go about opening up the space at this cylinder, I have been informed that I can make some settings and that I can repartition again, neither of which I understand? If this is possible where and how does one make such settings? My hard drive is 17GB and I was intending to install MDKL on a partition of about 4GB slightly larger than the size of my Windows current disk usage, as I intend to install all of the web servers, is this not a good idea? Does anyone know if all distributions of Linux have this same roadblock, (1024th cylinder) to installing the OS on a system, or can I just go and purchase Corel's or Debian's etc, instead? Much thanks in advance, b/web
[newbie] WindowManager
Hello Newbie-List, does anybody know a WindowManager with the MacOS 8.6 or 9.0 optic, and where to download it? Thanks in advance, Thorsten
[newbie] Loging on
I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with out logout and login out from user... Thanks for the help
Re: [newbie] HELP!!
I would like to thank all of you who helped!! But I got a program to just erase my master boot record and I started over, now i have it the way i wanted it. Some of you didnt understand my question, and so you all dont think that im a total idiot, here is what happen. I messed up my sizes and tried to resize them with PRESIZER some lame program i found on softseek.. After I click "ok do it" It said there was an error. So I tried to open fdisk in Dos and after I enabled big disk it just sat there about (20 times) and displayed nothing! Not the windoze partition or linux partition. But its fixed now thank you all very much!
RE: [newbie] imwheel update
Il lun, 17 apr 2000, hai scritto: have you tried loading imwheel at boot. Ciao, no I didn't because I do not know how to do it :-( By the way, if I use the following command line imwheel-solo -k it works. Thanks for your answer. Regards Fabio -Original Message- From: Fabio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 April 2000 18:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] imwheel update Dear all, after installing the imwheel update, the wheel is working only in root. If a login with a diferent user and I try to start it with the command imwheel -k I got this error message : imwheel process could not be verified: : No such file or directory imwheel pid file could not be removed: : Operation not permitted Couldn't write pid to pid file: Permission denied I know that is something related to some permission, but I do not know how to fix it.. If I switch to su and I run the same command it works. Thanks in advance Fabio
RE: [newbie] imwheel update
Il lun, 17 apr 2000, hai scritto: have you tried loading imwheel at boot. Ciao, no I didn't because I do not know how to do it :-( By the way, if I use the following command line imwheel-solo -k it works. Thanks for your answer. Regards Fabio -Original Message- From: Fabio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 April 2000 18:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] imwheel update Dear all, after installing the imwheel update, the wheel is working only in root. If a login with a diferent user and I try to start it with the command imwheel -k I got this error message : imwheel process could not be verified: : No such file or directory imwheel pid file could not be removed: : Operation not permitted Couldn't write pid to pid file: Permission denied I know that is something related to some permission, but I do not know how to fix it.. If I switch to su and I run the same command it works. Thanks in advance Fabio ---
Re: [newbie] FTP to FTP
I'm not sure what d/l means, but I use gFTP (you can get it from www.linuxberg.com) and it works great. Mike Dreja Julag wrote: Is there an FTP program for X that will allow you to transfer files from one FTP server to another without having to d/l them first? Thanks Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 20177604 -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installing Boot Magic the Magic is GONE???
Alan, thank you very much, that even sounds *logical* :) yay. Now for a really dumb newbie question, How do I set it as visible and where do I accomplish this task? PS I did notice when I first installed Partition Magic, that it said that my C:\ partition was a *No Name* or un-named partition, which sounds exactly like what you have mentioned about my windows partition being 'hidden'. b/web At 08:17 AM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote: b/webyour windows partition is incorrectly set as hidden, it needs to be set as active. If bootmagic is indeed already installed, once you've set the windows partition as active bootmagic will show up, if it is not already installed you'll be allowed to install it. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I bought Mandrake 7.0 and began to install it but am having a problem installing Boot Magic. I was able to install Partition Magic and repartition my hard drive and then it asked me to insert the Mandrake CD instead of the Boot Magic CD which the installation manual calls for. When I do attempt to install Boot Magic I get an error message that says; Cannot install Boot Magic because 1) There are no visible FAT16 or FAT32 primary partitions that are completely below cylinder 1024 on the first hard disk or 2) Boot Magic is already installed to a hidden partition Which is not possible as I have deleted the new Linux partitions I made, and then uninstalled Partition Magic and then I tried to install Boot Magic First, but I got the same error message. Any helpful thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Much thanks, b/web PS My system is FAT32 so I do not understand how it can not see that unless it does not look at the WINDOWS Partition???
Re: [newbie] telnet and X
Valjean wrote: This is really frustrating meall I want to do is telnet into my machine running Mandrake 7.0..when I installed it the first time, I could do it. Every install since then I have not not been able to. I have installed the telnet server package from the second cd with the rpm -ivh packagename.rpm and the telnet line is uncommented in my /etc/inetd.conf...so why can't I telnet to my machine? is there some other thing to setup? What do I have to do to get this thing to work? What is your telnetd line in /etc/inetd.conf? And... what happens when you try and start telnetd from the command line? -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] running windows in linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds like a pcanywhere type interface threw telnet between Linux and windows98. Is that right? Sort of. A quick review of the X standard. We often think of X as the "gui" for Unix, and while that's certainly part of what it does, X is essentially a terminal protocol. Back in the day when computing capacity was still scarce, people used X terminals to work in a GUI environment of off a server (and in many places, this still happens). If anything, the pcAnywhere idea stems from X. What you want to find is an Xterminal application for Win32 like micro xterm or something (or like the aforementioned Exceed). Using one of these applications to log into a Unix machine running an X server, you would have actual X windows pop up in your Windows session. This would be not unlike what happens when you run Windows applications in OS/2 native mode. Have said this, I should note that it's bloody slow (unless your Linux machine is fast and you are on a swift network), so only do this if you have patience. I understand what would motivate many new users to take this approach, though, since they can retain access to the tools and interfaces they understand while learning to use and administer Unix (whatever flavour they choose to use). -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] modems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a Us Robotics modem and and have installed Mandrake 7 successfully. But the new hardware detector does find the modem but when I get into the KDE and try kppp or linuxconfig I get nothing . I have 4 serial ports 1 of which has a mouse attached one of the others I think is doesn't work and the other 2 are on an expansion card. Any help in setting up modems/ detecting them and getting them to work would be nice. *chuckles* Okay -- you gotta tell us where you connected the modem, though. I wish I were clairvoyant (x-ray vision would be nice, too -- but I digress). Sadly, I am not. Is it internal? External? What port did you put it on? What /dev file is kppp pointing to? If it's /dev/modem, is there a symbolic link called /dev/modem that is pointing to the appropriate serial port? Get back to us with answers to these important questions. =) -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] FTP to FTP
Dreja Julag wrote: Is there an FTP program for X that will allow you to transfer files from one FTP server to another without having to d/l them first? I don't think you can do that with FTP. But what you can do, if you have a user account on 1 of the boxes is to telnet to this one and then issue the FTP commands from this box. HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Loging on
"Sami A. Kutbi" wrote: I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with out logout and login out from user... Thanks for the help It seems like the 'su' command is what you're searching for... HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Loging on
Open a terminal window and type 'su' without the quotes. When it asks for password, type your root password. Mike "Sami A. Kutbi" wrote: I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with out logout and login out from user... Thanks for the help -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Voice recorder
Hello, I'm looking for a simple voice recorder (something like the one in windows) that I can use to send simple voice attachments by email (want to surprise Grandma Grandpa with the kids voices). I'm using KDE, does anyone know if there is a tool already installed on Mandrake 7 or if there is one available elsewhere? Thanks much, Mike -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Loging on
Log into terminal(superuser) (I think that's the one...) and it'll ask for the root pw. you should be able to do anything then from the command prompt. "Sami A. Kutbi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/18/2000 12:23:06 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Jones/US/ABNAMRO/NL) Subject:[newbie] Loging on I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with out logout and login out from user... Thanks for the help
[newbie] apache install
Where is the document that describes getting Apache running under Mandrake 7.0? I hope it isn't under my nose. Thanks for any help. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
[newbie] SAMBA
I just installed Mandrake 7.0 inside a closed network at work to play around with. I am trying to get SAMBA to work. Currently I cannot map a drive to the Linux machine from the Windows NT 4.0 machine. It tells me the network path cannot be found when trying to map the drive. I can however telnet to the Linux box from the NT machine with no problems. They are on the same subnet. Any ideas? I'm very new at this. Thanks, Nick Horton
Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still
J D wrote: okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Okay, I don't truley know if this will help your MAJOR problem,but as a newbie I have had times where I too did somthing somewheres that sent my partitions kablooey.Tried lots of stuff that did n't work and wound up 'reinstalling" but installing another distro ;like Caldera,and letting it clean up the partitions when it installed,then I went back and reinstalled mandrake after the fact when I saw that the Caldera was successful. I've done this a few times and it has worked for me ,but then I/m a newbie,and only came up with this on instinct,couldn't tell you if it did anything to my machine or not .Don't think it has since I now have a nice Mandrake 70 install thats working to ,my satisfaction .Good luck if you decide to try this. Bill
Re: [newbie] login
Mike Corbeil wrote: Daniel Anderson wrote: I've installed Mandrake 7 and cannot log in in console mode.Login to the gui works fine.I get a login incorrect message when I try to login to a console either as root or as a user.Any ideas? Thanks Dan During the install, did you at some point specify that you wanted to login starting with X and a window manager by default? I don't know how your problem could be occuring, because I've never run into this kind of problem. However, login with the gui mode and examine your .bashrc and .bash_profile files. Check if there's a command startx, which would probably be near the bottom of the file. If you see this command, then comment it out, by placing a # in front of the command. ACTUALLY, before doing this, go into gui mode and then choose to exit the gui environment. What does this do? Does it cause the system to return you to the login prompt, or to reboot, or does it leave you in a shell at a command line prompt? Do that ACTUALLY part and report the results, here, before doing anything else. Also note and report any error messages you see during boot. If you don't remember these, then run dmesg junk 21 Include the output of dmesg in your reply. The problem could be a non-problem or could be due to some configuration file, based on how you did the install. The file, in this case, might be correct, based on how you did the install, the options you chose. One possible example is if you chose an option to allow only login environments only in gui or X (not sure if this option exists, but believe to recall seeing something kind of like this). Wrt the latter, I just let it install for normal login and if at some point decide that I always want to start immediately with a gui, then I simply add the startx command to one of the startup scripts. If at some point I don't want this, then I merely re-edit the login script to comment out the startx line. I haven't heard of any bugs the other way, but this leaves me in the driver's seat. mike Thanks for the info. Already fixed the problem,I set the security to a lower level in order to access the ftp server and nfs,and that fixed this problem too. Thanks Dan
[newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY - I desperately need help on this, guys...
I've asked about this before, and haven't heard anything - How do you access/map/mount NT lan drives when you're running Linux on an NT lan?
Re: [newbie] Installation/Cylinder 1024/and/Boot Magic
b/webyou need to have two things before the 1024th cylinder. 1) your primary windows partition (it'll be drive C:) needs to end before the 1024th cylinder (you can have another windows partition that uses whatever other disc space left and it'll be drive D:). 2) a small (16-24 megs) linux partition that you will have to assign the mount point of /boot when you install linux. This can be before or after the windows partition, but it does need to end before the 1024th cylinder also. So, withinin the first (approximately 8 meg) 1023 cylinders of the 17 gig drive you must have a primary dos partition that is set active and has windows installed on it and a 16-24 meg linux partition. then the rest of the drive can contain a) a second dos partition of any size and b) the rest of the partitions needed for the linux installation, but at a minimum, a linux partition of 2-4 gig (or larger) that will be assigned the mount point of / during linux installation and a linux swap partition (size depends on your memory size and intended usage, but let's say no les than 64 meg and no larger than 128 meg). Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am now on my sixth day since I went out and purchased the brand new Linux Mandrake 7.0 Complete OS, and I still do not have it installed on my system, I only have four days left before I run out of time at the Software store to return it for a full refund. I am going through install h*ll with the Cylinder 1024 /boot directory thing or obstacle, which I now know to be infamous. I also now understand that Linux requires this Cylinder location for a /boot directory to be inserted(crazy man)? I also understand that the included boot program for the Linux Mandrake OS called 'Boot Magic' will not install and set up on my system because it says I do not have a Primary Partition below the 1024th Cylinder. I was able to install Partition Magic and repartition my hard drive, only to crash into 'Boot Magic's' refusal to install after already having repartitioned my hd. So, I departitioned my hard drive back to its original partition and then I uninstalled Partition Magic as I thought perhaps I could install Boot Magic first, but all to no avail. I am wondering how I go about clearing this 1024th cylinder so that Boot Magic can install itself there? Do I have to lose all of my current information on my hd? My current Window/dos disk usage is over 3GB, do I have to delete all of my current web servers, data bases, and a varitey of over 100 various applications in order to free up the space at the 1024th cylinder? I am totally lost as to how to go about opening up the space at this cylinder, I have been informed that I can make some settings and that I can repartition again, neither of which I understand? If this is possible where and how does one make such settings? My hard drive is 17GB and I was intending to install MDKL on a partition of about 4GB slightly larger than the size of my Windows current disk usage, as I intend to install all of the web servers, is this not a good idea? Does anyone know if all distributions of Linux have this same roadblock, (1024th cylinder) to installing the OS on a system, or can I just go and purchase Corel's or Debian's etc, instead? Much thanks in advance, b/web
Re: [newbie] Installing Boot Magic the Magic is GONE???
b/webpartition magic has a column called status. The dos partition that is to be booted needs to be marked Active to be able to boot an there can be only one Active dos partition on any drive. To set this you choose Operations-Advanced-Set Active. No, it has nothing to do with the partition's name. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, thank you very much, that even sounds *logical* :) yay. Now for a really dumb newbie question, How do I set it as visible and where do I accomplish this task? PS I did notice when I first installed Partition Magic, that it said that my C:\ partition was a *No Name* or un-named partition, which sounds exactly like what you have mentioned about my windows partition being 'hidden'. b/web At 08:17 AM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote: b/webyour windows partition is incorrectly set as hidden, it needs to be set as active. If bootmagic is indeed already installed, once you've set the windows partition as active bootmagic will show up, if it is not already installed you'll be allowed to install it. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I bought Mandrake 7.0 and began to install it but am having a problem installing Boot Magic. I was able to install Partition Magic and repartition my hard drive and then it asked me to insert the Mandrake CD instead of the Boot Magic CD which the installation manual calls for. When I do attempt to install Boot Magic I get an error message that says; Cannot install Boot Magic because 1) There are no visible FAT16 or FAT32 primary partitions that are completely below cylinder 1024 on the first hard disk or 2) Boot Magic is already installed to a hidden partition Which is not possible as I have deleted the new Linux partitions I made, and then uninstalled Partition Magic and then I tried to install Boot Magic First, but I got the same error message. Any helpful thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Much thanks, b/web PS My system is FAT32 so I do not understand how it can not see that unless it does not look at the WINDOWS Partition???
RE: [newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY - I desperat ely need help on this, guys...
As far as I know that is what SAMBA was for. www.samba.org Nick Horton 1998 Cavalier Z24 5-Speed Weapon-R Intake, RKSport Front Engine Mount Insert, Hellwig Rear Swaybar, Powerslot Slotted Rotors, Freedom Design Front Strut Tower Brace, TPS Line Conditioner -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY - I desperately need help on this, guys... I've asked about this before, and haven't heard anything - How do you access/map/mount NT lan drives when you're running Linux on an NT lan?
Re: [newbie] bootloaders
Kirk, be careful with boot magic. I used it recently, removed one of the partitions it had listed as a boot partition (which wasn't, ot was my primary slave - a drive full of windows games!) and so removed the entry. It trashed the whole disk and wiped all of my programs. I will never use it again. Wayne
Re: [newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY - I desperatelyneed help on this, guys...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've asked about this before, and haven't heard anything - How do you access/map/mount NT lan drives when you're running Linux on an NT lan? You need to learn how to use Samba. There is a good how-to at www.linuxdoc.org You can also find man pages and documentation, as well as the latest release, at www.samba.org Mandrake ships with Samba. -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] Installation/Cylinder 1024/and/Boot Magic
b/web, I will tell you how I set up my machine and hopefully this will help. I tried setting up a small partition for the /boot information, a partition for wind'ohs, and one for linux. As my /home directory is on another drive this proved to be somewhat confusing. In the end, what I did was this: I split my primary hard drive in two, straight down the middle. I formatted the second partition and run the windows install, having this as my c: drive. I then installed linux, formatted the other partition and my other linux partitions using disk drake. The I installed linux. When LILO installed it picked up windows and linux first time. I have not had a problem since. Hope this helps. Wayne
Re: [newbie] telnet and X
Ok, when I try to telnet to my computer from another machine, even in the same domain, I get Trying x.x.x.x...(my ip address) telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused the telnetd line in my inetd.conf file is telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd you mean when I type telnetd at the command prompt? I get: bash: telnetd: command not found Valjean..frustrated On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Valjean wrote: This is really frustrating meall I want to do is telnet into my machine running Mandrake 7.0..when I installed it the first time, I could do it. Every install since then I have not not been able to. I have installed the telnet server package from the second cd with the rpm -ivh packagename.rpm and the telnet line is uncommented in my /etc/inetd.conf...so why can't I telnet to my machine? is there some other thing to setup? What do I have to do to get this thing to work? What is your telnetd line in /etc/inetd.conf? And... what happens when you try and start telnetd from the command line? -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] HELP!!
go to the homepage of your hdd manufacturer and download a hdd util that will totally erase your hdd. it is pretty self explanitory. hope this helps. Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 20177604 - Original Message - From: "Jamey Patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:31 PM Subject: [newbie] HELP!! You all are going to laugh at me for doing this or asking this but, I need some kind of software to COMPLETELY erase all my partition info. Some how i manged to screw it up, My hdd is 3.2gb's and i meant to give half to linux and the other half to windows. Well some how i manged to give only 900megs to windows and the rest to linux, so i downloaded a programed to resize it. But somehow it screwed my whole hdd up and now i only have a 900meg hdd! Ive tried Fdisk and it doesnt even show anything! If anyone could help me i would be more than grateful to you! Sorry for such along message. Thanks
Re: [newbie] Loging on
I usually select the console button, er konsole button from the tool bar at the bottom and "su" a session to just jump over and fix something quickly. Vern On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with out logout and login out from user... Thanks for the help -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] RR#3 Box 168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, KY 40143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This signature was brought to you by vi. My other computer is a CRAY.
[newbie] i cant start up a home network
I have a desktop and a laptop which i want to network under linux. They both connect ok under windows and the network cards are both recognised and functional according to lothar. The problem i have is where next,using linux conf i have assigned names and numbers such as desktop 192.168.0.1 laptop 192.168.0.2 I am not getting the machines doing anything beyond this. Have also installed vmware onto desktop machine and tried to host only network it to linux using samba this too has been unsuccessful but maybe i should crawl before walking. It sounds easy if I could get into the part of linuxconf networking for idiots that is described in the help section on networking but it doesnt sem to be there. I am running mandrake 7.0 Thankyou duncan
Re: [newbie] FTP to FTP
No, it definately exists. Under Windows you can use a program called "Flash FXP" to transfer directly between 2 FTP-accounts without having to pump all the data trough your own machine. I don't know how it works, I didn't believe it at first either. But I've seen people with crappy network connections pump files over at 5 times the speed their lines can theoretically reach and seeing is believing ;) Appartenly some newer FTP-daemons (or has this always been an option?) have some extra commands built-in to initiate network transfers to other FTP-accounts directly. And why not? After all, FTP is just a combination of telnet with some file transfer socket. I searched for "fxp" on http://freshmeat.net the other day, and I believe I found some interresting stuff, but I'm not sure since I haven't checked anything out yet. Perhaps you could look for such a program there, Dreja? On Apr 18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dreja Julag wrote: Is there an FTP program for X that will allow you to transfer files from one FTP server to another without having to d/l them first? I don't think you can do that with FTP. But what you can do, if you have a user account on 1 of the boxes is to telnet to this one and then issue the FTP commands from this box. HTH Flupke -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] telnet and X
Valjean wrote: Ok, when I try to telnet to my computer from another machine, even in the same domain, I get Trying x.x.x.x...(my ip address) telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Can you telnet from the local host? It has to work from the local host first. the telnetd line in my inetd.conf file is telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd Okay, from the command prompt, I want you to: # su Password: $ updatedb (this could take a bit) $ exit # locate in.telnetd (to make sure this file exists) # locate telnetd (make sure telnetd is properly installed) Try those, and get back to me (oh, and I would like to see output - pipe them to a file and attach them, because I want to rule out the possibility of transcription errors). -Stephen-
Re: [newbie]restarting help!!!!
When you do shutdown -h now, do you get the same response? How much time have you given your computer to respond to the command? Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i restart linux with the "shutdown -r now" command and then all that stuff on the screen with the "ok" s and then at end it saids getting ready to restart and screen turns black and computer donst restart. need to repower system to restart, what wrong??? -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] modems
the way I had to do mine...was uninstall any or all modems...from com2 or anywhere on your system... then start from scratch...allowing the modem you'll be using for linux to be setup first...on com2...then proceed with any other modem setup afterward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a Us Robotics modem and and have installed Mandrake 7 successfully. But the new hardware detector does find the modem but when I get into the KDE and try kppp or linuxconfig I get nothing . I have 4 serial ports 1 of which has a mouse attached one of the others I think is doesn't work and the other 2 are on an expansion card. Any help in setting up modems/ detecting them and getting them to work would be nice. Regards Adrian Mann Technical Consultant Intentia Uk. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of the information is prohibited. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail.The views expressed in this e-mail and any attachments are personal and, unless stated explicitly, do not represent the views of Intentia (UK) Ltd. Furthermore, Intentia (UK) will not be bound by this e-mail. -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
[newbie] Epson 600 and CDROM
Ok, I chekced the HOWTO page but still don't understand, but how do I get my Epson 600 printer to work with KDE/Linux, and the same thing with my CDROM...how do I get KDE/Linux to read the CDs that I put in it? 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html
Re: [newbie] modems
In a message dated 04/18/2000 4:14:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a Us Robotics modem and and have installed Mandrake 7 successfully. But the new hardware detector does find the modem but when I get into the KDE and try kppp or linuxconfig I get nothing . I have 4 serial ports 1 of which has a mouse attached one of the others I think is doesn't work and the other 2 are on an expansion card. Any help in setting up modems/ detecting them and getting them to work would be nice. *chuckles* Also, is it a hardward modum (for Linux) or a software modum (for Windows)? 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A Mission' -Rush 'Mission' -Chris Rasputin http://www.angelfire.com/ne/rasputin1/Rasputin.html
Re: [newbie] apache install
mine is under /home/httpd/manual jeff beddow wrote: Where is the document that describes getting Apache running under Mandrake 7.0? I hope it isn't under my nose. Thanks for any help. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
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Re: [newbie] telnet and X
Okay, from the command prompt, I want you to: # su Password: $ updatedb (this could take a bit) ok..that took while..no errors though..what did that just do? $ exit # locate in.telnetd result of this command: /usr/man/man8/in.telnetd.8.bz2 /usr/sbin/in.telnetd (to make sure this file exists) # locate telnetd result of this command: /usr/lib/telnetd /usr/lib/telnetd/login /usr/man/man8/in.telnetd.8.bz2 /usr/man/man8/telnetd.8.bz2 /usr/sbin/in.telnetd look ok? should I try it? oh and never mind the x question..I figured it out..Window Maker is working as my default...yay me..hey it's a little victory but I felt good when it worked. Valjean
Re: [newbie] running windows in linux
What you want to find is an Xterminal application for Win32 like micro xterm or something (or like the aforementioned Exceed). Using one of these applications to log into a Unix machine running an X server, you One minor nit. In the X world, the "server" is the program which performs the drawing services (the xterminal), and the "client" is the program which requests the picture to be drawn. So, if you have an X session running on Windows and are connected to a Unix/Linux/Something else host running some program, then the X server is the program on the Windows machine and the X client is the program on the host. For example, if I run Exceed on my Windows machine and have a gimp window showing from my Linux box, then Exceed is the X server and gimp is the X client. I.e., gimp requests that a circle be displayed with thus and so characteristics, and Exceed acknowledges the command an draws a circle within the limits of the video display. It's very confusing because the "client program" is actually running on what we normally think of as the "server host" while the "server program" is running on what we normally think of as the "client workstation." 90% of the time this is meaningless hair splitting, but occasionally this is a critical distinction to understand. It's sure sent me in circles a few times. MB
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Re: [RE: [newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY - I desperat ely need help on this, guys...]
Apparently there is also a Windows version of Samba...called Sambar, maybe that is what your looking for?? HTH Jaguar Nicholas Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know that is what SAMBA was for. www.samba.org Nick Horton 1998 Cavalier Z24 5-Speed Weapon-R Intake, RKSport Front Engine Mount Insert, Hellwig Rear Swaybar, Powerslot Slotted Rotors, Freedom Design Front Strut Tower Brace, TPS Line Conditioner -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY - I desperately need help on this, guys... I've asked about this before, and haven't heard anything - How do you access/map/mount NT lan drives when you're running Linux on an NT lan? The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] PalmPilot and StarOffice 5.1a
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Somebody has to know what is going on here... I sure don't. Good luck finding relevant info at Sun's site. *groan* -Stephen- Since Sun bought StarOffice, I've tried their *updated* versions only to find the annoyance of having to create user accounts, etc. just to download the stupid thing. I've given up on them; the only reason they bought the office suite was to try to gain more support for the rest of their company and they haven't made any improvements on the product (that I've noticed anyway) - it's just as bloated as M$ products. I know this doesn't offer any real help for your situation, I just didn't want you to think nobody was reading your mail =) p.s. I just bought Corel Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux, it's awesome I can't believe the improvements made since Word Perfect 8 was released last year. If you need an office suite that can (really) import and export M$ 97, 2000 and just about any other relevant format, plus a really slick 'real time preview' feature - check it out. Mike -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY - Idesperatelyneed help on this, guys...
hello, situation: I have NT WS.. it works okay to connect to the internet. Then, and I have it installed w/ linux (dual boot). So, if i want to use the net.. can i use the same gateway/netmask/ dns as i use in NT, or i have to set up samba? -yh- "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: You need to learn how to use Samba. There is a good how-to at www.linuxdoc.org You can also find man pages and documentation, as well as the latest release, at www.samba.org Mandrake ships with Samba. -Stephen-
[newbie] booting / installing from 7-02 iso
Hello all!! I have built numerous linux boxes from slackware to mandrake and have yet to run into the following problem I am haveing with my recent go at burning the LM 7-02 iso and installing from it. I have a win95 box i want to dual boot I used fips and reduced my C drive down to 3g and freed up 3g to install LM onto I boot the cd and go through the initial phase (type of install (custome, serve,devel etc..)) and then it dies saying something along the lines that it can not find a free partition I boot of a floppy, run fdisk and lone and behold I am only using 50% of my drive allowing another os to use the other 50% what gives? why does LM 7-02 burnt iso not smart enough to see I have 3g available to install in? what do I need todo to get LM to wake up and smell the roses??? Ron
Re: [newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY -Idesperatelyneed help on this, guys...
If it's a dual boot setup, then yes, you should be able to access the internet with the same dns, etc. Mike yoppy wrote: hello, situation: I have NT WS.. it works okay to connect to the internet. Then, and I have it installed w/ linux (dual boot). So, if i want to use the net.. can i use the same gateway/netmask/ dns as i use in NT, or i have to set up samba? -yh- "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: You need to learn how to use Samba. There is a good how-to at www.linuxdoc.org You can also find man pages and documentation, as well as the latest release, at www.samba.org Mandrake ships with Samba. -Stephen- -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] need setup walkthru
Hi...all... I need to setup majordomo and sendmail using a dyndns hosting service as my domain name provider... can someone help me with this...the FAQ's are so confusing... with someone...that isn't technically knowledgable of servers...and the setup of same. I have a dynamic IP ...and also...do not run 24/7 -- ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Lowell, Mass. Web Designer http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) ===KompuKit===
Re: [newbie] Accessing NT lan from Linux - SERIOUSLY -Idesperatelyneed help on this, guys...
So, if i want to use the net.. can i use the same gateway/netmask/ dns as i use in NT, or i have to set up samba? The internet doesn't care what OS the machine is running. It should work with the same gateway, netmask, etc. One only needs samba to be able to access NT shares from linux and vice-versa. ELB -- Eric L. Brine | Chicken: The egg's way of making more eggs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do you always hit the nail on the thumb? ICQ# 4629314 | An optimist thinks thorn bushes have roses.
[newbie] hda/hdb
Attempting to install Mandrake 7.02 on a Gateway 500p, Linux will have it's own HD(B). The conflict is that while attempting to install partitions the boot finds HD(A) and locks up, which is as it should be, I think. How do I correctly direct the setup to find HD(B) and ignore the (A)? Using the partition program, Disk Druid. Bob Root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Voice recorder
Thanks Seve! A little research showed that there's even a Mandrake build available on the cooker site for it. I grabbed the one from RedHat however, 'cause it was a little newer. Thanks again, Mike Sevatio Octavio wrote: Try SoundStudio. It's very nice and pretty much full-featured including onboard mixer. http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/homes/NJB/Software/Studio/screens.html Seve -Original Message- From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:28 PM Subject: [newbie] Voice recorder Hello, I'm looking for a simple voice recorder (something like the one in windows) that I can use to send simple voice attachments by email (want to surprise Grandma Grandpa with the kids voices). I'm using KDE, does anyone know if there is a tool already installed on Mandrake 7 or if there is one available elsewhere? Thanks much, Mike -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Installing Boot Magic the Magic is GONE???
b/webah ha! I'm talking version 5 :-) I suppose that is whay you get it essentially for free, as an inducement to upgrade to the current version, you see version 3 is a couple of years old. Anyway, the main window you are seeing seems to be quite a bit different than the main window pictured in my version 3 manual (I have the manuals for versions 3, 4 5), so let's assume that the version 3 that came with your distro is not the same as the version 3 that was sold several years ago. The bottom line here is, if windows is booting then I was incorrect and your windows partition is active and we can forget this part. I suspect that this is so from the other message of yours (Installation/Cylinder 1024/and/Boot Magic) that I've also responded to. That response is what you should be concentrating on. If you have access to your entire drive (all of the space it is supposed to have), then your bios is set correctly. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, I do not seem to be locating the column in partition magic called status? Is it past the initial window, the window I see when going into partition magic is the exact window pictured in the 'Getting Started Manual', I have version 3.0 which comes with the Mandrake CD. Also before I go any further I wanted to mention that I looked through my BIOS again and I located some information that I thought may be important to rising above my current challenge of installation; ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (P2B-F) CMOS SETUP UTILITY AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. - HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEADPRECOMPLANDZ SECTORMODE __ PRIMARY MASTER : 17274 2100 255 0 33482 63 LBA PRIMARY SLAVE : I thought this might be of some importance, as I read something about 'LBA' MODE presenting some sort of problem, and since it is my PRIMARY MASTER and it mentions CYLS 2100. Is this perhaps a portion of my installation difficulty and the 1024th-cylinder location? b/web At 02:27 PM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote: b/webpartition magic has a column called status. The dos partition that is to be booted needs to be marked Active to be able to boot an there can be only one Active dos partition on any drive. To set this you choose Operations-Advanced-Set Active. No, it has nothing to do with the partition's name. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, thank you very much, that even sounds *logical* :) yay. Now for a really dumb newbie question, How do I set it as visible and where do I accomplish this task? PS I did notice when I first installed Partition Magic, that it said that my C:\ partition was a *No Name* or un-named partition, which sounds exactly like what you have mentioned about my windows partition being 'hidden'. b/web At 08:17 AM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote: b/webyour windows partition is incorrectly set as hidden, it needs to be set as active. If bootmagic is indeed already installed, once you've set the windows partition as active bootmagic will show up, if it is not already installed you'll be allowed to install it. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I bought Mandrake 7.0 and began to install it but am having a problem installing Boot Magic. I was able to install Partition Magic and repartition my hard drive and then it asked me to insert the Mandrake CD instead of the Boot Magic CD which the installation manual calls for. When I do attempt to install Boot Magic I get an error message that says; Cannot install Boot Magic because 1) There are no visible FAT16 or FAT32 primary partitions that are completely below cylinder 1024 on the first hard disk or 2) Boot Magic is already installed to a hidden partition Which is not possible as I have deleted the new Linux partitions I made, and then uninstalled Partition Magic and then I tried to install Boot Magic First, but I got the same error message. Any helpful thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Much thanks, b/web PS My system is FAT32 so I do not understand how it can not see that unless it does not look at the WINDOWS Partition???
[newbie] Books
Can anyone direct me to any good books covering all areas of Linux, including networking, maintenence, troubleshooting, history, using, etc? This would be very helpful. I already have read Linux for Dummies. Howtos can end up being very dificult to read and there are very few. Thanks :) Drew Jackman[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ 20177604
[newbie] lots of crashes How to reinstall others (3 in 1!!!!)
Hello everyone... How are you? hope everything is allright! well... I am really having lots of troubles! Linux is currently crashing at a rate of 2 time per day!! ( i use it for just 1 hour/day!!!)! the problem is that every time it crashes, i have to press reset, which makes it crash even more and so on so... How can i reinstall Linux? can i just begin the installation process again, and it will replace all corrupted files? or must i remove the linux partitions first?? btw, where does linux store the fonts? how can i install more fonts?? well.. what do i do if i get a program that require some old X files (hehe! :) like libXt.so.3?? How can i run the program without having to recopile it from sources? please explain in details!! thank you... Urs forever... Mohamed Saad __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Boot Magic the Magic is GONE???
I'm not in windows at the moment, but to make your win95/98 partition visible in linux you have to cnofigure it in BootMagic. I think it is when you Edit a boot configuration in the dialog box that allows you to change the icon there is a second tab, on that tab you select the partitions you want to be visible to Linux. Or win98 depending on which one your editing. -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:39:29 -0700 Alan, thank you very much, that even sounds *logical* :) yay. Now for a really dumb newbie question, How do I set it as visible and where do I accomplish this task? PS I did notice when I first installed Partition Magic, that it said that my C:\ partition was a *No Name* or un-named partition, which sounds exactly like what you have mentioned about my windows partition being 'hidden'. b/web At 08:17 AM 4/18/00 -0700, you wrote: b/webyour windows partition is incorrectly set as hidden, it needs to be set as active. If bootmagic is indeed already installed, once you've set the windows partition as active bootmagic will show up, if it is not already installed you'll be allowed to install it. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I bought Mandrake 7.0 and began to install it but am having a problem installing Boot Magic. I was able to install Partition Magic and repartition my hard drive and then it asked me to insert the Mandrake CD instead of the Boot Magic CD which the installation manual calls for. When I do attempt to install Boot Magic I get an error message that says; Cannot install Boot Magic because 1) There are no visible FAT16 or FAT32 primary partitions that are completely below cylinder 1024 on the first hard disk or 2) Boot Magic is already installed to a hidden partition Which is not possible as I have deleted the new Linux partitions I made, and then uninstalled Partition Magic and then I tried to install Boot Magic First, but I got the same error message. Any helpful thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Much thanks, b/web PS My system is FAT32 so I do not understand how it can not see that unless it does not look at the WINDOWS Partition???
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Re: [newbie] booting / installing from 7-02 iso
Ronif I were having that problem I'd boot up on tomsrtbt and run the linux fdisk program: fdisk /dev/hda and do a p command to see the partitions. Alan "Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: Hello all!! I have built numerous linux boxes from slackware to mandrake and have yet to run into the following problem I am haveing with my recent go at burning the LM 7-02 iso and installing from it. I have a win95 box i want to dual boot I used fips and reduced my C drive down to 3g and freed up 3g to install LM onto I boot the cd and go through the initial phase (type of install (custome, serve,devel etc..)) and then it dies saying something along the lines that it can not find a free partition I boot of a floppy, run fdisk and lone and behold I am only using 50% of my drive allowing another os to use the other 50% what gives? why does LM 7-02 burnt iso not smart enough to see I have 3g available to install in? what do I need todo to get LM to wake up and smell the roses??? Ron
Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still
BILL wrote: J D wrote: okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! I would not suggest doing that, ever. There are better, more appropriate, ways of reinstalling linux or any OS. If you do rm -rf /, then this means to remove the root directory and I've never done this, but know that rm -rf /* will remove everything under the root directory. rm -rf / probably does the same thing, but based on other contexts, this would also remove /. In either case, this would mean not being able to shutdown or reboot the system using any command, because everything would be gone. You've got to explain your problem, because as you should obviously see, there's no description left of your problem, if you ever described it. You want help. Help others to help you. Explain what your problem is, with more detail. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Okay, I don't truley know if this will help your MAJOR problem,but as a newbie I have had times where I too did somthing somewheres that sent my partitions kablooey.Tried lots of stuff that did n't work and wound up 'reinstalling" but installing another distro ;like Caldera,and letting it clean up the partitions when it installed,then I went back and reinstalled mandrake after the fact when I saw that the Caldera was successful. I've done this a few times and it has worked for me ,but then I/m a newbie,and only came up with this on instinct,couldn't tell you if it did anything to my machine or not .Don't think it has since I now have a nice Mandrake 70 install thats working to ,my satisfaction .Good luck if you decide to try this. Bill Not instinct; just desperation. This approach should not be required. You're better off asking in the expert mailing list, to learn how to properly handle your problems with Mandrake, even at the install level, before bothering with installing another distribution to try to recover. There are ways to recover or to do successful installs. mike
Re: [newbie] Installation/Cylinder 1024/and/Boot Magic
b/web, I used the dos fdisk to split the disk originally. Then I used a standard format program to format the drive. It would be good if diskdrake was available for general use but I don't think you can run it outside of a linux install. After Windows was installed I ran the setup for linux and used diskdrake to format the remaining drives and allocate the drive for /home etc. I reinstalled windows from scratch, so that doesn't really fix your problem though, unless you have a burner or zip drive??? My swap partition is on a different drive to my linux partition so this wasn't really a problem for me but the best way to go for you would be to allocate some of your unformated partition to linux swap during the diskdrake step of the install. That is (you have a 17gig HD?) split it in two using fdisk, format the second partition, install windows, then run linux setup, use disk drake to split off another 250MB of what remains as swap and allocate the rest to linux. DD will format your linux drive and swap for you during the install, and set all other parameters based on the drives usage. LILO will still pick up your windows drive when it installs, and will give you this option once you install. Let me know how you go. Wayne
[newbie] More X Stuff
Ok, I'm playing w/ X config stuff, and found a neat util that directly reads my settings from the monitor. But when I put the generated modelines into XF86Config it errors out when I start an x server saying the dotclodk is too high. So where in h**l do I change the maximum dotclock? I can't just run xf86config b/c it locks up my scsi card, and I use a scsi hd as my /. Any ideas appreciated. Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713
Re: [newbie] running windows in linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds like a pcanywhere type interface threw telnet between Linux and windows98. Is that right? If so I could really use this type of interface. If it's not, is there another piece of software like this? Is there a site to read more or download and try? I tried the hummingbird site but did not get much specifications or info just hype. As others explained, Exceed gives you a "window" from your PC Windows OS into a remote Linux/Unix server, like telnet, except a telnet with a full gui. I don't know PCAnywhere; therefore, I can't give you any analogies other than telnet'ing into another machine, with a gui front end. This tool allows you to view the directory structure and files of the Linux/Unix server, to manipulate/modify/move/... files, run applications, compilers, etcetera, like you'ld be able to do with a telnet terminal, except with a full gui. The limitations with respect to what you could and could not do would be defined by the permissions your login account has, like a user account directly on a Linux/Unix box. That should probably do for an explanation of what Exceed is, and several people have confirmed that it's a good and reliable tool. Hence, I think that this should be enough. If you have any additional specific questions, then ask. I know or believe that PCAnywhere is to access remote PCs and if this is true, then there's probably a fair amount of similarity. mike Thanx in advanced Mike I am running Exceed right now. It is great, but it only a Xwindows clien= t, it doesn't allow you do have run both operating systems as such. You are right, if you have linux(UNIX) running on another box you can connect through Exceed and run Linux applications directly on a Win98/NT box. It connects through a telnet session same as any other telnet session. The difference is it creates an Xsession for you so that display can be expor= ted and stuff like that. =20 With that said, it is a terrific product, but I am not sure if its exactl= y what you may think it is? -Original Message- From: andy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] running windows in linux =20 I saw something in a magazine this month (PC World (UK version), I thin= k) for something called Exceed from a company called Hummingbird. =20 The trick here was someone had both Windows AND Linux running simultaneously, Linux was on a 'Dumb Box', and the Exceed software allo= wed the user to have both a Windows desktop and a Linux one. The software i= s about =A320 and you can get an 'Evaluation Disc' from www2.hcl.com (N= o, that ISN'T a typo, that is the address!!). =20 I'm not yet experienced enough with Linux to go for this yet, but certainly in a couple of months, it sounds just the thing I could use..anyone see= n this or had any experience with it? =20 Cheers =20 Andy Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] hda/hdb
False Alarm, Setup was successful, now to learn the new language of Linux. - Original Message - From: " Bob Root" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:55 PM Subject: [newbie] hda/hdb Attempting to install Mandrake 7.02 on a Gateway 500p, Linux will have it's own HD(B). The conflict is that while attempting to install partitions the boot finds HD(A) and locks up, which is as it should be, I think. How do I correctly direct the setup to find HD(B) and ignore the (A)? Using the partition program, Disk Druid. Bob Root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Bobyou also need to include umask=0 on that line in /etc/fstab. Must be a fairly new requirement, or there's a difference in the default umask value between RH 5.1 and Mandrake, because I don't need umask=0 to be able to write to my dos partitions. I merely set it to noauto,rw and this is adequate. The only reason you'ld need to included umask=0 is because of the system-wide default value for it, probably defined in /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc. This may also depend on whether you're allowing only root to write or make changes to the dos partitions, or also allowing users. I don't give users access to my dos partitions, albeit it's a standalone system and I'm the only user anyway. I read somewhere, recently, that umask should be set to 0 in the system-wide login scripts, but that's the opinion of one author of documentation. If, however, you're going to set umask to 0 for the dos partition(s), then you might want to simply set the system-wide value to this anyway, which means you wouldn't need to include this in fstab. You'ld need to do some research through various documents which touch upon this subject, before taking my word as gospel. mike Alan Cox Family wrote: another stumper for me? I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it includes user, group and others for both read and write. OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions, and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to write or what ever Again, what am I missing here? Bob
Re: [newbie] running windows in linux
Kurt donald Cobain (on windows) wrote: take me off the mailing list Hmmm. Quite a change of topic, don't you think? Exceed = "take me off the mailing list". WOW! Don't see the relationship. mike - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] running windows in linux Exceed is quite a mature product. It turns the windows based PC into X Terminal. The window manager you use depends on your X server. I have used Exceed on a PC (Pentium 133) and the X server was on Sun. Hence, Exceed does not require a high spec PC. M.
Re: [newbie] Overload
This was happening on my previous computer (p233mmx, Octek mb, Stealth 3d 2000 video) along with installation hassles. The probs went away with my new mc (AMD K6/2-450, Via chipset, the old video card) and I even found I needed to turn ON PNP Auto in bios to get a clean installation with no hangs. So the combination of mb, proc and peripherals is important. Bill. Alan Shoemaker wrote: LarryThat's an often reported problem and I've never heard of a preventative measure against it short of "don't use netscape". Interestingly I'm running Mandrake 7.0 as well and use both netscape and netscape messenger all the time and have never experienced the problem (crossing my fingers and knocking on wood). By the way, the differences in 7.0 and 7.0-2 are only in the installation programs. Once the installation is complete they are the same. Alan Larry Varney wrote: I have Mandrake 7.0, not the -2 version. Sometimes, when I'm using both Netscape Navigator and Messenger, I'll notice that things seem to have frozen. If I open a terminal window and run top, I'll see something called ld-linux.so.2, and I can sit and watch it start taking more and more cpu up to almost 10%. At that point, the only way to get Netscape to start working again, is to do a kill -9 on the pid of that process. My question(s): what is it? Why is it behaving that way, and is there a way to prevent it? Right now, for instance, it's behaving itself with a %cpu of 0.0 and %mem of 25.6. Any help would be appreciated. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
Re: [newbie] Loging on
Sami A. Kutbi wrote:
I'm looking for a way to log in as root while i'm in a user in KDE. with
out logout and login out from user...
Thanks for the help
Bring up a terminal window and su to root
su root
or just
su
Then, you'll be prompted for the root password and until you close the
window or run
exit
you'll be working as root.
If you want to do a complete login as root, to be placed in root's home
directory, instead of remaining in the directory currently the present one
in the terminal window, then add the -l option
su -l {user}
where in your case {user} would be root.
Adding the -l option runs or sources the login scripts of the user you su
to, eg., .bashrc, and makes your present working directory (pwd) the home
directory of that user, as if you had logged in to that account from the
initial login prompt.
With the -l, these scripts are sourced or run and you don't change
directories until you explicitly do a cd.
If -l doesn't do this, then read the man page on su
man su
-l is what was used on Unix and I believe to have used it a couple or few
times in Linux, but do it so rarely that I'm guessing that I'm remembering
correctly. Definitely -l on Unix, though.
mike
Re: [newbie] apache install
jeff beddow wrote: Where is the document that describes getting Apache running under Mandrake 7.0? I hope it isn't under my nose. Thanks for any help. try the LDP at http://www.linuxdoc.org (or .com) There are man pages, HOWTOs, FAQ, ... there. You might also find documentation locally, under /usr/doc/HOWTO and in /usr/doc. for a local search, to find the file or directory containing documentation on apache, try find /usr/doc | grep -i apache Under /usr/doc/HOWTO, there are a number of HOWTOs on various servers and server topics. LDP is worth checking out. The documentation doesn't always provide enough information or examples, but worth checking anyway. mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
