Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 slowdown
This can happen if your swap partition is too small What size is yours? Paul wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since moving up to Mandrake 7 from M 6 I find that the loading time for KDE, and even the Kmail program inside KDE takes much longer than it did in Mandrake 6. All I can think of is in the latter stage of install I agreed to the default list of programs to be automatically booted at startup - programs that I really would only use on certain occasions. Could it be that they are clogging my 32 Meg ram? If so, is there some way I could cut back on what is loaded at startup? I think the slowness is because the added things in the X-servers, but that is just an educated guess. To see what stuff is loaded on boot, you run setup as root, and in the "system services" you can select what will be loaded and omitted. make sure you don't kick out important stuff!! If you're not sure, ask here, or leave it alone! Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] kppp
Rainer Lindenmaier wrote: after made my settings in kppp on new installed LM 7.0 I get connection to my IPS (indicatet on the taskpanel) but then comes nothing more. Ping gets no answer. I tried all the tips inside kppp-handbook , howtos etc. without success. With LM 6.1 there wasn't any probleme. AMD K6 350Mc 64MB Modem: 3com Sportster Flash. Thanks for reply Rainer It sounds like it could be a gateway problem. I have to disable my Eth0 adaptor (using Static IP address) and then use KPPP to get a connection. Once the connection is established, I have no problems. Use ifconfig eth0 down prior to dialing!
[newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure
Trying to install Mandrake 7, having big problems. Anybody got a suggestion to where I should start looking for a workaround? Here's the deal: I tried installing, but the graphical installer keeps generating error messages at some points: When it goes to give me the timezone menu: "an error occurred - Can not list the available timezones" or when it goes to the printer selection menu: "an error occurred - rhs-printfiles not found" I went to the Mandrake webpages looking to see if any suggestions could be found there. I did try downloading and creating a new boot floppy from the new cdrom.img file I found there with rawrite, but that seems to do nothing any better than before. Basically here is my system: Microstar Athlon motherboard AMD Athlon 550 128MB RAM ( I see it detects 64MB by mistake) Matrox G400 vide, 32MB - video seems fine so far. DLink DFE530TX ethernet (Via Rhine chip) Intraserver 6101 SCSI card ( Symbios Logic 53C896, properly detected by the installer) 2 of: Quantum 9.1GB SCSI HDD 1 of: Toshiba SCSI CDROM (48X) 1 of HP DAT tape drive Logitech Mouseman PS 3 button mouse I have Win98 on the first disk, and the first partition (1GB) of the second disk is FAT (NOT FAT32). I left the majority of the second HDD free for this Linux install (8GB). I AM able to see the second HD and allocate partitions /boot, /, /usr, and swap and format them Ext2fs, and swap as mandated. Basically where I see the whole install fall apart is at package selection, time zone selection, and printer selection and setup. After failing those parts if I try to continue it keeps coming back to try those selections and fails. Any suggestions? Anybody?? With our best regards, Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 Hard Data Ltd.FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenuemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/ T5X 1Y3
[newbie] Network stuff
Hi there, and thanks ahead of time for any help. I'm still _very_ new to Linux, and I'm having trouble setting up my network card with Mandrake.. I burned the 7.02 ISO to a CDRW and it installed fine. I have _NO_ idea how to set up the network card though.. I have all the relative info, the IP/Gateway/DNS info as well. Reason being, is i've always installed Mandrake before using FTP.. and it worked then.. same with SuSE. Could anyone possibly give me a push in the right direction? Thanks, Kefka. --- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com
Re: [newbie] kppp
Martin Solms wrote: Rainer Lindenmaier wrote: after made my settings in kppp on new installed LM 7.0 I get connection to my IPS (indicatet on the taskpanel) but then comes nothing more. Ping gets no answer. I tried all the tips inside kppp-handbook , howtos etc. without success. With LM 6.1 there wasn't any probleme. AMD K6 350Mc 64MB Modem: 3com Sportster Flash. Thanks for reply Rainer It sounds like it could be a gateway problem. I have to disable my Eth0 adaptor (using Static IP address) and then use KPPP to get a connection. Once the connection is established, I have no problems. Use ifconfig eth0 down prior to dialing! Or, if it is--then set default gateway device to ppp0. Civileme
[newbie]
hi all. i seem to have a problem with sound under kde..i use the alsa drivers to activate my soundcard.ver0.5.2...on mandrake 6.1, kernel 2.2.14.the problem is...i can play cds with the kde cd player...but i cant play any wav or mp3 files...including kde system sounds..kde states : failed to init kwmsound although the card is recognized and configured..i use an fm801 chip from forte media. any help would be highly appreciated.. --quay
Re: [newbie] Network stuff
Kefka wrote: Hi there, and thanks ahead of time for any help. I'm still _very_ new to Linux, and I'm having trouble setting up my network card with Mandrake.. I burned the 7.02 ISO to a CDRW and it installed fine. I have _NO_ idea how to set up the network card though.. I have all the relative info, the IP/Gateway/DNS info as well. Reason being, is i've always installed Mandrake before using FTP.. and it worked then.. same with SuSE. Could anyone possibly give me a push in the right direction? Thanks, Kefka. --- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com Open DrakConf then from it linuxconf or networking then basic host information -Put in the host name (whatever you have chosen or been given or leave it as is) -Go to adaptor 1 by clicking the tab at the top of the dialog box -enter primary name and domain -and aliases if any -and IP address -and netmask if needed -Now the device should be eth0 for the first network card -select the appropriate kernel module from the drop-down list... If you do not know go to www.linuxdoc.org and check the linux ethernet howto and search in page for the name of your card, and it will tell you which module -tick manual unless you are using dhcp or bootp, in which case module is about all you need -Make sure to check "enabled" Quit quit/Activate changes you should be up and running Civileme
[newbie] External ISDN Adapter
Hi all ... I have recently installed Linux-Mandrake which went well but I do not know how to set up my Speedster TA adapter. It is connected to Com 1. Can anyone assist or point me in the right direction with regards to documentation etc. Thanks Richard -- This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it.
[newbie] script: host available??
How can I check within a script if a specific computer is reachable within my LAN? I need something like: if hostname_is_online then xxx else yyy fi Thanks! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de You can now buy more gates with less specifications than at any other time in history. -- Kenneth Parker
[newbie] AARGHHH! - I killed windows - can I get it back?
Hi all, I recently installed Linux 7 using the cover CD from PCplus magazine. Since doing this I discovered that I should also have downloaded a floppy image to do the install. :-( Since I didn't do this I seem to have corrupted my Windows partition - nice. Any way I can get this back? or any suggestions on the best way to start to rebuild my system? I was planning on getting any critical data off the C: drive by copying the files using Linux to floppies. After this I am planning on reformatting the hard drive - reinstalling all my windows software and then reinstalling Linux. Any thoughts would be appreciated - thanks Connell begin:vcard n:McMenamin;Connell tel;work:+44 (0)118 924 6247 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oracle.co.uk org:Business Intelligence;img src = http://www-apps.us.oracle.com/edw/images/bititle.gif version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Oracle Corporation UK Ltd. adr;quoted-printable:;;TVP530=0D=0AOracle Parkway=0D=0AThames Valley Park;Reading;Berkshire;RG6 1RA;Uk fn:Connell McMenamin end:vcard
Re: [newbie] AARGHHH! - I killed windows - can I get it back?
Ok, is the windows partition corrupt or not? Because if it's corrupt, there's not much of a chance your average joe can retreive the data that was originally on it. If you can get to the data (for example on /mnt/DOS_hda1 or whatever mandrake calls it by default), and all is still there, your partition probably ain't corrupt. What made you think the partition is corrupted anyway? The fact that your machine boots in linux now, and you have no clue how to get back in windows? In that case, try taking a look at /etc/lilo.conf, and determine what the windows boot-option is called (eg:"dos"). Than, at the lilo boot prompt, type in "dos" and the machine will boot in windows. You can set windows to default by changing the value of "default" from "linux" to "dos" like this: default=dos Then the machine will always boot in windows, except if you specifically type in "linux" at the lilo boot prompt. I appologise if all of this seems utterly trivial to you, but judjing from what I read here your partition doesn't seem to be corrupt, so in my view the most logical explanation is that you don't know enough about linux yet to know that you can choose what to boot in at the lilo prompt. If this is not the case, please provide me | the list with some more details so we can figure out what went wrong. ps: what does the boot-floppy have to do with all of this? On Apr 25 Connell McMenamin wrote: Hi all, I recently installed Linux 7 using the cover CD from PCplus magazine. Since doing this I discovered that I should also have downloaded a floppy image to do the install. :-( Since I didn't do this I seem to have corrupted my Windows partition - nice. Any way I can get this back? or any suggestions on the best way to start to rebuild my system? I was planning on getting any critical data off the C: drive by copying the files using Linux to floppies. After this I am planning on reformatting the hard drive - reinstalling all my windows software and then reinstalling Linux. Any thoughts would be appreciated - thanks Connell -- 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] Make?
You need to install make from the Mandrake CD. You probably didn't install with the "development" option. -- Original Message -- From: "John Catral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:15:07 -0400 Hi! I tried compiling EveryBuddy last night. So I used ./configure and it went well but when I used make or make install, linux was stating that there was no such command. Do I need to install something for me to compile? I always thought it was one of the bare necessaties. Anyway, I hope someone can help! Thanks! =) John
Re: [newbie] script: host available??
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, flupke wrote: I think a "ping -c 1 hostname /dev/null 21" should do it. Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
Re: [newbie] not starting linux after 2 weeks
pRiZnA wrote: Hi, This is my first e-mail to you, I've installed LM 7.0 on a Pentium II 96MB RAM Voodo Graphics SB Sound card 20GB (master ide - windows) 10GB (sec ide - linux) Everything worked fine, but after approx 2 weeks, when Linux started, it displayed: dev/hd? unmounted uncorrectly - check forced after it ran the scan programme it came to a halt displaying: press Ctrl -d or run the scan (can't remember the name)programme (as root), I've tried, but to no awail, this has led me to re-installing LM 7.0, it's happened about 4 times and it's happened again last night, any suggestions? A Fed-up Windows user thanks in advnace OK, here's what happened. Assuming you were running linux when you shut your machine down for the evening, it appears you did not issue a shutdown command and/or wait for the system to inform you that the system has been halted before you turned the machine off. The command is shutdown -h now the explaination is shutdown = obvious, -h = halt the machine ( you can issue a -r to reboot after shutdown) and now = do it now ( you could enter a 5 for shut down in five minutes - used by sysadmins on a server to give users (administrators nickname for idiots , hehe) time to log out before the server goes down). As for the scan program not running properly I believe the command is e2fsck hdxy ( where x y are supplied by the bootup message ) hda1 would be the first partition on the first harddrive in your system hdb1 would be the first partition on the second hard drive in your system. And yes you must provide the root password in order to run it. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227
Re(2): [newbie] Make?
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: You need to install make from the Mandrake CD. You probably didn't install with the "development" option. How does one install make from the CD after the initial installation? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
Re: [newbie] FTP problems
Just a guess, but I assume your firewall is set for masquerading. That means the client configurations on your machines would most likely be passive mode FTP. Is wuftp set for he proper addresses in passive mode on your main machine? Civileme Yes that is correct, about the firewall being set for masquerading. I didn't think of that, but that it right, they would be passive. What I don't understand is what wuftp is. Is there a way I can still using plain old ftp on my main machine to accomplish any ftping tasks? (especially using ftp to login into my firewall) Thanks for your previous help and any future information.
Re: [newbie] USB printer?
I don't have a usb printer, however if it is setup on lp0 etc... then all you should have to do is load the drivers for it. su to root type printtool select "add" and follow the directions. Also does the kernel usb drivers directly support your particular printer or is that just the generic usb support that is detecting something on the usb port? John -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:29:46 -0500 Has anyone gotten a usb printer to work under 7.0? I have upgraded to 2.3.99-pre5 and I get a messae in the kernel log that it sees the usb hardware but I am yet to get the printer to function. Any help?
Re: Re(2): [newbie] Make?
mount the mandrake CD. (if you installed with supermount it will mount itself when you put it in) if you didn't use supermount. Open a shell (dos like box). 1. su type in root password If now supermount support 2. mount /dev/cdrom 3. cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS 4. rpm -Uvh Make*.rpm Thats it. John -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_lee _kinkade) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:02:05 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: You need to install make from the Mandrake CD. You probably didn't install with the "development" option. How does one install make from the CD after the initial installation? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
Re: [newbie] Linux Partition
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have one question for you, and for everyone on the list for that matter. Did you install Lnx4Win? If not and easy was your primary objective, why didn't you give it a go? No, I wanted to give a 'proper' Linux os a go. I'd read that you get quite a performance hit if you use this. If I wanted it easy, I'd not even bother plugging the box of wires in the wall!! I take it lnx4win requires the Win9x OS, so unless you want to try it to give you a taste of a different os, it seems kind of pointless to me!! Andy
RE: [newbie] Hi
yes you are, so ask away -Original Message-From: Henri Bouchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 25 April 2000 01:01To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Hi Am I at the right place to ask a question or could u tell me where I go for that Henri Bouchard
RE: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
my sound balster live seems to work fine, there have been some probles with it though, you can get the latest drivers from soundblaster. i'm not sure whats up with the floppy drive, and what type of cd-rom drive do you have. -Original Message- From: root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2000 00:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems Hi, just installed 7.0 from the CD that comes with the Sams "teach yourself mandrake in 24 hours". The install went pretty well- partitioned my drive, picked up my network card, zip drive (i think!), network config worked first time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far except the three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come out as tones - no bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is an SB Live!. Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any attempt comes back with the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" Help ! I would really like to find out what is happening here. Thanks, philomena
Re: [newbie] Problem on install with CD-ROM drive
Try checking this page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/airlast.php3 cu Denis On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, David Murphy wrote: :~Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:48:26 -0700 (PDT) :~From: David Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie] Problem on install with CD-ROM drive :~ :~I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a Pentium 120 PC :~with a 24x (Wearnes?) CD-ROM drive. After I updated my :~BIOS so I could boot from CD-ROM, I tried it. The :~machine recognized the CD-ROM and I saw the Linux boot :~messages going by. When a box on the screen said :~"Initializing CD-ROM...", however, it paused. After a :~minute or two, without an error message (that I could :~see), everything shut itself back down again. Has :~anyone heard of this problem? Is there any way around :~it or am I totally stuck? :~ :~Thanks for any help you might be able to give... :~David Murphy :~ :~__ :~Do You Yahoo!? :~Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. :~http://im.yahoo.com :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
[newbie] HP 8100 CD-RW problems
Hi, Justin
Could you please test this new "supermount" script? (Save the /etc/fstab
first, please...)
cu
Denis
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, irotsoma wrote:
:~I have an HP CDWriter+ 8100 and I can't seem to get it to work with the
:~supermount. I can unmount and mount it manually using /dev/scd0 and it
:~works but then I have to remount it every time I put in a new CD like in old
:~Linux. I have Mandrake 7.0. Is there a way that I can get the drive to
:~work with supermount so that I don't have to remount it manually everytime.
:~If not, how can I make a script, and an icon on my desktop to run it, that
:~umounts and mounts the drive.
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#!/usr/bin/perl
# (c) MandrakeSoft, Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# See http://www.gnu.org for license.
## Enable or disable supermount.
# $Id: supermount,v 1.5 2000/04/05 19:38:50 chmouel Exp $
my $file = '/etc/fstab';
my $ofile;
#"bad" or "nessesary" options for "normal" and "supermount" entry
# "bad" options can be regexp.
my @normal_bad = qw ( fs=\S+ dev=\S+);
my @super_bad = qw (sync user);
my @normal_must = qw (user noauto nodev nosuid);
my @super_must = qw (nodev nosuid);
my $fs_ok = '(auto|vfat|iso9660)';
my $dev_ok = '(fd|floppy|zip|cdrom)\d*';
my ($enable, $disable, $infile);
while ($ARGV[0] =~ /^--/ || $ARGV[0] =~ /^-/) {
$_ = shift;
if (/^--file=([^ \t]+)/ || /^-f=([^ \t]+)/) {
$file = $1;
} elsif (/^--infile/ || /^-i/) {
$infile++;
} elsif (/^--help/ || /^-h/ || /^-\?/) {
usage(0);
} else {
print STDERR "Unrecognized switch: $_\n";
usage(1);
}
}
if($ARGV[0] =~ /enable/) { $enable++; }
elsif ( $ARGV[0] =~ /disable/ ) { $disable++; }
else { usage(1); }
open FH, $file or die "Can't open $file\n";
if ($infile) {
$ofile = `mktemp /tmp/fstab.XX` || die "Can't create temporary file\n"; chomp
$ofile;
open OU, "$ofile" or die "Can't write to $ofile\n"; select OU;
}
while (FH) {
my ($dev, $point, $fs, $opt, $d1, $d2) = split;
my @opt = split (',', $opt);
if ( $disable ($fs eq "supermount") ) {
my @must;
map { m/^fs=(\S+)/ ($fs = $1);
m/dev=(\S+)/ ($dev= $1); } @opt;
clean_options(\@opt,\@normal_must,\@normal_bad);
if ($dev =~ /^\/dev\/(fd[0-1]|floppy$)/ ) {
@must = qw (sync unhide);
clean_options(\@opt,\@must, []);
} elsif (($device =~ /^\/dev\/cdrom\d*$/) || ($fs eq "iso9660" )) {
@must = qw (ro exec);
clean_options(\@opt,\@must, []);
}
$opt = join (',' , @opt);
print "$dev\t$point\t$fs $opt\t$d1 $d2\n";
next;
} elsif ( $enable (
$fs eq "iso9660" ||
( ( $fs =~ m/$fs_ok/ )
( ($dev =~ /^\/dev\/($dev_ok)$/)
|| ($opt =~ m/(^|.*,)user.*/ )
)
)
)
) {
clean_options(\@opt,\@super_must, \@super_bad);
$opt = join (',' , @opt);
print "$point\t$point\tsupermount\tfs=$fs,dev=$dev,$opt 0 0\n";
next;
}
print;
}
close FH;
if ($infile) { close OU; system("/bin/mv", $ofile, $file);chmod 0644, $file; }
sub clean_options {
my ($ap_opt, $ap_must, $ap_bad) = @_;
my $o; my %union; my @opt = @$ap_bad;
foreach $o (@$ap_bad) {@$ap_opt = grep ( !/^$o$/ ,@$ap_opt);}
foreach my $o (@$ap_opt, @$ap_must) { $union{$o}++;}
@$ap_opt=keys %union;
}
sub usage {
my $e = shift @_;
$0 =~ s|.*/||;
print { $e ? STDERR : STDOUT } "EOF";
Usage: $0 [OPTION]... disable | enable
Enable or disable supermount in fstab.
-f=FILE, --file=FILE: Specify an alternarte fstab file (default: /etc/fstab).
-i, --infile: Modify directly in the file.
EOF
exit($e);
}
__END__
CHANGELOG:
Thu Apr 13 2000 Denis Havlik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- moved definitions of "good" and "bad" fs-options, "allowed fs-s" and "good devices"
to top of the script for easier maintainance.
- added clean_options(\@opt,\@must, \@bad) function, which parses the @opt
array, adds the "must" options and removes the "bad" ones, and re-wrote the
while (FH) {} loop to take advantage of this functions.
- simplified the fstab parsing (split instead of regexp-s)
- changed the rules used to decide which mount points are going to be
supermounted to: ($fs eq "iso9660") || (( $fs =~ m/$fs_ok/ )
(($dev =~ /^\/dev\/($dev_ok)$/) || ($opt =~ m/(^|.*,)user.*/ )) )
TODO:
add --mountpoint option to get targeted supermount-enabling/disabling on
the single moint point.
Re: [newbie] 2 Questions about install....
There is a driver for the Promise Card, but it must be used post-install, The install kernel does not support Ultra DMA Mode 4 (ATA/66). Just a quick note about this.. That is a true statement about it being a post-install, but that does not mean you can not connect your hard drive to the ATA/66 controller when you first begin your installation. All you need to do is pass the ide information to linux on the boot prompt before installation begins.
Re: [newbie] Error during system install and Mandrake 7.0 on hdb, 2 questions
: PS, I just thought of something: perhaps I must make sure mboard is not using ATA66 during installation? I now remember seeing something about that. I'll post this anyway, but I'll check on that. That is true, what I know. There is a kernel patch available for ATA66, but you can only apply that (of course) after installing things. The patch you can find while searching http://mandrakeuser.org That is not true. You can have your hard drive(s)connected to your ATA/66 controller and then do the install. All you need to do is pass the ide address to the distribution on install; boot: IDE2=0xca00, 0xadd (something along those lines) cat /proc/pci to get that information. With Mandrake since you are not dropped to a root prompt before install (came from Slackware), all you need to do is get a slackware boot disk or cdrom and once at that boot prompt type cat /proc/pci to get the IDE2 and IDE3 information, so you can have use your hard drive connected to the ATA/66 controller. There might be some otherway to get this information, but since I had my slackware cdrom sitting around, I just used it. After the install, I downloaded 2.2.13 kernel (since there are issues with that patch and the 2.2.14 kernel), ran the patch, configured/compiled kernel and that was that. ATA/66 enabled.
Re: [newbie] kppp
It sounds like it could be a gateway problem. I have to disable my Eth0 adaptor (using Static IP address) and then use KPPP to get a connection. Once the connection is established, I have no problems. Use ifconfig eth0 down prior to dialing! Your on the right track, but there is no reason to diable eth0. Simply correct this by putting the correct gateway information in using netconfig or linuxconf.
[newbie] RELAY All in Mail Server
Hi all, I just got a question duringconfiguring the mail server (sendmail). How can I configure the mail server to accept any request from any valid userson any host? Actually, I think it should be sth like that " RELAY" in \etc\mail\access file?! Best Rgds, Cheung Chun Ming
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure
Basically where I see the whole install fall apart is at package selection, time zone selection, and printer selection and setup. After failing those parts if I try to continue it keeps coming back to try those selections and fails. Any suggestions? Anybody?? With our best regards, could be the cdrom disk. I would download a new iso image and burn it to a cd and try your installation again.
RE: [newbie] Problems with IWheel
looking at the security list there is a bug in imwheel /* * * * * imwheel * - * * A security bug was found in imwheel; the bug can be exploited to * provide local users with root access. Version 0.9.8 fixes this * problem. Please upgrade (manually or with MandrakeUpdate) to: * * Mandrake 7.0: * * 854fa68b384b28dbafeb298faeb67310 imwheel-0.9.8-1mdk.i586.rpm * f5d52736bacb9f4c2d40df8cedcdbecb imwheel-0.9.8-1mdk.src.rpm * */ you may want to get an updated version. -Original Message- From: Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2000 13:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with IWheel Everyone with the IMWHEEL Problem i just wanted to let you know that there is a great help file on it here http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xmouse.html if you are still having troubles - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Don W. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:05 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with IWheel On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Don W. Jenkins wrote: Dropping in on this thread, as I have never been able to get imwheel to work, either. I don't have a /home/user directory. Should I create one? Where is my autostart folder supposed to be located? /home/'user' is the directory where you go when you type cd e.g. /home/don Autostart is a folder on the Xwindows desktop. Paul Thanks! Don J. Michael Holt wrote: You need to add these lines to your /etc/X11/XF86Config file under the pointer section: Buttons 3 ZAxisMapping4 5 Then comment out (with the # symbol) the lines: Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout Next, drop a copy of /etc/X11/imwheelrc into your /home/user directory and put a copy of /usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel into your autostart folder and use the -k option. i.e. 'imwheel -k' Mike Hawk82 wrote: I downloaded IWheel from the Mandrake ftps and installed it. It is a rpm, so I figured that is all I had to do. It does not work. I can't scroll though web pages. Thanks for the help. Josh -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff! )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] not starting linux after 2 weeks
Hi, This is my first e-mail to you, I've installed LM 7.0 on a Pentium II 96MB RAM Voodo Graphics SB Sound card 20GB (master ide - windows) 10GB (sec ide - linux) Everything worked fine, but after approx 2 weeks, when Linux started, it displayed: dev/hd? unmounted uncorrectly - check forced after it ran the scan programme it came to a halt displaying: press Ctrl -d or run the scan (can't remember the name)programme (as root), I've tried, but to no awail, this has led me to re-installing LM 7.0, it's happened about 4 times and it's happened again last night, any suggestions? yeah, the driver were not unmounted cleanly. Give the root password at the prompt then at the prompt type fsck /dev/hd?? ?? being the partition in question that is reporting the error, if you just have one partition, then it should be /dev/hda
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure
With regards to your message at 08:33 AM 4/25/00 -0400, Andy. Where you stated: Maurice you might want to try the tex install. - Original Message - True, but I would really like to make the graphic install work.. With our best regards, Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 Hard Data Ltd.FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenuemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/ T5X 1Y3
[newbie] Stormix LILO, DPKG software on Mandrake?
I'm an almost-newbie (nothing installed yet) who discovered Linux through the Maximum Linux magazine. I liked what I read on the included Mandrake CD (the Install Guide and Manual are in HTML, and thus accessible) and went out and bought the Mandrake7Deluxe package [sick tired of Win98 BSOD other problems]. It also had a Stormix distribution CD, and the LILO screenshot in the magazine looked more workable for me than other LILO screenshots I've seen. Someone in this newbie forum had written a question about using the Stormix LILO with Mandrake, and I've been watching for a reply (I'm sorry I deleted that message); since I haven't seen one, I wanted to raise some related issues and hopefully stir a response: Issue 1) My kids will use my machine to boot Windows and I need a very simple way to select boot o/s at least until I can look into alternatives, buttons would be best for my 6 yr.old. [I am aware of only VMware and WINE, please suggest others.] Issue 2) How inter-operable are the various Linux "flavors"? Are we talking "hangs" or "bugs" if trying elements from other Linux flavors on Mandrake? And there's the whole issue of recovery from mistakes with such trials. Issue 3) How are DPKG software packages handled on an RPM system like Mandrake? Indeed, are they at all? Would the Stormix LILO be on the CD in another form, since we're dealing with an incomplete system at the point during the install that LILO is configured? Do I really want to even do this at all? Thanks to everybody! Gary
Re(2): Re(2): [newbie] Make?
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: mount the mandrake CD. (if you installed with supermount it will mount itself when you put it in) if you didn't use supermount. Open a shell (dos like box). 1. su type in root password If now supermount support 2. mount /dev/cdrom 3. cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS 4. rpm -Uvh Make*.rpm Thats it. John Thanks a bunch. Instructions like that I understand! I did not find Make*.rpm but did find make*.rpm so i did that instead. Was that a mistake? How do I use kde or gnome? I startx, but it is plain old x AFAICT. Once in x, how do I exit? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
[newbie] X-Window, Mandrake 7.0, SiS6326
Hi to everybody!!! Sorry for my terrible English. Russian is my native language. I have a very popular problem: I can't correctly configurate X-Window. Interesting fact: Linux Mandrake 7.0 has a graphics instalation and during the instalation graphics works in my computer correctly, but after instalation it doesn't work. Can You tell me WHY???!!! I have PII-266/32mb/SiS6326 AGP PRO... and monitor DAYTEK 15''. My friends, they are newbies too said me that it very hard to configurate correctly X-Window for my Video Card. /*May be you can tell me what I must write in section VideoCard*/ Thank you for your attention. With best wishes, Konstantin V. Lupach.
Re: [newbie] not starting linux after 2 weeks
pRiZnA wrote: Hi, This is my first e-mail to you, I've installed LM 7.0 on a Pentium II 96MB RAM Voodo Graphics SB Sound card 20GB (master ide - windows) 10GB (sec ide - linux) Everything worked fine, but after approx 2 weeks, when Linux started, it displayed: dev/hd? unmounted uncorrectly - check forced after it ran the scan programme it came to a halt displaying: press Ctrl -d or run the scan (can't remember the name)programme (as root), I've tried, but to no awail, this has led me to re-installing LM 7.0, it's happened about 4 times and it's happened again last night, any suggestions? A Fed-up Windows user thanks in advnace __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com OK, someone powereed off without shutting down--that is how devices do not umount properly. A power outage can also cause this, so give some thought to another important ingredient--A UPS. Now to fix this you do this when you see the "Press ctrl-D" 1. type in the root password 2. the system will respond with a # as a prompt so you should make your screen look like this. (look up at the device name it said was faulty--I am going to assume it is /dev/hda6 for example purposes) # e2fsck -c -p /dev/hda6 3. watch the output and answer aany fixes with YES or y # e2fsck -A -R -p To check any other filesystems This is the equivalent of scandisk from windows use. Now when shutting down, use the logout from graphics mode and the shutdown button and select shutdown OR go to console mode and use ctrl-alt-del OR # shutdown -h now and wait for the machine to quit or ask you to power it off. Civileme
Re: [newbie] How do I get my CDROM??
John Catral wrote: Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mounting a cdrom was automatic? I couldnt mount it! I have 2 cdroms but both did not work. Any ideas? Thanks! =) John - John Vincent Medina Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://i.am/johncatral ICQ# 7113128 And is one of them a CD-R or CD-RW? If so, some links need to be made. What icons show on your kde desktop? and if you have a CDROM icon does it show a small square white dot nearby? It depends on whether you enabled supermount among other things... Civileme
Re: [newbie] Make?
John Catral wrote: Hi! I tried compiling EveryBuddy last night. So I used ./configure and it went well but when I used make or make install, linux was stating that there was no such command. Do I need to install something for me to compile? I always thought it was one of the bare necessaties. Anyway, I hope someone can help! Thanks! =) John Ummm You needed to select "development system" when you installed. The packages you would need are the compilers and their libraries and the make command. Anyway, everybuddy is available in binary last I checked. Yep, still is, and an rpm at that... Just point rpmDrake at that site and things should work out. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure
Andy wrote: Maurice you might want to try the tex install. - Original Message - From: Maurice Hilarius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 2:57 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure Trying to install Mandrake 7, having big problems. Anybody got a suggestion to where I should start looking for a workaround? Here's the deal: I tried installing, but the graphical installer keeps generating error messages at some points: When it goes to give me the timezone menu: "an error occurred - Can not list the available timezones" or when it goes to the printer selection menu: "an error occurred - rhs-printfiles not found" I went to the Mandrake webpages looking to see if any suggestions could be found there. I did try downloading and creating a new boot floppy from the new cdrom.img file I found there with rawrite, but that seems to do nothing any better than before. Basically here is my system: Microstar Athlon motherboard AMD Athlon 550 128MB RAM ( I see it detects 64MB by mistake) Matrox G400 vide, 32MB - video seems fine so far. DLink DFE530TX ethernet (Via Rhine chip) Intraserver 6101 SCSI card ( Symbios Logic 53C896, properly detected by the installer) 2 of: Quantum 9.1GB SCSI HDD 1 of: Toshiba SCSI CDROM (48X) 1 of HP DAT tape drive Logitech Mouseman PS 3 button mouse I have Win98 on the first disk, and the first partition (1GB) of the second disk is FAT (NOT FAT32). I left the majority of the second HDD free for this Linux install (8GB). I AM able to see the second HD and allocate partitions /boot, /, /usr, and swap and format them Ext2fs, and swap as mandated. Basically where I see the whole install fall apart is at package selection, time zone selection, and printer selection and setup. After failing those parts if I try to continue it keeps coming back to try those selections and fails. Any suggestions? Anybody?? With our best regards, Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 Hard Data Ltd.FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenuemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/ T5X 1Y3 If it is not finding those things, then media may be substandard CDROM may need laserlens cleaned CDROM may be ready for the trash bin There are really no configuration problems that could generate those specific errors. Get someone with a burner to do an iso download and burn a CD or get one of the ones from Cheapbytes or linuxmall and try it. If those fail in the same place www.computersurplusoutlet.com has a CDROM cleaner for $5 and if cleaning doesn't help, many places have 12X-24X CDROMS (even UDMA ones) fairly cheap... and of course your CDROM might still be under warranty. Civileme
[newbie] a couple of questions...
hi, i am new to linux and having a couple of problems that you might be able to help me with. The first questions is that my computer has 256 MB's of ram, but the system can only see 65 MB's, what can I do to resolve this? and I also have a small LAN network ( Just two computers ) but my other computer is an NT box. I am having no luck at all in trying to get them to see eachother. They can ping eachother fine, but how can I access files from both computers? ... hopefully these are not too difficult to resolve and if they are I appreciate any info or ideas you have to resolve my problems... thanks in advance for any help, paul
[newbie] system commander in linux mandrake gold pack 2000
I do not have Linux installed yet, so I guess that makes me a newbie. I've used UNIX on various platforms off and on since about 1982 so I'll switch to the expert list if most of you think I should. I've had various dual boot or multiboot systems. They have all seemed fragile, with strict requirements about what system to load in what order. A failure in one OS seemed to require reinstalling that OS, and reinstalling wiped out the other systems or made them inaccessible. I wanted to create an environment where I could add and remove operating systems in any order, with little or no fix up efforts. This month, Linux, NT4SP3, NT4SP6; next month FreeBSD, Linux out of the box, Linux with my hacked kernel, Win98. System commander seemed like the best tool for the job. I've got a mother board with lots of boot options, small single partition CD drives, a new, empty 13GB (E to whatever), IDE CD-ROM, and SCSI CD-R. When I saw Linux Mandrake Gold Pack 2000 contained System Commander I was delighted. I think it is fairly new. The System Commander doc is dated Dec. 99. There are no version numbers that I see, except the box claims the kernel is 2.2.13. I can boot the CD. I also followed the clear directions to make a bootable floopy from the images directory, using a DOS system. The floppy works and I can get into the installation. The docs tell how to use system commander, and claim it is a DOS program, but where is it, or where did it go? I can not find it on any drive. The loader (floppy or CD) does not invoke it. One doc implies it is loaded from the floppy. Another says use CD n.5! I assume the bang is excitement, not factorial, but none of the Cds have numbers. Sorry for such a long winded question. Thanks in advance for any answers or leads. Chuck Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Moving usr and home
Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called /b1 and /b2. Can someone tell me how I should go about with this, without messing up my entire system? Thanks for the help and advice you can give me. Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hanging
Hardware problem. Check the chip fan is working. Install another OS and see if the same thing happens. Use a Win-98 boot disk if you have to. If these problems occure in Windows too (and you can see that chip fan turning) then you have a shot motherboard/memory/cpu. Sorry. - Original Message - From: Necrotica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 4:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Hanging Hello, Over the last couple of days Mandrake has been hanging on me for no apparent reason. In the last 2 hours it has hung on me 3 times, forcing me to power off my machine. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why its happening. Where is a good place to start troubleshooting this? I am starting to get real frustrated with it and would like to get it fixed. Are there logs that I can go through? Anything at all? Thanks... -Chris
Re: [newbie] FTP problems
ptah wrote: Just a guess, but I assume your firewall is set for masquerading. That means the client configurations on your machines would most likely be passive mode FTP. Is wuftp set for he proper addresses in passive mode on your main machine? Civileme Yes that is correct, about the firewall being set for masquerading. I didn't think of that, but that it right, they would be passive. What I don't understand is what wuftp is. Is there a way I can still using plain old ftp on my main machine to accomplish any ftping tasks? (especially using ftp to login into my firewall) Thanks for your previous help and any future information. file:/usr/doc/wu-ftpd-2.6.0/ It is your ftp server daemon. Civileme
Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results
Okay, being an old skeptic and a young Linux mechanic what's the "downside" of such a tweak?? Will I have data errors (read/write) corrupted files, and such?? Why is the "default" set so low?? Vern Larry Varney wrote: Mine was similar, until I did the "hdparm -d1 hda", and the result jumped up into the 13 MB/sec range. Changing the umask didn't seem to make any difference, though. Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 4/24/00 at 11:50 PM vern wrote: Here's what my "hunk O junk" does pretty crummy by your standards!! Vern PS. Looks like I'm due for a tuneup! /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.62 seconds = 2.96 MB/sec Albert wrote: Depending on the motherboard / chipset hdparm -d1 /dev/hda is the common flag Here is a snip from this machine /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.68 seconds =76.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.29 seconds =19.45 MB/sec
[newbie] HELP
I just did a new install of mandrake 70-2. I was using mandrake 6.2 with KDE and it worked great. I figured it would be the same with 7.02. I was unfortunately wrong. When I installed I got threw flawlessly and rebooted. Now I'm stuck. I got a log in screen in some unknown interface. I logged on and now I'm stuck with a greenish blue background and two (2) console windows. All the commands are different I'm screwed! I want KDE back if possible. I am a little annoyed about having to learn all new console commands but I at least need an interface I'm used to. PLEASE HELP ME I WOULD BE REALLY APPRECIATIVE Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need
Hello. First, thank you to everyone who has helped me with all my very newbie question. Here's the most recent problem: So, I still can't get linux to boot to a nice GUI login window. I still get the lego looking penguin window. A couple of you suggested that I login at the lego penguin and then type startx. This did take me to a GUI but it was the "enlightenment" GUI. Frankly, this is the most un-enlightening interface I have ever sworn at. I want to get to kde. I must get to kde. One of you mentioned that I may have changed my default run level somewhere. How do I fix this? -andrew Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Quake2 - recursive shutdown
I just got the Quake2 RPM from rpmfind.org and installed it, but couldn' t figure out what to do to start it. I finally managed to "start" it from the console, I think by typing ".\quake2", but then it immediately quit with this message: couldn't exec default.cfg couldn't exec config.cfg loading ref_softx.so recursive shutdown couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx It didn't complain about any missing dependencies when I put it in. Any ideas? Thanks!
Re: [newbie] Make?
Thanks a bunch. Instructions like that I understand! I did not find Make*.rpm but did find make*.rpm so i did that instead. Was that a mistake? no that is fine. How do I use kde or gnome? I startx, but it is plain old x AFAICT. Once in x, how do I exit? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question. Well you can have X start automatically when you boot, but if you do not want to do this, login as root, and type init 5 and a graphic x login screen will load up giving you access to several window managers. (this of course is for Mandrake)
RE: [newbie] a couple of questions...
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] a couple of questions... hi, i am new to linux and having a couple of problems that you might be able to help me with. The first questions is that my computer has 256 MB's of ram, but the system can only see 65 MB's, what can I do to resolve this? In DrakX try doing a customized install and not the recommended. At some point, (if I remember correctly) you should be able to select the amnt. of ram and I also have a small LAN network ( Just two computers ) but my other computer is an NT box. I am having no luck at all in trying to get them to see eachother. They can ping eachother fine, but how can I access files from both computers? ... hopefully these are not too difficult to resolve and if they are I appreciate any info or ideas you have to resolve my problems... Can't help you too much there. Maybe configuring Apache as a file server?? (I'm a newby too...) Thanks, BG
Re: [newbie] mouse configuration problem
I'm having exactly the same problem... but I have Mandrake 7.0, Xfree 3.3.6, which is supposed to "see" my Trio 3D agp 2x... It is "accepted" like SVGA, instead: there are some tuning I can do through XF86Setup, or any other way? Thanks! Corrado Paul wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Po Yuen Kwok wrote: Greetings. I am having problem with getting my mouse to appear properly on the X-windows. So far, it appears as a large, white square on the desktop. All the mouse functions appears to work, but it is nevertheless extremely annoying. I have a Logitech PS/2 wheelmouse. The system is a Celeron 466, S3 Trio 3D/2X graphic card, Quantum 20GB Hard drive. Hello Po, What Mandrake version are you running? I have heard that the S3 card is not supported well in earlier Xfree3x servers. Try upgrading to a more recent version (http://www.xfree86.org). Good chance that solves your problem. Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] OT-HTML
HTML is for web pages, not for mailing lists. many of the people waiting to help you on this list do not have or use mailers that respond to HTML I have a filter that throws away HTML messages I notice since rejoining this list that my trash fills up with newbie list messages at breakneck speed. Please check your mailers and send in plain text if at all possible. Best regards, Civileme
[newbie] Boot Failure Message on 7.0
I'm installing 7.0 deluxe on my laptop (PIII-500, 128 MB RAM, 6GB drive) using the floppy so that I can partition my drive and I got this meesage when I booted: SYSLINUX 1.48 MDK-7.0 Boot failed Does anybody know what this means. I couldn't find it referenced anywhere. Thanks in advance, Rick Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] PCMCIA hung
Mandrake 7.0 runs beautifully on my Toshiba Satellite after a fresh install, but upon rebooting later, it gets down as far as "Starting PCMCIA" and just hangs there. I used the recommended install route and there is no other OS on this machine. WaddoIdo now?
Re: [newbie] not starting linux after 2 weeks
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: OK, here's what happened. Assuming you were running linux when you shut your machine down for the evening, it appears you did not issue a shutdown command and/or wait for the system to inform you that the system has been halted before you turned the machine off. The command is shutdown -h now Even easier, I found out, is "poweroff". It is in /sbin, just as "reboot". :) Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: Re(2): Re(2): [newbie] Make?
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, _lee _kinkade wrote: Thanks a bunch. Instructions like that I understand! I did not find Make*.rpm but did find make*.rpm so i did that instead. Was that a mistake? How do I use kde or gnome? I startx, but it is plain old x AFAICT. Once in x, how do I exit? Hi Lee, When in X, open a term and run switchdesk. There you can select what window-manager you want to run. To exit, in the menu (KDE) there's a logout option. The harsh way to exit is ctrl-alt-backspace (but that's not fair ;-) Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] templates-cdrom-floppy
I've just installed Mandrake 7.02 (workstation) but I don't have templates, cdrom and floppy icons in my desktop. what should I do to correct this problem? Thanks in advance, Oder.
Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results
The downside involves just how much data you're reading in. Seeing as how the speed is now so much greater - about 5 times greater - you run the risk of having your hard drive coming loose, bouncing around inside the case, and perhaps causing bodily harm if it should escape altogether. My suggestion: line the inside of your computer case with heavy-duty duct tape, the handyman's secret weapon. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 4/25/00 at 2:14 PM vern wrote: Okay, being an old skeptic and a young Linux mechanic what's the "downside" of such a tweak?? Will I have data errors (read/write) corrupted files, and such?? Why is the "default" set so low?? Vern Larry Varney wrote: Mine was similar, until I did the "hdparm -d1 hda", and the result jumped up into the 13 MB/sec range. Changing the umask didn't seem to make any difference, though.
Re: [newbie] HELP
this may be stating the obvious but... The login screen should include a selection box for which desktop manager you want at the foot. If you opted to install KDE then you should be able to just select it at that point. Otherwise, CTRLALTF3 should drop you out of x-windows to a command prompt where you can log in as root and hack about. ALTF7 returns you to X. Hope this helps. BTW, it might be worth creating a new partition for a new installation - that way you've always got the old system to fall back on. Del. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a new install of mandrake 70-2. I was using mandrake 6.2 with KDE and it worked great. I figured it would be the same with 7.02. I was unfortunately wrong. When I installed I got threw flawlessly and rebooted. Now I'm stuck. I got a log in screen in some unknown interface. I logged on and now I'm stuck with a greenish blue background and two (2) console windows. All the commands are different I'm screwed! I want KDE back if possible. I am a little annoyed about having to learn all new console commands but I at least need an interface I'm used to. PLEASE HELP ME I WOULD BE REALLY APPRECIATIVE Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com -- \\\|/// ( o o ) --oO0o-U-oO0o--
[newbie] X11 Server Lacks DPMS Support
ALright so now no one has been able to help me out yet. I get the error "X11 Server lacks DPMS Support" in KDE how do either turn DPMS or make kde allow me to use DPMS? THanx
Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home
Do a copy (cp) not a move (mv) ! It's a whole lot safer. Then you can delete the old directories when you're *sure* you're system's *not* messed up. cp -R /home /mnt/b1/ I'm guessing you've already edited fstab in your /etc partition to automount the new partitions under ./mnt/. Otherwise, try a manual mount as root first: mount /dev/b1 /mnt/b1 (assuming you've created /mnt/b1 with mkdir first) I know, I know, you knew all that *but*. Del Paul wrote: Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called /b1 and /b2. Can someone tell me how I should go about with this, without messing up my entire system? Thanks for the help and advice you can give me. Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- \\\|/// ( o o ) --oO0o-U-oO0o--
Re: [newbie] HELP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a new install of mandrake 70-2. I was using mandrake 6.2 with KDE and it worked great. I figured it would be the same with 7.02. I was unfortunately wrong. When I installed I got threw flawlessly and rebooted. Now I'm stuck. I got a log in screen in some unknown interface. I logged on and now I'm stuck with a greenish blue background and two (2) console windows. All the commands are different I'm screwed! I want KDE back if possible. I am a little annoyed about having to learn all new console commands but I at least need an interface I'm used to. PLEASE HELP ME I WOULD BE REALLY APPRECIATIVE Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com Reinstall and select "custom" and development That enlightenment screen comes up with expert install, I believe Civileme
Re: [newbie] a couple of questions...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] a couple of questions... hi, i am new to linux and having a couple of problems that you might be able to help me with. The first questions is that my computer has 256 MB's of ram, but the system can only see 65 MB's, what can I do to resolve this? Login as root in kde click on your home directory and use the up arrow a couple times to get to a folder called etc Open it with a click and find lilo.conf click on lilo.conf and in the section on linux add the line append = "mem=255M" and yes, the quotes belong there... quit the text editor, saving as you do, and close the window now bring up Konsole and type this command line /sbin/lilo Your memory will be recognized on your next boot--unless you tell lilo otherwise it will depend on what the BIOS reports. and I also have a small LAN network ( Just two computers ) but my other computer is an NT box. I am having no luck at all in trying to get them to see eachother. They can ping eachother fine, but how can I access files from both computers? ... hopefully these are not too difficult to resolve and if they are I appreciate any info or ideas you have to resolve my problems... You want to use a package called "samba". There are extensive details on this at www.mandrakeuser.org. Civileme Thanks, BG
Re: [newbie] mouse configuration problem
Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter wrote: I'm having exactly the same problem... but I have Mandrake 7.0, Xfree 3.3.6, which is supposed to "see" my Trio 3D agp 2x... It is "accepted" like SVGA, instead: there are some tuning I can do through XF86Setup, or any other way? Thanks! Corrado Paul wrote: BIG SNIP Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config in the devices section where this unspeakable S3 is mentioned, there is a line that says # put Clock lines here right after that line try this Option "sw_cursor" save the file and use ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X That may cure your problem Civileme
[newbie] Re: Mandrake 7.1
Mandrake 7.1 Beta is out with some new features Here are several new features that have been introduced in this new release: Hardware Enhanced USB support for modems, printers, Zip drives i810 based video cards now supported ATA 66 (UDMA 66) interface Mandrake specific tools DrakX graphic installation procedure has been improved to ease installation it now fully handles multi-CD installation If Windows is also on the computer, DrakFont gives the user access to his Windows fonts under Linux. DrakBoot allows for easy graphical configuration of boot loader (lilo and grub) PrinterDrake (printer configuration) now supports more printer types and options. Desktop evironement All Helix Code GNOME improvements incorporated New menu system. Menus now look the same under all graphical environments and updates automatically when new packages are installed. Modified Qt library (foundation of KDE applications) supporting Chinese New software Now includes brand new XFree 4.0 servers, with new modular architecture. For professional environments, now shipping ReiserFS, a new journalized file system. MarkP
Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home
Paul wrote: Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called /b1 and /b2. Can someone tell me how I should go about with this, without messing up my entire system? Thanks for the help and advice you can give me. Paul First of all, if you're not confident with linux, read the whole mail before proceeding, and make sure you understand everything (if you don't, read the related man pages). I mean, don't do it "blindly". Let's say your / partition is on /dev/hda1 and you want to move /usr to /dev/hda2. All the following should be done ad root, so TAKE CARE AND THINK TWICE BEFORE HITTING YOUR 'ENTER' KEY! You should take one more precaution by going into single user mode (by typing "init 1") before doing this. Ok. Here we go. - First, you create a ext2 file system on /dev/hda2 with mke2fs. mke2fs /dev/hda2 - Then you mount this partition. (Let's say in /mnt/tmp) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/tmp - You now have to transfer your /usr to /mnt/tmp. To do this, I'd use a command as : (cd /usr tar cpf - .) | (cd /mnt/tmp tar xpf -) Once this is done, rename your /usr directory (for instance in /usr.old), create a new /usr directory, umount your /dev/hda2 partition, and remount it into /usr. mv /usr /usr.old mkdir /usr umount /mnt/tmp mount /dev/hda2 /usr Finaly, update your /etc/fstab and add the line : /dev/hda2/usr ext2defaults1 2 Voila! You're done! Useless to say that you do exactly the same for your /home partition. To go back to your previous runlevel, type init 3 (console login) or init 5 (graphical login). ONCE YOU'VE SEEN THAT YOUR NEWLY CREATED PARTITIONS ARE OK, you can delete your /usr.old and /home.old directories. If you need more infos, take a look at the Hard-disk-upgrade mini-HOWTO HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Ian Carmichael wrote: My machine is a Compaq Presario 1200xl109 Laptop and the documentation I got with it isn't very comprehensive. I have found that the driver is for a 'Trident CyberBlade i7 (47)' which is listed in the first part of the setup but then I cannot choose the correct monitor for the install to complete. Hi Ian, Have you tried to select a generic VGA or SVGA monitor? That usually gets you going, even though colors/resolution might be off. From there you can look into things more. ALso, try posting your question to alt.os.linux.mandrake on Usenet, someone there helped me to get my video stuff going. Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need
Andrew Brackenbury wrote: Hello. First, thank you to everyone who has helped me with all my very newbie question. Here's the most recent problem: So, I still can't get linux to boot to a nice GUI login window. I still get the lego looking penguin window. It is called a command line login (and don't complain. Almost every linux and other unixes don't even give you this "ascii art" (I don't like it anyway...)) A couple of you suggested that I login at the lego penguin and then type startx. This did take me to a GUI but it was the "enlightenment" GUI. Frankly, this is the most un-enlightening interface I have ever sworn at. I want to get to kde. I must get to kde. Beuh! You don't like enlightenment because you don't know it.(did you examine the help window?). But if you really want KDE, edit your $HOME/.Xclients file. One of you mentioned that I may have changed my default run level somewhere. How do I fix this? By editing your /etc/inittab file. Change the line id:3:initdefault: and put a "5" instead of the "3". HTH Flupke
[newbie] DrakConf
I started DrakConf under my own user, and checked the "save password" box. Unfortenately I entered the wrong password, so now I can't start DrakConf at all under my own user. I have to use root. Anyone knows how to solve this? I tried to uninstall DrakConf and installing it again, but that didn't work... /Anders
Re: [newbie] mouse configuration problem
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Po Yuen Kwok wrote: Greetings. I am having problem with getting my mouse to appear properly on the X-windows. So far, it appears as a large, white square on the desktop. What Mandrake version are you running? I have heard that the S3 card is not supported well in earlier Xfree3x servers. Try upgrading to a more Well, it's Linux Mandrake 7.0. Just the CD. I thought this is pretty recent. It is. Only 7.02 is more current, it contains some bugfixes. My nagging suspicion is that this particular Logitech Mouse is not supported. Might this be the case? (I know the standard troubleshooting procedure here would be to try a different mouse, but I can't do that till tomorrow, and I would love to get Linux Mandrake happening before that.) Well, if the rest of the mouse seems to work, I doubt that it is the hardware. It really sounds like a translation problem in the software to display the mouse-cursor in a proper way. Try running xvidtune and see if that brings any better results. I remember hearing about people with an S3 card that had similar problems. Don't know if they got it fixed though... Good luck Paul Netherlands )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Network settings
Howdy, just got 7.0 totally up and running however my network settings didn't take. Does anybody know how I can go back edit network settings w/o having to re-install? thanks, bg
Re: [newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need
Actually someone told me another way sign in as root. Then tpy linuxconf. Then go to Miscellaneous, then you go to Somethign with system under that category and then select 5 and it will go to GUI boot up and you can choose there. _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] scsi cdrom
Now that I have kde and mandrake 7 running so well at work, i am tempted to install the same at home. I have a pentium 75 with 48 MB mem a scsi hard drive and a scsi cd rom any suggestions for getting started? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
R: [newbie] a couple of questions...
Hi Paul! Even this is not the first time I deal with Linux (the first time was over 5 years ago, with Linux Slackware, and the configuration was very very hard!!), now I've the same memory problem! My Athon 600MHz on a Microstar's motherboard is not able to recognize more then 65Mb instead of 128. Unfortunately I didn't find any solution yet, so I cannot help you in this moment. Nevertheless as soon as I'll be able to do it I'll write to you immediately! About the network, I never connected together two (or more) Linux workstation (I want to do it in the future). I hope that if you find a solution for the RAM's trouble before me you will write to me. Thank you Damiano
Re: [newbie] Quake2 - recursive shutdown
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, 404 Error wrote: I just got the Quake2 RPM from rpmfind.org and installed it, but couldn' t figure out what to do to start it. I finally managed to "start" it from the console, I think by typing ".\quake2", but then it immediately quit with this message: try to run it by root. oh and please read all the documentation -- Rib Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken
[newbie] cd rom increase speed??
I noticed that the cdrom driver says (10 X), is that just the speed of all cdroms true or is my cdrom actually running at its fullspeed and thats just the name of the generic (atapi ide) driver? And, I saw a way (On zdtv) of making your computer talk to the cdrom better by selecting a "dma" setting (but that was for win98) is this already optimised in Linux-Mandrake or is there a way I can actually speed up my cdrom or make it talk a little bit smoother, no big emergency here, I am just curious if it can be done, I have a 24X cdrom, its a bit older but it seems to run ok. Thankx. LinuxCat -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
[newbie] kmail
I had a strange thing ahppen the other day and I'm not sure if it was kmail of if the vmware problem I was having caused it. Well first off I tried to use vmware and got it up and running but i think i filled up my linux partitions. The question I have is does kmail have a limit on msg's per folder? I noticed I had somewhere around 250 in the trash and after deleting a few more kmail went nuts and wouldnt do much of anything. At the same though vmware had messed up my box pretty bad. While rebooting I was dropped into a shell (I forgot to write down why) so as root I deleted every vmware file I could find, then rebooted and went into interactive start-up and didn't let vmware try to start. Then I edited the program startup thing and took vmware out. Unfortunately kmail lost all my saved mg's :( -- === To contact me URL: http://LeadingEdge.cjb.net/ ICQ: 53156735 AIM: Lead1ngEdge
RE: [newbie] Networking + gaming
I am extremely new to mandrake linux, about 6 hours to be exact, i have managed to configure most of my hardware including dvd decoder card, however i am having problems configuring my network card to run properly. I am trying to connect to the internet through an NT network, I have entered all my Ip, subnet masks etc, however when i boot up it says that "etho Delay" has failed, once in Mandrake 7.0 i cannot access the internet, i am using a dual boot system with win98 so i have the configs which work from that. Any ideas? I am also wanting to begin gaming using linux and was wondering if it is possible to play existing dos/windows games using linux. I am particularly interested in Halflife and counterstrike. thanks Simon Exley ICQ 41332540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] DrakConf
AndersI did that once and the problem cleared itself when I rebooted the system. Alan Anders Linden wrote: I started DrakConf under my own user, and checked the "save password" box. Unfortenately I entered the wrong password, so now I can't start DrakConf at all under my own user. I have to use root. Anyone knows how to solve this? I tried to uninstall DrakConf and installing it again, but that didn't work... /Anders
Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
Hi Paul, no, the entries in my fstab don't resemble yours too much - I think I did not enable supermount during installation. After looking around some more I saw that my ethernet card and the sound card are assigned the same IRQ - I'm sure that can't be a good thing. I can't find where to change that assignment though. I thoughtit might be in conf.modules but its not there. I'll try the "setup" - didn't know that was there - only tried sndconfig and that didn't do much. Thanks, Philomena - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, root wrote: time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far except the three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come out as tones - no bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is an SB Live!. run "setup" as root, and check the 'sound' section. I have an SB Value64 and that was initially off too. After going through this by hand it worked fine. Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any attempt comes back with the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" What is in your /etc/fstab. For floppy and cdrom with me it says: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Does that match? Paul )0(---)0( Spring is nature's way of saying: "Let's party!!" )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Oops, text? Re: [newbie] OT-HTML
Does my K-Mail come through in plain text here? On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: HTML is for web pages, not for mailing lists. many of the people waiting to help you on this list do not have or use mailers that respond to HTML I have a filter that throws away HTML messages I notice since rejoining this list that my trash fills up with newbie list messages at breakneck speed. Please check your mailers and send in plain text if at all possible. Best regards, Civileme -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
RE: [newbie] Network settings
type netconf Howdy, just got 7.0 totally up and running however my network settings didn't take. Does anybody know how I can go back edit network settings w/o having to re-install? thanks, bg
[newbie] {newbie} Unable to mount CDRW
Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mountinga cdrom was automatic? I have1 cdrom and1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is set up as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I havebeen unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Lonnie
[newbie] Problem mounting CDRW
Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mountinga cdrom was automatic? I have1 cdrom and1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is set up as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I havebeen unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Lonnie
Re: [newbie] Quake2 - recursive shutdown
My mistake - it's actually rpmfind.net! It's a great resource, and it will show you all the dependencies you'll need for an application so that you can be sure you have everything. At 09:04 PM 04/25/2000 +0200, you wrote: Hi, I just tried toget into rpmfind.org and all I get is a "Coming Soon" welcome screen and nothing else.any ideas? Paul 404 Error wrote: I just got the Quake2 RPM from rpmfind.org
Re: [newbie] X11 Server Lacks DPMS Support
Nope its a single Linux Box Not hooked up to anything. I now decided to move on from kde and use another window manager. Which when i start doesnt say that error message but if i go to system configurations and go DPMS it will give me that error message - Original Message - From: ptah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X11 Server Lacks DPMS Support Andy wrote: ALright so now no one has been able to help me out yet. I get the error "X11 Server lacks DPMS Support" in KDE how do either turn DPMS or make kde allow me to use DPMS? THanx Are you sure your not getting this error using Exceed from a windows machine to your linux box? If this is the case goto control panel and somewhere in there is an option to turn DPMS on.. however it works fine for gnome w/out playing with any settings. _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[newbie] TESTS
I was just wondering what are some basic tests/ cleanup tool you can use with linux? Such as disk defragment or scandisk? Thing that will clean out unnecessary temp files
RE: [newbie] Network settings
linuxconf -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Network settings Howdy, just got 7.0 totally up and running however my network settings didn't take. Does anybody know how I can go back edit network settings w/o having to re-install? thanks, bg
[newbie] First modem setup
I am trying to install a modem, new LM 7.02 install, and after watching the posts for the last week, attempting the following to now avail. The modem is not identifying the com port, #2, irq 3, The irq is not ID'ed. Setting up TCP/IP connection Have attempted to: setserial -a/dev/caul, gave me no status report. Will reattempt to ED /etc/ppp/options, once again, with the intention of adding this: "noauth" Your help is most appreciated. Bob Root
[newbie] partitioning on machine with win2000
Hi all, just got a new laptop and win2000 is the only OS and there is only one partition. Q: can I use any utility, e.g. fdisk and an older version of Partition Magic, to repartition the disk and re-install win2000; and install Linux-Mandrake together? thanks, ron __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
[newbie] Many Questions
Hi all. Got a few Mandrake related questions, but first a comment. Mandrake has to be by far the BEST package that I've installed to date. I've tried Caldera, Redhat, Suse, Storm, Debian, etc. They are all pretty good, but none of them worked as well as Mandrake. When I was done with the Mandrake install, the only thing not working (hardware wise) was the sound card, until I ran sndconfig. Now I have sound too. This distro even supported my ATI Rage video card, with NO interaction on my part! Any how, first question: Anyone having trouble with the CDDB not working in the cd player program? I can't seem to get it to connect to the CDDB on-line to retrieve CD track titles. There's not a whole lot of settings in the program, and I've played with them all. Any ideas? Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] CDRW Mounting problems
Hi! I am extremely new to mandrake linux I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mountinga cdrom was automatic? I have1 cdrom and1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is setup as follows /mnt/cdr2, Supermount and /mnt/cdr2 . I havebeen unable to find doc's on this CDRW but am wondering if it is just setup wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated ThanksLonnie
[newbie] Video mini problem
Hey all. Here's another curiosity. Although I stated that Mandrake supports my ATI Rage video card, the screen is off center, shifted to the right side. I usually get around this by running XVidtune. That works well, but only last the session. I dual boot Linux/Windows, so I frequently reboot. my machine. Is there a way to make the XVidtune settings permanent?
[newbie] Netscape
Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon loading. It always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE set the preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the 'about' screen, then it goes to the home page.
[newbie] GCC
And yet another question. I've downloaded a few programs and tried to install them to no avail. After I untar the file, I type './configure'. There is some activity, and then a message that states the following: loading cache ./config.cache checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. What's up with that? Does this mean that the GCC program is not installed or not working properly?
Re: [newbie] partitioning on machine with win2000
you dont even need to reinstall if you dont want to. you can just make new ones - Original Message - From: Ron Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 9:06 PM Subject: [newbie] partitioning on machine with win2000 Hi all, just got a new laptop and win2000 is the only OS and there is only one partition. Q: can I use any utility, e.g. fdisk and an older version of Partition Magic, to repartition the disk and re-install win2000; and install Linux-Mandrake together? thanks, ron __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] kmail
I don't think kmail has a limit on messages per folder, I have 1,174 right now in the Newbie folder that comes from this list. But I'm not sure why kmail and VMWare screwed up on you. I had a strange thing ahppen the other day and I'm not sure if it was kmail of if the vmware problem I was having caused it. Well first off I tried to use vmware and got it up and running but i think i filled up my linux partitions. The question I have is does kmail have a limit on msg's per folder? I noticed I had somewhere around 250 in the trash and after deleting a few more kmail went nuts and wouldnt do much of anything. At the same though vmware had messed up my box pretty bad. While rebooting I was dropped into a shell (I forgot to write down why) so as root I deleted every vmware file I could find, then rebooted and went into interactive start-up and didn't let vmware try to start. Then I edited the program startup thing and took vmware out. Unfortunately kmail lost all my saved mg's :( -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: Oops, text? Re: [newbie] OT-HTML
Yes, kmail uses plain text. Most of the HTML crap comes from Microsoft Outlook. Does my K-Mail come through in plain text here? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
