Re: [newbie]disregard HELP and HELP2
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: Guys kindly disregard HELP and HELP2 postings. I reinstalled LM 7 and rebooted and rebooted and it started to unmount things and LO! it started working. Well if u have responded to it I will of course read your comments at least I can have some idea on what could have happened. Thanks in advance for your replies. edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Glad to hear you're up and running. I was concerned by the first emails I read this afternoon. Sorry I was unavailable for help yesterday P.M. especially since I gave out some advice. Enjoy! I have found in Linux, that the most frustrating problems yield the greatest satisfaction. It's SO nice when something finally works.and you made it work. Tom -- TRBishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #12043
Re: [newbie] About blackbox window manager
hey can i know how to configure it. I was able to do it from the blackbox site. What did you have troubles with? - Original Message - From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] About blackbox window manager Hi Paul. I usually use Blackbox. I really like it! But I never figured out how to configure its menus. I didn't find any deep documentation on the official site or anywhere else. I suppose it is just because I didn't search correctly... I'm afraid I couldn't help you much in that matter. But I could install several bb applications (bb-pager, ...) However, I currently use mdk 7.1 hydrogen, and the menu configuration provided with it really fits me! But I'm still wondering how to configure it! If you (or anyone else) can help me, I'd be really glad. TIA Flupke Paul wrote: Hi all, I am toying about a bit with Blackbox. Some things puzzle me, though. Is there someone here that is a bit more proficient with blackbox? Thought I'd ask first, before throwing around a bunch of questions... Paul )0(---)0( What you are when you are not trying is what you really are )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] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1
Absolutely Jim. I entirely did away with my windows partition after dual-booting for a few months. A few weeks ago I re-installed wandows on a small drive because I realized that I missed Half-Life more then I hate wandows. Its sad I know. I will be stuck with a perfunctory windows partition until I either lose interest in games, wine works perfectly for all programs or all my favorite programs are ported to linux. Yep, that 3 gig wandows partition is going to be with me like a carbuncle for the forseeable future. Dacia --- Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reward comes when you get it working! I love the sense of accomplishment...the when you are using the programs and they don't crash, I sit here and smile all the time I am at the 'puterI am almost ready to completely un-install windoze and run a linux only box here! Jim I downloaded installed mandrake 7.0 on the recommendation of a friend. I had a little bit of experience working in a Unix environment (FreeBSD I believe) but that was the extent of my familiarity. I spent about two weeks reading hardware lists and gathering information about IRQs, DMAs, Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates, etc etc. The initial install went just fine. The only things that didn't work right were my cdburner and I couldn't change any of my desktop settings in KDE (just learned why today from someones post to this list.). That didn't bother me particularly. Boy I was overwhelmed the first time I sat looking at a KDE desktop wanting to listen to a cd and read my email. It was at that point that I really began to realize how much I took wandows for granted. Anyway, theres my .02 on that subject. Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. Dacia --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/27/00 9:54:47 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of Linux instead of buying a documented package is truly nuts, --- is truely nuts then...snicker...DLed my first (RH 5.1)managed to install it and fumble around, then I got smart and bought Linux Unleased...so I could absorb clues in a faster fashion Jerry __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Strange connection...
What I've just discovered is quiet stunning: when I try to connect with a provider different from the one set during installation, all goes smooth except when I try to log on a IRC or ICQ server... every time it seems the server does not even exists... that's what X-Chat tell me... KXicq too does not even managed to connect... There is anything I can do? Thank you! Corrado
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install
thats a good idea Denis. Why not add: Office- Errata- (molecular weight calculator, tea timer, etc. fun, random or otherwise off the wall for the typical user kinds of programs.) to the check boxes? Be sure to include clear indications of what is installed with each of these options. That seems to be the real issue for a lot of us. Clear indications of what is included. You guys ROCK!! I am so pleased to be able to give you feedback like this. Thanks for asking and listening to all of us. Dacia --- Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, folks Here is one question concerning "Authomated" mode. Currently (7.1), in this mode you get "everything" except for "dangerous" server-packages installed, if there is enough place on your HD. From your recent posts, I got the impression that having a following screen pop-up during Authomated install would make lot of people happy: +++ ## Choose the number of installed packages X (Y MB) | ## - This is a slider | | ## | MINIMAL "EVERYTHING" INSTALL [ ] Games [ ] Server applications [ ] Handicaped user ## HELP TEXT: Authomatic install will on default provide you with a standard workstation. By moving the slider, you can choose the amount of software you want to install on your system: Even if you choose a minimal version, you will get a simple, but still rather confortable working enviroment. "Everything" installes everything, except for games and server aplications, unless corresponding checkboxes are checked. "handicaped user" installs some hanidicaped-friendly programs, and lowers the priority of wiz-biz graphical programs. Real gamers should obviously check "Games", And checking "Server application" would fire a warning "This can be dangerous, bla, bla... Now the questions are: 1) Is this soemthing you wold like to have, that is - would any of you actually make use of authomated install with this option. 2) Is this option clear enough? 3) What about the three checkboxes? yours Denis __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie]
I'm trying to find out if Mandrake Linux will support my logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. Both require drivers to run on Win98, but I've not been able to find out if linux will support them. This is the only thing holding back my purchase and instalation. Any help would be appriciated. Steve McReynolds-Hollis 2000! Vote Socialist! http://www.votesocialist.org
Re: [newbie] Help!!
Edisonno, the command is 'fdisk /mbr' not 'format /mbr'. And you need the program 'fdisk.exe' on the bootable dos floppy. Alan Edison Gica wrote: Hi M.: Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have a windows boot disk and can boot from my floppy drive. So i just give the command format /mbr thus overwriting my mbr and windows should still be working fine? edison From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help!! Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:55:13 +0100 Have you got Windows boot disk (floppy)? If you don't have a windows boot floppy, then create one by booting into windows or create it on another machine. Once you have the boot floppy, then boot with the floppy. You may need to set-up your bios to boot from floppy!! At the prompt enter command format /mbr This should overwrite the Master Boot Record. M. I need help guys! I installed LM 7.0 in my 2nd HD under the 'Recommended' The first thing that came up in setup filesystems was: "I can't read your partition table, it's too corrupted for me. I'll try to go on blanking bad partitions bad magic numbers" Note that I installed the new 2nd HD neither partitioned nor formatted by either Windows or Linux. I clicked 'Cancel' and it went immediately to the setting up of partitions so I selected 'hdb'and 'auto allocate'. I also selected to create a boot disk. And...Charles LM installed LILO on my Windows disk! There was no option after the create boot disk it jumped directly to Configure X! Boy..I did not want that to happen! After installing, it rebooted the computer and LILO came up :( so I entered to go to Linux. The Console mode login session came up but the screen would go on and off, what's wrong? I also tried to boot using the created 'boot disk' and an error came, error 0X10. Would sincerely appreciate any help guys. Is it possible to remove the LILO from my Windows disk and setup Linux to just boot from the 'boot disk'? edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install
In seg, 29 mai 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: Hi, folks Here is one question concerning "Authomated" mode. Currently (7.1), in this mode you get "everything" except for "dangerous" server-packages installed, if there is enough place on your HD. SNIP Now the questions are: 1) Is this soemthing you wold like to have, that is - would any of you actually make use of authomated install with this option. Yes. I used authomated install before, without knowing what it was, just blindly trusting Mandrakesoft. Call it the lemming spirit if you will. 2) Is this option clear enough? Yes. 3) What about the three checkboxes? Any particular reason for these 3 specific types of software? Did they cause more discussion/trouble? Thanks, /J. yours Denis
Re: [newbie] Hello
Hello list, I think I'm the newist (?) newbie on the list. I signed up yesterday, before I upgraded from RH 5.2 to Mandrake 7. Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Though I would like some things to be made easier, most of which have been mentioned in the Discussion thread, I do feel that to make it too user friendly would rob Linux of it's unique position and it's marvels. Heck, if it becomes to user friendly with everything done without a thourght being required from the user, why don't we just all jack it in and reinstall Windoze What do you all think out there??? I'm not familiar with the history of this thread, but after wrestling with an other linux install/config for nine months, I found the upgrade to Mandrake to be a breeze, even if I did lose my mouse functionality in the process. And while reconfiguring the mouse, I lost my keyboard too! Somehow, Mandrake fixed things, after I told Lilo to boot my "old_linux." What other OS. could manage to do that!? I've accomplished more in 24 hours with Mandrake, than I have in a month with my old Linux, let alone some other type of OS. Linux may not be user friendly, at first, but the bug fixes are free, and you don't have to wait a year + for the fixes to be rolled out. Almost Microsoft free. Darryl
RE: [newbie] HELP 2!!!
Hi Edison, I am in the same situation as you. LILO seems to refuse to 'die' even when I use fdisk /mbr :(. Now it boots up with a 'LIL-' and hangs the system. I read somewhere on this mailing list that LILO is more used for dual booting from same HD, not from different HDs. I'm not sure whether this is the cause of the problem. Let's hope we can find some solution soon. -Original Message- From: Edison Gica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HELP 2!!! Guys..here's more info re my [newbie] HELP posting. I tried re-booting and it went to Kudzu and identified my external modem and still that blinking command console. I turned off the computer and re-booted again. This time it won't go to Linux. I pressed 'Tab' and the following 4 options came out: 1) linux-fb 2) windows 3) floppy 4) linux Both linux-fb and linux gave this error: block mover error 0xAE The floppy gives, 0X10. I tried to type rescue and gave the same error: 0X10. Would greatly appreciate ur help. edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] please help
I changed ISP's a week ago... the other ISP...only took about ten minutes to come back to me Paul wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2000, KompuKit wrote: it still doesn't work right...there is still about a 7 hour delay attached is an email from my ISP about the problem: Only 7 hours? Sometimes with me it happens that it takes more than a day before I get something back that I post. And I know it is not a problem with my ISP, that is fast enough. I would not worry too much Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===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] RE: [expert] Can't Pinpoint Problem - Experts Please Help.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sheldon Lee Wen Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Can't Pinpoint Problem - Experts Please Help. "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: Eh, no. ld-linux.so.2 is not a part of Netscape... [root@router /home/opjose]# rpm -qf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 glibc-2.1.2-9mdk Which is not to say that some process hasn't spawned off a CPU killer as they may... Yes and that process is netscape. [root@shugaru sheldonl]# cat /usr/bin/netscape | grep ld-linux exec /usr/$sysname-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 \ exec /usr/$sysname-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 \ exec /usr/$sysname-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 \ exec /usr/$sysname-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 \ exec /usr/$sysname-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 \ Sheldon. Eh, your point? (and ld-linux.so.2 is still not a part of Netscape...) Practically every other application does this. The vast majority do so without tying up the CPU... Interestingly enough, I USED to have similar problems with Netscape doing the same thing. I stress the past tense... other programs would also exhibit similar behavior. I'll bet that Netscape tendency to do this is highly dependant upon the version of the ld-linux/glibc libraries it is compiled against. My Redhat 6.0 box did this constantly until I updated both Netscape and the Libs. Now it's one of 5 upgraded to Mandrake 7.02... My Mandrake 7.02 boxes have not done this once... yes I might get the OCCASIONAL Netscape crash, but I have not had a runaway process since performing a clean install of 7.02. -JMS
[newbie] Removing a windows partition
I originally setup my disk with both linux and a windows partition. I am no longer using windows on this machine and would like to remove the partition without risk of damaging my linux data. Ideally I would like to be able to expand one of my linux partitions to take advantage of the new space, however making a new linux partition would be an acceptable option as well. How can I do this without the possibility of damaging my linux system data? Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] WeirdX XDMCP, and all that Jazz
Hey, I'm having trouble understanding what WeirdX, and XDMCP do. This is what I think they do, If I'm wrong or you have anything to say on this subject, please send a message to the list. Ok so to my understanding XDMCP is the protcol that XDM uses to allow clients to login to a remote computer running X. So this is what I'm thinking might be possible, linux box running XFree86 and xdm, configured to allow remote access. And a windows box running WeirdX. Is it possible to login to the linux box from the Windows box over the net using XDMCP? I'm really clueless when it comes to this sort of thing, so any pages, with info or anybody who wants to tell me their 2 cents on this subject, feel free to post a message, THanks.
Re: [newbie] Colors
Hi Paul (Denis2 :) I will try this out. I thought I would also try just leaving the owner as root, but allow writes by the group users to see if that would work. Do you think this would work too? Thanks Bambi Paul wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Hi Denis, If this is an installer bug...how can it be fixed? Thanks, Bambi Hi, this is Denis2 *grin* as root do a chown user.user for .kderc e.g. chown fran.fran .kderc or chown bambi.bambi .kderc Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie]
I would like to pitch my 2 cents in. I think that there should be more than one way to go (if this has already bneen discussed sorry about that) Options to have a very user frendly install and config, keyword config, and for experts, another mode so they can install with Power. On Tue, 30 May 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Since linux is about 10 times more powerful than microshaft how can you expect to un-pack the box and be an expertthere are literally hundreds of books out there and a ton of helpful people here, now all you have to do is become a learned user, read, learn, try, re-install ;) when you mess up and start over. Nice comments Jim and thats the only way to learn. I beleave that in the original message to this thread it was said to make linux as user friendly as it possibly can be. Though I would like some things to be made easier, most of which have been mentioned in the Discussion thread, I do feel that to make it too user friendly would rob Linux of it's unique position and it's marvels. Heck, if it becomes to user friendly with everything done without a thourght being required from the user, why don't we just all jack it in and reinstall Windoze What do you all think out there??? -- Andrew Blackburn England --In the pursuit of knowledge Everyday something is aquired-- (Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching) ICQ 50762100
Re: [newbie] sound problems
Hi Paul, Tried that and no good. There are a few odd things now - when running sndconfig and the sample sound is attempted, an error is displayed about not accessing /dev/audio. I checked the permissions and it was set to root/sys. I changed it to root/audio and also root/root - made no difference. Same problem happens now when I try to run kmixer - trouble accessing /dev/mixer. Changing the permissions 'seem' to help - at least mixer will run, but then, if I reboot - it all goes back to how it was. When running the sound config tool in Drakconf/Hardware, the test sound will play, but when clicking OK, an error message is displayed about accessing the directory you mentioned - /dev/dsp, even after your suggested change. Also, if in the KDE Control Center I try to display system information about sound, nothing is listed for any of the devices. I figure the driver has to be OK if CDs play, but I don't know where to look for this .wav problem, especially since all was fine in 7.02. I can't seem to find documentation about trouble-shooting sound problems. thx, philomena Paul wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2000, philomena wrote: Try this one (as root): chmod a+rw /dev/dsp That helped me get around the same problem Paul I have a Soundblaster Live! card. In 7.02, as long as I downloaded and installed the most current driver from the Creative Labs opensource site, my sound worked great - could play CDs, wavs, mp3, etc.. In 7.1beta3, with the updated drivers, I can play CDs, but no system sounds (wavs) and so far, no MP3s. When I run the sound configuration in DrakConf (in the hardware section) the card is properly identifed, and the test sound plays fine - I have finally gotten confirmation on the proper pronunciation of "Linux" :-) However, still no system sounds - I have system sounds enabled in the KDE control sytem, but no tests play. For a while, no mixers would play - either aumix or kmix, but now thay are - frankly, I don't know why. But those apps show the volume and settings are all fine. Searching thru the mail archives, I saw others having similar problems, but couldn't find any post with a solution. Any suggestions on what else I can try would be appreciated. One great thing about 7.1 - it recognizes all my removeable devices - CDRW, ZIP drive and floppy - 7.02 didn't !! cheers, philomena )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
RE: [newbie] Modem
1) Did you disable an existing port on your computer... I.E. COM1 or COM2 prior to installing the modem? If not you are better off doing this! 2) Set the modem up to use the same COM port as the one you disabled. Do this in HARDWARE... with jumpers. 3) No jumper? Hmm... do you have a Winmodem/PCI. With one or two exceptions all Winmodems are not currently supported under Linux. This is not a problem with Linux, rather with the modem. See: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -JMS -Original Message- From: sandman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem My linux won't see my modem. I've tried linking it to no avail. It's a USR voice/data modem from a year ago. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Problem updating xemacs
Don't know the answer, but I tried the same update last night and got the same errors. Don J. On Sun, 28 May 2000, Wilson, Al wrote: Hello, all. Is anyone having trouble using Mandrake Update to update emacs. Mandrake Update lists four packages to update, but I keep getting two errors: file /usr/bin/xemacs from install of xemacs-21.1.-7mdk conflicts with file from package xemacs-base-21.1.8-3 file /usr/bin/b2m from install of xemacs-extras-21.1.9-7mdk conflicts with file from package emacs-20.5-3mdk The result is that I cannot update emacs. I can find nothing in the way of help for Mandrake Update. Also, is there a way to tell which mirror I have selected? Which mirrors are updated most frequently? I cannot find a mirror with the kdesu update on it. Where are the RPMs stored? Are they added to the existing RPMs on my drive? So many questions; so few answers. Thank you, Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- My dual-boot system Works better than my Z, and isn't as greasey. Do good stuff!
Re: [newbie] usubscribe
At 01:18 PM 05/30/2000 -0400, you wrote: usubscribe Yes, we know we subscribe :-)
RE: [newbie] ph0-tone / Music programs
I'll raise your URL and throw out; http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/ For a more interesting list... -JMS -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 1:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ph0-tone / Music programs On Mon, 29 May 2000, pH0-tone wrote: I can't install Linux Mandrake 7.0 on an Ultra66 (www.promise.com) drive. Linux becomes unable to find any hard drives. I can install it on my IDE onboard controller hard drive, but then it won't recognize my U66 drive. But I want to get it well! I want Linux to recognize and find anything. I want Linux to work for me and for the Humanity!!! I want that Linux has all the features and more than that FUCKING ÂÌÑÄØ windows... I want Linux to work just as it was thought to... And I wonder why there are so little music programs for Linux. Such an impression that Linux is for hackers only. Please remove this impression! Make Linux as friendly as it must be. The friendlier the system, the better the world! For music programs, look at www.linuxberg.com and www.linuxapps.com. There are quite some music programs out there, believe me. You just need to know where they are. Isn't that true though for all things good? Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
RE: [newbie] Setting lilo to dual boot 98 from separate drive???
-Original Message- From: Jeffrey B. Ferland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting lilo to dual boot 98 from seperate drive??? On Mon, 29 May 2000, "Aaron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux is on the primary disc (hda) and win98 is on the secondary disc (hdb). I tried adding it to lilo but when I choose win98 at boot it doesn't do anything. Do I have to do anything to win98 to make this work? What do I need to do? Thanks, Aaron I thought I would be asking for help on this list, instead my first post is help... LILO loads Linux and allows other OSes on the SAME HD to boot. You would have to re-configure your BIOS to boot from drive D: (as Windoze sees it). Unfortuneately many BIOSes don't know how to boot from anything other than A:, C:, SCSI, and CD-ROM No not true at all. A lot of people miss one of Lilo's neatest tricks. It can remap the "hardware"... what? You ask... is he talking about? Lilo can make you D: drive your C: drive... it can also do this to your third and fourth hard drive. Using Lilo you can put an OS on each drive and have each available to boot. When the respective OS comes up, it will think it "booted" and "owns" the boot device... Huh? From the Man page for lilo.conf... disk=device-name Defines non-standard parameters for the specified disk. See section "Disk geometry" of user.tex for details. Especially useful is the `bios=' parame ter. The BIOS numbers your disks 0x80, 0x81, etc. and it is impossible to decide which Linux disk corresponds to which BIOS disk (since this depends on the BIOS setup, and on the type of BIOS), so if you have an unusual setup you need to state the correspondence between Linux disks and BIOS disks. For example, disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 would say that your SCSI disk is the first BIOS disk, and your (primary master) IDE disk is the second BIOS disk. Clear as mud... What this means is that you can use a parameter such as disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 The above lines make the "D:" drive the "C:" drive and the "C:" drive the "D:" drive. Using the above, you can put Windows 98 on the second hard drive and boot to it after selecting WIN98 from Lilo... Windows comes up thinking it's on the C: drive (which it is not). You can further extend this trick quite a bit... read the man, mam. -JMS
[newbie] Pauls proposed website
On Tue, 30 May 2000 19:42:54 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote: Paul who is thinking about collecting all the assistance here and putting that up on a website... = Tue, 30 May 2000 21:43:28 That is a lovely Idea Paul, it would be a perfect endeavor for you, you have a wealth of knowledge and a desire to assist us poor unfortunates.. How many times have you heard "my memory wont show up"? or please unxcroobe me"..no wait. not that one...but many repeating difficulties that us new wienies have redundantly? Finding information in the sea available has always been difficult for me..I never seem to find exactly what I want, just everything else in the world..even searching archives has not been satisfactory..maybe if someone would write it on my forehead? or put a lot of common data on a nice categorized web site. It sounds like a noble project Who knows? perhaps several years from now, I will know enough to be able to volunteer to assist you.? Olly P Biloxi Mississippi
Re: [newbie] Help!!
It doesnt, the computer just hangs if you just do fdisk/mrb I've done it before as an experiment with no lilo and even before i screwed up linux i had to do that no go. Kenny - Original Message - From: "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help!! On Mon, 29 May 2000 15:45:48 HST,edison wrote: Would sincerely appreciate any help guys. Is it possible to remove the LILO from my Windows disk and setup Linux to just boot from the 'boot disk'? edison = Tue, 30 May 2000 14:28:01 Believe it or not edison, I have had the same feeling you are experiencing right now... If you wish to remove your LILO from the MBR the easiest way I know is to start the computer with a DOS/Windows boot disc and type Fdisk/mbr this will write the mbr back to a windows configuration and when you boot again it should start MS windows. good luck, you will recover Olly P Biloxi Mississippi _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: McMillan monopoly [was [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.]
Hi Denis I thank heavens that I live in Finland and still have a choice from whom I can buy Mandrake-Linux! Regards, Ron On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Pre-ordering does not mean much, does it? Soon you will be able to buy 7.1 all over the place. BTW, McMillan now has exclusive rights on all english-speaking countries, so there will be no separate "Mandrake" and McMillan" products to confuse you anymore AFAIK. cu Denis :~What do the people at MandrakeSoft or MacMillan suggest? :~ :~"Whoops! I meant Michael, sorry Paul. :~ :~Paulwith or without docs you can pre-order 7.1 at: :~ :~http://www.LLand.com/products/ :~ :~Alan" :~ -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk
Hi Dick I have experienced the same problem and in my case it resulted from letting Mandrake's Diskdrake 'fiddle' with the partitions created by Partition Magic. The only solution that I found was to let Nortons DiskDoctor fix the partition tables, then resize the partitions again using Partition Magic 4,01. Mandrake Sofware suggested in January or February of this year to use a later version of their Diskdrake program instead of the one which was in release 7,0. But in my PC, there was no improvement. So from my experience, Mandrake's program is still unable to alter vfat or even linux partitions safely, in a way which allows other operating systems such as DOS/Windows to also use them. Ron
Re: [newbie] Modem
sandman wrote: My linux won't see my modem. I've tried linking it to no avail. It's a USR voice/data modem from a year ago. Any thoughts? Thanks. Hi Sandman, Chances are real good what you have here is a winmodem, i.e. junk that won't work with linux I take it that your modem is a internal model, if this is the case be advised that most current internal modems are winmodems. Winmodems utilize software based compression routines, as where very few internal,and all external modems do compression in the hardware As it stands right now what you need for linux is a "hardware" modem. The software compression routines used by winmodems are propritary to to maker of the modem,and thats the rub... For winmodems to work in linux you have to convince the maker of the modem to write drivers for linux. Lindy
Re: [newbie] Help!!
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: Hi Charles: It's all right. Programs works in a peculiar way on each computer. uhh...someone said format /mbr or i should use fdisk/MBR? So once I do either (the correct one) of these it will overwrite Lilo and windows will still be working normally? regards, edison Both work. As long as you put a space between command and parameter. Windows is not case sensitive. (Very insensitive...) Paul )0(---)0( Who avoids silence has never experienced it )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Why MPEGs are so slow??
Hi Nickolay! Aktion sucks for MPEG, try out MpegTV. It's on the fifth or sixth CD or available at www.mpegtv.com. It has to be registered ($10) to play the anims with sound, but it also has a command line version which offers sound, but no gui. Cheers! Hello! I tried to use aKtion to play my MPEG files, and the speed of playback is ~1fps. What is the reason of it? System: PIII-500, ASUS V3800TVR nVidia based card, XFree 3.3.6 Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Koly -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
[newbie] sound problem
hi. When I run the sndconfig program the system detects a AZT3000 PnP Sound Device and when I run the sound card test this ocurrs: ISA PNP Error Don't know what to do with configure AZT3000/-1 (LD 1 on or around 72 /etc/isapnp.conf :72 --Fatal - Error ocurred parsing config file - No action taken. I have tried to configure the sound card device as a Sound Blaster Pro, in the test am able to listen the voice but the midi is fails. Thanks
Re: [newbie] some problems after new install
ok, I reformatted and reinstalled (again) thinking i might have missed something up during the installation. Now the mail problem seems to be fixed but i was still getting a connection refused message when i tried to telnet and ftp into my machine. I checked the /etc/inetd.conf file and telnet and ftp are not commented out so they should be running. One thing i did find was that mandrak apparently didnt set inetd up to be called and run in the /etc/rc.d scripts. I added it to rc3.d and rc5.d so that it would get started up when the computer came up and an now getting: telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]' Connection closed by foreign host. Getting the same thing via ftp as well, connected then disconnected. Is there something else that i need to have running for these services to accept connections? ipchains has no rules in it other then in the forwarding section for masquerading (which works btw) and all policies are set to accept on input and output so the firewall shouldnt be blocking anything. Anyone got any other ideas? All assistance is GREATLY appreciated, Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---Reply to mail from Paul about [newbie] some problems after new install On Tue, 30 May 2000, Fireman71 wrote: 1 - when trying to send an email with the mail command i got the message :: "/etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory" so i went and checked, sure enough, there is no file there. I then went back to the mandrake cd and tried :: "rpm -Uv sendmail-*" which responded with the reply "sendmail conflicts with postfix-19991231-3mdk" anyone got any ideas on how i can get this one fixed? With "kpackage" first locate and uninstall Postfix. Then install Sendmail. I know these two don't like each other. 2 - I am now no longer able to telnet or ftp in to my computer either via localhost or from another machine on my lan or over the Internet. trying telnet localhost, telnet 127.0.0.1, etc all result in "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused" ftp localhost gives "ftp: connect: Connection refused" I am able to masq through this Linux box with a comp running win98 for http access. Meaning that i can go to my win machine and tell netscape on it to go to www.mandrake.com and it will bring the page up and that all works fine. I can even access the default web page for apache from my win machine with "http://192.168.0.1" Also telnet and ftp work fine for going out. just when i try to connect in does it refuse it From what I learnt here, you could check if ftp and telnet are allowed in your /etc/inetd.conf file. Of course, I may be wrong... Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 ---End reply
[newbie] high security server and ftp and telnet
I setup a linux box with the server choice and high security. I finally found the place to turn on the web service. http web services are running now. The ftp seems to be installed. all the info I have found says its all set up but I can't ftp into the server. I need ftp to upload my web pages. I also want telnet. It does not work either. i can ping the server. I can go from the server to other computers thru telnet. Is it the security level? do i need to re-install and set the secutity level down? How do I get access to the services.. ( I do not have the gui auto loading. i can startx but i can't get any of the gui's to run..kde...gnome..ect...) so I guess any info sent on how to fix this will have to be no-gui commands. thanks in advance Robert
[newbie] DON'T just say Help!
Hi. Can I make suggestion? - hell, I'm going to. When you post to the list could you make the subject line tell us something about your problem or news, rather than simply the fact that you need help? Almost ALL of us need help, that's why we're here. All sorts of good reasons for that 1. It helps those who know about the problem you have to spot it straight away. 2. It helps those who don't know about your problem and who aren't interested to delete the message and not waste time. 3. It stops my wonderful mail client (Mutt - it's marvellous) from presenting me with threads a mile long that say nothing but Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help - Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help -Help - Help - ANY kind of indication of the nature of your problem is better than "Help!" or "Newbie in trouble!" or even "Expert stumped" Sorry - grumble over. Peace be with you all Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: Re[2]: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Just out of curiosity - IDE or SCSI? I don't remember seeing you specifing anywhere (but I missed the begining of this thread). charles, it's an oemmer for sure and when i called panasonic they said it was too new for the drivers to be on their website. My source(computer123) promised manual, cables Adaptec cd and a 10 pack of recordable media which they provided with the exception of the manual. Windows won't recognize it; Linux will, but only to read from...caveat emptor i guess... =michael= Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713 -- PROBLEM SOLVED!thanks for replying! -michael-
Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: MichaelI've forwarded your message to them, let's see what happens. Alan Thank you. -- -michael-
Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels
Hi Alan: Thanks for your reply. Sorry for not being explicit. What I was trying to say was the panel that pops up when u click for example 'DrakConf' or the CD icons on the screen. These things are just very tall that even if I hide the panel (the one that u are referring to) i still can't see the 'OK', 'Quit', 'Apply' buttons. The panel configuration u referred too works all right. edison From: Andrew Scotchmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:09:42 +0100 On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote: How can you resize the panels. Hi Edison, If you are using KDE click on the K menu icon and select Panel, and configure. There you will be able to choose where the panel is positioned on the desktop and choose it's size ( tiny, normal, large ) If it is Gnome then I think you can not change the panels size though I may be wrong on that. -- Andrew Blackburn England --In the pursuit of knowledge Everyday something is aquired-- (Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching) ICQ 50762100 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Removing a windows partition
:~I originally setup my disk with both linux and a windows partition. I am :~no longer using windows on this machine and would like to remove the :~partition without risk of damaging my linux data. Ideally I would like to :~be able to expand one of my linux partitions to take advantage of the new :~space, however making a new linux partition would be an acceptable option :~as well. How can I do this without the possibility of damaging my linux :~system data? Thanks. 1) change partition type, format it (diskdrake) 2) bind it into system as /mnt/new (or such) 3) move the data from some existing partition there (/home/ sounds fine, but your mileage may vary) 4) remove old /home, edit /etc/fstab so that your new partition gets mounted on right place and either reboot or just remount the partition to where it should be. voila Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy
Re: [newbie] unsubcribe
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Re: [newbie] offline news reader
On 30 May, Claus Atzenbeck wrote: Hi all, is there any good offline news reader for Linux which can handle different news server at once? KRN is for offline reading, but I only can use 1 news server. Thanks for your answer! Regards, Claus. Pan for GNOME? http://www.superpimp.org/ I've also had some success with tin. L -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [newbie] Text to image
Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter wrote: Thanks, never had to do with such a matter, before! Can you tell me where can I find those decoders, please? Do a search for uudeview. Isn't this installed with the distro? If not, add it as a request. L begin:vcard n:Duperval;Laurent tel;work:(514) 282-8484 ext. 228 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.uforce.com/ org:U|Force;Java Center adr:;;1001 de Maisonneuve O.;Montreal;Qc;H3A 3C8;Canada version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Consultant intermediaire fn:Laurent Duperval end:vcard
Re: [newbie] usubscribe
what is this? Cannot spell contest? Hey, I am the champ in bad spelling, don't even try... And correct spelling is: UNSUBSCRIBE cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 950C
:~I had already searched thru that site and there was no mention of this :~printer model. Anywhere else to look ? ask hp, they should know it. We do not have this printer here, sorry. And add the entry to DB once you know it. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Install
:~Denis, :~ :~How about a "Dear Santa, I want it all" selection? I know I can get that :~through the expert install but even this is confusing as there is a server / :~workstation selection (and something else if memory serves me) and this fails :~to make much sense. See what i proposed in "Authomatic Install" letter. -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.
:~It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did :~with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market 7.1 as 7.5!! Their :~excuse was that more people will purchase an upgrade sequenced :~by .5 than would have bought it sequenced if sequenced by only :~.1. Sheesh!! AFAIK this is not allowed by our new contract. And there will be only one pack in english-speaking countries - from McMillan. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] Colors
Niet te geloven! Ik heb een alter-ego uit Nederlanden! ! .-) Next thing you know I will walk around in clogs... I already have a bike. Denis :~Hi Denis, :~If this is an installer bug...how can it be fixed? :~ :~Thanks, :~Bambi :~ :~Hi, this is Denis2 *grin* :~ :~as root do a chown user.user for .kderc :~ :~e.g. :~chown fran.fran .kderc :~or :~chown bambi.bambi .kderc :~ :~Paul -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install
:~That would be "wondermus" 8-) Just out of evil curiosity, what are the :~dangers of installing "server applications"? After you have installed server application, you are supposed to configure it too, in order to restrict the possibility of someone comming onto your system trough "back door". Then, from time to time someone WILL find a security-gap in some of these apps, so you have to stay alert and upgrade quickly. This kind of stuff. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Paul wrote: :~Would be handy to have some indication in a .DOC file as to what basic :~packages one can expect in let's say 5 steps of the slider. If this is :~possible, of course. Inpossible, I am afraid. Basically, we would try to keep the same functionality all the way, but on minimal install you would get only KDE + aplications we consider "top importance", while on "full install" you would have all kinds of window managers, ten different editors etc. :~ :~2) Is this option clear enough? :~ :~It is for me. Perhaps an extra checkbox for "Internet apps" would be :~handy, but I assume people that use Linux in general want to climb onto :~the Net. This is top priority - they ALWAYS get installed. (in minimal install you would get like ONE graphic enviroment (KDE for now), ONE editor, ONE e-mail prog, ONE newsreader... Probably netscape on top of it until we can get rid of it once for all. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Authomatic Install
:~ 3) What about the three checkboxes? :~ :~Any particular reason for these 3 specific types of software? Did they cause :~more discussion/trouble? These three are just a proposal. I thought that even complete newbie must have some particular whishes which we should let him express, no matter how simple this particular install class may be. 1) "Games" popped up as one example in my mind. because it is a huge group of packages especially if you have Power Pack, and not everyone really wants them, but those who do really do. .-) 2) Server: because we do not want to include these on default (dangerous), yet I could imagine that having a quickdirty way of installing a server may be fine for some people: move the slider to "minimal install", click on "server apps", let go. Configure server apps in post-install and voila, a new server! 3) Disabled: This is new. I was asked by a blind guy if we could include some programs for blind and for people who have problems with hands. This chategory does not exist yet, but if we introduce it, it will do several "inteligent" things at once: 1) change the way programs are choosen. Obvious things to do would be lowering priority of all the fancy grafical stuff and highering the priority of easy to use programs. Probably also highering the priority of "sound" with respect to "view", too. 2) install additional programs which are ONLY usefull to blind people, like progs which can do something with braile terminals. Obviously, if a blind man has to do install by himself, you want to keep things as simple as possible for him, right(*)? I mean, you do not want to hide this option somewhere in the middle of expert install. So, add a checkbutton to "Authomatic" install and be done with it. I repeat - at the moment, this option exists only in my head, but our general opinion here is "well, if we can help them withouth having to change too much, why not?" - If anyone can think of other checkbuttons which would be better than these, no problem, but keep in mind: - Only a few buttons - Simple terms so that everyone can understand them - default is "no" - Should be something what is REALLY important to one class of people, while considered complete junk by others. - things like "software for tv cards" are going to be installed authomatically if we can recognise the card - no checkboxes needed. cu Denis (*) Blind people are not stupid, but they cannot see, and the install IS visually oriented. I suppose they do not apreciate things like trees, pop-up menues and color-coding at all. Things like "click here" (ooops, where is here?), "upper left side", "red button" and all other visually-oriented stuff do not make any sense if you are blind (unless you have a braille terminal, in which case left-right etc. do make sense.) -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- Newbies aren't necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in experience with this specific OS. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [newbie] upgrading questions
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Michaelthe only differences between the 7.0 and 7.0-2 iso images (the GPL CD or 'disc one' in a boxed set) is in the installation routines, that means the programs whose only job is to actually run the installation process. The end product of that installation, that means the software that is on your hard drive after the installation is complete is exactly the same no matter which iso image (GPL CD or 'disc 1') you used to do the install. Concerning the extra CD's in a boxed set, there will be no difference in a boxed set other than 'disc 1' and I already explained the difference between the two possible 'disc one's' at the beginning of this message. None of the 'extra' CD's in any of the boxed sets have changed. Alan Michael wrote: Paul, Does this mean I can go ahead and install the 3 cd's I got with the cheapo version of "7.0 complete" without worrying that I will "degrade" my current 7.02 install. And does it mean that I can just throw any distro over mandrake and pick and choose as to what I feel are the best of each, rolling it into my own custom version? You writ: My Linux setup is a long history of upgrades. Started with RedHat 5.0, went to RedHat 6.0, dumped Mandrake 6.1 over that, and now I upped it to Mandrake 7.02. All the programs that are not on the distribution CD keep working correctly, I have not had any problem with anything yet. Also setting up the drivers for my AGP videocard (Diamond Speedstar) and the settings in XF86Config were left alone. Paul -- Thanks guys. I'm going to wait for aa non beta 7.1 before upgrading and send this set(complete with docs) to a kid i know down south... -michael-
Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Panasonic CW7585B
Gang- The problem is solved!. I have said goodbye to gatesian controls and eradicated every trace of his influence on my humble system and reinstalled Mandrake on my whole box and even though I lost everything in both during the process, I now am using kmail/fetchmail and have a working cdrom as well as a working cd burner! Thanks for all the support in the interim though. I appreciate it! -michael-
Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels
Hi Paul: The panels i'm referring to are those that pops up when u click for example the CD icon or DrakConf icon. It's like in Windows when u click 'My Computer'. I tried to go to X Res to change the resolution but my X res just does not work the resolutions selection panel does not pop up. Someone was saying that there might be some incompatibility w/ my video card (i have a Compaq PC w/ integrated Trident 3D/MVP4 video card) thust the X Config and X res does not work. edison From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:54:09 +0200 (CEST) On Mon, 29 May 2000, Edison Gica wrote: How can you resize the panels. The panels on my screen are large that I can view the buttons at the bottom even if I move it up I just can't see it. thanks all. edison 'scuse my ignorance, but what "panels" do you mean? Paul )0(---)0( Friendship: lying awake over someone else's problems )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Modem problems
Either you don't have your chat script properly set up... you may be VERY close... Or your ISP is using chap/pap authentication and you have not set it up. -JMS -Original Message- From: Edison Gica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem problems I setup my external modem and it was identified by LM however everytime I connect it always gives me "PPP timed out". Thanks for ur help. edison Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] About blackbox window manager
Thanks a lot for your help but I could configure my menus, finally. I just didn't saw that there was a "session.menuFile" entry in the ~/.blackboxrc file. Now, I can have my menu the way I want. But Paul still can't set the window raising as he want to do it (raising a window when he clicks anywhere on it). And I would also be interrested in knowing how to do it. Thanks again Flupke Andy wrote: hey can i know how to configure it. I was able to do it from the blackbox site. What did you have troubles with? - Original Message - From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] About blackbox window manager Hi Paul. I usually use Blackbox. I really like it! But I never figured out how to configure its menus. I didn't find any deep documentation on the official site or anywhere else. I suppose it is just because I didn't search correctly... I'm afraid I couldn't help you much in that matter. But I could install several bb applications (bb-pager, ...) However, I currently use mdk 7.1 hydrogen, and the menu configuration provided with it really fits me! But I'm still wondering how to configure it! If you (or anyone else) can help me, I'd be really glad. TIA Flupke Paul wrote: Hi all, I am toying about a bit with Blackbox. Some things puzzle me, though. Is there someone here that is a bit more proficient with blackbox? Thought I'd ask first, before throwing around a bunch of questions... Paul )0(---)0( What you are when you are not trying is what you really are )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
[newbie] Gnome problem
Just installed Mandrake 7, the second time I booted the machine the Gnome taskbar is missing. Does anyone know how to fix this ? cheers, Scott.
Re: [newbie] Modem
Give us the model of the modem. Most propably is a Win-modem On Tue, 30 May 2000, also sprach: My linux won't see my modem. I've tried linking it to no avail. It's a USR voice/data modem from a year ago. Any thoughts? Thanks. -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
[newbie] Fwd: Guess where I found the Linux Joystick Drivers
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Guess where I found the Linux Joystick Drivers Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 23:34:21 -0700 From: "dpat" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can only find it on Microsofts website!!! No success in finding it on any of the Linux websites!! Go figure! I could really have a lot of fun posting this fact in the Linux newsgroups --- -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux I can only findit on Microsofts website!!! No success in finding it on any of the Linux websites!! Go figure! I could really have a lot of fun posting this fact in the Linux newsgroups
[newbie] Kvoice
I am trying to set up Kvoice. There is no way I can record a message for the answering system. Has anybody set it up?? Any solutions?? -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
Re: [newbie] Why MPEGs are so slow??
Aktion isn't good at decoding mpg. I only use it to read .mov files. You should try the smpeg or mtv packages. HTH Flupke Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Hello! I tried to use aKtion to play my MPEG files, and the speed of playback is ~1fps. What is the reason of it? System: PIII-500, ASUS V3800TVR nVidia based card, XFree 3.3.6 Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Koly
[newbie] Administration Question
I have two users call them 'fred' and 'tom' I need for these two users to be able to share files (usually text). Both users are members of their own groups named for their usernames. How should I go about this? 'fred' may NOT have access to 'tom's files and 'tom' may NOT have access to 'fred's files. I intention is to create a directory named say: /home/shared or similar in which these two users can drop the exchange files. As I remember if I make both of these users members of the same group the each is able to 'see' what the other is doing? or has in her directory. That is not an option in this case.. Suggestions are most welcome. Cheers. John -- -- New Zealand - Home of the Americas Cup --
[newbie] Install DOS 6.2 Windows98 and Linux-Mandrake 7.0 in same HD
Hello! The installation manuals do not say anything about the "cylinder 1024" problem. This is the /boot or /root have to be installed within the 1024th cylinder. I have Windows 98, DOS 6.2 and Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Air Version in my 13GB Quantum Fireball HD. First time I tried to install Mandrake Linux in an empty partition (after 9GB Windows partition), I got an error message in LILO installation (because /root is after cylinder 1024) and then I was not able to boot from HD (Linux and Windows). Fortunately there is a "magic" fdisk (DOS) command: fdisk /mbr that restores the MBR, and then I can boot Windows again from HD. Linux only boot from the diskete. I decided then start from the begining, because I do not have Partition Magic. I was not shure if I can use the DiskDrake to make a partition resize without destroying any data (in DOS partition). Do you know that? What I did: 1. I made one DOS FAT16 400MB partition (with dos fdisk) for DOS 6.2 and I installed it there (dos C: disk) 2. I made one DOS FAT16 16MB partition (with dos fdisk), without installing anything there (dos D: disk) 3. I made one FAT32 9GB partition (dos E: disk) (with W98 fdisk), and I installed Windows98 there. 6. I made one FAT16 1.5GB partition to put data to be shared by DOS, Linux and Windows98 After that I have deleted partion D: and make a new one smaller (6MB. I had to make a new one because Windows98 did not boot as disk D: (it has to be as disk E: as installed) The remaining space was for Linux: 7. I made 128MB swap partion 8. I made about 1.5GB for /root Then a got the 1024 error message, and created a partition after the dos D: partition, with 8MB for /boot (within cylinder 1024) Summary of partitions: hda1: DOS C: (400MB) - DOS 6.2 hda5: DOS D: (6MB)- Without data hda9: Linux /boot (8MB) hda6: DOS E: (9GB) - Windows 98 hda7: Linux /swap (128MB) hda8: Linux /root (1.5GB) With above configuration LILO was automatically installed without any questions or errors, and I can boot from HD to Linux or Windows98. If I want to boot to DOS 6.2, I make F8, after boot Windows98 and I choose "old DOS option". Everything seems to work fine, but I am shure that should be a simpler solution for that. There is on error in /hda5 because Linux can not mount it. I think that is a too small partition. Is there any suggestion to make this job simpler? Why Linux-Mandrake installation do not ask if we want to install LILO? It is not good see our MBR destroyed by a faulty LILO installation. If I am shure that DiskDrake can make a partion resise without destroying dos data, I would make the following partition: DOS c: (400MB) Linux /boot (10MB or a little more). Suggestions for the optimal size? Windows 98 D: (9GB) FAT16 E: (1.5GB) Linux /swap (128MB) Linux /root (remaining) I read a lot of installation instructions. None of them shown a map like this: the safest way to make the p+artitions to install linux. Why? Please make your suggestions, but specific suggestions, not general. As newbie is very difficult to me understand some details and make my own choices. [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie]
Well, Windows is unprefferable for me just because it's so unstable and not so powerful. But I'd say Windows 2000 with it's file system makes me glad. It's very powerful, but still resourse-hungry that makes me not glad. And W2000 supports DOS badly... + there are not so much drivers and programs for W2000 and YET LESS drivers for Linux... The most of my hardware is not supported by Mandrake. May be FreeBSD should support it? - Original Message - From: Andrew Scotchmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Since linux is about 10 times more powerful than microshaft how can you expect to un-pack the box and be an expertthere are literally hundreds of books out there and a ton of helpful people here, now all you have to do is become a learned user, read, learn, try, re-install ;) when you mess up and start over. Nice comments Jim and thats the only way to learn. I beleave that in the original message to this thread it was said to make linux as user friendly as it possibly can be. Though I would like some things to be made easier, most of which have been mentioned in the Discussion thread, I do feel that to make it too user friendly would rob Linux of it's unique position and it's marvels. Heck, if it becomes to user friendly with everything done without a thourght being required from the user, why don't we just all jack it in and reinstall Windoze What do you all think out there??? -- Andrew Blackburn England --In the pursuit of knowledge Everyday something is aquired-- (Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching) ICQ 50762100
Re: [newbie] Removing a windows partition
I think that it is safer not to extend a partition. I think you'd better change your FAT into a linux (ext2) partition. This is easily done with fdisk (or cfdisk. This one is a bit more user-friendly). Once this is done, you can make an ext2 filesystem on it (with mke2fs) and mount it somewhere in your system. IE : If you need place for personnal files, you could mount it in your /home directory or something like that. If you don't know how to proceed to transfer your /home (or any other part of your linux filesystem) to your new partition, the Harddisk-upgrade-HOWTO (or mini-HOWTO. I can't remember) should give you some good hints. If you are still lost with it, scream for help on the list. (Or browse the list archive. This has already been answered) HTH Flupke Eric Mings wrote: I originally setup my disk with both linux and a windows partition. I am no longer using windows on this machine and would like to remove the partition without risk of damaging my linux data. Ideally I would like to be able to expand one of my linux partitions to take advantage of the new space, however making a new linux partition would be an acceptable option as well. How can I do this without the possibility of damaging my linux system data? Thanks. Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.
[newbie] LILO boot time
Hi again, I have got Linux installed on hda1 after ditching Windoze a couple of months ago now. When at the lilo prompt I have to wait 5 seconds for it to boot the kernal or press enter for instant booting. I know it is petty but how can I configure lilo to boot Linux instantly with out the prompt. I have looked into /etc/lilo.config and messed about with the timeout option but it has no effect. Therefore the waiting time command must be within another file but where? As I said it is a petty issue but it has become a bit of an obsession with me now. -- Andrew Blackburn England --In the pursuit of knowledge Everyday something is aquired-- (Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching) ICQ 50762100
Re: [newbie] Setting lilo to dual boot 98 from seperate drive???
Aaron wrote: Linux is on the primary disc (hda) and win98 is on the secondary disc (hdb). I tried adding it to lilo but when I choose win98 at boot it doesn't do anything. Do I have to do anything to win98 to make this work? What do I need to do? Thanks, Aaron Could you post your /etc/lilo.conf file and describe what exactly happens when you try to boot zinblows? (or maybe you will be able to solve the problem by yourself if you read the man lilo.conf) Flupke
Re: [newbie] Why MPEGs are so slow??
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: Hello! I tried to use aKtion to play my MPEG files, and the speed of playback is ~1fps. What is the reason of it? System: PIII-500, ASUS V3800TVR nVidia based card, XFree 3.3.6 Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Koly Sorry no suggestions but when I use aKtion to play Mp3's the speed is fiine though the sound is very wobbly. Cue Handels "Water Music" I think 8^) -- Andrew Blackburn England --In the pursuit of knowledge Everyday something is aquired-- (Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching) ICQ 50762100
Re: [newbie] high security server and ftp and telnet
rharvey wrote: I setup a linux box with the server choice and high security. I finally found the place to turn on the web service. http web services are running now. The ftp seems to be installed. all the info I have found says its all set up but I can't ftp into the server. I need ftp to upload my web pages. I also want telnet. It does not work either. i can ping the server. I can go from the server to other computers thru telnet. First, make sure you have the telnet-server package installed. Then, enable the telnet and ftp servers in /etc/inetd.conf. I think you just should uncomment the lines corresponding to the servers. After you have done that, I think that it should be ok. But if you care about security, I think you'd better forget about telnet and install ssh instead. Is it the security level? maybe the servers are not enabled with the high-security level (this would not be surprizing. And even rather normal. telnet is NOT secure!!!) do i need to re-install and set the secutity level down? Even if you decide to change the security level, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REINSTALL LINUX! In fact, in theory, YOU NEVER HAVE TO REINSTALL LINUX Everybody should be aware of that. I see too often people saying "It didn't work so I reinstalled". Sorry, but that is NOT the solution. We are here in a unix environnement. Forget about the BAD BAD EVIL habits you had with Mikr0$oft. (sorry for the shouting, but I really want to focus everybody's attention about this point) The security levels are handled by the msec package. Read the files in /usr/doc/msecversion/ for details about security levels and how to change it. How do I get access to the services.. ( I do not have the gui auto loading. i can startx but i can't get any of the gui's to run..kde...gnome..ect...) To access a graphical login from a root command prompt, type "init 5". To automatically load the GUI login screen at startup, change the line id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: in your /etc/inittab file. No window manager comes when you start X because (I think that) they are not installed in the server installation. Install them from the mdk CD. so I guess any info sent on how to fix this will have to be no-gui commands. Not anymore... :-) thanks in advance Robert HTH Flupke
Re: [newbie] Removing a windows partition
Denis Would not how and from where Eric boots his Linux partition make a difference in the procedures he should use to delete his Windows partition and re-allocate his Linux patitions? ( I don't know so I am also asking.) Charles 5/31/2000 8:40am - Original Message - From: "Denis HAVLIK" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 3:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Removing a windows partition :~I originally setup my disk with both linux and a windows partition. I am :~no longer using windows on this machine and would like to remove the :~partition without risk of damaging my linux data. Ideally I would like to :~be able to expand one of my linux partitions to take advantage of the new :~space, however making a new linux partition would be an acceptable option :~as well. How can I do this without the possibility of damaging my linux :~system data? Thanks. 1) change partition type, format it (diskdrake) 2) bind it into system as /mnt/new (or such) 3) move the data from some existing partition there (/home/ sounds fine, but your mileage may vary) 4) remove old /home, edit /etc/fstab so that your new partition gets mounted on right place and either reboot or just remount the partition to where it should be. voila Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy
[newbie] Test
Test -- Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, U|Force - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Way Better Documentation
I think there has to be better documentation on the file structure of Linux. I come from a Windows AND MacOS background and both of these systems are fairly intuitive in terms of how to save files to certain drives. Linux documentation isn't as intuitive. RayWinbush
Re: McMillan monopoly [was [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.]
:~Hi Denis :~ I thank heavens that I live in Finland and still have a choice from whom I :~can buy Mandrake-Linux! I am not so sure. I think McMillan is not allowed to mess around in Europa anymore .-) But it will be basically the same package now AFAIK. cheers Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy
RE: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S. :~It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did :~with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market 7.1 as 7.5!! Their :~excuse was that more people will purchase an upgrade sequenced :~by .5 than would have bought it sequenced if sequenced by only :~.1. Sheesh!! AFAIK this is not allowed by our new contract. And there will be only one pack in english-speaking countries - from McMillan. ...and this was a decision that was met with ease by both parties. I sense some definite hostility towards Macmillan on this thread. I'd like to publicly say it is a very successful and positive partnership between the two companies. Thanks, BG
