[newbie] New Install LILO Problems
I just downloaded the new 7.1 and installed on my computer on the second hard drive. I'm running: Shuttle MB w/Celeron 500 128MB RAM IDE/33 1 - 6GB IDE 1 - 8GB IDE Voodo3 2000 AGP 5X DVD ATAPI ZIP Ensoniq Audio PCI I configured a 5GB partition as the Linux partition in the first slot of the second drive. Then I configured a 256MB Linux Swap. I'm also running System Commander 2000 as a boot manager. I installed 7.1 in expert mode and installed it to the first partition on the second hard drive. I set the LILO to boot from that partition. I also tried to do the same install only usiong GRUB in the same configuration. When I boot up into System Commander and choose the mandrake Linux to boot I get the first letter of LILO L then a constant stream of 01space01space and it just continues. I have to reset the machine to get out of it. Anyone have any idea what is happening. I'm assuming it is a bad LILO install, but I reinstalled three times. Please Help... Thanks, Greg DeYoung __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
[newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo
hi everyone, i recently bought (macmillan) mandrake 7.0 deluxe and am having trouble with the install, mostly getting lilo to work. i have 2 drives in my machine with windows 2000 professional on a 20gig, and a master-slaved 6gig i want to run mandrake on. i start the install by booting off the cd, setup my linux partitions automatically and go through the rest of the install ok. i install lilo to the mbr and configure X and it tells me to restart. i remove the boot disk and cdrom, restart, and all i get are "cascading" 1's and 0's...i power down, start up with the boot disk i made and lilo gives me *no* option for my windows partition that sits on the other hard drive. i get into linux/kde with the floppy boot disk and add the win partition to lilo in drakconf and try rebooting without the bootdisk and i get 1's and 0's again. if i start with the bootdisk i'm ok, but i cannot choose to boot into windows 2000. at this point i got a little freaked out and had to overwrite my mbr to get access to windows again, and have been hesitant to go any further with mandrake since i've got 10 gigs of critical data on my windows 2000 drive/partition that i must be able to acesss at all times for work. my system specs are 300mhz AMD, 128 ram, 3dfx voodoo 2000, and on-board crystal pnp sound. i should also note that i have norton antivirus2000 installed on windows, and i'm wondering if maybe that is keeping lilo from writing itself to the mbr? i am a former suse user and am new to mandrake/red hat, so any help with this would be greatly appreciated! really looking forward to going back to linux after a 6 month hiatus...many thanks! best regards, lance
Re: [newbie] It's out!!!!!!!! (7.1)
You could probably get it faster may snail mail... :-) MarkP michael wrote: On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, you wrote: I wonder if existing users of Linux Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack that purchased the package recently will receive a free update CD? I wonder how long it would take to download it on a 26k connection? -- -michael- --- Season your admiration for a while. Hamlet ---
Re: [newbie] Scanner
I hope you guys could make an easier way to set up scanners and CD burners... THANKS!!! MarkP I still would like to get a L-M hat. Marketing Marketing Be very happy to pay for it. MarkP Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~I want to buy a scanner. :~I am open to suggestions. :~I am talking about a scanner that WORKS with Linux. In short: SCSI-models are generally a better idea than Paralell-port or USB-ones. Details can be found here: http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html cu Denis
Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1 with no manuals
Romanator wrote: Hi, I don't how much different the manuals are for V7.1 PP, but I purchased the Power Pack in Canada for about $65.00 (tax not included). We have to pay 15% tax in Ontario. What would be the best outlet for purchasing Version 7.1? If I upgrade to Version 7.1, does that mean that my 100 days free email support will no longer be valid? If you want support, wait for the Macmillan Version Otherwise get the cheapie CD's from the places I listed in another message.. I just got Sam's Teach Yourself Linux-Mandrake, covers 7.0 but is good. MarkP
Re: [newbie] New Modem Issue
DISREGARD THIS MESSAGE EVERYONE THANK YOU! SORRY - Original Message - From: "Marc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:35 PM Subject: [newbie] New Modem Issue | Hi all. I think the number one thing I have seen on this lists is modem use. | Here is another one. I use Kppp Dial in KDE. I went out and bought a new | modem and it does not work or seem not to work. I use pap authentication. I | have a pci Supra Max 56k V.90. It is on com3. It always says either "modem | will not respond" or "modem is busy". What should I do? I will look for | linux modem drivers for it tonight. Thanks alot to all the people that help | me with this problem. | | | _ | NetZero - Defenders of the Free World | Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email | http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html | | _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [newbie] Screen saver
When you did the intial install did you install the package??? On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, also sprach: Hello list, The users on my box can no longer access their screen saver options in KDE. The only significant thing I have done recently is switch from runlevel 3 to runlevel 5. The other Desktop options are still available. Any ideas? -- Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm) -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
Re: [newbie] New Install LILO Problems
If you have the boot utility disk (you should have made it installing system commander ) just boot from the floppy. This will tell SC the computer's new configuration and SC will be reset. This way you will see if there is any problem with LILO or GRUB and if the partitions are bootable. On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, also sprach: I just downloaded the new 7.1 and installed on my computer on the second hard drive. I'm running:Shuttle MB w/Celeron 500 128MB RAM IDE/33 1 - 6GB IDE 1 - 8GB IDE Voodo3 2000 AGP 5X DVD ATAPI ZIP Ensoniq Audio PCI I configured a 5GB partition as the Linux partition in the first slot of the second drive. Then I configured a 256MB Linux Swap. I'm also running System Commander 2000 as a boot manager. I installed 7.1 in expert mode and installed it to the first partition on the second hard drive. I set the LILO to boot from that partition. I also tried to do the same install only usiong GRUB in the same configuration. When I boot up into System Commander and choose the mandrake Linux to boot I get the first letter of LILO L then a constant stream of 01space01space and it just continues. I have to reset the machine to get out of it. Anyone have any idea what is happening. I'm assuming it is a bad LILO install, but I reinstalled three times. Please Help... Thanks, Greg DeYoung __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
[newbie] NIS
When I boot I see a message Binding to NIS domain failed What is this. My box still work OK!!! What was that with the L_M hats. Can we buy them -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
Re: [newbie] 7.1/XF86Setup problem...
I really don't want to have to sit through another reinstall tonight. I have a perfectly operational command line environment. If I new which package contained the file that has the error, I'd promptly download and install it over what's there now. I've already downloaded XF86Setup, VGA16, SVGA, and Server-common from tux.org and RPM -Uvh --force'd them. Anthony Huereca wrote: I have a Diamond V550, and it works just fine for me. I installed from scratch like you did, and even selected the same exact resolution and color depth. I had originally started out with X 4.0; but I did something with it and now I boot to X 3.3.6 (although I'm trying to get back to X 4.0). But 3.3.6 still works just fine. I'm not sure what went wrong with X in your case. Maybe it was a freak accident or something and reinstalling will magically work now. I can supply an exact duplication of the error if needed, but I jotted down the gist of it before rebooting to winderz. Installing 7.1 did not bring up XF86 in the 1024x768x32 resolution I asked for. It was maybe 800x600 (though more likely 640x480). Ctrl-Alt-+ didn't fix this, it increased the virtual area instead. I went to fire up XF86Setup and got a segfault. The error was along these lines... Something missing from a "SERVER" (the error made server all caps) section and then three video chipsets and some line numbers were listed... ... Trident TGUI 9660 (generic) (line 2513) Trident TGUI 9680 (generic) (line 2519) Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2537) SSegmentation fault (Core dumped) Originally, this was a Mandrake 7.0 being upgraded, but after an hour futzing with that, I just moved everything to a "/backup" partition and installed 7.1 from scratch. The results of all this work? Segmentation fault (Core dumped). The video card is a Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT chipset, 16MB, AGP). My system is a K6-2/500 with 192MB. I had no problems at all with this card in 6.1 or 7.0 (using the Riva 128 chipset selection since there was no Riva TNT and still isn't AFAIK). -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. -- Digital Wokan Tribal mage of the electronics age Guerilla Linux Warrior
[newbie]Modem Setup
Hello Everyone, By way of introduction, my name is Murray and I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 (boy, do I ever feel out of date!) about a week ago. I specifically replaced my old WinModem with a proper modem for this install, but now I can't seem to get it up and running. The (new) modem is a 3Com, US Robotics Internal Fax/Modem, model #5687. It's an ISA Plug'n'Pray (the praying doesn't seem to be helping, though). System specs: Hewlett-Packard 6330. Windows 98 on first HD, Linux on a 26GB Quantum Fireball drive on the secondary master. 94MB of RAM. The modem is on COM2, and according to the Win98 Control Panel it has an Input/Output Range of 02F8-02FF and Interrupt Request 03. I was using the tutorial on setting up PnP devices at the Beginners Linux Guide http://www.linux.ie/beginners-linux-guide/plug-and-play.html; I tried following their directions, but I'm not having any luck. On bootup I get a message reading something close to: "Setting up Plug and Play Devices--Error parsing file, do not know what to do with Input value 02f8 on or about line 274. Failed." Maybe I'm reading the tutorial wrong? In any case, could anyone tell me how to set this up? Also, where do I find a driver for it? Thanks in advance for any help at all! Murray
Re: [newbie] 7.1/XF86Setup problem...
Hmmm, I just tried XF86Setup on my machine, and it segfaulted too.
Xconfigurator works fine though, try that.
I really don't want to have to sit through another reinstall tonight. I
have a perfectly operational command line environment. If I new which
package contained the file that has the error, I'd promptly download and
install it over what's there now.
I've already downloaded XF86Setup, VGA16, SVGA, and Server-common from
tux.org and RPM -Uvh --force'd them.
Anthony Huereca wrote:
I have a Diamond V550, and it works just fine for me. I installed from scratch
like you did, and even selected the same exact resolution and color depth. I
had originally started out with X 4.0; but I did something with it and now I
boot to X 3.3.6 (although I'm trying to get back to X 4.0). But 3.3.6 still
works just fine. I'm not sure what went wrong with X in your case. Maybe it was
a freak accident or something and reinstalling will magically work now.
I can supply an exact duplication of the error if needed, but I jotted
down the gist of it before rebooting to winderz.
Installing 7.1 did not bring up XF86 in the 1024x768x32 resolution I
asked for. It was maybe 800x600 (though more likely 640x480).
Ctrl-Alt-+ didn't fix this, it increased the virtual area instead.
I went to fire up XF86Setup and got a segfault.
The error was along these lines...
Something missing from a "SERVER" (the error made server all caps)
section and then three video chipsets and some line numbers were
listed...
... Trident TGUI 9660 (generic) (line 2513)
Trident TGUI 9680 (generic) (line 2519)
Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2537)
SSegmentation fault (Core dumped)
Originally, this was a Mandrake 7.0 being upgraded, but after an hour
futzing with that, I just moved everything to a "/backup" partition and
installed 7.1 from scratch. The results of all this work? Segmentation
fault (Core dumped).
The video card is a Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT chipset, 16MB, AGP).
My system is a K6-2/500 with 192MB. I had no problems at all with this
card in 6.1 or 7.0 (using the Riva 128 chipset selection since there was
no Riva TNT and still isn't AFAIK).
--
Digital Wokan
Tribal mage of the electronics age
Guerilla Linux Warrior
--
Anthony Huereca
http://m3000.1wh.com
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
--
Digital Wokan
Tribal mage of the electronics age
Guerilla Linux Warrior
--
Anthony Huereca
http://m3000.1wh.com
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
[newbie] 9 hour upgrade!!
hello people, i just upgraded mandrake 7.0 to 7.1 and it took me 9 hours (computer doing all the processing) and i have to ask what happen why did it take so long? i've installed/upgraded different version of linux all the way back from redhat5.1 - 6.2 and a few mandrake versions. it never even came close to this long, 30-75 min's tops can anyone give me any idea why it took this long?
Re: [newbie] 9 hour upgrade!!
Did it install OK? It's definitly abnormal; it only took me about 45 minutes (and part of the problem was I picked the slowest server in the universe to download the crypt packages from) to install. hello people, i just upgraded mandrake 7.0 to 7.1 and it took me 9 hours (computer doing all the processing) and i have to ask what happen why did it take so long? i've installed/upgraded different version of linux all the way back from redhat5.1 - 6.2 and a few mandrake versions. it never even came close to this long, 30-75 min's tops can anyone give me any idea why it took this long? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] 7.1/XF86Setup problem...
Well, if you read headers, you can see that I'm writing this from Netscape 4.73 in Linux. It did require XConfigurator, but I still had to find those errors I mentioned for it to work. It seems MandrakeSoft put the SERVER directive _after_ the DRIVER directive in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards+ for the TGUI9660 and TGUI9680. And then to top that they didn't even list a SERVER directive for the Trident Cyber 9320. Once I moved/added the SERVER directives, XF86Setup no longer gave me those errors, but it did still segfault. XConfigurator did get things going though. (Oh, xf86config also errored and segfaulted before the editing and I didn't try it again afterward.) Perhaps I should try getting the source for XF86Setup and rebuilding it myself. I really prefer it for getting everything configured in the order I choose, instead of getting hearded down text menus. Anthony Huereca wrote: Hmmm, I just tried XF86Setup on my machine, and it segfaulted too. Xconfigurator works fine though, try that. I really don't want to have to sit through another reinstall tonight. I have a perfectly operational command line environment. If I new which package contained the file that has the error, I'd promptly download and install it over what's there now. I've already downloaded XF86Setup, VGA16, SVGA, and Server-common from tux.org and RPM -Uvh --force'd them. Anthony Huereca wrote: I have a Diamond V550, and it works just fine for me. I installed from scratch like you did, and even selected the same exact resolution and color depth. I had originally started out with X 4.0; but I did something with it and now I boot to X 3.3.6 (although I'm trying to get back to X 4.0). But 3.3.6 still works just fine. I'm not sure what went wrong with X in your case. Maybe it was a freak accident or something and reinstalling will magically work now. I can supply an exact duplication of the error if needed, but I jotted down the gist of it before rebooting to winderz. Installing 7.1 did not bring up XF86 in the 1024x768x32 resolution I asked for. It was maybe 800x600 (though more likely 640x480). Ctrl-Alt-+ didn't fix this, it increased the virtual area instead. I went to fire up XF86Setup and got a segfault. The error was along these lines... Something missing from a "SERVER" (the error made server all caps) section and then three video chipsets and some line numbers were listed... ... Trident TGUI 9660 (generic) (line 2513) Trident TGUI 9680 (generic) (line 2519) Trident Cyber 9320 (generic) (line 2537) SSegmentation fault (Core dumped) Originally, this was a Mandrake 7.0 being upgraded, but after an hour futzing with that, I just moved everything to a "/backup" partition and installed 7.1 from scratch. The results of all this work? Segmentation fault (Core dumped). The video card is a Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT chipset, 16MB, AGP). My system is a K6-2/500 with 192MB. I had no problems at all with this card in 6.1 or 7.0 (using the Riva 128 chipset selection since there was no Riva TNT and still isn't AFAIK).
Re: [newbie]Modem Setup
Murray, I hate to sound like a dirty cd but did you try disabling com2 in the BIOS? 2f8 +irq3=com2. -michael-
