[newbie] Freewwweb Error

[Marc]

I know some people on this list are on freewwweb. That is what I am trying
to use. It has been about roughly 7 hours since I went to the site and
signed up. I put freewwweb.com for the name server. Is that right? I also
use 216.70.64.1 and 216.70.64.2 as my dns servers provided by freewwweb.
When I run kppp in kde I get the dialing out,the sounds but, then I get
"Error The pppd daemon died unexpectedly!" Then is give me a guess for the
reason and that is cause I have the wrong username and password. I know I
have the right account cause I made it not but, 7 hours ago. Can anyone help
me? Thank you


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[newbie] lilo troubles again (sorry!)

[root]

i'd like to thank dave & charles & the folks that offered help my lilo/
win2000 problem. unfortunately, i'm still having trouble with it :(

i installed the latest lilo build and went into linuxconf and told lilo to use
the linear option (which supposedley takes care of reading larger hard discs
like mine - a 20gig with win2000), I reboot and get the 1's and 0's...i then
edit my /etc/lilo.conf file by adding the lba32 line before my win2000 drive
entry, saved, restarted, and 1's and 0's again. I have tried installing lilo to
the mbr, to the root dir, and to hda1 where my win2000 partition sits on the
1st hdd without any luck; when i run /sbin/lilo in a term it gives the
following output:

Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added linux
Added windows
Added floppy

so that's it...does anybody have the slightest idea as to why this is not
working? my win2000 part is FAT32, and not NTFS! i've done 4 linux installs on
4 different  win95-98 machines without any problems and cant figure this one
out. please, for the love of god somebody help!

p.s. i know there is a NHF at linuxnewbie.org for this, but if there's any way
i can get through this without adding another partition on my win2000 drive
for lilo, it'd be great (if no, then ah wellhell with it - boot with the
floppy :(

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?]]

[Digital Wokan]

I'm in the Phoenix area, so what you mean by trading eludes me.

Jaguar wrote:
> 
> Well since I am waiting to get on Disability (hence NOT working), the
> highlight of my day is going for coffee at a local coffee shopwanna
> trade?
> Jaguar
> 
> Tymanthius Rune Speak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Digital Wokan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the
> > money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the
> > return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn
> > .iso's to CD-R for a few people.  I might do 1 or 2 per week like that,
> > but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot.
> >
> > I've got a faster burner (6x scsi) and could do the same.  Email me
> privately
> > and we'll see, but I don't promise to be fast - you may well be
> > better off going to cheap bytes.  To say my life is hectic is an
> > understatement (I'll trade anyone who has aboring one!!).

[newbie] pop3 server software under mandrake 7.0

[Everette]

Hello
A few months ago I installed mandrake 6.1 and I've been playing around
with it.
I installed a pop3 server software called qpopper and it worked great.
Well I just installed mandrake 7.0 a compleate install overwrighting
6.1.
Then I reinstalled qpopper but now it want work.
qpopper seems to be working I can log onto it but it just says no new
messages on server.
So I tryed a few other pop3 server software and get the thing.
Can someone please tell me what to do?

Thanks

RE: [newbie] worthless software innd

[Jose M. Sanchez]

In order to set up a news server, you need to obtain a NEWS feed.

This is far different than setting up a NEWS reader (which I'll bet is what
you probably want.).

Most news feeds will COST you big $$$ unless you have a friend who works in
a feeder site...

You can use programs such as SUCK to pull down a group or groups from a nntp
site however. Think carefully before you do this though.

You might want to just use PAN to grab all the new messages in a specific
group. Even then, expect your hard drive to fill after a few days.

If you -REALLY- want to set up a news server and have obtained a feed, then
given that you've spent this much, you might want to invest in one of the
O'Reilly books on News and NNTP.

-JMS


-Original Message-
From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 12:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] worthless software innd


I wonder why innd does not work,
I installed it and I can't get one, not even
ONE group on my news group server,
totally useless, can't find jack on
mandrakeuser.org can't find
jack ina yany faq anwwyawhere

Re: [newbie] Any one selling Linux Mandrake 7.1 CD in Toronto

[Mark Potochnik]

Did you have any problems loading 7.0?

If not I don't think you will have any problems this time

The rest of the disks will work with the installation disks on 7.1

MarkP

>Romanator wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Oh no. I just shelled out about $75 CDN last month, for Version 7.0
> Power Pack, including tax and shipping. And, to find out that one month
> later the upgrade to Version 7.1 is released! That is not fair. They
> could have included a voucher for a free update or upgrade.
> I work for a software company, and the general policy is: If a
> registered user can prove that they purchased their software in the last
> 60 days, gets a free update. It's only fair.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out to me.
>
> Roman
>
>

[newbie] startup help

[KompuKit]

In linuxconf, I've selected sendmail to start up everytime...
on reboot, or re-start...
however, everytime I test it...it fails to do so,  WHY?

Before logging off...and restarting...I first must 
select it inside linuxconf...in order for sendmail  
to startonce selecting it the first time,
shouldn't it STAY selected...like the others I have?
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Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?]]

[Jaguar]

Well since I am waiting to get on Disability (hence NOT working), the
highlight of my day is going for coffee at a local coffee shopwanna
trade?
Jaguar

Tymanthius Rune Speak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Digital Wokan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the
> money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the
> return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn
> .iso's to CD-R for a few people.  I might do 1 or 2 per week like that,
> but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot.
> 
> I've got a faster burner (6x scsi) and could do the same.  Email me
privately
> and we'll see, but I don't promise to be fast - you may well be
> better off going to cheap bytes.  To say my life is hectic is an
> understatement (I'll trade anyone who has aboring one!!).
> 
> 
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Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

[Fran Parker]

Actually I am running it in the original KDE that came with
Mandrake 7.0 (Air) version 1.1.2-30mdk...I only had to update
QT2 to QT2.1.1  and use the tar.gz instead of the RPM.

It integrates differently with KDE 2.0 but I can't say how.
(But that is basically what the web site said)

Hope that helps some.

Bambi


"Ralph F. De Witt" wrote:

> The 2.0.0 version of Kvirc is designed to work with KDE 2.0 only.
>
> Ralph
>
> Alex V Flinsch, on Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > > Did you use the i386.rpm of it? or source?
> > > May want to try an earlier version I am using 1.0 Millenium version
> > > That works well, except misc options.
> > > Bambi
> > > PS  I will go to KVirc and see if I can get it and install it.
> > > However, it wouldn't be conclusive since I am using 7.0 (Air).
> > > Sorry.
> > >
> > > Digital Wokan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Actually, I just tried installing KVirc 2.0.0 from the KVirc official
> > > > site and it core dumped immediately under Mandrake 7.1.  Perhaps I
> > > > should look at the Extension CD, but it looks like MandrakeSoft may have
> > > > left KVirc in the dust.  In fact, I haven't seen anything but console
> > > > IRC clients on the Install CD.
> > > >
> >
> >
> > the 0.9.0 version from the 6.0 distro works just fine under 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, and
> > a partial 7.1 upgraded system (kernel and very few other things only)
> >
> >
> >  --
> > Alex
> > (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

[newbie]

[spso]

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Re: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list?(Final from Bob)

[Bob]

It is still my opinion, that if you wish to express your appreciation you
should address the "Thank You" to the individual whom assisted you in
solving the problem. I nor anyone else has any idea what is contained
beneath a subject line. Dennis's post is excellent. I started this and now
close the issue. At least I will not answer nor contribute any more to this
subject. 
Bill Clinton needs to work on his diplomatic skills.

Bob Root
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> I think Bascule needs to loosen up. Although you had a point to make, it was 
> much too long, especially being so OT. You originally annoyed  maybe a few, 
> maybe even just one. But how many have you annoyed now? More than a few I'd 
> say. You should have used the KISS method, or took the discussion OFF the 
> list. But Bob was nit picking, and Bob needs to work on his diplomatic 
> skills. He should have just said something like, "please include the message 
> you're responding to so that we know the whole story". This is especailly 
> germane right now because the list has been slow the past several weeks, and 
> it's harder than usual to follow threads. Overall it was a non-issue, IMHO.
> 
> -=Tom Wang=-
> 
> -
> Pentium 100 MHz = the new speed limit!
> OS2 Warp is out now!
> Why wait for Windows 95???
> 
> 
> Bob Root wrote:
> 
> >Why do I think that the message below has anything to do with me, and >how 
> >many others have wondered the same thing. It would be appreciated >if 
> >people
> >could consider if what they are replying to has meaning to everyone >on the 
> >list.  Thank you.
> 
> 
> >Bob Root
> 
> 
> 
> >>On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> >>thanks flupke
> >>
> >>bascule
> 
> 
> bascule wrote:
> 
> 
> >regarding 'run-on sentences' and the implicit assumption of courtesy,
> >
> >the minor flame fest that briefly sputtered upon my publicly thanking a
> >contributor to this list surprised me, true, i did not quote any of the
> >pleasing previous answer since no quote was necessary, it was a thankyou
> >after all. as for courtesy being implied, well that's a nice idea but
> >(and here i digress but i'm sure that readers will be tolerant) the
> >reason i teach my child politeness is not -and i have explained this to
> >her- because the individual rules or words involved are particularly
> >meaningful, but rather, that the effort to follow them ensures thought
> >takes place concerning ones actions and speech, i hardly need point out
> >what can happen in the world when actions and speech are not preceded by
> >thought (though of course mere thoughtfulness is not always enough), to
> >return, perhaps i have thoughtlessly broached some rule of the list that
> >i am unaware of, if so then i humbly apologise, as a newbie in general
> >terms as well as linux in particular i would welcome any polite
> >instruction on the matter.
> >
> >however, surely if every message posted were to fully quote the previous
> >than any thread of great length becomes a serious download for plain old
> >56k users like me.  clearly most people choose what to quote and how
> >much, this is presumably done on the need for clear communication and
> >can sometimes take into account the intended recipient. as i attempted
> >to point out in the other thread on this list, not all conversations are
> >intelligible if one enters in the middle, i for one delete messages that
> >i can not respond to and do not hold info i need, therefore i often read
> >missives that hold little meaning for me, this has yet to annoy me.
> >
> >the (relatively) anonymous mailing list has strong psychological
> >differences to a conversation 'in the flesh', anger is more quickly
> >aroused and more quickly returned, i strive to avoid this and, i like to
> >hope, usually succeed. of course, no-one is perfect and perhaps this
> >post is evidence of that, it's certainly not very linux related, but
> >linux is a part of life and i like my life happy and wish the same
> for
> >all, (almost a non sequitur but not quite).
> >
> >for readers who wonder what this post is about, i apologise again, the
> >truth is, i feel slighted by a previous post(s) and i'm not exactly sure
> >why, this epistle is the result.
> >
> >feel free to burn effigies of me if you have been annoyed by this, i am
> >5'8 in old money, chubby, a tad plain and i have long hair if that
> >helps.
> >
> >bascule
> 
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Re: [newbie] Wine problems

[Fran Parker]

Kevin,

See my new message in this thread on KVIrc 2.
Great news.

Don't be alarmed when it takes some time...and I do mean
some time...to do the make kvirc...it is supposed to do this.
It has a lot to build.

Have fun.

Bambi


Fran Parker wrote:

> hi Kevin,
>
> I am not a Wine expert..infact I am still trying to get dosemu to work on
> my ATI All in Wonder Card in VGA mode.
>
> Two things though.
>
> user.dat is a system file for windows, everyone has them.  I think it is
> looking for it in the wrong place, mine is located on my c drive on the
> windows partition:  dos_c/windows/user.dat
>
> You can locate yours within kde with find by searching the root for user.dat
>
> Then you can modify the config file for wine to represent where yours is.
>
> Second, if you like mIRC, you might want to take a look at KVirc.  I love
> mIRC, and KVirc is a very close version of irc for linux.  I really like it.
> http://www.kvirc.org
>
> Hope these suggestions help out.
>
> Bambi
>
> kevin wrote:
>
> > Hi gang.
> >
> > I have been using mandrake a few weeks nows, and so far I have got everything to
> > work well, apart from wine. I d/loaded  rpm version 2526 and installed
> > it.After I changed the wine.conf,  I run wine, and I get the following error.
> >
> > Invalid path c:\windows\Profiles\adminustrator for profile directory
> > cant find users.dat
> >
> > I looked though windoz and I dont seem to have those anyway. I am  huge fan of
> > mIRC, and that is the prime reason I wish to to wine. I loaded mIRC up, and it
> > gave me a bunch of error messages. Too many to post on the ML
> >
> > I was wondering if there are any wine experts out there, and can help me in
> > private?
> >
> > Many thanx
> >
> > Kev

Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

[Fran Parker]

OK...the new KVIrc version 2 is awesome!

Now how did I get it to run, you may ask.  I had the same
problems everyone else had when I tried to install the rpm.

Well, I went and got the QT2.1.1 and upgraded my existing
QT2.

Then I got the RPM and using gnorpm I installed it.

Same problem as everyone elsedoesn't work.

I Checked the configure and it showed the QT2 directories
in the wrong place I corrected it in hopes it would re-read
it the next load and then run.  No go.

I uninstalled  the rpm and went back to the site and got the
tar.gz instead...since pathing was the problem I hoped I could
temporarily set my QTDIR and create a version specific to
my machines configuration.  It worked!  And it is awesome.
I am online in KVIrc 2 as we speak!

Maybe this will work for the rest of you as well.

Read the instructions for the installation of the tar.gz on the
web site ...that really helped alot.  Although I am using Bash
and I set the QTDIR slightly differently then they suggested.

Have fun,
Bambi


Digital Wokan wrote:

> Actually, I just tried installing KVirc 2.0.0 from the KVirc official
> site and it core dumped immediately under Mandrake 7.1.  Perhaps I
> should look at the Extension CD, but it looks like MandrakeSoft may have
> left KVirc in the dust.  In fact, I haven't seen anything but console
> IRC clients on the Install CD.
>
> Fran Parker wrote:
> >
> > hi Kevin,
> >
> > I am not a Wine expert..infact I am still trying to get dosemu to work on
> > my ATI All in Wonder Card in VGA mode.
> >
> > Two things though.
> >
> > user.dat is a system file for windows, everyone has them.  I think it is
> > looking for it in the wrong place, mine is located on my c drive on the
> > windows partition:  dos_c/windows/user.dat
> >
> > You can locate yours within kde with find by searching the root for user.dat
> >
> > Then you can modify the config file for wine to represent where yours is.
> >
> > Second, if you like mIRC, you might want to take a look at KVirc.  I love
> > mIRC, and KVirc is a very close version of irc for linux.  I really like it.
> > http://www.kvirc.org
> >
> > Hope these suggestions help out.
> >
> > Bambi
> >
> > kevin wrote:
> >
> > > Hi gang.
> > >
> > > I have been using mandrake a few weeks nows, and so far I have got everything to
> > > work well, apart from wine. I d/loaded  rpm version 2526 and installed
> > > it.After I changed the wine.conf,  I run wine, and I get the following error.
> > >
> > > Invalid path c:\windows\Profiles\adminustrator for profile directory
> > > cant find users.dat
> > >
> > > I looked though windoz and I dont seem to have those anyway. I am  huge fan of
> > > mIRC, and that is the prime reason I wish to to wine. I loaded mIRC up, and it
> > > gave me a bunch of error messages. Too many to post on the ML
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there are any wine experts out there, and can help me in
> > > private?
> > >
> > > Many thanx
> > >
> > > Kev

[newbie] Linksys LNE 100tx problems w/ mdk7

[Ajudgeone]

I tried setting up a Linksys LNE100TX NIC on my HP / MDK7 / Win98 machine.  I 
have it up at boot as seen in my dmesg, but when I run ifconfig, eth0 states 
Broadcast and not Up Broadcast.  I can't ping it from my internal network and 
I see the routes are correct.  Mdk7 has the tulip driver already compiled and 
everything I tried seems okay.  The card is set as active in the etherconfig 
and routes are correct in the route tables.  I have checked the scripts and 
they all have the required variables.  I guess the question is how to get the 
broadcast up or what else could be wrong.

My buddy said to buy a supported NIC like a 3COM.  Maybe he's right, but the 
Linksys should work... right?

Re: [newbie] Partition Magic

[Romanator]

Yes. It supports NTFS. Can't wait!

Roman



Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> 
> I don't know.  I only use win98se.  Look at
> powerquest's web site.
> 
> http://www.powerquest.com/usindex.html
> 
> dacia
> 
> --- Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Can you resize NTFS?
> >
> >
> >
> > Romanator wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes. I got both boot and partition magic (windows
> > versions)
> > > when I bought Upgrading and repairing PCs:  Linux
> > > version.  I highly recommend the book and both
> > > programs work great.  The book costs about 60$ USD
> > at
> > > amazon which is about the same as the programs
> > cost.
> > >
> > > "webug :-)" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > is there partition magic for linux ?? where can
> > i get a copy ?
> > > >
> > > > Romanator wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I know. I work for a software application
> > company.
> > > > >
> > > > > Roman
> > > > >
> > > > > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Romanusually the give away deals like
> > this are simply
> > > > > > marketing ploys to give you a taste of the
> > possibilities of
> > > > > > the software in question by giving you a
> > copy of an older or
> > > > > > partially crippled version.  Then after
> > getting a taste of
> > > > > > it's capabilities you'll want to buy or
> > upgrade to the
> > > > > > current, full featured commercial version.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Alan
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Roman Bysh wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It would nice for the PowerQuest people to
> > donate their software.
> > > > > > > However, you can purchase it on line. I
> > found a DOS copy of
> > > > > > > Partition Magic in the back of a book: The
> > Multi-Boot Configuration
> > > > > > > Handbook - from Que.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Roman
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Piero wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > There's a grate talking of Partition
> > Magic around... Do we have it on the MK
> > > > > > > > CDs?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Piero.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > Dr Piero Caracciolo
> > > > > > > > Ecole Normale Superieure
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > ...humani nihil a me alienum puto.>
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Re: [newbie] Any one selling Linux Mandrake 7.1 CD in Toronto

[Romanator]

Hi John,

Oh no. I just shelled out about $75 CDN last month, for Version 7.0
Power Pack, including tax and shipping. And, to find out that one month
later the upgrade to Version 7.1 is released! That is not fair. They
could have included a voucher for a free update or upgrade.
I work for a software company, and the general policy is: If a
registered user can prove that they purchased their software in the last
60 days, gets a free update. It's only fair.

Thanks for pointing this out to me.

Roman


John Arkoulis wrote:
> 
> McMillan will sell the 7.1 pretty soon ( A couple of weeks)
> I have the downloaded version but I would wait for the commercial version.
> More stuff and documentation.
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 4:12 AM
> Subject: [newbie] Any one selling Linux Mandrake 7.1 CD in Toronto
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are there any resellers in Ontario, Canada? I was wondering if I should
> > wait till later in the year, and/or purchase Version 7.1  right away.
> > Will the 7.1 CD be included with any Linux magazine? Or, should I wait?
> > How about it... Any Canadian Linux Users out there that can make CDs for
> > V7.1 for i586?
> >
> > Your thoughts?

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Re: [newbie] OT: free internet

[Anthony Huereca]

Just go here: https://reg.freewwweb.com/cgi-bin/signup.cgi and signup. YOu
don't need to talk to anyone.

> Art,
> The web site says to talk to one of the regional (distributors? I don't 
> remember exactly).  I sent an email to one in Maryland and never got a reply. 
>  Is the sign-up worth the hassle?  I want to check a list of local phone 
> numbers to be sure this is going to be a local call, otherwise it isn't worth 
> doing.  I don't have a good "first impression" though many on this list 
> recommend them and use them.  I'd like to get AOL out of my pocket, too.  
> -Gary-
> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/5/2000 7:41:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> writes:
> 
> << www.freewwweb.com seems to work very well. The home page is very simple and
>  sets up a standard dialer or tells you what to put in your internet settings
>  and mail settings.
>  
>  Art
>   >>
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Re: [Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...]

[Jaguar]

I don't have your original message here...but I think you said you were using
an AMD CPU...I think there was a shutdown problem and a subsequent patch for
itmaybe that is the problem.  (if I am remembering your hardware
correctly)
HTH
Jaguar

"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> 
> > You listed your hardware well, but could you also be more specific about
> > the error message?
> > It is difficult to understand what happens when "something to do with
> > rec.d" is all the info we have.
> > 
> > Thanks for segmenting again,
> > Paul
> > 
> > --
> > I'm not a complete idiot.
> > Some parts are missing.
> > 
> > )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0(
> > http://nlpagan.net -  ICQ 147208
> > Registered  Linux  User   174403
> 
> Hi Paul. Thanks for the reply. Okay. I'll do
> that next message. Just as soon as I shutdown
> and copy that message down.  Its a full
> screen, so be prepared. ;-)
> 
> BTW, I can shutdown and restart, and I do NOT
> get this problem. Odd, eh?


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Re: [newbie] Add Upgrade Icon to Virtual Desktop

[Romanator]

Oh know. What I was recommending was an auto upgrade feature for Linux
Mandrake. I know it's a tall order but it's worth looking into for
future releases. In fact, I don't think that any one has this feature.
Or, at least, I haven't seen it , yet. Are you listening Mandrakesoft?

Roman




Mark Potochnik wrote:
> 
> My KDE screen has an icon that says "Updates"..
> 
> I will overwirte it anyway, because I can now go over 1024 Cyls on my
> HD...
> 
> MarkP
> 
> >Romanator wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would be nice to add an upgrade icon that would allow the user to
> > upgrade their Linux software.
> > For example, if you have Version 7.0 and another Version 7.1 gets
> > released the next month.
> >
> > Hmm...

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Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux

[Edison Gica]

Hi:

I'm not so sure if this will work. I was just asking my friend about 
installing/uninstalling Lilo.

>From what I've learned to install type 'lilo -i' at the prompt and 'lilo -u' 
to uninstall.

don't know though if you can do this w/ the Linux boot disk.

edison


>From: Dacia and AzureRose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux
>Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 12:13:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Well, the problem is that I cannot load linux at all.
>I have an emergency boot/rescue disk that allows me to
>read/write my linux file system but the system has not
>loaded linux from my hard drive in that case.  It is a
>live linux file system loaded from the rescue cdrom to
>RAM.  A ramdisk.
>
>Aparently the MBR has been over written by win98 so I
>need to reinstall LILO but I don't know how to do
>that.  I can't find any descriptions of how to do that
>anywhere and I don't want to re-install because this
>seems like a completely recoverable situation.
>
>
>Dacia
>--- Anthony Huereca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Once you get your Linux file system up, as root,
> > type "lilo".
> >
> > > Hello, I had to re-install windows this evening.
> > I
> > > had been using LILO to choose OS.  Windows is on
> > > primary master (hda), Linux is on primary slave
> > (hdb).
> > >  LILO was set to use hda as the bootable
> > partition.
> > > Anyway, now I cannot reach linux with my boot disk
> > and
> > > partition magic doesn't see a bootable linux
> > partition
> > > either.  I made the classic newbie move here.
> > >
> > > I have full read write access to my linux file
> > system
> > > thanks to a rescue CDrom.  I just need to know
> > which
> > > files to change so that I can get LILO going
> > again.
> > > Does anyone know what those would be?  I'm at a
> > loss.
> > >
> > > I tried changing LILO.conf to point to hdb as the
> > > bootable which didn't work.  I also tried hdb1
> > which
> > > is my /boot partition.  No go.  hdb5 is linux
> > swap,
> > > hdb6 is / and hdb7 is /home.  It seems that the
> > > windows installation proces overwrote the MBR of
> > hdb
> > > because partition magic reports a small extended
> > dos
> > > partition on that drive where there formerly were
> > > none.
> > >
> > >
> > > Its 2:30 am and thats what I know.  Thanks for any
> > > help folks.
> > >
> > >
> > > Dacia
> > >
> > >
> > > __
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints!
> > > http://photos.yahoo.com
> > --
> > Anthony Huereca
> > http://m3000.1wh.com
> > Computers are not intelligent. They only think they
> > are.
> >
>
>
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Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo LinuxMandrake 7.0

[Romanator]

Charles,

I'll check it. Creative products seem to be quite user friendly.

Roman



Charles A Edwards wrote:
> 
> Roman
>Me again!!
>I have a Creative Blaster 8432CDRW and using the recomend mode istall
> both 7.0 and 7.1 recognized and auto mounted it.
>I can for the most part use and access it; and in fact both my hds, all
> partitions except Be, my DVD,and my USB Zip drive (in 7.1) just as easily in
> Linux as I can in Windows. All I have to do is click on the drive or
> partition and I have access and use of it.
>I know this is more of an answer than you wanted but I just wanted to
> give an idea of how well Mandrake installed and works on my system without
> any interference from me at all.
> 
>Charles  :-)
> 
>  - Original Message -
> From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 1:58 AM
> Subject: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo Linux
> Mandrake 7.0
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a CD writer. What would be a good brand that runs well
> > under Linux?
> > My computer is a Dell Dimensions XPSB 733.
> >
> > OS is Linux Mandrake 7.0 PP and WinNT4.
> >
> > Any help recommendations would be considered.
> >
> > Roman

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Re: [newbie] Doom question...

[Fran Parker]

No worries :)

Bambi

Digital Wokan wrote:

> My apologies.  I didn't see the PS.  Maybe I should hide the
> flamethrower in the fridge so it doesn't light up so quickly.
>
> Trevor Reynolds wrote:
> >
> > OK, so I couldn't answer his main problem, but at least I could handle
> > the PS!
> >
> > Digital Wokan wrote:
> > >
> > > He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size.
> > >
> > > Trevor Reynolds wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Ronald,
> > > > When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the
> > > > screen larger.
> > > >
> > > > Trevor
> > > >
> > > > "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake
> > > > > 7.0 CD, and installed it via kpackage. It runs,
> > > > > as long as I use drakconf to set my desktop colors
> > > > > to 256. Is there any way to get it to run on my
> > > > > normal Voodoo 3000 setup? (1024 x 768 x 32bit).
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > PS and what about that ultra small window? :-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Digital Wokan
> > > Tribal mage of the electronics age
> > > Guerilla Linux Warrior
>
> --
> Digital Wokan
> Tribal mage of the electronics age
> Guerilla Linux Warrior

Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

[Ralph F. De Witt]

The 2.0.0 version of Kvirc is designed to work with KDE 2.0 only.

Ralph

Alex V Flinsch, on Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Did you use the i386.rpm of it? or source?
> > May want to try an earlier version I am using 1.0 Millenium version
> > That works well, except misc options.
> > Bambi
> > PS  I will go to KVirc and see if I can get it and install it.
> > However, it wouldn't be conclusive since I am using 7.0 (Air).
> > Sorry.
> > 
> > Digital Wokan wrote:
> > 
> > > Actually, I just tried installing KVirc 2.0.0 from the KVirc official
> > > site and it core dumped immediately under Mandrake 7.1.  Perhaps I
> > > should look at the Extension CD, but it looks like MandrakeSoft may have
> > > left KVirc in the dust.  In fact, I haven't seen anything but console
> > > IRC clients on the Install CD.
> > >
> 
> 
> the 0.9.0 version from the 6.0 distro works just fine under 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, and
> a partial 7.1 upgraded system (kernel and very few other things only)
> 
> 
>  -- 
> Alex
> (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo LinuxMandrake 7.0

[Romanator]

I live in Toronto, Ontario Canada. As you know products cost almost
twice as much as in the United States. Do you have a ball park figure
for the Plextor IDE?

Roman



Eunice Thompson wrote:
> 
> Roman,
> I've  got a Plextor IDE, and it works great.
> the scsi's also work great- so I recommend a Plextor. Go with the 12X SCSI
> if money is no object ( it's the latest model)
> Eunice Thompson
> - Original Message -
> From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 10:58 PM
> Subject: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo Linux
> Mandrake 7.0
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a CD writer. What would be a good brand that runs well
> > under Linux?
> > My computer is a Dell Dimensions XPSB 733.
> >
> > OS is Linux Mandrake 7.0 PP and WinNT4.
> >
> > Any help recommendations would be considered.
> >
> > Roman

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Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?

[Digital Wokan]

Or try linuxiso.org.  Most distributions of Linux and a couple of BSD's
can be found there.

Charles A Edwards wrote:
> 
> To find a list of sites from which you can download the ISOs go to
> www.tucows.com
> Click on Linux. When the Linux page loads click on the link for ISO image
> files. You will find a list of about 40 or more FTP sites. The closer you
> are to the site you choose the faster your download speed will be.
> 
>Charles
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Mandrake Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 5:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?
> 
> > Which site did you download the iso from. I have been having trouble
> > downloading them since it came out.  I can't seem to get any of the sites
> > on the website to connected and I have a cable modem.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > At 01:37 AM 6/10/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> > >I haven't even tried an FTP install of Linux in my life.  Of course I
> > >had a 56K and didn't want to tie up the phone for days.  Now I'm on
> > >cable, so I download the .iso images and burn CD-R's of Mandrake.
> > >I'd recommend you find a friend with a fast connection and a CD-R (or
> > >CD-RW) drive.  I don't really want to offer to do this for anyone online
> > >since I could get flooded with requests and have to play
> > >pick-and-choose.
> > >If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the
> > >money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the
> > >return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn
> > >.iso's to CD-R for a few people.  I might do 1 or 2 per week like that,
> > >but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot.
> > >
> > >Benjamin Sher wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dear friends:
> > > >
> > > > Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new
> > > > Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there
> is
> > > > a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me
> (and
> > > > probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of
> the
> > > > categories (except for the extra "Documentation" category) for a total
> > > > of 2.2 Gig or 764 packages. Each time (once from rpmfind a few days
> ago
> > > > and today from metalab.unc.edu), I got precisely the same results: the
> > > > download pauses on the file "kpppload", with nearly exactly half of
> the
> > > > packages still waiting to be downloaded, and suddenly moves on to the
> > > > next stage of install, namely, "Installing packages," "select your
> time
> > > > zone,", "configure your printer," etc. etc. until you get the ironic
> > > > message : Mandrake 7.1 successfully installed (which it most certainly
> > > > is NOT, as you find out if you try to use it).
> > > >
> > > > Earlier tonight, a kind list member explained this mystery to us: the
> > > > first CD stops precisely here at "kpppload" and asks you to insert the
> > > > second CD.
> > > >
> > > > Well, that's fine and dandy if you have the CD's (I am still waiting
> for
> > > > mine from LinuxLand). But what do you do if you are trying to download
> > > > and install MDK 7.1 by FTP?
> > > >
> > > > I tried to download a minimal version (700 megs). Same problem.
> > > >
> > > > I then tried to download an even more minimal version without KDE,
> > > > hoping to then return and upgrade and install KDE last. Again, same
> > > > problem. In fact, it refused to let me install at all without
> installing
> > > > KDE (where it once again stopped at precisely kpppload). In
> desperation,
> > > > I decided to download Mandrake with KDE ONLY (300 Megs) and then build
> > > > on that. No dice! Once again, with 3:20 to go and many packages left,
> it
> > > > once again stopped at kpppload and proceeded to "finish" the rest of
> the
> > > > installation process as if nothing had happened!
> > > >
> > > > So, how do the rest of you do it? What' the secret formula, folks?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you so much.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Benjamin and Anna Sher
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sher's Russian Web
> > > > http://www.websher.net
> >
> >

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Re: [expert] 7.1 -- bug: floppy boot image FTP downloading

[davidu]

I thought I installed 7.1 on my laptop fine...but the bootup hangs at
pcmcia module.  I don't know if it is related.  I installed once over
http, and once over ftp.

-davidu


 On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote:

> Dear friends:
> 
> I should have clarified: I tried to download 7.1, as I have done in the
> past, by using a network boot image ON FLOPPY, and NOT by downloading an
> ISO image. I repeat: I've been using a boot image of 7.1 on floppy.
> 
> It brings up the entire install process. The problem is that the
> download stops at the "kpppload" file, no matter what option you select,
> Custom or Expert, Normal (minimal - 300 megs) or just KDE. It stops at
> mid-point (with hundreds of packages remaining on the server and with
> the clock at mid-point) because that is where the first CD ends and
> where you are supposed to insert the second CD. But no dialogue box or
> warning or instructions are given at this point. The install process
> thinks that the download is over and just skips to the next installation
> stage and those that follow. You get a phony "Installation successful"
> message when, in fact, you really have a thoroughly crippled
> installation. By the way, if you were not monitoring the download but
> went out to have a beer, you would never even know about this because
> 7.1 just skips ahead past kpppload to the next stage. So, you may think
> your installation was a success when probably it is not.
> 
> By the way, now I hear that there are not TWO but THREE CD's involved.
> Is that true?
> 
> The exact same phenomenon occurred to me (at the exact same point) at
> both rpmfind.net and metalab.unc.edu
> 
> Has anyone figured out a solution for this? Has anyone succeeded in
> actually downloading 7.1 successfully by FTP using a floppy boot image?
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> 

Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux

[Alan Shoemaker]

Daciaonce you're booted with the rescue system and mounted
your / directory you need to use the chroot (something like
'chroot /mnt/myroot' where /mnt/myroot is the temporary
mountpoint for your / directory) command to change the current
system to using your root directory as / (wherever you've
mounted it).  Then reinstall lilo with a /sbin/lilo command.

Alan


Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> 
> Well, the problem is that I cannot load linux at all.
> I have an emergency boot/rescue disk that allows me to
> read/write my linux file system but the system has not
> loaded linux from my hard drive in that case.  It is a
> live linux file system loaded from the rescue cdrom to
> RAM.  A ramdisk.
> 
> Aparently the MBR has been over written by win98 so I
> need to reinstall LILO but I don't know how to do
> that.  I can't find any descriptions of how to do that
> anywhere and I don't want to re-install because this
> seems like a completely recoverable situation.
> 
> Dacia
> --- Anthony Huereca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Once you get your Linux file system up, as root,
> > type "lilo".
> >
> > > Hello, I had to re-install windows this evening.
> > I
> > > had been using LILO to choose OS.  Windows is on
> > > primary master (hda), Linux is on primary slave
> > (hdb).
> > >  LILO was set to use hda as the bootable
> > partition.
> > > Anyway, now I cannot reach linux with my boot disk
> > and
> > > partition magic doesn't see a bootable linux
> > partition
> > > either.  I made the classic newbie move here.
> > >
> > > I have full read write access to my linux file
> > system
> > > thanks to a rescue CDrom.  I just need to know
> > which
> > > files to change so that I can get LILO going
> > again.
> > > Does anyone know what those would be?  I'm at a
> > loss.
> > >
> > > I tried changing LILO.conf to point to hdb as the
> > > bootable which didn't work.  I also tried hdb1
> > which
> > > is my /boot partition.  No go.  hdb5 is linux
> > swap,
> > > hdb6 is / and hdb7 is /home.  It seems that the
> > > windows installation proces overwrote the MBR of
> > hdb
> > > because partition magic reports a small extended
> > dos
> > > partition on that drive where there formerly were
> > > none.
> > >
> > >
> > > Its 2:30 am and thats what I know.  Thanks for any
> > > help folks.
> > >
> > >
> > > Dacia
> > >
> > >
> > > __
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints!
> > > http://photos.yahoo.com
> > --
> > Anthony Huereca
> > http://m3000.1wh.com
> > Computers are not intelligent. They only think they
> > are.
> >
> 
> __
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints!
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[expert] 7.1 -- bug: floppy boot image FTP downloading

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

I should have clarified: I tried to download 7.1, as I have done in the
past, by using a network boot image ON FLOPPY, and NOT by downloading an
ISO image. I repeat: I've been using a boot image of 7.1 on floppy.

It brings up the entire install process. The problem is that the
download stops at the "kpppload" file, no matter what option you select,
Custom or Expert, Normal (minimal - 300 megs) or just KDE. It stops at
mid-point (with hundreds of packages remaining on the server and with
the clock at mid-point) because that is where the first CD ends and
where you are supposed to insert the second CD. But no dialogue box or
warning or instructions are given at this point. The install process
thinks that the download is over and just skips to the next installation
stage and those that follow. You get a phony "Installation successful"
message when, in fact, you really have a thoroughly crippled
installation. By the way, if you were not monitoring the download but
went out to have a beer, you would never even know about this because
7.1 just skips ahead past kpppload to the next stage. So, you may think
your installation was a success when probably it is not.

By the way, now I hear that there are not TWO but THREE CD's involved.
Is that true?

The exact same phenomenon occurred to me (at the exact same point) at
both rpmfind.net and metalab.unc.edu

Has anyone figured out a solution for this? Has anyone succeeded in
actually downloading 7.1 successfully by FTP using a floppy boot image?

Thanks so much.

Benjamin

-- 
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net

Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?

[Alan Shoemaker]

Benjaminthere's a dialog that occurs during the install
that asks you to deselect any of the three CD's listed that
you don't have available.  It appears that you need to
deselect all three.  If this dialog does not occur than I'd
say you have probably found a bonified installation bug.

Alan

P.S. I got my 7.1, 2 CD set from LinuxLand yesterday.  Watch
out the 2nd CD in the set is labeled 'Applications' but it
should be labeled 'extended'.


Benjamin Sher wrote:
> 
> Dear friends:
> 
> Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new
> Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there is
> a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me (and
> probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of the
> categories (except for the extra "Documentation" category) for a total
> of 2.2 Gig or 764 packages. Each time (once from rpmfind a few days ago
> and today from metalab.unc.edu), I got precisely the same results: the
> download pauses on the file "kpppload", with nearly exactly half of the
> packages still waiting to be downloaded, and suddenly moves on to the
> next stage of install, namely, "Installing packages," "select your time
> zone,", "configure your printer," etc. etc. until you get the ironic
> message : Mandrake 7.1 successfully installed (which it most certainly
> is NOT, as you find out if you try to use it).
> 
> Earlier tonight, a kind list member explained this mystery to us: the
> first CD stops precisely here at "kpppload" and asks you to insert the
> second CD.
> 
> Well, that's fine and dandy if you have the CD's (I am still waiting for
> mine from LinuxLand). But what do you do if you are trying to download
> and install MDK 7.1 by FTP?
> 
> I tried to download a minimal version (700 megs). Same problem.
> 
> I then tried to download an even more minimal version without KDE,
> hoping to then return and upgrade and install KDE last. Again, same
> problem. In fact, it refused to let me install at all without installing
> KDE (where it once again stopped at precisely kpppload). In desperation,
> I decided to download Mandrake with KDE ONLY (300 Megs) and then build
> on that. No dice! Once again, with 3:20 to go and many packages left, it
> once again stopped at kpppload and proceeded to "finish" the rest of the
> installation process as if nothing had happened!
> 
> So, how do the rest of you do it? What' the secret formula, folks?
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> --
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net

[newbie] Printer and Scanner

[Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter]

Hi, every body!

I've made a little selection on what I could buy: does anybody owns a HP
930 printer?
I don't think I'll buy a SCSI scanner, not now, anyway... My budget is
very low, I think I'll use Windows as a Linux utility, for the months to
come...
Or do you think Canon 620P or HP 3200C could work under Linux?!?


Corrado

Re: [newbie] Need desparate help with linux Netscape - Opera

[Dmitryi S. Sizonenco]

The Opera Alpha for Linux has a feature that allows it to identify
itself as Netscape 4.x for Windows, M$IE or any other thing you squeeze
into its "referrer" box I think. The Star Office browser also is able to
change its referrer to something different (now if they only fixed those
ugly grey-and-blue colours...). Now you only have to know exactly HOW
the Netscape's referrer field looks like and enter it into the Star
Browser's options :-)

Greets, 

D.

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

[Digital Wokan]

My apologies.  I didn't see the PS.  Maybe I should hide the
flamethrower in the fridge so it doesn't light up so quickly.

Trevor Reynolds wrote:
> 
> OK, so I couldn't answer his main problem, but at least I could handle
> the PS!
> 
> Digital Wokan wrote:
> >
> > He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size.
> >
> > Trevor Reynolds wrote:
> > >
> > > Ronald,
> > > When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the
> > > screen larger.
> > >
> > > Trevor
> > >
> > > "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake
> > > > 7.0 CD, and installed it via kpackage. It runs,
> > > > as long as I use drakconf to set my desktop colors
> > > > to 256. Is there any way to get it to run on my
> > > > normal Voodoo 3000 setup? (1024 x 768 x 32bit).
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > PS and what about that ultra small window? :-)
> >
> > --
> > Digital Wokan
> > Tribal mage of the electronics age
> > Guerilla Linux Warrior

-- 
Digital Wokan
Tribal mage of the electronics age
Guerilla Linux Warrior

[newbie] ISDN CARD

[Marco Antonio Pérez Camacho]

Hi.

I have problem with card isdn, ASUSCOM, I have setup this card, perfectly
but I insert the command in prompt :

bash: isdn start

Request
Unknow driver y!

I need help

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

[Fran Parker]

Actually he mentioned both.
Bambi

Digital Wokan wrote:

> He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size.
>
> Trevor Reynolds wrote:
> >
> > Ronald,
> > When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the
> > screen larger.
> >
> > Trevor
> >
> > "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> > >
> > > Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake
> > > 7.0 CD, and installed it via kpackage. It runs,
> > > as long as I use drakconf to set my desktop colors
> > > to 256. Is there any way to get it to run on my
> > > normal Voodoo 3000 setup? (1024 x 768 x 32bit).
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > PS and what about that ultra small window? :-)
>
> --
> Digital Wokan
> Tribal mage of the electronics age
> Guerilla Linux Warrior

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

[Trevor Reynolds]

OK, so I couldn't answer his main problem, but at least I could handle
the PS!

Digital Wokan wrote:
> 
> He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size.
> 
> Trevor Reynolds wrote:
> >
> > Ronald,
> > When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the
> > screen larger.
> >
> > Trevor
> >
> > "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> > >
> > > Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake
> > > 7.0 CD, and installed it via kpackage. It runs,
> > > as long as I use drakconf to set my desktop colors
> > > to 256. Is there any way to get it to run on my
> > > normal Voodoo 3000 setup? (1024 x 768 x 32bit).
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > PS and what about that ultra small window? :-)
> 
> --
> Digital Wokan
> Tribal mage of the electronics age
> Guerilla Linux Warrior

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

[Fran Parker]

Same hereI don't shutdown the computer...I only reboot and shut
off the computer from there, I hate getting error messages! :)

Bambi


"Ronald J. Hall" wrote:

> Paul wrote:
>
> > You listed your hardware well, but could you also be more specific about
> > the error message?
> > It is difficult to understand what happens when "something to do with
> > rec.d" is all the info we have.
> >
> > Thanks for segmenting again,
> > Paul
> >
> > --
> > I'm not a complete idiot.
> > Some parts are missing.
> >
> > )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0(
> > http://nlpagan.net -  ICQ 147208
> > Registered  Linux  User   174403
>
> Hi Paul. Thanks for the reply. Okay. I'll do
> that next message. Just as soon as I shutdown
> and copy that message down.  Its a full
> screen, so be prepared. ;-)
>
> BTW, I can shutdown and restart, and I do NOT
> get this problem. Odd, eh?

Re: [newbie] Add Upgrade Icon to Virtual Desktop

[Mark Potochnik]

My KDE screen has an icon that says "Updates"..

I will overwirte it anyway, because I can now go over 1024 Cyls on my
HD...

MarkP


>Romanator wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would be nice to add an upgrade icon that would allow the user to
> upgrade their Linux software.
> For example, if you have Version 7.0 and another Version 7.1 gets
> released the next month.
>
> Hmm...

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

[Digital Wokan]

He said the problem was his color depth, not his screen size.

Trevor Reynolds wrote:
> 
> Ronald,
> When you execute doom use "-1" or "-2" options, this will make the
> screen larger.
> 
> Trevor
> 
> "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> >
> > Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake
> > 7.0 CD, and installed it via kpackage. It runs,
> > as long as I use drakconf to set my desktop colors
> > to 256. Is there any way to get it to run on my
> > normal Voodoo 3000 setup? (1024 x 768 x 32bit).
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > PS and what about that ultra small window? :-)

-- 
Digital Wokan
Tribal mage of the electronics age
Guerilla Linux Warrior

Re: [newbie] Problems With Supermounted CDROM - fstab

[Dmitryi S. Sizonenco]

Here's my fstab... I did update it, but I don't know whether it is
written correctly:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/DOS_hdb1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
/dev/hdc1   /mnt/DOS_hdc1   vfat user,exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,conv=binary 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount exec,dev,suid,ro,fs=iso9660 0 0

Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?

[Digital Wokan]

ftp.math.utah.edu
But if you read some of my previous posts, you will see that I had to go
fix some flubs in the cards+ file concerning three Trident video cards
and I still don't have a working XF86Setup.

Mandrake Account wrote:
> 
> Which site did you download the iso from. I have been having trouble
> downloading them since it came out.  I can't seem to get any of the sites
> on the website to connected and I have a cable modem.
> 
> Eric
> 
> At 01:37 AM 6/10/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >I haven't even tried an FTP install of Linux in my life.  Of course I
> >had a 56K and didn't want to tie up the phone for days.  Now I'm on
> >cable, so I download the .iso images and burn CD-R's of Mandrake.
> >I'd recommend you find a friend with a fast connection and a CD-R (or
> >CD-RW) drive.  I don't really want to offer to do this for anyone online
> >since I could get flooded with requests and have to play
> >pick-and-choose.
> >If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the
> >money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the
> >return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn
> >.iso's to CD-R for a few people.  I might do 1 or 2 per week like that,
> >but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot.
> >
> >Benjamin Sher wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear friends:
> > >
> > > Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new
> > > Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there is
> > > a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me (and
> > > probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of the
> > > categories (except for the extra "Documentation" category) for a total
> > > of 2.2 Gig or 764 packages. Each time (once from rpmfind a few days ago
> > > and today from metalab.unc.edu), I got precisely the same results: the
> > > download pauses on the file "kpppload", with nearly exactly half of the
> > > packages still waiting to be downloaded, and suddenly moves on to the
> > > next stage of install, namely, "Installing packages," "select your time
> > > zone,", "configure your printer," etc. etc. until you get the ironic
> > > message : Mandrake 7.1 successfully installed (which it most certainly
> > > is NOT, as you find out if you try to use it).
> > >
> > > Earlier tonight, a kind list member explained this mystery to us: the
> > > first CD stops precisely here at "kpppload" and asks you to insert the
> > > second CD.
> > >
> > > Well, that's fine and dandy if you have the CD's (I am still waiting for
> > > mine from LinuxLand). But what do you do if you are trying to download
> > > and install MDK 7.1 by FTP?
> > >
> > > I tried to download a minimal version (700 megs). Same problem.
> > >
> > > I then tried to download an even more minimal version without KDE,
> > > hoping to then return and upgrade and install KDE last. Again, same
> > > problem. In fact, it refused to let me install at all without installing
> > > KDE (where it once again stopped at precisely kpppload). In desperation,
> > > I decided to download Mandrake with KDE ONLY (300 Megs) and then build
> > > on that. No dice! Once again, with 3:20 to go and many packages left, it
> > > once again stopped at kpppload and proceeded to "finish" the rest of the
> > > installation process as if nothing had happened!
> > >
> > > So, how do the rest of you do it? What' the secret formula, folks?
> > >
> > > Thank you so much.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Benjamin and Anna Sher
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sher's Russian Web
> > > http://www.websher.net

-- 
Digital Wokan
Tribal mage of the electronics age
Guerilla Linux Warrior

Re: [newbie] Need desparate help with linux elf error in Netscape

[Digital Wokan]

You'd have to have a browser that lets you set the description manually
so that it could "lie" to the server.  I've heard of such a browser or a
program that intercepted and altered such headers, but I think that was
back when I used (should it be called suffering through instead?)
Windows.
But then on top of that, you have to hope that DialPad didn't write
their Java using MS-J++.  We all know how portable that PoS is.

Vic wrote:
> 
> Then is there any way to fool it into thinking
> that the user is using windows?
> 
> On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, Digital Wokan wrote:
> > Lucky for you, there are web developers here. :)
> > It isn't a problem with your OS, it's a problem with DialPad.com.  They
> > have their webserver detect what kind of browser/OS is connecting to
> > their server and send an "appropriate" message.  So they see you are
> > using Netscape, which is fine, but it's running on Linux, which THEY do
> > not support.  (Yet another company that doesn't feed the penguin.)
> > DialPad uses Java for their program, so what should be a painless port
> > to Linux (Java shouldn't have to be "ported".  Thank Monoposoft for that
> > one.) ends up taking them enough time that either they haven't gotten to
> > it or have decided that us Linux users aren't worth their advertising
> > dollar.
> > Perhaps there are other such phone for free systems out there who do
> > support the penguin.
> >
> > Vic wrote:
> > >
> > > When I went to a web page, Netscape gave me this
> > > error linux elf not supported, I can't sdiscfipbe it
> > > good so here is a link so I don't post a little
> > > gif to the list.
> > >
> > > http://kittypuss.dyndns.org/error.gif
> > >
> > > I HATE that trash! FAQ what FAQ probably one
> > > that either does not exist or is full of lies and
> > > trash that don't work,
> > > *I really must get to*
> > > this web page I HAVE to use dialpad to contact***
> > > someone, the phone here won't reach that number**
> > > **pleasepleasepleaseplease help me.

-- 
Digital Wokan
Tribal mage of the electronics age
Guerilla Linux Warrior

Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?

[Charles A Edwards]

To find a list of sites from which you can download the ISOs go to
www.tucows.com
Click on Linux. When the Linux page loads click on the link for ISO image
files. You will find a list of about 40 or more FTP sites. The closer you
are to the site you choose the faster your download speed will be.

   Charles


- Original Message -
From: "Mandrake Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?


> Which site did you download the iso from. I have been having trouble
> downloading them since it came out.  I can't seem to get any of the sites
> on the website to connected and I have a cable modem.
>
> Eric
>
> At 01:37 AM 6/10/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >I haven't even tried an FTP install of Linux in my life.  Of course I
> >had a 56K and didn't want to tie up the phone for days.  Now I'm on
> >cable, so I download the .iso images and burn CD-R's of Mandrake.
> >I'd recommend you find a friend with a fast connection and a CD-R (or
> >CD-RW) drive.  I don't really want to offer to do this for anyone online
> >since I could get flooded with requests and have to play
> >pick-and-choose.
> >If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the
> >money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the
> >return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn
> >.iso's to CD-R for a few people.  I might do 1 or 2 per week like that,
> >but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot.
> >
> >Benjamin Sher wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear friends:
> > >
> > > Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new
> > > Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there
is
> > > a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me
(and
> > > probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of
the
> > > categories (except for the extra "Documentation" category) for a total
> > > of 2.2 Gig or 764 packages. Each time (once from rpmfind a few days
ago
> > > and today from metalab.unc.edu), I got precisely the same results: the
> > > download pauses on the file "kpppload", with nearly exactly half of
the
> > > packages still waiting to be downloaded, and suddenly moves on to the
> > > next stage of install, namely, "Installing packages," "select your
time
> > > zone,", "configure your printer," etc. etc. until you get the ironic
> > > message : Mandrake 7.1 successfully installed (which it most certainly
> > > is NOT, as you find out if you try to use it).
> > >
> > > Earlier tonight, a kind list member explained this mystery to us: the
> > > first CD stops precisely here at "kpppload" and asks you to insert the
> > > second CD.
> > >
> > > Well, that's fine and dandy if you have the CD's (I am still waiting
for
> > > mine from LinuxLand). But what do you do if you are trying to download
> > > and install MDK 7.1 by FTP?
> > >
> > > I tried to download a minimal version (700 megs). Same problem.
> > >
> > > I then tried to download an even more minimal version without KDE,
> > > hoping to then return and upgrade and install KDE last. Again, same
> > > problem. In fact, it refused to let me install at all without
installing
> > > KDE (where it once again stopped at precisely kpppload). In
desperation,
> > > I decided to download Mandrake with KDE ONLY (300 Megs) and then build
> > > on that. No dice! Once again, with 3:20 to go and many packages left,
it
> > > once again stopped at kpppload and proceeded to "finish" the rest of
the
> > > installation process as if nothing had happened!
> > >
> > > So, how do the rest of you do it? What' the secret formula, folks?
> > >
> > > Thank you so much.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Benjamin and Anna Sher
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sher's Russian Web
> > > http://www.websher.net
>
>

Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo Linux Mandrake 7.0

[Charles A Edwards]

Roman
   Me again!!
   I have a Creative Blaster 8432CDRW and using the recomend mode istall
both 7.0 and 7.1 recognized and auto mounted it.
   I can for the most part use and access it; and in fact both my hds, all
partitions except Be, my DVD,and my USB Zip drive (in 7.1) just as easily in
Linux as I can in Windows. All I have to do is click on the drive or
partition and I have access and use of it.
   I know this is more of an answer than you wanted but I just wanted to
give an idea of how well Mandrake installed and works on my system without
any interference from me at all.

   Charles  :-)


 - Original Message -
From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 1:58 AM
Subject: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo Linux
Mandrake 7.0


> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a CD writer. What would be a good brand that runs well
> under Linux?
> My computer is a Dell Dimensions XPSB 733.
>
> OS is Linux Mandrake 7.0 PP and WinNT4.
>
> Any help recommendations would be considered.
>
> Roman

[newbie] Linux won't boot - FSCK..updated

[Evan Holt]

Hi again,

>A power outage turned off my computer while I was exiting from Linux and
now when I try to boot Linux up, I'm presented with this
>Unattached inode 522486
>/dev/hdb5:unexpected inconsistency;run fsck manually
>
>So I did this
>
>fsck -A -V ; echo == $? ==
>
>and the outcome was...
>
>==8==
>
>therefore it's an operational error, but now I'm stumped as to what to do.


All right, I determined that it is a bad super-block so I'm trying to
replace it by doing this

e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdb5

but it returns...

e2fsck:bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb5

and it returns the same response for other superblocks (at 16385 and 24577)

any suggestions?

Thanks,

Evan

[newbie] 7.1 CD's

[Eunice Thompson]

where are the CD's #3and #4?
are they available for download ?

Eunice Thompson

Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo Linux Mandrake 7.0

[Eunice Thompson]

Roman,
I've  got a Plextor IDE, and it works great.
the scsi's also work great- so I recommend a Plextor. Go with the 12X SCSI
if money is no object ( it's the latest model)
Eunice Thompson
- Original Message -
From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 10:58 PM
Subject: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo Linux
Mandrake 7.0


> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a CD writer. What would be a good brand that runs well
> under Linux?
> My computer is a Dell Dimensions XPSB 733.
>
> OS is Linux Mandrake 7.0 PP and WinNT4.
>
> Any help recommendations would be considered.
>
> Roman

[newbie] Linux won't boot - FSCK

[Evan Holt]

Hi there,

A power outage turned off my computer while I was exiting from Linux and
now when I try to boot Linux up, I'm presented with this

Unattached inode 522486
/dev/hdb5:unexpected inconsistency;run fsck manually

So I did this

fsck -A -V ; echo == $? ==

and the outcome was...

==8==

therefore it's an operational error, but now I'm stumped as to what to do.

Any help would be appreciated.

Evan

[newbie] Xcdroast and audio cd

[Daniel Anderson]

  Hi,
   I'm having a problem with the computer hanging when trying to copy a
audio cd. When trying to read the disc,the computer hangs,mouse and
keyboard will not function,have to power down the computer to get going
again. Works fine with data cd's. The writer is a Mitsumi CR-2801TE. I'm
running Mandrake 7.0 on a AMD K6-2 450. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

 Thanks,
  Dan

[newbie] Olde Money

[Dacia and AzureRose]

Wow Bascule...thanks for explaining that.  I
feel.edified.


Dacia
--- bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Umm bascule, could you please expound on the term 
> "old money"?
> > 
> > Eunice
>  'old money' refers to the strange british mix of
> imperial and metric
> measurments used at the same time, before
> decimalisation we had 240
> pence to the pound and people use the phrase 'old
> money ' to refer to
> the fact that they are using older measurements
> whether financial or
> otherwise, it's a sort of old fogey affectation that
> i drop into
> sometimes when my ire's up.
> 
> bascule
> 


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[newbie] startup help

[KompuKit]

In linuxconf, I've selected sendmail to start up everytime...
on reboot, or re-start...
however, everytime I test it...it fails to do so,  WHY?

Before logging off...and restarting...I first must 
select it inside linuxconf...in order for sendmail  
to startonce selecting it the first time,
shouldn't it STAY selected...like the others I have?
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Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux

[Dacia and AzureRose]

Well, the problem is that I cannot load linux at all. 
I have an emergency boot/rescue disk that allows me to
read/write my linux file system but the system has not
loaded linux from my hard drive in that case.  It is a
live linux file system loaded from the rescue cdrom to
RAM.  A ramdisk.

Aparently the MBR has been over written by win98 so I
need to reinstall LILO but I don't know how to do
that.  I can't find any descriptions of how to do that
anywhere and I don't want to re-install because this
seems like a completely recoverable situation.


Dacia
--- Anthony Huereca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once you get your Linux file system up, as root,
> type "lilo". 
> 
> > Hello, I had to re-install windows this evening. 
> I
> > had been using LILO to choose OS.  Windows is on
> > primary master (hda), Linux is on primary slave
> (hdb).
> >  LILO was set to use hda as the bootable
> partition. 
> > Anyway, now I cannot reach linux with my boot disk
> and
> > partition magic doesn't see a bootable linux
> partition
> > either.  I made the classic newbie move here.
> > 
> > I have full read write access to my linux file
> system
> > thanks to a rescue CDrom.  I just need to know
> which
> > files to change so that I can get LILO going
> again. 
> > Does anyone know what those would be?  I'm at a
> loss.
> > 
> > I tried changing LILO.conf to point to hdb as the
> > bootable which didn't work.  I also tried hdb1
> which
> > is my /boot partition.  No go.  hdb5 is linux
> swap,
> > hdb6 is / and hdb7 is /home.  It seems that the
> > windows installation proces overwrote the MBR of
> hdb
> > because partition magic reports a small extended
> dos
> > partition on that drive where there formerly were
> > none.
> > 
> > 
> > Its 2:30 am and thats what I know.  Thanks for any
> > help folks.
> > 
> > 
> > Dacia
> > 
> > 
> > __
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints!
> > http://photos.yahoo.com
> -- 
> Anthony Huereca
> http://m3000.1wh.com
> Computers are not intelligent. They only think they
> are. 
> 


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[newbie] More on my SCSI hd problems

[Tymanthius Rune Speak]

I did a text install, and it simply bombed shortly after trying to detect the
hd's.  I jumped thru the consoles, and found that it's having scsi parity
err's.  What I don't understand is why.

This hd, while an older type is 'new' in that I am the first person to ever
use it.

It will install fine from mdk 7.0.2 (just did yesterday).  So . . . is there
anything I can do?  I'm lost . . .


Ty


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Re: [newbie] worthless software innd

[Vic]

Well, whatever, my point is that there is 0 information
about innd or how to make a news server work.

I do not see how people do it if there is not
any instructions on how to do it.



On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Vic wrote:
> 
> >I wonder why innd does not work,
> >I installed it and I can't get one, not even
> >ONE group on my news group server,
> >totally useless, can't find jack on
> >mandrakeuser.org can't find
> >jack ina yany faq anwwyawhere
> 
> The name of the person maintaining mandrakeuser.org is Tom, not Jack.
> I loaded PAN (newsreader), and you are right. I can't find "jack ina yany
> faq" anywhere either.
> 
> Paul
> 
> -- 
> I'm not a complete idiot.
> Some parts are missing.
> 
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Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?

[Mandrake Account]

Which site did you download the iso from. I have been having trouble 
downloading them since it came out.  I can't seem to get any of the sites 
on the website to connected and I have a cable modem.

Eric

At 01:37 AM 6/10/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>I haven't even tried an FTP install of Linux in my life.  Of course I
>had a 56K and didn't want to tie up the phone for days.  Now I'm on
>cable, so I download the .iso images and burn CD-R's of Mandrake.
>I'd recommend you find a friend with a fast connection and a CD-R (or
>CD-RW) drive.  I don't really want to offer to do this for anyone online
>since I could get flooded with requests and have to play
>pick-and-choose.
>If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the
>money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the
>return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn
>.iso's to CD-R for a few people.  I might do 1 or 2 per week like that,
>but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot.
>
>Benjamin Sher wrote:
> >
> > Dear friends:
> >
> > Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new
> > Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there is
> > a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me (and
> > probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of the
> > categories (except for the extra "Documentation" category) for a total
> > of 2.2 Gig or 764 packages. Each time (once from rpmfind a few days ago
> > and today from metalab.unc.edu), I got precisely the same results: the
> > download pauses on the file "kpppload", with nearly exactly half of the
> > packages still waiting to be downloaded, and suddenly moves on to the
> > next stage of install, namely, "Installing packages," "select your time
> > zone,", "configure your printer," etc. etc. until you get the ironic
> > message : Mandrake 7.1 successfully installed (which it most certainly
> > is NOT, as you find out if you try to use it).
> >
> > Earlier tonight, a kind list member explained this mystery to us: the
> > first CD stops precisely here at "kpppload" and asks you to insert the
> > second CD.
> >
> > Well, that's fine and dandy if you have the CD's (I am still waiting for
> > mine from LinuxLand). But what do you do if you are trying to download
> > and install MDK 7.1 by FTP?
> >
> > I tried to download a minimal version (700 megs). Same problem.
> >
> > I then tried to download an even more minimal version without KDE,
> > hoping to then return and upgrade and install KDE last. Again, same
> > problem. In fact, it refused to let me install at all without installing
> > KDE (where it once again stopped at precisely kpppload). In desperation,
> > I decided to download Mandrake with KDE ONLY (300 Megs) and then build
> > on that. No dice! Once again, with 3:20 to go and many packages left, it
> > once again stopped at kpppload and proceeded to "finish" the rest of the
> > installation process as if nothing had happened!
> >
> > So, how do the rest of you do it? What' the secret formula, folks?
> >
> > Thank you so much.
> >
> > --
> > Benjamin and Anna Sher
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sher's Russian Web
> > http://www.websher.net

Re: [newbie] Partition Magic

[Dacia and AzureRose]

I don't know.  I only use win98se.  Look at
powerquest's web site.

http://www.powerquest.com/usindex.html


dacia

--- Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you resize NTFS?
> 
> 
> 
> Romanator wrote:
> > 
> > Yes. I got both boot and partition magic (windows
> versions)
> > when I bought Upgrading and repairing PCs:  Linux
> > version.  I highly recommend the book and both
> > programs work great.  The book costs about 60$ USD
> at
> > amazon which is about the same as the programs
> cost.
> > 
> > "webug :-)" wrote:
> > >
> > > is there partition magic for linux ?? where can
> i get a copy ?
> > >
> > > Romanator wrote:
> > >
> > > > I know. I work for a software application
> company.
> > > >
> > > > Roman
> > > >
> > > > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Romanusually the give away deals like
> this are simply
> > > > > marketing ploys to give you a taste of the
> possibilities of
> > > > > the software in question by giving you a
> copy of an older or
> > > > > partially crippled version.  Then after
> getting a taste of
> > > > > it's capabilities you'll want to buy or
> upgrade to the
> > > > > current, full featured commercial version.
> > > > >
> > > > > Alan
> > > > >
> > > > > Roman Bysh wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It would nice for the PowerQuest people to
> donate their software.
> > > > > > However, you can purchase it on line. I
> found a DOS copy of
> > > > > > Partition Magic in the back of a book: The
> Multi-Boot Configuration
> > > > > > Handbook - from Que.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Roman
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Piero wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > There's a grate talking of Partition
> Magic around... Do we have it on the MK
> > > > > > > CDs?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Piero.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > Dr Piero Caracciolo
> > > > > > > Ecole Normale Superieure
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ...humani nihil a me alienum puto.>
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Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

[Dacia and AzureRose]

My brother had this same problem and we found that in
his case it was because of a conflict between his
motherboard advanced power management features and the
way linux was trying to access those functions.

He disabled apmd and it stopped happening.


Dacia


--- "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> 
> > You listed your hardware well, but could you also
> be more specific about
> > the error message?
> > It is difficult to understand what happens when
> "something to do with
> > rec.d" is all the info we have.
> > 
> > Thanks for segmenting again,
> > Paul
> > 
> > --
> > I'm not a complete idiot.
> > Some parts are missing.
> > 
> > )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0(
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> > Registered  Linux  User   174403
> 
> Hi Paul. Thanks for the reply. Okay. I'll do
> that next message. Just as soon as I shutdown
> and copy that message down.  Its a full
> screen, so be prepared. ;-)
> 
> BTW, I can shutdown and restart, and I do NOT
> get this problem. Odd, eh?
> 


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Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Microcom Deskporte 28.8P/33.6P parallel connected

[Alex V Flinsch]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi Folks
> * Thanks for your list, very informative. Have been reading for a couple of
> weeks but no
> mention of parallel connected modems

Mostly because parallel modems are even rarer than serial printers. They exist,
but it has been about 15 years since I have seen one.


> * I can therefore set modem up as standard serial extl Microcom 28.8P modem
> in Win98 and use as serial modem in Linux Mandrake; would this be the
> preferred installation method for Linux.

That is what I would try.

-- 
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?]

[Tymanthius Rune Speak]

Digital Wokan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the
money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the
return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn
.iso's to CD-R for a few people.  I might do 1 or 2 per week like that,
but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot.

I've got a faster burner (6x scsi) and could do the same.  Email me privately
and we'll see, but I don't promise to be fast - you may well be
better off going to cheap bytes.  To say my life is hectic is an
understatement (I'll trade anyone who has aboring one!!).


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Re: [newbie] UltraSparc

[David B. van Balen]

La unica otra cosa que seme ocurre es que tal vez grabaste la image al cd
como un archivo en vez de como imagen... me imagino que este no es el
case, pero pregunto por si acaso :) Dependiendo del programa que usaste
para grabar la imagen al cd, hay un proceso differente para que el
programa sepa que es una imagen de cd lo que estas grabando y no un
archivo.

Si ese no es el problema, solo queda que tal vez linux no reconoce el tipo
de cd que tienes, aunque esto me parece dudoso si te esta hablando de
/dev/scd0. Tal vez debas volver a bajar la imagen, es posible que se haya
corrompido en trayectoria.



On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Javier Garcia Gonzalez wrote:

> Si, baje la imagen .iso en un Cdrom. El Cdrom si es de arranque, pero en cuanto 
>trata de cargar el "mdkinst_stage2" aparece un error de que no puede montar el CD 
>en la unidad "/dev/scd0"
> 
> que crees que podria ser??
> 
> P.D. Tu espaqol es perfecto.. comprendo todo lo que me dices!.  gracias!.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 09:32:39   David B. van Balen wrote:
> >
> >
> >Bajaste la imagen .iso o los archivos individuales? No he tratado nunca de
> 
> 
> 
> Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com
> 

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

[Ronald J. Hall]

Paul wrote:

> You listed your hardware well, but could you also be more specific about
> the error message?
> It is difficult to understand what happens when "something to do with
> rec.d" is all the info we have.
> 
> Thanks for segmenting again,
> Paul
> 
> --
> I'm not a complete idiot.
> Some parts are missing.
> 
> )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0(
> http://nlpagan.net -  ICQ 147208
> Registered  Linux  User   174403

Hi Paul. Thanks for the reply. Okay. I'll do
that next message. Just as soon as I shutdown
and copy that message down.  Its a full
screen, so be prepared. ;-)

BTW, I can shutdown and restart, and I do NOT
get this problem. Odd, eh?

Re: [newbie]Modem Setup

[KompuKit]

we're not going to ask you to disable com 2...
at least, not yet...we just want to make sure of certain settings.

Murray wrote:
> 
> >>knowing what brand of bios you have would be helpful
> too.  Award?  AMI?  Phoenix?  Other?<<
> 
> It's a Phoenix, couldn't see a date or version number.
> 
> And just out of curiosity, it just occurred to me:  if the modem is *on*
> COM2, how will disabling COM2 help?  Wouldn't disabling COM1 or 3
> perhaps be more sensible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Murray

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[newbie] CDROM

[alice chen]

Hi,
I have just intalled the Mandrake. The installation
is quite easy compared with other linux product.
Just now I reboot my system. Just five seconds
after the pc restarted, there is a screen asking
me if I need to configurate my hardware. Then I answer
"yes", the next screen said that something regarding
my CDROM configuration is deleted.
Then it asked me to pick one of the following,
(1)delete configuration
(2)keep configuration
(3)do nothing
I answer do nothing

>From then on I am unable to access to my CDROM.
when I type
ls -l /mnt/cdrom
the answer is always
ls: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error
Can some people there help me to get my CDROM working?
Thanks
Regards
Alice


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Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PCs: Linux edition]

[Romanator]

Sounds good. I wonder what the average size of partition would be for
Linux 7.0 PP?



Jaguar wrote:
> 
> afiak, you have to shrink the larger one before you can grow the smaller one,
> the reason being is the software looks at free hard drive space...if the drive
> is full of partitions, there is no free space to add to anything.
> Once the space is re-allocated, you shouldn't have any more problems with
> MDK...:)
> HTH
> Jaguar
> 
> Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Great. Can't wait. Although, I have a couple of question? I have the
> > following on my drive:
> >
> > C partition = 2047 MB. => This is for WinNT4
> > D partition = 2044 MB. => This is my Linux partition
> > E partition = 15 GB. => This is NTFS with lots of room
> >
> > In which order would you begin resizing D and E.? Or, does it matter?
> > I was trying out some of the rpms that came with the CDs. During the
> > install, it said disk full?
> >
> >
> >
> > Charles A Edwards wrote:
> > >
> > > Roman
> > >I have "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" 11th ed. It came with QUE
> editions
> > > of Drive Image Pro and PartitionMagic. This PM will work on NTFS.
> > >
> > >Charles
> > >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:03 AM
> > > Subject: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I received a reply a few days ago about the book "Upgrading and
> > > > Repairing PC's: Linux edition.
> > > > Do they supply a CD with a Boot Partition program that supports the
> > > > resizing of NTFS. I would like to make my NTFS partition smaller. I
> > > > would like to add more room for my Linux 7.0 Power Pack.
> > > > I originally partitioned by D drive to about 2044 MB. However, I
> noticed
> > > > that after installing many RPMs, KDE indicated that I had did not have
> > > > any more room on my disk. Sound familiar?
> > > >
> > > > Any thoughts?
> 
> > -
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> >   MIME Type: text/x-vcard
> > -
> 
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> 
> 
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Re: [newbie] Need desparate help with linux elf error in Netscape

[Vic]

Then is there any way to fool it into thinking
that the user is using windows?

On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, Digital Wokan wrote:
> Lucky for you, there are web developers here. :)
> It isn't a problem with your OS, it's a problem with DialPad.com.  They
> have their webserver detect what kind of browser/OS is connecting to
> their server and send an "appropriate" message.  So they see you are
> using Netscape, which is fine, but it's running on Linux, which THEY do
> not support.  (Yet another company that doesn't feed the penguin.)
> DialPad uses Java for their program, so what should be a painless port
> to Linux (Java shouldn't have to be "ported".  Thank Monoposoft for that
> one.) ends up taking them enough time that either they haven't gotten to
> it or have decided that us Linux users aren't worth their advertising
> dollar.
> Perhaps there are other such phone for free systems out there who do
> support the penguin.
> 
> Vic wrote:
> > 
> > When I went to a web page, Netscape gave me this
> > error linux elf not supported, I can't sdiscfipbe it
> > good so here is a link so I don't post a little
> > gif to the list.
> > 
> > http://kittypuss.dyndns.org/error.gif
> > 
> > I HATE that trash! FAQ what FAQ probably one
> > that either does not exist or is full of lies and
> > trash that don't work,
> > *I really must get to*
> > this web page I HAVE to use dialpad to contact***
> > someone, the phone here won't reach that number**
> > **pleasepleasepleaseplease help me.

Re: [newbie] what does Update look for ?

[bascule]

then perhaps a general update feature might be nice in future distros?
either a seperate prog or an option in the current one? also would it be
possible to have the cryptographic option available after install for
all those folk who seem to have difficulties getting our connections up
and running?

bascule

Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> 
> It looks for security-relevant updates. All the rest goes to cooker.
>

Re: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list?

[bascule]

> 
> Umm bascule, could you please expound on the term  "old money"?
> 
> Eunice
 'old money' refers to the strange british mix of imperial and metric
measurments used at the same time, before decimalisation we had 240
pence to the pound and people use the phrase 'old money ' to refer to
the fact that they are using older measurements whether financial or
otherwise, it's a sort of old fogey affectation that i drop into
sometimes when my ire's up.

bascule

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

[Paul]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote:

>Until shutdown. No matter how I shutdown, from
>the graphical logon screen, to "shutdown now"
>from a shell, I always get a final B&W text
>screen that displays a segmentation error, with
>an error in line x, something to do with rec.d.

You listed your hardware well, but could you also be more specific about
the error message?
It is difficult to understand what happens when "something to do with
rec.d" is all the info we have.

Thanks for segmenting again,
Paul

-- 
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Some parts are missing.

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[newbie] How to please your IT department: (fwd)

[Denis HAVLIK]

Maybe i should put THIS in the "welcome" message?.-)

cheers
Denis

The only thing I see here is two things: (Oskuro at /.)

> How to Please Your I.T. Department 
> 1. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it 
> buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals,
> dried 
> flowers, bowling trophies and children's art. We don't have a life, and 
> we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours. 
> 2. Don't write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages 
> from here. 
> 3. When an I.T. person says he's coming right over, go for coffee. That 
> way you won't be there when we need your password. It's nothing for us
to 
> remember 700 screen saver passwords. 
> 4. When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping 
> you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your
> mail 
> because your computer won't power on at all. 
> 5. When I.T. support sends you an E-Mail with high importance, delete 
> it at once. We're just testing. 
> 6. When an I.T. person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and 
> spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve. 
> 7. Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and 
> flags it as a rush delivery. 
> 8. When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's 
> electronics in it. 
> 9. When you're getting a NO DIAL TONE message at home, call computer 
> support. We can fix your telephone line from here. 
> 10. When you have a dozen old computer screens to get rid of, call 
> computer support. We're collectors. 
> 11. When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on an I.T. 
> person's chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the
> problem. 
> We love a puzzle. 
> 12. When an I.T. person tells you that computer screens don't have 
> cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument. 
> 13. When an I.T. person tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in 
> a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by 
> shortly?" 
> That motivates us. 
> 14. When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. 
> Print jobs frequently that get sucked into black holes. 
> 15. When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to 
> all 68 printers in the company. One of them is bound to work. 
> 16. Don't learn the proper name for anything technical. We know exactly 
> what you mean by "My thingy blew up". 
> 17. Don't use on-line help. On-line help is for wimps. 
> 18. If the mouse cable keeps knocking down the framed picture of your 
> dog, lift the computer and stuff the cable under it. Mouse cables were 
> designed to have 20kg of computer sitting on top of them. 
> 19. If the space bar on your keyboard doesn't work, blame it on the mail 
> upgrade. Keyboards are actually very happy with half a pound of muffin 
> crumbs and nail clippings in them. 
> 20. When you get a message saying "Are you sure?" click on that Yes 
> button as fast as you can. Hell, if you weren't sure, you wouldn't be
> doing it, 
> would you? 
> 21. When you find an I.T. person on the phone with his bank, sit 
> uninvited on the corner of his desk and stare at him until he hangs 
up. We
> don't 
> have any money to speak of anyway. 
> 22. Feel perfectly free to say things like "I don't know nothing about 
> that computer crap". We don't mind at all hearing our area of
professional
> 
> expertise referred to as crap. 
> 23. When you need to change the toner cartridge in a printer, call I.T. 
> support. Changing a toner cartridge is an extremely complex task, and 
> Hewlett-Packard recommends that it be performed only by a professional 
> engineer with a master's degree in nuclear physics. 
> 24. When something's the matter with your computer, ask your secretary 
> to call the help desk. We enjoy the challenge of having to deal with a 
> third party who doesn't know anything about the problem. 
> 25. When you receive a 30mb (huge) movie file, send it to everyone as a 
> mail attachment. We've got lots of disk space on that mail server. 
> 26. Don't even think of breaking large print jobs down into smaller 
> chunks. 
> Somebody else might get a chance to squeeze a memo into the queue. 
> 27. When you lose your car keys, send an email to the entire company. 
> People out in Pofadder like to keep abreast of what's going on. 
> 28. When you bump into an I.T. person at the grocery store on a 
> Saturday, ask a computer question. We do weekends. 
> 29. Don't bother to tell us when you move computers around on your own. 
> Computer names are just a cosmetic feature. 
> 30. When you bring your own personal home PC for repair at the office, 
> leave the documentation at home. We'll find all the settings and drivers 
> somewhere. 
> 31. Keep it crashing! 

Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Digital Woman:

Thank you so much for the offer, but I have already ordered the 2-CD
version of Linux 7.1 from LinuxLand and will get it on Monday. I have
meanwhile tried to download it by FTP. I am just curious, in view of
the  problem I've described, how anyone can download the FTP version at
all?

Thanks again.

Benjamin

Digital Wokan wrote:
> 
> I haven't even tried an FTP install of Linux in my life.  Of course I
> had a 56K and didn't want to tie up the phone for days.  Now I'm on
> cable, so I download the .iso images and burn CD-R's of Mandrake.
> I'd recommend you find a friend with a fast connection and a CD-R (or
> CD-RW) drive.  I don't really want to offer to do this for anyone online
> since I could get flooded with requests and have to play
> pick-and-choose.
> If a person sent me 2 CD-R's, the mailer to mail them with, and the
> money to cover the postage back to them (or have the stamps put on the
> return mailer yourself before you send it) then I'd be willing to burn
> .iso's to CD-R for a few people.  I might do 1 or 2 per week like that,
> but with only a 2x burner, I can't offer to do it a lot.
> 
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
> >
> > Dear friends:
> >
> > Well, as it turns out, there seems to be NO WAY to download the new
> > Mandrake 7.1 by FTP. Since 7.1 is on two CD rather than one CD, there is
> > a pause during the download install that has completely stumped me (and
> > probably others). I selected Custom, Normal for download and all of the
> > categories (except for the extra "Documentation" category) for a total
> > of 2.2 Gig or 764 packages. Each time (once from rpmfind a few days ago
> > and today from metalab.unc.edu), I got precisely the same results: the
> > download pauses on the file "kpppload", with nearly exactly half of the
> > packages still waiting to be downloaded, and suddenly moves on to the
> > next stage of install, namely, "Installing packages," "select your time
> > zone,", "configure your printer," etc. etc. until you get the ironic
> > message : Mandrake 7.1 successfully installed (which it most certainly
> > is NOT, as you find out if you try to use it).
> >
> > Earlier tonight, a kind list member explained this mystery to us: the
> > first CD stops precisely here at "kpppload" and asks you to insert the
> > second CD.
> >
> > Well, that's fine and dandy if you have the CD's (I am still waiting for
> > mine from LinuxLand). But what do you do if you are trying to download
> > and install MDK 7.1 by FTP?
> >
> > I tried to download a minimal version (700 megs). Same problem.
> >
> > I then tried to download an even more minimal version without KDE,
> > hoping to then return and upgrade and install KDE last. Again, same
> > problem. In fact, it refused to let me install at all without installing
> > KDE (where it once again stopped at precisely kpppload). In desperation,
> > I decided to download Mandrake with KDE ONLY (300 Megs) and then build
> > on that. No dice! Once again, with 3:20 to go and many packages left, it
> > once again stopped at kpppload and proceeded to "finish" the rest of the
> > installation process as if nothing had happened!
> >
> > So, how do the rest of you do it? What' the secret formula, folks?
> >
> > Thank you so much.
> >
> > --
> > Benjamin and Anna Sher
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sher's Russian Web
> > http://www.websher.net

-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.websher.net

Re: [newbie] worthless software innd

[Paul]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Vic wrote:

>I wonder why innd does not work,
>I installed it and I can't get one, not even
>ONE group on my news group server,
>totally useless, can't find jack on
>mandrakeuser.org can't find
>jack ina yany faq anwwyawhere

The name of the person maintaining mandrakeuser.org is Tom, not Jack.
I loaded PAN (newsreader), and you are right. I can't find "jack ina yany
faq" anywhere either.

Paul

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Some parts are missing.

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Re: [newbie] Problems With Supermounted CDROM

[Paul]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Dmitryi S. Sizonenco wrote:

Perhaps this is too simple in thinking, but did you remember to update
/etc/fstab with the new situation?

Paul

>least, no CD audio, because if I disable supermount on CDROM, then mount
>it manually from /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom (which points correctly to
>/dev/hdc) as /mnt/cdrom , everything works. So, how do I supermount it
>again? Any ideas on how to fix this problem? I'm feeling uncomfortable
>because the Linux mixer/drivers for my soundcard give the best quality
>sound I've heard :-)

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Some parts are missing.

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[newbie] lnx4win install probs - please help

[Anthony Finn]

I all
first post!

I recently purchased Lnx4win (version 6.5 i believe) in order to try out
Linux.

Unfortunately i have a problem

my cd drive is E: (dvd drive)
installing to hard drive D: (16gb)

(win98 is on C:)

After running install in windows and setting up my options:-
warn on exit
create shortcut
2gb native
128mb swap

The comp restarts, then alot of text comes up on screen telling me what is
happening
then it freezes saying this:-

partition check:
hda: hda1
hdb: hdb1
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:21
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:21

So i can never install it on my comp.

However, i have a laptop and tried installing it on that
hard drive C: (6gb)
dvd drive D:
It worked fine when installing it on the laptop, but i dont want it on the
laptop, i need it on the main comp!!

Can anyone please help??

From
Ant

Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PCs: Linux edition]

[Jaguar]

afiak, you have to shrink the larger one before you can grow the smaller one,
the reason being is the software looks at free hard drive space...if the drive
is full of partitions, there is no free space to add to anything.
Once the space is re-allocated, you shouldn't have any more problems with
MDK...:)
HTH
Jaguar

Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great. Can't wait. Although, I have a couple of question? I have the
> following on my drive:
> 
> C partition = 2047 MB. => This is for WinNT4
> D partition = 2044 MB. => This is my Linux partition
> E partition = 15 GB. => This is NTFS with lots of room
> 
> In which order would you begin resizing D and E.? Or, does it matter?
> I was trying out some of the rpms that came with the CDs. During the
> install, it said disk full?
> 
> 
> 
> Charles A Edwards wrote:
> > 
> > Roman
> >I have "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" 11th ed. It came with QUE
editions
> > of Drive Image Pro and PartitionMagic. This PM will work on NTFS.
> > 
> >Charles
> > 
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:03 AM
> > Subject: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I received a reply a few days ago about the book "Upgrading and
> > > Repairing PC's: Linux edition.
> > > Do they supply a CD with a Boot Partition program that supports the
> > > resizing of NTFS. I would like to make my NTFS partition smaller. I
> > > would like to add more room for my Linux 7.0 Power Pack.
> > > I originally partitioned by D drive to about 2044 MB. However, I
noticed
> > > that after installing many RPMs, KDE indicated that I had did not have
> > > any more room on my disk. Sound familiar?
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?

> - 
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>   MIME Type: text/x-vcard 
> - 

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Re: [newbie]Modem Setup

[Charles A Edwards]

Murray
   If your Phoenix BIOS is the same as on an HP Pavilon I at one time had
you access the BIOS by pressing F1 before the boot screen appears. It had an
HP splash screen and then the boot sequence started and you had to press F1
while the splash screen was displayed.

   Charles


- Original Message -
From: "bascule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie]Modem Setup


> if you truly have never modified anything in your motherboards bios
> before then perhaps before you try to do so you should check to see if
> your modem has any jumpers or switches on it to set it to a different
> irq/io range/com port, as an isa modem it may well do so, i have a
> generic isa modem that i have set to irq5 using jumpers on the card and
> it installs into windows as com3 and in linux as /dev/ttyS2,
>
> if no joy then while your machine is booting up, when you see the post
> screen -the memory count and ide drive detect- try pressing the delete
> button on your keyboard, older motherboards and certain less common
> brands have other ways to access the bios but this usually works, your
> machine is quite newish sounding and i would hope that hp gave you a
> manual with it! you should than see a simple menu of bios options to
> access, try using the cursor keys to navigate around, if memory serves
> you will want to select a set of options entitled 'integrated
> peripherals' or something similar, select and press return, if you have
> the right set of options you will see an entry for com ports, select
> com2 by highlighting it, and if your bios is navigated the same way as
> mine, then use pageup or pagedown buttons to scroll through various
> options for this com port, note the currently selected value before
> changing, look for a value called 'disabled' press escape and highlight
> a screen option called save changes and exit, press return, press y for
> yes.
>
> as i have implied this how to alter things in the bios on my motherboard
> which is an award bios v4.60, yours may operate differently,
>
> let us know if this works
>
> bascule
>
> Murray wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've never modified anything in BIOS before, how would I go about doing
> > that?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Murray
>
>

Re: [newbie]Modem Setup

[bascule]

the motherboard bios reference to com2 refers to the 'onboard'
motherboard com port, if not disabled then it will conflict with any
other comports that use the same settings, isa modems that are not
winmodems will install as an extra comport as well as a modem,

bascule


> And just out of curiosity, it just occurred to me:  if the modem is *on*
> COM2, how will disabling COM2 help?  Wouldn't disabling COM1 or 3
> perhaps be more sensible?

Re: [newbie]Modem Setup

[bascule]

if you truly have never modified anything in your motherboards bios
before then perhaps before you try to do so you should check to see if
your modem has any jumpers or switches on it to set it to a different
irq/io range/com port, as an isa modem it may well do so, i have a
generic isa modem that i have set to irq5 using jumpers on the card and
it installs into windows as com3 and in linux as /dev/ttyS2,

if no joy then while your machine is booting up, when you see the post
screen -the memory count and ide drive detect- try pressing the delete
button on your keyboard, older motherboards and certain less common
brands have other ways to access the bios but this usually works, your
machine is quite newish sounding and i would hope that hp gave you a
manual with it! you should than see a simple menu of bios options to
access, try using the cursor keys to navigate around, if memory serves
you will want to select a set of options entitled 'integrated
peripherals' or something similar, select and press return, if you have
the right set of options you will see an entry for com ports, select
com2 by highlighting it, and if your bios is navigated the same way as
mine, then use pageup or pagedown buttons to scroll through various
options for this com port, note the currently selected value before
changing, look for a value called 'disabled' press escape and highlight
a screen option called save changes and exit, press return, press y for
yes.

as i have implied this how to alter things in the bios on my motherboard
which is an award bios v4.60, yours may operate differently,

let us know if this works

bascule

Murray wrote:
> 
>
> I've never modified anything in BIOS before, how would I go about doing
> that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Murray

Re: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition

[Romanator]

Sounds good. I thought that PM comes in Windows format? Oh yeah, how
about this speed. Pretty good.
Thanks Denis. Keep up the good work on your web. I think it's a great
idea. It may cut down on the amount of emails that you have to always
answer. I know, I've grown some extra callouses (is that how you spell
it?)

Thanks Charles. I'll let you all know what happens.




Charles A Edwards wrote:
> 
> Roman
>You have to resize your E partition first otherwise there is no space to
> increase the size of your D partition.
>One other word on the spec. ed. PM is that you can install it in NT when
> you use it , it runs in DOS.
> 
>Charles
> 
> P.S. I hope the server speed stays like this.
> Thanks Denis, even if you did not do anything.
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition
> 
> > Great. Can't wait. Although, I have a couple of question? I have the
> > following on my drive:
> >
> > C partition = 2047 MB. => This is for WinNT4
> > D partition = 2044 MB. => This is my Linux partition
> > E partition = 15 GB. => This is NTFS with lots of room
> >
> > In which order would you begin resizing D and E.? Or, does it matter?
> > I was trying out some of the rpms that came with the CDs. During the
> > install, it said disk full?
> >
> >
> >
> > Charles A Edwards wrote:
> > >
> > > Roman
> > >I have "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" 11th ed. It came with QUE
> editions
> > > of Drive Image Pro and PartitionMagic. This PM will work on NTFS.
> > >
> > >Charles
> > >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:03 AM
> > > Subject: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I received a reply a few days ago about the book "Upgrading and
> > > > Repairing PC's: Linux edition.
> > > > Do they supply a CD with a Boot Partition program that supports the
> > > > resizing of NTFS. I would like to make my NTFS partition smaller. I
> > > > would like to add more room for my Linux 7.0 Power Pack.
> > > > I originally partitioned by D drive to about 2044 MB. However, I
> noticed
> > > > that after installing many RPMs, KDE indicated that I had did not have
> > > > any more room on my disk. Sound familiar?
> > > >
> > > > Any thoughts?

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Re: [newbie] OT: free internet

[Andy]

What do you mean talk to a regional distributor for freeewwweb? you dont
need to. Just look up how to manually set it up for linux. www.isps-free.com
is freewwweb and it might be more helpful, the layout of the page is easier
to follow.

- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: free internet


> Art,
> The web site says to talk to one of the regional (distributors? I
don't
> remember exactly).  I sent an email to one in Maryland and never got a
reply.
>  Is the sign-up worth the hassle?  I want to check a list of local phone
> numbers to be sure this is going to be a local call, otherwise it isn't
worth
> doing.  I don't have a good "first impression" though many on this list
> recommend them and use them.  I'd like to get AOL out of my pocket, too.
> -Gary-
>
>
> In a message dated 6/5/2000 7:41:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> << www.freewwweb.com seems to work very well. The home page is very simple
and
>  sets up a standard dialer or tells you what to put in your internet
settings
>  and mail settings.
>
>  Art
>   >>
>
>

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Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email
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Re: [newbie] Problems With Supermounted CDROM

[Denis HAVLIK]

Take a look at 

/etc/fstab

and maybe also

/etc/lilo.conf

Fix what is needed there, and run /sbin/lilo if you had to change anything
in lilo.conf.

cu
Denis 

:~>Hello there... This one's a simple for sure, but not for me who deals
:~>with supermount for the first time. OK, here's the story. 
:~>I've had my CDROM as /dev/hdc , but then I moved it over to /dev/hdd .
:~>For some reason, kudzu didn't "notice" the CDROM when it was

-- 
-
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Quality Assurance  (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
---oOO--(_)--OOo-
The only thing I see here is two things: (Oskuro at /.)

Re: [newbie] what does Update look for ?

[Denis HAVLIK]

It looks for security-relevant updates. All the rest goes to cooker.

:~>
:~>Hi,
:~>In an earlier post from Denis it was suggested that getting the most
:~>current sounddrake might solve problems with 7.1 and SB Live! cards.
:~>Shouldn't an app like that show up in the list when I launch the Update
:~>tool since themost current wasn't included with 7.1 ? On the Harddrake
:~>site, it has a few package updates, one of which is needed for
:~>sounddrake. That sd version also needs a newer alsa installed, that will
:~>be the next adventure. None of these are displayed in the update window,
:~>so what does update look for ? Or should those packages be displayed and
:~>my update is not working correctly ?
:~>
:~>thanks,
:~>philomena
:~>

-- 
-
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Re: [newbie] Disconnect when on holiday!

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>Hey, folks - when you go on holiday how about switching off your
:~>connection to the mandrake mailing list!  As the summer
:~>approaches (at least here in the UK and in the northern
:~>hemisphere) I can forsee lots of automated replies being
:~>circulated if we don't help each other in this way.

Use .procmail for your auto-repliers. Here is my receipt:

# autoreply
:0 Whc: autoreply.lock
 * !^FROM_DAEMON
 * !^X-Loop: .*\@havlik.org
 * !^X-Loop: .*\@mandrakesoft.com
 * !^Precedence: list
  | formail -rD 32768 vacation.cache
  :0 ehc # if the name was not in the cache
| (formail -rA"Precedence: junk" \
-A"X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" ; \
cat ~/.plan \
  ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t


This part: 

* !^Precedence: list

ensures that i do not send auto-replies to lists, and 

  | formail -rD 32768 vacation.cache
  :0 ehc # if the name was not in the cache

Makes sure you get my message only once (until the cache is
filled.). Normally, you would not use so large cache, but I receive a HUGE
load of messages. "~/.plan" is a file containing my message.

It is still a good idea to filter lists before this rule (saves time). For
instance:

# Mandrake mailing lists
:0:
* Precedence: list
* X-Loop:.*\/\<[a-z\-]+\@linux\-mandrake.com
{
  LIST = $MATCH
  :0:
  * LIST ?? ()\/[a-z\-]+
  {
LIST = $MATCH
:0 c:
* LIST ?? fun
* BH ?? \<(sound)\< 
! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
:0:
mail/Mandrake/$LIST 
   }
}

sorts all mandrake mailing lists to their own folders, so that I can read
post directed to me first, and lists when I have time to do it. 

cheers
Denis
-- 
-
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Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quality Assurance  (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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The only thing I see here is two things: (Oskuro at /.)

[newbie] 3Com 905B-TX ;-}

[David L.]

Hi All

The saga of this controller is finished. I'm taking the bandwidth to thank
all that have contributed ideas to me, and clear up any misunderstandings
that might have been created.

The actual fix turned out to be * just * turn off PnP setting in the bios.
LM 7.0 regular install then is sufficient.

No additional tinkering was needed.

Again, thanks to all that have assisted me.

David
---
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Re: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition

[Charles A Edwards]

Roman
   You have to resize your E partition first otherwise there is no space to
increase the size of your D partition.
   One other word on the spec. ed. PM is that you can install it in NT when
you use it , it runs in DOS.

   Charles

P.S. I hope the server speed stays like this.
Thanks Denis, even if you did not do anything.


- Original Message -
From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition


> Great. Can't wait. Although, I have a couple of question? I have the
> following on my drive:
>
> C partition = 2047 MB. => This is for WinNT4
> D partition = 2044 MB. => This is my Linux partition
> E partition = 15 GB. => This is NTFS with lots of room
>
> In which order would you begin resizing D and E.? Or, does it matter?
> I was trying out some of the rpms that came with the CDs. During the
> install, it said disk full?
>
>
>
> Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Roman
> >I have "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" 11th ed. It came with QUE
editions
> > of Drive Image Pro and PartitionMagic. This PM will work on NTFS.
> >
> >Charles
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:03 AM
> > Subject: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I received a reply a few days ago about the book "Upgrading and
> > > Repairing PC's: Linux edition.
> > > Do they supply a CD with a Boot Partition program that supports the
> > > resizing of NTFS. I would like to make my NTFS partition smaller. I
> > > would like to add more room for my Linux 7.0 Power Pack.
> > > I originally partitioned by D drive to about 2044 MB. However, I
noticed
> > > that after installing many RPMs, KDE indicated that I had did not have
> > > any more room on my disk. Sound familiar?
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?

[newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

[Ronald J. Hall]

Here is my setup:

AMD K6-3 @475mhz
128 megs of Ram
Voodoo 3000
SB Xgamer
Gigabyte MB
Award BIOS
Western Digital Caviar series HD
Diamond Supra internal (ISA) v.90 modem
Mandrake v7.0 PowerPack

I built this system, and installed everything by
myself, (and I'm a newbie) so beware... 

Anyways, everything went fine, installation is
good. I'm up and running, all hardware is found,
working...

Until shutdown. No matter how I shutdown, from
the graphical logon screen, to "shutdown now"
from a shell, I always get a final B&W text
screen that displays a segmentation error, with
an error in line x, something to do with rec.d.

Any ideas? I've reinstalled a couple of times,
just in case it was something I did. I used all
the recommended settings.

Thanks!

[newbie] Doom question...

[Ronald J. Hall]

Okay, I grabbed the rpm of Doom from my Mandrake
7.0 CD, and installed it via kpackage. It runs,
as long as I use drakconf to set my desktop colors
to 256. Is there any way to get it to run on my
normal Voodoo 3000 setup? (1024 x 768 x 32bit).

Thanks!

PS and what about that ultra small window? :-)

Re: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list? (SOLUTION)

[Fran Parker]

Hi Denis,
Excellent "solution"
Will keep this email for reference :)
Bambi

Denis HAVLIK wrote:

> Hi, all (especially bascule)
>
> Your e-mail:
>
> :~>Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:41:13 +0100
> :~>From: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> :~>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> :~>To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> :~>Subject: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list?
>
> was a bit too long for me, but I will try to explain why one should
> publicly thank for a solution of his problem, and how.
>
> [WHY?]
> --
> There are two reasons for "thx it solved my problem" messages:
>
> 1) Feels good for one who solved the problem.
> 2) Makes searching the list-archive easier
>
> [HOW?]
> --
> If you want to be really usefull member of our little family, try
> to formulate these "thx a lot" messages in the way I formulated this
> message:
>
> 1) Change subject line from "Cannot mount CD" into
> "Cannot mount CD (SOLUTION)"
>
> 2) Start the mail with "Hi, Steve" (or whoverer it was who solved
> your problem), followed by: Your solution to my "Cannot mount CD" problem
> worked perfectly.
>
> 3)Include headers of Steve-s e-mail, so that the one who searches later
> has all the info about the mail you are refering to.
>
> 4) Give a SHORT summary of what the problem was, and what was a solution.
>
> [RESUME]
> -
> Thus, when someone else searches the archive for "cannot mount CD", he
> will find an e-mail with "SOLVED" in subject. Your short description
> should be enough to make it clear if his problem is the same as yours was,
> and name+email of the one who proposed the solution serves as a reference
> to Steve-s e-mail with solution.
>
> cu
> Denis
> --
> -
> Dr. Denis Havlik
> Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Quality Assurance  (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
> The only thing I see here is two things: (Oskuro at /.)

Re: RE: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo

[dritchie]

You should set up Mandrake in expert mode and chose not to use lilo, but create a boot 
disk. Look around and find the latest lilo rpm at a mandrake ftp site then copy it to 
a floppy (it should fit).  Boot with the boot disk into Mandrake, take out the boot 
disk and put in the one with lilo. Then open the floppy and click on the rpm. The next 
screen should be the installer. Install it. Now open lilo.conf, create any partitions 
that you know you have that aren't displayed. Also add on a line by itself "lba32" 
without the quotes somewhere BEFORE you specify any of the partitions (i put it right 
before the "default=whatever" command. This will allow lilo to understand the 20G hard 
drive (I haave the exact same setup, except Mandrake is on a partition at the end of 
my 20G, and the 6G is strictly a system backup)

I hope this helps. ( I think the latest release of lilo is lilo 0.21.4.3-1)

Good Luck

Dave

>
>From: "Eric MC DECLERCK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:50:25 +0200
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo
>
>When setup LILO did yu select also DOS ??
>If not resetup LILO with lilo.conf and run lilo.
>Take a look at info or man lilo. Or at page 275 of your User Guide and
>Reference Manual.
>If it don't help you can utilise loadlin.
>Eric MC
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Lance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 6:31 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo
>>
>>
>> can somebody please help me with the problem below in my original post?
>> thanks.
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lance wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>> 
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>

[newbie] rhosts format

[flupke]

Hi there.
Can anyone remind me of the format used in the ~/.rhosts file?
I want to exec commands on a remote host in my intranet with rsh.

Also : will it work with ssh or do I have to use another authentification
method? And if I must, how do I do it?

Thanx.
Flupke

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Re: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list? (SOLUTION)

[Denis HAVLIK]

Hi, all (especially bascule)

Your e-mail:
  
:~>Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:41:13 +0100
:~>From: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:~>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~>To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:~>Subject: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list?

was a bit too long for me, but I will try to explain why one should
publicly thank for a solution of his problem, and how.

[WHY?]
--
There are two reasons for "thx it solved my problem" messages:

1) Feels good for one who solved the problem.
2) Makes searching the list-archive easier

[HOW?]
--
If you want to be really usefull member of our little family, try
to formulate these "thx a lot" messages in the way I formulated this
message:

1) Change subject line from "Cannot mount CD" into 
"Cannot mount CD (SOLUTION)"

2) Start the mail with "Hi, Steve" (or whoverer it was who solved
your problem), followed by: Your solution to my "Cannot mount CD" problem
worked perfectly.

3)Include headers of Steve-s e-mail, so that the one who searches later
has all the info about the mail you are refering to.

4) Give a SHORT summary of what the problem was, and what was a solution. 

[RESUME]
-
Thus, when someone else searches the archive for "cannot mount CD", he
will find an e-mail with "SOLVED" in subject. Your short description
should be enough to make it clear if his problem is the same as yours was,
and name+email of the one who proposed the solution serves as a reference
to Steve-s e-mail with solution. 

cu
Denis
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Re: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo

[Charles A Edwards]

Lance
I did not see your post untill last night
as I was leaving for work.
Did you see Marc's post [newbie]Re: Lilo 1/0. It gives an explanation
for your problem at boot with Lilo.
Win2000 if you have more than 2 bootable OSs does have its own
bootloader and as I said I can give you the direction for doing so. It does
require editing and though I can tell you how, it is only fair to tell you
that I have not actually done it myself, the direction come from QUE "Using
Win2000 Prfessional".
   Another option if your BIOS allows you to choose which hd it boots first,
you can set it for your second drive install Mandrake and Lilo there and you
should be able to boot either OS and if for some reason that does not work
just change your BIOS back and you will auto boot to Win2000 and/or use a
boot disk to start Linux.

   Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Lance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo


>
> charles
> thanks for the help! i'm a little confused though: i disabled all of
> norton and my bios doesn't have any anti-virus features active...i dont
> have the win2000 boot loader activated either, and i dont know how to? are
> you saying i can use the win2000 bootloader instead of lilo? if so how?
> cant thank you enough for the help!
>
> lance
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote:
>
> > Lance
> >You should disable all Norton especially AutoProtect and disable any
> > anti-virus settings in your BIOS. The BIOS setting is the one that
caught me
> > when I first installed Linux on a WIN98/Win2000 system.
> >If you have fixed your Win2000 MBR if you choose you can add Linux to
it
> > rather than using LILO as your boot loader.
> >
> >
> >Charles  :-)
>
>
>

Re: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition

[Romanator]

Great. Can't wait. Although, I have a couple of question? I have the
following on my drive:

C partition = 2047 MB. => This is for WinNT4
D partition = 2044 MB. => This is my Linux partition
E partition = 15 GB. => This is NTFS with lots of room

In which order would you begin resizing D and E.? Or, does it matter?
I was trying out some of the rpms that came with the CDs. During the
install, it said disk full?



Charles A Edwards wrote:
> 
> Roman
>I have "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" 11th ed. It came with QUE editions
> of Drive Image Pro and PartitionMagic. This PM will work on NTFS.
> 
>Charles
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:03 AM
> Subject: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I received a reply a few days ago about the book "Upgrading and
> > Repairing PC's: Linux edition.
> > Do they supply a CD with a Boot Partition program that supports the
> > resizing of NTFS. I would like to make my NTFS partition smaller. I
> > would like to add more room for my Linux 7.0 Power Pack.
> > I originally partitioned by D drive to about 2044 MB. However, I noticed
> > that after installing many RPMs, KDE indicated that I had did not have
> > any more room on my disk. Sound familiar?
> >
> > Any thoughts?

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Re: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition

[Charles A Edwards]

Roman
   I have "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" 11th ed. It came with QUE editions
of Drive Image Pro and PartitionMagic. This PM will work on NTFS.

   Charles


- Original Message -
From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: [newbie] Upgrading and Repairing PC's: Linux edition


> Hi,
>
> I received a reply a few days ago about the book "Upgrading and
> Repairing PC's: Linux edition.
> Do they supply a CD with a Boot Partition program that supports the
> resizing of NTFS. I would like to make my NTFS partition smaller. I
> would like to add more room for my Linux 7.0 Power Pack.
> I originally partitioned by D drive to about 2044 MB. However, I noticed
> that after installing many RPMs, KDE indicated that I had did not have
> any more room on my disk. Sound familiar?
>
> Any thoughts?

Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem

[flupke]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Mick Spice wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have recently installed the Mandrake Gold Pack version of Linux, and 
> most things seem to be working fine.
> 
> I have two problems.
> 1) My sound cards is new, and not on the supported list(s). I realise that 
> I will need to replace this with something that is supported. Any 
> suggestions as to what to buy would be appreciated.
I have an SB128. It's cheap and it works great, as far as you don't want a
high-quality sound system. It's fine for gaming, listening to music and
such...

> 
> 2) [and more of a problem] is the fact that system seems to think that I 
> have a US keyboard, whne in fact I have a UK keyboard. This makes life at 
> the prompt a problem :-( with no 'pipe' character readily available.
> I assume that there is some way (short of a re-install) that I can fix this ?
I think you can change that in drakxconf. Or you can also modify your
boot files, but I don't know which one loads the keyboard...

HTH
Flupke

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Re: [Re: [newbie] isapnp config error]

[Michael Scottaline]

"Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FORGET THIS WENT OUT AND TRADED FOR EXTERNAL!!! THANKS!!!
==
I was going to recommend such a course of action.  You won't regret it.
Yeah, they're usually about $10 more, but so much easier to set up, virtually
NEVER winmodems, and you get visual feedback about what's going on with your
connection.  All newbies experiencing modem problems should take note.  Good
Luck.
Mike

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than alcohol has taken out of me."
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Re: [[newbie] how do i disable gui login?]

[Michael Scottaline]

Morpheus233 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i like the Console when i login to linux
> and mandrake 7.1 takes me to some gui login to get on X 
> anyone know how to disable that?
> 
> -- 
> Juvenal (Morpheus233)

You can edit /etc/inittab
Change the 5 in the line
id:5:initdefault
to a 3
Mike


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Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

[Fran Parker]

Did you use the i386.rpm of it? or source?
May want to try an earlier version I am using 1.0 Millenium version
That works well, except misc options.
Bambi
PS  I will go to KVirc and see if I can get it and install it.
However, it wouldn't be conclusive since I am using 7.0 (Air).
Sorry.

Digital Wokan wrote:

> Actually, I just tried installing KVirc 2.0.0 from the KVirc official
> site and it core dumped immediately under Mandrake 7.1.  Perhaps I
> should look at the Extension CD, but it looks like MandrakeSoft may have
> left KVirc in the dust.  In fact, I haven't seen anything but console
> IRC clients on the Install CD.
>
> Fran Parker wrote:
> >
> > hi Kevin,
> >
> > I am not a Wine expert..infact I am still trying to get dosemu to work on
> > my ATI All in Wonder Card in VGA mode.
> >
> > Two things though.
> >
> > user.dat is a system file for windows, everyone has them.  I think it is
> > looking for it in the wrong place, mine is located on my c drive on the
> > windows partition:  dos_c/windows/user.dat
> >
> > You can locate yours within kde with find by searching the root for user.dat
> >
> > Then you can modify the config file for wine to represent where yours is.
> >
> > Second, if you like mIRC, you might want to take a look at KVirc.  I love
> > mIRC, and KVirc is a very close version of irc for linux.  I really like it.
> > http://www.kvirc.org
> >
> > Hope these suggestions help out.
> >
> > Bambi
> >
> > kevin wrote:
> >
> > > Hi gang.
> > >
> > > I have been using mandrake a few weeks nows, and so far I have got everything to
> > > work well, apart from wine. I d/loaded  rpm version 2526 and installed
> > > it.After I changed the wine.conf,  I run wine, and I get the following error.
> > >
> > > Invalid path c:\windows\Profiles\adminustrator for profile directory
> > > cant find users.dat
> > >
> > > I looked though windoz and I dont seem to have those anyway. I am  huge fan of
> > > mIRC, and that is the prime reason I wish to to wine. I loaded mIRC up, and it
> > > gave me a bunch of error messages. Too many to post on the ML
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there are any wine experts out there, and can help me in
> > > private?
> > >
> > > Many thanx
> > >
> > > Kev

Re: [newbie] path

[flupke]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, ryan geer wrote:

> ive downloaded suns sdk and cant seem to get the path set right. 
> probably because i dont really understand the whole path concept 
> so  if you have a good source of information re: paths or 
> more specifically have installed suns free jdk, could you drop me a 
> line?
> 
> thanks.

You have to modify some environement variables in order to have the sun
jdk running correctly. I have already done it, and I simply followed the
instructions provided in the various README's in the package. But I don't
remember exactly how it worked.
If you want to avoid problems, you can choose the easy solution and simply
install the kaffe package on the mdk CD. It also provides a java
environement, but without the $PATH problems.

HTH
Flupke

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Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux

[Anthony Huereca]

Once you get your Linux file system up, as root, type "lilo". 

> Hello, I had to re-install windows this evening.  I
> had been using LILO to choose OS.  Windows is on
> primary master (hda), Linux is on primary slave (hdb).
>  LILO was set to use hda as the bootable partition. 
> Anyway, now I cannot reach linux with my boot disk and
> partition magic doesn't see a bootable linux partition
> either.  I made the classic newbie move here.
> 
> I have full read write access to my linux file system
> thanks to a rescue CDrom.  I just need to know which
> files to change so that I can get LILO going again. 
> Does anyone know what those would be?  I'm at a loss.
> 
> I tried changing LILO.conf to point to hdb as the
> bootable which didn't work.  I also tried hdb1 which
> is my /boot partition.  No go.  hdb5 is linux swap,
> hdb6 is / and hdb7 is /home.  It seems that the
> windows installation proces overwrote the MBR of hdb
> because partition magic reports a small extended dos
> partition on that drive where there formerly were
> none.
> 
> 
> Its 2:30 am and thats what I know.  Thanks for any
> help folks.
> 
> 
> Dacia
> 
> 
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Re: [newbie] Telly card

[flupke]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Emanuele La Rosa wrote:

> I would like to use TV card on linux. The point is that I've downloaded
> Kwintv, I installed it, but it can find my TV card (device /dev/video). I hope
> anybody can tell me a way to install my TVcard modell  Magic TView (I ignore
> the chip inside because it is a present)

You will find out what chip you have by issuing this command :
cat /proc/pci
One of the entry that will be displayed will concern you TV card.

Then, before running kv4lsetup and kwintv, you have to load the
appropriate module into the kernel. With my Pinnacle studio PCTV, I have
to load videodev, i2c, tuner and bttv. But maybe this is not the case for
you.
There is a bttv mini-HOWTO. Read it for more info.

PS : I think that I also had to rebuild the video devices (man MAKEDEV)

HTH
Flupke

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