Re: [newbie] ZIP drive

[Mike & Tracy Holt]

Don't know if this has been answered yet, but do you have a disk in the
drive?

Mike

> > Edison Gica wrote:
> >
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > i'm trying to install my 100MB Zip drive (external connected to
printer
> > > port).  i tried following the manual but when I click on the icon on
the
> > > desktop an error message comes up 'invalid block device'.
> > >
> > > is there a kernel that i have to install first from the LM 7 cd?
> > >
> > > thanks all.
> > >

> > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at
http://www.hotmail.com
> >
> > Hi Gica,
> >Mandrake found my zip drive alright. When you first installed it with
> > your installation disk does it can for scsi devices? If not, you will
> > probably have to manually loan the module and edit fstab.
> > Here is what I done to get my external drive working.
> >
> > Mkdir /mnt/zip
> >
> > insmod parport
> > insmod ppa
> > mount -t msdos /dev/sdX4 /mnt/zip
> >
> > You shouldn't have to load parport.o. Since we aren't using pre 5.2.
> >
> > Add the folling line to /etc/fstab
> >
> > /dev/sda4   /mnt/zip vfatuser,noauto   0   0
> >
> > That entire line needs to be in the fstab file.
> > I use /dev/sda4. That will probably work with you but no guarantees
there.
> >
> > Then just type: mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
> > your drive should light up and initialize. BTW: If you don't have
> > a zip disk in the drive when you tried to access it on your desktop,
> > it will give you an error. :)
> >
> > Here is another way to get it working. My friend had success using this.
> >
> > mkdir /mnt/zip
> > cd /mnt
> > insmod #imm
> > mount -t msdos /dev/sdb4 /mnt/zip
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> > Chris
> >
> >

[newbie] Problem with Xwindows.

[Ashraf \(Muhammad\) Al-Jumayli]

I'm having a problem with Xwindows,  I tried to configure it but when it was 
done the window came out huge and it was shifted to the right.  I tried to 
choose different resolutions but it didnt fix the problem, I tried different 
monitors and it didnt fix the problem either, could it be my video card? i 
have an "Intel i810" video card, which is not listed, so i chose the "Intel 
i740".  Someone suggested I use "xvidtune" but that didnt work, instead it 
gave me an error and said "unable to display".  If you have any suggestions 
or know how to fix this problem, please tell me.

Thank you.


Ashraf M.


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[newbie] Screen Power Off

[Gustavo Halperin]

   I did not  find in the Screen Sarver some thing for 
Power Off   the Screen after
some  time.   Can I do  this in Linux  
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Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail

[Glyn Millington]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:56:07PM -0400, thus spake Charles A Edwards:
>I received nearly 30 of the following messages this afternoon. The
> attachment were all replys that I had sent and all did post to the list so
> why I getting undelivered notices now. Is this happening to anyone else.
> 
>Charles
> 
> >This is the Postfix program at host webserver.
> 
> >I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> >below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
> 
> >For further assistance, please contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> >If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> >delete your own text from the message returned below.
> 
> >The Postfix program


Same here!



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Re: [newbie] libstdc++ missing?

[Anthony Huereca]

You need to install libstdc++-devel  too.

> I'm trying to install licq-0.81 on my newly installed 7.1 box. ./configure
> gets to the point of checking for vector.h, returns no, and tells me
> configure: error: You need to have the libstdc++ headers installed
> 
> I go to rpmfind.net, pick up libstdc++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm.
> rpm -i libstdc++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm tells me
> package libstdc++-2.95.2-7mdk is already installed.
> 
> Meaning it's there but licq can't find it. I've compiled several other
> things on this machine with no problems.
> 
> Any hints? Thanks.
> 
> - John
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Re: [newbie] Can't Boot Windblows

[Anthony Huereca]

fdisk /mbr

> Hi people,
> I've just installed MDK7.1 onto the second hd and then I did reformat of
> the first hd - hda and then a complete restore of Windblows98
> Now, Windblows won't boot (it just boots straight into Linux).
> I know Ive been here before with the same problem, but could somebody
> remind me of the Dos command I need to run to put things right?
> Thanks for your patience,
> Paul
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Re: [newbie] subscribing to digest?

[Jeremy]

seems this is an FAQ, maybe it could be added to the welcome note
from sympa after the authorisation is complete?

just my $NZD0.04 worth :-)

Jeremy

Denis HAVLIK wrote:

> :~>how do you digestify this list? i tried the digest option on mandrake.com,
> :~>and it said the list didn't exist! thanks
>
> by sending "SET newbie DIGEST" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> cu
> Denis
> --
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Re: [newbie] why is this?

[Mike & Tracy Holt]

I don't know, I seem to get better download times on my Win2k box than
either of my Win98 or Linux boxes... let the flames begin!!!  Seriously
though, on any of your OS's you can tweak the settings to allow different
connections.  Not all hardware is created the same - you're using a 28.8
modem, Windows may be optimized for the 56k flavour.  I'm connected via dsl
on a lan and I honestly have noticed considerably higher download speeds on
Win2k.  (Me thinks it's time to play with all my settings!)

Mike

> I would take an educated guess and say the TCP/IP stack in Linux is far
more
> optimized.
>
> -Chris
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Actually I get a better connection in linux on my 28.8 modem then in
> > windows. :)
> > - Original Message -
> > From: Fred Banana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:40 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] why is this?
> >
> >
> > > I often have noticed that I get a continuesly higher download speed in
> > linux
> > > than in windows. the speed in windows averages about 3.4 kbits/seconds
and
> > > that seems as fast as we get. in linux I get an average of 5.5
> > kbits/seconds
> > > with spikes around 12 or 15 kbits/second.  The same dialup isp and
> > > modem and I am using a pci modem from actiontec, (call-waiting model)
and
> > I was
> > > wondering if anyone might have a clue as  to why?
> > > are these numbers accurate or is the software averaging the difference
and
> > > showing me what Uncle Bill and Uncle Linus want me to see?
> > > sure SEEMS faster in linux...
> > >  heck, maybe I can get
> > > my win-blows setup to work better to.
> > >
> > >

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE 100tx problems w/ mdk7

[RRPotratz]

RRPotratz wrote:
 
 What are the numbers on the biggest chip on the card? If one of them is
 LC82C169 it should work well as I've got two running on different
 distros, If it says version 2.0 somewhere on the card in white
lettering
 then it requires the latest tulip driver which you may have to compile
 yourself. Did have that working in that way but it is no longer in a
box
 right now. RRP
 
> David Talbot wrote:
> >
> > I speak from absolute experience here. I too picked up that card (Ohhh a
> > $10 NIC), and there are currently no drivers for linux. Sorry. The NE2000's
> > work great though...
> >
> > -David Talbot
> >
> > At 09:47 PM 6/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
> > >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] TV howto set it up (fwd)

[Jose M. Sanchez]

My $.02

Have you brought up a mixer for your sound card and ENABLED the Line-in
port?

It may be off by default.

Note that with some of the original Brooktree drivers there was a reported
problem wherein the TV tuner card's audio output was not being enabled or
reset.

Since the card comes up with audio output OFF, this can be problematic.

-JMS

|-Original Message-
|From: Max Moritz Sievers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 4:21 AM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [newbie] TV howto set it up (fwd)
|
|
|Am Wed, 14 Jun 2000 schrieb Andrew Scotchmer:
|>   Gary,
|>You'll need something like KwinTV that I downloaded from
|Linuxberg.
|>You'll also need the drivers for your card.  I have
|hauppauge WinTV
|>and use the BTTV drivers and you can learn about how to configure
|>and get it all up an running at the BTTV Howto at
www.linuxdoc.org.
>
>   Andrew

I have installed my hauppauge WinTV but I have no Sound. I have
connected the "line out" of the TV-card with the "line in" of the
soundcard but I dont get sound. My sondcard is a Soundblaster Live
(emu10k1).
Any ideas to get it work?

Max Moritz Sievers

[newbie] procmail sorting

[Monte Milanuk]

Hello, all.

I am trying to re-process my 'old' mail and get some  procmail filters
working, such as removing duplicates, etc.  Does anyone know how to take
an existing mailbox and 'feed' it back thru again?  I tried 'cat inbox
>> /var/spool/mail/monte' which just dumped everything back in the
inbox, apparently bypassing procmail somehow.  Does anyone have any good
ideas on this?

Thanks for your time,

Monte


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Re: [newbie] Rescue Disk

[Mark Weaver]

Awesome! I can hardly wait to see it. Although I think I'm going to give
myself and my machine time to get used to Mandrake. I only wish I would
have taken a look at it sooner. It sure is sweet!

-- 
Mark

I love my Linux Box...
My Linux Box Rocks!

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Chris Hall wrote:

:Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 18:09:37 -0400
:From: Chris Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:Subject: Re: [newbie] Rescue Disk
:
:Well, 7.1 is alot different from 7.0. The newest additions is the software
:mostly. Installation is pretty much the same and so is the configuration.
:But 7.1 set up all my hardware including zip driver, printer, etc...
:Configuration is pretty much the same. But I LOVE xfree86 4.0. I think
:its just way quicker then 3.3.6.
:
:
:
:
:
:Mark Weaver wrote:
:
:> I've got a question about 7.1. At the present time I'm running RedHat 6.2
:> on one drive and on another I've got Mandrake 7.0 installed. I'm falling
:> in love with Mandrake very quickly, but I'm noticing that it's not as easy
:> to configure as RedHat was. Not to mention that some things don't install
:> as well such as Star Office.
:>
:> My question is, is Mandrake 7.1 any better behaved than 7.0 and what's
:> configuring it like?
:>
:> thanks,
:>
:> Mark
:>
:>
:>
:>
:

RE: [newbie] networking question

[Jose M. Sanchez]

Once it's up and running, you don't need much.

The problem is that the installers and configuration utilities utilize X
windows...

Yes, you can do this in textmode... but it becomes very complicated for a
newbie to deal with textmode and script editing... etc.

Anyway after things are set up 32 megs or less will often do as long as the
latency between your interfaces is relatively low.

You have a P100 which is normally adecuate for cable modem speeds, esp. due
to the PCI bus.

He is talking about a 486. Have you every tried a dual ISA 486
configuration?

It works, if you minimize the installation requirements... but performance
is not optimal... or you can run something like the floppy based bare Linux
distros which tend to work well... like the Linux Router Project...

For Mandrake, however he is best advised to get more RAM... just to permit
the install to complete. Use X to set things up and test... and then he can
dump X and all the X apps.

Or, help him set it up in text mode...

-JMS




|-Original Message-
|From: flupke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 6:21 AM
|To: bascule
|Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [newbie] networking question
|
|
|I don't agree. I have a firewall between my LAN and my cable-modem
|internet connection, with the following configuration :
|P100, 24 MB RAM, 300 MB HD, 2 PCI NE200 compatible nics, no screen, no
|keyboard. And the average load of the machine is near the 0%.
|
|Concerning X, I personnaly consider it as a waste of space and resource,
|on a machine that really don't need it. And I find it dangerous to add an
|unneeded server on a machine that has to deal with security.
|
|Just my 2 cent...
|
|HTH
|Flupke
|
|
|
|One do really not need to have much memory to make a firewall.
|
|On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, bascule wrote:
|
|> hi, and what a useful answer!
|>
|> this is exactly the stuff that the books i have looked at assumed i
|> already knew!
|>
|> i have to admit though, that i'm a bit worried about needing so much
|> memory for my 486, i keep reading about how such machines make good
|> firewalls for smalltime users like me but i don't think my 486  can have
|> 64meg!
|>
|> thanks again
|>
|> bascule
|>
|>
|> >
|> > ---
|> >
|>
|>
|> >
|> > it is my intention to one day have the 486 machine be a firewall, i
|> > perceive that one day the uk will have reasonably priced unmetered isp
|> > access and i want to be ready!
|> >
|> > ---
|> >
|> > I hope your 486 has at least 64megs of RAM.
|> >
|> > While a 486 does fine as a router, it normally does so if it
|is not bogged
|> > down with things like Xwindows. You can use X to set things up
|though, then
|> > merely have the computer come up in text mode.
|> >
|> > -JMS
|> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|>
|>
|>
|
|--
|<< There's no place like ~ ! >>
|

Re: [newbie] KPPP and PPPD

[Chris Hall]

Try messing with the Line termination settings in the device tab in KPPP.
I know this is odd but I can't use any flow control when connection to my
ISP. Any flow control besides "none" won't let me connect.




> Hi all, I Have a question..
>
>I just setup KPPP to connect to my ISP and I get the error
>PPPD died after i first connect.
>
>I tried commenting out the line in the /etc/ppp/options file to
>
># lock
>
>but this did not help :-(
>
>   If I first establish a connection with a interface setup in netcfg
>   and then discconect it, KPPP will work ok after that. (until I reboot
>   machine)
>
>   any Ideas?
>
>   mike

Re: [newbie] Rescue Disk

[Chris Hall]

Well, 7.1 is alot different from 7.0. The newest additions is the software
mostly. Installation is pretty much the same and so is the configuration.
But 7.1 set up all my hardware including zip driver, printer, etc...
Configuration is pretty much the same. But I LOVE xfree86 4.0. I think
its just way quicker then 3.3.6.





Mark Weaver wrote:

> I've got a question about 7.1. At the present time I'm running RedHat 6.2
> on one drive and on another I've got Mandrake 7.0 installed. I'm falling
> in love with Mandrake very quickly, but I'm noticing that it's not as easy
> to configure as RedHat was. Not to mention that some things don't install
> as well such as Star Office.
>
> My question is, is Mandrake 7.1 any better behaved than 7.0 and what's
> configuring it like?
>
> thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>

Re: [newbie] replacing Lilo with Grub - how?

[Chris Hall]

Well, I'm not sure then. I set mine at the end of the installation process.



Thomas 2 wrote:

> Thanks. But in the Boot section in DrakConfig it only has Lilo, even though
> I can find a couple Grub files using search.
>

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?

[Thomas 2]

>:~>Anyone know how to setup the Reiser Filesystem in 7.1? The LM >website 
>says :~>to use Diskdrake, but how do I start it? And do you recommed it? 
> >someone :~>said it's not stable enough yet. Yet I would think it would be 
> >safer than :~>Ext2 which is more susceptable to FS corruption. Thanks. 
>19!
>:~>__>__
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> >http://www.hotmail.com
>
>Actually, so far we had no problems reported about ReserFS. It looks
>rock-solid, but with FS-s you cannot tell until you have used it for >a
>really long time. ReiserFS is surely much more stable than XFree v.4
>netscape, or KDE, but you would not let any of those take care of >your
>data, right?.-b
>
>
>
>cu
>Denis
>
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>

Thanks! From my experience with Netscape, I think letting it handle my data 
(imagine a Netscape OS!), would be similar to letting MS Windows handle my 
data! Besides, it's too hard to type when your fingers are always crossed! 
:-)

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[newbie] KPPP and PPPD

[Melissa and Michael Grover]

Hi all, I Have a question..

   I just setup KPPP to connect to my ISP and I get the error
   PPPD died after i first connect.

   I tried commenting out the line in the /etc/ppp/options file to
  
   # lock

   but this did not help :-(

  If I first establish a connection with a interface setup in netcfg
  and then discconect it, KPPP will work ok after that. (until I reboot
  machine)  

  any Ideas?

  mike

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!

[Thomas 2]

>Subject: Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!
>Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:32:13 +0200
>From: Piero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>References: 1


>On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote:
>>For anyone who would like to have the ReiserFS in 7.1, and at the 
>> >sametime do the much easier automatic install, here's what worked for 
>>me: >First select expert install, and when you get to where you setup your 
>> >partitions, select ReiserFS as the filesystem type. After it formats the 
>> >partitions, go back to the 'installation class' selection in the left 
>>hand menu >and select automatic install. It'll skip the partition setup 
>>since it was >already done (or you can just leave it as is and tell it to 
>>NOT format >anything!) From there on it's an easy install, and you'll have 
>>the ReiserFS to >boot!
>> >>>>___
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>
>
>Which are the advantages of the Reiser Fiel system?
>
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>Piero
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>Ecole Normale Superieure
>
>humani nihil ...
>

Hi Dr Caracciolo! The Reiser Filesystem handles improper system shutdowns 
far better than does the (current) standard Ext2 filesystem.The improper 
shutdowns, which of course can be caused by a myrid of things like power 
outages or inexperienced Linux users' response to a crashed program or 
frozen desktop. The way I basically understand it, the Reiser Filesystem 
will usually pop right back up in situations that would cause a prolonged 
FSCH and often filesystem damage under Ext2. It's a journalized filesystem, 
as is the BeOS's filesystem. I've tested the BeOS's ability to recover from 
all kinds of improper shutdowns - I basically got really abusive with it 
just to see how much it could really take; I never managed to knock it down! 
I'm in hopeful anticipation of the same type of stability with the ReiserFS.

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Re: [newbie] replacing Lilo with Grub - how?

[Thomas 2]

Thanks. But in the Boot section in DrakConfig it only has Lilo, even though 
I can find a couple Grub files using search.

>Its under DrakConf. Under the boot section I believe that you can set >lilo
>or grub. I'm not positive though.
>- Original Message -
>From: Thomas 2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 3:03 AM
>Subject: [newbie] replacing Lilo with Grub - how?


>>I reinstalled 7.1 and now it comes up using Lilo. How do I get Grub >back?
>>The Grub files were installed, but for some reason it's not the >active
>>bootloader now. Thanks in advance.
>>__

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Re: [newbie] upgrading to 7/1

[Mark Weaver]

it shoudn't be taking that long for an upgrade. I don't know why Mandrake
is taking that long, but what if you just installed right over top of the
current installation. I know when I do this with an installation it
doesn't disturb the user dir's or the data files. Nor does it touch the
settings. As long as you don't format "/" or any other dir other than that
which are being used by the system itself, you'll be just fine.

Be sure though just in case something weird happens that you back up all
of your important, can't do without files.

-- 
Mark

I love my Linux Box...
My Linux Box Rocks!

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Michael H. Collins wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:45:47 -0500
> From: Michael H. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] upgrading to 7/1
> 
>   Is that why it took 18 hours in a 233 with 32 megs?
> 
> So should it take 3 hours if I have 128 megs?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Denis HAVLIK wrote:
> >> 
> > Bigest problem is time and memory. Do not even try it with less than 64 MB
> > RAM, and expect the upgrade to take something like 3 hours.
> >
> 

[newbie] Off topic longest time mail reject I have ever had

[Oliver L. Plaine Jr.]

>Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery System)
>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:53:36 +0100 (BST)
>I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
==
Sat, 17 Jun 2000  16:03:02

I Just now, received this reject, of a message I sent to newbie MDK,
on the 11 may 2000...? where has this been for Thirty Eight days? ...I
was trying to help Wayne, the warranty on his computer has likely
expired by now?

Never in five years have I had a mail lost this long..the US
postal service is faster than E-mail? I did not want to send the whole
reject to the list, but in the header was addresses of daemon in the
UK...the MDK machine is in the UK? I thought France.

sorry Wayne.

some of sent message:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!
From: "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:08:11 -0500

On Thu, 11 May 2000 22:04:11 +1000, Wayne wrote:

>If I do this will BootMagic still boot Linux OK? (Chopped off)
---
Does this happen to everyone?

Olly P

Re: [newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM

[Mark Weaver]

for the ethernet card try setting the IRQ jumpers manually if the install
will allow you to enter the address manually while you're installing the
system. I've had a few like this at work with a Win 95 machine and I know
of some NT applications are like this. So it would surprise me to find a
flavor of Linux doing the same thing.

:)  as for your Video card and the display troubles you're having. That's
somthing that you're very likely going to have to play with for a while to
get it just the way you want it. I worked (wrestled) with mine for a good
hour this afternoon before I finally obtained the desired results.

try setting the color depth a little lower.

 -- 
Mark

I love my Linux Box...
My Linux Box Rocks!

On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, SJN wrote:

> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:28:59 +0800
> From: SJN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM
> 
> Dear Linuxers,
> 
> I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.0. I've installed it so many timer over just to
> get used to installation process. But I still could not overcome two
> problems. I appreciate some assistance here.
> 
> 1. Ethernet Card
> 3Com 509b (combo) ISA using BNC cable.
> PnP mode disabled.
> I couldn't get the card to work. Installation found it but after
> installation it is not functioning.
> Booting process shows Eth0 initialisation failed.
> Lothar doesn't help much.
> The card works fine under win98 and win2000.
> 
> 2. Display/Graphics Card
> S3 Savage3D AGP with 8MB on board.
> I could not get it to it to the resolution I want i.e. 800x600 at 32bit
> color depth.
> The monitor screen will go blank and the LED indicator on monitor shows that
> no signal received from the card.
> DrakConf offers no help as well.
> The card works fine under win98 and win2000.
> Monitor is a 15" Likom L503BGD.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance for the help.
> 
> Best Regards
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: [newbie] HELP.....

[Mark Weaver]

you might try beinging up a terminal window, issue the command (as root of
course) umount /dev/cdrom, and then issue the command eject.

that should take care of that for you. 

-- 
Mark

I love my Linux Box...
My Linux Box Rocks!

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, dale kosan wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:05:33 EDT
> From: dale kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] HELP.
> 
> Installing Mandrake 7.1 and the install is asking for the next cd,I cant 
> remove the first cd,the installer must have locked it in,any ideads?Thanks 
> alot...
> 
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
> 

Re: [newbie] mass multiple file erasure

[Mark Weaver]

You might try this one:

rm -rvf *.rpm

that should take out ever RPM file in the dir that you're issuing the
command and the one's underneath.

-- 
Mark

I love my Linux Box...
My Linux Box Rocks!

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Vic wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:27:18 -0500
> From: Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] mass multiple file erasure
> 
> What would I type in to get linux to
> erase every single *.rpmorig file
> on the drive or at least under the 
> dir I am currently in (including the
> subdirs) I already know 'rm *.rpmorig'
> but it wont erase the files in other dirs
> under me.
> 
> +
> 

Re: [newbie] Rescue Disk

[Mark Weaver]

I've got a question about 7.1. At the present time I'm running RedHat 6.2
on one drive and on another I've got Mandrake 7.0 installed. I'm falling
in love with Mandrake very quickly, but I'm noticing that it's not as easy
to configure as RedHat was. Not to mention that some things don't install
as well such as Star Office.

My question is, is Mandrake 7.1 any better behaved than 7.0 and what's
configuring it like?

thanks,

Mark

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Chris Hall wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:01:35 -0400
> From: Chris Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Rescue Disk
> 
> I've heard stories of the upgrade taking up to 17 hours. Yea, you read that
> right. :) 17 hours. But then I heard another person say 3 hours. So its
> unpredictable. A new installation takes alot less time then the upgrade.
> - Original Message -
> From: Eunice Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 9:19 AM
> Subject: [newbie] Rescue Disk
> 
> 
> > I've been reading little snippets on the list about using the
> > installation CD for 7.1 has a rescue disk, but no specifics. Do I just
> > type rescue at the beinning?
> > I have a dual boot on my laptop , and I'm thinking of reintalling
> > Windows.
> > I use LILO on the MBR. I have no floppy drive for the machine,thus I
> > don't have a boot disk.
> > I'm sure that I can just go ahead and reinstall Windows, and then use
> > the Mandrake install CD to do an 'upgrade' just to reinstall LILO.
> >
> > My questions:
> >   Will I have to go through the entire process (no additonal
> > packages)?--time consuming
> >  Or can I use the expert mode and just skip to installing the
> > bootloader?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Eunice Thompson
> >
> >
> 

[newbie] sound module (nm256) hangs on 7.1 boot

[John O'Shaughnessy]

Greetings,

After a successful few weeks of Mandrake 7.0 on a Dell Latitude LS laptop, I
decided to reformat my Linux partitions and do a fresh install of Mandrake
7.1.  

The installation went fine using CD's I burned from the two ISO images
available for download, but now, when I boot, the machine hangs when it gets
to: 

Loading sound module(nm256)

I need to hold down the power button to get the machine to shut off.
Control-C doesn't seem to work.

I hadn't attempted to use sndconfig with my 7.0 install.

The machine has a neomagic sound card.

How can I get past this error?  I could live without sound, if I have to,
but having a machine that doesn't boot Linux is a bit short of my objective
:)

Thanks!

John

-- 
-
John M. O'Shaughnessy  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] mass multiple file erasure

[flupke]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Vic wrote:

> What would I type in to get linux to
> erase every single *.rpmorig file
> on the drive or at least under the 
> dir I am currently in (including the
> subdirs) I already know 'rm *.rpmorig'
> but it wont erase the files in other dirs
> under me.

In the current dir :
  find . -name "*.rpmorig" -exec rm -f {} \;

To erase all the *.rpmorig in your system, replace the "." by a "/"


HTH
Flupke

-- 
<< There's no place like ~ ! >>

Re: [newbie] I can't believe it

[Dennis Myers]

Alan Shoemaker wrote:

> KompuKitreplying to myself here (argh!).  Judging from the
> time it took this message to arrive back in my mail I guess
> that the uppercase 'N' is related to somehow slowing down the
> time it takes for the sick old server running this list to
> send back out the email it receives.  I've sent messages after
> this one but addressed with an uppercase 'N' instaed of with a
> lower case 'n'and it was back in my mail within an hour.  All
> while this message was languishing someplace on the tired old
> server (Wed, Thur, Fri & Sat.) for 4 days.
>
> I think maybe a higher priority needs to be placed on fixing
> this problem.
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > KompuKitI don't believe that an uppercase 'N' could
> > possibly be your problem.  Capitalization is irrelevant when
> > it comes to email addresses.  This message is addressed in all
> > lowercase.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > KompuKit wrote:
> > >
> > > I've had a terrible time...trying to post to this list...
> > > and all the time...it was because I was not capping
> > > the "N" in newbie,in the address
> > > I guess...denis must have changed the addy...while back...
> > > because I used to be able to post using all lowercase.
> > > as a matter of fact...my last post I used lowercase...
> > > and that was June 10th...
> > > man, now I can finally start posting again...whew
> > > --
> > >Registered Linux User:73821
> > > <===KompuKit===>
> > > Kit Goins  ICQ# 7110071
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Lowell, Mass.
> > > Web Designer  http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com
> > > WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org
> > > (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST)
> > > <===KompuKit===>

Not only what you said, but, I am just getting some messages from other
"Newbies" that were posted on Monday, Tuesday ,  Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday,  just this morning Saturday.  Some where a time warp?

[newbie] printer help

[KompuKit]

Have HP Deskjet 600
can't get it to print in color under linux...why?

please someone must have it working under linux...correctly...

also installed StarOffice 5.1  just now...works great...
but don't have java support...how do I fix this?

printer won't print color in SO either
-- 
   Registered Linux User:73821
<===KompuKit===>
Kit Goins  ICQ# 7110071
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Lowell, Mass.
Web Designer  http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com
WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org
(Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST)
<===KompuKit===>

Re: [newbie] I can't believe it

[KompuKit]

It's okay...alan...I just got a Post back from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] this problem...
below, is his reply:

Subject: 
 Re: [newbie] I can't believe it
 Date: 
 Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:39:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: 
 Denis HAVLIK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Reply-To: 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


:~>> KompuKitI don't believe that an uppercase 'N' could
:~>> possibly be your problem.  Capitalization is irrelevant
when
:~>> it comes to email addresses.  This message is addressed in
all
:~>> lowercase.
:~>
:~>I think Kompukit is on to something. My posts weren't
appearing on the
:~>list either, but when I used the capital N they do appear.
:~>
:~>Now I see my screensaver post finally made it to the list,
two days
:~>after I posted it with a small n.

sympa thinks it is another list of same priority but with only a
few
messages - so you get messages to "Newbie" processed faster.
Until
everyone starts using Newbie, then "newbie" will become faster
:-)

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Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> 
> KompuKitreplying to myself here (argh!).  Judging from the
> time it took this message to arrive back in my mail I guess
> that the uppercase 'N' is related to somehow slowing down the
> time it takes for the sick old server running this list to
> send back out the email it receives.  I've sent messages after
> this one but addressed with an uppercase 'N' instaed of with a
> lower case 'n'and it was back in my mail within an hour.  All
> while this message was languishing someplace on the tired old
> server (Wed, Thur, Fri & Sat.) for 4 days.
> 
> I think maybe a higher priority needs to be placed on fixing
> this problem.

   Registered Linux User:73821
<===KompuKit===>
Kit Goins  ICQ# 7110071
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Lowell, Mass.
Web Designer  http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com
WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org
(Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST)
<===KompuKit===>

Re: [newbie] quake3

[Chris Hall]

I've had the same problems with mine. Except I'm on a P3 600mhz, 128mb of
ram, and a TNT2. Its actually terribly slow. Soldier of Fortune does the
same thing. I don't know whats wrong.

- Original Message -
From: Mike & Tracy Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 11:57 PM
Subject: [newbie] quake3


> AARRGHH!
> Could some nice gamer out there PLEASE help?!  I've just loaded Q3 on my
> brand new Athlon 700 with 512MB RAM and Matrox G400 Max Video card.
> I've finally got the game to work with Mandrake 7.1 Final (had been
> stuggling to get the open gl to work) but everything is moving REALLY
> SLOW.  The cursor barely moves across the screen and the sound is really
> choppy.  I've tried adjusting the settings, but I'm still barely
> moving.  It's obviously not the hardware (unless I've got something set
> incorrectly).  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks a bunch!
> Mike
>
>

Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail

[Fran Parker]

I got at least that many and sent them all back as attachments to the
postmaster that sent it.

I guess they figured out there problem.

I never received another one.

Bambi


Charles A Edwards wrote:

>I received nearly 30 of the following messages this afternoon. The
> attachment were all replys that I had sent and all did post to the list so
> why I getting undelivered notices now. Is this happening to anyone else.
>
>Charles
>
> >This is the Postfix program at host webserver.
>
> >I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> >below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
>
> >For further assistance, please contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> >delete your own text from the message returned below.
>
> >The Postfix program
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: unknown mail transport error

Re: [newbie] why is this?

[Necrotica]

I would take an educated guess and say the TCP/IP stack in Linux is far more
optimized. 

-Chris


On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Actually I get a better connection in linux on my 28.8 modem then in
> windows. :)
> - Original Message -
> From: Fred Banana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:40 PM
> Subject: [newbie] why is this?
> 
> 
> > I often have noticed that I get a continuesly higher download speed in
> linux
> > than in windows. the speed in windows averages about 3.4 kbits/seconds and
> > that seems as fast as we get. in linux I get an average of 5.5
> kbits/seconds
> > with spikes around 12 or 15 kbits/second.  The same dialup isp and
> > modem and I am using a pci modem from actiontec, (call-waiting model) and
> I was
> > wondering if anyone might have a clue as  to why?
> > are these numbers accurate or is the software averaging the difference and
> > showing me what Uncle Bill and Uncle Linus want me to see?
> > sure SEEMS faster in linux...
> >  heck, maybe I can get
> > my win-blows setup to work better to.
> >
> >

[newbie] DVD???

[Chris Hall]

Hi All,
   When I installed mandrake 7.1 it said it installed a program called
NIST for playing DVD's. How do I access this
program and where is it located at? Anyone used it? Thanks!

Re: [newbie] HELP...

[Eunice Thompson]

If you can't open the drive, just press Cancel when it asks for the 2nd CD.
The install should continue.
Eunice Thompson
- Original Message -
From: "dale kosan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 8:11 AM
Subject: [newbie] HELP...


> Hello,trying to install Mandrake 7.1.I am at part of install where it
tells
> me to insert second cd,but the cd is locked in by the installer I would
> guess.How do I move forward?Thanks in advance.
> 
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
>

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

[Eunice Thompson]

I've installed it but I don't think I've integrated into Netscape yet.
in a terminal:
1) tar xvzf 
if you're not already root
2)su; then ls to find a directory called ILINUX
3)cd to that directory- (there is a Readme.txt file, that younshould have a
look at)
  type ./INSTALL  and it will ask you some questions.
I had to make a directory- /usr/local/Acrobat4
because that is where it installs to.
I basicaly just stopped after I got it installed, leaving the browser
integration for another day.
Hope this helps
Eunice Thompson
- Original Message -
From: "flupke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz


> You uncompress the archive :
>tar zxf linux-ar-405.tar.gz
> then you go into the newly created directoy, su to root, and execute the
> installation script :
>./INSTALL (or is it ./SETUP???)
>
> Then, the rest should be self prompting.
>
>
> HTH
> Flupke
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install
> > linux-ar-405.tar.gz
> > I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful?
> > I must be missing a command. Can any one help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Roman
>
> --
> << There's no place like ~ ! >>
>

[newbie] switching lamguages - How?

[Greg Harbin]

I am running a new Mandrake 7.1 fresh install.

During the expert install I selected Japanese as a
secound laguage.  Then continued on and install X 4.0.

Now I have everything set up but I don't know how to
toggle between english an and Japanese?

Maybe a very simple question, but I could find nothing
on the web site to talk about it other than the
install.

Thanks for your help.

Greg

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Re: [newbie] cdburner troubles

[Michael H. Collins]

I think you need to change endians.

Find the reverse audio or big/little endian flag and try it the other
way.


Eduardo Arauz wrote:
> 
> i am having problems with my music cd burning... i am using Xcdroast and
> have sucsesfully burned dara from cd to cd , from HD to cd but when i burns
> audio cd i really dont know exactly what options i have to set so i dont
>  damage anymore cds.. its read the tracks perfectly, write them into the
> /temp file... but when it burns them into the cd..  i only listen "noise"
> instead of music tracks... however it recognize all the tracks and the
> correct duration time of every one 
> please somebody knows what are the correct settings options in order to
> burn an audio cd?..
> my CD-R is a HP...
> Eduardo
> 
> -Original Message-
> From:   Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent:   Sunday, May 28, 2000 4:25 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:Re: [newbie] cdburner troubles
> 
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
> 
> >I have a question.  In the cdrw set up information
> >here http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html
> >they say at step 5.Put the line "modprobe ide-scsi"
> >into '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'.
> >
> >/etc/rc.d/rc.local is a shell script right?  Where
> >should it go in that file?  Does it matter?  It look
> >slike there are two basic functions in that file I put
> >the "modprobe..." line between them.  Should I put it
> >at the bottom? top? does it matter? Am I in the right
> >place here?
> 
> You can stick it almost anywhere, I have the habit of adding things in
> there at the bottom.
> Paul
> 
> )0(---)0(
> 
> Finally I know how many stars there are:
> MANY!
> 
> )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0(
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> Registered Linux User 174403

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Re: [newbie] Need help with charitable linux project

[Mark Weaver]

That sounds like an absolutely AWESOME idea and I wish you every success.

-- 
Mark

I love my Linux Box...
My Linux Box Rocks!

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Eric Mings wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 18:19:08 -0400
> From: Eric Mings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Need help with charitable linux  project
> 
> I decided to post to this list because I have been using Linux-Mandrake
> for a while and feel it is probably the best option for a project I
> intend to start. I am hopeful that perhaps some of you may be able to
> assist with knowledge or other resources. I am a psychologist who does a
> lot of work in nursing homes. In my experience there is a population in
> every nursing home that I have visited who are intellectually intact and
> quite lonely and bored due to their circumstances. Some of these people
> are relatively young and suffer a debilitating disease such as MS, and
> others are elderly persons who have retained their intellectual abilities
> in the context of declining health. They have lost the physical ability
> to interact with the outside world as the rest of us do, and typically
> feel quite out of place in an environment where most of their peers are
> too confused to provide them much human interaction.
> 
> I want to begin placing computers in these facilities for the sole use of
> residents who wish to use them to reach out to the world they can no
> longer physically access (via email and web access). Obviously I need a
> multiuser system and need to minimize costs and maximize reliability and
> ease of use. Consequently I plan to try to obtain donations of equipment
> and will probably use Linux-Mandrake as the operating system (unless I
> were to find another Linux version that would be more user friendly for
> novices). I am trying to keep any costs to the nursing homes to a bare
> minimum (such as a phone line for internet access) because this industry
> is in  financial difficulty in the US and unlikely to be willing to
> burden any significant costs to participate in such an effort.
> 
> If anyone knows of a company that might consider donation of equipment,
> or if you wish to provide any expertise you may have in setting up and
> maintaining Linux-Mandrake for use in such an environment please contact
> me directly _off_list_, so as to not burden this list with further
> discussion that might not be of interest to most list members.  Thanks in
> advance to anyone who may be interested in such a project.
> 
> 

Re: [newbie] upgrading to 7/1

[Michael H. Collins]

Is that why it took 18 hours in a 233 with 32 megs?

So should it take 3 hours if I have 128 megs?

Thanks.

Denis HAVLIK wrote:
>> 
> Bigest problem is time and memory. Do not even try it with less than 64 MB
> RAM, and expect the upgrade to take something like 3 hours.
>

Re: [newbie] wrong extension

[Oliver L. Plaine Jr.]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:53:14 +0200, Pierre wrote:

>I'm trying to gunzip a .gz file and the command outputs that the file is
>not a gzip file ...
>Any idea ?
>
>thanks
>Pierre
===
Sat, 17 Jun 2000  13:11:36

Yes sir Pierre, I had this problem with several tar.gz files...what I
discovered,( by someone on this list telling me 8-)) is sometimes
although the files are listed as .gz ...sometimes they get to you not
zipped...
What I did to open the files was,  run xtvf instead of zxvf
and if the file tested ok with this t option..I ran them with xvf and
they untarred really nice. if they balk try putting "filename" quote
marks ,around the whole filename...if it still don't work try changing
the gz to just .tar...I thought the files were bad at first, but
messing with them made them eventually work. I was doing this on an
xterm command line.

Good luck
Olly P
Biloxi Mississippi

[newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM

[SJN]

Dear Linuxers,

I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.0. I've installed it so many timer over just to
get used to installation process. But I still could not overcome two
problems. I appreciate some assistance here.

1. Ethernet Card
3Com 509b (combo) ISA using BNC cable.
PnP mode disabled.
I couldn't get the card to work. Installation found it but after
installation it is not functioning.
Booting process shows Eth0 initialisation failed.
Lothar doesn't help much.
The card works fine under win98 and win2000.

2. Display/Graphics Card
S3 Savage3D AGP with 8MB on board.
I could not get it to it to the resolution I want i.e. 800x600 at 32bit
color depth.
The monitor screen will go blank and the LED indicator on monitor shows that
no signal received from the card.
DrakConf offers no help as well.
The card works fine under win98 and win2000.
Monitor is a 15" Likom L503BGD.

Thank you very much in advance for the help.

Best Regards
Joe

Re: [newbie] Rescue Disk

[Chris Hall]

I've heard stories of the upgrade taking up to 17 hours. Yea, you read that
right. :) 17 hours. But then I heard another person say 3 hours. So its
unpredictable. A new installation takes alot less time then the upgrade.
- Original Message -
From: Eunice Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: [newbie] Rescue Disk


> I've been reading little snippets on the list about using the
> installation CD for 7.1 has a rescue disk, but no specifics. Do I just
> type rescue at the beinning?
> I have a dual boot on my laptop , and I'm thinking of reintalling
> Windows.
> I use LILO on the MBR. I have no floppy drive for the machine,thus I
> don't have a boot disk.
> I'm sure that I can just go ahead and reinstall Windows, and then use
> the Mandrake install CD to do an 'upgrade' just to reinstall LILO.
>
> My questions:
>   Will I have to go through the entire process (no additonal
> packages)?--time consuming
>  Or can I use the expert mode and just skip to installing the
> bootloader?
>
> Thanks
> Eunice Thompson
>
>

Re: [newbie] replacing Lilo with Grub - how?

[Chris Hall]

Its under DrakConf. Under the boot section I believe that you can set lilo
or grub. I'm not positive though.
- Original Message -
From: Thomas 2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 3:03 AM
Subject: [newbie] replacing Lilo with Grub - how?


> I reinstalled 7.1 and now it comes up using Lilo. How do I get Grub back?
> The Grub files were installed, but for some reason it's not the active
> bootloader now. Thanks in advance.
> 
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>
>

[newbie] Manual dialing or Operator assisted Modem

[Neptali Barrios]

I want to know where can I find some software that 
alows manual dialing or Operator assisted, like windows dial up networking 
options, in the modem features.  
 
I need it because I connect through the cell phone, 
calling to my modem first, and then calling to my ISP, and conferencing 
.
 
Please, Help me !!!
 
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[newbie] HELP.....

[dale kosan]

Installing Mandrake 7.1 and the install is asking for the next cd,I cant 
remove the first cd,the installer must have locked it in,any ideads?Thanks 
alot...

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[newbie] E-Mail clients

[David M. Kufta]

I noticed in the list several messages concerning e-mail client's. I
saw that there was no mention of Polarbar mailer, I found this mail
client about six months ago and like it very much. Polarbar is a pure
java mail client so requires, obviously, that java be installed on your
system . This mailer is very feature rich and can be easily configured
with multiple personas, pop accounts and incorporates it's own very
useful filters as well. Information is available at www.polarbar.org
wher you can download polarbar and also find links for java resourses as
well. I began using Polarbar when I needed to find a mailer that would
understand qmails Maildir structure as I run my own smtp server here and
use qmail as my MTA. There are many mail-clients that are available for
use with Linux-Mandrake and still more that are under active
developement . Look around at linapps for a list of other  MTA's,
mail-client's, if anyone decides to try Polarbar and has difficulty with
it I would be more than happy to help where I can. I also have Polarbar
setup on my rsync server here at n3meq.dynip.com and the module contains
everything necessary to setup the mail client as well as rpm's for java.

Good Luck,
Dave

David M. Kufta
Konsult Ltd.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!

[Piero]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> For anyone who would like to have the ReiserFS in 7.1, and at the sametime 
> do the much easier automatic install, here's what worked for me: First 
> select expert install, and when you get to where you setup your partitions, 
> select ReiserFS as the filesystem type. After it formats the partitions, go 
> back to the 'installation class' selection in the left hand menu and select 
> automatic install. It'll skip the partition setup since it was already done 
> (or you can just leave it as is and tell it to NOT format anything!) From 
> there on it's an easy install, and you'll have the ReiserFS to boot!
> 
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Which are the advantages of the Reiser Fiel system?

-- 
Piero
--
Dr Piero Caracciolo
Ecole Normale Superieure

...humani nihil ...

[newbie] mass multiple file erasure

[Vic]

What would I type in to get linux to
erase every single *.rpmorig file
on the drive or at least under the 
dir I am currently in (including the
subdirs) I already know 'rm *.rpmorig'
but it wont erase the files in other dirs
under me.

+

[newbie] Need help with charitable linux project

[Eric Mings]

I decided to post to this list because I have been using Linux-Mandrake
for a while and feel it is probably the best option for a project I
intend to start. I am hopeful that perhaps some of you may be able to
assist with knowledge or other resources. I am a psychologist who does a
lot of work in nursing homes. In my experience there is a population in
every nursing home that I have visited who are intellectually intact and
quite lonely and bored due to their circumstances. Some of these people
are relatively young and suffer a debilitating disease such as MS, and
others are elderly persons who have retained their intellectual abilities
in the context of declining health. They have lost the physical ability
to interact with the outside world as the rest of us do, and typically
feel quite out of place in an environment where most of their peers are
too confused to provide them much human interaction.

I want to begin placing computers in these facilities for the sole use of
residents who wish to use them to reach out to the world they can no
longer physically access (via email and web access). Obviously I need a
multiuser system and need to minimize costs and maximize reliability and
ease of use. Consequently I plan to try to obtain donations of equipment
and will probably use Linux-Mandrake as the operating system (unless I
were to find another Linux version that would be more user friendly for
novices). I am trying to keep any costs to the nursing homes to a bare
minimum (such as a phone line for internet access) because this industry
is in  financial difficulty in the US and unlikely to be willing to
burden any significant costs to participate in such an effort.

If anyone knows of a company that might consider donation of equipment,
or if you wish to provide any expertise you may have in setting up and
maintaining Linux-Mandrake for use in such an environment please contact
me directly _off_list_, so as to not burden this list with further
discussion that might not be of interest to most list members.  Thanks in
advance to anyone who may be interested in such a project.

-- 
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Mouse systems serial mouse problem

[Dennis Myers]

Peter Cummins wrote:

> I recently asked about a Mouse Systems serial mouse with problems.  At a guess
> no-one here knows how to fix this one, so does anyone know where else I can
> look?
>
> > I have a "Mouse Systems" serial optical mouse that I currently use with RedHat
> > 6.1.  On the RedHat system it works fine, but when I try to install Mandrake
> > 7.1 on the same computer, without changing anything, it won't work.  Using the
> > keyboard I can select that I have a "Mouse systems serial mouse" on ttyS0,
> > which is the case, but any mouse movement produces only jerky movement up to
> > the top left corner of the screen.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Peter

I have a mouse systems optical mouse that I am using on the linux box and it seems
to work fine.  It is the PS/2 version however..  I wonder if you used a ps/2
connecter  adapter, how it would work?

[newbie] Undelivered mail

[Charles A Edwards]

   I received nearly 30 of the following messages this afternoon. The
attachment were all replys that I had sent and all did post to the list so
why I getting undelivered notices now. Is this happening to anyone else.

   Charles

>This is the Postfix program at host webserver.

>I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
>below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

>For further assistance, please contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
>delete your own text from the message returned below.

>The Postfix program

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: unknown mail transport error

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

[Dennis Myers]

Philip Hinds wrote:

> I,ve been following this thread with interest as I've the same. I installed
> Open Linux and there was no problem. I have AMD K11-6 400 & Soyo 5ehm,
> 64ram. It has a via chip. I'll re-install Mandrake again and see if I can
> fix it. The reason for  posting this is in case it is an AMD or Soyo/VIA
> problem which may help to slove problem. Not everyone has it, so what is the
> common denominator? Generally is it better to stick with Intel?
> P Hinds
> - Original Message -
> From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...
>
> > flupke wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, I didn't follow this tread from the begining, so I hope I won't
> say
> > > anything stoopid or something that has already been said.
> > > If I understand, the problem here is all the dump of the stack and
> > > registers caused by a page default or something at the end of a
> shutdown.
> > >
> > > I have the same problem. I think it only happens on Motherboards with
> VIA
> > > chips. I don't mind about it since it doesn't cause any damage, but it
> is
> > > nice to get rid of that bad stuff.
> > > I solved the problem by modifying the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file and
> > > change the line
> > > eval $command -i -d -p
> > > to
> > > eval $command -i -d
> > >
> > > PS : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/troubles/tquick1.html :-)
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Flupke
> > >
> > > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Fran Parker wrote:
> > >
> > > > I second what Ronald wrote...I went to DRAKCONF and
> > > > found it there no problem and disabled it.  Shutdown and
> > > > there were all the things on the screen again...full screen
> > > > all over the screen...
> > > >
> > > > I also already had the power management in KDE disabled
> > > > as well.
> > > >
> > > > Oh, well it was worth a shot.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, reboot works just fine :)
> > > >
> > > > Bambi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Paul wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Log in as root, or run "su"
> > > > > > Then run "setup" in a console
> > > > > > Go to system services, and uncheck the APM daemon. it is right
> below the
> > > > > > anacron daemon.
> > > > > > After a reboot you're all set!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Paul
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi. Well, I opened up a shell on my desktop,
> > > > > ran su, password, typed in "setup" and it told
> > > > > me, "bash: command not found".
> > > > >
> > > > > So I went into the DRAKCONF and ran startup,
> > > > > found it (under anacron, like you said) and
> > > > > disabled it. Unfortunately, after powering
> > > > > down, and rebooting, the problem still exists.
> > > > > I also have dmps disabled from the kde desktop
> > > > > (don't know if that needed to be or not). Any
> > > > > other possible ideas as to what it might be?
> > > > >
> > > > > (Thanks to Dennis Myers for the DRAKCONF tip)
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks much!
> > > > >
> > > > > PS Did you see the reply I posted with the details
> > > > > on the screen that I'm left with? Maybe you can
> > > > > find a clue there...
> > > > >
> > > > > See ya...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > << There's no place like ~ ! >>
> >
> > Well, I tried my own advise and it didn't work for me either.  I see the
> > suggestion to edit or modify the rc.d files but don't know how to do that.
> The
> > last time I tried to change a file I crashed the whole config and had to
> > reinstall.  By the way, I am getting very good at reinstall or new install
> since
> > there seems to be something  that causes me to lose my mouse and Keyboard
> every
> > now and then.  I keep trying to find the problem but no luck so far.  I am
> > running an AMD K6 II - 333  with a soyo 5EMA + motherboard 64 meg ram  and
> > western Digital  13.6 gig ide hard drive, generic floppy and cdrom.   If
> there is
> > a man page or faq that talks about editing files I would like to know.  I
> am not
> > trained in computers just determined to learn.   Thanks in advance for any
> help
> > here.
> >
> >

Your setup is exactly the same as mine.  AMD K6 II  400 , 64 MB ram via chip on
the soyo 5EHM+  motherboard ,   ergo you should be able to fix the problem with
the specified edit if the problem is indeed the CPU or chipset.  Seems as
though the chipset is the common factor.

Re: [newbie] I can't believe it

[Alan Shoemaker]

KompuKitreplying to myself here (argh!).  Judging from the
time it took this message to arrive back in my mail I guess
that the uppercase 'N' is related to somehow slowing down the
time it takes for the sick old server running this list to
send back out the email it receives.  I've sent messages after
this one but addressed with an uppercase 'N' instaed of with a
lower case 'n'and it was back in my mail within an hour.  All
while this message was languishing someplace on the tired old
server (Wed, Thur, Fri & Sat.) for 4 days.

I think maybe a higher priority needs to be placed on fixing
this problem.

Alan


Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> 
> KompuKitI don't believe that an uppercase 'N' could
> possibly be your problem.  Capitalization is irrelevant when
> it comes to email addresses.  This message is addressed in all
> lowercase.
> 
> Alan
> 
> KompuKit wrote:
> >
> > I've had a terrible time...trying to post to this list...
> > and all the time...it was because I was not capping
> > the "N" in newbie,in the address
> > I guess...denis must have changed the addy...while back...
> > because I used to be able to post using all lowercase.
> > as a matter of fact...my last post I used lowercase...
> > and that was June 10th...
> > man, now I can finally start posting again...whew
> > --
> >Registered Linux User:73821
> > <===KompuKit===>
> > Kit Goins  ICQ# 7110071
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Lowell, Mass.
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Re: [newbie] I can't believe it

[KompuKit]

I'm sorry allan...but you are partially wrong...it does.

I was having problems "recieving" my posts back to me...
within minutes of posting...

it was taking sometimes 10 days to get them back...and sometimes
not at all.
The reason for this...was because I didn't cap the  "N"
in newbie...ever since I started capping the "n"...I've had no
problem...

for further proof...look at every one elses posts   heading
where the address is...
everyone else is also using the cap "N"

Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> 
> KompuKitI don't believe that an uppercase 'N' could
> possibly be your problem.  Capitalization is irrelevant when
> it comes to email addresses.  This message is addressed in all
> lowercase.
> 
> Alan
> 
> KompuKit wrote:
> >
> > I've had a terrible time...trying to post to this list...
> > and all the time...it was because I was not capping
> > the "N" in newbie,in the address
> > I guess...denis must have changed the addy...while back...
> > because I used to be able to post using all lowercase.
> > as a matter of fact...my last post I used lowercase...
> > and that was June 10th...
> > man, now I can finally start posting again...whew
> > --
> >Registered Linux User:73821
> > <===KompuKit===>
> > Kit Goins  ICQ# 7110071
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Lowell, Mass.
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> > WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org
> > (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST)
> > <===KompuKit===>

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Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

[flupke]

As far as I remember, you have to write ./INSTALL with uppercase letters.

HTH
Flupke

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Roman Bysh wrote:

> I think I used the wrong commands. I downloaded it to my root directory.
> Next, I typed in tar-xvzf linux-ar-405.tar.gz
> A new directory named lLINXR.install was created. I could see the
> install script with dark monitor.
> Every time I changed to this directory and typed in ./install it would
> indicate that the directory or file is missing.
> 
> Roman
> 
> 
> flupke wrote:
> > 
> > You uncompress the archive :
> >tar zxf linux-ar-405.tar.gz
> > then you go into the newly created directoy, su to root, and execute the
> > installation script :
> >./INSTALL (or is it ./SETUP???)
> > 
> > Then, the rest should be self prompting.
> > 
> > HTH
> > Flupke
> > 
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install
> > > linux-ar-405.tar.gz
> > > I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful?
> > > I must be missing a command. Can any one help?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Roman
> > 
> > --
> > << There's no place like ~ ! >>

-- 
<< There's no place like ~ ! >>

[newbie] quake3

[Mike & Tracy Holt]

AARRGHH!
Could some nice gamer out there PLEASE help?!  I've just loaded Q3 on my
brand new Athlon 700 with 512MB RAM and Matrox G400 Max Video card. 
I've finally got the game to work with Mandrake 7.1 Final (had been
stuggling to get the open gl to work) but everything is moving REALLY
SLOW.  The cursor barely moves across the screen and the sound is really
choppy.  I've tried adjusting the settings, but I'm still barely
moving.  It's obviously not the hardware (unless I've got something set
incorrectly).  Any suggestions?

Thanks a bunch!
Mike

Re: [newbie] subscribing to digest?

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>how do you digestify this list? i tried the digest option on mandrake.com,
:~>and it said the list didn't exist! thanks

by sending "SET newbie DIGEST" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cu
Denis
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Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

[Roman Bysh]

I think I used the wrong commands. I downloaded it to my root directory.
Next, I typed in tar-xvzf linux-ar-405.tar.gz
A new directory named lLINXR.install was created. I could see the
install script with dark monitor.
Every time I changed to this directory and typed in ./install it would
indicate that the directory or file is missing.

Roman


flupke wrote:
> 
> You uncompress the archive :
>tar zxf linux-ar-405.tar.gz
> then you go into the newly created directoy, su to root, and execute the
> installation script :
>./INSTALL (or is it ./SETUP???)
> 
> Then, the rest should be self prompting.
> 
> HTH
> Flupke
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install
> > linux-ar-405.tar.gz
> > I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful?
> > I must be missing a command. Can any one help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Roman
> 
> --
> << There's no place like ~ ! >>

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RE: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded

[Denis HAVLIK]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, nonic 10 wrote:

:~>Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 02:01:57 -0700
:~>From: nonic 10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:~>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~>Subject: RE: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded
:~>
:~>your mum is a bitch and is a fuckin wanker
:~>
:~>go such motherfucker!!!
:~>

Thx for the nice contribution. You are unsubscribed. I do not mind
4-lettred words, but violence will not be tolerated on this list.

yours
Denis
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Re: [newbie] Can't get Apache to show web page on network

[KompuKit]

first of all, you need a website..directory...in:
/home/??/public_html

??= your home directory  (not ROOT)

then you need to insert those configurations in the webserver config...
in linuxconf (under drakeconf)...then the tab saying NETWORKING.
it should say: Apache webserver

you need to edit :  document root, server dns etc...

if you want, I could send you my httpd.conf file...then all you have to
do,
is re-edit the locations on your machine...to go along with what you
have.

it's attached on this email

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I tried to view Apache on my internal network and it did not bring up the
> default web page.  I can see that Apache is running 10 copies of httpd by ps
> ax | grep httpd.  I type http://  in the client machine and it
> won't work.  It simply can't find it.  It's funny that I can get SAMBA
> running, but I can't even view the default web page.  I have not configured
> anything in httpd.conf, do I need to?  I am using mdk 7.0

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# There have been reports of people trying to abuse an old bug from pre-1.1
# days.  This bug involved a CGI script distributed as a part of Apache.
# By uncommenting these lines you can redirect these attacks to a logging
# script on phf.apache.org.  Or, you can record them yourself, using the script
# support/phf_abuse_log.cgi.

# 
# deny from all
# ErrorDocument 403 http://phf.apache.org/phf_abuse_log.cgi
# 


# -- Server Configuration 

# ServerType is either inetd, or standalone.

ServerType inetd

# If you are running from inetd, go to "ServerAdmin".

# Port: The port the standalone listens to. For ports < 1023, you will
# need httpd to be run as root initially.

Port 80

# Number of servers to start --- should be a reasonable ballpark figure.

StartServers 10

# Server-pool size regulation.  Rather than making you guess how many
# server processes you need, Apache dynamically adapts to the load it
# sees --- that is, it tries to maintain enough server processes to
# handle the current load, plus a few spare servers to handle transient
# load spikes (e.g., multiple simultaneous requests from a single
# Netscape browser).

# It does this by periodically checking how many servers are waiting
# for a request.  If there are fewer than MinSpareServers, it creates
# a new spare.  If there are more than MaxSpareServers, some of the
# spares die off.  These values are probably OK for most sites ---

MinSpareServers 8
MaxSpareServers 20

# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.
# We reccomend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.

MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

# KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request

KeepAliveTimeout 15

# Limit on total number of servers running, i.e., limit on the number
# of clients who can simultaneously connect --- if this limit is ever
# reached, clients will be LOCKED OUT, so it should NOT BE SET TOO LOW.
# It is intended mainly as a brake to keep a runaway server from taking
# Unix with it as it spirals down...

MaxClients 150

# MaxRequestsPerChild: the number of requests each child process is
# allowed to process before the child dies.
# The child will exit so as to avoid problems after prolonged use when
# Apache (and maybe the libraries it uses) leak.  On most systems, this
# isn't really needed, but a few (such as Solaris) do have notable leaks
# in the libraries.

MaxRequestsPerChild 500

# PidFile: The file the server should log its pid to
PidFile /var/run/httpd.pid

# CacheNegotiatedDocs: By default, Apache sends Pragma: no-cache with each
# document that was negotiated on the basis of content. This asks proxy
# servers not to cache the document. Uncommenting the following line disables
# this behavior, and proxies will be allowed to cache the documents.

# CacheNegotiatedDocs

# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out

Timeout 300

# ScoreBoardFile: File used to store internal server process information.
# Not all architectures require this.  But if yours does (you'll know because
# this file is created when you run Apache) then you *must* ensure that
# no two invocations of Apache share the same scoreboard file.
ScoreBoardFile /etc/httpd/httpd.scoreboard

# ServerRoot: The directory the server's config, error, and log files
# are kept in.
# NOTE!  If you intend to place this on a NFS (or otherwise network)
# mounted filesystem then please read the LockFile documentation,
# you will save yourself a lot of 

Re: [newbie] partition magic

[GAPrichard]

This newbie posting clarifies a previous posting and corrects an error. 
Sorry.  

With your writing about low-level formatting, reinstalling, etc. to make 
space for Linux, I want to make sure that a distinction is clear.  And please 
note that I am not familiar with Windows NT or 2000 and these o/s are not 
included in the comments below.  
Both chkdsk and scandisk check a Windows hard drive's file integrity.  
Windows will write a given file all over the disc, the end of one block gives 
the address of the next one to read.  An example of a problem that can come 
from this, that chkdsk and scandisk will find, is if two different files link 
to the same target block--this is called a cross-linked file.  A common 
problem when a Windows program crashes and Windows fails to update the disc 
directory for that program is that program data blocks on the disc are not 
assigned to any file nor are they allocated as available: known as lost 
chains.  
Different is the "defrag"menting process that consolodates disc 
free-space together that had been intersperced with program and data blocks.  
Complicating the defragmenting is the "recycle bin": things that have been 
deleted but can be undeleted.  They are assigned to a special directory, and 
though the file is "deleted" the blocks that the file resides on remain 
unavailable for use yet they show as unoccupied on the defrag screen.  
To make the space that you can partition for Linux to use, first run 
chkdsk/scandisk to verify file integrity.  Then run scandisk "thorough" to 
verify that the hard disc itself is OK.  Then empty the trash (recycle bin) 
to make disc space occupied by deleted files actually available for use and 
allow other data to be moved into these blocks.  Finally defragment the hard 
drive to gather all of this free space together.  Now you can partition some 
of this free space for use by Linux.

Next let's put this all together (edited from a previous posting).

  [preparation of the Windows partition for resizing 
to allow free-space to be partitioned by Linux]

1)  Back-up -  all  (or)  important  (or)  critical  - data   < depending on 
what
  on tape (or)  CD   (or)   floppy  < media 
you have avail.

2)  Disable anti-virus scanner, screen saver, power management (if active), 
etc.
   (once only!) should show the following tasks active
  on Win98 (others should be similar) 
Explorer
Systray
Wsloader
[ on Win3.1 shouldn't show anything (except program manager)]

3)  I always like to run "chkdsk" (without the "") from DOS prior to doing 
anything serious with a Windows HDD (hard drive).  
Boot to DOS or shutdown to DOS.  Do not run chkdsk while "shelled out."  
At the "C:" command line prompt type "chkdsk" and  
(again, without the "").  [for simplicity I'll say ]
Ignore the scandisk advisory and continue.
If there are any errors run "chkdsk /f" to fix them (as a message 
will instruct).

4)  Within Windows (deactivating other processes first, as noted above) run 
scandisk.

5)  Next run scandisk selecting the "thorough" option.  This may run over an 
hour (depending on hardware).  DO NOT STOP IT unless you are SURE it has 
hung.  If it does hang, cold boot the computer, reset everything as noted 
above and run it again.  And again.  And again.  Does it stop at the same 
place?  Is it getting further each time?  Is there no pattern?  If it stops 
in the same place each time, or there is no pattern you should think 
seriously about buying a new drive (this is the point I bought one for 
myself), though there are drive cables and other things that might contribute 
to the problem.

6)  Empty the trash ("recycle bin") for all Windows users (if individual 
"users" profiles are implimented) and "defrag"ment the drive.  This often 
takes over an hour.  As long as it seems to be progressing allow it to 
continue.  Depending on your hardware, etc., five hours might not be 
alarming.  Proceed as in step 5) if there are problems.  When defrag 
completes successfully, all free space will be consolidated after the 
programs and data.  

If scandisk completed successfully (even if it took several hangs and 
restarts to get successful completion), defragmentation completed, and upon 
using Windows you do not have operational problems (if you had problems prior 
to the chkdsk/scandisk/degrag process) you can go ahead and shrink the 
Windows partition, and use Linux tools to repartition the now unallocated 
space to create space for Linux to use. 
   If scandisk, etc., completes successfully but Windows operational 
problems continue, do a "refresh" reload of Windows [SEE BOOT FLOPPY WARNING 
BELOW] :  Back-up data, as noted in step 1) above.  Boot from a floppy disc 
and access the CD drive (with the Windows CD already being in place).  
ChangeDirectory to \windows (i.e. if D is your CD drive, first

[newbie] HELP...

[dale kosan]

Hello,trying to install Mandrake 7.1.I am at part of install where it tells 
me to insert second cd,but the cd is locked in by the installer I would 
guess.How do I move forward?Thanks in advance.

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Re: [newbie] Please help!!! SB Live

[Mark Potochnik]

Frank van Polanen wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've installed a few days ago Linux Mandrake 7.1 , I really like it, it
> works pretty fine!
> But there's one thing i can't get to work, and that's my Soundblaster Live!
> I've tried to install the newest Emu10k1 drivers, won't work.
> I've disabled OS PnP in the bios, won't work.
> What to do to get this working ? Please help!
>
> Greetings,
> Frank.

I wish I knew... For me (in 7.0) it worked automatically.

MarkP

Re: [newbie] wrong extension

[Chris Hall]

Is It a gzip file? ;-) Only kidding.
mmm... whatever you downloaded it could say tar.gz but maybe its not? 

- Original Message - 
From: prv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 4:53 AM
Subject: [newbie] wrong extension


> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to gunzip a .gz file and the command outputs that the file is
> not a gzip file ...
> Any idea ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> Pierre
> 
> 

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting wierd?

[Chris Hall]

With your soundblaster first thing is do you have "PNP OS" enabled in
your bios? If so, it won't work.
- Original Message -
From: BrewMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-mandrake newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:30 AM
Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting
wierd?


> I just installed Mandrke complete 7.0 a couple of days ago.  I am still
> trying to get the hang of it.  There are a couple of things that I am
> wondering about so far.
> 1 - I can't get my Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 to work.  I dropped
> to another session as root, used both sndconfig and soundconfig, but
> neither gets the card to work.  sndconfig hangs after saying it finds a
> pnp soundcard, and soundconfig says the device is busy.  I used the same
> settings for address, IRQ and DMA that show up on my computers boot
> sequence in soundconfig.
>
> 2 - There are about 4 icons that have disappeared from my desktop in
> Gnome, including the autostart, trash, and a couple others.  They
> are present on a directory listing on a terminal session, and show up on
> a KDE session.  They seem to sporadically pop up, and I can't see any
> reproducible actions I have made that do this.  I can't figure this out.
>
> Thanks for the thoughts.  I am sure more questions will come with time.
>
>
>
> Ken
>
>

Re: [[newbie] E-mail Clients]

[Michael Scottaline]

Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, everybody!
> 
> I'm currently using the Netscape e-mail client along with Kmail; I'm
> looking for a client which features message filters and search and
> multiple pop accounts, better if designed for Gnome; there's a lot of
> programs, what would you suggest me?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Corrado
==
Never tried it myself, but just read an interesting review of balsa (gnome
e-mail program.  I believe the review was in linuxworld.  Sorry, don't have
the link.  The latest iteration is 0.8.0, I believe.
Mike


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-Benjamin Frankilin


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Re: [newbie] Fortran Compiler

[AOLShopGAM]

In a message dated 6/17/00 2:01:36 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Hi, all --
>  
>  Do any of you know where I can get a Fortran compiler for Linux?  (Yes, I 
> know C is more flexible -- and Mandrake already 
>  includes gcc, but I need to compile some fortran programs that some others 
> created).
>  
>  Thanks,
>  pete

Pete

http://studbolt.physast.uga.edu/templon/fortran.html has gobs of info on 
Fortran and Linux.

Jerry

RE: [newbie] printer

[Jose M. Sanchez]

Probably because there is a parameter missing in

/var/spool/lpd/XXX/postscript.cfg

(replace XXX with the name of the queue you created.)

Look in postscript.cfg there should be a line which reads something like...

COLOR=-dBitsPerPixel=24
PAPERSIZE=letter

If the "COLOR=" line is empty, this is your problem.

It should contain the color depth parameter... the above may work for you...

Remember to restart the lpd daemon!

-JMS



|-Original Message-
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
|Of KompuKit
|Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 6:40 PM
|To: Mandrake Linux
|Subject: [newbie] printer
|
|
|have a HP deskjet 600
|
|it prints in black and white only,under linux
|why won't it print in color...?
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|   Registered Linux User:73821
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|

[newbie] rc.d directorys

[KompuKit]

What are the   " rc.d " dirs   for?
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Re: [newbie] I can't believe it

[Charles A Edwards]

Alan
  The same thing happened to me.
  For over 2 days I could not get anything to post to this list. I tried
several test in different ways, resent mail, etc I even tried with an
Internet account all with no success. I then saw a post where they had
changed the address from newbie to Newbie, I tried it and my post started
getting through.
   Now I see this morning that all my test and resends have shown up, so I
don't know what the hell is going on.

   Charles  :-)

P.S.  My apols. to all for the repeated entries from me.


- Original Message -
From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] I can't believe it


> KompuKitI don't believe that an uppercase 'N' could
> possibly be your problem.  Capitalization is irrelevant when
> it comes to email addresses.  This message is addressed in all
> lowercase.
>
> Alan
>
>
> KompuKit wrote:
> >
> > I've had a terrible time...trying to post to this list...
> > and all the time...it was because I was not capping
> > the "N" in newbie,in the address
> > I guess...denis must have changed the addy...while back...
> > because I used to be able to post using all lowercase.
> > as a matter of fact...my last post I used lowercase...
> > and that was June 10th...
> > man, now I can finally start posting again...whew
> > --
> >Registered Linux User:73821
> > <===KompuKit===>
> > Kit Goins  ICQ# 7110071
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Lowell, Mass.
> > Web Designer  http://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com
> > WebServer:http://kompukit.dyndns.org
> > (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST)
> > <===KompuKit===>
>
>

Re: [newbie] (no subject)- help sources

[Dennis Myers]

Tom Brinkman wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Something is not working correctly.  I am trying this again after
> > receiving a missent message.  I am try to set up Samba.  Using Sams
> > teach yourself Linux-Mandrake in 24 Hours is  useless.  "Running Linux"
> > is ok if you understand the C language or are comfortable in a text
> > mode.  I am a visual person and need things spelled out for me line by
> > line or better yet a picture drawn. Anyway the user guide that came with
> > my Linux-Mandrake distro is no help.  Anybody know where I can find (or
> > a title to ) help in setting up "Samba". Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> I'd suggest these sources of help/tutorials/step by steps to anyone
> using Linux
>
> http://www.mandrakeuser.org/siteindex.htmlthis will take you to
> the 'site map' (I prefer it).  Remove the ending 'siteindex.html to
> get the main page.  Everything from install to compiling to trouble
> shooting.  Very comprehensive Mandrake site written for newbies to
> understand.  Updated monthly, you can download the whole tutorial
> (~300k) so that you'll have it when you're offline.  This is your
> best site for Mandrake support.
>
> http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/an even simpler, more generic
> help site
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3   half way down the
> page are links to search the 'newbie' and 'expert' mailing list
> archives.  A little further down is the 'cooker' list archive.
> Your question/problem has prob'ly been discussed before.  I
> suggest everyone search all these links before posting their
> question to the list.  Best place for a quick answer.
>
> http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ good site to browse regularly. An
> example of what you'll find here is how to install RealPlayer
> (RealAudio) to play many of the popular multimedia files on the
> Net with NetScape
>
> http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htmStep by steps for
> dozens of subjects
>
> http://docs.online.bg/OS/index.htmlOnline books including 'UNIX
> in a Nutshell', 'Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours', 'RedHat Linux
> Unleashed'.  Some are online, some like 'Teach Yourself Linux in 24
> Hours' can be downloaded.
>
>  --
> ~~   Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] (no subject)- help sources

[Dennis Myers]

Tom Brinkman wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Something is not working correctly.  I am trying this again after
> > receiving a missent message.  I am try to set up Samba.  Using Sams
> > teach yourself Linux-Mandrake in 24 Hours is  useless.  "Running Linux"
> > is ok if you understand the C language or are comfortable in a text
> > mode.  I am a visual person and need things spelled out for me line by
> > line or better yet a picture drawn. Anyway the user guide that came with
> > my Linux-Mandrake distro is no help.  Anybody know where I can find (or
> > a title to ) help in setting up "Samba". Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> I'd suggest these sources of help/tutorials/step by steps to anyone
> using Linux
>
> http://www.mandrakeuser.org/siteindex.htmlthis will take you to
> the 'site map' (I prefer it).  Remove the ending 'siteindex.html to
> get the main page.  Everything from install to compiling to trouble
> shooting.  Very comprehensive Mandrake site written for newbies to
> understand.  Updated monthly, you can download the whole tutorial
> (~300k) so that you'll have it when you're offline.  This is your
> best site for Mandrake support.
>
> http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/an even simpler, more generic
> help site
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3   half way down the
> page are links to search the 'newbie' and 'expert' mailing list
> archives.  A little further down is the 'cooker' list archive.
> Your question/problem has prob'ly been discussed before.  I
> suggest everyone search all these links before posting their
> question to the list.  Best place for a quick answer.
>
> http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ good site to browse regularly. An
> example of what you'll find here is how to install RealPlayer
> (RealAudio) to play many of the popular multimedia files on the
> Net with NetScape
>
> http://netllama.ipfox.com/stepbystep.htmStep by steps for
> dozens of subjects
>
> http://docs.online.bg/OS/index.htmlOnline books including 'UNIX
> in a Nutshell', 'Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours', 'RedHat Linux
> Unleashed'.  Some are online, some like 'Teach Yourself Linux in 24
> Hours' can be downloaded.
>
>  --
> ~~   Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks Tom ,   this kinda stuff is what I need. Sooner or later I'll learn
enough to be dangerous not disasterous.   Dennis

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

[Alan Shoemaker]

flupke wrote:
> 
> You uncompress the archive :
Romanif that's the adobe acrobat reader, why don't you
install the one on disc 5 of your powerpack, it's in an rpm
and is easy as pie to install?

Alan


Romanator wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>
> I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install
> linux-ar-405.tar.gz
> I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful?
> I must be missing a command. Can any one help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roman

RE: [newbie] SAMBA

[Jose M. Sanchez]

|-Original Message-
|From: Pete Clapham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 7:31 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: [newbie] SAMBA
|
|
|Hi, all --
|
|I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my
|Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server
|networks.  The obvious answer is SAMBA.  As one who does not like
|to bother my colleagues on this list, I wanted to go to
|www.samba.org first to see how to configure SAMBA, but navigating
|the site is next to impossible.
|
|Questions:
|
|1. I assume that the SAMBA Server goes on the Linux box that
|is trying to access NETBIOS resources.  Is this correct?

Yes, you must configure Samba (/etc/smb.conf) so that your Linux machine is
a member or server on the same network as your other machines.


|2. How do I configure the SAMBA Server so that it can access
|the NETBIOS resources?  I've tried various combinations of
|TCP/IP and NETBIOS names and numbers, but none seem to work.

Basically edit /etc/smb.conf and restart the samba server software...

Since you have NT machines, you'll need to use a Domain Controller (PDC).

Samba will act as a PDC for your network, but you must set it up to do so.

If one of your NT machines is your PDC, then you'll have to point Samba to
it.

You'll also have to configure encrypted passwords...

| Has anybody actually done this, so that you can either
|tell me how to do it or where to go to find out?
|

Yes it works fine (don't know about Warp though...)

There are several books now out on Integrating Samba and Windows Networks
which are invaluable.

Also see attachment in PRIV message I sent you...

-JMS

RE: [newbie] IP-Chains/Masquarading

[Jose M. Sanchez]

As you configure networking in Linux, set your Gateway to be the IP of the
Linux ethernet card connected to the common hub (actually subnet).

If you have configured a DNS in Linux, then set your Client Linux machines
to point to it.

If you have not configured a DNS (meaning that you are running your own
server) then point the clients to the ISP's DNS instead.

The Netmask must be the same on your clients as your Linux machine's
ethernet card (on the common hub).

That's it.

-JMS

|-Original Message-
|From: Thorsten Brenner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:14 AM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: [newbie] IP-Chains/Masquarading
|
|
|Hi,
|
|on my first Linux-Boix i have set up IP-Masquarading. And it work
|fine for me.
|With my Windows Clients i can connect via Ethernet to th inernet
|without any Problems.
|But i have trouble to configure my Linux-Clients.
|Can anybod send me a detailed walktrough how to set up the
|Linux-Clients or tell me where i can find a german or english
|URL with a Howto?
|
|Thanks in advance,
|Thortsen
|

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

[flupke]

You uncompress the archive :
   tar zxf linux-ar-405.tar.gz
then you go into the newly created directoy, su to root, and execute the
installation script :
   ./INSTALL (or is it ./SETUP???)

Then, the rest should be self prompting.


HTH
Flupke


On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me install
> linux-ar-405.tar.gz
> I would like to install Adobe. Has any one been successful?
> I must be missing a command. Can any one help?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roman

-- 
<< There's no place like ~ ! >>

Re: [newbie] networking question

[flupke]

I don't agree. I have a firewall between my LAN and my cable-modem
internet connection, with the following configuration :
P100, 24 MB RAM, 300 MB HD, 2 PCI NE200 compatible nics, no screen, no
keyboard. And the average load of the machine is near the 0%.

Concerning X, I personnaly consider it as a waste of space and resource,
on a machine that really don't need it. And I find it dangerous to add an
unneeded server on a machine that has to deal with security.

Just my 2 cent...

HTH
Flupke



One do really not need to have much memory to make a firewall.

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, bascule wrote:

> hi, and what a useful answer!
> 
> this is exactly the stuff that the books i have looked at assumed i
> already knew!
> 
> i have to admit though, that i'm a bit worried about needing so much
> memory for my 486, i keep reading about how such machines make good
> firewalls for smalltime users like me but i don't think my 486  can have
> 64meg!
> 
> thanks again
> 
> bascule
> 
> 
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> 
> 
> > 
> > it is my intention to one day have the 486 machine be a firewall, i
> > perceive that one day the uk will have reasonably priced unmetered isp
> > access and i want to be ready!
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > I hope your 486 has at least 64megs of RAM.
> > 
> > While a 486 does fine as a router, it normally does so if it is not bogged
> > down with things like Xwindows. You can use X to set things up though, then
> > merely have the computer come up in text mode.
> > 
> > -JMS
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [newbie] security

[flupke]

Indeed, a too high security level prevents one from being able to login as
root, even in a console.

This is is handled by the msec package.

See the files under /usr/doc/msec for more infos about the
different security levels and how to change it.

HTH
Flupke


On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Michael H. Collins wrote:

>   OOPS.  I must have set the high security thing.  One cannot login as
> root, but one can su to root.
> 
> I had to do a text install, but I never saw the security question.
> 
> How do I fix it, or maybe not,  
> 
> oh yes, only root can run X.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 

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Re: [newbie] boot magic/LILO

[Alan Shoemaker]

KompuKitedit the first line of your /etc/lilo.conf file to
point at the partition you want lilo installed on and then run
/sbin/lilo.

Alan


KompuKit wrote:
> 
> Just installed Partition Magic 5.0...along with
> boot magic
> 
> I had my LILO on the MBR of the master disk,partitioned into
> two parts...with linux being the second part.
> 
> need to know...HOW to now...configure LILO to install instead...
> to the linux partso I can use boot magic...instead.
> 
> anyone know how?
> --
>Registered Linux User:73821
> <===KompuKit===>
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Re: [newbie] printer

[Jim]

you are using the black and white driverchoose the color one and it
works fine in color

Jim
- Original Message -
From: "KompuKit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mandrake Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 6:39 PM
Subject: [newbie] printer


have a HP deskjet 600

it prints in black and white only,under linux
why won't it print in color...?
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Re: [newbie] Mdk-7.1 and NT-boot.ini

[flupke]

Are you SURE that lilo (and not grub) is installed on /dev/hdc5 (check
that there is a line boot=/dev/hdc5 in your /etc/lilo.conf).

If this is the case, try to re-execute /sbin/lilo before make again an
image of the boot sector and copy it to your nt partition.

HTH
Flupke


On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Andrea Celli wrote:

> 
> I'va a strange problem with Mandrake-7.1.
> 
> In my box i've installed several Linux distributions and
> win-NT.
> I use Nt-loader (in a dos partition) to choose operative System
> at boot time.
> 
> Now, i've installed Mandrake-7.1 in a free partition,to test it 
> before upgrade 7.0.
> I choose to install lilo in bootsector of mdk-7.1 partition
> Then I copied this sector in dos partition
> dd if=/dev/hdc5 of=/mnt/dos/BOOTSECT.M71 bs=512 count=1
> and added the usual line to boot.ini:
> C:\BOOTSECT.M71="Mandrake-7.1".
> 
> This is the same procedure i followed many time and actually
> works to load Mandrake-7.0 and SuSE-6.4.
> 
> It doesn't work to load mandrake-7.1 !
> If at boot, i choose mandrake-7.1 i've got only a black 
> screen.
> I'm able to start others operative systems from boot.ini
> and mandrake-7.1 from boot-floppy.
> 
> Any suggestion?
> 
> ciao, Andrea Celli
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [newbie] rc.firewall

[flupke]

I coulnd't tell you the use of the rp_filter, but I know that I have
already set up several masquerade firewall and never changed its velue. I
only make sure that ip_forward is set to 1

HTH
Flupke

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Victor Richardson wrote:

> I'm setting up a home cable-modem home behind a
> Mandrake 7.1 box, I've
> checked out the MASQ and Firewall HOWTO's and
> understand them. Actually,
> I used them with 6.0. Although, a few things have
> changed since then. I
> also searched the archives and there was only one
> posting that didn't
> answer this basic question;
> 
> What does the default entry in /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall
> "echo 1  >
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter" do? Or more
> directly - what is
> rp_filter?
> 
> Do I need to include this line in the MASQ/firewall
> rules provided in
> the docs?
> 
> Thanks, Victor
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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RE: [newbie] networking question

[Jose M. Sanchez]

Without 64 Megs you will have problems getting this to work.

The installer fails to run properly, nor can you get the installers working
under Xwindows..

You can however install it with 64 megs then remove 32 megs later.

-JMS



|-Original Message-
|From: Ot Ratsaphong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 8:39 AM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [newbie] networking question
|
|
|Hi bascule,
|
|If you have a look at the following URL, you will find all you need to get
|you going. I followed the instructions to get my 486 configured as a router
|and firewall for my small home network.
|
|http://members.home.net/ipmasq/ipmasq-HOWTO-1.82.html
|
|I have a question for you:
|
|I have a 486/66 VL-bus PC with 32MB RAM and a Trident Video card.
|I have not
|been able to install anything after RedHat 5.2. I'm interested in upgrading
|to MDK 7.02 486 and am interested to hear that you have been successful at
|it. Can you tell me if your H/w is similar to mine?
|
|Thanks,
|Ot  8^)
|
|
|-Original Message-
|From: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Date: Monday, 12 June 2000 10:38
|Subject: [newbie] networking question
|
|
|>i am having trouble setting up two machines to talk to each other, i'll
|>put all the questions in this one post since they are all related,
|>
|>1) do i need to 'fake' a domain for both machines to belong to or is it
|>enough to give each machine a name?
|>2)is the ip address of each nic the same as each machine or is that
|>different? (i ask because i know that one machine could have more than
|>one nic)
|>3)do i need a default gateway or to set up any routing info if i only
|>have two machines connected via a hub?
|>4)i know about the reserved ip addresses but does it matter which
|>address in an allowed range is used? i have used 192.168.0.1 on one box
|>and 192.168.0.2 on the other
|>5)what other quiestions should i have asked?!
|>
|>i have never connected two machines before, i have read a couple of
|>books but they are a little over my head and seem to assume a lot, my
|>machines both run mandrake 7-02 one is a 486 and one is an amdk6-2 400,
|>i have installed a netgear ea201 in each machine and according to the
|>diagnostic disk provided both are setup ok. of course until i know that
|>linux is configured properly in both machines i won't know this for
|>sure,
|>
|>any answers, recommended books, urls gratefully received,
|>
|>it is my intention to one day have the 486 machine be a firewall, i
|>perceive that one day the uk will have reasonably priced unmetered isp
|>access and i want to be ready!
|

Re: [newbie] TV howto set it up (fwd)

[Max Moritz Sievers]

Am Wed, 14 Jun 2000 schrieb Andrew Scotchmer:
>   Gary,
>You'll need something like KwinTV that I downloaded from Linuxberg.
>You'll also need the drivers for your card.  I have hauppauge WinTV
>and use the BTTV drivers and you can learn about how to configure
>and get it all up an running at the BTTV Howto at www.linuxdoc.org.
> 
>   Andrew

I have installed my hauppauge WinTV but I have no Sound. I have
connected the "line out" of the TV-card with the "line in" of the
soundcard but I dont get sound. My sondcard is a Soundblaster Live
(emu10k1).
Any ideas to get it work?

Max Moritz Sievers

[newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!

[Thomas 2]

For anyone who would like to have the ReiserFS in 7.1, and at the sametime 
do the much easier automatic install, here's what worked for me: First 
select expert install, and when you get to where you setup your partitions, 
select ReiserFS as the filesystem type. After it formats the partitions, go 
back to the 'installation class' selection in the left hand menu and select 
automatic install. It'll skip the partition setup since it was already done 
(or you can just leave it as is and tell it to NOT format anything!) From 
there on it's an easy install, and you'll have the ReiserFS to boot!

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[newbie] replacing Lilo with Grub - how?

[Thomas 2]

I reinstalled 7.1 and now it comes up using Lilo. How do I get Grub back? 
The Grub files were installed, but for some reason it's not the active 
bootloader now. Thanks in advance.

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[newbie] Mouse Pointer

[Mark Potochnik]

Is there any way to increase the size of the mouse pointer w/Linux?


Somebody with bad eyesight has problems seeing it

MarkP

Re: [newbie] boot partition?

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>Hello,am installing Linux Mandrake 7.1.I have two drives,one is Windows 
:~>98,second is for Linux.Where do I want to put the Lilo?

nowhere. Use GRUB, it is much nicer.
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Re: [newbie] I can't believe it

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>> KompuKitI don't believe that an uppercase 'N' could
:~>> possibly be your problem.  Capitalization is irrelevant when
:~>> it comes to email addresses.  This message is addressed in all
:~>> lowercase.
:~>
:~>I think Kompukit is on to something. My posts weren't appearing on the
:~>list either, but when I used the capital N they do appear.
:~>
:~>Now I see my screensaver post finally made it to the list, two days
:~>after I posted it with a small n.

sympa thinks it is another list of same priority but with only a few
messages - so you get messages to "Newbie" processed faster. Until
everyone starts using Newbie, then "newbie" will become faster :-)

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Re: [newbie] E-mail Clients

[Sevatio Octavio]

StarOffice can handle the multiple accounts to some degree.  Although it's rather 
cumbersome in layout.  Then there's Magellan.
It's supposed to be really good when ready.  Check it out at 
http://www.zamolxe.csis.ul.ie .  If there are others out there, please
let us know.

Seve
-Original Message-
From: Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:38 PM
Subject: [newbie] E-mail Clients


>Hello, everybody!
>
>I'm currently using the Netscape e-mail client along with Kmail; I'm
>looking for a client which features message filters and search and
>multiple pop accounts, better if designed for Gnome; there's a lot of
>programs, what would you suggest me?
>
>Thank you!
>
>Corrado
>

RE: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

[Jose M. Sanchez]

|-Original Message-
|From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 2:04 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
|Subject: RE: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...
|
|
|On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote:
|> Lobby http://www.eazel.com/
|> 
|> Most of these guys are Ex-Apple hotshots...
|> 
|> -JMS
|I sent an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; what if we all did?
|> 
|> -
|> > You cannot view Quicktime movies in Linux because Apple hasn't made a
|> player
|> > for Linux yet. So the only way you can view it is to boot up Windows.
|> >
|> >
|> 
|> How can we orchestrate a campaign to persuade the well paid, 
|smart, driven
|> folks at Apple to do so?
|> 
|>  
|

Eh, by not buying MACs?

-JMS

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 Install problem: Can't find package xfree- rpm

[Mark Weaver]

> Poul Varming wrote:
> 
> I am unable to complete the Linux Mandrake 7.1 installation.
> When I reach the X Configuration I am prompted that the RPM package
> "xfree- " can't be found.
> I have tried both Automated and Customized installation with the same
> result.
> Installing all the XFree packages did not help.
> Installation of Linux Mandrake 7.0 had no problems.
> My configuration is: AMD 700MHz CPU, 128MB SD-RAM, 16GB HD, Diamond
> Viper II (Savage2000) graphics card.
> Any help is appreciated!

that sounds an aweful lot like your ISO wasn't complete or there are
corrupt files on that CD. Better burn a new one.
-- 
Mark

My Linux Box ROCKS!

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE 100tx problems w/ mdk7

[Michael R. Batchelor]

> >I tried setting up a Linksys LNE100TX NIC on my HP / MDK7 / Win98 machine.  I 
[...]
> >My buddy said to buy a supported NIC like a 3COM.  Maybe he's right, but the 
> >Linksys should work... right?

I have a Linksys LNE100TX in a Mandrake 7.0-2 box that I use as a samba
server on our internal network. Frankly I had no trouble configuring
it. It just worked automatically after the install. Here's the card
settings from my machine. Let me know if you want anything else. (But
I'm not the network guru here.)


Here's "cat /proc/pci" (Nothing special here. It's about halfway down.)

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
Host bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX Host (rev 3).
  Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.
  Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf800 [0xf808].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
PCI bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX AGP (rev 3).
  Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=136.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  No
bursts.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=32.
  I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  2:
USB Controller: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 10.  Master
Capable.
Latency=32.
  I/O at 0xef80 [0xef81].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.
  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Unknown device (rev 1).
  Vendor id=1013. Device id=6003.
  Medium devsel.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min
Gnt=4.Max
Lat=24.
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffafe000 [0xffafe000].
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff90 [0xff90].
  Bus  0, device  19, function  0:
Ethernet controller: LiteOn Unknown device (rev 37).
  Vendor id=11ad. Device id=c115.
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master
Capable.
Latency=32.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
  I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffafff00 [0xffafff00].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Unknown device (rev 0).
  Vendor id=1002. Device id=5246.
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master
Capable.
Latency=32.  Min Gnt=8.
  Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf000 [0xf008].
  I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01].
  Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff7fc000 [0xff7fc000].  


=
Here's the conf.modules (Nothing special here either.)
=

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias sound alsa
alias eth0 tulip   


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[newbie] Manual dialing or Operator assisted Modem

[Neptali Barrios]

Anyone knows where can I find a Dial Up software 
with the windows Dial Up networking feature "Manual Dialing or Operator 
Assisted" in the modem features, I really need it, because I can connect with my 
cell phone in that way, I really apreciate your comments !
 
 
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Re: [newbie] junk

[Anthony Huereca]

Look in the menu's and in /usr/bin to see what it all installed. And then to
get rid of it, type "rpm -e the_program_name". 

> okay, mandrake puts a lot of stuff on your computer when you install it.  
> how do i find out what it has installed, and then how do i get rid of it if 
> i don't want it?
> thanks
> jd

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Re: [[newbie] Mouse Problem after CPU Switch]

[GAPrichard]

Did you try changing connections (i.e. swap two of the CPUs locations on 
the switch)?  It could be that the switch is bad in that one location, and 
that your problem is not related to different o/s.  -Gary-

6/16 Leo Stutzmann wrote:
Thanks, Yes, it is a rotary dial switch allowing 4 cpus to share 1 keyboard,
mouse, and monitor. It works correctly in Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
Solaris X86. It loses the mouse after switching back to a cpu. The mouse can
be restored by CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE, shutting down X, and then starting X
again. Everytime I switch, the above has to be performed. There must be
something, as Solaris works OK.

Thanks
Leo

Re: [RE: [[newbie] Mouse Problem after CPU Switch]]

[Jaguar]

If I were you...I would buy a cheap mouse/keyboard ($20 or so)for your Linux
box...
HTH
Jaguar

Leo Stutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, Yes, it is a rotary dial switch allowing 4 cpus to share 1
keyboard,
> mouse, and monitor. It works correctly in Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
> Solaris X86. It loses the mouse after switching back to a cpu. The mouse
can
> be restored by CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE, shutting down X, and then starting X
> again. Everytime I switch, the above has to be performed. There must be
> something, as Solaris works OK.
> 
> Thanks
> Leo
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Jaguar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 12:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [[newbie] Mouse Problem after CPU Switch]
> 
> 
> Not really sure what you mean by a CPU switch??? Is it a DATA switch
similar
> to a printer switch so you can run two printer's from one computer..??
> If so have you tested the switch in Windows ONLY?  I have a similar setup
> here...it shares keyboards/mice with one monitor amongst all the computer's
> If this is the hardware you have...I would guess maybe a bad mouse cable or
> something like that.
> HTH
> Jaguar
> 
> Leo Stutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have 2 cpus connected through a CPU switch (non-powered cheap one) to a
> > keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
> > 
> > I have to have the switch set to the correct CPU when I power up that
CPU,
> > after the machine is powered up, everything works, including X. Once both
> > CPUs are up, and X is running, when I switch to CPU A from B the mouse
> > pointer does not work and is stuck in one spot. To correct this I have to
> > shut down X and restart it. Then when I switch back to CPU B from A the
> same
> > thing happens.
> > 
> > I am running Mandrake 7.1 B3, but this happens with older version as
well.
> I
> > thought maybe a newer XFree86 might fix the problem, but no luck so far.
> > 
> > This switch works when both machines are running Solaris X86, and
Windows.
> > 
> > Any help or pointers (no pun intended) would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Leo Stutzmann
> 
> 
> The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma.
> 
> 
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