Re: [newbie] IDE RAID
Mark Weaver wrote: I wasn't aware that was even possible. I was under the impression that RAID could only be accomplished using SCSI devices. Mark On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Michael Lapa wrote: Has anyone gotten an IDE RAID system up and running in Mandrake linux? If so, what card and software did you use. Michael Lapa Technical Support Xprima.com Corporation 450.668.4415 ext. 238 RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, it can be ide as well as scsi. Mirroring is one type of raid setup where you write the same information to two or more disks at the same time, that way if one disk fails, you haven't lost important data. Another type is striping with parity; you have three or more disks and you write the information twice. If one disk fails, you just swap it with a good disk and keep going. As far as getting it working under Linux, I haven't yet tried. I do have simple striping setup on one of my computers under Windows 2000 and when I installed Linux to that computer, it seemed to recognize that it was a raid setup however there were other problems so I aborted and haven't gone back yet. In the installer for Mandrake 7.1, there is an option on the 'custom' install when you choose which filesystem you want to use, that allows for raid - I would imagine that it's as simple as picking the disks to use and letting the installer do the rest. Hope that helps, Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Cannot execute mkhybrid
Hallo! It's the first time i write in here... of course i've got a problem, and it is that the mkhybrid command seems not to exist in my Mandrake 7.0. I've downloaded mkisofs 1.12.1 and executed the installation steps without any problem (at least i haven't noticed them). After installing mkisofs works but mkhybrid program is missing. I've executed make from the mkhybrid directory getting the following message: make: nothing to be done for "all" Thanks!! -- - Joan Tur - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ibiza - Spain Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de
Re: [newbie] ADSL and PPP DSL Modem with Bell South
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bell South ADSL is claiming that they can't provide service to Linux. It is a PPP connection with an internal modem specially made for PPP. There is also an external ethernet option that connects to the computer through Ethernet. Does anyone know of a way to make this work with Linux? The website is www.fastaccess.com or http://consumer.bellsouth.net/adsl/. Does anyone know of using the internal ADSL modem with Linux? I suppose the external is better and once the "install expert" is gone, configure it for a linux machine w/ ethernet card and external device. If anyone has played with this, please let me know the solution. I'm using GTE ADSL with an external modem and don't have any problems connecting with any service. I would go with the external connection if you have room for a nic card in your computer; that's probably the easiest way to go. If they are using PPPoE, there is Linux support for that (although I haven't used it, I do know it's available). My account is just standard, no PPP. I have a Netgear RT311 Router which accepts my dynamic ip from GTE and then assigns local numbers (192.168.x.x) to my internal network through my hub - simple as that. Hope that helps, Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] W, Finger Ytalk ?'s
I have a few questions, was wondering if anyone could help? W only works as root. I want all users to see who is on. They can do this using Finger, but I'd rather have W work as I'm so used to it. It displays the header for W, but no username or user info. I tried changing the permissions on the utmp file, but to no avail. Finger Command does not retain info once a user logs out. So when I finger user, it says they have never logged in. I'm not sure on this one either. And finally, YTalk, it runs, but will not contact the other user that I'm trying to talk to. How do I get this to run? Is this a process that has to be started? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks Mark
Re: [newbie] how to install pronto email
Hi, Pronto had an RPM on the site...if you are not comfortable with tarballs yet, you might want to go back and get the RPM. Bambi Alan Carpenter wrote: I am a newbie =), and need help installing pronto email. I downloaded the tarball, but that's as far as I have gotten. A step by step would really help me, and other people in this list I hope. Thanks so much. Alan Carpenter PC Specialist Department of Computer Services Virginia Wesleyan College 1584 Wesleyan Dr. Norfolk Va. 23502 Office (757)455.3267 Cell (757)449.0381
Re: [newbie] W, Finger Ytalk ?'s
You could try to substitute who for w which works for non-root users under the medium security install; however, it isn't quite as detailed as w ... see man who. You must be at a higher security level then medium because w works for my users. Did you try changing the permissions of w? You can either change the group setting to users (or some other group) or change w so that "others" can execute the file. See man chown and man chmod ... or for a point and click method use kfm. As a matter of security, I think I would change the group to users instead of making w executable by anyone which would include potential crackers. HTH. Larry Mark wrote: I have a few questions, was wondering if anyone could help? W only works as root. I want all users to see who is on. They can do this using Finger, but I'd rather have W work as I'm so used to it. It displays the header for W, but no username or user info. I tried changing the permissions on the utmp file, but to no avail. Finger Command does not retain info once a user logs out. So when I finger user, it says they have never logged in. I'm not sure on this one either. And finally, YTalk, it runs, but will not contact the other user that I'm trying to talk to. How do I get this to run? Is this a process that has to be started? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks Mark
[newbie] Razer Boomslang USB Mouse in Mandrake7.0
Hi everyone, I was wondering what settings people are using to get a Razer Boomslang usb mouse to work under Mandrake7.0. I know it will work because I had it working with Mandrake7.0 for about three weeks. Then I reinstalled because I wanted to make some changes . and now I can't remember the settings I used to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated. Larry
[newbie] Re: Fw: Linux
A couple of days ago I was surfing on the net and went on a Star Trek site. I liked what they had and out of good faith I sent them the message lets port it to Linux I thought that the Linux community had an attitude but I was wrong. This is the answer that I received. Now what would you answer to them??/ I really do not like people that are that sarcastic especially to someone that they do not know. I would appreciate any ideas!!! On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, also sprach: - Original Message - From: Richard Sliwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Arkoulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Linux At 13:31 26/06/00 -0700, you wrote: Come on guys. Lets port these great stuff over to Linux. To which particular flavour of Linux desktop environment do you want us to port? And just what "stuff" is it you want us to port? The only material on our site which isn't directly relevant to Linux are the startup screens and desktop themes which are irrelevant anyway. Anyway, why should *we* port it? We're part of the Windows online community (despite the fact that our server is actually running on Linux - Windoze just isn't up to it!), why can't the online Linux community do something about it? After all, linux is meant to be the single largest collaborative project going, isn't it? And isn't Linux all about tinkering away oneself - why would any Linux user want to rely on all our pre-compiled suff? -- Richard Sliwa Star Trek in Sound and Vision http://www.STinSV.com Boldly Going Where No Web Site Has Ever Gone Before -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO image
Hugo What program will you be using to burn the ISO. Charles - Original Message - From: "Chris Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO image Once you burn it its just automatically bootable. I think. How to burn one? I think Mandrake said Easy-cd creator would burn em'. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:07 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO image Ok, so GRUB can go beyond the cylinder 1024. I am dowloading then the ISO image of Mandrake 7.1. I am half the way of completing the download. I looked for a howto on burning iso images into CD, but found none. At the places I found something it was only a "please refer to your CD-R manual". What is the procedure to burn an ISO image into a CD to make it bootable? Do I burn it just like that? Thanks again! Hugo GONZALEZ -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux I also have a Maxtor hd. When I installed it in my system I used the MaxBlast software included with the drive to format it before installing any OS. This software will write code to the hd that will prevent you from being able to use LILO, BootMagic, or the BeOS bootloader. You will have no problem with 7.1 and GRUB. Charles - Original Message - From: "Hugo GONZALEZ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux My hd is a Maxtor, and I partitioned 10Mb using DOS(Win95) fdisk. I am on my way of downloading the iso images for Mandrake 7.1. Thanks. Hugo GONZALEZ -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux You can always do the install and boot Linux from a floppy or upgrade to 7.1 and use GRUB as the bootloader. It does not suffer from the 1024 error.You can also move Windows to the end of the drive, it will boot from anywhere and install Mandrake on the first 10GB. One other note. You did not say what brand hd or which tool you used to formatt. If you used a floppy supplied with the drive then you will most likly get the 1024 error regardless of where you install LILO. Charles - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!--- -Linux--- -! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-- ---Linux- -! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ Hugo, This is very easy to fix. When you're doing the install and you're partition your HDD for Linux make these partitions. "/boot" = 10Meg "/" (your 'root' partition) = HOwever big your you want according to physical limits SWAP partition = 200 - 300 Meg that's really all there is to it. -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
Re: [newbie] Installing Firewall (pmfirewall)
Dennis, When it asks you for a range for unrestricted access use this range: 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 When you want to restrict access use this range: 1.2.3.0./255.255.255.0 You may want to keep open ports 25 and 80. SMTP and HTTP respectively. That's your mail and internet access ports. close all others. That will get you set to begin running the pmfirewall. From there you will have to begin reading about firewalls, IP-chains, and how those things work. Another thing you're going to want to get is an IP range from your ISP. Not an easy talk as I'm finding out. It looks as if I'm going to have to get a dedicated dial-up connection so I can have a static IP address. But those numbers I've given you will work for now and allow your box to operate in stealth mode. Mark On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: I'm back, and still trying to install the "pmfirewall" program. I get close but either have all sorts of ports open or Netscape can't open up as my browser. I am sure it has to do with how I put in my address ranges. When it asks if I have a server running on port 25 (for instance) and I answer yes, it asks for the IP range or addresses allowed to access . Is it asking for the internal addresses or the ISP addresses.? I see some guidance that says to answer with a format like: 1.2.3.0/255.255.255.0 does that mean if I use 192.168.0.1/ 255.255.255.0 that that is the only user with access permission or should I use 192.168.0.1/4 to allow all users on the internal net access. This should be a very easy install but I am not getting it right. Thanks for any assistance given. Dennis a registered Linux user #180842
Re: [[newbie] Lilo MBR]
"PatMc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't have to reinstall Mandrake. Thank you Pat === Use your boot floppy to get into linux and then, as root, run /sbin/lilo from a command line. You should get a report back that lilo.conf has added win or dos. Reboot w/o floppy and this time you should come to the lilo prompt. If you hit the tab key you should see both sytems available for booting (linux will probably be the default system). HTH, Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] adaptec scsi
I am having no luck getting Mandrake 7.1 to install with any Adaptect controller. I have tried a 1542, 1542cf and 2940. All seem to find the card but won't hit the devices connected to the card. This is keeping me from getting 7.1 to install. This problem didn't exist with 7.0. Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hey all, Just wondering if anyone has had any problems installing an adaptec 29160 ultra 160 scsi controller using Mandrake 7 / 7.1? Thanks, Mike -- Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering
Re: [newbie] Re: Fw: Linux
It appears that you've struck a nerve amoungst these folks. about the only thing you can do for these poor fellas is to hand them a hanky box and show a little sympathy. Not everyone us cut out to run the BEST OS in the known universe. Some are STUCK running the world's worst! Mark On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: A couple of days ago I was surfing on the net and went on a Star Trek site. I liked what they had and out of good faith I sent them the message lets port it to Linux I thought that the Linux community had an attitude but I was wrong. This is the answer that I received. Now what would you answer to them??/ I really do not like people that are that sarcastic especially to someone that they do not know. I would appreciate any ideas!!! On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, also sprach: - Original Message - From: Richard Sliwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Arkoulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Linux At 13:31 26/06/00 -0700, you wrote: Come on guys. Lets port these great stuff over to Linux. To which particular flavour of Linux desktop environment do you want us to port? And just what "stuff" is it you want us to port? The only material on our site which isn't directly relevant to Linux are the startup screens and desktop themes which are irrelevant anyway. Anyway, why should *we* port it? We're part of the Windows online community (despite the fact that our server is actually running on Linux - Windoze just isn't up to it!), why can't the online Linux community do something about it? After all, linux is meant to be the single largest collaborative project going, isn't it? And isn't Linux all about tinkering away oneself - why would any Linux user want to rely on all our pre-compiled suff? -- Richard Sliwa Star Trek in Sound and Vision http://www.STinSV.com Boldly Going Where No Web Site Has Ever Gone Before
Re: [newbie] adaptec scsi
"Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering" wrote: I am having no luck getting Mandrake 7.1 to install with any Adaptect controller. I have tried a 1542, 1542cf and 2940. All seem to find the card but won't hit the devices connected to the card. This is keeping me from getting 7.1 to install. This problem didn't exist with 7.0. Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello, I got 7.1 to install on a 2940 if I did not choose expert mode. It appears to me that the 7.1 install breaks after it asks you what scsi card you are using. In my case it could not mount the cd. If it auto-probes and finds it then no problem. The 1542 cards will not work because it does not automatically detect the 1542 cards. 73 Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] WB1HBU
[newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man
Hello I know that this is a rather silly question but I definitely need help. For instance, I installed procmail on my system. The manuals were placed at /usr/man/man1 and /usr/man/man5 as *.1.gz or *1.bz2 and *.5.gz or *.5.bz2. When I type man procmail the sys returns no manual page for it. What am I missing here? Thanks a lot. Ed
Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR
If you have a Linux boot disk you could also boot from it, mount your Linux partition(s), edit your /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo to fix the MBR. This way you don't have to worry about running update changing anything you have already go configed under Linux. Rick Murphy wrote: Mike Tracy Holt wrote: PatMc wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in Just slip your mandrake cd back in and boot your cd. Choose update in mandrake this will let you reinstall lilo. No problems. good luck Rick -- Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering
Re: [newbie] Re: Fw: Linux
Hej John, Just forget. They have short mind! Bye CHC --- John Arkoulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: A couple of days ago I was surfing on the net and went on a Star Trek site. I liked what they had and out of good faith I sent them the message lets port it to Linux I thought that the Linux community had an attitude but I was wrong. This is the answer that I received. Now what would you answer to them??/ I really do not like people that are that sarcastic especially to someone that they do not know. I would appreciate any ideas!!! On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, also sprach: - Original Message - From: Richard Sliwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Arkoulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Linux At 13:31 26/06/00 -0700, you wrote: Come on guys. Lets port these great stuff over to Linux. To which particular flavour of Linux desktop environment do you want us to port? And just what "stuff" is it you want us to port? The only material on our site which isn't directly relevant to Linux are the startup screens and desktop themes which are irrelevant anyway. Anyway, why should *we* port it? We're part of the Windows online community (despite the fact that our server is actually running on Linux - Windoze just isn't up to it!), why can't the online Linux community do something about it? After all, linux is meant to be the single largest collaborative project going, isn't it? And isn't Linux all about tinkering away oneself - why would any Linux user want to rely on all our pre-compiled suff? -- Richard Sliwa Star Trek in Sound and Vision http://www.STinSV.com Boldly Going Where No Web Site Has Ever Gone Before -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux O YAHOO! GEOCITIES CHEGOU AO BRASIL! Crie sua home page com tudo em português - http://br.geocities.com
Re: [newbie] Lilo MBR
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: I made the error of installing win98 AFTER I installed Mandrake 7.0. So of cource the Master Boot Record was over writen and linux won't boot. I have read how to fix this but can't remember the details. Can someone point me in the right direction so I don't have to reinstall Mandrake. Thank you Pat Boot from the floppy you made (you did make one, right?) as root, type '/sbin/lilo' and that will re-write lilo to the MBR -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ADSL and PPP DSL Modem with Bell South
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote: Bell South ADSL is claiming that they can't provide service to Linux. It is a PPP connection with an internal modem specially made for PPP. There is also an external ethernet option that connects to the computer through Ethernet. Does anyone know of a way to make this work with Linux? The website is www.fastaccess.com or http://consumer.bellsouth.net/adsl/. Does anyone know of using the internal ADSL modem with Linux? I suppose the external is better and once the "install expert" is gone, configure it for a linux machine w/ ethernet card and external device. If anyone has played with this, please let me know the solution. This was discussed some time ago at length on either the 'cooker' or 'expert' mailing lists. Search the archives. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man
mendes wrote: Hello I know that this is a rather silly question but I definitely need help. For instance, I installed procmail on my system. The manuals were placed at /usr/man/man1 and /usr/man/man5 as *.1.gz or *1.bz2 and *.5.gz or *.5.bz2. When I type man procmail the sys returns no manual page for it. What am I missing here? Thanks a lot. Ed Ed, Open a terminal window and type: man procmail That will open the man page for procmail is a "vi" editor window and you can use the down arrow key to scroll with. Mark -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
RE: [newbie] Weird DarkConf Question
I see, said the blind man to the deaf boy =). Very interesting. Thanks so much. Alan -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 12:53 AM To: Alan Carpenter Subject: Re: [newbie] Weird DarkConf Question On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Alan Carpenter wrote: I go into darkconf, select hardware, and after it scans for ISA devices I get this weird, almost alert/air raid siren sound coming from my pc speaker. The only way to get rid of it is to reboot. This is the only time it does this. =) . I'm not sending out any nukes am I...=) I could imagine that it is the soundcard that reacts to the probing of the system. Paul -- Women speak two languages, one of which is verbal. -Steve Rubenstein )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man
Just type "man procmail". mendes wrote: Hello I know that this is a rather silly question but I definitely need help. For instance, I installed procmail on my system. The manuals were placed at /usr/man/man1 and /usr/man/man5 as *.1.gz or *1.bz2 and *.5.gz or *.5.bz2. When I type man procmail the sys returns no manual page for it. What am I missing here? Thanks a lot. Ed -- Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering
Re: [newbie] adaptec scsi
Seems like a big problem with how popular SCSI is with old time UNIX people. This was not a problem with Mandrake 6.0, 6.5 or 7.0. I always down load a iso file and burn my own CD prior to purchasing a full copy. I won't be buying if it won't work on my system(s). I would think someone needs to get this fixed. I reported this as a bug but still don't see it show up on any of the bug lists. Does anyone know when/if a reported bug will show up? I don't see vary many bugs showing up on ver.7.1 yet but I don't know how long it really takes for them to show. "Eric A. Cottrell" wrote: "Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering" wrote: I am having no luck getting Mandrake 7.1 to install with any Adaptect controller. I have tried a 1542, 1542cf and 2940. All seem to find the card but won't hit the devices connected to the card. This is keeping me from getting 7.1 to install. This problem didn't exist with 7.0. Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello, I got 7.1 to install on a 2940 if I did not choose expert mode. It appears to me that the 7.1 install breaks after it asks you what scsi card you are using. In my case it could not mount the cd. If it auto-probes and finds it then no problem. The 1542 cards will not work because it does not automatically detect the 1542 cards. 73 Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] WB1HBU -- Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering
RE: [newbie] how to install pronto email
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm pretty new at this =). I finally untared pronto in a directory, and ran the prontoinstaller.pl. It started to install, and it quit and said you need to be root to install this program. I was like ok no big deal. So I logged in as root and tried it again, only this time I got some error about "bash command: file or directory not found". It's like it just wouldn't see the file?? Does this have something to do with the bash shell??? Please help if you can =). Also whats RPM??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fran Parker Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 2:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Newbie@linux-mandrake. com Subject: Re: [newbie] how to install pronto email Hi, Pronto had an RPM on the site...if you are not comfortable with tarballs yet, you might want to go back and get the RPM. Bambi Alan Carpenter wrote: I am a newbie =), and need help installing pronto email. I downloaded the tarball, but that's as far as I have gotten. A step by step would really help me, and other people in this list I hope. Thanks so much. Alan Carpenter PC Specialist Department of Computer Services Virginia Wesleyan College 1584 Wesleyan Dr. Norfolk Va. 23502 Office (757)455.3267 Cell (757)449.0381
Re: [newbie] Pronto Mail
When I run ProntoInstaller.pl I get the message: bash: ./ProntoInstaller.pl: Permission denied And if I try to run it as root, it simply doesn't recognize the command. Any suggestions? Michael Coady On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Alanyes, it is easy, just download the installer (49k) and execute it. Alan Alan Carpenter wrote: Has any tried to install Pronto yet? I haven't but want. I wasn't sure how hard it is to install it. Let me know if it works well for you. Thanks. Alan Carpenter
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO image
I am using HP Easy CD Creator, that according to what I read I did a test file with an ".iso" extension. I double clicked on it and Easy CD Creator executes to burn a ISO image. Thanks everyone!!! I am only twenty-someting hours away from the completion of Mandrake 7.1 ISO image download. Hugo. -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 2:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO image Hugo What program will you be using to burn the ISO. Charles - Original Message - From: "Chris Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO image Once you burn it its just automatically bootable. I think. How to burn one? I think Mandrake said Easy-cd creator would burn em'. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:07 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ISO image Ok, so GRUB can go beyond the cylinder 1024. I am dowloading then the ISO image of Mandrake 7.1. I am half the way of completing the download. I looked for a howto on burning iso images into CD, but found none. At the places I found something it was only a "please refer to your CD-R manual". What is the procedure to burn an ISO image into a CD to make it bootable? Do I burn it just like that? Thanks again! Hugo GONZALEZ -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux I also have a Maxtor hd. When I installed it in my system I used the MaxBlast software included with the drive to format it before installing any OS. This software will write code to the hd that will prevent you from being able to use LILO, BootMagic, or the BeOS bootloader. You will have no problem with 7.1 and GRUB. Charles - Original Message - From: "Hugo GONZALEZ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux My hd is a Maxtor, and I partitioned 10Mb using DOS(Win95) fdisk. I am on my way of downloading the iso images for Mandrake 7.1. Thanks. Hugo GONZALEZ -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux You can always do the install and boot Linux from a floppy or upgrade to 7.1 and use GRUB as the bootloader. It does not suffer from the 1024 error.You can also move Windows to the end of the drive, it will boot from anywhere and install Mandrake on the first 10GB. One other note. You did not say what brand hd or which tool you used to formatt. If you used a floppy supplied with the drive then you will most likly get the 1024 error regardless of where you install LILO. Charles - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux. Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is: can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder 1024? Can I keep my hd like !Win98(10Gb)--!!--- -Linux--- -! or should I go to something like !-/boot-!!-Win98---!!-- ---Linux- -! Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me. Thanks in advance. Hugo GONZALEZ Hugo, This is very easy to fix. When you're doing the install and you're partition your HDD for Linux make these partitions. "/boot" = 10Meg "/" (your 'root' partition) = HOwever big your you want according to physical limits SWAP partition = 200 - 300 Meg that's really all there is to it. -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
[newbie] Website
Hi list, A club I belong to wants to create a web site to track it's membership's status, attendance, activity participation etc... The club would like the web site to have the following features: Accessibility to all members, but not the world. (or just the top page open to the world, and the sub pages "hidden." Officers and designated members, can maintain and update the site, but not the general membership. The web page will be on a "free" ISP providers machine. Our Oracle guru passed on the project, so being the clubs Linux "guru," and not knowing any better, I volunteered to take on the project. So today I went in search of a Linux database on Freshmeat, and MUO, and was dismayed not to find a database application. Nor did I find any apps. in KDE that would seem to fit the bill. Any suggestions on how I might accomplish this task? Can Netscape Composer handle this task, or do I need something more powerful? Do I need an HTML compliant database? CGI? Can Gnumeric function as a database? Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm) This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE
Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1
rebel wrote: Is there a easy way to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1? I only have a 33.6k modem and tried using update "feature" but it doesn't show any 7.1 rpms. Do I have to download each rpm ? :( TIA Tia, The best and easiest way is to use an installation CD. You can one from http://www.cheapbytes.com for $1.99. After shipping and handling it's about $5.00. When you get the CD you can do an install right over top of your existing 7.0 installation, however, to get the maximum benefit from a MAndrake 7.1 installation you really might want to do a fresh install. After of course you've backed up all your data. I've done the upgrade, the overlay and the fresh install, and the best results come with the fresh install. The upgrade takes upwards of 23 hours in some cases. The overlay, in most cases will work, however it's not fool proof and in some cases not all the files get replaced and some modules don't work right or not at all. The over lay has taken as long as 4 hours to complete. As I said, the best results can be achieved by performing a fresh install which includes formatting the root "/" partition. Mandrake 7.1 IMHO is absolutely the BEST flavor of Linux ever! I'm formally a RedHat user. While I still like RedHat, my heart now belongs to Mandrake. After all Mandrake is just an enhanced version of RedHat. -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
Re: [newbie] Re: Fw: Linux
:~A couple of days ago I was surfing on the net and went on a Star Trek site. I :~liked what they had and out of good faith I sent them the message lets port :~it to Linux :~I thought that the Linux community had an attitude but I was wrong. :~This is the answer that I received. :~Now what would you answer to them??/ :~I really do not like people that are that sarcastic especially to someone that :~they do not know. :~I would appreciate any ideas!!! :~ Come on guys. Lets port these great stuff over to Linux. :~ :~ To which particular flavour of Linux desktop environment do you want us to :~ port? :~ :~ And just what "stuff" is it you want us to port? The only material on our :~ site which isn't directly relevant to Linux are the startup screens and :~ desktop themes which are irrelevant anyway. I am not sure what they have on the site, but they are right: their site clearly states that they are "Trekkies who use Windows", so what did you expect? What would be our reaction to "hey, why don't you just port XYZ to windows?" question? Right, it would be: do it yourself, we could not care less. cu Denis
Re: [newbie] Re: Fw: Linux
John, do not be offended, the real answer would be to ask if all their material was GPL or some other open source and not copyrighted, and you could also explain to them in loving terms (as if talking to a small and ignorant child about the dangers of running in traffic) that the particular distribution would not really make any difference as long as it ran on a recent (say the last couple of YEARS) kernel and or X 3.something, suggesting that what ever flavor Linux they run thier servers on would be fine. maybe also suggest that if they do not run their own servers but are being hosted for the sake of easy setup, you would be pleased to provide a GPL distro for him to try (at your own "expense") and give him the URL of mandrake-linux. Just my 2 cents worth and how dare anyone say that I "do not have an attitude"... damn it! John Arkoulis wrote: A couple of days ago I was surfing on the net and went on a Star Trek site. I liked what they had and out of good faith I sent them the message lets port it to Linux I thought that the Linux community had an attitude but I was wrong. This is the answer that I received. Now what would you answer to them??/ I really do not like people that are that sarcastic especially to someone that they do not know. I would appreciate any ideas!!! On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, also sprach: - Original Message - From: Richard Sliwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Arkoulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Linux At 13:31 26/06/00 -0700, you wrote: Come on guys. Lets port these great stuff over to Linux. To which particular flavour of Linux desktop environment do you want us to port? And just what "stuff" is it you want us to port? The only material on our site which isn't directly relevant to Linux are the startup screens and desktop themes which are irrelevant anyway. Anyway, why should *we* port it? We're part of the Windows online community (despite the fact that our server is actually running on Linux - Windoze just isn't up to it!), why can't the online Linux community do something about it? After all, linux is meant to be the single largest collaborative project going, isn't it? And isn't Linux all about tinkering away oneself - why would any Linux user want to rely on all our pre-compiled suff? Richard Sliwa Star Trek in Sound and Vision http://www.STinSV.com Boldly Going Where No Web Site Has Ever Gone Before
[newbie] whys dis??
why is this ? does anyone know? Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:08:45 +0100 (BST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery System) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the Postfix program at host localhost.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 Subject: Re: [newbie] NFS Install Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:58:40 -0400 From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: 1 being a newbie and all, I do not mind asking dumb questions so here goes... what do you mean by loop mounted them on my server? and would you not need an ISO9660 partion to mount and correctly read an ISO image? and can you read an ISO9660 file system from an IDE drive? what is the results if you store an ISO on a ReiserFS? Randy wrote: I downloaded the Iso images and loop mounted them on my server. Then I added the share directory in my exports config. When I mounted the directory on my workstation the directories where I mounted the Iso's are empty. The other files in the share are available. I'm planning to do my upgrade this way. Once I get it working right. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong. I'm new to using NFS. BTW: I added the directory on my server with Samba and imported it on my workstation with no problem. I was able to see the loop mounted iso's. Thanks
[newbie] whys dis 2?
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:09:10 +0100 (BST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery System) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the Postfix program at host localhost.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 Subject: Re: [newbie] NFS Install Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:58:40 -0400 From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: 1 being a newbie and all, I do not mind asking dumb questions so here goes... what do you mean by loop mounted them on my server? and would you not need an ISO9660 partion to mount and correctly read an ISO image? and can you read an ISO9660 file system from an IDE drive? what is the results if you store an ISO on a ReiserFS? Randy wrote: I downloaded the Iso images and loop mounted them on my server. Then I added the share directory in my exports config. When I mounted the directory on my workstation the directories where I mounted the Iso's are empty. The other files in the share are available. I'm planning to do my upgrade this way. Once I get it working right. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong. I'm new to using NFS. BTW: I added the directory on my server with Samba and imported it on my workstation with no problem. I was able to see the loop mounted iso's. Thanks
Re: [newbie] Re: Fw: Linux
wasn't it the clown who played Kirk (I forget his real name just now ) who said at a stra trek convention "GET A LIFE" F. E. Schaper wrote: Tell the Star Trek freaks to move out of the basement, take off the ears, stop trying to learn to speak Klingon and join the rest of us in a nice place called: "Reality" Better yet, don'twe don't need those clowns infecting the gene pool. - Original Message - From: John Arkoulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: VanLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 3:39 AM Subject: [newbie] Re: Fw: Linux A couple of days ago I was surfing on the net and went on a Star Trek site. I liked what they had and out of good faith I sent them the message lets port it to Linux I thought that the Linux community had an attitude but I was wrong. This is the answer that I received. Now what would you answer to them??/ I really do not like people that are that sarcastic especially to someone that they do not know. I would appreciate any ideas!!! On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, also sprach: - Original Message - From: Richard Sliwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Arkoulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Linux At 13:31 26/06/00 -0700, you wrote: Come on guys. Lets port these great stuff over to Linux. To which particular flavour of Linux desktop environment do you want us to port? And just what "stuff" is it you want us to port? The only material on our site which isn't directly relevant to Linux are the startup screens and desktop themes which are irrelevant anyway. Anyway, why should *we* port it? We're part of the Windows online community (despite the fact that our server is actually running on Linux - Windoze just isn't up to it!), why can't the online Linux community do something about it? After all, linux is meant to be the single largest collaborative project going, isn't it? And isn't Linux all about tinkering away oneself - why would any Linux user want to rely on all our pre-compiled suff? -- Richard Sliwa Star Trek in Sound and Vision http://www.STinSV.com Boldly Going Where No Web Site Has Ever Gone Before -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
[newbie] installing an Intel i810 video card under Mandrake 7.0
I am running a Dell L400c computer as a test pc, it has an onboard video card using a Intel i810 chipset. I went to the Dell site, they have a RedHat 6.2 driver. This doesn't work on Mandrake 7.0, does anybody know how to get it to work? Thanks, Drew Anela Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] IDE RAID
They've come up with a cheap RAID solution for IDE now. Both Promise Technologies and Adaptec have IDE raid products which support 0 1 and 1/0. Michael -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 9:50 PM To: Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] IDE RAID I wasn't aware that was even possible. I was under the impression that RAID could only be accomplished using SCSI devices. Mark On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Michael Lapa wrote: Has anyone gotten an IDE RAID system up and running in Mandrake linux? If so, what card and software did you use. Michael Lapa Technical Support Xprima.com Corporation 450.668.4415 ext. 238
Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: Is there a easy way to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1? I only have a 33.6k modem and tried using update "feature" but it doesn't show any 7.1 rpms. Do I have to download each rpm ? :( TIA I use a 33,6 Phoebe mainly cause out in my neck of the woods, phone lines are only good for 28,8. You can't 'upgrade' from 7 to 7.1 without getting *all* the files. Chances are slim to none of downloading all the files, or ISO images needed to install any of the 'full size' linux distros like Mandrake. I've got a pretty solid connection and I estimate it would take a dozen or more 13 hour sessions to get Mandrakes ISO's using an ftp app that supports resume, with no guarantee of success. Even if I got all the right files or ISO's, I'd then need to store them (1+ gigs) on a non-linux partition so I'd have backup, or burn them to some hi-quality CDR's which would cost ~$3 anyway. So cheapest CD's arehttp://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart best quality CD's are at http://www.LLand.com/ full list of resellers is at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/america.php3 if you don't have a CDrom drive, they start at $25 IOW's without a much faster connection than 56k, d/l'ing isn't an option, many sites won't even let you. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Pronto Mail
mrc wrote: When I run ProntoInstaller.pl I get the message: bash: ./ProntoInstaller.pl: Permission denied And if I try to run it as root, it simply doesn't recognize the command. Any suggestions? Michael Coady On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Alanyes, it is easy, just download the installer (49k) and execute it. Alan Alan Carpenter wrote: Has any tried to install Pronto yet? I haven't but want. I wasn't sure how hard it is to install it. Let me know if it works well for you. Thanks. Alan Carpenter The correct way to start this installation script this: Logged in as root at a command prompt type perl ProntoInstaller.pl ENTER -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563
Re: [newbie] Razer Boomslang USB Mouse in Mandrake7.0
Console or terminal mode, use mouseconfig. Select USB mouse at the bottom of the list. GoodLuck Dennis/sg Hi everyone, I was wondering what settings people are using to get a Razer Boomslang usb mouse to work under Mandrake7.0. I know it will work because I had it working with Mandrake7.0 for about three weeks. Then I reinstalled because I wanted to make some changes . and now I can't remember the settings I used to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated. Larry
Re: [newbie] adaptec scsi
I have SCSI working fine on my Adaptec 7890. Detected my devices and I can use them and everything. Seems like a big problem with how popular SCSI is with old time UNIX people. This was not a problem with Mandrake 6.0, 6.5 or 7.0. I always down load a iso file and burn my own CD prior to purchasing a full copy. I won't be buying if it won't work on my system(s). I would think someone needs to get this fixed. I reported this as a bug but still don't see it show up on any of the bug lists. Does anyone know when/if a reported bug will show up? I don't see vary many bugs showing up on ver.7.1 yet but I don't know how long it really takes for them to show. "Eric A. Cottrell" wrote: "Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering" wrote: I am having no luck getting Mandrake 7.1 to install with any Adaptect controller. I have tried a 1542, 1542cf and 2940. All seem to find the card but won't hit the devices connected to the card. This is keeping me from getting 7.1 to install. This problem didn't exist with 7.0. Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello, I got 7.1 to install on a 2940 if I did not choose expert mode. It appears to me that the 7.1 install breaks after it asks you what scsi card you are using. In my case it could not mount the cd. If it auto-probes and finds it then no problem. The 1542 cards will not work because it does not automatically detect the 1542 cards. 73 Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] WB1HBU -- Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Website
what club is it? a couple of important questions here would be... how many members, will the free website allow cgi and perl scripts? (most free sites do not) how large a "database" are you considering and does the data need to be relational or answer structural queries or will it be a flat spreadsheet type of data. do you need 24/7 access? most of what you are suggesting may be easest to do with password access to subfolders, html tables, cgi and perl, but if the data has to be instant updating (dynamic) you will need to have a server that allows CGI. you can setup a dynmic DNS server from your own dial up connection to run certain hours using some free services, but most ISP frown on your staying connected 24/7 and will disconnect you daily. As far as composer, I have set up a type of listing using only HTML tables and forms, and had the infromation sent via e-mail to my dialup e-mail account, updating the tables from home and ftp the updated page to my free webpage. (was kinda labor intensive for my tastes, and if you want some info on how to set up your own dynamic dns web site, do a search fo drangonmount networks and see what they offer Ed Darryl Gibson wrote: Hi list, A club I belong to wants to create a web site to track it's membership's status, attendance, activity participation etc... The club would like the web site to have the following features: Accessibility to all members, but not the world. (or just the top page open to the world, and the sub pages "hidden." Officers and designated members, can maintain and update the site, but not the general membership. The web page will be on a "free" ISP providers machine. Our Oracle guru passed on the project, so being the clubs Linux "guru," and not knowing any better, I volunteered to take on the project. So today I went in search of a Linux database on Freshmeat, and MUO, and was dismayed not to find a database application. Nor did I find any apps. in KDE that would seem to fit the bill. Any suggestions on how I might accomplish this task? Can Netscape Composer handle this task, or do I need something more powerful? Do I need an HTML compliant database? CGI? Can Gnumeric function as a database? Darryl Gibson Linux Neophyte (tm) This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE
Re: [newbie] Website
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Darryl Gibson wrote: The web page will be on a "free" ISP providers machine. Our Oracle guru passed on the project, so being the clubs Linux "guru," and not knowing any better, I volunteered to take on the project. So today I went in search of a Linux database on Freshmeat, and MUO, and was dismayed not to find a database application. Nor did I find any apps. in KDE that would seem to fit the bill. Any suggestions on how I might accomplish this task? MySQL would do for a database system, those bases are good. (Still have not worked this out on my own machine, lack of time, so no experience between chair and keyboard here.) Do I need an HTML compliant database? CGI? CGI would be good, or Perl support. Perl can access all kinds of databases and/or file types. CGI would however require a webserver, afaik. Can Gnumeric function as a database? Doubtful. It is a GNome-based spreadsheetprogram, not something that would work on a web-server. Do you intend to manage the data offline, generate a bunch of fresh pages and whop those on the web? Perhaps a program like text2html would then work for you? I have seen this in use on several sites. Should not be too hard to track that down. Just some suggestions. Paul -- Women speak two languages, one of which is verbal. -Steve Rubenstein )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Website
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Darryl Gibson wrote: Hi list, A club I belong to wants to create a web site to track it's membership's status, attendance, activity participation etc... The club would like the web site to have the following features: really not that tough. Accessibility to all members, but not the world. (or just the top page open to the world, and the sub pages "hidden." Use subdirs with access control. Officers and designated members, can maintain and update the site, but not the general membership. Passwords and users allow this. The web page will be on a "free" ISP providers machine. In other words the default 5 gig you get with an ISP? Our Oracle guru passed on the project, so being the clubs Linux "guru," and not knowing any better, I volunteered to take on the project. SUCKER!!! :-) So today I went in search of a Linux database on Freshmeat, and MUO, and was dismayed not to find a database application. Nor did I find any apps. in KDE that would seem to fit the bill. Take a look at MySQL. Combine that with phpMyAdmin and you have a perfect combination. Ask nice, advertise Mandrake and I may help you out further. Seriously, on your Mandrake distro disks you have almost everything you need to do this. I can probably package phpMyAdmin later this week so you can have that if you prefer an RPM. (hmmm... have to look, I may already have packaged. check cooker). Any suggestions on how I might accomplish this task? Yes, use the default tools with your distro. Install the mandrake server or develop option and you have all you need. Can Netscape Composer handle this task, or do I need something more powerful? Most of what you need to do can be done in composer. You will probably need to use a little php3 but nothing outside a day or so learning. Do I need an HTML compliant database? CGI? use php3 and save yourself a headack. Can Gnumeric function as a database? Not for what you need. Please let me know if you need any more info or suggestions. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1
You probably won't like my answer :-( the update function is within a realease. That's why nothing shows up. You have a few choices, I leave to you to decide which is least painful: 1. Spend 20 bucks and buy the distro. 2. Download the iso's 3. Download each package you need. 4. use rsynce and grab the entire directory from a mirror. I recommend 1 or 2. I discrourage (bang your head against a wall and keep saying "I will not do this." a few hundred times) number 3. There are to many dependencies. 4 may take you a while. Oh, I forgot #5: 5. Beg, borrow, or steal a new modem. -Chris On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, rebel wrote: Is there a easy way to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1? I only have a 33.6k modem and tried using update "feature" but it doesn't show any 7.1 rpms. Do I have to download each rpm ? :( TIA
[newbie] promise controller
Hello, I was wondering if the Promise ata66 controllers are recognized by the Mandrake 7.1 installation. Anyone had any success? Larry
[newbie] X works but kdm not, why?
Hi all, I recently installed a diamond savage4+ card in my system. It works OK. The problem is I can no longer get a graphical login. It just starts flickering ( is this the word? :) ) as if it tries to enter X and gets out and tries again and only ctrl+alt+del stops it so I boot in runlevel 3 now. Thats not big deal as I made a simple .Xclients script with all the config I need there and I copied it to all my other users homes and to /etc/skel and as I do not always use nothing more than a xterminal its OK. Problem is that if my girlfriend wants to show somebody how cool is her (our) new toy and how you can choose your desktop among several choices she won't even look to the script. Her profile starts X as soon as she logs in. :) *AND* I would like to see it working again or at least *know* whats wrong. I looked at the script that runlevel 5 uses to start the kdm or whatever you choose ( gdm or xdm , ... ) and undesrtood it ( I think ); it ends running your display manager of choice. So if I run it by hand it starts doing that damn annoying stuff again and I must reboot and ... grrr ?:-| Any hints or help is *MUCH* welcome. Thanks in advance. -f.
