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AIUTO!!! Lancio una sfida colossale a chi riesce a dirmi il perche' dal kernel 2.2 in poi se si lancia linuxconf sulla mia sparc ottengo un CORE DUMP fragmentation fail ... che senso ha con il comando linuxconf ? Un amico dice che gli succedeva la stessa cosa su un x86 ma non ricorda cosa ha fatto per eliminare il problema. Vi scongiuro ho bisogno di capirne il perche' altrimenti e' inutile che abbia installato tutto il Mandrake Corporate Server senza poterlo gestire da linuxconf in remoto via web. Saluti a tutta la lista ...KINO..
[newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.
I'm fairly new to Linux, and I've mostly been able to puzzle stuff out...
but this has me stumped. I've been working on it for hours, and I think my
brain is about to melt.
Right now, I can receive email as [EMAIL PROTECTED] but not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I know it's not postfix -- it's not a relaying problem --
email just cannot find its way to the machine.
Any tips? Relevant files follow
-- Jon
Here's my named.conf file:
--
options {
directory "/var/named";
};
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "jonroig.com."{
type master;
file "jonroig.com.";
notify no;
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"{
type master;
file "named.local";
};
zone "30.67.26.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
type master;
file "216.26.67.30";
notify no;
};
zone "31.67.26.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
type master;
file "216.26.67.31";
notify no;
};
---
here is jonroig.com.
---
@ IN SOA jonroig.com.jon.smersh.jonroig.com. (
282808 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
43200 ; default_ttl
)
IN NS 216.26.67.31.
IN MX 10 smersh.jonroig.com.
IN A 216.26.67.31
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
smersh IN A 216.26.67.31
www IN A 216.26.67.31
hoover IN A 216.26.67.30
here's 216.26.67.31 (reverse domain)
@ IN SOA jonroig.com.jon.jonroig.com. (
280402 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
43200 ; default_ttl
)
@ IN PTR jonroig.com.
@ IN NS smersh.jonroig.com.
Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.
Your honor: on 9/6/00 12:37 AM, Jon Roig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] confessed: 'hoover' doesn't reply, and smersh isn't authoritative with Network solutions. -- Aaron Lynch System Administrator NineWire Digital Solutions || http://ninewire.com If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me
Larry Marshall wrote: I have _NO_ experience with Windows ME - (only DOS, W95 and W98) BUT Surely you are able by some means to build an MSDOS boot floppy with suitable CDROM drivers on it to enable you to get to a point where you Why should you need it? Unless it's a really old machine, you should be able to go into the BIOS and tell it to be able to boot from a CD-ROM. Once done, the machine will come up with the Mandrake CD and DOS never enters the picture. Cheers --- Larry Agreed Larry that _should_ be the case, however that was the only way I could get things going on one beast I set up. Note the BIOS problems on various mobos regarding for example HDD table limits. I'm from that old school which says go back to the lowest common denominator hence the suggestion. Cheers John
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me
Larry Marshall wrote: I have _NO_ experience with Windows ME - (only DOS, W95 and W98) BUT Surely you are able by some means to build an MSDOS boot floppy with suitable CDROM drivers on it to enable you to get to a point where you Why should you need it? Unless it's a really old machine, you should be able to go into the BIOS and tell it to be able to boot from a CD-ROM. Once done, the machine will come up with the Mandrake CD and DOS never enters the picture. Cheers --- Larry Agreed Larry, Why should he need it? I'm from the old school which goes back to the lowest common denominator. I had the same problem with an installation on an associates' machine. There was no way the CD could be read - it was quite ok in several other machines on the same site and from the same manufacturer. Once we 'got rid of' the opsys variables induced in/by the existing operating system we succeeded. These are so many variables out there, and apart from that it seems just plain silly to attempt to install an opsys from within another one particularly when dealing with all the variables involved in Microsoft products. Apart from that I wonder how many BIOS variations have to be coped with as well. For my part I can't recall if the age of the effected mobo was mentioned as I've lost the beginning of the thread. Cheers John
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Re: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning
Adrian and Paul, I have accomplished and the same task that you are conjecturing over. Adrian is correct in that you have to firt defrag your haddrive (run an error test first!). ONce you have did this, you can either use fdisk in DOS, which I have also did successfully, to repartition your windoze drive or do it all from diskdrake. I took the added precaution of writing down my harddrive "properties" (the actual size of information currently occupied on my harddrive.) so that I could give windows two GBs of harddrive space. The rest I split with my Windoze 2000 Server (which I rarely frequent.. o O (Note to thyself: remove Windoze 2000) and Linux 7.1 which I adore and love. I hope my input was both informative and encouraging. I have two boxes that I run primarily Linux. One box I use as my "R D" box for all sorts of programs and hardware configurations. The other box, is my baby that I call my "Lady" :) She is the dynamic smooth and powerful result of my labors with "Brutus", my Research and Development box.) --Al "Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul said: Yes, you can point out the windows partition. If that does not occupy the entire disk, then you're fine. If it does occupy the entire disk, I do not know if you can resize the partition through diskdrake without losing data, I have never done that. Perhaps someone else knows that? so i say: If diskdrake is what runs during the GUI install of Mandrake, then yes you can. when i installed 7.0 i used that program to slice a 4G windoze drive into windoze/linux/swap. and it all came out ok for me. of course i have only done it that one time. naturally, to do this you have to have X amount of free space to create a drive of X size. i think it also helps to defrag the windoze drive before you go to cut it up. i think they mention that in the instructions that come with 7.0 Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie
All this rubbish just to send a "subscribe" message to the wrong adress ?
I understand why you want to move to Linux ;-)
Try sending in "text only", and to the adress
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "subscribe newbie" in the body of the message.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River.
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[newbie] Gnome menu panel
Hi all, Does anyone know how to change the attributes of the Gnome menu panel (e.g., remove the clock and the automatic menus like "settings"). I can't seem to figure out how to do it, and there is not much info on the menu panel in the docs. Right-cliking on the panel does not give a list a "properties" selection, either. Thanks, Scott
Re: [newbie] Module Help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to install a module today for my winmodem and when i try to install it it says Init_module:device is busy. i tried reinstalling to see if it was because i installed it wrong or sumthing, but it still wouldnmt work. does anyone know why it would be like that? What sort of winmodem have you got? I ask 'cos I'm trying to get mine to work, and so far I've had no success. I've got a connexant 56k. Regards Gordon
Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
I need to delete a bunch of directories called .xvpics that has
somehow got scattered all over my system (I don't know how)
I just want to know what to type in to make it do as I tel it
and erase all these little stupid useless directories.
If there are several directories called ".xvpics", and you want to erase
them all, issue a :
find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \;
and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt.
HTH
Flupke
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Re: [newbie] ISP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my laptop says designed foe windows 98, well i run linux on it too i just have a couple bugs no drivers for modem (its not a win modem windows had no clue what it was till i got drivers for it) and my sound card (crystal sound fusion card), last bug the little windows like for log in and such are huge login itself under xwindows takes up almost a quarter of my screen if not more, and fiddling with the resolution doesnt change it Sounds like you don't have X-windows configured correctly yet. I did a laptop install for the CPA where I work and his acted like that for a little while until I convinced it otherwise. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] it won't install :(
Larry Marshall wrote: I know what you mean...I'm hoping that some of this is addressed in Mandrake 7.2. Truth is, as bad as Windoze is, it's spoiled us. Unix has always been the superior OS but Microsoft knew what problems most people needed solving and in a standalone environment they did pretty well at eliminating all the technical stuff from the "desktop." While I might moan about all the installation "stuff" of Linux, Mandrake (and Red Hat for that matter) are a darn sight easier to deal with than when I was installing SunOS and applications on a Sparcstation. No RPMS there. No plug-n-play device managers. Just tarballs and vi. If there's a difference with Linux it's that I've now got friends who want to get into Linux and it's a tough pill to swallow, regardless of all its virtues. There are days when chasing down 'how tos' puts a sour taste in my mouth. Then Windows crashes...again...and I feel better :-) And you are correct in what you've said about the CD-RW, but that's something that most don't know about. I know of Yes, they do seem to be that "mysterious" device that looks too much like a floppy with more space :-) thinking that he would be able to use this CD-RW like he used the floppy drive on his machine. It took a little while for me to explain that it just didn't work that way. There True...especially when dealing with the RW disks. used in order for him to even be able to use the hardware in a normal fashion with "recordable" Cd's. I myself really prefer the Recordables as opposed the re-writable CDROM's. Much simpler. You betcha! In the Windows world I have two RW disks that I use for daily backups. Other than that, everything is on closed CD-Rs as I want the stuff available if I'm working with a minimal system. As long as we're talking about this, what do you use in the Linux world for CD-R management? I finally got Gtoaster to work but it doesn't seem to figure out (and report) what the total size of the files I want put onto a disk is and whether they will fit. That seems a bit odd to me. Is there something better? Cheers --- Larry Larry, I've been really enjoying your responses here on the list! That being said, I haven't really come up with a workable, steady backup solution yet other than keep /home on it's own partition and tarballing data files for storage. I have a tape drive installed in the machine, but I haven't been able to get it working. I think there's something wrong with the drive itself. Obtaining a CD-R is my next planned acquisition, although at times I get caught between getting more RAM or getting the CD-R. CD-R management??? Haven't even thought about it yet. Well, at least not too hard as to acually get me searching for information. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?
frank wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Philomena put to word: um, Mark - I think Damien was referencing the "Ulysses" name, not "beta" :-) , hence the literary hint of the Irish author James Joyce who wrote "Ulysses" and that book, an internal parallel to the exiled wanderer of homer's tale...so yes the reference is likely to the earlier...perhaps picked to herald mandrake's moving more widely through the world's markets...either that or one of the programmers has a cat by that name... frank --- :)_ Oo.kaay...maybe a I need to unplug for a little while and remind myself what the sun looks like. I never saw that one coming. :) -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] Sound Card
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to configure my Sound Card a couple of times this week and cant seem to gte it to work unkless i use the OSS that comes on the applications CD. Does anyone know if theres a way to get a C-Media Inc Plug n Play SB16 Audio Device? have you tried running 'sndconfig' in a terminal window as root? works everytime. It especially likes SB cards. :)_ -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] Module Help
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to install a module today for my winmodem and when i try to install it it says Init_module:device is busy. i tried reinstalling to see if it was because i installed it wrong or sumthing, but it still wouldnmt work. does anyone know why it would be like that? What sort of winmodem have you got? I ask 'cos I'm trying to get mine to work, and so far I've had no success. I've got a connexant 56k. Regards Gordon Gordon, Check http://Linux.com I was reading something from there yesterday and they're starting to write drivers for the Winmodems now. I guess they have been for a bit now, but they're really starting to make a wider selection of them. They might have something that will work for you. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.
Jon Roig wrote:
I'm fairly new to Linux, and I've mostly been able to puzzle stuff out...
but this has me stumped. I've been working on it for hours, and I think my
brain is about to melt.
Right now, I can receive email as [EMAIL PROTECTED] but not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I know it's not postfix -- it's not a relaying problem --
email just cannot find its way to the machine.
Any tips? Relevant files follow
-- Jon
Here's my named.conf file:
--
options {
directory "/var/named";
};
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "jonroig.com."{
type master;
file "jonroig.com.";
notify no;
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"{
type master;
file "named.local";
};
zone "30.67.26.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
type master;
file "216.26.67.30";
notify no;
};
zone "31.67.26.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
type master;
file "216.26.67.31";
notify no;
};
---
here is jonroig.com.
---
@ IN SOA jonroig.com.jon.smersh.jonroig.com. (
282808 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
43200 ; default_ttl
)
IN NS 216.26.67.31.
IN MX 10 smersh.jonroig.com.
IN A 216.26.67.31
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
smersh IN A 216.26.67.31
www IN A 216.26.67.31
hoover IN A 216.26.67.30
here's 216.26.67.31 (reverse domain)
@ IN SOA jonroig.com.jon.jonroig.com. (
280402 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
43200 ; default_ttl
)
@ IN PTR jonroig.com.
@ IN NS smersh.jonroig.com.
Um...lets see. If I'm understanding you correctly it sounds like all
you've got to do is to setup an alias for yourself with postfix that
will re-route mail coming in for the other address to the address that
you're currently able to receive for. You can do that easily using
Webmin in your Netscape browser and accessing the server -- postfix
menu.
--
Mark
** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299
** _||_ in the making of this |
** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
RE: [newbie] Sound card?
I was leaning towards a sounds blaster. I have heard good things about them. Thanks for your input, all! Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -Original Message- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound card? On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote: I am running Linux 7.1 and am shopping for a sound card. Any suggestions as to which one to pick??? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 i would recommend a sound blaster . i have even found a place in austin that sells used ones(guaranteed) for $50 i think sound blaster is the definately the way to go.
Re: [newbie] Floppy and Zip Drive Problems
Andrew Moore wrote: Hi I posted a message earlier but this was before I was completely up to spead on the mailling list. Maybe a response has already been post. I using Mandrake 7.1 and on a machine that had been using Redhat 6.0. Under Redhat my floppy worked (not my zip drive). When I look in linconfig I see that both the floppy and the zip are configured like so dev mount point file system /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy super*** /mnt/zip /mnt/zip super** /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdromsuper** to my unskilled eye this seems wrong, shouldn't the dev be something like /dev/fd0 or /dev/hdc. Note the cdrom is set up the same way and it This is exactly how it should look. The error message I get when I try to access these drives is "Unable to read directory /mnt/zip/ Message from system: Input/output error" I don't know anything about zip drives but on your floppy, are you trying to read DOS or Linux formatted disks? Most systems will set things up to read DOS disks (using Fat as the option in fstab). If you insist on using linuxconf to check this stuff, look under the "options" tab and it will tell you the type of file system it's looking for. In my opinion, as long as you've got a dual-boot system, all your stuff should be stored on Fat systems as Linux is smart enough to read/write them and you can also read the stuff in Windows. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me
I'm from that old school which says go back to the lowest common denominator hence the suggestion. Didn't mean to suggest that your suggestion wouldn't work. But the flurry of "I've lost data", "Can't find my partition", and "why can't I get this installed" msgs have me wondering. I'll be the first to say that you need to know considerably more to get Linux running and I've had my share of video problems. But losing DOS partitions/data just shouldn't be part of the mix with any of the newer installers. As someone pointed out, the purchase of even the cheapest Linux distribution (off the shelf) yields up a Linux boot disk for those systems that can't boot from a CD. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
flupke wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
them all, issue a :
find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \;
and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt.
Gee...and I thought I was out on a limb telling a newbie (for some
things, if you ask the question it says a lot about whether you should
know) about "rm -rf" (grin).
Cheers --- Larry
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Re: [Re: [newbie] Module Help]
Gordon Burgess-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to install a module today for my winmodem and when i try to install it it says Init_module:device is busy. i tried reinstalling to see if it was because i installed it wrong or sumthing, but it still wouldnmt work. does anyone know why it would be like that? What sort of winmodem have you got? I ask 'cos I'm trying to get mine to work, and so far I've had no success. I've got a connexant 56k. Regards Gordon Guys, As far as I know , win modems do not work with linux. for more info check your HOWTOs . More specifically Serial-HOWTO and Modem-HOWTO. s. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] it won't install :(
I've been really enjoying your responses here on the list! I'm really enjoying it here as well and have learned quite a bit already. That being said, I haven't really come up with a workable, steady backup solution yet other than keep /home on it's own partition and tarballing data files for storage. Ha...my backup system for Linux has thus far been to simply tar everything and move the tar files to my Windows partition. Finally a use for Windows :-) I do have to work out something better using my CD-R. I have a tape drive installed in the machine, but I haven't been able to get it working. I think there's something Tape drives are ok but CDs seem the better way to go. I've used both and, at least in a Windows world, the CDs are more convenient...cheaper too. CD-R management??? Haven't even thought about it yet. Well, at least not too hard as to acually get me searching for information. One thing that surprised me in the short discussion about partitioning was a reference to setting /usr/local/bin in a separate partition from /usr. It wasn't a surprise because I disagree with it; I was surprised because it's what I know but my Linux app installations don't seem to use /usr/local/bin at all. The tars open into /usr/bin. What's up with that? All the Unix systems I've used use directories thus: /bin (small systems utilities) /usr/bin (more small systems utilities - really a solution to the large number of them and the fact that we had small drives on which the OS resided) /usr/local/bin (all the applications installed locally) Right now my entire /usr/local tree is empty in spite of there being a bunch of stuff like xmms, gtoaster, coffeecup, and a bunch of other utilities. Some of these came from the distribution; others I've installed myself. Why? Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all
Okay, but Mandrake 6.0 is on there and runs fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all : go to linux.com and check hardware your system could possibly not be : compatible : :
Re: [newbie] re: mandrake 7.02 problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very simple question about mandrake 7.02 and am embarrassed to have to ask it but here goes. After installing successfully (I thought)and rebooting for the first time I tried to configure my rc.local file for ip chains. First off there was no ip chains or rc.local. Did I do something wrong on my install? Anyway I finally got on the net and installed ipchains but I don't know how to setup a file to start at boot up.(embarrassing) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com freemanit depends on what you want ipchains to do. If it is to allow the machines on a lan to all access the internet through one gateway machine then you need to set up IP-Masquerading. If so start at the below URL: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cipc.html But if it is to set up a firewall then you can get a script that does that for you at the below URL: http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ Alan Thanx a lot Alan Below is the part I did not know how to do! if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.masq ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.masq; fi chmod 700 /sbin/ipchains chmod 700 /etc/rc.d/rc.masq I also wanted to ask if there was a way after install to get rid of the GUI. I installed a server version and the GUI for it unfortunately "Sucks"! I just wanted to run either console or Blackbox. (Which is no longer included in the latest version of mandrake for some unknown reason) Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another?
I have finally after months of attempts got everything to install and work out of the box, but in desparation I installed it on a temporary machine - "a proof of concept" type thing. In the next few weeks I will buy a new mother board and hope to move off the temporary platform to the new setup. I assume that I will need to re-install of the root partition but how about the /swap, /boot, and /home partitions? Also, any suggestions purchasing a socket 7 motherboard (I'm using an AMD K6-266)?
[newbie] POSTFIX/SENDMAIL/Multiple Alias
I seen to be having a problem with mail on my mandrake box. I just I have a cable modem and since my ISP forces us to use DHCP so sendmail/postfix only allows mail for that ip given to me and no other domains. How do I configure my box to handle more domains off of DHCP machine. I can control the other domains via another ISP, but is there a way of doing this and how in the world to I configure Postfix to run sendmail. I remember the days when all I would have to do is go and edit the /etc/sendmail.* files and everything would be kewl. Eric
Re: [newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another?
- Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:43 AM Subject: [newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another? I have finally after months of attempts got everything to install and work out of the box, but in desparation I installed it on a temporary machine - "a proof of concept" type thing. In the next few weeks I will buy a new mother board and hope to move off the temporary platform to the new setup. I assume that I will need to re-install of the root partition but how about the /swap, /boot, and /home partitions? Also, any suggestions purchasing a socket 7 motherboard (I'm using an AMD K6-266)? The EPoX MVP3G2 mobo is in my op the best Socket7 board out there. I'm using 1 with a K6-2 450. Saving your /swap and /home should not cause any problems. Since you plan to reinstall /root I would reinstall /boot as well. Charles
Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
Many thanks! :)
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, flupke wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
I need to delete a bunch of directories called .xvpics that has
somehow got scattered all over my system (I don't know how)
I just want to know what to type in to make it do as I tel it
and erase all these little stupid useless directories.
If there are several directories called ".xvpics", and you want to erase
them all, issue a :
find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \;
and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt.
HTH
Flupke
--
There's no place like ~
RE: [newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another?
I've got an Asus P5A socket 7 board with an amd K63-400 that is pretty much rock stable. You can buy a K6-2 500 for about $50USD now days. Might be worth it. You shouldn't have any problems migrating those partitions. I would let the installer format the /swap, /boot and / partitions. the /home partition should be just fine as long as you don't let the install process format it. Abe = Original Message From "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = - Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:43 AM Subject: [newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another? I have finally after months of attempts got everything to install and work out of the box, but in desparation I installed it on a temporary machine - "a proof of concept" type thing. In the next few weeks I will buy a new mother board and hope to move off the temporary platform to the new setup. I assume that I will need to re-install of the root partition but how about the /swap, /boot, and /home partitions? Also, any suggestions purchasing a socket 7 motherboard (I'm using an AMD K6-266)? The EPoX MVP3G2 mobo is in my op the best Socket7 board out there. I'm using 1 with a K6-2 450. Saving your /swap and /home should not cause any problems. Since you plan to reinstall /root I would reinstall /boot as well. Charles Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] it won't install :(
"Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tape drives are ok but CDs seem the better way to go. I've used both and, at least in a Windows world, the CDs are more convenient...cheaper too. Right on. I've been using TR-3 tapes for several years, first on an Iomega drive (a grievous error: the drive was tolerable though noisy, but the s/w was putrid the customer service worse) and now on an Exabyte (a glorious improvement). But the spectacular bloat that has occurred in s/w recently has made the floppy drive i/f intolerably slow. Last week I had occasion to restore all of a TR-3 (1.6GB native) which was about 90% full it took 5.5 hours! If a really fast tape (which means SCSI, usually) is not in your budget then CD-R or -R/W is probably the route of choice. I'm well pleased with the LG drive Adaptec s/w on my wife's Dell. I ship my stuff over there on the LAN read the result on my new CD-ROM drive. And $1 for a CD-R or $1.50 for a CD-R/W sure beats $15 to $30 for a TR-3. - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] it won't install :( [Text deleted] Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.
Ummm ok. This was registered through CORE, if that's what you're talking about... Otherwise, I remain totally befuddled. -- Jon From: Aaron Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 01:09:10 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email. Your honor: on 9/6/00 12:37 AM, Jon Roig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] confessed: 'hoover' doesn't reply, and smersh isn't authoritative with Network solutions. -- Aaron Lynch System Administrator NineWire Digital Solutions || http://ninewire.com If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!
I've spent more time reading howto's and mailing lists and any other kind of linux documentation I could find then I care to even think about. I've used windows since 2.0 and I have never bought a book on how to configure it. I've got a stack of linux/unix books 3 feet tall next to my desk. The learning curve is steep, it will be discouraging occasionally but it is also very satisfying to get into the guts of your machine and make it work like you want it to. I have not found any other OS that will let you do that. I need a cup of coffee. I haven't been up this early in months. Dacia --- Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: read the instructions. is there anybody out there that has really read the instructions. when i first installed Mandrake, it took me hours to get it right, mainly because of the monitor and video card problems. but do people actually read the instructions. wow. Yes..I did. In fact, if you're not willing to read instructions, Linux will be a real long road. Cheers --- Larry __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?
Youknow, I hear it's better then 1600x1200 @32bit color out there. Dacia --- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frank wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Philomena put to word: um, Mark - I think Damien was referencing the "Ulysses" name, not "beta" :-) , hence the literary hint of the Irish author James Joyce who wrote "Ulysses" and that book, an internal parallel to the exiled wanderer of homer's tale...so yes the reference is likely to the earlier...perhaps picked to herald mandrake's moving more widely through the world's markets...either that or one of the programmers has a cat by that name... frank --- :)_ Oo.kaay...maybe a I need to unplug for a little while and remind myself what the sun looks like. I never saw that one coming. :) -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] MySQL RPMS
Hi Michael... So far, I haven't had any luck figuring out what to do with MsSQL...the reason is that I left where the Linux box is...China!! I WAS supposed to install a help desk software that uses both MySQL and PHP for dynamic page updates and other cool features, but I never got that far. One of the "smart guys" there had a problem with understanding that I had a 99.98% hackerproof firewall installed and recommended that the group unplug it from the 'net which defeated the purpose of it's use and functionality. Not to mention 6 weeks of my effort (setting up 2 versions, 8 reloads, a web server, a secure shell server, an FTP and a secure FTP server, an NMS client, and a DHCP server for 2 ranges on 2 network cards, and of course the firewall system with NAT-MASQing for access to the Internet). Not a little issue to me. Anyhow, sorry to drown you in the gory details. There's much more out there to do for more appreciative groups than this one. I will attempt to do a duplicate install on a laptop and see what happens, but I expect results to vary considerably (but this is the only platform that I have access to at the moment). However the MySQL and the PHP information SHOULD be pretty generic, so I will let you know in a few days. Steve Weltman (FINALLY in the US again!!) - Original Message - From: "Michael Hatzakis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Steve Weltman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] MySQL RPMS Steve, When you installed MySQL, do you use PHP? I tried and it did not recognize the MySQL specific commands. Did you hve to re-install PHP or do use another program to access Sql database? Thanks, Michael On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Steve Weltman wrote: Hi Paul, There is a new version (3.23) for Mandrake available from either mySQL or from http://news.freshmeat.net You can get all of the needed components in RPM format for easier installation. I did this in about an hour and I needed to uninstall my current version first. Just my 2 cents! Hope you have a great weekend! Steve Weltman (from Beijing) - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 2:02 AM Subject: [newbie] MySQL RPMS Hi, the MySQL RPMS are on the EXTension disk. MySQL-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-bench-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-client-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-devel-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm MySQL-shared-libs-3.22.32-5mdk.i586.rpm Paul -- Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] (none)
Hi everybody, i have a mandrake 7.1 and when i run startx it's run with kde, and i whant change this for gnome or windowmaker or other one. how can i do it??? thanks for all Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito
[newbie] (none)
hi!, excuse me, but someone know if the all usb-modems run in Linux? Thaks for all Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito
Re: [newbie] re: mandrake 7.02 problems
Freeman, BlackBox is available from the Mandrake site...you can find LOTS of GUIs there thru the link to the rufus site: http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/ Also, I would think that you're like me and like to save a little time where possible if I know the results are the same...Use the pmfirewall script software...Very clean, configurable after it runs. Simple. Text interface. Best of luck to you! Steve Weltman (in the US again!) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 6:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] re: mandrake 7.02 problems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very simple question about mandrake 7.02 and am embarrassed to have to ask it but here goes. After installing successfully (I thought)and rebooting for the first time I tried to configure my rc.local file for ip chains. First off there was no ip chains or rc.local. Did I do something wrong on my install? Anyway I finally got on the net and installed ipchains but I don't know how to setup a file to start at boot up.(embarrassing) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com freemanit depends on what you want ipchains to do. If it is to allow the machines on a lan to all access the internet through one gateway machine then you need to set up IP-Masquerading. If so start at the below URL: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cipc.html But if it is to set up a firewall then you can get a script that does that for you at the below URL: http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ Alan Thanx a lot Alan Below is the part I did not know how to do! if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.masq ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.masq; fi chmod 700 /sbin/ipchains chmod 700 /etc/rc.d/rc.masq I also wanted to ask if there was a way after install to get rid of the GUI. I installed a server version and the GUI for it unfortunately "Sucks"! I just wanted to run either console or Blackbox. (Which is no longer included in the latest version of mandrake for some unknown reason) Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all
Are you doing a FRESH install, meaning NOT an UPDATE? The reason is that the update feature isn't as clean as installing "fresh", meaning rewriting your / and other partitions (except the /home data part). I haven't had ANY luck with the upgrade or update types of installs, and will only do an clean install for this reason... Best of luck!! Steve Weltman - Original Message - From: "pablito" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 6:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all Okay, but Mandrake 6.0 is on there and runs fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all : go to linux.com and check hardware your system could possibly not be : compatible : :
Re: [newbie] ISP
Or like my school useing a 700mhz system for word processing, and not
allowing me to install some games. But they did let the pokénuts
install a 5
minute recording of 'the pikachu song' to play on startup.
I had a similar problem a few years ago with one of the companies I
worked for. I originally had a 486DX33 (at the time this was bleeding
edge!) for my programming work - when I first got it, this was by far
the most powerful machine in the company. Over the years, the company
upgraded the other users, but refused to upgrade mine ("no money
available for that..."). I ended up writing a report to the CEO
pointing out that by using my own personal machine at home I could get
more work done in 2.5 hours than I could on the works machine in a week
(most of my time was spent waiting for the machine) and that if they had
supplied the machine I'd asked for, when I'd asked for it, the machine
would have paid for itself many times over already in saved labor costs.
I had the new machine two days later #;-D
Regards,
Ozz.
Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
This needs to be done at root and very carefully or you'll be spending some
time restoring (or reinstalling) later. Know-what-a-mean-Vern?
Best of Luck!
Steve W.
- Original Message -
From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
flupke wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
them all, issue a :
find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \;
and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt.
Gee...and I thought I was out on a limb telling a newbie (for some
things, if you ask the question it says a lot about whether you should
know) about "rm -rf" (grin).
Cheers --- Larry
Re: [Re: [newbie] Module Help]
Hi Gordon...Get rid of the WinModem. It won't work with Linux (unless you're a device level coder and want to prove us all wrong!!) at the moment. I got an external modem for $50 and it is plenty feature rich that it gets done what I paid for: get to the internet and e-mail (and the occasional ftp and telnet connection). Best of Luck! Steve W. - Original Message - From: "Spyros Tsiolis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 5:57 AM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Module Help] Gordon Burgess-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to install a module today for my winmodem and when i try to install it it says Init_module:device is busy. i tried reinstalling to see if it was because i installed it wrong or sumthing, but it still wouldnmt work. does anyone know why it would be like that? What sort of winmodem have you got? I ask 'cos I'm trying to get mine to work, and so far I've had no success. I've got a connexant 56k. Regards Gordon Guys, As far as I know , win modems do not work with linux. for more info check your HOWTOs . More specifically Serial-HOWTO and Modem-HOWTO. s. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]
NO, that is incorrect. That statement is a myth promoted through ignorance. I've seen enough destroyed product from overclockers - that I can stand straight and tall and tell you bluntly - overclocking DESTROYS parts. Period. "If you buy it - then it is yours" - is a defense statement that I hear over and over again as to the excuse to try overclocking. Once the part is destroyed - the mantra becomes - "It's under warranty - I want it replaced yesterday" BS - if you destroy it through misuse then it's yours. Period. Learn the facts - and not the hype. Overclocking destroys the forbidden gap. It destroys the electron flow. Overclockers just don't know what they are doing - meanwhile - they promote themselves as if they know about electronics. Overclocking is stupid. -Original Message- From: Abe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100] yep and that is also why people can overclock their RAM CPU's without out right destroying them. The hard ware tends to be rated conservatively because it will last longer if it is used at less then 100% of capacity. = Original Message From "John A. MacLaughlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = . . . they make ram and the really good stuf gets rated at 133 and the less great stuf gets rated at 100. Initially pc-100 ram was really high quality pc-66 ram. . . . That's how they get the faster CPU's too. Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.
Do you think it was just an issue of lack of patience?
I was testing it last night using email sent from yahoo.com, and stuff was
bouncing. Now, six hours of sleep later, all seems to be functioning
normally.
Am I just deluding myself?
What's a good way to make sure everything is configured correctly, anyway?
Everything loads fine, according to /var/log/messages and seems to be
spitting out what I'd expect from both nslookup and dig.
... but how can I be sure?
For what it's worth, I've conquered postfix aliasing problems several times,
so I know how to fix that now... and what it looks like when that's the
problem.
-- Jon
From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 07:18:44 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.
Jon Roig wrote:
I'm fairly new to Linux, and I've mostly been able to puzzle stuff out...
but this has me stumped. I've been working on it for hours, and I think my
brain is about to melt.
Right now, I can receive email as [EMAIL PROTECTED] but not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I know it's not postfix -- it's not a relaying problem --
email just cannot find its way to the machine.
Any tips? Relevant files follow
-- Jon
Here's my named.conf file:
--
options {
directory "/var/named";
};
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "jonroig.com."{
type master;
file "jonroig.com.";
notify no;
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"{
type master;
file "named.local";
};
zone "30.67.26.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
type master;
file "216.26.67.30";
notify no;
};
zone "31.67.26.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
type master;
file "216.26.67.31";
notify no;
};
---
here is jonroig.com.
---
@ IN SOA jonroig.com.jon.smersh.jonroig.com. (
282808 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
43200 ; default_ttl
)
IN NS 216.26.67.31.
IN MX 10 smersh.jonroig.com.
IN A 216.26.67.31
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
smersh IN A 216.26.67.31
www IN A 216.26.67.31
hoover IN A 216.26.67.30
here's 216.26.67.31 (reverse domain)
@ IN SOA jonroig.com.jon.jonroig.com. (
280402 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
43200 ; default_ttl
)
@ IN PTR jonroig.com.
@ IN NS smersh.jonroig.com.
Um...lets see. If I'm understanding you correctly it sounds like all
you've got to do is to setup an alias for yourself with postfix that
will re-route mail coming in for the other address to the address that
you're currently able to receive for. You can do that easily using
Webmin in your Netscape browser and accessing the server -- postfix
menu.
--
Mark
** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299
** _||_ in the making of this |
** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] Modem Problems
I am also a fan of das blinkenlights. :) I even know what some of them are for, at least on my Modem Blaster. Scary! ;) LOL! I actually have the original "warning" that 'das blinkenlights' came from posted over my computer! I used to have it over my servers at work too... I'd better shut up now - our age is showing #;-D Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] (none)
"Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito" wrote: Hi everybody, i have a mandrake 7.1 and when i run startx it's run with kde, and i whant change this for gnome or windowmaker or other one. how can i do it??? thanks for all Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito on the log-in screen there's a drop-down option to choose kde, gnome, etc Regards Gordon
Re: [newbie] (none)
Type "switchdesk". Hi everybody, i have a mandrake 7.1 and when i run startx it's run with kde, and i whant change this for gnome or windowmaker or other one. how can i do it??? thanks for all Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
Re: [newbie] MySQL RPMS
OOPS!! This was meant to be a private mail...Please disregard the previous. Thx! Steve W. - Original Message - From: "Steve Weltman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] MySQL RPMS Hi Michael... So far, I haven't had any luck figuring out what to do with MsSQL...the reason is that I left where the Linux box is...China!! I WAS supposed to install a help desk software that uses both MySQL and PHP for dynamic page updates and other cool features, but I never got that far. ===snip===
[newbie] re: Samba and mandrake
I was just wondering if anybody has every configured a samba network out there. I have been using one off and on for about 3-6 months. But there is one thing I have been trying to do for about a month now and can't figure out. I need to map my windows 2000 system drive from my samba server. I have already done the reverse (mapping my Linux drives to my windows machines but am at a loss how to do the reverse). If anyone can steer me the right direction I would be greatly appreciated. Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
RE: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake
Look at the man page for mount. you can mount SMBFS volumes just as you would nfs volumes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 September 2000 07:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake I was just wondering if anybody has every configured a samba network out there. I have been using one off and on for about 3-6 months. But there is one thing I have been trying to do for about a month now and can't figure out. I need to map my windows 2000 system drive from my samba server. I have already done the reverse (mapping my Linux drives to my windows machines but am at a loss how to do the reverse). If anyone can steer me the right direction I would be greatly appreciated. Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?
And all this time, I thought they were code-naming it after my favorite author Ulysses Black (ATM 1,2,3 and others) Well, there I go thinking again! Steve Weltman - Original Message - From: "Dacia and AzureRose" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: "Ulysses"? Youknow, I hear it's better then 1600x1200 @32bit color out there. Dacia --- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frank wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Philomena put to word: um, Mark - I think Damien was referencing the "Ulysses" name, not "beta" :-) , hence the literary hint of the Irish author James Joyce who wrote "Ulysses" and that book, an internal parallel to the exiled wanderer of homer's tale...so yes the reference is likely to the earlier...perhaps picked to herald mandrake's moving more widely through the world's markets...either that or one of the programmers has a cat by that name... frank --- :)_ Oo.kaay...maybe a I need to unplug for a little while and remind myself what the sun looks like. I never saw that one coming. :) -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake
Kewl! I didn't know this! Thanks for the tip (even though I wasn't the author of the comment!) - Original Message - From: "Izak Fourie / IIS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake Look at the man page for mount. you can mount SMBFS volumes just as you would nfs volumes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 September 2000 07:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake I was just wondering if anybody has every configured a samba network out there. I have been using one off and on for about 3-6 months. But there is one thing I have been trying to do for about a month now and can't figure out. I need to map my windows 2000 system drive from my samba server. I have already done the reverse (mapping my Linux drives to my windows machines but am at a loss how to do the reverse). If anyone can steer me the right direction I would be greatly appreciated. Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]
You sound pretty passionate about your point...and it looks pretty solid as well. PLEASE DON'T FLAME THIS THREAD... Thanks for not setting me a-blaze too! Slowly yours, Steve Weltman (not able to overclock, cuz I dunno how!) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:26 AM Subject: RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100] NO, that is incorrect. That statement is a myth promoted through ignorance. I've seen enough destroyed product from overclockers - that I can stand straight and tall and tell you bluntly - overclocking DESTROYS parts. Period. "If you buy it - then it is yours" - is a defense statement that I hear over and over again as to the excuse to try overclocking. Once the part is destroyed - the mantra becomes - "It's under warranty - I want it replaced yesterday" BS - if you destroy it through misuse then it's yours. Period. Learn the facts - and not the hype. Overclocking destroys the forbidden gap. It destroys the electron flow. Overclockers just don't know what they are doing - meanwhile - they promote themselves as if they know about electronics. Overclocking is stupid. -Original Message- From: Abe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100] yep and that is also why people can overclock their RAM CPU's without out right destroying them. The hard ware tends to be rated conservatively because it will last longer if it is used at less then 100% of capacity. = Original Message From "John A. MacLaughlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = . . . they make ram and the really good stuf gets rated at 133 and the less great stuf gets rated at 100. Initially pc-100 ram was really high quality pc-66 ram. . . . That's how they get the faster CPU's too. Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
[newbie] Gimp 1.1.24 v Photo shop
Hi all, Just got the latest version of the Gimp. WOW!!! As I do a bit of Web design the web functions are really good, especially image map function etc. However my main reason for e-mailing the group is this. How does this new gimp compare with the Abode Photo Shop from which I believe it was based (the interfaces appear almost identical). Could a user of Gimp find Photo Shop easy to learn and use. I ask this as I have been asked by an employment agency to go for an interview with a web design company later this week or early next and they have asked that I can use Photoshop. Obviously I will tell them I use Linuxso no but..etc. Andy
Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all
- Original Message - From: "Steve Weltman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all : Are you doing a FRESH install, meaning NOT an UPDATE? a FRESH install!! (SLAP!) The very idea. I've tried that -- erasing the partitions, making them different sizes, and an update. But the installation program never gets to the point of actually copying any of the files, it crashes before that, so that couldn't be the problem. I tried both kinds because there might have been some routine in the installation code that was present in one but not the other.
RE: [newbie] subscribe newbie
Not cool! -Original Message- From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie ?!?!?!!!??!?!?!??!?!?! You dare to post a background in a public place! - Original Message - From: Jay mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lawton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:14 AM Subject: [newbie] subscribe newbie image001.jpg
Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:38:10 -0500,Flupke wrote:
If there are several directories called ".xvpics", and you want to erase
them all, issue a :
find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \;
and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt.
HTH
Flupke
--
Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:48:16
Hi Flupke, please rewrite your command string above to include,making
a back up to a file in home before deleting for me woudja?
I think it should go after xvpics and of course before rm, but
am unsure of exactly where. of course I am aware of the" Newbie in
the red pepper" dangers of rm grin.
tnk you
Olly P
Biloxi
Mississippi
Re: [Re: [newbie] Module Help]
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:36:34 -0700,steve wrote: I got an external modem for $50 and it is plenty feature rich that it gets done what I paid for: get to the internet and e-mail (and the occasional ftp and telnet connection). --- Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:24:21 Sounds good Steve, I am shopping for one...what model is it and where did you find it? Tnk you Olly P Biloxi
Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I'm fairly new to Linux, and I've mostly been able to puzzle stuff out...
but this has me stumped. I've been working on it for hours, and I think my
brain is about to melt.
now this is what linux is REALLY about. your brain melting
especially if u do too much reading.
Right now, I can receive email as [EMAIL PROTECTED] but not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I know it's not postfix -- it's not a relaying problem --
email just cannot find its way to the machine.
Any tips? Relevant files follow
-- Jon
Here's my named.conf file:
--
options {
directory "/var/named";
};
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "jonroig.com."{
type master;
file "jonroig.com.";
notify no;
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"{
type master;
file "named.local";
};
zone "30.67.26.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
type master;
file "216.26.67.30";
notify no;
};
zone "31.67.26.216.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
type master;
file "216.26.67.31";
notify no;
};
---
here is jonroig.com.
---
@ IN SOA jonroig.com.jon.smersh.jonroig.com. (
282808 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
43200 ; default_ttl
)
IN NS 216.26.67.31.
IN MX 10 smersh.jonroig.com.
IN A 216.26.67.31
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
smersh IN A 216.26.67.31
www IN A 216.26.67.31
hoover IN A 216.26.67.30
here's 216.26.67.31 (reverse domain)
@ IN SOA jonroig.com.jon.jonroig.com. (
280402 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
900 ; retry
1209600 ; expire
43200 ; default_ttl
)
@ IN PTR jonroig.com.
@ IN NS smersh.jonroig.com.
Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie
for pete's sake there oughta be a law against HTML mail on public mailing list forums! Get a grip man! Mark
Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: This is true about overclocking destroying hardware. Some chips can't even run stably at their intended clockspeed. Intel's PIII 1.3GHz had so many bloody problems they finally concluded the only way to get it to run cool enough as well as stably was to UNDER-clock itI think they eventually got it running nice at about 800Mhz. Lonny Selinger the worst overclocking can do is possibly limit the life of your overclocked parts. lets see i have a athlon 700 clocked to 805. my memory is set to 153. that means that my memory and processor wont last the 10 years its suppposed to maybe only 5. can u imagine where amd and linux will be in 5 years. i think i will using a hammer at 4.5 gig. with some kind of new memory that has no latency at all. :) maybe we'll be accessory our operating systems with our minds after all
Re: [newbie] Video Card
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: Anybody have any suggestions for a good Video card. I am running 7.1. Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 geforce ddr. most any brand. i've got a hercules prophet. they can get pretty pricey if u buy the latest model.
[newbie] Question on Partitioning
When i tried to partition my 4gig hd that has Windows 98 on it with Partition Magic that came with Linux Mandrake 7.1 it saidthat it couldnt continue because of linked files. is there any way to get it to work without having to format my hd?
RE: [newbie] Video Card
I only have one off topic suggestion .. have fun =o) theres a ton of cool things out there to try or implement/refine and perfect ... try em all . when you get curious or daring enough, play with some source code (C C++ Perl Python) whatever .. even if you dont know how to code, or leave everything the way it is the cool thing is Linux is the ultimate playground for anyone who wants to actually "use" a computer rather than have an operating system "guide" the user. The learning curve for the operating system *core* looks more like a vertical wall than a curve ... thing is there are a LOT of hands sticking out willing to help if you want them to. If you're careful about steps you take (recovery disks, backups etc) and you ask for help ... .the climb is a rush. Ok enough on topic advice for video cards I believe another poster mentioned the best advice. Choose something that suits what you want to use it for and what resources you already have (Monitor limitations, is this for gaming and playing with OpenGL stuff, do you just need X running etc) I personally am a fan of Loki and support their porting efforts by purchasing their games ported to Linux so I like hitting high frame rates with full effects on and GeForce and a nice 17" .24 monitor do this for me. It al ldepends on what you want =o) Lonny
RE: [newbie] Video Card
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote: Sweet!!! Thanks Lonny. Any other suggestions??? I use a Diamond Speedstar AGP card, with 8megs of video memory. Works right out of the box, too. Perhaps not an impressive card, but it does what i need :) Paul -- Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. -A. Whitney Brown http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
RE: [newbie] Gimp 1.1.24 v Photo shop
photoshop has a pretty steep learning curve. Granted I haven't seen/used the version of the gimp that you refer to (I've been using 1.0.4). The details of how the programs work are very different. You can definately pick up photoshop but I don't know how helpful knowledge of the Gimp will actually be. Be careful! Photoshop is an incredible program. Your gonna want a copy and then you'll have to have windows or MacOS (u) to run it on. That wasn't very helpful was it. Abe = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hi all, Just got the latest version of the Gimp. WOW!!! As I do a bit of Web design the web functions are really good, especially image map function etc. However my main reason for e-mailing the group is this. How does this new gimp compare with the Abode Photo Shop from which I believe it was based (the interfaces appear almost identical). Could a user of Gimp find Photo Shop easy to learn and use. I ask this as I have been asked by an employment agency to go for an interview with a web design company later this week or early next and they have asked that I can use Photoshop. Obviously I will tell them I use Linuxso no but..etc. Andy Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]
hmmm. I don't remember actually saying that you should or shouldn't overclock. We were simply discussing how ram/cpu's are created and rated for the speeds that they are sold at. Abe (Not overclocked even though I know how cuz I don't want to.) = Original Message From "Steve Weltman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = You sound pretty passionate about your point...and it looks pretty solid as well. PLEASE DON'T FLAME THIS THREAD... Thanks for not setting me a-blaze too! Slowly yours, Steve Weltman (not able to overclock, cuz I dunno how!) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:26 AM Subject: RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100] NO, that is incorrect. That statement is a myth promoted through ignorance. I've seen enough destroyed product from overclockers - that I can stand straight and tall and tell you bluntly - overclocking DESTROYS parts. Period. "If you buy it - then it is yours" - is a defense statement that I hear over and over again as to the excuse to try overclocking. Once the part is destroyed - the mantra becomes - "It's under warranty - I want it replaced yesterday" BS - if you destroy it through misuse then it's yours. Period. Learn the facts - and not the hype. Overclocking destroys the forbidden gap. It destroys the electron flow. Overclockers just don't know what they are doing - meanwhile - they promote themselves as if they know about electronics. Overclocking is stupid. -Original Message- From: Abe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100] yep and that is also why people can overclock their RAM CPU's without out right destroying them. The hard ware tends to be rated conservatively because it will last longer if it is used at less then 100% of capacity. = Original Message From "John A. MacLaughlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = . . . they make ram and the really good stuf gets rated at 133 and the less great stuf gets rated at 100. Initially pc-100 ram was really high quality pc-66 ram. . . . That's how they get the faster CPU's too. Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]
from what I've read about that chip it was actually a factory overclocked chip to begin with. When it turned out to be reallyy unstable they just set it back to its original speed rating which was around 800 or 900 mhz. = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = This is true about overclocking destroying hardware. Some chips can't even run stably at their intended clockspeed. Intel's PIII 1.3GHz had so many bloody problems they finally concluded the only way to get it to run cool enough as well as stably was to UNDER-clock itI think they eventually got it running nice at about 800Mhz. Lonny Selinger Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
[newbie] Sorry to mass, but how can I get off of this?
From: "Steve Weltman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:31:52 -0700 Kewl! I didn't know this! Thanks for the tip (even though I wasn't the author of the comment!) - Original Message - From: "Izak Fourie / IIS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake Look at the man page for mount. you can mount SMBFS volumes just as you would nfs volumes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 September 2000 07:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake I was just wondering if anybody has every configured a samba network out there. I have been using one off and on for about 3-6 months. But there is one thing I have been trying to do for about a month now and can't figure out. I need to map my windows 2000 system drive from my samba server. I have already done the reverse (mapping my Linux drives to my windows machines but am at a loss how to do the reverse). If anyone can steer me the right direction I would be greatly appreciated. Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!! (Thank Yous)
First of all (IN DEFENSE OF MYSELF): I would just like to say that I am new to the world of Linux. I haven't even heard the word until I started college 4 years ago. This is now my second month of actually using the OS. I am moving over from Windows because I am sick of being ripped off for something that is garbage. I read a lot before deciding to try Linux and I read the so-called "Installation and User's Guide" that only shows how to do an automatic install, and other installation run-throughs I found on the web. Thus said, I AM A NEWBIE. I signed up to this list to get some help and make this transition a little easier. I read as much about new commands and programs I use before trying them out. I did not see anywhere in any other sort of report a section titled "What To Do If thePartition You Were Looking at Under Linux Is No Longer Recognized by Windows". Thus, I wrote my situation to you all to see if there were any expert advise. I did get some very good advise from those at the bottom of this letter, but I did also get a lot of criticism for not knowing in advance the answers to my questions. Really, if I was at that level, I would no longer be a member of this mailing list, would I? Bottom Line: Scandisk was not aware of the missing partition, so it could not fix it. DOS fdisk recognized the partition as NON-DOS cfdisk recognized the partition as WIN 95 FAT32 Norton SystemWorks also could not fix it, although it did see it as a "root partition" Again: I have 2hard drives. One has 2 Windows partitions. The other has Linux Mandrake installed. They are completely seperate. Ther is no way my installation could have been at fault because windows worrked fine after installation. This happened weeks later. I think that Doug McGarrett was right and somehow the supermount option was to blame. I upgraded my install without this option, copied the buggy partition to Linux, reformated using DOS fdisk and dumped everything back in. It worked and no information was lost. I would really like to thank the following people for giving me genuine support onfinding a solution: 1) Mark Weaver 2) Doug McGarrett 3) Goldenpi 4) Paul 5) Ed Tharp Your help was greatly appreciated. J. Azeke
Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.
Try creating another MX record to the domain you are trying to reach... IN MX 10 smersh.jonroig.com. ---this was your only MX record hense the username@smersh.jonroig.com working. Also .. I'm not sure I understand your start of authority SOA jonroig.com.jon.smersh.jonroig.com--- why the appended jon.smersh to domain in your start of authority? Lonny Selinger
Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie
Did I say this earlier? Either this message was sent 3 times or the list is playing up again. Never post a background in a newsgroup or mailing list. HTML will not always be accepted, but it ususally will because so many people send it. But NEVER send a background. Anyway, It makes the text hard to read. - Original Message - From: Jay Lawton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:14 AM Subject: [newbie] subscribe newbie
Re: [newbie] Linux4Win - never again
Windows is a perfect moron system. As long as they stay away from the drives and dont install anything, there isn't much that they can destroy. Linux is faster, cheaper, uses less memory etc. But it needs someone who is able to maintain it. - Original Message - From: Abe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 12:39 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux4Win - never again win98 is the best damn over glorified nintendo I have encountered yet. And that is about all I can say for it. = Original Message From Jason Ashman [EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote: 95 makes 98 look like solid gold. hahahahahahahahahahaha Abe . -- I think both are the equivalent of pesos, worth nothing in the real world! Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
[newbie] Sorry to mass, but how can I get off of this?
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RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]
very good point. = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: This is true about overclocking destroying hardware. Some chips can't even run stably at their intended clockspeed. Intel's PIII 1.3GHz had so many bloody problems they finally concluded the only way to get it to run cool enough as well as stably was to UNDER-clock itI think they eventually got it running nice at about 800Mhz. Lonny Selinger the worst overclocking can do is possibly limit the life of your overclocked parts. lets see i have a athlon 700 clocked to 805. my memory is set to 153. that means that my memory and processor wont last the 10 years its suppposed to maybe only 5. can u imagine where amd and linux will be in 5 years. i think i will using a hammer at 4.5 gig. with some kind of new memory that has no latency at all. :) maybe we'll be accessory our operating systems with our minds after all Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] Question on Partitioning
first run scandisk, then run defrag, let scandisk fix the crosslinked files. then run partition magic then install mandrake.you might wish to get an additional hard drive you will need the space 4 gigs ain't enough for both 98, and a good (read expert, developer, all packages) mandrake install... IMO - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:10 PM Subject: [newbie] Question on Partitioning When i tried to partition my 4gig hd that has Windows 98 on it with Partition Magic that came with Linux Mandrake 7.1 it saidthat it couldnt continue because of linked files. is there any way to get it to work without having to format my hd?
RE: [newbie] Video Card
excellent advice. I too play games in linux as well as use the Gimp on a daily basis. I choose a 3dfx card because I like playing games in glide, I respect their company and their products work exceptionally well in linux and windows. Look at what you use it for and what your priorities are and THEN make your decision. Abe = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = I only have one off topic suggestion .. have fun =o) theres a ton of cool things out there to try or implement/refine and perfect ... try em all . when you get curious or daring enough, play with some source code (C C++ Perl Python) whatever .. even if you dont know how to code, or leave everything the way it is the cool thing is Linux is the ultimate playground for anyone who wants to actually "use" a computer rather than have an operating system "guide" the user. The learning curve for the operating system *core* looks more like a vertical wall than a curve ... thing is there are a LOT of hands sticking out willing to help if you want them to. If you're careful about steps you take (recovery disks, backups etc) and you ask for help ... .the climb is a rush. Ok enough on topic advice for video cards I believe another poster mentioned the best advice. Choose something that suits what you want to use it for and what resources you already have (Monitor limitations, is this for gaming and playing with OpenGL stuff, do you just need X running etc) I personally am a fan of Loki and support their porting efforts by purchasing their games ported to Linux so I like hitting high frame rates with full effects on and GeForce and a nice 17" .24 monitor do this for me. It al ldepends on what you want =o) Lonny Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] ISP
And doesn't AOL own Compuserve. They bought it a few years ago, but I'm not sure if they still own it. F.Y.I. (before we start a range war on this) I use AOL because of the kid restrictions, and because I haven't had the time to get my modem working in linux [I sent a separate replyquestion re. modems earlier today]. It works until something better... -Gary- In a message dated 9/4/2000 4:06:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- Compuserve IS AOL. They have the same basic premise. Crappy service with crappy software on crappy windoze boxes. There is no way you can make Compuserve work with Linux. Jay
Re: [newbie] Modem Problems
Is this a PCI modem? What did you do to configure it? I have a USRobotics / 3Com internal modem, 56K PCI PnP faxmodem to deal with. Last time I tried (LinuxMandrake 7.0) isapnp detected it's configuration wrong stopped with error messages (including errors at boot). Before I got back to this I corrupted my LinuxMandrake install. I have reinstalled LM 7.0 and re-upgraded to 7.1 due to a problem with XFree86 which left the screen illegible. Please pardon the late reply, I'm still catching up with newbie emails. -Gary- In a message dated 9/4/2000 8:44:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just got and installed a UsRobotics / 3Com internal modem, 56K voicefax, which runs fine under Linux; but I had to boot W once to configure it.
Re: [newbie] (none)
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hi everybody, i have a mandrake 7.1 and when i run startx it's run with kde, and i whant change this for gnome or windowmaker or other one. how can i do it??? switchdesk -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Question on Partitioning
if partition magic is refering to crosslinked files then you need to run scandisk in windows and fix any errors first, i.m.h.o. it is best before using such software as partition magic et. al. to scandisk and defrag if you have a windows system on your drive. if pm is not refering to cross linked files then you got me! bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i tried to partition my 4gig hd that has Windows 98 on it with Partition Magic that came with Linux Mandrake 7.1 it saidthat it couldnt continue because of linked files. is there any way to get it to work without having to format my hd?
Re: [newbie] Mozilla
Other way around... --Greg - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everybody, I just downloaded the latest Mozilla M17. it's so identical to Netscape 6.0. Did Netscape copy Mozilla for their upcoming release for 6.0? Not java capable yet as it's still being tested. Rob __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Question on Partitioning
When i tried to partition my 4gig hd that has Windows 98 on it with Partition Magic that came with Linux Mandrake 7.1 it saidthat it couldnt continue because of linked files. is there any way to get it to work without having to format my hd? From within Windows run Scandisk and have it fix the problem. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] it won't install :(
mm-hmm, and it takes about half an hour to format the disk. I don't use it that much, but I don't use CDRW disks that much either. - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] it won't install :( : thinking that he would be able to use this CD-RW like he used the floppy : drive on his machine. It took a little while for me to explain that it just : didn't work that way. There : : Not so. My computer came with a windows program called directcd, which : formats a cdrw with its own format so it can be used like an overgrown : floppy. Useful program, but the cd cant be read on any computer without that : program installed. And its not available for linux. : : :
Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie
Goldenpi wrote: Did I say this earlier? Either this message was sent 3 times or the list is playing up again. Never post a background in a newsgroup or mailing list. HTML will not always be accepted, but it ususally will because so many people send it. But NEVER send a background. Anyway, It makes the text hard to read. You do realize that you were re-posting the background every time you replied? -- Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139
[Fwd: [newbie] Modem Problems]
whups. meant this to go to the list. my bad! -- Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139 "Austin L. Denyer" wrote: I am also a fan of das blinkenlights. :) I even know what some of them are for, at least on my Modem Blaster. Scary! ;) LOL! I actually have the original "warning" that 'das blinkenlights' came from posted over my computer! I used to have it over my servers at work too... I'd better shut up now - our age is showing #;-D Regards, Ozz. Hehehehe. Go you! -- Kathleen Dickason, Ancient of Days Registered Linux user #182139
RE: [newbie] Plextor Model Recommendation for CD Burning
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Ashman Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 3:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Plextor Model Recommendation for CD Burning On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote: Roman, I have a Plexwriter- 8x4x32. It's an IDE drive. It works great. In Mdk 7.0, I had to recompile the kernel for it to work, but with 7.1, it worked right out the box. I think that they were recommending SCSi drives. Romanator wrote: Hi, I think I asked this some time ago but I wiped my drive and it got lost. What is a recommended brand of CD burner from Plextor supported by MDK7.1? Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -- We cannot do everything at once but we can do SOMETHING at once Eunice Thompson -- The newest edition of Maximum Linux has a nice article about CD-RW's. Check it out at www.maximumlinux.com. Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com Jay, Thanks. Roman
RE: [newbie] 7.2 beta
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta markOpoleO wrote: damnit man, stop yelling at everyone, the is is for newbies if you wanna make everyone seem dumb at linux go should in a windoze mailing list. Damnit Jim...I'm a doctor...not a brick layer. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 What am I a moon shuttle conductor or doctor? Roman Registered Linux User #179293
RE: [newbie] Downloading newer kernel and header file
HI Patti, The hard drive is IDE. I think the problem happened when I downloaded too many rpms related to various kernels. And, I was using Lilo rather than Grub. To correct this, I fired Lilo , installed Grub, and removed the Linux 2.2.15 folder. Then I installed the kernel, document and header files. Everything is working fine. Thanks for the link. It helped. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patti Wavinak Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 8:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading newer kernel and header file Roman -- What type of hard drive do you have? Is is IDE or SCSI? If it is SCSI then you need to append additional information into Lilo or Grub and you also have to make an initrd file for the new kernel. I just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.16 -- the first time I did it I couldn't bring Linux up, the kernel panicked giggle Go to http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade2.html and follow his instructions, it works like a charm. I hope this is what you were looking for and that it helps you. Patti - Registered Linux User #184611 AIM - Moonbrrz ICQ - #64659723 Original Message On 9/4/00, 2:01:37 PM, Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Downloading newer kernel and header file: Hi everybody, I had the developer installation with lilo and Linux mdk7.1b Hydrogen. After running it for some time, I downloaded the kernel update and header files separately(as per update instructions). However, when I rebooted my computer, I got the lilo prompt. I typed in linux, and it appeared to start but it stalled or froze. The weird thing is lilo worked pass the 1024 cylinder barrier. I have assigned about 4 Gig. for the entire Linux partition. Lilo worked until the kernel update. I would still prefer the development installation. Any ideas? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179292
[newbie] problem starting linux4win with desktop icon after install
Hello All, I am Very verrry new to Linux but want to learn I'm Having a problem starting linux4win with desktop icon after install After autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. I get this Error Message: request-module[block-major-7]:Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot Open root device 07:07 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07 When I ctl+alt+del to get back to Windows the last line says Stopping all md devices Then I select Safe Mode Command Prompt Only and boot from there I Do Not Have these 2 files 'size.txt' and 'swapsize.txt.' in the lnx4win folder I have 'LINUXSYS.IMG' which is 1,024,000KB and 'SWAPFILE' which is 65,536KB == Make: Dell Model: Dimension XPS Processor: Intel Pent 111 MMX Speed: 450 MHz internal/100 MHz external Config of computer:MS Win98 4.10.1998 Make: YAMAHA DS-XG Legasy Sound Sys. Make: YAMAHA DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC Make: U.S. Robotics 56k voice Win == Thanks, Michael Mordenti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] ISP
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: And doesn't AOL own Compuserve. They bought it a few years ago, but I'm not sure if they still own it. F.Y.I. (before we start a range war on this) I use AOL because of the kid restrictions, and because I haven't had the time to get my modem working in linux [I sent a separate replyquestion re. modems earlier today]. It works until something better... -Gary- In a message dated 9/4/2000 4:06:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- Compuserve IS AOL. They have the same basic premise. Crappy service with crappy software on crappy windoze boxes. There is no way you can make Compuserve work with Linux. Jay one of the greatest parts of linux is that u are not limited to just one choice. i guess when u think of it one choice is no choice at all.
Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: Goldenpi wrote: Did I say this earlier? Either this message was sent 3 times or the list is playing up again. Never post a background in a newsgroup or mailing list. HTML will not always be accepted, but it ususally will because so many people send it. But NEVER send a background. Anyway, It makes the text hard to read. You do realize that you were re-posting the background every time you replied? -- Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139 u tell em Kathleen :)
Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!! (Thank Yous)
"John I. Azeke" wrote: First of all (IN DEFENSE OF MYSELF): I would just like to say that I am new to the world of Linux. I haven't even heard the word until I started college 4 years ago. This is now my second month of actually using the OS. I am moving over from Windows because I am sick of being ripped off for something that is garbage. I read a lot before deciding to try Linux and I read the so-called "Installation and User's Guide" that only shows how to do an automatic install, and other installation run-throughs I found on the web. Thus said, I AM A NEWBIE. I signed up to this list to get some help and make this transition a little easier. I read as much about new commands and programs I use before trying them out. I did not see anywhere in any other sort of report a section titled "What To Do If the Partition You Were Looking at Under Linux Is No Longer Recognized by Windows". Thus, I wrote my situation to you all to see if there were any expert advise. I did get some very good advise from those at the bottom of this letter, but I did also get a lot of criticism for not knowing in advance the answers to my questions. Really, if I was at that level, I would no longer be a member of this mailing list, would I? Bottom Line: Scandisk was not aware of the missing partition, so it could not fix it. DOS fdisk recognized the partition as NON-DOS cfdisk recognized the partition as WIN 95 FAT32 Norton SystemWorks also could not fix it, although it did see it as a "root partition" Again: I have 2 hard drives. One has 2 Windows partitions. The other has Linux Mandrake installed. They are completely seperate. Ther is no way my installation could have been at fault because windows worrked fine after installation. This happened weeks later. I think that Doug McGarrett was right and somehow the supermount option was to blame. I upgraded my install without this option, copied the buggy partition to Linux, reformated using DOS fdisk and dumped everything back in. It worked and no information was lost. I would really like to thank the following people for giving me genuine support on finding a solution: 1) Mark Weaver 2) Doug McGarrett 3) Goldenpi 4) Paul 5) Ed Tharp Your help was greatly appreciated. J. Azeke John, I am genuinely glad I could help out. That's what these lists are all about. Making the transistion for new users easier. We were all once new users to Linux and the learning process never ends. So, in a sense we remain newbies to one degree or another. We become seasoned with the passage of time and experience. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496
Re: [newbie] ISP
AOL owns Compuserve's customer base...Worldcom owns the old Compuserve physical network.. Rob On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: And doesn't AOL own Compuserve. They bought it a few years ago, but I'm not sure if they still own it. F.Y.I. (before we start a range war on this) I use AOL because of the kid restrictions, and because I haven't had the time to get my modem working in linux [I sent a separate replyquestion re. modems earlier today]. It works until something better... -Gary- In a message dated 9/4/2000 4:06:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- Compuserve IS AOL. They have the same basic premise. Crappy service with crappy software on crappy windoze boxes. There is no way you can make Compuserve work with Linux. Jay
Re: [newbie] Mozilla
Yup, you hit it right on the head Netscape used the Mozilla Codebase, added some stuff in like the AOL IM thing, and sent it off. --Matt - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:39 PM Subject: [newbie] Mozilla Hi Everybody, I just downloaded the latest Mozilla M17. it's so identical to Netscape 6.0. Did Netscape copy Mozilla for their upcoming release for 6.0? Not java capable yet as it's still being tested. Rob
[newbie] Website
What's going on with Mandrake's website? It takes forever for the page to load, if at all. Eunice -- We cannot do everything at once but we can do SOMETHING at once Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me
why must every one make things so freaking complicated start your comp getinto bios you know where it says hit del to enter setup, or in my case F2, go to the boot menu and move your cdrom drive to the very top, save put cd in drive and reboot your done install it!!
Re: [newbie] Gnome menu panel
its all in thier you just have to play with it, i cant remember off hand how to do it
Re: [newbie] ISP
you convinced it otherwise, how i have been screwing around with the utility and nothing changes
