Re: [newbie-it] settaggio della stampante
Daniele Morabito wrote: continuo a scontrarmi con un grande problema: non riesco a configurare la mia stampante Epson Photo 700, Prova a dare un'occhiata a www.linuxprinting.org (www.picante.com/~gtaylor). Per ogni stampante ci sono delle indicazioni sul livello di compatibilita` ed eventualmente su come configurarla. ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Corel e fonts di X windows
Daniele Morabito wrote: Qualcun altro ha riscontrato problemi simili con i prodotto Corel? -- saluti Cosma Scaramella A me è successo una cosa simile: dopo l'installazione di , sia per KDE che per GNOME, erano sparite le icone associate ai programmi del menu avvio. Non ho capito assolutamente perchè: cercherò di indagare. Credo ci sia un qualche conflitto tra fonttastic e drakxfonts. Tutti e due vogliono intervenire sulla gestione dei fonts ed ho l'impressione che facciano a botte :-( Per fortuna ho provato l'installazione dei prodotti Corel solo su installazioni test di Mandrake e non su quella di lavoro. ;) Comunque il problema si e` ripetuto sia con PhotoPaint 9 che con WordP-Office2000. ciao, andrea
R: R: [newbie-it] mandrake con partizione superiore a 1024 settori!!
grazie per la precisazione... già risolto . ps: le pulci facciamole da un'altra parte può scappare qualche boiata mentre si scrive ti assicuro che so la differenza tra le varie cose altrimenti non averi montato un 8 gb scsi forzando i cilindri le testine e i settori nonchè i byte per traccia su una sparc 1+ che no ha neanche idea di che cosa sia un settore 1024 in quanto non esistevano ancora tali dischi quando è nata!! bando alle polemiche grazie per l'aiuto!! Saluti KINO -Messaggio originale- Da: Simone Ravarotto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: lunedì 25 settembre 2000 10.40 A: peppesan Oggetto: RE: R: [newbie-it] mandrake con partizione superiore a 1024 settori!! = Original Message from peppesan [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 23/09/00 02.04 - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 6:22 PM Subject: [newbie-it] mandrake con partizione superiore a 1024 settori!! Qualcuno ha idea di come creare un'unica partizione con oltre 1024 settori ed evitare che il lilo (nel mio caso silo) si inkazzi nella fase di creazione/configurazione del bootloader? Grazie a tutti, saluti KINO Si chiamano cilindri,i settori sono un'altra cosa.. Il nuovo Lilo e Grub non hanno il famosissimo problema del 1024° cilindro. Vedi tu...
R: [newbie-it] Configurazione modem isdn esterno.
hai perfettamente ragioneforse nel mio caso ero riuscito a fregare il kppp per il fatto che il mio TA 3com ha l'ultimo bios che in automatico anche se chiami un provider che risponde sempre in digitale ma pretende il dialogo con tipologia analogica si setta come tale amico pretende, in più...anche con windows...il modem l'ho sempre configurato come modem standard 75600 analogico..pur essendo un TA ISDN. devo essere un caso particolare Saluti KINO -Messaggio originale- Da: Simone Ravarotto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: lunedì 25 settembre 2000 13.14 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] Configurazione modem isdn esterno. -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di Vincenzo Forciniti Inviato: domenica 24 settembre 2000 1.43 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] Configurazione modem isdn esterno. Salve a tutti, vorrei poter configurare il mio modem su una mandrake 7.1 ... Il modem e' un Asuscom IsdnLink 128-ST, esterno installato su COM1 (o ttyS0 che dir si voglia),mi si verifica il seguente problema: Riesco a connettermi al provider, e prima di poter effettuare il login mi muore il modem (messaggio di Modem Hangup). Ho provato a immettere manualmente i comandi col terminale di kppp, immetto i seguenti: ATZ ATDTnumero_del_provider dopo che ricevo OK mi viene fuori la scritta NO CARRIER e mi cade la connessione. Cosa posso/devo fare per far funzionare il modem? Non ce la faccio piú a vedere schermate blu quando navigo/scarico/ecc/ecc ... Grazie a tutti. P.S. resolv.conf é configurato correttamente, ed anche il resto dei file di configurazione ... li ho configurati come se avessi un modem analogico esterno (a parte la velocitá della COM1 che é stat settata a 115200) * Il tuo adattatore ISDN non e' un modem analogico,quindi va configurato come un adattatore ISDN. Scarica le ultime versioni di pppd ed i tools per la comunicazione ISDN (mi sembra si tratti di isdn4Linux o isdn4k , o qualcosa del genere).Se leggi il file "Changes" contenuto nelle sorgenti di uno degli ultimi kernels,noterai che se ne parla espressamente e viene indicato il sito dove puoi scaricarle;purtroppo io non lo ricordo avendo un modem analogico e non essendomi interessato piu' di tanto. Per le sorgenti,se non le hai : http:\\www.kernel.org\ ;li' troverai anche un mirror ftp tedesco molto piu' veloce. Con un pochino di sbattimento nella lettura dei vari readme relativi non dovresti avere piu' problemi,anzi ,dovresti riuscire a configurare una connessione stabile come una roccia. NOTA BENE KINO ,nel suo messaggio,ha quasi centrato il bersaglio,ma il problema non e' certo del provider,il quale fornisce abbonamento ISDN o analogico,a seconda delle richieste. Sento molto parlare di "modem ISDN"... Ricordiamoci che la linea ISDN e' gia' digitale,e quindi non ha bisogno di essere codificata in analogica dal modem chiamante per poter passare dal doppino telefonico,quindi decodificata di nuovo in digitale dal modem ricevente. E giustissimo ricevere dal demone pppd il messaggio "NO CARRIER",se si tenta di cercare la linea analogica (come da tua conf) su di una digitale (valido anche viceversa).Il modo corretto di definire la "borchia" e' "adattatore ISDN" e non "modem ISDN" ,visto che nulla viene modulato,ma solo indirizzato. Scusate il puntiglio, ma se si ci fa un po di cultura hardware si possono capire molte piu' cose in caso di messaggi come questo. Ciao Simone
[newbie-it] Configurazione modem isdn esterno.
Penso che il tuo 3COM (visto il nome non da poco),possa essere utilizzato sia come modem analogico che come ISDN adapter. Kppp dovrebbe capirlo senza bisogno di driver visto che si parla di una applicazione Linux... Molti apparecchi validi supportano questa possibilita',soprattutto quelli esportati nei paesi dove la linea ISDN e' in via di implementazione; Il driver x winz fornito dalla 3COM stessa dovrebbe permetterti di scegliere, vero? Nel tuo caso sarei curioso di fare un poco di wget da Linux saluti , Simone = Original Message from BELLAN Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 25/09/00 13.38 hai perfettamente ragioneforse nel mio caso ero riuscito a fregare il kppp per il fatto che il mio TA 3com ha l'ultimo bios che in automatico anche se chiami un provider che risponde sempre in digitale ma pretende il dialogo con tipologia analogica si setta come tale amico pretende, in più...anche con windows...il modem l'ho sempre configurato come modem standard 75600 analogico..pur essendo un TA ISDN. devo essere un caso particolare Saluti KINO
[newbie-it] Grosso problema con POP3
Non riesco a capire se il demono POP3 funziona sul mio server. Ho una rete di 80 PC e sto' provando postfix. Se mando una email da Postfix e la ricevo dal server exchange che c'e' qui tutto funziona. Se mando una email da Postfix e volgio riceverla sempre in un account di LInux non funziona nulla. Ho visto che al boot non parte nessun demone pop3 o imap pur essendo configurati su inetd.conf e su services. Se vado nella directory dove sono (/usr/sbin) e li lancio non riesco piu' a tornare al prompt. In init.d non e' presente nessuno script per lanciare ipop3d o imapd. Comincio ad essere disperato. Cosa devo fare??? Michele Tognon - Ufficio CED - Calzaturificio Carmens S.p.A. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] Configurazione stampante Lexmark CJ 2050 su Linux Mandrake 7.1
Salve a tutti, vorrei sapere se c'è la possibilità di utilizzare la mia stampante Lexmark CJ 2050 con la distribuzione Mandrake 7.1. Io ho provato, e considerando che sono alle prime armi con Linux, non sono riuscito a fare niente. Grazie.
[newbie-it] [fwd] [Security Announce] MDKSA-2000:041-1 - xpdf update (from: security@linux-mandrake.com)
- Forwarded message from Linux Mandrake Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Linux Mandrake Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Mandrake Security Announcements [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:01:01 -0600 Subject: [Security Announce] MDKSA-2000:041-1 - xpdf update Linux-Mandrake Security Update Advisory Package name: xpdf Date: September 25th, 2000 Advisory ID:MDKSA-2000:041-1 Affected versions: 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 Problem Description: There is a potential race condation when using tmpnam() and fopen() in xpdf versions prior to 0.91. This exploit can be only used as root to overwrite arbitrary files if a symlink is created between the calls to tmpname() and fopen(). There is also a problem with malicious URL-type links in PDF documents that contain quote characters which could also potentially be used to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to xpdf calling system() with a netscape (or similar) command plus the URL. The 0.91 release of xpdf fixes both of these potential problems. Although there are no known exploits, users are encouraged to upgrade their system with these updates. Update: There was an incorrect dependancy on the t1lib package in the previous updates for xpdf for Linux-Mandrake 6.x and 7.0. This update resolves those dependancy issues. Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this by running the md5sum program on the downloaded package by using "md5sum package.rpm". Linux-Mandrake 6.0: 9210a209bbd52854078e77c5edc35158 6.0/RPMS/xpdf-0.91-4mdk.i586.rpm 305a3ed2da20108baf16ce716e4f56f0 6.0/SRPMS/xpdf-0.91-4mdk.src.rpm Linux-Mandrake 6.1: 552d48f5053ad5f348df823cb759a8c9 6.1/RPMS/xpdf-0.91-4mdk.i586.rpm 305a3ed2da20108baf16ce716e4f56f0 6.1/SRPMS/xpdf-0.91-4mdk.src.rpm Linux-Mandrake 7.0: 8a8bca08989416014a2c91bac79eddc5 7.0/RPMS/xpdf-0.91-4mdk.i586.rpm 305a3ed2da20108baf16ce716e4f56f0 7.0/SRPMS/xpdf-0.91-4mdk.src.rpm To upgrade automatically, use « MandrakeUpdate ». If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package from one of our FTP server mirrors and uprade with "rpm -Uvh package_name". You can download the updates directly from: ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/updates Or try one of the other mirrors listed at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3. Updated packages are available in the "updates/[ver]/RPMS/" directory. For example, if you are looking for an updated RPM package for Linux-Mandrake 7.1, look for it in "updates/7.1/RPMS/". Updated source RPMs are available as well, but you generally do not need to download them. Please be aware that sometimes it takes the mirrors a few hours to update, so if you want an immediate upgrade, please use one of the two above-listed mirrors. You can view other security advisories for Linux-Mandrake at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] - End forwarded message - -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password. PGP signature
[newbie-it] installazione di Mandrake7.1
Nell'installazione di Mandrake7.1 ho un problema: quando mi si dice di inserire il secondo CD non riesco a recuperare il rpimo (lo sportellino del lettore non vuole aprirsi). Qualcuno può aiutarmi? grazie toni
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con sk di rete
il problema è un altro: la scheda non vede la rete. In altre parole, pingando l'ip della macchina win, questo non arriva. Inoltre il led dietro la sk resta spento, quindi è come se non ci fosse continuità. Il cavo comunque funziona ed è anche invertito, quindi non è un problema di connessione tra cavi (già testati tra l'altro tra 2 macchine win). Con il comando dmesg mi sono accorto che la sk di rete si ostina ad usare il BNC anzicchè l'RJ45. Visto che per necessità occorre che funzioni l'RJ45, come fare ad imporre alla scheda questo tipo di collegamento? Utilizzo una 3Com 3C509B, e non sono riuscito a trovare il dischetto di questa sk (come consigliato dagli HOWTO) per forzare la configurazione sotto DOS. cordiali saluti Marco
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con sk di rete
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:59:40PM +0200, marco wrote: come fare ad imporre alla scheda questo tipo di collegamento? Utilizzo una 3Com 3C509B, e non sono riuscito a trovare il dischetto di questa sk (come consigliato dagli HOWTO) per forzare la configurazione sotto DOS. http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c509.htm -- Fabio Coatti http://www.ferrara.linux.it/members/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password.
Re: [newbie-it] Corel e fonts di X windows
Il lun, 25 set 2000, Andrea Celli ha scritto: Daniele Morabito wrote: Qualcun altro ha riscontrato problemi simili con i prodotto Corel? -- saluti Cosma Scaramella A me è successo una cosa simile: dopo l'installazione di , sia per KDE che per GNOME, erano sparite le icone associate ai programmi del menu avvio. Non ho capito assolutamente perchè: cercherò di indagare. Credo ci sia un qualche conflitto tra fonttastic e drakxfonts. Tutti e due vogliono intervenire sulla gestione dei fonts ed ho l'impressione che facciano a botte :-( Per fortuna ho provato l'installazione dei prodotti Corel solo su installazioni test di Mandrake e non su quella di lavoro. ;) Comunque il problema si e` ripetuto sia con PhotoPaint 9 che con WordP-Office2000. ciao, andrea P.S.: Se può essere d'aiuto, mi ha fatto lo stesso scherzetto anche con Red Hat 6.2. Saluti a tutti Cosma Scaramella
Re: [newbie-it] Gestione posta
Il Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:45:15PM +0200, cosscara scrive: Salve a tutti, chiedo assistenza per un problema quasi risolto (è il quasi che mi brucia!!) Ho deciso di usare netscape per la lettura della posta, ma siccome ho più caselle e-mail da controllare (ovviamente non IMAP ma POP3), devo fargliele leggere su una inbox interna. Non usare netscape, che ti incasina la vita e come mailreader non e' dei migliori (eufemismo). Se proprio vuoi usare qualcosa di grafico prova xfmail, o evolution. Cmq, detto tra noi, meglio di mutt . Ho configurato allora fetchmail che corretamente mi scarica la posta in /var/spool/mail/-nomeutente- (ho controllato e fin qui tutto ok) Ho detto a Netscape di controllare la posta da una casella interna e gli ho dato la directory sopra indicata. Scarico la posta, la controllo con netscape: non c'è nulla! Controllo con pine o mutt e la posta c'è. Dove sbaglio? Devo dire a fetchmail di mettere la posta in /home/-nomeutente-/nsmail/inbox ? e come faccio a dirglirlo? Usa procmail, che ti smista tutta la posta nella/e directory che preferisci. Oppure devo creare una sottodirectory "inbox" in /var/spool etc? e dire a fetch mail di mettere la posta li? Ho bucato il monte da due lati per fare una galleria, ma i treni non passano! Qualsiasi dritta è gradita! Grazie a tutti e saluti :)) Cosma -- Franco aka caparossa Key fingerprint = DE14 622C 623F 0E02 69BA D893 6934 A41A BFD2 6C56 bash# cd /pub bash# more beer
[newbie] My login managers (gdm kdm) don't work
Following the instructions on how to install KDE2 beta 5 (the final beta) on Mandrake 7.x, I installed the RPMs menu and mandrake_desk from Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 before doing anything else. I did not install KDE2 over my KDE 1.x at this stage. After a reboot I found that kdm (my default login manager at boot) only displayed kde and default as choices, and whatever I chose I got IceWM. I managed to get GNOME running manually by killing kdm with init 3 from a root console and then running startx. I tried gdm (from Helix GNOME) instead of kdm but this doesn't let me log into anything. By this stage I had not installed KDE2 but my system was already a mess. So my question is: how do I get things working as they were before, with a fully working login manager? -- _ Sridhar Dhanapalan Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! _
[newbie] About Mandrake 7.1
Hi to all, I finally got installed Mandrake 7.1 but I got some comments about him. First, the installation wasn't as good as I hope, with some errors in some parts, for example, why is the Installation program giving me one LILO error in the bootloader section, when I'm trying to Install Grub? this is in Actualization mode, I think that this is an error, other thing, why it don't find my ne2000 CARD during the Installation if I'm giving it all the Information? I/O, IRQ, etc... and It detect it in Drakconf after the installation? Also, I can't understand why an actualization needs more than 2 hours to be completed and one Installation only 40 minutes? I think that mandrake must resolve this, also the big number of applications that install by defect, more than 1,7 Gb Well, I must say that when is installed all works very fine, the KDE GNOME works fine and looks fast and pretty, but the installation is one adventure. See ya, and sorry for the off-topic, this are only my impressions, anything more. Iagoba
Re: [newbie] Problems with Via Sound card 82c686 on 694D(Microstar)and LM 7.1
The only thing I can think of is to see if there is a setting in the BIOS to change your sound card IRQ. My guess it would be in the PCI section. "Device or Resource Busy" is an IRQ conflict. -- Original Message -- From: "Sounak Sinha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:14:02 -0700 Hi guys, I have been struggling to get my sound card working with Mandrake 7.1. This sound card is on board and is part of the Southbridge (Via 82c686). This particular chip is reported to be supported. What I believe is the problem is IRQ sharing. This card is sharing IRQs (IRQ 9) with the USB controller. Although there are quite a few IRQs vacant(like IRQ5), I dont know how to move the IRQ from 9 to 5 under Linux. Anyone with any help on this ? This is with stock 2.2.15 SMP kernel. Sometimes with 2.4.0test8 kernel I can get my sound card to work, but just barely. I can listen to Audio CDs. Change the volume using the mixer; but momemt I try to play a RealAudio clip, the sound gets all locked up and the first syllable keeps repeating. I also tried with the latest OSS files, after installing those(what a pain !!! told me Mandrake was not a supported kernel) I could play my audio cds fine but had problems with .ra files again. OSS actually warned me since the card was sharing IRQs there could be problems. So what is the solution here ? Can anyone help ? Anyone with any experience with the Redhat install ? Could you get sound working flawlessly ? I tried with both setting on the motherboard - Soundblaster mode on (part 1) and Soundblaster mode off (part 2). The boot.log messages from Part 1 and 2 are appended below. Any help is highly appreciated ! Thanks Sounak PART 1 === Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems succeeded Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems succeeded Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space succeeded - Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions succeeded Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx kudzu: succeeded Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o failed Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed -- Sep 20 18:29:47 xxx sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.tcp_timestamp' is an unknown key Sep 20 18:29:47 xxx network: Setting network parameters succeeded == PART 2 === Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx kudzu: succeeded Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o failed Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed --- Sep 20 18:48:03 xxx sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.tcp_timestamp' is an unknown key Sep 20 18:48:03 xxx network: Setting network parameters succeeded
Re: [newbie] Instilation of Linux Mandrake for Windows
:~Dear Sir/Madam :~ :~I have a copy of Linux Makedrake 7.1 and I would like to install it as linux :~for windows but when I click on the button when the cd has autorun it says :~that the program runs in real dos mode that this versionof windows does not :~support. I suppose this is because I run Windows me but there must be a way :~round it. Please help as I am desperate to install linux. :~ :~Thanks :~ :~Adam Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Actually there IS a way around it, but I have no idea how good is it, it has not been tested so far, and it requires patching of windows ME. If this did not scare you, take a look at these pages: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2916095850 http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/ good luck Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] Install on formatted HD
Hello/morning I just formatted my C: drive. Im looking to do clean install [mandrake 7.1] Do i need a boot disk to install it? Where can i find a boot disk or how can i make one from the DOS prompt. Remember my c: drive is now formatted. Im at the GRUB command line. Im needing some help here. Thanks Guyzz Dominick -
[newbie] DSL
I have 2 win98 machines, and networked with ADSL going to both computers, I also have a IBM Server 320 with mandrake 7.1 installed on it. How much trouble is it to connect it to the network so I can have DSL going to it? Sorry if this has been topic before.
Re: [newbie] Install on formatted HD
At 08:40 AM 9/25/00 -0400, you wrote: Do i need a boot disk to install it? Where can i find a boot disk or how can i make one from the DOS prompt. I just booted off the cd itself and it prompted me from boot up
Re: [newbie] Tech Support from Macmillan -- Personal Inquiry
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~Mandrakesoft taking over support is good new for all of us, Dennis! The :~MacMillan support did less than nothing for me--it wasted my time and effort. :~ [I had bought the 7.0 Deluxe with e-mail support from Linuxcare.] This kind :~of experience can only hurt Linux Mandrake's reputation and sales. If :~Mandrakesoft can turn this support issue from a liability into an asset. Ufff... You should see the s* we just made ourselves, you would start shouting "give us back the linuxcare" :-( But, as I said, we WILL get this working, and when we have done it, I will not hear any more "your support stinks" letters. :~Personally I believe in supporting good things, and I will purchase Linux :~Mandrake again when I will be able to get what I'm paying for, which includes :~the support should I need it. I'm not still working out of Windows based :~e-mail for nothing. [For those new to newbie let me explain that I'm :~disabled with Multiple Sclerosis Fatigue and I literally haven't had the :~effort available to apply to solving my modem issues myself, even with the :~help of newbie people.] -Gary- OK, folks - here are the facts: 1) Linuxcare is/was not bad, they generally did the job very well, but we had problems in certain cases where feedback simply did not work, so small problems ended up with very unhappy customers. 2) we just took this over from linuxcare few days ago, and we do have problems. As a matter of fact, we screwed it full-time last week, but by now things should be back in normal (I HOPE!) now. If you think that running our support is a simple task, it is not, but we are determined to get it right this time, and I don't see why we shouldn't succeed: we got our security-updates right, 7.2 is full of goodies you have been asking for, overal quality of the product is improving too, so why shouldn't we be able to handle support as well? But i repeat the warning: "taking over" is a big task, and there may be some more troubles ahead of us (yup, we just passed on e big hump last week!), so please don't get too pissed-off. We do what we can, i.e.: - impossible is done at once - wonders take some more time. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female connector. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[newbie] Booting Question.
My kernel is 2.2.16-9mdk. Fellow list member and I are attempting to upgrade from ver 6.1 to 7.0(air) via email There is a flaw in the cd or install script which causes the generation of the boot floppy to fail with a 'can't find insmod' or similar message. Ver 7.0 uses the stock 2.2.14 kernel. Is it legitimate to try and boot the part install with a 2.2.16 boot floppy to get a couple of glitches sorted... Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
[newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1
I want to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1, should I reformat and do a total reinstall or should I just do a regular upgrade. I don't have anything I want to save on the 7.0 installation, I have just been putzing around to get familiar that system. Just wondering if anyone had any suggestions... thanks!
Re: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux
I had thought of the second one and found it too onerous, but the first one is certainly workth trying. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Steve Weltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux Jeff, Wouldn't it be easier to 'pull' the messages than 'push' them there? Well, try doing an import from OL-Express to the mail client in Netscape Communicator...It's not the best, but it works for me (most of the time, pretty well, I might add). You can find the mail that your using in OL Express in c:\winnt\profiles\(username)\Application Data\Identities\(lotsoflettersandnumbers)\Microsoft\Outlook Express. Everything in dbx extension is a message folder, and can be imported. ORYou can spend some quality time forwarding every single keepable e-mail message back to yourself under another e-mail account, and download it onto your Linux partition. Kinda spendy on the bandwidth and time, but it'll get the job done. HTH! Steve W. - Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Newbie Mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 9:15 AM Subject: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux While in transition as I learn Linux, I am still have a load of received emails in Outlook Express under NT. A number of these are email responses to questions I asked about Linux. Rather than print them all out on paper, is there a way for me to be able to read these (already received emails, now on my HD) from within Linux where I need to access them to try the various suggestions made? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
RE: [newbie] Install on formatted HD
Hello Newbies::: OK well as i found out, I made a boot disk for mandrake 7.1 I attached it to this email. (patch.pl) got it from linux-mandrake.com-- Its a perl script. ENJOY! PS: not to spam or anything, I made a newbie website for us linux users. It will be fully functional by the end of this week hopefully. Here is the URL: http://www.linux-newbies.com || and we also have a chatroom for realtime help on an IRC Server Called irc.dal.net - thought this might help the newbies. LATER F0lk Enjoy. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Dressler Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install on formatted HD At 08:40 AM 9/25/00 -0400, you wrote: Do i need a boot disk to install it? Where can i find a boot disk or how can i make one from the DOS prompt. I just booted off the cd itself and it prompted me from boot up patch.pl
Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1
select Installation, is you make an upgrade, the installation would be about 2 or 3 hours, and is you don't upgrade it, it can be only 40 minutes. Mark Johnson wrote: I want to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1, should I reformat and do a total reinstall or should I just do a regular upgrade. I don't have anything I want to save on the 7.0 installation, I have just been putzing around to get familiar that system. Just wondering if anyone had any suggestions... thanks!
RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh
Ok, I'm confused. I thought I was running Mandrake 7.1 (Helium) Kernel 2.2.15. Does this give an indication that I'm not running Linux Mandrake 7.1? I'm not trying to be stupid here but someone else told me the same thing. -Original Message- From: Philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh I'll have to track down my notes, but I also had to get updated drivers for my nvidia geforce 256 card - that did the trick for me to be able to run Q3. In Cooker, there are a few other 4.01 xfree RPMS - theres a XFree86-libs4.0.1, a devel rpm,docs, etc.. Maybe you should try installing or upgrading to 7.1 - is that an option for you ? if you do an expert install you have the option to install and start 4.01. I did that with the 7.2 beta and it worked out nicely. philomena At 01:55 PM 9/22/2000 -0500, you wrote: No problemo. Yeah, I reran the rebuild command again and same thing. You know I renamed the packages.rpm to packages.bak(don't know if I was supposed to do that or not) and tried running the rpm -Uvh and it told me that a bunch of dependiences failed. Are the dependiences that it is refering to in the packages.rpm. May I ask what specifically you had to do to upgrade to 4.01. I need 4.0.1 to be able to get full use out of my video card and to play quake 3. Thanks. joshs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh Sorry Josh - I should have been more specific and asked did you run the rebuild *again*, after you updated to the 4.0 version ? Does running kpackage or rpmdrake give the same database error ? I had upgraded to the 4.01 a little while ago and I was pretty sure there was more than one RPM to install, not that it should be causing the problem you are seeing . philomena At 10:20 AM 9/22/2000 -0500, you wrote: Ok. I've loaded 4.0 version of rpm and I am still getting the error when trying to do rpm -Uvh filename.rpm "An rpm in db1 format exists in /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm. Please convert to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root. What is db1 and db3 format's? Thanks... Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/RByName.html look there, there should be new RPM's for Mandrake :P (*hint* i586) makes RPM browsing so much faster - Original Message - From: "Josh Shirey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 8:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Trying to do a rpm -Uvh Hi, I am running MD 7. I'm trying to update/install XFree86.4.0.1 as a single 15 meg rpm. I was told to do rpm -Uvh filename.rpm and I should be good to go but I an running into this error message and I don't know what to do next. The error message I'm getting is "An rpm in db1 format exists in /var/lib/rpm/parckages.rpm. Please convert to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root." I do the rpm --rebuilddb and it acts like it does something but when I go back and try rpm -Uvh filename.rpm it gives me the same error message. When i do a rpm -q I see that I am running version 3.0. Could the version of rpm I am running be my problem and if so how and where would I go to update my version of rpm for MD. Thanks... josh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Booting Question.
My kernel is 2.2.16-9mdk. Fellow list member and I are attempting to upgrade from ver 6.1 to 7.0(air) via email There is a flaw in the cd or install script which causes the generation of the boot floppy to fail with a 'can't find insmod' or similar message. Ver 7.0 uses the stock 2.2.14 kernel. Is it legitimate to try and boot the part install with a 2.2.16 boot floppy to get a couple of glitches sorted... what about a 2.2.13 bootdisk? i could reinstall 6.1 and make it there... the fellow list member.
[newbie] Problems with X in Mandrake 7.1
I have Mandrake 7.1 and when I install and run KDE it show the blue screen, but it goes back to the shell. I think there is a problem with the ATI XPERT 200 that I have. Anybody Know how to fix it? Thank you!
RE: [newbie] Problems with X in Mandrake 7.1
I had the same problem with two different computers, one of them a Toshiba Laptop. One day, I tried to do the text mode installation and ¡hale opp!!! It worked. Now it works very nice. Try it, perphaps it worths Francisco Alcaraz Spain -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Figueroa Carlos (CAP) Enviado el: lunes, 25 de septiembre de 2000 16:10 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie] Problems with X in Mandrake 7.1 I have Mandrake 7.1 and when I install and run KDE it show the blue screen, but it goes back to the shell. I think there is a problem with the ATI XPERT 200 that I have. Anybody Know how to fix it? Thank you!
[newbie] RPMDrake and Mandrake Update problems
So, I'm having two problems with managing RPMs right now. The first is that when I try to add an HTTP or FTP site to RPMDrake, it quits. When I restart it there's no trace of the new site. The second is that when I try to update my system with Mandrake Update I seem to be getting lots of spurious dependancies. Generally, when I click on any item, Update then selects the rest of the list, claiming that (for example) the new version of Update requires the new Samba Server package to run. Any suggestions on handling either of these problems? -- Michael Heinz, Java Certified Programmer 206 Debbie Lane, Phoenixville, PA 19460
[newbie] Incoming ppp connections?
I am still having trouble configuring my system for incoming calls. I found something on the Internet about it, but it did not work. I have a 3com USR voice faxmodem hooked to S1 (com 2). I can get a dialtone and the modem can call out. (I have not successfully authenticated to my ISP, but I know that the modem works). At this time, I just want to dial in and used the local LAN and Internet. Sort of like my own mini-ISP. My version 7.1 machine is hooked up to an ethernet LAN that gets to the internet by a dial-on-demand ISDN line. Any help would be appreciated.
[newbie] apache
Does anyone know what version or how to check what version of apache comes with mandrake 7.1?? And how to upgrade it to xssi etc. it told me to goto my apache dir /apache_1.3.X/src/modules. I don't have a apache_1.3.X dir or a src dir or a modueles. I have a /usr/lib/apache and a usr/include/apache I also wanted to know if I could use iis and apache. And if so how? And will it work from a win box Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] Re: URGENT HELP ON SAMBA
Can samba work with windows 95 environment or is it just NT? My server side is solaris 2.7 and my client side is all laptops running win'95, how do I configure samba in this scenario? Please write back as soon as possible. Ramesh It will work fine with win95 If your are running win95 rev 2 or higher (I believe) you will have to enable password encryption in the global settings Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] AX25 problems
Can anyone help with a simple guide to install AX25? I have read through the HOWTO and I guess I don't see it or understand the installation process in the HOWTO. Please be easy on me, thanks! Kyle Mandrake 7.2
Re: [newbie] apache
Mike, Apache will work fine with IIS, but the question is.why on Earth would you want to use IIS??? Fritz - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 11:49 AM Subject: [newbie] apache Does anyone know what version or how to check what version of apache comes with mandrake 7.1?? And how to upgrade it to xssi etc. it told me to goto my apache dir /apache_1.3.X/src/modules. I don't have a apache_1.3.X dir or a src dir or a modueles. I have a /usr/lib/apache and a usr/include/apache I also wanted to know if I could use iis and apache. And if so how? And will it work from a win box Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
[newbie] Backspace doesn't
I'm having trouble with backspace under X-Windows. It works for some apps (kvt, xterm), but not others (emacs, rxvt). When it doesn't work, it behaves like "delete" instead - it deletes the character under the cursor, when I want it to delete the character to the left of the cursor. And in those cases the "delete" key works the same way. I'd be happy enough to fix it for emacs alone, though I'd really rather know if there's some X-Windows global setting I can use. Thanks, Aaron P.S. Looked like this has come up before in the archives, but there was never a satisfactory answer. "stty erase" does not work. In all cases things work fine outside X, and I tried 4 Window Mangers.
Re: [newbie] Install on formatted HD
IF you can boot from the CD your in business. If not you will need access to a working machine so that you can go to /dosutils (on the Linux Mandrake CD) and use rawrite to make the install boot disk you will need to boot the machine into Linux and do the install. -Gary- In a message dated 9/25/2000 8:41:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello/morning I just formatted my C: drive. Im looking to do clean install [mandrake 7.1] Do i need a boot disk to install it? Where can i find a boot disk or how can i make one from the DOS prompt. Remember my c: drive is now formatted. Im at the GRUB command line. Im needing some help here. Thanks Guyzz Dominick -
Re: [newbie] Install on formatted HD
Or go to /dosutils on the CD. There will be an information file that will tell you how to use rawrite to make a Linux install floppy, if your machine cannot boot from the CD. -Gary- In a message dated 9/25/2000 8:52:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 08:40 AM 9/25/00 -0400, you wrote: Do i need a boot disk to install it? Where can i find a boot disk or how can i make one from the DOS prompt. I just booted off the cd itself and it prompted me from boot up
[newbie] Problems installing Mandrake Linux
I recently installed Linux on a HP Vectra which comes with the Tornado (3c905) ethernet card. I have configured the ip address for eth0. However, "ifconfig"does not display a hardware address for the ethnernet card. The "arp-a" does not show any entries. The "link" light on the hub indicates link up. Do I need to load a special 3c905 driver?
Re: [newbie] apache
2000-09-25. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Load your browser, go to http://127.0.0.1 and go into the documentation link. My apache (even though I don't need/use it) shows that it is version 1.3. Paul Does anyone know what version or how to check what version of apache comes with mandrake 7.1?? And how to upgrade it to xssi etc. it told me to goto my apache dir /apache_1.3.X/src/modules. I don't have a apache_1.3.X dir or a src dir or a modueles. I have a /usr/lib/apache and a usr/include/apache I also wanted to know if I could use iis and apache. And if so how? And will it work from a win box Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com -- Don't deny the feeling. Deny the explanation. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1
2000-09-25. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just run the upgrade. I don't even format the root partition. Works great for me. Paul I want to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1, should I reformat and do a total reinstall or should I just do a regular upgrade. I don't have anything I want to save on the 7.0 installation, I have just been putzing around to get familiar that system. Just wondering if anyone had any suggestions... -- Don't deny the feeling. Deny the explanation. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] StarOffice and other wordprocessors
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Robin Regennitter wrote: I think if you go to www.download.cnet.com Could you please confirm the url ? I get en error ;-( TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
RE: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1
how long did it take to run the upgrade? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 1:02 PM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1 2000-09-25. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just run the upgrade. I don't even format the root partition. Works great for me. Paul
Re: [newbie] apache
You could also try "rpm -qa | grep apache" - but that will only work if you're using the default install, not if you've overwritten it with your own. To find where the files went, you can try "rpm -ql apache | less" Aaron On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Paul wrote: 2000-09-25. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Load your browser, go to http://127.0.0.1 and go into the documentation link. My apache (even though I don't need/use it) shows that it is version 1.3. Paul Does anyone know what version or how to check what version of apache comes with mandrake 7.1?? And how to upgrade it to xssi etc. it told me to goto my apache dir /apache_1.3.X/src/modules. I don't have a apache_1.3.X dir or a src dir or a modueles. I have a /usr/lib/apache and a usr/include/apache I also wanted to know if I could use iis and apache. And if so how? And will it work from a win box Regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com -- Don't deny the feeling. Deny the explanation. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] Installation of Java JDK (I need JAVA!!!)
Hello. I need help with the installation of a Java JDK for Mandrake (preferably Sun's 1.2.2). Apparently MandrakeSoft Professional Services technical support does not support the installation of the JDK off of their CD set. A) I tried to install the sun Java jdk off of the 2nd Applications CD and I got the following "dependency" error list: "Dependency problem unixODBC is needed by jdk-sun-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm libodbc.so is needed by jdk-sun-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm libodbcinst.so is needed by jdk-sun-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm" B) So I downloaded/built the JDK off of the java.sun.com/downloads web site. The JDK was installed as directed by their "Java 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition" install doc for Linux. See http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/install-linux.html. When trying to run a sample program to test the installation of the JDK I got the warning messages listed in the Javaprob.txt file that is attached (i.e., "Warning: cannot convert string "KeyHome,_Key_Begin" to type VirtualBinding . . ."). I was able the sample program with the installed JDK. My system data follows. Thanks for your help with this matter. processor=AMD K6 harddrive=IDE, 1 G Linux/ 5 M Swap cdrom=IDE graphic=3dfx Voodoo3 graphic_mem=2 M sound=SB live 16 --- John Wright --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Backspace doesn't
If you watch your boot sequence, there's a message that goes by about how your backspace key has been mapped to DEL. That's why it doesn't work in EMACS - both keys send the same character code. Like you, I like have two different kinds of delete in EMACS, and I've been thinking about digging around and figuring out how to change the setting, but I haven't had a chance to yet. -- Michael Heinz, Java Certified Programmer 206 Debbie Lane, Phoenixville, PA 19460 I'm having trouble with backspace under X-Windows. It works for some apps (kvt, xterm), but not others (emacs, rxvt). When it doesn't work, it behaves like "delete" instead - it deletes the character under the cursor, when I want it to delete the character to the left of the cursor. And in those cases the "delete" key works the same way. I'd be happy enough to fix it for emacs alone, though I'd really rather know if there's some X-Windows global setting I can use. Thanks, Aaron P.S. Looked like this has come up before in the archives, but there was never a satisfactory answer. "stty erase" does not work. In all cases things work fine outside X, and I tried 4 Window Mangers.
Re: [newbie] StarOffice and other wordprocessors
2000-09-25. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Robin Regennitter wrote: I think if you go to www.download.cnet.com Could you please confirm the url ? I get en error ;-( www.download.com will work. Paul -- Don't deny the feeling. Deny the explanation. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Backspace doesn't
2000-09-25. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When my machines boot, they tell me that backspace is set to ^?. Not sure where that comes from, but that is the regular one that works everywhere here. Paul If you watch your boot sequence, there's a message that goes by about how your backspace key has been mapped to DEL. That's why it doesn't work in EMACS - both keys send the same character code. Like you, I like have two different kinds of delete in EMACS, and I've been thinking about digging around and figuring out how to change the setting, but I haven't had a chance to yet. -- Don't deny the feeling. Deny the explanation. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
RE: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1
2000-09-25. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On my P-II/400 (128Mb ram) it took about 45 minutes. On the P-II/350 64Mb little over an hour. Paul how long did it take to run the upgrade? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 1:02 PM To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail) Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1 2000-09-25. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just run the upgrade. I don't even format the root partition. Works great for me. Paul -- Don't deny the feeling. Deny the explanation. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] new install..troubles
New to the list and Linux. I just bought Mandrake 7.0 and am attempting to install, and not having much luck. The problem is that during the install, my PC keeps re-booting. Each time a get a bit further in the process, then it re-boots?? I have formatted my c drive, and have no Windows installed :) below is my system info, if I left out anything critical, please let me know. I am very new to this, so your help is greatly appreciated. Glenn My system: AMD k62 450mhz Bus Type: ISA standard keyboard and mouse Award Bios, ver 4.51pg DVD Toshiba CD Rom ESS Solo Audio Drive Netgear 310TX Fast Ethernet card SIS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller IRQ Holder for PCI Steering SIS 5513 Dual PCI IDE controller SIS 530 chip set begin:vcard n:Baker;Glenn tel;pager:360) 428-5568 tel;home:360) 468-3092 tel;work:360) 468-3716 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.naxja.org/ org:North American XJ Association;Board of Directors adr:;;;Lopez;Washington;98261;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:President fn:Glenn Baker end:vcard
Re: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux
Why cant microsoft find one path thd stick with it? Why does outlook express
have to take over three seperate parts of the drive and who knows how much
of the registry.
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 8:17 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux
If you don't mind the lack of formatting, go to c:\windows\application
data\identities\{bunchofnumbersandletters}\microsoft\outlook express\
Find the .dbx file of the box you're looking for (inbox I assume) and open
it with a text editor - viola! It won't be in mailbox format, but it
works
in a pinch.
Mike
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Malka
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 9:16 AM
To: Linux Newbie Mandrake
Subject: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux
While in transition as I learn Linux, I am still have a load of received
emails in Outlook Express under NT. A number of these are email
responses
to questions I asked about Linux.
Rather than print them all out on paper, is there a way for me to
be able to
read these (already received emails, now on my HD) from within
Linux where I
need to access them to try the various suggestions made?
Thanks.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] How do i run Aol on linux?
Im not sure if AOL even has dns. I think there psudo-internet software doesn't bother with anything so user-unfriendly. I know that it doesn't bother with ip addresses, as I tried to trace someone while playing outpost2. - Original Message - From: "Jay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] How do i run Aol on linux? On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, you wrote: How do i run AOL on linux? they wont give me the DNS numbers, if i cant run AOL on linux does anyone know a good free ISP for linux? -- AOL is E-V-I-L!! Jay "May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after." "May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] Mounting new drive
Advice taken, but I have already tried and have just had to reformat :-( I used the reformat to set the home partiton anyway. I found out about permissions on fat filesystems while failing to move the partiton. I have also learnt that 500mi is a bit too big for just me and root. I am useing just 1% of it. Is there anyway to use fdisk to resize a partition? Also noticed that when I moved the home directory under x while loged in as root, it set every file and directory to owner root. - Original Message - From: "bascule" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mounting new drive hi goldenpi, your stuff currently on /home would simply become invisible unless your current /home is a seperate volume that you can mount elsewhere but i guess not from your intention to use your new drive as /home. use ext2 unless for some reason you 'have' to be able to see this drive in dos/windows, permissions don't work the same on a dos drive (basically there are none - sort of) so i can see things becoming confused with such a basic part of the filesystem on a dos partition - expert needed here i think! rename /home to /home.old or similar, create /home again, mount new drive to /home and copy the contents of /home.old over, my hunch would be to do this as root with X not running to avoid having files from /home open while performing this action. not knowing how your drive is connected or if it is scsi or ide i cannot tell you what a suitable fstab should be, but if you run drakconf and then linuxconf and choose file systems and then access local drive; you should see your new drive detailed as not mounted, click on it's entry and enter the options you want including mount point, this will create your fstab for you and you can mount and unmount the drive to copy your files over i hope this is cogent (and correct!), i think i've confused myself! bascule Goldenpi wrote: I have just inserted my new old 500mi drive, to hold my /home partition. Now, should I use ext2 or dos filesystem? If I use ext2, what is the correct format for fstab? If I just mount it to /home what will happen to the stuff in my /home partition now? I see a reformat looming.
Re: [newbie] Incoming ppp connections?
Its the outlook express attacker again. How do you get it to show that dialog box each time I open a message. - Original Message - From: "George Brooks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:48 PM Subject: [newbie] Incoming ppp connections? I am still having trouble configuring my system for incoming calls. I found something on the Internet about it, but it did not work. I have a 3com USR voice faxmodem hooked to S1 (com 2). I can get a dialtone and the modem can call out. (I have not successfully authenticated to my ISP, but I know that the modem works). At this time, I just want to dial in and used the local LAN and Internet. Sort of like my own mini-ISP. My version 7.1 machine is hooked up to an ethernet LAN that gets to the internet by a dial-on-demand ISDN line. Any help would be appreciated.
Re: [newbie] Is it my imagination or------
My first needed me to hold the sims in. It had elctrical tape as an important part of the case. The next one I built was, and still is, held together by superglue. Its not that im no good at it, its just that they were both built from scrap. - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 12:59 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Is it my imagination or-- You are partially correct. I've seen a lot, and I mean a lot of crappy PCs built by people who think they know how to build a custom PC. Just my $0.02. Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Curtis Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Is it my imagination or-- Hand-built pc will tipically be more stable and faster. This comes with higher quality parts. Prebuilt pcs are less expensive for a reason, lower quality parts. Also prebuilt units will have several applications that are made by the manufacturer, thus can cause problems with other apps or the OS in general. Most users that are willing to build a custom pc will put more effort into research and compatiblity of the parts they are going to by. In short you get what you pay for. - Original Message - From: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:26 AM Subject: [newbie] Is it my imagination or-- Hello Linuxers. I just wondered, am I imagining it or do hand-built systems tend to run better than a pre-built PC bought at like either "?triangle" or "?Best Buy" or something of that ilk? I noticed for myself that my hand-built system seems to run better than my roommate's pre-built system.
Re: [newbie] Acroreadxpdf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I will try your suggestions with xpdf. It was suggested to me to install Mandrake 7 again because of some of my strange problems. I am leaning towards that strongly. Is it better to do a totally fresh install or to upgrade over the existing? I have done an upgrade before after my first install and it improved some things. I want to thank you all for your prompt and very excellent help. Sincerely, Marcia MarciaI'd lean towards a fresh install. The only reason to consider an upgrade at this point would be if you've customized your system so heavily (or had a lot of data that would be difficult to backup and restore) that it would be difficult and/or highly time consuming to restore it after a fresh install. Alan You know what though, if you have /home on it's own partition, then all your data files will be just fine even if you do a fresh install. Just don't format the /home partition. Mark
Re: [newbie] Mounting new drive
i don't know about resizing a partition with fdisk (i use partition magic) but if you are only using 5mi then backup and reformat with whatever partitions you like, as for permssions when copying, ah not being an expert that didn't occur to me, but i guess from the option to preserve permisions that can be used when untarring a tarball, that tarring your stuff would be able to keep the permissions but i don't know the syntax for that - i've never done it! it would be comforting for someone who has done this successfully to comment here! thats all i have goldenpi, bascule Goldenpi wrote: Advice taken, but I have already tried and have just had to reformat :-( I used the reformat to set the home partiton anyway. I found out about permissions on fat filesystems while failing to move the partiton. I have also learnt that 500mi is a bit too big for just me and root. I am useing just 1% of it. Is there anyway to use fdisk to resize a partition? Also noticed that when I moved the home directory under x while loged in as root, it set every file and directory to owner root. - Original Message - From: "bascule" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mounting new drive hi goldenpi, your stuff currently on /home would simply become invisible unless your current /home is a seperate volume that you can mount elsewhere but i guess not from your intention to use your new drive as /home. use ext2 unless for some reason you 'have' to be able to see this drive in dos/windows, permissions don't work the same on a dos drive (basically there are none - sort of) so i can see things becoming confused with such a basic part of the filesystem on a dos partition - expert needed here i think! rename /home to /home.old or similar, create /home again, mount new drive to /home and copy the contents of /home.old over, my hunch would be to do this as root with X not running to avoid having files from /home open while performing this action. not knowing how your drive is connected or if it is scsi or ide i cannot tell you what a suitable fstab should be, but if you run drakconf and then linuxconf and choose file systems and then access local drive; you should see your new drive detailed as not mounted, click on it's entry and enter the options you want including mount point, this will create your fstab for you and you can mount and unmount the drive to copy your files over i hope this is cogent (and correct!), i think i've confused myself! bascule Goldenpi wrote: I have just inserted my new old 500mi drive, to hold my /home partition. Now, should I use ext2 or dos filesystem? If I use ext2, what is the correct format for fstab? If I just mount it to /home what will happen to the stuff in my /home partition now? I see a reformat looming.
[newbie] kdesu malfunction
I can't click my kdesu anymore its not in the menu. Would some kind soul please tell me how i can put it back? I tried typing kdesu and it did nothing intelligible thanks
[newbie] Ulysses-3 iso
anyone got another mirror of ulysses-3 iso's -- If you have to ask you can't afford it.
[newbie] default editor in tin
How do you change the default editor to for example emacs? I wanted to post a usenet article from within tin. I don't know if tin is flexible enough to allow me to use emacs but I'm pretty sure it stuck me in vi. Anyone post to usenet using emacs? Should I just learn the newsreader in emacs? - David Owen Kritzberg (david.kritzberg-at-colorado.edu) Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder Campus Box 256, Boulder CO 80309-0256 Tel: 303-492-7709 Fax: 303-492-8960
[newbie] Sounds Uneven.
Hi Everybody, The sounds are pretty uneven on my system.as it been like this for awhile. all the KDE system sounds goes loud and profound while all the other wave sounds sounded so muted. but if I turn the volume up. The KDE sounds blasted way through and the other sounds are noticeable. Are there any way I can balance out those sounds? So all the sounds are all even. I have Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator. Rob
Re: [newbie] 6202
what us a 6202? -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496 On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jose Pablo Orozco Marin wrote: How can i configure my vdeo card if is sis 6202, my monitor is techmedia 14. Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Ulysses-3 iso
I'm able to dl them from rpmfind you may want to stop loging in as root. Someone might be tempted to play a joke on you. ;) root wrote: anyone got another mirror of ulysses-3 iso's -- If you have to ask you can't afford it. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver
What are you talking about?! MD 7.1 Supports Geforce 2 and 1 cards right during install. You can allways upgrade to 4.1.0 if you want.. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Hignight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Dominus Paparum wrote: quick question before I install LM, does it come with drivers for the geforce2? i can download them from nvidia how do i install these drivers? the file extention is .rpm what do i do with it? Get Email, News, Links and The Best Selection at http://AnimeNation.com Dominus, First, do us all a favor and set your email client to wrap outgoing messages at 72 characters or less. Thanks. If your new to Linux and not comfortable working from a command line then forget about it for right now. I don't think any distro currently has support for Nvidia "built in". That may have already changed with the release Red Hat 7 though. I'm sure Mandrake 7.2 will also support Nvidia cards out of the box. If you still feel up for a project here is what I did in a nutshell to get my Gforce working. A. Your gonna have to upgrade to XFree4.01 .5 Almost forgot ... mv /etx/X11 and /usr/X11 to /etc/X11-old and /usr/X11-old 1. goto www.xfree86.org and download Xinstall.sh and extract 2. take a look at the readme files while your there 3. run 'sh Xinstall.sh' then download the correct binaries 4. install the binaries 5. run /usr/X11/bin/xf86config ... be sure to have your monitor manual handy B. Install the Nvidia drivers 1. Install the both rpm's ... no sweat here. I had to --nodeps one of them. C. Tweak XF86Config 1. Refer to the faq at Nvidia under linux drivers 2. I recall having to uncomment the glx line under modules 3. Had to change the driver from nv to nvidia voila ... your done for now. I'm just leaving my machine on inittab 3 for now. Whenever I want to play a game I simply 'startx' and run the game from inside of twm which seems to be more stable then before I had a Nvidia card. Incedently, I'm also getting fairly significantly higher frame rates under this setting then under WinME. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
Re: [newbie] Ulysses-3 iso
shouldnt be listed as root it is not in my preferences Salane Larry Hignight wrote: I'm able to dl them from rpmfind you may want to stop loging in as root. Someone might be tempted to play a joke on you. ;) root wrote: anyone got another mirror of ulysses-3 iso's -- If you have to ask you can't afford it. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 -- If you have to ask you can't afford it.
Re: [newbie] Sounds Uneven.
Robin Regennitter wrote: Hi Everybody, The sounds are pretty uneven on my system.as it been like this for awhile. all the KDE system sounds goes loud and profound while all the other wave sounds sounded so muted. but if I turn the volume up. The KDE sounds blasted way through and the other sounds are noticeable. Are there any way I can balance out those sounds? So all the sounds are all even. I have Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator. Rob Robthere's an icon on your panel that consists of a gray box a blue speaker (it's usually referred to as the mixer). Click that icon and set the different sound sources to your liking. Alan
Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver
MarkO, Well that's kind of funny. Because if you go to the supported hardware section of the linux-mandrake web site there is a link to instructions that are awfully similar to the ones I posted below. But just to be sure. I ran over and checked the Linux Drivers page ... funny thing. Requirement 2.1 says that Nvidia drivers require XFree4.01 to work. Directly above that it says that the Riva and NV1 chips are supported under XFree4.0 ... not Gforce 1 and 2. Which would probably explains some of the threads we get around here about once or twice a month bitching about installing XFree4.01. If you don't believe me go to irc.openprojects.net channel #loki and ask jlundy if nvidia drivers are supported by Mandrake 7.1 he works in the driver dept. at Nvidia so I think he should know. Larry markOpoleO wrote: What are you talking about?! MD 7.1 Supports Geforce 2 and 1 cards right during install. You can allways upgrade to 4.1.0 if you want.. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Hignight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Dominus Paparum wrote: quick question before I install LM, does it come with drivers for the geforce2? i can download them from nvidia how do i install these drivers? the file extention is .rpm what do i do with it? Get Email, News, Links and The Best Selection at http://AnimeNation.com Dominus, First, do us all a favor and set your email client to wrap outgoing messages at 72 characters or less. Thanks. If your new to Linux and not comfortable working from a command line then forget about it for right now. I don't think any distro currently has support for Nvidia "built in". That may have already changed with the release Red Hat 7 though. I'm sure Mandrake 7.2 will also support Nvidia cards out of the box. If you still feel up for a project here is what I did in a nutshell to get my Gforce working. A. Your gonna have to upgrade to XFree4.01 .5 Almost forgot ... mv /etx/X11 and /usr/X11 to /etc/X11-old and /usr/X11-old 1. goto www.xfree86.org and download Xinstall.sh and extract 2. take a look at the readme files while your there 3. run 'sh Xinstall.sh' then download the correct binaries 4. install the binaries 5. run /usr/X11/bin/xf86config ... be sure to have your monitor manual handy B. Install the Nvidia drivers 1. Install the both rpm's ... no sweat here. I had to --nodeps one of them. C. Tweak XF86Config 1. Refer to the faq at Nvidia under linux drivers 2. I recall having to uncomment the glx line under modules 3. Had to change the driver from nv to nvidia voila ... your done for now. I'm just leaving my machine on inittab 3 for now. Whenever I want to play a game I simply 'startx' and run the game from inside of twm which seems to be more stable then before I had a Nvidia card. Incedently, I'm also getting fairly significantly higher frame rates under this setting then under WinME. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00
Re: [newbie] rebooting during install
Glenn Baker wrote: Glenn Baker wrote: Hopefully somebody will be able to give me some pointers here.. I have been trying to install Mandrake 7.0 all day. The problem I have is that during the set-up/install, my PC reboots all on its own, forcing me to start all over. I have looked at literature till I am blue in the face, tried to register for support via www, but the form is not working for me? Anyhow, I have swapped out the DVD ROM for a CD ROM, pulled the jumper on the motherboard to eliminate the on board sound, removed the NIC card, removed the modem. The thing still re-boots on me during install? Need some pointers...the wife thinks she will not see me tonight if I don't have any luck with this install. Pasted below is my earlier post with the sytem specs. Thanks. Glenn New to the list and Linux. I just bought Mandrake 7.0 and am attempting to install, and not having much luck. The problem is that during the install, my PC keeps re-booting. Each time a get a bit further in the process, then it re-boots?? I have formatted my c drive, and have no Windows installed :) below is my system info, if I left out anything critical, please let me know. I am very new to this, so your help is greatly appreciated. Glenn My system: AMD k62 450mhz Bus Type: ISA standard keyboard and mouse Award Bios, ver 4.51pg DVD Toshiba CD Rom ESS Solo Audio Drive Netgear 310TX Fast Ethernet card SIS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller IRQ Holder for PCI Steering SIS 5513 Dual PCI IDE controller SIS 530 chip set I'm not really sure what could be doing this, but you might want to make sure the PNP OS and virus detection are set at no or off in the Motherboard Bios. You might also try a search in the newbie archives. They are on the mail list page of Linux-Mandrake website. Any one with better ideas just jump right in here. Luck, Dennis -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] rebooting during install
Thanks for the reply Dennis. As far as I know, PnP OS is off, as well as virus detection, i have double checked..but ya know how that can be. I did finally get the OS to load.but it still crashes, most often related to a mouse movement. I will do some more research, now that it *may* be mouse related. Any more thoughts would be great. Glenn Dennis Myers wrote: Glenn Baker wrote: Glenn Baker wrote: Hopefully somebody will be able to give me some pointers here.. I have been trying to install Mandrake 7.0 all day. The problem I have is that during the set-up/install, my PC reboots all on its own, forcing me to start all over. I have looked at literature till I am blue in the face, tried to register for support via www, but the form is not working for me? Anyhow, I have swapped out the DVD ROM for a CD ROM, pulled the jumper on the motherboard to eliminate the on board sound, removed the NIC card, removed the modem. The thing still re-boots on me during install? Need some pointers...the wife thinks she will not see me tonight if I don't have any luck with this install. Pasted below is my earlier post with the sytem specs. Thanks. Glenn New to the list and Linux. I just bought Mandrake 7.0 and am attempting to install, and not having much luck. The problem is that during the install, my PC keeps re-booting. Each time a get a bit further in the process, then it re-boots?? I have formatted my c drive, and have no Windows installed :) below is my system info, if I left out anything critical, please let me know. I am very new to this, so your help is greatly appreciated. Glenn My system: AMD k62 450mhz Bus Type: ISA standard keyboard and mouse Award Bios, ver 4.51pg DVD Toshiba CD Rom ESS Solo Audio Drive Netgear 310TX Fast Ethernet card SIS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller IRQ Holder for PCI Steering SIS 5513 Dual PCI IDE controller SIS 530 chip set I'm not really sure what could be doing this, but you might want to make sure the PNP OS and virus detection are set at no or off in the Motherboard Bios. You might also try a search in the newbie archives. They are on the mail list page of Linux-Mandrake website. Any one with better ideas just jump right in here. Luck, Dennis -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842 begin:vcard n:Baker;Glenn tel;pager:360) 428-5568 tel;home:360) 468-3092 tel;work:360) 468-3716 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.naxja.org/ org:North American XJ Association;Board of Directors adr:;;;Lopez;Washington;98261;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:President fn:Glenn Baker end:vcard
Re: [newbie] rebooting during install
Sorry...mouse is a two button ps/2 mouse, no frills, no brand. The video is on board, sis-530, shows it to be supported. It has crashed/rebooted several times now that I finally got it installed, but *at this time* it is stable. Kinda strange, am having a look around the system right now, looks great...but am waiting for it to reboot on it's own :) Glenn Alan Shoemaker wrote: Glenn Baker wrote: Thanks for the reply Dennis. As far as I know, PnP OS is off, as well as virus detection, i have double checked..but ya know how that can be. I did finally get the OS to load.but it still crashes, most often related to a mouse movement. I will do some more research, now that it *may* be mouse related. Any more thoughts would be great. Glenn [snip] Glennin earlier posts you called your mouse 'standard', could you be a bit more specific, like brand, model and interface type. Also you didn't specify your brand and model of video card. Alan begin:vcard n:Baker;Glenn tel;pager:360) 428-5568 tel;home:360) 468-3092 tel;work:360) 468-3716 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.naxja.org/ org:North American XJ Association;Board of Directors adr:;;;Lopez;Washington;98261;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:President fn:Glenn Baker end:vcard
Re: [newbie] rebooting during install
Glenn Baker wrote: Thanks for the reply Dennis. As far as I know, PnP OS is off, as well as virus detection, i have double checked..but ya know how that can be. I did finally get the OS to load.but it still crashes, most often related to a mouse movement. I will do some more research, now that it *may* be mouse related. Any more thoughts would be great. Glenn [snip] Glennin earlier posts you called your mouse 'standard', could you be a bit more specific, like brand, model and interface type. Also you didn't specify your brand and model of video card. Alan
Re: [newbie] rebooting during install
Glenn Baker wrote: Sorry...mouse is a two button ps/2 mouse, no frills, no brand. The video is on board, sis-530, shows it to be supported. It has crashed/rebooted several times now that I finally got it installed, but *at this time* it is stable. Kinda strange, am having a look around the system right now, looks great...but am waiting for it to reboot on it's own :) Glenn [snip] Glennwell if I were in your situation I'd attempt to stabalize things by experimenting with different mouse types in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file. But it would depend on how comfortable you are with doing that sort of thing. Alan
[newbie] rpmdrake (helium) does not add to install list
I have a new Mandrake 7.1 installation. rpmdrake used non-meaningful descriptors for the CD's that it needed in order to install package. I. E. cdrom_1, cdrom_2, cdrom_3, cdrom_4. Like a newbie, I remembered that there were 4 CD's referenced in the initial installation, but, I had no idea what order they were in, so when it asked for cdrom_2, I had no idea which CD it really wanted. Well, like a newbie, I figure, heh, I can fix that, so I deleted the dumb titles and went to re-add the installation CD's into rpmdrake. Well, blat, rpmdrake will not add anything into the menu, so my install list is totally blank. I know it's at least looking at the cd, because it hollers if no CD is in the drive. From looking at the script, it seems to be expecting to look at /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/base for something, and sure enough, the CD's have what appear to be package tree information at that location. So, my question is an either or, I suppose... 1) Is it conceivable that I can restore the original package list, and how might I do that without doing a total reload (yeah, yeah, no, I didn't have a backup somewhere). -or- 2) Is rpmdrake broken? Is there a fix? -or- 3) Might I be doing something wrong. -or- 4) Am I asking the wrong questions? If so, what do I need to know. Thanks, Kevin R. Bulgrien
RE: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux
Answer that and you'll have the meaning to life... Seriously though, there
are several different operating systems out there (I personally use about 3
on average to get things done) pick the ones you like and go after it/them!
I think they're all a blast!
Mike
Why cant microsoft find one path thd stick with it? Why does
outlook express
have to take over three seperate parts of the drive and who knows how much
of the registry.
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 8:17 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux
If you don't mind the lack of formatting, go to c:\windows\application
data\identities\{bunchofnumbersandletters}\microsoft\outlook express\
Find the .dbx file of the box you're looking for (inbox I
assume) and open
it with a text editor - viola! It won't be in mailbox format, but it
works
in a pinch.
Mike
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Malka
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 9:16 AM
To: Linux Newbie Mandrake
Subject: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux
While in transition as I learn Linux, I am still have a load of received
emails in Outlook Express under NT. A number of these are email
responses
to questions I asked about Linux.
Rather than print them all out on paper, is there a way for me to
be able to
read these (already received emails, now on my HD) from within
Linux where I
need to access them to try the various suggestions made?
Thanks.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
[newbie] Problems with Via Sound card 82c686 on 694D(Microstar) and LM 7.1
Hi guys, I have been struggling to get my sound card working with Mandrake 7.1. This sound card is on board and is part of the Southbridge (Via 82c686). This particular chip is reported to be supported. What I believe is the problem is IRQ sharing. This card is sharing IRQs (IRQ 9) with the USB controller. Although there are quite a few IRQs vacant(like IRQ5), I dont know how to move the IRQ from 9 to 5 under Linux. Anyone with any help on this ? This is with stock 2.2.15 SMP kernel. Sometimes with 2.4.0test8 kernel I can get my sound card to work, but just barely. I can listen to Audio CDs. Change the volume using the mixer; but momemt I try to play a RealAudio clip, the sound gets all locked up and the first syllable keeps repeating. I also tried with the latest OSS files, after installing those(what a pain !!! told me Mandrake was not a supported kernel) I could play my audio cds fine but had problems with .ra files again. OSS actually warned me since the card was sharing IRQs there could be problems. So what is the solution here ? Can anyone help ? Anyone with any experience with the Redhat install ? Could you get sound working flawlessly ? I tried with both setting on the motherboard - Soundblaster mode on (part 1) and Soundblaster mode off (part 2). The boot.log messages from Part 1 and 2 are appended below. Any help is highly appreciated ! Thanks Sounak PART 1 === Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems succeeded Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems succeeded Sep 20 18:29:25 xxx rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space succeeded - Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:29:37 xxx mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions succeeded Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx kudzu: succeeded Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o failed Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:29:46 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed -- Sep 20 18:29:47 xxx sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.tcp_timestamp' is an unknown key Sep 20 18:29:47 xxx network: Setting network parameters succeeded == PART 2 === Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx kudzu: succeeded Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o failed Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdksmp/misc/via82cxxx.o: insmod via82cxxx failed Sep 20 18:48:02 xxx sound: Loading sound module (via82cxxx) failed --- Sep 20 18:48:03 xxx sysctl: error: 'net.ipv4.tcp_timestamp' is an unknown key Sep 20 18:48:03 xxx network: Setting network parameters succeeded
[newbie] linux mandrake 6.5
dear sir. we have purchased the above software and when we are trying to intall this programm we are unable to install it we are getting the message 'install exited abnormally received signal 11...whenever we are trying to install after some installation the above message comes. we are installing as server net working system,is it possiblle that the workstation thrugh window 95 and windows 98 if it is possible than let us know a to how it is to set up on server and windows workstation. kindly let us know step by step how to set it up. thanking you verymuch awiting for your reply soon. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] linux mandrake 6.5
Your best bet would be to check the docs or to check online at http://www.linuxmandrake.org for the install guide. The install should be pretty self explanatory. Also you may want to check your hardware to be sure that your devices are compatible, there is a list (I'm pretty sure) of compatible hardware at the site on the above link. Are you installing from a cd? You do realize that this is not a program but an O/S that should be used as the only Operating System on the machine, more so if you are attempting to use it as a server. I can't imagine a dual boot machine using Windows and Linux and operating as a server. One more thing, if you are going to use the box you are installing on as a network server to communicate to Windows machines, you will want to install (and read up and and get real real familiar with) Samba. You can more info on Samba with the users docs and at the following site: http://www.samba.org/ Good Luck! Fritz - Original Message - From: bux m.k [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 10:23 AM Subject: [newbie] linux mandrake 6.5 dear sir. we have purchased the above software and when we are trying to intall this programm we are unable to install it we are getting the message 'install exited abnormally received signal 11...whenever we are trying to install after some installation the above message comes. we are installing as server net working system,is it possiblle that the workstation thrugh window 95 and windows 98 if it is possible than let us know a to how it is to set up on server and windows workstation. kindly let us know step by step how to set it up. thanking you verymuch awiting for your reply soon. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Linux Uninistall HD/Partion Prob.
hi there, i suggest that you format your hard drive to start with. having finished that i would then load windoze (for simplicity) giving it the full 9Gb. once you have 'doze loaded, use 'fips' to shrink the partition to 2 - 4 gb or whatever size you decide on. at this point you can reload linux, setting up the partitions as you do so. for mandrake you need at least a swap partition as well as your root partition but this only a short term requirement. longterm you will need to give some thought to creating (perhaps) /usr and /home partitions. can you get your hands on a copy of partition magic? if you can it will make life much easier for you since you can use it to create both 'doze and linux partitions. whatevere you do, don't panic. you can always wipe your hard-drive and start again. you'll soon get the hang of it. give it a go and if you have any probs. mail me. cheers .. michael
RE: [newbie] Linux Uninistall HD/Partion Prob. use FIPS
A useful utility that comes with most Linux distributions is a DOS utility called FIPS. With this you can break apart a hard drive into several partitions. I used it to partition my existing windows95 hard drive. Basically, first run defrag, then fips. There is a good readme that comes with fips. Rick Bonczek Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael McGibben Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Uninistall HD/Partion Prob. hi there, i suggest that you format your hard drive to start with. having finished that i would then load windoze (for simplicity) giving it the full 9Gb. once you have 'doze loaded, use 'fips' to shrink the partition to 2 - 4 gb or whatever size you decide on. at this point you can reload linux, setting up the partitions as you do so. for mandrake you need at least a swap partition as well as your root partition but this only a short term requirement. longterm you will need to give some thought to creating (perhaps) /usr and /home partitions. can you get your hands on a copy of partition magic? if you can it will make life much easier for you since you can use it to create both 'doze and linux partitions. whatevere you do, don't panic. you can always wipe your hard-drive and start again. you'll soon get the hang of it. give it a go and if you have any probs. mail me. cheers .. michael
