[newbie-it] problemi con il floppy
Ciao a tutti avrei questo problema, se digito '$ cd /mnt/floppy' ottengo questa risposta 'bash: cd: /mnt/floppy/: Errore di input/output Riavviando il sistema funziona. Bruno
Re: [newbie-it] problemi con il floppy
Il lun, 16 ott 2000, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti avrei questo problema, se digito '$ cd /mnt/floppy' ottengo questa risposta 'bash: cd: /mnt/floppy/: Errore di input/output Riavviando il sistema funziona. Spiega meglio il caso, ci dici un po' pochino. Nicola.
Re: [newbie-it] Problemi di navigazione internet
Scusa il ritardo , comunque navigazione tutto ok ora. From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Problemi di navigazione internet Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 11:21:06 +0200 At 08.27 09/10/00 +, loris gava wrote: Salve a tutti. Sono un utente abituale di windows, ho provato ad installare Linux Mandrake e tutto è andato apparentemente a buon fine. Ho configurato il KPPP come da documentazione allegata e lanciandolo riesco a collegarmi però se lancio netscape non riesco a navigare. C'è qualcos'altro da configurare? Ci sono delle operazioni particolari da eseguire in sequenza? Un grazie anticipato a chi cortesemente sa darmi una risposta. _ 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. Hai messo i dns? Se no prova con questi:195.110.96.66 195.110.96.67 Ora funzionerà.:))) Ciao. _ 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-it] Problemi di navigazione internet
Scusa per il ritardo della risposta , comunque navigazione tutto ok ora. From: Fabio Coatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Problemi di navigazione internet Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:41:12 +0200 On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:27:04AM +, loris gava wrote: Salve a tutti. Sono un utente abituale di windows, ho provato ad installare Linux Mandrake e tutto è andato apparentemente a buon fine. Ho configurato il KPPP come da documentazione allegata e lanciandolo riesco a collegarmi però se lancio netscape non riesco a navigare. C'è qualcos'altro da configurare? Ci sono delle operazioni particolari da eseguire in sequenza? Un grazie anticipato a chi cortesemente sa darmi una risposta. Direi che è un problema di dns. Prova a mettere l'indirizzo IP del sito da raggiungere, anzichè il nome. Ad esempio con http://194.243.234.21 dovresti raggiungere il sito del FerraraLUG. Se così funziona ti basta inserire in kppp , nell'apposito campo DNS, l'indirizzo IP del dns del tuo provider, che adesso non ricordo ma che puoi sicuramente scoprire sul sito. Qualcuno sa se in giro c'è una minifaq adatta al kppp di mandrake per la situazione italiana? Se no, qualcuno ha voglia di scriverla? Poi ci penso io a postarla ed a metterla su qualche sito web adatto... -- Fabio Coatti http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova _ 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-it] telnet linux e controlllo remoto....
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:08:58AM +0200, peppesan wrote: Il ven, 13 ott 2000, marco signoretto ha scritto: ho letto su una rivista che è possibilie connettersi a linux da remoto utilizzando telnet da una macchina che monta un qualsiasi sistema operativo. provando da win 2000 a eseguire "telnet indirizzoIp" tuttavia, il comp risponde "connessione rifiutata" (invece di richiedermi la passwd come avrebbe dovuto secondo la rivista). è veramente possibile fare una cosa del genere? se si, come? bisogna attivare qualche demone sulla macchina linux? marco ragazzi quali sono i comandi di samba per controllare se ci sono o meno risorse condivise su un'altr McchinA?.. smbstatus -- Fabio Coatti http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova
Fw: [newbie-it] Upgrade kernel 2.4.0 test 9-patch
Grazie mille Fabio, ho trovato la patch giusta, ma come faccio ad applicarla??? ENx
Re: [newbie-it] Gnome
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, a day in the life, Andrea Gentili wrote: Mi piacerebbe provare ad installare l'interfaccia grafica di Gnome ma ciò si sta rivelando un'impresa (almeno per me). Ho scaricato l'installer dal sito della Helixcode ma, pur seguendo le istruzioni per avviarlo, non riesco a combinare nulla. Il file scaricato è un file compresso (estensione .gz). Le istruzioni dicono di estrarlo con il comando "gunzip installer-latest-intel.gz" , scusa faro' qualche domanda forse un po' stupida ma non mi e' chiaro quello che ti succede il nome del file scaricato e' quello sopra? prova gunzip -d nomefile.gz (dove nomefile.gz e' ovviamente il nome del file che hai scaricato, puoi provare pure col tab e lì'autocompletazione, argh che parola) di renderlo eseguibile con il comando "chmod +x installer-latest-intel" e poi di eseguirlo con il comando "./ installer-latest-intel. Risultato ottenuto: con il primo comando assolutamente nulla, mi dice "file inesistente" con il secondo invece riesco a creare un eseguibile che però non è eseguibile per niente... Qualcuno sa dirmi qualcosa in proposito? ancora piu' stupida, sorry: sei nella directory in cui c'e' il file che vuoi scompattare rendere eseguibile e lanciare vero? scusa se ho detto assurdita', bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/aciderror/freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - www.davidebanda.nelweb.net ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [newbie]
At 02:35 15/10/00, emerhawk wrote: I'm asking for a frend. Is there a dist. for an amega machine. Emerhawk Do you mean Amiga? Start here, http://www.amiga.com - Glen - Design Solution Limited t: +44 (0)1502 513008 f: +44 (0)1502 588622 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.designsolution.co.uk Nouvotech House, Harbour Road, Oulton Broad, Suffolk, NR32 3LZ, UK -
[newbie] modem
hi canyou tell me where I can find any information on which modems will work with linux I have installed at the moment a diamond supraexpress 56i pro v cc pci modem. regards alan
Re: [newbie] ReiserFS or ext2 ?
I have a Compaq Presario 5726 (unfortunately), and ReiserFS have proved to be the ONLY partitioning system that is stable enough, and with enough errorcorrection - systems to make my machine reliable. The problem is that i somehow loses information about where the harddisk locate some of its files, I acually lose directories and parts of files in both DOS - partitions and standard Linux - partitions. ReiserFS have strong enough errorcorrection to cope with the problem! I am deeply impressed, recommend it to everybody concerned about loss of data. Ketil __ Denne eposten er sendt ved hjelp av http://www.Organizer.net - Norges ledende webbaserte kommunikasjonsløsning.
Re: [newbie] MS optical mouse works better in Linux than in NT!
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: My MS Intellimouse gave up on me. Despite a lot cleaning, etc, the buttons were getting stuck and causing me to either have to click more than once to get a click or one click would act as a double click. So with trepidation I bought a MS optical Intellimouse, worried as to whether it would work in Linux. The 2 buttons and the scroll button worked perfectly in Linux with no changes in my configuration, BUT the scroll button did not work in NT untill I installed the "special software". I thought that was really funny. :-)) Does anyone know if the additional side buttons (forward and back on the web) also work in linux? I have not yet tried them as I hurried to share this with the group. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 I also have an optical mouse and linux usually detects it as a ps2 even tho' it is a usb mouse, anyways, the other two buttons do not work in linux, and the scrolling wheel only works in caldera EDesktop 2.4!
Re: [[newbie] modem]
"alan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi canyou tell me where I can find any information on which modems will work with linux I have installed at the moment a diamond supraexpress 56i pro v cc pci modem. regards alan === Alan, Keep in mind that the majority of PCI modems (though certainly NOT all) are software, or winmodems. You can't ever go wrong with a good external. I won't start a mini war by naming brands g but most good externals work just fine. Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] modem
alan wrote: hi canyou tell me where I can find any information on which modems will work with linux I have installed at the moment a diamond supraexpress 56i pro v cc pci modem. regards alan This site lists hardware known to work. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 Most modems which are NOT winmodems will work. To be safest - obtain an external modem. 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.)
Re: [newbie] Toshiba and video woes
Hi Mark, I am a little behind you but maybe I can help. I have a Toshiba Satellite 4090 XDVD notebook with Win2000 and LM 7.0 installed. I also had some problems configuring my video card. My computer has a Trident Cyber 9525 Graphic Adapter which is not available. I chose the closest option (Trident Cyber Generic)... It would fail the test with my prefered resolution of 1024x768 so I chose a lower resolution... which passed the test... After completing the Linux instalation, under the X environment, I went back to Dragconfig and redefined my video card to the proper resolution and it works fine. I have no complains... My advice is to try different resolutions, frequencies, etc. until you arrive to one that passes the test. After finishing the instalation try modifying it later from the X environment to the resolution you want (of course knowing your computer can handle it). I hope this can help you. By the way my Toshiba works fine with Linux, even the winmodem. I found useful guides for installing Linux on a Toshiba Satellite 4090 XDVD at http://hartic.sssup.it/~lamastra/ (could be of help) Best luck, Ricardo At 12:16 PM 15/10/2000 +0100, you wrote: Greetings all I am trying to install 7.1 onto a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 laptop. 6Gb HDD, 64Mb RAM. Everything goes smoothly untill I try to configure the video card. My laptop has a S3 mobilesavage chip which is not listed on the available choices. Using the generic chipset only produces a 640 x 640 display which is far too large for the notebook screen. I rteally need 800 x 600 minimum. Has anyone done a similar installation sucessfully, if so which monitor, chipset and resolution settings were used. Thanks and kind regards Mark Annandale
[newbie] Scanners and Mandrake
How do I get my Mustek 600cp parallel port scanner to work under Mandrake ?? Mike
Re: [newbie] modem
I have a 56 Supermax modem and it is a winmodem :( I think all of the made by diamond are winmodems ;(.. There is a site out there but I think you best bet is to write diamond and ask them if you modem is dependent on the CPU, they don't like people calling their modems winmodems hehe.. Stephen - Original Message - From: alan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:49 AM Subject: [newbie] modem hi canyou tell me where I can find any information on which modems will work with linux I have installed at the moment a diamond supraexpress 56i pro v cc pci modem. regards alan
RE: [newbie] Toshiba and video woes
Dear Ricardo I have a Toshiba satellite 4090 XCDT and finally I have reached to install the Mandrake 7.1. I had no problems to install the 7.0 version, but the 7.1 was more difficult I do not know wy; the way to install is in text mode installation, that means, when the installation CD show you the first screen, you must type F1 and then write text; Mandrake 7.1 recognized the Trident Cyber 9525 and when you restart the computer everything is OK. I had problems with the PCMCIA, but you must go to the Bios SETUP and put the PCMCIA not in Automatic but in the first option. I had not tryied to install the winmodem because a external modem run faster. So, the solution is the installation in text mode; I had the problem of bad installation in graphic mode with the Mandrake 7.1 not only with my laptop, also with other computers and in all cases when linux try to start the X the graphic screen shut down and appears the text linux screen. I have solved the problem in two ways: 1) installation in text mode 2) installation from windows, putting the CD on the CD-ROM driver and it starts automatically and you select complet installation. I hope this help you, now mi laptop works fine with linux Francisco Alcaraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Murcia (Spain)
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Support
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 7:37pm ,rharvey spake passionately in a message: I have called micrsoft and got my free support that comes with the purchase of a new operating system. they helped me on the spot and I had 30 day left to ask for more help. Hmm... :) there's always the exception to the rule.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI
:) holy cow Larry! sounds like some of the shaninigans that goes on down here with my ISP. I wonder if they're related some how? -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:53am ,Larry Marshall spake passionately in a message: When I registered, I had a response within 48 hours. That's not bad considering the hundreds of emails they must receive from around the world. I don't know if any one out there has ever worked in a technical support environment. I'm sure after a few days work, you'd give 'em a little break. This doesn't have anything to do with Linux but I've just got to share. I posted a "what's going on with my DSL link?" with my ISP about 2 weeks ago. I just got a response and it was a canned msg telling me how to get my DSL working. I'm paying a darn site more for "service" from those guys than I am from Mandrake :-) Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] MS optical mouse works better in Linux than in NT!
The scroll wheel works everywhere for me in linux. But I do use imwheel -k and it is attached as a PS/2. As for the 2 additional buttons it should be a matter of finding out what keypresses they send out and entering them in a keybinding somewhere (Netscape, Opera, etc.). Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Julio Gutierrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] MS optical mouse works better in Linux than in NT! On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: My MS Intellimouse gave up on me. Despite a lot cleaning, etc, the buttons were getting stuck and causing me to either have to click more than once to get a click or one click would act as a double click. So with trepidation I bought a MS optical Intellimouse, worried as to whether it would work in Linux. The 2 buttons and the scroll button worked perfectly in Linux with no changes in my configuration, BUT the scroll button did not work in NT untill I installed the "special software". I thought that was really funny. :-)) Does anyone know if the additional side buttons (forward and back on the web) also work in linux? I have not yet tried them as I hurried to share this with the group. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 I also have an optical mouse and linux usually detects it as a ps2 even tho' it is a usb mouse, anyways, the other two buttons do not work in linux, and the scrolling wheel only works in caldera EDesktop 2.4!
[newbie] How to copy a file to a diskette?
The XServer on my brand-new installation of Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 refused to start the first day after it was installed (without error messages), then shut down, and rebooted the next day. At the end of a long list of messages were two lines: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' A note to send in a problem report the full server output located in log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" followed, and I was left at the $ prompt. I would like to copy this file to an MS-DOS diskette so I can include it in such a message. However, the precise instructions for copying to a diskette seem to be beyond the scope of the few references I have here. My system has a 3.5" floppy drive as MS-DOS A:, which I understand can be mounted as /fd0 under Linux. What is the precise command to do this? I found in a book, and used, as root, the command # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 mnt which caused the computer to read the diskette and return to the prompt. I assumed the diskette was mounted at that point, but was it? Can a standard Mandrake installation recognize an MS-DOS formatted diskette, and write a text file to it? Or must some Linux-specific format be applied? And if not a Linux-specific format, must a particular file system be installed on the diskette? I tried to use, without success, the cp and the dd commands to copy that file to the diskette. The system responded that no such directory existed. How does one accomplish these tasks? KM
[newbie] Adding dirs to the path
/etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: 1) Where Mandrake hides the ability to update the path 2) Where this and other differences in Mandrake vs popular Linux how-to books are documented 3) Is it a standard *nix security configuration to not search the current directory? Most annoying for an OS/2, Win32, DOS based person. 4) Where should I set other env vars so I don't have to run *.sh scripts to set / export env vars before running programs I've installed. Thanks! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Modem is busy
I have problem to make my connections to the internet to work using my portable PC. Each time I launch kppp, I have the following message : "Sorry, the modem is busy" What is that ? I've never had any problem with my other computers running Linux, but it's the first time I install Linux on a portable PC, and maybe I made a mistake or/and forget to install something else . These are the infos I've got using Windows : Fujitsu LB Global LTModem Port com2 IRQ9 Address 1010 uart NS 16550AN Max speed : 115k I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and I 've just compiled a new kernel 2.2.17. Thank you for your help. Francois Another thing you can try is irq polling mode - I have to do this for my PCMCIA modem. At the console type setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 0 and see how that works. Works for me... Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path
/etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: You didn't say why you wanted to change the path but I think you're looking in the wrong place. 1) Where Mandrake hides the ability to update the path Who's path? If you want the default user path changed, change /etc/bashrc. If you want to change your user path, make changes to .bashrc in your home directory. 2) Where this and other differences in Mandrake vs popular Linux how-to books are documented I've found that most of what you read in Red Hat books applies to Mandrake as well. They don't cover stuff like DrakConf of course but all the "real" system stuff is there. 3) Is it a standard *nix security configuration to not search the current directory? Most annoying for an OS/2, Win32, DOS based person. grin...I recall an explanation of this at one point but I can't recall it. For my user account, I've got .: as the first entry in my path (in my .bashrc file) 4) Where should I set other env vars so I don't have to run *.sh scripts to set / export env vars before running programs I've installed. Two things here. The path change will cause them to be "available" but if you want to run them as though they are executable, you have to make sure they have their execute bits set. Quite often shell scripts are distributed without this being the case. If you're only going to run it once (like during an install), it might be easier to use "sh install.sh" Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie]
I believe thats Amiga made by Commodore a while ago. I would be interested as well, as I have an old one in my garage! Carlton J Doc Dodd -Original Message- From: emerhawk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 3:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] I'm asking for a frend. Is there a dist. for an amega machine. Emerhawk
RE: [newbie] where's the iostream library?
If you have access to news groups you really probably ought to ask programming related questions in comp.os.unix.programmer, you'll probably get much quicker and more correct responses. If you have missing pieces of the development library, it's not like you can just drop in a header file and get things to work. Also, if you are missing a file or two, chances are your development files are severly hosed and you'll find that a lot more then just one or two files are missing. FYI, iostream is part of the C++ library, and fstream.h is part of the C library. I'm surprised that when doing an installation there that the developer type is a choice, it would seem that Mandrake would force you to get this regardless of what kind of installation you get because, eventually, if you are downloading software for you system you'll have to compile something sooner or later. -Original Message- From: Tyler Longren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:08 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] where's the iostream library? Hi everybody, I need iostream to compile jags (smbclient frontend), but it can't be found on my system. Actually, I need fstream.h, and I think that's part of iostream. Can anybody help me find it? Thanks! Tyler Longren
Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path
3) Is it a standard *nix security configuration to not search the current directory? Most annoying for an OS/2, Win32, DOS based person. grin...I recall an explanation of this at one point but I can't recall There's an answer to this in the comp.unix.questions faq. The example they give is that in a publicly available directory like /tmp, there *might* be an executable named "ls". If the current directory is in your path you would execute that, with unexpected results. Paranoia, unless your sysop on a large system with many playful lusers. See item 2.13 in http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/unix-faq/faq/part2.html for further details. Be sure to read http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/sysadmin-recovery.html as well. We're all sysops now, at least for ourselves. What are you using as your LART? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Samba Network
I normally have my samba network configured as a workgroup I was thinking of switching it over to a domain server possible dhcp server. I was just wondering what it entails to do this chore. Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered User #190770 (10/02/2000) Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com
Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux
In a message dated 10/14/2000 9:19:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All: I think my Master Boot Record is corrupt. My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I have to take it in too shop and get a low level format? I can create an extended file, but cannot load anything into it. snip First, take comfort in the fact that Fujitsu drives have a reputation for being good drives. They are more common in network settings used in SCSI configuration [performance reliability]. In these days of IDE and EIDE drives there is very seldom any need to low level format a drive. It's seldom necessary to even high level (re)format a hard drive (because of bad sectory or whatever) these days (which is much more likely than needing low leveling). DO NOT low level that drive. Do not high level format (the regular "format") that drive, especially before everything is fully backed up! BACK UP EVERYTHING ON THE DRIVE NOW, as any change in configuration may render what you can see now invisible in the new configuration. [Yes, you can go back, and the data will be there as long as you have not written to the drive in any way, but booting can be enough to cause problems with lost data.] Anything you do (like formatting or installing--any writing to the drive) may distroy your data existing in another configuration on the drive! Only one configuration is in use at any one time but they all exist in the same physical space, so any writing done in one can distroy something that you may have put on the drive when another configuration was active. [If you had SCSI you wouldn't be reporting a problem with not seeing the full drive capacity, so this discussion focuses on IDE type drives.] Is this drive connected to an older motherboard? Full drive capacity not seen is usually a motherboard limitation. This is where shim programs come in [avoid these "disc managers" if at all possible]. Flash upgrades of the motherboard bios usually fix problems not expand capability. Buying new bios chips for the motherboard isn't too practical to do. I am wondering about a bad address line (read: wire) in your controller to drive cable and other physical problems with the drive installation (assuming this drive is new to this motherboard), but this is not likely the cause of you not seeing the full drive capacity. Has the full capacity of this drive ever been seen [a previous install?] ? Has this motherboard ever seen more than 2GB of drive capacity? Is the drive new, and/or is this a new installation of this drive with this motherboard? What does CMOS (motherboard bios) show for the drive capacity. Do you know how to get in, and more importantly how to get out of the CMOS without changing anything? If CMOS has an "auto" hard drive configuration setting it's generally best to use that rather than specify the Cylinder-Heads-Sectors of the drive in the CMOS. Sometimes having a hard CHS configuration set on the first page creates a problem but "auto" works fine. This is the case with the FIC motherboard I'm currently using. That could be enough to create your problem. Set hard drive "mode" to "auto" also [a separate setting]! This could likely be the problem. After checking that the general information page drive configuration is "auto", open any CMOS page about "detect hard drive" you might have and run it to check what the CMOS can actually see. Do not be surprised if you get a list of three configurations for a drive. The question is: "Does one of them show the entire capacity of the drive?" Exit this CMOS page, without selecting anything if you can, and DO then go back and doublecheck (likely needing to reset) the first page configuration is still auto (it will usually get values plugged in when you use the detect function). Remember to reset "mode" to "auto" also![see other things I've written about CMOS for background about how to get in, get out without saving (BEWARE THIS IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE), etc.] Sorry if this has been too general, but CMOS vary widely and it's difficult to be specific. -Gary-
[newbie] sound cards
Hi all- Question, if I uninstall the drivers and sound card from windows and then boot up linux and do a clean install do you think that the sound card will work ? Everytime I use drakX it tells me the sound card has already been configured. So I figure what do I have to lose except about a half and hour. System specs- Gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pent.3 500 mhz sb live sound card and svga video card. Thank you, Chronos.
RE: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux
I have a program that I can send you called Efdisk. It is awesome and you will be able to use to create real linux partitions. If you want, I can send it to you off-list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux In a message dated 10/14/2000 9:19:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All: I think my Master Boot Record is corrupt. My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I have to take it in too shop and get a low level format? I can create an extended file, but cannot load anything into it. snip First, take comfort in the fact that Fujitsu drives have a reputation for being good drives. They are more common in network settings used in SCSI configuration [performance reliability]. In these days of IDE and EIDE drives there is very seldom any need to low level format a drive. It's seldom necessary to even high level (re)format a hard drive (because of bad sectory or whatever) these days (which is much more likely than needing low leveling). DO NOT low level that drive. Do not high level format (the regular "format") that drive, especially before everything is fully backed up! BACK UP EVERYTHING ON THE DRIVE NOW, as any change in configuration may render what you can see now invisible in the new configuration. [Yes, you can go back, and the data will be there as long as you have not written to the drive in any way, but booting can be enough to cause problems with lost data.] Anything you do (like formatting or installing--any writing to the drive) may distroy your data existing in another configuration on the drive! Only one configuration is in use at any one time but they all exist in the same physical space, so any writing done in one can distroy something that you may have put on the drive when another configuration was active. [If you had SCSI you wouldn't be reporting a problem with not seeing the full drive capacity, so this discussion focuses on IDE type drives.] Is this drive connected to an older motherboard? Full drive capacity not seen is usually a motherboard limitation. This is where shim programs come in [avoid these "disc managers" if at all possible]. Flash upgrades of the motherboard bios usually fix problems not expand capability. Buying new bios chips for the motherboard isn't too practical to do. I am wondering about a bad address line (read: wire) in your controller to drive cable and other physical problems with the drive installation (assuming this drive is new to this motherboard), but this is not likely the cause of you not seeing the full drive capacity. Has the full capacity of this drive ever been seen [a previous install?] ? Has this motherboard ever seen more than 2GB of drive capacity? Is the drive new, and/or is this a new installation of this drive with this motherboard? What does CMOS (motherboard bios) show for the drive capacity. Do you know how to get in, and more importantly how to get out of the CMOS without changing anything? If CMOS has an "auto" hard drive configuration setting it's generally best to use that rather than specify the Cylinder-Heads-Sectors of the drive in the CMOS. Sometimes having a hard CHS configuration set on the first page creates a problem but "auto" works fine. This is the case with the FIC motherboard I'm currently using. That could be enough to create your problem. Set hard drive "mode" to "auto" also [a separate setting]! This could likely be the problem. After checking that the general information page drive configuration is "auto", open any CMOS page about "detect hard drive" you might have and run it to check what the CMOS can actually see. Do not be surprised if you get a list of three configurations for a drive. The question is: "Does one of them show the entire capacity of the drive?" Exit this CMOS page, without selecting anything if you can, and DO then go back and doublecheck (likely needing to reset) the first page configuration is still auto (it will usually get values plugged in when you use the detect function). Remember to reset "mode" to "auto" also![see other things I've written about CMOS for background about how to get in, get out without saving (BEWARE THIS IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE), etc.] Sorry if this has been too general, but CMOS vary widely and it's difficult to be specific. -Gary-
[newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall
Hoping for some help here: I previously had the following setup within my network at my residence. 1 Linux box w/ 2 NIC cards. 1 connected to the DSL modem, and 1 to a HUB where other computers throughout the house are connected. I configured NIC 1 for the IP address given to me by my DSL provider, and configured the other NIC for the private network IP range 196.168.x.x. Next I configured IP Forwarding and Masquerading, and alas had everything set up and working perfectly. Some online games won't allow duplicate IP addresses to be seen on the game server, and as all computers within my private net were sharing the 1 IP address provided by the DSL provider, only one computer at a time to could be gaming. I've recently acquired a different DSL package, which gives me 5 static IP address, so I should be able to configure my network as I hoped. Obviously, I could have just put all computers, and the DSL modem on my HUB and life would be good from a gaming perspective, however, I would very much like to have a firewall installed that helps protect against intruders. Under this scenario, I'd have to install a firewall on each PC to gain some protection...what a hassle. What I'd like to do is configure my Linux box like I had before, but replace the Private network with additional IP's that I gained. I tried setting this up, but fell short after realizing that Linux acting as a router can't route unless there are two different networks (IP sets) to route between. Since all my machines IP's belong to the same network (IP set), I can't "route" per se. What I came across were some HOWTO's on bridging+firewall. Essentially the bridge creates a virtual NIC that binds the two together, and I place the firewall (IPchains) on this virtual NIC. I configured it, set it up, and appear to be accomplishing my goal. The firewall stuff is working on every machine, and of course gaming is now a reality. In summary, my question is this. Is this the best/only approach I can take in setting up my environment? Is there a way to accomplish this by setting up my own route tables? The reason I ask is because when everything is "idle" on my network, I see blips on the DSL modem about every 3 seconds or so. I've narrowed it down to the bridge stuff, as I can bring the bridge down, and the blipping stops. I don't know what is happening, and I don't believe that the bridge is impacting performance much, still I don't know, so I thought I'd pose the question to the experts out there. Thanks in advance, Mark Wignall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] How to copy a file to a diskette?]
Kenneth Marcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The XServer on my brand-new installation of Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 refused to start the first day after it was installed (without error messages), then shut down, and rebooted the next day. At the end of a long list of messages were two lines: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' A note to send in a problem report the full server output located in log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" followed, and I was left at the $ prompt. I would like to copy this file to an MS-DOS diskette so I can include it in such a message. However, the precise instructions for copying to a diskette seem to be beyond the scope of the few references I have here. My system has a 3.5" floppy drive as MS-DOS A:, which I understand can be mounted as /fd0 under Linux. What is the precise command to do this? I found in a book, and used, as root, the command # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 mnt which caused the computer to read the diskette and return to the prompt. I assumed the diskette was mounted at that point, but was it? Can a standard Mandrake installation recognize an MS-DOS formatted diskette, and write a text file to it? Or must some Linux-specific format be applied? And if not a Linux-specific format, must a particular file system be installed on the diskette? = M$-DO$ format is fine. In fact it's usually recommended since it's applicable to other O$. === I tried to use, without success, the cp and the dd commands to copy that file to the diskette. The system responded that no such directory existed. How does one accomplish these tasks? KM = Do you have a mount point in /etc/fstab ? Something like /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos sync,user,no auto,nosuid, 0 0 (or something similar) Do you have a directory for a mount point? /mnt/floppy Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [[newbie] wp8]
Yes, I have buttons like this. I thought it was intentional (free version and all). Haven't had any time to work with it. I'm interested in solutions others have. -Gary- In a message dated 10/14/2000 6:27:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have this problem? The buttons for word perfect, the linux version, will not show up. They are there, you can click on them, but the all look like a garbled mess. Any help would be appriciated. ~Lance
Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall
"Wignall, Mark T" wrote: In summary, my question is this. Is this the best/only approach I can take in setting up my environment? Is there a way to accomplish this by setting up my own route tables? The reason I ask is because when everything is "idle" on my network, I see blips on the DSL modem about every 3 seconds or so. I've narrowed it down to the bridge stuff, as I can bring the bridge down, and the blipping stops. I don't know what is happening, and I don't believe that the bridge is impacting performance much, still I don't know, so I thought I'd pose the question to the experts out there. Thanks in advance, Mark Wignall [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am by no means an expert with routing, firewalls, etal. However have you considered the Linux Router Project (LRP)? I think it can do what you want from the gaming aspect plus a lot more. Its compact in size (the whole thing will fit on one floppy disk), will run on a 486 on up and a lot more. A good place to start is: http://lrp.c0wz.com/ Since you now have static IPs, my guess, it should be easy.
[newbie] password for Netscape mail?
Dear Anyone, It has been a long haul and I am finally on cable internet with linux mandrake! One person in this newbie group helped me so much privately to get this going and I certainly appreciate it. I am in a hurry right now, but I will send info about the steps I had to take to get my SMC EZ ISA plug and play recognized and then finally actually on the net using Nestscape I have one problem, yet. My mail. I can send it out but when I tried to get my new mail Netscape asked for a password and I never supplied one for that and I do not know how to supply the password to retrieve my email. I used my passwords for my machine but they were not accepted. I am sure this has to be simple. If anyone knows the answer I will appreciate the help. Sincerely, Marcia YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
[newbie] LILO hangs
I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system. I've reformatted my second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then hangs with just the first two letters LI on the screen. How can I remove whatever is causing LILO to start? Thank you for any help you can give. Joe Bourque
RE: [newbie] LILO hangs
Boot with a DOS FLoppy and perform fdisk /mbr this will remove LILO -Original Message-From: Joseph Bourque [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:32 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] LILO hangs I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system. I've reformatted my second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then hangs with just the first two letters LI on the screen. How can I remove whatever is causing LILO to start? Thank you for any help you can give. Joe Bourque
[newbie] still having trouble booting
I have changed the partitions as suggested but am still having problems, once I select linux from grub I get the following message and nothing happens: Booting Linux Internal (hd0, 4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 hdd=ide-scsi [linux-bzImage, setup=0xe00, size=0xa4530 this is what partition info shows my partitions as: Partition Information for Disk 1:29180.6 Megabytes Volume PartTypeStatusSize MBPartSect # StartSect TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects === C:MAIN FAT32 Pri,Boot 5020.3 0 0 63 10,281,537 4,153,586 6,127,951 ExtendedPri 24160.3 0 1 10,281,600 49,480,200 49,480,200 0 EPBRLog 23.5None -- 10,281,600 48,195 48,195 0 Linux Ext2 Log 23.510281600 0 10,281,663 48,132 3,536 44,596 EPBRLog 258.953641035 1 10,329,795 530,145 530,145 0 *:SWAPSPACE2 Linux Swap Log 258.810329795 0 10,329,858 530,082 8 530,074 EPBRLog5028.210329795 1 10,859,940 10,297,665 10,297,665 0 Linux Ext2 Log5028.110859940 0 10,860,003 10,297,602 2,613,970 7,683,632 EPBRLog 855.010859940 1 21,157,605 1,751,085 1,751,085 0 Linux Ext2 Log 855.021157605 0 21,157,668 1,751,022 29,718 1,721,304 EPBRLog 15006.010281600 1 22,908,690 30,732,345 30,732,345 0 D:GAMESFAT32 Log 15006.022908690 0 22,908,753 30,732,282 26,217,326 4,514,956 EPBRLog2988.722908690 1 53,641,035 6,120,765 6,120,765 0 E:STUFFFAT32 Log2988.653641035 0 53,641,098 6,120,702 3,295,506 2,825,196 basically I have a windows c: then /boot, /swap, /, /home, win d, win e I would really appreciate any help. Alex Hopson
Re: [newbie] LILO hangs
I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system. I've reformatted my second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then hangs with just the first two letters LI on the screen. How can I remove whatever is causing LILO to start? fdisk /mbr
[newbie] Napster rpm?
Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with understanding tar yet. Thank you, Marcia YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] sound cards
I don't see how drivers and/or devices installed in Windows will have any affect on a Linux install - changes to the bios will have an affect, but I don't think software installed in Windows will affect anything. Maybe someone else knows differently - or give it a try anyway, since I guess the other possible suggested fixes for your sound card didn't work. good luck, philomena At 09:49 AM 10/16/2000 -0700, you wrote: Hi all- Question, if I uninstall the drivers and sound card from windows and then boot up linux and do a clean install do you think that the sound card will work ? Everytime I use drakX it tells me the sound card has already been configured. So I figure what do I have to lose except about a half and hour. System specs- Gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pent.3 500 mhz sb live sound card and svga video card. Thank you, Chronos.
[newbie] Configuring an Ehternet Adapter
Hi! I am a brand new Mandrake user and appreciate very much the initiative of a list supporting dummies like me! I have a Network card (PCI) provided by Road Runner, an american cable services provider. They do not support Linux users. I feel like I am close to the goal of making this card work, but it still doesn't. OK, I stop chatting, here are the details: *My card has been detected at boot time. It said it was a "Davicom ethernet 100/10 Mbit DM9102". I used the configure option. It added -as one could expect- the line "alias eth0 dmfe" in conf.modules. I know it is the right driver as it was the one which was provided with the card. *There is no IRQ conflict. *The card is detected by the BIOS at boot time, before loading Linux. It gives the right device ID and IRQ. *In the KDE Control Center, section PCI, I can also read the card specifications with the right device ID, IRQ and io address. BUT LINUX STILL DOESN'T DETECT IT AT BOOT TIME, AND THE DRIVER IS NOT LOADED. Hence I cannot read any "eht0..." line when I use "dmesg". I receive no error message or "FAILED". *If I do "lsmod", my module (dmfe) does not appear. *In the IO section of KDE Control Center, "eth0" does not appear. *Then if I do "insmod dmfe" or "modprobe dmfe", things are better as I can see "dmfe (unused)" in "lsmod" and "eth0" in the IO section. But "eth0" does not appear in the IRQ section of te KDE Control Center. I guess I gave all the details I could.I've read about a 100 times the Ethernet Howto. I learned a lot and went further thanks to it but it is not able to help me any more. I've spent almost two weeks on that problem and still don't want to give up! But it is hard as without the Internet, I cannot reach the computer autarky!!! Still have to use the University computers, running Windows 95... I thank very very much the Linux guru who will help me! See you! Nicolas
RE: [newbie] LILO hangs
Boot from your windows startup floppy and then at the A: prompt, type SYSTEM. this will overwrite the MBR on your hard disk, by transferring the system files from the floppy to hard disk. This is NOT like formatting your hard drive, so all your files will be intact. Mark Wignall -Original Message-From: Joseph Bourque [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 10:32 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] LILO hangs I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system. I've reformatted my second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then hangs with just the first two letters LI on the screen. How can I remove whatever is causing LILO to start? Thank you for any help you can give. Joe Bourque
Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?
Marcia L Waller escribió: Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with understanding tar yet. Go to rpmfind.net and key in gnapster 8-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
Re: [newbie] password for Netscape mail?
What's the advantage of using fetchmail and sendmail? -- On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:43:04 ZZ wrote: Marcia L Waller wrote: Dear Anyone, It has been a long haul and I am finally on cable internet with linux mandrake! Great!! I am still on a dilaup 28.8:P the net using Nestscape I have one problem, yet. My mail. I can send it out but when I tried to get my new mail Netscape asked for a password and I never supplied one for that and I do not know how to supply the password to retrieve my email. I used my passwords for my machine but I am not very sure about this, but do you have the default X colour depth set to 24 bpp? If yes, try changing it to 32 or 16 bpp and then seeif Netscape accepts your passwordBTW, you should really be using fetchmail to get the mails from the server mailboxen... Rgds Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com
Re: [newbie] linux isp
In a message dated 15-Oct-00 23:31:16 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seriously - look around your local area - ask your colleagues It should not matter whether the ISP is "Linux Friendly" data is data is data and that is all you exchange with the ISP some isps want specific data such as windows aps that run on the system
Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?
Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with understanding tar yet. Thank you, Marcia I use knapster occasionally and it works well. I think it comes as a zipped tar file but rather than source it's distributed as binary files. What that means is that if you simply execute tar xvzf knapster.gtz it will stick the executable, man page, and even a knapster icon into the proper directory. Proper in this case is /usr/local/kde/bin so the easiest thing to do is create an icon that will execute /usr/local/kde/bin/knapster. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] sound cards
I don't see how drivers and/or devices installed in Windows will have any affect on a Linux install - changes to the bios will have an affect, but I don't think software installed in Windows will affect anything. Maybe someone else knows differently - or give it a try anyway, since I guess the other possible suggested fixes for your sound card didn't work. good luck, While Windows has taken "unpredictable" to a new high, it's none of the Windows software drivers are even loaded when Linux is running so you're right; their residence on a hard drive won't affect anything. You're also right that changing the BIOS will affect Linux. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] sound cards
In a message dated 16-Oct-00 15:22:58 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While Windows has taken "unpredictable" to a new high, it's none of the Windows software drivers are even loaded when Linux is running so you're right; their residence on a hard drive won't affect anything. You're also right that changing the BIOS will affect Linux. this maybe true, however you can get info using the inf file found in windows about a peice of hardware that the hardware sometimes wont tell you. This is the case with pci cards sure linux detects its there but doesnt allways detect what it is, or who made it. So using windows to find a known driver or using key things like serial or model numbers you can sort through the text of many inf files and can find the maker, the exact type of device it may be, and from there you can find the companys site to see if they make linux based drivers or provide info on how to set up bios settings to better support the device in linux.
Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:41:44 +0200, you wrote: Marcia L Waller escribió: Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with understanding tar yet. Go to rpmfind.net and key in gnapster 8-) Or go to http://knapster.netpedia.net/index.html ... They have RPM files for both RedHat and Mandrake for Knapster... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] sound cards
yes, you can get lots of information that way and it can be very helpful with debugging - I used that to help fix my own SBLive! problems - but the original question (not from me) was about problems configuring an SBLive ! card in 7.0 , and someone asking that if the Win driver's were uninstalled, and he reinstalled mandrake from scratch, might that solve his problem - my answer to that was no. philomena At 04:32 PM 10/16/2000 -0400, you wrote: In a message dated 16-Oct-00 15:22:58 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While Windows has taken "unpredictable" to a new high, it's none of the Windows software drivers are even loaded when Linux is running so you're right; their residence on a hard drive won't affect anything. You're also right that changing the BIOS will affect Linux. this maybe true, however you can get info using the inf file found in windows about a peice of hardware that the hardware sometimes wont tell you. This is the case with pci cards sure linux detects its there but doesnt allways detect what it is, or who made it. So using windows to find a known driver or using key things like serial or model numbers you can sort through the text of many inf files and can find the maker, the exact type of device it may be, and from there you can find the companys site to see if they make linux based drivers or provide info on how to set up bios settings to better support the device in linux.
Re: [newbie] modem
alan wrote: hi canyou tell me where I can find any information on which modems will work with linux I have installed at the moment a diamond supraexpress 56i pro v cc pci modem. regards alan Hi, I have a "Best Data" internal modem on one machine and a "Best Data 56SX" external on another machine. They both were detected and once set up in KPPP worked like a charm. I highly recommend them and have seen benchmarking that shows they are as good as they come. Just my opinion for what it is worth. -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?
look on rpmfind.net for knapster gnapster one of those should work for yah :o] - Original Message - From: "Marcia L Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 4:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Napster rpm? Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with understanding tar yet. Thank you, Marcia YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:10:01 -0400 (EDT), Larry Marshall wrote: /etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: You didn't say why you wanted to change the path but I think you're looking in the wrong place. Well, Red Hat 6 Unleashed pointed me in that direction. Thus why I asked Q #2 below. 1) Where Mandrake hides the ability to update the path Who's path? If you want the default user path changed, change /etc/bashrc. If you want to change your user path, make changes to .bashrc in your home directory. I'd like to updated what in the Win2K world would be the system's path so that all users get updated. I am installing the Object Rexx language which I will want to be active for all users. 4) Where should I set other env vars so I don't have to run *.sh scripts to set / export env vars before running programs I've installed. Two things here. The path change will cause them to be "available" but if you want to run them as though they are executable, you have to make sure they have their execute bits set. Quite often shell scripts are distributed without this being the case. If you're only going to run it once (like during an install), it might be easier to use "sh install.sh" IBM provides a script to modify the env vars, run export on those vars, and you are all set until you logoff. I would like to modify all of those vars at a system level. IBM must have set the execute bit as I have no problem running the file. Thanks! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
[newbie] Can't log in to root account
Hello Linux gods, Mandrake Linux 7.0 I made the mistake of running Bastille Linux 1.1.0 on my machine. Anyway, ever since I rebooted I can no longer login to the root account. Does anyone know a way around this ? Without root access I can't do anything. There may be a "uninstall/undo" in /root/Bastille/ , but I can't even get into that directory. Please help. How can I reset a root password without root access ? Duke Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Samba Network
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:56:13 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: domain server possible dhcp server. I was not aware that Samba could emulate an NT Domain Controller. Doesn't it act as an additional server in the domain? Adding DHCP would be separate from changing the workgroup/domain configuration, yes? DHCP is quite easy to configure if you have only one subnet to address. I usually allocate a portion of the addresses for DHCP and some for static IP for printers, servers, etc... Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
Re: [newbie] Re: FW: How can I install LM 7.0 to laptop?
Hi -- Mandrake 7.0 runs on a laptop -- I regularly use it on my Toshiba satellite. But I have discovered that it does not like to run on less than 64 mb memory. Others on this list have suggested that this isn't so, but I have had several bad experiences where 6.1 would run but 7.0 would not. Also, a 700 MB hard drive is a bit light. It would probably load, but you wouldn't have any room to do anything. pete On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:54:07 -0600, Carlton Dodd wrote: (Second sending, Hoping to catch someone's attention who's done this) Anyone have any work-arounds to install LM 7.0 on a laptop? I have an old Texas Instruments P75 laptop with 40MB RAM and a 700MB HDD. I have two questions: 1. Is this laptop sufficient for running Linux? With a GUI? I will devote the system completely to Linux if I need to, but I'd love to be able to run a dual-boot if there's enough space so I can learn that as well. 2. How do I actually install from the CD? Unfortunately, I cannot simply boot from the CD like you can on newer machines. The install instructions say to just make a boot floppy and then install from the CD, but my laptop only allows me to install one drive (CD or Floppy) at a time. And I have to shut off the machine in between. Can I make a floppy that will install enough so I can shut down, swap to the CD drive, and go from there? Thanks for any help you can give, Carlton YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax: [216] 523-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?
Hi all, There is a RPM version of Knapster (Napster for the KDE) at the Mandrake Cooker sites, any mirror should do. It would be listed under contributions. That's where I get most of my application from. Rob - Original Message - From: "Roger Sherman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Napster rpm? On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:41:44 +0200, you wrote: Marcia L Waller escribió: Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with understanding tar yet. Go to rpmfind.net and key in gnapster 8-) Or go to http://knapster.netpedia.net/index.html ... They have RPM files for both RedHat and Mandrake for Knapster... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] Configuring an Ehternet Adapter
Check, in linuxconf, to see whether device eth0 is set as "enable at boot". --Greg - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I am a brand new Mandrake user and appreciate very much the initiative of a list supporting dummies like me! I have a Network card (PCI) provided by Road Runner, an american cable services provider. They do not support Linux users. I feel like I am close to the goal of making this card work, but it still doesn't. OK, I stop chatting, here are the details: *My card has been detected at boot time. It said it was a "Davicom ethernet 100/10 Mbit DM9102". I used the configure option. It added -as one could expect- the line "alias eth0 dmfe" in conf.modules. I know it is the right driver as it was the one which was provided with the card. *There is no IRQ conflict. *The card is detected by the BIOS at boot time, before loading Linux. It gives the right device ID and IRQ. *In the KDE Control Center, section PCI, I can also read the card specifications with the right device ID, IRQ and io address. BUT LINUX STILL DOESN'T DETECT IT AT BOOT TIME, AND THE DRIVER IS NOT LOADED. Hence I cannot read any "eht0..." line when I use "dmesg". I receive no error message or "FAILED". *If I do "lsmod", my module (dmfe) does not appear. *In the IO section of KDE Control Center, "eth0" does not appear. *Then if I do "insmod dmfe" or "modprobe dmfe", things are better as I can see "dmfe (unused)" in "lsmod" and "eth0" in the IO section. But "eth0" does not appear in the IRQ section of te KDE Control Center. I guess I gave all the details I could.I've read about a 100 times the Ethernet Howto. I learned a lot and went further thanks to it but it is not able to help me any more. I've spent almost two weeks on that problem and still don't want to give up! But it is hard as without the Internet, I cannot reach the computer autarky!!! Still have to use the University computers, running Windows 95... I thank very very much the Linux guru who will help me! See you! Nicolas __ 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] copying music cd onto hard drive
Is it possible to copy music cd's onto the hard drive that you can then play back without having to load the cd in the cdrom. Sure...grip comes with LM. This will take tracks off your CD by calling cdparanoia (also comes with LM) . It will then hand the result to some program (I downloaded bladeenc) which makes an .mp3 that's compatible with XMMS. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Configuring an Ehternet Adapter
netcfg might be a little easier to use if you have it. It's very straightforward. All it does is handle network stuff. :) *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Greg Stewart wrote: Check, in linuxconf, to see whether device eth0 is set as "enable at boot". --Greg - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I am a brand new Mandrake user and appreciate very much the initiative of a list supporting dummies like me! I have a Network card (PCI) provided by Road Runner, an american cable services provider. They do not support Linux users. I feel like I am close to the goal of making this card work, but it still doesn't. OK, I stop chatting, here are the details: *My card has been detected at boot time. It said it was a "Davicom ethernet 100/10 Mbit DM9102". I used the configure option. It added -as one could expect- the line "alias eth0 dmfe" in conf.modules. I know it is the right driver as it was the one which was provided with the card. *There is no IRQ conflict. *The card is detected by the BIOS at boot time, before loading Linux. It gives the right device ID and IRQ. *In the KDE Control Center, section PCI, I can also read the card specifications with the right device ID, IRQ and io address. BUT LINUX STILL DOESN'T DETECT IT AT BOOT TIME, AND THE DRIVER IS NOT LOADED. Hence I cannot read any "eht0..." line when I use "dmesg". I receive no error message or "FAILED". *If I do "lsmod", my module (dmfe) does not appear. *In the IO section of KDE Control Center, "eth0" does not appear. *Then if I do "insmod dmfe" or "modprobe dmfe", things are better as I can see "dmfe (unused)" in "lsmod" and "eth0" in the IO section. But "eth0" does not appear in the IRQ section of te KDE Control Center. I guess I gave all the details I could.I've read about a 100 times the Ethernet Howto. I learned a lot and went further thanks to it but it is not able to help me any more. I've spent almost two weeks on that problem and still don't want to give up! But it is hard as without the Internet, I cannot reach the computer autarky!!! Still have to use the University computers, running Windows 95... I thank very very much the Linux guru who will help me! See you! Nicolas __ 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] Linux/Networking/Firewall
You need to alias the external interface to act as all 5 external "real" IP addresses a,d use ipmasqadm to port forward the incoming requests to the appropriate masqeud internal IP address. The format for setting IP aliasing is (where the "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"s correspond to the IP addresses and subnet info from your ISP): /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 repeat for each aliased eth0 IP (eth0:1, eth0:2, eth0:3, etc.), and then create ipchains rules for firewalling each aliased IP. In the firewall script, make sure the gaming port is open for all aliased IPs. Install ipmasqadm and set port forwarding rules for each aliased IP to each corresponding masqued internal IP. I believe the syntax is as follows, but you should read the ipmasqadm HOW-TOs to be sure.: (Assuming your internal network is on192.168.x.x, and the Gaming Port is "") /sbin/ipmasqadm -a -P tcp -L xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -R 192.168.xxx.xxx Let me know if this helps, or if I've screwed something up in the translation. :-) --Greg - Original Message - From: "Wignall, Mark T" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hoping for some help here: I previously had the following setup within my network at my residence. 1 Linux box w/ 2 NIC cards. 1 connected to the DSL modem, and 1 to a HUB where other computers throughout the house are connected. I configured NIC 1 for the IP address given to me by my DSL provider, and configured the other NIC for the private network IP range 196.168.x.x. Next I configured IP Forwarding and Masquerading, and alas had everything set up and working perfectly. Some online games won't allow duplicate IP addresses to be seen on the game server, and as all computers within my private net were sharing the 1 IP address provided by the DSL provider, only one computer at a time to could be gaming. I've recently acquired a different DSL package, which gives me 5 static IP address, so I should be able to configure my network as I hoped. Obviously, I could have just put all computers, and the DSL modem on my HUB and life would be good from a gaming perspective, however, I would very much like to have a firewall installed that helps protect against intruders. Under this scenario, I'd have to install a firewall on each PC to gain some protection...what a hassle. What I'd like to do is configure my Linux box like I had before, but replace the Private network with additional IP's that I gained. I tried setting this up, but fell short after realizing that Linux acting as a router can't route unless there are two different networks (IP sets) to route between. Since all my machines IP's belong to the same network (IP set), I can't "route" per se. What I came across were some HOWTO's on bridging+firewall. Essentially the bridge creates a virtual NIC that binds the two together, and I place the firewall (IPchains) on this virtual NIC. I configured it, set it up, and appear to be accomplishing my goal. The firewall stuff is working on every machine, and of course gaming is now a reality. In summary, my question is this. Is this the best/only approach I can take in setting up my environment? Is there a way to accomplish this by setting up my own route tables? The reason I ask is because when everything is "idle" on my network, I see blips on the DSL modem about every 3 seconds or so. I've narrowed it down to the bridge stuff, as I can bring the bridge down, and the blipping stops. I don't know what is happening, and I don't believe that the bridge is impacting performance much, still I don't know, so I thought I'd pose the question to the experts out there. Thanks in advance, Mark Wignall [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
[newbie] large hard disk
A few months ago I bought a Maxtor Diamondmax 40 gig hard drive. I installed it with Windows 98 using the included Maxblast Plus software floppy. The software included a BIOS overlay called EZ BIOS. Everything installed correctly and gave me two 20 gig partitions labeled D: and E: Whenever I booted up I saw the words EZ BIOS on the screen after the Compaq startup logo disappeared. (I have a Compaq Presario 4834 about 2 years old). When I set up a dual boot with Linux, I put Linux on the Maxtor 40 gig drive. I never did check to see how many gigs I was actually getting but the install seemed to indicate I had 40 gigs available. Since then I've had to remove Linux temporarily. I repartitioned and reformatted the drive using DOD fdisk, but fdisk tells me I only have 8 gigs available on that drive. I no longer see the EZ BIOS at boot. When I try to reformat with the Maxblast floppy it seems to partition the drive into two 20 gig non-dos partitions. Fdisk shows those two non-dos partitions but still says I have only 8 gigs available. If I try to reformat the two partitions into DOS partitions, it will only let me have the 8 gigs. Any ideas? Thank you to the experts out there. Joe
Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall
you need to re compile the kernel for this ok for ip masq you need to re config the kernel ok stephen - Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall You need to alias the external interface to act as all 5 external "real" IP addresses a,d use ipmasqadm to port forward the incoming requests to the appropriate masqeud internal IP address. The format for setting IP aliasing is (where the "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"s correspond to the IP addresses and subnet info from your ISP): /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 repeat for each aliased eth0 IP (eth0:1, eth0:2, eth0:3, etc.), and then create ipchains rules for firewalling each aliased IP. In the firewall script, make sure the gaming port is open for all aliased IPs. Install ipmasqadm and set port forwarding rules for each aliased IP to each corresponding masqued internal IP. I believe the syntax is as follows, but you should read the ipmasqadm HOW-TOs to be sure.: (Assuming your internal network is on192.168.x.x, and the Gaming Port is "") /sbin/ipmasqadm -a -P tcp -L xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -R 192.168.xxx.xxx Let me know if this helps, or if I've screwed something up in the translation. :-) --Greg - Original Message - From: "Wignall, Mark T" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hoping for some help here: I previously had the following setup within my network at my residence. 1 Linux box w/ 2 NIC cards. 1 connected to the DSL modem, and 1 to a HUB where other computers throughout the house are connected. I configured NIC 1 for the IP address given to me by my DSL provider, and configured the other NIC for the private network IP range 196.168.x.x. Next I configured IP Forwarding and Masquerading, and alas had everything set up and working perfectly. Some online games won't allow duplicate IP addresses to be seen on the game server, and as all computers within my private net were sharing the 1 IP address provided by the DSL provider, only one computer at a time to could be gaming. I've recently acquired a different DSL package, which gives me 5 static IP address, so I should be able to configure my network as I hoped. Obviously, I could have just put all computers, and the DSL modem on my HUB and life would be good from a gaming perspective, however, I would very much like to have a firewall installed that helps protect against intruders. Under this scenario, I'd have to install a firewall on each PC to gain some protection...what a hassle. What I'd like to do is configure my Linux box like I had before, but replace the Private network with additional IP's that I gained. I tried setting this up, but fell short after realizing that Linux acting as a router can't route unless there are two different networks (IP sets) to route between. Since all my machines IP's belong to the same network (IP set), I can't "route" per se. What I came across were some HOWTO's on bridging+firewall. Essentially the bridge creates a virtual NIC that binds the two together, and I place the firewall (IPchains) on this virtual NIC. I configured it, set it up, and appear to be accomplishing my goal. The firewall stuff is working on every machine, and of course gaming is now a reality. In summary, my question is this. Is this the best/only approach I can take in setting up my environment? Is there a way to accomplish this by setting up my own route tables? The reason I ask is because when everything is "idle" on my network, I see blips on the DSL modem about every 3 seconds or so. I've narrowed it down to the bridge stuff, as I can bring the bridge down, and the blipping stops. I don't know what is happening, and I don't believe that the bridge is impacting performance much, still I don't know, so I thought I'd pose the question to the experts out there. Thanks in advance, Mark Wignall [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.198 / Virus Database: 95 - Release Date: 10/4/00
Re: [newbie] linux isp
Seriously - look around your local area - ask your colleagues It should not matter whether the ISP is "Linux Friendly" data is data is data and that is all you exchange with the ISP some isps want specific data such as windows aps that run on the system Huh? Sure haven't seen that. If so, tell them you use Netscape. Better still, tell them that you just want their pop and smtp server names. I suspect that anyone who's asking what "windows apps" you're using won't be able to answer those questions but it'll probably get you someone who can. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] sound cards
While Windows has taken "unpredictable" to a new high, it's none of the Windows software drivers are even loaded when Linux is running so you're right; their residence on a hard drive won't affect anything. You're also right that changing the BIOS will affect Linux. this maybe true, however you can get info using the inf file found in windows about a peice of hardware that the hardware sometimes wont tell you. This is the case with pci cards sure linux detects its there but doesnt allways I think the significant thing in this thread (about whether removing Windows drivers would help Linux) is whether Linux can get any information from Windows device drivers. I'd submit the answer is, as I suggested, no. detect what it is, or who made it. So using windows to find a known driver or using key things like serial or model numbers you can sort through the text Gee...I have that stuff written down in my computer log book...don't you (grin)? Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] Can't See My Apache
Help! I've installed apache-1.3.12-30mdk.i586.rpm and the other compliments with suexec, common, and perl_mod. I was able to see and use my website up until I went into DrakConf and Clicked on the "Security Level" and set it to high. Now my server denies all access to the server even to me when I do "localhost", or 127.0.0.1! Please help. I have LM7.2beta3 (I had this same problem with LM7.1 by the way). I also can't save my changes to the "Startup Services". Thank you in advance. Sincerely, --Al Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] large hard disk
well for one dos fdisk is limited your bios settings will tell it something it cant comprehend, remember how we mention lilo only able to detect so many cylanders well in this case dos has the same limitations, my mom had the same problem she bought a 20 gig hard drive and for some reason her computer only registered it as a 2 gig hard drive, this had allot to do with the bios settings, your ez bios is merely a program that has to continuley lie to dos however it apears not compatible with linux
Re: [newbie] large hard disk
DOS will not see anything past the 1028 cylinder limit--approximately 7.8GB (sually rounded by DOS to 8GB). You do not need the "EZ-BIOS" app. to run properly. If you are only installing linux, then scrap the DOS utilities, and only use the installer (I'm assuming Mandrake). Use "expert mode" and when it gets to the partitioning sections, make the following partitions: /boot16MB to 50MB depending on how many versions of Linux or kernels you plan to run. swap (twice your RAM) /1GB or 2GB or more (/usr 1GB or 2GB if you want to--not necessary.) /homeThe rest or sized as you wish. When the BIOS boots, it will see only the /boot partition and be happy. The linux kernel will load and see everything. If you want to dual boot, stick windows in first--it doesn't like living with another OS, unless the install thinks it's going to be the only one there. If you want to partition 20GB for windows, and 20GB for linux, use the MaxBlast diskette, but only install on one partition.. you can delete and re-allocate the second 20GB of space during the "expert" install of MDK. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Joseph Bourque" [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few months ago I bought a Maxtor Diamondmax 40 gig hard drive. I installed it with Windows 98 using the included Maxblast Plus software floppy. The software included a BIOS overlay called EZ BIOS. Everything installed correctly and gave me two 20 gig partitions labeled D: and E: Whenever I booted up I saw the words EZ BIOS on the screen after the Compaq startup logo disappeared. (I have a Compaq Presario 4834 about 2 years old). When I set up a dual boot with Linux, I put Linux on the Maxtor 40 gig drive. I never did check to see how many gigs I was actually getting but the install seemed to indicate I had 40 gigs available. Since then I've had to remove Linux temporarily. I repartitioned and reformatted the drive using DOD fdisk, but fdisk tells me I only have 8 gigs available on that drive. I no longer see the EZ BIOS at boot. When I try to reformat with the Maxblast floppy it seems to partition the drive into two 20 gig non-dos partitions. Fdisk shows those two non-dos partitions but still says I have only 8 gigs available. If I try to reformat the two partitions into DOS partitions, it will only let me have the 8 gigs. Any ideas? Thank you to the experts out there. Joe __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
[newbie] ? Arkeia backup utility
On disk 5 of my mandrake deluxe package there is a program named Arkeia backup utility. I looked on Arkeia's web pages and it appeared as if this utility will backup to tapes only. Is that correct? Or have I missed read the info about Arkeia. I wish to backup to a disk drive. Will this utility backup to a disk drive? Thanks Charles
Re: [newbie] Can't See My Apache
this is the same problem I've had... but I started with no acess to anything but 127.0.0.1 (even though it took a day to install lm7.1 + pcmica) If you find out how to fix it let us know.. I'm just trying a rebuild :( Altoine Barker wrote: Help! I've installed apache-1.3.12-30mdk.i586.rpm and the other compliments with suexec, common, and perl_mod. I was able to see and use my website up until I went into DrakConf and Clicked on the "Security Level" and set it to high. Now my server denies all access to the server even to me when I do "localhost", or 127.0.0.1! Please help. I have LM7.2beta3 (I had this same problem with LM7.1 by the way). I also can't save my changes to the "Startup Services". Thank you in advance. Sincerely, --Al Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
[newbie] ANSI C++ library
In the past month or so at least two people asked about locating iostream.h under Mandrake. I haven't done any C++ coding and so couldn't answer their question but it seemed an odd one since, by appearances, LM installs the standard GNU compilers/libraries. I stuck it on a "check this out" list I have and that's exactly what I did today. The results? Well, I'm simply scratching my head - there is no standard ANSI C++ library to be found. Finding this pretty darn amazing I loaded up the install and went into expert mode to see I could find. Guess what? If you click on C++ in the development section you're great by a msg that says this is GNU C++ BUT it does NOT include the ANSI C++ library. What's up with that? What's the point of a C++ compiler without the standard library? At the time I felt like Sherlock Holmes; I'd solved a case but it wasn't a question I was asking :-) Then I went to compile/install Quanta and lo an beholderror...iostream.h not found (grin). The plot thickens. I bopped over to GNU.org and can't find anything that appears to be an ANSI library. What's it called these days? I know they have one as I used several versions of it when we were all chasing the definition of that library. But that was on Solaris, not Linux. Can anyone help? A search name perhaps...preferably for binaries? Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] ? Arkeia backup utility
On disk 5 of my mandrake deluxe package there is a program named Arkeia backup utility. I looked on Arkeia's web pages and it appeared as if this utility will backup to tapes only. Is that correct? Or have I missed read the info about Arkeia. I wish to backup to a disk drive. Will this utility backup to a disk drive? The October issue of Linux Journal reviews several backup utilities, including Arkeia. You are correct in determining that it is for tape backups, in fact, it assumes that you're doing it from one machine to another over a network, in client/server fashion. I'm not sure what you're trying to backup to a disk drive but you might consider using one or more of your basic Linux tools. For instance, you could simply create tar files and copy them to the other drive (or create them there). If you want to put actual, accessible file systems on the backup drive you can use tar like: *example presumes you're at the base of a tree you want backed up tar cf - / . | (cd /where_you_want_a_copy; tar xvf -) Someone here, can't remember who, uses cpio to do his backups to another drive. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] sound cards
Larry Marshall wrote: I think the significant thing in this thread (about whether removing Windows drivers would help Linux) is whether Linux can get any information from Windows device drivers. I'd submit the answer is, as I suggested, no. You are correct. If you are dealing with a dual boot system, the only useful thing windows would be for is to identify IRQs, DMAs and the like. Since a dual boot system runs only one OS at time the two will never meet in the world of drivers. So once you know the IRQs, etc of a device it might be helpful in setting up Linux. However, depending on CMOS settings the device parameters could change across a reboot into Linux. So a partial answer is, turn off CMOS plug and play and if available on the device, jumper it to known IRQs, etc OR run its diagnostic software to change those settings. A great many NICs can be done with the later. detect what it is, or who made it. So using windows to find a known driver or using key things like serial or model numbers you can sort through the text Gee...I have that stuff written down in my computer log book...don't you (grin)? Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] large hard disk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well for one dos fdisk is limited your bios settings will tell it something it cant comprehend, remember how we mention lilo only able to detect so many cylanders well in this case dos has the same limitations, my mom had the same That is why Linux-Mandrake developed GRUB, it does not have the problem with 1024 cylinders problem she bought a 20 gig hard drive and for some reason her computer only registered it as a 2 gig hard drive, this had allot to do with the bios settings, your ez bios is merely a program that has to continuley lie to dos however it apears not compatible with linux
[newbie] I keep having problems with X windows
I installed Linux on my computer only to find that it did not have the C++ libraries, so I downloaded the tar file for that and then followed the instructions to install gcc on my computer. All went well until I rebooted my machine. Now I can not get it to go into the GUI mode. I have tried the command startx and that does not work. How can I get the GUI to start when I start Linux? Thanks Mark
Re: [newbie] Can't See My Apache
make sure your acually running apache!! and not roxen - god only knows what it is, but kill it the run apache... Dan Gibbs wrote: this is the same problem I've had... but I started with no acess to anything but 127.0.0.1 (even though it took a day to install lm7.1 + pcmica) If you find out how to fix it let us know.. I'm just trying a rebuild :( Altoine Barker wrote: Help! I've installed apache-1.3.12-30mdk.i586.rpm and the other compliments with suexec, common, and perl_mod. I was able to see and use my website up until I went into DrakConf and Clicked on the "Security Level" and set it to high. Now my server denies all access to the server even to me when I do "localhost", or 127.0.0.1! Please help. I have LM7.2beta3 (I had this same problem with LM7.1 by the way). I also can't save my changes to the "Startup Services". Thank you in advance. Sincerely, --Al Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [newbie] large hard disk
Dennis Veatch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well for one dos fdisk is limited your bios settings will tell it something it cant comprehend, remember how we mention lilo only able to detect so many cylanders well in this case dos has the same limitations, my mom had the same That is why Linux-Mandrake developed GRUB, it does not have the problem with 1024 cylinders problem she bought a 20 gig hard drive and for some reason her computer only registered it as a 2 gig hard drive, this had allot to do with the bios settings, your ez bios is merely a program that has to continuley lie to dos however it apears not compatible with linux I was in error, Linux-Mandrake did not devlope GRUB, GRand Unified Bootloader, which was originally designed and implemented by Erich Stefan Boleyn. The rest of my statement is correct.
[newbie] transfering dirs/files
I want to save and/or transfer my whole public_html directory to another drive on my computer...(have two) However, my public_html dir is very large, and I definitly want to save/transfer this whole dir...and at the same time, keep all case in tact...(upper/lower case) of filenames/directories. The last time I did this (using KFM) (thought it would be quicker), all the cases were changed somehowand I don't want this to happen this time...so HOW...do I do thisand save the case of all filenames/dirs ??? [note] tried to do it with tar but it wouldn't... -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit=
Re: [newbie] transfering dirs/files
What was you tar syntax? Did you tar a directory from just above it? If not, try the following: tar -cvpf filename.tar directoryname -c = create -v = verbose -p = preserve (permissions) -f = filename (the filename must come immediately after the 'f' or the next argument becomes the filename) Does this help? Or was this what you had done? --Greg - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to save and/or transfer my whole public_html directory to another drive on my computer...(have two) However, my public_html dir is very large, and I definitly want to save/transfer this whole dir...and at the same time, keep all case in tact...(upper/lower case) of filenames/directories. The last time I did this (using KFM) (thought it would be quicker), all the cases were changed somehowand I don't want this to happen this time...so HOW...do I do thisand save the case of all filenames/dirs ??? [note] tried to do it with tar but it wouldn't... -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designerhttp://kitdesigns.bizhosting.com WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M - F 6pm-12am, S S 12pm-12am EST) =KompuKit= __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
