Re: [newbie] How to upgrade libstdc++?

[Peter Lund]

On Tuesday 27 February 2001 12:08, you wrote:
> Sourcecode of Licq?  Sorry if it's a dumb question, I'm still very new to
> Linux.
The Sourcecode are the basic code for the program, and need to be compiled in 
order to run. The rpm file are a compiled program made ready for a specific 
distribution, for your (and me) Mandrake. The problem is that the Licq-rpm 
are made for Mandreke Cooker, which is not the same as Mandrake 7.2.
The sourcecode for Licq can be found at:  http://www.licq.com/download.html

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:00:52 +0100, Peter Lund wrote:
> >On Tuesday 27 February 2001 09:49, you wrote:
> >> I'm using Mandrake 7.2.  I'm trying to upgrade to the latest Licq
> >> version. When I tried installing the rpm file, it said I had 2
> >> unsatisfied dependencies, qt and libstdc++.  I can't find the latest
> >> version of qt but I did download the latest version of libstdc++.  The
> >> problem is that when I try to upgrade the libstdc++ package, I get a
> >> message listing 2 dozen or so apps which need the old version.  What am
> >> I supposed to do?
> >
> >I had the same problem, and ended up with downloading the sourcecode and
> > then i ran ./setup --with-kde, it works fine for me.
> >
> >/Peter.

Re: [newbie] SPAM

[Oliver L Plaine Jr]

On Tuesday 27 February 2001 05:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:
> Yesterday I posted that I had not come across this - I have now !
> My question, I use Kmail and would like to bounce these but there
> does not appear to be a filter rule "bounce" does anyone no how to do
> this ? If not will forwarding it to /dev/null get rid of it without
> me even seeing it ?
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I can't answer your bounce question Poogle, but what I do ,on 
particularily irritating threads is to set a filter to put them into 
trash, and I don't see them unless I am digging in the trash ,

out they go when I dump the trash. of course none of your messages. 8-)
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[newbie] cd-rw install

[KompuKit]

I'm trying to setup scsi emulation in mandrake 7.2...

HOW do I do this...?
I tried the redhat approach...but everytime I reconfigure lilo...
it says theres a syntax error.

this is what I did...

at the end of  /etc/rc.local
I put:  insmod ide-scsi

then at the end of  /etc/lilo.conf
I put:  append="hdd=ide-scsi"

this was in a how-to for redhat...

I installed a HP cd-rw  9150i  as secondary slave
which in linux is: hdd
harddrake recognised the drive
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[newbie] Matrox G450

[Michael Lueck]

I seem to remember that Mandrake 7.2 does not directly support the Matrox G450
card. Is there an updated RPM or something to support that card?

Matrox has a beta driver on their site as well - any tips on getting that
installed?

I am running XFree 4x that comes with 7.2

TIA!

Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

[newbie] subscribe

[Ron Hossack]

Re: [newbie] Installing problem...

[Robert Pena]

I know your pain with trying out Linux.   I tried Corel Linux 1rst edition and I couldn't get it past the video card configuration. Most of the forum help I got from Corel was intolerant with newbies. I tried Linux4Windows but I only got as far as a half hour loading of the K desktop. I was informed by many users that Linux4Windows is far too slow, although it shouldn't be that slow, and I was better off with a full blown installation on a dedicated partition.    I bought another harddrive, 30GB WesternDigital, and tried installing the full version 7.2 sadly though at that time I was using my TV as a monitor and I couldn't see very clearly the on  screen direction to install. I bought my monitor now but haven't gotten around to installing it.    My specs with any user who can provide suggestions or hints.    1GHz AMD Athlon 128MB SDRAM 4GB Hddrive with Windows ME 30GB Hddrive intended for Linux or for video editing. ATI All In Wonder 128PCI 16MB  Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

[Dennis Myers]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2001 16:01, you wrote:
> > > I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and
> > > the
> >
> > tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so
> > they said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but
> > I thought it interesting that their test was to boot it and let the bios
> > test tell them if it was ok. That's fine i'm back to 256M and it was
> > instantly recognized in LM7.2 on boot.  Dennis M.
>
> First off I'm glad you have your memory problem solved and I'll bet it was
> an incompatibility, however if any of the Tech's that work for me ever used
> the method you just described to troubleshoot a memory problem they would
> be in the unemployment line...  In my shop we have an SP3000 for testing
> Simms and Dimms and as a standard practice if they test good we exchange
> the memory with another brand and always make sure we are matching the same
> speed..
>
> My advice find a better shop with professional Tech's.
>
>
> Scott Faulkner
>
Thanks, I would love tobe able to do that, but, always a but, My other 
choices are considerably farther away, and I'm not sure if they are any 
better. I don't know, Gateway and CompUSA are the next choice, although I 
will start checking with some of the computer literate folks in my office to 
see if I can find another tech source.  Thanks for the advice.
-- 
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Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

[Dennis Myers]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2001 16:01, you wrote:
> > > I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and
> > > the
> >
> > tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so
> > they said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but
> > I thought it interesting that their test was to boot it and let the bios
> > test tell them if it was ok. That's fine i'm back to 256M and it was
> > instantly recognized in LM7.2 on boot.  Dennis M.
>
> First off I'm glad you have your memory problem solved and I'll bet it was
> an incompatibility, however if any of the Tech's that work for me ever used
> the method you just described to troubleshoot a memory problem they would
> be in the unemployment line...  In my shop we have an SP3000 for testing
> Simms and Dimms and as a standard practice if they test good we exchange
> the memory with another brand and always make sure we are matching the same
> speed..
>
> My advice find a better shop with professional Tech's.
>
>
> Scott Faulkner
>
Thanks, I will try to take your advice. I have not looked around that much 
since this place is only about a mile from my house and I can buy OEM stuff 
there when I am building or upgrading something. I'll check with folks in my 
office about a good tech shop.  I ran the memtest86 on the other 2 computers 
and they checked out ok. Again, thanks for the advice, I'll try.
-- 
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[newbie] Installing Kernel

[Robert Reed]

I'm trying to recompiling the kernel using:
$ make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make
modules_install
But however, I get an error saying something like I
can't target 'dep'.  Stop.

Can someone tell me what this means, and how to fix it?

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Re: [newbie] aurora images

[Romanator]

Randy Meyer wrote:
> 
> Alan Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > Can you help me install aurora??  What packages do you install??  Is there
> > any special setup involved in setting it up???
> >
> > Thanks so much,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Schroeder
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:17 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] aurora images
> >
> > My mouse is inactive in aurora.  Is this an issue pertaining to when I have
> > it start up in the sequence of things?
> >
> > The keyboard works to go to different menu's while aurora is running but not
> > the mouse.
> >
> > It's a  USB MS Intellimouse with IntelliEye or whatever.  (The optical
> > version of a plain old intellimouse 2 but. 1 wheel/but.)
> >
> > --Matt
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Carlos Berardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:50 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] aurora images
> >
> > > for those who haven't noticed, when aurora is booting or shutting down,
> > > left click on the penguin and an image will appear at the bottom of the
> > > screen.
> > >
> > > Carlos Berardi
> > >
> > >
> > >
> 
> This article solved my inablility to get Aurora running:
> http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001108042008

Make sure you are logged in as "root".

Ensure that you have the following files installed first:

initscripts-5.27-37mdk.i586
open-1.4-12mdk.i586
glibc-2.1.3-16mdk.i586
then
aurora

If you are using Grub, open the Grub folder and edit the Menu.1st file.
Add the line vga=788 to the end of kernel line. Resave the file and
reboot your computer.

The next time your computer boots up you will see Aurora. That's it.

-- 
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
The Original Tux Email Thread Creator

[newbie] Installing problem...

[Pajunen Lauri Anffi Henrikki]

Hello!

  I hope this isn't the wrong list to ask this... Well anyway

Stats:
Pentium III 800Mhz
Abit VH6 133Mhz
Seagate 20Mgb
NVidia Geforce II 32Mb
Sound Blstr. Live!
128Mhz of memory
A basic Lan card (listed as compatible, can't remember it now)


Well I started to install Mandrake (newest), and everything went just fine
until it stated that it's "mounting ramdisk". Then I got a message:

"mounting failed, invalid argument"
"error mounting ramdisk. This shouldn't happen, and I'm rebooting your
 system now"

Then it promptly booted my system...

I tried to install a windows install with it (lnx4win), and a normal one.
I have 7Gb free on my second hard disk. BUT I don't have free space on my
primary one, which contains windows (actually theres only 200Mb free
there). 

What is the default directory in which to it tries to install it self?

Another fact: I can't install Corel Linux at all. It blurs my screen as if
it woulnd't support my videocard. THUS -> My card IS GeForce II, there was
only "GeForce" on the compatibility list, does "Geforce" mean all of
"Geforce's" or just only "GeForce I"

I would love to have Linux on my computer, but my skill just ran out...
I'm a nerd, but not a Linux guru...



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[newbie] Kmail won't connect

[Dennis Myers]

Actually it isn't just Kmail, Netscape can't find any servers either. This 
just happened on my other box and came out of nowhere.  Kmail says it can't 
find "mail.earthlink.net" and netscape has a socket problem. I have checked 
and double checked my addresses and password. My Kppp dials up and connects 
and there it stops. Any one run into this before, I'm not using the right 
keywords to find any answers in the archives, so would appreciate any help or 
point me in the right direction and holler "charge!" TIA
-- 
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[newbie] Mandrake on Ebay

[CastleKidd]

I was looking around on Ebay and noticed that they were auctioning Linux 
Mandrake 7.2 and RedHat 7.0 for like 3 dollars. Has anyone ever used this 
route before? Is it worth it or should I just go to the store and get it?

Thanks
~Lance

Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy.....!!!!

[stephen galowski]

others in other mail list have said it is ok

so why not mark
stephen

At 12:17 PM 1/03/2001 Thursday, you wrote:

>stephen galowski wrote:
> >
> > please use the unsubscrice command please
> >
>Stephen,
>
>please turn off the annoying receipt request. It's really bad manners on
>a mailing list.
>
>thanks
>--
>Mark
>
>"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
>worthless,"
> "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
>
>
>
>
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Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?

[Dennis Myers]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Does any one know when Mandrake will start posting KDE2.1 Final Release?
> Will we be able use the update feature? Or, is there an alternate ftp
> site?
Hey Roman, I don't know how others do it but I use gftp from the KDE desktop 
to down load, that way I can save to a designated file, copy to a zip for 
future use and do the "rpm -Uvh *.rpm " from the saved file to load the new 
rpms. If I ever have to reinstall the zip files are waiting without having to 
go through a 56K modem d/l again.  gftp also is capable of resume function so 
if you loose the connection you can pick it up where you left off.
-- 
Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842

[newbie] A few more questions...plus a big THANKS!

[Derek Rayne]

I am having problems again with my Linux system.  Here is the basics
about it...

Linux Mandrake 7.0 is the version
Pentium 133Mhz system
80mb of RAM
Permedia 3000 video card (4mb)
Sony 100SX monitor (SVGA)
10.2gb hard drive for Linux ONLY
Zoltrix external 33.6kbps modem
Zip 100 External Drive (Parallel)
HP610CL Deskjet printer

Now the problems...

Xwindows will NOT install properly due to the screen always going blank
when I select the options given to me while having the # prompt, I
typed in Xconfigurator and a program comes up where I can select, but
then after selecting it goes blank on me, with the only recourse to
reboot my entire system.

Now, I am trying to set up my system to be able to call, using the
modem, to my internet provider (T-Three) and I don't know how to set
this up.  I went into the # prompt, and typed in userconf and it came
up with menu selections, but I don't know how to do any of this.

NOTE: I do NOT have any instructions as that someone just gave me the
CD ROMs and the install boot floppy.

If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated!

Richard Wegner
Linux Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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e-mail address I chose!


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Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

[Dennis Myers]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> It might have been just as easy for the tech to wave the RAM back and forth
> in the air a few times - lightly touch it to his forehead - chant
> "Ibeebeebeeeboo" five times - blinking the lights off and on with the other
> hand while twirling about ...
>
> He'd have come to the same conclusion  ...
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, you wrote:
>
> I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and
> the ##tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so
> they ##said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but
> I ##thought it interesting that their test was to boot it and let the bios
> test ##tell them if it was ok. That's fine i'm back to 256M and it was
> instantly ##recognized in LM7.2 on boot.  Dennis M.
> ##-Original Message-
RONTF, that is funny..  My mental image of the testing of the ram will never 
be the same, it will always have a shaman a ram and ewe in the image, : 0 )
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Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?

[Naidine \"Dede\" Leedom]

Just got this today.  
Dede
To go to Linux2order, click here:
http://www.Linux2order.com/




- Original Message - 
From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:24 PM
Subject: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?


Hi everybody,

Does any one know when Mandrake will start posting KDE2.1 Final Release?
Will we be able use the update feature? Or, is there an alternate ftp
site?

-- 
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
The Original Tux Email Thread Creator

[newbie] MDK Tractopel

[Oliver L Plaine Jr]

the management wrote:

>New story on (http://www.mandrakeforum.com)

>The first Beta of the upcoming Linux-Mandrake 8.0
>(Traktopel) is available

--
Wed Feb 28 21:08:38 2001

Well fortunately they said Tractopel meant "plow" in French.

Unfortunately I am handicapped with struggling with a single language 
(badly) and have no clue on the pronouncing of this French word?

Is it Trac-too-pell? Track-toupee? or perhaps Tract-opel?

Someone please provide a phonetic rendition, to preclude embarrassment 
in case I meet a French speaker face to face?
-- 
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Biloxi
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Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy.....!!!!

[Ryan Le Gros]

cause we said it isnt. and we are the overgod of mailing lists.

Ryan

- Original Message -
From: "stephen galowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy.


> others in other mail list have said it is ok
>
> so why not mark
> stephen
>
> At 12:17 PM 1/03/2001 Thursday, you wrote:
>
> >stephen galowski wrote:
> > >
> > > please use the unsubscrice command please
> > >
> >Stephen,
> >
> >please turn off the annoying receipt request. It's really bad manners on
> >a mailing list.
> >
> >thanks
> >--
> >Mark
> >
> >"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
> >worthless,"
> > "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?

[MarkP]

Romanator wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> Does any one know when Mandrake will start posting KDE2.1 Final Release?
> Will we be able use the update feature? Or, is there an alternate ftp
> site?
>
> --
> Roman
> Registered Linux User #179293
> The Original Tux Email Thread Creator

On mandrakeforum.com  they said it was delayed, because they were puting
all their
resources to the Beta 1 of Mandrake 8.0.
Now that 8.0 Beta is out KDE 2.1 should be out soon.

MarkP

Re: [newbie] Final KDE2.1 installation

[Dennis Myers]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have KDE2.1 beta 2 installed. Will the latest rpms upgrade me to the
> final KDE2.1 release?
> Or, do I have to uninstall some files?
The new rpms should upgrade you if you do the package all at one time or 
individually, either way. But, where did you find the mandrake rpms, when I 
navigate through the mirrors to the kde rpms under mandrake it comes up 
blank. If you are looking at just redhat rpms, i'd wait until the mirrors 
have the mandrake rpms.
-- 
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Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy.....!!!!

[Robert Reed]

LOL!!!
--- Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> stephen galowski wrote:
> > 
> > please use the unsubscrice command please
> > 
> Stephen,
> 
> please turn off the annoying receipt request. It's
> really bad manners on
> a mailing list.
> 
> thanks
> -- 
> Mark
> 
> "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they
> end up being
> worthless,"
> "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
> 


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Re: [newbie] logs..

[eryl]

Dale Kosan wrote:
> 
> Hello, in the /var/log directory I am seeing a whole bunch of tar.gz
> logs, I assume these are old and that logrotate generated them.Are
> they safe to delete if I don't need them? Thanks in advance

Not a problem--nuke em.  And, I always change my /etc/logrotate.conf
so that the rotation is "rotate 1" instead of "rotate 4" and change all
references from "monthly" to "weekly"

In a home or small office setup I see no need for all these logs, and if
they are on a small /var partition they can fill it and choke the system
in a really short time.

[newbie] When is Mandrake posting KDE2.1 Final Release?

[Romanator]

Hi everybody,

Does any one know when Mandrake will start posting KDE2.1 Final Release?
Will we be able use the update feature? Or, is there an alternate ftp
site?

-- 
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
The Original Tux Email Thread Creator

Re: [newbie] (OT)Half-Life server question

[Mark Weaver]

"Kelly, Christopher" wrote:
> 
> This is off-topic...
> 
> Does anybody on this list run a Half-Life server? I was wondering, if I want
> to setup a Linux Half-Life server, do I need to perform a server
> installation of Mandrake? Or can I run it in the Normal installation?
> 
> Thanks,
> Moose

Kelly,

that would definately need a server install at least.
-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

[newbie] Final KDE2.1 installation

[Romanator]

Hi all,

I have KDE2.1 beta 2 installed. Will the latest rpms upgrade me to the
final KDE2.1 release?
Or, do I have to uninstall some files?

-- 
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
The Original Tux Email Thread Creator

Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this iscrazy.....!!!!

[Mark Weaver]

stephen galowski wrote:
> 
> please use the unsubscrice command please
> 
Stephen,

please turn off the annoying receipt request. It's really bad manners on
a mailing list.

thanks
-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

[Linux Tests]

It might have been just as easy for the tech to wave the RAM back and forth in 
the air a few times - lightly touch it to his forehead - chant 
"Ibeebeebeeeboo" five times - blinking the lights off and on with the other 
hand while twirling about ...

He'd have come to the same conclusion  ...


On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, you wrote:

I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and the
##tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so they
##said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but I
##thought it interesting that their test was to boot it and let the bios test
##tell them if it was ok. That's fine i'm back to 256M and it was instantly
##recognized in LM7.2 on boot.  Dennis M.
##-Original Message-
##From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
##[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO
##Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:45 AM
##To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
##Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
##
##
##This is the funny thing about my situation, no crashes, no weird things
##going on, I just can't get linux to recognize my ram. The system doesn't
##even seem to run any slower, transfers of web pages and searches are as
 fast ##as ever. I am thinking motherboard, so I will try suggested test of
 putting ##the ram in another box and see if it causes problems there. Two of
 the ##sticks are only a couple of months old and I should be able to
 exhchange ##them if I can determine good or bad.
##-Original Message-
##From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
##[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
##Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:58 AM
##To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
##Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
##
##
##Naa, I can't believe this, I have a 256 stick that crashed three computers
##continuously and it counted up in the bios just fine in all three.  This
 128 ##stick isn't quite so ruthless on me but linux apps keep crashing on me
 left ##and right and weird things like the logout won't work sometimes in
 X... ##
##-Original Message-
##From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
##Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:20 PM
##To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
##Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
##
##
##
##I've been told by local computer techs that if your bios sees the ram at
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Re: [newbie] Linux partitioning

[Mark Weaver]

Daryl Johnson wrote:
> 
> It allows you to use several different kernels more easily.  Some people
> have a need for it, some don't  :o)
> 
> regards
> 
> Daryl
> 

:)

the kernels don't get that big.
-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

[abe]

I did but I'll double check.  Thanks for the idea!


Abe


Adam Greene wrote:
> 
> Kill the non-NVidia GL libraries as per NVidia's FAQ.
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Digital Wokan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration
> 
> > Everything but ReiserFS on my system going fine.  Did you do anything
> > about the non-nVidia MesaGL libraries so they wouldn't conflict with
> > nVidia's drivers?
> > (I'll let you know about ReiserFS someday soon, but it won't be under
> > Mdk7.2.)
> >
> > abe wrote:
> > > Does this work?  Any body have this working on their machines?  I
> > > reinstalled to convert to ReiserFS and now X crashes everytime I start a
> > > 3d accelerated application.  No messages left in the logs except that X
> > > caught a signal 11.
> > > X 4.02
> > > Nvidia driver 0.9.6
> > > mandrake 7.2
> > > Please help!
> > > Abe
> > --
> > Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age
> > Guerilla Linux Warrior
> >
> >

Re: [newbie] aurora images

[Alan Shoemaker]

Alan Carpenter wrote:
> Can you help me install aurora??  What packages do you
> install??  Is there any special setup involved in setting
> it up???
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Alan

Alanthe package is Aurora-7.2-17mdk.i586.rpm on your
installation CD.  After installing it to get it to run all
that is needed is a statement in either lilo or grub setting
the frameuffer to a value suitable for your video (a good
guess would be 785 or 788):

vga=xxx

Colors  (depth) 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
---+---+---++-+-
   256 ( 8 bit)|  769 771  773  775   796
32,768 (15 bit)|  784 787  790  793   797
65,536 (16 bit)|  785 788  791  794   798
 16.8M (24 bit)|  786 789  792  795   799
--
Alan

Re: [newbie] VMware

[=?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=]

Hi Marcia,

I'm glad it worked. I am not familiar with DOS at all either. But
as long as VMware concerns, make sure the devices are "conected" to the
virtual machine if you're trying to use Fdisk on a floppy. Look on the
"Devices" part of the VMware menu.
If no one on this list is able to help you, you could take a look
at the newsgroups at:

news://news.vmware.com/

I'm sure you'll find there many answers. Good luck.

Fabian.


On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, marcia wrote:

> Dear Fabian,  Hello and thank you very much for your detailed help. It
> did work. Now, I have a new problem. Once I started to use Fdisk for
> Windows 95 I just get invalid drive error messages whenever I follow the
> instructions. I am not familiar with DOS at all. Do you or anyone have
> any ideas about this? Thanks again. Sincerely, Marcia
> 
> 

Re: [newbie] where is Mesa includes in LM7.2...

[Matt Schroeder]

My install had Mesa going in it.  (Download version w/ extension CD)

Ot at least it had some working implementation of GL since it runs
Xtraceroute just fine.

--Matt


- Original Message -
From: "B.V.L.S.Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:30 PM
Subject: [newbie] where is Mesa includes in LM7.2...


> I tried compiling a graphics program..
>
> but it was giving an error complaining that
> glut.h is not found
>
> why is it so...
>
> I searched for these files, they really dont exist...
>
> I installed mandrake7.2  with 101% option.
>
> doesnt mandrake 7.2 has Mesa includes...
> thankyou...!!
>
>
> Happy Day,
> Prasad, B.V.L.S.,
> Research Scholar.
>

*
>AIM OF SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURE :   NATURE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
>

*
> _   __      ___   ___
___
> |Thought|   | Fourier|   | |   |Different|   | Fourier |   |Structure|
> | waves |-->|Analysis|-->|NATURE|-->|Forms of |-->|Synthesis|-->|   of
|
> |   |   || | |   |Knowledge|   | |   | NATURE  |
> |___|   ||   |__|   |_|   |_|
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>
>

*
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   ...Shiva
>

*
>
>
>
>

RE: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI Installation AVA 1505

[Daryl Johnson]

Well, the full story is :

Portbase = 0x340this is jumpered on the board
IRQ = 9 this too is jumpered on the board
SCSI ID = 7 which is fairly standard
recconect is enabled
parity is enabled
synchronous is enabled
delay = 500
extended translation is disabled

thus we get the command

insmod aha152x aha152x=0x340,9,7,1,1,0,500,0

and for a glorious half hour last night that seemed to be accepted so that
when I checked KDE/Information/IRQ against 9 it said AHA152x and against
KDE/Information/Ports against 340 it said AHA152x.
dmesg identified the board and wqas suggesting ftape as a tape device - even
though that didn't seem to work.

Anyway, now the command insmod etc no longer works, I have the same error
message I started with:

Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module:
Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
incorrect module parameters including invalid IO or IRQ
parameters

and dmesg says:

aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7, recconect=enabled
parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=500, extended
translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupot, lost.
aha152x: IRQ 9 possibly wrong. Please verify.

So in the words of the prophet and philosopher Foul Ole Ron - 'buggrit,
millenium hand and shrimp, I tole 'em.' (Explanations upon request  :o)  )

So if anyone has any valid suggestions for my problem...

regards

Daryl

(ps Valid suggestions for my problem do NOT include 'rub ointment on it'!)


> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mark
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Adaptec SCSI Installation AVA 1505
>
>
> What error message do you get?
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > Damn me if it hasn't stopped again. Any suggestions?
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Daryl

Re: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM-solved and update

[Scott Faulkner]

On Monday 26 February 2001 16:01, you wrote:

> > I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and the
> tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so they
> said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but I
> thought it interesting that their test was to boot it and let the bios test
> tell them if it was ok. That's fine i'm back to 256M and it was instantly
> recognized in LM7.2 on boot.  Dennis M.

First off I'm glad you have your memory problem solved and I'll bet it was an
incompatibility, however if any of the Tech's that work for me ever used the 
method you just described to troubleshoot a memory problem they would be
in the unemployment line...  In my shop we have an SP3000 for testing Simms
and Dimms and as a standard practice if they test good we exchange the
memory with another brand and always make sure we are matching the same
speed.. 

My advice find a better shop with professional Tech's.


Scott Faulkner



> This is the funny thing about my situation, no crashes, no weird things
> going on, I just can't get linux to recognize my ram. The system doesn't
> even seem to run any slower, transfers of web pages and searches are as
> fast as ever. I am thinking motherboard, so I will try suggested test of
> putting the ram in another box and see if it causes problems there. Two of
> the sticks are only a couple of months old and I should be able to
> exhchange them if I can determine good or bad.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:58 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
>
>
> Naa, I can't believe this, I have a 256 stick that crashed three computers
> continuously and it counted up in the bios just fine in all three.  This
> 128 stick isn't quite so ruthless on me but linux apps keep crashing on me
> left and right and weird things like the logout won't work sometimes in
> X...
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:20 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
>
>
>
> I've been told by local computer techs that if your bios sees the ram at
> bootup ,( in other words detects it and counts it off on the first screen
> that shows your primary  and secondary IDE devices and  you can hit del to
> get to bios) then the ram memory is good and should be functional. I am not
> a technician so I am relying on their advice.
>
> BM__MailData-Original Message-
> From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  ] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
> Sent:   Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:31 PM
> To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
> Subject:[newbie] Testing for bad RAM
>
> I am suspicious that my RAM is bad.  Is there anyway in linux that I can
> confirm this?


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Re: [newbie] Zip drive unmount

[Alan Shoemaker]

Andrew Lazarewicz wrote:
> Hi!  I know this was covered before, but I can't find
> it.  I can mount (by inserting) a zip disk as a user,
> but I have to unmount (umount) as root.  What is the best
> way just to eject a Zip disk as a user?
>
> Thanks!  - Andy

Andyif it's supermounted then closing the Konqueror
window in which you're viewing the contents of the zip disc
should unmount it and allow you to eject the media.  If it's
not supermounted then there's a menu item called Unmount in
the right-click menu of the desktop icon that appears in
place of the Mount item when the device is mounted.
--
Alan

RE: [newbie] VMware(again)

[Esteban Villeda]

Marcia, to install Win on your vmware is as if you were installing on a real
machine.  The first thing I recommend is to have a boot disk which may
include fdisk, format and cdrom access (ask someone close to you who has
given tech support).
Start your vmware with the disk in your floppy, and then run fdisk to
activate your partition.  Then you can format your virtual disk.  Greetings,

Esteban Villeda


- Original Message -
From: marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] VMware(again)


> Dear Fabian, Esteban, and Sridhar, Thank you all very much for your
> help. I have successfully installed and configured(I believe) Vmware
> 2.0.3 on my LM 7.2 and I am very pleasantly surprised about that and
> thanks to your help. However, I am having problems installing my Windows
> 95 version 4x.
>
>  I have been following the instructions given from the vmware support
> page but all I get are error messages such as invalid commands, etc.
> Would anyone be able to help me step by step with the Windows 95
> installation? It seems they say it is necessary to format your disk
> first that is where I am having problems. I am not familiar with Dos at
> all. I just downloaded alot of Dos info to help me,however something as
> simple as exiting Dos I cannot seem to do. How do you safely exit DOS?
>
> Also, does anyone know of a good vmware email support group?   Thanks
> for any help or suggestions. Sincerely, Marcia
>
>

[newbie] Can't install because /dev/hda is missing

[Miark]

Hi all,

My xfs was hosed and I wanted to try ReiserFS, so I decided
to do a fresh install. Everything seems fine up to the point
of making a boot disk, including formatting two Reiser
logical partitions and a Linux swap partition. I tried the
following:

1) Primary FAT32 partition for C:
2) Primary Extended partition
   - Logical 5 GB Reiser for /
   - Logical 1 GB Reiser for /home
   - Logical 500 MB Linux Swap
   - Logical 20+ GB FAT32 for D:

and then I tried

1) Primary FAT32 partition for C:
2) Primary ReiserFS for /
3) Primary Linux Swap for sway
4) Primary extended partition
   - Logical 20+ GB FAT 32 for D:

but that made no difference, and here's exactly what
happens: when I try to make a boot disk, it says it
can't find mkbootdisk (or something like that). And
then when I try to install lilo or grub, it says

  Fatal: open /dev/hda: no such file or directory

which sounds to me like it can't find anything that
it itself already installed (same with the absence of
mkbootdisk). I've tried installing several times, but
to no avail. During some of my attempts, it would
quit at the point where you choose a timezone. It
would say it couldn't find zoneinfo.

What should I do?

Thanks,
Miark

Re: [newbie] Xwindows configuration

[angry]

you didn't mention what card you have

Derek Rayne wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>I am still stuck on configuring my Xwindows, I am having very bad
> luck, even if I try the standard VGA or SVGA.  Could my card be not one
> supported?
>
> Richard Wegner
> Linux Newbie
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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[newbie] ZipCD 650 USB CD recorder and Mandrake 7.2

[Keith Christian]

Has anyone gotten this (ZipCD 650 USB) to work with the stock store-bought
Mandrake 7.2?

If so, are there any config file changes necessary?  Should the ZipCD USB be
plugged in before Mandrake is booted to be detected, or will Mandrake
detect/configure without a reboot?

Thanks!

===Keith


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Re: [newbie] Startup files

[bpremeaux]

The first time I had that problem, I had to go into the BIOS and set the
time there.  Then it was into the KDE Control Center to set time relative
to my local time zone.

Barry :-)


On Mon, 26 February 2001, "Cory Weber" wrote:

> 
> ok, I have Mandrake Linux 7.0, and a small problem, it keeps setting the
> time wrong on boot up. I see a line that says
> setting time to: blah blah   [  OK  ]
> I was wondering where is it getting that information at so I can go in and
> edit it accordingly.
> 
> 
> Cory Weber



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Re: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup

[drowelf]

I too noticed that the 7.2 installation runs through a lot of options I am
used to choosing. One being the "type" of installation.

What I did was to simply choose recommended install and then using rpmdrake,
install all the libraries, compilers and help files i required. Not as
simple, but did the trick for me anyway.

BH
- Original Message -
From: "Keith Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:14 AM
Subject: [newbie] DEVELOPMENT setup


> Running Mandrake 7.2 - where is the "developer's" install chosen?  I have
> reinstalled using both Expert and Custom, and have chosen "install ALL
> packages" but still am missing many of the howto's (usually under
> /usr/share/) and don't have some of the programs to compile (some
> programs I try to compile using configure then make say I don't have a
> library propertly setup, etc.)
>
> What to do without a total reinstall?  Will an Update install allow these
> choices so that I can get all the development files installed?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Keith
>
>
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Re: [newbie] VMware(again)

[Ryan Le Gros]

LOL! Finally someone who is actually completely non window/dos verbal, the
wave of a new generation is here! Anyways to safely exit dos all you gotta
do is the three finger salute: ctrl+alt+del. If you are talking about
exiting dos from within the VMWare client, I have no clue, havent really
figgured out if I want to use VMWare or not, let me know how it works when
you get it running smoothly

Ryan Le Gros

- Original Message -
From: "marcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] VMware(again)


> Dear Fabian, Esteban, and Sridhar, Thank you all very much for your
> help. I have successfully installed and configured(I believe) Vmware
> 2.0.3 on my LM 7.2 and I am very pleasantly surprised about that and
> thanks to your help. However, I am having problems installing my Windows
> 95 version 4x.
>
>  I have been following the instructions given from the vmware support
> page but all I get are error messages such as invalid commands, etc.
> Would anyone be able to help me step by step with the Windows 95
> installation? It seems they say it is necessary to format your disk
> first that is where I am having problems. I am not familiar with Dos at
> all. I just downloaded alot of Dos info to help me,however something as
> simple as exiting Dos I cannot seem to do. How do you safely exit DOS?
>
> Also, does anyone know of a good vmware email support group?   Thanks
> for any help or suggestions. Sincerely, Marcia
>
>

Re: [newbie] VMware(again)

[marcia]

Dear Fabian, Esteban, and Sridhar, Thank you all very much for your
help. I have successfully installed and configured(I believe) Vmware
2.0.3 on my LM 7.2 and I am very pleasantly surprised about that and
thanks to your help. However, I am having problems installing my Windows
95 version 4x.

 I have been following the instructions given from the vmware support
page but all I get are error messages such as invalid commands, etc.
Would anyone be able to help me step by step with the Windows 95
installation? It seems they say it is necessary to format your disk
first that is where I am having problems. I am not familiar with Dos at
all. I just downloaded alot of Dos info to help me,however something as
simple as exiting Dos I cannot seem to do. How do you safely exit DOS?

Also, does anyone know of a good vmware email support group?   Thanks
for any help or suggestions. Sincerely, Marcia

[newbie] logs..

[Dale Kosan]

Hello, in the /var/log directory I am seeing a whole bunch of tar.gz
logs, I assume these are old and that logrotate generated them.Are
they safe to delete if I don't need them? Thanks in advance

[newbie] problem with powersave

[Jacob]

My computer goes to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. I did whatever I
could find in howto and there is no effect.
When I use
setterm -powersave powerdown and like

I get a message
cannot (un)set powersave mode.

I've seen the discussion about this message on the Internet, they suggest
that this command was issued in graphics mode. I have that in text mode.
Graphics mode is disabled (runlevel 3 in inittab).

Also when computer comes out of powersave, the system time is wrong (3 hours
plus).
Is there any way to solve it?

Thank you.
Jacob

Re: [newbie] Xwindows configuration

[AndyMonks]

in install try fbdev. that is more copatable.

Re: [newbie] ZipCD 650 USB CD recorder and Mandrake 7.2

[MarkP]

A boss at work is having trouble getting one of those running under Win

MarkP

Keith Christian wrote:

> Has anyone gotten this (ZipCD 650 USB) to work with the stock store-bought
> Mandrake 7.2?
>
> If so, are there any config file changes necessary?  Should the ZipCD USB be
> plugged in before Mandrake is booted to be detected, or will Mandrake
> detect/configure without a reboot?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ===Keith
>
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RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning

[Daryl Johnson]

It allows you to use several different kernels more easily.  Some people
have a need for it, some don't  :o)

regards

Daryl

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
> Sent: 27 February 2001 23:43
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning
>
>
> Daryl,
>
> You're correct...I did miss that part. Could-a swore you were suggesting a
> 10MB /. However, why would you want to waste so much space on something
> that isn't likely going to ever need that much space provided /var and
> /usr are on seperate partitons? Even if didn't put /var on it's own
> partition and only put /usr on it's own partiton you still wouldn't need
> that much space.
>
> Sorry for the misunderstanding.
>
> --
> Mark
>
> "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
> worthless,"
> "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Daryl Johnson wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:15:27 -
> > From: Daryl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning
> >
> > Uh Mark you appear to have misread my post.
> >
> > I wasn't suggesting a 10Mb / but a 10Mb /root - a significant
> difference as
> > I am sure you would agree.  What I suggested was that / should be the
> > remainder of the drive which I would expect to be anything from
> 2Gb upwards.
> >
> > I would also expect the suggestions I made to allow the system to run
> > correctly, particularly if his hd is larger than 4Gb.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Daryl
> >
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
> > > Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux partitioning
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok...but what does he do if he wants his system to run correctly? He's
> > > clearly going to need more room on "/" then 10MB. What about
> /etc, or /var
> > > which both have a tendency to "grow"...sometimes a lot. It
> also depends on
> > > what type of installation he wants to perform.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > So :
> > > >
> > > > /swap = 2 times Ram (unless you have large amounts of Ram
> > > > /home = 10Mb or more depending on number of users and what personal
> > > > files/configurations they have
> > > > /root = /10Mb say?
> > > > / = the rest.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
>
>
>

[newbie] Linux-Compatible Player for Windows Streaming Media?

[Coy L. Scott]

Is there a Linux-compatible player for Windows streaming media?

[newbie] filenames - bright green with * after them

[Robert Fleming]

Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately after
them when a directory listing is performed.

What does this indicate?

wde

[newbie] Fwd: RE: firing up kppp and root

[L. H. LOO]

ms raju honoured me by posting the below question direct to me. As I am a 
dummy newbie myself, the message is forwarded here for other gurus to help 
out. TIA, Regards


>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 05:42:06 -0800
>From: ms raju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: firing up kppp and root
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Reply-to: ms raju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "ms raju" 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Hi,
>
>We have a unix server running ftp and telnet
>services. The server has PPP(Point-to-Point
>Protocol) deamon software running always in the
>background.
>
>We need our windows application developed in
>VC++, to connect to the unix server. The server
>and the PC in which our application is residing,
>are connected using RS-232 serail communication.
>
>Our requirement is to establish communication(FTP
>and Telnet sessions)
>between the server and our application. i.e our
>application need to send the
>FTP commands like username, passwd, md, cd etc to
>the server connected
>using RS-232 thru the com port.
>
>Can we able to connect from windows 95 to unix
>using ppp protocol. The server and client are
>physically located in the same place. So we want
>to use null modem and want to avoid using modem
>etc but still we need ppp.
>
>We are planning to use trumpet winsock. Will it
>suit our reqmt?
>
>Reagrds,
>Sreekanth/Raju

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Re: [newbie] Installation Error @ step "Setup Filesystems"

[Buzz and Nan]

The Neat thing about Linux is you can you boot it from anywhere.

I boot Linux-Mandrak 7.2 on a secondary hard drive without hassle. When I
tried upgrading to Kernel 2.4, however doesn't like it much.

Partition Magic is a good tool for resizing and creating partitions. Also
helps in creating a partition that Linux understands uses rather easily.

Windows 98, Windows 98 J, Windows 2000 and Linux all coexist peacefully.

Good luck!
Buzz
- Original Message -
From: "Hans N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:01 PM
Subject: [newbie] Installation Error @ step "Setup Filesystems"


> I recently submitted a problem with installation to the customer service
> (follows). Although I have not received the remedy, I thought I'd pose the
> question here since I'm sure I will not be the only one to have this
> problem. On a side note, I was wondering how advantageous a secondary hard
> drive would be for a dual-boot system. Feel free to send thoughts on a
> second hard drive directly to my e-mail account. Thank you.
>
> Original Message:
>
> I am running Windows 98 second edition on a Compaq Presario 7471 Internet
> PC. Compaq has my system set up with a partition already made. The C:
drive
> being the main partition and the D: drive being the second partition. all
my
> work is done with the C: drive, the D: drive is there for reinstalling
> software to factory settings. The D: drive is unneeded since the Compaq
> software CD's for my system work better than the D: drive installation.
>
> Now to the problem. I want to have the dual-boot option so that I may keep
> Windows 98 working on my system. I wanted to install Linux Mandrake 7.2
> Powerpack Deluxe on the same hard drive, I own only one hard drive.
> Configuring my set-up worked very smoothly until I reach the step "Setup
> Filesystems" Linux recognized both partitions (C: and D:) and asked which
> partition I would like Linux to be installed on. My natural choice was the
> larger C: partition. The error message I received when selecting the C:
> drive is as follows:
>
> Partitioning Failed: The FAT resizer is unable to handle your partition,
the
> following error occurred: Can't locate object method "new" via package
> "resize_fat::main" at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_interactive.pm line
108,
> <> line 6
>
> My hard drive utilizes Windows' FAT 16 file allocation. I have ActivePerl
> 5.6.623 installed on Windows 98. My computer boots my CD-RW before my
> floppy, allowing me to boot for CD installation with no problem. I have
> noticed no other obvious errors when attempting to install the Linux OS. I
> also noticed no unusual problems with the Windows software. However, I am
> completely inexperienced with using Linux software.
>
> I have researched the mailing lists and the booklets as well as the
> tutorials accompanying the distribution. My limited knowledge points me
> towards purchasing a secondary hard drive, deleting the D: drive, and
> requesting your aid... I decided to start here first. I thank you for your
> time and patience and look forward to hearing something soon. Please feel
> free to request any and all information you feel is appropriate to help
> alleviate this situation. I still anxiously await my first step away from
> the Windows environment :^)
>
> Sincerely and respectfully,
> Hans Nielsen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>

Re: [newbie] SPAM

[Anthony Daniell]

Hi, sorry about that, Thanks for that also.

Just visiting this planet,
Please sign the Linux Driver petition
http://www.libranet.com/petition.html
http://ants.www4.50megs.com/linux.html
http://www.50megs.com
Anthony Daniell
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM


> Anthony,
>
> It's right there on the message.  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> --
> Mark
>
> "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
worthless,"
> "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Anthony Daniell wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:41:54 +1000
> > From: Anthony Daniell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] untar commands?

[Robert Fleming]

tar -xzvf filename should do it

wade


- Original Message - 
From: Bill Barto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:24 PM
Subject: [newbie] untar commands?


> Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz
> file?
> I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it
> work.
> My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I installed new controller card. MFG only has
> e-mail
> support and wife is crying about "the mouse doesn't work the same as
> windows".
> I d/l the support.pdf file from the MFG but the built in reader gives me
> blank pages.
> Now I have d/l Acrobat reader but can't get it to untar. Have used
> Archiver in 7.2
> and can get to the files but leaves them in tar format. How do I get
> them from tar
> to executables?
> 

Re: [newbie] untar commands?

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Bill:

To uncompress a tar.gz file, simply do the following:

As user, type tar -xzf xxx.tar.gz

For example, to untar (uncompress) the mozilla browser suite, do as follows:

tar -xzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8-MathML-SVG-XSLT.tar.gz

It is sometimes preferable to put your tar.gz file into a special directory.

For example, after downloading the mozilla file into your home 
directory, you can create a mozilla directory (you can call it whatever 
you want). For example, you can call it MOZ

$ mkdir MOZ

Then move the tar.gz file into this directory:

$ mv mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8-MathML-SVG-XSLT.tar.gz MOZ

Now within /home/user/MOZ untar the file as above and you will find a 
new subdirectory, in this case, "mozilla" (/home/user/MOZ/mozilla). Now, 
either rebuild the tar.gz file (i.e "configure", "make" and "make 
install" -- this does NOT apply to Mozilla but to many other tar.gz 
binaries). In this case, all you need to do is to go into 
/home/user/MOZ/mozilla and type ./mozilla  This will launch the Mozilla 
browser.

Yours,

Benjamin





-- 
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] SPAM

[Mark Weaver]

Anthony,

It's right there on the message.  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."


On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Anthony Daniell wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:41:54 +1000
> From: Anthony Daniell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
>
> Does anyone know adam's email address as he keeps sending the same email to
> the list
>
> Just visiting this planet,
> Please sign the Linux Driver petition
> http://www.libranet.com/petition.html
> http://ants.www4.50megs.com/linux.html
> http://www.50megs.com
> Anthony Daniell
> - Original Message -
> From: "adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
>
>
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
> >
> >
> > > maybe English is a second language for this person. In which case their
> > > english isn't all that bad. Certainly much better then some folks I know
> > > that speak and write the language as their mother tongue!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
> > worthless,"
> > > "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Kyle Baker wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:02:31 -0800 (PST)
> > > > From: Kyle Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
> > > >
> > > > The incredibly poor grammar and egregious spelling (in)ability
> > > > was far worse than the autoreply, which is saying a lot...
> > > >
> > > > --- rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > I vote for the poor spelling and improper grammar (it's=it is,
> > > > > as an
> > > > > example).  Spam can be dealt with.  Incorrigibles cannot.
> > > > >
> > > > > Rob
> > > > >
> > > > > On Monday 26 February 2001 21:56, you wrote:
> > > > > > I don't really know which is more annoying-the
> > > > > autoreply, or the
> > > > > > poor spelling.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cyber Sam wrote:
> > > > > > > You my knowledge, having an autoreply assigned to my email
> > > > > is not
> > > > > > > spamming, if in the opinion of the moderators of this list
> > > > > it is
> > > > > > > considered spam, I should let you know that I run a legal
> > > > > business on
> > > > > > > the web that requires that my customers get a timely reply
> > > > > to all of
> > > > > > > there queries.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have had my legal department look at what constitutes
> > > > > 'SPAM' and in
> > > > > > > there opinion, since the autoreply does not imply or
> > > > > solicited you to
> > > > > > > do anything, only supplies information, it can not be
> > > > > legally
> > > > > > > considered 'SPAM'.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > If you do not like the fact that my company has an
> > > > > autoreply assigned
> > > > > > > to it's email, you have the choice of filtering it out, or
> > > > > ignoring
> > > > > > > it. Reporting it to the anti-spam groups will not cause me
> > > > > to change
> > > > > > > how I or how thousands of other businesses do business in
> > > > > the net.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > __
> > > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
> > > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Re: [newbie] SPAM

[Mark Weaver]

I was wondering what was up with that too, but it wouldn't do them any
good sending that way cause the filters take care of those kinds of
things.

-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."


On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Dennis Myers wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:20:49 -0600
> From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
>
> If you are trying to hit the guy with a blast of copies you have set your
> email to send everything in multiple copies, at least it looks that way from
> here, I recieved about 5 copies of this mail.
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > - Original Message -
> > From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
> >
> > > maybe English is a second language for this person. In which case their
> > > english isn't all that bad. Certainly much better then some folks I know
> > > that speak and write the language as their mother tongue!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
> >
> > worthless,"
> >
> > > "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
> > >
> > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Kyle Baker wrote:
> > > > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:02:31 -0800 (PST)
> > > > From: Kyle Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
> > > >
> > > > The incredibly poor grammar and egregious spelling (in)ability
> > > > was far worse than the autoreply, which is saying a lot...
> > > >
> > > > --- rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > I vote for the poor spelling and improper grammar (it's=it is,
> > > > > as an
> > > > > example).  Spam can be dealt with.  Incorrigibles cannot.
> > > > >
> > > > > Rob
> > > > >
> > > > > On Monday 26 February 2001 21:56, you wrote:
> > > > > > I don't really know which is more annoying-the
> > > > >
> > > > > autoreply, or the
> > > > >
> > > > > > poor spelling.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cyber Sam wrote:
> > > > > > > You my knowledge, having an autoreply assigned to my email
> > > > >
> > > > > is not
> > > > >
> > > > > > > spamming, if in the opinion of the moderators of this list
> > > > >
> > > > > it is
> > > > >
> > > > > > > considered spam, I should let you know that I run a legal
> > > > >
> > > > > business on
> > > > >
> > > > > > > the web that requires that my customers get a timely reply
> > > > >
> > > > > to all of
> > > > >
> > > > > > > there queries.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have had my legal department look at what constitutes
> > > > >
> > > > > 'SPAM' and in
> > > > >
> > > > > > > there opinion, since the autoreply does not imply or
> > > > >
> > > > > solicited you to
> > > > >
> > > > > > > do anything, only supplies information, it can not be
> > > > >
> > > > > legally
> > > > >
> > > > > > > considered 'SPAM'.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > If you do not like the fact that my company has an
> > > > >
> > > > > autoreply assigned
> > > > >
> > > > > > > to it's email, you have the choice of filtering it out, or
> > > > >
> > > > > ignoring
> > > > >
> > > > > > > it. Reporting it to the anti-spam groups will not cause me
> > > > >
> > > > > to change
> > > > >
> > > > > > > how I or how thousands of other businesses do business in
> > > > >
> > > > > the net.
> > > >
> > > > __
> > > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
> > > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
>
>

Re: [newbie] SPAM

[Mark Weaver]

Ummm...Ok, I'll bite. what is it that you're trying to say?

-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."


On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, adam wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:08:25 -0600
> From: adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
>
>
> > maybe English is a second language for this person. In which case their
> > english isn't all that bad. Certainly much better then some folks I know
> > that speak and write the language as their mother tongue!
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
> worthless,"
> > "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Kyle Baker wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:02:31 -0800 (PST)
> > > From: Kyle Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
> > >
> > > The incredibly poor grammar and egregious spelling (in)ability
> > > was far worse than the autoreply, which is saying a lot...
> > >
> > > --- rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I vote for the poor spelling and improper grammar (it's=it is,
> > > > as an
> > > > example).  Spam can be dealt with.  Incorrigibles cannot.
> > > >
> > > > Rob
> > > >
> > > > On Monday 26 February 2001 21:56, you wrote:
> > > > > I don't really know which is more annoying-the
> > > > autoreply, or the
> > > > > poor spelling.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cyber Sam wrote:
> > > > > > You my knowledge, having an autoreply assigned to my email
> > > > is not
> > > > > > spamming, if in the opinion of the moderators of this list
> > > > it is
> > > > > > considered spam, I should let you know that I run a legal
> > > > business on
> > > > > > the web that requires that my customers get a timely reply
> > > > to all of
> > > > > > there queries.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have had my legal department look at what constitutes
> > > > 'SPAM' and in
> > > > > > there opinion, since the autoreply does not imply or
> > > > solicited you to
> > > > > > do anything, only supplies information, it can not be
> > > > legally
> > > > > > considered 'SPAM'.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you do not like the fact that my company has an
> > > > autoreply assigned
> > > > > > to it's email, you have the choice of filtering it out, or
> > > > ignoring
> > > > > > it. Reporting it to the anti-spam groups will not cause me
> > > > to change
> > > > > > how I or how thousands of other businesses do business in
> > > > the net.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > __
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
> > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>

Re: [newbie] SPAM

[Mark Weaver]

Adam,

What is it that you're trying to say?

-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."


On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, adam wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:08:43 -0600
> From: adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
>
>
> > maybe English is a second language for this person. In which case their
> > english isn't all that bad. Certainly much better then some folks I know
> > that speak and write the language as their mother tongue!
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
> worthless,"
> > "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Kyle Baker wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:02:31 -0800 (PST)
> > > From: Kyle Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] SPAM
> > >
> > > The incredibly poor grammar and egregious spelling (in)ability
> > > was far worse than the autoreply, which is saying a lot...
> > >
> > > --- rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I vote for the poor spelling and improper grammar (it's=it is,
> > > > as an
> > > > example).  Spam can be dealt with.  Incorrigibles cannot.
> > > >
> > > > Rob
> > > >
> > > > On Monday 26 February 2001 21:56, you wrote:
> > > > > I don't really know which is more annoying-the
> > > > autoreply, or the
> > > > > poor spelling.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cyber Sam wrote:
> > > > > > You my knowledge, having an autoreply assigned to my email
> > > > is not
> > > > > > spamming, if in the opinion of the moderators of this list
> > > > it is
> > > > > > considered spam, I should let you know that I run a legal
> > > > business on
> > > > > > the web that requires that my customers get a timely reply
> > > > to all of
> > > > > > there queries.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have had my legal department look at what constitutes
> > > > 'SPAM' and in
> > > > > > there opinion, since the autoreply does not imply or
> > > > solicited you to
> > > > > > do anything, only supplies information, it can not be
> > > > legally
> > > > > > considered 'SPAM'.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you do not like the fact that my company has an
> > > > autoreply assigned
> > > > > > to it's email, you have the choice of filtering it out, or
> > > > ignoring
> > > > > > it. Reporting it to the anti-spam groups will not cause me
> > > > to change
> > > > > > how I or how thousands of other businesses do business in
> > > > the net.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > __
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
> > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>

[newbie] Aurora hangs showing only left bar

[Timo Hoderlein]

Hi evereyone,

I have already tried to install Mandrake 7.2 several times. The install
process goes smoothly, but when the system boots for the first time, the
graphical boot manager Aurora freezes and shows only the left bar. There
is also no reaction of mouse or keyboard.
If I choose failsafe mode, the system starts without any problem.

I am a little disappointed because the Mandrake 7.1 version worked fine.

What can I do to solve this problem?

Here's my hardware configuration:

AMD Athlon 800 MHz on a ASUS K7V board
Matrox Millenium II
Adaptec AHA-2940UW with Quantum Viking II 4.5WLS, IBM DCAS-32160W
Adapter, Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD-303 and Yamaha CRW8824S
Adaptec AVA-2904
Soundblaster 128PCI
REalmagic Hollywood Plus-Decompression card

I would appreciate any suggestions

CU

Timo

[newbie] Installation Error @ step "Setup Filesystems"

[Hans N.]

I recently submitted a problem with installation to the customer service
(follows). Although I have not received the remedy, I thought I'd pose the
question here since I'm sure I will not be the only one to have this
problem. On a side note, I was wondering how advantageous a secondary hard
drive would be for a dual-boot system. Feel free to send thoughts on a
second hard drive directly to my e-mail account. Thank you.

Original Message:

I am running Windows 98 second edition on a Compaq Presario 7471 Internet
PC. Compaq has my system set up with a partition already made. The C: drive
being the main partition and the D: drive being the second partition. all my
work is done with the C: drive, the D: drive is there for reinstalling
software to factory settings. The D: drive is unneeded since the Compaq
software CD's for my system work better than the D: drive installation.

Now to the problem. I want to have the dual-boot option so that I may keep
Windows 98 working on my system. I wanted to install Linux Mandrake 7.2
Powerpack Deluxe on the same hard drive, I own only one hard drive.
Configuring my set-up worked very smoothly until I reach the step "Setup
Filesystems" Linux recognized both partitions (C: and D:) and asked which
partition I would like Linux to be installed on. My natural choice was the
larger C: partition. The error message I received when selecting the C:
drive is as follows:

Partitioning Failed: The FAT resizer is unable to handle your partition, the
following error occurred: Can't locate object method "new" via package
"resize_fat::main" at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_interactive.pm line 108,
<> line 6

My hard drive utilizes Windows' FAT 16 file allocation. I have ActivePerl
5.6.623 installed on Windows 98. My computer boots my CD-RW before my
floppy, allowing me to boot for CD installation with no problem. I have
noticed no other obvious errors when attempting to install the Linux OS. I
also noticed no unusual problems with the Windows software. However, I am
completely inexperienced with using Linux software.

I have researched the mailing lists and the booklets as well as the
tutorials accompanying the distribution. My limited knowledge points me
towards purchasing a secondary hard drive, deleting the D: drive, and
requesting your aid... I decided to start here first. I thank you for your
time and patience and look forward to hearing something soon. Please feel
free to request any and all information you feel is appropriate to help
alleviate this situation. I still anxiously await my first step away from
the Windows environment :^)

Sincerely and respectfully,
Hans Nielsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] filenames - bright green with * after them

[Quaylar]

At 21:55 28.02.2001 +1300, you wrote:
>Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately after
>them when a directory listing is performed.
>
>What does this indicate?
>
>wde


i think this is indicating that they are executable

--quay


--
-Quaylar-
Icq# 30932448
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Re: [newbie] untar commands?

[John Rye]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:24:46 -0500
Bill Barto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 tar -zxvf 'wholecompletefilename'

> Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz
> file?
> I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make
> it
> work.
> My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I installed new controller card. MFG only
> has
> e-mail
> support and wife is crying about "the mouse doesn't work the same as
> windows".
> I d/l the support.pdf file from the MFG but the built in reader gives
> me
> blank pages.
> Now I have d/l Acrobat reader but can't get it to untar. Have used
> Archiver in 7.2
> and can get to the files but leaves them in tar format. How do I get
> them from tar
> to executables?
> 
> 


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Re: [newbie] untar commands?

[Randy Meyer]

Bill Barto wrote:
> 
> Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz
> file?
> I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it
> work.
> My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I installed new controller card. MFG only has
> e-mail
> support and wife is crying about "the mouse doesn't work the same as
> windows".
> I d/l the support.pdf file from the MFG but the built in reader gives me
> blank pages.
> Now I have d/l Acrobat reader but can't get it to untar. Have used
> Archiver in 7.2
> and can get to the files but leaves them in tar format. How do I get
> them from tar
> to executables?

If you are using LM 7.2, you should already have everything you need to
install Acrobat Reader. I have the "Complete" distro, and it is on disk
#3 in the AcrobatReader directory. The installation instructions are in
the index.html file. For information on the tar command, use Konqueror
to browse the location #tar and the usage instructions will be
displayed.

Re: [newbie] filenames - bright green with * after them

[John Rye]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:55:57 +1300
"Robert Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Several files on our system appear bright green with a * immediately
> after them when a directory listing is performed.
> 
> What does this indicate?

That their 'executable' bit is set.

In most cases that will mean that that file may be run by typing it's
command.

For example the commandline ls -l /usr/bin/s* returns the following
listing of /usr/bin (truncated)

-rwxr-xr-x1 root root14627 Apr  1  2000 /usr/bin/s2p*
-r-xr-sr-x1 root games   21296 May 11  2000
/usr/bin/same-gnome*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root 2994 Apr 18  2000
/usr/bin/sane-config*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root  122 Apr 25  2000
/usr/bin/savetextmode*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root  194 Apr 21  2000
/usr/bin/saveunimap*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root   140752 May 12  2000
/usr/bin/sawmill*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root12816 May 12  2000
/usr/bin/sawmill-capplet*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root10704 May 12  2000
/usr/bin/sawmill-client*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root35314 May 12  2000
/usr/bin/sawmill-themer*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root30416 May 12  2000
/usr/bin/sawmill-ui*
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root19440 Apr 18  2000
/usr/bin/scanimage*

And so on

run 'man ls' from your console for a detailed explaination

Cheers

John

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