[newbie] GFXcel motherboard

[Enrique Bejarano]

How can I set a GFXcel Motherboard I have problems
with the sound (SIS), the card net (SIS900)and 
modem(HSP AMR)
I can't set SIS900 when I install mandrake it ask me
for some parameters but I don't know what to
writeplease help me thanks

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[newbie] GFXcel motherboard

[Enrique Bejarano]

How can I set a GFXcel Motherboard I have problems
with the sound (SIS), the card net (SIS900)and 
modem(HSP AMR)
I can't set SIS900 when I install mandrake it ask me
for some parameters but I don't know what to
writeplease help me thanks

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[newbie] Burning Man8.0 install CD from ISO image

[Dennis Gans]

  I'm about to burn the Mandrake 8.0 install CD-ROM from the downloaded iso 
image and looking for some guidance. I have already burned the ext. CD from 
the downloaded iso image and was worried when I tried to explore the files 
on the CD and could not get into it. It just sits there as an iso image that 
I can copy or burn but not open.
  Do I need to make the CD bootable or is this a separate issue? And if I 
need to make the CD bootable, do I have to use a Linux bootdisk or can I use 
a Win bootdisk? If it has to be a Linux bootdisk, does it have to be a 
Mandrake bootdisk or can it be a bootdisk form another distribution (which I 
have)?

Dennis
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Re: [newbie] Hard Drives

[Jose Mirles]

You know I saw the same problem and wondered the same thing. Hopefully 
someone has an answer.

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 10:30, Terry wrote:
> I was curious ...
>
> I was watching "The Screensavers" on TechTV last night, when they aired a
> segment from the PC Expo in New York City.  The reporter there was
> talking about a new hard drive from Maxtor that will hold 100 GB of data.
>  He also mentioned that M$ windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000) uses 24-bit
> addressing, only allowing windows to recognize a single drive of 137 GB
> max.
>
> That made me curious .. what is the largest single drive size Linux would
> recognize?

-- 
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Re: [newbie] AOL

[Jose Mirles]

My understanding is that version 4, 16bit will work with wine

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 04:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I tryed aol 6.0 using wine last night, using wine. It just exited the
> setup for me, i'll try 5.0 tonight, i'll keep you posted!
>
> Equ1n0x

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Re: [newbie] laptop monitor - Mandrake not using the full screen

[Kevin Fonner]

I had the same problem with my Compaq laptop...  I upgraded to version 4.x
of X...  Tried changing the resolution again...  Worked in a jiffy!

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Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 7:28 PM
Subject: [newbie] laptop monitor - Mandrake not using the full screen


> Hello: I installed Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop which has
> a 15" monitor. The linux OS seems to be only taking
> about 12" of that. The laptop is a HP n5470 model.
>
> Anybody has figured this out ?
>
> Thanks
> Ravi
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[newbie] laptop monitor - Mandrake not using the full screen

[Ravi Malghan]

Hello: I installed Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop which has
a 15" monitor. The linux OS seems to be only taking
about 12" of that. The laptop is a HP n5470 model.

Anybody has figured this out ?

Thanks
Ravi

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[newbie] wwwoffle

[geRcO]

hi folks...

I'm new in this list. my first questions is : how i can configure 
wwwoffle in clients with winbugs and LM8.0 like server ...


Thanks

geRcO

[newbie] Network Connection

[preston smith]

I installed MD 8.0 a fe days ago and am slowly sorting things out bit by bit.

On the initial install, my Network card was recognized (SMC EZ card (1660) 
ISA) but i was unable to connect to my ADSL (dhcp) server.  After messing 
with the drivers, I obtained connectivity and all was well.

I shut down and later rebooted - again my network card was recognized but 
the driver (NE2000 or compatible is recommended) was not loaded.  For the 
life of me, i can not get things working now.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Preston

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RE: [newbie] webmin not working..

[Franki]

run ntsysv and make sure the webmin service is selected to start at boot

then check your firewall and make sure it has port 1 open.


thats a good start

rgds

Frank

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Subject: [newbie] webmin not working..


I have webmin installed and configured. When I connect to port 1 nothing
happens :/

Any idea what could be wrong ?
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Re: [newbie] Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here?

[Michel Clasquin]

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 16:37, you wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> "If Microsoft were to cook up a plan to cause Linux to disappear in a
> virtual Tower of Babel it could scarcely be more effective than that which
> has been adopted by distributions on their own, voluntarily."
>
> This is from an article by Dennis E. Powell in Linuxtoday (June 27, 2001)
> (www.linuxtoday.com)

There actually is a link to a 4-page LinuxPlanet story from which this is an 
excerpt. Do read the whole story there, everyone. The linuxtoday excerpt 
doesn't tell the whole story at all.

>entitled "Separated by a Common Operating System".

As was pointed out by somebody in the linuxtoday discussion about this, he 
recommends Suse for desktop/newbie use, and then finds fault when he can't do 
the kind of *heavy* customisation on it for which you'd normally install 
Debian or Slackware. Not really very logical. I mean, compiling your own 
glibc and bleeding-edge KDE? This isn't trivial stuff he is talking about. 
It's what Suse (and MDK, in our case) pay engineers for. You know, people who 
do this stuff for a living.

The Suse people must have gone to a lot of trouble to hide all those linux 
bootup hieroglyphics. Powell promptly gets them back. Elsewhere, he complains 
that Suse keeps on resetting to runlevel 5. For a *desktop*-oriented distro, 
I'd say bravo! 

It seems a dilemma many linux oldtimers have nowadays. They do want all the X 
eye candy, but only so they can run vi in fancier-looking surrounds! 

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[newbie] Some reviews for those looking into hardware...

[Jason Guidry]

As per recent discussion, I thought I'd drop these by.  No, I don't work for
anandtech.com (as should be obvious from my posts) but here are some reviews
that should be of interest...  Note, there are for the people who love
plowing through pages of benchmarks, but if it makes your head hurt, you can
always jump to the "conclusion" page.

Linux Video Cards
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1331

Socket A (AMD Duron/T-Bird) Chipset Comparison
http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1448&p=1

And here's that article they did on their own server upgrade.  Of particular
interest should be an _open_source_ load balancer that they utilized after
using big $$$ hardware solutions.  Lots of info.
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1456&p=1

I'm not a Pentium fan, but a chipset comparison for linux specifically:
http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1384&p=1

Re: [newbie] The List, Mobo's et al.

[civileme]

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 17:38, Terrence Smith wrote:
> I'm still a relatively new 'newbie' but making steady progress!
>
> I value the list, am delighted to be learning a new way to compute
> (back to my roots so to speak), etc., etc.
>
> I've got a brain-damaged Compaq box at home that barely manages to
> run LM 8.0 and so have been looking about for a 'genuwine' linux
> box.
>
> The motherboard/chipset discussion is most valuable and I thank the
> list and especially Civileme for their advice.
>
> I'm currently looking at a box put together by an outfit called
> Cyclox (www.cyclox.com).
>
> They have a 'workstation' model thus:
>
> Asus Mobo (must be the A7A266 AliMAGiK 1 DDR) although they don't
> say so. It has
> the AliM1647 Northbridge and ALIM1535D+ SouthBridge controllers
> 266 mhz FSB
> 2 DIMSS for DDR SDRAM
> 3 DIMMS for PC133 DDRAM
> C-media CMI-8738 audio chip (onboard)
> AGP Pro slot with AGP 4X support
> 5 PCI, up to 6 USB, 2 ser, 1 par
> Dual channel bus master w/ ATA-33/66/100 support
> ATX form
>
> My two questions:
>
> Does this mobo/chipset set have the problems with linux
> performance/stability that we've been hearing about?

Nope.  It is a hot box right on the bleeding edge.  Equip it properly 
and clock conservatively and you should have good service.  Been a 
while since I saw an ALi chipset, but they were very good in 
everything but Acer Compuers, and those folks made enough money to 
buy Texas Instruments.  I haven't seen the TI/Acer Notebooks lately 
either, but then I am living in France.

Civileme

>
> Anybody dealt with this company?

No, but I would be concerned about something in their Ads.  They are 
selling VULNERABLE IBM Notebooks with RH installed.  RH installs 
lm_utils by default and anyone who uses them to check battery power 
on most IBM Laptops will be sending it back to the factory for a new 
Motherboard.  George Staikos of kde.org provided information to us 
and to RH about the threat to certain models of IBM notebooks.  Our 
lm_utils are excluded by default.  You have to hunt them down.  
Anyway, cyclox is selling those notebooks with RH and may find itself 
in financial difficulties with warranty matters.  Other than that, 
their page seems a bit on the glitzy side, but more intelligent than 
most "sell-a-brick-and-call-it-an-ATA-733-brick" operations.

>
> TIA.
>
> Terry Smith
> Woods  Hole, MA-

Re: [newbie] Error 1 and 2 when compiling a tarball

[civileme]

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 16:27, Peter Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
>
> A MDK 8.0 question: What program, libraries, or header files am I
> missing if a "make" command terminates in Error 1 or Error 2
> messages when trying to compile a tarry geezer?
>
> Best,
>
> Pete Spotts

Most likely, the standard header files which are not included by 
default by this compiler.  You actually have to have include 
statements within. It is more strict than you are perhaps used to 
though les strict than gcc 3.0 and it does produce solid code.  That 
is, when you can get things to compile.

You might also be missing libraries--you need to check over the 
output messages besides the error codes.

Civileme

Re: [newbie] su problem

[Peter Ruskin]

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 07:58, Ross Slade wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Ross Slade wrote:
> > Problem solved. I won't pretend to understand the hows or why's, but I
> > finally located this file:
> >
> > /root/.xauth/refcount/rosco/bunyip/unix:0
> >
> > With a 100meg file size. After deleting it I can now 'su' again.
> >
> > rosco = my usual user name
> > bunyip = my machine's name
> >
> > Thanks to all for the help...
>
> Sorry, I was a little quick off the mark with my success...the above
> allowed me to 'su' when logged in as root, but not when I relogged in as
> rosco.
>
> I then had to also delete "/home/rosco/.xauth/refcount/rosco/bunyip/unix:0"
> which also had a 100Meg filesize.
>
> _Now_ I can go back to using 'su' the way I used to.
>
> Anyone know what these files do and why they get so big?
>
On my machine the equivalent of /root/.xauth/refcount/rosco/bunyip/unix:0 
doesn't exist - its directory does.  My equivalent of 
/home/rosco/.xauth/refcount/rosco/bunyip/unix:0 is only 34 bytes.
HTH
-- 
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Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ )
Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586
 Linux 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr,  KDE: 2.1.2,  Qt: 2.3.1
Uptime 2 days 1 hour 40 minutes

[newbie] Drakefont

[OOzy Pal]

Hello 

I am running LM8 with truetype font and anti-aliasing
beautifully. Do I have to port windows fonts or there
is no point of doing that since I have setup my LM8 to
use truetype fonts

=
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FW: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...

[Kevin Fonner]

I'm quite an experienced systems administrator and I have to agree that
windows no matter how hard you try eventually screws itself up.  Sure if you
have no life you can constantly clean the registry and go through your OS
every day file by file.  Normal people don't typically want to do that and
the utilities out there usually screw things up too.

Thought I'd share a trick of mine though.  Many moons ago I made an image of
my windows system with Ghost with just the base operating system, drivers,
and a few programs I know I'll never change.  Every 4 months I blow that
image on and spend an hour reloading the additional apps.  Saves
considerable time on reloading and I always seem to have a peek system.  I
keep all my data files on a separate drive.  I also don't spend years trying
to figure out what I did with all those dam driver disk! :)

Kevin

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Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...

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while i agree with a lot of what you said regarding windows and hardware
issues and the support that is out there, i don't agree with the viable
indefinately.
this would be perhaps true if you never used it or installed any software on
it.
my experience with umpteen hundred win machines around here is that after 12
months of operation, you are on borrowed time before weird issues start to
crop up.
however, if you never install any of MS other software like office, or
upgrade IE, and just use software that follows the rules of not F-**ing with
the OS then it runs a LOT longer without problems.

anyways, i guess my rant is OT.
so, i should end my part.

moose.

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 18:00, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2001 04:44 pm, Jason Guidry wrote:
> > Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on
> > the remaining space.  Make sure the windows partition is defragd and
> > healthy or it will give you problems.
> >
> > If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize.
> >
> > Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe the
> > whole disk clean and start over.
>
>I agree. Before you attempt to resize active partitons it's only
> prudent to back up everything you want or can't afford to loose. So why
> resize? Wipe and start over, replace your data from the backups.
>
> >   .  This way you can reinstall windows with minimum
> > pain.  All operating systems, but especially windows, experience
> > "bit-rot" which will slow sown your system, and will only be fixed by
> > re-installing regularly (3-6 months depending on use).
>
>bit-rot ??  I sort'a kind'a think that's a myth, ala urban legend.
> Windoze, even the bug laden W95 can be kept viable indefinitely. Most
> of the problems Winblows users have are user, and lately win-hardware
> problems. The first one is that they never want to, or do learn how to
> properly maintain the OS. Most believe they don't or shouldn't have to.
>
>   Just like Linux, administration of the OS is the users responsibility.
> I also tend to agree with those who've posted on another thread that
> there's just as many resources for user support for Winblows as there
> is for Linux. Most windoze users just don't seek it out tho. Also, with
> either, or any OS for that matter, hardware knowledge is paramount.
>
>   Users don't know, or wanna admit, that they or their hardware is the
> problem, so it gets blamed on the OS.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...

[mooseman]

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while i agree with a lot of what you said regarding windows and hardware 
issues and the support that is out there, i don't agree with the viable 
indefinately.
this would be perhaps true if you never used it or installed any software on 
it.
my experience with umpteen hundred win machines around here is that after 12 
months of operation, you are on borrowed time before weird issues start to 
crop up.
however, if you never install any of MS other software like office, or 
upgrade IE, and just use software that follows the rules of not F-**ing with 
the OS then it runs a LOT longer without problems.

anyways, i guess my rant is OT.
so, i should end my part.

moose.

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 18:00, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2001 04:44 pm, Jason Guidry wrote:
> > Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on
> > the remaining space.  Make sure the windows partition is defragd and
> > healthy or it will give you problems.
> >
> > If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize.
> >
> > Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe the
> > whole disk clean and start over.
>
>I agree. Before you attempt to resize active partitons it's only
> prudent to back up everything you want or can't afford to loose. So why
> resize? Wipe and start over, replace your data from the backups.
>
> >   .  This way you can reinstall windows with minimum
> > pain.  All operating systems, but especially windows, experience
> > "bit-rot" which will slow sown your system, and will only be fixed by
> > re-installing regularly (3-6 months depending on use).
>
>bit-rot ??  I sort'a kind'a think that's a myth, ala urban legend.
> Windoze, even the bug laden W95 can be kept viable indefinitely. Most
> of the problems Winblows users have are user, and lately win-hardware
> problems. The first one is that they never want to, or do learn how to
> properly maintain the OS. Most believe they don't or shouldn't have to.
>
>   Just like Linux, administration of the OS is the users responsibility.
> I also tend to agree with those who've posted on another thread that
> there's just as many resources for user support for Winblows as there
> is for Linux. Most windoze users just don't seek it out tho. Also, with
> either, or any OS for that matter, hardware knowledge is paramount.
>
>   Users don't know, or wanna admit, that they or their hardware is the
> problem, so it gets blamed on the OS.

[newbie] What is nsmail?

[George Petri]

Hi!

I've just noticed a new folder in my home directory, called "nsmail".
What made it?  What is it for?  And do I need it :)?

Thanks,
George

Re: [newbie] Groups within Groups

[George Petri]

Hi!

Yes, I meant can I have a big group called "Power User", which contains 
groups within that such as "Games", "Office" etc.  But you've answered my 
question anyway :)

Thanks,
George

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 14:34, Michael D. Viron wrote:
> George,
>
> If you mean, can a group be part of another group, not that I'm aware of.
> If you mean, can a user be part of more than one group, then yes they can
> be.
>
> Michael
>
> --
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> Registered Linux User #81978
> Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
> Web Spinners, University of West Florida
>
> At 10:52 PM 06/27/2001 +, George Petri wrote:
> >Is this possible?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >George

[newbie] Kpp not working

[ivan miranda]

Hello all,

I dialup for internet by 1)From Local ISP,in Qatar(middle east),using a 
three digit number without a user name and password.2)Via my company
acess 
server with username and password.  I can dialup using the second 
method,using Kpp and it works no problem .My problem is that i cannot
dialup to 
the local ISP,KPP insists on a username and password,however i tried 
the option for terminal authentication.When the modem connects,after
that i sees some junk characters,when i say continue,the modem gets
cutoff and PPP daemon dies 
.How can i overcome this problem?As per details of the ISP server,iknow 
they have WINNT with CHAP protocol.With windoz i can dialup and it
works. 
Somebody can  help me on this please.

Thanks
Ivan


Ivan Miranda
General Instrument Engineer/IT support
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Fax:974-4323380

Re: [newbie] Hard Drives

[civileme]

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 14:30, Terry wrote:
> I was curious ...
>
> I was watching "The Screensavers" on TechTV last night, when they
> aired a segment from the PC Expo in New York City.  The reporter
> there was talking about a new hard drive from Maxtor that will hold
> 100 GB of data.  He also mentioned that M$ windows (95, 98, ME, NT,
> 2000) uses 24-bit addressing, only allowing windows to recognize a
> single drive of 137 GB max.
>
> That made me curious .. what is the largest single drive size Linux
> would recognize?


128 Gb

It is related to hardware addressing schemes on the IDE drives. There 
is essentailly no limit for SCSI.

Civileme

Re: [newbie] Groups within Groups

[Michael D. Viron]

George,

If you mean, can a group be part of another group, not that I'm aware of.
If you mean, can a user be part of more than one group, then yes they can be.

Michael

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At 10:52 PM 06/27/2001 +, George Petri wrote:
>
>Is this possible?
>
>Thanks,
>George
>

[newbie] Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here?

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

"If Microsoft were to cook up a plan to cause Linux to disappear in a virtual 
Tower of Babel it could scarcely be more effective than that which has been 
adopted by distributions on their own, voluntarily."

This is from an article by Dennis E. Powell in Linuxtoday (June 27, 2001)
(www.linuxtoday.com) entitled "Separated by a Common Operating System". 

What do our experts (and newbies) think? If this is true, then is Linux not 
in deep trouble? 

A longer quote from the article follows:

" This column started out in the hope of comparing Progeny with SuSE; that 
fell apart when I realized that Progeny's take on things, inherited from the 
Debian to which I understand it remains true, is just too different from the 
RPM-based-distributions' way of doing things for me to learn it in a short 
time. What I went on to discover, though, is that the lumping together of 
RPM-based distros really can't be done, either. They are beset by 
incompatibilities such that they might as well be different operating systems 
(with some exceptions for people who compile their own stuff, presuming that 
they remember to install the -devel version of everything, which is also 
ridiculous). Knowledge of one distribution has little to do with any other 
distribution. This sort of thing occasionally results in indignant howls, as 
when Red Hat shipped gcc-2.96. Usually, though, it goes largely unnoticed. 
But it has its effect, and that is confusion among prospective users. Not 
long ago, if you got a Linux distribution you got Debian, Slackware, or 
something else, and the something elses were largely interchangeable as to 
what they installed -- the differences were in installation and configuration 
tools, the newness of the stuff included, and what applications were 
provided. Upgrading was fairly simple, because an RPM for one would probably 
work for all. And Linux desktop use grew."

"Now incompatibilities are being introduced hand over fist, as distributions 
fight for a bigger and bigger piece of a diminishing pie, until oneday one 
will own all of nothing. Does this do anything useful for the distributions, 
users, Linux, anybody? Well, no. And while I've singled SuSE out because it's 
the one where I've most recently encountered this nonsense, no distribution 
is exempt. If Microsoft were to cook up a plan to cause Linux to disappear in 
a virtual Tower of Babel it could scarcely be more effective than that which 
has been adopted by distributions on their own, voluntarily."

Benjamin
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RE: [newbie] Installing jdk..

[Schneider, Eric]

edmz,

You can put your jdk directory and files any where you want.  

Let's say you install the jdk in:
/home/edmz/Java/j2dk1.3.1/

When you open a shell, you can manually set the path to include your java
dir:

export PATH=$PATH:/home/edmz/Java/j2dk1.3.1/bin

Ideally, you'll probably want your path and classpath to be set every time
you open a shell.

If you use bash(which is usually the default shell on most distributions),
you can vi into a file called .bashrc (in the user base directory) and add
entries to the file:

PATH=$PATH:/home/edmz/Java/j2dk1.3.1/bin
CLASSPATH=/home/edmz/Java/source

Good luck!

eric.

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> From: Eduardo Dominguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Installing jdk..
> 
> 
> I got the jdk bin from Sun. After running it, it extracts its contents
> to a directory called j2dk-1.3.1. What is the proper way to install
> this contents ? (where to put files so that they are in the path ?
> symbolic links in bin ? is there a env. var. I must set ? )
> I read the installation file but it says nothing about this. 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -- 
> edmz
> Oh no, not another learning experience!
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[newbie] Hard Drives

[Terry]

I was curious ...

I was watching "The Screensavers" on TechTV last night, when they aired a 
segment from the PC Expo in New York City.  The reporter there was talking 
about a new hard drive from Maxtor that will hold 100 GB of data.  He also 
mentioned that M$ windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000) uses 24-bit addressing, only 
allowing windows to recognize a single drive of 137 GB max.

That made me curious .. what is the largest single drive size Linux would 
recognize?
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Re: [newbie] DMA for 686B'res who have flashed BIOS

[civileme]

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 22:33, Miark wrote:
> Civileme will probably know the answer to this:
>
> With the 686B problems supposedly resolved with the BIOS updates (i
> say "supposedly" because some here have expressed doubt) will there
> be any option in future kernels to make DMA available for those of
> us who _have_ done the BIOS update?
>
> Miark

Well, we'd have to, in kernel code, look for the signature of the 
BIOS Update(s) and enable DMA.  This would be a significant problem 
in that updates BEYOND that may cause the signature to fail.

We are looking for a separate kernel-based solution which would 
obviate the need for a BIOS upgrade.  If that happens, it will be 
made available in updates immediately after it is tested.

Civileme

Re: [newbie] Southbridge and so on

[civileme]

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 23:59, Paul wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While I am agonizing over pulling 62 mails on ISDN (halfway there,
> 34 mails already in an hour), does anyone know if the famous Via
> bug also affects PCI bridge management?

Yes, but VIA has never admitted it.  They have said the problem is 
caused by the presence of a Creative Sound card


> I don't understand that the ISDN card works just fine in Windoze,
> in LM7.2 on the old machine, and performs less than a bit in the
> new machine...
>
> Since things are sooo slowww I can't get to the VIAtech.com
> site to look anything up.
>
> Paul

Install and run kernel 2.2.19 temporarily

Civileme


>
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> It's much easier to apologize than to get permission.
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>
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[newbie] can't install mandrake 8.0

[Jan Brosius]

Hi, I tried to install mandrake 8.0 over my mandrake 7.2 but it gave an
error at the beginning :" unable to load second stage ramdisk ".
I have to Hard disks and mandrake 7.2 is installed on the secondone.

Thanks

[newbie] need help to install without CD-ROM

[Lin]

hi, I have MDK 7.0 on CD, but my notebook doesn't have a CD-ROM.
It didn't let me do network install neither because Red Hat asks for more
than 16mb RAM.  Is there any way I can install linux on it?  

It is 133mhz, and 16mb RAM, will linux work ok with it?

Thanks
Eric

[newbie] Installing jdk..

[Eduardo Dominguez]

I got the jdk bin from Sun. After running it, it extracts its contents
to a directory called j2dk-1.3.1. What is the proper way to install
this contents ? (where to put files so that they are in the path ?
symbolic links in bin ? is there a env. var. I must set ? )
I read the installation file but it says nothing about this. 

Thanks in advance.
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RE: [newbie] Re-install MDK7.2

[Adams, Jamie]

Hiya,

It all depends how you partitioned your system in the first place, if
you had a separate partition of /home then you need not format that at
install time and all info in there will be safe.

As for the rest, i dunno..
Cheers

-- Jamie


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>
>Hello Everyone!
>
>Could anyone please tell me whether I would have any problems if I
>reinstall (refresh) mandrake linux 7.2 ? Would I lose all my saved
>information and files? or it has no effect whatsoever?
>
>Thank you all
>
>Alex
>
>
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[newbie] Groups within Groups

[George Petri]

Is this possible?

Thanks,
George

[newbie] Re-install MDK7.2

[Alexandropoulou Alexandra]

Hello Everyone!

Could anyone please tell me whether I would have any problems if I
reinstall (refresh) mandrake linux 7.2 ? Would I lose all my saved
information and files? or it has no effect whatsoever?

Thank you all

Alex

Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail

[Tim Holmes]

Yes, FreeBSD does use different licenses.  Most BSD licenses do. They run off
a BSD license and is much different then GPL.

Meanwhile, the fact that Micro$HAFT has to rely on a *nix machine period is a
victory for OpenSource period!
tdh

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| er, i don't wish to be pedantic but i believe that hotmail is using some 
| freebsd installations which i believe (could be misinformed) have different 
| licence situation than linux? i don't think linux should claim ground that 
| isn't strictly it's own, i wouldn't have thought that this would serve 'the 
| cause' 
| 
| flame me if i'm wrong :-)
| bascule
| 
| 
| haveOn Tuesday 26 June 2001  9:00 pm, you wrote:
| > Edward Barrow wrote:
| > > It was also built and runs on Linux (MS are embarrassed by this and plan
| > > to migrate it to W2K, I don't know if they've done so yet)
| >
| > It will probably stop working when they do.
| 
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Re: [newbie] xmms lockup

[Tom Brinkman]

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 06:08 am, Jay Sinn wrote:
> I have an mx300 soundcard (aureal 8830) and have properly installed
> the drivers.  Initially Xmms works fine.  But after rebooting xmms
> always locks up on me.
>
> What's going on?

  http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=427&lang=en

  You don't give nearly enough info, but the link above may get you 
  started on what the real problem is with your sound.  
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Re: [newbie] Telnet/FTP not starting after install

[Tim Holmes]

Honestly, it doesn't sound like the server is installed, but I think that with
7.1, it was installed automatically unless you tell it otherwise.  Make sure
it is installed.

[root@r2d2 /root] rpm -qa | grep telnet
telnet-0.17-7mdk
gnome-telnet-2.4-2mdk
ktelnet-0.7b1-7mdk

You need to make sure the telnet-server is listed there.  I don't use telnet
due to security issues, so it's not installed on my machine.

Do the same thing with FTP.  The two apps that run FTP servers are ProFTP and
WU-Ftp.

[root@r2d2 /etc] rpm -qa | grep wu-ftp
[root@r2d2 /etc] rpm -qa | grep proftp
proftpd-1.2.2-0.rc1.3mdk

At which point try using ntsysv to make sure the daemons are started.  But it
sounds like you don't have those servers installed from what I've gathered
from your post.
tdh


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| Hi folks,
| 
| I've got a problem with a recent new installation of Linux-Mandrake v 7.1.
| The installation was completed without any errors. The PC is connected to an
| office LAN. I've set up the network options, although I've copied the domain
| & gateway settings from an WinNT box.
| 
| The problem is the telnet & ftp services are not reachable from another PC
| on the LAN. I can ping the Linux box OK, but when I try to telnet or ftp, I
| get the message "Connection to host lost"
| 
| I've checked the processes that are running, both ftp & telnet are NOT
| running, however when I reboot the box the network processes say they load
| ok.
| 
| Can anyone point me in the direction of how to get the telnet & ftp
| processes to start automatically?
| 
| Thanks,
| Gareth
| 
| 
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[newbie] xmms lockup

[Jay Sinn]

I have an mx300 soundcard (aureal 8830) and have properly installed the 
drivers.  Initially Xmms works fine.  But after rebooting xmms always locks 
up on me.

What's going on?

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Re: [newbie] Telnet/FTP not starting after install

[Paul]

> The problem is the telnet & ftp services are not reachable from another PC
> on the LAN. I can ping the Linux box OK, but when I try to telnet or ftp, I
> get the message "Connection to host lost"
> 
> I've checked the processes that are running, both ftp & telnet are NOT
> running, however when I reboot the box the network processes say they load
> ok.

Perhaps you have to enable the FTP and TELNEt daemons in /etc/inetd.conf
You need to restart to get these running then, or do

killall inetd SIGHUP  (not sure about this one)

Paul

Re: [newbie] ATI Rage 128 freezes X?

[A V Flinsch]

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 07:37, Dan Ray wrote:
> Alex--
>
> > Post your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 here and lets take a look at it.
>
> It follows. Since I'm basically completely ignorant about XFree86, I
> have little idea what's relevant in it and what isn't, so I'm including
> it in its entirety. I'd bet I should be paying particular attention to
> the "Unknown" settings in the "Device" section..
>

> **
> # Screen sections
> #
> **
>
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "screen1"
> Device  "ATI Rage 128"
> Monitor "monitor1"
> DefaultColorDepth 24

The only major difference from yours to mine is the default color depth. 
Try changing it to 16



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Re: [newbie] ./ .... why?

[steve campbell]

Yeah there is one very good reason, it is called security.
lets say you DO add ./ to you PATH in bash_profile.
All a nasty person has to do is write a shell script called "ls"
that contains the line
rm -rf /
and save it in a directory on your machine, say /etc.
next time you are in /etc and type ls
your entire filesystem will be destroyed.
Obviously this is damned unlikely to happed to your home desktop machine
but on the large networks where Unix and Linux are used, such a security hole 
would render the whole system nearly as volitile as windows.



On Wednesday 27 June 2001 04:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It took a while to catch onto the ./ thingy..  now that I know it, I still
> don't understand *why* this is necessary.  I know, it's easy enough to add
> it to .bash_profile or wherever, but is there a justifiable reason why
> Linux makes you specify that the program you want to execute is in the
> current directory?
>
> 
> this is so weird...
> 
>
> hehe, sorry...
>
> Dan

[newbie] fonts in StarOffice

[kp _]

Hi,
I have Mandrake 8.0 on a PII 350Mhz

Everything was fine during install,
my big problem is that fonts are UGLY
in Star Office I've tried things I
found on mandrake forum( :unscaled in a 'config' file,
uninstall AbiWord...) but this is still ugly...

So what is the solution to have nice letters ?
Thanks.
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RE: [newbie] Thank You

[Patrick Hubers]

Michael D. Viron wrote:

...
> Please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some e-mail clients
> add all kinds of extra html tags, reduce the size of the font such that
> it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish color, making it much
> more difficult to read.

Although I appreciate the fact that you try to get people to stop sending
HTML, those replies are always send as (... tada...) HTML! Maybe it's a good
idea to send those as plain text, something like "practice what you
preach"!? :-)

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Re: [newbie] Can't access /~username

[n6tadam]

Hi,

I have had a similar problem. You need to make sure that the
"/home/username" folder, has the "sticky bit" option enabled. I usually set
this, using the program "mc" (Midnight Commander).

If that doesn't work, let me know, and I might have some more suggestions.

HTH,

Thomas Adam

- Original Message -
From: Ross Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mandrake newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:29 AM
Subject: [newbie] Can't access /~username


>
> This is driving me nuts...
>
> bunyip.apna.org.au is accessable just fine, but attempts to go to
> bunyip.apana.org.au/~username fail:
>
> Error 403
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /~rosco/index.html on this server.
>
> Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at bunyip.apana.org.au Port 80
> 
>
>
> Directory/filename permissions are correct:
>
> ---
> drwxr-xr-x   10 roscousers4096 Jun 17 18:06 public_html/
> ---
> -rw-r--r--1 roscousers 591 Feb 26 23:11
contact_thanks.html
> drwxr-xr-x2 roscousers4096 Aug 19  2000 funny/
> -rw-r--r--1 roscousers2350 Jun 17 18:06 index.html
> --
>
>
> commonhttpd.conf
> 
> UserDir public_html
> 
>
> 
> AllowOverride All
> Options MultiViews Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> 
> -
>
> Ideas please??
>
> -Ross
>
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Re: [newbie] Weird "no such file or directory" message

[n6tadam]

Hi,

(Read my comments below):

- Original Message -
From: R. Tyler Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 4:48 AM
Subject: [newbie] Weird "no such file or directory" message


> This has me really frustrated.
>
> Say I'm in /usr/games and I type /Maelstrom from a console window. Bash
> types back at me, "No such file or directory," even though there most
> certainly is such a file, and if I ls or dir it tells me there is.

Hi,

Your syntax is incorrect. When you cd /usr/games, and then type /Maelstrom,
the "/" infront of the name, is pointing to the root folder (/) of your
harddrive. Since "/usr/games" is not in your $PATH variable, you need to
tell the shell (bash), that the program Maelstrom is in the current folder
that you changed to. To do this, you have to type "./" infront of the name,
thus:

cd /usr/games
../Maelstrom

HTH,

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Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem

[Van Winssen & Ramaakers]

Op woensdag 27 juni 2001 00:05, schreef u:
> Thanks Frans, I suspected as much since NTFS makes many things more
> difficult.  Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it since win 2K can run fat32
> as well.  But it seems more stable in the NTFS on mine

Why don't you try this, it worked for me:
Next to the NTFS partition with W2K on it , I made A FAT32 partition where I 
put my documents and other (downloaded) data like bugfixes for windows, 
cracks, drivers, MP3's and so on ;~)).
It is safer anyway to put that stuff on A separate partition rather than in 
"my documents".
And it's freely accesble from W2K and Mandrake
Unless offcourse you want to move system files around...

Gerard

[newbie] KUser cant read /etc/yppasswd and /etc/ypgroup

[ZeynalBandari]

hi 
a week ago someone at work asked me if i could install linux on a pc so that he could 
start learning. such a good idea i thought since i have no pc with enough diskdrive at 
home and my mandrake pc is sooo old that i have installed openBSD on it now and 
try to figure out where did all nice graphics, easy commandlines and plug n play gone 
:) 
so i installed mandrake 8.0 on a Dell XPS R350 , 350 MHz processor and 128 MB ram. 
very smooth installation procedure. the only problem hereby i have noticed is KUser 
(user manager). i soon as i start it, i get a failure notice that opening 
/etc/yppasswd and /etc/ypgroup for reading has faild.
is there anyway to fix this and make KUser useable ? 

thanks in advance

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Re: [newbie] AOL

[Equ1n0x2k]

I tryed aol 6.0 using wine last night, using wine. It just exited the setup for me, 
i'll try 5.0 tonight, i'll keep you posted!

Equ1n0x

Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail

[Chris Seaton]

At 07:57 PM 6/26/2001, Paul wrote:
>It was Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:20:17 +0100 when bascule wrote:
>
>They tried to port it to Win NT, but that failed. The amount of addresses was
>too much for it.
>Paul
>

That is embarrassing.

.::Wall$treet::.

Re: [newbie] Browsing windows peer2peer is possibel?

[Mark Lucas]

If I've understood your requirements correctly you need to use SAMBA.
You can configure this via Linuxconf/Webmin/editing the smb.conf file. Once
it's setup correctly and working then you can use smbclient to browse
windows shares on the Linux box.

Plenty of people on this list can help you setting up SAMBA if you have any
difficulty.

HTH.

Mark

- Original Message -
From: Jan-Willem Reijsenbach
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:03 AM
Subject: [newbie] Browsing windows peer2peer is possibel?


Hi all

This may be a stupid question but is it possible to browse windows shares in
peer 2 peer LAN?
(I have just installed LM8 (1st time) on my box which is connected to a
windoze dominated p2p LAN)
I tried Configuring LISA but it keeps telling me that it isn't configured
and Lanbrowsing
still doesn't work.


Any suggestions are appreciated,

Jan Reijsenbach

Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem

[Matthias Kranz]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:27:53PM -0700, Ed Kasky wrote:
> I tried accessing an ntfs partition via my Mandrake 8 install and
> some thing wound up corrupting the partition so that I was able to
> read it from linux but win2k no longer recognized it's own
> partition...
> 
> I decided htat if I wanted access to my files on the win partition
> that It would have to be fat32.  Since I re-installed with a fat32
> partition I have had noproblems writing files as well...

Mounting a NTFS partition read-only should be safe. However, when I
set up a dual-boot configuration with WinNT/2000 I always generate a
FAT partition for exchanging data.

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Re: [newbie] Thought on Hardware purchase?

[Paul]

> The thing is, there are some people that have had no problem with that
> motherboard.  For example, me.  I don't have any weird hardware
> configs, or just weird hardware either, but the board works just fine
> with me.

As you may have seen, the problem on my machine seems to be grounding or
something like that. After hooking up the modem (not even powering it on)
things work perfectly. As soon as I have this fixed, I will go and try
using kernel 2.4.3. again, to see what problems that brings.
There is a definite difference in HD speed using 2.2.19 or 2.4.3.

> -
> "Real Men Us Vi!"

I agree. Vi rules.

:wq
Paul